:00:00. > :00:10.The man charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing in 1998
:00:11. > :00:13.appears in court. Seamus Daly is accused of being part of the single
:00:14. > :00:18.bloodiest terrorist attack in the history of the Northern Ireland
:00:19. > :00:23.Troubles. A car bomb was detonated in Omagh town centre on a busy
:00:24. > :00:33.Saturday afternoon. Relatives of those who died were in court today.
:00:34. > :00:37.We have to know the truth about what happened and we have to cede those
:00:38. > :00:39.responsible being brought before the court with proper evidence and
:00:40. > :00:45.sentence. Also on the programme tonight: The Co-op says sorry to its
:00:46. > :00:48.customers as it announces the biggest losses in its history. Oscar
:00:49. > :00:51.Pistorius insists in court that he did not hear his girlfriend scream
:00:52. > :00:54.when he fired his gun at the locked toilet door. Getting better, NHS
:00:55. > :00:58.performance across the UK is improving according to a major new
:00:59. > :01:04.study. The woman who brought as Adrian Mole, the author Sue
:01:05. > :01:07.Townsend, has died at the age of 68. On BBC London: Christmas chaos at
:01:08. > :01:13.Gatwick, a report calls on all airports to plan for disruption.
:01:14. > :01:14.Jailed for life, four Turkish gang members are sentenced for the murder
:01:15. > :01:38.of an innocent man in Hackney. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:39. > :01:41.News at Six. It was the single biggest atrocity of the Troubles in
:01:42. > :01:44.Northern Ireland and today the man accused of carrying out the Omagh
:01:45. > :01:53.bombing appeared in court. Seamus Daly is 43 and from the Irish
:01:54. > :01:56.Republic. He was arrested on Monday. He is charged with 29 counts of
:01:57. > :01:59.murder as well as two charges relating to the explosion in August,
:02:00. > :02:02.1998. He has already been found liable for the attack in a civil
:02:03. > :02:04.case but has always denied involvement. Our Ireland
:02:05. > :02:13.correspondent Chris Buckler is in Omagh for us now.
:02:14. > :02:17.Here in the centre of Omagh they have built a garden, a place where
:02:18. > :02:22.people can come and remembered their loved ones who were killed in that
:02:23. > :02:27.bombing. On all of these stones engraved by the names of those who
:02:28. > :02:34.died. What strikes you is not just the names, but the ages. They are
:02:35. > :02:39.both young and old, even a woman pregnant with twins. Today almost 16
:02:40. > :02:43.years after that explosion which has become notorious as the worst
:02:44. > :02:47.atrocity of the Troubles, a man appeared in court charged with
:02:48. > :02:52.causing all of their deaths. Amid high security Seamus Daly was driven
:02:53. > :02:59.to court to be charged with murdering 29 people. He appeared
:03:00. > :03:04.handcuffed in the dock as details of 23 offences were read out, the vast
:03:05. > :03:08.majority connected to an explosion in the heart of Omagh. The bomb
:03:09. > :03:16.transformed a busy Saturday afternoon shopping into a day of
:03:17. > :03:20.horror. It is a bombing that stands out, even among Northern Ireland's
:03:21. > :03:27.bloody years of violence these images remain scarred amateurs and
:03:28. > :03:30.memories. There have been inquests, many investigators, even court
:03:31. > :03:35.cases, but no one has ever been convicted of the murders that were
:03:36. > :03:42.committed here. In court today a detective inspector set out the case
:03:43. > :03:45.against Seamus Daly. He said the police had forensic, telephone and
:03:46. > :03:49.witness evidence. But Seamus Daly's lawyer claimed there were
:03:50. > :03:56.significant witnesses in their case. Among those in the courtroom
:03:57. > :04:00.was Michael Gallagher. His son Aidan was murdered. Over the past 15 years
:04:01. > :04:05.I have spent a lot of time in court in Dublin and in Belfast and with
:04:06. > :04:12.the civil action taking almost ten years it can be soul destroying. 14
:04:13. > :04:17.years ago the BBC secretly filmed the man who has now been charged and
:04:18. > :04:24.confronted him. I would like to ask you some questions, please, about
:04:25. > :04:30.the Omagh bombing. Seamus Daly has always strongly denied any
:04:31. > :04:36.involvement in the bombing. Seamus Daly has a conviction for membership
:04:37. > :04:42.of the redial RA and pleaded guilty in a criminal Court in Dublin a few
:04:43. > :04:47.years ago. No matter who was or was not responsible, loss is still felt
:04:48. > :04:52.in Omagh. In the Memorial Garden mirrors have been built to reflect
:04:53. > :04:57.light into the town. But this is a place where they will always be
:04:58. > :05:00.aware of the shadows cast. The Co-op Bank has apologised to its customers
:05:01. > :05:06.after announcing losses of ?1.3 billion, the largest in its history.
:05:07. > :05:09.The bank said it did not expect to make a profit this year or next, but
:05:10. > :05:12.it revealed that the bank's Chief Executive will receive a ?2.9
:05:13. > :05:18.million pay package, including a performance related bonus. The
:05:19. > :05:22.figures come out as the bank struggles with bad debts and failed
:05:23. > :05:33.ventures. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed reports. It has been a
:05:34. > :05:37.disastrous year for the Co-op. The takeover of the Britannia building
:05:38. > :05:42.society ended with a ?1 billion bill and then the bank's chairman was
:05:43. > :05:47.forced to quit after being filmed buying drugs. Today it announced the
:05:48. > :05:53.loss of ?1.3 billion. The Chief Executive brought in to rescue the
:05:54. > :05:58.bank, Neal Booker, will be paid ?2.9 million a year. He announced further
:05:59. > :06:04.cost-cutting with the closure of 44 branches and the possibility of more
:06:05. > :06:08.redundancies. Our members who work in bank branches across the country
:06:09. > :06:13.are concerned about what the future holds for the group. We have lost
:06:14. > :06:18.over 1000 jobs in the last few years and the fear is there will be more
:06:19. > :06:25.job losses to come. Many customers have remained loyal to the bank, and
:06:26. > :06:30.all deposits are guaranteed up to ?85,000. But others, like Andrew
:06:31. > :06:35.Baird who owns a solar panel business in Northern Ireland, have
:06:36. > :06:40.decided to move elsewhere. It seems to want to compete with Barclays and
:06:41. > :06:46.HSBC and that seems to be at the expense of good, rigorous, financial
:06:47. > :06:51.control, strong governance. It seems to have lost all control and lost
:06:52. > :06:57.its way. The Co-op Bank is still dealing with problems of the past.
:06:58. > :07:03.It has said it will now withhold up to ?5 million from former
:07:04. > :07:07.executives. It will also pay ?412 million in compensation for previous
:07:08. > :07:13.mistakes. It also needs to look to the future. An ethical review will
:07:14. > :07:18.promote community banking. It needs to raise ?400 million to secure its
:07:19. > :07:27.future. There are still tough decisions to be made. We can only
:07:28. > :07:30.hope that is the end of the bad news is that we have had and there is not
:07:31. > :07:33.anything else to find in the closet. We have to trust the management know
:07:34. > :07:36.what they are doing and there is a chance of recovering the position
:07:37. > :07:41.from here. But it will be difficult to rebuild the capital base.
:07:42. > :07:47.Attention now turns to the Co-op group results next week. The
:07:48. > :07:50.supermarkets and pharmacies owner is expected to reveal heavy losses and
:07:51. > :07:54.a new set of problems for Britain's co-operative movement.
:07:55. > :07:56.The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has faced a third day of
:07:57. > :08:01.intense cross-examination at his murder trial in Pretoria. He
:08:02. > :08:04.insisted that his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, did not shout or scream
:08:05. > :08:08.as he fired at the locked toilet door last year. Mr Pistorius denies
:08:09. > :08:16.murder and says he thought there was an intruder in his house. From
:08:17. > :08:21.Pretoria Andrew Harding reports. At the end of a punishing week,
:08:22. > :08:25.another session of cross examination. Oscar Pistorius
:08:26. > :08:30.repeatedly accused of lying about how and why he shot Reeva Steenkamp.
:08:31. > :08:35.No video images of the athlete giving evidence were allowed. The
:08:36. > :08:38.prosecutor asked him why he did not talk to his girlfriend and check
:08:39. > :08:44.where he was the moment they felt they were in danger that night. When
:08:45. > :08:50.you heard the noise, you never discussed the noise with her? I did
:08:51. > :09:02.not discuss the noise with her. Weaver, did you hear that? Did you
:09:03. > :09:05.say that? I did not. Pistorius argued it was instinct that prompted
:09:06. > :09:13.him to rush from the bedroom to the bathroom to confront intruders. I am
:09:14. > :09:21.not sure why, my lady, I did not have any time, it was my instinct is
:09:22. > :09:25.to do it, I did not have any time. I find instinct strange. The
:09:26. > :09:30.prosecutor returned again and again to the exact moment Pistorius fired
:09:31. > :09:34.those four shots, insisting that regardless whether he thought his
:09:35. > :09:40.girlfriend or an intruder was hiding in the toilet, his aim was to kill.
:09:41. > :09:50.Did she screamed at all whilst you shot her four times? No, my lady.
:09:51. > :09:56.Are you sure? Are you sure, Mr Pistorius, that Reeve did not scream
:09:57. > :10:04.after the first shot? Reeva Steenkamp's mother never took her
:10:05. > :10:07.eyes off him. The Director of Public Prosecutions
:10:08. > :10:11.has defended the Crown Prosecution Service against accusations it
:10:12. > :10:16.prosecutes weak cases with no realistic prospect of conviction. It
:10:17. > :10:20.comes after the MP Nigel Evans was cleared of rape and sexual assault
:10:21. > :10:27.yesterday. Our political correspondent Vicki Young is at
:10:28. > :10:30.Westminster. There was a lot of criticism from MPs yesterday who
:10:31. > :10:37.felt Nigel Evans was treated differently because he was a public
:10:38. > :10:42.figure, so Alison Saunders came out and defended her corner saying the
:10:43. > :10:47.case must be seen in context. She said 86% of cases brought to court
:10:48. > :10:52.and in convictions. She also says the CPS have to feel there is a
:10:53. > :10:58.realistic prospect of conviction. A jury listening to a case have to be
:10:59. > :11:03.sure beyond reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the Conservative Party has
:11:04. > :11:08.sent out a new code of conduct for its pimply -- employees. What is
:11:09. > :11:13.this? Stories about inappropriate behaviour have been searching --
:11:14. > :11:20.circulating for years. People felt they could go nowhere with a
:11:21. > :11:24.complaint because they were directly employed by MPs. This says staff
:11:25. > :11:28.must understand the difference between normal work disagreements
:11:29. > :11:34.and bullying and it says MPs must lead by example to foster and aspect
:11:35. > :11:39.of respect and tolerance. This code of conduct is voluntary, so Tory MPs
:11:40. > :11:46.can chuck it in the bin if they want to. There have been significant
:11:47. > :11:49.improvements in the performance of the NHS across the UK according to a
:11:50. > :11:52.major study, which says the gap between England and the other
:11:53. > :11:55.nations is narrowing. The NHS in England still rates highly on
:11:56. > :11:57.ambulance response times as well as life expectancy. But Scotland has
:11:58. > :12:02.seen improvements in waiting times, while in Northern Ireland deaths
:12:03. > :12:04.from MRSA have fallen. Waiting times are a persistent problem in Wales,
:12:05. > :12:10.though satisfaction among many patients is high. The report 's
:12:11. > :12:13.authors suggest that funding and targets were the biggest factors in
:12:14. > :12:24.driving up standards as Dominic Hughes reports.
:12:25. > :12:29.The 15 years since devolution have seen four very distinct health
:12:30. > :12:34.systems evolve in the UK. There was sustained investment across the NHS,
:12:35. > :12:40.but now austerity is biting, no more so than in Wales. Satisfaction with
:12:41. > :12:46.the Welsh NHS is the highest in the UK, but recent budget cuts have seen
:12:47. > :12:50.waiting times increase. This NHS nurse Paul four decades was told she
:12:51. > :12:56.might not get a hip replacement for a year and a half. Facing months of
:12:57. > :13:00.pain she chose to go private. I thought the NHS was there for
:13:01. > :13:04.everybody who lived in the United Kingdom and it was not a two-tier
:13:05. > :13:11.system. If you needed treatment, then you should get the treatment.
:13:12. > :13:16.In England the NHS is built around competition, patient choice and
:13:17. > :13:31.targets. In the early 1990s life expectancy in the North East of
:13:32. > :13:33.England was the same as it was in Scotland, but after a couple of
:13:34. > :13:36.decades of fairly heavy investment, the region has started to pull
:13:37. > :13:38.ahead, so people here can live up to a year longer than their Scottish
:13:39. > :13:43.neighbours. This is the kind of thing that makes a difference. At
:13:44. > :13:49.Wansbeck Hospital in the North of England, Rose was operated on within
:13:50. > :13:53.hours of breaking her hip. Getting patients back home quickly improves
:13:54. > :13:59.their chances of a good recovery, but it requires an injection of cash
:14:00. > :14:03.across the system. The investment has been incredibly important in
:14:04. > :14:08.terms of patient care and from a quality perspective across the board
:14:09. > :14:14.from general practice and into hospital care and community
:14:15. > :14:18.services. In Scotland politicians rejected competition, but some
:14:19. > :14:23.targets have been used to bring down waiting times. But across the UK the
:14:24. > :14:29.NHS faces the challenge of older patients, tighter budgets and
:14:30. > :14:31.greater expectations. In Northern Ireland local politicians have to
:14:32. > :14:38.sell the reform of the health service to their electorate. The
:14:39. > :14:43.system we have is not sustainable. It requires huge change in order to
:14:44. > :14:48.make it fit for the 21st-century. Our politicians and the media have
:14:49. > :14:53.to make sure that the public believe it and are fully committed to it.
:14:54. > :14:58.For all the differences, today's research suggests it is the funding
:14:59. > :15:08.and a few carefully chosen targets that are the key factors in how well
:15:09. > :15:11.it works. Our top story: Seamus Daly has appeared in court
:15:12. > :15:14.charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing in 1998 -the
:15:15. > :15:16.single bloodiest attack in the history of the Northern Ireland
:15:17. > :15:19.Troubles. And still to come: On the brink of
:15:20. > :15:24.greatness - again. Liverpool eye their first league title for more
:15:25. > :15:29.than two decades. On BBC London: Technology on trial.
:15:30. > :15:34.Magistrates' courts go paperless to speed up cases. And he won the
:15:35. > :15:37.mini-London marathon as a teenager. Will Mo Farah succeed when he goes
:15:38. > :15:44.the full distance for the first time on Sunday?
:15:45. > :15:49.Sue Townsend, the author famous for writing The Secret Diary of Adrian
:15:50. > :15:53.Mole, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 68. The diaries
:15:54. > :16:00.of the angst-ridden teenager made millions laugh out loud. The
:16:01. > :16:04.novelist had been working on her latest Adrian Mole book - which
:16:05. > :16:06.would have been the 10th - in her best-selling series. Our arts
:16:07. > :16:09.correspondent David Sillito looks back at her life.
:16:10. > :16:17.It's time I fell in love. After all, I am 13... Poor Adrian Mole, the
:16:18. > :16:24.undiscovered teenager literary genius. You're so beautiful! 15
:16:25. > :16:37.years later he was still struggling on, still in Awe of Pandora. Adrian
:16:38. > :16:43.was more of a character. In a sense he is my worst side. Spots on my
:16:44. > :16:51.chin for the first day of the new year. If people realise that I was
:16:52. > :17:00.so near to Mole, they would be less... Well, they wouldn't admire
:17:01. > :17:04.me. She was joking, of course. Sue Townsend had failed her 11 Plus,
:17:05. > :17:09.left school at 15 and at 23 was working in a petrol station bringing
:17:10. > :17:16.up three children. Then in her -- in her 30s she wrote the most
:17:17. > :17:22.successful novel of the 1980s. Perhaps one day my heart will be
:17:23. > :17:28.healed. Adrian was a terrible poet. However, many of us have a little
:17:29. > :17:38.inner Mole. This generation Mole has grown up and grown older with
:17:39. > :17:43.Adrian. Is there any Mole-ish in you? Terrible poetry. I think we all
:17:44. > :17:50.have a little of Adrian Mole in us, definitely. A lot of us can equate
:17:51. > :17:58.with some of his experiences. I think Pandora, that's my fantasy.
:17:59. > :18:02.Beyond the Adrian books Sue Townsend wrote other plays and novels.
:18:03. > :18:06.Through it her sight was failing, she had health problems linked to
:18:07. > :18:10.diabetes but she was happy to be remembered for Adrian, this under
:18:11. > :18:19.underdog history of modern Britain, growing up can be painful. Sue
:18:20. > :18:21.Townsend made it funny. The Scottish National Party are
:18:22. > :18:23.holding their last conference in Aberdeen, before Scotland's
:18:24. > :18:27.referendum on independence in September. With polls suggesting the
:18:28. > :18:30.gap between the Yes and No camps is narrowing, the party's deputy
:18:31. > :18:37.leader, Nicola Sturgeon, said the country was on the threshold of
:18:38. > :18:39.becoming independent. Allan Little considers whether the party's
:18:40. > :18:46.buoyant mood is more widely reflected.
:18:47. > :18:50.It is 80 years this week since their party was founded and they believe
:18:51. > :18:55.themselves finally on the threshold of their founding purpose. Alex Sam
:18:56. > :18:59.has dominated the party for -- Alex Salmond has dominated the party for
:19:00. > :19:03.years. The rising star is his deputy. Today she appealed beyond
:19:04. > :19:07.the confines of the SNP in the belief that many disaffected
:19:08. > :19:13.traditional Labour voters are now tempted to vote yes. To every Labour
:19:14. > :19:18.voter in the country I say this, the yes campaign is not asking you to
:19:19. > :19:23.leave your party. Instead, it offers you the chance to get your party
:19:24. > :19:31.back. A Labour Party free to make its own decisions, no longer dancing
:19:32. > :19:34.to a Westminster tune. The polls still put the anti-independence
:19:35. > :19:38.campaign well ahead. But nationalists believe the momentum is
:19:39. > :19:42.all in their direction. Oh, yes, without any doubt we are there. You
:19:43. > :19:47.are going to win? Definitely. Do you think you will win in September? Oh,
:19:48. > :19:50.yes. We must. No decisions are being made here, no
:19:51. > :19:53.policy debated, this is more of a campaign rally than a party
:19:54. > :19:57.conference. They feel the wind at their backs now. They believe in the
:19:58. > :20:02.polls the gap between yes and no is narrowing. But there is another gap,
:20:03. > :20:05.the gap between the enthusiasm and unshakeable conviction in this hall
:20:06. > :20:15.and the enduring scepticism in the country at large.
:20:16. > :20:19.Rural aber den shire is -- Aberdeenshire. At this livestock
:20:20. > :20:26.market there was little evidence of a pro-independence momentum. I am
:20:27. > :20:32.voting no. Why? Well, there is a lot of things you don't know what can
:20:33. > :20:37.happen if you vote yes. We are being asked to vote yes and there are
:20:38. > :20:41.dozens of questions which remain unanswered and we are told by Mr
:20:42. > :20:45.Salmond that this is all to be negotiated. But negotiation doesn't
:20:46. > :20:49.say which way the answers are going to come. This conference is the
:20:50. > :20:54.SNP's attempt to reach out beyond party boundaries. Its message, you
:20:55. > :20:57.don't have to be SNP to vote yes. Nationalists will need to make big
:20:58. > :21:03.in-roads into traditional Labour territory if they're to win in
:21:04. > :21:13.September. But Scottish politics are famously tribal and old tribal
:21:14. > :21:17.loyalties die hard. They are, without doubt, the biggest
:21:18. > :21:20.team never to have won the Premier League. This weekend, Liverpool hope
:21:21. > :21:22.to move a crucial step closer to lifting that coveted trophy. They
:21:23. > :21:25.play Manchester City at Anfield, knowing that victory would leave
:21:26. > :21:28.them within reach of reclaiming their place at the very top of
:21:29. > :21:34.English football. Our sports editor, David Bond, reports. It's been more
:21:35. > :21:38.than two decades since this city dominated English football. Now
:21:39. > :21:44.Liverpool could be on their way back to the top. Beat Manchester City on
:21:45. > :21:50.Sunday and the club's young manager knows it will really start to feel
:21:51. > :21:53.like old times. We will unleash the supporters this weekend yet again on
:21:54. > :21:59.the opponent and it's a very, very difficult place now for people to
:22:00. > :22:02.come and play. I sense a real nostalgia about the place at the
:22:03. > :22:07.moment. A real feel of the old Liverpool. The club's title charge
:22:08. > :22:13.this season is made all the more poignant as it comes 25 years after
:22:14. > :22:17.the Hillsborough tragedy. Here in this cafe, across the road from
:22:18. > :22:27.Anfield, fans are starting to dream that this season, of all seasons,
:22:28. > :22:32.could be the one. To win it now, OK, well, 15, 20 years later, it still
:22:33. > :22:35.gets that buzz and excitement that there is a possibility. No more than
:22:36. > :22:42.that, a possibility that we could win it. I think this one, more than
:22:43. > :22:48.any, and I was there for the others, must be 12 of them, I think myself -
:22:49. > :22:53.this is going to be, we won it this year it would be the most important
:22:54. > :22:55.of them all. Coming to this place used to strike fear into opposition
:22:56. > :23:00.players but Liverpool have been waiting a very, very long time to
:23:01. > :23:05.taste the success which they once took for granted. The last Liverpool
:23:06. > :23:10.captain to lead the club to the league title knows just what it will
:23:11. > :23:15.mean to win it now. When you look back at those pictures now did any
:23:16. > :23:23.of you think it would be such a long time before Liverpool would win
:23:24. > :23:26.again? No, if you said then it will be 24 years barren as far as the
:23:27. > :23:29.league championship is concerned people would have said you are off
:23:30. > :23:34.your head. I remember going around the ground after we beat QPR to win
:23:35. > :23:40.the title and it was a sort of muted applause. This time they'll go
:23:41. > :23:45.ballistic. They will go ballistic. Over the last 20 years this city has
:23:46. > :23:49.begun to emerge as a more sigh Brant, confident place -- vibrant,
:23:50. > :23:53.confident place. But football teams have struggled to live up to their
:23:54. > :24:04.glorious past. Liverpool could be about to change all that.
:24:05. > :24:07.Kylie Minogue has announced she's leaving the BBC One singing talent
:24:08. > :24:10.show The Voice after just one series as a coach. On Twitter, Kylie -
:24:11. > :24:13.who's been credited with boosting ratings this year - said she
:24:14. > :24:21.wouldn't be back for the next season because of the timing of her concert
:24:22. > :24:25.tour. Now, earlier this week we brought
:24:26. > :24:27.you the story of a young girl caught up in the horror of Afghanistan's
:24:28. > :24:30.conflict. Seven-year-old Shah Bibi suffered terrible injuries after she
:24:31. > :24:33.was wounded by a stray grenade. She was sent to America for treatment
:24:34. > :24:36.and now, months later, she's arrived back home to be reunited with her
:24:37. > :24:42.father. Our Correspondent Karen Allen sent this exclusive report
:24:43. > :24:46.from Kabul. Today I met Shah Bibi and her
:24:47. > :24:49.guardian as she returned to Afghanistan. A country with an
:24:50. > :24:54.uncertain future. With elections last weekend security is tight. She
:24:55. > :25:00.seemed fascinated by the streets of Kabul.
:25:01. > :25:06.Taliban, she says, pointing to the men with guns. In fact, they're
:25:07. > :25:10.police. I first came across Shah Bibi days after her tiny body had
:25:11. > :25:14.been shattered by a grenade in one of the most dangerous parts of
:25:15. > :25:18.Afghanistan. But she was one of the fortunate few, flown to America
:25:19. > :25:22.after a nurse raised the alarm she's been treated for her injuries and
:25:23. > :25:27.has even been going to school but her family were left behind
:25:28. > :25:32.thousands of miles away. After many months forced apart,
:25:33. > :25:37.finally the moment her father arrives. At first, she seems
:25:38. > :25:42.overchiped by it all. Then -- overwhelmed by it all. Then the
:25:43. > :25:48.intimacy returns. The moment I saw her I laughed and then I cried a
:25:49. > :25:54.little. Seeing her healthy like this I feel deeply indebted to the people
:25:55. > :26:03.who helped. I am bursting with happiness. I feel it in my heart. I
:26:04. > :26:10.can't stop smiling. Shah shows off what little English
:26:11. > :26:15.she has learned. I want to see my brother, my sister and my mother,
:26:16. > :26:21.she tells me, and I want to teach them to write.
:26:22. > :26:29.In a country dominated by images of war, captured is a father's relief
:26:30. > :26:30.that his daughter has survived. Let's look at the weekend weather
:26:31. > :26:38.now. A fine Friday evening. Many places
:26:39. > :26:42.seeing sunshine. Most of us will see some sun this weekend. The northern
:26:43. > :26:46.half of the UK, there will be a brisk wind and rain here. In the
:26:47. > :26:53.south generally it will stay dry and we should have lengthy spells of
:26:54. > :26:57.sunshine. Further north it's clouding over and we have rain which
:26:58. > :27:01.will continue across western Scotland. A strengthening wind, too.
:27:02. > :27:07.For the bulk of England and Wales dry with clear spells and that means
:27:08. > :27:11.another cold one. In some rural areas not far above freezing into
:27:12. > :27:16.the weekend. A chilly start, but some sunshine. However it will cloud
:27:17. > :27:18.over from the north. Outbreaks of rain across Scotland and Northern
:27:19. > :27:21.Ireland through the morning. That should clear and it will brighten up
:27:22. > :27:26.across the central belt of Scotland and much of Northern Ireland.
:27:27. > :27:30.However, blustery showers will continue to pepper the Highlands of
:27:31. > :27:35.Scotland. One or two for Northern Ireland but generally brightening up
:27:36. > :27:39.here. After a bright start across northern England and North Wales it
:27:40. > :27:43.will turn cloudy with some rain through the afternoon. For much of
:27:44. > :27:50.South Wales and south-west England most of the day will be dry. Some
:27:51. > :27:54.brightness across the south-east. Temperatures dropping through the
:27:55. > :27:57.night. A cold start for the London marathon. Should be dry with light
:27:58. > :28:05.winds. Good news for the speculators. For the later finishers
:28:06. > :28:08.it might get too warm. The winds again light across the south with a
:28:09. > :28:11.fine day here on Sunday. Further north again a brisk wind with
:28:12. > :28:16.frequent showers across western Scotland. Temperatures maybe into
:28:17. > :28:21.the mid-teens across parts of the south. More details on the weekend
:28:22. > :28:24.forecast and the latest on that powerful storm hitting Australia are
:28:25. > :28:28.available on the BBC weather website.
:28:29. > :28:32.Thank you very much. Our main stories: Seamus Daly has
:28:33. > :28:44.appeared in court charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh
:28:45. > :28:46.bombing. The Co-Op Bank has said sorry