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Shock and outrage at a video showing the beheading of an | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
American journalist by an Islamist extremist who may be British. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
James Foley spent many years reporting from war zones. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
He was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. David Cameron cut short his holiday | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
to hold emergency meetings. This is deeply shocking but we know | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
that far too many British citizens have travelled to Iraq and travelled | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
to Syria to take part in extremism and violence. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
We'll be looking at the threat from British jihadis | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
as police say they are examining the contents of the video. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Also tonight: Funerals for the wife and child of a | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
Hamas leader killed in an error strike. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Also tonight: A rise in the number of deaths | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
from blood-poisoning could be due to bacteria becoming resistant to | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
antibiotics, warn doctors. A European champion at just 14. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Para-athlete Maria Lyle wins on her debut in Swansea. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Tonight on BBC London: Safety on the Thames 25 years on. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Remembering those who died in the Marchioness disaster. | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Unsatisfactory care. The health watchdog criticises | :01:19. | :01:39. | |
Northwick Park Hospital. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
BBC News at Six. Western countries have expressed | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
shock and disgust at a video showing the beheading | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
of an American journalist by an extremist from the Islamic State. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
James Foley, 40, had been missing since he was | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
abducted in Syria two years ago. The killing, | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
which was filmed and posted online, appears to have been carried out | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
by a man with a British accent. It's led David Cameron to break | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
off his holiday to hold emergency meetings on the situation. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
This report now is from our International Correspondent | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Ian Pannell in Washington. It does not show the full video, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
but you may find some images from it distressing. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
He was a son, a brother and a reporter. James Foley had worked in | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
Iraq and Afghanistan. A friend said he was adventurous, kind and tough. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
He eventually turned his lanes to the crisis in Syria, a country that | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
has taken the lives of more journalists than any other in the | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
last to my ears. In late 2012 he was kidnapped by militants. -- two | :02:47. | :03:01. | |
years. Last night the Islamic State released a video appearing to show | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
his beheading. The film is addressed to President Obama with the threat | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
that a second American captive will be killed if US air strikes | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
continue. Iraqi and Kurdish troops are taking back some territory but | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
the group formerly known as Isis is still advancing across Syria. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
American intelligence officials still advancing across Syria. | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
American intelligence have said they have verified this video. His life | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
stands in stark contrast to his colours. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
have verified this video. His life stands Let us be clear. They have | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent unarmed civilians | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
in cowardly acts of violence. James Foley, seen here working, is one of | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
tens of thousands of people to have died at the hands of militants, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
rebels and government forces. He was aware of the dangers, having been | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
held captive in Libya. No matter what romantic ideal you have, no | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
matter what ethic you think you have, it is never worth that. In a | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
statement, his mother said... Friends of James Foley said they can | :04:26. | :04:47. | |
only imagine what it must have been like for him. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Friends of James Foley said they can only imagine He was a lovely guy, a | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
professional, he knew what he wanted and how to get it. He was not a | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
chance, he was very professional. He went to Syria to draw the world's | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
attention to a tragedy that has been largely ignored. President Obama | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
tried to keep America out of this conflict. That no longer tenable as | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
US officials say fighter jets have conducted more air strikes. This is | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
the Islamic State's first attack against America, it will not be the | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
last. We have just heard from the family of James Foley. I pray that | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
it will challenge our government to look deeply within and find a way to | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
protect courageous Americans, humanitarian workers, journalists | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
who dared to go where they now there is a chance they can be killed or | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
captured. David Cameron has described | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
the murder of James Foley as "shocking and depraved". | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
He returned to Downing Street to hold meetings with the | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
Foreign Secretary and senior intelligence officials. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
The Metropolitan Police have said they're investigating | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
the contents of the video and have warned the public that viewing, | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
downloading or disseminating it might constitute an offence. | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
The crisis in Iraq has come closer to home. | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
The beheading of an American by a man believed to be British brought | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
the Prime Minister back to Downing Street, shortening his holiday to | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
lead the government's response. Ministers and officials from | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
across Whitehall met in Number 10 and in the last few minutes | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
David Cameron gave his reaction. It is an act of murder and murder | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
without any justification. We have not identified | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
the individual responsible on the video but from what we have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
seen it looks increasingly likely that it is a British citizen. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
What we must do is redouble our efforts to stop people going, | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
to take away the passports of those contemplating travel, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
to arrest and prosecute those taking part | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
in extremism and to do everything we can to keep people safe. | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
We have brothers from Cambodia, UK. British jihadists in Syria. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
The government says around 400 British citizens have left | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
the UK to fight for Islamic State. One think tank says | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
the government must do more. It is increasing. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
We know that a significant number of British Muslims are fighting | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
and this government does not have a strategy to combat nonviolent | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
extremism and prevent them from becoming violent in the first place. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
This murder confirms that the security services and ministers have | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
known for many months, the conflict in Syria and Iraq are magnets to | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
some radicalised British Muslims. The questions now begin. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Did the intelligence services know about this man? | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
How can the flow of British jihadists be stopped and | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
what more can Britain do to tackle Islamic State forces in Iraq? | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
There is work that needs to be done with communities across the | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
United Kingdom to support families and parents in trying to stop the | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
recruitment of youngsters first of all to a radical ideology here in | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the UK or travelling to be trained by Isis or other jihadi forces. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
In Iraq RAF planes are already being used in the surveillance | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
of Islamic State forces. The UK is transporting arms | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
from other countries to Kurdish fighters. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
The UK might decide to carry out air strikes on Islamic State forces. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The United States already is. The government has ruled out putting | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
British troops on the ground in Iraq. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
UK soldiers might help train the country's army. | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
One of the problems of the Syria and now the Iraq crisis is | :09:06. | :09:27. | |
this is a war for the soul of With me now is our security | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
correspondent Frank Gardner. The police are trying to identify | :09:30. | :09:43. | |
the man behind this killing. It is also the FBI. He is the subject of | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
an intensive trawl through all the databases, the record they have, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
almost certainly he will be someone they know about, he will have an | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
assumed name, he probably left the UK in the last few years. The accent | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
this man has seems to be from London or the south east so he is one of | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
around 500 estimated Britons who have gone to Syria, most of them | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
joining Isis. What can be done? It is very difficult because where they | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
can they take away that passports, but this is easy for people to jump | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
on a flight to Turkey and get across the border. This has been described | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
as a war crime. That is probably a lot more pressure on the security | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
services than there has been on any other one. Our political editor is | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
in Downing Street. It does not sound as if this is going to lead to any | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
change in policy. He made it clear to me that he was not unveiling a | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
change in foreign policy or to unveil a new strategy designed to | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
combat extremism at home and the exporting of British jihad -- | :11:02. | :11:13. | |
jihadis but I am told that he put one question, are there any other | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
powers you need? For now apparently the answer is no. The government had | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
promised to tighten up rules to make it possible to take passports away | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
from these people wanting to fight abroad and will take another look at | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
whether those powers will be adequate. The rhetoric has changed. | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
If you believe Iraq was in effect in Britain's past, the Prime Minister | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
is talking about deploying every power, including military, but not | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
combat, to take the fight to those who call themselves the Islamic | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
State. What makes this different from all of the acts we have seen is | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
a British man has beheaded an American citizen, a journalist who | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
tried to highlight the barbarity of what was happening in the Middle | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
East. correspondent Frank Gardner. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Now the rest of today's news. Doctors specialising | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
in intensive care are warning that the growing resistance | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
of bacteria to antibiotics could be leading to a rise in the number | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
of people who die from sepsis, the result of blood poisoning. | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
37,000 people in the UK die each year | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
from sepsis and doctors say things could get much worse without new | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
treatments and better prevention. Our Health Editor Hugh Pym reports. | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
Julie knows too well the reality of sepsis. What she thought was flu | :12:40. | :12:51. | |
turned into a nightmare. She was found to have pneumonia and sepsis | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
and nearly died. They took me up to intensive care and I was in the | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
States before cardiac arrest. -- the state before. When I got to hospital | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
the sepsis was their biggest concern. Heavy doses of antibiotics | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
helped Julie recover from sepsis, the severe condition which follows | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
blood poisoning. Some are not so lucky. There has been a warning from | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
a leading expert that because of increasing resistance to antibiotics | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
treating sepsis patients in intensive care is becoming more | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
difficult. For the first time in recent months I have seen in my own | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
intensive care unit patients coming along who have infections which are | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
pretty much resistant to all of the antibiotics. Sepsis claims the lives | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
of nearly 30 is thousand people a year in the UK, that is above the | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
number of lung cancer deaths, just over 35,000, and more than twice the | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
number of people dying from bowel cancer, nearly 16,000. Initiatives | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
like this have been launched to ensure better recording of and | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
monitoring of patient data, like this one at Nottingham University | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
Hospital. NHS chiefs act knowledge sepsis is a major challenge. We know | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
we can save many lives if we get this right and there are many | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
preventable deaths due to sepsis every year and our top priority has | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
to be to try to save those lives we can save and have as big and might | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
impact as we can on those preventable deaths. When Julie went | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
to her GP her symptoms, including high-temperature, were not properly | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
identified. She wants greater awareness amongst doctors and | :14:51. | :14:51. | |
patients of the dangers of sepsis. A second man has been arrested | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
in connection with the death of an immigrant found in a shipping | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
container at Tilbury Docks. Essex Police have also released | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
pictures of the container, in which the Afghan | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
and 34 other immigrants were found. The suspect, aged 33 and | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
from Londonderry, will be questioned by detectives later on suspicion | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
of manslaughter and facilitating illegal entry in to the UK. | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Hamas, the Islamist group which runs Gaza, says the wife and child | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
of its military commander have been killed in an Israeli air strike. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
There have been further air strikes today, after Israel accused | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
the Palestinians of more rocket-fire leading to the | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
collapse of a cease-fire yesterday. Talks in Egypt aimed at achieving | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
a long-term truce also broke down yesterday, once the violence | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
resumed. Our correspondent Yolande Knell reports. | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
A huge turnout for the funeral of the wife and infant son of the top | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
Hamas military leader. Many carried the green flags of his Islamic | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
group. This was a show of support and defiance. Earlier, medics | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
directed bulldozers, as Hamas policeman kept watch at the sight of | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Israel's deadly attack. This pile of dusty rubble is all that is left of | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
a house where relatives of the head of the Hamas military wing, Mohammed | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
Deif, used to live. It was hit by Israeli air strikes overnight. Hamas | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
says this was an assassination attempt. Today, Palestinian | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
militants fired more rockets into southern Israel. The iron Dome | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
defence system was back in action. But still, some properties were | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
damaged. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it had hit dozens of | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
sites across Gaza, used to launch and store missiles. Hardliners in | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the Israeli cabinet now want a wider operation against Hamas. We have two | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
fight it. It takes patience. The Second World War went on to six | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
years. We have to persevere. We have to beat this group of evil | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
terrorists. About 2000 Israeli reserve soldiers, who had been sent | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
home, are being recalled. All of this has thrown Egypt's efforts to | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
broker a longer term cease-fire deal into jeopardy. The refusal of the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Israelis to give us, the Palestinians, their rights and their | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
freedom and open the borders and lift the siege and implement the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
agreements will make the Palestinians continue to stand in | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
front of the Israelis and defend their people. In Gaza, tens of | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
thousands have been left homeless, after the recent fighting. Some are | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
camping out in these hospital grounds. They face greater | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
uncertainty, with the renewed violence. | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
Our top story this evening. Shock and outrage at | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
a video showing the beheading of an American journalist by an Islamist | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
extremist - who may be British. And still to come... | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
The para-athlete wonder-kid now winning gold - | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
and she's still just 14. Later on BBC London. | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
Detectives appeal for a key witness, after | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
a man was left in a coma following a brutal attack in Wood Green. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
And, music on the Meridian - four nights of world-class concerts | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
in Greenwich. With the referendum on Scottish | :18:30. | :18:41. | |
independence less than a month away, a major new poll suggests a majority | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
of people in England support the idea of an English Parliament. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
The survey, conducted by Edinburgh and Cardiff Universities, found 54% | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
wanted powers devolved from Westminster, to a new parliament | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
dealing only with English matters. With the Scottish Parliament likely | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
to get greater powers whichever way the referendum goes, only 18% of | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
English adults surveyed thought the status quo was best for England. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
As part of the BBC's Who Do We Think We Are project, our home editor | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Mark Easton asks if Scotland has exposed underlying issues in England | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
about the state of the union. In the middle of Middle England, | :19:15. | :19:26. | |
Tamworth in Staffordshire, is a pub named St George. But it has not | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
always been called that. Until a few years ago, it was the Scotsman. The | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
new name reflects the regulars' Patrick is but also perhaps a | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
growing sense that compared with Scotland, with free prescriptions | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
and university tuition, England is getting a raw deal. I do it -- don't | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
think England get a fair deal but I think should Scotland should stay. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
We'll work hard, why should they get more money when we are doing the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
same thing? A major survey of English attitudes today finds that | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
61% of those who expressed a view thought Scotland was getting more | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
than its fair share of public spending. 62% thought it was wrong | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
that Scottish MPs can vote on laws that apply only to England. Just up | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
the road from Tamworth, the ancient city of Lichfield. The cathedral | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
commemorates the Anglo-Saxon kings of Murcia. This was once a major | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
power in the heart of old England. Some say Lichfield should be so once | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
again, as the seat of an English parliament. We are campaigning for a | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
parliament for England. The English Democrats may be a small party but | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
their campaign for England to have its own lawmaking body, to match the | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Scottish Parliament and the assemblies in Wales and Northern | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Ireland appears to have struck a chord. People in England are fed up | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
with the current arrangement. They are becoming more conscious of the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
unfair treatment of England. Today's survey suggests a majority, | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
54% of people in England, think it is time England had its own | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
parliament, four times as many as disagreed with the idea. What comes | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
through in this survey is that while people are reluctant to throw away | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
centuries of political tradition, there is a clear majority who think | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the current arrangement is unfair. Whatever happens in the referendum, | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
it is likely there will be demands the change south of the border. At | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
the same time as Scotland are looking at themselves, so are the | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
English and thinking that they should show the English and S. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
England should have their own voice and their own opinions are based on | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
us. Anything related to England should be voted for by the English | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
MPs. It is a good idea but the trouble is, we don't want any more | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
politicians. We want to cut down on them! Today's survey finds little | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
appetite for an independent England, but the English, it seems, want a | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
good idea but the trouble is, we don't want any more politicians. We | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
want to cut down on them! Today's survey finds little appetite for an | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
independent England, but the English, it seems, want to reject | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
the -- rejig the balance of power. about the state of the union. | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
A new offence of domestic abuse could be created in England | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
and Wales, to protect people who suffer psychological and emotional | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
abuse from their partners. It would effectively extend | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
the law around domestic violence. The Home Secretary is launching | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
a consultation on the issue. But there are questions over how | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
the new law would be enforced. Our home affairs correspondent | :22:33. | :22:33. | |
Matt Prodger reports. Every year, police in England and | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Wales receive 1 million reports of domestic abuse. It is not just | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
violence. In some of its most terrifying forms, it leaves no | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
physical scars at all. Carol, not her real name, says her former | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
partner's bullying destroyed the confident and assertive young woman | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
she once was. He told me that if I was even thinking of leaving with | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
the children, he would have me put away, have me sectioned, were the | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
words he used. He said he knew people who could kill me and they | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
would make it look like an accident. He scared me so much. There are | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
already laws which cover non-violent abuse, like stalking or harassment. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
But the Home Office is suggesting legislation which refers explicitly | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
to domestic abuse within relationships, whether it is violent | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
or non-violent. The minister responsible once the law to give | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
police a better understanding of what is required of them. A report | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
this year found their response to domestic abuse was ineffective. This | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
is going to protect people who are perhaps being abused in a way the | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
public don't understand because they are not physically being attacked. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
If you are in a relationship where your partner is controlling your | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
bank account, where you can't spend money, choose the closing want to | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
wear, you are prevented from seeing your friends or ostracised from your | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
family. -- choose the clothes. It is all abuse. Can't you do anything | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
right? You are useless! This dark police video illustrates the | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
shouting and threats that can characterise non-violent abuse. But | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
some professionals believe it is not a change in the law which is | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
required but a change in police attitudes. If the government are | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
concerned about domestic abuse, then they should really put resources | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
into training police and prosecutors. Next month, every | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
police force in England and Wales will have to prove it has an action | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
plan in place to combat domestic abuse. At its most violent, it | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
claims the lives of two women every week. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Now imagine being a world-record breaking sprinter at just 12. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Well remarkably, two years ago, para-athlete Maria Lyle achieved | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
precisely that. But she wasn't old enough to compete | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
for Britain - until today when, on her debut, | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
she became the European champion. Andy Swiss reports from Swansea. | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
She is the world's fastest at just 14. Maria Lyle, poised for her | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
British debut, the latest landmark in her remarkable story. Born with | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
cerebral palsy, her sporting rise has been as fast as her feet. By 12, | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
she was the world record holder in her class. She would have won gold | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
at the London Paralympics but under the rules, was too young to compete. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
But now, two years later, finally she can run for Great Britain. Her | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
parents, Raymond and Susan, arrived in Swansea for the moment for which | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
they have waited so long. I am quite nervous about it. You know, I | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
probably did not sleep that well last night. But I know she will go | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
out there and give her best. I would say she is beyond her years in terms | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
of her ability to deal with it. I knew that at 14, now, she is ready | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
for this. And indeed she was. The 100 metres is not even her favourite | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
event. The 14-year-old showed the Madeira de of a seasoned veteran, | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
winning by more than a second of an -- showed the majority of the season | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
veteran, winning by more than 1.5 seconds. Next week it is back to | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
school in Dunbar but for now she can celebrate being European champion. I | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
made up because I have been training all summer holidays for it. It is | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
good to hear that the hard work has paid off. It was really good. The | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
home crowd spurred me on. It was a good day for teenage prodigies as | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Erin McBride also won gold at the grand old age of 16. Britain's | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Paralympic prospects are looking faster and younger than ever. | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Erin McBride will be hoping for another good day tomorrow. She picks | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
up her GCSE results. It has been an impressive start to the | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
championships by the British team with seven gold medals so far. They | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
will be expecting plenty more in next few days. | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Here's Alex Deakin. | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
A cold start to today but there was some sunshine over the UK and | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
showers. The cool thing continues tomorrow and we will see more | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
showers and not quite so much sunshine. We have still got some | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
pretty lively showers across eastern England but they are fading fast. We | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
will see more persistent rain trickling across Scotland and into | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
parts of Northern Ireland, with the breeze picking up. With the cloud | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
and rain across northern Britain, it will not be as cold as last night, | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
whereas further south, ten and 11 in towns and cities but in rural areas, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
it could be as low as three or four. A chilly start across the East | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east but a sunny one. | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Elsewhere, more clout and showers, some poor south Wales and south-west | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
England, particularly early. And showers trickling southwards from | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Scotland into northern England. It should cheer up in the afternoon, | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Scotland, with some sunshine. Some heavy showers later and temperatures | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
may not reach the teams. Elsewhere, only 1415 with more clout across | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
northern England as the showers push south into parts of Wales, | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
especially in the afternoon. Not too many showers in southern areas this | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
afternoon and the most of the day, East Anglia and the south-east Ryan | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
Bright but temperatures only 18 or 19. Rain in the south-east scooting | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
through early on Friday and again, northerly winds bringing sunny | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
spells but also a scattering of showers and still meaning the | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
temperatures are below average for the time of year, 15, to maybe as | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
high as 20. That is how we go into the weekend, a cool day on Saturday | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
with sunny spells, not so many showers. The best bet for a dry day | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
this weekend is Sunday. Eight. But sunny for many, turning cloudy in | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
the west later and it looks as though on Monday, we will see | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
increasing amount of cloud and rain pushing across the country. | :29:01. | :29:03. |