21/05/2014

:00:00. > :00:10.A warning to the Police Federation from the Home Secretary - reform, or

:00:11. > :00:14.we'll impose change. Teresa May tells officers in England and Wales

:00:15. > :00:19.it's time to prove to the public that they're prepared to change. I

:00:20. > :00:28.want you to show them that you have the best interests of the police and

:00:29. > :00:32.the public at heart. Tonight, the federation says it will accept

:00:33. > :00:36.reforms. We'll have the latest. Also tonight: Prince Charles is reported

:00:37. > :00:39.to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine,

:00:40. > :00:42.and Nazi Germany. The families of the missing British sailors wait for

:00:43. > :00:45.news, as an RAF aircraft is sent to join the search in the Atlantic.

:00:46. > :00:51.Millions of eBay customers are told to change their passwords after a

:00:52. > :00:54.database was hacked. And making waves - Britain's first artificial

:00:55. > :00:59.surfing lake is to be built in north Wales.

:01:00. > :01:04.On BBC London: The mother stabbed to death by her ex-partner. She'd

:01:05. > :01:07.warned police about him just days before. And allegations of

:01:08. > :01:08.widespread cheating in exams amongst London's paramedics. An

:01:09. > :01:32.investigation's underway. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

:01:33. > :01:35.News at Six. The Home Secretary Theresa May has made an

:01:36. > :01:39.uncompromising speech to the Police Federation. She warned the union,

:01:40. > :01:42.which represents rank and file officers in England and Wales, that

:01:43. > :01:47.if it doesn't reform, the Government will impose change. And she

:01:48. > :01:56.announced that public funding, which currently stands at nearly ?200,000

:01:57. > :01:59.a year, is to be withdrawn. In the last few minutes, the Federation has

:02:00. > :02:01.agreed on the need for reforms. Our home affairs correspondent Matt

:02:02. > :02:06.Prodger reports from Federation's conference in Bournemouth.

:02:07. > :02:12.She is a Home Secretary as famous for her shoes as she is for putting

:02:13. > :02:15.her foot down. She began by praising the police as the bravest, the best

:02:16. > :02:21.in the world. And then she pulled the rug from beneath them. But when

:02:22. > :02:25.the Federation is sitting on vast reserves, worth tens of millions of

:02:26. > :02:30.pounds, it is in receipt of public funds to pay for the salaries and

:02:31. > :02:32.expenses of the chairman, General Secretary and Treasurer, we have

:02:33. > :02:37.already said that we would reduce this spending, but I can announce

:02:38. > :02:41.today that this funding will be stopped altogether. That's not all.

:02:42. > :02:44.She's ending the Federation membership of the lease offices by

:02:45. > :02:50.default. They will have to opt in to join. -- police officers. The Fed

:02:51. > :02:56.will be forced to open up its accounts and, for the first time,

:02:57. > :02:57.provide documents under freedom of information legislation. The

:02:58. > :03:01.Federation is the closest thing to the trade union that the police have

:03:02. > :03:06.got. But it is a creation of Government. After accusations about

:03:07. > :03:11.bullying, hidden finances and dodgy political campaigns, the Government

:03:12. > :03:15.has taken the first step of imposing change. Most of the delegates left

:03:16. > :03:20.in stunned silence. What do you think of Theresa May's speech?

:03:21. > :03:24.Others voiced their fury. I felt like I was one of the naughty

:03:25. > :03:28.schoolboys, getting the biggest telling off by the headmistress. I

:03:29. > :03:33.felt I had the biggest kicking I have had in the police service. The

:03:34. > :03:37.Government, in effect, pre-empted a series of changes recommended by

:03:38. > :03:42.this man, which the Federation itself only agreed to later in the

:03:43. > :03:45.day. I was a bit surprised, I wasn't expecting it. What I said to the

:03:46. > :03:50.Federation today was that the best response to the recommendations is

:03:51. > :03:52.to implement my report, to show the Home Secretary that view, the

:03:53. > :03:58.Federation, are really on the side of reform and, if possible, proved

:03:59. > :04:01.the Home Secretary wrong. Labour accused the Home Secretary of simply

:04:02. > :04:09.looking for headlines. She certainly found them today.

:04:10. > :04:16.Our home affairs correspondent Jim Kelly is with me. How significant is

:04:17. > :04:19.this speech? Highly significant. The fact that the delegates in

:04:20. > :04:24.Bournemouth voted for this package of reforms this evening shows that

:04:25. > :04:28.Theresa May got her message across. In previous years, she has been met

:04:29. > :04:32.by abuse, jeers, hostile banners. These were rank and file officers

:04:33. > :04:36.that were furious that a Conservative Home Secretary, the

:04:37. > :04:38.party of law and order, traditionally on the side of the

:04:39. > :04:43.police, she was driving through a package of reforms including

:04:44. > :04:47.reductions in numbers, changes to pensions, pay and conditions. This

:04:48. > :04:51.year, it seemed the whole dynamic of the relationship had changed. As we

:04:52. > :04:55.were hearing, the Police Federation has been mired in controversy now

:04:56. > :05:00.for the last couple of years. Plebgate, accused of having bloated

:05:01. > :05:06.coffers, Lien, a whole tranche of complaints. You felt that she was

:05:07. > :05:10.addressing a badly wounded organisation and she basically let

:05:11. > :05:13.them have it. This is all part of her campaign to transform the

:05:14. > :05:16.policing landscape. It looks as though she is set to be remembered

:05:17. > :05:20.as the Home Secretary who did something here predecessors bulk

:05:21. > :05:23.that, she took on the police. The Prince of Wales is reported to

:05:24. > :05:25.have criticised the Russian president,Vladimir Putin, appearing

:05:26. > :05:32.to draw a comparison between Russia's actions in Ukraine and

:05:33. > :05:34.Germany under the Nazis. The Prince is thought to have mentioned Mr

:05:35. > :05:38.Putin after hearing the experiences of a woman who fled Germany in 1939,

:05:39. > :05:45.and lost members of her family in the Holocaust. Clarence House said

:05:46. > :05:47.it wouldn't comment on a private conversation. Our Royal

:05:48. > :05:52.Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. It is a visit packed with

:05:53. > :05:56.more than 40 engagements. This was Charles today. Literally hundreds of

:05:57. > :06:00.brief conversations with strangers. On Monday, the Prince was in

:06:01. > :06:05.Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was there that he met Marianne Ferguson. She

:06:06. > :06:10.told him how, as a child, she and her family had lived in the city of

:06:11. > :06:14.Danzig between Germany and Poland. They were Jewish and fled for their

:06:15. > :06:19.lives, head of the invasion of the Nazis and their leader, Adolph

:06:20. > :06:24.Hitler, an invasion that led to the Second World War. In his

:06:25. > :06:28.conversation, over a cup of tea, Prince Charles evidently drew a

:06:29. > :06:32.comparison between what the Nazis did in Europe then and what the

:06:33. > :06:36.Russians, under Vladimir Putin, are doing now in Ukraine. The precise

:06:37. > :06:41.words are disputed. A Daily Mail reporter who was present, that is

:06:42. > :06:45.hurt behind the pillar, said the prince said, in relation to Ukraine,

:06:46. > :06:51.and now Vladimir Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler. Charles

:06:52. > :06:55.has met Vladimir Putin several times in the past. In a couple of weeks

:06:56. > :06:58.they will both be attending ceremonies to mark the 70th

:06:59. > :07:03.anniversary of D-day. Any comparison between Vladimir Putin and Hitler

:07:04. > :07:07.will be seen as the Russian leadership as deeply offensive. You

:07:08. > :07:12.can't be much more insulting about a Russian van comparing them to

:07:13. > :07:15.Hitler. Hitler, of course, killed 26 million Russians. I suspect,

:07:16. > :07:21.privately, he will be rather angered by it. Here, political leaders are

:07:22. > :07:25.divided over the remarks. The Deputy Prime Minister said that the Prince

:07:26. > :07:29.was entitled to say what you did. I think Prince Charles is able, I

:07:30. > :07:32.would have thought, to be able to express himself. I don't know

:07:33. > :07:35.exactly what he did or did not say in that conversation, because he

:07:36. > :07:39.thought it was a private conversation. The Leader of the

:07:40. > :07:43.Opposition also said he had a point. I think he has got a point about

:07:44. > :07:47.President Putin's actions. I think he is entitled to say there are real

:07:48. > :07:51.concerns about that. Nigel Farage said that the Prince should keep

:07:52. > :07:58.quiet. Sometimes there are issues that it might be better that elected

:07:59. > :08:01.governments dealt with. Interventions by Charles has

:08:02. > :08:06.certainly raised eyebrows before. As he moves ever closer to the throne,

:08:07. > :08:09.they pose obvious risks, as the Prince knows. One point of view is

:08:10. > :08:13.that Charles was merely articulating what many people have said in

:08:14. > :08:18.private. The question is whether it was wise for the future king of the

:08:19. > :08:22.United Kingdom to share such views with a complete stranger. Or might

:08:23. > :08:23.it now be more prudent for him to follow more closely the example of

:08:24. > :08:31.his mother? An RAF plane has now joined the

:08:32. > :08:35.search for the four British sailors missing in the Atlantic. The 40-foot

:08:36. > :08:38.Cheeki Rafiki was sailing back to the UK from a regatta in Antigua

:08:39. > :08:46.when it got into difficulties six days ago. The US Coast Guard resumed

:08:47. > :08:50.its search yesterday. The sailors' families say they are hopeful that

:08:51. > :08:51.the men will be found. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has

:08:52. > :09:02.more. 9am, the start of another testing

:09:03. > :09:08.day for the families of the four missing men. This is the home of

:09:09. > :09:14.James Male in Romsey, where the dining room has become an Ops room.

:09:15. > :09:20.A place to funnel social media and the meagre bytes of information. In

:09:21. > :09:28.the kitchen, Lorraine keeps on keeping them going. Sustenance, in

:09:29. > :09:35.the search for her son. Waiting is horrible, isn't it? We'll hear

:09:36. > :09:39.something soon, we know that much. Dad Graham has become the public

:09:40. > :09:42.face of the family, as well as the key driver of the mood of optimism.

:09:43. > :09:46.The object is to bring those boys back. Now we know it's happening,

:09:47. > :09:51.it's taken some of the stress off, in some respects. But of course the

:09:52. > :09:57.stress now is back on. This search has to work and it's going to find

:09:58. > :10:04.them. His son, James, who is 22 and his friends, Andrew Bridge, Steven

:10:05. > :10:09.Warren and Paul Goslin went missing while crossing the Atlantic. For the

:10:10. > :10:13.families, like this one here, this has now gone on for six days. Most

:10:14. > :10:18.are fighting exhaustion and trying to stay optimistic, with little or

:10:19. > :10:22.no news about their loved ones. That includes the family of Andrew

:10:23. > :10:28.Bridge, their home in Surrey, where photos, not facts are all they have

:10:29. > :10:34.to cling to. He is very giving and loving. It is all coming back to us

:10:35. > :10:38.now. We are waiting for him. In Somerset, the family of Steve Warren

:10:39. > :10:44.are also filling their waiting hours, trying to keep his image, his

:10:45. > :10:48.absence, in the public's mind. You can't eat, you can't sleep, your

:10:49. > :10:54.stomach is going over. It's awful. It's like living in a nightmare,

:10:55. > :10:58.really. The search for the men of the Cheeki Rafiki is now enormous,

:10:59. > :11:03.with nearly 3000 square miles covered since the operation

:11:04. > :11:06.restarted yesterday. Three American aircraft have been joined by an RAF

:11:07. > :11:11.Hercules, as well as six merchant ships. The men may be missing, but

:11:12. > :11:13.they are not forgotten, and that will provide comfort in four British

:11:14. > :11:20.homes tonight. The jury at the inquests into the

:11:21. > :11:23.deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough has been shown a

:11:24. > :11:29.sequence of videos to explain how the tragedy unfolded 25 years ago.

:11:30. > :11:33.Some of the footage, which includes CCTV and police video, has never

:11:34. > :11:34.been broadcast before. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is in

:11:35. > :11:47.Warrington. Yes, some of the footage shown in

:11:48. > :11:54.court today has been used to identify a large number of the foot

:11:55. > :11:58.all fans who died at Hillsborough, in some cases, depicting them alive

:11:59. > :12:02.for the last time before they were later discovered as casualties. Some

:12:03. > :12:06.of the relatives of the 96 who died were in court today, to watch that

:12:07. > :12:09.footage. They were told they may leave the room if they were finding

:12:10. > :12:15.it too difficult, and some viewers may find some of the footage in my

:12:16. > :12:19.report distressing. Hillsborough was a disaster captured

:12:20. > :12:24.on camera. More than 2000 clips of video were recorded by the police,

:12:25. > :12:30.the BBC and on CCTV. Some of it has never been broadcast for. Today, the

:12:31. > :12:35.jury saw for themselves images of the tragedy as it unfolded. At two

:12:36. > :12:39.o'clock, one hour before kick-off, the police can be seen looking down

:12:40. > :12:44.from the upper tier onto the crowd which can be seen on the standing

:12:45. > :12:48.area below. 49 minutes later, this BBC footage shows the same

:12:49. > :12:52.terraces, which were split into fenced pens. The jury was told some

:12:53. > :13:02.of the funds shown here are those who later died. -- fun the

:13:03. > :13:08.about 2000 fans at estimated to enter the ground, a significant

:13:09. > :13:13.number heading towards the terraces. Just before three o'clock, the FA

:13:14. > :13:18.Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest kicked off. Two

:13:19. > :13:25.minutes later, fans on this footage can be seen climbing over the

:13:26. > :13:30.perimeter footage onto the pitch. The appearance and condition of the

:13:31. > :13:36.fans was mentioned to the jury. After five minutes of play, the

:13:37. > :13:40.match was stopped. With no football to film, the cameras kept rolling,

:13:41. > :13:43.showing advertising hoardings being used as makeshift stretchers to

:13:44. > :13:47.carry the injured and those who had died. Tomorrow, the court will hear

:13:48. > :13:52.evidence about the stadium from a structural engineer. On Friday, the

:13:53. > :13:54.jury will be taken from here in Warrington to Sheffield, to see the

:13:55. > :14:02.football ground for themselves. Shopping in supermarkets and on the

:14:03. > :14:06.High Street is booming, according to new figures which show the strongest

:14:07. > :14:11.annual rise in UK retail sales for ten years. Sales grew by nearly 7%

:14:12. > :14:16.in April, compared with the same month last year, and it's food

:14:17. > :14:17.shopping that's playing a big part. Our economics editor Robert Peston

:14:18. > :14:31.has been looking at the numbers. That great British pastime, handing

:14:32. > :14:36.over cash to shopkeepers. In recent weeks, we have started, perhaps, to

:14:37. > :14:41.go a bit bonkers again. Full retail sales, it is apparently back to the

:14:42. > :14:46.boom of a decade ago. In April, the amount of stuff we bought rose 69%,

:14:47. > :14:53.compared to the same time last year. That is the fastest growth since May

:14:54. > :14:57.2004. This was no blip. In the latest three-month period, the rate

:14:58. > :15:02.of growth was 5% and it was a strong 5.5%, excluding fuel. One happy

:15:03. > :15:06.shopkeeper is the boss of John Lewis in central London. Have you been

:15:07. > :15:13.taken by surprise by the strength of your sales? We monitor our sales

:15:14. > :15:16.regularly. We know that we are 8.8% ahead, year-on-year, since the

:15:17. > :15:20.beginning of the trading year. Do you think you can keep this up,

:15:21. > :15:25.incoming week Sandman's Girl is to we are cautiously optimistic,

:15:26. > :15:28.fashion is doing well, home is improving and electronics is doing

:15:29. > :15:32.well. We British love to shop, but you can have too much of a good

:15:33. > :15:36.thing. If the Bank of England was to conclude we are spending recklessly,

:15:37. > :15:40.spending money we can't afford, spending too much, too fast, they

:15:41. > :15:45.could push up interest rates, push up the cost of money to slow us

:15:46. > :15:50.down. They also seem to be spending in the sunshine in Newcastle. What

:15:51. > :15:52.is a former member of the Bank of England committee which sets

:15:53. > :15:59.interest rates think the bank should do? I think the longer this period

:16:00. > :16:03.of strong growth goes on, the more it becomes clear that having a base

:16:04. > :16:07.level of interest rate at 0.5%, which is what we have, is not

:16:08. > :16:10.appropriate for the UK economy. The Bank of England needs to move

:16:11. > :16:14.interest rates up. The key thing is to make sure they do it gradually,

:16:15. > :16:18.rather than a sharp hike. There was also further evidence of potential

:16:19. > :16:22.overheating in the mortgage market, as the Council of mortgage lenders

:16:23. > :16:29.reported a 36% year-on-year rise in gross mortgage line Lending, defying

:16:30. > :16:31.the Bank of England assessment that the pace of lending for house

:16:32. > :16:35.purchases could be slowing down. Investors reacted by betting that

:16:36. > :16:37.the Bank of England will raise interest rates earlier than they

:16:38. > :16:43.have been thinking, perhaps as soon as the autumn. Minutes of the last

:16:44. > :16:49.Bank of England meeting shows that some members think that the rates

:16:50. > :16:52.may have to rise soon. If we start to believe that interest rates are

:16:53. > :16:57.on the rise, perhaps we will become more cautious in spending. But let's

:16:58. > :17:07.hope not so cautious as to stymie economic recovery. Our top story

:17:08. > :17:12.this evening: The Police Federation accepts a raft of reforms after the

:17:13. > :17:15.Home Secretary told the union it's time for change.

:17:16. > :17:17.And still to come: England's World Cup squad in training for what their

:17:18. > :17:24.manager calls an "incredible adventure".

:17:25. > :17:28.Later on BBC London: Royal Mail says it's to start delivering parcels to

:17:29. > :17:32.Londoners on Sundays - a response to the boom in internet shopping.

:17:33. > :17:34.Plus the new squeeze on mortgages and what it means for the London

:17:35. > :17:49.housing Market. People across Europe start going to

:17:50. > :17:53.the polls tomorrow for the European Elections. Voting over the coming

:17:54. > :17:58.days will decide 751 members of the European Parliament. Of those, 73

:17:59. > :18:00.are British - the allocation is based on population size. In total,

:18:01. > :18:04.MEPs represent the interests of 500 million people. Our Brussels

:18:05. > :18:07.Correspondent, Matthew Price, has been on a tour of the European

:18:08. > :18:16.Parliament with students from the UK.

:18:17. > :18:20.All aboard for the European Parliament. Perhaps not every

:18:21. > :18:24.teenager's destination of choice. What do you think is more relevant

:18:25. > :18:26.to you, Parliament in Westminster or parliament here in Brussels?

:18:27. > :18:28.Parliament in Westminster, just because it's more related.

:18:29. > :18:31.Definitely in Britain. I suppose Britain, really because that is

:18:32. > :18:34.where I live. That's my base, but this is equally has a massive effect

:18:35. > :18:37.on us, I suppose. Time then to find out how much of an effect. Some say

:18:38. > :18:41.the parliament dictates terms to Britain. Others say this is the only

:18:42. > :18:46.democratically elected part of the union. So this is rather ugly

:18:47. > :18:53.building in the centre of Brussels is the European Parliament. Let's go

:18:54. > :19:01.on a tour. This is where the MEPs have their offices. MEPs from 28

:19:02. > :19:03.different countries. This is one of the committee rooms where MEPs

:19:04. > :19:11.discuss all sorts of things which affect the European Union in 24

:19:12. > :19:15.different languages. And this is called the Hemi circle, it's one of

:19:16. > :19:19.the places where MEPs debate and vote on legislation that affects

:19:20. > :19:23.everybody across the EU. Which is why this lot, studying international

:19:24. > :19:28.business, chose to come here. The European Parliament works alongside

:19:29. > :19:33.the EU's 28 national governments. The MEPs who work here help to draw

:19:34. > :19:37.up EU legislation. It seems quite complicated, the process that they

:19:38. > :19:40.have to go through for legislation. Do you understand the process?

:19:41. > :19:46.Fairly, yes. But I'll probably do a bit more research when I get home.

:19:47. > :19:48.It's not often you get into the main hall where the European Parliament

:19:49. > :19:51.make all the big decisions that can affect the whole continent. Chicken

:19:52. > :19:56.and 50 euros. Why? Well, both are a good illustration of the influence

:19:57. > :19:59.some MEPs have. For instance, a British MEP was instrumental in

:20:00. > :20:02.bringing about better food safety standards in the last few years.

:20:03. > :20:09.Another key in lowering bankers' bonuses. Love it or loathe it, this

:20:10. > :20:14.Parliament plays a big part in all our lives. Like most of us, the

:20:15. > :20:18.students don't fully understand how this lace works, but tomorrow some

:20:19. > :20:29.of them will vote for the first time and in a European election.

:20:30. > :20:34.And there's more on the European and local elections on our website. You

:20:35. > :20:43.can access it on your mobile, tablet, or

:20:44. > :20:48.Millions of eBay customers are being advised to change their passwords

:20:49. > :20:50.after hackers gained access to a key database. The online marketplace,

:20:51. > :20:52.which has nearly 130 million registered users worldwide, says

:20:53. > :20:58.there's no evidence of any unauthorised activity on the site.

:20:59. > :21:06.Our Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, is here.

:21:07. > :21:15.It sounds very serious, what is happening? Well this looks like a

:21:16. > :21:18.very serious breach of eBay's defences. The company says the

:21:19. > :21:23.hackers didn't get hold any financial information but they did

:21:24. > :21:28.get quite a lot of other data. So amongst the data that's been put at

:21:29. > :21:31.risk is encrypted passwords. The question there is could the hackers

:21:32. > :21:34.actually break the code? They have also got people's home addresses -

:21:35. > :21:37.one key piece of information of course, along with their date of

:21:38. > :21:44.birth. If you put all of that information together, people could

:21:45. > :21:49.be at risk of identity theft. EBay have asked people to change their

:21:50. > :21:54.passwords but how did they get in? They got access to some key

:21:55. > :22:01.employees passwords and that let them into the company. They will be

:22:02. > :22:11.scratching its head and working out how to shore up its defences to make

:22:12. > :22:14.sure it does not happen again. The England manager, Roy Hodgson,

:22:15. > :22:17.said today that preparations for the World Cup are going as well as he

:22:18. > :22:20.could possibly have hoped. The England squad is continuing training

:22:21. > :22:23.in its warm weather camp in the Algarve in advance of what Hodgson

:22:24. > :22:25.described as an "incredible adventure". Our chief sports

:22:26. > :22:29.correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Portugal. This may be the start

:22:30. > :22:33.of their final World Cup reparations, but this England team

:22:34. > :22:42.makes time for family as well as family. Wayne Rooney with his son

:22:43. > :22:46.today in Portugal. Last week, Roy Hodgson named one of the youngest

:22:47. > :22:51.England squads and it seems it is one of the most relaxed. There is a

:22:52. > :22:56.tremendous feeling of enthusiasm and energy because they are so happy

:22:57. > :23:00.they are taking part in this incredible adventure and they will

:23:01. > :23:04.be leading the way for England in the next few weeks. Roy Hodgson and

:23:05. > :23:08.his squad are aware that the work they put in here could be crucial

:23:09. > :23:13.when it really matters up the World Cup. They will stay in the Algarve

:23:14. > :23:17.for the rest of the week, but it is only the first stage in their

:23:18. > :23:23.build-up to Brazil. Next week, they play a friendly against her room at

:23:24. > :23:30.Wembley. They then had to Miami and two warm up games against Aqua does

:23:31. > :23:37.and one juror. Then they travel to Brazil for their match against Italy

:23:38. > :23:40.on June the 14th. England have a video analyst, and preparation is

:23:41. > :23:46.underway off the pitch as well as on it. No stone is left unturned and

:23:47. > :23:52.the manager will make sure we are as well prepared as we can be for every

:23:53. > :23:56.game. England hope that with just three and a half weeks left before

:23:57. > :24:06.their opening match, practice makes perfect. For now, it appears a happy

:24:07. > :24:10.camper. We've heard of artificial ski slopes

:24:11. > :24:12.but now the UK is going to have its first artificial surfing lake.

:24:13. > :24:15.Revolutionary engineering is being used to build a giant wave lagoon

:24:16. > :24:18.the size of three football pitches, in the mountains of North Wales. Our

:24:19. > :24:21.correspondent, Claire Marshall, has been to the Spanish city of San

:24:22. > :24:25.Sebastian, where a rather smaller prototype of the lake has been

:24:26. > :24:29.built. Riding the energy of the ocean takes

:24:30. > :24:33.exceptional skill. Every surfer has to learn somewhere, so could it be

:24:34. > :24:38.here on this industrial wasteland in the Welsh mountains? Well, work has

:24:39. > :24:45.just started on an inland surf lake, the first in Britain and the first

:24:46. > :24:52.of its type in the world. We went to northern Spain to see the prototype.

:24:53. > :24:53.The engineering is unique and secret. It's taken a decade to

:24:54. > :24:58.develop. An underwater foil operates like a snow plough, pushing the wave

:24:59. > :25:04.up and out. Were able to create perfect waves. Every time? Every

:25:05. > :25:10.time. This could even make surfing an Olympic sport. You are watching

:25:11. > :25:14.the coat of the British surf team. To be able to come and surf a wave

:25:15. > :25:20.every minute, it's going to be a huge benefit. Not just to UK surfers

:25:21. > :25:24.but anybody who wants to improve their surfing anywhere in the world.

:25:25. > :25:29.Off the coast of Portugal earlier this year, see this spec on one of

:25:30. > :25:33.the biggest waves ever ridden? It's Andrew Cotton. His day job - a

:25:34. > :25:37.lifeguard in North Devon. So what does he think? It's a great way to

:25:38. > :25:43.get people into surfing. And for surfers to enjoy when it's flat. But

:25:44. > :25:50.nothing can take over from actually being in the ocean and that's what

:25:51. > :25:55.surfing is about. I have surfed a bit at home. I've never tried

:25:56. > :26:00.anything like this. Going to give it a go. There are more waves at the

:26:01. > :26:05.push of a button, so it doesn't matter how often you fall off.

:26:06. > :26:10.Really fun. Really difficult, but really fun. Fancy having a go? The

:26:11. > :26:22.first lagoon opens in Britain next spring.

:26:23. > :26:23.I don't think I would be as good as her.

:26:24. > :26:36.Time for a look at the weather. We have weather warnings out for

:26:37. > :26:41.heavy rain. It is lurking over the other side of the Channel and is

:26:42. > :26:46.beginning to move north and west. It could be torrential. Thunder in the

:26:47. > :26:49.mix and setting in later this evening and in the early hours of

:26:50. > :26:54.this morning. That is when these livid colours appear and it could

:26:55. > :27:02.cause some disruption. You could be kept awake by the temperatures in

:27:03. > :27:10.the night. Cooler across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Largely dry

:27:11. > :27:14.across northern parts. The rain beginning to ease away from

:27:15. > :27:19.south-west England in the morning. Heavy bursts across Wales and the

:27:20. > :27:24.West Midlands. But the West Midlands should be fine and warm. The rain

:27:25. > :27:29.heavy enough to cause problems across the North of England. In

:27:30. > :27:33.Scotland, cloudy and also in Northern Ireland. A cool breeze

:27:34. > :27:38.across Scotland blowing in from the North or North East. Make cooler day

:27:39. > :27:43.tomorrow. The rain really sets in along with the breeze. Picking up

:27:44. > :27:48.across north-west Scotland and picking up across the East of

:27:49. > :27:52.England. The sun will break through but that will encourage heavy

:27:53. > :27:57.showers in the afternoon. Some of them could be thundery. Chilly in

:27:58. > :28:05.northern areas, 11 or 12 degrees at best. We keep the same temperature

:28:06. > :28:10.grading going into Friday. Cooler across northern parts, some showers

:28:11. > :28:14.around. There will be heavy showers into the weekend. Some sunshine in

:28:15. > :28:20.between and when the sun breaks through, it should feel warm. A bit

:28:21. > :28:28.unsettled for the rest of the week. A reminder of our main story: the

:28:29. > :28:33.Police Federation has accepted a raft of reforms.

:28:34. > :28:37.Prince Charles is reported to have drawn comparisons between Vladimir

:28:38. > :28:39.Putin's That's all from the BBC News at Six.

:28:40. > :28:40.Actions in Ukraine and Nat C Germany. So it's goodbye