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:00:00. > :00:00.The Prime minister warns Brussels he is deadly serious

:00:07. > :00:12.David Cameron tells business leaders Britain could survive outside

:00:13. > :00:29.If it is not flexible enough, you have to ask a profound question, is

:00:30. > :00:31.this flexible enough for us? I think people in Europe know I am deadly

:00:32. > :00:34.serious about that. Also

:00:35. > :00:35.on the programme this lunchtime: The Departments for Transport,

:00:36. > :00:37.Local Government, the Environment, and the Treasury agree to 30% cuts

:00:38. > :00:40.over the next four years. A long-awaited report on doping

:00:41. > :00:43.in athletics is about to be published - one of its authors has

:00:44. > :00:45.called it 'a game-changer'. Aung San Su Chi urges calm

:00:46. > :00:48.amid claims her party's won a majority in Myanmar's first openly

:00:49. > :00:51.contested elections in 25 years. Hidden behind straw bails for years,

:00:52. > :00:53.the farmer who built this mock-Tudor castle without planning

:00:54. > :01:07.permission could face jail. In London, TEFL is accused of

:01:08. > :01:10.wasting millions after employing extra staff months ahead of the

:01:11. > :01:12.launch of the night Tube. And the school giving its sixth form

:01:13. > :01:26.is a lying. Good afternoon

:01:27. > :01:30.and welcome to the BBC News at One. The Prime Minister has told business

:01:31. > :01:33.leaders he's "deadly serious" when he says Britain could leave

:01:34. > :01:35.the European Union. In a speech to

:01:36. > :01:37.the CBI's annual conference, David Cameron said Britain could

:01:38. > :01:40.survive outside the EU. But he said he wanted

:01:41. > :01:42.a more flexible Europe. During his speech,

:01:43. > :01:45.the Prime Minister was heckled Our political correspondent,

:01:46. > :02:00.Alex Forsyth, reports. Should the UK remain in the European

:02:01. > :02:02.Union? Soon, we will all be asked to decide. According to the Prime

:02:03. > :02:08.Minister, it is one of the biggest political choices in a lifetime. But

:02:09. > :02:12.first, David Cameron is trying to negotiate a new deal with European

:02:13. > :02:16.leaders and today, addressing a business conference in London, he

:02:17. > :02:22.said unless the EU changed, he would rule nothing out. Is this

:02:23. > :02:25.organisation flexible enough to make sure countries inside the Eurozone

:02:26. > :02:31.can grow and succeed and countries outside the Eurozone like Britain

:02:32. > :02:36.can find what they need as well? If it is flexible enough, we will stay.

:02:37. > :02:41.If it is not, we will have to as good very profound question, is this

:02:42. > :02:44.organisation for us? The Prime Minister's pitch was not

:02:45. > :02:49.received well by everybody. Come on, guys, if you sit down now you can

:02:50. > :02:54.ask a question rather than making falls of yourself by standing up and

:02:55. > :02:58.protesting. He had to address anti-EU heckling. Mr Cameron knows

:02:59. > :03:02.nothing about this process will be easy but he says he is confident of

:03:03. > :03:06.achieving change in the four areas he has set out, more powerful

:03:07. > :03:10.national parliaments, restricting benefits for migrants, attracting

:03:11. > :03:16.non-Eurozone countries and making the EU more competitive. Critics

:03:17. > :03:19.said this renegotiation is purely cosmetic and will not achieve real

:03:20. > :03:23.reform. Frankly, what he was doing today is

:03:24. > :03:27.setting out the usual scare tactics rather than making a positive case

:03:28. > :03:31.for what Britain could do outside the EE you because we are a strong

:03:32. > :03:36.nation, it could trade freely, it could maintain economic relations

:03:37. > :03:40.with Europe being outside the control of the EU. In Brussels, it

:03:41. > :03:44.European leaders will receive the demands in writing for the first

:03:45. > :03:49.time tomorrow. The letter is not expected to reveal much that is new

:03:50. > :03:52.but it will mark the start of an intense period of negotiation and a

:03:53. > :03:57.difficult time for David Cameron as he tries to convince European

:03:58. > :04:00.leaders his reforms are reasonable and persuade Eurosceptics they are

:04:01. > :04:05.meaningful. The last time the Prime Minister met

:04:06. > :04:09.EU leaders in Brussels, the Britain question was barely mentioned. In

:04:10. > :04:13.December, there is a crucial meeting to hammer out a deal, before then,

:04:14. > :04:16.David Cameron has much diplomatic work to do.

:04:17. > :04:18.Let's speak to Norman Smith, who's at Westminster.

:04:19. > :04:24.So the Prime Minister's toughest message yet to Europe?

:04:25. > :04:32.Let's be honest, there is a view among many business leaders and Tory

:04:33. > :04:36.MPs and EU leaders that Mr Cameron just is not serious about pulling

:04:37. > :04:41.out. His heart is not in leaving the EU and he will eventually sign on

:04:42. > :04:45.the dotted line to stay in. What we got today was not quite David

:04:46. > :04:49.Cameron's dirty Harry moment but a moment when he tried to eyeball EU

:04:50. > :04:55.leaders and say, look, do not doubt my resolve to campaign to leave if

:04:56. > :04:59.you do not give me what I want. More than that, he signalled there would

:05:00. > :05:02.be no backtracking over some of his most contentious demands such as

:05:03. > :05:08.barring EU migrants from claiming benefits for four years, even though

:05:09. > :05:13.a mother -- a number of other countries have said, no way, you

:05:14. > :05:17.cannot have that. What is going on? He is trying to reassure voters he

:05:18. > :05:22.is evenhanded and he has not made his mind up. He is trying to

:05:23. > :05:26.reassure Tory sceptics, that is the Labour view. And above all, he is

:05:27. > :05:29.trying to strengthen his bargaining hand ahead of the publication

:05:30. > :05:34.tomorrow of that letter setting out his demands because he knows if he

:05:35. > :05:40.goes on the negotiating chamber and other EU leaders think, come on,

:05:41. > :05:41.David, you are not serious, if they think he is bluffing, he knows he

:05:42. > :05:45.will get next to nothing. The Chancellor, George Osborne,

:05:46. > :05:47.says he has reached agreement with four government departments to cut

:05:48. > :05:49.day-to-day spending by Mr Osborne warned the country

:05:50. > :05:53.against "losing its nerve" Plans have also been announced for

:05:54. > :06:01.nine new prisons, which ministers Our political correspondent,

:06:02. > :06:12.Chris Mason, reports. Take an overview of government

:06:13. > :06:18.departments in Whitehall that right now and for many, the squeeze is on.

:06:19. > :06:23.That word deficit is back. It's never went away. But the Chancellor

:06:24. > :06:27.wants to eradicate it. It is only when you control spending

:06:28. > :06:31.and live within your means that you can build a country with security

:06:32. > :06:36.and opportunity at its heart. We are not making savings for the sake of

:06:37. > :06:42.savings. We will make savings for a purpose. To deliver a better, more

:06:43. > :06:48.secure life for our citizens. So what has been signed off so far? The

:06:49. > :06:50.Chancellor has done a deal with four departments, transport, local

:06:51. > :06:55.government, environment and the Treasury. Each will cut to

:06:56. > :07:02.day-to-day spending by 8% a year. Roughly 30% by 2020. These are big

:07:03. > :07:06.cuts, 30% is a very big cut day-to-day spending. It is important

:07:07. > :07:10.to be clear this is not most of the transport budget, most of the

:07:11. > :07:14.transport budget is capital spending and the Chancellor is not talking

:07:15. > :07:17.about that this morning. This is not most of local government spending,

:07:18. > :07:20.that is funded through council tax and so on. He is right we have to

:07:21. > :07:26.tackle the deficit but it does not have to be cut on the scale because

:07:27. > :07:29.he has given tax cuts away to the richest and corporations, but

:07:30. > :07:34.cutting benefits and tax credits to the middle and low or owners of the

:07:35. > :07:39.poorest in society, it is just not fair. The wrangling over budgets is

:07:40. > :07:42.far from over, not least because benefits is not yet signed off. The

:07:43. > :07:47.Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith is digging his heels on

:07:48. > :07:52.the patrollers changes to the Universal Credit -- proposed

:07:53. > :07:56.changes. His aides say he has not threatened to resign over the issue

:07:57. > :07:58.but they describe it as a breadline for him. We have not heard the last

:07:59. > :08:04.of this. One thing that is agreed his time is

:08:05. > :08:08.up for old prisons like this in Brixton in South London. George

:08:09. > :08:12.Osborne says they will be sold to make way for new housing, with nine

:08:13. > :08:17.new jails being built. Five will be finished within five years.

:08:18. > :08:24.Meanwhile, the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has suggested that

:08:25. > :08:26.negotiations with the Treasury have left him worried about

:08:27. > :08:29.Our health editor, Hugh Pym, is here.

:08:30. > :08:31.The NHS is supposed to be ring-fenced.

:08:32. > :08:38.It is easy to assume health is not a problem, the government said it is

:08:39. > :08:42.protected and there will be ?8 billion more by 2020 in real terms.

:08:43. > :08:46.What has emerged today through an interview back one has given to

:08:47. > :08:51.health service Journal is that our continued wranglings between the NHS

:08:52. > :08:56.and the Treasury. He says considerably more progress is going

:08:57. > :09:00.to be needed before we can say we have a genuinely workable NHS

:09:01. > :09:05.funding solution. He says that the rubble will really hit the road next

:09:06. > :09:08.year. He wants a commitment from the Chancellor to front-load this ?1

:09:09. > :09:15.billion. That means instead of flat funding and a big increase of ?8

:09:16. > :09:19.billion in 2020, it you phase it in with ?4 billion and ?5 billion, and

:09:20. > :09:24.?6 billion. The Treasury has not accepted that so far. I want want

:09:25. > :09:27.protection for the social care budget in England so the NHS does

:09:28. > :09:31.not pick up social care problems as it did in the last Parliament. A lot

:09:32. > :09:36.of tooling and froing. The Treasury saying, we always get a special

:09:37. > :09:40.reading from the big spending departments wanting more money, but

:09:41. > :09:41.there is clearly more work to be done with two weeks and I was

:09:42. > :09:43.spending review. A major report into corruption

:09:44. > :09:46.in athletics is going to be The report is

:09:47. > :09:49.from an independent group set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency,

:09:50. > :09:51.and it's been looking into claims that Russian athletes

:09:52. > :09:54.had paid bribes to cover up doping. But as our sports correspondent

:09:55. > :10:09.Richard Conway reports, its impact The world of athletics is fearing

:10:10. > :10:15.the worst. There are claims senior figures took bribes, that an alleged

:10:16. > :10:19.cover-up over failed drugs tests took place. Now a report will,

:10:20. > :10:23.according to one of the investigators, reveal a different

:10:24. > :10:28.scale of corruption. Lamine Diack stepped aside as

:10:29. > :10:32.President of the IAAF in August but he is now the subject of a French

:10:33. > :10:37.criminal investigation following claims he took money from the

:10:38. > :10:40.Russian athletics Federation. In return, it said he allowed Russian

:10:41. > :10:45.athletes who had violated doping rules to continue competing. The man

:10:46. > :10:49.who succeeded him as President, Lord Coe, wants this to be a cathartic

:10:50. > :10:53.moment for the support. Dog days for our sport but I am more

:10:54. > :10:58.determined than ever to rebuild the trust in our sport, it is not going

:10:59. > :11:02.to be a short journey and I am determined to rebuild and repair the

:11:03. > :11:05.sport with my council colleagues. But this is a long road to

:11:06. > :11:11.redemption. That is a view echoed by many past

:11:12. > :11:14.and present athletes who now want to see governance reforms. In many

:11:15. > :11:18.ways, it is D-Day. We have an idea of what might come out in the

:11:19. > :11:23.report. When we see the details of it, I hope it is not as bad as some

:11:24. > :11:27.people think. But what it will do, it will be a day that changes how

:11:28. > :11:33.the sport of athletics is run. One big question that will undoubtedly

:11:34. > :11:36.emerge is about the integrity of anti-doping procedures. There are

:11:37. > :11:43.those who now believe the front and athlete confident -- confidence has

:11:44. > :11:47.been seriously eroded. I am hugely disappointed. The system that was

:11:48. > :11:53.put in place to try and protect athletes is in itself apparently

:11:54. > :11:59.being corrupted. It seems to be the officials who are very much part of

:12:00. > :12:04.the profiteering from this, so the athletes themselves ultimately the

:12:05. > :12:07.victim is. The authors of this report have no direct power to

:12:08. > :12:11.sanction individuals or even countries, but there have been calls

:12:12. > :12:14.for Russia to be banned from all, edition is including eczema's

:12:15. > :12:20.Olympic Games, if corruption is proven. -- from all competitions.

:12:21. > :12:24.That will be a matter for the IAAF who must now try to restore trust

:12:25. > :12:26.both in the sport and in the leadership.

:12:27. > :12:30.Let's speak to our sports editor Dan Roan, who's in Geneva.

:12:31. > :12:37.This report will be published very soon, a game changer says one of the

:12:38. > :12:41.authors. It sounds like it will have a big impact on athletics. That is

:12:42. > :12:48.right. It is a beautiful day in Geneva. In around one hour, a shadow

:12:49. > :12:54.will be cast over not just athletics, but the world of sport

:12:55. > :12:58.and its -- in its entirety. The head of a Commission that has been set up

:12:59. > :13:02.by the World Anti-Doping Agency will hold a press conference in the hotel

:13:03. > :13:07.behind me in Geneva and will deliver what many expect to be a damning

:13:08. > :13:12.report, a report, Vermont in the making, is expected to conclude

:13:13. > :13:18.there was evidence of systematic, state-sponsored doping in Russian

:13:19. > :13:22.athletics. -- 11 months in the making. And it was covered up by

:13:23. > :13:26.senior officials at the head of the sport, the world governing body the

:13:27. > :13:33.IAAF. A report that basically reveals doping, cheating, Highbury

:13:34. > :13:39.and extortion. Sport has been no stranger to scandal in recent times,

:13:40. > :13:43.we are in Switzerland, just down the road from the headquarters of Fifa

:13:44. > :13:47.in Zurich. What makes this a remarkable and so serious is it

:13:48. > :13:52.affected results on the field of play. Not just the amount of doping

:13:53. > :13:57.at the fact it seemed covered up by the very individuals whose job it

:13:58. > :14:01.was to safeguard the sport. I think this will raise serious questions

:14:02. > :14:04.for track and field. Whether or not Russia has to be banned from

:14:05. > :14:09.international competition, including the Rio game is, in 2016 next year,

:14:10. > :14:17.what a task facing the man whose three months ago became President of

:14:18. > :14:20.the IAAF, Sebastian Coe. He has to react to today's report and find a

:14:21. > :14:32.redemption for athletics. Thank you. David Cameron's wants Brussels he is

:14:33. > :14:36.serious about securing reform in Europe. He says Britain could

:14:37. > :14:42.survive outside the EU. And disbelief from diners as cars

:14:43. > :14:45.tumble into a gigantic hole in a restaurant car park.

:14:46. > :14:49.Later in London, feeding their appetite for fried chicken, the

:14:50. > :14:54.healthier alternative offered to schoolchildren in Tottenham.

:14:55. > :14:55.And we will have a full weather round-up, taking a look at the week

:14:56. > :15:02.ahead. The leader of the main opposition

:15:03. > :15:07.party in Myanmar - formerly Burma - has told her supporters it is too

:15:08. > :15:10.early to celebrate and has urged them to remain calm as they wait for

:15:11. > :15:16.the results of yesterday elections. them to remain calm as they wait for

:15:17. > :15:19.the results of yesterday's elections.

:15:20. > :15:21.Aung San Suu Kyi's party is widely expected to win

:15:22. > :15:23.the largest number of seats, but the constitution, rewritten by the

:15:24. > :15:25.army, Our correspondent Jonah

:15:26. > :15:31.Fisher sent this report. After 24 hours of waiting

:15:32. > :15:35.and speculation, at last there was For people whose last

:15:36. > :15:43.memory of an election is a stolen one 25 years ago,

:15:44. > :15:46.this was a first indication that The first 12 seats to be declared

:15:47. > :15:51.all went to the opposition party, Just a few official results,

:15:52. > :15:57.but tallying with what we have been hearing unofficially, that the NLD,

:15:58. > :16:00.Aung San Suu Kyi's party, is on course for a big win,

:16:01. > :16:04.quite possibly a landslide. TRANSLATION: If we do win,

:16:05. > :16:11.I will be more than just happy. In my 40 years,

:16:12. > :16:17.there has been no change, and in the last five years, the

:16:18. > :16:20.country has been completely ruined. If NLD wins,

:16:21. > :16:25.I know our country will change. Through years of detention

:16:26. > :16:31.and deprivation under military rule, And this morning, with victory

:16:32. > :16:36.in sight, Aung San Suu Kyi showed Understanding should be shown to

:16:37. > :16:42.those who lost, she said, Ms Suu Kyi is barred

:16:43. > :16:52.from becoming president And some fear she will very quickly

:16:53. > :16:57.be locked in confrontation with The most important thing

:16:58. > :17:03.for any newcomer who will take charge of this country will have to

:17:04. > :17:08.understand what entails the civil-military relationship- relatio

:17:09. > :17:11.the at the military really stands for. You just can't

:17:12. > :17:13.go in and attack the army institution. You have to

:17:14. > :17:19.understand what it is and work Those problems are

:17:20. > :17:27.for tomorrow. For now, which try which has

:17:28. > :17:34.suffered so much is celebrating a

:17:35. > :17:39.rare moment of hope. It was, by any standards,

:17:40. > :17:41.an unimaginable tragedy. Ten years ago

:17:42. > :17:44.a young couple were celebrating their wedding in Jordan when suicide

:17:45. > :17:46.bombers attacked three hotels. 27 of their friends and family were

:17:47. > :17:52.murdered by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Our correspondent Caroline Hawley

:17:53. > :17:55.was also caught up in the attacks She has been back to Jordan to

:17:56. > :17:59.find out how Nadia and Ashraf It is my long-awaited,

:18:00. > :18:05.planned today. And it was really perfect -

:18:06. > :18:11.until that moment. But with their guests all gathered

:18:12. > :18:14.in the hotel ballroom, Both of their fathers and Nadia's

:18:15. > :18:18.mother were I never had a wedding.

:18:19. > :18:25.This is all that I have left. I have no video, I have no memories,

:18:26. > :18:28.it is only a couple These photos were taken literally

:18:29. > :18:41.moments before the bombing? Yes, these photos were

:18:42. > :18:44.when we started walking towards Then I started hearing

:18:45. > :18:54.people screaming. And when I looked,

:18:55. > :18:59.I saw my father beside. He just took two steps

:19:00. > :19:01.and fell down. His soul was going out of his body,

:19:02. > :19:08.I don't know. I really admire

:19:09. > :19:12.your strength because what I saw We relive that day every day,

:19:13. > :19:22.even if we don't talk about it. Why ARE you willing to talk about

:19:23. > :19:27.it - because I know it is painful? We have this second chance

:19:28. > :19:30.and we have to tell the story to the rest of the world

:19:31. > :19:36.so they can understand it. Isis or Al-Qaeda or any

:19:37. > :19:38.extremism groups, they are not After that day,

:19:39. > :19:51.you know what are your priorities We would like to be called

:19:52. > :20:05.survivors - we are not victims. I survived

:20:06. > :20:26.and I am still surviving everyday. Two American military personnel and

:20:27. > :20:34.a South African are reported to have been killed in an attack in Amman.

:20:35. > :20:36.It is thought the attacker was a Jordanian police officer.

:20:37. > :20:39.The United Nations weather agency is warning that the earth's climate is

:20:40. > :20:43.moving into uncharted territory at a frightening speed, with

:20:44. > :20:45.the prospect of hotter temperatures and more extreme weather events.

:20:46. > :20:49.It says carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere hit

:20:50. > :20:54.And here scientists in London claim that

:20:55. > :20:57.the long-feared moment, when global warming breaches a key threshold,

:20:58. > :21:01.Well with me is our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle.

:21:02. > :21:13.Two bits of bad news today. For the 30th year in a row, carbon dioxide

:21:14. > :21:18.levels have hit a record high. Also, the UK Met Office says lowball

:21:19. > :21:28.temperatures will have risen by one Celsius since preindustrial levels

:21:29. > :21:32.this year. One Celsius might not sound much but to put it into

:21:33. > :21:39.context, scientists have a threshold which they have set at two Celsius

:21:40. > :21:44.from preindustrial levels. If the Earth's trickster to use to stay

:21:45. > :21:48.below this, we will still see some effects from climate change but we

:21:49. > :21:53.will be able to deal with them. If however it goes above two Celsius,

:21:54. > :21:58.then we will see some terrible effects, dramatic sea level rises,

:21:59. > :22:01.ice caps melting, permafrost thawing, diseases spreading, that

:22:02. > :22:04.sort of thing. The worrying thing is that today it looks like we have got

:22:05. > :22:06.halfway to this threshold. It is 50 years since the UK

:22:07. > :22:10.abandoned the death penalty after a series

:22:11. > :22:13.of high profile cases in the 1950s. Among them Ruth Ellis, the last

:22:14. > :22:16.woman to be hanged in Britain, and Timothy Evans, an innocent

:22:17. > :22:19.25-year-old from south Wales who went to the gallows in the infamous

:22:20. > :22:21.10 Rillington Place murders. Our legal correspondent

:22:22. > :22:23.Clive Coleman looks back at the cases that led to the end

:22:24. > :22:30.of capital punishment. In 1950, Timothy Evans was accused

:22:31. > :22:47.of murdering his wife Beryl At his trial at the Old Bailey, he

:22:48. > :22:51.accused the man who lived in the flat above the couple, but ten

:22:52. > :22:54.Rillington Place in Notting Hill, former special constable John

:22:55. > :23:00.Christie. Three years after Timothy was convicted and hanged, the bodies

:23:01. > :23:04.of three strangled women were discovered in an alcove in

:23:05. > :23:09.Christie's kitchen. He was a serial killer who had murdered six women,

:23:10. > :23:13.including his own wife. He confessed to killing barrel. For those years,

:23:14. > :23:20.Timothy's half sister Maureen lived closed to Christie. We used to have

:23:21. > :23:25.to see him in the streets. We used to say we wanted to go out and rip

:23:26. > :23:29.him to pieces. But we could not do anything or say anything, because we

:23:30. > :23:35.couldn't or didn't want to make it any worse for mum. In 1953, another

:23:36. > :23:39.man with learning difficulties, 19-year-old Derek Bentley, was

:23:40. > :23:44.hanged for the murder of a policeman during a bungled burglary. The court

:23:45. > :23:47.was told his accomplice, 16-year-old Christopher Cray, shocked the

:23:48. > :23:52.officer but he was too young to be executed. The case increased public

:23:53. > :24:01.disquiet about the death penalty. Derek Bentley was posthumously

:24:02. > :24:06.pardoned. NEWSREEL: On June the 21st, Ruth

:24:07. > :24:09.Ellis was convicted of murder... It was the execution of the glamorous

:24:10. > :24:14.young mother which raised concern about the death penalty to a new

:24:15. > :24:19.full. Still here in the walls of this north London pub are the bullet

:24:20. > :24:23.holes fired by Ruth Ellis on Easter Sunday 1955. She had lain in wait

:24:24. > :24:28.for her lover to leave the pub. As he did, she called out and shot.

:24:29. > :24:33.AZI FARNI: On the floor wounded, she fired three more bullets and killed

:24:34. > :24:38.him. Ruth Ellis had extraordinarily powerful personal mitigation. Days

:24:39. > :24:42.before the killing, David Whitney hazard physical violence towards her

:24:43. > :24:46.had caused a miscarriage. On the day of her execution, the crowds

:24:47. > :24:54.supporting her mat outside Hollywood prison. It was these three cases

:24:55. > :24:58.more than any theoretical arguments about deterrence, retribution or the

:24:59. > :25:03.inhumanity of executions by the state, which lead on this day in

:25:04. > :25:08.1965 to capital punishment itself finally being laid to rest.

:25:09. > :25:11.A farmer from Surrey who has refused to tear

:25:12. > :25:14.down a mock Tudor castle that he built without planning permission

:25:15. > :25:18.Robert Fidler built the four-bedroomed home in 2000,

:25:19. > :25:21.and two years later his family moved in, but he kept it

:25:22. > :25:31.Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is in the village of Salfords.

:25:32. > :25:42.This is the house in question, the white one you can see in the

:25:43. > :25:46.distance, the house which Robert Fidler built without permission on

:25:47. > :25:54.green belt land. The council say he tricked them and it should come

:25:55. > :25:57.down. Today it reaches the final hurdle in the High Court. The judges

:25:58. > :26:05.will decide whether this house will finally have to be demolished. The

:26:06. > :26:10.house might be mock Tudor, but the arguments are 100% real. This is the

:26:11. > :26:14.Castle Robert Fidler built 15 years ago - without planning permission,

:26:15. > :26:19.even though he says he has always been in the right. He construct it

:26:20. > :26:22.it behind this wall of straw bales. They stayed up for four years. The

:26:23. > :26:30.house took shape in secret behind it. He moved in with his family in

:26:31. > :26:35.2002. Robert Fidler argued that as the house had stood for four years

:26:36. > :26:37.without any objections, the local council should have given

:26:38. > :26:42.retrospective planning permission. But in a series of legal battles, is

:26:43. > :26:45.the courts have always backed the council, who say it cannot be built

:26:46. > :26:52.on green belt land. Today, Robert Fidler went to the High Court for

:26:53. > :26:59.one last, defiant time. Their case is based entirely on deceit and

:27:00. > :27:03.lies. My case is based entirely on the truth. I have never told any

:27:04. > :27:07.lies or broken any laws. I believe that one day we will all stand

:27:08. > :27:12.before Almighty God and give account of. I would not like to be in their

:27:13. > :27:16.shoes. So do you feel confident? Robert Fidler told the court that

:27:17. > :27:21.the house has bats and newts and cannot be demolished because they

:27:22. > :27:24.are protected. He also says he has since sold the house and is no

:27:25. > :27:30.longer the owner. He has always depicted this is a David and Goliath

:27:31. > :27:33.battle against the council and the courts about where you can and

:27:34. > :27:38.cannot build your home. That battle is now coming to an end. Despite the

:27:39. > :27:43.bats and the newts, Robert Fidler has lost pretty much every legal

:27:44. > :27:47.battle over this in the past 15 years. Today in court he said he was

:27:48. > :27:52.being harassed and bullied by the council over the matter. The council

:27:53. > :27:55.have always said it is a matter of principle and this house behind me

:27:56. > :27:56.has to come down. We are expecting a decision some time this afternoon

:27:57. > :27:59.from the High Court. And finally, diners at a restaurant

:28:00. > :28:03.in Mississippi had a shock A huge hole opened up in the car

:28:04. > :28:09.park outside as they were eating. Customers said they were having

:28:10. > :28:11.dinner when suddenly the lights went They rushed out to find

:28:12. > :28:16.their cars swallowed by a hole More than 10 cars had fallen

:28:17. > :28:21.into it - with one left teetering on the edge.

:28:22. > :28:33.Amazingly no-one was injured. Emergency personnel said an

:28:34. > :28:35.underground storm drain may have collapsed, or building work carried

:28:36. > :28:42.out on the dynamite have had an effect.

:28:43. > :28:49.Time for a look at the weather, with Louise Lear.

:28:50. > :28:53.What a miserable morning in Lancashire this morning. Not much

:28:54. > :29:02.better in the Lake District. Heavy rain has been the story, as well as

:29:03. > :29:19.wind. Severe gales in places. Moving from Northern Ireland across north

:29:20. > :29:27.Wales. Eastern and southern areas, staying pretty grey and clouded.

:29:28. > :29:31.Still mild. Moving into the early evening rush-hour, the winds will

:29:32. > :29:35.strengthen and we will have some significant rain coming into western

:29:36. > :29:42.Scotland, with some localised flooding possible. Also, severe

:29:43. > :29:46.gales on the higher routes. Some of the rain will start to ease for the

:29:47. > :29:53.rush-hour. Further south, easy but slightly drier for driving home in

:29:54. > :29:59.the M4 corridor. There is more rain to come, though. It will be a mild

:30:00. > :30:03.night for all. The rain, slowly easing away from Scotland.

:30:04. > :30:09.Significant rain starting to gather into the south-west, however.

:30:10. > :30:12.Drifting towards south-east England during the day tomorrow. We will

:30:13. > :30:19.also pick up more showery outbreaks across the north-west. An incredibly

:30:20. > :30:24.mild afternoon for this time of year tomorrow. It looks as though this

:30:25. > :30:31.weather front will be a bit of a nuisance. It does sink a bit further

:30:32. > :30:37.south. The next pulse of wet weather drifts into north-west England and

:30:38. > :30:43.southern Scotland. Wednesday, pretty grey, wet and windy. Perhaps

:30:44. > :30:51.slightly drier and brighter further south. Still pretty mild. But as the

:30:52. > :31:00.front sinks south, we start to introduce something a bit cooler.

:31:01. > :31:13.Temperatures not too extreme. It will be a brief spell.

:31:14. > :31:18.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime...

:31:19. > :31:22.David Cameron warns Brussels he's deadly serious

:31:23. > :31:27.about securing reform in Europe - he tells business leaders Britain

:31:28. > :31:30.That's all from us, now on BBC One it's time