:00:14. > :00:18.Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run a major corporation, a
:00:18. > :00:22.damning report from a committee of MPs. They say he turned a blind eye
:00:22. > :00:25.to the phone hacking scandal, the verdict could threaten his stake in
:00:25. > :00:30.BSkyB. Indeed you of the majority of
:00:30. > :00:36.committee members, Rupert Murdoch is not a -- is not fit to run an
:00:36. > :00:39.international company like BSkyB. The decision spits their MPs, the
:00:39. > :00:42.Liberal Democrats side with the Labour Party, leaving the Tories on
:00:43. > :00:46.their own. It will be correctly seen as a
:00:47. > :00:53.partisan report, and we have lost a great deal of its credibility,
:00:53. > :00:57.which is a shame. Also, 80 extra staff deployed at
:00:57. > :01:00.Heathrow after David Cameron tells his ministers, get a grip on the
:01:00. > :01:04.long queues. 1000 people are evacuated from
:01:04. > :01:09.their homes after more flood warnings, the forecasters say there
:01:09. > :01:13.is more rain to come. And, the FA gets its man, Roy
:01:13. > :01:20.Hodgson is confirmed as the next England manager. We look at the
:01:20. > :01:23.challenges facing him. And in Sportsday, more reaction to
:01:23. > :01:33.what had shown's appointment, plus all of the other news, including
:01:33. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:51.the sudden death of one of the Good evening. Welcome.
:01:51. > :01:56.An influential group of MPs has branded Rupert Murdoch not fit to
:01:56. > :01:58.run a major international company. The damning report from the media
:01:58. > :02:03.select committee said News Corporation had misled them about
:02:03. > :02:06.the extent of the phone hacking scandal. The criticism of him
:02:06. > :02:16.personally was supported by both the Labour Party and the Liberal
:02:16. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:26.Democrat MPs, but opposed by the Rupert Murdoch, until recently,
:02:27. > :02:31.seen as the world's most powerful media mogul. Today, declared by MPs
:02:31. > :02:35.not a fit person to run a major international business, because,
:02:35. > :02:40.the MPs say, he and his colleagues turned a blind eye for years to
:02:40. > :02:43.phone had caned by journalists at the News Of The World. Everybody in
:02:43. > :02:47.the world and those who is responsible for the wrong to ring
:02:47. > :02:53.of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch. More than any individual alive, he
:02:53. > :02:59.is to blame. Morally, the deeds are his. He paid the Piper, and he
:02:59. > :03:03.called the tune. The committee was arguably even more damning about
:03:03. > :03:08.three of his colleagues. Colin Myler, the former editor of the
:03:08. > :03:13.News Of The World, Tom Crone, the legal affairs manager for Rupert
:03:13. > :03:17.Murdoch's British newspaper, and Les Hinton, for decades Rupert
:03:17. > :03:21.Murdoch's right hand man, all accused of misleading MPs. In the
:03:21. > :03:26.case of Colin Myler and Tom Crone, in part because they had been aware
:03:26. > :03:30.of an e-mail showing that hacking was more widespread than they
:03:30. > :03:36.admitted, and it is because the three men told MPs in 2009 that
:03:36. > :03:41.hacking was the work of a single road reporter, that MPs have found
:03:41. > :03:45.them guilty of misleading them. Colin Myler is still an editor, for
:03:45. > :03:49.another organisation. The three men have all rejected MPs' Plymouth
:03:49. > :03:52.damning verdicts. It was the disclosure that the News Of The
:03:52. > :03:57.World hacked the phone off the murdered teenager Milly Dowler that
:03:57. > :04:01.turned hacking into a story of national importance. Since then,
:04:01. > :04:11.the cost of prominent people whose privacy has been invaded by phone
:04:11. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:14.hacking has grown and grown -- roster. Previously, we could not
:04:14. > :04:20.criticise Rupert Murdoch or the press, but this has come as a
:04:20. > :04:25.surprise. Is it too much, has it gone too far? No. Rupert Murdoch
:04:25. > :04:31.has a lot of questions to answer, he has a lot to answer for, and for
:04:31. > :04:34.the very first time, he is being held to account. Why did the
:04:34. > :04:38.committee reached its verdict on Rupert Murdoch? We found News
:04:38. > :04:41.Corporation carried out an extensive cover up of its rampant
:04:41. > :04:46.law-breaking. In the view of the majority of committee members,
:04:46. > :04:53.Rupert Murdoch it is not fit to run them international company like
:04:53. > :04:57.BSkyB. The issue on which no Conservative member felt they could
:04:58. > :05:00.support the report, the line put in the middle of the report that said
:05:00. > :05:08.that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run an international
:05:08. > :05:15.company. What will be the impact of MPs' verdict that he is not fit to
:05:15. > :05:18.run a major international company? Here, I have just heard the four
:05:18. > :05:24.Tory members say they voted against that verdict, so at any suggestion
:05:24. > :05:30.that this is a party political judgement and not a dispersion at
:05:30. > :05:36.one, that could undermine its force. -- not a dispassionate one. Ofcom
:05:36. > :05:40.is investigating whether BSkyB, 39% owned by News Corporation, is fit
:05:40. > :05:45.and proper to hold a broadcasting licence. In theory, if Rupert
:05:46. > :05:51.Murdoch is deemed by MPs not to be fit and proper, that could push
:05:51. > :05:55.Ofcom era to deciding to that, for BSkyB to retain its licence, News
:05:55. > :05:59.Corporation should sell most of its shares. The News Of The World
:05:59. > :06:09.scandal is still making use, shaking the whole of Rupert Murdoch
:06:09. > :06:13.and his son James on their sprawling media empire.
:06:13. > :06:19.Picking up on the last point, an awful lot at stake, how damaging
:06:19. > :06:27.could this be? Quite a legend. I could read the report before it was
:06:27. > :06:32.made public, and my jaw hit the floor. Rupert Murdoch not fit to
:06:32. > :06:37.run an international company, not fit to be chairman of News
:06:37. > :06:42.Corporation, this great, colossal empire he built up. The force of
:06:42. > :06:47.the verdict may be lessened by the fact that the Tories and Liberal
:06:47. > :06:53.Democrat voted for it, sorry, Labour and Liberal Democrats, but
:06:53. > :06:59.the Tories voted against. Some will see it as a partisan judgment. But
:06:59. > :07:03.in America, it will be very embarrassing for them. There are
:07:03. > :07:07.shareholders in America desperately trying to reduce the control of the
:07:07. > :07:11.Murdoch dynasty over News Corporation, and I do not think
:07:11. > :07:17.they will see the new ones of a party political spite, they will
:07:17. > :07:20.just see the verdict of MPs. In Britain, there is the huge issue
:07:20. > :07:26.for Rupert Murdoch of whether or not he will be able to retain the
:07:26. > :07:32.control he has got over BSkyB, Ofcom is looking at that. Ofcom
:07:33. > :07:41.will pursue its own independent inquiries, but this report does not
:07:41. > :07:45.help Rupert Murdoch's cause. Robert said, this was a split
:07:45. > :07:51.decision, in political terms, does that make it less damaging? It is
:07:51. > :07:54.intriguing, it is 84 pages of deeply uncomfortable reading for
:07:54. > :07:59.Rupert and James Murdoch and News Corporation. But it is one sentence
:07:59. > :08:04.which has grabbed the headlines, which split the committee on party
:08:04. > :08:09.lines, and select committees usually try to agree not to divide
:08:09. > :08:12.on party lines, and it is one sentence that has overshadowed much
:08:12. > :08:21.of this report and allowed the Tories to say that they do not
:08:21. > :08:25.agree with it. Why did Tom Watson do it? With the support of four
:08:25. > :08:31.other Labour MPs and one Liberal Democrat? His critics say he loves
:08:31. > :08:34.the headlines, he compared Rupert Murdoch to a Mafia boss. They say
:08:34. > :08:40.he is trying to put the Tories in an awkward position, to make them
:08:40. > :08:42.look as though they are on the murder of side. And that he is
:08:42. > :08:49.trying to speak of the shareholders in the United States. But he said
:08:49. > :08:53.he was trying to make sure that the report did not merely Simcha --
:08:53. > :08:58.censure three executives, but it would also censured the top guy.
:08:58. > :09:06.The question is whether the party divide maximises the impact or
:09:06. > :09:09.whether it allows News Corporation to say, who cares?
:09:09. > :09:12.80 extra staff a day had been drafted into Heathrow to stop
:09:12. > :09:16.lengthy delays for passengers arriving at Britain's biggest
:09:16. > :09:20.airport. It comes after David Cameron told ministers to get a
:09:20. > :09:27.grip on the situation. He called the Home Secretary to Downing
:09:27. > :09:32.Street for an urgent meeting today. Today, the battle over the
:09:32. > :09:38.efficiency of the British border continued. The minister was sent to
:09:38. > :09:42.the front line to be confronted by a distinct lack of serious queues.
:09:42. > :09:47.Mid-morning, a quiet period at Terminal 3. But he continued to
:09:47. > :09:51.insist the Government is not downplaying the problem. The queues
:09:51. > :09:56.that we have seen recently are too long, the number of actions which
:09:56. > :09:59.are taking, extra staff, is central control room, mobile teams, better
:09:59. > :10:04.use of automated gates, they are all designed to mitigate the
:10:04. > :10:08.problem. More pictures from angry passengers. Damian Green says the
:10:08. > :10:12.longest queue last week was an hour and a half, British Airways said he
:10:12. > :10:17.was misleading the public, it was two-and-a-half hours. The
:10:17. > :10:23.experience of this man, a regular, is somewhere in the middle. I use
:10:23. > :10:28.Heathrow at least once a month. I have been created by queues no
:10:28. > :10:33.shorter than two hours, it is a shambles if you ask me. As a
:10:33. > :10:36.developed nation, the UK is showing this to the world? The Prime
:10:36. > :10:40.Minister was speaking of the deeds to grip this issue, to admit there
:10:40. > :10:44.is a problem. Despite the minister's statement yesterday that
:10:44. > :10:48.the problem had been exaggerated. In the industry, there is a feeling
:10:48. > :10:52.that extra staff are just a sticking plaster and that more
:10:52. > :10:56.radical action is needed. The central cause is that staff numbers
:10:56. > :11:00.were cut on the basis that more selective passport checks would be
:11:00. > :11:06.done. But then the government decided to reintroduce the full
:11:07. > :11:10.checks. If the change the rules, if they modify the requirements, they
:11:10. > :11:15.should understand the impact that will have on resources. They have
:11:15. > :11:19.not been making adequate resources available at the airport, and it is
:11:19. > :11:23.reflecting badly on the UK. being quiet this morning, nearly
:11:23. > :11:28.half of the desks were empty in Terminal 3. The extra staff or for
:11:28. > :11:32.busy periods. But for the unions, they are not enough. 80 temporary
:11:32. > :11:37.staff taken from other parts of the Home Office is a sticking-plaster
:11:37. > :11:42.at best. The Government needs to put in a full-time, permanent jobs
:11:42. > :11:45.in at all of our ports and airports to make sure we can give a proper
:11:45. > :11:52.service, protecting our borders, but also welcoming people to
:11:52. > :11:58.Britain. An embryonic idea is for airlines to pay extra for more
:11:59. > :12:02.staff than shorter queues. It will not happen before the Olympics.
:12:02. > :12:06.The inquest into the death of the MI6 officer Gareth Williams has
:12:06. > :12:10.heard that the secret service has failed to pass on evidence to
:12:10. > :12:16.police investigating his death. It includes computer memory sticks and
:12:16. > :12:20.a holdall similar to the one his body was found in. He was
:12:20. > :12:25.discovered in a padlocked holdall in the path of his central London
:12:25. > :12:28.flat almost two years ago. The death of two teenagers who
:12:28. > :12:33.committed suicide by jumping off a bridge could have been avoided if
:12:33. > :12:38.more staff had been on duty at their care home. That is a key
:12:38. > :12:45.finding of a fatal accident inquiry into how Niamh Lafferty and Georgia
:12:45. > :12:50.Rowe died in October 2009 in Renfrewshire.
:12:50. > :12:54.They had loving families. Georgia Rowe and Niamh Lafferty, filmed
:12:54. > :13:01.here in what would turn out to be her final birthday. As troubled
:13:01. > :13:04.teenagers, both with -- both were taken into care. This CCTV footage
:13:04. > :13:08.shows them leaving the care home they had been stained in on the
:13:08. > :13:11.night they died. The staff did not notice they had been missing. They
:13:11. > :13:17.had been out with their families earlier and had given no indication
:13:17. > :13:25.of what was to come. She turned around, she waved at me, a big,
:13:25. > :13:30.happy smile. She said, I will see you soon. And are we went. -- off I
:13:30. > :13:35.went. That was the last time I saw her alive. The report found she had
:13:35. > :13:39.made numerous suicide attempts in care. George had suffered from
:13:39. > :13:43.sustained and violent bullying. They were vulnerable, but they were
:13:43. > :13:47.housed in an open unit at the care home, just along the road.
:13:47. > :13:50.Motorists saw them working together -- walking together along this
:13:50. > :13:54.bridge. The barriers were much lower at the time, and it is here
:13:54. > :13:58.that they ended their lives. The fatal accident inquiry concluded
:13:58. > :14:02.their deaths could have been avoided if reasonable precautions
:14:02. > :14:07.had been taken. They should have been housed away from an alarmed
:14:07. > :14:12.fire exit and closer to staff. Four people should have been supervising
:14:12. > :14:18.the unit instead of two. The family say they feel let down by the
:14:18. > :14:22.system they turn to for help. has left the unit, and nobody knows
:14:22. > :14:28.why, nobody knows. They did not vote until after they were dead.
:14:28. > :14:33.There was no security. How can that be? The accommodation where they
:14:33. > :14:37.stayed has been closed. In more secure Unit to still operate on the
:14:37. > :14:42.site. The managers their expressed profound sorrow for the weaknesses
:14:42. > :14:50.in the handling of the circumstances leading up to the
:14:50. > :14:53.British scientists say they are working on creating a simple blood
:14:53. > :14:56.test which could help predict a woman's chances of developing
:14:56. > :14:59.breast cancer. It follows research which found that a genetic switch
:14:59. > :15:03.carried by some women doubles their risk of developing the disease. Our
:15:03. > :15:06.medical correspondent is here with the details. Fergus.
:15:07. > :15:12.This is early research which, if it pays off, could have far-reaching
:15:12. > :15:14.benefits. In the journal Cancer Research, scientists at Imperial
:15:14. > :15:24.College London explain how they analysed blood samples from 1,380
:15:24. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:27.women, 640 of whom went on to get They found signals in the blood
:15:27. > :15:36.years before the disease developed, which revealed some of the women
:15:36. > :15:40.had up to double the risk of That research teams say this is a
:15:40. > :15:45.daily work but it raises the hope of a blood test to detect future
:15:45. > :15:50.breast cancer risk of stock it will be quite important for potentially
:15:50. > :15:55.diagnosis. Because we can use it to predict people's individual risk.
:15:55. > :16:00.On top of that we can potentially reverse these changes so therapies
:16:00. > :16:04.could be developed that could reverse somebody's risk of the
:16:05. > :16:10.disease. Scientists have already identified faults in the genes in
:16:10. > :16:15.our DNA that put some women at increased risks of breast cancer
:16:15. > :16:20.but our the M8 is covered in a chemical tags, epigenetics, would
:16:20. > :16:24.tell them when to switch on and off. These chemical switches change as a
:16:24. > :16:29.result of diet, smoking and lifestyle and can make us
:16:29. > :16:34.susceptible to cancer and other diseases. Scientists found that one
:16:34. > :16:37.in five women had an epigenetic change in their white blood cells
:16:37. > :16:44.that greatly increased their risk of getting breast cancer used in
:16:44. > :16:49.the future. This woman got breast cancer in her 20s. She says a blood
:16:49. > :16:52.test to detect her risk level in advance would have been of great
:16:52. > :16:57.benefit. It would make a huge difference to women because you
:16:57. > :17:00.will be able to plan your approach to the disease well before you face
:17:00. > :17:05.the disease and look at options such as prevented double mastectomy,
:17:05. > :17:09.hormone treatment, and your lifestyle to see if you can make
:17:09. > :17:16.change is. A lot of research is under way looking at whether blood
:17:16. > :17:20.tests could pick up only risk tests for other cancers. This may not
:17:20. > :17:25.come for many years but would be a significant in France in diagnosing
:17:25. > :17:29.disease. -- a significant advance. Our top story tonight: A damning
:17:29. > :17:32.report from MPs has branded Rupert Murdoch not a fit person to run a
:17:32. > :17:42.major corporation. Coming up: Swollen rivers, flood warnings and
:17:42. > :17:45.
:17:45. > :17:50.In Business on the news channel, News Corp investors shrugged off
:17:50. > :18:00.the phone hacking scandal but what will the long-term damage be?
:18:00. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:05.And many mortgage holders see the It was a well kept secret until
:18:05. > :18:09.last Sunday, and now it is official. Roy Hodgson is the new England
:18:09. > :18:14.manager. The FA have signed him up for four years. Speaking at Wembley,
:18:14. > :18:24.after two days of negotiations, he said it was a proud day. Dan Roan
:18:24. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:29.is there for us now. It emerged during today's unveiling
:18:29. > :18:33.of Roy Hodgson that he had been the unanimous choice of the FA
:18:33. > :18:37.selection panel. He most certainly wasn't the unanimous choice of the
:18:37. > :18:42.footballing public, many of whom would have preferred Spurs boss
:18:42. > :18:48.Harry Redknapp, but Roy Hodgson it is an today he had his say on the
:18:48. > :18:54.role he has been working towards his entire career.
:18:54. > :18:58.He may not be the man many expected to be unveiled as the new manager,
:18:58. > :19:02.but Roy Hodgson's long career to date they reached an unexpected
:19:02. > :19:07.high. The West Brom boss, the latest to be handed the top job in
:19:07. > :19:11.the English game. It is a very proud day, I am a very happy man to
:19:11. > :19:16.be offered the chance to manage my country. I am looking forward
:19:16. > :19:20.enormously to the task ahead. Everyone knows it is not easy. I am
:19:20. > :19:25.also hoping that everybody, the fans, supporters, will get behind
:19:25. > :19:28.the team forced of Roy Hodgson is one of the most experienced
:19:28. > :19:33.managers in world football. He has coached three national sides,
:19:33. > :19:38.European teams and Premier League clubs, and yet Harry Redknapp had
:19:38. > :19:44.been the favourite, so why was he ignored? I am not prepared to talk
:19:44. > :19:50.about other candidates, other people. We are here to present our
:19:50. > :19:54.new manager, Roy, and there is a lot to talk about it my future.
:19:54. > :19:59.hope we remain friends. We have unwittingly become rivals but I
:19:59. > :20:08.hope it will not affect our friendship. Roy Hodgson has no time
:20:08. > :20:15.to waste. His first match will be against Norway later this month.
:20:15. > :20:21.England's opening match against France is in June. How big a job do
:20:21. > :20:25.you have to win people over? It is always a big job. The only way you
:20:25. > :20:31.are going to win people over his bed doing the job that I know I can
:20:31. > :20:34.do. After spending millions of pounds on Fabio Capello, and
:20:34. > :20:40.manager with more reasonable demands will have appealed to the
:20:40. > :20:45.FA but as ever, results on the pitch are what matter ultimately.
:20:45. > :20:50.By handing Roy Hodgson a four year deal, the FA have shown up the kind
:20:50. > :20:54.of backing and faith in him that many England fans are get to, and
:20:54. > :20:59.he appeared to acknowledge the task he faces. There will be no
:20:59. > :21:01.honeymoon period for Roy Hodgson, the pressure will be on immediately.
:21:01. > :21:04.A former Liberal Democrat donor Michael Brown has returned to
:21:04. > :21:09.Britain and has been ordered to begin a seven-year jail sentence he
:21:09. > :21:13.was given in 2008. He fled the UK after being convicted of fraud.
:21:13. > :21:16.Brown was arrested in the Dominican Republic last month.
:21:16. > :21:23.Are the fortunes of towns and cities boosted by having a directly
:21:23. > :21:25.elected mayor? It is a question that voters in ten areas of England,
:21:25. > :21:29.including Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham, will be considering
:21:29. > :21:34.on Thursday. Our local government correspondent reports on the
:21:34. > :21:40.arguments for and against directly elected mayors.
:21:40. > :21:45.Many of the world's big cities are governed by mayors. London has got
:21:45. > :21:50.one, the mayor of Paris is prominent in French politics, New
:21:50. > :21:54.York's mayor is influential, but what about Nottingham? It is one of
:21:54. > :21:59.10 English cities holding a referendum on Thursday. The
:21:59. > :22:05.question is whether to have a mayor, not to it should be yet. Pro-mayor
:22:05. > :22:10.campaigners say clearly the ship would give the city a boost. Anti-
:22:10. > :22:14.mayor declared it a waste of money. This property developer is in the
:22:14. > :22:20.Yes camp. He says the mayor could make the most of the Robin Hood
:22:20. > :22:23.brand. We have all these fantastic ingredients but we have no recipe
:22:23. > :22:28.and no MasterChef and my view is that the mayor could bring all this
:22:28. > :22:31.together and be the MasterChef. the man who led much of the
:22:31. > :22:35.redevelopment of Nottingham disagrees. He thinks local
:22:35. > :22:39.government is already under good control and that having a mayor
:22:39. > :22:43.might upset the balance of the city. We have now got a settled
:22:43. > :22:47.governance that is working really well and I don't want to risk
:22:47. > :22:51.change until we can be sure that other cities have proved in it can
:22:51. > :22:57.work. If voters say Yes on Thursday, they council leader will be
:22:57. > :23:02.replaced by a mayor in November, but the powers one new mayors have
:23:02. > :23:05.not been clearly defined. Much of the resistance to the idea of an
:23:05. > :23:10.elected mayor is coming from the town hall itself. Why change a
:23:10. > :23:13.system that is working? Councillors managed to organise this popular
:23:13. > :23:18.tram system. Would having an elected mayor make much difference
:23:18. > :23:22.to the people living here? Do you think Nottingham should have a
:23:22. > :23:30.mayor? Who will pay for him? think it will be a waste of money?
:23:30. > :23:34.Yes. Do you think Nottingham meet someone to give it more profile?
:23:34. > :23:39.The City needs revamping, it needs some work doing to it. We have took
:23:39. > :23:45.a step back in time. We need something. So the moment of choice
:23:45. > :23:49.is approaching. Stick with the tried and tested council set up or
:23:49. > :23:53.go for individual leadership, which could give local politics sharper
:23:53. > :23:59.definition. Voters must now decide which is the best way to run at the
:23:59. > :24:02.City. -- to run a city. 32 flood warnings have been in
:24:02. > :24:06.place today and a thousand people have been moved from their caravan
:24:06. > :24:10.park to escape rising water levels. The Environment Agency is warning
:24:10. > :24:18.people to stay away from swollen rivers after yet more heavy rain.
:24:18. > :24:22.Jon Kay is in Liscombe in Devon now. George, this tiny hamlet on X Moore
:24:22. > :24:26.has a claim to fame. This was officially the wettest place in the
:24:26. > :24:30.UK during the wettest April on record. They have had a foot of
:24:30. > :24:37.rainfall in the last month, three times more than normal, and you can
:24:37. > :24:43.see the effect that has had on local rivers. May Day. A new month
:24:43. > :24:48.begins just as the old one finished. In Northamptonshire, more than
:24:48. > :24:54.1,000 people were forced to leave their 30 caravans when the Rivett
:24:54. > :24:59.mean burst its banks. This sports centre became an emergency home for
:24:59. > :25:03.residents shocked by the suddenness of the evacuation. We did not get
:25:03. > :25:10.enough warning, that was all. Within 20 minutes we had to be off
:25:10. > :25:15.the site and pack whatever and move. It is the far south-west of England
:25:15. > :25:19.that has taken the biggest soaking over the last few days. In fact in
:25:19. > :25:25.this part of Somerset, it has hardly rained at all today. This
:25:26. > :25:30.water has come from the Mendip Hills and it is still coming down.
:25:30. > :25:33.Motorists across the country have been warned to take care after
:25:33. > :25:40.yesterday's death of a motorist near Newbury.
:25:40. > :25:45.You have got the kids in the back. I am really scared, actually. I am
:25:45. > :25:50.quite scared. It is just a bit scary. I am quite surprised we
:25:50. > :25:54.still have a drought order! It is not much fun! I hope it doesn't
:25:54. > :25:59.rain any more. In Tewkesbury, where the River Severn meets the River
:25:59. > :26:03.Avon, water levels are still rising tonight. They are not expected to
:26:03. > :26:08.peak until the morning. But the authorities say they are now
:26:08. > :26:12.confident there will not be any major problem is. We are keeping a
:26:12. > :26:17.close eye on the situation, using a lot of information from other
:26:17. > :26:22.agencies, giving us up-to-the minute predictions. The Environment
:26:22. > :26:26.Agency has now scaled down warnings on many rivers but there is still a
:26:26. > :26:31.lot of surface water out there, and with more rain forecast for later
:26:31. > :26:35.in the week, it is not there yet. Although here tonight, the water
:26:35. > :26:40.levels are falling quite quickly. This bridge was completely
:26:40. > :26:44.submerged this time yesterday, but now it has reopened to tourists,
:26:44. > :26:51.although tourists here and across the country are being warned to
:26:51. > :27:00.take a great deal of care. We had better get a weather
:27:00. > :27:10.There is more rain in the forecast. Tonight, general vamp for many of
:27:10. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:18.It is through the Central's wave of the country where we will continue
:27:18. > :27:25.to see light rain and drizzle through the night, but in south-
:27:25. > :27:32.west England and Wales, some clear skies, and to the north of Scotland,
:27:32. > :27:37.fog and mist. Quite chilly in the morning with some frost but another
:27:37. > :27:41.fine day, particularly in the north-west of Scotland. Across
:27:41. > :27:47.southern Scotland and a good part of England, extensive cloud to
:27:47. > :27:54.begin with. It could be quite foggy to stop the day, and light rain is
:27:54. > :28:03.possible just about anywhere. We will continue to see sunny spells
:28:03. > :28:07.in the south-west and the north- west of Scotland. We will see some
:28:07. > :28:13.brighter spells but many people will stick with thick cloud.
:28:13. > :28:22.Further showers as well in the day. If you are in flight afflicted
:28:22. > :28:27.areas, it is time to look away. The prospect of more rain on Thursday.
:28:27. > :28:33.It could go a bit further north than where we have it here but the