:00:08. > :00:13.The Chancellor cancels the fuel duty rise due this August. Labour
:00:13. > :00:22.says it's another U turn. The decision will save motorists 3p on
:00:22. > :00:28.the cost of a litre. Help in hard times, says the Chancellor. We are
:00:28. > :00:31.on the side of working families and businesses and this will fuel hour
:00:31. > :00:36.recovery at this very difficult economic time for the world.
:00:36. > :00:41.have had you turns on past these, churches, charities, caravans,
:00:41. > :00:45.skips and today fuel, which we welcome. The decision comes amid
:00:45. > :00:49.more grim news on the economy. Also tonight - Devastation. A suspected
:00:49. > :00:59.gas explosion in Oldham leaves a child dead. Eye-witnesses say it's
:00:59. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:03.like a war zone. It felt like my house was falling down. The ceiling
:01:03. > :01:06.came through and everything. Mounting debts leave several NHS
:01:06. > :01:09.hospitals in a critical condition. One trust is losing �1 million a
:01:09. > :01:19.week. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour
:01:19. > :01:23.takes her to Enniskillen, the scene of an IRA bombing 25 years ago.
:01:23. > :01:33.And coming up on the BBC News Channel, Andy Murray's Wimbledon is
:01:33. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:48.almost over. He's about to take to Hello and welcome to the BBC News
:01:48. > :01:51.at Six. The Chancellor George Osborne has cancelled the planned
:01:51. > :01:55.3p rise in fuel duty. Mr Osborne said the decision showed that the
:01:55. > :01:57.government was on the side of hard working families. But Labour's Ed
:01:57. > :02:01.Balls, who called for the cancellation this morning,
:02:01. > :02:04.described it as the fastest U turn in history. As our chief economics
:02:04. > :02:08.correspondent Hugh Pym reports, scrapping the fuel duty rise comes
:02:08. > :02:17.on the day the Governor of the Bank of England issued a new warning on
:02:17. > :02:20.the state of the economy. Filling up has caused real
:02:20. > :02:25.headaches for motorists for much of this year with prices touching
:02:25. > :02:28.record levels. The prospect of a three pence a litre duty increase
:02:28. > :02:33.in August had caused mounting concern. That increase was today
:02:33. > :02:37.postponed by the Chancellor until January. I can tell people we will
:02:37. > :02:47.stop any rise in fuel duty this August and freeze it for the rest
:02:47. > :02:48.
:02:48. > :02:52.of the year. This means that a fuel duty will be 10 pence a litre lower
:02:52. > :02:57.than planned by the last Labour government. But Labour accused him
:02:58. > :03:05.of another about turn on policy. We've had U-turns on pasty is,
:03:05. > :03:12.churches, charities, caravans, skips, and today, fuel, which we
:03:12. > :03:17.welcome. There was a welcome, too, from drivers like these in Bristol.
:03:17. > :03:22.We need a lot more things to happen. But, you know, everything help
:03:22. > :03:28.thwart the save a bit of money. all helps. We use the car on a
:03:28. > :03:33.daily basis, so we definitely will. Fuel prices are on the way down
:03:33. > :03:37.because of falling oil prices. Environmentalists will question the
:03:37. > :03:40.Chancellor's move. The Treasury said the revenue lost from the duty
:03:40. > :03:45.postponement will be found from savings elsewhere but today it was
:03:45. > :03:48.announced government borrowing had gone up by more than expected. What
:03:49. > :03:54.tends to happen in a recession tax revenues fall because of low
:03:54. > :03:57.economic activity, and worrying you for the Treasury, that is all too
:03:57. > :04:02.clear in these latest government borrowing figures. In May,
:04:02. > :04:06.borrowing hit �18 billion compared to just over �15 billion in the
:04:06. > :04:12.same month a year earlier. Income tax receipts were more than 7%
:04:12. > :04:16.lower. And with the eurozone crisis still a dampener on confidence,
:04:16. > :04:20.growth and higher tax revenues may be hard to come by for a while. The
:04:20. > :04:27.Governor of the Bank of England gave this warning today. I am
:04:27. > :04:33.pessimistic and concerned because I think for two years we have seen a
:04:33. > :04:36.situation in the row get worse being pushed down the road.
:04:36. > :04:39.postponed fuel duty increase may provide temporary joy at
:04:39. > :04:45.Westminster but does not solve the UK's more fundamental economic
:04:45. > :04:49.problems. Nick Robinson is in Westminster for
:04:49. > :04:52.us now. We've just heard about the Government finances. You would have
:04:52. > :04:56.bought the Chancellor would want every penny he could lay his hands
:04:56. > :05:00.on? Yes, you don't expect him to give away half a billion pound in
:05:00. > :05:07.tax revenues on a day when borrowing is going up, not down,
:05:07. > :05:11.when he's got no Budget statement. So why has he done it? Labour says
:05:11. > :05:15.it quite clear, because today they joined forces with Tory
:05:15. > :05:19.backbenchers and the Sun newspaper to say this is exactly what should
:05:19. > :05:26.happen and why Ed Balls calls it the fastest U-turn in history. Of
:05:26. > :05:33.course, beer is politics about winning the to read that Tory press
:05:33. > :05:39.and boaters also there is also economic reasons as well -- Tory
:05:39. > :05:44.press and the voters. Economy is not growing. There is a real
:05:44. > :05:49.squeeze on people's income. At that time, it's the last time economies
:05:49. > :05:53.take even more money out of the pockets of its people. That's what
:05:53. > :05:58.the Government came to the decision finally but they only finally came
:05:58. > :06:00.to the decision today. Nick, thank you.
:06:00. > :06:03.A young child has been killed and another person seriously injured
:06:03. > :06:06.after a huge explosion ripped through terraced houses in Oldham
:06:06. > :06:11.this morning. The fire service says the blast, in the Shaw area of the
:06:11. > :06:18.city, may have been caused by a gas leak. Ed Thomas is near the street
:06:18. > :06:23.now. Yes, George, this is as close as we
:06:23. > :06:27.can get to this explosion. Some here say they thought a bomb had
:06:27. > :06:33.gone off and others talked about Windows and chimneys shaking and
:06:33. > :06:38.when you look at the pictures from above, it's easy to see why.
:06:38. > :06:46.From the air, you can see the devastation this blast caused.
:06:46. > :06:51.Three houses were flattened. Many others were wrecked. From the
:06:51. > :06:56.ground, this is a closer look at Berkeley Street, before for the
:06:56. > :07:02.explosion swept bobble across the road and people here tell you what
:07:02. > :07:11.they felt. The the House seemed to lift and my ears popped up and we
:07:11. > :07:16.heard the bang. There was a 100 ft dust cloud. Everything flying.
:07:16. > :07:22.did it sound like? The patio windows were rattling. Everything.
:07:22. > :07:28.We dropped what we did and we just for a plume of smoke. It felt like
:07:28. > :07:32.my house was coming on top of me. For a second I felt like I was,.
:07:32. > :07:37.Minutes after the explosion, a man was taken in an air ambulance to be
:07:37. > :07:40.treated for serious burns and fire rescue teams used sniffer dogs and
:07:40. > :07:46.listening equipment to try to find out if anyone else was trapped
:07:46. > :07:54.inside a. The operation, and day was doing the search and rescue in
:07:54. > :07:57.Haiti. We had the best equipment. If there someone missing, we will
:07:57. > :08:01.do our best to find out where they are. We don't know what caused the
:08:01. > :08:05.blast but the National Grid received a call at 10:40am this
:08:05. > :08:12.morning reporting a strong smell of gas and the explosion happened 30
:08:12. > :08:19.minutes later. I hope he's OK. family rents one of the homes
:08:19. > :08:29.reduced to rubble. The new boiler had been put in. Not long ago.
:08:29. > :08:33.Maybe six weeks, if that. It was all done. Fully registered? Yes, a
:08:33. > :08:38.properly registered manner. For the investigation goes on. Tonight many
:08:38. > :08:44.who live here have been told to stay away from their homes but many
:08:44. > :08:47.also know what happened could have been a lot worse.
:08:47. > :08:52.In the last few minutes, we've heard from the fire and rescue
:08:52. > :08:55.teams who say that every one they were looking for have now been
:08:55. > :08:59.accounted for but they are carrying on the search through this rubble
:08:59. > :09:01.as a precaution. Thank you very much. The financial viability of
:09:01. > :09:04.several NHS hospitals in England has been called into question
:09:04. > :09:08.tonight. It follows the near bankruptcy of the South London
:09:08. > :09:11.Healthcare Trust which has run up a debt of �69 million. It's likely to
:09:11. > :09:16.be the first NHS hospital to be placed under a special
:09:16. > :09:23.administrator. Health service managers say it's not the only one
:09:23. > :09:26.in trouble. Here's our political correspondent, Vicki Young.
:09:26. > :09:30.Ministers say they have protected spending on the NHS but more and
:09:30. > :09:34.more trusts are slipping into the red and the Government says it's
:09:34. > :09:37.time to sort them out. The south London trust run three hospitals in
:09:37. > :09:42.Orpington, wallet and Sidcup and its losing a million pounds a week
:09:42. > :09:44.and could be the first ever to be declared insolvent. The health
:09:44. > :09:50.secretary is about to call in a special administrator to try to
:09:50. > :09:54.turn its finance the round. He is prepared to face the problems
:09:54. > :09:58.directly and if the tough decisions have to be taken, he will not shirk
:09:58. > :10:02.from them at it and the best interests of patient care, safety
:10:02. > :10:08.and raising standards. Hospital managers here are reassuring
:10:08. > :10:11.patients that services will continue as normal. The every three
:10:11. > :10:15.months we measure the quality of care and if it becomes better and
:10:15. > :10:21.at the same time thought the money out, then intervention would have
:10:21. > :10:24.been a good thing. Ministers blame expensive contracts drawn up under
:10:24. > :10:27.the Private Finance Initiative during the last Labour government.
:10:27. > :10:32.Cash on the commercial sector was used to build new hospitals but at
:10:32. > :10:35.a price and many are now saddled with huge interest payments lasting
:10:35. > :10:41.for decades. It's a bit too convenient for the Government to
:10:41. > :10:44.blame us. Experts said today it's responsible for a third of the
:10:44. > :10:47.problems was up there but to answer why they brought board of 3 billion
:10:47. > :10:51.pound back office reorganisation when the NHS is facing its toughest
:10:51. > :10:54.ever financial challenge. private finance initiative brought
:10:54. > :10:59.in the money to build an impressive new hospital here but has left the
:10:59. > :11:02.trust struggling to make ends meet. The Health Secretary's talking to
:11:02. > :11:05.up saying they will be forced to balance the books but leads from
:11:05. > :11:09.the political headache because he will personally have to approve the
:11:09. > :11:13.cuts which could make that happen. In Sidcup, maternity and A&E
:11:13. > :11:18.departments are already closed and patience are concerned about what
:11:18. > :11:23.lies ahead. I hope they sorted out because I'd hate to see anything
:11:23. > :11:31.happen to the hospital. I would see quite sad about it because they
:11:31. > :11:38.have shut a lot of things down here. There's one thing balancing the
:11:38. > :11:44.books but it provides a service for lot of people. By stepping in to
:11:44. > :11:48.sort other financial woes of what would -- one particular trust, the
:11:48. > :11:54.Government have to do more to get the budgets back on track.
:11:54. > :11:58.Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys is here. The south London
:11:58. > :12:02.health care trust is not the only one in trouble, is it? That's right,
:12:02. > :12:05.a small number of possible organisations had said publicly not
:12:05. > :12:10.just that they broke but also conned balance their books in the
:12:10. > :12:14.long term. In some areas, services are under review. In one case, a
:12:14. > :12:19.private company is running a hospital. But the financial
:12:19. > :12:23.pressures are much more widespread in the NHS as the public finances
:12:24. > :12:28.Titan, so we are likely to see a debate about the future of hospital
:12:28. > :12:32.services. Experts say it is long overdue. We have too many hospitals
:12:32. > :12:37.doing too many things. But we know, as well, local communities feel
:12:37. > :12:41.very passionately about their hospitals, and are anxious about
:12:41. > :12:44.change and campaign vocally against it. Thanks very much. The former
:12:44. > :12:46.tycoon Asil Nadir has begun giving evidence at his trial in which he's
:12:46. > :12:53.accused of stealing �34 million from his business, Polly Peck
:12:53. > :12:57.International. Mr Nadir told the Old Bailey he was a broken man when
:12:57. > :13:06.he left Britain in 1993 and thought he had no hope of a fair trial. He
:13:06. > :13:10.denies all the charges. The head of MI5 has warned of the dangers to
:13:10. > :13:14.business from cyber attacks and will continue the threat of
:13:14. > :13:18.terrorism especially in the run-up to the Olympics. Jonathan Evans
:13:18. > :13:24.also said increasing numbers of British people were travelling to
:13:24. > :13:30.Arab countries to train as the terrorists.
:13:30. > :13:35.I'm a Jonathan Evans, MI5, and it's my job to keep his country safe
:13:35. > :13:40.from terrorism, espionage and other national security threats. Rarely
:13:40. > :13:44.seen in public, last night the MI5 chief gave his assessment of these
:13:44. > :13:48.threats we face. They are dealt with by his office is here in the
:13:48. > :13:53.operations room so what are they worried about? Top of the agenda is
:13:53. > :13:57.the Olympics. It begins in only a month but MI5 has been planning for
:13:57. > :14:01.years. There's an unprecedented security operation, some of it
:14:01. > :14:11.highly visible, much hidden behind the scenes and there's no room for
:14:11. > :14:12.
:14:12. > :14:17.The Olympics are certainly the main concern in the short term at MI5
:14:17. > :14:20.but Jonathan Evans last night made clear he also sees other threats on
:14:20. > :14:26.the horizon. One of the most important is threats two computer
:14:26. > :14:31.systems, cyber attack. Although not a hostile act, the recent problems
:14:31. > :14:36.the NatWest Bank and one bank of Scotland showed the risk. One
:14:36. > :14:46.company lost �800 million of revenue because of an attack by
:14:46. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:50.another state. The extent of what The deployment of cyber weaponry is
:14:50. > :14:55.enormously attractive to nation states because it is cheaper and if
:14:55. > :15:01.properly focused, people don't die. We will see a lot more of that in
:15:01. > :15:04.the future. One other concern for the MI5 chief is the Arab Spring.
:15:04. > :15:08.The instability in and at least has created what he called a more
:15:08. > :15:18.permissive environment for Al-Qaeda with signs of some people from
:15:18. > :15:21.
:15:21. > :15:24.That is the main issue in the UK. Once they've got that militant
:15:24. > :15:29.experience, the ideological indoctrination, they come back more
:15:30. > :15:32.committed and more experienced. is the job of the head of MI5 to
:15:32. > :15:37.worry and last night, Jonathan Evans gave us a glimpse of the
:15:37. > :15:41.threats he is worrying about and trying to deal with.
:15:41. > :15:47.Our top story tonight: The Chancellor cancels the 3p fuel
:15:47. > :15:50.duty rise due this August - Labour says it's another U-turn.
:15:50. > :16:00.Coming up: Andy Murray is on Centre Court for
:16:00. > :16:01.
:16:01. > :16:06.Ind Business, government borrowing is on the rise thanks to falling
:16:06. > :16:16.tax receipts and a weak economy. In the run-up to another EU summit,
:16:16. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:19.could essential finance ministries The Queen is in Northern Ireland
:16:19. > :16:22.for a two-day visit to mark her Diamond Jubilee. She's attended a
:16:22. > :16:27.church service in the town of Enniskillen, where an IRA bomb went
:16:27. > :16:30.off in 1987, killing 12 people. Tomorrow, she's due to meet Sinn
:16:30. > :16:32.Fein's Martin McGuinness, who's the Deputy First Minister and a former
:16:32. > :16:42.IRA leader. From Enniskillen, here's our Royal correspondent,
:16:42. > :16:45.
:16:45. > :16:53.No place she will visit in this Jubilee year will offer quite such
:16:53. > :16:56.a cause for hope as the Northern Ireland of 2012. To underline that
:16:56. > :17:01.point, the Queen's first destination was emblematic of the
:17:01. > :17:06.province's transformation. This was the town of Enniskillen on
:17:06. > :17:16.Remembrance Sunday in 1987. The IRA had exploded a bomb, 12 lives were
:17:16. > :17:17.
:17:18. > :17:22.lost. It was one of the most A quarter of a century on from the
:17:22. > :17:26.Remembrance Day bomb, the Queen came to Enniskillen to a Service of
:17:26. > :17:30.Thanksgiving for the 60 years of her reign, but also in a sense of
:17:30. > :17:33.thanksgiving for Northern Ireland's deliverance from its past. In a
:17:33. > :17:39.Church of Ireland cathedral, a Roman Catholic cardinal --
:17:39. > :17:46.Cardonald led the prayers for peace. May we build a home that welcomes
:17:46. > :17:48.all. Seeks your justice and lives in peace. After the service, the
:17:48. > :17:53.Queen left the Church of Ireland cathedral and walked across the
:17:53. > :17:56.road to make what is said to be her first visit to a Roman Catholic
:17:56. > :18:00.Church in Northern Ireland. Inside, she met youth groups and members of
:18:00. > :18:04.the community, a small gesture but one that was appreciated in the
:18:04. > :18:09.town which has known such pain in the past. One of those who died in
:18:09. > :18:16.the Remembrance Day bomb was Stephen Gold's father. Having the
:18:16. > :18:19.Queen here brought a lot of people together even more. Going to the
:18:19. > :18:22.Church of Ireland and then across the Street to sing Michael's Church.
:18:23. > :18:28.Tonight the Queen arrived at Hillsborough Castle at the end of
:18:28. > :18:31.day one of a visit, the theme of which is reconciliation. Tomorrow
:18:31. > :18:35.we will see perhaps the most remarkable demonstration of just
:18:35. > :18:39.how far Northern Ireland has come. The meeting between Britain's head
:18:39. > :18:47.of state and the man whom that state, for many years, regarded as
:18:47. > :18:50.a terrorist. Martin McGuinness was once one of Northern Ireland's most
:18:50. > :18:54.wanted Republicans, an IRA commander who was active in the
:18:54. > :18:59.Republican movement at the time the IRA murdered Lord Mountbatten in
:18:59. > :19:04.1979. He is now northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister. He will meet
:19:04. > :19:09.the Queen tomorrow. The Queen herself lost someone who was a
:19:09. > :19:14.member of her family. I think it is important that we all recognise we
:19:15. > :19:18.are in a different place. meeting will be brief. What the
:19:18. > :19:22.Queen thinks of it we will never know. Yet it will be another
:19:22. > :19:26.significant moment on Northern Ireland's journey away from its
:19:26. > :19:29.past. Syria has been condemned by NATO
:19:29. > :19:33.over an incident last Friday in which a Turkish fighter jet was
:19:33. > :19:35.shot down by Syrian forces. It said the action was a further example of
:19:35. > :19:38.Syria's "disregard for human life". As the international community
:19:38. > :19:41.continues to discuss what to do about Syria, violence in the
:19:41. > :19:43.country is getting worse. There were reports today of heavy clashes
:19:43. > :19:46.in the capital, Damascus, between government and opposition fighters.
:19:46. > :19:49.Our correspondent Ian Pannell spent the last two weeks with rebel
:19:49. > :19:59.fighters in the northern province of Idlib and reports on the growing
:19:59. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:10.violence there. His report contains Night time. Just over the border
:20:10. > :20:14.from Turkey. And the army rains shells. On to towns and villages.
:20:14. > :20:19.And under the searing heat of the blood-red sky, the forces of war
:20:19. > :20:25.advance. Russian-made helicopters take to the skies, firing at rebel
:20:25. > :20:29.fighters. As the violence seems to have spiralled out of control. This
:20:29. > :20:34.is where some of the artillery landed. It is difficult to see what
:20:34. > :20:37.the value of the attack was. As far as we know, no fighters were
:20:37. > :20:47.staying here, just six boys sleeping in his bedroom when the
:20:47. > :20:53.shell hit. -- but this bedroom. And so another father mourns. As the
:20:53. > :20:58.innocent suffer the most. One of his sons is now dead, the others
:20:58. > :21:02.are injured. We were taken to see the boys, wounded and in high
:21:02. > :21:06.indeed. The family say they can't take them to the hospital for
:21:06. > :21:11.treatment, afraid they will be arrested if they do. The rebels say
:21:11. > :21:21.this is why they fight. But in a deadly cycle, so the bloodshed only
:21:21. > :21:26.
:21:26. > :21:32.grows. Eight year-old Rhian The Syrian army did this to me, he
:21:32. > :21:38.says. The rebels vow revenge as they plan to attack an army
:21:38. > :21:44.checkpoint and bass. This is by far the largest group we have ever seen.
:21:44. > :21:49.Hundreds of fighters from the Idlib Martyrs Brigade. -- Idlib Martyrs
:21:49. > :21:55.Brigade. And now getting help from across the border in Turkey. Each
:21:55. > :22:02.unit is given its orders. The fighters are tents as they go
:22:02. > :22:08.through their final checks. They hope the world will help. But armed
:22:08. > :22:14.with guns and bullets, grenades and home-made pipe bombs, they are no
:22:14. > :22:20.longer waiting for anyone else. And the ceasefire, the UN's 6 point
:22:20. > :22:24.plan have been pushed aside. TRANSLATION: there have been many
:22:24. > :22:29.massacres here, old men, women and children. Is this the ceasefire
:22:29. > :22:37.you're talking about? There's no ceasefire. There hasn't been one
:22:37. > :22:44.ever since Kofi Annan's plan was drawn up. The operation is on.
:22:44. > :22:50.Driven by anger and adrenalin, the fighters advance. The group ahead
:22:50. > :22:55.has opened fire too early, alerting the army. The fighters through all
:22:55. > :23:05.of their firepower at the military base. Both sides now locked into
:23:05. > :23:06.
:23:06. > :23:09.this conflict. Neither giving way. No turning back. Once again it
:23:09. > :23:18.looks like the rebel plan has failed because shooting broke out
:23:18. > :23:20.very early, the base was hit by heavy weapons. The rebels at the
:23:20. > :23:25.moment have been cornered in the back alleys with others fighting at
:23:25. > :23:32.the front. This is a rare insight into what is happening across the
:23:32. > :23:42.North. As both sides slugged out for control of northern Syria. --
:23:42. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:48.slug it out. At the Leveson Inquiry, Lib Dem MP
:23:48. > :23:51.Norman Lamb has claimed a lobbyist employed news coverage of the Lib
:23:52. > :23:57.Dems might turn nasty if Vince Cable did not run in its favour on
:23:57. > :24:01.the BSkyB bid. Norman Lamb told the inquiry he had two meetings with
:24:01. > :24:04.Fred Michel at which the BSkyB bid was discussed.
:24:04. > :24:06.Thousands of people lined the streets of Doncaster this morning
:24:06. > :24:08.as the most seriously wounded soldier to survive the war in
:24:08. > :24:11.Afghanistan carried the Olympic torch. 27-year-old Lance Bombardier
:24:11. > :24:17.Ben Parkinson lost both legs and suffered brain and back injuries in
:24:17. > :24:22.a bomb attack six years ago. He refused to use crutches and carried
:24:22. > :24:32.the flame 300 metres. At the end, he said, "It was nothing - just
:24:32. > :24:34.
:24:34. > :24:41.another walk". And Team Murray has just begun his
:24:41. > :24:46.Wimbledon campaign, taking on Nikolay Davydenko. -- Andy Murray.
:24:46. > :24:50.I was hoping that by this time we might have a fairly comprehensive
:24:50. > :24:54.Match report on Andy Murray, but we have spent time with our eyes
:24:54. > :24:58.swivelling between the tennis and the heavens. The second day of the
:24:58. > :25:02.tournament and the first rain. The covers may be off, the tennis
:25:02. > :25:08.off, but there's still room for Essex bird analysis. I don't think
:25:08. > :25:12.it is raining. Form -- for the tournament referee, the annual
:25:12. > :25:18.calculation, windows Midsummer drizzle warrant a delay? Answer
:25:18. > :25:22.today, enough to cause a backlog. But there would be a delay, at
:25:22. > :25:29.least talk -- not too much, or so we expected, to Rafael Nadal's
:25:29. > :25:38.progress. But Thomaz Bellucci began with a distinct lack of deference.
:25:38. > :25:45.That was 4-0 to Bellucci. Shortly thereafter, normal service resumed.
:25:45. > :25:50.And then normal for hand resumed. First set to Nadal. He would win in
:25:50. > :25:54.straight sets. So far this Wimbledon, and most of the British
:25:54. > :25:58.competitors are still only holding the door open for each other on the
:25:58. > :26:02.way out, but they had to wait awhile for 18-year-old Laura Robson.
:26:02. > :26:06.She took the first set on Francesca's Schiavone and had break
:26:06. > :26:12.points in the second. Before the Italian found her appetite and
:26:12. > :26:15.tucked in. And so have the greatest hopes reside, as ever, in Andy
:26:15. > :26:19.Murray. He looked to be relaxed enough after his early afternoon
:26:19. > :26:24.warm-up. The contrast indeed with the agony at last month's French
:26:24. > :26:29.Open. He had to endure painful injections in his back. Add to that,
:26:29. > :26:35.some needle from his opponent today, Nikolay Davydenko. Murray is always
:26:35. > :26:40.looking so hangdog, he said, maybe it is because he is Scottish.
:26:40. > :26:44.does that come into it? Andy is a passionate chat and a fine chap. I
:26:44. > :26:48.don't think nationality has to play a part in that. I think he likes to
:26:48. > :26:53.keep himself to himself. He's maybe not always wanting to be in the
:26:53. > :26:58.limelight. I don't think it has got anything to do with being Scottish.
:26:58. > :27:05.And the Scot has had his own on- court repast, breaking Davydenko in
:27:05. > :27:10.the first set. And Andy Murray has just taken the first set, 6-1. You
:27:10. > :27:15.can watch that game in its entirety on BBC Two, but rest assured Andy
:27:15. > :27:18.Murray has never lost the first round at Wimbledon.
:27:18. > :27:21.The bestselling pop group the Spice Girls have reunited for the launch
:27:22. > :27:24.of a new musical based on their songs. It's four years since the
:27:24. > :27:34.five members last appeared in public together. The new musical,
:27:34. > :27:38.
:27:38. > :27:42.Viva Forever, tells the story of a Let's take a look at the weather.
:27:42. > :27:46.I can't promise anything spicy tonight, but I can promise you a
:27:46. > :27:51.warm and humid night, something we have not had much of this summer.
:27:51. > :27:55.It will be a difficult night for sleeping. There will be further
:27:55. > :28:00.rain, particularly across Scotland. England, Wales and Northern Ireland
:28:00. > :28:07.will have showers coming and going. Long dry spells and it will turn
:28:07. > :28:11.misty. The thing we will notice other temperatures, quite high. A
:28:11. > :28:15.little bit more comfortable across northern Scotland. Here, there will
:28:15. > :28:18.be further rain during Wednesday and another pulse of rain tracking
:28:18. > :28:22.across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland during the
:28:22. > :28:25.morning. Heavy rain mixed in with that. Further south, dry spells and
:28:25. > :28:29.there will be some brightness and sunshine which will trigger some
:28:29. > :28:35.heavy showers. Around some coasts, in west Wales and south-west
:28:35. > :28:40.England, it may stay misty and murky with a few showers. Heading
:28:40. > :28:44.inland, we could get some sunshine, temperatures up to 23 or 24. Warm
:28:44. > :28:48.and humid at Wimbledon. Further north we are expecting one or two
:28:48. > :28:53.showers during the afternoon. Much of northern England, Northern
:28:53. > :28:59.Ireland and southern Scotland will be crowded with rain. -- cloudy
:28:59. > :29:02.with rain. Always cooler around the coasts. More rain to come on
:29:02. > :29:07.Thursday, which has a cause of -- for concern over southern Scotland
:29:07. > :29:12.and Northern Ireland. Elsewhere, the chance of one or two heavy
:29:12. > :29:17.afternoon showers and another warm and humid feel with eyes of 24-25.
:29:17. > :29:20.Thursday is the last of the humid days, we then revert to type this
:29:20. > :29:23.June. Cooler with strong breezes through the weekend. Strong