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:00:04. > :00:10.There's yet more violence and looting tonight on the streets of

:00:10. > :00:13.London. This time it's in Hackney, in the east of the capital, where

:00:13. > :00:17.police in riot gear are being pelted with rocks and missiles and

:00:17. > :00:21.shops are being looted. It follows more violence last night in several

:00:21. > :00:27.parts of the capital - from Enfield in north London to Brixton in the

:00:27. > :00:31.south. It was needless, opportunistic

:00:31. > :00:34.theft and violence, and it is completely unacceptable.

:00:34. > :00:39.In Tottenham, where it all started, the burnt-out carpet store - a

:00:39. > :00:45.business gone and many homes above it destroyed.

:00:45. > :00:48.Just couldn't believe it, our building was going up in flames. 10

:00:48. > :00:50.minutes longer in that building and we would have been dead.

:00:50. > :00:53.Also on tonight's programme... Global markets plummet again,

:00:53. > :01:02.wiping billions off share prices. The sharp rise in rural crime

:01:02. > :01:05.that's costing households and businesses nearly �50 million.

:01:05. > :01:15.And why the TV presenter Carol Voderman wants all school pupils to

:01:15. > :01:43.

:01:43. > :01:48.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. More violence has

:01:48. > :01:50.broken out on the streets of London tonight. In Hackney in east London,

:01:50. > :01:53.police in riot gear are being attacked with stones and missiles,

:01:53. > :01:56.and shops and businesses are being looted. Extra police are being

:01:56. > :01:59.deployed in the capital tonight to try to quell the trouble that began

:01:59. > :02:03.in Tottenham on Saturday. More than 160 people have been arrested since

:02:03. > :02:06.then after the violence spread to other parts of London. The violence

:02:06. > :02:09.which began in Tottenham spread last night to Enfield, Walthamstow

:02:09. > :02:12.and Brixton. Then this afternoon it erupted again - this time in

:02:12. > :02:22.Hackney. Our home affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger, is in

:02:22. > :02:23.

:02:23. > :02:27.Tottenham now. Here in Tottenham, they're still counting the cost of

:02:27. > :02:35.the violence on Saturday night, and they're counting that cost in terms

:02:35. > :02:42.of burnt-out buildings, gutted shops and homeless residents. And

:02:42. > :02:46.there are fresh outbreaks of violence not far from here. This

:02:46. > :02:52.was the London borough of Hackney this evening, youths clashing with

:02:52. > :02:56.the police, attacking squad cars and shop fronts. This is the third

:02:56. > :03:02.night of such scenes in the capital. In Tottenham, the flashpoint on

:03:02. > :03:12.Saturday night, this was the remains of a building which had

:03:12. > :03:16.housed 26 families. It was just, get away from the burning building.

:03:16. > :03:21.This lady lived there. She is now homeless, with nothing but her

:03:21. > :03:26.handbag and a few clothes. There was another neighbour trying to get

:03:26. > :03:32.out of the building, in such a panic. And then we got outside and

:03:32. > :03:36.saw the building, with flames going up the building. It was just black

:03:36. > :03:43.smoke billowing down from the corner of the high road. 10 minutes

:03:43. > :03:48.longer in that building, and we would have been dead. And what

:03:48. > :03:55.makes me utterly sick to the bone is that, as we were trying to get

:03:55. > :04:03.out of that building alive, some stupid, selfish man, white guy with

:04:03. > :04:06.blond hair, was coming up, he obviously looted Carpet Right, and

:04:06. > :04:10.people were coming out with their robes over their shoulder, and he

:04:10. > :04:13.was laughing. Today, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, was in

:04:13. > :04:18.Tottenham to hear first hand from shopkeepers and residence. They

:04:18. > :04:24.were angry, they told him they had felt abandoned on Saturday night.

:04:24. > :04:33.Can I ask you, is this always going to happen now because of the cuts?

:04:33. > :04:36.No, I don't think so. Why weren't we protected? We left the flat as

:04:36. > :04:40.the rioters were coming up the road, the buildings were on fire, and we

:04:40. > :04:45.did not see one policeman. The fire engines could not be there because

:04:45. > :04:48.the police were not there to protect them. On Sunday, even as

:04:48. > :04:53.the residents of Tottenham were counting the cost of the previous

:04:53. > :04:57.night, the violence had spread to Enfield, some four miles away. This

:04:57. > :05:02.time the police were decisive, and the violence didn't escalate. Other

:05:02. > :05:06.parts of London were affected, too. In Brixton, shops were broken into.

:05:06. > :05:11.More than 100 people were arrested across the capital. The Home

:05:11. > :05:16.Secretary, Theresa May, cut short her holiday to return to the UK.

:05:16. > :05:20.Let's be absolutely clear, there is no excuse for violence or looting,

:05:20. > :05:26.there is no excuse for thuggery. The police will deal with any

:05:26. > :05:30.emergency situations as they consider most appropriate. But I am

:05:30. > :05:37.absolutely clear there is no excuse for looters or thuggery or violence

:05:37. > :05:42.on the streets. It was the police's shooting of a local man which

:05:42. > :05:48.preceded the violence in Tottenham. Today, police admitted

:05:48. > :05:50.relationships with his family could have been better handled. I have

:05:50. > :05:56.spoken to the community representatives. We have had

:05:56. > :06:00.meetings. Actually, we should have helped the IPCC get closer to the

:06:00. > :06:04.family of Mr Duggan more quickly. Tonight, amid fresh outbreaks of

:06:05. > :06:08.trouble, it seems the violence has developed a life of its own, far

:06:08. > :06:12.removed from the original cause of the disturbance on Saturday. The

:06:12. > :06:17.Mayor of London has announced in the past half-an-hour that he is

:06:17. > :06:20.cutting short his holiday to return to London. Here in Tottenham, a

:06:20. > :06:26.bulldozer has arrived to begin the process of demolishing the building

:06:26. > :06:33.which has stood here for 80 years. In a short time, there will be a

:06:33. > :06:37.vigil, and an expression of hope So what is behind the violence

:06:37. > :06:39.we've seen in the past 48 hours? It started with the fatal shooting by

:06:39. > :06:42.police of a local man in Tottenham. Our special correspondent Razia

:06:42. > :06:49.Iqbal has been talking to residents in North London about the

:06:49. > :06:54.underlying tensions that have come to the boil.

:06:54. > :06:58.The aftermath of burning, looting and destruction. The grim reality

:06:58. > :07:02.of the havoc unleashed by a few, resulting in the heart of this

:07:02. > :07:09.suburb being severely trashed. The shock of it makes some just stop

:07:09. > :07:13.and stare. For others, this is all too reminiscent of scenes 26 years

:07:14. > :07:17.ago, on the Broadwater Farm estate, when some of the worst riots seen

:07:17. > :07:22.in England erupted after a woman suffered a fatal stroke after a

:07:22. > :07:27.police raid on her home. Then, race relations, poverty and community

:07:27. > :07:30.policing were blamed. Now, some say it is lack of opportunity,

:07:30. > :07:34.particularly for the young. Most youngsters look at it and say, what

:07:34. > :07:38.are we going to have when we're older? If they are not going to

:07:38. > :07:44.have nothing, why not go and get it ourselves? They need that help,

:07:44. > :07:49.they need that direction. Despite considerable investment since the

:07:49. > :07:53.1980s, Tottenham were Baines poor and socially deprived. No-one we

:07:53. > :07:57.spoke to today condoned the violence, but many understood some

:07:57. > :08:01.of the reasons behind it. Britain is still systemically racist.

:08:01. > :08:06.Relations between the police and the black community are still by

:08:06. > :08:09.and large bad. They have tried to improve them, but they are bad.

:08:09. > :08:14.Before the weekend, many in this community thought Tottenham was a

:08:14. > :08:18.more hopeful place than it had been in 1985. But just as many say the

:08:18. > :08:23.fundamental issues of poverty and hopelessness have not been tackled.

:08:23. > :08:27.It only takes one flashpoint to expose deep fault-lines. Criticism

:08:27. > :08:31.of the delayed police response over the weekend just adds to the

:08:31. > :08:36.feeling that relations between the police and the African-Caribbean

:08:36. > :08:40.community in particular remain problematic. The way they do stop

:08:40. > :08:46.and search, the way they attack, I would say, the kids, the youth, in

:08:46. > :08:49.the areas, is ridiculous. This is what needs to come through, the

:08:49. > :08:54.frustration from the youth, it has because of the way they dealt with

:08:54. > :08:58.by the police. They are angry with the police. As politicians decide

:08:58. > :09:01.how to respond, the people in this part of London are absorbing the

:09:01. > :09:07.enormity of what has happened to their neighbourhood.

:09:07. > :09:13.Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, is at New Scotland Yard.

:09:13. > :09:18.There are even more police out on the streets tonight - what is the

:09:18. > :09:22.latest? This is a difficult time for Scotland Yard. It is just three

:09:22. > :09:26.weeks since the Commissioner and his deputy resigned. The man

:09:26. > :09:29.currently at the helm, the acting commissioner, paid tribute to the

:09:29. > :09:33.officers who have been out on the streets over the past couple of

:09:33. > :09:37.nights. 35 officers have been injured. Tonight they are facing

:09:37. > :09:41.fresh challenges in Hackney, where we know there are disturbances.

:09:41. > :09:45.Police are trying to get officers there in large numbers. We're also

:09:45. > :09:50.getting reports of trouble in Lewisham in south London. We're

:09:50. > :09:55.told that tonight the Met will have 30% more officers on the street

:09:55. > :09:59.than last night. The Met have been criticised over events in Tottenham

:09:59. > :10:04.at the weekend, criticised for their slow response. Here, they say

:10:04. > :10:08.they were not on the back foot, it was just a failure of intelligence.

:10:08. > :10:12.They say a peaceful march simply degenerated into violence. Just as

:10:12. > :10:15.a footnote, obviously, social networking sides have played a big

:10:15. > :10:19.part in events over the past few days. Today there was a warning

:10:19. > :10:27.from senior police officers that anybody inciting violence using

:10:27. > :10:30.social networking sides could face Stock markets have fallen in London,

:10:30. > :10:32.across Europe and in the United States, despite efforts to calm the

:10:32. > :10:35.markets. Investors appear to lack confidence in attempts by world

:10:35. > :10:45.leaders and the European Central Bank to bring stability to the

:10:45. > :10:51.eurozone. Our business editor, Robert Peston, has the story.

:10:52. > :10:56.The ringing the bell for more investor misery. Shares on Wall

:10:56. > :11:01.Street fell, hard on the heels of a similar falls in Asia and Europe.

:11:01. > :11:05.But these declines are the symptom, not the cause. This is where Royal

:11:05. > :11:09.Bank of Scotland trades not shares, but debt. It is in places like this

:11:09. > :11:13.that this great drama is being played out. The financial crisis is

:11:13. > :11:18.all about the growing doubts over whether the governments of giant

:11:18. > :11:21.economies like Italy, Spain, even economies like Italy, Spain, even

:11:21. > :11:26.the US, can repay all their debt. What you can see here, the rising

:11:26. > :11:28.cost of borrowing for the Spanish and Italian governments, is

:11:28. > :11:32.investors saying they are increasingly worried about lending

:11:32. > :11:36.to those countries. Today there has been a sharp fall in the interest

:11:36. > :11:40.rates paid by those governments. That is because this body, the

:11:40. > :11:43.European Central Bank, has taken the historic decision to buy

:11:43. > :11:46.Italian and Spanish bonds, an Italian and Spanish bonds, an

:11:46. > :11:50.indirect way of lending to those countries.

:11:50. > :11:54.This is exactly what the markets were looking for, somebody trying

:11:54. > :11:58.to stabilise the bond yields of Spain and Italy. These countries

:11:58. > :12:02.are too big to bail out. European central bank is owned by

:12:02. > :12:06.the passengers on the tram outside the office, and the other people of

:12:06. > :12:12.the eurozone. So how much financial risk are the Germans and the French

:12:12. > :12:16.taking? It is about 2.5 billion Euros each day, which could

:12:16. > :12:20.potentially add up to a big number, around 800 billion euros of

:12:20. > :12:27.sovereign debt from Spain and Italy. American investors have been blue,

:12:27. > :12:33.too. That is since Standard and Poor's took the decision, seeing as

:12:33. > :12:38.many -- seen by many as shocking, to downgrade their credit rating.

:12:38. > :12:42.It shows terrible judgment. They have handled themselves very poorly,

:12:42. > :12:46.showing a stunning lack of knowledge about the US. I think

:12:46. > :12:50.they drew exactly the wrong conclusion. The big story for many

:12:50. > :12:55.is that governments, households, banks and businesses of the Western

:12:55. > :12:59.economies, including the UK, have borrowed far more than is prudent,

:12:59. > :13:08.and in pain down the debt, there is less spending and investment, so

:13:08. > :13:15.economic growth slows to a trickle. Commodities such as oil have been

:13:15. > :13:20.falling, too. So, here's a silver lining - if you for the driver, the

:13:20. > :13:24.price of petrol and other essentials could come down. You

:13:24. > :13:30.have to wonder what more can be done, Stephanie Flanders... As we

:13:30. > :13:33.were hearing, there's two big concerns, there's the strength of

:13:33. > :13:37.the dollar's recovery, which is so crucial for all of us, and also

:13:37. > :13:40.what is ultimately going to happen in the eurozone. I think investors

:13:40. > :13:45.are looking at these issues and wondering what governments have

:13:45. > :13:47.left to throw at them. In the case of the US, we have a big

:13:47. > :13:52.disagreement between Congress and the President, it is not likely

:13:52. > :13:56.that they will be able to throw much more at the problem. And the

:13:56. > :14:01.central bank in America also has less room for manoeuvre. If you

:14:01. > :14:04.look at the eurozone, we have got this very short-term solution today,

:14:04. > :14:08.with the European central bank buying this debt, but in the long

:14:08. > :14:13.term, most people think we will need to have Germany agreeing to

:14:13. > :14:17.stand behind these debts, and may be a much bigger bail-out facility.

:14:17. > :14:21.Nobody is expecting to see this any time soon. So it is a question of

:14:21. > :14:31.how we can get through this investor malaise, a malaise which

:14:31. > :14:33.

:14:33. > :14:41.And there's more on the crisis and what it might mean for you in a

:14:41. > :14:43.Crime in rural areas has risen dramatically in the past two years,

:14:43. > :14:45.according to new figures from an insurance company. They estimate

:14:45. > :14:48.that so-called "agri-crime" has cost householders and businesses

:14:48. > :14:58.more than �49 million in the last year. Our rural affairs

:14:58. > :14:58.

:14:58. > :15:02.correspondent, Jeremy Cook, has the It is a world away from the

:15:02. > :15:07.problems of urban Britain, but in the heart of the countryside, crime

:15:07. > :15:13.is rising dramatically. Modern tractors, for instance, can cost in

:15:13. > :15:17.excess of �70,000. Security out here is often lacks. Before, we

:15:17. > :15:27.used to just leave the key in. farmer has had two tractors stolen,

:15:27. > :15:31.

:15:31. > :15:35.both of them eventually tracked Not many years ago you would leave

:15:35. > :15:36.the tractor in the field with the key in it. There seems to be a

:15:36. > :15:46.key in it. There seems to be a crime wave here. The numbers are

:15:46. > :15:52.

:15:52. > :15:57.We've had a big shock this year, the figures are well up over 60% in

:15:57. > :16:02.cost in just two years alone. The major impact is tractors that are

:16:02. > :16:06.being stolen and exported across the globe and also a big rise in

:16:06. > :16:10.livestock theft from farms. Rural police forces are tracking down

:16:10. > :16:17.some of the what's been stolen. This just one of many recovery

:16:17. > :16:22.sites with row afro of stolen machinery and vehicles. -- row

:16:22. > :16:28.after, row of stolen machinery vehicles. The range of items

:16:28. > :16:33.disappearing from our farms is extraordinary. It's a crime wave,

:16:33. > :16:37.sweeping across rural Britain. It's not just farms being targeted. In

:16:37. > :16:43.rural Oxfordshire, a bell weighing 150 pounds, was stolen from St

:16:43. > :16:51.James's church. 140 years of history now almost certainly scrap

:16:51. > :16:56.metal. It's just after 6.15pm, the top

:16:56. > :17:00.story tonight: More violence and looting, this time in Hackney,

:17:00. > :17:06.where police are being pelted with missiles and shops are being looted.

:17:06. > :17:09.And coming up: Look, no hands - the world's longest guided busway opens

:17:09. > :17:14.in Cambridgeshire. Later on the BBC News Channel, I'll

:17:14. > :17:18.have more reaction to a volatile day on the markets, as Europe ends

:17:18. > :17:28.the day in the red. All eyes are on the United States as President

:17:28. > :17:33.

:17:33. > :17:38.Obama prepares to address the They are one of the world's most

:17:38. > :17:42.controversial commodities, diamonds from the Marange district. There

:17:42. > :17:47.are prison camps near the diamond fields, where miners employed to

:17:47. > :17:49.dig illegally, have been subjected to beatings. Sales of the diamonds

:17:49. > :17:53.are banned by international agreement, but the European Union

:17:53. > :17:59.is pushing for a partial lifting of the ban. The names of people in

:17:59. > :18:03.this report have been changed to protect their it tiz.

:18:03. > :18:07.-- their identities. Zimbabwe's diamond fields are

:18:07. > :18:11.shrouded in allegations of killings and abuse. We headed into the

:18:11. > :18:14.remote mountains nearby to meet witnesses. They told us about a

:18:14. > :18:18.camp in the diamond area run by Zimbabwe soldiers and police.

:18:18. > :18:21.TRANSLATION: They would tie to you a tree and assault you severely.

:18:21. > :18:25.They would not give any food. That went on for a long time. Other

:18:25. > :18:30.people died as a result of the injuries and soldiers would throw

:18:30. > :18:34.their bodies away. We deployed our undercover camera team to the

:18:34. > :18:39.location the witnesses had described. There they found this

:18:39. > :18:44.camp, active and guarded. They couldn't stay long. Witnesses said

:18:44. > :18:50.prisoners are held in a razor wire enclosure near these tents and are

:18:50. > :18:53.mauled by dogs, raped and beaten. They're civilians recruited to mine

:18:54. > :18:57.ill lel legal -- illegally. But they're punished for demanding more

:18:57. > :19:04.pay or mining for themselves. Zimbabwe's government hasn't

:19:04. > :19:09.responded to our findings. Down the road is this mine. President Mugabe,

:19:09. > :19:16.whose friend runs it, could benefit from a new proposal to partially

:19:16. > :19:20.lift the sales ban so they could export. Some of the these diamonds

:19:20. > :19:24.are hitting world markets due to disagreement within the Kimberley

:19:24. > :19:30.Process, the world's policemen on diamonds about the status of the

:19:30. > :19:35.ban. Could you buy one in the UK? We went down to hatton garden in

:19:35. > :19:39.London to find out. I'm going into this shop. They've been selling

:19:39. > :19:42.diamonds since 1875. They're very established and proper. I'm going

:19:43. > :19:48.to ask them if they or any High Street jewellery, for that matter,

:19:48. > :19:52.knows where the diamonds come from. There are sanctions in place that

:19:52. > :19:56.should prevent some Zimbabwean diamonds being sold here. I have no

:19:56. > :20:01.idea where it would come from. Not even the shop people would have any

:20:01. > :20:03.idea. Even the supplier wouldn't know. We must have had a thousand

:20:03. > :20:07.customers coming through and I don't think one of them has ever

:20:07. > :20:11.asked where this diamond has come from. They don't even care. They

:20:11. > :20:15.just want some bling on their finger. The British jewellers

:20:15. > :20:19.association has called on jewellers to tell their suppliers they don't

:20:19. > :20:22.want Marange diamonds. If the EU deal goes ahead, many more Marange

:20:23. > :20:26.diamonds could hit the world's markets and it seems, the average

:20:26. > :20:31.person, looking for an engagement ring, might not know what they were

:20:31. > :20:37.buying. You can see more on the Marange

:20:37. > :20:40.diamond mines on tonight's Panorama at 8.30pm on BBC One.

:20:40. > :20:44.The Ministry of Defence is investigated reports that a soldier

:20:44. > :20:46.took fingers from the bodies of dead Taliban fighters to keep as

:20:46. > :20:50.souvenirs. It's understood the allegations have been made against

:20:50. > :20:54.a soldier from The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Our

:20:54. > :20:58.Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon is outside Stirling Castle

:20:59. > :21:04.wha. More can you tell us? This part of Scotland is traditionally

:21:04. > :21:08.one of the main recruiting grounds for the The Argyll and Sutherland

:21:08. > :21:13.Highlanders. Soldiers from the battalion returned in April after a

:21:13. > :21:18.six-month tour of duty. During that tour, it's claimed this abuse took

:21:18. > :21:22.place. It's alleged one soldier chopped the fingers off dead

:21:22. > :21:27.Taliban fighters as some kind of gruesome souvenir. We don't know

:21:27. > :21:30.the soldier's name, rank or age. We don't know whether or not they've

:21:30. > :21:33.been suspended. It's thought if they are found guilty of

:21:33. > :21:37.desecrating a body, they could be detained, dismissed or demoted from

:21:37. > :21:40.their position in the Army. An investigation is still ongoing, but

:21:40. > :21:50.the Ministry of Defence say they take these allegations very

:21:50. > :21:58.

:21:58. > :22:01.seriously. Carol Vorderman's report found the current system is failing

:22:01. > :22:11.young peming with almost half of all 16-year-olds failing to get

:22:11. > :22:29.

:22:29. > :22:34.grade C at GCSE level. Our Carol Vorderman says there should

:22:34. > :22:39.be two GCSE exams, run on arithmetic and the other on

:22:39. > :22:44.geometry. Maths is the killer subject always. Even those with a

:22:45. > :22:51.GCSE at grade C approximately three quarters of them, so the colleges

:22:51. > :22:56.are telling us, still cannot calculate fractions and percentages.

:22:56. > :23:00.# Maths, glorious maths... # While effort is put into making

:23:00. > :23:03.maths fun at trinity primary, Carol Vorderman says teachers require

:23:03. > :23:11.more knowledge of the subject. Teaching unions point out that

:23:11. > :23:15.means money and training. Many of the teachers coming in, say to us

:23:16. > :23:19.where they need more training it would be in the field of maths.

:23:19. > :23:24.this summer school at Imperial College, the engineers of the

:23:24. > :23:31.future, are getting access to experts who know why maths matters.

:23:31. > :23:35.Practical maths is everywhere. If these students vent -- haven't done

:23:35. > :23:40.calculations right when it comes to volume and area, the shelter won't

:23:40. > :23:44.stand up. Have you done it correctly? Yes. Are you sure it

:23:44. > :23:48.won't fall down? Yes. Government welcomes the report but

:23:48. > :23:54.say there are no plans to make maths compulsory up to the age of

:23:54. > :23:58.Now, it runs on its own track and is guaranteed not to get stuck in

:23:58. > :24:01.traffic. The world's longest guided busway route has just opened in

:24:01. > :24:05.Cambridgeshire. It's hoped the service will ease congestion.

:24:05. > :24:10.Critics of the scheme, which cost more than �100 million and opened

:24:10. > :24:16.two years late, claimed journey times won't be cut. Richard Scott

:24:16. > :24:18.is in St Ives now. We're at one end of the guided

:24:18. > :24:22.busway. Cambridge is about 12 miles in that direction. That's where

:24:22. > :24:28.this bus has come from. If you did that journey by car, on the roads,

:24:28. > :24:31.at the height of rush hour, it would probably take about 60

:24:31. > :24:37.minutes. By bus it's about 20 minutes. Despite that, opponents

:24:37. > :24:41.say it's the misguided busway. Welcome to Cambridge. For many who

:24:41. > :24:49.work in the city, their first task of the day is to sit in traffic.

:24:49. > :24:54.This is part of the city solution, it might look like an ordinary bus,

:24:54. > :24:58.but it has a trick up its sleeve. It's a guided busway. Wheels on the

:24:58. > :25:03.side of the bus keep it locked to the track bypassing the congestion

:25:03. > :25:06.on the A14. Now this stretch of the guided busway is 12 miles long.

:25:06. > :25:11.There are stops at various points along the route for communities and

:25:11. > :25:15.park and ride schemes. But one aspect which might take a bit of

:25:15. > :25:20.getting used to is the driver doesn't have to keep his hands on

:25:20. > :25:26.the wheel. We looked at all the options. This came out by fart most

:25:26. > :25:34.sensible option and the most sensible way forward. This will get

:25:34. > :25:39.you onto a reliable service. route follows a disused rail line.

:25:39. > :25:43.Opponents thought it would be better to reinstate that instead.

:25:43. > :25:52.The council thinks it's a good idea to cover the route in concrete,

:25:52. > :25:56.costing in excess of �100 million. The journey end to end is no faster

:25:57. > :26:01.than existing bus services. It's the public who will use the busway.

:26:01. > :26:06.We asked what they thought. I think it's fabulous. Why? It's long

:26:06. > :26:11.overdue. We're not coming down the A14. It's going to be into

:26:11. > :26:14.Cambridge, you know, in a lovely countryside. It's beautiful. What

:26:14. > :26:19.if one of the buses breaks down and you're in the bus behind, how do

:26:19. > :26:23.you get off? The council says buses can divert onto normal roads to go

:26:23. > :26:26.around any break downs, which trains can't do. Other cities will

:26:26. > :26:32.be watching now to see how successful this is and whether they

:26:32. > :26:37.should follow suit. There are already shorter bus ways

:26:37. > :26:40.in use in Leeds and Bradford as well as a bigger scheme planned for

:26:40. > :26:45.Leigh to Manchester. People involved with that scheme will be

:26:45. > :26:48.watching to see how well this does. Let's get the latest weather now

:26:48. > :26:51.with Matt. It may be August, but a distinct

:26:51. > :26:55.chill in the air for some of you tonight. Whilst most of you will

:26:55. > :27:01.have a dry night, one or two will have a dry night, one or two will

:27:01. > :27:05.see heavy showers. The heaviest of the showers are across Yorkshire,

:27:05. > :27:08.Lincolnshire. The risk of minor flooding here. It fades away during

:27:08. > :27:14.the night. Showers continue continue around the north and west.

:27:14. > :27:17.For most it's a dry night and chilly as I mention. Eight to 12

:27:17. > :27:23.degrees in towns and cities. In Scotland, you could be waking up to

:27:23. > :27:27.temperatures of four or five degrees tomorrow morning. Most

:27:27. > :27:30.start on a dry and bright note on Tuesday. We could showers running

:27:31. > :27:36.through the north channel, affecting the South West of

:27:36. > :27:43.Scotland, eastern parts of Northern Ireland, Isle of Man into Liverpool

:27:43. > :27:46.pal -- bay and the Midlands. It should be a reasonably sunny start.

:27:46. > :27:50.Most hold onto the sunshine through the day. Sunny spells through the

:27:50. > :27:54.afternoon, showers in the west easing, one or two close to the

:27:54. > :27:58.east. For most it's a dry afternoon. Whilst temperatures similar to

:27:58. > :28:02.today's 18 to 20 degrees it's warmer with winds lighter. Tuesday

:28:02. > :28:05.will be last of the dry days this week. This area of low pressure in

:28:05. > :28:08.the Atlantic is big enough to extend its influence through

:28:09. > :28:12.Tuesday night into Wednesday. Rain spreading in through Northern

:28:12. > :28:16.Ireland, Scotland and northern England. Areas with saturated

:28:16. > :28:21.ground and high river levels. We'll keep an eye on that. The rain

:28:21. > :28:24.across western areas. The far north of Scotland and England and Wales

:28:24. > :28:29.predominantly dry. We drag in milder winds. Into Thursday we hold

:28:29. > :28:32.on to a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain, most will be light and patchy.

:28:32. > :28:36.Temperatures around 18 to 20 degrees. More details coming up

:28:36. > :28:40.degrees. More details coming up next.

:28:40. > :28:44.Tonight's main news: More violence on the streets of London tonight.

:28:45. > :28:48.This is the scene live in Hackney in the east of the city, where

:28:48. > :28:52.earlier skirmishes erupted between gangs of hooded youths and police.

:28:52. > :28:56.It's the third day of rioting in the capital. Shop windows have been