:00:07. > :00:10.Back on track - the UK economy has now grown bigger than it was
:00:11. > :00:12.before the financial crash. Manufacturing is recovering,
:00:13. > :00:18.though it's the service sector that's driving the growth.
:00:19. > :00:25.Thanks to the hard work of the British people we have reached a
:00:26. > :00:28.major milestone, but I am the first to say the job is not done.
:00:29. > :00:30.that's driving the growth. We'll be looking at
:00:31. > :00:32.whether the new figures mean that as individuals we are each better off.
:00:33. > :00:35.Also tonight. Plucked from the rubble -
:00:36. > :00:38.the Gaza baby delivered from a mother killed in the fighting.
:00:39. > :00:44.This is where the mother was living, she was trapped when the building
:00:45. > :00:47.collapsed, she was unable to escape and eventually she died.
:00:48. > :00:51.a mother killed in the fighting. Royal Bank of Scotland, which is
:00:52. > :00:54.mostly owned by the taxpayer, doubles its pre-tax profits
:00:55. > :00:57.for the first half of the year. How a new treatment for breast
:00:58. > :01:06.cancer could help tens of thousands of women, and save the NHS money.
:01:07. > :01:10.And Scottish gold in Velodrome at the Commonwealth Games.
:01:11. > :01:13.Tonight on BBC London, a special on an issue affecting everyone -
:01:14. > :01:16.the spiralling cost of housing. We ask why it's got so bad
:01:17. > :01:36.and look for radical solutions to help ease the crisis.
:01:37. > :01:40.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:41. > :01:43.Britain's economy is now bigger than it was before the financial
:01:44. > :01:47.crisis struck in 2008 according to figures published today.
:01:48. > :01:49.The Chancellor says it's "thanks to the hard work of the
:01:50. > :01:52.British people". But Labour says living standards
:01:53. > :01:54.are still being squeezed. It follows
:01:55. > :01:58.the steepest fall suffered by any major economy in the same period.
:01:59. > :02:02.And it's taken more than 6 years for the economy to get back to where
:02:03. > :02:04.it was. Today's figures show growth
:02:05. > :02:07.of 0.8% in the three months from April but as our Economics
:02:08. > :02:15.Editor Robert Peston reports, some difficult problems remain.
:02:16. > :02:22.The machine is whizzing and Dan sing again, Britain's economy producing
:02:23. > :02:26.as much as it did six and a quarter years ago -- dancing. Therefore the
:02:27. > :02:32.great crash and the longest depression since records were kept.
:02:33. > :02:35.A great industrial name, Boxall, in Luton is confident enough against
:02:36. > :02:40.who invest in a new generation of white vans. If we go back to the
:02:41. > :02:48.beginning of the depression we have been living through, how bout was it
:02:49. > :02:53.in 2008-9. -- how bad was it. The market fell off a cliff, we had
:02:54. > :03:00.350,000 vehicles a year, it went down to 180,000, the fact we went
:03:01. > :03:08.from three ships, down to one, but now it is coming back. Manufacturing
:03:09. > :03:12.is not producing quite so much as it did at the peak, the services are
:03:13. > :03:17.leading the recovery, how does it feel on the shop floor? Are things
:03:18. > :03:22.back to normal? Things are improving, we have a long way to go
:03:23. > :03:26.but we're getting there. Living expenses are quite high, not just
:03:27. > :03:33.us, we have taken some pay freezes. Minimal pay rises. Back to normal?
:03:34. > :03:42.The Bills keep going up. Wages are not really increasing. It has been
:03:43. > :03:45.pretty tough. But who to blame, for the fall in our standards of living,
:03:46. > :03:51.in power during the terrible crash was Labour. People across the
:03:52. > :03:55.country, people here and everywhere over Britain, things are hard and
:03:56. > :04:02.living standards are falling, wages are not keeping pace with prices.
:04:03. > :04:06.Cashing in, that is what the Tory Chancellor and his Lib Dem
:04:07. > :04:11.colleagues hope to do, money for us and votes for them. I am the first
:04:12. > :04:15.to say, today is not the day where we say job done, we resolved to do
:04:16. > :04:19.more so that yes, people feel prosperity. People in all parts of
:04:20. > :04:25.our country including in the North of England feel part of a growing
:04:26. > :04:31.economy. So, when will we actually feel richer? I think earnings will
:04:32. > :04:35.rise before the end of the year. The unemployment rate has been falling,
:04:36. > :04:41.in some industries there are shortages of labour. Employers will
:04:42. > :04:47.have to start to pay higher wages in order to attract employees. Britain
:04:48. > :04:51.is back at work, in fact right now the economy is moving forward faster
:04:52. > :04:58.than that of any of our big rich competitors. But we should not get
:04:59. > :05:02.smoke. After the slump of six years ago America and Germany recovered,
:05:03. > :05:07.the income they lost much earlier -- we should not get smoke about it.
:05:08. > :05:11.Homeward bound after a proper shift, there are still risks to the
:05:12. > :05:15.recovery, the huge debts we have 41 but at last you could say it is
:05:16. > :05:22.rational to be a bit more cheerful about where we are headed. -- at
:05:23. > :05:27.last we can be more rational about being more cheerful.
:05:28. > :05:31.Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker is outside 11 Downing Street.
:05:32. > :05:34.Ten months to go before the election,
:05:35. > :05:35.this is a major boost for the government and the Conservatives are
:05:36. > :05:39.determined to make the most of it. Interesting to hear the Chancellor
:05:40. > :05:41.talking about a milestone and not a destination, being very careful not
:05:42. > :05:47.to sound complacent, to stress there is a long way to go. Undoubtedly now
:05:48. > :05:52.there is a real confidence that the recovery is in place, it is picking
:05:53. > :05:55.up and can be sustained. The Lib Dems are very keen to claim some
:05:56. > :05:59.credit saying it would not be happen if they had not made sure there was
:06:00. > :06:05.a stable coalition government. And Labour, they are much tougher, the
:06:06. > :06:08.situation for them, Ed Balls insisting today that the government
:06:09. > :06:12.'s policies were wrong in 2010, that they choked off the recovery and
:06:13. > :06:17.that we are only gaining ground quickly now because we are coming
:06:18. > :06:20.from such a low point. But when it comes to economic competence the
:06:21. > :06:23.opinion polls consistently show that the voters tend to trust the
:06:24. > :06:29.Chancellor George Osborne and David Cameron much more than they trust Ed
:06:30. > :06:33.Balls and Ed Miliband. These figures will undoubtedly increase that and
:06:34. > :06:36.help the government to extend their lead. That will be absolutely
:06:37. > :06:42.crucial when it comes to the general election in ten months time.
:06:43. > :06:47.The death toll in Gaza has risen above 800, as diplomats increase
:06:48. > :06:50.the pressure to try to agree a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
:06:51. > :06:53.The United Nations said that 150,000 people in Gaza are now living in UN
:06:54. > :06:56.schools, one of which was hit by a missile yesterday.
:06:57. > :06:59.Israel has continued its air and ground missions to stop rockets
:07:00. > :07:01.being launched from Gaza - while Hamas insists that
:07:02. > :07:06.the blockade on the area is lifted as part of any ceasefire.
:07:07. > :07:09.In a moment the view from Israel - but first our correspondent
:07:10. > :07:11.Ian Pannell on the story of how one baby survived the fighting.
:07:12. > :07:21.His report contains distressing images from the start.
:07:22. > :07:29.She's the baby with no name. And no mother. The girl was delivered by
:07:30. > :07:34.emergency Caesarean section from her dead mother 's body. She was killed
:07:35. > :07:38.in an Israeli air strike this morning. Her baby was still two
:07:39. > :07:50.weeks premature. Her oxygen supply was cut. Doctors say that the little
:07:51. > :08:01.girl has a 50-50 chance of living. I am very angry and sad. I feel that
:08:02. > :08:04.this baby is mine. The woman's uncle showed us what remains of their
:08:05. > :08:11.home. And the place where his niece was buried alive. Israel insists it
:08:12. > :08:14.tries to avoid civilian deaths, but this morning it was not a fighter
:08:15. > :08:19.killed, just a mother who was heavily pregnant. This is the area
:08:20. > :08:22.where the bomb landed, we think about two o'clock in the morning,
:08:23. > :08:28.there has been some damage to a house over there. This part was a UN
:08:29. > :08:32.facility, a sanitation compound. This was a small block of flats
:08:33. > :08:35.housing a few families, this is where the mother was living, and she
:08:36. > :08:40.was trapped as the whole building collapsed, she was underneath and
:08:41. > :08:47.unable to escape and eventually she died. EXPLOSIONS
:08:48. > :08:52.But the attacks go both ways. Two Hamas rockets, launched into Israel.
:08:53. > :08:57.Homeless families living in the UN school clapping and cheering. But
:08:58. > :09:02.there is nothing to celebrate in Gaza. This eight year and her
:09:03. > :09:08.brother were injured when another UN school was hit yesterday. Her mother
:09:09. > :09:15.talks at the moment that her husband died in her arms. Another family
:09:16. > :09:17.crushed by grief, despite talk of a cease-fire, the suffering and the
:09:18. > :09:28.pain go undiminished. Our correspondent Orla Guerin is
:09:29. > :09:31.in Jerusalem for us, high level talks have been going on most
:09:32. > :09:35.of the week, there's been criticism from the UN and last night violent
:09:36. > :09:36.demonstrations in the West Bank, how much pressure is Israel under
:09:37. > :09:44.to stop its offensive in Gaza? Well injury slim you do not get the
:09:45. > :09:50.sense there is particularly strong pressure -- here in Guru saloon.
:09:51. > :09:55.There is international condemnation, but Israel is used to fielding that,
:09:56. > :10:01.when you speak to Israelis on the streets, there appears to be solid
:10:02. > :10:03.support for the operation in Gaza. That said the international
:10:04. > :10:10.diplomacy is continuing, in high gear. The US Secretary of State John
:10:11. > :10:13.Kerry is in Cairo along with the United Nations Secretary-General
:10:14. > :10:16.Ban-ki Moon. We expect them to have a news conference in under two hours
:10:17. > :10:19.time with the Egyptian Foreign Minister. We do not know if they
:10:20. > :10:25.will have a breakthrough to announce. We understand John Kerry
:10:26. > :10:30.has been working on a 2-stage proposal. A temporary humanitarian
:10:31. > :10:36.truce to come into place next week. During that pause, the idea would be
:10:37. > :10:41.that substantial negotiations would be held. It is unclear if progress
:10:42. > :10:47.has been made and we are dealing with an upsurge in violence and
:10:48. > :10:48.unrest in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel could face more
:10:49. > :10:54.unrest. to stop its offensive in Gaza?
:10:55. > :10:57.The mother of three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has pleaded guilty to killing
:10:58. > :10:58.her son in Edinburgh in January. Rosdeep Adekoya admitted repeatedly
:10:59. > :11:01.beating her son at the family's flat.
:11:02. > :11:03.He died two days later from his injuries and his mother hid
:11:04. > :11:05.his body in woodland. From the High Court in Edinburgh,
:11:06. > :11:14.James Cook reports. Mikaeel Kular was described by those
:11:15. > :11:18.who knew him as a happy and smiley boy. He was just three years old
:11:19. > :11:22.when he was killed by his own mother. Today Rosdeep Adekoya was
:11:23. > :11:26.brought to the High Court in Edinburgh to face up to her crimes.
:11:27. > :11:31.In the dock she dabbed away tears, as the court heard how she lost her
:11:32. > :11:37.temper when her son was sick after a big meal. We now know that Rosdeep
:11:38. > :11:40.Adekoya beat her son here at the family home. Causing more than 40
:11:41. > :11:49.injuries, and then instead of seeking help for him, she kept him
:11:50. > :11:54.hidden until he died on his bedroom floor. And then the deceit, she
:11:55. > :11:58.reported him missing. Hundreds came out to help a mother to search for
:11:59. > :12:03.her little boy. But there was never any hope, she had already bundled
:12:04. > :12:07.the body into a suitcase, driven out of the city and buried him in these
:12:08. > :12:11.woods. For those that searched, today's hearing was hard to take.
:12:12. > :12:21.The whole community came together. To be told he was not missing, he
:12:22. > :12:26.was murdered and killed... The natural father said nothing as he
:12:27. > :12:31.left court, having heard how his son died in severe pain, social services
:12:32. > :12:35.and are reviewing the case. At the spot where the little boy was
:12:36. > :12:39.dumped, this tribute remains. The sentencing must wait for background
:12:40. > :12:43.reports as the court and the country tries to comprehend her crime.
:12:44. > :12:48.A British man has been confirmed as among the victims of a plane
:12:49. > :12:51.crash yesterday in North Africa. The wreckage of the Air Algerie
:12:52. > :12:53.plane that disappeared en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has
:12:54. > :12:55.been found in Mali. One of
:12:56. > :13:01.the black boxes has been retrieved. None of the 116 passengers survived.
:13:02. > :13:05.Royal Bank of Scotland has doubled its pre tax profits
:13:06. > :13:07.for the first half of this year. The ?2.65 billion profits are
:13:08. > :13:09.significantly stronger than was expected
:13:10. > :13:14.and are likely to fuel expectations of how soon the bank - which is 80%
:13:15. > :13:17.owned by the tax payer - can be sold back to the private sector.
:13:18. > :13:23.Our business editor Kamal Ahmed has more.
:13:24. > :13:29.It is the struggling bank that has become a little more healthy. After
:13:30. > :13:32.years of dire warnings and millions of pounds in fines, The Royal Bank
:13:33. > :13:38.of Scotland today announced the profits that were up over 90% as the
:13:39. > :13:43.stronger UK economy kicked in. Visiting a branch of Nat West, which
:13:44. > :13:49.RBS owns, the Chief Executive said that the bank was turning the
:13:50. > :13:53.corner. The businesses are performing and getting better as the
:13:54. > :13:59.economy lifts. Our business is a reflection of that. The consumer
:14:00. > :14:02.business, you saw that in the mortgage market, you are seeing it
:14:03. > :14:08.coming through, the small business end of the market, 31% up on new
:14:09. > :14:22.business going into the UK economy. He did caution problems remain.
:14:23. > :14:25.mis-selling in the UK could harm the banks profits, he also would like to
:14:26. > :14:29.go further on cutting costs. Nothing more closely represents the shock of
:14:30. > :14:33.the crisis than the collapse of The Royal Bank of Scotland. It's better
:14:34. > :14:38.results today once again raise the question, when will the public be
:14:39. > :14:44.paid back the ?47 billion used to bail out the bank in 2008? At the
:14:45. > :14:48.time, we felt that the rights issue had got the group back on track.
:14:49. > :14:56.Fred Goodwin was the chief executive when RBS crashed and the government
:14:57. > :14:58.was full to take over age -- a majority, accommodation may consider
:14:59. > :15:00.selling part of the majority, accommodation may consider
:15:01. > :15:02.selling part of state after today's results. This is the story of the
:15:03. > :15:22.share price: that the government would need to
:15:23. > :15:27.charge to break even on the bailout. Some believe that any possible sale
:15:28. > :15:33.is many years away. I do not think we will get that money back before
:15:34. > :15:38.2017, possibly even 2018. The bank has restructuring to do, has got to
:15:39. > :15:40.rebuild capital, and rebuild confidence in the business.
:15:41. > :15:46.Government businesses have told me that there is no plans to sell the
:15:47. > :15:50.stake in RBS until after the general election. -- government sources. If
:15:51. > :15:53.the sun continued to shine on RBS, pressure could grow for the
:15:54. > :15:57.coalition to bring forward that date.
:15:58. > :16:02.Top story: Britain's growing economy is now bigger than before the
:16:03. > :16:08.financial crash, the government calls it a major milestone. Still to
:16:09. > :16:09.come: Walking among giants, the amazing marionette show
:16:10. > :16:19.commemorating World War I. Later, a special edition of London
:16:20. > :16:22.news, focusing on the housing crisis, including viewers opinions
:16:23. > :16:28.on how best to ease the shortage of homes. Welcome to another edition of
:16:29. > :16:34.top of the Pops! Tony Blackburn, 50 years at the top of his trade.
:16:35. > :16:44.A new breast cancer treatment which which replaces weeks
:16:45. > :16:48.A new breast cancer treatment which which replaces weeks
:16:49. > :16:50.of radiotherapy could be offered on the NHS in England.
:16:51. > :16:53.It uses a single dose of targeted treatment once a tumour
:16:54. > :16:56.has been removed in surgery. It could benefit up to 36,000
:16:57. > :16:58.patients a year with early stage breast cancer
:16:59. > :17:01.and should also save the NHS money. As Sophie Hutchinson reports,
:17:02. > :17:03.for many patients it could replace up to 15 trips to the hospital
:17:04. > :17:07.for a course of radiotherapy. 71 years old, a writer, Marcel Burn
:17:08. > :17:09.Steyn says that she has never been busier. Almost exactly two years ago
:17:10. > :17:14.she had surgery for breast cancer and at the same time was given a new
:17:15. > :17:22.version of radiotherapy. She says it was brilliant because it was over so
:17:23. > :17:25.quickly. I had no idea that it had been done, I felt a bit woozy, and
:17:26. > :17:30.tied for a few weeks, absolute classic, but... I did not know it
:17:31. > :17:34.had happened! If they had not told me, I would never have known. There
:17:35. > :17:40.were no side effects, there was nothing to show. The treatment,
:17:41. > :17:44.which has been pioneered in the UK, involves a one-off dose of
:17:45. > :17:49.radiotherapy carried out during an operation in the minutes after any
:17:50. > :17:52.tumours have been removed. It is administered using a mobile
:17:53. > :17:58.radiotherapy machine, it lasts around 20 minutes. The benefit of
:17:59. > :18:03.using the new device is that it directly targets an affected area
:18:04. > :18:09.from within the breast. It is also extremely fast, saving patients time
:18:10. > :18:19.and the NHS money. One estimate has put the savings for the NHS at ?15
:18:20. > :18:22.million a year. The number of time that is spent here is a fraction of
:18:23. > :18:28.the time that would otherwise have been used. It is not 15 to 20
:18:29. > :18:32.minutes every day for two to six weeks, it is simply 20 minutes extra
:18:33. > :18:37.in theatre. The new treatments has so far proven to be as effective as
:18:38. > :18:41.conventional radiotherapy. It is hoped that if plans to offer it on
:18:42. > :18:43.the NHS go ahead in the autumn, it will transform care for many breast
:18:44. > :18:54.cancer patients. Dave Lee Travis is to face
:18:55. > :18:58.a retrial for charges of sexual assault and indecent assault as well
:18:59. > :19:01.as a new count of indecent assault on a on a woman aged over 16 alleged
:19:02. > :19:04.to have taken place in 1995. The former Radio One DJ, who's 69,
:19:05. > :19:11.was acquitted in February,
:19:12. > :19:13.but jurors were unable to reach verdicts on two charges.
:19:14. > :19:17.He has formally pleaded not guilty to all
:19:18. > :19:20.-- The former Radio One DJ, who's 69, was acquitted
:19:21. > :19:22.in February, but jurors were unable to reach
:19:23. > :19:24.verdicts on two charges. He has
:19:25. > :19:27.formally pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
:19:28. > :19:31.The Labour leader listed his personal failings today as he
:19:32. > :19:33.made a bid to persuade voters that his politics and principles are
:19:34. > :19:35.more important than his appearance. Ed Miliband admitted he's not
:19:36. > :19:38.from central casting and that he looks a bit like Wallace
:19:39. > :19:41.out of Wallace and Gromit. But he insisted there's more to
:19:42. > :19:43.politics than a photo-opportunity. Our political correspondent
:19:44. > :19:44.Ian Watson reports on whether Mr Miliband's potentially risky
:19:45. > :19:47.strategy will work. The Labour leader does not look or
:19:48. > :19:49.act like a conventional politician, struggling with a snacked on the
:19:50. > :19:51.campaign Trail commonly can be awkward alongside other prominent
:19:52. > :19:53.politicians, and he even resembles an cartoon character. If you think
:19:54. > :19:56.all of this sounds unfair, listen to what Ed Miliband says about
:19:57. > :20:04.himself. You can find people who are more square-jawed, more chiselled...
:20:05. > :20:13.Who looked less like Wallace and Gromit's Wallace! And I even believe
:20:14. > :20:19.that you could probably find people who look better eating a bacon
:20:20. > :20:24.sandwich. CHEERING It is a high-risk strategy, pointing
:20:25. > :20:27.out his own flaws, trying to neutralise attacks from his
:20:28. > :20:30.opponents. He also told the Labour audience that people disillusioned
:20:31. > :20:35.with the audience would welcome his type of leadership, waste on empathy
:20:36. > :20:41.and decency. My true test of leadership is not just whether you
:20:42. > :20:46.look the part, it is whether you retain your soul. This new approach
:20:47. > :20:51.did not stop him from attacking his main political opponent. You talk
:20:52. > :20:57.about a new type of leadership and yet you attack David Cameron as a
:20:58. > :21:04.callous conservative, isn't that business as usual? I judging by his
:21:05. > :21:08.actions and not his photos. There is a narrow lead for Labour, but when
:21:09. > :21:12.it comes to who would make the best Prime Minister, Ed Miliband is
:21:13. > :21:19.lacking a long his ratings are similar to those of people like
:21:20. > :21:23.William Hague, who never became Prime Minister when he was a
:21:24. > :21:29.politician. Ronald Reagan said, if you are explaining, you are losing.
:21:30. > :21:34.-- Ed Miliband is lagging a long way away. -- his ratings are similar to
:21:35. > :21:40.those of people like William Hague. On a day when national output has
:21:41. > :21:43.recovered to a place as it was before the great recession, brought
:21:44. > :21:48.to us by Labour, that is an extraordinary thing to say. Ed
:21:49. > :21:52.Miliband used to laugh off the attacks but now he's very animated
:21:53. > :21:57.about saying how he's is a new type of leadership. Another busy day at
:21:58. > :22:01.the Commonwealth Games, Scotland has won gold, and some of the biggest
:22:02. > :22:06.names in sport have been in action. There was a blow 14 miles, one of
:22:07. > :22:12.their top athletes, Rhys Williams, has failed a drugs test. Here's
:22:13. > :22:16.having a really difficult season this season... He was one of
:22:17. > :22:20.Wales's brightest medal hopes, tonight he is fighting to save his
:22:21. > :22:24.reputation, kicked out of the Commonwealth Games for an alleged
:22:25. > :22:30.doping offence. It was after this race, near in Glasgow, one fortnight
:22:31. > :22:35.ago, European 400 meter hurdles champion and son of rugby legend JJ
:22:36. > :22:39.Williams, failed a drugs test and today he was suspended. In a
:22:40. > :22:54.statement he has said: Last week his team-mate, Gareth
:22:55. > :22:58.Warburton, was also rolled out of Glasgow 2014, having fallen foul of
:22:59. > :23:05.doping regulations, today's news has prompted an internal review by Welsh
:23:06. > :23:09.athletics. It is a we need to do everything we can to understand why
:23:10. > :23:13.that has happened. It is not great for athletics in Wales. Rhys
:23:14. > :23:18.Williams will no longer be running in Hamden Park as planned on Sunday,
:23:19. > :23:23.the first doping controversy since these games began, the last thing
:23:24. > :23:25.Glasgow 2014 needed, when organisers want all of the focus to be on the
:23:26. > :23:34.action. -- Hampden Park. Today was no
:23:35. > :23:38.disappointment, a men's para- cycling 1000 metre tandem time
:23:39. > :23:41.trial, this was Scotland's first gold in the velodrome.
:23:42. > :23:49.Success for England as well, a domination of the women's final in
:23:50. > :23:53.the 3000 metre individual pursuit, beating Australia. They have added
:23:54. > :23:57.Commonwealth gold to the world crown she won earlier this year:
:23:58. > :24:06.it is the event of a spotted for when I first started, it means a lot
:24:07. > :24:08.to me. This, England's seventh gold of these games as the team remains
:24:09. > :24:21.on top of the medal table. More than a million people are
:24:22. > :24:23.expected to watch three giant marionette puppets take to the
:24:24. > :24:26.streets of Liverpool this weekend as part of a spectacular show to mark
:24:27. > :24:29.the centenary of World War One. The show has already been
:24:30. > :24:30.entertaining the crowds today, among them is our correspondent
:24:31. > :24:35.Judith Moritz. Once upon a time and magical girl
:24:36. > :24:40.woke up... Not in a fairy tale, but in Liverpool, which today became the
:24:41. > :24:45.land of the Giants. And she's not alone, her pet dog is here as well,
:24:46. > :24:50.together they have dwarfed the crowds who have, to see them on
:24:51. > :24:59.their journey through the city. I think it is amazing. I love the dog.
:25:00. > :25:03.I thought it was boss and the kids loved it! The girl 's grandmother is
:25:04. > :25:10.also in Liverpool, she weighs five tonnes and she is 25 feet tall, she
:25:11. > :25:15.is no little old lady. It takes 26 people to operate her and she can
:25:16. > :25:23.speak. She speaks about how the city 's men were called up to fight in
:25:24. > :25:27.August, 1914. This piece of street theatre is Britain's largest scale
:25:28. > :25:31.World War I commemoration. They have drawn the stories from the people of
:25:32. > :25:35.Liverpool, and they will be amplifying them back to Liverpool,
:25:36. > :25:41.but obviously right across the UK and robbery across the world as
:25:42. > :25:45.well. It really is an amazing experience, Liverpool has been so
:25:46. > :25:49.pleased to welcome the marionettes, they have done everything they can
:25:50. > :25:53.to accommodate them. You can see that the grandmother needs a really
:25:54. > :25:56.big height clearance to move along and so they have moved lamp post,
:25:57. > :26:03.telephone wires and bus stops across the city, so that she can get
:26:04. > :26:06.around. Moving at 1.5 mph, the marionettes are making stately
:26:07. > :26:10.progress, covering more than 30 miles and they will be seen by more
:26:11. > :26:15.than 1 million people this weekend as tales of a century ago are told
:26:16. > :26:18.in a spectacular way. -- lamp posts.
:26:19. > :26:27.They look amazing, we will have a look at the weather forecast.
:26:28. > :26:33.Another hot day in Glasgow, things will not change just yet but there
:26:34. > :26:37.will be a the temperature over the weekend, for all of us it will be
:26:38. > :26:41.cooler and fresher, there will still be sunshine around but more showers.
:26:42. > :26:45.Big storms today in the south-east of England, and shall reign has
:26:46. > :26:48.brought travel disruption, you can see how the downpours have been
:26:49. > :26:52.heading to the south coast, this next area of thundery rain clearing
:26:53. > :26:56.away. Tending to trickle further west, almost anywhere across parts
:26:57. > :27:01.of southern England, maybe the South could catch a storm and then it will
:27:02. > :27:05.fade away. Bit more missed and low cloud coming into eastern areas,
:27:06. > :27:09.warm and muggy night, low cloud and missed burning back to the coastal
:27:10. > :27:13.areas, most of us will see the sunshine apart from maybe Northern
:27:14. > :27:20.Ireland, where there is a showery band of rain. One or two showers,
:27:21. > :27:23.some of these places will be dry. Dry in the south-west of England,
:27:24. > :27:27.temperatures will be in the midst of my 20s across England and Wales, if
:27:28. > :27:31.you thundery showers, possible thunderstorms to the east of London
:27:32. > :27:35.this time in the afternoon, we could get a late shower over the high
:27:36. > :27:39.ground, possibly into Wales. Wetter weather coming into Northern Ireland
:27:40. > :27:42.and into western Scotland and dropping the temperatures, quite a
:27:43. > :27:46.change in the weather for the games, we begin in the heat and the
:27:47. > :27:51.sunshine for the triathlon. It is the Marathon on Sunday, better
:27:52. > :27:57.weather for running, noticeably cooler but there could be rain
:27:58. > :28:00.around as well. Showery rain coming self into Northern Ireland. Some
:28:01. > :28:04.sunshine across England and Wales but we will see a scattering of
:28:05. > :28:07.showers here, there is a north-westerly breeze, temperatures
:28:08. > :28:12.will be noticeably lower, eating 20 degrees for England and Wales.
:28:13. > :28:13.Temperatures in Scotland and Northern Ireland, 10 degrees lower
:28:14. > :28:23.than we have had today. Big changes. Britain's growing economy is now
:28:24. > :28:27.bigger than before the financial crash: The government called it a
:28:28. > :28:30.major milestone. The somatic efforts intensify as the death toll in the
:28:31. > :28:32.conflict in Gaza reaches 800.