:00:14. > :00:25.seen their pay lose its value. 1.3 million stand to gain from an
:00:26. > :00:29.increase. I believe Britain can afford an above inflation increase
:00:30. > :00:33.in the mid-wage, so we restore its real value for people and we make
:00:34. > :00:40.sure we have a recovery fall, and that work always pays. -- a recovery
:00:41. > :00:43.fall. We'll be looking at the impact on
:00:44. > :00:44.workers, the government and business.
:00:45. > :00:47.Also tonight: Missing - the Edinburgh three-year-old Mikaeel
:00:48. > :00:50.Kular, who hasn't been seen since he went to bed last night.
:00:51. > :00:52.The British scientists behind a new technique to stop the partially
:00:53. > :00:55.sighted going blind. A message from the Taliban - we'll
:00:56. > :00:57.be back in charge when your troops pull out of Afghanistan.
:00:58. > :01:07.And Roger Lloyd-Pack, Trigger in Only Fools And Horses, has died.
:01:08. > :01:15.On BBC London, the Mayor's office says demands for an estuary airport
:01:16. > :01:16.aren't being taken seriously. But the Prime Minister tells us the
:01:17. > :01:43.proposals are being treated fairly. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:44. > :01:46.News at Six. George Osborne says he's now in
:01:47. > :01:49.favour of an above-inflation rise in the minimum wage. Speaking
:01:50. > :01:52.exclusively to the BBC, the Chancellor says the economic
:01:53. > :01:56.recovery means the country can afford a rise. He's recommending an
:01:57. > :02:04.increase to the Low Pay Commission, which sets the rate. At the moment
:02:05. > :02:10.the minimum wage is ?6.31 per hour. It's paid to at least 1.35 million
:02:11. > :02:17.people. That means full-time workers have a take home salary of just over
:02:18. > :02:19.?11,000 per year. Our political editor, Nick Robinson, reports now
:02:20. > :02:27.on the Chancellor's announcement and the arguments over the cost of
:02:28. > :02:31.living. It is perhaps his most controversial
:02:32. > :02:36.and, to some, his most irritating claim. At the Chancellor insists it
:02:37. > :02:40.is more than just a sound bite to say we are all in it together, which
:02:41. > :02:47.is why on a visit to this high-tech manufacturing centre in Coventry, he
:02:48. > :02:50.told me this. I believe that written macro can afford an above inflation
:02:51. > :02:56.increase in the minimum wage, so that we restore its real value for
:02:57. > :03:03.people, make sure we have a recovery fall and that work always pays. What
:03:04. > :03:08.figure are we talking about? The exact figure has to be set by the
:03:09. > :03:15.low pay commission. But if, for example, it had kept pace with
:03:16. > :03:20.inflation it would be ?7 by 2016. Nearly 1.5 million jobs, mostly in
:03:21. > :03:24.retail and catering, pay the minimum which the law allows. The people who
:03:25. > :03:29.get that wage have noticed it buying power falling in recent years.
:03:30. > :03:33.Everything has gone up. Prices in the shops have gone up a lot more
:03:34. > :03:38.than the minimum wage has gone up. Has that forced you to make
:03:39. > :03:43.difficult choices? Yes. Sometimes you cannot afford quite as much. The
:03:44. > :03:45.value of the minimum wage after inflation is taken into account
:03:46. > :03:51.shows the change since the economic crisis. After years of increase,
:03:52. > :03:56.look how it drops in recent years. It now stands at ?6 31 per hour. The
:03:57. > :04:00.Chancellor cannot set a rate but he is suggesting it would need to
:04:01. > :04:05.increase to ?7 to restore its original value. That may worry small
:04:06. > :04:10.employers, like the man who was a partner in this shop. I think it is
:04:11. > :04:16.probably at the right level at the moment. I would not like to see it
:04:17. > :04:23.increase above inflation. Because? I am not sure exactly where it
:04:24. > :04:27.benefits the low paid. I think the taxation system needs looking at.
:04:28. > :04:32.Not many years ago, the Tories would have agreed, opposing the minimum
:04:33. > :04:35.wage as a destroyer of jobs. People might say you present yourself as a
:04:36. > :04:39.friend of the working poor, and yet you have just told us that you will
:04:40. > :04:45.make 12 million pounds more in benefit cuts, much of which goes to
:04:46. > :04:48.people in cuts. The working poor are the people who suffer most when the
:04:49. > :04:52.public finances get out of control, when the economy collapses, when the
:04:53. > :04:56.banking system is not properly regulated. The government I am part
:04:57. > :05:00.of has got on top of these problems and the whole country benefits, and
:05:01. > :05:03.I want to make sure the working poor benefit as part of it. I want to
:05:04. > :05:08.make sure we are all in this together. There are people all
:05:09. > :05:13.around the country who will either laugh at the phrase, or scream at
:05:14. > :05:19.the TV or radio to say, it simply is not true. The whole country was
:05:20. > :05:23.afflicted by a great recession that made the whole country poorer.
:05:24. > :05:27.Everything I have done has been to try and fix that problem. The job is
:05:28. > :05:30.not done and I know it has been very difficult for people, but the fruits
:05:31. > :05:34.of it are that we are creating economic security and peace of mind
:05:35. > :05:37.for the people of this country, and the prospect that their lives for
:05:38. > :05:42.our children and grandchildren will be better than the lives that we
:05:43. > :05:45.have today. Just down the road, Labour run Coventry Council has
:05:46. > :05:51.decided to pay its workers the so-called living wage, a higher wage
:05:52. > :05:56.than the minimum. The party is scathing about today's announcement.
:05:57. > :05:59.He is all over the place on this. Yesterday we put forward a motion in
:06:00. > :06:02.the House of Commons to see the value of the minimum wage restored
:06:03. > :06:06.and better enforcement to take place, which he and the government
:06:07. > :06:09.voted against. Today they are saying they agree with us. This is a
:06:10. > :06:15.government that does not know where it is going on this very important
:06:16. > :06:17.issue. It is a sign of changing political times, a sign of the
:06:18. > :06:22.importance of the living standards debate, that eight Chancellor from
:06:23. > :06:26.the conservative part, which opposed the creation of them on wage, is now
:06:27. > :06:30.fighting for some of the credit for the fact that it may soon be rising
:06:31. > :06:38.again in real terms. Our Chief Economics Correspondent,
:06:39. > :06:42.Hugh Pym, is here. Obviously this is good for low paid workers, but what
:06:43. > :06:48.about the overall impact of an increase? It is interesting. The
:06:49. > :06:51.Treasury are saying that an above inflation increase in the minimum
:06:52. > :06:56.wage would be neutral for the public finances. There would be gains in
:06:57. > :06:59.some areas and losses in others. And the losses are interesting. The
:07:00. > :07:02.Treasury acknowledged there could be a slight rise in unemployment
:07:03. > :07:06.relative to what it would have been if this measure goes through.
:07:07. > :07:10.Company profits would be down a bit, so benefit payments would go up.
:07:11. > :07:14.They are emerging that they would be a bit of an impact, negatively, on
:07:15. > :07:19.various businesses. Various organisations have come out this
:07:20. > :07:21.evening against the idea. The Forum of Private business have said the
:07:22. > :07:26.last thing we need is an inflation busting increase in the minimum
:07:27. > :07:31.wage, which will cost jobs. The TUC, though, the union movement, are
:07:32. > :07:36.saying it is a good idea. They think it will not hit the economy. All of
:07:37. > :07:39.this has to be considered by the low pay commission. They will look at
:07:40. > :07:41.the Chancellor's ideas as well. They have to come up with the final
:07:42. > :07:44.recommendations. Police have launched a major search
:07:45. > :07:47.for a three-year-old boy who has gone missing from his home in
:07:48. > :07:52.Edinburgh. Mikaeel Kular hasn't been seen since he went to bed last
:07:53. > :08:00.night. Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh for us
:08:01. > :08:03.now. Mikhail Kool are's mother is said to
:08:04. > :08:09.be distraught at his disappearance. He usually shares a room in this
:08:10. > :08:13.flat on this estate with his twin sister but last night he slept
:08:14. > :08:19.alone. When she went to wake up this morning she discovered he had
:08:20. > :08:23.disappeared from the family home. Mikhail cooler are, three years
:08:24. > :08:36.old, last seen almost 24-hour cigar and now the focus of a huge police
:08:37. > :08:43.search. Locals here are trying to help find the missing boy. Children
:08:44. > :08:48.can get absolutely anywhere. This is a three-year-old child. Basically,
:08:49. > :08:51.everywhere has to be searched. I thought we would get the
:08:52. > :08:56.neighbourhood and go on a walk and see what we could see. We have been
:08:57. > :09:03.checking the bushes, the bins, bucket shoots. Inside the bins. The
:09:04. > :09:07.family live in a modern block of flats with apparently good security.
:09:08. > :09:10.It is not yet clear how he got out of the building, or whether he was
:09:11. > :09:16.helped. Neighbours say his mother is always careful about his safety. You
:09:17. > :09:18.usually see him on the stairs, up at the window, playing on the stairs.
:09:19. > :09:26.Mother does not really let the kids out. Tonight, as the search locally
:09:27. > :09:31.continues, the appeal for help was widened. It is something we are
:09:32. > :09:35.prioritising. We have all of the resources we would want to help
:09:36. > :09:38.assisting us. Again, I would appeal for those members of the public who
:09:39. > :09:42.live in the locality to again bash it is getting dark, we can see that,
:09:43. > :09:48.it is getting colder, so please help us. As light faded, coastguard and
:09:49. > :09:52.lifeguard teams continue to scour the coastline looking for the little
:09:53. > :09:55.boy, but with two bridges dropping, concerns must grow about what has
:09:56. > :10:01.happened to him and where exact years. -- with temperatures
:10:02. > :10:04.dropping. A short while ago, police released a few more details. They
:10:05. > :10:08.say he has never gone missing before. They say there have been no
:10:09. > :10:10.arrests as yet but a number of people are helping with their
:10:11. > :10:14.enquiries. The jury in the trial of the former
:10:15. > :10:18.Radio One DJ, Dave Lee Travis, has been hearing from two more alleged
:10:19. > :10:21.victims. One was a former colleague who says the 68-year-old indecently
:10:22. > :10:25.assaulted her when she was working at a local radio station. The court
:10:26. > :10:31.was also told that Travis assaulted a 15-year-old in a caravan at a pop
:10:32. > :10:38.concert. He denies all of the 14 charges against him.
:10:39. > :10:42.The trial of the Coronation Street star William Roache has been hearing
:10:43. > :10:45.from a witness who, now in her 60s, says she was raped by the actor at
:10:46. > :10:48.his house when she was a teenager. The woman says she didn't say
:10:49. > :10:53.anything at the time because she thought it was her fault. William
:10:54. > :11:04.Roache denies two counts of rape and five of indecent assault. Judith
:11:05. > :11:07.Moritz has been following the case. William Roache arrived at court for
:11:08. > :11:11.the third day of his trial, knowing that the jury would be hearing from
:11:12. > :11:16.the woman who says that he raped her nearly 50 years ago. He walked into
:11:17. > :11:19.court, flanked by his daughter and two of his sons, who sat in the
:11:20. > :11:24.public gallery, listening to the evidence. The actor has played
:11:25. > :11:29.Coronation Street's Ken Barlow since the first episode in 1960. At the
:11:30. > :11:33.time, he owned this bungalow in Lancashire. It now belongs to
:11:34. > :11:39.someone else. This is where, in a bedroom in 1967, the actor was
:11:40. > :11:42.accused of raping a teenage girl. Now aged 60 to the woman, whose
:11:43. > :11:48.identity is protected, appeared by video link. The court will surely
:11:49. > :11:52.take of an interview she did with police last year. Of the first rape
:11:53. > :11:56.she said, I can just remember thinking, God, I just want to get
:11:57. > :12:00.out of here. I did not know what to make of it. I was just so scared.
:12:01. > :12:04.The court then heard that a few months later, in a different house
:12:05. > :12:10.in Haslingden, also owned by William Roache, the actor raped the girl
:12:11. > :12:14.again. The woman says she kept quiet about both rapes. Of the first she
:12:15. > :12:17.said, I thought it must be my fault. I did not know why it had
:12:18. > :12:20.happened. I had gone round there in all innocence. The defence will
:12:21. > :12:25.continue to cross the woman tomorrow. Liam Roach is also accused
:12:26. > :12:30.of indecently assaulting four other women who were under the age of 16
:12:31. > :12:36.in the 1960s and early 70s. He denies all of the charges against
:12:37. > :12:40.him. Explaining further why she had stayed silent about the rapes, the
:12:41. > :12:45.woman said, I didn't think I'd be believed, for a start. Things like
:12:46. > :12:50.that didn't happen in those days, or I didn't think they did. She told
:12:51. > :12:53.the court she finally contacted the police last year after a
:12:54. > :12:57.conversation with her son in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Cyril
:12:58. > :13:01.Smith's gambles. It was then, she said, it all started to unravel,
:13:02. > :13:04.after eating away at her for so long.
:13:05. > :13:08.The Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone is to stand trial on
:13:09. > :13:11.charges of bribery. The trial relates to an alleged payment of
:13:12. > :13:15.millions of pounds to a German banker and is expected to begin in
:13:16. > :13:18.April. Mr Ecclestone, who has run Formula One for nearly 40 years,
:13:19. > :13:33.insists that he did nothing illegal but is stepping down from the F1
:13:34. > :13:36.board while he contests the case. A British team of doctors say they've
:13:37. > :13:39.achieved a huge advance in the treatment of some forms of
:13:40. > :13:42.blindness. By injecting genes into the affected eyes they've improved
:13:43. > :13:44.the vision of patients who were almost certainly going to go blind.
:13:45. > :13:47.As our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports, the technique could,
:13:48. > :13:57.eventually, offer hope to thousands of patients affected by other forms
:13:58. > :14:02.of blindness. Two years ago, Jonathan Wyatt was
:14:03. > :14:05.going to go blind. That is a fantastic improvement because when
:14:06. > :14:12.you first did the test you could not see any of these lines. I can go
:14:13. > :14:15.down again. Thanks to a genetic therapy by his doctor Professor
:14:16. > :14:21.Robert MacLaren, his site has improved. I had come to the edge of
:14:22. > :14:26.the abyss, looked down at total blackness. Professor McLaren had
:14:27. > :14:35.tapped me on the shoulder and said, come this way, it is possible to see
:14:36. > :14:40.again. In 2011, BBC News reported on Professor McLaren's pioneering
:14:41. > :14:45.operation on Jonathan. In a delicate procedure he injected DNA into his
:14:46. > :14:49.eye. So how does the gene therapy work? Let's have a look inside the
:14:50. > :14:53.human eye. Right at the back, there are cells that detect light and
:14:54. > :14:58.enable us to see. In Jonathan's case, because of a faulty gene,
:14:59. > :15:03.sells at the back of his I had been dying, leaving only the ones in the
:15:04. > :15:07.middle. Doctors had managed to stop these from dying by injecting new
:15:08. > :15:11.working copies of the faulty gene. Not only that, the genes have
:15:12. > :15:13.revitalised some of the cells that have stopped working, and so the
:15:14. > :15:20.treatment has actually improved his vision. Jonathan has a very rare
:15:21. > :15:24.form of blindness. More common forms, such as age-related
:15:25. > :15:27.blindness, which affects millions worldwide, involve many genes, and
:15:28. > :15:33.will be more context to cure with gene therapy. But Professor McLaren
:15:34. > :15:38.believes it will be possible. We are very excited. We are very much at
:15:39. > :15:42.the threshold of a new treatment which I believe will come in for
:15:43. > :15:46.many types of retinal disease. We are delighted with the results for
:15:47. > :15:49.Jonathan. To have an improvement in vision sustained in monitoring in
:15:50. > :15:53.the trial is the best possible result we could have hoped for.
:15:54. > :15:59.Younger sufferers, such as Wayne Thompson, have most to gain from
:16:00. > :16:03.gene therapy. When he was first diagnosed, doctors told him he would
:16:04. > :16:11.not see his daughter grow up. Now, following the treatment, he hopes to
:16:12. > :16:16.see his grandchildren. The time is 18:16pm. Our top story this evening:
:16:17. > :16:20.The Chancellor George Osborne backs an above-inflation rise in the
:16:21. > :16:27.minimum wage saying the country can afford it. Coming up: there he is.
:16:28. > :16:29.Tributes from Del and Rodney to the Only Fools and Horses actor Roger
:16:30. > :16:43.Lloyd Pack who's died aged 69. Later on BBC London: Turning the
:16:44. > :16:46.black cab green. Cabbies give their verdict on zero-emission taxis of
:16:47. > :16:49.the future. And why London's the most popular it's ever been. The
:16:50. > :16:58.tourists coming to the capital in their millions. That, and more,
:16:59. > :17:01.coming up at 6.30pm. In Afghanistan, the Taliban has issued a warning to
:17:02. > :17:04.Britain and America. A senior figure has told the BBC that they are
:17:05. > :17:10.confident of re-taking control of the country once foreign troops pull
:17:11. > :17:13.out. British troops began operations in Afghanistan in October 2001.
:17:14. > :17:19.Since then, 447 British service personnel have been killed in action
:17:20. > :17:22.there, most recently in December. The withdrawal of British troops
:17:23. > :17:29.will be complete by the end of this year. Our World Affairs Editor John
:17:30. > :17:30.Simpson has obtained a rare recorded interview with a Taliban spokesman,
:17:31. > :17:46.and sent this report from Kabul. This is the year that will decide
:17:47. > :17:51.Afghanistan's future. Kabul It is doing well these days, but people
:17:52. > :17:55.remember when the Caliban ruled it, the economy collapsed and ferocious
:17:56. > :18:06.punishments were inflicted daily -- the tally ban. -- the Taliban.
:18:07. > :18:10.Recording an interview with the Taliban is difficult these days, but
:18:11. > :18:16.their spokesperson agreed to speak to us via phone. The first question
:18:17. > :18:20.was about Afghanistan's security. The American forces on the ground
:18:21. > :18:23.have kept the Taliban pinned down, but they are getting bolder, and
:18:24. > :18:27.their spokesman wants to give the impression that the foreign troops
:18:28. > :18:35.are being driven out with their tails between their legs. In the
:18:36. > :18:43.remote parts, everywhere is Mujahideen Taliban. They move around
:18:44. > :18:46.and have control over the finishes -- villages. They have their own
:18:47. > :18:50.administrative centre, limited parts or under foreign control, but they
:18:51. > :18:53.cannot really get out of there. The foreign forces in particular are so
:18:54. > :18:59.scared that they are confined to their bases. And, according to you,
:19:00. > :19:05.the same is true in Helmand province. Yes, vast swathes of
:19:06. > :19:09.Helmand are under our control. Next, what about the coming
:19:10. > :19:15.elections? In April, people will vote for a successor to President
:19:16. > :19:22.Karzai who took over in 2001 when the Caliban government -- Taliban
:19:23. > :19:30.government collapsed. The Taliban leadership is set against
:19:31. > :19:34.consensus. It is a fake process taking place under the occupation.
:19:35. > :19:37.Whatever the foreigners want, will happen. The objection -- election is
:19:38. > :19:44.not legitimate and neither are the candidates. What will the future be?
:19:45. > :19:48.Most people hope it will not lie with the Taliban. They created the
:19:49. > :19:52.most extreme religious government honour. Televisions and video tapes
:19:53. > :19:57.were not just banned, they were hanged from the lamp posts as a
:19:58. > :20:05.warning. The law of ie from and I was applied literally. Would the
:20:06. > :20:11.Taliban bring back the same extreme punishments that were obvious in
:20:12. > :20:18.Afghanistan? There cannot be changed because the Islamic law is constant.
:20:19. > :20:22.When there is a crime, we have to implement that sharia law. There
:20:23. > :20:26.will be changes in behaviour, but the law will be the same as before.
:20:27. > :20:31.We are sure that society is ready for this. But it clearly isn't. In
:20:32. > :20:39.Kabul, most people are haunted by the past, scared that the Taliban
:20:40. > :20:45.could come part cash back. They are night they oppressed people, people
:20:46. > :20:51.could not work. In the name of Islam, they killed hundreds of
:20:52. > :20:55.people every day. I am 100% worried, and the people are worried. Everyone
:20:56. > :21:01.is concerned, young and old. The people of Afghanistan are worried
:21:02. > :21:05.about the Taliban coming back. The Taliban say they are confident of
:21:06. > :21:10.victory, although most people here would not agree. This country is far
:21:11. > :21:11.more stable nowadays, but it is still deeply worried about any
:21:12. > :21:23.returned to the past. Yesterday we record -- reported on
:21:24. > :21:30.the child abuse carried out to order online by British men on vulnerable,
:21:31. > :21:33.young children in the Philippines. Today came new details of the police
:21:34. > :21:36.operation to smash the paedophile ring behind the story. Five men have
:21:37. > :21:39.been jailed, another 17 arrested, and the National Crime Agency says
:21:40. > :21:42.it has identified more than 120 other British suspects. There are
:21:43. > :21:49.some disturbing details in Angus Crawford's report.
:21:50. > :21:54.This is operation Endeavour in action. Philippine police raid house
:21:55. > :21:58.and rescue 12 children. The youngest was just six years old. They had
:21:59. > :22:03.been sexually abused by their own parents in front of a webcam,
:22:04. > :22:06.directed from thousands of miles away in Britain. The raid was
:22:07. > :22:12.launched after the arrest of this man, Timothy Ford. He offered other
:22:13. > :22:17.paedophiles the chance to watch the abuse as well. Men like Thomas Owen
:22:18. > :22:22.from Merseyside. The records of their online conversations released
:22:23. > :22:29.today show Ford offering Owen what he calls live shows. And describing
:22:30. > :22:33.some of the children is really cute. Police arrested 29 people in 12
:22:34. > :22:39.different countries and have identified many more suspects. There
:22:40. > :22:50.are over 700 suspects around the world. Over 100 of them are here in
:22:51. > :22:53.the UK. That is shocking, isn't it? Very shocking. People need to
:22:54. > :22:58.realise something. Let's call this what this is. This is not an
:22:59. > :23:03.Internet crime, it is a crime facilitated by the Internet. It is
:23:04. > :23:07.child sexual abuse. This is a new crime, fuelled by rising demand in
:23:08. > :23:11.the West and is a growing problem, especially in the Philippines. In
:23:12. > :23:14.some of the poorest slum areas, whole communities have been taken
:23:15. > :23:18.over by the trade. Families forced their children to perform sex acts
:23:19. > :23:27.in front of webcams for foreigners who are prepared to pay. This trade
:23:28. > :23:31.is driven by poverty. This girl was 15 when she was forced by her own
:23:32. > :23:45.aunt to work in what she calls a cybersex then. -- den.
:23:46. > :23:50.Operation Endeavour has been a success, but charities say the
:23:51. > :23:51.police need to do much more to protect the tens of thousands of
:23:52. > :24:02.children who remain at risk. Greater Manchester Police are being
:24:03. > :24:07.charged with breaching health and safety laws following the shooting
:24:08. > :24:11.of an unarmed man in Cheshire. Anthony Grainge,r who was 36, was
:24:12. > :24:14.shot dead by an armed officer nearly two years ago during an operation to
:24:15. > :24:17.arrest a group of men suspected of plotting an armed robbery. Our Home
:24:18. > :24:24.Affairs Correspondent Matt Prodger is here. Matt, this is a fairly
:24:25. > :24:28.unusual move? It is unusual, but not a first. Back in 2007 the
:24:29. > :24:42.Metropolitan Police were successfully prosecuted over the
:24:43. > :24:46.police shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes and again, like this one,
:24:47. > :24:50.they were prosecuted under health and safety regulations, Greater
:24:51. > :24:52.Manchester Police are said to be responsible for serious deficiencies
:24:53. > :24:57.in the preparation of the operation that led to his death. The Chief
:24:58. > :25:01.Constable is the one named in the charge, and it is effectively the
:25:02. > :25:07.police as a body that are really being prosecuted.
:25:08. > :25:11.12 Years a Slave and its British director Steve McQueen have been
:25:12. > :25:14.nominated for nine Oscars. The film tells the story of a man sold into
:25:15. > :25:17.slavery during the middle of the 19th Century. Philomena, starring
:25:18. > :25:21.Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, has also been nominated for Best Film.
:25:22. > :25:24.They'll compete against space adventure Gravity and the comedy
:25:25. > :25:28.American Hustle, both of which have ten nominations each.
:25:29. > :25:35.He helped to bring us some of the funniest moments in British TV
:25:36. > :25:38.comedy. The character actor Roger Lloyd Pack, best known for his role
:25:39. > :25:48.as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, has died. He was 69. Lizo Mzimba
:25:49. > :25:54.looks back at his life. Play nice and cool, Simon, you know what I
:25:55. > :26:00.mean? As the hapless track -- as the hapless Trigger in Only Fools and
:26:01. > :26:05.Horses, he was part of one of TV's most successful shows. He played the
:26:06. > :26:14.role the more than 20 years. How much? For you, ?17 each. Audiences
:26:15. > :26:26.knew they could rely on his deadpan stupidity. Nine, eight. Done. This
:26:27. > :26:49.afternoon, said David Jason said: one of his early screen appearances
:26:50. > :26:52.was on Play for Today. It is all good work for the Tom Brown 's of
:26:53. > :26:59.this world. Although he was best known the teamwork, -- TV work, he
:27:00. > :27:04.was a rather trained actor. He was a prominent campaigner for the causes
:27:05. > :27:12.he felt passionately about. Many will remember him for playing the
:27:13. > :27:16.socially awkward father Owen on Vicar of Dibley. But it is the
:27:17. > :27:27.intellectually challenged Trigger he will be best remembered. My name is
:27:28. > :27:32.Rodney. I thought it was Dave. Basil, are you going to get this
:27:33. > :27:35.meeting started? Me and Dave have been waiting here all night.
:27:36. > :27:38.The actor, Roger Lloyd-Pack who died today, aged 69.
:27:39. > :27:45.Time for a look at the weather. Here's Darren Bett.
:27:46. > :27:51.A lot of showers around today across many parts of the UK, and overnight
:27:52. > :27:54.there will be more showers, probably anywhere. Some of the heavier
:27:55. > :27:58.showers and more frequent showers will be across southern parts of
:27:59. > :28:03.England and Wales where the wind is a little stronger, but the showers
:28:04. > :28:08.could turn a bit heavy across Northern Ireland, close to the area
:28:09. > :28:12.of low pressure. Where we get good breaks in the cloud in Scotland the
:28:13. > :28:17.risk of icy patches. It will be milder further south where we have
:28:18. > :28:20.heavy showers and stronger winds as well. Through the day while we might
:28:21. > :28:28.start with heavy showers, they will ease away from Scotland, Wales and
:28:29. > :28:32.the South West. A little bit of sunshine to come in Scotland, the
:28:33. > :28:35.risk of some fog patches, particularly early in the morning.
:28:36. > :28:39.The fog never really cleared from some parts of the Moray Firth.
:28:40. > :28:43.Patchy parts across Northern Ireland and a few showers in the afternoon.
:28:44. > :28:46.Generally parts of England and Wales should see showers in the afternoon.
:28:47. > :28:51.We could see frequent showers in the south-east, but it looks like the
:28:52. > :28:54.steady rain will be across the Channel and conditions should
:28:55. > :28:57.improve across Wales on the south-west and we get more sunshine
:28:58. > :29:02.in the afternoon. The details for the weekend keep changing though. It
:29:03. > :29:06.looks like this at the moment, a lot of cloud and rain never too far
:29:07. > :29:09.away. Scotland may start right away from the fog in the morning on
:29:10. > :29:13.Saturday. We will see some rain moving towards the north. Probably
:29:14. > :29:18.the heavier rain developing across the more western areas, and again,
:29:19. > :29:26.temperatures between six and 10 degrees. Western parts may cheer up
:29:27. > :29:28.on Sunday with some sunshine, possibly some showers, but further
:29:29. > :29:30.East has persistent rain, especially north-east England, Scotland, and
:29:31. > :29:32.that will be combined with strong winds.