:00:09. > :00:14.It's down to the wire. America avoids a national default with just
:00:14. > :00:18.12 hours to spare. In the last few minutes US Senators
:00:18. > :00:22.have passed a debt deal that allows the Government to borrow enough to
:00:22. > :00:27.pay its bills. The White House calls it a victory
:00:27. > :00:30.for the American people, but where has the crisis left the Obama
:00:30. > :00:35.presidency and America's reputation?
:00:35. > :00:40.Confidence here was absolutely very damaged by this spectacle they've
:00:40. > :00:43.seen in Washington of a significant number of elected officials of this
:00:43. > :00:48.country threatening default. Also tonight:
:00:48. > :00:53.Man with a mechanical heart. A UK first as Matthew Green prepares to
:00:53. > :00:57.go home with an artificial heart. Before I couldn't walk anywhere, I
:00:57. > :01:03.could hardly climb stairs. Now I have been up and walking out and
:01:03. > :01:06.getting back to a normal life. Somalia's famine, thousands go
:01:06. > :01:10.hungry as the Government and rebels fight it out.
:01:10. > :01:14.A real battle now is to find a way to move across the nearby
:01:14. > :01:17.frontlines and get the aid to where it's needed most.
:01:17. > :01:22.One third of primary school children in England failed to make
:01:22. > :01:26.the grade in the three Rs, but overall there's some progress.
:01:26. > :01:32.The secret garden, Wrest Park was neglected for decades, now restored
:01:32. > :01:38.to its 18th century glory. Tonight on BBC London: America's
:01:38. > :01:48.warning over the capital's plans for a super sewer and we reveal the
:01:48. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:04.winners putting their stamp on the Hello, and welcome to the BBC News
:02:04. > :02:08.at Six. In the last few minutes Senators have passed a bill that
:02:08. > :02:12.means the most powerful nation on earth avoids the humiliation of not
:02:12. > :02:15.being able to pay its bills. Without the new law, which includes
:02:15. > :02:21.budget cuts, America would have been just hours away from reaching
:02:21. > :02:27.its debt limit of $14.3 trillion. The compromise deal comes after
:02:27. > :02:34.weeks of bitter division between Democrats and Republicans and
:02:34. > :02:38.President Obama has been forced to settle for less than he wanted.
:02:38. > :02:41.From ABC News... At last the American media has had reason to be
:02:41. > :02:46.cheerful as a deal to save the United States from defaulting on
:02:46. > :02:49.its debt goes through. The big vote, it's finely today. The Senate is
:02:49. > :02:54.expected to follow the House's lead and approve that bill that would
:02:54. > :02:57.raise the Government's borrowing limit and cut federal spending by
:02:58. > :03:01.some $2 trillion. Right now President Obama is poised to make a
:03:01. > :03:06.statement at the White House, now the deal has passed through the
:03:06. > :03:12.upper House of Congress, the Senate. America's politicians have already
:03:12. > :03:14.jumped the highest hurdle, getting the agreement through the
:03:14. > :03:18.Republican dominated House of Representatives, where
:03:18. > :03:23.Conservatives were bitterly opposed to America taking on more debt. And
:03:23. > :03:26.it took an emotional appeal from the democratic House leader to win
:03:26. > :03:33.over liberals anxious about the fallout of spending cuts on the
:03:33. > :03:40.nation's poorest. Please think of what could happen if we defaulted.
:03:40. > :03:46.Please, please, please come down in favour of again preventing the
:03:46. > :03:53.collateral damage from reaching our seniors and our veterans. Every
:03:53. > :03:55.vote counted. And emotions ran high as democratic Congresswoman
:03:55. > :04:00.Gabrielle Gifford made her first appearance since she was shot and
:04:00. > :04:06.left for dead in January. She said matters were so bad she had to come
:04:06. > :04:09.and vote. The last-minute deal may calm markets, but it doesn't solve
:04:09. > :04:15.everything, as the US Treasury Secretary admitted, America could
:04:15. > :04:19.still be on the verge of losing its triple A credit rating. It's not my
:04:19. > :04:25.judgment to make and and they have to make that judgment, but this is
:04:25. > :04:29.in some ways a judgment on the capacity of Congress to act and
:04:29. > :04:34.what this deal does is put us in a much better position to make those
:04:34. > :04:38.tough choices. A humiliating downgrading would ensure that the
:04:38. > :04:44.US economy and its failings remain at the top of Washington's
:04:44. > :04:46.political agenda. In a moment we will talk o our
:04:46. > :04:51.economics editor Stephanie Flanders, but first Mark Mardell is in
:04:51. > :04:57.Washington. As we heard, weeks of bitter wrangling over this. Who do
:04:57. > :05:00.you think are the winners and losers? Well, President Obama has
:05:00. > :05:03.avoided disaster, so in that very narrow sense he is a winner, it
:05:03. > :05:07.would have been really awful for America and for him if they had
:05:07. > :05:12.gone over the cliff in 11 hours' time and hadn't got this deal. I
:05:12. > :05:16.think really President Obama is a loser, he's been forced off his own
:05:16. > :05:21.agenda. Remember, he came to office promising hope and change and
:05:21. > :05:25.talking about spending to stimulate the economy and to change the way
:05:25. > :05:30.America was. Instead, he's been forced down a path of spending cuts.
:05:30. > :05:33.He didn't want any of this. He's won some minor victories along the
:05:33. > :05:38.way, stopped it from being worse for him than it could otherwise
:05:38. > :05:41.have been, I think the Tea Party are the big winners. They don't
:05:41. > :05:46.necessarily feel that, but they have forced this on to the agenda
:05:46. > :05:50.and got a lot of what they wanted. Thank you very much.
:05:50. > :05:54.So you have the biggest economy in the world pulling back, if you like,
:05:54. > :05:57.from the brink, is that good news for us or not? It's good news the
:05:57. > :06:00.slight possibility that the federal Government might have actually
:06:00. > :06:04.defaulted on its debt, that fear has been lifted, it's obviously
:06:04. > :06:08.good news. As you have been hearing there's still a reus tbg might lose
:06:08. > :06:10.its rating in international markets, that might have an impact on us.
:06:10. > :06:15.What investors are most worried about today and what we should
:06:15. > :06:19.probably be most worried about is actually the strength of the US
:06:19. > :06:23.recovery underlying this. We found out recently the US grew by even
:06:23. > :06:26.slower than we have in the last six months, it's grown by 0.4%, that's
:06:26. > :06:30.worse than our figures and that's in a year when they haven't been
:06:30. > :06:34.getting on top of their borrowing. The US accounts for a fifth of the
:06:34. > :06:37.global economy, it's a big source of our exports, particularly at a
:06:37. > :06:40.time when there is question marks about the eurozone, lots of
:06:40. > :06:44.pressure today on Spain and Italy. People are worried when they look
:06:44. > :06:49.at the deficits coming in, deficit cuts in the US next year, whether
:06:49. > :06:51.they're looking at an even weaker recovery and that could mean a weak
:06:51. > :06:58.recovery for us as well, even if this concern about debt has been
:06:58. > :07:02.lifted. Thank you. In a first for the UK a 40-year-old
:07:02. > :07:06.-- father who's been critically ill is about to go home after being
:07:06. > :07:09.given a completely artificial heart. Matthew Green's implant is made of
:07:09. > :07:14.plastic and metal and it will keep him alive until he gets a human
:07:14. > :07:17.heart from a suitable donor. The operation was carried out at
:07:17. > :07:19.Papworth Hospital near Cambridge. Here is our science correspondent
:07:19. > :07:24.David Shukman. Meet the first man in Britain
:07:24. > :07:27.walking with a plastic heart. Matthew Green, with his wife Jill
:07:27. > :07:32.and son Dylan and a bag that's become a new and essential member
:07:32. > :07:37.of the family, the device that's keeping Matthew alive with a loud
:07:37. > :07:41.rhythmic beat. Tell me a little bit about how this
:07:41. > :07:45.extraordinary device is going to change your life. It's going to
:07:45. > :07:49.revolutionise my life. Before I couldn't walk anywhere, I could
:07:49. > :07:54.hardly climb stairs, now I have been out to a pub lunch over the
:07:54. > :07:58.weekend and that felt fantastic to be with normal people again. That's
:07:58. > :08:03.the alarm that shows that your pressure is a little bit high so we
:08:03. > :08:10.are going to leave it now. This is the kind of plastic heart with four
:08:10. > :08:15.valves and two pumping chambers fitted inside Matt aoeu's --
:08:15. > :08:19.Matthew's chest. Normally this would have to be driven by a huge
:08:19. > :08:25.pump in hospital, what's new is that Matthew has been given one of
:08:25. > :08:30.these, a portable pump. It's not light, seven kilos but it does mean
:08:30. > :08:34.he can get out and about. This animation knows the plastic
:08:34. > :08:38.heart, here beating in slow motion doing the job of a real one but
:08:38. > :08:42.it's not meant to be permanent. took us about six hours...
:08:42. > :08:46.surgeon who fitted the heart here at Papworth Hospital says the aim
:08:46. > :08:52.is to buy time for Matthew, while he waits for a human heart to be
:08:52. > :08:56.transplanted. The longest a patient has received and supported by one
:08:56. > :09:01.of these machines has been over three years, so it does provide
:09:01. > :09:06.medium to longer term support and this is very important because it
:09:06. > :09:11.buys us more time to find a suitable heart for Matthew.
:09:11. > :09:14.latest figures show that 132 people in Britain are hoping for a heart
:09:14. > :09:19.transplant. But on average, they're waiting six months and while they
:09:20. > :09:23.do, 15% of them die. So the option of fitting an artificial heart may
:09:23. > :09:27.be critical, but there are risks. There are almost certainly safer
:09:27. > :09:30.than the heart they're replacing, but they do have problems. There
:09:30. > :09:35.are risks of clots and infection. But we know of ways of trying to
:09:35. > :09:39.get around those and reducing those risks. For Matthew Green and his
:09:39. > :09:48.family the little bag powering his new heart offers a new lease of
:09:48. > :09:51.life, his big hope, to go for a bike ride.
:09:51. > :09:54.A 71-year-old man has become the latest person to be arrested as
:09:54. > :09:58.part of Scotland Yard's investigation into phone hacking.
:09:58. > :10:01.He is understood to be Stuart Kuttner, the former managing editor
:10:01. > :10:06.of the News of the World. He is the 11th person to be arrested since
:10:06. > :10:10.police began their latest investigation in January. Our
:10:10. > :10:14.correspondent Matt Prodger is at Scotland Yard.
:10:14. > :10:18.Barely a day goes by without another development in the phone
:10:18. > :10:23.hacking investigation. Today, it was Stuart Kuttner, a veteran of 22
:10:24. > :10:27.years' service at the News of the World when he left the paper in
:10:27. > :10:29.2009 as managing editor. We understand he presented himself at
:10:29. > :10:36.a police station this morning and that police are still questioning
:10:36. > :10:39.him this evening. This is Stuart Kuttner back in 2009,
:10:39. > :10:47.telling MPs he may have unknowingly approved cash payments in relation
:10:47. > :10:56.to phone hacking. A relatively small, but regrettable number of
:10:56. > :11:01.false cash payments were created and were approved on the whole, not
:11:01. > :11:05.always, but generally by me. Unknowing. He told them his job as
:11:05. > :11:10.managing editor was to bridge the gap between journalists and
:11:10. > :11:14.management at the News of the World. Stuart Kuttner was a high profile
:11:14. > :11:18.figure at the newspaper. Here he is ten years ago with the family of
:11:18. > :11:22.murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne, campaigning for a law to name and
:11:22. > :11:26.shame paedophiles. Sarah's mother last weekend discovered that she
:11:26. > :11:30.too may have been a victim of phone hacking by the News of the World.
:11:30. > :11:33.He was once described as the person who came closest to being the DNA
:11:33. > :11:37.of the organisation, he appeared in public relatively frequently
:11:37. > :11:40.representing the organisation in the case of Sarah's Law, he did
:11:40. > :11:44.that, and critically, as the managing editor, that's where the
:11:44. > :11:48.money goes through. Day by day the number of people arrested in
:11:48. > :11:51.connection with phone hacking has increased. Among them Andy Coulson,
:11:51. > :12:00.who resigned as News of the World editor and as the Prime Minister's
:12:00. > :12:05.director of communications. Rebekah Brooks, his pre-- predecessor. And
:12:05. > :12:09.three former journalists. Only Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire
:12:09. > :12:13.have been convicted. This afternoon police arrived at
:12:13. > :12:18.Stuart Kuttner's home in search of evidence for a criminal
:12:18. > :12:24.investigation that is still at its early stages, an investigation into
:12:24. > :12:29.journalists, executives and even the police themselves.
:12:29. > :12:32.There's been news today about the man who tried to chuck a foam pie
:12:32. > :12:37.at Rupert Murdoch during the parliamentary hearings. That's
:12:37. > :12:40.right, just at about the same taoeuplt Stuart -- same time Stuart
:12:40. > :12:45.Kuttner was arriving at a police station, in Westminster another man
:12:45. > :12:49.was arriving at court, Jonathan May Bowls, 26 years old from Berkshire,
:12:49. > :12:53.he had already pleaded guilty to assaulting Rupert Murdoch. If you
:12:53. > :12:59.cast your mind back to last month during the select committee
:13:00. > :13:03.proceedings, he he walked to the front of the room, up to the desk
:13:03. > :13:08.where Rupert Murdoch was sitting and threw a paper plate covered
:13:08. > :13:13.with shaving foam at him, you will also remember that Rupert Murdoch's
:13:13. > :13:17.wife leapt to her feet to defend him. Jonathan May Bowls was
:13:17. > :13:19.sentenced today to six weeks, he will serve three weeks and the
:13:19. > :13:24.judge said he had disrupted parliamentary proceedings which
:13:24. > :13:28.were taking place to look into a very serious matter and that he had
:13:28. > :13:31.shown no respect for the seriousness of that matter. Just to
:13:31. > :13:38.remind you, that though the phone hacking scandal is a story of high
:13:38. > :13:42.drama, it has also had its moments of farce.
:13:42. > :13:44.In Syria, reports from the city of Hama say that people are fleeing to
:13:44. > :13:50.nearby villages as a Government offensive continues into a third
:13:50. > :13:54.day. Protesters have accused the Army of shelling and shooting
:13:54. > :13:57.civilians indiscriminately. More than 100 people were killed in Hama
:13:57. > :14:06.on Sunday after a major assault. In New York the nights Security
:14:06. > :14:11.Council is holding a -- nights nights -- Security Council is
:14:11. > :14:17.holding a second round of emergency talks.
:14:17. > :14:20.Barclays half-year profits have fallen by a third to just over �2.5
:14:20. > :14:25.billion. Barclays has announced plans to cut at least another 1400
:14:25. > :14:28.jobs by the end of this year, bringing the total to 3,000.
:14:28. > :14:31.One in three children leaving primary school in England don't
:14:31. > :14:34.have a good grasp of reading, writing and maths, according to
:14:34. > :14:39.Government figures. Overall, there's been a slight improvement
:14:39. > :14:49.on last year with 67% of 11-year- olds reaching the expected level.
:14:49. > :14:54.Our education correspondent Gillian Half-a-million 11 year-olds in
:14:54. > :14:58.England took tests in May. Today's results show two-thirds of them had
:14:58. > :15:01.a good grasp of the basics but one in three will start secondary
:15:01. > :15:06.school this September struggling to meet the Government's standard
:15:07. > :15:09.known as level four. These children must be fluent in reading by the
:15:09. > :15:14.time they leave primary school, regardless of their background,
:15:14. > :15:17.special needs and ability, and it is focusing on how we teach
:15:17. > :15:23.children to beat in reception and the first year of primary that is
:15:23. > :15:26.the government focus. Some unions are reluctant to see these results
:15:26. > :15:29.as a fairly bad teachers. A quarter of schools boycotted the tests
:15:29. > :15:35.saying they did not give an accurate picture of what children
:15:35. > :15:41.are capable of. They argue SATs put pressure on pupils, teachers and
:15:41. > :15:44.that the staff for the curriculum. Teacher assessment is the way to be
:15:44. > :15:48.clear about what it is that children can do and then to have
:15:48. > :15:52.sampling tests so that we can ensure that across the system, we
:15:52. > :15:56.are going in the right direction. With one-third of children
:15:56. > :16:01.struggling to make the grade, learning to read for pleasure is
:16:01. > :16:06.what improve standards. Abbeys east London Library, children of all
:16:06. > :16:09.abilities are encouraged to read at least six books while off from
:16:09. > :16:14.school and the governments says SATs will continue to be used to
:16:14. > :16:19.measure their progress. This year's results throw up some interesting
:16:19. > :16:22.challenges. There has been a drop of 8% in the brightest children
:16:23. > :16:28.gaining top marks. That might suggest the most clever on not
:16:28. > :16:31.being stretched. Some boys continued to struggle: One in 10
:16:31. > :16:35.have a reading age of the seven- year-old when they left primary
:16:35. > :16:40.school. That means they are at least five years behind many of
:16:41. > :16:44.their classmates. Some of the most common predictors of students'
:16:44. > :16:50.success of things like mother's education level, that is the best
:16:50. > :16:54.predictor, Father's education level, household income. The government
:16:54. > :16:58.says it will help children by spending more money on the poorest
:16:58. > :17:06.schools and introducing a new phonics Test at six to identify
:17:06. > :17:12.pupils to struggle with reading and writing. -- pupils who struggle.
:17:12. > :17:15.Our top story: US senators have passed a crucial deal on debt.
:17:15. > :17:19.President Obama said it was important to show America could
:17:19. > :17:23.live within its means. Coming up: Three days after his
:17:24. > :17:29.wedding, Mike Tindall talks about his next big day. On Saturday,
:17:29. > :17:34.against Wales. On BBC London: It is a fixture of
:17:34. > :17:38.the capital's summer. Why you may have to pay to go to the Notting
:17:38. > :17:48.Hill Carnival. And the beach volleyball star from
:17:48. > :17:51.Southend giving up for next year's The United Nations is warning that
:17:51. > :17:58.more than half-a-million people on now at risk of dying from
:17:58. > :18:01.starvation across East Africa. With those needing urgent help set to
:18:01. > :18:05.rise to 15 million. Famine has already been declared in parts of
:18:05. > :18:09.war-torn Somalia and there are fears that not enough aid will get
:18:09. > :18:15.across the front line. Andrew Harding is in the capital,
:18:15. > :18:19.Mogadishu. Yes, this situation is
:18:20. > :18:25.deteriorating fast. The famine itself seems to be spreading and
:18:25. > :18:29.Al-Shabab, the militant group who control so much of Somalia, is also
:18:29. > :18:35.increasingly, we understand, preventing hungry families from
:18:35. > :18:45.getting out, to Kenya, Ethiopia and Mogadishu. Some viewers may find
:18:45. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:53.some of this report distressing. Visiting Mogadishu? It is best to
:18:53. > :18:59.be prepared. We are heading into a city that has forgotten the meaning
:18:59. > :19:05.of safety. It is our gunmen against the rest. Neither front line, we
:19:05. > :19:13.find the famine's latest fugitives. Tens of thousands have come here,
:19:13. > :19:19.seeking food and hoping for security. They are in bad shape.
:19:19. > :19:24.The familiar images, as shocking as above. Twins here, both fighting
:19:24. > :19:28.for life. Their mothers, all of the mothers, have fled from territory
:19:28. > :19:37.controlled by the Islamist group, Al-Shabab.
:19:37. > :19:41.TRANSLATION: The militants killed my son, they tied him up and shot
:19:41. > :19:46.him because they was -- he was carrying a bag of food aid and they
:19:46. > :19:51.said it came from the infidels. world is getting more supplies into
:19:51. > :19:56.Mogadishu now. Soup kitchens in every district. But it is not hear
:19:56. > :19:59.that Somalia's famine must be defeated. This is an almost
:19:59. > :20:03.impossibly difficult, dangerous place for foreigners to operate.
:20:04. > :20:08.You can see how much security we need just to move around the centre
:20:08. > :20:14.of Mogadishu and the real battle is to find a way to move across the
:20:14. > :20:20.nearby frontline and get the aid to where it is needed most. Here is
:20:20. > :20:26.one way. UN food, block by Al- Shabab, is handed over to trusted
:20:26. > :20:31.local charities that do have access throughout Somalia. Everybody knows
:20:32. > :20:35.us, we are confident we can deliver food to anywhere in the country,
:20:35. > :20:44.especially in the south. So this could be the solution to end the
:20:44. > :20:48.famine? In a wave. One of them. one of them. They need is
:20:48. > :20:54.overwhelming here but the politics is messy. Somalia is not an easy
:20:54. > :20:58.place to help. So for all the many organisations
:20:58. > :21:03.trying to help this region, money is still an issue but the big
:21:03. > :21:09.concerns are a lack of time to help those already staffing and a lack
:21:09. > :21:13.of access to the heart, the growing heart, of Somalia's famine.
:21:13. > :21:18.More than 2000 charities across England have had their funding cut
:21:18. > :21:21.or completely withdrawn by local councils, according to research
:21:21. > :21:25.from a union-backed anti-cuts campaign. Charities helping the
:21:25. > :21:35.children and the elderly are affected. Councils blame reductions
:21:35. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:43.in their budgets but ministers He has come for welfare advice, one
:21:43. > :21:49.of 700 new clients this centre has taken on over the last year in east
:21:49. > :21:55.London. But his adviser is about to deliver some bad news. I am sorry
:21:55. > :22:00.to let you know that this service is coming to an end because the
:22:00. > :22:03.funding is ending in two weeks. Closing this advice centre at the
:22:03. > :22:06.very time the government is bringing in major changes to
:22:06. > :22:10.welfare benefits is causing more people to have more problems and
:22:10. > :22:14.they will end up with no way to go. Local government funding was
:22:14. > :22:19.absolutely vital to this centre in the heart of one of the poorest
:22:19. > :22:24.boroughs in the country. It is one of more than 2000 charities that
:22:24. > :22:28.has either theme its funding cut or even withdraw altogether. But
:22:28. > :22:34.today's figures are just a snapshot. Many believe that the cuts to the
:22:34. > :22:38.voluntary sector will be far deeper. Nearby, these elderly residents
:22:38. > :22:43.were enjoying their heatwave but funding for this drop in centre is
:22:43. > :22:49.only guaranteed until next April. don't know what I will do to be
:22:49. > :22:56.honest. I don't. I am on my own. Most of us are. I have met some
:22:56. > :23:01.nice people since I have been here and come to the centre. About a
:23:01. > :23:05.quarter of all charities get some funding by the state and cash-
:23:05. > :23:10.strapped councils like here, Tower Hamlets, are being forced to spend
:23:10. > :23:15.less. It is tough times but by contrast, the government is seeking
:23:15. > :23:19.to help charities. We have set up a �100 million transition fund which
:23:19. > :23:25.is already existing nearly 1,000 charitable and voluntary
:23:25. > :23:29.organisations. But back at the debt centre, they are already packing up.
:23:29. > :23:33.The government hopes its "big society" plans will eventually
:23:33. > :23:38.create more opportunities for charities. The question is, how
:23:38. > :23:43.many of them will be around to take advantage?
:23:43. > :23:47.Most newly weds would be relaxing on a beach by now but not Zara
:23:47. > :23:52.Phillips and Mike Tindall. The honeymoon is on hold. They both
:23:52. > :23:56.returned to their professional sports careers.
:23:56. > :24:00.He may be the newest member of the Royal Family but for Mike Tindall,
:24:00. > :24:05.it was back to the day-job as the rugby star resumed training. At the
:24:05. > :24:10.same time, his new wife also returned to work. A professional
:24:10. > :24:13.horse rider launching a range of equestrian clothing. Just three
:24:13. > :24:19.days after the Queen's granddaughter married her fiance in
:24:19. > :24:24.Edinburgh. Both of us are back to work and that is what we do.
:24:24. > :24:30.Unfortunately we are in the middle of the season. We will keep
:24:30. > :24:34.working! I knew I had to come back and put the work in and hopefully
:24:34. > :24:39.get picked. Does it help that your new wife is also a professional
:24:39. > :24:46.sports person was mad yes. It was a no-brainer. She has got a big
:24:46. > :24:50.competition this week. It fitted him perfectly. We will sort a
:24:50. > :24:54.honeymoon out later. Mike Tindall has been a key player in the
:24:54. > :24:58.England side for more than a decade, winning the World Cup in 2003, and
:24:58. > :25:02.some of his team-mates from the trial for among the guests at his
:25:02. > :25:07.wedding. The wedding is still the best day
:25:07. > :25:12.of my life. For Zara Phillips, it is all about next summer's Olympic
:25:12. > :25:16.Games. For her husband, more immediate concerns. Last weekend,
:25:16. > :25:20.Mike Tindall's private life was the centre of attention but this
:25:20. > :25:23.Saturday, it will be his professional life, as he and his
:25:23. > :25:29.team-mates come here to take on Wales as part of the country's
:25:29. > :25:32.World Cup preparations. It has been described as Britain's
:25:32. > :25:37.biggest secret garden. For the first time in half a century, Wrest
:25:37. > :25:41.Park in Bedfordshire has reopened to the public. Designed nearly 300
:25:41. > :25:49.years ago, it was neglected, but now it has been restored to its
:25:49. > :25:54.former glory. From an orangery, a Chinese bridge
:25:54. > :26:00.and temple, to canals. Wrest Park's designers were the best in their
:26:00. > :26:04.day. To help them, as this photo from 1890 shows, there was a garden
:26:04. > :26:09.work force of 30 men but a change in ownership last century left the
:26:10. > :26:14.part in a state of neglect. When English Heritage took ownership
:26:14. > :26:18.five years ago, they started to restore the park so that it can
:26:18. > :26:23.once again reclaim its place as one of the great gardens of England.
:26:23. > :26:28.What makes it important is that you can walk through 300 years of
:26:28. > :26:33.Garden History at Wrest Park. There is element of each of those major
:26:33. > :26:37.centuries that you can still see in their original form. Gardiner spent
:26:37. > :26:43.weeks over winter digging up this lawn, which should never have been
:26:43. > :26:47.there, to revert the rose garden -- gardeners. The Italian garden,
:26:47. > :26:52.which had been planted with dreary plants, now looks like this,
:26:52. > :27:00.transformed to its original 1882 design. And the lake has been
:27:00. > :27:03.restored to its 18th century appearance with gravel paths.
:27:03. > :27:08.Gardener and broadcaster Matthew Biggs believes the work being done
:27:08. > :27:12.will return the gardens to how the original owners had envisaged them.
:27:12. > :27:17.The de Greys wanted to make this wonderful landscape and we are
:27:17. > :27:22.going to see it again. How exciting is that! That is why everybody
:27:23. > :27:26.should come and have a glimpse. Gardens are for everyone. You one
:27:26. > :27:30.of the restoration project is complete, at the cost of �4 million,
:27:30. > :27:36.1 million of which was a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Just 90
:27:36. > :27:42.more used to go until Wrest Park is truly restored to their splendour
:27:42. > :27:52.of centuries past -- just 19 more used to go.
:27:52. > :28:01.We have seen the two faces of the Close to an inch of rain in eastern
:28:01. > :28:05.Scotland. The emphasis for the wet weather is changing. Anywhere from
:28:05. > :28:10.the Home Counties, Yorkshire commit East Anglia and overnight, some
:28:10. > :28:19.pretty intense thunderstorms are rumbling around. It will be a very
:28:19. > :28:23.misty and Monday-night. -- Monday- night. If you downpours across
:28:23. > :28:27.Yorkshire first thing tomorrow. The heat will be building once again.
:28:27. > :28:34.We could see it a few showers in Dorset but across much of the south
:28:34. > :28:39.coast, it will be a bright day. Come inland though, perhaps up to
:28:39. > :28:43.30 degrees, and that could set off a few afternoon thunderstorms. Some
:28:43. > :28:49.of those will be torrential. But many of you will stay dry. Scotland
:28:49. > :28:55.will be having a brighter day tomorrow and filling warmer. Be
:28:55. > :29:03.fine day across Northern Ireland as well. The sunshine will turn hazy
:29:03. > :29:07.across Wales. Only a small risk of a shower in Wales and the south-
:29:07. > :29:11.west of England. But that will change from tomorrow night. Heavy
:29:11. > :29:15.rain starting to work its way up from the south-west and through
:29:15. > :29:20.Thursday that will push its way through many parts of Wales and