:00:13. > :00:19.figure, but his death from a suspected heart attack, prompted
:00:20. > :00:23.tributes from friend and foe. He was a guy who really fought for his
:00:24. > :00:27.members and who stuck up for his point of view. Obviously, I didn't
:00:28. > :00:32.always agree with with what he had to say. Even his enemies, the people
:00:33. > :00:36.who never agreed with him when he was alive, I mean, Bob would be
:00:37. > :00:40.laughing his head off probably that suddenly they are all finding these
:00:41. > :00:44.great words about him. On the programme tonight: The Co-op in
:00:45. > :00:47.crisis. Its boss resigns saying the company is "ungovernable". The
:00:48. > :00:51.missing Malaysian airline, police say two men, travelling on false
:00:52. > :00:55.passports, were probably asylum seekers, not terrorists. A dog's
:00:56. > :01:01.dinner. Government plans to expand free school meals are a gimmick says
:01:02. > :01:04.a former adviser. Tonight, a special report on Britain's economic
:01:05. > :01:14.recovery. I'm at Liverpool docks. I will be asking if the UK can trade
:01:15. > :01:16.its way to long lasting growth. And, they're off. The Cheltenham
:01:17. > :01:22.Festival, the most valuable jump racing week in the world, gets
:01:23. > :01:26.underway. On BBC London. The death of Bob Crow - as politicians unite
:01:27. > :01:28.to pay tribute, we ask what the controversial union boss's legacy
:01:29. > :01:30.will be. And, a policeman who repeatedly punched a suspected
:01:31. > :01:50.shoplifter gets a community sentence.
:01:51. > :01:55.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. He was Britain's
:01:56. > :02:00.best-known and most colourful trade union leader. Bob Crow has died of a
:02:01. > :02:05.suspected heart attack at the age of 52. He led the RMT union for moren
:02:06. > :02:08.that a decade and was involved in several high profile industrial
:02:09. > :02:11.disputes, including the most recent which brought London Underground to
:02:12. > :02:17.a standstill. Among the many people paying tributes to him today was
:02:18. > :02:22.London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, with whom Crow often clashed. He praised
:02:23. > :02:27.him as a fighter and aenen of character. And the veteran left-wing
:02:28. > :02:31.MP, George Galloway, described him as a "a working class hero". Mail
:02:32. > :02:35.mail mail mail looks back at the career of this controversial figure.
:02:36. > :02:40.We want the opportunity to express the point of view... This was Bob
:02:41. > :02:45.Crow just last month, at the height of the strike on London's Tube he
:02:46. > :02:49.hijacked a radio phone in to take on his opponent Boris Johnson. There is
:02:50. > :02:53.table to be sat round by you and your team. We can't do it while you
:02:54. > :02:59.put a gun to your head. The two men hadn't spoken in years. Today
:03:00. > :03:02.London's Mayor led tributes. Obviously, I didn't always agree
:03:03. > :03:08.with what he had to say, but I really will say this, I think that
:03:09. > :03:13.together with other union members, Bob Crow unquestionably helped to
:03:14. > :03:18.drive forward huge progress on London Underground and he leaves a
:03:19. > :03:23.massive legacy behind. Even his enemies, the people who never agreed
:03:24. > :03:26.with him when he was alive, Bob will be laughing his head off probably
:03:27. > :03:30.that suddenly they are finding these great words about him. Everyone
:03:31. > :03:34.knows he was incredibly good at the job he was employed to do. He
:03:35. > :03:39.believed in fighting for working people. He was passionate about it.
:03:40. > :03:43.Bob Crow was born at East London he left school at 16 to work on the
:03:44. > :03:49.railways. He soon rose through the union ranks. I was told we don't
:03:50. > :03:53.want to go back to the bad old days of the 70s. I raised question, what
:03:54. > :03:57.was wrong with them They called himself a communist socialist. As
:03:58. > :04:04.leader of the RMT he ended the union's affiliation to the Labour
:04:05. > :04:11.Party. A divisive trade union leader he embarked on a serious of
:04:12. > :04:14.industrial disputes. His actions disrupted the journeys of millions
:04:15. > :04:18.of people. He stood for what he believed in. Which is good to a
:04:19. > :04:23.certain degree. It did have an effect on London. It's awful that
:04:24. > :04:28.somebody who was so committed and so passionate about his work that it's
:04:29. > :04:35.kind of ended in such a tragic way really. Despite his 145,000 pay
:04:36. > :04:38.package, Bob Crow insisted upon living in a council house. He
:04:39. > :04:43.increased the membership of his union at a time when nationally
:04:44. > :04:48.union membership was in decline. He was one of the finest trade unionist
:04:49. > :04:52.of his generation. One of the best the movement ever brought forward.
:04:53. > :04:54.That is why he was loved by his members but respected by those who
:04:55. > :05:01.esht intoed across the table with him. Often larger than life, Bob
:05:02. > :05:05.Crow died at 52. He will be remember as a trade unionist who never
:05:06. > :05:12.waivered from his beliefs and delivered for his members. To be a
:05:13. > :05:20.general secretary of a union you have to be larger than life. Someone
:05:21. > :05:24.who has a bit of spark about them. Industry correspondent, John Moylan,
:05:25. > :05:28.BBC News. Our political editor, Nick Robinson joins me now. Huge shock
:05:29. > :05:34.when the news broke this morning. So many tributes for him from all
:05:35. > :05:39.sides. A shock for some people watching that those Bob Crow would
:05:40. > :05:43.have seen as his enemies have been so generous to imhad. It's more than
:05:44. > :05:46.the normal respect that one pays to the loved ones who are now grieving
:05:47. > :05:50.for Bob Crow. I think there are people who were his enemies who
:05:51. > :05:56.nevertheless regarded him as a man who knew what he thought, knew whose
:05:57. > :06:00.side he was on. Knew who his enemies were. That is quite rare in modern
:06:01. > :06:04.political life. He was, if you like, his own man. I discovered this when
:06:05. > :06:08.I interviewed him on television on the first time. He turned up in a
:06:09. > :06:12.T-shirt and a pair of shorts. I said, Bob maybe you would like to
:06:13. > :06:16.get change? He said, I'm on the works outing to the seaside in 10
:06:17. > :06:20.minutes' time. Get on with it. We started the interview on Bob's
:06:21. > :06:25.terms. In a sense, that sums him up. He was a man who, yes, was
:06:26. > :06:31.belligerent in public, yes, willing to inconvenience people, he thought
:06:32. > :06:35.he was it for the job he was paid to do, for his members. Everyone you
:06:36. > :06:39.talked talk to behind scenes say behind all that noise there was a
:06:40. > :06:44.man who could in truth strike a private deal. Nick Robinson, thank
:06:45. > :06:48.you. The Co-operative Group which is facing huge losseses, is in crisis
:06:49. > :06:51.tonight after its chief executive resigned claiming the organisation
:06:52. > :06:53.had become "ungovernable". Euan Sutherland, whose
:06:54. > :06:56.multi-million-pound salary was leaked at the weekend, has
:06:57. > :07:00.complained of being undermined in his efforts to overhaul the
:07:01. > :07:08.business. Here's our Business Editor, Robert Peston. Some very
:07:09. > :07:13.grave look gentleman. The pioneers and the founders of the modern
:07:14. > :07:21.co-operative movement or the idea of a business owned by those who use it
:07:22. > :07:28.is fairer. How far they have have come from those or begins. I'm the
:07:29. > :07:31.group chief executive of the Co-op. He was the chief executive until
:07:32. > :07:36.this afternoon when he resigned. Handing back ?1.5 million retention
:07:37. > :07:39.bonus. It was pretty clear on Sunday that Euan Sutherland had become
:07:40. > :07:45.demoralised. He published this statement on a social media website
:07:46. > :07:51.in which he bemoaned the leek of his ?3 million pay package he saw the
:07:52. > :07:55.leak by the officials of the Co-op to whip up opposition to a reform
:07:56. > :08:00.package that would have given less power to them, and more power to the
:08:01. > :08:05.executives and Euan Sutherland. It's not been a quiet time for the Co-op.
:08:06. > :08:12.It's bank almost went bust last year. The bank's former Chairman was
:08:13. > :08:17.accused of buying illegal recreational drugs. What doo-doo
:08:18. > :08:22.they make of the latest episode in which many would see as a soap
:08:23. > :08:27.opera? Millions of pounds to top dogs. Defeating the object of the
:08:28. > :08:31.Co-op. They were known for their integrity for so many years, weren't
:08:32. > :08:41.they? Whether that is too difficult to maintain in today's cynical
:08:42. > :08:43.times. He wanted a management structure. The he felt that the
:08:44. > :08:48.absence of professional management from the Co-op's top board was
:08:49. > :08:52.holding back recovery. He made the judgment he is not the right person
:08:53. > :08:55.to lead the changes that the group need moving forward. In my view,
:08:56. > :09:00.there is a clear consensus now there is a need for that kind of change.
:09:01. > :09:05.That will start from the board level and will see what emerges over the
:09:06. > :09:08.next few months. Why does the Co-op matter? It has been a bad year for
:09:09. > :09:12.the Co-operative Group and the Co-op Bank. There is so much that is so
:09:13. > :09:20.good about having a mutual, an organisation owned by its members
:09:21. > :09:35.with an ethical stance. Not much looked like it will would rattle
:09:36. > :09:40.this lot. If it isn't seen to be governable. Two men who boreded the
:09:41. > :09:45.missing Malaysian Airlines plane using stolen passports were probably
:09:46. > :09:49.Iranian asylum seekers, not terrorist, according to
:09:50. > :09:53.investigators. #. The flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished
:09:54. > :09:59.four days ago. The search area's been widen to the waters between
:10:00. > :10:07.Malaysian and Vietnam and into the ma lack can straits -- Malacca
:10:08. > :10:11.Straits. But the mystery has intensified after Malaysian's air
:10:12. > :10:16.force said it as radar suggests the plane had turned away from from its
:10:17. > :10:19.planned route towards an airport near Kuala Lumpur. From there
:10:20. > :10:24.Jonathan Head reports. They have been forced to consider a
:10:25. > :10:29.possibility that the airline deviated hundreds of miles off
:10:30. > :10:33.course without being detected. The search area has been doubled. One
:10:34. > :10:37.mystery has been solved, the identities of the two men travelling
:10:38. > :10:41.on stolen passports, both Iranianians, has been disclosed, any
:10:42. > :10:48.links to terrorism dismissed. In the last 24-hours you see the story
:10:49. > :10:54.changing as the belief becomes more certain that these two individuals
:10:55. > :10:59.were probably not terrorists. Mohammad is a young Iranian living
:11:00. > :11:03.in Kuala Lumpur. He is asked to keep his identity hidden. The two men,
:11:04. > :11:06.one an old school friend, came to stay the night before they left.
:11:07. > :11:11.They had flown from Iran and were heading to Europe to seek asylum. He
:11:12. > :11:15.helped them to print out their tickets. We went together to the
:11:16. > :11:23.print shop. We print the ticket. After that, I see the ticket and I
:11:24. > :11:29.say, like, this is not your name. Then he said, like, here auto I have
:11:30. > :11:33.another passport. After that I don't want to continue this story. I just
:11:34. > :11:38.say, OK. There any possibility, in his mind, that his friend could have
:11:39. > :11:42.had anything to do with the plane's disappearance? He cannot even kill
:11:43. > :11:48.one animal. He was looking for freedom. He was looking for better
:11:49. > :11:53.life. He wanted to, like, live in freedom. So all those fears that the
:11:54. > :11:58.stolen passports had perhaps been used by terrorists to board the
:11:59. > :12:03.ill-fated airliner have ended here in an ordinary Kuala Lumpur suburb
:12:04. > :12:11.and with a simple tale of young men from a troubled country, in search
:12:12. > :12:14.of something better. The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, says
:12:15. > :12:19.he knew nothing about claims that bank staff had been tipped off about
:12:20. > :12:23.a suspected scam to rig the foreign currency markets until autumn last
:12:24. > :12:26.year. Mr Carney told MPs on the Commons Treasury Committee that the
:12:27. > :12:30.Bank had suspended a member of staff pending an investigation but
:12:31. > :12:35.insisted there was no evidence bank staff had been involved in the
:12:36. > :12:39.alleged scam. As we sit here today, we are not in possession of any
:12:40. > :12:46.information, we have no information, that suggests that anyone at the
:12:47. > :12:50.Bank of England condoned, manipulation market facilitated,
:12:51. > :12:54.participated in market manipulation. The Mark Carney. The idea of
:12:55. > :12:57.expanding free school meals to every five-year-old in England is one of
:12:58. > :13:01.the Deputy Prime Minister's flagship policies. It has been condemned as
:13:02. > :13:04."bad gimmick and a dumb idea" by a Government education expert, Dominic
:13:05. > :13:07.Cummings, a former special adviser, told the BBC that officials were
:13:08. > :13:13.opposed to the policy fearing it would lead to "institutional chaos."
:13:14. > :13:17.Our political correspondent, Ben Wright, reports. Serving up a
:13:18. > :13:21.signature Liberal Democrat policy last September. Nick Clegg announced
:13:22. > :13:27.all five to seven-year-olds in England would get a free school meal
:13:28. > :13:30.from this autumn. ?1 billion will be spent on the food and new
:13:31. > :13:33.facilities. The scheme has received a hammering from a former
:13:34. > :13:38.Conservative adviser at the Department for Education. Dominic
:13:39. > :13:42.Cummings told the BBC that officials at the department warned there could
:13:43. > :13:45.be implementation chaos. He said all the spending figures banded about
:13:46. > :13:51.were chunk and shouldn't be used. He thought the policy was a dumb idea,
:13:52. > :13:56.badly executed. The adviser worked for the Education Secretary, Michael
:13:57. > :14:00.Goef, until Christmas, there was a coalition argument over funding when
:14:01. > :14:06.the policy was announced. One senior Conservative MP still has concerns.
:14:07. > :14:09.However good his incontigencieses -- intentions it's inappropriate he
:14:10. > :14:13.should make a ?1 billion spending commitment without having consulted
:14:14. > :14:20.the responsible department or listened to schools who have to
:14:21. > :14:25.implement it on the ground. At this London school gate parents have an
:14:26. > :14:29.appetite for the policy. If they can get one decent meal a day, it's
:14:30. > :14:33.going to help. I think the idea is really good. It will be really
:14:34. > :14:38.healthy food, isn't it. That is the most important thing, right? Free
:14:39. > :14:41.food seems popular with parents. A number of head teachers worry they
:14:42. > :14:45.won't have the kitchen facilities and longer dinner time might disrupt
:14:46. > :14:49.the school day. The ministers have rubbished this talk about a row
:14:50. > :14:53.within the Education Department and say the free school dinners will be
:14:54. > :14:58.delivered on time. The suggestion that the department was opposed to
:14:59. > :15:01.this policy is complete and utter nonsense. The Secretary of State and
:15:02. > :15:07.I may be in different political parties we are fully behind the
:15:08. > :15:10.policy. It has been very carefully thought out and costed. Ministers
:15:11. > :15:13.have given more support to schools to make the poll sil work. The
:15:14. > :15:18.Liberal Democrats are determined to chalk it up as a win and proof of
:15:19. > :15:30.their influence in Government. Bob Crow has died suddenly of a
:15:31. > :15:38.suspected heart attack at the age of 52. Coming up, I will have the news
:15:39. > :15:45.from Charlton in on a challenging day for horse racing. -- Cheltenham.
:15:46. > :15:47.Later on BBC London: We hear from the brother of Britain's first
:15:48. > :15:50.suicide bomber in Syria, who claims he died a hero.
:15:51. > :15:53.And Arsenal's mission impossible in Munich - or is it? We hear from
:15:54. > :16:04.Arsene Wenger on his Champions League survival bid.
:16:05. > :16:07.Next week the Chancellor will deliver his penultimate budget
:16:08. > :16:11.before the 2015 general election. George Osborne will no doubt point
:16:12. > :16:13.to the positive direction the UK economy has taken recently, with
:16:14. > :16:16.unemployment down and economic output picking up. This week George
:16:17. > :16:19.Alagiah is travelling around the UK trying to find out if we really are
:16:20. > :16:30.on the right road to recovery. He started his journey yesterday in
:16:31. > :16:35.Glasgow. Tonight he's on Merseyside. Good evening from the Port of
:16:36. > :16:40.Liverpool, one of the biggest in the UK. I want you to look over there at
:16:41. > :16:46.that container ship. It has just pulled away and it has got 2000
:16:47. > :16:51.containers on it and deck full of luxury cars. It is heading for
:16:52. > :16:55.Baltimore. Once it has gone, look over here - hundreds of containers
:16:56. > :17:01.waiting to be put onto the next ship. I can tell you it is 24/7
:17:02. > :17:05.here. If Britain is exporting its way out of economic trouble, they
:17:06. > :17:09.will see it here first. I have been talking to businesses in Liverpool
:17:10. > :17:18.to find out if Britain has the right kind of recovery.
:17:19. > :17:25.They have certainly had to work hard to keep the tourists coming to this
:17:26. > :17:33.theme to tell over the last few years. But now business is picking
:17:34. > :17:41.up again. -- this seemed hotel. We are looking at 80% occupancy. It is
:17:42. > :17:46.way higher than last year. Are there more British tourists? We have
:17:47. > :17:50.definitely seen a rise. If the guests are anything to go by, some
:17:51. > :17:56.people are feeling more optimistic. They are spending again. We're both
:17:57. > :18:02.earning decent money so we don't have any problems. Initially we
:18:03. > :18:09.didn't have the spare cash. But now I think there's a bit more leeway.
:18:10. > :18:13.In the 60s, when the Beatles were in their heyday, Liverpool was still
:18:14. > :18:21.one of the world's great trading hubs. Today, the port is not quite
:18:22. > :18:25.the powerhouse it once was, but there is ?300 million of new
:18:26. > :18:28.investment in its facilities and exports are growing. Sale to North
:18:29. > :18:35.America have doubled since the worst of the recession. The Port's
:18:36. > :18:40.director says this is the perfect place to track the UK's economic
:18:41. > :18:46.fortunes. These range Rovers are headed for America. The majority of
:18:47. > :18:55.the vessels arriving in Liverpool, the containers, they are leaving
:18:56. > :19:01.full. We are seeing a number of products and services now exported
:19:02. > :19:05.out of the country. This factory making maritime safety equipment is
:19:06. > :19:10.just a mile away from the port. Turnover has been growing. Its boss
:19:11. > :19:14.says any future growth has to come from new export markets. The more we
:19:15. > :19:23.export, the better the UK economy will grow. I find it hugely
:19:24. > :19:31.important for us as a company, and we know that we have markets yet to
:19:32. > :19:36.crack. That is great news. We can actually see where we can fuel our
:19:37. > :19:43.growth going forward. This is a city built on a great trading history,
:19:44. > :19:48.but whether or not it can achieve anything like the same status in the
:19:49. > :19:56.future is a key test for Britain's economy. That is the view from
:19:57. > :20:00.Liverpool. As you saw, many people here are pretty optimistic. But what
:20:01. > :20:06.about the bigger picture from across the UK? Just how widespread is the
:20:07. > :20:12.recovery and how sustainable is it? Our chief economic correspondent,
:20:13. > :20:17.Hugh Pym, reports from adjuster. The economy might be picking up
:20:18. > :20:22.speed, but what about the direction of travel? Is the courage to
:20:23. > :20:27.lopsided? These are questions for the government ahead of the budget.
:20:28. > :20:32.I think we are making progress. Jim O'Neill is heading a task force
:20:33. > :20:37.trying to ensure growth is spread beyond London, including in his home
:20:38. > :20:42.city of Manchester. The premise is, if we can boost growth in places
:20:43. > :20:46.like this and a few other urban centres, it will boost the national
:20:47. > :20:51.growth rate. But he says the overall recovery is not yet broadly based.
:20:52. > :20:56.So far, the recovery has been dominated by the consumer. We can't
:20:57. > :21:04.afford that to go beyond much more than another year or so all we will
:21:05. > :21:06.run into fresh problems. Shifting the focus to company is expanding
:21:07. > :21:12.and selling more goods abroad is seen as the way forward. Breadth of
:21:13. > :21:15.the Chancellor and a Bank of England have acknowledged the recovery is
:21:16. > :21:22.not yet balanced. The figures bear that out. Last in household spending
:21:23. > :21:27.grew 2.4%, while exports were up just 0.8. Across the whole of 2013,
:21:28. > :21:31.business investment fell 1.2%. But there was some pick up towards the
:21:32. > :21:35.end of the year. But you have only got to go to Manchester airport to
:21:36. > :21:42.find a project which 60 investment and export boxes. Known as airport
:21:43. > :21:48.city, it will be the UK's biggest construction site, creating a centre
:21:49. > :21:52.for businesses. We're looking for good road access. We are looking for
:21:53. > :21:58.vehicle activity, which we have across Europe. So there are
:21:59. > :22:02.promising signs. But it may be awhile before it clear that are
:22:03. > :22:10.broadly based economy heralding a brighter future for the economy is
:22:11. > :22:15.fully in place. That's it from us here in Liverpool.
:22:16. > :22:20.When people talk about recurrent, most people are talking really about
:22:21. > :22:23.jobs. Right now in the North West, it has a higher unemployment rate
:22:24. > :22:32.than the UK average. Tomorrow we are in Bristol stop -- in Bristol. We'll
:22:33. > :22:41.be at the UK's biggest robotics research centre. Goodnight from me.
:22:42. > :22:44.Back to you in London, Sophie. A policeman who punched a suspected
:22:45. > :22:48.shoplifter in the head and pinned her to the ground has been sentenced
:22:49. > :22:51.to a community order. CCTV footage played to the court showed PC James
:22:52. > :22:55.Kiddie pushing Sarah Reed into a chair, grabbing her by the hair and
:22:56. > :23:10.hitting her on the head as she lay on the floor after an incident at a
:23:11. > :23:12.clothing store in London. MPs are currently debating changes
:23:13. > :23:15.to legislation that would give the government new powers to close and
:23:16. > :23:18.reorganise NHS services in England. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says
:23:19. > :23:21.the changes are needed to help reform services and improve patient
:23:22. > :23:24.care. But patients groups and Labour are concerned the reforms could give
:23:25. > :23:26.the government the ability to ignore the wishes of GPs and local
:23:27. > :23:31.residents. Here's our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys.
:23:32. > :23:36.Outside Parliament today, a noisy protest under gloomy skies.
:23:37. > :23:40.Campaigners are angry at plans to make it easier to close NHS
:23:41. > :23:52.services, a change in the law that follows the fight over one hospital.
:23:53. > :23:58.This song came from the heart of a community campaign to keep its A
:23:59. > :24:02.Lewisham in south London, was angry at the changes. The of neighbouring
:24:03. > :24:06.hospital plunging into financial problems. A special Administration
:24:07. > :24:15.was appointed to make rapid decisions. Local GPs helped win the
:24:16. > :24:20.legal battle, but have been left disillusioned. We were promised we
:24:21. > :24:25.would be listened to. We made good arguments and we were not listened
:24:26. > :24:32.to. Nothing changed as the basis -- after our argument. Now the
:24:33. > :24:37.government wants to change the law that allowed the campaign to win.
:24:38. > :24:41.Services here in Lewisham are now safe from change. But around
:24:42. > :24:46.England, the NHS faces more difficult decisions about the future
:24:47. > :24:51.of hospital services. The debate is about how those decisions should be
:24:52. > :24:55.made and whether it is ever right to overrule the wishes of local
:24:56. > :25:01.patients and their GPs. Ministers today promised there would always be
:25:02. > :25:08.consultation and save these legal powers are for extreme cases. This
:25:09. > :25:12.is a system of last resort and other actions would of course be taken
:25:13. > :25:18.first to address the problems of trusts in difficulty. But Labour
:25:19. > :25:23.warned... It risks damaging public trust rather than building it.
:25:24. > :25:27.Changes to the NHS will always be a political battle ground. But winning
:25:28. > :25:34.patient support is crucial to allow them to happen.
:25:35. > :25:37.It's the most valuable jump racing week in the world. The Cheltenham
:25:38. > :25:40.Festival got underway this afternoon, with ?4 million of prize
:25:41. > :25:45.money up for grabs. The big race of the day was the Champion Hurdle. Joe
:25:46. > :25:48.Wilson was watching. If we wanted a reminder of the way
:25:49. > :25:54.the jump racing pushes horse and rider to the limit and the risks and
:25:55. > :25:59.danger at the heart of the spectre, we got it today but it was not come
:26:00. > :26:06.above. We saw a fatality as well as victory. The Champion hurdle was the
:26:07. > :26:11.most eagerly anticipated race of this year's Festival. Billed as a
:26:12. > :26:15.battle between the old champion, Hurricane Fly, and a new breed of
:26:16. > :26:20.contenders. One of those was of course both popular and full of
:26:21. > :26:27.potential. Watch for the yellow silks. It was an awful. The horse
:26:28. > :26:33.was treated but had a spinal injury and was put down. For some, the rest
:26:34. > :26:40.of the race was irrelevant. Jezki, with Google perseverance, crossed
:26:41. > :26:45.the line first. It is why riders and spectators had to come to
:26:46. > :26:50.Cheltenham. It is sad for the jockey, the owner, and everybody in
:26:51. > :26:58.the yard. When a horse dies, it is a gap in the yard. Everybody feels
:26:59. > :27:04.it. The high risks in this sport are shared between horse and rider. In
:27:05. > :27:10.fact, all of this horse's winnings this season had been pledged to JT
:27:11. > :27:15.McNamara. He remains in hospital, paralysed after a fall at Cheltenham
:27:16. > :27:22.last year. Absent but admired. This is his cousin, the jockey still
:27:23. > :27:28.recovering after his own fall. Last year he was in a coma. Whatever the
:27:29. > :27:33.dangers, he would beginning -- giving anything to race at
:27:34. > :27:40.Cheltenham this week. It is believable to get out on a horse at
:27:41. > :27:47.that crowd. It would be good to stop for moment or two and think about
:27:48. > :27:53.people like that. So often, any sense of celebration is tempered by
:27:54. > :27:55.reflection. Time for a look at the weather.
:27:56. > :28:00.reflection. Time for a look Dry and sunny for most of us today.
:28:01. > :28:04.In the sunshine, it warmed up after a frosty start. We reached 15
:28:05. > :28:08.degrees across the Highlands of Scotland and most of us enjoyed a
:28:09. > :28:15.lovely spring day. However, across some Southern counties, we really
:28:16. > :28:19.struggled. Just five degrees on the moors of south-west England. Still
:28:20. > :28:24.some cloud in southern counties. Overnight it will tend to expand, if
:28:25. > :28:28.anything. There will be fog patches developing across Northern Ireland,
:28:29. > :28:31.and some glens of Scotland. It will turn cold. Under the cleaner to
:28:32. > :28:39.skies, temperatures will fall away quickly. -- the clearest skies.
:28:40. > :28:47.Close to freezing if the skies clear but generally a of cloud around. --
:28:48. > :28:51.a lot. It is getting better in southern areas. It will be a better
:28:52. > :28:55.day than today. In the sunshine from it will feel warmer. They will be a
:28:56. > :28:59.few exceptions before the vast majority have a lovely day. Some of
:29:00. > :29:04.these numbers might be conservative. I would not be surprised to see the
:29:05. > :29:07.mid-teens. If the cloud persists in the north west midlands come it will
:29:08. > :29:13.stay cool. The south-west of England, we could reach 17 or 18
:29:14. > :29:19.degrees. In the 10th St, we might see some sea mist lingering. That
:29:20. > :29:23.could knock temperatures. -- along the Thames estuary. The fog should
:29:24. > :29:28.lift and for most of us it will be a nice day. Signs of change in the
:29:29. > :29:31.North West of Scotland. Beginning cloud and a freshening pleased --
:29:32. > :29:33.breeze.