:00:00. > :00:10.The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller resigns after anger over her
:00:11. > :00:13.expenses claims. The Culture Secretary finally stood down after a
:00:14. > :00:23.week of damaging headlines, saying it was entirely her own decision. I
:00:24. > :00:27.hoped that I could stay but it has become clear to me over the last few
:00:28. > :00:33.days that this has become an enormous distraction. If a normal
:00:34. > :00:36.person had done it we would be locked up.
:00:37. > :00:39.As Labour accuse the Prime Minister of an error of judgement for not
:00:40. > :00:44.sacking her, we'll be asking how damaging it has been. Also tonight.
:00:45. > :00:49.A man is cleared of killing police officer Keith Blakelock during riots
:00:50. > :00:52.in north London in 1985. A tough day for Oscar Pistorius as
:00:53. > :00:56.he's repeatedly questioned about his version of events on the night he
:00:57. > :00:59.killed Reeva Steenkamp. The changing shape of men - warnings
:01:00. > :01:05.about the rapidly increasing numbers injecting steroids.
:01:06. > :01:09.And a Royal crawl about - Prince George on his first public
:01:10. > :01:13.engagement in New Zealand. Tonight on BBC London. The victims
:01:14. > :01:16.of an alleged kidnap and robbery attempt by the police speak of their
:01:17. > :01:19.horror at finding out they were targeted. And the Government reveals
:01:20. > :01:21.its compensation package for the thousands living on the route of
:01:22. > :01:44.HS2. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:45. > :01:46.News at Six. After days of hostile headlines over her expenses claims,
:01:47. > :01:51.the Culture Secretary Maria Miller has resigned from the Cabinet. She
:01:52. > :01:56.said she'd stepped down to end what she called an "enormous distraction"
:01:57. > :01:59.for the government. The Prime Minister said allowing her to
:02:00. > :02:02.apologise and continue her duties in recent days had been the "right
:02:03. > :02:05.thing to do". But the Labour leader Ed Miliband accused Mr Cameron of a
:02:06. > :02:15."terrible error of judgement" in keeping Mrs Miller in her post. This
:02:16. > :02:21.from Nick Robinson. Going, going, gone. The pressure too much. After a
:02:22. > :02:28.week of it Maria Miller lost the will to fight on. Breaking news.
:02:29. > :02:32.The culture secretary Maria Miller. Downing Street has revealed she has
:02:33. > :02:38.resigned. I was cleared of the central allegation made about me by
:02:39. > :02:42.a Labour member of Parliament. I hoped that I could stay but it has
:02:43. > :02:47.become clear over the last few days that this has become an enormous
:02:48. > :02:50.distraction. By distraction she means this. Seven days of hostile
:02:51. > :02:55.headlines which began when an enquiry into her expense claims
:02:56. > :03:00.ordered her to stand up and apologise to the Commons. Which she
:03:01. > :03:05.did. Sort of. The committee has recommended that I apologise to the
:03:06. > :03:09.house for my attitude to the commissioners enquiries and I of
:03:10. > :03:15.course unreservedly apologise. And that was almost that. 32 seconds
:03:16. > :03:19.later she sat down and the questions began about her expense claims for
:03:20. > :03:22.this house in Wimbledon. She was cleared of the original charge,
:03:23. > :03:27.asking taxpayers to fund it as a home for her elderly parents. But
:03:28. > :03:33.the standards committee of MPs asked her to pay back almost ?6,000
:03:34. > :03:36.because she had failed to cut your mortgage claims when interest rates
:03:37. > :03:41.fell. The independent polyamory -- Parliamentary Commissioner
:03:42. > :03:47.originally suggested she should pay back ?45,000. Meantime the prime
:03:48. > :03:53.minister backed his minister again and again. I think people should
:03:54. > :03:57.leave it at that. I think she should get on with the job of being culture
:03:58. > :04:02.secretary. His aides claimed he had been ready to defend her again today
:04:03. > :04:08.at Prime Minister 's questions. He said six days ago she had done the
:04:09. > :04:13.right thing and should leave it at that. This was a terrible error of
:04:14. > :04:18.judgement. David Cameron said it was right to give Maria Miller at the
:04:19. > :04:21.chance to apologise and clear her name. This is a good and honest
:04:22. > :04:28.Parliament with good and hard working people in it. He just does
:04:29. > :04:31.not get it. That is what he has shown today. He promised in
:04:32. > :04:37.opposition to be an apostle for better standards and has spent the
:04:38. > :04:41.past week being an apologist for unacceptable behaviour. If he thinks
:04:42. > :04:45.it is leadership to fire someone at the breast sign of trouble rather
:04:46. > :04:50.than giving someone a chance to get on with the job, that is not
:04:51. > :04:55.leadership but weakness. What did for Maria Miller was the fact that
:04:56. > :04:59.number ten Downing St was told by many Tory MPs that she was costing
:05:00. > :05:03.them votes, a message that was passed on to her yesterday. If there
:05:04. > :05:09.is one winner from this saga it is the new culture secretary, said Jude
:05:10. > :05:13.Javed. The son of a Pakistani bus driver who became his party's first
:05:14. > :05:18.Muslim MP. But the Cabinet now has one woman viewer around the table.
:05:19. > :05:24.There are now just three after the emotional decision of Maria Miller
:05:25. > :05:35.to quit. I want to make sure that the situation is clear to everybody
:05:36. > :05:47.and make sure I can move on. What is clear is the country has yet to move
:05:48. > :05:50.on. From its fury about MP expenses. Well today the Prime Minister said
:05:51. > :05:53.there was more to do to "reassure the public" about MPs' expenses. So
:05:54. > :05:56.how does the system work? And how could it be changed? Our Political
:05:57. > :06:02.Correspondent Vicki Young sent this report from Maria Miller's
:06:03. > :06:07.Basingstoke constituency. It is less than an hour from
:06:08. > :06:11.Westminster but voters here in the Basingstoke constituency of Maria
:06:12. > :06:17.Miller say MPs are living on another Janet. Politicians insist they have
:06:18. > :06:21.cleaned up their act since the scandal over their expenses was
:06:22. > :06:24.first exposed. It is not a method that has got through here. They make
:06:25. > :06:30.the rules and they are the ones failing the rules. If a normal
:06:31. > :06:34.person had done it we would be locked up. It is one rule for them
:06:35. > :06:40.and a different one for us. If you are a Cabinet minister you have to
:06:41. > :06:46.be above reproach and she is not. It is a different level. And the
:06:47. > :06:53.apology was next to useless. They're using the rules to own benefit. They
:06:54. > :06:57.have changed the rules since 2010 but that does not make a difference.
:06:58. > :07:02.They have been big changes to the system since the expenses scandal a
:07:03. > :07:06.few years ago, including restrictions on what MPs can claim
:07:07. > :07:08.for their accommodation. But also the way the complaints are
:07:09. > :07:15.investigated. Maria Miller's expenses data back to 2005 so she
:07:16. > :07:19.was investigated under the old system. That meant an independent
:07:20. > :07:24.commissioner that a panel of MPs had the final say. Now that has changed
:07:25. > :07:30.and an independent body looks into these matters which does not include
:07:31. > :07:34.any MPs. I think the system is perfectly adequate. The fact is you
:07:35. > :07:39.cannot have orders put out to third parties. Parliament must have some
:07:40. > :07:44.responsibility for policing itself in a partly because we are the
:07:45. > :07:50.people who make the laws of the land and we are accountable. No longer a
:07:51. > :07:53.minister, Maria Miller could now be spending more time here at
:07:54. > :07:58.constituency home. Her departure from the Cabinet no does mean she's
:07:59. > :08:04.entitled to a payoff of just over ?70,000. And our political editor
:08:05. > :08:11.Nick Robinson is in the Houses of Parliament now. How damaging is it
:08:12. > :08:15.that expenses are back in the headlines all over again as Mac it
:08:16. > :08:21.does feel sometimes that nothing has really changed. It is now five years
:08:22. > :08:24.since the scandal of MP expenses first broke. Back then we had a
:08:25. > :08:31.prime minister defending some of his own, a leader of the opposition
:08:32. > :08:33.saying he simply did not get it. But that was David Cameron as leader of
:08:34. > :08:39.the opposition attacking Gordon Brown. Words that were quoted back
:08:40. > :08:43.at him today by Ed Miliband. David Cameron believes the rules have
:08:44. > :08:45.changed much more than people have changed much more than people
:08:46. > :08:50.realise. Today Maria Miller is not entitled to a second home to be paid
:08:51. > :08:55.for in any way, and even if she was she could only claim rent and not a
:08:56. > :09:00.mortgage. And if she abused the system MPs would have no say on the
:09:01. > :09:04.penalty used against her. This was a so-called legacy case but I think
:09:05. > :09:07.she believed she was under attack, for the way she looked after and
:09:08. > :09:12.brought up her family and looked after her parents. And as a result
:09:13. > :09:15.she simply paid no attention at all and perhaps the Prime Minister made
:09:16. > :09:19.the same mistake, to the fact of what would emerge as she was
:09:20. > :09:23.defending herself. The fact that tens of thousands of pounds had been
:09:24. > :09:28.paid to her in the form of housing payments. The real legacy of
:09:29. > :09:33.expenses was that fury of voters did not go away, it was simply waiting
:09:34. > :09:39.to be woken again. Now Labour may not do that. One senior source put
:09:40. > :09:44.it to me that the view of the electorate was a plague on all your
:09:45. > :09:47.houses. India may be, but the politicians who are not in here, not
:09:48. > :09:52.least UKIP, they certainly will exploit it.
:09:53. > :09:54.A man has been cleared of killing the police officer Keith Blakelock
:09:55. > :09:58.during the Broadwater Farm riots in north London in 1985. Nicholas
:09:59. > :10:01.Jacobs, who was 16 at the time, denied murdering the officer, who
:10:02. > :10:06.was stabbed 43 times while on duty that night. At the Old Bailey the
:10:07. > :10:09.jury heard from three witnesses who said they saw Mr Jacobs take part,
:10:10. > :10:16.but the defence team questioned their credibility. Our correspondent
:10:17. > :10:20.Robert Hall was in court. On the pavement outside the Old
:10:21. > :10:25.Bailey those who had supported Nicky Jacobs gathered to mark the end of a
:10:26. > :10:29.five-week trial which they say should never have gone to court. Mr
:10:30. > :10:33.Jacobs had protested his innocence from the outset. His supporters
:10:34. > :10:39.included Winston Silcott and Mark Braithwaite and wiki -- who were
:10:40. > :10:43.cleared of the murder of PC Blacklock back in 1991. This case
:10:44. > :10:49.was as close as you could come to our legal lynching as we have ever
:10:50. > :10:56.seen. The case was built on the testimony of three lying witnesses
:10:57. > :11:00.who told lies through their teeth. The story began on a north London
:11:01. > :11:08.estate known locally as the farm. Broadwater Farm, 1000 flats linked
:11:09. > :11:12.by overhead walkway. In 1985, completely out of control on that
:11:13. > :11:16.October night. Rising tension between the community and the police
:11:17. > :11:21.had finally boiled over. Officers tried and failed to contain several
:11:22. > :11:30.hundred people who attack them with petrol bombs and other missiles. It
:11:31. > :11:36.was scary. It was scary. I believe that is what hell is like. Seeing so
:11:37. > :11:43.many cars warning and people going backwards and forwards. PC Keith
:11:44. > :11:46.Blacklock was with colleagues call to protect firefighters on the first
:11:47. > :11:50.floor of the complex, but they were driven back down the stairwell. As
:11:51. > :11:55.Keith Blakelock ran out of this car park he tripped over a low wall and
:11:56. > :11:59.he fell. His colleagues were powerless to reach an as he was
:12:00. > :12:04.surrounded by a crowd. He was punched, kicked and stamped. At his
:12:05. > :12:09.postmortem he was found to have more than 40 wounds to his body. You
:12:10. > :12:19.could see their arms moving up and down, moving up and down. And with
:12:20. > :12:24.machetes and knives just cutting into his body. Although it was from
:12:25. > :12:28.a distance I knew exactly what was happening. From the outset there
:12:29. > :12:33.were questions over the subsequent investigation. The crime scene
:12:34. > :12:36.inadequately protected it. Suspects interviewed without lawyers present.
:12:37. > :12:42.Arrests which the community claimed were prompted by internal pressure
:12:43. > :12:47.rather than hard evidence. In 2004 there were 14 further arrests. But
:12:48. > :12:53.only Nicholas Jacobs was charged. The case against Jacobs depended on
:12:54. > :12:57.three anonymous witnesses. Two of them had received financial
:12:58. > :13:01.assistance from police. All had been granted immunity. It is really
:13:02. > :13:06.tricky simply because there are no forensics, no CCTV from those days
:13:07. > :13:11.and the only witnesses to a crime like that are people involved in
:13:12. > :13:13.writing. We do not have people of good character walking through the
:13:14. > :13:18.area. You have to deal with difficult people. We have not given
:13:19. > :13:24.any financial incentive to anyone in this trial. Tonight the widow of PC
:13:25. > :13:30.Blacklock and his three sons said they were sad and disappointed at
:13:31. > :13:33.the verdict. Events of that evening in 1985 hang heavy over those who
:13:34. > :13:36.believe that justice must be done and those convinced that old Reggie
:13:37. > :13:40.juices will taint that investigation.
:13:41. > :13:43.A postmortem examination has failed to establish what caused the death
:13:44. > :13:46.of Peaches Geldof. The body of the 25-year-old broadcaster and writer
:13:47. > :13:50.was found at her home in Wrotham on Monday. Kent Police say the results
:13:51. > :13:54.of toxicology tests may not be known for several weeks.
:13:55. > :13:56.The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has faced tough
:13:57. > :14:00.questioning from the prosecution about his version of events on the
:14:01. > :14:04.night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. And there were gasps in
:14:05. > :14:08.court as the prosecutor produced a graphic photo of her head wounds and
:14:09. > :14:16.told Oscar Pistorius to look at it. The athlete denies murder. Andrew
:14:17. > :14:23.Harding reports from Pretoria. For two days he has been a
:14:24. > :14:25.remorseful, fragile figure in court. Today the prosecution decided it was
:14:26. > :14:30.time to remind people who the rails at Tim is. As usual no images of
:14:31. > :14:37.Oscar Pistorius giving evidence but here is the prosecutor launching
:14:38. > :14:43.into a furious cross-examination. I made a mistake. Your repeated three
:14:44. > :14:50.times. What was your mistake. I took Reeva's life. You shot and killed
:14:51. > :14:59.her. Take responsibility for that. I do. Then say it. Say yes. I shot and
:15:00. > :15:04.killed Reeva Steenkamp. I did, my lady. And that was just the start.
:15:05. > :15:11.Next, amateur video footage of the stories with friends at a firing
:15:12. > :15:17.range. It exploded, my right. You know the saying it's -- the same
:15:18. > :15:22.happened to Reeva's head. And to reinforce the point, a photograph of
:15:23. > :15:27.her head wound, to graphic to show your. It came up on the screen in
:15:28. > :15:34.court. Pistorius's relatives were distraught. Reeva's mother simply
:15:35. > :15:38.bowed her head. Pistorius refused to look. I will not look at a picture
:15:39. > :15:44.where I was tormented by what I saw and felt that night. I remember, I
:15:45. > :15:49.do not have to look. I was there. As viszla objected. I think it is
:15:50. > :15:54.uncalled for. I see no basis for that. The athlete broke down,
:15:55. > :16:00.sobbing. The focus then moved to the toilet door, the one Oscar Pistorius
:16:01. > :16:12.shop through four times. Today he told the court he had done so
:16:13. > :16:17.accidentally. I did not intend to shoot anyone. I fired my firearm
:16:18. > :16:24.before I had time to think. I believe somebody was coming out of
:16:25. > :16:31.the toilet. This goes to the heart of the case,
:16:32. > :16:35.the prosecution can group he committed murder. Our top story this
:16:36. > :16:38.evening: The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller resigns after anger over her
:16:39. > :16:41.expenses claims, saying she had become a distraction. And still to
:16:42. > :16:49.come, new exams for A-level and GCSE students in England. Are they really
:16:50. > :16:52.going to be tougher? On BBC London: We will have the latest from
:16:53. > :16:56.Tottenham as the man accused of killing PC Keith Blakelock is
:16:57. > :16:58.cleared. And on board a tall ship on the Thames ahead of the biggest
:16:59. > :17:10.regatta in the capital for 25 years. There has been a dramatic rise in
:17:11. > :17:13.the number of body-builders injecting themselves with anabolic
:17:14. > :17:17.steroids according to one of the country's biggest drugs charities
:17:18. > :17:20.called CRI. The charity, which provides needle exchanges in
:17:21. > :17:23.England, says the number of steroid users it has helped has jumped by
:17:24. > :17:32.645%, from 290 people in 2010 to more than 2000 last year. Catherine
:17:33. > :17:35.Burns from Radio 1's Newsbeat has been investigating and found fears
:17:36. > :17:45.that a shift in men's attitudes to body image could be fuelling an even
:17:46. > :17:49.bigger rise. Dave Crosland claims his biceps
:17:50. > :17:56.could be among the biggest in Britain. He spends hours in the gym,
:17:57. > :18:01.it eats 10,000 calories a day and takes anabolic steroids. He has been
:18:02. > :18:07.a careful user over many years, but thinks there is a growing number of
:18:08. > :18:12.people who are more reckless. There are a group of 17-25 year olds who
:18:13. > :18:16.do not train and have a poor diet and are using steroids for a quick
:18:17. > :18:23.fix and they are mixing it with recreational drugs. Anabolic
:18:24. > :18:26.steroids are class C drugs and they can help you train longer and harder
:18:27. > :18:32.and stimulate muscle growth, but there is a list of side effects,
:18:33. > :18:37.everything from acne, hair loss, mood swings through to live,
:18:38. > :18:41.fertility and heart problems. Dave takes tablets and inject
:18:42. > :18:48.steroids and every couple of months he goes to stock up on equipment at
:18:49. > :18:53.a needle exchange. The drugs charity CRI says one third of its needle
:18:54. > :18:59.exchanges now see more people on steroids than illegal drugs like
:19:00. > :19:02.heroin and crack cocaine. They are different from other substance users
:19:03. > :19:07.because they can lead a normal life, but the risks when it comes to
:19:08. > :19:14.injecting is the same as any other drug user and they could get
:19:15. > :19:18.hepatitis and HIV. Some experts think several thousand people take
:19:19. > :19:23.steroids and that number is rising. This is partly due to a culture
:19:24. > :19:27.change among men with many obsessing about their appearance and feeling
:19:28. > :19:33.extra pressure to get an ideal physique. We cannot ignore the
:19:34. > :19:37.stresses and the amount of exposure young men have towards a stylised
:19:38. > :19:42.body image, to performing, to having is basic -- specific way of
:19:43. > :19:50.looking, which is more muscular than in the past. Drug workers are saying
:19:51. > :19:55.people are injecting more drugs to change their appearance. Now the
:19:56. > :19:59.health watchdog NICE says needle exchanges in England need to adapt
:20:00. > :20:01.to meet all these different types of drug users.
:20:02. > :20:04.GCSEs and A-levels are to get tougher in England according to the
:20:05. > :20:07.Government. It says it is tackling grade inflation and the dumbing down
:20:08. > :20:10.of subjects. There will be a bigger emphasis on maths skills and problem
:20:11. > :20:13.solving in science subjects. The first students to be affected will
:20:14. > :20:20.be those sitting their exams in 2017. With me now is Reeta
:20:21. > :20:27.Chakrabarti. How much are these exams going to change? Quite a bit.
:20:28. > :20:34.We are getting details about the contents that is being phased in in
:20:35. > :20:38.England in GCSEs. The grades will be from 9-1 and an AES grade in
:20:39. > :20:44.A-levels will not count towards the final grade. Looking at GCSEs in
:20:45. > :20:48.history we will get more British history than we have at the moment
:20:49. > :20:56.and everybody will do 3 euros of history, medieval, early and modern.
:20:57. > :21:01.In science we will have more cutting edge themes, things like Gene
:21:02. > :21:06.technology and space physics. A-levels will be taught in schools
:21:07. > :21:10.from 2015 and in sciences everybody will do 12 practical is, more than
:21:11. > :21:16.at the moment, although they will not be included in the final grade.
:21:17. > :21:21.It will be a registry of a pass or a fail. For economics there will be
:21:22. > :21:26.things about financial regulation and the role of central banks, a nod
:21:27. > :21:36.to the financial crisis of recent years. Ministers say this will add
:21:37. > :21:39.two more rigorous and more challenging exams, but teaching
:21:40. > :21:42.unions say it is too rushed and it could be confusing because children
:21:43. > :21:45.will be sitting old and new exams at the same time. This is England only
:21:46. > :21:50.because Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking to existing exams. In
:21:51. > :21:52.Afghanistan votes are still being counted after Saturday's
:21:53. > :21:55.presidential election. More than seven million people defied Taliban
:21:56. > :21:58.threats of violence by going to the polls to select a successor to
:21:59. > :22:01.President Karzai. A top priority for the new leader will be to try to
:22:02. > :22:05.reduce growing numbers of civilian casualties, among them young
:22:06. > :22:08.children. Our correspondent Karen Allen tracked down a badly injured
:22:09. > :22:11.young girl she met in a Kabul hospital last year. You may find
:22:12. > :22:22.some of the images in this report disturbing.
:22:23. > :22:27.This is what happens to little girls in Afghanistan. This saving
:22:28. > :22:32.numeral's body was shattered when she took the full force of a
:22:33. > :22:37.grenade. I met her in Kabul by chance six months ago after fears
:22:38. > :22:43.she would not pull through. Now she is an American success story. She
:22:44. > :22:46.has been at school following more surgery, flown here by a medical
:22:47. > :22:54.charity to a foreign land far from home. She is making a slow but
:22:55. > :22:58.steady recovery. She has got new friends and is talking again, but
:22:59. > :23:06.behind the smile she is still deeply traumatised by what happened. Left
:23:07. > :23:13.behind was her father. He described the family home where still everyday
:23:14. > :23:18.people live in fear of their lives. TRANSLATION: I am scared because we
:23:19. > :23:22.live in the mountains. When there is fighting between the Afghan army and
:23:23. > :23:28.the Taliban there is no guarantee people will not get killed. This was
:23:29. > :23:34.the first time her father saw pictures of his little girl. Just
:23:35. > :23:38.like foreign friends who have been there to help his daughter, he
:23:39. > :23:42.believes a foreign, military presence has helped his country as
:23:43. > :23:48.well. In Afghanistan funerals for the young have become a familiar
:23:49. > :23:55.sight. 2013 saw a record number of women and children killed and hurt.
:23:56. > :24:00.Many children have taken some explosive materials in their houses.
:24:01. > :24:06.They are injured by these explosions. Do you fear you will
:24:07. > :24:13.have to carry on treating these injuries for many years to come? I
:24:14. > :24:18.think so, I will be busy in the future as well. Tomorrow she will be
:24:19. > :24:23.home, but her family fears a future, when troops finally leave,
:24:24. > :24:28.these are uncertain times and it would not take much for their
:24:29. > :24:33.country to slide back into war. The school student in the US state
:24:34. > :24:37.of Pennsylvania has stabbed 19 pupils and a security guard during
:24:38. > :24:42.an attack in classrooms and hallways. Officials say nine people
:24:43. > :24:46.from Franklin regional high school in Pittsburgh were seriously
:24:47. > :24:52.injured. Most of the victims were aged between 14 and 17. A
:24:53. > :24:55.16-year-old boy has been arrested. The Australian team searching for
:24:56. > :25:01.the missing Malaysian airlines plane has picked up signals. Ocean Shield
:25:02. > :25:05.has recorded two more transmissions from the same area of the Indian
:25:06. > :25:11.Ocean as those heard over the weekend. They are optimistic the
:25:12. > :25:12.remains of the aircraft will be found.
:25:13. > :25:15.It was his first public engagement and at just eight months old Prince
:25:16. > :25:19.George seemed to enjoy his royal crawl about. The prince met ten
:25:20. > :25:22.other babies at his play date in New Zealand as part of the Duke and
:25:23. > :25:29.Duchess of Cambridge's tour of the country. Our royal correspondent
:25:30. > :25:34.Nicholas Witchell was there. He was not afraid to assert himself,
:25:35. > :25:38.but that is perfectly normal for an eight-month-old boy. His crawling,
:25:39. > :25:44.and people said there were moments when he was not far short of
:25:45. > :25:49.walking. For George it was something new, a brief but boisterous start to
:25:50. > :25:53.what will potentially be a lifetime of bumping into people and being the
:25:54. > :25:57.centre of attention. He had been brought by his mother to a playgroup
:25:58. > :26:03.at Government House. Ten babies of roughly the same age as him. At
:26:04. > :26:08.first he was more bashful and seemed more interested in his mother's
:26:09. > :26:14.here, but then a girl caught his eye. Not an entirely successful
:26:15. > :26:19.encounter. She retired in tears. George tried again with someone
:26:20. > :26:25.else. He spotted at what he wanted, so he reached out and grabbed it.
:26:26. > :26:30.Once again, mum had to come to the rescue. He was his own little man
:26:31. > :26:35.and took control and went into the middle of the circle of toys. He
:26:36. > :26:42.propped himself up and he owned the place, basically. George at eight
:26:43. > :26:46.months, starting to learn about the world around him, though still
:26:47. > :26:53.oblivious as to what his own future holds. For now he seemed happiest
:26:54. > :26:56.playing with his rattle. Now he has completed his first public
:26:57. > :27:01.engagement, George can relax at Government House. He will not be
:27:02. > :27:09.seen again in public until he leaves New Zealand with his mother and
:27:10. > :27:11.father in about a week's time. Let's have a look at the latest
:27:12. > :27:21.weather. Conditions in Wellington are pretty
:27:22. > :27:29.similar to overhear in the next few days. It will be relatively mild by
:27:30. > :27:37.day and the temperatures will be getting into the teens, but it will
:27:38. > :27:42.still be a bit chilly at night. Rain has been across western Scotland
:27:43. > :27:47.during the day and it pushes steadily into Northern Ireland.
:27:48. > :27:52.Elsewhere it is a dry night. In rural areas it will get down to two
:27:53. > :28:00.or three and it will be a bit fresh first thing. For many it is a dry
:28:01. > :28:04.and a bright day. Rain early on in Northern Ireland and West Scotland.
:28:05. > :28:08.A brighter day in the north-west of Scotland. A few light showers in
:28:09. > :28:15.south-west England and South Wales, but generally in the south it will
:28:16. > :28:20.be dry. Temperatures get up to 16 or 17 and there should be some decent
:28:21. > :28:27.spells of sunshine in the East. A different feel in the north-west of
:28:28. > :28:30.England as the rain pushes in. Early reign in southern Scotland and
:28:31. > :28:35.Northern Ireland, but it will be brighter by the afternoon. A few
:28:36. > :28:40.showers in the North West on Friday, but generally another fine
:28:41. > :28:47.day. Most places are dry and bright with some sunshine. Temperatures get
:28:48. > :28:53.up to 11 or 12 and in the south they get into the mid-teens. It is very
:28:54. > :28:59.similar as we go into the weekend. There will be a bit more clout and
:29:00. > :29:03.maybe some rain. It is looking pretty good for the London Marathon.
:29:04. > :29:09.There is more information on the website.
:29:10. > :29:17.The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller has resigned after anger over her
:29:18. > :29:18.expenses claims, saying she had become a distraction. Now it is