:00:07. > :00:13.Andy Murray rounds off a summer of Great British sport as he wins his
:00:13. > :00:23.first Grand Slam title at last. It took him almost five hours to beat
:00:23. > :00:27.
:00:27. > :00:32.Novak Djokovich in five sets at the US Open. I realised that I had won,
:00:32. > :00:37.I was obviously a little bit shocked. I was very relieved and
:00:37. > :00:41.very emotional for a few minutes afterwards, yeah, it was an
:00:41. > :00:45.incredible match. In Dunblane - where he grew up -
:00:45. > :00:49.they partied through the night. Now a much needed rest for the new
:00:49. > :00:53.King of New York - the first British man to win a Grand slam
:00:53. > :00:57.since 1936. Also tonight: Regrades ordered in
:00:57. > :01:01.Wales, but not in England. The exam board caught in the middle over the
:01:01. > :01:04.GCSE marking row. Three people are killed and 50
:01:04. > :01:07.injured after a coach crashes on the way back from a music festival
:01:07. > :01:11.on the Isle of Wight. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:01:11. > :01:20.are shown an orchid named Princess Diana at the start of a Diamond
:01:20. > :01:24.Jubilee visit to South East Asia. Later: I will be here with
:01:24. > :01:34.Sportsday and the latest on a busy night of international football.
:01:34. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:48.All four home nations continue Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:01:48. > :01:51.News at Six. After five sets and nearly five hours of thrilling
:01:51. > :01:56.tennis, Andy Murray has won his first Grand Slam title - becoming
:01:56. > :01:59.the first British man to do so since Fred Perry in 1936. Murray
:01:59. > :02:04.won the US Open last night, beating the defending champion, Novak
:02:04. > :02:07.Djokovic, in New York. Afterwards, Murray - who has lost his four
:02:07. > :02:17.previous Grand Slam finals - said relief was the best word to
:02:17. > :02:18.
:02:18. > :02:22.describe his feelings. Andy Swiss reports from New York. Basking in
:02:22. > :02:25.Grand Slam glory. In New York's central park Andy Murray was today
:02:25. > :02:31.parading his glittering prize before the world's media after a
:02:31. > :02:35.night when his and a nation's hopes were finally fulfilled. Murray, it
:02:35. > :02:39.seemed, could scarcely believe it at first before eventually the
:02:39. > :02:43.emotions flowed. After coming so close many times, the eternal
:02:43. > :02:46.challenger was at last a champion. It means the world to me and when I
:02:46. > :02:50.realised that I had won I was obviously, you know, a little bit
:02:50. > :02:56.shocked. I was very relieved and emotional for a few minutes
:02:56. > :03:03.afterwards, it was an incredible match. How Murray had to work for
:03:03. > :03:06.it. A five-hour emotional rollercoaster, the first set lasted
:03:06. > :03:10.an hour-and-a-half when Murray took it and the second set victory
:03:10. > :03:13.seemed a matter of time. Djokovic had other ideas. He came roaring
:03:13. > :03:21.back to take the match into a deciding set. The old Murray might
:03:21. > :03:24.have crumbled but his new coach, Ivan Lendl has instilled a new
:03:24. > :03:28.mental toughness and with his family supporting him Murray stayed
:03:28. > :03:33.strong and victory ultimately unforgetably, was his. It has been
:03:33. > :03:38.a long and sometimes difficult journey. In 2004 at the age of 17
:03:38. > :03:43.Murray won the junior US Open title, the start of a swift rise. By 2007
:03:43. > :03:47.he was in the world top ten, but Grand Slam success proved elusive.
:03:47. > :03:50.In four finals he he experienced defeat and disappointment, most
:03:50. > :03:56.vividly at this year's Wimbledon. Right, I am going to try this and
:03:56. > :04:00.it's not going to be easy... But from despair, came delight.
:04:00. > :04:04.Olympic gold in London, a feat which perhaps gave him the belief
:04:04. > :04:10.he needed. Three of the biggest events, Wimbledon, the Olympics and
:04:10. > :04:13.then the US Open. Andy was in the final of won and won the other two,
:04:13. > :04:17.you can't ask for more, it's an incredible achievement and one he
:04:17. > :04:20.should be immensely proud of and hopefully can build on. Andy
:04:20. > :04:24.Murray's Grand Slam dream is finally a glorious reality. But if
:04:24. > :04:29.he is had to wait a long time, British tennis has had to wait far
:04:29. > :04:33.longer. 76 years to be precise since Fred
:04:33. > :04:38.Perry won his last Grand Slam title in 1936, no British man could
:04:38. > :04:45.emulate him. Until now. This unforgettable sporting summer
:04:45. > :04:47.now has the very happiest of endings.
:04:47. > :04:51.Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, has described Andy Murray
:04:52. > :04:54.as a Scottish legend. In Andy Murray's home town, Dunblane,
:04:55. > :04:57.thousands of fans stayed up late into the early hours of this
:04:57. > :05:02.morning to watch his historic victory. Today, they've continued
:05:02. > :05:06.the celebrations. Lorna Gordon is in Dunblane for us.
:05:06. > :05:09.Andy Murray started playing tennis on these courts here when he was
:05:10. > :05:14.just three years old. The kids were out at 6.00am this morning
:05:14. > :05:18.practising and they came back as soon as school had finished.
:05:18. > :05:25.They've been celebrating Andy Murray's win and trying to emulate
:05:25. > :05:29.their hero. It was a night of tension.
:05:29. > :05:37.Trepidation, and in Dunblane, little sleep for those who stayed
:05:37. > :05:41.up to watch Andy Murray triumph. He is a great champion. Nobody
:05:42. > :05:46.deserves that any more than he does, phenomenal. It's great for doesn't
:05:46. > :05:54.doesn't doesn't -- Dunblane, better for Scotland. Now we can all relax
:05:54. > :06:00.and just enjoy his tennis from now on. Dunblane is norm lay --
:06:00. > :06:03.normally a quiteter town. His family remain in Dunblane. They
:06:03. > :06:07.are all close and know how much a Grand Slam success will mean.
:06:07. > :06:12.I think means everything to him. He knows he can go out there. The
:06:12. > :06:15.monkey's off his back now, hopefully he won't be known as the
:06:15. > :06:19.best player that Britain ever produced never to win a Grand Slam.
:06:19. > :06:25.There's already a golden postbox in Dunblane, marking Murray's Olympic
:06:25. > :06:29.medal. People now are finding ways to celebrate this latest historic
:06:29. > :06:37.win. Town and family and friends all aware of his early sporting
:06:37. > :06:45.promise and ambition. The last time I played with him he basically said,
:06:46. > :06:49.he calls me Embo, my nickname, get off the court, you are you are
:06:49. > :06:52.rubbish. He must have been ten or 11 at the time. And there are now
:06:52. > :06:58.plenty of other young players on these courts who Andy Murray has
:06:58. > :07:04.inspired. Seen him on TV and that got me into tennis. I love the game
:07:05. > :07:09.and I was proud of Andy winning the whole match of the tennis. And many
:07:09. > :07:16.here are now hoping for a visit home from their hero, so they can
:07:16. > :07:22.tell him how proud they are of his success and of his maiden Grand
:07:22. > :07:27.Slam -- win. A maiden Grand Slam win and here, of course, they are
:07:27. > :07:30.convinced it is the first of many, so yes they have been celebrating
:07:30. > :07:35.through the night and the day, but that will be nothing like the party
:07:35. > :07:39.you will see here in Dunblane if Andy Murray does find time in his
:07:39. > :07:42.very busy tennis schedule to visit his home town.
:07:42. > :07:45.Thank you very much. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan
:07:45. > :07:50.is here. What a match, what a victory. A very fitting end to a
:07:50. > :07:52.great summer of British sport. Absolutely. Many people
:07:52. > :07:55.understandably will have assumed yesterday's victory parade in
:07:56. > :07:59.London marked the end of what will surely go down as the most
:07:59. > :08:03.remarkable summer of sport in British history. Sure, there have
:08:03. > :08:06.been other historic moments the last few weeks, Bradley Wiggins for
:08:06. > :08:10.example winning the Tour de France and gold, arguably the best example
:08:10. > :08:14.but after decades of disappointment for British tennis Andy Murray
:08:14. > :08:17.maybe even surpasses that, it's hard to think of a more deserving
:08:17. > :08:20.winner. The question now is will it usher in a new period of success
:08:21. > :08:24.for tennis more generally? Some question will it will. They'll
:08:24. > :08:28.point to the fact that he felt the need to take himself to Spain as a
:08:28. > :08:33.young man, to hone his skills, he is not a product of the British
:08:33. > :08:36.system. The next best player after him from Britain is ranked 200 in
:08:36. > :08:40.the world. They'll point to the fact less people are playing tennis.
:08:40. > :08:45.On the positive, some will say Laura Robson is a new generation of
:08:45. > :08:49.talent and the future is rosy. As with the London Games, winning at
:08:49. > :08:57.the elite level is one thing, making sure it's not a one-off is
:08:57. > :09:00.another. Thank you very much. An exam board caught up in a row
:09:00. > :09:02.over the regrading of GCSE English papers says its been put in a
:09:02. > :09:05.difficult position after the Education Minister in Wales ordered
:09:05. > :09:09.thousands of papers to be remarked, while Ofqual - the exam regulator
:09:09. > :09:12.in England - has refused to do the same for tens of thousands of
:09:12. > :09:14.students who sat the same exam. Today, the head of Ofqual strongly
:09:14. > :09:18.defended its role, as our education correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti
:09:18. > :09:25.reports. Exams are stressful enough, but
:09:25. > :09:29.this jeer's GCSE -- this year's GCSE English results caused a storm.
:09:29. > :09:33.Teachers said the exam board raised the bar through the year making it
:09:33. > :09:37.harder for pupils taking the exam in June than in January.
:09:37. > :09:42.As MPs today questioned the head of the exam's watchdog, it emerged
:09:42. > :09:45.that one exam board had been told to regrade the June papers just two
:09:45. > :09:52.weeks before the results were published. But the head defended
:09:52. > :09:56.her actions. We know that the June were right, as I said before, those
:09:56. > :10:00.few that took units then had what we might call a lucky break but the
:10:00. > :10:05.important thing is that the June awarding was right.
:10:05. > :10:08.None of this is of comfort to John Townsley, head of a Leeds school
:10:08. > :10:13.which saw its English results drop. He says the head of Ofqual should
:10:13. > :10:18.resign. Ofqual, it's the chief regulator, has no role to play in
:10:18. > :10:22.this matter any more. That's been sacrificed and compromised. We need
:10:22. > :10:26.the Secretary of State to intervene in this matter, as a matter of
:10:26. > :10:32.urgency. That's straight away is in saying that the English results sat
:10:32. > :10:35.in June 2012 are essentially void. Ofqual says it won't order a
:10:35. > :10:39.regrading of the papers and here in Westminster the Education Secretary
:10:39. > :10:43.says he won't intervene. But in Cardiff it's a very different story,
:10:43. > :10:48.with the Welsh Government telling the Welsh exam board it must
:10:48. > :10:52.regrade the English language paper. We have taken swift action in order
:10:52. > :10:55.to ensure that those students who took these qualifications this
:10:55. > :10:59.summer and are now moving on to further learning, either in 6th
:10:59. > :11:04.forms or FE colleges or possibly into apprenticeships, will not lose
:11:04. > :11:08.out. But the Welsh exam boards papers are sat in Wales and England.
:11:08. > :11:10.The Welsh Government is telling it to regrade the papers in Wales, but
:11:10. > :11:20.Ofqual is telling it not to in England.
:11:20. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:32.The Welsh board wants both sides to agree one approach, but at the
:11:32. > :11:36.moment there's little prospect of that. It means that several hundred
:11:36. > :11:44.Welsh candidates could now be getting higher grades than English
:11:44. > :11:47.candidates who got just the same marks.
:11:47. > :11:50.The watchdog for the health service in England, Monitor, has ordered a
:11:50. > :11:53.rescue plan for a hospital trust that was at the centre of one of
:11:53. > :11:56.the biggest scandals in NHS history. Independent experts will examine
:11:56. > :11:58.how services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust can be made
:11:58. > :12:03.viable. An inquiry in 2009 described levels of care at the
:12:03. > :12:07.Trust as appalling. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick
:12:07. > :12:11.Clegg, has withdrawn comments referring to opponents of gay
:12:11. > :12:14.marriage as bigots. Sources close to Mr Clegg say the word was
:12:14. > :12:24.included in an early draft of a speech he is making this evening
:12:24. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :12:28.which was released by mistake and not something he thinks.
:12:28. > :12:31.The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, said tonight the use of
:12:31. > :12:34.such a term was very offensive. Our political correspondent Robin Brant
:12:34. > :12:37.is in Westminster for us. Echoes of comments made by the former Prime
:12:37. > :12:40.Minister, Gordon Brown, during the general election two years ago when
:12:40. > :12:44.he referred to a woman in Rochdale who expressed a view on immigration
:12:44. > :12:48.as a bigot. Now, Nick Clegg has not uttered these words and I am told
:12:48. > :12:51.by senior aides that he won't be. He didn't say it, he won't be
:12:51. > :12:56.saying it, it's not what he thinks is what I am told. Clearly someone
:12:56. > :13:00.in his office believes the Deputy Prime Minister would perhaps share
:13:00. > :13:05.these views because in extracts of a draft released earlier he did
:13:05. > :13:08.refer to opponents as gay marriage as bigots. It's a controversial
:13:08. > :13:13.issue, it's divided many here. Clearly it's incensed some
:13:13. > :13:15.Conservatives tonight. One MP telling me this is unacceptable.
:13:15. > :13:25.It's intolerant. The former Archbishop of Canterbury saying
:13:25. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:29.it's very offensive and for some in the coalition side the
:13:29. > :13:31.Conservatives side, this is just fresh evidence of what they believe
:13:31. > :13:34.is a politician out of touch with people, but certainly a politician
:13:34. > :13:37.out of touch with Conservatives. Thank you. Three people have died
:13:37. > :13:40.after a coach travelling back from a music festival on the Isle of
:13:40. > :13:44.Wight crashed on the A3 in Surrey late last night. More than 50
:13:44. > :13:47.passengers - all in their 20s - have been treated in hospital. The
:13:47. > :13:49.coach was on its way back to Merseyside when it left the
:13:49. > :13:51.carriageway and hit a tree. Daniela Relph reports.
:13:51. > :13:56.The wreckage of the coach, the police have described the scene
:13:56. > :14:00.here last night as harrowing. It was dark, but the weather was fine.
:14:00. > :14:05.There were hardly any other vehicles on the road. But still for
:14:05. > :14:10.some as yet unknown reason, the coach hit the oak tree, with
:14:10. > :14:14.devastating consequences. As well as three people killed, several
:14:14. > :14:19.passengers suffered what the police have called life-changing injuries,
:14:19. > :14:23.including the loss of limbs. The coach crashed before midnight,
:14:23. > :14:28.close to the Hindhead tunnel in Surrey. The investigation will look
:14:28. > :14:31.at the actions of the driver, one of those who lost his life. His
:14:31. > :14:35.family say he was well rested before beginning his journey last
:14:35. > :14:39.night. An eyewitness who was driving
:14:39. > :14:43.behind the coach has told the BBC how the vehicle suddenly left the
:14:43. > :14:49.road and drove up the embankment alongside. It was going a little
:14:49. > :14:55.bit slower than I was. As I went to overtake it, it veered violently to
:14:55. > :14:59.the left, up the embankment and then I had to swerve because I
:14:59. > :15:05.thought it was going to come back off the embankment, so I had to
:15:05. > :15:08.swerve to get past it. The coach pwhropged to the -- belonged to the
:15:08. > :15:12.company Merseypride. The owner said the vehicle had been booked months
:15:12. > :15:16.ago for the journey to the music festival on the Isle of Wight.
:15:16. > :15:25.ourselves are devastated. I have been up all night worried sick
:15:25. > :15:29.about what's been happening. I can only say, we don't know anything
:15:29. > :15:35.more than you guys know now. The police are not giving us any
:15:35. > :15:40.information at all. The focus will now be on working out why the coach
:15:40. > :15:48.veered off the road so suddenly. The most crucial witnesses, the
:15:48. > :15:52.young people who survived this this Our top story tonight: Andy Murray
:15:52. > :15:55.wins his first Grand Slam title to round off a summer of great British
:15:55. > :15:58.sport. Coming up:
:15:58. > :16:07.How 20 million people in the UK will have access to the latest
:16:07. > :16:12.super-fast mobile technology by Christmas.
:16:12. > :16:16.Later in business on the News Channel, super-fast 4G mobile
:16:16. > :16:20.phones on the way, with one company holding all the early cuts.
:16:20. > :16:27.Burberry issues a profits warning as its rapid growth slows right
:16:27. > :16:30.More than a quarter of a million Syrians have now fled the country
:16:31. > :16:36.to escape the continuing violence, according to the United Nations.
:16:36. > :16:38.Its refugee agency says 100,000 people left Syria last month alone.
:16:38. > :16:41.Many refugees are heading for Jordan, where our correspondent met
:16:41. > :16:51.one Syrian family who have fled there after becoming caught up in
:16:51. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :17:03.the conflict. The Khadoors, a close-knit family
:17:03. > :17:06.from Homs, now confined to a cramped hotel room. Mealtime, as
:17:06. > :17:10.with young children anywhere, is a battle of wills. They fled here
:17:10. > :17:15.after losing everything they had, everything but their lives. These
:17:15. > :17:20.are the faces behind statistics of untold suffering emerging from
:17:20. > :17:26.Syria every day. They were fast asleep when a shell hit their home.
:17:26. > :17:31.It started a fire, which quickly engulfed the children.
:17:31. > :17:39.TRANSLATION: They were burning. I heard them crying. I ran after them
:17:39. > :17:43.to take their clothes off. I tried to put the fire out. I did not feel
:17:43. > :17:48.the pain or the fire my hands. Thank God we managed to save them.
:17:48. > :17:54.When you remember that day and what it did to your family, what do you
:17:54. > :18:00.think? TRANSLATION: It is a very hard
:18:00. > :18:06.feelings. I feel for myself and my children. We got hit and know the
:18:07. > :18:11.pain. I feel for every Syrian child and every Syrian person. Six-year-
:18:11. > :18:17.old Abdul Malik managed to escape the flames, but his three-year-old
:18:17. > :18:23.sister could not. And the four- year-old has third-degree burns all
:18:23. > :18:29.over her body. Translate -- TRANSLATION: Once she looked in the
:18:29. > :18:39.mirror and said mum, I am burnt. I used to be beautiful. Why did I
:18:39. > :18:42.come this way? I told her, you are still beautiful. The children's
:18:42. > :18:49.personalities have changed. Once outgoing and sociable, their
:18:49. > :18:55.parents now keep them inside to protect them from stairs. -- people
:18:55. > :18:59.staring. Today this child's left hand is being operated on. A
:18:59. > :19:05.traumatic experience for a small child, and it is not her first or
:19:05. > :19:09.last operation. Doctors are removing deep scar tissue on her
:19:09. > :19:11.hand so that she can use it properly. This Medecins Sans
:19:12. > :19:15.Frontieres Hospital has a bridge on thousands of people injured in
:19:15. > :19:21.confits across the Middle East. The surgery is complicated. Her face
:19:21. > :19:25.will have to wait a couple of years until it is likely to succeed. Her
:19:25. > :19:32.mother said that she had you, the doctors, could make her as
:19:32. > :19:41.beautiful as she was before, maybe even more beautiful. This is
:19:41. > :19:47.because she is her mother, you know? But I can assure her, she
:19:47. > :19:52.will be near-normal, if not normal. Another operation is over for this
:19:52. > :20:02.child, but many more lie ahead. The damage done to one family by a
:20:02. > :20:04.
:20:04. > :20:07.single shell in Syria's escalating war.
:20:07. > :20:11.A major Chinese telecoms company is to invest and spend more than a
:20:11. > :20:14.billion pounds in the UK over the next five years. It could lead to
:20:14. > :20:17.the creation of 700 jobs. The news comes as the Business Secretary,
:20:17. > :20:23.Vince Cable, set out his long-term vision of the economy, calling for
:20:23. > :20:26.closer links between government and business.
:20:26. > :20:29.The industrial landscape is gloomy, so the search is on at Westminster
:20:29. > :20:33.for new ways of finding growth that do not involve the government
:20:34. > :20:39.spending money. So why not get another country to spend its money?
:20:39. > :20:42.Today their Chinese telecoms giant Huawei announced that it would
:20:42. > :20:47.invest �1.2 billion in the UK over the next five years, creating 700
:20:47. > :20:51.new jobs, a deal signed in Downing Street that ministers are said
:20:51. > :20:55.proved Britain was opened for business. This is very good news, a
:20:55. > :21:00.significant investment by one of the world's leading companies. I
:21:00. > :21:03.met the founder this morning, he told me about the project. He made
:21:03. > :21:07.it clear he regards Britain as an excellent place to do business, and
:21:07. > :21:12.that is why they are committing money here. There will be a
:21:12. > :21:15.significant number of new jobs for British workers. To get more of
:21:15. > :21:18.that, the Business Secretary promised a new industrial strategy
:21:19. > :21:22.where the Government would support key manufacturing and high-tech
:21:22. > :21:25.industries and unlock credit within a new lending body that would work
:21:25. > :21:30.with existing small banks. But a committee of MPs today raised
:21:30. > :21:33.concerns about an existing scheme to boost investment. They found
:21:33. > :21:38.that only �60 million from the regional growth fund had made it to
:21:38. > :21:43.any businesses. This from a pot worth �1.4 billion. Officials
:21:43. > :21:48.insisted that these figures are out of date. And it was not just the
:21:48. > :21:53.Government getting stick. Today the TUC Congress defied Labour and
:21:53. > :21:56.voted to consider the practical issues of a general strike. They
:21:56. > :22:03.heckled Ed Balls when he promised to keep the cap on public sector
:22:03. > :22:07.pay. Why do we hear you and Ed Miliband talk about supporting this
:22:07. > :22:13.Tory pay freeze when I am having to make decisions about where I can
:22:13. > :22:17.pay my heating bill and whether or not I can choose to buy food?
:22:17. > :22:23.know it is hard, Liz, and I want things to be done in a fair way.
:22:23. > :22:27.But we cannot argue for a paper for jobs at the moment. And it is jobs
:22:27. > :22:30.he wants, too. Today David Cameron let those working in the food
:22:30. > :22:35.industry as they showed off their skills in the Downing Street
:22:35. > :22:36.kitchen. Yes, he is still talking about cuts, but these days, he is
:22:36. > :22:39.also talking about government doing more.
:22:39. > :22:45.By Christmas, 20 million people will have access to state-of-the-
:22:45. > :22:47.art mobile technology in 16 cities across the UK. New 4G mobile phones
:22:47. > :22:57.should allow users to download high-definition films in just
:22:57. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:09.minutes and give uninterrupted access to the web while on the move.
:23:09. > :23:17.It started like this. Then we moved on to this. Now we are promised an
:23:17. > :23:20.even faster mobile connected future. Britain's first 4G network is
:23:20. > :23:26.launching within weeks, courtesy of Everything Everywhere, better known
:23:26. > :23:31.as Orange and T-Mobile, who now want to be known as EE. The network
:23:31. > :23:39.is promising much faster speeds to phone users to upgrade to 4G, it
:23:39. > :23:43.has not yet said what it will cost. You could phone will not work on
:23:43. > :23:48.the new system. You will also need to be on the EE network, and you
:23:48. > :23:52.can only get it in 16 cities before Christmas. A quick test shows what
:23:52. > :23:59.people in those cities could see. This phone is running on a standard
:23:59. > :24:04.3G network. This one runs on 4G, probably on its own. Let me check
:24:04. > :24:09.the speed test on both fronts. On the first phone, it is really
:24:09. > :24:15.struggling. It is struggling to get up to one megabyte. Whereas on this
:24:15. > :24:20.foam, off it goes all on its own, and it has whizzed up beyond 30
:24:20. > :24:26.megabytes. All the mobile phone firms are preparing to go 4G. 02
:24:26. > :24:35.has had a tram network running since last year, with video Wharf -
:24:35. > :24:41.- video playing game-playing users clogging up the network, rivals are
:24:41. > :24:45.angry that EE have started early. There are countries that already
:24:45. > :24:51.have 4G. It matters because the UK is typically setting the benchmark
:24:51. > :24:56.in terms of using mobile phones and new applications. So the digital
:24:56. > :25:01.infrastructure has to catch up. don't yet know whether Apple's new
:25:01. > :25:04.iPhone, due to be unveiled tomorrow, will work on the new EE 4G network.
:25:04. > :25:14.The faster future is on the way, and the competition for mobile
:25:14. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:24.phone customers is about to get even more intense.
:25:24. > :25:27.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in Singapore at the
:25:27. > :25:30.start of a nine-day visit to South East Asia and the South Pacific to
:25:30. > :25:32.mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Prince William and Kate started
:25:32. > :25:35.their tour at Singapore's Botanic Gardens, where they were shown an
:25:35. > :25:42.orchid named after Diana, Princess of Wales. This report contains
:25:42. > :25:46.flash photography. He looks increasingly at home in
:25:46. > :25:51.this role. She looks composed and confident. For William and Kate, it
:25:51. > :25:54.is the start of their second overseas tour together. It is a
:25:54. > :25:59.smooth double-act which looks the part and finds the right words.
:25:59. > :26:02.This was Wiliam at a speech tonight in Singapore. For Catherine and me,
:26:02. > :26:08.this year will also be special for the privilege of making this trip
:26:08. > :26:11.on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. The couple's first engagement in
:26:11. > :26:16.Singapore had been a poignant one. They had gone to the Botanic
:26:16. > :26:22.Gardens to see an orchid named in honour of William's mother, Diana.
:26:22. > :26:26.She never saw it, de Gea, said Williams. Diana was killed two
:26:26. > :26:30.weeks before she was due to pay a visit to Singapore. For William, a
:26:30. > :26:39.moment of reflection. And then another orchid and something to
:26:39. > :26:45.celebrate. This one has been bred to mark the couple's visit. It
:26:45. > :26:48.looks like royal tourism, and to a certain extent it is. The orchids
:26:48. > :26:51.have been done in little more than ten minutes. But alongside the
:26:51. > :26:54.super-fast sightseeing, there is a serious purpose to royal tours like
:26:54. > :26:57.this. Over the next eight days, first here in Singapore and then in
:26:57. > :26:59.Malaysia and finally in some of the islands of the South Pacific, the
:27:00. > :27:08.couple will promote British interests and pursue issues which
:27:08. > :27:17.matter to them personally. There will be intense extra grit --
:27:17. > :27:20.scrutiny of what she is wearing and We have a real taste of Autumn over
:27:21. > :27:25.the next couple of days'. Temperatures today have certainly
:27:25. > :27:31.struggled. Tomorrow, more of the same. Disappointing temperatures.
:27:31. > :27:35.At least today, we had the sunshine. Tomorrow, a lot more cloud in the
:27:35. > :27:39.forecast. Tonight, we will have clearing skies in central and
:27:39. > :27:43.eastern areas, but we keep the cloud towards the West. More rain
:27:43. > :27:47.around Northern Ireland and south- west Scotland overnight. Here,
:27:47. > :27:49.temperatures will dip down to single figures. Some early
:27:49. > :27:53.brightness across central and eastern parts first thing in the
:27:53. > :27:57.morning, but much more cloud further north and west. By the time
:27:57. > :28:02.we get to the afternoon, a lot of that cloud and rain is sinking
:28:02. > :28:05.further south and east, so we should start to see things
:28:05. > :28:08.brightening up across Northern Ireland, with a mainly dry picture.
:28:08. > :28:14.Maybe a few showers to the north- east of Scotland, but some
:28:14. > :28:18.brightness. A cool north-westerly breeze. Further south, a scattering
:28:18. > :28:22.of showers across parts of Wales, with a brightness in between. Given
:28:22. > :28:27.some sunshine here, we might creep up to 18 degrees. For the Midlands,
:28:27. > :28:31.East Anglia and the south-east, a lot more cloud, with patchy rain
:28:31. > :28:36.tomorrow afternoon. Those showers will clear into the North Sea
:28:36. > :28:40.tomorrow evening. As pressure starts to rise with the clearing
:28:40. > :28:48.skies, temperatures drop away. Our coldest night of the week comes
:28:48. > :28:53.tomorrow. In the countryside, it will be even colder. First thing in