:00:00. > :00:09.EU migrants face tougher rules on claiming benefits. David Cameron's
:00:10. > :00:15.plans get an angry reaction in Brussels. Just 35 days to go before
:00:16. > :00:18.Bulgarians and Romanians are free to work in the UK, they'll face
:00:19. > :00:28.restrictions on housing and other benefits. People in our country are
:00:29. > :00:32.concerned about the pressures and the amount of immigration in recent
:00:33. > :00:35.years and I share that concern. A top EU official says the plans could
:00:36. > :00:38.make Britain look like a nasty country. We'll be live in Brussels.
:00:39. > :00:43.Also tonight. The university lecturer and his family massacred in
:00:44. > :00:48.a revenge attack. A businessman is found guilty of murder. Desperate to
:00:49. > :00:53.make ends meet. A new study says nine million Brits are struggling
:00:54. > :00:56.with mounting debts. More revelations about Nigella Lawson and
:00:57. > :01:04.her former husband Charles Saatchi. The court hears there was a culture
:01:05. > :01:12.of secrecy in their marriage. # Whoa, we're halfway there.
:01:13. > :01:15.# Whoa, livin' on a prayer #. Don't call us, we'll call you.
:01:16. > :01:25.William joins rock stars for a charity sing-along. In the sport,
:01:26. > :01:28.the latest from Brazil where part of the stadium due to host the opening
:01:29. > :01:49.game of next year 's World Cup has collapsed. It killed three people.
:01:50. > :01:53.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. David Cameron has
:01:54. > :01:56.promised to make it harder for migrants from the European Union to
:01:57. > :02:01.get access to Britain's welfare system. From January next year
:02:02. > :02:06.restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians looking for work in the
:02:07. > :02:11.UK will be lifted. But migrants will face restrictions on the benefits
:02:12. > :02:14.they can claim. Mr Cameron also questioned the principle of free
:02:15. > :02:18.movement of people across the European Union. That's been
:02:19. > :02:21.described as an over-reaction by an EU commissioner who says the UK
:02:22. > :02:27.risks being seen as the nasty country. Our Political Editor, Nick
:02:28. > :02:36.Robinson, has been speaking to the Prime Minister. There are just 35
:02:37. > :02:42.days to go until any citizen of Rumania or Bulgaria will be free to
:02:43. > :02:46.work in the UK. The dates been in the diary for years. But today the
:02:47. > :02:53.Prime Minister promised to tighten up the benefit rules. In time for
:02:54. > :02:57.January the 1st. This is not just Romanians and Bulgarians, but anyone
:02:58. > :03:01.in other European Union countries thinking of coming to Britain
:03:02. > :03:04.because it's easier to claim benefits, housing benefit and
:03:05. > :03:08.unemployment benefit, I think it's important to send a clear message
:03:09. > :03:11.that that is not the case. Frankly, some of this work has come about
:03:12. > :03:16.because I have seen other European countries that do take a tougher
:03:17. > :03:20.approach than us. Sending a signal means tweaking the rules for new
:03:21. > :03:23.arrivals here, who want to claim out of work benefits. They will have to
:03:24. > :03:27.wait three months before claiming jobseeker's allowance, it will only
:03:28. > :03:30.be payable for six months, and those without work will come in future,
:03:31. > :03:34.not be allowed to claim housing benefit at the same time. How many
:03:35. > :03:41.will be affected? How much will be saved, Downing Street says they
:03:42. > :03:46.don't know. Are you worried tens of thousands of people will come? I'm
:03:47. > :03:48.not going to make an estimate. The last government made terrible
:03:49. > :03:53.mistake doing that and getting it completely wrong. My job is to put
:03:54. > :03:58.in place the right controls, measures, processes, and then to see
:03:59. > :04:00.how the situation develops. The images of Rome are sleeping rough
:04:01. > :04:06.have fuelled already high public concern. The government is promising
:04:07. > :04:09.new powers to remove beggars and a new minimum earnings threshold
:04:10. > :04:15.before anyone can claim income support. It is public concern about
:04:16. > :04:20.immigration which is forcing all the main parties to think again. The
:04:21. > :04:26.Prime Minister has even said he wants to change the basis of the EU.
:04:27. > :04:30.The idea that anyone from any country can work anywhere. Whether
:04:31. > :04:35.they are a Polish plumber, a Romanian architect or a Brit who
:04:36. > :04:38.fancies working on the Costa Blanca. I think people can now see when new
:04:39. > :04:42.countries join, if I have a radically different wage rate,
:04:43. > :04:46.radically different economies in terms of scale, you will get these
:04:47. > :04:51.mass movements of people. Frankly, it isn't right for our own country
:04:52. > :04:55.and for those countries. In Brussels, one EU Commissioner said
:04:56. > :04:59.it was in danger been seen as a nasty country. David Cameron will
:05:00. > :05:05.need the support of many other European capitals if he is to change
:05:06. > :05:11.a fundamental European principle. Prime Minister Cameron called me
:05:12. > :05:20.yesterday informing me about the intentions he has on this issue of
:05:21. > :05:23.freedom of movement. I underlined to Prime Minister Cameron that free
:05:24. > :05:29.movement is a fundamental treaty principle that must be upheld. It is
:05:30. > :05:33.a sign of The Times that Labour 's main criticism today was the
:05:34. > :05:37.government had been too slow to act. We are glad the Prime Minister has
:05:38. > :05:41.adopted our proposals on benefit restrictions. But they should not
:05:42. > :05:46.have delayed this for eight months so they won't be in place by
:05:47. > :05:52.January. And it's not enough. They need to take action over jobs and
:05:53. > :05:56.wages now. Many Romanian and Bulgarian have already made the
:05:57. > :05:59.journey here, self-employed and got work permits. What today's
:06:00. > :06:03.announcement is about as limiting the numbers who follow. You have
:06:04. > :06:07.been Prime Minister for more than three years. We are now scarcely
:06:08. > :06:14.more than a month from this deadline. This smacks of panic,
:06:15. > :06:17.doesn't it? It's taken some time to turn the situation around. We
:06:18. > :06:22.extended the time of a transitional controls in Bulgaria and Romania
:06:23. > :06:27.from five years to seven years, put in place an immigration cap for
:06:28. > :06:31.migration outside the EU, we tore up the last government's hope a set of
:06:32. > :06:34.old measures, but if you are saying is there more that needs to be
:06:35. > :06:41.done? Yes, and I'm doing it. There's more to be done, he says, but there
:06:42. > :06:43.are just 35 days to do it. As the immigration debate
:06:44. > :06:48.intensifies, polling shows high public concern about it. Our Home
:06:49. > :06:51.Editor Mark Easton has been to Boston in Lincolnshire, a town that
:06:52. > :07:02.has seen rapid immigration from Eastern Europe, to assess the impact
:07:03. > :07:07.of a decade of change. Boston, an ancient Lincolnshire town
:07:08. > :07:12.transformed by rapid and significant immigration from Eastern Europe.
:07:13. > :07:14.What lessons have the Prime Minister promised I had an increased
:07:15. > :07:24.immigration from Romania and Bulgaria? One local school now has
:07:25. > :07:27.two thirds of pupils from migrant households. Exam results are
:07:28. > :07:31.excellent here and it seems a model of good practice but the prospect of
:07:32. > :07:36.yet more immigration without extra resources is a concern. Generally,
:07:37. > :07:40.we are full, so when we're talking about the possible migration of
:07:41. > :07:44.Romanian and Bulgarian children, actually, as a school, we haven't
:07:45. > :07:51.got any places at this point. What will happen? That's a very good
:07:52. > :07:56.question. The public perception of people drink alcohol in this place
:07:57. > :07:59.particular... Police conduct assessment identifying hotspots
:08:00. > :08:05.where trouble might flare. Officers admit they were too optimistic about
:08:06. > :08:07.the impact immigration might have. We did have our head in the sand
:08:08. > :08:12.from policing perspective and from partners as well in terms of what
:08:13. > :08:16.was going on. That was more down to the fact we went seen the
:08:17. > :08:19.information coming in. It was the speed of change that locals find
:08:20. > :08:22.disconcerting thought up in 2001, virtually everyone in Boston was
:08:23. > :08:27.white British, ten years later, it was just 84%. A dramatic cultural
:08:28. > :08:36.shift which short tensions spill over into protest. Stand up for this
:08:37. > :08:40.country and for the English people. A peaceful demonstration a year ago
:08:41. > :08:45.highlights exactly the concern is the government nationally is to
:08:46. > :08:51.today. The man behind the protest is warning that patience is wearing
:08:52. > :08:54.thin. I think it's about time we took our head out of the bucket of
:08:55. > :08:59.sand to see what they've done to this country, to see the problems
:09:00. > :09:01.which is being caused by the first wave of immigration from Poland and
:09:02. > :09:08.Latvia and Lithuania and say we can't cope any more. This family are
:09:09. > :09:12.Romanians have lived in Boston for ten years. She is a senior NHS nurse
:09:13. > :09:17.who finds the media portrayal of her countryfolk disturbing. If you came
:09:18. > :09:22.to my house, I can take you to my Romanian friends here in Boston,
:09:23. > :09:26.social workers and nurses and stuff like that. They are very good
:09:27. > :09:31.people, they go to church every Sunday. Boston is exceptional but
:09:32. > :09:35.lessons may apply elsewhere. Economic Lee, immigration has
:09:36. > :09:43.thoroughly boosted the time but culturally, rapid change has made
:09:44. > :09:46.this place and easy. -- uneasy. In a moment we will speak to Nick
:09:47. > :09:53.Robinson but first our Europe editor is in Brussels. Gavin, as we saw,
:09:54. > :09:56.there has been a swift and angry reaction from Brussels. What are
:09:57. > :10:00.they so worried about? George, you're quite right, there has been
:10:01. > :10:06.some strong coders here. One commissioner said reaction in the UK
:10:07. > :10:11.was based on hysteria. One Bulgarian MEP accuse David Cameron of sliding
:10:12. > :10:15.towards nationalist rhetoric. Another official said migrants pay
:10:16. > :10:20.far more in taxes than they receive in benefits. But there is one big
:10:21. > :10:26.key question here. Whether these new restrictions on benefits for
:10:27. > :10:29.migrants undermine freedom of movement? Whether they break the
:10:30. > :10:32.rules? It is interesting in that phone cupboard to the President of
:10:33. > :10:38.the commission here, and David Cameron, where he underlined that a
:10:39. > :10:42.court treaty principle was freedom of movement. It had to be upheld. It
:10:43. > :10:46.was not negotiable and it is clear to me any new legislation coming out
:10:47. > :10:51.of London will be scrutinised very closely here to see whether it
:10:52. > :10:56.breaches those rules. Nick, in Westminster, you talked about this
:10:57. > :11:02.in your interview. This weeks to go before this deadline. Why is David
:11:03. > :11:05.Cameron only doing this now? The cynical view is politics. The
:11:06. > :11:11.opinion polls show people are very concerned, certain newspaper owners,
:11:12. > :11:14.big selling newspapers, are reflecting sometimes fuelling that
:11:15. > :11:18.concern and there are elections next year for from all the parties on
:11:19. > :11:22.their bus of UKIP breathing down their neck and UKIP are saying the
:11:23. > :11:27.key to getting immigration down is to get out of Europe. A less cynical
:11:28. > :11:30.view is to say something fundamentally has changed in Britain
:11:31. > :11:33.in the last ten years. People felt misled about the numbers of East
:11:34. > :11:38.European who would come down. They are saying to the electoral
:11:39. > :11:41.representatives, we think the rules are not there between us and them.
:11:42. > :11:46.And that is why it is striking that the Lib Dems today, but they didn't
:11:47. > :11:51.oppose this, the Labour Party didn't oppose it. One other factor, too,
:11:52. > :11:55.though, David Cameron think there's movement amongst European leaders
:11:56. > :12:00.and if the Brussels bureaucrats are slagging him off, I think it will
:12:01. > :12:05.put a big smile on his face. Thank you both. A businessman has been
:12:06. > :12:08.convicted of murdering a family of four in their home in Northampton.
:12:09. > :12:10.Anxiang Du, from Coventry, repeatedly stabbed his former
:12:11. > :12:16.business partners Jeff and Helen Ding, and their daughters. He went
:12:17. > :12:19.on the run and was one of Britain's most wanted criminals. Northampton
:12:20. > :12:22.Court heard that he killed them in a revenge attack after losing a legal
:12:23. > :12:31.battle over a Chinese herbal medicine business. Ben Geoghegan
:12:32. > :12:36.reports. For Anxiang Du, the day of the royal
:12:37. > :12:40.wedding was a day for revenge. He travelled to Northampton armed with
:12:41. > :12:46.a knife. And murdered a family of four. These were his victims. Jeff
:12:47. > :12:52.and Helen Ding and their two daughters, 18 years old and 12 years
:12:53. > :12:57.old. To find four people from the same family massacred in their own
:12:58. > :13:02.home, was horrendous in itself. But to find that two of those people
:13:03. > :13:08.were young females, the daughters, I find that unforgivable. I can't in
:13:09. > :13:13.any way get used to that as a concept. Anxiang Du went into
:13:14. > :13:17.business with the Dings but the relationship turns sour. After years
:13:18. > :13:22.of legal disputes and was left with debts of nearly ?90,000. On the day
:13:23. > :13:27.of the murder, he took a bus and headed to the family home. The
:13:28. > :13:32.prosecution said Anxiang Du carried out the murders with ruthless
:13:33. > :13:36.efficiency, stabbing two adults in the kitchen and then went upstairs
:13:37. > :13:39.and attacked their daughters. The Jubilee were also told that
:13:40. > :13:42.afterwards, while he was still in the house, he laid down and fell
:13:43. > :13:49.asleep that the jewellery. Between them, the victims suffered a total
:13:50. > :13:53.of 51 stabbings. Anxiang Du fled abroad but was tracked down more
:13:54. > :13:59.than a year later living rough on a building site in Morocco. Some of
:14:00. > :14:02.Helen Ding's relatives travelled from China to hear the evidence
:14:03. > :14:07.which the judge said was truly horrendous.
:14:08. > :14:11.TRANSLATION: During the whole trial, we listened with deep sorrow
:14:12. > :14:16.and painful is finally, today the verdict is murder. Anxiang Du will
:14:17. > :14:20.get what he deserves. He admitted the killings and claimed he was
:14:21. > :14:24.suffering mental illness. And guilty only of manslaughter. But today, the
:14:25. > :14:32.jury decided this was murder and nothing less. Two people have been
:14:33. > :14:35.killed in an accident at the stadium that is due to host the opening
:14:36. > :14:39.ceremony of the World Cup in Brazil next year. A crane is reported to
:14:40. > :14:42.have fallen onto the stadium in Sao Paolo destroying parts of the
:14:43. > :14:46.stands. The arena is due to be completed at the end of December to
:14:47. > :14:54.meet a FIFA deadline. Brazil has admitted it is struggling to have
:14:55. > :14:57.all 12 venues ready. This week we've reported on allegations that The
:14:58. > :14:59.Royal Bank of Scotland pushed small businesses into administration and
:15:00. > :15:04.then bought their assets at a knock-down price. Today the bank's
:15:05. > :15:07.chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, told the BBC that the claims would be
:15:08. > :15:12.fully investigated but also insisted that RBS had kept alive tens of
:15:13. > :15:20.thousands of struggling companies. Here's our chief economics
:15:21. > :15:25.correspondent, Hugh Pym. It is a bank mostly owned by all of
:15:26. > :15:28.us, the taxpayers. The hope is that it is lending to businesses to help
:15:29. > :15:32.the economy grow, but this week there have been claims RBS has been
:15:33. > :15:37.squeezing the life out of some small firms in order to get hold of their
:15:38. > :15:41.properties. The allegations came from an independent adviser to the
:15:42. > :15:44.Business Secretary, Vince Cable. RBS has brought in a top law firm to
:15:45. > :15:49.look at the evidence, and today the bank's chairman gave his first
:15:50. > :15:54.reaction. If these allegations are true, they are extremely serious,
:15:55. > :15:59.and that is why we are going to take investigation of them extremely
:16:00. > :16:02.seriously. At the moment, all we have is some unsubstantiated,
:16:03. > :16:06.anecdotal allegations, that is what it amounts to at the moment. We need
:16:07. > :16:10.to get to the bottom of this, get to the facts, and if there are facts
:16:11. > :16:14.that show that we have behaved in the wrong way, we will take the
:16:15. > :16:18.appropriate action. The former boss of a company which was an RBS
:16:19. > :16:22.customer is among those who have accused the bank of not playing
:16:23. > :16:25.fair. They saw as as an opportunity, a company that had a
:16:26. > :16:31.problem, it has been well documented, and it's all that it was
:16:32. > :16:36.a classic case of being able to take control of the company, replace
:16:37. > :16:40.management and asset strip it. RBS says that with that business it does
:16:41. > :16:44.not believe it did anything wrong. It is understood that the Serious
:16:45. > :16:49.Fraud Office, based here, is looking at the allegations levelled at RBS.
:16:50. > :16:53.A spokesperson said, we are aware of the issue and are monitoring
:16:54. > :16:58.developments. City regulators are also looking at the accusations that
:16:59. > :17:02.RBS pulled the plug on viable businesses to make more profit. The
:17:03. > :17:09.bank says it may have been too heavy and too lax in dealing with
:17:10. > :17:16.distressed firms since the crisis. The time is 17 minutes past six, our
:17:17. > :17:19.top story this evening: Just 35 days to go before Bulgarians and
:17:20. > :17:23.Romanians are free to work in the UK, they will face tougher rules and
:17:24. > :17:31.claiming benefits. And still to come...
:17:32. > :17:36.# Living on a prayer... The Prince of pop, William as you
:17:37. > :17:40.have never seen him before. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:17:41. > :17:44.can Manchester United make it through to the knockout stages of
:17:45. > :17:46.the Champions League? They need a win against Bayer Leverkusen.
:17:47. > :18:00.Manchester City also play. The scale of the debt problem faced
:18:01. > :18:06.by Britain's has become clear today, nearly one in five adults is
:18:07. > :18:11.struggling with their finances. -- Britons. A new survey says that over
:18:12. > :18:14.9 million people say they are over indebted or more than three months
:18:15. > :18:19.behind with their bills. Nearly half said their problems stopped them
:18:20. > :18:24.from buying the basics. Hardest hit is Hull, where 43% are deeply
:18:25. > :18:28.indebted. Personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz has
:18:29. > :18:32.been there. Rising prices, stagnant incomes, and
:18:33. > :18:37.high cost lenders cashing in, it is not that borrowing is higher in
:18:38. > :18:45.Hull, it is that so many are taking on more debt than they can handle. I
:18:46. > :18:51.am stressed, fed up, not very well all the time. This taxi driver has
:18:52. > :18:54.lost control of ?40,000 of debt. He did not want us to show his face,
:18:55. > :19:01.he's frightened after confrontations with bailiffs on his doorstep. I go
:19:02. > :19:07.to work eight or ten hours a day, sometimes 12 hours a day. I come
:19:08. > :19:11.home, I tried to pay the rent, the council tax, the food, fuel for my
:19:12. > :19:17.car, I just don't have anything left. Everything else just swallows
:19:18. > :19:21.it up before I can pay my debts. At a food bank around the corner,
:19:22. > :19:26.borrowing has become a way of life. Along with it, the worry when you
:19:27. > :19:31.cannot meet payments. Nerve wracking, it made me really old,
:19:32. > :19:37.yeah, it made meal. If the gas and electric go up, and also the
:19:38. > :19:41.possible interest rate rises, that is going to literally tip us over
:19:42. > :19:46.the edge. So who are the people who have too much debt? Well, nearly
:19:47. > :19:54.half of them, 48%, own their own homes, 58% are in work, 64% are
:19:55. > :20:00.women, but only 17% are getting advice and help with their debts.
:20:01. > :20:02.Too many are turning to payday lenders to make ends meet,
:20:03. > :20:07.compounding the problem when they could get free help from the likes
:20:08. > :20:12.of national deadline and Citizens Advice Bureau is. It is a fear
:20:13. > :20:16.factor, people certainly feel they can sort these things out
:20:17. > :20:21.themselves, but debt problems very soon become too big to sort out
:20:22. > :20:25.yourself. You can deal with debt by negotiating lower payments or even
:20:26. > :20:31.going bankrupt. The challenge now is to make more people get the advice
:20:32. > :20:35.they need. There have been further revelations
:20:36. > :20:37.about the relationship between Nigella Lawson and her former
:20:38. > :20:42.husband Charles Saatchi in court today. Before the trial of their
:20:43. > :20:44.personal assistants on charges of fraud, lawyers said there had been a
:20:45. > :20:49.culture of secrecy in their marriage. Luisa Baldini is at
:20:50. > :20:55.Isleworth Crown Court, what did we hear in court today?
:20:56. > :20:59.The jury was sworn in this afternoon, and opening the case the
:21:00. > :21:07.prosecution said that sisters Elizabeth and Francesca Grillo spent
:21:08. > :21:11.in excess of ?685,000 on Charles Saatchi's company credit card in a
:21:12. > :21:17.greedy and fraudulent free for all in a four-year spending spree. The
:21:18. > :21:21.sisters at its spending the money, but they deny fraud. Their defence
:21:22. > :21:25.is that there was an understanding between them and Nigella Lawson that
:21:26. > :21:29.they could spend on the cards if they did not reveal her alleged drug
:21:30. > :21:34.habit. The sisters' defence barrister claimed that Ms Lawson
:21:35. > :21:37.lied to her husband about her alleged drug-taking because there
:21:38. > :21:41.was a culture of secrecy in their marriage. The barrister said that if
:21:42. > :21:48.Mr Saatchi was also telling the truth about the celebrity chef's
:21:49. > :21:51.alleged drug use, then Ms Lawson is an habitual criminal. The prosecutor
:21:52. > :21:57.told the jury, these details are secondary as use, this case is one
:21:58. > :22:04.of fraud. Mr Saatchi is expected to give evidence here tomorrow.
:22:05. > :22:07.In Italy, the Senate has voted to expel former Prime Ministers Silvio
:22:08. > :22:11.Berlusconi from parliament with immediate effect over his conviction
:22:12. > :22:15.for tax fraud. Berlusconi told thousands of supporters in Rome that
:22:16. > :22:20.he would fight on despite the vote, saying it was a day of mourning for
:22:21. > :22:23.democracy. He is now banned from taking part in any general election
:22:24. > :22:26.for six years and has lost his parliamentary immunity and could
:22:27. > :22:31.face arrest over other criminal cases.
:22:32. > :22:35.Members of the Scottish Parliament had a first chance to debate their
:22:36. > :22:39.government's plans for independence this afternoon. The white paper was
:22:40. > :22:42.launched yesterday with First Minister Alex Salmond describing it
:22:43. > :22:48.as a blueprint for an independent country. Here is Scotland
:22:49. > :22:52.correspondent James Cook. Where does Scotland's future like,
:22:53. > :22:57.within the United Kingdom or as an independent state? Politicians had
:22:58. > :23:01.barely one day to digestive this document, a blueprint for
:23:02. > :23:04.independence, before the debate about its contents began.
:23:05. > :23:08.Independence gives us the opportunity to make choices, to
:23:09. > :23:12.spend less on weapons of mass destruction and more on educating
:23:13. > :23:16.our children. Alex Salmond said there would be more free childcare
:23:17. > :23:20.in an independent Scotland, saving families thousands of pounds a
:23:21. > :23:24.year. Labour says he could do that now. If it were transformational, if
:23:25. > :23:30.you believed it was that important, he would start now. The First
:23:31. > :23:34.Minister has only just discovered the issue of childcare. But
:23:35. > :23:39.independence is bigger than any one issue. The white paper promises to
:23:40. > :23:43.build an Scotland's cultural ambitions, and as if on cue, this
:23:44. > :23:48.giant work of art was unveiled new Falkirk today. This mystical,
:23:49. > :23:52.quizzical sculpture seems to suit the mood of Scotland today, a nation
:23:53. > :23:57.pondering its future, uncertain which way to turn. So what of the
:23:58. > :24:02.voters who have to take that decision? What do they make of the
:24:03. > :24:05.white paper's promises for their country? How much more tax would I
:24:06. > :24:10.have to pay in order to keep Scotland independent? If Bush comes
:24:11. > :24:17.to shove, I will go south to England anyway! Most of the facts have not
:24:18. > :24:20.emerging, it is all conjecture, and only now people beginning to realise
:24:21. > :24:25.there is quite a lot of implications as to what would happen if it was a
:24:26. > :24:29.yes vote. I love Scotland, it has been my home since 1990, and I would
:24:30. > :24:37.never go back to live in England again. Could Scotland go it alone?
:24:38. > :24:41.Yes. And it should? Yes, it should. For now, there is still work to be
:24:42. > :24:43.done on this sculpture, and there is still much debate to be had about
:24:44. > :24:53.the future of this nation. Prince William managed to surprise
:24:54. > :24:56.the audience at a charity gala in Kensington Palace last night, not to
:24:57. > :25:02.mention the rest of the world, when he took to the stage at the end of
:25:03. > :25:04.the evening with Jon Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift for an impromptu
:25:05. > :25:10.singalong. Here is royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell.
:25:11. > :25:15.So there you are, having a little soiree at your place with some
:25:16. > :25:25.musical salts, and somehow you end up on stage hoping not to miss your
:25:26. > :25:29.shoe. Deep breaths now! # It doesn't make a difference if we
:25:30. > :25:36.make it or not. # We have got each other, and that's
:25:37. > :25:43.a lot for love. # Give it a shot.
:25:44. > :25:52.# Oh, we are halfway there. At Kensington Palace, Taylor Swift,
:25:53. > :26:05.Jon Bon Jovi and Prince - Prince William. Whoa-oh, living on a
:26:06. > :26:08.prayer! And who was it that had persuaded
:26:09. > :26:16.him to take to the stage, Mr Jonathan Ross. At heart, he is a
:26:17. > :26:19.rapper, not a singer. I think next time we will try to get up with tiny
:26:20. > :26:24.temper, that will be special. The evening did have a serious purpose,
:26:25. > :26:28.they were there to raise money for homeless charity Centrepoint, but
:26:29. > :26:29.this is what will linger in the memory, karaoke night at Kensington
:26:30. > :26:37.Palace. He is not bad! Time for a look at
:26:38. > :26:49.the weather with Tomasz. I wanted to sing, they would not let
:26:50. > :26:53.me! As far as the weather goes for tonight, another chilly night, quite
:26:54. > :26:57.a cloudy one, a little bit of drizzle here and there, nothing more
:26:58. > :27:01.than that. Quite chilly in one or two spots across Scotland were skies
:27:02. > :27:05.might just about clear, there could be an early frost, but most of the
:27:06. > :27:09.story is that there is cloud and fog forming over the Vale of York, and
:27:10. > :27:13.you can see this high pressure that has been stuck around for a long
:27:14. > :27:17.time, giving as cloudy sty is, that is persisting through most of
:27:18. > :27:24.tomorrow as well. The overnight temperatures, 6-8 degrees, that
:27:25. > :27:28.should cover it for most of us, a similar start to the day tomorrow
:27:29. > :27:31.compared to today, drizzly across the South, cloudy. There will be
:27:32. > :27:35.some sunshine to the East of Scotland, these of the Pennines, but
:27:36. > :27:40.on balance, overall, another cloudy, chilly day with temperatures
:27:41. > :27:44.hovering for most of us around eight or 10 degrees. There is a change on
:27:45. > :27:48.the way happening Thursday night into Friday, so the high-pressure
:27:49. > :27:51.slips out into the Atlantic, central and North Atlantic, this cold front
:27:52. > :27:56.brings isobars that we have not seen so many of them quite a while. That
:27:57. > :28:00.translates to gale force and severe gale force winds across Scotland,
:28:01. > :28:04.wintry showers across the hills. For a lot of us, a breezy day with sunny
:28:05. > :28:09.spells, one or two showers, temperatures of nine or 10 degrees.
:28:10. > :28:12.After we are done with all of that weather front, the isobars push
:28:13. > :28:16.awaits towards the near continent and we get back into that high
:28:17. > :28:21.pressure we have got over us right now, so that in turn is going to
:28:22. > :28:25.translates to this, so it looks as though after a bright Saturday,
:28:26. > :28:27.there is going to be more cloud on the way for the weekend. Just one
:28:28. > :28:35.chilly, breezy day. That is all from the News At Six,
:28:36. > :28:37.goodbye from me and