:00:09. > :00:14.A backlash against the rise and rise of fuel prices, or than 100
:00:14. > :00:18.MPs backed a public petition. Elite at the Proms is due to go
:00:18. > :00:23.work by another 3p in January. Calls for the extra tax to be
:00:23. > :00:27.scrapped. It is awful, they always hit the
:00:27. > :00:33.motorists. The war working to pay their fuel bills, it is
:00:33. > :00:36.extortionate. Also tonight, the Stephen Lawrence
:00:36. > :00:40.trial, the prosecution says he was swallowed up by a group of white
:00:40. > :00:44.youths. Border controls were relaxed 50
:00:44. > :00:47.times in three months, the official at the centre of the row says he
:00:47. > :00:52.did nothing wrong and comes out fighting.
:00:52. > :00:57.I am not a rogue officer, nothing could be further from the truth.
:00:57. > :01:01.Three men arrested after a ten- year-old boy was kidnapped and
:01:01. > :01:06.found, hands tied in an empty flat. And, the breakthrough treatment for
:01:06. > :01:13.liver disease that saved this toddler and could give hope to many
:01:13. > :01:18.more. Coming up in sport on BBC News, as
:01:18. > :01:28.England continue their preparations for Euro 2012 against Sweden, UEFA
:01:28. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:43.announced they will hear Wayne Good evening. Welcome.
:01:43. > :01:47.The public backlash against higher fuel prices reached Parliament
:01:47. > :01:51.today come up with a vote in the next hour calling on the Government
:01:51. > :01:57.to halt motoring costs down. The price of a litre of petrol or
:01:57. > :02:01.diesel is due to come up by another 3p in January, adding one pan 52
:02:01. > :02:04.the average cost of filling up. The debate was triggered by an online
:02:04. > :02:12.petition on the Downing Street website, signed by more than
:02:12. > :02:16.100,000 people. Take a camera on to the forecourt,
:02:16. > :02:21.and it does not take long before drivers tell you what they think
:02:21. > :02:27.about petrol prices. It is awful, they always hit the motorists for
:02:27. > :02:32.everything. In this country, you are working to pay the fuel bills.
:02:32. > :02:38.When you see the money go up, it is easy to see why many are angry,
:02:38. > :02:42.especially when prices have trebled over 20 years. Consider this, if
:02:42. > :02:47.prices rise by three pence, as planned in January, it will cost
:02:47. > :02:54.the average driver one pound 50 more to fill up their car. But no
:02:54. > :02:58.price rise could lead to a �1.5 billion loss in government revenue.
:02:58. > :03:03.Prices have come down lately, but they are expected to rise again.
:03:03. > :03:08.People like this man are sulphurs - - say it will put his business
:03:08. > :03:12.under pressure. You do not know what the price will be, because it
:03:12. > :03:18.is getting height every time. You cannot pass that onto your
:03:18. > :03:26.government. I will not get the work. You have got to take the hit?
:03:26. > :03:30.time. Then, those in rural communities. This woman lives in
:03:30. > :03:37.Cumbria, and she says she needs her car for work. I am spending one
:03:37. > :03:41.sixth of my wage on fuel, just to go to and from work, not with any
:03:41. > :03:50.extra travelling. Consider those whose incomes of virtually fixed,
:03:50. > :03:56.like a pensioner. Does it ever get past halfway, your tank? No, it is
:03:56. > :04:02.too expensive. Everything is going up, white card has not go far, so I
:04:02. > :04:06.cannot go as far. But some MPs, including many Conservatives, said
:04:06. > :04:11.they are listening, and day-to-day called on the government to stop
:04:11. > :04:19.the price rise. Motoring fuel has never been this expensive, except
:04:19. > :04:24.for twice in history, during an historic crisis of supply, and this
:04:24. > :04:29.has been driven by higher taxes, and we have to be realistic and
:04:29. > :04:33.truthful about who pays the lion's share of the duty. It is clear that
:04:33. > :04:43.the Government has a tough choice to make, push ahead with the rise
:04:43. > :04:47.
:04:47. > :04:51.in duty to get much needed revenue, Strong feelings inside and outside
:04:51. > :04:56.at Parliament, but when it changed anything? A Treasury source has
:04:56. > :05:00.just told me they are listening to the debate that has been going on
:05:00. > :05:04.for around three hours, even though they will not be bound by any vote
:05:04. > :05:08.that is due to take place in an hour, and if ministers are
:05:08. > :05:13.listening, they will have heard more than 30 MPs from all parties
:05:13. > :05:18.and all parts of the country almost trying to outdo one another with
:05:18. > :05:20.their tales of hardship from their constituencies, of the families and
:05:21. > :05:26.businesses and farmers and communities that are suffering from
:05:26. > :05:32.these high prices. As you heard, the problem for the Treasury is
:05:32. > :05:36.that every penny cut from their duty leaves a 500 million pound
:05:36. > :05:41.hole in the finances, they are not going to borrow more, they are
:05:41. > :05:45.committed to reducing the debts, so the bottom line is, if there is
:05:45. > :05:51.going to be any cut in duty, the money will have to be found from
:05:51. > :05:57.somewhere else. That is the picture on fuel prices,
:05:57. > :06:07.but inflation over role came down last month, from 5.2%, to 5%. What
:06:07. > :06:11.
:06:11. > :06:16.A pensioner, a business owner and a mother, all in different ways
:06:16. > :06:20.feeling the effects of high inflation. This man is 71, he and
:06:20. > :06:23.his wife feel they are getting by, they sold their bungalow and moved
:06:23. > :06:27.into a mobile home last year, because they needed the money to
:06:27. > :06:32.live on, but inflation is eating away at the value of the cash.
:06:32. > :06:39.we not done that, inflation would have been hurting really badly. As
:06:39. > :06:42.it is, we are chipping away at the capital, and we are more
:06:42. > :06:47.comfortable, but we are worried, because in the end, the capital
:06:47. > :06:52.will run out. He wonders how the rest of his family are coping. His
:06:52. > :06:57.daughter lives 30 miles away. She runs a website business from home.
:06:57. > :07:00.Her husband is an accountant. She is having to think constantly about
:07:00. > :07:05.price pressures and what that means for her spending power. This time
:07:05. > :07:11.last year, I would have walked into a supermarket and bought whatever I
:07:11. > :07:15.wanted to eat. This year, I am looking around and trying to find
:07:15. > :07:20.out what is lower-priced, because the things that I want seem to be
:07:20. > :07:24.going up all the time. Across the economy, signs that the pressures
:07:24. > :07:31.are easing, inflation fell back slightly in October, but the cost
:07:31. > :07:36.of living is up sharply on the year. Food prices are higher, clothes as
:07:36. > :07:42.well, and heating and other utility bills are nearly 20% higher.
:07:42. > :07:47.Motorists are paying over 15% more for fuel. Retailers like David
:07:47. > :07:52.Jessey say they are doing all they can to hold back price rises. He
:07:52. > :07:57.runs this clothing shop in Windsor, but he told me some of his costs
:07:57. > :08:02.were rising so fast, he had to ask customers to pay more. We try and
:08:02. > :08:07.absorb as much as possible, because we have to remain competitive with
:08:07. > :08:11.the rest of the high street. But there comes a point when we cannot
:08:11. > :08:15.absorb it, and it gets passed on. Inflation is still high, households
:08:15. > :08:21.and businesses are facing a continuing squeeze, but there is a
:08:21. > :08:25.sense that it may have peaked, with the 5.2% figure reported last month.
:08:25. > :08:29.It is now heading downwards, with the trend going on throughout next
:08:29. > :08:33.year, perhaps. The Bank of England governor says inflation will fall
:08:33. > :08:39.sharply, assuming that fuel and energy price increases are not
:08:39. > :08:42.repeated. On the high streets, they can only hope he is right.
:08:42. > :08:46.The jury at the Old Bailey has heard how the black teenager
:08:46. > :08:49.Stephen Lawrence was swallowed up by a group of white youths who
:08:49. > :08:59.forced into the ground before stabbing him to death. The evidence
:08:59. > :09:00.
:09:00. > :09:04.came in a trial of Gary Dobson and David Norris. They both deny murder.
:09:04. > :09:08.The killing on the street on an April night in 1993 has been
:09:08. > :09:12.endlessly scrutinised. The dark history of the Stephen Lawrence
:09:12. > :09:16.case has now entered a new chapter. By opening the case, the
:09:16. > :09:22.prosecution today described how he was swallowed up by the weight of
:09:23. > :09:29.numbers and forced to the ground. Mark Ellison QC said he and his
:09:29. > :09:33.friend had simply been trying to get a bus home. The court heard
:09:33. > :09:38.that a Steven Burke for the bus, a group of young white men ran across
:09:38. > :09:42.the road in front of 10. One shouted racist abuse, and then they
:09:42. > :09:48.attacked. His friend was a bit further away, he escaped, but
:09:48. > :09:54.Stephen fell to the ground, with two knife wounds. His attackers ran
:09:54. > :09:58.off. Stevenage struggled to his feet, bleeding, he got a short
:09:58. > :10:05.distance down this road, but he collapsed again. Stephen Lawrence
:10:05. > :10:07.was just 18 when he died. There were eyewitnesses, but the case
:10:07. > :10:13.against David Norris and Gary Dobson rests on their clothes,
:10:13. > :10:17.seized by police. Four days ago, forensic scientists discovered a
:10:17. > :10:24.half a millimetre long bloodstains soaked into Gary Dobson's jacket,
:10:24. > :10:30.which the prosecution says matches Stephen Lawrence's DNA. In evidence
:10:30. > :10:35.back, a tiny hair, again claimed it to match Stephen Lawrence's. Other
:10:35. > :10:45.forensic evidence includes clothing fibres and flecks of blood, but Tim
:10:45. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:53.Roberts QC, representing Gary The defendants argued the bags
:10:53. > :10:58.containing their clothes have been contaminated by debris from those
:10:58. > :11:01.containing Stephen's over the many years since the alleged murder. The
:11:01. > :11:07.prosecution said there was no realistic possibility of that,
:11:07. > :11:13.rather, these men were part of the group who attacked him. His father,
:11:13. > :11:19.Neville, and mother, Doreen, will attend the trial every day, likely
:11:19. > :11:22.to last six weeks. The senior civil servant at the
:11:22. > :11:28.heart of the border controls Rowell has revealed that immigration
:11:28. > :11:31.checks were relaxed 50 times in three months. Brodie Clark insisted
:11:31. > :11:37.he was following health and safety guidance and was not a rogue
:11:37. > :11:41.officer. Our national border is meant to
:11:41. > :11:44.look like and be a barrier, to prevent the wrong people from
:11:44. > :11:49.entering the country, but today we learned how many times this year
:11:49. > :11:54.the normal checks have been suspended. Who is to blame? Theresa
:11:54. > :12:00.May insists the man who was head of the border force acted without her
:12:00. > :12:05.permission. Today, he, Brodie Clark, had a chance to answer back. He
:12:05. > :12:09.told MPs at first at least about was not true. I have not wilfully
:12:09. > :12:14.or knowingly sanctioned an alteration to checks that has
:12:14. > :12:19.contravened existing Home Office policy. Why am not a rogue officer.
:12:19. > :12:24.Nothing could be further from the truth. The man who was given a CBE
:12:24. > :12:29.for services to security was suspended last week before
:12:29. > :12:33.resigning in protest. I am very conscious that, over 40 years, I
:12:33. > :12:38.have built up a repetition, and over two days, that has been
:12:38. > :12:43.destroyed. What went wrong has descended into a plain game.
:12:43. > :12:47.Theresa May insists her authority as the minister in charge was the
:12:47. > :12:52.fight. She agreed to test the system of so-called of this club
:12:52. > :12:56.cheques, which would allow border officers to focus on high risk
:12:56. > :13:02.people and to check less on children, for example. But she
:13:02. > :13:06.refused permission to suspend fingerprint tests. Brodie Clark,
:13:06. > :13:12.the former head of the border force, admitted to relaxing controls,
:13:12. > :13:17.including fingerprint checking, and said it had happened 50 times in
:13:17. > :13:21.just three months. But he insisted it was in line with another policy,
:13:21. > :13:26.supposed to ensure the safety of passengers arriving at overcrowded
:13:26. > :13:32.airports at busy times. Tory MPs on the committee were desperate to
:13:32. > :13:40.find him guilty and to prove Theresa May innocent. You suspended
:13:40. > :13:45.fingerprint checks before you ask Home Secretary? Is that correct?
:13:45. > :13:48.asked the Home Secretary on the fingerprint issue in respect of
:13:48. > :13:53.discretionary judgments by frontline staff. Moments after he
:13:53. > :13:57.claimed he had just been doing his job, a man who suspended him, the
:13:57. > :14:03.chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Rob Whiteman, took the
:14:03. > :14:07.stand. The role of the senior official is to advise ministers and
:14:07. > :14:11.then to implement their direction, and it was absolutely clear to me
:14:12. > :14:16.that ministers wanted fingerprint checks to be taken, and that that
:14:16. > :14:20.had not been put into effect. are no fewer than three inquiries
:14:20. > :14:23.into what went wrong at Britain's borders, but the Labour Party says
:14:23. > :14:28.the public should not have to wait for the answers. What the Home
:14:28. > :14:31.Secretary told us last week is now unravelling with the facts and
:14:31. > :14:36.figures emerging this week. That is why she has to publish all the
:14:36. > :14:40.information, including the instructions to the agency.
:14:40. > :14:45.Westminster, the debate may be about who is telling the truth
:14:45. > :14:49.beyond questions -- telling the truth. Beyond, the question is, why
:14:49. > :14:54.is it so difficult to police and a border?
:14:54. > :15:01.It is astonishing to think that, on 15 occasions, immigration checks
:15:01. > :15:07.were relaxed. -- 50 occasions. was in just one period. The figures
:15:07. > :15:11.do better, but that is how this story began. I never believed that
:15:11. > :15:14.the Home Secretary would lose her job over this, and she feels more
:15:15. > :15:19.secure tonight. But I have always believed she would face more
:15:19. > :15:23.difficult questions about the state of Britain's borders. Those close
:15:23. > :15:28.to pursue this simply. They said the man in charge of the borders
:15:28. > :15:33.was told not to suspend fingerprint testing, he ignored the advice, and
:15:33. > :15:40.he was suspended by his immediate boss, the chief executive of the
:15:40. > :15:45.borders Agency. He -- but this is the detail. There was something
:15:45. > :15:49.they all agreed on, the idea of intelligence led border checks. Do
:15:49. > :15:53.not check buses full of children, focus on the people you might be
:15:53. > :15:59.worried about. In addition, something else was going on but
:15:59. > :16:03.they did not agree on. If the skies are full of planes because the
:16:03. > :16:08.runways are full of planes full of passengers because the border
:16:09. > :16:13.queues are too long, in that case, you can then suspend border checks.
:16:13. > :16:18.The question that still remains to be answered tonight, just why does
:16:18. > :16:21.this have to happen so many times in Britain? Why is it that the
:16:21. > :16:31.border force cannot be organised in such a way that it never has to
:16:31. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:40.A backlash against a planned rise in fuel duty, with calls in
:16:40. > :16:44.Parliament for it to be scrapped. Coming up,...
:16:44. > :16:49.How do you feel? Pretty good, strong.
:16:49. > :16:55.She was shot in the head at point- blank range, now, she talks about
:16:55. > :17:00.her ordeal for the first time. Later on the BBC News channel,
:17:00. > :17:10.profits jumped at easyJet, despite soaring fuel prices, and Burberry
:17:10. > :17:19.
:17:19. > :17:23.cashes in on wealthy shoppers, Doctors in London have cured a baby
:17:23. > :17:27.boy from a life threatening disease which was destroying his liver.
:17:27. > :17:31.They've used a ground-breaking procedure, implanting cells which
:17:31. > :17:35.acted as a temporary leave that to allow the damaged organs to recover.
:17:35. > :17:45.Researchers say the breakthrough could have consequences, as a
:17:45. > :17:45.
:17:45. > :17:51.And need to medical marvel. Six months ago he was close to death, a
:17:51. > :17:57.virus was destroying his liver. Now it is working normally. His parents
:17:57. > :18:05.say eat their only child has been given back to them. It was great.
:18:05. > :18:10.Once he had the treatment, after 48 hours, things started to get better
:18:10. > :18:18.and hope came back. We are very proud of him. He is brilliant, he
:18:18. > :18:24.is amazing. What saved his life was not a transplant, but deep frozen
:18:24. > :18:27.human liver cells. Scientists at King's College Hospital coated the
:18:27. > :18:32.cells with a chemical found in algae to prevent his body from
:18:32. > :18:38.rejecting them. You can see the coated cells at the bottom of this
:18:38. > :18:43.jar. Instead of going on a waiting list for a transplant, he was given
:18:43. > :18:48.a single injection of liver cells. Their protective coating was porous
:18:48. > :18:53.which allowed toxins to flow in, be processed and waste products and
:18:53. > :18:57.vital proteins to flow out. Immune cells were too big to enter so
:18:57. > :19:04.could not destroy the donor tissue. After two weeks, his liver had
:19:04. > :19:10.started to recover. It looks normal. A key benefit over a liver
:19:10. > :19:15.transplant is that he will never need anti-rejection drugs. Doctors
:19:15. > :19:21.are delighted. It is only a few months back when I first saw this
:19:21. > :19:28.child, he was so sick, he needed dialysis. And we think we have
:19:28. > :19:34.given him another chance of life. And seeing him six months down the
:19:34. > :19:38.road without a liver transplant is remarkable. Doctors are urging
:19:38. > :19:43.caution that this world first might be a one-off so a large clinical
:19:43. > :19:47.trial is planned. This is a lovely example of benched a bedside
:19:47. > :19:51.bringing academic research and clinical treatment together in the
:19:51. > :19:56.NHS. The next step is to see whether this technique could be
:19:56. > :20:01.used to benefit other patients with failing livers who currently need a
:20:01. > :20:06.transplant. Many patients died before receiving a liver transplant
:20:06. > :20:12.so it is hoped treatment that saved this boy it will yet save many
:20:12. > :20:15.others. News International's lawyer at the
:20:15. > :20:18.Leveson Inquiry into press standards has apologised for phone
:20:18. > :20:21.hacking carried out at the News of the World. But he challenged the
:20:21. > :20:23.claim that The Sun newspaper had also been involved. It comes just
:20:23. > :20:29.days after the company's executive chairman, James Murdoch, was
:20:29. > :20:32.accused of misleading Parliament's inquiry into hacking.
:20:33. > :20:36.In its first major test since forming a minority government in
:20:36. > :20:38.Wales, Labour has lost a vote on its spending plans for next year.
:20:39. > :20:42.The National Assembly was tied on the proposals, meaning the draft
:20:42. > :20:46.budget failed to pass. Assembly members vote on the final budget
:20:46. > :20:48.next month. West Midlands police are
:20:48. > :20:53.questioning three men on suspicion of kidnap after a ten-year-old boy
:20:53. > :20:57.went missing on a trip to the local shops. His disappearance in Oldbury
:20:57. > :21:07.sparked a frantic search before he was found more than two hours later
:21:07. > :21:10.
:21:10. > :21:14.in a flat nearby. Claire Marshall It is still a crime scene here
:21:14. > :21:17.behind me and it has been ever since police officers called to the
:21:17. > :21:22.boy to safety through an open window. He didn't know the three
:21:22. > :21:26.men who were allegedly snatched him from the street and what is unclear
:21:26. > :21:30.tonight is the motive. They had put Christmas decorations
:21:30. > :21:34.up in the flat where they held a 10-year-old boy hostage. It was
:21:34. > :21:40.through one of these windows that he cried out for help to a family
:21:40. > :21:47.friend who was passing. His hands were tied. He called, can you help
:21:47. > :21:54.me, I have been kidnapped. I did pause for three or four seconds. I
:21:54. > :21:58.said wait there, I will get the police. I ran back to the police.
:21:58. > :22:02.The boy lived on this street. On Sunday morning he left his home
:22:03. > :22:08.just after 9am and walked this way down the road. He was expected back
:22:08. > :22:12.soon afterwards. It was only half a mile to this shop. He bought a
:22:12. > :22:16.drink, left and then vanished. He wasn't found for more than two
:22:16. > :22:20.hours. This Housing Association block where he was held captive is
:22:20. > :22:25.now being searched and is used to accommodate vulnerable people,
:22:25. > :22:29.which could include ex-offenders. Last night local people protested,
:22:30. > :22:33.calling for the flats to be used for something else. There is now a
:22:33. > :22:38.real sense of fear in this community. You have children?
:22:38. > :22:43.have a 10-year-old daughter. has it made you feel? Physically
:22:43. > :22:49.sick. My daughter hasn't left the house since. I was sick last night,
:22:49. > :22:52.physically sick, worrying about it. It is unbelievable. Her the
:22:52. > :22:58.investigation goes on. The ages of the three men held have been
:22:58. > :23:02.released. They are 49, 30 and 48. Police have until 11 o'clock
:23:02. > :23:05.tonight to question them. The housing authority responsible
:23:05. > :23:09.for this building have given us a statement. They said, we have
:23:10. > :23:13.always had an excellent record with residents contributing positively
:23:13. > :23:17.to their environment. For police have said they will interview the
:23:17. > :23:22.boy to try to build up a clearer picture, but it seems he had a very,
:23:22. > :23:24.very fortunate to escape. In New York, riot police have
:23:24. > :23:27.removed hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators from the
:23:27. > :23:30.city's financial district. The encampment was the first of its
:23:30. > :23:36.kind and led to similar tented protests around the world,
:23:36. > :23:38.including St Paul's in London. There were at least 200 arrests
:23:38. > :23:41.during the night-time raid, as Laura Trevelyan reports.
:23:41. > :23:44.City of London officials are to resume legal action against anti-
:23:44. > :23:47.capitalist protestors camped outside St Paul's Cathedral.
:23:47. > :23:50.Demonstrators had originally been given until the new year to leave
:23:50. > :23:57.the site - they've now been told to remove their tents within the next
:23:57. > :24:00.24 hours or face legal action. She survived being shot in the head
:24:00. > :24:02.at point blank range and now, with her husband at her side, the
:24:02. > :24:08.American Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords has been speaking about
:24:08. > :24:10.her ordeal. She said she couldn't remember much of the attack in
:24:10. > :24:20.which six others were killed. Our Washington correspondent Ian
:24:20. > :24:22.
:24:22. > :24:28.Pannell has this remarkable story This was Gabrielle Giffords a few
:24:28. > :24:32.weeks after she was shot in the head. And this is her today. At
:24:32. > :24:40.heart, this is a story of one woman's slow and painful recovery.
:24:40. > :24:43.Her or do you feel? Pretty good. But Gabrielle Giffords is also a US
:24:43. > :24:47.congresswoman and the attempt on her life and her struggle back to
:24:47. > :24:51.health is captured -- has captured the popular imagination. She was
:24:51. > :24:57.attacked during a meeting last January. Six were killed, 13
:24:57. > :25:01.injured. Giffords was critically wounded, tissue from her brain and
:25:01. > :25:06.part of her skull had to be removed. It was weeks before she was well
:25:06. > :25:12.enough to be told what had happened in the attack that so many had been
:25:12. > :25:17.injured in. And so for the last 10 months she has had to learn the
:25:17. > :25:25.basics of life again. Captured on film by her husband as she learns
:25:25. > :25:35.how to walk and how to talk. Songs have been used to help her recover
:25:35. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:47.her speech. But it has been a long, difficult
:25:47. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:52.I would say, Gabby, you have not been beaten, you have just been
:25:52. > :25:56.beaten up and you will get through this and recover and you will come
:25:56. > :26:06.back stronger than ever. progress has been remarkable, but
:26:06. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:16.she still struggles to put thoughts She wants to get better. She was
:26:16. > :26:20.trying to answer a question about whether she will return to Congress.
:26:20. > :26:25.But for now Gabriel and her husband are focused on trying to get her
:26:25. > :26:33.well again. It should -- it could take years and there's no guarantee
:26:33. > :26:39.take years and there's no guarantee Incredible woman. Let's take a look
:26:39. > :26:43.at the weather forecast. Some bona sunshine on offer today.
:26:43. > :26:47.The cloud broke up a little bit more than we were anticipated and
:26:47. > :26:52.it turned into a fine afternoon in England and Wales. The cloud was
:26:52. > :26:56.more stock than in the north-east. At this time of year, often it
:26:56. > :27:02.turns chilly after a sunny day and that will be the case tonight. Some
:27:02. > :27:06.fog patches in the far north-west. Elsewhere, cloud expands overnight
:27:06. > :27:12.and it will turn misty. Maybe some players Barlow's -- clear skies
:27:12. > :27:16.later in the south-east corner. Most places will stay five or six
:27:16. > :27:20.degrees above zero. On Wednesday it is a question of where we will see
:27:20. > :27:24.the cloud. I am hopeful for more brightness in north-east England
:27:24. > :27:28.and eastern Scotland. In the West it will stay in predominantly
:27:28. > :27:32.cloudy, certainly in the far south- west where we are expecting some
:27:32. > :27:36.rain in the afternoon. Eventually that rain will become more
:27:36. > :27:40.expensive across Wales through the evening. We will also see things
:27:40. > :27:45.turning increasingly drab across Northern Ireland. A cloudy
:27:45. > :27:48.afternoon and a little bit of light rain and drizzle. Northern Scotland
:27:48. > :27:52.could get some sunshine, but there could also be some stubborn fog
:27:52. > :27:56.patches. Eastern Scotland should eventually brighten up and I am
:27:56. > :28:01.hopeful north-eastern England will be a bit brighter than today. A lot
:28:01. > :28:05.of question marks about where we will see the sun. Where it stays
:28:05. > :28:09.dull, tempers have eight or nine. With sunshine, we might reach 12 or
:28:09. > :28:15.13. Rain in the West will become more widespread across Wales and
:28:15. > :28:19.south-west England, up to Northern needed -- Northern Ireland. Still
:28:19. > :28:22.around in the north-west on Thursday. Rain might push back into
:28:22. > :28:26.Northern Ireland later. Foremost Northern Ireland later. Foremost
:28:26. > :28:31.Thursday looks bright. Temperatures on the mild side.
:28:31. > :28:35.A reminder of tonight's main news. There's a backlash against a