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scenes as Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale had to be dragged | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
from the dock after they started fighting with prison guards. The | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
judge said they had butchered Fusilier Lee Rigby in a barbaric | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
murder that would have a lasting and severe impact on his family. It has | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
brought us comfort and we are satisfied that justice has been | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
served for Lee. It just remains to be said - rest in peace, Lee. We'll | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
have the latest from the Old Bailey. Also tonight: Northern Ireland's | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
First Minster threatens to resign over the collapse of the Hyde Park | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
bombing case - unless there's a judicial inquiry. I'm not prepared | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
to be the First Minister of a Government that has kept in the dark | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
on matters which are relevant, very relevant. Facing its heaviest losses | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
in history - the Co-op is to sell off its farming business. Millions | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
of children have been diagnosed as dyslexic, but now a group of experts | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
say the term is meaningless. After the storm that swept away the tracks | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
at Dawlish - we have a special report on the work to repair the | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
main rail line to Cornwall. On BBC London: The Met carries out its | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
biggest ever series of raids on a suspected criminal network. And | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
hundreds of millions will be spent making junctions safer for cyclists | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
and pedestrians. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:29. | :01:55. | |
News at 6. The two men who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby outside the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Woolwich barracks in London last year have been given life sentences. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Michael Adebolajo was told he will die in prison, and 22-year-old | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Michael Adebowale will spend at least 45 years behind bars. The | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
judge said the two British Muslim converts had butchered the | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
25-year-old soldier to death in a barbaric murder that would have a | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
lasting and severe effect on his family. The two men weren't in court | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
to hear their sentences - they'd been dragged from the dock after | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
fighting broke out. June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. The judge told the | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
two men that what they had done was a betrayal of Islam. They started | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
shouting back from the dock, that it was not. There were scuffs and | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
security staff and the two men were taken down to the cells and Michael | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
Adebolajo had to be carried down the stairs. They were not in court to | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
hear the sentences. This report contains some flash photography. It | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
is ten weeks since Lee Rigby's killers were convicted. Today they | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
were brought back for sentencing. Michael Adebolajo and Michael | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Adebowale saw themselves as soldiers of Allah. Michael Adebolajo | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
described the killing as an act of war. So Lee Rigby, who had survived | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
the battlefields of Afghanistan lost his life in a barbaric act on a | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
London street. In court for the sentencing, those who loved Lee | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Rigby. The prosecution said their lives had been changed forever for | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
the worse. The family welcomes the whole life and significant sentences | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
that have been passed on his killers. We feel that no other | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
sentence would have been acceptable and we would like to thank the judge | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
and the courts for handing down what we believe to be the right prison | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
terms. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us in the | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
last nine months. It has brought us a lot of comfort and we feel | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
satisfied that justice has been served for Lee. It just remains to | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
be staid - rest in peace Lee. Lee Rigby's wife said their son would | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
grow up to see images of his dad that no one should endure. Lee's | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
uncle spoke to the BBC. We have just seen this as a murder. I think that | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
is the hardest thing to comprehend. Lee Rigby in a Help For Heroes top | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
was targeted by the killers. As he crossed the road, they drove their | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
car at him. Michael Adebolajo tried to behead him with a meat cleaver | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
and Michael Adebowale was cutting at his body with a knife. It culminated | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
in them dragging his dead body into the road to put on public display. | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
With his hands soaked in blood, Michael Adebolajo delivered a | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
message. They waited for police and their plan was to be shot by | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
firearms officers, martyring themselves as they saw it. Michael | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
Adebolajo ran at the police officer. Michael Adebowale was then | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
surrounded. In one hand a revolver and in the other a knife. He too was | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
shot. These two men wanted to end their lives together on their chosen | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
day with the world watching. Instead, they were spend the rest of | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
their lives apart and Michael Adebolajo will die behind bars. The | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
judge said that neither man had shown any remorse. For the family | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
this is the final chapter of the trial process, but as was | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
acknowledged in court, there is no end when it comes to their sense of | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
loss. Thank you. Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson, is | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
so furious about the collapse of the case against the Hyde Park bombing | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
suspect that he has threatened to resign. The case against John Downey | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
was thrown out of court yesterday after it emerged he'd been assured | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
in a letter from government officials that he was no longer a | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
wanted man. Mr Robinson is demanding a judicial inquiry into the secret | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
letters given to paramilitary suspects. It's now emerged that 38 | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
of the letters were signed under the current government, as our Ireland | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
correspondent Chris Buckler reports. They are murders engraved in the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
memories of many. The bombing at Hyde Park killed four soldiers from | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
the Household Cavalry. Although he denied involvement in the killings, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
John Downey was the main suspect and yesterday he walked free from court, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
because of an assurance from the Government that he would not be | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
prosecuted. This cannot happen again. Today the Prime Minister | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
admitted that that had been a huge mistake. First let me say I | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
understand the depth of anger and concern that people will feel ray | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
cross this country about the appalling events that happened in | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
1982 and the fact that the person responsible is not going to be | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
tried. Yes, 71.12%. When people voted in support of the Good Friday | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
agreement, the politicians hadn't agreed on what to do about so-called | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
on the runs. People suspected of terrorist offences. The then Prime | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Minister, Tony Blair, give a written assurance to Sinn Fein that he would | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
address the issue. Since then 200 letter have been given to Republican | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
suspected of terrorist offences. They ashoed them -- assured them | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
they would not face prosecution. However unionists say they knew | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
nothing about the deal with Sinn Fein and it strained relationships | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
to the point where the First Minister has threatened to resign, | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
unless there is a judicial review. I'm not prepared to be the First | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Minister of a Government that has kept in the dark on matter that are | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
relevant, very relevant to what we are doing. We have spent the last | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
number of months dealing with the Hass talks. That they were about | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
people getting justice. Now we find that they never would get justice. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
In a place where divisions are too obvious, claims of secret deals are | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
capable of eroding trust. But Sinn Fein is defending the process that | :08:47. | :08:55. | |
up to now wasn't made public. Peter can resign. But that won't address | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the past. That is something that we will to return to. Relationships | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
often seem strained here, but the revelations have done real damage | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
and Dee that is a perception that this scheme was set up specifically | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
and exclusively for Republicans. With claims that this was an | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
amnesty, Conservative and unionist politicians are asking why the | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
soldiers at Bloody Sunday still face potential prosecution. Northern | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Ireland's past again hanging over the politics of the present. Our | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Political Editor Nick Robinson is in the Houses of Parliament England's | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has backed calls | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
What chance of a he zru. The review Peter Robinson will not get. But | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
ministers know they will have to make some concession. They have said | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
there will be an inquiry into how this particular mistake was made. | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
They have also said they will be fact-checking to make sure a similar | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
mistake cannot be made. But there is something deeper at stake, not just | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the the fact the Northern Ireland administration claim they were kept | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
in the dark, but also the sense that something was being done that means | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
there were different rules for different parties on the two sides | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
of this long and bloody conflict. And it is that that has for so long | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
caused anger not just in Northern Ireland, but among many people here | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
in Westminster as well. There is one key fact which has dogged the | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Northern Ireland peace process. It is simply this - the argument that | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
opt one hand you have to wipe the slate clean of the grim past in | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
order to make progress and yet the outrage that causes to individuals | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
involved who are still suffering hurt and are still suffering pain. | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
Thank you. The dd bod kwi which advises the Government on the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
national minimum wage has recommended it be increased by 3%. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
The Chancellor called for an above inflation rise and said it would | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
need to do to ?7 an hour to have its value restored to what it was before | :11:09. | :11:25. | |
the banking crisis. The Co-op is to sell off its farming business and is | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
also considering the future of its pharmacy chain in a bid to revive | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
the troubled mutual. The Co-op's expected to announce a loss of | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
around ?2 billion next month - the biggest in the group's history. The | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
losses are mainly from the Co-op's bank, which had to be bailed out by | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
investors last year. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
The Co-Op, a family face on the high street. But the group is hurtling | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
into the red. Its results were never going to be pretty. Now we know the | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
losses will run into the billions. The Co-Op had a terrible 2013. The | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
main thing that went wrong they found a 1.5 billion black hole in | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the bank and sorting that out and the other things means they may end | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
up making more than two billion in losses. Here is the fall out. The | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Co-Op is one of Britain's biggest farmers, going back more than 100 | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
years. No I the for sale sign is going up. It has 15 farms in the UK. | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
All being sold. They cover more than 17,000 hectares of land. Producing | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
mainly cereals. There are 200 workers in a business no longer | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
deemed to be essential. Britain's biggest mutual is a sprawling mix of | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
businesses from food to pharmacies. This chain with more than 750 stores | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
may also end up being sold. The new management believe big changes need | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
to be prescribed to restore the Co-Op's fortunes. This bastion of | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the co-operative movement goes back a long way. Its future is now being | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
reshaped some predict a clash of values. You will see strategies | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
presented by management and more rigorous questioning from the bottom | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
up and you will see a lot of unhappiness I think from many of the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
members who feel like they're shifting fromming with a | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
co-operative to being a corporation. Make your opinion count. The boss is | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
asking the members what they think their mutual should look like and | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
whatever their views it seems change is looming which could lead to big | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
job losses as this group tries to get back on its feet. The Russian | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
President Vladimir Putin has ordered an immediate test of combat | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
readiness of troops in the central and western part of Russia. It comes | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
after the overthrow of a key ally - the Ukrainian president - Victor | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
Yanukovic. Today in Ukraine activists were combing Mr | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
Yanukovic's enormous presidential retreat for evidence of his alleged | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
crimes and lavish spending. Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
reports. When Viktor Yanukovych fled his luxury estate, there were seek | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
represents he wanted destroyed. Documents were disposed of in this | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
reservoir, but they didn't disappear. Hours later, a team of | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
divers fished them out. And ammunition too. Now, the recovered | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
documents are being dried. Rather fittingly in one of Viktor | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
Yanukovych's own saunas. Each Ed folder had from one hundred to five | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
hundred pages. If we didn't rescue them within 72 hours they would die. | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
The documents are scanned. Some show millions in cash payments and | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
extravagant spending. Like the $6 million Viktor Yanukovych spent on | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
furniture for this boat. A banquet hall in his back garden. The team | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
investigating say they have fished around 50,000 documents from the | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
lake. There are details of bank accounts. Transactions, property | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
deals - all relating to Viktor Yanukovych and his luxury Villa. It | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
is a race to dry them and save them and analyse them. The team didn't | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
just try to drown the documents, they tried burn some too. There are | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
details about pension funds, about companies that had connections with | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
the presidential residence and all of this will be handed to the police | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
for a thorough investigation. The police arrived while we were filming | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
and checked the cupboards. Inside, was a giant silver Faberge egg and | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
something to wash it down with. Today prosecutors accused Viktor | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Yanukovych of stealing billions. They intend to review every economic | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
deal he made and request international help to trace his | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
assets. Our top story this evening. Two British Muslim converts have | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
been sentenced to a life behind bars for the murder of Fusilier Lee | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
Rigby. Still to come: The baby dubbed the miracle of 3rd Avenue | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
after her British mother gave birth on a New York street. Later, on BBC | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
London. A man from Sutton was jailed for four years for killing a man | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
with a single punch. Now, the sentence could be reviewed. And, Sir | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Roger Bannister - the man who first ran a mile under four minutes - on | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
inspiring a new generation of athletes. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Millions of people have been diagnosed with dyslexia, now a group | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
of experts is calling for the term to be scrapped because they say it's | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
unscientific and lacks educational value. The NHS in England estimates | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
that between 4% and 8% of the population have the learning | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
disorder. It's recognised in education guidelines and disability | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
discrimination law in England and Wales. But the experts from Yale and | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Durham universities say the term "dyslexia" is used to broadly that | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
it becomes "meaningless". That prompted sharp comment and criticism | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
from some parents up-and-down the country, as Danny Savage has been | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
finding out. What's next? Sid is seven years old and was diagnosed | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
with dyslexia last year. Once-a-week he has a special one-to-one lesson | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
to help him. Dyslexia what sort of things do you find difficult to do? | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
Reading, writing and other, like tricky words and spelling. His | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
parents pay to have Sid assessed and say a diagnosis was essential. It | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
was exstroo Emily important to get him diagnosed. That's... It's led me | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
to being able to get him help he needs. He was struggling at schooled | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
school. He wasn't enjoying going to school. Now he is. He likes nothing | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
he is dyslexia for the fact he is different from everybody else. It | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
has made him more confident. Experts have today said the term dyslexia | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
should be abandoned. It's too broad to be meaningful, they say, instead | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
suggest that all those with reading difficulties should be treated | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
equally. There's a significant number of children who have reading | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
difficulties of one kind or another who don't get the diagnosis, don't | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
get the extra help and sympathy. These youngsters suffer as a result | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
of this practice. The new suggestion is that professionals like teachers | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
should spot reading difficulties early in any child and intervene as | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
quickly as possible as opposed to the sometimes lengthy process of | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
looking for a diagnosis of dyslexia, and then getting the specialist | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
tuition. Those who treat dyslexia say there is great value in a | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
diagnosis. It also helps people engage with things like schools and | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
authorities, in terms of getting the support they need to be successful | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
at school or the workplace or even get a job. What has been suggested | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
today is a complete rethink about the way reading difficulties are | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
assessed. Lindsay Davenport, BBC News, Leeds. The Health Secretary, | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Jeremy Hunt, has backed calls to dissolve the trust that runs | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Stafford Hospital that was hit by scandal. Mr Hunt said Mid | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Staffordshire NHS Trust would be scrapped and while its two hospitals | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
would remain open, many services would move to other hospitals. The | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Trust has been in administration since April when services were | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
deemed "unsustainable." Campaigners, who oppose the move, said they may | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
challenge the decision in the courts. The NHS in Wales is paying | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
for heart patients to be treated in England after warnings that people | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
were dying while waiting for surgery. It's been confirmed that | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
almost 100 people had died over five years while on the waiting list. The | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Royal College of Surgeons has raised concerns for the second time in six | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
months about the risk to patients. Our Branwen Jeffreys reports from | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Cardiff. Life-saving surgery can fix damaged hearts, but waiting too long | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
puts lives at risk. Over the last five years, 99 people have died on | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
the waiting list for heart surgery in Wales. Robin Williams struggles | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
for breath. He has had a heart bypass and may need further surgery. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
He's part of a support group for heart patients and says many are | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
struggling to live with the anxiety of waiting. A lot of the families | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
are complaining. They complain to me, and the patients complain, but | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
they don't want me to complain on their behalf to the NHS in case they | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
get taken off the list. That particular fear may be misplaced. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
It's hard to complain when you are ill. Surgeons share the concerns | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
that some patients are waiting too long. The issue isn't with the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
quality of heart surgery here in south Wales, it's the amount of time | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
it might take you to get to the operating table. Very simply, the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
risk that you could die, waiting for a heart operation in Wales. How many | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
people wait a long time in Wales and England? The heart surgery waiting | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
list figures for December show the difference. Waiting over 36 weeks | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
were 60 people in England. In Wales, which has a very small population in | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
comparison, 183. So Wales is now paying three heart centres in | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
England to treat patients. The Chief Medical Officer told me it it is | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
part of their plan to cut waiting. We have been able to get hold of | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
operations provided through other places in England, other centres in | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
England. People are being reviewed on the waiting lists and prioritised | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
and offered the opportunity to have their treatment in different | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
centres. The NHS in Wales has struggled with waiting times, | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
pressures on A, and to cut waiting for heart surgery in the long-term | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
could cost the health service here millions of pounds. Branwen | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Jeffreys, BBC News, Cardiff. It was one of the most start ling images of | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
the recent storms, the Railtrack at Dawlish, which connects Devon and | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Cornwall to the rest of the country, destroyed by the huge waves. Now, a | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
massive engineering operation is underway to restore the main rail | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
link. Our correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been to see the damage | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
close up for the first time. He is there now. Richard. Sophie, around | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
here they are calling this "the hole" the 100 meter stretch of track | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
that was completely destroyed by the Atlantic a few weeks ago. These guys | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
are working through the night, like they are every night today, for the | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
first time, they let us in to see how they are planning to fix the | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
line. It's one of the most rain soaked winter. The only rail link to | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Cornwall and much of Devon, swinging in the wind like a rope bridge. This | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
is that gaping hole today. It's the first time cameras have been allowed | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
in. This machine is pumping around 5,000 tonnes of concrete into the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
new wall, they will shore it up with steel rods and eventually, around | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
April time, they will lay the new track, ruffle where I'm walking now | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
-- roughly where I am he a walking now. The race is to fix the line. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
300 people, working night and day. Dodging the tides. Building a | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
tougher wall to avoid the scene that met engineers on that first morning. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
A bomb site. It looked like an explosion in the ground and a bomb | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
had literally hit the tracks. It, basically, was a great big hole. In | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
fact, the repair work stretches way beyond the town. It's not just about | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
that famous piece of missing sea wall at Dawlish, they have actually | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
lost a third of a mile of this wall which keeps the track safe. This | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
famous line has been confronting the sea for 170 years, it's a history | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
not lost on the people working here. The challenge is -- challenges that | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
we have, the tides, the weather, and the time constraints, obviously the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Victorians would have had all these without the technology, the tools | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
and techniques we have. You have to admire how they did it in the first | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
place, given the challenges we are having now putting it back. The | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
images will be etched on people's memories for years to come. The new | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
line should be ready for the Easter holidays unless this beautiful | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
weather suddenly turns ugly again. Richard Westcott, BBC News, Dawlish. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
The mirdcle of 3rd Avenue that is what they are you calling the baby | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
in New York who was born in the gutter. Her mother, who is British, | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
had just gone into labour and was standing outside her home trying to | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
get a taxi to the hospital. In true New York style, a camera crew | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
happened to be passing by and film it Auld. As nick Bryant reports now | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
from New York. Say hello. Say hello. She is precious. , yeahs latest a-- | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
New York's latest attraction. Now safely in her British mother's arms, | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
after being delivered in the gutter. Realising she was in labour, Polly | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
McCourt tried to hail the cab with the help of a friendly door man. It | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
was the start of a dramatic few New York minutes. He was trying to hail | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
a cab. A woman hailed a cab and got into it. I went, "no, that's my cab. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
I want that cab." This New York nativity scene was captured by a | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
passing new crew which watched as Polly gave birth at the start of the | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
evening rush-hour. Stuck in traffic, her husband arriveded moments after | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
their new daughter. I knew instantly that it was Polly. Then I feared the | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
worse. You think - she's been knocked down. It's been the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
bitterest of New York winters. Onlookers immediately started taking | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
off their clothes to keep the newborn baby warm. One woman offered | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
up her coat. They have lost her phone number. They will always | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
remember her name. Now you have named your baby the middle name | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
after Isabelle. It was meant to be my name. It was meant to be Isla | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
Polly, it's now Isla Im McCourt. She weighed in 6llbs and 7 ounces. The | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
city that supposedly never sleeps. Time now for a look at the weather: | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
She was lucky it wasn't snowing at the time. They have had a lot of | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
snow in New York this winter. We have had very little. There is some | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
in this forecast. Tonight it's rain. Ahead of this cloud we have had | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
sunshine and showers. Some across central Scotland which are fading | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
away. The cloud will swamp all areas over night tonight. It could be | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
heavy for a time. It whizzes through quickly because of the strength of | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
the wind. As it clears, it may turn chilly in Northern Ireland. For most | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
places it will be a fairly mild night. The rain hasn't completely | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
gone. In the morning a soggy start across parts of Scotland and eastern | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
England, takes a while before it heads out into the North Sea. A | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
breezy day with a mix of sunshine and showers. More showers tomorrow, | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
certainly across the bulk of England and Wales compared to today. The | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
rain hasn't really cleared from Shetland, it will stay soggy here. | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
For mainland Scotland there will be sun and showers. Sunny spells and | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
showers for Northern Ireland. That is the theme across England and | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Wales. The feeling fresh in the breeze. The breeze could get gusty, | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
particularly close to the showers. There will be more of them across | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
the Midlands, Wales and southern England compared to today. Heavy | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
ones possibly with hail and thunder mixed in. Tomorrow night, a little | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
area of low pressure, the small features are difficult to pin down. | :28:14. | :28:22. | |
There will be strong winds with that low. Potential for lively gusts | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
along the south coast and a risk of snow. At the moment, northern | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
England, the Midlands and Wales. Over the hills here, that is where | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
we are most likely to see snow. There is uncertainty. The message is | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
stay tuned to the forecast. We will firm up on the details for Friday | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
soon. That is all from the BBC News at Six, goodbye from me. On BBC One | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
we now | :28:44. | :28:45. |