:00:00. > :00:08.Public-sector workers go out on strike in what's thought to be
:00:09. > :00:14.the biggest day of industrial action for three years.
:00:15. > :00:16.There have been rallies around the UK, though the Government says most
:00:17. > :00:23.teachers, fire-fighters and council staff have turned up for work.
:00:24. > :00:30.I am very angry, I have been teaching for 27 years, I have never
:00:31. > :00:36.known this before, it has affected our pensions, our pay, and I have to
:00:37. > :00:42.think about my family. My son is not at school, my daughter is, but it is
:00:43. > :00:45.inconvenient, I have work I need to do.
:00:46. > :00:49.We'll be looking at how disruptive the day has been and
:00:50. > :00:51.the likelihood of future strikes. Also tonight.
:00:52. > :00:54.Emergency legislation is rushed through Parliament to allow the
:00:55. > :00:57.police and security services access to our phone and internet records.
:00:58. > :00:59.Israel and Palestinian militants trade airstrikes
:01:00. > :01:05.and rocket attacks as the violence increases and the death toll rises.
:01:06. > :01:07.Why dishing out free school meals could lead to primary
:01:08. > :01:14.schools getting less money to help poor children in England.
:01:15. > :01:17.And, bored with the World Cup? Well, limber up for the
:01:18. > :01:24.Commonwealth Games. An inquest jury finds that failures
:01:25. > :01:27.contributed to the death of Cherry Groce, whose shooting by
:01:28. > :01:29.police triggered the Brixton riots. And, could the Mayor take
:01:30. > :01:54.a safe Tory seat, as a London MP Good evening,
:01:55. > :01:56.and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Strikes are taking place
:01:57. > :02:00.across the UK in a series of disputes with the Government
:02:01. > :02:02.over pay, pensions and cuts. One union claims over
:02:03. > :02:05.a million public-sector workers have walked out.
:02:06. > :02:16.The Government says it's half that. Schools in England and Waless.
:02:17. > :02:19.In what's thought to be the biggest round of industrial action
:02:20. > :02:21.for three years, teachers joined fire-fighters and civil servants
:02:22. > :02:24.in rallies and on the picket line. But a Government spokesman says most
:02:25. > :02:26.public-sector staff have reported for work
:02:27. > :02:36.and nearly all key public services are being delivered as usual.
:02:37. > :02:44.It was billed as one of the biggest strikes in years. Here in Birmingham
:02:45. > :02:48.and around the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers
:02:49. > :02:54.lost a day's earnings to protest over pay, pensions and cuts to
:02:55. > :02:56.services. In London, several thousand workers turned out. There
:02:57. > :03:01.were demonstrations in Cardiff as well. This was the scene in
:03:02. > :03:07.Newcastle. Thousands of people linked in their opposition to the
:03:08. > :03:12.cuts. The cuts in services, we are public sector workers, we cannot
:03:13. > :03:15.provide the services, we are understaffed, so we have had enough.
:03:16. > :03:20.We are campaigning for a decent wage, what we are entitled for for
:03:21. > :03:27.the work we do. The government are putting lives in danger. At the
:03:28. > :03:31.heart of the strike, the issue of public sector pay and the situation
:03:32. > :03:37.in local government, where workers have had a pay freeze and then a 1%
:03:38. > :03:42.pay cap since last year. Unions insist the vast majority of the
:03:43. > :03:48.workers are around ?2000 worst off since the coalition came in. Chris
:03:49. > :03:54.Black was on strike today. She works for Somerset County Council and is
:03:55. > :03:58.also a union branch secretary. She says her ?16,000 a year salary has
:03:59. > :04:04.increased by just ?400 in three years. Whenever it gets towards the
:04:05. > :04:08.end of the month, I am counting the pennies, trying to make the
:04:09. > :04:12.decision, do I have enough for petrol to get me to and from work?
:04:13. > :04:19.Have I got enough petrol to get me to and from work?
:04:20. > :04:24.for my daughter? The government insists pay restraint has saved
:04:25. > :04:27.thousands of jobs and protected services. Today it condemned the
:04:28. > :04:32.strikes, calling the action irresponsible. When unions go on
:04:33. > :04:36.strike, it is hard working people who suffer the consequences most.
:04:37. > :04:41.Formal ball people who depend on public services, parents who are
:04:42. > :04:44.forced to take a day off work or arrange childcare because their
:04:45. > :04:49.school is closed, these strikes risk damaging those who are working hard
:04:50. > :04:52.to get this country moving again. The key is to prevent further
:04:53. > :04:56.strikes and further disruption happening. When the government is
:04:57. > :04:57.ramping up the rhetoric against public service workers, womanising
:04:58. > :05:05.them even more, I do not public service workers, womanising
:05:06. > :05:14.is the answer -- be memorising them. Should cancel workers be able to
:05:15. > :05:19.take action after low turnouts? I believe we deserve a living wage.
:05:20. > :05:22.Wages have not increased significantly to meet the cost of
:05:23. > :05:26.living. I have seen disruption reported on the news, it is not
:05:27. > :05:32.right you should in danger the people due are meant to be standing
:05:33. > :05:37.up for. There is already talk of two further strike days in September. It
:05:38. > :05:38.will be business as usual at councils tomorrow, but this dispute
:05:39. > :05:46.is not going away. The strike closed schools in England
:05:47. > :05:48.and Wales as members of the National Union
:05:49. > :05:51.of Teachers stayed away from work. The strike has meant some parents
:05:52. > :05:58.having to take the day off to look after their children.
:05:59. > :06:05.This was the site at many schools across England and Wales, classrooms
:06:06. > :06:10.closed, playgrounds and T. Thousands of teachers and support staff stayed
:06:11. > :06:15.away, forcing some schools to shut. Not an easy decision, according to
:06:16. > :06:19.this headteacher and union member. Our teachers are superbly
:06:20. > :06:24.professional, most of the teachers are, they are dedicated and do an
:06:25. > :06:28.excellent job, but they feel that their professionalism is constantly
:06:29. > :06:33.undermined. Like others on strike, teachers are protesting over wages.
:06:34. > :06:37.There will be a new pay system from September. They are also angry at
:06:38. > :06:43.having to work for longer and make higher pension contributions, and at
:06:44. > :06:46.their heavy workloads. For the parents affected by the strikes,
:06:47. > :06:51.closed schools meant major disruption. It has been a total
:06:52. > :06:59.inconvenience, I have had to take a day's holiday. I do not get a lot of
:07:00. > :07:04.holidays, 22 days a year. For other parents, it was business as usual.
:07:05. > :07:09.Some schools were not affected, others partially closed. Just one
:07:10. > :07:12.teaching union is on strike today, so some schools have had to close
:07:13. > :07:19.the classes taught by teachers in that union. Others have stayed open.
:07:20. > :07:24.My son is not at school, my daughter is, which is inconvenient. I have
:07:25. > :07:30.work that I need to do. It is not great. What did you think about the
:07:31. > :07:34.idea that teachers have gone out? It is shocking that they are paid so
:07:35. > :07:39.little that they need to strike. It is also about anger at education
:07:40. > :07:42.reforms, including changes to the curriculum and growth of academies
:07:43. > :07:48.and free schools. The man in charge is unabashed. Those on strike do not
:07:49. > :07:55.represent the majority of teachers or the future of education. They are
:07:56. > :07:57.trying to defend a particular set of conditions and an approach towards
:07:58. > :08:03.pay that does not put children first. The government says its
:08:04. > :08:07.reforms are improving standards, despite tough economic times. But
:08:08. > :08:11.with such fundamental differences about what is right for education
:08:12. > :08:12.and the wider public sector, there is no easy end to this ongoing
:08:13. > :08:28.dispute. At least one union and the
:08:29. > :08:33.government coming up with different figures, how do you assess the
:08:34. > :08:37.impact of the day's action? Here and elsewhere, we saw a lot of people on
:08:38. > :08:41.strike, but it is always difficult to get a grip on it, and there are
:08:42. > :08:46.differing views on the numbers and impact. Unions insist there were
:08:47. > :08:50.more than 1 billion people on strike, but the Cabinet Office has
:08:51. > :08:55.reported that, insisting it was less than half a million, and it said
:08:56. > :08:58.that would be the lowest recorded turnout of a national strike. But
:08:59. > :09:03.there could be more to come, there is talk of two more strike dates in
:09:04. > :09:06.September, and the possible of the of health workers joining industrial
:09:07. > :09:10.action, which could become even bigger in the autumn.
:09:11. > :09:13.Emergency legislation to ensure the police
:09:14. > :09:16.and security services can continue to access phone and internet records
:09:17. > :09:18.is being rushed through Parliament. All three Westminster parties
:09:19. > :09:21.are backing the new law. The Government says urgent action is
:09:22. > :09:23.needed to protect the public from criminals and terrorists.
:09:24. > :09:24.But civil-liberties campaigners have warned it
:09:25. > :09:38.will invade people's privacy. Who did you call last year? Who did
:09:39. > :09:45.you text and e-mail? When did you do it? Where were you? That is not just
:09:46. > :09:48.your business, say the police and security services, it is theirs.
:09:49. > :09:54.They say they need the data to keep you safe. The headlines, emergency
:09:55. > :09:59.legislation has been drawn up with all-party support. At 8am, the
:10:00. > :10:02.Cabinet was summoned to Downing Street to be told that the three
:10:03. > :10:09.main party leaders had agreed that an emergency new law was needed. Two
:10:10. > :10:13.hours later, the Prime Minister and his deputy, who in the past have
:10:14. > :10:17.disagreed over these issues, faced the media to make their case
:10:18. > :10:22.together. We face real and credible threats to our security, from
:10:23. > :10:28.serious or as a, the activity of paedophiles, the collapse of Syria,
:10:29. > :10:33.the growth of Isis in Iraq and al-Shabab in East Africa. I am not
:10:34. > :10:36.prepared to address the people after a terror incident and explained that
:10:37. > :10:41.I could have done more to prevent it. The powers they are asking for
:10:42. > :10:47.have already been used to help find the killers of Rhys Jones, to help
:10:48. > :10:52.stop the terror plot to grow -- blow up planes. But now, a problem. The
:10:53. > :10:56.judges in Europe ruled three months ago that the EU law under which
:10:57. > :11:02.these operations were carried out is no longer legal. Companies like
:11:03. > :11:06.Vodafone boast they protect their customers' privity. Ministers fear
:11:07. > :11:11.that if the law is unclear, they would face pressure to destroy the
:11:12. > :11:16.data they now hold. But why, many ask, does a new law need to be
:11:17. > :11:20.passed in just one week? Does history not want us to be suspicious
:11:21. > :11:26.of politicians who say, we all agree, there is an emergency, we
:11:27. > :11:31.have to legislate in Hayes, do not worry, it is all going to be fine? I
:11:32. > :11:37.am not asking for new powers and capabilities, I am saying we need to
:11:38. > :11:40.legislate rapidly to keep those capabilities and powers that we
:11:41. > :11:45.have. Nick Clegg says he has insisted on safeguards. We have
:11:46. > :11:56.inserted a poisoned pill into the legislation, it will form -- fall in
:11:57. > :12:00.2016. It is not permanent. We told the powers will not give the state
:12:01. > :12:05.new to read our messages or to listen in to our cause. The
:12:06. > :12:11.politicians are under pressure from the police and the security services
:12:12. > :12:17.to take that step in future. But thanks to the revelations of this
:12:18. > :12:20.man, Edward Snowden, the politicians face pressure to sleep less and to
:12:21. > :12:26.be more transparent about what they are doing -- snoop less. We have
:12:27. > :12:30.engaged in detailed discussions to ensure that the right safeguards are
:12:31. > :12:33.in place, because they need to be safeguards when it comes to these
:12:34. > :12:38.kind of issues. The party leaders may agree for now, but backbenchers
:12:39. > :12:44.on both sides are worried by the rush to action. British people are
:12:45. > :12:49.not stupid and not ideological. Why can they not have time to discuss it
:12:50. > :12:53.with their elected preservatives? Whatever happens next week, the
:12:54. > :12:54.debate about who should be able to read and listen to what has a long
:12:55. > :13:04.way to run. Israel is continuing its campaign
:13:05. > :13:06.of air strikes on the Palestinian territory of Gaza, amid further
:13:07. > :13:09.rocket attacks into Israel from Palestinian militants there.
:13:10. > :13:12.After three days of increased hostilities, the death toll in Gaza
:13:13. > :13:14.has risen to over 80, according to health officials there.
:13:15. > :13:18.There've been no Israeli fatalities over the same period.
:13:19. > :13:21.Israel said today it would no longer tolerate what it called the storm
:13:22. > :13:23.of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas.
:13:24. > :13:26.Hamas, the militant group which controls
:13:27. > :13:28.Gaza, insists an Israeli blockade that restricts the movement of goods
:13:29. > :13:48.into the territory must be lifted. In this refugee camp, the bodies
:13:49. > :13:55.kept coming today. This was the funeral of this family. A mother and
:13:56. > :14:01.a father killed, we are told, alongside their six children. They
:14:02. > :14:05.were asleep in their beds when the Israeli air strike hit. Flattening
:14:06. > :14:16.their home. There was little left to salvage. In total, 17 people were
:14:17. > :14:24.killed. The worst night so far for Gaza. They did not warn us, says the
:14:25. > :14:29.neighbour, it was the first time they have hit a house without any
:14:30. > :14:33.warning. The Israeli military usually gives advanced notice of an
:14:34. > :14:37.attack. If they did here, the family did not receive it. It is not yet
:14:38. > :14:44.clear why Israel bombed this particular site. Here, families
:14:45. > :14:46.clear why Israel bombed this cheek by jowl. There may only have
:14:47. > :14:48.clear why Israel bombed this been one target, but these were the
:14:49. > :14:52.homes to six separate families, and all of them have been destroyed.
:14:53. > :14:57.Israel says it is investigating what happened. There is anger.
:14:58. > :15:03.Israel says it is investigating what to destroy all Palestinians.
:15:04. > :15:08.Israel says it is investigating what can save this land, because this is
:15:09. > :15:13.our land. Overnight, Hamas continue to attack Israel. Since midnight,
:15:14. > :15:17.our land. Overnight, Hamas continue home. It
:15:18. > :15:23.our land. Overnight, Hamas continue playroom. The family were not home.
:15:24. > :15:28.When the sirens sound, Israelis run for cover. Hamas rockets are
:15:29. > :15:30.reaching further and deeper into for cover. Hamas rockets are
:15:31. > :15:36.country. As long as they keep coming, Israel says it will keep
:15:37. > :15:41.hitting Gaza. It blames Hamas for any civilian casualties. Israel is
:15:42. > :15:47.taking great measures to avoid harming innocent civilians. Defence
:15:48. > :15:49.forces warned Palestinians in Gaza of imminent strikes. At the same
:15:50. > :15:54.time, Hamas instructs of imminent strikes. At the same
:15:55. > :16:00.on the roof of those buildings and act as human shields. Israeli tanks
:16:01. > :16:05.began taking up positions near Gaza today. The air and sea campaign has
:16:06. > :16:08.already been costly for civilians. The ground invasion, if it comes,
:16:09. > :16:15.would be even deadlier. Teachers, firefighters and council
:16:16. > :16:18.staff go on strike over pay and changes to their pensions but the
:16:19. > :16:34.government says most of the public And coming up, I am at Celtic Park.
:16:35. > :16:38.It is still a construction site but hundreds of people are transforming
:16:39. > :16:41.this football stadium into the venue for the opening ceremony of the
:16:42. > :16:45.Commonwealth Games. Later on BBC London, a second smash and grab at
:16:46. > :16:53.the Dorchester in the space of a month, is Rob is once again
:16:54. > :16:56.month, again as robbers once again raid the luxury hotel. And handing
:16:57. > :16:57.over the reins to the new owner, we hear from the Italian now in charge
:16:58. > :17:07.It's a form of modern day slavery, otherwise known as forced labour.
:17:08. > :17:10.Millions of men, women and children are made to work against their will
:17:11. > :17:12.for little or no pay. The UN's International Labour
:17:13. > :17:18.million people worldwide in forced labour.
:17:19. > :17:22.even though the practice has been illegal for nearly 40 years.
:17:23. > :17:30.Our correspondent, Humphrey Hawksley,
:17:31. > :17:34.reports from the village of Pipalguda in the Indian state of
:17:35. > :17:46.he is 19 and learning to manage life with only one hand. He has worked
:17:47. > :17:50.since childhood and his family barely scrapes a living. One day,
:17:51. > :17:55.last December, he was offered a job that would cost him his right hand.
:17:56. > :17:59.TRANSLATION: When I went for work, I thought I would earn some money. Of
:18:00. > :18:05.course, if I knew what would happen, I would not have gone. This is the
:18:06. > :18:10.job he was being taken to, a family for bricks, used to build offices,
:18:11. > :18:14.skyscrapers, call centres, the gleaming face of modern India.
:18:15. > :18:21.Activists have compiled so many reports of violence against workers
:18:22. > :18:26.that they call them blood bricks. He tried to run away and was kidnapped.
:18:27. > :18:33.What unfolded next is an all too common story of poverty, modern-day
:18:34. > :18:35.slavery and the global economy. They laughed at me and made me decided I
:18:36. > :18:41.want to lose my life, my laughed at me and made me decided I
:18:42. > :18:47.hand. In desperation, I set my hand. They cut it off with an axe, just
:18:48. > :18:52.like a chicken's head. It turns out that the man who approached him for
:18:53. > :19:03.work comes from a nearby village. So we are going to try and find him. He
:19:04. > :19:07.is a Labour contractor who has been charged and is out on bail. He
:19:08. > :19:13.admits recruiting the man but says he was not there when his hand was
:19:14. > :19:18.severed. TRANSLATION: I want to say sorry so we can live together as
:19:19. > :19:25.neighbours. The kidnapping, the torture, the beating of people. You
:19:26. > :19:32.were involved in all of that. No, sir, I was not involved in the
:19:33. > :19:39.violence. I know nothing about it. But this man is far from alone. He
:19:40. > :19:43.tells his ordeal to 150 others in a two-year recovery programme run by a
:19:44. > :19:50.charity. All have similar stories of rape, beatings and threats. Many are
:19:51. > :19:54.children with government certificate saying they are now free. As part of
:19:55. > :20:04.the counselling, they relived their work with bricks. An estimated 10
:20:05. > :20:10.million people in India are bonded labourers, or slaves. History now is
:20:11. > :20:15.to start his own family, but with no right-hand finding a wife will be
:20:16. > :20:17.difficult. Just one young man with one story from India's trade in
:20:18. > :20:22.bricks. Metropolitan Police Commissioner,
:20:23. > :20:24.Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has "apologised unreservedly"
:20:25. > :20:28.for the shooting of Cherry Groce, Mrs Groce, whose shooting triggered
:20:29. > :20:33.the Brixton riots in 1985, was shot by police who were looking
:20:34. > :20:43.for her son, Michael. With me now is She was paralysed
:20:44. > :20:45.from the waist down, A jury at Southwark Coroner's Court
:20:46. > :20:50.found the raid on her house should never have taken place, and police
:20:51. > :20:56.failures contributed to her death. People might find it astonishing
:20:57. > :21:00.that it has taken three decades for the family to find out what went
:21:01. > :21:06.wrong. This is quite a significant moment, this was a shooting that not
:21:07. > :21:08.only caused riots in the area but it scarred a whole community and
:21:09. > :21:12.tarnished the reputation of the Metropolitan Police. Here we have a
:21:13. > :21:15.full apology from the Police Commissioner Thomas Sir Bernard
:21:16. > :21:20.Hogan-Howe, not just for what happened, but also he is saying it
:21:21. > :21:23.is inexcusable that it has taken his force so long to make that apology,
:21:24. > :21:27.and he has admitted that there were failings, that the raid should not
:21:28. > :21:31.have gone ahead. The catalyst for this is the inquest that has
:21:32. > :21:35.concluded today, and the jury found there were eight police failings
:21:36. > :21:38.that contributed to the death of Cherry Groce. There will certainly
:21:39. > :21:42.be questioned at Scotland Yard is to why it has taken so long but today
:21:43. > :21:45.at least the family have got the apology that they wanted.
:21:46. > :21:48.The introduction of free school meals for all infant
:21:49. > :21:51.school children in England is supposed to help poorer parents
:21:52. > :21:56.But Head Teachers are concerned that an unforeseen consequence is that it
:21:57. > :21:59.could lead to a reduction in other government funding
:22:00. > :22:18.At Ash Green primary in Halifax, they take pride in taking free
:22:19. > :22:22.school meals. As a result, the child gets additional money from the
:22:23. > :22:26.government, known as pupil premium. At this school, pupil premium money
:22:27. > :22:31.has had a huge impact, it was partly used to pay for this adventure
:22:32. > :22:35.playground. Here, 60% of children are eligible for free school meals,
:22:36. > :22:41.and as a result the school received nearly a quarter of ?1 million of
:22:42. > :22:45.extra funding. From September, all four to seven-year-olds will be
:22:46. > :22:48.entitled to free school meals but even so parents receiving benefits
:22:49. > :22:52.will still have to register to attract the pupil premium funding.
:22:53. > :22:56.Worried that some may not see the need to sign up, the head has made
:22:57. > :23:02.extra efforts to help them. It actually gives you a real kick start
:23:03. > :23:08.as a school, we don't sort it out with the parents the children will
:23:09. > :23:11.suffer ultimately. How can we make the parents understand and see the
:23:12. > :23:21.value of doing this, and also to help to fill the forms in. Research
:23:22. > :23:25.shows that some parents are worried about losing funding. Head teachers
:23:26. > :23:29.say government departments should pool information on benefits to
:23:30. > :23:35.remove the responsibility from parents. If a government has got the
:23:36. > :23:38.information about who gets these benefits, then they should be able
:23:39. > :23:44.to share that date with local authorities, so that the schools are
:23:45. > :23:49.told -- to share that data, rather than having to go through these
:23:50. > :23:54.hurdles. Here in Halifax, parents have been keen to sign up. It is
:23:55. > :23:58.confusing, I think every school should guide the parents like this
:23:59. > :24:01.school has done. If the parents are knowing they are getting help for
:24:02. > :24:07.the child, it is their education, so they are learning, and not just
:24:08. > :24:11.getting the free school meals. They have a wider range of experiences
:24:12. > :24:19.through the pupil premium, paying for the trips, and I think it brings
:24:20. > :24:23.them further on in their education. This class went on a school trip
:24:24. > :24:28.with pupil premium money. The government says that with ?1300 per
:24:29. > :24:29.child at stake next year, there is a strong incentive for parents to
:24:30. > :24:33.register. There are now 13 days to go
:24:34. > :24:36.before the start of the Thousands of elite athletes from 71
:24:37. > :24:43.nations and territories will join with volunteers and spectators for
:24:44. > :24:46.a festival of sport and culture. We can go live to Celtic Park,
:24:47. > :24:50.the venue for the opening ceremony, and our Scotland Correspondent
:24:51. > :24:57.Lorna Gordon. Normally these seats would be packed
:24:58. > :25:01.with tens of thousands of fans watching a game of football, but
:25:02. > :25:03.tonight this stadium is full of hundreds of workers putting the
:25:04. > :25:09.finishing touches to the trans-formation of this stadium,
:25:10. > :25:13.head of the opening ceremony. You might be able to see behind me a
:25:14. > :25:17.huge electronic screen, which stretches the entire width of the
:25:18. > :25:20.stadium. The work here is on time, it is on schedule, head of the
:25:21. > :25:26.rehearsals of the opening ceremony, which gets underway here next week.
:25:27. > :25:33.At a secret location in Glasgow, hundreds of people are giving up
:25:34. > :25:38.hours of their time every day. They are the cast for the opening
:25:39. > :25:44.ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Energetic, enthusiastic and
:25:45. > :25:46.committed, and for some it has not been without its challenges. It is
:25:47. > :25:50.getting my been without its challenges. It is
:25:51. > :25:55.coordinate with each other! My feet are all in one direction, my arms in
:25:56. > :26:00.the other direction, but I fail spectacularly, it is brilliant, it
:26:01. > :26:03.really is. This is where they will be performing. What looks like a
:26:04. > :26:08.dance floor now sits across the pitch. Work is still ongoing to
:26:09. > :26:11.transform this stadium into a celebration of the Commonwealth.
:26:12. > :26:18.Some small details about the show are being revealed, but not many.
:26:19. > :26:20.Some small details about the show Well, ceremonies usually have a set
:26:21. > :26:21.formula, they have a creative element and a bit of protocol.
:26:22. > :26:26.This, we have mixed it all up in a element and a bit of protocol.
:26:27. > :26:31.different way, so it is going to be a surprise. There was some
:26:32. > :26:36.different way, so it is going to be Scottish imagery at the
:26:37. > :26:39.different way, so it is going to be ceremony. Four years later, they
:26:40. > :26:45.want to include the story of the host city as well. It is an
:26:46. > :26:48.attitude, I know it is a slogan, people make Glasgow, but it must
:26:49. > :26:53.have been the easiest to come up with because it is true. These have
:26:54. > :26:58.been billed as the friendly games of the friendly city, and after years
:26:59. > :26:59.of running and months of work, it is less than two weeks now until the
:27:00. > :27:18.show gets underway. It has been gorgeous in Glasgow, a
:27:19. > :27:22.real day of contrast, 24 degrees, 25 down in Bournemouth, but 14 under
:27:23. > :27:25.that cloud. That is only half the story, there has been some really
:27:26. > :27:30.intense rain, but this weather front is very active, so we are seeing in
:27:31. > :27:34.the storms and half an inch of rain, ten to 15 millimetres falling in the
:27:35. > :27:37.space of an hour. Also a keen wind to go with it, so clearly quite
:27:38. > :27:40.miserable if you are out on the roads, because we have a lot of
:27:41. > :27:45.spray and standing water. Overnight, we pick up some mist and
:27:46. > :27:49.fog near the east coast. It could be rather grey. Any fault in the land
:27:50. > :27:58.should clear fairly quickly, but it will be quite drab navvies coat --
:27:59. > :28:01.near the east coast. Not a bad day actually, brighter for Northern
:28:02. > :28:04.Ireland, if you sharp showers there at the moment, fewer tomorrow.
:28:05. > :28:13.Lovely weather again across Scotland, still some sunshine across
:28:14. > :28:21.parts of North West England and Wales. Just enough moisture left to
:28:22. > :28:31.give us a few sharp showers during tomorrow afternoon. Still quite
:28:32. > :28:35.muddy, 22 degrees, -- still quite muggy. Then we have a change, our
:28:36. > :28:40.Atlantic weather system coming through. Most of the rain in the
:28:41. > :28:44.West on Saturday. Saturday night, it will push its way eastwards, start
:28:45. > :28:47.to fear out of the way. Behind it, a few more sharp showers into Sunday
:28:48. > :28:50.afternoon, but brightening up and freshening up for the West was that
:28:51. > :28:55.not a bad end to the weekend for many but still some disturbed