:00:09. > :00:12.Trained for the war zone - now they'll make their mark on London
:00:12. > :00:16.2012. More than 13,000 troops are drafted in to help secure the
:00:16. > :00:19.Olympics. A battleship on the Thames, attack
:00:19. > :00:29.helicopters at the ready - the security operation is being stepped
:00:29. > :00:31.
:00:31. > :00:33.up. The military will be using its full range of capabilities and
:00:33. > :00:37.equipment to keep London safe during the Olympics.
:00:37. > :00:39.Also on tonight's programme: The Stephen Lawrence murder trial -
:00:39. > :00:42.one of the accused says he's innocent but can't remember where
:00:42. > :00:46.he was that night. A new plan targets England's most
:00:46. > :00:52.troubled families. Ministers promise a network of help, but what
:00:52. > :00:57.do residents think? Do you think those troubled families will will?
:00:57. > :01:00.No. No. No, they'll do their own thing. They'll do their own thing
:01:00. > :01:04.because they always have done their own thing.
:01:04. > :01:07.America brings the flag down on its controversial war in Iraq - we'll
:01:07. > :01:10.be looking at the legacy. And despite the sales and discount
:01:10. > :01:20.deals, new figures point to a cautious Christmas on the high
:01:20. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:26.Coming up on Sportsday on the BBC News channel, Chelsea say Torres is
:01:26. > :01:36.not for sale at any price. Reports suggested they might be ready to
:01:36. > :01:45.
:01:46. > :01:49.let him go in the January transfer Good evening. Welcome to BBC News
:01:49. > :01:52.at 6.00pm. Up to 13,500 British troops - that's more than the
:01:52. > :01:55.number deployed in Afghanistan - are being drafted in to help secure
:01:55. > :01:58.the London Olympics. Half of them will eventually patrol the sporting
:01:58. > :02:01.venues and be used to protect the athletes and spectators. The rest
:02:01. > :02:06.will work behind the scenes offering specialist equipment and
:02:06. > :02:09.skills. Troops have been used at previous games, but there are
:02:09. > :02:18.questions about why this announcement is being made now.
:02:18. > :02:21.Here's our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale. They're there to
:02:21. > :02:26.defend us, but troops who have been fighting on the frontline in
:02:26. > :02:30.Helmand, fighter jets and warships which have recently seen action in
:02:30. > :02:35.Libya along with elite Special Forces will soon be deployed for
:02:35. > :02:39.the London Olympics. Billed as a global festival of
:02:39. > :02:44.sport, it's now also become a major military operation, with thousands
:02:44. > :02:49.more troops involved than originally planned. Military
:02:49. > :02:54.hardware will be used. We'll be deploying helicopters. We'll be
:02:54. > :02:57.deploying Typhoon fighters to defend London's airspace. We'll be
:02:57. > :02:59.deploying ground-to-air missile systems, so the military will be
:03:00. > :03:04.using its full range of capabilities to keep London safe
:03:04. > :03:08.during the Olympics. The MoD will be providing up to 13,500 military
:03:08. > :03:13.personnel for Olympic security. 7,500 will be acting as security
:03:13. > :03:15.guards along with civilians at all the venues, making a third of the
:03:16. > :03:21.total number. Another 6,000 military personnel, many of them
:03:21. > :03:25.armed, will be on standby. The MoD says it's a similar response to
:03:25. > :03:29.previous Olympics. That may be true of Beijing, which could call on the
:03:29. > :03:34.world's largest Army, but in Sydney, the military presence was less than
:03:34. > :03:37.10,000 troops. More military personnel are now
:03:37. > :03:41.being deployed to secure the Olympics than the 9,000 British
:03:41. > :03:46.troops who are currently serving in Afghanistan, but we are told this
:03:46. > :03:49.is not a response to any specific threat. Security staff for the
:03:49. > :03:53.Olympics have more than doubled from the original estimate of just
:03:53. > :03:58.10,000. The costs have risen dramatically too. They will have to
:03:58. > :04:01.patrol dozens of venues from Wembley to Weymouth and even beach
:04:01. > :04:05.volleyball at horse guard's parade, but will the security swamp the
:04:05. > :04:09.spectators? The number that is being planned is
:04:09. > :04:12.the number that's required, and I've no doubt the armed forces
:04:12. > :04:16.would not consider deploying anymore forces than they absolutely
:04:16. > :04:19.have to because, of course, they're very heavily committed elsewhere,
:04:19. > :04:22.and I understand that this deployment and this commitment is
:04:23. > :04:27.not going to adversely affect other military commitments. When
:04:27. > :04:31.Jacqueline Burke booked Olympic tickets for her family, she'd not
:04:31. > :04:35.imagined the sheer scale of the security, but it hasn't put her off.
:04:35. > :04:38.I think when I first heard, it does take you back a little bit, but
:04:38. > :04:43.actually, the reality is it's a potential target, and anything that
:04:43. > :04:47.helps with security I think is good and reassuring. The MoD says the
:04:47. > :04:52.Olympic security remains a police- led operation, but with all the
:04:52. > :04:59.military hardware on show and the thousands of uniformed personnel on
:04:59. > :05:04.duty, it might feel different. Our sports editor David Bond is at
:05:04. > :05:08.the Olympic Stadium for us tonight. David, why do you think we're
:05:08. > :05:12.hearing about this huge deployment now? Part of this George, is what
:05:12. > :05:16.happens in the run-up to every games. As you get closer, it gets
:05:16. > :05:20.easier to refine your plans and see where you need to spend a bit of
:05:20. > :05:24.extra money, but that shouldn't change the fact that London 2012
:05:24. > :05:29.got their original estimate for venue security spectacularly wrong.
:05:29. > :05:33.One Home Office official said it was a finger in the air exercise.
:05:33. > :05:37.Now, that's inevitably led to the doubling of the budget to provide
:05:37. > :05:41.security for venues like the main one just behind me to half a
:05:41. > :05:44.billion pounds that much, in turn, has had a knock-on effect to the
:05:44. > :05:50.overall budget, and now it's emerged in the last week or so that
:05:50. > :05:54.there's only about �36 million of head room left in the overall �9.3
:05:54. > :05:57.billion budget. Now, just a few months ago, Ministers and officials
:05:57. > :06:02.were telling me it might even come in under budget. Well, with the
:06:02. > :06:05.finish line in sight and the pressure growing, they might not be
:06:05. > :06:08.so confident now. David, thank you.
:06:08. > :06:11.One of the men accused of killing Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago has
:06:12. > :06:13.insisted he was not at the scene on the night the teenager was murdered.
:06:14. > :06:17.Under cross-examination David Norris said he couldn't remember
:06:17. > :06:24.where he was that night, but declared his innocence. From the
:06:24. > :06:29.Old Bailey, our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports.
:06:29. > :06:34.David Norris is now 35 years old. Today he entered the witness box to
:06:34. > :06:38.be questioned about a murder which happened when he was just 16. Mr
:06:38. > :06:42.Norris was asked repeatedly by the prosecuting barrister where was he
:06:42. > :06:49.the night Stephen was killed in the London suburb of Eltham? Each time
:06:49. > :06:56.he said he couldn't remember, but he was sure he wasn't in Eltham.
:06:56. > :06:59."I'm an innocent man. I was not in the Eltham area". He was asked
:06:59. > :07:05.again by the prosecution barrister where was he at the time of the
:07:05. > :07:09.murder? He said, "You're accusing me of murder, sir. I am an innocent
:07:09. > :07:13.man". Clothing fibres on this sweet shirt seized from Norris' house
:07:13. > :07:16.allegedly link him to the scene of the crime, but the defendant's
:07:16. > :07:20.brother Clifford testified today that the top had been his 18 years
:07:21. > :07:25.ago and possibly these stained jeans as well on which a hair
:07:25. > :07:30.matching Stephen's DNA was found. And then David Norris's mother
:07:30. > :07:38.Theresa took the stand. She insisted he had been at home that
:07:38. > :07:42.night. Mark Ellison, QC, said, "You have made that up". She said "I
:07:42. > :07:47.have made nothing up". He went on "Until today there hasn't been a
:07:47. > :07:52.breath uttered you would be able to give an alibi." but she maintained
:07:52. > :07:54.her position he had been at home that night. Mr Norris said he was a
:07:55. > :07:58.regular visitor to Bournbrook Road where Neil and Jamie Acourt close
:07:58. > :08:02.to the murder scene, but he lived seven miles away, and his mother
:08:02. > :08:06.didn't allow him out late. The following year under suspicion of
:08:06. > :08:10.murder he was filmed in a covert police video that's been shown to
:08:10. > :08:20.the court discussing how he wanted to attack and maim black people. He
:08:20. > :08:38.
:08:38. > :08:40."It was all part of growing up," he Today's witnesses marked the end of
:08:40. > :08:46.the evidence in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. The case
:08:46. > :08:49.will now be summarised for the jury before they consider their verdicts.
:08:49. > :08:51.Nearly half a billion pounds is to be spent on turning around the
:08:51. > :08:55.lives of 120,000 of England's most troubled families. David Cameron
:08:55. > :08:57.says the money will be used to set up a network of "troubleshooters".
:08:57. > :09:00.But the scheme assumes that cash- strapped local councils will pledge
:09:00. > :09:10.even more money. Our UK affairs correspondent Chris Buckler reports
:09:10. > :09:13.
:09:13. > :09:18.from Wigan on how the plan could The troubles of individual families
:09:18. > :09:22.can cause problems for whole communities - from a simple lack of
:09:22. > :09:28.respect to criminal behaviour. The Government thinks residents
:09:28. > :09:33.shouldn't suffer because of their neighbours. We've 12 months of hell
:09:33. > :09:37.with them. Doing what? Doing what? Drugs, you name it, and all sorts.
:09:37. > :09:40.We had to go to court in the end and get them evicted. Do you think
:09:40. > :09:43.those troubled families will listen? No. No. No. They'll do
:09:43. > :09:48.their own thing. They'll do their own thing because they have always
:09:48. > :09:50.done their own thing, haven't they? The Government says there are
:09:50. > :09:53.120,000 troubled families across England, and dealing with the
:09:53. > :09:58.probes of what the Prime Minister has called Britain's "broken
:09:58. > :10:03.society" is costing the taxpayer. While David Cameron knows there is
:10:03. > :10:06.no simple recipe to solve those issues, today he pledged �450
:10:06. > :10:11.million for intervention schemes like this one across England, but
:10:11. > :10:15.only if councils pay too, and that's at a time of cuts.
:10:15. > :10:21.We'll fund 40% of the cost if they match this with the other 60%, and
:10:21. > :10:24.crucially, the payment depends on results. Have they stopped - and I
:10:24. > :10:29.mean completely stopped - anti- social behaviour? What David
:10:29. > :10:33.Cameron is proposing today is not completely new. When he was Prime
:10:33. > :10:37.Minister, Tony Blair pushed the idea of family intervention
:10:37. > :10:40.projects as part of attempts to deal with anti-social behaviour. If
:10:40. > :10:44.children aren't going to school, workers will be on the family's
:10:44. > :10:48.doorstep first thing in the morning to get them ready and asking
:10:48. > :10:51.questions if their parents aren't going to job interviews. There are
:10:51. > :10:54.existing job intervention schemes operating in each part of the UK
:10:54. > :11:01.including here in Wigan, where it's run by the charity Action for
:11:01. > :11:05.Children. Between them, David and Ann have ten children. All but two
:11:05. > :11:10.were placed with adoptive or foster parents, and they accept that their
:11:10. > :11:13.many troubles started at home. not going to make much of it with
:11:13. > :11:17.my folk because I would stay in bed. She'd be looking after the kids all
:11:17. > :11:21.the time. I would stay in bed. Worklessness and mental health
:11:21. > :11:27.issues were just two of their many problems, but a dedicated
:11:27. > :11:31.intervention worker has been trying to keep the remaining family
:11:31. > :11:35.together. I would have definitely lost the kids, no doubt about it.
:11:35. > :11:39.The money promised to help more families has been diverted from
:11:39. > :11:42.existing Government budgets, but the real worry for charities is
:11:42. > :11:48.whether councils can afford to take advantage of the funding. It's got
:11:48. > :11:51.to be matched by over �600 million worth of local Government money,
:11:51. > :11:55.and I don't see any evidence local Government has prioritised this
:11:55. > :11:59.money. What's more, councils know that to get any cash, they'll have
:11:59. > :12:04.to prove that their troubleshooters have made a difference to those
:12:04. > :12:07.troubled families. The American flag has been lowered
:12:07. > :12:11.in Baghdad, formerly marking the end of Washington's military
:12:11. > :12:15.operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of war. At the ceremony,
:12:15. > :12:20.the US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, said Iraq was now fully
:12:20. > :12:25.responsible for directing its own path to future security and
:12:25. > :12:29.prosperity. The campaign, which began in 2003 with the so-called
:12:29. > :12:33.Shock and Awe attack on the Iraqi capital, led to the fall of Saddam
:12:33. > :12:39.Hussein, but in the following years of conflict, it's thought that more
:12:39. > :12:47.than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed along with 4,500 US soldiers.
:12:47. > :12:50.From Baghdad, our World Affairs Editor John Simpson reports.
:12:50. > :12:56.A quiet, downbeat ceremony marks the end of an occupation which
:12:56. > :13:04.lasted a hundred months, cost the lives of 4,500 Americans and of an
:13:04. > :13:08.unknown, but far greater, number of Iraqis. This is a time for Iraq to
:13:08. > :13:16.look forward. This is an opportunity for Iraq to forge ahead
:13:16. > :13:20.on the path to security and prosperity. Welcome to Sadr City,
:13:20. > :13:25.the sprawling, working-class Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad. The
:13:25. > :13:29.occupiers are going, says the poster, "thanks to our government".
:13:29. > :13:33.Yet things have changed here out of all recognition.
:13:33. > :13:39.The last time I was here in Sadr City was about three years ago, and
:13:39. > :13:44.I have to say I was pretty nervous. Kidnapping was rife. There were
:13:44. > :13:53.bombs here just about every day, and now, well, you can see for
:13:53. > :13:57.But not everything is necessarily better. There are power cuts every
:13:57. > :14:04.day here and everywhere in Iraq. The Americans never managed to fix
:14:04. > :14:08.the electricity supply. In Sadr City, US Army engineers put in the
:14:08. > :14:12.first decent sewers and water supplies, but that's all been
:14:12. > :14:19.forgotten. Instead, people remember the American attacks on Sadr City.
:14:20. > :14:23.This man keeps the pictures on his mobile.
:14:23. > :14:26.LAUGHTER These are pictures from the
:14:26. > :14:30.internet, and that's American laughter.
:14:30. > :14:33.The meat market, as everywhere else here, you don't find any love for
:14:33. > :14:41.the United States. The butchers of Baghdad are happy to see the back
:14:41. > :14:47.of the Americans. This chicken seller says, "They
:14:47. > :14:56.brought poverty and killed our children." According to Jabar, who
:14:56. > :15:01.sells cow hearts, "They destroyed our country." Tameer, the seller of
:15:01. > :15:05.sheep's heads thinks things were better under Saddam, and yet the
:15:05. > :15:09.United States has done a really good job of training the security
:15:09. > :15:13.forces here. These checkpoints are wherever why, and they're the front
:15:13. > :15:17.line of the continuing civil war. There are attacks on them every day.
:15:18. > :15:24.There were 79 bomb attacks last month. This one targeted the Prime
:15:24. > :15:29.Minister. Still, in 2007, there were a thousand bombs a month. The
:15:29. > :15:36.suffering doesn't stop, but the insurgency is visibly winding down.
:15:36. > :15:42.For 40 years, not just the eight of the American occupation, Iraq has
:15:42. > :15:47.known little more than dictatorship, war and isolation. Now,000 people
:15:47. > :15:52.here are daring daring to hope their luck may finally be changing.
:15:52. > :15:55.We can talk to John in Baghdad now. Watching your report, it's
:15:55. > :16:05.difficult to know whether America can be sure if it's left Iraq in a
:16:05. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:09.I've been here a great, great many times during the last seven, eight
:16:09. > :16:13.years. And there was a long time when I thought this place was never
:16:13. > :16:18.get itself right and the Americans wouldn't be able to leave or if
:16:18. > :16:24.they did, they'd leave just simply disaster behind them. That doesn't
:16:24. > :16:29.seem to be the case now. I've been really surprised and it's actually
:16:29. > :16:32.rather pleasant, of course, to see a country which is starting to put
:16:32. > :16:35.itself together again. I don't think, frankly, there was any
:16:35. > :16:38.possibility that the Americans could have stayed on all that much
:16:38. > :16:43.longer. The President himself wanted to pull the troops out,
:16:43. > :16:48.didn't approve of the whole thing in the first place and it just
:16:48. > :16:52.simply is costing too much money and it's too difficult. So, I don't
:16:52. > :16:57.think there was really much alternative to withdrawing them.
:16:57. > :17:01.The question was when and obviously President Obama wants to bring them
:17:01. > :17:06.back by Christmas and get whatever political kudos he can out of that.
:17:06. > :17:10.But this country does now look to me as though it stands at least a
:17:10. > :17:17.fighting chance of getting itself back on its feet.
:17:17. > :17:22.John, thank you very much. The time is 6.17. Our top story
:17:22. > :17:26.tonight: With helicopters and a warship, up to 13,500 military
:17:26. > :17:33.personnel will help with security for the London Olympics.
:17:33. > :17:43.Coming up - sold for nearly �700,000, the tiny manuscript
:17:43. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:03.Sales down, shops failing to entice customers with special offers and
:18:03. > :18:06.discounts. It's a picture of Christmas cause on the high street.
:18:06. > :18:10.The new figures publish today make grim reading for retailers and
:18:10. > :18:13.there are fears that some of them could go under once the festivities
:18:13. > :18:16.are over. Our business correspondent, Emma Simpson, has
:18:16. > :18:20.the details for us in Central London.
:18:20. > :18:24.Emma. Yes, George, you join me here on
:18:24. > :18:28.Oxford Street, probably the UK's busiest high street. Well, it
:18:28. > :18:34.certainly feels like it tonight. Of course, these figures that we've
:18:34. > :18:37.had today, official retail figures which showed a monthly 0.4% drop on
:18:37. > :18:42.November. In the run-up to Christmas, this really is not good
:18:42. > :18:49.news for retailers. After the year they've had, it's sink or swim for
:18:49. > :18:53.some. But as for shoppers, there are an awful lot of bargains.
:18:53. > :18:59.Discount Britain, from clothes to cameras. The Christmas promotions
:18:59. > :19:06.are even earlier and deeper this year, as retailers try to entice us
:19:06. > :19:10.to part with our cash. They know shoppers are after deals. I look
:19:10. > :19:15.for things that are reduced where last year I wouldn't have bothered,
:19:15. > :19:18.I would have got it whether it was on sale or not. It's all been on
:19:18. > :19:23.discounts, promotions, not bought anything on full price this year.
:19:23. > :19:27.Consumers have been buying less for much of the year. Sales have
:19:27. > :19:30.generally been falling since the summer. At the Brent Cross centre
:19:30. > :19:34.in London, they are hoping for a big rush next week, the pressure's
:19:34. > :19:39.really on to clinch sales. We are seeing some of the trusted
:19:40. > :19:43.brands, some of the better products that people aspire to buy often
:19:43. > :19:47.reduced by 20-30%. That doesn't mean all of it, but slebgtsed
:19:47. > :19:51.products. It's giving great value to customers finding it difficult
:19:51. > :19:56.and the retailers are responding -- selected products. Hundreds of
:19:56. > :20:00.miles away at a warehouse in Wakefield, they're working flat out
:20:00. > :20:04.to move millions of goods to get them on the shelves for the big
:20:04. > :20:07.Christmas shop. And the difference this year,
:20:07. > :20:12.before stuff goes in the trolley, shoppers are likely to have sussed
:20:12. > :20:16.out the price. This year, they'll be buying sparkling wine, treating
:20:16. > :20:21.that as champagne... The boss to have Morrisons told me he's seeing
:20:21. > :20:25.an army of professional shoppers using vouchers, the Internet and
:20:25. > :20:29.leaving credit cards at home. had the largest drop in consumer
:20:29. > :20:31.confidence in a generation, a third of customers get to the end of the
:20:32. > :20:34.month and have nothing left over. That's why you have this
:20:34. > :20:38.professional shopper adopt ago whole new attitude. I think when
:20:38. > :20:41.the economy picks up, this professional savvyness is here to
:20:41. > :20:46.stay. Santa was certainly all smiles
:20:46. > :20:49.today, but for retailers, there's been precious little to be cheery
:20:49. > :20:54.about, and the next few days will be make or break.
:20:54. > :21:00.It's too late for Barratts, already in administration. The question is,
:21:00. > :21:05.who could be next? Of course, this year, we've seen
:21:05. > :21:11.more than half a dozen big names disappear from the high street in
:21:11. > :21:15.terms of administrations, including Habitat and Focus DIY, and there is
:21:15. > :21:19.a big quarterly rent bill looming for retailers on Christmas Day
:21:19. > :21:23.itself, so I think the question now, George, is how many retailers are
:21:23. > :21:28.going to hold their nerve or cave in and offer even steeper discounts
:21:28. > :21:31.next week in a bid to get as many sales as they can?
:21:31. > :21:36.Thank you. The former French President,
:21:36. > :21:40.Jacques Chirac, has been given a suspended two year prison sentence
:21:40. > :21:45.for embezzling funds and breach of trust. Mr Chirac paid wages to his
:21:45. > :21:54.political allies for doing jobs that duz did not exist while he was
:21:55. > :21:58.Mayor of Paris. Voters have gone too the polls in a by-election in
:21:58. > :22:04.Heston and Haworth in West London. It was called after the death of
:22:04. > :22:07.Alan Keen who won the seat at last year's general election with a
:22:07. > :22:13.4,500 majority. Rail signal workers in Scotland
:22:13. > :22:16.have announced a three-day strike from Christmas Eve. The Rail,
:22:16. > :22:20.Maritime and Transport Union says its members at the west of Scotland
:22:20. > :22:24.signalling centre will walk out because of a row over changes to
:22:24. > :22:28.career progression practices. Controversial gagging orders used
:22:28. > :22:31.by celebrities are back in the spotlight today. The premiership
:22:31. > :22:36.footballer, Ryan Giggs, has accepted that suggestions that he
:22:36. > :22:40.was threatened with blackmail by a former lover were not true.
:22:40. > :22:44.The reality TV star, Imogen Thomas, alleged to have had an affair with
:22:44. > :22:47.the married footballer, spoke today of how stressful it's been to have
:22:47. > :22:51.to defend her character. Our Home Affairs correspondent, June Kelly,
:22:51. > :22:54.is at the High Court. What more can you tell us, June?
:22:54. > :23:00.If we cast our minds back six or seven months before the hacking
:23:00. > :23:03.scandal blew up, one of the big stories was injunctions and
:23:03. > :23:07.superinjunctions and one of those involved was the Manchester United
:23:07. > :23:12.star, Ryan Giggs, alleged to have had a relationship with the model
:23:12. > :23:14.Imogen Thomas and he went to court to seek an injunction on the
:23:14. > :23:19.grounds that he thought Imogen Thomas was planning to sell her
:23:19. > :23:22.story. The judge in the case said that the footballer's evidence
:23:22. > :23:26.appeared to suggest he was being blackmailed and he granted an
:23:26. > :23:29.injunction. Today, the same judge was told that the footballer now
:23:29. > :23:34.accepted there was no blackmail attempt by Imogen Thomas, she said
:23:34. > :23:39.the whole episode had been extremely upsetting. I'm just
:23:39. > :23:43.relieved that the parties and the court now accept that I'm no
:23:43. > :23:46.blackmailer. I have been vindicated and this is all I wanted. I have
:23:46. > :23:50.nothing to add, it's all behind me now.
:23:50. > :23:53.Well, despite what went on in court today, the injunction remains in
:23:53. > :23:57.place which stops Miss Thomas talking about her alleged
:23:57. > :24:03.relationship. In court, the footballer was referred to only by
:24:03. > :24:09.the initials CTB. Thank you. It's half the size of a
:24:10. > :24:16.credit card, has 19 pages and 4,000 words and today it sold for nearly
:24:16. > :24:18.�700,000. This tiny manuscript was written in 1830 by British author
:24:18. > :24:21.Charlotte Bronte to. The disappointment of British
:24:21. > :24:26.collectors, it's on its way to a museum in France, as Ed Thomas
:24:26. > :24:31.reports. So small that you need a magnifying glass the read it. But
:24:31. > :24:37.every gauge is crafted with adverts and short stories. It details an
:24:37. > :24:41.mdge their world written by Charlotte Bronte for her brosh's
:24:41. > :24:47.toy soldiers. -- imaginary. It hasn't been seen in public for
:24:47. > :24:51.years until its owners, a family in Germany, sold it at auction today.
:24:51. > :24:56.Its new home will be a museum in France, a disappointment for many
:24:56. > :25:00.when you consider how important this tiny manuscript is to English
:25:00. > :25:04.literature. This is the first time it's been seen in living memory.
:25:04. > :25:07.It's not been known about, modern scholarship hasn't seen this, so
:25:08. > :25:12.it's a tremendously exciting opportunity.
:25:12. > :25:17.That significance is not lost here in Haworth, the village where the
:25:17. > :25:21.Brontes grew up. The family home is now a museum and the trustees were
:25:21. > :25:25.outbid at the auction. They wanted it to complete their set because
:25:25. > :25:29.all six of the mini manuscripts were written here. It was in this
:25:29. > :25:35.room that Charlotte Bronte would talk about her story ideas with her
:25:35. > :25:40.sisters and her brother. It's on this table that her classics were
:25:40. > :25:45.written, like Shirley The Professor and Jane Eyre. Rtion he said every
:25:45. > :25:49.now and then they glided to his eyes through to his brain with an
:25:49. > :25:54.immense fire burned..." When you listen to her words, you might
:25:54. > :25:59.recognise similar passages in Jane Eyre. For many, this goes some way
:26:00. > :26:04.to explain how her genius developed. It's significant because this
:26:05. > :26:07.teenager became one of the greatest novelists in English language and
:26:07. > :26:13.it's significant because this particular little book has the
:26:13. > :26:17.seeds of Charlotte's greatest work, Jane Eyre.
:26:17. > :26:23.The manuscript may not be coming home, but there's still one edition
:26:23. > :26:27.missing and with it, more Bronte stories yet to be told.
:26:27. > :26:28.It's getting pretty nippy out there. Let's get a forecast now with John
:26:28. > :26:32.Let's get a forecast now with John Hammond.
:26:32. > :26:35.It's going to get even nippier as well. For some of us, the first
:26:35. > :26:39.snow of the season coming up. This is the storm brewing. It was the
:26:39. > :26:43.winds which were of most concern the last few days. Not so much now
:26:43. > :26:48.but it's one to watch certainly. These damaging winds are not far
:26:48. > :26:58.away. Across our shores, it's turning very, very well indeed in
:26:58. > :27:03.the South West of England. It turns to snow, snirblly in -- initially
:27:03. > :27:10.in Wales. The motorway network around the M5, M40 which will be
:27:10. > :27:14.badly affected, hence we have an amber warn -- warning in place - be
:27:14. > :27:19.warned. As we get into the rush hour, down and dirty underneath the
:27:19. > :27:22.clouds. Notice in London it starts off as rain but, as we go through
:27:22. > :27:25.the rush hour, there's every chance it will turn to snow. In London
:27:25. > :27:32.itself, a few flakes, but in the vicinities of London where you
:27:32. > :27:35.could see a covering of snow, these are up on the Chilterns and the
:27:35. > :27:41.Downs. Widespread ice in Northern Ireland, northern glaerpbd and
:27:41. > :27:46.Scotland. Snow down to low levels here. -- England and Scotland.
:27:46. > :27:50.The sleet and snow will ease from East Anglia and the south. Some
:27:50. > :27:55.sunshine in its wake but clumps of wintry showers pushing down to
:27:55. > :28:00.Wales and southern England. Despite some sunshine, it will be a cold
:28:00. > :28:04.day nationwide. Temperatures four or five with a chilly north-
:28:04. > :28:08.westerly breeze setting us up for a cold weekend. Some sunshine, crisp
:28:08. > :28:13.and sunny at times but widespread frosts and wintry showers to come.
:28:13. > :28:18.For your latest update, check out your BBC local radio station or the
:28:18. > :28:24.website. Latest warnings can be found on our website..
:28:24. > :28:27.A reminder of the main news: The helicopters and a warship, up to
:28:27. > :28:30.13,500 military personnel will help with security for the London