:00:10. > :00:15.the South West of England. The track was washed away by the February
:00:16. > :00:19.storms - now trains run for the first time in weeks. 300 staff have
:00:20. > :00:29.worked around the clock to get the line open in time for the Easter
:00:30. > :00:33.break. We are back on the map. We are back in business. That is what
:00:34. > :00:36.is really important to us. We'll be hearing from people who say much
:00:37. > :00:37.more should be done to improve the region's infrastructure.
:00:38. > :00:40.Also tonight: In Afghanistan, a western journalist
:00:41. > :00:44.is shot dead and another is wounded on the eve of the country's
:00:45. > :00:47.Presidential election. Michael Schumacher is having moments
:00:48. > :00:51.of consciousness, three months after his skiing accident which caused
:00:52. > :00:52.severe head injuries. Princess Anne says gassing is the
:00:53. > :01:00.most controversial comments about the
:01:01. > :01:02.badger cull from Princess and, who says gassing is the most humane way
:01:03. > :01:09.to kill them to prevent TB. And "it's been nice to see ya" -
:01:10. > :01:16.Brucie bows out from Strictly Come Dancing.
:01:17. > :01:19.On BBC London. We're live with a special programme from the Queen
:01:20. > :01:22.Elizabeth Olympic Park which re-opens tomorrow. It's already got
:01:23. > :01:23.a Royal seal of approval - we get Londoners' verdict on the capital's
:01:24. > :01:47.newest park. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:48. > :01:51.News at six. It was one of the defining images of
:01:52. > :01:57.the winter storms - the battered railway line at Dawlish on the Devon
:01:58. > :02:00.coast. When part of the sea wall protecting the track was swept away,
:02:01. > :02:08.the service which links Cornwall and much of Devon with the rest of the
:02:09. > :02:10.UK was cut off. Today the line re-opened, and the Prime Minister
:02:11. > :02:13.declared the South West "open for business" again. The repairs have
:02:14. > :02:17.cost about ?35 million and have taken eight weeks to complete, with
:02:18. > :02:19.a team of 300 Network Rail staff working around the clock. But while
:02:20. > :02:23.many are celebrating, there are calls for greater improvements to
:02:24. > :02:24.infrastructure in the South West. Our correspondent, Jon Kay, is in
:02:25. > :02:35.Dawlish tonight. It is rare to spend a day at a row
:02:36. > :02:38.waystation and only see smiling faces, only hear positive comments,
:02:39. > :02:45.but that is what it has been like today. That is why this line has
:02:46. > :02:53.reopened. This stretch of track became an emblem for the way the
:02:54. > :02:57.whole of Britain was buttoned by the storms -- battered by the storms and
:02:58. > :03:00.it raised questions about the UK's ability to deal with severe weather
:03:01. > :03:04.and the resilience of the entire infrastructure.
:03:05. > :03:12.A railway reopened and the region reconnected. After eight long weeks,
:03:13. > :03:15.normal service restored. 5:30am and we were on board the first train to
:03:16. > :03:22.cross the new track. Not many passengers, but for early commuters,
:03:23. > :03:27.this was a big day. It is great for tourism, it is a fantastic scenic
:03:28. > :03:31.stretch of the line, it is very important for business, Exeter, the
:03:32. > :03:35.South West, Devon and Cornwall. You have other forms of transport but
:03:36. > :03:41.the railway is the main link. You will not see much this morning. Not
:03:42. > :03:45.at the moment! We slow down as we make our way along the repaired
:03:46. > :03:49.section of the route. Hard to believe this is how it looked two
:03:50. > :03:54.months ago. The main line in and out of the West Country, hanging in
:03:55. > :03:59.midair. Since then, hundreds of engineers have worked around the
:04:00. > :04:03.clock, often in terrible conditions, filling the gap with thousands of
:04:04. > :04:09.tonnes of concrete, and then reinforcing the embankment. It is
:04:10. > :04:12.only when you look at the Victorian sea wall that you realise exactly
:04:13. > :04:17.what has happened here. There is a section which is modern, made of new
:04:18. > :04:22.materials. It has been bolstered and they say it is now stronger than
:04:23. > :04:29.when Brunel built it in the 1800 's. Three cheers for the Orange Army!
:04:30. > :04:32.Hip, hip, Ray! Among the first passengers to arrive was the Prime
:04:33. > :04:39.Minister, who said the project had shown the best of the tissue. It has
:04:40. > :04:45.been a Herculean effort. 56 days and nights, 10,000 tonnes of concrete,
:04:46. > :04:50.150 tonnes of steel, a huge task, carried out not on time, but before
:04:51. > :04:55.time. So thank you for that. How much of a challenge has it been to
:04:56. > :04:59.get to this stage? Recommend this challenge, we have had landslips,
:05:00. > :05:02.holes in the wall to repair, 650 metres of track to replace full. We
:05:03. > :05:08.are really proud of the achievements of the whole industry. Business
:05:09. > :05:13.leaders estimate the closure of this line has cost the South West's
:05:14. > :05:16.economy ?2 million a day. So great relief here that it has reopened
:05:17. > :05:24.interning for the crucial tourist season. -- in time for. We are back
:05:25. > :05:27.on the map, back in business. The man who runs the region's biggest
:05:28. > :05:30.attraction says they're now need to be funding for the wider
:05:31. > :05:36.infrastructure in the South West. When I see the investment on HS2,
:05:37. > :05:42.which is a really good idea, we say, give us a couple of billion, how
:05:43. > :05:47.about making us join the human rights down here. Some question how
:05:48. > :05:52.viable this coastal route is and ask if it should be moved inland. Today,
:05:53. > :05:57.job done, but future, still uncertain.
:05:58. > :06:01.Talking there about this stretch of track and the South West's economy,
:06:02. > :06:05.but where ever you are watching this, it is likely that somewhere
:06:06. > :06:08.near you, the road or the railway was affected by those storms.
:06:09. > :06:15.Maidenhead station in the south-east of England, Crewe station in the
:06:16. > :06:19.north-west. Our resilience has been tested, they say we are back on
:06:20. > :06:23.track here but one engineer said to me earlier, you are only as good as
:06:24. > :06:25.your next storm. Two western journalists have been
:06:26. > :06:29.shot, one fatally, in Afghanistan on the eve of the Presidential
:06:30. > :06:33.election. The country goes to the polls this
:06:34. > :06:39.weekend in what should be the first democratic transfer of power in its
:06:40. > :06:43.history. President Karzai is standing down after 13 years in
:06:44. > :06:46.power. There are three frontrunners to replace him, but the elections
:06:47. > :06:49.have been overshadowed by a spate of bombings in recent weeks. Every one
:06:50. > :06:52.of Afghanistan's 400,000 police and military is deployed to try keep the
:06:53. > :06:57.vote safe and free from the threat of the Taliban. But this morning the
:06:58. > :07:03.two journalists were shot by a man in an Afghan police uniform. From
:07:04. > :07:11.Kabul here's our Afghanistan correspondent, David Loyn.
:07:12. > :07:14.This was the bullet ridden car after a police officer opened fire at the
:07:15. > :07:20.two journalists, both highly experienced. The photographer Anja
:07:21. > :07:24.Niedringhaus died at the scene. The correspondent Kathy Gannon, who was
:07:25. > :07:29.injured, is in hospital. There is huge security, with Afghanistan on
:07:30. > :07:35.lockdown ahead of tomorrow's election. No traffic has been
:07:36. > :07:39.allowed into Kabul since noon. The country has known no president but
:07:40. > :07:45.Hamid Karzai since the Taliban fell. The constitution prevents him from
:07:46. > :07:49.standing again. There has been real enthusiasm around this campaign.
:07:50. > :07:54.Three quarters of the Afghan population are under 25. New voters
:07:55. > :08:01.are excited by the chance to have their voices heard. I feel in
:08:02. > :08:08.myself, responsible that this vote itself, it is a powerful sub I want
:08:09. > :08:14.to use my vote today for having a peaceful life in the future -- it is
:08:15. > :08:23.a power. . The candidates have held rallies across this rugged land. The
:08:24. > :08:27.favoured candidate of the president is trailing in the polls. The former
:08:28. > :08:30.foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah is leading in the race. He is
:08:31. > :08:35.strongly opposed to any concessions to the Taliban. Those who are
:08:36. > :08:39.massacring our people, those who violates the rights of the people of
:08:40. > :08:42.Afghanistan or want to take us back to the stone ages, the people of
:08:43. > :08:47.Afghanistan will not allow them to do that. Another leading candidate
:08:48. > :08:52.is Ashraf got it, but this former World Bank economist has lost the
:08:53. > :08:58.ability by having a former warlord as his running mate. It may sound
:08:59. > :09:02.like a normal election and look like a normal election, but the truth is
:09:03. > :09:08.that fraud could be the big winner in the Afghan campaign, who pays for
:09:09. > :09:11.the most votes, however hard these candidates fight. The anti fraud
:09:12. > :09:18.operation is almost as big as the security operation. It is much
:09:19. > :09:22.more, they want to see a peaceful transition of power and to prevent
:09:23. > :09:29.the return to the bad says. I think the level of enthusiasm you see is a
:09:30. > :09:32.reflection of that realisation. If President Karzai hands over to an
:09:33. > :09:37.elected successor, it will be the first usable handover of power in
:09:38. > :09:40.Afghanistan for more than 100 years. The Prime Minister has again
:09:41. > :09:43.defended the Culture Secretary Maria Miller over her expenses claims -
:09:44. > :09:47.following a series of stinging newspaper headlines. Mrs Miller made
:09:48. > :09:53.a 30-second apology to MPs yesterday for failing to co-operate with a
:09:54. > :09:56.Commons inquiry into her expenses. She was cleared of abusing her
:09:57. > :10:06.allowances, but told to repay nearly ?6,000. Here's our political
:10:07. > :10:09.correspondent, Vicki Young. She is responsible for bringing in
:10:10. > :10:13.stricter controls on the press and she is embroiled in an expenses
:10:14. > :10:18.scandal. It made unpleasant headlines for Maria Miller. She has
:10:19. > :10:22.apologised but some think she has got off lightly and have asked the
:10:23. > :10:25.police to investigate. Maria Miller should resign today, she has failed
:10:26. > :10:28.to apologise, failed to take responsibility for her actions. I
:10:29. > :10:34.think members of the Cabinet should be held to the highest standards and
:10:35. > :10:37.it is a standard she has not met. Today, the Prime Minister tried
:10:38. > :10:41.again to draw a line under the episode. It was found she had made
:10:42. > :10:44.mistakes, she accepted that, repaid the money, she apologised
:10:45. > :10:49.unreservedly to the House of Commons so I think we should leave it there.
:10:50. > :10:57.The inquiry sintered Henri Miller's London home where she lived with her
:10:58. > :11:03.parents -- centred on Maria Miller's London home. MPs on the
:11:04. > :11:07.Standards Committee did order her to play almost ?6,000 she had over
:11:08. > :11:11.claimed on the mortgage, much less than the 44,000 suggested by the
:11:12. > :11:15.independent watchdog. From the outside it seems as if MPs are
:11:16. > :11:19.policing themselves when it comes to expenses and the system is not
:11:20. > :11:23.always transparent. There is another element to this. Maria Miller is
:11:24. > :11:27.overseeing a plan for tighter controls of the press, following the
:11:28. > :11:31.Leveson Inquiry and that has put the government on a collision course
:11:32. > :11:35.with many of the newspapers. When Telegraph reporter 's first
:11:36. > :11:40.investigated Mrs Miller's expenses, they say senior advisers find them,
:11:41. > :11:45.pointing out the responsibility for press regulation. That comes quite
:11:46. > :11:51.close to menace. They're in mind also, there was quite a climate of
:11:52. > :11:56.anti-press hysteria in the aftermath of Leveson. When a Cabinet
:11:57. > :12:00.Minister's advisers ring up newspapers in that fashion and warn
:12:01. > :12:04.them in that fashion, they are bound to take those threats seriously.
:12:05. > :12:05.That has been denied by David Cameron's director of
:12:06. > :12:16.communications. Some colleagues admit Maria Miller
:12:17. > :12:19.could have handled this better, but crucially she has support from the
:12:20. > :12:23.very top. Princess Anne has spoken in favour
:12:24. > :12:28.of gassing badgers as a more humane way of culling them, to limit the
:12:29. > :12:30.spread of TB to cattle. In a wide ranging interview for Countryfile
:12:31. > :12:35.this Sunday, the Princess Royal also talks of having eaten horse meat and
:12:36. > :12:38.finding it "very good". Some animal welfare groups have criticised her
:12:39. > :12:45.remarks. Countryfile's Tom Heap sent this report.
:12:46. > :12:50.Princess Anne has run the estate here for nearly 40 years. Whilst not
:12:51. > :12:56.exactly your average farmer, the business matters. It is not
:12:57. > :13:01.something that comes free, it has got to pay its way, otherwise I
:13:02. > :13:05.can't stay here. Alongside holding events for riders of both horses and
:13:06. > :13:08.mountain bikes, she rears sheep and cows and like many West Country
:13:09. > :13:16.farmers, she has a disease problem. She owns a herd of around 30 cattle,
:13:17. > :13:22.mainly these rare breed once. In the last two years she has lost 15 to
:13:23. > :13:26.TB, including two prize bulls. Last year the government licensed badgers
:13:27. > :13:31.shooting in two TB hotspots but it hasn't worked as they hoped.
:13:32. > :13:36.Princess and believes gassing badgers would be more effective. --
:13:37. > :13:40.Princess Anne believes. Most of the people who have done it in the past
:13:41. > :13:44.will tell you it is a much nicer way of doing it, if it is not a silly
:13:45. > :13:48.expression, because of the way it works. How it works is you go to
:13:49. > :13:53.sleep, basically. Badger welfare groups are horrified and some
:13:54. > :13:58.scientists say gassing doesn't work. I think gassing is not the right way
:13:59. > :14:02.forward. Primarily because farmers deserve an effective solution to
:14:03. > :14:06.this problem. The evidence from the 1970s was that gassing of badgers
:14:07. > :14:13.was not a very effective way of controlling badger numbers. Another
:14:14. > :14:18.one of her views may cause argument a little closer to home. Her
:14:19. > :14:23.brother, Prince Charles, is famously opposed to genetically modified
:14:24. > :14:26.crops, but she isn't. They do add to our ability to perhaps be more
:14:27. > :14:32.efficient users of the land that is good. Because I think in the
:14:33. > :14:35.long-term, when you have the prospect of 9 billion to feed, you
:14:36. > :14:45.are going to need some help in doing that. And to do it well. Her other
:14:46. > :14:48.great passion is horses. She was European event and competed in the
:14:49. > :14:52.Olympics. So eyebrows were raised recently when she suggested eating
:14:53. > :14:58.them. There are too many forces in Britain, thousands are neglected. An
:14:59. > :15:03.awful lot of the abandonments are because they don't perceive there to
:15:04. > :15:10.be any value in the animals. So, OK, chuck them out... They survive or
:15:11. > :15:13.they die. But the meat trade adds value to the animals, so there is
:15:14. > :15:18.some point in keeping it healthy, if it has got an end point that it can
:15:19. > :15:28.go to. Have you ever eaten horse yourself? Certainly. How was it?
:15:29. > :15:31.Very good, actually. Princess Anne believes her experience gives her
:15:32. > :15:36.the authority to speak out but that won't stop opponents being alarmed
:15:37. > :15:39.at hearing such striking views of a senior member of the Royal Family.
:15:40. > :15:40.And you can see the full interview with Princess Anne on Countryfile,
:15:41. > :15:51.this Sunday on BBC One at 7:00pm. The number of cases of the highly
:15:52. > :15:53.infectious illness scarlet fever have reached record levels in
:15:54. > :15:57.England. Health officials are warning that 5000 new cases have
:15:58. > :16:00.been reported since September. They are urging people with symptoms,
:16:01. > :16:10.which include a sore throat, headache, fever and a rash to see
:16:11. > :16:12.their doctors. The former Formula One champion, Michael Schumacher,
:16:13. > :16:15.has shown moments of consciousness after months in a coma, according to
:16:16. > :16:18.his agent. It's just over three months since the 45-year-old
:16:19. > :16:21.suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
:16:22. > :16:28.Here's our sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks. As the waiting for
:16:29. > :16:32.his family turned from days to weeks to months, rumours about whether
:16:33. > :16:37.Formula One 's most decorated driver would ever recover have continued to
:16:38. > :16:43.fly. Today, a small but encouraging sign. His manager said, Michael is
:16:44. > :16:47.making progress on his way. He shows moments of consciousness and
:16:48. > :16:57.awakening. We are on his side during his long and difficult sides --
:16:58. > :17:00.fight. We keep remaining confident. Four days after Christmas,
:17:01. > :17:06.Schumacher skied off piste and hit a rock. He was airlifted to hospital
:17:07. > :17:09.in a critical condition. Since then, doctors have been working to bring
:17:10. > :17:16.him out of a medically induced coma. His friends in Formula One
:17:17. > :17:21.holding their breath. Maybe it is too early for us to start
:17:22. > :17:27.celebrating anything. Let's hope he comes out of the coma and hopefully
:17:28. > :17:31.with the kind of effects we will know as Michael Schumacher and let
:17:32. > :17:36.him live a very positive life thereafter. We do not want him to
:17:37. > :17:42.come back and drive racing cars, we just want him around. Experts remain
:17:43. > :17:47.concerned at the sheer length of time he has been in hospital. From a
:17:48. > :17:51.large experience of patients who have been in a medically induced
:17:52. > :17:57.coma for a long period of time, I would be cautious. The duration of
:17:58. > :18:03.the medically induced coma is a good surrogate for the severity of the
:18:04. > :18:08.underlying condition. Michael Schumacher won seven world titles in
:18:09. > :18:13.total. Along the way, he claimed many Formula One records, most pole
:18:14. > :18:18.positions, the fastest laps, most races won. He is one of the greatest
:18:19. > :18:22.drivers, if not the greatest driver, of all time. One of the wind was the
:18:23. > :18:30.first-ever Bahrain Grand Prix a decade ago. This weekend, goodwill
:18:31. > :18:35.messages as the sport known for speed can only wait for news they
:18:36. > :18:40.can truly celebrate. Our top story... After major damage caused
:18:41. > :18:44.by the winter storms repairs on the key West Country rail link are
:18:45. > :18:48.completed ahead of schedule. And still to come... Sir Bruce Forsyth
:18:49. > :18:55.on why the time is right to step aside from Strictly. Later on BBC
:18:56. > :18:58.London... Claims of a culture of fear at The Met. The body which
:18:59. > :19:01.represents rank and file officers labels performance targets as
:19:02. > :19:03.draconian. And Tom Daley's new coach on her move across the pond to the
:19:04. > :19:17.Aquatic Centre in the Olympic Park. In the last few years, we have
:19:18. > :19:20.heared about the collapse of some of the big names on the British high
:19:21. > :19:23.street - Woolworths, HMV, Oddbins - among others. But a new report
:19:24. > :19:28.suggests it hasn't all been doom and gloom for the average shopping
:19:29. > :19:31.street. An analysis of the number of empty stores shows that just 20% of
:19:32. > :19:35.those on the high street remain vacant. Compare that to 29% in
:19:36. > :19:41.shopping centres, and even more in retail parks, nearly 40% vacant. Our
:19:42. > :19:50.business correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports from Weston super
:19:51. > :19:54.Mare. First it was Woolworths, then it was one household name after
:19:55. > :20:00.another. Many did not vanish but they did end up with fewer shops,
:20:01. > :20:12.creating an awful lot of gaps. What has happened since? We went to
:20:13. > :20:19.Weston-super-Mare where Woollies is now a Poundland. In days gone by,
:20:20. > :20:26.this was a prime destination for shoppers. This branch closure
:20:27. > :20:31.another blow for the town. This store has been sitting empty for two
:20:32. > :20:36.years. It has now got a new owner. The top floors could eventually be
:20:37. > :20:42.transformed into new flats. And there might be a bit of retail once
:20:43. > :20:48.more down here. This is one empty store that is about to get a new
:20:49. > :20:52.lease of life. Mary Portis, the queen of shops, she did a review of
:20:53. > :20:57.the future of the high street for the Government and told me today's
:20:58. > :21:02.figures were encouraging. It shows the high street is not dead. We are
:21:03. > :21:06.using it in a different way and preparing a new type of high street
:21:07. > :21:10.for the way consumers want to live. Turns out, retail parks are
:21:11. > :21:15.suffering more when it comes to the fallout from the big
:21:16. > :21:23.administrations. Meet the boss of the 99p chain. He snapped up dozens
:21:24. > :21:27.of the vacant stores, all of them on the high street. After Woolworths
:21:28. > :21:31.went bust, a lot of landlords were worried. They were worried about
:21:32. > :21:36.empty sites. A lot of them did quick deals at discounted rates to fill
:21:37. > :21:42.up. That is part of the reason why us discounters have kept the high
:21:43. > :21:46.street going. The tide has not completely turned. Weston-super-Mare
:21:47. > :21:50.still has a fight on its hands. There are plenty of empty shops of
:21:51. > :22:00.the main high street, gaps which may not be so easy to fill. One of
:22:01. > :22:06.Scotland 's most prominent campaigners for Scottish
:22:07. > :22:15.independence, Margo MacDonald, has died at the age of 70. She later
:22:16. > :22:19.served as a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothian region.
:22:20. > :22:24.She had been suffering ROM Parkinson's disease for 20 years.
:22:25. > :22:31.She called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide. Deeply
:22:32. > :22:42.serious, occasionally coquettish, the political partisan who shaved
:22:43. > :22:48.within Karthik -- constraints. In 1973, Margo MacDonald won Glasgow
:22:49. > :22:54.Govan in the by-election. I am the MP for Govan. Get that straight.
:22:55. > :23:00.Guff and got it, Scotland got it but she was to spend just 112 days in
:23:01. > :23:05.that role as MP, ousted at the general election. She was the Deputy
:23:06. > :23:11.Leader during the Nationalist honeymoon of the 1990s. She quit the
:23:12. > :23:15.party in the internal conflict that followed defeat in 1979. She was
:23:16. > :23:22.much more than a politician, she first qualified as a PE teacher.
:23:23. > :23:27.Joining us is Margo MacDonald. Good morning. Here with the youthful
:23:28. > :23:34.Jeremy Paxman, she built a career as a respected broadcaster. The rebirth
:23:35. > :23:38.of the Scottish Parliament brought her back to front line politics.
:23:39. > :23:45.Scotland seemed happy to see her. She fought hard on issues like
:23:46. > :23:53.health care. In 2003, she quits the SNP again and triumphs as a party of
:23:54. > :23:58.one. Her politics of the left but of the world. If we artificially
:23:59. > :24:06.confined our interests to our small corner, we will think small thoughts
:24:07. > :24:11.and do small things. She was the mother of the Scottish Parliament.
:24:12. > :24:14.She was somebody who believes passionately in Scottish
:24:15. > :24:22.independence. She was very political. She managed to transcend
:24:23. > :24:27.party politics. She was backing assisted suicide for the terminally
:24:28. > :24:32.ill, facing intolerable strain. And, of course, it was partly personal as
:24:33. > :24:38.she coped with the degenerative disease. I do not want to burden any
:24:39. > :24:44.doctor, any friend or family member. I want to find a way in which I can
:24:45. > :24:48.take the decision to end my life in case I am unlucky enough to have the
:24:49. > :24:54.worst form of Parkinson's near the end of life. Despite that illness,
:24:55. > :24:59.to the last, she campaigned for Scottish independence, only to die
:25:00. > :25:04.just months before the referendum. Margo MacDonald, who died today at
:25:05. > :25:09.the age of 70. England have beaten South Africa to reach a second
:25:10. > :25:12.successive Women's World Twenty20 final. They restricted South Africa
:25:13. > :25:15.to 101, then reached their target within 17 overs. They will meet
:25:16. > :25:19.Australia in the final on Sunday. After ten years, Sir Bruce Forsyth
:25:20. > :25:22.is stepping down as the regular host of Strictly Come Dancing. The
:25:23. > :25:26.86-year-old says it is the right time to leave the rigour of hosting
:25:27. > :25:30.the live shows. The controller of BBC One said Strictly's success was
:25:31. > :25:47.due in vast amounts to him. Here's our entertainment correspondent,
:25:48. > :25:53.Lizo Mzimbo. For the last ten years, he has ruled Saturday nights. But
:25:54. > :26:01.for no longer. Sir Bruce Forsyth is stepping down from one of TV 's most
:26:02. > :26:07.popular shows. It is sad. I love the show. I have loved doing it. Always
:26:08. > :26:12.the time comes when you have to say to yourself, look yourself in the
:26:13. > :26:19.mirror saying, should you be doing this any longer? When the show began
:26:20. > :26:26.back in 2004, no one was quite sure how successful it would be. You will
:26:27. > :26:33.see sequence fly and bad-tempered tantrums. And that is just the boys
:26:34. > :26:39.dressing room! It was an instant hit with viewers. It is not just
:26:40. > :26:44.Strictly 's loss, Saturday night vision is saying farewell to one of
:26:45. > :26:52.its most enjoying stars. Nice to see you, to see you nice. For many
:26:53. > :26:56.years, he hosted The Generation Game. Few believed he would still be
:26:57. > :27:02.pulling in millions of viewers when he was still into his 80s. He has
:27:03. > :27:09.made the right decision at the right time. It is important to know when
:27:10. > :27:16.to call it a day. It is the greatest viewing figures ever achieved by
:27:17. > :27:21.Strictly. He is not retiring quite yet. He will still do some Strictly
:27:22. > :27:29.specials and he will definitely keep watching, whoever takes over from
:27:30. > :27:36.him, on the regular live shows. Follow that, Peter.
:27:37. > :27:45.Things will quicken up as we go into the weekend. You will notice the
:27:46. > :27:49.breeze beginning up. Definitely worth factoring some rain into your
:27:50. > :27:56.plans for the next couple of days. The first batch will head into the
:27:57. > :28:06.south-west. A little bit chillier than it was last night with rules
:28:07. > :28:11.sports down to three, four degrees. -- rural spots. As we go through the
:28:12. > :28:16.day, most of the rain will hang around in the north and west. The
:28:17. > :28:19.further east you are, the better the chance of getting away with a
:28:20. > :28:27.largely dry day. During the afternoon, grey and fairly dismal at
:28:28. > :28:31.times in the South West and Wales. Onshore breezes keep temperatures
:28:32. > :28:36.down on the south coast. Inland, it is still mild air. A little bit of
:28:37. > :28:40.rain perhaps for the big race at Aintree and patchy rain in Northern
:28:41. > :28:46.Ireland. In Scotland, the rain on and off during the day. Chilly on
:28:47. > :28:51.the eastern coasts. Things looking a little better as we go into Sunday.
:28:52. > :28:54.A definite change and a brisk south-westerly wind. The next
:28:55. > :28:59.weather system will come in and it will be more active. There will be
:29:00. > :29:04.more heavy rain at times across England, Wales and Scotland. Tending
:29:05. > :29:07.to come and go. In Northern Ireland, a good chance of things drying up
:29:08. > :29:12.and brightening up on Sunday. Despite the cloud and patchy rain,
:29:13. > :29:17.it is a mild direction with temperatures up around the mid
:29:18. > :29:19.teens. Some dry weather now and again. Thank you very