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:00:15. > :00:18.believes Britain's future lies at the heart of Europe, but he hasn't

:00:19. > :00:26.completely ruled out a vote on membership. A lot that guarantees

:00:27. > :00:29.there will be no transfer of powers without an in-out referendum. We

:00:30. > :00:34.will be asking voters what they think of the debate on Europe. Also

:00:35. > :00:37.tonight: Desperate relatives of the missing hear the last words of the

:00:38. > :00:43.Malaysian Airlines crew minutes before they disappeared. It just

:00:44. > :00:48.disappeared off the face of the earth. If we could just find some

:00:49. > :00:53.wreckage, or something. Dramatic scenes as a forensic expert reenacts

:00:54. > :00:59.how Oscar Pistorius broke down his toilet door with a cricket bat.

:01:00. > :01:03.Tonight I'm at Britain's research centre for robotics. I will have a

:01:04. > :01:09.special report on how our economic future will depend on technological

:01:10. > :01:13.innovation. And, how 3D printing was used to rebuild this man's face

:01:14. > :01:20.after a serious motorbike accident. We have an exclusive report.

:01:21. > :01:23.Tonight, on BBC London. Electric cars for hire, but can they become

:01:24. > :01:26.as common as Boris Bikes? And, new figures from the Met reveal the

:01:27. > :01:45.thousands of gang-related crimes in the capital.

:01:46. > :01:51.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Ed Miliband says a

:01:52. > :01:55.referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is unlikely if Labour win

:01:56. > :02:01.the next election. The Labour leader says he believes Britain's future

:02:02. > :02:04.lies in the EU and the "economic case for membership is

:02:05. > :02:07.overwhelming". But Mr Miliband said in the "unlikely" event of the EU

:02:08. > :02:12.demanding more control, he wouldn't allow a transfer of fresh powers to

:02:13. > :02:15.Brussels without an in-out referendum. The Prime Minister said

:02:16. > :02:18.Labour's plan gives the British people "no choice", and only the

:02:19. > :02:23.Conservatives would guarantee a referendum. Our political editor,

:02:24. > :02:28.Nick Robinson, reports. Should you get a vote in a referendum on

:02:29. > :02:34.whether Britain stays in or gets out of the EU, the Tories are promising

:02:35. > :02:39.one by 2017? What would Labour do? This morning's papers were clear, up

:02:40. > :02:46.to a point. The FT said Miliband rules out early EU poll. The Mirror

:02:47. > :02:49.said Ed would give you an in-out vote. Perhaps the Labour leader

:02:50. > :02:53.could clear things up in his big speech on Europe. There will be no

:02:54. > :02:59.transfer of powers without an in-out referendum. Without a clear choice

:03:00. > :03:04.about whether Britain will stay in the EU. That sounded as ifs he was

:03:05. > :03:08.in favour of a vote, but just fast forward a few seconds. I believe

:03:09. > :03:13.it's unlikely this lock will be used in the next parliament. His new

:03:14. > :03:18.policy took seven paragraphs and more than a minute to explain. If a

:03:19. > :03:24.voter asked you, will you guarantee me a say on whether Britain stays in

:03:25. > :03:28.or gets out of the EU, if you're Prime Minister, what is the answer

:03:29. > :03:31.in a Seine sentence? If there is a tran fer of powers from Britain to

:03:32. > :03:34.the European Union, then there will be an an in-out referendum. My

:03:35. > :03:39.priority for the next parliament though is tackling the

:03:40. > :03:42.cost-of-living crisis, protecting our National Health Service and jobs

:03:43. > :03:45.for young people. Maybe or maybe not? I said in my speech, very

:03:46. > :03:50.clearly, I have been straight about this, I think it's unlikely that the

:03:51. > :03:56.lock will be triggered in the next parliament. What do voters make of

:03:57. > :04:00.Tories who say yes, and Labour who say it's possible, but unlikely. I

:04:01. > :04:04.would go yes. Can you vote for me there. Certainly. I would rather

:04:05. > :04:09.have a choice, to be honest, as a ebb m of the British public. Ed

:04:10. > :04:13.Miliband says it is not a priority. He should get on with et creating

:04:14. > :04:19.jobs and worrying about the NHS? Yeah. We need to make the decision

:04:20. > :04:24.ourselves. The There is better things to spend money on that people

:04:25. > :04:27.would benefit from rather than an EU referendum. I don't think we need a

:04:28. > :04:32.referendum on it. I believe we should be in Europe. That is a clear

:04:33. > :04:36.answer. David Cameron claims that Labour's policy is clearer than they

:04:37. > :04:40.want it to seem. He says they are against be giving you a say. What is

:04:41. > :04:44.clear is under Labour there won't be a referendum. The only way to get an

:04:45. > :04:48.in-out referendum and a proper renegotiation of Britain's position

:04:49. > :04:52.in Europe, reform in Europe, the only way to get that is to have the

:04:53. > :04:56.Conservatives in Government. Ed Miliband knows that a am prosis of a

:04:57. > :05:00.referendum -- promise of a referendum would have been popular

:05:01. > :05:05.he thinks he can run against David Cameron by saying that he will focus

:05:06. > :05:09.on the economy nomy and the NHS while the Tory Government would be

:05:10. > :05:14.obsessed and divided about Europe. He says voters have seen that movie

:05:15. > :05:19.before when John Major was Prime Minister in the 90s. David Cameron

:05:20. > :05:24.has no char tie about what he is negotiating for. His promises on

:05:25. > :05:28.Europe are undefined, undeliverable and now unravelling. Many voters may

:05:29. > :05:33.dislike the idea of being denied a say, but Labour are counting on big

:05:34. > :05:41.business backing them for reducing uncertainty about whether Britain

:05:42. > :05:46.will stay in the EU. The final words from the crew on board the missing

:05:47. > :05:49.Malaysian Airlines jet in their last communication with Air Traffic

:05:50. > :05:52.Control on Friday have been made public. The authorities say all

:05:53. > :05:55.seemed normal on the flight just minutes before it vanished as it

:05:56. > :05:59.headed out over the South China Sea from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with

:06:00. > :06:05.239 passengers and crew on board. The search area has been widened,

:06:06. > :06:12.yet again, and now stretches across 27,000 nautical miles. January hang

:06:13. > :06:16.head's o report from Kuala Lumpur contains some flash photography. It

:06:17. > :06:21.possible for so many planes and ships to find no trace of a 200

:06:22. > :06:25.tonne airliner after five days of searching? It is, if they are being

:06:26. > :06:29.looking in the wrong place. For days they assumed it had come down in the

:06:30. > :06:33.South China Sea, close to its last contact. Now, the Mall mall

:06:34. > :06:41.authorities think it may have ended up hundreds of miles west of its

:06:42. > :06:44.flight path. At the daily press briefings officials are struggling

:06:45. > :06:53.to explain why they seem to know so little. When we looked at that

:06:54. > :06:57.recording it proved that there is a possibility that this aircraft

:06:58. > :07:02.turned back. But we are not sure whether it is the same aircraft. As

:07:03. > :07:08.always, there was an uproar of questions, but very few answers.

:07:09. > :07:13.Flight MH370 was almost an hour into its journey when Malaysian Air

:07:14. > :07:24.Traffic Control bid the pilot farewell as he moved out their

:07:25. > :07:33.airspace. Military radar records show an unidentified object flying

:07:34. > :07:40.an hour later over the sea. Two on board were Rodney and Mary burrows.

:07:41. > :07:44.Rodney's parents had been about to visit them in China to celebrate

:07:45. > :07:47.Mary's birthday. There is no news what so ever. It's just disappeared

:07:48. > :07:53.off the face of the earth. If we could just find some wreckage or

:07:54. > :07:58.something it would be a help, probably. What we've learnt almost

:07:59. > :08:02.five days after flight MH370 vanished must be of concern to the

:08:03. > :08:05.millions of passengers passing through this, and other airports in

:08:06. > :08:09.the region, that the authorities know almost nothing about what

:08:10. > :08:15.happened to the airliner and that in their search for it, they are just

:08:16. > :08:19.guessing. Jonathan Head, BBC News, Kuala Lumpur. There have been

:08:20. > :08:24.dramatic scenes at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. A forensic

:08:25. > :08:26.expert has been re-enacting how the Olympian broke down the toilet door

:08:27. > :08:30.in his bathroom with a cricket bat to reach his girlfriend. Athlete

:08:31. > :08:35.denies murdering Reeva Steenkamp and says he fired through the locked

:08:36. > :08:39.door thinking she was an inStrouder. From Pretoria, Andrew Harding

:08:40. > :08:43.reports. The crime scene came to court today in the form of a door,

:08:44. > :08:47.the one Oscar Pistorius shot through. The white walls behind it

:08:48. > :08:52.representing the toilet where Reeva Steenkamp was killed. With a

:08:53. > :08:58.flourish, a forensic expert revealed the cricket bat Pistorius used to

:08:59. > :09:05.smash the door down that night. It's a lazer, English willo. At issue

:09:06. > :09:10.today, the marks left by that bat. There were at least two marks on the

:09:11. > :09:14.toilet door. One here, a meter-and-a-half above the floor,

:09:15. > :09:17.Pistorius standing to one side, another hit from straight on, a

:09:18. > :09:21.little lower down. The forensic expert saying that suggested the

:09:22. > :09:27.athlete was on his stumps and, therefore, lying when he claimed he

:09:28. > :09:31.was wearing his prosthetic legs. On your knees. Lift your feet up. The

:09:32. > :09:36.defence said, that was just guesswork. They asked the expert to

:09:37. > :09:40.act it out again. Explain to me what is happening. Are you losing your

:09:41. > :09:46.balance? I'm off balance. He conceded, it might be hard to

:09:47. > :09:49.balance on stumps and swing a bat. Pistorius's team said it had done

:09:50. > :09:54.its own forensic tests on the door which proved the athlete was telling

:09:55. > :09:58.the truth about standing on his prosthetic legs. The test showed he

:09:59. > :10:04.hadn't just hit the door, he kicked it, leaving traces of his sock

:10:05. > :10:08.trapped in the wood. For the police investigating Reeva Steenkamp's

:10:09. > :10:13.death it has not been a great day. The pieces are gone. They ares ming.

:10:14. > :10:18.Their forensic expert admitted the door had been removed from the crime

:10:19. > :10:22.scene, trampled on a chunk of it had gone missing. Pistorius seemed

:10:23. > :10:28.relaxed throughout. Smiling broadly at one point when an earlier witness

:10:29. > :10:33.appeared to stumble. It's been a dramatic day in court. The

:10:34. > :10:37.prosecution here is still struggling to prove that Oscar Pistorius's

:10:38. > :10:43.version of what happened that night is a lie. Andrew Harding BBC News,

:10:44. > :10:49.Pretoria High Court. A woman has told the jury in Max Clifford's

:10:50. > :10:51.trial that he made her rife life "a living hell". The woman, whose

:10:52. > :10:55.identity has been protected, told the court that Mr Clifford had

:10:56. > :10:59.forced her to perform a sex act on him at the age of 15 and then

:11:00. > :11:04.blackmailed her with claims he had taken photos of the assault am he

:11:05. > :11:09.denies all nine charges of indecent assault dating back to the 1970s and

:11:10. > :11:13.80s. The Court of Appeal has viewed ruled that a decision by the

:11:14. > :11:16.Attorney General to stop letters by Prince Charles to Government

:11:17. > :11:19.ministers being push blushed was unlawful. The Guardian newspaper has

:11:20. > :11:24.spent years trying to get what has been described as "frank" letters

:11:25. > :11:27.released under the Freedom of Information Act. Our royal

:11:28. > :11:32.correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, reports if you want a quiet life,

:11:33. > :11:36.lock me up, he said a few years ago. The Prince of Wales believes as heir

:11:37. > :11:40.to the throne he has a right and a duty to bring to the attention of

:11:41. > :11:44.Government issues raised with him on his trips around the country. This

:11:45. > :11:49.was a visit to the Somerset floods last month. More often than not, he

:11:50. > :11:55.makes his views known to government via these, hand written letters, his

:11:56. > :12:00.black spider letters, because of his distinctive hand writing. 27 letters

:12:01. > :12:06.like these, written by the Prince nearly 10 years ago to ministers in

:12:07. > :12:10.Tony Blair's Government that the Guardian believe the public should

:12:11. > :12:14.be allowed to see under the Freedom of Information Act. Opposing the

:12:15. > :12:22.Government, Dominic Grieve, who argued the letters contained the

:12:23. > :12:26.Prince's "deeply held private views." A judge ruled in the Court

:12:27. > :12:30.of Appeal that the Attorney General was wrong. The Attorney General did

:12:31. > :12:34.not have reasonable grounds for forming the opinion on which his

:12:35. > :12:39.certificate was based. The Guardian's editor says there is an

:12:40. > :12:42.important issue at stake. If The Prince of Wales is going to use his

:12:43. > :12:46.position in public life to influence Government policy we have a right to

:12:47. > :12:50.know about that, as we would anybody else in power who was trying to

:12:51. > :12:54.influence policy. Should letters which Charles wrote in confidence

:12:55. > :13:00.now be made public? Some MPs think not. The Prince of Wales has written

:13:01. > :13:05.a letter, or letters, which he intended to be private. They were

:13:06. > :13:09.private. They were received in the expectation of privacy, parliament

:13:10. > :13:14.intends for The Prince of Wales to be with the Queen exempt from Feedom

:13:15. > :13:18.of Information. On the one hand, the Prince's supporters say he is

:13:19. > :13:22.perfectly entitled to raise issues with ministers. Others question

:13:23. > :13:27.that. They say he is unelected, he shouldn't interfere. It will now be

:13:28. > :13:32.for the Supreme Court to decide whether these 27 letters should be

:13:33. > :13:38.made public. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News at Clarence House. The time is

:13:39. > :13:41.coming up to 6. 6.15pm. Ed Miliband says Labour won't hold a referendum

:13:42. > :13:46.on Britain's EU membership unless the UK is asked to transfer more

:13:47. > :13:53.powers to Brussels. And, still to come, what a 50th birthday present

:13:54. > :13:58.from friends and family this turned out to be. The horse that just won

:13:59. > :14:02.at Cheltenham. Later, on BBC London. Talks over ticket office closures on

:14:03. > :14:05.the Tube are put on hold, as a mark of respect, after the death of Bob

:14:06. > :14:07.Crow. And, the school criticised by Ofsted for being too scruffy - not

:14:08. > :14:20.the buildings, or the pupils, but A growing skills vacuum in the UK is

:14:21. > :14:23.threatening the future of Britain's high tech industry and the economic

:14:24. > :14:26.recovery - that's according to business leaders. The CBI is calling

:14:27. > :14:29.on the Government to cut university tuition fees for science and maths

:14:30. > :14:35.degrees so that more students learn the skills needed. They say future

:14:36. > :14:37.growth depends on it. As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his

:14:38. > :14:41.budget next Wednesday, George Alagiah has been travelling across

:14:42. > :14:47.the UK asking if we really are on the right road to recovery. Tonight

:14:48. > :14:51.he's in Bristol. Thank you, Sophie, and good evening

:14:52. > :14:54.from Bristol. I'm at Britain's biggest research centre for

:14:55. > :15:00.robotics. About 100 scientists work here - from mechanical engineers to

:15:01. > :15:05.psychologists. They're the best brains in their business. Haze here

:15:06. > :15:11.is trying to see if a robot could work out whether I'm happy or sad.

:15:12. > :15:14.They know what they're doing but the key for our economy is whether their

:15:15. > :15:24.ideas could be turned into money-making businesses.

:15:25. > :15:28.You could buy one of these off-the-shelf but that's where the

:15:29. > :15:33.similarity ends. What's special about this particular drone is that

:15:34. > :15:37.it doesn't need one of these - this old-fashioned radio transmitter. All

:15:38. > :15:45.the decisions are being made by this, a computer. The scientists say

:15:46. > :15:48.a robot could fly itself into inaccessible disaster zones and

:15:49. > :15:54.relay vital information to search and rescue teams. The potential is

:15:55. > :16:03.vast. Many experts believe robotics is the new technological frontier. I

:16:04. > :16:06.see the word chocolate ice. With an ageing population, robots will play

:16:07. > :16:10.an ever bigger role, both in the workplace and at home. I think

:16:11. > :16:16.robots are going to be crucial in our future, particularly as we age.

:16:17. > :16:20.We are living longer but not necessarily more healthy lives.

:16:21. > :16:23.Robots can help support us from a medical point of view and also make

:16:24. > :16:30.us more competitive in manufacturing. Are you getting

:16:31. > :16:34.enough investment? Definitely not. When it comes to the amount spent by

:16:35. > :16:39.government on research and develop it, it turns out we're way behind

:16:40. > :16:44.our competitors. So how much to other countries spend? Jerry here

:16:45. > :16:49.has got the answers. In Germany, it's double the amount. In China,

:16:50. > :16:56.five times as much. In the US, a whopping ten times. So we're in a

:16:57. > :17:00.race to the top. The UK is full of really talented engineers and

:17:01. > :17:03.scientists. Our big challenges, can we support them through funding

:17:04. > :17:09.streams to enable them to stay in the UK to develop their ideas in the

:17:10. > :17:12.UK? Aircraft technology is one area where Britain does have an edge.

:17:13. > :17:19.This is the Airbus design centre just outside Bristol. More than 2000

:17:20. > :17:24.engineers work here. The titanium rods react... But across Britain,

:17:25. > :17:28.we're only turning out a third of the Young engineers the country will

:17:29. > :17:32.need. Britain's aerospace sector is second only to the United States and

:17:33. > :17:37.the government is backing it with hard cash. It is the greatest level

:17:38. > :17:41.of investment from government into aerospace since the days of

:17:42. > :17:46.Concord, since the early 1960s. So when I say it's a big step forward,

:17:47. > :17:53.it's a huge step forward and the area to invest in is innovation. But

:17:54. > :17:56.if robotics is the future, then it will need a similar level of

:17:57. > :18:00.commitment. The great fear is that Britain has the brains but could

:18:01. > :18:09.miss out on making money from their work. So investment is the key but

:18:10. > :18:14.the big question is that the robotics industry is just one of

:18:15. > :18:17.many sector is looking for more taxpayer money. How to allocate that

:18:18. > :18:22.money is what the Chancellor has got to tell us when he delivers his

:18:23. > :18:25.budget next week. Our chief economic correspondent, Hugh Pym, is here.

:18:26. > :18:31.What challenges will George Osborne face? One thing that's become clear

:18:32. > :18:33.in the last couple of days is the need to have a recovery based on

:18:34. > :18:37.more than just consumer spending and borrowing. Uni businesses investing

:18:38. > :18:40.in machinery and equipment and exporting more goods and services

:18:41. > :18:44.abroad. The Chancellor knows that and has admitted the recovery is not

:18:45. > :18:48.as balanced as it should be. That's why we can be pretty sure that in

:18:49. > :18:51.his budget box X-ray, there will be measures to help business, for

:18:52. > :18:58.example, with tax breaks. That's all very well but the scale of the

:18:59. > :19:02.challenges by figures out today - UK research and develop and actually

:19:03. > :19:06.fell in the last year for which figures are available and is now

:19:07. > :19:09.below the UK average. That's business. He'll be tempted to do

:19:10. > :19:12.something to help harmonies and households in the general election.

:19:13. > :19:16.Labour are saying the cost of living squeeze haven't gone away and more

:19:17. > :19:23.needs to be done on gas and Alexa DeVille. We'll find out in exactly a

:19:24. > :19:28.week. -- gas and electricity bills. You will be following that word for

:19:29. > :19:31.word. So, what have we learned on our journey from Scotland to

:19:32. > :19:35.Bristol? It seems to me there are very few people, if any, who doubt a

:19:36. > :19:41.recovery is under way and the business people we spoke to had real

:19:42. > :19:45.optimism. But, from low paid workers to higher rate taxpayers, there was

:19:46. > :19:53.a question that kept recurring - when am I going to feel it in my

:19:54. > :20:10.pocket? That's it from Bristol. Back to you in London, Sophie.

:20:11. > :20:13.Thank you, George. A young man who worked at

:20:14. > :20:15.Westminster and claims the former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans sexually

:20:16. > :20:19.assaulted him has told Preston Crown Court that a senior Tory said the MP

:20:20. > :20:22.couldn't resign because the timing wasn't right. The trial was told

:20:23. > :20:25.that the alleged victim met the Tory Chief Whip Patrick McLoughlin in

:20:26. > :20:28.2009 and asked for Mr Evans, seen here in the middle, to resign. But

:20:29. > :20:32.he says he was told he couldn't because the MP had no immediate

:20:33. > :20:35.family that he could pass it off on. Mr Evans denies one count of rape,

:20:36. > :20:38.two counts of indecent assault and six of sexual assault.

:20:39. > :20:41.A man from Swansea who survived a serious motorbike accident has

:20:42. > :20:43.become one of the first patients in the world to have his face

:20:44. > :20:46.reconstructed using 3D printing. The team at Swansea's Morriston Hospital

:20:47. > :20:49.designed everything on a computer and then created the 3D copies,

:20:50. > :20:51.layer by layer, on a special printer. Our Wales correspondent

:20:52. > :20:53.Hywel Griffith was given exclusive access to the operating theatre.

:20:54. > :20:56.Here's his report. Come and have a seat, Stephen. Nice

:20:57. > :21:00.to see you. His body filled with plates and screws, Stephen Power has

:21:01. > :21:04.had to learn to hide his injuries since his accident 18 months ago.

:21:05. > :21:07.Despite wearing a crash helmet, he remembers little of the impact which

:21:08. > :21:14.left him on a life-support machine and left his skull crushed out of

:21:15. > :21:19.shape. I shouldn't really be wearing glasses. I wear them to disguise my

:21:20. > :21:24.cheek and my eye because with them off, obviously you can see my cheek

:21:25. > :21:30.is out there. My eye is sunk. And my nose is still bent. Surgeons are

:21:31. > :21:32.going to rebuild Stephen's face but, instead of using traditional

:21:33. > :21:38.techniques, the parts they need for the operation have been printed.

:21:39. > :21:45.Using scans of Stephen's skull, the team first changed its shape on a

:21:46. > :21:51.computer. And then, layer by layer, they printed the models, plates and

:21:52. > :21:54.implants for use in surgery. It means every part is designed to fit

:21:55. > :22:01.precisely, removing any guesswork for the surgeon. The team are now

:22:02. > :22:04.working with custom-printed cutting guides designed to perfectly fit

:22:05. > :22:09.Stephen's face. They'll help them restore a natural symmetry. Working

:22:10. > :22:16.on historic injuries makes that a challenge but the printed parts are

:22:17. > :22:18.making a difference. Without the guide, it's up to our free-hand

:22:19. > :22:25.decision-making on the operating table, which could be good, could be

:22:26. > :22:32.not good. With this, if it fits together OK, it means it's exact.

:22:33. > :22:36.It's perfect. Two weeks later and time to see the results. The

:22:37. > :22:40.difference between the two sides is now one millimetre. There's still

:22:41. > :22:46.some swelling but the scans show symmetry has been restored. For

:22:47. > :22:49.Stephen, it feels transforming. I'm just glad they have developed that

:22:50. > :22:55.technology which enabled them to do something like that. It is life

:22:56. > :22:58.changing and it has changed my life. Stephen's place in history is

:22:59. > :23:03.already marked with this exhibit in the Science Museum. The future of 3D

:23:04. > :23:09.printing could see working organs printed within a decade. But for

:23:10. > :23:15.Stephen, the technology has already delivered a huge step forward in his

:23:16. > :23:30.recovery. Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Swansea.

:23:31. > :23:34.Steve Preston had a life-long ambition - to own a race horse. And

:23:35. > :23:37.so, five years ago, his friends and family clubbed together for his 50th

:23:38. > :23:41.birthday and started a fund - which, they told him, could only be used to

:23:42. > :23:44.buy one. And what a present it turned out to be - because today

:23:45. > :23:46.Sire De Grugy won the feature race at the Cheltenham Festival. Joe

:23:47. > :23:49.Wilson reports. There was a problem for the Preston

:23:50. > :23:56.family - what should the Suns by their father for his 50th birthday?

:23:57. > :24:00.Answer, a racehorse, Sire De Grugy. Purchased in France for 50,000 euros

:24:01. > :24:03.via a could she set up by friends and family, it carries the colours

:24:04. > :24:08.of Crystal Palace football club - red and blue. That's him in front,

:24:09. > :24:13.heading for the line. He ran what's known as a perfect race to win one

:24:14. > :24:19.of the biggest prizes in the sport. The Preston family are now wondering

:24:20. > :24:22.what to do with an extra ?200,000, the latest and greatest success for

:24:23. > :24:27.of course they'd imagined would simply give them a few nice days

:24:28. > :24:30.out. Everybody loves it and I think the reason everybody loves it is

:24:31. > :24:35.because they relate to the story. People listen to it and think, "that

:24:36. > :24:41.could be us, we could be that person" . I think that's the reason

:24:42. > :24:44.- it's almost a racehorse for horse racing fans. Prize-giving was

:24:45. > :24:48.conducted by the Duchess of Cornwall, who clearly enjoyed

:24:49. > :24:51.meeting the Preston family. She was very jealous that we had such a

:24:52. > :24:54.great horse and the fact that we only had one horse and he was that

:24:55. > :25:00.great made her even more green with envy. I asked if she would like a

:25:01. > :25:07.scarf and she said yes. So I gave her a scarf and I said, "please give

:25:08. > :25:10.it to your grandson" . Things are rarely simple here at Cheltenham and

:25:11. > :25:14.later the afternoon came the news that another horse had died on the

:25:15. > :25:20.course. This is a place for all emotions, whether millionaires

:25:21. > :25:22.mingle with the masses. And perhaps if Gloria is possible for Sire De

:25:23. > :25:31.Grugy, it is for anybody. Time for the weather now. Cast your

:25:32. > :25:34.mind back to last March. We were gripped by bitter cold across the

:25:35. > :25:39.UK, with disruptive snowfall across many parts of the country. It seems

:25:40. > :25:44.a long time ago now because this is a more typical scene this March,

:25:45. > :25:48.with beautiful blue skies. The daffodils are out and once the fog

:25:49. > :25:51.has cleared, it's pleasantly warm. Overnight tonight, the fog will

:25:52. > :25:57.reform and could become quite an issue. More fog this coming night

:25:58. > :26:00.compared with the last few. Rain turning up across the North West of

:26:01. > :26:06.Scotland. For most of us, another chilly night and it rouble spots,

:26:07. > :26:14.temperatures get a lot lower. -- in rural spots. There is a possible

:26:15. > :26:18.warning from the Met Office. Check your local radio station in the

:26:19. > :26:21.morning. From the Thames Valley into the Severn Valley and the Trent

:26:22. > :26:25.Valley and around into parts of Merseyside, it could be quite nasty.

:26:26. > :26:30.It went before the everywhere and there could be some sunshine in

:26:31. > :26:32.places. Less fog further north. Cloud and breeze for Scotland and

:26:33. > :26:37.rain across the Highlands and Islands. The rain won't go all that

:26:38. > :26:42.far. It will stay across more western areas but the weather front

:26:43. > :26:44.will work down across Scotland so more cloud around, though we could

:26:45. > :26:49.seize and light brightness across the far north. Most of the sunshine

:26:50. > :26:53.will be across Northern Ireland and England and Wales once the fog has

:26:54. > :26:58.cleared. Fine, bright and pleasantly warm, into the mid and possibly high

:26:59. > :27:02.teens in some places but cooler than today across Scotland with the cloud

:27:03. > :27:06.around. Friday could be faulty across the southern half of the UK.

:27:07. > :27:09.Another weather front opens bringing further rain and potentially strong

:27:10. > :27:13.winds across the north and west of Scotland. For the weekend, it's

:27:14. > :27:16.looking pretty good. Dry in most parts with sunshine around.