:00:10. > :00:13.A victory to remember for football manager Harry Redknapp - he's
:00:13. > :00:23.cleared of tax evasion. The jury threw out charges that he
:00:23. > :00:26.tried to hide nearly �200,000 from the tax man. It really has been a
:00:26. > :00:29.nightmare. I've got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a
:00:29. > :00:32.case that should never have come to court because it's unbelievable
:00:32. > :00:38.really. Harry for England - could the
:00:38. > :00:42.verdict pave the way for him to take on the national team? Redknapp
:00:42. > :00:45.will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his football,
:00:45. > :00:49.no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham.
:00:49. > :00:52.We'll look at what the case tells us about money and football.
:00:52. > :00:55.Also tonight: More big pay-outs in the phone
:00:55. > :01:05.hacking scandal - comedian Steve Coogan is among those who get tens
:01:05. > :01:10.of thousands. This has never been about money. Like others who sued I
:01:10. > :01:12.was determined to do my part to show the depths which the press can
:01:13. > :01:16.sink in sharing private information. The RBS boss speaks to the BBC
:01:16. > :01:19.about giving up his bonus - he says he considered quitting during the
:01:19. > :01:29.uproar. The one-kilo chunk of rock that could hold the secrets of Mars
:01:29. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:58.- it's a meteorite that crashed to Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:58. > :02:01.News at 6.00pm. Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was close to tears
:02:01. > :02:05.when he came out of court today moments after he was cleared of tax
:02:05. > :02:09.evasion. The jury accepted that Mr Redknapp had not tried to conceal
:02:09. > :02:15.nearly �200,000 in a Monaco account. The payments relate to a period
:02:15. > :02:19.when he was manager at Portsmouth. The club's chairman at the time,
:02:19. > :02:26.Milan Mandaric, was also cleared. Our sports correspondent James
:02:26. > :02:30.Pearce is at Southwark Crown Court. When the verdicts were announced,
:02:30. > :02:35.the two men turned to each other in the dock and embraced. It was the
:02:35. > :02:38.end of an ordeal that had good gan back in 2007 when they were first
:02:38. > :02:45.arrested, the most successful English football manager of his
:02:45. > :02:49.generation had been found not guilty of tax evasion.
:02:49. > :02:53.Congratulations from waiting supporters as Harry Redknapp left
:02:53. > :02:57.the court having finally cleared his name. I am really just looking
:02:57. > :03:00.forward to getting home and seeing my wife Sandra and, you know,
:03:01. > :03:04.getting away from all this. It really has been a nightmare. I've
:03:04. > :03:09.got to be honest - it's been five years, and this is a case which
:03:09. > :03:13.should never have come to court because it's unbelievable really.
:03:13. > :03:16.Relief too from Milan Mandaric, who had been Redknapp's boss when he
:03:16. > :03:24.was with Portsmouth football club. I always believed in the truth and
:03:24. > :03:29.also believe in the British justice system. I'm very appreciative of
:03:29. > :03:33.that. Harry Redknapp had managerial success at Bournemouth and also at
:03:33. > :03:37.West Ham. I'm so proud of everyone here. Before he took Portsmouth
:03:37. > :03:41.into the Premiere League - that's where the allegations arose. The
:03:41. > :03:45.case centred around the transfer in 2002 of Peter Crouch. Harry
:03:45. > :03:50.Redknapp had believed that he was entitled to 10% of the profit from
:03:50. > :03:54.the sale and was unhappy when he only received a payment of 5%. He
:03:54. > :03:58.asked his chairman to sort it out. The allegation was that Milan
:03:58. > :04:03.Mandaric had eventually given in to Harry Redknapp's demands and agreed
:04:03. > :04:07.to pay him an extra �100,000. The prosecution, though, claimed that
:04:07. > :04:10.the money wasn't going to go through the club's accounts here in
:04:10. > :04:17.Portsmouth. It was to come directly from Mr Mandaric's personal account
:04:17. > :04:22.in Monaco. So Redknapp set up an account in Monaco named Rosie 47,
:04:22. > :04:26.after his dog, the one on the left. That provided plenty of laughter in
:04:26. > :04:31.court, but the two men repeatedly explained that the money was an
:04:31. > :04:34.investment, and they had nothing to hide. The former News of the World
:04:34. > :04:38.reporter Rob Beasley was the Crown's key witness. He'd recorded
:04:38. > :04:48.a phone call in which Redknapp had said that it was a bonus, not an
:04:48. > :05:01.
:05:01. > :05:06.Police questions soon followed. Redknapp said he'd lied to the
:05:06. > :05:16.reporter to get him off the phone. The payment was an investment, not
:05:16. > :05:26.
:05:26. > :05:30.a bonus, and it was his accountant He had told the jury that despite
:05:30. > :05:35.those limitations, he is a fantastic football manager. Now the
:05:35. > :05:38.trial is over, that Tottenham club jacket could soon be swapped for
:05:38. > :05:46.his country's whenever Fabio Capello is replaced. I think
:05:46. > :05:51.Redknapp will be a very, very good choice. He's English. He knows his
:05:51. > :05:56.football, no doubt about that. He's doing a great job with Tottenham,
:05:56. > :06:03.and he's been doing a great job with every team he had in the past,
:06:03. > :06:08.so I would guess it will be him. Tottenham's White Hart Lane, fans'
:06:08. > :06:12.joy at the verdicts was tempered by concern of their manager's future.
:06:12. > :06:15.If the England job comes, he's going, but to be honest, if he
:06:15. > :06:19.stays, we can be up there and challenging for the title. Just
:06:19. > :06:22.what we wanted, perfect timing. All of this hanging over him has
:06:22. > :06:26.affected the team a little bit, but now it will be back to normal,
:06:26. > :06:30.business as usual. Come on, Redknapp! The police investigation
:06:30. > :06:34.into Redknapp had been criticised since the day in 2007 when officer
:06:34. > :06:37.first arrived at Redknapp's house to arrest him, which some
:06:37. > :06:42.photographers had been tipped off alongside them. There appeared to
:06:42. > :06:47.be a leak at the heart of the inquiry which was defended by those
:06:47. > :06:52.who ran it. We accept the verdict of the jury but I would like to
:06:52. > :06:55.remind those who are evading tax by using offshore tax havens it always
:06:56. > :06:59.makes sense to come talk to us before we come to talk to you.
:06:59. > :07:05.Thank you. As Harry Redknapp left, it wasn't quite the size of a
:07:05. > :07:09.football crowd, but he doesn't have this sort of problem getting to his
:07:09. > :07:15.manager's dugout, a man used to winning on the pitch, but achieved
:07:15. > :07:18.a significant victory in court. It's estimated that the inquiry
:07:18. > :07:21.into football corruption cost �8 million. There were nine arrest.
:07:21. > :07:24.What we couldn't tell you until today is there was another trial
:07:24. > :07:28.last autumn also involving staff from Portsmouth. Again, they were
:07:28. > :07:32.found not guilty. The question for those who ran the inquiry this
:07:32. > :07:34.evening - should the charges have been brought in the first place?
:07:34. > :07:38.James, thank you. Our sports editor David Bond is at
:07:38. > :07:42.Wembley for us tonight, David. As James was suggesting there, David,
:07:42. > :07:48.this is going to add to speculation that Harry Redknapp could become
:07:48. > :07:51.England manager. Well, George, even before today, the bandwagon was off
:07:52. > :07:57.and rolling for Harry Redknapp to take over as England manager from
:07:57. > :08:00.Fabio Capello, and with today's acquittals, clearly no legal or
:08:00. > :08:04.ethical obstacle to him taking the job whenever Capello does move on.
:08:04. > :08:08.Of course, he does have two years left on his Tottenham contract, so
:08:08. > :08:12.his club may have something to say about it, but of course sweet
:08:12. > :08:16.timing that as Redknapp was being cleared at Southwark Crown Court,
:08:16. > :08:20.Fabio Capello was inside Wembley seeing his bosses following his
:08:20. > :08:22.comments about the decision to strip John Terry of the England
:08:22. > :08:31.captaincy last week. We're still waiting for news to emerge about
:08:31. > :08:36.what happened at that meeting. The most likely outcome is that an
:08:36. > :08:40.uneasy truce will develop between the two parties, then the
:08:40. > :08:45.Championships in the summer, then it will be clear for Redknapp to
:08:45. > :08:50.take over. Briefly, people watching this case - it seems there is an
:08:51. > :08:55.awful lot of money sloshing around in football. Of course, Mandaric
:08:55. > :09:00.and Redknapp cleared of those charges, but the case shone a
:09:00. > :09:04.murkier side of the game - hundreds of thousands of pounds between the
:09:04. > :09:08.two, net profit transfer deals and cuts in that way - really, many
:09:08. > :09:11.people will be surprised at this. But as James was pointing out, I
:09:11. > :09:15.think there have to be serious questions about the way this
:09:15. > :09:20.investigation was handled. Six years ago this started with an
:09:20. > :09:23.inquiry into Premiere League bungs and has ended today - clearly, a
:09:23. > :09:25.lot of money and time has been spent and that's come up with
:09:25. > :09:28.nothing. David, thank you. More high-profile figures have
:09:28. > :09:31.settled their claims for damages over the News of the World phone-
:09:31. > :09:34.hacking scandal. Comedian, Steve Coogan and the former footballer
:09:34. > :09:41.Paul Gascoigne are among the latest people to accept compensation worth
:09:41. > :09:46.tens of thousands of pounds. June Kelly reports. It does contain some
:09:46. > :09:50.flash photography. Some are from the world's of
:09:50. > :09:55.showbiz and sport. Others, like George Galloway, have made their
:09:55. > :09:58.names in politics. They've all made headlines in the News of the World.
:09:58. > :10:01.Now they've each got payout from the paper's owners and an apology.
:10:01. > :10:05.This has never been about money. Like other people who sued, I was
:10:05. > :10:10.determined to do my part to show the depths to which the press can
:10:10. > :10:12.sink in pursuit of private information. It was established
:10:12. > :10:19.early on that the Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes was a victim.
:10:19. > :10:23.It was criminal behaviour on an industrial scale. Sadly, the
:10:23. > :10:26.deficiencies of the original police inquiries which failed to
:10:26. > :10:29.investigation the clear evidence of much of the criminal behaviour of
:10:29. > :10:32.one of the most important businesses in our country are also
:10:32. > :10:36.all too apparent. The former footballer Paul Gascoigne had
:10:36. > :10:39.suffered mental harm and distress, the court was told. He blamed
:10:39. > :10:45.relatives and friends for leaking stories about him. His pay-out is
:10:45. > :10:48.one of the largest. And it's not just famous names who
:10:48. > :10:51.have suffered. An undisclosed amount is going to the mother of
:10:51. > :10:57.one of the victims of the 7/7 bombings. Sheila Henry's son
:10:57. > :11:01.Christian Small was one of the 52 who died. Her ex-directory landline
:11:01. > :11:05.number was discovered in the notebooks of Glenn Mulcaire, the
:11:05. > :11:08.private investigator employed by the News of the World. And an
:11:08. > :11:12.undisclosed amount too for Alastair Campbell - for years at the heart
:11:12. > :11:15.of the Labour Government as Tony Blair's right-hand man. Importantly
:11:15. > :11:18.for me, they've left open the door to further action because they've
:11:18. > :11:23.said they're looking at other material that may be in their
:11:23. > :11:26.possession, and they've said that they may then be liable in certain
:11:26. > :11:30.circumstances to further damages. This is the second big wave of
:11:30. > :11:32.settlements by the Murdoch empire. By paying out, they're avoiding
:11:32. > :11:37.what could have been highly damaging court cases. This way, the
:11:37. > :11:41.damage is limited to their bank balance. Can we have a quick word?
:11:41. > :11:46.The singer Charlotte Church is the only famous name who, for the
:11:46. > :11:50.moment, is not settling. Her court case against the News of the
:11:50. > :11:53.World's owners is due to start at the end of the month.
:11:53. > :11:56.European air safety officials are to inspect the entire fleet of
:11:56. > :11:59.Airbus A380 super jumbos - more than 60 aircraft - for cracks in
:11:59. > :12:02.their wings. Cracks have been found in several planes following a
:12:02. > :12:11.decision by the European Aviation Safety Agency last month to order
:12:11. > :12:14.checks on the 20 planes with the highest mileage.
:12:14. > :12:16.The Court of Appeal has ruled that Milly Dowler's killer cannot appeal
:12:16. > :12:18.against his conviction for her abduction and murder. Levi
:12:18. > :12:26.Bellfield, a former nightclub doorman, was jailed for life
:12:26. > :12:29.without parole last June. Syrian forces have continued
:12:29. > :12:32.shelling the city of Homs. Opposition activists say 50 people
:12:32. > :12:35.were killed overnight in what they describe as the heaviest shelling
:12:35. > :12:43.in five days. Our correspondent Paul Wood has spent several days
:12:43. > :12:48.inside the city where the government artillery appears. -- to
:12:48. > :12:51.be targeting areas which oppose the government. He sent this report
:12:51. > :12:58.about conditions inside the besieged city.
:12:58. > :13:02.It began at dawn, and for a fifth day, Homs is pounded.
:13:03. > :13:07.Some said it was the worst day of shelling - the casualties are
:13:07. > :13:12.mounting. SOUND OF GUNFIRE
:13:12. > :13:20.The people here both fear and expect those tanks and ground
:13:21. > :13:24.troops will move in at some point. Allah Hu Akbar. Most of the people
:13:24. > :13:29.who died here were killed because they went out on to the street.
:13:29. > :13:32.It's not clear what exactly the Syrian Army is targeting, but
:13:32. > :13:41.certainly civilians are bearing the brunt, and most of them are inside
:13:42. > :13:50.They haven't been out to play since the uprising began, their mothers
:13:50. > :13:54.in despair. "The outside world won't help us, but God's vengeance
:13:54. > :13:59.will come down on the Syrian President," she says. The
:13:59. > :14:09.Kalashnikovs of the Free Syria Army can do little against tanks. They
:14:09. > :14:10.
:14:10. > :14:14.hope the regime's forces will crumble from the inside. The Syrian
:14:14. > :14:18.Army's morale has collapsed, as an officer who defected just a week
:14:18. > :14:24.ago - they know they're killing civilians, and they want this
:14:24. > :14:29.bloodbath to stop. SOUND OF GUNFIRE
:14:30. > :14:39.The prevailing mood here is one of despair. People feel trapped, and
:14:40. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:44.they believe no-one is coming to Our top story tonight: Harry
:14:44. > :14:51.Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion. He said the case should never have
:14:51. > :15:00.come to court. Coming up: What can a meteorite from 100 million years
:15:01. > :15:05.ago tell us about life on Mars? Later on the News Channel, but debt
:15:05. > :15:15.worries of Greece continued to halt the world's financial markets. What
:15:15. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:19.does the future hold for Thomas The chief executive of the Royal
:15:19. > :15:24.Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester, has told the BBC he thought about
:15:24. > :15:28.resigning during the uproar over his bonus. Mr Hester said he was
:15:29. > :15:31.not a robot and there had been some deeply depressing moments. He was
:15:31. > :15:38.speaking in his first broadcast interview since he turned down a
:15:38. > :15:44.bonus of almost �1 million. Here is our business editor. Stephen Hester,
:15:44. > :15:49.the face, the symbol of the allegedly overpaid banker. Today,
:15:49. > :15:54.the boss of Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on the BBC he paid a big
:15:54. > :16:00.personal price for accepting and then rejecting a �1 million bonus.
:16:00. > :16:04.I am certainly not a robot. There have been some deeply depressing
:16:04. > :16:09.moments, by the way not just now, but over the last three years. In
:16:09. > :16:18.the end, in the intensity of it, I came to the conclusion that I
:16:18. > :16:22.thought it would be indulgent for me to resign. What I ought to do
:16:22. > :16:32.was to draw, if you like, on the reserves of strength I have and
:16:32. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:40.tried to make RBS a success. Stephen Hester he had the biggest
:16:40. > :16:45.banking time bomb in history. Stephen Hester said the money to
:16:45. > :16:52.rescue the bank had been lost. He meant the cost of fixing the Bank,
:16:52. > :16:58.writing off bad loans and making RBS more efficient, have so far
:16:58. > :17:03.been �38 billion. It will not be long before those costs exceed �45
:17:03. > :17:09.billion. As long as RBS can be nursed back to profits, at one day
:17:09. > :17:15.tax payers may get their money back but it will take years. How can
:17:15. > :17:20.banks and bankers be rehabilitated? The man credited with fixing
:17:20. > :17:24.laureates has some advice. Bankers need to see themselves as being of
:17:24. > :17:29.service to the public. They should be providing the finance and
:17:29. > :17:35.working for the companies they deal with, and not just come up all the
:17:35. > :17:40.time, tried to make huge bonuses for themselves. Take them on and
:17:40. > :17:45.expect them to do the job as everyone else does. The bonus of
:17:45. > :17:49.Stephen Hester is widely condemned in part because RBS is semi
:17:49. > :17:56.nationalised. Barclays is not owned by taxpayers so can Bob Diamond
:17:56. > :17:59.received huge pay and not be pilloried? We will know soon enough.
:18:00. > :18:02.The controversial bill to reform the NHS is back in the House of
:18:02. > :18:05.House of Lords, where it has already run into opposition. The
:18:05. > :18:09.Government's proposals would mean the biggest shake-up of the service
:18:09. > :18:11.since it was founded - giving GPs control over much of the budget.
:18:11. > :18:21.Earlier, it dominated a fiery session of Prime Minister's
:18:21. > :18:24.Questions. This is a matter of trust in the Prime Minister. Can he
:18:24. > :18:30.honestly look people in health service in the eye and say he has
:18:30. > :18:37.kept his promise of no more top- down reorganisation? What we're
:18:37. > :18:41.doing is cutting the bureaucracy in the NHS. We're taking out for �0.5
:18:41. > :18:45.billion of bureaucracy which we ploughed into patient care. If you
:18:45. > :18:50.do not support the reform, you are not see the money going to
:18:50. > :18:54.operations, doctors, nurses, hospitals, health care assistants.
:18:54. > :19:01.That is what is happening in the NHS. Our political correspondent is
:19:01. > :19:06.in the House of Lords for us. How much of a headache is this Bill
:19:06. > :19:10.becoming for the Government and David Cameron in particular? It may
:19:10. > :19:16.need an aspirin to cure. Before the election David Cameron said he
:19:16. > :19:21.could sum up his priorities in three letters, NHS. Now he has said
:19:21. > :19:26.the NHS needs to be reformed. He expects opposition from Labour.
:19:26. > :19:31.What concerns him of his opposition from some of his coalition partners,
:19:31. > :19:34.Lib Dem peers and Conservatives in the House of Lords. They have
:19:34. > :19:40.defeated the Government this afternoon over proposals for mental
:19:40. > :19:45.health. It has had to put down 136 changes to his proposals to get it
:19:45. > :19:51.through Parliament. Professional medical bodies and the Royal
:19:51. > :19:54.College of GPs and the faculty for public health have also opposed
:19:54. > :19:58.debt. Here is the big political problem for David Cameron. If
:19:58. > :20:03.anything goes wrong in the health service in the future, the danger
:20:03. > :20:07.will be that it will be blamed on his reforms. It could be as
:20:07. > :20:11.uncomfortable for him as an internal examination. It is
:20:11. > :20:13.designed to get a million people off welfare and into jobs over the
:20:13. > :20:15.next two years, without costing the taxpayer a penny. The first
:20:15. > :20:18.official figures for the Government's flagship Work
:20:18. > :20:21.Programme show that only one in five people, who originally signed
:20:21. > :20:25.up to it, have been found a job. But BBC research suggests that in
:20:25. > :20:28.some places the number is significantly lower than that. Mark
:20:28. > :20:36.Easton has been following the project in Liverpool to see if it
:20:36. > :20:42.is starting to make a difference. Liverpool, a city where today there
:20:42. > :20:47.are seven times as many jobseekers as the job vacancies. 21-year-old
:20:47. > :20:53.Cheryl Cole has been looking for work for a year. Having left school
:20:53. > :20:56.at 16, the economic downturn left her stranded on welfare. She
:20:56. > :21:02.praised the Government work programme can rescue her. What you
:21:02. > :21:08.hope the work programme will do For You? Hopefully get me into a stable
:21:08. > :21:13.job and keep me there. I am willing to take anything on. When you've
:21:13. > :21:19.worked in the hotel how long were you there? About two and a half
:21:19. > :21:25.months. This programme in Liverpool is run by A4e. They only make a
:21:25. > :21:30.profit if they find permanent jobs for the City's long-term unemployed.
:21:30. > :21:40.It is early days. Just one in seven of their clients have found any
:21:40. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:46.kind of work. Dave has been on the BACS of A4e since last summer. He
:21:46. > :21:54.has been given some basic advice on improving his chances of the job in
:21:54. > :22:00.a local biscuit factory. Clean hands, clean nails, clean clothes.
:22:00. > :22:06.How worried I knew that it will be impossible for you to get a job?
:22:06. > :22:11.You do worry. There are that many people now looking. The jobless
:22:11. > :22:15.beget seems to be going up at the moment. Factory bosses will need to
:22:15. > :22:21.be persuaded to recruit someone who has not worked for years rather
:22:21. > :22:26.than someone fresh from another job. Jacobs has been employing people in
:22:26. > :22:32.Liverpool for almost a century. A4e have dozens of people they hope to
:22:32. > :22:38.get a job for. It does not get treated any differently from other
:22:38. > :22:42.employment agencies when it tries to find jobs in the biscuit factory.
:22:42. > :22:47.There are only so many jobs out there. You are in competition with
:22:47. > :22:52.other agencies. It is always going to be a competitive market place to
:22:52. > :22:57.get people into work. We have to work with our people to secure
:22:57. > :23:01.those positions over other companies. That is the nature...
:23:01. > :23:07.That does not get the job figures. That means one of your people
:23:07. > :23:13.rather than someone else. OK. I do not control the labour market or
:23:13. > :23:17.job creation. They cannot create jobs but they can create job ready
:23:17. > :23:27.workers which might attract or expand businesses in the city.
:23:27. > :23:37.Cheryl has been centre with a pile of CDs to deliver to hotels and
:23:37. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:41.shops. Can I just hand in my CV? Yes. You have all the details?
:23:41. > :23:47.Improving the work readiness of the long-term unemployed in Liverpool
:23:47. > :23:50.may boost the prospects of the city. The work programme cannot create
:23:50. > :23:55.work. What the unemployed in Liverpool need most is not more
:23:55. > :23:58.schemes, it is more jobs. Downing Street has rejected claims by
:23:58. > :24:01.Argentina that Britain is engaged in a military build-up in the
:24:01. > :24:03.Falklands. The Argentine government is to make a formal complaint to
:24:03. > :24:08.the United Nations about the deployment of Prince William and
:24:08. > :24:10.one of the Royal Navy's newest warships to the South Atlantic.
:24:10. > :24:18.Number Ten insisted the despatch of HMS Dauntless didn't change the
:24:18. > :24:24.UK's military posture. Members of Parliament are to have their pay
:24:24. > :24:30.frozen for the next financial year. It will stay at �65,738. Their
:24:30. > :24:33.pension contributions will rise by 1.85%. The decision has been made
:24:33. > :24:41.by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - the body set
:24:41. > :24:44.up in wake of the expenses scandal. A meteorite that could help unravel
:24:44. > :24:48.the mysteries of Mars is being examined by scientists at the
:24:48. > :24:51.Natural History Museum. The rock fell in a shower of meteors over
:24:51. > :25:01.Morocco last summer, and the museum says it offers a unique insight
:25:01. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:10.They hurtle across space and then blazed through the atmosphere like
:25:10. > :25:15.falling stars before they crashed to the ground. This one is from the
:25:15. > :25:20.planet Mars. It is described as one of the most scientifically
:25:20. > :25:26.important need to rights ever to have fallen to earth. This is one
:25:26. > :25:31.of the most exciting me to write I have come across. It was recovered
:25:31. > :25:37.from the Moroccan desert. It was uncontaminated by earth. We think
:25:37. > :25:42.it may have samples of the Martian atmosphere trapped in it. Every
:25:42. > :25:48.clue we can get from this rock hopefully will help us to
:25:48. > :25:55.understand whether life may have existed on Mars in the past.
:25:55. > :26:04.Researchers used CT's Dan-Air's. They are searching for microscopic
:26:04. > :26:08.bubbles of Martian air. -- CT scanners. We note that the Martian
:26:08. > :26:13.surface is to try to support life. The terrain is covered with craters
:26:13. > :26:20.and dust. Hundreds of millions of years ago the meteorite may help to
:26:20. > :26:26.show it had an atmosphere, water, and even plants and animals. At
:26:26. > :26:31.auction houses, it is this intrigue that makes Martian meteorites much
:26:31. > :26:37.sought after by collectors. It is terribly interesting when you get
:26:37. > :26:45.things that have come to us from the universe. In general, meat
:26:45. > :26:51.rights cell from between �10,000.20 �1,000. -- meteorites. If you have
:26:51. > :26:55.something terribly rare, it can make a quarter of a million pounds.
:26:55. > :27:05.Scientifically it is priceless. Researchers may discover whether
:27:05. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:12.the red planet may once have been Now time for the weather. This
:27:12. > :27:18.picture behind me was taking it yesterday. More interesting photo
:27:18. > :27:23.opportunities in the next 24 hours. Let me take you to what is
:27:23. > :27:27.happening at the moment. Rain in Northern Ireland and western
:27:27. > :27:34.Scotland. As it falls across Scotland and northern England,
:27:34. > :27:40.freezing rain could occur. There could be ice and it could be
:27:40. > :27:45.potentially treacherous. Most of England and Wales will be dry and
:27:45. > :27:53.cloudy. A widespread frost. Wherever you are it will be a cold
:27:53. > :27:57.start and generally grey. Maybe a bit of sunshine across Kent. We
:27:57. > :28:01.could have freezing rain still causing problems across the far
:28:01. > :28:09.north of England and the South of Scotland as well. Outbreaks of rain
:28:09. > :28:13.coming and going in Scotland but they will ease from the north. That
:28:13. > :28:20.rain starts to push its way southwards through the day but it
:28:20. > :28:23.will be slow. Still the risk of ice and eventually snow across the
:28:23. > :28:30.north-east of England and the Midlands. Temperatures still
:28:30. > :28:35.struggling to get above freezing in a few spots but much milder across
:28:35. > :28:39.the North of Ireland and Scotland. Tomorrow and tomorrow night, the
:28:39. > :28:47.main risk of snow it is from Yorkshire, through the Midlands and