:00:09. > :00:14.A new crisis for the NHS 111 helpline, now one of its main
:00:14. > :00:17.contractors says it will pull out. Managers promise to keep the service
:00:17. > :00:25.going, but some doctors blame a market style reorganisation of the
:00:26. > :00:29.NHS. At the heart of this has been the drive by government to enforce a
:00:29. > :00:34.competitive tendering approach in the NHS. We will be asking what
:00:34. > :00:39.ministers plan to do. Also tonight, what caused a holiday coach in Italy
:00:39. > :00:43.to plunge 100 feet into a ravine killing 39 people?
:00:43. > :00:48.The top Catholic school in the Highlands, where boys were abused
:00:48. > :00:53.over decades, we have a special report.
:00:53. > :00:58.The Bolshoi Ballet comes to London for its 50th anniversary, but what
:00:58. > :01:02.about those backstage scandals? Later in the hour on BBC News, I
:01:02. > :01:06.will be here with Sportsday, including the latest football
:01:06. > :01:16.transfer news and Gareth Bale's possible world record move to Real
:01:16. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:34.Hello and welcome to the BBC News At Six. The troubled NHS 111 helpline
:01:34. > :01:39.has been dealt another blow tonight after one of the main contractors
:01:39. > :01:43.said it was pulling out. NHS Direct provides the non-emergency phone
:01:44. > :01:48.line for a third of England's population. Officials insist the
:01:48. > :01:51.bull in the affected areas will continue to get a prompt and safe
:01:51. > :01:57.service, but the British Medical Association has called it an abject
:01:57. > :02:01.failure. Health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:02:01. > :02:05.The 111 helpline is meant to provide advice and practical help for
:02:05. > :02:08.patients in England needing urgent but not emergency care. It is an
:02:08. > :02:14.idea that has broad support, but its introduction has been fraught with
:02:14. > :02:17.problems. In some areas, like the Northeast, where 111 is run by the
:02:17. > :02:23.local ambulance service, it seems to be working well. But in other parts
:02:23. > :02:27.of the country, the system collapsed soon after being launched. NHS
:02:27. > :02:30.Direct won contracts to provide services in 11 out of 46 regions
:02:31. > :02:33.across England, but earlier this month it announced it was pulling
:02:33. > :02:40.out of Cornwall and North Essex before they were even up and
:02:41. > :02:45.running. Now it is pulling out of contract that cover around a third
:02:45. > :02:48.of the population. NHS 111 was set up in part at least to relieve
:02:48. > :02:52.pressure on busy accident and emergency departments, like this
:02:52. > :02:54.one. Anecdotal evidence would suggest that more people are coming
:02:54. > :03:01.to emergency departments when they are not satisfied with the service
:03:01. > :03:04.they are getting. The 11 contracts won by NHS Direct were worth a
:03:04. > :03:08.potential �43 million, but they got their sums badly wrong.
:03:08. > :03:12.Consultations took twice as long as they had budgeted for, and so the
:03:12. > :03:17.trust was losing money on every single phone call. Critics say there
:03:17. > :03:21.is an underlying problem with the way the system was introduced.
:03:21. > :03:27.implementation of 111 has been an abject failure, and at the heart of
:03:27. > :03:33.this has been the drive by government to enforce a competitive
:03:33. > :03:36.tendering approach in the NHS. ministers say patients are now
:03:37. > :03:40.seeing an improvement in how the helpline is working.
:03:40. > :03:45.disappointment has been that, in a few areas, and I emphasise very
:03:45. > :03:50.few, the service has not lived up to expectations. The vast majority of
:03:50. > :03:56.the country are actually getting a good service from 111. When the
:03:56. > :03:59.system works, it seems to do well. The comparable NHS 24 helpline in
:03:59. > :04:03.Scotland is generally well-regarded. And as they do in the north-east of
:04:03. > :04:08.England, patients could see local ambulance trusts running the service
:04:08. > :04:10.in areas left vacant by NHS Direct, but the withdrawal of the biggest
:04:11. > :04:15.single provider is another blow to a service that is still finding its
:04:15. > :04:19.feet. Live now to deputy political editor
:04:20. > :04:24.James Landale at Westminster, James, this is not the first problem with
:04:24. > :04:29.the 111 service, so how damaging is this latest episode, the you think?
:04:29. > :04:32.It rather depends on who you believe. The Government says these
:04:32. > :04:36.problems are exaggerated and that actually most people get a pretty
:04:36. > :04:40.good service, and they say there is no evidence of any pressure being
:04:40. > :04:44.put on accident and emergency services. Labour are incredulous,
:04:44. > :04:49.they say the model is fatally flawed, it simply does not work, it
:04:49. > :04:52.is putting pressure on emergency services, and we should go back to a
:04:52. > :04:56.single national nurse led telephone hotline. Regardless of who was right
:04:56. > :05:00.or wrong, this is very tricky for the Conservatives, who positioned
:05:00. > :05:06.themselves as the champion patients, blaming Labour for poor
:05:06. > :05:10.care that some patients had got at hospitals like Mid Staffordshire.
:05:10. > :05:14.This allows Labour back into the argument to criticise the
:05:14. > :05:18.Government's own reforms, even if Labour did promise a version of the
:05:18. > :05:22.111 hotline themselves. There is also a more fundamental question,
:05:22. > :05:27.and that is over way the state does business in providing public
:05:27. > :05:30.services. Why did this organisation, NHS Direct, promised to do this work
:05:30. > :05:36.so cheaply without it being a going concern? Why did the state agreed to
:05:36. > :05:41.the contract in the first place? That has ramifications for the
:05:41. > :05:45.provision of public services across the country.
:05:45. > :05:55.If you want more information on the changes to the NHS Direct service,
:05:55. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:02.there is a Q&A section on the BBC decades has now claimed 39 lives. A
:06:02. > :06:06.holiday coach carrying 50 passengers, including many children,
:06:06. > :06:10.plunged off way by that east of Naples into a ravine. Reports
:06:10. > :06:15.suggested was travelling at speed when it several cars. The accident
:06:15. > :06:22.happened near the town of Monteforte Irpino, 40 miles from Naples. Alan
:06:22. > :06:26.Johnston reports now from the scene. Wake-up there on the edge of the
:06:26. > :06:31.highway, the passengers will have felt their bus launch into midair.
:06:31. > :06:37.It crashed down through the trees and pounded into the Earth 100 feet
:06:37. > :06:43.below. In a mangled mess of metal, reminders of those on board, among
:06:43. > :06:49.them families with children. The safety barrier on the highway's edge
:06:49. > :06:52.had failed to keep them safe. TRANSLATION: I would think the
:06:52. > :06:55.barriers on the bridges and viaducts should prevent this kind of
:06:55. > :07:01.accident, but it seems the impact was so strong that even the barrier
:07:01. > :07:05.gave way. The bus had been badly out of control. It did not break and is
:07:05. > :07:11.approached slow-moving traffic and rammed through a line of cars before
:07:11. > :07:15.it careered off the road. TRANSLATION: All of a sudden, we
:07:15. > :07:20.heard bangs coming from behind us, then we were crashed into, and we
:07:20. > :07:25.didn't even see the coach at all. Rescue crews worked through the
:07:25. > :07:30.night, surging force some drivers, tending to the injured, and
:07:30. > :07:34.gathering up the many dead. -- searching for survivors.
:07:34. > :07:37.TRANSLATION: We live very close to the crash site, we heard a huge boom
:07:37. > :07:42.and ran, we took the children out. All you could hear was children
:07:42. > :07:47.shouting. We called the police and waited because the guard rail was
:07:47. > :07:51.hanging and we were afraid it would fall on us. In a makeshift morgue in
:07:51. > :07:58.a nearby town, relatives have been coming to try to identify the dead.
:07:58. > :08:03.As the day drew to a close, they prayed for those who they had lost.
:08:03. > :08:08.There is shock and grief here, but questions are also being asked. What
:08:08. > :08:12.caused this carnage? Was there a failure of the bus's breaks perhaps?
:08:12. > :08:17.Or was the driver to blame? He was among those who died in the
:08:17. > :08:20.wreckage, and the actions he took in the last moments of his life will be
:08:20. > :08:30.closely scrutinised in an investigation that is only just
:08:30. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:36.Here, a teenage killers fighting for her life after an attack at her
:08:36. > :08:40.father's house in which he was killed. A suspect also died after
:08:40. > :08:45.driving a car into the side of a pub. The attack happened in Mostyn
:08:45. > :08:48.in Manchester. From there, north of England correspondent Danny Savage
:08:48. > :08:52.reports. It was at 10:20pm last night that
:08:52. > :08:58.police called to this house found the body of 41-year-old Robert
:08:58. > :09:01.Jackson. Lying critically injured nearby was his daughter. Both had
:09:01. > :09:05.been stabbed. Robert Jackson has been described by neighbours as a
:09:05. > :09:10.man who had no enemies and who loved his music. We were trying to put two
:09:10. > :09:14.and two together, with its saying a 41-year-old man and a 13-year-old
:09:14. > :09:18.girl, so my daughter walked around to where Jacko used to live and
:09:18. > :09:23.asked if that is where it was and they confirmed it. My daughter came
:09:23. > :09:26.back, I was in a state of shock, I felt sick. He was the nicest man you
:09:26. > :09:30.could ever meet, he would bend over backwards to help anybody. Police
:09:30. > :09:34.were called to the house on Delta walk in Moston after someone raised
:09:34. > :09:44.concerns about the father and daughter. Less than three hours
:09:44. > :09:45.
:09:45. > :09:50.later, police were called to what eight road where a man had had his
:09:50. > :09:55.car stolen. The car was spotted next to a pub, but it sped off, and
:09:55. > :09:58.moments later crashed into the side of a pub, leaving this whole. The
:09:58. > :10:02.44-year-old driver, who it is understood was responsible for the
:10:02. > :10:08.earlier attack, was then taken to hospital suffering from injuries
:10:08. > :10:12.from the crash and a stab wound. He died a short time later. This
:10:12. > :10:17.afternoon, flowers were left for the dead man at the pub, naming him as
:10:17. > :10:22.Darren Gasper, who neighbours say was known to police. But it is the
:10:22. > :10:27.fact that a child was targeted which has left people shocked. She is a
:10:27. > :10:34.very nice, quiet little girl, she talks to my little girl, we see her
:10:34. > :10:42.with the neighbours' little boy. the 13-year-old is the only witness
:10:42. > :10:44.to what really happened here. She is still lying critically ill in
:10:44. > :10:47.hospital. British tourists travelling between
:10:47. > :10:52.Spain and Gibraltar today have not had to endure the six long wait
:10:52. > :10:54.imposed by Spanish border guards over the weekend. It follows an
:10:54. > :10:58.intervention from the Foreign Secretary, who raised serious
:10:58. > :11:02.concerns over the issue. There are reports the delays could be linked
:11:02. > :11:07.to a fishing dispute between Spain and the British territory of
:11:07. > :11:11.Gibraltar. Robert Hall reports from Spain.
:11:11. > :11:15.Another territorial squall swirls around the rock, and the Spanish
:11:15. > :11:19.deploy the one tactic guaranteed to raise temperatures - a go slow. Over
:11:19. > :11:23.three days, thousands of temperatures were gridlocked at
:11:23. > :11:28.Gibraltar's gated border as Spanish officials checked paperwork for
:11:28. > :11:32.traffic travelling both onto and out of British territory. They said it
:11:32. > :11:40.was a routine operation to prevent smuggling. The drivers, sweating
:11:40. > :11:45.under the Midsummer sun, thought differently. Six hours, this is
:11:45. > :11:52.chaos. It is chaos, warm, hungry, people complaining. Terrible for the
:11:52. > :11:58.kids. We have got elderly people, you know, we have got diabetics,
:11:58. > :12:01.pregnant women. People going to weddings, people catching flights to
:12:01. > :12:05.Malaga and Seville. You know, not everybody is happy, we can't keep
:12:05. > :12:09.everybody happy all the time, but unfortunately this is the
:12:09. > :12:12.situation. A call from the British foreign secretary to his Spanish
:12:13. > :12:19.counterpart has led to a resumption of normal service, but the tension
:12:19. > :12:23.remains. Last week Spanish patrol boats, Gibraltar police launches and
:12:23. > :12:28.Royal Navy vessels were involved in a melee around a token which was
:12:28. > :12:32.dropping concrete blocks to form an artificial reef. Madrid sees this as
:12:32. > :12:36.an infringement of its fishing rights and have lodged a formal
:12:36. > :12:39.complaint. Last month, police filmed this video of another incidents
:12:39. > :12:45.during which a Spanish patrol allegedly fired shots near a
:12:45. > :12:51.Gibraltar jet ski. All evidence, says the Gibraltar government, of
:12:51. > :12:55.Spanish attempts to bully them. For centuries, the Rock has weathered
:12:55. > :12:58.Mediterranean storms and the rows over who should own this strategic
:12:58. > :13:05.outcrop. William Hague's direct intervention has eased difficulties
:13:06. > :13:07.for now, but the row is not over, and 300 years after the British
:13:07. > :13:12.established their colony, the likelihood of more border incidents
:13:12. > :13:17.is all too real. A series of car bomb attacks have
:13:17. > :13:19.hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other cities, killing more than 50
:13:19. > :13:25.people. It is understood the devices, which exploded during
:13:25. > :13:30.morning rush hour, targeted mainly Shia Muslim areas. More than 700
:13:30. > :13:33.people have been killed in Iraq so far this month.
:13:33. > :13:37.A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of sexual and physical
:13:37. > :13:41.abuse at a prestigious Catholic boy school in the islands. Accounts of
:13:41. > :13:45.child abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey School and its preparatory School
:13:45. > :13:48.spanned three decades. Both schools have now closed. Scotland
:13:48. > :13:55.correspondent James Cook has the story, which does contain
:13:55. > :13:59.descriptions of the abuse. This Benedictine abbey runs a
:13:59. > :14:03.school, drawing pupils from all over Scotland... It looks for all the
:14:04. > :14:07.world like an idyllic childhood on the banks of Loch Ness. For
:14:07. > :14:13.decades, devout Catholics had trusted their children to be men of
:14:13. > :14:18.God at Fort Augustus Abbey. Only now, 20 years after the school
:14:18. > :14:24.closed, is it clear that some of those children were betrayed. Donald
:14:24. > :14:28.was 13 when he was sent to the Abbey in 1961. His childhood was far from
:14:28. > :14:38.a delicate, and he blames this month, an Australian, Aidan Duggan.
:14:38. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:50.He pulled my trousers down, it was horrible, painful. He raped you.
:14:50. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :14:59.you came to light. The BBC has spoken to more than 50 former pupils
:14:59. > :15:05.of Fort Augustus and its prep school. More than a third describe
:15:05. > :15:10.physical violence, six alleged sexual abuse. Before he abused me,
:15:10. > :15:15.he closed the curtains so no-one would see. I used to cry at night.
:15:15. > :15:22.Like we were saying our prayers at night and I used to just cry.
:15:22. > :15:25.man who abused Brendan in 1977 was another Australian, father Denis
:15:25. > :15:32.Alexander. The BBC tracked in down to his retirement home in the
:15:32. > :15:37.suburbs of Sydney. I do not care who you are, just get off my property or
:15:37. > :15:43.I will call the cops, OK? allegation is you sexually abused at
:15:43. > :15:46.Fort Augustus in the late 1970s. became a parish priest here in
:15:46. > :15:51.1989. The Catholic Church in Australia says it was not told why
:15:51. > :15:58.he was sent back from Scotland. Isn't it time you confronted your
:15:58. > :16:04.past? No answers from him, but what about the UK's senior Benedictine?
:16:04. > :16:06.am very sorry, very sorry about any abuse that may have been committed
:16:06. > :16:10.at Fort Augustus, any abuse that may have been committed at any
:16:10. > :16:13.Benedictine school, or anywhere for that matter. What happened here at
:16:13. > :16:18.Fort Augustus leaves many questions for the Catholic Church. How much
:16:18. > :16:21.was known? What was done to stop it? And what is being done now to
:16:21. > :16:30.investigate? The police have now begun an inquiry, but for the boys
:16:30. > :16:37.who were abused here, it comes special investigation on BBC One
:16:37. > :16:43.Scotland at 9.00pm tonight, and on the BBC iPlayer. Our top story this
:16:43. > :16:48.evening. A new crisis for the NHS 111 helpline. Now one of its main
:16:48. > :16:58.contractors says it will pull out. And still to come. Why you might
:16:58. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:03.soon be allowed to park on double yellow lines. To go shopping. And
:17:03. > :17:06.coming up in sports day, Willa Jessica Ennis-Hill make it to the
:17:06. > :17:16.world championships next month? There are still doubts over her
:17:16. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:25.keep rising so are the big firms that supply our gas and electricity
:17:25. > :17:29.making excessive profits? A committee of MPs has said it's far
:17:29. > :17:32.too difficult to tell and is calling on the energy regulator to use its
:17:32. > :17:38.teeth to restore consumer confidence. Since 2007, average gas
:17:38. > :17:48.prices have risen in real terms by 41%. And electricity prices have
:17:48. > :17:52.increased by 20%. Here's our Industry Correspondent, John Moylan.
:17:52. > :17:58.How do the big six energy suppliers make their money? Are the prices
:17:58. > :18:02.they charge us fair? MPs had been investigating all of this amid
:18:02. > :18:05.accusations of excessive profits. Their answer? You don't know for
:18:06. > :18:10.certain what they are making. They tell you what they make in retail
:18:11. > :18:16.but not in the generation part of it. We think it's about 20% on a
:18:16. > :18:20.generation. And about 5% on retail, and that sounds to me quite
:18:20. > :18:24.excessive. MPs say there's a lack of transparency from the big six energy
:18:24. > :18:30.firms which is hitting consumer confidence. At the end of the day,
:18:30. > :18:33.they need to make a profit as much as they can. I don't trust them.
:18:33. > :18:38.I've always been fairly comfortable they do the best by me but I haven't
:18:38. > :18:42.checked. It's way too expensive. Most of the time, my bills are
:18:42. > :18:49.estimated. They have no idea what they are charging me and I feel like
:18:49. > :18:53.I'm overpaying. I feel like I trust them but more information would be a
:18:53. > :18:59.benefit. According to MPs, much of the blame for the lack of
:18:59. > :19:03.transparency must lie here with the industry regulator, Ofgem. Now, they
:19:04. > :19:08.commissioned this independent report to clear up this very issue and yet
:19:08. > :19:13.it then failed to implement all of the recommendations. When we looked
:19:13. > :19:16.at the evidence from the independent auditors it wasn't persuasive to us
:19:16. > :19:19.about the benefits to customers that might flow from this recommendations
:19:19. > :19:25.would be outweighed by the costs that could fall to customers as a
:19:25. > :19:30.result. It's not just profits under scrutiny. MPs worry many others
:19:30. > :19:33.don't even realise what we are paying for. Government figures
:19:33. > :19:38.suggest energy efficiency measures and subsidies for renewables will
:19:38. > :19:43.add a third at the average electricity price by 2020. There is
:19:43. > :19:46.an increase in people 's bills due to our policies on fuel poverty,
:19:46. > :19:51.energy efficiencies, and renewables but the cost of increasing support
:19:51. > :19:57.for renewables is much less than many people believe. The real big
:19:57. > :20:00.reason for higher bills if global gas prices and the need to renew our
:20:00. > :20:04.networks. But are these extra costs affair with household already
:20:04. > :20:07.struggling to pay their energy bills? MPs say it's time the
:20:07. > :20:11.government changed tack and funded all of this from direct taxation
:20:11. > :20:14.instead. Pope Francis has struck a conciliatory note towards gay people
:20:14. > :20:22.in his first press conference since becoming the leader of the world's
:20:22. > :20:25.catholics in March. Speaking on the plane back to Rome he said he wanted
:20:25. > :20:27.gay people to be integrated into society and not marginalised or
:20:27. > :20:36.judged. Our religious affairs correspondent is at Westminster
:20:36. > :20:39.Cathedral. Robert, the language certainly sounds different but how
:20:39. > :20:44.significant are these words? Well, you have to say, you saw it in
:20:44. > :20:46.Brazil, his radical change of style has captured public imagination but
:20:47. > :20:52.it falls in some way short of changing Church teaching and I think
:20:52. > :21:00.it's very good to illustrate this today. The Pope says gay people
:21:00. > :21:06.shouldn't be marginalised and judged but he's also said that it is sinful
:21:06. > :21:10.to commit acts, homosexual acts. ( edit, add additional list, said much
:21:10. > :21:13.the same thing although Pope Benedict also said homosexuality was
:21:14. > :21:18.objectively disordered. We are looking at a change of style,
:21:18. > :21:22.emphasis. Popes don't go around making policy and changing church
:21:22. > :21:25.law. They have great power interpreting it. Hope Francis
:21:25. > :21:29.thought is that atheists could go to heaven if they do the right thing on
:21:29. > :21:34.earth, so you can see what he can get away with. OK, Robert, thank you
:21:34. > :21:36.very much. A Labour MP has called on the social networking site, Twitter
:21:36. > :21:38.to crack down on abusive messages after receiving dozens of
:21:38. > :21:42.threatening tweets. Stella Creasy was targeted after giving public
:21:42. > :21:49.support to the campaign for Jane Austen to appear on the new �10
:21:49. > :21:52.note. She's revealed that the messages included threats of rape.
:21:52. > :21:55.Motorists may be allowed to park on double yellow lines for a short time
:21:55. > :21:58.in a bid to boost High Street trading. The Government says local
:21:58. > :22:02.councils in England need to play their part in what they call
:22:02. > :22:10.reigning back the over-zealous culture of parking enforcement. Our
:22:10. > :22:15.Local Government Correspondent, Mike Sergeant, reports.
:22:15. > :22:19.To most drivers, double yellow lines send a clear message. No parking on
:22:19. > :22:24.any day at any time. Share in Brentwood, restrictions on the
:22:24. > :22:29.length of the high Street. Keeping the traffic flowing smoothly but
:22:29. > :22:33.frustrating those hoping to make a quick stop. This is literally the
:22:33. > :22:41.only place you can park to have lunch. It's all double yellow lines.
:22:41. > :22:44.Everywhere. Like every shop here, the florist has nowhere outside the
:22:44. > :22:54.park. Rita says strictly enforced traffic rules are hurting their
:22:54. > :22:56.
:22:56. > :22:59.business. If anybody just once to order up OK, -- or drug OK, go to
:22:59. > :23:04.the shoe repairers, they can't stop the two minutes. Some shoppers don't
:23:04. > :23:11.seem mind walking further. Double yellow lines, there's a reason for
:23:11. > :23:15.it. Yes, if they got a problem, they should make some money out of it.
:23:15. > :23:19.Conservative ministers think some councils have been using charges and
:23:19. > :23:23.penalties as an easy way to raise money. The idea is to allow people
:23:23. > :23:30.to park on the high street for maybe 15 or 20 minutes, enough time to
:23:30. > :23:34.grab some shopping and move on before getting fined. But the
:23:34. > :23:38.Liberal Democrats say the plan is unworkable. They think traffic
:23:38. > :23:42.wardens should realise those parked illegally. And motoring
:23:42. > :23:46.organisations worry that high streets could be clogged up if
:23:46. > :23:52.drivers stop wherever they like. of the problems is that could lead
:23:52. > :23:57.to congestions. W lines keep traffic flowing, and is a risk that if you
:23:57. > :24:00.turn the space back over the parking, we will see more congestion
:24:00. > :24:06.in urban areas. That would be a downside to this idea but otherwise
:24:06. > :24:13.has some good merits. Concerns have been made by road safety
:24:13. > :24:17.campaigners. There's many campaigns that answers before drivers could
:24:17. > :24:20.see double yellow lines as good pit stop. The world famous Bolshoi
:24:20. > :24:23.Ballet starts a three-week season tonight in London. It is celebrating
:24:23. > :24:28.its 50 year anniversary at Covent Garden. But the famous Russian dance
:24:28. > :24:34.company has been plagued by scandal recently. Has it left all that
:24:34. > :24:41.behind? Here's our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz.
:24:41. > :24:51.The legendary Bolshoi Ballet are back at the Royal Opera house. They
:24:51. > :24:55.
:24:55. > :24:58.will be performing among other best in the world, their company one
:24:58. > :25:07.of the most prestigious. Embodying they believe, the heart and soul of
:25:07. > :25:10.Russia. TRANSLATION: I think the Bolshoi
:25:11. > :25:20.Ballet always represented Russian spirit and Russian music. And that
:25:21. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:28.is why it can be considered the greatest achievement of our culture.
:25:28. > :25:33.Chekhov once said the only thing he knew about ballet was during the
:25:33. > :25:36.performance, all a stink like horses. Dancers learn to mask the
:25:36. > :25:40.unpleasant realities of their physical exertions. There's no
:25:40. > :25:45.amount skill of or train which would enable anybody to conceal the
:25:45. > :25:49.strange goings-on backstage at the Bolshoi of late. There have been
:25:49. > :25:52.allegations of corruption and smear campaigns. And then in January, a
:25:53. > :25:57.traffic acid attack on Sergei Filin, the artistic director.
:25:57. > :26:02.Instigated, it is alleged, by one of his own dancers. That man with a
:26:02. > :26:08.dagger. A new boss has now been appointed to sort out this troubled
:26:09. > :26:13.institution. TRANSLATION: This kind of event come
:26:13. > :26:17.at this tragic event, has a very tough psychological impact on
:26:17. > :26:27.everybody. But these negative events will be in the past. And we will
:26:27. > :26:32.
:26:32. > :26:37.during the reign of Catherine the great since whether they've survived
:26:37. > :26:43.Napoleon, famine, two world wars and commune is. It should survive this
:26:43. > :26:50.current crisis, too, but the scars will linger. Time for a look at the
:26:50. > :26:53.weather. Here's Nina Ridge. Hello, George. Much of July is going out
:26:54. > :27:03.with a bang. More thunderstorms today from widespread showers across
:27:04. > :27:04.
:27:04. > :27:09.the south. The best of the dry weather and sunshine. The showers
:27:09. > :27:12.easing to the next couple of hours, keeping a few going, particularly
:27:12. > :27:16.across northern Scotland and for the Northern Isles, things turning misty
:27:16. > :27:22.and murky. A quiet spell of weather before more cloud gathers towards
:27:23. > :27:28.the south-west by the end of the night, so temperatures looking
:27:28. > :27:33.around 14-16. Already, 8am, showers scattered across parts of Scotland.
:27:34. > :27:37.There will be dry and brighter spells in between the showers and
:27:37. > :27:41.especially in northern England and Northern Ireland. Sitting to the
:27:41. > :27:45.south, much more overcast skies, cloudy across Wales and the
:27:45. > :27:49.Midlands, and it looks like we will have a spell of rain for southern
:27:49. > :27:54.counties. Steadily moving eastwards, heavy downpours at times,
:27:54. > :27:57.mixed in with that, but we are expecting it to clear away. By the
:27:57. > :28:00.middle part of the afternoon, it should have cleared away from the
:28:01. > :28:05.south-east corner. We will keep a mixture of sunshine and showers to
:28:05. > :28:11.the north and yet again, some could be heavy with thunderstorms mixed in
:28:11. > :28:14.and temperatures tomorrow, a bit disappointing. 18-20d. By the time
:28:14. > :28:18.you get to the middle part of the week, more weather fronts coming
:28:18. > :28:22.into the south-west though this one looks like it's going to push its
:28:22. > :28:29.way north. Still heavy rain at times especially across western areas. It
:28:29. > :28:33.is moving north and to the south of that, warm and humid conditions
:28:33. > :28:42.which will make itself felt by the time we get to Thursday. A more
:28:42. > :28:46.detailed look on the website. A reminder of our main story. A major