05/01/2012

:00:04. > :00:09.A male nurse is arrested at a Stockport hospital. He is suspected

:00:09. > :00:12.of tampering with medical records. It's the same hospital where four

:00:12. > :00:22.elderly patients died last year. 16 others were affected by

:00:22. > :00:23.

:00:23. > :00:27.contaminated drips. Staff say they are concerned. Everybody is tense

:00:27. > :00:31.and very suspicious. You like to trust the staff you work with but

:00:31. > :00:33.you just never know, do you? Also on tonight's programme:

:00:33. > :00:37.The couple accused of torturing and drowning a teenage relative because

:00:37. > :00:45.they thought he was a witch. A third day without power for

:00:45. > :00:50.thousands in Scotland. It is tougher now that it is lasting

:00:50. > :00:56.longer. We have small children and to keep them entertained, the

:00:56. > :00:58.nursery is off, and everybody is getting a bit but dashboard.

:00:58. > :01:01.Dashboard. Labour's Dianne Abbot's forced to

:01:01. > :01:03.apologise after posting a Twitter message saying white people "like

:01:03. > :01:06.to divide and rule". And charities get a helping hand

:01:06. > :01:15.from Kate - the Duchess lends her name to causes from drug addiction

:01:15. > :01:19.to art. And coming up on the BBC News

:01:19. > :01:29.Channel, the FA comes under fire from the QPR manager Neil Warnock,

:01:29. > :01:37.

:01:38. > :01:40.who describes their disciplinary Good evening and welcome to the

:01:40. > :01:43.BBC's News at Six. A 46-year-old male nurse has been

:01:43. > :01:48.arrested on suspicion of tampering with medical records at Stepping

:01:48. > :01:52.Hill Hospital in Stockport. This is the same hospital where four

:01:52. > :01:55.elderly patients died in unexplained circumstances last year.

:01:55. > :01:59.16 other patients at the hospital fell ill last summer, their saline

:01:59. > :02:09.drips had been contaminated. Our correspondent Ed Thomas is at the

:02:09. > :02:09.

:02:09. > :02:13.hospital this evening. Yes, at this nurse still has not

:02:13. > :02:17.been named but we know he is 46 and we know he lives in Stockport and

:02:18. > :02:22.was arrested this morning. We also know he has worked here for a

:02:22. > :02:27.number of years. It is claimed that he changed the medical records of a

:02:27. > :02:31.patient and that they've received medication that they didn't need.

:02:31. > :02:36.A nurse who is meant to care for patients here is now accused of

:02:36. > :02:41.trying to harm them. The 46-year- old man was arrested on suspicion

:02:41. > :02:45.of tampering with medical records. But today, police said this latest

:02:45. > :02:50.arrest is not yet been linked to the suspicious deaths at Stepping

:02:50. > :02:56.Hill. This is a search for the truth into the set of circumstances

:02:56. > :03:01.reported on 3rd January specifically. Over the coming hours

:03:01. > :03:05.and days, we will complete those inquiries firstly before we look at

:03:05. > :03:09.any possible links with the wider investigation. That wider

:03:09. > :03:16.investigation involves the death of four patients, Derek Weaver, Arnold

:03:16. > :03:21.Lancaster, Tracey Arden and Bill Dickson, who died on the year's Eve.

:03:22. > :03:25.All received saline contaminated with insulin. It has left some her

:03:25. > :03:30.work at Stepping Hill suspicious of the people they call colleagues.

:03:30. > :03:34.What is the atmosphere like? would say it was tense and very

:03:34. > :03:40.suspicious. You like to trust of the statue were quick but you just

:03:40. > :03:44.never know, do you? -- You Like to trust the staff the work with.

:03:44. > :03:47.was the second arrest that Stepping Hill. Rebecca Leighton spent six

:03:47. > :03:52.weeks in jail before all charges against her were dropped. She is

:03:52. > :03:56.said to be watching developments closely under the middle of what is

:03:56. > :04:00.happening at Stepping Hill other patients. Many have the use this

:04:00. > :04:04.hospital and many are worried. think everybody in Stockport is

:04:04. > :04:09.worried in case they have to come here. I personally wouldn't want to.

:04:10. > :04:15.Are you worried about what is going on? Definitely, it is who do you

:04:15. > :04:20.trust any more. Where has it all gone. It could take a while before

:04:20. > :04:24.that trust is restored at Stepping Hill.

:04:24. > :04:28.Yes, police say they do understand the frustration of the patients

:04:28. > :04:32.here, but they have said it is a complex investigation that could

:04:32. > :04:37.take some time. But they have not ruled out making further arrests

:04:37. > :04:40.over the next few days and weeks. Thank you very much.

:04:40. > :04:43.A jury has been told that a 15- year-old boy was beaten, tortured

:04:43. > :04:47.and drowned on Christmas Day 2010 by his sister and her boyfriend

:04:47. > :04:50.because they believed he was a witch. The prosecution described

:04:50. > :04:55.the killing of Kristy Bamu in east London as an attack of unspeakable

:04:55. > :04:59.savagery. The couple, who are both from the Democratic Republic of

:04:59. > :05:07.Congo, deny murder. Luisa Baldini's report contains some distressing

:05:07. > :05:10.details. Kristy and his siblings were

:05:10. > :05:14.spending the Christmas holidays with their eldest sister in this

:05:14. > :05:20.tower block flat she shares with her boyfriend. They had come from

:05:20. > :05:24.their home in Paris but just after noon on Christmas Day 2010, at an

:05:24. > :05:29.ambulance was called and paramedics found the lifeless body of Kristy

:05:29. > :05:39.in the bathroom. A court today heard how his sister Magalie Bamu

:05:39. > :05:44.and her partner Eric Bikubi had accused Kristy and his siblings of

:05:44. > :05:49.practice in witchcraft. Kristy was the main focus and he sustained 101

:05:49. > :05:54.injuries. The jury was told he was in such pain after days of being

:05:54. > :05:57.attacked by sticks, that of bars and a chisel that he begged to die.

:05:57. > :06:02.They also used sibling against sibling as a vehicle for their

:06:02. > :06:06.violence. The prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the jury and it was

:06:06. > :06:11.obvious it was a dreadful and distressing case. The boy was

:06:11. > :06:15.subjected to unimaginable physical torture. There will therefore be no

:06:15. > :06:20.sparing the dreadful details of the boy's end, the horrors that he and

:06:20. > :06:24.his siblings endured. The jury was told that in the Democratic

:06:24. > :06:27.Republic of Congo, by the defendants are originally from,

:06:27. > :06:31.witchcraft is Pope -- practised in Christian churches, but the

:06:31. > :06:36.prosecution told the jury it may take on a feral and indeed evil

:06:36. > :06:38.character, as we suggest it did here.

:06:39. > :06:43.Britain took another battering from the weather overnight, with strong

:06:43. > :06:47.winds causing damage and disruption across the country. Gusts of 112mph

:06:47. > :06:52.were recorded in the Pennines. Thousands of homes and businesses

:06:52. > :06:54.remain without electricity. On the Isle of Bute, off Scotland's west

:06:54. > :07:04.coast, some residents are spending their third day with disrupted

:07:04. > :07:09.power supplies. Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports.

:07:09. > :07:13.It has been a challenging few days for the people of Bute. No

:07:13. > :07:17.electricity and no power to carry out the simplest of tasks, and for

:07:17. > :07:20.this family run business, cancelled bookings. We have had to knock back

:07:20. > :07:24.some business for the bed and breakfast because we have no

:07:24. > :07:27.electricity. It is getting tougher now that it is lasting longer. We

:07:27. > :07:34.have small children and to keep them entertained when the nursery

:07:34. > :07:37.is off, everybody is getting a bit bored of it. The bad weather has

:07:37. > :07:42.disrupted the power supply to the entire island. Traffic lights are

:07:42. > :07:48.out and with tills not working, almost every shop has had to shut.

:07:48. > :07:56.There are queues for food at those that remain open. We are here to

:07:56. > :08:00.get something to eat for tonight, may be some tinned or cold meat.

:08:00. > :08:04.What it has been hard, without heating, there is nothing. We are

:08:04. > :08:08.back to a golden days, with the candles and the gas lights. On the

:08:08. > :08:13.mainland, tax at a sewage treatment plant overflowed into the

:08:13. > :08:17.surrounding area because there was no Power -- tanks. In Perthshire,

:08:17. > :08:24.to people were slightly hurt when their train stuck a tree on the

:08:24. > :08:28.line. -- struck. The River Dee flooded dramatically. In the

:08:28. > :08:33.Midlands, a load of rubbish from an overturned lorry blew onto the

:08:33. > :08:37.motorway, or partially closing it while the debris was cleared. Undid

:08:37. > :08:42.Hertfordshire, a woman and a ten- year-old boy but taken to a

:08:42. > :08:45.hospital when a tree landed on their car -- and in Hertfordshire.

:08:45. > :08:49.Back on Isle of Bute, locals are preparing for what could be another

:08:49. > :08:53.cold, dark night ahead. And although there is no electricity

:08:53. > :08:57.here, in this hardware shop, Business is booming as people stock

:08:57. > :09:05.up on the essentials like batteries and torches to get them through

:09:05. > :09:10.this power cut. Yesterday it was heaters, bottled gas, candles and

:09:10. > :09:15.we have got more surprising in this morning. They are all away.

:09:15. > :09:19.local power company has 150 engineers working on reconnecting

:09:19. > :09:22.surprise to 9,000 homes in Argyll and Bute. -- supplies. This is a

:09:22. > :09:30.place where people look out for their neighbours. They are now

:09:30. > :09:33.hoping that their time without power is coming to an end.

:09:33. > :09:38.The Attorney-General is to look into whether the sentence is given

:09:38. > :09:43.to the two men given to the men convicted of murdering Stephen

:09:43. > :09:48.Lawrence were too lenient. Gary Dobson and David Norris were given

:09:48. > :09:51.15 and 14 years respectively. I gather the Attorney General

:09:51. > :09:56.received a complaint about the sentence. How significant is this

:09:56. > :09:59.review going to be? I think that Mr Justice Treacy said

:09:59. > :10:07.yesterday while sentencing that he was constrained by the ball when

:10:07. > :10:10.handing down 15 and 40 years de Gary Dobson and David Norris -- 14

:10:10. > :10:13.years. It was inevitable there would be an complaint. The

:10:13. > :10:17.Attorney-General has to decide whether to refer the case to the

:10:17. > :10:22.Court of Appeal and this sort of thing does happen fairly regularly,

:10:22. > :10:28.300 plus cases last year and about a quarter made it to the Court of

:10:28. > :10:31.Appeal. In other developments today, we heard of that senior officers on

:10:31. > :10:36.the Stephen Lawrence investigation team have been told that unit was

:10:36. > :10:40.going to be disbanded following the trial. Since that this morning, the

:10:40. > :10:44.Met have been told it won't happen straight away but it is a

:10:44. > :10:54.possibility in the future. This case is on hold although it remains

:10:54. > :10:56.

:10:56. > :11:00.open and very few officers will be needed to keep it that way.

:11:00. > :11:03.Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected as an MP, finds

:11:03. > :11:06.herself in the middle of a race row tonight. It follows a message that

:11:06. > :11:10.she posted on Twitter in which she claimed white people like to "play

:11:10. > :11:12.divide and rule". Ms Abbot said her comments were taken out of context

:11:12. > :11:13.and she's since apologised. Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young

:11:13. > :11:18.reports. No victory signs... An historic

:11:18. > :11:23.moment, 1987 and by and about becomes the first black woman

:11:23. > :11:27.addicted to the Commons. -- Diane Abbott. Throughout her career, she

:11:27. > :11:30.has been an outspoken campaigner for racial equality but her

:11:31. > :11:34.reputation as a rebel meant she was overlooked for promotion. Joining

:11:34. > :11:39.the Labour leadership contest after the last election up have profile

:11:39. > :11:44.and when Ed Miliband won, he gave her a job as a shadow minister. But

:11:44. > :11:47.today, she was fighting to stay in that post at the joining a Twitter

:11:47. > :11:50.conversation and responding to a suggestion that some black

:11:50. > :12:00.commentators didn't understand the community they were talking about.

:12:00. > :12:03.She wrote "White people love playing divide and rule...".

:12:03. > :12:08.think what Diane Abbott said was just stupid and crass

:12:08. > :12:17.generalisations. She should explain and apologise for what she said.

:12:17. > :12:25.After a storm of process, by and about defended herself. -- Bad

:12:25. > :12:28.Labour insiders say she received a severe dressing-down from Ed

:12:28. > :12:32.Miliband, who decide -- described the comments as completely

:12:32. > :12:36.unacceptable. I am told she added kept her job because she insisted

:12:37. > :12:41.that she does not making sweeping generalisations about white people.

:12:41. > :12:46.She has never apologised for any offence caused. If you look at her

:12:46. > :12:50.track record, actions speak louder than words. This is somebody who

:12:50. > :12:54.has campaigned very strongly for equality. But it is not the first

:12:54. > :12:59.time she has courted controversy. This was her description of David

:12:59. > :13:04.Cameron and Nick Clegg. Two posh white boys from the Home Counties.

:13:04. > :13:07.In Hackney in east London, voters had some advice for their MP.

:13:07. > :13:13.don't think she ought to resign. But she can should have kept her

:13:13. > :13:16.mouth shut. Sometimes you say things without thinking. As an

:13:16. > :13:21.experienced politician, she should know what is right and what is

:13:21. > :13:25.wrong. With some Conservatives calling how racist and Ed Miliband

:13:25. > :13:31.week for not sacking Power, it is not the start to the year the

:13:31. > :13:36.Labour leader wanted. Our top story tonight: a male nurse

:13:36. > :13:40.is arrested at a Stockport hospital, accused of tampering with medical

:13:40. > :13:45.records. And coming up: the Duchess of Cambridge gets involved, she

:13:45. > :13:48.will lend her name to a number of charities, including the Scouts.

:13:48. > :13:54.She will be doing the arts and crafts, the astrology and the

:13:54. > :14:00.hiking and she will be there on their first night away from home.

:14:00. > :14:04.Aminath, BBC News Channel: Europe's largest independent oil refinery

:14:04. > :14:14.has its credit facilities frozen. And the bosses of Waitrose report a

:14:14. > :14:18.

:14:18. > :14:22.very merry Christmas, with mince The Prime Minister was back out on

:14:22. > :14:26.his first public event after the break and he says his New Year's

:14:26. > :14:30.resolution is to get the economy moving again. He's promised to help

:14:30. > :14:34.small businesses by cutting back red tape. He did concede that one

:14:34. > :14:39.of the measures he promoted last year hadn't worked as well as he

:14:39. > :14:42.would have liked. Our Deputy Political Editor James Landale

:14:42. > :14:45.reports. First day back on the road and it's tame to persuade business

:14:45. > :14:49.that the economy is the top priority. That's what he did with

:14:49. > :14:52.supermarket workers and that's what his deputy did with young people

:14:52. > :14:56.looking for work. The message - we are going for growth. It's going to

:14:56. > :15:01.be a tough year. The Government will roll up its sleeves and ask,

:15:01. > :15:04.what can we do to help business. promised small businessmen and

:15:04. > :15:09.women he'd scrap health and safety red tape faster and cut personal

:15:09. > :15:14.injury claims by capping law years' fees. But he admitted his national

:15:14. > :15:18.insurance tax break to support start-up firms hadn't worked.

:15:18. > :15:22.wasn't as successful as we hoped. I think it was perhaps too

:15:22. > :15:25.complicated, too targeted at specific businesses in specific

:15:25. > :15:28.areas of the country. businesswoman challenged the Prime

:15:28. > :15:31.Minister telling him the Government's decision to cut

:15:31. > :15:35.subsidy force green electricity from solar panels had forced her to

:15:35. > :15:39.lay off 30 workers before Christmas. They are sitting there without a

:15:39. > :15:42.job. I'm funding �100,000 payroll a month, not being able to sell

:15:42. > :15:46.anything because of your incompetence? You accept that the

:15:46. > :15:48.cut needs to be made, the cut has been made. The sooner we can put in

:15:48. > :15:52.place the new tariff, the sooner you will have that certainty and

:15:52. > :15:56.this will still be a successful industry. As the Prime Minister

:15:56. > :16:00.headed off, I asked her if she was happy with what he said? Absolutely

:16:00. > :16:03.not. I don't think he answered the question and he doesn't know the

:16:03. > :16:05.first thing about running a business. Down the road in

:16:05. > :16:11.Maidenhead, another business has been forced to cut staff and shops

:16:11. > :16:15.and move to smaller premises. For 160 years, they've photographed

:16:15. > :16:18.generations of schoolboys at Eton College, including David Cameron

:16:18. > :16:23.and... Some you recognise here, happy Harry standing by the wall.

:16:23. > :16:28.In this one, you've got William in the library. So I asked, is the

:16:28. > :16:35.Government doing enough for him? feel the Government could help us a

:16:35. > :16:39.lot by helping with us obtaining finances from the bank s. It's

:16:39. > :16:43.difficult. The banks are not very understanding, they are taking away

:16:43. > :16:46.the umbrella when it rains. Maidenhead is prosperous and packed

:16:46. > :16:49.full of small businesses, but many find it hard going here and David

:16:49. > :16:54.Cameron knows he has to get businesses expanding and employing

:16:54. > :16:58.again if he's to find the growth in 2010 that the economy so

:16:58. > :17:01.desperately needs -- twelve. Government have to take

:17:01. > :17:05.responsibility for their own actions. We have seen from the

:17:05. > :17:09.Prime Minister today that his national insurance flagship policy

:17:09. > :17:14.for businesses hasn't worked. thing is clear, rebuilding the

:17:14. > :17:18.economy will take a lot of heavy lifting.

:17:18. > :17:22.The parents of the Indian stunt, Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in

:17:22. > :17:26.Salford on Boxing Day, have been to Westminster to discuss the police

:17:26. > :17:31.investigation into their son's murder.

:17:31. > :17:35.He said his son was a dedicated and brilliant student. The family is

:17:35. > :17:39.due to return to India with Anuj's body tomorrow. It's a hugely

:17:39. > :17:42.controversial issue and a panel of experts says terminally ill

:17:42. > :17:46.patients should be allowed tond their own lives. Their report,

:17:46. > :17:50.funded by campaigners for changing the law, says the current system in

:17:50. > :17:54.England and Wales is inadequate. Critics say the report is biased.

:17:54. > :17:58.Our Health Correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, is here. Who was on the

:17:58. > :18:02.panel and what are they saying? They include a former justice

:18:02. > :18:06.secretary and policeman and some doctors. It was set up and funded

:18:06. > :18:10.by people who want change, to make it legal to help a terminally ill

:18:10. > :18:14.person take their own life. So how did they say it might work? It

:18:14. > :18:18.would only include people expected to have less than 12 months to live.

:18:18. > :18:22.Two doctors would be needed to assess the patient. That's to check

:18:22. > :18:26.they have the mental capacity to make the decision. And they would

:18:26. > :18:31.need to self-administer the lethal dose. The author, Sir Terry

:18:31. > :18:36.Pratchett, wants change. His books have sold millions of copies, but

:18:36. > :18:43.now he has Alzheimer's. He part funded the research behind this

:18:43. > :18:48.report. Supposing a man or woman had been

:18:48. > :18:56.beset by a debilitating disease which is ultimately going to kill

:18:56. > :18:58.them, if a friendly physician would like to help them - with certain

:18:59. > :19:07.safeguards obviously - I don't think it's really very much the

:19:07. > :19:14.business of the Government. I don't quite see how you get from stricken

:19:14. > :19:23.individuals to old folks against their will being killed by the

:19:23. > :19:29.state. How do you get there? If you got there, it wouldn't be England.

:19:29. > :19:39.I would like to be out on a deck chair in the garden with Thomas

:19:39. > :19:41.

:19:41. > :19:44.Tallis on the headset, a brandy in my hand and a friendly physician

:19:44. > :19:49.standing by. But Terry Pratchett would not have

:19:49. > :19:54.the option of assisted dying under these proposals, the report says it

:19:54. > :19:59.shouldn't be offered to those can dementia or men tall illness. There

:19:59. > :20:02.is strong opposition to change, including the BMA. Jane Campbell is

:20:02. > :20:09.also against. Baroness Campbell has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She's one

:20:09. > :20:19.of the founders of Not Dead Yet, a campaign against assisted suicide.

:20:19. > :20:25.I have a very full life. We have fun. But I have pain. I have

:20:25. > :20:29.horrible things happen to me, like choking et cetera. But I'm honestly

:20:29. > :20:36.telling you that if I could come back and start my life again, I

:20:36. > :20:40.would change nothing. In my position, I'm feeling very

:20:40. > :20:44.threatened by this. Now we have this landing on our doorstep, it

:20:44. > :20:50.makes us feel even more afraid because we feel we may have a

:20:50. > :20:55.choice to accept death, rather than living. I want to help anybody who

:20:55. > :21:01.is in pain and suffering. I don't want anybody to be in that

:21:01. > :21:06.situation. But, in helping one or two people, we are in danger of

:21:06. > :21:11.opening the door to something that will put hundreds of other people

:21:11. > :21:15.in danger and it sends out hopelessness, not hope.

:21:15. > :21:19.Assisted dying is an emotive and contentious issue. The law could

:21:20. > :21:24.only be changed by Parliament and the last time it was debated, it

:21:24. > :21:30.was defeated. This report is the latest salvo in a long debate. It's

:21:30. > :21:35.far from over, but the law isn't likely to change soon.

:21:35. > :21:39.Barack Obama has announced a major shift in America's military

:21:39. > :21:43.strategy and spending. Nearly half a trillion will be cut from

:21:43. > :21:46.Washington's defence budget over the next ten years with the

:21:46. > :21:50.refocusing of military power towards the Asia-Pacific region. Mr

:21:50. > :21:55.Obama said the US was turning the page after a decade of war in

:21:55. > :21:58.Afghanistan and Iraq and that the US military would be smaller and

:21:58. > :22:01.leaner. Our correspondent, Adam Brooks, is

:22:01. > :22:05.in Washington for us now. A huge amount of money we are talking

:22:05. > :22:09.about here, but in practical terms, what could it mean?

:22:09. > :22:14.Well, George, I think you will see a US military that is smaller,

:22:14. > :22:19.that's got fewer soldiers available. The American taxpayer hopes it will

:22:19. > :22:22.be somewhat cheaper. The US spends about a trillion dollars a year on

:22:22. > :22:25.its own defence and congress has insisted that money has to come

:22:26. > :22:30.down, that figure has to come down. For a long time, America's believed

:22:30. > :22:36.it needs to be able to fight two big wars in different parts of the

:22:36. > :22:39.world at the same time. I think this review today is a step away

:22:39. > :22:45.from that. I don't think after the wars in Afghanistan are finished

:22:45. > :22:50.that you will be seeing those moves by the United states to get its

:22:50. > :22:52.soldiers into countersmurg si battles in distant lands --

:22:52. > :22:57.counter-insurgency. You will see more emphasis on the navy and the

:22:57. > :23:01.Air Force, thinking about China and Iran and much less about putting

:23:01. > :23:07.inFran trimen into dusty villages in the Middle East or central Asia.

:23:07. > :23:11.Thank you. The Duke of Cambridge is to expand her public role, becoming

:23:11. > :23:18.a patron of several organisations. She'll lend her hand to a number of

:23:18. > :23:23.charities, ranging from a group that helps churn with behaviour

:23:23. > :23:28.problems to the National Portrait Gallery. Nicholas Witchell is there.

:23:28. > :23:34.Unsurprisingly, given her history of art studies, art is one of the

:23:34. > :23:38.themes of the Duchess's pat Ron ages, this port rail presumably of

:23:38. > :23:43.particular interest. Pat Ronages that have been considered after a

:23:43. > :23:46.number of private visits. For the lucky organisations, having Kate as

:23:46. > :23:51.a patron could make a very big difference.

:23:51. > :23:55.At the time of her engagement to Prince William, the then Katherine

:23:55. > :24:00.Middleton said she was willing to learn quickly and work hard.

:24:00. > :24:03.really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I'm

:24:04. > :24:09.looking forward to helping as much as I can.

:24:09. > :24:12.In the months since her marriage, the Duchess of Cambridge has become

:24:12. > :24:18.the Royal who many charities would like to recruit. She's taken her

:24:18. > :24:25.time deciding which to support. She used to be day tron of just four

:24:25. > :24:30.charities. - patron of just four charities.

:24:30. > :24:33.Compared say to the Queen who has more than 600 pat Ronages, or the

:24:33. > :24:38.Duke of Edinburgh who still has more than 800, the Duchess has a

:24:38. > :24:44.long way to go, but the charities which have been chosen by her are

:24:44. > :24:51.delighted -- patronages. She's absolutely charming and we are

:24:52. > :24:56.thrilled. This is a smallty which helps churn who've become

:24:56. > :25:00.disengaged from private education. She's a complete natural. She has

:25:00. > :25:04.complete understanding and interest in the art and therapeutic world.

:25:04. > :25:10.So the combination of what we do here, art and therapy, is something

:25:10. > :25:13.that seemed to attract her. The Duchess is also joining the

:25:13. > :25:17.Scouts as an occasional adult volunteer working principally with

:25:17. > :25:21.a group in North Wales. It may rekindle memories of her own time

:25:21. > :25:25.as a member of the Brownies when she was a child. As an adult

:25:25. > :25:28.volunteer, she'll be kept busy. She's going to be with the young

:25:28. > :25:32.people, being involved in their Antarcticion nights, she'll be

:25:32. > :25:36.doing the arts and crafts, astrology and hiking with them and

:25:36. > :25:41.she'll be with them on their first night away from home.

:25:41. > :25:46.The Duchess wants to be as hands on as possible, yet have her charity

:25:46. > :25:51.choices been a little over cautious? Diana, Prince of Wales,

:25:51. > :25:56.pushed the boundaries by adopting causes like HIV, AIDS and leprosy.

:25:56. > :26:05.The Duchess has played very safe. There are over 150,000 much smaller

:26:05. > :26:09.charitys in the UK who have almost no money, who have deeply unpopular

:26:09. > :26:13.causes where her patronage could have transformed their lives, so to

:26:13. > :26:16.me, of course I applaud her but I think it was a bit of a miss

:26:16. > :26:21.opportunity. Officials say the Duchess has chosen charities with

:26:21. > :26:25.which she feels comfortable and to which shelves she can make a real

:26:25. > :26:28.and valued contribution. So, we are told Kate wants to start

:26:28. > :26:33.small with charities and organisations that she can really

:26:33. > :26:37.get to know before then taking on other causes at some point in the

:26:37. > :26:39.future. So, have we seen the end of those

:26:39. > :26:43.So, have we seen the end of those storms, John?

:26:43. > :26:49.In a word, yes, George. A chance for things to clear up and settle

:26:49. > :26:53.down. The winds will subside this evening and the next 24 hours will

:26:53. > :26:56.see much lighter winds. Here is the storm which rattled the country

:26:56. > :27:05.earlier on, bringing destructive winds and heavy rain too. That is

:27:05. > :27:09.clearing through, although we are left with a few showers now. It's

:27:09. > :27:12.going to turn much more quiet overnight. It will turn cold under

:27:12. > :27:18.clear skies tonight, particularly across the northern half of the UK.

:27:19. > :27:26.We will see a touch of frost. Don't get caught out tomorrow morning.

:27:26. > :27:32.A chilly start but bright and sunny start to Friday for most. Central

:27:32. > :27:35.and eastern parts will have the most sunshine. Mid afternoon, the

:27:35. > :27:39.sunshine hangs on across the central and eastern parts of

:27:39. > :27:43.England. The cloud will increase to some extent, but bright enough.

:27:43. > :27:46.There will be a bit of a breeze but nothing like as windy as it has

:27:46. > :27:52.been. All in all, a pleasant enough day. Temperatures much of a

:27:52. > :27:55.muchness, slowly rising through the day. The cloud will thicken across

:27:55. > :27:59.south-west England and the odd spot of rain turning up here. The same

:27:59. > :28:03.applies to Wales. Increasing cloud, but many places will stay

:28:03. > :28:08.essentially dry through daylight hours. Northern Ireland, it will

:28:08. > :28:11.turn damp in the afternoon here, but not as windy as it has been.

:28:11. > :28:15.Heavier rain for the north-west of Scotland, to the east of the hills,

:28:15. > :28:19.probably remaining dry. Patchy rain will cross the country through

:28:19. > :28:25.Friday night into Saturday morning. For much of the weekend, plenty of

:28:25. > :28:28.dry, bright weather. The wind won't be as strong as they have been. It

:28:28. > :28:32.will be blustery but we went have the damage that we have had. A