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:00:00. > :00:07.David Cameron is back from holiday and chairing a meeting of

:00:08. > :00:12.the Government's emergency committee to discuss the crisis in Iraq.

:00:13. > :00:15.RAF Tornado jets have arrived in Cyprus from where they'll carry

:00:16. > :00:20.out surveillance missions over Iraq to make air drops easier.

:00:21. > :00:23.As tens of thousands of people remain on the run

:00:24. > :00:39.from Islamist militants and stranded on a mountain,

:00:40. > :00:46.We expect to have a further flow of refugees.

:00:47. > :00:49.Also this lunchtime - Unemployment falls to

:00:50. > :00:52.its lowest level for six years - but average earnings have also fallen.

:00:53. > :00:55.A league of their own - headteachers in England plan to compile

:00:56. > :01:11.And Lauren Bacall, the screen legend with the smoky voice, dies aged 89.

:01:12. > :01:14.Later on BBC London - Scotland Yard examines leaflets

:01:15. > :01:18.allegedly supporting the extremist group Islamic State.

:01:19. > :01:39.And should thousands of new homes be built on Surrey's green belt?

:01:40. > :01:42.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

:01:43. > :01:45.David Cameron has arrived back from holiday and is this lunchtime

:01:46. > :01:48.chairing a meeting of the government's emergency committee

:01:49. > :01:54.The Prime Minister has been under pressure to consider direct UK

:01:55. > :01:56.military intervention, with air strikes on the Islamist

:01:57. > :02:02.America is stepping up its involvement - sending 130 more

:02:03. > :02:06.military advisers to the Kurdish area in the north of the country.

:02:07. > :02:10.And RAF Tornado jets have arrived in Cyprus from where they'll carry

:02:11. > :02:14.out surveillance missions over Iraq to make air drops easier.

:02:15. > :02:18.Up to 30,000 members of the minority Yazidi community

:02:19. > :02:21.remain trapped in the mountains in north-west Iraq,

:02:22. > :02:30.coping with 40 degree heat and without food, water or shelter.

:02:31. > :02:37.Our correspondent, Carole Walker, is in Downing Street.

:02:38. > :02:42.As we speak, that meeting is just getting underway at the

:02:43. > :02:46.government's emergency committee, Cobra, with the Prime Minister

:02:47. > :02:54.chairing it within hours of arriving back in the country. We have John Ed

:02:55. > :03:00.-- Tornado jets and Chinook helicopters in the area. Kurdish

:03:01. > :03:05.forces are confronting those militants. At the moment the stress

:03:06. > :03:11.is on delivering cumin Terry and supplies to those desperate

:03:12. > :03:16.refugees. -- delivering humanitarian supplies. There is no decision on

:03:17. > :03:19.airlifting refugees. The Prime Minister will want to get the

:03:20. > :03:27.details on all options before deciding whether to step up

:03:28. > :03:32.Britain's involvement still further. With every image and every passing

:03:33. > :03:34.day, the potential scale of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in

:03:35. > :03:42.northern Iraq is becoming more apparent. For the most innocent, it

:03:43. > :03:46.has been a frightening, gruelling and painful flight from the fighters

:03:47. > :03:50.of the Islamic State. At this camp in the Kurdish area of neighbouring

:03:51. > :03:55.Syria, they are doing what they can. For those who now have nothing,

:03:56. > :04:00.picking through the clothes donated by locals is something but much more

:04:01. > :04:03.is needed. The situation in the camp is kind of primitive, we are trying

:04:04. > :04:12.to improve it to make it better, to increase the number of tents, lots

:04:13. > :04:16.of people do not have a tent. We are doing our best to upgrade the

:04:17. > :04:22.standard of the camp so it is at least regaining their dignity. And

:04:23. > :04:30.some more relief from the air, a third wave of British airdrops of

:04:31. > :04:34.shelter kits to those trapped and exposed to the heat on Mount Sinjar.

:04:35. > :04:39.As the government considers its next move, RAF Tornadoes have arrived in

:04:40. > :04:42.Cyprus. Their task for now is limited to reconnaissance for the

:04:43. > :04:49.human Terry in operation. June Kelly copters are being sent for possible

:04:50. > :04:57.relief missions -- humanitarian operation. She nuke helicopters are

:04:58. > :05:03.being sent the aid effort continues to grow. Americans have this batch

:05:04. > :05:07.130 personnel to the city of Irbil, to assess in depth what more needs

:05:08. > :05:11.to be done. As the president has made very clear, we are not going

:05:12. > :05:20.back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we

:05:21. > :05:28.once were in. Very specifically, this is not a combat boots on the

:05:29. > :05:31.ground operation. In the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, further unease

:05:32. > :05:37.following a bomb attack at the home of the country's new minister

:05:38. > :05:44.designate. The supporters of the man he is meant to replace, Nouri

:05:45. > :05:48.al-Maliki, is -- have also been on the streets as a message of defiance

:05:49. > :05:51.was issued. That will surely fuelled doubts that Iraqis can unite to take

:05:52. > :05:55.on the militants. Our world affairs correspondent,

:05:56. > :06:04.Rami Ruhayem, is in Irbil. Many dimensions to this affair, but

:06:05. > :06:14.what is the situation of the refugees trapped on the mountain? It

:06:15. > :06:18.must be a very difficult situation. Judging only by the weather, you can

:06:19. > :06:22.only imagine how difficult it is for those without water. Until the

:06:23. > :06:27.airdrops reach them, we donor how many people are trapped in the

:06:28. > :06:31.mountain -- don't know how many. We don't know how many have access to

:06:32. > :06:40.the attempts to drop supplies and relief from the air. We heard that a

:06:41. > :06:48.force from the militia has arrived in the mountain, it is not clear

:06:49. > :06:52.what they intend to do. Islamic State fighters arrived by

:06:53. > :06:56.helicopter, they probably want to secure the operation and also

:06:57. > :07:02.measure the situation and understand better what is going on, and how

:07:03. > :07:05.many people are... We seem to have lost the line.

:07:06. > :07:10.With me now is Jonathan Beale, our defence correspondent.

:07:11. > :07:19.What exactly is Britain's role? Purely humanitarian or shading into

:07:20. > :07:20.something else customer the government insists this is a

:07:21. > :07:40.humanitarian mission. also June Kelly copters. You only

:07:41. > :07:48.use those for inserting troops or extracting people -- also chew --

:07:49. > :08:00.we have transport from third countries to the Kurdish people, the

:08:01. > :08:05.Kurdish forces. You can see more deep involvement, the government can

:08:06. > :08:09.still say this is a humanitarian mission but the door is open to do

:08:10. > :08:15.more. If the government does decide to carry out air strikes, as the

:08:16. > :08:18.Kurds would like Britain to do, or to directly supply weapons, as

:08:19. > :08:21.France is now doing, you would see the pressure growing on David

:08:22. > :08:24.Cameron to recall Parliament. Unemployment has fallen to

:08:25. > :08:30.its lowest level since 2008. Figures from the Office for National

:08:31. > :08:32.Statistics show 2.08 million people were out of work in the three months

:08:33. > :08:36.to June - that's 132,000 fewer than But, average earnings in the year

:08:37. > :08:45.to June also fell, by 0.2%. The jobless total has come down at

:08:46. > :08:48.its fastest rate for a quarter of a century. The rise in average

:08:49. > :08:53.earnings is still trailing well behind inflation. Excluding bonuses,

:08:54. > :08:54.wages were 0.6% higher than a year ago.

:08:55. > :08:58.Our business correspondent Simon Gompertz reports.

:08:59. > :09:05.It is a recovery but not as we have known them before. More jobs but

:09:06. > :09:09.still frustration in Manchester and elsewhere on getting an increase in

:09:10. > :09:13.pay. I am quite lucky, I have a good salary but I have had that for a

:09:14. > :09:17.long time. It has not gone up in recent years. I would not say they

:09:18. > :09:22.have gone up in comparison to the cost of living. When we have asked

:09:23. > :09:28.the boss recently about a rise this year, he said all rises are on hold

:09:29. > :09:34.this year. Unemployment is down again by 132,000 in April to June

:09:35. > :09:37.compared to the three months before, the total dropping closer to 2

:09:38. > :09:46.million. But wages are virtually stuck. Basic pay is up I just 0.6%

:09:47. > :09:53.year-on-year, the slowest for 13 years. Bonuses were unusually high a

:09:54. > :09:58.year ago so including them, they were down by 0.2%. Here is a company

:09:59. > :10:05.delivering more jobs, Hermes parcel service. By using independent

:10:06. > :10:10.careers it is part of the boom in self-employed working, so managers

:10:11. > :10:15.can worry less about wage rises. We have grown 15 to 20% year-on-year,

:10:16. > :10:19.it means more income for couriers who negotiate their own rate of

:10:20. > :10:26.pay, and if they don't like it they will not take on the work. So --

:10:27. > :10:30.sluggish rises are influencing the governor of the bank of an, Mark

:10:31. > :10:37.Carney, and the bank's decision on when to put up interest rates -- the

:10:38. > :10:44.Governor of the Bank of England. Now is not the time, given the degree of

:10:45. > :10:51.slack, given the weakness of wages, and given the start of some of the

:10:52. > :10:56.recovery of productivity. There is a recovery, more jobs, that means the

:10:57. > :10:59.Bank of England will raise interest rates, which were kept so low to

:11:00. > :11:05.help homeowners and businesses through the hard years. Today's news

:11:06. > :11:09.about wage is going up so slowly can put a question over when the rate

:11:10. > :11:15.increase will come. I can't see a rise this year. The governor was

:11:16. > :11:19.clear there is a lot of geopolitical risk, I think we are looking at a

:11:20. > :11:25.rate rise towards the start of next year. For now, what we are getting

:11:26. > :11:33.from the upturn is more work, and that is welcome, but not much more

:11:34. > :11:38.in the pay packet. Simon is with me now, there are more

:11:39. > :11:44.jobs but wages are stagnant, what is going on? Ministers will say there

:11:45. > :11:47.are 200,000 more young people in work if you compare now to a year

:11:48. > :11:51.ago. Young people tend to start on lower wages and that has brought

:11:52. > :11:58.down the average rate of increase. Another factor is older people

:11:59. > :12:02.staying in the workplace, not retiring so soon. If you are an

:12:03. > :12:06.employer, it gives you more choice. You can say, I don't have to pay so

:12:07. > :12:11.much to get hold of the staff I would like to have. Looking at the

:12:12. > :12:13.question over interest rates, you heard the suggestion that an

:12:14. > :12:19.interest rate increase might not come until next year, a lot of

:12:20. > :12:22.people might be worried about that. Their mortgages. Some might be

:12:23. > :12:27.looking forward to it if they are savers. What the governor of the

:12:28. > :12:32.Bank of England did say is that any increase would be gradual and

:12:33. > :12:34.limited. Don't expect fireworks, don't suddenly expect to get a large

:12:35. > :12:37.extra mortgage bill. Five French climbers have been found

:12:38. > :12:40.dead on Europe's highest mountain, Local authorities say

:12:41. > :12:44.a sixth is still missing. 13 people have now died

:12:45. > :12:46.on the mountain this climbing season, and guides have expressed

:12:47. > :12:49.concern that it's becoming Canada says it will donate up to

:12:50. > :12:56.1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola It follows the announcement

:12:57. > :13:02.from the World Health Organisation that it was acceptable

:13:03. > :13:05.for drugs that haven't been tested More than 1,000 people have died

:13:06. > :13:11.in this outbreak. Our correspondent, Will Ross, sent

:13:12. > :13:25.this report from Lagos in Nigeria. The Ebola virus has killed more than

:13:26. > :13:30.1000 people. Most in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. There has now

:13:31. > :13:38.been a third death in Nigeria. The number of confirmed cases in West

:13:39. > :13:40.Africa is nearing 2000. The World Health Organisation has allowed the

:13:41. > :13:45.use of experimental drugs to fight the outbreak. The vaccine developed

:13:46. > :13:51.in a lab in Canada is to be sent to West Africa. The Canadian government

:13:52. > :13:58.is donating between 801,000 doses of the vaccine, which has only been

:13:59. > :14:02.tested on animals -- 800 and 1000. Liberia has received a small

:14:03. > :14:07.quantity of the drug to treat infected patients. There are no more

:14:08. > :14:11.supplies available. Drastic measures are being taken to stop the spread.

:14:12. > :14:17.Guinea, where the outbreak began, has closed its borders with Sierra

:14:18. > :14:22.Leone and Liberia. People asked ran it, frustration is growing. In the

:14:23. > :14:27.Nigerian city of Lagos, there has been a third Ebola death. The first

:14:28. > :14:31.victim was this man, is Liberian American man who should not have

:14:32. > :14:37.been allowed to travel. This hospital is where Patrick Sawyer was

:14:38. > :14:40.admitted, just hours after he arrived in Lagos from Liberia. He

:14:41. > :14:45.was already very ill with the Ebola virus. The problem is the people who

:14:46. > :14:50.helped him at the airport and the health workers initially did not

:14:51. > :14:54.know he had the virus. The challenge is making sure all the people who

:14:55. > :14:58.came into contact with him are tracked down. That is a tough job in

:14:59. > :15:05.a bustling city of close to 20 million people. Nigerians are having

:15:06. > :15:12.to change their habits to stay safe. I don't like to be in public places

:15:13. > :15:15.where food may be contaminated. Around the world, countries are

:15:16. > :15:20.preparing for the worst. In Taiwan they are carrying out a drill at the

:15:21. > :15:21.airport, in protective suits they quarantined a dummy patient, gearing

:15:22. > :15:40.up just in case Ebola strikes. David Cameron chairs an emergency

:15:41. > :15:45.meeting on Iraq as REF jets arrive in Cyprus for surveillance missions

:15:46. > :15:50.-- RAF jets. And Prince Harry champions the British Armed Forces

:15:51. > :15:53.team who have overcome life changes -- life changing injuries.

:15:54. > :15:56.How scientists in the capital are testing DNA

:15:57. > :15:59.from people with anorexia to try to predict who's at risk.

:16:00. > :16:03.And on the market for ?500,0000 - but you may need to commute by boat.

:16:04. > :16:12.Number One, the Thames, is up for sale.

:16:13. > :16:15.A rare collection of World War One documents has been discovered

:16:16. > :16:17.in Staffordshire, relating to men from the county appealing

:16:18. > :16:23.They cover nearly 20,000 cases, dating from 1916 onwards.

:16:24. > :16:26.As our correspondent Phil Mackie reports,

:16:27. > :16:29.some of them were Conscientious Objectors, but the vast majority

:16:30. > :16:33.were men who argued that their families or businesses would suffer,

:16:34. > :16:40.or that they were of more use to the war effort remaining at home.

:16:41. > :16:48.Shedding light on a dark corner of history. Hidden away in the

:16:49. > :16:50.Staffordshire archives they rediscovered a long forgotten

:16:51. > :16:56.treasure trove of information about life at home in the First World War.

:16:57. > :17:02.The final judgement from the appeal tribunal is brief and to the point.

:17:03. > :17:07.We are at war, the work can be done by women. These are the files which

:17:08. > :17:11.should have been destroyed. 20,000 individual cases where men argued

:17:12. > :17:17.they should not be conscripted into the military. This comes into

:17:18. > :17:21.existence in 1916. We are seeing how communities, families and businesses

:17:22. > :17:26.coped. As battles raged and casualties increased the number of

:17:27. > :17:33.volunteers fell. Conscription came in but thousand argued they were

:17:34. > :17:37.needed at home. If your appeal was turned down then you had to come

:17:38. > :17:43.here, the magistrates court in Stafford. He would face the tribunal

:17:44. > :17:48.and explain why in your circumstances you should be exempt

:17:49. > :17:52.from service on the front line. Every case reveals what is going on

:17:53. > :17:57.on the home front. It is revealing the lives of individual men within

:17:58. > :18:03.their families, within their local communities and within the county.

:18:04. > :18:08.What it is showing is how the war is affecting those lives as a personal

:18:09. > :18:12.and individual level. David Hope somewhere in the records will be

:18:13. > :18:17.information about his grandfather Albert, a conscientious objector.

:18:18. > :18:25.Here pictured at the cap badge at the camp where he was sent to work.

:18:26. > :18:31.Some ruffians from Birmingham went and don't down the hut where they

:18:32. > :18:36.lived one night. They all got out. So there was resentment against

:18:37. > :18:41.them. The government ordered these records destroyed. They do not know

:18:42. > :18:43.why they were not. Now they need an army of volunteers to help document

:18:44. > :18:44.the lives of thousands of men in Staffordshire who did not want to go

:18:45. > :18:49.to war. Headteachers in England have

:18:50. > :18:51.proposed publishing their own They say

:18:52. > :18:54.the tables will initially focus on secondary schools, and are expected

:18:55. > :18:57.to cover the curriculum, class sizes, and activities such as music

:18:58. > :19:00.and sport as well as GCSE results. Our education correspondent

:19:01. > :19:14.Gillian Hargreaves reports. Schools are ranked according to how

:19:15. > :19:17.many pupils achieve five good GCSEs including English and maths. Head

:19:18. > :19:21.teachers say this is a crude measure of success and does not give enough

:19:22. > :19:24.information for parents when they decide which school is best for

:19:25. > :19:27.their child. Their concerns have given rise to demands for a new

:19:28. > :19:33.league table, published earlier in the year. It is time for the

:19:34. > :19:37.profession to take back ownership of the education system and work with

:19:38. > :19:42.parents to save this is what our vision of the education system is.

:19:43. > :19:46.We do not want to work on a two-year timetable for election results. We

:19:47. > :19:52.need to build good schools of long-term. Alternative league tables

:19:53. > :19:55.would include other information such as sports teams, music and other

:19:56. > :20:03.character building activities are abided by the school. As well as all

:20:04. > :20:09.the exam papers set by pupils to stop schools entering pupils for

:20:10. > :20:13.exams over and over again until they pass. In response the government

:20:14. > :20:16.says children should not be entered for exams before they're ready and

:20:17. > :20:21.then for resits or other exams in the same subject, use of and of

:20:22. > :20:27.course exams for GCSEs or rules the incentive to gain the system in this

:20:28. > :20:30.way. Headteachers say they've done this to give parents more impartial

:20:31. > :20:34.information was dubbed critics will see it as teachers engaged in a

:20:35. > :20:37.political fight against the government.

:20:38. > :20:41.For the first time in its 78 year history the Fields Medal, the most

:20:42. > :20:43.prestigious prize in mathematics, has been awarded to a woman.

:20:44. > :20:46.Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician working

:20:47. > :20:59.in America, has been recognised for her work on complex geometry.

:21:00. > :21:07.Ukrainian government says it will not grant access to a convoy of

:21:08. > :21:12.humanitarian aid from Moscow. By Minister announced the aid mission

:21:13. > :21:16.from Moscow as an act of cynicism and said any aid had to be organised

:21:17. > :21:22.under the auspices of the Red Cross. It comes as Russian lorries enter

:21:23. > :21:29.the second day of travel to the east of Ukraine.

:21:30. > :21:32.The first ever Invictus Games, a series of para-sport events

:21:33. > :21:33.for wounded, injured and sick service personnel,

:21:34. > :21:38.Prince Harry has been heavily involved in their organisation after

:21:39. > :21:44.Well, this morning the British Armed Forces team was announced, as our

:21:45. > :21:58.The soldier prince and the athletes. Many suffered life changing injuries

:21:59. > :22:02.on the battlefield. Now the focus is the sports field as they continue to

:22:03. > :22:07.recover from their injuries. Dave Henson was a captain in the Royal

:22:08. > :22:12.Engineers in Afghanistan and came under attack three years ago. Going

:22:13. > :22:17.from being in an intensive care bed with drips coming out of everywhere

:22:18. > :22:21.to being here today ready to compete in front of friends and family and a

:22:22. > :22:27.wider public audience is such a proud moment for me. Harry, the

:22:28. > :22:31.Royal Games Makers. He has been the driving force behind this

:22:32. > :22:36.international event inspired by a similar event in America. He has

:22:37. > :22:40.brought his enthusiasm and his own style to the games. Prosthetics,

:22:41. > :22:46.dogs, wheelchairs, high-performance cars, tattoos, we have got

:22:47. > :22:58.everything. It can only be the big games. -- the games. In one month at

:22:59. > :23:03.several iconic London Olympic sites, the competition will be for rail. 14

:23:04. > :23:10.countries will take place in nine different sports. The war is in Iraq

:23:11. > :23:14.and Afghanistan were divisive wars. The organisers of the games are

:23:15. > :23:17.focusing not on the merits of the conflict but on the consequences and

:23:18. > :23:23.the work being done to revisited those who once served their country.

:23:24. > :23:28.Like the humans she was once deployed alongside, this fire and

:23:29. > :23:32.protection dog was deployed in Afghanistan and is the mascot for a

:23:33. > :23:35.British team engaged in the hunt for medals.

:23:36. > :23:38.Great Britains's Jo Pavey has become the oldest female gold medallist

:23:39. > :23:40.in the history of the European Athletics Championships.

:23:41. > :23:47.Last night the 40-year-old mother of two won the 10,000 metres in Zurich.

:23:48. > :23:55.Come on, Jo Pavey! Away she goes. A glorious run for Jo Pavey. Her whole

:23:56. > :24:02.career has been about this moment. It is the gold medal, she is the

:24:03. > :24:06.champion. It is funny to try for so many years and do it when I'm 40. I

:24:07. > :24:09.should have learned a few things along time ago!

:24:10. > :24:11.The voice of BBC commentator Steve Cram there.

:24:12. > :24:14.Well, a few minutes ago, I spoke to Steve and asked him

:24:15. > :24:26.Well Jo Pavey has been great athlete since she was a youngster. She won a

:24:27. > :24:31.schools title and we will have watched her develop. She's had some

:24:32. > :24:36.great days in her career. With female distance runners, they just

:24:37. > :24:40.at times seem to get better with age. The thing is keeping clear of

:24:41. > :24:45.injury and keeping the motivation. And the big change for her is what

:24:46. > :24:49.has happened in her personal life, the family bed you saw here last

:24:50. > :24:53.night, her children, that has given her a slightly different

:24:54. > :24:58.perspective. And as she says she has learnt a lot about herself in the

:24:59. > :25:02.past five years. So to keep training and competing at this level is

:25:03. > :25:06.incredible at the age of 40. And at the beginning of the year I do not

:25:07. > :25:10.think anyone including Jo Pavey would've thought she could come to

:25:11. > :25:15.two major championships and win a medal in the 5000 metres and then

:25:16. > :25:18.come here to Europe and be the oldest medallist we have ever seen

:25:19. > :25:24.at the European Championships in the women's event. She has never won a

:25:25. > :25:28.gold medal in her whole career so that capped off what would have been

:25:29. > :25:31.a great night for everyone and certainly for the British team. And

:25:32. > :25:36.we will see her again in the 5000 metres.

:25:37. > :25:38.Lauren Bacall, the Hollywood screen legend, has died aged 89.

:25:39. > :25:42.Born Betty Joan Perske in New York in 1924, she made her screen debut

:25:43. > :25:45.at the age of 19 opposite her future husband Humphrey Bogart

:25:46. > :25:49.She won an honorary Academy Award in 2009 in recognition of

:25:50. > :25:52."her central place in the golden age of motion pictures".

:25:53. > :26:00.David Sillito looks back at her career.

:26:01. > :26:17.Rarely has an actors made such an impact on her first appearance. She

:26:18. > :26:26.was wise the -- beyond her years but she had that look of a woman totally

:26:27. > :26:30.in control. But looks can deceive. I was really nervous. I had no

:26:31. > :26:35.confidence in myself. My head would shake and the only way to keep it

:26:36. > :26:41.still would be to hold my head down and look up. She fell in love with

:26:42. > :26:51.Humphrey Bogart, they married and made three more films together. This

:26:52. > :26:57.was perhaps the best. Who is this? This is not a police station. Look,

:26:58. > :27:05.this is not a police station. They had 11 happy years together for

:27:06. > :27:12.Bogart's death from cancer. Born Betty Joan Perske, she was inspired

:27:13. > :27:15.by Betty Davis. One critic said her voice sounded as if she had been

:27:16. > :27:21.smoked in vodka. She exuded confidence. I looked on as a woman

:27:22. > :27:27.in total control of every situation. Just like those parts

:27:28. > :27:31.that I played. As we all know, no one is that sure of themselves. And

:27:32. > :27:37.if they are I do not want to meet them. And it was a role that her

:27:38. > :27:43.hero Betty Davis once played that brought a Tony award. It was just in

:27:44. > :27:51.1997 that she got her first Oscar nomination. I will have your birth

:27:52. > :27:58.certificate blown up as a Christmas card!

:27:59. > :28:11.12 years later, in an honorary Oscar. At last! This is quite an

:28:12. > :28:16.event, I must say. It is something I never expected. I was in shock when

:28:17. > :28:23.I got the call and the shock has not one of I have to say. She was a star

:28:24. > :28:30.of the Golden age in Hollywood. Moving moments do not get much more

:28:31. > :28:32.memorable than this. You know to whistle? Just put your lips together

:28:33. > :28:46.and low. -- low. Now a look at the weather with Chris

:28:47. > :28:55.Fawkes. The satellite picture shows an area

:28:56. > :29:06.of low pressure today. Charlotte clouds already sweeping in. The

:29:07. > :29:11.showers are spreading east and will turn heavy for a time across

:29:12. > :29:15.Hampshire and into East and West Sussex and Kent. Showers possible in

:29:16. > :29:23.London but they will be fleeting. That is generally true of the

:29:24. > :29:25.showers in England and Wales. There should be fewer showers for Northern

:29:26. > :29:29.Ireland for a time this afternoon and for south-west Scotland. But the

:29:30. > :29:35.North of Scotland could have some coming and going through the rest of

:29:36. > :29:40.the afternoon. As for temperatures we have highs just below par for the

:29:41. > :29:45.time of year. And then overnight showers are more widespread across

:29:46. > :29:51.Northern Ireland and coming into Wales overnight. Across more inland

:29:52. > :29:56.parts of East Wales and England whether it should become largely

:29:57. > :30:01.dry. Temperatures around 14 degrees in towns and cities but just 8

:30:02. > :30:05.degrees in rural parts. On Thursday the wind again coming from a

:30:06. > :30:10.northerly direction. That pattern stays with us really through the

:30:11. > :30:18.rest of the month. We're looking at further showers, most widespread

:30:19. > :30:21.across Wales. They swing to the South East of England as we head

:30:22. > :30:26.into the afternoon. In the wettest areas we could see up to 20

:30:27. > :30:30.millimetres of rain. But across Northern Ireland and South West of

:30:31. > :30:34.Scotland, fewer showers here and a better chance of keeping some dry

:30:35. > :30:39.weather. And it becomes drier as we head through Friday as pressure

:30:40. > :30:43.begins to build. Still just some showers left here and there. And

:30:44. > :30:47.temperatures just below par for the time of year. But whether it is

:30:48. > :30:54.looks promising for the fifth test match at England take on India.

:30:55. > :30:59.Looks like there will be showers later on in the test match. Into the

:31:00. > :31:02.weekend, a lot of dry weather and round on Saturday but Sunday sees

:31:03. > :31:07.return of the North Westerly wind. And further showers widely across

:31:08. > :31:13.the British Isles. No return of the summer heat that we have had in June

:31:14. > :31:14.and July any time soon. The rest of August probably staying showery with

:31:15. > :31:18.a wind. Now a reminder of our top story this

:31:19. > :31:21.lunchtime. David Cameron is back from holiday

:31:22. > :31:23.and chairing a meeting of the government's emergency committee

:31:24. > :31:33.to discuss the crisis in Iraq.