:00:08. > :00:13.New revelations in the phone hacking scandal. Police tell Sarah
:00:13. > :00:18.Payne's mother she was a target. The eight-year-old was abducted and
:00:18. > :00:22.murdered 11 years ago, her mother Sara is devastated and critics of
:00:22. > :00:26.the paper say it's a new low. Sometimes you think how could this
:00:26. > :00:30.story get worse, what worse thing is there that the News of the World
:00:30. > :00:34.could have done? Then suddenly another thing lands on your plate.
:00:34. > :00:38.The paper's former boss, Rebekah Brooks, befriended Sara Payne and
:00:38. > :00:42.backed her campaign for a new law on child protection. It's emerged
:00:42. > :00:46.tonight that the phone was given to Sara Payne by the News of the World.
:00:46. > :00:49.Also tonight: Bigger pension bills for public
:00:49. > :00:54.sector workers, more than two million will see their
:00:54. > :00:57.contributions rise. It looks around about �900 a year
:00:57. > :01:02.between us to find. We are very worried about that because
:01:02. > :01:06.everything's going up and we've got a pay freeze for at least two years.
:01:06. > :01:13.After the Panorama revelations, the care watchdog has serious concerns
:01:13. > :01:17.about other homes run by the same company. Gangsters and their ill-
:01:17. > :01:23.gotten gains. A record haul of confiscated assets as Ministers
:01:23. > :01:33.announce a new strategy. I will have all the sport as Ellen
:01:33. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:53.Gandy wins silver for Britain at Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:53. > :01:56.News at Six. Police have told Sara Payne, whose daughter Sarah was
:01:56. > :01:59.murdered by a paedophile eleven years ago, that she was on a list
:01:59. > :02:02.of people whose phones may have been hacked. Her name appears in
:02:02. > :02:05.notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, the investigator employed by the News
:02:05. > :02:08.of the World. According to the Guardian newspaper the phone used
:02:08. > :02:14.by Sara Payne for campaigning to establish a new law on child
:02:14. > :02:22.protection was a gift from the News of the World. Tom Symonds' report
:02:22. > :02:26.contains flash photography. Perhaps it seemed this astonishing affair
:02:26. > :02:30.no longer had the capacity to shock, but the allegation this evening is
:02:30. > :02:35.that a bereaved mother who worked alongside the News of the World,
:02:35. > :02:38.alongside its former editor, was all along one of its victims. Sara
:02:38. > :02:43.Payne's charity was contacted last night to be told her details were
:02:43. > :02:53.in the notebooks of phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire. In a statement it
:02:53. > :02:56.
:02:56. > :03:00.The last night of the News of the World, and its last edition. Sara
:03:00. > :03:04.Payne had previously been told she was not a hacking victim. She
:03:04. > :03:11.agreed to write an article for this final issue. She described the
:03:11. > :03:14.tabloid as a force for good, and an old friend. And Rebekah Brooks,
:03:14. > :03:18.former editor of the News of the World, describes Sara Payne as her
:03:18. > :03:22.dear friend. The two worked together to campaign for Sarah's
:03:22. > :03:27.Law, the public right to know where paedophiles are living. The
:03:27. > :03:32.newspaper gave Sara Payne a mobile phone. The Guardian claims it's
:03:32. > :03:42.this phone that was illegally accessed. Tonight Rebekah Brooks
:03:42. > :03:48.
:03:48. > :03:53.If all that's true it's just hypocrisy, complete and utter
:03:53. > :03:57.hypocrisy. And it makes you despair, doesn't it, of modern journalism.
:03:57. > :04:01.11 years after the murder of her daughter, Sara Payne's name is
:04:01. > :04:05.added to a long list of potential hacking victims and this
:04:05. > :04:10.investigation is far from over. Tom is here now.
:04:10. > :04:13.We know Sara was a target, will we find out if she was actually hacked
:04:13. > :04:16.into her phone? Not really until this police investigation comes to
:04:16. > :04:19.a conclusion. What's almost certainly happened is the police
:04:19. > :04:24.have contacted her and said her phone number is in the book, but
:04:24. > :04:27.probably some other information, like a voicemail messaging pin
:04:27. > :04:30.number, some other detail, because lots of people have their phone
:04:30. > :04:33.numbers or names in Mulcaire's files, but the police tend to only
:04:33. > :04:38.say somebody's been a potential victim if there's more there that
:04:38. > :04:42.they can go on. That will have to wait for. Also, it's interesting to
:04:42. > :04:46.know who might have done this. Rebekah Brooks statement seems to
:04:46. > :04:50.suggest she didn't know, that nobody she knows of in the newsroom
:04:50. > :04:54.knew about that. But we do know that Mr Mulcaire was commissioned
:04:54. > :04:58.to do phone hacking by potentially a number of people, therefore, the
:04:58. > :05:01.police will be trying to get to the bottom of who knew this was going
:05:01. > :05:05.on, if it was, and who commissioned that act of accessing the phone.
:05:05. > :05:08.These new revelations on the very day that Lord Justice Leveson
:05:08. > :05:13.announcing how he will carry out his inquiry. Yes, one of many
:05:13. > :05:17.inquiries that we are going to have over the next year into this whole
:05:17. > :05:20.incredible affair. Lord Justice Leveson said it will take about a
:05:20. > :05:23.year before he can really start getting to the point where he is
:05:23. > :05:29.approaching his findings, but his hearings will start in September
:05:29. > :05:31.looking at the shall aou of how the press reacts and interrelates with
:05:31. > :05:35.the public and he has a problem because there are police
:05:35. > :05:38.investigations going on which he can not interfere with, so it's
:05:38. > :05:48.going to be a slow build-up this inquiry to the point where we start
:05:48. > :05:51.
:05:51. > :05:54.getting down to the real nitty- gritty of what went on.
:05:54. > :05:56.The company that owned the care home at the centre of shocking
:05:56. > :05:59.revelations on Panorama has been told that there are serious
:05:59. > :06:02.concerns about some of its other services. The care quality watchdog
:06:02. > :06:06.says the problems are not on the same scale as those discovered at
:06:06. > :06:07.Winterbourne View, but called for root and branch reforms at the
:06:07. > :06:09.parent company Castlebeck. Our correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti
:06:09. > :06:14.reports. These scenes of people with learning disabilities being
:06:14. > :06:17.hit, slapped and abused shocked all who viewed them. Filmed secretly by
:06:17. > :06:24.Panorama they led to the Care Quality Commission inspecting all
:06:24. > :06:27.the services in England run by its owner, Castlebeck. The QCQ unveiled
:06:27. > :06:32.serious concerns about four places today, although not on the same
:06:32. > :06:38.scale as Winterbourne Sraou. They include Rose Villa where they
:06:38. > :06:40.couldn't be sure people's privacy, dignity and independence were
:06:40. > :06:44.always respected and another where people weren't always properly
:06:44. > :06:48.protected from physical and emotional harm.
:06:48. > :06:52.The Prime Minister on a visit to Bristol reminded Castlebeck of what
:06:52. > :06:56.could happen if it didn't improve. If care home providers aren't up to
:06:56. > :06:59.shape, then they should be properly criticised and have homes taken
:06:59. > :07:02.away from them if they don't do the job properly. How we care for our
:07:02. > :07:06.elderly and other people who need care is vitally important. I would
:07:06. > :07:10.agree it does appear very damming and I would agree with most of the
:07:10. > :07:13.recommendations they've put forward. I think over the course of the last
:07:13. > :07:16.six months, since I have taken over as chief executive, we had already
:07:16. > :07:21.started looking at a series of changes that we needed to make
:07:21. > :07:26.within the organisation. Terry worked at Winterbourne View
:07:26. > :07:29.And blew the whistle on what was going on. He says people with
:07:29. > :07:36.learning disabilities shouldn't be locked up for long periods. Some
:07:36. > :07:39.were here for many years. There's nothing worse, the people feel
:07:39. > :07:43.forgotten. It's a closed society. It's locked.
:07:43. > :07:47.Winterbourne View is now closed and its patients elsewhere. But while
:07:47. > :07:51.the company running it, Castlebeck, has come under close scrutiny,
:07:51. > :07:56.experts say the problems identified in its homes are very likely to be
:07:56. > :07:59.found in similar places run by other private sector companies.
:07:59. > :08:02.These disturbing images have prompted the watchdog to carry out
:08:02. > :08:12.another bigger review, this time not just of Castlebeck, but of the
:08:12. > :08:13.
:08:13. > :08:16.whole sector. Millions of civil servants, doctors,
:08:16. > :08:20.nurses and teachers have found out how much more their pensions will
:08:20. > :08:22.cost. The lowest paid will see no rises, but everybody else will face
:08:22. > :08:25.rises of up to �3,000 for the highest earners. The Government
:08:25. > :08:28.says the increases are needed because people are living longer,
:08:28. > :08:33.but critics argue that the money is going straight to the Treasury to
:08:33. > :08:37.help cut the deficit. Here's our industry correspondent, John Moylan.
:08:37. > :08:42.They've known for months that their pensions were going to change, some
:08:42. > :08:45.even went on strike, but today 2.5 million teachers, civil servants
:08:45. > :08:51.and health workers found out how much extra they're likely to have
:08:51. > :08:57.to pay from next April. As the details emerged Kim Barnes, a
:08:57. > :09:01.teacher, went online to calculate how much extra she will have to to
:09:01. > :09:04.contribute and it's left her facing a stark choice. As a teacher I am
:09:05. > :09:09.going to find it difficult to keep paying into the pension plan if
:09:09. > :09:12.increases continue so I will have to consider opting out. How much
:09:13. > :09:17.workers will pay will depend upon what they earn and what they do.
:09:17. > :09:23.For those earning up to �15,000, nothing will change. But a nurse
:09:23. > :09:29.earning around �21,000 will have to find an extra �126 a year.
:09:29. > :09:38.A teacher on �35,000, will pay around �420 extra.
:09:38. > :09:41.An NHS consultant on �130,000 will have to pay more than �3,000 more.
:09:41. > :09:45.The moves will help the Chancellor tackle the deficit, but as he
:09:45. > :09:48.launched a new enterprise zone in Birmingham today he insisted that
:09:48. > :09:53.the pensions would remain among some of the most generous available.
:09:53. > :09:57.You are going to get among the best pension you can get in Britain, but
:09:57. > :10:01.because we are all living longer, you are going to have to make a
:10:01. > :10:04.contribution to that, as well. I think that's fair to them, they get
:10:04. > :10:06.a great pension, which many people in the private sector will be
:10:06. > :10:11.jealous of, but it's fair to taxpayers and that's why we are
:10:11. > :10:15.doing it. In total the Government wants to save �2.8 billion from the
:10:15. > :10:20.cost of public service pensions, but these proposals will only get
:10:20. > :10:23.it about a third of the way there. That means nurses, teachers and
:10:24. > :10:28.civil servants will likely have to pay even higher contributions
:10:28. > :10:32.towards their pensions in the years ahead.
:10:32. > :10:35.The announcement led some unions to warn of a repeat of last month's
:10:35. > :10:40.strike. They deny that pensions have become unaffordable, the NHS
:10:40. > :10:45.scheme, for example, takes in more cash each year than it pays out.
:10:45. > :10:49.They're being told to work longer, pay more, and get less, even though
:10:49. > :10:53.all the evidence, some independent experts, is we should not have to
:10:53. > :10:55.do that. If the Government isn't prepared to change direction we
:10:55. > :10:59.anticipate large-scale strikes in the autumn. Today, one union leader
:10:59. > :11:02.said that the Government's tactics were putting talks on pensions in
:11:02. > :11:06.jeopardy. Those talks are due to be completed by October, but with so
:11:06. > :11:12.much to be agreed, that timetable is starting to look increasingly
:11:12. > :11:14.difficult. Let's go live to our political
:11:14. > :11:18.correspondent Vicky Young at Westminster. This is going to turn
:11:18. > :11:21.up the heat in relations between the Government and the unions,
:11:21. > :11:26.they're already pretty bad. Yes, that's right. The unions voicing
:11:26. > :11:29.that in no uncertain terms, they're irritated about the timing of this.
:11:29. > :11:32.They say negotiations are ongoing and this undermines that and if you
:11:32. > :11:37.listen to the language from some of the union leaders, saying the
:11:37. > :11:40.Government has used crude and naive tactics, a lack of negotiating
:11:40. > :11:44.skills and one even saying the talks were in jeopardy. They're
:11:44. > :11:47.also irritated because they say this amounts to a tax on public
:11:47. > :11:51.sector workers, they say this money goes back to the Treasury and they
:11:51. > :11:54.use that to reduce the deficit which they say they didn't nothing
:11:54. > :11:57.to cause. But the Government says it's about fairness, at the end of
:11:57. > :12:00.the day public sector workers will still have decent pensions, some of
:12:00. > :12:04.the best available in the country. They say they have to balance that
:12:04. > :12:08.with fairness for the taxpayer, many who work in the private sector
:12:08. > :12:11.and don't have that guarantee. Ministers also saying it shouldn't
:12:11. > :12:14.come as a surprise because even under the last Labour Government
:12:14. > :12:17.they knew higher pension contributions were coming and
:12:17. > :12:21.hanging over all of this is the threat of strike action, one one
:12:21. > :12:29.union leader saying today that was likely to happen in November.
:12:29. > :12:32.Thank you. At least 20 people have been killed
:12:32. > :12:34.and dozens more injured in a triple suicide attack on a government
:12:34. > :12:36.compound in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed
:12:36. > :12:38.responsibility for the attacks in Tarin Kot, which targeted the
:12:38. > :12:41.police headquarters and deputy governor's office. One of the
:12:41. > :12:51.victims has been named as the BBC journalist Ahmad Omid Khpalwak, who
:12:51. > :12:54.worked for the Pashto Service. An inquest into the deaths of three
:12:54. > :12:56.British soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan soldier has returned a
:12:56. > :12:59.verdict of unlawful killing. Major James Bowman, Lieutenant Neal
:12:59. > :13:09.Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun were killed during an attack at
:13:09. > :13:13.their base in Helmand Province last year. Their commanding officer paid
:13:13. > :13:17.tribute to all three men at the inquest. I relied on all these men
:13:17. > :13:23.and they never failed to give anything less than their all. They
:13:24. > :13:29.did so not for me, or for themselves, but for the soldiers
:13:29. > :13:33.that they led. They leave behind a hole that can never be filled. And
:13:33. > :13:38.the loss experienced by their families and loved ones is
:13:38. > :13:44.unfathomable. Our correspondent is at the coroners court now. What do
:13:44. > :13:49.we know about the circumstances in which these men died? Well, the
:13:49. > :13:54.attack took place at a parol base in Helmand in the early hours of
:13:54. > :13:59.the morning. Their assailant was a sergeant in the Afghan national
:13:59. > :14:05.army. Lieutenant Turkington and Corporal Pun were in the operations
:14:05. > :14:09.room tent and died of multiple gunshot wounds. Major Bowman was
:14:10. > :14:14.killed in his tent as he slept and others injured. The key question
:14:14. > :14:22.was whether the Army had failed in its duty properly to protect these
:14:22. > :14:29.men from the risks posed by the soldiers with whom they were
:14:29. > :14:33.embedded. The coroner said there was no evidence of any systemic
:14:33. > :14:37.failure on the part of the Army to protect these men while they were
:14:37. > :14:42.in a British base. He recorded verdicts of unlawful killing while
:14:42. > :14:50.on active service and ended the inquest by paying tribute to all
:14:50. > :14:52.three men. Thank you. Just two weeks after
:14:52. > :14:55.their wedding, as their Caribbean honeymoon was drawing to a close,
:14:55. > :15:01.newlyweds Ben and Catherine Mullany were shot dead. Three years on, two
:15:01. > :15:04.men have been found guilty of their murder. The Mullanys, from South
:15:04. > :15:14.Wales, were shot during a dawn raid at their luxury holiday chalet.
:15:14. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:20.Catherine was a qualified doctor and he was training as a
:15:20. > :15:26.physiotherapist, but on the final night of their honeymoon a violent
:15:26. > :15:29.robbery stole life away from them. The jury was unanimous in finding
:15:29. > :15:34.Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin are guilty of the killings. It has
:15:34. > :15:38.taken three years for them to be brought to justice, await their
:15:38. > :15:44.parents found difficult to bear. A statement was read on their behalf.
:15:44. > :15:47.There is no joy at today's verdict, just a sense of relief that after
:15:47. > :15:51.three years of waiting there is justice for our children and the
:15:51. > :15:56.hope these two individuals can never again inflict the same
:15:56. > :16:01.anguish and devastation to any other family as they have two hours.
:16:01. > :16:05.Their cabin was chosen at random by their killers. They shot the couple
:16:05. > :16:10.in the back of the head and raided the bedrooms save before making off
:16:10. > :16:15.with Ben's mobile telephone. That stolen telephone help to link one
:16:15. > :16:23.of the killers to the crime. A day after it was taken, Avie Howell
:16:23. > :16:30.started to use it and the records proved he was here just a few yards
:16:30. > :16:34.from the hotel minutes after the shooting. Antigua's waters draw
:16:34. > :16:37.thousands of newly weds here every year, but the murders have had an
:16:37. > :16:47.impact on tourism. The Government is keen to prove they are tackling
:16:47. > :16:51.crime. Antigua and Barbuda are very safe places to be. We have beefed
:16:51. > :16:57.up our law enforcement and hour surveillance. We have tried to
:16:57. > :17:02.strengthen the police force as best we can. The two men who murdered
:17:02. > :17:06.Ben and Catherine Mullany will be sentenced in September. Avie Howell,
:17:06. > :17:12.a teenager at the time of his killings, may spend the rest of his
:17:12. > :17:17.life in prison. Kaniel Martin may face the death penalty. The
:17:17. > :17:21.victims' families say they will never comprehend the killings and
:17:21. > :17:30.how their lives were taken for a handful of cash and a mobile
:17:30. > :17:33.telephone. Our top story tonight: New
:17:33. > :17:39.revelations in the telephone hacking scandal. Police tell Sarah
:17:39. > :17:44.Payne's mother she was a target. Coming up: The National Museum of
:17:44. > :17:54.Scotland reopens tomorrow after a major refit. Thousands of unique
:17:54. > :18:10.
:18:10. > :18:14.treasures are on show for the first Hollywood studios have won a legal
:18:14. > :18:18.battle against online piracy. A High Court has ruled that BT should
:18:18. > :18:22.block its customers from using the website accused of flagrant
:18:22. > :18:31.copyright infringement. As our technology correspondent reports,
:18:31. > :18:35.it is a landmark case that could set an important precedent. For the
:18:35. > :18:45.movie industry it was a courtroom drama which ended in a victory in
:18:45. > :18:45.
:18:45. > :18:51.its battle against online piracy. If you want to get hold of a film,
:18:51. > :18:56.you can pay for a DVD or download it for nothing from the internet.
:18:56. > :19:01.This site, Newzbin, based in the Seychelles, has links to more than
:19:01. > :19:06.70 copies of that film alone, along with all kinds of other movies,
:19:06. > :19:15.music and games. Now BT has been told it must stop its internet
:19:15. > :19:21.customers from getting access to the site. At momentum pictures,
:19:21. > :19:24.they were celebrating. They say piracy is not a victimless crime.
:19:24. > :19:29.Without the money we make legitimately from consumers, these
:19:29. > :19:35.films may not get made. If you allow piracy to get out of control,
:19:35. > :19:39.you end up in that situation where the money is not there and the sums
:19:39. > :19:43.are not getting made. Nobody argued in court that Newzbin was not
:19:43. > :19:48.giving access to all sorts of pirated material. The question was
:19:49. > :19:54.whose job it was to stop that. Now the judge has ordered BT, and by
:19:54. > :19:57.implication all internet providers, to block access to the website.
:19:57. > :20:01.Internet freedom campaigners say that ruling could send us down a
:20:01. > :20:06.dangerous road. The concern is that consumers' freedom to roam where
:20:06. > :20:11.they like on the Web will now be curtailed. It is pointless and
:20:11. > :20:15.dangerous. Pointless because it will not work to stop serious
:20:15. > :20:20.infringements, and dangerous because there are risks of
:20:20. > :20:24.degradation and slowing down of the service. Newzbin's owners say they
:20:24. > :20:29.are confident they can get around any blocking measures and critics
:20:29. > :20:33.of the ruling State for every site that is blocked another will pop up.
:20:33. > :20:40.But movie-makers say without protection from pirates a whole
:20:40. > :20:44.industry is under threat. Sports cars, diamond rings and
:20:44. > :20:49.designer shoes were among more than �1 billion worth of assets
:20:49. > :20:51.confiscated from organised crime gangs last year. Ministers who
:20:51. > :20:55.unveiled a new organised crime strategy for England and Wales
:20:55. > :21:01.today say they want to make it easier for the police to seize
:21:01. > :21:06.criminal assets. The Government says organised crime
:21:06. > :21:10.is a growing menace from the drug trade that blights people's lives,
:21:10. > :21:15.to the human traffickers who enslave young women. Insurance
:21:15. > :21:20.scammers are made premiums unaffordable and internet was as
:21:21. > :21:26.empty people's bank accounts. Where is a new organised crime strategy
:21:26. > :21:30.for England and Wales to begin? This morning, it began at a house
:21:30. > :21:34.in Darlington where police arrested four people suspected of
:21:34. > :21:38.involvement in various scams. Under the new strategy if convicted,
:21:38. > :21:42.there would be a greater risk of having their assets seized and
:21:43. > :21:46.businesses closed down. It will hit the where it hurts and deprive them
:21:46. > :21:51.of their lifestyle and tell them there is no place to hide. Last
:21:51. > :21:56.year, police confiscated or froze a record �1 billion worth of
:21:56. > :22:00.criminal's possessions. This is where it all ends up, a police were
:22:00. > :22:04.how a spot of just the kind of luxury goods you would expect a
:22:04. > :22:11.gangster to spend his money on. But seizing the profits is only half
:22:11. > :22:14.the battle. There is a plan to pool the resources of the Border Agency,
:22:14. > :22:20.and Revenue and Customs. The Government was to target the dodgy
:22:20. > :22:24.accountants and bent lawyers used by criminals. The strategy will be
:22:24. > :22:28.co-ordinated under the new national crime agency.
:22:28. > :22:33.By looking at the intelligence, by being focused, by understanding the
:22:33. > :22:36.problem more clearly, we are better able to target resources to
:22:36. > :22:40.identify those individuals and therefore ensure they are
:22:40. > :22:46.disruptive. But there is no extra money and critics say without that
:22:46. > :22:51.it will be hard to keep up with the criminals. Tackling global crime is
:22:51. > :22:56.like pushing a boulder up the hill. You may get somewhere on some of it,
:22:56. > :22:59.but the ball is going to roll back down again and the technology means
:22:59. > :23:04.people doing bad things will be ahead of the game almost all the
:23:04. > :23:10.time. It will be a major effort to keep pace with it, let alone stop
:23:10. > :23:16.it. Police budgets are already being cut by 20% and no amount of
:23:16. > :23:18.luxury goods seized from gangsters will plug that particular hole.
:23:18. > :23:23.Policing are always say they have finished the search for the bodies
:23:23. > :23:28.of those killed in a mass shooting on the island of Utoeya on Friday.
:23:28. > :23:32.But they cannot confirm whether all those missing have been found.
:23:32. > :23:35.Anders Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the attacks, is in
:23:35. > :23:39.solitary confinement and will be questioned again tomorrow.
:23:39. > :23:44.Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, has announced half-
:23:44. > :23:49.yearly profits of �1.3 billion, down sharply on the same period in
:23:49. > :23:53.2010 as a result of rising wholesale costs. It has already
:23:53. > :23:57.announced plans to raise gas and electricity prices next month.
:23:57. > :24:02.Veterans who took part in nuclear tests almost 60 years ago have been
:24:02. > :24:05.granted permission by the Supreme Court to appeal for damages. More
:24:05. > :24:09.than 1000 former servicemen blame their involvement in nuclear
:24:09. > :24:15.weapons testing in Australia in the 1950s for years of ill-health and
:24:15. > :24:19.birth defects in their children. The MoD denies negligence.
:24:19. > :24:22.The first colour TV and a 37 ft totem pole are among some of the
:24:22. > :24:28.unique items on display for the first time in decades at the
:24:28. > :24:31.National Museum of Scotland. It is opening its doors tomorrow after a
:24:31. > :24:35.multi-million-pound refurbishment. Our Scotland correspondent James
:24:35. > :24:40.Cook is there. They are preparing for an opening
:24:41. > :24:45.dinner at the National Museum of Scotland tonight. Unlike other
:24:45. > :24:50.national museums here they bring together natural history, arts and
:24:50. > :24:55.science and a one, spectacular Ruth. It is an encyclopaedia in three
:24:56. > :25:00.dimensions. This is the story of a restless people and a restless
:25:00. > :25:04.nation. Scotland's heritage of invention and discovery put this
:25:04. > :25:10.small country on the map. The power of the steam engine revolutionised
:25:10. > :25:13.industry. John Logie Baird's television changed the lives of
:25:13. > :25:18.millions and as the Victorian Scots set out into the world they sent
:25:18. > :25:23.back treasures from afar. origins of the collections came
:25:23. > :25:27.from Scots as great inventors, explorers and colonial missionaries.
:25:27. > :25:32.A lot of them brought things back to Scotland and donated them to the
:25:32. > :25:36.museum. In many ways the stories we tell here are in part for the story
:25:36. > :25:41.of Scotland's engagement with the rest of the world. There are also
:25:41. > :25:45.all the tales like T Rex in the Natural History gallery. There are
:25:45. > :25:50.stories of survival and some of the exhibits have survived for decades
:25:50. > :25:54.in the freezer and some date back to the 19th century. Now they are
:25:54. > :25:59.being used again to teach the theory of evolution. Charles Darwin
:25:59. > :26:04.once lived on the side of the museum. He was a student in
:26:04. > :26:09.Scotland, but Alexander Fleming was the real McCoy. His Nobel Prize for
:26:10. > :26:14.discovering penicillin is a gem in this eclectic collection. We have a
:26:14. > :26:20.chance to remake the universal museum that was the dream of the
:26:20. > :26:23.Victorian period to bring lots of subjects together and to give
:26:23. > :26:27.people a waiter in -- understand the inter-connectedness of nature
:26:27. > :26:34.and people and science. Scotland has a rich literary tradition as
:26:34. > :26:38.well. Edinburgh was a very great printing centre. One of its airs
:26:38. > :26:41.his Alexander McCall Smith. What does this say about Scotland today?
:26:41. > :26:46.I think this opening is very significant in that it demonstrates
:26:46. > :26:50.there is a spirit of confidence in Scotland. Whatever happens
:26:50. > :26:57.politically, it will encourage people to perhaps take a more
:26:57. > :27:01.optimistic view of the future. 8000 exhibits both small and large,
:27:01. > :27:08.the curators hope more than 1 million visitors a year will come
:27:08. > :27:12.here to gaze in wonder. Four out of five of those 8000
:27:12. > :27:16.objects have not been seen for a generation or more, so that might
:27:16. > :27:21.bolster the numbers of visiting even further. So might one other
:27:21. > :27:25.thing, entry is free to this museum. That is interesting because the
:27:25. > :27:30.funding has come from a variety of sources, the lottery, the Scottish
:27:30. > :27:35.Government, but also from private donations, and they exceeded the
:27:35. > :27:38.target by �1 million. It may be that we expect even a further
:27:38. > :27:48.improvements in this museum in years to come.
:27:48. > :27:53.Whereas Scotland was a hot spot yesterday, it is a different story
:27:53. > :27:58.today. This cloud is associated with a weather front which has been
:27:58. > :28:03.bringing some patchy rain eastwards. There it is right now across parts
:28:03. > :28:09.of northern England. This central slab will have a lot of cloud and a
:28:09. > :28:15.bit of dampness on either side. Drier and quite misty across some
:28:15. > :28:19.areas, but not the extensive fog that we saw last night. Mild and
:28:19. > :28:26.remaining in double figures. Where the sun comes out it will feel warm.
:28:26. > :28:32.But there is a risk of one or two showers. That might mean a delayed
:28:32. > :28:36.start at Trent Bridge. It will sink surfers, but most of the range will
:28:36. > :28:40.fade away and many places can look forward to some brightness in the
:28:40. > :28:45.afternoon. A lot of sunshine across northern England, feeling
:28:45. > :28:49.pleasantly warm and in Scotland as well. The best of the brightness
:28:49. > :28:54.and the temperatures will be further south-west. A decent state
:28:54. > :28:59.to come across Northern Ireland. Plenty of sunshine, 20 degrees in
:28:59. > :29:05.Belfast. More brightness along the west coast of England and Wales
:29:05. > :29:10.compared to today. It will feel quite pleasant for holidaying
:29:10. > :29:16.makers. There is a risk of one or two showers developing across
:29:16. > :29:20.southern counties. If you catch one, it it might be quite heavy. The
:29:20. > :29:26.weekend will start on a fine and sunny note. There is some
:29:26. > :29:33.uncertainty about Sunday. Much more detail, as ever, can be found