:00:11. > :00:16.The former senior Conservative, Lord McAlpine goes public to deny
:00:16. > :00:19.allegations that he abused children in a care home in Wales.
:00:19. > :00:22.The former party treasurer hits back at what he calls wholly false
:00:22. > :00:29.and defamatory claims being made about him on the Internet.
:00:29. > :00:33.He's broken hearted over this. His family are very upset. And he feels
:00:33. > :00:38.that, you know, bearing in mind his health isn't that good, that this
:00:38. > :00:43.is a total shock to receive at his time in life.
:00:43. > :00:47.The allegations stem from claims a senior Tory politician from the
:00:48. > :00:50.Thatcher era abused children in Bryn Estyn care home. Also on
:00:50. > :00:54.tonight's programme - the Government admits it's too late to
:00:54. > :00:58.eradicate the disease killing Britain's ash trees.
:00:58. > :01:01.The new Archbishop of Canterbury says he's utterly optimistic about
:01:01. > :01:07.the future of the Church of England. Petition for the Pakistani
:01:07. > :01:11.schoolgirl shot by the Taliban to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
:01:11. > :01:18.One day the Duckworth's ship will come home... And the icon of The
:01:18. > :01:28.Street for over 30 years, Bill Tarmey, better known as Jack
:01:28. > :01:48.
:01:49. > :01:52.Duckworth, has died. Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The
:01:52. > :01:55.former senior Conservative, Lord McAlpine, has publicly denied
:01:55. > :02:01.allegations swirling around the Internet that he abused children at
:02:01. > :02:04.a care home in North Wales. He's hit back strongly at what he calls
:02:04. > :02:08.wholly false and serious defamatory claims against him. It follows
:02:08. > :02:14.speculation after a former resident at Bryn Estyn said he'd been abused
:02:14. > :02:18.by a senior politician from the Thatcher era. Mark Easton has more.
:02:18. > :02:22.After the appalling abuse of scores of children at this and other care
:02:22. > :02:27.homes in North Wales in the 70s and 80s, rumours of an establishment
:02:28. > :02:31.cover-up have refused to go away. Despite two major inquiries, it was
:02:31. > :02:36.widely speculated that a senior Tory politician close to Margaret
:02:37. > :02:41.Thatcher had abused boys in Wrexham. A name consistently appeared on the
:02:41. > :02:51.Internet. Today, former Conservative treasurer, Lord
:02:51. > :03:12.
:03:12. > :03:14.McAlpine, has issued a statement We do have to be vir careful before
:03:14. > :03:20.casting aspersions against individuals or band people's names
:03:20. > :03:23.around as was being done yesterday, without proper evidence. Every
:03:23. > :03:29.institution, journalist and politician has to think carefully
:03:29. > :03:33.about these things. A Newsnight investigation into the abuse of
:03:33. > :03:37.boys in Wales... Lord McAlpine's statement comes decades after the
:03:37. > :03:43.rumours first circulated but days after one of the victims of abuse
:03:43. > :03:46.in North Wales appeareded on BBC Newsnight and accused a senior Tory
:03:46. > :03:51.politician, inspiring widespread speculation on the Internet.
:03:51. > :03:56.need to take a number of different actions, firstly to try to get this
:03:56. > :04:02.taken down from the Internet which is not going to be easy. And then
:04:02. > :04:07.we have to look at Newsnight and look at the way they behaved and
:04:07. > :04:11.trailed it. They made it obvious who it was. This afternoon, the BBC
:04:11. > :04:15.said the Newsnight story was "In the public interest". The programme
:04:15. > :04:20.has already been criticised for not publishing allegations of child
:04:20. > :04:23.abuse against Jimmy Savile and now is being criticised for publishing
:04:23. > :04:26.unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse against a senior
:04:26. > :04:31.Conservative. But new allegations have emerged in
:04:31. > :04:35.the last few days, stories not investigated before. One man who's
:04:35. > :04:40.contacted the BBC claims that while in care in North Wales and the
:04:40. > :04:44.early 70s, he was drugged, taken away in a posh car and raped the a
:04:44. > :04:49.hotel or house. His abuser, he says, threatened him to never breathe a
:04:49. > :04:53.word. Until now, he's not spoken of his ordeal. I mentioned it in years
:04:53. > :04:58.to come, if I said anything, he'd send the same people to come and
:04:58. > :05:04.get me and my family and I would never see them again because he had
:05:04. > :05:09.friends in really high places. This this evening, the former
:05:09. > :05:17.children's home resident who identified his abuser as Lord
:05:17. > :05:20.McAlpine, Stephen meesham, says he was mistaken and offers a sincere
:05:20. > :05:25.apology. This staim's just come in, tell us
:05:25. > :05:28.about what he said -- statement? appears in the last hour or so that
:05:28. > :05:32.he's been shown a photograph of Lord McAlpine, he's seen it and
:05:32. > :05:36.said apparently this is not the person I identified by photograph
:05:36. > :05:41.in the early 90s when I was shown a photograph by the police. It's
:05:41. > :05:47.quite clear that this whole rumour that has been so well known by
:05:47. > :05:51.people in journalist circles and elsewhere is a complete myth. I
:05:51. > :05:55.think this story perfectly illustrates that the real risks in
:05:55. > :05:57.this whole area. On the one hand, there are victims of child abuse
:05:57. > :06:02.who've never come forward and who're desperate to tell their
:06:02. > :06:06.story and want to be believed. There are also people, perhaps
:06:06. > :06:11.alleged victims, who are mistaken about what happened. The risks that
:06:11. > :06:14.one accepts those stories at face value could lead to the kind of
:06:14. > :06:18.appalling situation for a person like Lord McAlpine who is clearly
:06:18. > :06:22.not involved in child abuse in North Wales in any way ends up
:06:22. > :06:25.having his reputation sullied for decades. It's a real reminder of
:06:25. > :06:28.the risks we run in this particular area.
:06:28. > :06:31.Thank you. The Environment Secretary's
:06:31. > :06:34.admitted that ash dieback, the disease threatening Britain's 80
:06:34. > :06:38.million ash trees will not be eradicated. Announcing the
:06:38. > :06:42.Government's action plan to tackle the deadly fungus, he said efforts
:06:42. > :06:47.would focus on slowing its spread by destroying young trees and
:06:47. > :06:50.identifying those resistent to the disease. Jeremy Cooke reports from
:06:50. > :06:56.North Somerset. Britain's woodlands under threat.
:06:56. > :07:01.Some 30% of our trees are ash and now it's clear that many, maybe
:07:01. > :07:06.most, will fall victim to this killer, fungal infection. There are
:07:06. > :07:10.now 135 British locations identified with ash dieback. 70 are
:07:10. > :07:16.in tree nurseries in newly planted areas where control is relatively
:07:16. > :07:21.easy. But 65 are now in mature woodland in England, probably
:07:21. > :07:24.infected by spores blown across the North Sea. And so in London, a
:07:24. > :07:28.meeting of the Government a's emergency COBRA committee. No
:07:28. > :07:31.doubts here about the scale of the problem. We don't have a magic
:07:31. > :07:36.potion which we could stick in a helicopter this afternoon and spray.
:07:36. > :07:41.There is no immediate cure. What we are confident of from what we have
:07:41. > :07:45.seen is that there is a small number of these trees that can
:07:45. > :07:49.survive. That could be a long-term answer. If DNA testing can identify
:07:49. > :07:54.the few ash trees resistent to Chalara Fraxinea, they might be
:07:54. > :07:58.used to repopulate the landscape. There is now general acceptance
:07:58. > :08:03.that this disease can not be eradicated and so the focus now is
:08:03. > :08:09.not so much on how best to save our 80 million ash trees, but rather on
:08:09. > :08:13.how best to replace them. That means many mature, even
:08:13. > :08:17.ancient trees, could be lost. That's why some are still hoping
:08:17. > :08:21.for a scientific solution. There's trees out there that are in excess
:08:21. > :08:27.of 1,000 years old. Is there anything we can do to prevent the
:08:28. > :08:33.damage to them? Today's action plan calls for newly
:08:34. > :08:37.planted trees to be destroyed, mature trees to be monitored, more
:08:37. > :08:41.study of genetic resistance and for the public to help identify trees
:08:41. > :08:51.with the infection. There is no disguising the fact
:08:51. > :08:52.
:08:52. > :08:57.that this is a disaster. The ash, a native iconic species in crisis.
:08:57. > :09:01.The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Justin Welby,
:09:01. > :09:05.says he's utterly optimistic about the future of the Church of England
:09:05. > :09:09.despite the hard issues it faces with gay marriage and women bishops.
:09:09. > :09:15.He spoke of his massive sense of privilege at being given the job.
:09:15. > :09:17.Mike Wooldridge reports. Official at last. Justin Welby will
:09:17. > :09:21.be enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury in March. Previous
:09:21. > :09:27.occupants of the office witnessing his starkly contrary view to the
:09:27. > :09:30.frequent port rayal of a church in decline and bitterly divided.
:09:30. > :09:34.utterly optimistic about the future of the church. We'll certainly get
:09:34. > :09:40.things wrong. I certainly will. But the grace of God is greater than
:09:40. > :09:45.our biggest failures. We will almost also certainly get much
:09:45. > :09:50.right and do so already. An issue that has been much argued over is
:09:50. > :09:54.the proposal to appoint women bishops. If it's approved later
:09:54. > :09:59.this month, Justin Welby will oversee the consecration of the
:09:59. > :10:04.first women bishops with an inevitable image impact on the
:10:04. > :10:07.Church of England. But so far against gay marriage, he'll inherit
:10:07. > :10:11.controversy over the church's attitude to same sex relationships.
:10:11. > :10:16.Today, these were his carefully phrased words on this issue.
:10:16. > :10:22.It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and
:10:22. > :10:28.status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationship.
:10:28. > :10:31.Including civil partnerships. We must have no truck with any form of
:10:31. > :10:37.homophobia. Same sex relationships are a particular faultline across
:10:37. > :10:40.the 80 million-strong worldwide Anglican Church, especially in
:10:40. > :10:48.Africa. The sexual agenda which has been promoted here and in the
:10:48. > :10:53.church and by different Governments here and there. If that is the
:10:53. > :10:58.thing he's willing to promote, fine. Reconciliation is one of the
:10:58. > :11:03.biggest challenges confronting the next Archbishop, but he has
:11:03. > :11:08.considerable experience of it and of tough negotiating. I think we
:11:08. > :11:13.are being held hostage and there needs to be clarity about the
:11:13. > :11:16.processes of what progress there is for Christians in the West would
:11:16. > :11:21.mean for the wider communion. are priorities too closer to home.
:11:21. > :11:26.As the next Archbishop sees it, the work of the Church of England is
:11:26. > :11:28.not primarily done here at Lambeth Palace or on TV, but in over 16,000
:11:29. > :11:32.churches aRoss the country and through the millions of hours of
:11:32. > :11:36.voluntary service done by parishioners outside the church.
:11:36. > :11:45.It's the real frontline, he says, and he believes it's absolutely
:11:45. > :11:47.right for the church to speak out in public and political life. The
:11:47. > :11:50.exams regulator, Ofqual, has announced the first changes to the
:11:50. > :11:54.A-level system in England. For example, allowing pupils to resit
:11:54. > :11:59.the exam just once. Currently they can resit as often as they like.
:11:59. > :12:04.The Government says tighter rules will help tackle grade inflation.
:12:04. > :12:08.For more, here is Reeta Chakrabarti. Tell me about what Ofqual are
:12:08. > :12:11.proposing? Unlike in England where GCSE have been replaced with a new
:12:11. > :12:15.exam, they are not talking about scrapping A-levels but reforming
:12:15. > :12:18.them. With two main aims - the first is to stop pupils from having
:12:18. > :12:23.several attempts at getting a good grade through resits. The other is
:12:24. > :12:29.to free up the timetable so that less is concentrated on revision
:12:29. > :12:33.and more on teaching and learning. The main points of the plan are
:12:33. > :12:40.these, the first to be able to scrap the January exam so at the
:12:40. > :12:45.moment there are two halfs to the A-level, the A-levels and the A2
:12:45. > :12:48.paper sat in the second year of sixth form. They'll be sat in the
:12:49. > :12:53.summer now. Other changes include one resit per paper and all the
:12:53. > :12:57.changes will come in in September 2013. Now, these changes here are
:12:57. > :13:00.in a sense the least controversial of those that were being considered.
:13:00. > :13:04.There are other things Ofqual was looking at, for example more
:13:04. > :13:08.university involvement in drawing up the A-levels. But universities
:13:08. > :13:12.themselves were a bit lukewarm about that. Another radical idea
:13:12. > :13:16.was separating AS and laifls completely, something that Michael
:13:16. > :13:20.Gove, the Education Secretary's thought to favour. Others in the
:13:20. > :13:23.wider education sector are not so keen on that. That's been parked
:13:23. > :13:26.for the moment. All the changes are really England only, Wales and
:13:26. > :13:28.Northern Ireland are looking at their own separate reviews and
:13:29. > :13:31.Scotland has it own system, of course.
:13:31. > :13:36.Thank you very much. Tens of thousands of people around
:13:36. > :13:42.the world have signed online pe it iss calling for a Pakistani
:13:42. > :13:45.schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban to be nominated for the
:13:45. > :13:48.Nobel Peace Prize. 13-year-old Malala Yousafzai was targeted
:13:48. > :13:54.because she was campaigning for girls' education. Gn, the UN
:13:54. > :14:03.Special Envoy for education, is in Pakistan and told Orla Gearin that
:14:03. > :14:08.Malala would be a worthy recipient -- Gordon Brown. Malala is sitting
:14:08. > :14:14.up reading get well cards. From her hospital room in Birmingham, her
:14:14. > :14:19.father, Ziauddin, Yousafzai, passed on her thanks to supporters
:14:19. > :14:24.worldwide. Malala is recovering well and wants me to tell you she
:14:24. > :14:28.has been inspired and humbled by the thousands of cards, messages
:14:28. > :14:34.and gifts that she has received. They have helped my daughter
:14:34. > :14:39.survive and stay strong. Back in Pakistan, others are
:14:39. > :14:44.drawing strength from her. In this school in Islamabad today, the UN
:14:44. > :14:49.Special Envoy for education, Gordon Brown, got a lesson in the Malala
:14:50. > :14:53.effect. She's been very brave and she had to stand up to people who
:14:53. > :14:58.were intimidating her. You all seem to support her. She stood up for
:14:58. > :15:04.her rights even though there was a lot of danger. But you can't stop
:15:04. > :15:10.someone like this. She gave us examples so we followed.
:15:10. > :15:14.The girls here have big dreams and when they grow up, many want to be
:15:14. > :15:17.just like Malala. Gordon Brown is hearing about all
:15:17. > :15:22.the ambitions that pupils have here, but there are many girls in
:15:22. > :15:27.Pakistan who never see the inside of a classroom. Malala Yousafzai's
:15:27. > :15:31.risked her life to campaign for girls' education and now, in her
:15:31. > :15:38.name, the United Nations is going to carry on that fight.
:15:38. > :15:42.Gordon Brown is pushing for schools for 32 million girls worldwide who
:15:42. > :15:46.are denied an education. Malala planned to campaign for them just
:15:46. > :15:52.before she was shot. I don't think there's anybody I
:15:52. > :15:57.know who didn't shed a tear, who didn't cry because the idea that a
:15:57. > :16:04.girl simply for going to school or wanting to go to school was shot by
:16:04. > :16:10.the Taliban is just so unspeakable. Today, they raised their voices in
:16:10. > :16:20.mall pla's honour, amid calls for her to be nominated for a Nobel
:16:20. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:43.Coming up, remembering the forgotten army of Kohima, the
:16:43. > :16:53.troops to battle on against all the odds in the Second World War.
:16:53. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:04.Later, why a Djokovic when is good The rising cost of fuel is adding
:17:04. > :17:08.to pressure on George Osborne to ease the financial burden. Labour
:17:08. > :17:13.has asked him to scrap a three pence per litre rise due to come
:17:13. > :17:17.into effect in January and is forcing a vote on it next week.
:17:17. > :17:22.Half of the cost of petrol is bound to fuel duty and VAT. Our
:17:22. > :17:25.correspondent is on a forecourt in Leeds.
:17:25. > :17:30.Speak to drivers here and they will tell you why they need their cars,
:17:30. > :17:36.but also why they cannot afford petrol. The problem they face is
:17:36. > :17:42.that the prices are set to rise again. It is one subject that
:17:42. > :17:46.everyone has got an opinion on. think better prices are ridiculous.
:17:46. > :17:52.The amount of profit the Government is making on petrol... It is making
:17:52. > :17:56.it harder and harder. The average price of unleaded petrol is just
:17:56. > :18:01.price of unleaded petrol is just over 135p per litre. Once this rise
:18:01. > :18:05.comes in, it will cost nearly �70 to fill up a family car with 50
:18:05. > :18:10.metres. If it is delayed by three months, the Treasury says it will
:18:11. > :18:11.cost them �350 million in lost cost them �350 million in lost
:18:11. > :18:15.revenue. It is a choice that will revenue. It is a choice that will
:18:15. > :18:22.affect pensioners like Bill, whose income stays roughly the same.
:18:22. > :18:27.does affect me, and I only run the car about twice a week. Lucas is a
:18:27. > :18:36.painter and decorator. Petrol prices mean leper -- less profits
:18:36. > :18:41.and more pressure. It is hard to explain to customers. They do not
:18:41. > :18:44.care about the price, they want their living room to be done.
:18:44. > :18:48.the Government says your prices are low as they would -- lower than
:18:48. > :18:51.they would have been under the previous government and that some
:18:51. > :18:57.without cars believe they should pay the extra pennies. If you want
:18:57. > :19:03.a car, you should be willing to pay the money. Other people like me,
:19:03. > :19:06.who asked to travel on the bus, we pay in other ways. -- who have to
:19:07. > :19:11.travel on the bus. It is clear the Governor -- the Government needs
:19:12. > :19:16.the extra revenue from the pump. There is a sense that something has
:19:16. > :19:19.to give. Next week, Labour will call for this price rise to be
:19:19. > :19:26.delayed and it is a difficult position for the Chancellor to be
:19:26. > :19:32.end. What does he do? Increase revenues or keep drivers have been?
:19:32. > :19:35.-- keep drivers happy. With less than a week to go until
:19:35. > :19:38.the elections for police and Crown Commissioners in England and Wales,
:19:38. > :19:43.candidates have been campaigning. There are fears that turnout could
:19:43. > :19:46.be the lowest for any recent election. The contest has attracted
:19:46. > :19:51.independent candidates but can the break the traditional strength of
:19:51. > :19:55.the established parties? Norman Smith reports.
:19:55. > :20:00.Politicians, once again, on the election beat. This time
:20:00. > :20:04.campaigning ahead of next week's vote to elect police and crime
:20:04. > :20:10.commissioners. But some fear that these elections risk bringing party
:20:10. > :20:14.politics into the police. The uniforms may have changed since the
:20:14. > :20:18.early days of the police. What has not is the importance attached to
:20:18. > :20:24.the forces political independence. And yet three-quarters of those
:20:24. > :20:27.standing to become commissioners are party candidates. It used to
:20:27. > :20:33.beat the theory that independence would stand but we are seeing that
:20:33. > :20:38.party nominees are dominating. Certainly, numerically. If you look
:20:38. > :20:40.at the arithmetic, you would say that the majority of people who
:20:40. > :20:43.were going to be elected will come with a party ticket around their
:20:43. > :20:46.neck. The police and Crown Commissioners will have the power
:20:46. > :20:52.Commissioners will have the power to hire and fire chief constables.
:20:53. > :20:55.They can set out and organise five- year police and crime plans and
:20:55. > :20:57.year police and crime plans and year police and crime plans and
:20:57. > :21:01.they will fix the annual budget. But there are potential conflicts.
:21:01. > :21:04.In the West Midlands, for example, the forces poised to privatise some
:21:04. > :21:09.functions but many would-be commissioners have publicly pledged
:21:09. > :21:12.to oppose such a move, paving the way for a potential clash between
:21:12. > :21:16.the operational priorities of the Chief Constable and the political
:21:16. > :21:20.priorities of the Police Commissioner.
:21:20. > :21:25.And in Wolverhampton this afternoon, many voters seemed apprehensive
:21:25. > :21:29.about the change. It seems to be more political, rather than people
:21:30. > :21:33.who actually care about what is going to happen in the community.
:21:33. > :21:38.We have a Labour candidate and the Conservative candidate and we have
:21:38. > :21:41.no other information other than their party politics. I am looking
:21:41. > :21:45.for an independent to vote for. These are the candidates but
:21:45. > :21:49.whoever wins will have to work with the local councillors and will not
:21:50. > :21:53.be able to interfere with day-to- day policing. We will have to see
:21:53. > :21:55.how it SN but I can guarantee that the service will work
:21:55. > :22:01.constructively with a properly constituted accountability
:22:01. > :22:06.mechanism which is different. Despite the change, and the
:22:06. > :22:13.dominance of the party machines, ministers believe that electing
:22:13. > :22:17.commissioners will give voters a greater say in how they are policed.
:22:17. > :22:25.For a list of all the candidates For a list of all the candidates
:22:25. > :22:30.standing for election, visit our It was one of the turning-points of
:22:30. > :22:34.World War II. In 1944, British and Indian soldiers, hugely outnumbered,
:22:34. > :22:39.held off an onslaught from the Japanese. But the men have fought
:22:39. > :22:44.at Kohima regarded themselves as the forgotten army. As Remembrance
:22:44. > :22:49.Day approaches, Prince Andrew has been hearing their stories.
:22:49. > :22:53.The faces of the men whose lives were changed on a battle-scarred
:22:53. > :22:58.hilltop. The men who defended a tiny Indian settlement called
:22:58. > :23:02.Kohima. There was one soldier, when his major came into the trench,
:23:02. > :23:09.they had been fighting for 10 days and nights at he said, Sir, when we
:23:09. > :23:14.die, will it be over or will we have to go on? Kohima late in the
:23:14. > :23:18.path of the Japanese advance into India. -- Lee in the past. 15,000
:23:18. > :23:21.troops surrounded 5000 British and Indian defenders, dug into a
:23:21. > :23:28.landscape torn by explosions and littered with the bodies of
:23:28. > :23:32.soldiers who could not be buried. One of Mad Men took a burst of
:23:32. > :23:39.machine gun fire and a try to get him out. He looked at me and said,
:23:39. > :23:47."It is no use, I am finished." and so I left him. That must have been
:23:47. > :23:54.tough. Yes, yes. It has been on my conscience ever since. The battle
:23:54. > :24:00.lasted over a month. 10,000 lives were lost. Every night at 9pm, I
:24:00. > :24:07.drink a toast to those that I left behind. I think of the people we
:24:07. > :24:12.were surrounded with, and they are not here any more. Remembrance can
:24:12. > :24:16.take many forms. The Duke of York has welcomed the veterans campaign
:24:16. > :24:21.for an educational trust to help the local communities in Nagaland
:24:21. > :24:24.the lost lives and livelihoods. The conflict was not of their making.
:24:24. > :24:30.Unfortunately, history repeats itself rather more frequently than
:24:30. > :24:35.we would like. We need to think about the people who it displaces
:24:35. > :24:40.and affects. It is as true today as it was in the Second World War, as
:24:40. > :24:50.it has been in the intervening years. No longer forgotten, the men
:24:50. > :24:55.of Kohima are still repaying what they regard as a debt of honour.
:24:55. > :25:00.He was an icon of Coronation Street for more than 30 years. Bill Tarmey
:25:00. > :25:04.be has died today. He was 71. In his role alongside his on-screen
:25:04. > :25:10.wife, Vera Duckworth, he became a household favourite for millions.
:25:10. > :25:14.Lizo Mzimba looks back at his life and career.
:25:14. > :25:18.There you are, my little swan, didn't I always say that one day
:25:18. > :25:27.our ship would call? He was the man who, together with his on-screen
:25:27. > :25:31.partner, entertained the nation with so many memorable moments.
:25:31. > :25:37.Jack and Vera provided everything, from tears to laughter, for more
:25:37. > :25:41.than 30 years. Now I come second to the loggia, July? No, you come
:25:41. > :25:48.third. The dog comes before you. The Duckworth family were devoted
:25:48. > :25:53.to each other. Another big figure in his life, his surrogate son,
:25:53. > :26:02.Tyrone, played by Andrew Nelson. You're a good lad. For someone of
:26:02. > :26:05.my generation, Bill, as Jack and Vera, it was Mr and Mrs Coronation
:26:05. > :26:12.Street. Every story line seems to have something to do with them. I
:26:13. > :26:18.loved him as his character, but as a man I loved him more. Outside of
:26:18. > :26:22.work, his other great love was singing, but been cast as Jack
:26:22. > :26:28.Duckworth in 1981 meant that his acting work to cut most of his time.
:26:28. > :26:38.Have you met my husband? First appearing alongside the era at a
:26:38. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:46.wedding. -- Vera. He left the show 2008 as -- after 30 years as a
:26:46. > :26:50.ladies' man and loving husband. had a choice, it was musical
:26:50. > :26:55.Coronation Street and Coronation Street made more money. I could
:26:55. > :26:58.have been in Las Vegas now, instead of Fleeming Coronation Street.
:26:58. > :27:03.Millions will remember him as half of one of the best loved Couples
:27:03. > :27:08.won one of the best-loved shows in television history.
:27:08. > :27:12.Bill Tarmey, who died in Tenerife this morning aged 71.
:27:12. > :27:16.this morning aged 71. Let us take a look at the weather.
:27:16. > :27:20.It is an improving story as we head through this weekend. Having said
:27:20. > :27:25.that, it will probably be turning colder. We're going to find most of
:27:25. > :27:29.the showers will be on Saturday. Few showers on Sunday. More
:27:29. > :27:34.sunshine. First of all, we need to get rid of the rain adhere it is at
:27:34. > :27:38.the moment, just edging eastwards across England, away from Wales. --
:27:38. > :27:41.and here it is at the moment. Turning misty and murky underneath
:27:41. > :27:46.the wet weather but showers coming in from the West will limit the
:27:47. > :27:50.temperature drops. There is a risk of frost in Northumberland.
:27:50. > :27:56.Tomorrow, the rain pushing away from the east, and it is going to
:27:56. > :28:00.be slow process. -- slow progress. Further west, more sunshine, which
:28:00. > :28:04.is where we will see most of the showers. Eventually, the weather
:28:04. > :28:08.will be improving. Some late sunshine but even then, a few
:28:08. > :28:11.showers. It could take all day for the rain to clear away. Through the
:28:11. > :28:15.Midlands, we will have a mixture of sunshine and showers but probably
:28:15. > :28:20.not many to the east of the Pennines or across the eastern side
:28:20. > :28:23.of Scotland. Western Scotland will see frequent showers, heavy and
:28:23. > :28:26.possibly with a loud thunder. Northern Ireland will see showers
:28:26. > :28:30.as well. Maybe more sunshine in the afternoon but a lot of showers
:28:30. > :28:34.around the western coast, pushing inland across Wales through the day
:28:34. > :28:38.and further into the south-west we will see quite a lot of showers.
:28:38. > :28:41.The showers will retreat back to coastal areas on Saturday night and
:28:41. > :28:45.will be cold. Bull's other temperatures in towns and cities
:28:45. > :28:53.but in the countryside, it will be colder still. -- those are the
:28:53. > :28:57.temperatures. A cold start for Remembrance Sunday. The shares on