:00:04. > :00:12.The latest figures on the UK's recovering economy - the number of
:00:12. > :00:16.people out of work falls again. The jobless total is down to less than
:00:16. > :00:23.two and a half million - but Labour says too many are missing out.
:00:23. > :00:29.Unemployment is rising in half of the country. In the East of England,
:00:29. > :00:32.the north-east, the Northwest, Yorkshire and Humber, the West
:00:32. > :00:37.Midlands and Scotland. The party opposite told us there would be no
:00:37. > :00:42.growth without plan B, and we have growth. They told us unemployment
:00:42. > :00:44.would go up and not down. We'll be asking if these latest
:00:44. > :00:48.figures make Labour's task more difficult. Also tonight: The
:00:48. > :00:51.argument over HS2 - the Government fights back and says it will give a
:00:51. > :00:54.multi-billion pound boost to the economy.
:00:54. > :00:57.A UN report says says both sides in the Syrian conflict are guilty of
:00:57. > :01:03.war crimes. It comes as President Obama calls off military strikes.
:01:03. > :01:06.war crimes. It comes as President For now.
:01:06. > :01:08.Telling the full story of the Hillsborough disaster -
:01:08. > :01:19.investigators recover dozens more police notebooks.
:01:19. > :01:20.But families say the process is too slow.
:01:20. > :01:25.What did for the mighty mammoth - new research says it wasn't the
:01:25. > :01:34.hunters but climate change that was to blame. And in Sportsday, a comedy
:01:34. > :01:55.run out at Edgbaston, but will it be a wash-out?
:01:55. > :02:01.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:02:01. > :02:04.There's been another drop in UK unemployment, adding to a series of
:02:04. > :02:09.indicators that the economy is recovering. The number of people out
:02:09. > :02:11.of work fell by 24,000 in the three months to July, down to 2.49 million
:02:11. > :02:17.across the UK. In the Commons, David months to July, down to 2.49 million
:02:17. > :02:21.Cameron said the latest figures showed how wrong Labour had been
:02:21. > :02:24.about economic policy. But Ed Miliband said that in half the
:02:24. > :02:25.country unemployment was actually rising. Here's our chief economics
:02:25. > :02:36.correspondent, Hugh Pym. The building blocks of recovery.
:02:36. > :02:43.Factories like this one in Doncaster which makes cast stone products are
:02:43. > :02:47.helping drive economic growth. The workforce has nearly doubled over
:02:47. > :02:51.the last three years. Some of that Danny is -- some of that is down to
:02:51. > :02:58.competitors going bust, but new work is pouring in. We are expanding,
:02:58. > :03:02.getting new customers, and we are doing it efficiently. When you
:03:02. > :03:07.produce products efficiently, you create jobs for people, and that is
:03:07. > :03:11.what we are doing. But while some employers are expanding, you don't
:03:11. > :03:14.have to go far in South Yorkshire defined communities where they
:03:14. > :03:19.believe they haven't yet felt the benefits of economic recovery.
:03:19. > :03:23.This former pit village is only ten miles from Doncaster, but that is a
:03:23. > :03:28.gulf for job-seekers with family commitments and transport to think
:03:28. > :03:29.about. Maxine is trying to join the workforce after raising four
:03:29. > :03:36.children. She is being helped to workforce after raising four
:03:36. > :03:40.learn IT skills. She does some casual work, but she is finding it
:03:40. > :03:46.difficult to land the right full-time job. I just feel like we
:03:46. > :03:51.have been left behind and forgotten. There are no jobs. You have to
:03:51. > :03:55.travel for them, and a lot of people haven't got cars or can't afford
:03:55. > :04:00.childcare. Bosses don't run to where they need to go. There is a mixed
:04:00. > :04:05.picture for the unemployment rate around the country. In the three
:04:05. > :04:10.months to July, the south-east saw a fall of 0.7%, and in the East
:04:10. > :04:12.Midlands, it was down 0.5. But in some parts of the UK, the jobless
:04:12. > :04:24.rate increased. Today's figures fuelled exchanges
:04:24. > :04:29.about the economy at Prime Minister's Questions, with Labour
:04:29. > :04:32.mocking the Chancellor's speaks. The Chancellor said he had saved the
:04:32. > :04:39.economy. Total complacency and hubris, at a time when even today,
:04:39. > :04:44.unemployment is rising in half of the country. But the Prime Minister
:04:44. > :04:48.claimed Labour had been wrong on the key economic arguments. They told us
:04:48. > :04:54.unemployment would go up and not down. They told us that growth of
:04:54. > :04:59.private sector jobs would never make up for the loss of public sector
:04:59. > :05:02.jobs. They have been wrong on every single one of those issues. The
:05:02. > :05:05.jobless numbers and now watched single one of those issues. The
:05:05. > :05:10.especially closely by financial markets. The Bank of England says it
:05:10. > :05:14.won't consider raising interest rates until unemployment falls to 7%
:05:14. > :05:20.of the workforce. Today's figures show it moved closer to that
:05:20. > :05:22.benchmark. And our political correspondent
:05:22. > :05:31.Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. Is this an I told you so moment
:05:31. > :05:33.for the government? The better numbers follow a string of better
:05:33. > :05:38.for the government? The better figures on growth and retail sales.
:05:38. > :05:41.The better numbers are making it harder for Ed Miliband to make
:05:41. > :05:50.labour's court case on the economy, which is why he has sought to shift
:05:50. > :05:54.the argument towards whether ordinary families are benefiting,
:05:54. > :06:00.flagging up that in 38 out of the past 39 months, people's wages had
:06:00. > :06:03.been overtaken by inflation. But you do wonder whether the wind is
:06:04. > :06:16.beginning to come out of labour's sales on the economy. We have a poll
:06:16. > :06:21.which suggests that Mr Miller band's -- Ed Miliband's ratings are
:06:21. > :06:23.at their lowest ever. After months of criticism, the
:06:23. > :06:26.Government has begun its fightback over HS2, the proposed high speed
:06:26. > :06:28.rail link between London and the North of England. The Transport
:06:28. > :06:31.Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, says the nearly £43 billion scheme would
:06:31. > :06:36.pay for itself, eventually giving a £15 billion a year boost to the
:06:36. > :06:44.economy. Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott reports.
:06:44. > :06:50.The attacks have been coming along like rush-hour trains. Months of bad
:06:50. > :06:56.headlines for the Government's flagship project. But now the
:06:56. > :07:02.fightback. You can't just keep patching up old railways. Even if we
:07:02. > :07:06.spend all that money trying to upgrade the lines, we would not get
:07:06. > :07:11.the extra capacity that we will get with HS2. This report, which was
:07:11. > :07:16.paid for by the company delivering the line, says that once it is up
:07:16. > :07:20.and running, HS2 will generate £15 billion a year for Britain. It
:07:20. > :07:25.claims the regions, not London, will be the biggest winners. West
:07:25. > :07:30.Yorkshire could make £1 billion per year. The West million -- West
:07:30. > :07:37.Midlands could make more than £3 billion. Two beneficiaries will be
:07:37. > :07:45.Nottingham and Derby. They have to share one between the two cities,
:07:45. > :07:57.share one station. In 20 years, this could be a bustling HS2 hub. She
:07:57. > :08:06.says she would love to see the high Street train come to Nottingham. The
:08:06. > :08:11.boss of this translation company is regularly frustrated when he tries
:08:11. > :08:14.to get around. It would make it much easier for us to get to London and
:08:15. > :08:18.provincial centres, and also for people to come and see cars. It
:08:18. > :08:22.would give the image of Nottingham as a modern city with modern
:08:22. > :08:37.infrastructure. But for every winner... At the beginning of this
:08:37. > :08:42.year, we received the news. Richard's land will be carved into
:08:42. > :08:46.by this new line. A lot of our customers will not want to be by a
:08:46. > :08:53.high-speed railway line across the valley. It will not help in anyway
:08:53. > :08:59.most small businesses in this area, and a lot of small businesses will
:08:59. > :09:07.both be very severely damaged. The economic case up until now has been
:09:07. > :09:09.based on travellers saving time. This report takes a different
:09:09. > :09:14.approach, focusing less on time and This report takes a different
:09:14. > :09:20.more on the extra capacity, the extra train seats this will deliver.
:09:20. > :09:24.It says better train links increased competition between companies and
:09:24. > :09:29.open up the jobs market. Critics are not convinced. This report is a
:09:29. > :09:31.measure of desperation, that they have had to change the method of
:09:31. > :09:41.appraisal for schemes. Maximilian here will be 20 years old
:09:41. > :09:46.when the first high-speed trains arrive near Nottingham. There will
:09:46. > :09:49.be plenty more discussion about the project before then.
:09:49. > :09:52.It's been another day of intense diplomatic activity as international
:09:52. > :09:55.diplomats try to reach an agreement over how to deal with Syria's
:09:55. > :10:00.chemical weapons. Russia, which is Syria's staunch ally, has handed
:10:00. > :10:03.over its plan to America. As the negotiating continues, there's been
:10:03. > :10:11.new evidence of the horrors of the conflict. A UN report says all sides
:10:11. > :10:14.in Syria have committed war crimes. Our diplomatic respondent James
:10:14. > :10:20.in Syria have committed war crimes. Robbins reports.
:10:21. > :10:25.An address to prepare Americans for strikes on Syria suddenly became
:10:25. > :10:28.something completely different. President Obama told them that
:10:28. > :10:35.military action was on hold, and there was a new focus on Russia's
:10:35. > :10:38.plan for UN supervised disarmament. It is too early to tell whether this
:10:38. > :10:44.offer will succeed, and any agreement must benefit I do the --
:10:45. > :10:50.must verify that the sad regime keeps its commitments. But we back
:10:50. > :10:55.the removal of chemical weapons without the use of force. But
:10:56. > :10:59.President Obama says it is vital without the use of force. But
:10:59. > :11:03.that the Assad regime still sees the threat of strikes as real and
:11:03. > :11:10.serious. The United States military doesn't do pinpricks. Even a limited
:11:10. > :11:18.strike will send the message to Assad that no other nation can
:11:18. > :11:23.deliver. But for now, as fighting across much of Syria rages, is there
:11:23. > :11:29.really a chance Russia's plan could work? Could United Nations team is
:11:29. > :11:38.really going and secure all the weapons? John Kerry and Sergei
:11:38. > :11:42.Lavrov are still miles apart on turning Russia's plan into reality.
:11:42. > :11:46.At the United Nations, two and a half years of deadlock between an
:11:46. > :11:51.eight -- major powers could be getting worse. On one side, the US
:11:51. > :12:00.and its allies, France and the United Kingdom, and on the other,
:12:00. > :12:06.Russia and China. The one side has drawn up a demand that all chemical
:12:06. > :12:11.weapons be destroyed, and the big five broadly agree, but a strict
:12:11. > :12:16.timetable has been set, Syria having to declare everything it has in 15
:12:16. > :12:21.days. Any failure to comply could trigger military action. But Russia
:12:21. > :12:24.and China are equally adamant that there can be no threat of strikes,
:12:24. > :12:32.as that would undermine the entire plan. So unless that's deadlock is
:12:32. > :12:38.resolved, the plan could be doomed. A new UN report on Syria says
:12:38. > :12:43.civilians fleeing in growing numbers as the conflict deepened and
:12:43. > :12:45.widens. Staying in Syria, government forces are fighting to re-take the
:12:45. > :12:50.ancient Christian town of Maaloula. Tens of thousands of lives have been
:12:50. > :13:00.lost. Over 6 million Syrians have fled their homes. Germany has
:13:00. > :13:07.started taking in Syrian refugees. Over 100 landed in Hanover today.
:13:07. > :13:08.Germany says it will give shelter to 5000. Other European countries will
:13:08. > :13:20.now be under pressure to do more. Staying in Syria, government forces
:13:20. > :13:27.are fighting to retake the injured Christian town of Maaloula. --
:13:27. > :13:32.ancient Christian town. It's a recapture would be symbolic. Jeremy
:13:32. > :13:40.Bowen is with Syrian government forces. He has just sent this
:13:40. > :13:43.report. They planted a Syrian flag on the
:13:43. > :13:50.roundabout, but the fight is still going on for the rest of the
:13:50. > :13:57.village. It is getting on for 5pm, and it has been going since 7am. A
:13:57. > :14:01.lot of the men here are locals, a sort of territorial army that has
:14:01. > :14:08.been drafted in to help out the regulars. They say that the fighting
:14:08. > :14:13.former Lula, for what it stands for, a place that is half Christian, half
:14:13. > :14:19.Moslem, and also fighting against the jihadist of the Moslem front.
:14:19. > :14:23.They have been very disparaging about them, saying they are running
:14:23. > :14:28.away, but clearly they are putting up a hard fight, because they are
:14:28. > :14:37.still in there. I have seen a fair number of wounded being brought back
:14:37. > :14:43.into cups, further back down. It is going on here in quite a big way,
:14:43. > :14:49.and they are fighting hard. The Syrian army and the National do seem
:14:49. > :14:54.well armed and well organised. They are facing formidable adverse Ariz,
:14:54. > :14:56.who after ten hours of fighting, are still in Melilla.
:14:56. > :14:59.That report just in from our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, the only
:14:59. > :15:01.Western journalist in the Syrian town of Maaloula. And you can see
:15:01. > :15:05.more from Jeremy on tonight's BBC town of Maaloula. And you can see
:15:05. > :15:07.News at Ten. The police watchdog, which is
:15:07. > :15:09.investigating the behaviour of police officers during the
:15:09. > :15:14.Hillsborough disaster, says it is working through new evidence. The
:15:14. > :15:24.IPCC has recovered more than 90 police notebooks which could contain
:15:24. > :15:29.crucial new information. But some of the families of the 96 fans who died
:15:29. > :15:37.say new investigations into the disaster are moving too slowly.
:15:37. > :15:41.Judith Morris reports. Nearly quarter of a century after
:15:41. > :15:43.Hillsborough happened, the inquiry is being re-examined with fresh
:15:44. > :15:47.eyes. There have been inquiries before. But the publication of
:15:47. > :15:52.Hillsborough Independent report was a watershed moment. It stated that
:15:52. > :15:58.the 96 fans that died were not to blame and that the police had
:15:58. > :16:02.covered up the truth. The bereaved families were encouraged at the
:16:02. > :16:08.prospect of new legal proceedings. One year on, some are now
:16:08. > :16:11.frustrated. Nobody will tell us exactly the progress they have made,
:16:11. > :16:18.if they have made any progress at all. How can it be, for a number of
:16:18. > :16:19.years, that these people are in office and have actually achieved
:16:19. > :16:24.nothing? It is a downright insult. office and have actually achieved
:16:24. > :16:29.Three new investigations have been launched since the report was
:16:29. > :16:32.published. Former Chief Constable John Studdard is investigating if
:16:32. > :16:36.any crimes such as manslaughter were committed on the day of the
:16:36. > :16:39.disaster. He estimates he will take up to three years. The Independent
:16:39. > :16:42.Police Complaints Commission is looking at whether police officers
:16:43. > :16:47.committed crimes in the aftermath by covering up what happened. They say
:16:47. > :16:50.that will take two years. A coroner will examine how the 96 died when
:16:50. > :16:55.the new Hillsborough inquest is begin next March. John Studdard says
:16:55. > :17:02.the new Hillsborough inquest is his investigation is the biggest
:17:02. > :17:07.inquiry in English and Welsh police history. He knows he is yet to earn
:17:07. > :17:11.the family was not trust. This is a vast inquiry. But with so much at
:17:11. > :17:17.stake I cannot afford to rush this. My message to them is that we are
:17:17. > :17:23.diligently pursuing every opportunity to uncover what
:17:23. > :17:27.happened. The IPCC announced it had found 74 amended police statements
:17:27. > :17:32.and uncovered 90 police notebooks for the first time. Date, and many
:17:33. > :17:37.other articles, are being gathered in Warrington. The bags and boxes
:17:37. > :17:39.have come from sources including the football Association, the Law
:17:39. > :17:44.Society and Mrs Thatcher. They are still waiting to be assessed by
:17:44. > :17:49.investigators. Already, they say they know they have new material
:17:49. > :17:51.here that was not previously seen by the Hillsborough Independent Panel.
:17:51. > :17:55.There will now be a challenge panel to oversee the separate
:17:55. > :18:02.investigations. Some families feel the remit is too narrow. We proposed
:18:02. > :18:10.the challenge panel as a solution to the families' concerns about
:18:10. > :18:15.requests for oversight. I said right from the start but we welcome
:18:15. > :18:18.challenge, we welcome scrutiny. Not all of the Hillsborough families are
:18:18. > :18:23.equally frustrated, but they do have a common cause. They are still
:18:23. > :18:24.fighting for justice, as the disaster's 25th anniversary
:18:24. > :18:35.approaches. Our top story this evening: More
:18:35. > :18:44.signs of an economic recovery as the jobless total falls. It is now just
:18:44. > :18:48.under 2.5 million. Still to come: Trading places. The Duke of
:18:48. > :18:53.Cambridge and Prince Harry make light work of billion pound
:18:53. > :18:56.exchanges in the city. On BBC news, I will be here with
:18:56. > :18:59.Sportsday, ink through doing the latest on the Republic of Ireland's
:18:59. > :19:16.search for a new manager. The demise of the woolly mammoth is
:19:16. > :19:20.sometimes blamed on the humans who hunted them down around 4000 years
:19:20. > :19:25.ago. But a new study suggest is that our ancient ancestors may be off the
:19:25. > :19:30.hook. Research published by the Royal Society suggest that climate
:19:30. > :19:36.change may have been the main factor in their extinction.
:19:36. > :19:41.There is plenty of evidence that humans hunted the woolly mammoth.
:19:42. > :19:49.Many believe it is this that led to the extinction of these gigantic
:19:49. > :19:51.creatures around 4000 years ago. But scientists studying their remains
:19:52. > :19:56.are seeing a different picture. By drilling into their tasks, they have
:19:57. > :20:01.extracted DNA. From it, they are able to tell how many mammoths there
:20:01. > :20:05.were at any given time. If the DNA from each animal is very different,
:20:05. > :20:10.there were lots of them. If there are signs of inbreeding, there were
:20:10. > :20:14.few. The frozen remains of mammoths have been discovered all across the
:20:14. > :20:19.world. DNA from their bones, teeth and even hair shows that their
:20:20. > :20:29.demise was mostly due to a changing climate. It began 20,000 years ago,
:20:29. > :20:34.when the ice age was at its height. Effectively, it was too cold, even
:20:34. > :20:39.for mammoths. The extreme cold would have depressed the plant growth that
:20:39. > :20:44.mammoths depended on. That was the first hit of a long process that
:20:44. > :20:48.led, finally, to extinction. But then it became too warm for them.
:20:48. > :20:50.They were gigantic. The woolly then it became too warm for them.
:20:50. > :20:54.mammoth was about the size of a then it became too warm for them.
:20:54. > :21:02.modern day 11. It is thought they ate huge amounts of grass, around
:21:03. > :21:07.200 kilos per day. 42,000 years ago there was lots of grass for them to
:21:07. > :21:12.eat, shown in green. As the ice age ended, the grass disappeared and so
:21:12. > :21:18.did the mammoth. These great beasts were forced north as grassland was
:21:18. > :21:23.replaced by forests. One clear message is that mammoths do not like
:21:23. > :21:30.the warm. When it gets warm, they get going. Once when they went up
:21:30. > :21:37.north, they went extinct. All that is left of these once magnificent
:21:37. > :21:40.creatures is their frozen remains. People that have been charged with
:21:40. > :21:44.sexual offences should not be granted anonymity according to the
:21:44. > :21:48.Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer. That is despite cases
:21:48. > :21:52.like that of Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell. The actor was
:21:52. > :21:56.cleared yesterday of all charges at his trial in Manchester. He denied
:21:56. > :22:03.12 sexual offences against one bill, including five counts of rape.
:22:03. > :22:06.-- girl. MP Nigel Evans has made a statement to the House of Commons
:22:06. > :22:09.following his resignation as Deputy Speaker.
:22:09. > :22:13.The MP for Ribble Valley has been charged with offences including
:22:13. > :22:19.sexual assault, indecent assault and rape against seven men. He thanked
:22:19. > :22:25.colleagues for his support and said he would robustly defend his
:22:25. > :22:28.innocence. The government's housing benefit policy came under fire when
:22:28. > :22:33.John Swinney set out his spending plans for the next two years.
:22:33. > :22:37.He promised the SNP would boost the economy and protect Scotland from
:22:37. > :22:42.welfare reforms. James Cook is that the Scottish parliament in
:22:42. > :22:48.Edinburgh. So, what exactly is the Scottish Government proposing? They
:22:48. > :22:54.are proposing to ameliorate the effects of the cuts. Really, this is
:22:54. > :22:57.billed in advance as a budget for independence. Perhaps for that
:22:57. > :23:03.reason, it lacked any kind of sense of drama. More money for affordable
:23:03. > :23:07.housing, more money for sport and more money for popular policies such
:23:07. > :23:11.as maintaining a council tax freeze and other things such as free
:23:11. > :23:14.prescriptions. In outlining his budget in a 20 minute speech, the
:23:14. > :23:16.Scottish Finance Secretary John budget in a 20 minute speech, the
:23:16. > :23:22.Swinney said Scotland was doing well, but he insisted it could do so
:23:23. > :23:25.much better. With the full decision-making powers of
:23:25. > :23:30.Independence, I should today be able to present a budget that puts all of
:23:30. > :23:36.that economic strength to use in building a more prosperous and more
:23:36. > :23:40.just Scotland. Instead, as a result of Westminster decisions, I must
:23:40. > :23:46.today present a budget constrained by significant cuts. John Swinney
:23:46. > :23:50.has technically no power over welfare. But he has found £20
:23:50. > :23:54.million to offset the effects of what he called the bedroom tax. His
:23:54. > :24:00.opponents said that was not good enough. Labour said he should have
:24:00. > :24:04.gone further. Essentially they said he had put Scotland on pause until
:24:04. > :24:08.the referendum. There was also complaints about a rise in business
:24:08. > :24:11.rates. That referendum is coming pretty quickly. It is one year and
:24:11. > :24:13.one week away now. That is the moment when the people of Scotland
:24:13. > :24:17.one week away now. That is the will get to have their say on the
:24:17. > :24:22.Scottish Government and also the UK Government. That is what both sides
:24:22. > :24:24.are pointing out. That it is about the Scottish Government plans. They
:24:24. > :24:28.would say it is also about what the future of this country would look
:24:28. > :24:36.like within the United Kingdom as well. All to play for, as we head
:24:36. > :24:39.into the referendum campaign proper. Prince William and Prince Harry have
:24:39. > :24:42.been trying their hands at stop rocking today, to raise money for
:24:42. > :24:45.charity. Prince Harry complained that rather than focusing on a
:24:45. > :24:55.multi-billion pound trade, the Duke of Cambridge was preoccupied with
:24:55. > :24:59.baby chat. It was one of those occasions when,
:24:59. > :25:11.even for royals that are not short of a few bob, the sums being traded
:25:11. > :25:17.were eye watering. 25 million? Billion? That's right, he had just
:25:17. > :25:22.completed a trade with 25 billion euros. All set up, of course, but
:25:22. > :25:26.the purpose was a serious one. To raise money for those that died on
:25:26. > :25:29.this Day 12 years ago, on the attacks on the World Trade Center in
:25:29. > :25:35.New York. More than 600 people in this company were amongst those that
:25:35. > :25:36.perished on that day. Traders around the world found themselves being
:25:36. > :25:41.perished on that day. Traders around pressed by the second in line to the
:25:41. > :25:47.throne to part with any spare cash for charity. Harry was buying or
:25:47. > :25:52.selling a billion or two of something or other. Might the city
:25:52. > :25:58.have found two new recruits? William, after all, has left his RAF
:25:58. > :26:03.search and rescue Squadron in Anglesey, after all. But, no, they
:26:03. > :26:05.were trading places for one day only.
:26:05. > :26:14.Time for a look at the weather. Grey is the colour this week, right
:26:14. > :26:17.through to the weekend. Either from clouds overhead producing rain,
:26:17. > :26:22.which will ease through the evening, or through patchy mist and
:26:22. > :26:26.fog. That is something we are going to see as well. White wet through
:26:26. > :26:30.parts of the Midlands and southern England. That rain will clear away,
:26:30. > :26:35.leaving behind patchy drizzle almost anywhere. A misty night, patches of
:26:35. > :26:39.dense fog here and there. Generally quite mild under that cloud. In the
:26:39. > :26:42.dense fog here and there. Generally north-west of Scotland we could see
:26:42. > :26:46.a touch of frost in one or two of the glands. A great start for most
:26:46. > :26:51.of us tomorrow. The mist should clear away. Across eastern Scotland
:26:52. > :26:55.through the morning and in the afternoon, the brighter weather is
:26:55. > :27:00.pushing further eastwards. By then it is looking pretty wet for
:27:00. > :27:03.Northern Ireland, Scotland and western parts of a and Wales. To the
:27:03. > :27:07.East of the Pennines could be the warmest spot. -- England and Wales.
:27:07. > :27:12.A pleasant afternoon. Bits and pieces of rain, probably struggling
:27:12. > :27:17.at the mid-to-high teens at best. The brighter skies extending across
:27:17. > :27:21.the Midlands, trying to get down to the south-east before the sun comes
:27:21. > :27:25.down through the evening. That rain is going to march southwards. We
:27:25. > :27:34.will see a spell of rain through Thursday evening. It will struggle
:27:34. > :27:37.to push southwards. Brighter skies following for Friday. That rain in
:27:37. > :27:41.the south is struggling to get out of the way. Washing back and forth
:27:42. > :27:45.for England and Wales. White cool, despite a few bits of sunshine. You
:27:45. > :27:52.might be thinking about the weekend. I have to talk about rain from time
:27:52. > :27:56.to time. Strong wind particularly on Sunday. As a result, it will feel
:27:57. > :28:01.quite cool. Slightly autumnal, really, George.
:28:01. > :28:08.Our main stories: There are more signs of recovery in the economy as
:28:08. > :28:11.the jobless total falls. It is just under 2.5 million. And the
:28:11. > :28:14.government fights back in the argument over HS2 and says it will
:28:14. > :28:20.government fights back in the give a multi-billion pounds boost to
:28:20. > :28:23.the economy. That is all from the BBC News at six. On BBC One we join
:28:23. > :28:23.the news teams where you are.