:00:07. > :00:10.The cost of living rises again as inflation gets close to a three-
:00:10. > :00:14.year high. Soaring energy bills and record
:00:14. > :00:17.increases in the price of clothing have pushed inflation up to 4.5%.
:00:17. > :00:25.One economist says the Bank of England must take action now to
:00:25. > :00:29.help squeezed households. May be over a longer period they
:00:29. > :00:32.should have been raising interest rates gradually in order to choke
:00:32. > :00:34.off some of this inflationary pressure.
:00:34. > :00:37.Also on tonight's programme: The eight-hour battle that's been
:00:37. > :00:40.raging in Afghanistan - Afghan soldiers try to contain a co-
:00:40. > :00:43.ordinated attack from the Taliban. Trade unionists give the Labour
:00:43. > :00:52.Leader, Ed Miliband, a rough ride as he tells them public sector
:00:52. > :00:56.strikes were a mistake. I do believe it was a mistake for
:00:56. > :00:59.strikes to happen last summer. I continue to believe that.
:00:59. > :01:00.British detectives are sent to Kenya to help in the search for the
:01:00. > :01:03.kidnapped holiday-maker from Hertfordshire.
:01:03. > :01:13.And re-drawing the electoral map - big plans to reform Westminster and
:01:13. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:40.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:40. > :01:43.The cost of living has risen once again putting yet more pressure on
:01:43. > :01:46.household budgets across Britain. The rapidly rising price of clothes,
:01:46. > :01:52.shoes and energy bills pushed inflation to 4.5% last month - the
:01:52. > :01:54.highest it's been for almost three years. And many analysts are
:01:54. > :01:58.predicting that there could be worse to come with inflation
:01:59. > :02:08.hitting around 5% by the end of year. Here's our Economics Editor,
:02:09. > :02:09.
:02:09. > :02:13.Stephanie Flanders. Slowdown? What slowdown? You could
:02:13. > :02:16.not see much consumer gloom in east London this morning when the
:02:16. > :02:21.biggest urban shopping centre opened for business by the Olympic
:02:21. > :02:26.site. If this big centre is opened and with the Olympics next year,
:02:26. > :02:30.you think there will be alight at the end of the tunnel. Things will
:02:30. > :02:35.turn around. People are tightening their belts and not going out
:02:35. > :02:39.spending money. Something like this will attract people to come in.
:02:39. > :02:43.we are spending more, we're just not getting any more in return. The
:02:43. > :02:49.main measure of inflation rose to 4.5% last month, the highest in
:02:49. > :02:54.nearly three years. And the broader RPI measure rose to 5.2%. The price
:02:54. > :03:01.of clothing has helped push up the figures, up by a record 5.2% in the
:03:01. > :03:04.past year. In fact, almost the only thing cheaper now than it was then
:03:04. > :03:09.is your television. Prices in the electronics category are down by
:03:09. > :03:15.11.5%. The squeeze on consumers has been good for business at discount
:03:15. > :03:19.stores like this one, but with rising prices, it does not want to
:03:19. > :03:24.become �1.50 land. A good example would be 1.5 kilo sugar which
:03:24. > :03:28.resold for �1. The price when so high and we could not do that to
:03:28. > :03:37.maintain the value and we were not prepared to offer a product that
:03:37. > :03:40.was not amazing value. It has been taken off.
:03:40. > :03:44.The weak state of the economy hasn't changed this man's mind,
:03:44. > :03:48.quite the reverse. Consumers cannot move forward in their spending will
:03:48. > :03:52.increase the amount of things they want to buy in an environment of
:03:52. > :03:56.high inflation and that is one of the ways inflation can be bad for
:03:56. > :04:03.growth in the shorter term. When we look at the weakness of growth in
:04:03. > :04:07.the economy, we need to recognise that the rise in inflation and the
:04:07. > :04:12.relatively high rate of inflation is contributing to that. While he
:04:12. > :04:17.was inside the bank, he said they were under estimating the risk of
:04:17. > :04:21.high and rising inflation. On that, he has turned out to be right. But
:04:21. > :04:25.others said the true risk was of slow-growth and unfortunately,
:04:25. > :04:29.they've turned out to be right as well.
:04:29. > :04:34.Rising gas and electricity prices are likely to push inflation up to
:04:34. > :04:38.5% by the end of the year. But it's too late for the Bank of England to
:04:38. > :04:43.do anything about that. The debate now is whether it should do more to
:04:43. > :04:48.support the recovery. And Stephanie's here with me now.
:04:48. > :04:52.What point does the Bank of England or the Government stepped in?
:04:52. > :04:57.of people will say it is the Bank of England's job to have inflation
:04:57. > :05:01.down at 2% or near it. It is more than double that at the moment and
:05:01. > :05:06.it has been so high for so long. You can have that debate but as far
:05:06. > :05:11.as the Bank of England is concerned, it is old news. We are seeing past
:05:11. > :05:16.decisions, past price rises, VAT going up, energy prices going up
:05:16. > :05:19.and rising commodity prices around the world. The bank cannot stop
:05:19. > :05:23.those things feeding through to inflation, it can only think about
:05:23. > :05:26.the next year and the next year after that. Prospects there have
:05:26. > :05:32.changed radically, people are much gloomier about the pace of the
:05:32. > :05:34.global recovery and the UK recovery. I think the Bank knows it those
:05:34. > :05:38.fears materialise, if we are looking at a very weak economy next
:05:38. > :05:42.year, we won't be talking about high inflation, we will be asking
:05:42. > :05:45.about why they did not do more now to support growth. International
:05:45. > :05:48.forces and Afghan soldiers have been battling all day to contain a
:05:48. > :05:51.major attack by the Taliban on the Afghan capital, Kabul. It began
:05:51. > :05:54.this morning with suicide bombers and rocket propelled grenades as
:05:54. > :06:04.they targeted the US embassy and NATO's headquarters in the West of
:06:04. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:08.Kabul, from where Quentin Sommerville joins us now.
:06:08. > :06:12.This was a well planned and co- ordinated attack. They attacked
:06:12. > :06:22.multiple locations throughout the city. The main focus for this
:06:22. > :06:23.
:06:23. > :06:28.considerable Taliban assault. Running for cover, this time in the
:06:28. > :06:36.heart of Kabul embassy district. The wounded and bleeding are helped
:06:36. > :06:40.to safety. The insurgents were heavily armed, in one of the city's
:06:40. > :06:46.busy street, a rocket lands. You can see the smoke from explosion
:06:46. > :06:53.behind me. There is gunfire all over the area. This is that the US
:06:53. > :06:56.embassy just over here, and also ISAF and it seems like a
:06:56. > :07:01.significant attack. Gunfire broke out across the neighbourhood and we
:07:01. > :07:06.headed for cover. This is the aftermath of the rocket attack. A
:07:06. > :07:10.school bus and riddled with shrapnel. The children were in
:07:10. > :07:16.class and unharmed. The target was the US embassy, their guards took
:07:16. > :07:22.up positions on the roof. The police opened fire on the attackers
:07:23. > :07:28.in a building high above them. The gunfire was heavy and sustained,
:07:28. > :07:32.helicopters were called in to fire on the Taliban. This Taliban
:07:32. > :07:37.attacks started with a suicide bomber at the Abdul Haq roundabout.
:07:38. > :07:42.It was followed by a series of explosions and gunfire in the
:07:42. > :07:46.neighbourhood home to many agencies and aid agencies. It seems five or
:07:46. > :07:51.six militants had got into one of the tallest buildings, about 300
:07:51. > :07:55.metres from the US embassy. From there they targeted it and the ISAF
:07:55. > :08:00.headquarters. But the Taliban fought on and five hours later at
:08:00. > :08:05.least one fighter was still alive in the building. Afghan security
:08:05. > :08:10.fighters needed foreign help to combat the attack. A Bury acted
:08:10. > :08:15.quickly and brother helicopters in, which is the first time the Afghan
:08:15. > :08:21.security forces use their own helicopters for operation like this.
:08:21. > :08:27.They responded very well. It seems as the situation gets under control
:08:27. > :08:31.at this very moment. The attack would likely have happened longer
:08:31. > :08:36.without that assistance. ISAF says it has the Taliban on the back foot,
:08:36. > :08:41.but for people in Kabul today, that assessment seems optimistic.
:08:41. > :08:45.It is now eight hours since that attacks started and still, all of
:08:45. > :08:48.the suicide bombers haven't been caught or killed.
:08:48. > :08:51.The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has been heckled at the TUC conference
:08:51. > :08:55.in London when he told delegates that strikes over public sector
:08:55. > :08:58.pension reforms were a mistake. His criticism comes just a day before
:08:58. > :09:01.three of the country's biggest unions are expected to announce
:09:01. > :09:09.that they are preparing to ballot for strike action over changes to
:09:09. > :09:14.pensions in November. Here's our political editor, Nick Robinson.
:09:14. > :09:17.You haven't seen nothing yet, the message from public sector unions
:09:17. > :09:20.to the Government. Tomorrow, Britain's three biggest unions
:09:20. > :09:25.looks set to announce they are balloting their members on
:09:25. > :09:31.industrial action, which will dwarf the scene in June. The cause? Cuts
:09:31. > :09:38.to their pensions. Have you got a tough message to the unions Mr
:09:38. > :09:44.Miliband? This is the man they don't read Ed.
:09:44. > :09:49.He was determined to prove he is his own man. I understand why
:09:49. > :09:53.millions of decent, public sector workers are angry. But while no
:09:53. > :09:59.decisions were going on, I do believe it was a mistake for the
:09:59. > :10:03.strikes to happen last summer. And I continue to believe that. They
:10:03. > :10:13.did not like that, and negotiations with the Government over pensions
:10:13. > :10:14.
:10:14. > :10:18.they say are effectively over. There was more to come. There are
:10:18. > :10:25.cups we won't be able to reverse in Government and it is straighter for
:10:25. > :10:28.me to say that now. -- cuts. I am angry, that Ed Miliband, who after
:10:28. > :10:33.all is part of the Labour Party, the leader of the Labour Party
:10:33. > :10:37.which is the child of the trade unions, won't defend the right for
:10:37. > :10:41.workers to strike. Labour leaders are not normally tackled, but Ed
:10:41. > :10:46.Miliband won't mind that, if it conveys the message he wants to get
:10:46. > :10:50.over, which his he understands the fury at kerbs to pensions, but he
:10:50. > :10:55.also knows the public don't want to see their lives disrupted by
:10:55. > :10:58.massive strike action. Tomorrow, this conference will debate
:10:58. > :11:03.pensions, union leaders whose members have not taken strike
:11:03. > :11:08.action until now, are preparing to announce they do now plan to ballot
:11:08. > :11:12.their members. Most of us who ballot, it is the
:11:12. > :11:16.biggest ballot that will have been undertaken in this country for
:11:17. > :11:21.industrial action. But we have no choice. Workers don't take these
:11:21. > :11:26.actions likely, the onus is on the Government. If they refuse to
:11:26. > :11:32.negotiate, I think he should support those workers. I wasn't
:11:32. > :11:37.expecting him to be on the picket line with us, the next time he --
:11:37. > :11:42.it takes strike action. He said don't strike while they are
:11:42. > :11:50.negotiating? I would like to see what his position would be when the
:11:50. > :11:54.negotiations are finished. Workers at Southampton City Council's
:11:54. > :11:59.picketed parking machines to hit the council were it hurts, but it
:12:00. > :12:04.could also mean this, too. If it does, there will be more days for
:12:04. > :12:10.Ed Miliband which will feel much more uncomfortable than today. How
:12:10. > :12:15.did it feel to be heckled by the TUC? I came here with some positive
:12:15. > :12:21.messages and tough messages and frankly, that's my job. I will tell
:12:21. > :12:24.things as I see them. Tonight in north London, strikers protesting
:12:24. > :12:29.against the sell-off of council services and the threat to their
:12:29. > :12:34.pensions. They think the public on their side. The question is, is Ed
:12:34. > :12:37.Miliband? A team of British detectives has
:12:37. > :12:40.arrived in Kenya to help investigate the murder of the
:12:40. > :12:43.British tourist David Tebbutt and the kidnap of his wife. Officials
:12:43. > :12:47.have expressed fears for the safety of Judith Tebbutt who was taken
:12:47. > :12:51.away by armed men in a speedboat after her husband was shot dead by
:12:51. > :12:53.the gang. The attack happened at the Kiwayu Safari Village, near the
:12:53. > :13:03.Somalian border, from where our correspondent Will Ross sent this
:13:03. > :13:07.
:13:07. > :13:11.report. As we approach Kiwayu by boat, men
:13:11. > :13:16.in suits were leaving the crime scene. The police had indicated a
:13:16. > :13:19.team of investigators would be sent. They checked into the thatched
:13:19. > :13:25.cottages, all different from the usual visitor at this resort. They
:13:25. > :13:29.look like they are here to work, rather than relax. The room in
:13:29. > :13:34.which the couple were staying is cordoned off. David Tebbutt was
:13:34. > :13:39.shot dead here, his wife Judith was taken away by the gunmen in a
:13:39. > :13:43.speedboat. This is what the Foreign Office is saying about the kidnap.
:13:43. > :13:48.Officials believe it was pre- planned and Western tourists were
:13:48. > :13:52.deliberately targeted. The suspicion is, the Al-Qaeda linked
:13:53. > :13:57.group, Al-Shabab may have done it and they have taken her to Somalia.
:13:57. > :14:00.In his isolated communities, there is little that goes unnoticed. And
:14:00. > :14:06.that could help the investigators as they tried to piece together
:14:06. > :14:10.exactly what happened on Saturday night. A Kenyan man has reportedly
:14:10. > :14:14.been arrested in connection with the attack. People in his village
:14:14. > :14:21.next to the resort have told us he had been forced at gunpoint to lead
:14:21. > :14:26.began to the tourists. knowledge of the area. This man,
:14:26. > :14:30.who did not want to be identified, to carry out a raid here you would
:14:30. > :14:35.need local health. You would need someone who knows the place very
:14:35. > :14:38.well. Show them the roads or where they can pass. From the hospital
:14:38. > :14:42.where Judith Tebbutt has been working, there was a brief
:14:42. > :14:47.statement, describing her as a dedicated worker and expressing
:14:47. > :14:51.hope she will be released soon. There has been no word of a ransom
:14:51. > :15:01.demand. Reports suggest Judith Tebbutt is profoundly deaf which
:15:01. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:07.will make her harrowing ordeal even The cost of living which is a
:15:07. > :15:12.three-year high. And six months after Japan's nuclear disaster,
:15:12. > :15:14.fall-out continues. And I will be reporting from the
:15:14. > :15:20.nuclear ghost town of Japan. Radiation levels are surprisingly
:15:20. > :15:24.low. But when will it be safe to return?
:15:24. > :15:28.Later on the BBC News Channel: Volatility in global markets as
:15:28. > :15:38.concern over an imminent Greek default grows. And they important
:15:38. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:43.ruling from the telecom watchdog It has been described as the
:15:43. > :15:48.biggest electoral reform for a generation. Proposals are being
:15:48. > :15:51.drawn up to reshape the electoral map, which would mean 50 few MPs at
:15:51. > :15:57.Westminster. The idea is that all constituencies would have roughly
:15:57. > :16:01.the same number of voters. As James Landale reports, the Chancellor
:16:01. > :16:05.George Osborne and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne are among those whose
:16:05. > :16:08.seats are at risk. Up-and-down the country, the map of
:16:08. > :16:12.British politics is being carved up as the Government chops the number
:16:12. > :16:19.of MPs by 50 and ensures that each constituency contains a similar
:16:19. > :16:24.number of voters. The total number of MPs will fall from 650 to just
:16:24. > :16:28.600. England will be losing 31 seats, Northern Ireland two. The
:16:28. > :16:32.details for Wales and Scotland will be announced shortly. All of the
:16:32. > :16:36.seats will have about 76,000 voters. That means all but 77
:16:36. > :16:41.constituencies in England will have new boundaries. That's bad news for
:16:41. > :16:47.some well-known names including... Ken Clarke, member for Russia cliff,
:16:47. > :16:51.soon to be abolished! -- Russia clip. The Justice Secretary says
:16:51. > :16:55.that the change is fair. It was agreed by both coalition parties,
:16:55. > :16:59.even if some Liberal Democrat have already expressed concerns. If you
:16:59. > :17:02.can have a proper democracy, it doesn't make sense that people's
:17:02. > :17:06.vote counts differently in different places. I think it's very
:17:06. > :17:10.odd that it's taken so long for us to get around a system that really
:17:10. > :17:14.does try to make votes count the same wherever you live in the
:17:14. > :17:20.country. For that to happen, some constituencies will have to be
:17:20. > :17:24.broken up. Here was a good example. We are over the constituency of
:17:24. > :17:28.Elphaba sham and Mid Kent. This could completely disappeared. About
:17:28. > :17:32.a third is going to Canterbury, almost half is going to Maidstone
:17:32. > :17:37.in the West. The rest is going to Tunbridge. Surprisingly, the
:17:37. > :17:41.sitting MP is not very happy. And he is a government minister. I was
:17:41. > :17:45.brought up in Canterbury. It's a part of the world I know very well.
:17:45. > :17:49.On a personal level it is very disappointing. Set against that,
:17:49. > :17:53.it's a policy and support. A he's not the only one to face big
:17:53. > :18:00.changes. George Osborne's seat will disappear and there will be huge
:18:00. > :18:04.changes to the seats of Vince Cable and Chris Huhne. Also, for Ed Balls
:18:04. > :18:06.and Tessa Jowell. It's not just MPs that are unhappy. Others don't like
:18:06. > :18:10.the way that some new constituencies will cross county
:18:10. > :18:16.boundaries, like here in Cornwall. I think we tend to get forgotten a
:18:16. > :18:22.little bit appear. I don't think it will help our cause to go in with
:18:22. > :18:27.Devon. Because we are not Devon, we are Cornwall. I think Cornwall will
:18:27. > :18:31.stay as Cornwall. Devon is Devon. No halfway measures, to be fair.
:18:31. > :18:35.The plans face years of consultation. But as the House of
:18:35. > :18:39.Commons shrinks, expect coalition pensions and backbench rebellions
:18:39. > :18:41.to grow. MPs will be fighting amongst themselves and their
:18:41. > :18:46.parties, to cling on to power in Westminster.
:18:46. > :18:51.The chairman of News International James Murdoch is being recalled to
:18:51. > :18:54.Westminster to give evidence on phone hacking to the Commons, media
:18:54. > :18:57.and sport committee. He first appeared before the committee in
:18:57. > :19:01.July, when he insisted he was not aware of widespread problems at the
:19:01. > :19:06.News of the World until earlier this year.
:19:06. > :19:10.The a rich man's toy. That is the Transport Secretary's description
:19:10. > :19:14.of Britain's railways, because tickets are now so expensive.
:19:14. > :19:17.Philip Hammond singled out some fares on a West Coast Main Line,
:19:17. > :19:21.describing them as eye-watering LEA expensive.
:19:21. > :19:24.Three men and their brother-in-law had appeared in court charged with
:19:24. > :19:29.enslaving four men found that a travellers' site in Bedfordshire.
:19:29. > :19:33.The accused were arrested in Leighton Buzzard following a police
:19:33. > :19:36.raid on Sunday. Six months ago, emergency workers
:19:36. > :19:40.in Japan were beginning their desperate struggle to control the
:19:40. > :19:45.nuclear power station at Fukushima. Three of the reactors were
:19:45. > :19:49.overheating and a vast cloud of radioactivity had escaped following
:19:49. > :19:53.a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. More than 100,000 people
:19:54. > :19:57.within 12 miles of the plant were ordered from their homes. David
:19:57. > :20:02.Chapman was one of the few journalists to have ventured back
:20:02. > :20:07.into one of the deserted towns, Tomioko.
:20:07. > :20:12.The nuclear ghost town of Tomioko. We have arrived name long street of
:20:12. > :20:16.shops and nobody is here. We are a few miles inside the exclusion zone.
:20:16. > :20:21.A radioactive cloud blew over here six months ago. Experts have
:20:21. > :20:27.assured us that radiation levels have now fallen. A local former --
:20:27. > :20:32.farmer, Naoto Matsumura, has looked as past security. This is the main
:20:32. > :20:35.street? It is completely empty. He wants us to see how his community
:20:35. > :20:40.has suffered. We find that it was hit by the earthquake and tsunami,
:20:40. > :20:46.and then by the leak from the Fukushima power station. This used
:20:46. > :20:52.to be a town of 16,000. This is the main street. As you can see, it is
:20:52. > :20:57.completely deserted. Motorbikes, abandoned. Shops completely empty.
:20:57. > :21:02.No traffic at all. There are weeds growing in this forecourt. The shop,
:21:02. > :21:05.wreck in the earthquake, still completely untouched. All the time
:21:05. > :21:10.that we have been here, the radiation level has been
:21:10. > :21:15.surprisingly low. The problem is this. If you get down to ground
:21:15. > :21:18.level, it shoots right up. No problem for us on a quick visit,
:21:18. > :21:24.but what scientists are wrestling with his how dangerous this
:21:24. > :21:28.contamination is, and will continue to be, in the long term.
:21:28. > :21:32.It was back in March that explosions at the nuclear power
:21:32. > :21:35.plant released radioactive material. The leaks contaminated some areas
:21:36. > :21:44.more severely than others. But everyone within 12 miles of this
:21:44. > :21:48.devastation was ordered out. Naoto Matsumura decided to stay on. He
:21:48. > :21:53.doesn't bother with protective clothing. In the ruins of the farm,
:21:53. > :21:57.spiders have taken over. The Webbs stretch over everything. But he's
:21:58. > :22:02.cleared a path for us. He wants to show us something. This is a really
:22:02. > :22:05.distressing sight. This is the cattle shed. Fiona's left in such a
:22:05. > :22:09.hurry that they weren't able to release their animals. He Iraq two
:22:09. > :22:18.that have died. In each of the pens there are two more, making a total
:22:18. > :22:22.of 60. Some animals broke free and are running wild. He tries to care
:22:22. > :22:29.for a new generation, born in the nuclear zone. He wants to keep his
:22:29. > :22:35.community going. TRANSLATION: There are no services here, no
:22:35. > :22:42.electricity, gas or water. But the older people want to come back.
:22:42. > :22:45.Even my mother and father. They wish to die here. After three hours,
:22:45. > :22:53.we check our radiation dose. It is roughly half what you get from a
:22:53. > :22:58.chest X-ray. He refuses to think about radiation. He is determined
:22:58. > :23:03.to stay on. But he leads by candlelight. Most of his food is
:23:03. > :23:13.tinned. A dog is his only companion. He wants his town to return to
:23:13. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:18.Now, if you have just got in from work, the chances are that you have
:23:18. > :23:24.travelled by car, bus or train. But how much could the commute to work
:23:24. > :23:26.changed over the next 25 years? By 2035, will those still be the main
:23:26. > :23:36.ways we travel to work or will there be new modes of transport to
:23:36. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:41.Will this be the shape of cars to come? It includes a satellite
:23:42. > :23:44.navigation system that get you where you want to go with the
:23:44. > :23:48.minimum of hassle. Sometimes, ideas about the future
:23:48. > :23:52.are proved right. Even if we are spared the designers exact vision.
:23:52. > :23:57.Of course, predicting the future is a tricky business. A lot of people
:23:57. > :24:02.think that over the coming years we will seek road pricing, with
:24:02. > :24:08.drivers paying per mile. But nobody is really predicting the old comic
:24:08. > :24:13.book staple of cars taking to the skies. Today's report is much more
:24:13. > :24:16.down-to-earth. One prediction from the Chartered Institute of
:24:16. > :24:19.Logistics and Transport, which produced the report, is that rival
:24:19. > :24:25.firms will co-operate to remove empty lorries from our roads. The
:24:26. > :24:28.first signs of that are happening now. This lorry has brought United
:24:28. > :24:36.Biscuits products from Leicestershire to its customers in
:24:36. > :24:40.York. After delivering, it travels to the nearby factory of arch-rival
:24:40. > :24:45.Nestle. The lorry is then loaded up again, for its Journey South. This
:24:45. > :24:50.time, with products made by its rival company. The two firms say
:24:50. > :24:58.that over the last four years, the collaboration has saved them more
:24:58. > :25:02.than 500,000 rogue males -- road miles. There were some raised
:25:02. > :25:06.eyebrows when a Jaffa Cakes vehicle turned up at the home of the Kit
:25:06. > :25:12.Kat in York. Some ideas have origins further back. In the 80s,
:25:12. > :25:15.cars with speed and distance sensors were shown travelling in a
:25:15. > :25:22.tight convoy to reduce congestion and accidents. The idea now is
:25:22. > :25:26.pretty much the same thing. This trial is run by a ball boy -- Volvo,
:25:26. > :25:30.imagining convoys of lorries and dedicated lanes. Another ambitious
:25:30. > :25:34.idea is moving freight underground instead. It's the only system of
:25:34. > :25:38.its kind in the world. The Post Office started doing that through a
:25:38. > :25:43.tunnel system in London in the 1920s. It was closed down eight
:25:43. > :25:46.years ago because of the cost. Sometimes, a glimpse of the picture
:25:46. > :25:50.can be seen when people push boundaries. The grandson of Malcolm
:25:50. > :25:55.Campbell already holds one world land speed record. He's now turned
:25:55. > :25:59.his attention to electric cars. I am a bit of a petrolhead. I love
:25:59. > :26:04.the noise and smell. But electric cars can be a spectacle as well. We
:26:04. > :26:08.have one that can do 500 mph in a few years' time for a world record
:26:08. > :26:13.attempt. The issues we face are very familiar. Travelling in the
:26:13. > :26:16.future will depend as much on the price of fuel and the environment
:26:16. > :26:26.will cost of burning it as on schemes on congestion.
:26:26. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:31.Good night. Straight back to the Not quite the calm after the storm.
:26:31. > :26:36.It is still pretty windy. It's not as windy as it was yesterday. The
:26:36. > :26:40.wind will use a little bit further overnight tonight, before most of
:26:40. > :26:43.us have some wet weather to contend with. Those winds are still blowing
:26:43. > :26:49.over northern areas. Outbreaks of rain across north-west England,
:26:49. > :26:55.showery rain for Northern Ireland. For many southern and eastern areas
:26:55. > :26:59.it is a Bryan night. A bit of a chilly 1, 8 or 11 degrees Celsius.
:26:59. > :27:05.A fresh start for Wednesday, but for quite a few of us it promises
:27:05. > :27:08.some fine and dry conditions. Cloudy across northern England, it
:27:08. > :27:12.down because north-west England. The rain is pulling away from
:27:12. > :27:16.Northern Ireland. In northern Scotland it stays very windy.
:27:16. > :27:19.Brighter skies across central and southern Scotland. A bit of a grey
:27:19. > :27:23.day to the west of the Pennines, but outbreaks of rain. To the east,
:27:23. > :27:27.it will generally be dry. Clouding over a touch in parts of the
:27:27. > :27:31.Midlands and East Anglia. In many southern areas it will be dry,
:27:31. > :27:37.bright, with lighter wind and we have been used to. It will feel
:27:37. > :27:41.positively warm, 17 or 18 Celsius in Cardiff. In North Wales that
:27:41. > :27:45.will cloud over. A little bit of rain trickling southwards,
:27:45. > :27:48.particularly for Anglesey. The outbreaks of rain early on in
:27:48. > :27:53.Northern Ireland clear through. Many here should cheer up and have
:27:53. > :27:57.some late afternoon sunshine. It will cloud over in Northern Ireland
:27:57. > :28:02.on Thursday and it will be a cold start on Thursday. By the afternoon,
:28:02. > :28:10.temperatures up to the high teens, maybe 20 Celsius. There could be a
:28:10. > :28:15.bit of fog around as well. On Friday, all change again. Cloud,
:28:15. > :28:24.wind and rain swinging in. Topsy- turvy weather. The brightest day of