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Rolf Harris is being sentenced now for a series of sexual swords | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
against young girls. He arrived in court knowing that he is facing a | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
custodial sentence for what is called a breach of trust. We will be | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
outside of the court in Southwark for the reaction. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
The former Editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson, | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
More than a hundred imams in the UK are appealing to British Muslims | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
two people in Brazil not far from one of the venues for next | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
I name this ship Queen Elizabeth, may God bless her, and all who sail | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
in her. of whisky, the Queen gives her name | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
to the Royal Navy's largest ever And in Yorkshire, it is hello to the | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
Tour de France. . Men's semifinal day at Wimbledon, Roger Federer and | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Novak Djokovic will both attempt to reach the final with two emerging | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
stars of the game in their way. Good afternoon | :01:24. | :01:41. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. The entertainer Rolf Harris is being | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
sentenced now for a string of indecent assault charges against | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
four young girls. sentenced now for a string of | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
indecent assault charges against The 84-year-old was found guilty earlier | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
this week of four offences, -- 12 offences and it was said that his | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
public breach of trust would be taken into account. One victim has | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
said in a statement that the disgraced entertainer had taken her | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
childhood. Correspondence at the scene now. Mr Justice Sweeney has | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
presided over this case, he began his sentencing remarks in the last | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
ten minutes, he's going through all of the 12 counts, one by one, with | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
decisions on each. Count three, indecently assaulted her, you | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
committed the offence in breach of trust. Mr Justice Sweeney has said | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
that Rolf Harris's reputation lies in ruins and he has no one to blame | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
but himself. With the story of today's victim impact statements | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
heard in court this morning, here is my colleague. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
The walk to court, he has done it many times over the last seven weeks | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
but this time, for the first time, it is as a convicted paedophile, a | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
disgraced sex abuser. Any word for your victim? Without his wife but | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
holding the hand of his daughter, who has accompanied her father every | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
day, of the 12 charges of indecent assault, seven were against her | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
childhood friend. For Rolf Harris, the journey from | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
frame to infamy began 60 years ago, when you arrived in England. SUNY | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
was a household name but his fame became a licence to sexually assault | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
women and girls. -- soon he was a household name. As he has throughout | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
the trial, he was wearing a hearing loop as he listened, as impact | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
statements were read out. The friend of his daughter said: | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
His youngest victim, groped by him at a community centre near | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Portsmouth when she was seven or eight, wrote: | :03:57. | :04:06. | |
In the middle of the 1970s he was a contestant on the celebrity game | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
show filmed in Cambridge, there, he assaulted a teenage waitress. She | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
was not the only victim that day. Then 16, Karen Gardner says that he | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
also had his eyes and his hands on her. He began making a fuss of me | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
and in front of everyone else, he put his arms around me and he | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
touched my breast! I knew that he was not the man he pretended to be. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
He was a fraud, and he hurt women. A lot of older middle-aged men would | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
have a go at young girls in those days, it was not unusual. I could | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
name a lot of them. He was the worst, because he was Rolf Harris. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
In mitigation it was said that Rolf Harris had supported numerous | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
charities over many years, and that he is the sole carer for his wife, | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
who is in poor health. Detectives say that insists on conviction on | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Monday others have come forward and new allegations are now being | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
investigated. Rolf Harris had a dark side. For more than two decades, | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Newby used and assaulted with little or no thought of the cost. Now, he | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
will begin to repay that debt. -- he abused and assaulted. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Mr Justice Sweeney continues to go through each of the 12 counts in | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
graphic detail. He has said that in every case, the age gap was | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
considerable "and you clearly got a thrill from committing some of the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
offences". Once he has gone through the counts, we expect a sentence, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
and we know that the custodial sentence is uppermost in his mind. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
When we get the sentences through we will bring them to you here on the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
BBC News at one. David Cameron's former | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Director of Communications Andy Coulson has been jailed | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
for 18 months for phone hacking. Coulson was found guilty last week | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
of conspiring to intercept voicemails while Editor of the News | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
of the World, He was joined in the dock by three | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
former colleagues and the private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who all | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
admitted their part in the crime this trial has divided opinion, some | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
people wanted longer sentences than the law allowed, two years is the | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
maximum, but others feel that these journalists should not have been | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
prosecuted at all for infringing the privacy of famous and often | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
celebrities, but the judge said that regardless of that, his decision | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
reflected the fact that he felt much of the blame should rest on the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
shoulders of the man in charge of the News of the World at the height | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
of the phone hacking scandal, he will take the greatest blame. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
The end for the editor, Andy Coulson knew that he would be going to | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
prison this morning, and after fighting his way through the Old | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
Bailey cameras, he made his one-way journey up to court 12, where his | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
role in the hacking scandal has been laid bare. If the charges to the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
end, facing a two-year sentence, Judge said that he knew about, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
encouraged and should have stopped went on, but his jail term was | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
reduced to 18 months because of his previous good character and the | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
punishing duration of the trial. Neville Thurlbeck and Greg were | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
criticised and received six months in prison, reduced by the 53 days | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
they have one offender tags. James Weatherup, former reporter and desk | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
editor was less involved, he received a suspended sentence. When | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Malchow, phone hacking private investigator, was the lucky one, he | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
was jailed for just six months in 2006, because of a flawed police | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
investigation, not his fall, the judge said, suspending his sentence | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
also. What would you say to how do they think that it was a good | :08:08. | :09:00. | |
idea to get how do they think that it was a good | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
idea headlines by invading somebody's life? If I'm honest, I | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
feel sorry for him, he was a talented man and a good editor. In | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
politics he was very good food David Cameron. It is a high price to pay. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
However, you have got the balance that by the fact that if you have | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
these top jobs, and you do something wrong and you are convicted, then | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
your fall will be much higher. Andy Coulson is still here at court, | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
after lunch he will be taken by van to Belmarsh prison, not the high | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
security part where terrorists are kept but the medium secure bit of | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
that prison. From there it is likely and similar prisoners such as in | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
will go to an open prison to and similar prisoners such as in | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
will go to an open serve the majority of his sentence, he could | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
be out in nine months. The Prime Minister said: "It is right that | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
justice should be done and no one is above the law". There are two more | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
police investigations into specifically phone hacking at the | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
News of the World and at titles owned by Mirror group newspapers. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
The militant Palestinian group Hamas | :10:17. | :10:17. | |
has reportedly agreed to a ceasefire with Israel | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
Sources close to the group say Hamas is ready to stop rocket attacks | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
on Israeli cities and towns, in return for an assurance that | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
A possible truce comes just before the funeral | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
in east Jerusalem, of a Palestinian youth murdered earlier this week. | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
The Queen has formally named the Royal Navy's largest ever | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the first of two new aircraft carriers being | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
built at a cost of more than ?6 billion. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
The Queen smashed a bottle of single malt whisky on the hull of the | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
65,000 tonne ship, instead of the usual bottle of champagne. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Scotland Correspondent James Cook is at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife. | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
There is enough room on the flight deck to fit three football pitches, | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
it is taller than Niagara Falls, it will project power all over the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
world, supporting British troops. The development of the ship has been | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
controversial and difficult, today, for a short time, that was put aside | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
here in the Scottish dockyard for a very British ceremony. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
In more ways than usual, this is Her Majesty ship. HMS Queen Elizabeth is | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
the biggest vessel ever built for the Royal Navy, 65,000 tonnes of | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
British sovereign territory, on the high seas. She was named by the | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
monarchy in suitable style. I believe that Queen Elizabeth as | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
flagship for the Royal Navy will be a source of inspiration and pride | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
for all of us. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. May God bless her, | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
and all who sail in her. Not everything has gone so smoothly, | :12:08. | :12:19. | |
together, this carrier and the sister ship is costing more than ?6 | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
billion, three times the original budget, at the head of the Navy | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
insists it will be worth it. When you are a big nation you do big | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
things, this is one of those journeys, I feel strongly that over | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
the next 50 years we will look back at this early controversy on the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
early questions and wonder why we were so shy! 10,000 people help to | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
build the carrier, not just here in five but in yards across the UK. For | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
the British government, that is the point, the union working together. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
-- Fife. Proud day for Scotland and for the United Kingdom, this is the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
biggest chip Royal Navy has ever had delivered and it is a long-term | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
investment in Britain Security, for 50 years, this will help to keep us | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
safe and that is a really vital investment for the country. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Scotland's First Minister agrees that it is a great day, and he | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
insists shipbuilding will continue here if there is a vote for | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
independence. We know that aircraft carriers, these magnificent ships, | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
will be the last of their kind. We have got to build other things | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
therefore. What keeps us safe in the future it is not the willpower of | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
David Cameron, it is this magnificent deepwater facility and | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
the skills of the workforce. There is a big problem: They have no | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
aircraft to carry, the Jets have been beset by difficulties and will | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
not fly in anger from the ship until at least 2020. For all of the pomp | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
and ceremony, the Queen Elizabeth will set sail into a sea of | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
uncertainty. The Queen also talked about an error | :14:01. | :14:12. | |
of capability and cooperation, an exciting new era. There was some | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
booing from the crowd, some for the politician, David Cameron, and some | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
even louder booze for Alex Salmond. He brushed it off saying that we are | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
living in interesting political times and everyone is entitled to | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
their opinion, these opinions are likely to get louder as we approach | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
the referendum on September 18. More than 100 imams | :14:35. | :14:51. | |
in the UK have appealed to British Muslims, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
not to travel to Syria and Iraq. In an open letter they say they've | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
come together as a unified voice, to urge people to not to fall prey | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
to any form of sectarian divisions Our Home Affairs correspondent | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
June Kelly has more. It is the conflict thousands of | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
miles away which has drawn in hundreds of men, some of them only | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
teenagers, from the UK. 500 British Muslims are estimated to have | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
travelled to Syria, to take up arms against the regime of President | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Assad. Some like those in this video have joined the militant group, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Isis, its name has become is anonymous with appalling acts of | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
barbarity. Now, religious leaders in Muslim communities here are urging | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Britons not to travel. More than 100 imams have signed an open letter | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
which is in essence an appeal. It says: | :15:38. | :16:05. | |
everything in our capability to disseminate the message and the | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
mosque is only one of those platforms. Using social media and | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
other media outlets to make sure the message goes out everyone who might | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
be inclined to take part and go on to travel to Syria. One Briton who | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
says he's been out there for a year has spoken to BBC five live. His | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
claim that he is fighting with the Al-Nusra Front, which is linked to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
Al-Qaeda, cannot be verified. I don't want to come back to what I | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
left behind. There is nothing in Britain. It is pure evil. If and | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
when I come back to Britain it will be when the Islamic state comes to | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
conquer Britain and I come to raise the black flag of Islam over Downing | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Street, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge and Big Ben. As Muslims | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
gather for Friday prayers, their leaders are stressing that there are | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
around 3 million Muslims in this country and only a tiny number have | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
chosen to follow the jihadi path. The headlines on BBC News. Rolf | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Harris is being sentenced now for a string of serious sexual assaults | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
against four young girls. Also coming up comic Yorkshire prepares | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
to welcome the world's biggest free sporting event, as the Tour de | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
France comes the furthest north it has ever been. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Coffee, cake and a Van Gogh to go - the Reading cafe serving up | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
a multi-million pound piece of artwork. | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
And Britain's number one wheelchair tennis player is through to | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Three days of mourning have been declared in Belo Horizonte | :17:40. | :17:51. | |
in Brazil, after a flyover collapsed killing two people. | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
It happened two miles from the stadium which will host one of the | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
The bridge, which was part of the city's promised infrastructure | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
improvements for the tournament, was still under construction. | :18:03. | :18:23. | |
Two people including the driver of the bus were killed, | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
The concrete and steel bridge was still under construction, though no | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
workers are thought to have been on it at the time of the collapse. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
But it's not yet clear what caused it. | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
This man says the overpass started falling from the left to the right, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
but he had no time to see anything else as he ran away. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
The bridge is just two miles from the stadium in the World Cup | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
It was part of the infrastructure planned for | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
It stretched over one of the main routes connecting the stadium to | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
The construction firm says it deeply regrets what happened | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
and that technical staff have started investigations. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
The city's mayor said there were some errors but he didn't want to | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
The collapse casts a further shadow over the construction projects | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Eight workers have died building stadiums that have hosted | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
the games and there has been opposition to the cost | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
of preparations for the tournament and delays to infrastructure. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
Forensic teams will now try to establish what caused this accident | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
and the city's mayor has declared three days of mourning for the two | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
It's men's semi-finals day at Wimbledon with | :19:33. | :19:45. | |
the top seed Novak Djokovic first up on Centre Court against Andy | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Then it's the turn of the seven-times champion Roger | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Our sports correspondent Katherine Downes has more. | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
A familiar sight on men's semifinals day at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
warming up, but now with Boris Becker at his side and hundreds | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
watching on. He and the eternally majestic Roger Federer are the only | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
two of the big four left standing. Game, set and match. For now there | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
are challenges knocking at the door of the most elite club in tennis. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Today, Djokovic faces Grigor Dimitrov, the Bulgarian who everyone | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
is talking about. He has it all, he is with Maria Sharapova as well. It | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
is a big romance. He appeals to everybody and that is what you need | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
to create interest in your sport. Men's tennis with dementia of its | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
going to go through the roof, he will be that big a star. For a man | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
who usually enjoys the limelight, David Croft was uncharacteristically | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
camera shy today, training out of reach of even the longest lenses. -- | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
Dimitrov. His focus is on himself. I have been playing great tennis. I | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
believe in my skills at the moment and whoever I am phasing in the next | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
match, it will be a battle, so I have to be really composed. It seems | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
we have a new face of men's tennis and Grigor Dimitrov certainly has | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the talent and self belief to win grand slams. But he is not the only | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
confident new kid in town. Milos Raonic has been one to watch for a | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
while. Now he is one to worry about, if you are Roger Federer. A Canadian | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
with a huge serve, who is blazing a trail in his home country. Milos | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Raonic grew up idolising Pete Sampras, an American. Can you | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
imagine what it will be like for the next crop of Canadian young athletes | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
to have a home-grown talent to look up to and emulate? Raonic will have | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
to wait until later to paint himself against the experience of Federer | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
because first on Centre Court it is Djokovic against Dimitrov, as the | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
old guard takes on the young pretenders. More on the sentencing | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
of Rolf Harris. Let's go back to our correspondent at Southwark Crown | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Court. In the last few seconds Mr Justice | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Sweeney has handed down a sentence to the veteran entertainer of five | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
years and nine months in custody. Five years and nine months, for the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
indecent assaults of four women, 12 individual counts of indecent | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
assault. He will not believing this court, as he has done every day for | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
the last eight weeks by the front door. He will be leaving in a prison | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
van. Just to reiterate that sentence that Mr Justice Sweeney has just | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
handed down to the veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, five years | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
and nine months in prison. We expect it to be in Wandsworth prison. We | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
expect that is where he will go. The judge was very harsh in his quotes. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
He said, going through the individual counts, he said that some | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
of the women had said Rolf Harris had a hold over me. That made me a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
quivering wreck. The judge said that he had his reputation lying in ruins | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
but he has no one but himself to blame. He said he took advantage of | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
the trust placed in him because of his celebrity status and has shown | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
no remorse at all, at all. We have not had any reaction from Mr | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Harrison Court. He has sat impassively throughout the eight | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
week trial. Now he has learned that he will be sentenced, he has been | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
sentenced, to five years and nine months in jail. | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
Will there will be more on the sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
the afternoon on the BBC News Channel. | :23:44. | :24:03. | |
With just a day to go before the Tour de France gets underway | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
here in the UK, the excitement is building in Yorkshire. | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
Huge crowds are expected to turn out to watch the world's most | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
famous bike race thunder through villages in the hills and dales. | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Nearly 200 riders from 22 teams are competing, | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
including last year's British yellow jersey winner Chris Froome. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
The banner says it all, welcomed the Tour de France. It is so clear this | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
region really has embraced the Tour. Yorkshire has been asked to go | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
yellow for the Tour de France This is the furthest north the Tour | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
has ever been. From the first moment we met | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
the French it was our destiny to It was brought here by Gary Verity, | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
who saw an opportunity to show off One of the defining moments was | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
when we put Christian Prudhomme and his team up in a helicopter and | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
showed them Yorkshire from the sky. He said, I knew Yorkshire - | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
but not that it was that gorgeous. It is not hard to see why they were | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
impressed by their aerial trip. Back on the ground it is the winding | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
roads of the Dales on day one. Undulating lanes lead to narrow | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
bridges and sharp corners. Amateurs have been out in their | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
thousands, having a go, and bringing We've just been | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
so much busier than usual. Even on wet days, | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
when it can be quiet, we have seen some of the cyclists, maybe too many | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
men in Lycra but there you go! But more men in Lycra are | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
on their way. The professionals have | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
been out practising. This is Chris Froome and his team, | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
planning for what they hope will be But those hard Yorkshire stone | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
walls haven't gone unnoticed. It is a genuine concern, the fact | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
that if you do go off the road at any of these points you don't | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
just go off into a field, you've got It is going to be tricky racing | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
and nervous racing, as the first few days | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
of the Tour de France always are. But how much | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
of a challenge will it be? Will the climbs | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
of the Pennines be just speed bumps It has nothing like the Alpine | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
climbs of the Pyrenees, but it's got Holme Moss, it's got Cragg Vale, | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
it's got lots of steep inclines on the run-in to Sheffield, so it's | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
going to be very, very tough. And one of the big draws for race | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
watchers this weekend will be the More people are set to line | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
the roads coming up this hill than pack into Old Trafford | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
for a Premiership game. But with the roads closed for hours | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
on either side, the advice if you Not far away they've even painted | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
this cafe in the King The bunting is up, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
the route is ready. Although let's hope | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
somebody's told the sheep! You will even find some of those | :27:03. | :27:23. | |
sheep painted in Tour de France colours. The police and motorbike | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
police for the UK were here as well for a photocall this morning. People | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
stopping by, taking photos. The race will start in Leeds tomorrow | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
morning. You heard about rolling out the red carpet is something we do is | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
a tradition. Of course, it is the Tour de France so instead we have | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
the yellow carpet rolled out for this very special event. There is | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
that very English side of the deckchairs here as well. A very | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
special weekend coming up. Millions of people expected. It is going to | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
be pretty spectacular. The first hurricane | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
of the season has hit the North Carolina coast with wind | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
speeds of over 100 miles an hour. It's meant a wet | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
and windy start to the July 4th holiday for thousands of Americans, | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
as authorities ordered them to The hurricane is expected to pick up | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
speed, And on the other side | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
of America a giant sandstorm has knocked out power to thousands | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
of homes and grounded many flights The wall of dust that enveloped | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
parts of the city caused traffic chaos with trees being felled | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
by 50 mile an hour gusts. The 4th of July fireworks looked | :28:30. | :28:52. | |
good when the storm clears away. It is looking on the fresh side, with | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
showers. A lot of us today across the south-east of England and East | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
Anglia are experiencing quite a hot day. We have reached highs up to 28 | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
degrees. I would not be surprised if it nudges to almost 29 by the time | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
we through the afternoon. The area of low pressure is starting to get | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
the weather going across many western areas of the country. This | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
is where the warm air is, towards the south-east. The cold air in the | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
north-west of the country. For western areas it has been dull, with | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
rain on and off from Scotland, around the Irish Sea, into the | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
south-west of the country, turning progressive cloudier -- | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
progressively cloudier. It is overall looking at the majority of | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
the country not such a great day, with all the cloud and rain. Having | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
said that, in some parts of the country despite the cloud and rain | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
it is still in the high teens, so not that bad. Quite humid air. | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
Across Cornwall and Devon it is still raining. In central and | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
southern England, cloudier skies, then when you get towards the | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
south-east and East Anglia, this is where the hot weather is. One more | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
day, then from tomorrow it is goodbye. Goodbye just for now, not | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
the rest of the summer, hopefully! Tonight, the rain eventually reaches | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
the south-east. It will be a muggy night across the south-east. | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
Temperatures no lower than 15 or 17 Celsius. The north of the country a | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
lot fresher. Tomorrow morning, rain in the south-east and east. The | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
cloud and the bits and pieces of rain really could drag their heels | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
through the course of the morning. It may take a while before the sun | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
appears in London. It may stay fairly cloudy through most of the | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
day, where as in western areas there will be some sunshine and showers | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
and a lot fresher. For the start of the Tour de France, this is what it | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
looks like. In Leeds, a rainy morning. The time we get to | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Harrogate, 3pm, the sun should be out and 17 Celsius on the way. This | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
is Sunday, it starts off sunny in many areas, particularly in the | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
east. Showers are driven in by breeze and will be the order of the | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
day. Some could be heavy. Again, sunglasses in one hand and umbrella | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
in the other. These are the temperatures for Sunday, 22 in | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
London. Fresher for most of us. Typically 16-19 Celsius. All in all | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
it is a mixed weekend but not that bad once we get the band of rain out | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
of the way for tonight and tomorrow. breeze and will be the order of the | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
day. Some could be heavy. The top story. Rolf Harris has been | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
sentenced to five years and nine months in jail for a string of | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
serious sexual assaults against four young girls. Much more on the | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout the afternoon on the BBC News | :31:35. | :31:35. | |
Channel. | :31:36. | :31:36. |