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Sir Cliff Richard's home is searched by police investigating a historical | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
allegation of sexual assault. The allegation against the pop | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
star dates back to the 1980s. A search warrant has been granted | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
after the police have received allegation relating to a sexual | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
incident. The allegation relates to a young boy under the age of 16 | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
years. Police spent six hours at the home of Sir Cliff Richard in | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Berkshire. Sir Cliff who was abroad said the allegation was completely | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
false but he would cooperate fully with the police. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
star dates back to the 1980s. Also tonight. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Britain drops further aid supplies in northern Iraq - but America now | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
says a rescue mission is unlikely. I got three C grades. Are you | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
serious! ? says a rescue mission is unlikely. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Results day for A-Level students - there are more A*s | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
and more places at university. A convoy of lorries going | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
from Russia to Ukraine causes more tension between the two countries. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
And the new faces that helped turn around the fortunes of the English | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
cricket team. Tonight on BBC London - | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Signs of a housing market decline - demand for London homes falls | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
at its fastest rate for six years. And the picture reportedly showing | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
a Londoner holding a severed head whilst fighting in Syria. | :01:27. | :01:44. | |
Good evening. The pop star Sir Cliff Richard has | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
had his home in Berkshire searched by South Yorkshire Police, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
in connection with an allegation of sexual assault involving | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
a boy who was under 16 at the time. The allegation was made recently | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
but dates back to the 1980s. The BBC understands the alleged | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
sexual assault is claimed to have taken place at a rally by the | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Christian evangelist Billy Graham at a football stadium in Sheffield. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Sir Cliff, who hasn't been arrested, strongly denies the allegation. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Our correspondent David Sillito is outside Sir Cliff Richard's home | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
in Sunningdale. David. | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
From here on the roadside you would have barely been where anything was | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
amiss today but beyond these high fences and security gates there is | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
an apartment building. At the very top there is a penthouse owned by | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Sir Cliff Richard. He is not there at the moment but throughout the day | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
today there have been people in it. Police, going through his | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
possessions. A small convoy of unmarked police cars arrived quite | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
quietly this morning at this gated complex of apartments near | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Sunningdale. From the air we saw eight officers headed towards Cliff | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Richard's empty penthouse flat. Inside a glimpse of the search. The | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
trigger for this: An allegation that Cliff Richard carried out a sexual | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
assault on a boy under the age of 16. During a rally by the Evangelist | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Billy Graham in Sheffield in 1985. Today I can confirm that South | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Yorkshire Police have gained entry into a property in this Sunningdale | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
area of Berkshire. Officers are currently searching the property. A | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
search warrant has been granted after the police received an | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
allegation relating to a sexual nature. The allegation relates to a | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
young boy under the age of 16 years. The owner of the property is not | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
present. Sir Cliff Richard, one of Britain's most successful and | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
popular performers, a committed Christian. There was a hint of rock | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
'n' roll rebellion when he started out, but since then he has been a | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
byword for clean cut, wholesome, family friendly pop music. He is a | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
regular in the crowds at Wimbledon. And he has an undimmed enthusiasm | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
for performing. It was only recently he was plugging his latest | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
recordings. It is going back to grass roots, the album is full of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
iconic rock 'n' roll songs. His response today: A statement in which | :04:21. | :04:21. | |
he said: It is understood Sir Cliff is at the | :04:22. | :04:49. | |
moment in Portugal. He was interviewed there earlier this week. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
However, there was no sign of him today at this address where he has | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
been staying. Meanwhile, back at his Berkshire home we watched as the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
police began to leave the apartment. This venture is a joint operation | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
between South Yorkshire Police and Thames Valley Police. As you can | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
see, the first of the vehicles are now leaving. They have been in there | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
for more than five hours. We have already seen a number of items taken | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
from that penthouse flat packed up in metal boxes and now taken away | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
for examination. It is, though, just a search. No arrest, no charge, one | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
allegation that he has strenuously denied. | :05:33. | :05:48. | |
David Cameron says Britain must remain flexible in its approach to | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
refugees. He was responding to an assessment by US special forces that | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
fewer people than thought remain trapped on a mountain in northern | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
Iraq. America says a rescue mission | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
for those who fled to Mount Sinjar is now unlikely. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Paul Wood has been to the mountain, | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
and he sent this exclusive report. This is the one road from Mount | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Sinjar not controlled by the Islamic state. This harsh and barren terrain | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
is the only way of escape for tens of thousands of Yazidis. A few are | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
still making their way out on foot. This family hid the day is silent | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
and terrified before sneaking away. There were bodies in the streets of | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
the town of Sinjar, he says. A few people remain scattered across the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
mountain. They have cobbled together a camp with supplies dropped by the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
RAF. It is brutally hot. They have next to nothing but they say they | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
have no choice but to flee. One man tells me the jihadis put a gun to | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
his head and told him "convert or die. " Like everyone here, he says | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
he will never abandon his faith. Sheltered, courtesy of the British | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
taxpayer, they are profoundly grateful for the aid they have | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
received, but are also desperate for more military help. They face | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
genocide, they say. First, they came for the Christians and then ask, the | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Yazidis, he says. They are striking all of the minorities. If the | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
international community will not step in all of us will be destroyed. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
The only soldiers confronting the Islamic state in this part of Iraq | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
are the Kurds. The US and Britain are determined not to send troops. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
But even with US air support there is not much these lightly armed | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Kurds can do, they are stuck here with those who fled. By one count | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
more than 100,000 terrified Yazidis fled over this mountain, many of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
them at risk of dying from the heat off from thirst. A humanitarian | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
catastrophe has been averted. Most people have moved on. There are just | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
a few stragglers left behind. But the question remains, how are these | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
people and millions of other displaced Iraqis going to get home | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
when the Islamic State controls so much of the country? That report was | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
just in from Paul Wood on Sinjar mountains. The UN has declared its | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
highest level of an emergency because of the crisis triggered in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
the Islamic State in the North. The city of Dohuk situation is now | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
critical after 150,000 displaced people arrived there. Our world | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt spent the day at a hospital where | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the doctors have been treating Yazidi refugees. Volunteer Kurdish | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
medical teams have been risking their lives to reach Mount Sinjar to | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
treat the injured and the sick. These are the images they brought | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
back. But over the past few days the numbers still stranded there have | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
diminished. Now several hundred, but no longer thousands. But many of the | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
most vulnerable survivors are still arriving in Iraqi Kurdistan in | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
urgent need of treatment. In one day alone hospitals in. Hook treated up | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
to 800 casualties -- Dohuk. This man is 80. In the exodus even the old | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
had to walk to survive. He told me he had to go on foot down the | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
mountain. For over 50 kilometres. His journey took days. In Dohuk now | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
the real question is how to look after the survivors and the sick and | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
injured who have come down from the mountains, and how to prevent any | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
outbreak of disease thanks to the conditions that many refugees are | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
now living in. The Yazidi families who have made it to safety remain in | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
these abandoned buildings, or in schools, in their tens of thousands. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
Maybe in a few days we may face some endemic diseases. We don't know yet. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
We may have an epidemic of cholera, polio or measles, because the places | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
where they live now they just have public buildings in public parts. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
Existing refugee camps are already full. Dohuk provinces already home | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to 400,000 people fleeing Islamic State fighters doubling the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
population here. Support from outside is what they need here, and | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
some of that was visible last night in the form of another RAF airdrop | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
of aid to Mount Sinjar. Although it seems there will be no US rescue | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
after American special forces landed on the mountain to assess what | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
needed to be done. There will, though, the other forms of help. The | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
British Prime Minister David Cameron was in Wiltshire today to see how | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
many millions of pounds in British aid is being spent. He visited a | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
distribution centre preparing supplies for northern Iraq, while | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
deciding what military assets should be used to support the humanitarian | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
mission there. What our plans need to do is make sure we have the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
assets in place to help out in the right way. That's why last night one | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
of our tornadoes was gathering information about the situation, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
which is why it is important our generics are in place and if plans | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
are flexible enough to enough to respond to this situation. Last | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
night those generic's were ready and waiting to play their part in | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
bringing help to Iraq -- The waiting is over for A-Level | :11:55. | :12:07. | |
students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - with this year's | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
results showing a slight rise in the numbers getting the top A* grade. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
The overall pass rate has dropped slightly for the first time | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
in more than 30 years to 98%, that's down by just 0.1 percentage | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
points - equivalent to 800 pupils. The number of university places | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
available is now estimated to have reached 500,000, partly due to | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
an extra 30,000 places which have been funded by the government. | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Our education correspondent Alex Forsyth reports. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
a quick rip and results revealed. For some delight and four others | :12:37. | :12:48. | |
despair. Yes, checkmate, we are in. Christine and's hard work had paid | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
off. Earlier this morning he learned online he had got the university | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
place he wanted. How are you feeling? It was a bit of a relief | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
and it was fairly stressful waiting to see whether they would accept it | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
or not but the offer was decent. For others the news wasn't as good as | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
hoped. I'm quite gutted. I didn't get into my first place so I will | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
have to see if I can reapply to them through clearing and see if they | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
will have me. Whether students have done better or worse than they | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
expected there is still plenty of choice, because this year there is a | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
record number of university places on offer. It is a buyer's market. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Despite there being fewer 18-year-olds in the population more | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
took exams and the number of university applications has risen. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
But there is no limit on places for those with the highest grades, A, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
B, B and above and with students playing up to ?9,000 a year in fees | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
universities are competing even playing up to ?9,000 a year in fees | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
universities are competing more to attract them. Queens University in | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Belfast is offering free flights home to students from mainland | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Britain. Others have scholarships with cash awards, sports club | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
memberships, even free laptops. Universities should be scouring the | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
country like talent scouts looking for the best young people, who can | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
make a big difference to their own prospects and the prospects of the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
University and the country. That's why we have taken away this limit on | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
student numbers so there is a place for everyone who is capable of | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
benefiting from higher education. The extra places meant more options | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
in clearing where those who did worse or better than the expected | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
can trade their place. Even some top universities offered some slots this | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
way. But for those who narrowly missed out it was a difficult day. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Rubin was just too grades and five marks from his dream course studying | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
archaeology in Manchester. I'm left a bit stranded now so I have to sort | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
it out. It is just a bit getting I was so close but so far. But | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
Rubin's story had a happy ending. In the past hour Manchester has offered | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
him a place despite not getting the grades. So, while not everyone is on | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
the course they wanted, for many students it has been a good year. | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
This is one of those busy clearing centres. Here at the University of | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
the West of England people have been on the phone all day, more than 4500 | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
calls from students, as they try and fill those final few places. Scenes | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
like this would have been replicated across the country as students in | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland get their results and then try and | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
find a place. This year the pass rate has fallen overall. That | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
follows years of concern over grade inflation. But the number of | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
students expected to get a place at university was likely to be higher | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
than ever. More than 500,000 people going off to study for the first | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
time. The government says it has introduced policies to lift the cap | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
on aspiration. But now more than ever it is important for | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
universities to make sure they fill those places so that they can | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
balance their books. A fresh five-day ceasefire between | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
Israel and the Palestinians appears The truce is intended to allow time | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
for more substantial talks in Egypt In Ukraine, heavy shelling has been | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
heard in Donetsk, which is held The city has been surrounded for | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
several weeks by Ukrainian forces. The latest violence comes | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
as a Russian convoy, said by Moscow to be carrying aid, | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
makes its way towards a rebel-held The government in Kiev says | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
the convoy is a cover to send Those who saw it today could only | :16:26. | :16:48. | |
stop and stare. It is one of the largest humanitarian convoys Russia | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
has ever organised, nearly 300 lorries, packed, Moscow says, with | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
aid for eastern Ukraine. All day, it snaked its way through southern | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Russia before stopping in a field, 20 miles from the border. But | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Ukraine is reluctant to let the lorries in. It fears it may be a | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
cover for a Russian military operation. The border with Ukraine | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
is just a short drive away from here, and if Russia decides to take | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
this convoy across that border without the permission of Kiev, then | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the Ukrainian government will view that is a major provocation. We ask | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
to see what was in the lorries, so they opened one of them up. No | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
secret weapon shipments here, just sleeping bags. One of the drivers | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
told me that Russia was trying to help Ukrainians, and that it was the | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
West that was the aggressor. America, he says, wants to grab | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Ukraine for itself. Today, Ukraine dispatched a rival humanitarian | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
combo to the east of the country, the message to Russia, we don't need | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
your help. But the Red Cross is warning that the humanitarian | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
situation in eastern Ukraine is critical now, with thousands lacking | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
water and medicine, and with no sign of an end to the fighting. In | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Donetsk today, they were sifting through the rubble of homes torn | :18:17. | :18:17. | |
apart by shelling. I don't know what to do, Valentina | :18:18. | :18:29. | |
says, I don't have anywhere else to run to. Ukraine accuses Russia of | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
starting this walk and of arming the separatist rebels. That is why when | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Russia says it wants to help, by distributing aid, Kiev is so | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
reluctant to accept it. The time is just after a quarter | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
past six. Sir Cliff Richard's home has been | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
searched by police investigating a historical | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
allegation of sexual assault. Sir Cliff, who hasn't been arrested, | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
said the allegation was completely false, and he promised to cooperate | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
with the police. And, still to come, bruised but ready for battle, | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
England prepare for the final test against India. Coming up later on | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
BBC London, first A-level students to study at a Free School in new | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
celebrate their results. And back with a cold, we will hear from Mo | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Farah rah on his medal success in the European Championships. Join us | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
at 6:30pm. GP practices in England | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
which are failing could be closed The watchdog, the Care Quality | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Commission, has unveiled a new inspection programme that will | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
scrutinise around 8,000 practices. A rating of "outstanding" | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
will be given to the best surgeries, while those with the lowest rating, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
"inadequate", will get six months to resolve any problems, and could then | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
face outside intervention through But doctors' leaders say closing | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
practices won't be Our Health Correspondent Branwen | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Jeffreys reports. One of the first surgeries to get a | :20:07. | :20:21. | |
visit from the inspectors. Their report said it was cluttered, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
disorganised, with poor records, badly stained chairs in the waiting | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
room. The practice has since closed. Jennifer had already left as a | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
patient, after losing confidence. She says the problems were | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
well-known locally. I did not think he was particularly interested in | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
you is the person. He would more often than not be on the phone, | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
talking to somebody else, and again maybe being called away. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Unexpectedly. Now all GP practices in England face similar | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
inspections. If they fail badly they could get six months to change, or | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
lose their contract with the NHS. So what happens when a GP practice | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
closes? The patients from here are having to travel to other practices | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
until new doctors can be found. Similar kinds of arrangements will | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
be put in place around the country if other practices are found to be | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
failing in their standard of care. Helen could I just speak to you | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
minute about the inspection? GPs are getting ready for inspection. They | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
are worried about how fair the system will be, and say they are | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
already overworked. The paperwork is piling up, often it is breaking down | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
protocols about things you do already. We have tested the fire | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
alarm every week for years, now we have to have a protocol to say that | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
is how we tested. All of this does detract from providing patient care. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
But it will mean patients can compare GP practices for the first | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
time, allowing them to choose who they want to be their family doctor. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
The Eurozone's economy ground to a halt in the second quarter | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
of this year, with the latest figures showing no overall growth. | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
Europe's biggest economy, Germany, shrank by 0.2%, | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
The figures suggest the Eurozone's recovery from its longest-ever | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
With me now is our Economics Correspondent Simon Jack. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
Simon, this is worrying news for the Eurozone, and for us to full stop | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
yes, it is. If you look around the Eurozone, the report card looks | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
pretty grim. The eye catching one is Germany, powerhouse of Europe, now | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
stuttering. There are reasons to think it might come back a bit, | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
there are seasonal factors there. France has not budged an inch and | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
economic before a year. If you add that to Italy, which is now back | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
into a recession, and the three big hitters, if you like, are not doing | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
well at all. Some bright spots, Spain and Portugal doing OK, but | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
generally, overall, it is a pretty grim picture, and that is bad for us | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
because it is our biggest trading partner. What is bad to them is bad | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
to our economy, it makes up almost 50% of our exports. All of this will | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
add pressure on the European Central Bank to do something, like we have | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
done in the UK and the US, to start printing money to boost the Eurozone | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
out of this sort of malaise. Up to now, Germany has resisted these | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
attempts, but given the fact that its economy is now contracting, they | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
may be more willing now to accept it is time to start printing money, | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
like we have done in the UK and the US. The European Central Bank | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
president will be under pressure. Simon, thank you very much. | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
A four-month ban against the footballer Luis Suarez | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
has been upheld, but he has been cleared for training. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
The striker, who was suspended after biting an | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
Italian defender during the World Cup, is also now eligible to play in | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
friendly games for both his club, Barcelona, and for his country. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
The Uruguayan is likely to make his debut for Barca at Real Madrid | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
A year ago today, England's cricketers were on a high, after | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
What came next was one of the worst periods in the team's history: | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
defeated 5-0 in Australia, and then beaten at home by Sri Lanka. | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
But now, with back to back wins under their belts, they go | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
into tomorrow's final Test against India on course for a series win. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
The Oval is the traditional finishing line for a cricket series | :24:24. | :24:36. | |
last year here, England were holding the ashes and then all crumbled. A | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
year of turmoil has witnessed unprecedented restructuring. Just | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
this summer we had met Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, Sam Robson, all new | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
players but this man has really represented the new arrivals. Moeen | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Ali will always stand up. I have enjoyed several conversations with | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
him this summer about his Muslim faith, which she expresses most | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
visibly in that beard. It has always been really important, I just do | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
what I have to do. 19 wickets against India, have I lost count of | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
a feud? I am doing all right. While he concentrates on his bowling, | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
which has flummoxed India, his status has become appreciated. | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
I met this actor from Citizen Khan. Through humour, Baddiel six to | :25:30. | :25:39. | |
normalise British Muslim identity. Cricket can do the same. Is a | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
British Brummie, we don't want to be superior or different, we want to be | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
on a level playing field. There is no more of a level playing field | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
than playing cricket for your country. So for someone like Moeen | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Ali to be chosen purely because he is one of the best 11 people in this | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
country at playing cricket is absolutely superb. Of course, there | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
are still old faces. This is Stuart Broad, carrying a reminder of the | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
ball which hit him in the last test. He is ready to play again, behind a | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
redesigned metal grill. Understandable. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Let's take a look at the weather now. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Watching the weather today has quite literally been electrifying. A | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
cluster of thunderstorm starting up across parts of Wales and the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
south-west, and they really gathered in momentum and pace across the | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
south-east and parts of the East Midlands. It has brought around an | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
inch or two of rain in some of those sharp showers, some hail, even | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
reports of final clouds across the East Midlands. These showers will | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
ease away slowly but surely through the evening. Overnight, most of the | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
showers dying away towards the coast. Tomorrow a little more | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
optimistic, fewer showers around and more in the way of sunshine, we | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
start off quite promising. Lots of sunny spells coming through, by the | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
middle of the balloon, one or two -- middle of the afternoon, one or two | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
isolated showers cropping up. Highs of 19 to 20 degrees quite possible | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
in one or two places, maybe as high as 21 or 22 in the south-east. One | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
or two showers perhaps close to the Welsh border stretching up to the | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Midlands, across the peak district. Some of them could be heavy and | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
thundery. Still a coolish feel come at disappointing for the middle of | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
August. As we move to the weekend, quite a blustery wind returns to the | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
north-west, some rain around as well but the best of the drier brighter | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
weather likely to be on Saturday across England and Wales. The wind | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
strengthening the gale forced gusts, some persistent showers | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
across Scotland, it still feels quite cool here. That area of low | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
pressure, it sits down into the North Sea. We continue to introduce | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
this north-westerly wind. Plenty of showers around on Sunday as well, | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
and the cool feel continues into the early half of next week. | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
A reminder of the main story. Sir Cliff Richard's home in Berkshire | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
has been searched by police investigating an historical | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
allegation of sexual assault. Sir Cliff, who has not been arrested, | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
said the allegation was completely false, and runners to cooperate with | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
the police. More on that and all the other news on the BBC News Channel, | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
and on our website, but that is all for now. It is | :28:49. | :28:50. |