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:00:12. > :00:17.The hunt is on for Colonel Gaddafi. Libyan rebels fight street-to-

:00:17. > :00:20.street with die-hard supporters in Tripoli.

:00:21. > :00:26.Intense clashes continue around the dictator's compound. We report from

:00:26. > :00:36.the rebel frontline. They have just stormed back in. They are now

:00:36. > :00:41.firing rockets into the middle of the compound. You can hear one now.

:00:41. > :00:45.Gaddafi broadcasts a defiant message, vowing victory or death,

:00:45. > :00:51.as the opposition say they will not rest until he's gone for good.

:00:51. > :00:59.I feel free I will see the blood of Gaddafi. Then I'm free. I can say

:00:59. > :01:05.like the German "I am the man." Inside the Gaddafi family home.

:01:05. > :01:08.Rebels ransack the trappings of his dynasty. Foreigners held at gun

:01:08. > :01:13.point by Gaddafi loyalists are freed from the hotel which became a

:01:13. > :01:17.prison. Also on tonight's programme: The police under fire

:01:17. > :01:22.for dragging a disabled man from his wheelchair during the student

:01:22. > :01:29.protests. And re-thinking the way doctors measure blood pressure. Up

:01:29. > :01:32.to one-quarter of patients could be misdiagnosed. Coming up in

:01:32. > :01:36.Sportsday at 6.45pm, the latest from the High Court, as Spurs win

:01:36. > :01:46.the right to challenge the decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West

:01:46. > :01:59.

:01:59. > :02:05.Welcome to the News at Six. The Libyan capital has seen some of the

:02:06. > :02:10.most intense clashes yet, as rebel forces came under renewed fire of

:02:10. > :02:16.die-hard supporters of Colonel Gaddafi. He's in hiding. His forpbl

:02:16. > :02:19.minister conceded that his 42-year rule was at an end. The fighting

:02:19. > :02:29.has been concentrated in Abu Salim, Hadbha and at Colonel Gaddafi's

:02:29. > :02:33.

:02:33. > :02:36.As we enter Gaddafi's pom pound, it's obvious there is -- compound,

:02:36. > :02:44.it's obvious there is fighting still going on. Yesterday's

:02:44. > :02:52.liberation has not cleared all the die-hard loyalists out.

:02:52. > :02:57.This is about to get a lot more intense. So the rebels were driven

:02:57. > :03:01.out of the centre of the compound, back to the outer wall. They have

:03:01. > :03:07.stormed back in. They are firing rockets into the middle of the

:03:07. > :03:17.compound. You can hear one going in now.

:03:17. > :03:26.

:03:26. > :03:31.Left side, left side.... Stay, stay, stay!

:03:31. > :03:36.Once again, the assumption that the fighting is over is premature.

:03:36. > :03:41.Gaddafi's compound is a fortress, with blast walls, tunnels and

:03:41. > :03:46.bunkers. This man believes Gaddafi is hiding under ground.

:03:46. > :03:52.Do you think he's somewhere in here? If you ask me about what I

:03:52. > :03:57.think, I think Gaddafi is here. There's a lot of tunnels and stuff

:03:57. > :04:05.like, you know, it's like impossible. He built it for this

:04:05. > :04:10.day. You know, to stay running away from people, you know?

:04:10. > :04:15.Until Gaddafi is found, some here still will not dare to believe his

:04:15. > :04:19.dictatorship is really over. REPORTER: When will you feel free?

:04:19. > :04:27.When I see the blood of Gaddafi spreading on the grass. Then I'm

:04:27. > :04:33.free. I can say like the Germans "scam I am a man. I am man."

:04:33. > :04:37.Down on the seashore we got a glimpse into his life. This is the

:04:37. > :04:42.summer house of his son, Hannibal. We found tens of thousands of

:04:42. > :04:47.pounds worth of designer clothing and shoes. When you see the place,

:04:47. > :04:51.you know, the sea, this is expensive things here. This is the

:04:51. > :04:57.problem this is high the revolution has happened. Seeing this will

:04:57. > :05:00.confirm what most Libyans suspected - that the Gaddafi clan lived in a

:05:00. > :05:05.life of vulgar luxury. Until they are caught this revolution will not

:05:05. > :05:11.be over. Well rebels have offered a reward

:05:11. > :05:15.of over �1 million to anyone who kills or captures Colonel Gaddafi.

:05:15. > :05:19.Today they have looked everywhere they can for him. They have offered

:05:19. > :05:22.an amnesty for any Gaddafi supporter who turns him in. Our

:05:22. > :05:31.diplomatic correspondent has this report now on the hunt for Colonel

:05:31. > :05:35.Gaddafi. They trample on pictures of Colonel

:05:35. > :05:41.Gaddafi whenever they can, but so far cannot track down the man

:05:41. > :05:49.himself. The rebels know complete victory depends on finding him. I

:05:49. > :05:55.will do all I can to find him, to judge him, to put him in a cage.

:05:55. > :05:58.Colonel Gaddafi was heard today on a new pro-regime channel. He

:05:58. > :06:02.claimed he had left his Bab Al- Aziziya compound for at thetyal

:06:02. > :06:10.reasons and taken to the streets of Tripoli.

:06:10. > :06:13.TRANSLATION: I walk through Tripoli incognito. Nobody saw me. I saw

:06:14. > :06:19.youths ready to defend our city. Just the riots which can be easily

:06:19. > :06:23.brought under control. Libyan rebels believe Gaddafi's

:06:23. > :06:29.home town of Sirte, east of Tripoli is one of the places he might be

:06:29. > :06:33.hiding. This has always been a Gaddafi hard-land. Now he's urging

:06:33. > :06:39.supporters there to -- heart-land. Now he's urging supporters there to

:06:39. > :06:43.fight to the death. The rebels are hopeful of negotiating the city's

:06:43. > :06:49.surrender. Tpwad gad's spokesman is insisting there -- Gaddafi's

:06:49. > :06:55.spokesman is inning there is a way back for the regime. He says, "we

:06:56. > :06:59.will turn it into a fire that burns under the feet of those. I can say

:06:59. > :07:04.that 600 new volunteers have arrived in the last six hours." the

:07:04. > :07:08.reality is, it's the rebels that are steadily making head-way. Their

:07:08. > :07:14.battle to control all of Libya is still not complete.

:07:14. > :07:19.Now, in a moment, we can talk to our world affairs correspondent.

:07:19. > :07:23.First our correspondent is in Benghazi for us tonight. Jon, for

:07:23. > :07:29.months now, the rebel opposition group has been based with you there

:07:29. > :07:36.in Benghazi. Any thought they might move to the capital, Tripoli?

:07:36. > :07:40.know, despite the exsilration in Benghazi and Tripoli, a note of

:07:40. > :07:45.caution has moved in. They have postponed the move to Tripoli,

:07:45. > :07:51.saying it is not secure. They say it is not over until the fate of

:07:51. > :07:55.Colonel Gaddafi is done. They have offered him safe passage out of the

:07:55. > :08:00.country if he renounces leadership. They have offered an amnesty for

:08:00. > :08:05.anyone who kills him or captures him and that reward of more than $1

:08:05. > :08:07.million. They have major cities they continue control, Sirte, his

:08:07. > :08:10.birth place, big cities in the south of the country. The rebels on

:08:10. > :08:14.this side of the country are not making the military progress they

:08:14. > :08:20.have made in Tripoli. The trebles have taken Tripoli, most of it in

:08:20. > :08:26.dramatic fashion. We have seen that. To what extent was that planned or

:08:26. > :08:30.a case of luck? Well, it's very interesting. The opposition here

:08:30. > :08:37.say that it was all actually planned, that great surprising move

:08:37. > :08:41.into Tripoli at the weekend. It had been planned for many months. They

:08:41. > :08:44.loyalists and trained them with the support and co-operation of NATO

:08:45. > :08:50.and led by the opposition and put them in place as sleepers, waiting

:08:50. > :08:55.for the signal. Last weekend they brought out those sleeper cells,

:08:55. > :09:00.who were living in Tripoli itself. They invaded, over land and sea.

:09:00. > :09:04.They had a key defection, they say, from the man who controlled the

:09:04. > :09:10.gates of Tripoli. That is why we saw such dramatic developments over

:09:10. > :09:13.the last couple of days. Now over to Jon Simpson in Tripoli.

:09:13. > :09:19.We've been very, very careful with our words during these broadcasts

:09:19. > :09:26.on Tripoli and the fall of the capital. Can we finally say it's

:09:26. > :09:34.over now for Colonel Gaddafi? think we can. I think today the

:09:34. > :09:38.24th August will be seen as the day when the six month and one week

:09:38. > :09:43.revolution finally succeeded. Everybody here talks about the 17th

:09:43. > :09:48.February when it began. I suspect the 24th August will be seen as the

:09:48. > :09:55.time it ended. Certainly what everybody in the streets seems to

:09:55. > :09:59.feel. I have rarely seen such an outrush of extraordinary feeling,

:09:59. > :10:04.as people driving around the streets, firing endlessly into the

:10:04. > :10:10.air. You can perhaps hear the firing still going on. It's fading

:10:10. > :10:15.now as the end of Ramadan for the day comes closer. Nevertheless,

:10:15. > :10:20.it's been an extraordinary day. I think everybody here thinks it is

:10:20. > :10:23.entirely over. Jon, everyone in the region and here remembers what

:10:23. > :10:29.happened in Iraq after Saddam Hussein. The transitional council

:10:29. > :10:33.still has a tough job to do, doesn't it? It certainly does. Of

:10:33. > :10:38.course the first responsibility that it has I think to some extent

:10:38. > :10:43.at any rate, is to catch Colonel Gaddafi. Without that, it will not

:10:43. > :10:52.be final, any more than it was in Iraq. But, you know, what happened

:10:52. > :10:55.in Iraq eight years ago was really that Saddam Hussein almost

:10:55. > :11:01.immediately ceased to be a figure of significance whatsoever in the

:11:01. > :11:05.country. He was put on trial and executed. Almost forgotten you

:11:05. > :11:11.could say in Iraq. I think the same thing will happen with Colonel

:11:11. > :11:15.Gaddafi. However it ends, whether it is by his own hand or whether he

:11:15. > :11:19.is captured, whatever that may be, I think you will find the new

:11:19. > :11:27.Government will simply put all that aside and start moving forward very

:11:27. > :11:32.quickly indeed. Thank you both. We will have more on Libya later in

:11:32. > :11:37.the programme. Now the rest of the news. The man who murdered Philip

:11:37. > :11:42.Lawrence outside his school in 1995 has been cleared of robbing someone

:11:42. > :11:45.at a cash machine in North London. Learco Chindamo, who is 31 was

:11:45. > :11:49.found not guilty along with two other defendants at Blackfriars

:11:49. > :11:51.Crown Court. The Independent Police Complaints

:11:52. > :11:58.Commission is investigating the death of a man who stabbed himself

:11:58. > :12:01.and was then shot with a Taser by police in Bolton T gun carrys a

:12:01. > :12:06.50,000 volt electric shock. It is the third death of a member of the

:12:06. > :12:11.public to be referred to the IPCC in the past week. He is believed to

:12:11. > :12:15.be the first juvenile involved in the rights to have his right to

:12:15. > :12:19.anonymity lifted. 16-year-old Johnny Melfah pleaded guilty to

:12:19. > :12:24.posting messages on a group called "Letz Start a Riot." He will be

:12:24. > :12:29.sentenced next month. An investigation has found a

:12:29. > :12:34.policeman used excessive force when he dragged a disabled man during

:12:34. > :12:37.student protests in London. The IPCC said the Metropolitan Police

:12:37. > :12:43.should apology to the man Jody McIntyre, after he was struck with

:12:43. > :12:47.a police baton. Here's our home affairs correspondent.

:12:47. > :12:53.It was one of the many confrontations between protestors

:12:53. > :12:59.and police that December night. But the way in which Jody McIntyre

:12:59. > :13:05.was removed from his wheelchair and dragged from the road has resulted

:13:05. > :13:11.-- into two investigations. Today the IPCC decided it was appropriate

:13:11. > :13:14.to move him as police attempted to control the streets, but that they

:13:14. > :13:18.used excessive force. The police watchdog has concluded that the

:13:18. > :13:23.incident, right here in the heart of Westminster, may have amounted

:13:23. > :13:29.to an assault, and should have been reported to prosecutors. Six months

:13:30. > :13:37.on, the time limit for that has now passed. Why is it that when young

:13:37. > :13:46.people are rioting in London they have the courts open 24 hours a day,

:13:46. > :13:51.seven days a week, but when a police officer commits a crime they

:13:51. > :13:55.overrun the six-month limit to prosecute that officer? Mr McIntyre

:13:55. > :14:00.is a prominent activist. He was at the forefront of the student

:14:00. > :14:05.protests. The Met's investigation concluded he was inadvertantly

:14:05. > :14:10.struck by a police baton in this earlier incident. No officer was

:14:10. > :14:13.blamed. The IPCC report said the force should have apologised and

:14:14. > :14:18.officers should have been given words of advice. Jody McIntyre has

:14:18. > :14:23.been criticised for suggesting on Twitter that neighbourhoods should

:14:23. > :14:26.be inspired by the recent riots and rise up against the police. He has

:14:26. > :14:31.argued, following his experiences in December that public order

:14:31. > :14:41.policing is too heavy-handed. In recent weeks the criticism has

:14:41. > :14:45.

:14:45. > :14:50.been the opposite, that the police Our main headline - there has been

:14:50. > :15:00.intense fighting in Libya, as rebels say they will finish off the

:15:00. > :15:19.

:15:19. > :15:22.regime of Colonel Gaddafi. Coming Doctors in England and Wales are

:15:22. > :15:25.being advised to change the way they measure blood pressure after

:15:25. > :15:28.research found that up to a quarter of patients may have been

:15:28. > :15:31.misdiagnosed. It's thought many people are so nervous that their

:15:31. > :15:41.blood pressure goes up when the doctor appears. Our health

:15:41. > :15:43.

:15:43. > :15:47.correspondent, Hywel Griffith, has It has been dubbed "white coat

:15:47. > :15:51.syndrome". A patient's blood pressure goes up because the doctor

:15:51. > :15:56.makes them feel anxious. It is believed the problem has caused

:15:56. > :16:00.millions of pounds to be wasted on the NHS. It is natural, people get

:16:00. > :16:04.stressed when they come to see the doctor. It means people are being

:16:04. > :16:11.exposed to treatment and therefore receiving medicines when perhaps

:16:11. > :16:16.they do not need them. Getting a correct diagnosis for patients like

:16:16. > :16:20.Sheila is vital. Hypertension is a major cause of stroke and heart

:16:20. > :16:25.attack. To see if she is at risk, she has been trying a different

:16:25. > :16:29.type of test. To get a more accurate picture, Sheila has been

:16:29. > :16:33.asked to wear one of these portable monitors, which takes a reading

:16:33. > :16:39.every half-an-hour. This could become the standard way of testing

:16:39. > :16:43.for hypertension across the NHS in England and Wales. Over 24 hours,

:16:43. > :16:48.the monitor stores readings to give an average. It allows doctors to be

:16:48. > :16:54.certain of their diagnosis. It is not discomfort, you know it

:16:54. > :16:58.is there, it is a bit awkward if you're out doing some shopping, and

:16:58. > :17:03.all of a sudden, this Norway's start beeping. But I just smile at

:17:03. > :17:08.people. Research published in today's

:17:09. > :17:12.Lancet suggests this is the most effective way of testing. The

:17:12. > :17:17.monitors will cost the Health Service around �5 million a year to

:17:17. > :17:21.introduce, but money is saved by treating fewer patients. By the

:17:21. > :17:31.fifth year, the net saving stands at more than �10 million. New

:17:31. > :17:34.

:17:34. > :17:37.guidance could also follow in Tottenham Hotspur has won the right

:17:37. > :17:39.to challenge a decision on the future of the Olympic Stadium after

:17:39. > :17:43.next summer's Games. Previously West Ham United had been awarded

:17:43. > :17:48.the rights to move into the stadium. But today's decision could change

:17:48. > :17:54.that. We can go live now to the High Court and speak to our sports

:17:54. > :17:58.correspondent, Dan Roan - how significant is this? With less than

:17:58. > :18:02.a year to go until the Games, the uncertainty surrounding the

:18:02. > :18:06.principal venue, the athletics stadium, continues. This was a

:18:06. > :18:11.significant victory for Spurs, but by no means decisive. Their

:18:11. > :18:15.argument rested upon a �40 million loan which had been agreed between

:18:15. > :18:19.West Ham united and the London borough of Newham. It meant that

:18:20. > :18:25.West Ham would be able to move into the stadium after the games. Spurs

:18:25. > :18:29.and Leyton Orient argued that that loan constituted state aid and was

:18:29. > :18:33.therefore illegal. They said the original decision made by the

:18:33. > :18:36.Olympic Park Legacy Company to allow West Ham preferred bidder

:18:36. > :18:42.status should be re-examined. The judge today agreed that the

:18:42. > :18:45.argument had married. There will be a full judicial review in October.

:18:45. > :18:49.But whether or not Spurs take up that opportunity remains to be seen.

:18:49. > :18:53.I understand they are now close to an agreement with the Mayor of

:18:53. > :18:56.London over a cash injection which will enable them to move into a

:18:56. > :18:59.stadium neighbouring their traditional white Hart Lane home in

:18:59. > :19:04.return for them dropping their legal challenge. But one thing is

:19:04. > :19:12.certain, today's victory will have done them no harm, but it will have

:19:12. > :19:15.Rail commuters in the north of England have been hit by the first

:19:15. > :19:18.of two 24-hour strikes on First TransPennine Express. The strike,

:19:18. > :19:21.by train drivers from the Aslef and RMT unions, began at midnight after

:19:21. > :19:30.talks over pay broke down. Rail services from Manchester to York

:19:30. > :19:32.were disrupted. A second 24-hour strike is planned for Friday. The

:19:33. > :19:35.former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended her use of two

:19:36. > :19:38.prisoners on day release who did three hours of decorating work at

:19:39. > :19:42.her home. Jacqui Smith said she made a donation to the community

:19:42. > :19:46.group that arranged the work, but the group now admits it wasn't the

:19:46. > :19:55.best use of the prisoners' time. Were supposed to be doing work to

:19:55. > :19:58.help the whole community. A new BBC survey has found 3G mobile coverage

:19:58. > :19:59.across the UK is still falling short of the claims made by

:19:59. > :20:02.short of the claims made by operators. Last month thousands of

:20:02. > :20:05.phone users took part in a survey and the resulting map shows that

:20:05. > :20:07.there are still too many places where there's no reception -

:20:07. > :20:17.including built-up areas. Our technology correspondent, Rory

:20:17. > :20:19.

:20:19. > :20:23.How good is your mobile signal? Over the past month, 40,000 people

:20:23. > :20:28.across the country have downloaded an application allowing us to track

:20:28. > :20:32.just how good the coverage is. The result is a map which shows that

:20:32. > :20:38.even in the centre of cities like Cardiff, you cannot be sure of

:20:38. > :20:42.Cardiff, you cannot be sure of getting the 3G signal you need.

:20:42. > :20:47.There are some surprising areas, even in city centres like this. In

:20:47. > :20:51.some cases there will be no service at all. It is quite surprising.

:20:51. > :20:55.Nationwide, our survey shows coverage is not as complete as the

:20:55. > :20:59.mobile networks would have you believe. I got on a London-bound

:20:59. > :21:03.train in search of further evidence. These days, a lot of people expect

:21:03. > :21:08.to be able to get online with their phones and other devices even on a

:21:08. > :21:16.moving train. Our map appears to show that on large sections of this

:21:17. > :21:21.journey, that could be rather tricky. I got off at Didcot to go

:21:21. > :21:27.and meet someone who had taken part in our survey. What kind of signal

:21:27. > :21:33.are you getting? In the village of Cuddesdon, trainee vicar Chris

:21:33. > :21:36.Phillips has found that his smart phone is not much use without 3G.

:21:36. > :21:40.People here want to be able to consume media on their mobiles,

:21:40. > :21:45.just as much as people in the city. To cut them off from services like

:21:45. > :21:52.that, not to provide those services, it seems to perpetuate that

:21:52. > :21:59.disadvantage. The next stage in our mobile journey will see us moving

:21:59. > :22:05.from 3G to 4G networks, but will that solve these problems?

:22:05. > :22:12.Even when we get the 4G licences, coverage will get better, but you

:22:12. > :22:17.will still find relatively poor coverage in the same areas.

:22:17. > :22:25.hope is that our map will give the mobile networks more information on

:22:25. > :22:26.who needs a better signal. who needs a better signal.

:22:26. > :22:36.And if you want to see what 3G mobile coverage is like in your

:22:36. > :22:38.

:22:38. > :22:41.area, you can find the map on our A reminder of our main story now,

:22:41. > :22:44.the continuing battle for Tripoli between the rebels and forces still

:22:44. > :22:49.loyal to Colonel Gaddafi. There has been fierce fighting throughout the

:22:49. > :22:52.day inside Gaddafi's compound in the capital city. The rebels appear

:22:52. > :22:55.to be coming under attack from government troops still holed up

:22:55. > :22:58.inside some of the buildings and from others hidden nearby. And

:22:58. > :23:01.Libya's government in waiting has offered Colonel Gaddafi free

:23:01. > :23:10.passage out of the country, but it is also promising an amnesty and a

:23:10. > :23:14.reward to any member of his More than 30 foreign journalists

:23:14. > :23:17.who had been trapped by pro-Gaddafi fighters in a Tripoli hotel since

:23:17. > :23:23.Sunday have been freed. The Rixos Hotel is just a couple of miles

:23:23. > :23:27.from Colonel Gaddafi's compound. Armed guards prevented the group of

:23:27. > :23:31.around 35 foreigners from leaving. But this afternoon they were

:23:31. > :23:33.released as fierce fighting raged outside. Amongst them was a BBC

:23:33. > :23:41.team of five, including our correspondent Matthew Price, and we

:23:41. > :23:48.can talk to Matthew now. It was not just journalists in that hotel, it

:23:48. > :23:52.must have been quite an ordeal... Yes, as well as the host of

:23:52. > :23:57.international journalists, there was also a former US Congressmen

:23:57. > :24:02.and parliamentarian from India. It was a huge ordeal. In a way, it

:24:02. > :24:06.started 12 days ago, when the town of Zawiya was cut off, which meant

:24:06. > :24:10.that the route used by the government to get journalists in

:24:10. > :24:15.and out of Tripoli was also cut off. We then started to explore options

:24:15. > :24:19.of how we might eventually get out of Tripoli, for example, by sea.

:24:19. > :24:24.But then, with the uprising on Saturday, and the celebrations in

:24:24. > :24:28.Green Square, we realised that we might be stuck for some time. The

:24:28. > :24:32.government minders drifted off, slowly but surely. Some of them had

:24:32. > :24:37.their weapons around for a while. On Monday morning we woke up, and

:24:37. > :24:42.it was these new guys in civilian clothes with Gaddafi green bandanas

:24:42. > :24:47.around their heads, carrying Kalashnikovs. At that point, the

:24:47. > :24:51.power went off in the hotel, the water stopped as well. Food and

:24:51. > :24:55.water was always worrying, and of course constantly, we had the

:24:55. > :24:58.sounds of battle around us. We really did begin to wonder if at

:24:58. > :25:03.some point we might become some sort of human shield for the

:25:03. > :25:08.Gaddafi forces which we assumed that some point would reach our

:25:08. > :25:14.hotel and perhaps even use it as a barracks. When did you actually

:25:14. > :25:19.realise that Colonel Gaddafi had lost control of his capital? This

:25:19. > :25:26.probably sounds bizarre to people, but we were in a 200 metre square

:25:26. > :25:30.area, which was still controlled by Gaddafi's forces. Throughout Monday,

:25:30. > :25:34.and for most of Tuesday, there were these guys around, a group of 10 or

:25:34. > :25:38.12, and we believe there were snipers on the roof as well. And

:25:38. > :25:43.then today, when we woke up this morning, there were just two guards

:25:43. > :25:46.left, and we asked them if we could leave, and they said no, we're

:25:46. > :25:50.keeping you here for your protection. We're waiting for our

:25:50. > :25:54.forces, the Gaddafi forces, to take control of the city again. We

:25:54. > :25:59.thought it was astonishing that we wondered if there was some logic to

:25:59. > :26:02.what they were saying. And then a New York Times journalist and his

:26:02. > :26:10.team walked through the door without anybody armour on, strode

:26:10. > :26:20.into the hotel... I'm afraid we have lost Matthew Price. Time for

:26:20. > :26:21.

:26:21. > :26:27.August continues to be pretty topsy-turvy. Some pretty heavy

:26:27. > :26:34.showers around this evening. And there is more of the wet stuff on

:26:34. > :26:38.the way tonight. At the moment, heavy showers across Birmingham,

:26:38. > :26:40.Newcastle and Edinburgh. After those, the next bit of rain comes

:26:40. > :26:49.up from the south-west of England. It becomes much more extensive

:26:49. > :26:54.overnight. Up to 40mm of rain will fall in some sports. It will be

:26:54. > :27:04.quite chilly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This rain will

:27:04. > :27:07.

:27:07. > :27:11.make a pretty miserable rush-hour in these areas. In the south-west

:27:11. > :27:21.of England, some wet weather this evening, and tomorrow, some sunny

:27:21. > :27:22.

:27:22. > :27:26.spells, but showers throughout the day. In Northern Ireland, a day of

:27:26. > :27:35.sunshine and showers. Similar in Scotland. Although not too many

:27:35. > :27:40.showers first up here. Running through tomorrow, you can see this

:27:40. > :27:45.wet weather in the east, likely to linger on the coast until well into

:27:45. > :27:51.the afternoon. Then we have a slice of sunshine. But lots more showers

:27:51. > :27:57.in the west. The risk of thunderstorms, particularly in

:27:57. > :28:02.South Wales and the south-west of England. And we're still not done,

:28:02. > :28:07.Friday could be very soggy indeed, particularly across eastern areas.

:28:07. > :28:11.We keep the showers into the weekend. But I'm hopeful that

:28:11. > :28:14.during the weekend, the showers during the weekend, the showers

:28:14. > :28:20.will fade and we should get a bit more sunshine.

:28:20. > :28:27.Our main headline - there has been intense fighting in Libya, as