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Six soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, the biggest British | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
loss of life there in six years. At the scene, Afghan troops fired | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
at Taliban insurgents as the soldiers' bodies were recovered. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
This is a desperately sad day for our country and desperately sad, of | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
course, for the families concerned. It's a reminder of the huge price | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
that we are paying for the work we are doing in Afghanistan. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
It brings the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan since the | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
war began to more than 400. Also on the programme: | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
1,700 jobs are to go, most held by people with disabilities as Remploy | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
closes over 30 factories. It's very hurtful because I've made | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
a lot more friends, got so many friends here now and it just hurts. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
How diabetics are ten times more likely to have a limb amputated in | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
some parts of England than others. And a study of gorillas brings | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
scientists a step closer to understanding what makes us | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Six British soldiers | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
have been killed when their armoured vehicle was caught in an | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
explosion in the single biggest British loss of life in the Afghan | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
war for six years. Five of the soldiers were serving | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
with third battalion, the Yorkshire regiment, the thors from the Duke | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
of Lancaster's regiment. Their families have been told. The | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
people's called it a desperately sad day. | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
The soldiers were travelling north to Lashkar Gah when the explosion | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
happened just over the Helmand border. Quentin Somerville joins us | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
now from Lashkar Gah. Even for the hardened fighters here | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
at the British base, this came as a shock. They are asking the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
questions how could so many of their colleagues be killed in a | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
single explosion in such a heavily armoured vehicle? | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
At the base in Lashkar Gah, the flags fly at half-mast. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
It marks a landmark British loss. Six of their comrades gone, killed | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
in a single explosion. The size of the loss left most in this camp in | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
shock. You feel it in your gut. I mean, it's a sickening blow. But | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
one thing I've learned over the years is that these young soldiers | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
are incredibly tough and resilient, so they grieve and it's right that | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
they grieve and we all do, but in many ways, it makes their resolve | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
even stronger. We've travelled along this road | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
before, highway one is the country's main road. It and the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
surrounding areas are notoriously dangerous. The six British soldiers | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
were travelling along the route. They were on what was described as | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
a routine patrol from a nearby base. It was dark as they approached lash | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
ka Durai, here they left the road. They were travelling in a Warrior | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
armoured troop convoy, which is heavily armoured, but the explosion | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
was still able to cut through its underbelly, one of the largest | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
blasts they've seen here. The explosion tore through the vehicle, | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
killing everyone inside. The wreckage of the vehicle and the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
remains of the men have now been returned to base. Initial | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
assessments appear to und Kate this was a very large Taliban bomb which | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
was extremely well placed -- indicate. One officer said this | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
isn't a change in insurgent tactics, it was just rotten luck. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
David Cameron paid tribute to the sacrifice the men had made. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
This is a desperately sad day for our country and desperately sad, of | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
course, for the families concerned. It's a reminder of the huge price | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
that we are paying for the work we are doing in Afghanistan, the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
sacrifice that our troops have made and continue to make. I do believe | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
it's important work for our national security right here at | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
home, but of course this work will increasingly be carried out by | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Afghan soldiers and we all want to see that transition take place. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Increasingly, British soldiers are focused on handing control to | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Afghan forces, most will leave by the end of 2014. But today, that | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
seems a long way off. Especially in the town of | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Warminster, the home of the Yorkshire regiment where five of | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
the six soldiers served. I was quite upset because first we didn't | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
know who it was so I was panicking, but it's just sad. It just brings | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
it home that my husband is going in April and that I just hope he stays | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
safe. The men who died had only been in | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Afghanistan for little over a week. Even as Britain's part in this war | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
grows smaller, they won't be the last to leave their homes for | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
Helmand and to sacrifice their lives for a far off country. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
So we expect that soon the names of those men will be released. The | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
investigation into the circumstances around their deaths | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
will continue. In one week's time in the small chapel behind me here | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
in Lashkar Gah base, a vigil will be held to commemorate the | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
sacrifice and the loss of those six soldiers. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Quentin, thank you. The loss of life today has pushed | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the death toll among British troops in Afghanistan since operations | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
began beyond 400. It's prompted new questions about Britain's role in | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Afghanistan and the plan to end combat missions there. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Our Defence Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt is here. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
The number of British military fatalities in Afghanistan had | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
slowed, but these latest deaths bring the total killed to 404 since | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
2001. The attrition rate is not as bad as it was at its peak when 108 | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
were killed in just one year in 2009. Last year, the death toll was | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
lower, at 46. 11 of the dead were just 18, the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
oldest was 51. Each death leaves behind a family whose life is | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
changed forever by that loss. The toll of the dead mounted slowly at | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
first after British forces went into Afghanistan after the 9/11 | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
attacks on New York. But in 2006, when British troops went to Helmand, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
the numbers of dead and injured soared in a conflict that's lasted | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
longer than the two World Wars combined. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
For those for whom such a loss is all too familiar, these latest | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
deaths will bring back the anguish. Conrad Lewis was just 22 when he | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
was shot dead by a Taliban sniper a little over a year ago. He was a | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
353rd British fatality. The tragedy for me would be if we left them | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
before the state was having its own level of security. So if the police | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
and the Afghan National Army were not in a position to make sure that | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
they'd got an element of control on that country, then I think I'd | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
start to think that maybe we had been a tragic waste of life. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
process of handing over responsibility to Afghan forces is | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
well under way. The UK currently has 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
but that will start to fall. British forces are due to finish | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
their combat role there by the end of 2014, although some will stay on | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
to train their Afghan counterparts. Clearly, the task for British | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
forces in Helmand remains perilous. Perhaps even more so when their | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
numbers start to come down. But the Government insists the UK must see | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
this mission through. They are fighting in the deserts of | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Afghanistan, a battle to ensure that we are not fighting the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
terrorists on the streets of Britain's cities. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
But many will ask what it is that Britain and the rest of the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
alliance really hoped to achieve in Afghanistan by the time those | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
combat troops withdraw, perhaps with yet more lives lost. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
I think the objective for Britain and the other allies in Afghanistan | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
is to leave behind some sort of sustainable Afghan administration | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
so that whatever happens next, good bad or indifferent, is the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
responsibility of the Afghans themselves. If there is a decent | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
interval before anything goes wrong, we can say that we left after again | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Stan in reasonably good shape. The rising toll of the dead is not | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
the only price that Britain's paid. More than 5,000 had been injured in | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Afghanistan and will have to live with that legacy. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Despite the unpopularity of the war itself, the past years have seen a | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
surge in public support for the Armed Forces and for their families | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
back at home. The Government knows that the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
latest losses will renew the questions over whether these | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
sacrifices are worth it, but Britain's strategy in Afghanistan | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
is tied to those of its allies and the need to ensure a dignified end | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
to the campaign. Thanks Caroline. Remploy which | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
provides and finds work for people with disabilities is planning to | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
close two thirds of its factories, putting more than 1,700 jobs at | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
risk. The Government's cut its financial support and ministers say | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
they are better ways of helping disabled workers. The move is | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
supported by Disability Rights UK, one of the largest disability | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
organisations, but union leaders say it's an attack on vulnerable | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
people. Our Deputy Political Editor, James Landale, reports. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
NEWSREEL: This is part of a non- profit making organisation... | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
up after the Second World War, state subsidised factories for | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
disabled workers. More than half a century on, most of the segregated | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
factories are not making money and ministers believe it would be | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
better to use the �3 20 million subsidy to help disabled people get | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
jobs in mainstream employment. never going to be easy to make | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
these decisions, but what we are trying to do is make sure the money | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
we've got, protected money, is used more effect fly and absolutely | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
every penny that is saved in the process will be reinvested back | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
into supporting disabled people. That means that 36 of the 54 | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
factories will close, many in Wales, potentially making more than 1,700 | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
people redundant. They'll get about �2,500 and help to find jobs, but | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
workers leaving this factory were not happy. It's very hurtful | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
because I've made a lot more friends, got so many friends here | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
now and it just hurts. They want us to work, they don't want mainstream | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
employment because they'll get bullied out there. I know, I've | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
been there. Some disability groups say the Government is doing the | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
right thing. For every one person that's funded by subsidising a | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
loss-making factory, we can get at least eight people into employment, | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
so what this is about is more jobs for more disabled people. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
Labour in Government began the process of shutting Remploy | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
factories but today these changes were the wrong plan at the wrong | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
time. These are in communities where there are twice as many | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
people chasing every job as the national average. It will be hard | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
to get people sacked by Remploy back into work. The Government is | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
convinced that supporting disabled people in mainstream ement | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
employment is the way forward and they've got the backing of some | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
disabled groups. But making hundreds of disabled people | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
redundant at a time of high unemployment will come at some | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
political and personal price. United Nations humanitarian chief, | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Valerie Amos, has held talks with the Syrian Foreign Minister in | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Damascus, trying to secure access for aid workers in the worst-hit | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
areas. She went to Homs and paid a brief visit to the devastated | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
district of Baba Amr. Lord Blair who was Head of The Metropolitan | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Police until 2008 has told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
that he didn't ask the questions that now look so obvious, | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
concerning the forces' investigation into phone hacking. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
He also confirmed that while he was commissioner, his son did work | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
experience at the Sun newspaper. Police searching for the former | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
EastEnders actress Jemma MCluskey who went missing six days ago say | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
divers have found a body. The 29- year-old played Kerry Skinner in | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
2001, a 35-year-old man has been arrested. | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Three men will be sentenced tomorrow for their involvement in | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
the biggest so-called Ponzi fraud scheme ever to have been | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
investigated by the police. One of the men has already pleaded | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
guilty to defrauding investors of �115 million. A jury cleard two | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
other men of deceiving investors but found them guilty on lesser | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
charges. Matt Prodger has the story. They appeared to be financial | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
wizards, but the only trick was making people's money disappear- | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Londoner, Kautilya Pruthi, admitted being the mastermind, a career | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
fraudster once jailed in America. Kenneth peacock and John Anderson | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
were today found guilty of lesser offences. They spent the money | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
renting these luxury homes, they travelled to meetings by helicopter | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
and one of them even brought a private jet. These super cars | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
seized by police are some of the few remaining assets to be | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
recovered from a massive scam. John Anderson told investors they | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
were putting money into a loan business but police found no | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
evidence of it. He and his co- defendant, Kenneth Peacock, were | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
cleared by a jury of misleading investors but found guilty of | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
unlawfully accepting deposits. People's lives have been devastated. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
They've lost homes, pension funds and there are people in the latest | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
stages of their lives that are haven't to start again and face | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
decisions that they wouldn't have to normally. From this office in | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
wealthy Knightsbridge, nearly 800 people were persuaded to part with | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
their money, promised returns of up to 20% a month. Among the victims | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
were former cricketer Darren Gough, seen here on Strictly Come Dancing | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
a few years ago, the actor Jerome Flynn of Soldier Soldier fame was | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
another who lost money. What the investors didn't know is | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
that it was a massive Ponzi fraud scheme, the mastermind, Kautilya | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Pruthi would take money from new investors and use to it pay out to | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
existing investors, he then squandered the rest on a lavish | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
lifestyle. When the supply of new investors dried up, the scheme | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
collapsed, owing �115 million. Bevis Nathan and his partner from | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
Bath lost nearly �500,000, all the money they had. I was naive and | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
ignorant because I had good friends who said it was a good idea and I | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
trued them and because it was perfect timing -- trusted them. I | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
didn't really trust the high street banks and didn't know what to do | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
with the money because I never invested money before in my life so | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
I was perfectly set up for the job, as its were, really. 2t men behind | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
the scheme will be sentenced tomorrow mornings, less than �3 | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
million of the money is expected to Our top story tonight. Six British | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
troops have been killed in Afghanistan bringing to 404 the | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
number who have died there since 2001. Coming up, Prince Harry with | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
the Jamaican Defence Force on the latest leg of his Caribbean visit. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
In the Business News we will talk to Michael Woodford, the ex-boss of | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
a Limpar's pooh-pooh the whistle on a multi-billion-pound fraud and I | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
will reveal the world's richest What makes us uniquely human and | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
sets us apart from the great apes? It's a question that's puzzled | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
scientists for generations. But now they have come a step closer to | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
understanding what makes us different. For example, how we have | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
managed to develop language and the ability to think abstractly. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Researchers in Cambridge have deciphered the genetic code of the | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
gorilla, the last group of great apes to be sequenced. So scientists | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
can now look for the missing DNA link between them, Chimps, | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
:16:54. | :16:56. | ||
Orangutans and us. Our Science They are one of our closest | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
relatives. They are sociable and live in communities. In the distant | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
past, humans were little different from guerrillas. Hundreds of | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
thousands of years ago, we think we were very similar and we lived in | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
small social groups in Africa, and at some point, humans developed | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
language but we don't know what that spark was. Studies in the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Sixties showed apes were intelligent, chimps, in particular. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
They can solve problems and use simple tools and even put on a show. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
But of course, humans can do much more. So what happened in the | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
distant past that enabled our species to rise above our fellow | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
apes. It could be down to genetics. The DNA of humans and apes is 98% | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
identical but somewhere in our genes, are tiny differences, which | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
enabled our species to stand upright, develop bigger brains and | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
crucially learn how to think. Researchers in Cambridge have | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
decoded the DNA of guerrillas and now, for the first time, they can | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
compare our DNA with that of all the other apes and discover the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
changes that made our species unique. Amongst those are the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
changes which allow Einstein to come up with the theory of the | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
relativity and Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet. I couldn't put my | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
finger on exactly the key elements now, but I think through the study | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
and others being carried out we are making progress in understanding | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
the genetic forces behind human evolution and it's going to be an | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
exciting time. So far researchers have discovered humans separated | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
from guerrillas 10 million years ago, much earlier than some | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
scientists thought and something in their genes prevents them from | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
suffering from dementia. A finding which could help of medical | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
researchers find a cure for sanity, but the ultimate sign to the prize | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
would be to discover what makes us so different from them. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
If you're a diabetic your chance of losing a foot or leg to an | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
amputation is ten times higher in some parts of England than others | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
according to a major new study. It's been described as a national | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
disgrace by the leading diabetes charity. And the researchers say | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
specialist care needs to be better organised to reduce the amputation | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
rate. Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys has the details. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
It's a serious disease affecting a growing number of people. Already | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
2.9 million people in the UK have diabetes. By 2025, that is expected | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
to rise to 5 million. In England, care varies from one place to | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
another with distressing consequences for some patients. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
physiotherapist it teaches you to go good leg, bad leg. Barry Smith | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
had his left leg amputated below the knee. Diabetes leads to nerve | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
damage and loss of sensation in feet, so when he stood on a rose on, | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
I didn't feel it. It was treated months later. Eventually, a doctor | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
had to tell him there was a stark choice. I will never forget what he | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
said. He said, Barry, you can die with it on or you can live with it | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
off. And that might sound harsh, but I've always seen the funny side | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
of that. You've got a lot of choice, haven't you? If you want to live. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Losing a limb is a life-changing experience. It leaves people | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
relying on prosthetics. What is shocking about today's report is | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
that most amputations in that diabetics could be avoided. On this | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
map, the highest rate of diabetes amputations are in dark red. Up to | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
10 times higher than those parts of England which are palest. In the | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
best areas, teams of nurses and doctors provide specialist care. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Injured feet are protected and monitored and campaigners say this | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
is what every diabetes patient deserves. This situation is | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
appalling. These are Third World statistics, not first world | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
statistics. We believe we can halve the number of occupations it | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
everybody gets the right sort of care. -- amputations. The NHS says | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
amputations in some areas are so high, and they hope a review will | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
help to reduce them. The administrators of Rangers | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
football club are seeking a swift sale of the club after failing to | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
agree cuts to players' wages. Unless a buyer is found quickly, | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
the administrators say the club will be in danger of failing to | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
fulfil their fixtures for the rest of the season. Our Scotland | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Correspondent James Cook is at Ibrox now. Where does this leave | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
the future of the club? Well, in a great deal of doubt, that the short | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
answer to that because in the three weeks since Rangers were forced | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
into administration over an unpaid tax bill, the administrators had | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
been pretty positive about the future of the club. This later | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
statement marks a very dramatic change. Basically they have been | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
unable to reach a deal with the most highly paid players which | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
would have seen them taking wage cuts of up to 75%. Now, that deal | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
would have basically meant they could have staved off redundancies. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Because they have been unable to do that, they are looking at making | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
some of the most highly paid stars at Ibrox redundant and that, in | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
itself, would undermine the club and the value of the business which | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
would make a sale more difficult. They are in a parlous financial | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
situation and the administrators say they are looking to accelerate | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
the sale of this club but they have held at the prospect that Rangers, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
founded in 1873, might not make it to the end of the season and | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
certainly will not be able to play European football next season. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Rangers football club is tonight staring into the abyss. James, at | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Ibrox, thank you. Prince Harry has scaled down his activities in | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Jamaica as a mark of respect to the six British troops killed in | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Afghanistan. He spent part of the day with the Jamaican Defence Force | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
watching them abseil and taking part in target practice. Our Royal | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Correspondent Peter Hunt sent this report. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
This was captain Wales rather than Prince Harry. At a Jamaican army | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
base. The serving officer had been told about the latest British | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
losses in Afghanistan. At the camp, a chance for a reunion with a | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
fellow Sandhurst trainee. The Jamaican army was keen to show the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Prince their new tower for training soldiers in abseiling. Prince Harry | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
was meant to have been joining in here and, in the words of one of | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
his officials, hurling of this tower, but understandably, British | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
deaths enough gusto and have changed the tone of this visit. But | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Harry went to the firing range and had his off before the media. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Anyone with a camera want to stand up the other end? He is the soldier | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
prince who has recently qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot and | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
wants to serve again in Afghanistan. Last night, at a state dinner, he | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
paid tribute to the woman who still his queen of Jamaica. She combines | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
all her virtues as a leader and head of state with those of being a | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
wonderful, caring grandmother. To whom we, her grandchildren, are | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
utterly devoted. It was Harry, the Royal, representing his wonderful | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
grandmother, who visited this youth project. Into the groove, he was | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
soon on to the dance floor. Let's take a look at the weather | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
Hello, not a date for blue suede shoes today. They would have been | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
ruined by the rain. Downpours and strong gusty wind. This cloud | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
brought heavy rain earlier. It has been sweeping away this afternoon | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
followed by a sunny spells and showers. This is a typical image of | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
a heavy shower cloud. Overnight tonight, a brisk breeze and it will | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
be cold than last night. The showers in western Scotland, 10 | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
centimetres of snow on the top of the hills. A centimetre or two on | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
low ground, and it may turn icy. Temperatures drop in towns and | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
cities to 1-2 degrees. Yes, a cold start to Thursday for most of us. A | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
sparkling start with plenty of sunshine. Steadily through the day, | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
cloud pushing across England and Wales. Its days cloudy in western | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Scotland with further outbreaks of rain. -- it stays cloudy. A dry and | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
bright day across southern England and Wales and after that cold start, | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
by the afternoon, temperatures in to 10-11 Celsius. It will feel | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
reasonably pleasant. We will see more cloud across north-west | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
England and one or two showers. Try and cloudy for Northern Ireland. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
The same goes for eastern Scotland but in the West, a fairly strong | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
wind with outbreaks of rain. More on Friday, too. England and Wales, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
generally cloudy on Friday. A hint of brightness in the east but | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
temperatures, 12-13 degrees, which leads us into the weekend where it | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
looks reasonably mild. A dry A reminder of tonight's main news. | :27:02. | :27:05. |