:00:00. > :00:11.Today at 6pm: UKIP and Labour make the biggest gains in the local
:00:12. > :00:14.elections in England. UKIP's Nigel Farage says his party
:00:15. > :00:24.will have to be taken seriously in next year's general election. There
:00:25. > :00:27.are areas across the country where now we have an imprint in local
:00:28. > :00:30.government and we are under the first past the post system. We are
:00:31. > :00:33.serious players. There were significant losses for
:00:34. > :00:41.the Conservatives, many caused by the UKIP surge. Mainly immigration.
:00:42. > :00:48.I want similar to what I grew up with for England. At times, you feel
:00:49. > :00:49.a stranger in your own country, you know.
:00:50. > :00:53.And Labour performed strongly in London but missed some targets
:00:54. > :00:56.elsewhere. We'll be asking what the results
:00:57. > :00:59.tell us, with a year to go before the general election.
:01:00. > :01:01.Also on the programme: A major fire in Glasgow destroys one of
:01:02. > :01:05.Scotland's most important historical buildings.
:01:06. > :01:09.The US Coastguard prepares to abandon the search for the British
:01:10. > :01:10.sailors who went missing a week ago. And the remains of King Richard III
:01:11. > :01:20.will be buried in Leicester. The Labour Party are the big winners
:01:21. > :01:25.in the capital, seizing control of five town halls.
:01:26. > :01:26.And we find out why the UKIP bandwagon didn't roll into the
:01:27. > :01:50.capital. Good evening.
:01:51. > :01:54.Most of the votes in yesterday's local elections in England have been
:01:55. > :01:58.counted. UKIP and Labour have gained most seats, the Conservatives and
:01:59. > :02:01.Lib Dems have suffered losses. Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, said it
:02:02. > :02:06.meant his party would be "serious players" at next year's general
:02:07. > :02:10.election. Let's look at the number of council seats gained or lost,
:02:11. > :02:13.with some results still to come. Labour gained 260 seats with their
:02:14. > :02:16.strongest performance in the London region.
:02:17. > :02:21.The Conservatives lost 187 seats, many in areas where UKIP did well.
:02:22. > :02:25.The Lib Dems had a difficult night, losing 251 seats.
:02:26. > :02:30.And while UKIP gained 145 councillors, it still doesn't
:02:31. > :02:33.control any local authorities. If the elections had been held
:02:34. > :02:37.across the UK, the projected share of the vote would have been Labour
:02:38. > :02:43.31%, the Conservatives 29%, UKIP 17% and the Liberal Democrats 13%. James
:02:44. > :02:54.Landale has been following the results.
:02:55. > :03:03.Westminster henhouse, and boy is he Westminster henhouse, and boy is he
:03:04. > :03:08.ruffling some feathers. Here in Essex, and across England, Nigel
:03:09. > :03:13.Farage's party made gains at the expense of others, confirming
:03:14. > :03:18.UKIP's status as a fourth force in English politics. It may not run any
:03:19. > :03:26.councils or have any MPs, but he says it is clearly here to stay.
:03:27. > :03:32.They will say it is a protest. Across England, UKIP had a smile
:03:33. > :03:37.They will say it is a protest. forced Tories out of power in places
:03:38. > :03:41.like Basildon and Brentwood. They danced as they ousted Labour in
:03:42. > :03:47.great Yarmouth. And as they took seats in Labour heartlands like
:03:48. > :03:52.Rotherham, they even sang. Sort of. Another one bites the dust. A solid
:03:53. > :03:57.performance right across the country. In big Tory and Labour
:03:58. > :04:03.areas we are scoring consistently in the high 20%. Very pleased. But that
:04:04. > :04:06.meant others were not pleased. The Conservatives lost almost 200
:04:07. > :04:10.councillors and 11 councils, including many town halls in
:04:11. > :04:16.Margaret Thatcher's heartland, as Essex man became UKIP man. And while
:04:17. > :04:21.demands for a packed with UKIP were dismissed, some urged their leader
:04:22. > :04:25.to do more to tackle the threat it posed. David Cameron says he gets
:04:26. > :04:31.it, but I think it has proved he needs to get it a bit more. We
:04:32. > :04:34.handled them badly, first ignoring and then insulting them. We have to
:04:35. > :04:40.convince the electorate we are serious about reforming the EU. The
:04:41. > :04:43.better news for them was that the Tories held on in some key Labour
:04:44. > :04:48.targets, such as Swindon in the south and Tamworth in the Midlands,
:04:49. > :04:53.giving their leader at least some reasons to be cheerful. Our vote
:04:54. > :04:58.share went up compared to last year, we have more councillors than
:04:59. > :05:01.any other party, we won against Labour in seats in Birmingham, took
:05:02. > :05:05.Kingston of the Liberal Democrats in London, we held Swindon, Tamworth,
:05:06. > :05:13.many others that have been Labour for many years. But some councils
:05:14. > :05:17.have been Labour for just hours. They won some in the south, such as
:05:18. > :05:22.here in Cambridge and Crawley. They did well in London, taking four
:05:23. > :05:25.extra councils. The party leader has accepted they had not done well
:05:26. > :05:30.enough to ensure victory at a general election, and some in the
:05:31. > :05:34.party said they had got UKIP wrong. They called it wrong. We should have
:05:35. > :05:39.taken the fight to UKIP from the beginning and we never did. I lost
:05:40. > :05:42.count of the number of people canvassing over the last two or
:05:43. > :05:48.three days who said, you all need a big kicking. As he celebrated in
:05:49. > :05:52.east London, Ed Miliband promised to respond to that kicking, not with a
:05:53. > :05:56.tougher line on Europe or immigration, but with greater
:05:57. > :06:01.understanding of the concerns of voters. I want to say to those
:06:02. > :06:05.people today, I understand you're feeling, I understand your
:06:06. > :06:10.discontent. I am determined that Labour shows you, over the next 12
:06:11. > :06:15.months, how we can change your lives for the better. The Lib Dems could
:06:16. > :06:19.also do better. They saw over 250 councillors defeated and lost
:06:20. > :06:23.control of Kingston and Portsmouth, but they insisted they were holding
:06:24. > :06:28.ground where they have MPs and activists, like here in Cheltenham
:06:29. > :06:33.and other southern strongholds. It is never easy to see dedicated,
:06:34. > :06:38.hard-working Liberal Democrat councillors lose ground. But in the
:06:39. > :06:41.areas where we have MPs, where we have good organisation on the ground
:06:42. > :06:48.and can get our message across, we are doing well. But it is this man
:06:49. > :06:51.who is doing better. With a pint in his hand, he is disrupting
:06:52. > :06:54.conventional politics and confounding his opponents, who are
:06:55. > :06:56.struggling to know what to do with him.
:06:57. > :06:59.As James mentioned, one of UKIP's most fertile areas last night was
:07:00. > :07:03.Essex, the county often considered a useful guide to Conservative
:07:04. > :07:05.prospects at a general election. Councils in Basildon, Castle Point
:07:06. > :07:10.and Southend-on-Sea moved from Conservative to no overall control,
:07:11. > :07:21.as UKIP picked up support. Our political correspondent Vicki Young
:07:22. > :07:26.has spent the day in Basildon. UKIP said they would cause a
:07:27. > :07:29.political earthquake. Certainly the political landscape is more
:07:30. > :07:34.unpredictable than it was. That is an achievement for a party that does
:07:35. > :07:38.not have a single MP, does not run a single council. Talking to jubilant
:07:39. > :07:42.UKIP supporters in Essex, they think that is all about to change in the
:07:43. > :07:47.general election next year. There is flash photography in my report.
:07:48. > :07:50.It is less than 30 miles from Westminster but for many in this
:07:51. > :07:54.part of Essex, the main political parties might as well be in a
:07:55. > :07:58.different country. Voters say they are out of touch and ignoring the
:07:59. > :08:04.concerns of ordinary people. There is a list of grievances from a lack
:08:05. > :08:08.of housing to poor job suspects. But in Tony's cafe, it is UKIP's message
:08:09. > :08:14.on cutting immigration that is appealing to voters. I want similar
:08:15. > :08:19.to what I grew up with for England. That is it. It is getting totally
:08:20. > :08:25.overtaken by people that I can't link with, I feel disconnected from.
:08:26. > :08:30.There is a disconnection from society. What about the other main
:08:31. > :08:33.parties who say they will deal with immigration? They have said that for
:08:34. > :08:40.years and have done nothing about it. It is not about being racist. I
:08:41. > :08:44.don't care what colour people are, but like Australia, we need some
:08:45. > :08:48.sort of entry system so that we have a benefit of people coming here, not
:08:49. > :08:55.so much coming here and it is a free for all. Nigel Farage, he speaks
:08:56. > :08:58.normally, like normal people. He is not frightened of upsetting people
:08:59. > :09:02.and he says what he thinks. As for the man of the moment, Nigel Farage
:09:03. > :09:07.is enjoying every minute of his success. On a whistle-stop tour of
:09:08. > :09:12.Essex, taking in a couple of pubs, of course, he met some newly elected
:09:13. > :09:17.councillors, many of whom have no experience in local government. I'd
:09:18. > :09:22.do not want to tell them what they can and can't do. But that can lead
:09:23. > :09:28.to trouble. Yes, but we are individuals. Sometimes UKIP people
:09:29. > :09:32.say things and there is a huge hue and cry, but we are real people with
:09:33. > :09:36.real opinions and I would much rather that than some sort of
:09:37. > :09:41.monochrome politically correct nothingness. But those real opinions
:09:42. > :09:47.have led to accusations that UKIP is a racist party. Those attacks were
:09:48. > :09:51.out of order, he says. Scrutineers fine but it needs to be balanced and
:09:52. > :09:57.fair. There were points in this campaign when it looked like a
:09:58. > :10:00.witchhunt. Mr Farage has had a taste of success before and he thinks the
:10:01. > :10:03.best is yet to come. So this evening there are still some
:10:04. > :10:06.votes to be counted but the political landscape has seen some
:10:07. > :10:16.significant changes. Jeremy Vine is in the BBC election studio to take
:10:17. > :10:20.us through some of the figures. We are indeed in the BBC election
:10:21. > :10:24.studio. I will give you the map as it was before the voting and show
:10:25. > :10:29.you the colours that the councils are painted. If I change it, 148
:10:30. > :10:34.councils, and those are the changes that you can see. Labour are strong
:10:35. > :10:38.in the north, as before. Liberal Democrats holding onto South
:10:39. > :10:42.Lakeland. Trafford was held by the Conservatives, as was Tamworth. You
:10:43. > :10:46.have heard that the Conservatives were more robust in some areas
:10:47. > :10:51.people thought they might lose. Labour, as James Landale was saying,
:10:52. > :10:55.did well in London, picking up Murton, Croydon, Hammersmith
:10:56. > :11:00.Fulham. But the story of UKIP is really told in the grey. Where it is
:11:01. > :11:05.grey is where the council is in no overall control, places like Castle
:11:06. > :11:07.Point, Southend, the Conservatives could not hang on because UKIP
:11:08. > :11:12.dislodged them. could not hang on because UKIP
:11:13. > :11:16.night. If we spread the result across the nation we have projected
:11:17. > :11:19.national share, the shares that the parties would have got have the
:11:20. > :11:23.votes been taking place across the country. This is what we come to, if
:11:24. > :11:36.it did leave the outcome of these local elections.
:11:37. > :11:45.We will look at the changes on last year. Last year was very good for
:11:46. > :11:50.UKIP, getting 23%. You will see them come down. They are down 6% on last
:11:51. > :11:56.year. But let me take you to the projected national share in the
:11:57. > :12:07.mid-2000s. This is the voyage that the parties have been on. Labour get
:12:08. > :12:11.punished as they government, in the local election results. Under Gordon
:12:12. > :12:15.Brown, going all the way down and then recovering. The coalition come
:12:16. > :12:18.into power and then it is the Conservatives and Lib Dems that get
:12:19. > :12:21.punished, Labour start to recover and we are left at the end with
:12:22. > :12:28.Labour very close to the Conservatives. But it is UKIP in the
:12:29. > :12:31.mix that is holding the two main parties down, and the Liberal
:12:32. > :12:40.Democrats are still really struggling.
:12:41. > :12:43.Let's go to Westminster and talk to Nick Robinson. Having seen the
:12:44. > :12:48.figures, let's put some context around the UKIP performance. You see
:12:49. > :12:53.the beaming face of Nigel Farage holding a pint and it says, I am the
:12:54. > :12:56.winner. And yet in a funny sense he has not won. They did not get the
:12:57. > :13:02.most votes, the most councillors, not even the most council gains.
:13:03. > :13:06.That was Labour. And they do not run any councils. They are not a party
:13:07. > :13:11.of power. But today confirmed that they have become a national party,
:13:12. > :13:15.throughout England at least, with the power to really disrupt national
:13:16. > :13:19.politics. Not just in European elections, remember we get the
:13:20. > :13:23.results of those on Sunday night and Monday morning, but in local
:13:24. > :13:27.elections. The idea of them winning the odd seat at
:13:28. > :13:29.elections. The idea of them winning longer looks implausible. You talk
:13:30. > :13:36.about disruption. Let's talk about the impact on the other parties. You
:13:37. > :13:40.heard the phrase from Nigel Farage about the UKIP fox being in the
:13:41. > :13:43.Westminster henhouse. And we have seen it already today. Some Tories
:13:44. > :13:49.demanding that there should be packed, a deal with UKIP. Mr Cameron
:13:50. > :13:52.says, we are not doing a deal, but it is clear he will come under huge
:13:53. > :13:57.pressure to prove that his words mean something when he says he has
:13:58. > :14:01.answers on immigration and reform of Europe and the welfare state. Ed
:14:02. > :14:05.Miliband says he has held -- heard the discontent and wants to make
:14:06. > :14:09.sure people realise Labour has the answers to that discontent. But he
:14:10. > :14:13.is coming under pressure, not least because of discontent within his
:14:14. > :14:17.party. The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, and Yvette Cooper, Shadow
:14:18. > :14:21.Home Secretary, saying that the party should have said more about
:14:22. > :14:26.those twin subjects, Europe and immigration. These results have
:14:27. > :14:30.shown that neither of the two big leaders, Miliband or Cameron, can be
:14:31. > :14:34.confident of winning the next general election. It is quite
:14:35. > :14:38.unpredictable, almost as if the public have wanted to say not just
:14:39. > :14:41.none of the above, but if you want our support, you had better dam well
:14:42. > :14:44.work for it. And Nick's blog on the election is
:14:45. > :14:48.one of the things you can find on our website, alongside all the
:14:49. > :14:58.results in your area. The address is bbc.co.uk/vote2014.
:14:59. > :15:02.A major fire has badly damaged Glasgow School of Art, one of
:15:03. > :15:04.Scotland's most famous buildings. It's considered the masterpiece of
:15:05. > :15:07.Charles Rennie Makintosh, Scotland's most influential architect and
:15:08. > :15:11.designer. Reports say the blaze started when a projector exploded in
:15:12. > :15:22.a basement room. Our correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow.
:15:23. > :15:26.Yes, the cordon is still in place around the Glasgow school of art and
:15:27. > :15:31.the Fire crews are still working inside the building, which is just
:15:32. > :15:36.50 metres up the road. This is widely considered to be an
:15:37. > :15:40.architectural masterpiece. It is absolutely stunning. Every tiny last
:15:41. > :15:43.detail was bought out by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and today its
:15:44. > :15:47.studios would have been full of students, some preparing for the
:15:48. > :15:50.degree show. Their work is likely to have been destroyed as well as much
:15:51. > :15:55.of the building as the fire took hold.
:15:56. > :15:58.And iconic Scottish building up in flames. Smoke billowing through the
:15:59. > :16:02.blackened windows as fire spread from the basement to the attic. This
:16:03. > :16:08.is a school famous for its architecture and the artists it has
:16:09. > :16:12.produced. It was full of students when the blaze broke out. It is
:16:13. > :16:17.thought all were led to safety but many stayed close, watching as the
:16:18. > :16:22.fire quickly spread. The alarm went off and we were evacuated and it was
:16:23. > :16:28.thick black smoke everywhere. How are you feeling? Terrified. For more
:16:29. > :16:32.than 100 years, this has been a Glasgow landmark. A Charles Rennie
:16:33. > :16:35.Mackintosh masterpiece full of windows and light, wooden panelling
:16:36. > :16:39.and wooden furniture. So many artists have passed through its
:16:40. > :16:45.doors. It is unique and, many fear, irreplaceable. Charles Rennie
:16:46. > :16:48.Mackintosh was an artist himself. He designed an art school that is still
:16:49. > :16:52.a fantastical school 100 years later. You just have to see the
:16:53. > :16:56.level of students that go through the school and Charles Rennie
:16:57. > :16:59.Mackintosh is an attraction. In the recent Turner prize, three of the
:17:00. > :17:02.students were from the School of Art. Fire crews from across the
:17:03. > :17:06.country have spent the afternoon trying to douse the flames. They
:17:07. > :17:10.can't confirm what caused the fire but it is feared the Charles Rennie
:17:11. > :17:14.Mackintosh building, famed for its art deco beauty and full of artistic
:17:15. > :17:24.treasures, may now be damaged beyond repair.
:17:25. > :17:29.The time is 6:17pm. Our main story: Nigel Farage and UKIP celebrate big
:17:30. > :17:33.gains in the Duke -- local elections in England.
:17:34. > :17:37.And still to come: Why the remains of Richard III will stay in
:17:38. > :17:41.Leicester. Later on BBC London, we'll bring you
:17:42. > :17:46.all the results from in and around the capital and analyse why UKIP did
:17:47. > :17:52.well in Essex and poorly in London. And a last-ditch attempt by the
:17:53. > :17:53.mayor for Boris Island, calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a
:17:54. > :17:58.new airport. The Coalition Government is
:17:59. > :18:01.proposing new rules on rights to access land, to try to speed up the
:18:02. > :18:05.introduction of fracking for oil and gas. It comes as a new report by the
:18:06. > :18:11.British Geological Survey estimates there are 4.4 billion barrels of oil
:18:12. > :18:14.in shale rock in southern England. Scientists identified the oil in the
:18:15. > :18:20.Weald Basin, which covers parts of Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent.
:18:21. > :18:28.Our industry correspondent John Moylan has been talking to people in
:18:29. > :18:31.the village of Fernhurst. It is a region famed for its
:18:32. > :18:34.unspoiled natural beauty. Who would have thought that beneath all of
:18:35. > :18:39.this there are billions of barrels of oil? And in places like Fern
:18:40. > :18:46.Hurst in Sussex, the fracking industry wants to start drilling.
:18:47. > :18:50.There will be a 145 foot oil rig. Marcus Adams wants to use
:18:51. > :18:53.trespassing law to prevent a well being drilled under his own but
:18:54. > :18:57.today the Government signalled that firms will be given the right of
:18:58. > :19:01.way. It makes me really cross. They are ignoring people like myself who
:19:02. > :19:06.have genuine concerns about this industry and what it can do to the
:19:07. > :19:09.environment and our health. And to ignore those concerns and
:19:10. > :19:14.disenfranchise us, I think is a huge mistake for this government. What is
:19:15. > :19:20.happening here in Fernhurst could be about to be played out right across
:19:21. > :19:23.Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, because despite appearances it looks
:19:24. > :19:29.like the South of England is oil country. And in America, they know
:19:30. > :19:35.how to get shale oil out. Fracking will soon see oil reduction in the
:19:36. > :19:42.US surpass that of Saudi Arabia - so could always be coming to Britain?
:19:43. > :19:45.Experts aren't sure. The shales in the Weald Basin contain less organic
:19:46. > :19:50.carbon so they are likely to contain less oil and they have more fine
:19:51. > :19:53.grey material, which means it will be more difficult to frack, so it
:19:54. > :19:58.will be more difficult to get the oil out. But oil is why there was
:19:59. > :20:02.drilling and weeks of protests in Sussex last year. But despite the
:20:03. > :20:07.opposition, the Government insists it is going all out for shale. We
:20:08. > :20:11.now have a better estimate of how much oil is down there and it would
:20:12. > :20:14.be wrong, in the interests of national energies acuity, to ignore
:20:15. > :20:18.the potential for extracting more home-grown energy here rather than
:20:19. > :20:23.importing oil from unreliable parts of the world. 4 billion barrels may
:20:24. > :20:27.not be a game changer for Britain but it is likely to be enough to
:20:28. > :20:32.lead tomorrow this across the southern English landscape in the
:20:33. > :20:34.years ahead. -- two more of this. Serious failures in Birmingham City
:20:35. > :20:37.Council's children's services are still leaving young people at risk,
:20:38. > :20:41.according to a report by Ofsted. It found that over a period of three
:20:42. > :20:44.months, the cases of 145 children were closed due to a lack of social
:20:45. > :20:48.workers - a finding disputed by the council. But it did state that the
:20:49. > :20:52.most serious cases, involving children at extreme risk, were dealt
:20:53. > :20:59.with quickly. Our UK affairs correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti has
:21:00. > :21:02.more details. A grim roll call of child victims
:21:03. > :21:07.are let down by those who should have cared for them, and failed by
:21:08. > :21:11.Birmingham City Council, whose safeguarding systems work rounded
:21:12. > :21:17.inadequate, rating it has had since 2008. Today's report by the watchdog
:21:18. > :21:21.Ofsted says there is an insufficient focus on children who need help and
:21:22. > :21:25.protection. The council itself agrees and says it is trying to do
:21:26. > :21:32.better. The Ofsted report confirms what we were already clear about. We
:21:33. > :21:35.are an inadequate council in terms of safeguarding and have been for
:21:36. > :21:39.far too long. Nothing has been presented to us that we were not
:21:40. > :21:44.already aware of and when they came to see us, we raised some of the
:21:45. > :21:46.issues with them ourselves. The report on the inspection of
:21:47. > :21:50.Birmingham children's services makes disturbing reading. Children were
:21:51. > :21:55.sometimes left at risk of significant harm for too long. 400
:21:56. > :22:00.cases of children in need word not assessed all the children were not
:22:01. > :22:04.seen. And progress through the system was too slow, with little or
:22:05. > :22:07.no impact. One third of Birmingham's children live in
:22:08. > :22:11.poverty, significantly higher than the rest of England, so the social
:22:12. > :22:16.challenges are clear. But the city council, the largest in Europe, has
:22:17. > :22:19.struggled for years to prove that it can provide adequate protection for
:22:20. > :22:23.children at risk and something it is empty too big. In the long run,
:22:24. > :22:27.something radical will have to be done. It may involve the break-up of
:22:28. > :22:32.Birmingham, the setting up of a new institution, a social enterprise or
:22:33. > :22:36.something, to run children's care in Birmingham. It may involve none of
:22:37. > :22:39.those. But officials here are toughing out the criticism and say
:22:40. > :22:44.they need three years to turn things around, to put to an end a
:22:45. > :22:46.depressing record of failing the city's children.
:22:47. > :22:49.At the inquests into the Hillsborough disaster, jurors have
:22:50. > :22:53.been taken to the football stadium where the tragedy took place in
:22:54. > :22:55.April 1989. They were guided by the coroner, who showed them key
:22:56. > :22:59.locations at the stadium in Sheffield where 96 Liverpool fans
:23:00. > :23:03.died. They were also taken to the site of the former gymnasium, which
:23:04. > :23:14.was used as a morgue on the day of the tragedy.
:23:15. > :23:17.The search for the four British sailors missing for the past week in
:23:18. > :23:20.the Atlantic will be suspended by the US Coast Guard if nothing is
:23:21. > :23:23.found by tonight. The missing men's families said while they were
:23:24. > :23:26.saddened by the news, they still hoped the sailors would soon be
:23:27. > :23:28.found. An RAF Hercules plane will continue searching tomorrow. Our
:23:29. > :23:30.correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.
:23:31. > :23:33.The last known photograph of the missing men. Released today, it was
:23:34. > :23:39.taken just a few hours before they set sail one week ago. They were
:23:40. > :23:46.heading to Southampton on the Cheeki Rafiki but never made it. Today, the
:23:47. > :23:52.families were officially told the American search operation - once so
:23:53. > :23:55.hopeful - would end tonight. We know they can't search for ever and we
:23:56. > :24:00.know they can't survive for ever out there on the ocean. But we haven't
:24:01. > :24:03.given up hope yet. Andrew Bridge, James Male, Paul Goslin and Steve
:24:04. > :24:08.Warren were all highly experienced. But veteran sailors say a new
:24:09. > :24:12.reality is now looming. I hope somehow we'll stumble on them. I
:24:13. > :24:15.still hope we will. But I honestly say, I cannot blame the US Coast
:24:16. > :24:19.Guard for saying, " that's it, guys we've done all we can". These BBC
:24:20. > :24:23.pictures show the calm conditions in the search area yesterday. This
:24:24. > :24:29.afternoon, we called one of the private yachts still on site. This
:24:30. > :24:33.new satellite map shows the position of the Gertha Four but its skipper
:24:34. > :24:39.says the mood of optimism is now fading. There's a feeling of
:24:40. > :24:41.wretchedness, if I'm honest. We've tried and it hasn't helped. At least
:24:42. > :24:46.we tried. An RAF plane tried and it hasn't helped. At least
:24:47. > :24:48.again tomorrow but these are the countdown hours for the families of
:24:49. > :24:52.the missing men. countdown hours for the families of
:24:53. > :24:58.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, Southampton.
:24:59. > :25:01.The remains of King Richard III should be given a dignified reburial
:25:02. > :25:06.in Leicester, according to judges at the High Court. His bones were found
:25:07. > :25:09.under a council car park in the city in 2012 - but some distant relatives
:25:10. > :25:14.had argued that the man known as Richard of York should be buried in
:25:15. > :25:19.York Minster. Our correspondent Sian Lloyd reports from Leicester.
:25:20. > :25:24.If you haven't heard, the result is that the judgement has gone
:25:25. > :25:27.Leicester's way. It was the news that the team in Leicester had been
:25:28. > :25:31.hoping for. They'd found a king but risked losing him again when a group
:25:32. > :25:33.of Richard III's distant relatives, called the Plantagenet Alliance,
:25:34. > :25:39.argued they should have a say on where the remains should be buried.
:25:40. > :25:44.But today, three High Court judges dismissed their claim. We've been
:25:45. > :25:48.biting our nails for 15 months on this one. The drama has been
:25:49. > :25:54.heightened, the tension has been raised and the joy and relief is...
:25:55. > :25:59.Well, what you would expect after waiting this long. This was the
:26:00. > :26:02.moment archaeologists found the remains of the last Plantagenet
:26:03. > :26:07.king, beneath a car park in Leicester. They intended to rebury
:26:08. > :26:13.him at the Cathedral nearby - but a costly legal challenge put those
:26:14. > :26:18.plans on hold. Those who sought to return King Richard to York were
:26:19. > :26:21.disappointed by today's outcome. I'm just really pleased it went to court
:26:22. > :26:24.in the first place. And, again, Richard is Richard of York. His
:26:25. > :26:28.heart and soul lies in York, even though his body's still in
:26:29. > :26:32.Leicester. But here in Leicester, they're already looking forward to
:26:33. > :26:35.the reinterment next spring. Work will now begin to transform the
:26:36. > :26:40.interior of this cathedral, to create a resting place befitting the
:26:41. > :26:49.former king. Sian Lloyd, BBC News, Leicester.
:26:50. > :26:55.Time for a look at the weather with Peter.
:26:56. > :26:58.Bank holiday weekend coming up. Not overly reliable weather. We will
:26:59. > :27:02.definitely see some showers, possibly on the heavy Scheidt. Now
:27:03. > :27:05.and again, the sun will break through and where it does, it will
:27:06. > :27:09.feel reasonably warm but you might need to keep your plans flexible.
:27:10. > :27:14.Showers around through this evening and tonight, one area moving out of
:27:15. > :27:19.England and Wales towards Northern Ireland, southern Scotland. Later in
:27:20. > :27:22.the night, another batch comes in from the near continent, so a fairly
:27:23. > :27:26.unsettled night with a fair bit of cloud. Temperatures generally double
:27:27. > :27:31.figures but Northern Scotland is the chilly spot, down to six or seven.
:27:32. > :27:35.The start of the weekend brings quite a bit of rain for many parts
:27:36. > :27:40.of England and Wales, slowly creeping northwards. It takes awhile
:27:41. > :27:43.to into Cumbria but for Scotland and Northern Ireland, a largely bright
:27:44. > :27:47.day with a few showers coming through. Winds a bit lighter than
:27:48. > :27:52.the last couple of days so not quite so chilly. When you move down into
:27:53. > :27:56.the area of rain, some will be quite heavy. When you get a shower, the
:27:57. > :27:59.temperatures will drop away but when the sun comes out, they will pick up
:28:00. > :28:04.again. Don't take the position of the heavy showers to literally this
:28:05. > :28:07.far out but it gives you the idea of the general areas that will get
:28:08. > :28:13.downpours through the day but some dry spells as well stop by Sunday,
:28:14. > :28:19.showers per string northwards and eastwards, leaving much of England
:28:20. > :28:25.with a dry spell. Looking ahead into bank holiday Monday, a selection of
:28:26. > :28:28.cities shows a similar theme. Sunny spells and scattered showers with
:28:29. > :28:34.temperatures mostly into the mid-or possibly high teens. In sunny spots
:28:35. > :28:36.in the south, as high as 20 or 21. You are going to have to pick your
:28:37. > :28:40.time to go out over the weekend.