:00:06. > :00:11.The Arab uprising delivers its first major trial - the former
:00:11. > :00:15.Egyptian President appears in court. Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into the
:00:15. > :00:23.courtroom on a hospital trolley. He's charged with ordering the
:00:23. > :00:28.killing of protesters. TRANSLATION: All these accusations, I deny them
:00:28. > :00:33.all. The moment they and the rest of the Arab world thought they
:00:33. > :00:37.would never see. When I saw him today I felt it was the very first
:00:37. > :00:40.step to a long way to justice. on tonight's programme: Tens of
:00:40. > :00:48.thousands of holiday-makers to Turkey face uncertainty after their
:00:48. > :00:52.tour operator goes bust. I suppose the way things are, the economic
:00:52. > :00:56.climate as it is, these things are going to happen, and we just have
:00:56. > :00:59.to grit our teeth and bear it. hacking scandal spreads - Heather
:00:59. > :01:02.Mills claims a Mirror Group executive told her that messages
:01:02. > :01:05.from Sir Paul McCartney were intercepted.
:01:05. > :01:15.Trapped in her own home with a bomb - an Australian teenager and her
:01:15. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:45.ten-hour ordeal as police tried to Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:01:45. > :01:48.News at Six. Even Egypt's most ardent pro-
:01:48. > :01:52.democracy protesters had wondered whether they would ever see this
:01:53. > :01:55.day - Hosni Mubarak wheeled into a courtroom on a hospital trolley.
:01:56. > :01:59.Tens of millions in Egypt and around the Middle East watched as
:01:59. > :02:01.the man who had ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 30
:02:02. > :02:07.years denied charges of corruption and ordering the killing of
:02:07. > :02:17.activists. John Leyne reports on the moment the Arab uprising
:02:17. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:22.delivered its first major trial. From early morning they gathered
:02:22. > :02:32.outside the courthouse they Police Academy. Protesters and relatives
:02:32. > :02:37.of those killed in the revolution, denieding justice and revenge.
:02:37. > :02:44.Clashes quickly broke out. There is still anger here towards the police,
:02:44. > :02:48.and the opposition don't trust the military who from in charge either.
:02:48. > :02:51.Most Egyptians still did not believe the military would put on
:02:51. > :02:57.trial their former mabder and President. But as the hearing began,
:02:58. > :03:04.they filed into the caged dock. The two sons, Gamal and Alaa. The
:03:04. > :03:08.former interior Minister, finally Hosni Mubarak himself. Brought in
:03:08. > :03:12.on a stretcher, but clearly conscious and fully aware of what
:03:12. > :03:17.was going on. The judge refused his lawyer's plea for the 83-year-old
:03:17. > :03:22.to be allowed out of the hearing on grounds of ill health. Then the
:03:22. > :03:27.prosecutor read out the charges. Hosni Mubarak did nothing to
:03:27. > :03:31.prevent attacks on demonstrators, he said. TRANSLATION: The intention
:03:31. > :03:35.was to kill the biggest number of protesters possible. For the first
:03:35. > :03:45.time in 30 years the former leader was forced to answer for his
:03:45. > :03:51.actions. TRANSLATION: All these accusations I deny them all. Then
:03:51. > :03:57.an unpleasant surprise for Egypt's current military leader. As loyals
:03:57. > :04:03.called for -- lawyers called for him to testify. So this is Hosni
:04:03. > :04:08.Mubarak, once all powerful, now on a stretcher in a courtroom facing
:04:08. > :04:13.charges which could lead to the death penalty. The accusation is
:04:13. > :04:18.that the former President responded to these protests by ordering his
:04:19. > :04:25.men to open fire. More than 800 protesters were killed. But proving
:04:25. > :04:29.his command responsibility will be a huge challenge. This is a moment
:04:29. > :04:33.Egyptians surely never believed they would ever see - their former
:04:33. > :04:38.President, members of his family, and officials, in all the dock of
:04:38. > :04:42.what used to be the Mubarak Police Academy. The implications will be
:04:42. > :04:48.felt across the Middle East. Certainly the protesters outside
:04:48. > :04:54.the court within exhilarated by the spectacle. When I saw him today I
:04:54. > :04:58.felt it was the very first step on a long way to justice. It is not
:04:58. > :05:02.like they are happy to -- because of what's happening to him but they
:05:02. > :05:08.are happy that justice came this this country. Will this now heal or
:05:08. > :05:11.just re-open Egypt's wounds? Our world affairs editor John
:05:11. > :05:17.Simpson, the only western journalist allowed in court, joins
:05:17. > :05:23.me now. It must have been extraordinary to see this once
:05:23. > :05:28.powerful man brought low like this in a courtroom. It really was,
:05:28. > :05:31.George. I've seen various of these sorts of things. I've watched the
:05:31. > :05:36.trial of Saddam Hussein from beginning to end. But this was
:05:36. > :05:42.different. Somehow or another this was all about power and the
:05:42. > :05:47.destruction of a leader that had come to be hated. People were
:05:47. > :05:51.really excited about it. A lot of the journalists here, a lot of the
:05:51. > :05:54.newspapers here, had managed to convince themselves, this really is
:05:54. > :06:00.the home of the conspiracy theory, that President Mubarak wouldn't be
:06:00. > :06:08.there for some reason, that a deal had been done or whatever. So when
:06:08. > :06:13.we actually saw the figure of the President being brought in on a bed,
:06:13. > :06:18.and lying there, that was an amazing and exciting thing for many
:06:18. > :06:24.people here. The thought that they were seeing a sick President and
:06:24. > :06:27.they were seeing him as he is - weak and lacking in any kind of
:06:27. > :06:34.defences. All the things that are different from how they were. There
:06:34. > :06:40.was a sharp intake of breath and then suddenly a real silence. I
:06:40. > :06:47.think this country won't ever be the same again, having seen ex-
:06:47. > :06:50.President Mubarak in that position. They will never forget it here.
:06:50. > :06:52.Tens of thousands of British holidaymakers have had their plans
:06:52. > :06:54.wrecked after a tour operator specialising in packages to Turkey
:06:54. > :07:03.went into administration. The crisis at the Brighton-based
:07:03. > :07:08.Holidays 4U comes at the height of the holiday season. For the latest,
:07:08. > :07:12.live to Manchester Airport and our correspondent there, Chris Buckler.
:07:12. > :07:15.If you look behind me you will see some people with their bags packed
:07:15. > :07:20.but they are not Holidays 4U passengers. They should have been
:07:20. > :07:23.checking in around about now for a 9 o'clock flight. They've been told
:07:23. > :07:27.that the company has ceased operating. That's affecting
:07:27. > :07:36.passengers not just here in Manchester but those in Bristol,
:07:36. > :07:42.Glasgow, Belfast and elsewhere. To rest to the sun and to begin their
:07:42. > :07:45.holidays, but the getaway isn't going to happen for Holidays 4U
:07:45. > :07:50.passengers. They've been told not to make the journey to the airport.
:07:50. > :07:53.Those booked on-line were promised a flight to guaranteed good weather
:07:53. > :07:57.but today there's a new gloomy message on the website. The company
:07:57. > :08:01.is now in administration and its customers' plans are ruined.
:08:01. > :08:05.Confirmations mean nothing, and for couples who have spent hundreds of
:08:05. > :08:09.pounds there is not just the inconvenience. They don't yet know
:08:09. > :08:13.if they will get their cashback. No-one likes to lose money on
:08:13. > :08:18.something like this, but I suppose the way things are and the economic
:08:18. > :08:25.climate as it is, these sort of things are going to happen. We just
:08:25. > :08:30.have to grit our teeth and bear bear it. Those currently on holiday
:08:30. > :08:34.have been contacting the administrators with their concerns.
:08:34. > :08:37.It has another 20,000 bookings, including family holidays. That
:08:37. > :08:42.means the number of people affect could be twice or three time that
:08:42. > :08:46.is. This is a company with a turnover of �35 million. This is
:08:46. > :08:52.going to be a terrible time for 50 ,000 people who now have to run
:08:52. > :08:56.around and try and find alternative holidays. They will find that it is
:08:56. > :09:00.a sudden spike in demand, so other companies are putting their prices
:09:00. > :09:03.up. Not everybody can afford a holiday. It is people's worries
:09:03. > :09:08.about money that are blamed for this firm's problems. The travel
:09:08. > :09:11.business over the last couple of years has had a tough time. We
:09:11. > :09:17.understand this business in particular had a difficult June and
:09:17. > :09:20.July, so trading conditions have contributed. But those hoping to
:09:20. > :09:26.join other holiday-makers on another trip abroad may have to
:09:26. > :09:31.wait to get their money back. The departures board in Manchester, a
:09:31. > :09:37.flight is missing, this evening's 9 o'clock flight to Dalaman in Turkey
:09:37. > :09:40.won't fly. The story is the same at other UK airports, with families
:09:40. > :09:44.discovering their holiday plans have simply disappeared. There are
:09:44. > :09:48.reassurances for those currently on package holidays. They are covered
:09:48. > :09:51.by the atoll scheme. In simple terms they are going to get back to
:09:51. > :09:55.the UK, that's pretty much guaranteed. For those who haven't
:09:55. > :10:00.got away yet, the future is a little more uncertain. We are
:10:00. > :10:04.expecting some of the first people making it back from a Holidays 4U
:10:04. > :10:07.holiday to be back here in Manchester this evening.
:10:07. > :10:10.The UK border force and the Serious Organised Crime Agency have
:10:10. > :10:14.uncovered a record �300 million pounds worth of cocaine hidden in a
:10:14. > :10:16.luxury yacht headed from the Caribbean to the Netherlands.
:10:16. > :10:19.Officers boarded the boat in Southampton after close co-
:10:19. > :10:26.operation between the British agencies and their French and Dutch
:10:26. > :10:33.counterparts. Six men have been arrested. Our home affairs
:10:33. > :10:38.correspondent, June Kelly, reports. The Louise, a luxury yacht with all
:10:38. > :10:43.the touches and trappings of a wealthy lifestyle. The Louise had a
:10:43. > :10:48.hidden extra - the largest cache of cocaine ever siezed in the UK. And
:10:48. > :10:53.this is what it looks like. 1.2 tonnes. This was an international
:10:53. > :10:58.law enforcement operation involving seven countries. This is a global
:10:58. > :11:01.threat, it require as global response and it requires trusted
:11:01. > :11:06.partnerships and for people to rely on the information and the
:11:06. > :11:10.intelligence they are given. It was from Venezuela that the drugs
:11:10. > :11:15.consignment set sail. The cocaine was shipped to the British Virgin
:11:15. > :11:19.Islands and packed inside the Louise, a 65 foot cruiser. This is
:11:19. > :11:23.where the British and French authorities were tipped off. They
:11:23. > :11:28.attracted the Louise across the Atlantic. With her illegal cargo
:11:28. > :11:33.she was transported on a container ship. The next stop was Southampton.
:11:33. > :11:37.The Louise was en route to the Netherlands, but the UK became her
:11:37. > :11:40.journey's end when law enforcement agencies boarded the boat. It was
:11:40. > :11:46.under the yacht's diving platform that they located what they had
:11:46. > :11:51.been looking for - cocaine. The street value? �300 million. So how
:11:51. > :11:56.do you hide such a large stash of drugs? The smugglers were pretty
:11:56. > :12:00.clever. It took search teams working 12 hours a day six days to
:12:00. > :12:05.find all the cocaine. Often smuglers use a false fuel tank to
:12:05. > :12:10.hide liar drugs. The Louise had a false fuel tank but it was empty.
:12:10. > :12:14.The smugglers were hoping to put the searchers off the scent. But
:12:14. > :12:19.they kept burrowing for the cocaine, which was 90% pure. Ifrts It would
:12:19. > :12:25.have found its way into Europe and then around Europe and back to the
:12:25. > :12:30.UK in large store. We think this would amount to in terms of street
:12:31. > :12:38.availability something in the region of 7 or 8 tonnes of cut
:12:38. > :12:42.cocaine. This is huge. This will damage, harm health. With Louise
:12:42. > :12:46.impounded, the owner, his three sons and two other men are under
:12:46. > :12:52.arrest in the Netherlands. As well as the cocaine, also seized from
:12:52. > :12:55.the gang were guns and more than 1 million euros in cash.
:12:55. > :12:58.Part of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria is to close,
:12:58. > :13:00.putting 800 jobs at risk, according to the union, Prospect. The Mox
:13:00. > :13:04.fuel manufacturing plant which supplied the Fukushima plant in
:13:04. > :13:06.Japan has been badly affected by the disaster there. The Nuclear
:13:07. > :13:15.Decommissioning Authority says it will help to find the plant's
:13:15. > :13:19.workers new jobs at the site. A multi-billion bound computer
:13:20. > :13:24.project for the NHS in England has been condemned as unworkable by MPs.
:13:24. > :13:29.The committee says health chiefs should consider abandening the plan
:13:29. > :13:32.to set up a central database of patients' records.
:13:32. > :13:34.The Italian Prime Minister has been addressing parliament on the
:13:34. > :13:37.country's debt crisis, amid calls from opposition parties for him to
:13:37. > :13:42.step down. Silvio Berlusconi said Italy's country had a solid
:13:42. > :13:45.economic foundation and its banks had good reserves. Cuts to the
:13:45. > :13:51.armed forces may leave them unable to do what's asked of them after
:13:51. > :13:56.2015. That's the warning from the Commons Defence Committee. They
:13:56. > :14:00.rejected David Cameron's assurance that Britain retains a full
:14:00. > :14:03.spectrum of defence capability. White white the details.
:14:03. > :14:06.After scrutinising the defence review the MPs warn that Britain
:14:06. > :14:09.risks turning from a nation that punched above its weight to one
:14:09. > :14:19.whose forces may not be able to fulfil all their commitments
:14:19. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:29.During the Second World War Britain's Royal Navy and her allies
:14:29. > :14:39.fought against if might of the German Navy. Then HMS Ark Royal
:14:39. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.playing a key role before she was Today's HMS Ark Royal was put out
:14:44. > :14:50.of action by spending cuts. The army will shrink by 25,000 soldiers,
:14:50. > :14:55.one-in-five, by 2020. The RAF and the Navy are to lose 5000 people
:14:55. > :15:00.each, from much smaller forces. will be over-committed and under-
:15:00. > :15:06.resourced. Sadly, it seems that the Government has postponed its
:15:06. > :15:11.ambition to bring our commitments in line with our resources. I among
:15:11. > :15:17.the current commitments Afghanistan, with some 10,000 personnel from all
:15:17. > :15:21.three services. And now Libya, where the RAF, the Royal Navy and
:15:21. > :15:26.the Army Air Corps are in action. They are also in the Falklands, as
:15:26. > :15:30.well as fighting piracy and drugs. MPs warned that the forces risk not
:15:30. > :15:34.being able to take on new tasks, something the Government disputes.
:15:34. > :15:37.We have been able to operate in Libya while we are still deployed
:15:37. > :15:42.in Afghanistan. We have been able to deploy more assets than we have
:15:42. > :15:46.been asked for by NATO to that. It is still clear that we are able,
:15:46. > :15:49.with the fourth-biggest defence budget in the world, to mount
:15:49. > :15:55.operations to a greater extent than most European allies. The committee
:15:55. > :16:01.also worries about gaps left by the scrapping of the Nimrod. Or having
:16:01. > :16:05.no carriers with aircraft for a decade. Analysts say that they will
:16:05. > :16:09.need more money. We are going to need increases in the defence
:16:09. > :16:13.budget after the spending review in 2014. That is difficult for the
:16:13. > :16:18.Treasury to agree to in the long term. Who knows where the economy
:16:18. > :16:22.is in 2014? Can the UK hope to retain the same influence on the
:16:22. > :16:32.world stage while cutting spending on defence and diplomacy? The
:16:32. > :16:37.Government says it can, the Defence Our top story tonight: The Arab
:16:37. > :16:41.uprising delivers its first major trial. The former Egyptian
:16:41. > :16:48.president appears in court. Coming up, a wide Leeds wants to become
:16:48. > :16:52.the most breast feeding friendly city in the UK.
:16:52. > :16:56.Later on the BBC News Channel, concerns mount over Italy's economy
:16:56. > :17:06.as the European jet -- debt crisis spreads. And why just one in four
:17:06. > :17:07.
:17:07. > :17:12.work has got a pay rise this year. More phone hacking allegations have
:17:12. > :17:15.emerged, this time about the Mirror Group. Heather Mills has made
:17:15. > :17:20.claims to BBC Newsnight that a senior Mirror Group journalist
:17:20. > :17:28.admitted hacking a highly sensitive voicemail left for her by Sir Paul
:17:28. > :17:32.McCartney before they were married. Heather Mills is a former model,
:17:32. > :17:36.best known for her four year marriage to Sir Paul McCartney. She
:17:36. > :17:40.was the subject of tabloid stories for many years. She once said she
:17:40. > :17:44.had always been driven to suicide by them. Tonight, she alleges that
:17:44. > :17:48.a senior journalist at Mirror Group Newspapers admitted having a voice
:17:48. > :17:51.mail left for her in 2001 by Sir Paul McCartney. She said the
:17:51. > :17:58.journalist quoted part of a message following an argument she had with
:17:58. > :18:02.her then boyfriend. He said, oh, I hear you have had a big argument
:18:02. > :18:08.with your boyfriend? I said, you have obviously hacked my phone. If
:18:08. > :18:13.you do anything with that story, because they will fiercely private
:18:13. > :18:18.conversations between a couple, I said I would go to the police. I
:18:18. > :18:23.said, OK, OK, we did here it on your voice messages. I won't run
:18:23. > :18:29.this story. The parent company, Trinity Mirror, which publishes
:18:29. > :18:33.more than 260 titles, said in response to the allegation that its
:18:33. > :18:36.position was clear, that all its journalists work with in criminal
:18:36. > :18:42.law and the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct. The
:18:42. > :18:46.journalist who Heather Mills said had contacted her was not then
:18:46. > :18:50.editor Piers Morgan. However, the message in question appears to be
:18:50. > :18:56.one which Mr Morgan it admitted listening to in 80,006 article in
:18:56. > :19:00.the Daily Mail, in which he wrote, at one stage I was played a tape of
:19:00. > :19:04.a message Paul Hart left for head on her mobile phone. It was
:19:04. > :19:09.heartbreaking. They had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India
:19:09. > :19:13.and he was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely,
:19:13. > :19:16.miserable and desperate and even sang, we can work it out. If the
:19:16. > :19:22.recollection is correct, the message that he listened to have
:19:22. > :19:26.been hacked. A fellow umbrella group -- Mirror Group journalist
:19:26. > :19:32.had tried to use it to get a story. Piers Morgan has consistently
:19:32. > :19:35.denied phone hacking authorising it. James Hipwell worked for the
:19:35. > :19:40.company as a business journalist before he was sacked and later
:19:40. > :19:44.convicted of conspiring to illegally inflate share prices at a
:19:44. > :19:51.time that Heather Mills alleges her phone was hacked. He said that the
:19:51. > :19:56.practice was widespread at the time. When I was there, it was accepted
:19:56. > :20:00.technique to get a story. The BBC has also learned that many other
:20:00. > :20:09.prominent people, including Rio Ferdinand and TV presenter Ulrika
:20:09. > :20:12.Jonsson also believe they were The Chief Constable of Cleveland
:20:12. > :20:16.police Sean Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard have been arrested as
:20:16. > :20:20.part of an investigation into alleged corruption. The two men are
:20:20. > :20:23.being questioned along with a woman at a police station in North
:20:24. > :20:30.Yorkshire. Danny Savage is in Middlesbrough now. What do we know
:20:30. > :20:33.about these allegations? Well, for the last three months an
:20:33. > :20:36.investigation into allegations of corruption has been taking place
:20:36. > :20:41.into the Cleveland police authority. That is the public body which
:20:41. > :20:45.oversees the police. Today, the inquiry went one big step further
:20:45. > :20:50.when detectives from it came calling for the Chief Constable of
:20:50. > :20:54.Cleveland Police, Sean Price, and his deputy, Derek Bonnard. They
:20:54. > :20:58.were arrested and taken to a police station in North Yorkshire. They
:20:58. > :21:00.were arrested on suspicion of misconduct, fraud by a fierce
:21:00. > :21:05.opposition and corrupt practice. Since the arrest they have also
:21:05. > :21:08.been suspended. The police authority here say that is routine
:21:08. > :21:12.and it should not shed any light on whether or not anybody thinks they
:21:12. > :21:16.are guilty of anything. It is purely routine to suspend them from
:21:16. > :21:21.duty at this stage of this investigation. War sort of reaction
:21:21. > :21:27.has there been? -- what sort of reaction. Sean Price has been chief
:21:28. > :21:33.constable here since 2003. He has been the leader of the police force
:21:33. > :21:37.here. The Cleveland Police Federation, who represent rank-and-
:21:37. > :21:42.file officers, say it has come as a massive shock, what has happened
:21:42. > :21:47.today. It is highly unusual for a chief constable to be arrested.
:21:47. > :21:52.People living here now face the prospect of having their most
:21:52. > :21:56.senior law keeper arrested by fellow officers.
:21:56. > :21:59.Almost 30,000 pupils in Scotland have received their exam results a
:21:59. > :22:04.day early by mistake. The Scottish qualifications Authority said the
:22:04. > :22:10.results, sent out by text message, where correct, but that the matter
:22:10. > :22:13.was being investigated. Barely 160,000 students were expecting
:22:13. > :22:16.results of Highers and Standard Grades tomorrow.
:22:16. > :22:22.Proposals to modify UK copyright legislation have been set out by
:22:22. > :22:26.the Government. Changes include making it legal for individuals to
:22:26. > :22:30.copy the Rhone CDs and DVDs for private use. Plans to block
:22:30. > :22:34.websites which host pirate Material are to be abandoned.
:22:34. > :22:39.It's one of those issues that seems to divide public opinion. Should
:22:39. > :22:42.mothers breast-feed babies in public? Leeds wants to become the
:22:42. > :22:51.most breast feeding friendly city in the UK. The council and health
:22:51. > :22:57.services are running a campaign to This might be just as nature
:22:57. > :23:04.intended, but breast-feeding in public can take a little courage,
:23:04. > :23:09.particularly for first timers. People do get embarrassed. It never
:23:09. > :23:12.used to be acceptable. I breast-fed in the aisles of a shop, and I've
:23:12. > :23:17.not been bothered. Some people are definitely bothered, about people
:23:17. > :23:21.staring. A recent survey found more than half of mothers were too
:23:21. > :23:25.embarrassed to breast feed in front of people. A third said they went
:23:25. > :23:27.to public toilets to feed their babies. A 5th of new fathers
:23:27. > :23:31.admitted they felt embarrassed about watching their partner
:23:32. > :23:35.breast-feeding the beginning. In Leeds, they are trying to counter
:23:35. > :23:40.that by branding the city and its shops as breast-feeding friendly.
:23:40. > :23:44.Although some people say it does make them feel awkward.
:23:44. > :23:48.offended, no. I just feel uncomfortable. It would be better
:23:48. > :23:53.if there was somewhere in public to go out of public sight, kind of
:23:53. > :23:56.thing. Last month, these mothers protested inside Old and Civic
:23:56. > :24:00.Centre after one of them was asked to leave because she was breast-
:24:01. > :24:04.feeding. It led to an apology from the council. To judge whether the
:24:04. > :24:08.scheme is a success, health professionals will be looking to
:24:08. > :24:13.see if the number of breast-feeding mothers rises. There are huge
:24:13. > :24:17.health advantages. It can protect babies against childhood in this --
:24:17. > :24:21.illnesses like gastroenteritis. It can also prevent developing
:24:22. > :24:26.allergies, eczema and asthma. Mothers have the right to breast-
:24:26. > :24:29.feed in whichever Business they are visiting, that he is the law
:24:29. > :24:33.throughout the UK. Although protection is more limited in
:24:33. > :24:36.Northern Ireland. An Australian teenager has been
:24:36. > :24:40.subjected to a 10 hour ordeal after she was trapped in her home with
:24:40. > :24:44.what she thought was a bomb. Police in Sydney, who have yet to confirm
:24:44. > :24:49.if it was a bomb or not, are looking for the person that place
:24:49. > :24:53.the device in the house in one of Sydney's upmarket suburbs.
:24:53. > :24:59.This is a Sydney suburb known for its stunning views and fabulous
:24:59. > :25:03.wealth. But for 10 hours Mossman became the unlikely scene for the
:25:03. > :25:09.most terrifying of ordeals. 18 year-old Madeleine poll there had
:25:09. > :25:12.been studying for final-year exams. At intruder, reportedly wearing a
:25:12. > :25:16.balaclava, entered the house and attached a potentially explosive
:25:16. > :25:23.device around her neck. There are also reports that the intruder left
:25:23. > :25:26.behind a note, possibly an attempt at extortion. As dust faded into
:25:26. > :25:30.night, police bomb disposal experts struggled to neutralise the device.
:25:30. > :25:35.They even sought help from the British military. Police have
:25:35. > :25:39.described this as a delicate and painstaking operation, a tough
:25:39. > :25:45.enough to crack. They have also said that no contact has been made
:25:45. > :25:48.with the person that left the device and that no negotiation has
:25:48. > :25:53.been under way. But just after midnight a breakthrough. The
:25:53. > :25:59.teenager, who was said to have remained remarkably calm throughout,
:25:59. > :26:04.was finally freed. She has been and will be uncomfortable for a little
:26:04. > :26:08.while to come. But she is in good hands, with her mum and dad.
:26:08. > :26:11.was taken to a nearby hospital to recover. Her ordeal was not only
:26:11. > :26:15.traumatic but physically uncomfortable. Meanwhile, police
:26:15. > :26:24.are trying to establish a motive. They have never seen this kind of
:26:24. > :26:27.Well, it is positively tropical out there, let's see what the prospects
:26:27. > :26:31.are. 30 Celsius in a number of spots
:26:31. > :26:35.through the day. If it's been too much for you, you will be glad to
:26:35. > :26:40.hear that the heat has peaked. Those temperatures will be sliding
:26:40. > :26:45.away, feeling cooler and fresher by the weekend. One more muggy night
:26:45. > :26:49.to go. With that, quite a lot of mist. In the short term, in parts
:26:49. > :26:53.of Norfolk, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, intense thunderstorms.
:26:53. > :26:59.There could be minor flooding before they clear. More details on
:26:59. > :27:03.your regional news but it in. -- bulletin. Temperatures are no lower
:27:03. > :27:06.than the mid- to high teens for many. A completely different day
:27:07. > :27:12.tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain across southern England to start the day.
:27:12. > :27:18.Some of that is heavy on the south coast. Very misty over the hills,
:27:18. > :27:23.with some fog around. A sluggish rush-hour in many parts of England
:27:23. > :27:27.and South-East Wales. Drying up in the north of Wales. A damp start
:27:27. > :27:30.across much of southern Scotland and into Northern Ireland. Breaks
:27:30. > :27:36.in the rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wet everywhere to
:27:36. > :27:40.start the day. A few brighter breaks here and there in northern
:27:40. > :27:42.Scotland. Certainly misty around the coast. Across many easternmost
:27:42. > :27:47.counties of England, only a little bit of rain first thing in the
:27:47. > :27:51.morning. Some sunshine possible across coastal parts of Yorkshire,
:27:51. > :27:55.Lincolnshire and into the East Anglia. A humid start, but things
:27:55. > :27:58.will change rapidly. Heaviest rain will be from the Isle of Wight,
:27:58. > :28:02.through Hampshire and into East Anglia. We could see in excess of
:28:03. > :28:06.an inch of rain. That rain will remain heavy across eastern parts
:28:06. > :28:10.and into northern Scotland by the end of the day. Skies are brighter,
:28:10. > :28:15.it will feel fresher but still warm in the sunshine. That's the story