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:00:00. > :00:08.The prosecution opens its case in the phone hacking trial and says

:00:09. > :00:12.former News of the World bosses knew what was going on. Andy Coulson and

:00:13. > :00:18.Rebekah Brooks are accused of conspiring to intercept voicemails.

:00:19. > :00:21.There are six others on trial. Jurors were told that three of the

:00:22. > :00:25.News of the World's former journalists have pleaded guilty to

:00:26. > :00:28.phone hacking. The trial starts on the day that new, landmark press

:00:29. > :00:37.regulations could come into force. We'll have the details. Also

:00:38. > :00:49.tonight. The job-seeker who took on the Government over its back to work

:00:50. > :00:54.scheme and won. It's an absolute tragedy. It was a brutal attack. We

:00:55. > :00:57.don't know what the motive was. The pension fees that can cost savers

:00:58. > :01:03.tens of thousands of pounds. Ministers propose a cap. Who's going

:01:04. > :01:04.to take this year's Mercury Prize? Could David Bowie be the oldest

:01:05. > :01:16.winner? Or will it be newcomer Laura Mvula,

:01:17. > :01:25.who was a receptionist this time last year? And coming up in the

:01:26. > :01:28.sport, CSKA Moscow face a partial closure of their stadium after being

:01:29. > :01:48.charged by UEFA for the racist chance

:01:49. > :01:53.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The prosecution has

:01:54. > :01:56.opened its case in the phone hacking trial. The former News International

:01:57. > :01:59.Chief Executive, Rebekah Brooks, and David Cameron's ex-spin doctor Andy

:02:00. > :02:06.Coulson, are accused of conspiring to intercept telephone voicemails.

:02:07. > :02:08.There are six other defendants. It's been revealed that three of the

:02:09. > :02:10.paper's former journalists and a private investigator, Glenn

:02:11. > :02:17.Mulcaire, have already pleaded guilty to hacking. Our home affairs

:02:18. > :02:28.correspondent Tom Symonds is at the Old Bailey. Yes, George, it's seven

:02:29. > :02:33.years since the phone hacking affair first emerged. In that time, it's

:02:34. > :02:37.been picked over by investigative journalists and lawyers, pored over

:02:38. > :02:43.by Parliamentary committees and a public enquiry. Only now, for the

:02:44. > :02:45.first time, has a jury in a criminal trial considered the evidence and

:02:46. > :02:50.today, to hear from the first time, new admissions of guilt from News of

:02:51. > :02:57.the World staff involved. This piece contains flashing images. Former

:02:58. > :03:01.tabloid editor, former media executive, for Rebekah Brooks, the

:03:02. > :03:06.fight by reputation and possibly her liberty. It started for real. Andy

:03:07. > :03:13.Coulson, former News of the World editor, and once David Cameron's

:03:14. > :03:16.spokesman, arrived separately. Mrs Brooks is seated alongside Andy

:03:17. > :03:21.Coulson in the dock, lined up in order of charges, some accused of

:03:22. > :03:25.phone hacking, paying public officials for stories, and of hiding

:03:26. > :03:32.evidence from the police. Mrs Brooks, with all three. The accuser

:03:33. > :03:36.is a senior prosecutor, who denied this trial would be an attack on the

:03:37. > :03:40.freedom of the press but said journalists are no more entitled to

:03:41. > :03:45.break the law than any of us. There is no justification of any kind for

:03:46. > :03:48.journalists to get involved in phone hacking. That is an intrusion into

:03:49. > :03:53.people 's privacy. When public officials took payments for stories,

:03:54. > :03:56.he said is not the same as a conscience driven whistle-blower. We

:03:57. > :03:59.say where there is a payment, it's always a crime and on the

:04:00. > :04:03.allegations of hiding evidence from police, there can be no

:04:04. > :04:09.justification for anyone interfering with the police enquiry, not

:04:10. > :04:13.journalists, not anyone. The revelation in 2011 that murdered

:04:14. > :04:17.schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone was targeted, led to News International

:04:18. > :04:21.admitting widespread hacking. This trial, the jury was told, is about

:04:22. > :04:25.who knew it was going on. The prosecution said it is built a case

:04:26. > :04:34.linking Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator, paying him ?100,000 a

:04:35. > :04:39.year, with Ian Edmonson, a News of the World desk editor. It claimed

:04:40. > :04:45.his name appears in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks. Also the

:04:46. > :04:49.managing director in charge of the box and the jury was told there was

:04:50. > :04:52.phone hacking when Rebekah Brooks was editor and it continued after

:04:53. > :04:56.her successor Andy Coulson took over. They will have to decide how

:04:57. > :05:00.much the management knew. For the first time, we can reveal because

:05:01. > :05:08.the jury has been told, three other journalists, pleaded guilty to

:05:09. > :05:12.conspiracy to hack phones before the trial started. Glenn Mulcaire has

:05:13. > :05:18.admitted new hacking charges and Clive Goodman, the Royal editor, was

:05:19. > :05:22.convicted in 2006. The defendants left court denied having been told

:05:23. > :05:30.this complex case will continue with further prosecution statements

:05:31. > :05:34.tomorrow. But you see this afternoon Of The World was a Sunday

:05:35. > :05:38.newspaper, not war and peace. He said it is not an enormous document,

:05:39. > :05:42.it was the size of something that, if you were editor, you could take

:05:43. > :05:45.an interest into to what's going on inside it. Rebekah Brooks and Andy

:05:46. > :05:50.Coulson and all the defendants deny all the charges against them. Tom,

:05:51. > :05:52.thank you very much. Well, after the phone hacking affair, the Leveson

:05:53. > :05:55.Inquiry proposed a new system of regulating the press and today the

:05:56. > :06:02.scheme favoured by all three major Westminster parties could be

:06:03. > :06:06.approved. Newspaper publishers made a last ditch attempt to block the

:06:07. > :06:09.new regulations but their appeals to the High Court were rejected. David

:06:10. > :06:22.Silitto reports on a milestone in British press history. It was, she

:06:23. > :06:25.is alive. It was then, really. With the torment of Milly Dowler's

:06:26. > :06:31.parents, the views of politicians, press, victims, it's been a long

:06:32. > :06:34.road and today feels a landmark. A former police officer who appeared

:06:35. > :06:40.on Crimewatch has long supported reform after she, her husband and

:06:41. > :06:46.children were pursued by the press. I think this is the closest we can

:06:47. > :06:49.come to something which encapsulating the recommendations by

:06:50. > :06:53.Lord Justice Levenson and indeed all the concerns that all those other

:06:54. > :06:57.parties had. The new system aims to ensure if you have a complaint,

:06:58. > :07:01.apologies and corrections can be no longer hidden on back pages. There

:07:02. > :07:04.will be new power to launch investigations into press

:07:05. > :07:09.malpractice. And arbitration, a cheaper and quicker alternative to

:07:10. > :07:13.the libel courts. However, the press hates this charter which was written

:07:14. > :07:22.by politicians and is guarded by Parliament. It's extraordinarily

:07:23. > :07:29.depressing and very alarming and, in one short spell, a 100-year-old

:07:30. > :07:34.tradition of the press of this country, being free of political

:07:35. > :07:39.interference, has been cast aside. Today they made a final attempt to

:07:40. > :07:45.stop it. In court, the press argued the way they have been treated as

:07:46. > :07:48.being unfair and this is a matter of enormous importance. Change the

:07:49. > :07:53.constitution. The very nature of the freedom of the press was at stake.

:07:54. > :07:57.The court was not convinced which allowed the Privy Council this

:07:58. > :08:02.evening to get the final royal approval to the government hopes

:08:03. > :08:06.will be a new error of harmony. The most important thing is we retain

:08:07. > :08:10.the freedom of the press, which is such an important part of our

:08:11. > :08:14.democratic process. And we have a way of giving people redress if

:08:15. > :08:20.there have been mistakes made. Of course, the press is not forced to

:08:21. > :08:24.sign up. Their planned new regulator promises much that Lord Levenson

:08:25. > :08:32.called for but few expect will actually ever seek official

:08:33. > :08:35.recognition. The back to work scheme that obliged job-seekers to carry

:08:36. > :08:37.out unpaid work in order to continue receiving benefits was flawed when

:08:38. > :08:40.it was first introduced. That's the verdict of the Supreme Court after a

:08:41. > :08:44.case brought by a graduate job-seeker who was told she had to

:08:45. > :08:53.work at Poundland. Our Social Affairs Corresondent Alison Holt

:08:54. > :08:56.reports. Today's case centres on Cait Reilly, a geology graduate

:08:57. > :09:01.doing voluntary work in this museum. She challenged the government's back

:09:02. > :09:06.to work scheme which forced to go and work unpaid at a Poundland Ford

:09:07. > :09:11.two weeks. If she refused, their benefits would have been cut. The

:09:12. > :09:14.Appeal Court ruled in Fabry the regulations were unlawful. I was

:09:15. > :09:17.just unhappy about the fact I was taken away from that experience, put

:09:18. > :09:21.into a world that had nothing to do the job I want to get into. The

:09:22. > :09:27.government went to the Supreme Court to get the ruling overturned. But

:09:28. > :09:29.today, the UK's highest court concluded the original regulations

:09:30. > :09:35.were flawed they didn't provide enough information. I'm just glad

:09:36. > :09:39.and very proud the Supreme Court upheld my appeal. I just hope that

:09:40. > :09:45.new legislation, new regulations, will help other job-seekers in their

:09:46. > :09:48.search for employment. The aim of the back to work scheme is to give

:09:49. > :09:51.every unemployed person experience of doing a job. There are seven

:09:52. > :09:54.different programmes, some are voluntary, but others are mandatory.

:09:55. > :09:57.More than one million people have taken part in back to work schemes

:09:58. > :10:06.And many of those who have refused to take part will have had their

:10:07. > :10:10.benefits cut. Immediately after the ruling, the bad government fast

:10:11. > :10:16.tracked a change in the law to iron out the flaws in the regulations

:10:17. > :10:19.retrospectively. And today, the Supreme Court rejected the

:10:20. > :10:22.allegations that the scheme amounted to forced labour. Ministers say the

:10:23. > :10:27.ruling confirms that what they are doing is based on the right

:10:28. > :10:32.principles. Five Supreme Court judges said that the intention to

:10:33. > :10:36.what we're doing is correct, the man nation is correct, what we're aiming

:10:37. > :10:43.to do is correct, and that has to be positive all round. But Cait

:10:44. > :10:47.Reilly's lawyers are considering taking the argument further. We went

:10:48. > :10:50.comparing the schemes to slave labour but we're now going to take

:10:51. > :10:55.stock and decide whether to appeal to the European Court of Human

:10:56. > :10:59.Rights on that issue. They also argue some people may be able to

:11:00. > :11:02.claim back lost benefits. An idea the Department for Work and Pensions

:11:03. > :11:05.rejects completely. A take-away pizza driver found stabbed to death

:11:06. > :11:11.at the wheel of his car was making his final delivery before starting a

:11:12. > :11:14.new job. Thavisha Lakindu Peiris, who was 25 and from Sri Lanka, had

:11:15. > :11:21.graduated from Sheffield Hallam University and was about to start

:11:22. > :11:30.work as an IT consultant. Ed Thomas is in Sheffield for us. George, this

:11:31. > :11:34.is the place that Thavisha Lakindu Peiris came to deliver his final

:11:35. > :11:42.pizza but he never even made it out of the car before he was killed.

:11:43. > :11:46.Kind, bright and hard-working, words used to describe the student who

:11:47. > :11:51.came to the UK for a better life. He worked here and on Sunday night he

:11:52. > :11:56.left to deliver his final pizza before starting a new job as an IT

:11:57. > :12:02.consultant. Less than half a mile away, his body was found slumped in

:12:03. > :12:07.his car, stabbed to death. Police said his murder had caused untold

:12:08. > :12:12.grief for his family in shrank. We spoke to his mother every single day

:12:13. > :12:20.he was in the UK. I'm appealing now to the mothers out there. Was it

:12:21. > :12:22.your son who came home dishevelled, perhaps in bloodstained clothing?

:12:23. > :12:28.I'm asking for anybody out there to think about that family. He came to

:12:29. > :12:32.the UK to study at university. His death has left shrank and is

:12:33. > :12:39.terrified. I can't believe we've lost him. Friends say he would do

:12:40. > :12:43.anything to help others. He was a smart guy with a good personality

:12:44. > :12:50.and never threatened anybody. He was very peaceful and friendly. How has

:12:51. > :12:54.this affected your community here? They are terrified about this and

:12:55. > :12:59.they want to leave the country as soon as possible. At least leave the

:13:00. > :13:04.city and hide. 50 officers are now trying to find the killer but so far

:13:05. > :13:11.they have no motive for what they call a senseless killing. No motive

:13:12. > :13:16.because the pizza and even money was left in the car. As for his family,

:13:17. > :13:23.they will now fly to the UK to try to get some answers about why he was

:13:24. > :13:26.killed. Ed, thank you very much. Management fees charged by pension

:13:27. > :13:29.providers could mean some savers lose out on hundreds of thousands of

:13:30. > :13:32.pounds in their pension pot. That's the warning from the Government. Now

:13:33. > :13:35.ministers are proposing a cap on the fees for the new auto-enrolment

:13:36. > :13:46.schemes. Our business correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports. I'm in. The

:13:47. > :13:49.government wants us to save more for our pension with many of us

:13:50. > :13:56.automatically enrolled into new schemes. And to make sure Sabres

:13:57. > :14:04.don't get ripped off, it's proposing a cap as low as 0175% for management

:14:05. > :14:07.fees -- savers. With 10 million people going to workplace pensions

:14:08. > :14:10.in the next few years, it is vital they get value for money, which is

:14:11. > :14:14.why this is a short consultation and we plan to act early next year and

:14:15. > :14:19.the idea is to make sure every pound going into pensions turns into a

:14:20. > :14:24.pension, not into charges. These management charges sound small but

:14:25. > :14:32.they really do add up. Let's say you save ?100 a month over your working

:14:33. > :14:35.life, 46 years, with contributions increasing a little each year. The

:14:36. > :14:42.fee charged by the pension fund is 1.5%. If it was capped at 0.75%,

:14:43. > :14:47.your pension pot would save a whopping ?100,000 in fees in today's

:14:48. > :14:51.money. But the industry says a lot of companies already charge less.

:14:52. > :14:55.Pension charges are at their lowest levels and with somebody joining a

:14:56. > :15:01.workplace pension today paying on average in .5%, however charge has

:15:02. > :15:06.serious consequences on the way a market can work and you may find,

:15:07. > :15:11.overtime, Chargers move towards the cap instead of staying at the low

:15:12. > :15:16.levels we find today. There are a few things as important as saving

:15:17. > :15:21.for your retirement. So how much do people really know about these

:15:22. > :15:28.charges? Do you have any idea what the fees are on your pension? No.

:15:29. > :15:34.Haven't a clue. Didn't even know they were management fees. I don't

:15:35. > :15:38.look the paperwork. The biggest problem is we are still not saving

:15:39. > :15:50.enough. The government wants to make sure the pennies we do put away will

:15:51. > :15:54.turn into as big a part as possible. Our top story this evening.

:15:55. > :15:57.The prosecution has opened its case in the phone hacking trial, with

:15:58. > :16:02.Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in the dock with six others.

:16:03. > :16:07.And still to come, an exclusive report on the political battle over

:16:08. > :16:15.gay marriage in Northern Ireland. Coming up in Sportsday, 100 days to

:16:16. > :16:27.go intill the winter Olympics in Sochi.

:16:28. > :16:33.It has been described as a landmark home in the history of the judicial

:16:34. > :16:38.system, from tomorrow, a ban on filming in court, which has been in

:16:39. > :16:42.force for nearly 90 years is being lifted and cameras will be allows

:16:43. > :16:45.into the course of appeal. Since 1925 with the exception of the

:16:46. > :16:49.Supreme Court, it has been a criminal offence to film or take

:16:50. > :16:52.photographs in all courts in England and Wales.

:16:53. > :16:57.In Scotland, some cases have been brought cast since 1992, but only

:16:58. > :17:01.with the agreement of all parties. So, it is an historic step as our

:17:02. > :17:07.legal affairs correspondent explains.

:17:08. > :17:11.The Court of Appeal has seen some of the most dramatic court room

:17:12. > :17:16.moments. Including the quashing of the convictions of the men accused

:17:17. > :17:19.of murdering the schoolboy Carl Bridgwater.

:17:20. > :17:23.But intill now they have never been seen by a television audience. The

:17:24. > :17:28.bringing of cameras into the Court of Appeal and the recording of its

:17:29. > :17:32.proceedings will enable those to be understood much better than the

:17:33. > :17:37.public as a whole. Spl From today the judges sit up up here can be

:17:38. > :17:42.televised as they hear cases, and rule on whether appeals against

:17:43. > :17:46.convictions or sentence have succeeded or failed.

:17:47. > :17:51.It is all part of a process to make the justice system more open, and

:17:52. > :17:54.easier for us all to understand. This new opportunity to film comes

:17:55. > :18:00.with very strict rules. The person bringing the appeal can't

:18:01. > :18:05.be shown. Nor can members of the public. There is a 70 second time

:18:06. > :18:10.delay to ensure nothing is broadcast that shouldn't be. This is the

:18:11. > :18:15.momentary delay for the odd swear word or perhaps if the name of a

:18:16. > :18:19.victim is inadvertently mentioned. We have a 70 second delay, the

:18:20. > :18:22.judges delay, that allows the judges to have time to think about whether

:18:23. > :18:25.there is a problem with broadcasting some legal argument. Court cases

:18:26. > :18:29.have been played out in front of the cameras in other countries for many

:18:30. > :18:34.years. Not guilty of the crime of murder.

:18:35. > :18:39.Some lawyers fear what might develop here, as a result of today's change

:18:40. > :18:42.in the law. Think they will be put under

:18:43. > :18:46.pressure to open the door, into courts, where the real stuff of life

:18:47. > :18:52.goes on, where it is not an academic argument about law, or something,

:18:53. > :18:58.important, about the making of law, it will be about you know, rape,

:18:59. > :19:03.pillage, murder, mayhem. If the new arrangements prove successful

:19:04. > :19:07.televising could be extended to sentencing remarks but the televises

:19:08. > :19:11.of full trials remains many years away.

:19:12. > :19:15.A Royal Marine one of three accused of murdering an injured Afghan

:19:16. > :19:19.insurgent has been defending his actions at a court martial. The

:19:20. > :19:23.trial has seen video footage of the moment the unknown prisoner buzz

:19:24. > :19:29.shot dead in Helmand province two years ago. Our defence correspondent

:19:30. > :19:35.is at Bulford Military Court. What did the court hear? Well once again

:19:36. > :19:40.they were shown this harrowing video, what is the last moments of

:19:41. > :19:45.an injured Afghan insurgent, you can see his bloody body being dragged

:19:46. > :19:49.across a field. Marine A, who was giving evidence behind a screen, he

:19:50. > :19:53.said that was to safely administer first-aid, not to hide their actions

:19:54. > :20:00.from a helicopter hovering above. Marine A is then later seen lifting

:20:01. > :20:05.a pistol, and firing a shot, point blank into the body. He says at that

:20:06. > :20:10.time, he believed that Afghan was already dead. He was asked by the

:20:11. > :20:15.court, why he fired that shot. He said it was stupid, a lack of self

:20:16. > :20:21.control. Why dihe say the words, there you are, shuffle off this

:20:22. > :20:27.mortal choice. He said it was brav da. He can be said this doesn't go

:20:28. > :20:29.anywhere, I have just broken the Geneva Convention, he said he

:20:30. > :20:35.thought he might have been breaking the rules of war by firing into a

:20:36. > :20:39.dead body. Under cross-examination he did admit the possibility that

:20:40. > :20:44.Afghan might have still been alive when he fired that shot. All three

:20:45. > :20:47.marines deny murder. Thank youful

:20:48. > :20:50.The first same-sex marriages are due to be held in England and Wales next

:20:51. > :20:55.summer, while the Scottish Government is in the advanced stages

:20:56. > :20:58.of introducing legislation. But in Northern Ireland, the Democratic

:20:59. > :21:03.Unionist Party has made clear it will use a veto to prevent gay

:21:04. > :21:07.marriages taking place. It is an issue that provokes some heated

:21:08. > :21:10.arguments. There are many who hold on to the

:21:11. > :21:15.traditional view of marriage. A union between a man and a woman. And

:21:16. > :21:19.the main party within the Northern Ireland Executive doesn't want that

:21:20. > :21:22.to change. The DUP has blocked attempts to introduce marriages

:21:23. > :21:27.between two men or two women. But some say that is unacceptable.

:21:28. > :21:30.We have said as a commission we support same-sex marriage, it is a

:21:31. > :21:34.fundamental equality matter. It needs to be addressed. Leadership

:21:35. > :21:41.needs to be shown. The former leader of the DUP, the Reverend Ian Paisley

:21:42. > :21:47.led the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign but homosexuality was...

:21:48. > :21:53.You will legislate pervenion and irmorality. In is a place where

:21:54. > :21:57.politics is still often wedded to religion and time has not changed

:21:58. > :22:01.the views of many of the grass roots supporter, including those who

:22:02. > :22:06.worship at the church where Ian Paisley used to preach It is a man

:22:07. > :22:11.and woman, not two men and not two women. That is a % version. ? At the

:22:12. > :22:18.end of the day they are bringing disaster on their lives. Really.

:22:19. > :22:22.Why? Because it is not, it is not natural. Same sex civil partnerships

:22:23. > :22:26.were held in Northern Ireland, before other parts of the UK. The

:22:27. > :22:30.first were held here at Belfast City Hall. The pictures were shown right

:22:31. > :22:34.round the world. But that was a Westminster decision,

:22:35. > :22:39.since devolution a DUP minister has been involved in legal fights to try

:22:40. > :22:43.to prevent gay and lesbian couples from adopting and to try and keep in

:22:44. > :22:47.place a lifetime ban on gay men giving blood. Party refuse to put

:22:48. > :22:52.anyone up for interview, however I asked the DUP's Health Minister

:22:53. > :22:56.about allegations of prejudice. I think people should be very careful

:22:57. > :23:00.about how they frame their words and about using words like prejudice,

:23:01. > :23:03.sometimes words like that could be Sunderland rows.

:23:04. > :23:09.Those campaigning for same sex unions accept that equality laws

:23:10. > :23:12.have led to huge advances but they say some politicians still aren't

:23:13. > :23:15.showing respect. It is not enough to have legislation, we have to have

:23:16. > :23:19.the support of our own Government to enforce that edge will lacing, if

:23:20. > :23:23.fact is we don't have it S The Democratic Unionist Party, they are

:23:24. > :23:27.at their heart a homophobic party. I am sure they have good people in

:23:28. > :23:33.them, I am positive of that, but they opposed every step forward to

:23:34. > :23:35.lant lnt -- LGBT rights. Times may be changing but on the issue of

:23:36. > :23:42.marriage and equality, people in Northern Ireland have yet to come

:23:43. > :23:46.together. The Mercury Prize ceremony takes

:23:47. > :23:50.place tonight. Celebrating the best new album by a British or Irish

:23:51. > :23:55.band. David Bowie could become the oldest winner at 66. He is up

:23:56. > :24:03.against Jake Bugg, who at 19 is one of the youngest contender, and the

:24:04. > :24:10.favourite newcomer Laura Mvula. Two years ago she was working at a

:24:11. > :24:13.vepist for the city of Birmingham orchestra. Now Laura Mvula is the

:24:14. > :24:18.favourite for tonight's Mercury Prize.

:24:19. > :24:24.A daunting position, she is up against some of the biggest names in

:24:25. > :24:29.music. Including David Bowie nominated for his first studio album

:24:30. > :24:35.in a decade. Previous Mercury winners Arctic

:24:36. > :24:39.Monkeys are on the the shortlist. As are Foals for their third album

:24:40. > :24:43.Holy Fire. These awards pride themselves not just on musical

:24:44. > :24:46.diversity but the mix of established and new and there are several

:24:47. > :24:56.artists on the list nominated for debut albums.

:24:57. > :25:00.Including Savages. Rudimental.

:25:01. > :25:07.And Disclosure from just outside London. As well as Jake Bugg.

:25:08. > :25:11.With album sales continuing to fall, many regard the influence of this

:25:12. > :25:17.prize to be increasing. It is the Booker Prize of music. It

:25:18. > :25:23.becomes more essential, it, especially as the Brits become more

:25:24. > :25:31.sales based and far less critically worthy.

:25:32. > :25:38.Also hoping to win will be previous nominees James Blake, folk star

:25:39. > :25:44.Laura Marling. Villager, and John Hopkin, all hoping to take home one

:25:45. > :25:48.of music's prestigious prizes. That brings us to the weather.

:25:49. > :25:51.Good evening. The Atlantic will continue to be the breeding ground

:25:52. > :25:56.for wet over the next couple of days. Things staying unsettled. We

:25:57. > :25:59.have had a weather front moving South Today, that has brought heavy

:26:00. > :26:02.rain and strong winds at time, it will start to move down to the

:26:03. > :26:05.south-east corner as we go through the night, and by hind that, the

:26:06. > :26:10.winds fall a touch lighter for a time. There will be breaks in the

:26:11. > :26:14.cloud so we could see mist and fog forming. Keeping the showers going

:26:15. > :26:20.across north-west Scotland but with breaks in the cloud, another chilly

:26:21. > :26:24.night. We still have a bit of cloud in the south-east. As for tomorrow,

:26:25. > :26:28.the winds pick up throughout the day, there will be some heavily

:26:29. > :26:32.shower, some nasty downpour, the showers with us from the word go,

:26:33. > :26:36.some really wet weather here, I think perhaps a bit drier first

:26:37. > :26:40.thing through eastern Scotland, down to the Lothians and the board es.

:26:41. > :26:43.First thing in the morning for north-west England, fairly overcast,

:26:44. > :26:47.one or two light shower, we might see one or two scattered across

:26:48. > :26:50.parts of Northern Ireland, Wales and the south-west. The south-east

:26:51. > :26:54.corner still having that weather front, lingering round, giving us a

:26:55. > :26:58.grey start to day, with patchy and light rain, wile it may hang on for

:26:59. > :27:02.a final, by the afternoon it should have cleared away. Eastern areas

:27:03. > :27:07.staying overall a bit drier, perhaps a bit of brightness but the showers

:27:08. > :27:09.start to pick up further west, heavier downpours in Wales,

:27:10. > :27:12.south-west England come the afternoon. The strong winds in from

:27:13. > :27:17.the south-west. Keeping temperatures in the mid teens across England and

:27:18. > :27:18.Wales but more like ten or 11 for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

:27:19. > :27:22.Scotland and Northern Ireland stay breezy on Friday with a scattering

:27:23. > :27:26.of shower, further south, we are looking at heavy rain, some strong

:27:27. > :27:29.winds potentially along the south coast. Really, even into the

:27:30. > :27:33.weekend, we are looking at further outbreaks of rain with strong winds

:27:34. > :27:38.at time, perhaps a bit of sunshine in between. But looking pretty mixed

:27:39. > :27:42.for the next few days. Thank you. That is all from the BBC's news at

:27:43. > :27:43.six, so it is goodbye from me, and