:00:10. > :00:16.More devastating revelations in the phone hacking scandal from a former
:00:16. > :00:21.News of the World journalist. A letter from former Royal Editor,
:00:21. > :00:24.Clive Goodman says hacking was widely discussed at their offices.
:00:25. > :00:30.Tough questions for Andy Coulson. He became one of David Cameron's
:00:30. > :00:35.closest advisers. This letter is absolutely devastating. Clive
:00:35. > :00:39.Goodman's testimony shows that he believed that others, every member
:00:39. > :00:44.of the editorial team was aware of phone hacking. Now James Murdoch
:00:44. > :00:49.could be re-called by senior MPs. His own lawyers raise concern about
:00:49. > :00:54.his evidence to Parliament. Also on tonight's programme: The rising
:00:54. > :00:59.cost of the daily commute. An average 8% on rail fares next year.
:00:59. > :01:03.A week on from Manchester's riots, we're on the beat with the police.
:01:03. > :01:08.They could get new curfew powers. Shell discover a second oil leak in
:01:08. > :01:13.the North Sea. Hundreds of barrels could escape from the rig.
:01:13. > :01:18.I will be here with Sportsday later on the hour on the BBC News channel.
:01:18. > :01:28.Crunch time for Wenger in Europe. Suspensions and injuries make his
:01:28. > :01:41.
:01:42. > :01:45.Hello. Welcome to the BBC's news at 6ppbl. -- 6pm. There are
:01:45. > :01:49.allegations that senior staff at the News of the World knew more
:01:49. > :01:54.about phone hacking than they have admitted so far. A letter from
:01:54. > :01:59.Clive Goodman says hacking was regularly discussed at editorial
:01:59. > :02:04.meetings. It raises questions for Andy Coulson, a former editor of
:02:04. > :02:07.the News of the World, who went on to become one of David Cameron's
:02:08. > :02:14.closest advisers. This report contains some flash photography.
:02:14. > :02:18.Good good good, disgraissed former Royal Editor of the -- disgraced
:02:18. > :02:23.former Royal Editor of the News of the World. A letter he wrote in
:02:23. > :02:27.2007 has returned to haunt the owner of the Sunday tabloid, the
:02:27. > :02:31.Murdoch's News International. Obtained by the culture select
:02:31. > :02:41.committee, which is investigating phone hacking, Mr Goodman wrote in
:02:41. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:46.the letter that phone hacking was The letter then refers to this chap,
:02:46. > :02:50.Tom Crone at News International's former legal manager and this one,
:02:50. > :03:00.Andy Coulson, editor of the News of Andy Coulson, editor of the News of
:03:00. > :03:09.
:03:09. > :03:13.D I can only assume there's been a cover-up. This letter is absolutely
:03:13. > :03:17.devastating. Clive Goodman's testimony shows that he believed
:03:17. > :03:22.that others, every member of the editorial team was aware of phone
:03:22. > :03:25.hacking and the police were not told about it. If it's true that
:03:25. > :03:30.Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking, Mr Questions will be asked
:03:30. > :03:33.why David Cameron employed him as his communication's director and
:03:33. > :03:36.took him into -- communication director and took him into Downing
:03:37. > :03:41.Street. Rupert Murdoch and his son said
:03:41. > :03:45.they did not probe the extent of phone hacking at the News of the
:03:45. > :03:49.World until recently because of advise they received from a law
:03:49. > :03:54.firm, Harbottle & Lewis, that the phone hacking was limited. There is
:03:54. > :04:00.key legal advice from senior counsel which was provided to
:04:00. > :04:04.the...: Is embrar racing for James Murdoch is long -- embarrassing for
:04:04. > :04:09.James Murdoch is a long report written by Harbottle & Lewis says
:04:09. > :04:14.Mr Murdoch was completely wrong to rely on their 2007 letter, as being
:04:14. > :04:17.evidence there was not wide-spread wrongdoing at the News of the World.
:04:17. > :04:21.Harbottle & Lewis said they did not conduct a detailed, thorough
:04:21. > :04:27.investigation. What they did was a very narrow piece of work, relating
:04:28. > :04:33.to an employment dispute. What is equally embarrassing for James
:04:33. > :04:37.Murdoch is that Jon Chapman t news affairs director co-on braits
:04:37. > :04:41.Harbottle & Lewis's events. question for the Murdochs is
:04:41. > :04:46.whether or not in time they will be seen to have told the whole truth
:04:46. > :04:49.to the parliamentary committee. News International said tonight it
:04:49. > :04:54.recognises the seriousness of materials disclosed to police and
:04:54. > :04:56.Parliament and is committed to working in an open way with all the
:04:56. > :05:00.relevant authorities. The News of the World may no longer be rolling
:05:00. > :05:04.off the presses, but questions about the scandal cannot be killed,
:05:04. > :05:10.such as why Mr Goodman's shocking letter was not immediately passed
:05:10. > :05:16.to the police by News International. And Robert is with me now. Let's be
:05:16. > :05:19.clear - this is a former staff, a former employee, and the News
:05:19. > :05:24.International's lawyers were raising these concerns. Yes, they
:05:24. > :05:27.are shocking, but as ever, with this extraordinary scandal, as ever
:05:27. > :05:32.there are many unanswered questions as there are answers. For example,
:05:32. > :05:37.one of the things we have learnt tonight is that Clive Goodman, a
:05:37. > :05:40.convicted felon, who was trying to be dismissed by the News of the
:05:41. > :05:45.World for gross misconduct, well the News of the World, News
:05:45. > :05:51.International ended up paying him �244,000. Why did they pay him
:05:51. > :05:56.�244,000 after he had been dismissed? After he had left prison.
:05:56. > :05:58.Secondly, the question is whether Andy Coulson, who went on to become
:05:58. > :06:04.Director of Communications for David Cameron in Downing Street,
:06:04. > :06:08.who was editor of the news -- News of the World, whether he was shown
:06:08. > :06:12.this shocking letter, written by Clive Goodman and whether he told
:06:12. > :06:19.David Cameron that there was this formal allegation against him, in a
:06:19. > :06:24.letter, by a former colleague saying that he had promised that
:06:24. > :06:30.former employee that he would re- employ him so long as that emlyee
:06:30. > :06:34.did not implicate -- employee did not implicate other members of the
:06:34. > :06:39.News of the World in phone hacking. Finally, there are these big
:06:39. > :06:43.questions for Rupert and James Murdoch about why they rested on a
:06:43. > :06:48.letter from a firm of solicitors, Harbottle & Lewis, which that firm
:06:48. > :06:52.now says proved next to nothing about whether or not wrongdoing was
:06:52. > :06:57.rife at the News of the World. Thank you.
:06:57. > :07:01.Now, rail commuters are facing fare increases of around 8%, adding
:07:01. > :07:05.hundreds of pounds to many season tickets. Train companies say they
:07:05. > :07:09.need the extra cash to improve services. Passenger services say
:07:09. > :07:14.they are footing too much of the bill. Our correspondent is at
:07:14. > :07:18.Euston. Richard? Well commuters heading home know
:07:18. > :07:22.they face big hikes in the cost of their season tickets next year.
:07:22. > :07:27.Wages might be rising much less than inflation, but fares on the
:07:27. > :07:31.railways are going up by much more, on average 8%.
:07:31. > :07:36.We take well over one billion journeys a year on our railways,
:07:36. > :07:39.travelling on 21,000 miles of track across Britain for holidays,
:07:39. > :07:43.business trips and of course commuting. My salary's not going to
:07:43. > :07:48.up by 8%, so obviously it's going to cost me more. I am not happy
:07:48. > :07:53.about that. There's no work where I live. I come into London because
:07:53. > :07:59.it's the only way to do it. Soon it will not be feasible for anyone to
:07:59. > :08:03.do that. Regulated fares like season ticket goes up by July's
:08:03. > :08:07.inflation plus 8%. That means the average ticket will go up by 8%.
:08:07. > :08:12.Train companies can increase some fares by another 5%, for a rise up
:08:12. > :08:18.to 13%, so long as they balance that with reductions elsewhere.
:08:18. > :08:24.They are much more than the average wage rise this year of 2.1%. There
:08:24. > :08:28.are exceptions though, passengers on Scot Wales and Arriva Trains
:08:28. > :08:35.Wales will see fares go up by 6%. The average rise will mean a
:08:35. > :08:37.typical ticket of �2,000 goes up by �160. What do we want...:
:08:38. > :08:41.Campaigners mounted a protest outside Waterloo Station this
:08:41. > :08:45.morning. We are worried about people's ability just to be able to
:08:45. > :08:49.do a day's work. Or else they are concerned that people will be
:08:49. > :08:54.forced back on to our roads and we could see more congestion as a
:08:54. > :09:00.result of these price rises. There could already be some evidence of.
:09:00. > :09:05.This this company says people are switching to coaches because trains
:09:05. > :09:08.are too expensive. It is split between rail payer and taxpayer.
:09:08. > :09:14.Because the amount paid by passengers over the past four years
:09:14. > :09:19.has gone up from �5 billion to �6.6 billion, the amount contributed by
:09:19. > :09:23.taxpayers has been able to drop from �6.3 billion to �4 billion.
:09:23. > :09:28.This is a difficult decision. It is a decision we wish we didn't have
:09:28. > :09:32.to take. We simply didn't have a choice. If we were going to deliver
:09:32. > :09:36.the improvements passengers are calling for and that in a way which
:09:36. > :09:39.does not jeopardise our plan for reducing the deficit we had to ask
:09:39. > :09:44.passengers to pay more. Labour argues the Government is cutting
:09:44. > :09:50.the deficit too far and too fast. And if it wasn't fares could have
:09:50. > :09:55.gone up by less. Large-scale rail investment projects like Crossrail
:09:55. > :09:58.and Thameslink have been safeguarded by these rises. As the
:09:58. > :10:01.campaigners point out the fare rises are happening now where as
:10:01. > :10:06.the projects will not be ready until the ends of the decade. As
:10:06. > :10:10.the report suggested there, the fare increases have been blamed on
:10:10. > :10:14.rising inflation. Let's look in more detail at those figures. Our
:10:14. > :10:17.chief economics editor is here. What do the figures show us?
:10:17. > :10:21.rail fares are linked to RPI. There is another, the official one for
:10:21. > :10:27.the Government known as CPI, the consumer prices index. Let's look
:10:27. > :10:31.at where that was in July. That showed an inflation rate of 4.4%,
:10:31. > :10:35.up from the previous month. That is way ahead, more than double the
:10:35. > :10:39.target set by the Government for the Bank of England, which is at
:10:39. > :10:46.just 2%. It has been well above that target for some time now. In
:10:46. > :10:48.fact, it's been above 3% for 19 consecutive months. When it's that
:10:48. > :10:50.high the Governor of the Bank of England has to write to the
:10:50. > :10:54.Chancellor explaining why. He sent another letter today saying it is
:10:55. > :11:00.down to factors such as energy prices. He is warning it could go
:11:00. > :11:04.higher yet, above 5% in the coming months because of utility bill
:11:04. > :11:10.increases, gas and electricity due for next month and for October. So
:11:10. > :11:15.the squeeze on consumers is set to intensify. If it is any consolation
:11:15. > :11:19.the bank says inflation should fall back next year. Police in England
:11:19. > :11:24.and Wales may be given tougher powers to try and prevent future
:11:24. > :11:30.riots T Government says curfews could be improzed on -- imposed on
:11:30. > :11:39.people in a specific area. Critics say it is more police that are
:11:39. > :11:43.numbered and that proposals to cut police numbers should be shelved.
:11:43. > :11:47.So they tried to rip out the cash machine? This is what the police
:11:47. > :11:52.were not able to stop, despite their best efforts.
:11:52. > :11:57.Today, senior officers went to Salford to see some of the business
:11:57. > :12:01.owners whose stores were ransacked in the rioting. I couldn't believe
:12:01. > :12:04.this. I don't know who's done it, people local or from outside.
:12:04. > :12:10.the aftermath of the violence, the Government is considering new
:12:10. > :12:16.powers for the police, including the ability to impose curfews.
:12:16. > :12:21.Should it be possible to impose a curfew and should we have extra
:12:21. > :12:25.powers to have curfews for people under 16. The proposals attracted a
:12:25. > :12:31.good deal of support in Salford. There was a noticeable divide in
:12:31. > :12:33.opinion between the generations. All you see now is young kids now
:12:33. > :12:38.on corners with bottles and drinking and that. You didn't see
:12:38. > :12:42.that years ago. What do you think of the idea of a curfew? I don't
:12:42. > :12:46.think it should happen. But if things are being smashed up.
:12:46. > :12:51.stick up for the police. I'm not sticking up for the police. The
:12:51. > :12:53.police are there to do a job. week that job was difficult.
:12:53. > :12:58.Greater Manchester Police say they had the powers and the people to
:12:58. > :13:02.stop the trouble. I don't think they gave one thought as to whether
:13:02. > :13:06.they needed more powers. Now going forward, yes, as I said, we will
:13:06. > :13:10.work with the Government to consider any new powers that may be
:13:10. > :13:13.required. What is more important to you, new powers or keeping police
:13:13. > :13:17.officers on the front line? For me it is about keeping police officers
:13:17. > :13:21.on the front line. Many forces in England and Wales say Government
:13:21. > :13:26.cuts will reduce police numbers. Ministers insist that shouldn't
:13:26. > :13:32.affect the frontline, because bureaucracy could be cut. Officers
:13:32. > :13:36.say much of that work has already been done. The response office, the
:13:36. > :13:40.idea is they go out and deal with the job and then arrest somebody
:13:40. > :13:43.and hand them over to get back on the streets quicker. The Government
:13:43. > :13:48.grant for policing in England and Wales is expected to fall by more
:13:48. > :13:53.than �1.3 billion over the next four years. That's around 14% of
:13:53. > :13:57.the budget and could mean up to 16,000 frontline posts are lost.
:13:57. > :14:02.They want to cut the police down now, so it will get worse. It will
:14:02. > :14:07.not get better, is it? Government insist the cuts are
:14:07. > :14:11.needed. It is promising to get tough. Saying in future it will not
:14:11. > :14:16.be army cadets made to clean up areas damaged, it will be the
:14:16. > :14:20.troublemakers themselves. So far almost 1,300 people have
:14:20. > :14:23.appeared before the courts on charges relating to the
:14:23. > :14:28.disturbances. In Ealing a 16-year- old boy has been charged with the
:14:28. > :14:31.murder of a pensioner who was attacked as he tried to stamp out a
:14:31. > :14:36.fire during the London riots. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, died
:14:36. > :14:40.in hospital after he was attacked during Monday's unrest. The
:14:41. > :14:44.teenager has been charged with violent disorder and four separate
:14:44. > :14:47.burglaries of commercial premises. His mother has been charged with
:14:47. > :14:50.perverting the course of justice. Police have arrested a man on
:14:50. > :14:54.suspicion of attempted murder after two police officers were mown down
:14:54. > :14:59.while chasing rioters during the riots. The 31-year-old was detained
:14:59. > :15:01.after he handed himself in at an East London police station this
:15:01. > :15:04.morning. The Government is to set up an
:15:04. > :15:13.independent panel to hear from people affected by the riots, the
:15:13. > :15:23.Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said those caught up should have
:15:23. > :15:25.
:15:25. > :15:28.Our top story tonight: new evidence from a News Of The World's former
:15:28. > :15:32.royal editor says that phone hacking was widely discussed in the
:15:32. > :15:36.offices of the paper. And coming up, the Olympic Park has
:15:36. > :15:40.seen its first sporting action ahead of next year's Games.
:15:40. > :15:44.Later on the News Channel, inflation rises again, thanks to
:15:44. > :15:48.higher prices for clothing and footwear. And disappointing figures
:15:48. > :15:58.on the German economy as French and German leaders begin key talks on
:15:58. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:04.In less than 10 years' time, up to a quarter of an hour electricity is
:16:04. > :16:08.supposed to come from offshore wind power. But building and directing
:16:08. > :16:13.1,000 of Turbine out at sea is difficult and expensive. There are
:16:13. > :16:18.fears that electricity bills could rise even more -- 1,000. Our
:16:18. > :16:23.Science Correspondent reports from Britain's newest wind farm at
:16:23. > :16:28.Ormonde of the Cumbrian coast. Forests of wind turbines are rising
:16:28. > :16:32.of Britain's shores. This is the Government's great hope for green
:16:32. > :16:35.energy. But building these things is a real challenge. You need a
:16:35. > :16:41.special best all like this that can stand on the seabed and lift itself
:16:41. > :16:47.up -- the vessel. We watched the process unfold. A crane winches
:16:47. > :16:51.each component into place. At this is a section of the tower. Waiting
:16:51. > :16:56.for it are construction workers, with the huge bolts that will hold
:16:56. > :16:59.it in place. All of this make planting of wind turbines out at
:16:59. > :17:03.sea very expensive. The machines are more out of the way back on
:17:03. > :17:08.land and the cost gets passed on to consumers already facing rising
:17:08. > :17:12.bills. It is true to say that a generation of boccia wind is
:17:12. > :17:16.expensive. It will come down in the next 10 or 20 years. One of the
:17:16. > :17:22.great benefits is home-grown electricity. The work just keeps
:17:22. > :17:27.coming as they enter a critical phase. Lifting of the giant set of
:17:27. > :17:32.blades off the deck and then out, angling be sued rota, so it is in
:17:32. > :17:40.the right position to be hoisted right up and fitted to the top of
:17:40. > :17:44.the tower -- a huge of rota. 100m up, a tiny figure League -- leans
:17:44. > :17:48.out as it gets close. A ban on the deck, they cling to the tip of the
:17:48. > :17:52.blade. The biggest danger, ironically, is a sudden gust of
:17:52. > :17:58.wind. Then the final approach. This is one of the largest turbine is in
:17:58. > :18:02.the world and just before midnight, the job is done. Off the coast of
:18:02. > :18:08.Cumbria, this wind farm has 30 turbine is, but when they are this
:18:08. > :18:11.big, you still need 200 of them to match the electricity can --
:18:11. > :18:18.produced by a conventional power station, and only when the wind
:18:18. > :18:22.blows. Here goes. With one of the longest the ladders in history, I
:18:22. > :18:25.am sure. Inside, it is a very long journey
:18:25. > :18:31.to the top. I am hooked on for safety, but the technicians who
:18:31. > :18:35.work in here have to be specially trained and need a head for heights.
:18:35. > :18:39.When you are this high up and this far out in the ocean, it is
:18:39. > :18:44.generally pretty windy, like today. It is ideal when this installation
:18:44. > :18:50.is complete, for shifting these giant blades and making electricity.
:18:50. > :18:54.But when you look at this year size of this great structure, you think
:18:54. > :19:01.about the cost and the challenge of building it, the question is, is
:19:01. > :19:07.the Government right to 1,000 more of these things right around our
:19:07. > :19:12.shores -- to want thousands more. This is an expensive way to reduce
:19:12. > :19:16.it carbon emissions. Let's get serious about climate change and
:19:16. > :19:19.global warming. Let's not pretend that lots of offshore wind farms
:19:19. > :19:24.will be a major contribution. Government says that pioneering
:19:24. > :19:28.wind technology at sea will create jobs, cut carbon can -- emissions
:19:28. > :19:33.and take advantage of being an island nation. But the price will
:19:33. > :19:38.be high and it has only just started.
:19:39. > :19:43.To find out more about just how complicated it is to erect these
:19:43. > :19:46.giant wind turbines out at sea, including an interactive map of the
:19:46. > :19:51.docks where the whole process begins, just go to the BBC news
:19:51. > :19:55.website. Npower has become the latest energy
:19:55. > :20:02.company to announce a price increase. It will rage -- raise
:20:02. > :20:04.average gas Paris by 15.7% and electricity by 7.2% by October. The
:20:04. > :20:07.company more than doubled its profits and the first part of the
:20:07. > :20:11.year and says it is investing billions of pounds in energy for
:20:11. > :20:14.the future. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel
:20:14. > :20:18.and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy met this afternoon to
:20:18. > :20:23.discuss the financial crisis in the euro-zone. It comes as figures
:20:23. > :20:28.reveal the German economy grew by just 0.1% in the months from April
:20:28. > :20:36.to June. Gavin Hewitt is in Paris. I think everybody was rather hoping
:20:36. > :20:40.that the German economy would Paul his recovery in Europe behind it. -
:20:40. > :20:43.- track this recovery. Germany is the bigger engine room
:20:43. > :20:48.of the European economy but indications that they are that it
:20:48. > :20:51.is slowing, much more than people expected. Last week, the French
:20:51. > :20:55.economy was revealed to have pretty much stalled. What this indicates
:20:55. > :20:59.to me is that these two big European economies are in a weaker
:20:59. > :21:05.position to help those countries that may be in difficulty. Today,
:21:05. > :21:10.Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy met in the palace behind me and
:21:10. > :21:15.agreed are much further integration, much closer control over the 17
:21:15. > :21:18.eurozone countries. They even spoke about an economic government with a
:21:18. > :21:23.President over those countries. Much of the details remain to be
:21:23. > :21:26.revealed, but another detail that we do know, they want all of those
:21:27. > :21:33.17 countries to enshrined in law that they will balance their
:21:33. > :21:37.budgets by 2012. What was missing today was no plan to help those big
:21:37. > :21:43.economist like Italy, with high debts and low growth, if they got
:21:43. > :21:47.into trouble, what is the plan? Whereas the rescue plan? What about
:21:47. > :21:52.making a nation's debts into common European debt? None of that was
:21:52. > :21:55.available. Those questions remain to be answered.
:21:55. > :21:59.The oil company Shell says it has discovered a second league under
:21:59. > :22:03.one of its platforms and the North Sea. It comes after the company
:22:03. > :22:10.managed to stem the flow from the original spill. 300 barrels of oil
:22:10. > :22:14.have escaped over the past week. James Cook has the details.
:22:14. > :22:18.More than 100 miles out in the North Sea, ribbons of oil are
:22:18. > :22:23.streaking the surface. From the air, a small slick appears to be
:22:23. > :22:28.breaking up. On the seabed, these pictures, shot on Sunday, showed
:22:28. > :22:33.bobbles of oil rising from a grating. This is at the heart of
:22:33. > :22:38.the problem. Gannet Alpha. The Shell platform has been drilling
:22:38. > :22:42.for two decades. From the surface, a pipeline drops 310 ft to the
:22:42. > :22:48.seabed and snakes along for seven miles, funnelling oil back to the
:22:48. > :22:53.surface. The leak is a short distance from the well head. Shell
:22:53. > :22:56.says 1,300 barrels of oil had escaped. It took until Friday to
:22:56. > :23:01.gain access to where the leak is occurring. We took the pressure
:23:01. > :23:07.away from that line, which caused substantial reduction in this Bill,
:23:07. > :23:11.and now we have a very minor, or relatively minor leak -- the spill.
:23:11. > :23:17.But still the worst for a decade. Here in Europe's oil capital, there
:23:17. > :23:22.is no panic. Since the 1970s, this harbour has bustled with ships and
:23:22. > :23:27.Aberdeen has grown rich on well. But the latest finds are deeper and
:23:27. > :23:29.trickier to extract, so does that mean there will be more spills?
:23:29. > :23:34.costs are very high. The environmental effects of anything
:23:34. > :23:37.going wrong are very high. But technology has advanced over time
:23:37. > :23:42.and will continue to advance. Compared to this, the Gulf of
:23:42. > :23:48.Mexico disaster, the latest leak is tiny, and experts do not anticipate
:23:48. > :23:52.scenes like this being repeated in Scotland. The most vulnerable are
:23:52. > :23:56.sea birds, no doubt about that. Oil gets into their feathers, they lose
:23:56. > :24:01.insulation as a result and lose the waterproofing of the feathers. It
:24:01. > :24:06.is bad news for sea birds. But the area up the slick is very small, so
:24:06. > :24:10.the chances of many seabirds being affected is small. So there is
:24:10. > :24:17.plenty of black gold at the end of this rainbow, but getting it out is
:24:17. > :24:20.a dirty business. London's Olympic Park has seen its
:24:20. > :24:24.first competitive sporting action today. Six teams, including Great
:24:25. > :24:28.Britain, have been competing in a basketball tournament. It is one of
:24:28. > :24:33.several trial event being held to test the facilities and the
:24:33. > :24:38.transport system ahead of next year's games. Our sports editor is
:24:38. > :24:42.that the Olympic Park now. Basketball has no great tradition
:24:42. > :24:47.in Great Britain, but despite that, as you can see, an enthusiastic
:24:47. > :24:51.response to this test event, a complete sell-out. It is the first
:24:51. > :24:54.competitive action at the Olympic Park and the first big test for
:24:54. > :25:00.organisers. London's latest iconic Olympic
:25:00. > :25:04.venue. The basketball arena. Open for competitive action for the
:25:04. > :25:09.first time today. For the 3,000 fans who have paid for the
:25:09. > :25:14.privilege, it was the first real taste of what next year's Games
:25:14. > :25:18.will feel like. This is what creature upon arrival at the
:25:18. > :25:24.Olympic Park. Airport-style security with metal detectors, back
:25:24. > :25:28.scans and body searches. Security officials say they don't want to
:25:28. > :25:33.spoil the fan experience, but with the Olympics such an obvious target
:25:33. > :25:37.for terrorists, security has to be a priority. It is no different from
:25:37. > :25:40.airport or anything else and I am reassured the security is there.
:25:41. > :25:45.must be a stressful job, because you have a lot of people coming in
:25:45. > :25:48.in a small amount of time. This event is also unfamiliar territory
:25:48. > :25:54.for Great Britain's basketball players. Next year will be the
:25:54. > :25:58.first time since 1948 that the country has entered a team. But
:25:58. > :26:02.London promised not to leave any white elephants, so this �42
:26:02. > :26:07.million a reader will be dismantled and sold off once the Games are
:26:07. > :26:12.over -- arena. It will be exciting to actually be on this court,
:26:12. > :26:16.playing in front of my friends and my family. Playing in my backyard
:26:16. > :26:20.is a big deal, so it will be an emotional time. Basketball is the
:26:20. > :26:27.latest sport to be filed with a year to go. Over the last month,
:26:27. > :26:30.equestrian, sailing, road cycling, they have all hosted major test
:26:31. > :26:36.events. For London 2012, this dry run is crucial for planning for
:26:36. > :26:42.next summer. So how does the man in charge think it has gone? I am very
:26:42. > :26:47.confident that what we have tested will be able to move from a seven
:26:47. > :26:56.out of 10-289 or eight 10 out of 10. Of course, there are many things
:26:56. > :27:01.that you cannot test -- to a nine out of 10. China and Australia made
:27:01. > :27:04.history per day, being the first two teams to play. But all of this
:27:04. > :27:08.won't matter if organisers missed the target for next year.
:27:08. > :27:11.The test events are going well, but this time next year, more than a
:27:11. > :27:17.quarter of a million people will be coming on to the Olympic Park at
:27:17. > :27:21.the same time, and planning for a one-off is one thing of but running
:27:21. > :27:24.26 Olympics bought in one city at one time is quite another.
:27:24. > :27:27.-- sport. Time for the weather now with Matt
:27:27. > :27:30.Taylor. Hello, this summer is turning out
:27:30. > :27:34.to be more changeable than the spring and tonight, we head back to
:27:34. > :27:38.the clear and cool conditions across many parts of the country.
:27:38. > :27:42.Temperatures taking a tumble as the grey skies of earlier break-up.
:27:42. > :27:45.Still some cloud in Scotland with outbreaks of rain for a time. Heavy
:27:45. > :27:50.outbreaks of rain for a time. Heavy bursts in the north and the East,
:27:50. > :27:55.isolated elsewhere. Temperatures will start to fall away and we will
:27:55. > :27:58.see some mist patches. 8-10 degrees in towns and cities by the morning.
:27:58. > :28:01.As we go into Wednesday morning, the biggest difference from the
:28:01. > :28:04.sunny skies will be the cloud in the South West, producing some
:28:04. > :28:08.patchy rain and drizzle through Devon and Cornwall initially which
:28:08. > :28:10.will develop further northwards as we go through the afternoon. It
:28:11. > :28:14.could be potentially damper on the south coast of Wales, but most
:28:14. > :28:18.places will be tried and the further north, the brighter
:28:18. > :28:21.conditions will be -- dry. Isolated showers possible in Northern
:28:21. > :28:25.Ireland, light winds and temperatures up to 18 degrees.
:28:25. > :28:29.Scotland should have a fine day for the vast majority, better than the
:28:29. > :28:33.moment. Any showers will be few and far between and slow-moving thanks
:28:33. > :28:37.to a light breeze. Sunny spells through northern England, but the
:28:37. > :28:40.sunshine will turn hazy in the Midlands had a fair amount of cloud
:28:40. > :28:47.through East Anglia and the South. Still a bit of brightness to be had,
:28:47. > :28:54.at the rate will be very light and patchy. Wet on the ground in many
:28:54. > :28:56.areas, in the South West, rain all day. Heavy rain anywhere for a
:28:56. > :29:00.South West Wales on Thursday at the Lincolnshire. South-east of that,
:29:00. > :29:03.the potential for some heavy downpours but drier for the North