:00:14. > :00:23.tireless campaigner for socialism, he is remembered across the
:00:24. > :00:26.political divide. The thing about Tony Benn is that you always knew
:00:27. > :00:32.what he stood for and who he stood up for, which is why he was admired
:00:33. > :00:37.across the political spectrum. The country has lost a great campaigner
:00:38. > :00:41.and writer, and someone whose words will be followed keenly for many
:00:42. > :00:43.years to come. A sad day for British politics.
:00:44. > :00:46.We'll look back at the life of a man whose often divisive brand of
:00:47. > :00:48.politics remained undimmed to the end.
:00:49. > :00:50.Also tonight: A Tory peer and three others are killed in a helicopter
:00:51. > :00:52.crash. It's emerged he had concerns about
:00:53. > :00:55.defects. Handshake but no deal - talks
:00:56. > :01:00.between Russia and the US fail to find any common ground over Ukraine.
:01:01. > :01:03.An automatic signal from the missing Malaysian airliner suggests it flew
:01:04. > :01:14.on for five hours after air traffic control lost contact with it. Lord
:01:15. > :01:15.Windermere has lifted the Gold Cup. And a rank outsider becomes the
:01:16. > :01:21.toast of Cheltenham. Six years in jail for the Muslim
:01:22. > :01:25.convert who mocked the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby.
:01:26. > :01:26.And fighting HS2 - Boris Johnson's father says the Mayor should join
:01:27. > :01:51.his campaign. Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:52. > :01:54.News at Six. Tony Benn, the leading voice of the
:01:55. > :01:58.radical left in British politics for more than 50 years, has died. He was
:01:59. > :02:02.88. There were tributes from across the political spectrum today. The
:02:03. > :02:11.Labour leader, Ed Miliband, called him a "champion of the powerless".
:02:12. > :02:14.His family said simply, "We are comforted by the memory of his long,
:02:15. > :02:20.full and inspiring life". Nick Robinson looks back now on his
:02:21. > :02:27.career. We will not accept a cut that they
:02:28. > :02:32.are trying to make. No protest, no demo, no march was quite complete
:02:33. > :02:36.without Tony Benn. The man who headline once proclaimed to be the
:02:37. > :02:40.most dangerous man in Britain, a sentiment labour leaders sometimes
:02:41. > :02:45.shared, joked that age had transformed him into a national
:02:46. > :02:49.treasure. The thing about Tony Benn is that you always knew what he
:02:50. > :02:53.stood for and who he stood up for. That is why he was admired across
:02:54. > :02:57.the political spectrum. There were people who agreed and disagreed with
:02:58. > :03:01.him, including in my party, but people admired that sense of
:03:02. > :03:07.conviction and integrity that shone through from Tony Benn. Politics,
:03:08. > :03:11.Tony Benn always insisted, was about issues, not personalities. Easy to
:03:12. > :03:16.say if you are one of the biggest little personalities of the modern
:03:17. > :03:20.age. I disagreed with most of what he said but he was always engaging
:03:21. > :03:24.and interesting and you were never bored when reading or listening to
:03:25. > :03:28.him, and the country has lost a great campaigner, a great writer,
:03:29. > :03:32.and someone whose words will be followed keenly for many years to
:03:33. > :03:38.come. A sad day for British politics. Anthony Wedgwood Benn was
:03:39. > :03:43.born into the establishment. The modern face of the Labour Party in
:03:44. > :03:47.the 1960s was the son of a viscount, who had to fight in the courts to
:03:48. > :03:54.announce his title so he could run for election and become plain Tony
:03:55. > :03:57.Benn MP. You have defeated the courts, you have changed the
:03:58. > :04:05.constitution of this country by your own power. Benn was not always
:04:06. > :04:09.radical. As a minister in the 1970s, he unveiled Concorde as a symbol of
:04:10. > :04:18.the new high-tech Britain promised to create. But he concluded that he
:04:19. > :04:22.and his party had failed to change society because of all the policies
:04:23. > :04:29.which he claimed Labour's leadership had simply refused to implement.
:04:30. > :04:39.Substantial cut in arms expenditure ruled out. Tax, ruled out. The
:04:40. > :04:45.imposition of selective import controls, ruled out. Anti-Europe,
:04:46. > :04:49.antenatal, pro National lies in leading industries, many of his
:04:50. > :04:53.colleagues to spare. Tony Benn won the argument but failed, just, in a
:04:54. > :05:08.bid to become Labour's deputy leader. Tony Benn, 49.574. Denis
:05:09. > :05:12.Healey, 15.4 to six. The party would soon split. The left had wrapped ash
:05:13. > :05:18.macro had won, but some walked out of form a new party. Michael foot
:05:19. > :05:22.led Labour to its worst ever election defeat on a manifesto
:05:23. > :05:25.mocked as the longest suicide note in history. The left blamed the
:05:26. > :05:31.splitters, but the right blamed Benn. Michael foot said he was a
:05:32. > :05:35.prophet of the old Testament, and he was prophetic in the way he spoke,
:05:36. > :05:41.seeing the great vision, but that belonged to the past. Funnily, such
:05:42. > :05:46.a modern minded man, technically, he was old-fashioned, politically. He
:05:47. > :05:49.longed for a society that had gone. The tide of ideas was not with him,
:05:50. > :05:56.but in Parliament he continued the fight. The Humphrey at -- the
:05:57. > :05:59.Humphrey Applebys of Europe have got together and say, you can't do
:06:00. > :06:03.this, Minister, because we have agreed with the Dutch that if they
:06:04. > :06:07.do this the Belgians won't object to what the Italians have said to... So
:06:08. > :06:14.the minister has got no power anyway! The man who had fought to
:06:15. > :06:21.get into the Commons left it in 2001, joking that it would allow him
:06:22. > :06:25.to spend more time on politics. Anybody hear from new Labour, your
:06:26. > :06:34.money will be refunded if you leave quietly. And through all this, he
:06:35. > :06:40.kept a diary, and unmatched chronicle of post-war British
:06:41. > :06:44.politics and his philosophy. The real division in society is between
:06:45. > :06:47.the people who create the wealth by working and those who own the
:06:48. > :06:53.wealth, and those who own the wealth have far too much power, and they
:06:54. > :06:57.use it to control those who create the wealth. After the last of eight
:06:58. > :07:02.volumes was published, he spoke about life and death. At my age, you
:07:03. > :07:07.ask yourself how long you have got and what it will be like when you
:07:08. > :07:13.die. My wife said that she thought death was a great adventure. She was
:07:14. > :07:18.dying of cancer for five-year 's. Her courage, when she knew her time
:07:19. > :07:23.was up, was very great. It impressed me very much. So I learned from her
:07:24. > :07:32.how to die, and I have thought a lot about it. But I am not afraid of
:07:33. > :07:36.dying at all. He was a towering figure in British
:07:37. > :07:41.politics and yet you could say in latter years he was very much a
:07:42. > :07:45.marginal figure. Yes. You could also say in conventional terms that he
:07:46. > :07:50.failed, never becoming party leader or Prime Minister. He never saw most
:07:51. > :07:55.of his beliefs actually implemented by his party or any government,
:07:56. > :07:58.indeed. And yet, as you say, he was towering and he did not feel, and
:07:59. > :08:05.most people feel that he was not any sort of failure. I think in part
:08:06. > :08:08.that is because of the extraordinary, stirring rhetoric. It
:08:09. > :08:11.still has the capacity to get the hairs on the back of your neck up,
:08:12. > :08:16.whether you agree or disagree with him. There was also a sense that he
:08:17. > :08:20.could draw on an immense knowledge of history, comparing himself with
:08:21. > :08:24.the levellers. He would draw on his own personal knowledge of having met
:08:25. > :08:29.Clement Attlee, the wartime leader for labour, and Winston Churchill,
:08:30. > :08:33.too. And it is perhaps his memories of all that, written in those
:08:34. > :08:38.diaries, that will last the longest. Because I think, not just in decades
:08:39. > :08:42.but possibly in hundreds of years, political historians will go to
:08:43. > :08:46.those words, they will see what Tony Benn said about life in Britain,
:08:47. > :08:50.about the political choices, and they will remember him, above all,
:08:51. > :08:53.as one of the last politicians who fought in the war and fought with
:08:54. > :08:57.passion, every day of his life, for what he believed in.
:08:58. > :09:00.And there's a special programme on Tony Benn's life this evening - Tony
:09:01. > :09:04.Benn, Labour's Lost Leader, on BBC Two, at 11.10pm.
:09:05. > :09:08.It's emerged that a Conservative peer whose helicopter crashed last
:09:09. > :09:11.night in Norfolk, killing him and three others, had started legal
:09:12. > :09:15.proceedings against the helicopter's manufacturer. Lord Ballyedmond was
:09:16. > :09:17.suing AgustaWestland, claiming his helicopter had a number of defects,
:09:18. > :09:24.including problems with navigation systems. Sian Lloyd is in Gillingham
:09:25. > :09:34.for us near where the helicopter crashed.
:09:35. > :09:38.Half an hour ago, the bodies of the four men were removed from the
:09:39. > :09:42.scene. The helicopter came down in the field behind me, which is
:09:43. > :09:46.obscured from public view, but protecting this site has been a
:09:47. > :09:51.priority for those carrying out this investigation.
:09:52. > :09:57.The conditions could not have been worse. The helicopter crashed in fog
:09:58. > :10:03.near the village of Gillingham. Daylight revealed the scale of the
:10:04. > :10:09.accident. 500 yards from where it took off, the remains of the
:10:10. > :10:12.AgustaWestland helicopter. An experienced pilot who lives nearby
:10:13. > :10:20.says he was surprised it was flying in heavy fog. Visibility criteria,
:10:21. > :10:24.when taking off and landing. If the fault was as bad as it was where I
:10:25. > :10:30.was at the time, I was surprised he would take off in something like
:10:31. > :10:33.that. On board, 70-year-old Lord Ballyedmond, a multimillionaire
:10:34. > :10:37.entrepreneur who founded a pharmaceutical company and had been
:10:38. > :10:40.a politician in the Irish parliament. Lord Ballyedmond had
:10:41. > :10:46.raised concerns about possible defects with the helicopter. The
:10:47. > :10:50.manufacturer, AgustaWestland, said it could not comment, juju the
:10:51. > :10:56.ongoing investigation, but it did say there could be many causes,
:10:57. > :11:00.including technical or human error. -- due to the ongoing investigation.
:11:01. > :11:04.Whether it was mechanical failure or the weather that was responsible for
:11:05. > :11:10.the crash is the subject of an air accident in the. This man, who works
:11:11. > :11:15.nearby, saw the aircraft moments before it crashed. It came over the
:11:16. > :11:21.back. It was pitching at a 45 degrees angle. I thought, he is in
:11:22. > :11:25.trouble. The countryside between Lord Ballyedmond's stately home and
:11:26. > :11:31.the crash site remains cordoned off, as investigators continue to
:11:32. > :11:34.sift through the wreckage. Six hours of talks between Russia
:11:35. > :11:37.and the US have broken up in London with Russia's Foreign Minister
:11:38. > :11:40.saying the two countries have no common vision over the crisis in
:11:41. > :11:43.Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov insisted there's no plan to invade the
:11:44. > :11:47.country, despite a build up of Russian troops on the eastern
:11:48. > :11:49.border. US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said America will not
:11:50. > :11:53.recognise Sunday's referendum in Crimea over whether the region
:11:54. > :12:01.should remain in Ukraine. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget
:12:02. > :12:07.Kendall has more. And intensive six hours of talks in
:12:08. > :12:11.the sunshine of the US Ambassador's London garden. At stake, the future
:12:12. > :12:15.of relations between the West and Russia. But at the end of it, no
:12:16. > :12:21.narrowing of the gap over Ukraine's future. The urgency is the
:12:22. > :12:25.referendum planned for Sunday in Crimea, which means the region could
:12:26. > :12:30.either break away from Ukraine, or even opt to join Russia, which Kiev
:12:31. > :12:35.and the West say would be illegal and a violation of Ukraine's
:12:36. > :12:39.sovereignty. With preparations underway, there seems little chance
:12:40. > :12:45.of calling it off. But US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to London
:12:46. > :12:48.for one last try, and to warn his Russian counterpart that if Crimea
:12:49. > :12:54.is effectively annexed by Russia, there will be grave consequences. We
:12:55. > :13:00.believe that a decision to move forward by Russia, to ratify that
:13:01. > :13:05.vote officially, would in fact be a back door annexation of Crimea, and
:13:06. > :13:10.that it would be against international law. But Sergei Lavrov
:13:11. > :13:13.said this agreements remain, and indicated that if Crimea votes to
:13:14. > :13:19.join Russia, Moscow will not stand in its way. Can you be clear for us,
:13:20. > :13:24.Mr Lavrov, after Sunday's referendum, do you expect Crimea to
:13:25. > :13:31.become independent, or to become part of the Russian Federation?
:13:32. > :13:34.TRANSLATION: As for the referendum in Crimea, I and President Putin
:13:35. > :13:37.have said we will respect the choice of the Crimean people and make clear
:13:38. > :13:43.our position once the outcome is known. It is pretty clear that these
:13:44. > :13:46.last-ditch talks have got nowhere and there is nothing the West can do
:13:47. > :13:52.if the Russian speakers of Crimea want to break away from Ukraine and
:13:53. > :13:57.join Russia. And the stage is set for new Western sanctions against
:13:58. > :13:59.Russia next week, and a further deterioration in East-West
:14:00. > :14:07.relations, with who knows what consequences. And, immediately, a
:14:08. > :14:11.further worry, the violence that exploded in eastern Ukraine last
:14:12. > :14:15.night. Sergei Lavrov today said Russia had no plans to intervene,
:14:16. > :14:20.but his Foreign Ministry warned that Russia reserved the right to protect
:14:21. > :14:23.its compatriots, a worrying hint of possible things to come.
:14:24. > :14:27.A week after the Malaysian airlines 777 airliner went missing, it's
:14:28. > :14:29.emerged that it could have flown on for up to five hours after air
:14:30. > :14:36.traffic controllers lost contact with it. 13 countries are now
:14:37. > :14:38.engaged in the ever widening search. It disappeared over the South China
:14:39. > :14:43.Sea shortly after it left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. Now there's a
:14:44. > :14:45.suggestion the plane may have been deliberately flown across the Malay
:14:46. > :14:50.Peninsula towards the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. The
:14:51. > :14:56.search area has now been extended to cover 27,000 square nautical miles.
:14:57. > :14:59.57 ships and 48 aircraft are searching the Indian Ocean, the
:15:00. > :15:12.South China Sea and the Malacca Straits. From the Straits, Rupert
:15:13. > :15:17.Wingfield-Hayes reports. In Beijing, the hostility towards
:15:18. > :15:28.officials was palpable. One of the most important things we have been
:15:29. > :15:30.doing throughout this event is not speculating. But no one here is
:15:31. > :15:32.satisfied. How can their loved ones have simply disappeared? It is
:15:33. > :15:41.incomprehensible. But astonishingly, a week on, there is
:15:42. > :15:46.still no trace of the flight. Today the BBC confirmed that the plane
:15:47. > :15:51.continued to send out a signal via satellite for several hours after
:15:52. > :15:56.radar contact was lost. In the last 24 hours we've seen a significant
:15:57. > :16:00.shift of resources of ships and aircraft from the original search
:16:01. > :16:05.area in the Gulf of Thailand on the far side of this peninsula over here
:16:06. > :16:09.to the states and even far out into the Indian Ocean. And the latest to
:16:10. > :16:13.join the shift has been the U.S. Navy which are sending one of its
:16:14. > :16:21.destroyers are peer into the area. What we don't know, what remains
:16:22. > :16:25.unclear, is why. This captain with a Malaysian airlines pilot for 35
:16:26. > :16:30.years and says there was no way there now starting to search the
:16:31. > :16:39.Indian Ocean just on a hunch at a filling it doesn't work like that.
:16:40. > :16:43.These are not your own properties. The British, public at some point in
:16:44. > :16:49.time, have got any ships, can send there? India and all that. It is our
:16:50. > :16:54.own property you can do what we want, so there must be some level of
:16:55. > :17:03.strong conviction there. Something as happened over there. The prime
:17:04. > :17:07.and for the missing today. Many here think his government knows much more
:17:08. > :17:16.about the flight than it is letting on. Our top story this evening. The
:17:17. > :17:22.former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn has died. He was 88. And can
:17:23. > :17:34.Brian O'Driscoll crown his last game for Ireland by winning the Six
:17:35. > :17:40.Nations? I Street banks which netted a gang more than ?1 million. And
:17:41. > :17:43.sitting down to raise millions for the Alan Shearer and Robbie Savage
:17:44. > :17:51.in a Wembley, addition with a difference.
:17:52. > :17:56.In March 2011, a demonstration began in the southern Syrian town of Daraa
:17:57. > :18:01.against the government of President Assad. It sparked a civil war that,
:18:02. > :18:04.three years on, is still raging. Since the conflict began, activists
:18:05. > :18:09.say 140,000 people have died but the figures are hard to verify.
:18:10. > :18:12.Six-and-a-half million people have been displaced from their homes
:18:13. > :18:20.within Syria and two and half million have fled the country. One
:18:21. > :18:23.of the biggest refugee camps is in Zaatari in Jordan and now has its
:18:24. > :18:28.own power supply, schools and shops. From there, our correspondent
:18:29. > :18:35.Yolande Knell reports. Buying groceries at the supermarket gives a
:18:36. > :18:39.taste of normal life. This new Safeway store is for Syrian
:18:40. > :18:45.refugees. It's just opened at the vast Zaatari Camp in northern
:18:46. > :18:52.Jordan. And there's no need for cash here. The shop accepts United
:18:53. > :18:55.Nations food vouchers. As I walk home with this man and his little
:18:56. > :18:58.son, he points out other improvements. Like most people in
:18:59. > :19:04.the camp, he comes from Dehra in Syria where the revolution started
:19:05. > :19:08.exactly three years ago. TRANSLATION: We thought it would
:19:09. > :19:12.last for a month or two, a maximum of a year. But it continues until
:19:13. > :19:15.now. After the conflict in Syria escalated into a full-scale civil
:19:16. > :19:25.war, refugees began flooding out of the country. There are now about
:19:26. > :19:32.100,000 Syrians living here at as Zaatarai Camp. And these makeshift
:19:33. > :19:35.homes are being constantly upgraded. Many refugees have rigged up their
:19:36. > :19:38.own electricity. As children settle into schools here, aid workers are
:19:39. > :19:42.being forced to look to the longer term. The Syrians themselves have
:19:43. > :19:52.understood unfortunately they will have to stay a little longer. We and
:19:53. > :19:58.the authorities receiving and assisting people as well. But for
:19:59. > :20:02.some, enough is enough. Every day, buses take dozens of refugees to the
:20:03. > :20:06.border so they can cross back into Syria. Most here long to make the
:20:07. > :20:14.same journey. But it's so fraught with danger, that, for now, they
:20:15. > :20:16.dare not. Two former Conservative Chancellors have urged George
:20:17. > :20:20.Osborne to do more to help those in the 40p tax rate in his budget next
:20:21. > :20:23.week. One, Lord Lawson, who introduced it in 1988, said its
:20:24. > :20:28.original target had been the rich and not what he called the middling
:20:29. > :20:34.professionals being hit today. Chris Mason reports. Godfrey Owen from
:20:35. > :20:38.Northamptonshire worked in the car industry. His wife, who is disabled,
:20:39. > :20:47.can't work and they are bringing up four children. Every year, he finds
:20:48. > :20:50.more of his income taxed at 40%. We think are getting squeezed more and
:20:51. > :20:55.more and it makes you wonder why, in some cases, why you want to earn
:20:56. > :21:00.more. It makes me disappointed with the way the government is acting. In
:21:01. > :21:15.recent years, more and more people have been dragged into paying 40p
:21:16. > :21:18.tax on some of their income. When the coalition came to power in 2010,
:21:19. > :21:21.people began paying the higher rate once they earned a little under
:21:22. > :21:24.?44,000. That rate was paid by around three million taxpayers. But
:21:25. > :21:27.now, the higher rate threshold has fallen to around ?41,500. Bringing
:21:28. > :21:36.nearly 1,500,000 more people into the 40% tax rate than in 2010. With
:21:37. > :21:38.a budget next week, two of the Chancellor's predecessors, Lord
:21:39. > :21:42.Lawson and Lord Lamont, have said far too many people are paying the
:21:43. > :21:51.higher rate and it was only intended for the rich. Some current MPs are
:21:52. > :21:55.hung happy, too. 40% tax is a high rate of tax on the people now paying
:21:56. > :21:59.it are by no means rich. Not what it was intended for. I think the need
:22:00. > :22:03.to ease the squeeze on them as well as taking more people out of tax
:22:04. > :22:07.altogether. But those making the case for a change in the 40p rate,
:22:08. > :22:10.including two men who used to live at number 11 Downing Street are
:22:11. > :22:12.likely to be disappointed by the current resident because George
:22:13. > :22:15.Osborne and the coalition are instead prioritising raising what is
:22:16. > :22:18.known as the personal allowance, ensuring that by next month, for the
:22:19. > :22:23.vast majority of people, there weren't any income tax on the first
:22:24. > :22:26.?10,000 of earnings. Visually impaired skier Jade Etherington and
:22:27. > :22:29.her guide Caroline Powell have won a fourth medal in Sochi making them
:22:30. > :22:33.the most successful British women in the history of the paralympic winter
:22:34. > :22:36.games. The pair added a silver medal in the super combined event to bring
:22:37. > :22:41.their tally to three silvers and a bronze. It's one of the tightest
:22:42. > :22:44.finishes to the Six Nations in years with England, Ireland and France all
:22:45. > :22:47.able to claim the title tomorrow but it's also the last time the sport's
:22:48. > :22:50.most capped player, Brian O'Driscoll, will pull on the Irish
:22:51. > :22:53.jersey. Our chief sports correspondent Dan Roan looks ahead
:22:54. > :23:02.to what promises to be a memorable weekend for rugby fans. Argue be the
:23:03. > :23:08.greatest player ever generation, Brian O'Driscoll has transcended the
:23:09. > :23:12.sporty graced. But having bid an emotional farewell to its home crowd
:23:13. > :23:16.in Dublin last weekend, the legendary Irish man is now preparing
:23:17. > :23:21.to pay the 141st and final international of his career.
:23:22. > :23:25.Essentially, this week is the last. If starting to hit home a little
:23:26. > :23:30.bit. Inside, there will be more emotion this week. But, hopefully I
:23:31. > :23:38.can keep it all in check, and are projected in the best possible way.
:23:39. > :23:43.He came of age in Paris 14 years ago for the best hat-trick propelling
:23:44. > :23:48.him to sporting stardom. Fitting that is last cap will be in the same
:23:49. > :23:52.stadium. Ireland almost certain to clinch the six Nations title if they
:23:53. > :23:56.can beat France and give their talisman the perfect sendoff. But
:23:57. > :24:01.six Nations glory could yet be claimed here in Rome where a third
:24:02. > :24:06.contender for the title is hoping for a ride. England must win well
:24:07. > :24:10.against Italy tomorrow, ideally by 15 points, or rely on France beating
:24:11. > :24:15.favourites Ireland who currently enjoy a superior points difference.
:24:16. > :24:18.These England players know that victory here in Rome may not be
:24:19. > :24:23.enough to deny Ireland the title but they will be desperate to make a
:24:24. > :24:27.statement and maintain momentum ahead of their very own World Cup
:24:28. > :24:31.next year. I think we're making good progress and we have a long way to
:24:32. > :24:36.go, but we want to make sure we finished the six Nations with a
:24:37. > :24:39.positive performance, no doubt. Wins like this over Wales last weekend
:24:40. > :24:46.had given insurgent England renewed hope. Now they and their fans have
:24:47. > :24:50.their sights firmly set on the big prize at the end of the six nations
:24:51. > :24:53.that will go down as a classic. A rank outsider came from last in the
:24:54. > :24:57.field to claim victory in the Gold Cup at Cheltenham today. Lord
:24:58. > :25:01.Windermere, whom bookies valued at 20-1, took the race in a photo
:25:02. > :25:08.finish. Our Sports Correspondent Joe Wilson watched the action. Joe. It
:25:09. > :25:14.is a thrilling race. It wasn't much fun if you back to the favourite in
:25:15. > :25:17.the Gold cup. But if you ever wondered why around a quarter of a
:25:18. > :25:23.million people come to this festival over the four days, I think today's
:25:24. > :25:27.racing provided the answer. This can be the most thrilling sport often,
:25:28. > :25:30.and also, frequently, the toughest. Cheltenham knows that just to ride
:25:31. > :25:34.requires nerves of steel and bones ready to be broken. Horses aren't
:25:35. > :25:42.predictable. Darryl Jacob found himself flung onto a TV camera at
:25:43. > :25:45.235. Horse fine, jockey conscious, taken to hospital. As was Ruby
:25:46. > :25:53.Walsh, an earlier faller. The Gold Cup began without them. There were
:25:54. > :25:58.two horses expected to dominate. Defending champion Bob's Worth who
:25:59. > :26:01.never got near the lead and Conte. The red silks pounding on the front
:26:02. > :26:05.but fading. Suddenly in the final seconds it was wide open. A mass
:26:06. > :26:10.finish of outsiders led by a nostril by Lord Windermere. This is his
:26:11. > :26:14.trainer, Jim Culloty, pushed to the edge of reason. Winning jockey Davy
:26:15. > :26:20.Russell has experienced enough of the ordeals to appreciate the big
:26:21. > :26:25.prize. From a very young age all I want to do is ride horses. It didn't
:26:26. > :26:35.matter when or where or how, just ride horses. So, you know, you
:26:36. > :26:38.mature. And they are the chances you take. In a few thrilling seconds,
:26:39. > :26:41.the Gold cup provided the drama this festival was invented for. Time for
:26:42. > :26:44.a look at the weather. Here's John Hammond. Is it going to be
:26:45. > :26:53.springlike? Yes, good news. Driver most of us
:26:54. > :26:58.but not all of us but it will be sunny for most of us but not for all
:26:59. > :27:01.of us, but it will be breezy for all of us. That breeze clearing away,
:27:02. > :27:06.the last of the fog across southern areas and that's good news. No such
:27:07. > :27:10.hazards tonight but lots of cloud across the country. Furthermore,
:27:11. > :27:15.some rain across the north and west of Scotland in particular. Dribs and
:27:16. > :27:21.drabs further south. I'll start of the weekend. But cloudy. Cloudy in
:27:22. > :27:25.northern part of the country, particularly in Scotland. Patchy
:27:26. > :27:30.rain further south that the cloud will break up in Northern Ireland
:27:31. > :27:37.and southern and central parts of England and Wales. Temperatures will
:27:38. > :27:41.respond to the sunshine nicely, too. Southern areas will see the highest
:27:42. > :27:46.temperatures. 17-18 possible in a few spots. It will be breezy of an
:27:47. > :27:49.has-been. Further north and west, somewhat cooler, because the breeze
:27:50. > :27:58.will be stronger and there'll be more cloud around across Scotland.
:27:59. > :28:02.Gusty wind, 40-50 mph. A lot of cloud across the north and west. A
:28:03. > :28:07.fair bit of rain. As we go through tomorrow night into Sunday, the wind
:28:08. > :28:11.continues and pushes further cloud down across the country. Most of the
:28:12. > :28:14.rain on the far north-west but it will be increasingly cloudy day,
:28:15. > :28:20.even across the south-east on Sunday. Here it will be warmest on
:28:21. > :28:27.Sunday with temperatures up to 19 Celsius. Thick cloud further north
:28:28. > :28:32.and west. To sum up the weekend, to be perfectly honest, it will be OK.
:28:33. > :28:37.Great, thank you very much. A reminder of our main story. Tributes
:28:38. > :28:40.have been paid to the former Labour Cabinet minister Tony Benn who's
:28:41. > :28:42.died aged 88. That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from
:28:43. > :28:43.me