:00:07. > :00:08.The Queen has outlined the Government's final programme of
:00:09. > :00:12.before the next election, including plans to allow voters powers to sack
:00:13. > :00:24.MPs, and the biggest shakeup in a generation to pensions.
:00:25. > :00:30.These reforms will also allow for innovation in the Private pensions
:00:31. > :00:37.market to give greater control to employees. The Labour has dismissed
:00:38. > :00:45.the coalition as a zombie government that has run out of ideas.
:00:46. > :00:47.We'll have the latest from Westminster.
:00:48. > :00:49.There's infighting between Tory heavyweights Theresa May and
:00:50. > :00:51.Michael Gove, on who should be tackling alledged
:00:52. > :00:53.Police searching for the missing Briton Gareth Huntley
:00:54. > :00:58.The Taliban have released video of the handover of a captured US
:00:59. > :01:03.soldier following a prisoner swap for five of their fighters.
:01:04. > :01:06.They were pictures that shocked the world and helped change a nation.
:01:07. > :01:08.We'll look back at the day 25 years ago
:01:09. > :01:15.when thousands of troops opened fire on protestors in Tiananmen Square.
:01:16. > :01:18.And we'll look at the crucial role played in the D-Day
:01:19. > :01:36.One man is dead and 13 injured in a crash between a car and bus and
:01:37. > :01:37.Clapton. And the coroner at the Mark Duggan inquest raises concerns about
:01:38. > :01:52.the case. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:53. > :01:58.One O'Clock News. The Queen has set out
:01:59. > :01:59.the legislation the government hopes to pass before
:02:00. > :02:04.the general election next May. The speech in the House of Lords
:02:05. > :02:07.contained 11 new bills on deregulation targets,
:02:08. > :02:09.shale gas exploration and pensions. Ministers said
:02:10. > :02:10.the programme showed the coalition's continuing "boldness",
:02:11. > :02:12.but Labour's leader, Ed Miliband, said it failed to match the scale
:02:13. > :02:15.of the problems faced by Britain. Our political correspondent
:02:16. > :02:30.Carole Walker reports. Her madgesties set out for the
:02:31. > :02:36.ceremony of the State opening of Parliament in a brand-new carriage,
:02:37. > :02:41.but critics say her speech showed a tired looking coalition near the end
:02:42. > :02:46.of its life, lacking the energy to tackle big challenges. It is a
:02:47. > :02:50.ceremony which in tradition with the door to the Commons slammed in the
:02:51. > :02:57.face, symbolising the independence of MPs. They are then summoned to
:02:58. > :03:02.the presence of the monarch. This is the last opportunity for this
:03:03. > :03:07.coalition to show what it can do. At the heart of the speech was a
:03:08. > :03:11.shake-up of pensions. Legislation will be brought forward to bring
:03:12. > :03:16.those who have saved discretion over the use of their retirement funds.
:03:17. > :03:21.My government's pension reforms will also allow innovation in the Private
:03:22. > :03:25.pensions market to give greater control to employees. There were
:03:26. > :03:30.several contentious measures for Parliament to consider. My
:03:31. > :03:34.government will continue its programme of political reform. My
:03:35. > :03:38.ministers will introduce legislation on the recall of members of
:03:39. > :03:43.Parliament. Everyone agrees that is a good idea, but there are
:03:44. > :03:47.disagreements on how it should work. What else was announced? A new
:03:48. > :03:52.childcare subsidy for working parents with up to ?2000 a year for
:03:53. > :03:57.each child. A Modern Slavery Bill with tougher sentences for those
:03:58. > :04:03.convicted of slavery and human trafficking. And a 5p charge for
:04:04. > :04:08.using a plastic bag in England. The speech promised work to promote
:04:09. > :04:14.reform in the European Union but no commitment to enshrine in law David
:04:15. > :04:19.Cameron's promise of a referendum by 2017, something may Tory MPs and
:04:20. > :04:23.ministers want. The reason we could not have it in the Queen's Speech is
:04:24. > :04:28.we do not have coalition agreement on it. That is why as a party we'd
:04:29. > :04:34.been doing everything we can to try to get that referendum commitment
:04:35. > :04:39.through. No one is hiding the coalition division on this. We have
:04:40. > :04:44.already legislated as a coalition government to hold a referendum if
:04:45. > :04:48.there were any transfer of powers to the European Union. I think what the
:04:49. > :04:53.argument is about is how we can achieve reform, what is the most
:04:54. > :04:59.effective way of doing that? Is it by sniping from the sidelines, or is
:05:00. > :05:05.it by getting stuck in. Labour says the coming programme has the wrong
:05:06. > :05:11.priorities. We want to reform our banks, build homes again in Britain,
:05:12. > :05:15.freeze energy bills, meet the big challenges our country faces. With
:05:16. > :05:18.the pomp and ceremony over, political arguments are already
:05:19. > :05:22.underway. The measures outlined today will set the agenda for the
:05:23. > :05:27.coming months to some extent, but all parties will be saving some real
:05:28. > :05:28.red meat for the manifestoes for their general election in less than
:05:29. > :05:32.one year's time. Plans for dramatic changes to
:05:33. > :05:34.pensions took centre stage The government has abolished
:05:35. > :05:38.the requirement for pensioners to buy an annuity, and wants workers
:05:39. > :05:40.to contribute to "collective pension" funds which they will share
:05:41. > :05:43.with thousands of other members. Our business correspondent
:05:44. > :05:47.Simon Jack explains. As expected, the speech introduced
:05:48. > :05:50.plans to introduce a new type of pension scheme already popular
:05:51. > :05:52.in some European countries. At the moment,
:05:53. > :05:54.employees and employers have interpersonal one member schemes,
:05:55. > :05:56.if you like, known as defined contribution schemes, each with its
:05:57. > :05:59.own administration costs that nibble Under this new plan,
:06:00. > :06:09.employees would pay into one big scheme where those costs would be
:06:10. > :06:12.shared, and some estimate that all those small cost savings could add
:06:13. > :06:15.up over time to 30% more income in retirement, although that income
:06:16. > :06:21.could fluctuate. Obviously in times of crisis,
:06:22. > :06:24.it does mean pensions sometimes need to go down, they've gone down 2%
:06:25. > :06:27.on average in Holland, for example, But in general, they can keep
:06:28. > :06:31.steady and rise with inflation. And of course they give
:06:32. > :06:34.a better pay out if we are all doing However, another recent proposal to
:06:35. > :06:42.allow people to take all the money out when they retire and do what
:06:43. > :06:45.they want to it means this new communal pot could shrink suddenly
:06:46. > :06:48.as people leave, taking their money with them, which will make it very
:06:49. > :06:52.hard to manage. For this to work, lots of companies have to club
:06:53. > :06:54.together to do it, but many companies have signed up just signed
:06:55. > :06:57.up to the government's last big pensions idea, automatic enrolment,
:06:58. > :07:19.so may be reluctant to try another Norman Smith is at Westminster for
:07:20. > :07:25.us. Is this a bold legislative agenda or the rattling of a zombie
:07:26. > :07:31.government? Well, there was an absolute priority for the government
:07:32. > :07:35.to quash the idea they had become a zombie government. Why? Because in
:07:36. > :07:39.the real world people are still struggling to pay their way, it is
:07:40. > :07:44.hard to get onto the housing ladder, they do not want to see a government
:07:45. > :07:49.that is sleepwalking in the land of the living dead. So ministers are
:07:50. > :07:53.stressing they are brimming with energy and ideas and flagging up key
:07:54. > :07:59.bits of legislation such as the pension changes we just heard
:08:00. > :08:05.about. Measures to make it easier for companies to drill under land,
:08:06. > :08:10.changes to childcare, and also free school meals. But it seems to me if
:08:11. > :08:16.it is not a zombie Parliament, we are in the last orders Parliament.
:08:17. > :08:21.By that, I mean we are in the last year, there is less than 12 months
:08:22. > :08:26.to go till the election. Only around 100 legislative days to get any
:08:27. > :08:30.measure through. There simply isn't the space for a big legislative
:08:31. > :08:35.programme. Secondly, we learn from what isn't in the speech about the
:08:36. > :08:39.difficulties the coalition base about agreement on many measures. So
:08:40. > :08:46.nothing about Europe, nothing on immigration. Labour have been
:08:47. > :08:52.critical, what did they suggest should have been in the speech? They
:08:53. > :08:57.would a bad measures to freeze energy prices, to build houses,
:08:58. > :09:02.houses, immigration, the NHS. I would just point to the fact that
:09:03. > :09:07.the last year of the last Labour government, their speech actually
:09:08. > :09:13.was the shortest ever and only contained nine bills, whereas
:09:14. > :09:18.today's is 11. Today is much about ritual and tradition, and it seems
:09:19. > :09:22.to me one ritual and solution of the British parliamentary system is that
:09:23. > :09:28.when you get to the last year of the government, any government,
:09:29. > :09:31.attention inevitably begins to shift from the process of governing to the
:09:32. > :09:35.business of fighting an election. Norman Smith, thank you.
:09:36. > :09:38.Two of the most senior members of the cabinet - the Home Secretary,
:09:39. > :09:41.Theresa May, and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove - have
:09:42. > :09:44.Mr Gove believes Mrs May's department ignores extremism, and
:09:45. > :09:48.Mrs May responded by accusing him of failing to deal with
:09:49. > :09:51.the alleged Islamic plot to take over state schools in Birmingham.
:09:52. > :09:57.Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth is at Westminster.
:09:58. > :10:05.Just explain the background. Well, this all centres on that
:10:06. > :10:10.alleged plot by hardline Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham.
:10:11. > :10:14.Those have not been proven but it has not stopped what seems to be a
:10:15. > :10:18.row about how the government has handled this. Michael Gove thinks
:10:19. > :10:22.the government is too soft on extremism. He is said to have
:10:23. > :10:27.clashed with the Home Secretary Theresa May at a recent meeting of a
:10:28. > :10:32.special task force set up to tackle extremism. His people are playing
:10:33. > :10:41.that down, but there clearly is some friction because the Home Secretary
:10:42. > :10:42.has written to the Department for Education raising serious questions
:10:43. > :10:45.about school governance. Sources within the Home Office have told us
:10:46. > :10:49.they think Mr Gove is trying to make this someone else's problem. This
:10:50. > :10:53.morning, Number Ten tried to dampen down this erupting row and we've had
:10:54. > :10:57.a joint statement from two reason may and Michael Gove is saying,
:10:58. > :11:02.look, we are working together to try to tackle this very serious problem.
:11:03. > :11:06.But these are two very senior government figures from the same
:11:07. > :11:12.party, and their political opponents have jumped on this, calling it an
:11:13. > :11:24.unedifying row. Next week, we are expecting reports into the allegedly
:11:25. > :11:27.and the schools in Birmingham. Everyone involved will want to make
:11:28. > :11:29.sure attention is focused on what they need to do, if anything, to
:11:30. > :11:32.deal with that problem, and away from this infighting.
:11:33. > :11:34.Police searching for the missing British man Gareth Huntley
:11:35. > :11:39.34-year-old Mr Huntley has not been seen since he started a trek to
:11:40. > :11:41.a waterfall on Tioman Island just over a week ago.
:11:42. > :11:44.According to local reports, the body, which has not been
:11:45. > :11:46.identified, was found in a pond close to the turtle conservation
:11:47. > :11:58.The search to find Gareth Huntley involved more than 100 looking
:11:59. > :12:02.through to rain covered in dense jungle. Friends and family had
:12:03. > :12:07.initially raised concerns not enough was being done to find him, but
:12:08. > :12:12.eventually the search included dogs, boats and a helicopter. Yesterday,
:12:13. > :12:17.the search area was narrowed. Today, police said a body had been found.
:12:18. > :12:22.There has not been confirmation it is that of Gareth Huntley. He'd been
:12:23. > :12:42.travelling in Asia but six months and had come to the island as a
:12:43. > :12:45.conservation volunteer. He was working at this turtle project, and
:12:46. > :12:47.it was there he told friends he planned to track to admit -- a
:12:48. > :12:50.nearby waterfall. He never returned. Local media outlets say the body was
:12:51. > :12:53.found close to the conservation project. His mother travelled to the
:12:54. > :12:55.island at the start of the week. The Foreign Office says it is providing
:12:56. > :12:57.support to the family. Malaysian authorities say a forensic team is
:12:58. > :13:01.travelling to the island to carry out further investigations.
:13:02. > :13:05.The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of a US soldier
:13:06. > :13:07.controversially exchanged for five detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
:13:08. > :13:09.The footage shows Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghan
:13:10. > :13:11.clothing, as he's freed and taken to a waiting helicopter.
:13:12. > :13:14.The prisoner swap has been criticised by Republicans in the US,
:13:15. > :13:17.who say releasing Taliban fighters could put American lives at risk.
:13:18. > :13:23.Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan has more.
:13:24. > :13:25.The handover, choreographed and filmed by the Taliban somewhere in
:13:26. > :13:39.Sergeant Bergdahl arrives, blinking after five years of captivity.
:13:40. > :13:42.He is guarded by heavily armed members of the Haqqani network,
:13:43. > :13:52.a Pakistan-based group closely allied to the Taliban.
:13:53. > :14:02.Two of the fighters lead the soldier toward his countrymen.
:14:03. > :14:05.This is thought to be the first time Americans have met
:14:06. > :14:10.The commentator said the insurgents wanted to have a conversation,
:14:11. > :14:21.The Americans were taking no chances.
:14:22. > :14:24.The Sergeant's release has provoked a political storm back home.
:14:25. > :14:26.Republicans say the exchange with five leading
:14:27. > :14:32.insurgents from Guantanamo will put American lives at risk.
:14:33. > :14:33.President Obama has strongly defended the deal.
:14:34. > :14:43.The US Army says the soldier could still face charges
:14:44. > :14:46.after members of his platoon accused him of being a deserter.
:14:47. > :14:49.The video ends with a warning - if he comes back to Afghanistan,
:14:50. > :15:08.Has outlined the final programme of government measures before the
:15:09. > :15:10.election including the biggest shake-up in a generation to pensions
:15:11. > :15:13.-- the Queen has outlined. The garden cities of the future,
:15:14. > :15:22.how the lives of thousands We are at Heathrow's brand-new
:15:23. > :15:25.second terminal where the first flight landed this morning and get a
:15:26. > :15:35.glimpse of this years summer exhibition at the Royal Academy.
:15:36. > :15:38.Thousands of security personnel are on the
:15:39. > :15:41.streets of Beijing, to prevent any commemoration of the crushing of the
:15:42. > :15:46.student-led protests in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago today.
:15:47. > :15:49.Estimates of the number of people who died range
:15:50. > :15:51.from hundreds to thousands, after troops cleared the square following
:15:52. > :15:57.weeks of protests for political reform and democracy in 1989.
:15:58. > :16:00.People have been marking the anniversary in Hong Kong and Taiwan,
:16:01. > :16:07.and there've been demonstrations outside some Chinese embassies.
:16:08. > :16:10.But in recent weeks the authorities have detained dozens of activists
:16:11. > :16:16.in Beijing to ensure their silence, from where Celia Hatton now reports.
:16:17. > :16:22.Tiananmen Square was thick with armed police today. The past week,
:16:23. > :16:27.automatic weapons and paramilitary vehicles have become a common sight
:16:28. > :16:32.on the streets of Beijing. The government is desperate to stop
:16:33. > :16:36.history repeating itself. 25 years ago, China's Communist leaders were
:16:37. > :16:42.caught off-guard by the unwavering demands of student protest is
:16:43. > :16:46.camping in Tiananmen Square. Using bullets and tanks, soldiers finally
:16:47. > :16:50.regained control of the area. Hundreds were thought to have died.
:16:51. > :16:55.On this sensitive anniversary, nothing is left to chance. A recent
:16:56. > :17:00.police training grill -- drill was billed as an anti-terrorism
:17:01. > :17:05.exercise. These fake protest is looked a lot like the students from
:17:06. > :17:11.decades ago. -- protesters. Even away from the square there is a
:17:12. > :17:15.heightened security presence. The 4th of June is not mentioned in the
:17:16. > :17:20.newspapers and is not on TV. It has effectively been raised from the
:17:21. > :17:25.public consciousness. Even those with clear memories of 1989 have
:17:26. > :17:32.mixed feeling about the legacy. This man serve 15 years in prison after
:17:33. > :17:35.setting fire to a military tank. I was angry because ordinary people
:17:36. > :17:41.were getting killed. At first, the soldiers used rubber bullets, but
:17:42. > :17:45.then they switched to real ones. He would never participate in another
:17:46. > :17:50.protest. He suffered too much. But he is optimistic others will take
:17:51. > :17:53.his place. There are still people who will take to the streets to
:17:54. > :17:58.fight for change. Not everybody cares only about money.
:17:59. > :18:07.Now a major tourist attraction, it is unlikely Tiananmen Square would
:18:08. > :18:10.host any future protest as constant security virtually guarantees it.
:18:11. > :18:15.For those who remember the bloody events of June, 1989, this place is
:18:16. > :18:16.now a symbol of the lengths that the Chinese Communist Party will go to
:18:17. > :18:20.to stay in power. Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket
:18:21. > :18:23.chain, has seen a fall in sales of 3.7% in the first quarter
:18:24. > :18:25.of the financial year. It's the third successive period
:18:26. > :18:28.of disappointing results with the company facing increasing
:18:29. > :18:29.competition from discount The Tesco Chief Executive Philip
:18:30. > :18:37.Clarke says trading would remain challenging
:18:38. > :18:38."throughout the coming quarters". Here's our Business
:18:39. > :18:54.correspondent Emma Simpson. Tesco, the biggest UK grocer by a
:18:55. > :19:00.mile, but few of us are doing this. Sales are slowing, and today the
:19:01. > :19:04.picture got worse, despite a ?1 billion plan to revitalise the
:19:05. > :19:09.business. These are the worst sales numbers that Tesco has seen for the
:19:10. > :19:14.last complete year, and it's clear the turnaround plan is not working
:19:15. > :19:19.yet and we have the hopes that it will turn everything ran because it
:19:20. > :19:23.is not dealing the idea of being everything to everyone. It is the
:19:24. > :19:26.turnaround plan that is causing some of the pain. Price cuts have led to
:19:27. > :19:31.less money going through the tills, and it's also had to revamp shops,
:19:32. > :19:34.which has disrupted sales. Tesco has more of these huge stores than
:19:35. > :19:40.anyone else but here is the big problem, they are not doing as much
:19:41. > :19:44.business as they used to. Will these make overs do the trick? Tesco think
:19:45. > :19:49.so, and persuading shoppers back into the aisles is vital, but the
:19:50. > :19:55.competition has never been tougher, and Tesco are caught in the middle
:19:56. > :19:59.and continued to be squeezed. All the big supermarkets are finding it
:20:00. > :20:04.difficult to grow. Partly because discounters are stealing customers.
:20:05. > :20:10.So too are Waitrose at the premium end. Tesco are caught in between.
:20:11. > :20:17.Share is now back to where it was a decade ago, and there is no quick
:20:18. > :20:19.fix -- their market share. It's like turning a supertanker around and it
:20:20. > :20:26.will take time to reverse the fortunes. International convenience,
:20:27. > :20:29.online, digital, lots of decent initiatives and good decisions being
:20:30. > :20:34.made, but sadly the Tesco, the bulk of the business is supermarkets in
:20:35. > :20:39.the UK which is proving a tougher nut to crack -- but sadly for Tesco.
:20:40. > :20:42.The question is, how long will it take? Tesco warned it could be
:20:43. > :20:48.months before there is improvement in its sales. It may still make
:20:49. > :20:49.billions in profit, but this once invincible juggernaut is now under
:20:50. > :20:52.pressure. The crisis in Ukraine is dominating
:20:53. > :20:55.a day of diplomacy in Europe. President Obama met
:20:56. > :20:57.the new Ukrainian president in Poland this morning, and paid
:20:58. > :20:59.tribute to what he called Ukraine's Later today,
:21:00. > :21:08.the G7 summit gets underway in Brussels, with leaders from the
:21:09. > :21:11.world's most advanced economies. But for the first time
:21:12. > :21:13.since 1997 Russia has been excluded because of its annexation
:21:14. > :21:15.of Crimea from Ukraine. Our Europe Correspondent Matthew
:21:16. > :21:25.Price joins us from Brussels. Is there a sense that the G-7, as it
:21:26. > :21:32.is now, is united on how to best deal with Russia after the recent
:21:33. > :21:35.events in Ukraine? I think there is, apply. Think back a couple of months
:21:36. > :21:40.ago, all the talk was about sanctions -- I think there is,
:21:41. > :21:43.actually. They said they would deliver against Russia because of
:21:44. > :21:46.the actions in Ukraine. There are still the possibility of more
:21:47. > :21:51.sanctions but they won't talk about those today. They certainly won't be
:21:52. > :21:54.increasing the sanctions. What they believe they have at the moment is a
:21:55. > :21:57.window of opportunity with Russia and they believe that the stance
:21:58. > :22:01.from Moscow is perhaps not positive, but less negative at the moment.
:22:02. > :22:05.Some signs they have pulled back some troops from the Russian border
:22:06. > :22:09.with Ukraine, and there is not a Russian condemnation of the recent
:22:10. > :22:15.presidential election process in Ukraine itself. I think what we will
:22:16. > :22:19.see this evening, when they focus on foreign policy matters, therefore
:22:20. > :22:22.specifically on Ukraine, Syria will be in the mix, but Ukraine is the
:22:23. > :22:26.big one at the moment. They are going to be looking at how they
:22:27. > :22:30.might persuade Vladimir Putin to go about publicly accepting the new
:22:31. > :22:36.president of Ukraine, reaching out to the president. As you have said,
:22:37. > :22:40.President Putin is not coming here because Russia was expelled from the
:22:41. > :22:45.G8 which is why this summit was hastily arranged, but tomorrow David
:22:46. > :22:48.Cameron and Francoise Hollande are expected to meet Vladimir Putin in
:22:49. > :22:51.Russia, and presumably they will take some pretty strong messages
:22:52. > :22:55.from this summit with them about what they believe President Putin
:22:56. > :22:56.has to do next in order to start rehabilitating himself in their
:22:57. > :23:01.eyes. Thank you, Matthew. British police investigating
:23:02. > :23:02.the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have resumed their search
:23:03. > :23:05.in the resort in Portugal, where Police have brought
:23:06. > :23:09.in ground penetrating radar to the site of scrubland
:23:10. > :23:17.in Praia da Luz on the Algarve. Officers have been granted
:23:18. > :23:20.permission to check two other sites, one even closer to
:23:21. > :23:22.the apartment where the McCann The police have been told they will
:23:23. > :23:26.be able to continue searching beyond Friday, which was earlier set
:23:27. > :23:38.as the deadline. The coroner into the inquest of the
:23:39. > :23:43.shooting of Mark Duggan has published a series of concerns about
:23:44. > :23:46.the case. He criticised the way the shooting was investigated. He also
:23:47. > :23:50.said that officers had created a perception of collusion by writing
:23:51. > :23:58.complete statements in a room together three days later.
:23:59. > :24:00.They revolutionised the way thousands of people lived
:24:01. > :24:04.when they were first built 100 years ago, but the Garden City is moving
:24:05. > :24:08.Five finalists have been chosen in a competition to design a
:24:09. > :24:11.'visionary and economically viable' new Garden City in a bid to solve
:24:12. > :24:15.Ideas range from a 48,000 home scheme on the North Kent coast, to
:24:16. > :24:18.an 'arc' of Garden Cities stretching from Oxford to Felixstowe.
:24:19. > :24:32.Could this be the site of a new garden city? This peninsular in Kent
:24:33. > :24:35.is one of the areas on a short list. It's a competition to find a plan
:24:36. > :24:42.that is inspiring, economically viable and. Shelter, the housing
:24:43. > :24:47.charity, is behind the scheme -- viable and popular. There would be
:24:48. > :24:54.shared ownership, cites the self builds, a harbour with places for
:24:55. > :24:58.houseboats -- a site for self builds. The idea is to transform
:24:59. > :25:04.this rather muddy and neglected part of the country into a completely new
:25:05. > :25:08.town. 36,000 people could live in 15,000 new houses. The scale will be
:25:09. > :25:13.similar to the classic Garden cities of the past like Letchworth and
:25:14. > :25:16.Welwyn, but how do we define a garden city in the 21st century? And
:25:17. > :25:21.is it even possible to renew the concept? The garden city is a
:25:22. > :25:27.combination of creating great places through jobs, housing and also
:25:28. > :25:31.really important community benefits, places where you can have something
:25:32. > :25:34.to do and enjoy. Of course, there is a huge difference between having a
:25:35. > :25:40.great idea for a garden city and actually getting one established.
:25:41. > :25:43.Here on the Medway estuary or anywhere else. One of the big
:25:44. > :25:45.questions is whether enough local enthusiasm can be generated to
:25:46. > :25:51.overcome all of the likely obstacles. Because garden cities
:25:52. > :25:54.sound pleasant enough, until real development plans start being
:25:55. > :26:00.considered by local people in real locations. Obviously we don't know
:26:01. > :26:05.any detail at the present moment. We would be happy with the fact it is
:26:06. > :26:09.being built on Brownfield land as opposed to green land, but we're not
:26:10. > :26:11.sure of the area being talked about. But we would have concern
:26:12. > :26:19.over things like flooding here on the Medway because the sea level
:26:20. > :26:23.rises. As well as the planning Kent, there are four other finalists
:26:24. > :26:27.in contention with a winner announced in September -- this plan
:26:28. > :26:31.in Kent. The government is also running a separate programme to
:26:32. > :26:33.identify ideas and with long delays likely between any plans being
:26:34. > :26:40.approved and new garden cities actually being built.
:26:41. > :26:43.This week, we're commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day,
:26:44. > :26:49.the biggest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen when allied
:26:50. > :26:53.forces landed on the coast of France on the 6th of June 1944. Crucial
:26:54. > :26:55.to the success of the mission was the airborne
:26:56. > :26:58.assault, and this was spearheaded by the C-47 Dakota plane. 900
:26:59. > :27:00.of the aircraft dropped thousands of allied paratroopers
:27:01. > :27:06.Their job was to protect the men on the beaches from German
:27:07. > :27:09.Well, to remember their contribution, eight surviving
:27:10. > :27:17.Dakotas took to the skies today, as Duncan Kennedy reports.
:27:18. > :27:25.It was the plane that helped make D-Day possible. The Dakota once
:27:26. > :27:30.again flying over southern England. A plane that became the airborne
:27:31. > :27:34.workhorse of operation overlord. Some of them I had known since the
:27:35. > :27:41.brigade had formed. 94-year-old Maurice Bell parachuted out of many
:27:42. > :27:47.Dakotas and recalls a fine but unforgiving aircraft, especially
:27:48. > :27:52.during its unpressurised dives. I have seen strong, brave men
:27:53. > :27:55.screaming in pain. That was the only problem we had with the Dakota. It
:27:56. > :28:01.served us so well. I could worship it. I think it saved our lives. Each
:28:02. > :28:07.plane carries special invasion markings. On D-Day, the plane told
:28:08. > :28:11.across from bases from southern England. Americans, British and
:28:12. > :28:16.Canadians all flew in behind German lines before dropping of thousands
:28:17. > :28:19.of paratroopers. In many ways, the Dakota was the perfect aircraft in
:28:20. > :28:24.the job. The right size, the right speed and reliable -- for the job.
:28:25. > :28:30.And arguably, without it, D-Day might have gone very differently.
:28:31. > :28:34.Today's event is one of the biggest peacetime gatherings of the Dakota.
:28:35. > :28:39.11,000 were made in World War II, becoming an aircraft that D-Day
:28:40. > :28:46.built their entire plans around. Eisenhower said one of four things
:28:47. > :28:52.that have won the war, the atom bomb, the bazooka, and it was
:28:53. > :28:59.greatly loved by those who fluid. Many wartime nations had iconic
:29:00. > :29:01.aircraft, but the Dakota has a few aeronautical peers. From transport
:29:02. > :29:09.to troop carrier, it was a monumental plane for its time.
:29:10. > :29:20.A bit unsettled with an area of low pressure that was forecast a few
:29:21. > :29:25.days ago. Skies like this, led, grey skies with outbreaks of rain across
:29:26. > :29:28.the whole country and some of the rain will be quite heavy,
:29:29. > :29:32.particularly through the Midlands. Here is the culprit, the air of --
:29:33. > :29:37.area of low pressure which has moved up from the south and is slowly
:29:38. > :29:40.pushing northwards and eastwards. The rain moves up from the south and
:29:41. > :29:45.gradually pivots around, so many areas could see a lot of rain as the
:29:46. > :29:48.day wears on, particularly south Wales, through the Midlands and into
:29:49. > :29:52.southern and eastern Scotland. This is the picture through the
:29:53. > :29:56.afternoon. Heavy bursts mixed in, but drier interludes. It won't be
:29:57. > :30:01.persistent rain everywhere. In Scotland, a lot of low cloud and sea
:30:02. > :30:08.Falk and heavy rainfall eastern Scotland -- sea fog. Dry in Northern
:30:09. > :30:09.Ireland with one or two showers around. Towards much of northern
:30:10. > :30:11.England, Ireland with one or two showers
:30:12. > :30:16.around. Towards the Midlands, south Wales, a case of rain on and off and
:30:17. > :30:20.some heavy bursts mixed in. Some dry interludes and we might see some
:30:21. > :30:25.sunny spells around which might push temperatures to 14 or 15 but it will
:30:26. > :30:28.feel chilly elsewhere. It is windy here, particularly for Cornwall,
:30:29. > :30:33.Devon and through the English Channel. If we run the sequence to
:30:34. > :30:36.this evening and overnight, we the rain pivoting round and becoming
:30:37. > :30:40.confined towards the north and east of the new K -- we can see the rain.
:30:41. > :30:47.There is some clear spells coming and one or two chilly spells but
:30:48. > :30:53.with cloud and rain it will be milder. Going into Thursday, rather
:30:54. > :30:55.cloudy, outbreaks of rain continuing across Scotland and northern and
:30:56. > :30:59.eastern England and slowly the rain will be confined in the North with
:31:00. > :31:02.brighter skies moving in across England and Wales. And improving
:31:03. > :31:08.picture. One or two showers, but warm in the sunshine, maybe 21
:31:09. > :31:12.Celsius. As we head towards the end of the week we import some warm and
:31:13. > :31:15.humid air from the continent. Some areas seeing sunshine but it could
:31:16. > :31:21.also spark off summer thunderstorms. For Friday, much of
:31:22. > :31:25.the country, central, southern and eastern parts seen the best of the
:31:26. > :31:33.dry weather. Feeling warm and muddy with temperatures in the 20s. Into
:31:34. > :31:37.the weekend, it looks like it will stay fairly humid, quite warm in the
:31:38. > :31:41.sunshine, but an increasing chance of showers or thunderstorms,
:31:42. > :31:45.particularly on Saturday as the shower risks diminishes on Sunday.
:31:46. > :31:51.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:
:31:52. > :31:57.The Queen has set out the coalition's final legislative plans
:31:58. > :31:59.before the general election. It includes a big pension shake-up.