:00:10. > :00:20.The documents that reveal Osama bin Laden was hoping for another
:00:20. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:27.spectacular attack on the West. Papers siezed from the Al-Qaeda
:00:27. > :00:36.leader's hide-out show he feared losing support - and wanted to
:00:36. > :00:38.assassinate Barack Obama. We'll be asking what the documents
:00:38. > :00:41.say about Bin Laden's global influence.
:00:41. > :00:43.Also on the programme: Even as he was on the run he was still very
:00:43. > :00:46.much connected to and participating in actuflgts1 ir.
:00:46. > :00:47.April queues - new figures confirm Heathrow was way off target for
:00:47. > :00:50.getting non-European passengers through immigration.
:00:50. > :00:53.Slow and steady - the Bank of England Governor says there are
:00:53. > :00:57.signs of economic recovery. seems to have a curve.
:00:57. > :00:59.Chris James was blind for years. Now he can see shapes after
:00:59. > :01:03.scientists fit a microchip behind his eyes.
:01:03. > :01:13.And a world first - Wales becomes the only nation to have a footpath
:01:13. > :01:14.
:01:15. > :01:19.Coming up on the BBC News channel, almost three months in
:01:19. > :01:29.administration, but Rangers may have a new owner by the end of the
:01:29. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:40.season. American tycoon Bill Miller Good evening, and welcome to the
:01:40. > :01:43.BBC News at 6.00pm. Documents released today reveal that right up
:01:43. > :01:45.to his death Osama bin Laden was hoping to carry out another
:01:45. > :01:49.spectacular terrorist plot. The papers found in his Pakistani hide-
:01:49. > :01:51.out when US Navy seals killed him last year also show that Bin Laden
:01:51. > :01:54.was worried about losing support among Muslims. He thought the
:01:54. > :02:04.assassination of President Barack Obama would restore faith in Al-
:02:04. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:11.Qaeda. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports. The last
:02:11. > :02:15.days of Osama Bin Laden - holed up in his walled compound in Pakistan
:02:15. > :02:22.before he was killed by US Navy commandos last year. Now we're
:02:22. > :02:26.getting a glimpse of the so-called treasure trove of documents grabbed
:02:26. > :02:31.from that compound. In a US election year, Washington has
:02:31. > :02:41.chosen to release a fraction of the 6,000 documents. The Bin Laden
:02:41. > :02:48.
:02:48. > :02:52.files reveal he'd tasked two Bin Laden's plan was for Joe Biden
:02:52. > :02:58.to take over as President, believing he was incompetent and
:02:58. > :03:01.would lead the US into crisis. Every insurgent looks at his
:03:01. > :03:04.adversary and tries to figure out how can you conduct a military
:03:04. > :03:09.strike that has operational significance, but even more
:03:09. > :03:13.importantly, has enormous political significance? Terrorism or
:03:13. > :03:18.insurgency is at its heart a political contest as opposed to a
:03:18. > :03:28.military contest. One of the declassified documents refers to
:03:28. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:39.What emerges here is by the time he was killed a year ago Osama Bin
:03:39. > :03:44.Laden was struggling to remain in control of Al-Qaeda. The
:03:44. > :03:48.organisation had already fragmented, so today its offchutes have sprung
:03:48. > :03:51.up pretty much independently in Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and Somalia.
:03:51. > :03:55.There is no longer a firm control at the top.
:03:55. > :04:00.Keep in mind that Al-Qaeda was already on the decline before Bin
:04:00. > :04:05.Laden's death, but the group itself is still struggling to be relevant.
:04:05. > :04:10.There are new outfits that have emerged from Al-Qaeda's shadow that
:04:10. > :04:15.have their own leadership, financing and desire to plot mass
:04:15. > :04:18.casualty attacks. They don't need Al-Qaeda to do it, but certainly
:04:18. > :04:24.they're motivated by Bin Laden's ideology. That perhaps is his most
:04:24. > :04:28.relevant aspect today. That legacy will take a long time to fade. Bin
:04:28. > :04:33.Laden was a highly charismatic figure for many, and in that sense
:04:33. > :04:37.it's surprising the US has chosen to revive his memory today but then
:04:37. > :04:39.the boogie man who once terrified America is no more, his
:04:39. > :04:44.organisation a shadow of what it once was.
:04:44. > :04:47.Frank is with me now. Do these documents reveal how extensive
:04:48. > :04:52.Osama Bin Laden's contacts were? Yes, they do. It shows he was in
:04:52. > :04:57.contact with leaders, particularly the media leaders, in pretty much
:04:57. > :05:00.all of Al-Qaeda's Fran shiez offchutes around the world. So in
:05:00. > :05:06.Somalia, for example, he advised Al-Shabaab don't actually publicly
:05:06. > :05:09.join us, Al-Qaeda. You're better off not publicly being part of us.
:05:09. > :05:14.You'll get more recruits that way, which is interesting. In, it's he
:05:14. > :05:18.and his associates argued with Al- Qaeda's franchise in Iraq to tone
:05:18. > :05:24.down the violence. He was aware killing a lot of Muslims was losing
:05:24. > :05:28.them a lot of recruits and reputation. He suggested that the
:05:28. > :05:32.Yemenis should concentrate not on trying to establish an emirate but
:05:32. > :05:37.attack the United States from there which of course they did do by
:05:37. > :05:44.putting onboard the pants bomber on the flight to Detroit. In Pakistan
:05:44. > :05:47.he argued, it seems, with the Taliban organisation the TTP. It's
:05:47. > :05:52.interesting he had these rather fractious arrangements. Was he in
:05:52. > :05:55.charge of any of the operations? No. I think he was kind of an inspirer-
:05:55. > :05:58.in-chief. Thank you.
:05:58. > :06:00.The delays at Heathrow, Britain's busiest airport, have been at the
:06:00. > :06:03.centre of a political row with claim and counter-claim. New
:06:03. > :06:05.figures from the British Airports Authority seem to settle the
:06:05. > :06:07.argument. All four terminals dealing with non-EU passengers
:06:07. > :06:16.missed their targets. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger
:06:16. > :06:19.has more details. Welcome to Britain, though for thousands of
:06:19. > :06:23.passengers arriving at Heathrow it has been anything but welcome.
:06:23. > :06:25.After pictures emerged of travellers queuing for hours after
:06:26. > :06:28.passport control, the travel industry today urged the Home
:06:28. > :06:31.Secretary to get a grip on the situation. We don't think it's
:06:31. > :06:36.acceptable that people should be waiting for two or three hours to
:06:36. > :06:40.get into the country. It gives a very bad impression of Britain. How
:06:40. > :06:44.can the Government possibly want people to want to come here if that
:06:44. > :06:47.is the experience they have? Monday the Immigration Minister
:06:47. > :06:51.Damien Green said more immigration officers would be deployed, but he
:06:51. > :06:56.said that some estimates of queuing times had been exaggerated.
:06:56. > :07:01.information shows that queuing times bore no resemblance to some
:07:01. > :07:05.of the more wild suggestions. Border Force data shows the longest
:07:05. > :07:10.queuing time for immigration control was one-and-a-half hours at
:07:10. > :07:15.Terminal 5 Friday night for non-EU nationals. But the figures from BAA
:07:15. > :07:19.show in fact by Monday, apparently unknown to Mr Green, passengers
:07:19. > :07:22.from outside the European economic area were queuing for up to three
:07:22. > :07:27.hours at Terminal 5. It wasn't just once the passengers were stuck in
:07:27. > :07:31.long queues in April. At one point it took two hours, 20 minutes to
:07:31. > :07:36.get through immigration at Terminal 3. On another day, they waited over
:07:36. > :07:40.two-and-a-half hours in Terminal 5, where target waiting times were
:07:40. > :07:44.missed on 23 out of 30 days. The good news for British passengers is
:07:44. > :07:49.that on average last month they weren't waiting any longer than the
:07:49. > :07:53.25-minute target time for them to clear passport control, but that's
:07:53. > :07:56.no consolation for foreign visitors from outside the European economic
:07:56. > :08:01.area, and there will be plenty of those in the run-up to the Olympics.
:08:01. > :08:05.This passenger worked on the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City ten
:08:05. > :08:09.years ago. Yesterday she was stuck in the queue at Heathrow.
:08:09. > :08:13.I find it troubling that my first encounter coming to London so close
:08:13. > :08:16.to the Games was no help in immigration, so I don't think it's
:08:16. > :08:21.a good sign. I hope it can be corrected because it's needless at
:08:21. > :08:25.this point in time. Meanwhile, on the other side of London, visa
:08:25. > :08:28.appointments have been suspended for two weeks after the computer
:08:28. > :08:36.system at this government office crashed, another headache for the
:08:36. > :08:39.The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, is
:08:39. > :08:42.coming under intense pressure to resign. A number of senior
:08:42. > :08:45.politicians have called on him to step down following revelations in
:08:45. > :08:48.a BBC documentary about his role in a secret child abuse inquiry in
:08:48. > :08:55.1975. He was among a small group of priests who knew the names of
:08:55. > :08:57.children being abused but failed to inform the police or their parents.
:08:57. > :09:02.The Serious Organised Crime Agency's website was disabled for
:09:02. > :09:05.hours after it was targeted by computer hackers. The Agency said
:09:05. > :09:11.the site became unavailable after being deliberately hit by a flood
:09:11. > :09:14.of visits, but the organisation's security hadn't been put at risk.
:09:14. > :09:17.Humberside Police say they have traced the teenage mother of a
:09:17. > :09:20.newborn baby whose body was found at a recycling plant. Staff raised
:09:20. > :09:22.the alarm after finding the child at the Bell Waste control site in
:09:22. > :09:31.Scunthorpe. The mother has been admitted to hospital for post-natal
:09:31. > :09:34.care. A steady, slow economic recovery is
:09:34. > :09:37.on the way according to the Governor of the Bank of England.
:09:37. > :09:46.Sir Mervyn King said better times were coming during the course of
:09:46. > :09:49.the year. But today some small business leaders were sceptical of
:09:49. > :09:52.Sir Mervyn's prediction. This report from our chief economics
:09:52. > :09:57.correspondent, Hugh Pym. He has a key role in running the
:09:57. > :09:59.economy and is a watchdog of the banking system, and the Bank of
:09:59. > :10:03.England Governor Sir Mervyn King has been criticised over both. Now
:10:03. > :10:07.he's come out with his own assessment of how things are.
:10:07. > :10:12.The UK may technically be in a double-dip recession, but Sir
:10:12. > :10:16.Mervyn said in a BBC interview that a return to growth wasn't far off.
:10:16. > :10:21.It's patchy picture, but there are indeed signs of a recovery coming,
:10:21. > :10:24.and we see that in the business surveys and I think also in the
:10:24. > :10:27.employment data, so I think a reasonable view would be that we
:10:27. > :10:32.would start to see steady, slow recovery coming during the course
:10:32. > :10:37.of the year. The real problem - These small business bosses
:10:37. > :10:41.listened closely to Sir Mervyn King at their breakfast meeting in
:10:41. > :10:46.Nuneaton this morning. Some were sceptical. Roy, who is an estate
:10:46. > :10:50.agent in the town, and Suzy, who is a local florist, were both at that
:10:50. > :10:54.meeting. It's going to drag on for another I think about five years
:10:54. > :11:00.before we actually see some benefit, so we've got to just hang in there
:11:00. > :11:06.and try and make the best of what we can. I just feel there is no
:11:06. > :11:10.quick recovery. "Patchy" suggests there are discernible ups and downs,
:11:10. > :11:13.and that's not really what we're seeing. We have seen it pretty flat
:11:14. > :11:18.in our business in that it's on the level. We've noticed no significant
:11:18. > :11:22.ups or indeed downs. Some leaders of bigger businesses
:11:22. > :11:25.are more optimistic and would probably share the Governor's
:11:26. > :11:29.assessment on growth, but few would disagree that there is still a
:11:29. > :11:34.threat to the prosperity of British High Streets, households and
:11:34. > :11:38.businesses if there is another turn for the worse outside the UK.
:11:38. > :11:42.Eurozone pressures are mounting again with students demonstrating
:11:43. > :11:48.against education cuts in Barcelona today. Their protests took place as
:11:48. > :11:53.the European Central Bank held a meeting of top policymakers in the
:11:53. > :11:57.Spanish city. An extra 2,000 police were deployed with security for the
:11:57. > :11:59.meeting tightened. Back at the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn's critics
:12:00. > :12:02.aren't as noisy as that. He's acknowledged the bank should have
:12:02. > :12:06.done more to warn of the dangers in the banking system before the
:12:06. > :12:09.crisis, but it's not clear whether that goes far enough to reassure
:12:09. > :12:13.the doubters, who wonder what'll happen in the next crisis.
:12:13. > :12:16.Two men - who've both been blind for more than 20 years - have had
:12:16. > :12:20.part of their vision restored after pioneering surgery. They've had
:12:20. > :12:22.light-sensitive microchips placed at the back of their eyes. As our
:12:22. > :12:32.medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports, it's hoped the project
:12:32. > :12:35.could eventually benefit many more blind patients. Welcome back, Chris.
:12:35. > :12:40.Nice to see you again. Thank you very much indeed. Do come and take
:12:40. > :12:45.a seat in this chair for me, please. Just six weeks ago Chris James was
:12:45. > :12:50.totally blind. Now he can perceive light.
:12:50. > :12:55.This box powers his implant, but it's what's under his scalp which
:12:55. > :13:00.is amazing. This X-ray shows the computer processor above his ear
:13:00. > :13:05.linked by a cable to the implant behind his retina. The wafer-thin
:13:05. > :13:10.chip is just three millimetres square.
:13:10. > :13:15.Compare this sight test before the implant was fitted when he had no
:13:15. > :13:20.vision. No. There is nothing I can make out. Nothing at all? No.
:13:20. > :13:25.this one after. Now he can perceive light... It seems to have a curve.
:13:25. > :13:29.And even the outlines of shapes. find it very exciting, really. We
:13:29. > :13:32.know the optic nerve is working, which is the most important thing.
:13:32. > :13:36.Otherwise, this trial wouldn't be able to go ahead. And it's just a
:13:36. > :13:39.question of now teaching the brain to wake up and interpret what the
:13:39. > :13:47.flashes of light are telling me. Chris is one of thousands of people
:13:47. > :13:55.in the UK with retinitis pigmentosa, the light-processing sells in his
:13:55. > :14:00.eye no longer function. The 1,500 pixel retinal chip sends signals
:14:00. > :14:06.direct to the optic nerve, and in there to the brain. Getting the
:14:06. > :14:10.implant in place required a steady hand at the Oxford Eye Hospital,
:14:10. > :14:15.the operation lasting several hours. This surgery is the culmination of
:14:15. > :14:21.years of research here and in Germany, where the implant is made.
:14:21. > :14:25.Up to 12 British patients will have the chip fitted as part of a major
:14:25. > :14:29.trial of this truly innovative technology. I think this is an
:14:29. > :14:33.amazing development. Here we're talking about a patient who was
:14:33. > :14:37.completely blind, able to see. We're talking about what is here
:14:37. > :14:41.and now, not in five or ten year, but what's actually happening now.
:14:41. > :14:46.Switch the machine on. It comes on instantly. I start moving my head
:14:46. > :14:51.armed. There. The flashing is starting now. A second patient,
:14:51. > :14:55.Robin Miller, showed me how the implant enables him to see light,
:14:55. > :14:59.and there's been another unusual benefit. The biggest upside for me
:14:59. > :15:06.is that I am dreaming in colour for the first time in 25 years -
:15:06. > :15:09.intense, bright colour, which is an extraordinary thing.
:15:10. > :15:13.Retinal implants have been compared to early grainy photography, but
:15:13. > :15:23.with the hope of restoring clear vision for future generations of
:15:23. > :15:26.The time has just gone 6.15pm. Our top story:
:15:27. > :15:30.Osama Bin Laden was plotting to kill Barack Obama according to
:15:30. > :15:33.documents from his hide-out in Pakistan.
:15:33. > :15:43.And coming up: Battling paralysis and fatigue -
:15:43. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:48.one woman's determination to finish Weetabix is now in Chinese hands.
:15:48. > :15:57.More than half of Aviva's shareholders vote against executive
:15:57. > :16:01.salaries. It's a world first for Wales and its supporters say it
:16:01. > :16:06.will take in some of the most beautiful countryside anywhere on
:16:06. > :16:11.the planet. Never before has it been possible to walk the entire
:16:11. > :16:18.length of a nation's coastline. The new path, stretching 870 miles,
:16:18. > :16:21.opens on Saturday. Hywel Griffith is on the path for us now. Thank
:16:21. > :16:28.you very much. This has been six years in the planning, cost
:16:28. > :16:38.millions of pounds to the Welsh government to join all the existing
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:44.paths around Wales's coast to form Carved out of cliffs and beaches,
:16:44. > :16:51.the Welsh coast is much more than just a line between land and sea.
:16:51. > :16:56.The new path takes in everything from ancient burial grounds to a
:16:57. > :17:05.power station, winding through 11 nature reserves. We sent our
:17:05. > :17:09.cameras out to give you a snap shot of the 870 journey. We meat few
:17:09. > :17:15.walkers already enjoying the views. Would you fancy walking the whole
:17:15. > :17:20.thing? Yes, I would. For Caroline Thompson the path represents a
:17:20. > :17:24.challenge to walk the entire coastline of her country. She is
:17:25. > :17:28.frustrated the route doesn't always cling to the water's edge. There
:17:28. > :17:34.are private estates and there isn't the coastal access. It would be
:17:34. > :17:40.great if that could, you know, be opened up, so that the public could
:17:40. > :17:50.access it. This is much better than you had? Yes, yes. Yes. Some argue
:17:50. > :17:55.the path goes across their rights. Lyn Jenkins runs a park. Walkers
:17:55. > :17:59.will have to walk around his country after he fought access to
:17:59. > :18:04.his land. It finishes our business. It's letting everybody in free.
:18:04. > :18:10.It's bringing people into a dangerous area that is clearly
:18:10. > :18:13.dangerous where the cliffs are crumbling. One guide book has
:18:13. > :18:19.already declared the Wales Coast Path the best region in the world
:18:19. > :18:23.to visit this year. It beats locations in South America, it beat
:18:23. > :18:29.regions of Canada. We felt it was deserved. It was time to recognise
:18:29. > :18:33.just how far Wales had come as a destination. The path opens
:18:33. > :18:39.officially this weekend. First step in trying to bring an extra 100,000
:18:39. > :18:45.tourists to Wales every year. Some of the visitors I have been
:18:45. > :18:48.speaking to here yesterday said they came to North Wales for the
:18:48. > :18:54.mountains, having heard about the coastal path, they might come back
:18:54. > :18:59.next year. If 870 miles isn't enough, you can add on another 170
:18:59. > :19:03.and take on the path which goes across the border between England
:19:03. > :19:08.and Wales. Thank you very much. Voting has been under way since
:19:08. > :19:12.this morning in this year's local elections. Almost 5,000 seats are
:19:12. > :19:16.being contested in 1 81 local authorities in England, Scotland
:19:16. > :19:21.and Wales. There are also mayoral contests in London, Liverpool and
:19:21. > :19:28.Salford and referendums in ten other cities on whether to
:19:28. > :19:33.introduce directly elected leaders. Voters have until 10.00pm tonight
:19:33. > :19:38.to cast their ballots. Dd and -- David Dimbleby and his guests will
:19:38. > :19:41.bring you all the election results live as they come in from around
:19:41. > :19:47.the country. Vote 2012 starts at 11.35pm tonight on BBC One and the
:19:47. > :19:49.BBC News channel. Plans to push through big pay rises for bosses at
:19:49. > :19:54.Aviva, the UK's biggest insurer, have been voted down by
:19:54. > :19:58.shareholders. Many are angry that the new boss of the UK arm of the
:19:58. > :20:08.business was being offered a �45,000 bonus after a month in the
:20:08. > :20:14.job. Our biz course is here. Is it binding on the management? No. It's
:20:14. > :20:18.not binding. This is humilitating for this insurance giant. Hugely
:20:18. > :20:23.symbolic. This is only the fourth time that a FTSE 100 company has
:20:23. > :20:27.lost a vote on executive pay. It boils down to the fact that
:20:27. > :20:31.shareholders and their view are angry that the payouts for the big
:20:31. > :20:36.bosses haven't been matched by performance. Aviva's share price
:20:36. > :20:41.has fallen by 30% over the last year. The group Chief Executive
:20:41. > :20:46.tried to keep a lid on this by waving a 5% pay rise that would of
:20:46. > :20:51.taken his salary beyond the �1 million mark. That wasn't enough to
:20:51. > :20:59.appease investors. We are getting the sense that the investors and
:20:59. > :21:03.owners of the business are getting restless. Another fiery general
:21:03. > :21:07.meeting for Aviva today. The Government is watching all this
:21:07. > :21:17.very closely. It is consulting on legislation that will look into
:21:17. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:35.making these votes on pay binding The only privately owned version of
:21:35. > :21:41.the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch masterpiece, The Scream, has become
:21:41. > :21:48.the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. It fetched neerm
:21:48. > :21:53.�74 million in New York. Three other versions of The Scream are
:21:53. > :21:58.all owned by Norwegian museums. The administrators of Rangers say
:21:58. > :22:02.they've accepted an offer for the football club from an American
:22:02. > :22:06.businessman. The deal with trucking magnate Bill Miller should be
:22:06. > :22:10.completed within the next few weeks. Big questions remain about how the
:22:10. > :22:16.debts of one of Britain's biggest clubs will be settled. We accepted
:22:16. > :22:19.an offer for the sale of the business and assets of the club. We
:22:19. > :22:23.will enter a purchase agreement with Bill Miller where by the
:22:23. > :22:29.trading operations and its assets are trade into a new company.
:22:29. > :22:36.will happen to Rangers? It will continue. Bill Miller's requirement
:22:36. > :22:41.of the SFA and the SPL is that any sanctions are not of a footballing
:22:41. > :22:47.nature. Rangers would continue in the top flight next season without
:22:47. > :22:51.a points penalty. There is some disquiet about where the club is
:22:51. > :22:55.heading. For many of the tens of thousands of fans who regularly
:22:55. > :22:59.pack this stadium, Bill Miller's bid was not 9 the preferred option.
:22:59. > :23:05.They have a long list of questions about what it means for the future
:23:05. > :23:11.of the club. For now though, in the streets around Ibrox, where Rangers
:23:11. > :23:21.is woven into the fabric of life, the main emotion was relief. Quite
:23:21. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:28.happy somebody has took it at last. This guy is American I hope they
:23:28. > :23:32.get up and running again. The deal is not done yet. Bill Miller wants
:23:32. > :23:37.the valuable bits of Rangers, leaving the creditors with the
:23:37. > :23:41.remains. Tonight the biggest creditor, the tax man said, "we
:23:41. > :23:44.have agreed to nothing". The manager of the Italian football
:23:44. > :23:49.team, Fiorentina, has been sacked after he attacked one much his own
:23:49. > :23:53.players in a row over a substitution. Delio Rossi jumped
:23:53. > :23:57.into his team's dug-out in order to punch the midfielder during a game
:23:57. > :24:05.last night. Rossi lost control when the man sarcastically applauded his
:24:05. > :24:12.decision to replace him. Now, for almost 36,000 competitors the
:24:12. > :24:16.London Marathon ended 12 days ago, but for one woman the race is still
:24:16. > :24:20.on. Claire Lomas lost the use of her legs in a horse riding accident
:24:20. > :24:24.five years ago. She is walking the course in a special suit to raise
:24:24. > :24:28.money for Spinal Research. Eight miles from the finish line, Sophie
:24:28. > :24:33.Raworth has been to meet her. It's a struggle to get the robotic suit
:24:33. > :24:38.on. Before the marathon Claire hadn't managed to walk more than a
:24:38. > :24:45.mile in. It she is adamant she will complete the 2 6.2 mile course by
:24:45. > :24:51.next week. It feels OK on. My injuries are quite high. It's
:24:51. > :24:57.keeping my body up. My core gets flop. Five years ago, Claire was
:24:57. > :25:03.left paralysed from the chest down after she fell from her horse. 12
:25:03. > :25:08.days ago, along with thousands of others, she set off across the
:25:08. > :25:11.start line at the London Marathon. Now, she's the only one left on the
:25:11. > :25:15.course. The challenge is immense. She has her husband with her,
:25:15. > :25:22.keeping her steady along the way. What made you take on this
:25:22. > :25:32.challenge in the first place? Before my accident I always had a
:25:32. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:38.lot of challenges on horses, I'm yourself. For that reason, and for
:25:38. > :25:42.raising as much as I can. Progress is slow. She is managing a mile-
:25:42. > :25:46.and-a-half a day. She has had plenty of support along the way.
:25:46. > :25:51.What Claire has been doing is incredible. Proving you can get
:25:51. > :26:00.back from a sporting injury and take on the marathon. She has been
:26:00. > :26:04.walking for days and days for through here on my way to the
:26:04. > :26:07.finish. When I got there I was given one of these, my own official
:26:07. > :26:11.London Marathon medal. At the moment there isn't one waiting for
:26:11. > :26:18.Claire, the rules changed this year. To get a medal you have to finish
:26:18. > :26:23.on the day. So many of this year's runners have been impressed by her
:26:23. > :26:31.courage and determination that they have said they will bring their own
:26:31. > :26:37.2012 London Marathon medals to the malwhen she finishes to give to her.
:26:37. > :26:38.Incredible. Let's take a look at Incredible. Let's take a look at
:26:38. > :26:44.the weather now with Alex Deakin. We have seen a lot of rain in the
:26:44. > :26:50.past 12 days. It should be dryer for the weekend. It will not get
:26:50. > :26:54.any warmer. Over night a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain. Damp and
:26:54. > :26:58.misty night. Lovely sunshine in western Scotland and Northern
:26:58. > :27:02.Ireland, the cloud will spill in here over night. We keep outbreaks
:27:02. > :27:09.of rain across the Midlands and parts of Wales. With the cloud
:27:09. > :27:13.around temperatures at seven to eight degrees. Colder across
:27:13. > :27:18.northern Scotland. Snow showers across Shetland. Winds will push
:27:18. > :27:23.the rain bands southwards. They are weakening all the time, some rain
:27:23. > :27:29.here and there. A chilly day. There could be brighter skies on the
:27:29. > :27:38.south coast of England and Wales. With sunshine we may reach 13
:27:38. > :27:44.degrees, typically nine or ten Celsius. Northern Ireland, Scotland
:27:44. > :27:50.will have sunny spells. There will be showers and winds bringing frost
:27:50. > :27:57.on Friday night. Another band of wet weather south across Scotland,
:27:57. > :28:04.more snow here on Saturday. For many, Saturday a dry and bright day.
:28:04. > :28:08.10-11 at best. Colder on Saturday night, extensive frost forming.
:28:08. > :28:13.Unusually cold start to Sunday. Showers here and there. Many places
:28:13. > :28:18.dry and bright. We will see some sunny spells. The temperatures are
:28:18. > :28:24.disappointing for a weekend in May. The weekend does promise dryer
:28:24. > :28:32.conditions, it will feel chilly. Gardners take note, unusually cold