:00:07. > :00:12.A row over taxing the rich - leading economists say the top rate
:00:12. > :00:19.must go. They tell the Chancellor that paying 50p in the pound is
:00:19. > :00:25.doing lasting damage to Britain's ailing economy. I think the 50p
:00:25. > :00:28.rate is frankly an own goal for Britain. It says we are not really
:00:28. > :00:33.very interested in attracting or keeping talented hard-working
:00:33. > :00:38.people in this country, we don't mind if they go abroad. In the City,
:00:38. > :00:44.many agree, but Labour says the rich must pay their fair share.
:00:44. > :00:48.People in the real world looking at this, people will say if they have
:00:48. > :00:51.over �150 ,000 they should be paying a bit more tax. Ministers
:00:51. > :00:54.have ordered a review of the tax and say it's only temporary.
:00:54. > :00:57.Also on tonight's programme: Shafilea Ahmed was the victim of a
:00:57. > :00:59.suspected honour killing eight years ago. Now her parents are
:00:59. > :01:02.charged with her murder. The childcare bills pushing
:01:02. > :01:10.families into debt. Nearly half those surveyed say it costs as much
:01:10. > :01:14.as the rent. Childcare is a major financial burden that you have to
:01:14. > :01:17.consider. It takes a hell of a lot of organising, and the money is
:01:17. > :01:20.just not there. Jail for the woman who drove more
:01:20. > :01:24.than 20 miles up the M5 in the wrong direction.
:01:24. > :01:34.And the Saturday night battle lines are drawn - the BBC's Strictly and
:01:34. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:43.Simon Cowell's latest ITV shows go head to head. Later in the hour,
:01:43. > :01:53.I'll be here with Sports Day, including a grand finish at the
:01:53. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:06.race from the British rider Chris Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:02:06. > :02:09.News at Six. Some of Britain's most influential
:02:09. > :02:14.economists have called for the 50p tax rate on the country's richest
:02:14. > :02:17.people to be scrapped. They say it's doing lasting damage to the
:02:17. > :02:21.economy and putting off people thinking of investing in Britain.
:02:21. > :02:24.The Chancellor says the tax is only temporary. But Labour says any tax
:02:24. > :02:33.cuts should go to families struggling to make ends meet. Our
:02:33. > :02:37.chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports. Taxing the rich 50
:02:37. > :02:40.pence in the pound. How long will the Chancellor carry on with with
:02:40. > :02:45.the policy? It's a big political and economic question. With today a
:02:45. > :02:50.group of economists writing to the financial times, saying it was
:02:50. > :02:54.doing lasting damage and was self defeating, in their view. I think
:02:54. > :02:57.the 50p rate is frankly an own goal for Britain. It says we are not
:02:57. > :03:00.really very interested in attracting or keeping talented
:03:00. > :03:07.hard-working people this this country. We don't mind if they go
:03:07. > :03:14.abroad. So how does the top tax rate work? Up until April 2010 on
:03:14. > :03:19.anything earned above �44,000 many in that tax year you paid �40p in
:03:19. > :03:23.the pound however high your earnings. From April 2010 it still
:03:23. > :03:27.applied up to �150 ,000 but in every pound above thaw paid �50
:03:27. > :03:31.pence in tax. The policy was brought in by Labour and continued
:03:31. > :03:36.under the coalition. It is estimated around 320,000 people are
:03:36. > :03:39.paying this rate. That's the richest 1% of all adults. The
:03:39. > :03:44.Treasury said the measure was temporary and there was a review
:03:44. > :03:47.under way of how effective it was, but most Liberal Democrats feel it
:03:47. > :03:51.shouldn't be scrapped. So too Labour. Of course as a politician,
:03:51. > :03:55.as an economist, I would always rather see taxes lower rather than
:03:55. > :03:59.higher, but at this time the economy has flat lined,
:03:59. > :04:03.unemployment is up. Everybody is feeling the squeeze? Their incomes,
:04:03. > :04:10.do you think the right way to get the economy moving is only to cut
:04:10. > :04:14.taxes for the richest? How much money does the 50p tax bring in. It
:04:14. > :04:21.is hard to say right now. We don't know how many people are trying to
:04:21. > :04:24.avoid it by leaving the country. The Government when it introduced
:04:24. > :04:29.the 50 pence rate doesn't know how much it would raise or how much
:04:29. > :04:33.damage it what do to the economy. That's not a great way of helping
:04:33. > :04:40.the economy. They took a punt, a chance, and we've yet to see what
:04:40. > :04:44.the effect will be. The City of London feelings are running high.
:04:44. > :04:49.Investors believe economic growth would be boosted by a tax cut. So
:04:49. > :04:52.the 50p rate is causing headaches for the Chancellor. He is trying to
:04:52. > :04:56.keep his Liberal Democrat coalition partners happy and support business
:04:56. > :05:02.in the quest for growth. Our deputy political editor, James
:05:02. > :05:06.Landale, is in Downing Street for us now. We know what Ed Balls for
:05:06. > :05:12.Labour thinks is. The coalition agreed on what to do about this
:05:12. > :05:17.tax? Well, George Osborne says this is a temporary tax. He's asked
:05:17. > :05:21.Revenue and Customs to find out how much or how little it is raising.
:05:21. > :05:24.Many Conservative MPs agree with economists who argue it is damaging
:05:24. > :05:28.the economy. But privately Ministers accept that the economic
:05:28. > :05:31.arguments for getting rid of the 50p tax rate are outweighed by the
:05:31. > :05:36.political argument for keeping it. The coalition agreement says if
:05:36. > :05:41.there are going to be any tax cuts they should be wort lest-well-off.
:05:41. > :05:44.Many Liberal Democrats want to keep the 50p rate unless it is replaced
:05:44. > :05:47.with another tax on wealth and property. Ministers don't want to
:05:47. > :05:52.be accused of favouring the rich at a time of austerity. I don't think
:05:52. > :05:56.we are going to see a big change on this soon. What's significant about
:05:56. > :06:03.this letter, an illustration of the pressure the Government is doing,
:06:03. > :06:06.to do more to help growth. The Chancellor said he would support it
:06:06. > :06:09.by printing more electronic money but at the moment George Osborne
:06:09. > :06:12.knows he has to do more. He is promising more but not delivered it
:06:13. > :06:15.yet. Shafelia Ahmed was described as a
:06:16. > :06:19.bright young woman with an ambition to become a lawyer. She disappeared
:06:19. > :06:22.from her home in Warrington in 2003 and her body was found a few months
:06:22. > :06:25.later, the victim of a suspected honour killing. Today, eight years
:06:25. > :06:35.later, her parents have been charged with her murder. Ed Thomas
:06:35. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.is in Warrington for us now. It is nearly eight years to the day since
:06:40. > :06:44.Shafilea Ahmed went missing from her home in Warrington. Ever since
:06:44. > :06:48.her parents have protested their innocence. They say they had
:06:48. > :06:53.nothing to do with any suspected honour killing. But today they
:06:53. > :07:01.appeared in court to face one charge - that on 11th September
:07:01. > :07:05.2003 they murdered their daughter. Shafilea Ahmed was just 17 when she
:07:05. > :07:10.died, the victim of a suspected honour killing. Today friends and
:07:10. > :07:15.family arrived in court to see her parents accused of murder. A charge
:07:15. > :07:18.their solicitor said they would deny. They have today been charged
:07:18. > :07:22.with allegations of murder concerning the death of their
:07:23. > :07:26.daughter, Shafilea Ahmed. Both Mr and Mrs Ahmed deny the allegations
:07:26. > :07:31.and these will be contested in court. But this story begins in
:07:32. > :07:37.2004 at the River Kent in Cumbria, where Shafilea Ahmed's body was
:07:37. > :07:41.found. When police launched their murder investigation. Shafilea's
:07:41. > :07:47.body was obscured by overgrowth and was found by workmen who were at
:07:47. > :07:52.the location after floodwaters recede. Detectives had already
:07:52. > :07:57.arrested Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed on suspicion of kidnap. They turned
:07:57. > :08:01.up at the press conference unannounced. Their solicitor at the
:08:01. > :08:04.end they were innocent. They strenuously deny any direct or
:08:04. > :08:10.indirect involvement in their daughter's untimely demise. If
:08:11. > :08:17.called upon to do so they will not hesitate to defend their good and
:08:17. > :08:22.unplem Britished names in any court in this -- unblemished names in any
:08:22. > :08:26.court in this land. The teenager had drank bleach on a family
:08:26. > :08:30.holiday to Pakistan. Schoolfriends said she became unhappy, but
:08:30. > :08:34.detectives never charged her parents 2004 they were released
:08:34. > :08:39.from bail, leaving the couple angry about what they had gone through.
:08:39. > :08:46.After nine months of hell, what do you expect? Sorry, we are just too
:08:46. > :08:50.upset to talk about it yet. Seven years on after this interview
:08:50. > :08:54.police again searched their Warrington home 2010, for a second
:08:54. > :08:59.time, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed were arrested. Now though they've
:08:59. > :09:03.been remanded in custody, accused of killing their daughter.
:09:03. > :09:09.And this is just the start of a long legal process. The couple will
:09:09. > :09:11.appear in court on Friday, via video link, to once again face
:09:11. > :09:14.accusations they killed their daughter.
:09:14. > :09:17.Ed, thank you. A florist who fatally stabbed a
:09:17. > :09:19.suspected robber during a raid at his shop in July will not face
:09:19. > :09:22.criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service said Cecil
:09:22. > :09:28.Coley, who's 72, had acted in "reasonable self defence" when he
:09:28. > :09:30.killed 30-year-old Gary Mullings in Old Trafford in Manchester.
:09:30. > :09:33.A 35-year-old man arrested by officers investigating phone
:09:33. > :09:36.hacking is thought to be the sports journalist, Raoul Simons. He was
:09:36. > :09:39.appointed deputy football editor of The Times in 2009 after moving from
:09:39. > :09:49.the London Evening Standard. Mr Simons is the 15th person to be
:09:49. > :09:51.
:09:51. > :09:55.investigated over the scandal. Paying for childcare has left
:09:55. > :09:58.thousands of families struggling with debt. A new survey by Save The
:09:58. > :10:02.Children and the Daycare Trust found that 4 out of 10 families
:10:02. > :10:10.said that the cost of childcare was on a par with their mortgage of
:10:10. > :10:16.rent. -- or rent. Childcare. Earning
:10:16. > :10:23.enough to pay for it is an increasingly big issue for many
:10:23. > :10:28.parents. Take Karri Byrne. She and her husband work full time but
:10:28. > :10:32.their total childcare bill for three-year-old Josie and six-month-
:10:32. > :10:36.old Beatrix is double the mortgage. It is incredibly frustrating. We
:10:36. > :10:40.have good jobs and this is how we live? We live hand-to-mouth every
:10:40. > :10:46.month. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't feel right. What are you
:10:46. > :10:51.working for if you can't have an enjoyable weekend and rest a bit?
:10:51. > :10:55.Here's how the cost of childcare Here's how the cost of childcare
:10:55. > :11:00.has risen. In 2002 the average amount was �120 per week. This year
:11:00. > :11:03.it is �180. It's the poorest who it is �180. It's the poorest who
:11:03. > :11:08.are struggling most. 41 % of those on low incomes say they may have to
:11:08. > :11:12.give up work. One reason was the recent changes to benefits and the
:11:12. > :11:15.campaigners agreement It is the impact of this change to the
:11:15. > :11:19.working tax credit rule which will go directly against that. It will
:11:19. > :11:23.make it much harder for families to make work pay. Even more so the
:11:23. > :11:27.poorest families, who are the very families we need to encourage as
:11:27. > :11:32.much as we can and help as much as we can to get back into work.
:11:32. > :11:37.parents of all incomes it seems are finding it harder to cover costs.
:11:38. > :11:41.I'm still on maternity leave with this one but it raises big issues
:11:41. > :11:46.about whether I'm going to be able to afford to go back to work.
:11:46. > :11:51.to give up full-time work to go to part-time because of childcare.
:11:51. > :11:56.there are also some who question the need for the taxpayer to
:11:56. > :12:00.further subsidise parents. question facing us is, should the
:12:00. > :12:06.taxpayer be expected to fund the cost of a family which decides to
:12:06. > :12:09.go out two parents to work rather than stay at home? Work and
:12:09. > :12:14.parenthood are always a difficult balancing agent. The Government
:12:14. > :12:19.insists that working tax credits are still fair and generous, but
:12:19. > :12:24.many believe it should be investing more in childcare for a better more
:12:24. > :12:29.rounded society. In Libya the hunt for Colonel
:12:29. > :12:33.Gaddafi goes on, and more harrowing stories are emerging about his
:12:33. > :12:37.regimes last days in Tripoli. At least a thousand former loyalists
:12:37. > :12:40.have been detained since the city fell. Some have been telling the
:12:41. > :12:45.BBC how they were forced to commit appalling crimes to defend their
:12:45. > :12:50.leader. Ian Pannell sent this report.
:12:50. > :12:54.This is where the enemies of Colonel Gaddafi were silenced. A
:12:54. > :13:00.place of detention and abuse. Now the new Government holds its
:13:00. > :13:06.enemies here. More than 700 men and women suspected of crimes against
:13:06. > :13:08.the revolution. We are restricted on what we are allowed to film
:13:08. > :13:13.inside the prison, so let me describe the conditions here. First
:13:13. > :13:17.of all the floor is filthy. There is litter, there is dirt, water,
:13:17. > :13:21.cigarette ends. The cells themselves, I guess there are three
:13:21. > :13:26.on this side and three on that side, very cramped and very, very hot.
:13:26. > :13:33.They are probably about 7 metres by 6 or 5 metres deep. Inside each one
:13:33. > :13:36.there are the marks of about 30 prisoners. To a man and a woman,
:13:36. > :13:42.surprisingly they proclaim their innocence, and they are keen to
:13:42. > :13:46.tell their story. Five men from Africa accused of being mercenaries
:13:46. > :13:50.for Gaddafi. They were let out of their cell to talk to us. They say
:13:50. > :13:54.they were labourers dragged from their homes because they are black.
:13:54. > :13:59.We are told they'll get a fair trial and if there is no evidence
:13:59. > :14:03.they will be freed. But for now the rule here is guilty until proven
:14:03. > :14:07.innocent. Have you ever workinged for the military, for Colonel
:14:07. > :14:13.Gaddafi? No, I never done such a thing at all. I swear to my
:14:13. > :14:19.Heavenly father. If I want to do a military man I had better do it in
:14:19. > :14:23.my country, I'm 53 years old. girls, the yoings 16. They don't
:14:23. > :14:26.want to to show their faces because they were part of Gaddafi's
:14:26. > :14:33.National Guard. But just listen to their explanation. They claim they
:14:33. > :14:36.weren't motivated by loyalty but fear. TRANSLATION: When our family
:14:36. > :14:42.was against the regime, the soldiers came to our house. They
:14:42. > :14:48.threw us out. They killed my uncle and my brother. We thought if we
:14:48. > :14:54.joined them they wouldn't suspect us or hurt us. One teenager accused
:14:54. > :14:59.of executing 11 rebel prisoners. She was recruited to a feared
:14:59. > :15:02.brigade of ruthless fighters, where she claimed she was rapedly Colonel
:15:02. > :15:06.Gaddafi's security chief, the man who has just escaped to Niger she
:15:06. > :15:15.says she was forced to shoot prisoners with a rifle. Unable to
:15:15. > :15:19.watch, she turned her head and pulled the trigger. Five men, three
:15:19. > :15:24.girls, and one teenager. It will be for the new courts to
:15:24. > :15:27.decide their fate, to judge who is a victim and who is an offender, to
:15:27. > :15:37.set the standard for truth and just in this the new Libya. But they
:15:37. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:50.Our top story tonight: Some of Britain's most influential
:15:50. > :15:54.economists say the 50p tax rate Has the X Factor got the wow
:15:54. > :16:04.factor? As the BBC launches Strictly, the battle for Saturday
:16:04. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:24.It is nearly ten years to the day since the shocking images of the
:16:24. > :16:27.9/11 terror attacks were beamed around the world. In Britain, the
:16:27. > :16:28.decade that followed has seen the London Underground atrocities and a
:16:28. > :16:34.huge shake-up of counter-terrorist policing, intelligence and
:16:34. > :16:44.community relations. Our security correspondent, Frank Gardner, has
:16:44. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :17:03.been assessing whether we are any The day they said the world changed.
:17:03. > :17:08.9/11, Al-Qaeda hit America and later other targets. In July, 2005
:17:08. > :17:13.it was the turn of London. 52 commuters blown-up on their way to
:17:13. > :17:18.work. What sort of terrorist threat does Britain faced today? The
:17:18. > :17:23.Government has set the current threat level at substantial - the
:17:24. > :17:31.third highest out of five. It means an attack is still thought a strong
:17:31. > :17:36.possibility. The threat reins from Al-Qaeda to have lists to rub --
:17:36. > :17:43.Republicans or extremists. The police and security service have
:17:43. > :17:47.had to adapt. We have become more accustomed to making high risk
:17:47. > :17:51.decisions on assessed intelligence, often within rapidly declining time
:17:51. > :17:55.friends. There has been immediate increase in police firepower to
:17:55. > :18:01.cope with large-scale hostage taking. How effective has the
:18:01. > :18:05.response to terrorism been? Most obvious is the boosting of physical
:18:06. > :18:09.protection around government. When police anti-terrorist crash
:18:09. > :18:15.barriers went up around parliament in 2003, a lot of people were shot.
:18:15. > :18:19.We have got used to them. There is no clear answers as to whether we
:18:19. > :18:24.are safer in Britain from terrorism there we were 10 years ago. We know
:18:24. > :18:28.more about the threat we are facing but those threats have multiplied
:18:28. > :18:36.and diversified. Private security companies like this one now offer
:18:36. > :18:41.anti- kidnapped devices to their customers on the move. The alarm
:18:41. > :18:47.gets raised, the client gets trapped and the police get alerted.
:18:47. > :18:53.Counterterrorism is also about foreign policy. Britain'as part in
:18:53. > :18:58.the Iraq invasion increased the danger to Britain. In the East End
:18:58. > :19:02.of London, this man is one of those trying to stop people being drawn
:19:02. > :19:09.into terrorism. To say that young people would not want to express
:19:09. > :19:14.their anger by launching terrorist attacks, I think it would be very
:19:14. > :19:20.naive. We still have a problem. Huge efforts have gone into
:19:20. > :19:26.preventing people from becoming radical eyes. You have got to be
:19:26. > :19:31.tough on terrorism, tough on the causes. You have to have special
:19:31. > :19:35.programmes. You need to look at the wider foreign policies. Soon
:19:36. > :19:40.Britain will face its biggest peacetime security challenge.
:19:40. > :19:46.Planning for the London Olympics is being made on the basis that an
:19:46. > :19:50.attempted terrorist attack is highly likely. The Scottish
:19:50. > :19:56.government wants to merge the country's eight police forces into
:19:56. > :20:01.one. It is one of 15 new bills as part of the first programme for
:20:01. > :20:06.government since the SNP landslide election victory in May. This
:20:06. > :20:11.report from Glen Campbell. It is four months since Alex Salmond
:20:11. > :20:15.celebrated re-election as the Scottish First Minister. He set at
:20:15. > :20:21.some early priorities for his second term. Making Scotland better
:20:21. > :20:25.is the focus of this government. It is one reason why we won an
:20:25. > :20:31.historic victory. It was a record of proven competence and commitment.
:20:31. > :20:34.It was about Scotland and the nation's future. What has the
:20:34. > :20:39.nationalist leader got in mind? Police reform is at the centre of
:20:39. > :20:45.law-making plans for the year ahead. The eight forces are to merge into
:20:45. > :20:53.one - the largest in the UK outside of London. Instead of officer
:20:53. > :20:59.numbers and police pay and can in - - conditions, changes are coming in
:20:59. > :21:03.England and Wales. We will restructure and remove a lot of
:21:03. > :21:07.inefficiencies. Hopefully we can preserve the terms and conditions
:21:07. > :21:13.of police officers and staff. Another key measure is on alcohol
:21:13. > :21:17.misuse. Ministers hope setting a minimum price per unit will reduce
:21:17. > :21:24.consumption. A proposal voted down at Holyrood before the SNP won its
:21:24. > :21:28.unprecedented mandate. Alex Salmond could get almost anything approved
:21:28. > :21:33.by the Scottish Parliament. His party won an overall majority of
:21:33. > :21:40.the seats at Holyrood. He has chosen not to use that unrivalled
:21:40. > :21:47.power to bring forward an early referendum on independence for
:21:47. > :21:52.Scotland. He has a majority in this Parliament. He has a draft bill. He
:21:52. > :21:56.has no credible excuse for not bringing that Bill forward. John
:21:56. > :22:01.Curtis things the reasons are obvious. He is playing the long
:22:01. > :22:06.game for two reasons. It indicates he would not win a referendum if it
:22:06. > :22:10.were held tomorrow. People in Scotland are not convinced.
:22:10. > :22:15.Secondly, he is leaving the door open for that referendum not to be
:22:15. > :22:20.just about independence but about increasing the powers of the
:22:20. > :22:28.Scottish Parliament. They will pop the independence question tours the
:22:28. > :22:34.end of the five year term. A woman who drove 23 miles the wrong way up
:22:34. > :22:37.the M5 has been jailed for nine months. Deborah Hunt was over the
:22:37. > :22:47.drink-drive limit when she did a U- turn macro and started to dodge
:22:47. > :22:48.
:22:49. > :22:53.oncoming vehicles. Can you imagine driving at speed head on into this
:22:53. > :22:58.kind of motorway traffic? Not just for a couple of minutes but for
:22:58. > :23:03.more than 20 minutes. That is what Deborah Hunt did on this stretch of
:23:03. > :23:09.the M5. It is a miracle that no one was killed. They could not believe
:23:09. > :23:17.what they were watching on motorway cameras. It appears to be a normal
:23:17. > :23:23.night on the M5. Look closely. This car is travelling the wrong way.
:23:23. > :23:28.Going north on the southbound carriageway. Straight into oncoming
:23:28. > :23:34.traffic. It carried on like this for more than 20 miles - travelling
:23:34. > :23:39.at 60 miles an hour. The driver was Deborah Hunt, a mother of three.
:23:39. > :23:44.She was drunk and uninsured. Today the court heard she had caused
:23:44. > :23:49.terror among other motorists who had had to swerve to avoid her.
:23:49. > :23:52.What do you say to the people on the motorway that night? Inside the
:23:52. > :23:57.judge told Deborah Hunt it was unbelievable she had not caused a
:23:57. > :24:02.massive loss of life. She had been more than twice the drink-drive
:24:02. > :24:08.limit. So drunk she had not been able to explain to officers how she
:24:08. > :24:13.had made such a mistake. She performed two you turns on the
:24:13. > :24:19.carriageway and police say she only stopped when she ran out of fuel.
:24:19. > :24:23.It is an outrageous act. It was very serious. It could have ended
:24:23. > :24:27.up in death or serious injury. court heard Deborah Hunt was
:24:27. > :24:31.struggling with alcoholism at the time after splitting from her
:24:31. > :24:37.partner and losing her job as a financial adviser. The judge said
:24:37. > :24:42.he had to jail her. He also banned her from driving until she can
:24:42. > :24:48.prove she had stopped drinking. Deborah Hunt wept uncontrollably as
:24:48. > :24:53.she was given that sentence earlier today. She was jailed for nine
:24:53. > :24:57.months. She is expected to be freed after about half that time. The
:24:57. > :25:00.latest battle for Saturday-night television audiences has begun. The
:25:00. > :25:06.line-up for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing has been
:25:06. > :25:13.announced and Simon Callow's two new television shows are already up
:25:13. > :25:20.and running. -- Simon Cowell. This report does contain flash
:25:20. > :25:25.photography. Strictly come Dancing and it the X Factor. BBC One and
:25:25. > :25:30.ITV one's Saturday-night giants. They rarely directly compete but
:25:30. > :25:36.each broadcaster keeps more than a wary eye on its rivals flagship
:25:36. > :25:42.because of its shows importance to a particular channel. X Factor is
:25:42. > :25:47.giving ITV a huge chunk of its profits during the year. Strictly
:25:47. > :25:54.shows it can appeal to a big mainstream audience and show that
:25:54. > :25:58.the BBC is still in touch. Today is the launch of strictly. The stars
:25:58. > :26:06.are no doubt well aware that despite the absence of Simon Cowell
:26:06. > :26:12.and cherub Kohl, be expected has continued to be strong. Series
:26:12. > :26:17.launch shows are crucial with the overnight viewing figures able to
:26:17. > :26:23.affect public perception of the show's success or failure. It is
:26:23. > :26:29.more than two shows - it is about the whole evening's show dole.
:26:29. > :26:35.Neither broadcaster is taking a risk. ITV is saving his biggest
:26:35. > :26:41.hitters for Nature -- for later and putting on Family fortunes. Red Or
:26:41. > :26:48.Black is on. The lottery takes on the ever-popular X Factor. Saturday
:26:48. > :26:52.nights a really important for BBC One. It has to inform, educate and
:26:52. > :26:57.entertain. Saturday night is the key moment for us. This Saturday
:26:57. > :27:07.night will certainly give the taster. The final audience marks
:27:07. > :27:11.
:27:11. > :27:16.I do hope those sequins are on tight because it could be quite
:27:16. > :27:22.blustery. It is breezy out there tonight. It will be damp for many
:27:22. > :27:28.of us, particularly in Northern Ireland. It to be went in north-
:27:28. > :27:33.west England. The rain will continue to affect Wales. The wind
:27:34. > :27:42.will die down a touch through the early hours. Eight degrees in
:27:42. > :27:49.Aberdeenshire. In the south, 12-14 Celsius. Outbreaks of rain in Wales
:27:49. > :27:53.and southern England. There will be showers in southern Scotland. There
:27:53. > :27:59.could be sunshine in England. In the south it will be quite gloomy.
:27:59. > :28:04.A bit of a breeze blowing. Not as strong as the last couple of days.
:28:04. > :28:14.Through the day the rain will be on the light side. It could increase
:28:14. > :28:19.later on. In north-west England and North Wales it could be brighter.
:28:19. > :28:25.The rain in Northern Ireland will track northwards. Showers will
:28:25. > :28:34.continued to pepper parts of Scotland. In the east, not too many
:28:34. > :28:40.showers. There could be showers in Scotland. On Friday the, the north-