:00:07. > :00:14.Women soldiers in the British Army could be allowed for the first time
:00:15. > :00:18.to serve on the front line. A review has been brought forward which could
:00:19. > :00:24.see women alongside men in close combat by next year, a move backed
:00:25. > :00:28.by some MPs. Increasingly we are accepting that certain jobs require
:00:29. > :00:31.certain abilities and physical aptitude. And if you meet those
:00:32. > :00:36.requirements, you should be able to do the job whether you are a man or
:00:37. > :00:41.a woman. It is the right move. We will look at why this move has taken
:00:42. > :00:46.so long when many other countries have led the way. Barclays is to cut
:00:47. > :00:50.19,000 jobs in a radical shake-up of its business.
:00:51. > :00:52.The grief of the mothers of missing schoolgirls as international
:00:53. > :00:56.pressure grows on the Nigerian President.
:00:57. > :01:00.Tea and policy with the Prime Minister as he hits the local and
:01:01. > :01:08.European election campaign trail. And the scientist who is -- whose
:01:09. > :01:13.mission to land a spacecraft on Mars has died.
:01:14. > :01:17.In London: Police officers are fitted with cameras attached to
:01:18. > :01:36.their uniform. Abu Hamza tells a US court he is not a radical.
:01:37. > :01:42.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Women soldiers could be
:01:43. > :01:45.allowed to fight on the front line for the first time by next year. The
:01:46. > :01:49.Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says a planned review of whether
:01:50. > :01:53.women in the British Army should be allowed to fight in close combat has
:01:54. > :01:57.been brought forward, sending the message the armed forces are fully
:01:58. > :02:02.open to women. Female soldiers already fight on the front line in
:02:03. > :02:09.America, Canada, France and Israel. Carole Walker has more. The Defence
:02:10. > :02:13.Secretary admits the military has a macho image and he wants to send a
:02:14. > :02:17.signal that the army is open to all who can meet its demanding
:02:18. > :02:19.standards. Philip Hammond has seen the challenges facing troops in
:02:20. > :02:25.Afghanistan and he stresses there will be no compromise on fitness or
:02:26. > :02:29.military capability. He believes recruits should be judged on their
:02:30. > :02:33.ability and not their gender. I think it is a good move.
:02:34. > :02:36.Increasingly we are accepting that certain jobs require certain
:02:37. > :02:41.abilities and physical aptitude and if you meet those requirements, you
:02:42. > :02:45.should be able to do the job whether you are a man or a woman. It is the
:02:46. > :02:49.right move. At the moment women are allowed to serve on the front line
:02:50. > :02:53.in many roles including the medical Corps and the bomb disposal unit,
:02:54. > :02:59.but they are not allowed in the infantry or armoured Corps, where
:03:00. > :03:04.their role is to attack the enemy. The Prime Minister is keen to
:03:05. > :03:08.highlight the role of women fighting around the world. If they were to
:03:09. > :03:12.take on front line combat roles, it would mean more women putting their
:03:13. > :03:16.lives at risk, and some in the military believe that is a step too
:03:17. > :03:20.far. In my judgement the point of principle overrides what women may
:03:21. > :03:26.or may not wish to do. To be in a unit that is given orders to attack
:03:27. > :03:32.a hill, town or village, that is a role not for women. United States
:03:33. > :03:36.has already lifted restrictions on women in combat roles. Barack Obama
:03:37. > :03:39.said it was a historic step and would reflect the greater service of
:03:40. > :03:44.women and strengthen the armed forces. And EU rules, the Government
:03:45. > :03:48.was already due to review the ban on women in combat roles by 2018 but it
:03:49. > :03:52.is clear the Government does want to lift the ban. Now it will be able to
:03:53. > :03:56.make a firm decision soon after the combat role in Afghanistan and that
:03:57. > :04:02.the end of the year. The move comes as the army is struggling to recruit
:04:03. > :04:06.enough new soldiers and morale has been hit by moves to cut the size of
:04:07. > :04:10.the army. There may not be many women who want to take up combat
:04:11. > :04:15.roles, but those who are willing may soon be able to do so. Carole
:04:16. > :04:19.Walker, BBC News. Jonathan Beale joins us now from the
:04:20. > :04:24.Ministry of Defence. As we heard in that piece, this move would bring us
:04:25. > :04:29.into line with many other countries. Why has it taken so long? For the
:04:30. > :04:33.simple reason that the British armed forces were the preserve of men for
:04:34. > :04:36.centuries, but over the last 30 years we have seen Barry is slowly
:04:37. > :04:42.breaking down. Now there are women sub mariners and fighter pilots but
:04:43. > :04:46.the most important thing is that over the last decade, in Iraq and
:04:47. > :04:50.Afghanistan, women have been serving on the front line. Not in infantry
:04:51. > :04:55.units but as medics bomb disposal experts, showing up the lie that
:04:56. > :05:00.they are not up to the challenge physically and mentally. I think it
:05:01. > :05:03.is inevitable that there will be women are allowed into infantry
:05:04. > :05:08.units in the near future. It will not happen overnight. There will
:05:09. > :05:12.still be people in their nodding their heads in disagreement. There
:05:13. > :05:15.was one MP who disagreed with what Philip Hammond said today. The real
:05:16. > :05:19.issue is not just about equality, which is important for Philip
:05:20. > :05:23.Hammond. It is also about recruitment. Some of the units in
:05:24. > :05:26.the military are not meeting targets. If you open the door to
:05:27. > :05:31.women, that will help the numbers. Thank you.
:05:32. > :05:35.Barclays has announced it is cutting thousands of jobs in a radical
:05:36. > :05:40.shake-up of its business. 19,000 jobs are to be lost across the
:05:41. > :05:44.company by the end of 2016. 9000 will go in the UK, most of them from
:05:45. > :05:49.investment banking arm which has been making heavy losses. Kamal
:05:50. > :05:54.Ahmed reports. The big player cut down to size.
:05:55. > :05:59.Today Berkeley is to reality, announcing thousands of job losses
:06:00. > :06:04.after revenues in its investment bank collapsed and shareholders
:06:05. > :06:08.demanded better performance. -- Barclays. The chief executive said
:06:09. > :06:12.they had to become more straightforward. Regrettably for our
:06:13. > :06:15.staff, we have to size the business appropriately for the environment
:06:16. > :06:19.that we are in but I commit to all of them that they will be treated
:06:20. > :06:22.with respect and care if they are affected by the job losses we have
:06:23. > :06:27.announced today. The bank says it will now focus on supporting the
:06:28. > :06:30.British economy. For some that is welcome news. Any job loss is
:06:31. > :06:40.regrettable but we do want banks that are supporting the British
:06:41. > :06:43.economy and I think Barclays could be part of that. Barclays is
:06:44. > :06:45.following a number of other global banks, like the government-owned
:06:46. > :06:47.Royal Bank of Scotland, slashing jobs and divisions to focus on what
:06:48. > :06:50.is profitable, everyday banking. When Antony Jenkins took over
:06:51. > :06:55.Barclays in 2012, he made it clear he wanted to change the bank. Now he
:06:56. > :06:59.is trying to prove it is more than trendy word sculptures in the London
:07:00. > :07:02.headquarters. He wants a simpler bank, based on bread-and-butter
:07:03. > :07:07.services, mortgages, current accounts and business lending. It is
:07:08. > :07:10.the end of swashbuckling trading in the investment bank. He says he
:07:11. > :07:14.wants something more sustainable. The chief executive wants the bank
:07:15. > :07:18.to concentrate on four areas in the future. High Street banking, the
:07:19. > :07:22.credit card business, a small investment bank, and a new African
:07:23. > :07:27.division to take advantage of what could be the next global economic
:07:28. > :07:31.power. In the City, they know there could be more trouble ahead. It is
:07:32. > :07:38.only going to get worse. High risk, high returns. It is what you expect
:07:39. > :07:43.with the job. Making the investment bank smaller will certainly take the
:07:44. > :07:50.pressure off one area, pay. Investment bankers are expensive.
:07:51. > :07:55.And there could be other areas. Will you be cutting the number of
:07:56. > :07:59.branches in the UK? I don't think there will be broad-scale branch
:08:00. > :08:03.closures or additional losses in retail banking that over time there
:08:04. > :08:08.will be more and more delivery of our services through technology.
:08:09. > :08:12.Shareholders appeared pleased with the headlines. Barclays's share
:08:13. > :08:17.price rose by 8%. The question will now be about execution and making
:08:18. > :08:23.Barclays a more profitable bank. Announcements are easy. Following
:08:24. > :08:28.through, less so. The Nigerian President has pledged
:08:29. > :08:30.to find more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists.
:08:31. > :08:35.Gooduck Jonathan said their abduction would mark the beginning
:08:36. > :08:38.of the end of terrorism in Nigeria. Addressing delegates at the World
:08:39. > :08:42.Economic Forum for Africa, he thanked China, the UK, the US and
:08:43. > :08:46.France for the offers of help. It has been more than three weeks since
:08:47. > :08:50.the teenagers were taken from the town of Chibok. John Simpson has
:08:51. > :08:57.sent this report from the capital, Abuja. Gradually and even now with a
:08:58. > :09:00.surprising degree of slowness, the Nigerian authorities are starting to
:09:01. > :09:05.deal with a crime that has shocked the world. Add Chibok, the relatives
:09:06. > :09:12.of the missing girls are still in shock but at least the Government is
:09:13. > :09:19.making an effort. In the capital, Abuja, one of the daily protest
:09:20. > :09:24.gatherings is taking place. Quietly, peacefully, but with grim
:09:25. > :09:29.determination, the organisers of this movement are keeping up the
:09:30. > :09:32.pressure. There is a sustained advocacy and effort by everybody
:09:33. > :09:38.around the world. Everybody must look and see this is not acceptable,
:09:39. > :09:42.ignoring the abduction of 200 girls. That is primarily the pressure that
:09:43. > :09:47.is working on the Government. We think they have ignored this issue
:09:48. > :09:52.initially. In fact, until just a few days ago, no real effort seemed to
:09:53. > :09:55.be being made at all. It was only earlier this week that a reward was
:09:56. > :10:00.offered for information about the whereabouts of the girls. Now the
:10:01. > :10:07.whole situation seems to be changing. Today should have been a
:10:08. > :10:12.memorable one for Nigeria. At this hotel in Abuja, the World Economic
:10:13. > :10:16.Forum is taking place. Instead everyone even here was thinking
:10:17. > :10:22.about the missing girls. The forum started with a minute's silence for
:10:23. > :10:27.them. As President Gooduck Jonathan been too preoccupied with economic
:10:28. > :10:32.to pay sufficient attention to the crime? Afterwards when he spoke to
:10:33. > :10:38.the BBC, Gooduck Jonathan showed he was clearly taking the problem a lot
:10:39. > :10:41.more seriously. I believe with assistance and the investment we are
:10:42. > :10:46.making now, we can bring terror to an end in Nigeria. Four days now,
:10:47. > :10:52.relatives of the missing girls have been revisiting the school they were
:10:53. > :10:56.taken from. -- for many days. If so many girls had not been kidnapped,
:10:57. > :11:03.maybe it would not have stirred up this worldwide response. John
:11:04. > :11:06.Simpson, BBC News, Abuja. Two women have told the jury in the trial of
:11:07. > :11:11.the veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall that they were raped by him
:11:12. > :11:13.repeatedly at the former BBC studios in Manchester.
:11:14. > :11:17.Stuart Hall is 84 and already serving time for indecently
:11:18. > :11:22.assaulting girls. He denies 20 fresh charges of rape and five of indecent
:11:23. > :11:28.assault. Judith Moritz spent the day at Preston Crown Court. Tell us more
:11:29. > :11:32.about what was said. Stuart Hall was a television celebrity for more than
:11:33. > :11:37.50 years but today two women here said that it was in the Star's
:11:38. > :11:42.dressing rooms that repeatedly he raped them. One of the women is now
:11:43. > :11:47.49 and said that when she was 14 she went to see him at the studios, and
:11:48. > :11:50.that time and again, up to 16 times, she said, he raped her there, on
:11:51. > :11:56.occasion locking her in the dressing room when he went away filming. She
:11:57. > :12:00.also says that when he went to report on football matches, he took
:12:01. > :12:05.her with her own, raping her at a flat nearby. -- with him. Another
:12:06. > :12:12.woman said she had been raped around 30 times at the BBC. Tonight she
:12:13. > :12:18.denied that she came forward solely for the purposes of claiming
:12:19. > :12:21.compensation. Supermarkets have been defending the
:12:22. > :12:24.way they label them eat after revelations that most animals have
:12:25. > :12:31.been slaughtered according to halal practices without it being mentioned
:12:32. > :12:38.on the packaging. The animal is stunned and slaughtered while and
:12:39. > :12:43.Arabic prayer is recited. Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons and Marks
:12:44. > :12:50.Spencer have all said they have used halal practices. They say welfare is
:12:51. > :12:55.high. Inspecting labels has become second nature to most of us but was
:12:56. > :12:58.supermarkets will tell you about salt and calories, they often will
:12:59. > :13:04.not in the case of meat tell you how the animal has been killed. Does it
:13:05. > :13:13.matter? It is an important issue at this Birmingham butchers. It's --
:13:14. > :13:18.the owners only sell halal meet and make sure it is slaughtered
:13:19. > :13:22.correctly. Before I purchase it, I see how the slaughter is performed
:13:23. > :13:27.before I used the supplier and they are all certified. Five leading
:13:28. > :13:31.supermarkets are selling halal meat without telling customers what it
:13:32. > :13:36.is. It is controversial but how different is it from non- halal?
:13:37. > :13:41.There are two different sort of halal meat in the UK. 15% of it is
:13:42. > :13:44.sorted differently with the animal conscious well kill. The rest is
:13:45. > :13:48.produced in the same way as regular meat, with the animal stunned first,
:13:49. > :13:53.the only difference being the prayer that is set over it. There is no
:13:54. > :13:56.requirement for halal meat or kosher meat to be labelled and Downing
:13:57. > :13:59.Street made clear today that the Government was not going to
:14:00. > :14:04.intervene to change this. Full supermarkets, the issue of labelling
:14:05. > :14:08.is about the art of the possible. We have to get the right balance of
:14:09. > :14:10.information for customers. There is some standard information that all
:14:11. > :14:16.customers are looking for but there is a limit to what you can put on a
:14:17. > :14:20.label and we need to get right information on the right label. For
:14:21. > :14:23.some shoppers out today, this was an emotive issue. It is important to
:14:24. > :14:31.label the packaging but as long as the meat is clean and acceptable, it
:14:32. > :14:35.is fine. I don't mind. It is their responsibility to make sure they
:14:36. > :14:38.label it correctly. I imagine people looking for halal meat will go to
:14:39. > :14:44.the right place, so I actually don't think it is massively important.
:14:45. > :14:48.Most customers do want information about what they are consuming, but
:14:49. > :14:51.for the supermarkets some details seem to be judged less important
:14:52. > :15:00.than others. Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC News. Women soldiers in the British
:15:01. > :15:04.Army could be allowed to serve alongside men in, for the first
:15:05. > :15:10.time. Still to come, tributes to the scientist whose Michigan it was to
:15:11. > :15:14.land a British spacecraft on Mars. On BBC London, saving the lives of
:15:15. > :15:17.liver disease patients. How King 's College has conducted a record
:15:18. > :15:19.number of transplants. And the Thames Barrier celebrates 30 years
:15:20. > :15:35.of protecting London from flooding. British-made hovercraft are the
:15:36. > :15:37.latest weapons being used in the battle against Colombian insurgents
:15:38. > :15:40.and cocaine traffickers. The government there is in talks with
:15:41. > :15:44.rebels from the FARC organisation to end its involvement in the drugs
:15:45. > :15:45.trade. FARC started in 1964 as an anti-government terrorist
:15:46. > :15:49.organisation and became heavily involved in the drugs trade. Over
:15:50. > :15:52.200,000 people have died in the last 50 years. And still the fighting
:15:53. > :15:55.goes on. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports from the
:15:56. > :15:57.remote Amazon settlement of Puerto Leguizamo, to see how the military
:15:58. > :16:08.are fighting the insurgents with British-made hardware.
:16:09. > :16:12.Deep in the jungle of southern Colombia, there's something new on
:16:13. > :16:16.the river. They are fast, heavily armed and they can reach places
:16:17. > :16:19.ordinary boats can't get to. These British-built hovercraft have been
:16:20. > :16:22.brought all the way from Southampton to the Amazon jungle, and the
:16:23. > :16:24.Colombian Navy is hoping it's going to give them a crucial advantage in
:16:25. > :16:32.chasing drug smugglers and insurgents here in the heart of the
:16:33. > :16:37.world's coca industry. We watched them practice a river borne assault.
:16:38. > :16:41.They are operating in areas where much of the jungle is infiltrated by
:16:42. > :16:46.the main rebel group, the FARC movement. Both sides in this
:16:47. > :16:51.conflict have committed human rights abuses. With no cease-fire signed,
:16:52. > :16:56.the war goes on. TRANSLATION: These hovercraft are
:16:57. > :17:02.going to change the whole dynamics of the war with the FARC here.
:17:03. > :17:05.Because up until now we've only been able to operate for half the year.
:17:06. > :17:09.From October to January we can't move because the river level stops
:17:10. > :17:12.so far that our boat hit the rocks. But these hovercraft don't need high
:17:13. > :17:20.water, so now we can cut off the rebel supply lines. Peace talks with
:17:21. > :17:24.the FARC are under way but there's no cease-fire. And if the deal is
:17:25. > :17:27.signed, will that mean an end to Colombia's drug problem? We should
:17:28. > :17:30.suspect, as we have seen in the past, that some crimes and some
:17:31. > :17:37.criminal gangs might pop up, might appear in some areas, trying to keep
:17:38. > :17:40.the kind of business. The new hovercraft are unlikely to stop that
:17:41. > :17:46.happening, but they may just hasten the end of Latin America's
:17:47. > :17:56.longest-running insurgency. Frank Gardner, BBC News, in the Colombian
:17:57. > :18:00.Amazon. David Cameron has made a direct appeal to UKIP voters, saying
:18:01. > :18:05.he shares their concerns but warning that Britain needs what he calls the
:18:06. > :18:09.party of Ansar rather than anger. Out campaigning just two weeks ahead
:18:10. > :18:13.of the European and local elections, he told Nick Robinson he understands
:18:14. > :18:19.voters are frustrated. It is 630 a.m. On the flat above the shop,
:18:20. > :18:22.work is just beginning. I normally get up and sign things and then
:18:23. > :18:27.shove, but this morning I'll do it the other way round. David Cameron
:18:28. > :18:33.knows that in exactly a year from today, he may no longer be able to
:18:34. > :18:35.sign letters as Prime Minister. He may be packing his bags to leave
:18:36. > :18:43.Downing Street for the very last time. Long before then, in just two
:18:44. > :18:47.weeks' time, he faces European elections in which the Tories fear
:18:48. > :18:55.they could come third, behind Labour and UKIP. I won't be Prime Minister
:18:56. > :18:58.after the next election and their site can be absolutely certain that
:18:59. > :19:03.the pledge of an in-out referendum will be delivered. That, he says, is
:19:04. > :19:06.the politics of answers, not the politics of anger, which he thinks
:19:07. > :19:10.Nigel Farage represents. The question is, how many will be
:19:11. > :19:15.listening? This is your country, you should make the choice. Here are the
:19:16. > :19:31.arguments, and you should make the decision. You call it a plan but you
:19:32. > :19:34.have no control over the outcome at all know whether Europe will agree
:19:35. > :19:36.to what you want, you don't know whether the British people will vote
:19:37. > :19:39.for it. So aren't British jobs, isn't Britain's economy on the line
:19:40. > :19:41.as you try and buy off anger about Europe? I wouldn't be taking this
:19:42. > :19:44.step if I didn't believe the outcome I seek to achieve is achievable.
:19:45. > :19:48.It's a hope. It's not. Europe is changing, the eurozone countries
:19:49. > :19:51.need changing, they are going to have to change their treaties. Not
:19:52. > :19:55.only is this the right thing to do for the country, to have a
:19:56. > :19:59.referendum, but it is now achievable, deliverable, perhaps in
:20:00. > :20:04.a way it wasn't in past. The Tory leader is on a charm offensive,
:20:05. > :20:08.trying to heal the rift between himself and his party's traditional
:20:09. > :20:13.supporters. So will the ladies Thursday lunch club back him or Mr
:20:14. > :20:19.Farage? I'm not committing myself. What is the issue that you worry
:20:20. > :20:24.about when it comes to Europe or in these elections? With Europe, like a
:20:25. > :20:30.lot of things, the number of people coming in. He once described UKIP as
:20:31. > :20:35.fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists. Now he says he understands
:20:36. > :20:38.those tempted by their promises. I understand the things you find
:20:39. > :20:43.frustrating, the things you care about. We are delivering. Don't
:20:44. > :20:46.waste your vote on a party that can't deliver. It may come up with
:20:47. > :20:51.phrases or expressions that attract you on some of these issues, but
:20:52. > :20:53.they can't actually deliver the answers. When workers at this
:20:54. > :20:59.factory were given the chance to ask the premonition of questions
:21:00. > :21:06.revealingly, two were about Nigel Farage. In exactly a year you may be
:21:07. > :21:10.packing your bags in that flat we filmed you in. After a brief but
:21:11. > :21:18.visible gulp, David Cameron told me he knew who was in charge of his
:21:19. > :21:22.future. At the end of those 364 days, I know who the boss is. It's
:21:23. > :21:25.the British people. They have the ability in that election to back
:21:26. > :21:29.what I'm doing and stick to this plan, or to get rid of it and get
:21:30. > :21:34.somebody else. It's called democracy, it can be painful, but
:21:35. > :21:37.it's a very good thing. After first insulting UKIP backers then ignoring
:21:38. > :21:47.them, the Prime Minister is now pleading with them to come home.
:21:48. > :21:50.Nick Robinson, BBC News, Stroud. The British National Party has launched
:21:51. > :21:54.its campaign for the European Parliamentary Elections. The BNP
:21:55. > :21:57.leader, Nick Griffin, said the party offered voters a clear alternative
:21:58. > :22:00.by proposing an immediate withdrawal from the European Union, without a
:22:01. > :22:02.referendum, and a complete halt to immigration. Mr Griffin predicted
:22:03. > :22:08.what he called the "UKIP bubble" would soon burst. The space
:22:09. > :22:12.scientist Colin Pillinger, who's best known for leading a mission to
:22:13. > :22:16.try and land a British spacecraft on Mars, has died at the age of 70. He
:22:17. > :22:18.began his career with NASA, before becoming the driving force behind
:22:19. > :22:21.the Beagle 2 mission. The Royal Astronomical Society said he "wasn't
:22:22. > :22:23.afraid to challenge the establishment and get things done".
:22:24. > :22:30.Our science editor David Shukman looks back now at his life and
:22:31. > :22:33.achievements. With his trademark whiskers and a sharp eye for
:22:34. > :22:41.publicity, Colin Pillinger was no ordinary scientist. Who else would
:22:42. > :22:44.wheel a replica of his spacecraft in a supermarket trolley? A unique way
:22:45. > :22:53.of firing the imagination of reaching Mars. To actually say I was
:22:54. > :22:57.part of a mission that wen to and landed on Mars, and if it was the
:22:58. > :23:00.one that found life on Mars that would be even more phenomenal.
:23:01. > :23:02.Against all the odds, using humour and determination, Professor
:23:03. > :23:05.Pillinger raised the money for the mission. He started his career
:23:06. > :23:08.studying moon rocks, now he was hunting for life on Mars. The launch
:23:09. > :23:11.was flawless but far harder would be achieving a landing on Mars. The
:23:12. > :23:15.tiny spacecraft was named Beagle 2, after the ship that had carried
:23:16. > :23:19.Charles Darwin. The risks were high, but this was all about British
:23:20. > :23:23.derring-do. We are the only country in the world who would send a man to
:23:24. > :23:26.climb the highest mountain with brown boots and a tweet suit on, so
:23:27. > :23:32.I have every faith in British ingenuity to get people to Mars.
:23:33. > :23:38.Alex James of Blur, one of many stars enthused by Colin Pillinger. I
:23:39. > :23:41.joined him on a visit to the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank. Few other
:23:42. > :23:48.scientists had this kind of appeal. He was a very passionate man. He
:23:49. > :23:52.listened... To a degree. He was very keen to get his point of view across
:23:53. > :23:56.as well. With that came a certain irascibility, a certain glint in his
:23:57. > :24:02.eye. Sadly, the mission to Mars failed. You could see the agony on
:24:03. > :24:05.Colin Pillinger's face. But his technology lives on in other
:24:06. > :24:08.spacecraft. He will be remembered as a pioneer and as someone who brought
:24:09. > :24:21.home the excitement of space exploration. The space scientist
:24:22. > :24:23.Colin Pillinger who died yesterday. It has been a rather wet and windy
:24:24. > :24:38.day for many. Is it here to stay? Here is the picture right now. Some
:24:39. > :24:42.very heavy rain. Be aware of that. The main focus of rain has been
:24:43. > :24:47.across the more southern and central parts of the UK. But the focus turns
:24:48. > :24:51.to north-western areas through the night. Turning pretty wet,
:24:52. > :24:54.particularly western Scotland. Further south, one or two showers
:24:55. > :25:01.blowing in on the breeze, but not a cold one. Tomorrow, a different day
:25:02. > :25:05.for some, certainly across the more southern and southwestern areas, a
:25:06. > :25:10.better day, bright and breezy with a few showers. More rain further north
:25:11. > :25:14.and west, some could be prolonged. Some thunderstorms possible across
:25:15. > :25:20.the Highlands of Scotland. A cloudier zone for parts of southern
:25:21. > :25:24.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Feeling quite cool. Further south,
:25:25. > :25:28.there will be some sunshine, sharp showers for a time across eastern
:25:29. > :25:31.counties, but the trend will be for the showers to fade away. Mostly
:25:32. > :25:36.sunny end to the day across southwestern parts of England and
:25:37. > :25:40.Wales. That will be tempered by a gusty wind. I'm afraid tomorrow
:25:41. > :25:43.night more wet weather looms large. It will sweep across many areas
:25:44. > :25:48.through the morning of Saturday and get hooked up again through many
:25:49. > :26:03.northern areas for a time to east Scotland. Further, sunshine
:26:04. > :26:05.returning on Saturday but heavy, blustery showers once more. It
:26:06. > :26:07.doesn't get much better as we go into Sunday. The low-pressure
:26:08. > :26:10.lingers across the North Sea and areas closest to that no one will
:26:11. > :26:12.see further quite frequent showers on Sunday. Quite cool, too. The best
:26:13. > :26:15.of the sunshine and temperatures across more southern parts of
:26:16. > :26:18.England and Wales. Be prepared. There will be wet weather, quite
:26:19. > :26:25.windy at times but there will also be some sunshine. A reminder of our
:26:26. > :26:28.main story tonight. Women soldiers in the British Army could be allowed
:26:29. > :26:31.to serve alongside men in front-line combat for the first time. That's
:26:32. > :26:32.all from the BBC News.