:00:10. > :00:14.an "unprecedented mystery". Three days after it disappeared, ten
:00:15. > :00:25.countries are now involved in the search. In Beijing, desperate
:00:26. > :00:28.relatives wait for news - 239 people, most of them Chinese, are
:00:29. > :00:30.missing. One focus is on two men travelling on stolen passports, who
:00:31. > :00:34.investigators say were not Asian-looking. Also tonight... The
:00:35. > :00:39.MP Nigel Evans goes on trial accused of indecent and sexual assault and
:00:40. > :00:50.rape. Britain's rapidly-changing coastline, after this winter's
:00:51. > :00:54.relentless storms. A special report tonight on the cost of living. I am
:00:55. > :00:57.near Edinburgh, and I will be asking if the squeeze on families might be
:00:58. > :01:00.coming to an end. And Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte
:01:01. > :01:01.Evans win Great Britain's first ever Paralympic gold at the Winter
:01:02. > :01:10.Olympics. Tonight on BBC London... Claims
:01:11. > :01:13.dredging the Thames would have reduced the amount of flooding this
:01:14. > :01:16.winter. And a promise from Gatwick airport to pay residents council tax
:01:17. > :01:30.if a second runway gets the go-ahead.
:01:31. > :01:37.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. It's being called an
:01:38. > :01:39."unprecedented mystery". Three days after a Malaysia Airlines plane
:01:40. > :01:42.bound for Beijing disappeared from the radar, a massive search
:01:43. > :01:47.operation has failed to find any evidence at all of the plane. The
:01:48. > :01:51.area being searched has been widened again, with ten countries now
:01:52. > :01:55.helping to look for wreckage. One focus of the investigation is on two
:01:56. > :01:59.passengers who boarded the plane using stolen passports. Police say
:02:00. > :02:03.they have identified them on CCTV and described them as "not
:02:04. > :02:07.Asian-looking". Many of the relatives of the 239 people on board
:02:08. > :02:11.are waiting for news at a hotel in Beijing. From there, our
:02:12. > :02:18.correspondent Damian Gramaticas sent this report.
:02:19. > :02:27.For three days now, they have been scouring the ocean, and still
:02:28. > :02:31.nothing. Flight 370 has simply vanished. Dozens of ships are
:02:32. > :02:36.combing the sea. Every lead has proved false. An oil slick spotted
:02:37. > :02:39.from the area has been tested. It came from a ship. And what might
:02:40. > :02:50.have been adorned now cannot be found. So, no trace of the 239
:02:51. > :02:53.people on board, including artists, an IBM executive... For their
:02:54. > :02:58.families, cooped up in a Beijing hotel, the lack of definite news is
:02:59. > :03:03.taking a terrible toll. TRANSLATION: People are slowly
:03:04. > :03:11.coming to accept the awful truth, but while there is a tiny glimmer of
:03:12. > :03:16.hope, we are clinging to it. We just want to know what happened, he tells
:03:17. > :03:20.me. Investigations have led to this travel agent in Thailand. Two men
:03:21. > :03:24.using stolen passports bought tickets here. The agent says they
:03:25. > :03:27.did not request the flight, she chose it for them because it was the
:03:28. > :03:31.cheapest way to get to Europe. The airline says what has happened to
:03:32. > :03:40.its plain is a mystery, but it is still investigating. We have looked
:03:41. > :03:45.at the footage of the video, and the photographs. It is confirmed now
:03:46. > :03:50.that they are not Asian looking men. And so, the search has been
:03:51. > :03:55.widened. It was focusing on the sea, but it now extends across a
:03:56. > :03:59.suede of land, far to the west of the original flight path. The black
:04:00. > :04:05.box flight recorders will only emit signals for a month. Effectively,
:04:06. > :04:11.they have a 30 day battery life, and once that life span has gone, then
:04:12. > :04:18.it becomes exceedingly difficult to find what remains of this aircraft.
:04:19. > :04:23.In China, relatives are now applying for visas to travel to Malaysia,
:04:24. > :04:28.increasingly angry with the airline, their hopes fading. All of
:04:29. > :04:31.the weighting and uncertainty is wearing for the families. They say
:04:32. > :04:37.now that all they want our answers, to find out from Malaysia Airlines
:04:38. > :04:40.where that plane has gone, and they want all of its resources put into
:04:41. > :04:42.the search. With me now is our transport correspondent, Richard
:04:43. > :04:51.Westcott. An unprecedented mystery - planes have vanished from the radar
:04:52. > :04:55.before, but not for this long? What are the theories? Even former pilots
:04:56. > :05:00.and air investigators are saying things to me like, it is bizarre, it
:05:01. > :05:03.is odd. Most problems with planes will leave a trace. If all of the
:05:04. > :05:09.engines fail on an aircraft, it does not fall out of the sky, it can
:05:10. > :05:14.glide for 80 - 90 miles, giving the pilot a chance to put in a Mayday
:05:15. > :05:18.call. If there is a sudden depressurisation, if a window blows
:05:19. > :05:21.out, it will lose altitude quickly, but it will not make the plane
:05:22. > :05:29.disintegrate, and you will see it on radar. If a hijacker comes to
:05:30. > :05:35.light, there is a special code they can put in to tell everybody what is
:05:36. > :05:40.happening. Besides, you cannot land a plane this big anywhere without
:05:41. > :05:45.anybody noticing. Everything is pointing to a sudden, catastrophic,
:05:46. > :05:46.midair break-up. The tide and the wind could be spreading any possible
:05:47. > :05:54.debris far and wide. The trial of the former Deputy
:05:55. > :05:57.Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans has started at Preston
:05:58. > :06:00.Crown Court. Mr Evans, who is the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire, is
:06:01. > :06:03.accused of eight counts of indecent and sexual assault, and one of rape.
:06:04. > :06:06.The alleged offences are said to have happened between 2002 and last
:06:07. > :06:08.year and involved seven men. He denies all nine charges. Danny
:06:09. > :06:20.Savage reports. Nigel Evans, an MP for more than 20
:06:21. > :06:25.years, arrived at court today talking about sport. But once he was
:06:26. > :06:30.inside, the subject became far more serious. The jury was told he had
:06:31. > :06:35.used his powerful influence to sexually assault seven young men
:06:36. > :06:38.over an in 11 year period. The prosecution said part of his
:06:39. > :06:41.influence included the ability to make or to break the careers of
:06:42. > :06:48.young people who would be politicians or work for those who
:06:49. > :06:50.govern. The QC said, the prosecution case is that the defendant, often
:06:51. > :07:02.when in drink... Some of the alleged assaults took
:07:03. > :07:07.place in the Palace of Westminster, others were here in Lancashire, some
:07:08. > :07:11.of them at his constituency home. One of those was reported to senior
:07:12. > :07:14.figures within the Conservative Party by the complainant, who wanted
:07:15. > :07:20.Mr Evans to resign. But he was told the timing was unfortunate, a
:07:21. > :07:23.general election was due, and that Mr Evans, who did not deny the
:07:24. > :07:28.event, would be spoken to. When running for the prestigious post of
:07:29. > :07:34.Deputy Speaker, Mr Evans was subsequently advised to stick to the
:07:35. > :07:38.company of MPs and avoid situations which could lead to gossip. He
:07:39. > :07:42.denies all the charges, and had this to say when he stood down after the
:07:43. > :07:47.allegations came to light. Winston Churchill said, when you are going
:07:48. > :07:52.through hell, keep going. Sage advice. And so I will see this
:07:53. > :07:57.through to the end. With the support of the people that means so much to
:07:58. > :08:00.me. The court heard several MPs will be giving evidence for the
:08:01. > :08:04.prosecution, including John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons.
:08:05. > :08:08.The trial is expected to last up to five weeks.
:08:09. > :08:12.A woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by the
:08:13. > :08:15.publicist Max Clifford when she was a school girl has told a court she
:08:16. > :08:19.feared she was going to be raped. The woman, who cannot be named, was
:08:20. > :08:23.14 in 1966 when she said he offered her a lift, drove to an alleyway and
:08:24. > :08:24."lunged" at her. Mr Clifford denies 11 allegations brought by seven
:08:25. > :08:31.women over a period of 18 years. Labour has pledged to fund a
:08:32. > :08:33.guaranteed job scheme for young unemployed people throughout the
:08:34. > :08:38.lifetime of the next parliament if it wins the next election. The
:08:39. > :08:50.scheme would apply to 18- to 24-year-olds who have been out of
:08:51. > :08:53.work for more than a year. The job would last six months and anyone
:08:54. > :09:02.turning it down would risk losing their benefits. The Conservatives
:09:03. > :09:04.say the costings do not add up. Our deputy political editor, James
:09:05. > :09:10.Landale, reports Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter,
:09:11. > :09:14.with one storm after another. Alfie was on the dole, but he got some
:09:15. > :09:19.training at this firm in north London. Yes, you learn how to paint,
:09:20. > :09:24.but he also learned how to work. I was looking for work and there was
:09:25. > :09:27.nothing. I was just e-mailing loads of companies, and this one got back
:09:28. > :09:32.to me from the Jobcentre. I jumped at it. So now you are an apprentice.
:09:33. > :09:36.Yes, I have come a long way from being out of work for eight months,
:09:37. > :09:40.doing nothing. Now, I am working every day, from eight until five,
:09:41. > :09:44.with a job. It is the kind of experience labour hopes thousands of
:09:45. > :09:49.unemployed young people should have, by forcing them to take a six-month
:09:50. > :09:52.job or risk losing their benefits just the same rules would apply to
:09:53. > :09:57.thousands of older people out of work for more than two years, a
:09:58. > :10:00.policy which the party promised today to fund for five years. But
:10:01. > :10:05.paying for 200,000 temporary jobs would cost a lot of money, about ?5
:10:06. > :10:09.billion, and Labour would pay for it by imposing a one-year tax on
:10:10. > :10:14.bankers' bonuses and permanently cutting pension tax relief for those
:10:15. > :10:18.earning more than ?150,000. We are in the middle of another bank bonus
:10:19. > :10:23.round. Bonuses are going up. This is an issue of fairness, at a time when
:10:24. > :10:26.the economy is beginning to recover, and everybody, including young
:10:27. > :10:33.people out of work, should get to benefit from the recovery. Their
:10:34. > :10:41.problem is that Labour's promise has been spent the bank bonus tax
:10:42. > :10:47.before. The Tories said the Labour plan would not raise enough cash.
:10:48. > :10:51.You could only do it if you tried to repeat it, the banks would change
:10:52. > :10:55.their arrangements, so that would not work. Some fear businesses will
:10:56. > :11:00.struggle to create the jobs, and even if they do, the risk is that
:11:01. > :11:04.they will not last beyond six months. I think people understand,
:11:05. > :11:08.business is not charity. Businesses will need to invest in their
:11:09. > :11:12.business and work hard at training someone. It is not just a matter of
:11:13. > :11:18.taking someone on, you have to mentor them and introduce them into
:11:19. > :11:22.the business. For Labour, this policy is a triple whammy. They are
:11:23. > :11:25.hoping to create jobs, cut welfare and squeeze the rich, all at the
:11:26. > :11:29.same time. The question is whether one single scheme can ever be the
:11:30. > :11:35.solution to long-term unemployment instead of just some sustained
:11:36. > :11:42.economic growth? James Landale, BBC News, North London.
:11:43. > :11:44.Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter, with one
:11:45. > :11:47.storm after another. Some areas have suffered the equivalent of seven
:11:48. > :11:50.years of erosion in just two months. Now the National Trust has called
:11:51. > :11:53.for a re-think on how Britain defends its coastline. It argues
:11:54. > :11:56.some locations may have to be sacrificed because the sea can no
:11:57. > :12:03.longer be held back. Duncan Kennedy reports.
:12:04. > :12:19.A Coast in crisis. This is Sussex, Birling Gap, whether just got
:12:20. > :12:23.bigger. Take a look at this. Here, they have seen seven years of
:12:24. > :12:31.erosion in two months. Good for a photo, less good for safety. This is
:12:32. > :12:39.another, at Hastings. Again, tonnes of rock dislodged onto the beach.
:12:40. > :12:45.Just like here in Bournemouth. All of it, the result of pounding by the
:12:46. > :12:48.waves and rain. It comes as the National Trust produces this new map
:12:49. > :12:53.of coastal erosion hotspots around Britain. There is a warning that
:12:54. > :13:01.man-made defences may no longer work in places like Orford Ness and
:13:02. > :13:05.Formby. We have come to rely on defences in the past which will no
:13:06. > :13:08.longer be a plausible option for every where in the future.
:13:09. > :13:13.Adaptation is something we will need to look at. This is an example of
:13:14. > :13:17.adapting, near Chichester. That gap in the shoreline is where the sea
:13:18. > :13:22.has been deliberately let in, because the defences could not cope.
:13:23. > :13:24.And this is how it works. Whereas the sea once stopped there on the
:13:25. > :13:30.beach, it is now being allowed to flow in here. In fact, it goes four
:13:31. > :13:36.kilometres inland to wear a new set of defences has been set up. Whereas
:13:37. > :13:42.all this used to be dry land, now, as you can see, the sea is in
:13:43. > :13:46.charge. And although that means some houses have been saved, not everyone
:13:47. > :13:52.agrees with it. What do you think of the idea of letting the sea in?
:13:53. > :13:58.Absolutely crazy. There is a lot of people live down here. They really
:13:59. > :14:04.ought to do something about it, try and stop the sea. Old photos show
:14:05. > :14:09.the relentless progress of coastal erosion. This is Sussex in 1912. The
:14:10. > :14:16.same spot 20 years later. And look now. The changing shape of Britain.
:14:17. > :14:23.Our top story this evening... The search for the missing Malaysia
:14:24. > :14:27.Airlines plane has been widened. Three days since it disappeared,
:14:28. > :14:31.there's no trace of wreckage. And still to come - Oscar Pistorius
:14:32. > :14:32.is physically sick as he hears details of his girlfriend's
:14:33. > :14:44.postmortem. Later on BBC London, the parking
:14:45. > :14:47.firm which forced over-67s from their jobs after initially claiming
:14:48. > :14:51.it could not get them insurance cover. And taking to the dance floor
:14:52. > :14:56.to express views about multicultural London.
:14:57. > :15:01.Now, is the UK economy firmly back on track? There's been some more
:15:02. > :15:04.good news for the Chancellor ahead of next week's budget. The British
:15:05. > :15:09.Chambers of Commerce says millions of workers should see their wages
:15:10. > :15:13.grow faster than rising prices. This week, George Alagiah is looking at
:15:14. > :15:14.the progress and the pitfalls of the economic road ahead. He begins
:15:15. > :15:25.tonight in West Lothian. Thank you and hello from Livingston.
:15:26. > :15:31.I'm at one of Tesco's largest distribution centres. If you are
:15:32. > :15:38.wondering why I am wearing a coat, it's freezing in here. Let me give
:15:39. > :15:45.you some idea of how big this place is. You could fit eight football
:15:46. > :15:49.pitches into this site. 1800 people work here. Every week, from here,
:15:50. > :15:54.about 4 million cases just like this get sent out to shops in Scotland,
:15:55. > :15:57.the North of England and Ireland. The cost of groceries matter to
:15:58. > :16:02.people. It affects their standard of living. So, I've been asking, what
:16:03. > :16:05.does it feel like now that the recovery does seem to be underway?
:16:06. > :16:09.I've been talking to people around here, and I began with one of the
:16:10. > :16:13.employees here on this site. Tom Simpson knows all about rock
:16:14. > :16:17.bottom. His business crashed in the financial crisis. This job at Tesco
:16:18. > :16:23.has been a lifeline, changing the outlook for him and his family. How
:16:24. > :16:27.you doing, you OK today? This is a parade that was going on when we
:16:28. > :16:32.were in Florida. Last year, the family went on holiday It was the
:16:33. > :16:36.first time in four years. This is my mum and my little brother. Susan and
:16:37. > :16:41.Tom work alternate day and night shifts, keeping childcare costs
:16:42. > :16:46.down. It's hard going but, for them, this is a time to be optimistic. Now
:16:47. > :16:52.there is certainly light at the end of the tunnel. I used to be in a
:16:53. > :16:57.really dark place, when I lost my job and was self-employed. But now
:16:58. > :17:02.I'm employed again. We have extra money every month. We're going on
:17:03. > :17:04.holiday still. The interest rate is helping with the mortgage. You
:17:05. > :17:10.know, that's helping us at the moment. So... We feel as if the
:17:11. > :17:14.recovery is happening. Next stop for me was Johnston, about an hour's
:17:15. > :17:17.drive west, where I heard a very different story.
:17:18. > :17:23.Jamie, it's George Alagiah. Nice to meet you. Jamie Caldwell has escaped
:17:24. > :17:29.three rounds of redundancies at his workplace. At 25, he still lives
:17:30. > :17:34.with his parents. It's home, but he longs to have his own life, his own
:17:35. > :17:38.space. Jamie, in many ways, you're fortunate, you've got a decent job?
:17:39. > :17:42.Yeah, I've got a decent job, but I'm still part of the working poor. I
:17:43. > :17:47.feel like I'm a burden on my parents and you shouldn't really feel you
:17:48. > :17:53.are a burden on your parents. But, you know, they're basically
:17:54. > :17:59.subsidising my living, in a sense. Making up for the money that I don't
:18:00. > :18:06.have. It's only a ten minute drive to Paisley and suburban gentility.
:18:07. > :18:10.By any standards, Zhou and Frank are well off and they now earn too much
:18:11. > :18:14.to qualify for child benefit. But they say pay freezes have left them
:18:15. > :18:19.worse off. Four years ago when we were doing our weekly grocery
:18:20. > :18:26.shopping, it was about ?50. Now it's about ?70 or ?80, easily. We
:18:27. > :18:33.actually find our living standard is gradually dropping, as the economy
:18:34. > :18:36.recovers. So, if the people along Scotland 's M8, linking east to
:18:37. > :18:41.west, are anything to go by, the recovery means very different things
:18:42. > :18:44.to different people. Now if today's report about wages
:18:45. > :18:46.and the cost of living proves right, families should be feeling the
:18:47. > :18:52.effects in their household budgets by the summer. Our chief economics
:18:53. > :18:55.correspondent Hugh Pym has been looking at the numbers to see what's
:18:56. > :18:58.happened to household incomes in the last few years. He's sent this
:18:59. > :19:07.report from Glasgow. Coming up for air, that is what
:19:08. > :19:11.anyone who hasn't hazmat Charvet wage rise in recent years and had to
:19:12. > :19:16.cope with rapidly rising living costs is hoping happens soon. For
:19:17. > :19:20.some, it has been a long struggle to stay afloat. The squeeze on living
:19:21. > :19:27.standards has been one of the big economic themes since the recession.
:19:28. > :19:30.Before the downturn, average earnings were higher than the cost
:19:31. > :19:35.of living increases, then the trend reversed, putting a lot of pressure
:19:36. > :19:38.on consumers. The gap has begun to narrow, with many economists
:19:39. > :19:43.expecting it to close completely later in the year. That means the
:19:44. > :19:48.cost of living outlook by the end of 2014 may well be better than it has
:19:49. > :19:51.been for a while. We are seeing employment growing, so employers are
:19:52. > :19:55.willing to pay more. We are seeing inflation being subdued, so those
:19:56. > :19:59.two factors together are feeding through to probably rising real
:20:00. > :20:03.wages for the first time in some considerable time. That's got to be
:20:04. > :20:07.a good outcome for 2014. So, what has happened to incomes, after
:20:08. > :20:12.taking into account changes in taxes and benefits and inflation?
:20:13. > :20:16.According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a have sold an
:20:17. > :20:25.average income will receive 32 thousand ?500 in its current
:20:26. > :20:30.financial year, down just over 2100. Income is increasing again, open
:20:31. > :20:36.just under ?200 in the coming year. Forecasters are saying it, but
:20:37. > :20:39.forecasters will want to see the reality. Inflation predictions can
:20:40. > :20:43.be thrown out by unexpected events such as a jumping oil prices. The
:20:44. > :20:51.cost of living issue is sure to remain high on the agenda.
:20:52. > :20:56.Just one other fact for you. In the last hour, well we have been a
:20:57. > :20:59.year, 45 trucks have left the depot. Well, that's all from
:21:00. > :21:02.Livingston. Tomorrow we'll be on Merseyside, where I'll be asking if
:21:03. > :21:07.Britain is experiencing the right kind of recovery. From the scene
:21:08. > :21:10.here, goodbye. The South African Olympian Oscar
:21:11. > :21:13.Pistorius was physically sick a number of times in court today as
:21:14. > :21:18.graphic detail was heard about the postmortem carried out on his
:21:19. > :21:20.girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The judge banned the media from
:21:21. > :21:24.broadcasting the evidence live because it was feared it may cause
:21:25. > :21:27.undue distress. Oscar Pistorius, who says he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for
:21:28. > :21:37.a burglar, denies murdering her on Valentine's Day last year.
:21:38. > :21:45.Four days, this trial has been about what Oscar Pistorius did or didn't
:21:46. > :21:49.do. Today, the focus shifted to his victim, Reeva Steenkamp. The
:21:50. > :21:54.evidence presented in court so gruesome, the live cameras were
:21:55. > :21:59.switched off. I chose at the outset to indicate to the court that I
:22:00. > :22:03.would not be comfortable in the streaming of my evidence due to the
:22:04. > :22:06.very nature thereof. Oscar Pistorius listened in silence as the State
:22:07. > :22:14.pathologist began to describe three devastating injuries to her head,
:22:15. > :22:17.arm and pelvis. The bullets were specially designed to break upon
:22:18. > :22:21.impact, he said, causing maximum tissue damage. Meters away,
:22:22. > :22:26.Pistorius slumped forwards and began to retch loudly and repeatedly
:22:27. > :22:30.during more than power of testimony. From today's graphic
:22:31. > :22:33.testimony, the prosecution are likely to focus on the fact that
:22:34. > :22:37.Reeva Steenkamp had eaten a meal sometime after midnight, about two
:22:38. > :22:41.hours before she died. Oscar Pistorius, in his evidence last
:22:42. > :22:46.year, made no mention of that. Could that mean they were both awake,
:22:47. > :22:53.later, and perhaps browing as the prosecution claims? -- browing. A
:22:54. > :22:58.badly shaken Pistorius will have his chance to answer that in the weeks
:22:59. > :23:02.ahead. A man who says he took part in the attack on PC Keith Blake
:23:03. > :23:06.clock in the Broadwater farm riots in north London in 1985 has
:23:07. > :23:10.described how the officer killed in a ball screamed for help as he was
:23:11. > :23:14.attacked by a frenzied mob. The witness told the jury he saw
:23:15. > :23:21.Nicholas Jacobs stabbed a constable with a machete. Mr Jacobs, 16 at the
:23:22. > :23:24.time, denies murder. The former Prime Minister Gordon
:23:25. > :23:27.Brown has been adding his voice to the debate on Scottish independence.
:23:28. > :23:30.Speaking in Glasgow, Mr Brown said the Scottish Parliament should be
:23:31. > :23:33.given more powers, including greater control over income tax, as a way of
:23:34. > :23:40.creating a partnership of equals between Scotland and the rest of the
:23:41. > :23:44.UK. A 23-year-old serving soldier has been arrested on suspicion of
:23:45. > :23:48.murder after a body was found at an army barracks in Shropshire. The
:23:49. > :23:52.dead man has been named as 32-year-old Corporal Jeffrey
:23:53. > :23:54.McNeill. He was also serving with the First Battalion, the Royal Irish
:23:55. > :23:57.Regiment. His body was found inside a Golding at Clyde barracks on
:23:58. > :24:00.Saturday morning. Great Britain's won its first ever
:24:01. > :24:03.Paralympic Gold medal at the Winter Olympic. The skier Kelly Gallagher,
:24:04. > :24:06.who's visually impaired, and her guide Charlotte Evans have made
:24:07. > :24:10.history by winning the Super G event in Sochi. The 28-year-old from
:24:11. > :24:13.County Down, who didn't take up skiing until she was 17, said the
:24:14. > :24:20.race was nerve-wracking but they were delighted with their medal.
:24:21. > :24:25.She is surely the definition of delight. 27-year-old Kelly
:24:26. > :24:30.Gallagher, happy and glorious indeed. Alongside her, guide
:24:31. > :24:32.Charlotte Evans, Britain's first-ever Winter Paralympic
:24:33. > :24:40.champions, after a triumph of talent, trust and teamwork.
:24:41. > :24:43.Gallagher, who was born with a visual impairment, can only see
:24:44. > :24:48.Evans's orange bib on the slopes and hear her guidance via headset. But,
:24:49. > :24:52.nervously, she hurtled down the mountain at nearly 90 kph.
:24:53. > :24:58.The pair had been tipped for a medal in Sochi. But in Saturday's downhill
:24:59. > :25:03.they finished last and in tears. Today, what a contrast. Kelly
:25:04. > :25:07.Gallagher sets the pace! The first pair down, they'd clocked a testing
:25:08. > :25:10.target. The question now, could anyone beat it? Well, their own
:25:11. > :25:12.team-mates came close. Jade Etherington and Caroline Powell
:25:13. > :25:18.claiming bronze to go with their silver on Saturday. But British gold
:25:19. > :25:23.was just around the corner. She's missed the gate! When the final pair
:25:24. > :25:31.failed to finish, Gallagher and Evans had done it. We've always been
:25:32. > :25:34.second and third, all the time. This season, we started winning more
:25:35. > :25:37.races and stuff. So today we got to stand in the centre. And, with
:25:38. > :25:40.another British girl on the podium, Caroline and Jade - like, this is
:25:41. > :25:47.cool. We've worked so hard for this and it's finally come, we've just
:25:48. > :25:52.won gold. For Gallagher, cheered on by her mum, Margaret, it was also
:25:53. > :25:56.the most poignant of victories. She did it for her daddy. We lost her
:25:57. > :26:00.daddy a year and a half ago. So it was more emotional because of that
:26:01. > :26:05.as well. But she did us all proud, so did Charlotte, bringing her down
:26:06. > :26:08.safe. I'm just so happy. And with very good reason. For the first time
:26:09. > :26:12.in Paralympic or Olympic history, British champions on snow, on a day
:26:13. > :26:21.when finally, the white stuff turned to gold.
:26:22. > :26:25.Lets have a look at the weather now. Lots of amazing sunshine at the
:26:26. > :26:36.moment? That's right, dry as well. That sort of weather is set to stay
:26:37. > :26:40.for this week. High pressure has spent the day building in across the
:26:41. > :26:43.UK. Of course, it's never that straightforward. If you've been
:26:44. > :26:47.close to this decaying weather front with the cloud affecting parts of
:26:48. > :26:50.East Anglia in particular, your day has been very different compared to
:26:51. > :26:53.yesterday. You have been 12 degrees lower than yesterday. On top of
:26:54. > :26:56.that, we have seen the nagging north-easterly wind as well. That
:26:57. > :27:00.area of cloud will stay with us tonight. If you are underneath
:27:01. > :27:03.that, it may expand its coverage little bit and you'll avoid a
:27:04. > :27:08.frost. Parts of south-west England, Wales, maybe later in the night East
:27:09. > :27:10.Anglia will see frost. Across northern England, Scotland and
:27:11. > :27:16.Northern Ireland, temperatures close to freezing for frost and patchy fog
:27:17. > :27:21.as well, Northern Ireland in particular. With those areas of high
:27:22. > :27:25.pressure tomorrow, those letters are important, dry. The northern part of
:27:26. > :27:30.the UK will see the best of it. We still have the area to the south
:27:31. > :27:35.with the breeze, additionally the Bristol Channel and southwards. This
:27:36. > :27:39.is how it looks at three o'clock in the afternoon. Northern Ireland,
:27:40. > :27:42.some of the fog, late morning before it clears. You have sunshine
:27:43. > :27:46.replacing it. Northern England, sunny spells. It feels warm and that
:27:47. > :27:49.sunshine, even though temperatures are not far from normal. Underneath
:27:50. > :27:54.the cloud with the breeze, it doesn't feel too special. The sting
:27:55. > :27:57.and, including London. Some sunny spells for the far south-west. That
:27:58. > :28:02.is how it looks tomorrow afternoon, for the next few days you can't bank
:28:03. > :28:06.on the sunshine. There will be some fog around to start the day. It
:28:07. > :28:11.always feels warmest when you've got the blue sky. If you are clear at
:28:12. > :28:15.night, it will be chilly enough for a touch of frost. The most
:28:16. > :28:17.significant feature of the weather, dry. No storms in the forecast. Our
:28:18. > :28:26.weather can be like this! A reminder of the main stories: The
:28:27. > :28:30.search for the missing Malaysia airlines plane has widened, three
:28:31. > :28:34.days after it disappeared. There is still no trace of any wreckage. And
:28:35. > :28:37.the MP Nigel Evans has gone on trial, accused of indecent and
:28:38. > :28:41.sexual assault and rape.