:00:10. > :00:13.Plans to impose a benefits cap run into trouble in the House of Lords.
:00:13. > :00:18.Controversial welfare reforms would mean that no family gets more than
:00:18. > :00:22.�26,000. The Government says that is what hard-working families
:00:22. > :00:27.survive on. It is a basic issue of fairness. Should people really be
:00:27. > :00:33.able to earn more than �26,000 just through benefits alone? I did
:00:33. > :00:37.believe that they should and the overwhelming majority of people in
:00:37. > :00:47.this country would back that you. Some families claim they would have
:00:47. > :00:47.
:00:48. > :00:52.to move to cheaper accommodation. Why should I move somewhere else? I
:00:52. > :00:56.am a single parent. I don't have relatives to support me. In any
:00:56. > :00:59.place I would not know anybody. Right now the House of Lords is
:00:59. > :01:03.debating whether to exclude child benefit from the cap. We will have
:01:03. > :01:08.the latest. Justice delayed. 19 years after he
:01:08. > :01:12.fled the country, Asil Nadir goes on trial in one of the biggest
:01:12. > :01:16.fraud cases in Britain. New plans to curb executive pay.
:01:16. > :01:19.Ministers want to give shareholders more power.
:01:19. > :01:29.No place like home. We meet the woman who has lived under the same
:01:29. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:34.I will bring you all the sport later on the BBC News Channel
:01:34. > :01:44.including action from the Australian Open. Not that there was
:01:44. > :01:58.
:01:58. > :02:02.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Plans to impose a
:02:02. > :02:05.�26,000 cap on what any family could receive in benefits have run
:02:05. > :02:10.into stiff opposition in the House of Lords. The Government says that
:02:10. > :02:15.is the amount that the average household in England, Scotland or
:02:15. > :02:18.Wales owns every year after tax. A coalition of Labour peers, bishops
:02:18. > :02:25.and rebel Lib Dems says that this could hurt children from poor
:02:25. > :02:31.families. Plans to live the cap for families that would face
:02:31. > :02:35.homelessness were defeated. Should any family get more than
:02:35. > :02:42.�26,000 and benefits? No, so the headlines and the Government, there
:02:42. > :02:47.has to be a limit. But yes say some charities and Piers, who fear that
:02:47. > :02:57.some families could be made homeless. Take Lucy. She claims
:02:57. > :02:57.
:02:57. > :03:02.that more -- the cap would mean that she would struggle with her
:03:02. > :03:06.bills. Why do I have to give up a good standard of living? I am a
:03:06. > :03:10.single parent with no relatives here. I would have to go to any
:03:10. > :03:16.place where I do not know anybody. Why is this cruel decision being
:03:16. > :03:21.imposed on me? Well, this is why. Are you happy that your taxes are
:03:21. > :03:27.going towards families where nobody is working and they are earning
:03:27. > :03:32.over �26,000 in benefits? Is that fair? Under the benefit plans, a
:03:32. > :03:36.cap of �26,000 per year would be imposed on families in England,
:03:36. > :03:41.Scotland and Wales where the parents do not work. 60,000
:03:41. > :03:44.families would be affected, but the savings would be �290 million a
:03:44. > :03:50.year, a drop in the ocean compared to the billions that ministers are
:03:50. > :03:53.looking for. In Bristol at least, but cap seems to fit. Everybody has
:03:53. > :03:58.got different circumstances but that is a lot of money. I have to
:03:58. > :04:02.manage on a lot less than that. �500 a week? I think that is too
:04:02. > :04:06.much. This cap will have most impact in central London where
:04:06. > :04:12.property prices are high. Ministers believe the policy will be popular
:04:12. > :04:16.with the public across the country and they are ready to fight for it.
:04:16. > :04:19.Labour back the idea of a cap but they have worries about the detail.
:04:19. > :04:23.Labour said that families that could be at risk of becoming
:04:23. > :04:31.homeless should be excluded from the cap. My parties support the
:04:31. > :04:35.benefit cap but one based on fairness. A particular concern for
:04:35. > :04:39.us is the potential to drive increased homelessness. Ministers
:04:40. > :04:45.say that the cat would help get people off welfare and back into
:04:45. > :04:53.work. -- the cap. The benefit cap is about changing psychology. It is
:04:53. > :05:02.about trying to get a change of circumstances. When it came to a
:05:02. > :05:09.vote, peers back to the Government and not Labour. The not contents,
:05:09. > :05:13.250, so they have it. They have not finished yet. They want to have
:05:13. > :05:18.child benefit excluded from the cap, which ministers say would make the
:05:18. > :05:23.policy meaningless. We do need to defend the interests of those that
:05:23. > :05:28.are poorly paid, but we do not do so by refusing child benefit to
:05:28. > :05:31.those that are out of work. While bishops and Piers say one thing,
:05:31. > :05:36.the newspapers say another and tonight is one occasion where the
:05:36. > :05:41.Government is happy to take the side of the press.
:05:41. > :05:44.But the latest we can speak to our political editor Nick Robinson, at
:05:44. > :05:48.the House of Lords. They are still debating. How worried is the
:05:48. > :05:52.Government going to be about the opposition coming from there?
:05:52. > :05:55.Usually governments do not like to lose a vote on anything. It is
:05:55. > :06:01.normally much more low-key in the House of Lords. I can't tell you
:06:01. > :06:05.how relaxed the Government seemed to be and there is a reason. They
:06:05. > :06:08.think the Government is fairly and squarely on their side. David
:06:08. > :06:12.Cameron is delighted to be able to say that he is speaking up for
:06:12. > :06:16.ordinary people when it comes to fairness. The House of Lords is not,
:06:16. > :06:20.the bishops are not, but what he really wants to do is claimed that
:06:20. > :06:25.the Labour Party is not either. Ed Miliband says he is in favour of a
:06:25. > :06:28.cap but not this particular cap done in this particular way. What
:06:28. > :06:37.has been no striking about this debate in the House of Lords has
:06:37. > :06:41.been a debate about welfare which has been about morality. -- most
:06:41. > :06:50.striking. Ministers are insisting that it is simply not moral for
:06:50. > :06:54.people to get more in benefits than they can if they are burning. Many
:06:54. > :06:58.of the bishops are saying that it is not moral to drive people out of
:06:58. > :07:01.their homes because they happen to have large families and they happen
:07:01. > :07:05.to be unemployed and they happen to live in expensive parts of the
:07:05. > :07:09.country. We will see in the next few minutes which side wins the
:07:09. > :07:12.next boat. Thank you.
:07:12. > :07:17.-- the next vote. It is said to be one of the biggest
:07:17. > :07:21.ever fraud trials in the country. Asil Nadir has gone on trial at the
:07:21. > :07:25.Old Bailey accused of stealing �146 million from his former company,
:07:25. > :07:30.Polly Peck. He fled to Cyprus after his company collapsed in 1990 but
:07:30. > :07:34.he returned to England in 2010. He denies any wrongdoing. Our
:07:34. > :07:37.correspondent is at the Old Bailey now.
:07:37. > :07:42.When Asil Nadir came back to Britain in 2010 he must have known
:07:42. > :07:52.that this moment was going to come. He is charged with simple theft,
:07:52. > :07:56.but of 13 counts of theft totalling �34 million. Asil Nadir,
:07:56. > :08:05.accompanied by bodyguards, arriving to find oily face and Old Bailey
:08:05. > :08:09.jury. In a dark suit, appearing relaxed, he greeted reporters
:08:09. > :08:14.outside the court room. This was as on the day in the 1980s, in the
:08:14. > :08:18.year before the fraud investigation began, and he fled from Britain,
:08:18. > :08:24.according to the prosecution. The Turkish Cypriot tycoon had built up
:08:24. > :08:32.a huge and thriving business empire. Polly Peck International was a
:08:32. > :08:37.network of companies ranging from electronics to fruit production. It
:08:37. > :08:42.was the most successful company in the FTSE 100 in 1980. Asil Nadir
:08:42. > :08:45.was firmly in charge. Opening the case against him, the QC described
:08:45. > :08:51.him as a dominant force who had abused the power and helped himself
:08:51. > :08:55.to tens of millions of pounds of money. He maintains direct control
:08:55. > :09:00.over its operations, directing its affairs in an autocratic manner and
:09:00. > :09:05.refusing to tolerate rival sources of power, or to accept constraints
:09:05. > :09:08.upon his freedom of action. The prosecution alleged that Asil Nadir
:09:08. > :09:14.could transfer money from the company with a single signature,
:09:14. > :09:19.his own. Often he filled it the cash from Britain to Turkish Cyprus,
:09:19. > :09:23.where he had control of companies owned by Polly Peck. -- he filtered
:09:23. > :09:29.the cash. It is claimed that the money was used to buy shares,
:09:29. > :09:32.properties, pay his tax bill, or even buy a Mercedes for his wife.
:09:32. > :09:36.This is Ersin Tatar, once the assistant treasurer of Polly Peck.
:09:37. > :09:42.The jury was told that he helped in the fraud, telling a member of
:09:42. > :09:46.staff who found out to keep his mouth shut. Asil Nadir denies 13
:09:46. > :09:50.charges of theft by fraud. He will argue that for every demand that he
:09:50. > :09:55.took from Polly Peck's bank accounts, he put in an equivalent
:09:55. > :09:57.amount. The jury will scrutinise the case in intense detail, in a
:09:57. > :10:02.trial that is expected to last five months.
:10:02. > :10:05.Thank you. A juror who researched a
:10:05. > :10:09.defendant's background on the internet has been jailed for six
:10:09. > :10:12.months for contempt of court. Theodora Dallas, 34 year-old
:10:12. > :10:16.university lecturer, discovered that the defendant had previously
:10:16. > :10:20.been accused of rape and told her fellow jurors at Luton Crown Court
:10:20. > :10:27.last summer. Today 3 High Court judge has ruled that she had
:10:27. > :10:31.deliberately disobeyed an order not to go online. -- three High Court
:10:31. > :10:35.judges. Police investigating murders and
:10:35. > :10:39.Stepping Hill Hospital say that a 5th patient has died. Linda
:10:39. > :10:44.McDonagh died on 14th January. It is thought that a saline drip was
:10:44. > :10:54.deliberately contaminated with insulin last year. NS is on bail on
:10:54. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :11:00.suspicion of murdering three patients. -- and a nurse.
:11:01. > :11:05.A prisoner has been sprung from a prison van near Hewell Prison. The
:11:05. > :11:08.man who escaped, 31 year-old John Anslow, has been described as
:11:08. > :11:12.dangerous by police. The company shareholders should
:11:12. > :11:16.have the power to veto massive pay packets for Britain's high-flying
:11:16. > :11:19.bosses. That is one of the proposals in the Government's plan
:11:19. > :11:22.to curb boardroom success. The business secretary said it was
:11:22. > :11:27.wrong that bosses got pay rises even when their companies were
:11:27. > :11:33.failing. Labour said the plans did not go far enough. Robert Peston
:11:33. > :11:38.reports. Tough at the top? Possibly not.
:11:38. > :11:41.Bosses of big companies continue to get big pay rises and bankers
:11:41. > :11:46.pocket multi-billion pound bonuses, while most British people endured
:11:46. > :11:55.the worst squeeze on living standards for 60 years.
:11:55. > :11:58.Vince Cable wants to curb the boardroom excesses. The evidence is
:11:58. > :12:01.very clear that business and investors recognise that there is a
:12:01. > :12:07.disconnect between top pay and company performance and something
:12:07. > :12:15.must be done. Shareholder power is at the heart of the business
:12:15. > :12:19.secretary's reforms, giving them a veto over executive pay policies.
:12:19. > :12:22.The investors themselves are very highly paid and they have been
:12:22. > :12:27.asked to signal their views on the earnings of their bosses. This did
:12:27. > :12:32.not stop the executive pay explosion. It is in the past decade
:12:32. > :12:36.that executive pay has really taken off. Since 2000, those that run our
:12:36. > :12:42.biggest companies have typically seen their pay and remuneration
:12:42. > :12:47.soar from �1 million to �4 million. That includes a pay increase of 12%
:12:47. > :12:57.for them over the past year, when the economy has been so flat. For
:12:57. > :13:01.the rest of us, pay increases have been 1.4%, from just over �26,000
:13:01. > :13:05.for a typical employee a year. Publishing simpler pay information
:13:05. > :13:12.such as a single number for how much an executive is expected to
:13:12. > :13:15.earn his the second reform. It is perfectly justifiable to pay a lot
:13:15. > :13:20.of money to an outstanding performer, football star, chief
:13:20. > :13:24.executive, pop-star. It is not acceptable to reward failure or to
:13:24. > :13:30.give lots of money for mediocre performances. The finally Vince
:13:30. > :13:33.Cable wants the views of employees on pay to be taken into account
:13:33. > :13:39.when executive rewards are decided. He is not going as far as Labour
:13:39. > :13:47.would like. Why will he not back moves for employees to sit on the
:13:47. > :13:53.remuneration committees? Employees play this type of role in Germany
:13:53. > :13:56.and at John Lewis. The Government is the big investor in the Royal
:13:56. > :14:01.Bank of Scotland but Vince Cable said it was above his pay great to
:14:01. > :14:04.block controversial plans for RBS to pay a �1 million bonus to the
:14:04. > :14:13.chief executive, which perhaps shows that investors will not find
:14:13. > :14:16.it easy to rein in big play. -- pay. More details have emerged other
:14:16. > :14:21.News of the World hacked into the mobile phone belonging to Milly
:14:21. > :14:24.Dowler. Surrey police told the newspaper that police officers have
:14:24. > :14:29.listened to the voicemails after getting the telephone number and
:14:29. > :14:35.pin code details from her friends. Our correspondent is at News
:14:35. > :14:39.International headquarters in Wapping. What does this letter say?
:14:39. > :14:43.The hacking of Milly Dowler's voicemail goes to the heart of the
:14:43. > :14:48.phone hacking scandal. It led to the closure of the News of the
:14:48. > :14:55.World in Wapping and an unreserved apology from Rupert Murdoch and a
:14:55. > :14:59.multi-million-pound payout to that Milly Dowler family. This raises
:14:59. > :15:06.the question of how much the newspaper involve themselves in the
:15:06. > :15:12.police investigation. The reporter contacted the police in 2002. The
:15:12. > :15:15.reporter said they had got the mobile phone number and pin code
:15:15. > :15:18.details from her school friends and somebody pretending to be Milly
:15:18. > :15:23.Dowler's mother had attempted to blag information from a recruitment
:15:23. > :15:25.agency which had left a voicemail on her telephone. Tonight News
:15:25. > :15:29.International said that the matter is being investigated by the
:15:29. > :15:35.Metropolitan Police and they hope that those that are responsible for
:15:35. > :15:38.these abhorrent actions will be EU foreign ministers have imposed
:15:38. > :15:41.some of the toughest sanctions yet against Iran over the country's
:15:41. > :15:44.nuclear programme. The measures involve a ban on all new oil
:15:44. > :15:46.contracts with the country. Last night, British, French and US
:15:46. > :15:51.warships sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, which Tehran has
:15:51. > :15:54.threatened to close if its oil exports are disrupted. The Strait
:15:54. > :16:00.is key to the movement of oil around the world, with a daily flow
:16:00. > :16:03.of almost 17 million barrels last year. That's more than 20% of all
:16:03. > :16:13.the oil traded worldwide. Our Tehran correspondent, James
:16:13. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:19.Reynolds, is monitoring The Gulf is the closest that Iran
:16:19. > :16:24.has to a giant cash point. The European Union has now decided to
:16:24. > :16:33.stop paying into Iran's accounts. It will no longer buy any oil from
:16:33. > :16:36.the Persian states. And so Iran loses 20% of its oil markets. This
:16:36. > :16:42.is why. The West fears Iran is trying to learn how to build
:16:42. > :16:50.nuclear weapons. It is a charge Iran denies. Iran continues to defy
:16:50. > :16:55.UN Security Council resolutions and enriches uranium to 20%, for which
:16:55. > :16:59.there is no plausible civilian explanation. It is very important
:16:59. > :17:03.for us to agree these measures, to increase the peaceful and
:17:04. > :17:09.legitimate pressure on the Iranian government. The Gulf is Iran's
:17:09. > :17:14.supply line to the outside world. Exporting oil helps keep the
:17:14. > :17:21.country's government in money and in power. So the EU has decided to
:17:21. > :17:25.go after Iran where it hurts. Iran warned the EU not to do this. To
:17:25. > :17:32.make its point, it carried out war games in the Gulf and did even
:17:32. > :17:36.threatened to close the narrows, crucial straight before moos. In
:17:36. > :17:41.response, the world's most powerful military has sent an aircraft
:17:41. > :17:46.carrier to make sure it stays open. The US and Iran have clashed here
:17:46. > :17:49.before. America wants to keep the price of oil stable. If any
:17:49. > :17:53.limitation is put on the availability of oil in the
:17:53. > :17:58.international market, one would expect the place of oil to go up.
:17:58. > :18:02.Some will be ready to make up the shortfall. In a man, smugglers
:18:02. > :18:09.prepared to get goods into Iran. Iran's rulers may be used to
:18:09. > :18:14.isolation, but losing a source of income may be much harder to bear.
:18:14. > :18:18.Our top story tonight: Controversial welfare reforms -
:18:18. > :18:21.plans to impose a benefits cap run into trouble in the Lords.
:18:21. > :18:31.Coming up: Spurs manager Harry Redknapp in
:18:31. > :18:34.
:18:34. > :18:37.Later on the BBC News Channel, agrees creeps closer to a DEC deal
:18:37. > :18:47.as eurozone leaders meet again in Brussels.
:18:47. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:54.A slump at Thomas Cook at normally The Leveson Inquiry into press
:18:54. > :18:59.standards has heard that political leaders have demeaned themselves in
:18:59. > :19:03.their conduct with newspapers. Her that was the view of Lord Patten,
:19:03. > :19:07.the chairman of the BBC Trust and the former Conservative politician.
:19:07. > :19:11.The inquiry also heard from the head of the BBC, Director General
:19:12. > :19:15.Mark Thompson. He has been chairman of the BBC
:19:15. > :19:20.Trust, the Corporation's governing body and regulator, for nearly a
:19:20. > :19:23.year now. It is the latest role in a long career of public service. As
:19:23. > :19:26.Christopher Patten the politician, he was a minister in the
:19:26. > :19:30.Conservative government in the 1980s and then party chairman. As
:19:30. > :19:35.diplomat, he was the last British Governor of Hong Kong before the
:19:35. > :19:40.handover to China. And as an academic, he has been Chancellor of
:19:40. > :19:45.Oxford University's since 2003. Today, as Lord Patten, he brought
:19:45. > :19:48.all that experience to the Leveson Inquiry. His first target, the
:19:48. > :19:54.party leaders of recent years for their cosiness with some press
:19:54. > :19:58.barons. I think major political parties and particularly their
:19:58. > :20:02.leaders over the last 20 to 25 years have often demeaned
:20:02. > :20:09.themselves in the extent they have paid court on proprietors and
:20:09. > :20:14.editors. Of course I'm in favour of talking to editors and journalists,
:20:14. > :20:17.but I'm not in favour of grovelling. In his role as chairman of the BBC
:20:17. > :20:27.Trust, he said he had comparatively little contact with political
:20:27. > :20:32.leaders. I have seen the Prime Minister wants. Presumably seeing
:20:32. > :20:35.the Prime Minister and other party leaders more frequently if I had
:20:35. > :20:39.been a News International executive. Then the central question of
:20:39. > :20:43.regulation. Lord Patten said that unlike broadcasters, newspapers
:20:43. > :20:47.should if possible be left to sort out their own problems without new
:20:47. > :20:56.laws from Parliament. I think if possible politicians should be kept
:20:56. > :20:59.out of these areas, but unless the press owners, editors, come up with
:20:59. > :21:04.a convincing scheme, we will presumably get drawn in that
:21:04. > :21:08.direction. Her coming from someone with Lord Patten's experience,
:21:08. > :21:14.those comments will add weight to the efforts by the newspaper groups
:21:14. > :21:17.to resist any form of statutory control. Earlier, the BBC's
:21:17. > :21:20.Director General Mark Thompson told the inquiry that he had ordered an
:21:20. > :21:29.internal review to establish whether any phone hacking had
:21:29. > :21:32.occurred within the BBC. No The supermarket chain ASDA is
:21:32. > :21:35.planning to create up to 5,000 new jobs this year. It's opening 25
:21:35. > :21:40.stores and refurbishing more than 40 others as part of a �500 million
:21:40. > :21:44.expansion plan. Italian officials say the bodies of
:21:44. > :21:48.two women have been recovered from the wreck of the cruise ship Costa
:21:48. > :21:52.Concordia. This brings to 15 the number of people confirmed to have
:21:52. > :21:55.died. At least 17 people are still missing. The authorities say they
:21:55. > :22:05.will begin pumping fuel from the ship while the search operation
:22:05. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:08.continues. The Tottenham manager, Harry
:22:08. > :22:12.Redknapp, has appeared in court to face accusations of tax evasion. He
:22:12. > :22:14.denies the charges, which date back as far as ten years, to when he was
:22:14. > :22:24.in charge of Portsmouth. Our sports correspondent James Pearce's
:22:24. > :22:29.A manager normally seen in a football dug out arriving at court
:22:29. > :22:33.to spend the day in the dock. Harry Redknapp has been charged, along
:22:33. > :22:37.with Milan Mandaric, in the middle, the former owner of Portsmouth
:22:37. > :22:41.Football Club, with two accounts of cheating the public revenue. The
:22:41. > :22:45.allegations date back to 2002 when the two men were working together
:22:45. > :22:49.in Portsmouth. Redknapp initially as director of football and later
:22:49. > :22:54.the club's manager. The jury was told about the signing of Peter
:22:54. > :22:58.Crouch. Redknapp was entitled to share of the �3 million profit
:22:58. > :23:03.Portsmouth banked on the player. But a change to his contract
:23:03. > :23:07.reduced his cut from 10% to 5%. The prosecution claimed that around the
:23:08. > :23:11.same time, Redknapp flew to Monaco where he set up a bank account in
:23:11. > :23:16.which he could receive payments from the personal account of Milan
:23:16. > :23:21.Mandaric. The jury was told the Monaco account was called Rosie 47,
:23:21. > :23:25.the name of Redknapp's dog and the year of his birth. The prosecution
:23:25. > :23:30.claimed the choice of Monaco was quite deliberate because it had
:23:30. > :23:33.minimal taxation and a long tradition of banking secrecy.
:23:33. > :23:39.Redknapp is one of the most successful English managers of his
:23:39. > :23:42.generation. He was described by the prosecution as unusually talented,
:23:42. > :23:51.but nevertheless a hard-headed businessman with financial acumen.
:23:51. > :23:55.His claim that he never told the authorities about his Monaco bank
:23:55. > :23:58.account. Redknapp and Mandaric deny the charges. Tomorrow the
:23:58. > :24:02.prosecution will continue outlining their case.
:24:02. > :24:05.Moving home can be one of the most stressful times in life, but one
:24:05. > :24:09.woman has avoided the hassle by staying in the same house for 100
:24:09. > :24:19.years. Georgina Brown was born in a gas-lit cottage in Hambledon in
:24:19. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:25.Hampshire in 1912. Robert Hall went Georgina Brown, on her way to visit
:24:25. > :24:29.the shop she once ran, following a path which leads back to winter's
:24:29. > :24:34.day in 1912. A day when her father ran a blacksmith's forge and his
:24:34. > :24:39.daughter was born in the tiny front bedroom of their cottage, into a
:24:39. > :24:43.very different world. The old form horses used to come and the
:24:43. > :24:51.blacksmith shop to be shod. I would go round and look at their noses
:24:51. > :25:00.and their faces and strokes them. People used to have fits. They used
:25:00. > :25:05.to say, she will get kicked. The Old blacksmiths used to say...
:25:05. > :25:09.Outside the village, women were still fighting for the vote.
:25:09. > :25:14.Fragile flying machines was struggling into the sky. A world of
:25:14. > :25:19.simpler pleasures. But away from the towns and cities, primitive
:25:19. > :25:24.living conditions brought harsh winters. We had a mud floor, but we
:25:24. > :25:32.used to sit with Wellington boots on, sitting in the water because
:25:32. > :25:37.the springs came up. It ran through Hambleden like a river. It ran
:25:37. > :25:44.through the house. You just had to put up with it? We put up with it.
:25:44. > :25:48.It went down after about three weeks. 100 years of -- have brought
:25:48. > :25:54.traffic, electricity and better drainage, but the passage of time
:25:54. > :25:58.never loosened her bond with her Hampshire Valley. This is home. It
:25:58. > :26:04.is a draw. There's no place like home. And she has every intention
:26:04. > :26:08.of celebrating their birthdays to come right here. -- her birthdays
:26:08. > :26:11.to come. to come.
:26:11. > :26:16.She did not look 100! Let's take a look at the weather forecast.
:26:16. > :26:20.Clear skies for many this evening, conditions should the northern
:26:20. > :26:24.lights make an appearance across northern Britain. But it will be
:26:24. > :26:28.cold and things are going to change. Later in the night it turns cloudy
:26:28. > :26:32.and wet and that combination of cold and wet weather will make for
:26:32. > :26:36.some bleak conditions tomorrow morning. This evening we have
:26:36. > :26:40.largely clear skies, rain clearing from the south-west. Clear skies
:26:40. > :26:46.are allowing temperatures to fall, they will be an extensive Frost.
:26:46. > :26:49.Not quite as cold further west as things turn wet. Rain in Northern
:26:49. > :26:53.Ireland, but as the wet weather pushing across Scotland and
:26:53. > :26:57.northern England, there will be some snow. It is not looking too
:26:57. > :27:01.pretty for tomorrow morning's rush- hour. Very wet indeed across
:27:01. > :27:07.central and southern Scotland. Trans Pennine roots may be snowy
:27:07. > :27:11.and they could be some snow across north-east England. Even if you
:27:11. > :27:15.haven't got the snow, it will be cold and wet. Rain covering much of
:27:15. > :27:20.southern England in the morning rush-hour. Across the south-west,
:27:20. > :27:24.the rain might not be as heavy, but it will still be a damp and dreary
:27:24. > :27:28.start with a lot of mixed and low cloud. Pretty bleak in Wales with
:27:28. > :27:32.cloud and outbreaks of rain and also for Northern Ireland.
:27:32. > :27:37.Temperatures in the West are higher than they will be in the east. Cold
:27:37. > :27:41.conditions persist through the day. Snow only slowly eases away and it
:27:41. > :27:44.will stay chilly throughout the day with a lot of cloud and mist.
:27:44. > :27:49.Temperatures in the afternoon in the east just three to four degrees.
:27:49. > :27:54.In the West, a lot milder. But even here it will be dull and there will
:27:54. > :27:59.be further rain to come. Mild pretty much everywhere by Wednesday.
:27:59. > :28:01.Rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland in particular. Thursday
:28:01. > :28:04.looks brighter with some sunshine, looks brighter with some sunshine,
:28:04. > :28:10.but then it starts to turn colder once more.
:28:10. > :28:13.Thank you. A reminder of the top news.
:28:13. > :28:19.Controversial plans to place a cap on benefits have run into trouble
:28:19. > :28:22.in the Lords. A further vote on whether child benefit should be
:28:22. > :28:24.excluded from the cap is expected in the next hour. You can watch all