:00:11. > :00:14.Rebekah Brooks resigns as Chief Executive of News International.
:00:14. > :00:23.She says she wants to leave the bridge to concentrate on rebutting
:00:23. > :00:27.the allegations about her record. As I said when I called for her
:00:27. > :00:30.resignation ten days ago, this isn't just about one individual.
:00:30. > :00:32.It's about the culture of an organisation.
:00:32. > :00:35.Rupert Murdoch meets the family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler and
:00:35. > :00:42.gives a "full and humble" apology. We'll have all the latest
:00:42. > :00:44.developments in another dramatic day in the hacking scandal. Also
:00:44. > :00:46.tonight: An investigation into three
:00:46. > :00:48.suspicious deaths at a Stockport Hospital. Police say saline
:00:48. > :00:51.solution was deliberately tampered with.
:00:51. > :00:56.A strike at the BBC - news services are disrupted as journalists take
:00:56. > :01:00.industrial action over compulsory redundancies.
:01:00. > :01:01.Drought in the Horn of Africa - we travel to one of the worst affected
:01:01. > :01:10.areas. And Europe's biggest ever lottery
:01:10. > :01:20.winners celebrate landing �161 million. We were tickled pink -
:01:20. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:35.even the whole notion, you know, of Good evening.
:01:35. > :01:39.Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. Rebekah Brooks has resigned as
:01:39. > :01:41.Chief Executive of News International. She faces
:01:41. > :01:51.allegations over her role in the phone-hacking scandal and illegal
:01:51. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:55.payments to police officers. In a statement Ms Brooks said, she "had
:01:55. > :01:57.a deep responsibility for the people who had been hurt" and she
:01:57. > :02:00.wanted to concentrate on defending her record. This afternoon, Rupert
:02:00. > :02:03.Murdoch apologised to the family of Milly Dowler. It was the
:02:03. > :02:05.revelations about the hacking of her phone which sparked the crisis.
:02:05. > :02:09.Our Correspondent Robert Hall has the story. His report contains some
:02:09. > :02:13.flash photography. She's the most high-profile casualty so far in the
:02:13. > :02:16.scandal which has spread to both sides of the Atlantic. For the past
:02:16. > :02:21.ten days, Rebekah Brooks has been at the heart of the storm which has
:02:21. > :02:31.swept Rupert Murdoch's media empire and remained by his side. Today,
:02:31. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:43.Ms Brooks said she felt a deep sense of responsibility for the
:02:43. > :02:48.people News International had hurt. I am pleased that Rebekah Brooks
:02:48. > :02:53.has finally accepted responsibility for what happened on her watch as
:02:53. > :02:57.editor of the News of the World, the hacking of the phones of Milly
:02:57. > :03:00.Dowler, for example, but as I said when I called for her resignation
:03:00. > :03:05.ten days ago, this isn't just about one individual. It's about the
:03:05. > :03:10.culture of an organisation. The man picked to replace her is already at
:03:10. > :03:13.his desk. Tom Mockridge has been brought in from Sky's TV operations
:03:13. > :03:23.in Italy. Writing to all News International staff, James Murdoch
:03:23. > :03:29.
:03:29. > :03:32.thanked Ms Brooks for 22 years of Not a view echoed in the House of
:03:32. > :03:36.Lords where one of News International's more vocal critics
:03:36. > :03:41.referred to Rebekah Brooks's stated desire to remain "on the bridge."
:03:41. > :03:45.Ms Brooks, I'm told in a statement now, says she likes to be on the
:03:45. > :03:48.bridge. I was a seafarer of ten years. I wouldn't like her to be on
:03:48. > :03:53.the bridge if she didn't know where she was goes and what direction it
:03:53. > :03:57.was. That's why she's gone, thank God. This afternoon Rupert Murdoch
:03:57. > :03:59.acted to underline the apology offered by his former Chief
:03:59. > :04:04.Executive, travelling across London to meet the family who lost their
:04:04. > :04:08.daughter and who are amongst the alleged targets of his paper's
:04:08. > :04:12.phone hacking. The shock expressed by Milly Dowler's pairns and sister
:04:12. > :04:17.has fuelled a sense of national outrage. Mr Murdoch emerged after
:04:17. > :04:23.an hour to a barrage of questions. The Dowlers' lawyer eventually
:04:23. > :04:31.giving detail of their conversation. He was humbled to give a full and
:04:31. > :04:38.sincere apology to the Dowler family. We told him - the Dowler
:04:38. > :04:41.family told him that his papers should lead the way to set the
:04:41. > :04:47.standard of honesty and decency in the field and not what had gone on
:04:47. > :04:50.before. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch's signature will appear on a further
:04:50. > :04:54.apology in every one of the UK's main national papers. The News of
:04:54. > :04:58.the World, he says, was in the business of holding others to
:04:58. > :05:02.account. It failed when it came to itself. Rebekah Brooks may have
:05:02. > :05:06.left the bridge, but her role in this developing story and her
:05:06. > :05:12.forthcoming appearance with her former employers at next week's
:05:12. > :05:15.Select Committee will ensure she remains in the headlines.
:05:15. > :05:17.Rebekah Brooks had worked for News International for 22 years. Before
:05:17. > :05:24.becoming the company's Chief Executive, she edited its most
:05:24. > :05:27.popular tabloid titles. Nick Higham looks back on her career. Rebekah
:05:28. > :05:32.Brooks was closer to rup than his own daughter, some said. She was
:05:32. > :05:37.close as well to his son James, who runs his UK business, but even
:05:37. > :05:41.Rupert's patronage couldn't save her. The then-Rebekah Wade took
:05:41. > :05:46.over the News of the World in 2000. At 32 she was Britain's youngest
:05:47. > :05:50.national editor. Campaigns like that for Sarah's Law, naming and
:05:50. > :05:52.shaming paedophiles, showed she wasn't afraid of controversy and
:05:52. > :05:55.was in touch with popular feeling. The paper son the side of
:05:55. > :05:59.protecting children and not the rights of paedophiles, and I
:05:59. > :06:03.strongly believe we're on the side of the right. The public are behind
:06:03. > :06:08.us. A friend and former colleague on the News of the World says she's
:06:08. > :06:14.tough and talented. Rebekah got to the top because she is ambitious,
:06:14. > :06:19.and some people might say ruthless. Others would say talented. She was
:06:19. > :06:22.certainly a person that did stand out. Rebekah Brooks is a very well-
:06:22. > :06:26.connected woman who numbers politicians and celebrities among
:06:26. > :06:31.her friends. Her former husband is the actor Ross Kemp. She was on
:06:31. > :06:35.kissing terms with more than one Prime Minister - Tony Blair and the
:06:35. > :06:39.current incumbent, David Cameron. She would get on well with Tony
:06:39. > :06:43.Blair, potentially, with Gordon Brown, with David Cameron because
:06:43. > :06:49.they know that she actually says what she really believes and what
:06:49. > :06:53.she thinks as opposed to, like many people, what she thinks they want
:06:53. > :06:58.them to hear. Her friendships brought her access, influence and
:06:58. > :07:01.stories. But she made mistakes. This admission to Parliamentary
:07:01. > :07:06.Committee was one. We have paid the police for information in the past.
:07:06. > :07:09.Paying policemen is against the law. While her successor, Andy Coulson,
:07:09. > :07:12.resigned as editor over the phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks was
:07:12. > :07:16.promoted to News International's Chief Executive, denying all
:07:16. > :07:24.knowledge of wrongdoing. Critics weren't impressed. It's
:07:24. > :07:28.inexplicable to me that Rupert Murdoch has this strange tendres
:07:28. > :07:34.for her because actually she wasn't that brilliant an editor. For
:07:34. > :07:38.example, she turned down the huge leak about the MPs' expenses on the
:07:38. > :07:41.grounds there wasn't enough sex it in, so, of course, somebody else -
:07:41. > :07:46.the Telegraph - got the scoop. That's not really very good, and
:07:46. > :07:49.she seemed to think every story had to be about sex. No. Now the woman
:07:49. > :07:53.who had become a lightning rod for public anger at News International
:07:53. > :07:56.has gone. And there's been another
:07:56. > :07:58.development tonight with the release of the list of the Prime
:07:58. > :08:01.Minister's official guest list at his country residence Chequers. Our
:08:01. > :08:08.correspondent Robert Hall is with me now. Robert what does the list
:08:08. > :08:13.show? Well, the Government have said in the interests of
:08:13. > :08:15.transparency, they are going to publish details of the Government's
:08:15. > :08:19.contacts with senior figures in the media. This is that list. There are
:08:19. > :08:23.dozens of names on it - senior executives, journalists, all sorts
:08:23. > :08:26.of figures from TV and the newspapers. Amongst those names,
:08:26. > :08:30.Rebekah Brooks does appear in June and August of last year. The name
:08:30. > :08:34.that doesn't appear is Andy Coulson, and Downing Street in releasing
:08:34. > :08:38.this list admitted also that he had paid a visit to Chequers. He was
:08:38. > :08:42.this in March of this year. He stayed for dinner. He stayed
:08:42. > :08:46.overnight. David Cameron had said this week he had seen Andy Coulson
:08:46. > :08:52.since his resignation as Director of Communications. He said he'd
:08:53. > :08:56.seen him as a friend. They'd become friends since they worked together,
:08:56. > :08:58.and he remained a friend. Thank you. Let's turn to other news now.
:08:58. > :09:01.Police are investigating the deaths of three patients at Stepping Hill
:09:01. > :09:04.Hospital in Stockport after staff discovered vials of saline had been
:09:04. > :09:11.tampered with. A further 11 patients have been affected but are
:09:11. > :09:14.not seriously harmed. Jon Williams has the story. Staff at the
:09:14. > :09:19.hospital contacted police on Tuesday after patients on one ward
:09:19. > :09:23.were found to have unexplained low blood sugar levels. Detectives
:09:23. > :09:26.believed they were wrongly given insulin after their medication was
:09:26. > :09:33.tampered with. The police say someone had done so deliberately.
:09:33. > :09:36.Over the past two days our major incident team, having now
:09:36. > :09:43.identified potentially three suspicious deaths, one involving a
:09:43. > :09:47.44-year-old woman and two involving males in their 70s and 80s.
:09:47. > :09:52.Detectives believed viles of saline, used to treat dehydration in
:09:52. > :09:55.patients who are not able to take food or liquid orally, had been
:09:55. > :09:58.contaminated with insulin. Health Service managers say the hospital
:09:58. > :10:02.was safe. It was the staff at the hospital who brought this matter to
:10:02. > :10:06.our attention and have asked them to continue to be extra vigilant to
:10:06. > :10:13.continue to safeguard patients. We have increased security both in
:10:13. > :10:17.terms of access to the hospital and access to medicines and replaced
:10:17. > :10:24.all saline ampoules across the hospital. Patrols at Stepping Hill
:10:24. > :10:26.Hospital have been stepped up at the place police say should be most
:10:26. > :10:29.cared for. Charlie Gilmour, the adopted son of
:10:29. > :10:32.the Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for 16
:10:32. > :10:34.months for violent disorder. He was arrested last December after
:10:34. > :10:37.protests in London against student tuition fees.
:10:37. > :10:41.Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a 24-hour strike in a
:10:41. > :10:44.dispute over compulsory redundancies. The walkout began at
:10:44. > :10:54.midnight and is affecting new services on television, radio and
:10:54. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :10:58.online. The BBC says it's disappointed by the action. What do
:10:58. > :11:03.we want? Save our jobs. Pickets were outside the BBC in Cardiff
:11:03. > :11:05.today and at regional centress and radio stations across Britain. The
:11:05. > :11:09.National Union of Journalists described the strike as solid.
:11:09. > :11:13.Nobody wants to go on strike. Nobody wants to lose a day's pay,
:11:13. > :11:17.but management's attitude means they leave was no option.
:11:17. > :11:21.Television Centre in West London, managers and some non-striking
:11:21. > :11:25.staff worked on putting out news programme, but services on radio,
:11:25. > :11:30.television and the news website were affected with some programme
:11:30. > :11:34.guests refusing to cross picket lines. The strikes are over
:11:34. > :11:40.compulsory redundancies. At Bush House, headquarters of the World As
:11:40. > :11:43.far as and at the BBC's headquarters at Caversham. The NUJ
:11:43. > :11:53.says no-one should be forced to leave if they don't want to. Their
:11:53. > :12:02.
:12:02. > :12:06.management says that's not Lucy Adams, the Director of
:12:06. > :12:11.Business operations, said in an e- mail to staff today, "No business
:12:11. > :12:17.of our size could commit to such a policy." The NUJ has criticised the
:12:17. > :12:21.BBC for refusing to use ACAS to find a way forward. It calls the
:12:21. > :12:25.BBC staff "stubborn and provocative", but with the BBC
:12:25. > :12:28.license fee frozen for the next six years plans are being drawn up for
:12:28. > :12:34.big cuts across the organisation, which will mean more job losses and
:12:34. > :12:37.possibly more strikes. Eight European banks have failed
:12:37. > :12:40.tests to see how they would cope with any future financial
:12:40. > :12:48.meltdown.90 banks, including four from the UK, had their finances
:12:48. > :12:51.examined in detail by the European Banking Authority. In the past hour
:12:51. > :12:55.its been announced that five Banks from Spain, two from Greece and one
:12:55. > :12:58.from Austria failed the tests. All four UK Banks were given a clean
:12:58. > :13:07.bill of health. A couple from Falkirk have emerged
:13:07. > :13:10.as the winners of the record- breaking Euromillions jackpot.
:13:10. > :13:13.Tuesday's prize of more than o�161 million was Europe's biggest-ever.
:13:13. > :13:19.Colin and Chris Weir say "it felt like a dream" when they realised
:13:19. > :13:24.they'd won. Jonathan Baker's report contains some flash photography.
:13:24. > :13:30.They say they're just a normal family, not flashy, not celebrities,
:13:30. > :13:35.but Colin and Chris Weir, a retired cameraman and former nurse, are now
:13:35. > :13:39.one of Britain's wealthiest couples. It was after Tuesday's draw when
:13:39. > :13:43.she realised they had the winning ticket. They were still checking
:13:43. > :13:47.the numbers when dawn broke. could see the sun coming up, and it
:13:47. > :13:52.was just magical, but we still couldn't sleep. We were sort of
:13:52. > :13:57.absolutely full of adrenaline. We even opened a bottle of wine, and I
:13:57. > :14:02.don't drink, so... LAUGHTER Here come those results now. With
:14:02. > :14:07.forming came confirmation they had won Europe's largest ever jackpot,
:14:07. > :14:13.the result of weeks of rollovers. It catapults them to 430th on the
:14:13. > :14:16.rich list, ahead of Ringo Starr and Tom Jones, but still short of the
:14:16. > :14:19.combined worth of the Beckhams. They would have preferred not to go
:14:19. > :14:24.public, but didn't think they could keep their massive win secret, and
:14:24. > :14:31.they wanted to enjoy it. We're not scared of it. It's going to be
:14:31. > :14:34.fantastic, and it's going to be so much fun. They're determined to do
:14:34. > :14:39.some good with their wind fall. They don't plan to move house, but
:14:39. > :14:43.there is talk of some travel and maybe a new car. I don't think
:14:43. > :14:48.we'll be immediately swapping cars. If you've got reliable cars, what's
:14:48. > :14:57.the point? I'll be swapping cars. LAUGHTER And one of the first
:14:57. > :15:00.things they intend to buy - a Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of
:15:00. > :15:03.News International, has resigned. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:15:03. > :15:09.It's a good day for Darren Clarke at the Open Golf Championship, as
:15:09. > :15:13.he storms up the leaderboard. �15 million has been raised for
:15:13. > :15:16.victims of the worst drought in East Africa for six decades. But
:15:16. > :15:20.the Disasters Emergency Committee says it's not enough to help the
:15:20. > :15:23.estimated 10 million people who are fighting famine and disease. Our
:15:23. > :15:25.correspondent, Clive Myrie, has been travelling through some of the
:15:26. > :15:35.worst-affected areas in north- eastern Kenya, from where he sent
:15:36. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:46.This is north-eastern Kenya, one of the poorest parts of the country.
:15:46. > :15:51.The landscape, parched, the lives of its people, blighted by drought.
:15:51. > :15:56.In one hospital in the district of Habaswein, we found three-month-old
:15:56. > :16:01.Umi. She wears -- weighs barely more than a bag of sugar, less than
:16:01. > :16:08.half the weight of a healthy newborn child. Her malnourished
:16:08. > :16:15.mother meant Umi was weak at birth. TRANSLATION: My daughter is alive
:16:15. > :16:20.now, but I worry about when I have to take her home. We have so little.
:16:20. > :16:25.In the bed opposite, another mother, consumed by malnutrition. She gave
:16:25. > :16:31.birth just before we arrived at hospital, but she's grieving. Her
:16:31. > :16:37.son was buried an hour ago. Azumi clings to life, she is a source of
:16:37. > :16:45.pride and worry for her father. Later, he took us to his village
:16:45. > :16:49.and explained how the drought had wrecked lives. TRANSLATION: All our
:16:49. > :16:54.animals are dead, there is no grazing pasture, because there is
:16:54. > :16:59.no rain, so we have nothing. short walk away, rotting animal
:16:59. > :17:04.carcasses bake in the sun. This village is typical of so many
:17:04. > :17:07.communities in this part of rural north-eastern Kenya, reliant on
:17:07. > :17:12.livestock for everything. For milk and food. If the animals are sold,
:17:12. > :17:19.for an income. Normally, this area would be teeming with cattle and
:17:19. > :17:23.goats. As you can see, it is completely empty. Dusty roads
:17:23. > :17:32.around here twist through a land that hasn't seen rain for close to
:17:32. > :17:38.three years. We found an outreach clinic in this village. This boy is
:17:38. > :17:44.hot, tired and underfed. This card says he is severely malnourished.
:17:44. > :17:48.He is, yes. But with the right food supplements, he and so many others
:17:48. > :17:51.can survive. Already, the generosity of the British public
:17:51. > :17:56.means we are saving children's lives, but we can address some of
:17:57. > :18:01.the underlying causes. We can help these communities rebuild lives,
:18:01. > :18:06.restock animals, make sure when it finally rains that they managed to
:18:06. > :18:11.harvest a water and build reservoirs. Help came too late for
:18:11. > :18:15.baby Mohammed, buried at just 20 days old. The sharp twigs around
:18:15. > :18:23.his grave are to stop hyenas digging up the body. It isn't too
:18:23. > :18:25.late to save our this -- save others, if the world acts now.
:18:25. > :18:28.The main opposition groups in Libya have been recognised as the
:18:28. > :18:31.country's legitimate government by America and the alliance of
:18:31. > :18:34.countries seeking the removal of its leader, Colonel Gaddafi. The
:18:34. > :18:37.announcement came at a special meeting in Istanbul of the so-
:18:37. > :18:43.called Contact Group. Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, is
:18:43. > :18:48.here. How significant is this recognition?
:18:48. > :18:52.I think it is quite an historic day for the rebel groups. It clears the
:18:52. > :18:57.way, in principle, for the release of billions of dollars of frozen
:18:57. > :19:00.Libyan assets which have been sitting in the States, which the
:19:00. > :19:04.rebels badly need. They are strapped for cash and supplies.
:19:04. > :19:08.There are a few legal obstacles but it will clear the way for that. It
:19:08. > :19:11.comes together with condemnation of Colonel Gaddafi's government as
:19:11. > :19:13.being an illegitimate representation of the people.
:19:14. > :19:16.today, news that Britain is deploying another four Tornado
:19:16. > :19:22.aircraft to take part in NATO operations. How important is their
:19:22. > :19:26.role in the military action? They are joining 12 other Tornado
:19:26. > :19:30.aircraft that are there, bringing to 29 the total of combat aircraft
:19:30. > :19:35.that Britain has got in theatre, as it is called. They are important
:19:35. > :19:40.because underneath them, they have pods which can see ahead of the
:19:40. > :19:43.aircraft several miles ahead, and to the side. They can scan to
:19:43. > :19:47.incredible details. I have seen them in action in Afghanistan. They
:19:47. > :19:52.can tell if there are hinges on doors, which doors are open. The
:19:52. > :19:57.idea is to better locate, find and destroy Colonel Gaddafi's hidden
:19:57. > :20:01.weaponry, which is proving adept at hiding amongst foliage, houses and
:20:01. > :20:03.the civilian population. The Queen has paid tribute today to the
:20:03. > :20:06.codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park, the top secret
:20:06. > :20:10.cipher station which broke the German Enigma codes in the Second
:20:10. > :20:12.World War. She unveiled a memorial to the men and women who worked
:20:13. > :20:15.there and made such an important contribution to the victory over
:20:15. > :20:22.Nazi Germany. Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,
:20:22. > :20:26.reports. They were some of the darkest days
:20:26. > :20:29.of the Second World War, when Britain's survival was in the
:20:29. > :20:34.balance. In the Atlantic, the shipping convoys bringing essential
:20:34. > :20:38.supplies. The food without which the population would start, the
:20:38. > :20:41.munitions without which the war effort would collapse, were being
:20:41. > :20:45.sunk by German submarines. The U- boats which had a largely free rein
:20:45. > :20:50.to plunder the Atlantic convoys at will. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany
:20:50. > :20:54.was in danger of winning. Britain desperately-needed a breakthrough
:20:54. > :20:59.to survive. It happened in a secluded countryside 40 miles north
:20:59. > :21:07.of London. This is Bletchley Park, quiet and rather overlooked now. 70
:21:07. > :21:11.years ago, these prefabricated huts where the heart of Britain's secret
:21:11. > :21:15.and vital establishment. It is here that Britain broke the code of the
:21:15. > :21:18.German military. The most brilliant mathematicians, crossword experts
:21:18. > :21:22.and linguists were brought together to tackle the intercepted messages
:21:22. > :21:28.of this, the supposedly impenetrable German cypher machine
:21:28. > :21:32.it known as Enigma. The British build this, it was called colossus.
:21:32. > :21:37.This is a replica of it, and it is generally considered to have been
:21:37. > :21:41.the world's first computer. With it, codes which had taken the code-
:21:41. > :21:47.breakers six days to crack by hand, could now be broken in a matter of
:21:47. > :21:53.hours. The U-boats were sinking our food ships and weapons ships left
:21:53. > :21:58.right and centre. We would have lost the war at that juncture. It
:21:58. > :22:01.is that important, Bletchley Park. 70 years ago, such was the secrecy
:22:01. > :22:06.about Bletchley Park that the then Princess Elizabeth would have known
:22:06. > :22:11.nothing about it. Today, as Queen, she came to Bletchley Park and was
:22:11. > :22:15.shown something of the work that was done here. She met some of the
:22:15. > :22:20.surviving veterans and heard about the desperate battle they waged to
:22:20. > :22:25.break the Enigma codes. It saved countless lives. 70 years after the
:22:25. > :22:29.code-breakers of Bletchley Park worked in total secrecy, their work,
:22:29. > :22:31.which it is said shortened the war by perhaps two years, received the
:22:31. > :22:34.recognition and gratitude of the nation.
:22:34. > :22:38.Golf now, and it's been a good day for Northern Ireland's Darren
:22:38. > :22:42.Clarke at the Open Championship in Sandwich. He picked up four shots
:22:42. > :22:47.to move near to the top of the leaderboard. His fellow countryman,
:22:47. > :22:51.Rory McIlory, had another day of fluctuating fortunes.
:22:51. > :22:57.But he has moved into contention in calmer conditions. Jill Douglas
:22:57. > :23:04.reports. It was a tale of two Toms at Royal
:23:04. > :23:07.St George's. Tom Watson, and young Tom Lewis, the 20-year-old amateur
:23:07. > :23:11.who rewrote the record books by taking a share of the overnight
:23:12. > :23:16.lead. It was all a bit of a struggle early on for the younger
:23:17. > :23:20.of the two Toms, whose first round has been virtually flawless. This
:23:20. > :23:24.was an introduction to the challenges and Open Championship
:23:24. > :23:28.can present. Yesterday, Lewis, from Welwyn Garden City, made almost
:23:28. > :23:32.every part. Today was a different story. If the youngster needed a
:23:32. > :23:39.lesson in how to cope with the pressures of The Open, he received
:23:39. > :23:44.one at close hand at the 6th, where Watson the elder did this. A hole
:23:44. > :23:49.in one. The second on the course this week, and yet another chapter
:23:49. > :23:53.in Watson's incredible Open history. The American faltered but another
:23:53. > :24:00.crowd favourite, Darren Clarke, helped by this huge eagle putt, is
:24:00. > :24:06.staking a claim. You little devil! Right in the heart of the cup.
:24:06. > :24:10.had everything going on, I had good shots, poor shots, poor decisions
:24:10. > :24:16.and what have you. Overall, I am very pleased with shooting 68 Again.
:24:16. > :24:20.We got the good side of the draw. There is no breeze at all this
:24:20. > :24:25.morning. We had a good advantage on the front nine, the wind picked up
:24:25. > :24:28.for the back nine. The finish is tougher today than yesterday.
:24:28. > :24:31.of the pre-tournament favourites, Lee Westwood, failed to take
:24:31. > :24:35.advantage of the relatively calm conditions, dropping a whole host
:24:35. > :24:39.of shots. With poor weather forecast for the last two days,
:24:40. > :24:43.this wasn't a good time to start slipping out of contention, and his
:24:43. > :24:47.open could already be over. World number one Luke Donald was
:24:47. > :24:54.similarly wayward, and his search for a first Major trophy looks set
:24:54. > :24:57.to continue. As for golf's newest star, Rory McIlroy, he has been
:24:57. > :25:02.packing the galleries and is receiving fantastic support on the
:25:02. > :25:06.Kent coast. He began to move up the field with a steady performance.
:25:06. > :25:11.This putt at the 6th for a birdie. It is not all going his way and he
:25:11. > :25:14.will need some consistency and a bit of luck, to follow up his US
:25:14. > :25:20.Open win with another Major success is weaker.
:25:20. > :25:23.Our sports reporter, Andrew Cotter, is at the Open in Kent. It's been a
:25:23. > :25:28.mixed day for British and Northern Irish golfers today. Who's still in
:25:28. > :25:34.contention? First of all, Darren Clarke is
:25:34. > :25:38.there for Northern Ireland. Graeme McDowell has won the US Open, all
:25:38. > :25:42.hopes were on Rory McIlroy. Darren Clarke, the old guard, was perhaps
:25:42. > :25:52.miffed at being left out of things, so he is tied for the lead with
:25:52. > :25:56.Lucas grubber -- Glover. He has been second ant -- in The Open
:25:56. > :26:03.Championship before. Darren Clarke has got to be a man to look out for.
:26:03. > :26:09.Roy has been going a long it so so. He is just hanging in their -- Rory
:26:09. > :26:12.McIlroy has been going so-so. Lee Westwood, 4-over par, he might
:26:12. > :26:16.sneak in for the weekend but it looks as though he will miss the
:26:16. > :26:22.cut. Luke Donald, just about hanging around. A fighting
:26:22. > :26:26.performance from Tom Lewis. The 20- year-old amateur. 1-under par, he
:26:26. > :26:34.will be here for the weekend, and in prime position to take the
:26:34. > :26:42.silver medal for leading amateur. Let's take a look at the weather
:26:42. > :26:47.Be no picnic at Sandwich tomorrow. Temperatures, definitely below par
:26:47. > :26:51.for the time of year. Very damp across western parts of the country.
:26:51. > :26:56.This will extend eastwards. Drizzly rain for many of us. Not a very
:26:56. > :27:02.pleasant end to the night. The wind picks up as we head towards morning.
:27:02. > :27:06.Temperatures, 10 to 15 degrees north to south. Tomorrow morning,
:27:06. > :27:14.the rain will turn a heavier across England and Wales and the winds
:27:14. > :27:18.will pick up. Thoroughly wet and windy weather, sweeping South East
:27:18. > :27:22.Wood's -- southeastwards. It will not rain all day. Things will perk
:27:22. > :27:28.up into the early afternoon. There will be some sunshine but don't be
:27:28. > :27:32.fooled, further showers will rattle in later on in the day. Not great
:27:32. > :27:36.holiday weather, it has to be said. Further north, the rain will still
:27:36. > :27:40.be through in the morning, it will be a day of sunshine and heavy,
:27:40. > :27:45.possibly slow-moving showers. The winds across the northern half of
:27:45. > :27:48.the UK will be lighter. Prolonged rain early on, across eastern and
:27:48. > :27:52.northern parts of Scotland. For northern England, the rain will
:27:52. > :27:56.move away and will be replaced by sunshine and heavy and thundery
:27:56. > :28:00.showers. It will be a struggle for East Anglia and the south-east, the
:28:00. > :28:04.rain lingering on into the afternoon. It is not looking all
:28:04. > :28:10.that good at Sandwich. Heavy rain for a time. By the end of the day,
:28:10. > :28:14.the rain should clear away and the winds will die down a touch. Sunday
:28:14. > :28:17.looks like another windy day. Particularly wet across the north
:28:18. > :28:22.and west. Some of the rain will head towards the south.
:28:22. > :28:28.Temperatures, very disappointing indeed. No sign of the weather
:28:28. > :28:30.A reminder of our top story tonight:
:28:30. > :28:33.Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News
:28:33. > :28:36.International. She says she wants to concentrate on rebutting the