:00:06. > :00:08.The Prime Minister apologises on behalf of the nation for the
:00:08. > :00:17.failures that caused the Hillsborough disaster and the
:00:17. > :00:20.police cover-up that followed. 96 Liverpool fans died 23 years ago
:00:20. > :00:26.after police failed to prevent a crush at a match in Sheffield - and
:00:26. > :00:31.then blamed the fans. On behalf of the Government, and indeed our
:00:31. > :00:34.country, I am profoundly sorry that this double injustice has been left
:00:34. > :00:37.uncorrected for so long. Liverpool, people have gathered to
:00:37. > :00:44.remember the dead as their families are told many of them might have
:00:44. > :00:51.been saved. If today says one thing to the world, we are vindicated in
:00:51. > :00:54.our search for the truth. Also tonight: The US ambassador to Libya
:00:54. > :01:00.is killed in a protest over an American-made film deemed insulting
:01:00. > :01:03.to the prophet Mohammed. Another fall in unemployment - to
:01:03. > :01:07.just over 2.5 million as the number of people finding work rises
:01:07. > :01:09.sharply. And thinking of the future? On a
:01:09. > :01:19.Royal visit, Prince William lets slip how many children he would
:01:19. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:24.like to have. Coming up in sport: Will Kevin Pietersen be be shregd
:01:24. > :01:34.for England's Test tour of India? The ECB delayed naming the squad
:01:34. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:46.Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Prime Minister has
:01:47. > :01:49.apologised on behalf of the nation for the injustice suffered by the
:01:50. > :01:54.families of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster 23
:01:54. > :02:01.years ago. Newly published documents have revealed a cover-up
:02:01. > :02:04.in which police tried to deflect the blame on to the fans. Among the
:02:04. > :02:07.findings of today's report: The safety of the crowd admitted to
:02:07. > :02:10.the terrace was compromised at every level.
:02:10. > :02:14.There were operational failings with flaws in responding to the
:02:14. > :02:19.emerging crisis. And the police deflected the blame by altering
:02:19. > :02:22.more than 100 police statements after the event. It also emerged
:02:22. > :02:25.that 41 fans might have been saved if the emergency services had
:02:26. > :02:35.responded differently. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in
:02:35. > :02:39.Liverpool. Yes, and this evening thousands of
:02:40. > :02:44.people are gathering here in the city centre to remember those who
:02:44. > :02:49.died at Hillsborough. They gave a rapturous round of applause when
:02:49. > :02:55.the relatives of the dead arrived here and then a few minutes ago
:02:55. > :03:03.they began to chant justice for the 96, it used to be a plea. Tonight
:03:03. > :03:09.it feels like a call for something which has virtually been achieved.
:03:09. > :03:12.Liverpool has been a city in mourning for 23 years. When
:03:12. > :03:17.Hillsborough happened, its grief was there for all to see, but over
:03:17. > :03:21.the decades since that loss has become caught up with anger. People
:03:21. > :03:25.here feel that it was their relatives who bore the brunt of the
:03:25. > :03:30.blame. They've campaigned for justice, the truth, and an apology
:03:30. > :03:34.from the top. Today, they got just that. The new evidence that we are
:03:34. > :03:38.presented with today makes clear in my view that these families have
:03:38. > :03:43.suffered a double injustice. The injustice of the appalling events,
:03:43. > :03:46.the failure of the state to protect their loved ones, and the
:03:46. > :03:50.indefencible wait to get to the truth and the injustice of the
:03:50. > :03:55.denigration of the deceased that they were somehow at fault for
:03:55. > :03:58.their own deaths. On behalf of the Government and our country I am
:03:58. > :04:03.profoundly sorry this double injustice has been left uncorrected
:04:03. > :04:08.for so long. To the families we say we are deeply sorry for your loss.
:04:08. > :04:12.We are deeply sorry for the pain you have suffered. We sincerely
:04:12. > :04:16.hope that today marks a day of truth.
:04:16. > :04:26.96 Liverpool fans were fatally crushed at Sheffield Wednesday's
:04:26. > :04:29.Hillsborough ground on sath - 15th April 19 -- 1989.
:04:29. > :04:33.The families have spent years fighting the suggestion that the
:04:33. > :04:39.fans were drunk and ticketless. It's a battle they fought
:04:39. > :04:44.tirelessly. We were the eyes, we were the ears, but by God, we were
:04:44. > :04:47.the voices and we used our voices to get to this stage and I am so
:04:47. > :04:52.proud of all our families for that because without them and the
:04:52. > :04:57.support we have had we wouldn't have got this today. For two years
:04:57. > :05:00.the Hillsborough Independent Panel has shifted through more than
:05:00. > :05:03.400,000 pages of documents. For the first time it's been able to reveal
:05:03. > :05:07.as well as the police problems the ambulance service failed
:05:07. > :05:11.extensively, too. It's emerged that 41 of the 96 victims had the
:05:11. > :05:16.potential to have survived. And after the families have spent years
:05:16. > :05:21.suspecting a coverup, the panel have found that 116 witness
:05:21. > :05:25.statements by police officers were amended or changed.
:05:25. > :05:30.The families say that for 23 years they've never had the truth.
:05:30. > :05:35.Do you now feel that that's changed for them and this is the truth?
:05:35. > :05:38.the process of the panel's work on more than one occasion the families
:05:38. > :05:43.have said to me that this is the first time that they feel they've
:05:43. > :05:48.ever been taken seriously and that anybody has ever really listened to
:05:48. > :05:52.them. The football match at Hillsborough was abandoned at six
:05:52. > :05:57.minutes past three. Today, Liverpool fell silent at that time,
:05:57. > :06:00.a reminder that at the heart of the campaigning, the revelations and
:06:00. > :06:10.the apologies, the memory of 96 people is what this city holds on
:06:10. > :06:10.
:06:10. > :06:16.Tonight as the crowds here in the city centre grows larger by the
:06:16. > :06:20.minute, people leave leaving work to come here and join in singing
:06:20. > :06:24.Abide With Me, taking time to remember those who died, the
:06:24. > :06:28.families here I understand are going to be lighting candles,
:06:29. > :06:34.flames in memory of their loved ones. And just taking time to
:06:34. > :06:39.remember them, but the question they'll be asking beyond tonight is
:06:39. > :06:43.what happens next? Because this report is something that these
:06:43. > :06:47.families never dared hope to see. They said to me that they had had
:06:47. > :06:51.their hopes raised and dashed so many times before, they didn't dare
:06:51. > :06:54.hope. Now it's here, they're going to consider various options,
:06:55. > :07:04.including legal steps to take things forward.
:07:05. > :07:06.
:07:06. > :07:09.Thank you. Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:07:09. > :07:12.News at Six. The Prime Minister has apologised on behalf of the nation
:07:13. > :07:16.for the injustice suffered by the families of the 96 people who died
:07:16. > :07:20.in the Hillsborough disaster 23 years ago. The truth and the lies,
:07:20. > :07:24.among hundreds of thousands of pages, the shocking betrayal of the
:07:24. > :07:28.victims of Hillsborough is revealed. The fans who made their way across
:07:28. > :07:32.the Pennines that sunny spring Saturday had been betrayed before
:07:33. > :07:38.they even got to the ground. The stadium was a death trap and
:07:38. > :07:42.the authorities knew it. But this was an era when managing
:07:43. > :07:48.football crowds saw public order put before public safety. Fans
:07:48. > :07:50.herded into pens, treated like animals. So even when it became
:07:50. > :07:55.horribly obvious that lives were being lost, the documents record
:07:55. > :08:01.how a fleet of ambulances was kept outside the stadium, unable to help
:08:01. > :08:04.the injured and dying. Fans rushed through a broken turnstile crushing
:08:04. > :08:09.supporters against the front of the stand... It was lies, the gate had
:08:09. > :08:13.not been charged by fans, but opened by police themselves as the
:08:13. > :08:16.Chief Constable knew only too well. South Yorkshire Police set about
:08:17. > :08:22.altering the written evidence from the day, amending scores of
:08:22. > :08:26.statements to shift blame away from senior officers, and on to the fans.
:08:26. > :08:31.Even now, 23 years after the event, I would wish to profoundly
:08:31. > :08:35.apologise, not only to the family of the 96, but also Liverpool fans
:08:35. > :08:44.in general. The panel discovered documents which reveal how the
:08:44. > :08:48.police spread their untruths, local Conservative MP Irvine Patnick was
:08:48. > :08:51.asked that Liverpool fans had aou reupbated on police and stolen from
:08:51. > :08:56.the dead. So it was the Sun newspaper reported police lies as
:08:56. > :09:00.the truth, a vile slander for which 23 years too late its author, the
:09:00. > :09:03.editor, Kelvin McKenzie, today finally apologised.
:09:03. > :09:08.It's now clear that the original inquiry held shortly after the
:09:08. > :09:11.tragedy was not aware just how many key statements had been tampered
:09:11. > :09:14.with or destroyed. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was
:09:14. > :09:19.briefed by her private Secretary that the behaviour of the police
:09:19. > :09:22.was close to deceitful. The terrible terrible events that
:09:22. > :09:28.happened here on a warm sunny spring Saturday carved deep wounds
:09:28. > :09:32.that are still raw, a generation later. The prayer today is that the
:09:32. > :09:38.documents release will leave no dark corners where distrust and
:09:38. > :09:42.grievance can breed, and allow the healing process finally to begin.
:09:42. > :09:45.A monumental coverup, and a sickening campaign of
:09:45. > :09:55.sreulification against victims, grieving families, traumatised
:09:55. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :09:59.survivors and a city in shock. Today, is a rare and famous victory
:09:59. > :10:02.for the the individual against the establish am, the indomitable
:10:02. > :10:07.spirit of mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters who waged a
:10:07. > :10:11.long and lonely battle for justice. Walk on with hope in your hearts,
:10:11. > :10:21.it's a fitting anthem for Liverpool, a city where people believe they
:10:21. > :10:23.never walk alone. Let's talk to our political editor
:10:23. > :10:27.Nick Robinson in Downing Street. Emotional scenes in Liverpool
:10:27. > :10:30.tonight, also emotional scenes in the Commons at lunchtime when the
:10:31. > :10:35.Prime Minister apologised on behalf of the nation. It was a Commons
:10:35. > :10:40.quite unlike that we get used to, gone was the noise, gone was the
:10:40. > :10:44.name-calling. Gone, if you like, was the politics. This was hundreds
:10:44. > :10:47.of MPs packed on to the benches of the House of Commons with very
:10:48. > :10:52.different views, and yet packed there to speak as one, of their
:10:52. > :10:56.outrage and their shame. Of course, nothing can match the emotion that
:10:56. > :11:00.we are seeing in Liverpool tonight, the scenes as people gather to
:11:00. > :11:04.express their hurt, their thankfulness as well about this
:11:04. > :11:08.verdict today, but in the Commons what was extraordinary was the
:11:08. > :11:12.silence with which the Prime Minister was heard when he read out
:11:12. > :11:17.a verdict he had only been given himself about an hour earlier. The
:11:17. > :11:21.only noise one heard were the odd gasp and the odd cry of shame as
:11:21. > :11:25.MPs learned of the multiple instances in which the police had
:11:25. > :11:29.altered the evidence in order to coverup what had gone wrong. We
:11:29. > :11:36.heard from MPs who had been at the match, we heard from one who could
:11:36. > :11:40.barely control her emotion. Speaking 23 years on, but fighting
:11:40. > :11:45.to avoid crying in front of her colleagues. It was one of those
:11:45. > :11:50.days when it was not right for most to ask the question, why for so
:11:50. > :11:54.long did so many in power leave unchallenged the distortion that is
:11:54. > :11:58.we now know were peddled by some in the police, and some in the press?
:11:58. > :12:03.The truth has now been made public. What happens now? Well, it is clear
:12:03. > :12:06.now that the country's top lawyer, the attorney General, is
:12:06. > :12:12.considering whether he can quash the original verdict at the inquest
:12:12. > :12:16.into those who died. The inquest, of course, reported that they were
:12:16. > :12:21.accidental deaths and call a new inquest instead, which it would be
:12:21. > :12:23.hoped by those families of the victims would produce new verdicts.
:12:23. > :12:27.The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire, the force that was
:12:27. > :12:30.involved is saying that he would be prepared to pursue criminal
:12:31. > :12:35.convictions if there's evidence. It is, of course, quite a big if. We
:12:35. > :12:40.would now be talking almost a quarter of a century on, getting
:12:40. > :12:43.secure evidence that would stand up in a court of law to prosecute
:12:43. > :12:47.individuals, could prove very difficult. But many will have been
:12:47. > :12:54.struck by the words of two people today, first of all, the MP who
:12:54. > :12:58.represents the area of Liverpool FC, who said today made history, now we
:12:58. > :13:02.must change history. But also the words of the Prime Minister himself,
:13:02. > :13:07.who said after truth has to come justice.
:13:07. > :13:11.Thank you. There is more detail on the newly
:13:11. > :13:20.released doms on the BBC -- documents on the BBC website with
:13:20. > :13:24.key points and analysis. President Obama has condemned the
:13:24. > :13:26.killing of the American ambassador to Libya. Christopher Stevens died
:13:26. > :13:32.alongside three American colleagues in violence sparked by protests
:13:32. > :13:37.over a US-made film which is considered offensive to Islam.
:13:37. > :13:41.Here's our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.
:13:41. > :13:45.The ruins of the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya's
:13:45. > :13:49.second city. Last night, armed attackers overwhelmed those
:13:49. > :13:53.guarding it, Libyans outside, marines inside. Throwing grenades
:13:53. > :13:58.and with powerful weapons they set fire to large parts of the compound
:13:58. > :14:06.and killed American officials, including the ambassador.
:14:06. > :14:15.My name is Chris Stevens... Christopher Stevens was promoted to
:14:15. > :14:18.ambassador months ago. The stau states con-- United States
:14:18. > :14:22.condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack.
:14:22. > :14:25.We are working with the Government of Libya to secure our diplomats, I
:14:25. > :14:29.have also directed my administration to increase our
:14:29. > :14:34.security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we
:14:34. > :14:39.will work with the Libyan Government to bring to justice the
:14:39. > :14:43.killers who attacked our people. Outside the burning consulate last
:14:43. > :14:47.night, a local resident said what happened was in response to an
:14:47. > :14:52.anti-Islam video posted on the internet from the United States
:14:52. > :14:56.which insults the prophet Mohammed. After extracts of the video were
:14:56. > :15:06.shown on TV in Egypt, thousands of people protested outside the
:15:06. > :15:08.
:15:08. > :15:09.American Embassy in Cairo. They tore down the stars and Stipes,
:15:09. > :15:12.replacing it with an Islamist banner. Whatever the precise
:15:12. > :15:14.motives of the heavily armed men who killed the American ambassador
:15:14. > :15:16.in Libya, it seems that first sight baffling. America's Secretary of
:15:16. > :15:20.State, Hillary Clinton, said it herself, how could this happen in a
:15:20. > :15:24.country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from
:15:24. > :15:28.destruction? But views of freedom are different, of course. Americans
:15:28. > :15:32.value freedom of religion, but also the constitutional right to say
:15:32. > :15:35.whatever they want, however offensive. But in much of the
:15:35. > :15:39.Muslim world, where some countries are now winning greater political
:15:39. > :15:44.freedoms in the Arab spring, the concept of freedom certainly does
:15:44. > :15:49.not extend to insulting the prophet. Libya's Government has condemned
:15:49. > :15:53.the attacks in Benghazi, but says the anti-Islam film is merely a
:15:53. > :15:57.pretext. Instead, they blame pro- Colonel Gaddafi elements reacting
:15:57. > :16:06.to the arrest of his formish spy chief, who was brought back to
:16:06. > :16:10.Unemployment has fallen again. There has been a small drop in the
:16:10. > :16:16.number of people out of work. Unemployment fell by 7000 in the
:16:16. > :16:19.three months to July. It now stands at two point 59 million. Not only
:16:19. > :16:23.is the jobless total down, but the number of people finding work has
:16:23. > :16:26.also risen at the fastest rate for two years.
:16:26. > :16:30.It is too early to talk about a new dawn, but in the Medway area in
:16:30. > :16:35.Kent, as in many parts of the country, the jobs market is looking
:16:35. > :16:38.brighter. Kim Heath can vouch for that. She has found an opening as a
:16:38. > :16:42.casual worker. She was on a training scheme run partly by the
:16:42. > :16:46.Medway Youth Trust. It got her work experience in their hotel, which
:16:46. > :16:51.went so well that she got a job. The hours each week very, but she
:16:51. > :16:56.is pleased to have the opportunity. I work the hours I am given, and if
:16:56. > :17:02.they asked me to stay longer, I do. I never turn down a shift, because
:17:02. > :17:06.I need the experience. But Caitlin page has not been so lucky. She is
:17:06. > :17:11.a graduate job seeker. After a first class honours degree this
:17:11. > :17:15.year, she has now had to sign on. She has put in 100 job applications,
:17:15. > :17:21.but still no luck. After taking out loans and working hard for her
:17:21. > :17:26.degree, she feels let down. I feel like to, almost. From when I was at
:17:26. > :17:29.school, I was told that if you do a degree, you will walk straight into
:17:29. > :17:34.a middle-management job and get paid loads of money and everything
:17:34. > :17:38.will be brilliant. And you come out of university and find you have to
:17:38. > :17:43.apply for jobs at the bottom, with rubbish pay. But for many, it is a
:17:43. > :17:48.positive picture. The number of people in work increased to its
:17:48. > :17:52.highest level in almost four years. Looking at the overall economic
:17:52. > :17:55.landscape, one thing is puzzling for policymakers. Even though the
:17:55. > :18:00.economy is in recession, with output contracting, jobs have been
:18:00. > :18:04.created, with total employment numbers rising. And there does not
:18:04. > :18:08.appear to be a simple explanation. Stacey is an employer who is hiring
:18:08. > :18:12.staff. She thinks things are better than the official output figures
:18:12. > :18:16.suggest. Her family's electronics components business has seen orders
:18:17. > :18:21.growing. We have taken on two members of staff in the factory. We
:18:21. > :18:24.are recruiting for an apprentice to join us in the office, so we are
:18:24. > :18:30.growing as a business. And hopefully, we will grow again over
:18:30. > :18:33.the next year, when we hope to employ two more members of staff.
:18:33. > :18:39.closer look at the figures shows that although UK wide unemployment
:18:39. > :18:44.has fallen, it was up in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
:18:44. > :18:49.The UK's largest manufacturer, BAE Systems, has announced that it is
:18:49. > :18:54.in talks to merge with the parent company of Airbus, EADS. It would
:18:54. > :18:59.create a huge European aerospace, defence and security firm worth
:18:59. > :19:03.nearly �30 billion. Let's get more on this with Richard Westcott.
:19:03. > :19:09.would be one of the world's biggest deals. On one side, you have one of
:19:09. > :19:12.the UK's biggest companies, BAE Systems. They make submarines and
:19:12. > :19:17.the high-tech fighter jet. On the other side, you have one of
:19:17. > :19:22.Europe's biggest companies, EADS, best known for Airbus, but they
:19:22. > :19:27.also helped make the Euro fighter. If they merge, EADS would be the
:19:28. > :19:31.bigger partner in the deal. But the key here is jobs. These companies
:19:31. > :19:37.combined employ 48,000 people in the UK. The fear is that if they
:19:37. > :19:42.get together, what happens to those jobs? They have until October the
:19:42. > :19:45.tenth to tell us what they will do. Our top story tonight: the Prime
:19:45. > :19:48.Minister apologises on behalf of the nation to the families of those
:19:48. > :19:51.who died in the Hillsborough disaster. Coming up:
:19:51. > :20:01.It's a family affair - Prince William on how many children he is
:20:01. > :20:04.hoping for with Kate. Her later in business on the BBC News Channel,
:20:04. > :20:09.unemployment is down, even though we are in a recession, so what is
:20:09. > :20:18.going on? And it has been yet another big day
:20:18. > :20:20.Finding a cure for some types of deafness appears to be a step
:20:20. > :20:25.closer after scientists in Sheffield used human embryonic stem
:20:25. > :20:28.cells to reverse hearing loss in gerbils. Although patient trials
:20:28. > :20:38.are still some years away, the researchers say this successful
:20:38. > :20:38.
:20:38. > :20:42.animal research marks an important step forward.
:20:42. > :20:46.These nerve cells under the microscope are what researchers
:20:46. > :20:52.hope may one day reverse deafness. They were created from human
:20:52. > :20:56.embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue.
:20:56. > :20:59.The scientists are trying to tackle a form of deafness that affect
:20:59. > :21:03.about one in 10 people with profound hearing loss. In the
:21:03. > :21:07.condition, nerve cells in the copier, in the inner ear, are
:21:08. > :21:12.damaged, preventing sound from travelling down the auditory nerve
:21:12. > :21:16.to the brain, like it in a telephone wire. In the lab,
:21:16. > :21:20.researchers grew stem cells derived from donated embryos smaller than a
:21:20. > :21:26.pinhead and grew them in to help the replacement nerve cells. They
:21:26. > :21:30.injected these into 18 death gerbils, considered a good animal
:21:31. > :21:37.model for human hearing. Tests showed that on average, 45% of
:21:37. > :21:41.their hearing was restored. We have proof of the concept that stem
:21:41. > :21:47.cells can be used to repair the damaged ear. But this is only the
:21:47. > :21:53.beginning. More work is needed, but as proof of a concept, it is a good
:21:53. > :21:57.step forward. This woman could hear perfectly as a child until she
:21:57. > :22:01.contracted typhoid. Her treatment left her profoundly deaf. She works
:22:01. > :22:06.for the charity which helped fund the research, and says she would
:22:06. > :22:10.volunteer for any patient trials. would definitely seize the
:22:10. > :22:14.opportunity to hear again, to know that in future when I have kids, I
:22:14. > :22:20.will be able to hear them and not have to rely on my partner or my
:22:20. > :22:24.family to tell them -- tell me what my daughter or son is saying.
:22:24. > :22:30.questions remain, such as, does the hearing improvement last? The
:22:30. > :22:33.gerbils were followed up the just ten weeks. And is it safe? The
:22:33. > :22:37.research in the journal Nature is encouraging, but these
:22:37. > :22:47.uncertainties mean a patient trials using these cells are still several
:22:47. > :22:48.
:22:48. > :22:51.years away. 290 people are thought to have died
:22:51. > :22:54.in a fire which swept through a factory in Pakistan. It is one of
:22:54. > :22:57.the worst industrial accidents in the country's history, and many of
:22:57. > :23:00.the victims were unable to escape because the building had no fire
:23:00. > :23:06.exits, alarms or sprinklers. The blaze happened in the city of
:23:06. > :23:09.Karachi. Hour after hour, or searching in
:23:09. > :23:16.the wreckage and more victims recovered, many charred beyond
:23:16. > :23:20.recognition. For relatives, the agonising wait for a body to bury.
:23:20. > :23:27.Mohammed Mortarzer was still looking for his son. He is my
:23:27. > :23:33.youngest, he said. Where is his body? Dozens survived by jumping
:23:33. > :23:37.from the roof and the upper stories, like this person. A crane made a
:23:37. > :23:42.hole in the war, he said, and I jumped from the third floor, but
:23:42. > :23:48.five of my relatives were trapped inside. I beg rescue workers to
:23:48. > :23:52.help them, but no one paid attention. Then I passed out. This
:23:52. > :23:57.is the inferno from which he escaped. It engulfed the garment
:23:57. > :24:04.factory in minutes. At first, some were brought out alive, but soon it
:24:04. > :24:10.was body after body. The factory windows were barred. Most had no
:24:10. > :24:15.way out. No safety measures were taken in the design of the building.
:24:15. > :24:19.There were no safety exits. The people got trapped. The search for
:24:19. > :24:24.the dead continues now. Employees claim that the factory owners cared
:24:24. > :24:30.more for their garments than the lives of their workers. Tonight,
:24:30. > :24:34.rescue workers are still dousing burning embers inside the factory.
:24:34. > :24:38.Employees say it was a death trap, but as is often the case in
:24:38. > :24:46.Pakistan, the authorities allowed it to remain open. Relatives of
:24:46. > :24:49.those who perished here are asking if anyone will be held to account.
:24:49. > :24:53.Prince William has revealed for the first time that he wants to have
:24:53. > :24:56.two children. The comments came on the second day of a visit by the
:24:56. > :25:05.Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Singapore, which has been organised
:25:05. > :25:10.to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
:25:10. > :25:16.The day began with a walk in the gardens. No ordinary walk, mind you,
:25:16. > :25:19.this was a long and aerial pathway in a huge glass dome, complete with
:25:19. > :25:24.a waterfall. And no ordinary gardens. These are Singapore's
:25:24. > :25:29.Gardens by the bay, a spectacular garden project conceived and
:25:29. > :25:34.designed by British engineers. The crowds had gathered, their first
:25:34. > :25:39.real chance to see William and Kate. And as they always do, the couple
:25:39. > :25:42.took their time. Crouching down to talk to children who had been
:25:42. > :25:46.waiting in the heat, and reaching out to shake as many hands as
:25:46. > :25:51.possible. Disappointing a few, For Room the handshake never
:25:52. > :25:56.materialised, but delighting and overwhelmingly British crowd.
:25:56. > :26:01.are a fantastic influence on the country. They are such a special
:26:01. > :26:07.couple. They are young and fresh for the Royal Family. Across the
:26:07. > :26:12.city, they saw something of local culture. There were Chinese lion
:26:12. > :26:17.dancers, doing tie and -- Chinese lion dances. And demonstrations of
:26:17. > :26:22.melee martial arts. At a children's centre, Kate joined in with an art
:26:22. > :26:27.class. And at a Rolls-Royce factory, she completed work on a new jet
:26:27. > :26:32.engine. Will this kind of thing be the story in tomorrow's papers?
:26:32. > :26:36.Possibly not. Running alongside the focus on community events like this
:26:36. > :26:42.and promoting British business is the focus on the couple themselves,
:26:42. > :26:47.and particularly on Kate. Kate per se family, to be more precise. The
:26:47. > :26:57.couple met a lot of children today, and to one of them, Williams said
:26:57. > :26:58.
:26:58. > :27:03.he hopes he and Kate will have two Now the weather.
:27:03. > :27:07.It will become windy over the next couple of days, but tonight, the
:27:07. > :27:13.main feature is the temperatures, dropping off sharply under largely
:27:13. > :27:23.clear skies. There will be a fresh feel To tomorrow morning. Tonight,
:27:23. > :27:23.
:27:23. > :27:33.we have some wet weather to get rid of for in the east of England and.
:27:33. > :27:36.Clear spells will allow the temperatures to drop. It will feel
:27:36. > :27:41.particularly chilly first thing tomorrow morning. There will be
:27:41. > :27:46.plenty of sunshine across the southern half of the UK. Further
:27:46. > :27:50.north, outbreaks of rain persist in northern Scotland. The cloud will
:27:50. > :27:54.increase across Wales and south- west England. More cloud in the
:27:54. > :27:59.afternoon, but it generally stays dry and bright here. Sunny spells
:27:59. > :28:04.in the east after a chilly start. More cloud spills in across north-
:28:04. > :28:07.west England. Maybe a few light showers here. We should hang on to
:28:07. > :28:12.brightness across the east of Northern Ireland. But eastern
:28:12. > :28:21.Scotland will see outbreaks of rain, particularly wet in the far north-
:28:21. > :28:26.west. Those winds will be very lively tomorrow evening. It stays
:28:26. > :28:31.blustery into Friday across the UK. Some showery rain at first in the
:28:31. > :28:36.south. Scattered showers in the far north-west, but for many, it will
:28:36. > :28:40.be dry and bright. But it will feel cooler because of those winds. The