:00:00. > :00:08.A day of revelations at the hacking trial - from a secret affair to
:00:09. > :00:12.intercepting the voice mails of a government minister. Andy Coulson
:00:13. > :00:16.and Rebekah Brooks were seeing each other for at least six years - the
:00:17. > :00:22.prosecution says what one of them knew, the other did, too. The court
:00:23. > :00:25.hears that Tessa Jowell, John Prescott and Lord Frederick Windsor
:00:26. > :00:30.were named in an e-mail about hacking targets. We'll have the
:00:31. > :00:34.latest details from the trial. Also tonight... Saving pounds by making
:00:35. > :00:37.it easier to switch your energy supplier - the Government says it
:00:38. > :00:40.wants to speed up the process. The Unite union is accused of
:00:41. > :00:42.intimidating the families of Grangemouth bosses - they turned up
:00:43. > :00:50.outside a director's home with this inflatable rat. Wherever I have been
:00:51. > :00:56.able to, I have switched suppliers, but the prices keep going up. The
:00:57. > :00:58.Unite union is accused of intimidating the families of
:00:59. > :01:01.Grangemouth bosses. Hundreds of dangerous level crossings will be
:01:02. > :01:12.closed - the rail regulator commits millions to improving safety. My
:01:13. > :01:16.lord, I appeal to the applicant in this matter... That's something you
:01:17. > :01:18.have not seen or heard before - cameras are in the Court of Appeal
:01:19. > :01:51.for the first time. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:52. > :01:54.News at Six. The phone hacking trial has heard that Andy Coulson and
:01:55. > :01:56.Rebekah Brooks had a secret affair when both were occupying senior
:01:57. > :02:01.positions at Rupert Murdoch's media giant. The prosecution said a letter
:02:02. > :02:07.from Ms Brooks showed how close they were and that "what Mr Coulson knew,
:02:08. > :02:12.Ms Brooks knew, too". Both of them, along with the six other defendants,
:02:13. > :02:22.deny the charges against them. Tom Symonds is following the case for us
:02:23. > :02:28.- let's join him now. Yes, this is a complicated case, with eight
:02:29. > :02:32.defendants, and of course, Mr Coulson and Ms Brooks at the centre
:02:33. > :02:36.of it. This case is really about privacy, and therefore the
:02:37. > :02:40.prosecutor really had to explain today why he was revealing intimate
:02:41. > :02:46.details of their relationship, which he said was at the heart of the case
:02:47. > :02:50.against them. Rebekah Brooks was criminally involved in a conspiracy
:02:51. > :02:55.which resulted in phone hacking - the words of the prosecution today.
:02:56. > :03:01.In 2004, she wrote to Andy Coulson, and the letter was found hidden at
:03:02. > :03:04.her home. While both of them were working at News International, they
:03:05. > :03:08.had been having a six-year affair. He was now breaking it off. In the
:03:09. > :03:23.letter read out to the jury, she appears grief stricken...
:03:24. > :03:37.Commenting on the letter, prosecutor Andrew Edis said...
:03:38. > :03:42.Especially during 2002, when schoolgirl Milly Dowler went
:03:43. > :03:47.missing. The court heard that during the search for her, the News of the
:03:48. > :03:49.World was hacking her phone and preparing to write this
:03:50. > :03:54.controversial story, suggesting she might be alive. While all of this
:03:55. > :03:58.was going along, editor Rebekah Brooks was on holiday in Dubai, but
:03:59. > :04:01.she was in constant contact by phone with Mr Coulson. The prosecution
:04:02. > :04:05.says they were exchanging confidences, discussing
:04:06. > :04:10.difficulties, and that she must have known about the Milly Dowler phone
:04:11. > :04:14.hacking. In fact, the prosecution will try to prove that the editors
:04:15. > :04:17.of the paper knew about much of the phone hacking commissioned by staff
:04:18. > :04:23.on the newsdesk. The jury was told Ian Edmondson, a senior editor and a
:04:24. > :04:27.defendant in this trial, had the job of tasking enquiries into targets
:04:28. > :04:31.the newspaper was interested in. His key contact was Glenn Mulcaire, part
:04:32. > :04:35.of the paper's special investigations team, who would
:04:36. > :04:40.access the voice mails, reporting back on what was said. There will be
:04:41. > :04:44.evidence that freelancer Glenn Mulcaire was given a pay rise when
:04:45. > :04:48.Andy Coulson took over, and that another defendant, managing editor
:04:49. > :04:55.Stuart Kuttner, agreed payments to him worth more than ?400,000. And it
:04:56. > :05:00.was revealed today that the wife of Beaufort Colin Montgomerie will
:05:01. > :05:07.testify that in 2005, over lunch, Ms Brooks told her all about stories of
:05:08. > :05:14.alleged phone hacking. The jury -- the eighth tendency or deny the
:05:15. > :05:19.charges. -- the eight defendants all denied the charges. But we have been
:05:20. > :05:23.hearing today is not evidence, it is the long and details opening
:05:24. > :05:27.statement of the prosecution. The evidence will come in the months to
:05:28. > :05:30.come, and we are told today that that will include a tape of Andy
:05:31. > :05:35.Coulson confronting David Blunkett, the former minister, with, it is
:05:36. > :05:37.claimed, a story obtained through hacking. This trial is due to last
:05:38. > :05:45.between five and six months. The Energy Secretary has accused the
:05:46. > :05:47.big energy companies of trying to make it difficult for their
:05:48. > :05:50.customers to switch suppliers. Announcing a review that will look
:05:51. > :05:53.into competition in the energy market, Ed Davey also said he was
:05:54. > :05:55.considering criminal sanctions for companies found to have manipulated
:05:56. > :06:05.the energy market. Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, reports.
:06:06. > :06:09.Millions of households are facing higher energy bills this winter,
:06:10. > :06:14.prompting a raging political debate over how to fix what some call a
:06:15. > :06:18.broken energy market. The Government's answer is a new test on
:06:19. > :06:25.how well the market is working, with criminal penalties for those who
:06:26. > :06:27.break the rules. That is why I intend to consult on the
:06:28. > :06:30.introduction of criminal sanctions for anyone found manipulating energy
:06:31. > :06:36.markets and harming the consumer interest. At how significant are
:06:37. > :06:41.these energy proposals? At their heart is a new, annual assessment of
:06:42. > :06:45.how competitive the market is. The first of these will be published
:06:46. > :06:49.next spring. There will be a new probe into the financial accounts of
:06:50. > :06:53.the energy firms, and the Government wants to encourage more of us to
:06:54. > :07:02.switch, making it quicker and easier to change supplier, perhaps I'm just
:07:03. > :07:05.24 hours. That would help people like pensioner David Godson from
:07:06. > :07:09.Hampshire. He has switched supplier many times but he is still facing
:07:10. > :07:13.higher bills, and he says the process is far from easy. It is not
:07:14. > :07:20.quick enough, it is certainly not simple, and the tariffs are
:07:21. > :07:26.unbelievably confusing. So, it makes it a very difficult job. I have done
:07:27. > :07:32.it myself, but it is hard work. The energy firms were back in the
:07:33. > :07:35.spotlight this week, attempting to justify they blame government green
:07:36. > :07:40.levies for pushing bills higher, and they gave a cautious welcome to
:07:41. > :07:45.today's plans. Transparency is a good thing, and today's plans are
:07:46. > :07:49.sensible. Faster switching is a good thing, and the competition audit
:07:50. > :07:53.seems to be the right thing to do. But the best way of getting bills
:07:54. > :07:56.down will be to take -- would be to take these government levies off
:07:57. > :08:01.tomorrow, immediately saving customers more than ?100. The
:08:02. > :08:08.Government was accused of refusing to stand up to the big six energy
:08:09. > :08:16.firms. We need action to fix the broken market, to break up the big
:08:17. > :08:19.six by reading fencing -- by ring fencing their generation from
:08:20. > :08:23.supply... Pressure is likely to mount on the Government to deliver
:08:24. > :08:26.on its pledge to roll back the green levies.
:08:27. > :08:29.Members of the Unite union involved in the bitter dispute at Grangemouth
:08:30. > :08:32.have been accused of trying to intimidate company bosses - and
:08:33. > :08:35.their families. In one case, Unite members turned up outside the home
:08:36. > :08:39.of a director with an inflatable rat. David Cameron described the
:08:40. > :08:41.incident as shocking. The union insists all its campaigning
:08:42. > :08:51.activities have been legal and legitimate. James Cook reports.
:08:52. > :08:55.Demonstrators from the Unite union, complete with a giant rat, on the
:08:56. > :09:00.driveway of a Grangemouth company boss in Fife town. Two weeks ago,
:09:01. > :09:04.the refinery dispute was brewing, and here in Dunfermline, the union
:09:05. > :09:07.was piling on the pressure. This is a very quiet neighbourhood, and
:09:08. > :09:11.people here do not want to go on camera to discuss the protests, but
:09:12. > :09:14.the reactions have ranged from bemusement to shock, and one
:09:15. > :09:21.neighbour told me she was disgusted by what had happened. Unite calls
:09:22. > :09:24.the tactic leverage, and it has used it in other disputes. These were
:09:25. > :09:28.demonstrations against construction companies in London. Today, the
:09:29. > :09:33.Prime Minister defended the right to protest, and said the latest claims
:09:34. > :09:37.were quite shocking. Nobody has a right to intimidate or bully, nobody
:09:38. > :09:40.has a right to threaten people's families or to threaten people in
:09:41. > :09:47.their homes. If these things have happened, it is very serious, and it
:09:48. > :09:51.needs to be examined. As the dispute here in Grangemouth unfolded, it is
:09:52. > :09:55.understood for directors of the owner, Ineos, were targeted by
:09:56. > :10:00.demonstrators, three were in Hampshire, one in Fife town. It is
:10:01. > :10:03.alleged that protesters set foot on private property, alarming children,
:10:04. > :10:07.but the union leadership denies breaking the law. Faceless directors
:10:08. > :10:11.who make decisions to close down fact is, to put workers and their
:10:12. > :10:17.families out of work, destroy communities, need to understand that
:10:18. > :10:23.if they think they are just going to disappear back into leafy suburbia,
:10:24. > :10:27.then we have a right to protest. So, nothing illegal and certainly no
:10:28. > :10:31.bullying or intimidation. The Labour leader declined to comment tonight.
:10:32. > :10:36.His spokesman said the party condemned any intimidation by bosses
:10:37. > :10:40.all workers, but accused the Tories of inflaming a difficult situation.
:10:41. > :10:45.In this quiet suburb, it all feels rather like class war.
:10:46. > :10:50.The family of a man who was stabbed to death in Sheffield as he
:10:51. > :10:53.delivered his last pizza order have said they are devastated by his
:10:54. > :10:57.death. 25-year-old Thavisha Peiris - here on the right with his family -
:10:58. > :11:00.was found dead in his car on Sunday. He was about to start a new job as
:11:01. > :11:04.an IT consultant. Speaking from their home in Sri Lanka, his parents
:11:05. > :11:08.said that his murder has left them broken-hearted.
:11:09. > :11:13.The former BBC radio presenter Michael Souter has been jailed for
:11:14. > :11:16.22 years for a string of sex offences against children, spanning
:11:17. > :11:19.two decades. Described as a "predatory paedophile", Souter was
:11:20. > :11:24.previously found guilty of 19 counts of child sex abuse in a trial at
:11:25. > :11:26.Norwich Crown Court. Souter, who had worked for BBC Radio Norfolk, denied
:11:27. > :11:34.the charges. Syria's declared chemical weapons
:11:35. > :11:39.facilities have been destroyed - that's according to international
:11:40. > :11:44.inspectors. The announcement comes a day before the deadline set by the
:11:45. > :11:46.United States and Russia. The inspectors will now turn to the
:11:47. > :11:51.country's existing stock of chemical agents including sulfur mustard gas
:11:52. > :12:04.and the nerve agent sarin. Our diplomatic corresondent, James
:12:05. > :12:07.Robbins, reports. For weeks, specialist international inspectors
:12:08. > :12:12.have been visiting Syria's declared chemical weapons factories. They
:12:13. > :12:16.have tagged and sealed equipment so that no more chemical weapons can be
:12:17. > :12:22.made. The Syrian government did much of the actual destruction, and often
:12:23. > :12:25.that simply meant smashing up resident Assad, delivering on his
:12:26. > :12:29.commitment, which was given under intense American and Russian
:12:30. > :12:33.pressure. Now, the inspectors are confident they have met their first
:12:34. > :12:36.deadline. We have personally observed one of the destruction
:12:37. > :12:42.activities, and they are not now in a position to conduct any further
:12:43. > :12:49.production or mixing of chemical weapons, as far as they're disclosed
:12:50. > :12:54.capability is concerned. So, what has been achieved, and what remains
:12:55. > :13:01.to be done? The inspectors were only able to make visits to 21 out of the
:13:02. > :13:05.24 sites. Two are in areas being fought over in the surreal walk but
:13:06. > :13:09.they are satisfied that all material there has also been destroyed. -- in
:13:10. > :13:14.the civil war. But now a far tougher task lies ahead, given that they
:13:15. > :13:17.have to destroy or remove all existing stockpiles of chemical
:13:18. > :13:23.weapons by the middle of next year. Syria's government is claiming the
:13:24. > :13:26.progress so far as its own victory, strengthening President Assad's hand
:13:27. > :13:29.against the opposition rebels. I hope those who have always thought
:13:30. > :13:36.of us negatively will change their mind, and understand that Syria
:13:37. > :13:43.was, is and will be always a constructive partner in
:13:44. > :13:45.international affairs. But the brutal reality in Syria remains a
:13:46. > :13:51.civil war in which conventional weapons kill the vast majority of
:13:52. > :13:55.victims. The rebels fear that pressure on them to negotiate,
:13:56. > :13:57.coupled with President Assad's apparent political gains, put them
:13:58. > :14:11.at a new disadvantage. Our main headline... The phone
:14:12. > :14:15.hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson has been told they were
:14:16. > :14:23.having a secret affair while they were running the News of the World.
:14:24. > :14:26.And still to come - the fight for fairer funding, as it is revealed
:14:27. > :14:52.Londoners get the lion 's share of arts money in England.
:14:53. > :14:57.Punctuality and safety are top of the list for millions of commuters,
:14:58. > :15:04.and they are at the heart of the rail watchdog's new plans for the
:15:05. > :15:08.next five years. The Office of Rail Regulation says ?21 billion will go
:15:09. > :15:14.to Network Rail. It has set a target of nine out of ten trains running on
:15:15. > :15:20.time. They have also earmarked more than ?100 million to improve safety
:15:21. > :15:25.at rail crossing. For all who use the railways, today
:15:26. > :15:31.is about setting the direction of travel on our train services for the
:15:32. > :15:33.coming five years. The regulator has confirmed its target about
:15:34. > :15:41.infrastructure improvements and efficiency savings. There is also
:15:42. > :15:46.the question of safety. Nine people died at level crossings last year.
:15:47. > :15:51.Now, some 500 most dangerous will be closed, with hundreds more improved
:15:52. > :15:56.with funding adding up to ?109 million. With more people using
:15:57. > :16:02.crossings, more cars, more vehicles on the road, there is increasing
:16:03. > :16:07.danger, so we need to continue to invest and improve safety at level
:16:08. > :16:12.crossings. For some, the changes come too late. 14-year-old Olivia
:16:13. > :16:17.Bazlinton and her friend Charlotte Thomson were killed on a crossing in
:16:18. > :16:21.Essex in 2005. Safety improvements must be made at all of them, such as
:16:22. > :16:25.locking gate so that people cannot make their way onto the track. I
:16:26. > :16:30.would like to see them get rid of half barriers, where people can
:16:31. > :16:36.weave around them. We have seen recent examples of people who have
:16:37. > :16:39.gone very close to death. This near miss in Cambridgeshire underlining
:16:40. > :16:44.the danger. A lucky escape making the case for change. Much of today's
:16:45. > :16:48.attention has been on safety, but there has been fresh focus on
:16:49. > :16:52.punctuality, with the regulator telling the rail industry that
:16:53. > :16:56.across most of the country, it should aim to have nine out of the
:16:57. > :17:02.ten trains running on time. I have lived abroad a lot, and everything
:17:03. > :17:05.runs on time. I don't understand why they can't in England. Most people
:17:06. > :17:09.would expect a slight delay, but you don't want to be stood there for
:17:10. > :17:14.hours on end, not knowing when the train will come. This is part of the
:17:15. > :17:18.wider drive to improve the nation's railways. Network Rail is being
:17:19. > :17:25.challenged to do better, predicting problems and fixing them before they
:17:26. > :17:29.cause disruption. MPs have voted to allow the
:17:30. > :17:33.government to start spending money on preparing the controversial HS2
:17:34. > :17:38.line. There were 350 votes in favour, and 34 against the
:17:39. > :17:46.legislation, which will release funds to pay for property and
:17:47. > :17:50.compensation to evicted residents. Let's go live to our correspondent.
:17:51. > :17:55.The government wins the vote. Does this mean HS2 will go ahead? Not by
:17:56. > :18:00.a long chalk. This is just the latest stage in a long Parliamentary
:18:01. > :18:04.process in favour of High Speed 2, this line that will stretch all the
:18:05. > :18:11.way from London to Birmingham, and then divide, one mind to Manchester
:18:12. > :18:13.and one to Leeds. What happened today is the government were told
:18:14. > :18:16.they could spend money on the preparations. Next year, there will
:18:17. > :18:20.be another piece of legislation that goes through the route in detail,
:18:21. > :18:24.mile by a mile, and gives the government the detail to start
:18:25. > :18:29.cutting this line. We are in for the long haul. The government hopes to
:18:30. > :18:33.get it done by 2015, but that will still be pretty tight. Labour has
:18:34. > :18:40.voted in favour today. Are they now on-board? Not entirely. For a
:18:41. > :18:44.project like this, all parties agree you have to have cross-party
:18:45. > :18:48.agreement because it is such a large objects, crossing parliaments and
:18:49. > :18:52.governments. Although Labour voted in favour of the legislation today,
:18:53. > :18:57.they are refusing to commit to the project long term, saying they
:18:58. > :19:01.retain the right to say no if they think the costs are spiralling out
:19:02. > :19:05.of control. This has caused some ruffles within the Labour Party. On
:19:06. > :19:09.the one hand, some people are saying that the Labour Party can show it is
:19:10. > :19:13.being prudent with the public purse, showing the public it can be
:19:14. > :19:18.sensible with public money. On the other hand, Labour MPs and council
:19:19. > :19:24.leaders are saying that this is madness, the party is just creating
:19:25. > :19:28.unnecessary uncertainty. There was a meeting last night of Labour
:19:29. > :19:33.backbenchers, in which they gave the Shadow Chancellor -- the Shadow
:19:34. > :19:38.Transport Secretary a hard time. Labour's position at the moment is
:19:39. > :19:42.constructive ambiguity, support in principle, but check the costs. I
:19:43. > :19:46.think they will come under pressure to change that position as the
:19:47. > :19:50.months go by. Thank you. Rescue workers in Niger have found
:19:51. > :19:54.the bodies of 92 people believed to be migrant workers who died of
:19:55. > :19:59.thirst after their vehicles broke down in the Sahara desert. Many of
:20:00. > :20:02.the victims were women and children. It's not clear whether they were
:20:03. > :20:06.attempting to travel to neighbouring Algeria or go further afield to
:20:07. > :20:10.Europe. Police in Kenya have been handed a
:20:11. > :20:14.petition complaining about the lax punishment given to three men
:20:15. > :20:21.accused of raping a 16-year-old girl. The teenager was beaten and
:20:22. > :20:24.raped as she returned from her grandfather's funeral. More than 1.5
:20:25. > :20:28.million people signed the online campaign objecting to the men being
:20:29. > :20:34.ordered only to cut the grass outside a police station.
:20:35. > :20:38.Legal history was made today in the Court of Appeal, when proceedings
:20:39. > :20:42.were broadcast on TV, radio and online for the first time. Judges
:20:43. > :20:47.were ruling on the case of the man appealing against a seven-year
:20:48. > :20:54.sentence for money counterfeiting. Our correspondent is in the Court of
:20:55. > :20:57.Appeal. I am in court number four of the Royal Courts of Justice, the
:20:58. > :21:07.truly magnificent court of the Lord Chief Justice. Today was a historic
:21:08. > :21:11.day. It was quite a day here. History in the making, as cameras
:21:12. > :21:20.move from the outside to the inside of the Court of Appeal. My lord, I
:21:21. > :21:23.appear for the applicant... Capturing for the first time a
:21:24. > :21:28.hearing in the Victorian splendour of the Lord Chief Justice's court.
:21:29. > :21:34.Under the rules, and with the judges and the legal teams can be filmed. I
:21:35. > :21:40.don't disagree that he was a prime mover in the custody and the
:21:41. > :21:45.distribution. This is Alexander Cameron QC, the Prime Minister's
:21:46. > :21:49.brother. He is arguing that his client, Kevin Fisher, imprisoned in
:21:50. > :21:54.May for seven years for his part in what police believe was the largest
:21:55. > :21:59.ever plot to counterfeit pound coins in the UK, was given an excessively
:22:00. > :22:03.harsh sentence which should be reduced. Since 1925 it has been an
:22:04. > :22:09.offence to film or take a photograph in a court room in England and
:22:10. > :22:14.Wales, with the exception of the Supreme Court. Filming in Scottish
:22:15. > :22:21.courts has been allowed since 1992, but only if all parties agree. Now,
:22:22. > :22:27.cases like this can be seen by millions. Broadcasters, who have
:22:28. > :22:33.campaigned for decades for the change, are delighted. Whether there
:22:34. > :22:39.will be hours and hours of coverage from a court room I probably doubt.
:22:40. > :22:42.I think audiences will find that dry and dusty. But I think we will be
:22:43. > :22:47.able to convey some of the drama that goes on in a courtroom. It is
:22:48. > :22:52.the thirst for drama that leaves some in the legal world is concerned
:22:53. > :22:56.for where this will lead, but not one of the country's leading
:22:57. > :23:01.barristers. I think this will be seen as a good thing, provided you
:23:02. > :23:06.build on it, and don't just let it evaporate into the ether and make it
:23:07. > :23:10.a one-off. This should be a possible way of building a new future. If
:23:11. > :23:20.this first experiment in filming goes well, it could be extended to
:23:21. > :23:24.sentencing in the Crown Court. Kevin Fisher lost his appeal today, and
:23:25. > :23:27.for those expecting a full trial with cross-examination of witnesses
:23:28. > :23:31.and defendants, they will be disappointed, but there will be very
:23:32. > :23:36.important cases in this court, and we will be able to see them. Today,
:23:37. > :23:43.Justice really did become a little bit more open and transparent.
:23:44. > :23:47.Thank you. Funding for theatres, museums and galleries outside the
:23:48. > :23:52.capital is being squeezed because London swallows the lion's share. A
:23:53. > :23:56.new report looking at how money is allocated has found that government
:23:57. > :24:01.spending on arts in London are mounted to nearly ?70 per resident
:24:02. > :24:07.in the last financial year, compared to less than ?5 per person in the
:24:08. > :24:10.rest of England. The Birmingham Royal Ballet,
:24:11. > :24:19.currently performing at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Two regional arts
:24:20. > :24:25.theatres with a long history of collaborating. Both accept that arts
:24:26. > :24:30.funding should favour London, but it is felt that the discrepancy is too
:24:31. > :24:36.great. The extent of the balance clearly isn't acceptable. An extra
:24:37. > :24:42.?100,000 into the massive cultural and creative economy in London is
:24:43. > :24:47.minute. It is a drop in the ocean. ?100,000 spent in the creative
:24:48. > :24:54.economy of Carlisle or Wolverhampton can really transform people 's
:24:55. > :24:59.lives. The report found that of the ?320 million of taxpayers' money
:25:00. > :25:05.distributed by Alps Castle -- Arts Council England, only ?3 60 per head
:25:06. > :25:13.was given to the rest of England outside London. The amount given per
:25:14. > :25:18.head in London was Lily ?70, but only ?4.60 in the rest of the
:25:19. > :25:23.country. The amount London receives compared to the rest of the country
:25:24. > :25:28.is not new. The report shows that the situation has become more
:25:29. > :25:32.pronounced, not less. It also says that the additional money that has
:25:33. > :25:36.come from the National Lottery since the mid-90s has compounded the
:25:37. > :25:40.problem by following a similar problem. London has received three
:25:41. > :25:45.times more lottery funds than everywhere else. It is far from
:25:46. > :25:51.fair. They have just spent I don't know how much renewing the theatre
:25:52. > :25:55.in Plymouth, but it is the only one for miles. I think it is
:25:56. > :25:59.understandable, because there is such a high concentration of
:26:00. > :26:07.cultural exhibits and places in London, but the contrast between the
:26:08. > :26:11.two is too different. It has been argued that a production like
:26:12. > :26:16.warhorse could only have emerged by a major sentence of -- centre of
:26:17. > :26:21.excellence in London. But the Arts Council feels there is room for
:26:22. > :26:27.improvement. It has just published its 10-year strategy. That sets out
:26:28. > :26:30.what the Arts Council can do, including for the regions, and it
:26:31. > :26:35.absolutely says that more should and could be done. That is what we've
:26:36. > :26:40.got to do. It would appear that Arts Council England is reviewing its
:26:41. > :26:44.funding arrangements, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have
:26:45. > :26:51.their own. It is time for the weather now.
:26:52. > :26:58.More spells of wet and windy weather to come over the next few days,
:26:59. > :27:02.including the weekend. If you are heading out this evening, expect
:27:03. > :27:06.some showers. A gusty wind is covering the country. The winds will
:27:07. > :27:11.ease a little bit overnight, and the showers will fade. We will keep
:27:12. > :27:15.outbreaks of rain across southernmost counties. Further
:27:16. > :27:22.north, temperatures could drop to single figures. The winds will stay
:27:23. > :27:26.strong in north-west Scotland, but elsewhere, they should be a little
:27:27. > :27:31.lighter tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain moving across England and Wales, but
:27:32. > :27:36.some uncertainty as to how far north it will go. For much of eastern
:27:37. > :27:41.Scotland and Northern Ireland, a decent day. Showers will pepper
:27:42. > :27:50.western Scotland. A largely dry morning across the north of England
:27:51. > :27:53.is, but that rain could creep northwards. In the south, the rain
:27:54. > :27:57.could be quite heavy, especially along the south coast. The winds
:27:58. > :28:01.could start to strengthen and it could get very gusty once more along
:28:02. > :28:07.the south coast. The rain here may well pep up throughout the evening.
:28:08. > :28:11.That could cause a few problems during Friday night. A dry start for
:28:12. > :28:16.someone Saturday, but another batch of wet and windy weather moves in
:28:17. > :28:20.from the Atlantic. Some uncertainty about the extent of the rain, but
:28:21. > :28:24.the winds will get very lively. Could get very gusty again on
:28:25. > :28:29.Saturday night. A lot of events going on then, so if you are heading
:28:30. > :28:33.out, bear that in mind. Sunday is another blustery day with sunshine
:28:34. > :28:40.and showers, and mourn brain lurking down to the south-west. -- more rain
:28:41. > :28:44.lurking. The trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy
:28:45. > :28:50.Coulson has been told they were having a secret affair while running
:28:51. > :28:51.the News of the World. That's all from the News at