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There's growing international condemnation after a Russian punk | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
band are sent to prison for criticising the Russian President. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
As the members of Pussy Riot are led away to start their two-year | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
sentences, there are demonstrations in cities around the world. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
A judge described their anti Putin protest in a cathedral as | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
blasphemous hooliganism. The husband of one of the women says | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
free speech is under threat. Effective political protest won't | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
be tolerated in Russia, and it will be brutally questioned. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
But while the women have attracted celebrity support outside Russia, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
opinions in their own country are divided. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Police investigate whether Ian | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Brady has disclosed in a letter the burial place of one of his victims. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Keith Bennett is the only victim of the Moors murderer whose body has | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
not been found despite repeated police searches. Ceasefire. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Riot police in South Africa insist they acted in self defence after | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
shooting at least 34 protesting miners. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
The Department for Education apologises after it's revealed more | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
school playing fields have been sold than they claimed. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
And jubilant crowds gather in Sheffield to welcome back their own | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
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golden girl, the heptathlete Good evening, and welcome to the | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
BBC news at 6.00pm. Three members of a Russian punk band have been | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
sentenced to two years in prison in a case that has attracted | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
international condemnation. The women in the band Pussy Riot were | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
arrested after staging a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral, | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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criticising the church and Vladimir Putin. The judge convicted them for | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
hooliganism and blasphemy. There have been protests in cities around | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
the world against the women's sentences, but in Russia opinion is | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
more divided. Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
The former world chess champion, Garry Kasparov making a break for | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
freedom before being rearrested and brutally man-handled back into a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
police van. The scenes outside the Pussy Riot trial in Moscow this | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
evening, as feelings among the opposition ran high. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Inside, the three defendants were led into court in handcuffs, which | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
stayed on them throughout today's verdict. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Each day the three women have been walked down this staircase One of | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the most controversial trials in recent Russian history. Their | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
supporters claim that this prosecution was entirely political, | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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driven by the Kremlin and the Their crime was to sing parts of | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
this anti-Vladimir Putin protest song in Moscow's main cathedral. It | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
was an act that offended millions of Russians as the song was laced | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
with bad language and sung in one of the most sacred parts of the | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
church. As the judge gave each of them two | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
years in a harsh Russian penal colony, the women smiled. "That's | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
OK, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova could be seen saying to her co-defendants. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
Outside, her husband was more angry. It's a big sign that loud, bright | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
and effective political protests won't be tolerated in Russia, and | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
it will be brutally crusheds. People involved in it will be | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
prosecuted and harassed in every possible way. There was defiance in | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the air as one protestor waved a Pussy Riot flag to their new song, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
which we could hear inside the court, and even those opposition | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
leaders who didn't approve of the cathedral protest were in despair. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
TRANSLATION: To all of us, even those who didn't like the Pussy | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Riot act, and I didn't, it was a blatant destruction of justice. It | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
was an inquisition. From Paris to Washington to London to Brussels, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
supporters around the world showed their disquiet at the trial, and as | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
one protestor tried to escape the Moscow police by climbing into the | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Turkish Embassy, the Foreign Office joined an international chorus of | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
condemnation, saying the two-year sentence was disproportionate dot | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
crime. Daniel Sandford joins me now from | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Moscow. There's growing chorus of international criticism about this | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
sentencing. How bothered is Russia going to be about that? Vladimir | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Putin is addressing a very specific audience by going about this | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
prosecution in this way, and that's the very conservative Russians who | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
live beyond the suburbs of Moscow, and they were genuinely offended by | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
this act, and also a very useful armoury for him in future elections, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
which he's going to have several over the next few years in terms of | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
regional elections and governors' elections and so on, and so he's | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
playing to a specific constituency, and whether or not he's bothered by | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
the court of international disapproval is hard to tell, but he | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
is boxing himself into a corner because as he becomes an | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
international pariah, that makes it more difficult for him to do | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
business on the world stage, and I think that's the problem that he's | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
starting to build for himself. He may be playing to a good | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
constituency, but it's causing him problems not just on international | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
stage, but also domestically because more and more people are | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
starting to see him as being not just an effective leader, but also | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
a brutal leader when it comes to dealing with dissent. Thank you. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Police are investigating whether the Moors murderer Ian Brady has | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
finally disclosed the burial place of one of his victims. It follows | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
claims by his mental health advocate that he passed her a | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
sealed envelope containing details of the location of 12-year-old | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Keith Bennett's body. She was arrested yesterday, and her house | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
and Brady's cell were searched. Detectives are now examining a | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
number of documents but concede it could be a "ruse" by Brady. Judith | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
Moritz is on Saddleworth Moor. Certainly, Judith, if this is a | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
ruse, it's a very cruel one. Yes, absolutely, because for years Keith | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Bennett's family have known that his body is somewhere on this vast | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
moorland. They don't know exactly where, though, and they have had | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
their hopes raised and dashed before. Tonight, his relatives have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
said that they know that this could be an important new development, | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
but that they don't want to raise their hopes too high at this stage. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
It's nearly 50 years since 12-year- old Keith Bennett was murdered, and | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
in all that time, his body has never been discovered. His remains | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
are hidden somewhere on Saddleworth Moor, but to the distress of his | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
family, they haven't been found. The one man who could locate Keith | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
is his killer, Ian Brady. He and his accomplice Myra Hindley | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
murdered five children in the 1960s, burying three of them up on the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
moors. Keith Bennett's body is the only one that's still lost, but now | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Ian Brady's said to have written a letter from his cell at Ashworth | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Hospital on Merseyside disclosing the location of the remains. The | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
claim, which is being investigated by police, was made by Jackie | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Powell, who is Ian Brady's mental health advocate and an exec for of | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
his will. Yesterday she was arrested and her house searched. Ms | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Powell had previously told a documentary team, "I received a | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
letter and a sealed envelope which said on the front of it, 'To be | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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I encouraged her to hand that envelope over to the police. I | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
think of that time she felt she was in a dilemma between her | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
professional obligations to Ian Brady and the moral obligations to | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
Winnie Johnson. It seemed to me that there really wasn't a dilemma | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
there. I've suffered as much as anybody. Keith Bennett's mother, | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
Winnie Johnson, has said many times that her only wish was to find her | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
son's body. She's now severely ill, and she spoke to me at the end of | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
last year. I mean, he got away with the other ones. They found the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
others, but they didn't find Keith, and that is the main asset for me. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
I want him found, and I want him found before anything happens to me. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Winnie Johnson has been to the moors herself before. Her | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
supporters have welcomed this new development with some reservations. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Roy Rainford is a former detective who once worked on the moors | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
murders case. He says the remains would be hard to find, as the pete | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
moorland has shifted over the years. The only thing that's stayed the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
same are the rock formations. Everything else has changed and | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
move, so how on earth you can pinpoint something from 1964 to | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
2012 is beyond me. The police are now looking for the letter from | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
documents they've seized, but those who know Brady say it may not even | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
exist and that he has been well known for playing mind games in the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
past. Well, tonight detectives from | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Greater Manchester Police have said that they're aware of a claim that | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
this letter may have been passed from Jackie Powell back to Ian | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Brady, but they haven't yet found it, if it exists. They say that | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
they are in the process of looking through the documents they have, | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
but that there are so many of them, it may be into next week before | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
they have any news. Thank you. | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Police in South Africa have defended their decision to open | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
fire on a group of striking mine workers yesterday killing 34 of | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
them and injuring 78. The country's chief of police said they'd been | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
forced to use maximum force to defend themselves and claimed the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
protesters were armed with dangerous weapons. Today there have | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
been more protests outside the Lonmin platinum mine. This | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
correspondent from Andrew Harding contains some graphic images. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
The crime scene today - this can be a violent country, but democratic | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
South Africa has never experienced anything like this. Here's what | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
happened - an increasingly deadly showdown between striking miners | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
and the police reached a climax yesterday afternoon. The tear gas | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
failed to disperse a crowd armed with clubs and spears. Suddenly the | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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police say they came under gunfire. Look at their response. Three | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
minute later dozens of civilians lay dead or wounded. A policeman | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
picks out a gun, allegedly one that was used to attack them. Trouble | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
had been brewing here for days with a small militant union trying to | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
make a name for itself. More mainstream groups have blamed it | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
for provoking the violence, but did the police handle this | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
appropriately? The militant groups don't want the police firing shots | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
and wielding dangerous weapons. The police retreated systematically and | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
were forced to utilise maximum force to defend themselves. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
But at the mine today, the wives and mothers of the dead and wounded | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
confronted the police. You're shooting our husbands and | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
our sons! SOBBING | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
You could argue what happened here was a murky union turf war gone | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
spectacularly wrong, but there was a larger point - South Africa's | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
economy is floundering. The poor are losing patience, and the result | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
is more mill tansy, more angry populism, and, almost inevitably, | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
more bloodshed. The platinum mine is owned by a British company. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
There is fantastic wealth below the ground here, but for many South | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Africans not much sign of it up top. 20 years nearly after Paraic | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
O'Brien -- apartheid, for you nothing has changed? Nothing, | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
nothing has changed. Democracy is just flying in the skies. There is | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
nothing. There is hope and a chance that the killings here will provoke | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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some meaningful changes, but don't The Department of Education has | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
apologised for publishing inaccurate figures about how many | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
school playing fields have been sold off under the current | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Government. Today Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, insisted that | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
playing fields were better protected than at any time before. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
But a member of the panel that advises on the sale of sports | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
fields expressed concern that its judgement was being disregarded. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins has the story. This is | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
where it so often begins for Olympic champions - the school | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
playing field - no surprise, then, that as the Games ended and David | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Cameron was asked how many had been sold off under his Government, he | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
had the official figures who hand. In the last two years, 21 school | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
playing fields have been sold. 13 of those, the school in question | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
had closed... But there was a problem. David Cameron's facts | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
provided by the Department of Education were wrong. In fact, 30 | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
English school playing fields had been sold since the election, and | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
his Education Secretary Michael Gove is reported to have ignored | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
the advice of the panel when it opposed potential sales on five | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
separate occasions. Good you mislead the public over school | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
playing fields? Absolutely not. did you overrule the committee? | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Playing fields are better protected now under this Government than at | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
any time. One of those on the committee called the Sport and | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
unRecreation Alliance suggested if this Prime Minister routinely | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
turned his back on the alliance that would be a serious breach of | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
faith. This school in London is one in which it was said land shouldn't | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
be sold only to be overruled by Ministers. It would be nice to have | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Justin greening here, maybe the Prime Minister too, to look around | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
and see what's being lost. It's decisions about schools like that | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
prove so controversial both in local communities and in national | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
politics. Some of the land being sold off here is used for tennis | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
and for football. The council says there will be new facilities, but | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
this is a school that needs the money from a sale because its | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
buildings are badly in need of repair. We need to know what the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
agenda is of the Secretary of State and why he's allowing playing | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
fields to be sold off at a rate against expert advice that simply | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
hasn't been happening in recent years. The Government can point out | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
that more than 200 playing fields were sold between 1999 and the end | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
of Labour's time in office. Before that the figures are vaguer. The | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
numbers matter because this is part of a bigger political battle - that | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
school sport and the Olympic legacy that's meant the spaces where | :15:31. | :15:40. | |
children play have become hotly Our top story tonight: Three | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
members of a Russian punk band are imprisoned for two years for | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
hooliganism and blasphemy. Their sentences attract international | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
And Manchester United unveil new signing Robin Van Persie, as the | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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English football season prepares to get under way. Coming up: I'll be | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
here with the sport as England struggled to keep South Africa at | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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She was one of THE faces of Team GB. Jessica Ennis won gold in the | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
women's heptathlon and was watched by millions. Well, this evening, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
she's returning to her home city of Sheffield, where the crowds have | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
been encouraged to wear something gold to honour her Olympic | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
achievement. Chris Buckler is in Sheffield. Thousands of people have | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
gathered in Sheffield. They stretch right back into the city centre. | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
They are wearing gold hats, gold weeks after her victory at the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Olympics. At the big screens they gathered in Sheffield join the | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
Games and tonight they have come to the centre just to see her in | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
person. Red, white, blue and most importantly, gold. The colours of | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
celebration in Sheffield. People sharing in the success of this a | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
limpet poster girl. We are proud of Sheffield and we are proud that | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Jessica. -- this Olympic poster girl. You have to work a little | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
harder to get a real gold. Jessica Ennis is Olympic champion... This | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
city watched as she achieved her long-held dream. Her clear pride | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
matched across the nation. In Sheffield, there are others with | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
hopes of being hot on her heels in the future, especially at the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
English Institute of Sport, where the English champion trains. It is | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
good to know that people where you are can do those things. It makes | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
you think maybe you can do it one day. Last time I came here I saw | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Jessica Ennis training. It made me think I want to be a heptathlete | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
when I'm older. I have seen Geste developed from a year seven student | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
to an Olympic gold medallist. -- Jessica Ennis. It is an honour to | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
have had some part to play with that development. Her achievements | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
are marked in about every way you can imagine in the city centre. She | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
is the toast of Sheffield this evening. I am pleased to say the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
person I have all come to see is with me now - Jessica Ennis. What | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
do you make of this reception? is nothing like I have ever seen | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
before. When I won the world championships, there was a | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
reception but that was on a different scale. We have been | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
talking to some girls who are competing back at the English | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Institute of Sport, where you train. They have been trying to do things | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
to emulate you. Do we have future champions because of your success? | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
How successful the whole of Team GB has been has been incredible. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Hopefully we have inspired some kids to go down to the track or the | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
swimming pool and give it a go. What about you? Let's talk about | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
your future. Your mind must be heading towards Rio now. We have to | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
add to that gold, don't we? At the moment I cannot think about four | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
years away in Rio. It will be a great Olympics but I have the next | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
few years ahead of me. I need to plan and take each year at a time. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Jessica Ennis has to go and see that crowd. They have not seen her | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
yet but we can expect a rousing reception for her. Buckingham | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Palace says the Duke of Edinburgh is responding well to treatment for | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
a bladder infection but he is likely to remain in hospital for a | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
few more days. Eddie -- a helicopter had attempted to airlift | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
him to hospital but it was unsuccessful. What can you tell us | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
about this? It sounds dramatic. The Duke was transported by ambulance | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
the 50 miles from Balmoral to a hospital in Aberdeen. The | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
helicopter was trying to rendezvous with the ambulance and he could | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
continue the journey by air. Conditions were extremely difficult. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
There was low visibility and heavy fog. It did not manage to land | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
close enough to the ambulance for a successful transfer to take place. | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
This evening the Duke remains in hospital. He is said to be in | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
constant touch with his family by phone. The Queen has been out and | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
about around Balmoral today on a number of private engagements. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
Doctors have ordered Prince Philip to rest. No royal visitors here. He | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
is continuing to respond well to treatment to that infection. Julian | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
Assange remains holed up inside Ecuador's London embassy. Sweden | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
has angrily rejected claims by eight per dog that he would face | :21:33. | :21:42. | |
persecution if you're extradited there. -- that -- by Ecuador that | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
he would face persecution. Cricket, and in the second day of the third | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
Test at Lord's, England had a poor start. A short time ago, England | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
had recovered. They are about 100 short of the first innings total of | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
South Africa. No one wanted to miss this one bus-stop the fans were | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
prepared for a long day, as were the players. -- this one. South | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
Africa do not collapse easily. This half century was a vital | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
contribution. England sensed an opportunity. It was all going so | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
well for Andrew Strauss, right up until lunch. It seemed experience | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
was counting for nothing as Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
departed all too quickly. This is where Kevin Pietersen should have | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
stepped in. His indiscretions meant responsibilities fell on younger | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
soldiers -- shoulders. Jonny Bairstow fared better. Runs were | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
hard to come by. Enter a secret weapon. While South Africa were | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
chasing the pigeon, England grabbed a run. That lightened the mood. The | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
first 50 for the Yorkshireman, much to everyone's relief. One poor shot | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
undid all the hard work. The battle to become the best side in the | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
world is back in the balance. A man who Alex Ferguson hopes to bring | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
the Premier League title back to Manchester United was unveiled to | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
fans. Robin van Persie cannot wait to get started. He has conceded | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
today's footballers may have worked to do on an image after | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
unfavourable comparisons with the Olympic spirit in recent weeks. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
This report contains flash photography. Another new season, | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
another new signing. The capture of Robin van Persie is a timely | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
reminder of why the Premier League remains so popular. In these | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
situations, you have to make hard decisions. I listen to the boys | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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inside me. What does he want? epic climax to last season. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Manchester City's astonishing last- gasp triumph when they wrestle the | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
title away from Manchester United encapsulated the sheer drama of the | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
leak, more than any moment in the league history. It helps to cure a | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
new Premier League deal. Matches at grounds like this are now broadcast | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
in 212 countries and watched in 720 million households around the world. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
The first time we were beaten on goal difference, it will not happen | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
again. Trust me on that. Robin has decided to stay in this country. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Does that prove it remains the best league in the world? I think it is. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
What is different about the Premier League this season? There were | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
three newly promoted clubs - Southampton, at Reading and West | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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Ham United - and plenty of new faces, including Eden Hazard, Lukas | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Podolski and Fabio Borini. The League faces a challenge as well. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
The positivity surrounding the nation's most successful ever | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Olympic team has left football with something of an image problem. Rio | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
Ferdinand became the latest player to be fined by the FA. Another | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
opportunity for unfavourable comparisons to be made with the | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Olympic spirit. I can argue it is all very different and comparison | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
should not be made. I am saying we are in greater focus. There is the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
stark contrast being made and that has to be dealt with and addressed. | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
We are not complacent about it. It is difficult to crack. The greatest | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
show on an earth has been and gone. Now the richest is back. Even the | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Premier League, following on from the unprecedented for Neilly and | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
the summer of sport could be the greatest challenge to date. -- its | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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following on from the summer of A mix of conditions today. Just | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
showing the radar chart. These ones across parts of mid South Wales and | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
developing to the south-west are very intense indeed. The Met Office | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
has issued an amber warning for the rain. Be prepared, buries the risk | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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of further flooding. In Wales, NW England, we will see more intense | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
rainfall. Further south and east, it will be dry. It will be a muggy | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
night and particularly warm in the south-east corner. Temperatures | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
already into the twenties. Temperatures Maggie but misty and | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
damp in the Midlands and the North of England. Already there are signs | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
that the cloud will be thinning and braking. In Northern Ireland, they | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
will wake up to sunny spells. In the West, a bit cloudy with some | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
outbreaks of rain. Elsewhere it will be dry and bright with | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
increasing amounts of sunshine. Temperatures high teens, mid- | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
twenties possible. The south-east corner, hazy sunshine throughout. | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
It could get to and 30 Celsius. On Sunday the split is still there. -- | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
it could get up to. Still bright with some sunshine. The south-east | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
corner be even more humid. It may be mystique and grey around the | :28:13. | :28:19. |