:00:13. > :00:16.Unemployment rises to its highest level for 17 years.
:00:16. > :00:24.It now stands at more than 2.6 million with young people bearing
:00:24. > :00:27.the brunt of it. I find it very hard to even come across a job I
:00:27. > :00:30.would apply for nevermind get an interview for.
:00:30. > :00:34.Job losses in the public sector far outnumber those created in the
:00:34. > :00:39.private sector. The central economic claim that he made that
:00:39. > :00:44.the private sector would fill the gap left by the public sector has
:00:44. > :00:46.not been met. His plans are for more spending, more borrowing, more
:00:46. > :00:49.debt, more of the mess we started with.
:00:49. > :00:53.Also on tonight's programme: Lloyds Bank is to sell more than
:00:53. > :00:57.600 of its branches to the Co-Op. At the Stephen Lawrence trial - the
:00:57. > :01:01.mother of one of the accused says her son was at home the night of
:01:01. > :01:04.the murder. The man who attacked and killed
:01:04. > :01:07.shoppers in Belgium - police discover the body of a woman close
:01:07. > :01:10.to his home. And the Royal family go globe
:01:10. > :01:19.trotting for the Diamond Jubilee, visiting every country where the
:01:19. > :01:29.Queen is head of state. I'll be here with Sportsday later
:01:29. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. Unemployment has
:01:48. > :01:52.risen sharply to more than 2.64 million, its highest level for 17
:01:52. > :01:55.years. Women and young people are the worst affected with the jobs
:01:55. > :02:01.created in the private sector dwarfed by those lost in the public
:02:01. > :02:04.sector. There is some good news among the gloom - Morrisons
:02:04. > :02:07.supermarkets says it will create more than 7,000 new jobs next year
:02:07. > :02:15.as it opens 25 new stores. Here's our chief economics correspondent
:02:15. > :02:18.Hugh Pym. It's hard to find any good news in
:02:18. > :02:24.these figures. Unemployment was up 128,000 over the three months to
:02:24. > :02:28.October to leave a total of 2.64 million. That's equivalent to 8.3%
:02:28. > :02:35.of the workforce, the highest since the mid 1990s. Around the UK, few
:02:35. > :02:39.job seekers are finding the task at all easy. In Glasgow, Therese Leahy
:02:39. > :02:44.will soon qualify as a physiotherapist. She's becoming
:02:44. > :02:49.increasingly worried about her job prospects. It's quite competitive.
:02:49. > :02:53.But it's the same - the problems of the job market isn't isolated to
:02:53. > :02:58.physiotherapy. It's the same across all courses - business, education,
:02:59. > :03:02.engineering. All students have the same difficulties we face.
:03:02. > :03:05.Northern Ireland, unemployment fell slightly, but that didn't help
:03:05. > :03:09.Kevin Davidson in Belfast. He has been looking for work in the
:03:09. > :03:14.construction industry, but has had no joy, so is heading to Australia,
:03:14. > :03:17.and he isn't the only one. Out of a master's course of 36 people, there
:03:17. > :03:20.would be about 35 people from that one particular course going to
:03:21. > :03:24.Australia. It's mix between architects, engineers and planners.
:03:24. > :03:29.One of the key economic debates this year has been over the ability
:03:29. > :03:33.of the private sector to take up the slack as the Government cuts
:03:33. > :03:37.back employment levels because of its deficit reduction plan. The
:03:37. > :03:40.latest figures suggest private employers aren't creating enough
:03:40. > :03:44.jobs to compensate for losses across the public sector. There was
:03:44. > :03:49.a big gap over the three months to September. Public sector employment
:03:49. > :03:54.fell by 67,000 to the lowest level in eight years. The number of
:03:54. > :03:57.private sector employees increased by just 5,000 over that time.
:03:57. > :04:01.And that provoked fierce clashes in the House of Commons at Prime
:04:01. > :04:05.Minister's Questions. He cannot deny that the central economic
:04:05. > :04:10.claim that he made that the private sector would fill the gap left by
:04:10. > :04:14.the public sector has not been met. He has broken his promise. It is
:04:14. > :04:19.this Government that has got interest rates down to 2%. That is
:04:19. > :04:22.why we have the prospects of growth, whereas his plans are for more
:04:22. > :04:29.spending, more borrowing, more debt, more of the mess that we started
:04:29. > :04:33.with. There was positive news on jobs from the Bradford headers of
:04:34. > :04:38.the supermarket chain Morrisons. It says it will create 7,000 new posts
:04:38. > :04:43.next year as it opens 25 new stores around the country. At least half
:04:43. > :04:49.will be part-time. But that has to be set against more gloomy news
:04:49. > :04:53.from travel giemt Thomas Cook. It increased its store closures to 200.
:04:53. > :04:57.600 jobs are at risk. The economy is generating and cutting jobs
:04:57. > :05:02.every month. Workers can only hope the balance is positive. Right now
:05:02. > :05:06.it isn't. Hugh Pym is with me here. Are these
:05:06. > :05:10.unemployment figures likely to get worse? Obviously, it's grim for
:05:11. > :05:15.people looking for work out there right now. People who study the
:05:15. > :05:18.market closely say it's not as bad as it might have been. If you look
:05:18. > :05:22.at the narrow measure of unemployment, the so-called
:05:22. > :05:26.claimant account of those signing up at job centres it hardly went up
:05:26. > :05:30.the past couple of months, though it's still pretty high. Looking
:05:30. > :05:33.into next year every forecaster says unemployment will go up. Even
:05:33. > :05:36.the Government's forecast to the OBR says there will be possibly an
:05:36. > :05:39.increase of a couple hundred thousand. That's based on an
:05:39. > :05:43.assumption of some growth next year. If there is a serious eurozone
:05:43. > :05:51.crisis that hits the UK, it could be even worse than that. One thing
:05:51. > :05:55.is clear - unemployment isn't going to come down in a hurry. Thank you
:05:55. > :05:58.very much. And there'll be more on the
:05:58. > :06:01.employment situation where you are at 6.30pm here on BBC One.
:06:01. > :06:05.The Stephen Lawrence murder trial has been told that one of the men
:06:05. > :06:08.accused of killing the teenager was at home on the night of the murder
:06:08. > :06:11.in south London 18 years ago. Pauline Dobson, the mother of Gary
:06:11. > :06:13.Dobson, claimed her son was in the house all evening. Gary Dobson and
:06:13. > :06:15.co-defendant David Norris both deny murder. Our home affairs
:06:15. > :06:19.correspondent Matt Prodger reports. Pauline Dobson outside the court
:06:19. > :06:23.where her son was in the dock accused of murder. She'd been
:06:23. > :06:27.called to speak in Gary Dobson's defence. The court was told about
:06:27. > :06:32.the moment when Stephen Lawrence was attacked by a gang of young
:06:32. > :06:38.white men in 1993. The murder took place in the Eltham area of South
:06:38. > :06:42.London. Stephen Lawrence and Duwane Brooks had been waiting for a bus
:06:42. > :06:47.on Well Hall Road. When it didn't come, they walked a short distance
:06:47. > :06:51.to look for it. It was here they were attacked by a gang which ran
:06:51. > :06:54.across the road. Stephen was stabbed but managed to run before
:06:54. > :06:59.collapsing and dying. Pauline Dobson told the court that at that
:06:59. > :07:04.time she saw her son at home making toast in his boxer shorts. Gary
:07:04. > :07:09.Dobson originally told police he'd stayed there all night, but then
:07:09. > :07:12.admitted he'd later gone to the home of two brothers, suspects in
:07:12. > :07:16.the original police investigation, the Acourts.
:07:16. > :07:21.The prosecution asked Pauline Dobson why in 1996 she'd told
:07:21. > :07:23.police that she'd seen her son in her kitchen ten or 15 minutes after
:07:23. > :07:28.the murder, by which time the prosecution says the attackers
:07:28. > :07:32.could have returned home. She replied that her recollection was
:07:32. > :07:36.accurate, give or take ten minutes and that Gary Dobson had been at
:07:36. > :07:41.home all evening. Gary Dobson's father Stephen also told the court
:07:41. > :07:46.his son had been at home. "I'd have been aware if he'd gone out the
:07:46. > :07:49.door", he said. Earlier Gary Dobson himself was asked about the moment
:07:49. > :07:59.a group of white youths chanced upon Stephen Lawrence and his
:07:59. > :08:09.
:08:10. > :08:19.Tomorrow, David Norris, the other man accused of the murder, will
:08:20. > :08:21.
:08:21. > :08:25.give evidence in court. Lloyds Bank is set to sell over 600
:08:25. > :08:27.of its branches to the Co-Op. It's being forced into the sale by
:08:27. > :08:30.European competition rules, and with tens of billions of pounds
:08:30. > :08:33.worth of deposits and mortgages, the deal is expected to make a
:08:33. > :08:36.significant impact on high street banking. Our business editor Robert
:08:36. > :08:42.Peston has more details. Louds is selling 632 branches
:08:42. > :08:47.serving five million customers. The preferred bidder is the Co-op. It's
:08:47. > :08:52.the biggest ever sale by branches of customers' savings, and unlike
:08:52. > :08:55.big banks, the Co-op is owned by its customers, not by investors.
:08:55. > :09:03.People talk about creating a people's bank. Look no further. We
:09:03. > :09:08.are the people's bank. We're owned and controlled by seven million
:09:08. > :09:12.members, and that's a very, very different business model to the PLC
:09:12. > :09:15.model within which the current big five banks operate. If the deal
:09:15. > :09:20.goes through it would be a bit of history because for the past 20
:09:20. > :09:25.years, building societies owned by their members, the likes of Abbey
:09:26. > :09:30.National, Bradford and Bingley, the Halifax and Woolwich became banks
:09:30. > :09:32.listed on the stock market, but this big chunk of Lloyds looks as
:09:32. > :09:39.though it's going in the other direction, to become part of what's
:09:39. > :09:43.known as a mutual. The Co-op would get a business with �36 billion of
:09:43. > :09:47.customer'ssive savings and with a share of just under 5% of the
:09:47. > :09:51.current market. Adding that with the Co-op's existing bank would
:09:51. > :09:55.give a share of 7.6%, a big enough organisation, many think, to give
:09:55. > :09:59.the big banks a run for their money. If it goes through, it would be
:09:59. > :10:06.good. It would be a strong challenger to the four dominant
:10:06. > :10:08.banks on the High Street, but it would leave behind luge Lloyds Bank
:10:08. > :10:14.with 2,500 branches and a quarter of the market. The Government must
:10:14. > :10:18.make them go further. Among the Lloyds branches being sold are 104
:10:18. > :10:22.Cheltenham and Gloucester branches. That'll pose many customers with a
:10:22. > :10:26.dilemma because Lloyds will want them to transfer across to the new
:10:26. > :10:31.owner, likely to be the Co-op, but will all those customers think
:10:31. > :10:36.that's a great idea? To be clear, the sale to the Co-op isn't done.
:10:36. > :10:39.There are hurdles - integration of complicated a computer systems,
:10:39. > :10:45.approval of the regulator, the absence of revolt by customers
:10:45. > :10:48.asked to move their accounts, but if the deal goes through, it would
:10:48. > :10:51.change banking as we know it just a bit.
:10:51. > :10:54.A minute's silence has been held in the Belgian city of Liege to
:10:54. > :10:58.remember the victims of a gun and grenade attack there yesterday. The
:10:58. > :11:00.body of a woman has been added to the death toll, discovered close to
:11:00. > :11:05.the home of the gunman Nordine Amrani. From Liege, here's our
:11:05. > :11:12.Europe correspondent Matthew Price. You're looking at the killer of
:11:12. > :11:17.Liege, Nordine Amrani, a gun fanatic, now turned mass murderer.
:11:17. > :11:22.Here they will never forget the day he entered their world, the day he
:11:22. > :11:26.ended several lives and ruined dozens more. Jean Michelle is one
:11:26. > :11:31.of many school children caught up in the attack. He was shot in the
:11:31. > :11:36.hip. His friend Pierre was killed. TRANSLATION: Everybody ran, ran,
:11:36. > :11:41.ran. Everybody was panicking. I heard gunshots. I fell. I'd been
:11:41. > :11:47.hit, shot through my hip, but I managed to get on to the bus.
:11:47. > :11:52.were the scenes moments after one of his grenades had exploded. At
:11:52. > :11:56.least one teenager died on the spot. More than 120 people were injured.
:11:56. > :12:01.This is the vantage point that just 24 hours ago Nordine Amrani chose
:12:01. > :12:06.for himself. He would have known that he had the potential to kill
:12:06. > :12:10.and injure vast numbers of people. He threw three grenades towards the
:12:10. > :12:14.bus shelters and then started firing upon the crowds below, and
:12:14. > :12:19.then just up there, the police say he shot himself. His killing spree,
:12:19. > :12:25.though, had started even earlier. Today the police said they'd found
:12:25. > :12:31.the body of a cleaner in his garage. He'd shot her. Up the road, his
:12:31. > :12:36.home, with a string of weapons, drug and sex offences, the police
:12:36. > :12:40.knew him well. The bullet scars now are a source of fascination and
:12:40. > :12:46.horror. The glass will be repaired. The buses are moving again. Life
:12:46. > :12:51.goes on, but not for 17-month-old Gabrielle. His mother heard a bang
:12:51. > :12:55.and saw his eyes roll back in his head. "I wish I'd died instead of
:12:55. > :12:57.him," she said. The Government has confirmed it's
:12:58. > :13:02.going ahead with controversial plans to let farmers shoot badgers
:13:02. > :13:05.in an effort to combat the spread of TB among cows. Two six-week
:13:05. > :13:08.trials will begin next year, before a decision is made on whether to
:13:08. > :13:11.roll out the slaughter of badgers more widely across England.
:13:11. > :13:17.Opponents of a cull say there should be more focus on developing
:13:17. > :13:19.TB vaccines. In England up to 24,000 people with
:13:19. > :13:25.diabetes are dying unnecessarily every year according to new
:13:25. > :13:28.research. Young women who have the disease are nine times more likely
:13:28. > :13:31.to die than those who don't, and experts say the mortality rate will
:13:31. > :13:34.increase unless there are changes in the way diabetes is managed. Our
:13:34. > :13:41.health correspondent Jane Hughes is here with the details. Jane, these
:13:41. > :13:44.are alarming figures. Aren't they? Yes, they are. Diabetes can be a
:13:44. > :13:50.devastating condition, and this study makes it clear just how much
:13:50. > :13:55.an impact it's having. It affects 2.3 million people across the UK.
:13:55. > :13:59.Complications can include heart disease, stroke, kidney damage and
:13:59. > :14:04.even blindness if patients don't control their insulin levels. The
:14:04. > :14:09.side effects can be deadly. In England alone there are 24,000
:14:09. > :14:13.preventable deaths linked to diabetes every year. Jenna was
:14:13. > :14:18.nearly one of them. This was her in Intensive Care earlier this year
:14:18. > :14:22.after falling into a potentially deadly coma. It happened because
:14:23. > :14:26.she wasn't managing her type one diabetes properly. She now makes
:14:26. > :14:33.sure she sees her specialist regularly. Since being in hospital,
:14:33. > :14:42.I test four times a day. I eat proper meals, and I make sure that
:14:42. > :14:48.my blood sugar is in a decent reading. It's unusual for someone
:14:48. > :14:53.of her age to die, but this study shows the increased risk of
:14:53. > :14:59.diabetic 15 to 34-year-olds is much greater than it is for younger
:14:59. > :15:06.patients. Young women with type one diabetes are more nine times more
:15:06. > :15:09.likely to die than of the same age. Young men are four times more
:15:09. > :15:13.likely to die. To prevent complications, patients should have
:15:13. > :15:17.regular health checks and watch their blood sugar levels, but
:15:17. > :15:22.that's not happening everywhere. Some worry that the NHS
:15:22. > :15:25.reorganisation in England will make diabetes care less coordinated. The
:15:25. > :15:28.Department of Health says that mustn't happen. We need to make
:15:29. > :15:33.sure we maintain integrated care that we help commissioners
:15:33. > :15:37.commission it properly and that we work with doctors and nurses and
:15:37. > :15:41.others delivering diabetes care to link up with each other so that
:15:41. > :15:47.care does not become fragmented and disintegrated. That's a challenge
:15:47. > :15:49.right across the UK, though this study concentrates on England.
:15:49. > :15:59.Rising levels of obesity mean diabetes is a greeing problem
:15:59. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:06.Unemployment hits 2.6 million. Its highest level for 17 years. The
:16:06. > :16:11.jubilee tour. Senior Royals will head for the Queen's 15 realms.
:16:11. > :16:15.Later on the BBC News Channel, worries over the eurozone debt
:16:15. > :16:25.crisis continue pushing the euro down to a low against the dollar.
:16:25. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:31.More on grim results from the tour operator Thomas cook. Surgeons at a
:16:31. > :16:35.hospital in Wales have been forced to suspend operations after thieves
:16:35. > :16:39.stole 100 metres of copper cables from a generator. It happened on
:16:39. > :16:46.the very Day police launched a crackdown to curb the rise in metal
:16:46. > :16:50.thefts across the country. Dozens of patients arrived at this
:16:50. > :16:54.hospital in south Wales today to find their operations were
:16:54. > :16:59.cancelled, including two waiting for vital treatment, all because
:16:59. > :17:03.thieves had taken the copper from a backup generator. There were two
:17:03. > :17:08.breast cancer patients for whom we have had to defer their surgery.
:17:08. > :17:12.That is a draw mat -- traumatic impact for those patients.we will
:17:12. > :17:18.re-schedule them as quibblingly as possible. I don't underestimate the
:17:18. > :17:26.trauma associated with that. Thieves taking advantage of the
:17:26. > :17:30.high price of metal have put lives at risk. It was the theft of copper
:17:30. > :17:37.that caused this explosion in Yorkshire earlier this year.
:17:37. > :17:40.Despite the dangers, the trade continues. Some dealers aren't
:17:40. > :17:44.apparently concerned about where the Metal comes from. This
:17:44. > :17:50.investigation by BBC London found scrap dealers willing to buy what
:17:50. > :17:56.they believe to be stolen cables. Even one willing to give advice.
:17:56. > :17:59.there is anyway you Coburn it, pull your copper out, they don't know
:17:59. > :18:04.different. This scrapyard accepted responsibility for taking the cable.
:18:04. > :18:08.It said the man filmed didn't know what he was doing. Metal theft is
:18:08. > :18:13.costing the economy millions of pounds every year. Today, as part
:18:13. > :18:18.of a crackdown across England and Wales, police forces were searching
:18:18. > :18:22.scrapyards. They didn't find anything stolen here, this is what
:18:22. > :18:27.as man was carrying nearby. account was differing about where
:18:27. > :18:34.he got it. He told us he finding it lying around. The right and proper
:18:34. > :18:41.thing to do isn't to take it your local scrapyard and weigh it in,
:18:41. > :18:47.it's to hand it to your local police. The Home Office is looking
:18:47. > :18:52.at strengthening the legislation that governs this industry. People
:18:52. > :18:57.may need identification. We checked on vehicle registration numbers.
:18:57. > :19:03.Some people's names don't exist and the vehicles aren't in existence
:19:03. > :19:08.either. Businesses are looking into what can be done to trace metal
:19:08. > :19:11.that can only be traced to back of lorries. Angela Merkel has sought
:19:11. > :19:17.to calm nerves in the European Union after last week's summit. She
:19:17. > :19:21.says Britain will remain a strong partner in the EU. Signs of growing
:19:21. > :19:25.dissent are emerging among some EU countries about what might be in
:19:25. > :19:29.the new treaty. We can talk to Nick Robinson at Westminster. There is
:19:29. > :19:33.always a chance that tensions among the 26 countries might emerge,
:19:33. > :19:37.wasn't there? There was a chance. The Prime Minister is trying to
:19:37. > :19:41.encourage those tensions and is talking them up. He has been
:19:41. > :19:48.talking to his backbench MPs at a private meeting upstairs from here.
:19:48. > :19:52.He told his MPs that there was a chance that this would not be 26
:19:52. > :19:54.against 1. Britain, other countries might shift their positions.
:19:54. > :19:58.Earlier today he talked to the Swedish Prime Minister. They have
:19:58. > :20:01.doubts about this. They described it as a blank piece of paper and
:20:01. > :20:04.have worries about whether they can get their Parliament to support. It
:20:05. > :20:08.he talked to the Irish Prime Minister who has worries in the
:20:08. > :20:11.European Union has taxes and the British don't that may help us,
:20:11. > :20:16.rather than hinder he might have to have a referendum. There is a long
:20:16. > :20:20.way from where we are now, which is the agreement of 26 countries to
:20:20. > :20:24.try to form a new treaty, and actually getting one which we won't
:20:24. > :20:28.know until next mafpb March. subject of Europe was the subject
:20:28. > :20:32.of lively exchanges at Prime Minister questions this afternoon?
:20:32. > :20:36.It was always going to be lively after a big week like this and
:20:36. > :20:41.lively in the last Prime Minister's Questions before Christmas. It will
:20:41. > :20:45.be lively when Ed Miliband is able to mock the coalition for being so
:20:45. > :20:48.obs obviously split on this issue of Europe. The Labour leader
:20:48. > :20:51.welcomed Nick Clegg back into the House of Commons. He wasn't there
:20:51. > :20:58.of course on Monday for the big statement on Europe. Then read out
:20:58. > :21:03.a quote about how the coalition would bring a more "Coe league it
:21:03. > :21:13.approach" he thought it was a great joke. The joke ended up on him.
:21:13. > :21:13.
:21:13. > :21:18.bound to ask, what's gone wrong? will answer. Look, no-one in this
:21:18. > :21:23.House is going to be surprised that Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
:21:23. > :21:28.don't always agree about Europe. Let me reassure him, he shouldn't
:21:28. > :21:35.believe everything he reads in the papers. It is... No, it's not that
:21:35. > :21:39.bad. It's not like we're brothers or anything! There could have been
:21:39. > :21:44.a word in the think bubbles above the heads of members of Parliament.
:21:44. > :21:47.It would have been this "ouch" Ed Miliband discovered this week,
:21:47. > :21:52.despite this terrible economic news, despite this isolation in Europe
:21:52. > :21:58.Labour has gone behind in the opinion polls. Politics is a team
:21:58. > :22:03.game. It's partly about moral. The truth is, the Tory moral is good,
:22:03. > :22:09.Labour's is bad. Now, Labour says what matters are judgments, not
:22:09. > :22:13.jokes. That is what you always say when you are the butt of one. Thank
:22:13. > :22:16.you. The former legal manager of the News of the World said today
:22:16. > :22:20.that he told James Murdoch there was "source of great controversy"
:22:20. > :22:25.that phone-hacking at the paper extended beyond a single reporter.
:22:25. > :22:29.Tom Crone told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics that he showed
:22:29. > :22:32.the News International Chairman a printout of a key e-mail at a
:22:32. > :22:39.meeting three years ago. James Murdoch has always claimed he
:22:39. > :22:44.didn't know that phone-hacking was rife. This report contains flash
:22:44. > :22:47.photography. Tom Crone told the inquiry that James Murdoch was
:22:47. > :22:50.briefed about the extent of phone- hacking. The Chief Executive of
:22:50. > :22:54.News International claimed he wasn't told the full story.
:22:54. > :22:59.Yesterday he conceded he was sent e-mails which he didn't fully read.
:22:59. > :23:05.Mr Crone recalled a meeting with Mr Murdoch last sum tore which he said
:23:05. > :23:11.he took copies of documents and e- mails and in which he claims they
:23:11. > :23:17.discussed the severety of the situation. This document clearly
:23:17. > :23:22.was direct and hard evidence. inquiry also heard from the News of
:23:22. > :23:28.the World's former editor, Colin Myler, the paper's last editor. He
:23:28. > :23:32.was asked about the publication of Kate McCann's diaries. He thought
:23:32. > :23:36.the McCann's representative had given them the go-ahead.
:23:36. > :23:42.Acknowledgeed they subsequently printed an apology and paid a
:23:42. > :23:45.significant sum into the Madeleine McCann fund. In it was an
:23:45. > :23:48.acceptance and acknowledgment that there had been a misplaced
:23:48. > :23:53.understanding that we had Kate's permission. We made that very clear
:23:54. > :23:58.that the last thing we wanted to do was to cause her any more distress.
:23:58. > :24:01.Another bereaved family was spoken of, the dhowers. Following
:24:01. > :24:06.revelation that the News of the World may not have been responsible
:24:06. > :24:16.for deleting voicemail's on their daughter's phone, council for the
:24:16. > :24:16.
:24:17. > :24:21.victims told the inquiry: This journalist asked Mr Lewis whether,
:24:21. > :24:26.and I quote "in view of these revelations will the dhowers be
:24:26. > :24:31.giving thaifr money back?". Daily Mail issued a statement
:24:31. > :24:39.saying they refute the allegation they attacked the Dowler family and
:24:39. > :24:42.said the call to the family solicitor was a "perfectly
:24:42. > :24:47.legitimate journalistic inquiry". The Royal Family will maubg the
:24:47. > :24:57.Queen's Diamond Jubilee by touring the globe. Buckingham Palace said
:24:57. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:06.even senior royals will visit the 15 nations where the Queen is Head
:25:06. > :25:10.of State. The Golden Jubilee of 2002 brought out the crowds and
:25:11. > :25:15.took the Queen and her husband to many different parts of the United
:25:15. > :25:20.Kingdom notwithstanding by next summer she will be ten years old
:25:20. > :25:23.the programme for the Diamond Jubilee is said by the Palace to be
:25:23. > :25:27.more extensive. The Queen will concentrate on the UK. Members of
:25:27. > :25:30.her family visit the 15 other countries of which she is Head of
:25:30. > :25:34.State and other Commonwealth Commonwealth countries. This is how
:25:34. > :25:44.the Diamond Jubilee programme looks for Britain. The Queen's visit will
:25:44. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:25.It will undoubtedly be a test of stamina. She has been doing it for
:26:25. > :26:29.60 years. That is what keeps her going. Also, her entire devotion to
:26:29. > :26:34.duty. This is what she gave her life for. She really has given her
:26:34. > :26:40.life for it. It will be 115 years since Britain last witnessed a
:26:40. > :26:44.Diamond Jubilee. That was in 1897 for Queen Vic tore ya. More than a
:26:44. > :26:48.century later, Britain will have another opportunity to express its
:26:48. > :26:53.feelings for another long-lived Queen. The programme for next year
:26:53. > :26:59.will be carefully paced, but the Palace say it's the Queen's express
:26:59. > :27:02.wish to visit as much of the country that she can. Let's take a
:27:02. > :27:06.look at the weather now. John look at the weather now. John
:27:06. > :27:13.Hammond is here. We are closing in on the storm. Shall I say, the
:27:13. > :27:20.storm is closing in on us. Watch this space. We are firming up on
:27:20. > :27:25.ideas as I speak. Ahead of that a whole cluster of showers this
:27:25. > :27:31.evening through South West England. Some very, very strong winds. Guss
:27:31. > :27:35.of 70mph to 80mph. The Channel Islands badly affected. They will
:27:35. > :27:39.brush on to the south coast of England as well. The main hazard
:27:39. > :27:44.over night will be ice and fog. Ice almost anywhere as temperatures
:27:44. > :27:47.fall, close to freezing. Fog across Northern Ireland and central and
:27:47. > :27:52.southern Scotland and northern England as well. Wintry start to
:27:52. > :27:56.Thursday. Another cold day. Many of us will enjoy a fine enough day,
:27:57. > :28:00.the calm before the storm. There will be some showers around.
:28:00. > :28:05.Through the afternoon I think we can trace one particular band
:28:05. > :28:13.running from Northern Ireland down through the Irish Sea ahead of that
:28:13. > :28:18.some brightness in Scotland and north-east England. Maybe sleet and
:28:19. > :28:23.snow up over the high ground. Some sunshine before trouble looms to
:28:23. > :28:32.the South West. It will turn increasingly wet and windy across
:28:32. > :28:36.the South West of England. A taste of things to come. Snow is of most
:28:36. > :28:42.concern across parts of Wales, Midlands and northern England. A
:28:42. > :28:46.real mixture of severe weather out there. It looks as if the storm
:28:46. > :28:51.will track close to the south coast and into southern parts of East
:28:52. > :28:54.Anglia. The risk of damaging winds is limited, we think. There is an
:28:54. > :28:58.alternative, the low moves further northwards. If that happens we
:28:58. > :29:02.could well see damaging winds across the far south-east. We are