:00:07. > :00:12.The UK is out of recession - the latest figures show the economy
:00:13. > :00:20.grew between July and September. Olympic ticket sales helped growth.
:00:20. > :00:24.Ministers say the economy is on the turn. We still have a long way to
:00:24. > :00:28.go and there's still difficulties ahead, but I think these figures do
:00:29. > :00:32.show that we are on the right track. We've got the right approach.
:00:32. > :00:39.been a tough time up and down the country. We report on how people
:00:39. > :00:44.have coped with the recession. just cannot afford it any more at
:00:44. > :00:48.all. It is just ridiculous the prices of things. We've managed to
:00:49. > :00:50.buck the trend and keep employing people, and increasing our staffing
:00:50. > :00:53.level. We'll be asking if this means
:00:53. > :00:55.Britain is out of trouble. Also on tonight's programme: Police
:00:55. > :00:59.investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal now say they're dealing
:00:59. > :01:05.with around 300 victims. 1,400 jobs go at Ford - two plants
:01:05. > :01:08.in Southampton and Dagenham will close next year.
:01:08. > :01:10.Army medic Channing Day is named as one of two British service
:01:10. > :01:12.personnel killed in Afghanistan, and the third female of the
:01:13. > :01:22.conflict. The deadly fungus threatening
:01:23. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:52.Britain's ash tree population - the Hello and welcome to the BBC News
:01:52. > :01:55.at Six. The UK is out of recession. The
:01:55. > :01:58.latest official figures show that the economy grew by 1% between July
:01:58. > :02:03.and September. The period included the Olympics, which analysts say
:02:03. > :02:07.helped to increase growth. The Chancellor, George Osborne, said
:02:07. > :02:09.the economy is back on the right track. But Labour's Ed Balls, who
:02:09. > :02:18.welcomed the figures, says growth remains weak. Our economics editor,
:02:18. > :02:23.Stephanie Flanders, looks at the figures. We had nine months of
:02:23. > :02:26.recession but now there's growth. The ONS thinks our gross domestic
:02:26. > :02:30.product, the sum total of everything we produce in the UK,
:02:30. > :02:34.was 1% larger in the three months to September than it was the
:02:34. > :02:38.previous quarter. That's the fastest growth since 2007. We still
:02:38. > :02:43.have a long way to go and there's still difficulties ahead, but I
:02:43. > :02:46.think these figures do show that we are on the right track, we've got
:02:46. > :02:50.did right approach, we can see that with the unemployment falling. Also
:02:50. > :02:59.with the quarter of the deficit paid down in the last two years.
:02:59. > :03:04.There's more to do but these figures are good progress.
:03:04. > :03:07.The Olympics helped. All the ticket sales are included in this
:03:07. > :03:13.quarter's GDP for example, no matter when they were bought. That
:03:13. > :03:16.factor alone may have boosted output by 0.2%. It is not just the
:03:16. > :03:21.Olympics. In the last three months you will also have had companies
:03:21. > :03:25.trying to make up the output lost from that extra Jubilee bank
:03:25. > :03:29.holiday. With all these special factors pushing up output it
:03:29. > :03:32.would've been a shot if the economy hasn't managed to expand in this
:03:32. > :03:37.quarter. But those distortions also mean this number may not tell us
:03:37. > :03:41.very much about the real state of the economy. Still, we are moving
:03:41. > :03:45.forward, not back. Like this manufacturing company in County
:03:45. > :03:49.Durham. The boss has grand plans for the future, making washing
:03:50. > :03:54.machines here in Britain is just one of them. It is probably going
:03:54. > :03:58.to take us about two years, 18 months to two years to get the
:03:58. > :04:02.first washing machine but it should double our number of staff here. We
:04:02. > :04:08.currently employ 200 people. Over the next 20 years we stants to
:04:08. > :04:12.start making all appliances. That's going to be massive. This is what
:04:12. > :04:16.has happened to our national outsince 2008. Today's news means
:04:16. > :04:19.we've now made up the ground we lost since last autumn. But the
:04:19. > :04:24.economy still is significantly smaller than it was before the
:04:24. > :04:28.crisis. I don't think today is any day for complacency. We've had a
:04:28. > :04:31.really difficult two years with the recession. Borrowing is rising.
:04:31. > :04:37.Going for the there's real risks in our economy, so I think the
:04:37. > :04:41.complacence thing to do was for the Government to cus its fixers and
:04:41. > :04:45.hope -- cross its fingers and hope for the best. The big surprise came
:04:45. > :04:49.from the services part of the economy, which includes retailing.
:04:49. > :04:53.Sales at John Lewis are up 12% on last year. The question is whether
:04:53. > :04:57.that can continue. Our customers I think are more confident than last
:04:57. > :05:01.year. What really lies behind it is they are getting used to what might
:05:01. > :05:06.be described as the new normal. They've understood what it means
:05:06. > :05:13.for them and we are seeing them willing to spend a lol more. John
:05:13. > :05:16.Lewis can hoping -- a little more. John Lewis is hoping for a smooth
:05:16. > :05:20.transition from the Olympics to Christmas. Ministers know that 1%
:05:20. > :05:23.growth is going to be a tough act to follow.
:05:23. > :05:26.Today's figures will be welcome news for families and businesses
:05:26. > :05:28.across the country. Many have faced hard times during the double dip
:05:28. > :05:31.recession we've just left behind. Our North of England correspondent,
:05:31. > :05:41.Judith Moritz, has been to Holmfirth in West Yorkshire to see
:05:41. > :05:42.
:05:42. > :05:45.how people have coped, and their hopes for the future. TV buffs know
:05:45. > :05:49.Holmfirth as Last of the Summer Wine country. To locals it is a
:05:49. > :05:52.hard-working Yorkshire town which has done its best to weather the
:05:52. > :06:02.recession. News today that the country is officially in recovery
:06:02. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:13.was met with a mixture of surprise and disbelief. There is enough
:06:13. > :06:16.money here to keep cafes busy but... People here are telling us one
:06:16. > :06:20.thing but the normal people who live here, nothing has changed or
:06:20. > :06:25.it is so light you can hard I will be a change. It doesn't seem to me
:06:25. > :06:30.that we are coming out of recession. For normal working people in the
:06:30. > :06:36.middle of it every day it is not evident. There are gift shops here
:06:36. > :06:40.where you can buy your own bling. But bargain goods sell especially
:06:40. > :06:45.well, as this discount shop has found. We are definitely coming out
:06:45. > :06:49.of the recession, I'm pretty sure. Is that because you are selling
:06:49. > :06:54.discount goods? Possibly yes. Shoppers here are careful with
:06:55. > :06:56.their money. It is just ridiculous the prices of things. So to hear we
:06:56. > :07:02.are out of recession is not something that you are feeling
:07:02. > :07:06.personally? No, I'm not. It does feel as though there's economic
:07:06. > :07:10.hope in Holmfirth. New businesses have opened here recently and trade
:07:10. > :07:15.in some shops has been brisk today. But employment opportunities often
:07:15. > :07:20.lie further afield. People who live in this area may have to be
:07:20. > :07:23.prepared to travel for work and commute the 25 miles or so to Leeds
:07:23. > :07:29.or Manchester. Just outside Holmfirth is a business which has
:07:29. > :07:33.made the most of local talent. They make drom bones here and feel --
:07:33. > :07:38.tromdoens here and feel positive about the future. -- trombones.
:07:38. > :07:42.Because we have a niche product we haven't laid people off. We have a
:07:42. > :07:45.global market. We've managed to buck the trend and keep employing
:07:45. > :07:49.people, and increasing our staffing level.
:07:49. > :07:55.There is no fanfare for the end of the recession here. Just hope and
:07:55. > :08:00.determination that things will keep getting better.
:08:00. > :08:03.Let's talk to our political, our deputy political editor, James
:08:03. > :08:07.Landale, in Downing Street. James, that is how people are feeling. How
:08:07. > :08:11.will the Government be feeling tonight? George, I think no-one can
:08:11. > :08:16.argue with any certainty that today's figures mark either a
:08:16. > :08:20.turning in the tide or a false dawn. The response from Downing Street
:08:20. > :08:25.has been incredibly cautious, but I think the return to growth does
:08:25. > :08:29.change the terms of political debate as it relates to the chi. --
:08:29. > :08:35.to the economy. What today's figures do is gives people a chance
:08:35. > :08:40.to get back in the game, to try and push back against all the
:08:40. > :08:46.accusation of political and economic incompetence, the chance
:08:46. > :08:50.to remake their fundamental argument that they have a plan A
:08:50. > :08:54.for the economy. And the opposition can no longer say there's a
:08:54. > :09:01.recession made here in Downing Street. Do they say now? What
:09:01. > :09:05.matters is how people feel. Do they feel it is growing? Economic growth,
:09:05. > :09:09.technical economic growth, doesn't automatically pay political
:09:09. > :09:12.dividends. Sir John Major had three years of economic growth in the
:09:12. > :09:15.run-up to and it didn't do him much good.
:09:15. > :09:18.Thank you. Police examining claims of abuse by
:09:18. > :09:20.Jimmy Savile say they're now dealing with 300 victims of the TV
:09:20. > :09:23.star. Detectives say they've found no evidence of an organised
:09:23. > :09:26.paedophile ring, but it's thought they are looking at who might have
:09:26. > :09:29.helped Savile or covered up his abuse. As Nick Higham reports,
:09:29. > :09:39.police believe their inquiry is a watershed moment in dealing with
:09:39. > :09:39.
:09:39. > :09:43.child abuse. Jimmy Savile, entertainer, ech ten trick,
:09:43. > :09:48.energetic do-gooder and now according to police one of the most
:09:49. > :09:52.prolific sex offends ers in history. Police say they know of 300 victims
:09:52. > :09:57.of abuse, but not all victims of Savile. They've spoken to many
:09:57. > :10:01.people in phone conversations lasting up to 4 hours. They say
:10:01. > :10:05.it's a watershed moment. expense of the public in this case
:10:05. > :10:10.has been astounding. It is quite staggering the numbers of people
:10:10. > :10:13.that have come forward. Primarily they are talking about Savile but
:10:13. > :10:17.there are three categories of offenders we are looking at. We've
:10:17. > :10:22.got Savile on his own, the majority of what we are dealing with. We
:10:22. > :10:26.then have allegations about Savile and others, and then a separate
:10:26. > :10:31.category of others. Scotland Yard also revealed that a retired police
:10:31. > :10:35.officer had been in touch to say he investigated an allegation of sex
:10:35. > :10:39.abuse by Savile at the BBC in the 1980s but hadn't had the evidence
:10:39. > :10:42.to proceed. Meanwhile at the BBC itself there were more questions
:10:42. > :10:46.today about last year's Newsnight investigation of Jimmy Savile, and
:10:47. > :10:51.why the chairman of the BBC Trust was misled about the real reasons
:10:51. > :10:56.for dropping it. On 2nd October this year news night's editor,
:10:56. > :11:02.Peter Rippon, wrote a blog giving his reasons for dropping the item,
:11:02. > :11:07.a blog which the BBC has since disowned. There was a meeting with
:11:07. > :11:10.David Jordan to tell him that Peter Rippon's version was incorrect. The
:11:10. > :11:14.next day the producer e-mailed George Entwistle, the new Director
:11:14. > :11:19.General, saying the same thing. Yet it wasn't until last Sunday that
:11:20. > :11:24.Lord Patten, the chair of the BBC Trust, was told the Rippon version
:11:24. > :11:27.had been challenged: he insisted a correction be issued as soon as
:11:27. > :11:31.possible. I've been involved in quite a few crises over my
:11:31. > :11:35.political life and life in other forms of public service. I don't
:11:35. > :11:40.think I've ever before been involved in one which felt so much
:11:40. > :11:45.like being washed over by a political reputational tsunami. I
:11:45. > :11:49.think it has been very difficult. So why did it take so long for the
:11:49. > :11:53.BBC's top management to admits its original accounts of what happened
:11:53. > :11:59.at Newsnight was wrong, not only to the public at large but its own
:11:59. > :12:01.chairman? George Entwistle told MPs this week it had taken nearly a
:12:01. > :12:05.fortnight to reconcile the conflicting accounts. Others may
:12:05. > :12:07.see it differently. The family of a BBC journalist who
:12:07. > :12:10.is thought to have committed suicide have claimed he was a
:12:10. > :12:13.victim of harrassment. They've asked for an inquiry into how the
:12:13. > :12:16.Corporation handled his complaints. They say Russell Joslin, who was 50
:12:16. > :12:23.and worked as a reporter for BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, was
:12:24. > :12:27.harrassed by a female colleague. David Sillito reports.
:12:27. > :12:30.Peter Joslin was a BBC journalist who worked for many years in the
:12:30. > :12:34.West Midlands. He decides this week in hospital. It appear he's took
:12:34. > :12:39.his own life. His family believe there are questions to be answered.
:12:39. > :12:45.His father, Peter Jocelyn, a former Chief Constable of Warwickshire
:12:45. > :12:51.politics said he didn't blame the BBC but management did not save him.
:12:51. > :12:55.Peter Joslin had been working at the radio station BBC Coventry and
:12:55. > :12:59.Warwickshire. His family say he complained of being harassed bay
:12:59. > :13:02.female colleague. That colleague today expressed her sore at his
:13:02. > :13:05.death but said there was no complaint, no harassment. He had a
:13:05. > :13:11.history of depression and at one point, she said, she had been asked
:13:11. > :13:15.to talk to him. Others spoke of their loss of their friend and
:13:15. > :13:20.former colleague. He was a great character, full of life himself and
:13:20. > :13:24.of interest in other people. That's what made him quite unique in terms
:13:24. > :13:28.of local journalism. It is not known if there's a formal complaint.
:13:28. > :13:32.The BBC said our thoughts and condolences are with Peter Joslin's
:13:32. > :13:36.family at this sad time. The BBC is committed to working constructively
:13:36. > :13:39.with the family to ensure their concerns are vigorously addressed.
:13:39. > :13:44.This comes at a time of intense scrutiny of the BBC, especially the
:13:44. > :13:51.way it handles allegations of sexual harassment, following
:13:51. > :13:55.revelations about Jimmy Savile. A female soldier who died alongside
:13:55. > :14:00.a male colleague in Afghanistan yesterday has been named as 25-
:14:00. > :14:05.year-old Channing Day. She's the third woman to be killed in the
:14:05. > :14:10.conflict. Their families have been informed. Caroline Wyatt reports
:14:10. > :14:13.from Kabul. The female British soldier has been named as lance
:14:13. > :14:18.Corporal Channing Day. She was 25 and from Come ber in Northern
:14:18. > :14:22.Ireland. Her friends say she was proud to be in a front line role as
:14:22. > :14:27.an Army medic. She went on work experience with the Army ten years
:14:27. > :14:31.ago. She was totally committed, fully enthusiastic. I think the
:14:31. > :14:36.commanding officer said if she was to join the Army she would do very
:14:36. > :14:41.well and make a good career. was on foot patrol with a Royal
:14:41. > :14:46.Marine from 40 Commando, who hasn't yet been named by the MOD. They
:14:46. > :14:51.were hit by gunfire and fatally wounded. An Afghan policeman was
:14:51. > :14:56.also killed. But the MOD says he wasn't in uniform or with the
:14:56. > :14:59.patrol. The Afghan police say they was fired on first. The MOD has
:14:59. > :15:04.said in a statement the British patrol were not working with any
:15:04. > :15:07.Afghan partners at the time. They add at this stage they don't know
:15:07. > :15:13.what initiated the exchange of fire. An investigation is ongoing. The
:15:13. > :15:19.first female soldier from the UK to be killed in Helmand was Corporal
:15:19. > :15:26.Sarah Bryant, from the intelligence Corps, killed in 2008. Last year
:15:26. > :15:30.Captain Lisa Head became the second. Just 29 when she died defusing a
:15:30. > :15:35.Taliban bomb. Now Channing Day has become the third. Her death and
:15:35. > :15:39.that of the Royal Marine commando brings the total of UK forces
:15:39. > :15:49.killed in Afghanistan as 435 since the war Afghan.
:15:49. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :16:00.The UK is out of recession. And coming up, the search for two
:16:00. > :16:03.Olympic bronze medals allegedly stolen from Team GB. And in
:16:03. > :16:08.business on the news channel, as the country moves out of recession
:16:08. > :16:17.be get the view on how the economy really feels. And new legislation
:16:17. > :16:22.could make it tougher to get a mortgage.
:16:22. > :16:26.Carmaker Ford is to close two UK plants with the loss of at least
:16:26. > :16:31.1400 jobs. The transit van factory in Southampton that employs 500
:16:31. > :16:38.people will shut next summer. Up to 1,000 jobs will go because of the
:16:38. > :16:42.part closure of the engine plant in Dagenham next year. Our industry
:16:43. > :16:47.correspondent is in Southampton. News that this plant was to close
:16:47. > :16:51.have leaked over the past 24 hours and staff were sent home at
:16:51. > :16:56.lunchtime having been told their jobs will go by next summer but few
:16:56. > :17:02.expected quite so many job losses on a day when Ford confirmed it
:17:02. > :17:06.would be ending vehicle production in Britain after 100 years.
:17:06. > :17:13.They are the iconic cars driven for decades, Midlands were built in
:17:13. > :17:19.Britain. Today, Ford confirmed it was cutting 1400 jobs and ending
:17:19. > :17:24.vehicle production. In Southampton, this plant will close. It is home
:17:24. > :17:28.to the transit van, they have built more than 2 million in the past 40
:17:28. > :17:37.years. Today 500 workers were told they will be out of work by next
:17:37. > :17:41.summer. I am 46 with no job to go to and no prospects. I considered
:17:41. > :17:45.going back to unemployed if I cannot find another job. A hard
:17:46. > :17:50.work we have put into the place seems to have been a waste of time.
:17:50. > :17:54.There was bad news at Dagenham where this plant will also close.
:17:54. > :18:00.The news came out of the blue and there was dismay among 800 workers
:18:00. > :18:04.who will lose their jobs. They have made a lot of efficiency is at the
:18:04. > :18:11.plant. As recently as a few weeks ago we were promised a long-term
:18:11. > :18:15.future. They feel they have been stabbed in the back. Ford's iconic
:18:15. > :18:20.vehicles have kept millions on the road and thousands in work. It has
:18:20. > :18:25.been using cash in Europe in the wake of the eurozone crisis and
:18:25. > :18:29.4000 workers in Belgium were told yesterday their jobs were going as
:18:29. > :18:34.part of restructuring. The European market is having a bad time because
:18:34. > :18:38.the economy is going badly and the big downturn in Greece and Spain
:18:38. > :18:43.and it is now affecting northern Europe and companies like Ford are
:18:43. > :18:48.being drawn into that. Everybody will have to cut costs and
:18:48. > :18:53.restructured. Ford said it is also investing and confirmed a diesel
:18:53. > :18:59.engine will be developed and built in Britain. We have been aware they
:18:59. > :19:03.wanted to expand engine production in Britain. The Government has
:19:03. > :19:08.provided 10 million in funding through the Regional Growth Fund.
:19:08. > :19:13.We were aware of their general plans but not the immediate threat
:19:13. > :19:17.to Southampton, that was bad news. It has been brought on by the
:19:17. > :19:22.deteriorating situation in the eurozone. You unions accused Ford
:19:22. > :19:29.of betrayal and warned that the plans could put up to 10,000 jobs
:19:29. > :19:35.in the sector at risk. It is worth saying other parts of the automatic
:19:35. > :19:40.-- auto industry are doing better with Jaguar Land Rover and
:19:40. > :19:43.investment at Nissan. Tonight unions call on the Government to
:19:43. > :19:47.intervene to help manufacturing and they say the knock-on effect of
:19:47. > :19:52.this could mean up to 10,000 jobs could go as a result of this
:19:52. > :19:57.decision. It is being billed as the Battle of
:19:57. > :20:01.the computer giants. Microsoft is unveiling its latest Windows
:20:01. > :20:08.software and a tablet computer designed to give Apple and its
:20:08. > :20:13.popular iPad a run for its money. As our correspondent reports, the
:20:13. > :20:20.chief executive of Microsoft acknowledged it was a pivot --
:20:20. > :20:27.pivotal time. This is what computing has looked -
:20:27. > :20:31.- looked like it for decades. But now we are entering a new era and
:20:31. > :20:41.Microsoft needs to catch up. If enthusiasm for his company accounts,
:20:41. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:48.Steve Ballmer can make that happen. I love this company! Yes! We have
:20:49. > :20:53.re-imagined windows in Windows 8. decade after that, the boss is
:20:53. > :20:59.still excited, this time about Windows 8, designed to bring his
:20:59. > :21:05.company, rather late, in to the touch screen age. The launch of the
:21:05. > :21:12.Windows 8 and Windows phone his epic for Microsoft, up there in the
:21:12. > :21:18.top two or three big moments, including Windows 95. It really
:21:18. > :21:22.starts us on a new era of computing. My close off has been slow to turn
:21:23. > :21:27.ideas into products. Bill Gates was showing off tablet computer as a
:21:27. > :21:32.decade ago but it was Apple with the iPad that made money from the
:21:32. > :21:39.idea. Five years ago Apple was worth a quarter of Microsoft, now
:21:39. > :21:46.the tables are turned. The company behind the iPad is worth 2.5 times
:21:46. > :21:51.the windows firm. Microsoft remains a giant. It is still generating big
:21:51. > :21:56.profits from Windows and Office. What the clever people working here
:21:56. > :22:00.have not done in the last ten years is to produce anything that has
:22:00. > :22:04.changed the world and made consumers go wow. But this surface
:22:04. > :22:10.tablet powered by Windows 8 is designed to show the company moving
:22:10. > :22:15.forward in a mobile world. We have seen a revolution in the dive --
:22:15. > :22:20.devices we carry around, the mobile phone, it has a touch screen and is
:22:20. > :22:26.like a computer. Microsoft so far has not established itself as a
:22:26. > :22:31.leader in that market. It is an exciting day. At the launch tonight,
:22:31. > :22:37.Steve Ballmer enthused again about Windows 8. If consumers do not
:22:37. > :22:42.share his excitement, there will be trouble for him and his company.
:22:42. > :22:46.Police are still searching for two Olympic bronze medals allegedly
:22:46. > :22:50.stolen from Team GB rower Alex Partridge and hockey star Hannah
:22:51. > :22:57.Mcleod. They were out celebrating after a Buckingham Palace reception
:22:57. > :23:02.when the medals went missing. 829 year old man has been questioned at
:23:02. > :23:07.a London police station. This is the metal by won in Beijing, the
:23:07. > :23:13.silver. For the Olympic rower Alex Partridge there is no souvenir of
:23:13. > :23:19.winning a bronze medal in London, only an empty box. Without the
:23:19. > :23:24.bronze medal I won. The 31-year-old has dedicated a decade of his life
:23:24. > :23:29.to rowing for Great Britain and now his prize bronze medal has, he
:23:29. > :23:35.believes, been taken from him. He said it hit him when he went to
:23:35. > :23:39.collect his daughter from Nasri. picked her up and realised, when
:23:39. > :23:44.you are old enough to understand this, I will not have an Olympic
:23:44. > :23:49.medal to show you. You see their eyes light up when you take them to
:23:49. > :23:54.their school. You are the Olympic medallist! I want to be able to do
:23:54. > :23:59.that for my children and grandchildren. He and fellow rowers
:23:59. > :24:06.won the medals after a close race, coming third. Hannah Mcleod won her
:24:06. > :24:10.a medal at it and it was her first taste of the Olympics after missing
:24:10. > :24:15.out on Beijing. Both believe the medals disappeared from an
:24:15. > :24:19.exclusive nightclub where they were enjoying a night out after a
:24:19. > :24:22.reception at Buckingham Palace. They appealed on Twitter and this
:24:22. > :24:25.morning a jacket was handed to a police station and a man was
:24:26. > :24:31.arrested. Police are still searching for the missing bronze
:24:31. > :24:35.medals. Britain is to ban the import of ash
:24:35. > :24:40.trees from next Monday, aimed at stopping the spread of a disease
:24:40. > :24:47.that has devastated the species in Europe and has been found in East
:24:47. > :24:52.Anglia. Our rural affairs correspondent has more from Norfolk.
:24:52. > :24:58.An ancient Norfolk woodland, beautiful autumn colours. But this
:24:58. > :25:04.place has a dark secret. An outbreak of ash dieback, a
:25:04. > :25:10.potentially devastating disease. noticed signs of ash dieback five
:25:10. > :25:18.weeks ago. This tree, for example, is showing symptoms of the disease.
:25:18. > :25:24.Dark, spreading marks down the park. And here you have leaves that have
:25:24. > :25:32.died before they have turned yellow. They ever since that case was
:25:32. > :25:37.reported five weeks ago, hundreds more trees in this -- woodland have
:25:37. > :25:42.been found to have the disease. The question is, can the spread of the
:25:42. > :25:47.deadly fungus be stopped? The stakes are high. In Denmark it has
:25:47. > :25:51.killed 90% of ash trees. A theory is infected trees from Europe have
:25:51. > :25:57.been brought in to this country. The Government is moving to ban
:25:57. > :26:01.such imports. We know the -- has been suffering on the Continent.
:26:01. > :26:05.The Forestry Commission have confirmed some of the seedlings
:26:05. > :26:09.have had the disease and we need to look hard at how we work together
:26:09. > :26:14.to keep disease is out of native woodland. The it has echoes of
:26:14. > :26:19.Dutch elm disease which effectively wiped out the elm population in the
:26:19. > :26:24.Seventies. Now there are fears that cash, 30% of the woodland, could
:26:24. > :26:28.also be lost on the British landscape. We should find out the
:26:28. > :26:33.extent of the infection first and then decide what to do after.
:26:33. > :26:40.Our we are confident we can stop it? We are hopeful. That is not the
:26:40. > :26:44.same thing. No. The woodland is now under threat from an increasing
:26:44. > :26:51.variety of imported diseases. The challenge is how best to protect
:26:51. > :26:56.forests in her time of global trade and global-warming. -- in a time of.
:26:56. > :27:00.and global-warming. -- in a time of. It is now time for the weather.
:27:00. > :27:06.The sunshine will come out tomorrow after a drab few days for most
:27:06. > :27:12.parts of the country. The pay off is the first taste of winter. As
:27:12. > :27:19.temperatures plummet, the cold weather with us in northern parts.
:27:19. > :27:25.In the south, still another mild, misty night. The cold air with us
:27:25. > :27:29.further north quite widely. Frosts potentially also in Northern
:27:29. > :27:38.Ireland and northern England. There will be possibly wintry showers
:27:38. > :27:45.overnight. And almost certainly icy patches. Otherwise, sunshine.
:27:45. > :27:49.Further south, drab weather. But the good news is the wind is
:27:49. > :27:53.strengthening from the north, which is a cold direction, but it will
:27:53. > :28:03.blow the cloud away and it will brighten up gradually in southern
:28:03. > :28:07.areas. It will be a strong north wind. The snow showers packed in
:28:07. > :28:15.for the North and Northern Isles. We will seize centimetres building
:28:15. > :28:22.are particularly over the hills. And a cold day. Tomorrow evening we
:28:22. > :28:28.could even have snow on the Yorkshire moors. Much colder start
:28:28. > :28:35.on Saturday, even in the south, but it looks like a lovely day. It is
:28:35. > :28:40.the north-west with the snow coming in that will change the complexion.
:28:40. > :28:45.Saturday looks like the sunny day, although cold with more rain coming
:28:45. > :28:51.although cold with more rain coming in for Sunday. More on the website.