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The US coastguard agrees to resume its search for four missing British | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
yachtsmen. Their boat capsized mid-Atlantic on Friday and the | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
search was called off after two days. Their families are thrilled | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
and relieved. This is the right course of action. You have four guys | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
out there, and there is a good possibility that they are in that | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
raft. The US coastguard is reportedly | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
flying to the search area now. We'll bring you the latest. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Also tonight: Average houses prices rise by 8% over the last year. Could | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
they be jeopardising the economic recovery? | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
An alleged victim of Rolf Harris waives her right to anonymity to | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
claim he sexually assaulted her when she was 15. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
How switching to e-cigarettes can increase your chances of stopping | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
smoking by 60%. And will this be the collection to | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
provide a much-needed boost to M, whose profits have fallen for the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
third year in a row? On BBC London: after Abu Hamza's | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
conviction, the Prime Minister vows to speed deportation of terror | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
suspects. And a woman dying of cervical cancer sues the hospital | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
that failed to spot she was at risk. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:15. | :01:33. | |
News at Six. The US coastguard has resumed its search for four British | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
yachtsmen missing since Friday. The families of the men had mounted a | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
desperate campaign to persuade the coastguard to continue looking for | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the men after they stopped searching on Sunday. The yacht was returning | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
from Antigua when it ran into trouble. It went missing 620 miles | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
east of Cape Cod. The US coastguard previously searched around 4,000 | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
square miles around the last confirmed location. If they are | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
still alive, the men could be in an air pocket inside the upturned hull | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
or, it's hoped, in a life raft. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
been following events from Southampton and he joins us now. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
This is exactly the news the family were hoping for? It is. After a day | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
of very high in motion. They all work up this morning not knowing | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
whether that search was going to resume or not. Then they learned | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
that something like 200,000 people had signed an online petition | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
calling for the search to begin, and late this afternoon news came across | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
from the East is to that the search had been restarted. Nobody here is | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
celebrating. There is a sense of relief that finally something is | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
being done. The men at the centre of this | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
extraordinary transatlantic human drama, relaxed and smiling in what | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
is thought to be the last photo taken of them, the day before they | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
set sail. This afternoon, their families went to the foreign office | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
intending to add to the pressure on the United States to restart the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
search. But then news came through that the Americans had changed their | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
minds. This is the right course of action. You have four guys out | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
there. There is a good possibility, high probability, that they are in | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
that raft, and we can find them. The American decision to look again for | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
the Cheeki Rafiki, which went missing on Friday, was also welcomed | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
by other members of the missing men's families. We feel that at | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
least someone is looking for them and hopefully they will find | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
something of them. Unfortunately, two days have been wasted, but they | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
are out there now, and we are grateful for that. By this | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
afternoon, sailing clubs, homes and offices, 200,000 people had signed | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
an online petition calling for the search to be restarted. Tonight | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
those at the pinnacle of sailing welcomed the decision. There is a | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
long way to go in terms of finding the sailors in huge area, but if | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
they are out there and in a life raft, there is a chance of survival, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and whilst there is a chance, we should out there searching. So what | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
next? This rescue of French yacht on the same day in the same part of the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Atlantic shows what the US Coast Guard is capable of. 200 years of | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
experience, they are among the best in the world. Other rescues have | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
been more astonishing. Last year, Harrison Okene was trapped | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
underwater for two and a half days off the coast of Africa before he | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
was plucked out alive. Or this one, 17 years ago, when Tony Bullimore | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
survived five days in an upturned boat in the Southern Ocean. Tonight, | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
he welcomed the Coast Guard rethink. It is a shame that they pulled out | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
48 hours ago. There could be a few questions asked over that. I am | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
personally more interested to hear that the search is actually | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
happening, and I hope that they get first-class results. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
If this is the keel of the Cheeki Rafiki, spotted by a merchant ship | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
at the weekend, it could be a starting point for the new search, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
but the Coast Guard and the families know this is the Atlantic Ocean, and | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
searching does not mean finding. Some of the families are off to the | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
American Embassy in London tonight to thank officials there and also | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
get more information on that search. We know that a plane has already | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
taken off about three hours ago from East to, and it is about a three or | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
four hour trip to the search site, so they should the arriving around | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
about now. From the families, combine sense of relief that this | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
whole operation is back on track. Duncan, thank you. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
There's concern that the economic recovery could be destabilised by | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
rising house prices. The latest figures show average prices in the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
UK have risen by 8% in the 12 months to March. In London, average prices | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
leaped by 17%. The soaring values means country-wide, houses are | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
selling for 11 times typical earnings. Here's our economics | :06:14. | :06:25. | |
editor Robert Peston. House-hunting in a part of London | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
where prices are going through the roof. This has is on the market for | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
20% more than similar houses were fetching a year ago, and this is not | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
unusual. In the capital, less than six years after the crash, a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
dangerous bubble is in the making. I am scared. The mortgage payments are | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
very high. I'm sure we will always manage them, but it is scary. And I | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
think, if I am feeling like that, how all the other people feeling? | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Parts of the London property market aren't just red-hot, thou white hot. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
Here in Brent, prices have risen by a third in the last year, and estate | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
agents have told me that in this road, rises have risen by two thirds | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
over the past 18 months. London prices are now almost 25% higher | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
than they were at their peak before the 2008 crash. In the south-east, | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
they are 3.4% above that past maximum, but in the rest of the UK, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
they are still 4.4% below the previous high. So are there any | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
signs of a bobble outside southern England, such as here in South | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Wales? Price rises over the last 12 months have been relatively modest. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
It is six or 7%. But whilst that is above inflation, we are certainly | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
not seeing the rises of London and the south-east. Kate Barker used to | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
be on the Bank of England committee that set interest rates. So if the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Bank of England decides there is a housing market bubble, what can it | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
do, short of raising interest rates? The bank isn't so much | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
concerned about the housing market bubble, but they are concerned about | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
responsible lending, and the thing they could do there is to ask | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
lenders to hold more money against risky lending, and that would make | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
it more expensive for lenders, and it would mean that there would be | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
less lending. One bank, Lloyds, is taking evasive action, even without | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
being forced to do so by regulators. Today it announced that it would no | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
longer lend more than four times household incomes for houses over | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
?500,000. That would have an impact on 8% of mortgages. But what is | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
needed, most would say, is a lot more house-building. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
The trial of Rolf Harris has heard from the fourth and final alleged | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
victim, who has waived her right to anonymity. Tonya Lee claimed the | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
entertainer assaulted her repeatedly when she was 15 and on a tour with | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
her youth drama group. Rolf Harris is charged with 12 counts of | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
indecent assault, all of which he denies. David Sillito reports. | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Rolf Harris walked into court today to hear claims that took him back to | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
events of 1980 X. -- 1986. At the time, he was a regular on | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
television, and for young Australian theatre group, he was the surprise | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
guest when they arrived in Britain full up in court, he listened to the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
claims of one member of that group, Tonya Lee. She was 15 at the time. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Unusually, her name could be made Oblak, because 28 years later, she | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
chose to Selhurst are to the media. In court, she spoke from behind a | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
curtain. She told of an evening during the trip and she met Rolf | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Harris in the pub. She says she was indecently assaulted twice, once | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
when he asked her to sit on his lap, and when she stepped out of the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
ladies to find him standing next to her. | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
She eventually did tell police in 2012, but she also approached the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
media. She was asked about an interview with the police in which | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
she told them she hadn't been talking to the media, hadn't been | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
planning on selling her story. It was put to her, you looked that | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
offers in the eye and told a barefaced lie, didn't you? And she | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
answered, yes. But she said she was under pressure from her partner, is | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
now set the whole issue of selling the story was a huge regret, a | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
mistake. Rolf Harris denies all 12 charges. The trial continues. The | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has accused parties which don't | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
support Britain's membership of the European Union of being unpatriotic. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Mr Clegg was campaigning in Oxford ahead of the European and local | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
elections on Thursday. Our political editor Nick Robinson spent the day | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
with him. Getting ready for the school run, | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and another run-in with the Eurosceptics. That is how the day | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
began in the Clegg household. I just checked to make sure I have what I | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
need. Dignity Prime Minister claimed today that staying in Europe, not | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
getting out, is what true patriots believe. We we go. In a church in | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
Oxford today, he tried to answer those who accuse him of having blind | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
faith in Brussels, insisting he was fighting for Britain against the | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
narrow nationalists. It's about what kind of country do we think we | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
should be in the modern world. Are we going to be open or closed? | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Tolerant or intolerant? Open-minded, generous spirited or | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
cowering on the sidelines and mean-spirited? I asked the Lib Dem | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
leader why he was insulting those who simply disagreed with him? I | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
don't insult anyone who expresses totally legitimate fears about many | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
of the uncertainties of the modern world. But you say they are not in | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
the real world. No, when I say that Nigel Farage says that it would be | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
good for Britain to pull out of the largest economy where we send 50% of | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
our imports, I'm in title to say, hang on a minute, far from being | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
good for Britain, far from being an active bulldog British Patrick is, | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
this is something which would leave our country weaker and poorer and | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
incapable of dealing with the challenges of the modern world. So, | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
who do voters think is the bigger patriots, the leader who likes to | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
down a pint and wave the flag, or the one who dares to speak up for | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Europe and Britain? Nigel Farage. Because? Because he believes in | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Britain, whereas Nick Clegg believes in Europe. Can't you believe in | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Europe and Britain? I do think you can. Can you passionately be for | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
your country, and still believe in European unit? Yes, but I don't | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
believe you can be patriotic clear favour of Britain without any | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
against immigration. Nick Clegg believes staying in Europe, which | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
committee told me, means keeping our borders open. We say, yes it is | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
freedom to move across the European Union, that is obvious and has been | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
part and parcel of the European Union from all time. But note abuse, | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
no to exploitation and welfare, no to the freedom of movement of | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
criminals. So if people think there are too many people coming in is not | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
enough controls on who comes in, they can't vote for you? If they | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
want to pull up from Bridgend put up a no entry sign, then vote for UKIP, | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
-- pull up the drawbridge. But think what that means. A diminished | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
ability of our police to go after criminals to cross borders. Nick | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Clegg doesn't need to read his tweets to know what message voters | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
may set him on polling day. But his reply today was, you might not think | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
so, but I am standing up for you. There's an area on our website | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
dedicated to the European and local elections. It's called Vote 2014, | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
and you can access it on your mobile, tablet or computer at | :14:45. | :14:45. | |
bbc.co.uk/vote2014. Our top story. The US Coast Guard | :14:46. | :15:00. | |
has resumed its search for four British yachtsman missing in the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Atlantic. And understanding the First World War. The first of | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
thousands of schoolchildren on a special programme to bid - Mac to | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
visit the battlefields. Later on BBC London. The blaze which swept | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
through Camden market. Stall holders are left counting the cost of the | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
damage. A rare chance to see a perfectly preserved creature from | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
the ice age. The baby mammoth unveiled at the natural history with | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
museum. It's one of the biggest names on the | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
high street, but Marks and Spencer has been struggling to keep its | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
customers happy. The company has announced another fall in annual | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
profits, for the third in year in a row. In the past 12 months they were | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
down by 3.9%, leaving the bosses at M facing a huge task ahead. Our | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
business correspondent Emma Simpson has more. At Marks Spencer they | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
are already thinking about winter. And here is a glimpse of some of the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
key pieces they hope will be flying off the rails. To bring some | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
much-needed sparkle into clothing, which has been in decline. Getting | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
women's fashion back on track, it's absolutely vital for M It has | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
been at the heart of a ?1 billion plan over the last three years to | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
revitalise this whole business. So is it working? We asked two retail | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
experts to give us their views. First up is M is starting to turn | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
things around on the fashion and the shops? They have injected more | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
fashion content to their ranges, you can see that in their stores. It's | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
definitely an improvement but there's still a long way to go in | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
order to really meet the customer needs. And what about the company's | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
new look website, which customers are still getting used to. MNS has | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
come from a position, especially online, from being behind. Its | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
online business should be a lot bigger but they needed to put the | :17:00. | :17:11. | |
investment in in order to be able to grow it. They are now hoping the | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
sales will come through online. Everyone has got an opinion on this | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
firm, but in the end it comes down to the shoppers. Views are mixed. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Are like Marks and Spencers and I go there a lot but it's not as good as | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
it used to be. I think they've got far too much in there. The price and | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
the quality does make sense. You get quality for your money. I usually | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
have a look about to see if there's anything but I can never find | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
anything. And MNS still hasn't found its Mojo when it comes to hitting | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
sales targets, with profits down yet again. It means no bonus for the | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
staff the boss. The question is, when will all this investment start | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
to pay off? It says it's making solid progress but there's an awful | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
lot riding on this autumn winter collection. Emma Simpson, BBC News. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
Smokers who want to quit are much more likely to succeed if they use | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
e-cigarettes, according to a new study. Researchers from University | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
College London found e-cigarettes can increase the success rate by 60% | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
compared to nicotine patches and gum or just willpower. Here's our health | :18:11. | :18:19. | |
correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. This shop has only been open a year, part | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
of an EC boom. Almost 2 million people are buying their nicotine | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
hits this way. Little vials of liquid that vaporise in an | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
electronic cigarette. Some, like Mark, hope this is a step towards | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
stopping smoking. I'm hoping that eventually I can make the decision | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
to give up nicotine altogether. At the moment, I'm a man of the 21st | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
century and I can have my cake and eat it. I can smoke but not smoke at | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
the same time. If I wanted to quit, I would transition myself with ease | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
cigarettes. If you want to give it up, just put it down and don't come | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
back to it. This research is based on nearly 6000 smokers. Around 20% | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
quit with the help of e-cigarettes. Their chances of success were 60% | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
better than those using patches, gum is all just willpower. Making | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
experts optimistic that smoking rates will continue to fall. Smoking | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
rates are coming down, the rates at which people are trying to stop | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
smoking are going up. The rates that people are succeeding at stopping | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
smoking are going up. The proportion of people who are using e-cigarettes | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
who never smoked is extremely low. The nicotine is delivered in a | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
vapour. You can buy e-cigarettes in corner shops but there is a design | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
culture around expensive brands. Some types of e-cigarettes are very | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
fashionable, but they remain intensely controversial. Some | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
doctors argue they make a habit of smoking seem normal. And health | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
campaigners say too little is known about long-term effects. They are | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
not properly regulated at the moment. So we can't be absolutely | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
sure what that toxic substances they have in them. While they are | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
certainly less harmful than smoking, I wouldn't recommend someone who is | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
not already a smoker to take them up. Tighter regulation is on its | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
way, which might open the way for them to be used by the NHS. Branwen | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
Jeffreys, BBC News. It's being seen as a make or break moment for an | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
organisation which represents 125,000 police officers in England | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
and Wales. The annual conference of the Police Federation started today | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
and it will no doubt reflect on what's been a turbulent year. There | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
was the Plebgate scandal, allegations of bullying and | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
accusations from MPs that it functions like a medieval court. | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
Matt Prodger has more. The police Federation has never been a teddy | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
bear, and its annual get-together has been hostile to both government | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
and change. But not this year. The Fed is almost repentant. We tried | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
playing hardball with government. Our response was first one of | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
shock, then verbally aggressive and finally crude and disrespectful. We | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
targeted individuals rather than issues. The Federation is on its | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
last warning here in Bournemouth, buffeted by wave after wave of | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
controversy. It began with plebgate, the scandal whipped up by | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the Federation that forced a government minister, Andrew | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Mitchell, out of the Cabinet. Then there's the money. Too much of it | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
sitting in the bank and to much more unaccounted for. And bullying. The | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
symptoms, say critics, of an organisation out of control. We'd | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
been told that the latest to be bullied was the Police Federation's | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
own vice-chairman, a claim he dismissed. If I'd been a cop for 26 | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
years, it takes more than some robust conversations to concern me. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
What I'm about is moving the organisation forward. Others think | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
it is the Police Federation that has been bullied by the outside world. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
In terms of where we are, we are battered. We've had a bruising time. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Some of that has been mistakes we've made as an organisation, some of it | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
has been a little unfair. But we're at a point where we can move | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
forward, repair and better. The officials gathered here in | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Bournemouth basically have three days to make the organisation more | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
democratic, more accountable and more transparent. If they don't, | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
then the government says it will. So the biggest police organisation in | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
the UK need knows it needs to do more than rearrange the deck chairs. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Matt Prodger, BBC News in Bournemouth. The first of thousands | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
of secondary-school children are commemorating the centenary of the | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
First World War with special tours of the battlefields in Belgium and | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
France. It's part of a Government programme whereby two children from | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
every school in England will make the trip to gain a deeper | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
understanding of the conflict and hopefully share their knowledge when | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
they come home. Robert Hall is at Hyde Park in central London now. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Hyde Park Corner is dotted with memorials to the casualties of war, | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
but these commemorations are not just about remembrance. They are | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
about bringing the events of 1914 to 18 alive for this generation. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Schools are central, and I went along on the first of the new | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
battlefield tours. What I found was a real sense of engagement. I'm | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
going to be around over the next couple of days, helping you get the | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
most from this battlefield tour. In a classroom in Ashford in Kent, two | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
children from each of 30 schools are building personal connections with | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
the past. Over the next three days, experts and technology will help | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
them connect with the lives and deaths of those who fought in the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Western Front. Sam and Regan found this man, Lance Corporal John | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Stracey, on the local war memorial. Seeing actual pictures and finding | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
out everything about them, it gives more of a 3D effect of who they | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
were. It's going to bring it alive to them. It will make them more in | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
tune with their community and locality, and hopefully just give | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
them even more of a passion for history. John Stracey died amongst | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
half a million from both sides in the slaughter of Passchendaele. His | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
body, like thousands of others, was never found. Tyne Cot Cemetery | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
contains 12,000 graves and 33,000 names of the missing. Among them, | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
the name which the boys were looking for. Oh, yeah, there's Stracey. If | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
this were 100 years ago, we'd be going out to war as well. It's scary | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
in a way, this could have been us. This project does not end on the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Belgian battlefields. Have you been to Tyne Cot? Yes, about four years | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
ago. Back in Surrey, Sam and Regan are sharing their research with | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
83-year-old Jim Stracey, nephew of the soldier traced. Yeah, I think he | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
would have been proud to have known this was happening. Perhaps he does, | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
he might be up there. One story which has come full circle. Over the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
next four years, 8000 children will follow this battlefield trail, which | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
combines remembrance with a deeper understanding. Robert Hall, BBC | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
News. We've had some dramatic scenes | :25:29. | :25:42. | |
across the country over the past couple of days, this picture was | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
taken just off the coast of Aberdeen on Sunday night. For parts of | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Scotland we have had 23 degrees. Showers have been brewing in the | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
last couple of hours, they will drift northwards. Thunderstorms | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
mixed in with that. Behind it will be some clearer skies with the risk | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
of some mist and fog forming by dawn. Not quite as warm as it was | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
last night. Wednesday morning starts with a lot of cloud and rain sitting | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
across the North West of Scotland. Away from that, dry and bright, any | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
mist and fog should lift and clear. Bright skies across parts of | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
northern England, down through Wales and the south-west corner. As we | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
move into the South West, more cloud with the risk of some showers. In | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
the south-east throughout much of Wednesday, that cloud with a few | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
showers is likely to persist. We will keep the cloud and rain in the | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
north-west. But in between those areas, most places will be dry, fine | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
with some bright spells. The small risk of a shower. You will be | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
unlucky if you catch one. Temperatures will reach highs of 18 | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
to 19 degrees. But then we start to see things brewing through Wednesday | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
night and into Thursday. A low pressure system in the South has got | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
the potential to bring some more widespread heavy and thundery rain | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
our way. The risk of quite a difficult rush-hour at the moment. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
It looks like affecting parts of northern England, down through Wales | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
and the south-west corner. It will drift northwards, allowing some | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
drier weather with sunshine to follow on behind. The Northwest will | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
see highs of around 13 to 14 degrees. A bit of cloud and the risk | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
of a few showers. That's all from the BBC News | :27:34. | :27:34. |