:00:05. > :00:10.The Government and public sector unions on a collision course over
:00:10. > :00:19.pay and pensions. Unions warn of mass walkouts over proposals to
:00:19. > :00:24.raise the retirement age to 66. This idea that a simple way of
:00:24. > :00:29.doing it is just to impose change, including imposing a change in the
:00:29. > :00:32.pension age, that is not acceptable. But the government says it is the
:00:32. > :00:34.best option that will be available for years to come.
:00:34. > :00:41.Also on tonight's programme: Two- thirds of people who applied for
:00:41. > :00:46.Olympic tickets failed to get a single one. I cannot think, given
:00:46. > :00:50.the complexity, the huge demand, the numbers involved, that we could
:00:50. > :00:52.have produced a system that would have been fairer.
:00:52. > :00:55.As the fighting in Libya intensifies, we follow the student
:00:55. > :00:58.from a British university, now on the frontline.
:00:58. > :01:04.Cleared of harassment - the man who tweeted and blogged about his
:01:04. > :01:14.wife's affair all over the net. And the pioneering research into
:01:14. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:18.Parkinson's disease - turning skin into pieces of brain.
:01:19. > :01:23.The in Sportsday at 6:30pm on the News Channel, Villa get their man.
:01:23. > :01:33.Alex McLeish is their new manager, but rivals Birmingham City say they
:01:33. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:44.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. A major shake-up to
:01:44. > :01:48.the pensions of millions of public sector workers has been confirmed
:01:48. > :01:52.by the government. Many will have to pay more into their pensions,
:01:52. > :01:56.but work for longer - not retiring until 66. The Government claims
:01:56. > :01:59.it's the best offer that will be available for years to come. But
:01:59. > :02:07.the unions, who are in the middle of talks, say it could spark a mass
:02:07. > :02:11.walkout. When you have worked for years, it
:02:11. > :02:14.is only right that you should look forward to your retirement. But now
:02:14. > :02:19.the government has confirmed that millions of people in the public
:02:19. > :02:24.sector will have to work for longer. It is unjustifiable that others
:02:24. > :02:28.should work longer and pay more tax so that public sector workers can
:02:28. > :02:31.retire earlier and get paid more. It is employees who are benefiting
:02:32. > :02:36.from longer life and generous pensions, but the taxpayer who
:02:36. > :02:43.picks up the tab. The Government wants teachers to pay more towards
:02:43. > :02:47.their retirement and work for longer. But Jo expected a final-
:02:47. > :02:51.salary pension. It makes you think about your career prospects. For me
:02:51. > :02:55.as a young teacher, it is making me think about whether I want to stay
:02:55. > :03:00.in teaching or try something different. Men in workers will face
:03:00. > :03:05.an average 3% rise in their contributions, but there will be
:03:05. > :03:09.hail Up -- help for the lower-paid. Those earning �15,000 a year will
:03:09. > :03:14.not pay anything extra. For those earning up to �18,000, extra
:03:14. > :03:19.contributions will be capped at 1.5%. Above that, the increases
:03:19. > :03:22.will be phased in over three years. 12 million people if they rely upon
:03:22. > :03:26.or pay into a public service pension, hence the importance of
:03:26. > :03:31.the current talks ongoing between the government and trade unions on
:03:31. > :03:34.pension reform. But today, there has been surprise and anger in
:03:34. > :03:37.union circles that the government has gone public with what appeared
:03:37. > :03:40.to be firm proposals when everything was still meant to be up
:03:41. > :03:46.for discussion. This is an inflammatory and unhelpful
:03:46. > :03:50.intervention. We are engaged in serious negotiations. If ministers
:03:50. > :03:55.make pronouncements while talks are still going on, that is deeply
:03:55. > :03:58.unhelpful and shakes my confidence in the government. Today one of the
:03:59. > :04:01.main unions threatened to walk away from the talks. The business groups
:04:02. > :04:06.say the government should not back down. The Government should hold
:04:06. > :04:09.its nerve and face down the unions. They are offering a good deal to
:04:10. > :04:13.the unions, and they should get back round the table and keep
:04:13. > :04:18.talking to get a good deal for their members. Strikes should be a
:04:18. > :04:21.last resort. 750,000 teachers and civil servants are due to strike at
:04:21. > :04:24.the end of the month. But could this intervention by the Government
:04:24. > :04:27.have brought the prospect of more unrest closer?
:04:27. > :04:29.Our Political Correspondent Iain Watson joins us now from the
:04:29. > :04:38.Treasury. With both sides at loggerheads, how can this be
:04:38. > :04:41.resolved? Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary at the Treasury,
:04:41. > :04:46.has met trade unions behind closed doors over the past few months.
:04:46. > :04:50.Despite the weather, what brought it out into the open was a belief
:04:50. > :04:53.that the Government's position was being misrepresented. That was why
:04:53. > :04:57.we heard this potentially risky appeal over the heads of trade
:04:57. > :05:02.union leaders directly to the members not to sacrifice their
:05:02. > :05:08.pensions on a political platform. The union reaction and the Labour
:05:08. > :05:12.reaction have been interesting. Ed Miliband accused the Chief
:05:12. > :05:17.Secretary today effectively of megaphone diplomacy, of indulging
:05:17. > :05:20.in dangerous tactics. But he did not attack the specific proposals
:05:20. > :05:24.from the Government, because the harsh reality is that across the
:05:24. > :05:28.political spectrum, there is a realisation that the majority of us
:05:28. > :05:31.will have to work longer and pay more for decent pensions in the
:05:31. > :05:34.future. If you applied for Olympic tickets
:05:34. > :05:37.and didn't get any, you're not alone. The organisers of London
:05:37. > :05:40.2012 have revealed that two-thirds of people who applied for tickets
:05:40. > :05:44.failed to get any, and many high- profile events were heavily
:05:44. > :05:47.oversubscribed. But if you missed out, you can have another go next
:05:47. > :05:55.week - tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis.
:05:55. > :05:59.Our Sports Editor David Bond is at the Olympic stadium in East London.
:05:59. > :06:04.This is how many people will have found out today that they missed
:06:04. > :06:06.out on Olympic tickets. I was one of the 1.2 million people who were
:06:06. > :06:10.e-mailed to their BlackBerry a few hours ago, telling them they did
:06:10. > :06:15.not get anything they applied for. It brings the end to a process
:06:15. > :06:18.which has left many people feeling mystified and angry. But at least
:06:18. > :06:24.for London 2012, they finally opened up and told us today exactly
:06:24. > :06:28.what happened. This was how most people
:06:28. > :06:31.experienced the Olympic opening ceremony the last time around, on
:06:31. > :06:35.the television. And tutor the unprecedented demand for tickets,
:06:35. > :06:42.this is how the vast majority of the British public will watch
:06:42. > :06:47.London's big moment. The ceremony was 50 times oversubscribed. It is
:06:47. > :06:51.not much better than the men's 100 metres final. There were 1.3
:06:51. > :06:57.million applications for tickets to see if Usain Bolt could repeat his
:06:57. > :07:01.world record-breaking feats. Just 21,000 have been successful. In
:07:01. > :07:07.total, London 2012 received 21 million applications in this first
:07:07. > :07:11.round of sales, from 1.9 million people. But only 700,000
:07:11. > :07:19.applications were successful. The OU now say sorry to those who
:07:19. > :07:26.missed out? I will say I absolutely understand your disappointment.
:07:26. > :07:30.Massive demand, unprecedented. will you apologise? They feel, they
:07:30. > :07:35.do not feel that they competed in a fair process. I think they competed
:07:35. > :07:38.in an entirely fair process. I am here to talk you through how to
:07:38. > :07:41.apply. For the 1.2 million who missed out,
:07:41. > :07:47.there was some good news. They will get the first opportunity to buy
:07:47. > :07:54.the next batch of tickets when they go on sale in a week. 2.3 million
:07:54. > :07:57.tickets will be sold on a first- come first-served basis. But of
:07:57. > :08:03.those, 1.7 million are for football, meaning just 600,000 are available
:08:03. > :08:07.across 20 other Olympic sports. Although a further 1.3 million
:08:07. > :08:10.tickets will go on sale for all events from December this year,
:08:10. > :08:14.some disappointed fans are wondering whether they should
:08:14. > :08:18.bother applying again. If I were going to try for tickets again, I
:08:18. > :08:23.would probably roll their sleeves up, do some analysis, see what I
:08:23. > :08:27.could afford and go for it. But I am not terribly optimistic. They do
:08:27. > :08:32.not seem to be many tickets available. My confidence but I
:08:32. > :08:35.could get some is pretty low. such high demand for tickets,
:08:35. > :08:39.London 2012 can at least be confident that they have avoided
:08:39. > :08:43.the nightmare of anti venues next summer. The challenge now is to
:08:43. > :08:48.keep those who missed out interested in the Games. This is
:08:48. > :08:52.the first time that Seb Coe and his organisers have had to deal with a
:08:52. > :08:55.public tide of disappointment. In many ways, they are a victim of
:08:55. > :08:59.their own success. They created huge demand for tickets and nearly
:08:59. > :09:03.raised all of the revenue they set out to achieve. That is good news
:09:03. > :09:06.even for those who missed out, because it means we will not be
:09:06. > :09:09.picking up the bill. Two British soldiers have been
:09:09. > :09:12.killed in southern Afghanistan. Both died in separate incidents in
:09:12. > :09:14.Helmand Province yesterday. One of the soldiers, from the Royal
:09:14. > :09:19.Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, was killed in an explosion in the
:09:19. > :09:24.Nahr-e-Saraj district. The other was from the Parachute Regiment.
:09:24. > :09:27.Both families have been informed. The Scottish businessman Nat Fraser,
:09:27. > :09:32.who was jailed for life in 2003 for murdering his wife, will face a
:09:32. > :09:35.retrial, despite having his conviction quashed. The Court of
:09:35. > :09:37.Appeal in Edinburgh made their ruling today. It comes after the UK
:09:37. > :09:43.Supreme Court in London expressed doubts about the original
:09:43. > :09:46.conviction. Rebels in the Libyan city of
:09:46. > :09:49.Misrata say at least ten people have been killed and dozens more
:09:49. > :09:52.injured in a rocket attack by Colonel Gadaffi's forces. It came
:09:52. > :09:56.as NATO jets carried out fresh daytime attacks on targets in the
:09:56. > :09:58.Libyan capital, Tripoli. It's now four months since rebels began
:09:58. > :10:03.their revolution against Gadaffi's 40-year rule, yet many are still
:10:03. > :10:06.heading to the rebel stronghold of Misrata. Andrew Harding followed
:10:06. > :10:16.the journey of one Libyan student who has left behind his studies in
:10:16. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:24.Britain to fight on the frontline. In high spirits. A ferry full of
:10:24. > :10:29.rebels had been for the besieged city of Misrata. And the front
:10:29. > :10:36.lines that surround it. Among today's reinforcements, a young
:10:36. > :10:43.maths student from Lancaster University, Siddique. In England, I
:10:43. > :10:47.could not do much for this revolution. So I decided to go and
:10:47. > :10:51.hold a gun for the first time in my life. For Siddique, this is
:10:51. > :10:57.personal. His father has come to greet him, but Gaddafi's forces
:10:57. > :11:02.have taken 16 members of their family. Within hours, a shy,
:11:02. > :11:11.earnest student seems transformed. It is a short journey to the front
:11:11. > :11:17.lines. It is so deep ready for this? -- but is Siddique ready for
:11:17. > :11:27.this? Those were uncomfortably close. Gaddafi's superior firepower
:11:27. > :11:27.
:11:27. > :11:32.is a constant threat to these part- time soldiers. Siddique has come
:11:32. > :11:36.right to the front lines here. Very active front lines. Can a Gaddafi's
:11:36. > :11:41.forces are just a mile or so down the road. We can hear the missiles
:11:41. > :11:44.whistling overhead, NATO planes patrolling the skies as well. The
:11:44. > :11:50.men here are bracing themselves for what they believe could be an
:11:50. > :11:55.imminent Gaddafi offensive. In a quieter moment, Siddique's training
:11:55. > :12:02.begins. These are the rockets. hopes his maths skills will help
:12:02. > :12:07.with targeting. I do not want to kill anybody, actually. My friends
:12:07. > :12:13.also do not want to kill them. But we have to fight. Where is the
:12:13. > :12:21.enemy now? Siddique's lack of experienced is nothing new. The
:12:21. > :12:28.rebels need training and weapons, and too many are dying. So after a
:12:28. > :12:35.mere hour or so of training, Siddique joins the ranks. Either we
:12:35. > :12:38.live in peace or freedom, or we die. A Conservative MP has triggered
:12:38. > :12:41.outrage by suggesting that people with disabilities should be able to
:12:41. > :12:43.work for below the minimum wage. Philip Davies said people with
:12:43. > :12:47.disabilities were disadvantaged because they could not offer to
:12:47. > :12:50.accept lower wages than the able- bodied. The mental health charity
:12:50. > :12:54.Mind described his comments as "preposterous". Our political
:12:54. > :13:02.correspondent Ben Wright is at Westminster. Pretty controversial,
:13:02. > :13:06.to say the least? Yes, Philip Davies has detonated a fierce
:13:06. > :13:09.argument. The law is clear. Employers cannot discriminate
:13:09. > :13:13.against people with disabilities, and the national minimum wage has
:13:13. > :13:17.to be paid to everyone at the same rate, depending on their age. But
:13:17. > :13:20.in the House of Commons, Philip Davies said that the vulnerable
:13:21. > :13:25.jobseekers, including those with learning disabilities, should be
:13:25. > :13:29.allowed to earn less if they want him. For some people, the national
:13:29. > :13:33.minimum wage may be more of a hindrance than a help. If those
:13:33. > :13:37.considerate to be a hindrance, and in my view that is some of the most
:13:37. > :13:41.vulnerable people in society, if they feel that for a short period,
:13:41. > :13:44.taking a lower rate of pay to help them get on the first rung of the
:13:44. > :13:49.jobs ladder, if they think it is a good thing, I do not see why we
:13:49. > :13:53.should stand in their way. There has been an angry reaction from
:13:53. > :13:57.charities and his own party. His views are not those of the
:13:57. > :14:00.Conservatives. The Government and the law will not change. But as the
:14:00. > :14:04.charity Mind said, there is discrimination against people with
:14:04. > :14:08.learning disabilities, and they do struggle to get jobs. But in their
:14:08. > :14:12.view, paying people less is not the answer. Prejudice is the problem.
:14:12. > :14:14.A man who blogged and tweeted the details of his wife's affair on the
:14:14. > :14:18.internet has been cleared of harassing her lover. Ian Puddick
:14:18. > :14:21.posted videos and pictures all over the net in fury at his wife's ten-
:14:21. > :14:31.year affair. After the verdict, Mr Puddick said his was a victory for
:14:31. > :14:32.
:14:32. > :14:37.the small man. The internet has revolutionised the
:14:37. > :14:41.way we communicate. Information, true or false, can be spread around
:14:41. > :14:46.the world in a keystroke. But at what point does free-speech become
:14:46. > :14:51.harassment? Ian Puddick forgave his wife for betraying him, but he
:14:51. > :14:56.could never forgive the man with whom she had the affair. So he went
:14:56. > :15:00.online to discredit her former boss, Timothy Haynes, setting up fake
:15:00. > :15:06.websites to reveal his behaviour. The businessman had to leave his
:15:06. > :15:16.job as a result. But in court, lawyers for person said he was
:15:16. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:31.Laughter the judge dismissed the case against him, must -- Mr
:15:31. > :15:37.Puddick expressed his delight. years of my life I have just got it
:15:38. > :15:43.back. I have had two years of my life thanks to Mike QC. Just a
:15:43. > :15:47.major, major relief. No one suggested Ian Puddick put anything
:15:47. > :15:51.on line which was not true, but there was no acknowledgement of the
:15:51. > :15:57.parrying of social networking sites and the modern age. The courts were
:15:57. > :16:00.told it is difficult to quietly SEN these days. On the internet news
:16:00. > :16:04.travels faster and further than ever. If you have told the truth
:16:04. > :16:08.throughout and you're not seeking to cause someone distress, you
:16:08. > :16:12.should be all right. He was responding to somebody else's
:16:12. > :16:19.behaviour, this was not a gratuitous attack. Stay long-term
:16:19. > :16:24.adulterer had to suffer. They have now rebuilt their relationship. Mr
:16:24. > :16:27.Puddick says his days of internet campaigning are over.
:16:27. > :16:30.Our top story tonight: The government and public sector
:16:30. > :16:33.unions on a collision course over pay and pensions.
:16:33. > :16:43.Coming up - the Birmingham battle over Alex McLeish as Aston Villa
:16:43. > :16:47.
:16:47. > :16:57.He coming up in the sport, Rory McIlroy has stormed into an
:16:57. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:03.impressive lead after his opening Now, some politicians are fond of
:17:03. > :17:08.talking about the "squeezed middle" - those in work but nonetheless
:17:08. > :17:11.facing tough times as Britain struggles out of recession. Many
:17:11. > :17:15.will be affected by today's news on public sector pensions, but what
:17:15. > :17:17.other changes are on the way and how are people coping? All this
:17:17. > :17:27.week our special correspondent Richard Bilton has been gauging the
:17:27. > :17:27.
:17:28. > :17:31.mood and today he sent this report Welcomed to middle-England,
:17:31. > :17:39.Melbourne sits in the hills of south Derbyshire, but agriculture
:17:39. > :17:41.does not pay the bills here any more. The parents of these kids in
:17:41. > :17:47.the village school are much more likely to be commuters than work
:17:47. > :17:51.the land. Would you like ketchup? Sarah the dinner lady says you can
:17:51. > :17:57.feel the village titania next spells. Our school number of
:17:57. > :18:05.dinners have gone down by about 20 in this last half-term. Roast
:18:05. > :18:11.potatoes? That has affected us because that has cut our hours.
:18:11. > :18:15.have got a green ant. Mrs Howell teaches the reception class, she
:18:15. > :18:23.came here after being made redundant at her last school.
:18:23. > :18:26.you finished your drawing? She is happy here, but the staffroom has
:18:26. > :18:32.concerns and a national dispute over pensions looms. I will not be
:18:32. > :18:36.striking because I'm here to do my job. But I would 100% back anyone
:18:36. > :18:41.else who chooses to strike. school sits in a village full of
:18:41. > :18:44.small businesses. People are worried about the cuts to the
:18:44. > :18:54.public sector, but perhaps here they are just as worried about the
:18:54. > :18:54.
:18:54. > :18:59.state of the economy and what might The school's chair of governors is
:18:59. > :19:03.also one of the village's main employers. -- he ships spring water
:19:03. > :19:08.from Melbourne Hall over the country. How does he find life in
:19:08. > :19:13.tougher economic times? Cuts have to come because our balance of
:19:13. > :19:17.payments, we have overspent. I agree with it, but I think the man
:19:17. > :19:26.in the street has less money in his pocket and generally the concerns
:19:26. > :19:32.are about jobs. All of this means little in the playground. But there
:19:32. > :19:37.are not many families here that Taj not touched. Job worries and budget
:19:37. > :19:41.cutbacks alive in middle-England. Researchers in Oxford are quite
:19:41. > :19:44.literally turning pieces of skin into pieces of brain. The
:19:44. > :19:47.extraordinary new technique is part of a large scale study to try to
:19:47. > :19:50.find cures for Parkinson's disease, and includes the creation of a
:19:50. > :20:00."bank" of artificially grown brain cells. Our science correspondent
:20:00. > :20:05.Pallab Ghosh has this exclusive An X-ray of the human brain, the
:20:05. > :20:10.body's most complex organ. He is one with Parkinson's disease. The
:20:10. > :20:16.black areas are where cells have been ravaged. No one knows why and
:20:16. > :20:23.no one knows how to stop it. The disease kills brain cells needed
:20:23. > :20:27.for movement. Derek is helping scientists combat the disease. He
:20:27. > :20:33.is one of 120,000 people in Britain with Parkinson's. I started getting
:20:33. > :20:38.twitches in the face, spasms. Started getting a tremor in my left
:20:38. > :20:42.hand. And sometimes I didn't even notice it, people brought it to my
:20:42. > :20:47.attention. He is involved in a pioneering study in which
:20:47. > :20:52.researchers will grow Frings cells from tiny bits of his skin.
:20:52. > :20:56.Researchers topic up into pieces and add chemicals. -- chop it up.
:20:57. > :21:01.The skin cells will be turned into brain cells. By studying these
:21:01. > :21:05.artificially created brain cells, researchers will be able to see in
:21:05. > :21:09.great detail how Parkinson's disease develops. Chemicals are
:21:09. > :21:16.added to genetically reprogrammed the cells. Then they are put into
:21:16. > :21:20.an incubator. Here, scene for the first time, is what happens. First
:21:20. > :21:27.Derek's skin cells break down. The small bits clump together to form
:21:27. > :21:30.thousands of stem cells. These turn into nerve cells, they grow long
:21:30. > :21:35.strands, connections which send signals to other parts of the brain.
:21:35. > :21:39.After 16 weeks, brain cells. The cells are shown in green are the
:21:39. > :21:45.ones that will become diseased and die. We have never been able to
:21:45. > :21:49.study them in detail because they are inside. Now we can grow them in
:21:49. > :21:53.a dish and study them, we can culture sells for weeks on end to
:21:53. > :21:57.study how they live and die and why they are different. The researchers
:21:57. > :22:07.are growing brain cells for many more patients. This Brain Bank,
:22:07. > :22:10.
:22:10. > :22:12.they hope, will enable them to develop new treatments.
:22:12. > :22:15.In football, it's become the scourge of Scottish football -
:22:15. > :22:18.sectarian hatred and what to do about it. This season has seen
:22:18. > :22:20.suspected parcel bombs and a physical assault on the Celtic
:22:20. > :22:22.manager Neil Lennon. Now the Scottish government has published
:22:22. > :22:24.its proposals for a new law, including tough new prison
:22:24. > :22:27.sentences. Our Scotland correspondent James Cook has the
:22:27. > :22:31.details. They used to say Glasgow was
:22:31. > :22:35.Belfast without the bullets, not any more. This football season was
:22:35. > :22:39.marred by attempted murder with parcel bombs sent to three Roman
:22:39. > :22:43.Catholics linked to Celtic Football Club. It shames us in the eyes of
:22:43. > :22:51.the world and we have begun to see that and understand that and it is
:22:51. > :22:56.time we began to tackle it. This is what they are tackling, Celtic fans
:22:56. > :23:01.chanting for the IRA. For Rangers supporters singing about killing
:23:01. > :23:06.Catholics. Now this could lead to five years in jail. So could using
:23:06. > :23:13.new technology to air old prejudices. I think it is pretty
:23:13. > :23:16.excessive. Five years is great, maybe not long enough. The problem
:23:16. > :23:22.dates back centuries after the Protestant Reformation, the
:23:22. > :23:26.struggle for Scotland's soul. Glasgow cathedral survived the
:23:26. > :23:31.Reformation, but Catholicism was swept aside and bigotry began. It
:23:31. > :23:34.would flare up again years later in the City's teeming tenements, with
:23:34. > :23:41.Irish Catholics and Scottish Protestants fighting for the same
:23:41. > :23:44.jobs. It doesn't matter if you support a different team. But is
:23:44. > :23:49.that the reality today? Projects like this are bringing together at
:23:49. > :23:53.children from both communities. can support Celtic and support
:23:53. > :23:56.Rangers and still be best friends. A doesn't matter if you are
:23:56. > :24:01.Catholic or Protestant, you are the same. Telling that to some fans
:24:01. > :24:03.will be tough. The Staying with football and
:24:03. > :24:06.Birmingham City have vowed to "vigorously pursue" legal action
:24:07. > :24:09.over the resignation of their manager Alex McLeish. Today he was
:24:10. > :24:13.confirmed as the boss at arch rivals Aston Villa amid a bitter
:24:13. > :24:21.row between the two clubs. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan is at
:24:21. > :24:24.Villa Park with the story. There seems little doubt that
:24:25. > :24:28.tonight Alex McLeish must be among the least popular men in a poll of
:24:28. > :24:33.Birmingham. The fans of the club he has left behind feel betrayed,
:24:33. > :24:37.those at the club he has joined, Vela, feels simply ignored. It must
:24:37. > :24:40.be among the most bitter if managerial defections in Premier
:24:40. > :24:44.League history. A takes a lot to unite the fans of
:24:44. > :24:50.Birmingham's two great clubs, but by crossing the divide, Alex
:24:50. > :24:53.McLeish has alienated both. This was the furious reaction of Aston
:24:53. > :24:57.Villa's up what has this week when it emerged that their club was in
:24:57. > :25:03.talks with the former manager of their arch-rivals. But today the
:25:03. > :25:11.protesters were defied. As soon as he loses one game, it will be held.
:25:11. > :25:15.He has no honeymoon period. He has been with the Blues for three years.
:25:15. > :25:19.McLeish is even less popular with burning and cities where he
:25:19. > :25:29.resigned on Sunday. Had they want millions in compensation now he has
:25:29. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:34.made the short journey to Villa Us as a player Sol Campbell made a
:25:34. > :25:39.highly controversial move from Spurs to Arsenal and he believes
:25:39. > :25:43.McLeish could find life hard. will need time from the chairman
:25:43. > :25:47.and the fans. It will be difficult, it will be a balancing act, but it
:25:47. > :25:51.is all about results. McLeish has vowed to prove the critics wrong,
:25:51. > :25:56.but the challenge of winning over the fans who don't want in here is
:25:56. > :25:58.daunting. After a period of managerial
:25:58. > :26:03.instability and a long search for a replacement for Gerard Houllier,
:26:03. > :26:07.perhaps an element of desperation explains Aston Villa's gamble over
:26:07. > :26:11.McLeish. He will be unveiled formally on Monday, but this is an
:26:11. > :26:18.appointment that once again reminds us that fan power a loyalty has its
:26:18. > :26:25.limits in the modern game. In golf, Rory McIlroy has fired a
:26:25. > :26:27.66 to lead the US Open by eight shots after the second round. The
:26:27. > :26:31.22-year-old holder succession of difficult putts to pull away from
:26:32. > :26:33.the field and put himself in a strong position to win his first
:26:33. > :26:36.major trophy. major trophy.
:26:36. > :26:41.Let's take a look at the weekend weather.
:26:41. > :26:45.It doesn't seem to stop raining! It is pretty grim. Some slow
:26:45. > :26:51.improvements over the weekend, but not before time we have got more
:26:51. > :26:55.cloud and more rain. It is pushing north overnight tonight and some of
:26:55. > :27:00.the rain this evening will be heavy, particularly across the south-east
:27:00. > :27:04.of England. That heavy rain pours away and we will find the main area
:27:04. > :27:08.of rain pushing off, allowing showers to come back to the south-
:27:08. > :27:13.west. At least with the cloud and rain, temperatures will be up at
:27:13. > :27:18.around nine to 11 degrees. As we head through Saturday, this belt of
:27:18. > :27:22.rain becomes slow moving across a good part of Scotland. To the south,
:27:22. > :27:27.we will get sunny intervals, but there will be some showers. For
:27:27. > :27:32.Northern Ireland, a mixture of sunshine and showers. 15 degrees at
:27:32. > :27:36.best. Similar across Wales. Some of these showers will be heavy, with
:27:36. > :27:42.the risk of hail and thunder. Across southern counties of England,
:27:42. > :27:46.it will be windy tomorrow. These showers will push through quickly.
:27:46. > :27:51.Showers, sunshine, showers, sunshine. It will be a problem for
:27:51. > :27:55.the cricketers at the Rose Bowl. It could be met at Royal Ascot as well.
:27:55. > :27:59.Showers in South East England and East Anglia. The winds not as
:27:59. > :28:06.strong in the Midlands. To the north of Leeds and Manchester it
:28:06. > :28:09.stays wet all day. Sunday looks a little bit better. Are we will see
:28:09. > :28:14.some rain across south-west Scotland and northern England, but
:28:14. > :28:18.it is lighter. Elsewhere some bright or sunny spells and few
:28:18. > :28:23.showers than Saturday. Saturday is the wetter day, heavy showers and
:28:23. > :28:27.longer spells of rain. On Sunday, it should be drier and brighter. A
:28:27. > :28:28.bit more sunshine and hopefully it will feel warmer. If you have plans
:28:28. > :28:32.will feel warmer. If you have plans for Wimbledon next week, it is
:28:32. > :28:35.going to rain. A reminder of tonight's main news: