:00:09. > :00:14.A multi-billion pounds plan to get Britain's economy moving. But
:00:14. > :00:20.questions over whether money will come from. Ministers want to boost
:00:20. > :00:24.spending on roads and railways by up to �30 billion. The Chancellor
:00:24. > :00:27.is as a UK pension funds to invest. I think it is the right thing to do
:00:27. > :00:32.at a time like this, as we take our country through these difficult
:00:32. > :00:35.times. We have got to weather the storm and lay the foundations of
:00:35. > :00:38.future economic success. We welcome anything that will make a
:00:38. > :00:42.difference to the economy. But the Government doesn't seem committed
:00:42. > :00:48.to changing course. With a new forecast predicting a
:00:48. > :00:51.double-dip recession, we will be asking if the latest plan is enough.
:00:51. > :00:56.Michael Gove lashes out at the unions over the pensions strikes.
:00:56. > :01:01.He says some leaders are militant and itching for a fight. The
:01:01. > :01:11.innocent man caught up in the Jo Yeates murder investigation. After
:01:11. > :01:17.a frenzy to media campaign, he changed his appearance. Sensational,
:01:17. > :01:21.exploitative. As titillating, to appeal in every possible way to
:01:21. > :01:25.people's four-way eristic instincts. A report into the summer riots says
:01:25. > :01:34.that poor policing led to the violence spreading across the
:01:34. > :01:39.country. Not cinematic enough for Eccentric, controversial and
:01:39. > :01:45.rebellious. All of that and more. The film-maker Ken Russell dies at
:01:45. > :01:48.And I will be here with Sportsday later in the hour on the BBC News
:01:49. > :01:58.Channel, including a change of heart from Nick Mallett. He might
:01:59. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:16.be interested in the England job Hello, welcome to the BBC News at
:02:16. > :02:19.Six. The Chancellor has announced plans for a big investment in
:02:19. > :02:24.Britain's infrastructure, to give a boost to the sluggish economic
:02:24. > :02:28.growth. On the eve of his autumn statement, George Osborne says up
:02:28. > :02:31.to �30 billion could be spent on roads and railways around the
:02:31. > :02:35.country. Most of the money will have to come from the private
:02:35. > :02:43.sector. The announcement comes as a leading group of economic
:02:43. > :02:50.forecasters said that Britain was Whether it is new money for the
:02:50. > :02:53.Humber Bridge to allow cheaper tolls, or extra funding to ease
:02:53. > :02:58.congestion on the M3, or new investment allowing use of the Holt
:02:58. > :03:02.-- hard shoulder on sections of the M25, it is part of a new �30
:03:02. > :03:05.billion funding package for the next 10 years. As the Chancellor
:03:05. > :03:08.toured one project site, he stressed that a sizable chunk of
:03:08. > :03:12.the programme was not being financed by the Government. Much of
:03:13. > :03:17.it is going to come from the private sector, from pension funds.
:03:17. > :03:20.We will use British savings to interest in British jobs and
:03:20. > :03:24.British building. It is the right thing to do, we have got to take
:03:24. > :03:28.our country through these difficult times, weather the storm and lay
:03:28. > :03:33.the foundations of future economic successful stock the A14 is a major
:03:33. > :03:39.route across the east of England to Felixstowe, crucial for
:03:39. > :03:43.transporting goods for export and import. Experts say an upgrade is
:03:43. > :03:47.long overdue. There are heavy goods vehicles going up and down here all
:03:47. > :03:50.day long. It can get very congested at peak times. One of the new
:03:50. > :03:55.investment schemes will focus on widening the A14, starting from
:03:55. > :04:00.here, as it goes around the town of Kettering. This local haulage boss
:04:00. > :04:03.says that congestion is losing him money every week. Totally
:04:03. > :04:07.frustrating. You never know from one minute to the next if you are
:04:07. > :04:12.going to have a vehicle that actually gets to a destination. I
:04:12. > :04:15.cannot predict if I am going to be earning money or not.
:04:15. > :04:19.investment on this route will mean more work for construction firms
:04:19. > :04:23.and that could mean more jobs, according to one big company
:04:23. > :04:27.planning to bid. It is great news for our company should we Widnes.
:04:27. > :04:31.It will be great news for employment. We take on a large
:04:31. > :04:35.number of trainees and apprentices, working on schemes such as this and
:04:36. > :04:40.elsewhere in our business. where is the �30 billion of
:04:40. > :04:43.investment over 10 years going to come from? �20 billion will be from
:04:43. > :04:49.private investors, mainly pension funds. The Government will chip in
:04:49. > :04:52.�5 billion up to 2015, with money funded by savings elsewhere. There
:04:52. > :04:55.will be �5 billion of new government money after that date.
:04:55. > :04:59.But it is not yet clear when the pension fund money will be raised
:04:59. > :05:02.or how the building work will be financed. Tolls could be levied in
:05:02. > :05:07.some cases. Experts say the Government contribution in the next
:05:07. > :05:10.couple of years is not that great. �5 billion over three years is
:05:10. > :05:15.actually a small amount of money. You could get that from small
:05:15. > :05:19.savings from a range of bits of government. The investment plan
:05:19. > :05:23.will not help growth in the short term. Today we learned that the
:05:23. > :05:27.international think-tank the OECD believes that the UK could slip
:05:27. > :05:29.back into a brief recession before the middle of next year. We welcome
:05:30. > :05:32.anything that will make a difference to the economy. The
:05:32. > :05:37.problem is that the Government doesn't seem committed to changing
:05:37. > :05:42.course, really. Tomorrow we are going to see bad figures on growth,
:05:42. > :05:45.jobs and borrowing. The Chancellor will have to own up to a gloomier
:05:45. > :05:50.outlook for growth when he makes his autumn statement in Parliament
:05:50. > :05:54.tomorrow. He will also have to shed more light on what funding will be
:05:54. > :05:57.cutback to pay for his infrastructure plan.
:05:57. > :06:03.In a moment we will speak to our political editor Nick Robinson.
:06:03. > :06:07.First, Stephanie Flanders is here. A whole load of figures in that
:06:07. > :06:11.report, including that �5 billion from the Government. Is it going to
:06:11. > :06:15.be enough? There is a lot we do not know about that �5 billion. Maybe
:06:15. > :06:19.we will find out more tomorrow. We know it is not new money, ministers
:06:19. > :06:25.have been clear it will be from existing spending plans. Compared
:06:25. > :06:30.to the size of the economy, there is not very much money. Over three
:06:30. > :06:33.years, �5 billion, it sounds like a lot. But we have a �14 billion
:06:33. > :06:38.economy. I don't think ministers are talking about this as a way to
:06:38. > :06:41.kick-start the economy in the short run. As the OECD made clear, and
:06:41. > :06:45.other broadcasters have made clear, the prospects are looking pretty
:06:45. > :06:49.bleak, for the short-term. Flat or falling growth over the next few
:06:49. > :06:53.months. Mr Ross Brawn doesn't think he can do much about that tomorrow.
:06:53. > :06:58.He knows that the short-term story is going to be written more by what
:06:58. > :07:04.happens in the eurozone. Let's talk to Nick Robinson. Those caveats
:07:04. > :07:08.aside, some people will say that this is, in effect, a Plan B from a
:07:08. > :07:11.Chancellor who said there was no Plan B? George Osborne will insist
:07:11. > :07:19.that if he is not spending more than he planned, if he is not
:07:19. > :07:22.borrowing more to kick-start the economy, it is not Plan A. But two
:07:23. > :07:26.big bats. On the one hand he is doing as much as he can without
:07:26. > :07:30.spending extra money, trying to bring in money from the private
:07:31. > :07:34.sector, trying to find the odd billion to increase infrastructure,
:07:34. > :07:37.launching schemes in order to do something to get the economy moving.
:07:37. > :07:41.Tomorrow he is going to have to announce not just that growth is
:07:41. > :07:45.much lower than he hoped and planned for, but borrowing is much
:07:45. > :07:50.higher. If he is not going to cut more and tax more in order to bring
:07:50. > :07:55.that borrowing down, he might have to tell us that the deficit will
:07:55. > :07:58.not be brought under control in this Parliament, in the next four
:07:58. > :08:03.years, but might have to drift into the next one. Some people say that
:08:03. > :08:07.is, in effect, a sort of change of plan. What is most striking tonight
:08:07. > :08:12.is that as heat writes the last words of his autumn statement, we
:08:12. > :08:17.know that it is not what he planned it today, merely a report back on
:08:17. > :08:19.the state of the economy, it looks and feels like a mini budget from a
:08:20. > :08:28.Chancellor who is going to have to tell the country, we are off
:08:28. > :08:38.You can get all of the latest information on the state of the
:08:38. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:42.economy ahead of tomorrow's The Education Secretary Michael
:08:42. > :08:46.Gove has attacked what he called militant union leaders ahead of
:08:46. > :08:52.Wednesday's public sector strikes over pension changes. He singled
:08:52. > :08:57.out the leaders of the Unite Union and Unison as itching for a fight
:08:57. > :09:02.and urged teachers to reconsider their decision to walk out. One
:09:02. > :09:06.union leader accused him of trying to bully public sector workers.
:09:06. > :09:10.This will be the scene across the UK on Wednesday. Instead of the
:09:10. > :09:15.bustling sound of children, classrooms will fall silent and
:09:15. > :09:19.hundreds of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out on strike.
:09:19. > :09:23.More than 20 schools -- 20,000 schools are expected to close. So,
:09:23. > :09:28.who is to blame? Today, the Education Secretary singled out
:09:28. > :09:34.some senior figures in the trade union movement. Hardliners,
:09:34. > :09:39.militants, itching for a fight. They want families to be
:09:39. > :09:42.inconvenienced. They want mothers to give up a day's work and pay for
:09:42. > :09:46.expensive childcare because schools will be closed. The Government
:09:46. > :09:50.wants to cut the cost of the pensions of public sector workers
:09:50. > :09:54.such as teachers. Unions say it will leave staff pay more and
:09:54. > :09:58.working longer to get less in the end. The union which represents
:09:58. > :10:04.Head Teachers has called its members out for the first time in
:10:04. > :10:07.its 114 year history. We very much regret the inconvenience that will
:10:07. > :10:11.happen on Wednesday. Head teachers spend their whole career trying to
:10:11. > :10:15.get people to come into school, to send them away for even a day is
:10:15. > :10:20.very painful. We also feel we have not been listened to in
:10:20. > :10:25.negotiations. It is likely to be the biggest strike in decades, amid
:10:25. > :10:29.fears of 12 are queues at Heathrow the Government says that police
:10:29. > :10:34.officers will replace border staff. Local government services,
:10:34. > :10:41.including refuse collection, will be hit. In a rare move, some NHS
:10:41. > :10:44.staff will also walk out. More than 5000 operations have been cancelled.
:10:44. > :10:48.Unions deny the Education Secretary's charge that they are
:10:48. > :10:51.seeking a confrontation. We are not itching for a fight. We want an
:10:51. > :10:55.agreement. We do need ministers that want to reach an agreement
:10:55. > :11:01.with us, including Michael Gove. With no chance that the strike will
:11:01. > :11:04.be called off now, the rhetoric unions as to who is to blame is
:11:04. > :11:07.likely to increase in the coming days. That will do nothing to help
:11:07. > :11:16.the millions of people whose lives will now be significantly disrupted
:11:17. > :11:20.The man who was arrested and later released without charge over the
:11:20. > :11:23.murder of Joanna Yeates has told the inquiry into press standards
:11:23. > :11:26.about what he called the media witch-hunt against him. Christopher
:11:26. > :11:32.Jefferies said he had been shamelessly vilified in the
:11:32. > :11:37.tabloids. Nicholas Witchell has been at the hearing.
:11:37. > :11:41.Christopher Jefferies, on the left, has changed his appearance since
:11:41. > :11:45.his image received such unwelcome attention a year ago. This is how
:11:45. > :11:48.he looked last December, when he was arrested over the murder of
:11:48. > :11:55.Joanna Yeates. Christopher Jefferies was innocent. But his
:11:55. > :12:05.reputation was torn apart by the press. The whole slanting of the
:12:05. > :12:05.
:12:05. > :12:11.reporting was intended to be as sensational, exploitative and as
:12:11. > :12:18.titillating, to appeal in every possible way to people's for way
:12:18. > :12:24.The stories were so distorted that when he was released by police he
:12:24. > :12:32.had to go into hiding. For a period after I was released, I was
:12:32. > :12:37.effectively under house arrest. I went from friends to friends,
:12:37. > :12:43.rather as if I was a priest at the time of the Reformation, I suppose,
:12:43. > :12:46.going from safe house to safe house. Charlotte Church has been in the
:12:46. > :12:51.public eye since she was a teenager. The singer decide -- described how
:12:51. > :12:55.she had been asked to sing at the wedding of Rupert Murdoch. She said
:12:55. > :13:03.she was offered either a fee of �100,000 or a favour of positive
:13:03. > :13:07.coverage of her career. I remember being told it was the offer of
:13:07. > :13:12.money or the offer of the favour, in order to a basically get good
:13:12. > :13:15.press, to be looked upon favourably, as I said in my statement.
:13:15. > :13:19.International said it had no recollection of such an offer.
:13:19. > :13:25.Charlotte Church described years of press intrusion. The most upsetting,
:13:25. > :13:29.she said, had been an expose by the News of the World on her father's
:13:29. > :13:34.private life and the impact it had on her mother's health. I hated the
:13:34. > :13:40.fact that my parents, who had never been in this industry, apart from
:13:40. > :13:45.in looking after me, were being exposed and vilified in this
:13:45. > :13:50.fashion. Finally, the broadcaster Anne Diamond, who recalled the cot
:13:50. > :13:55.death of her son. She and her then Hawes -- husband had baked editors
:13:55. > :13:58.to respect the privacy of his funeral. But The Sun got hold of a
:13:58. > :14:02.photograph will stop the editor of the sun rang my husband and said,
:14:02. > :14:08.we have got a picture, it is an incredibly strong picture. We would
:14:08. > :14:14.like to use it. My husband said, no, we have asked all of you to stay
:14:14. > :14:17.away. No. The editor said, well, we are going to use it anyway.
:14:17. > :14:21.inquiry has heard for five days from people who feel they have been
:14:21. > :14:25.victims of the press. Tomorrow it will move on, issuing from a former
:14:25. > :14:29.tabloid reporter he was disillusioned with what he was
:14:29. > :14:38.being asked to do and a Guardian reporter who, more than anyone,
:14:38. > :14:42.10 people have been charged with the ill-treatment of a vulnerable
:14:42. > :14:45.patients at the Winterbourne care home in Bristol. The home was the
:14:45. > :14:50.subject of an undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama
:14:50. > :14:54.programme earlier this year and was closed shortly after. Millions of
:14:54. > :14:57.Egyptians have been queuing to vote in the first election since the
:14:57. > :15:04.uprising which toppled President has been well Iraq in February. It
:15:04. > :15:10.takes place against the backdrop of the violence and growing unease
:15:10. > :15:20.against the activists who made Tahrir Square. Our Middle-East
:15:20. > :15:20.
:15:20. > :15:24.This is what happened at one polling station in the district of
:15:24. > :15:29.Cairo. The first of voters were queuing two hours before it was due
:15:29. > :15:36.to open. And they have to wait almost two hours more while some
:15:36. > :15:42.details, like bringing in ballot papers, were sorted out. Apart from
:15:42. > :15:48.a row about queue-jumping, it was peaceful. The army, not the still
:15:48. > :15:58.despised police, asked handled the security. He told them to form an
:15:58. > :16:03.orderly line. And then they were ready to vote. Me and my wife and
:16:03. > :16:09.my son. We are going to get the today because we are feeling this
:16:09. > :16:15.is a good day. This day will be history. The ballot papers were
:16:15. > :16:18.enormous. This district had 122 names to choose from. No one seemed
:16:18. > :16:23.to mind. They used to have elections under the old regime but
:16:23. > :16:27.they were always fixed, so most people didn't bother to vote. Not
:16:27. > :16:31.today. TRANSLATION: First time, I wanted
:16:31. > :16:38.to be good for everyone. Whoever wins, I just hope they don't stay
:16:38. > :16:42.forever. Getting a free vote was a big part of the revolution for a
:16:42. > :16:48.lot of Egyptians, and it is finally happening. There are still serious
:16:48. > :16:53.questions about the amount of power the Army wants to retain after
:16:53. > :16:57.civilian politicians are elected. In the street the Muslim
:16:57. > :17:00.Brotherhood, the front runners, were getting out the vote. They say
:17:00. > :17:07.they want a proper democracy. Many secular Egyptians believe that's
:17:07. > :17:11.not true. Sorting out the economy is the key to political stability
:17:11. > :17:19.here for whoever wins. 700,000 new people enter the workforce every
:17:19. > :17:23.year. Many never find a proper job. It is -- at his second hand
:17:24. > :17:30.bookshop, this man has seen it all. He remembers picking, deposed by
:17:30. > :17:36.army officers, whose successes still rule the country. Don't worry,
:17:36. > :17:40.he says, the army will deliver the government to civilians. The
:17:40. > :17:43.protesters still hemmed into Tahrir Square tried to stop an election
:17:43. > :17:49.they said would be fraught and violent. Now they are deeply
:17:49. > :17:59.divided about voting at all. This day isn't perfect, but it really is
:17:59. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:06.Our top story tonight... The government's latest plan to get
:18:06. > :18:10.Britain's economy moving. A �30 billion boost to roads, railways
:18:10. > :18:17.and infrastructure. Coming up... Camera speed. Take one. Looking
:18:17. > :18:25.back at the career of film director Ken Russell, who has died aged 84.
:18:25. > :18:35.Later, the OECD issues a stark warning for the global economy. And
:18:35. > :18:38.
:18:38. > :18:41.bookings slump at Thomas Cook after The failure of the police to act
:18:41. > :18:46.decisively when the summer riots started in London led to the
:18:46. > :18:49.violence spreading across the country. That is the view of the
:18:49. > :18:52.Riots Communities And Victims Panel set up earlier this year. The
:18:52. > :18:56.inquiry also heard criticism of police use of stop and search
:18:56. > :19:03.powers, and warned that the danger of a repeat of the disorder if
:19:03. > :19:07.action wasn't taken. We report from Tottenham, where the riots began.
:19:07. > :19:12.Today's report reflects on what lay behind five shocking and
:19:12. > :19:17.traumatising days in England last summer. Will riots happen again,
:19:17. > :19:20.the panel asked, quite possibly yes, was their answer. The trigger for
:19:20. > :19:25.the riots was the shooting dead of Mark Duggan by police in Tottenham.
:19:25. > :19:29.The panel encountered widespread criticism of the Met's insensitive
:19:29. > :19:32.handling of that incident. But more probably were disturbed to find
:19:32. > :19:35.significant numbers of people in some communities were sceptical or
:19:35. > :19:39.even hostile to the police. They heard from many young black and
:19:39. > :19:43.Asian witnesses who complained that police stop and search was
:19:43. > :19:46.consistently carried out without courtesy. And warned there was a
:19:46. > :19:50.very real danger that stop and search will have a corrosive effect
:19:50. > :19:53.on their relationship with the police. The panel recommended the
:19:53. > :19:59.practice needs immediate attention to ensure that community confidence
:19:59. > :20:03.is not undermined. There was agreement that stop and search is
:20:03. > :20:06.necessary in order to fight crime and move dangerous individuals from
:20:06. > :20:10.the streets. But there was concern among law-abiding young people that
:20:10. > :20:13.is all that often, or sometimes, they were being stopped and not
:20:13. > :20:17.being treated with the level of respect and courtesy they thought
:20:17. > :20:21.was appropriate. The Metropolitan Police said today that the
:20:21. > :20:24.commissioner is committed to more intelligent and effective use of
:20:24. > :20:29.stop-and-search, stressing that while an essential tool, it must be
:20:29. > :20:34.done objectively and with courtesy. The panel says immediate action is
:20:34. > :20:38.required or riots will happen again. Deprivation is no excuse, but the
:20:38. > :20:43.government must look at the underlying causes, they say, noting
:20:43. > :20:49.the striking and sad similarities to the Trigger's identified by Lord
:20:49. > :20:55.Scarman in his report on inner-city rioting 30 years ago.
:20:55. > :20:58.Indiscriminate use of stop and search powers against black people,
:20:58. > :21:01.a controversial law, was found to have contributed to riots in
:21:01. > :21:05.Brixton and other inner-city neighbourhoods. Today in Tottenham,
:21:05. > :21:09.there are many who still think police abuse their power. Sometimes
:21:09. > :21:13.people are targeted by police and it's not good for them. Some of
:21:13. > :21:17.them are really bullies. The way they approach you. It turns your
:21:17. > :21:21.stomach. Today's report does not try to excuse the rioting but it
:21:21. > :21:28.does find an urgent need for police to work with communities to ensure
:21:28. > :21:31.a lack of trust is not passed to another generation. The family of
:21:31. > :21:35.former Wales manager Gary Speed say they've been overwhelmed by
:21:35. > :21:42.messages of support following his death. The 42-year-old was found
:21:42. > :21:47.dead at his home in Cheshire at the weekend. He'd taken his own life.
:21:47. > :21:51.For the fans in Cardiff the grief is still all too raw. All day came
:21:51. > :21:55.the tributes, shirts, flowers and the personal messages. Struggling
:21:55. > :22:00.to understand how the life of a national hero had been cut so
:22:00. > :22:06.tragically short. At their home in Chester, Gary Speed's family spoke
:22:06. > :22:10.of their loss. Gary's family would sincerely like to thank all the
:22:10. > :22:15.people that have sent messages of condolences and tributes, in what
:22:15. > :22:20.is a very difficult time. They have been overwhelmed by the support. It
:22:20. > :22:24.really has helped. Football has been left bereaved but also
:22:24. > :22:28.bewildered. Just a fortnight ago, Gary Speed was here celebrating a
:22:29. > :22:34.famous win over Norway. Only on Saturday he was talking excitedly
:22:34. > :22:38.about his plans for the future. For the fans there are still so many
:22:38. > :22:45.questions. It's just a tragedy that Gary Speed is not going to be there
:22:45. > :22:50.to take them forward. God only knows why what happened happened.
:22:50. > :22:55.We are just asking why, why has he killed himself? It's terrible.
:22:55. > :22:59.a decade as a player and a year as a manager, Gary Speed became a
:22:59. > :23:03.Welsh legend. Today the flags were at half mast and the game at
:23:03. > :23:07.struggling for answers. This is what gives us the big shock. If you
:23:07. > :23:12.knew that there was a problem somewhere or whatever, then perhaps
:23:12. > :23:15.you could start to go down that road and understand these things.
:23:15. > :23:19.But there's absolutely nothing. I saw him on the television on
:23:19. > :23:23.Saturday and he was just the normal Gary Speed that I know. And it
:23:23. > :23:29.still across the country the tributes pour in. From Everton to
:23:29. > :23:35.his other clubs, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield United. Football
:23:35. > :23:38.united in sorrel for a man universally loved. An annual report
:23:38. > :23:42.on safety in England's hospitals says that patients are more likely
:23:42. > :23:46.to die if they are admitted at weekends. The Dr Foster company
:23:46. > :23:51.concluded that outside normal working hours, when fewer senior
:23:51. > :23:55.doctors are present, death rates are on average almost 10 % higher.
:23:55. > :24:00.The controversial film director Ken Russell has died at the age of 84.
:24:00. > :24:04.Perhaps best known for the film adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel
:24:05. > :24:14.Women In Love, he also directed the Devils, The Boyfriend and the
:24:15. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:22.Ken Russell's portrait of the composer Elgar, one of a series of
:24:22. > :24:26.acclaimed arts documentaries he made for the BBC in the 1960s. They
:24:26. > :24:29.were beautiful to look at, seductive to listen to and
:24:29. > :24:39.thoroughly self-indulgent. They marked him out as a film-maker of
:24:39. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:50.Camera speed. Take one. At the BBC he learned his craft as a director
:24:50. > :24:56.and developed his trademark style - a flamboyant and visually
:24:56. > :25:02.extravagant. He moved into cinema, where his second major feature,
:25:02. > :25:12.Women In Love, was acclaimed as a masterpiece. We champs to save them,
:25:12. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:20.But as time went on his films became more extreme. The Devil's
:25:20. > :25:28.reflected his fascination with sex and religion and was widely panned.
:25:28. > :25:32.I was making films around that time, 71, 72. He also disturbed me.
:25:32. > :25:40.Whether you liked it or disliked it. You have a strong reaction to the
:25:40. > :25:44.work either way. This is rare. Tommy, made in 1975, was typically
:25:44. > :25:48.overblown. It followed more than 30 years in which his films grew
:25:48. > :25:55.progressively less successful, and the difficulties he faced in
:25:55. > :25:59.financing them became progressively greater. I sent a script to Channel
:25:59. > :26:05.4 the other day and it eventually came back about six months later,
:26:05. > :26:11.signed by somebody I'd never heard of. Totally unknown to me, saying,
:26:11. > :26:19.thank you for your script, it's not cinematic enough. I nearly went
:26:19. > :26:24.mad! Not cinematic enough for me?! He was, and his films remain, the
:26:24. > :26:33.work of a genius. Sa genius he was extraordinary and, like all
:26:33. > :26:36.geniuses, sometimes his films were much less than genius. Better to
:26:36. > :26:41.remember his successes, like the musical the Boy Friend, starring
:26:41. > :26:49.Twiggy. A reminder that Russell, however self-indulgent and
:26:49. > :26:59.undisciplined it was, could also be wonderful. The Life and Work of the
:26:59. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:04.director Ken Russell, who has died The weather goes downhill tonight.
:27:04. > :27:09.We find that cloud beginning and it turns wetter, particularly in the
:27:09. > :27:13.West. The wind strengthens as well. Strengthening southerly winds
:27:13. > :27:17.actually lifting the temperatures as the night goes on. But
:27:17. > :27:19.concentrating the rain in Northern Ireland and across Scotland in
:27:20. > :27:24.particular. Although western Scotland we have weather warnings
:27:24. > :27:28.of rain from the Met Office, amber warnings, it could lead to some
:27:28. > :27:32.local flooding. A wet start in Northern Ireland tomorrow. The
:27:32. > :27:36.heaviest rain around Perth, Kinross, Stirling, Dumfries and Galloway.
:27:36. > :27:40.Not quite so wet across the eastern side of Scotland but the wind is
:27:40. > :27:44.picking up here. The wind holding off in the North of England but
:27:44. > :27:48.there will be a lot of cloud and some strong winds. The temperatures
:27:48. > :27:51.down the eastern side of England are higher than they've been
:27:51. > :27:55.through the course of today. There will be rain here round there but
:27:55. > :27:59.nothing much at this stage. Further west, the rain gathering in the far
:27:59. > :28:05.south-west of England and Wales. Here, as the rain arrives, so we
:28:05. > :28:09.will see gusts of up to 70 mph. It will be a very windy day. We've got
:28:09. > :28:13.the band of rain sitting across the West initially. It clears away from
:28:13. > :28:17.Northern Ireland and it drives across Scotland, Wales and western
:28:17. > :28:22.England during the morning, and then into eastern England later in
:28:22. > :28:25.the day. Squally winds, potentially damaging. Ahead of the rain we've
:28:25. > :28:30.got the milder air. After the rain goes through the temperatures
:28:30. > :28:33.really do drop away significantly. It will feel a good deal colder.
:28:33. > :28:37.That's the way I think it will stay through the rest of the week. It's