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Lloyds Bank partly owned by the taxpayer is back in profit. Losses | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
in 2012, but it has already made �2 billion this year. Its share price | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
is up. There is a great opportunity for the Government to make a profit. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
The BBC has learnt the Government could start selling its stake as | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
early as Monday morning. Also tonight: The American whistleblower, | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Edward Snowden, disappears from Moscow airport. He has got | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
temporary asylum in Russia. More than 200 raids across the | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
country as officials look for illegal immigrants. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Making profits out of parking, councils in England made half a | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
billion pounds last year. And it is the comeback of the | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
living room telly, but now everyone is doing their own thing. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Coming up: A club-record fee involving Tottenham, but it is not | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
Gareth Bale yet. Instead it it is Roberto Salgado who has arrived at | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC's news at six. Hopes that the | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
taxpayer will see a return on the billions spent on bailing out the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
banks rose today after Lloyds Banking Group announced a big | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
profit. It made over just �2 billion in the first six months of | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
the year. In the same period last year it lost �450 million. The | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Government could start selling its stake in the bank as early as | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Monday morning. Lloyds, taxpayers have owned a huge | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
chunk of it since the crash of 2008, but a Sale side is about to go up | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
on it. The privatisation could be the end of the disposing off �5 | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
billion of the shares to big City investors as soon as Monday morning. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
The chief secretary to the Treasury did not rule that out. There is not | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
a fixed timetable and we are not going to rush it. The results are | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
welcome as a sign the bank is continuing on the right path. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Lloyds, in dire straits a few years back, can be sold because it is | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
almost back in the pink. Profits in the first half of this year were | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
�2.1 billion, compared to a loss in 2012. Lloyds is very close to being | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
fully fixed. New management is in place and costs have been reduced | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
and a lot of the business that is not essential part of the growth | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
strategy has been sold or excepted. This is what the Chancellor will | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
look at. 61p is what the taps alone needs to get the share price up to. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
73.6 pence is the price we paid for shares when we bailed out the bank. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
74p, the market price tonight, higher than what taxpayers pay for | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
them. One of the reasons why Lloyds is so much more recovered and | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
closer to privatisation than the other big semi nationalised banks, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland, is because Lloyds is all about this, | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
branch banking, retail banking. It does not have RBS' complicated | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
investment banking or much overseas. RBS, are probably still years away | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
from its privatisation, but there will be a bit of important progress | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
tomorrow with the announcement of a new chief executive. Meet Ross | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
McEwan, the new boss. He is from New Zealand. Back at Lloyds an | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
initial share sale would raise between 2.5 and �5 billion, very | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
much a first step along the road to taxpayers getting back our �20 | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
billion. Robert, you say the Government could start selling its | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
stake as early as Monday morning. How will George Osborne make that | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
decision? The choice is sow now or wait until September or October | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
because the city goes on holiday like most of the world he in a lot | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
of August. If he misses the window of Monday or Tuesday, it is then | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
very hard to press the button on the share sale until the autumn. | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
There is momentum behind the share price as I've just mentioned. The | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
shares closed tonight above the price which we as taxpayers paid | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
for the state. He will not get that back if he were to try and sell | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
this second because the big institutions that would buy the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
shares which demands a bit of a discount. But the Chancellor does | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
not need to get the full prize that we paid in this initial sale | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
because he is only selling a bit. He would hope that when he sells a | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
more shares further down the track, the price will be higher. The | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
dilemma it is a bird in the hand question. If he sells on Monday, he | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
can be pretty confident he will get a reasonable price. There is a risk | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
if he waits until the autumn that markets might have the jitters and | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the prize could be lowered. But there could be a wonderful some are | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
on the stock market and the prize could be higher in the autumn. My | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
hunch would be that he will go with the momentum and we will see | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
something within days. The American whistleblower Edward Snowden, | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
described by his lawyer as the most wanted man on the planet, has left | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Moscow airport. His lawyer said he had received the papers needed to | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
enter Russian territory. Snowden, who exposed America's top-secret | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
electronic surveillance programme, arrived in Russia in June. Daniel | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Sandford is at the Kremlin now. This is going to annoy the | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
Americans. Yes, very much so. In the last few minutes, the White | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
House spokesman has described the decision as extremely disappointing | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
and said it undermines the long- standing co-operation between | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
America and Russia on law and order. White House officials are already | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
suggesting President Obama may now be reconsidering his summit which | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
he was supposed to be having with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the first | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
proper summit that has ever been between that two men, now in | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
jeopardy because Russia has decided to give temporary asylum to Edward | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Snowden. The Americans are so infuriated because of Edward | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Snowden claimed he could be tortured in America and he could | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
face the death penalty and he could not face a fair trial. That has | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
been accepted by the Russians and he has been allowed to leave the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
airport and he has evaded the media for five weeks and no-one will be | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
able to find him now and less he wants to be found. The BBC has | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
learnt two-thirds of fines issued to employers of illegal workers in | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the last five years remain unpaid. The Home Office issued almost �80 | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
million in fines and has so far only collected �25 million. The | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Home Office has been carrying out a major UK wide operation against | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
illegal immigrants. Stay where you are. Stepping up the pressure to | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
salvage its reputation. Since the Home Office took over | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
responsibility for border controls in April, it has tried to send out | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
a strong message. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Swansea today that meant moving in to arrest their shop worker, | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
suspected of breaching a student visa, he admitted working here 12 | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
hours a day, six days a week and faces being deported in days. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
have to give 72 hours' notice, but we will be booking a flight for him | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
in a few days' time. This was the first UK-wide state of rates. In | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
Essex officers targeted a car-wash, trying to tackle a backlog of cases. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
We have a grip. We have an environment where we are making it | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
increasingly difficult for people to be in the UK illegally. Back in | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Swansea a raid on a nail bar reveals that two more suspects. The | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
woman tells of the so she entered the UK in the back of a lorry. The | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
man was thought to have overstayed on his student visa. This is a | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
public attempt to restore confidence in immigration controls. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
At the same time the Government is looking to double the maximum fine | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
for employing illegal workers to �20,000. But the system has been | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
failing. More than 8500 employers have been fined in the last few | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
years. But only �25 million has been paid. The Government says its | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Immigration Bill will reduce unpaid fines. Its critics say it must do | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
more. We do not need a one off stump for TV cameras, we need | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
regular, concerted action to deal with this. Tonight rates are | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
continuing across the UK. The Home Office hopes its message will | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
travel beyond the borders. English local authorities have been | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
heavily criticised for piling up huge profits from parking fines and | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
permits. The RAC says the council's earned a total of nearly six added | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
million pounds after their costs were taken into account. Outside | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
London Cornwall and Brighton notched up the biggest profits. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
If you think the cost of parking is going up, the chances are you are | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
probably right. Parking charges, residential permits and finds, say | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
the RAC, last year generated most English councils vast cash | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
surpluses, up �54 million on the year before. Cornwall council | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
amassed one of the biggest surpluses. We are very old | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
pensioners who do not have a lot of money, so we are very cross. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
money should be spent in the right place. It should go back to the | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
general public and not be held. motorists in Cornwall think they | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
have got it bad, it is striders in London that are worst hit. Eight | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
out of 10 councils earning the biggest surpluses are in the | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
capital city with Westminster City Council topping that table. Local | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
authorities in England, over 350, generated a combined surplus of 560 | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
fact million pounds, with only a minority operating their parking | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
services at a loss. The majority that generated a surplus must by | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
law and that money to their transport budgets. It is reinvested | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
back into the road into newt two ways systems, into concessionary | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
fares to allow our elderly to use public transport. Everything goes | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
back into transport. It is transparent and clear. That may be | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the case in Westminster, but last week a court ruled that parking | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
charge rises in Barking in north London were unlawful because the | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
money had not been spent appropriately. Barnet council | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
already had a surplus of �4 million when the new charges were brought | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
in. Then it brought a new charges which were very high. Meanwhile | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
communities and local Government secretary Eric Pickles has tweeted | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
his way into the row, saying unfair parking rules need to be reined in. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
That may mean it is local authorities, not drivers that are | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
penalised. The a bizarre result in Zimbabwe's | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
election may not be known for days, but the main opposition leader, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Morgan Tsvangirai, has already called the polls as. President | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Robert Mugabe, who has led the country since 1980, is bidding for | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
a 7th consecutive term in office. The vote was peaceful, the counting | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
smooth so far, but already President Mugabe's opponents are | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
crying foul, insisting Africa's oldest leader has stolen another | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
election. This has been a farce because the credibility of this | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
election has been marred by a violations which affect the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
legitimacy of its outcome. This is what he is complaining about, | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
footage allegedly showing Robert Mugabe's supporters being bussed in | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
to vote illegally. A vast numbers of potential opponents were unable | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
to cast their ballots. Based on the empirical reports, regardless of | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
the outcome, the credibility of the 2013 elections are seriously | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
compromised by a systematic effort to disenfranchised urban voters, up | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
to 1 million voters. Five years ago, Zimbabwe's last election ended in | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
violence will start an economy end up down and an uncomfortable power- | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
sharing Government followed. But President Mugabe always kept a | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
tight grip on the security forces and the state media. With the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
economy stabilised he has campaigned to seize control of | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
foreign and white own business and that has been popular. Robert | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Mugabe and his party could well be heading for a landslide victory, | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
stolen or otherwise. Most Western observers have been banned and | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Zimbabwe's neighbours seemed unlikely to challenge the overall | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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threats on the social networking site Twitter has told the BBC that | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
the threats were a new low in online abuse against women. Time Magazine's | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Catherine Mayer was threatened along with two other prominent female | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
journalists. Sarah Campbell reports. Checking their Twitter accounts | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
yesterday three female journalists found a message saying bombs had | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
been placed outside the house. They were advised to stay somewhere else | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
for the night. I have experienced online abuse, but I haven't had a | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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bomb threat made to my home. That is a new departure. I don't think any | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
woman on Twitter manatees to escape without some level of abuse. | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
-- manages. This has led to calls for the social networking site to do | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
more. It says it is helping the police with investigations and | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
improving the way people can complain about online attacks. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
of the things we are working on is simplifying the reporting process. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
We will be making it easier for people to report instances of abuse, | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
where people are behaving irresponsibly, violating our rules. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
We do not allow specific threats of violence, we do not allow unlawful | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
behaviour. Part of the problem is the very | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
successful stop in Twitter's Case 400 million messages are sent every | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
day, and another which constitutes abuse is a concern over the world. | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
This lady complains for female rights in Asia and has been | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
subjected to abuse online, including the threat of rape. This is | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
happening all over the world. There is this kind of sentiment. From what | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
I read of the experiences of other women, almost exactly the same kinds | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
of abuse. Trying to close arguments by talking about women's looks | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
appears to be a common phenomenon. Back in the UK the police | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
investigation into the bomb threats continues, as does the debate over | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
the best way to protect users from online abuse. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
It is 6:17pm. Our top story: Losses for Lloyds in 2012 turned to profit | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
as the bank next �2 billion this year alone. | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
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Still to come, and wicket that never was. New trouble over technology at | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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While we have been on the BT has launched its new sports television | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
service it challenges Sky's 20 year long dominance of sport television. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
The rivalry will be particularly fierce over football. BT has the | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
rights to show 38 live Premier league games per season for the next | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
three seasons at a cost of �738 million. Our sports visitor reports | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
on the rivalry between these media giants. -- our sports reporter. The | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
football season hasn't started yet but one of the biggest clashes is | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
underway. After years of dominating the sport TV market Sky is facing a | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
new threat from BT. At its vast new studio on the Olympic Park to date | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
BT were getting ready to go live, but this isn't only about | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
television, by offering its new sports channels free to broadband | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
customers BT hopes to defend its position as the country 's leading | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
Internet provider. Broadband and the ability to retain and acquire new | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
customers in the world is the most important thing for BT, and having a | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
sports channel business such as BT Sport two is the way we believe we | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
can retain and acquire new customers. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Sky is still the main player in the football rights market, its package | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
of live Premier league games is more than three times bigger than BT that | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
was but are they worried? We have our challenges in the past and we | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
relish the challenge. It gets us really excited and invigorated and | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
we cannot wait for the new season. You only have to look at the scale | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
of this place to realise the ambition, but with so much money now | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
being pumped into English but full -- football it is not only a big | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
moment for television, but a defining moment for the national | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
game. The last two decades has seen the TV rights bonanza for football. | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
The first deal with Sky in 1992 was worth �190 million, but the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
three-year deal starting the season is worth over �3 billion. That is | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
�6.5 million per game. Of course, the new windfall will not ease the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
tension between the all-powerful Premier League and those who run the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
England team. Some think the time has come to be balanced against | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
priorities. There is an opportunity to bring all of football together, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
to stop people sniping at each other and say, what are we trying to | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
achieve? And bring football together on the basis of all trying to | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
achieve a set of goals. Whoever wins the battle between BT | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
and Sky, one thing is already clear, the Premier League's financial | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
control of the English game has just got bigger. | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
30 new peers including several party donors have been appointed to the | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
House of Lords bringing the total to nearly 800. That is the largest | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
number since the removal of most hereditary peers in 1998. They | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
include the Conservative businessman Sir Anthony Bamford, former police | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
officer and Lib Dem mayoral candidate, Brian Paddick, the Green | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
party's Jenny Jones, and the campaign Doreen Lawrence, the mother | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence stop she will sit on the | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
Labour benches. A man charged with the murder of four to soldiers in | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing has been granted conditional bail. John | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
Downey who is 61 and from County Donegal is accused of being involved | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
in planting a car bomb which killed members of the Household Cavalry, he | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
will be electronically tagged. Matt project is outside the Old Bailey. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Reminders of this case will stop -- remind us of this case. | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Two bombs exploded. The first one in Hyde Park killed four soldiers and | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
seven horses as they made their way for the changing of the guard there | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
are many at Buckingham Palace. The second one in Regent 's Park killed | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
seven military bandsmen at a bandstand. He is charged with the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
murder of the four soldiers in Hyde Park but added judge agreed to his | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
release on bail, subject to ten conditions, he must provide �55,000 | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
in bail money, he will be electronically tagged, will have to | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
stay at a specific address, and subject to curfew and will have to | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
visit a police station on Sunday. He spoke only to confirm his name -- | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
once a day. A provisional trial date of January | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
the 14th has been set. In the last few minutes Ariel | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Castro, the American man who kidnapped three women and subjected | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
them to a decade of sexual and physical abuse, has been sentenced | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
to life in prison without parole. He pleaded guilty to several hundred | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
cans including kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
When it comes to our television viewing habits it seems we are | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
heading back to a time when the whole family fought for the living | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
room sofa, but once there we are not necessarily doing the same thing. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
It is back in the 1950s Britain got the television bug and the set in | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
the living room became a family evening for millions. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Now it seems those days are back, and like this West London family we | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
tend to what should together on the main set on other than children | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
having their own televisions. On average we watch for hours each day, | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
and life rather than pre-recorded or streamed television still accounts | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
for most of our viewing -- and live. We are in the green, you feel like | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
you're watching it with your kids that they could be text in 30 other | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
people, on Facebook, so it is hard to know how much they are engaged | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
but there is just enough conversation going on around the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
programme you know that you are together. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Just as in the 1950s more and more of us are converging on the living | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
room, and it is around one much bigger screen. 41% of homes have | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
just the one television set, but the rise of mobile devices is changing | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
the television experience. Half of all adults have a smartphone, and as | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
for tablet computers 24% of households now own one of these. A | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
quarter of us are using them to interact with programmes. He was one | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
example. During Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory 1.1 million people | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
were tweeting and 80% were doing it from a mobile device. People are | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
very likely to use the smartphone or the tablet to watch television but | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
also mediate multitask, do other things while they are watching the | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
television. Also one in five of us are using our second screen to watch | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
a different type of content while everybody else is watching the main | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
screen in the living room. The average household contains three | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
devices that can connect to the Internet but as technology moves on | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
good old-fashioned television is still at the centre of the British | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
home. In cricket strolling din Michael | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
Clarke has been showing some batting form on day one at Old Trafford. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
England lead the five match series 2-0. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Ashes cricket isn't supposed to be easy so I suppose it was a | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
reassuring day. England will not enjoy seeing this radio 300-3, they | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
are still playing. -- seeing Australia. It has been day about new | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
technology. England on the brink of the Ashes. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
This was time to be ruthless. Last chance territory for Australia | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
already. Australia battling to stay in the Ashes. James Anderson, the | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
local hero, frustrating. England were searching for something to | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
happen when the Yorkshireman saw off the Queens land, James Watson out, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Alastair Cook catching. Next week it was almost a diplomatic incident. | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
The on field umpire decided he hit the ball on the way to the wicket. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
The review the decision and minutes of replays followed, none of which | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
showed contact with all and that the television umpire upheld the | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
division -- decision. The Australian prime minister fumed on the other | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
side of the world. One of the worst umpiring decisions he had ever | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
seen, he tweeted full stop Graeme Swann bold, on to watch a as | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
ministers were sleeping in Canberra the captain started attacking -- | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Australia's ministers. England thought they got Steven Smith out | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
every ten minutes. England had used up the review is to do nothing, | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Stuart Broad powerless and wicketless. The school board kept | :27:28. | :27:37. | |
ticking on, Australia 250. He told us he still believed in Australia, | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
but runs leave -- speak louder than words. | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
Michael Clarke accepted people might laugh when he said Australia could | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
win the series yesterday. Early days, but not much giggling at the | :27:50. | :27:59. | |
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moment in Manchester. be talking about the heat. Look at | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
the contrast. In the North, persistent rain. Very different in | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
the south and east. The hottest day of the year so far in Jersey. We | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
have seen the heat in the south-east. 34 degrees in Heathrow. | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
That extended into South Yorkshire. The rain is starting to ease away | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
from Scotland, drifting slowly north, leaving a cluster of showers | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
for a time in central and southern areas. It will be the heat again the | :28:42. | :28:52. | |
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talking .3 tonight, a sultry night for many. -- heat again will be the | :28:54. | :29:03. | |
subject through the night. Slightly fresher feel. A contrasting start. | :29:03. | :29:10. | |
The threat of a few showers coming up through the channel. The case of | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
sunny spells and scattered showers. A better day in sheltered eastern | :29:17. | :29:27. | |
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areas, it will be warm. We could get up to 26, 28 in East Anglia. Back to | :29:28. | :29:33. |