:00:00. > :00:10.Pushing back the fighters of Islamic State - Britain says it's prepared
:00:11. > :00:12.to send weapons to the Kurds. They say there's
:00:13. > :00:17.an urgent need now for weapons and aid to avert disaster.
:00:18. > :00:19.The humanitarian crisis continues, as thousands flee
:00:20. > :00:25.for their lives into Syria as well as other parts of Iraq.
:00:26. > :00:30.Tonight, we're in the skies over Iraq with the RAF, tracking Islamic
:00:31. > :00:33.State fighters and the refugees. And we'll be assessing the impact
:00:34. > :00:37.of sending more weapons. Also tonight:
:00:38. > :00:42.Two officers who had relationships with women while working
:00:43. > :00:45.undercover are named by the Met. Police say more people have come
:00:46. > :00:49.forward with information after a search of Sir Cliff Richard's home.
:00:50. > :00:51.The Ebola outbreak in west Africa has been vastly underestimated,
:00:52. > :00:55.according to the World Health Organisation.
:00:56. > :01:07.And England's bowlers are rampant against India in the final Test.
:01:08. > :01:12.On BBC London: Three years after the riots,
:01:13. > :01:16.millions of pounds of regeneration cash hasn't been spent.
:01:17. > :01:17.And the parts of the capital with the poorest cancer survival rates
:01:18. > :01:36.are revealed. Good evening and welcome to the
:01:37. > :01:39.BBC News at Six. Ministers from across Europe have
:01:40. > :01:42.been in emergency talks today, trying to work out a coordinated
:01:43. > :01:46.response to the crisis in Iraq. Here the Government said it would
:01:47. > :01:49."consider favourably" any request from the Kurds for arms to push back
:01:50. > :01:53.Islamic State fighters who've driven thousands from their homes.
:01:54. > :01:58.The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, described them as
:01:59. > :02:00."a threat to civilisation". Britain is now set to join France
:02:01. > :02:03.and the United States in supplying arms to the Kurds,
:02:04. > :02:08.who are also struggling with a massive influx of refugees.
:02:09. > :02:11.It's thought 200,000 people are now in refugee camps
:02:12. > :02:15.in Kurdish-controlled Iraq, and in parts of Syria.
:02:16. > :02:17.Paul Wood travelled to the Syrian town of Nowruz
:02:18. > :02:25.and has just sent this report. Camp Nowruz in Syria,
:02:26. > :02:30.the first place of sanctuary for thousands of Yazidi refugees.
:02:31. > :02:39.People walked 40 miles in 50-degree heat to get here,
:02:40. > :02:42.across mountains and desert. Two weeks ago,
:02:43. > :02:49.the camp had just 20 families. Now it has swollen to 15,000 people.
:02:50. > :02:53.Patriotic music drifts across the camp.
:02:54. > :02:57."We have heard our women screaming", says the song, "don't be afraid,
:02:58. > :03:02.we will defend this land and defend our honour".
:03:03. > :03:09.The song is part of an effort by a Syrian-Kurdish militia here to
:03:10. > :03:13.recruit among the Yazidi refugees. "I know how to fight because I grew
:03:14. > :03:17.up in the mountains", he says. "I will go to my village and
:03:18. > :03:21.wherever I find the Islamic State, I will kill them".
:03:22. > :03:24."They have captured our women, and they are selling them", he says.
:03:25. > :03:29."I will go to free my people. I will go to protect my land".
:03:30. > :03:34.The Kurdish forces will certainly find a lot of volunteers
:03:35. > :03:37.in teeming refugee camps like this, but any new recruits will be going
:03:38. > :03:41.up against battle hardened veterans from the Islamic State, and the
:03:42. > :03:45.jihadis too are very well equipped. They have weapons and ammunition
:03:46. > :03:47.captured from Iraqi forces. So even with Western air support,
:03:48. > :03:51.the Kurdish forces will have a long and difficult task to
:03:52. > :03:58.recapture the towns and villages that all these people came from.
:03:59. > :04:01.The Kurdish militia here have begun a training programme.
:04:02. > :04:06.They hope it will give them an army capable of defeating the jihadis.
:04:07. > :04:10."We did not choose this war", he says, "
:04:11. > :04:14.but we have no choice but to fight. The Yazidis are our people, too.
:04:15. > :04:20.If we had not confronted the Islamic State,
:04:21. > :04:23.there would have been a genocide". Just over the border into Iraq,
:04:24. > :04:27.a brand-new camp is being built for displaced Yazidis.
:04:28. > :04:31.The camp is better, certainly, than what greeted them when they first
:04:32. > :04:36.fled into Syria, but it is another depressing sign that there will be
:04:37. > :04:42.no quick end to this crisis. Paul Wood, BBC News,
:04:43. > :04:45.on Syria's border with Iraq. Well, as the humanitarian crisis
:04:46. > :04:48.unfolds, RAF Tornadoes with aerial reconnaissance equipment have been
:04:49. > :04:53.flying over Iraq, tracking the movements of refugees
:04:54. > :04:55.and Islamic State fighters. They've been taking off
:04:56. > :04:56.from Akrotiri in Cyprus, where our correspondent Jeremy Cooke
:04:57. > :05:05.joined the mission. RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus.
:05:06. > :05:11.We are joining the air crew on a mission.
:05:12. > :05:16.Under cover of darkness, it's full throttle.
:05:17. > :05:22.And at this speed, it is a short flight to the dark skies over Iraq.
:05:23. > :05:25.The crew is piloting what is effectively a flying petrol station,
:05:26. > :05:33.and pretty soon they are in business.
:05:34. > :05:37.We will need a left hand orbit. Tornado jets emerge from the gloom.
:05:38. > :05:44.They are potent combat aircraft but this is a different role.
:05:45. > :05:51.Tonight's task is to fly high and fast over the killing fields below.
:05:52. > :05:54.No bombs or bullets. Instead, the combat fighters
:05:55. > :05:59.carry state-of-the-art infrared surveillance equipment.
:06:00. > :06:03.They are the eyes and ears of the wider operation.
:06:04. > :06:05.This is critical to relieve the humanitarian issues
:06:06. > :06:07.on the ground in Iraq. There is a connection.
:06:08. > :06:10.You know that what you are doing is vital work.
:06:11. > :06:13.Very much so. This is the first time
:06:14. > :06:16.in quite a while that we have had that feeling very deep down.
:06:17. > :06:19.We're very happy to be here, and we see it as a critical part
:06:20. > :06:23.of helping the Iraqi people to alleviate themselves from the issues
:06:24. > :06:25.that they have currently. All of this is about gathering
:06:26. > :06:33.intelligence, getting the most accurate picture possible of exactly
:06:34. > :06:37.what's happening down on the ground. All of it could be vital
:06:38. > :06:41.in planning whatever comes next. For now, the operation to deliver
:06:42. > :06:45.aid is on pause, but it could resume at any time.
:06:46. > :06:47.And so it is still crucial to plot the ongoing advance of the
:06:48. > :06:53.Islamic State, and those fleeing the fighting.
:06:54. > :06:58.Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, with the RAF in the skies over Iraq.
:06:59. > :07:10.Bridget Kendall joins me now. Bridget, how significant is the
:07:11. > :07:15.announcement by the government about arming the curves? This idea about
:07:16. > :07:17.the West directly harming the Kurds is an important step, because up
:07:18. > :07:22.until now they have been reluctant to give weapons to the Kurds. This
:07:23. > :07:26.is a part of Iraq and not an independent state. The West was
:07:27. > :07:29.worried it would send a signal that they should become a sovereign
:07:30. > :07:34.nation, which could further weaken Iraq, which already looks as though
:07:35. > :07:39.it is about a fragment in the current crisis. But now there is a
:07:40. > :07:42.more immediate crisis, which is this hardline Sunni advance, calling
:07:43. > :07:47.themselves the Islamic State, making their way, pushing into Kurdistan,
:07:48. > :07:50.and the danger as they could sweep it all away and a bloodbath would
:07:51. > :07:54.insular and they would be nearer their aim to take over Iraq. The
:07:55. > :07:58.Kurds need weapons, as we heard, so the West is now going to help them
:07:59. > :08:02.get them. But there is another important change this week. In
:08:03. > :08:05.Baghdad, the central Iraqi government looks as though it is
:08:06. > :08:10.going to get a new prime minister. The old Primus to, Nouri al-Maliki,
:08:11. > :08:13.was seen as part of the problem. The alienating the Kurds and cause
:08:14. > :08:19.rebellion among the Sunnis. He has agreed to go and there will be a new
:08:20. > :08:22.prime minister. He has a tall order to unify the country but if they can
:08:23. > :08:23.do that they might be able to take on the militants.
:08:24. > :08:26.Bridget Kendall joins me now. And we'll have more
:08:27. > :08:29.on the conflict in Iraq and how British men are going to
:08:30. > :08:32.join it later in the programme. For the first time, the Metropolitan
:08:33. > :08:34.Police has confirmed the identity of two undercover officers both accused
:08:35. > :08:37.of deceiving women by having relationships with them, without
:08:38. > :08:40.disclosing their true identities. The Met, which is being sued
:08:41. > :08:42.by the women, denies authorising the relationships, and claims they
:08:43. > :08:52.were based on genuine feelings. Matt Prodger reports.
:08:53. > :09:02.Jim Boyling. On the outside, a climate campaigner of the 1990s. On
:09:03. > :09:06.the inside, a police intelligence officer. And Bob Lambert -- Bob
:09:07. > :09:10.Lambert. Animal rights activist friends, but to Scotland Yard, a
:09:11. > :09:13.trusted spy master. Between them they are alleged to have deceived
:09:14. > :09:18.seven women into sexual relationships and fathered three
:09:19. > :09:24.children as a result. It was abusive to people, damaging. Decades later,
:09:25. > :09:27.activists exposed Bob Lambert as a member of the undercover Special
:09:28. > :09:32.Demonstration Squad. Here, they challenged the now retired officer
:09:33. > :09:36.in the street. He had infiltrated a group called London Greenpeace and
:09:37. > :09:45.helped to write a leaflet denouncing the McDonald's fast food chain. It
:09:46. > :09:47.became the heart of a notorious court case. The Met has now been
:09:48. > :09:50.forced to formally identify Bob Lambert and Jim Boyling. Of the
:09:51. > :09:54.claim that they cynically abused the trust of the women, the force says
:09:55. > :09:58.the relationships occurred because of mutual attraction and genuine
:09:59. > :10:01.personal feelings, and it has denied that intimate and sexual
:10:02. > :10:06.relationships were started as a deliberate tactic. There was nothing
:10:07. > :10:11.genuine about it. The entire relationship was based on a web of
:10:12. > :10:16.lies. They had all the power. That is not love, it is abuse. Helen
:10:17. > :10:20.Steel is one of ten women suing the police over the activities of
:10:21. > :10:23.undercover agents. She says the officer in this picture folder into
:10:24. > :10:29.a two-year relationship that left her scarred. Eventually I found out
:10:30. > :10:35.he had used the identity of a child who had died when they were eight.
:10:36. > :10:37.My world fell apart. This is part of a wider controversy into how the
:10:38. > :10:42.police have used undercover officers, and for what purposes. Bit
:10:43. > :10:45.by bit, through a series of enquiries, investigations and court
:10:46. > :10:49.cases, the truth is beginning to emerge. Matt Prodger, BBC News,
:10:50. > :10:53.Scotland Yard. Matt Prodger reports.
:10:54. > :10:55.The Prime Minister says he's gravely concerned about reports of armoured
:10:56. > :10:57.personnel carriers crossing the border from Russia into Ukraine.
:10:58. > :11:00.A separate convoy, which Moscow claims is purely
:11:01. > :11:03.humanitarian, is still waiting to enter eastern Ukraine,
:11:04. > :11:09.even though a deal was reached to allow the contents to be inspected.
:11:10. > :11:11.Police in South Yorkshire say more people have come forward with
:11:12. > :11:14.information, following their search of Sir Cliff Richard's
:11:15. > :11:19.flat yesterday in connection with an investigation into
:11:20. > :11:22.an allegation of sexual assault. The veteran singer strongly
:11:23. > :11:24.denies the claim. Let's speak to our correspondent
:11:25. > :11:29.Dan Johnson who's outside police headquarters now.
:11:30. > :11:39.What more can you tell us? Well, officers have emphasised that this
:11:40. > :11:43.investigation is still in the early stages. After that five-hour search
:11:44. > :11:46.of Cliff Richards property in Berkshire, it is understood a number
:11:47. > :11:51.of items were recovered and they are being examined by detectives. South
:11:52. > :11:53.Yorkshire Police have also said a number of people have come forward
:11:54. > :11:57.to provide information since the search yesterday, although it is not
:11:58. > :12:00.clear who those people are and whether the information relates to
:12:01. > :12:05.the allegation which sparked this investigation or not. But officers
:12:06. > :12:11.will now contact those people and speak to them. There has been
:12:12. > :12:15.nothing more said by Cliff Richard himself today. We understand he is
:12:16. > :12:19.still in Portugal. There has been some activity today at the property
:12:20. > :12:24.he owns in the Algarve. Lots of people coming and going, but no sign
:12:25. > :12:28.of Sir Cliff himself. There was a blue car seen going in, which it is
:12:29. > :12:32.understood he uses, but no sign of him and we do not know if he is
:12:33. > :12:38.still staying there. He did issue a strong denial of these allegations
:12:39. > :12:40.yesterday. We seem to have lost Dan Johnson.
:12:41. > :12:44.headquarters now. Shrien Dewani, the British man
:12:45. > :12:47.accused of murdering his wife while on honeymoon, has been found
:12:48. > :12:50.fit to stand trial in South Africa by a panel of psychiatric experts.
:12:51. > :12:53.The 34-year-old Bristol businessman is accused of ordering the murder
:12:54. > :12:56.of his 28-year-old wife Anni, who was shot in Cape Town in 2010.
:12:57. > :13:01.Mr Dewani, who denies murder, was extradited from Britain in April.
:13:02. > :13:05.The UK's economy performed better than that of any other major economy
:13:06. > :13:07.in the year to the end of June. The Office of National Statistics
:13:08. > :13:11.revised up its growth figures for the second quarter
:13:12. > :13:14.of last year to 3.2%. The figures confirmed Britain has
:13:15. > :13:18.finally climbed out of its longest downturn since the war,
:13:19. > :13:26.with GDP, the value of everything produced in the economy, higher than
:13:27. > :13:29.its pre-recession peak of 2008. The World Health Organisation says
:13:30. > :13:32.the scale of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa could be vastly
:13:33. > :13:34.underestimated. It says extraordinary measures are
:13:35. > :13:42.needed to tackle the epidemic. Branwen Jeffreys is here with
:13:43. > :13:46.more details for us now. The Ebola outbreak is spreading fear
:13:47. > :13:53.and death across west Africa. More than 1900 cases have been confirmed.
:13:54. > :13:59.And the incurable viral infection And the incurable viral infection
:14:00. > :14:03.has led to more than 1000 deaths. The governments of Guinea, Sierra
:14:04. > :14:05.Leone, Liberia and Nigeria can't manage on their own. In many areas
:14:06. > :14:20.desperate measures are being taken To contain the disease.
:14:21. > :14:25.Tearing down makeshift shanty homes on the edge of Guinea's capital.
:14:26. > :14:30.Security forces ripped shelters apart, believing this slum could
:14:31. > :14:38.harbour the virus. So little time to salvage what they can. This man says
:14:39. > :14:46.he would rather risk Ebola than be moved. And as the fear has
:14:47. > :14:50.increased, so to the numbers seeking help at medical centres, increasing
:14:51. > :14:56.international concern that there may be many more at risk. We have seen,
:14:57. > :15:00.with the opening of new treatment centres, many more Ebola patients
:15:01. > :15:04.coming forward. And so this has given rise to the belief that there
:15:05. > :15:11.are probably a lot of patience out there that we haven't traced or
:15:12. > :15:15.contacted yet. Behind these checkpoints in Liberia, almost 1
:15:16. > :15:19.million people are in quarantine. Aid workers who have visited
:15:20. > :15:24.affected areas say getting health messages out is more important than
:15:25. > :15:29.Draconian measures. I really have the feeling that it is like a
:15:30. > :15:37.wartime, in terms of fear, general fear, all over where you are. Nobody
:15:38. > :15:40.understanding what is going on. Some supplies of an experimental medicine
:15:41. > :15:52.have arrived in Liberia. But there is very little and no one thinks
:15:53. > :15:57.they can limit the outbreak. Officials think it could take six
:15:58. > :15:59.months to contain the virus. Efforts to trace and test all of those at
:16:00. > :16:07.risk are increased. Our top story this evening:
:16:08. > :16:10.Britain says it's prepared to send weapons to the Kurds to help
:16:11. > :16:14.the battle against Islamic State in Iraq.
:16:15. > :16:16.Still to come: Tony Pulis becomes the first Premier
:16:17. > :16:23.League managerial casualty of the season before a ball is kicked.
:16:24. > :16:27.We have a special report on women refugees fleeing East Africa and
:16:28. > :16:30.hoping to arrive in the capital. A hospital apologies after
:16:31. > :16:43.a patient is given a wrong diagnosis for cancer and Alzheimer?s based
:16:44. > :16:47.on her dead husband's records. Now, as we've been reporting, the
:16:48. > :16:50.threat from Islamic State fighters is clear to see in the ongoing
:16:51. > :16:53.crisis in both Iraq and Syria. Despite reports
:16:54. > :16:57.of atrocities that include beheadings and mass killings,
:16:58. > :17:00.which have prompted worldwide revulsion, the government says that
:17:01. > :17:05.more than 400 men and women from Britain have gone to join them.
:17:06. > :17:07.So far this year there have been 69 Syria-related arrests
:17:08. > :17:11.in this country, and there are worries that there could be more
:17:12. > :17:15.if British fighters start returning in numbers from the region.
:17:16. > :17:18.The BBC has spoken to one British Muslim who says he is willing to
:17:19. > :17:24.join Islamic State fighters. He believes it's his religious duty,
:17:25. > :17:27.as Ed Thomas reports. Inside Iraq and Syria there has
:17:28. > :17:31.been a call for British Muslims to leave their homes and fight jihad.
:17:32. > :17:38.The government says hundreds have. Many more are listening.
:17:39. > :17:41.This is a man we are calling Ahmed. We do not know his real identity.
:17:42. > :17:44.He only agreed to speak with his face covered and
:17:45. > :17:48.if we changed his voice. God has commanded for
:17:49. > :17:50.the Muslims to go and fight jihad. It is worth dying for?
:17:51. > :17:52.Yes. This is the biggest thing
:17:53. > :17:55.for a Muslim. To die as a martyr is the promise
:17:56. > :17:58.of paradise. The highest paradise.
:17:59. > :18:01.It is an extreme belief that offends many.
:18:02. > :18:05.In Iraq and Syria Islamic State fighters are accused
:18:06. > :18:08.of appalling brutality and terror. Millions have been forced
:18:09. > :18:12.from their homes and the group is illegal in this country.
:18:13. > :18:16.You have a choice. You do not need to go.
:18:17. > :18:24.I have a choice but Islamically this is an obligation.
:18:25. > :18:30.What motivates people like Ahmed? Many believe answers are found
:18:31. > :18:34.on the internet. This man describes himself
:18:35. > :18:37.as a student of Sheikh Omar Bakri, a radical Islamist preacher banned
:18:38. > :18:39.from the UK. He openly supports Islamic State
:18:40. > :18:44.in Iraq and Syria and its extreme messages.
:18:45. > :18:49.If Muslims in Britain go there they will be part of a sectarian war
:18:50. > :18:51.and the chances are they will die. For them it is a case of either
:18:52. > :18:54.martyrdom or victory. Can you see how this
:18:55. > :18:57.disturbs people? It is disturbing if you're not
:18:58. > :19:00.from that camp. Muslims here in Birmingham are
:19:01. > :19:05.totally against that view and make their own beliefs clear.
:19:06. > :19:10.Our message is for all young people that there is no jihad.
:19:11. > :19:15.This imam is one of hundreds to speak out against jihad.
:19:16. > :19:22.Listening to his words, two young British Muslims.
:19:23. > :19:23.Is he right to go to Iraq or Syria to fight?
:19:24. > :19:26.No. They believe
:19:27. > :19:29.their views represent the majority. It hurts my feelings as a Muslim to
:19:30. > :19:34.see these people doing that and thinking it is justifiable.
:19:35. > :19:37.I do not think any religion would be proud if there was radical people
:19:38. > :19:40.like that hijacking the name of their religion.
:19:41. > :19:44.Hundreds of imams told young British Muslims not to go.
:19:45. > :19:47.Did you listen to them? No, because these imams are not
:19:48. > :19:50.showing the Islamic viewpoint. They are just saying what
:19:51. > :19:55.the government wants them to say. Do you have any intention
:19:56. > :19:56.of coming back from Syria or Iraq? No.
:19:57. > :20:00.Not at all. People in this country perceive
:20:01. > :20:03.jihad as people coming back here and bombing train stations and airports
:20:04. > :20:08.and killing innocent people. When I go, I will never come
:20:09. > :20:13.back to this country of again. We do not know when or if our Ahmed
:20:14. > :20:16.will leave but we do know security services are watching to make sure
:20:17. > :20:26.British jihadis do not bring their fight home.
:20:27. > :20:28.The drugs watchdog for the NHS in England is being criticised
:20:29. > :20:30.for rejecting a treatment for men with prostate cancer.
:20:31. > :20:33.Abiraterone is available after chemotherapy, but
:20:34. > :20:36.the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says it's too
:20:37. > :20:41.expensive to be prescribed earlier. Our health correspondent
:20:42. > :20:43.Dominic Hughes reports. For Mike, a prostate cancer
:20:44. > :20:47.diagnosis six years ago was a terrible shock but the drug
:20:48. > :20:52.Abiraterone has kept him healthy, delayed chemotherapy and kept him
:20:53. > :20:57.well enough to continue working. Life has not gone dramatically down.
:20:58. > :21:00.I have been able to keep things stable and enjoy family life and
:21:01. > :21:06.working life, to carry on to a major degree to what I have done before.
:21:07. > :21:10.This drug is already prescribed to some men as an end of life treatment
:21:11. > :21:15.when they are dying from prostate cancer, but around 3000 men a year
:21:16. > :21:18.have access to Abiraterone before chemotherapy treatment through the
:21:19. > :21:23.Cancer Drugs Fund, an option only available in England.
:21:24. > :21:26.As it did last week with the breast cancer drug Kadcyla, the NHS
:21:27. > :21:31.watchdog NICE says this treatment, too, fails to offer value for money.
:21:32. > :21:36.The price the company is asking for simply doesn't match the
:21:37. > :21:40.additional benefit that it brings. This is a general problem for NICE
:21:41. > :21:44.at the moment with new cancer treatments but the drugs industry
:21:45. > :21:48.has the given ability to fix it. Every year laboratories like this
:21:49. > :21:53.one diagnose around 40,000 cases of prostate cancer across the UK.
:21:54. > :21:55.It is the most common form of the disease in men.
:21:56. > :21:59.As testing has improved the disease is being spotted quicker
:22:00. > :22:03.so survival rates have soared in recent decades but still patient
:22:04. > :22:09.groups say men deserve to get access to the best possible treatments.
:22:10. > :22:12.This decision is an absolute fiasco. We have NICE and the drug company
:22:13. > :22:17.Janssen blaming each other for why it hasn't been supported
:22:18. > :22:19.and given positive approval. They are all saying
:22:20. > :22:23.they are disappointed. Disappointed is not good enough.
:22:24. > :22:27.These are difficult judgements. Balancing the gift of precious time
:22:28. > :22:40.with families for the terminally ill against an NHS drugs bill that could
:22:41. > :22:42.soar out of control. The last commercial shipbuilder
:22:43. > :22:44.on the River Clyde has gone into administration with a loss
:22:45. > :22:47.of 70 jobs. Ferguson's shipyard in Port Glasgow
:22:48. > :22:48.was founded in 1902, but has recently struggled to
:22:49. > :22:51.secure investment. The Scottish Government is to work
:22:52. > :22:56.with the administrators to investigate
:22:57. > :22:59.new opportunities for the shipyard. The new Premier League season hasn't
:23:00. > :23:04.even started yet and already there's been a managerial casualty.
:23:05. > :23:09.Tony Pulis left Crystal Palace last night in an apparent row
:23:10. > :23:13.over transfer spending. And it's unlikely that he'll be
:23:14. > :23:18.the only manager not to make it to the final day of the season.
:23:19. > :23:25.Feisty, straight talking and adored by the fans, the Palace faithful
:23:26. > :23:29.have been left reeling after Tony Pulis run for the exit before a ball
:23:30. > :23:34.was kicked. It is fair to say the manager he was supposed to face
:23:35. > :23:37.tomorrow did not see this coming. It was a complete surprise to me. He
:23:38. > :23:47.has done a remarkable job last season. He made a miracle. That
:23:48. > :23:51.managerial medical was taking Palace from second bottom in the league and
:23:52. > :23:56.a safe bet for relegation in November two and 11 place finish in
:23:57. > :24:02.May. Voted manager of the season, it is easy to see why fans are upset. I
:24:03. > :24:09.got a sick feeling in the bottom of my stomach. Everyone had written us
:24:10. > :24:14.off. Surely a guy like that deserves financial backing. While the timing
:24:15. > :24:19.came as a shock, the fact he left his job did not. Most Premier League
:24:20. > :24:23.managers at some point see the clouds begin to gather. For the last
:24:24. > :24:31.eight season at least ten managers have left their jobs. The high end
:24:32. > :24:35.the last decade came in the 2007-2008 season when 40 managers
:24:36. > :24:39.were sacked or left their clubs. Last season came close with 13
:24:40. > :24:45.departures. The man left to pick up the pieces believes it is still a
:24:46. > :24:50.dream job. It is the best league in the world with some of the best
:24:51. > :24:56.players. It is a challenge that a lot of people would love to do.
:24:57. > :24:58.Football has lost one of its biggest characters but with the managerial
:24:59. > :25:04.merry-go-round just getting started Tony Pulis' spell off the carousel
:25:05. > :25:08.is likely only to be temporary. the final day of the season.
:25:09. > :25:15.Cricket, and England got off to a great start in the fifth
:25:16. > :25:21.Test against India at the Oval. At one stage the visitors were
:25:22. > :25:28.reduced to 90-9 and were eventually bowled out for 148.
:25:29. > :25:40.August 15 is a day of Indian pride. Friday morning they resisted. This
:25:41. > :25:44.is the fourth ball of the day. A delivery he wanted to leave. He
:25:45. > :25:51.looked at his bat as if they had only just met. From the other end,
:25:52. > :26:02.Stuart Broad. He looked as if he had just gone 12 round. This is a
:26:03. > :26:11.technical knockout. Chris Jordan. LBW? Yes, said the umpire. Jordan
:26:12. > :26:23.got a catch, gratefully accepted. Chris Woakes. Joel Root caught that.
:26:24. > :26:42.36-5. England do not drop catches any more. Not often. Chris Woakes
:26:43. > :26:56.got rid of Ashwin. While England mist a chance to get rid of Sharma,
:26:57. > :27:13.the total went past 100. A captain's innings for India.
:27:14. > :27:20.We have a decent amount of dry and great weather. A few heavy showers
:27:21. > :27:24.across central and eastern England which will gradually fade. A few
:27:25. > :27:31.showers into Northern Ireland later but for many of us clear spells. The
:27:32. > :27:42.temperatures start to drop. We are looking at single digits. A lot more
:27:43. > :27:45.cloud across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A spell of rain pushing
:27:46. > :27:50.southward into the far north-west of England. Cloud will increase into
:27:51. > :27:56.the afternoon. Most will stay dry. Looking good for the Test at the
:27:57. > :28:01.Oval. Some good sunny spells in amongst the cloudy moments. Out of
:28:02. > :28:13.the breeze it should not feel too bad. Into north-west England, much
:28:14. > :28:15.more cloud later. Rain across southern Scotland and Northern
:28:16. > :28:19.Ireland. Brightening up towards the far north that we could see
:28:20. > :28:23.temperatures of 18 or 19 in Aberdeenshire. The rain will pick up
:28:24. > :28:31.across northern England as this weather front pushes southwards. A
:28:32. > :28:36.few splashes of rain here and there and clearing to a bright afternoon.
:28:37. > :28:41.Sunshine elsewhere but is gathering of heavy showers and a blustery wind
:28:42. > :28:49.developing and that will last into next week. Expect the temperatures
:28:50. > :28:51.to be lower than average. Make sure you pack your jumpers if you are
:28:52. > :28:55.going away.