:00:09. > :00:12.The head of the Metropolitan Police describes the damning criticism over
:00:13. > :00:15.the Stephen Lawrence investigation as devastating. With the Met facing
:00:16. > :00:22.one of the greatest ever challenges to its authority, the man in charge
:00:23. > :00:27.promises to do better. I will respond to the criticism we have
:00:28. > :00:30.had, I will make sure to support all the enquiries and provide everything
:00:31. > :00:32.I can to get to the bottom of a terrible set of events.
:00:33. > :00:35.We'll be looking at how big a task lies ahead for the Met to regain
:00:36. > :00:38.public confidence. Also tonight: The show must go on.
:00:39. > :00:44.Vladimir Putin opens the Winter Paralympics in Sochi but the
:00:45. > :00:46.Ukrainian team don't turn up. Network Rail apologises unreservedly
:00:47. > :00:49.for what MPs call its callous disregard for the families of those
:00:50. > :00:53.killed at level crossings. The cost of a pint of milk going
:00:54. > :00:56.down, as the supermarkets race to the bottom in a price war.
:00:57. > :00:59.And trenches where the First World War's soldiers trained for battle
:01:00. > :01:03.are discovered in a field in Hampshire.
:01:04. > :01:08.A man who's been alleging corruption at the Met for years says he's no
:01:09. > :01:11.faith the force will get to the truth.
:01:12. > :01:13.And a worker dies on the Crossrail project after concrete falls on his
:01:14. > :01:37.head. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:38. > :01:40.News at Six. The head of the Metropolitan Police
:01:41. > :01:45.says he will ensure trust and confidence in the police is
:01:46. > :01:47.restored. After a damning review into the Stephen Lawrence murder
:01:48. > :01:50.investigation, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said it was "one of the
:01:51. > :01:52.worst days" of his career. This afternoon the head of Scotland
:01:53. > :01:57.Yard's counter-terror unit, Commander Richard Walton, has been
:01:58. > :02:00.temporarily moved from his post. It's been revealed Mr Walton had
:02:01. > :02:03.contact with the undercover officer now known to have who spied on the
:02:04. > :02:06.Lawrence family after their son's death. The Met Police Commissioner
:02:07. > :02:09.at the time, Lord Condon, has denied authorising, encouraging or knowing
:02:10. > :02:14.anything about the use of the undercover officer. The report also
:02:15. > :02:19.found grounds to suspect a detective on the original investigation may
:02:20. > :02:26.have acted corruptly. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly
:02:27. > :02:30.reports. More than 20 years after Stephen
:02:31. > :02:35.Lawrence was laid to rest, the recriminations over this case
:02:36. > :02:39.continues. The police's failure to bring to justice the prime suspects
:02:40. > :02:43.led to the Metropolitan force being branded as incompetent and, in a
:02:44. > :02:49.label that would stick, institutionally racist. After the
:02:50. > :02:55.Lawrence family saw two men finally convicted of the killing, they faced
:02:56. > :03:00.new anguish. Allegations now confirm that they were spied on by police.
:03:01. > :03:03.Yesterday, new claims that Scotland Yard withheld intelligence on
:03:04. > :03:08.corruption from the public enquiry into Stephen's death. With his
:03:09. > :03:13.force's reputation on the floor, the man in front of Scotland Yard faced
:03:14. > :03:18.the cameras for the first time, with a promise of independent scrutiny of
:03:19. > :03:22.key material. I will have an independently lead multidisciplinary
:03:23. > :03:25.team come to the Met and assure me they will look through the
:03:26. > :03:28.information available in what is a pretty complex thing, when you
:03:29. > :03:32.consider we have 100 intelligence databases and I need to be sure we
:03:33. > :03:36.have looked everywhere possible. I will respond to the criticism, make
:03:37. > :03:41.sure we support the enquiries and provide every thing I can to get to
:03:42. > :03:45.the bottom of what is a terrible set of events. It was Paul Condon who
:03:46. > :03:50.was running the Met at the time of the Stephen Lawrence case. Today, he
:03:51. > :03:55.said he had never authorised an undercover operation to spy on the
:03:56. > :03:58.Lawrence family. When it comes to intelligence on corruption being
:03:59. > :04:02.withheld from the enquiry, one ex-officer, in the Met for 30
:04:03. > :04:10.years, is not surprised by the allegation. Having given evidence at
:04:11. > :04:14.the enquiry in the summer of 1998, in preparation for that it was quite
:04:15. > :04:19.clear that, yes, the officers were racist. Yes, the officers were
:04:20. > :04:23.incompetent to some extent. But the elephant in the room was around
:04:24. > :04:28.inappropriate conduct. David Cameron, aware of the toxic legacy
:04:29. > :04:34.of the Lawrence case, did not hesitate to order a second public
:04:35. > :04:37.enquiry. The Lawrence family have suffered far too much but this will
:04:38. > :04:41.get the truth and will help us to make sure we have the very best in
:04:42. > :04:46.terms of British policing, which is what this country deserves. This
:04:47. > :04:51.officer, Commander Richard Walton, is the first to feel the effect of
:04:52. > :04:56.yesterday's review. Criticised over his conduct, he has been temporarily
:04:57. > :05:00.removed from his top counterterror job. At Scotland Yard there is an
:05:01. > :05:04.that with an enquiry into undercover policing generally there is the
:05:05. > :05:09.potential for miscarriages of justice to be revealed. But tonight,
:05:10. > :05:12.the head of the Association of the lease officers stressed that
:05:13. > :05:17.corruption was not endemic and the majority of police officers across
:05:18. > :05:19.the country were doing a good job. -- the head of the Association of
:05:20. > :05:24.Police Officers. Mark Easton, our Home Editor, is
:05:25. > :05:32.with me. How big a task lies ahead for the Metropolitan Police to
:05:33. > :05:36.restore public confidence? It is a huge task. I met Sir Bernard this
:05:37. > :05:41.afternoon and he said, I cannot account for the past, only reset the
:05:42. > :05:45.clock for the future. He said, I was not there when they shredded the
:05:46. > :05:50.documents in 2003. He believes he is the only man to take the Met forward
:05:51. > :05:54.and restore public trust. Perhaps his biggest problem is that
:05:55. > :05:58.yesterday's review was not just looking at events 20 years ago, but
:05:59. > :06:02.was saying that even now they are not convinced that every document
:06:03. > :06:05.they require and which is available has been handed over by the
:06:06. > :06:10.Metropolitan Police. In other words, even under Sir Bernard's
:06:11. > :06:15.watch, they were not sure the Metropolitan Police had been totally
:06:16. > :06:18.open with the truth. I think the commissioner has an enormous
:06:19. > :06:22.challenge in convincing, frankly, a very sceptical public, that he is
:06:23. > :06:25.the right person to take the Metropolitan Police forward.
:06:26. > :06:28.Senior Russian politicians have pledged support to Crimea in its bid
:06:29. > :06:31.to break away from Ukraine and become part of Russia. President
:06:32. > :06:34.Putin, who spoke at length to President Obama again last night,
:06:35. > :06:37.insists Russia is only responding to calls for help from within Ukraine.
:06:38. > :06:41.The Russian President opened the Winter Paralympics in Sochi today.
:06:42. > :06:44.The Ukranian team says it will compete, but they failed to take to
:06:45. > :06:56.part in the opening ceremony as, Steve Rosenberg reports.
:06:57. > :07:01.It is another Sochi Olympics. Another chance for Russia and its
:07:02. > :07:07.president, Vladimir Putin, to impress the world with a sporting
:07:08. > :07:12.spectacular. But the Crimea is already casting a shadow over these
:07:13. > :07:17.Paralympic games. In protest at Moscow's military intervention in
:07:18. > :07:22.their country, the Ukrainian team at the opening ceremony was represented
:07:23. > :07:27.by a single flag bearer. The other participants refused to take part in
:07:28. > :07:32.the parade, and today, the head of Ukraine's Paralympic team warned
:07:33. > :07:44.Russia not to escalate the conflict. If you look during the Paralympic
:07:45. > :07:48.Games, any steps could escalate conflict. Or, maybe, my God,
:07:49. > :07:56.somebody will be killed, we leave these Paralympic Games. But these
:07:57. > :08:01.are no games. America has sent six fighter jets from RAF Lakenheath in
:08:02. > :08:07.Suffolk to the Baltics, to boost air patrols there. A show of strength on
:08:08. > :08:10.Russia's doorstep, part of the West's response to rush actions in
:08:11. > :08:17.the Ukraine. Western leaders have accused Russia of in -- invading the
:08:18. > :08:21.Crimea. Washington has threatened to freeze the assets of Russian
:08:22. > :08:25.officials and impose travel bans. The Kremlin's response is that
:08:26. > :08:30.sanctions will hurt you as much as they will hurt us, and so far,
:08:31. > :08:34.Moscow is refusing to back down. Quite the opposite, in fact. In
:08:35. > :08:39.Moscow today, there was a warm welcome and strong political support
:08:40. > :08:44.for this delegation of pro-Moscow Crimean MPs. The head of Russia's
:08:45. > :08:50.upper house said that if Crimea voted to break away from Ukraine and
:08:51. > :08:55.join Russia, Russia's parliament would support that. And to show that
:08:56. > :09:00.the Russian people would, too, this evening the Kremlin organised a
:09:01. > :09:03.rally near red Square. Everyone we spoke to was excited at the thought
:09:04. > :09:11.that the Crimea might soon become part of their country again.
:09:12. > :09:17.TRANSLATION: Historically, Crimea was part of our land and we want to
:09:18. > :09:20.be together again. What is more, criticism from Kiev and threats of
:09:21. > :09:26.sanctions on the west just seemed to fuel the patria to them. --
:09:27. > :09:28.patriotism. Meanwhile, Ukraine's interim prime
:09:29. > :09:31.Minister says a planned referendum in Crimea is both unconstitutional
:09:32. > :09:33.and illegitimate. It's likely the Russian-speaking majority will win
:09:34. > :09:36.the vote. But among Crimea's two million population are a minority of
:09:37. > :09:39.ethnic Tatars who fear for their future should the region return to
:09:40. > :10:00.Russian control, as Daniel Sandford reports from Bakhchiserai.
:10:01. > :10:05.Bakhchiserai, the spiritual home of Crimea's Tatar community, now a
:10:06. > :10:08.worried people. They have been here for at least 700 years but were
:10:09. > :10:15.brutally subjugated by the Russians in the 18th century, and then
:10:16. > :10:20.deported by Stalin. At Friday prayers today, most were vehemently
:10:21. > :10:27.against Crimea leaving the Ukraine and rejoining Vladimir Putin's
:10:28. > :10:35.Russia. Putin is not a Democratic president. Ukraine is much better
:10:36. > :10:39.for us than Russia. This 86-year-old silversmith distrusts the Russians
:10:40. > :10:44.through personal experience. As a 16-year-old, his family were given
:10:45. > :10:49.15 minutes notice before being deported to Uzbekistan by cattle
:10:50. > :10:54.truck. They did not return for 45 years. When I asked about Crimea
:10:55. > :11:00.rejoining Russia, it reduced him to tears.
:11:01. > :11:10.TRANSLATION: It is like a second Hitler. That is the only way to
:11:11. > :11:16.describe it. People who are my age saw all that, and now it is
:11:17. > :11:21.happening again. And that Tatars, who make up 12% of Crimea's
:11:22. > :11:26.population, are experiencing new intimidation. On this lane, the
:11:27. > :11:31.residents saw a group of skinheads coming down the road with baseball
:11:32. > :11:36.bats and what appeared to be a list. They put these markings on all the
:11:37. > :11:44.houses belonging to Crimean Tatars, while they left those belonging to
:11:45. > :11:47.Russians untouched. And with Russian attack helicopters flying
:11:48. > :11:51.unchallenged, the Tatars can be in no doubt who is now in control of
:11:52. > :11:54.Crimea. Here, the head of Network Rail,
:11:55. > :11:57.which runs Britain's railways, has offered an "unreserved apology" to
:11:58. > :12:02.families of people killed at level crossings. A report by MPs says too
:12:03. > :12:04.often the company showed a callous disregard for the bereaved, with
:12:05. > :12:15.victims often wrongly accused of trespass, as Danny Savage reports.
:12:16. > :12:20.By a railway crossing in Hucknall, you will find tributes to a
:12:21. > :12:25.teenager. 13-year-old Lindsey died here 18 months ago as she crossed
:12:26. > :12:29.the line with friends. This busy stretch is used by both trains and
:12:30. > :12:37.trams, but Lindsey is not the only person to be killed crossing here.
:12:38. > :12:40.This is my grandson, Michael. Network Rail was today accused of
:12:41. > :12:44.showing callous disregard to people like this. His wife and
:12:45. > :12:51.seven-year-old grandson were killed at the same crossing in 2008. He was
:12:52. > :12:56.appalled by Network Rail's attitude. There was most and the towards me
:12:57. > :13:02.and my family, nothing. I have not received any letter of apology from
:13:03. > :13:08.them, even now, to this day. Because of those deaths, a bridge has been
:13:09. > :13:11.built to replace the foot crossing. Lawrence began legal proceedings
:13:12. > :13:15.against Network Rail, claiming they knew about the dangers here. But
:13:16. > :13:21.before the case could come to court, they paid him undisclosed damages.
:13:22. > :13:26.Network Rail's new boss today admitted their attitude has been
:13:27. > :13:29.unacceptable. I want to say a complete apology for the behaviour
:13:30. > :13:34.of Network Rail and sometimes the insensitive way in which we have
:13:35. > :13:38.behaved with respect of these bereaved people. The Commons
:13:39. > :13:45.transport committee has set Network Rail a tough target, to cut out
:13:46. > :13:48.accidents at crossings. They are trying to make them safer but they
:13:49. > :13:54.need to do more and they should have a target of zero deaths by 2020. A
:13:55. > :13:59.few will have two stop taking stupid risks, but the age of the train
:14:00. > :14:02.killing the unwary must end. A former girlfriend of the
:14:03. > :14:05.Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has described him as someone with a
:14:06. > :14:09.temper, during evidence at his trial in Pretoria. She told the court that
:14:10. > :14:13.he carried a gun with him "all the time" and had once fired it from a
:14:14. > :14:15.car sunroof after being stopped for speeding by police. Mr Pistorius
:14:16. > :14:20.denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year.
:14:21. > :14:24.An investigation's been launched in to claims of a plot to remove the
:14:25. > :14:28.head teachers of a number of schools in Birmingham and try to make them
:14:29. > :14:32.more Islamic. Officials are looking into the plan detailed in a letter
:14:33. > :14:36.titled Operation Trojan Horse. Our education correspondent Reeta
:14:37. > :14:39.Chakrabarti is here. Is there any evidence that these allegations of
:14:40. > :14:49.an Islamic takeover are real, or who wrote the letter? We don't know the
:14:50. > :14:52.answer to those questions but we do know the authorities are taking this
:14:53. > :14:58.very seriously. The details emerged in this leaked command, detailing a
:14:59. > :15:03.5-point plan for this project to be carried out. -- this leaked
:15:04. > :15:07.document. It includes identifying schools that are weaker
:15:08. > :15:10.academically, parents who are hardliners, and turning them against
:15:11. > :15:16.their heads, installing governors on the governing body, to "drip feed
:15:17. > :15:20.their ideal for a Muslim school those quote, and generally trying to
:15:21. > :15:26.destabilise the head and drive them out. It is on clear -- unclear how
:15:27. > :15:31.many schools are affected. I have spoken to a head who believe they
:15:32. > :15:33.were subjected to this movement, subjected to bullying and
:15:34. > :15:38.intimidation from within their school. The whole thing sounds
:15:39. > :15:41.fantastical, but Birmingham City Council is carrying out an
:15:42. > :15:45.investigation, and I understand the Education Secretary, Michael Gove,
:15:46. > :15:51.has met the leader of Birmingham City Council and he is
:15:52. > :15:54.understandably very concerned. Our top story this evening: The head of
:15:55. > :15:57.the Metropolitan Police has described as devastating a report
:15:58. > :16:00.into undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case.
:16:01. > :16:03.And still to come, as the Winter Paralympics get under way, what
:16:04. > :16:06.chance has the British team of a first-ever gold medal?
:16:07. > :16:11.Later on BBC London: Big plans to redevelop Tottenham after the riots.
:16:12. > :16:14.But will it bring new life or kill off a community? And this weekend
:16:15. > :16:16.Charlton and Arsenal hope to book their place at Wembley with an FA
:16:17. > :16:32.Cup win. You might have noticed that the
:16:33. > :16:35.amount you're paying for your milk has been falling. Today Morrisons
:16:36. > :16:38.was the latest supermarket to join a price war that's been raging all
:16:39. > :16:40.week. If you bought a large bottle of milk across the big four
:16:41. > :16:45.supermarkets, the average price would have been just under 31p a
:16:46. > :16:58.pint. Today, the average is the equivalent of just under 25p. That's
:16:59. > :17:03.a drop of nearly 20% in a week. How much do you pay for your milk?
:17:04. > :17:09.Probably not as much as last week. Alistair has been selling for pines
:17:10. > :17:14.for a pound for more than 12 months -- the supermarket Alistair. Tesco
:17:15. > :17:20.announced on Monday it would do the same thing, kicking off a price war.
:17:21. > :17:24.Sainsbury's then slashed its prices. Today Morrisons is claiming
:17:25. > :17:29.it is now selling the cheapest milk of all. It is hard to imagine how
:17:30. > :17:36.many of the -- how any of the big four supermarkets are making money.
:17:37. > :17:43.It is a key product we buy every week and we go through the doors. We
:17:44. > :17:49.hope it is an attractive reason to shop at Morrisons. Morrisons and all
:17:50. > :17:58.of the other big supermarkets are under pressure from cheaper
:17:59. > :18:04.supermarkets. Pricing on basic essentials like milk is key. What do
:18:05. > :18:11.shoppers think? If I save a pound, it is a big deal. I think it is
:18:12. > :18:18.great. I would not bow to it different supermarket because of it
:18:19. > :18:22.being cheaper. It would cost more in petrol -- I would not go to. The
:18:23. > :18:30.supermarkets insist that milk producers will not be out of pocket
:18:31. > :18:33.but farmers are worried. Ultimately, what is important for farmers is
:18:34. > :18:38.sustainable contracts which ensures they get a fair market price for raw
:18:39. > :18:45.milk. We think it is important this does not affect the price that
:18:46. > :18:49.farmers receive. This everyday staple is in the middle of a battle
:18:50. > :18:59.to win over shoppers. The question is, how long will the battle last?
:19:00. > :19:02.Lawyers walked out of courts across England and Wales today in protest
:19:03. > :19:05.against Government cuts to legal aid. The Ministry of Justice says
:19:06. > :19:09.the legal aid system is one of the most expensive in the world and
:19:10. > :19:11.needs to be reduced. Our legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman
:19:12. > :19:13.watched the protests. After six hours... This is the popular image
:19:14. > :19:21.of the life of the criminal barrister, from a BBC drama. Today
:19:22. > :19:25.its main character joined a real-life counterpart on strike and
:19:26. > :19:30.on the streets, protesting against cuts to legal aid. People will be
:19:31. > :19:37.discouraged from going into the profession. Then there will not be
:19:38. > :19:41.justice. Lawyers are protesting about a 17.5% cut in fees for
:19:42. > :19:47.solicitors, fewer contracts for work at police stations and an average 6%
:19:48. > :19:53.fee cut for barristers. It is becoming an increasingly bitter
:19:54. > :19:58.dispute. What lawyers say is at stake here is nothing more or less
:19:59. > :20:03.than a battle for the heart and soul of a criminal justice system that is
:20:04. > :20:10.respected throughout the world. But for many people, lawyers are well
:20:11. > :20:15.paid. You yourself are paid over ?200,000 in legal aid money last
:20:16. > :20:23.year. That is a huge amount for most people. Absolutely right. I am one
:20:24. > :20:26.person. There are 5000 members of the criminal bar. The average
:20:27. > :20:33.take-home pay is less than ?28,000 before the expenses they have to
:20:34. > :20:36.pay. Lawyers say the cuts will harm those like this man attacked by a
:20:37. > :20:43.juice in south London. To his prize he was the one charged with assault
:20:44. > :20:50.-- attacked by a youth in South London. To his surprise, he was the
:20:51. > :20:55.one charged. If my lawyers had not pursued the evidence, I would be in
:20:56. > :20:59.jail. The government says it is one of the most expensive legal aid
:21:00. > :21:02.system is in the world and it must be cut. Anyone charged with a crime
:21:03. > :21:11.will continue to get a qualified lawyer through legal aid, they say.
:21:12. > :21:14.The owner of Birmingham City Football Club Carson Yeung has been
:21:15. > :21:18.jailed for six years for laundering more than ?55 million. The former
:21:19. > :21:21.hairdresser turned tycoon was found guilty of five counts of money
:21:22. > :21:25.laundering over a six-year period by a court in Hong Kong. Yeung bought
:21:26. > :21:28.the Championship club in 2009, but stepped down last month as chairman.
:21:29. > :21:31.Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has urged voters to reject what she
:21:32. > :21:39.calls the damaging europhobia led by UKIP in May's European election. Ms
:21:40. > :21:42.Wood has told Plaid's Spring Conference in Cardiff that only her
:21:43. > :21:46.party can further the Welsh national interest at the heart of Europe.
:21:47. > :21:54.Your politics has no place in this country. Not now, not ever. Your
:21:55. > :21:59.values are not the values of Wales. A vote for UKIP is a vote against
:22:00. > :22:04.Wales, a vote against the Welsh national interest.
:22:05. > :22:08.Two lines of trenches and in the middle, No Man's Land. It's one of
:22:09. > :22:11.the iconic images of World War One. But 100 years on and far from
:22:12. > :22:14.Northern France, something very similar has been found, not on the
:22:15. > :22:20.battlefields, but here in Hampshire. Robert Hall has been taking a look.
:22:21. > :22:26.Final rehearsals for a deployment overseas. The last chance to run
:22:27. > :22:32.through tactics before the real thing. A century ago, another
:22:33. > :22:38.British Army was preparing for battle. Their training grounds
:22:39. > :22:43.mirrored the trench systems extending across Europe. This land
:22:44. > :22:47.near Gosport is still in use by modern troops but an observant
:22:48. > :22:51.historian studying an aerial photo noticed the distinct shape of an
:22:52. > :22:55.entire battlefield which had survived under the heather and
:22:56. > :23:00.course. We know it was a major launch area and this would have been
:23:01. > :23:05.an image of last-minute training before they faced the real thing. A
:23:06. > :23:12.lot of them never came back. Absolutely. I have five relatives
:23:13. > :23:15.buried on the Western Front. This historian says the battlefield is
:23:16. > :23:21.one example of the hidden home front landscape we can all help to
:23:22. > :23:25.identify. People should be looking out for anything unusual. Churchill,
:23:26. > :23:33.buildings requisitioned and used by the people, American troops. --
:23:34. > :23:38.Church Hall. This building near Winchester is a rare survivor from a
:23:39. > :23:44.long vanished transit camp. 2 million soldiers used it during the
:23:45. > :23:50.years of war and yet there is little to betray their passing. Because
:23:51. > :23:53.there is a little here, we are going to put up interpretation boards on
:23:54. > :24:03.the site so people can see how enormous the camp was. Barracks and
:24:04. > :24:06.battlefields hinting at what was to come but all too soon a distant
:24:07. > :24:11.memory amid the mud and the bloodshed of the Western Front.
:24:12. > :24:13.Despite the crisis in Ukraine, Russia's President Putin welcomed
:24:14. > :24:16.back the sporting world to Sochi today, with a spectacular ceremony
:24:17. > :24:19.for the start of the Winter Paralympics. More than 500 athletes
:24:20. > :24:23.from 45 countries will compete in the Games. Britain have sent a
:24:24. > :24:34.15-strong team looking for their first Winter Paralympic gold medal.
:24:35. > :24:38.Joe Wilson reports. Britain's winter Paralympians did
:24:39. > :24:46.not choose the host city. They were not responsible for Britain's absent
:24:47. > :24:50.dignitaries at the opening ceremony. Perhaps more importantly, they are
:24:51. > :24:55.expected to inspire. This is the Games we hope will bring Winter
:24:56. > :24:59.Paralympic sport to people's minds and give the opportunity for
:25:00. > :25:04.programmes to be put forward to be better funded, but also for athletes
:25:05. > :25:09.to think, wow, I will have a go at that. This 15-year-old skier
:25:10. > :25:15.symbolises Britain's hopes for the future. It is the biggest ever
:25:16. > :25:20.winter Paralympic Games. The head of the Paralympics praised Russia's
:25:21. > :25:25.progressive attitude in staging the event which, he reminded the world,
:25:26. > :25:30.was about sport. Athletes and officials from a record 45
:25:31. > :25:39.Paralympic committees, welcome to the games. A Games where sport must
:25:40. > :25:47.be the winner. The opening ceremony lingered heavily on ballet with
:25:48. > :25:52.subtle arrangements and formations. The boldest arrival belonged to the
:25:53. > :25:58.American team. They made their presence visible. -- as visible as
:25:59. > :26:04.possible. Time for a look at the weather with
:26:05. > :26:08.Peter Gibbs. Is it going to be springlike?
:26:09. > :26:19.A bit of a mixture. A step back to winter across Scotland. Snow
:26:20. > :26:22.flurries in Edinburgh. Temperatures barely above freezing through parts
:26:23. > :26:27.of the Highlands. We will lose the snow showers but we will keep the
:26:28. > :26:30.frost across Scotland. Temperatures dipping widely across England and
:26:31. > :26:36.Wales for a time. The winds will pick up and cloud will come back in.
:26:37. > :26:38.By the end of the night, temperatures beginning to rise
:26:39. > :26:47.again. Perhaps still frost left in the north-east of the UK first thing
:26:48. > :26:50.on Saturday morning. A bit of a snow across the northern hills. Not a
:26:51. > :26:55.great start to Saturday across most parts of Scotland. Heavy rain.
:26:56. > :27:01.Easing from Northern Ireland. Still grey skies and pretty windy. Grey
:27:02. > :27:05.skies for most to start with tomorrow. But bear with it. Writers
:27:06. > :27:12.spells beginning to edging towards the south coast even at 9am in the
:27:13. > :27:16.morning -- brighter spells. The cloud will melt away across England
:27:17. > :27:19.and Wales. Good sunny spells breaking through. More cloud across
:27:20. > :27:28.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Windy here as well. On the poolside. -- on
:27:29. > :27:34.the cool side. In the sunshine in England and Wales, up-to-the-minute
:27:35. > :27:37.teens. Offset by a breeze. Still very pleasant. Sunday,
:27:38. > :27:42.disappointing. Scotland, Northern Ireland, North and western parts of
:27:43. > :27:47.England, more in the way of cloud and patchy rain. In the sunshine
:27:48. > :27:53.further south and east, once again, 15, 16, 17 possible. We will all see
:27:54. > :27:57.fine set of whether next week. Dry and reasonably mild.
:27:58. > :28:05.A reminder of our main story: the head of the Metropolitan Police has
:28:06. > :28:08.described as devastating a report into undercover policing in the
:28:09. > :28:11.Stephen Lawrence case. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has vowed to do
:28:12. > :28:13.everything to restore trust in the force.
:28:14. > :28:18.The Winter Paralympics are under way. The Ukrainian contingent were
:28:19. > :28:21.represented by a single flag bearer with the rest of the team staying
:28:22. > :28:25.away. That's all from the BBC News at Six. On BBC One, we now join the
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