:00:00. > :00:08.Pensions, childcare and plastic bags - the Government
:00:09. > :00:14.sets out its agenda in its final year before the general election.
:00:15. > :00:19.There are 11 new bills - including plans to allow voters to
:00:20. > :00:25.sack misbehaving MPs, and a reform of how we save for retirement.
:00:26. > :00:29.My government's pension reforms will also allow for innovation
:00:30. > :00:35.in the private pensions market, to give greater control to employees.
:00:36. > :00:38.We'll test the Coalition's claim that it's a packed agenda
:00:39. > :00:41.from a radical government. Also tonight:
:00:42. > :00:47.The row between Cabinet heavyweights Michael Gove and Theresa May about
:00:48. > :00:50.how to tackle Islamic extremism. The Taliban releases video showing
:00:51. > :00:55.the moment it freed US soldier Bowe Bergdahl,
:00:56. > :00:57.after five years in captivity. Britain's biggest supermarket
:00:58. > :01:03.suffers its worst sales for 20 years, in the face of stiff
:01:04. > :01:07.competition from discount rivals. Thousands gather in Hong Kong to
:01:08. > :01:14.remember the Tiananmen Square massacre, 25 years ago today.
:01:15. > :01:16.Tonight on BBC London: A man dies
:01:17. > :01:20.and 13 people are injured after a car crashes into a bus in Clapton.
:01:21. > :01:22.While in central London, there are more injuries as a tour
:01:23. > :01:52.boat ploughs into Tower Bridge. In the last Queen's Speech before
:01:53. > :01:59.the general election, the coalition government has set out its plans for
:02:00. > :02:04.its final year in power. Her Majesty announced just 11 new bills.
:02:05. > :02:09.Pensions took centre stage, with changes to annuity schemes. A
:02:10. > :02:13.child-care subsidy of up to ?2000 a year will replace the existing
:02:14. > :02:16.employer funded scheme and a 5p charge will be introduced for
:02:17. > :02:20.supermarket plastic bags in England. David Cameron and Nick Clegg said
:02:21. > :02:25.the programme shows the coalition is still taking bold steps to improve
:02:26. > :02:28.people's lives but the Labour leader Ed Miliband said it fails to match
:02:29. > :02:35.the scale of the problems that Britain faces. Our deputy political
:02:36. > :02:40.editor James Landale reports. If you've got new wheels like this,
:02:41. > :02:45.you wouldn't want to take it for a spin. Today the Queen travelled to
:02:46. > :02:49.Westminster in a new carriage for a new session of Parliament. The
:02:50. > :02:53.Diamond Jubilee State coach, an embodiment of British history made
:02:54. > :03:03.up of fragments of HMS Victory, a musket from Waterloo and even Isaac
:03:04. > :03:08.Newton's pageantry. Inside, the tradition was anything but new. MPs
:03:09. > :03:11.briefly barred the Queen's messenger then greeted him with the now
:03:12. > :03:21.familiar heckle from Labour's Dennis Skinner. Coalition's last stand! It
:03:22. > :03:25.certainly isn't the Queen's last stand. This is the 60th time she's
:03:26. > :03:31.opened Parliament and the only side that one day she might stop was the
:03:32. > :03:34.presence, now for a second year, the Prince of Wales behind her in the
:03:35. > :03:38.procession. But today was all about who might seize the political crown
:03:39. > :03:42.in the next election. The author of the Queen's Speech on the left
:03:43. > :03:46.doesn't want to be succeeded by the young pretender on his right. David
:03:47. > :03:52.Cameron gave Her Majesty a view of electoral slogans to proclaim. My
:03:53. > :03:59.Government's legislative programme will continue to deliver on its
:04:00. > :04:03.long-term plan to build a strong -- stronger economy and a fairer
:04:04. > :04:06.society. It was a short list of legislation for a short
:04:07. > :04:09.parliamentary session but fundamental changes to pension stood
:04:10. > :04:12.out. Legislation will be brought forward to give those who have saved
:04:13. > :04:17.discretion over the use of their retirement funds. With many voters
:04:18. > :04:21.distrustful of politicians, there will be a new way of getting rid of
:04:22. > :04:26.MPs if they're guilty of serious wrongdoing. But some critics the it
:04:27. > :04:29.won't go far enough. My ministers will introduce legislation on the
:04:30. > :04:34.recall of members of Parliament. There was also a small business bill
:04:35. > :04:38.setting up targets to reduce red tape and help firms get credit from
:04:39. > :04:42.banks. And Infrastructure Bill to make fracking for gas easier and to
:04:43. > :04:47.boost house-building by selling off public land. And there will be a 5p
:04:48. > :04:50.charge for plastic bags used in large shops in England through
:04:51. > :04:55.October. The Queen also announced there will be tax cuts for childcare
:04:56. > :05:01.worth up to ?2000. Care that might perhaps be needed for one of her
:05:02. > :05:05.page boys, who fainted. A brief shudder as helpers rushed to help
:05:06. > :05:09.the unfortunate youth, the Royal eyes lifted momentarily as the bill
:05:10. > :05:15.was carried out, and she and the three remaining pages carried on. --
:05:16. > :05:19.the boy was carried out. There were no bills on Europe or immigration,
:05:20. > :05:23.nor any new rules on cigarette packaging. The Labour leader said he
:05:24. > :05:27.had been looking for more. An immigration bill to stop workers
:05:28. > :05:32.being undercut, a consumer bill to freeze energy bills, house-building
:05:33. > :05:37.bill and an NHS bill to make it easier to see your GP and to stop
:05:38. > :05:41.privatisation. To make that happen, we need a different government, a
:05:42. > :05:45.Labour government. No, said the Prime Minister, the country needs
:05:46. > :05:49.more of his government. Our long-term economic plan is working
:05:50. > :05:52.but there is much, much more to do. This Queen's Speech sets out the
:05:53. > :05:55.next steps in seeing through this vital plan to secure our future but
:05:56. > :05:59.it will take the rest of this Parliament and the next to finish
:06:00. > :06:05.the task of turning our country around. After a messy few weeks, the
:06:06. > :06:07.Lib Dems were keen not to be swept under the carpet. Our fingerprints
:06:08. > :06:11.can be seen all over this Queen's Speech on measures like free
:06:12. > :06:15.childcare, free school meals, cutting income tax for working
:06:16. > :06:20.people. Others, though, thought it wasn't radical enough. This
:06:21. > :06:25.government has run out of steam, run out of any kind of ambition and,
:06:26. > :06:29.frankly, it's a thin Queen's Speech. The coalition's aim today was to try
:06:30. > :06:34.to counter that accusation, to try to show that it is united and busy.
:06:35. > :06:35.But its opponents say it's still left Parliament with two little to
:06:36. > :06:39.do. Good evening.
:06:40. > :06:42.Plans for sweeping changes to pensions were at the heart of the
:06:43. > :06:45.Queen's Speech. The government has abolished the requirement for people
:06:46. > :06:51.to buy an annuity, and wants workers to contribute to collective pension
:06:52. > :06:55.Our business correspondent Simon Jack has the story.
:06:56. > :06:58.As expected, the speech included plans to introduce a new type
:06:59. > :07:01.of pension scheme already popular in some European countries.
:07:02. > :07:04.Old-style final salary pensions are dying out, so what most workers now
:07:05. > :07:08.do is pay into personal "one-member" schemes, if you like, known as
:07:09. > :07:12.defined contribution pensions, each with its own administration costs
:07:13. > :07:15.which nibble away every year at your pension savings.
:07:16. > :07:19.Under this new plan, employees would pay into one big scheme where those
:07:20. > :07:23.costs would be shared - and some estimate that all those small cost
:07:24. > :07:25.savings could add up over time to 30% more income in retirement,
:07:26. > :07:36.although that income can fluctuate. If there's a crisis car it does mean
:07:37. > :07:40.that pensions sometimes need to go down. They've gone down by 2% in
:07:41. > :07:45.Holland, for example following the crisis. But in general, they can
:07:46. > :07:49.keep steady and rise with inflation and, of course, they give a better
:07:50. > :07:51.pay out if we're ordering this together and sharing the risk.
:07:52. > :07:54.although that income can fluctuate. However, another proposal to allow
:07:55. > :07:57.people to take out all their money when they retire, and do whatever
:07:58. > :08:00.they want with it, means that the new communal pot could suddenly
:08:01. > :08:03.shrink as people leave this scheme - making it very hard to manage.
:08:04. > :08:06.For this to work, lots of companies would have to club
:08:07. > :08:09.together to do it. Remember, many are still getting to
:08:10. > :08:11.grips with the Government's last big pensions idea -
:08:12. > :08:14.automatic enrolment - so may be reluctant to try another new idea.
:08:15. > :08:17.Well, as the Government was preparing for the Queen's Speech,
:08:18. > :08:20.two of its most senior Cabinet members became embroiled in
:08:21. > :08:23.a bitter row about how to tackle claims of Islamic extremism.
:08:24. > :08:25.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, and the Education Secretary,
:08:26. > :08:28.Michael Gove, have each accused the other of failing to deal with
:08:29. > :08:32.the issue - although today they insisted they are working together.
:08:33. > :08:40.Our political editor Nick Robinson has more.
:08:41. > :08:47.How do you combat the extremism that leads people born here, schools
:08:48. > :08:52.here, living here, to carry out terrorist attacks on their fellow
:08:53. > :08:55.citizens? That question of how to combat the extremism that can lead
:08:56. > :08:59.to violence has caused a split at the top of government but we know
:09:00. > :09:03.Home Secretary Theresa May and the Education Secretary Michael Gove.
:09:04. > :09:08.Behind the scenes, he's used meetings to criticise her approach,
:09:09. > :09:13.to say that not enough is being done to combat the conditions that can
:09:14. > :09:21.lead to violence. In the words of one of his allies, he wants people
:09:22. > :09:25.to drain the swamp instead of waiting for the crocodiles to reach
:09:26. > :09:29.the boat. For now the row centres on Birmingham and allegations of a plot
:09:30. > :09:33.by extremist Muslims to take over schools here, the so-called Trojan
:09:34. > :09:38.horse plot, which may lead next week to the sacking of the boards which
:09:39. > :09:41.ran five schools in the city. Yesterday the previously private
:09:42. > :09:46.views of Michael Gove and Theresa May emerged in public. The Education
:09:47. > :09:54.Secretary had lunch at the Times on Monday and told them:
:09:55. > :10:05.In reply, the Home Secretary wrote him a letter, asking: :
:10:06. > :10:10.The reason we're seeing this ministerial spat between the
:10:11. > :10:15.Education Secretary and the Home Secretary is because of ministerial
:10:16. > :10:18.incompetence. In 2010 a senior Birmingham head teacher went to the
:10:19. > :10:21.Department for Education and raised serious issues about radical
:10:22. > :10:24.hardliners allegedly seeking to infiltrate and take over schools,
:10:25. > :10:29.change the curriculum, and ministers did nothing. Michael Gove left
:10:30. > :10:35.Downing Street this morning under instructions to make nice with his
:10:36. > :10:39.Cabinet colleague. "We're just going to sort it out, " Theresa May could
:10:40. > :10:42.be heard telling Labour's Yvette Cooper on her way to hear the
:10:43. > :10:48.Queen's Speech. Mr Gove seemed to have other pressing business. He
:10:49. > :10:52.once wrote a book warning that what he called appeasement was provoking
:10:53. > :10:56.fundamentalist terror. Today he got the surprise backing of a former
:10:57. > :11:00.Labour minister. Michael Gove is talking about the need to work with
:11:01. > :11:03.people in communities on a long-term basis before they get to the point
:11:04. > :11:09.of perhaps becoming violent, and I absolutely support that. There are
:11:10. > :11:14.few more serious problems than the threat of terrorism. This, then, is
:11:15. > :11:18.much more than Whitehall spat. It's a profound disagreement about how to
:11:19. > :11:23.our streets safe. Nick is at Westminster tonight. A
:11:24. > :11:28.huge day, obviously, for the government, but could this row
:11:29. > :11:31.overshadowed that? Well, it is already in many ways overshadowing
:11:32. > :11:34.it because in the last couple of minutes, I'd had a call from Downing
:11:35. > :11:39.Street to say that the Prime Minister has ordered the facts to be
:11:40. > :11:44.put before him about the background to this dispute and what happened in
:11:45. > :11:47.this dispute. When I asked the Downing Street spokesman whether
:11:48. > :11:51.this could lead to consequences either for the ministers involved or
:11:52. > :11:57.their advisers, I was told, "that's all they race to tell you for the
:11:58. > :12:00.minute". It is a serious row and it is deeply frustrating to ministers
:12:01. > :12:04.that two of their own simply can't agree in public when the very
:12:05. > :12:08.purpose of this Queen's Speech was to show how the two sides of the
:12:09. > :12:10.coalition could agree, could find things to do, were not merely
:12:11. > :12:16.counting down the days until the next election. David Cameron thought
:12:17. > :12:19.it was job done on that. Ed Miliband, of course, insisted that
:12:20. > :12:23.it was not, that there were simply not the answers to the problems
:12:24. > :12:26.people and raised in the elections last week. But as you say, the row
:12:27. > :12:32.way be remembered longer than the speech. Nick, thank you for now. You
:12:33. > :12:35.can find out much more detail about everything that was in the Queen's
:12:36. > :12:40.Speech today on the BBC News website.
:12:41. > :12:47.A baby has died from blood poisoning believed to be
:12:48. > :12:50.caused by a contaminated drip in a neonatal intensive care unit.
:12:51. > :12:53.A further 14 premature babies in six hospitals across the south
:12:54. > :12:56.of England are being treated for the same kind of infection.
:12:57. > :13:01.I'm joined by our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys.
:13:02. > :13:09.What do we know about this? These babies all developed the same type
:13:10. > :13:13.of blood poisoning caused by a bacteria called Bacillus arrears. It
:13:14. > :13:18.is commonly found in dirt or dust and was traced back to the same
:13:19. > :13:27.batches of a nutritional supplement that they were being given through a
:13:28. > :13:30.liquid drip in the premature unit. 160 units were delivered to
:13:31. > :13:34.hospitals across London and the south-east but have all now gone
:13:35. > :13:38.past their use by date so the regulators say that they have
:13:39. > :13:42.investigated and are happy. There is no further contamination, so nobody
:13:43. > :13:46.who has a baby tonight in a neonatal unit should be worried if they're
:13:47. > :13:51.being given a nutritional supplement. Thank you.
:13:52. > :13:54.correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. The Taliban have released
:13:55. > :13:57.a video showing the moment when they freed the US soldier Bowe Bergdahl.
:13:58. > :13:58.The footage shows Sergeant Bergdahl wearing Afghan clothing
:13:59. > :14:01.and being searched, before he boards a helicopter.
:14:02. > :14:03.He was returned to the Americans in exchange for five Taliban
:14:04. > :14:06.fighters they were holding. The prisoner swap has caused
:14:07. > :14:07.controversy in the US. Our North America editor
:14:08. > :14:19.Mark Mardell reports. Inside this truck on the remote
:14:20. > :14:24.Afghan-Pakistan border, a man who has been held captive for five
:14:25. > :14:28.years. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl blinked repeatedly, perhaps an used
:14:29. > :14:35.to sunlight, perhaps close to tears, almost certainly overwhelmed by the
:14:36. > :14:40.prospect of freedom. He is told, " don't come back to Afghanistan. Next
:14:41. > :14:49.time you will be killed," something reinforced in English on this 17
:14:50. > :14:52.minute home video. They spot the helicopter. US forces asked them to
:14:53. > :15:00.light flare but they reply they have a white flag and then jubilant
:15:01. > :15:02.chanting from the mujahedin. Sergeant Bergdahl appears
:15:03. > :15:09.understandably tense, waiting, nearly daring to take plans but his
:15:10. > :15:15.rescuers. US special forces have been trying to kill their opponents
:15:16. > :15:20.and on this day, a quick briefing, a quick handshake, and then a pat-down
:15:21. > :15:24.to check he is unarmed are not carrying a bomb. The commentary says
:15:25. > :15:28.the US soldiers were very nervous and in a hurry. Bergdahl gets
:15:29. > :15:31.another search before he is allowed helicopter. Then finally off to
:15:32. > :15:34.freedom but some claimed the president has handed the enemy a
:15:35. > :15:41.propaganda coup. The Taliban are using this victory narrative that
:15:42. > :15:44.they have now to strengthen their recruiting, to strengthen their
:15:45. > :15:47.position, because now they're looking at a major military
:15:48. > :15:51.offensive this summer to try and dent the confidence of the Afghan
:15:52. > :15:55.forces with a goal to try to kick over Afghanistan in 2017. The
:15:56. > :15:59.release of this rather bloating video by American enemies will only
:16:00. > :16:02.add to the storm surrounding the swap but the president seems
:16:03. > :16:07.unrepentant, arguing that this is the way wars end.
:16:08. > :16:09.Mark Mardell reports. Our top story this evening:
:16:10. > :16:12.Pensions, childcare and plastic bags - the Queen lays
:16:13. > :16:17.out the Government's final agenda before the general election.
:16:18. > :16:24.And still to come - remembering the part these
:16:25. > :16:27.aeroplanes played in D-Day. Later on BBC London:
:16:28. > :16:30.As Heathrow's Terminal 2 opens up for business, passengers get
:16:31. > :16:33.a taste of the high life with food from a Michelin-star chef.
:16:34. > :16:34.And don't try this home - stuntmen see London from the rooftops
:16:35. > :16:47.in their look-a-like Boris Bikes. Security has been tight in Beijing
:16:48. > :16:52.today to prevent any commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
:16:53. > :16:55.exactly 25 years ago. China has never released
:16:56. > :16:58.a death toll for the crackdown, but at least several hundred people
:16:59. > :17:02.died when troops cleared the square after weeks of protests
:17:03. > :17:06.about political reform. Our China correspondent Damian
:17:07. > :17:11.Grammaticas reports now on how those protests shaped the China of today.
:17:12. > :17:15.Tonight, in Hong Kong, where people still have freedoms denied elsewhere
:17:16. > :17:22.in China, they gathered in their tens of thousands.
:17:23. > :17:23.25 years on, remembering Tiananmen, the hundreds massacred calling
:17:24. > :17:33.for political change. But in the rest of China - nothing.
:17:34. > :17:37.A mother who lost her son in the massacre can't even leave her flat.
:17:38. > :17:41.For weeks, the police have been blocking her visitors.
:17:42. > :17:44.To evade the censorship, the Tiananmen parents secretly
:17:45. > :18:02.filmed this footage and smuggled it out.
:18:03. > :18:11.And in the square, watchful security is everywhere.
:18:12. > :18:15.Armed patrols circle ostentatiously. While the memories have long been
:18:16. > :18:18.eraised from the flag stones, and nothing now shows where
:18:19. > :18:22.the army gunned down hundreds of unarmed students,
:18:23. > :18:28.the massacre's legacy has indelibly shaped modern China.
:18:29. > :18:30.To ensure there is no repeat, China's leaders have done two
:18:31. > :18:33.things. They've unleashed the economy, to make people richer, but
:18:34. > :18:39.stymied any serious prospect of political change.
:18:40. > :18:46.China today has the world's biggest state security apparatus to snuff
:18:47. > :18:49.out any hint of opposition. Even the wife of China's jailed
:18:50. > :18:52.Nobel Peace Prize winner, who took part in Tiananmen,
:18:53. > :18:54.is kept under house arrest. This one of the few glimpses we have had of
:18:55. > :19:04.her, dissent ruthlessly silenced. TRANSLATION: This is what happens in
:19:05. > :19:09.a totalitarian system, China is like this. When a bad decision is made,
:19:10. > :19:13.nobody can correct it. After speaking to us,
:19:14. > :19:16.he too was detained. China's leaders insist that people
:19:17. > :19:21.like a journalism student shot through the back
:19:22. > :19:33.were rioters, case closed. But not for his father.
:19:34. > :19:39.So the sense of injustice lingers, bitter and harsh,
:19:40. > :19:40.the seeds of today's China. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News,
:19:41. > :19:46.Beijing. British and Portuguese police
:19:47. > :19:50.have spent a third day searching scrubland in the resort
:19:51. > :19:54.of Praia da Luz where Madeleine McCann disappeared seven years ago.
:19:55. > :19:56.They put up tents over a hole in the ground,
:19:57. > :19:59.and forensic officers have been examining the scene.
:20:00. > :20:03.Officials say the search could now continue beyond the weekend.
:20:04. > :20:07.The search team looking for the British tourist Gareth Huntley
:20:08. > :20:10.in Malaysia have found a body. The 34-year-old has not been seen
:20:11. > :20:15.since he began a trek to a on Tioman Island eight days ago.
:20:16. > :20:20.The body was found in a pond near the conservation project
:20:21. > :20:23.where he was working. A terrorism trial could be heard
:20:24. > :20:27.entirely in secret for the first time in an English court.
:20:28. > :20:30.The High Court has been hearing that the press and public will be barred
:20:31. > :20:35.from attending and the defendants' names kept secret on grounds
:20:36. > :20:38.of national security. Our home affairs correspondent June
:20:39. > :20:39.Kelly is outside the High Court. So what can you tell us
:20:40. > :20:49.about this case? Well, this is very interesting,
:20:50. > :20:53.because normally we stand outside these chords and report details of
:20:54. > :20:58.cases. In this case, we are very limited, because the plan is to hold
:20:59. > :21:03.the whole of the case in secret. These two men, we do not know their
:21:04. > :21:07.names, are facing terrorism charges. Those charges include
:21:08. > :21:11.possessing bomb-making instructions, and they are due to go on trial
:21:12. > :21:16.later this month. The only reason we can report any of this for the first
:21:17. > :21:24.time is because the media are challenging this secret justice
:21:25. > :21:28.plan. Today a barrister told the Appeal Court judges that this raises
:21:29. > :21:32.questions about the principles of open justice. Prosecutors say it is
:21:33. > :21:36.an exceptional case, and the judges will make a decision about whether
:21:37. > :21:41.this trial should go ahead in secret in the coming days. June, thank.
:21:42. > :21:45.about this case? Britain's biggest supermarket chain,
:21:46. > :21:49.Tesco, has reported its worst results in 20 years.
:21:50. > :21:51.Sales over the past three months were down nearly 4%,
:21:52. > :21:53.the third consecutive quarterly fall.
:21:54. > :21:56.Its chief executive, Philip Clarke, says the supermarket will struggle
:21:57. > :21:57.for the rest of the year, as our business editor,
:21:58. > :21:59.Kamal Ahmed, reports. Navigating the changing
:22:00. > :22:03.world of supermarket shopping is proving a tricky business for Tesco,
:22:04. > :22:07.which announced its worst result in 20 years today. Philip Clarke, the
:22:08. > :22:11.chief executive, insists he has a plan to turn the business around.
:22:12. > :22:15.It's quite a change from its years of dominance. The times of their
:22:16. > :22:19.great success arguably overlapped with self-imposed weakness
:22:20. > :22:22.from major competitors, so the likes of Sainsbury's
:22:23. > :22:26.and Morrisons, for example. It is very difficult for
:22:27. > :22:30.all of them to win at the same time, so Tesco now has self-imposed
:22:31. > :22:33.problems, and its competitors are making progress against that
:22:34. > :22:38.backdrop. Tesco was still a huge business, accounting for nearly 30%
:22:39. > :22:43.of the UK market. In just one city, Southampton, it has 40 stores.
:22:44. > :22:47.No-one is suggesting the wheels are coming off the juggernaut just yet,
:22:48. > :22:51.but customers on the south coast now have other options. I think they
:22:52. > :22:55.need to make the stores smaller, you know, have nicer things as
:22:56. > :22:59.well, not just the cheap range. I like Tesco, I would not say it has
:23:00. > :23:03.affected me much. I think it is a good brand, it is not family
:23:04. > :23:08.values. Senior Tesco figures are told me the focus on everything from
:23:09. > :23:11.online deliveries to restaurants will help change the company's
:23:12. > :23:17.fortunes. Tesco's problem, its critics say, is that it has not
:23:18. > :23:22.given its millions of customers a good enough reason to visit its
:23:23. > :23:26.shops. That has left it stuck in a rather an appetising retail
:23:27. > :23:31.sandwich. From above, it's losing out to Waitrose, which operates at
:23:32. > :23:35.the premium end of the market. Sales here up 6%. From below, discounters
:23:36. > :23:39.like Aldi are taking Tesco customers. Sales here are up 35%.
:23:40. > :23:44.People after the crash have become much more discerning, their incomes
:23:45. > :23:48.are under pressure, and so they are looking more carefully to buy
:23:49. > :23:53.things. They want both luxury and they will buy cheap discounted goods
:23:54. > :23:58.if they think they are of sufficient quality. Philip Clarke has said that
:23:59. > :24:01.Tesco could struggle for the rest of the year, and cutting prices means
:24:02. > :24:06.less money being spent at the tills. Tesco's share price was down again
:24:07. > :24:09.today, but Mr Clarke has asked for patience from investors as he works
:24:10. > :24:16.to turn the business around. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News.
:24:17. > :24:20.This week sees the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces
:24:21. > :24:23.landed on the coast of France. A key role was played by
:24:24. > :24:26.a fleet of Dakota aircraft which flew thousands of
:24:27. > :24:29.paratroopers into Normandy. Today, eight remaining aeroplanes
:24:30. > :24:35.took to the sky again to mark the occasion.
:24:36. > :24:38.Duncan Kennedy was onboard. It's a sight not seen
:24:39. > :24:42.across southern England for seven decades, a formation
:24:43. > :24:45.of Dakotas heading to France to mark the D-Day anniversary.
:24:46. > :24:48.Flying over Portsmouth, it was the plane the Allied
:24:49. > :24:54.Commander Eisenhower called the aircraft that helped win the war.
:24:55. > :24:56.We flew with them as they crossed the Channel, noisy, vibrating,
:24:57. > :25:02.but, as always, reliable, just as they were on D-Day.
:25:03. > :25:05.83-year-old Dick Harrington was among those on board,
:25:06. > :25:10.with others in their wartime paratroop uniforms. They are paying
:25:11. > :25:18.homage to the brother he lost in World War II. We are where we are
:25:19. > :25:23.because of them. It's that simple. 70 years ago, 900 of these Dakotas
:25:24. > :25:27.made the mission, carrying 25,000 paratroopers. Today it's a sunny,
:25:28. > :25:33.peaceful day. Then they were flying into battle. Each plane carries the
:25:34. > :25:37.special invasion markings... Many were brought down by flak,
:25:38. > :25:41.but enough got through to overwhelm the Germans.
:25:42. > :25:45.Dakota veterans say they owe their lives to it.
:25:46. > :25:49.They could come in low, they could take big loads,
:25:50. > :25:52.and they seemed to be able to fly in the most difficult
:25:53. > :25:56.situations, in little mountain valleys and places like that.
:25:57. > :26:00.Oh, I love the Dakota. This afternoon, the Dakotas
:26:01. > :26:04.arrived over Normandy, thousands turning out to witness
:26:05. > :26:09.witness the aircraft that helped bring liberation. Very special, very
:26:10. > :26:13.emotive, and hopefully it honours the people of 70 years ago. The
:26:14. > :26:17.Dak, as it was known, may not have had the glamour of the Spitfire,
:26:18. > :26:22.but they delivered - men, kit and victory.
:26:23. > :26:31.Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Normandy.
:26:32. > :26:36.Time for a look at the weather prospects, Matt Taylor has joined
:26:37. > :26:40.me. I am not sure I would want to be up
:26:41. > :26:45.in a plane across the UK today, a few have seen the sunshine, but for
:26:46. > :26:49.many a thoroughly wet day, and still raining heavily in many areas at the
:26:50. > :26:52.moment. Thunderstorms through Hampshire pushing northwards, and is
:26:53. > :26:57.bulk of rain through this evening and overnight will push across
:26:58. > :27:01.southern counties. Persistent rain in Scotland, patchy rain through the
:27:02. > :27:04.night, things turning drier towards South Wales in the south-west of
:27:05. > :27:08.England later on, some fresh conditions to take us into Thursday
:27:09. > :27:11.morning. Brighter weather to start the day will chase away the grey
:27:12. > :27:16.skies in East Anglia, the south-east, Midlands, and perhaps
:27:17. > :27:21.northern England by the afternoon. A brighter day, a warm day, only one
:27:22. > :27:25.or two showers. Lots of cloud in Scotland, may be as much as an inn
:27:26. > :27:33.job rain in the next 24 hours. The rain will be floating with us again,
:27:34. > :27:36.but many of us will have a dry and bright evening. Into Friday, low
:27:37. > :27:42.cloud across the north-east of the country, most of us having a dry
:27:43. > :27:46.day, the best sunshine in the east, in the west some heavy or thundery
:27:47. > :27:51.showers developing to lead us into a complicated setup for the start of
:27:52. > :27:54.the weekend. This weather front will be the dividing line between humid
:27:55. > :27:58.air pushing out from the near continent towards us, and fresh air
:27:59. > :28:03.trying to work in from the Atlantic. That weather front is where we could
:28:04. > :28:06.see some pretty nasty thunderstorms. This far ahead it is a bit uncertain
:28:07. > :28:11.who will see the worst of the wet weather. The general story is a zone
:28:12. > :28:15.of locally torrential rain pushing northwards and eastwards during the
:28:16. > :28:18.day, maybe into the mid-20s to begin with, turning fresher and brighter
:28:19. > :28:23.later. Exactly where the wettest spots will be is open to question. I
:28:24. > :28:28.will have more for you through the next few nights.
:28:29. > :28:35.Just a reminder of the main news tonight: Pensions, childcare,
:28:36. > :28:41.plastic bags, the Queen has been laying out the Government's agenda
:28:42. > :28:43.in advance of the general election. That is all from the BBC News At
:28:44. > :28:44.Six,