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The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, ends years of speculation | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
by confirming he wants to stand as an MP. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
He says he wants to stop dancing around the issue, but if elected, | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
would see out his term as Mayor. Since you can't do these things | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
furtively I might as well be absolutely clear, I will try to | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
find somewhere to stand in 2015. We'll be asking what this might mean | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
for the future of the Conservatives. Also tonight: | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Two British medical students are stabbed to death in Malaysia in the | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
final week of their work placement. An aspirin a day could reduce | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
the number of deaths from some cancers, according to a new study. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
And, catching up with a comet: the Rosetta space probe finally | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
reaches this - after a 10 year chase. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
As Boris reveals his plans to become an MP there's criticism that | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
And we go to Uxbridge, where he may pursue a seat, to see | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:03. | :01:27. | |
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has confirmed that he does want to | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
stand for a parliamentary seat in next year's general election. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
He admitted to dancing around the question | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
for an awfully long time - but this morning ended the speculation, | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
saying he's looking for a constituency to represent, and wants | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
to see a Conservative government. Our Deputy Political Editor, | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
James Landale, is in Downing Street, James. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
The years Boris Johnson has dodged questions about his future. I was | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
once an MP, but the thing I love is to be Mayor of London. What I would | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
like to do is to be Mayor of London for another four years. But today | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
the Mayor of London finally threw his hat, at least his helmet, into | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
the Westminster ring. In all probability I will try to find | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
somewhere to stand. He ended the speculation finally. I enjoyed being | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Mayor of London and I will continue with my mandate, but I need to think | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
what happens there after. I think the 2015 election will be very | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
tough, I want to make sure there is not a Miliband premiership. That is | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
why David Cameron has long wanted his team-mate back in the fold, | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
saying today he wanted his Boris Johnson is one of them, he reaches | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
voters that of them, he reaches voters that other Tories cannot. The | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Prime Minister hopes that his stardust could boost the party 's | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
prospects at the election. The risk is that speculation about his future | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
could become regulation about his ambition. You are returning to | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Parliament so that one day you can stand as leader of the party? It is | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
highly unlikely because there is no vacancy. You said you cannot do two | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
jobs, you have changed your mind, deserting the people of London | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
through your second term. I will not be deserting them, if I succeed in | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
getting a seat I would not take it until I had only one year to go, as | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
the melt London. Many conservatives believe this man could lead their | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
party. -- as the Mayor of London. His pitch to the party is clear, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
saying today that Britain could flourish outside of the European | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Union, a message that many Tories want to hear. Boris is | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
well-positioned to hold Cameron and Osborne's feature the fire during | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
the European free negotiation, and if Cameron is not prime and Esther, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
low and behold he has a platform on which to run. Mr Johnson is said to | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
be looking for a constituency in the capital, possibly but. The Londoners | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
who elected Boris Johnson to be the mare until 2016 have a right to | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
expect he will do the job full time for them for the whole of London. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Between now and 2016. But for all of the criticism a new horse has | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
entered the race at Westminster, and to night the odds on him winning | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
have fallen. Let's talk to James in Downing Street, what other wider | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
implications for the broader Conservative Party? Many | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
conservatives will be happy about this news, certainly in Downing | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Street, they think Boris Johnson is one of the best campaigners, they | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
think the next election he will be freed up to campaign and win more | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
votes. Certainly many within the wider Conservative Party will have a | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
much higher morale as a result. They believe they are intoxicated by the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
idea, Boris Johnson as a right of centre politician who can be | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
genuinely popular at the same time. Clearly that are risks, risks that | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the speculation about his future becomes speculation about his | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
ambition. This could be the latest parlour game. Also this risk, to | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
gamble for Mr Johnson who has portrayed himself as against | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
politics, and now, looking to wriggle out of a previous commitment | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
to serve perhaps his ambition. STUDIO: Thank you for joining us. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
is in Downing Street, James. Two British medical students | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
have been killed in Malaysia. Reports suggest they were involved | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
in an argument with some local men. Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger were | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
fourth year students at Newcastle University, and were coming to the | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
end of a work placement Aidan Brunger and Neil Dalton had | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
gone to Borneo to use their medical expertise to help at a local | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
hospital. They died in the street, stabbed to death, just two days | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
before they were due to return home. The students were at Kuching, on the | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Malaysia side of the island where they had been on a placement at this | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
General Hospital, they appear to have become involved in an | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
altercation with a group of men in a bar in the early hours of the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
morning. As they left to return to their lodgings, it is claimed that | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
the men followed and attacked them. A Newcastle University dash at | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
Newcastle University the news was met with shock and dismay. It is a | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
terrible tragedy. It might put off medical students going to certain | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
places. Neil Dalton was due to complete his final year of studies, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Aidan Brunger was planning to go into medical research. They were | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
excellent students and very committed to their studies and | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
becoming doctors, they were doing what thousands of medical students | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
do every year, practising in a different setting. Malaysian | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
television is reporting that four people have been arrested in | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
connection to the attack, and the Foreign Office says it is helping | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
the students however it can. A man has been sectioned under the | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Mental Health Act after a bomb hoax on a passenger plane yesterday. | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
RAF jets escorted the Qatar Airways plane into Manchester Airport, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
after the pilot was handed a note about a possible device on board. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
The airport was closed for a time, and some flights diverted to | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Liverpool and Leeds. The 47 year old man is now being | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
assessed by medical staff. An aspirin a day could significantly | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
reduce some cancers - that is the message for people | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
in their 50s and 60s, from a group of researchers looking at | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the drug's ability to stem disease. Scientists found that one low dose | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
tablet - 75mg - taken every day for 5 to 10 years could prevent | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
122,000 deaths from some cancers - particularly bowel and stomach | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
cancer - over a 20 year period. But aspirin does have side effects, | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
and can cause internal bleeding - so doctors say people should check | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
with their GP before they decide to take it regularly. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has the details. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
The evidence around the benefits of a daily dose of aspirin is growing, | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
it is cheap, everyday medicine, already taken by many people to | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
avoid heart problems. Now new research adds weight to existing | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
studies which shows it could prevent some types of cancer. In terms of | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
preventing cancer, the most important thing is to avoid smoking, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
or to stop smoking. After that this is probably the second most | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
important thing you can do to prevent cancer, there are many other | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
important things but none of them as powerful as this because of the | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
widespread benefit across the range of cancers. Scientists are | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
increasingly convinced a small daily dose of aspirin can have a powerful | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
impact on your chances of developing some cancers, but there are risks. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
For example internal bleeding and stroke, but today's research is | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
saying that the risks are outweighed by the benefits. Aspirin seems | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
particularly good at targeting cancer in the oesophagus and the | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
bowel. This research has estimated the figure for bowel cancer could be | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
reduced by 40% with a daily dose of aspirin. Taking the drug every day | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
for ten years does carry an increased risk of stomach bleeding | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
and certain types of strokes, however for some people. We need to | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
understand who is at risk at the side effects side of things, before | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
we can recommend we start taking the drug. Among these walkers, | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
recovering after a day in the Peak District, there was broad support | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
for the idea of a daily aspirin to cut the risk of cancer. June is 53 | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
and has already had breast cancer. I would do anything to prevent myself | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
from getting cancer again. I keep myself healthy and ie 12. If taking | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
an aspirin a day will help, will prevent in the future, yes I am for | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
it. -- ie 12. Lou macro I want to know how it works. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
Diet and walking and exercise, keeping your weight down, it is very | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
much along the lines of looking after things, this is along the same | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
lines, I would willingly take something if I thought the return | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
was going to be good. Official NHS advice does not yet recommend taking | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
a daily aspirin, nobody should start before seeing their GP but an | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
everyday drug which has been around for decades looks like it could be a | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
powerful weapon in the battle against cancer. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
The 72 hour ceasefire in Gaza is in its second day - | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the longest lull in fighting since the conflict began four weeks ago. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been displaced. | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
The United Nations has been sheltering many of them in school | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
buildings - but as our Middle East Correspondent Orla Guerin reports | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
from Jabaliayah, some families have no homes to return to. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
Her report contains images you may find distressing. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
On the move, again. Families who have fled Israeli shelling now | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
having to leave a UN school. Where they thought they had found refuge. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
At this elementary boys school they told us UN staff said they were on | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
their own. Today they announced on the school microphone that there | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
will be no services, no food or water, said this man, those who want | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
to leave, can leave, we are not responsible for those who stay. Do | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
you have any homes left standing to go back to? The ants from all, was | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
no. -- the answer. The families say they have effectively no choice but | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
to go, they say they have been told there is accommodation available in | :12:44. | :12:59. | |
government schools but they say these schools are close to the | :13:00. | :13:19. | |
Israeli border, and to Palestinian training camps. They say it is a | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
front-line area and it is no place for children. UN schools have | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
sheltered almost 300,000 people during this conflict. It is unclear | :13:31. | :13:31. | |
why desperate families at this school were threatened with the | :13:32. | :13:32. | |
withdrawal of help today. This is not the policy, this is not what | :13:33. | :13:33. | |
will happen, food for the area will not be distributed, it is on its | :13:34. | :13:34. | |
way. Similarly with the water which should be delivered today. For | :13:35. | :13:35. | |
generations of this family, they were terrified of losing the roof | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
over their head again. Israeli border, and to Palestinian | :13:39. | :13:39. | |
training camps. 72 relatives now call this classroom home. They are | :13:40. | :13:40. | |
kicking as out of here, said this woman, should we live in the | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
streets? Where should the women and children go? They started packing, | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
hoping to join relatives at another UN school. Two family members died | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
there, in the shelling, but they said it was the safest option. And | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
then they got word it was already full. Nearby, we found five-year-old | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
Mohammed, who was paralysed, his devoted mother, Sarah, was trying to | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
keep the flies off his face, it is all she could do. She told us she is | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
worried he may not survive. Muhammad gets weaker every time he is moved. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives, | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
to try to negotiate an extension to the current | :14:31. | :14:44. | |
Two weeks ago, Moria Ashkenazi lost her husband of ten years. | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Her two-month-old daughter will never see her father again, | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
and her two sons fantasise about becoming superheroes | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
so they can bring their dad back. 36-year-old Yair, a solicitor | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
and army reservist, was killed in a firefight with Hamas | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
militants just inside Gaza. TRANSLATION: | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
I had very mixed feelings. I didn't want him to go in there, | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
but I eventually understood there was no other way, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
for the sake of our country, because if we don't | :15:17. | :15:17. | |
protect ourselves, we are doomed. The sense of vulnerability is felt | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
most acutely in Israeli communities near Gaza, where there has been | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
a human and economic cost. Here at Kibbutz Netiv Ha'Asara, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
crops have been lost and residents have fled. | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
We can't let them win, so we are staying here, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
we are staying with the fields and with the children | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
that know how to go to a shelter when they are three years old. | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
This is the fourth war that Israel has fought over Gaza in the space of | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
less than ten years, and while these Israeli communities right up against | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
the Gaza border largely support their government's actions, they | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
fully expect there will be another war in two or three years' time, | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
because the fundamental problems behind the crisis | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
are not being addressed. While talks in Egypt aim to extend | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
the three-day cease-fire, Israel's overwhelming firepower has | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
been pulled back from Gaza, but it's in no position | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
to claim a victory, says one of the government's | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
biggest critics. As long as the siege | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
on Gaza will continue, as long as life in Gaza | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
will be life in a cage, Israelis' lives will not be secure. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
That is a very basic formula. Moria Ashkenazi has no desire | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
for her children to follow This evening the Israeli Prime | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
Minister spoke for the first time since the cease-fire was announced. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty, every single one. We do | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
not target them, we do not seek them. The people of Gaza are not our | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
enemy. Moria Ashkenazi has no desire | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
for her children to follow their father's path and fight | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
in Gaza, but it's something she knows might be inevitable. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Wyre Davies, BBC News, Israel. Our top story this evening: | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, ends years of speculation | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
by confirming he wants to stand as an MP. | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
And what people made the independence debate in Scotland. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
to stand as an MP. Later on BBC London, | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
campaigners head to Downing Street, saying funding cuts for GPs | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
surgeries will hit thousands of poorer people in the capital. | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
And how one Londoner pioneered a new way of helping soldiers | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
whose faces were damaged during World War I. | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
Space history has been made today. A decade after it was launched, the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally caught up with a comet. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
It is the first time a comet will be studied in detail. | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Until now, only comet dust has been collected. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Rosetta has taken ten years, five months and four days | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
to reach the comet, travelling 4 billion miles, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
looping the sun five times. At a cost of just over ?1 billion, | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Rosetta will now fly alongside the comet for more than a year. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Its findings could reveal more about the beginnings | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
of life on earth. Our science editor, | :18:36. | :18:36. | |
David Shukman, is at the mission control centre | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
in Germany. David. Jane, thank you. It is an | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
extraordinary thought that this place is in command of a spacecraft | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
that is getting on for 300 million miles from earth, and more than | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
that, the people have got that spacecraft to edge right up towards | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
a comet. Previous missions to, twos have flown right past them, to being | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
able to ride alongside, which is what is happening as of today, | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
really is a milestone in the exploration of space. | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
The moment they'd waited ten years for. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
We are at the comet! Yes! Relief and delight | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
at the European Space Agency at an amazing rendezvous with a comet. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
As the spacecraft approaches, the images become sharper. | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
No-one has ever seen a comet in this detail before. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
A strange, jagged landscape is revealed, with cliffs and ridges, | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
boulders the size of houses, an alien mix of rock and ice. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
It's what the Rosetta mission is about, being this close is | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
why we're doing this mission. We've rendezvoused with the comet, | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
we're travelling in the same orbit around the sun as this comet, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
and we're going to continue doing that for over a year, | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
escorting the comet around the sun. It's taken a decade | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
for the Rosetta spacecraft to catch up with the comet. | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
It's so far away that each radio command | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
takes 23 minutes to get there. But the encounter is on target. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
What's remarkable about this mission is that the comet | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
is racing along at about 34,000 mph, but the team here have managed to | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
get the Rosetta spacecraft to match its speed and fly alongside it. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
That's never been achieved before. The plan is to go one step further. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
If all goes well, a small lander will be released later this year to | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
drift down onto this uncharted world to see exactly what it's made of. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
But no-one can be sure if this is possible. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Already scientists are studying the comet to look for a landing site. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Imagine trying to pick somewhere safe on this bizarre surface. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
There's a lot that's still unknown. We should expect something that can | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
range from the hardness of concrete to the softness of candy floss. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
That is what makes this kind of mission sort of different | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
to something like going to Mars, where you're kind of reasonably | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
certain you know what the surface is going to be like. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
And the reason for all this effort? Well, comets may have collided | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
with the early earth and brought it water and carbon, | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
ingredients that were vital for the process of kick-starting life. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Visiting a comet may show if that's true. | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
It's hard to believe, though, in these latest pictures, | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
that a landscape this barren could ever hold anything useful | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
to life on earth. But the task of understanding | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
this comet has only just begun. After that journey to the comet, a | :21:33. | :21:45. | |
frantic efforts to get ready for the attempt to land. They are hoping to | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
try on November the 11th. I say hoping, because no-one here can be | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
sure if it is possible. Jane. And you can find out more | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
about the Rosetta mission on the science section | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
of the BBC News website. The World Health Organisation | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
says the number of deaths in the Ebola outbreak | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
has risen to 932. 108 new cases were detected | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
between Saturday and Monday. A Spanish priest infected in Liberia | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
is the first patient to return to Europe. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Now delegates from WHO are meeting to decide if the outbreak should | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
be declared a global emergency. Emergency payments are to be made | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
to flood victims following torrential rain | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
across parts of Northern Ireland. Last night, | :22:34. | :22:34. | |
the Fire and Rescue Service received more than 30 calls | :22:35. | :22:35. | |
from the worst affected areas. Both sides of the debate over | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
Scottish independence were back on the campaign trail today | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
following last night's televised clash between the country's | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
First Minister, Alex Salmond, and the man leading the campaign | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
against independence, former Chancellor Alistair Darling. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Mr Salmond's supporters maintain he had the winning arguments, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
but most commentators believe that Mr Darling performed better. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon has been gauging | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
the mood of voters. The genteel atmosphere of the Willow | :23:04. | :23:17. | |
tea rooms, a Glasgow institution renowned, refined, a far cry from | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
the heated gladiatorial exchanges of the first televised debate on | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Scottish independence, and yet even here people have a view. Alistair | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Darling won the debate. I think that Alex Salmond tried to become far too | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
clever. Who do you think won and why? I would say Alex Salmond came | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
across an lot clearer, a lot better. The debate was feisty, sometimes ill | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
tempered. I did not vote for him but I am stuck with them, that is what | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
happens in a democracy! Do you agree with David Cameron or not?! Both | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
sides are, unsurprisingly, claiming victory, but many commentators are | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
suggesting that Alistair Darling came out on top. The only poll that | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
matters is on the 18th of September, which is why issues like the | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
currency, issues that will affect peoples lives, how they can affect | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
their income, we need answers. Alex Salmond dismisses claims he failed | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
to live up to expectations. We are delighted that we are convincing | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
people as we discussed the benefits that an independent Scotland would | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
have to people and their families. This debate saw two political | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
heavyweights slugging it out in front of a mass television audience, | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
but there is an intense campaign on the ground too. Both sides were out | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
once again on the country's streets. Many people have formed | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
their views. I did not see Alex Hammond answering that... Others are | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
undecided. They have just six weeks remaining to work out what they | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
want. And's future. -- for Scotland's future. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
You can watch that debate between Alex Salmond | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
and Alistair Darling tonight. It's on BBC Parliament at 7pm. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Last October, John Wildey was a passenger on a light aircraft | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
when the pilot collapsed. Mr Wildey, who's 78, had no choice | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
but to take over the controls. He'd never had a flying lesson | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
and didn't even know how to turn on the lights, | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
but he was guided in by a helicopter and landed safely. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Today, for the first time, John and the helicopter pilot who helped him | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
met for the first time. Dan Johnson has the story. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Keep coming down. Flying for the first time, a nervous experience for | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
anyone, but this was a beginner's lesson in the worst possible | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
circumstances. Great-grandfather John was forced to take the controls | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
when his pilot friend suffered a fatal heart attack. Nice to see you | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
again! Today he came to me the rescuers who helped him safely home. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
It was nice to know summary was up at the same time and could see what | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
I was doing and they knew what I was doing. -- someone. They were | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
chatting to me, getting me settled, and they helped to keep me settled. | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
He sounded good, yeah. Flying alone at 1500 feet as night fell, John | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
He sounded good, yeah. Flying alone at 1500 feet as relied on voices. He | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
will have to go for the main runway. The instructors on the ground were | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
giving him visibly how to fly a fixed wing, but we were there as | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
point of contact, somebody who could follow him around, steer him back | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
around if he got disoriented, reassure him someone else was at | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
there with him. This is the RAF helicopter that was sent to guide | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
John, the crew spoke to him and helped him keep his plane in the air | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
before using their lights to lead him to Humberside Airport. Keep | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
coming down the white centreline. It was not smooth, but it was a | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
landing, and it hasn't put John off flying. He is now having proper | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
lessons. Can you tell me how to turn the engine off, please? He will be | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
lessons. Can you tell me how to turn the engine off, please? among an | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
elite view that have completed more successful landings than take-offs. | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
Remarkable! We moved to the weather with Tomasz Schafernaker, thinking | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
about the weekend, apparently. Yes, some important points to make, | :27:30. | :27:41. | |
fine today, sunshine tomorrow, but some of us did catch some heavy | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
showers across the East of England, the north-east, for example, in | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
Durham, Newcastle, parts of Northern Ireland. Really, for the vast | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
majority of us, a fine end to the day. This is what we are ending | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
Wednesday on, lots of bright weather, then through the course of | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
the night, unlike last night, quite a wash-out, this coming night will | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
be a dry one, not chilly, despite clear skies. 15 or 16 across the | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
country, in the Western Isles and Stornoway, something like 10 | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
degrees. Tomorrow, a fine day on the way, light winds, hazy sunshine, not | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
completely dry because they could be one or two showers in Northern | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
Ireland again, possibly Scotland and northern England, but really a fine | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
and dry day for a lot of us. The mid-20s in the Saudis, 18-20 in | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. -- in the south-east. Heavy rain across | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
the south-east of the country on Friday, also in Northern Ireland, | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
then this bit in the middle where we might have drier and brighter | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
weather. Saturday, a mixture, sunshine and showers, but a lot of | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
sunshine around too. Temperatures about average. Into Sunday, we have | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
a weather system coming out of a tropical origin, this is former | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
Hurricane Bertha, just a shadow of what it was, but it may be heading | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
in our direction to bring some heavy winds and rain. We will be keeping | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
you posted. All right, Tomasz. Thank you. That | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
is | :29:14. | :29:14. |