:00:00. > :00:00.The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against
:00:07. > :00:16.Tomahawk cruise missiles, warplanes, and drones were used in the attacks,
:00:17. > :00:20.which targeted several areas - including IS strongholds.
:00:21. > :00:23.Reports of up to 50 killed in the attacks - Syria's foreign
:00:24. > :00:28.ministry said its UN envoy was given advance warning.
:00:29. > :00:31.A tide of refugees continues to flee the fighting - we'll have the
:00:32. > :00:35.latest from the border between Syria and Turkey.
:00:36. > :00:38.We'll be getting reaction to those air strikes - and assessing the
:00:39. > :00:40.likelihood of future British involvement.
:00:41. > :00:45.Ed Miliband's big day - as he prepares to outline his ten-year
:00:46. > :00:50.plan to save the NHS and to rebuild the UK economy.
:00:51. > :00:53.New warnings on ebola - the World Health Organisation warns that
:00:54. > :01:00.the number of cases could reach 20,000 by November.
:01:01. > :01:04.Tesco delivers a new financial director as figures show its
:01:05. > :01:11.And a seal of approval as thousands of sea animals return home to the
:01:12. > :01:14.aquatic centre damaged in last winter's storms.
:01:15. > :01:44.A woman and child have died after being hit by a train in Slough.
:01:45. > :01:48.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:49. > :01:50.For the first time, the United States - along with five
:01:51. > :01:54.Arab nations - has carried out air strikes against so-called Islamic
:01:55. > :01:59.The Pentagon said fighter planes, bombers
:02:00. > :02:02.and cruise missiles were all used to target several areas, including
:02:03. > :02:08.One report said that up 50 people had been killed.
:02:09. > :02:12.European states - including the UK - did NOT take part.
:02:13. > :02:20.Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, reports.
:02:21. > :02:26.Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a US warship in the Red Sea
:02:27. > :02:32.targeting jihadist positions in Syria for the first time. This is a
:02:33. > :02:38.major escalation in the US-led campaign against the so-called
:02:39. > :02:42.Islamic State. This was the aftermath on one
:02:43. > :02:47.position in north-west Syria. The US says it's disrupted plans to attack
:02:48. > :02:53.Western interests, but at least 50 militants are reported to have been
:02:54. > :02:57.killed. There are unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties.
:02:58. > :03:02.Islamic State has been continuing its media campaign. It's put up
:03:03. > :03:07.another hostage video of a captive British journalist, speaking under
:03:08. > :03:12.duress. Senior US politicians seem to call the Islamic State nasty
:03:13. > :03:18.names, awful, vile, a cancer, an insult to our values. But such petty
:03:19. > :03:21.insults don't really do much harm to the most powerful jihadist movement
:03:22. > :03:27.seen in recent history. On the streets of the Iraqi capital,
:03:28. > :03:31.Baghdad, the air strikes drew a cautious welcome from some.
:03:32. > :03:37.TRANSLATION: Definitely, this pleases us. We want the US and
:03:38. > :03:40.Western countries to take part in striking strongholds of terrorists
:03:41. > :03:44.and criminals who are trying to destabilise the situation, whether
:03:45. > :03:48.they are in Syria or in Iraq. In Damascus, Syrian officials say
:03:49. > :03:52.they were informed hours in advance by US Secretary of State, John
:03:53. > :03:56.Kerry, that the air strikes were coming. Five Arab states also took
:03:57. > :04:02.part in some form, according to the US. It is not clear to what extent.
:04:03. > :04:06.The participation of Sunni Arab countries is significant, although
:04:07. > :04:10.no-one knows how long this coalition will hold. Everybody can agree on
:04:11. > :04:14.one thing. ISIS is a threat to every country in the region and from that
:04:15. > :04:18.perspective, they have decided this is the number one threat. We will
:04:19. > :04:21.get back to squabbling amongst ourselves after this has happened.
:04:22. > :04:26.For now, we need to deal with this. On the ground in northern Syria, the
:04:27. > :04:31.battles continue. These are Kurdish fighters. Islamic State forces are
:04:32. > :04:33.advancing. Kurdish refugees are fleeing. Air power alone will not
:04:34. > :04:37.end this conflict. Our political correspondent,
:04:38. > :04:46.Ross Hawkins, is in Westminster. No British involvement yet? No
:04:47. > :04:49.British involvement yet, but a statement from Downing Street within
:04:50. > :04:53.the last ten minutes or so saying the Prime Minister supports these
:04:54. > :04:57.air strikes. He is going to hold meetings at the United Nations in
:04:58. > :05:01.New York to see what more the UK could do to tackle the threat from
:05:02. > :05:06.ISIS. That doesn't necessarily mean extra military action. We know that
:05:07. > :05:10.Labour want a UN Security Council Resolution. We are told they are
:05:11. > :05:14.seeking to bring together widespread international support for action
:05:15. > :05:19.against the Islamic State, but it is not clear what position they would
:05:20. > :05:22.take if they sought a resolution and failed to get it. There are plenty
:05:23. > :05:25.unanswered questions. Will Parliament be recalled? You would
:05:26. > :05:29.assume it would be if military action did go ahead and there was
:05:30. > :05:34.that plan. How far will David Cameron go in his support for the
:05:35. > :05:37.American campaign? And to what extent Ed Miliband is prepared to
:05:38. > :05:39.give him political backing? Thank you.
:05:40. > :05:42.The UN Refugee Agency says Turkey urgently needs help to care for
:05:43. > :05:47.130,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border in recent days.
:05:48. > :05:49.It says this is the largest influx in such
:05:50. > :05:54.a short period since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
:05:55. > :05:57.It says it needs a contingency to deal with more than 400,000.
:05:58. > :06:01.The refugees are fleeing an advance by Islamic State
:06:02. > :06:04.militants, who have seized parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
:06:05. > :06:09.Our correspondent Mark Lowen is on the Turkish-Syria border.
:06:10. > :06:19.How are they coping with this? Well, with great difficulty. Turkey had
:06:20. > :06:24.over a million Syrian refugees on its territory before this recent
:06:25. > :06:28.wave. It is now very overstretched. Many of the Syrian Kurdish refugees
:06:29. > :06:31.had long called for air strikes to stop Islamic State advance and to
:06:32. > :06:36.help them back to their homes. Most of them do not want to be here in
:06:37. > :06:42.Turkey. Now, they wait to see the fruits of that military campaign.
:06:43. > :06:47.Age is no barrier when the desperation to flee is so strong.
:06:48. > :06:52.More arrive today, Syrian Kurds escaping the trauma of the Islamic
:06:53. > :06:57.State advance on the city of Kobane. The youngest, terrified by the
:06:58. > :07:02.experience. Turkey is a safe haven under strain, struggling with over
:07:03. > :07:07.130,000 refugees since last Friday. The new arrivals settle where they
:07:08. > :07:12.can. Most border crossings have been closed as Turkey tries to stem the
:07:13. > :07:17.flow. Those who fled welcome news of the air strikes on IS, hoping it
:07:18. > :07:22.could allow them to return home at some point.
:07:23. > :07:27.TRANSLATION: The Americans must bomb because IS are killing us.
:07:28. > :07:30.This man was a teacher in Kobane, here since the weekend. He says
:07:31. > :07:42.military action is a rare piece of good news. I feel happy. I am
:07:43. > :07:48.grateful, I am joyful to America, to its partners. I am so happy. Could
:07:49. > :07:53.the US and its allies have been spurred into this action by this
:07:54. > :07:57.refugee influx and the advance of Islamic State towards Turkey? The
:07:58. > :08:00.militants are close to the Turkey border, a vital NATO member. With
:08:01. > :08:05.waves of people coming every day, perhaps that gave Washington the
:08:06. > :08:08.final push to strike. Humanitarian agencies have set up
:08:09. > :08:14.medical facilities to deal with the crisis. New arrivals are vaccinated,
:08:15. > :08:19.but many suffer from dehydration. Some have simply entered the world
:08:20. > :08:22.as refugees. TRANSLATION: Nobody was expecting
:08:23. > :08:28.the war in Syria to last for three years. Nobody predicted more than
:08:29. > :08:32.100,000 refugees would come here. If they keep coming, this crisis will
:08:33. > :08:39.get worse. Yesterday we had two doctors here. Now we have six.
:08:40. > :08:42.The political tension continues, a stand-off between Turks and Kurds,
:08:43. > :08:47.two people who fought a 30-year civil war here. The refugee wave has
:08:48. > :08:50.brought hostility back to the surface.
:08:51. > :08:55.The military action they wanted has finally come. Can it halt this
:08:56. > :09:02.crisis and the march of Islamic State?
:09:03. > :09:09.Simon, Turkey declined to be part of the military-led coalition. It said
:09:10. > :09:13.it would not allow its bases to be used for air strikes. It would
:09:14. > :09:16.support the operation in a humanitarian capacity, but when it
:09:17. > :09:20.made that pledge, it did not expect the sheer numbers to have come in
:09:21. > :09:22.the space of the last five days. Thank you.
:09:23. > :09:27.Our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, is here.
:09:28. > :09:34.Looking at these air strikes, how surprising is that? We knew that
:09:35. > :09:39.something like this was on the cards. The United States was
:09:40. > :09:44.bullying a coalition. It was clear there would have to be strikes in
:09:45. > :09:49.Iraq and Syria where IS strongholds are, if there was going to be any
:09:50. > :09:55.hope of degrading these extremists. What is interesting is that it is a
:09:56. > :10:02.whole array of Sunni-Arab allies who have joined the US in the strikes.
:10:03. > :10:06.We don't know how much they are involved in the military action. It
:10:07. > :10:10.has been an intensive night of strikes. Over 50 strikes across
:10:11. > :10:15.northern and eastern Syria, so it is very dramatic. What it does do is
:10:16. > :10:20.raise lots of questions. How effective is this going to be?
:10:21. > :10:24.Everyone was anticipating this, including the extremists, who it is
:10:25. > :10:28.thought dispersed some of their fighters and equipment from their
:10:29. > :10:35.strongholds in Raqqa, so how far has this night degraded them? How far
:10:36. > :10:39.have there been civilian casualties? That raises the question, are there
:10:40. > :10:44.going to be more? If this is going to be a sustained campaign, what
:10:45. > :10:50.about the non-allies? Syria, Russia and Iran? We know they were
:10:51. > :10:54.informed, all the foreign ministers at the United Nations. But if there
:10:55. > :10:57.is a sustained campaign, how will they react? Thank you.
:10:58. > :10:59.And you can keep fully up-to-date with all
:11:00. > :11:01.the developments throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel.
:11:02. > :11:04.Ed Miliband is putting health at the centre of a ten-year plan to
:11:05. > :11:07.reverse the damage he says has been done by the Conservatives.
:11:08. > :11:09.The Labour Leader is about to deliver his last big
:11:10. > :11:15.Labour Party Conference Speech ahead of next year's general election.
:11:16. > :11:16.Details are expected on a tax on expensive homes, a so-called mansion
:11:17. > :11:20.tax - to fund NHS spending - as our political correspondent, Chris
:11:21. > :11:40.There is no shortage of people here trying to drop ideas into Ed
:11:41. > :11:48.Miliband's head. Passage checked and security negotiated, those will on
:11:49. > :11:51.the front row will be smiling. He will be setting out Labour's vision
:11:52. > :11:55.for the future. It will be a great speech. Ed's speeches are always
:11:56. > :11:59.strong and powerful. It will be setting out - I can't tell you what
:12:00. > :12:04.is going to be in it. So, those in the know like to tease and trade
:12:05. > :12:13.union leaders chip in with what they would like to hear. He has to wear
:12:14. > :12:16.trousers! He will talk to a much wider audience. British people have
:12:17. > :12:22.to have a good look at him. He has to tell them I'm a decent, honest
:12:23. > :12:28.man. When he makes it to the stage, what will we hear? We have borrowed
:12:29. > :12:32.a pub campaign's bar game and added Ed Miliband's round of policies.
:12:33. > :12:37.Half a dozen big themes form what Labour calls its plan for the next
:12:38. > :12:41.ten years. The Conservatives say none of this would be possible if
:12:42. > :12:46.the economy is on its knees, as happened when Labour was last in
:12:47. > :12:48.Government. This is what the Conference Hall looks like before
:12:49. > :12:56.the big speech. Ed Miliband will tell us you have made the
:12:57. > :13:00.sacrifices, you know this country doesn't work for you. He know this
:13:01. > :13:05.is is his last big speech before the general election. One thing looms
:13:06. > :13:07.rather large here - next year. Come polling day, the power is in your
:13:08. > :13:11.hands. Our health editor, Hugh Pym,
:13:12. > :13:18.is here. We keep hearing from Labour about
:13:19. > :13:22.the NHS deficit. These proposals they are putting forward, are they
:13:23. > :13:27.enough to plug that gap? Simon, many health experts have warned of a
:13:28. > :13:30.looming funding gap in the next Parliament, after the general
:13:31. > :13:34.election. In this Parliament, health spending on the NHS in England has
:13:35. > :13:38.gone up above inflation, but it has not kept up with rising demand. The
:13:39. > :13:41.NHS has had to make efficiency savings which have been achieved and
:13:42. > :13:45.money put back into frontline services. Insiders around the NHS
:13:46. > :13:49.are saying that can't continue for another five years. It does need
:13:50. > :13:52.more public money. There has been some welcome for Ed Miliband, the
:13:53. > :13:55.political leaders saying this is what we do, we would raise tax here
:13:56. > :14:00.on the mansion tax and maybe elsewhere and spend it on the NHS.
:14:01. > :14:04.To give you some idea of the scale of the challenge. The NHS spends
:14:05. > :14:10.?113 billion a year at the moment in England. Some are saying there could
:14:11. > :14:14.be a ?30 billion funding gap by 2020 if health spending is not increased
:14:15. > :14:16.significantly above inflation. Those are the sort of big numbers that are
:14:17. > :14:19.still being talked about. Thank you. Our assistant political editor,
:14:20. > :14:28.Norman Smith, is in Manchester. This is Ed Miliband's big moment, he
:14:29. > :14:33.needs to galvanise the troops? It is a big moment, Simon. The clear hope
:14:34. > :14:38.of those around Mr Miliband is that by pledging more cash for the NHS,
:14:39. > :14:44.creating tens of thousands of new jobs, that will prove as iconic and
:14:45. > :14:50.as popular a policy as his pledge last year to freeze energy prices.
:14:51. > :14:54.The hope will be that it will motivate Labour supporters and it is
:14:55. > :14:57.evident that Mr Miliband is determined to put the NHS at the
:14:58. > :15:01.centre of their election campaign. Why? They believe the Government is
:15:02. > :15:06.vulnerable on the NHS, because of anxiety over waiting times, the
:15:07. > :15:09.pressure on A and lingering unhappiness over the NHS reforms.
:15:10. > :15:13.They also point to the Scottish independence referendum where they
:15:14. > :15:19.say the SNP managed to garner a lot of support by saying only they could
:15:20. > :15:26.protect the NHS. It's a stance that has risks and the risk is that this
:15:27. > :15:30.will be seen as a defensive move, Labour back in its comfort zone
:15:31. > :15:34.playing on home territory. The NHS has always been Labour and a Labour
:15:35. > :15:38.issue. And the hope of the Conservatives is that this will be
:15:39. > :15:40.seen as a reluctance in Labour circles to take them on over the
:15:41. > :15:55.economy. Thank you. The US and five Arab allies have
:15:56. > :16:01.launched strikes against the Islamic State in Syria. Still to come... A
:16:02. > :16:04.total revamp, see animals return home after the storms damaged the
:16:05. > :16:07.home. How a victim
:16:08. > :16:11.of female genital mutilation is training other teachers to help
:16:12. > :16:13.prevent the controversial practise. And from omnibus to battle bus -
:16:14. > :16:16.how London buses did their bit There've been more stark warnings
:16:17. > :16:26.today about the dangers posed by the Ebola virus with specialists
:16:27. > :16:29.at the World Health Organisation claiming the number
:16:30. > :16:32.of people with the disease could reach 20,000 by November
:16:33. > :16:35.if swift action isn't taken now. Here, it's been revealed that 164
:16:36. > :16:38.NHS staff have volunteered to be part of the UK's efforts to contain
:16:39. > :16:42.the Ebola crisis in West Africa which has already killed
:16:43. > :16:45.around 2800 people there. Here's our health correspondent,
:16:46. > :16:59.Branwen Jeffreys. Empty roads, deserted streets. For
:17:00. > :17:06.three days, everybody in Sierra Leone stayed at home. The quarantine
:17:07. > :17:12.was imposed by government to fight Ebola. Volunteers went from home to
:17:13. > :17:18.home and handed out advice on how to control the infection. In the
:17:19. > :17:25.climate of fear, rumours have spread as fast as the virus. The lockdown
:17:26. > :17:29.uncovered more than 90 dead bodies, themselves a potentially deadly
:17:30. > :17:34.source of infection. There was lots of criticism about this at the
:17:35. > :17:40.start, but in the end, the government has been able to reach
:17:41. > :17:45.70% of households with important messages about Ebola. Clinics in the
:17:46. > :17:49.worst affected countries are overwhelmed and desperately trying
:17:50. > :17:53.to care for the infected. In the next few weeks, there could be
:17:54. > :17:58.thousands more cases. More help is on the way, including from the UK.
:17:59. > :18:07.In the last few days, 164 NHS staff have been volunteering. It is tiring
:18:08. > :18:11.work. Working in that humidity, working in those suits is buried the
:18:12. > :18:19.Hill debating stop when people are tired, people might take short cuts
:18:20. > :18:24.are not realise they're not adhering to the protocol. We are conscious of
:18:25. > :18:28.that. In Oxford, healthy volunteers are helping with trials of the
:18:29. > :18:34.vaccine. The first were injected last week. The race is on to find
:18:35. > :18:39.out if it is safe and effective, but that could take months to establish.
:18:40. > :18:43.In west Africa, British research money will pay for more trials. They
:18:44. > :18:48.hope to test for potential treatments. It won't save lives now
:18:49. > :18:53.but it could reduce the terrible death toll in future.
:18:54. > :18:55.The mother-in-law of the main suspect in the disappearance
:18:56. > :18:58.of 14-year-old schoolgirl Alice Gross has told the BBC she hopes
:18:59. > :19:02.Zalkalns was jailed for murdering his wife in Latvia in 1998.
:19:03. > :19:06.Forensic tests are being carried out on a knife found in a river close to
:19:07. > :19:09.where Alice was last seen - and police continue the search.
:19:10. > :19:25.In Latvia, and mother shares the anguish over Alice's disappearance.
:19:26. > :19:32.Her daughter married the man who is now a suspect in the case. Arnis
:19:33. > :19:36.Zalkalns, who adopted his wife's Sir nine, lured her to a forest two
:19:37. > :19:41.years after the wedding and use an iron bar and a knife to murder her.
:19:42. > :19:48.TRANSLATION: He is a threat to society. If he has done this to one
:19:49. > :19:53.person he could do it to another as well. Alice Gross was last seen at
:19:54. > :19:59.the end of August, captured by CCTV, walking across a bridge. The same
:20:00. > :20:03.camera filmed Arnis Zalkalns crossing a bridge on a bike 15
:20:04. > :20:09.minutes after Alice. He went missing six days later. The search for clues
:20:10. > :20:15.has concentrated on the canal and the overgrown tanks of the River
:20:16. > :20:20.Brent in London. Yesterday, officers found a 6 inch knife which is being
:20:21. > :20:23.examined by forensic experts. The police say they have no evidence at
:20:24. > :20:29.the moment to indicate that Alice has come to any harm, but the
:20:30. > :20:34.disappearance of Arnis Zalkalns has filled his mother-in-law with
:20:35. > :20:39.foreboding. TRANSLATION: A person like that is sick. He should be put
:20:40. > :20:46.into a hospital. If someone does something like that, completely
:20:47. > :20:49.drunk or so jealous that he cannot control his feelings, then you could
:20:50. > :20:53.almost forgive him, but doing it consciously, with a clear mind,
:20:54. > :20:58.waiting for the moment to do your dirty work, that I cannot
:20:59. > :21:05.understand. The family of Alice Gross continued to wait and hope for
:21:06. > :21:10.news of her safe return. A woman and a young child have died after being
:21:11. > :21:14.hit by a train at Slough in Berkshire in what police say are
:21:15. > :21:15.suspicious circumstances. The train station has been closed while
:21:16. > :21:19.officers examine the scene. Troubled retailer Tesco has
:21:20. > :21:20.announced that its new chief financial officer,
:21:21. > :21:23.Alan Stewart, is to start work today, more than two months earlier
:21:24. > :21:25.than originally planned. His first job will be to deal with
:21:26. > :21:28.the disclosure yesterday that the company had overstated its latest
:21:29. > :21:31.profit estimate by ?250 million. Our business correspondent
:21:32. > :21:44.Emma Simpson reports. The turmoil for Tesco is on the
:21:45. > :21:49.front page. Amid the headlines, there have been questions about the
:21:50. > :21:54.gap at the top of the financial team. Today it parachuted in a new
:21:55. > :22:00.financial officer from Marks and Spencers. He is and has started in
:22:01. > :22:05.his job after a personal appeal from the new Tesco job to let him start
:22:06. > :22:11.two months earlier than planned. -- new Tesco boss. There have been
:22:12. > :22:16.profit warnings without the CEO on board. So, this is an embarrassing
:22:17. > :22:21.situation. It is resolved now and as soon as he can start the accounts,
:22:22. > :22:27.then as soon as Tesco can focus on the important job of fixing its UK
:22:28. > :22:34.trading. Tesco's blooms are laid bare in new industry figures. In
:22:35. > :22:41.2007, Tesco had a 32% share of the grocery market in the UK. That is
:22:42. > :22:46.down to just under 29%. Each percentage point lost represents ?1
:22:47. > :22:49.billion of sales. What has changed in the marketplace is that we are no
:22:50. > :22:54.longer seeing the growth in the market. Tesco have previously lost
:22:55. > :23:00.share but they have not gross sales. With the market static, Tesco have
:23:01. > :23:08.not even managed gross sales and we are seeing their sales declining. If
:23:09. > :23:11.that was not enough, Tesco's business in South Korea is under
:23:12. > :23:17.investigation over allegations that customer information was sold to
:23:18. > :23:21.insurance companies. Tesco is cooperating, saying it takes data
:23:22. > :23:26.protection very seriously. This retail juggernaut has been one of
:23:27. > :23:32.Great Britain's great corporate success stories but right now, it's
:23:33. > :23:36.problems seem to be piling up as the share price continues to fall.
:23:37. > :23:39.Members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly will get
:23:40. > :23:42.their first chance to debate last week's 'No' result in the referendum
:23:43. > :23:45.Scotland's outgoing First Minister, Alex Salmond and the Welsh First
:23:46. > :23:47.Minister, Carwyn Jones will both give statements this afternoon.
:23:48. > :23:50.In a moment we'll get the latest from our correspondent in Cardiff
:23:51. > :24:05.Alex Salmond leaving, membership of the SNP rising, whether Scotland go?
:24:06. > :24:11.Scottish politics is moving into a new phase. An extraordinary rise in
:24:12. > :24:18.membership of the Scottish National party, nearly doubling to 50,000
:24:19. > :24:21.members, making it a bigger political party by membership than
:24:22. > :24:25.the Liberal Democrats. Membership of the Scottish Green Party is also
:24:26. > :24:31.doubling since the referendum on Thursday. The trick for the
:24:32. > :24:34.pro-independence parties is to harness the energy and turn it into
:24:35. > :24:39.an argument about these extra powers that should be coming to this
:24:40. > :24:42.Parliament, according to all the political parties. There will be a
:24:43. > :24:46.commission that will take shape and discuss these powers. Lord Smith has
:24:47. > :24:50.been here this morning and he has been saying that it will be
:24:51. > :24:57.difficult to secure agreement but Scotland expect a deal will be done.
:24:58. > :25:04.An interesting period coming up and questions in this for the Labour
:25:05. > :25:10.Party on how they respond. Matthew, what challenge does the assembly
:25:11. > :25:16.face there after the last week? For the First Minister, his main concern
:25:17. > :25:19.is that Wales's voice is heard as loudly as Scotland and it is
:25:20. > :25:23.involved in discussions about future powers. He made his comments at the
:25:24. > :25:27.Labour conference yesterday, saying there should be home rule for all
:25:28. > :25:32.the four Nations. He has been talking about a constitutional
:25:33. > :25:38.agreement for the past two years. He says the conversation has taken
:25:39. > :25:41.place in three separate rooms, between Scotland, England and Wales.
:25:42. > :25:48.Everybody should be under the same roof, he says. Wales is in line to
:25:49. > :25:52.get more powers. Wales Reel is going through and that could give more tax
:25:53. > :25:58.raising ability. Another commission has suggested that some powers, like
:25:59. > :26:01.policing, could be devolved here. There is a feeling this may have
:26:02. > :26:07.been overtaken by events in Scotland, but all the parties want
:26:08. > :26:12.to make sure we do not get left behind.
:26:13. > :26:16.out of their home after a tidal-surge swept
:26:17. > :26:18.into their sanctuary during the floods last December.
:26:19. > :26:20.But today, turtles, seals and penguins are among 2,500 creatures
:26:21. > :26:23.who are making the delicate journey home to the Hunstanton Sea
:26:24. > :26:31.They were sent to temporary homes after floodwater knocked out
:26:32. > :26:33.the power system, cracked windows and left the
:26:34. > :26:50.It was an early start and Ernie the green turtle was
:26:51. > :26:52.reluctant to leave his temporary aquarium in Great Yarmouth.
:26:53. > :26:54.After some assistance, eight-year-old Ernie was
:26:55. > :26:56.on his way back to Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary.
:26:57. > :26:59.When the tidal surge hit the Norfolk coast last winter,
:27:00. > :27:03.10 months on it is almost ready to reopen.
:27:04. > :27:05.Ernie was the first resident to be welcomed back.
:27:06. > :27:08.Weighing 80 kilos, lifting him was no easy task.
:27:09. > :27:10.It was carried out under the watchful eye
:27:11. > :27:14.It did not take him long to reacquaint himself with
:27:15. > :27:24.It is absolutely fantastic to start seeing the first
:27:25. > :27:28.of our creatures returning this morning.
:27:29. > :27:31.Over the last few years, Ernie has been one of the most popular
:27:32. > :27:35.It was a race against time to evacuate
:27:36. > :27:39.the building last December when floodwater reached three feet high.
:27:40. > :27:42.The power to the temperature control tanks had been cut
:27:43. > :27:49.Ernie seems happy enough but he will be monitored closely
:27:50. > :27:55.He has got some time to settle in now before he is joined
:27:56. > :28:01.The penguins were the next to come back.
:28:02. > :28:04.They will be joined later today by seals
:28:05. > :28:08.and otters who are also returning from their temporary homes.
:28:09. > :28:09.Some seemed apprehensive of their new enclosure
:28:10. > :28:23.but one brave fellow couldn't resist taking a look around.
:28:24. > :28:31.A lot of people are glad to see the water, and a lot of people are
:28:32. > :28:35.because it has been dry. A week ago we had some statistics for the first
:28:36. > :28:41.half of the month which indicated it was below average. Then we had a
:28:42. > :28:47.week where we had a few episodes where it absolutely hammered down
:28:48. > :28:54.for a time. In the coming week, we are expecting to see some rain in
:28:55. > :29:00.the high lands, but we are expecting a great swathe and little or any
:29:01. > :29:05.meaningful rain. The reason some rain this week because we have two
:29:06. > :29:12.fronts manifesting themselves towards the North West corner of
:29:13. > :29:16.Scotland. Not a cheery forecast for many as it has been but you will
:29:17. > :29:18.notice that there are many parts of southern England and Wales that will
:29:19. > :29:26.be dry for a good part of the afternoon. A moderate burst creeping
:29:27. > :29:29.into Scotland late in the day. Make the most of the dry weather in
:29:30. > :29:34.Northern Ireland because it won't be like that to dusk. The odd moderate
:29:35. > :29:40.burst running through to the Pennines and perhaps later, across
:29:41. > :29:44.North Wales. Generally, you get the sense that the raw many locations
:29:45. > :29:51.which will be in for a dry and fine afternoon. Those two zones of
:29:52. > :29:57.relatively wet weather will ease their way further south and we can.
:29:58. > :30:01.The consequence of all that cloud is that it will not be as cold as last
:30:02. > :30:06.night, and we will not have the fog that we had in southern England that
:30:07. > :30:12.you saw today. There they are, the two fronts. They will take their
:30:13. > :30:21.cloud and rain further south and east, across England. Following on
:30:22. > :30:27.behind, we all join in the fun with mine, dry weather. One or two
:30:28. > :30:33.passing showers on a north-westerly breeze. Temperatures around the mid
:30:34. > :30:38.teens or 20 degrees, exactly where it should be for this time of year.
:30:39. > :30:47.Thursday, the fronts will tend to be away from the UK. A lot of isobars
:30:48. > :30:51.on the chart, though. One of the themes for the tail end of the week
:30:52. > :30:56.is that we will be breezy but that is coming from one direction and by
:30:57. > :31:02.day and night, it will be relatively warm. For the most part, it will be
:31:03. > :31:07.predominantly dry. Thank you. A reminder of the top story: The US
:31:08. > :31:13.and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against the
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