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Britain's school children fall further behind in the global | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
classroom - according to a new league table out today. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
15-year-olds here failed to make the top 20 in maths, science or reading | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
- East Asian countries lead the way. Wales comes out worst within the UK, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
below average in all subjects - we'll be asking why. Also tonight: | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
RBS customers complain about more problems with their accounts - it | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
comes a day after millions couldn't use their debit and credit cards. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
A witness to the police shooting of Mark Duggan tells an inquest he was | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
holding a mobile phone and not a gun when he was killed. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Prince Charles unveils a memorial to the secret heroines of the Second | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
World War - the agents who went behind enemy lines. | :01:07. | :01:35. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
British school children are falling behind their global rivals according | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
to an international league table released today. The UK failed to | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
make the top 20 nations in the latest tests taken by 15-year-olds. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
They were tested on three key subjects - maths, reading and | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
science. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Development, which organised the tests, found that East Asian | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
countries are forging ahead despite Britain spending more than average | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
on education. Our Education Correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
reports. How will are teenagers stare in the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
global race? This performance by the UK suggests that is plenty to worry | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
about. The headteacher at his Birmingham school think so. Our | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
students have to compete globally in terms of gaining employment in the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
future. Jobs are anywhere in the world and students need to be | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
prepared for that. It is concerning. International league tables focus on | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
mathematics. The UK came 26 out of 65 countries. Within Europe, Poland, | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
at 14 is the most improved. What stands out is the dominance of these | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Asia, which from Shanghai to South Korea has a clean sweep of the top | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
five places. This is learning Korean style, a fierce worth a kick that | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
sees teenagers putting up to 13 hours study a day. Even the little | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
ones do a double shift, piling onto the school bus in the evening for a | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
second round of study. The child's life... Wiese showed reports of | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
these 15-year-olds in Birmingham. Could they cope with that regime? I | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
don't think I could deal with it because it is hard enough doing six | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
our schools every day and then homework after it. I have a social | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
life. They do have time for their families and go out. In the Commons, | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
the Education Secretary said countries which are strong | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
performers shared certain features which he was trying to copy. There | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
is an emphasis on social justice. And a commitment to an academic | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
curriculum for all students. A high level of autonomy from bureaucracy | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
for head teachers. Accountability performance, and headteachers have | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
the critical power to hire who they want. Earlier, Michael Gove laid the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
blame for the UK's performance at the opposition's door. Labour said | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
it achieved a lot in government, but... Our international competitors | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
did that. The lessons of today is how you compete in the global race. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
It is about having qualified teachers. The performance of Wales | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
is of particular concern with teenagers achieving lower than | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
average scores than the rest of the UK. Decisively why is the subject of | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
hot debate. As we've heard, the international | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
survey found that within the UK pupils in Wales score below average | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
in all three core subjects, reading, maths and science. Wales' Education | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Minister described the results as disappointing but insisted radical | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
reforms were underway. Our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
reports. You think it is a sign of status? | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
Learning what reputation can mean, this Cardiff school has a good | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
academic record, but it is in a system that sits at the bottom of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the class, according to today's results, Welsh pupils are at least | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
half a school year behind UK average in mathematics, reading and science. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
What these results reflect the decisions made over a decade ago in | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the first years of devolved government when these teenagers were | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
in their first years of schooling. The Welsh government said it would | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
free teachers from a regime of constant testing. In 2001 it | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
scrapped league tables, a decision that followed three years later by | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the abolition of tests for 11 and 14-year-olds. By 2010 there was a | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
spending gap with Welsh pupils getting ?600 per pupil less than in | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
England. Those other countries put in place a national programmes, most | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
of Europe did it, to ensure teachers have the bodies of knowledge and the | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
approaches to be good teachers. We didn't, we thought Wales would not | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
have to do it. These test results have raised the political | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
temperature in Wales. The Labour government here was already under | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
pressure for bad PISA scores three years ago. It says changes made | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
since we'll have an impact eventually. There are no quick | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
fixes. It will take years to learn the lessons from PISA and turn it | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
around to meet the challenges. The biggest of those challengers will be | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
to restore the reputation of Wales and show its pupils are finally on | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
the right path. And to find out more about how | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
countries fared in the PISA test and even take the test yourself, visit | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
our website. The Royal Bank of Scotland has | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
apologised to hundreds of thousands of customers after a technical | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
failure left them unable to use their debit or credit cards | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
yesterday. Those with accounts at NatWest and Ulster Bank were also | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
affected. The bank says the computer glitch was repaired within hours but | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
as our personal finance correspondent, Simon Gompertz | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
reports, several customers are still experiencing difficulties. | :07:25. | :07:38. | |
Last night and today, RBS look like a bank not working properly for its | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
customers. Transactions including Nat West and Ulster Bank are handled | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
by a complex computer system which crashed. Greg from Sheffield could | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
not get cash yesterday and then this morning he found his salary had | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
disappeared from his account, it was only re-credited late today. Being | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
unable to get my money and then being told I did not have any money | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
at all, was really shocking. It has affected my trust with RBS and I am | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
considering whether to stay with them. What is embarrassingly as it | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
has happened before. Branches extended opening last summer as | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
customers struggled with a computer glitch. Customers did not leave | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
after last year's fiasco, but it looks like the repeat offender, the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
consequences in terms of people deserting the bank could be much | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
more serious. Adding to their worries, the newly installed chief | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
executive admitted that for decades, RBS failed to invest | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
properly in its systems and mass might's system failure at the end of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
a frantic shopping day was unacceptable. Can RBS handle | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Christmas and its huge volume of shopping? It says the problem was | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
not that the system was overloaded. We are confident this is unrelated | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
to the problems in 2012 and we are confident it was unrelated to volume | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
is going through yesterday. Many used Twitter to vent their Curie | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
about bargains missed, not being able to pay for petrol and pledging | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
to change banks. It is another shambles and the banks have to put | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
it right quickly and sort out and convince their customers what they | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
will do to prevent this happening again. They have allowed these | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
systems to crash time after time. If the banks cannot sort it out, the | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
regulator will have two step in. RBS has promised to reimburse anyone out | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
of pocket, but the grievance is many were left at tales angry, | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
embarrassed and unable to pay. An Italian woman who claims she was | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
forced to have a caesarean section when she had a mental breakdown here | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
has been speaking about her treatment at the hands of British | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
authorities. She says she was then compelled to give up her baby for | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
adoption by social services in Essex. Her lawyer has told the BBC | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
that her treatment amounted to "pure brutality". Our correspondent, | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Alison Holt, is following the story. What should have been a two-week | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
training trip to Stansted Airport for a pregnant Italian woman has | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
become a drawn-out battle over her chart. She became ill after not | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
taking medicine for her bipolar condition and was section. And then | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the baby was taken into the care of Essex county council. In Italy and | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
well again, the woman has told newspapers there she did not consent | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
to what happened. Her lawyer describes the treatment as | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
brutality. TRANSLATION: to chat -- snatch | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
people from their own family has happened in other regimes with no | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
democracy. Think of the Hitler youth and North Korea. You cannot think of | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
this happening in a western country. But this is a complicated case. In | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
June 2012, the woman was described as profoundly ill and sectioned | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
under the mental health act. Five weeks later the baby was delivered | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Rice as Aryan section after doctors, worried about risks, applied for a | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
court order. The child was placed in the care of Essex children's | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
services. In May this year, the Italian court ruled the child should | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
stay in England and this up Toba, the UK courts of the child could be | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
placed for adoption. Essex county council has said it | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
acted in the best interests of the baby and they care proceedings | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
judgement released today, said with no other family members able to take | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the child, it's best chance of stability was through adoption. Once | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the baby was born, its interests needed to be protected. And because | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
it is a separate human being from the mother, decisions can be made | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
about its welfare and have to be made about its welfare. Cases | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
involving children are often difficult and painful. And this | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
case, spanning two countries looks like it has some way to go before it | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
is settled. Two of the most senior RUC men | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
murdered by the IRA during the troubles were ambushed during | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
collusion. That is the finding of a report released this evening. We go | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
live to Belfast and our correspondence that. Give us the | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
background to this case? Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan had been visiting | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
their counterparts in an Irish police station south of the Irish | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
border in 1989. It was as they travel back they were ambushed by an | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
IRA unit. They were shot dead as they drove their car across that | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
border road. Allegations persisted afterwards that there had been | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
collusion between a rogue Irish police officer and members of the | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
provisional IRA. Those rumours that -- persisted for almost two decades | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
and this enquiry would was set up. Today the judge has found all of the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
evidence points towards a conclusion that information was in fact | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
leaked. He said it was more likely to have been leaked from the station | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
than anywhere else and reached the conclusion that there was collusion | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
between members of the Irish police force and members of the provisional | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
IRA. But he did not name any of the officers that are believed to have | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
been behind this. Thanks very much. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
The trial of two men accused of murdering the off-duty soldier, Lee | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Rigby, has been hearing from a police officer who rushed to the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
scene. She told the court that when one of the men rushed towards her | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
she thought she too would be killed. Michael Adebolajo and Michael | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Adebowale both deny murdering Lee Rigby at Woolwich in south east | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
London in May. Our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly is at the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Old Bailey. Another painful day in court for Lee | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Rigby's family. We heard from some of the paramedics and police | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
officers who turned out on that afternoon. This report does contain | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
stressing material. Just after Lee Rigby's killing and | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the two men on trial are waiting for the police. Michael Adebolajo runs | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
at them, dropping one of his weapons. You can see him go down as | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
police marksmen open fire. Here they aim at Michael Adebowale. He was | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
shot and wounded also. This footage was shown to the jury. This is it | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
from another angle. Michael Adebolajo underground and then | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Michael Adebowale with his weapon raised. Lee Rigby's body was lying | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
close by. He had been butchered by the men with a meat cleaver and a | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
knife. The court saw footage of them dragging his body into the middle of | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
the road. In particularly gruesome evidence with the soldier's blood on | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
his hands, Michael Adebolajo was recorded delivering a message. The | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
daily by British soldiers. It is and I wore an eye and a tooth for a | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
tooth. The men made no attempt to lead the scheme. Michael Adebolajo | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
said he wanted the police to kill him. One officer giving evidence | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
said he described Michael Adebolajo's actions. | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
The men, who deny murder will be back in court tomorrow as the | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
prosecution continues its case. Thank you very much. The time is 6. | :16:06. | :16:21. | |
16pm. Our top story this evening. Britain's school children are | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
falling further behind their global rivals, according to international | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
league tables. Still to come: Glasgow remembers those who died in | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
Friday's helicopter crash. In Sportsday, a scare for Australia as | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
captain Michael Clarke sits out their penultimate net session before | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
the second Ashes Test. David Cameron has spent the second | :16:45. | :17:01. | |
day of his visit to China in the country's commercial powerhouse, | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Shanghai. Announcing deals worth ?5 billion, the Prime Minister said a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
trading relationship was in both countries interests. One of China's | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
main state-run newspapers has dismissed Britain saying it's no | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
longer a "big country". You will never guess who I had in the back of | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
my cab today, that is what they were saying in down town Shanghai. This | :17:29. | :17:42. | |
firm is investing ?18 million to export the cabs around the world. | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
British jobs being guaranteed by Kay niece money. He says the facts and | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
figures speak for themselves. There has been more Chinese investment in | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Britain in the past 18 months than in the past 30 years. 500 business | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
leaders and six British Government ministers gathered to hear him say | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
he wants yet more. The facts and the figures are extraordinary. They | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
point to an enormous opportunity for Britain and for British business and | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
opportunity I'm determined that we grab with both hands. Partnership | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
with Britain is good for China too, he claims. A point he made in | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
mandarin. Wei shuang fang you li. In both sides' interests. Thank you | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
veryvery much. Travelling with him have read claims they are Cameron's | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
cronies and they resent. It alongside the big corporations and | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the money spinners like the Premier League are many with rather more | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
modest aims. I make sausages, I want to sell them in China. May be the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
key to doing that? Having someone on my side, like the Prime Minister, | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
will remove the bureaucracy that is there and will ensure I can get a | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
health certificate for my sausages in this huge market. There are more | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Chinese students in Britain than from other country. One asked David | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Cameron today why he was acting more like a businessman than a Prime | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Minister? We are all going to have make our way in this global economy | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
and play to to our strengths. One of Britain's strengths is that we are | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
an open and welcoming economy. That is what is in it for us. What is in | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
for China? We want your money, what do you want? We want your resources | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
and we want your experience. David Cameron regards China as | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
indispensable to Britain's economic future. What do the Chinese really | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
think of us? One newspaper here dismisses Britain as an old European | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
country, nice to travel to, nice to study in. The inquest into the death | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
of Mark Duggan whose shooting by police sparked riots in London and | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
elsewhere has heard that he appeared to be surrendering when he was | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
killed. A witness said Mr Duggan had a mobile phone in his right hand and | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
was holding his hands up. His evidence contradicts that of police | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
officers who said he was holding a gun when he was shot dead in North | :20:24. | :20:35. | |
London in 2011. August 2011 and Mark Duggan has been shot by police. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Unmarked police cars surround a minicab in which he was travelling. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
This footage was filmed from a ninth floor flat from a member of the | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
public. Witness B, as he is known, gave evidence today. He said that | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Mark Duggan had tried to run away from the police. He wasn't holding a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
gun, he said, but a mobile phone. Witness B said, "it looked like a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
phone clutched in his hand, he had his hands above his shoulders, near | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
his face." He was asked by a lawyer for the Duggan family, Lesley | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
Thomas, "are you saying Mark Duggan was shot when he looked as if he was | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
surrendering?" He replied, "yes." This evidence contradicted the | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
police account of the shooting. They said dug. -- Mark Duggan had a gun. | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
He said he didn't. The inquest heard that Witness B took the footage to | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
the BBC last year. A journalist there noted that B initially thought | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
gun, but then read newspapers, then thought it was black berry. The | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
police shooting of Mark Duggan sparked the Tottenham riots which | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
led to the worst unrest in England for a generation. Mr Duggan's family | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
and friends want to know how and why he was killed. The inquest is now | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
nearing the end of its evidence, a jury will soon be asked to consider | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
its verdict. The names of all nine people killed when a helicopter | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
crashed into a pub in Glasgow on Friday night have been released the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
search and recovery operation has now ended at the Clutha Vaults bar. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, visited the scene of the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
tragedy. 11 people remain in hospital. Side by side in mourning. | :22:23. | :22:35. | |
The Clutha families are comforting each other. They came to say | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
goodbye. They did not stand here alone. A really lovely boy. I just | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
can't believe it. I cannot believe it. You just don't expect to go out | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
for a night and something like that happen. It's so tragic. The scale of | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the tragedy has been matched by the response, so many lives torn apart. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
The lives of Gary Arthur, Mark O'Prey, pilot, David Traill, Samuel | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
McGhee, PC Tony Collins. PC Kirsty Nelis, Robert General kins, Colin | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
Gibson and John McGarrigle. Those who escaped can't forget what they | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
saw. I could hear a girl screaming. Where she was, I don't know. It | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
doesn't go away. I just... I know how lucky I am to be able to talk to | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
you guys and talk to people that are... Care about us. The people of | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Glasgow are offering support, including a famous son of this city. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
Glasgow has risen to the occasion. I've never heard so many nice things | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
about Glasgow. There were tributes from the Deputy Prime Minister, but | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
still no answers about the cause of the crash. The police are now | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
handing over control of this site to the City Council. Glasgow must begin | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
the process of trying to comprehend what happened here, trying to pick | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
up the pieces. Tonight, the tributes are still coming to the victims and | :24:21. | :24:32. | |
to the response of this city The Prince of Wales unveiled a memorial | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
to the women who were secret agents during World War II. More than 80 | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
British women are thought to have infiltrated enemy lines and have | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
been praised for their bravery during what were, at times, | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
terrifying experiences. Stories of patriotism, daring and | :24:46. | :25:00. | |
raw courage are nothing new, today though they gripped a Royal visitor. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Across the busy A1, the old airfield is a private farm now, but the | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
concrete taxiways hint at its past. From here, the special x-rayses | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
executive despatched more than 900 agents to missions behind enemy | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
lines. In the barn where they collected their equipment lie | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
tributes of those who never returned. They acted as women and | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
the very fact that they were women meant that they could disappear more | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
easily in enemy territory. The they weren't so in theable. That was -- | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
noticeable. That was one of their greatest assets. Women are the focus | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
of the new memorial, but the list of names is flanked by reminders of | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
their male colleagues, and the aircrew who risked everything to get | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
them home home. Flying over France by night, not a weapon on board, had | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
you? Just a pistol? Yes. In my pocket. In your pocket. That is | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
right. I never fired it. The missions were sometimes termed | :26:17. | :26:29. | |
ungentlemanly war fare, they evolved into today's (inaudible) The village | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
which kept silent about its heroes and heroines for so long is able to | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
share its secrets. Now, the weather: Big changes on the way over the next | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
few days. Tomorrow there will be welcome sunshine Thursday, severe | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
gales are developing, north Wales, northwards. Turning cold and the | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
cold air will stick around for the end of the week. Weather front is | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
moving away from Scotland and Northern Ireland bringing rain | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
across parts of England and Wales. Clearer skies follow behind there | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
will be one or two wintry showers to the north and west of Scotland. Cold | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
with a touch of frost with ice in places. They should avoid the frost | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
surt fout. A dull start to the south-east, the rain will move in | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
through the morning and quite a bit of cloud. Not much rain to the south | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
of Wales, the north of Wales are into something much brighter. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
Northern England, southern Scotland, east of Scotland, a lovely start to | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the day with crisp winter sunshine. There will be one or two showers to | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
the north and west of Scotland. Maybe the odd shower in Northern | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
Ireland, most will start with winter sunshine. The rain further south | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
will clear away from the south coast around about the middle part of the | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
day. The cloud will follow suit. Come the afternoon everywhere will | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
see some sunshine. There are blustery showers north of Scotland | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
with snow to come up over the hills. Six, seven for Glasgow, eight or | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
nine for Cardiff and London. Wednesday night into Thursday, this | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
winter storm is heading our way. It will be windy and wet too. The rain | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
will push southwards followed by much colder conditions and snow | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
showers. The main concern is the strength of the wind, gusting to | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
70mph, 80mph, north Wales northwards. It could cause damage | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
and could see transport disruption as well. More on all of that on the | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
BBC weather website. That is it all from the BBC's News at Six. We | :28:42. | :28:42. |