:00:10. > :00:13.20 million customers are banned from using hosepipes after two of
:00:13. > :00:16.the driest winters on record. Water companies says households in
:00:16. > :00:22.southern and eastern England face a �1,000 fine if they're caught
:00:22. > :00:27.watering the garden or washing the car. Businesses are hit too.
:00:27. > :00:31.We're already having to postpone and cancel projects. It's our
:00:31. > :00:34.livelihood. Just use slightly less water, then
:00:34. > :00:37.we'll manage the situation quite well but people are the key to the
:00:38. > :00:41.whole problem. We'll be asking how long the ban
:00:41. > :00:44.could last. Also on tonight's programme: A British terrorism
:00:44. > :00:47.suspect held without trial for more than seven years demands to be
:00:47. > :00:53.prosecuted here rather than America - claiming his case has been
:00:53. > :00:56.mishandled. I would urge the director of public
:00:57. > :01:02.prosecutions to please put me on trial in this country and to find
:01:02. > :01:05.out what has gone wrong in my case. Sky News admits hacking into e-mail
:01:05. > :01:09.accounts while investigating two separate stories. But insists it
:01:09. > :01:11.was in the public interest. Guilty of burglary and handling
:01:11. > :01:21.stolen goods during last summer's riots - a millionaire's daughter is
:01:21. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:27.told she could face jail. They come up to the line. Great Britain are
:01:27. > :01:30.going to take the gold medal. And raining Gold as Great Britain
:01:30. > :01:40.add to their medal haul at the Track Cycling World Championships
:01:40. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :01:59.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:59. > :02:03.A hosepipe ban has been introduced across parts of southern and
:02:03. > :02:05.eastern England after two of the driest winters on record. 20
:02:05. > :02:13.million households and businesses have been told that from today they
:02:13. > :02:17.garden, wash the car or clean outside spaces. The ban imposed by
:02:17. > :02:20.seven different water companies is expected to last through the summer.
:02:20. > :02:30.Anyone caught flouting it has been warned they could face a fine of up
:02:30. > :02:32.
:02:32. > :02:37.to �1,000. Jeremy Cooke is in Surrey. If you are watching this in
:02:37. > :02:40.Scotland, Wales and the North West of England, it must seem like a
:02:40. > :02:45.distant concern for stoppered in the east and south-east of England,
:02:45. > :02:50.it is a reality. The hosepipe ban so widely predictors has finally
:02:50. > :02:55.arrived. It will have an impact on lovely gardens like this, and those
:02:55. > :02:59.of us who grew vegetables in the back garden. But it will also have
:02:59. > :03:02.an impact on some businesses who will be hit by the restrictions.
:03:02. > :03:07.The water companies of east and south-east England are running dry.
:03:07. > :03:12.It means a hosepipe ban across the regions. 20 million consumers
:03:12. > :03:18.facing water restrictions. Take a look at the reservoirs and it is
:03:18. > :03:23.clear to see the problem. Two dry winters have left by landscaped --
:03:23. > :03:29.landscape parched and farmers are feeling the full impact. It means a
:03:29. > :03:34.hosepipe ban predicted, has arrived. Break the rules and you could be
:03:34. > :03:39.fined �1,000. What are the do's and don'ts? Odyssey you cannot use a
:03:39. > :03:44.hosepipe in the garden, but you can use a watering can. You cannot fill
:03:44. > :03:49.a water feature with a hose, but cleaning a patio or a deck if it
:03:49. > :03:55.gets dangerous is OK. Hosepipes on golf courses are out, but the
:03:55. > :04:00.Olympic venues have been made an exception. So, the water companies
:04:00. > :04:06.have laid out of their rules. Crucial now, is how their customers
:04:06. > :04:10.respond. It is important, the key to managing the whole situation. It
:04:10. > :04:15.we can get people to use slightly less water, we will manage the
:04:15. > :04:20.situation quite well. But people are the key to the whole problem.
:04:20. > :04:24.Foremost amateur gardeners, the hosepipe ban is an inconvenience.
:04:24. > :04:29.But for professional landscapers it is more serious and is likely to
:04:29. > :04:34.have an immediate impact on the work they do and on their incomes.
:04:34. > :04:39.This man is doing what he can on this project in Surrey, putting in
:04:39. > :04:44.drought-resistant plants. But the client wants the lawn re turfed and
:04:44. > :04:48.that job is on hold because of the hosepipe ban. Small businesses will
:04:48. > :04:56.suffer for this. It is not just small businesses, the environmental
:04:56. > :05:00.and economic impact. It will affect the suppliers as well, plant and
:05:00. > :05:06.Tower for suppliers. As well as the hosepipe ban, we are being urged to
:05:06. > :05:10.save water in other ways, but where does it go? Flushing the toilet
:05:10. > :05:14.take its stock to nine litres at the time. A standard cycle on the
:05:14. > :05:20.washing machine uses 60 litres. And filling the bath takes on average,
:05:20. > :05:25.80 litres of water. No one is saying things are as bad as the
:05:25. > :05:31.1976 drought, but the ground water levels now are the same at the same
:05:31. > :05:37.time of that year, at which led to a summer crisis and rationing and
:05:37. > :05:41.standpipes. Be needed question is how long will it last? It is likely
:05:41. > :05:45.to last throughout the coming summer and that is if we get a
:05:45. > :05:49.period of heavy rain. So why has the ban been introduced
:05:49. > :05:55.so early in the year, and how much do we need to change the way we use
:05:55. > :06:00.water? Here's our Science Editor, David Shukman.
:06:00. > :06:06.The drizzly Ireland, Britain as it is often thought of. This was the
:06:06. > :06:11.seaside last summer. So how come we are experiencing a drought? The
:06:11. > :06:16.most obvious reason is low rainfall. You can see the effects deep
:06:16. > :06:21.underground. This more Hall is in Kent. Usually winter rain would
:06:21. > :06:24.replenish this natural store of water, now the level is at a record
:06:24. > :06:32.low. According to Met Office figures, the average winter
:06:32. > :06:38.rainfall for the UK is 332 mm, just over a foot. By contrast, the
:06:38. > :06:45.Central and South East England is a lot less at 220 mm. But in the
:06:46. > :06:49.winter before last it got 200 mm, and this winter, 162. It is not
:06:49. > :06:54.evidence of a long-term change. get lots of changes in the weather
:06:54. > :06:59.in this part of the world, and it is probably those of variations in
:06:59. > :07:06.our natural weather patterns that is bringing his drought. Another
:07:07. > :07:12.reason is leakage. In Lincolnshire, an engineer checks the pipelines.
:07:12. > :07:17.Every day, an estimated 3 billion litres is lost. One way to spot
:07:17. > :07:22.leaks is to listen to them. The water companies are under pressure.
:07:22. > :07:25.We have reduced leakage by a third over the last six years and hit our
:07:25. > :07:32.targets for the last six years running. But we have a lot to do
:07:32. > :07:36.and we will be out there every day finding and fixing leakage. So two
:07:36. > :07:40.dry windows in a row it is one problem, leakage is another. But
:07:41. > :07:45.the third factor is the growth in our population, especially in
:07:45. > :07:51.south-east England. And each of us is using more water. Should we
:07:51. > :07:57.think differently? Were it comes from? How we get it? How much of it
:07:57. > :08:01.we used? Do attitudes need to change? Images like this make it
:08:01. > :08:05.hard to imagine water could be in short supply. But we used more per
:08:05. > :08:10.person than many neighbouring countries. It is making the
:08:10. > :08:13.connection between the fact the water used in the homes comes from
:08:13. > :08:18.the natural environment. This drought is helping people to make
:08:18. > :08:24.the connection. In a nation of Garden lovers, bans on hosepipes
:08:24. > :08:28.are never popular but this is not yet a crisis. But we will have to
:08:28. > :08:31.or use less water to avoid one. The British terror suspect, Babar
:08:31. > :08:35.Ahmad, who's been held without trial for more than seven years,
:08:35. > :08:37.says he wants to be tried in the UK rather than be extradited to the
:08:37. > :08:42.United States. He's accused of running a jihadi website. Next week
:08:43. > :08:48.the European Court for Human Rights will rule on his extradition. Our
:08:48. > :08:52.Home Affairs Correspondent, Dominic Casciani, has this exclusive report.
:08:52. > :08:58.He is the longest serving prisoner in a British jail, never convicted
:08:58. > :09:04.of a crime. The US authorities are fighting to extradite him, claiming
:09:04. > :09:11.he ran extremist websites to support terrorists. He will find
:09:11. > :09:17.out his fate. In an exclusive BBC interview from prison, Babar Ahmad,
:09:17. > :09:20.claims he has been denied justice by the British authorities. I would
:09:20. > :09:25.urge the Director of Public Prosecutions to put me on trial in
:09:25. > :09:29.this country and find out what has gone wrong in my case. There has
:09:29. > :09:34.been a serious and unprecedented abuse of process. The Government
:09:34. > :09:38.tried to stop us meeting Babar Ahmad, but a High Court judge
:09:38. > :09:44.judges back the BBC. He has been held since 2004 in maximum-security
:09:44. > :09:51.awaiting extradition to the United States. He is accused of running a
:09:51. > :09:56.website called Azzam, which the USA provided materials at and support
:09:56. > :09:59.for terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan. They said that
:09:59. > :10:04.material was used to recruit people for jihad and that is why they want
:10:04. > :10:08.to put you on trial? Be there is anything but broke any law of the
:10:08. > :10:12.United Kingdom, or anything in there that is wrong, I don't
:10:12. > :10:16.understand for the last 16 years were the police and the Crown
:10:16. > :10:20.Prosecution Service have been. did you run the website? The right
:10:20. > :10:26.place for me to respond to these allegations is in a court of law.
:10:26. > :10:32.That is why I call upon the Crown Prosecution Service to put my heart
:10:32. > :10:35.at rest and put me on trial in this country. Evan Kohlmann is an
:10:35. > :10:41.extreme as an expert who is likely to testify against Babar Ahmad in
:10:41. > :10:44.America. There has never been a sight like this that have a direct
:10:44. > :10:50.line in, not just to radicals or extremists but movers and shakers
:10:50. > :10:57.in the world of jihad and mujahedin. If Babar Ahmad is to be put on
:10:57. > :11:01.trial, the question is where? His alleged crimes on computers while
:11:01. > :11:05.he lived and worked in London. But it is in Connecticut in America he
:11:05. > :11:10.is wanted. This is where his alleged website servers were based
:11:10. > :11:16.on this is where US prosecutors say he should face justice. But Babar
:11:17. > :11:22.Ahmad says the British police sent his case to America when he could
:11:22. > :11:26.have been prosecuted at home. The police deny any wrongdoing. Next
:11:26. > :11:29.week it will be decided if he can be extradited.
:11:29. > :11:32.And a longer version of that interview can be seen on Newsnight
:11:32. > :11:34.on BBC Two at 10:30pm. Sky News has admitted to hacking
:11:34. > :11:37.into the e-mail accounts of individuals suspected of criminal
:11:37. > :11:40.activity while investigating two separate stories. The broadcaster
:11:40. > :11:45.says it passed its evidence onto police and insists it was acting in
:11:45. > :11:52.the public interest. Police say an inquiry is ongoing into how the e-
:11:52. > :11:57.mails were obtained. Matt Prodger, reports. This report contains some
:11:57. > :12:01.flash photography. Until now, this closest Sky News
:12:01. > :12:08.got to the hacking scandal was reporting it from its newsroom.
:12:08. > :12:13.Today it was the news, with the revelation it organised Ashik Ali
:12:13. > :12:17.authorised a journalist. The e- mails belonged to John Darwin, who
:12:17. > :12:22.hit the headlines by faking his own debts and his wife could claim the
:12:22. > :12:26.it insurance. This is the story Sky News ran as a result. It exposed
:12:26. > :12:36.his wife as a liar and the e-mails pass to the police helped seal her
:12:36. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:50.conviction for deception. Today, There isn't a specific defence
:12:50. > :12:54.journalist can take advantage of to say they are acting in the public
:12:54. > :12:59.interest. It is down to the discretion of the police and the
:12:59. > :13:04.CPS whether or not they take this forward. Of course, when it goes to
:13:04. > :13:09.court it is in the hand of a judge and maybe a jury. It is against the
:13:09. > :13:14.law, so there is no legal defence. Is there an ethical defence? Given
:13:14. > :13:19.the information they gleaned resulted in a prosecution, you
:13:19. > :13:24.think the public interest was well served. There are number of things
:13:24. > :13:29.to discuss. Many are waiting for the leg as an inquiry into press
:13:29. > :13:33.standards and the CPS to provide guidance on such matters. I think
:13:33. > :13:40.this story underlines the importance of his recommendations,
:13:40. > :13:43.not just about phone hacking with - - which is one way of obtaining
:13:43. > :13:49.information illegally. It make sense out that has been widespread
:13:49. > :13:53.also. A for Rupert Murdoch it is another irritation. BSkyB, the
:13:53. > :13:56.parent company is under investigation by Ofcom.
:13:56. > :13:59.The daughter of a millionaire who drove looters around London during
:13:59. > :14:02.the summer riots has been found guilty of burglary and handling
:14:03. > :14:09.stolen goods. The 20 year old had denied the charges claiming she was
:14:09. > :14:14.acting under duress. Here's Nick Higham.
:14:14. > :14:18.Laura Johnson was the rich girl who went off the rails. A hard-working
:14:18. > :14:24.student who suffered mental health problems and fell into bad company
:14:24. > :14:28.after a spell at a clinic. While rioters went on the rampaged in
:14:28. > :14:33.Woolwich last August, she was driving three young men round the
:14:33. > :14:36.area, looting as they went. She was brought up in a large house in the
:14:36. > :14:43.countryside from which her parents run their own marketing services
:14:43. > :14:46.company. The defence claimed she acted under duress. She had become
:14:46. > :14:50.infatuated by a drug dealer and thief, who threatened her if she
:14:51. > :14:58.did not co-operate. But a photo taken on the night, shows her
:14:58. > :15:03.smiling in her car. CCTV footage taken at a filling station shows
:15:03. > :15:08.her briefly locked in. That was her chance, say the CPS, a chance to
:15:09. > :15:12.call for help. But she drove off and join the looting. One witness
:15:12. > :15:18.described looters running around like rats. The three men went back
:15:18. > :15:22.and forth between this branch of curries and the car-carrying boxes.
:15:22. > :15:29.When one of the boxes fell on the ground, she got out and picked it
:15:29. > :15:34.up. It ended outside a branch of comets. She was allegedly revving
:15:34. > :15:42.her car at Police and a hat to smash her car window to stop her
:15:42. > :15:44.driving away. She was branded by Our top story:
:15:44. > :15:47.20 million customers prevented from using hosepipes, as water companies
:15:47. > :15:49.impose a ban that could last all summer.
:15:49. > :15:57.And coming up: How science is helping Britain's
:15:57. > :16:01.Olympic hopefuls. The technology behind these Olympics is more
:16:01. > :16:03.extensive and advanced than ever before, looking for those marginal
:16:03. > :16:09.gains that might make the difference between success and
:16:09. > :16:15.failure. In the business news, winners and
:16:15. > :16:19.losers - who will gain from tomorrow's tax changes? And nearly
:16:19. > :16:27.40 years after the launch of the E- type Jaguar, Jaguar unveils its
:16:27. > :16:31.They're being dubbed the super- primaries. They're schools with
:16:31. > :16:34.more than 1,000 pupils and there are growing numbers of them in
:16:34. > :16:38.England, as councils try to tackle the lack of primary school places.
:16:38. > :16:42.Across England, more than 450,000 extra places will be needed by 2015,
:16:42. > :16:47.partly as a result of a baby boom. It's thought that will rise to
:16:47. > :16:57.around 800,000 by 2020. But the shortage is hitting some areas
:16:57. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:04.harder than others, as Reeta Starting school is a major
:17:04. > :17:06.milestone in a child's life, but in England the sheer numbers are
:17:06. > :17:11.causing anxiety, with hundreds of thousands more children are
:17:11. > :17:14.expected to join the school roll in the next few years. Four-year-old
:17:14. > :17:18.William from Winchester is one of them. His mother is worried he will
:17:18. > :17:21.not get into the Prime be school of their choice. It is their local
:17:22. > :17:27.school, and they live under seven minutes away, but there is no
:17:27. > :17:32.guarantee he will get in. I had no idea it would be such a lottery,
:17:32. > :17:36.almost. We live really close, in the catchment area. I thought it
:17:36. > :17:41.would be automatic and it is not automatic. We really do not know
:17:41. > :17:46.and we are just waiting for that letter to come through. Winchester
:17:46. > :17:50.has experienced an unprecedented push for primary places, up by 900
:17:50. > :17:54.in just two years, placing great demands on this small city. Schools
:17:54. > :17:58.are having to build everywhere, including into this car-park. It is
:17:58. > :18:04.up to the local authority to plan for places but the man in charge
:18:04. > :18:10.says it is difficult, as they have no exact data. It is not a precise
:18:10. > :18:14.science. It is an art as much as a science. We can make firma
:18:14. > :18:17.predictions about secondary schools. Primary schools, rather harder.
:18:17. > :18:22.Younger families moving into the city, and new housing developments,
:18:22. > :18:26.have put pressure on primary school places in Winchester. But it is not
:18:26. > :18:31.just here. This is a major problem for parents and schools across the
:18:31. > :18:36.country. It is most acute here in east London. Immigration and cheap
:18:36. > :18:42.housing have meant that this school will expand to 1200 pupils, three
:18:42. > :18:45.times the size of a standard large primary. The numbers mean that they
:18:45. > :18:48.stagger lunchtime and playtime, have mobile classrooms in the car-
:18:48. > :18:54.park, and have built on all of the playing fields to accommodate
:18:54. > :18:58.pupils. It is not many people's idea of a cosy, intimate primary.
:18:58. > :19:02.There is the ideal of a small village primary school, which is
:19:02. > :19:06.close to many people's hearts. I think if a school is well managed,
:19:06. > :19:10.will lead, if the teaching is good and excellent, it will be a good
:19:10. > :19:14.school. Not everywhere is under such pressure, and the Government
:19:14. > :19:18.says it is providing over �4 billion in the next four years for
:19:18. > :19:21.those that are. Three Metropolitan Police officers
:19:21. > :19:24.have been suspended and are being investigated after allegedly making
:19:24. > :19:26.racist comments. It comes two days after the Independent Police
:19:26. > :19:29.Complaints Commission confirmed it was investigating other officers
:19:29. > :19:33.following allegations that a young black man was racially abused and a
:19:33. > :19:36.15-year-old black boy assaulted at an east London police station.
:19:36. > :19:40.The Government has defended tax and benefit changes that come into
:19:40. > :19:43.force tomorrow, among them changes to the system of tax credits.
:19:43. > :19:48.Labour say that up to a million householders could lose tax credits
:19:48. > :19:56.and that families with children may lose on average �500 a year. Emma
:19:56. > :20:03.Simpson reports. It is the start of another
:20:03. > :20:08.financial year, and, as ever, there are winners and losers. Mother of
:20:08. > :20:11.five Kerry Davenport stands to lose a lot. Her husband is unemployed.
:20:11. > :20:16.She works part-time in a supermarket. But she cannot get the
:20:16. > :20:21.extra four hours a week needed to keep the working tax credits. May
:20:21. > :20:26.will lose more than �3,000 a year. It is going to be really difficult
:20:26. > :20:32.for us. It will change huge amounts of things in our lives. We might
:20:32. > :20:36.have to move because we cannot afford the rent any more. A lot of
:20:36. > :20:39.the things that we buy in general, shopping, will be completely
:20:39. > :20:45.changed. From tomorrow, couples with children will need to raise
:20:45. > :20:49.their hours from 16 up to 24 a week, to get working tax credits.
:20:49. > :20:57.Although there are a few exceptions, including families with carers. It
:20:57. > :21:01.is a change that could affect up to 212,000 families. They could lose
:21:01. > :21:04.up to �3,870 a year. The Shadow Chancellor, and a visit to a
:21:04. > :21:08.nursery today, said 1 million people could end up losing tax
:21:08. > :21:13.credits, and he commissioned a report to show how families, on
:21:13. > :21:19.average, would be worse off. independent Institute of Fiscal
:21:19. > :21:24.Studies say that �511 is the hit that families with children from
:21:24. > :21:28.tomorrow will take. That is on top of the rise in VAT last year,
:21:28. > :21:33.before they hit to pensioners next year. Of course, there are many
:21:33. > :21:37.changes coming into effect tomorrow. The Government's highlighting the
:21:37. > :21:45.increase in the amount we can earn before paying any tax. But that is
:21:45. > :21:49.worth about �42 per person per year in real terms. On the local
:21:49. > :21:53.election campaign trail in Wales today, the Prime Minister defended
:21:53. > :21:56.the changes. When I became Prime Minister there were members of
:21:56. > :22:01.parliament who were able to claim tax credits, because you could get
:22:01. > :22:07.them if you were earning �50,000, so we had to change that. But in
:22:07. > :22:10.the Budget, we delivered a tax cut the 24 million working people.
:22:10. > :22:14.Kerry Davenport does not earn enough to pay any tax. She has
:22:15. > :22:18.worked out she will be better off on the dole.
:22:18. > :22:20.Great Britain has done it again at the Track Cycling World
:22:20. > :22:24.Championships in Melbourne. Dani King, Laura Trott, and Joanna
:22:24. > :22:33.Rowsell set the world record twice in a day to win the team pursuit.
:22:33. > :22:37.From Australia, James Pearce reports.
:22:37. > :22:41.Britain against Australia, part two. Yesterday, the British men had
:22:41. > :22:46.beaten their hosts with a world record time. Today, it was the turn
:22:46. > :22:50.of the women. But this contest was so different. While the men's had
:22:50. > :22:53.been close, the British women were totally dominant. They had broken
:22:53. > :22:57.their own world record in qualifying for the final. Now it
:22:57. > :23:01.was just a question of how much they would break it by again. The
:23:02. > :23:06.answer was astonishing. Great Britain are going to take the gold
:23:06. > :23:12.medal. Look at the time. I don't believe it! It is a world record
:23:12. > :23:16.again. They had taken a second of their previous best time. They have
:23:16. > :23:21.to beat us now. We have not lost since Manchester World Cup last
:23:21. > :23:27.year. It will be on our track. It definitely puts out a strong
:23:27. > :23:30.message. And there could well be more British medals tomorrow.
:23:30. > :23:35.Current Olympic champion, Victoria Pendleton, is through to the semi-
:23:35. > :23:38.finals of the individual sprint. But there is no doubt about the
:23:38. > :23:42.stand-out performance of the day. Britain's Women's pursuit team will
:23:42. > :23:48.go to London 2012 as one of Britain's best bets for a gold
:23:48. > :23:52.medal. Nobody should get carried away yet. It is the Olympics which
:23:52. > :23:57.matter, but the sight of Britain's on top of a podium this close to
:23:57. > :24:00.the Games certainly bodes well. Well, it all bodes well for this
:24:00. > :24:04.summer's Games. Great Britain's cyclists have already benefited
:24:04. > :24:07.from plenty of cutting edge research. And now that's being
:24:07. > :24:10.extended across a range of sports to help improve the performance of
:24:10. > :24:14.Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes. It's hoped
:24:14. > :24:24.they'll be among the best prepared competitors for London 2012, as
:24:24. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:30.Fergus Walsh reports. The Science of Sport. Shelly Woods,
:24:30. > :24:35.a Paralympic wheelchair racer, is in a wind tunnel at BAE Systems in
:24:35. > :24:39.Lancashire. It is normally reserved to check the aerodynamics of
:24:40. > :24:45.fighter jets. We have never done any testing like this before and we
:24:45. > :24:51.never knew how to sit, or the best way to sit. Cycling has done a lot
:24:51. > :24:56.of testing. For me, it is all about my racing position, the most power
:24:56. > :24:59.I can get through the wheels at the same time as being aerodynamic.
:25:00. > :25:04.Technology, engineering, biomechanics, medicine, nutrition,
:25:04. > :25:09.every aspect of sports science is being used to give British athletes
:25:09. > :25:16.the edge at these Olympics. Hundredths of a second separated
:25:16. > :25:20.Shelly Woods in bronze from gold at the 5000 metres in Beijing. She
:25:20. > :25:25.will have a newly designed racing chair this summer, and his
:25:25. > :25:30.attention to detail extends across a huge range of sports. -- this
:25:31. > :25:35.attention. If you can do 100 things 1% better, you are on the right
:25:35. > :25:39.track. Research innovation looks to find the gains that can add up to
:25:39. > :25:42.5% on performance, but it is the icing on the cake. The athlete has
:25:42. > :25:48.to be the best prepared they have ever been and to be exceptionally
:25:48. > :25:50.talented. Britain's women's hockey team finished six at Beijing and
:25:50. > :25:58.realised that in London they would need to be fitter, faster and
:25:58. > :26:04.stronger. But these workouts at the High Performance gym at Bisham in
:26:04. > :26:09.Buckinghamshire are as much about brain as brawn. This apparatus can
:26:09. > :26:13.calculate speed and force, allowing instant feedback. It means we have
:26:13. > :26:17.something measurable every time we come into the gym, so it is
:26:17. > :26:23.imperative to get our levels of recovery, to make sure we are in
:26:23. > :26:25.our peak performance coming into training. The English Institute of
:26:25. > :26:32.Sports Performance Centre in Loughborough is part gym, part
:26:32. > :26:34.laboratory, testing athletes oxygen and blood. It is all part of the
:26:34. > :26:44.quest for the marginal gains that could make the difference between
:26:44. > :26:47.
:26:47. > :26:50.success and failure this summer. Bronze medal where there is the
:26:50. > :26:55.best wibble manager over the Easter period. It has been cold out there
:26:55. > :27:00.today. We had cloud in the south and north, with sunshine in between
:27:00. > :27:04.melting the snow cover. Overnight, the cloud in the south will
:27:04. > :27:10.continue to break up. Temperatures will tumble. In the north, the
:27:10. > :27:15.cloud moving in. But it is unreliable, so quite chilly in
:27:16. > :27:22.northern areas. Much colder in the south. There could be a potentially
:27:22. > :27:25.damaging frost. The cloud will push south tomorrow, producing showers
:27:25. > :27:30.in England and Wales and patchy rain across Scotland and Northern
:27:30. > :27:33.Ireland. More cloud in Wales in the afternoon. The best of the sunshine
:27:33. > :27:37.in the south of the country. Not much sunshine for Northern Ireland,
:27:37. > :27:42.just about into double figures. Some patchy rain here and there.
:27:42. > :27:47.Most of the rain in Scotland will be across the north of the mainland.
:27:47. > :27:55.Cold air across the far north. Double figures through the central
:27:55. > :28:00.belt. Lots of cloud across northern England, with patchy light rain.
:28:00. > :28:04.Largely dry in the Midlands. Cloud will increase in southern areas,
:28:05. > :28:14.but southern England will stage drive. Temperatures should be
:28:14. > :28:18.higher. -- temperatures will stay dry. On Saturday, patchy rain here
:28:18. > :28:22.and there, and it could feel at chilly down the eastern side of
:28:22. > :28:29.England and Scotland. Cloud will be the main theme over the Easter
:28:29. > :28:35.period. Not a lot of sunshine. Temperatures near average. After