:00:09. > :00:14.Shop till you drop April gives way to miserly May - new figures on a
:00:14. > :00:17.high street slump. Retail sales fell by twice as much
:00:17. > :00:27.as expected last month - shoppers cut back as they cope with higher
:00:27. > :00:31.prices. At the moment it I do not need to
:00:31. > :00:39.spend than I do not spend. The opposition say it's time for
:00:39. > :00:48.emergency action - a cut in VAT to get us spending again.
:00:48. > :00:54.My suggestion to George Osborne if he will not reverse his mistake on
:00:54. > :00:58.VAT permanently, he should at least reverse it temporarily.
:00:58. > :01:00.Also on tonight's programme: England's 200 worst performing
:01:00. > :01:04.primary schools will be taken out of local authority control -
:01:04. > :01:06.they'll become academies. The BBC watchdog orders Panorama to
:01:06. > :01:12.apologise - it says the programme on child labour used footage that
:01:12. > :01:18.was probably faked. Why this is an increasingly rare
:01:18. > :01:20.sight - as car crime drops to record low levels.
:01:20. > :01:30.And as we get ready for Wimbledon fortnight is investment in the
:01:30. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:59.British game delivering the stars Hello and welcome to the BBC News
:01:59. > :02:02.at Six. There's been a much bigger than
:02:02. > :02:05.expected fall in high street sales. After the feel-good factor of the
:02:05. > :02:10.Royal Wedding boosted shopping in April, last month saw a drop by 1.4
:02:10. > :02:12.percent. Citing the figures, the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said
:02:12. > :02:17.the government should introduce an emergency cut in VAT, to boost the
:02:17. > :02:27.economy and consumer confidence. Here's our chief economics
:02:27. > :02:30.correspondent, Hugh Pym. The bunting was out before the
:02:30. > :02:36.royal wedding, the retailers had plenty to celebrate. But now the
:02:36. > :02:45.picture is looking very different. There has been a dampener on
:02:45. > :02:52.consumers' spending, the mood shifting from sunny took over cast.
:02:52. > :02:57.There was a 1.4% drop in retail sales in May. This independent
:02:57. > :03:02.department store chain in York has been trading for 100 years so has
:03:02. > :03:09.experienced its ups and downs. How did things feel right now? Since
:03:09. > :03:13.the end of the winter sales it has been ebbing and flowing. Now when
:03:13. > :03:17.there are price increases on essentials like fruit, it is biting
:03:17. > :03:22.into disposable incomes and people have less to spend on perhaps
:03:22. > :03:28.clothing. What about shoppers are out in Glasgow today? They told us
:03:28. > :03:34.how they felt about their spending. If I do not need to spend their
:03:34. > :03:38.time I'm not going to spend. I will still buy it if I like it.
:03:38. > :03:42.latest evidence on the state of consumer spending comes on the date
:03:42. > :03:49.when the government economic policy is again under scrutiny. The
:03:49. > :03:55.question is is that programme of public spending cuts and tax rises
:03:55. > :03:58.damaging the economy? For Ed Balls the answer is yes. He said the
:03:58. > :04:04.government was harming the economy and called for an emergency cut in
:04:04. > :04:09.VAT. By putting money directly into people's pockets that would boost
:04:09. > :04:15.consumer spending for people feeling the squeeze. Especially
:04:15. > :04:22.pensioners and those on low incomes. But the Prime Minister said that
:04:22. > :04:28.borrowing had to come down. Tax cuts were not practical. Those who
:04:28. > :04:32.say you what to go and/taxes or spend more money, all you would be
:04:32. > :04:38.doing if you did that would be making the problem of your deficit
:04:38. > :04:42.worse. The outlook is not all gloomy. On employment has fallen.
:04:42. > :04:46.Some companies are doing well. But consumers are under pressure. A
:04:46. > :04:49.debate about what the government should or should not do it will
:04:49. > :04:56.affect everybody. Our political correspondent, Laura
:04:56. > :05:02.Kuennsberg, is at Westminster. Ed Balls has chosen quite a moment to
:05:02. > :05:07.call for a tax cut. He certainly has. The idea of more cash in your
:05:07. > :05:11.pocket can sound quite appealing. It could encourage people to spend
:05:11. > :05:16.but there's not much agreement about whether a tax cut that would
:05:16. > :05:23.take a penny off a bar of chocolate would really make that much
:05:23. > :05:27.difference to how the economy is going. There was not any consensus
:05:28. > :05:37.about the kind of effect that it had went Labour tried it out in the
:05:38. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:43.teeth of the recession. And the Conservatives have argued that
:05:43. > :05:48.there contradicting themselves. There's little chance right now but
:05:48. > :05:51.the Chancellor will take heed of the advice of Ed Balls. But what is
:05:51. > :05:55.interesting about today is that Labour has been struggling in
:05:56. > :06:01.recent months to get across a clear idea of how they would rebuild the
:06:01. > :06:06.economy. And whether he's right or wrong with this idea, Ed Balls has
:06:06. > :06:10.perhaps at least made a start. And the first job of opposition is to
:06:10. > :06:14.get people to pay attention. 200 of England's worst-performing
:06:14. > :06:16.primary schools are to be closed down and re-opened as academies. It
:06:16. > :06:19.means they'll no longer be controlled by local authorities and
:06:19. > :06:21.head teachers will have more power. The Education Secretary, Michael
:06:21. > :06:23.Gove, says English children should not be allowed to fall behind
:06:23. > :06:31.international standards. Here's our Education Correspondent, Reeta
:06:31. > :06:37.Chakrabarti. Michael Gove once every English
:06:37. > :06:41.school to shine and academies are his key to success. There are
:06:41. > :06:46.independent of local authorities and can set their own curriculum
:06:46. > :06:49.and staff pay. Now Michael Gove wants successful secondary
:06:49. > :06:55.academies to take over struggling primary-schools. Knight's Temple
:06:55. > :06:58.growth in London used to be known as Merlin primary. It was
:06:59. > :07:04.struggling but a successful group which runs a chain of local schools
:07:04. > :07:10.took over. A new name and a new and uniform, a big improvement in
:07:10. > :07:14.performance. The quality of teaching is central to what we do.
:07:14. > :07:19.But you also have transformed the mindset of both the children, but
:07:19. > :07:22.parents, the whole school. government will close down 200
:07:22. > :07:26.primary-schools and forced them to become academies run by other
:07:26. > :07:31.schools next year, focusing on those who failed consistently to
:07:31. > :07:36.meet targets for 11 year-olds in maths and English. These are
:07:36. > :07:38.schools where young people are leaving without a secured
:07:39. > :07:43.Foundation in reading, writing and maths. We what to make sure they
:07:43. > :07:48.are taken over by organisations with the track record of success
:07:48. > :07:52.who can turn them around. Michael Gove has wanted to take on his
:07:52. > :07:56.critics who say that his policy on academies is too focused on schools
:07:57. > :08:01.which are already successful. But getting good schools to take over
:08:01. > :08:06.bad schools was one started on to the last government. Some are
:08:06. > :08:10.asking what is new. Critics say Labour provided millions of
:08:10. > :08:15.additional funding for its academies programme. Money that the
:08:15. > :08:20.coalition does not have. The notion that it pulls all all the problems
:08:20. > :08:26.straight away is a myth. It is about developing the school over a
:08:26. > :08:31.period of time. It takes time to work on the teaching and learning.
:08:31. > :08:36.Labour made much of the news that an error has left many academies
:08:36. > :08:46.weaving -- receiving too much money. As much as �300 per pupil in
:08:46. > :08:56.
:08:56. > :08:59.Hampshire. The government and local The BBC Trust, which governs the
:08:59. > :09:06.corporation, says there was a serious breach of accuracy and
:09:06. > :09:11.fairness. It investigated after a complaint from the company.
:09:11. > :09:17.A little deeper into the squalor, and another run down the ladder of
:09:17. > :09:20.exploitation. It was a key part of Panorama's ex -- investigation into
:09:20. > :09:23.claims that their sub-contractors employed child labour in India.
:09:23. > :09:27.But today the BBC Trust concluded that these pictures of boys are
:09:27. > :09:31.supposedly working on Primark garments in a Bangalore slum were
:09:31. > :09:34.probably faked. The trust said it had examined a substantial body of
:09:34. > :09:44.evidence including tapes from the programme, e-mails and witness
:09:44. > :09:53.
:09:53. > :09:59.BBC news today except that that the programme was flawed. Any time we
:09:59. > :10:03.make a mistake it is damaging. But the BBC news Brant and the Panorama
:10:03. > :10:09.brands are strong and robust because when we make a mistake we
:10:09. > :10:14.own up to it and learn from it. That is why the audience Trusts us.
:10:14. > :10:24.By the journalist responsible rejected the finding vigorously. In
:10:24. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:34.a statement he said: the BBC said that Primark used these three boys
:10:34. > :10:38.to make these three tops. It was a lie. Concocted by this man,
:10:38. > :10:47.producer Dan McDougall. Cream market used its own video in
:10:47. > :10:52.response today. It welcomed what it called the Trust's inescapable
:10:52. > :10:57.decision that the footage was faked. It said that millions of people had
:10:57. > :11:02.been deceived by Panorama. But tonight's BBC and Primark are still
:11:02. > :11:07.at odds over the programme and the finding of the Trust. The Trust
:11:07. > :11:12.said there was clear evidence that work was being outsourced against
:11:12. > :11:17.the ethical trading principles of the shop. And they obtained other
:11:17. > :11:25.footage of people working in a refugee camp. But Primark insisted
:11:25. > :11:29.it was completely untrue to say that evidence had been planted that
:11:29. > :11:32.child Labour was being used. A woman who was serving on the jury
:11:32. > :11:35.at a drugs trial last yearhas been sent to prison for contacting one
:11:35. > :11:37.of the defendants on Facebook. Joanne Fraill burst into tears this
:11:37. > :11:41.morning as she was jailed for eight months for contempt of court, the
:11:41. > :11:43.first time anyone's been convicted for using the internet. She
:11:43. > :11:47.contacted Jamie Sewart while the jury was still deliberating on its
:11:47. > :11:49.verdicts. Two men have appeared in court in
:11:49. > :11:52.Exeter in connection with an alleged plot to rob the singer,
:11:52. > :11:56.Joss Stone. Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool, from Manchester,
:11:56. > :12:01.are accused of conspiracy to commit robbery and grievous bodily harm.
:12:01. > :12:03.They'll appear again next month. No action is to be taken against
:12:03. > :12:07.the Conservative MP, Andrew Bridgen, over allegations of a sexual
:12:07. > :12:09.assault. The MP for Leicestershire North West vigorously denied any
:12:09. > :12:16.wrong doing when he was arrested last Thursday after a 29-year-old
:12:16. > :12:18.woman made a complaint to police. The American congresswoman,
:12:18. > :12:23.Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in January has been
:12:23. > :12:26.released from hospital. The congresswoman was injured and six
:12:26. > :12:29.others died in the shooting at a constituency event in Tuscon,
:12:29. > :12:39.Arizona. The man accused of the shooting has been declared mentally
:12:39. > :12:45.
:12:45. > :12:47.unfit to stand trial. New figures show the number of NHS
:12:47. > :12:50.Trusts across England breaching waiting time limits has doubled in
:12:50. > :12:52.the last year. Earlier this month, David Cameron promised to keep an
:12:52. > :12:53.18 week limit on waiting for hospital treatment for most
:12:53. > :13:01.patients. Our Health Correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, is here. Branwen,
:13:01. > :13:05.what do the figures show? That 18 week limit was the time between
:13:05. > :13:10.your GP deciding need the operation and you receiving that treatment in
:13:10. > :13:16.hospital. Across England the average shows that figures are
:13:17. > :13:23.holding up. But it is the detail that is interesting. Last year in
:13:23. > :13:26.25th April areas were failing to meet that limit of 18 weeks. This
:13:26. > :13:30.year in April 1951 areas were failing to meet that target, so
:13:30. > :13:35.twice as many seeming to struggle with meeting their promised to
:13:35. > :13:39.patients to treat them quickly. And when you look at hospitals, a
:13:40. > :13:46.similar pattern emerges. Although some areas are doing well, which is
:13:46. > :13:51.helping keep the national average up, some other areas are doing
:13:52. > :13:54.badly and you could face longer waiting times spent a year ago.
:13:54. > :13:58.Car thefts have fallen to just over 100,000 a year according to new
:13:58. > :14:04.figures. It's thought improvements in security systems and alarms have
:14:04. > :14:07.helped deter would be car thieves. The figure is more than five times
:14:07. > :14:09.lower than 20 years ago, when more than half a million cars were
:14:09. > :14:12.stolen annually. Our transport correspondent Richard Scott has
:14:12. > :14:20.been to the UK motor industry's research centre in Thatcham to find
:14:20. > :14:29.out more. Most car crimes are committed but
:14:29. > :14:34.opportunists. The war against car crime has been going on for decades.
:14:34. > :14:38.In this car's day that he had it pretty easy. He could just break
:14:38. > :14:44.the window and Hot Wired the car and drive off. But with modern cars
:14:44. > :14:48.it is a very different situation. Even though the window has been
:14:48. > :14:53.broken, there is an alarm going off and he cannot open the door because
:14:53. > :14:57.the handles do not work without the key. And even if he gets into the
:14:57. > :15:04.car he cannot drive it away because the engine will not start without
:15:04. > :15:10.the key. That is because modern keys have a chip unique to the car
:15:10. > :15:15.that they belong to. Car us are so Secure now so the key is the best
:15:15. > :15:20.way to deter criminals. It is important that we can communicate
:15:20. > :15:23.that message to the consumer, be careful with your key. That is
:15:23. > :15:27.something that Keith Ridge knows all too well. His house was broken
:15:27. > :15:32.into just to get his car keys. our neighbours with their almost
:15:32. > :15:38.immediately and told me that the car had been stolen from the drive.
:15:38. > :15:44.The whole thing took less than 12 seconds. Very professional theft.
:15:44. > :15:49.Over the last decade, car crime has fallen sharply. More than 300,000
:15:49. > :15:55.cars were stolen in 2003 but that had dropped to just 107,000 by last
:15:55. > :16:00.year. Around three-quarters of those were stolen with the key. It
:16:00. > :16:05.is still possible to steal cars, it keeps can use high-tech equipment
:16:05. > :16:11.to bypass the security. But that costs money and as one former fief
:16:11. > :16:16.told me, it is simply often not worth it. I asked technology moves
:16:16. > :16:20.on for the manufacturers, it moves on for the car thieves and that is
:16:20. > :16:26.a heavy investment. Only a select few will do that now. Although the
:16:26. > :16:35.technology has changed, the message has not. Car crime - together we
:16:35. > :16:43.As retail sales for, Labour says it is time for a temporary cut in VAT
:16:43. > :16:46.to get a spending again. -- get a spending again. Coming up, as the
:16:46. > :16:56.wait for a British men's singles champion at Wimbledon goes on, is
:16:56. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:13.investment in grassroots tennis The budget cuts are affecting all
:17:13. > :17:17.of us as services are scaled back and councils try to help more
:17:17. > :17:20.people, but with less money. But what about the people on the very
:17:20. > :17:23.margins of our society? In the second of our series looking at
:17:23. > :17:32.tough times, Richard Bilton has travelled to Manchester to see how
:17:32. > :17:37.some of the city's poorest are coping.
:17:37. > :17:46.These are the desperate, looking for food. The soup kitchens of
:17:46. > :17:49.Manchester are busier than ever. Jason lost his home a month ago.
:17:49. > :17:56.it weren't for this centre and other ones, I would be starving and
:17:56. > :18:02.committing crime because there is no alternative. This is a city
:18:02. > :18:12.where �110 million is being cut from council budgets. There was
:18:12. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:18.tension here, and a fight starts. These people have nothing, and more
:18:18. > :18:21.and more are looking for help. Those who run this place say this
:18:21. > :18:27.year, there has been a large rise in those who come to use it. The
:18:27. > :18:30.average used to be about 60 a night. This year, it is up to 80,
:18:30. > :18:36.sometimes 90 a-night who come here because they have nowhere else to
:18:36. > :18:39.go for food. We are not opposed to the cuts. We understand that they
:18:39. > :18:44.need to happen. But they are happening far too quickly. We are
:18:44. > :18:49.getting people coming here who have not had their benefits, and they
:18:49. > :18:54.are starving. I across town, another sign that the very poor are
:18:54. > :18:58.struggling. This charity is being asked for more food parcels. It is
:18:58. > :19:04.a charity funded by donations, but they say the cuts are driving more
:19:04. > :19:10.and more people to their door. have had a sharp intake of people
:19:11. > :19:15.who are referred to us. And can you handle that? No. Are not at all.
:19:15. > :19:19.There are plenty of positives here. Janice is a single mum with five
:19:19. > :19:25.kids. All of her children are either working or in training.
:19:25. > :19:30.never give up. It was either that or the dole, and they do not want
:19:30. > :19:35.the dole. So they have no choice but to keep looking. We heard that
:19:35. > :19:42.it was a recession, but we tighten our belts anyway. So I just carried
:19:42. > :19:46.on doing what we was doing. Across town, Jason prepares for the night.
:19:46. > :19:52.He has not got a hostel, and will sleep in a bus shelter. He thinks
:19:53. > :19:56.life is getting harder for those on the streets. They want to get
:19:56. > :20:00.everyone back into work, but it is easier said than done. There are
:20:00. > :20:04.people who have not got problems. How can you get a job when you are
:20:04. > :20:07.scruffy and you smell? J son is not here because of the cuts. But on
:20:07. > :20:10.the streets, you can fill their impact.
:20:10. > :20:14.And tomorrow in the last of his series, which it looks at how
:20:14. > :20:16.middle Britain is coping in these tough economic times.
:20:16. > :20:21.The terror group Al-Qaeda has appointed Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a
:20:21. > :20:23.long-time associate of Osama Bin Laden, as its new leader. In a
:20:23. > :20:27.statement, the group vowed to continue what it called the holy
:20:27. > :20:30.war against the United States, Israel and their allies. But
:20:30. > :20:35.tonight one US official said Al- Zawahiri would have a hard time
:20:35. > :20:40.leading Al-Qaeda "while focusing on his own survival". Our security
:20:40. > :20:43.correspondent is here. Well, Al-Qaeda's new leader is
:20:43. > :20:47.already a familiar figure. He worked hand-in-glove with Osama Bin
:20:47. > :20:57.Laden for many years. He has given Al-Qaeda much of its strategic
:20:57. > :21:02.direction, and he has long been the group's most visible spokesman.
:21:02. > :21:07.Here he is just last week, saying the war with the West will go on.
:21:07. > :21:11.His appointment has largely been welcomed on extremist websites. Bin
:21:11. > :21:15.Laden and Al-Zawahiri collaborated closely. Both had been on the run,
:21:15. > :21:19.both with huge patches on their heads. Al-Zawahiri is seen as the
:21:19. > :21:23.natural successor. Today the Defence Secretary, visiting
:21:23. > :21:29.Afghanistan, said Al-Qaeda's new leadership would change little.
:21:29. > :21:37.Whoever happens to be heading Al- Qaeda is in many ways, an academic
:21:37. > :21:43.issue, because our resolve is undiminished. We need to rid
:21:43. > :21:47.ourselves of violent extremism under whatever guise. So what do we
:21:47. > :21:52.know about Ayman Al-Zawahiri? He is a lifelong Egyptian extremist who
:21:52. > :21:56.will be 60 this Sunday. He was the one who radicalised Osama Bin Laden
:21:56. > :22:01.in the '90s, and got him to think global. He was the operational
:22:01. > :22:07.brains behind the 9/11 attacks, and the US has long had a $25 million
:22:07. > :22:11.bounty on his head. Al-Zawahiri was radicalised long ago, imprisoned by
:22:11. > :22:16.the Egyptian state after President said that's assassination. Extreme
:22:16. > :22:21.violence perpetrated by Al-Qaeda is often attributed to his strategic
:22:21. > :22:25.direction. His supporters want more such attacks. But in an era of
:22:25. > :22:29.democracy and liberalisation, Al- Qaeda's critics say Al-Zawahiri
:22:29. > :22:33.will struggle to prove it has anything to offer. Financially, its
:22:33. > :22:37.resources are drying up. Its operational spaces have been
:22:37. > :22:41.confined by the drone strikes. Its leadership is being picked off. Al-
:22:41. > :22:45.Zawahiri has inherited an organisation that is struggling to
:22:45. > :22:49.carry out transnational attacks. And yet this Al-Qaeda opera to
:22:49. > :22:54.killed last week in Somalia was carrying early plans for an attack
:22:54. > :22:59.on London's Ritz Hotel and on Eton College, David Cameron's old school.
:22:59. > :23:01.The plans were not advanced and it is not yet known if Al-Qaeda's new
:23:01. > :23:04.leader even knew anything about them.
:23:04. > :23:06.So Al-Zawahiri is taking over Al- Qaeda at a crucial time for the
:23:07. > :23:10.organisation. Critics say it is fragmenting and getting left behind
:23:11. > :23:20.in the Middle East. Others say it's down, but now out, still capable of
:23:21. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:24.lashing out against the West. It has been the first day of
:23:24. > :23:27.cricket at the Rose Bowl and Hanshin. England have had the best
:23:27. > :23:31.of it, winning the toss and putting the Sri Lankan is in to bat in
:23:31. > :23:35.conditions helpful to the bowlers, but rain has had the upper hand for
:23:35. > :23:38.most of the day. The visitors were 39 for four a short time ago.
:23:38. > :23:42.We are just days away from the world's best tennis players
:23:42. > :23:45.converging on Wimbledon. But apart from Andy Murray, there are no
:23:45. > :23:48.senior British players in contention and within the sport,
:23:48. > :23:50.people are beginning to ask why. The sport's governing body has had
:23:50. > :24:00.�250 million to spend on development over the last five
:24:00. > :24:03.years. Our sports editor looks at where all that cash has gone.
:24:03. > :24:08.The supplies are arriving, the weather has arrived, but despite
:24:08. > :24:13.all the money it generates for British tennis, the long wait for a
:24:13. > :24:16.Wimbledon men's champion goes on. It is now 75 years since Fred Perry
:24:16. > :24:22.last won the most sought-after prize in the sport. And as each
:24:22. > :24:26.year passes, so the pressure builds on the game's governing body to
:24:26. > :24:32.unearth a new champion. The Lawn Tennis Association invests millions
:24:32. > :24:36.of pounds each year in centres like this one in Telford. But critics
:24:36. > :24:40.say far too much money has been wasted on helping elite players.
:24:40. > :24:44.The man in charge for the last five years insists that his approach
:24:45. > :24:49.will pay off. You only have to look at any sport to say you have got to
:24:49. > :24:54.have continuity and stick with your strategy. Whether you are Alex
:24:54. > :24:59.Ferguson or Clive Woodward, you need time and you need to hold to a
:24:59. > :25:05.long-term vision. The vision when Draper started in 2006 was to have
:25:05. > :25:08.five men or women in the top 100 within two years. But today,
:25:08. > :25:13.Britain has just Rhys singles players in the top 100, and only
:25:13. > :25:19.Andy Murray challenging for Grand Slam titles. And that is despite
:25:19. > :25:24.receiving more than �250 million in revenue. For all the money the LTA
:25:24. > :25:28.spends on developing the game, it is ultimately here on Centre Court
:25:28. > :25:32.where British tennis is judged. But the challenge in this country is to
:25:32. > :25:36.break free of the annual obsession with the Wimbledon fortnight and
:25:36. > :25:40.instead focus on trying to change the image of a sport which are
:25:40. > :25:44.still seen as cosy and elitist. For the man who beat Murray to this
:25:44. > :25:51.year's Australian Open, winning is about much more than financial
:25:51. > :25:54.support. It all comes down to mental strength and desire to
:25:54. > :25:59.succeed and the hunger to become a professional tennis player and the
:25:59. > :26:03.best. Many believe Andy Murray has that hunger. But even a repeat of
:26:03. > :26:12.his Queen's triumph at Wimbledon will not answer all the questions
:26:12. > :26:16.over Britain's lack of world-class The weather was looking more for
:26:16. > :26:20.this time yesterday. Let's see if Darren Bett can improve on things.
:26:20. > :26:24.It is safe to say that there will be rain delays at Wimbledon next
:26:24. > :26:28.week, at the least. That is because the weather pattern is not changing.
:26:28. > :26:32.We are back to thick cloud tomorrow coming up from the south-west,
:26:32. > :26:36.bringing rain across many parts of the country. The cloud is a long
:26:36. > :26:42.way off, but there is a lot of it coming from the south-west to bring
:26:42. > :26:46.us the rain tomorrow. Ahead of it, some sharp showers. Those will fade
:26:46. > :26:51.quickly this evening. Many eastern areas will be dry and clear. For
:26:51. > :26:55.the West, the cloud arrives and we see rain coming in by the morning.
:26:55. > :26:59.A bit chilly in northern Scotland and north-east England. A bright
:26:59. > :27:03.start tomorrow for some eastern areas. The wettest weather will be
:27:03. > :27:08.in the West, quickly moving into Scotland and eventually drifting
:27:08. > :27:13.eastwards. In the afternoon, not a great deal of rain to the east of
:27:14. > :27:19.the Pennines, but a lot of cloud around here. It will turn wetter
:27:19. > :27:23.through the afternoon in the south- east of England. It is suppressing
:27:23. > :27:28.those temperatures as it turns wetter. Cooler further towards the
:27:28. > :27:34.West. In the evening, we get late sunshine in Cornwall and Devon. But
:27:34. > :27:38.most of the day will be wet. Across Wales, a wet day. Some heavy rain
:27:38. > :27:42.over the Brecon Beacons. It will be cloudy and wet for most of the day.
:27:42. > :27:47.The rain is mainly in eastern parts of Northern Ireland to begin with.
:27:47. > :27:54.Then we are back into bog-standard sunshine and showers. It will turn
:27:54. > :27:58.wetter across Scotland. But not bad in northern Scotland. There is
:27:58. > :28:03.still rain on Saturday for Scotland. Elsewhere, some sunny intervals,
:28:03. > :28:07.but also showers. Some blustery winds across southern parts of
:28:07. > :28:11.England and Wales. On Saturday, we are back into this familiar mix of
:28:11. > :28:16.sunny intervals and heavy showers. Sunday looks better. It should be
:28:16. > :28:26.drier and brighter. But an improving story as we head through
:28:26. > :28:26.