:00:05. > :00:13.Brace yourselves, we're heading into a euro storm - Mervyn King's
:00:13. > :00:16.warning to British banks. The Bank of England boss tells them to build
:00:16. > :00:25.up their reserves - even if it means cutting back on those big
:00:25. > :00:29.bonuses. No-one who looks at the current position could deny that it
:00:29. > :00:33.is extraordinarily serious and threatening. Therefore, those with
:00:33. > :00:36.the responsibility to deal with it really do need to take action.
:00:36. > :00:40.on tonight's programme... The trial of eight former police officers
:00:40. > :00:43.accused of corruption - it cost �30 million, now it's collapsed. Jeremy
:00:43. > :00:53.Clarkson heading for the departure gate - behind him a massive row
:00:53. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:57.over what he said about strikers. Frankly I would have them all shot.
:00:57. > :01:01.I would take them outside and execute them in front of their
:01:01. > :01:04.families. How dare they go on strike? It's the kind of picture we
:01:05. > :01:12.usually show you in the summer - why the experts are already talking
:01:12. > :01:16.about a drought in England. Right Honourable Gentleman knows
:01:16. > :01:19.very well that we had no choice but to close the school. 21 years after
:01:19. > :01:29.Margaret Thatcher left office, Meryl Streep tells us what it's
:01:29. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:39.like playing the Iron Lady. wanted to, in some way, capture
:01:39. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:05.Hello and welcome to the BBC's News at Six. The Governor of the Bank of
:02:05. > :02:08.England has used some of his strongest language yet to warn that
:02:08. > :02:10.we're heading into another financial storm. Sir Mervyn King
:02:10. > :02:13.says that Britain's high street banks should protect themselves
:02:13. > :02:19.from the shock waves of the eurozone crisis by putting more
:02:19. > :02:22.money away. And he said the need to build up their reserves was so
:02:22. > :02:25.great that bank bosses should consider cutting back dividends to
:02:25. > :02:32.shareholders and big bonuses to staff. Here's our chief economics
:02:32. > :02:37.correspondent, Hugh Pym. It has been a gloomy week for economic
:02:37. > :02:40.news, and there is absolutely no Christmas cheer from the heart of
:02:40. > :02:44.the City of London today. The Bank of England had a sobering analysis
:02:44. > :02:50.of the eurozone crisis and what it meant for the UK. The Governor was
:02:50. > :02:54.giving his latest assessment of the committee. No-one who looks at the
:02:54. > :02:57.current position can deny that it is extraordinarily serious and
:02:57. > :03:03.threatening. Therefore, those with the responsibility to deal with it
:03:03. > :03:07.really do need to take action. turmoil and protests in the
:03:07. > :03:10.eurozone and worries about Italy's finances, it is clear that senior
:03:10. > :03:15.policy makers are now thinking through what might happen if the
:03:15. > :03:18.single currency was to break up. To what extent are you making
:03:18. > :03:23.contingency plans for the possible default of a member of the euro,
:03:23. > :03:27.and even the long term break-up of the eurozone? As you would expect,
:03:27. > :03:30.the government, together with the FSA and the Bank of England, are
:03:30. > :03:35.making contingency plans against a wide range of contingencies, but I
:03:35. > :03:38.will not detail those. At the Bank of England they're normally very
:03:38. > :03:43.careful with the language they use, and it sometimes takes a while to
:03:43. > :03:47.interpret exactly what they mean. But today's message was absolutely
:03:47. > :03:50.clear - they think the situation is potentially very serious. What
:03:50. > :03:57.exactly are their fears about the threat to the UK banking system,
:03:57. > :03:59.and what does it mean for the wider economy? Here's the problem - the
:03:59. > :04:05.economy? Here's the problem - the exposure of UK banks to vulnerable
:04:05. > :04:10.economies. Total lending to Greece is around �7 billion. For Portugal,
:04:10. > :04:16.the total is �16 billion, which is dwarfed by the bank lending figures
:04:16. > :04:20.to Italy and Ireland. If banks make big losses in those countries,
:04:20. > :04:24.their inability to lend here would be severely restricted - for
:04:24. > :04:28.example, mortgages and credit to consumers. Even fears about future
:04:28. > :04:33.losses could make them restrict lending. The regulators want the
:04:33. > :04:36.banks to put more money aside now, if need be to cut money put aside
:04:36. > :04:40.for dividends and bonuses. The for dividends and bonuses. The
:04:40. > :04:44.industry says it is already curbing pay packets.
:04:44. > :04:48.There may be bonuses paid in some parts of the industry, but those
:04:48. > :04:52.are up against a strict code, policed by the Financial Services
:04:52. > :04:55.Authority. The adamantly those will be paid in shares. The Bank of
:04:55. > :04:59.England is warning that a storm from the eurozone could be heading
:04:59. > :05:06.our way, and it is time for the banks to make sure they are on firm
:05:06. > :05:09.So, stark words from the Bank of England Governor. Over in France,
:05:09. > :05:12.President Sarkozy has just started giving a keynote speech on the
:05:12. > :05:15.eurozone. But what signs are there that European leaders are getting
:05:15. > :05:18.to grips with the crisis? Let's go live to Paris and join our Europe
:05:18. > :05:25.editor, Gavin Hewitt, who's there. Gavin, what has the French
:05:26. > :05:29.President been saying? Well, it is a very sombre speech. He said to
:05:29. > :05:32.the French people that the crisis was not over, that it threatened
:05:33. > :05:36.the French way of life. He said their current welfare state would
:05:36. > :05:41.not be sustainable, they would have to learn to work more and spend
:05:41. > :05:48.less. He's going on to have to explain to the French people how,
:05:48. > :05:52.for instance, control will go increasingly to Brussels, which is
:05:52. > :05:56.a hugely sensitive thing here. He has already been criticised for
:05:56. > :06:00.handing over sovereignty, or planning to, of the French national
:06:00. > :06:04.budget, to Brussels. Why is that about to happen? Because the
:06:04. > :06:08.Germans are insisting that in future, there will be much greater
:06:08. > :06:12.discipline over budgets, as a way of reassuring markets and taking a
:06:12. > :06:16.step to sort out this crisis. Tomorrow, Angela Merkel will be
:06:16. > :06:20.setting out her ideas over this. There is a real sense in Europe
:06:20. > :06:23.that they probably have about a week to try to get ahead of this
:06:24. > :06:28.crisis, because certainly at the moment, what they're having to do
:06:28. > :06:32.to explain to their own people, that big changes, big sacrifices
:06:32. > :06:39.will be necessary, if they are finally to address this eurozone
:06:39. > :06:41.Britain's biggest ever police corruption trial has collapsed,
:06:41. > :06:45.after a judge ruled that the defendants couldn't have a fair
:06:45. > :06:49.hearing. The multi-million pound case was brought against eight
:06:49. > :06:57.former officers from South Wales Police. They were accused of
:06:57. > :07:02.perverting the course of justice, following a murder trial in 1988.
:07:02. > :07:08.Our correspondent Hywel Grifftith joins us from Cardiff now. This
:07:08. > :07:15.story began on Valentine's Day 23 years ago, in an in conspicuous
:07:15. > :07:21.flat above his building behind me. There, police discovered Lynette
:07:21. > :07:24.White's body, soaked in blood. But the story went on to become one of
:07:24. > :07:28.miscarriages of justice and a catalogue of failure. Remembered by
:07:28. > :07:33.her family as a happy girl who loved fashion, the body of Lynette
:07:33. > :07:38.White was discovered in the bedsit she had used for prostitution. She
:07:38. > :07:42.had been stabbed more than 50 times. 23 years later, the team who
:07:42. > :07:47.investigated her death today walked free from court, cleared of
:07:47. > :07:52.conspiring together to bully witnesses and manipulate evidence.
:07:52. > :07:57.Their reputation has finally been restored. It went from despondency
:07:57. > :08:02.to elation, but today, I'm very, very elated. At last I feel I was
:08:02. > :08:05.vindicated. I did nothing wrong on this inquiry, and I told that to
:08:05. > :08:09.the investigating team from the day I was arrested. There was no
:08:09. > :08:14.evidence against me, and I'm absolutely relieved it is over.
:08:14. > :08:20.eight detectives have worked together on South Wales Police-
:08:20. > :08:25.month-old biggest-ever murder inquiry. It led them to arrest five
:08:25. > :08:33.men. But at the trial, two were acquitted. I have been put in jail
:08:33. > :08:37.for 20 years for a crime I do not know anything about. Who are John
:08:37. > :08:46.Actie and Ronnie Actie had always claimed they were victims of a
:08:46. > :08:53.miscarriage of justice. We really believe, family and friends, that
:08:53. > :08:58.things would be done, but it is just disappointing again. Three men,
:08:58. > :09:02.including Lynette White's boyfriend, were found guilty of her murder.
:09:02. > :09:07.But the verdicts left a feeling of deep unease in the docks community.
:09:07. > :09:11.A campaign to free the Cardiff three succeeded in 1992, but it was
:09:11. > :09:17.not until the year 2000 that the murder investigation was reopened.
:09:17. > :09:21.This time, DNA evidence led to this man being arrested, James Harbut,
:09:21. > :09:25.who admitted to being the what a. The original investigation team
:09:25. > :09:29.were arrested six years ago, accused of perverting the course of
:09:29. > :09:33.justice, but today, the case against them collapsed. The police
:09:33. > :09:38.budget alone has been more than a million pounds a year for many
:09:38. > :09:42.years, in this investigation. There are 18 or 19 defence teams between
:09:42. > :09:47.the two trials. The jury have been here since July, the judge has been
:09:47. > :09:51.brought down from London, it has been a mammoth case. Tonight, South
:09:51. > :09:57.Wales Police find themselves under fire once again. The Director of
:09:57. > :09:59.Public Prosecutions has said he's extremely concerned, and a review
:09:59. > :10:04.could be referred to the Independent Police Complaints
:10:04. > :10:08.Commission. Nearly a quarter of a century after her death, the murder
:10:08. > :10:12.of Lynette White has left many questions unanswered. One question
:10:12. > :10:16.which has been answered is that a second trial of other officers
:10:16. > :10:19.linked to the case will no longer go ahead, either. South Wales
:10:19. > :10:23.police have agreed to refer the matter to the IPCC. They will have
:10:23. > :10:30.to decide whether anything could have been done to avoid this case
:10:30. > :10:33.Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson's mouth has got him into
:10:33. > :10:36.trouble again. There have been thousands of complaints to the BBC
:10:36. > :10:39.about his comments on yesterday evening's One Show. After his
:10:39. > :10:42.remarks on striking workers, the union Unison called for him to be
:10:42. > :10:49.sacked. Tonight, before flying out of the country, Mr Clarkson
:10:49. > :10:53.apologised. Nick Higham has the story. Jeremy Clarkson at Heathrow
:10:53. > :11:02.today, on his way to China, implying he had been quoted out of
:11:02. > :11:06.context. See what I actually said... What he actually said was this.
:11:06. > :11:10.What do you think about the strikes? Fantastic! London today
:11:10. > :11:15.has just been empty. Everybody has stayed at home, you can get about,
:11:15. > :11:19.the restaurants are empty. And then he added this, in the same
:11:19. > :11:23.satirical tone. We have to balance it, because this is the BBC.
:11:23. > :11:27.Frankly, I think they should all be shot. I would take them outside and
:11:27. > :11:32.execute them in front of their families. How dare they go on
:11:32. > :11:38.strike? Today, the BBC apologised, and so did Jeremy Clarkson, saying
:11:38. > :11:43.he had meant it as a joke. But others failed to see the funny side.
:11:43. > :11:47.They saw a combination of bad taste and a politically motivated attack.
:11:47. > :11:52.For Jeremy Clarkson, a close friend of David Cameron, to say that, is
:11:52. > :11:56.not only a misjudgment, it is incitement to hatred, it is a
:11:56. > :12:00.horrible thing to do. Tonight, the union welcomed Jeremy Clarkson's
:12:00. > :12:04.apology, and invited him to spend a day on a hospital ward with some of
:12:04. > :12:09.its members. Earlier, the Prime Minister had sounded embarrassed by
:12:09. > :12:13.the affair. It is a silly thing to say, I'm sure he did not mean that.
:12:13. > :12:17.Jeremy Clarkson actually said two things which provoked complaints.
:12:17. > :12:21.The other was a joke about people who commit suicide by throwing
:12:21. > :12:24.themselves under trains. The One Show team thought that was so
:12:24. > :12:29.offensive, they apologised at the end of the programme, but they did
:12:29. > :12:33.not apologise for the joke about strikers, presumably because they
:12:33. > :12:36.thought it fell on the right side of the line, between the
:12:36. > :12:40.unacceptable and the merely satirical. When Jonathan Ross and
:12:41. > :12:44.Russell Brand crossed that line by making offensive calls to an actor,
:12:44. > :12:49.one was sacked, the other was suspended. Jeremy Clarkson himself
:12:49. > :12:53.is no stranger to controversy, suggesting truck-driver has
:12:53. > :13:00.murdered prostitutes core defence, and calling Gordon Brown a one-eyed
:13:00. > :13:04.idiot. The latest reaction? It was absolutely disgraceful. It is just
:13:04. > :13:09.his sense of humour. But maybe it should not have been on The One
:13:09. > :13:14.Show. But Jeremy Clarkson can take it as well as the shoot-out. Good
:13:14. > :13:21.one! This was his reaction to getting hit by a custard pie when
:13:21. > :13:27.going to get an honorary degree in The The body of a 20-year-old
:13:27. > :13:29.soldier killed in Afghanistan was flown back to the UK today.
:13:29. > :13:35.Rifleman Sheldon Steel, from 5th Battalion The Rifles, was killed on
:13:35. > :13:38.Monday by an improvised explosive device. He had been part of a foot
:13:38. > :13:43.patrol in the Lashkar Gah region of Helmand Province when he was caught
:13:43. > :13:46.Staff at the Iranian Embassy in London have started preparations to
:13:46. > :13:50.leave the country after the Foreign Office ordered they be expelled
:13:50. > :13:52.following an attack on the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.
:13:52. > :14:02.Earlier, EU foreign ministers condemned the attack, while
:14:02. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :14:06.agreeing to a further package of The forensic scientist who carried
:14:06. > :14:10.out the tests at the heart of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial has
:14:10. > :14:18.been cross-examined today. The lawyer defending one of the KO
:14:18. > :14:24.excuse -- one of the co-accused has been cross-examined. Tom Symonds
:14:24. > :14:28.reports from the Old Bailey. Does blood on this American-style bomber
:14:28. > :14:33.jacket link Stephen Lawrence and Gary Dobson? Was aware of the
:14:33. > :14:37.jacket at the scene of the murder? Questions for which the work of
:14:38. > :14:40.scientist Edward Jarman may provide answers. The trial focused today on
:14:40. > :14:44.the forensic tests he had carried out on a wide range of clothing
:14:44. > :14:50.examined over a period of months. The jacket belonging to Gary Dobson
:14:50. > :14:53.was a key item. First, a chemical test for blood found nothing. Under
:14:53. > :14:56.cross-examination today, Edward cross-examination today, Edward
:14:56. > :15:01.Jarman said there may not have been enough present to show up. Then, a
:15:01. > :15:06.test for saliva, again, proving no results. Only when the jacket was
:15:06. > :15:09.searched with a microscope was this spot of blood found on the collar.
:15:09. > :15:13.And bits of blood were discovered clinging to the fabric. The
:15:13. > :15:17.prosecution insists they could only be discovered with a microscope.
:15:17. > :15:21.The defence claims there may have been contamination from Stephen
:15:21. > :15:25.Lawrence's bloody clothes, even in the laboratory. But the blood was
:15:25. > :15:29.soaked into the jacket itself. Edward Jarman was asked if the
:15:29. > :15:35.saliva test, which involved spraying water onto the clothing
:15:35. > :15:39.and pressing paper took it, could have liquidised dry blood. The
:15:39. > :15:48.defence barrister asked Edward Jarman, if he had known there was
:15:48. > :15:52.blood on the jacket... Later, Edward Jarman admitted, they were
:15:52. > :15:57.not aware there was any blood on the item at the time. Experiments
:15:57. > :16:01.had been done to see whether the saliva test could turn dried blood
:16:01. > :16:06.into liquid. In the laboratory, it didn't. But he said he could not
:16:07. > :16:10.rule it out. Tim Roberts QC for the defence said that was educated
:16:10. > :16:14.guesswork. The jury heard that the blood was most likely to have been
:16:14. > :16:18.wet when it got on the jacket, and that that was more likely to have
:16:18. > :16:23.happened here, at the scene of the murder. Gary Dobson denies being
:16:23. > :16:26.Our top story tonight: The Bank of England Governor,
:16:26. > :16:32.Mervyn King, warns banks to build up reserves to protect themselves
:16:32. > :16:40.from Eurozone problems, even if it means cutting bankers' bonuses.
:16:41. > :16:43.Coming up: he had where there is discord, may we bring harmony.
:16:43. > :16:50.The grocer's daughter portrayed by a Hollywood superstar - the career
:16:50. > :16:54.of Margaret Thatcher comes to the big screen.
:16:55. > :17:00.Later on the News Channel, the energy regulator Ofgem calls for a
:17:00. > :17:09.simpler and more competitive market. And the coffee shops Starbucks
:17:09. > :17:12.creates 5000 new jobs in the UK Today is officially the start of
:17:12. > :17:15.winter, and we're leaving behind one of the warmest and driest
:17:15. > :17:18.autumns since records began. Now the Environment Agency is warning
:17:18. > :17:22.that some parts of England face a prolonged drought lasting well into
:17:22. > :17:32.next summer. Our Science Correspondent David Shukman looks
:17:32. > :17:36.at what this extraordinary weather might mean for our future.
:17:36. > :17:40.A salmon battles upstream at Ludlow in Shropshire, but there has been
:17:40. > :17:44.so little rain that the river level is too low and the fish cannot make
:17:44. > :17:47.it. A reservoir near Northampton, unusually short of water for this
:17:48. > :17:55.time of year, so special permission has been given to fillet from a
:17:55. > :17:59.river. Large areas of England are at risk of drought. In Essex, the
:17:59. > :18:03.driest county in Britain, a reservoir is being expanded to hold
:18:03. > :18:07.more water. It is one of the largest construction project in the
:18:07. > :18:13.country. But the big question is whether it will be adequate if
:18:13. > :18:19.conditions change in the years ahead. Even now, they have to bring
:18:19. > :18:22.water here all the way from Norfolk. The forecast for climate change
:18:22. > :18:28.suggests that summer's here but may become even drier, making schemes
:18:28. > :18:34.like this for storing water all the more important if those forecasts
:18:34. > :18:38.are right. Essex is drier than many parts of the Middle East, but will
:18:38. > :18:44.the lack of rain across many regions right now become more
:18:44. > :18:48.common? No one can be sure. can't say one way or the other. We
:18:48. > :18:55.do not know. Is it going to be as bad as people say, or worse or not
:18:55. > :18:58.as bad? We need to make sure we do what is needed. So it is very
:18:58. > :19:02.difficult planning for too little water, and it is just as hard
:19:02. > :19:07.planning for too much. In Nottingham, a huge new defence
:19:07. > :19:12.against flooding. This was the scene here 11 years ago. The new
:19:12. > :19:17.scheme should protect 16,000 homes, but against what? The Environment
:19:17. > :19:22.Agency is being cautious, building a new war that can rapidly be
:19:22. > :19:26.raised if needed. This scheme will have a lifetime of decades. We want
:19:26. > :19:30.to make sure it can adapt as climate change does or does not
:19:30. > :19:35.materialise. But we do not want to overspend now for something that
:19:35. > :19:40.might not materialise. The threat might not be that bad? It might not
:19:40. > :19:44.be, but we can adapt if it is. how should the country prepare for
:19:44. > :19:48.floods and droughts? I asked a government adviser. I do not think
:19:48. > :19:54.there is a need to panic. There are many decisions we can put off for
:19:54. > :19:57.the future. But if we look at long- term decisions, if we do not get it
:19:57. > :20:03.right now, we could be sleepwalking into a disaster for future
:20:03. > :20:05.generations. Predict in when rain will top the reservoirs and by how
:20:05. > :20:10.much is one of the toughest challenge is not for just the
:20:10. > :20:12.decades ahead, but also right now, with an anxious wait for rain this
:20:12. > :20:16.winter. The coffee chain, Starbucks, has
:20:16. > :20:19.announced plans to create 5,000 jobs in the UK over the next five
:20:19. > :20:22.years. It's due to open 300 new outlets, most of them drive-
:20:22. > :20:32.throughs. The company says the move will particularly benefit the young
:20:32. > :20:33.
:20:33. > :20:37.unemployed. Half the chain's coffee shop staff are under 24 years old.
:20:37. > :20:40.This time tomorrow, we will know who England are up against in the
:20:40. > :20:45.Euro 2012 finals next summer. The competition is being staged in
:20:45. > :20:48.Eastern Europe next year, in Poland and Ukraine. But there are growing
:20:48. > :20:56.concerns that racism and pour into structure could mar the competition
:20:56. > :21:01.for fans and players. The biggest sporting event in
:21:01. > :21:05.Polish history has appeared on the horizon. Euro 2012 will kick off
:21:05. > :21:08.here in Warsaw, the catalyst for billions of pounds' worth of
:21:08. > :21:13.investment, European football's showpiece event is on everyone's
:21:14. > :21:18.minds. But so are its challenges. This riot in Warsaw last month,
:21:18. > :21:23.involving Polish football hooligans, is a reminder of the violence that
:21:23. > :21:26.has marred the sport here for years. Racism is an issue. Pape Samba Ba
:21:26. > :21:30.place in Division One of the Polish league, but the Senegalese
:21:30. > :21:34.international was forced out of his former club by racist abuse. They
:21:34. > :21:39.were screaming. They were saying something bad. What were they
:21:39. > :21:45.saying? You are an African, go back to your country. He also has
:21:45. > :21:50.concerns about racism rearing its head at Euro 2012. If Poland are in
:21:50. > :21:53.the same group as England, they know England have black players.
:21:53. > :21:57.Maybe it will happen. English football has tried hard to
:21:57. > :22:02.eradicate racism from the sport, and UEFA insists that these players
:22:02. > :22:08.have nothing to fear next summer. So you will be tough? We will be
:22:08. > :22:13.extremely tough towards any behaviour which is against the
:22:13. > :22:17.festival of football. But Euro 2012 has two hosts. Despite fears of the
:22:17. > :22:21.preparations, neighbouring Ukraine has completed four stadia on time
:22:21. > :22:24.including the final venue in Kiev. Getting around the second biggest
:22:24. > :22:28.country in Europe, however, could require patience.
:22:28. > :22:32.If England are drawn to play here in Kiev, there will also have to
:22:32. > :22:38.play in Donetsk, 750 kilometres away, and fans travelling by train
:22:38. > :22:41.will have a journey of over 12 hours ahead of them.
:22:41. > :22:45.Ukraine's Soviet-era transport infrastructure lags well behind
:22:45. > :22:49.UEFA's traditional territory to the west, and fans are being warned.
:22:49. > :22:53.One of the biggest challenges for travelling fans that we have had at
:22:53. > :22:58.the European Championships. The infrastructure, the transport. Add
:22:58. > :23:02.in the levels of racism, we are having to issue warnings to black
:23:02. > :23:08.and Asian fans. This is where the fate of those competing in Euro
:23:08. > :23:18.2012 will be decided tomorrow. The challenge for Poland and Ukraine to
:23:18. > :23:18.
:23:18. > :23:21.prove worthy hosts is already under way.
:23:21. > :23:24.She was known as the Iron Lady who "was not for turning". Well, 21
:23:24. > :23:27.years after she left Downing Street, Baroness Thatcher's extraordinary
:23:27. > :23:30.life is now the subject of a feature film. Meryl Streep has
:23:30. > :23:33.taken on the role, and in an exclusive TV interview with the BBC,
:23:33. > :23:39.she's spoken of the challenges involved in portraying one of the
:23:39. > :23:43.most powerful women of the 20th century. And I asked the right
:23:43. > :23:47.honourable gentleman, whose fault is that? There might be only one
:23:47. > :23:52.Margaret Thatcher, but she has had many imitators over the years.
:23:52. > :23:56.Teachers cannot teach when there is no heating. Now Meryl Streep is
:23:56. > :24:05.taking a turn to don the blue suit. What did she want to bring to what
:24:05. > :24:13.is already a well worn part? wanted to, in some way capture
:24:13. > :24:18.whatever it was that drew people to her, and whatever it was that made
:24:18. > :24:28.people have a special venom for her as a public figure. You turn if you
:24:28. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:33.want to. The lady's not for turning. The most difficult thing I had to
:24:33. > :24:42.do was to find the breath to not only make my points, but to make
:24:42. > :24:48.sure that you did not get your point in. And another thing.
:24:49. > :24:52.Milk's gone up. 49p a pint. Meryl Streep plays two Margaret Thatchers.
:24:52. > :24:56.One is the political powerhouse, the other a fictionalised version
:24:56. > :25:01.depicting a frail old lady with dementia, having recurring visions
:25:01. > :25:05.of her deceased husband. To play one character in two such different
:25:05. > :25:11.ways is not easy. Without sounding too grand about it,
:25:11. > :25:20.there is a Shakespearean element to it, like a Learoyd Hamlet. Oh, I
:25:20. > :25:26.love you. Will Gompertz! Oh, God. I always called this Lear for girls.
:25:26. > :25:31.It is concerned with the end game and how, you know, power diminishes
:25:31. > :25:35.in every capacity. Now here is a man who knows Margaret Thatcher
:25:35. > :25:39.well. He found Meryl Streep's performance totally convincing, but
:25:39. > :25:43.was uncomfortable about the portrayal of his one-time boss in
:25:43. > :25:49.old age with Failing Mental Health. This will be very controversial.
:25:49. > :25:54.Margaret Thatcher is depicted as a feeble old lady, lonely, to some
:25:54. > :26:00.extent hallucinating. I found that painful to watch. If it were about
:26:00. > :26:04.my mother, I would feel very unhappy. I do think you can defend
:26:04. > :26:13.it as a work of art. Did you have qualms about doing it while she was
:26:13. > :26:21.still alive? I felt that if we did it in the right way, it would be OK.
:26:21. > :26:24.Members of my family have had dementia. And friends. There is a
:26:24. > :26:29.feeling that the walls are more permeable between the present and
:26:29. > :26:35.past. Meryl Streep has been nominated for more Oscars than any
:26:35. > :26:45.other actress, but it has been a while since she last won. The Iron
:26:45. > :26:46.
:26:46. > :26:51.Let's take a look at the weather now with Chris Fawkes.
:26:51. > :26:56.It will be a cold night for some of us. There will be a widespread
:26:56. > :27:02.frost in the countryside, with icy patches, especially where we have
:27:02. > :27:05.seen showers falling by day. There is more general rain piling in
:27:05. > :27:11.across south-east England and East Anglia. This rain could give us an
:27:11. > :27:16.inch of wet weather across parts of East Sussex and Kent before
:27:16. > :27:21.clearing away. And then underneath clearing skies, temperatures will
:27:21. > :27:25.plummet. There will be widespread frost and icy stretches on
:27:25. > :27:29.pavements across the north and west. It is there that we will see the
:27:29. > :27:36.most frequent showers overnight. Tomorrow will be a cold start as
:27:36. > :27:41.well. But in the afternoon, the cloud will thicken up across the
:27:41. > :27:46.West and we do see outbreaks of rain in western parts of Wales. It
:27:46. > :27:50.will turn damp as well for north- west England. For Northern Ireland,
:27:50. > :27:56.cloud and cold air. For much of the afternoon, temperatures will be
:27:56. > :27:59.struggling. A similar picture for western Scotland. But late in the
:27:59. > :28:04.day, milder air will push in. There will be snow over the mountains for
:28:04. > :28:12.northern Scotland. East of the Pennines, lots of sunshine. With
:28:12. > :28:15.will hang on to the sunshine across south-east England. The breeze will
:28:15. > :28:20.bring thicker cloud into the south- west of England before the end of
:28:20. > :28:25.the day. Looks like the weather will then turn wet during Friday
:28:25. > :28:29.night. There will be a spell of wet weather across England and Wales.
:28:29. > :28:34.Cooler air will follow into the North. We will see snow across
:28:34. > :28:43.northern hills, which will drift to lower levels as we go into Sunday.
:28:43. > :28:47.The Bank of England governor Mervyn King warns banks to build up