:00:00. > :00:07.Six years on from the financial crash,
:00:08. > :00:10.new figures show the UK economy is bigger than it was in 2008.
:00:11. > :00:13.It grew by 0.8%, meaning Britain's longest depression
:00:14. > :00:43.since record-keeping began is now officially over. Today we look at
:00:44. > :00:48.the figures and ask if they reflect how people feel about the economy.
:00:49. > :00:52.This is a major milestone. We have made real improvement.
:00:53. > :00:58.Shelling and air strikes continue in Gaza,
:00:59. > :01:01.as fighting spreads to the West Bank. The Israeli cabinet prepares
:01:02. > :01:05.The killing of 3-year-old Mikaeel Kular, his mother admits
:01:06. > :01:08.beating him at the family home and hiding his body in woodland.
:01:09. > :01:10.A pioneering breast cancer treatment that replaces weeks
:01:11. > :01:15.of radiotherapy with a single, targeted shot during surgery.
:01:16. > :01:22.a major setback as the athlete Rhys Williams is suspended
:01:23. > :01:31.Success for the home nation in the medals and fantastic conditions
:01:32. > :01:35.giving Glasgow a real festival atmosphere.
:01:36. > :01:45.Radical shake-up in cancer and heart care, to specialist centres get the
:01:46. > :01:46.go-ahead. -- two. And celebration for the capital 's medal winners at
:01:47. > :02:06.the Commonwealth Games. Good afternoon
:02:07. > :02:09.and welcome to the BBC News at One. It's now official, the UK economy
:02:10. > :02:13.is bigger than it was before It grew by 0.8% in the
:02:14. > :02:25.second quarter of 2014 The Chancellor, George Osborne,
:02:26. > :02:29.said a major milestone had been reached in the government's long
:02:30. > :02:31.term economic plan. Here's our business correspondent,
:02:32. > :02:38.Simon Jack. There has been meltdown on the world
:02:39. > :02:40.financial markets... In 2008, the financial crisis marked the
:02:41. > :02:46.beginning of the longest and deepest recession since the war. Six years
:02:47. > :02:52.later on, the economy has finally regained the ground lost. The
:02:53. > :02:55.economy grew 0.8% from April to June, it is now a fraction bigger
:02:56. > :03:03.than before the crash. The economy was growing Frost until the crisis
:03:04. > :03:07.hit. -- fast. Progress has been slower here than in US and in
:03:08. > :03:14.Germany, but we are finally back to where we started. On a visit to
:03:15. > :03:16.virgin money in Newcastle formerly known as northern rock, the
:03:17. > :03:22.Chancellor was not in the mood to count his chickens just yet. Today
:03:23. > :03:25.we reach a major milestone in the long-term economic plan but there is
:03:26. > :03:29.still a long way to go because the great recession was one of the
:03:30. > :03:34.cheapest in the world, it cost Britain six years. -- deepest. The
:03:35. > :03:37.UK is now growing faster than any other developed country and that is
:03:38. > :03:45.boosting confidence at companies like this one, they make floor tiles
:03:46. > :03:49.in Coventry. 12 months ago people were worried it was a flash in the
:03:50. > :03:52.pan but people are now displaying more confidence and manufacturers
:03:53. > :03:57.are beginning to invest in new capacity. The economy as a whole has
:03:58. > :04:03.recovered the lost ground, but do we as individuals feel we have turned a
:04:04. > :04:05.corner? Look at the cost of living, wages are not rising with where the
:04:06. > :04:10.pound is, people are still struggling. Pay is the same,
:04:11. > :04:15.mortgage is getting higher, rents getting higher, bus fare getting
:04:16. > :04:21.five. Slowly but surely, work is coming in, but it is one of those
:04:22. > :04:27.things, time will always tell. Wages are still below precrisis levels,
:04:28. > :04:31.GDP per person is lower than in 2008, that is why some feel it is no
:04:32. > :04:38.time for some abrasion. We have finally got back to where we were in
:04:39. > :04:41.2007, three years after America. The fact is that the families here
:04:42. > :04:46.across the country as well, times are hard, living standards are going
:04:47. > :04:50.down. For most people there is no recovery to speak of. The most
:04:51. > :04:54.spectacular bust, RBS, but even that is looking healthier, posting
:04:55. > :04:58.surprisingly strong profits today, sending shares soaring, but like the
:04:59. > :05:03.UK it still bears the scars of the crisis.
:05:04. > :05:10.Some good news on the economy, like the RBS story, but not everyone is
:05:11. > :05:13.feeling the benefit. That is correct but nonetheless I think that we
:05:14. > :05:19.should take some pleasure from the fact that the British economy is
:05:20. > :05:22.going fairly robust Lee again. The UK growth rate is faster than
:05:23. > :05:28.America's right now, faster than Germany and Japan and faster than
:05:29. > :05:32.any of the major rich competitors. Having said that, it has taken an
:05:33. > :05:40.awfully long time for the momentum of recovery to pick up. Yes, of
:05:41. > :05:46.course, it is having some beneficial impact, we have this huge stake in
:05:47. > :05:50.World Bank of Scotland. It announced today some better news, as a result
:05:51. > :05:55.of the economy, so maybe, as and when that bank is privatised, losses
:05:56. > :06:02.for taxpayers will be a bit smaller than many had feared. But, and this
:06:03. > :06:05.is the thing that many people watching today will be shouting at
:06:06. > :06:10.the television, yes, the economy is in the round as big as it was
:06:11. > :06:16.before, but living standards are, yes, they are not yet back to where
:06:17. > :06:18.they were. The population of the UK has grown faster than the economy
:06:19. > :06:26.has expanded over the past few years, so that means that GDP,
:06:27. > :06:30.output per head, is Lalas still. In that sense, we are not back to where
:06:31. > :06:36.we started. And everybody knows that in general, wages have risen slower,
:06:37. > :06:42.I am afraid, then the cost of living and prices. -- is lower still. Thank
:06:43. > :06:51.you very much. Officials in Gaza say 19
:06:52. > :06:54.people have been killed this morning taking the number of Palestinian
:06:55. > :06:57.deaths in the conflict to more than Thirty-six Israelis, most
:06:58. > :07:03.of them soldiers, have been killed. Overnight, the fighting spread
:07:04. > :07:05.to the West Bank, with Efforts to broker a ceasefire are
:07:06. > :07:09.still continuing, with the Israeli Security Cabinet preparing
:07:10. > :07:15.to discuss new American proposals. It is day 18 of the Israeli
:07:16. > :07:20.offensive, more early-morning explosions and more destruction in
:07:21. > :07:23.this narrow strip of land. More than 800 Palestinians have now been
:07:24. > :07:30.killed here, the UN says that most of them were civilians. Hamas is
:07:31. > :07:33.still firing rockets from Gaza. Protests against Israeli military
:07:34. > :07:37.action have now spread to the West Bank as well. Palestinians here
:07:38. > :07:48.clashing with the Israeli military. One protester was killed and dozens
:07:49. > :07:52.were injured. There is plenty of talk of a cease-fire, but the
:07:53. > :07:57.Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues. This house behind me was
:07:58. > :08:01.hit by an air strike this morning. Nobody here was killed. Unlike
:08:02. > :08:05.yesterday when 13 people died in a place that was supposed to be safe,
:08:06. > :08:09.sheltering inside a United Nations school.
:08:10. > :08:17.Those who survived the attack have now fled further south. Some of them
:08:18. > :08:20.are at this United Nations school. It is a temporary home now to 2700
:08:21. > :08:28.people. This man was waiting to be evacuated
:08:29. > :08:31.with his family, when the shells struck. He showed us the dried blood
:08:32. > :08:40.on his trousers. When the shelling said, the injured
:08:41. > :08:44.were next to the walls, beds were out in the open. We left the bodies
:08:45. > :08:51.where they were and we tried to save those that we could. Almost as soon
:08:52. > :08:57.as the wounded arrived at local hospitals, recriminations had begun.
:08:58. > :09:01.Israel insists it offered a pause in the fighting with Hamas, during
:09:02. > :09:05.which people could leave, but on the ground, the United Nations
:09:06. > :09:07.disagrees. We were never informed nor confirmed that there was a
:09:08. > :09:12.window during which we could withdraw staff and during which
:09:13. > :09:21.those that had been displaced could leave this facility. All that they
:09:22. > :09:23.want is to get back to their homes. As international diplomacy to seal
:09:24. > :09:27.at least a temporary truce intensifies, it is once again
:09:28. > :09:28.Palestinian civilians caught in a conflict over which they have no
:09:29. > :09:39.control. World affairs correspondent John
:09:40. > :09:44.Donaldson is in Jerusalem. There is huge international pressure for a
:09:45. > :09:47.cease-fire now. US Secretary of State John Kerry is in talks in
:09:48. > :09:52.Cairo, and what we understand they are trying to negotiate is for a ten
:09:53. > :10:03.day, around ten days humanitarian truce to coincide with the Muslim
:10:04. > :10:10.festival of Leeds Festival. -- Eid. That comes at the end of Ramadan. --
:10:11. > :10:16.Our World Affairs Correspondent Jon Donnison is in Jerusalem. The key
:10:17. > :10:20.thing to remember, any truce, any cease-fire, is only really going to
:10:21. > :10:25.be a short-term fix, because the long-term issues that have been
:10:26. > :10:29.fuelling this conflict now for decades are not going to go away
:10:30. > :10:34.with any sort of truce negotiated in the next couple of days.
:10:35. > :10:40.You can get more background on the BBC website. Tonight you can watch
:10:41. > :10:46.and is elusive interview with the hammer 's leader. -- you can watch
:10:47. > :10:56.an exclusive interview with the leader of Hamas.
:10:57. > :10:59.More victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster in Ukraine are
:11:00. > :11:01.being flown to the Netherlands this afternoon.The Dutch government has
:11:02. > :11:04.announced it is sending forty unarmed military police to the crash
:11:05. > :11:06.site to try to identify the remaining bodies. Around a third of
:11:07. > :11:11.the 298 victims were Dutch. Tom Burridge reports. In a city on the
:11:12. > :11:17.edge of a war zone, thoughts for those passengers, he pull on a
:11:18. > :11:24.flight that flew over here. They are now mourned in the east of Ukraine.
:11:25. > :11:29.This morning, at the airport, get another solemn ceremony on a runway.
:11:30. > :11:35.More coughing is containing the unidentified remains of the
:11:36. > :11:39.passengers and crew on board Flight MH17 are unloaded onto planes.
:11:40. > :11:44.Getting the remains of the victims out of a war zone to government
:11:45. > :11:47.controlled Ukraine and then on flights to Holland, more than one
:11:48. > :11:50.week after the Malaysian airline was apparently shot out of the sky,
:11:51. > :11:54.continues to be a complex international effort. Countries like
:11:55. > :11:59.Britain, Holland and Australia now want assurances that the crash site
:12:00. > :12:05.has been secured and that there are people can access it safely. It is a
:12:06. > :12:09.priority for those watching today. The Foreign Minister of Australia
:12:10. > :12:13.told me it was the wish of the international community that the
:12:14. > :12:19.crash site be secured. We are doing what the Security Council tasked us
:12:20. > :12:23.to do, and that is establishing a proper crash site investigation. We
:12:24. > :12:29.assume that our people will be able to do that, without fear of harm.
:12:30. > :12:33.But we will have support their, security there, just in case. So it
:12:34. > :12:38.is hoped an armed Dutch and Australian police will come near,
:12:39. > :12:43.where parts of the aeroplane and probably still bodies are scattered.
:12:44. > :12:48.The Dutch Prime Minister told the BBC that those responsible will face
:12:49. > :12:56.justice. You can be assured that I'm extremely motivated to find him, her
:12:57. > :13:01.or them, and the shore for you, that they will not escape justice.
:13:02. > :13:05.Meanwhile, the consequences of a war, people fleeing to Russia.
:13:06. > :13:18.Violence surrounds their homes in eastern Ukraine.
:13:19. > :13:21.Thousands of women with early stage breast cancer may be offered an
:13:22. > :13:24.innovative type of radiotherapy - that can be carried out during
:13:25. > :13:26.surgery. It would mean patients wouldn't have to face at least
:13:27. > :13:32.another 15 trips to hospital - as they do with current treatments.
:13:33. > :13:38.Sophie Hutchinson reports. Marcel Balkestein, 71, a writer, says that
:13:39. > :13:42.she has never been busier or fitter, but two years ago, she underwent
:13:43. > :13:46.surgery for breast cancer, and at the same time was given a new
:13:47. > :13:51.pioneering version of radiotherapy. She says that it was brilliant
:13:52. > :13:55.because it was over so quickly. I had no idea that I had had it done,
:13:56. > :14:00.after the surgery I felt as anybody would, I felt tired for a few weeks
:14:01. > :14:04.after the surgery, as anybody would, absolute classic, but I did not know
:14:05. > :14:11.it had happened, if they had not told me I would never have known.
:14:12. > :14:14.There were no side effects. Every year around 35,000 people are
:14:15. > :14:18.diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, many undergo surgery to
:14:19. > :14:23.remove tumours followed by several weeks of radiotherapy. The new
:14:24. > :14:28.treatment the NHS looks set to offer involves a one of those of
:14:29. > :14:32.radiotherapy carried out during an operation in the minutes after any
:14:33. > :14:40.tumours have been removed. -- one-off dose. A mobile machine is
:14:41. > :14:43.used, it lasts 20 minutes. It has the benefit of targeting the
:14:44. > :14:49.affected area without having to go through the skin. At the moment
:14:50. > :14:52.patients who require radiotherapy are travelling to and from hospital
:14:53. > :14:56.every day, five days a week for three weeks, that is hugely
:14:57. > :15:00.inconvenient and disruptive to families lives and their own lives.
:15:01. > :15:05.This means patients can have radiotherapy in one dose during
:15:06. > :15:11.surgery. And new treatment has proven to be just as effective at
:15:12. > :15:14.combating breast cancer as conventional radiotherapy for
:15:15. > :15:18.particular groups of patients. -- the new treatment. It is hoped it
:15:19. > :15:25.will be offered for the first time on the NHS by the end of the year.
:15:26. > :15:28.Six years on from the financial crash new figures
:15:29. > :15:42.show the UK economy is bigger than it was in 2008.
:15:43. > :15:50.. We will be live in Liverpool, today, the land of the Giants.
:15:51. > :15:53.A glimpse of a Royal childhood - we go behind
:15:54. > :15:57.the scenes to see what it's like to grow up at Buckingham Palace.
:15:58. > :15:59.And fifty years of broadcasting Tony Blackburn invites you to celebrate
:16:00. > :16:06.Its Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games and 22 medals are up
:16:07. > :16:11.But after yesterdays success stories for the Home Nations, a blow
:16:12. > :16:14.for Team Wales this lunchtime with news one of its top athletes, Rhys
:16:15. > :16:22.With more on that and all the rest of the day's sporting action, let's
:16:23. > :16:29.Hello and welcome to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow .
:16:30. > :16:31.Yes - a terrible shock for Team Wales.
:16:32. > :16:34.Rhys Williams in a statement said he was devastated but denied knowingly
:16:35. > :16:44.Our Commonwealth Games Reporter Chris McLoughlin has more.
:16:45. > :16:51.It is the spectre that haunts all major competitions. Doping, and it
:16:52. > :16:56.is already an issue in Glasgow, Rhys Williams is on his way home. The
:16:57. > :17:00.suspension for the son of the Welsh would be legend JJ Williams follows
:17:01. > :17:04.tests carried out at the Glasgow Diamond league event two weeks ago.
:17:05. > :17:05.After the announcement he said he was utterly devastated. He carried
:17:06. > :17:25.on: I feel really sad and disappointed.
:17:26. > :17:31.Just for Rhys Williams and Gareth Warburton. It is the tough side of
:17:32. > :17:35.sport. If you are not unbelievably careful with everything, this is the
:17:36. > :17:42.consequence stop quite organisers were determined these games would be
:17:43. > :17:46.the cleanest so far. For that reason they carried out most of the testing
:17:47. > :17:51.before the event. While Williams goes home, the action continues on
:17:52. > :17:54.day two. The early morning calm in Carnoustie was broken by the
:17:55. > :17:59.shooting, the England teenager Amber Hill was in action, the young BBC
:18:00. > :18:03.Sport Centre is now at the the year will go for the gold later this
:18:04. > :18:07.evening. Back in Glasgow and in the velodrome, the heats for the men
:18:08. > :18:10.sprinting, Jason Kenny, a firm favourite for this evening 's
:18:11. > :18:16.finals, also his girlfriend, Laura Trott, going in the individual
:18:17. > :18:21.pursuit. After the Scottish aerobics of the Renicks sisters in the judo
:18:22. > :18:26.yesterday, Sally Conway today in the early heats, providing some home
:18:27. > :18:29.hopes of yet another gold medal. But the Welsh woes continue. This
:18:30. > :18:31.morning the men's hockey team back in the games for the first time in
:18:32. > :18:38.12 years, defeated by India. Let's cross to the Tollcross Centre
:18:39. > :18:50.now and our sports correspondent Stunning performances last night.
:18:51. > :18:56.Some of those who were in having an early start today? That's right, the
:18:57. > :18:59.Scottish fans this morning have already had a glimpse of one of
:19:00. > :19:04.their new sporting heroes. Ross Murdoch, surprise gold medallist
:19:05. > :19:08.last night in the pool, he's been back in action in the heats of the
:19:09. > :19:13.100 metres breaststroke. Alongside him the man he beat, fellow Scot,
:19:14. > :19:17.Michael Jamieson. A very impressive performance from Ross Murdoch
:19:18. > :19:23.winning the heat, Jamieson also through to the Knights semifinal. We
:19:24. > :19:30.have had the heats of the 200 metres freestyle -- ten nights.
:19:31. > :19:37.Robbie Rennick, through to the final tonight. Plenty of other big names
:19:38. > :19:42.in action this evening, Liam Hancock of England, going in the final of
:19:43. > :19:43.the 100 metres backstroke, hoping to win the title for the third games
:19:44. > :19:53.running. Thank you for joining us. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna
:19:54. > :20:05.Gordon has been soaking up Golden games for Glasgow sunshine,
:20:06. > :20:13.spectators, and plenty of support for those competing. We're watching
:20:14. > :20:20.Wales against England. We are supporting Scotland. Just the boxes.
:20:21. > :20:24.CHEERING Scotland's first gold medal of the
:20:25. > :20:29.games when two Kimberley Renicks, her sister, Louise also got one,
:20:30. > :20:33.both with the Triumph in judo. This morning they were sharing their
:20:34. > :20:39.medals with the fans, but not quite letting them go. If it was not
:20:40. > :20:43.wrapped around my neck, I would be like... Because we do fighting as
:20:44. > :20:52.well, the reactions would be quicker before they could get away with it.
:20:53. > :21:01.Quite Hannah Miley taking the gold in the pool. -- Hannah Miley taking
:21:02. > :21:05.the gold in the pool, there was an emotional reaction from her father.
:21:06. > :21:11.Since the Olympics, so many things happened, last year, in the same
:21:12. > :21:14.pool, she broke her hand, finishing the race at the Tollcross Centre. I
:21:15. > :21:21.was hoping she wouldn't do it last night. This has been a glorious
:21:22. > :21:24.start to the games, the volunteers helping to guide spectators to the
:21:25. > :21:31.venue and of course it has all been helped by the weather. It is quite
:21:32. > :21:37.hot really. It took me about an hour and a half to put this on. I am
:21:38. > :21:47.melting. Did you expect summer sunshine? Not all eyes may be on the
:21:48. > :21:58.sport but the city, it's visitors are making these games so special. I
:21:59. > :22:02.promised more about swimming. Let's talk to David Wilkie, the Olympic,
:22:03. > :22:07.Commonwealth Games gold medallist. How come Britain seems to be doing
:22:08. > :22:12.so well at the breast wrote at the moment? We had a tradition going
:22:13. > :22:18.back about 30 years. -- breaststroke. We've got a lot of
:22:19. > :22:23.great swimmers, we now have Ross Murdoch. A lot of swimmers will come
:22:24. > :22:29.through, Michael Jamieson, let's not forget. There is a fantastic
:22:30. > :22:35.tradition in breaststroke and long may it continue. As we have been
:22:36. > :22:39.reflecting, a lot of those men have to get back in the pool today. What
:22:40. > :22:46.does that do to an athlete, mentally? Looking at Murdoch, he
:22:47. > :22:50.will be on a high. He will be tired from yesterday but he swam very well
:22:51. > :22:56.in the heats of defying second-fastest, looking at Michael
:22:57. > :23:00.Jamieson, he looked shell-shocked. -- he was second-fastest. His bottle
:23:01. > :23:07.has gone, he is not there, he interviewed afterwards, he looked
:23:08. > :23:13.really down. Looking at Ross Murdoch, he's looking forward the
:23:14. > :23:20.next race. There is an English guy in that, it will be a good English
:23:21. > :23:26.and Scottish battle. A quick thought about Glasgow, the city, what do you
:23:27. > :23:35.make of the games and the atmosphere. We've had some fantastic
:23:36. > :23:38.Scotland results, to Gold Weddle medals, the atmosphere is superb,
:23:39. > :23:42.looking at the weather, who would have thought Glasgow would be
:23:43. > :23:47.basking in 26 degrees quest Mark fantastic.
:23:48. > :23:53.Much more from a very hot and sunny Glasgow to come. Thank you for
:23:54. > :23:59.joining us. A mother who sparked a massive
:24:00. > :24:02.search for her missing son has admitted culpable homicide in the
:24:03. > :24:05.killing of the three-year-old boy. Hundreds of volunteers joined police
:24:06. > :24:08.in the search for Mikaeel Kular but the boy's body had already been put
:24:09. > :24:10.in a suitcase and hidden at woodland behind a house in Fife. Laura Trant
:24:11. > :24:19.reports. Mikaeel Kular was described by those
:24:20. > :24:22.who knew him as a happy and smiley boy. He was just three years old
:24:23. > :24:27.when he was killed by his own mother. Today she was brought to the
:24:28. > :24:32.High Court in Edinburgh, to face up to her crimes. It appears Rosdeep
:24:33. > :24:37.Adekoya lost her temper with her sudden several times leaving he was
:24:38. > :24:41.eating too much. She beat him at the family home, causing more than 40
:24:42. > :24:45.injuries. Instead of seeking help she kept him off nursery and watched
:24:46. > :24:50.as his condition worsened over three days until he died in his bed.
:24:51. > :24:53.Rosdeep Adekoya wiped away the tears in court room number three this
:24:54. > :24:57.morning, as the court heard a quiet and calm and extremely distressing
:24:58. > :25:02.account of how she caused the death of her little boy. In contrast to
:25:03. > :25:07.the brutality and the deceit, this was the public response when Mikaeel
:25:08. > :25:12.Kular was reported missing, hundreds came out to help a mother to search
:25:13. > :25:16.for her son hoping to help find him. In fact there was no hope, she had
:25:17. > :25:20.already bundled her child into a suitcase and buried him in these
:25:21. > :25:26.woods in Fife. For those that searched, today's hearing was hard
:25:27. > :26:12.to take. To be told he was not missing, he had been murdered,
:26:13. > :26:13.They stand at more than 20 feet tall and cut an imposing figure, yes,
:26:14. > :26:17.More than 1.5 million people are expected in the city over
:26:18. > :26:20.the next few days to take part in a special event commemorating
:26:21. > :26:25.Our correspondent Judith Moritz is there for us now.
:26:26. > :26:33.Yes, let's be honest you are not interested in me, I am five feet
:26:34. > :26:36.tall, you want to see this old lady. She's not like a little old lady
:26:37. > :26:42.because she's standing at 25 feet high. She is part of a three-day
:26:43. > :26:48.extravaganza. They say the whole world is a stage, well today,
:26:49. > :26:51.certainly Liverpool is a theatre. Music
:26:52. > :26:57.once upon a time a little girl woke up, not in a fairy tale but in
:26:58. > :27:04.Liverpool which this weekend becomes the land of the Giants. She's not
:27:05. > :27:07.alone, her pet dog has come, too, to tell the story of this city 's
:27:08. > :27:11.contribution to the First World War effort, to the crowds who have
:27:12. > :27:21.turned out to see them. It is amazing. I love the dog. The kids
:27:22. > :27:25.loved it. Down the road another marionette stirs, the girl 's
:27:26. > :27:30.grandmother, weighing five tonnes, and 25 feet tall, this is not a
:27:31. > :27:38.little old lady. It takes 26 people to operate her. And she speaks, of
:27:39. > :27:44.memories of Liverpool in August, 1914. She is the creation of the
:27:45. > :27:56.French theatre company putting on the show. She smokes a pipe. She
:27:57. > :28:07.liked to drink whiskey in the morning. Sometimes she spits. Moving
:28:08. > :28:10.at a speed of around 1.5 mph, the marionettes are making stately
:28:11. > :28:13.progress through the city streets. More than 1 million people are
:28:14. > :28:20.expected to watch them over the weekend as tales of a century ago
:28:21. > :28:24.are told in a spectacular way. You know really this is an amazing
:28:25. > :28:27.experience, and Liverpool has been so keen to welcome these
:28:28. > :28:31.marionettes, they've done everything they can to accommodate them. You
:28:32. > :28:36.can see the grandmother needs a really big height clearance to move
:28:37. > :28:40.along. They have moved telephone wires and bus stops and lamp posts
:28:41. > :28:43.across the city so she can get around. If you want to come here and
:28:44. > :28:47.catch her, her granddaughter and the dog, there is still time acres they
:28:48. > :28:51.will be walking around the city until Sunday. -- there is still time
:28:52. > :29:02.because they will be walking around. Hot sunshine across most of the UK
:29:03. > :29:07.recently, looking for a change, the weekend will bring that.
:29:08. > :29:10.Temperatures getting down to near to the seasonal average. Sunshine
:29:11. > :29:15.around but we will have to cater for outbreaks of rain. We see big
:29:16. > :29:19.showers breaking out recently, thunderstorms over Essex, over
:29:20. > :29:24.London. The heat is beginning to break down to some extent. Those
:29:25. > :29:26.showers continuing to trundle further south and west through the
:29:27. > :29:33.afternoon. Away from the south-east corner, really hot sunshine from
:29:34. > :29:36.most places. We have some misty low cloud drifting around the coast of
:29:37. > :29:42.eastern Scotland and northern England. Looking to the late
:29:43. > :29:47.afternoon PM, the showers not getting to south-west England. If
:29:48. > :29:50.you movies there is the potential for some heavy downpours, possibly
:29:51. > :29:56.flash flooding and tricky conditions on the roads. Look at the
:29:57. > :30:01.temperatures, again, mid, the high 20s. Another glorious day across
:30:02. > :30:07.Northern Ireland. And for most of Scotland, warmer than recent days,
:30:08. > :30:11.on the east coast. I think the weather systems could be coming in
:30:12. > :30:17.this evening, Mr Ness over eastern England. Cloud moving in here and
:30:18. > :30:20.there. -- misty conditions. From the west you can see the rain moving
:30:21. > :30:24.into Northern Ireland which is the sign of things to come going into
:30:25. > :30:28.the weekend. Ahead of that it will be another warm night across the
:30:29. > :30:33.board with temperatures around the mid to high teens. What about the
:30:34. > :30:38.weekend. Northern Ireland will feel the change, what a change from
:30:39. > :30:40.recent days, cloudy skies and outbreaks of rain, temperatures
:30:41. > :30:46.dropping. The rain will get into western Scotland. But for Eastern,
:30:47. > :30:50.southern Scotland and all of England and Wales it's another day of warm
:30:51. > :30:54.sunshine. Another day at least. The temperatures starting to come down
:30:55. > :31:00.across other parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Down on recent
:31:01. > :31:07.days. We have this weather front and low pressure coming in from the
:31:08. > :31:10.Atlantic, cold air coming through. On Sunday, we could have the focus
:31:11. > :31:16.of some rain, and cooler weather spreading behind. Still up to the
:31:17. > :31:20.mid 20s in the south-east. High teens and low 20s, what we would
:31:21. > :31:23.expect at this time of year, that is how it is likely to stay into next
:31:24. > :31:27.week as well. Thank you for joining us.
:31:28. > :31:29.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime.
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