:00:08. > :00:14.Soaring energy prices drive inflation up to a three-year high.
:00:14. > :00:18.The cost-of-living is up 5.2%, squeezing incomes still further.
:00:18. > :00:23.don't know if I'm going to have enough money by the time I get to
:00:23. > :00:29.the tills. I'll having to put stuff back and go without basics.
:00:29. > :00:33.Also: Prisoner swap - the young Israeli soldier captured by Hamas
:00:33. > :00:38.is back with his family after five years. There are celebrations in
:00:38. > :00:42.Gaza after 1,000 Palestinians are freed in return.
:00:42. > :00:47.No joke - the Appeal Court upholds tough sentences for two men trying
:00:47. > :00:50.to incite a riot on Facebook. An official report concludes former
:00:50. > :00:54.Defence Secretary Liam Fox ignored warnings about his relationship
:00:54. > :00:59.with Adam Werritty. The Wales coach was so desperate to
:00:59. > :01:03.win after his captain was sent off in the World Cup semifinal he
:01:03. > :01:13.considered cheating. We discussed in the box could we
:01:13. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:19.fake an injury to one of our props to go to uncontested scrums? Later
:01:19. > :01:24.in sport: We preview the Champions League games this evening.
:01:24. > :01:34.Manchester United are away in Romania. Manchester City are home
:01:34. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:47.Welcome to the BBC News at Six. There's been a sharper than
:01:47. > :01:53.expected rise in inflation, up to a three-year high. The consumer price
:01:53. > :01:56.index has increased by 5.2%. It's mainly driven by soaring energy
:01:57. > :02:00.bills which are more than 18% higher than a year ago. There is
:02:00. > :02:05.better news for people getting state pensions or benefits. This
:02:05. > :02:10.month's inflation figures are used to calculate next year's increases.
:02:10. > :02:17.Let's join Hugh Pym who is in Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
:02:17. > :02:19.Yes, whether it's people going home in Wakefield, or in any other
:02:19. > :02:23.community, almost everyone's affected by this high rate of
:02:23. > :02:26.inflation which is now running at nearly three times the rate of
:02:26. > :02:31.average wage increases which shows how much spending power is being
:02:31. > :02:36.eroded and the wider measure of inflation, RPI, is at a 20-year
:02:36. > :02:40.high, 5.6%. No family waking up in West
:02:40. > :02:45.Yorkshire this morning needed any reminding of the squeeze on their
:02:45. > :02:50.budgets. But today's figures revealed it was worse than many had
:02:50. > :02:54.expected, soaring domestic energy bills and fuel prices were the main
:02:54. > :03:00.culprits. Alex is a young mother. She is struggling with her
:03:00. > :03:04.household bills. She's on benefits and she's gone to Barnardo's for
:03:04. > :03:08.help and support. The gas bill is hard enough to keep up with never
:03:08. > :03:12.mind food and clothing prices. never know if I'm going to have
:03:12. > :03:17.enough money by the time I get to the tills. So I'm having to put
:03:17. > :03:23.stuff back and go without basics for weeks on end. Always a choice
:03:23. > :03:29.between do I buy some new shoes or get some gas? Do I get her some new
:03:29. > :03:33.clothes or more food? This man has seen his savings eroded by high
:03:33. > :03:37.inflation. As he works out at his local gym, he reflects on the fact
:03:37. > :03:40.that many families are worse off than his. He and his wife are both
:03:41. > :03:45.working so they are not on the breadline but inflation is still
:03:45. > :03:50.taking its toll both on their wage rises and savings income. Unless
:03:51. > :03:55.you are mega-rich, which I am not, any increase that you receive year
:03:56. > :03:59.on year on your salary is being eaten up by increasing cost of
:04:00. > :04:03.commodities, fuel, gas, electric, just the day-to-day living.
:04:03. > :04:08.Shoppers are often having to pay higher prices because retailers
:04:08. > :04:11.don't have any alternative. They are facing their own increases.
:04:11. > :04:15.This man is a local butcher, grappling with rising cost
:04:15. > :04:19.pressures. He runs five shops in the area for his family business
:04:19. > :04:26.which dates back 100 years. When his bills rise, he has no choice
:04:26. > :04:29.but to pass some of the increases on to his customers. It's affected
:04:29. > :04:36.us across-the-board, increasing prices on all our raw materials,
:04:36. > :04:39.the fuel costs, the energy costs. We are having to absorb some of the
:04:39. > :04:42.prices ourselves but unfortunately we have to pass it on to the
:04:42. > :04:46.customers as well. Hard-pressed businesses and consumers will want
:04:46. > :04:50.to know where inflation goes from here. The Bank of England and most
:04:50. > :04:54.economists predict it will come down from the current level and
:04:54. > :04:58.fall sharply next year with VAT and energy price increases not being
:04:58. > :05:03.repeated. But most people will be more concerned about the here and
:05:03. > :05:07.now and the big squeeze. Now, it is not as bad as it might
:05:07. > :05:10.be for people on pensions or benefits. Those will be uprated
:05:10. > :05:13.next April in line with this month's inflation rate, that high
:05:13. > :05:17.level of inflation. Although people may say they have still got to get
:05:17. > :05:20.through the winter on current levels of income so not such good
:05:20. > :05:25.news for George Osborne, he has to pay out more because inflation is
:05:25. > :05:30.higher than he predicted. It is having an impact across the economy.
:05:30. > :05:35.Thank you. Our economics editor, Stephanie Flanders is with me.
:05:35. > :05:38.These inflation rises are beginning to bite. Can we expect inflation to
:05:38. > :05:41.come down any time soon? We can. I know it is hard to believe because
:05:41. > :05:45.we see the numbers creeping up month after month and we keep
:05:45. > :05:48.seeing everyone get the forecasts wrong. I think it would be hard to
:05:48. > :05:50.find anyone in the City or at the Bank of England who thinks
:05:50. > :05:55.inflation will go a lot higher from here. In fact, nearly everyone
:05:55. > :05:59.thinks that this month or next month will be the peak. There's two
:05:59. > :06:03.reasons: One those big changes, the big increases in energy prices from
:06:03. > :06:06.overseas. Also the change in VAT. Those temporary factors, they will
:06:07. > :06:10.fall out of the comparison so automatically inflation, the
:06:10. > :06:13.headline figure, will come down. The other reason is the weak state
:06:13. > :06:17.of the economy and the fact that we are getting some gloomy news from
:06:17. > :06:21.the rest of the world. It is hard to see where a lot of new price
:06:21. > :06:24.pressures will come from. We have seen an example of this. We have
:06:25. > :06:28.seen in 2008 the last time inflation was this high, a year
:06:29. > :06:32.later it was only 1.1% because of what was going on in the global
:06:32. > :06:36.economy. I think we could see that in a year's time, although it seems
:06:36. > :06:41.hard to believe now, the debate about inflation could be very
:06:41. > :06:46.different indeed. Thank you. An Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit,
:06:46. > :06:51.captured when he was 19 by Hamas and held in Gaza for five years,
:06:51. > :06:59.has been released. He is part of a controversial prisoner swap which
:06:59. > :07:02.will see more than 1,000 Palestinians freed in exchange.
:07:02. > :07:09.Sergeant Shalit is back in Israel tonight after being transferred via
:07:09. > :07:15.Egypt. Hundreds of Palestinians have been moved from Israel into
:07:15. > :07:19.Gaza and the West Bank. From dawn, Palestinians were
:07:19. > :07:26.gathering for the welcome home. Prisoners who took up arms against
:07:27. > :07:31.Israel are xulted in Palestinian society. Israelis regard them as
:07:31. > :07:35.killers or accessories to murder. This 11-year-old was waiting for
:07:35. > :07:44.her mother imprisoned for ten years for helping suicide bombers raech
:07:44. > :07:49.their targets. -- reach their targets. In northern Israel, the
:07:49. > :07:54.Shalit family were picked up from their home for the reunion, only
:07:54. > :08:01.hours away. Then Gilad Shalit was marched to freedom by head of the
:08:01. > :08:04.Hamas military wing and his bodyguards. He gave an interview to
:08:04. > :08:08.Egyptian TV. TRANSLATION: I have missed my
:08:08. > :08:13.family. He hoped the deal would end wars between Israel and the
:08:13. > :08:17.Palestinians. Back in Israel, he was flown to meet his family. The
:08:17. > :08:22.Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who greeted him first, has paid a
:08:22. > :08:28.high price for his freedom. Then the reunion with his father who led
:08:28. > :08:32.a tenacious campaign to free him. In Gaza, a big welcome was being
:08:32. > :08:37.prepared for the Palestinian prisoners who were released as soon
:08:37. > :08:43.as Israel had Gilad Shalit back. This is a victory for Hamas and its
:08:43. > :08:48.leaders were there to receive them. On the West Bank, clashes started
:08:48. > :08:54.when the release took longer. There was no sign of any new positive
:08:54. > :09:00.atmosphere, just the old one - stones, tear gas and cannon-
:09:00. > :09:04.shooting stinking -- cannons shooting stinking water. The
:09:04. > :09:08.Palestinian President welcomed the prisoners back to the West Bank. He
:09:08. > :09:16.has asked Israel many times to release them. Everyone in the crowd
:09:16. > :09:20.knew that Hamas had succeeded where President Abbas had failed. These
:09:20. > :09:24.men are being treated as conquering heroes. What freed them was a
:09:24. > :09:28.transaction between Hamas and the Israelis. It doesn't of itself get
:09:28. > :09:36.them closer to a peace agreement because there are still all the big
:09:36. > :09:40.issues of War and Peace and the future of this land that remain. By
:09:40. > :09:44.the evening, Gilad Shalit was back home. His last five years must have
:09:44. > :09:47.been desperately lonely and he might get some peace now. His
:09:47. > :09:54.country, and Is Palestinian neighbours, will have to wait
:09:54. > :09:58.longer. Two men jailed for four years for
:09:58. > :10:00.using Facebook to incite people to riot in August have lost appeals
:10:00. > :10:06.against their sentences. The judge said that even though the men did
:10:06. > :10:15.no more than post a comment online and no riot took place as a result,
:10:15. > :10:21.decent citizens had been disturbed by what they had read.
:10:21. > :10:25.What should be the appropriate penalty for this? This? Or even
:10:25. > :10:30.those who broke the law not on the streets but in front of their
:10:30. > :10:32.computers? The most controversial cases in front of the Court of
:10:33. > :10:37.Appeal were those of Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-
:10:37. > :10:42.Keenan, both jailed for four years for inciting riots by posting on
:10:42. > :10:46.Facebook. The judges decided Jordan Blackshaw's call for a smash down
:10:46. > :10:50.in Northwich town was designed to encourage criminal damage and
:10:50. > :10:55.rioting. Sutcliffe claimed he had a change of heart and taken down his
:10:55. > :11:05.invitation to a riot in Warrington, but only minutes before the police
:11:05. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:19.arrived. The Lord Chief Justice What the Court of Appeal have done
:11:19. > :11:22.today is to make it clear that where crime is committed by
:11:22. > :11:28.computer, however distant that crime is from the scene itself,
:11:28. > :11:31.that it will be taken very seriously. Stephen Craven, David
:11:31. > :11:36.Beswick and Stephen Carter had their sentences for being caught
:11:36. > :11:40.with looted televisions and shoes reduced by half. The court decided
:11:41. > :11:45.they were guilty of opportunistic involvement. They hadn't taken part
:11:45. > :11:49.in the riots. Some charities and lawyers are concerned that
:11:49. > :11:54.relatively long prison sentences will result in offenders caught up
:11:54. > :11:58.in riot fever for perhaps just a day being drawn towards a lifetime
:11:58. > :12:04.of crime. But today's judgment firmly argues that sentencing has
:12:04. > :12:09.to deter potential future rioters. Hundreds more of those arrested in
:12:09. > :12:17.the riots are working their way through the Criminal Justice System.
:12:17. > :12:20.Today's decisions suggest they can also expect tough sentences.
:12:20. > :12:24.Nottinghamshire Police has been strongly criticised for its
:12:24. > :12:29.handling of domestic abuse cases following the murder of a young
:12:29. > :12:33.mother. 21-year-old Casey Brittle called police about her violent
:12:33. > :12:36.former partner Sanchez Williams before he murdered her last year.
:12:36. > :12:42.Nottinghamshire Police has accepted the Independent Police Complaints
:12:42. > :12:47.Commission's conclusion that the force's failures were systematic
:12:47. > :12:52.and horrifying. There were 11 previous incidents where we had an
:12:52. > :12:55.interaction with Casey but she refused to complain in each one of
:12:55. > :13:05.those. We should have done a lot more. That is what we are building
:13:05. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:18.into the future. A pit manager who survived a flooding incident in
:13:18. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:25.which four men died has been arrested on suspicion of gross
:13:25. > :13:30.negligence manslaughter. A Katia Zatuliveter is suspected of
:13:30. > :13:34.using her position as an assistant to Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock
:13:34. > :13:37.to pass information to Russian intelligence.
:13:37. > :13:40.An official report published within the past hour has found that the
:13:40. > :13:44.former Defence Secretary ignored warnings by civil servants about
:13:44. > :13:47.his dealings with his close friend, Adam Werritty. It also concluded
:13:47. > :13:53.that Dr Fox did break the Ministerial Code of Conduct. It is
:13:53. > :13:57.now four days since he resigned his Cabinet post. James Landale is at
:13:57. > :14:01.Westminster. What more can you tell us what about is in the report?
:14:01. > :14:06.language of Whitehall is normally fairly opaque. They talk about
:14:06. > :14:09.behaviour being ill-judged or perhaps a little unwise. Well, this
:14:09. > :14:14.document from the most senior civil servant in the country is anything
:14:14. > :14:18.but. He says that Dr Fox's relationship with Adam Werritty,
:14:18. > :14:22.his so-called adviser, was inappropriate, it was unacceptable.
:14:22. > :14:27.He says there was a clear breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct. He
:14:27. > :14:30.said there was a failure of judgment on Dr Fox's part. He said
:14:30. > :14:35.Dr Fox did not live up to the highest standards of behaviour.
:14:35. > :14:40.Though in other words, this is a very, very brief report but it is a
:14:40. > :14:46.very, very acute report and it explains very clearly why Liam Fox
:14:46. > :14:50.had to resign as Defence Secretary. Now Downing Street have issued a
:14:50. > :14:54.statement saying they accept the findings of this report and they
:14:54. > :14:58.also accept the recommendations that the Cabinet Secretary has made
:14:58. > :15:01.about changes to the Code of Conduct. Sir Gus O'Donnell says
:15:01. > :15:06.those changes are very clear. Ministers should tell their
:15:06. > :15:10.officials if they are having meetings with people. Officials
:15:10. > :15:14.should be at these kind of meetings. Senior officials should discuss
:15:14. > :15:16.with their Ministers if they have any acquaintances that might be of
:15:16. > :15:19.concern. If those senior officials are worried about this and they
:15:19. > :15:22.don't think they are getting the answers they are expecting to get,
:15:22. > :15:27.they should talk to the Cabinet Secretary and failing that, they
:15:27. > :15:31.should go to the Prime Minister himself. Also, Liam Fox himself has
:15:31. > :15:36.issued a statement in which he has welcomed the report. He says that
:15:36. > :15:39.he's glad that he is found to have been cleared of two charges, namely
:15:39. > :15:44.that he made any financial gain from this. The report is clear that
:15:44. > :15:48.he did not. Also, he says that he's very glad that there was no
:15:48. > :15:51.security breach. There's also a note of defiance. He says in his
:15:51. > :16:01.view there was no actual conflict of interest. Dr Fox is expected to
:16:01. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:08.make a statement quite soon in the Our top story: Inflation is at a
:16:08. > :16:13.three-year high. The cost of living is up 5.2%, squeezing incomes still
:16:13. > :16:18.further. Coming up: One of the most influential bands of the 90s, the
:16:18. > :16:23.Stone Roses, joins the acts trying to find success second time around.
:16:23. > :16:28.Still to come on the BBC News Channel: Profits slump at Goldman
:16:28. > :16:38.Sachs as it reports heavy losses. And the former boss of Olympus
:16:38. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:44.tells us why he has referred the A vaccine against one of the
:16:44. > :16:51.world's biggest killers of children, malaria, has moved a step closer.
:16:51. > :16:54.Results from a major clinical trial in Africa shows that the jab cut
:16:54. > :17:01.the chance of getting the disease by half, raising hopes that there
:17:01. > :17:06.will soon be a more robust defence for the billions at risk worldwide.
:17:06. > :17:11.This is a common sight in many African hospitals. Row upon row of
:17:11. > :17:15.children, laid low by malaria. The parasitic infection is spread by
:17:15. > :17:22.mosquitoes. An effective vaccine would transform the life chances of
:17:22. > :17:25.millions. Nine-month-old Pamela from Kenya is one of those to
:17:25. > :17:32.receive the experimental jab bien trialled in several African
:17:32. > :17:36.countries. Malaria is a global threat. About 3 billion people in
:17:36. > :17:41.the areas coloured red are at risk of infection. But most of the
:17:41. > :17:45.nearly 1 million deaths a year are in Africa. Nearly 6000 children and
:17:45. > :17:50.a two were involved in the trial. Results showed that the vaccine cut
:17:50. > :17:54.malaria cases by about half. But its effectiveness might have waned
:17:54. > :17:57.after one year. Over the next couple of years, we will get a very
:17:57. > :18:01.clear view on what is really happening with protection. Is it
:18:01. > :18:06.wading or is it just that people acquiring natural immunity? Do we
:18:06. > :18:10.need a booster dose or not? All of that will become clear in the next
:18:10. > :18:15.few years. Philanthropist Bill Gates has given billions for
:18:15. > :18:20.vaccines in the developing world. He is encouraged by the results.
:18:20. > :18:27.It's very promising, the very fact that this vaccine works. It gives
:18:27. > :18:32.us data about how to build better vaccines and it gives us a tool to
:18:32. > :18:35.combine with the spraying and mosquito Killing, the different
:18:35. > :18:41.interventions that will help bring the number of deaths down quite a
:18:41. > :18:47.bit. Bed nets and insecticide will remain vital in the fight against
:18:47. > :18:53.malaria. The vaccine is no magic bullet. But even a jab that was 50%
:18:53. > :18:56.effective could save huge numbers of lives in the years to come.
:18:56. > :19:00.Europe's highest court has ruled that stem cells from human embryos
:19:00. > :19:04.cannot be patented because of ethical concerns. A group of
:19:04. > :19:07.leading scientists in the UK has criticised the ban, saying that it
:19:07. > :19:12.could force research overseas and delay new treatments from been
:19:12. > :19:16.developed by a range of treatments, including Parkinson's and diabetes.
:19:16. > :19:20.The jury in the trial of Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering
:19:20. > :19:25.John Gates, has been hearing from a prison chaplain to whom Tabak
:19:25. > :19:29.confessed about the killing. The 33-year-old Dutch engineer admits
:19:29. > :19:34.manslaughter but denies murder. John Kay is at Bristol Crown Court.
:19:34. > :19:38.What did the chaplain have to say? Well, his name is Peter Brotherton
:19:38. > :19:43.and he is a chaplain at the prison in Worcestershire where Vincent
:19:43. > :19:47.Tabak was held after being charged with the murder of John Yates. He
:19:47. > :19:51.told the court that in February of this year, while Vincent Tabak was
:19:51. > :19:56.on suicide watch, he said to the prison chaplain that he had
:19:56. > :19:59.something to say that would shock him. He went on to say that in a
:19:59. > :20:03.trembling voice, the Dutch engineer had said that he was going to
:20:03. > :20:08.change his plea to guilty. He said he was sorry and that he was going
:20:08. > :20:12.to have to tell his girlfriend, which he said would be very
:20:12. > :20:17.difficult. Mr Brotherton told his superiors. His was reported to the
:20:17. > :20:20.police. He said that after that, Vincent Tabak showed some anger
:20:20. > :20:25.towards him and said he would not tell him anything else. In May this
:20:25. > :20:29.year, Vincent Tabak admitted the manslaughter of July and a gates.
:20:30. > :20:34.He told police he had held her around the throat for 20 seconds
:20:34. > :20:40.but he denies murder. Earlier today, her parents were in court for the
:20:40. > :20:43.first time as images were shown to the jury of her body covered in
:20:44. > :20:47.snow, as it was found on Christmas Day. They were visibly upset,
:20:47. > :20:53.looking down at the ground and holding hands as some of the images
:20:53. > :20:57.were shown. The jury was told that some DNA from Vincent Tabak was
:20:57. > :21:00.found on the body, possibly sweat or saliva. The defence asked a
:21:00. > :21:07.forensic scientist if her body had been carried from her flat to the
:21:07. > :21:10.lane where it was found, in a large storage bag, which had been used
:21:10. > :21:15.for Vincent Tabak's bicycle, whether it was possible that the
:21:15. > :21:21.DNA had been transferred in that way, rather than any other way. The
:21:21. > :21:24.scientists said that was indeed possible.
:21:24. > :21:28.Two British teenagers have been arrested in Kenya on suspicion of
:21:28. > :21:33.having links with and is on its grip in Somalia. The men, aged 18,
:21:33. > :21:36.were picked up close to the border with Somalia. The father of one of
:21:36. > :21:41.the teenagers worked with police to help find his son.
:21:41. > :21:45.The Wales rugby coach Warren Gatland has revealed he considered
:21:45. > :21:49.cheating during the World Cup semi- final defeat to France following
:21:49. > :21:53.the sending-off of Captain Sam Warburton. He said he discussed the
:21:53. > :22:02.possibility of asking a player to fake an injury to try and gain an
:22:02. > :22:05.It was the moment that would haunt Welsh rugby for years. Captain Sam
:22:05. > :22:09.Warburton's sending off for a dangerous tackle against France
:22:09. > :22:13.almost certainly cost his team a place in the World Cup final. Wales
:22:13. > :22:17.are still coming to terms with the defeat. Today, a new twist. Coach
:22:17. > :22:23.Warren Gatland made an astonishing admission that he considered
:22:23. > :22:27.cheating. We discussed in the box, do we fake an injury to one of our
:22:27. > :22:34.props to go to uncontested scrums? But, morally, I made the decision
:22:34. > :22:38.it wasn't the right thing to do. The rules state that once a team
:22:38. > :22:44.cannot field a replacement front- row forward, that the referee must
:22:44. > :22:49.order scrums to be uncontested, when neither team can show up. This
:22:49. > :22:53.would have helped to a hard-pressed Welsh pack, a man down after the
:22:53. > :22:58.red card. The whole world feels sorry for Wales. I think he spoilt
:22:58. > :23:01.that by saying that they considered going for uncontested scrums. I'm
:23:01. > :23:05.disappointed that he said it. was no cheating on this occasion,
:23:05. > :23:10.but rugby has had its fair share of controversy. During the current
:23:10. > :23:15.World Cup, two England coaches was suspended for illegally swapping
:23:15. > :23:19.match balls for Jonny Wilkinson's kicks. At 2009, Harlequins were no
:23:19. > :23:25.Tom Williams was banned for failing a blood injury in a Heineken Cup
:23:25. > :23:30.match. Now the admission that Warren Gatland considered telling a
:23:30. > :23:35.player took fake injury. But he has the backing of his boss. He should
:23:35. > :23:39.be applauded, in its era were tough decisions are made, that he didn't
:23:39. > :23:42.go into this particular zone. Senior officials at the IRB have
:23:42. > :23:46.told me that they are stunned by the comments. They insist that
:23:46. > :23:50.their system of independent pitch- side doctors guards against injury
:23:50. > :23:59.faking. They will be taken a closer look at what the Wales coach said
:23:59. > :24:02.went through his mind here on Now, they were one of the most
:24:02. > :24:06.influential bands of the early 1990s. The debut album is widely
:24:06. > :24:10.considered one of the greatest by a British band. Today, after an
:24:10. > :24:14.absence of more than 15 years, the Stone Roses announced that they are
:24:14. > :24:23.reforming. They have to become the latest in a growing list of pop
:24:23. > :24:27.acts enjoying success second time They were one of the most
:24:27. > :24:32.influential bands of the late 80s and 90s. The one at the forefront
:24:32. > :24:37.of the Manchester music scene. Now, the four members are back together
:24:37. > :24:42.for the first time in 15 years. The years that followed their break-up
:24:42. > :24:46.or not forgiven -- forgotten, but certainly forgiven. Why have you
:24:46. > :24:50.decided to take this step? I think we are great, I think we've still
:24:50. > :24:55.got it. I think we've still got something to give to people and, in
:24:55. > :24:58.times like this, we can uplift people. Bailey produced two albums,
:24:58. > :25:02.the first in particular is considered a classic. It is one of
:25:02. > :25:06.the most eagerly awaited the unions from a band that many felt still
:25:06. > :25:11.had so much more to offer. And it's not just the Stone Roses, musical
:25:11. > :25:15.acts from across the spectrum have been successfully reforming,
:25:15. > :25:21.satisfying huge demand from nostalgic fans. This summer saw the
:25:21. > :25:27.UK and Ireland's biggest ever to air, 1,340,000 fans paying to seek
:25:28. > :25:32.take that be reunited with Robbie Williams. A still impressive
:25:32. > :25:36.120,000 people sought Spandau Ballet's 2009 reunion. After
:25:36. > :25:42.selling 34,000 copies in just a week, a greatest hits compilation
:25:42. > :25:47.from newly reformed Steps is this week's number one album in the UK.
:25:47. > :25:50.A lot of fans that grow up with bands such as the Stone Roses and
:25:50. > :25:55.Take That are a lot older, they are the ones that still buy it music,
:25:55. > :26:03.rather than illegally downloaded it. Promoters and labels know that they
:26:03. > :26:08.can still make money out of them. So, fans of so many acts know that
:26:08. > :26:11.a combination of adoration and nostalgia means that, if they wait
:26:11. > :26:21.long enough for their favourite band to reform, chances are,
:26:21. > :26:25.
:26:25. > :26:30.I used to love that album! Let's Chilly weather making a comeback.
:26:30. > :26:34.One or two showers around as well. A heavy one with some snow across
:26:34. > :26:37.the mountain tops of Scotland. They will continue in the far north,
:26:37. > :26:41.with showers drifting in across Northern Ireland, north-west
:26:41. > :26:46.England, parts of Wales and getting to the Midlands, perhaps. But most
:26:46. > :26:50.of us will have a dry, clear and cold night. The frost will just
:26:50. > :26:55.about hold of, unlike tomorrow night. Tomorrow, it will be chilly
:26:55. > :27:00.again. Many of us can look forward to sunshine. There will be further
:27:00. > :27:04.showers, and importantly they will be in different places compared to
:27:04. > :27:08.today. For example, northern parts of England will see fewer showers.
:27:09. > :27:12.The Midlands and northern England will see rather more. Things will
:27:12. > :27:16.improve because a good part of more than England, with a good amount of
:27:16. > :27:20.sunshine through the afternoon. Temperatures on the low side, 9 or
:27:20. > :27:24.ten degrees. Showers will continue across northern Scotland. Aberdeen
:27:24. > :27:27.chaise catching some. We could see a light covering up across the
:27:27. > :27:34.higher mountains. For more than Ireland, the showers will tend to
:27:34. > :27:37.dwindle. For Wales, they keep going across the western areas. To the
:27:37. > :27:42.east of the hills they will fade away. For south-western parts of
:27:42. > :27:45.England, relatively few showers. Temperatures are getting up to 11
:27:45. > :27:51.of 12 degrees. The breeze is not just as blustery as it has been,
:27:51. > :27:54.more showers than today across south-eastern parts of England. One
:27:54. > :27:58.or two shop ones. Tomorrow night, the showers will fade away in most
:27:58. > :28:03.places. The skies will clear and temperatures will tumble. A cold
:28:03. > :28:06.night tomorrow night. By Thursday morning, many of us will be waking
:28:06. > :28:14.up to our first frost of the season. This could well be the scene where
:28:14. > :28:19.you live. You may be scraping the A reminder of the main news:
:28:19. > :28:24.Inflation is that a three-year high. The cost of living is up 5.2%,