:00:00. > :00:07.A prominent Liberal Democrat peer resigns, claiming Nick Clegg is
:00:08. > :00:13.Lord Oakeshott said the party had lost their roots,
:00:14. > :00:25.He called for a change in leadership. We will be assessing how
:00:26. > :00:26.damaging this is for the party leader.
:00:27. > :00:30.We'll be analysing the figures coming from both sides in
:00:31. > :00:34.Both sides present the figures which they say back their case
:00:35. > :00:43.We have put forward the benefit over the period of 15 years. We calculate
:00:44. > :00:52.that as each individual being ?1000 better off. By staying within the
:00:53. > :00:54.UK, it's worth ?1400 to each person in Scotland, each year for the next
:00:55. > :01:00.20 years. Stoned to death by her father
:01:01. > :01:02.and brothers - the Pakistani woman killed
:01:03. > :01:04.for marrying against their wishes. At his trial on indecency charges,
:01:05. > :01:07.entertainer Rolf Harris admits he was good at disguising his dark
:01:08. > :01:09.side. In California, trials begin
:01:10. > :01:15.of the new car that drives itself. Getting rid of rogue landlords -
:01:16. > :01:20.the new scheme promising better standards
:01:21. > :01:24.in private rented properties. Critics describe it
:01:25. > :01:47.as a meaningless gimmick. Good afternoon
:01:48. > :01:52.and welcome to the BBC News At One. In the last hour,
:01:53. > :01:57.a senior Liberal Democrat peer accused of trying to undermine Nick
:01:58. > :02:02.Clegg as party leader has resigned. Lord Oakeshott had commissioned
:02:03. > :02:10.and leaked a poll suggesting Mr Clegg would lose his Commons seat
:02:11. > :02:13.at the general election next year. Mr Clegg said his actions were
:02:14. > :02:15."totally unacceptable" and had warned that the peer would face
:02:16. > :02:18.disciplinary action when Parliament Our chief political correspondent is
:02:19. > :02:21.in East London for us, where the Deputy Prime
:02:22. > :02:33.Minister was speaking earlier. Norman, how much trouble does this
:02:34. > :02:39.cause him? Simon, the entrails of the plot to unseat Nick Clegg have
:02:40. > :02:46.this morning been laid bare after the man behind the attempt, Lord
:02:47. > :02:52.Oakeshott, Matthew Oakeshott, one of the most long-standing Liberal
:02:53. > :02:54.Democrats, conceded he was the man behind four opinion polls
:02:55. > :03:00.deliberately commissioned to show that Nick Clegg was, in his words,
:03:01. > :03:04.leading the party to disaster, in an attempt to provide local party
:03:05. > :03:08.activists with the evidence he hoped would galvanise them into moving
:03:09. > :03:13.against Nick Clegg. This matters not just because it shows the level of
:03:14. > :03:16.disquiet within the party, not just because Matthew Oakeshott is a man
:03:17. > :03:23.who helped establish the party way back in the 1980s, not just because
:03:24. > :03:28.he is a key ally of Vince cable, one of his closest confidants and often
:03:29. > :03:34.regarded as his key political left and it at Westminster, but because
:03:35. > :03:38.in his resignation statement Matthew Oakeshott through a political hand
:03:39. > :03:44.grenade over his shoulder in the direction of Nick Clegg by
:03:45. > :03:47.suggesting that Vince Cable new about these four polls at the centre
:03:48. > :03:51.of the plot. Not that he commissioned them, not that he
:03:52. > :03:57.intended to destabilise Nick Clegg, but that he was aware that Matthew
:03:58. > :04:02.Oakeshott was commissioning these four plots which were intended to
:04:03. > :04:09.unseat Nick Clegg. Now, that is a huge, huge problem for Mr Clegg
:04:10. > :04:12.because if true, it would suggest that Mr Cable had some knowledge of
:04:13. > :04:20.Lord Oakeshott's actions and would suggest that Vince Cable, Mr
:04:21. > :04:24.Clegg's number two, might have been implicated in this plot, albeit up
:04:25. > :04:26.to now he has vehemently denied any knowledge and yesterday denounced
:04:27. > :04:31.his former friend Matthew Oakeshott for conducting those polls. What do
:04:32. > :04:37.you think Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrat party will do now? I think
:04:38. > :04:41.Clegg will want an absolute categorical assurance from Vince
:04:42. > :04:45.Cable that he was not manoeuvring, that he had not sanctioned or given
:04:46. > :04:52.a green light to Matthew Oakeshott to behave in this way. This morning,
:04:53. > :04:55.they insisted they were 100% convinced that Mr Cable was not
:04:56. > :05:00.involved but there is a separate problem for Nick Clegg. We learned
:05:01. > :05:04.this morning that two local parties in Liverpool and Cambridge are to
:05:05. > :05:09.hold emergency meetings to consider Mr Clegg's position. These two
:05:10. > :05:13.constituencies are significant because they are two areas where the
:05:14. > :05:18.Liberal Democrats suffered a drubbing in the local elections.
:05:19. > :05:21.There is a twin threat to Mr Clegg's position. There is on one
:05:22. > :05:26.hand the manoeuvring is of the likes of Lord Oakeshott and on the other
:05:27. > :05:31.hand, the evident disquiet of party members. It isn't just these two
:05:32. > :05:34.parties. We learned yesterday in a poll of ordinary Lib Dem members
:05:35. > :05:39.that some 40 this unwanted Nick Clegg to quit. -- some 40 but
:05:40. > :05:43.wanted. It's a big day in the run-up to
:05:44. > :05:46.Scotland's independence referendum in September -
:05:47. > :05:48.with voters being given conflicting information about whether they will
:05:49. > :05:51.be better or worse off. The Scottish Government is arguing
:05:52. > :05:53.that independence could mean an extra ?1,000 for each person -
:05:54. > :05:56.but the UK Government says voters would have more if they stay
:05:57. > :05:59.in the United Kingdom. Our Scotland correspondent
:06:00. > :06:10.Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh. Yes, Simon, it really felt as if the
:06:11. > :06:16.argument stepped up a gear today, with the UK government and the
:06:17. > :06:20.Scottish Government clashing, publishing two rival documents which
:06:21. > :06:28.are pretty weighty, heavy and complicated and heavily contested.
:06:29. > :06:34.They contain economic facts, statistics and arguments.
:06:35. > :06:40.Edinburgh, early morning and Scotland's capital wakes up to a
:06:41. > :06:44.conundrum - and economic bonus or a UK dividend. Some Scots have already
:06:45. > :06:48.decided which way they will vote. For them, the economic arguments
:06:49. > :06:53.aren't important. I've never considered the economic issue but I
:06:54. > :06:59.am personally very much against it. The economic argument isn't the most
:07:00. > :07:02.important thing to me. It's important not to be run by people in
:07:03. > :07:06.London who don't have much to do with Scotland, and to be run by a
:07:07. > :07:12.government that we can vote for. For others, the economy is key. I want
:07:13. > :07:16.to know how much it is going to affect you and your family as an
:07:17. > :07:19.individual. In amongst all of the figures, oil features heavily but
:07:20. > :07:24.there is more to the arguments than that. The Scottish Government claim
:07:25. > :07:29.that the benefits of independence far outweigh the costs and will
:07:30. > :07:34.eventually lead to an extra ?1000 for every man, woman and child. We
:07:35. > :07:38.say that by working together, by improving productivity in the
:07:39. > :07:41.Scottish economy, by enhancing our working age population and by
:07:42. > :07:46.increasing employment, we can grow the Scottish economy to give us an
:07:47. > :07:51.additional tax - not by increasing individual taxes but by growing the
:07:52. > :07:55.economy - of ?5 million a year by 2030. That amounts to ?1000 for
:07:56. > :08:01.every man, woman and child in the country. Both sides are disputing
:08:02. > :08:04.the other's analysis. The Scottish Government accuses the Treasury of
:08:05. > :08:09.cooking the books, the Treasury argument that the Scottish
:08:10. > :08:15.Government's statistics are not credible. With declining oil
:08:16. > :08:21.revenues and an ageing population, it is all easily avoided by staying
:08:22. > :08:26.within the UK. It is worth ?1400 for each person in Scotland each year
:08:27. > :08:32.for the next 20 years. That's the UK dividend and the further ahead you
:08:33. > :08:36.look, the more the pressures build. Today has seen a blizzard of
:08:37. > :08:40.statistics from both sides - those who want the union to continue and
:08:41. > :08:43.those who seek independence and agree on one thing, that Scots face
:08:44. > :08:48.their most important decision for more than 300 years. But there the
:08:49. > :08:53.consensus ends. The alternate visions for Scotland's future are
:08:54. > :08:59.wildly different, hotly contested and share little common ground.
:09:00. > :09:06.This is pretty heavy stuff and quite difficult to digester but it is
:09:07. > :09:09.ultimately extremely important. The figures - people have been mulling
:09:10. > :09:13.over them but I think it will come down to one simple thing for the
:09:14. > :09:18.voters. They will have to decide who they believe there is a long now
:09:19. > :09:20.until they vote. The vote on a referendum takes place 16 weeks
:09:21. > :09:23.tomorrow on September the 18th. For more on the arguments
:09:24. > :09:25.and the issues, head to our dedicated website -
:09:26. > :09:31.that's bbc.co.uk/scotlanddecides Rolf Harris has been questioned
:09:32. > :09:34.by the prosecution barrister on the second day of
:09:35. > :09:37.his giving evidence at his trial. He accepted that complimenting one
:09:38. > :09:39.of his alleged victims when she was wearing a bikini
:09:40. > :09:43.at the age of 13 could suggest that He denies 12 counts of indecent
:09:44. > :09:48.assault, relating to four girls. Sangita Myska was in court
:09:49. > :10:01.and sent this report. Rolf Harris today arrived at court
:10:02. > :10:05.as he has throughout this trial holding the hand of his daughter
:10:06. > :10:13.Bindi and with an arm around his wife of 50 years, all win. -- all
:10:14. > :10:16.when Harris. He faced tough questions from the prosecution about
:10:17. > :10:22.his account of his relationship with his daughter's friend, his first
:10:23. > :10:25.alleged victim. As he sat in the witness box, the entertainer claimed
:10:26. > :10:29.it was she who had instigated the affair when she was 18 and he was
:10:30. > :10:59.53. The prosecution attacked his story. The prosecutor said:
:11:00. > :11:05.The prosecution put it to the entertainer that far from having
:11:06. > :11:08.consensual relationship with his alleged victim, he had groomed her,
:11:09. > :11:15.thereby psychologically dominating her into womanhood and it was this
:11:16. > :11:18.that later drove her to alcoholism. The entertainer was also asked about
:11:19. > :11:20.a letter he had sent the alleged victim's father. The prosecutor
:11:21. > :11:54.said: Rolf Harris is expected to continue
:11:55. > :11:56.giving evidence into tomorrow. He is charged with 12 counts of indecent
:11:57. > :12:01.assault. He denies the charges. Hundreds of migrants are being
:12:02. > :12:03.evicted by riot police from several illegal camps outside
:12:04. > :12:06.the French port of Calais. Many have been there for months -
:12:07. > :12:09.some trying to smuggle themselves French authorities say
:12:10. > :12:12.an outbreak of scabies and a lack of running water pose a health risk
:12:13. > :12:16.- and the sites need to be cleared. Paul Adams in Calais has
:12:17. > :12:28.just sent this report. Dawn came and the migrants were
:12:29. > :12:31.ready. In the camp they call Syria, some had already packed their bags.
:12:32. > :12:36.They don't have much and it didn't take long. These people have known
:12:37. > :12:44.dreadful pride patients. This would simply be another bad day. --
:12:45. > :12:47.Private nation. A symbolic line was drawn between the migrants and the
:12:48. > :12:55.port which draws them here. Not knowing what to expect, they beat a
:12:56. > :12:58.retreat. You can go, she says. Take your belongings with you, we'll
:12:59. > :13:04.destroy what remains, but you're free to go. The police moved in
:13:05. > :13:08.slowly, inspecting every makeshift tent to make sure no one was left
:13:09. > :13:12.inside. This place has grown hugely in recent months and is filthy.
:13:13. > :13:17.Authorities say there is an outbreak of scabies. This whole operation,
:13:18. > :13:23.which people have been expecting for 48 hours, is proceeding pretty
:13:24. > :13:27.smoothly. Tent by tent, the camp is being cleared. It's fairly calm but
:13:28. > :13:33.over the process looms the question, where are these people supposed to
:13:34. > :13:39.go? We thought France was a European country and that we would be safe
:13:40. > :13:49.here in this country because we ran away from war. I am from Syria. But
:13:50. > :13:53.we see the opposite. Belatedly, and in vain, the authorities tried to
:13:54. > :13:57.explain their plans, offering the prospect of a shower, clean clothes
:13:58. > :14:04.and better accommodation for anybody willing to move. But the migrants
:14:05. > :14:09.don't trust the authorities. Egged on by local activists, they
:14:10. > :14:12.barricaded themselves into a nearby shelter. They suspect a trap and
:14:13. > :14:17.fear they will be arrested, even deported. While the stand-off
:14:18. > :14:19.continued, bulldozers moved in. The Syrian camp has gone. The problem
:14:20. > :14:23.that created it has not. A woman has been stoned to death
:14:24. > :14:26.by her father and brothers outside the High Court
:14:27. > :14:28.building in the Pakistan's second The woman was reportedly killed
:14:29. > :14:31.for marrying a man She's believed to have been
:14:32. > :14:47.three months pregnant. Murder on the streets of Lahore, in
:14:48. > :14:51.broad daylight. A woman in love and pregnant was stoned to death and no
:14:52. > :14:57.one intervene tent. Farzana Bibi was only 25. Herbert Read husband will
:14:58. > :15:05.now have to bury her and her unborn child. -- her bereaved husband.
:15:06. > :15:08.Women were morning in front of the victim's shrouded body and they were
:15:09. > :15:12.in shock this could happen to any of them. The couple were on their way
:15:13. > :15:16.to court, having married against the wishes of the victim's parents,
:15:17. > :15:22.unacceptable in a deeply conservative country. Her family
:15:23. > :15:26.filed for -- filed a case for abduction and the couple were coming
:15:27. > :15:31.to contest it. 20 members of her family were waiting here. They tried
:15:32. > :15:34.to snatch away from her husband and when she resisted, they pelted her
:15:35. > :15:39.with stones until she collapsed dead. Her father surrendered after
:15:40. > :15:44.the attack but the others got away. In the aftermath of the stoning,
:15:45. > :15:49.condemnation and indignation. So-called honour killings are common
:15:50. > :15:55.in Pakistan but stoning in public is another level of horror. It's called
:15:56. > :16:00.an honour killing and I always put that in quotation marks because the
:16:01. > :16:05.concept that the honour of the family resides in the woman's body,
:16:06. > :16:08.the woman is the repository of honour of the family and the
:16:09. > :16:12.community, is not necessarily the case. She has a right to make her
:16:13. > :16:17.own decisions about her own life. Many here in Pakistan are calling
:16:18. > :16:23.this case already premeditated murder. Unfortunately in past cases
:16:24. > :16:28.of so-called honour killings, the attackers got off very lightly. The
:16:29. > :16:32.question now is, will the revolting aspect of this public stoning make a
:16:33. > :16:34.difference, a positive difference, to the way justice is delivered
:16:35. > :16:41.forward in here? -- for women. A senior Liberal Democrat,
:16:42. > :16:45.Lord Oakeshott, has resigned from the party,
:16:46. > :16:47.saying it was "heading for disaster" The internet giant Google is to
:16:48. > :16:52.build self-driving cars - some The Old Street mural -
:16:53. > :17:04.in memory of a murdered young man. His family hope it will make people
:17:05. > :17:08.think twice before carrying a knife. And we talk to Tom Cruise and
:17:09. > :17:10.Emily Blunt Obese people who lose just 3% of
:17:11. > :17:21.their body weight can significantly improve their health - but only if
:17:22. > :17:25.the weight stays off. New guidelines from NICE add that stigmatising
:17:26. > :17:27.overweight people does not work, and can actually put them off seeking
:17:28. > :17:31.help. If some overweight people were sent to slimming classes, it says,
:17:32. > :17:34.the cost would be easily covered by the benefits to the NHS. Here's our
:17:35. > :17:43.health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Losing that excess
:17:44. > :17:45.weight is hard work. Now, experts believe the losing a
:17:46. > :17:48.few pounds and keeping them off can make a real difference to our
:17:49. > :17:50.health. Many people at this exercise class
:17:51. > :17:57.have been referred by their GP. The National Institute
:17:58. > :17:59.for Health and Care Excellence says more exercise is only part
:18:00. > :18:02.of the solution. The guidelines being produced are
:18:03. > :18:04.not about quick fixes and they most certainly don't
:18:05. > :18:06.contain any magic bullets. They contain a series
:18:07. > :18:08.of recommendations related to the kinds of things individuals can
:18:09. > :18:11.do, the sorts of programmes people can go along to all be prescribed
:18:12. > :18:15.by their GP which will help them to lose relatively small
:18:16. > :18:27.but important amounts of weight. This matters because the number
:18:28. > :18:30.of people who are overweight or More than a quarter
:18:31. > :18:33.of adults are now classed as obese and a further 42% of men
:18:34. > :18:40.and a third of women are overweight. Dealing with the long-term
:18:41. > :19:02.consequences of obesity costs the Eventually, this woman turned to the
:19:03. > :19:08.support offered by a diet club, which may help. You have an issue
:19:09. > :19:13.with weight and once you realise that is a problem and admit to it,
:19:14. > :19:18.help is out there and you can do it. You cannot do it by yourself, it is
:19:19. > :19:25.not a matter of eating less, but you can do it with the right support
:19:26. > :19:29.group. But some people believe this advice lacks ambition.
:19:30. > :19:32.I think as a piece of advice it is not bad for a beginning.
:19:33. > :19:35.But if you are obese or morbidly obese, losing 3%
:19:36. > :19:38.of your body weight, you are still going to be obese at the end.
:19:39. > :19:41.NICE says sensible, sustainable weight loss is the key
:19:42. > :19:44.and that the weight must stay off for life if the benefits to
:19:45. > :19:49.The Church of England is attempting to give
:19:50. > :19:52.people in debt an alternative to using pay-day lenders by promoting
:19:53. > :19:55.The Church has announced pilot schemes in Liverpool,
:19:56. > :19:58.London and the diocese of Southwark almost a year after the Archbishop
:19:59. > :20:01.of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said he would try to force pay-day
:20:02. > :20:19.So all the money has been done and that is your receipt. In London's
:20:20. > :20:23.East End, church members offer advice on matters financial as well
:20:24. > :20:29.as spiritual. For two years, Stapp had been steering their congregation
:20:30. > :20:32.towards more responsible borrowing. Look at your expenditure and your
:20:33. > :20:39.income and then work out how much you can actually afford. There is no
:20:40. > :20:44.rollover. Credit unions and mutuals are not for profit and they are run
:20:45. > :20:49.for members by members. They provide services including savings and
:20:50. > :20:58.loans. Money deposited by savers is then used to fund low-interest
:20:59. > :21:01.rent. The interest rates are much lower. The church scheme is being
:21:02. > :21:09.supported by a former city regulator. We could end up with a
:21:10. > :21:14.vibrant financial industry. In the short-term, the issue for payday
:21:15. > :21:18.lenders is not about competitors, but educating the public to
:21:19. > :21:25.understand they can get finance from alternative providers, more ethical
:21:26. > :21:29.providers. But at best the church scheme could provide just 10% of the
:21:30. > :21:34.small loans made to borrowers. That leaves a big gap in the market. The
:21:35. > :21:38.archbishop needs to be realistic about what can be delivered as a
:21:39. > :21:42.result of this. The payday industry has been going for quite some time
:21:43. > :21:51.now and the regulation has had massive breath of occasions. --
:21:52. > :21:55.ramifications. The government is to introduce a new law to cap the cost
:21:56. > :22:00.of payday loans. We will find out what that cabbies is an ex-month.
:22:01. > :22:02.In Thailand, the army says it's now released 124
:22:03. > :22:04.leading politicians, activists and academics who were taken into
:22:05. > :22:08.76 people are still detained, most from the Red Shirt movement
:22:09. > :22:13.Those who have been released were told to avoid political activity,
:22:14. > :22:14.and to notify the military of any travel.
:22:15. > :22:17.Jonathan Head's report from Bangkok contains some flash photography.
:22:18. > :22:19.Thailand's military rulers have been losing the propaganda war.
:22:20. > :22:21.So, for the first time, they've been showing video evidence
:22:22. > :22:24.These are leaders of the pro-government Red Shirt
:22:25. > :22:30.movement in captivity saying they are being well treated.
:22:31. > :22:38.These are the activists with the ability to mobilise elements
:22:39. > :22:43.None has been able to speak publicly about their detention,
:22:44. > :22:49.nor is it clear what conditions the military imposed for their release.
:22:50. > :22:51.Some detainees are refusing to accept any conditions.
:22:52. > :22:54.The former education minister was arrested yesterday and is one.
:22:55. > :22:56.He's been prosecuted for failing to hand himself
:22:57. > :23:10.And the military is tightening its censorship.
:23:11. > :23:14.Hundreds of websites have disappeared from Thai screens.
:23:15. > :23:16.The ministry in charge of regulating the Internet says much
:23:17. > :23:29.The military wants us to monitor two issues.
:23:30. > :23:32.One, anything which portrays the monarchy in a bad light.
:23:33. > :23:34.And second, anything which threatens unity and stability.
:23:35. > :23:36.We don't want the country to break apart,
:23:37. > :23:46.There are Thais who have welcomed the military's intervention.
:23:47. > :23:48.The army will be grateful for these supportive images.
:23:49. > :23:51.But in reality, they've thrown this country into uncertainty.
:23:52. > :24:08.The cost of their coup is hard to gauge, but it could be high.
:24:09. > :24:10.Would you consider looking after a vulnerable stranger or
:24:11. > :24:14.Thousands of people already do, and local authorities would
:24:15. > :24:25.The BBC's Graham Satchell has been finding out more...
:24:26. > :24:27.It's lunchtime at Pauline and Dave's house in Liverpool.
:24:28. > :24:31.They both have severe learning difficulties.
:24:32. > :24:33.They live with Pauline and Dave, who cook and care for them.
:24:34. > :24:38.Pauline used to be a care worker in a residential home.
:24:39. > :24:42.Both her and Dave have been trained and CRB checked.
:24:43. > :24:47.So they all live together, but Alma and Keith also have some
:24:48. > :24:54.When you work in a big industry like a nursing home or a hospital,
:24:55. > :24:58.of course you help people and you give them the best you can, but you
:24:59. > :25:04.For Alma and Keith, after years in out of hospital
:25:05. > :25:09.and residential care, they are very much part of a family.
:25:10. > :25:21.If it weren't for Dave and Pauline, I'd be on the streets now.
:25:22. > :25:24.The average cost of looking after someone in the community like
:25:25. > :25:27.this is just over ?30,000 a year, half the cost of residential care.
:25:28. > :25:29.Just one of the reasons authorities now want to
:25:30. > :25:38.North London, and Jennifer is buying food, an evening meal for two.
:25:39. > :25:41.Jennifer is 26, and like many her age has struggled
:25:42. > :25:47.So, in something of a reverse of the scheme in Liverpool,
:25:48. > :25:49.Jennifer has moved in with the redoubtable 98-year-old Anne.
:25:50. > :25:56.Were you happy to have someone come and live with you?
:25:57. > :26:05.Jennifer keeps Anne company, keeps an eye on her,
:26:06. > :26:10.cooks the evening meal and pays just ?100 a month in rent.
:26:11. > :26:13.Some of my friends have been horrified of the idea,
:26:14. > :26:18.so it just depends on the person, I think, and the lifestyle they lead.
:26:19. > :26:21.You wouldn't like to go into any kind of care home?
:26:22. > :26:35.I know I am, but I try to be young inside.
:26:36. > :26:37.This home share scheme is called Care To Stay.
:26:38. > :26:39.Along with Shared Lives, it is a successful,
:26:40. > :26:42.economical model of care, and maybe a blueprint for the future
:26:43. > :26:55.Now, how safe would you feel being taken in a car driven by...
:26:56. > :26:58.Just a computer controlling things - a car with no steering wheel,
:26:59. > :27:02.The US giant Google has announced plans to build 100 self-driving
:27:03. > :27:04.vehicles, and has started trying them out in California.
:27:05. > :27:06.Supporters claim their use could reduce the number
:27:07. > :27:09.of accidents, but some researchers say they could make traffic worse.
:27:10. > :27:15.Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones reports.
:27:16. > :27:23.Could this be the future of motoring? Knows steering wheel,
:27:24. > :27:28.accelerator or break. Just strap yourself in, programme your
:27:29. > :27:34.destination and off you go. The maximum speed is 25 miles an hour.
:27:35. > :27:38.Sensors and software detect other vehicles and softer materials should
:27:39. > :27:44.make it safer if the car did hit a pedestrian. Google is to build 100
:27:45. > :27:48.of these vehicles in the next stage of a hugely ambitious project which
:27:49. > :27:53.has so far involved adapting existing cars. The firm believes the
:27:54. > :28:00.years from now this car will bring increased mobility to all sorts of
:28:01. > :28:04.people. A car without a driver could cut congestion and reduce
:28:05. > :28:08.accidents, 90% of which are caused by human error. To make this work
:28:09. > :28:14.would need is huge transformation both in the way we regulate our
:28:15. > :28:19.transport system and in our attitude to motoring. Google's existing self
:28:20. > :28:29.driving car has driven 100 miles without an accident. It can detect a
:28:30. > :28:31.cyclist pulling out. Our software detects the hand signal as the
:28:32. > :28:38.cyclist pulls out and moves accordingly. This may be an idea
:28:39. > :28:42.whose time has come. This is a natural progression of technology.
:28:43. > :28:47.Modern cars have more and more automatic technology built into
:28:48. > :28:51.them. Adaptive cruise control, automatic parking. I don't think
:28:52. > :28:57.everyone will want them, but for elderly drivers, it could be an
:28:58. > :28:59.option. Google plans to run a pilot scheme near its Californian
:29:00. > :29:04.headquarters in the next couple of years. But it will be a long time
:29:05. > :29:13.before most city streets are ready for motoring without motorists.
:29:14. > :29:24.Now, a look at the weather. Grey, leaden skies with outbreaks of rain
:29:25. > :29:28.for most of the UK. The cloud continues to pile in in the hours
:29:29. > :29:34.ahead. Plenty of drizzle in just about all areas but I'm a glass half
:29:35. > :29:39.full kind of chap, so it has been a lovely morning in western Scotland,
:29:40. > :29:44.Northern Ireland. We will see more cloud build and an outside chance of
:29:45. > :29:48.one of two showers. Contrast that with the East of Scotland, a cool
:29:49. > :29:54.breeze of the North Sea. Outbreaks of rain will get heavier. Also
:29:55. > :30:00.heavier after a brief respite this afternoon in the North of England.
:30:01. > :30:05.Hazy sunshine in Cornwall, temperatures in the high teens.
:30:06. > :30:09.Further bursts of heavy rain across central parts of England. At least
:30:10. > :30:15.in East Anglia it is a better day than yesterday. Tonight, a fairly
:30:16. > :30:19.damp night with cloud dominating. The wettest conditions tend to be in
:30:20. > :30:24.the North of England and southern Scotland. The main exception is the
:30:25. > :30:29.far north of Scotland and western parts of Northern Ireland.
:30:30. > :30:33.Temperatures similar to last night, around nine to 13 degrees. On
:30:34. > :30:39.Thursday, low pressure is firmly in charge. Winds ease for the southern
:30:40. > :30:44.half of the UK, but this area of high pressure becomes our friend
:30:45. > :30:48.later in the week. It starts to exert its influence across the
:30:49. > :30:52.northern part of Scotland and England by Thursday. Still outbreaks
:30:53. > :30:56.of rain for a good part of the day in southern Scotland, northern
:30:57. > :31:01.England and Northern Ireland. But more sunshine in Wales, the
:31:02. > :31:04.Midlands, the Southeast and East Anglia. Temperatures higher than
:31:05. > :31:10.they have been. That could be enough to set off a couple of heavy local
:31:11. > :31:14.showers into the evening. Then the better news you been waiting for. It
:31:15. > :31:18.looks like things will turn much drier by the end of the week as that
:31:19. > :31:22.area of high pressure pushes towards us. Still some showers across
:31:23. > :31:28.southern parts of England and Wales on Friday. But most will have a
:31:29. > :31:34.drier, brighter, less breezy day, so it should feel a bit warmer. Warmer
:31:35. > :31:38.still as we go into the weekend. It won't be completely dry, but most of
:31:39. > :31:40.us will have a predominantly dry weekend with breaks in the cloud
:31:41. > :31:54.allowing sunshine at times. Our top story: a senior Liberal
:31:55. > :31:55.Democrat peer resigned claiming Nick Clegg is leading the party towards