:00:08. > :00:13.The parents of the missing girl Madeleine McCann hit out at months
:00:13. > :00:18.of media intrusion. Kate and Gerry McCann say some reporting of their
:00:18. > :00:21.case was sinister and totally untrue.
:00:21. > :00:28.We desperately wanted to shout out it's not true but when it's your
:00:28. > :00:31.voice against a powerful media, it just didn't hold weight.
:00:31. > :00:36.Also tonight: Abused and stripped of their dignity, a report on how
:00:36. > :00:40.care provided in the home can amount to a breach of human rights.
:00:40. > :00:44.Should pregnant women be allowed to choose a Caesarean birth, even if
:00:44. > :00:49.there's no medical need? Running battles continue on the
:00:49. > :00:54.streets of Cairo as Egypt's pro- democracy protesters vow to fight
:00:54. > :00:59.on against military rule. rioters have control of a good
:00:59. > :01:02.chunk of the city centre now and they show no desire to leave.
:01:02. > :01:08.And you have heard of flying into trouble, but not like this. The
:01:08. > :01:13.pilot who lived to tell the tale. I will be here with Sportsday later
:01:13. > :01:23.on the BBC News channel, including the World Cup blame game. A leaked
:01:23. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:38.RFU report blows the lid off their Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:01:38. > :01:42.News at Six. Kate and Gerry McCann have appeared before the inquiry
:01:42. > :01:44.into press press standards and described months of intrusion into
:01:44. > :01:49.their lives, following the disappearance of their daughter,
:01:49. > :01:52.Madeleine. They say the media coverage turned sinister soon after
:01:52. > :01:57.her abduction. Kate McCann also told the inquiry she felt violated
:01:57. > :01:59.when her private diary was published. Nicholas Witchall's
:01:59. > :02:04.report contains some flash photography.
:02:04. > :02:08.Few people have endured the shaming excesses of the media in the
:02:08. > :02:12.anguished circumstances that Gerry and Kate McCann faced in the summer
:02:12. > :02:15.of 2007. They had been on holiday at a resort in Portugal, one
:02:15. > :02:19.evening their daughter Madeleine disappeared from their apartment.
:02:19. > :02:22.Her parents were desperate to find her. The media were desperate for
:02:22. > :02:25.stories. The McCanns said they had never
:02:25. > :02:29.given evidence before, they had come for this reason. A system has
:02:29. > :02:34.to be put in place to protect ordinary people from the damage
:02:34. > :02:39.that the media can cause. Initially after Madeleine's disappearance the
:02:39. > :02:42.media was supportive but then the Portuguese police named the McCanns
:02:42. > :02:45.as arguido meaning they could be asked questions in the presence of
:02:46. > :02:50.a lawyer but the media portrayed them as suspects and the worst of
:02:50. > :02:54.the coverage began. The clear message that was going out
:02:54. > :02:58.nationally throughout Europe and internationally was that there was
:02:58. > :03:02.very strong evidence that our daughter was dead and we were
:03:02. > :03:06.somehow implicated in her disappearance. These were desperate
:03:06. > :03:10.times. We were having to try and find our daughter ourselves, we
:03:10. > :03:16.needed all the help we could get and faced with, we will come on to
:03:16. > :03:22.headlines, but corpse in the car, I don't know how many times I read
:03:22. > :03:27.body body tphraoupbdz in -- tphraoupbdz in the -- fluids in the
:03:27. > :03:31.car. When it's your voice against a powerful media, it just doesn't
:03:31. > :03:34.hold weight. We are desperately shouting out internally please stop
:03:34. > :03:38.what you are doing. We are trying to find our daughter and you are
:03:38. > :03:42.stoppingous chances of finding her. Among the worst offenders were
:03:42. > :03:46.newspapers owned by the Express Group, story after story which
:03:46. > :03:50.implied, falsely, that the McCanns were involved in Madeleine's
:03:50. > :03:57.disappearance. They were shown some of the headlines. Their reaction.
:03:57. > :04:00.Nothing short of disgusting. think this same journalist, if
:04:01. > :04:07.memory serves right, said we stored her body in a freezer. And then
:04:07. > :04:10.more than a year after Madeleine's disappearance the News of the World
:04:10. > :04:14.obtained a copy of Kate McGann's private diary, probably from the
:04:14. > :04:19.police T published her without telling her. I felt totally
:04:19. > :04:22.violated. I had written these words and thoughts that were most
:04:22. > :04:26.desperate time in my life, most people don't have to experience
:04:26. > :04:29.that and it was my only way of communicating with Madeleine and
:04:29. > :04:32.for me, you know, there was absolutely no respect shown for me
:04:32. > :04:36.as a grieving mother or a human being. And all the while at their
:04:36. > :04:40.home in Leicestershire they were under almost continual surveillance
:04:40. > :04:43.by photographers, even when they went out with their young twins.
:04:43. > :04:47.Photographers would either spring out from behind a hedge to give I
:04:47. > :04:51.guess a startled look they could attach, I don't know, fragile,
:04:51. > :04:55.furious, whatever they wanted to put with a headline. But there were
:04:55. > :05:02.several occasions where they would bang on the windows sometimes with
:05:02. > :05:06.a camera lens and Amelia said several times, mummy I am scared.
:05:06. > :05:08.From Kate and Gerry McCann five years after Madeleine's
:05:08. > :05:14.disappearance and their mistreatment by the media a simple
:05:14. > :05:16.plea, something has to change. And we can talk to Nick at the Royal
:05:16. > :05:20.Courts of Justice. We have concentrated on the McCanns, but
:05:20. > :05:23.who else appeared at the inquiry today? Indeed, powerful testimony
:05:23. > :05:28.of course from the McCanns. Two of the other witnesses today, Sheryl
:05:28. > :05:31.Gascoigne, she's the former wife of the England footballer Paul and
:05:31. > :05:35.Mark Lewis, the solicitor who acts for many of the victims of phone
:05:35. > :05:38.hacking. Sheryl Gascoigne said that she was scared of the repercussions
:05:38. > :05:41.of giving evidence but believed it was the right thing to do, she
:05:42. > :05:46.talked of harassment she received, mostly from photographers. Mark
:05:46. > :05:49.Lewis, he knows the twist and turns of the phone hacking story as well
:05:49. > :05:53.as anybody and he said that he was convinced that it wasn't only the
:05:53. > :05:58.News of the World that was involved in phone hacking, that's today.
:05:58. > :06:01.Tomorrow among the witnesses the actress Sienna Miller and the
:06:01. > :06:04.author JK Rowling. Stkpwhrp.
:06:04. > :06:08.The latest report into the standard of care provided to people in their
:06:08. > :06:12.own home says it can be so bad that in some cases it amounts to a
:06:12. > :06:14.breach of human rights. Researchers at the Equality and Human Rights
:06:14. > :06:18.Commission found that some people had been subjected to physical
:06:18. > :06:23.neglect, such as being left in the toilet because staff were too busy.
:06:23. > :06:28.In many cases there was a disregard for dignity, like leaving people
:06:28. > :06:33.unwashed. And the report also found examples of patronising behaviour,
:06:33. > :06:36.carers making phone calls while tending to their clients.
:06:36. > :06:44.Rita Anderson, who has multiple sclerosis, has been cared for at
:06:44. > :06:48.home for the last 14 years. I have some lamb chops in the
:06:48. > :06:52.freezer we can have. They will be nice. Rita has her husband, Graham,
:06:52. > :06:57.by her side. Though there are times when she relies on carers. But she
:06:57. > :07:01.can't always count on seeing the same one every day.
:07:01. > :07:07.You feel very insecure. You don't feel that you have any relationship
:07:07. > :07:10.with the people. You don't feel that you can rely on them to do
:07:10. > :07:17.care properly. Carers would often turn up two hours late in the
:07:17. > :07:21.morning. That means by the time you are up and dressed it will be
:07:21. > :07:24.lunchtime. You don't want to be getting up for lunch. You know, you
:07:24. > :07:32.really should be eating breakfast on a morning. Rita said more than
:07:32. > :07:38.anything she longed to be treated as a woman, an individual. You feel
:07:38. > :07:45.very much like a piece of meat, they don't show any care at all. My
:07:45. > :07:51.clothes weren't on properly. I was feeling really, I don't know, as if
:07:51. > :07:58.I wasn't important to anybody. That is not how you like to feel. It's
:07:58. > :08:03.not always about physical care. felt very much as if I was being
:08:03. > :08:08.patronised, and not treated correctly as a person. No respect
:08:08. > :08:14.for my dignity. That is very important, that you need to feel
:08:14. > :08:19.that people respect what you are. But it's not all doom and gloom.
:08:19. > :08:26.Things are better now she's changed to a single private care company.
:08:26. > :08:33.She's very good. Brilliant, in fact. She just wants to do it right, do
:08:33. > :08:37.it correctly. She's a high standard. She's very nice. She does do her
:08:37. > :08:41.job well. Well that was Rita Anderson's experience of care in
:08:41. > :08:44.the home. With me now is our social affairs correspondent. This isn't
:08:45. > :08:48.the first time we have sat here and talked about care in the home, is
:08:48. > :08:51.it? No, you could say we have sat here too often doing this. There
:08:51. > :08:54.are things happening. The Government has announced in the
:08:54. > :08:57.last week that there will be a code of conduct, a minimum training for
:08:58. > :09:01.care workers. They say there will be a voluntary register, although
:09:01. > :09:05.plans for a compulsory register were scrapped this year. And there
:09:05. > :09:10.will be inspections of home care providers. Also in the spring we
:09:10. > :09:12.are expecting a White Paper on social care funding. But these are
:09:12. > :09:17.deep-rooted problems because I don't think there's much argument
:09:17. > :09:20.over the fact that adult social care in general is under pressure
:09:20. > :09:24.and generally underfunded. There are some good dedicated workers,
:09:24. > :09:29.but there are some very poorly paid, poorly trained people who probably
:09:29. > :09:32.are in the wrong job. And squeezed local authority budgets means that
:09:32. > :09:37.people have less time for visits, so it raises uncomfortable
:09:37. > :09:41.questions for us as a society, as how much we want to invest in the
:09:41. > :09:44.quality of care for older people. Thank you.
:09:44. > :09:48.A police lab worker has admitted that she wasn't concentrating when
:09:49. > :09:53.she wrote the wrong case number on an evidence form in the Stephen
:09:53. > :09:56.Lawrence murder investigation. Yvonne Turner told the Old Bailey
:09:56. > :10:00.that she wasn't focused at that stage, but got to grips with the
:10:00. > :10:06.case after that. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder. Tom
:10:06. > :10:09.Symonds report from the Old Bailey contains some flash photography.
:10:09. > :10:12.For Stephen's parents arrived in blacked out car this is morning
:10:12. > :10:19.last week's harrowing descriptions of their son's death have been
:10:19. > :10:23.replaced by a focus on forensic procedures. In May 1993 police
:10:23. > :10:26.raided the house of Gary Dobson. They seized his jacket and card
:10:26. > :10:31.began. The clothes were taken to Eltham police station where the
:10:31. > :10:34.court heard again today they were stored in a disused cell, which had
:10:34. > :10:38.previously held Stephen's bloody clothes. They were then sent to
:10:38. > :10:43.forensic scientist who is cut open the paper bags in which they had
:10:43. > :10:47.been kept, and subjected them to a series of laboratory tests. Various
:10:47. > :10:51.procedures were carried out including what's 19 as taping,
:10:51. > :10:55.similar to this, to pick up loose debris or fibres. Forensic
:10:55. > :10:59.scientist Yvonne Turner carried out those examinations and was called
:10:59. > :11:03.to court to discuss the possibility one set of clothes contomorrow
:11:03. > :11:08.Nated -- contaminated another. She said keeping evidence separate was
:11:08. > :11:12.intrinsic to her job. She did examine instead of and's black
:11:12. > :11:17.jacket but in the months that followed she also looked at Gary
:11:17. > :11:21.Dobson's jacket and cardigan. Today she admitted losing concentration
:11:21. > :11:26.and putting the wrong code on the paperwork. It made records and tape
:11:26. > :11:32.samples difficult to keep track of. And she told the court she also
:11:32. > :11:36.recorded that she hadn't made the tapes when, in fact, she had. Under
:11:36. > :11:40.cross-examination she agreed it was highly irregular. She also said
:11:40. > :11:45.that it was common practice for sealed packages containing
:11:45. > :11:49.suspects' clothes to be bagged up with those containing victims.
:11:49. > :11:55.Stephen Lawrence was just 18 when he was killed at this bus stop.
:11:55. > :11:57.Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murdering him.
:11:57. > :12:03.The European Commission has put forward proposals for countries in
:12:03. > :12:06.the eurozone to issue a new joint bond. Under the scheme, each
:12:06. > :12:09.eurozone country would guarantee the debt of the others in the hope
:12:09. > :12:12.of stablising the current crisis. The plan has met stiff opposition
:12:12. > :12:18.from Germany, which believes it will reduce pressure on troubled
:12:18. > :12:25.states to tackle their debt. Should pregnant women be allowed to
:12:25. > :12:30.have a Caesarean delivery even if there is there is no medical need?
:12:31. > :12:36.New guidelines say they should. The advice has been issued by NICE.
:12:36. > :12:38.What's the thinking behind this? It's about making the advice on
:12:39. > :12:42.Caesarean births clearer so women are aware of the risks and benefits
:12:42. > :12:45.and doctors know when a C-section should be offered. At the moment
:12:45. > :12:50.nearly one in four births in the UK are by planned or emergency
:12:50. > :12:55.Caesarean section. A planned Caesarean costs the NHS about �700
:12:55. > :12:58.more on average than a normal birth. And the pros and cons vary from
:12:58. > :13:04.woman to woman but the main drawback is that the recovery time
:13:04. > :13:08.is usually longer. Christine Johnson desperately
:13:08. > :13:11.wanted a Caesarean, she found giving birth to her son Sam so
:13:11. > :13:16.traumatic she was terrified of going through it again. But when
:13:16. > :13:19.she became pregnant she had to battle for a planned C-section.
:13:19. > :13:22.Midwives eventually agreed she should have the operation and
:13:22. > :13:28.counselling to help her through labour. There were no medical
:13:28. > :13:33.reasons for me to have a Caesarean, I completely accept that. But there
:13:33. > :13:36.were emotional reasons for me to have a Caesarean section. Once she
:13:36. > :13:40.referred me to that counselling that made a huge difference.
:13:40. > :13:44.that's the kind of experience more women should be able to have in the
:13:44. > :13:49.future, but what's actually changed? The NHS used to say
:13:49. > :13:53.doctors in England and Wales could decline a C-section if there was no
:13:53. > :13:57.identifiable reason to have one. The new guidelines say if mums to
:13:57. > :14:02.be want a Caesarean they should be offered one, but they should be
:14:02. > :14:06.talked through all the pros and cons. Experts say a woman should
:14:07. > :14:10.think very hard about what a major procedure it is. Do you have health
:14:10. > :14:14.problems that may make recovery a lot harder afterwards? Because
:14:14. > :14:19.everyone assumes you have had a baby you should be up and about,
:14:19. > :14:22.but actually you need caring for yourself. Because you have had a
:14:22. > :14:25.big surgery, an operation. number of women having that kind of
:14:25. > :14:29.operation is higher in Northern Ireland than it is anywhere else in
:14:29. > :14:33.the UK. Ministers there want to see Caesarean rates lowered and don't
:14:33. > :14:36.plan to change guidelines. Women in Scotland are already given the
:14:36. > :14:40.chance to talk through all their options.
:14:40. > :14:43.Some people are wondering whether these guidelines will mean more
:14:43. > :14:48.Caesareans are carried out in England and Wales, but the experts
:14:48. > :14:55.who wrote them don't expect an increase if women have all the pros
:14:55. > :14:59.and cons explained. Our top story:
:14:59. > :15:02.The the parents of Madeleine McCann have hit out at months of media
:15:02. > :15:09.intrusion. Coming up:
:15:09. > :15:11.It's the future of the mobile phone, but how long before 4 G-Tech tpholg
:15:11. > :15:15.gets Britain in the information fast lane.
:15:15. > :15:19.In business on the news channel: A plan for euro bonds is back on the
:15:19. > :15:29.table to try to help solve the euro debt crisis. And Lloyds says it
:15:29. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:33.will step up lending to small and For the fourth day in a row there
:15:33. > :15:36.have been running battles between protesters and security forces in
:15:36. > :15:41.the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Military police fired tear gas on
:15:41. > :15:44.stone-throwing demonstrators and fired guns into the air. This
:15:44. > :15:53.evening Tahrir Square - the symbol of the uprising - is filling up
:15:53. > :15:57.with protesters. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is there.
:15:57. > :16:07.square is once again fall with tens of thousands of people behind me
:16:07. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:16.there this evening. -- fall. -- full. It follows quite a bit of
:16:16. > :16:21.violence in the square itself. That is where I spent the day. This has
:16:21. > :16:31.been the front line since Saturday. The fight has been led by organised
:16:31. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:43.football fans with long experience The Gas keeps them back from the
:16:43. > :16:46.Interior Ministry, a symbol of how the old regime was involved in New
:16:46. > :16:49.Egypt. Life has not offered these men many favours, this is not about
:16:49. > :16:56.the politics of next week's election for them, the gas slows
:16:56. > :17:02.them but does not stop them because they are in a rage about the system
:17:02. > :17:05.that they believe was meant to benefit a them. We have got good
:17:05. > :17:09.control of a -- they have good control of a chunk of the city
:17:09. > :17:14.centre. Short of the army stepping down I cannot see a political deal
:17:14. > :17:24.that will get them out of very easily. He said these were wins
:17:24. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:38.from police shot guns. -- wins. -- wounds. On the streets, some of the
:17:38. > :17:39.
:17:39. > :17:49.young, poor and angry increasingly We were marched out. One man
:17:49. > :17:51.
:17:51. > :17:55.threatened if anyone films on my Just of Mohammed Mahmud Street, a
:17:55. > :18:02.businessman was clearing his warehouse. The disturbance is mean
:18:02. > :18:05.more damage for an economy battered by revolutionary turmoil. They
:18:05. > :18:10.carried out some of the stock through the tear-gas, many
:18:10. > :18:18.Egyptians yearn for quiet and certainty. They are just dreams
:18:18. > :18:27.these days. Then suddenly in mid- afternoon a truce was declared. It
:18:27. > :18:32.felt like a victory. The protesters left there from Lin and move back
:18:32. > :18:37.towards Tahrir Square, like conquering heroes. -- their front
:18:37. > :18:41.line. They do not like being filmed. The crowds are emotional and quick
:18:41. > :18:47.to anger. The Paul's lasted until dusk, then the violence started
:18:47. > :18:51.again. -- the quiet. Not all Egyptians like what is going on
:18:51. > :18:56.here and they do not all support the people in Tahrir Square. This
:18:56. > :19:00.time round, if you listen to radio and TV phone-in programmes people
:19:00. > :19:03.are tending to say we paid tribute to the fact some of them were
:19:03. > :19:08.killed, they are martyrs, but must they do this? The stock market and
:19:08. > :19:12.economy is in turmoil, the tourist trade is in ruins, why not wait
:19:12. > :19:20.until the elections on Monday and then see what happens? But these
:19:20. > :19:24.people here say they are determined to keep on going until the army
:19:24. > :19:30.steps down. One woman on one of those phone-ins said they are the
:19:30. > :19:33.new dictators of Egypt. That is what she called them.
:19:33. > :19:36.Thank you. It's the future of the mobile phone, offering faster and
:19:36. > :19:39.cheaper downloads and now it's being tried out in London and
:19:39. > :19:41.Cornwall. But 4G won't be widely available in the UK until 2013 at
:19:42. > :19:44.the earliest and, as our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones
:19:45. > :19:54.reports, some of the web's biggest names say Britain is languishing in
:19:55. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:01.The future of mobile phones is coming, it is called 4G and
:20:01. > :20:05.promises to make life on the move faster. In the UK the technology is
:20:05. > :20:11.still at the testing stage. In London, oh to have set up a trial
:20:11. > :20:16.network. You can plug a dongle into a computer to put it through its
:20:16. > :20:24.paces. That is going up over 90 makes. At that speed Downloading a
:20:24. > :20:29.TV programme takes no time. That is 10 times what you can get on a
:20:29. > :20:33.traditional network. So to get hold of an episode of a programme took
:20:33. > :20:39.us about a minute on the 4G network. On a typical home broadband
:20:39. > :20:42.connection that could be up to 10 minutes. On 3 G, what you use on a
:20:42. > :20:47.modern smart phone, you could wait 80 minutes for the programme to
:20:47. > :20:51.download. Another trial in Cornwall run by BT and the mobile firm
:20:51. > :20:57.Everything Everywhere is looking at whether Forgie could help in rural
:20:57. > :21:01.areas where there is no good fixed- line broadband -- 4G could help. It
:21:01. > :21:06.will be 2013 at the earliest before 4G rise in the UK. In the meantime
:21:06. > :21:12.many struggle to get even a decent normal signal. Many other countries
:21:12. > :21:16.are moving ahead much faster. In Sweden, for instance, 4G was up and
:21:16. > :21:20.running. Other countries have auctioned the airwaves needed for
:21:20. > :21:24.the new network. In the UK businesses are worried. EBay, which
:21:24. > :21:27.now get many customers through mobile phones, so the UK cannot
:21:27. > :21:34.afford to fall behind. desperately want better, faster
:21:34. > :21:38.internet coverage on mobiles. That is what we hope 4G is about. More
:21:38. > :21:43.than one in four of us now when Britain has a smart phone so we
:21:43. > :21:47.must not fall any further behind. We are using the 4G network in this
:21:47. > :21:51.London square to broadcast pictures live to Television Centre. The
:21:51. > :21:57.technology could change how we do many things but it will be a while
:21:57. > :22:00.before it arrives. Now, final preparations are
:22:00. > :22:07.underway for a major announcement next Tuesday by the Chancellor,
:22:07. > :22:10.George Osborne. His Autumn statement on how he intends to get
:22:10. > :22:12.the British economy growing will be under intense scrutiny. The
:22:12. > :22:15.Scottish Government says it's blazing a trail which the rest of
:22:15. > :22:17.the UK could follow by investing big money in major infrastructure
:22:18. > :22:27.projects. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports
:22:28. > :22:29.
:22:29. > :22:33.from North Queensferry on what's It is an ambitious programme to
:22:33. > :22:37.build a recovery and it is called Plan MacB, the largest of the
:22:37. > :22:42.Scottish government's projects to boost growth is a new bridge still
:22:42. > :22:44.in the early stages but which will eventually saw across the waters of
:22:44. > :22:50.the 4th. 1200 people will be involved in the construction, many
:22:50. > :22:53.more in other big developments like the new railway line to the Borders.
:22:53. > :22:59.Scotland's budget is set by the Treasury, spending cuts here were
:22:59. > :23:04.delayed by one year, but the pot of money is now shrinking. Ministers
:23:04. > :23:07.here have made one of their priorities encouraging investment
:23:07. > :23:12.and finding money to make these infrastructure projects happen.
:23:12. > :23:16.way we have addressed the public spending reductions has been in a
:23:16. > :23:20.fashion to sustain employment and economic activity, which gets us to
:23:20. > :23:24.the position where we now have higher levels of employment, lower
:23:24. > :23:31.levels of unemployment and low levels of economic inactivity in
:23:31. > :23:34.Scotland and in the rest of the UK. Lee and her husband are both
:23:34. > :23:39.teachers, they are not happy about the idea of the bridge being funded
:23:39. > :23:42.in part by a freeze on many people's are paid. It will affect
:23:42. > :23:45.their family. But they are more angry about pensions and say they
:23:45. > :23:51.are looking to Westminster to solve this dispute. If that is not, this
:23:51. > :23:55.time next week they would you -- joined a UK wide walkout. I do not
:23:55. > :23:59.want to be on strike. I am a teacher because I Kerem on the kids
:23:59. > :24:03.to do well. We do not believe our pensions are unsustainable. We pay
:24:03. > :24:07.huge contributions and we deserve them. The Scottish government
:24:07. > :24:15.insists when it comes to pensions their hands are tied. But they 0.2
:24:15. > :24:21.other things, among them a promise of no compulsory redundant --
:24:21. > :24:28.compulsory redundancies. -- the indicate. But will make a
:24:28. > :24:31.difference? I do not think when we look back we will have seen a
:24:31. > :24:34.dramatic difference in what happened to Scotland as compared to
:24:34. > :24:39.what happened to the UK average. Scotland follows closely what
:24:39. > :24:44.happens in the UK. With spending cuts here now under way their
:24:44. > :24:48.impact is still not clear. The Scottish government insists big
:24:48. > :24:52.build projects like this replacement crossing are necessary
:24:52. > :24:58.to keep the economy growing and prevent a return to recession. They
:24:58. > :25:04.are urging the Treasury to follow a similar route. We will find out
:25:04. > :25:07.next week whether the Chancellor agrees.
:25:07. > :25:10.A Now, helicopter missions don't get more routine than helping to
:25:10. > :25:13.install a Christmas tree. But when pilot Greg Gribble flew his chopper
:25:13. > :25:16.onto Auckland's waterfront, he was heading for disaster. He was unhurt
:25:16. > :25:26.but his helicopter has landed for the last time, as Luisa Baldini
:25:26. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:30.Hovering is a challenge for helicopter pilots, but for those
:25:30. > :25:34.with 20 years' experience like Greg Gibble in the cockpit here, it
:25:34. > :25:38.becomes second nature. However, as his colleagues stand below the
:25:38. > :25:48.chopper, nobody seems to have spotted his blades are about to hit
:25:48. > :25:52.
:25:52. > :25:55.In slow-motion you can see how Greg is tossed around, his head gear
:25:55. > :26:00.thrown from the cabin as the tale snaps and the helicopter plummets
:26:00. > :26:09.to the ground. Greg nearly falls out but incredibly, Rolls back
:26:09. > :26:14.There was a sound of the Blades exposing, then an almighty thump as
:26:14. > :26:19.the helicopter hit the ground. was a massive whack, a power sound,
:26:19. > :26:24.I turned around and saw it drop. It was halfway down already, so we
:26:24. > :26:30.just crashed. Security got straight to it. Greg walked away without
:26:30. > :26:39.serious injury. His son, also a pilot, spoke of his shock. Pretty
:26:39. > :26:45.nerve-racking actually, to see my father like that and habit come
:26:45. > :26:48.crashing down around him. It was nerve-racking. The Civil Aviation
:26:48. > :26:58.Authority is now investigating the crash which left a wreckage of
:26:58. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:06.twisted metal, testament to what a And now the weather... We have a
:27:06. > :27:13.developing storm out in the Atlantic, and almost ahead of
:27:13. > :27:21.cloudier. We could see winds of up to 100 miles an hour -- almost head
:27:21. > :27:26.of cloud. -- a mysterious head of cloud. Further south, the winds
:27:26. > :27:31.will be lighter, dry but not as cold as last night. Possibly some
:27:31. > :27:35.frost across the far south-east. Increasingly windy tomorrow,
:27:35. > :27:39.particularly across the far north- west where gales will develop. The
:27:39. > :27:44.wind will push the rain northwards through Scotland. Further south,
:27:44. > :27:49.most of the sunshine, although there will be a breeze, it will not
:27:49. > :27:52.be excessive. Broken cloud, sunshine, a reasonable day and yet
:27:52. > :27:58.again temperatures will be higher than they should be this time of
:27:58. > :28:04.year. Some sunshine for south- western parts, cloud will come and
:28:04. > :28:10.go but apart from the odd bit of rain it will stay dry. Sunshine,
:28:10. > :28:15.too, for eastern parts of Wales, further west, cloudy and windy.
:28:15. > :28:19.Some runners for parts of Northern Ireland but rain will move out West
:28:19. > :28:23.and it is the Outer Hebrides which will be buffeted by the severe
:28:23. > :28:26.gales. Brightness across East and Scotland for a time but then winds
:28:26. > :28:35.will develop across Scotland with rain pushing down from the north-
:28:35. > :28:39.west. By Friday it the sunshine returns, it will be cooler and
:28:39. > :28:45.chilly across the north. Showers will turn wintery up over the high
:28:45. > :28:49.ground of Scotland. An unsettled weekend coming up, sunshine, rain,
:28:49. > :28:54.blustery winds. The stormy spell of weather later in the weekend across
:28:54. > :28:58.weather later in the weekend across A reminder of the main news... Kate
:28:58. > :29:03.and Gerry McCann had hit out at months of media intrusion following