:00:08. > :00:14.Standing alone - Britain vetoes a new EU deal though all of the other
:00:14. > :00:17.26 countries agree to start work on a separate treaty.
:00:17. > :00:20.After a night of tense negotiations, signs of less than warm relations
:00:20. > :00:29.with the French President, but David Cameron insists it's right
:00:29. > :00:38.for Britain. We were offered a treaty that didn't have proper
:00:38. > :00:42.safeguards. We decided, a. The other EU countries agree to
:00:42. > :00:45.tighter economic rules though the detail is yet to be thrashed out.
:00:45. > :00:51.We can make compromises for the sake of the euro, we had to make
:00:51. > :00:54.hard rules, but this will not stop Europe moving forward.
:00:54. > :00:57.Also on tonight's programme: A police inspector, sacked a week
:00:57. > :01:00.ago, is believed to have killed his wife and daughter.
:01:00. > :01:07.Clearing up after last night's gales in Scotland, 50,000 homes are
:01:07. > :01:10.still without power. And the latest internet sensation -
:01:10. > :01:20.the sailors of HMS Ocean finally return home after seven months at
:01:20. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:49.Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at six. Britain appears to be
:01:49. > :01:53.more isolated within Europe than at any other time since it joined the
:01:54. > :01:57.Common Market nearly 40 years ago. David Cameron was the only leader
:01:57. > :02:04.to veto in new European Union deal designed to stabilise the Europe in
:02:04. > :02:08.the long term. Three others will consult their parliaments on
:02:08. > :02:11.whether to participate. The prime minister insisted it was in
:02:11. > :02:15.Britain's best interests. We will get more on the implications for
:02:15. > :02:22.Britain in a moment. First, how we Europe Editor on the summit that
:02:22. > :02:28.left Britain standing alone. This was a summit when the European
:02:28. > :02:33.Union changed, summit full of tension. The French President was
:02:33. > :02:37.chipper, a British Prime Minister managing a tense smile as Britain's
:02:37. > :02:41.relationship with Europe changed. France and Germany had wanted to
:02:41. > :02:45.amend the treaty is to impose tougher disciplines over budget.
:02:45. > :02:51.That needed British agreement, but the Prime Minister wanted
:02:51. > :02:55.safeguards in return. The argument continued until 4am. A good morning,
:02:55. > :03:00.everyone, it sorry for keeping you up quite so long. I said before
:03:01. > :03:04.coming to Brussels if I couldn't get adequate safeguards for Britain
:03:04. > :03:09.in a new European Union treaty I would not agree to it. What is on
:03:09. > :03:14.offer is not in Britain's interests, so I didn't agree to it. David
:03:14. > :03:17.Cameron had wanted to protect the UK's financial services sector, but
:03:17. > :03:23.the French and Germans were in no mood to make concessions to the
:03:23. > :03:28.British. TRANSLATION: David Cameron asks for something we thought was
:03:28. > :03:32.unacceptable, to exempt the UK from some regulations on financial
:03:32. > :03:37.services. We think a large part of the problem comes from the
:03:37. > :03:40.deregulation of financial services. The idea of a treaty change was
:03:40. > :03:44.effectively sunk by a British veto. Before the leaders headed off for
:03:44. > :03:48.two hours' sleep they made it clear if they couldn't get a treaty
:03:48. > :03:52.change to the eurozone countries would go it alone with a deal of
:03:52. > :03:56.their own. Gradually it became clear just how isolated Britain had
:03:56. > :04:00.become. For most of the other countries not in the eurozone
:04:00. > :04:05.indicated they might sign up for this new pact, increasingly it
:04:05. > :04:10.appeared as if it might end up with Britain on one side, and 26 other
:04:10. > :04:15.countries on the other. So what have all these eurozone countries
:04:15. > :04:19.signed up to? Much greater European control over their tax and spending.
:04:19. > :04:24.National budgets will be viewed at European level first. Sanctions for
:04:24. > :04:30.those who overspend like Greece and Italy. These countries will meet
:04:30. > :04:35.every month. Britain will be excluded. Daybreak after a marathon
:04:35. > :04:40.night. The leaders returned to the summit and Angela Merkel said this
:04:40. > :04:43.about David Cameron. TRANSLATION: David Cameron was at the
:04:43. > :04:47.negotiating table with us and we made this decision to stop a war we
:04:47. > :04:51.couldn't do was make a lousy compromise for the euro, we had to
:04:51. > :04:55.set up hard rules. Other leaders noted Britain had been alone in
:04:55. > :05:00.demanding concessions. Brits that divided and they are outside of
:05:00. > :05:03.decision-making. The mood of Britain as the outsider seemed to
:05:03. > :05:08.extend to a ceremony welcoming Croatia as the latest European
:05:08. > :05:11.Union member. Last but not least, the United Kingdom, Mr David
:05:11. > :05:17.Cameron. The Prime Minister said he wasn't
:05:17. > :05:21.frightened of being left out of future talks. Europe's leaders
:05:21. > :05:25.headed home with a new pact to instil discipline over their
:05:25. > :05:30.spending. What hasn't been addressed his debt and low growth,
:05:31. > :05:35.the fundamental problems of the eurozone.
:05:35. > :05:39.David Cameron has insisted Britain will still have a significant
:05:40. > :05:44.influence in Europe despite being the only country to vetoed a new
:05:44. > :05:48.agreement. His stance has delighted the Euro-sceptics within his party
:05:48. > :05:54.and has prompted new calls for referendum. We now look at his
:05:54. > :05:58.decision to go it alone. This picture might not make it onto
:05:58. > :06:04.David Cameron's mantelpiece, it captures the moment to the European
:06:04. > :06:07.family split, 26 against one, the moment a British Prime Minister
:06:07. > :06:11.made a stand, at the moment others say he was hopelessly outmanoeuvred
:06:11. > :06:15.by the French President. Obviously in a room with 26 other
:06:15. > :06:19.people who are saying put aside your national interest, go along
:06:19. > :06:23.with the crowd, do what will make life easy and comfortable for you
:06:23. > :06:29.in that room, be used a no, it is important we get the things Britain
:06:29. > :06:33.needs, so I decided not to sign that a treaty. On them when after a
:06:33. > :06:37.long night before David Cameron found himself alone at the table.
:06:37. > :06:40.He might have to get used to it. The leaders of France and Germany
:06:40. > :06:45.and the European Commission will now plant Europe's economic future
:06:45. > :06:50.without Britain. -- plan. Even countries now not in the euro will
:06:50. > :06:56.join in. When Europe's leaders made it is quite possible 26 will be in
:06:56. > :07:00.the room, one, Britain, will not be there. How is that in the country's
:07:00. > :07:04.interest? Her we are not in a Europe, we don't want to join, so I
:07:04. > :07:10.did want to go to metres of eurozone leaders. There are 17
:07:10. > :07:15.leaders, this is one country, one leader, not there. It is right for
:07:15. > :07:18.Britain to say which bits of Europe most benefit us as a nation and to
:07:18. > :07:22.focus on those things. I am not frightened of the fact sometimes
:07:22. > :07:26.you might not be included in something. Are we better off
:07:26. > :07:30.outside the euro? You bet we are. day ago he was facing calls from
:07:30. > :07:36.his own party for a fundamental renegotiation of Britain's
:07:36. > :07:40.relationship with Europe, for a referendum as well. Now even Boris
:07:40. > :07:44.Johnson is praising him. He has played a blinder, done the only
:07:44. > :07:48.thing that was open for him to do. I understand the argument in favour
:07:48. > :07:51.of these measures because everybody is deaf -- desperate to save Europe
:07:51. > :07:55.but they would just mean a quite unacceptable loss of national
:07:55. > :08:01.sovereignty. Not so, the Labour leader, he says
:08:01. > :08:05.the Prime Minister is keeping his party together before the country's
:08:05. > :08:08.interest. It is a terrible outcome for Britain because we will be
:08:08. > :08:13.excluded from key economic decisions that will affect our
:08:13. > :08:18.country in the future. Frankly, David Cameron has mishandled the
:08:18. > :08:22.negotiations spectacularly. All but the French came to Brussels
:08:22. > :08:29.saying they wanted a deal involving all the members, David Cameron is
:08:29. > :08:33.trying to make the best of his isolation. You are still a member
:08:33. > :08:37.of the European Union, his Irish counterpart reassure some. How much
:08:37. > :08:41.comfort will that be to the Tories' very pro European coalition
:08:41. > :08:44.partners? Any Euro-sceptic he might be
:08:44. > :08:49.rubbing their hands in glee about the outcome of the summit last
:08:49. > :08:52.night should be careful for what they wish for. Clearly there is
:08:52. > :08:56.potential -- potentially an increased risk for a two-speed
:08:56. > :08:59.Europe where Britain's position becomes more marginalised.
:09:00. > :09:03.President Sarkozy left smiling, he has always argued Britain should
:09:03. > :09:09.and influence decisions that are none of our business.
:09:09. > :09:16.You compare this with a chess game, it is check made it to President
:09:16. > :09:20.Sarkozy, he has got exactly what he wants -- checkmate. For Britain we
:09:20. > :09:23.are in those parts of Europe we need to be in, but we will not be
:09:23. > :09:26.involved in this quite complex treaty with tough punishments for
:09:26. > :09:32.countries in other parts of Europe that live beyond their means, a
:09:32. > :09:36.whole lot of additional complexity, bureaucracy and rules, we are not
:09:36. > :09:39.in the euro, so we don't need to be in that. David Cameron headed home
:09:39. > :09:43.knowing he has done something even Margaret Thatcher never did,
:09:43. > :09:50.Britain is still in the European Union, but much of it is now
:09:50. > :09:54.heading off in a completely different direction.
:09:54. > :09:58.Today's agreement aimed at creating new rules for running the eurozone
:09:58. > :10:02.in the future. It didn't directly tackle the current debt problems
:10:02. > :10:07.undermining the euro. Will the deal help contain the eurozone crisis?
:10:07. > :10:13.What are the implications for the UK? Our Economics Editor it takes a
:10:13. > :10:19.closer look at the deal. To be questioned, his is the right
:10:19. > :10:23.plan for the eurozone and the right deal for the UK -- two big
:10:23. > :10:27.questions. David Cameron wanted a good plan for the city, not an
:10:27. > :10:30.open-ended veto, but a level playing field so banks don't get
:10:30. > :10:33.penalised for being outside the euro and the national power to
:10:33. > :10:38.regulate banks more aggressively than everyone else if you want to.
:10:38. > :10:43.He also wanted a chance to veto any transfer of powers to Brussels, he
:10:43. > :10:46.didn't get these so he said no. Was it worth it for an industry that
:10:46. > :10:51.accounts for a tiny fraction of our economy? Protecting it was
:10:51. > :10:55.essential, whatever you may think. Allowing it to be regulated in a
:10:55. > :10:58.way that transferred to other business to Europe, or in ways that
:10:58. > :11:03.prevented us doing business was something he had to stepper and on.
:11:03. > :11:08.Is still remains to be seen where the line will be drawn between this
:11:08. > :11:12.new grouping and the single market. I hope that the rules will remain
:11:12. > :11:16.in place and the UK will continue to engage, make short the very
:11:16. > :11:20.British part of Europe, the single market, is protected, maintained
:11:20. > :11:24.and enhanced. You might say the best plan for the
:11:24. > :11:29.UK or the City of London last night was any plan that saved the Europe.
:11:30. > :11:34.Why? Because more crisis for the single currency could sink our
:11:34. > :11:38.recovery and caused havoc for Britain's banks. After all, 40% of
:11:38. > :11:43.our exports go to countries in the eurozone, and our banks are sitting
:11:43. > :11:47.on more than �640 billion worth of eurozone assets, about a third of
:11:47. > :11:52.those are from countries now in crisis. Are the decisions taken at
:11:52. > :11:55.the summit enough to lift that a threat? It was a good deal for
:11:55. > :11:58.Germany, it got the new budget rules which will kick in
:11:58. > :12:02.automatically in future to stop countries getting into trouble.
:12:02. > :12:07.That is the plan. And a good night for the head of the International
:12:07. > :12:11.Monetary Fund. 200 billion euros. The new money the fund is getting
:12:11. > :12:16.from the eurozone. UK will not be contributing until at the G20
:12:16. > :12:19.countries do the same. There wasn't much sign of that big bazooka to
:12:19. > :12:23.protect the Europe Mr Cameron called for, and little sign the
:12:23. > :12:28.players with the deepest pockets, Germany and the European Central
:12:28. > :12:31.Bank, were preparing to do more. Without that, many in the markets
:12:31. > :12:34.say the eurozone is still on borrowed time. They have done
:12:34. > :12:38.enough to tide themselves ever for the time being. There are more
:12:38. > :12:43.questions further down the line into next year about getting those
:12:43. > :12:47.resources up and running, but for now they have held the line. So at
:12:47. > :12:57.the Euro lives to fight another day with this deal, but in or out, the
:12:57. > :12:58.
:12:58. > :13:02.risk of a catastrophe on our We can go back to Brussels now. We
:13:02. > :13:07.can speak to our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt. There is still a long
:13:07. > :13:11.way to go before the details of this deal can be finalised - is
:13:11. > :13:17.there any certainty which countries will be part of it if and when it
:13:17. > :13:20.is agreed? There is so much that we do not know yet. For instance, the
:13:20. > :13:25.details behind this new package will not actually be negotiated
:13:25. > :13:31.until March, and then there is the reality on the ground. Take Greece,
:13:31. > :13:35.its debt mountain, at more than 350 billion euros, is still increasing,
:13:35. > :13:39.its output is going down. Italy, a much more important country,
:13:39. > :13:46.economically, its debt mountain is going up, its output is going down
:13:46. > :13:50.by about 4%. If Italy were to get into trouble, it is still to be an
:13:50. > :13:55.economy to be bailed out. Here in this building, there is absolute
:13:55. > :13:59.determination to keep every country inside the euro. This week was
:13:59. > :14:05.billed as the week to save the euro. Tonight, can we be certain that the
:14:05. > :14:09.euro has been saved? No, not at all. There is still a huge amount of
:14:09. > :14:13.uncertainty in the days and weeks ahead. Nick Robinson, given that
:14:13. > :14:17.there is such a long way to go on this deal, why did David Cameron
:14:17. > :14:21.veto it at such an early stage? believed it simply was not in
:14:21. > :14:26.Britain's interest, he believed there was a real danger that if
:14:26. > :14:31.Britain went along with this, the institutions of Europe, the civil
:14:31. > :14:33.servants and judges in the European Commission and the European Court
:14:33. > :14:36.of Justice could be used to deliberately damage the City of
:14:36. > :14:40.London, which is the global financial capital, and which
:14:40. > :14:45.produces so much taxation for the British Government to spend. Now,
:14:45. > :14:50.there are people who say, even so, he's not really protected the City
:14:50. > :14:55.one little bit. They say all of this is still in doubt. And there
:14:55. > :15:00.may be Euro-sceptics, certainly most Conservatives, who hail this
:15:00. > :15:03.as a great moment for Britain, but they are likely to demand more. The
:15:03. > :15:07.coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, are much less impressed.
:15:07. > :15:12.Yes, they went along with his negotiating strategy, but I have
:15:12. > :15:17.just been speaking to a senior Cabinet minister who said this - I
:15:17. > :15:21.fear we may have sacrificed a place at the European table in order to
:15:22. > :15:26.satisfy Conservative Euro-sceptics. No-one knows where this goes now,
:15:26. > :15:30.if the eurozone collapses, all this talk of British vetoes may seem
:15:30. > :15:34.frankly rather irrelevant. But we may be at the beginning of a
:15:35. > :15:44.profound change in our relationship with the whole of the rest of
:15:45. > :15:54.
:15:55. > :15:58.You can find a special question and Our top story tonight... David
:15:58. > :16:02.Cameron has defended his decision to veto a deal to end the eurozone
:16:02. > :16:05.crisis, but critics say he has left Britain out in the cold. Coming
:16:05. > :16:15.up... Feeling the heat - how the economic climate is having a big
:16:15. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:32.impact on efforts to get a new deal In Scotland, around 40,000
:16:33. > :16:38.households are still without power tonight after the most powerful
:16:38. > :16:41.storm for more than a decade. More than 1,000 engineers are working to
:16:41. > :16:44.restore power, but many families will have to wait until the weekend
:16:44. > :16:54.to be reconnected. Our Scotland correspondent, James Cook, has the
:16:54. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:04.latest. Engineer skirting Cables free, battling to restore power.
:17:04. > :17:09.This scene is being repeated in hundreds of locations. Yesterday
:17:09. > :17:14.was absolutely horrendous. Over a period of eight or nine hours, we
:17:14. > :17:19.had sustained high winds, of more than 100 miles an hour. We used to
:17:19. > :17:23.wind speeds of that nature, but not for that length of time. For this
:17:23. > :17:27.man, in his 70s, it has been a struggle to keep warm. Thousands of
:17:27. > :17:37.families are in the same position tonight. This is the reality of
:17:37. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:44.life without power. The Electric is off, and you have no heat, except
:17:44. > :17:49.for a log fire. You have got to prepare everything during daylight,
:17:49. > :17:53.otherwise you're just working by candles during the night. There
:17:53. > :17:57.were crushed the problems of a different kind in Ayrshire. This
:17:57. > :18:01.wind turbine performed a pirouette in the storm. It should have shut
:18:01. > :18:06.down, but something went wrong, and the flames were visible for miles
:18:06. > :18:12.around. It was a huge file born initially. The whole top section
:18:12. > :18:16.was alight. The flames shot out from it. This graphically
:18:17. > :18:21.illustrates the power of the storm. A freak gust brought rubble
:18:21. > :18:26.tumbling down into the garden. It is incredible that nobody was
:18:26. > :18:34.injured. You can see by the look of the front garden, there's three or
:18:34. > :18:39.four tons of rubble there. It could have been a lot worse. Tonight,
:18:39. > :18:43.across Scotland, stories of lucky escapes are being told. Here,
:18:43. > :18:47.several families were evacuated. Seven lorries were blown over.
:18:47. > :18:54.There were more than 100 major incidents on the roads, but there
:18:54. > :18:58.are no reports of deaths or serious injuries. These walkers were
:18:59. > :19:02.especially lucky. Trapped by the storm, they had to pitch camp and
:19:02. > :19:06.seek shelter until it passed. As they walked to safety this morning,
:19:06. > :19:10.they did not know they had been reported missing. The helicopter
:19:11. > :19:17.went past at first light. We were thinking, is that for us? And it
:19:17. > :19:23.was. In the Northern Isles, the storm raged on today. Schools were
:19:23. > :19:32.closed, communities were cut off, and across Scotland, thousands are
:19:32. > :19:35.A police inspector from Leicestershire who was dismissed
:19:35. > :19:37.from the force a week ago is believed to have killed his wife
:19:37. > :19:40.and six-year-old daughter, and seriously injured their two
:19:40. > :19:49.teenagers. Toby Day, who was 37, then killed himself. Anthony
:19:49. > :19:52.Bartram reports. This is Toby Day and his wife Samantha. Detectives
:19:52. > :19:57.are trying to work out why the former police inspector turned on
:19:57. > :20:00.his own family. People locally are asking the same question. She was a
:20:00. > :20:06.lovely lady, a really good teacher, really great with other children.
:20:06. > :20:10.She was a really nice lady, she will be really missed. My son goes
:20:10. > :20:13.to nursery, and I spoke to her a couple of days ago on Wednesday. I
:20:14. > :20:19.knew both of them quite well. Just devastated, cannot believe what has
:20:19. > :20:23.happened. Mr Day was sacked by Leicestershire police for
:20:23. > :20:28.misconduct last week, and yesterday he was told that reporters had
:20:28. > :20:34.found out. Neighbours in Melton Mowbray heard screams yesterday
:20:34. > :20:38.afternoon. Later, they were told the couple and their six-year-old
:20:38. > :20:42.daughter Jenaveve had died. The eldest two children survived the
:20:43. > :20:47.attack, with serious injuries. 15- year-old Kimberley ran from the
:20:47. > :20:51.house to raise the alarm. Tonight, she's in hospital with her brother
:20:51. > :20:55.Adam in a stable condition, with the thoughts and prayers of their
:20:56. > :21:01.friends and family. I knew them personally myself, I prepared to
:21:01. > :21:05.two older children for confirmation just six weeks ago. My heart and
:21:05. > :21:08.the whole heart of this Christian community goes out to them.
:21:08. > :21:16.investigation continues tonight, and detectives are still appealing
:21:16. > :21:18.A judge has agreed to a request made by the Moors murderer, Ian
:21:18. > :21:22.Brady, to have his mental health tribunal held in public. The
:21:22. > :21:25.hearing will decide whether Brady, who is now 73, can be released from
:21:25. > :21:28.a secure hospital to serve out the rest of his sentence in prison.
:21:28. > :21:38.Brady and his partner Myra Hindley were responsible for the murders of
:21:38. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:44.Thousands of miles away from Brussels, another major summit is
:21:44. > :21:47.taking place. Delegates in Durban in South Africa are trying to agree
:21:47. > :21:49.a new global treaty to tackle climate change. Today is the final
:21:49. > :21:51.day of two weeks of talks, and as our environment correspondent,
:21:51. > :22:01.David Shukman, reports, despite negotiations through the night,
:22:01. > :22:02.
:22:02. > :22:06.it's still far from certain that a Year after year, the gases which
:22:06. > :22:10.are blamed for global warming are being pumped out in ever greater
:22:10. > :22:13.quantities. Government's talk about dealing with climate change,
:22:13. > :22:18.scientists say it is urgent, but the economic crisis is more
:22:18. > :22:25.immediate, so international action keeps getting put off. Outside the
:22:25. > :22:28.latest negotiations, a solar- powered join. This is South Africa,
:22:28. > :22:34.Durban, with negotiators from all over the world once again
:22:34. > :22:39.struggling to reach agreement. The top climate official at the UN
:22:39. > :22:42.agrees it is not enough. We will be leaving here with an important step
:22:42. > :22:46.forward, but it will not match up to the science, that is very clear.
:22:47. > :22:51.This is a very critically important step forward, but it is
:22:51. > :22:56.insufficient. What is emerging is that climate negotiations are
:22:56. > :23:01.really slowing down. The Kyoto Protocol, the first and only treaty
:23:01. > :23:05.on greenhouse gases, runs out at the end of 2012. Only the EU and a
:23:05. > :23:10.few others were put paid to stick with it, but they only account for
:23:10. > :23:20.15% of global emissions. A new global treaty may not come until
:23:20. > :23:24.2020, or even later. This afternoon, protesters tried to disrupt the
:23:24. > :23:28.conference, accusing negotiators of stalling. But jostling with the
:23:28. > :23:31.police will do nothing to barged the biggest economies - China,
:23:31. > :23:37.India and America, all worried that a climate treaty could restrain
:23:37. > :23:41.growth. The European Union can make the case for a robust and ambitious
:23:42. > :23:46.agreement, we can be supported by many developing countries, but
:23:46. > :23:50.unless China, India and the US are on board, three of the biggest
:23:50. > :23:55.polluters on the planet, we will not get a global solution. In a
:23:55. > :23:58.field near the conference centre, a new kind of solar power system.
:23:58. > :24:03.Many companies and countries are moving to greener forms of energy,
:24:03. > :24:07.but not having an international treaty makes investors more nervous.
:24:07. > :24:10.Another load of coal is delivered to a power station in China.
:24:10. > :24:15.Greenhouse gases looks set to keep rising. Governments have been told
:24:15. > :24:25.of the risks, but have other priorities. The result - Global
:24:25. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:28.It The crew of a Royal Navy ship who became Internet sensations
:24:28. > :24:31.after they recorded a Christmas video while at sea have arrived
:24:31. > :24:34.back in port. HMS Ocean was supposed to be on duty for seven
:24:34. > :24:37.weeks but was redeployed to provide helicopter cover for the campaign
:24:37. > :24:43.in Libya and was away for over seven months. Our defence
:24:43. > :24:47.correspondent, Jonathan Beale, reports from onboard HMS Ocean. Is
:24:47. > :24:51.was meant to be a seven-week exercise for the crew of HMS Ocean.
:24:51. > :24:54.But it ended up being more than seven months at sea. This man flew
:24:55. > :25:00.back briefly to witness the birth of his twins, but he has missed
:25:00. > :25:07.most of their young lives. Today, they will be reunited. How excited
:25:07. > :25:12.are you about seeing them? Nervous and excited, yes, it is going to be
:25:12. > :25:16.good. His partner was waiting onshore, one amongst hundreds of
:25:16. > :25:20.family and friends counting down until their arrival. Emotional,
:25:20. > :25:25.butterflies, first wedding anniversary in two weeks' time. So
:25:25. > :25:29.glad to have him home. The band of the Royal Marines was there for the
:25:29. > :25:36.homecoming, and a fly-past by some of the helicopters aboard, which
:25:36. > :25:39.had seen action over Libya. One thought kept them going. It is
:25:39. > :25:45.wonderful to live up to the promise that I would be home before
:25:45. > :25:49.Christmas. Just in case their captain did not keep that promise,
:25:49. > :25:54.the crew had sent their families this Christmas video. It has now
:25:54. > :25:58.become an Internet sensation, with more than a million hits. This is
:25:58. > :26:04.the moment they have been waiting for, after months cooped up on this
:26:04. > :26:11.ship. The stampede to be reunited with their families has begun. The
:26:11. > :26:18.emotional release was obvious after months of isolation, and the chance
:26:18. > :26:24.to see the family again. Just speechless. Perfect, just as we
:26:24. > :26:27.wanted, isn't it? To date, for the crew of HMS Ocean and their
:26:27. > :26:32.families, after more than seven months apart, Christmas really has
:26:32. > :26:39.Let's take a look at the weekend Let's take a look at the weekend
:26:39. > :26:48.weather now, with Nick Miller. We have the coldest night of the
:26:48. > :26:52.season so far are coming, with a widespread frost, and also ice. The
:26:52. > :26:56.showers will continue in parts of north-west England, Northern
:26:56. > :27:06.Ireland and western and central Scotland. As the night goes on, the
:27:06. > :27:11.snow will be increasingly confined to higher ground. As those
:27:11. > :27:16.temperatures drop away with the widespread frost, it is ice which
:27:16. > :27:19.is the main concern overnight and into tomorrow morning across
:27:19. > :27:26.Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern England. What follows will
:27:26. > :27:32.be plenty of sunshine across the south-east of England, always a bit
:27:32. > :27:42.more cloud to the west. - and the picture at 3 o'clock. Most of us
:27:42. > :27:43.
:27:43. > :27:46.will be dry, a mixture of cloud and some sunny spells. In Northern
:27:46. > :27:51.Ireland and western Scotland, as you can see, the rain not too far
:27:51. > :27:55.away. The breeze will be freshening. There will be another spell of snow
:27:55. > :27:58.across northern Scotland. Some brighter spells occasionally down
:27:58. > :28:01.the eastern side of Scotland. More sunshine for north-east England,
:28:01. > :28:11.and across the Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east of
:28:11. > :28:19.England. Another day of Chris sunshine. It will be less cold on
:28:19. > :28:23.Saturday night. On Sunday, it will be more breezy. More wintry showers
:28:23. > :28:28.in Scotland. Next week, it could be in Scotland. Next week, it could be
:28:28. > :28:32.turning very windy again. More on that over the weekend.