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A day of disruption this Thursday. High-level talks are not enough to | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
stop hundreds of thousands of public sector workers striking. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Many schools in England and Wales could fall silent as teachers | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
prepare to walk out over pension changes. As a teacher, I certainly | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
don't want to go on strike. It is not my first choice, it is a last | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
resort. I feel sympathy for them but it does not help me because I | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
will not get paid on Thursday Riga. For also on the programme: A | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
radical overhaul of the Ministry of Defence, thinning out the top brass | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
and overhauling the budget. How do they get your mobile phone | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
number? Car insurance companies are accused of being involved in a | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
racket. Andy Murray ploughs into the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
quarter-finals. A standing ovation from Kate and William. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
The Serena Williams is out of the tournament, followed later by big | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
sister Venus. And at 6:45pm on the BBC News | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
Channel, more on a day of shocks at Wimbledon as the women's top seed | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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Hello and welcome to the News At Six. Hundreds of thousands of | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
public sector workers including teachers looks set to strike on | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Thursday. There was not enough progress during high-level talks | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
between the Government and union representatives over pension | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
proposals. Teachers could be asking parents to help keep the schools | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
are open. In thousands of schools across England and Wales, normally | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
busy and noisy classrooms will fall silent. From Thursday, teachers | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
will walk out in protest over changes to their pensions. Rachel | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Williams will be among them. A young teacher, she is worried she | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
will have to pay more and work longer, only to receive less in the | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
end. As a teacher, it's I certainly don't want to go on strike. It is | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
not my first choice, it is a last resort. We feel that the Government | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
do not appear to be listening to us. That last resort will mean | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
disruption to hundreds of thousands of families. It will mean that I | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
have to get childcare so I can go to work. I think that the teachers | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
have got a point. Public sector workers in general are getting a | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
hard deal at the minute. I feel sympathy for them but it does not | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
help me because I will not get paid on Thursday. There was much at | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
stake this afternoon as trade union leaders arrived at Whitehall to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
discuss proposals on pension reform that they had tabled a couple of | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
weeks ago. These talks at the Cabinet Office will not affect the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
widespread walk out planned for Thursday. Both the unions and the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Government know that the issue of pension reform could result in | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
widespread industrial action come the autumn. That is something that | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
both sides say they want to avoid. The Government say they want people | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
to work for longer and pay more into pensions, but a leaked TUC | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
document says that while pension age will be considered, there | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
should be no presumption of increases. They warn there is no | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
case for increased contribution rates except where agreed. After | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
two hours of talks, the union delegation emerged, to say that | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
progress had been made, but warning of a gap between both sides. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
public service unions are desperately concerned about the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
implications of the Government's current proposals. If the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Government don't really we consider, take a step back, then other unions | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
may be balloting their members and we could see further industrial | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
action later in the year. Government knows that the pension | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
issue will affect millions of public sector workers, who are | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
struggling to make ends meet already. They insist that the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
changes are necessary. There have to be reforms of public sector | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
pensions. We want these to be among the very best available, with a | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
guaranteed level of pension, index- linked. Very few people in the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
private sector can now look forward to that. The strikes on Thursday | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
looks set to be the biggest in years. Both sides will be back to | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
try to reach a deal in further talks in July. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Laura Kuenssberg is outside the Cabinet Office. Those talks have | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
been taking place there. We heard John say it then that there has | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
been some progress but clearly not enough. The Government and the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
unions are still at loggerheads over how to Pavel fact that all | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
workers are living longer. -- How ought to pay for the fact. They | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
cannot agree on how public sector workers should pay towards their | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
pension and how much longer they should work for before they get | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
their pension. One union negotiator said to me this morning that the | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
talks have been good natured but they are going nowhere. When they | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
stood on the steps this afternoon, it appeared progress had been made. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
The Government has given some ground by agreeing to look at | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
council pensions separately. It's a gigantic health union Unison have | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
said they will not ballot for industrial action now. There is a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
big gap between the two sides in these negotiations. And as we | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
expected, this will not make much difference to the strikes planned | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
for Thursday. It does appear that a tiny step has been made towards a | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
deal. A little bit of progress is surely better than none at all. | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
Thank you. There will be a radical overhaul of the way the Ministry of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Defence and Britain's armed forces will be run. Liam Fox has promised | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
an end to waste and a slimmed-down management structure which almost | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
certainly means few admirals, generals and air marshals. Recent | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
years have seen massive overspending at the Defence | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Ministry, as we report. The defence of the realm is the first duty of | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
any Government. Defence itself has often caused Government its biggest | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
political headaches. British forces are fighting our two friends again. | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
The aim of the reforms today is to stop the infighting at the Ministry | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
of Defence. We need to change. Can we bring all of the armed forces | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
and so was servants along with us? I think we can if they see that the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
reforms have a clear direction and if they believe that they are fair. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
The hope is to avoid the procurement disasters of the past | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
and the problems of equipment or did for which there is no budget. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Last year, these were cut up for scrap, aeroplanes which were | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
delivered several years late and billions over budget. In the past, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
few would have been held to account, in theory that should now change. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
What are the measures as recommended by Lord Levene, who | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
headed up the review? The key committee at the top of the MoD | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
will be smaller and chaired by the Secretary of State. The chief of | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
the defence staff will speak for all three services. A new joint | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
command will bring together cyber warfare and military intelligence. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
There will also be cut at the top two the number of senior officers, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
perhaps also ending the complaint that UK has more admirals than | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
ships. Much of this reform has given by the need to make better | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
use of what money the MoD does have. The budget has seen a reduction of | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
8% and the Strategic Defence Review is cutting 17,000 service personnel | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
to balance the books, as well as 25,000 civilian jobs at the MoD. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
What this report is doing is streamlining the structure of the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Ministry of Defence, which it very much needs. It is pretty by Fantine | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
at the moment. If we can get that and better procurement, which is | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
always the Achilles heel, then I think it is absolutely going in the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
right direction. The idea is for the heads of the Army, Royal Navy | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
and RAF to get more control over their own organisations and budgets. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Today Labour gave the reforms are mixed review. These big cuts in | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
military capability of permanent but the deficit is temporary. They | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
are not coming back and that is what the Government should be | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
addressing, not who sits at which table on which chair. Much will | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
depend on how the reforms are implemented and whether they really | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
will cut bureaucracy. Some warned that insuring UK's ambitions | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
globally will mean matching that financially. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Deals have been signed worth more than �1 billion with China at the | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
summit in Downing Street when Wen Jiabao met David Cameron. Wen | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Jiabao told David Cameron that Britain should not involve | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
themselves in finger-pointing at China's political record. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Marching bands, soldiers on parade, at the Foreign Office this morning | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
the Chinese premier was given all of the ceremony that Britain can | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
lay on for a visiting foreign leader. After a sunny welcome | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
outside, hard diplomacy inside. A warning from David Cameron that | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
China must do more to respect human rights to insure its stability and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
prosperity. We are different countries with different histories | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
and at different stages of development. We should show each | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
other respect but we are very clear that political and economic | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
development should go hand in hand. One supports the other. Downing | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Street said that Mr Cameron raised to specific cases of human rights | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
concerns over lunchtime, but Wen Jiabao was equally robust, saying | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
the state should not lecture one another. On Human Rights, China and | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
the United Kingdom should respect each other, respect the fact, it | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
treat each other as equals, engage in more co-operation than finger- | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
pointing, and resolve properly our differences through dialogue. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Sometimes diplomacy needs to be decoded, but not today. Diplomats | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
said that the premier gave out some stern words about not | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
fingerprinting, which reflected a genuine irritation about being | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
pressed over his country's record. -- finger-pointing. The question is | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
whether that affected the trade deals. It appears not for now. They | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
agreed �1.4 billion of new deals for British businesses, lifting a | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
ban on selling chickens to China, and agreeing a swathe of trade | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
commitments, all to address Britain's poor record of exporting | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
goods to China. And that is more, a couple of pandas were promised for | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
Edinburgh's so as well. Diplomats had hoped that the release of Ai | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Weiwei would smooth the Wen Jiabao's tour of the capital cities | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of Europe. But outside Downing Street as well as inside, he could | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
not escape concern over his Government's record on human rights. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
The stern response today suggests that he has got the message. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
Police in the Irish Republic have found a large store of bomb-making | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
material in a farm shed in County Louth. They believe a car bomb was | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
being prepared for an attack in Northern Ireland. Officers are | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
linking the find to the dissident republican group. Two men arrested | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
at the shed on Saturday are being questioned. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Jon Venables, one of the killers of James Bulger, has lost his bid to | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
be released on parole. He have done to the toddler from a shopping | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
centre on Merseyside in 1993. -- he abducted the toddler. He was given | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
a two-year sentence recently after downloading and distributing | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
indecent images of children. Jane Norman has gone into | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
administration. A High Street retailer closed its 90 stores on | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
Saturday, putting 1600 jobs at risk. Administrators are now looking for | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
a potential buyer. How would you feel if you were | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
involved in a car accident and then discovered your details have been | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
sold by the insurance company to a personal injury claims firm? The | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
former Justice Secretary Jack Straw has attacked the practice which he | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
calls a racket. He has called for tighter regulation. | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
Had a crash? One some compensation? Get in touch. In the industry, they | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
call it claims farming. By text message, phone call, it is big | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
difference. Where other companies getting information? From the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
insurers that are selling it to them. Thousands of pounds a go. It | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
is a rotten merry-go-round in which law-abiding motorists are the | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
victims. Of course, when you have had a crash, it is important to get | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
compensation, but personal injury claims have gone up by 70% in the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
last six years. One injury in particular, whiplash, very easy to | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
fake, 1200 claims every day. Increasingly, the business of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
finding people to claim has become the real money spinner. Your | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
contact details have become valuable. If you have an accident, | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
they may be passed on by insurance companies and hospitals, police or | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
repair garages, it is being claimed. If not, small direct-marketing | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
operators ran do redial thousands of numbers in the hope of finding | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
potential clients. -- randomly dial. There are claims management company | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
will make their money in fees, �600 per case for referring you to a | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
solicitor. Peter Bennett's experience is typical. Following a | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
minor accident, his family has been plagued by calls offering | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
compensation. You wonder how many people are tempted into taking this | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
kind of action when there has been no injury. We are just one family, | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
so you can imagine what is happening across the country. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Insurers then have to pay out more for claims, and then they make | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
their money back by selling their own data, which leads to more | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
claims. They blame the referral fees. We have been arguing for | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
abolition for a long time. You have to abolish the cost of the entire | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
system, because otherwise people take insurance referral fees even | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
if the insurance industry itself has stopped. Road safety is | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
improving, cars can now stop themselves to prevent crashes. But | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
insurance premiums are still going Our top story... | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
A day of disruption this Thursday as public sector workers go on | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
strike. Thousands of schools across England and Wales will fall silent | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
as teachers walkout. Coming up, the hottest place in the | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
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On BBC News, market wobbles, particularly for bank stocks ahead | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
of a crucial budget vote in Greece on Wednesday. | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
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Arrest warrants have been issued for the Libyan leader, Colonel | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Gaddafi, and two of his closest allies for alleged crimes against | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
humanity. The decision was made by the International Criminal Court at | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
the Hague. It comes as rebel forces claim they're making advances in | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the west of the country with the help of NATO air strikes which | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
began 100 days ago. Rebels claim to be within 50 miles of the capital | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Tripoli but is there a realistic chance they can defeat Gaddafi? | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Here's our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen. His piece contains | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
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This is the tale of two cities. The Tripoli the regime likes the world | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
to see and the one that does not. Official Tripoli organises regular | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
rallies against need Tote in Green Square. -- NATO. The heart of the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
capital. The colonel would not be able to stay in power without | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
genuine supporters, some are brought up to believe in him. Why | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
do you like Kim? Because he teaches us what we don't know and he saves | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
us from people that are hurting us. The hidden Tripoli starts with | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
petrol queues, days long, a sign of strain. The regime's bus troops for | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
journalists do not stopped to talk to disgruntled motorists. We get | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
hints of the city that doesn't support Colonel Gaddafi. At night | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
there is often unexplained gunfire. Act on sites, at San speak up. Here | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
are some woman's words revoiced. don't like him, we don't need him. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
We hate him and we don't want him here. Leave us. Aren't you scared | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
to be talking to us like this? The BBC's opposition sources claim | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
they are hitting back. Face a home- made firebombs destroyed these | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
police vehicles. -- they say. There was a note with the pictures. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
You'll find nobody on the streets after sunset. It is like a ghost | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
town at night. Only the security forces hang around the town. They | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
often fire at random, they call us rats. This video was made by people | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
who call themselves the rebels. We don't know how big or how small the | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
group is. They circulated a leaflet threatening to kill all those who | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
work with the Gaddafi regime. And for 100 days the NATO raids have | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
been coming. But Colonel Gaddafi remains. History tends to show that | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
you don't just removed a regime by aerial bombing. I have spoken to | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
people involved in the Western campaign against Libya and they | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
admit they are looking for some kind of X Factor that might get | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
people back on the streets of Tripoli protesting against Colonel | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Gaddafi. But they admit they haven't found one. Tripoli is | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
controlled by the Gaddafis despite rebels, NATO and the International | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Criminal Court. Walk through the old town and usually it is quiet | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
but not normal. Watchful, a little tense. The capital of a regime that | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
is weakened but not collapsing. A BBC investigation has found that | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
hospital patients may be left vulnerable to life-threatening | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
injury or infection by poor quality surgical instruments being imported | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
from abroad. Panorama discovered dangerous instruments which can | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
puncture surgeons' gloves or break off during operations being used in | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
the NHS. Samantha Poling travelled to Sialkot in Pakistan's Punjab | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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The surgical instruments used in UK hospitals on nearly all | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
manufactured here, Sialkot in Pakistan. While some are produced | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
in large professional factories, there is a more ramshackle site -- | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
side to the industry. I can't believe the heat and the conditions | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
and the dust and dirt. Everything is just awful. All companies making | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
surgical instruments must be registered with the medicines and | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
healthcare products regulatory agency, the MHRA re. But neither | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
they nor the NHS requires a book -- suppliers to inspect manufacturers'. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
That was a 50 mm Burke along the blade. It was like a needle. If we | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
hadn't stopped that, that could have been used on a very young baby. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
In surgery, microscopic defects like these can be devastating. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Metal fragments can puncture a surgeon's glove or break off inside | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
the body, causing infection. Tom rejects nearly 20% of the | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
instruments sent to his trust. The same companies which supply Barnes | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
can also supply other UK hospitals. While most do carry out some visual | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
checks of instruments, Bart's is the only trust or board to employ a | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
technologist to inspect the new instruments to British standards. I | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
showed our footage to a leading patient safety adviser. Procurement | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
officers, if they knew this was happening in Pakistan, and those | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
instruments were coming from that room into the hospital, they would | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
faint at the thought of it. MHRA told us it has no evidence | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
that non-compliant instruments are being supplied to the NHS. Health | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Secretary Andrew Lansley has said he will investigate Panorama's | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
findings. Meanwhile, defective instrument will continue their | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
journey to the UK. And you can see the full Panorama | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
report, "Surgery's Dirty Secrets",' It was a day of high drama at | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Wimbledon, with baking hot temperatures, Royal visitors and a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
major win for Andy Murray. He dominated his fourth round match | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
against Richard Gasquet, taking him into the men's quarter-finals, in | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
three straight sets. But it was a different story for Serena and | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
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Venus Williams. Tim Franks was If the first week of Wimbledon was | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
a warm-up, the second week began at full burn. As the temperature past | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
30 degrees, hot dogs and Englishmen came out in the midday sun. Andy | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Murray and his French opponent Richard Gasquet were playing under | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the gaze of the future monarchs, one of whom, we are told, turned | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
out for her own school tennis team. To begin with, task produced shots | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
of panache and verve and other French words - Gasquet produced. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Gasquet had not lost a set on route to this, the fourth round. That was | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
about to change. In the first set tie-break Murray broke loose. Come | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
the second set, Murray ripped up the stereotypes. The man from | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Scotland growing stronger and the beating sun. The man from the south | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
of France will sing. -- wilting. At two sets up, Murray did not relent. | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
This was a display of strength and touch. Gasquet was broken twice. | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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His face as telling as the Andy Murray is often modest to the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
point of downbeat. After today, he was positively twinkling. It is | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
great for tennis, any time you can get a royalty to come along, it | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
doesn't captain -- happen that often. History may be urging | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
caution, but there is a different feel about Wimbledon now. The first | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
week, it was mild enthusiasm for Murray. The second week, a sense of | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
expectation is growing. There will be a fresh look to the women's | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
final this year. Marion Bartoli overcame defending champion Serena | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Williams in straight sets. Her sister Venus also felt, the | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Williams sisters had contested 10 of the last 11 finals. And defeat | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the top seed Caroline Wozniacki means the world No. 1 still has yet | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
to win a Grand Slam event. For Andy Murray, in contrast, today was | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
anything but a farewell bow. I probably don't need to tell you | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
this, but today was the hottest day of the year so far, with | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
temperatures soaring above 30 degrees for many of us. Cambridge | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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was one of the real hotspots today Yes, a remarkably hot and sticky | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
day here. Let's check the latest. 28.8 degrees. Still in the evening. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
People have been taking the offer - - opportunity of getting on the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
river and in the river. They have also been sitting in the shade | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
enjoying a cold drink. Perhaps one of the best ways to deal with a | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
mini heatwave. In central London it has been officially a scorcher. The | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
temperature started high, 20 degrees at 6am, and the Mercury | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
kept creeping up for much of the day. For some, great fun, for | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
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12 noon in Cambridge and still it is getting warmer. 30.5 degrees in | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
the shade, Caribbean hot. Messing about on the river is the pastime | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
of choice. Offices and classrooms abandoned for an escape into the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
fresh air. It is nice work if you can get it, but if you have been on | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
the work -- motorway or catching a train, chances are you have had a | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
different kind of day. On the London to Norwich line, for example, | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
the wrong kind of heat knocked out the overhead power lines. Walked | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
tracks brought services to a standstill. -- warped. I have been | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
stuck on the train for two hours outside Liverpool Street. The track | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
was kinked because of the hot weather. They struggle with leaves | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
and snow and vandals. By late afternoon, temperatures were Peking. | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
The hottest place was East Kent at 33 deep -- degrees. When it gets | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
this hot, cooling off can be great fun. But also potentially serious | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
business for the elderly and vulnerable. Best medical advice | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
will be the simple things, practical, staying indoors in the | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
hottest part of the day, pulling the curtains, letting in draft go | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
through the house, making sure your fluid intake is good, make sure | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
that fluid is not beer and alcohol. It looks like this heat wave will | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
burn brightly and briefly, but for many of us around the country, it | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
has been a welcome taste of summer. If you were watching in places like | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Scotland, where temperatures have been average, this might seem a | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
little distant and irrelevant. Even here you might take comfort if I | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
tell you this guy's a looking pretty dark. It is beginning to | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
feel like rain. -- the skies. feel like rain. -- the skies. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Let's find out if he is right, it will there be rain? | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
The heat is on its way out and it was not the same everywhere today. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
We got to 33 degrees this afternoon to the east of London, but in | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Aberdeenshire, under the clouds, just 13 Celsius. The fresher | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
weather pushing its way East tonight and brings with it the risk | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
of some thundery showers. In the short term, this evening, across | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
parts of Wales and the south-west you could get the odd rumble of | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
thunder. Still heavy rain in Aberdeenshire clearing away. Across | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
the Midlands, south-east and East Anglia, you could hear a few | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
distant rumbles of thunder and later in the night you could get | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
quite a bit of rain. The risk of some hail and strong winds. Still | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
humid in the south-east corner. Significantly cooler further north | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
and west. A chill in the air for some tomorrow. Dry and sunny start | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
across northern and western areas, a bit more cloud in the Midlands, | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
and the risk of thunderstorms in East Anglia and Kent. Later we will | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
see the sunshine replaced by a few shower clouds rumbling across | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
Northern Ireland. Many will still stayed dry, though. A brighter day | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
in Scotland. It will feel warm. Fine and brighter the far north of | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
England, but through parts of South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, into | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
the Midlands, significantly cooler, cloudier and with some outbreaks of | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
rain. Wales and the south-west, more sunshine than we saw this | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
afternoon. It will feel fresher, but still pleasant enough. Across | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
much of eastern England, still the threat of showers, particularly to | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
the East, some sunshine in between them. But for many, a drop in | :29:04. | :29:07. |