:00:11. > :00:17.The hacking scandal forces Rupert Murdoch to drop his bid to take
:00:17. > :00:22.full control of BSkyB. The News Corporation boss bows to
:00:22. > :00:26.relentless pressure after crisis talks with his top executives. Nine
:00:26. > :00:31.days of allegations centring on the News of the World put the Murdoch
:00:31. > :00:35.empire on a collision course with Parliament. I think this is the
:00:35. > :00:40.right decision. I have been saying that this company clearly needs to
:00:40. > :00:43.sort out the problems there are at News International, at the News of
:00:43. > :00:48.the World. This is a victory for people up and down this country who
:00:48. > :00:51.have been appalled by the revelations about phone hacking.
:00:51. > :00:52.comes as David Cameron meets the family of Milly Dowler and
:00:52. > :00:55.announces an inquiry into the scandal.
:00:55. > :01:02.After another remarkable day, we'll be asking if this is a watershed
:01:02. > :01:05.for Rupert Murdoch and Parliament. Also on tonight's programme: 17
:01:05. > :01:10.years on from the Mull of Kintyre crash - the Chinook pilots wrongly
:01:10. > :01:13.accused are vindicated. The Papal aide who failed victims
:01:13. > :01:23.of sexual abuse in Ireland - a new report says the Catholic church
:01:23. > :01:26.ignored rules as recently as three years ago. We're going to make this
:01:26. > :01:29.happen, sir. And a date with one of the world's
:01:29. > :01:36.most glamorous women after an internet proposal from a US Marine.
:01:36. > :01:46.On BBC London, the Mayor is criticised for not prosecuting the
:01:46. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :02:02.News of the World for hacking Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:02:02. > :02:04.News at 6.00pm. After days of intense pressure over phone hacking
:02:04. > :02:08.and corruption allegations, Rupert Murdoch made a dramatic U-turn this
:02:08. > :02:10.afternoon, withdrawing his plans to take over the broadcaster BSkyB.
:02:10. > :02:13.The announcement from News Corporation came as MPs prepared
:02:13. > :02:16.for a cross-party vote on the deal and as the Prime Minister announced
:02:16. > :02:19.a wide-ranging inquiry into the scandal. More on that in a moment,
:02:19. > :02:29.but our business editor Robert Peston has our first report tonight
:02:29. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:38.on the day the bid was dropped. It does contain some flash photography.
:02:38. > :02:43.Rupert Murdoch, the great news mogul, in the news for what he
:02:43. > :02:48.would see as the wrong reasons. Putting on a brave face before one
:02:48. > :02:51.of the great humiliations of his career, the abandonment of his
:02:51. > :03:01.attempt to own all of BSkyB. Here's News Corporation's explosive
:03:01. > :03:10.
:03:10. > :03:13.This, just minutes before, was that appalling climate for Mr Murdoch.
:03:13. > :03:18.Mr Speaker, when such a serious cloud hangs over News Corporation
:03:18. > :03:21.and with the abuses and the systematic pattern of deceit we've
:03:21. > :03:28.seen, does he agree with me - and he clearly does - that it would be
:03:28. > :03:34.quite wrong for them to expand their stake in the British media?
:03:34. > :03:38.And this was the Prime Minister just a little bit later. What - I
:03:38. > :03:42.think this is the right decision. I think this company clearly needs to
:03:42. > :03:45.sort out the problems there are at News International, at News of the
:03:45. > :03:47.World. That must be the priority, not takeovers, so the right
:03:47. > :03:52.decision, but also the right decision for the country too.
:03:52. > :03:56.the second massive setback for Mr Murdoch. Just days ago he closed
:03:56. > :04:00.the News of the World because his reputation had been so tarnished by
:04:00. > :04:03.the allegations just ten days ago that the News of the World
:04:04. > :04:08.instigated the alleged hacking of the phone of the teenager Milly
:04:08. > :04:12.Dowler and the parent of the Soham victims and that the privacy of
:04:12. > :04:16.families of soldiers killed in action had been invaded along with
:04:16. > :04:19.other shocking revelations. This is a victory for people up and down
:04:19. > :04:23.this country who have been appalled by the revelation about phone
:04:23. > :04:27.hacking, who have thought it's beyond belief that Mr Murdoch could,
:04:27. > :04:32.when this criminal investigation is going on, expand his stake in the
:04:32. > :04:36.British media. Rupert Murdoch was keen to increase his ownership of
:04:36. > :04:41.British Sky Broadcasting from 39% to 100% because it would have given
:04:41. > :04:45.him access to the vast amounts of cash generated by the UK's biggest
:04:45. > :04:47.television business. In the past year BSkyB's profits were around �1
:04:48. > :04:50.billion which would have been very useful to Mr Murdoch's News
:04:50. > :04:54.Corporation at a time when his British newspapers have been
:04:54. > :04:59.struggling to maintain their revenues. As for BSkyB's other
:04:59. > :05:04.shareholders, they've also paid a big price from the failure of the
:05:04. > :05:08.takeover. BSkyB's share prices falling around 20% over the past
:05:08. > :05:14.nine days, wiping almost �3 billion from the value of the company. So
:05:14. > :05:18.what has Rupert Murdoch lost? was a once-in a lifetime
:05:18. > :05:24.opportunity to acquire 100% of a business which has extraordinarily
:05:24. > :05:28.good prospects, which has a growth trajectory which is well understood.
:05:28. > :05:34.It would have substantially increased the company by the order
:05:34. > :05:38.of a magnitude of a 20-25% increase. February 5th, 1989, the dawn of
:05:38. > :05:43.television's new age. Mr Murdoch would see himself, rightly, many
:05:43. > :05:48.would say, as the founder of BSkyB, so to be told by politicians who,
:05:48. > :05:54.until recently, were seen as his creaturess, that he shouldn't press
:05:54. > :05:58.ahead and do as they insisted - well, it's setback as any in his
:05:58. > :06:02.decades at the pinnacle of the media industry. Robert is with me
:06:02. > :06:06.in the studio. It has been such a dramatic turn of events. How
:06:06. > :06:09.damaged personally do you think Rupert Murdoch is? He hasn't had a
:06:09. > :06:13.completely uncheckered career, but this is as big a crisis as he's
:06:13. > :06:17.ever faced. Only days ago out of the blue he closed the News of the
:06:17. > :06:20.World which itself came only Davis those explosive, shocking
:06:20. > :06:26.revelation that the News of the World may have hacked into the
:06:26. > :06:29.mobile phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler. Now, he's
:06:29. > :06:37.had to abandon, possibly forever, his cherished ambition of owning
:06:37. > :06:40.all of BSkyB, a business that he created, so the humiliation is
:06:40. > :06:46.immense, and background for him is also incredibly difficult. His
:06:46. > :06:51.recent investments in MySpace, in the Wall Street Journal, are not
:06:51. > :06:55.perceived to have gone well. He took an enormous loss on the sale
:06:55. > :06:59.of MySpace recently, so investors in his business are getting restive.
:06:59. > :07:03.Then there is the issue of what's going to come out of the policing
:07:03. > :07:07.inquiry, by the other inquiries set up today by the Prime Minister.
:07:07. > :07:09.More shockingation expected about what went on at the News of the
:07:09. > :07:13.World, revelation that could damage the reputation of his business
:07:13. > :07:17.further, and if the reputation of his business is damaged, the
:07:17. > :07:21.revenues - precious revenues for Rupert Murdoch of his businesses -
:07:21. > :07:23.may also suffer. Robert, for the moment, thank you.
:07:23. > :07:25.Well, the inquiry announced today by David Cameron will have the
:07:25. > :07:29.power to summon newspaper proprietors, journalists, police
:07:29. > :07:31.and politicians who'll give evidence under oath. It came after
:07:31. > :07:34.immense political pressure on the Prime Minister from the opposition
:07:34. > :07:44.leader. Our deputy political editor James Landale has the details of
:07:44. > :07:48.the hacking inquiry. If anything has transformed this row, it has
:07:48. > :07:51.been the hacking of phones belonging not to celebrities, but
:07:52. > :07:55.to ordinary people. Today their unofficial representatives, the
:07:55. > :07:58.family of Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked, came to
:07:58. > :08:03.Downing Street to tell David Cameron what they wanted. Finally,
:08:03. > :08:07.he had an answer. There is a firestorm, if you like, that is
:08:07. > :08:11.engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed our
:08:11. > :08:15.political system's ability to respond, and what we must do in the
:08:15. > :08:19.coming days and weeks, is think, above all, of the victims like the
:08:19. > :08:23.Dowler family who are watching this today and make doubly sure that we
:08:23. > :08:28.get to the bottom of what happened and we prosecute those who are
:08:28. > :08:31.guilty. He announced there will be one inquiry led by a judge, Lord
:08:31. > :08:34.Justice Leverson, who will be able to summon anyone and question them
:08:34. > :08:38.under oath. He'll start by looking at the culture, practises and
:08:38. > :08:43.ethics of the press, their contacts with politicians and the police and
:08:43. > :08:46.recommend a new regulatory regime, one that'll also examine cross-
:08:46. > :08:50.media ownership. On this he'll report in 12 months. The judge will
:08:50. > :08:53.also look separately at the allegations of phone hacking within
:08:53. > :08:57.News International and other papers, why police investigations failed
:08:57. > :09:01.and why News International managers did not act. He'll also exam
:09:01. > :09:04.inallegations of police bribery and the hacking affair, and some of
:09:04. > :09:07.this inquiry will not begin until the police have finished their own
:09:07. > :09:10.investigations. Mr Cameron also said that politicians should be
:09:10. > :09:14.more open in their contacts with the media. I will be consulting the
:09:14. > :09:17.Cabinet Secretary on an amendment to the Ministerial Code to require
:09:17. > :09:21.Ministers to record all meetings with newspaper and other media
:09:21. > :09:27.proprietors, senior editors and executives regardless of the nature
:09:27. > :09:30.of the meeting. But for all this, Mr Cameron was still under pressure
:09:30. > :09:34.over Andy Coulson. His former communications chief was arrested
:09:34. > :09:37.last week over allegations of hacking and corruption while he
:09:37. > :09:41.edited News of the World. The Prime Minister said Mr Coulson had
:09:41. > :09:44.assured him he knew nothing about phone hacking. He gave those self-
:09:44. > :09:48.same assurances to the police, to a Select Committee of this House and
:09:48. > :09:51.under oath to a court of law. If it turns out he lied, it won't just be
:09:51. > :10:00.that he shouldn't have been in Government. It will be that he
:10:00. > :10:04.should be prosecuted. It -- he just doesn't get it. I say this to the
:10:04. > :10:11.Prime Minister: he was warned by the Deputy Prime Minister about
:10:11. > :10:15.hiring Andy Coulson. He was warned by Lord Ashdown about hiring Andy
:10:15. > :10:20.Coulson. He should apologise for the catastrophic error of judgment
:10:20. > :10:24.he made in hiring Andy Coulson. David Cameron's relationship with
:10:24. > :10:28.Andy Coulson has made this whole affair very tricky for him. His MPs
:10:28. > :10:30.feel that he has been on the back foot, while the Labour leader Ed
:10:30. > :10:34.Miliband has been making all the running. The Prime Minister's aides
:10:34. > :10:38.hope that the launch today of this inquiry will help redress the
:10:38. > :10:41.balance. Whatever that inquiry uncovers or concludes, though, the
:10:41. > :10:46.relationship between Britain's politicians and the Murdochs will
:10:46. > :10:53.never be quite the same again. Yes, they'll meet. They'll talk. But
:10:53. > :10:56.Other news now. The families of two RAF pilots
:10:56. > :10:59.whose helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre 17 years ago have
:10:59. > :11:01.finally seen them cleared of responsibility. The Chinook crash
:11:01. > :11:04.in 1994 was the RAF's worst peacetime accident, killing all 29
:11:04. > :11:07.people onboard. Today the Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the pilots
:11:07. > :11:16.should never have been accused of gross negligence. Our defence
:11:16. > :11:21.correspondent Caroline Wyatt has the story. It was a flight which
:11:22. > :11:27.lasted little over 17 minutes, but the arguments over what really
:11:27. > :11:30.happened that day have lasted 17 years. This was the wreckage of the
:11:30. > :11:32.RAF's worst peacetime accident. 29 people died, including some of the
:11:32. > :11:38.brightest and the best in intelligence and counterterrorism.
:11:38. > :11:43.The two pilots, Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook,
:11:43. > :11:47.were blamed, found grossly negligent by the RAF for flying too
:11:47. > :11:51.low and too fast before the crash. Ever since, Chris Cook has
:11:51. > :11:55.campaigned to clear his brother's name. Today, there was simply
:11:55. > :12:00.relief that after so many years he'd finally won through.
:12:00. > :12:09.Absolutely delighted, very taken aback. I was not expecting we would
:12:09. > :12:12.get quite that much today, to be and that was it. Today Jonathan
:12:12. > :12:17.Tapper's father Mike stood with those who had campaigned on the
:12:17. > :12:21.family's behalf for many years and finally heard the words they'd
:12:21. > :12:24.waited for for so long. I have written to the widows of the two
:12:24. > :12:27.pilots, to the father of Jonathan Tapper and the brother of Richard
:12:27. > :12:31.Cook to express the Ministry of Defence's apology for the distress
:12:31. > :12:35.which was caused to them by the findings of negligence. I also wish
:12:35. > :12:39.to express that apology publicly in this House today. For Sue Phoenix,
:12:39. > :12:44.watching that statement at home this afternoon, brought everything
:12:44. > :12:48.back. She lost her husband Ian in the crash, an IUC counterterrorism
:12:48. > :12:52.expert. I'm no longer angry. I don't get angry about anything. I'm
:12:52. > :12:55.very, very sad. I think it's the sadness of the unnecessary
:12:55. > :12:58.suffering for all the families, yes, but for those two families in
:12:58. > :13:04.particular, the fact they've lost other loved ones in their families,
:13:04. > :13:09.that didn't get to see their sons' names cleared, yes, I am sad.
:13:09. > :13:13.questions raised over the chin Clinton's safety over the crash,
:13:13. > :13:17.the review concluded we may never know what happened in those last
:13:17. > :13:20.desperate minutes over the Mull of Kintyre, but for the families,
:13:20. > :13:29.today's apology marked the end of a long, bitter battle to clear the
:13:29. > :13:31.pilots' names. At least 17 people have been killed
:13:31. > :13:34.and dozens injured by three simultaneous explosions in the
:13:34. > :13:40.Indian city of Mumbai. All three occurred during the evening rush
:13:40. > :13:42.hour, placing the city on a state of high alert. The attacks are the
:13:42. > :13:46.worst in Mumbai for nearly three years when a co-ordinated siege
:13:46. > :13:49.killed nearly 170 people. A retired Irish bishop who was an
:13:49. > :13:51.aide to three Popes has been singled out in a hard-hitting new
:13:51. > :13:54.report into child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Uncovering serious
:13:54. > :13:57.failings in the way the authorities dealt with child abuse, the report
:13:57. > :14:00.says the church cared more about its reputation than child welfare
:14:00. > :14:07.and that only three years ago reports of abuse were being kept
:14:07. > :14:15.from police. Our Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson reports.
:14:16. > :14:19.He was the Pope's right-hand man. Father John McGee was not just
:14:19. > :14:24.personal secretary to John Paul II, but three Popes, but today the
:14:24. > :14:29.retired bishop stands accused of involvement in the Irish Catholic
:14:29. > :14:34.Church's latest scandal. It was in his diocese that clerical child sex
:14:34. > :14:39.abuse took place, but wasn't reported by the church to the
:14:39. > :14:41.police, and it happened as recently as three years ago at a time when
:14:41. > :14:45.the Irish Catholic Church was telling the church there would
:14:45. > :14:51.never be another cover-up. It is truly scandalous that people who
:14:51. > :14:58.presented a public face of concern continue to maintain a private
:14:58. > :15:01.agenda of concealment and evasion. After revelations about Irish
:15:01. > :15:05.paedophile priests in the early 1990s, new guidelines were
:15:05. > :15:11.introduced to ensure all allegations were then reported to
:15:11. > :15:14.the police, but in Cloin, the rules were largely ignored and for those
:15:14. > :15:19.who complained to the church about being abused as children, the lack
:15:19. > :15:22.of action left them feeling helpless. It literally feels like
:15:22. > :15:26.being contaminated by a horrible disease. I feel as if I have really
:15:26. > :15:32.been touched by the devil, and that is something that nobody will ever
:15:32. > :15:37.fix for me, you know? After so many scandals in recent years, the
:15:37. > :15:42.Catholic Church in Ireland is not only losing followers, but its
:15:42. > :15:47.special place in Irish society. In Cloin, there is a sense of shame.
:15:47. > :15:53.humbly apologise on my own belaugh as administrator of the diocese and
:15:53. > :15:58.on behalf of the clergy, to all who suffered and to their families. I
:15:58. > :16:02.am appalled by the depth and damage of suffering. He retired as bishop
:16:02. > :16:10.last year. In a statement tonight he admitted he could have done more
:16:10. > :16:15.to help some victims of abuse and Our top story tonight: News
:16:15. > :16:19.Corporation has dropped its bid to take full control of BSkyB.
:16:19. > :16:29.Coming up: A US Marine and his internet proposal for Hollywood
:16:29. > :16:46.
:16:47. > :16:51.In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi's forces have begun a counter attack in the
:16:51. > :16:57.West of the country against rebels hoping to advance from their on to
:16:57. > :17:01.the capital, Tripoli. The fighting has already caused civilians to
:17:01. > :17:07.flee their homes into the Nafusa mountains. This report comes from
:17:07. > :17:13.Gualish, a village caught in the crossfire. This was the Libyan
:17:13. > :17:18.rabbles' most forward position in the western mountains until today.
:17:18. > :17:28.-- rebels'. They took this ground a week ago, part of a steady if slow
:17:28. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:37.advance. Gunfire this this morning, but the rebels are sure as it is
:17:37. > :17:43.just their own men waking up the Government forces. The rebels are
:17:43. > :17:47.in these positions and the Gaddafi forces are in the next town, the
:17:47. > :17:52.next place in the crossfire. Well, it was. That might seem ambitious
:17:52. > :17:57.now. The rebels have been jolted by the realisation that the other side
:17:57. > :18:06.is advancing, not just taking pot- shots from the town. There is a
:18:07. > :18:11.vehicle coming, he says. Why is it? -- where is it? All around us, the
:18:11. > :18:21.rebels' frontline is collapsing. It is a chaotic and sometimes panicky
:18:21. > :18:28.retreat. They tried to regroup at the next checkpoint. Let's go back
:18:28. > :18:34.to fight, says one. No, says his friend. We only have one box of
:18:34. > :18:40.ammunition. What can we do with that? This is a highly strategic
:18:40. > :18:43.area. Beyond it lies the road to Tripoli. The rebels say they will
:18:43. > :18:48.march on the capital in just a few weeks. They have rejected talks
:18:48. > :18:55.with the regime, confident that they have the forward momentum.
:18:55. > :18:59.Little of that was in evidence today.
:18:59. > :19:04.An investigation has begun into why an elderly dementia patient was
:19:04. > :19:07.left at home for three days without food or water. 85 year-old Beryl
:19:07. > :19:11.Carter from Manchester was meant to be looked after by Care UK, but the
:19:11. > :19:16.company said it was not cold that she had been discharged from
:19:16. > :19:20.hospital. -- not told. Unemployment has fallen again with
:19:20. > :19:25.the latest figure for the three months to make at 2.45 million,
:19:25. > :19:30.which is down by 26,000. The number of people claiming jobseeker's
:19:30. > :19:34.allowance has gone up. Many areas of the country continue to face job
:19:34. > :19:41.shortages, and others are struggling to find workers with the
:19:41. > :19:45.right skills. It is a world-beating industry, a
:19:45. > :19:50.cluster of firms in an area of the Midlands known as Motorsport Valley.
:19:50. > :19:55.Growth is accelerating, new staff are being recruited. But there is a
:19:55. > :20:00.problem on the road ahead. It was on the drawing board... Swan of the
:20:00. > :20:04.top names in British motor sport, David Richards, told me what it was.
:20:04. > :20:09.He runs Prodrive, a big name in rallying and design and manufacture.
:20:09. > :20:13.He just cannot find enough of the right staff. I need 100 engineers,
:20:13. > :20:17.skilled and experienced. They have to be out there somewhere. He says
:20:17. > :20:21.if he cannot find them soon, the progress of the company could be
:20:21. > :20:24.held back. It will inevitably inhibit our growth. It is
:20:24. > :20:29.inhibiting it today. We are not taking on the tasks that we could
:20:29. > :20:33.give we have the people and the resources to do it. Unemployment
:20:33. > :20:38.may be relatively high, but some industries have vacancies and
:20:38. > :20:42.cannot find workers with the right qualifications to fill them. This
:20:42. > :20:45.is an employer trying to recruit permanent staff and offering career
:20:45. > :20:49.prospects. For some other employers it is rather different. They are
:20:49. > :20:53.not as confident about future growth in the economy, so they are
:20:53. > :20:57.reluctant to commit themselves to taking on full-time workers. You
:20:57. > :21:02.have only got to go down the road to this Tikrit ment Agency to see
:21:02. > :21:06.evidence of that. Here, most of the vacancies are for part-time and
:21:06. > :21:10.temporary workers and there is no shortage of applicants.
:21:10. > :21:15.competition is very strong. You would be looking at general
:21:15. > :21:19.administration vacancies, and we would get up to 50 applications. I
:21:19. > :21:24.remember one recently when we had over 100 and we had to withdraw the
:21:24. > :21:27.first this month. In rural Oxfordshire, -- we had to withdraw
:21:27. > :21:34.the advertisement. In rural Oxfordshire, there is another
:21:34. > :21:42.aspect of the job Meggitt on display. This couple runs a
:21:42. > :21:49.catering business. They had a job, step forward those born in the UK,
:21:49. > :21:53.but the rest of from other parts of the world. I went from waiter to
:21:53. > :21:57.assistant manager, step by step. Catering is well known for taking
:21:57. > :22:01.on casual and temporary workers, and bosses here say that local
:22:01. > :22:04.recruitment is difficult. Foreign people have a very good
:22:04. > :22:09.work ethic. They know that the job needs to be done and they get on
:22:09. > :22:14.with it. They bring a lot more flexibility to the business. What
:22:14. > :22:19.is it about British workers? think everybody expects a full-time,
:22:19. > :22:24.permanent contract, and if they don't get that position than they
:22:24. > :22:27.are not prepared to put the hard graft in. There are jobs out there,
:22:27. > :22:34.but matching them with the right people and making sure they have
:22:34. > :22:39.the correct skills and attitude is a big challenge for the economy.
:22:39. > :22:43.Now, she is one of Hollywood's most glamorous women and he is the US
:22:43. > :22:47.Marine in Afghanistan. They have never met, but after a proposal on
:22:47. > :22:57.the internet, Sergeant Scott Moore has a date with the Black Swan stop
:22:57. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:01.Mila Kunis. -- Hollywood star. Never mind different world,
:23:01. > :23:06.different planets. He lives in a dusty checkpoint and she lives in
:23:06. > :23:11.Hollywood. But Scott Moore needs a date for the regimental ball.
:23:11. > :23:17.want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the Marine Corps
:23:17. > :23:24.Ball on November 18th. His bold invitation was seen by 800,000
:23:24. > :23:30.people on YouTube, but not by the actress herself. What? I was
:23:30. > :23:34.invited to go to the ball? Do it for your country. Her fellow chat-
:23:34. > :23:39.show guest Justin Timberlake played matchmaker. You know what, man? I
:23:39. > :23:47.am going to work on this for you. He invited you to the Marine Corps
:23:47. > :23:50.Ball. When is it? November. November what? I will go. Mila
:23:50. > :23:54.Kunis is promoting her latest film of Justin Timberlake and can now
:23:54. > :23:58.look forward to a trip to North Carolina, swapping the movies for
:23:58. > :24:03.the mess hall. She has promised Scott Moore that she will not stand
:24:03. > :24:06.him up. I am going to make this happen, sir. And in true showbiz
:24:07. > :24:14.style, her people have already been in touch with his people. It is
:24:14. > :24:19.officially the date. The identity of the Euromillions
:24:19. > :24:23.ticket holder and that has won the jackpot is still a mystery. The win
:24:23. > :24:27.that match all five numbers and both lucky stars to win the prize
:24:27. > :24:30.of one and would and �61 million in the draw last night. It is not yet
:24:30. > :24:37.know whether the overnight multi- millionaire is an individual or in
:24:37. > :24:44.a syndicate. -- �161 million. Now more on the news that News
:24:44. > :24:47.Corporation have dropped the bid to take full control of BSkyB. Nick
:24:47. > :24:50.Robinson is in Westminster. Even Rupert Murdoch would not have
:24:50. > :24:54.imagined such a change in perception of this bid. A dramatic
:24:54. > :24:58.turnaround. Only last week this deal would go through, and only
:24:58. > :25:04.yesterday it looked as though the Empire was just regrouping to fight
:25:04. > :25:07.at the later date. But now it is over and MPs are celebrating. There
:25:07. > :25:11.is an air of self-congratulation, that Parliament stood up to the
:25:11. > :25:16.Murdoch empire and won. All parties decided to back the motion proposed
:25:16. > :25:21.by Ed Miliband to say that the bid should not go ahead. They think
:25:21. > :25:26.they have seen off their media tormentors, for now at least.
:25:26. > :25:31.today marker line in the sand? The bid being dropped and the start of
:25:31. > :25:36.the inquiry? It is far from over. His hacking scandal has been built
:25:36. > :25:41.up bit by bit and layer by layer. At first nothing seemed to be
:25:41. > :25:46.moving and based people ignored it, frankly, but political gravity
:25:46. > :25:55.cannot be ignored for ever. This has been swept away, not just the
:25:55. > :25:58.bid, but also the News of the World. Now it has in its path, the secret
:25:58. > :26:01.of relationships between politicians, the media and the
:26:01. > :26:07.police. The Prime Minister has had a better day-to-day, having
:26:07. > :26:10.announced an inquiry, but all those questions about why he hired a
:26:10. > :26:13.former editor of the News of the World will remain and also
:26:13. > :26:17.questioned about his relationship with the Murdoch empire. The truth
:26:17. > :26:26.is that the avalanche moves on and nobody knows who it will damage
:26:26. > :26:32.Now the weather. Some sunshine out there this evening but it is not
:26:32. > :26:38.exactly a balmy July night. It will be chilly again outside as skies
:26:38. > :26:41.remain largely clear. It has been quite cloudy throughout the day in
:26:41. > :26:46.eastern England, and it will thicken up in East Anglia and rain
:26:46. > :26:49.will come in through the night. Elsewhere it is dry with clear
:26:50. > :26:57.spells and quite cold, with temperatures down to single digits
:26:57. > :27:02.in northern England. A cool start to Thursday that many places will
:27:02. > :27:05.start off with sunshine. In East Anglia it will be gloomy and quite
:27:05. > :27:10.wet, that is the exception. In the West, expect sunshine and
:27:10. > :27:15.temperatures up to 23 degrees in Bristol, maybe. Sunny spells for
:27:15. > :27:19.most of the day across Wales with just a small chance of showers here.
:27:19. > :27:23.Decent spells to the East of Northern Ireland, with the cloud
:27:23. > :27:32.increasing further West and maybe some light rain later in the day,
:27:32. > :27:37.as they could be across western Scotland. Showering across northern
:27:37. > :27:40.Scotland. Fine for northern England and eastern Scotland. In
:27:40. > :27:45.Lincolnshire there will be more cloud, especially in Norfolk and
:27:45. > :27:50.Suffolk. Some of that rain will be in Essex and possibly Kent,
:27:50. > :27:55.affecting the goal. The winds will be lively for the first day of the
:27:55. > :28:00.Open. Friday sees some sunny spells. Elsewhere the cloud increases and
:28:00. > :28:03.we will see outbreaks of rain. It will turn cooler and better, and
:28:03. > :28:09.windier for all of us throughout the weekend. If you like the
:28:09. > :28:12.weather, don't forget the show that is on in an hour, live on BBC One.
:28:12. > :28:17.I suggest you have your camera ready if you are going to tune in.
:28:17. > :28:21.I will explain more tonight! A reminder of the main news
:28:21. > :28:25.tonight: News Corporation has dropped the bid to take full
:28:25. > :28:29.control of BSkyB. This came as David Cameron met the family of
:28:29. > :28:33.Milly Dowler and announced an inquiry into the hacking scandal.