:00:09. > :00:13.David Cameron's former head of communications is arrested over
:00:13. > :00:17.allegations of corruption and phone hacking at the News of the World.
:00:17. > :00:20.Andy Coulson, the paper's former editor, is being questioned tonight
:00:21. > :00:25.as the Prime Minister defends bringing him to Downing Street.
:00:25. > :00:29.The decision to hire him was mine and mine alone. I take full
:00:29. > :00:32.responsibility for it. We saw a Prime Minister today who still
:00:33. > :00:36.doesn't seem to get it and I am afraid he is someone who doesn't
:00:36. > :00:40.seem to be able to lead the change we need in the way the press works
:00:40. > :00:44.in this country. Detectives search Andy Coulson's
:00:44. > :00:48.London home, removing computer equipment in the hunt for evidence.
:00:48. > :00:53.And the investigation widens to include the offices of another
:00:53. > :00:57.paper, The Daily Star Sunday. Shares at BSkyB fall after the
:00:57. > :01:01.media regulator signals that the News of the World's problems could
:01:01. > :01:04.-- -- could be relevant to Rupert Murdoch's takeover bid. We will
:01:04. > :01:07.have the latest on the police investigation and where this leaves
:01:07. > :01:13.the Murdoch media empire. Also tonight:
:01:13. > :01:17.Millions of households face higher British Gas bills up by 18%.
:01:17. > :01:23.We feel like we can't pay all of it all the time any more, and we are
:01:23. > :01:28.going to be choosing between food or heating this winter.
:01:28. > :01:34.LLift-off... A final farewell to the space shuttle, Atlantis heads
:01:34. > :01:38.into orbit for the last time. And, cowboy style for William and
:01:38. > :01:43.Kate as they end their tour of Canada at a rodeo festival.
:01:43. > :01:50.Coming up in the sport: British rider Bradley Wiggins' Tour de
:01:50. > :02:00.France is over after he broke his collar bone in a multiple pile-up
:02:00. > :02:10.
:02:10. > :02:14.Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:02:14. > :02:17.The Prime Minister's former head of communications, Andy Coulson, was
:02:17. > :02:21.arrested today by police investigating the allegations of
:02:21. > :02:25.phone hacking at the News of the World. The arrest came as David
:02:25. > :02:28.Cameron was forced to defend his decision to hire Mr Coulson. He
:02:28. > :02:32.also confirmed there will be two inquiries into the scandal, one of
:02:32. > :02:38.them led by a judge. With tonight's first report, our political editor
:02:38. > :02:42.Nick Robinson looks now at the latest on the arrest.
:02:42. > :02:45.Cops raid Cam's man, that the headline the News of the World
:02:45. > :02:49.might have put over pictures of detectives confiscating computers
:02:49. > :02:53.from the house of the man who once ran the paper, the man the police
:02:53. > :02:57.arrested today. Mr Coulson, do you have any... The man forced out of
:02:57. > :03:02.Downing Street six months ago, by a scandal which his boss thought
:03:02. > :03:07.would disappear, but which has instead exploded in his face. Andy
:03:07. > :03:10.Coulson was questioned here at Lewisham police station in London
:03:10. > :03:15.on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and
:03:15. > :03:20.corruption. Finding himself in the political dock, the Prime Minister
:03:20. > :03:24.decided to plead guilty for failing to take seriously the endemic of
:03:24. > :03:28.phone hacking. We turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue,
:03:28. > :03:33.to get on top of the bad practices, to change the way our our
:03:33. > :03:38.newspapers are regulated. We have not gripped this issue. There were,
:03:38. > :03:43.though, mitigating circumstances. He, like other politicians, wanted
:03:43. > :03:47.the papers to help him win. relationship that became too close,
:03:47. > :03:51.too cosy, we were all in this world of wanting the support of newspaper
:03:51. > :03:54.groups, yes, even broadcasting organisations. And when we're doing
:03:54. > :03:58.that do we spend enough time asking questions about how these
:03:58. > :04:01.organisations are regulated and malpractices and the rest of it? No,
:04:01. > :04:07.we didn't. What David Cameron did in the admit was ignoring all the
:04:07. > :04:10.warnings about the man he had hired, nor did he apologise for it. Andy
:04:10. > :04:14.Coulson said that he did not know what was happening at the News of
:04:14. > :04:17.the World in terms of hacking and he resigned as a result of it and I
:04:17. > :04:23.decided to give him a second chance. That's all I can do, is explain why
:04:23. > :04:28.I did what I did. You hired him when many people were saying that
:04:28. > :04:31.hacking was widespread, and when many people believed it was simply
:04:31. > :04:38.implausible for someone who ran a newspaper to say nothing to do with
:04:38. > :04:42.me, guv. As I said, no one gave me specific information, obviously I
:04:42. > :04:46.sought assurances, I received assurances. I commissioned a To do
:04:46. > :04:50.a basic background check but I am not hiding from the decision I made.
:04:50. > :04:54.Is he still a friend? Yes, he became a friend and is a friend.
:04:54. > :04:58.Uncovering the web of deceit at the News of the World will now be the
:04:58. > :05:01.subject of two inquiries, one led by a judge will investigate why
:05:01. > :05:05.phone hacking spread and why the police failed to uncover it. The
:05:05. > :05:08.other will look into the ethics and regulation of the media.
:05:08. > :05:13.The Prime Minister said it wasn't up to him to decide whether Rupert
:05:13. > :05:16.Murdoch should be stopped from buying all of Sky TV. Labour
:05:16. > :05:20.disagree. I think we saw a Prime Minister today who still doesn't
:05:20. > :05:24.seem to get it and I am afraid he is someone who doesn't seem to be
:05:24. > :05:29.able to lead the change we need in the way the press works in this
:05:29. > :05:33.country. He couldn't even bring himself to apologise for hiring
:05:33. > :05:39.Andy Coulson. The test of the talk from both main parties of a brave
:05:39. > :05:44.new world may be whether we see less of this, the red hair of
:05:44. > :05:48.Rebekah Brooks, the Murdoch's righthand woman arriving at Number
:05:48. > :05:52.10. Or this, greeting her friend, the Prime Minister, with a kiss. He
:05:52. > :05:58.went to her wedding, as did Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister.
:05:58. > :06:02.She was friends with Tony Blair when he was in Number 10, a certain
:06:02. > :06:06.man called Coulson took him on a tour of News International but they
:06:06. > :06:10.didn't want the kiss on the cameras. Down for a bit, now, don't film for
:06:10. > :06:13.a bit. Today, David Cameron who spent days refusing to condemn his
:06:13. > :06:18.friend, said that her offer to resign as boss of News
:06:18. > :06:21.International should have been accepted. Outside the company today
:06:21. > :06:29.protesters celebrated the sinking of a paper they've long hated. The
:06:29. > :06:32.question now is who else will go down with the News of the World?
:06:32. > :06:36.Well, the police investigation appeared to gather pace today, the
:06:36. > :06:39.News of the World's former Royal editor Clive Goodman was also
:06:39. > :06:43.arrested to be questioned again by police. In 2007 he was convicted
:06:43. > :06:46.and jailed over phone hacking. This afternoon, the offices of another
:06:46. > :06:53.newspaper, The Daily Star Sunday, were searched.
:06:53. > :06:57.Here is Tom Symonds on the state of the investigation.
:06:57. > :07:00.Andy Coulson, for months it had been whispered that he could be
:07:00. > :07:03.arrested, now it's happened. Two separate police inquiries are
:07:03. > :07:08.talking to him, likely under caution but what he says could be
:07:08. > :07:12.used as evidence. The allegations involve corruption, payments to
:07:12. > :07:16.police officers, and conspiracy to intercept communications - phone
:07:16. > :07:19.hacking. At the heart of the corruption
:07:19. > :07:23.investigation are e-mails discovered by News International
:07:23. > :07:27.and passed to the police. A well- placed source has told the BBC they
:07:28. > :07:33.appear to show that a small number of officers received payments
:07:33. > :07:37.totalling around �130,000 in return for sensitive information. The e-
:07:37. > :07:43.mails appear to have been copied to other News International executives
:07:43. > :07:46.and journalists. Clive Goodman, also arrested, is the original
:07:46. > :07:50.rogue reporter News International claimed acted alone in
:07:50. > :07:53.commissioning phone hacking. Along with the man who did the hacking,
:07:53. > :07:57.Glenn Mulcaire, he served a sentence. Now he's being questioned
:07:57. > :08:03.about corruption. Police have also arrested in the past former
:08:03. > :08:08.assistant editor Ian Edmondson, reporter Neville Thurlbeck and
:08:08. > :08:14.James weatherall but Andy Coulson is the most senior to date.
:08:14. > :08:18.Police also searched computers at the Daily Star Sunday today, the
:08:18. > :08:20.paper said Clive Goodman has been freelancing there. There is no
:08:20. > :08:24.suggestion he has acted improperly. It's emerged the investigations
:08:24. > :08:30.appear to have run into a problem back at Wapping, headquarters of
:08:30. > :08:36.the News of the World. understand that the police have
:08:36. > :08:40.found evidence that a News International executive deleted a
:08:40. > :08:46.large proportion of an archive of e-mails, these are e-mails sent by
:08:46. > :08:48.and to journalists from the News of the World over four or five years.
:08:48. > :08:51.E-mails which are potentially enormously important for the police
:08:51. > :08:55.attempt to get to the truth about this.
:08:55. > :08:59.As the News of the World prepared for its final Sunday, staff have
:08:59. > :09:03.been told their company's internal investigation team will no longer
:09:03. > :09:08.report to Rebekah Brooks, but to New York instead to ensure
:09:08. > :09:11.transparency. There are still many questions over
:09:11. > :09:16.the impact the scandal might have on News Corporation's plans to take
:09:16. > :09:20.full control of BSkyB. Shares in the company fell 8% today after the
:09:20. > :09:24.regulator Ofcom said the News of the World allegations were relevant
:09:24. > :09:30.to its judgment on the deal. Our business editor looks now at the
:09:30. > :09:33.future of the Murdoch's business. The famous Wapping headquarters of
:09:33. > :09:37.Rupert Murdoch's News International, owner of a quartet of leading
:09:37. > :09:41.newspapers, which becomes a trio after the News of the World's final
:09:41. > :09:44.edition on Sunday. Here's the man who decided to axe
:09:44. > :09:47.the UK's best-selling newspaper, James Murdoch, chairman of News
:09:47. > :09:52.International and son of Rupert Murdoch who decided that with
:09:52. > :09:56.advertisers deserting and a public mood of revulsion over its past
:09:56. > :10:00.journeyistic practices, it had no commercial future.
:10:00. > :10:03.But News International's Sun, daily paper thrives and sources tell me
:10:03. > :10:07.it's likely Mr Murdoch will try to keep some of the News of the
:10:07. > :10:12.World's readers by launching a new Sunday edition of The Sun. There
:10:12. > :10:18.has been a long-standing plan, we understand, to move to a 7-day
:10:18. > :10:23.operation with the same brand. So, this closure of of News of the
:10:23. > :10:27.World may be a quick way to turn a problem into an opportunity.
:10:27. > :10:30.By most standards the News of the World, whose revenues were around
:10:30. > :10:35.�160 million a year was a big business. But that's less than 1%
:10:35. > :10:41.of the revenues of News Corporation, its owner, who is annual turnover
:10:41. > :10:44.is more than �20 billion. Far more important to News Corporation is
:10:44. > :10:49.British Sky Broadcasting, the biggest broadcaster in the UK with
:10:49. > :10:55.income greater than �6 billion each year. News Corporation currently
:10:55. > :11:04.owns 39% of Sky, but it wants 100%. Not everyone thinks that would be a
:11:04. > :11:07.good idea. Don't let Murdoch dominate... There have been 156
:11:07. > :11:09.electronic submissions about the deal in a week to the Culture
:11:09. > :11:15.Secretary, most urging him to block the takeover.
:11:15. > :11:20.And a leading Liberal Democrat today petitioned the regulator to
:11:20. > :11:23.declare News Corporation unfit to control BSkyB. We're very clear,
:11:23. > :11:27.broadcasters in this country are now going to be required more than
:11:27. > :11:33.ever to have the highest of standards. That can't mean that
:11:33. > :11:35.companies have licences when employees of their's have been
:11:35. > :11:39.bribing the police, obtaining information from the police by
:11:39. > :11:46.paying for it illegally, and by breaking into people's phones,
:11:46. > :11:50.contrary to law. Ofcom, the regulator, indicated it may well
:11:50. > :11:54.erect a sizable obstacle in the way of the takeover because it regards
:11:54. > :11:59.the scandal as relevant to whether News Corporation should own Sky and
:11:59. > :12:03.as a result BSkyB's shares have fallen sharply. All that alleged
:12:03. > :12:06.wrongdoing at the News of the World turned the brand toxic, that's what
:12:06. > :12:12.its executives, including News International's chief executive,
:12:12. > :12:16.Rebekah Brooks, concluded. So toxic indeed that even after the News of
:12:16. > :12:22.the World's demise, it may continue to taint the Murdoch's global
:12:22. > :12:26.empire for sometime to come. Let's go back to Westminster and
:12:26. > :12:29.our political editor. To what extent was David Cameron on the
:12:29. > :12:32.defensive today? He was certainly on the defensive and he will be
:12:32. > :12:36.some more. There will still be questions about the past, what he
:12:36. > :12:40.knew about Andy Coulson, what he asked, what he was told, and why he
:12:40. > :12:43.still trusted him. Questions about the future, what he will do about
:12:43. > :12:48.the future ownership of British Sky Broadcasting, after all those
:12:48. > :12:54.regulators have come to their verdict. When the Prime Minister's
:12:54. > :12:59.own -- on his sunbed in a few weeks, he will wonder how have I ended up
:12:59. > :13:02.the man man promising to clean up the press, and promising to look at
:13:02. > :13:05.the whole question of the relationship between politicians
:13:05. > :13:09.and senior journalists. But that is the funny thing about politics,
:13:09. > :13:14.it's often the things they don't plan, the things they don't want
:13:14. > :13:17.that really defines them. Thank you.
:13:17. > :13:21.Other news now. Millions of British Gas customers are facing higher
:13:21. > :13:25.bills after prices were raised to record levels. Gas will go up by an
:13:25. > :13:30.average of 18%, electricity by 16%. The company's blaming high prices
:13:30. > :13:34.on the wholesale market but the energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, says
:13:34. > :13:36.he refuses to stand by and let this happen. Here is our personal
:13:36. > :13:40.finance correspondent Simon Gompertz.
:13:40. > :13:45.Another series of price rises for heat and power, just as households
:13:45. > :13:49.are being burned by food and petrol increases and pressure on their
:13:49. > :13:55.incomes. Mark and his family are particularly badly affected because
:13:55. > :13:58.they're dependent on benefits while he deals with a back problem. They
:13:58. > :14:05.can't help using gas and electricity, but it's taking a huge
:14:05. > :14:08.share of their income. It's 25% of my budget and that's the single
:14:08. > :14:11.largest payment we have. If it's kept unchecked it will push us
:14:11. > :14:14.below the poverty line, if we are not already there and the effect
:14:14. > :14:18.it's going to have on us, it's either heat the house or feed
:14:19. > :14:25.ourselves. The price hike is at the top end of expectations, gas going
:14:25. > :14:29.up by 18% next month, electricity will be 16% dear e adding �190 a
:14:29. > :14:34.year on average to the bill of a customer who buys both.
:14:34. > :14:39.British Gas is the biggest supplier, so there's a direct impact on nine
:14:39. > :14:43.million customers. Despite saying last week that it would move
:14:43. > :14:48.reluctantly, the company has decided not to hold back on this
:14:48. > :14:53.major increase. Recently we have seen Middle Eastern turmoil and the
:14:53. > :14:57.growth in the Asian economies push up prices by 30% to the point that
:14:57. > :15:01.we have been selling at a loss for the last four months and that's
:15:01. > :15:04.unsustainable. This round of price rises started with Scottish power
:15:04. > :15:11.last month. Now British Gas is pushing up its prices and the fear
:15:11. > :15:15.is that the other big players, Scottish & Southern, EDF, NPower
:15:15. > :15:23.and Eon will do the same. Consumers are told to shop around but that's
:15:23. > :15:30.hard if prices are going in one Where they go, everybody else will
:15:30. > :15:33.follow. Probably nobody is going to be immune to that. Chris Huhne said
:15:33. > :15:40.the increases were tough for consumers. He's promising to heat
:15:40. > :15:43.up competition by bringing in more suppliers.
:15:43. > :15:48.Our top story: David Cameron's former head of
:15:48. > :15:53.communications is arrested over allegations of corruption and phone
:15:53. > :15:56.hacking at the News of the World. And coming up - the space shuttle
:15:56. > :16:00.Atlantis heads into orbit for the last time.
:16:00. > :16:06.It's been a soggy start to the new era of the British Grand Prix here
:16:06. > :16:16.at Silverstone. Join me live for inside F1 for all the build-up to
:16:16. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:23.this weekend's big race at 6.45pm British aid agencies are tonight
:16:23. > :16:26.appealing for donations to help millions of people suffering in
:16:26. > :16:30.East Africa's worst drought for 60 years. The Disasters Emergency
:16:30. > :16:34.Committee says that 10 million people could be at risk of
:16:34. > :16:39.starvation, with well over 1,000, mainly children, arriving in
:16:39. > :16:48.refugee camps every day, often after gruelling journeys. Large
:16:48. > :16:53.areas of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan have been affected. Our
:16:53. > :16:57.correspondent wefrpbt to the Dadaab camp. -- went to the Dadaab camp.
:16:57. > :17:03.The drought is forcing thousands of refugees to flock here. The infants
:17:03. > :17:10.are the weakest of the new arrivals. There's not much of them to measure.
:17:10. > :17:15.Tiny bodies, ravaged by malnutrition and dehydration.
:17:15. > :17:21.Katharina Andrey is a Swiss nurse here. She told me that recently she
:17:22. > :17:28.cried with one mother. Just babies, young children are dying. It
:17:28. > :17:32.happened to me last week. I arrived at a house. I saw a crowd. I took
:17:32. > :17:39.the baby. I tried to do something. Outside you cannot do anything. So
:17:39. > :17:44.he just died in my arms. She knows this little boy is also hovering
:17:44. > :17:49.between life and death. His mother agrees to take him to hospital, but
:17:49. > :17:54.only reluctantly. She has five more children to care for, and was
:17:54. > :18:00.prepared to let this one die - a sacrifice to save the others.
:18:00. > :18:04.We had some problems. We had some instances where some families have
:18:04. > :18:09.prepared their children for death. We had to intervene and tell them,
:18:09. > :18:14.no, this is not possible. This child is still alive and can make
:18:14. > :18:18.it. This camp is growing all the time. It is becoming overcrowded.
:18:18. > :18:22.Aid agencies here are stretched to the limit. More people are arriving
:18:22. > :18:27.with every day that passes. Well over 1,000 of them fleeing from
:18:27. > :18:33.civil war and now from drought as well in their native Somalia. No-
:18:33. > :18:39.one here has any intention of going home any time soon. Aid is making a
:18:39. > :18:44.difference here. On Monday, we showed these pictures of a
:18:44. > :18:48.chronicly malnourished baby. This is him now. His doctors say he's
:18:48. > :18:55.out of danger and gradually growing stronger. Amid the misery, there is
:18:55. > :18:59.also hope. Well, the TV and radio appeals go
:18:59. > :19:09.on-air this evening. If you would like to make a donation you can
:19:09. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:18.found the Disasters Emergency You can make a �5 donation by
:19:18. > :19:24.texting CRISIS to: The last shuttle flight has blasted
:19:24. > :19:31.off from Florida. Atlantis's journey into orbit marks the end of
:19:31. > :19:36.an era. Let's get the latest from Cape Canaveral. It very nearly
:19:36. > :19:43.didn't happen. The weather has been rough in the last day or so. At
:19:43. > :19:48.4.30pm your time, the mission contromer came out with the --
:19:48. > :19:53.controller came out with the words, prepare for launch. Four astronauts
:19:53. > :19:59.about to fly on the final space shuttle. It is the end of an era.
:19:59. > :20:04.At the launch pad of Atlantis, with three hours to go, the crew clamber
:20:04. > :20:12.inside. An awkward fit, but it is on. The shuttles have flown for 30
:20:12. > :20:17.years. Now the last countdown. one and zero.... The final liftoff
:20:17. > :20:22.of Atlantis. Even from three miles away it is staggeringly bright as
:20:22. > :20:27.the shuttle accelerates towards 17,000 miles an hour. An incredible
:20:27. > :20:34.sight. Any second now, here it comes, the great wave of sound, you
:20:34. > :20:42.can actually feel it inside you. Huge crowds were watching an
:20:42. > :20:47.emotional sight. This meant everything to me. I wanted to see a
:20:47. > :20:51.shuttle launch more than anything. We came from Virginia. Seeing that,
:20:51. > :20:56.it made me have something to tell my friends when I get home. Nine
:20:56. > :21:00.minutes to reach orbit. A spectacular start to 12 days in
:21:00. > :21:03.space. Now Atlantis will deliver a year's worth of supplies to the
:21:03. > :21:13.International Space Station. No other craft can do that. The
:21:13. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:20.shuttles had become too expensive. The big question now - what next?
:21:20. > :21:25.Prince William and the Duchess of Canada have spent their last day in
:21:25. > :21:28.Canada. They attended the famous Calgary Stampede before their
:21:28. > :21:33.departure for Los Angeles. This report contains some flash
:21:33. > :21:40.photography. The final stop in Canada on their
:21:40. > :21:45.first overseas tour together. It's culminated in Calgary - home of
:21:45. > :21:50.Canada's cowboys, where they launched the Wild West rodeo, the
:21:50. > :21:54.Calgary Stampede. It's been a nine-day visit, which
:21:54. > :21:58.according to William has far surpassed their expectations.
:21:58. > :22:04.Canada has shown that where royals are concerned, particularly where
:22:04. > :22:09.they are young and glamorous, like these two, no country is capable of
:22:09. > :22:15.a more devoted welcome. Earlier, William and Kate had seen
:22:15. > :22:20.something of those essential stampede activities, the riding of
:22:20. > :22:24.angry bulls. Something frowned on by animal rights groups and driving
:22:24. > :22:28.chuckwagons. It's been a visit for which their down-to-earth style has
:22:28. > :22:34.been perfectly suited. This visit was pretty much guaranteed to be a
:22:34. > :22:38.success. One of the reasons to come to Canada is so many Canadians are
:22:38. > :22:41.so enthusiastic about the Royal Family. The fact it's been such a
:22:42. > :22:46.spectacular success is down to the couple themselves.
:22:46. > :22:51.Every where they've been, they have shown an unstuffy side to royalty.
:22:51. > :22:54.It is not new. Others have been capable of it. They demonstrated
:22:54. > :23:02.what a potent impact two young royals working together are capable
:23:02. > :23:06.of having. They head on now to California. Let's return now to
:23:06. > :23:13.tonight's main story, the former editor of the News of the World,
:23:13. > :23:23.Andy Coulson's arrest into part of the investigation into phone
:23:23. > :23:30.hacking. They have written to their readers. We look back now at the
:23:30. > :23:34.paper's defining campaigns. Christine Keeler, on Sunday, she
:23:34. > :23:37.opens her secret diary and tells the first full story in the News of
:23:37. > :23:42.the World. For decades, it was Britain's
:23:42. > :23:46.biggest selling newspaper by far. And for good reasons. There were
:23:47. > :23:56.scopes and scandalous exposures, week in, week out, year in, year
:23:57. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:00.out. And popular campaigns. The paper backed Sarah Payne whose
:24:00. > :24:04.daughter was murdered. Rebekah Brooks gave her first
:24:05. > :24:08.interview on the subject. The paper is on the side of protecting
:24:08. > :24:11.children and not protecting paedophiles. The public are behind
:24:11. > :24:19.us. And Madeline McCann went missing in Portugal, the paper put
:24:19. > :24:22.up a huge reward to find her. were grateful to the paper's
:24:22. > :24:28.support. They would talk occasionally to the editor. They
:24:28. > :24:32.wanted to support the search and bring the campaigning support to
:24:32. > :24:35.the search. The News of the World far outsold its Fleet Street rivals.
:24:35. > :24:40.Of course the national press left Fleet Street 20 years ago.
:24:40. > :24:44.Newspapers no longer have the enormous sales they once did.
:24:44. > :24:49.Nonetheless, the News of the World's closure means one fewer
:24:49. > :24:53.title to reveal, campaign, expose and hold the powerful to account.
:24:53. > :24:58.Hardly the best outcome for press freedom and democracy. The paper's
:24:58. > :25:04.defenders say it will be missed. seems clear that the staff have
:25:04. > :25:09.engaged in some detestable, unforgivable behaviour. It is
:25:09. > :25:14.important to not lose fact of the sight that the paper has broken
:25:14. > :25:19.important stories. More than seven million people read the News of the
:25:19. > :25:23.World. Without it there'll be less sleaze, fewer stuck in revelations
:25:23. > :25:26.every Sunday, Britain will be a duller place.
:25:26. > :25:32.Now a time to look at the weekend weather.
:25:32. > :25:35.It has been kicking off today. We've had tornadoes in Bolton and
:25:35. > :25:39.Bognor. Flash flooding in Wales and Edinburgh. Our great British summer
:25:39. > :25:43.continues. Through this weekend we will see fewer showers, with a
:25:44. > :25:47.better chance of seeing longer, drier spells. Not at the moment
:25:47. > :25:52.though. Nasty storms around across northern England, tracking
:25:52. > :25:55.northwards all the while. An inch or so of rain in a short period of
:25:55. > :25:59.or so of rain in a short period of time. Up into some eastern and
:25:59. > :26:02.central parts of Scotland as well later on.
:26:02. > :26:06.There will be some drier weather elsewhere. It will not be all that
:26:06. > :26:10.cold. Temperatures remain in double figures. Tomorrow, guess what, will
:26:10. > :26:15.be another showery day. The focus of showers will be in different
:26:15. > :26:19.places. Scotland will see a lot more showers. Slow-moving, heavy
:26:19. > :26:23.and thundery. North-east England as well. For the rest of us, fewer
:26:23. > :26:28.showers, more sunshine, in fact many places will get away with a
:26:28. > :26:33.fine afternoon for the cricket at Old Trafford for example, apart
:26:33. > :26:37.from the odd rogue shower, it will stay dry. That is the same for the
:26:37. > :26:42.Midlands and East Anglia. If you are heading to the weech,
:26:42. > :26:46.there will be a cooling -- beach, there will be a cooling breeze. The
:26:46. > :26:50.odd shower across south-west England and the bulk of Wales
:26:50. > :26:55.staying dry with temperatures nudging 20 Celsius in many places.
:26:55. > :27:01.Northern Ireland again, fewer showers than recently. For Scotland
:27:01. > :27:06.again a very showery day for the Scottish Open. Some thundery
:27:06. > :27:10.downpours in and around the golf course. Sunday, the odd shower to
:27:10. > :27:14.northern Scotland in particular. Elsewhere, very few showers. Lots
:27:14. > :27:18.of dry and bright weather. Temperatures reaching low to mid-
:27:18. > :27:23.20's. For the Grand Prix I am hopeful that it will be dry and