:00:08. > :00:12.Barclays' share price hammered as investors count the cost of the
:00:12. > :00:21.latest banking scandal. The bank's chief Bob Diamond faces calls to
:00:21. > :00:24.resign. The Prime Minister issues a challenge. People have to take
:00:24. > :00:28.responsibility for the actions and show how they are going to be
:00:28. > :00:31.accountable for those actions, and it's important that goes to the top
:00:31. > :00:34.of the organisation. The government says traders were motivated by
:00:34. > :00:38.greed, lying to increase bank profits and improve its finances.
:00:38. > :00:42.We'll be asking how this could have happened. Also tonight:
:00:42. > :00:47.Flash flooding across parts of the UK leaves one man dead. Rail delays,
:00:47. > :00:57.roads closed and schools shut early. One of Britain's longest serving
:00:57. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:02.prisoners escapes. A major manhunt A salute to their raw courage. The
:01:02. > :01:07.Queen unveils a memorial to the 55,000 airmen who died in the
:01:07. > :01:16.Second World War. Free kicks, fame and fortune but
:01:16. > :01:21.it's not enough. David Beckham fails to make the Olympic cut.
:01:21. > :01:27.The capital's new cable car opens ahead of the Olympics costing �60
:01:27. > :01:37.million and the family of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked last
:01:37. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:48.year's riots, calls for the police Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:48. > :01:51.News at Six. There's been a big sell off in Barclays shares tonight
:01:51. > :01:53.as investors realise the full implications of the new scandal
:01:53. > :01:57.engulfing the bank. David Cameron has weighed in, saying the Barclays
:01:57. > :02:00.boss, Bob Diamond, had serious questions to answer. And more
:02:00. > :02:04.details have emerged about the way some Barclay's traders lied to make
:02:04. > :02:07.the bank's position look more secure than it was. Here's our
:02:07. > :02:17.business editor Robert Peston on the latest crisis to hit Britain's
:02:17. > :02:22.financial sector. Weighing the cost of the city of
:02:22. > :02:26.Barclays, the worst ever trust by a big British banks. But you
:02:26. > :02:32.executive Bob Diamond facing calls to resign. The share price
:02:32. > :02:40.plummeting. Down an astonishing 15.5%. The City of London has been
:02:40. > :02:45.shaken. And it is the men about river doing shaking. It is clear
:02:46. > :02:50.what happened and Barclays banks was be completely unacceptable,
:02:50. > :02:54.systematically of a financial system of elevated agreed. It
:02:54. > :02:59.brought our economy to its knees. am determined we learn all the
:02:59. > :03:03.lessons from what has happened at Barclays Bank and people have to
:03:03. > :03:07.take responsibility for the actions and show how they are going to be
:03:07. > :03:11.accountable for them and that's very important it goes to the top.
:03:11. > :03:19.Big investors in Berkeley say they think heads should roll at the top,
:03:19. > :03:23.possibly Bob Diamond, but right now, probably the chairman. He's also on
:03:23. > :03:27.the BBC's executive board. Although Bob Diamond says he won't take his
:03:27. > :03:35.bonus, some investors want to hit the more junior bank is responsible
:03:35. > :03:40.for trying to bring interest rates in, in pursuit of profits. We think
:03:40. > :03:46.bonuses paid to staff should now be clawed back. Where there has been
:03:46. > :03:51.the sort of behaviour, pay and bonus can be taken back. Someone
:03:51. > :03:54.else wants prosecutions for junior bankers. I want to see criminal
:03:54. > :03:59.prosecutions and they do want to see those who have done the wrong
:03:59. > :04:04.thing, those who have committed what I think are atrocious act,
:04:04. > :04:08.brought to justice. Regulators tummy criminal prosecutions of
:04:08. > :04:11.individual bankers in New York and London are likely. The banks are
:04:11. > :04:19.bracing themselves to fight expensive civil court cases brought
:04:19. > :04:25.by investors who say they had been robbed. Lawsuits will appear, not
:04:25. > :04:30.just here but in the USA. Adding all those potential costs up, we
:04:30. > :04:34.could easily get to several billions of pounds for the UK banks.
:04:34. > :04:39.The huge pines being paid by Barclays Bank, the massive legal
:04:39. > :04:43.costs it faces, it won't kill the bank, but banks look after our
:04:43. > :04:47.money so they need to be trusted by as, and that's why they need to
:04:47. > :04:52.demonstrate that the flagrant flouting of the rules by bankers
:04:52. > :04:59.can never happen again. Today's will the most serious slump in bank
:04:59. > :05:05.share prices since the financial crisis of 2008, caused, say many,
:05:05. > :05:08.by bankers greed and recklessness. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson
:05:08. > :05:13.joins us now from Brussels where David Cameron is taking part in an
:05:13. > :05:17.EU summit meeting. Lots of condemnation tonight but people
:05:17. > :05:22.will want to know if anyone is actually going to get punished.
:05:22. > :05:25.Well, they were indeed, and that's why the politicians are trying so
:05:25. > :05:29.hard to catch up with the public's anger. When the Prime Minister
:05:29. > :05:36.arrived in Brussels he talked about accountability at the top. Ed
:05:36. > :05:41.Miliband, the Labour leader, talked about prosecutions. The public know
:05:41. > :05:46.that they want people to lose their jobs or losing their freedom, going
:05:46. > :05:51.to prison. That is where there is something of a problem because it
:05:51. > :05:55.turns out that there is no specific legislation to create an offence of
:05:55. > :06:01.rigging this particular market, the so-called market, and there has
:06:01. > :06:06.been a political row raging today about whose fault it was. The Tory
:06:06. > :06:12.blame Gordon Brown. Ed Balls was in charge of regulating the City, and
:06:12. > :06:16.didn't do this. Labour replied, no, it was your fault. The city was de
:06:16. > :06:25.regulated under Margaret Thatcher. A senior Labour figure in the House
:06:25. > :06:32.of Lords said, yes, OK, it is our fault. People watching a told -- at
:06:32. > :06:35.home don't recur. They want to see prosecutions. It's likely that
:06:35. > :06:39.certain politicians are hopeful that although there is not a
:06:39. > :06:44.specific offence, it could be possible for the Serious Fraud
:06:44. > :06:53.Office to bring prosecutions under general fraud legislation. What is
:06:53. > :06:57.true, I think, the public know that in the USA, you have seen bankers
:06:57. > :07:03.with police men alongside them, often with their wrists shackled.
:07:03. > :07:07.All we have seen in Britain so far, the worst for any banker is a man
:07:07. > :07:10.at losing his knighthood. OK, thank you. A man has been found dead
:07:10. > :07:13.after storms and flash floods hit much of the Midlands. There's been
:07:13. > :07:15.disruption on the roads and some rail services were delayed. There
:07:16. > :07:18.are fears of more flash flooding across northern England this
:07:18. > :07:21.evening. The latest downpour began in Northern Ireland last night
:07:21. > :07:29.where 1,000 homes were left without power. Mark Simpson reports from
:07:29. > :07:34.Belfast. The rush hour today in Belfast.
:07:34. > :07:39.After last night's downpour, some streets looked more like rivers.
:07:39. > :07:44.These police officers manage to get through but their colleagues didn't.
:07:44. > :07:49.This was the problem. Two hours of non-stop rain just as many people
:07:49. > :07:55.were driving home for the evening. Summer managed it, others didn't.
:07:55. > :08:01.For many people, there was simply no escape from the water. Basically,
:08:01. > :08:05.the river just came right down. Like something you would see on TV
:08:05. > :08:10.in a faraway country. You don't expect in Belfast. It was the same
:08:10. > :08:14.in Wales and parts of England. In Shropshire, a man died after his
:08:14. > :08:19.car was trapped by a flash flood. He got out and decided to try to
:08:19. > :08:24.walk around the floodwater but unfortunately, you can't see what's
:08:24. > :08:28.underfoot. Across England, there were 48 flood alerts. The Olympic
:08:28. > :08:34.torch relay had to stop briefly because of lightning in the East
:08:34. > :08:38.Midlands. Back in Belfast, the grim clean-up operation is under way.
:08:38. > :08:44.Last night, the people on the street were up to their knees in
:08:44. > :08:48.water. It's all gone now but the damage has been done. And the bad
:08:48. > :08:52.news is that more rain is forecast here tonight. And even more
:08:52. > :08:55.tomorrow. A convicted murderer is on the run
:08:55. > :08:59.after escaping from Pentonville prison in north London. John Massey
:08:59. > :09:03.is one of the UK's longest serving prisoners. He was jailed in 1975
:09:03. > :09:06.for the murder of a man in east London. Massey used a make-shift
:09:06. > :09:14.rope to scale a wall. An investigation is under way. Here's
:09:14. > :09:17.our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds.
:09:17. > :09:21.Convicted murderer John Massey is understood to have been refused
:09:21. > :09:25.parole just months ago because of his record. And now, he is
:09:25. > :09:28.literally over the wall. An investigation has been launched at
:09:28. > :09:33.the prison after one of the most embarrassing lapses of security in
:09:33. > :09:38.its history. So how did John Massey escape from Pentonville prison?
:09:38. > :09:43.Well, despite being 64, sources have told the BBC he used a
:09:43. > :09:49.makeshift rope and somehow got over the wall. A wall at more than 25
:09:49. > :09:53.feet tall, in places. And it's not just the wall. He also had to get
:09:53. > :09:57.over a razor wire fence. There are no official details of his escape.
:09:57. > :10:01.He is understood to have hidden in the prison gymnasium before getting
:10:01. > :10:06.onto a roof and lowering himself to the street using a rope made from
:10:06. > :10:11.discarded netting. John Massey as a record of a fading custody. He was
:10:11. > :10:15.sentenced to life for murdering Charles Higgins in 1975 and 18
:10:15. > :10:20.years later he escaped on a home visit and was on the run for three
:10:20. > :10:25.years. In at 2007, he broke parole conditions. In at 2010, he walked
:10:25. > :10:30.out of an open prison. The police say he is potentially dangerous.
:10:30. > :10:35.His sister told me he was refused parole in March because he had
:10:35. > :10:41.absconded in the past two seasick members of his family. It crucified
:10:41. > :10:46.him. When he walked out, when our sister Carol was sick, he got taken
:10:46. > :10:52.to court for that and got six months. He has already served that
:10:52. > :10:57.time and time again. A former prison governor believes refusing
:10:57. > :11:01.to release prisoners give them nothing to lose by escaping. They
:11:02. > :11:05.will consider all sorts of things and will become difficult
:11:05. > :11:09.management problems. If you are some in prison, you want them to
:11:09. > :11:13.have something to lose. Police are appealing for any information about
:11:13. > :11:16.where John Massey is. The deputy chief constable of
:11:16. > :11:18.Surrey Police, Craig Denholm, is being investigated by the
:11:18. > :11:21.Independent Police Complaints Commission over claims he failed to
:11:21. > :11:29.act over the hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone in
:11:29. > :11:33.2002. Another officer who took over from Mr Denholm as the senior
:11:33. > :11:38.officer in the case is also being investigated. Both officers remain
:11:38. > :11:43.on duty. Latest figures show the recession
:11:43. > :11:46.is deeper than previously feared. The UK economy shrank by 0.4% in
:11:46. > :11:53.the final quarter of last year. Slightly more than an earlier
:11:53. > :11:57.estimate of 0.3%. EU leaders are in Brussels again
:11:57. > :12:00.tonight in their latest attempt to save the euro. But they appear to
:12:00. > :12:03.be more divided than ever about how it should be done. The Spanish and
:12:03. > :12:07.Italian governments say the whole of Europe should guarantee their
:12:07. > :12:16.massive debts. But that would need German support. Our Europe Editor,
:12:16. > :12:22.Gavin Hewitt, is in Brussels. This must be the 20th summit on this. Is
:12:22. > :12:27.it going to be any different? George, I have to say to you it's
:12:27. > :12:32.not looking very much better this time. The key countries are Italy
:12:32. > :12:35.and Spain. Their borrowing costs have been going up and the Spanish
:12:35. > :12:40.Prime Minister said he did not know how long they could continue coping
:12:40. > :12:44.with this. But when the leaders arrived here earlier today, it was
:12:44. > :12:48.clear they were quite badly divided. The French President for instance
:12:48. > :12:52.said, we have got to show solidarity, we have got to move
:12:52. > :12:56.quickly, help these countries. Then another leader said that her
:12:56. > :12:59.message to Spain and Italy were simply this. There is no such thing
:12:59. > :13:03.as a free lunch for the but of course, the central player is
:13:03. > :13:09.Germany and all the pressure has been on Angela Merkel. But she has
:13:09. > :13:14.said, you can't even begin talking about sharing debt without there
:13:14. > :13:18.being tied to European control over national budgets force of what will
:13:18. > :13:24.happen? Well, we will have to wait and see. I think there will be
:13:24. > :13:27.agreement on a growth package, 130 billion euros, and on a road map to
:13:27. > :13:31.endure much closer economic and political union much further down
:13:31. > :13:35.the road and the people here hope that will convince the markets they
:13:35. > :13:40.are really serious about defending this currency but others have said,
:13:40. > :13:43.that's all very well but it won't happen for another 10 years. The
:13:43. > :13:46.fire in the eurozone is raging today. Thank you.
:13:46. > :13:50.David Beckham's Olympic dream is over. His hopes of playing for Team
:13:50. > :13:57.GB have been dashed after he was told he's not in the squad for
:13:57. > :14:03.London 2012. As our sports correspondent, James Pearce reports,
:14:03. > :14:07.it's a huge disappointment for one of the world's great sporting icons.
:14:07. > :14:14.Only 29 days to go now but David Beckham has been an integral part
:14:14. > :14:19.of London 2012 from the start. City of London! A key member of the
:14:19. > :14:23.bid team which won in Singapore. On display on a 2012 bus at the
:14:23. > :14:27.Beijing closing ceremony. And just last month, he carried the Olympic
:14:27. > :14:31.torch when arrived in Cornwall. That same day, he told me about his
:14:31. > :14:35.burning desire to become an Olympian this summer. Being
:14:35. > :14:45.involved in the Olympic Games would be huge. Being part of the team,
:14:45. > :14:47.
:14:48. > :14:52.being part of the Team GB team. It But there will be no David Beckham
:14:52. > :14:56.special free kicks at the Olympics. He was told last night by the coach
:14:56. > :14:59.Stuart Pearce, he's to be left out of the squad for I think he
:14:59. > :15:04.deserves more respect than that. has been a fantastic ambassador for
:15:04. > :15:09.British football. He puts the name of Great Britain across the world
:15:09. > :15:12.so I think it's appalling, really. One of the faces of the Games in
:15:12. > :15:17.2012 promotional films, David Beckham will still be involved in
:15:17. > :15:20.the Olympics but as an ambassador. David Beckham as always said the
:15:20. > :15:24.only one to be picked for the Olympics on merit and he knew it
:15:24. > :15:26.was going to be tough to prove he is still good enough but his non-
:15:26. > :15:31.selection would come as just a disappointment to his many fans,
:15:31. > :15:40.and will do nothing to help the London organisers shift 1.2 million
:15:40. > :15:43.football tickets which remain Our top story tonight: Barclay's
:15:43. > :15:45.shares take a hammering, as the Prime Minister says those at the
:15:46. > :15:55.top must be held accountable for the bank's interest rate
:15:56. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:03.manipulation. Coming up: Andy Murray has taken to
:16:03. > :16:06.four sets, but edges through to a third round at Wimbledon.
:16:06. > :16:10.And on the News Channel, we will have all the news from Wimbledon,
:16:10. > :16:20.where Britain's number-one Andy Murray has been in action against
:16:20. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:29.The Queen has unveiled a memorial to thousands of airmen from Bomber
:16:30. > :16:34.Command who died in the Second World War. A Lancaster bomber
:16:34. > :16:38.dropped poppies over London's Green Park, where some of the few
:16:38. > :16:44.surviving veterans from the RAF's most controversial campaign had
:16:44. > :16:47.gathered. If the pilots who fought in the
:16:47. > :16:52.Battle of Britain were known as the few, the Bomber Command aircrew
:16:52. > :16:56.would regard themselves as the many. Today, the many travelled here for
:16:57. > :17:00.an act of remembrance, but also to receive what they regard as a
:17:00. > :17:05.nation's long overdue recognition her of the bravery they showed as
:17:05. > :17:08.young men. They had found the strength to
:17:08. > :17:14.travel here from around the country and around the globe. These men,
:17:14. > :17:20.who carried the memories of danger, excitement and loss in the skies
:17:20. > :17:26.over Europe. The Queen, here to recognise their courage and
:17:26. > :17:30.sacrifice, an honour they had been denied for 67 years. Cast in bronze,
:17:30. > :17:34.seven members of a bomber crew, as if returning from a mission,
:17:34. > :17:41.breathe life into long held memories of the friends who never
:17:42. > :17:44.returned. They never regarded themselves as heroes. The young air
:17:44. > :17:49.crew filmed on this rare colour footage as they left their base
:17:49. > :17:59.knew their chances of making it back were slim. During 1942, fewer
:17:59. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:05.than half of them survived their first 30 operations. And yet, in
:18:05. > :18:15.the post-war years, successive governments were reluctant to mark
:18:15. > :18:16.
:18:16. > :18:21.their courage, until today. There was unease over the level of German
:18:21. > :18:25.civilian casualties thought to be up to 600,000. This memorial
:18:25. > :18:32.acknowledges all civilian losses, linking remembrance to
:18:32. > :18:36.reconciliation. Around the new sculpture, veterans shared their
:18:36. > :18:45.stories, and in their quiet moments, mourned the faces that still haunt
:18:45. > :18:53.them. They gave their lives, didn't they? Some of them never had a
:18:53. > :19:00.chance. I am sorry my old crew are not with us. I have said a prayer
:19:00. > :19:07.to date for them. Britain's last flying Lancaster paid the final
:19:07. > :19:11.tribute, a cloud of red poppies in the blue sky. Lest we forget.
:19:11. > :19:17.reminder to future generations of the painful lessons learnt by
:19:17. > :19:20.nations now at peace. As you can see, there is still a
:19:20. > :19:25.great deal of interest being shown in the new monument, and there will
:19:25. > :19:30.be for days to come. When you chat to veterans, of course they have
:19:30. > :19:36.been stirred by a range of emotions, but above all, they will travel
:19:36. > :19:40.home satisfied that at long last, Britain has done its duty.
:19:40. > :19:45.A two-year-old girl has died after falling 60 ft from a fourth-floor
:19:45. > :19:48.flat. A glass panel was missing from a railing on the balcony.
:19:48. > :19:53.Rayaheen Banimuslim's father wants to know why the broken panel was
:19:53. > :19:59.not fixed. The company responsible for the building says it checked
:19:59. > :20:03.the panel's two days before the accident, and they were not broken.
:20:03. > :20:09.Those who cared for Rayaheen Banimuslim brought flowers and a
:20:09. > :20:18.photo of her nursery classmates to the place where she fell. She was
:20:18. > :20:23.so bright and confident. She came to nursery, and she was running and
:20:24. > :20:29.happy. It was here in the communal gardens that the two-year-old was
:20:29. > :20:33.playing with her mother, four floors up, before she died. But as
:20:33. > :20:41.she played, what her mother did not realise was that the glass around
:20:41. > :20:45.the corner was missing. She fell before her mother could reach her.
:20:45. > :20:54.Friends say Rayaheen Banimuslim's father wants to know why the class
:20:55. > :21:03.was not replaced sooner. He is angry. You do not expect to see the
:21:03. > :21:10.glass panel in this corridor. You can see, this is just made of glass.
:21:10. > :21:13.If it is broken, one can fall, and there is no extra safety.
:21:13. > :21:18.management company says it checked the panel's two days before, and
:21:18. > :21:25.none were missing. It will now work with the police as they investigate
:21:25. > :21:28.how this young girl died. The BBC has uncovered evidence that
:21:28. > :21:32.a minister in the Conservative government of the 1960s was working
:21:33. > :21:37.as a spy for Czechoslovakia. Raymond Mawby, a former MP for
:21:37. > :21:46.Totnes in Devon, was given a code name and paid around �100 a time
:21:46. > :21:49.for information. Raymond Mawby was an unusual MP. A
:21:49. > :21:54.working-class trade unionist whose politics were of the right. Here,
:21:54. > :21:58.he is speaking out against legalising homosexuality. My eyes
:21:58. > :22:05.to the people involved, insecurity cases, have been found to be male
:22:05. > :22:09.homosexuals. And yet Mawby himself was a security risk. Files found by
:22:09. > :22:14.the BBC in Prague show that he was passing information to
:22:14. > :22:18.Czechoslovaks buys for a decade. We had known before that some Labour
:22:18. > :22:23.MPs had worked as communist spies, but this is the first time we have
:22:23. > :22:28.known that a Conservative MP, a minister even, had done the same.
:22:28. > :22:31.So what kind of information did he pass on? He did not have access to
:22:31. > :22:38.anything top-secret, but these files showed that he passed on
:22:38. > :22:44.details about fellow MPs. At the request of the Czechs, he even drew
:22:44. > :22:48.up a floor plan of the House of Commons. Why? Is received for �100
:22:48. > :22:51.provides the answer. Mawby had little money and a taste for
:22:51. > :22:56.gambling. A former colleague who used to drink with him is
:22:56. > :23:02.astonished by the news, but thinks Money explains it. I think he was
:23:02. > :23:08.short of cash. Apparently, he had a gambling problem. No wonder he fell
:23:08. > :23:13.prey to some of these temptations offered by the Czechs. May macro
:23:13. > :23:18.was deselected as an MP in 1983. He died just as the Cold War ended in
:23:18. > :23:23.1990. Only now has his secrets emerged.
:23:23. > :23:27.Andy Murray came up against a man mountain in the second round of
:23:27. > :23:33.Wimbledon's Centre Court today. His opponent was 6 ft 10 with a huge
:23:33. > :23:37.serve, but Murray came through in four sets.
:23:37. > :23:41.In one sense, Andy Murray had to scale new heights today. His
:23:41. > :23:46.opponent was an eastern European tower block by the name of Ivo
:23:46. > :23:53.Karlovic. Coleridge's weapon of choice, a served with a heightened
:23:53. > :24:03.pace of a meteorite. But he displayed a, as well, a surprising
:24:03. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:09.delicacy. Which is also one of the Murray trademarks. As is his
:24:09. > :24:18.nimbleness. That would give Murray a break and the first set. The
:24:18. > :24:23.second set went to a tie-break, and it went to Ivo Karlovic. That
:24:24. > :24:32.prompted more characteristic Murray, a stern talk to self. Whatever he
:24:32. > :24:39.said seemed to work. The next game, Murray broke. And displayed
:24:39. > :24:45.astonishing energy to break again, and secured the third set. Almost
:24:45. > :24:49.an hour later, the fourth set went to a tie-break. Murray turned his
:24:49. > :24:57.racket into a cricket bat and doubled up with pleasure. Two match
:24:57. > :25:03.points, and he only needed one. Winning is all that is important
:25:03. > :25:09.when you are playing a guy with his style. So challenging to get into a
:25:09. > :25:14.rhythm. That was the sound of a man not euphoric, just relieved.
:25:14. > :25:19.Relief for Andy Murray, but there has been unalloyed joy on Court No.
:25:19. > :25:23.1, where James Ward, the British No. 2, has taken Mardy Fish, an
:25:23. > :25:27.American ranked several million places above him, to a fifth set.
:25:27. > :25:30.Depending when that finishes and the subsequent match, we can make
:25:30. > :25:35.good to see Elena Baltacha, one of the British Women, and see if she
:25:35. > :25:41.can get to the third round. But Anne Keovathong will not be joining
:25:41. > :25:44.anyone, as she lost with room to spare earlier.
:25:44. > :25:48.More now on our main story, the crisis at Barclay's Bank following
:25:48. > :25:52.revelations that traders read key interest rates. Our Business Editor
:25:52. > :25:57.Robert Peston joins me. This will shatter any trust that was left in
:25:57. > :26:02.the banks. We have to hope it doesn't, because tomorrow, there
:26:02. > :26:08.will be yet more serious criticism of the banks by the Financial
:26:08. > :26:13.Services Authority, the City watchdog. It will say that all of
:26:13. > :26:17.them did the wrong thing when selling complicated financial
:26:17. > :26:22.products, swaps to small businesses, which have threatened the viability
:26:23. > :26:27.of those businesses by putting up their costs. Last-minute
:26:27. > :26:34.negotiations are going on to put in place a restitution plan for those
:26:34. > :26:38.businesses. Let's put that into the context of this week. Admission by
:26:38. > :26:43.Barclays that its people lied about interest rates and that the Bank
:26:43. > :26:47.was paying. NatWest earlier this week failed in its prime
:26:47. > :26:52.responsibility to execute transactions for thousands,
:26:52. > :26:57.millions of customers. In my experience, there has never been a
:26:57. > :27:02.week as bad as this for Britain's banks. Astonishing. It is a tragedy
:27:02. > :27:12.for them, but also a tragedy for us, because if this economy is to
:27:12. > :27:19.recover, we need sound banks and Now the weather.
:27:19. > :27:26.The bid has been a day of severe weather. In London, 28 degrees. The
:27:26. > :27:31.heat and humidity triggered some flash flooding and downpours.
:27:31. > :27:35.Coupled with some giant damaging hail as well. It started in
:27:35. > :27:39.Northern Ireland with the heavy rain. Then we turned our attention
:27:39. > :27:43.through the Midlands and northern England, a clustering of thundery
:27:43. > :27:47.downpours spilling towards the North Sea. For the next few hours,
:27:47. > :27:51.we still have rain warnings from the Met Office. There is still
:27:51. > :27:54.heavy rain at the moment in the north-east of England, but it will
:27:54. > :28:02.be pushing away. The wettest weather will sweep towards the
:28:02. > :28:06.northern islands of Scotland. Then we will see lighter showers later.
:28:06. > :28:13.Tomorrow will feel very different. It will be cooler and fresher, with
:28:13. > :28:17.a stronger blustery wind and a mixture of sunshine and showers. In
:28:17. > :28:25.the afternoon, there will be showers in Northern Ireland. Not as
:28:25. > :28:28.heavy as today. The odd heavy one in Scotland and the north of
:28:28. > :28:33.England, but we will see cloud across Wales and the western side
:28:33. > :28:41.of England. Some strong and blustery winds. From the Midlands
:28:41. > :28:44.eastwards, it will be much cooler than today. Through the weekend, if
:28:44. > :28:51.anything, it is going to turn cooler. It will be breezy,