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More than 100 Palestinians are killed in Gaza, after 24 hours | :00:07. | :00:22. | |
of intense bombardment by Israel. The shelling has continued this | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
afternoon, after 60 airstrikes overnight, with Israel targeting | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
sites linked to Hamas. Gaza's only power plant goes up | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
in flames in the bombing. Israel says it is hitting a number | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
of what it calls terrorist targets, this is Hamas infrastructure. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
in flames in the bombing. We'll be looking | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
at why a solution to the conflict is proving so difficult. Also tonight: | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
New curbs on welfare for some EU migrants - the amount | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
of time they can claim benefits will be halved from six months to three. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
After the downing of Malaysian Airlines plane, the EU agrees new | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
economic sanctions against Russia. And at the height of the summer sun, | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
a warning that coastal erosion is making Britain's beaches disappear. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
And it's gold for England in the men's team gymnastics at the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Commonwealth Games, with Scotland landing an historic silver medal. | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
Polluting vehicles could have to pay an extra ?10 in London. Tower | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
Hamlets Mayor fails to stop a legal challenge to overturn his election. | :01:33. | :01:46. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
More than 100 Palestinians are said to have been killed | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, after one of the bloodiest days | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
of the conflict so far. Israel carried out 60 air strikes | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
overnight, targeting sites associated with | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Hamas - the Islamist group which controls Gaza - and its bombardment | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
continued this afternoon. A number of members of the UN Relief | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
and Works Agency were also among the dead. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Since the current conflict began, 1,156 Palestinians have been killed. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
55 Israelis have been killed, most of them soldiers. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Israel's Prime Minister has warned that the conflict will continue as | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
long as Hamas threatens his country. In a moment we'll have | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
the latest from Jerusalem, but first this report from our correspondent | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
Ian Pannell, who is in Gaza. Gaza trembled with the fury of war | :02:35. | :02:51. | |
last night. Israel warned it would act aggressively. It did. People | :02:52. | :03:03. | |
were forced from their homes. Out into a city with few safe places to | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
hide. Israel wants to into a city with few safe places to | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
anyway it can, which includes hitting Gaza's only power station. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Adding to the misery of those who lived here. Through the night and | :03:23. | :03:35. | |
into the day. Across large parts of the Gaza strip, the bombing is | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
relentless. It is still early in the morning in Gaza, there were a large | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
number of attacks overnight and they are continuing throughout the day. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Israel says it is hitting a number of what it calls terrorist targets, | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
this is Hamas infrastructure. They belong to the militants but as we | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
have already seen civilians are increasingly being caught in the | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
crossfire. The front line edges ever closer, as whole neighbourhood is | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
empty. Today, one more family fled. Tens of thousands of people have | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
already been forced from their home. Others have been buried beneath | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
them. Neighbours and family scramble to rescue the injured and the dead. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
More than 100 people were killed last night, people have suffered and | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
they have grieved and so far it has brought them nothing, not even | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
funerals here are sacred. Neither are mosques. Israel says they have | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
been used to hide weapons, but if this is supposed to weaken people 's | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
resolve, it doesn't. We have been in blockade for the last seven years, | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
we have been deprived all this for the last seven years, don't talk to | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
me about rockets that are so tiny, small. Look at this, look at this. | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Entire areas of Gaza are being obliterated, both sides are under | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
pressure to talk. Rumours swirl of possible deals. All the while, the | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
conflict grows. 500 more people sought shelter at this school last | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
night. It already houses thousands. One of them was born at 5am today. | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
Ibrahim. His new home is a classroom he and his mother share with 80 | :06:04. | :06:17. | |
others. After eight years waiting for him to come, she says, we are | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
now living here, in the school. The more they lose, the more they are | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
determined it should be for a reason. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Ian Pannell, who is in Gaza. We can speak to our correspondent | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
Jon Donnison in Jerusalem now. Israel warned today of a long | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
campaign ahead, today felt like it ratcheted up. That's right, it is | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Sturt and the ramping up, not down, and the Israeli government are | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
saying they are increasing pressure on Hamas everyday and they are | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
continuing to focus in particular on its tunnel network. We had news this | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
evening from the Israeli military that a group of Hamas fighters had | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
crossed through a tunnel into Israel before opening fire. They were | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
apparently killed. We have the funerals of ten Israeli soldiers | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
killed yesterday, bringing the total number to 53, and really the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Government has overwhelming support to continue its operation. There is | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
actually a rally happening in Tel Aviv this evening, calling for the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Government as they put it to finish the job, and it will be interesting | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
to see how many people turn out. We had a peace rally at the weekend, it | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
got just a few thousand, and any sort of truce that will last seems | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
very remote. Jon Donnison in Jerusalem now. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
International efforts to persuade both sides to accept a ceasefire, or | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
at least a pause in the fighting, are still going on, after the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
breakdown of several previous truces. But stopping the fighting is | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
proving very difficult. To explain why, here's our Diplomatic | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Correspondent, James Robbins. Why is it so difficult? Several | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
reasons but particularly the depth of the mistrust between Israel and | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Hamas, which controls Gaza. They have conflicting aims in this as you | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
might expect. For Israel the overwhelming priority is to disarm | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Hamas, to destroy its rocket arsenal and its tunnel network which allows | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Hamas militants to get underground into Israel to launch attacks. On | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
the Hamas side the overwhelming priority is to extract from Israel a | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
commitment to lift this is a commitment to lift this 80 year | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
blockade, and to extract that concession before a cease-fire, not | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
after, because Hamas is suspicious it will not be delivered otherwise. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
There is also mistrust tween Israel and of course its leading ally, the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
United States. A lot of bad blood between Benjamin Netanyahu and | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
President Obama and John Kerry. Today John Kerry has been trying to | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
repair some of that, to try to suggest that actually Israel really | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
wants a cease-fire but on whose terms? It has proved very difficult | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
to break through this. Correspondent, James Robbins. | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
There are to be new curbs on the length of time EU migrants | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
can claim unemployment benefits. From November, EU nationals will be | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
able to claim jobseeker?s allowance for three months instead | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
of the present six, unless they have the realistic prospect of a job. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
David Cameron said he wanted a fairer system that put Britain | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
first, but Labour urged less talk and more action. | :09:59. | :09:58. | |
Here's our Home Editor, Mark Easton. Tough talking on immigration goes | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
down well on streets like these in Kent, evidence for benefit tourism | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
and what the Prime Minister has called the magnetic pull of the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
welfare system is weak but public concern about is not. They should | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
not be allowed to just walk into our country. It is making it harder to | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
find work. It is frustrating when you are out shopping and you cannot | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
afford to fill up your trolley and behave you -- behind you, you have | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
foreigners with tokens for their food getting benefits. It is unfair | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
to other people. This morning cameras were invited to record a | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Home Office raid on suspected illegal immigrants in Slough. Later | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary posed in the flat to | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
announce new benefit restrictions that would affect EU migrants. Our | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
changes today will save the British taxpayer half ?1 billion over the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
next five years. Later Downing Street clarified that Mr Cameron was | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
referring to savings from existing policies. In January the Government | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
announced EU migrants would not be able to claim out of work benefits | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
until three months after arriving in the UK. Today they limited the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
amount of time they can claim job-seeker's allowance to three | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
months. All of the evidence is that on its own it will not make a great | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
deal of difference. When we asked the Government how many people would | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
be affected by this new policy, they said we don't No, there are no | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
figures apparently. This legislation probably has less to do with | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
economic threat from benefit tourism than the political threat from UKIP. | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who it's rumoured may stand in Thanet in the | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
next general election, has successfully tapped into concerns of | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
voters of the effect immigrants have had on the British economy. The | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
European Commission said it found the latest proposals from the | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Government difficult to comprehend. In the vast majority of cases | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
workers from other member states are net contributors to the welfare | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
systems of the host country because they pay more in tax and social | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
security than they receive in benefits. With the economy | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
improving, expect more announcements on the subject in the nine months | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
until the next election. Here's our Home Editor, Mark Easton. | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
The families of some of the Britons that died in the Malaysia Airlines | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
crash in eastern Ukraine have met David Cameron in Downing Street. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Amongst them were the parents of Liam Sweeney, the Newcastle | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
United fan who was travelling with his friend John Alder to see | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
the club's pre-season tour when the plane was shot down over Ukraine. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Mr and Mrs Sweeney told of their struggle to cope with | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
the lack of information coming from the investigation. | :13:12. | :13:30. | |
I feel very angry, frustrated. It would be nice | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
if they could just stop fighting for a little while so we could get | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
all the boys and girls home. This afternoon, | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
tough new sanctions targeting Russia's economy have been announced | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
by the EU over Russia's support for the separatists in east Ukraine | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
who've been blamed for shooting down the Malaysian Airlines plane. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Let's talk now to our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt. | :13:56. | :13:56. | |
After seven hours of talks, EU ambassadors agreed on the toughest | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
sanctions so far, economic sanctions will take place almost immediately. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
There will be an embargo on future arms sales, restrictions on the | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
export of sensitive technologies for the energy sectors and also | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
restrictions on the Russian state banks being able to access European | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
financial markets. Also further names have been added to the list of | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
those subject to these bands and also asset freezes, a further eight | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
names. We understand that probably four of them are close to Vladimir | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
Putin's inner circle. It has been difficult for the EU to reach this | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
stage and probably the sanctions are as tough as they could have agreed | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
to. What has made the difference is the shooting down of the Malaysian | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
airlines plane, which has hardened attitudes. What do they hope to get | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
out of these sanctions? They want President Putin to stop supporting | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
those rebels in the east of Ukraine, but the EU ambassadors here today | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
well understood that there will be a price to be paid for this in terms | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
of the economy. Our top story this evening: | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
More than 100 Palestinians are reported to have died in Gaza | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
after 24-hours of intense bombardment by Israel. | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Still to come: Diesel drivers face higher | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
charges under new efforts to tackle air pollution. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Later on BBC London: The latest from the | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
Commonwealth Games, including a gold medal for gymnast Max Whitlock. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
And, the work of the children's author, Jacqueline Wilson, is | :15:41. | :15:40. | |
brought to life on the London stage. It's peak season for Britain's | :15:41. | :15:57. | |
holiday resorts, but as crowds head to the seaside there's a warning | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
about the pace at which some of the country's beaches are disappearing. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Along the east coast, up to half a mile of land is being lost every 50 | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
years because of coastal erosion. The problem's been made worse | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
by this winter's storms, which caused more than ?18 million | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
worth of damage along the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Sian Lloyd has this report. On the beaches of the sandy | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
East Anglian coast, defences against the wind and waves have almost | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
become part of the furniture. But this is the last frontier, | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
the sand dunes in Hemsby in Norfolk are disappearing and, with them, | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
people's homes. All that remains are | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
the foundations, a reminder of the winter's storms. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
The resort was battered by the biggest tidal surge in 60 years. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
There was nothing people could do to save their properties. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
We need coastal protection here to keep our beach safe. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
If we don't have protection, then why are people going to come | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
to Hemsby? We need a beach. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
The community has built these make-shift defences, | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
but they're only a quick fix. Resorts are competing for funding | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
for sea defences, the cost of this scheme, a few miles away in | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Great Yarmouth, exceeds ?7 million. The owners of the caravan park | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
under threat are footing the bill. Over the next three to four years | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
we'd have probably lost 130 pitches off the seafront, in the second row. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
And, what it would have meant for our business is confidence | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
in our products would obviously have gone down. | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
Our owner base would have deteriorated, which would make | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
our long-term sustainability as a business in doubt. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Further down the coast, in Covehithe, this church has stood | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
here for hundreds of years, but experts say if erosion takes | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
place at the current pace, it won't be here in the next century. | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
This road once ran through the fishing village, but now it's | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
not safe to use any more because the cliff has been eaten away. | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
Professor Jules Pretty records how this landscape is changing. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
The soft sandstone cliffs provide stunning scenery, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
but they've been sheared away by the sea over centuries. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
The lands that people played on and watched the bombers go to sea | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
in the Second World War, they're about half a mile out to sea now. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
We're standing on the edge. As we look forward, | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
the effects of climate change will mean that the pace | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
of change will actually accelerate. That brings uncertainty to many | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
who call these beaches home. Sian Lloyd, BBC News, | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
on the east coast. A former police officer has been | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
accused of lying and of having wiped a written record | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
"from the history of Hillsborough." The accusation was made | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
against Trevor Bichard, who's been giving evidence at the | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
Hillsborough inquest in Warrington. Judith Moritz is in Warrington. | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
Tell us more about what has been said? In 19 89, PC Trevor Bichard | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
was operating the CCTV cameras at the Hillsborough stadium. Today he | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
was accused of lying. It was said in court a note he made about that | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
afternoon had vanished from the record. At 2.55pm on the afternoon | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
of the disaster he heard officers on the police radios asking for the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
gates to the central tunnel which led down to the pens behind the goal | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
to be closed off. The pens were where 96 Liverpool fans later lost | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
their lives. He made a note of that request in a log he made a day after | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
the disaster. The court was told in a second copy of the log and oral | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
evidence there had been no mention of that detail at all. Brendan | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Campbell, representing Hillsborough families, said it had been wiped | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
from the history of Hillsborough. She asked him why and on who | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
instruction have you lied? He answered, nobody has instructed me | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
to lie. There's nothing I've said. I didn't honestly believe. Judith. | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Thank you very much. Drivers of diesel vehicles are | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
facing higher charges to travel into city centres as part | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
of efforts to tackle air pollution. Plans are being drawn up in London | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
to charge a ?10 fee for diesel vehicles, to avoid breaching | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
European pollution standards and incurring heavy fines. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
Other cities are said to be considering low emission zones. | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, has the details. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
For years we have been told diesels are greener. The Government even | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
lowered the tax so we'd buy them. So why are so many councils now | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
thinking about charging us to drive a diesel in town? I'm a young | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
driver. It's difficult to pay that amount amount of money to come into | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
the city centre. They should apply a charge for the vehicles that are | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
causing more of a pollution and everything else that goes along with | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
it as well. I just don't think they should be charging to come into the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
city centre. I don't think people come into the city centre in cars | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
much now anyway. Until now, the focus has been on carbon dioxide | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
emissions which are often lower with diesels, the problem is, they | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
pollute in other ways too. You can certainly smell the exhaust from | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
here, the only way we can actually see what is coming out is to use a | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
piece of equipment like this. On this screen, we will be able to | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
identify all of the pollutants. We are looking at nitrogen dioxide or | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
NO2 it's bad in diesel cars, worse than in petrol. In urban situations, | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
where you have lots of congestion and traffic flow situations like | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
junctions and traffic lights, you get high spikes of NO2 which is | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
detrimental to human health. The nigh row again ok sides are bad if | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
you are asthmatic, order other very young. The Government is facing | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
legal action for failing to hit EU pollution targets in all the big | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
cities. Ministers say they are committed to cutting pollution. The | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Mayor of London is looking to charge drivers an extra ?10 if they drive | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
an older diesel into the city. To think there was a mistake made to | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
get everybody into buying cars that were pumping out a lot of this, we | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
need to move on and have cleaner diesel engines. Several councils, | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
including Leicester, Birmingham and Leeds, have told the BBC | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
including Leicester, Birmingham and considered copying the idea, but | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
including Leicester, Birmingham and away from extra charges if you | :22:40. | :22:52. | |
including Leicester, Birmingham and at the Commonwealth Games with 31 | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
medals up for grabs, in 14 sports. It's seen England and Scotland go | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
head-to-head and success for Scottish poster girl, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
Eilidh Child, on the track, cheered on by the 40,000 spectators here | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
in Hamden Park where our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss, is. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Welcome to Hampden Park the evening session due to get underway in the | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
next hour. We have seen plenty of action here today, including a visit | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
from some special guests. It was a day when the Commonwealth's sporting | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
royalty met the rail thing. The Duke and duch Duchess of Cambridge, with | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Prince Harry meeting Usain Bolt amid a whistle-stop tour of Glasgow's | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
venues, including Hampden Park where Scotland's biggest name made her | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
entrance. Eilidh Child's face is on countless billboards here. Her feet | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
do the talking. Roared on by her home crowd, she coasted through to | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
the 400m Hurdles Final. The success of the para sport events at these | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Games was confirmed with a huge ovation for David Weir. It was just | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
as easy for one of the global stars, who strolled into the 800 meters | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
final. While they breezed on, others were sent crashing out. Andy | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Turner's title defence in the hurdles over before it had barely | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
begun. It was also a day for hills, thrills and a fair number of spills. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Mountain biking roared back to the games. The trails offered a | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
picturesque, but punishing challenge with New Zealand's Cooper racing to | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
the men's title. Amid the medals the Games have a fresh doming | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
controversy. 16-year-old competitor has been suspended from the Games | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
after failing a drugs test. It's been a busy day here at the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
athletics. Also a busy day in the gymnastics. Earlier on today | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
England's men held on to their overnight lead to beat Scotland in | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
England's men held on to their the Team event. Natalie Pirks now | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
reports. It's a sport of the Team event. Natalie Pirks now | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
stumbles where the slightest mis-step can cost you marks. Many of | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
England and Scotland's gymnasts were Olympic team-mates, pleasantries | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
were put on hold here. The English were dealt a blow early on with this | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
first fault. were dealt a blow early on with this | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
meant England were now a man down. COMMENTATOR: We need you now. Step | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
forward Lewis Smith, returning to gymnastic at the ripe old age of 25. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
The Olympic pummel horse silver-medallists has been seen more | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
recently quick stepping on Strictly Come Dancing than on the par lel | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
bars. His relief was clear. Scotland were still behind. England needed | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
just one final good routine on the high bar. Cristian Thomas sealed the | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
deal. That is it, England confirmed as the Commonwealth champions. That | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
silver for Scotland represents the first ever medal in the Team event | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
in the Commonwealth Games. Now it is up to England's girls to see if they | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
can take a second gold in one day. In a matter of minutes they will | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
discover whether their floor routines were enough for gold. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Natalie Pirks, BBC News. That event heading for a thrilling conclusion. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
One other piece of news, organisers say they are considering refunds for | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
hundreds of fans who missed events on Sunday because of transport | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
problems. Organisers say they are putting on extra buses to help | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
spectators. Fingers crossed no problems tonight. Back to you. Thank | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
you very much. Time for a look at the weather now. Here is Peter Gibbs | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
Andy had his coat on there in Glasgow a bit of a change? Yes. It | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
will be a trend many of us will notice through the rest of the week. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Turning cooler. Temperatures back to normal for most of us. Still | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
sunshine around, don't write off summer. Be prepared to catch a few | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
showers as the week goes on. summer. Be prepared to catch a few | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
showers as the week goes on. Showers will move in across western | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Scotland, some on the heavy side by the end of the night. The breeze | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
will blow through northern areas. Dry further south. A lovely sunny | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
start to the day for much of the Midlands and southern England. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
Temperatures beginning to pick up fairly quickly. A slightly fresher | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
feel to things particularly across southern England compared to recent | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
days. As we head northwards we start to find more in the way of cloud. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Certainly across north Wales, northern England too. Maybe thick | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
enough to give one or two light showers. The brighter colours | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
telling us that some of the showers will be on the heavy side, Serge to | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
begin with. That is probably the case across Northern Ireland as | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
well. As time goes on, showers around here, they will become | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
lighter and fewer and further between. That breeze certainly quite | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
noticeable once again. A warm day across much of England and Wales. | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
Temperatures up to the seasonal average, not quite as warm as today | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
across southern parts of England. A cool breeze blowing in across | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Glasgow. Not as warm as the athletes would like when you add in the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
breeze. A dry story through the afternoon and evening sessions of | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
the athletics. Thursday, the chance of prolonged spells of rain across | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
northern areas. Further south again a scattering of showers here and | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
there. Similar temperatures, close to where they should be at this time | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
of the year. Looking ahead to the weekend, Rita, more in the way of | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
showers around, some sunshine, near normal temperatures. Peter, thank | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
you. That is all from me. Now on BBC One we join the BBC's news teams | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
where | :28:54. | :28:54. |