:00:17. > :00:22.Britain's best selling newspaper first published 168 years ago will
:00:22. > :00:25.print its last edition this Sunday. The surprise decision came after
:00:25. > :00:30.more big companies pulled advertising from the paper as
:00:30. > :00:35.public shock intensified. Today, detectives revealed they've
:00:35. > :00:37.identified 4,000 people who may have been targeted by the tabloid.
:00:37. > :00:42.And the Met Police promise to take action against corrupt police
:00:42. > :00:45.officers who took money from the paper.
:00:45. > :00:49.If proved, I will be determined to do what we should do and put them
:00:49. > :00:53.in front of the criminal courts. will be asking what this dramatic
:00:53. > :00:56.decision means for Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. Also tonight:
:00:56. > :01:01.Guilty of trafficking. The first conviction for smuggling victims
:01:01. > :01:06.out of the UK. Countdown to the end of an era as
:01:06. > :01:10.the last US space shuttle prepares to blast off. Coming of age, after
:01:10. > :01:13.seven books and eight films, the final Harry Potter premieres in
:01:13. > :01:19.London. It's like a girlfriend that you have been going out with for
:01:19. > :01:28.ten years and you have to go your separate ways but you will be left
:01:28. > :01:38.with amazing memories. Coming up: Manchester try to prise Nasri away,
:01:38. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.they've tabled an offer of almost Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:52. > :01:56.News at Six. After days of intense pressure and growing public anger
:01:56. > :01:59.over the phone hacking scandal, the News of the World, the country's
:01:59. > :02:02.biggest selling newspaper, has announced that this Sunday's
:02:02. > :02:05.edition will be its last. The News International chairman, James
:02:05. > :02:10.Murdoch, broke the news to shocked staff at the paper this afternoon
:02:10. > :02:14.and said wrong-doers had turned a good newsroom bad. With tonight's
:02:14. > :02:18.first report, our business editor Robert Peston looks at the paper's
:02:18. > :02:23.demise. For years it's been perhaps the
:02:23. > :02:30.most famous Sunday newspaper in Britain, but the 168-year-old News
:02:30. > :02:32.of the World is being shut because recently it became more famous,
:02:32. > :02:36.notorious even, for the wrong reasons. This afternoon the
:02:36. > :02:39.chairman of News International, James Murdoch, the son of Rupert
:02:39. > :02:44.Murdoch, announced that this Sunday's edition will be the last
:02:44. > :02:47.and all revenues from that edition will go to good causes.
:02:47. > :02:50.It's the revelations that its journalism went thoroughly bad that
:02:50. > :02:54.mean it is will no longer be rolling off the presses. The
:02:55. > :02:58.alleged hacking of the phones of the murdered schoolgirl Milly
:02:58. > :03:01.Dowler and the phone of a parent of one of the Soham victims. And the
:03:01. > :03:06.invasion of privacy of the families of British soldiers killed in
:03:06. > :03:11.action. These are why the News of the
:03:11. > :03:13.Worlds had no future. It's a huge surprise. I was speaking to
:03:13. > :03:18.journalists on the newspaper this afternoon about an hour before it
:03:18. > :03:23.happened and they were feeling obviously disgruntled. This 80-
:03:23. > :03:27.year-old, Rupert Murdoch, pursued by skwrfrpbist -- journalists
:03:27. > :03:33.earlier today... I am in the making any comment. Bought the News of the
:03:34. > :03:38.World in 1969 and for years it was a money-spinner so it's closure
:03:38. > :03:40.represents a huge humiliation. What prospects for the News of the
:03:40. > :03:46.World's counterstaff? They're being invited to apply for other jobs
:03:46. > :03:49.within a media empire that also owns the Times, the sun Times and
:03:49. > :03:56.The Sun, in fact some believe the News of the World may be reborn
:03:56. > :04:00.within days as perhaps The Sun on Sunday. It's a typical management
:04:00. > :04:03.stunt of Mr Murdoch. In this case nobody in the senior management
:04:04. > :04:07.clearly involved in these matters, Rebekah Brooks a clear example,
:04:07. > :04:10.none of those go but the poor workers at the News of the World
:04:11. > :04:14.are going and there's no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun and I
:04:14. > :04:18.think the kind of culture that's driven all these kind of
:04:18. > :04:22.circumstances is as much evidence of the same editors were at the Sun
:04:22. > :04:25.as the News of the World. What I am interested in is not closing down
:04:25. > :04:29.newspapers, I am interested in those who were responsible being
:04:29. > :04:32.brought to justice and those who had responsibility for the running
:04:32. > :04:36.of that newspaper taking their responsibility and I don't think
:04:36. > :04:38.those two things have happened today. The News of the World's
:04:38. > :04:42.continued existence provided ammunition to those campaigning
:04:42. > :04:48.against the attempt by the News of the World's parent company News
:04:48. > :04:51.Corporation to buy full control of BSkyB and that prize, BSkyB, which
:04:51. > :04:55.is enormous compared with the News of the World is another clue to why
:04:55. > :05:01.the Murdoches have been ruthless in killing off a newspaper that was
:05:01. > :05:04.for years their golden goose. Robert Peston is here now. An
:05:04. > :05:09.extraordinary development and one that's all kind of implications.
:05:09. > :05:13.That's right. The News of the World was a central bit of British
:05:13. > :05:17.popular culture for as far back as more or less anybody alive can
:05:17. > :05:20.remember. For its name to go is remarkable and one should be under
:05:20. > :05:24.no illusion about what a difficult decision this will have been for
:05:24. > :05:29.Rupert Murdoch. For years as I said in that film, this was a golden
:05:29. > :05:33.goose for him. He bought it in 1969, to an extent his entire global
:05:33. > :05:39.empire was built on revenues of the News of the World and The Sun
:05:39. > :05:44.newspaper. Now, plainly it does not make sense for him to have no
:05:44. > :05:48.newspaper at all on a Sunday. There are lots of readers loyal to the
:05:48. > :05:54.News of the World, advertisers that were giving him useful revenue. It
:05:54. > :06:00.seems inconceivable that they will not launch a new tabloid newspaper
:06:00. > :06:08.pretty quickly, probably The Sun on Sunday, it probably has to be The
:06:08. > :06:11.Sun on Sunday. Who knows how viable a business that will be. One has to
:06:11. > :06:15.remember there's been a huge shift in the newspaper market in recent
:06:15. > :06:19.years in a sense Saturdays have become more important. The Sun has
:06:19. > :06:25.become relatively more important. The idea that somehow this is a
:06:25. > :06:30.sort of devastating to the business should not be overstated. In terms
:06:30. > :06:33.of cultural life a massive event. The surprise announcement came
:06:33. > :06:36.after the Metropolitan Police said they had identified 4,000 possible
:06:36. > :06:40.victims and hundreds more have now contacted Scotland Yard saying they
:06:41. > :06:44.too may have been targeted. With the latest on the investigation,
:06:44. > :06:47.here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. This
:06:47. > :06:50.report contains some flash photography.
:06:50. > :06:55.This extraordinary affair may have spelt the end for Britain's biggest
:06:55. > :06:58.newspaper, but the repercussions of its existence will continue. The
:06:58. > :07:01.police, with the Met Commissioner facing questions, the military,
:07:01. > :07:06.today shocked by new allegations, and of course, hundreds of people
:07:06. > :07:10.who may be victims of its practices. The police are struggling to cope
:07:10. > :07:15.with calls from people worried their privacy has been breached. On
:07:15. > :07:19.top of that, Britain's most senior policeman now has a second inquiry
:07:19. > :07:23.into whether News of the World documents proved journalists bribed
:07:23. > :07:26.his officers for stories. allegations coming from the News of
:07:26. > :07:30.the World, which were given us to on 20th June, are quite shocking,
:07:30. > :07:32.that a small number of police officers may have engaged in such
:07:33. > :07:36.corrupt practice and that's what it is, if proved, it's corrupt
:07:36. > :07:39.practice and I will be determined to do what we should do and that's
:07:39. > :07:43.put them in front of the criminal courts. The former News of the
:07:43. > :07:48.World editor, Andy Coulson, told a court last year as a witness he
:07:48. > :07:52.knew nothing about it. The reaction from campaigning Labour MP Tom
:07:52. > :07:57.Watson... Two days ago News International briefed the press
:07:57. > :08:02.that they handed over documents to the Metropolitan Police which
:08:02. > :08:06.showed Andy Coulson had authorised payments to police officers for
:08:06. > :08:11.information. Either Andy Coulson or News International did not tell the
:08:11. > :08:14.truth. Discovering the truth could take months and involve delving
:08:14. > :08:19.into the deep history of relationships between this force
:08:19. > :08:22.and that newspaper. Today, Britain's military families became
:08:22. > :08:27.the latest group to erupt in anger against alleged phone hacking. It's
:08:27. > :08:30.been claimed in the press that some of those recently bereaved had
:08:30. > :08:34.their voicemails intercepted, unusually, no family has yet come
:08:34. > :08:38.forward to say police have warned them they might be victims. But
:08:38. > :08:43.even the allegation was enough to force the Royal British Legion to
:08:43. > :08:46.pull out of its fundraising with the News of the World. We felt that
:08:46. > :08:49.given the seriousness of the allegations and the level of
:08:49. > :08:52.support that we are providing for the families that we felt that
:08:53. > :08:56.until these allegations have been investigated that we ought to
:08:56. > :09:00.suspend working with News International. Police are
:09:00. > :09:03.investigating the case of James Phillipson killed in Afghanistan,
:09:03. > :09:09.according to his father e-mail messages he received after his
:09:09. > :09:13.death had been read, he suspects by hackers. Wrong-doers need to be
:09:13. > :09:18.called to account for what they've done. And to suffer whatever
:09:18. > :09:23.punishment is appropriate. I am sure that will happen, it's going
:09:23. > :09:26.to take time. He's likely to be right. Criminal investigations,
:09:26. > :09:33.public inquiries, the scrutiny of what went on at this newspaper
:09:33. > :09:35.could continue for years. Let's go live to our political editor Nick
:09:35. > :09:39.Robinson at Westminster. Number 10 says there was no political
:09:39. > :09:42.pressure to do this but closing the newspaper was a very swift and
:09:42. > :09:46.dramatic dramatic decision. It was and they insist they knew nothing
:09:46. > :09:50.about it in advance and was surprised as anyone. In a way, it
:09:50. > :09:55.doesn't make David Cameron's problem with this story any easier
:09:55. > :10:00.at all. His problem is this: Ed Miliband is able, as he's already
:10:00. > :10:03.been doing, to say say this isn't good enough. The woman should go.
:10:03. > :10:06.Someone should give, rather than something, in other words. The
:10:06. > :10:10.chief executive of News International, the woman who was
:10:10. > :10:13.editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, ought to give up
:10:13. > :10:16.her job. David Cameron has not matched that and it's difficult for
:10:16. > :10:20.him to do so, he is a friend of Rebekah Brooks, they live close to
:10:20. > :10:24.each other in west Oxfordshire. So, the Prime Minister finds himself
:10:24. > :10:28.associated with the past of the News International, not least, of
:10:28. > :10:31.course, because he hired Andy Coulson, the former editor of the
:10:31. > :10:36.paper as director of communications, and also responsible for the future,
:10:36. > :10:40.because still hanging over all of this is the decision about whether
:10:40. > :10:43.Rupert Murdoch's company should take over the whole of British Sky
:10:43. > :10:47.Broadcasting. That is a decision for Ministers and the sense
:10:47. > :10:50.everyone has really is that Rupert Murdoch is getting rid of the
:10:50. > :10:54.tphaoups in order to - News of the World in order to protect the
:10:54. > :11:04.bigger revenues from taking over BSkyB. This is not a comfortable
:11:04. > :11:05.
:11:05. > :11:10.evening in Downing Street. They are wondering what they should do next.
:11:10. > :11:13.The rest of the news now. A man has become the first person ever
:11:13. > :11:15.convicted of trafficking women out of Britain. Anthony Harrison has
:11:15. > :11:18.been sentenced to 20 years after imprisoning two teenage Nigerian
:11:18. > :11:22.girls at his home in east London before attempting to traffic them
:11:22. > :11:25.to Spain and Greece as prostitutes. Jon Brain reports.
:11:25. > :11:30.Anthony Harrison was a man who lived a double life. A caretaker
:11:30. > :11:35.for his local council, who was also a key player in a sophisticated
:11:35. > :11:39.network of people traffickers. A network that used fear and magic
:11:39. > :11:43.rituals to ter rice its victims -- ter rice its victims. This was
:11:43. > :11:48.Harrison recorded on CCTV at a money exchange. The blurred figure
:11:48. > :11:51.with him is a 16-year-old girl smuggled into the UK from Nigeria.
:11:51. > :11:55.The plan, to traffic her to the continent for a life of
:11:55. > :11:58.prostitution. TRANSLATION:
:11:58. > :12:01.I had to promise I would do prostitution to pay the money. I
:12:01. > :12:06.had to promise I am not going to speak to anyone about what really
:12:06. > :12:12.happened to me. They said I am going to die, I believed it.
:12:12. > :12:15.other girl obeyed because in Nigeria they had undergone a juju
:12:15. > :12:18.magic ritual similar to this one shown to the jury. They believed
:12:19. > :12:24.they were being controlled by evil forces.
:12:24. > :12:27.They took them to a juju practitioner, a juju priest, to go
:12:27. > :12:32.through a ceremony to instill terror into them and so it meant
:12:32. > :12:37.that when the young women were here in this country they still felt
:12:37. > :12:42.that the power of that curse could still reach them. Harrison kept his
:12:42. > :12:47.victims prisoner here at his home in east London. Two fright bed --
:12:47. > :12:50.frightened girls from small Nigeriaen villages with no previous
:12:50. > :12:53.experience of the outside world but the plan was to move them on as
:12:53. > :12:57.quickly as possible. Detectives say they've never come
:12:57. > :13:00.across a case quite like it. have two young girls that were
:13:00. > :13:03.trafficked into the UK and trafficked out, which is very
:13:03. > :13:07.unusual from our experience. I think if you add to that the juju
:13:07. > :13:11.element where they've been convinced they're going to die and
:13:11. > :13:15.really brainwashed around the juju it's unusual for us. Tonight,
:13:15. > :13:25.Harrison is beginning a 20-year jail sentence. His victims have
:13:25. > :13:28.been allowed to stay in Britain to try and rebuild their lives.
:13:28. > :13:32.The Bank of England has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at
:13:32. > :13:36.0.5%. But in the eurozone rates are going up. The European Central Bank
:13:36. > :13:39.has announced an increase of 0.25%. It now stands at 1.5%. The increase
:13:39. > :13:49.is controversial at a time when a strong recovery is needed in debt-
:13:49. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :14:00.They've managed to perform transplant surgery without using a
:14:00. > :14:06.donor organ. Instead, the team replaced a windpipe with the
:14:06. > :14:11.world's first synthetic organ. Here is our medical correspondent.
:14:11. > :14:20.This is how the world's first synthetic organ was made, dipping a
:14:20. > :14:24.glass mould into a liquid pollinor, set to create an exact copy of the
:14:24. > :14:28.patient's windpipe. It was created in these labs in London and then
:14:28. > :14:33.flown to Sweden. Once in Stockholm the windpipe was bathed in a
:14:33. > :14:40.solution of stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow. After
:14:40. > :14:45.just two days the millions of tiny holes in its surface were seeded by
:14:45. > :14:50.cells, a synthetic body part had become the patient's own.
:14:50. > :14:56.And here it is in the operating theatre being cut to size moments
:14:56. > :15:01.before being transplanted. The ability to create a 3-D synthetic
:15:01. > :15:06.organ is a significant moment in this field of surgery. This
:15:06. > :15:16.technique does not rely at all on a human donation. You can have it
:15:16. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:22.immediately. There's no delay and, most important, you still do not
:15:22. > :15:31.need any profession. The patient knows without the transplant he
:15:31. > :15:35.would have died. His voice is still recovering. The difference is
:15:35. > :15:41.between living and not living. what next?
:15:42. > :15:46.Just look at this. It's a one metre long synthetic artery made in this
:15:46. > :15:56.machine in London in just 20 minutes. It's one of many body
:15:56. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:03.parts the scientists say they can We can make hard fibres, a bigger
:16:03. > :16:07.diameter for the heart. And we are moving it to other parts of the
:16:07. > :16:12.body as well. There are limits. This cannot be used to create
:16:12. > :16:16.complex organs like the heart, liver or kidney. But scientists
:16:16. > :16:21.hope this points the way to more transplants without the weight for
:16:21. > :16:25.a donor. Our top story tonight: An
:16:25. > :16:29.extraordinary moment in British journalism as the News of the World
:16:29. > :16:32.announces it is shutting down, victim of its own phone hacking
:16:32. > :16:37.scandal. The end of an era for Harry Potter,
:16:37. > :16:41.as the final instalment premieres in London this evening.
:16:41. > :16:46.Later on the BBC News Channel, two- speed Europe. UK interest rates
:16:46. > :16:56.stay on hold again but eurozone rates rise. BSkyB shares take
:16:56. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:02.another hit in the wake of the Half a million people are expected
:17:02. > :17:06.to gather along Florida's coast tomorrow to watch the space shuttle
:17:06. > :17:11.Atlantis lift off for the last time. It is the final fight for the
:17:11. > :17:13.shuttle programme that began 30 years ago in America. The
:17:13. > :17:19.astronauts will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre tomorrow
:17:19. > :17:23.afternoon, weather permitting. Our correspondent is there for us now.
:17:23. > :17:28.Thank you. It is the Florida rainy season, so it is very hot and
:17:28. > :17:32.stormy, not ideal weather for launching a space shuttle. It is so
:17:32. > :17:36.murky that you can probably hardly see it a few miles away over my
:17:36. > :17:41.shoulder on the horizon. There is an extraordinary atmosphere, great
:17:41. > :17:46.pride at what the shuttles have achieved and sadness about the two
:17:46. > :17:50.that were lost. And all of this amount the tension of a countdown.
:17:50. > :17:59.Atlantis, on the launch pad. The last of its kind, poised for the
:17:59. > :18:03.final mission. It has taken weeks of effort to get to this moment.
:18:03. > :18:10.The space shuttles have been flying for 30 years and now this Lord will
:18:10. > :18:15.mark the end for while of America's ability to send people into orbit.
:18:15. > :18:20.It is bound to be an emotional time for these senior engineers. Will
:18:20. > :18:25.you feel sad? I absolutely have shed tears at each of the landings
:18:26. > :18:30.of the last two. I will do the same when this one lands. We have just
:18:30. > :18:35.put so much into this programme as a nation. There will be tears of
:18:35. > :18:37.pride and joy. This massive building is where they have been
:18:38. > :18:42.assembling the space shuttles and before them, the Apollo rockets
:18:42. > :18:47.that took men to the moon. But the shuttle's just won't be remembered
:18:47. > :18:53.in the same way. Their job was to deliver people at cargo into orbit
:18:53. > :19:00.and they have had real successes. The Hubble telescope was moved up
:19:00. > :19:05.on a shuttle and later repaired. The result, these spectacular
:19:05. > :19:08.images of the most distant reaches of the universe. The shuttle has
:19:08. > :19:15.also built the International Space Station, an orbiting Laboratory now
:19:15. > :19:22.the size of a football field. But there has been a heavy cost. In
:19:22. > :19:28.1986, the Challenger exploded. All seven people on board were killed,
:19:28. > :19:33.including a teacher invited along to show how safe space travel was.
:19:33. > :19:38.And then in 2003, the Columbia broke up, another seven people were
:19:38. > :19:43.killed. A disastrous record for an aircraft that was meant to make
:19:43. > :19:47.reaching orbit routine. Real a, these events are quite remarkable.
:19:47. > :19:51.They have come with tremendous cost, but anything of this kind of value
:19:51. > :19:59.comes with tremendous cost. I think the greater the value, often the
:19:59. > :20:03.greater the cost. And for now, all eyes are on the images from space
:20:03. > :20:08.of the storms over Florida. Conditions do not look good. Dark
:20:08. > :20:14.clouds over the launch pad, lift of may be delayed. Even space-age
:20:14. > :20:18.technology can be humbled by the weather. They are now hoping for a
:20:18. > :20:25.break in the cloud. The launches scheduled for just before 4:30pm
:20:25. > :20:28.your time tomorrow afternoon. Thank you. There has been strong
:20:28. > :20:32.criticism today of the police and adult social services over the
:20:32. > :20:36.death of a man whose headless body was found in a lake in Bedfordshire
:20:36. > :20:41.two years ago. He had been tortured and exploited for his benefit money.
:20:42. > :20:47.Six people were jailed over his murder. Three years of abuse and
:20:47. > :20:51.brutality, Michael Gilbert was as vulnerable as a child. Not able to
:20:51. > :20:56.defend himself against tormentors, he was capped as a slave, beaten
:20:56. > :21:03.for entertainment and hunted down when he tried to escape. He died
:21:03. > :21:09.aged 26 from his injuries, murdered by the whole -- household that had
:21:09. > :21:13.taken in vain as a vulnerable teenager. It was four months before
:21:13. > :21:20.his dismembered body was found at the bottom of a lake. Nobody had
:21:20. > :21:28.reported him missing. His disappearance went and then -- went
:21:28. > :21:31.unnoticed. He had been scared to report the violence to the police.
:21:31. > :21:34.The Independent Police Complaints Commission has found failings by
:21:34. > :21:39.those that should have supported Michael Gilbert as a child from a
:21:39. > :21:43.difficult home, ending up in care. They found that the support they
:21:43. > :21:48.received in residential care was severely wanting. There was no
:21:48. > :21:54.sustained interest in his welfare after he left. And that is only
:21:54. > :21:58.options for the future became sad, bad or mad. With the benefit of
:21:58. > :22:01.hindsight it might have been clear that Michael was an adult at risk.
:22:01. > :22:07.At the time these events were happening, it might not always have
:22:07. > :22:11.been clear. With no support network, according to the review, he became
:22:11. > :22:14.a victim of the extravagant cruelty of the family that took him in. He
:22:14. > :22:19.died in what was their home, and while the three people convicted of
:22:19. > :22:25.his murder are now in prison, the findings today raise questions
:22:25. > :22:29.about whether his killing could have been prevented.
:22:29. > :22:35.Finally, it has become the biggest film franchise of all time. Tonight,
:22:35. > :22:37.at fans of the boy wizard will be saying a fond farewell. The final
:22:38. > :22:43.instalment of Harry Potter premieres in London receiving and
:22:43. > :22:47.it is the end of an era after seven books and eight films. -- this
:22:47. > :22:52.evening. Thousands of fans have gathered in Trafalgar Square, many
:22:52. > :22:55.camping for days to glimpse the stars.
:22:55. > :22:59.The premiere is being held in Trafalgar Square and it is
:22:59. > :23:05.overflowing with people all hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars.
:23:05. > :23:09.Speaking of stars, in his only UK TV interview, I spoke to Daniel
:23:09. > :23:17.Radcliffe ahead of the premier of one of cinema's best-known film
:23:17. > :23:23.series. They have been gathering here for days. Fans from afar. Fans
:23:23. > :23:27.in full dress. Fans with face paint, frantic to feel part of the final
:23:28. > :23:32.chapter of the saga. You have been with us from the start and you will
:23:32. > :23:39.be with us for ever and ever. I have so many feelings inside me. I
:23:39. > :23:45.am so happy to be here, to meet the actors. But it is ending, too. I
:23:45. > :23:48.have been following it all my life. They are not the only ones for whom
:23:48. > :23:52.today is emotional. Daniel Radcliffe was only 11 when he
:23:52. > :23:58.started the magical journey that has taken up half his life. A
:23:58. > :24:02.journey that is now over. It is like a girlfriend that you have had
:24:02. > :24:08.for 10 years, and then you go your separate ways that you will be left
:24:08. > :24:13.with so many amazing memories. It is a sad thing. Few stories have
:24:13. > :24:16.made the impact that Harry Potter has. The books are credited with
:24:16. > :24:21.getting a generation excited about reading again, improving children's
:24:21. > :24:26.literacy. Making the movies in the UK was a huge factor in sustaining
:24:26. > :24:32.the British film industry's skill base. And as a result, Hollywood
:24:32. > :24:36.studios are committed to producing more big-budget films in Britain.
:24:36. > :24:40.The film's now not so young star is currently acting in a Broadway
:24:41. > :24:45.musical as he tries to shake of his child star mantle. That will not be
:24:45. > :24:48.harmed by an admission that his decade-long transformation from shy
:24:48. > :24:52.unknown into one of the world's most recognisable faces has
:24:52. > :24:55.sometimes been accompanied by problems with alcohol. He said that
:24:55. > :25:03.never affected filming and was not due to the pressure of work.
:25:04. > :25:08.Basically, the version that can appear on Twitter of the last few
:25:08. > :25:13.years was that I drank, my drinking led me to become unhappy, now I
:25:13. > :25:17.have stopped and I am much happier. The cast arrived to a massive
:25:17. > :25:21.welcome from fans tonight. For them and millions like them, the film
:25:21. > :25:28.series has been almost as much a part of their life as it has been
:25:28. > :25:35.for the stars. Harry Potter is the most successful film franchise of
:25:35. > :25:38.all time, bigger than James Bond or Star Wars. The studio behind the
:25:38. > :25:48.series will also be bidding a sad farewell to their magical money-
:25:48. > :25:52.Thank you. How is the weather? It is dry in London for the moment.
:25:52. > :25:56.Yes, at the moment, but nothing magical about the weather. There
:25:56. > :26:00.have been some heavy showers and some thunder and lightning. A
:26:00. > :26:10.subtle change this weekend. I think the balance will tip and more of us
:26:10. > :26:15.will see more blue skies. It gets very wet and windy across southern
:26:15. > :26:19.parts of England. The rain will sweep into Wales, knocking on the
:26:19. > :26:29.door of Northern Ireland later on. Try a further East, but showers
:26:29. > :26:34.always possible. -- drier. Heavy rain edging into County Down. Heavy
:26:34. > :26:37.rain through parts of Wales and gusty winds. Cool at 8 o'clock in
:26:38. > :26:42.the morning. The worst of the overnight rain will have cleared
:26:42. > :26:48.across South West England but heavy showers rattling in on that breeze,
:26:48. > :26:52.with just some fleeting brightness. In London there will be some nasty
:26:52. > :26:57.wet weather for your early morning commute. East of that, it will be
:26:57. > :27:01.dry and bright in East Anglia, but generally a lot of cloud and heavy
:27:01. > :27:10.rain pushing in two parts of northern England fairly promptly.
:27:10. > :27:15.Scotland's not doing too badly. The Scottish Open will start and then
:27:15. > :27:20.we will see some action. This has owned a long northern England will
:27:21. > :27:28.see some disruptive showers. -- this area along more than England.
:27:28. > :27:32.It will be cooler, maybe up to 21 degrees in the South East. At the
:27:32. > :27:36.weekend, a slow improvement. There will still be some showers around
:27:36. > :27:43.on Sunday buck the trend will be for fewer showers, especially in
:27:43. > :27:48.the South. Thank you.
:27:48. > :27:56.An extraordinary moment tonight as the News of the World is too close,
:27:56. > :28:00.victim of its own phone Hacking's - - phone hacking scandal. What does
:28:00. > :28:03.this mean for Murdoch and his empire? They hope this will improve
:28:03. > :28:08.things for there but I am not sure if it will make the difference they
:28:08. > :28:13.would like. The big prize they are after is full control of BSkyB, but
:28:13. > :28:17.there are many critics of that deal. Today we learn that 100,000 people
:28:17. > :28:21.have petitioned the Culture Secretary to try to block that deal.
:28:21. > :28:26.James Murdoch, at Rupert Murdoch, they will hope that in closing down
:28:26. > :28:30.the News of the World they have glanced the boil, show they are
:28:30. > :28:35.prepared to take dramatic action against a business that went
:28:35. > :28:37.seriously wrong, in their words. But in the extraordinary state then
:28:37. > :28:41.James Murdoch made today, he admitted that under their ownership
:28:41. > :28:50.for years, not only was the business controlled but they did