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The evictions at Dale Farm on hold - travellers win a last minute | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
legal reprieve. The families can stay put for now, as the bailiffs | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
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retreat. Very happy. At least we might have a good night's sleep now. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
The ten-year legal battle goes on - now the council and travellers face | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
another day in court. I am confident that once we put our case, | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
the law will seem to be upheld and the council will enforce that law. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
We'll have the latest from the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham, where | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
delegates heard a very gloomy forecast for the economy. Despite a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
new factory and new jobs at Jaguar Landrover, the Business Secretary | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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spells out the economic reality. now face a crisis that is the | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
economic equivalent of war and this is not a time for business as usual | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
or politics as usual. Also on tonight's programme: The | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
latest on the hacking scandal - Milly Dowler's family settles with | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
News International, the money going to charity. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Doing fine - surgeons show off the twins who were joined at the head, | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
and their parents' joy. This is a very rare condition and a complex | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
problem. There are so many things you have to get right. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Tribute to are paid to the legendary racehorse trainer Ginger | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
McCain, who has died at the age of 80. He famously guided Red Rum to | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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Good evening. The eviction of Dale Farm, the largest illegal | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
travellers' site in the UK, has been put on hold after residents | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
won a last-minute legal reprieve. Bailiffs had already entered and | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
served eviction papers when news of the injunction came through this | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
afternoon. It is the latest step in a long and bitter legal battle. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
Let's go live now to Dale Farm. They are those who thought today | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
would see the dramatic end of the 10 year struggle to control Dale | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Farm, but it was another day of twists and turns in this convoluted | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
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tale. This was the day when the ruling of the courts collided with | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the determination of a community. The bailiffs marched to the | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
entrance of Dale Farm. Battling against a police helicopter and a | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
megaphone, the council's warning was heard by no one inside the camp. | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
I am concerned for your well-being, and the well-being of the council | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
agents. On the other side of the precariously constructed barricade, | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
protesters had chained themselves to object. One man had touched his | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
arm to a barrel filled with concrete. It so bad Day for us, but | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
also a good day in the sense that the whole world is seeing how the | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
UK treats its travellers. warning given, the bailiffs | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
retreated and the stage was set for what many fear will be the long and | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
hazardous protest of returning a few acres to the green belt. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
You seem upset. Were due be upset if your home was being taken away? | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
The total cost is put at some �18 million, a price worth paying to | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
those who see this camp to a challenge of the law of the land, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
but a scandalous waste of public money to people who think the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
action is an attack against a minority culture. It is more than | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
10 years since Irish travellers bought this land straddling the | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
green belt, east of London. They were encouraged to buy the plot. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
The council only gave permission to build homes on this half, there are | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
34 illegal pictures, but on the green belt land were building is | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
forbidden, there are 51 travellers'' homes. Late this | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
afternoon, celebration in the camp with another twist in this decade | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
long saga. A court injunction delaying any enforcement action | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
until at least Friday. We told them not to be spending that kind of | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
money. It is giving us a chance to sort something out in court. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Clearly I am the council are extremely disappointed and | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
frustrated by the decision of the High Court today. I am absolutely | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
confident that once we put our side of the story, our case, that the | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
law will seem to be upheld. battle for Dale Farm has been cast | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
as a struggle between the lawful mainstream and an alternative way | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
of life so there is an irony in the courts agreeing to look at whether | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
Basildon council has followed the letter of the law. As you heard, | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the council say they are extremely confident that when they put their | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
side to be High Court on Friday, they will win the action and resume | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
operation at Dale Farm. Anyone who has followed this saga over the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
last 10 years would probably caution against assuming anything. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
A quick reminder, there is a lot more information online about Dale | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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Farm, including an interactive map. Britain is facing any economic | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
crisis which is the equivalent of being at war, that was the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
assessment given today by business secretary Vince Cable to the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Liberal Democrats' conference in Birmingham. Let's get the latest | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
from the conference. A suppose the usual purpose of a party conference | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
is to give delegates a pep talk and deliver an upbeat message to voters. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
It wasn't like that today because Vince Cable painted the gloomiest | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
view of the country's economic prospects saying there were | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
difficult times ahead, the economic equivalent of being at war. Nick | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Clegg insisted there was no alternative to the coalition's | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
strategy. Oblique warning was issued in | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Birmingham today, a warning to the contrary that danger lies ahead. | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
The enemy is not one we can see, not one they can protect us against, | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
it is the threat that the economy may not recover. We now face a | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
crisis that is the economic equivalent of war. The business | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
secretary said today that the public deserved and wanted to be | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
told it like it is. The truth is that there are difficult times | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ahead, that Britain's post-war pattern of ever-rising living | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
standards has been broken by the financial collapse. City-centre | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Birmingham looks prosperous enough, but not far down the road the place | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
that attracts the most customers is the JobCentre. Unemployment in this | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
parliamentary constituency is the highest in the country, and going | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
up. The situation in unemployment is dire. It feels that as you go | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
into the JobCentre today? You can feel it walking around, people are | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
very unhappy. I haven't worked in the last year, and people are | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
really down. The Deputy Prime Minister told me today that | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
ministers are doing everything they can to produce growth, given they | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
have no more money. If there was an easy alternative, a big red button | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
in Whitehall that says push here for growth, or a simple remedy | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
where growth would materialise by next Tuesday, you would have | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
thought the Labour Party would have come up with the alternative. I | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
will tell you what they say - look at the small print of their own | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
deficit reduction plan. Pound-for- pound, they would cut almost | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
exactly the same amount from public spending than we are in this | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
financial year. Ministers' language is changing, they are beginning to | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
talk of the need for a stimulus to get it more companies to follow a | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Jaguar and Land Rover, who today announced they would be creating a | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
750 jobs building a new engine plant in Wolverhampton. You have | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
spoken of the New deal's style stimulus. Is he in favour of that? | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
The government is in favour of growth. The world as in a very | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
difficult set of conditions at the moment. There is a danger of demand | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
weakening. The government has got to support the economy. It is right | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
to say we have got to balance the books, but at the same time we can | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
invest to build for a better tomorrow. The Lib Dem conference is | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
echoed to the sound of coalition disharmony, as one partner | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
criticises the other in what they call their political marriage. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Some people say coalition is a political marriage. How would your | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
wife feel if you called her a nightmare and said divorce was | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
inevitable? Miriam would not be pleased and I would pay the | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
consequences, of course. Do I accept the Liberal Democrats will | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
get on the platform behind me and say stuff about the Conservatives? | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
That is what happens in politics. Party conferences are the time in | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
which ministers display their differences in public with their | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
coalition partners. In private though they are united in worrying | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
about how to get the economy moving again. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
A quick reminder - this is a party that lost more than 600 council | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
seats earlier this year. Its poll ratings are still in the doldrums, | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
there is a debate about the nature of its role in the coalition | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
government. The party president has openly raised the prospect of the | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Lib Dems are abandoning the coalition before the next election. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
If you think that makes for a downbeat depressed party membership | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
here, think again. The Liberal Democrats in Birmingham | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
after an awful year. They have lost hundreds of councillors, a | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
referendum on voting reform, and their poll ratings are at a record | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
low, and yet are they think it will turn good. If at the end of a | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
parliament we have delivered good government for our country at a | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
time of crisis, informed by liberal principles of fairness which you | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
are now seeing coming to the fore, I have no doubt the public will | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
give us the benefit of that. That is the gamble the party members | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
seem to have accepted as a prize for coalition. There are no tough | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
questions for the leader. Does anybody else want to ask a | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
supplementary on that? Heavens, what docility. Like a North Korean | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
conference meeting. Some Lib Dems are concerned about specific issues, | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
but many appear content with their lot. It is almost as if they are | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
getting used to the idea of being in power. They are also used to | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
being unpopular. If you are as old as I am, you will know we survived | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
given the 70s and 80s. We survive whatever happens. We have ministers | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
in office. And that makes a difference? Of course, it restrains | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
the ghastly thing the Tories might otherwise do. The ministers are | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
learning to be robust with the media. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
You are losing elections across the piece, at record lows in opinion | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
polls, and he seemed to think in a few years that will change. Why is | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
that not wishful thinking? I have to say, James, you are miserable | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
sod really. I think you sometimes come to our conference and you are | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
hoping we would be miserable, defeated and deflated, and you have | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
found we are in good form here. Nick is on cracking form. That was | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
me told. But some Lib Dems will never be exactly happy with the | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
cost of coalition. To say their party is happy with losing | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
elections is wrong, you are misreading relishing the challenge | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
for contentment. The bottom line is that the Lib Dems are bound in | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
coalition with the Conservative to tackle the economy, and happy or | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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not that is their lot and it is a lot they are willing to accept. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
Where are we? We have doom and gloom in the economy, low poll | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
ratings and a cheerful membership? It might look as if they don't know | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
what reality is like, politically it is a lot better than when there | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
were students on the streets, they were losing the referendum on | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
changing the voting system, that is politically. Economically, I don't | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
think they have registered what Vince Cable was saying today when | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
he was effectively saying prepare for it to get worse. The news | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
economically has got much worse in recent weeks. Ministers here, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Conservative ministers insist there are things they can do. They can | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
bring forward spending on infrastructure, have government | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
programmes to help businesses create jobs, but the ministers I'm | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
talking to are very worried. One senior Lib Dem came up to me today, | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
I will get flak for saying this, he said I don't think my party is | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
understood. It might be about to get worse for us. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
More from the conference here in Birmingham on the BBC News Channel | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
Our top story tonight: Travellers have won a last-minute legal | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
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reprieve against eviction from Dale Coming up: The Grand National hero | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
Ginger McCain dies. He took the legendary Red Rum to three wins. | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, a jobs boost for Wolverhampton as | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
Jaguar Land Rover invests millions in a new factory. Crunch talks in | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
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Europe as the next Greek bail-out Shares in British banks took | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
another hit today as fears over the great debt crisis continue to | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
spread across Europe. The Greek government is meeting about now to | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
try to find the money it needs to fill a massive hole in the | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
country's finances. Line-out lower Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, who is | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
in Athens. -- Live Now to Owl. George, there is a crucial telly | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
conference call going on at the moment between the Greek Finance | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Minister and officials from the IMF and the ECB. The Greeks are going | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
to have to persuade them that they have a convincing plan to cut the | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
deficit and that they will stick with it. Increasingly, on the | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
streets, there is a great deal of the air above what new measures, | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
new austerity measures may lie ahead. -- a great deal of fear. | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
There's flash photography in his Some people say that future of the | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
eurozone lies in this man hands, Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Finance Minister, and these are critical days for him. His country | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
faces bankruptcy next month without another injection of bailout money, | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
but other European leaders insist Greece must do more to reduce its | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
debt as it, and this was the message the IMF gave him today. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
ball is in the Greek court. Implementation is of the essence. | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Thank you. Yes, they have already been tax rises and pay cuts, but | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
they have not done the job. The numbers and the public sector | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
remain high, tax collection is a shambles, and the economy is | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
shrinking. So more cuts are on the way, but this time increasingly the | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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The Athens bike then drew many middle-class families, among them | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Joanna, a public sector worker. Already she has seen her salary cut | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
by 20%. She says she is scared. are very careful of what we buy now. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Every time we go to the supermarket, we are very careful, we go with a | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
list, and it is getting shorter and shorter. We cannot buy anything for | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
our children any more. When school started this autumn, this family | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
found a shortage of books in the classroom. Just one week ago, the | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
government announced a property tax, the aim to raise 2 billion euros. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
It would hit flat-owners like this woman. For the scale that the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
government has given for this area, it works out at 7 euros per metre, | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
which means just about more than 700 euros for this flat. For one | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
year, in two instalments. How do people feel about that? It is quite | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
a lot of money. Yes, it is. I think the middle classes and property | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
owners are getting outraged. tax will be collected through | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
electricity bills, and already the power unions say they will sabotage | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
it. And on the streets, there are crowds to say they will not pay the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
new tax. That is the problem, families, public sector workers are | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
increasingly unwilling to accept cuts in exchange for a further | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
bailout. The plan was, after this conference | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
call tonight, for the Cabinet to me and perhaps for austerity measures | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
to be announced, but we do not think that will happen today, more | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
likely tomorrow. But there is widespread expectation in Greece | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
that a considerable number, perhaps up to 20,000 state workers will be | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
laid off as part of the new austerity package, and then of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
course the question is, how will that go down, particularly with | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
protesters on the streets? The BBC understands that News | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
International is close to agreeing a financial settlement with the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler as a result of the phone- | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
hacking scandal. It is believed the deal is likely to involve the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
donation of a seven-figure sum to charity at the Dell family would | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
receive a payment of around �2 million. -- the Dowler family. June | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Kelly is with me now. This case was the tipping point in this whole | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
hacking scandal, wasn't it? That is right, it caused international | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
outrage and led to the closure of the News of the World, the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
resignation of Rebekah Brooks and raised a lot of questions about the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
failure of the original police investigation. News International | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
are not commenting on this deal, but we understand that it does | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
involve a figure of close on 2 million to be paid to the family, a | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
further �1 million to charity, and just to put this into some sort of | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
context, News International paid out �100,000 to Sienna Miller. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
Gordon Taylor of the PFA got around 750,000. The fact that Rupert | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Murdoch's empire is prepared to write such a large cheque would | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
seem to be an acknowledgement of wrongdoing and the pain that has | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
been caused. Six men and one woman have been | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
arrested in Birmingham as part of a major counter-terrorism operation. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
The men, aged between 25 and 32, were detained last night in a | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
series of raids in the city. The woman is being questioned on | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
suspicion of withholding information. | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
The Ministry of Defence has announced that a Royal Marine has | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
been killed in Afghanistan. The Marine from 42 Commando was shot | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
dead in Helmand province. His family has been informed. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
An operation to separate twins joined at the head has been | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
described as about as complex as it can possibly get. Surgeons who | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
carried out four operations totalling nearly 40 hours say they | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
are hopeful for the girls' future. The sisters were separated last | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
month after being flown to the UK from Sudan. Medical correspondent | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Fergus Walsh is the only TV journalist who has been allowed to | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
make them. This is now togetherness for | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
retired and retard, sharing the same cart, but these twins have | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
undergone an extraordinary journey to be physically separated. Born | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
joined at the head, doctors said they would probably have died | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
unless they underwent surgery. Their parents, both doctors from | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Sudan, can now each hold one daughter in their arms. For them, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
it is a miracle. What was it like when the twins were able to look | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
each other in the eye for the first time? It was really a great moment | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
in our life. I will never forget it. I hope that they will get a normal | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
life and be treated as normal human beings. And to forget all of the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
suffering times. Looking at the twins now, it is remarkable to | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
think that just one month ago they were joined at their head. It is | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
still too early to be sure, but there are no signs at this stage | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
that either has suffered any neurological damage as a result of | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
This was the huge surgical team at Great Ormond Street Hospital who | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
carried out four complex operations spread over four months. First, | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
dividing the veins and arteries, then growing new skin to cover the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
skull, and finally this, at the moment when the twins were | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
separated. There are so many things that you have to get right in the | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
right order, separating the blood vessels, making sure the brain is | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
safe, reconstructing skin. It really has been a tribute to the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
team, I think, that we have been able to plan is in such detail and | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Keith and safe throughout. charity, Facing The World, paid the | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
medical costs and says the twins should soon be well enough to be | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
:23:43. | :23:45. | ||
flown home with the hope of a Tributes have been paid to the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
legendary horseracing trainer Ginger McCain, who has died from | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
cancer at the age of 80. He will always be linked with Red Rum, the | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
horse which won the Grand National three times in the 1970s. Andy | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Swiss looks back at his achievements. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
What a story this is, Ginger McCain... They called him Mr | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Aintree, Ginger McCain, charismatic, colourful and creator of a sporting | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
fairy-tale. The former used-car salesman, he trained Red Rum on the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
beach in Southport, but from this unusual setting unbelievable | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
results. Red Rum is going to win the National! He won his first | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
National in 1973, he won it again in the following year, and then in | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
1977 he was roared into racing history. Red Rum was an equine | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
superstar, and McCain loved every minute. He was the only horse that | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
has ever won three Grand Nationals and he was everybody's favourite. A | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
lovely thing about him was that he had the charisma to match that, he | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
had star quality. Ginger McCain carried on training at his stables | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
in Cheshire well into the 70s, and his legacy is plain to see. This | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
was a man who did not as trained one Grand National winning horse | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
but two. Amberleigh House is going to give the Red Rum fans... | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
years after the first win, Amberleigh House gave McCain the | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
perfect end to his career, a man around whom life was never dull. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Ginger was an extraordinary character. He was totally | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
unreconstructed, totally non-the sea. He could be extremely | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
offensive. 30 had so much passion for racing and sport, and he was a | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
great showman. -- but he had. McKay name lives on. His son Donald | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
trained this year's winner, Ballabriggs. Aintree was his | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
spiritual home, and Ginger McCain's remarkable feats there will never | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
be forgotten. The trainer Ginger McCain, who has | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
died at the age of 80. Returning now to the main story, | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
travellers have won a last minute legal reprieve against eviction | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
from Dale Farm in Essex. After 100 residents and supporters remain | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
inside. Special correspondent Fergal Keane is inside. You are | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
inside the barricades, you have seen the jubilation today, but | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
council officials are determined that the evictions will take place. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
They are indeed, and it is important to remember that what | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
happened as afternoon was not a judgment against the principle of | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
addiction but against the conditions in which it would take | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
place. Everything will depend on what is decided by the courts next | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Friday. Until then, any kind of celebration here is probably a bit | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
premature. We will say on Friday whether, finally, the bailiffs, as | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
they threatened to earlier, will come through that gate behind me | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
and face the demonstrators who have been preparing to meet them at | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
their barricades. Time for the weather now with John | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Variety is the spice of life, and we have plenty of that over the | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
next few days, from place to place and date today. Things are clouding | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
over with rain on the horizon, it is already damp across Northern | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Ireland, a sign of things to come, because that will spread into | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
central and southern Scotland, northern and western parts of | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
England and Wales, too. Heavy bursts will not reach East Anglia | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
and the south-east. Clearing up behind, down to single digits here. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
To the south and east of the rain, a mild night, no lower than 14 in | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
London. A bit of a three-way split in the morning, and then we will | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
keep that going through the day. The rain never reaching the South | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
East, brightening behind, but very wet in the middle as that band of | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
rain idles across central parts of the country, probably brightening | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
up across a good part of north England by the afternoon. Bright | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
and breezy for a good chunk of Scotland as well. They will be | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
showers out west, moving through quite quickly. Not warm, 15 degrees, | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
but not bad in the sunshine. Similar for North Island, showers | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
in the West. It might brighten up in the west of Wales, but a good | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
part of Wales looks like being cloudy with dampness in their | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
southeast. Raining all day in the south-west of England. Underneath | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
the rain clouds, it could feel cool, particularly in the Midlands. But | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
in the bright as in parts of the south-east and East Anglia, we | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
might just nudge 2421. The rain arrives across the south-east | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
tomorrow night. Then maybe early morning fog clearing. Much of the | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
UK on Wednesday have a bright enough day. Heavy showers across | :28:30. | :28:34. |