:00:13. > :00:16.Nigella Lawson admits in court that she has taken cocaine, but she
:00:17. > :00:19.denies being an addict. She says it happened when she was
:00:20. > :00:21.being subjected to intimate acts of terrorism by her former husband, the
:00:22. > :00:30.millionaire Charles Saatchi. Also on tonight's programme: a
:00:31. > :00:33.further ?3 billion cuts in government departments.
:00:34. > :00:40.Police in West Yorkshire arrest a man who went on the run after
:00:41. > :00:44.shooting a police officer. The female officer has sustained serious
:00:45. > :00:53.injuries to her face, her neck and her right hand. Her condition is
:00:54. > :00:57.described as poorly, but stable. A woman whose husband died of cancer
:00:58. > :00:59.begins a legal battle to stop his frozen is termed being destroyed.
:01:00. > :01:02.The 400,000-year-old skulls that could hold the key to our evolution
:01:03. > :01:12.- scientists hope DNA samples could unlock the mystery.
:01:13. > :01:16.Coming up in the sport on BBC News, Australia name an unchanged 11 for
:01:17. > :01:20.the second Ashes test, and their captain, Michael Clarke, does he can
:01:21. > :01:37.guess which players will make the England team.
:01:38. > :01:41.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Nigella Lawson has
:01:42. > :01:46.admitted in court that she has taken cocaine, but denied she was an
:01:47. > :01:49.addict. The celebrity chef said it happened during a very difficult
:01:50. > :01:52.time when she was being subjected to what she called acts of intimate
:01:53. > :01:57.terrorism by her former husband, Charles Saatchi. She was giving
:01:58. > :02:02.evidence in the trial of two personal assistants accused of
:02:03. > :02:11.fraud. Sangita Myska has been following the case and joins us from
:02:12. > :02:15.Isleworth Crown Court. In front of the world's media today,
:02:16. > :02:21.Nigella Lawson admitted to using class A drugs. On some occasions
:02:22. > :02:27.during her marriage to her late husband, and then again during her
:02:28. > :02:32.marriage to Charles Saatchi. The spite the revelations, she said she
:02:33. > :02:36.felt duty bound to give evidence in the fraud trial of her two former
:02:37. > :02:42.PAs. This report contains flash photography.
:02:43. > :02:46.Nigella Lawson today looked confident as she walked past a
:02:47. > :02:51.frenzied media scrum. She was at court to face tough questions about
:02:52. > :02:52.the breakdown of her marriage to Charles Saatchi and claims that she
:02:53. > :03:08.was an habitual drug user. She also talked about smoking
:03:09. > :03:19.cannabis during her marriage to Mr Saatchi.
:03:20. > :03:24.Nigella Lawson and her ex-husband, Charles Saatchi, a multimillionaire
:03:25. > :03:29.art collector, were often photographed in public. Then in the
:03:30. > :03:34.summer, these paparazzi photographs were published, in which Mr Saatchi
:03:35. > :03:40.has his hand around Ms Lawson's neck. The couple divorced shortly
:03:41. > :03:41.afterwards. In court, Ms Lawson and alleged that Mr Saatchi had
:03:42. > :04:04.threatened her by saying: Nigella Lawson is one of Britain's
:04:05. > :04:08.most celebrated television cooks. Today, she is giving evidence in the
:04:09. > :04:15.trial of two of the couple's former personal assistant is. Elisabetta
:04:16. > :04:20.Grillo and Francesca Grillo are accused of falsely spending half ?1
:04:21. > :04:23.million on a company credit card. It was at the family home in Belgravia
:04:24. > :04:27.that Nigella and Charles Saatchi formed a close pleasure ship with
:04:28. > :04:33.the Grillo sisters, who were in charge of household duties including
:04:34. > :04:36.organising laundry and looking after the children. It is here that they
:04:37. > :04:38.claim they came to a tacit understanding with Nigella Lawson
:04:39. > :04:42.that they could spend thousands of pounds on the company credit card if
:04:43. > :04:49.they did not reveal her alleged use of passe and clasp B drugs to Mr
:04:50. > :04:54.Saatchi. The jury heard that Ms Lawson gave the Grillos thousands of
:04:55. > :04:56.pounds' worth of gifts and now felt let down by Elisabetta Grillo. She
:04:57. > :05:10.was known as Lisa. Nigella Lawson earlier told the
:05:11. > :05:14.court that she felt it was her that was now on trial by the world's
:05:15. > :05:20.media. Her former PAs deny the charges.
:05:21. > :05:25.Nigella Lawson has not finished giving evidence. She will return to
:05:26. > :05:32.court tomorrow to face more cross-examination. The trial
:05:33. > :05:35.continues. A further ?3 billion in cuts to
:05:36. > :05:37.government departments are to be announced tomorrow, when the
:05:38. > :05:40.Chancellor delivers his autumn statement. George Osborne will also
:05:41. > :05:43.include the government's plans for investment in the country's
:05:44. > :05:48.infrastructure. The cuts could be used to pay for
:05:49. > :05:55.commitments like tax breaks and free school meals.
:05:56. > :06:02.George Osborne told scientists they are getting money for research. But
:06:03. > :06:06.behind the smiles, the chancellor is preparing to deliver less good news
:06:07. > :06:09.for others, hard facts contained within this green book, his autumn
:06:10. > :06:14.financial statement. The tomorrow, Mr Osborne will see that budgets in
:06:15. > :06:19.Whitehall will be cut by another ?1 billion per year for each of the
:06:20. > :06:24.next three years. Health, schools, a damn local government will be
:06:25. > :06:28.protected, as will be HMRC and the local security services, with some
:06:29. > :06:33.Flex ability for the MoD. But that means more pain for the welfare,
:06:34. > :06:36.justice and business departments. This is eye-watering stuff, another
:06:37. > :06:40.?3 billion of spending cuts, all to pay for things like tax breaks and
:06:41. > :06:44.more free school meals. The aim is to get the bad news out of the way
:06:45. > :06:47.early so that ministers can focus tomorrow on what they hope will be
:06:48. > :06:53.better news about the economy. Danny Alexander thinks one way of making
:06:54. > :06:55.the economy better is getting more holes like this. The Chief Secretary
:06:56. > :06:59.to the Treasury went deep underground to see how tunnels are
:07:00. > :07:02.being dug to spread electricity across London. Today, he promised
:07:03. > :07:08.support for similar projects across the country. This is evidence that
:07:09. > :07:11.we are making progress on delivering an infrastructure fit for our
:07:12. > :07:16.country's future. The National Infrastructure Plan presents a
:07:17. > :07:22.vision that is helping secure long-term investment. It is a plan
:07:23. > :07:26.that will lead to long-term growth. The plan includes a new nuclear
:07:27. > :07:28.power station in Anglesey, a revamped station at Gatwick Airport
:07:29. > :07:33.and an extension to an underground line in London. There will be no new
:07:34. > :07:37.public money. The government will raise the cash by selling off its
:07:38. > :07:42.stake in Eurostar. Labour said there was not enough progress. With the
:07:43. > :07:46.country facing a cost of living crisis, isn't it time that the
:07:47. > :07:50.government invested in the fundamentals to strengthen our
:07:51. > :07:55.economy for the long-term? When will these really did press releases
:07:56. > :07:57.finally translate into diggers on the ground? This kind of
:07:58. > :08:01.infrastructure will be getting less support. The government said
:08:02. > :08:05.subsidised prices for onshore wind farms and solar energy would be cut
:08:06. > :08:08.substantially over the next five years. In return, there would be
:08:09. > :08:15.extra support for offshore wind, but not until 2018, a deal that pleased
:08:16. > :08:21.Tory MPs and the Lib Dems. This is great news for clean energy and good
:08:22. > :08:24.news for the consumer, because we will have the energy security we
:08:25. > :08:29.need and better value for money. The prime minister, travelling back from
:08:30. > :08:33.China for tomorrow's statement, said the government's long-term plan of
:08:34. > :08:36.making cuts was paying off, and hinted that the government was ready
:08:37. > :08:42.to go further. If the sun continues to shine, we should be fixing the
:08:43. > :08:45.roof while the sun is shining, which the last government failed to do.
:08:46. > :08:51.That means not just get rid of -- not just getting rid of the deficit
:08:52. > :08:53.but trying to put money aside. Behind this door tonight, the
:08:54. > :08:58.chancellor is putting the final touches to his speech. His message -
:08:59. > :09:03.the economy is recovering, but there will be more pain before the job is
:09:04. > :09:07.done. These cuts come on top of existing
:09:08. > :09:14.plans, and they could be painful? Yes, they will hurt. ?1 billion
:09:15. > :09:18.worth of cuts may not sound much in terms of the day-to-day spending of
:09:19. > :09:22.Whitehall, which is north of 300 billion. At a lot of these
:09:23. > :09:27.departments are facing cuts already. By 2016, those cuts will be ?10
:09:28. > :09:35.billion. If you add another one for that, that will have some impact.
:09:36. > :09:40.The government says it shows they are showing discipline. It also
:09:41. > :09:44.shows that there is still a lot of pain to go. But to show you how
:09:45. > :09:47.difficult this will be, tonight there is a row brewing between the
:09:48. > :09:52.education department and Nick like's office over how to find ?80
:09:53. > :09:55.million to build some new school kitchens. They are fighting over
:09:56. > :09:59.millions. They will have to find aliens soon.
:10:00. > :10:01.Well, those further cuts that James has been talking about, amid
:10:02. > :10:04.improving economic forecasts. But critics say it is a recovery based
:10:05. > :10:07.on the wrong foundations - consumer spending. Our business editor Robert
:10:08. > :10:19.Peston has been gauging the mood among Christmas shoppers in Kent.
:10:20. > :10:23.Lovely. If it is Christmas in a shopping mall, these huge blue water
:10:24. > :10:27.in Kent, I am out with my white Lord, the day before the
:10:28. > :10:29.chancellor's check on the health of the economy and government finances,
:10:30. > :10:37.to gauge whether you shoppers were in the mood to power our economic
:10:38. > :10:42.recovery in the weeks ahead. Are you spending or saving at the moment? I
:10:43. > :10:48.am spending, but I would like to save. We are saving more than
:10:49. > :10:58.spending. I am smart spending. I am doing both. Definitely spending.
:10:59. > :11:07.Saving. Even though you have got these lovely bags? Spending more
:11:08. > :11:09.today. Always spending. In this enormous shopping centre, people are
:11:10. > :11:15.feeling more confident and spending more. For the economy as a whole, a
:11:16. > :11:21.rise in household consumption has been driving the recovery. If that
:11:22. > :11:25.recovery is going to last, it has to have other sources of growth.
:11:26. > :11:29.Businesses have to be more successful at exporting and they
:11:30. > :11:35.have to invest more. A derelict warehouse near Preston. If Norman
:11:36. > :11:39.feels the recovery is built to last, he will expand his plumbing supplies
:11:40. > :11:42.business into it. He is one of thousands of entrepreneurs trying to
:11:43. > :11:48.decide whether the outlook has improved enough for it to be worth
:11:49. > :11:51.taking bigger risks. There is no one in government that really knows what
:11:52. > :11:57.it is like to run a business and sit there on the night before payday,
:11:58. > :12:01.knowing that you have got to feed 45 mouths. So for me, it is important
:12:02. > :12:09.that we have the confidence to not just move one or two steps and play
:12:10. > :12:13.it safe, but really start running. But the growth we have is faster
:12:14. > :12:20.than the EU's negligible 0.2% rise in income in the last three months,
:12:21. > :12:26.Japan's 0.5%, America's 0.7%. Yes, right now, the UK is top of the big
:12:27. > :12:33.rich country recovery league table, with growth of 0.8%. We hope the
:12:34. > :12:38.recovery will begin to work through into people's wage pockets over the
:12:39. > :12:45.next year or two. The ball will feel more prosperous. But there is a lot
:12:46. > :12:50.of ground to make up. Real wages will fall significantly and people
:12:51. > :12:53.will still be poorer than in 2008. So tomorrow, the Chancellor will
:12:54. > :12:57.help sustain the recovery long enough so that we start to feel a
:12:58. > :13:04.bit richer before the general election.
:13:05. > :13:09.A policeman at the centre of the so-called "Plebgate" row is to sue
:13:10. > :13:12.the former government Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell. The officer claimed
:13:13. > :13:15.the MP used the word "pleb" in a confrontation in Downing Street more
:13:16. > :13:18.than a year ago. At a press conference last week, Mr Mitchell
:13:19. > :13:21.accused the officer of lying about what happened.
:13:22. > :13:26.The European Commission has fined eight banks including RBS a total of
:13:27. > :13:31.more than ?1.4 billion for fixing interbank lending rates. RBS has
:13:32. > :13:36.agreed to pay ?325 million for its role in forming a cartel, but
:13:37. > :13:38.Barclays has escaped a fine because the bank told the commission what
:13:39. > :13:41.was happening. A man has been arrested in
:13:42. > :13:44.connection with the shooting of a female police officer in Leeds. The
:13:45. > :13:47.officer and a male colleague were attending a routine call-out to a
:13:48. > :13:50.disturbance in the early hours of this morning. 37-year-old James
:13:51. > :14:03.Leslie was arrested a few hours later after a police manhunt.
:14:04. > :14:06.It was the early hours of this morning when the police went to this
:14:07. > :14:09.house in the Headingley area of Leeds. Two an armed officers had
:14:10. > :14:13.been sent out to respond to what was reported as a low-level disk opens.
:14:14. > :14:17.But when they arrived, they were confronted by a man who opened
:14:18. > :14:24.fire. Neighbours were woken by the noise. About 3.30, we heard a couple
:14:25. > :14:29.of shots, like fireworks, big bangs. I thought, it is just fireworks.
:14:30. > :14:37.Then the police told us what has happened. Then we worked out that it
:14:38. > :14:43.was a guy who had shot a police officer. A 33-year-old female police
:14:44. > :14:46.officer was seriously hurt. Her male colleague was uninjured. West
:14:47. > :14:50.Yorkshire police launched an urgent hunt for 37-year-old James Leslie.
:14:51. > :14:53.The public were warned not to approach him. He was wanted in
:14:54. > :14:59.connection with the shooting on Cardigan Road and had last been seen
:15:00. > :15:04.cycling towards Victoria Road. Just after ten, he was arrested a mile
:15:05. > :15:06.away on wood lane in Headingley. The police confirmed that they had
:15:07. > :15:10.recovered a firearm and the public were no longer at risk. We filmed
:15:11. > :15:15.what appears to be a weapon lying in the road next to a primary school.
:15:16. > :15:23.The female officer has sustained serious injuries to her face, neck
:15:24. > :15:31.and her right hand. Her condition is described as poorly, but stable and
:15:32. > :15:35.not life-threatening. Tonight, the policewoman is being treated in
:15:36. > :15:38.hospital. It emerged that as she was being shot, the neighbourhood
:15:39. > :15:41.response officer pressed her panic button, which some and other
:15:42. > :15:47.officers to the scene. Her male colleague gave her first aid and
:15:48. > :15:51.moved her out of harm's way. James Leslie is in custody for questioning
:15:52. > :15:54.by detectives. West Yorkshire police said they are not looking for anyone
:15:55. > :16:03.else in connection with the shooting, but are appealing for
:16:04. > :16:07.witnesses to get in touch. And the time is nearly 6:16pm. Our
:16:08. > :16:10.top story this evening: Nigella Lawson admits in court that
:16:11. > :16:19.she has taken cocaine, but she denies being an addict.
:16:20. > :16:21.And still to come: You are Nelson Mandela.
:16:22. > :16:28.And you are Winnie Madikizela. We talk to the British actor taking
:16:29. > :16:31.on the role of Nelson Mandela. Coming up on Sportsday, more on the
:16:32. > :16:35.news that trainer Gerard Butler has been banned for five years for
:16:36. > :16:47.injecting horses with the steroid substance designed for humans.
:16:48. > :16:51.Our evolution from ape-like creatures millions of years ago to
:16:52. > :16:53.what we are now has intrigued generations of scientists. But
:16:54. > :16:57.there's always been confusion about how exactly we progressed from
:16:58. > :17:02.. Now scientists have extracted DNA from human bones 400,000 years old
:17:03. > :17:11.which, they hope, will shed light on our evolution. Pallab Ghosh reports.
:17:12. > :17:18.Scientists scramble towards the place they call the" pit of bones" .
:17:19. > :17:22.These small, underground tunnels in northern Spain where the only way
:17:23. > :17:31.into a cave which was once home to primitive humans who lived 400,000
:17:32. > :17:39.years ago. And here are their bones. Perfectly preserved. Back at the
:17:40. > :17:43.laboratory, one of the thigh bones has mitochondrial DNA extracted, to
:17:44. > :17:46.help solve the mystery of how modern humans evolved. I am very excited by
:17:47. > :17:52.this development and if we can get not just mitochondrial DNA but the
:17:53. > :17:57.rest of the DNA from the Jinan, we can build up a full story of these
:17:58. > :18:01.earlier stages of human Revolution, which so far we have not been able
:18:02. > :18:05.to. For more than a century, scientists have built up a picture
:18:06. > :18:11.of how humans evolved by measuring the size and shape of ancient skulls
:18:12. > :18:13.and bones. The DNA can show blow by blow how humans changed over
:18:14. > :18:20.hundreds of thousands of years. The first ape with human features
:18:21. > :18:28.evolved into primitive humans who lived around 1.5 million years ago.
:18:29. > :18:31.And skipping forward, scientists know modern humans emerged 200,000
:18:32. > :18:34.years ago. But they don't know from fossils how we got from here to
:18:35. > :18:37.here. It's called the "muddle in the middle". Scientists hope they can
:18:38. > :18:41.now begin to clear up the muddle by analysing the DNA in these fossils.
:18:42. > :18:45.The editor who published the research in the journal Nature
:18:46. > :18:51.believes that analysis of ancient DNA is a more reliable way of
:18:52. > :18:56.determining how our species emerged. We are now on a cusp. Whereas
:18:57. > :19:01.before, we had to do Everything with bones and stones and teeth, now we
:19:02. > :19:05.have DNA, and DNA can tell you things that bones and stones and
:19:06. > :19:08.teeth just cannot. There will no doubt be many more new discoveries
:19:09. > :19:19.which will tell the true story of human revolution. -- evolution.
:19:20. > :19:22.A 28-year-old woman has begun a legal battle to prevent her dead
:19:23. > :19:25.husband's frozen sperm from being destroyed. Beth Warren's husband
:19:26. > :19:29.died from cancer last year. She's been told that his sperm cannot be
:19:30. > :19:35.stored beyond April 2015. Her lawyers say the regulations defy
:19:36. > :19:42.common-sense. Fergus Walsh reports. Warren Brewer and his partner Beth
:19:43. > :19:47.were together for eight years. He had his sperm frozen before having
:19:48. > :19:51.radiotherapy to treat a brain tumour and repeatedly signed forms saying
:19:52. > :19:56.she could use it posthumously. The couple married weeks before his
:19:57. > :20:00.death last year. But she has been told his consent forms expire in 16
:20:01. > :20:06.months and the sperm must be destroyed if it is not used by them.
:20:07. > :20:10.It is a huge decision, because that child won't ever meet their father.
:20:11. > :20:14.I really need more time to consider everything, to get myself in a
:20:15. > :20:18.position where I am strong enough in every aspect to be able to do that
:20:19. > :20:23.and really think about it and figure out whether it is the right thing
:20:24. > :20:28.for a child. The rules state that sperm can be stored for up to 55
:20:29. > :20:36.years, but only if written consent is periodically updated. The frozen
:20:37. > :20:40.sperm of the Beth Warren's husband is stored in liquid nitrogen in this
:20:41. > :20:45.tank. If it is not used by April 2015, it will have to be destroyed.
:20:46. > :20:50.But if it was thawed out and used to create embryos, they could be stored
:20:51. > :20:53.for a further seven years. Her lawyer says those time limits are
:20:54. > :21:00.illogical and unfair on a woman who is still grieving for her husband
:21:01. > :21:04.and her brother, who died in a car accident. Common-sense dictates that
:21:05. > :21:08.she should be allowed time to recover from the loss of her husband
:21:09. > :21:11.and her brother and not be forced into making such an important
:21:12. > :21:17.reproductive choice at this point in her life. In a statement, the Human
:21:18. > :21:18.Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said it has every sympathy
:21:19. > :21:35.with Mrs Warren. The case has echoes of that of Diane
:21:36. > :21:39.Blood's 16 years ago. The Appeal Court ruled she could use her dead
:21:40. > :21:46.husband's sperm to have a child. In that case, there was no written
:21:47. > :21:50.consent. Ultimately, it will be a High Court judge to decide whether
:21:51. > :21:55.Beth Warren, a physiotherapist from Birmingham, should have more time to
:21:56. > :22:05.decide whether to have her late husband's child.
:22:06. > :22:08.The jury in the trial of two men accused of killing the British
:22:09. > :22:09.soldier Lee Rigby has heard that one of the alleged killers showed "no
:22:10. > :22:18.regret or remorse". During a June Kelly was in court for us.
:22:19. > :22:23.Michael Adebolajo said he was a soldier of Allah and on Lee Rigby's
:22:24. > :22:28.killing, said, "May Allah forgive me if I have acted in a way which is
:22:29. > :22:32.displeasing to him" . This report reveals distressing
:22:33. > :22:35.details. This was Michael Adebolajo on the Thursday he was interviewed
:22:36. > :22:38.at a police station in south London, ten days after the killing in
:22:39. > :22:44.Woolwich. Throughout the interviews, covered himself with a blanket and
:22:45. > :22:50.said he wanted to be known by his Muslim name of Mujaahid Abu Hamza.
:22:51. > :22:58.He described his co-defendant as his brother and knew him as Ismail and
:22:59. > :23:00.not Michael Adebowale untold interviewers that Britain was at war
:23:01. > :23:18.with Muslims. He and Michael Adebowale butchered
:23:19. > :23:24.Lee Rigby with a meat cleaver and a knife as he made his way back to his
:23:25. > :23:28.barracks. The soldier's family were in court as Adebolajo spoke in his
:23:29. > :23:38.interviews about the killing. He told detectives...
:23:39. > :23:46.Today, the court heard from the personnel are just -- pathologist
:23:47. > :23:50.who carried out the postmortem. One of the jurors was in tears as he
:23:51. > :23:54.described Fusilier Rigby's injuries. The rucksack he was
:23:55. > :23:58.carrying when the men targeted him was shown and there were pictures of
:23:59. > :24:02.the car they drove at him. The defendants left court this evening
:24:03. > :24:07.knowing that the prosecution case is drawing to a close. Then their
:24:08. > :24:10.lawyers will begin their defence. The prosecution is now moving into
:24:11. > :24:19.its final phase and tomorrow, there will be more police interviews with
:24:20. > :24:23.Michael Adebolajo. Nelson Mandela's eldest daughter
:24:24. > :24:25.says he is still putting up a courageous fight as he battles
:24:26. > :24:28.against a long-standing illness. A film telling the story of his
:24:29. > :24:32.journey from a rural childhood to anti-apartheid icon is due to get
:24:33. > :24:35.its Royal Premiere next month. In The Long Walk To Freedom, Mandela is
:24:36. > :24:39.portrayed by the British actor Idris Elba. He's been talking to our Arts
:24:40. > :24:45.Editor Will Gompertz. You are Nelson Mandela. And you are
:24:46. > :24:50.Winnie Madikizela. How do you know? I made enquiries. Two Londoners take
:24:51. > :24:54.the lead roles in the film Mandela, The Long Walk To Freedom. Naomie
:24:55. > :24:56.Harris plays Winnie while her soon-to-be husband Nelson is played
:24:57. > :25:00.by Idris Elba who, when first offered the
:25:01. > :25:10.We want equal political rights. One man, one vote. My own personal
:25:11. > :25:17.responsibility as an actor is to make someone who everyone knows
:25:18. > :25:25.Country Life in film -- come to life in film and this was a big one.
:25:26. > :25:28.The film charts Nelson Mandela's life story, with Idris Elba playing
:25:29. > :25:34.him from his mid-20s to his late 70s.
:25:35. > :25:38.What did you find easier, the young Mandela or the old Mandela? Believe
:25:39. > :25:41.it or not, the old Mandela was easier. I had a great reference
:25:42. > :25:44.point with my late dad. You know, he reminds me of Mandela so much, with
:25:45. > :25:57.his movement, his charisma, his hair. I have beautiful children and
:25:58. > :26:01.a beautiful wife. I want them to walk free in their own land.
:26:02. > :26:04.I was born into an England where, you know, there was racism, there
:26:05. > :26:08.was sort of "us and them" and I grew up amongst it. I was encouraged to
:26:09. > :26:12.get your own piece of land, go for it, go back to Africa and this sort
:26:13. > :26:16.of stuff, but at the same time, you know I was born in this country. A
:26:17. > :26:19.lot has changed since then, but I have him if it was any easier for
:26:20. > :26:25.black actors to win roles. -- I asked him. What has happened is
:26:26. > :26:28.there are more opportunities, there are more writers that are writing
:26:29. > :26:31.more diverse storylines that incorporate our whole country, our
:26:32. > :26:35.whole, you know... England is a very diverse culture and it is starting
:26:36. > :26:43.to seep into the story of film and television. And that is creating
:26:44. > :26:46.opportunities. But it is easier? No. Nor, he says, was playing Nelson
:26:47. > :26:52.Mandela, which he describes as the greatest challenge of his acting
:26:53. > :26:58.career. That brings us to the weather.
:26:59. > :27:00.Here's Jay Wynne. There is a winter storm heading our
:27:01. > :27:01.way and the Met There is a winter storm heading our
:27:02. > :27:04.way and the Office had issued amber warnings because of the strength of
:27:05. > :27:13.wind we are expecting. We are expecting strong winds along --
:27:14. > :27:17.across large areas of United Kingdom and across that area, it will be
:27:18. > :27:22.quite windy so be prepared for nasty weather. This mass of Cloud is fast
:27:23. > :27:24.approaching. It is ready quite windy across the north of the United
:27:25. > :27:28.Kingdom and if anything, overnight, the wind gets stronger and stronger
:27:29. > :27:32.and the rain gets heavier and heavier. By the end of the night,
:27:33. > :27:35.Scotland is very wet and windy. Further south, much quieter with a
:27:36. > :27:41.touch of frost across many southern counties of England. In the morning,
:27:42. > :27:48.across Scotland, atrocious conditions. It is very wet but also
:27:49. > :27:53.incredibly windy, with gusts up to 75 mph or more, particularly across
:27:54. > :27:57.the mountains and hills but also through the lowlands. Transport
:27:58. > :28:01.probably affected. The impact will be widely felt. The areas affected
:28:02. > :28:08.will also see some lively snow showers. The winds travel southwards
:28:09. > :28:12.and eastwards to affect the North Coast areas. We could see some
:28:13. > :28:18.coastal flooding is, and not just the North Sea coast, England and
:28:19. > :28:22.Wales at the West also affected. It may well stay three or four degrees
:28:23. > :28:25.on your thermometer, but it will feel colder than that and the cold
:28:26. > :28:29.air spread south through Thursday and Friday, a widespread frost for
:28:30. > :28:33.eastern areas but at least a bright start. Still some snow showers in
:28:34. > :28:36.the north of Scotland and later in the day, on the leading edge of the
:28:37. > :28:41.weather front, snow coming in from the West. On the short term, the
:28:42. > :28:42.storm could cause some travel disruption and flooding.
:28:43. > :28:48.disruption and Keep up-to-date online.
:28:49. > :28:50.That's all from the BBC News At