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Rupert Murdoch says he didn't know about the phone hacking scandal | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
because there was a cover-up. The media boss claimed that staff | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
on the News of the World hid the true extent of the illegal | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
behaviour. Someone took charge of a cover-up, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
which we were victim to and I regret. Tonight, a former senior | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
employee says Mr Murdoch's evidence is a shameful lie. Also on the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
programme: The BBC obtains footage taken minutes after Mark Duggan was | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
shot by police. His death sparked last summer's riots. Liberia's | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Charles Taylor found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes - | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
the first case of its kind since the end of the Second World War. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Living on the bread line - a leading charity says the number of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
people needing food banks has doubled. Well-wishers ask Prince | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
William if he is broady as the royal couple prepare for their | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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Stuart Lancaster talks about Welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Rupert Murdoch has blamed a cover- up at the News of the World for his | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
failure to take early action over the phone-hacking scandal. He said | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
one or two employees at the paper shielded senior executives from the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
facts. And tonight it's emerged that the phone-hacking scandal | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
could affect Mr Murdoch's stake in BSkyB, Britain's most profitable | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
broadcaster. More on that in a moment. First, Nick Witchell on | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Rupert Murdoch's surprise evidence at the Leveson Inquiry. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
He is the media mogul whose firm control of his empire has yielded | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
decades of success. Returning today with his wife to testify about a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
lack of proper control and what he admitted was a haunting, personal | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
failure. Phone hacking at the News of the World is what started all of | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
this. According to Rupert Murdoch, senior executives had not known | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
what was happening at the News of the World and this was the reason. | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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There is no question in my mind that maybe even the editor, but | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
certainly beyond that, someone took charge of a cover-up which we were | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
victim to and I regret. From where did this cover-up emanate, Mr | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Murdoch? I think from within the News of the World. Mr Murdoch | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
hinted at who he believed was behind the cover-up, one or two | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
very strong characters, as he put it. But counsel wanted to know | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
whether the company had deliberately turned a blind eye to | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
it all. Some might say all this picture is consistent with one of a | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
desire to cover-up rather than a desire to expose. Perhaps. I have | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
to take that back. Excuse me. that flash of anger, Rupert Murdoch | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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became contrite. I also had to say that I failed. I have to apologise | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
to a lot of people including all the innocent people who lost their | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
jobs. Yet with hindsight, Mr Murdoch said he wished he had | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
closed the News of the World sooner, but perhaps his greatest regret was | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
that he hadn't spoken personally to the News of the World reporter, | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Clive Goodman. Mr Goodman was the one journalist who was prosecuted | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
for phone hacking. After he left prison, he wrote to News | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
International alleging others had been involved. If I had really got | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
into it, when Mr Goodman wrote that letter, I should have thrown all | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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the damn lawyers out of the place and cross-examined him myself and | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
made up my mind, maybe rightly, maybe wrongly, was he telling the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
truth? If I had come to the conclusion he was telling the truth, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
I would have torn the place apart and we wouldn't be here today. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
it is, Mr Murdoch has had to clear up the mess. It has caused great | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
pain and cost hundreds of millions of pounds, he said. He was glad | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
they had done it. Shortly before he finished his evidence and left the | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Royal Courts of Justice, Rupert Murdoch said he realised the whole | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
episode would be a blot on his reputation for the rest of his life. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Tonight, the News of the World's former legal manager has denied any | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
suggestion that he was involved in the cover-up over hacking at the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
paper. He issued a statement claiming it was a shameful lie. Our | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
business editor is here with me. This is pretty hard-hitting | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
reaction from Tom Crone? Yes, another extraordinary day in the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
hacking saga. Rupert Murdoch in saying there was a cover-up of the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
hacking at the News of the World was saying not only was the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
relevant information kept from the wider world and the police, it was | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
kept from him. He didn't name the person he thought was intimately | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
involved in conducting the cover-up, but he described him as a clever | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
lawyer and a drinking pal of the journalist at the News of the World. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
For anybody who has been following the case, that was pointing the | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
finger at Tom crone. Tom Crone has come out tonight saying he | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
completely disputes what the implicit allegation against him | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
from Rupert Murdoch. In fact, he described it as a shameful lie. So | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
this dispute about who knew not what and when goes on. Tonight, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Robert, a suggestion that the spotlight may be shifting towards | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
BSkyB? Yes. The other really dramatic development is that we | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
have learnt that Ofcom, the media regulator, has asked for more | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
information about hacking at the News of the World in connection | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
with a completely separate inquiry into whether British Sky | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Broadcasting is fit and proper to hold a broadcasting licence. The | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
reason the two are connected is because News Corporation owns 39% | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
of British Sky Broadcasting. If Ofcom took the view that in some | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
senses News Corporation wasn't fit and proper, that would have massive | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
implications for BSkyB and there is a risk that Rupert Murdoch will be | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
forced to do something he will hate to do which is sell a very | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
significant chunk of his BSkyB shares. All right, thank you. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
The Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is facing continuing calls to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
resign over his handling of News Corporation's bid to take over | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
BSkyB. Today, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said there were | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
no plans to ask for an independent investigation into whether he broke | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
the Ministerial Code. Jeremy Hunt is running and for now | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
he's not hiding. Today, he and his officials were still facing | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
questions over their links with Rupert Murdoch's company. Was the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
relationship between Mr Hunt's Special Adviser and News | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Corporation official? Today, before MPs, his top civil servant refused | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
to say. Did you know that Adam Smith was acting in the channel of | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
communication between the department and the Murdoch empire? | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
There was a statement by the Special Adviser yesterday which | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
made it clear he accepted that the contact content of those contacts | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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was not authorised by the Secretary of State, or by me. How much did Mr | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Hunt know? His Cabinet colleagues said people should not rush to | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
judgment. Jeremy Hunt has explained his position in Parliament. He | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
explained he wanted to provide more information to the Leveson Inquiry. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
That hasn't happened yet. People should wait to see what he has to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
say at the Leveson Inquiry. Downing Street is resisting calls for Mr | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Hunt to face a special investigation into whether or not | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
he broke the Ministerial Code of Conduct. Mr Cameron believes he has | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
done nothing wrong. Labour say there are still big questions over | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
just what he and his top official really knew. We need to know | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
whether he authorised it, what those conditions were, whether | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Jeremy Hunt was aware of them and communicated them to his Special | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Adviser and we don't know what the contact was between Jeremy Hunt and | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
his Special Adviser. Questions that won't find answers until Mr Hunt | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
and his former adviser appear before Leveson. Mr Hunt's top | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
official said he knew about and was content with his Special Adviser | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
being in contact with News Corporation but not how far it went. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has been criticised in the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Scottish Parliament over his relationship with Rupert Murdoch's | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
News Corporation. Evidence released earlier this week to the Leveson | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Inquiry suggested that Mr Salmond was ready to support News Corp even | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
after it was revealed that the News of the World had hacked into the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
phone of the murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler. The Scottish Labour | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
Leader condemned Mr Salmond's pir Sis tent in courting Mr Murdoch -- | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
persistent in courting Mr Murdoch. The First Minister became the only | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
senior politician in this country, perhaps the only one in the world, | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
to invite him round for tea. Hypocrisy - the job of a First | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Minister is to advocate jobs for Scotland. This First Minister will | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
continue to do it. Our Scotland Correspondent, James Cook, is in | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Holyrood. Heated exchanges there, James. How damaging is this for | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Alex Salmond? Well, it is certainly dominating debate here at the | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Scottish Parliament and it dominated First Minister's | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Questions today. At the heart of the allegation against Alex Salmond | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
is the suggestion that he has been seduced by power in return for the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
favourable treatment of the Murdoch press, treatment that has indeed | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
been favourable to the Scottish National Party in recent years. But | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
on the flipside of that, well, there was no killer blow landed | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
today, no killer new fact revealed against Mr Salmond during First | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Minister's Question Time. It is fair to say that Nationalists will | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
be watching and hoping that there are no more further embarrassing | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
relations from the Leveson Inquiry. For now, he is surviving. Thank you. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
An eyewitness to the death of Mark Duggan has given the BBC footage of | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
the immediate aftermath of his shooting by police last August. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Mark Duggan's death sparked last summer's riots in England. The | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission is conducting an inquiry | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
into his death but has not so far heard from this key witness. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
It's now nearly nine months since Mark Duggan was shot dead by the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
police on an early summer evening. He was killed near his home in | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Tottenham in North London. His death led to a protest which | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
descrended into a riot which -- descended into a riot. This | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
exclusive footage obtained by the BBC was filmed by a member of the | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
public who said he saw the shooting. At that point, he wasn't filming. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Nevertheless, he's a key witness. He wants to remain anonymous. The | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
footage begins a short time after the police opened fire in Ferry | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Lane in Tottenham. An Air Ambulance arrives but Mark Duggan is beyond | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
medical help. On the ground, surrounded by paramedics, he has | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
been hit by two police bullets - one in the chest and one in the arm. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Close by, officers from Scotland Yard's specialist firearms unit, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
CO19. It's a CO19 officer who fired the fatal shot. They were working | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
with officers from Trident. All this being captured by the witness | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
and during part of the filming he talks about what he saw. We've | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
heard this and had his comments analysed by an independent expert. | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
His words are spoken by an actor. He jumped out and then he's taken | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
out. I heard him shout at him, yeah. Put it down, put it down. Mark | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Duggan was a passenger in a taxi, that is the grey people carrier, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
which was blocked in by the police. They had been trailing him for some | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
time and he had sent a message from his Blackberry saying, "The Feds | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
are following me." The police then form a hard stop. As Mark Duggan | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
lies dead on the pavement, you can see that officers are standing on | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the other side of the fence. One firearms officer in a white T-shirt | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
goes round and bends down towards the ground. The weapon didn't have | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
any of Mark Duggan's DNA or fingerprints on it. His shooting is | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Commission. The IPCC has expressed frustration that it can't compel | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the 31 officers who were there when Mark Duggan was shot to be | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
interviewed. They have given written statements. The IPCC report | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
into the shooting is due to be completed later this year. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
The former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been found guilty by a | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
special court in The Hague of aiding and abetting war crimes in | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
Sierra Leone. More than 50,000 people died during the country's | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
civil war in the 1990s. He was accused of arming rebels in Sierra | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Leone for ""blood diamonds"". He will be sentenced next month. Our | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
Special Correspondent, Allan Little, reports from The Hague. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
It has been a landmark day in international justice. Charles | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Taylor came to court knowing that he might well go to prison for the | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
rest of his life. Taylor was President of Liberia. He is charged | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
with waging war in Sierra Leone. No-one disputes rebel forces | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
committed terrible atrocities there. The charge sheet includes murder, | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
rape and the recruitment of child soldiers. Civilian populations were | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
terrorised. Many had their limbs hacked off. The question before the | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
court was did Charles Taylor order those crimes? There is insufficient | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
to find beyond a reasonable doubt... Taylor was cleared of directly | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
ordering the atrocities. The judges asked him to stand to hear that he | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
was guilty of aiding and abetting all 11 crimes listed in the | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
indictment. Unanimously find you guilty... The judges said rebel | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
forces had supplied Taylor with diamonds from Sierra Leone's mines. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
In return, he had given them arms and ammunition in the full | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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knowledge they would commit crimes In 2010 the model Niamo, Campbell | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
was called as a witness. When the indictment was issued ten years ago | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
he said he should be immune from prosecution. Prosecutors see the | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
judgment as a great step forward in their fight against the immunity | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
that heads of state often enjoyed. It's a very important case for the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
people of Sierra Leone, who demanded this court be created so | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
they could have some measure of justice. It's a very important day | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
for the victims, who now have some measure of justice for their | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
terrible suffering. Britain has been intimately involved here. | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
British troops involved in May 2000 and helped end the war. The last | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Labour Government agreed should Taylor be convicted Britain would | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
put him in a British jail and foot the bill. | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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Taylor has nothing much to lose, so Our top story tonight: | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Rupert Murdoch has blamed a cover- up at the News of the World for his | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
failure to take early action over the phone hacking scandal. Coming | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
up: Is it a year already? William and Kate, out and about as they | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
prepare to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Later: Does an | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
environmentally friendly vision for the capital get your vote? And a | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
cultural line-up of cultural proportions. Details of the 2012 | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
festival are unveiled. The number of people turning up at | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
food banks has doubled in the past year - that's according to a | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
charity which says its depot has handed out free food to more than | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
120,000 people in the last 12 months. It warns the figure could | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
increase as the economy struggles to recover. Our correspondent has | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
the story. Every can, carton and shopping bag is for those who can't | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
afford to eat. Two food banks are opening every week in the UK | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
because more and more families say they need them. Families like | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Michelles. When Ryan's overtime at work was stopped their income fell | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
to just over �400 a month. Rent and rising bills meant there was no | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
money left. I wouldn't want to go there again. | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
I would not wish it upon anybody. It's the lowest point. To hay den | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
you have to be all -- Hayden you have to be all smiles, but behind | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
closed doors you break down. many days did you go without food? | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
A couple of days to make sure there was enough for him. They are not | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
alone. Last year, 61,000 people were fed by food banks. This year | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
that number has doubled. One charity now has 201 food banks and | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
says the rise is linked to what is happening in the economy. The | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
terribly difficult thing from our point of view is the way budget | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
changes, the welfare reforms and so on come into play those that are | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
poorer in the country are taking a harder hit. | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
That means a change in the type of people who need help. At this food | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
bank in Leeds new faces arrive daily. Many of the stories are | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
familiar. They cannot afford fuel and food, and younger people too. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Those who want to get a job, but cannot find work. The coalition | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Government says help is there. Two million low-paid workers soon won't | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
have to pay tax. Those on benefits can get crisis loans. People here | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
have options. Why aren't you applying for other | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
jobs now then instead of coming here? I have applied for other jobs, | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
but nobody is taking on at the moment. How many? About 100 jobs. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
Not one has said, yeah you can have a job. There could soon be a food | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
bank in every town. A member of the Secret Service has | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
told the inquest into the death of the MI6 officer Gareth Williams | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
that the Secret Intelligence Service is profoundly sorry for | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
failing to raise the alarm earlier about his disappearance. His body | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
was found padlocked in a sports bag at his London flat in August 2010. | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
The UK I has launched its campaign a-- the UK Independence Party has | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
launched its campaign. Nigel Farage said he is hopeful they will make a | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
break through. UKIP is contesting one third of the seats up for | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
election in England. Next Thursday sees elections across most of | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Britain. In Scotland every single seat is up for grabs. The issues | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
are familiar - jobs and services, but the Scottish elections also | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
have an added bite because a plan for a future referendum on whether | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Scotland should be independent. The councils, a collide scope of | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
coalitions. Labour working with Conservatives, | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Lib Dems linked with Tories and much, much more. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
But widespread coalition does not mean these are cosy elections. Very | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
far from it. In particular, there is a bruising battle between the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
SNP and their opponents, the Labour Party. That battle comes to a head | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
right here in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow. | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
That has meant political turmoil. Labour has run Glasgow for decades. | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
The drive to modernise resulted in conflict. Now they face an external | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
enemy, the buoyant SNP. They have said in this city, that their task | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
is to make this a stepping stone to independence. What we saying is the | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
big debate is how do we protect people's jobs, how do we protect | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
our services? Nationalists insist this is not about independence but | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
competence. Labour has treated Glasgow, ruling it in their | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
interests rather than the interests of the city of Glasgow. It is time | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
for a change. That is what the SNP offers. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
The Tories share power in 11 Scottish councils. They are keen to | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
outrank their UK coalition partners. We have been the fourth party of | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Government in Scotland since 1992. We expect to be the third and we | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
will increase our vote share as well. The Liberal Democrats argue | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
the backlash has finished. We value, people stand up for their | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
community sort out the potholes and the lighting. That is what people | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
want. Back in Glasgow, the race for votes intensifies. Ministers | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
promise millions to upgrade the city's subway. Labour offers a new | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
system to embrace buses and trains. Council spending curbs limit the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
scope for ambitious promises. Still these elections will re-shape | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Scottish council control and just possibly point us to a bigger | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
choice - the independence referendum. | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Now, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are preparing to celebrate their | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
first wedding anniversary this weekend. Today they met a team of | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
:24:17. | :24:22. | ||
soldiers who recreated race to The Duke and Duchess are expected | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
to arrive here shortly for this function - their third official | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
engagement in 24 hours. This morning, they made an unpublicised | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
visit to MI6 before heading on to a reception, where they were seen | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
looking rather broody over a baby. My report contains flash | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
photography. There's was not a whirl wind romance, but it has been | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
a first year of marriage. They are in huge demand. Today, they showed | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
support for the teams of soldiers, who on behalf of the British Legion | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
recreated Scott's historic race to the South Pole, raising funds for | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
wounded servicemen. The same levels of courage and determination, | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
demonstrated by our Antarctic heroes in 1912 and 2012 are shown | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
each and every day by our wounded servicemen and women. Their courage | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
and spirits humble me. One of those people is double amputee, Clive | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Smith, injured in Afghanistan. He has benefited from the charity's | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
support. It is really hum belling that Prince will wram is looking | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
out for the -- Prince William is looking out for the rest of the | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
troops and to have him back this charity. It is a massive support. | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
How very sweet. After the formalities all eyes were on | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Catherine. It was Prince William who caused the stir of those | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
wishing to hear the pitter patter of tiny feet. | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
After handing the baby back, it was just Catherine and William. They | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
were all the crowd wanted to see any way. | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
So, they will have had a couple of busy days. They will be retreating | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
now to celebrate their first wedding anniversary on Sunday, out | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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of the public gaze. Thank you. Now Another day, another set of | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
downpours, particularly now over northern England. Some storms. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Vicious storms over East Yorkshire. They are swirling around an area of | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
low pressure. Drier and brighter across the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
south-east this evening. Still windy here, however. We will keep | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
this zone of wet weth ore eer over -- wet weather. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Further north it will turn quite cold. A touch of frost in rural | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
areas. Cold enough for the showers which push south across Scotland to | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
have snow mixed in. The central zone stays dull tomorrow. In the | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
far south, we'll have another day where there'll be some sunny spells. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
There will be further heavy showers. These across southern counties of | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
England could contain hail and thunder N the sunny spells we might | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
reach 15 Celsius. The winds will be a touch lighter over the south-east. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
The far north of northern England may brighten up. There'll be sunny | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
spells over Northern Ireland and Scotland. There will be bands of | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
showers drifting south, as I said, with snow mixed in. | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
Some brighter skies on Saturday. The showers will be fairly well | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
scattered. Temperatures may reach 15-16 Celsius in the sunny spells. | :28:01. | :28:05. |