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:00:10. > :00:13.Famous and hounded. More AH list celebrities speak out about their

:00:14. > :00:19.treatment at the hands of the press. Sienna Miller tells the inquiry

:00:19. > :00:24.into press standards she was left in a state of anxiety and paranoia.

:00:24. > :00:28.The author JK Rowling says says journalists camped outside her home.

:00:28. > :00:33.It really was like being under siege or being a hostage. Every

:00:33. > :00:41.area of my life was under constant surveillance. Also tonight:

:00:41. > :00:46.A war of words over next week's public second sector walk out over

:00:46. > :00:49.pensions. Unions dispute claims that disruption will cost jobs. The

:00:49. > :00:52.Government says it's made its best offer. I think that is

:00:52. > :00:57.irresponsible. I think it is wrong and people should know who to blame.

:00:57. > :01:01.I think it's a bit silly for the Prime Minister to be trying to

:01:02. > :01:06.demonise union leaders in this very, very simplistic way.

:01:06. > :01:09.The Stephen Lawrence murder trial, a forensics expert said he had

:01:09. > :01:14.worries about the contamination of crucial evidence.

:01:14. > :01:20.And they left New Zealand under a cloud after a shambolic tour, now

:01:20. > :01:25.the boss of the England rugby team says sorry. The World Cup has not

:01:25. > :01:31.been good. I apologise to everybody. I am saddened by what's going on at

:01:31. > :01:34.the moment. Coming up in sport on the BBC News

:01:34. > :01:44.channel: Did it cross the line? Goal-line technology could be used

:01:44. > :01:55.

:01:55. > :02:01.in the Premier League as early as Hello, and welcome to the BBC News

:02:01. > :02:04.at Six. The Levein Inquiry into press standards has heard from more

:02:04. > :02:07.celebrities today, including the actor Sienna Miller and the best-

:02:07. > :02:10.selling author JK Rowling. Both spoke of how they and their

:02:10. > :02:15.families were affected after their privacy had been invaded by

:02:16. > :02:19.reporters and photographers. Sienna Miller said she had been spat on

:02:19. > :02:24.and Miss Rowling recalled finding a message from a journalist in her

:02:24. > :02:31.child's school bag. Nicholas Nicholas Witchall has spent the day

:02:31. > :02:35.at the inquiry. She's written books which have captivated millions of

:02:35. > :02:38.children. Yet for the writer JK Rowling there is an absolute rule,

:02:38. > :02:45.that her own children are entitled to complete privacy. Unfortunately,

:02:45. > :02:48.as she told the href is -- Leveson Inquiry. A significant section of

:02:48. > :02:52.the press, in my view, have seen that almost as a challenge. Many

:02:52. > :02:57.times she said she felt trapped in her home by photographers. She

:02:57. > :03:02.recalled one incident just after the birth of her son. So we were

:03:02. > :03:06.besieged for a week and then I believed that the photographers had

:03:06. > :03:13.disappeared and, for the first time in a week, I was able to get out of

:03:13. > :03:16.the house with my daughter and the baby. And we were - on this

:03:16. > :03:21.occasion I saw the photographer taking the picture from across the

:03:21. > :03:25.street. I pulled my daughter behind me because I didn't want her

:03:25. > :03:30.photographed and I rather absurdly gave chase, how I thought I was

:03:30. > :03:36.going to outrun a 20-something paparazzi, while pushing a buggy

:03:36. > :03:40.and my daughter was "calm down, mum, don't be silly, it doesn't matter"

:03:40. > :03:43.but it mattered hugely to me. another occasion a letter from a

:03:43. > :03:53.journalist was slipped into the school bag of her five-year-old

:03:53. > :03:55.

:03:55. > :04:02.daughter. I felt such a sense of invasion that my daughter's bag...

:04:02. > :04:08.It's very difficult to say how angry and how angry I felt that my

:04:09. > :04:13.five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a place of, you know,

:04:13. > :04:17.complete security from journalists. Much of the media did excellent

:04:17. > :04:22.work, she said but there was a section which seemed to have few

:04:22. > :04:30.scruples. The attitude seems to be utterly cavalier, indifference.

:04:30. > :04:34.What does it matter? You're famous, you're asking for it. JK Rowling

:04:34. > :04:38.said that if you fought back against some newspapers you could

:04:39. > :04:43.expect retribution. In the case of the actress Sienna Miller the risks

:04:43. > :04:47.could amount to physical danger. She told the inquiry how for a

:04:47. > :04:50.number of years she faced almost daily pursuit by photographers, at

:04:50. > :04:55.times she said it had been terrifying. I would often find

:04:55. > :05:00.myself, I was 21, at midnight running down a dark street on my

:05:00. > :05:03.own with ten big men chasing me and the fact that they had cameras in

:05:03. > :05:07.their hand meant that was legal but if you take away the cameras what

:05:07. > :05:10.have you got? You have a pack of men chasing a woman and obviously

:05:10. > :05:14.that's a very intimidating situation to be in.

:05:14. > :05:18.Photographers seem to know her movements and reporters her secrets.

:05:18. > :05:22.She accused her family of leaking information. There was one

:05:22. > :05:26.particular very private piece of information that four people knew

:05:26. > :05:31.about and I had been very careful to not - to only tell my mother, my

:05:31. > :05:36.sister and two of my closest friends. A journalist had phoned up

:05:36. > :05:40.saying they knew about this and so yes, I accused my family and people

:05:40. > :05:44.who would never dream of selling any sort of information on me. I

:05:44. > :05:48.accused them, someone in that room of selling a story. In fact, her

:05:48. > :05:50.phone was being hacked. When she finally saw the notes kept by Glenn

:05:50. > :05:59.Mulcaire, the News of the World investigator, this is what she

:05:59. > :06:04.found. Dates referring to very personal things within my life, all

:06:04. > :06:07.my telephone numbers, the three I changed in three months, my access

:06:07. > :06:13.numbers, pin numbers, my password for my e-mail that was actually

:06:13. > :06:18.used to hack my e-mail in 2008. whole experience she said had

:06:18. > :06:22.created distrust and anxiety and had left her feeling violated.

:06:22. > :06:27.We can talk to Nick at the Royal Courts of Justice. We have had some

:06:27. > :06:31.days of this evidence, any sort of theme beginning to emerge? Four

:06:31. > :06:38.days of witness testimony now and I think there are some themes

:06:38. > :06:42.emerging. Today, from JK Rowlatt -- Rowling, Sienna Miller, Max Mosley,

:06:42. > :06:46.first there is a section of the British media that has few scruples

:06:46. > :06:49.in the way it deals with the rights and feelings of the people that

:06:49. > :06:53.they come up against, the commercial imperative is to get a

:06:53. > :06:58.story, a photograph. Second, that people, whether they be celebrities

:06:58. > :07:01.or ordinary strepbs, -- citizens, feel genuinely intimidated about

:07:01. > :07:05.standing up to some British newspapers. The impression, rightly

:07:05. > :07:14.or wrongly, is that they can be bullies and that there is no

:07:14. > :07:18.effective control over them. Thank you.

:07:18. > :07:23.A future rows kwrou -- furious row has broken out between the unions

:07:23. > :07:29.and the Government after Ministers claimed next week's strike could

:07:29. > :07:32.cost half a billion pounds. Union leaders have hit back saying that's

:07:32. > :07:37.fantasy economics. The industrial action is expected to cause

:07:37. > :07:41.widespread disruption. They are the public services that

:07:41. > :07:46.millions of us rely upon. But next week they face the worst disruption

:07:46. > :07:52.in a generation as Wednesday's strike on November 30th now looks

:07:52. > :07:55.inevitable. Hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants

:07:55. > :07:59.walked out last June over plans to make them pay more and work longer

:07:59. > :08:03.for their pension. Despite months of talks, unions and the Government

:08:03. > :08:06.have so far failed to reach a deal. The responsibility for that

:08:06. > :08:10.disruption lies squarely with the trade union leaders who have

:08:10. > :08:14.decided on a strike even while negotiations are ongoing. I think

:08:14. > :08:18.that is irresponsible. I think it is wrong. And people should know

:08:18. > :08:22.who to blame. I think it's a bit silly for the Prime Minister to be

:08:22. > :08:29.trying to demonise union leaders in this very, very simplistic way. He

:08:29. > :08:33.needs to understand we have been working for months, trying to

:08:33. > :08:39.engage his Ministers in serious negotiations. Unfortunately, that's

:08:39. > :08:42.not been happening. The impact will be widespread and will start at our

:08:42. > :08:46.borders. Civil servants across Government have been asked to

:08:46. > :08:51.volunteer to check passports and man border posts. And for the first

:08:51. > :08:55.time in years, the NHS will be hit, too. Next Wednesday will see the

:08:55. > :08:59.first national strike in the health service since 1988. Now emergency

:08:59. > :09:05.cover will be provided, doctors and the vast majority of nurses will be

:09:05. > :09:08.at work. But hundreds of thousands of staff are expected to walk out

:09:08. > :09:12.including healthcare assistants and the likes of porters and cleaners.

:09:12. > :09:16.It's likely to be the biggest day of industrial action since the late

:09:16. > :09:19.70s. Up to two million workers could strike. But in a worst case

:09:19. > :09:24.scenario, today the Treasury said it could cost the economy up to

:09:24. > :09:28.half a billion pounds. It estimates more than two thirds of all schools

:09:28. > :09:32.will close, so many parents will be -- won't be able to work. This

:09:32. > :09:35.primary school in Cardiff is one of thousands that will shut. It's a

:09:36. > :09:39.lot of trouble really because you have parents going into work who

:09:39. > :09:44.haven't got - especially my mum, she's no one to look after my

:09:44. > :09:49.brother and he is special needs. my son has to suffer for one day, I

:09:49. > :09:51.am sure it's going to benefit all round. There could be more

:09:51. > :09:55.disruption. Today one union indicated November 30th could just

:09:55. > :10:02.be the start and without a resolution to the dispute further

:10:02. > :10:05.national strikes would be inevitable in the new year. That

:10:05. > :10:09.strike will take place the day after the Chancellor's autumn

:10:09. > :10:12.statement. His chance to show how he is going to get the economy

:10:12. > :10:17.growing against a backdrop of gloomy forecasts. Figures out today

:10:17. > :10:20.show the number of young people in England who aren't in education,

:10:20. > :10:26.training or work has risen to a record high. But one company that's

:10:26. > :10:29.bucking the trend is Toyota, which has unveiled plans for 1,500 new

:10:29. > :10:34.jobs in Derbyshire. From there, our political editor Nick Robinson

:10:34. > :10:38.reports. Stick to the plan and things will

:10:38. > :10:44.get better, so says David Cameron and this is what better looks like.

:10:44. > :10:47.Toyota are promising to create up to 1500 new jobs at their plant. A

:10:47. > :10:51.welcome bit of good news for a Prime Minister who knows that next

:10:51. > :10:57.week his Chancellor will have to tell the country the bad news,

:10:57. > :11:01.about just how far the economy is off course. I want Britain to be a

:11:01. > :11:04.manufacturing success story in this century and today's announcement is

:11:04. > :11:11.unqualified good news for Derbyshire, for Toyota, and for

:11:11. > :11:15.Britain. Derby's a place where they boost they make not just cars, but

:11:15. > :11:18.planes and trains, too. David Cameron set up this city,

:11:19. > :11:22.Derby, as a test of the Government's entire economic

:11:22. > :11:28.strategy. A few months ago he brought the entire cabinet here to

:11:28. > :11:34.Rolls Royce and promised that the economy would focus again on

:11:34. > :11:40.manufacturing, on making things. But weeks later they were marching

:11:40. > :11:45.in the streets here when bombardia said it would have to cut 1400 jobs

:11:45. > :11:51.when an order for new British trains was given to the German

:11:51. > :11:57.company Siemens. Alan's family business makes parts

:11:57. > :12:01.for trains. That's a destination board. His firm had plans to expand.

:12:01. > :12:09.Not now. How many jobs might that have created here? Two jobs over a

:12:09. > :12:13.period of five years. Just making those? Just on that component.

:12:13. > :12:17.does he want from the Chancellor next Tuesday? He can sum it up in

:12:17. > :12:21.one word, confidence. We are in a position where we are in a status

:12:21. > :12:25.quo and don't have the confidence to do anything much further than we

:12:25. > :12:30.are at the moment. We would love to be in a position where we can

:12:30. > :12:35.expand rather than stay as we are. That would increase training, jobs,

:12:35. > :12:38.investment for the future. Unemployment here is up 13% in the

:12:38. > :12:47.past year and today new national figures showed that more than one

:12:47. > :12:52.in five 18-24-year-olds are classified as not in employment,

:12:53. > :12:55.education or training. That's NEET, for short, that's not how it feels.

:12:55. > :12:59.I have qualifications but still can't get work because of the

:12:59. > :13:04.recession. With unemployment rising and growth stalling, Labour says

:13:04. > :13:09.the autumn statement is the time to change course. The statement will

:13:09. > :13:13.mark a crucial moment in the economic course of our country. It

:13:13. > :13:18.will show comprehensively that the biggest economic gamble for a

:13:18. > :13:22.generation has failed. So, it's far, far better to change course and

:13:22. > :13:26.have a credible deficit reduction plan based on higher growth and

:13:26. > :13:31.employment, rather than a failing plan based on low growth and high

:13:31. > :13:35.unemployment. When the Chancellor delivers his autumn statement next

:13:35. > :13:40.Tuesday it will in part be a report back on the state of the economy.

:13:40. > :13:48.But the test of it will be whether he can give hope to communities

:13:48. > :13:53.like this. Nick is in now back in London in

:13:53. > :13:55.Downing Street. We heard in your report what business wants, any

:13:56. > :14:01.hints about what's likely to be in the Chancellor's statement next

:14:01. > :14:04.week? An intriguing hint today, which backs up what we have been

:14:04. > :14:07.hearing that infrastructure spending, in other words, spending

:14:07. > :14:10.on things like road projects and transport projects, broadband, for

:14:10. > :14:15.example, things that persuade companies to invest and create jobs

:14:15. > :14:19.will be the real focus of next Tuesday's statement. The

:14:19. > :14:24.Chancellor's deputy, Danny Alexander, said in a speech today

:14:24. > :14:29.at lunchtime that he wanted to switch spending to capital spending,

:14:29. > :14:33.strip out the jargon, what does that mean? Cuts in day-to-day

:14:33. > :14:35.spending in order to spend more on building things. And what that may

:14:36. > :14:38.mean is simply looking around Whitehall for little bits of money

:14:38. > :14:43.that have not been spent by Government departments and doing

:14:43. > :14:46.that, but it may mean something much more dramatic than that. And

:14:46. > :14:50.certainly one source tonight suggested this was an important

:14:50. > :14:54.move that would switch money from one side of the balance sheet to

:14:54. > :14:58.the other. The hope being that confidence is given to people when

:14:58. > :15:01.they see that Britain is building again.

:15:01. > :15:05.At the Stephen Lawrence murder trial the chief forensic scientist

:15:05. > :15:09.in the investigation has spoken of the concerns he had about crucial

:15:09. > :15:12.evidence. Adrian Wain said he had been worried about contamination of

:15:12. > :15:16.clothing. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murdering Stephen

:15:16. > :15:20.Lawrence at a bus stop in London 18 years ago. Our home affairs

:15:20. > :15:26.correspondent Tom Symonds is at the Old Bailey.

:15:26. > :15:30.The case against Gary Dobson and David Norris hangs on forensically

:15:30. > :15:34.microscopic particles, hair, fabric fibres and blood found on their

:15:34. > :15:38.clothes and on Stephen's. The prosecution says it puts them at

:15:38. > :15:48.the scene of the killing. The defence, that over the years the

:15:48. > :15:49.

:15:49. > :15:53.The forensic scientist in charge, Adrian Wain, here on the right,

:15:53. > :15:58.oversaw the examination of key clothing exhibits in the 1990s. In

:15:58. > :16:03.1999, police carried out a review of the way clothes were stored in

:16:03. > :16:13.these paper bags. The court heard quoted a report, referring to

:16:13. > :16:28.

:16:28. > :16:33.The forensic scientist agreed he could imagine saying that. Shortly

:16:33. > :16:39.after the killing his lab carried out the examination of Stephen's

:16:39. > :16:44.black, blood-stained jacket, but not, his blue jumper, worn

:16:45. > :16:48.underneath, it was less likely to have got fibres from the suspects.

:16:48. > :16:58.In 2001 the police wanted to get it tested. The suspects told them,

:16:58. > :17:02.

:17:02. > :17:11.eight years on, he had concerns. He Barrysters for Colin Norris, here

:17:11. > :17:18.on the left and Gary Dobson have said they cannot -- David Norris

:17:18. > :17:23.and Gary Dobson have said they cannot.... The prosecution has told

:17:23. > :17:32.the jury that the risk of contamination is ther retal, not

:17:32. > :17:36.realistic. Our top story tonight: More A-list

:17:36. > :17:41.celebrities have criticised their treatment by the press. Coming up:

:17:41. > :17:48.Caught on camera, partying hard at the disser tarous World Cup, now

:17:48. > :17:53.the director of the England rugby union team has said "Sorry." Tough

:17:53. > :18:03.times at two of Britain's best- known retailers. In manufacturing,

:18:03. > :18:06.

:18:06. > :18:11.it's a different story. New jobs at New figures on migration in and out

:18:11. > :18:14.of the UK have been published. The latest figures are for 2010 and

:18:14. > :18:20.showed the difference between the number of people coming in, minus

:18:20. > :18:25.those leaving the country is just over 250,000. That is a record. Our

:18:25. > :18:28.home affairs correspondent has the details.

:18:28. > :18:32.This latest net migration figure is the highest on record and a

:18:32. > :18:39.headache for ministers, who know all too well that immigration is a

:18:39. > :18:44.key issue for so many of the public. One of the reasons the figure is so

:18:44. > :18:48.high is because of people like Claire Guile. She and her family

:18:48. > :18:54.planned to emigrate to New Zealand, but then decided to stay put. They

:18:54. > :18:59.are part of a trend. Emigration from the UK is at the lowest for a

:18:59. > :19:05.decade. If we went to New Zealand we would have had to work harder.

:19:05. > :19:10.We would have had to find childcare. We would have had to pay for

:19:10. > :19:16.medical care. The houses were not much cheaper. It would meant we

:19:16. > :19:23.both would have to work full-time. What are the annual figures? At

:19:23. > :19:28.1,000 people came into the UK. These figures remain steady. Only

:19:28. > :19:32.339,000 people emigrated. 252,000 is the difference. The net

:19:32. > :19:39.migration total. This is more than double the Government's target of

:19:39. > :19:43.100,000 by 2015. What the figures tell us is in 2010 net migration

:19:43. > :19:47.was much too high. That is why we took immediate action when we came

:19:47. > :19:51.into Government on the work route, on students and were about to

:19:51. > :19:54.announce breaking the link between coming here and setting here and on

:19:55. > :19:58.-- settling here and on the family route. We knew it would take a full

:19:59. > :20:04.Parliament to get net migration down to sustainable levels we want.

:20:04. > :20:07.We think the Government has the wrong target. They are not

:20:07. > :20:13.fulfilling promises they made. They said net migration should go down.

:20:13. > :20:19.It has gone up 10% on their watch. They said they would make sure more

:20:20. > :20:26.people were repelled at the borders. The number has gone down instead of

:20:26. > :20:30.up a suburban hair and beauty salon, which like so many shops have an

:20:30. > :20:35.international staff. Agnieszka Wieczorek planned to stay

:20:35. > :20:40.here for a short time before returning to her native Poland. Now

:20:40. > :20:45.she sees herself address a long- term resident. I feel at home. When

:20:45. > :20:48.I go to Poland, I think, thank good I am back home. Foreign workers

:20:48. > :20:54.have been overtaken by students when it comes to the number of

:20:54. > :21:00.immigrants arriving in the UK. The Government says it can exert

:21:00. > :21:06.control over student numbers. The bodies of four soldiers, all

:21:07. > :21:12.killed by bombs within four days of each other have been flown to RAF

:21:12. > :21:18.Brize Norton today. Lance Corporal Peter Eustace of the 2nd Battalion

:21:18. > :21:22.The Rifles died in Helmand province on November 16th. He was 25. The

:21:22. > :21:27.next day, Lieutenant David Boyce, who was also 25 died when his

:21:27. > :21:31.armoured vehicle was hit by a make- shift bomb.

:21:31. > :21:37.35-year-old Lance Corporal Richard Scanlon was killed in the same

:21:37. > :21:39.explosion. Both were from 1st The Queen's Dragoons Guards.

:21:39. > :21:48.Private Thomas Lake, from 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales'

:21:48. > :21:52.Royal Regiment was 29. He was killed on 20th November.

:21:52. > :21:55.The operators of a helicopter which crashed in the North Sea killing

:21:55. > :21:59.all 16 people aboard had been planning to replace its main gear

:21:59. > :22:02.box a week before the disaster. That is according to an air

:22:02. > :22:08.accident report published today. The helicopter was flying from an

:22:08. > :22:14.oil platform in the North Sea to Aberdeen in April 2009. From there,

:22:14. > :22:19.our Scotland correspondent sent this report.

:22:19. > :22:23.It was called flight 85 November. This work was helicopter and what

:22:23. > :22:28.should have been a routine journey, ferrying passengers from a platform

:22:28. > :22:32.more than 100 miles off-shore. The wreckage was the evidence of a

:22:32. > :22:37.catastrophic gear box failure. The crew making one Mayday call,

:22:37. > :22:41.followed quickly by another, as the aircraft plummeted into the water.

:22:41. > :22:44.All 16 on board died. In this, the worst accident in the North Sea for

:22:44. > :22:49.r for more than 20 years. Those there to cancel their families

:22:49. > :22:55.through their loss say they will welcome today's findings. People

:22:55. > :23:00.have gone through a lot of grieve, a lot of pain, loss, anger. A lot

:23:00. > :23:04.of uncertainty as well, because of what was actually the cause of the

:23:04. > :23:08.disaster. Today is an opportunity that that part, at least, can be

:23:08. > :23:13.established. This much was already known, there

:23:13. > :23:21.was a huge search for any survivors. An eyewitness spoke of the aircraft

:23:21. > :23:26.descending rapidly before it hit the surface of the sea. In the

:23:27. > :23:30.beginning of March the helicopter's gear box was replaced. 25th, a

:23:30. > :23:34.metallic particle was found and an inspection ordered. The

:23:34. > :23:39.manufacturer was consulted. The report states this consultation led

:23:39. > :23:44.to a misunderstanding or miss communication. Plans to replace the

:23:44. > :23:50.faulty equipment were cancelled. are pleased to see the air accident

:23:50. > :23:53.branch report. They provided us with a detailed, very painstaking,

:23:53. > :23:57.obvious forensic examination of what went wrong. The off-shore

:23:57. > :24:01.workers were returning home when this accident happened. The

:24:01. > :24:05.helicopter was just 20 minutes away from landing.

:24:05. > :24:11.The helicopter's operators say procedures have now been

:24:11. > :24:14.strengthened and have been changed. This report makes 17 safety

:24:14. > :24:24.recommendations for the industry to try and ensure that a tragedy like

:24:24. > :24:34.this never happens again. Rob Andrew, England's elite rugby

:24:34. > :24:36.

:24:36. > :24:40.director has admitted the RFU has hit rock-bottom. He refused to quit.

:24:40. > :24:45.Stp an interview Rob Andrew apoll - - in an interview Rob Andrew

:24:45. > :24:49.apologised for recent events. Yesterday, the RFU said it would

:24:49. > :24:55.investigate the highly-damaging leak of reports, which lifted the

:24:55. > :24:59.view on the England players' view on the failed World Cup. Today,

:24:59. > :25:04.many who think it was to damage, drew drou drew, came out to fight -

:25:04. > :25:08.- Rob Andrew came out to fight his corner. As they left New Zealand

:25:08. > :25:13.last month having been knocked out of the quarter-finals, England's

:25:13. > :25:19.players may have thought it could not get worse. Since then English

:25:19. > :25:24.rugby has lurched from one crisis to another. Today, the man many

:25:24. > :25:28.feel is responsible finally said "Sorry." I apologise. I am saddened

:25:28. > :25:32.about what is going on at the moment. I am saddened for English

:25:32. > :25:37.rugby, because it's not a fair reflection on everything in English

:25:37. > :25:41.rugby. From the moment this drinking session spiralled out of

:25:41. > :25:48.control, England's dismalWorld Cup was dogged by off-field

:25:48. > :25:57.controversies. The sense of scandal culminated in three reports into

:25:57. > :26:00.the campaign. They revealed a squad driven by the management. Today Ian

:26:00. > :26:06.Smith resigned. I am absolutely shattered by what is going on.

:26:06. > :26:11.Both on and off the field, at the moment.

:26:11. > :26:17.You know, this last 127 months has been the most extraordinary working

:26:17. > :26:23.environment that anybody could possibly be in.

:26:24. > :26:28.-- this last 12 months. Amid all the chaos, it is easy to forget

:26:28. > :26:34.that England are six nation champions. Time is running out to

:26:34. > :26:37.find a road to recovery. Well, English rugby finds itself no

:26:37. > :26:43.chief executive, no coach and no captain. It appears the Government

:26:43. > :26:48.now have had enough. The Sports Minister said last night he wants

:26:48. > :26:50.an entire revamp of the structure of the RFU. Four years until

:26:50. > :26:56.England host the next World Cup, time is very much of the essence.

:26:56. > :27:00.Thank you very much. That takes us to the weather.

:27:00. > :27:03.A lively night out there A lively night out there

:27:03. > :27:10.weatherwise. I have got a beauty of a satellite

:27:10. > :27:15.picture to show you. Not too beautiful if you are stuck out in

:27:15. > :27:20.the Atlantic. Nothing too exceptional for us. Nonetheless

:27:20. > :27:24.very windy. The Northern Isles seeing gusts. It is this squally

:27:24. > :27:28.weather front which brings rain across the country. Gusts across

:27:29. > :27:33.the Pennines, 50-60 miles per hour. Be aware of that. Rain will extend

:27:33. > :27:40.down to the south-escalator on. Clearing up behind and turning

:27:40. > :27:43.chilli. -- chilly.

:27:43. > :27:48.Sunshine across the heart of England. A nip in the air, mind you.

:27:48. > :27:53.The last of the overnight rain clear from East Anglia and the far

:27:53. > :27:58.south-east. A lot of Sunshine across southern counties. The winds

:27:58. > :28:05.not too strong. Patchy cloud. All in all, a reasonable start to the

:28:05. > :28:10.day. For Wales it should be dry, fine and sunny. Cloud across

:28:10. > :28:14.Snowdonia. More cloud over the Irish Sea. Chilly, breezy and

:28:14. > :28:19.showers around. Cold over Scotland. Snow falling to

:28:19. > :28:24.low levels. It should be settling to 300 metres. High-level routes

:28:25. > :28:28.could be affected by that. Some blustery showers across

:28:28. > :28:33.northern areas. One or two making it further south. Through the

:28:33. > :28:37.afternoon a lot of fine and sunny, if rather chilly weather out there,

:28:37. > :28:42.particularly over the northern half of the UK, where temperatures will

:28:42. > :28:44.struggle to seven or eight Celsius. Rain in the north and stormy again

:28:44. > :28:48.on Saturday night across the far north.