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Unemployment is down again, with the biggest fall in people claiming | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Jobseekers' Allowance for 16 years. The number of jobless is down 18,000 | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
- the government says it proves its policy is working: today on the day | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
we concede there are 1 million more people in work, 1 million reasons to | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
stick to the economic plan that we have. Food bank are on the rise. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
Even in work you are worse off and it is a Prime Minister in total | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
denial about the cost of living crisis. We'll be looking the trend | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
in wages for those in work. Also tonight. The Savile scandal - the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
police watchdog investigates a former officer at the West Yorkshire | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
force who is accused of acting on behalf of the TV presenter. A deal | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
in the making of America's debt crisis. The goal that set England on | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
the road to Rio - Manager Roy Hodgson says his team can win the | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
World Cup. I will explain why one in five of the world's children is | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
still missing up on basic vaccine. And who will take centre stage in | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
the autumn internationals in the union? -- in rugby union. | :01:31. | :01:51. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. There were angry | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
exchanges today in the Commons about the UK's economic prospect. But | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
David Cameron insisted that the economic policy is the right one. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Unemployment fell by 18,000 in the June to August period. In total just | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
under 2.5 million people are unemployed. The number of people | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
claiming Jobseekers' Allowance is down to 1.3 million, after the | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
biggest fall for 16 years. Our Business Correspondent Emma Simpson | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
has more details. There has been no slowdown in sales | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
of fast-food here. At Kentucky fried chicken the appetite for cheaper | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
food is continuing to create new jobs especially for young people. We | :02:43. | :02:54. | |
are taking on 1600, most will be 25 or under. Where opening about 25 new | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
stores this year. And we have done that for the past few years. The | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
story of this company feeds in to an improving jobs picture. The figures | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
today are good news. Unemployment down, the number of jobs up. But | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
still no sign of an end to the squeeze on wages. That fuels more | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
clashes at Prime Minister 's questions. These are welcome | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
figures. Of course we all want to see living standards improve and | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
last year disposable income increased. The way to deliver on | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
living standards is to grow the economy and cut taxes. But with | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
prices rising three times faster than pay, the Labour leader said | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
recovery was not being felt in people 's pockets. The British | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
people would be surprised to hear the Prime Minister telling them that | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
their living standards are rising when they know that under him living | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
standards of falling each month. One part of the economy that appears to | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
be on the mend is the jobs market. Long-term unemployment is down by | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
15,000. But the number of people working part time is up again at | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
nearly 1.5 million. Youth unemployment fell slightly but still | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
stubbornly high at more than 950,000. Getting that first job has | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
not been easy for these young people. They're being helped neither | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
this charity in east London. Shirley has been unemployed since graduating | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
a year ago in spite of living just a few miles away from the city of | :04:39. | :04:48. | |
London. I am worse off than when I was 18 with three A-levels and apart | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
time job. It is crazy to think that because I am more highly skilled. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
They all hope that a job is just around the corner and that they will | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
also start to benefit from the economic recovery. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Our political editor is here. We need to look at two things. There | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
are more jobs but people are saying that wages are low. The government | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
wants to highlight the good news. 1 million jobs created since the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
general election. The opposition wants to highlight the fact that we | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
are all feeling the squeeze and wages are not going up as fast as | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
inflation. And then the politicians trying to highlight who got what | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
wrong. David Cameron was able to quote a speech that the Labour | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
leader gave three years ago, addicting that there would be 1 | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
million fewer jobs in the British economy as a result of government | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
economic policy. Cameron was able to say there are now 1 million more. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
But Ed Miliband was able to say, this is not how it feels for people. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
They are feeling the squeeze. To try to defend himself the Prime Minister | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
then said, do not look at the difference between inflation and | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
wages, look at what economists call disposable income the money you have | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
left after taxes. The Prime Minister said that was going up but the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Labour leader said he had got his figures wrong. That people actually | :06:21. | :06:33. | |
have less money in work than before. There's been a dramatic rise in the | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
number of people using food banks - that's according to the Trussell | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Trust. The charity says it's handed out | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
more than 350,000 food parcels since April this year, triple the number | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
for the same period last year. It says the situation is "scandalous", | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
but the government says the rise could be the result of more people | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
being aware of food banks. From Manchester, Ed Thomas reports. | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
If you're hungry and cannot afford to eat this is the place to come to. | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
The food bank here is busier than ever before. One of the customers is | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Kerry who is training to be a hairdresser. She said her benefits | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
do not cover rising bills and that means she goes hungry. I have a lot | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
of anxiety. Just the world nowadays has just changed. Everything is | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
higher in price. It feels that we are scroungers but we are just | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
trying to survive. The story is a familiar one with more than 400 food | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
banks in towns and cities across the UK. What is behind this growing | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
demand? Is it because people are struggling in a difficult economy or | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
something else? Awareness that if food is being offered for free, then | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
people will take it. Angela Shannon is a manager here. Many who ask her | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
for help blame benefit changes. She believes it is right to ask | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
difficult questions. You are donating something and you do not | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
want it just to go to the off-licence. Morally that cannot be | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
right. One reason the government says numbers are going up is because | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
job centres are now referring people to food banks. And changes to the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
welfare system will provide low earners with choices away from | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
hand-outs. How many jobs have you applied for in the past three | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
months? About 150. Do you really need to be here? If I could not come | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
here I would end up having a breakdown. The problem is the longer | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
it takes for the economy to recover, the longer someone will have to rely | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
on food banks. There's been a new development on | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
the Savile scandal. The police watchdog - the IPCC - says it's | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
begun an investigation into a former officer on the West Yorkshire force | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
who's alleged to have acted on behalf of the TV presenter. David | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
Silitto has the latest. The closest Jimmy Savile King to an | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
investigation was this interview. The allegations with their to the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
officer having at Tate on behalf of Jimmy Savile by inappropriately | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
contacting Surrey police ahead of a police interview in 2009. Then there | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
is the conduct of the interview. One big felt that down. I think he was | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
arrogant. He thinks he thinks he's also untouchable. I think the police | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
should have probed him or on the questions they asked him. The | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
interview also reveals how Jimmy Savile fended off accusations. Did | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
he really have such powerful friends? George Carman was a leading | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
libel lawyer in the 1980s and 1990s and he also knew Jimmy Savile and | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
his secrets. He talked about Jimmy Savile and that he had been | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
cautioned by police in Manchester for sexual offences against | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
children. At that age I did not understand the full ramifications of | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
what that meant. Then there are the enquiries. At least six at the last | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
count. The former Sunday Mirror editor Paul Conway has already | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
spoken to three of them. We had too many enquiries on going. The tragedy | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
here is we have a mixture of enquiries, extended NHS and police | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
enquiries. I think there is now a compelling case for an overarching | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
judicial enquiry into the multi-institutional failures | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
surrounding Jimmy Savile and other cases. So another Jimmy Savile | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
investigation begins. The questions keep on coming. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
In the past hour the US senate has agreed a deal to avoid America | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
defaulting on its debts. Our Washington Correspondent Laura | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Trevelyan is on Capitol Hill with the latest for us now. Is this the | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
real thing? We think it is. It has been announced on the floor of the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Senate. They have agreed on the Senate side in a bipartisan way to | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
reopen the government until the middle of January and to extend the | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
debt ceiling until early February. To have a long-range planning | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
committee on government finances which would report back on efforts | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
to reach a compromise in the middle of December. It was the Republicans | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
who wanted to shut down the government in order to force changes | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
to the signature health care Law of the President. What have they got in | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
return? Very little. Just crumbs as one senior senator put it. So this | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
will be a tough vote when it comes to the House of Representatives. It | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
will require a handful of Republicans to break ranks to pass | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
it. Thousands of England fans are | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
expected to make the journey to Brazil next summer. Now the team are | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
heading to next year's World cup. Roy Hodgson's men beat Poland | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
two-nil at Wembley last night, guaranteeing them a place in the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
finals. Today he said winning was not out of the question. It was the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
moment English put all could breathe a huge sigh of relief. Steven | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Gerrard is my goal to seal the jury last night against Poland sent his | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
team to dreamland. For Roy Hodgson the relief was obvious. The weight | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
of unexpected nation lifted at last. And he said that England could now | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
win the World Cup. It is not impossible. I must also say that we | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
have been in a slight transition period. I do not think we will go | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
into any games believing we do not have a chance to win it. Not too | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
many teams out there will be saying England, what an easy one. England | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
have had two wins in their final two matches, transforming a stuttering | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
campaign and giving a sense of optimism and freshness. Now players | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and fans can look forward to the ultimate World Cup experience. The | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
base camp is booked. The luxury Rio hotel and here is where they will | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
prepare for matches. But for the fans hoping to join the players on a | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
quest, it will not come cheap. Tickets start at ?56. But for the | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
World Cup final more than ?600. Currently the most reasonable direct | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
flight is over ?1600. Travel companies are offering packages for | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
around ?7,000. Following England has never been more expensive. You have | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
to fly internally all the time so no doubt the prices will go up. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Logistically it will be difficult. John Barnes is on his way to scoring | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
the greatest ever poll against Brazil but 29 years on, he plays | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
down his country 's chances. It is not just about the World Cup. It is | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
about English football in the next ten years and putting building | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
blocks in place. England will have to wait until December to find out | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
exactly who they will play in Brazil. But for now at least they | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
will be at the carnival in the spiritual home of football. Our top | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
story this evening. Unemployment down again - the number of jobless | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
has fallen by 18,000. And still to come: It fell to earth in a blaze of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
light. Now scientists hope they have recovered some of the meteor. In | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
sport later on, you can hear much more from Roy Hodgson as the England | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
manager reveals his plans for Brazil and the World Cup next year. Now the | :15:42. | :15:54. | |
latest on the international battle against preventable deaths among | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
children. The World Health Organisation says there has been | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
huge progress in the past decade. Measles deaths have been cut by 70%. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Polio is close to eradication. And global child mortality has fallen by | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
nearly half since 1990, despite the population growing. But as our | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, reports, millions of children are | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
still missing out on basic vaccines. Giving every child the chance of | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
life. In Laos, this baby has a higher likelihood of staying healthy | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
than any previous generation. Vaccines play a key role. It is | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
estimated they save to -3 million lives every year. 50 years ago, | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
things were different. Even in Britain, children faced many | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
diseases that have disappeared. Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
showing that vaccines can transform health. In addition to saving lives, | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
vaccines reduce illness and prevent disability and illness and | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
disability but a huge economic burden on the family and also | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
government and the health system. Let's look at the basic vaccines | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
that every child should get. There are 11, including measles and polio. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
TB is not needed everywhere. One in 20 of the world 's children is fully | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
immunised, getting all of the doses required and most are in wealthier | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
countries. Let's look at individual vaccines. This prevents meningitis | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
and pneumonia but fewer than ten and 20, or have of children, are | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
protected. Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, that figure is | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
better with 16 and 20 but that means around 20 million children every | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
year do not get fully immunised and that failure as a human cost. 1.5 | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
million deaths every year from these vaccine preventable diseases, nearly | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
two thirds from only two infections. You will cockle diseases and | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea. The first vaccines against these | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
were introduced less than one decade ago. Rich countries use them and | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
dozens of developing nations are beginning to. But there is a very | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
long way to go. What are the hurdles? Many health services in | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
developing countries are so overstretched there are not enough | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
medical staff to carry out immunisation. Vaccines must be kept | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
cool or they will perish and it can be difficult getting them to remote | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
communities. So closing the immunisation gap between poor and | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
wealthier nations remains a key target for improving children's | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
health. The Prime Minister has added his voice to calls for an apology | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
from the police to the former Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
over the so-called Plebgate affair. David Cameron was commenting on the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
conclusions of the police watchdog which said that three senior | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
officers had knowingly given a false account of their meeting with Mr | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
Mitchell a year ago. Carole Walker is in Westminster for us tonight. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Yesterday we had the Home Secretary added a the Prime Minister adding to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
pressure on the police. -- and today, the Prime Minister. Yes, this | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
is unusual to talk about a specific case. What do with Cameron said at | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Question Time was that the account that police gave other meeting with | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Andrew Mitchell to discuss his clash with officers at the gates of | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Downing Street, he said that the accord was untrue, Andrew Mitchell | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
was owed an apology and should be a proper investigation. In the last | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
few minutes I have learned that the original investigation into this | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
meeting, the officer recommended that the police involved should face | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
disciplinary proceedings but that was overruled by the Chief | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Constables of the forces involved and do not forget, this comes after | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
the most senior prosecutor is still considering whether to bring to | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
trial any of the officers over that original clash in Downing Street | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
over allegations that they made up their account more than one year | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
ago. Thank you. The newly privatised Royal Mail is facing the first | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
national postal strike in almost four years. The Communication | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
Workers' Union, which represents more than 100,000 staff at Royal | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Mail, has called the strike for the 4th of November. The union is | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
pushing for an agreement that would protect workers' current terms and | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
conditions at the newly privatised company. The BBC has learned that | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
more than 1700 mental health beds have been closed in the past two | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
years in England, forcing some patients to travel hundreds of miles | :21:00. | :21:09. | |
to receive care. The findings have prompted a leading psychiatrist to | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
warn that mental health services in England are in crisis and the | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
Government has acknowledged that things have to improve. Michael | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Buchanan reports. One in four of us will suffer some kind of mental | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
problems in the course of one year. That's according to the mental | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
health foundation. But services in England to help those most in need | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
are under severe strain. When Kerry fell ill, the only available bed was | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
miles from her home, which delayed her recovery. They did not know | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
anything about who I was what was available to support me. I was held | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
there for longer than I needed to be. In 2011-12, there were nearly | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
19,000 mental health beds in England. Using Freedom of | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
information requests, we discover that more than 1700 have been | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
closed, that's 9%. Closing beds and shutting down wards is only part of | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
the problem. Doctors say there is an increase in demand for these | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
services. But put those two things together and you end up with more | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
patients saying there is simply not enough help. We have got access | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
standards, 18 week limit for physical health problems, but they | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
left out mental health and we have to correct that so that people with | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
mental health problems are treated with the same seriousness as someone | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
with physical problems. Lucy would agree. She voluntarily looked for | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
psychiatric help but ended up being detained by police for her own | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
safety. It was after hours of frantic calls had failed to find any | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
bed. I heard a lot of disagreement between the different services and I | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
felt awkward and quite ashamed to be causing such a problem when I had | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
not meant to. The bed closures mean that many awards are now running at | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
100% capacity. With staff increasingly scrambling to find | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
spaces in the private sector. We are in a crisis at the moment and | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
short-term cuts in services and beds increased costs because the system | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
is currently inefficient and costing more than that would do if we | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
invested robbery. Most mental illness is on scene so it is easily | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
overlooked by the NHS. The pressure on resources means that cannot | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
continue. The operator of the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
says the plant will be shut down until at least Tuesday after | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
negotiations with union leaders broke down. This morning the Unite | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
union called off a 48-hour strike planned for Sunday. But the owners | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
say that without an assurance that there will be no industrial action | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
this winter, it will still shut down the plant. James Cook joins me now. | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
What reaction has been, given that the union called off their strike? | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
That is right and the problem is you cannot just flick a switch and turn | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
this off and then turn it on again. The company which runs this said it | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
was already running it down ahead of their strike on Sunday and without | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
any guarantee that there will be no further action this winter, there | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
was no point powering up. The union has accused the company of economic | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
vandalism and holding Scotland to ransom. But it is important because | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
this site provides 70% of filling stations in Scotland with fuel. They | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
can get it elsewhere but it also powers a crucial oil pipeline and | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
the effect on that is not clear but what began as a locals dispute is | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
more serious. A huge rock believed to be part of a giant meteor | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
weighing more than half a tonne has been raised from the lake where it | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
crashed earlier this year. The meteor exploded above Central Russia | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
back in February, shattering windows across the city of Chelyabinsk and | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
injuring more than 1000 people. Here's our science editor, David | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
Shukman. Across the sky of Russia last February, the dazzling, | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
terrifying sight of a rock the size of a house hurtling from space. As | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
it broke up, there were shock waves with the power of a nuclear weapons. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
The blast shattered windows, 1600 people needed treatment and no one | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
knew this was coming. Today at a lake nearby, and underwater | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
operation to retrieve the largest fragment found so far. It has taken | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
months to locate. Eventually, it was taken ashore. A big moment for a | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
region still shocked by what happened. The blackened service and | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
round edges are the signatures of intense heat and melting. According | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
to the scientist, the initial signs are that the rock is part of the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
meteorite that caused the damage. The team weighed the rock and | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
meteorites are extremely heavy. This scales could not take it. It was a | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
violent birth of the solar system that grated rocks like this and if | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
they reach Earth, most burn up in the atmosphere but if you get | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
through. Meteorites are so rare, you need to wear gloves. This one of the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Natural History Museum fail on the North of England only one century | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
ago but it is similar to the one that fell on Russia. Scientists hope | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
that by studying these rocks from space, they can get a better handle | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
on the possible dangers. Meteorites are evidence that we live in a very | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
crowded corner of space. The rock in Russia will be really valuable. We | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
can understand its behaviour as it was hurtling through the atmosphere | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
at 46,000 mph and we can pull this piece out of the lake and look at | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
its composition and structure in very fine detail. Never before has a | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
meteorite been filmed and then find. The more that we know about these | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
potential threats from space, the better. Now the weather. | :27:41. | :27:50. | |
Not as impressive with a soggy start this morning. This was the South | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
West first thing in this rain continued to push north and east | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
with heavy pulses for Northern Ireland and night it focuses on | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Scotland for the rest of the evening and through the night. That rain | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
will continue north and east, easing away with showers following behind | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
and still windy over the next few hours across Wales and the | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
Southwest. The persistent rain sets or night across the north-east of | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
Scotland with showers for the north-west and showers running | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
through this corridor but milder with temperatures at 11-13 degrees. | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
I suspect first thing in the morning, it will be different for | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
Scotland. Shelley with temperatures in single figures, low cloud and | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
coastal fog to the east and still showers further west. Northern | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
Ireland and northern England, dry and sunny, quite pleasant and | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
despite showers lingering close to the M4, things will improve. It | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
looks like a better day than today. The wind from the South West, but | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
means temperatures will respond nicely. Particularly with sunshine. | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
It is a risk of showers to the West and these could be heavy and | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
thundery and the extreme north-east of Scotland stays rather grey, damp | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
and disappointing. 7-12 degrees but with the sunshine in shelter, highs | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
of 19 degrees. Still feeling pretty nice for this time of year. Starting | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
Friday, it will not be long before this rain arrives and we do this | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
again. Some quite heavy. That will track north and east into Saturday. | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
Look to the west for a clue at what is to come for the weekend. Not bad | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
but it stays pretty unsettled. More details throughout the evening. | :29:38. | :29:46. | |
Thank you very much. That's all from us. Goodbye. | :29:47. | :29:50. |