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The UK economy slows down. Officials blame the warm weather, | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
the Royal Wedding and the Japanese tsunami. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Questions over meeting economic targets, growth down to 0.2%. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
We are travelling a difficult road but it's the only road that leads | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
to that lasting prosperity, that lasting private sector recovery, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
those jobs that we all want to see. I thought his response today was | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
staggeringly complacent. Families and businesses up and down the UK | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
will say we are having a really hard time, worried about the future | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
and the Chancellor shrugs his shoulders and carries on regardless. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Also on the programme: Young lives cut short. The faces of Norway's | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
massacre victims. The killers' lawyer says he's probably insane. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
He's in a war and he says that the rest of the world, especially the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Western world, don't understand his point of view that in 60 years' | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
time we will all understand it. Drug addiction and the GPs who feed | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
the habit. A new survey raises questions about doctors | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
overprescribing. Mitch Winehouse leads tributes to | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Amy, calling her his angel daughter. Family and friends attend the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
singer's funeral. And lucky to be alive. The woman | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
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who drove off a Cornish cliff and the dramatic rescue that saved her. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Good Evening. Welcome to the BBC's news at Six. There was a fall in | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the rate of growth in the UK economy, down to just 0.2% between | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
April and June of this year. The Office for National Statistics said | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
one-off events such as the extra Bank Holiday for the Royal Wedding, | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
had dented growth. The Chancellor's said it's positive news that there | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
is growth, but Labour have hit back, saying the recovery is being choked | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
off. Here is our Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
The letters stand for Gross Domestic Product, the sum total of | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
everything that's made in the UK. It's been knocked about a bit | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
lately, with delays on production lines from the Japanese earthquake, | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
some hot weather and a certain marriage that took place in April. | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
The result: Growth of just 0.2% in the second quarter, even less than | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
before when the economy was recovering from the snow. Overall, | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
our GDP's now grown by just 0.7% in the past 12 months. The ONS says | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
growth would be half a percentage point higher without all the one- | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
off factors, but the Chancellor would still be presiding over a | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
deeply sub par recovery. You are confident in yourself that this is | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the best recovery we could be getting? Of course it is a | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
difficult route out of a very deep recession, a very big banking | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
crisis, the largest budget deficit of any major economy in the world, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
but any other route would lead to disaster because it would lead to | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
instability, concerns over Britain's ability to pay its way in | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
the world and that would lead to higher unemployment, less growth | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
and that's not a path I'm prepared to see Britain travel down. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
To the Shadow Chancellor, it's Mr Osborne that's taking the gamble. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
This is a Chancellor in denial. I have to say, I thought his response | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
today was staggeringly complacent. Families and businesses up and down | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the UK will say, we are having a really hard time, worried about the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
future and our Chancellor shrugs his shoulders and says, I'm going | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
to carry on regardless. He's looking to me, deeply, deeply out | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
of touch. So much for the talking heads in Westminster. I went to a | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
different Downing Street in Birmingham to find out how the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
recovery is going there. This glass company has invested in | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
new machines right through the downturn and managed to take on | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
workers. But the official figures ring true to the managing director. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
The last two or so years have been a step change in reduced demand and | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the recovery has just come back from people getting a little closer | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
to where they were before, so there's no underlying surge of | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
demand that we can see. The British economy's had a lot of | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
ups and downs since we started the industrial rev all those years ago. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
There had been plenty of slow recoveries, but this is proving to | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
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be the slowest in nearly a hundred Now, this is how long it could take | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
us today to get back to where we were. That is if there is no more | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
bad news. Some people say that's the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
inevitable price of the financial crisis, there's no way around it. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
But others say the Government should be doing more now to force | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the pace. The Chancellor's hemmed in by the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
fact that public spending has fallen quite rapidly. At the same | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
time, interest rates are at rock bottom, there's nowhere else for | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
them to go. So there's very little there for the Chancellor to throw | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
at the economy to get it moving again. We are not alone. The US | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
economy recently hit its own soft patch, but our recovery seems more | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
susceptible to special factors than most. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Let's go to Downing Street now and talk to our Deputy Political Editor, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
James Landale. As we saw in Stephanie's report, plenty of | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
differences between Labour and the Government, was are there questions | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
being asked now within the coalition? What's interesting is, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
on the fundamental policy of cutting the deficit, there is no | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
evidence of any real division within the coalition. You've got, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
for example, the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, making it very clear | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
today that he fully supports the pace and the depth of the spending | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
cuts that the Government's embarked upon. On the question of growth, | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
that's where there are diveriant voices beginning to emerge. You | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
have the Liberal Democrats like Mr Cable saying, what you need is to | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
inject more money into the economy with more quantitive easing. On the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
other side of the fence, you have the Conservatives, particularly the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, saying you want tax cuts, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
reductions in things like national insurance to try and make it easier | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
for companies to try to employ people or perhaps reducing the top | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
rate of tax so Britain's more attractive to foreign companies to | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
locate here. Now, George Osborne and David Cameron spent the day | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
denying Flatley reports that they are at odds themselves over any | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
future growth strategy, although it's interesting when you talk to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
them both about tax, Mr Osborne's willing to contemplate the idea of | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
tax changes in the future, but Mr Cameron's much more reluctant to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
get into that. I think the bottom line though for today's figures is | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
this - they don't actually change the fundamental political landscape. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
The recovery is clearly feeble, the Government is clearly under | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
pressure to do more, but at the moment, that pressure is not | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
overwhelming, at least not for now. All right, James, thank you. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
The Norwegian lawyer who's been asked to defend Anders Behring | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Breivik says self-confessed killer is probably insane. Breivik | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
apparently believes he was fighting a war to defend the Western world. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
In the last hour, the Norwegian authorities have started to publish | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
some of the names of Breivik's 76 victims. From Oslo, James Robbins | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
reports on the aftermath of the attack and what's known about the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
man behind it. The official naming of Norway's | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
dead is under way. A shocking reminder that most | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
victims were children or very young adults. Among them is this 20-year- | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
old model and talented dancer. The youngest killed in the massacre is | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
believed to be just 14. Amongst those tipped as future stars was a | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
21-year-old described by the Prime Minister as one of the country's | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
most promising youth politicians. Among those missing after trying to | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
swim away was a talented speaker who addressed a Labour Party | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Conference in April and 45-year-old Monica Bosei who ran the summer | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
camp at Utoeya for years. This is their self-confessed killer, Anders | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Behring Breivik. Today the lawyer defending him described him as | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
insane. This whole case has indicated he's | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
insane. Have you asked him? He's in a war, he says the rest of the | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
world, especially the Western world, don't understand his point of view | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
that in 60' years time, we will all understand him. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
He called Breivik very cold and was asked if he showed any remorse? | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
says that he is sorry that he had to do this, but it was necessary to | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
start a revolution in the western world. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
An exchange of text messages between a 16-year-old girl and her | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
mother at the height of the attack has been released by the family. | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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The teenager believes Breivik is a The girl survived the massacre. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
This is part, just part of Norway's response to all that, the spreading | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
sea of flowers outside Oslo Cathedral. Norwegians say they are | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
determined to prove the killer utterly wrong in every way, wrong | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
for what he did of course, but also wrong if he really believed the | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
massacre would destroy Norway or start some sort of revolution. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Some Norwegians are critical of the police and Government. The police | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
for taking for too long to reach the island, the Government for | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
failing to provide helicopters for a ra id -- rapid response. I don't | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
think this could have gone faster, I can't see how that could be | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
possible within this distance and under these conditions. So we will | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
always try to be better but I can't see how we could have done this | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
faster. For now though, Norway's focus is | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
on the dead and those still missing. Each evening, the police will | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
release more names as the terrible process of identifying all who've | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
Norway's Justice Minister has praised the Security Services for | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
their response to Breivik's twin attacks last Friday. But four days | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
on, there are questions about whether the police were quick | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
enough to get to the island where the killer went on the rampage. It | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
was left to local people to help the traumatised teenagers. Our | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, has been talking to some of the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
rescuers. Across from the island where so | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
many died, there are people still waiting with young people still | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
missing. What is emerging here is the story | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of those rescued and questions about the police' response. The | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
heart of this rescue was a campsite and their small boats. This couple | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
launched their boat to help people swimming from the island where a | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
man dressed as a policeman was hunting their friends down. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
The first thing was that they don't trust us, they shout from the water | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
"can I trust you?" and we had to make some comfort to them to say | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
"yes, you can trust me". The gunman roamed the island for over an hour. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Many of the young people were using their mobiles to call for help. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Someone had to call the police and then some other girl said, "you | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
don't need to, we have but they don't believe us". The injure wrd | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
drif tonne a nearby town where the police were waiting for assault | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
units to arrive from Oslo. The police roadblock terrified those | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
rescued -- the injured were driven to a nearby town. There was a | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
policewoman there with black suit and gun and all the seven people in | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
my car were screaming in shock, they shouted at me "don't stop, | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
drive, drive", because that's how the guy was dressed. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
When the police swat teams arrived, they used a local police boat, but | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
it was too small for them, quickly took on water and broke down. So | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
they had to turn to private boats like this in order to make it | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
across to the island where the gunman was. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
This was the boat eventually used by the swat teams. They captured | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
the gunman after just two minutes. It was a press helicopters that | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
took this picture of Breivik on the island, but the police helicopters | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
was way to the south and the police teams travelled by road. The local | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
community is reluctant to criticise the police' response, but it is the | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
people of a small campsite who were the rescuers of shivering and | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
injured young people. I have seen things that nobody | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
should have to see. The overriding problem was that the gunman had | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
calculated that by setting off an explosion in Oslo, he would draw | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
the police there while he had time to massacre young people at a | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
summer camp. Here, the BBC's learned that many | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
family doctors routinely prescribe anti-depressants, sleeping pills | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
and and painkillers, even though they suspect the patients may have | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
an addiction to the drugs. The shocking find ition from the Family | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Doctors Association also revealed that many GPs are aware of the | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
issue but find it difficult to help -- findings from the family doctors | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
association. Claire Marshall has the details. In America they call | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
it farm Ged don, hundreds are dying from the use of prescription drugs. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
For Rachel, it began with prescription prozac and diazepam | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
for anxiety and depression. No monitored the amount she was taking. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
She's remembering a friend who died abusing prescription drugs. I would | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
take the whole dose in two days then ring up the doctor and say, | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
I've lost my prescription and get it replaced and do the same again, | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
do it in two days. When I run out, I would buy it. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Such abuse is on the increase. So this is codeine, you can get it on | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
prescription or buy it over-the- counter. What you might know know | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
is it's in the same family as heroin, they both produce a | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
physical addiction. Today's figures are startling. Of a survey of 200 | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
GPs in the UK, nearly 80% prescribe to people who may be addicted and | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
more than half are worried about the buy bues and that more research | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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At a time it hit the wrong thing, but he did try to do the best how | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
our patients. We neat the research. How did you used to get hold of the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
prescription drugs? I would go to people and ask them for their | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
painkillers and give them money. They could get a refill right away. | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
Even before the prescribed time, they could get one. Darren is now a | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
counsellor. He is seeing more and more people with the same addiction. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
People sit in their homes at night, swallowing tablets, knowing they | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
have a problem, but the pride, fear and shame surrounding it means it | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
does not come to the surface. is no centralised system for | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
recording prescriptions and with proposed changes to GP practice | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
boundaries in England and Wales, it could become even easier to shop | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
around for prescription drugs. Good night, my angel, sleep tight. | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Those were the words of Amy Winehouse's father at her funeral | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
today. Family and close friends attended the Service in North | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
London. Mark Ronson and Kelly Osbourne were among the mourners. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
After the dramas of her life, it has ended with a quiet family | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
funeral in North London. Her father Mitch Winehouse, her brother Alex, | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
her mother, Janis. The ranks of photographers lining the walls of | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
the crematorium reminded that this was the funeral of Amy Winehouse, a | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
talented pop star, famous for her voice, songwriting but also her | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
troubled life. Among the mourners, her manager, her friend Kelly | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Osbourne as well. Both had known her at her lowest. While the world | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
knew the pop star, they were remembering her daughter, a friend. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Her producer, Mark Ronson, said he had lost his soulmate, someone that | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
was like a sister to him. As he and other mourners left the service, we | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
were told how Mitch had talked about her headstrong youth and how | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
she had conquered her drug addiction recently but not her | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
drinking. The service ended with the words, good night, my angel, | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
sleep tight. Mummy and daddy love you ever so much. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Our top story tonight: The Chancellor George Osborne has | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
defended his handling of the economy, after new figures show the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
economy growing at just 0.2% in the last quarter. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
And coming up, lucky to be alive. The woman who drove off a Cornish | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
cliff as the brave jogger who found her car. I did not think there | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
would be anybody inside, so I climbed down, expecting it to be | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
empty, but there was an ad in the passenger seat. -- her lady in the | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
passenger seat. The boss of the IMF warns America | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
but the clock is ticking to deal with its debts. | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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And why BP profits disappoint It was one of the worst nights of | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
violence that Northern Ireland has seen in years. Two weeks ago, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
petrol bombs, bricks and bottles were thrown at police during a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
nationalist demonstration in the Ardoyne area, in protest at an | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Orange Order parade. Today police have released previously unseen | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
footage of the riot. The runaway car that could have | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
caused carnage in Belfast. The burning vehicle was being pushed | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
towards police lines, but the rioters lost control. The car was | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
on a hill and it could not be stopped. The plan had been to turn | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
right at this corner. That is where the police were positioned. But the | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
car kept going straight on, into a wall and into a garden. That did | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
not stop the rioters. Even though the vehicle was full of petrol, | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
they tried to push it back towards the police, oblivious to the | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
dangers. There is no doubt whatsoever this vehicle could have | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
exploded in the middle of what you can see is at least 100 people. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Mostly young teenagers, bystanders, and there were children present. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
The potential was this vehicle could have exploded. It ran out of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
control in among the crowd and it could have exploded, resulting in | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
numerous casualties. The riot took place two weeks ago, in one of the | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
most heavily populated parts of North Belfast, the nationalist | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
Ardoyne district. Violence broke out after an Orange Order parade | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
near the area. Police decided to release the CCTV footage to show | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
how much damage the rioters did to their own area, and how much worse | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
it could have been. Two weeks on, life on this street has returned to | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
normal, but what happened here has caused alarm. Some of those | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
involved in the violence were just 13 years old. Either they did not | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
realise the dangers involved, or they simply did not care. Nobody | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
was killed in a riot. Most of the injuries were minor. But the | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
outcome could have been very different. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
And staying in Northern Ireland, five men have been arrested by | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
detectives investigating the murder of a Catholic policemen in a car | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
bombing in County Tyrone. Ronan Kerr was 25 and he was killed when | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car outside his home in Omagh | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
in April. The Trinity Mirror Group which | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
publishes the Daily Mirror has launched a review of its editorial | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
controls and procedures. A spokesman for the company said the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
review was not in response to claims that the Mirror was involved | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
in phone hacking. The company has denied those allegations. | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
The Government has been ordered to make public confidential files | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
about the Hillsborough stadium disaster. It follows a Freedom of | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Information request by the BBC to release details of discussions with | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
the then Prime Minister of Margaret Thatcher. Some campaigners believe | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
she was trying to protect the reputation of the police. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
The M4 motorway in South East Wales has partly reopened in the last | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
hour, after being closed in both directions for most of the day | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
following a fire in the Brynglas tunnels at Newport. A lorry fire | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
badly damaged the westbound Tunnel, which authorities say is likely to | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
remain shut for the for sealable future. | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
It has emerged that George Osborne has met executives from Rupert | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Murdoch's company 16 times since the general election in May last | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
year. One of the meetings was with Rupert Murdoch himself, just before | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Ofcom was trying to decide whether to recommend the bid for BSkyB to | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
the Competition Commission. Our correspondent is at Westminster. | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
How embarrassing will this be for the chance a, politically? The well, | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
it is one meeting per month since the general election with | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
executives from Rupert Murdoch's company. In that sense, it is quite | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
a lot. George Osborne is met other people, too, in 38 meetings. This | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
represents about 30% of his meetings with media organisations. | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
Compare that to Ed Miliband, he is just above at 31%. They are in the | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
same ballpark area, but George Osborne is in Government and people | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
are worried that the decisions over the News Corp bid for BSkyB up were | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
being taken in Government without proper transparency. Labour have | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
not publish their details of their shadow cabinet meetings with needy | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
organisations since the elections, but they promise to do so. -- media | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
organisations. And Jeremy Hunt, who took over responsibility of | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
adjudicating that bid, met James Murdoch twice in January of this | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
year. The Government are promising to publish the minutes of that | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
meeting in due course. People will be poring over them, to see if | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
there is any nod or a wink to what was being discussed at those | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
meetings. The Cabinet minister with the highest amount of face time | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
with Rupert Murdoch was Michael Gove, six separate meetings with | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Rupert Murdoch himself since the general election. This one is not | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
going away yet and when the minutes come out, people will be looking to | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
see if there is any hint whatsoever that there was improper discussion, | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
something which the culture secretary himself denies. Thank you. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
An extraordinary tale of survival and bravery. A woman plunged over | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the side of a Cornish cliff in her car but was rescued after spending | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
the entire night on the cliff side. The car was discovered by a jogger | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
this morning perched on a slope at St Agnes headland. Let's go live to | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
St Agnes now. George, you can see just how steep | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
this cliff is. The car has now been removed. A beautiful evening | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
tonight, but yesterday it was very misty, and it is thought that the | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
car came over the edge, flipped over, bounced two or three times, | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
before coming to rest just metres from the edge. After 18 hours, | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
clinging to a cliff face, this was the moment the driver knew that it | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
was going to be OK. But there was drama right until the end. The | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
alarm was only raised this morning when a job that saw the car | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
teetering on the edge. He scrambled down and was amazed to find | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
somebody inside. She said that she was here yesterday afternoon at 4 | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
o'clock, when it was very misty, and she missed the road and started | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
to tumble down the cliffs. She got thrown into the passenger seat when | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
she was tumbling down. By the grace of God she stopped before the | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
cliff-edge. It is only from the air that you get the sense of the | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
horror of the situation. The car's precariously balanced position is | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
stomach-churning. Just imagine being trapped, not just for hours, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
but in the dark and the cold overnight, never knowing if the car | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
was about to topple over. And for the emergency services, this is not | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
the kind of rescue that they are used to dealing with. This is very | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
unusual. It is just one of those accidents when it happens and | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
nobody knows how or why. We often have people stuck on cliffs that | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
have attempted to climb up and realised that they cannot make it. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
That is our usual work on these cliffs, but to find a car is very | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
unusual. The woman was airlifted to hospital in Truro where she | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
underwent treatment for minor injuries. The car did not fare | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
quite so well, however. The driver is believed to be a woman in her | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
fifties. I have spoken to the hospital tonight and they say she | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
is recovering well after receiving some treatment. If anything, she | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
seems bewildered at the amount of attention that her escape is | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
getting. A gorgeous evening in Cornwall, how | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
So it was not to everyone's taster day, but it was sparkling in | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Northern Ireland. -- taste today. There will be some changes in | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
Aberdeen, where it has been cool, and cloudy. Elsewhere, there is a | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
lot of cloud. Clearer skies further West. Temperatures tonight will be | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
similar to last night, possibly down to single figures in Scotland. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
A lot of cloud for central and eastern areas of England for most | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
of the day. That finger of cloud and rain arrived from the West, | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
into Scotland. For the rest of England it will be dry, brightening | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
up to the East of the Pennines in the afternoon. The odd shower | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
possible to the East of London. Through the Midlands, some | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
brightness and sunshine at times. Sunnier spells into the South West | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
of England, but some cloud arrives in the end of the afternoon. A warm | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
day in Wales, with plenty of sunshine and light winds. In | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Northern Ireland, this is the change, the rain coming across from | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
the West and reaching Belfast by 6 o'clock in the evening. Some rain | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
coming into the western mainland of Scotland, but a warm day in | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
Inverness and Aberdeen, 20 degrees in the sunshine. By the evening we | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
have got some rain in Aberdeen. To the South East it will be bright | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
and warm on Thursday. On Friday there is more cloud in southern | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
England with even some showers, but further North it will be dry and | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
bright. Temperatures by the end of the week, nearer average for this | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
time of year. All of the details are available online and fire the | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
red button. Our main news tonight: George | :29:03. | :29:07. |