:00:13. > :00:15.Egypt's uprising reborn as tens of thousands take to the streets of
:00:15. > :00:18.Cairo. $$$WHITE The activists say it's a
:00:18. > :00:26.fight for the future of Egypt - they fear the military are turning
:00:26. > :00:30.back the clock. They're bringing in more and more
:00:30. > :00:33.casualties by the hour. The crowds are growing in the square, the
:00:33. > :00:35.biggest we have seen yet. $$$WHITE As the protesters bury the
:00:35. > :00:40.dead from three days of violence - the military announces key
:00:40. > :00:42.concessions to end the crisis. Also tonight:
:00:42. > :00:48.Britain's oldest tour operator in financial trouble - Thomas Cook
:00:48. > :00:54.goes cap in hand to the banks. The comedian Steve Coogan reveals
:00:54. > :00:58.how the press searched his bins and tried to trick elderly relatives.
:00:58. > :01:08.Beating the big C - people are living six times longer with many
:01:08. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.cancers, but a shocking lack of progress for others.
:01:12. > :01:22.And famous for his music - but should the Sex Pistols' Johnny
:01:22. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:51.Rotten really be remembered for his Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:51. > :01:52.News at 6.00pm. Nine months after they toppled one of the Arab
:01:53. > :01:55.world's most powerful dictators, Egyptian pro-democracy activists
:01:55. > :01:58.are pouring onto the streets in bigger and bigger numbers. They
:01:59. > :02:01.accuse the generals who are running the country of trying to delay a
:02:01. > :02:04.democratic transition. Tonight in Cairo's Tahrir Square thousands of
:02:04. > :02:07.protesters heard the head of the ruling military council make a
:02:07. > :02:10.series of concessions to try to bring the crisis to an end. Our
:02:10. > :02:20.Middle East correspondent Jon Leyne has the latest on a revolution
:02:20. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:27.reborn. His report contains some distressing images.
:02:27. > :02:31.They're carrying high the dead. In the Square, they're celebrating the
:02:31. > :02:36.revolution not so long ago. Today was the biggest demonstration so
:02:36. > :02:43.far in what they're already calling the second revolution. As built up,
:02:44. > :02:47.on the edge of the square, relentless confrontation continued,
:02:47. > :02:53.Egyptians furious with the country - the police firing round after
:02:53. > :02:56.round of tear gas and gunshots. The motorcyclists are bringing in
:02:57. > :03:01.more and more casualties by the hour. The crowds are growing in the
:03:01. > :03:09.square, the biggest we have seen yet, and the military leaders in
:03:09. > :03:13.Egypt have no new ideas. At the field hospital, I met Ahmed,
:03:13. > :03:17.a 37-year-old doctor. He is bitterly disappointed to find
:03:17. > :03:22.himself back on medical duty at Tahrir Square just as he was in the
:03:22. > :03:28.uprising nine months ago. I thought everything is beautiful and our
:03:28. > :03:31.country is headed for democracy and everything would be fine. I never
:03:31. > :03:35.expected Tahrir Square would stay all of this time without change. I
:03:35. > :03:41.didn't see any new things. Everything is the same. We have the
:03:41. > :03:48.same - almost the same regime. I lose hope now, and I am actually
:03:48. > :03:54.very, very disappointed. Finally silence, the Prime Minister emerged
:03:54. > :03:58.to make a desperate appeal. "I beg you, I beg you, put your country
:03:58. > :04:05.first," he said "Please, go back home and let things calm down." And
:04:05. > :04:09.then the commander himself, Field Marshal Tantawe, head of the
:04:09. > :04:14.military council that rules Egypt, made a rare television broadcast.
:04:14. > :04:17.He insisted the military do not want to hold on to power.
:04:17. > :04:20.Parliamentary elections will go ahead next week as planned and
:04:20. > :04:25.presidential elections by the middle of next year. The military,
:04:25. > :04:30.he said, only had the interests of the Egyptian people at heart.
:04:30. > :04:36.So driven by the huge demonstrations, late in the day
:04:36. > :04:39.finally started making concessions, but will it be enough? These
:04:39. > :04:45.protesters want an end to military rule right now, and there is no
:04:45. > :04:55.sign they're about to go away. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
:04:55. > :04:59.is in Cairo's Tahrir Square for us now. Jeremy, we've just heard the
:04:59. > :05:04.Field Marshal. Has he done enough, do you think? Judging by the crowds
:05:04. > :05:08.here, I'd say probably not. The thing is that behind me, the blue
:05:08. > :05:10.lights have been moving back and forth through the crowd. Those are
:05:10. > :05:15.ambulances ferrying wounded back and forth from the hospital, taking
:05:15. > :05:20.them from the line of places where they're having clashes with
:05:20. > :05:23.Interior Ministry police. News even though Tantawe only spoke in the
:05:24. > :05:28.last half hour or so ago, the fact is news here does travel very fast,
:05:28. > :05:31.and I think had it been something they really wanted to react to
:05:31. > :05:35.positively, they would have. Instead, there are tens of
:05:35. > :05:39.thousands of people in this square carrying on really as if nothing
:05:39. > :05:44.different has happened. They say that plenty of people have said
:05:45. > :05:47.here to me today they want to stay here until military rule ends. The
:05:47. > :05:54.thing is, the military does not want to give up power. It's pulled
:05:54. > :05:57.a lot of strings behind the screens since 1952. They control 40% of the
:05:57. > :06:00.economy. There is a lot for them at stake, and it's not something they
:06:00. > :06:04.want to give in lightly. This is not the end of it, I would say.
:06:04. > :06:08.Jeremy, thank you. The political uncertainty in the
:06:08. > :06:11.Middle East has had a hand in the troubles of the travel company
:06:11. > :06:14.Thomas Cook. Its bookings are down as customers for holidays in Egypt
:06:14. > :06:17.and Tunisia have stayed away. Now its share price has plummeted, and
:06:17. > :06:24.it's being forced to negotiate new loans from the banks. This report
:06:24. > :06:28.from Simon Gompertz. For Thomas Cook just haven't been
:06:28. > :06:36.happening. News from Egypt, Tunisia, Thailand and elsewhere has been
:06:36. > :06:41.worrying. Street battles, the Arab Spring and floods have put people
:06:41. > :06:46.off. Owen and his fiancee Sussane from South Wales have booked a
:06:46. > :06:50.�5,000 honeymoon in Mexico, despite knowing that all holidays from tour
:06:50. > :06:53.operators are protected with financial guarantees, they're still
:06:53. > :06:56.concerned. They were just the first company we thought we could rely on,
:06:57. > :07:02.a national institution when you want to book a holiday, generally
:07:02. > :07:05.they're one of the first companies you look at, so never - we never
:07:05. > :07:09.thought they'd be in any financial difficulties. Thomas Cook's
:07:09. > :07:13.holidays have been making a splash for more than a century and a half.
:07:13. > :07:20.It was the first to take people on holiday by air. Now the second
:07:20. > :07:25.biggest operator after Thompson, it sells 22 million holidays a year
:07:25. > :07:30.across Europe, employs 31,000 staff, half in the UK, and runs 1,350
:07:30. > :07:35.travel shops, but going into a lean winter, the company's weighed down
:07:35. > :07:40.by �900 million of debts. Banks granted �100 million of extra
:07:40. > :07:44.funding last month. Now it's asking for more. Investors should have
:07:44. > :07:47.confidence in Thomas Cook. We're negotiating with our banks. The
:07:47. > :07:51.banks have always been very supportive to, and I am very
:07:51. > :07:57.confident that they will give us the extra cushion that we need.
:07:57. > :08:01.Thomas Cook is expected to close 200 of its shops. It's getting rid
:08:01. > :08:06.of planes and selling hotels - all measures which will worry its staff,
:08:06. > :08:11.but which are designed to help turn the business around. There are high
:08:11. > :08:21.hopes that Thomas Cook's banks will ride to the rescue, but the travel
:08:21. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:27.industry is watching anxious any The jury in the trial of the two
:08:27. > :08:31.men accused of murdering Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago has heard
:08:31. > :08:35.from police about how they gathered evidence. The case could rest on
:08:35. > :08:39.whether this evidence was contaminated later in the process.
:08:39. > :08:41.Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder. I mention this issue of
:08:41. > :08:46.possible contamination. That's going to be the key. What did the
:08:46. > :08:50.court hear, Tom? George, as you say, the prosecution is arguing the case
:08:50. > :08:53.here that blood samples and hair and clothing fibres were on the
:08:53. > :08:57.defendant's clothes - Stephen's fibres and samples - because they
:08:57. > :08:59.were there when he was killed. The defence says that happened because
:08:59. > :09:03.of contamination. We heard police officers today being questioned
:09:03. > :09:07.about how they gathered the evidence, in particular, one line
:09:07. > :09:11.of questioning about a room at Eltham Police station which was
:09:11. > :09:15.used to store both sets of clothes, from Stephen and the two defendants,
:09:15. > :09:18.in the same room, but we heard they were not stored at the same time.
:09:18. > :09:23.Stephen's clothes were there before the defendant's clothes. We also
:09:23. > :09:27.heard Detective Constable Robert Crane describing how he took
:09:27. > :09:30.Stephen Lawrence's black jacket from its evidence bag, put it on
:09:30. > :09:33.the floor and took this picture during the process of gathering
:09:33. > :09:36.evidence. There was a question about whether there could have been
:09:36. > :09:40.contamination then when the bag was opened. He said that the white
:09:40. > :09:44.sheets you can see there was actually gathered up and kept
:09:44. > :09:47.itself as evidence. He suggested that couldn't have happened. Also
:09:47. > :09:52.evidence about whether detectives who visited the Lawrence's also
:09:52. > :09:55.visited the homes of the defendants and whether there could have been
:09:55. > :10:02.contamination there. We'll hear from more forensic scientists
:10:02. > :10:05.tomorrow. John, thank you.
:10:05. > :10:08.A British soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday has been
:10:08. > :10:10.named as Private Thomas Lake from the 1st Battalion The Princess of
:10:10. > :10:13.Wales's Royal Regiment. The 29- year-old from Watford was on foot
:10:13. > :10:15.patrol in the Nahr-e-Saraj area of Helmand when an improvised
:10:15. > :10:25.explosive device detonated. Today his mother said, "He died doing
:10:25. > :10:26.
:10:26. > :10:31.something he loved and believed in". The inquiry into press standards
:10:31. > :10:34.has been hearing how unscrupulous reporters has affected the lives of
:10:34. > :10:38.families and celebrities alike. Today Steve Coogan described how
:10:38. > :10:42.journalists searched through his bins for information. Earlier, the
:10:42. > :10:52.Watson family told the Leveson Inquiry why they blame a newspaper
:10:52. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:01.for their suicide back in 199 2: it's 20 years now since their world
:11:01. > :11:06.fell apart. First their daughter Diane was stabbed to death by a
:11:06. > :11:12.fellow pupan and her family were traduced by news reports - such was
:11:12. > :11:17.the upset 15-year-old son Alan committed suicide. Margaret Watson
:11:17. > :11:21.urged the media to consider much more carefully to consider the
:11:21. > :11:26.consequences of what is published tion's died, their reputation
:11:26. > :11:31.shouldn't die with them. They shouldn't be besmirched at the
:11:31. > :11:35.world of some sick journalist because that's what they are, sick.
:11:36. > :11:39.Then there was the story she was a business advisor to Elle McPherson.
:11:39. > :11:44.But when stories about Elle McPherson first appeared in the
:11:44. > :11:49.papers, she accused Mary Ellen Field of leaking them. She said,
:11:49. > :11:52.you have done 11 things. I said, tell me what the 11 things are. But
:11:52. > :11:58.she wouldn't. I said, you can't tell me I have done something, then
:11:58. > :12:03.not tell me what I have done. She said, "I am not allowed to tell
:12:03. > :12:07.you." In fact it was the News of the World phone hacking team who
:12:07. > :12:10.had been targeting Elle McPherson for stories, but by the time that
:12:10. > :12:14.merged, she had been sent for psychiast Rick treatment and made
:12:14. > :12:19.redundant. Compared to that, the complaints of
:12:19. > :12:23.celebrities may seem rather less significant. The comic actor Steve
:12:23. > :12:27.Coogan said he'd lost counts of the kiss-and-tell stories and tabloid
:12:27. > :12:30.stings. He said one involved the former editor of the News of the
:12:30. > :12:34.World, Andy Coulson, who later became advisor to the Prime
:12:34. > :12:39.Minister. There was a girl in Andy Coulson's office who was going to
:12:39. > :12:45.speak to me on the phone - the phone call would be recorded, and
:12:45. > :12:50.she would try to entice me into talking about intimate details of
:12:50. > :12:56.her and my life. On a different story, he said Mr Coulson himself
:12:56. > :13:00.had got in touch. My manager received a phone call from Andy
:13:00. > :13:06.Coulson saying that they'd recorded the whole phone call and they were
:13:06. > :13:12.going to put everything in the newspaper. One other thing that's
:13:12. > :13:20.exorcising them, the outspoken way the News of the World responded to
:13:20. > :13:24.claims by actor Hugh Grant. Lord Leveson said the press needed to be
:13:24. > :13:26.careful about attacking witnesses giving evidence in good faith.
:13:26. > :13:31.Excessive pay for top executives is "corrosive" to the economy
:13:31. > :13:34.according to a year-long independent inquiry. The High Pay
:13:34. > :13:37.Commission says "stratospheric" pay rises at the top have lead to a
:13:37. > :13:40.dramatic earnings gap between the highest paid and average workers.
:13:40. > :13:47.But should companies be stopped from paying what they want to their
:13:47. > :13:54.executives? Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.
:13:54. > :14:00.They're our biggest companyest workers feeling the squeeze do
:14:00. > :14:06.something about soaring high pay? An independent body has spent the
:14:06. > :14:16.last year looking at the pay gap between those at the very else no
:14:16. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:28.longer sustainable. Last yearry was just under earnings of a foot Chief
:14:28. > :14:35.
:14:35. > :14:39.Executive was �3.74 million. That's If we don't check this huge bonanza,
:14:40. > :14:43.within years we'll be back to Victorian levels of inequality. If
:14:43. > :14:48.that's what we want as a society, fair enough. I would suggest most
:14:48. > :14:52.don't want to end up there. Part of the problem is pay packages and
:14:52. > :14:55.modern board rooms have become increasingly complex. Today's
:14:55. > :14:59.report says these deals should be radically simplified and much more
:14:59. > :15:03.transparent. It also calls for workers to sit on remuneration
:15:03. > :15:08.committees and for a national body to monitor high pay. Business
:15:08. > :15:12.leaders say they realise the need to be responsible, but... We've got
:15:12. > :15:17.to recognise if we want great people to come and work in the UK,
:15:17. > :15:23.given it's a global talent pool, we've got to be prepared to pay
:15:23. > :15:32.thetives can get elsewhere in the world. But in Newcastle today,
:15:32. > :15:37.vinced.Er in works long hours. My mum works long hours.
:15:37. > :15:42.We slug ourselves out. We're working 70, 80 hours a week for
:15:42. > :15:47.peanuts. The Business Secretary is already looking at changes, but
:15:47. > :15:57.ultimately it's up to company share what's fair, and no-one seems time
:15:57. > :15:58.
:15:58. > :16:01.Clashes in Egypt as pro-democracy campaigners take to the streets.
:16:01. > :16:06.But signs of concessions from the military.
:16:06. > :16:10.Coming up: How to get Britain's economy moving. What manufacturers
:16:10. > :16:14.want from the Chancellor. Later on the news channel: Shares
:16:14. > :16:18.in Thomas Cook take a tumble after the travel firm announces that it
:16:19. > :16:28.needs more help from banks. And how the high pay of UK executives is
:16:29. > :16:31.
:16:32. > :16:36.A major cancer charity says people with the disease now live nearly
:16:36. > :16:41.six times longer than they did 40 years ago. Researchers have been
:16:41. > :16:47.tracking patients in England and Wales. Fergus Walsh is here. This
:16:47. > :16:50.really does sound like progress? is, for many cancers. These figures
:16:50. > :16:56.show at the time it takes until half of those diagnosed have died.
:16:56. > :17:01.40 years ago, the median survival for all cancers was just one year.
:17:01. > :17:05.It has risen to nearly six years. Macmillan Cancer Support says that
:17:05. > :17:09.it is information that patients need. All health care professionals
:17:09. > :17:14.felt that most patients would not want statistics. But when we asked
:17:14. > :17:20.them, we found that the majority of them would want the statistics. So
:17:20. > :17:27.I think we need to be much more systematic and much more in terms
:17:27. > :17:30.of sharing information with people. For some cancers, the improvement
:17:30. > :17:34.has been remarkable. Survival of colon cancer has leapt from seven
:17:34. > :17:40.months up to 10 years, a 17 fold increase. Breast cancer has risen
:17:41. > :17:46.from 5.5 years to well above 10 years. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has
:17:46. > :17:50.risen from one year to 10 years. That is the cancer which Dena
:17:50. > :17:54.Hutchings was diagnosed with nearly five years ago, after she found a
:17:54. > :17:59.lump. Regular check-ups are now all she requires. But she well
:17:59. > :18:04.remembers being told she had cancer. Relief, that at last I knew what
:18:04. > :18:08.was the matter with me. I knew it could get treated. I didn't feel
:18:08. > :18:13.nervous or scared. I just knew that whatever treatment I had to have, I
:18:13. > :18:17.just had to have it to save my life. But McMillan says there has been a
:18:18. > :18:22.woeful lack of progress for some types of disease. Median survival
:18:22. > :18:28.for pancreatic cancer has risen from just nine to 12 weeks. It is
:18:28. > :18:33.the same with brain cancer. Survival has risen from 13 to 28
:18:33. > :18:38.weeks. Lung cancer, from 11 to 20 weeks. These cancers are often
:18:38. > :18:43.diagnosed late and their symptoms can be vague. Adrian Antwis would
:18:43. > :18:47.like more research into hard to treat cancers. His lung cancer was
:18:47. > :18:52.picked up when it was already advanced. There is no treatment
:18:52. > :19:02.that can help. It is still sinking in now, to be honest. When I first
:19:02. > :19:06.found out about it, they said it would be months and not here is. A
:19:06. > :19:10.mansion finding out that you've got months, it is hard to get your head
:19:10. > :19:15.around. -- imagine finding out you've got months.
:19:15. > :19:17.However, many people have permanent side-effects from their treatment,
:19:18. > :19:21.and this poses a huge challenge to the health service.
:19:21. > :19:26.Health officials in South Wales have confirmed that two babies have
:19:26. > :19:31.died after contracting a rare form of E.coli. Both cases are under
:19:31. > :19:34.investigation as a hospital in Swansea. Collette Hume is at the
:19:34. > :19:40.headquarters of the local health board. What more do we know about
:19:40. > :19:46.this? Well, we know that the two children died after contracting
:19:46. > :19:50.that rare form of E.coli, ESBL. It is different to the version we have
:19:50. > :19:54.heard so much about. The first trialled, described as a very
:19:54. > :19:58.premature baby, died in the neonatal unit of Singleton Hospital
:19:59. > :20:03.in Swansea. A mother that was also in the unit has also tested
:20:03. > :20:08.positive. What the investigation has to look at is the possible link
:20:08. > :20:13.between the death of that baby and the death of another child, he
:20:13. > :20:17.contracted the bug in the community. The Health Board and Public Health
:20:17. > :20:21.Service in Wales tell us that it is one of three cases. There are two
:20:21. > :20:24.others, including what we believed to be the child's mother contracted
:20:24. > :20:28.it. The question is, how did they contract at bug?
:20:28. > :20:32.This time next week we will know how the Chancellor hopes to get the
:20:32. > :20:35.British economy moving again. George Osborne's Autumn Statement
:20:35. > :20:41.will be under scrutiny from hundreds of struggling businesses
:20:42. > :20:46.up and down the country. Danny Savage has been speaking to
:20:46. > :20:51.manufacturers in South Shields about what they would like to hear
:20:51. > :20:55.when Mr Osborne stands up. This is the Barbour clothing
:20:55. > :21:01.factory in South Shields. What is made here is exported to more than
:21:01. > :21:07.40 countries. Just one cog in the machine that makes the UK the 7th
:21:07. > :21:12.biggest manufacturer in the world. It has grown its profits by
:21:12. > :21:16.employing a large team of designers to widen its market. They see
:21:16. > :21:19.themselves as a UK-based global brand. One that is looking for the
:21:19. > :21:22.Government to be more proactive. would like to see more
:21:22. > :21:27.encouragement from the Government to manufacture clothing in this
:21:27. > :21:31.country. That would probably take two forms. One, the skills in this
:21:31. > :21:36.area are dying out. We need more training. If we have more trained
:21:36. > :21:40.people, we will employ them. Secondly, more encouragement to
:21:40. > :21:44.invest at a capital level will also allow us to employ more people.
:21:44. > :21:49.backbone of their business is their classic waxed jackets. They are
:21:49. > :21:54.made by hand. So, why have they not been tempted abroad to use cheaper
:21:54. > :21:59.labour? Obviously it would be much cheaper to manufacture abroad. But
:21:59. > :22:02.the level of skills we have in our factory, the quality of the GAR
:22:02. > :22:07.next and the made in England label is the best advertisement that the
:22:07. > :22:12.brand can have. Nearly half of what they make in South Shields goes
:22:12. > :22:16.across the sea as exports. 30% of what they manufacture go to the EU.
:22:16. > :22:21.But with all of the problems there at the moment, that market could
:22:21. > :22:25.potentially shrink. What the Government says it wants to do is
:22:25. > :22:30.help companies boost trade to emerging markets further repealed.
:22:30. > :22:33.But this economist believes the best thing the Government can do to
:22:33. > :22:37.help and a factory here would be to renegotiate trade tariffs for
:22:37. > :22:42.imported goods. But isn't that highly controversial, to start
:22:42. > :22:46.raising trade tariffs to certain countries? It is. But I think we
:22:46. > :22:51.need to have that debate. We cannot continue on the path we are at the
:22:51. > :22:55.moment. When it comes to exporting, companies like the makers of
:22:55. > :23:02.Wensleydale cheese here in North Yorkshire are already trying to
:23:02. > :23:06.find new markets. But they want more help. We were in Shanghai at a
:23:06. > :23:10.trade show, trying to sell allergies. So far, the evidence has
:23:10. > :23:13.been really positive for us. We are prepared to go out and look for
:23:13. > :23:16.that business and develop it. What we need is some tax relief or
:23:16. > :23:20.incentives from the Government to help us along that process.
:23:20. > :23:23.Manufacturers are just one of many sectors making demand on the
:23:23. > :23:29.Government, which has its own financial constraints on what it
:23:29. > :23:34.can give. Now, how should Britain's political
:23:34. > :23:38.parties be funded? An independent inquiry says that taxpayers should
:23:38. > :23:43.football of the bill and that trade union money should be restricted.
:23:43. > :23:46.James Landale is at Westminster. Will these recommendations actually
:23:47. > :23:50.get implemented? Well, there has long been concern about the way
:23:50. > :23:54.that political parties are funded, whether by rich individuals or
:23:54. > :23:57.which trade unions. The Committee on Standards in Public Life thinks
:23:57. > :24:01.it has a solution. It reckons people should not be able to give
:24:01. > :24:05.more than �10,000 to a party and that union members should choose to
:24:05. > :24:09.give money to a party, rather than it being automatic. That would lead
:24:09. > :24:13.to quite a substantial loss of income. So the committee says that
:24:13. > :24:17.they should get taxpayers' money instead, around �23 million the
:24:17. > :24:21.year. Not surprisingly, the three largest parties are opposed to this.
:24:21. > :24:25.They think now is not the time for them to ask the voters to get their
:24:25. > :24:28.wallets out for politicians. The prospects for agreement in the
:24:28. > :24:32.short term are slim. But that doesn't mean the problem has gone
:24:32. > :24:37.away. The fear is that it might take another scandal before
:24:37. > :24:41.anything gets done. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has
:24:41. > :24:44.landed safely back to worth, bringing back three crew members
:24:44. > :24:47.from the International Space Station. The three astronauts, from
:24:47. > :24:51.the United States, Russia and Japan, spent more than five months on
:24:51. > :24:57.board. They have been replaced by two Russians and an American. The
:24:57. > :25:00.landing in Kazakhstan was the first since NASA retired its space
:25:00. > :25:03.shuttles. There were scrawled in marker pen
:25:03. > :25:08.on the walls of a central London flat. You might think they are
:25:08. > :25:13.meaningless graffiti, or vandalism comic even. One academic things
:25:13. > :25:22.that these pictures by Sex Pistols CNET Johnny Rotten are a lot more
:25:22. > :25:27.significant. -- Sex Pistols singer. There were the ultimate bad boy
:25:27. > :25:36.band. Controversial, yet compelling. The media loved to hate them. They
:25:36. > :25:40.couldn't care less. About most things! But the lead singer, Johnny
:25:40. > :25:46.Rotten, was a bit upset one day when he came back to the fact that
:25:46. > :25:51.the band shared here in central London. He walked up the stairs and
:25:51. > :25:55.found that the others had given the place a makeover. It wasn't quite
:25:55. > :26:04.to his taste. So he got out a marker pen and added his own
:26:04. > :26:10.finishing touches. He drew a comic caricature air of guitarist said --
:26:10. > :26:14.Sid vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy. He also drew the band's
:26:14. > :26:19.charismatic manager. They are not unlike the doodles of a bored
:26:19. > :26:23.teenager. But, according to some archaeologists, they are of great
:26:23. > :26:27.importance. We know how important punk was to that generation and
:26:27. > :26:30.society in the mid- 1970s. I think these paintings are relevant and
:26:30. > :26:36.significant for that generation and that particular period of history.
:26:36. > :26:40.So, that is the academic point of view. But what about the quality of
:26:40. > :26:44.the drawings? There are a lot of accusations out there that we
:26:44. > :26:49.produce a lot of terrible art. Unwittingly, John Lyden has
:26:49. > :26:52.produced some good caricatures. But he is not trying to ram it down
:26:52. > :26:55.anybody's throats, it has emerged without his influence. Whatever the
:26:56. > :27:00.future holds for this particular collection of drawings, there is
:27:00. > :27:10.little doubt that the time the Sex Pistols spent in this flat will be
:27:10. > :27:12.
:27:12. > :27:16.studied by academics and Time for the weather now.
:27:16. > :27:20.From rotten paintings to rotten weather. It has been pretty grim
:27:20. > :27:25.over the last couple of days. A lot of mist and low cloud. But it has
:27:25. > :27:27.prevented temperatures from falling too low. It was mild last night
:27:28. > :27:31.across England and Wales, temperatures rarely falling below
:27:31. > :27:36.double figures. Those self-same areas tonight are going to have a
:27:36. > :27:39.shock to the system. A touch of frost in rural areas. You could be
:27:39. > :27:43.scraping the windscreens tomorrow morning. The lowest temperatures
:27:43. > :27:48.will be under the clearest skies. Across the heart of Wales we are
:27:48. > :27:51.already close to freezing. Another area of cloud and some rain is
:27:51. > :27:57.pushing into western Scotland, the north-west of Northern Ireland on a
:27:57. > :28:02.freshening breeze. It is through this central slice where that tinge
:28:02. > :28:05.of blue is indicating that temperatures are close to freezing.
:28:05. > :28:10.Wherever you are, there will be a nip in the air first thing in the
:28:10. > :28:14.morning. Tomorrow, a story of contrasts. Across more south-
:28:14. > :28:19.eastern areas, a lot of sunshine once the early fog has cleared. A
:28:19. > :28:22.bright day, with crisp, sunny spells. Further west, a lot of
:28:22. > :28:26.cloud and outbreaks of rain for Northern Ireland and parts of
:28:26. > :28:29.Scotland. Mid-afternoon, enjoy the sunshine. A fabulous day across
:28:29. > :28:33.much of southern England, East Anglia and the Midlands. Light wind
:28:34. > :28:38.and warming up to 11 or 12. A bit more cloud across Wales, may be a
:28:38. > :28:44.spot of rain for Snowdonia and Cumbria. North of the border, some
:28:44. > :28:47.outbreaks of rain. Belfast will see some drier spells. East of the
:28:48. > :28:53.Highlands and the far north of Scotland could see some brightness.
:28:53. > :28:56.On Thursday, very strong wind indeed. The risk of gales, further
:28:56. > :29:00.south and east it is brighter and drier. Like the wind and
:29:00. > :29:07.potentially quite mild. Chopping and changing. Keep up-to-date