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A major coup for UKIP as a prominent Conservative MP defects to | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Douglas Carswell says he'll now stand for UKIP. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
If he wins it'll give them their first seat in parliament. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The problem is that many of those at the top of the Conservative | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
They aren't serious about the change that Britain so desperately needs. | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
We'll be getting reaction from Westminster. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
A significant rise in net migration to the UK, driven mainly | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
A former head of children's services in Rotherham | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
says senior local officials knew many children were at risk of sexual | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The Ukrainian President cancels a visit to Turkey, saying there's been | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
an incursion by Russian troops in the east of the country. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Wayne Rooney is named as England's new captain | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
A 17-year-old is found guilty of the murder of a young man with the | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
We reveal the major cuts to counter-terrorism | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:18. | :01:35. | |
The prominent Conservative MP Douglas Carswell has | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
announced he is defecting to the UK Independence Party. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
He's resigned as an MP, triggering a by-election in | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
If he wins, he will deliver UKIP their first seat in parliament. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
His defection took many by surprise but Mr Carswell said he | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
was moving because the government was not being "serious | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Ben Wright. | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
Is the prize had been promised but this was a bombshell. Nigel Farage | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
stroll down with a prominent conservative MP. Douglas Carswell | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
and announced that he was defecting to the new kid on the political | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
blog. I am leaving the Conservative Party and joining UKIP. A Tory is | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
2005, years currently the for Clacton. -- since 2005 he is | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
currently the MP. As someone who has always answered directly to the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
independent people of Essex, there's only one honourable thing me to do. | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
In Parliament he has always been outside the Conservative Party | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
mainstream. A free thinker, never a minister, he led the campaign to | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
remove the former speaker or -- Michael Martin. He has always been | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
keen on leaving the European Union. They are not serious about changing | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
our relationship with Europe. An adviser has said that people will | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
not vote to leave because they will give people just enough to vote to | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
stay in. This is about change so that everything can stay the same. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
They are not interested in real change. A Commons friend said that | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
only the Tories would deliver a real referendum and he was disappointed. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
He has been flirting with UKIP for many years. It is an error of | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
judgement. Given all the things you have said, you are the perfect fit. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
A conservative parties books and called his defection regrettable and | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
counter-productive. -- party spokesman. The question is, how many | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
others will be tempted to follow him? | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
Let's go to Westminster and our correspondent. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
This is a bolt out of the blue. | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
How damaging is it for David Cameron? | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
This is a proper political shock and something that will unnerve Number | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
10 and the Conservative Party. The grievance goes beyond Europe. He | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
listed a number of reasons, including that he wanted to join | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
UKIP because in his view on leave could break-up the cosy clique in | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
Westminster -- only they code. It is Europe that has driven him. The | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
problem for the Conservative Party is the David Cameron has promised if | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the Conservatives win aim at your take they will have three | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
negotiations -- renegotiations. It has not stopped the momentum of | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
UKIP. The Tories and Labour continue to lead voters to UKIP. -- leak. A | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
prominent Conservative MP does not believe that what the Tories are | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
offering is good enough. There will be a by-election. The constituency | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
is 12,000, that is a lot and it will be Ariel Castro. -- E real test. | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
There's been a significant rise in migration into the UK. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
The latest figures show that net migration, that's the difference | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
between the number of people coming into the UK and those leaving, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
has increased by 68,000 in the past year and now stands at 243,000. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Citizens coming from the EU accounted for two-thirds | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Our home affairs correspondent reports. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Today's figures are bad news for a government that has promised to cut | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
net migration to fewer than a few thousand a year. The latest figures | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
show a significant increase. We have said previously because of the | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
increases in the level of net EU migration that it is challenging and | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
these figures make it further challenging again. It is right we | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
focus on net migration because of the pressures on services, | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
integration, issues of wage levels. Annual net migration to the UK has | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
gone up from 175,000-243,000. The number of recent EU entrants has | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
doubled. Most of the increases from longer-term members of the EU like | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal. A figure of net migration between | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
150000 and 250,000, which it has been for more than a decade, is now | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
the steady state. To suggest we might get below 100,000 is not going | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
to happen. The number of babies shown in British hospitals to | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
mothers originally from outside of the UK continues to rise. The | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
proportion of the British population born outside the UK is also up on | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
ten years ago. The former director of children's services at Rotherham | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
council senior local politicians and council | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
officials knew "many" children in Rotherham were at risk of sexual | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
exploitation almost a decade ago, according to the council's former | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
director of children's services. Sonia Sharp, who held the post from | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
2005 to 2008, said staff feared it was "the tip of an iceberg" but the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
predominant view was that the abuse victims were "promiscuous teenagers | :07:47. | :07:47. | |
in consensual relationships". 1,400 children were sexually | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
exploited over a 16-year period. Our correspondent Mike Sergeant | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
reports. says for so long the full scandal | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
was hidden from public view, one tone with so many children damaged | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
by abuse. The system, however that is defined, failed to protect them. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
The father of one of the victims thinks those in authority should | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
face the consequences. Those are the people you turn to when something | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
like this happens, and we did, and we felt let down. We were lied to, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
treated terribly, the people in the council are paid to safeguard | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
children, which they have not done. The individual under the most | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
scrutiny is shone right. He has resigned from Labour -- Shaun | :08:27. | :08:41. | |
Wright. There is a complex chain of command. People reporting to | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
directors of children's services, the chief executive and 63 elected | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
councillors. Within this tangled web, where does true accountability | :08:53. | :09:02. | |
lie? The former deputy leader stepped down last year and was | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
interviewed as part of the investigation. Sonia Shah issued a | :09:06. | :09:15. | |
statement, saying, I am sorry these young people suffered terrible abuse | :09:16. | :09:29. | |
-- Sonia Sharp. Senior politicians are reluctant to make direct | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
accusations about individuals but think others may have questions to | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
answer. Your basic duty to look after vulnerable children is not | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
being discharged, it is normal that people take responsibility for that | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
where it is appropriate. There are painful issues for community leaders | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
to address. About why the actual perpetrators were not challenged | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
sooner. That must be something wrong with them, so we have to address | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
that, we have to keep our eyes and ears open. The authorities say they | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
are more vigilant but apologies are not enough for the many victims as | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
this town confronts the failures of its recent past. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
One of the victims has been talking to Graham Satchell. | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
We're calling her Jessica to protect her identity. | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
She was groomed from the age of 14 and suffered years of violent abuse. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
A very silly teenager, I thought we was going to get married, have kids, | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
It was only later on when it changed and things started | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Jessica was just one of hundreds of teenage girls in Rotherham abused | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
With the violence you get so used to it and it becomes kind of just - | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
it sounds very strange, but you do just get used to it. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Were there moments where you feared for your life? | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Yeah, there were so many occasions, I remember - towards the end I | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
It was just so painful. I just could not take any more. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Did you go to the police? Yeah, I did. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
I went to the police when I was 16 and he basically said, he has got | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
The policeman said that? Yeah. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
And I will never, ever forget those words, what he said. | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
You know, if the police are saying no, where do you go from that? | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Like so many here in Rotherham, and across the country, Jessica says | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
she feels betrayed by the police, the local authority, by the system. | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
I mean, 1400 people, you know, there has to be more than one | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
They are not sorry because I got abused, they are sorry | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
because they got caught out in a scandal that has hit the media. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
What would you say to other girls who are still currently | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
They have to be strong. You have to stay strong. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
You have to come forward, tell someone. | :12:16. | :12:16. | |
I just hope that it is taken seriously | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
The President of Ukraine has cancelled | :12:21. | :12:36. | |
a trip to Turkey because of what he called an incursion | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Over the past 24 hours, a number of coastal towns in the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
south east of Ukraine have fallen to forces which the Ukrainian | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
NATO says it believes that 1000 troops from Russia are operating in | :12:49. | :13:00. | |
Ukraine. The Ukrainian soldier warned his | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
colleagues to be careful. A sniper is at work. For months, these | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
government troops have been gaining ground against the separatist rebels | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
in the east, but suddenly they are being pinned down and forced to | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
retreat from several areas which had been under their control. This rebel | :13:23. | :13:34. | |
leader revealed what may be the reason for this turnaround. He said | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
the rebels had serving Russian soldiers fighting alongside them in | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
their battle against the Ukrainian army. He claimed the soldiers were | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
on leave. Russian forces like these have been massed along the borders | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
for months. There is increasing evidence that some troops have | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
crossed into eastern Ukraine. Earlier this week these paratroopers | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
were apparently caught 25 kilometres inside the country. Moscow says they | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
crossed the border by mistake and got lost. Ukraine's leaders have no | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
doubt that Russian troops have entered the country. TRANSLATION: In | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
the last few hours the president announced he had cancelled a visit | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
to the last few hours the president | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
announced he had Turkey and instead is calling a meeting of his National | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Security Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
country. The Ukrainians believe the rebels' assault on this town, which | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
had been under government control, involved Russian troops. The town | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
has fallen and their next target could be a major city on the | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
southern coast. The allegations these separatist rebels have direct | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
support from Russian troops is causing alarm. Somewhere in the | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
leaders have described it as intolerable and demanded an | :15:06. | :15:06. | |
explanation from Moscow. Not enough is being done to help | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
cancer patients who suffer That's according to researchers who | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
say that three-quarters of cancer patients who are | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
clinically depressed don't get the The study published in the medical | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
journal the Lancet suggests that a new nurse-led treatment could | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
help thousands of people. Our health correspondent | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Jane Dreaper reports. A diagnosis of bowel cancer in her | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
early 30s left Sonia Wilson reeling. Her marriage fell apart, | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
she began drinking I felt like a burden to society | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
and not knowing how to cope with things after going through so much | :15:39. | :15:52. | |
treatments and things like that. It is like a new normal | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
for cancer patients, because things Today's research says depression is | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
often overlooked A study with 21,000 NHS patients | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
at cancer clinics in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee found rates | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
of depression several times higher Almost three quarters of them were | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
not having their depression treated. A new approach having cancer nurses | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
to offer support made a difference People often lose their jobs, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
they become quite passive by the treatment, they are | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
a patient receiving treatment. So they come out the end of this | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
treatment with the good news often that they are cured from the cancer | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
but completely lost their sense Caring for her pets has been part | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
of Sonia's recovery. She is now in remission | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
and has also had help from Macmillan Cancer Support who say | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
this is a heartbreaking The Conservative MP Douglas Carswell | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
defects to UKIP, announcing he'll resign from the Commons and stand | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
for his new party in a by-election. Coming up: Join me live in | :17:13. | :17:24. | |
Portsmouth for the end of an era as the Navy finally says goodbye to old | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
Lusty. we speak to the lady who received | :17:27. | :17:27. | |
these injuries when she asked a man to stop groping her | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
at Notting Hill Carnival. And how a London university is | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
helping Para-athletes detect It's now five months since Malaysia | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
Airlines flight MH370 disappeared - an hour after taking off on a flight | :17:41. | :17:52. | |
from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite a massive search effort - | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
no trace has ever been found Well, now a new deep sea search | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
will begin in September - and is The disappearance of flight MH-370 | :18:00. | :18:09. | |
is the biggest mystery A new deep-sea search covering more | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
than 1 million square kilometres of the Indian Ocean is expected to | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
start next month. In Canberra, senior ministers from | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Australia, Malaysia, and China, have again expressed their determination | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
to find the missing airliner. Australia's Deputy Prime Minister | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
said he was cautiously optimistic that ships using sophisticated | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
tracking technology would eventually Together, the vessels will search | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
the floor using towed vehicles equipped with wide-scan sonar, | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
synthetic aperture sonar, multi-beam The high-resolution search | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
of the priority area on the seafloor is expected to take | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
about 12 months to complete. Efforts to explain the disappearance | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is now focused on the southern part | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
of the original search area that The new mission, led by a Dutch | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
company, will enter a mysterious -- deep-sea world far off the coast | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
of the Australian city of Perth. Analysis of recent work to | :19:23. | :19:34. | |
survey the search zone has found that parts of the Indian Ocean | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
are up to 1.5 kilometres deeper The airliner vanished in early March | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
with 239 passengers and crew. 200 business leaders in Scotland | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
have signed a letter calling for a yes vote in next month's | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
referendum on independence. They claim Scottish industry has | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
been used as a "cash-cow" for the rest of the UK and that staying in | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
the union might mean leaving the EU. Our Scotland correspondent | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow. This just a day | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
after more than 130 business leaders signed a letter saying the case for | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
leaving the UK hasn't been made. Scotland is a country which is | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
debating its future and that debate is getting increasingly heated. Over | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
the last couple of days we have had these businesses coming out to state | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
their opinions. More than 200 today saying that they believe Westminster | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
government has never and will never do what is in the best interests of | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Scotland's economy, and that only the full financial control over | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Scotland's affairs, ie independence, will guarantee what is best for | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Scotland and its people. Some pretty big businesses signing that letter, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
the former boss of William Hill. They are speaking in a personal | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
capacity. The boss of Stagecoach, the boss of Clyde Blowers and also | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
some small and medium-sized enterprises. Before that 130 this | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
people a letter saying the case for independence was not made. And the | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
whole issue of business will be high on the agenda when the Prime | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Minister speaks tonight. He will be appealing in his speech to the head | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
and the heart. He will say that this is the positive case for the union, | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
that it is one of the oldest and most successful single markets in | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
the world, supporting in its trade, more than 1 million jobs. He has | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
only made rare forays into Scotland during this referendum campaign, but | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
I'm told this will not be his last visit to Scotland before the vote on | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
September 18 three weeks today. Lorna Gordon, thank you. | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
And you can keep up to date with the latest news | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
and analysis ahead of Scotland's vote on independence in our special | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
That's Scotland Decides: Referendum Today | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
Britain is being called "deeply elitist" - after new findings | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
showing that people who went to private school and Oxbridge dominate | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission says 70% | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
of senior judges, half of the House of Lords, and a third of | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
A degree from Oxford or Cambridge isn't just about academic excellence | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
and personal success - it also opens doors. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Today's report shows graduates from the two universities still have | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
a disproportionate hold on Britain's top jobs. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Fewer than one in 100 people go to Oxford or | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Cambridge, but three quarters of our top judges, 59% of the Cabinet | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
and almost half of all newspaper columnists have Oxbridge degrees. | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
Speight in the media, politics, the law and business and in the armed | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
services they look a bit like a cosy club. I think the data is so stark | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
and the story is so conclusive it is hard to avoid the assertion that | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Britain remains fundamentally elitist. | :23:07. | :23:21. | |
Only 7% of the population is privately educated but a third | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
of MPs went to fee-paying schools, as did 62% of senior military | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
officers, and more than half of the highest-ranking diplomats. | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Independent schools say they want to be more accessible. I want to | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
celebrate the fact we have in this country schools rated amongst the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
best in the world, to see if we can placate that and share the expertise | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
for the better of everyone. That's the way to look at it rather than | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
saying it's about the old school tie. Good people can go far wherever | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
they start, at the report warns Britain's institutions still don't | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
truly represent the public they serve. Its authors want to end what | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
they call the closed shop at the top. | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Roy Hodgson has chosen Wayne Rooney to be the new England captain. | :24:05. | :24:18. | |
The England manager said the 28-year-old was an obvious choice | :24:19. | :24:32. | |
and he deserved it for his commitment to the cause and his | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
The Manchester United captain's first job will be to lead | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
the team out for a friendly against Norway on Wednesday. | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
Natalie Pirks is at Wembley where the news was announced. | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
He is just 28 but has five tournaments under his belt and 48 | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
goals for his country. Hodgson said he met him face to face and Rooney | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
said today it is a dream come true, beyond my wildest dreams and | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
something I will take massive pride in doing. Hodgson says this does not | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
mean he cannot be dropped but this shows he will shoulder the | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
considerable burden of captaining England. With his 95 caps and the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
goals he has scored and all of the things he has already done from such | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
a young age. You have seen he is willing to take his responsibility | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
and push on in his career. I think all I can hope for really is that he | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
continues to play well and that he shoulders the responsibility of | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
captaincy as well as the other captains before him. Responsibility | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
was a word Roy Hodgson used a hell of a lot today, particularly the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
responsibility of having to speak to the press before every game. Wayne | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
Rooney has not enjoyed the best relationships with the rich press | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
will stop Hodgson said today it was something he was going to have to | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
suffer. There were calls for him to be dropped this summer and while he | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
will not be the obvious choice, for many he was realistically the only | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
choice and the fans are failing to be fused about this post World Cup | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
England era. The game here this week against Norway looks like it will be | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
the least attended England match at the new Wembley. Thank you for | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
joining us. An aircraft carrier that served | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
in Bosnia and the Gulf has been formally taken | :26:06. | :26:06. | |
out of service this morning. HMS Illustrious was decommissioned | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
in a ceremony at aircraft carrier was in service | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
for thirty two years The ship will now be sold but | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
the buyer must keep it in the UK. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
is at Portsmouth dockyard. This really is the end of an era for | :26:24. | :26:35. | |
the Navy, with as you say, the formal decommissioning of HMS | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Illustrious at a formal ceremony this morning. It has travelled | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
multiple times around the world and seen service from everywhere from | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the Falklands to the Philippines but from today the sailors on board and | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
their families came to say goodbye. A musical sendoff for the ship known | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
simply as Lusty. HMS Illustrious today saying goodbye after 32 years | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
at sea. In a history that stretches from the Falklands to the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Philippines the carrier has travelled nearly 1 million miles, | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
active in everything from war zones to hurricanes. Cliff Hardcastle and | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
his son Thomas both served on her. Thomas was even christened on her, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
so today is very special. It is the end of an era for obviously myself, | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
my father and the ship. I'm very proud to say father and son have | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
served on this ship from the beginning of its life to the final | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
days of its life. The three decades illustrious form the backbone of the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
Navy rejecting power and influence. Its company of nearly 700 including | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
women is sad it is coming to an end. It is sad and it has a soul and when | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
we leave her it is going to be sad. Generations of sailors and their | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
families came to say farewell to Illustrious as the Navy moves into a | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
different era. When you look at what she has done around the world from | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
the Gulf of the Adriatic, Sierra Leone, and most recently in the | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
Philippines, I think she has been seen by the country as an exemplar | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
of what they would like the UK to be. To those who did know her, Lusty | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
was always more than metal and munitions, she was home from home, | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
part of Britain's Maritime calling card that has now sailed its last | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
voyage. So, all change for the Royal Navy today. HMS Illustrious itself | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
is up for sale. They have had lots of interested parties. The Navy | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
isn't putting a price on what it would cost you but the only | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
condition they are putting in place is that it stays in the United | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
Kingdom. Time to look at the weather now. | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
Somewhat mixed fortunes across the British Isles this afternoon. For | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
many it is dry with bright sunny spells but also some heavy showers | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
in one or two areas to content with. Looking at the satellite picture you | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
can see the cloud we started the day with across the eastern half of the | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
British Isles running out into the North Sea and clear skies moving on | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
and another line of cloud moving into the West which is the cloud | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
that will yield the sharpest showers this afternoon and across Scotland. | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
Quite a focus on central and eastern areas. Some heavy showers the | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
northern England and Northern Ireland should enjoy some afternoon | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
sunshine, some heavy showers through the afternoon pushing out of Wales | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
into the Midlands and the south-west of England across towards the West | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
Country. Highs in the low 20s, Wales and the south-west becoming drier | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
and brighter as we head into late afternoon and into the evening. | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
Short lived, the evening sunshine for Northern Ireland, the area of | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
low pressure closing into the north-west of the British Isles will | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
start to bring some heavy downpours of rain into one or two areas in the | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
small hours of Friday, spreading to Scotland as well and the low | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
pressure will dominate the weather across the British Isles on Friday, | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
meaning a windy day across the board, but the focus for the showers | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
will again be Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England, Wales and | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
the south-west. Central and eastern areas faring well into is a dry | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
conditions, perhaps one or two showers but in the sunshine | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
temperatures should be in the low 20s. The low should move eastwards | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
for Saturday and high-pressure looks like it will try and build from the | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
south for the weekend, so Saturday is a promising day. Some showers | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
still to the far North West of Scotland, and perhaps a few across | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
western exposure areas of the British Isles but lighter winds on | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
Saturday and a largely fine day with temperatures around average for the | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
time of year, in the high teens and perhaps low 20s. Sunday is pretty | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
promising thanks to the high-pressure and a lot of fine | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
weather. You will notice towards the north-west this weather front will | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
work its way across through Sunday into Monday. But outlook for the | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
start of next week but not promising as the week goes on if you think we | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
have seen the last of summer and any warmth, this is why next week is | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
looking like that, the frontal system swings through on Monday and | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
Tuesday and Wednesday and in the remainder of the week it is high | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
pressure building up from the Azores all the way, stabilising things, and | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
it also looks like it will start to introduce some warmer air as well. | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
Many parts of the British Isles through the second half of next week | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
could enjoy temperatures above average, we could be talking about | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
the low and even maybe mid 20s for some areas in the south. So | :31:25. | :31:28. |