:00:07. > :00:11.Regrets and the benefit of hindsight, the Prime Minister
:00:11. > :00:16.admits he would not have employed Andy Coulson had he known then what
:00:16. > :00:20.he knows now. David Cameron says he is extremely sorry for the furore
:00:20. > :00:25.caused by his decision to hire the former News Of The World editor.
:00:25. > :00:28.course I regret and am extremely sorry about the furore it has
:00:29. > :00:32.caused, and with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed I would
:00:32. > :00:38.not have offered him the job and I expect that he would not have taken
:00:38. > :00:42.it. It is not about hindsight, Mr Speaker, it is not a bad weather Mr
:00:42. > :00:47.Coulson lied to him, it is about the information and warnings that
:00:47. > :00:51.the Prime Minister ignored. As Rupert Murdoch flew out of
:00:52. > :00:57.Britain, the Prime Minister faced repeated questioning about his role
:00:57. > :01:00.in News Corporation's bid for BSkyB. Also, a nurse is arrested on
:01:00. > :01:05.suspicion of murder following the deaths of three patients at a
:01:05. > :01:12.hospital in Greater Manchester. A key moment in Afghanistan as
:01:12. > :01:17.British troops hand over control of how man's capital to Afghan forces.
:01:17. > :01:20.And the pressures of going for Olympic gold, we follow a Namibia
:01:20. > :01:26.athlete in pursuit of a London 2012 dream.
:01:26. > :01:30.And in Sportsday, the two captains meet at Lord's ahead of the 100
:01:30. > :01:40.meeting of England and India. At stake is the right to be regarded
:01:40. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:55.Good evening. For weeks, he has defended his
:01:55. > :01:58.decision to hire the former News Of The World editor Andy Coulson, but
:01:58. > :02:01.today David Cameron admitted that with hindsight he would not have
:02:01. > :02:06.employed him as head of communications. During a heated
:02:06. > :02:09.emergency debate in the Commons this afternoon, he told MPs that he
:02:09. > :02:14.regretted and was extremely sorry for the furore caused by appointing
:02:14. > :02:18.Mr Coulson in 2007. He said Andy Coulson assured him he knew nothing
:02:18. > :02:21.about phone hacking, but if it turned out that was a lie, the
:02:21. > :02:26.Prime Minister would make a profound apology. Nick Robinson has
:02:26. > :02:30.more. A friend in need is a friend until
:02:30. > :02:34.they become a massive political headache. David Cameron has always
:02:35. > :02:39.defended his decision to give Andy Coulson a second chance, until,
:02:39. > :02:43.that is, today. With 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed,
:02:43. > :02:48.I would not have offered him the job, and I expect that he would not
:02:48. > :02:53.have taken it. But you do not make decisions in hindsight, you make
:02:53. > :02:59.them in the present. You live and to learn, and believe you me, I
:02:59. > :03:03.have learned. The Prime Minister said he was extremely sorry for the
:03:03. > :03:08.furore Andy Coulson's appointment had caused. But was he ready to say
:03:08. > :03:13.sorry for hiring him? Not yet, at least. If it turns out I have been
:03:13. > :03:18.lied to, that would be a moment for a profound apology. And in that
:03:18. > :03:22.event, I could tell you I will not fall short. Few expected him to go
:03:22. > :03:28.that far, but it simply was not far enough for the Labour leader.
:03:28. > :03:34.is not good enough, because people... It is not about Tyneside,
:03:34. > :03:38.Mr Speaker, it is not about whether Mr Coulson lied to him, it is about
:03:38. > :03:42.the information and warnings that the Prime Minister ignore.
:03:42. > :03:47.warnings Ed Miliband claimed came before and after David Cameron
:03:47. > :03:51.moved into Number Ten. On that day, his director of communications
:03:51. > :03:57.tried very hard to keep a low profile. It was a plan that would
:03:57. > :04:00.not last long. It is 8pm on Monday 6th September. Police are to
:04:00. > :04:04.examine fresh claims about phone hacking by the News Of The World.
:04:04. > :04:08.Last autumn a New York Times investigation into phone hacking
:04:08. > :04:13.claimed Andy Coulson knew about it, something he has always denied
:04:13. > :04:17.vehemently. Despite the paper's claims, Coulson was not fired and
:04:17. > :04:21.only left Number Ten many weeks later with the Prime Minister's
:04:21. > :04:26.praise ringing in his ears. Prime Minister was caught in a
:04:26. > :04:31.tragic conflict of loyalty. Between the standards and integrity that
:04:31. > :04:37.people should expect of him and his staff, and his personal allegiance
:04:37. > :04:42.to Mr Coulson. He made the wrong choice. There were questions, too,
:04:42. > :04:46.about the Prime Minister's over choice of friends. His many
:04:46. > :04:49.meetings with News International bosses, with Rebecca Brooks, and
:04:49. > :04:56.with Rupert Murdoch, who left London today on the morning after
:04:56. > :05:01.the most humble day of his life. Prime Minister, did he ever discuss
:05:01. > :05:07.the question of the BSkyB bid with News International at all of the
:05:07. > :05:13.meetings they attended? I never had won in appropriate conversation.
:05:13. > :05:19.was the third time of asking, and Labour did not like the answer.
:05:19. > :05:23.completely took myself out of any decision-making about this bid. I
:05:23. > :05:28.had no role in it, I had no role in mind the announcements were to be
:05:28. > :05:33.made. In increasingly confident mood, David Cameron accused Labour
:05:33. > :05:37.of hiding their close relationships with the Murdoch empire. The great
:05:37. > :05:42.contrast is I have set out all of the contacts and meetings that I
:05:42. > :05:46.have had in complete contrast to the party opposite, and I can say
:05:46. > :05:50.this to the honourable gentleman, I have never held a slumber party or
:05:50. > :05:54.seen her in her pyjamas. David Cameron says he has an old-
:05:54. > :05:59.fashioned view that a man is innocent until proven guilty, but
:06:00. > :06:03.today he tried to separate his fate from Andy Coulson's.
:06:03. > :06:06.Nick Robinson is in Westminster for us. Another big day in the Commons
:06:06. > :06:11.and a big day for the Prime Minister. What is your assessment
:06:11. > :06:14.of how he fed? I think he fared well in convincing
:06:14. > :06:19.his backbenchers that he could escape the quagmire of frack Gate.
:06:19. > :06:23.I said a couple of days ago that his problem in this story was that
:06:23. > :06:29.he could not own higher Andy Coulson. Today he tried at least
:06:29. > :06:34.verbally to do that. To say, what is a statement of the obvious, that
:06:34. > :06:38.if he had no what was to be, he would not have done it in the first
:06:38. > :06:42.place. That will not satisfy those who say he ignored warnings and
:06:42. > :06:47.that there are still questions, but today, there was not a single piece
:06:47. > :06:52.of concrete evidence that made it impossible for David Cameron to
:06:52. > :06:56.move on. Before the Tories breathed a huge sigh of relief, remember
:06:56. > :07:01.this, there will be more cases in this hacking inquiry. Today the
:07:01. > :07:06.police hired more officers in order to do that, and therefore there
:07:06. > :07:09.will inevitably be more days, more debates, more difficulties, as the
:07:09. > :07:15.Prime Minister is reminded of a judgment he now tells us he wishes
:07:15. > :07:19.he had never made. Nick Robinson, thank you very much.
:07:19. > :07:22.As Rupert Murdoch and his wife flew out of Britain this afternoon, News
:07:22. > :07:26.Corporation announced it will stop paying with immediate effect legal
:07:26. > :07:31.fees for Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed four
:07:31. > :07:33.years ago for plotting to intercept voicemail messages. It was the fact
:07:33. > :07:41.they were paying theirs is that came as quite a surprise, wasn't
:07:41. > :07:45.it? Four months -- four months, journalists including myself had
:07:45. > :07:48.been asking News International but that they were still playing the
:07:48. > :07:54.legal costs for Glenn Mulcaire. He was the private investigator who
:07:54. > :07:59.did the hacking of phones on behalf of News Of The World and he was
:07:59. > :08:05.imprisoned in 2007 on hacking charges. So the fact that he was
:08:05. > :08:10.still being subsidised by News International was genuinely, too
:08:10. > :08:13.many people, shocking, and one of the things that is extraordinary is
:08:13. > :08:16.that it took six months on the moment when News Of The World said
:08:16. > :08:22.it would start co-operating with the police until today for the
:08:22. > :08:26.company to say it will stop paying his expenses. It tells you that the
:08:26. > :08:31.clean-up of this company is still at an early stage. Rupert Murdoch
:08:31. > :08:35.has gone back to America today. He knows that there is more bad news
:08:35. > :08:39.to come, he knows he will face quite a lot of increased pressure
:08:39. > :08:43.on his own position. The most interesting statement for me that
:08:43. > :08:47.he made in the last 24 hours came from one of the most influential
:08:47. > :08:51.shareholders in the US, who say they will campaign for complete
:08:51. > :08:56.change in the way that the company is owned. They want all of the
:08:56. > :08:59.shares to have votes, which would dramatically undermine the power of
:08:59. > :09:04.Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family if they are successful.
:09:04. > :09:08.Thank you very much. Detectives investigating the deaths
:09:08. > :09:14.of three patients at a hospital in Stockport have arrested a nurse on
:09:14. > :09:16.suspicion of murder. 27-year-old Rebecca Leighton from the Heavily
:09:16. > :09:20.area works at Stepping Hill Hospital. The deaths are being
:09:20. > :09:26.linked to a saline solution which police believe was deliberately
:09:26. > :09:30.contaminated with insulin. Ed Thomas is outside the hospital.
:09:30. > :09:35.This has been a very difficult day, not just for patients, but for
:09:35. > :09:39.staff who work here. Rebecca Leighton was arrested less than two
:09:39. > :09:44.miles from the hospital, and today the family of 84-year-old George
:09:44. > :09:48.Keep, one of the three people to die year, say they are aware an
:09:48. > :09:54.arrest has been made, but also say they are totally in shock about
:09:54. > :09:59.what happened here. At 6am on this road, Rebecca
:09:59. > :10:03.Leighton, a nurse at Stepping Hill, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
:10:03. > :10:06.While neighbours watched, she was taken of it. I was born at Stepping
:10:06. > :10:10.Hill Hospital and have been following the story, then it is on
:10:10. > :10:16.my door step. It is a shock. arrest of a colleague has been
:10:16. > :10:19.difficult to take at the hospital. Every door you bought in, there is
:10:19. > :10:22.security. This nurse did not want to show her face and we have
:10:22. > :10:27.disguised her voice. She cannot understand how anyone could
:10:27. > :10:30.contaminate medicine. I do not know how we could run through someone's
:10:30. > :10:34.head in the first place to do it. It is sick. It makes me
:10:34. > :10:39.uncomfortable about coming to work, because you get questioned every
:10:39. > :10:45.time you go in and have to sign him when you go on the ward. So far, we
:10:45. > :10:49.know that on 7th July Tracey Arden died at Stepping Hill. Four days
:10:49. > :10:53.later, Arnold Lancaster also died. The next day, police were called
:10:53. > :10:59.after a nurse discovered a high number of patients with unexplained
:10:59. > :11:03.low blood sugar levels. Then, on the 14th, great grandfather George
:11:03. > :11:09.Keep died. All three had been given saline ampoules that had been
:11:09. > :11:13.contaminated with insulin. The security has now increased. Saline
:11:13. > :11:18.is kept in a locked room and medics worked in pairs to administer all
:11:18. > :11:22.drugs. It is some comfort for patients like Dorothy Potter, who
:11:22. > :11:27.was treated on the wards where saline was contaminated. What were
:11:27. > :11:32.the nurses like with you? Absolutely wonderful, night and day.
:11:32. > :11:38.How do you feel about this? I feel very disappointed for everybody,
:11:38. > :11:42.really. Forensic work is still being carried out at Rebecca
:11:42. > :11:47.Leighton's home while detectives tried to find out exactly how these
:11:48. > :11:52.three patients died. That forensic work is expected to
:11:52. > :11:56.go on for quite a while yet. We have still got the tight security
:11:56. > :12:00.here. Rebecca Leighton is still being questioned by detectives, and
:12:00. > :12:03.we are still waiting for these post-mortem examination results
:12:03. > :12:08.before we can finally find out exactly what happened here.
:12:08. > :12:12.Thank you. The United Nations says famine will
:12:12. > :12:16.spread across Somalia within two months unless the international
:12:16. > :12:20.community sends more aid to the region. Famine has been declared in
:12:20. > :12:25.two areas of southern Somalia which have been ravaged by conflict and
:12:25. > :12:29.the worst drought in East Africa for more than half-a-century. Our
:12:29. > :12:34.Africa correspondent Andrew Harding sent this report.
:12:34. > :12:39.Now it is official, Somalia is sinking into famine. It is the
:12:39. > :12:43.first time that compelling word has been deployed in almost 20 years.
:12:43. > :12:47.The United Nations is hoping it will jolt the world into action as
:12:47. > :12:55.thousands of Somalis continued to flee a lethal combination of
:12:55. > :13:03.drought, conflict and poverty. Since I was here, in 1992, when I
:13:03. > :13:07.look around, and I see yet again, these are resilient people.
:13:07. > :13:13.substantial aid operation is underway, supplies arriving in
:13:13. > :13:17.neighbouring Kenya. But the UN is asking for an extra �185 million
:13:17. > :13:22.immediately. The international response has been mixed. Britain
:13:22. > :13:28.has given �23 million to Somalia this year, the United States barely
:13:28. > :13:35.half of that. Germany and France on 3 and 1 print �6 million are among
:13:35. > :13:39.those accused of ignoring the alarm bells -- �1.6 million. The response
:13:39. > :13:42.from other countries has been sometimes derisory and dangerously
:13:42. > :13:47.inadequate. Britain is setting a good lead and we expect others to
:13:47. > :13:52.contribute. There are signs today that others are beginning to put
:13:52. > :13:58.their shoulders to the wheel, but we need that to happen rapidly.
:13:58. > :14:01.money is not the only problem here. Famine has taken hold in areas
:14:01. > :14:06.controlled and influenced by a militant is met -- Islamist group,
:14:06. > :14:12.Al-Shabab. They have made it too difficult for aid groups to operate
:14:12. > :14:15.directly. They say a ban has been lifted, but the politics are lifted
:14:15. > :14:20.and -- the politics are complicated and the aid is not getting there
:14:20. > :14:28.fast enough. And so familiar images of hunger and homelessness, and the
:14:28. > :14:32.predictable scramble for money and access as famine bites into Somalia.
:14:32. > :14:37.If you would like to make a donation to the Disasters Emergency
:14:37. > :14:44.Committee appeal for East Africa, you can call the DEC on their heart
:14:44. > :14:52.line, the number is 0370 60 60 900. You can also visit their website,
:14:52. > :14:56.Our top story tonight: the Prime Minister admitted that in hindsight,
:14:56. > :15:00.he would not have employed former News Of The World editor Andy
:15:00. > :15:04.Coulson. Coming up, smuggled out of India -
:15:04. > :15:10.the ketamine normally used by vets has become one of the most popular
:15:10. > :15:15.illegal party drugs in Britain. Later on the BBC News Channel, a
:15:15. > :15:19.warning on private pensions. Could bad advice and high costs leave
:15:19. > :15:29.people are at risk? And Airbus snapped up an order from
:15:29. > :15:32.American Airlines, beating its British troops have handed over
:15:32. > :15:38.responsibility for security for the capital of Helmand Province to
:15:38. > :15:41.Afghan forces. British forces have been Lashkar Gah since 2006. 24
:15:41. > :15:44.service personnel have been killed there. It is one of the most
:15:44. > :15:52.challenging areas in this first wave of transition from
:15:52. > :16:00.international to Afghan government forces.
:16:00. > :16:04.A moment of national pride. Afghans taking responsibility for their own
:16:04. > :16:08.security. This ceremony is designed to send the message that they are
:16:08. > :16:13.up to the job. But the British soldiers who have helped train them
:16:13. > :16:19.and who will now step back still have concerns, not least about
:16:19. > :16:22.corruption within the Afghan police. There is some illicit income
:16:22. > :16:26.generation and allegations of corruption, and we would be foolish
:16:26. > :16:31.to deny that. But we want to eradicate that from the police. If
:16:31. > :16:36.we get it wrong, the police could push locals away. He even if
:16:36. > :16:40.Afghanistan manages to root out corruption, huge challenges remain.
:16:40. > :16:44.This is Bamiyan, another province just handed over to the Afghans.
:16:44. > :16:51.Unlike Helmand, there has been little fighting here for the past
:16:51. > :16:58.ten years. Bamiyan is still waiting for the dividends of peace. Around
:16:58. > :17:02.half the population does not have enough to eat. Malnutrition and
:17:02. > :17:06.diarrhoea are the biggest killers here, not bombs and bullets.
:17:06. > :17:11.International aid keeps this hospital going, and the biggest
:17:11. > :17:16.worry is what will happen when the foreign troops leave. The pressure
:17:16. > :17:21.is now on the Government to win the trust of its own people. There will
:17:21. > :17:26.be lots of concerns. We acknowledge the concerns, but our job is to
:17:26. > :17:31.change our institutions and perceptions. This, in theory, is
:17:31. > :17:36.the easy phase. The transition of just a few less violent parts of
:17:36. > :17:45.the country. For NATO, it marks the beginning of the end, the exit
:17:45. > :17:48.strategy that will see all British combat troops leave by 2015. If
:17:48. > :17:56.transition does not succeed in Lashkar Gah or Bamiyan, what hope
:17:56. > :17:59.for the rest of Afghanistan? The president of the European
:17:59. > :18:03.Commission has warned that history will judge Europe's leaders harshly
:18:03. > :18:07.if they fail to find a solution to the financial crisis facing the
:18:07. > :18:11.Eurozone. Jose Manuel Barroso said that if leaders gathering for
:18:11. > :18:15.tomorrow's summit in Brussels did not respond decisively, the
:18:15. > :18:19.negative consequences would be felt throughout Europe and beyond. How
:18:19. > :18:25.Europe Editor is in Brussels. A stark warning from the head of the
:18:25. > :18:31.European Commission, but finding a solution will be a challenge? To
:18:31. > :18:35.absolutely. This summit is crunch time for the euro. And the whole
:18:35. > :18:39.financial world will be watching. There are two main challenges.
:18:39. > :18:44.Firstly, Greece needs a second bail-out. Secondly, and Greece's
:18:44. > :18:48.debts have mushroomed to 360 billion euros, and they need
:18:48. > :18:51.bringing down. Some measures are easy to agree, like reducing the
:18:51. > :18:55.interest that Greece pays on its loans, but there are sticking
:18:55. > :18:59.points. In the past, the taxpayer has stood behind these bail-outs,
:18:59. > :19:03.but the German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that is unfair and she
:19:03. > :19:08.wants private investors, the banks and pension funds both to support
:19:08. > :19:15.the second bail-out and to help reduce those debts. If those banks
:19:15. > :19:20.end up taking big losses, some will say that is a default. That would
:19:20. > :19:25.unsettle markets across Europe. There is one other big fear here.
:19:25. > :19:32.Say it proves difficult helping Greece. What about Italy, a much
:19:32. > :19:37.bigger economy? It also has huge debts, 120% of GDP. If they have
:19:37. > :19:42.difficulties tomorrow, it will put further pressure on Italy. If Italy
:19:42. > :19:46.runs into trouble, that could threaten the survival of the
:19:46. > :19:49.Eurozone. So much is at stake here tomorrow.
:19:50. > :19:53.It is a drug that is normally used by vets to tranquillised horses,
:19:53. > :19:57.but ketamine has now become one of the most popular illegal party
:19:57. > :20:00.drugs in Britain. It can have devastating effects. A BBC
:20:00. > :20:08.investigation has discovered that much of it is being smuggled into
:20:08. > :20:13.the UK from India. In Delhi, everybody is looking to
:20:13. > :20:20.do a deal. Ketamine is manufactured in India as an animal tranquilliser,
:20:20. > :20:24.but its growing popularity is as an illegal party drug. Away from here,
:20:24. > :20:28.the city's pharmaceuticals market, we discovered ketamine being traded
:20:28. > :20:34.on the black market. Harsh Chaudhary is a pharmaceutical agent
:20:34. > :20:44.who advertises on the internet. Smuggling of the Holy so telegenic
:20:44. > :20:53.
:20:53. > :21:03.At a meeting that night, he reveals that he smuggles the ketamine out
:21:03. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:07.And then he hands over a small plastic bag, hidden inside a napkin.
:21:07. > :21:12.It is clear that he is keen to do business. He even gave us a free
:21:12. > :21:17.sample. This is ketamine, the drug he says he is already illegally
:21:17. > :21:23.exporting from India into Britain. In the UK, Chris Francis is serving
:21:23. > :21:27.time for drug dealing, and ketamine has left him scarred for life.
:21:27. > :21:32.have racecard there. His abuse of the jokes are badly damaged his
:21:32. > :21:36.bladder that it had to be removed. You start off with stomach cramps.
:21:36. > :21:39.Then there is not being able to urinate. So you start sniffing more
:21:39. > :21:46.to get rid of the stomach cramps, which was why they were there in
:21:46. > :21:52.the first place. Then you start urinating lumps of Q and blood.
:21:53. > :21:58.Ketamine has also led to a small but growing number of deaths. This
:21:58. > :22:03.woman's son had taken the drug when he killed himself last year. It is
:22:03. > :22:08.a very dangerous drug, and needs to be reclassified. You feel so
:22:08. > :22:15.helpless. You cannot sleep or eat. You have to do something to stop
:22:15. > :22:21.somebody else going through this. In less than a decade, the number
:22:21. > :22:25.of clubbers who said they had used ketamine went up from 20% -- 25% to
:22:25. > :22:30.68%. It is a class C drugs, the lowest of the categories for
:22:30. > :22:34.controlled substances. Tomorrow's report says this classification
:22:34. > :22:40.does not accurately reflect its known and potentially severe harms.
:22:40. > :22:44.There is a debate about this. Our evidence shows that changing
:22:44. > :22:49.Classification does not change people's use of the drug. Back in
:22:49. > :22:55.India, we are going to meet the man who has offered to sell us ketamine,
:22:55. > :23:01.but not to make a deal. Do you know the damage done by ketamine? Do you
:23:01. > :23:07.understand? It is doing major damage to people. Yeah. Do not
:23:07. > :23:11.care? No. For Delors, the main concern about ketamine is the price.
:23:11. > :23:16.But for users, the real worry is the long-term damage to their
:23:16. > :23:20.health. The Queen has attended a service to
:23:20. > :23:24.honour the memory of the British servicemen and women who were
:23:24. > :23:28.killed in 2010. All 112 troops who died in the line of duty last year
:23:28. > :23:31.were remembered in the ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum in
:23:31. > :23:36.Staffordshire. Most died as a result of injuries sustained in
:23:36. > :23:40.Afghanistan. It is just over a year until Monday
:23:40. > :23:45.2012, and the race is on to make the games next summer. This week,
:23:45. > :23:49.the News at Six is focusing on some of the hopefuls. Tonight, it is the
:23:49. > :23:53.turn of 19-year-old Namibian sprinter Merlin Diamond. She has
:23:53. > :23:56.been sponsored to train at a high- performance centre on the island of
:23:56. > :24:01.Mauritius. Our correspondent has been finding out how injury and
:24:01. > :24:09.homesickness are hampering her preparations.
:24:09. > :24:13.I have really big hopes. I want to be the first Libyan be an --
:24:13. > :24:19.Namibian to bring a gold medal home. Big dreams have big momentum when
:24:19. > :24:24.the sun shines. But Merlin -- Merlin Diamond is far from home and
:24:24. > :24:28.her family. And training has not been perfect. She is on an
:24:28. > :24:31.internationally sponsored training programme and in Mauritius until
:24:31. > :24:37.2012, but the centre's facilities are rudimentary and she has had a
:24:37. > :24:42.setback with a hamstring injury. Just go on the track now and do
:24:42. > :24:45.some light jogging. Despite the injury, there is still a drainage -
:24:45. > :24:54.- daily training schedule, which is overshadowed by the feeling that
:24:54. > :24:58.time is not on her side. It is just around the corner. So it is putting
:24:58. > :25:04.a lot of pressure on me. Now I am more worried about getting back on
:25:04. > :25:09.track again. If I am back on track again, I can see my goal. I can see
:25:09. > :25:14.where I am heading. The life of an athlete can be fraught with ups and
:25:14. > :25:18.downs. For Merlin Diamond, it also means she has thousands of miles
:25:18. > :25:22.from home, but she has an injury to contend with which forces her to
:25:22. > :25:26.sit on the bench when all she wants to do is one. Watching what she
:25:26. > :25:31.cannot do, she cuts a forlorn figure. It is a far cry from the
:25:31. > :25:35.heady days when her dreams were forged in the face of tragedy. She
:25:35. > :25:39.has been sponsored by a white Namibia and couple whose own two
:25:39. > :25:46.athlete daughters died in a car crash. From humble beginnings, she
:25:46. > :25:51.has been given the chance to excel on an international stage.
:25:51. > :25:57.Alongside the hope of Olympic success is the weight of loneliness
:25:57. > :26:04.carried by this teenage sprinter. have been here for at least three
:26:04. > :26:11.months. So yeah, getting to miss people back home. Then I get out
:26:11. > :26:14.there as if nothing happened. only has a year, and she must hope
:26:14. > :26:22.that the tranquillity of being on this island will give her the
:26:22. > :26:32.result she needs. If you want to find out more about
:26:32. > :26:35.
:26:35. > :26:39.Marilyn Diamond and the athletes we Now the weather.
:26:39. > :26:44.It was a good one for cloud spotters today. The atmosphere is
:26:44. > :26:49.in a volatile state. This is a funnel cloud. There were a few of
:26:49. > :26:52.these in the Midlands. If it had reached the ground, it would have
:26:52. > :26:56.been a tornado. There are no reports of tornados yet, but it
:26:56. > :27:00.shows how unstable the atmosphere is. Tonight, the showers will fade
:27:00. > :27:07.away, but a few are continuing across northern England, where
:27:07. > :27:11.there are some heavy ones. Many places stay dry, if cloudy.
:27:11. > :27:18.Temperatures are getting into single figures, so it will be a
:27:18. > :27:23.cool night. Another fresh start to a fresh day. No heatwave. A lot of
:27:23. > :27:32.cloud again, and showers will bubble up. More sunshine than many
:27:33. > :27:37.of us saw today. The south-west of England is not doing too badly. The
:27:37. > :27:42.far west of Wales is OK, too. But in the east, sharper showers will
:27:42. > :27:47.develop. Across Northern Ireland and Scotland, largely dry, albeit
:27:47. > :27:51.rather cloudy. You will be unlucky if you catch a shower. Most of
:27:51. > :27:55.those are across the higher ground in Scotland. The north-eastern
:27:56. > :28:00.parts of England, fewer showers. Most of them will be further west.
:28:00. > :28:04.For the Midlands, East Anglia and much of southern England, some
:28:04. > :28:08.heavy and slow moving showers. That means for the first Test at Lord's,
:28:08. > :28:12.there is every chance of interruptions. The same applies to
:28:12. > :28:17.Friday. The showers linger into the end of the week across many parts
:28:17. > :28:24.of the south-east. Elsewhere, the showers gradually fade away by
:28:24. > :28:31.Saturday. Most places should be dry. Tonight, there is the great British