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A gunmen it leaves four dead at a Jewish cool in France. Parents were | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
dropping of pupils and three of the victims were children. President | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Sarkozy has called it a national tragedy. This does not concern just | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the Jewish community, but a whole of France. To days attack comes | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
days after similar shootings in the area after three soldiers were | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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killed. Also on tonight's programme: will we be paying more | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
on the roads? The snot about mass tolling. We are not talking about | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
existing roads, it is about getting more from the money that motorists | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
already pay. An anxious wait for fans of Fabrice Muamba. The | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
hospital says there was a small improvement in his condition. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Olympic condition -- officials confirm the names of the torch | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
bearers. Diana Gould will be 100 years old when she does it for real. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
And I will be here with Sport stay on the BBC News channel as the | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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party continues for the Welsh Grand Hello and welcome to the BBC News | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
at Six. A gunman has killed a rabbi, his two small sons and one other | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
child at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Toulouse. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who's in Toulouse, said it was a national | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
tragedy. Eyewitnesses say the gunman escaped on a black scooter. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Today's attack follows similar incidents last week in which three | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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soldiers were killed. Christian Fraser is there for us this evening. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Flowers are being laid tonight outside the school gates behind me. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
There is great shock and anger across all faiths and communities | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
in France. We had reaction today from the Vatican and also from | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Israel as well. The rabbi killed here was on a sabbatical from | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Jerusalem for two years and was killed with his sons in front of | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
the gates behind me. Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Israel | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
will do all it can to help with the investigation and that it is help | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
that the French police may need, because this is the third attack in | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
less than two weeks in which eight The Monday morning school run that | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
descended into panic and terror. As parents dropped children at the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
gates at the Ozar Hatorah School, a lone gunman pulled up on a scooter | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
and opened fire. He shot everyone in front of him, said the parents, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and chased terrified children into the school grounds. Among the four | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
dead was a 30-year-old rabbi and his two sons aged two years old and | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
sick she's all. This man told me he had just finished chatting to his | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
friend at the school gates and seconds later the rabbi was dead -- | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
six years old. At first tee shot a bullet into the air and hit a tree. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Then he shot a father and the two children. I just ran straight into | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the school, but he followed us and opened fire again. When he left he | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
started shooting again. The 4th victim was also way child between 8 | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
and 10 years old. Eyewitnesses says one of the weapons jammed and may | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
have stayed -- saved some of those who fled. I had just arrived when | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
we heard shooting and we were all frightened and shock. -- shocked. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
There were present cathedral at Notre down as fakes came together | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
to condemn the attack. President Nicolas Sarkozy to postpone his | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
election campaign to travel to Toulouse has called for a minute's | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
silence across the country tomorrow. This assassination does not concern | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
just the Jewish community but the whole of France. A whole nation has | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
been touched and has been hurt, I can assure you of this. Police | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
profilers have built a picture of the suspect and his movements | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
following two previous attacks in the region of Toulouse in little | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
over a week. On Thursday three paratroopers were gunned down in | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
the town of Montauban. Police have revealed that all three cases are | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
connected. Each occasion the gunmen escaped on a black scooter, his | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
face hidden by the visor of his helmet and in all the incidents he | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
carried automatic weapons. Anti- terror police have taken over the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
investigation and are sifting through hours of film from close | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
circuit television that captured both the attacks and the escape. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
The gunman's knowledge suggests he is local. One witness said the man | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
has a tattoo on his face. The motive is less clear, but all the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
victims so far have been of Jewish, black or North African descent. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Police now know they are working against the clock. Surveillance and | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
arm security has been stepped up at Jewish schools and places of | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
worship and soldiers have been told not to wear uniforms outside of | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
their base. The identity of the gunmen remains a mystery but local | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
police speculate they are searching for a man, all men, with links to | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the far right and with considerable military training. I know | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
officially there are no links between today's killings and those | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
of last week, but what of people on the ground saying? You cannot | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
escape the fact that all the victims have been Jewish, Muslim or | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
black, so there is a conclusion being drawn that they are looking | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
for someone with a deep-seated grudge or hatred for minority | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
communities. President Sarkozy has been here today, suspending his | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
election campaign. What will be of concern to him is the criticism in | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
communities like this one in the tone of the election campaign. He | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
has appeared to the right in recent weeks, talking about immigration as | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
he seeks out crucial votes from the resurgent Front National. Many | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
people on the tone of the debate changed to one that is let's -- | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
less divisive. Private companies could take over the building of new | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
roads in England and run them for profit under plans outlined by | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
David Cameron today. He said a lack of investment in the road network | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
was costing the economy billions. He insisted that charging drivers | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
who used new roads was only one option being considered. Our | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
Transport Correspondent Richard Delays of about an hour, lots of | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
trouble on the M25. Still queuing on the A 40, which is dreadful. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
problem is simple enough, there is not enough room on England's | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
busiest roads. Any breakdown or accident brings everything to a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
halt and costs the economy �7 billion per year. There is a | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
growing backlog of maintenance jobs and dozens of new schemes have been | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
stopped through lack of cash. can we do more when there isn't | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
enough money? I think we need to look at innovative approaches to | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
the funding of our national roads. We need to look urgently at the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
options for getting a large scale private investment into the | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
national roads network, from Sovereign well funds, pension funds. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
What are the options? Companies could least roads from the | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
government or maybe with wider lanes at the worst bottlenecks or | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
may be letting drivers use the hard shoulder. The government would pay | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
them using a slice of tax money. The other option is companies | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
building toll roads with drivers charged directly. I do give the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Prime Minister this morning. People are really hard pressed and | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
struggling to make ends meet. I think loading extra costs on | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
ordinary families for using our roads will be the wrong thing to do | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
it this time. This could be one of the first roads to see an injection | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
of private money. It is one of Britain's most important business | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
links and has been a mess for years. Over there is Felixstowe, the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
British -- biggest and busiest container port in Britain, but the | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
road that links it to the factories and shops, A14, he's clocked up | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Andy has been neglected for years. -- it has been clocked up and Nick | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
Clegg -- neglected. The M6 told around Birmingham has been open for | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
nearly a decade that carries barely a third of the traffic it was built | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
for. Today's plans have had a mixed response from experts. This is not | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
dealt with congestion on the M6 and it hasn't worked for shareholders | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
who have made losses on it and it really hasn't helped the | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
surrounding community either, so we are not clear that toll roads will | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
work in practice. Roads carry nearly 90% of the traffic, and the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
government has given attention to railways but we know congestion is | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
a serious problem and set to get worse. It is good that the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
government of thinking how to solve the problems. David Cameron is | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
asking the Treasury and Transport Department a comeback with ideas to | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
improve England's roads by the autumn. -- to come back. They could | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
have been another rise in fuel duty by then. -- they could have been. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Well, our political editor, Nick Robinson, is at Westminster for us, | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
Nick, isn't this politically risky for David Cameron? He talks about | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
it being risky because people don't just want to pay more to drive, but | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
because of the word privatisation is not amongst the most popular in | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the English language at the moment. Having said that, the last | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
government was looking at ways to get more money to improve Britain's | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
roads. When they looked at the pricing, the idea that we would pay | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
a bit more to drive, you may recall the largest ever online petition | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
was delivered to Downing Street with 1.7 million signatures saying | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
no. That is why the prime minister went out of his way today to say no | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
new tolls for all the roads but they might be once the new ones. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
But he did allow some ambiguity. But what if the private companies | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
improve an existing road? Does it become a new road and then will the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
tolls apply? If so, there will be more controversy. But a little | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
thought for the politicians before you condemn them. Most drivers say | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
that they don't like congestion and they want more money spent. They | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
also say they paid enough tax is already an also say that they don't | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
like congestion charges for road tolls. Some problem there. The | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
money has to come from somewhere. There is to be a rise in the | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
minimum wage for most adults. From October, it'll go up by 11 pence to | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
�6.19 an hour. The rate for workers between the age of 16 and 20 will | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
remain the same. The union Unison says workers need a much bigger | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
increase to cope with rising prices. The International Red Cross has | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
said they've received assurances from Russia that they will push the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Syrian government to agree to a two-hour daily ceasefire to allow | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
humanitarian aid to be delivered. There's been fierce fighting in the | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
capital Damascus between opposition gunmen and forces loyal to | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
President Assad. The clashes happened in an expensive | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
residential district where a number of foreign embassies and government | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
officials are based. Doctors treating the Bolton | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba say there are signs of improvement | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
in his condition. The 23-year-old player is still in a critical | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
condition at a specialist hospital in London. He collapsed during an | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham on Saturday. The player's heart | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
stopped and did not resume beating on its own for almost two hours. | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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Throughout the day, a steady stream of visitors at the hospital. Ashley | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips amongst the players who came to | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
give support to their fellow footballer. Owen Coyle, the manager | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
of Bolton, was asked by Fabrice Muamba's family to make a public | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
thank you for the good wishes. messages of goodwill from the press, | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
everybody, we are so thankful and one to put it out there. Thank you | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
for the support. We have been inundated. In side the intensive | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
care unit there was increasing reason for optimism. Fabrice Muamba | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
was showing small signs of improvement. For all of those who | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
have followed Fabrice Muamba's progress so anxiously since | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Saturday evening the update released by the hospital at 3:30pm | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
this afternoon was by far the most positive yet. Not only is his heart | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
beating without the help of medication, but he is also moving | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
his arms and legs. It is now two days since Fabrice Muamba collapsed | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
during an FA Cup quarter-final. Today his club captain spoke of the | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
first time about those agonising minutes while medical staff tried | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
to revive him in front of stunned players and supporters. You feel | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
powerless and you cannot do anything. He is one of your | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
colleagues and friends, he is a father and son and those things run | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
through your head. You just know you cannot do anything about it. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Swansea University student Lee and Stacey appeared before magistrates | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
to writing offensive messages on Twitter. But goodwill messages | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
continue to pour in. The positive news does seem to improve the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
chances of a happy outcome for the player and his many friends and | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
supporters. English Heritage has revealed that 70,000 listed | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
buildings in England were damaged by crime and vandalism last year. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
The organisation, which looks after some of the country's most historic | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
buildings, has described the findings as "alarming". Robert Hall | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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reports on how the damage is The historic heart of a famous city. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Chester's medieval buildings lie within one of the top five | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
archaeological areas in England, yet night after night they are | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
under attack from deliberate vandalism and anti-social behaviour. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Graffiti is a problem for the walls throughout the city. The council do | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
their best to keep on top of it by clearing it away, but the second it | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
is clear the way in a few days someone has written something over | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
it. -- cleared away. The incidents captured by CCTV cameras include | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
another equally thought was activity. Incidents of public | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
urination are on the increase and have caused irreparable damage to | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the ancient structures. English Heritage say there report | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
underlines the need for a new approach to the problem. We are | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
very photogenic city, full of heritage, and those crimes that | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
might have won by mention in another place have the added | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
dimension in Chester but they are damaging our heritage -- that might | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
have just one dimension. Lincolnshire, signs of a tougher | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
line being taken against other forms of heritage crime. Metal | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
theft and legal -- illegal activity are undergoing at certain sites. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
The statistics are alarming say English Heritage. More than 70,000 | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
listed buildings were damaged over the past 12 months, amongst them | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
those with Grade One and Grade 2 listed on us, precious national | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
sites and the greatest there -- threat has been to the churches. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Stow Minster, built 12 centuries ago and one of the most endangered | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
sites in the world is a victim. Churches are Repository of heritage | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
of communities. A lot of that heritage could be lost by those who | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
just want to make money from most - - those artifacts and do not care | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
about the history or tradition of them. Progress has been made. More | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
community partnerships and a rethinking of what constitutes | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
heritage crime, but until there is wider public understanding the | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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The top story: A rabbi and three children are shot dead outside a | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
Jewish cool in southern France. Coming up: What Kate did next - the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Duchess gives her first public speech. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, Apple says it will pay investors a | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
dividend since 1995. Premier Foods reports a lost blamed on soaring | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
commodity prices. With 130 days before the Olympic | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Games begin, the names of more than 7,000 people who will carry the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
Olympic torch around the UK have been announced. The youngest is 11 | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
years old, the oldest will be 100. The relay will take it to some of | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
the UK's most famous sights, including the Clifton suspense and | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
bridge from word John Kay joins us now. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Until now, we have only had a rough idea of the towns and cities the | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
flame will be visiting. But tonight we know every inch of its route. At | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
7:57am on 23rd May, it will be carried from North Somerset on that | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
side, he into Bristol. Just one stretch on its 8,000 mile journey. | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Practising for his big moment. 11- year-old Dominic from Birmingham, | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
one of the youngest Olympic torch bearers. With him, the oldest, 99- | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
year-old diner Gould, modelling the official tracksuit. It is a great | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
honour. If my mum was allowed, she would be so proud, so would my | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
husband. I know there is a difference in age, but it is for | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
everyone. Exactly right. As the flame criss-cross as the UK and its | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
way to the Olympic Stadium, it will travel 8,000 miles, through | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
hundreds of villages, towns and cities. We found out exactly which | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
treats it would be included, and 95% of us live within 10 miles of | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
the route. Organisers say the relay is designed to show off famous | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
landmarks and engage the whole country within the Games. Within | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
hours of the route being unveiled, more than 1.5 million people had | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
looked on the BBC website to see if there Road was included. In this | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
neighbourhood of Bristol, people were amazed to hear the torch would | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
be passing. I don't believe it. it is a once-in-a-lifetime | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
experience. Do you feel engaged? it will take a lot more. David | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Jackson will be one of the first to carry the torch for a start he is | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
because card in Cornwall where the whole thing begins. It is | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
overwhelming. It is unbelievable. It is something the world is going | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
to be looking at. It is good for the local community, good for | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
Cornwall and good for Britain. For this lady, the training starts now. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
They will carry the flame for about 300 metres and says she will be | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
practising with a candlestick. We don't know entirely the route. | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
The last two days as it travels from central London to the Olympic | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Stadium won't be revealed until nearer the time. But the Olympic | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
flame might struggle to compete with the lovely sunset this evening. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
If you would like to know where the Olympic torch will be passing near | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
you, go to our website. The director general of the BBC, | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Mark Thompson, has announced he will step down in the autumn. Mr | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
Thomson, who was appointed in 2004 has been in charge for 80 years and | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
is the longest-serving director general since the 1970s. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
On Wednesday, the Chancellor will deliver his third Budget and | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
companies up-and-down the UK will hope it will boost growth. There | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
have been variations in business growth over the past two years. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Plenty of areas have seen you start ups while others has seen a sharp | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
drop. If you look closely at businesses | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
in different parts of the UK economy, it is mixed. New research | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
shows a work that growth is at once to have taken into account start | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
ups and failures in each area. We're talking about a one-man bands | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
and sold partnerships, up to organisations of 250 individuals. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
It is understanding were those businesses are, where they have | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
started, and where they have declined. These are examples of | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
some of the strongest areas of business growth. Staffordshire has | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
seen at the rise of 4% in local businesses. Sterling has seen more | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
than two present, the highest in Scotland. But it is a Harlow in | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Essex which has seen more than 6% on average for the last two years. | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
What is the secret? This decorative glass maker which started last year, | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
says the local business community and transport links have helped. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
First a foremost, the close proximity to London, which is very | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
important. You can be into Liverpool Street in half an hour | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
and you also have Stansted Airport. What about the less dynamic areas | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
of growth? Bridgend in South Wales has seen its business number | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
declined by nine per 5% a year on average. Belfast has seen its total | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
fall back by more than 6%. Knowsley on Merseyside has seen the biggest | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
loss with a fall of more than 21% on average each year. Local experts | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
say there are number of reasons. There has been encouragement for | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
new businesses, but it has been tough. We have been quick to seize | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
opportunities a where ever they present themselves. But these | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
things take time. When you have three generations of the same | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
family unemployed, you are struggling to get a hard core of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
people. So for policy makers, getting growth going around the UK | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
is far from straightforward. For viewers in England, there is a | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
special programme about the economy in your area later tonight. That is | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
at 11:05pm here on BBC One. We have had the king's speech, now | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
Kate Middleton has delivered her first public address. She was | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
touring a new business in Ipswich. Hundreds of people gathered to | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
greet her, and after what she described her debut performance as | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
nerve-racking. With every engagement, she seems to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
be gaining in confidence. There are always smiling faces waiting to | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
greet her. But as the Duchess took to the Lecter and for her maiden | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
speech, her hands were shaking and the nerves could be heard in her | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
voice. Thank you for not only accepting the as your patron, but | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
thank you for inviting me today. You have all made me feel so | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
welcome, and I feel hugely honoured to be here to see this wonderful | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
centre. I am only sorry William cannot be here today. | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
He would love it here. A view of his that I share, is that through | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
teamwork, so much can be achieved. Thank you. | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
It was a heartfelt speech and it was obviously well rehearsed, but | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
after what she described the experience as nerve-racking. It is | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
a speech that will no doubt be scrutinised around the world. The | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
hard work over, it was back to doing what she does best, meeting | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
people. And in this case, children with severe illnesses or | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
disabilities. What are you playing today? The symbol. She was so nice | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
and so interested in the children and the work of the hospice, she | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
will be a fantastic patrons. Although she has been supported by | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the rest of the team over the past few weeks, the Queen, Prince Philip, | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Charles and Camilla, the Duchess does seem at ease on her own. As | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
one member of the public said, she is rising to the occasion with | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
dignity and composure. With her first aged under her belt, the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Duchess will be eagerly awaiting Prince William's return from the | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
Falklands. We saw the lovely sunset in Bristol, | :26:30. | :26:40. | |
:26:40. | :26:41. | ||
It was a lovely sunrise also but it was a bit cold. Tonight or not be | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
as cold. Thanks mainly to more clouds spilling in. It has been | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
cloudy through western Scotland, further outbreaks of rain here. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Away from the North West corner, most places dry. The cloud is | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
starting to spill in. In the east with clearer spells temperatures | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
might Co Down close to freezing for a time. North West England will | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
have some rain but it will slowly fizzle out. Sudden most counties of | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
England will see more cloud compared with today. The same goes | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
for South Wales. It will still be mild. Breaks in the cloud | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
developing across eastern parts of Wales, North East England. Parts of | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
the east of Northern Ireland might brighten up. Generally cloudy as it | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
will be in western Scotland. Perhaps on Wednesday, more in the | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
way of Sunshine returning to southernmost counties. And where | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
the sun shines, temperatures will be in the teens. High-pressure | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
migrates slowly north by the end of the week and it could allow a | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
south-easterly breeze to develop. That will bring moisture in off the | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
0 says so some eastern counties will be quite grey. -- North Sea. | :28:12. | :28:16. |