Browse content similar to 26/08/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
The appalling sexual abuse suffered by nearly 1,500 children | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
in Rotherham over 16 years. A report finds girls as young | :00:20. | :00:33. | |
as 11 were raped as recently as last year, the local council | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
and police failed to stop it. They were trafficked to other towns | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
and cities in the north of England. They were abducted beaten | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
and intimidated. I think because the police were | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
aware and social services were aware and he knew that and they still | :00:55. | :01:09. | |
didn't stop him it became like a game to him he was untouchable. | :01:10. | :01:23. | |
It's also emerged three earlier reports into the abuse | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
were ignored or suppressed. The head | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
of Rotherham Council has resigned. Also tonight: | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
After after seven weeks of fighting the Palestinian | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
authorities and Israel agree a long-term ceasefire in Gaza. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
The UN 1,400 children sexually exploited in | :01:57. | :02:53. | |
this one town. All of this was in plain sight of the police and the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
council. For more than a decade, young | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
children faced For more than a decade, young | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
children brutality in Rotherham. They werely exploited, raped and | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
beaten and we now know the council both knew. It is hard to describe | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
the appalling nature of the abuse the child victims suffered. Today | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
that failure was revealed in an independent report. It said victims | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
were treated with contempt They were raped by multiple perpetrators. They | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England. They | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
were abducted, beaten and intimidated. There were examples of | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
children being doused with petrol and threatened with being set | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
alight. They were threatened with guns, made to witness brutally | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
violent rains and threatened they would be the next if they told | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
anyone. The report reveals despite the scale of the abuse, victims, | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
young children, many in care, were repeatedly ignored. There are some | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
things that I don't remember, but, you know, there are also things I | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
will never forget for the rest of my life. We have protected this woman's | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
identity. Speaking to the BBC's Panorama programme, she said she was | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
14 when the abuse began. The man who allegedly groomed and raped her has | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
never been arrested. I think because the police were aware, social | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
services were aware and he knew that and they still didn't stop him, I | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
think it encouraged him and it almost became a game. He was | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
untouchable. The report says the abusers were mainly from British | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
Pakistani community. These men were jailed for child sex offences. Today | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
report says there was concern about highlighting their ethnicity. This | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
report says the police wanted to downplay what it called the ethnic | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
dimension. There were more concerned about community cohesion than | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
protecting children. Today the council said sorry but confirmed not | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
one of its employees has been reprimanded. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
There were many young people who ought to have been protected and | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
weren't. I'm deeply sorry. Should you resign and consider your | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
position? The report makes it plain that services have improved and they | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
have improved under my tenure. Can people have confidence under | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Rotherham council, under your watch? I think the report indicates that | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
they can. The report indicates that services have improved | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
significantly. An apology, too, from South Yorkshire police. The force | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
ignored victims and was said to be in denial. I think, importantly, we | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
recognise we have failed. We have let our young people down and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
certainly from the start I want to offer a sincere and unreserved | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
apology for the victims and families we should have done more with. We | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
are told change is here. The council and police now say victims are | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
listened to. Too late, though, for the childhoods, ruined by years of | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
abuse. Fee ownia, as soon as the council leader here -- Fiona, as | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
soon as the council leader here read the report and feelings, he | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
resigned. The report also makes clear that children today are still | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
at risk in Rotherham. Such is the concern that every page of this | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
document has now gone to central Government. So Rotherham's failings | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
are not repeated. Thank you. Our home editor, Mark eson is here. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
In the last few minutes, Downing Street has commented on this saying | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
the failings of local agencies exposed by this is appalling. We | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
know Rotherham is not isolated. Appalling is the word. And once | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
again we are forced to confront an uncomfortable truth. The sexual | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
abuse of children in this country is rife. The Government has had an | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
inquiry after a similar case in Rochdale. The report came back and | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
said the scale and nature of this form of sexual violence has left | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
panel members aghast. Now what appears to have happened, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
in the same way as, after Jimmy Savile, we saw other celebrities | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
being convicted of abusing children, is that local thoshgts after some of | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
these gangs were convicted, looked to see if the same problem was in | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
their area. They looked and they found in Rochdale, in Rotherham, in | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Oxford, in derby and Telford. They found predominantly Pakistani men, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
grooming and abusing young girls. Appalling crimes in which children | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
are left exposed, and the perpetrators are protected. Perhaps | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
protected in a passive way. People not asking the right questions. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Perhaps they were bore quid about race relations, or something, in | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
some case, cover-up too. And I think what has changed is that | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
institutions can no longer ignore this. There will be further | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
inquiries. We will look and we will find. There will be further scandals | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
but hopefully, at the end of it, our children will be safer. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Thank you. In what looks like a breakthrough in | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
the seven-week long conflict in Gaza, Israel and Palestinian | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
officials say they have agreed an open-ended ceasefire T started an | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
hour ago. Israel has also agreed to partially lift its blockade of the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
area to allow into Gaza humanitarian aid and building materials. More | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
than 2000 people, mostly Palestinians, have died in the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
conflict. Let's talk to Quentin Sommerville in Gaza. There have been | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
cease-fires before. They have broken down. What hope for this one? Well, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
they certainly believe this one is different here in Gaza. Thousands of | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
people are in the street. They are celebrating. They are firing their | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
guns into the air and they are celebrating because they believe the | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
blockade, Israel's blockade has at least been partially lifted and that | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
the rebuilding of Gaza - something like 300 thoid people have been | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
displaced by this conflict - 3 under,000. The rebuilding can begin. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
From Israel's point of view, it must no longer feel threatened by rock | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
frets here and certainly since the ceasefire began, we have not seen | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
any going out. You can hear right now celebratory gunfire and | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
fireworks. Israel demands no threat from rockets. This is the 9th | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
ceasefire but they believe here, at least, that this one may way hold. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
OK. Thank you. least, that this one may way hold. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Let's hope so. Electronic cigarettes should be | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
banned in indoor public spaces according to the World Health | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
Organisation. Their health experts have also recommended under-18s, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
shouldn't be allowed to buy e-cigarettes, even though some | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
researchers believe they can help some people give up smoking. | :09:26. | :09:50. | |
is stocking up despite the news. He is wanting to use them to cut down | :09:51. | :10:12. | |
on nicotine. You have not got half of the concoctions in this | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
There are scientists in America, who have been studying, second-hand | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
effects of tobacco smoke, who are raising these issues now, about the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
e-cigarettes. We really can't allow these things to get established | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
before we know what the long-term effects are going to be. You can't | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
light up a cigarette in a pub or bar any more. It was the effect on | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
second-hand smoke on staff that led to the ban. What do customers in | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
this Bristol pub make of the idea of a ban on e-significants? I | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
to the ban. What do customers in this have ap -- e-cigs I have a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
friend who lost both grand fierpts passive smoking T should be banned | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
altogether. Cigarettes, the lot. What we will have eventually, there | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
will be law of drinking in pubs, because it is damaging for children | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
to watch it happening. Wales is already looking at the idea of a | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
ban. Sales of e-cigs to under-18s could be restricted across the UK. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
The row over whether they are good or bad for our health won't finish | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
any time soon. Doctors at the royal free hopted in north London say they | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
have given the experimental drug Z map to a British man they are | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
treating who has Ebola. Will Pooley contracted Ebola while working as a | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
nurse in Sierra Leone. He is being treated in a unit for patients with | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
highly infectious diseases. Doctors say the next few days are crit K It | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
is difficult for us to predict what is going to ha. We want to give him | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
the best-possible chance and care that we can and that's why we used | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the ZMapp. One of the main motivations is we had a long chat | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
with the patient about the option we had of using it and he was very, | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
very keen to go ahead and wanted us to do so. The President of Russia | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
and Ukraine have met in bell aruche for their first face-to-face talks | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
this afternoon. Hours after Ukraine claimed to have detained ten Russian | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
soldiers on its soil, supporting claims that Russia is providing | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
military assist tans to separatist rebels. Officials in Moscow are who | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
wered to have said the soldiers crossed the border by accident. Our | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
correspondent reports from close to the frontline. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Ukrainian tanks were on the move today. The frontline is ten miles | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
from here but it felt much closer. This is the town of Shses text ia. | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
They have grown used to the sound of war here. At the | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
They have grown used to the sound of war here. At local hospital, the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
casualties keep arriving. This man has lost a leg. An artillery shell | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
exploded near her moment. It is Russia she blames, believing Moscow | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
is behind the rebellion in eastern Ukraine. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
"Dear Mr Putin, we are told that fighters and weapons are coming | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
across from Russia, take pity on us because we are choking from grief | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
and in blood. Please take back your men." Today Kiev presented what it | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
said was involvement of Russians in the fighting. It released pictures | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
of a paratrooper that had been captured in Ukraine. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
Russia said the men had crossed over by zevenlt embarrassing for Moscow | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
but it didn't stop the President, Petro Poroshenko shaking hands with | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
Vladimir Putin in M nicks sk. Expectations are low -- in sms | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Minsk. In recent times, forces have made | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
gains against the pro-Russian separatists but militants are | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
digging in and there is no end in sight to the fighting. There was | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Donetsk today. The pro-Russia fighters that controlled the city | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
accused the Ukrainian military of indiscriminate shelling. In one of | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
the city's underground shelters, marina says she wants her old life | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
back. A peaceful life, when children can walk outside, without fear. For | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
now, life in the basement that is the safer option. | :14:50. | :15:01. | |
A report finds police and social services failed to stop | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
"appalling" abuse suffered by hundreds of children in Rotherham. | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
And coming up: On stage again. | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
Can Kate Bush's first gig for 35 years hit the heights? | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Later on BBC London, doctors at the royal free Hospital say they are now | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
using an experimental drug to treat Britain's first Ebola sufferer. And | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
is Hackney getting too pooch? Some locals | :15:33. | :15:33. | |
is Hackney getting too pooch? Some claim generalitification is | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
destroying the community spirit. for 35 years hit the heights? | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
The first postal votes have been sent out today for the Scottish | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
independence referendum on 18th September. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Following last night's debate between the SNP leader, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Alex Salmond, and the head of the Better Together campaign, Alastair | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
Darling, a snap survey suggests Mr Salmond came out on top. | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
But a recent poll indicates support for an independent Scotland stands | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
at 43% versus 57% in favour of remaining within the UK. | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Live now to Aberdeen and our Special Correspondent, Allan Little. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
One of the most hotly contested issues in Scotland independence | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
referendum is that of North Sea oil and gas. Here in Aberdeen the oil | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
economy is still booming. But how long will that last? In a moment, | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
I'll be looking at the argument over Scotland's remaining oil reserves, | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
but first, with just three weeks to go before that historic vote, our | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon assesses reaction to last night's | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
televised encounter between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling. | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Alex Salmond is a ferocious campaigner and buoyed up after his | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
performance in a bruising debate, he wasted no time in trying to | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
translated his arguments into votes. The "yes" campaigners and supporters | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
work like this, up and down Scotland today they will have an extra spring | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
in their step as we go into the last three weeks of the campaign. | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
Motivation and morale and momentum is now with the "yes" campaign. And | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
this is why he is feeling so confident. A final debate, in which | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
he was widely seen as the winner. I want to know what plan B is, so do | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
you, tell us. You can get three plan Bs, tonight. Come on. They are like | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
buses. You expect one and three turn up in a row This set-piece event was | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
fiery, often ill-tempered. I am a Labour politician. New bed with the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Tory Party. Both protagonists aware that this was their final chance to | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
go head-to-head. I have looked at your figures. You are spending more | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
than bringing in. Alistair Darling out campaigning faced questions from | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
journal journalists over his performance. REPORTER: Do you think | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
you lost? With time now tight, both sides are heading out to meet the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
voters. Alistair Darling and the Better Together campaign remain | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
ahead in the polls. I'm told there will be no change in the tactics | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
over the final few weeks, they will keep questioning those who believe | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
in independence, and what they see as key, unanswered questions, in | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
particular, over the currency. I think the arguments, the questions | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
that we are asking about currency, about who will pay for public | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
services like pensions in the health service, are cutting through. And | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
this is' why a lot of people are increasingly saying, I will go with | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
the majority. Televised debates may engage the electorate. What is less | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
clear is whether they affect their vote. Direct comaning and | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
conversations across Scotland may play a bigger role in that. | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
Throughout this independence campaign voters have appealed again | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
and again for facts - reliable, verifiable, objective facts, amid a | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
barrage of claim and counter-claim. But how much can we know for sure | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
about what the future holds, whichever way the vote goes? One of | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
the most hotly-contested questions is that of North Sea Oil - how much | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
is left out there? And what will it generate in tax revenue in the | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
decades ahead? This report contains some flashing images. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
For centuries this was a fishing port. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Now Aberdeen's crowded little harbour, less than a square mile | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
in surface, supplies the whole of the North Sea Oil industry. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Oil production may be past its peak but there is no decline | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
in activity - far from it. I have worked here | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
for over 20 years now, at the port. When I came here, they said - oh, | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
there is another 20 years left in the oil industry. | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
20 years later, they are saying the same thing. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
They are going into fields and waters that they wouldn't have | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
thought about before. And there is a lot | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
of confidence here. As technology has improved, | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
reserves that were once too costly to drill, have become accessible. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Aberdeen's oil economy is still booming. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
From the water here you get a sense of how crowded this harbour | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
is becoming. These oil supply vessels are | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
getting bigger all the time and there are more and more of them. | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
Aberdeen Harbour is bursting at the seams. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
So much so that a major expansion is planned | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
before the end of this decade. Is all this activity deceptive? | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
One leading oil analyst says oil production will taper off to almost | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
nothing over the next 35 years. There is a very significant | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
depletion taking place. What we need to understand for | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the long-term future of Scotland, if you look 20-30 years ahead, you | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
can't count for significant numbers of income coming from oil and gas. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Sir Ian Wood says there are no more than 16.5 billion barrels | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
of recoverable oil left. That's disputed by the industry | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
body, Oil and Gas UK, which says there are up to 24 billion barrels. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
The Scottish Government says oil revenues could bring nearly ?7 | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
billion in tax revenues to Scotland in the first year of independence. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
The UK Government says it'll be less than ?3 billion, leaving a big hole | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
in Scotland's public finances. "Yes" campaigners say the UK | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Treasury has a 40-year track record of deliberately underestimating the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
value of North Sea Oil reserves. This is where we plan 170 or | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
so new houses, on part of of our East Lodge development. | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
This is the richest part of Britain outside London and the south-east. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
The economy and the population are still expanding, as is | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the demand for high-end housing. We are seeing a huge amount | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
of inquiries. We are getting 200 new inquiries | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
a week for our development at the moment. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
I'm hoping to translate those into sales very soon. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Two-thirds of the traffic at Aberdeen airport is oil-related. | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
It'll keep ferrying workers to the rigs and the oil will keep | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
flowing until 2050, at least. Each side in the referendum | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
makes bold assertions about how much revenue this will generate. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
But they don't know for certain. The truth is, no-one does. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
So, it all illustrates something very general about the very nature | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
of this campaign, that all too often objective fact - frustrating though | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
it is to the voters - is all too hard to come by. On oil, on the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
public finances, on the question of EU membership, there are competing | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
claims, warnings, reassurances and educated guesswork. Voters will, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
three weeks from now, simply have to choose whose narrative they prefer. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Whose they trust more. I will be travelling throughout Scotland | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
throughout this week. I will be back tomorrow from a different location | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
in Scotland, trying to assess the temper of the public debate. Back to | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
the studio. The truth is, no-one does. | :22:52. | :23:07. | |
Two of the best-known politicians in the UK are hoping to become members | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
of Parliament at the next election. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
will find out shortly whether he's been selected to represent | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
his party in Thanet South in Kent. While the Mayor of London, Boris | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Johnson, has announced he wants to become the Conservative candidate | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Our political correspondent, | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
Eleanor Garnier, is in Ruislip. This could mean interesting changes | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
at Westminster. What more can you tell me about Mr Johnson 's bid, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
first of all. Well, I think it is no surprise that Boris Johnson has | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
picked Uxbridge and South Ruislip as his target seat, after he announced | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
at the beginning of this month that he intended to return Parliament, | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
this has been the favourite. And it is an attractive constituency to go | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
for. The current Conservative MP here, Sir John Randall who is | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
standing down, has a majority of more than 11,000. It would be a | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
surprise, if Boris Johnson, did not secure the Conservative candidacy | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
here, but he has now just over two weeks to wait until the local party | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
association makes its final decision. The UKIP leader, Nigel | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Farage, on the other hand, has just a few hours to wait to see if he | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
will be the party candidate in Thanet South in Kent, the county in | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
which he was born, the area he represents in the European | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
Parliament. He is taking on three other contenders in a hustings | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
tonight. He is expected to win but the high-profile politician says | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
it's no shoe-in. OK. Thank you. | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Eleanor Garnier, is in Ruislip. After just one tour 35 years ago, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the hugely successful singer-songwriter Kate Bush, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
who shot to fame in the late 1970s, is to make her comeback on stage - | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
appearing at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in just a few hours time. | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
Tickets sold out in less than 15 minutes | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
when they were released in March. Colin Paterson is at the Apollo. | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
Colin, there will be great anticipation among Kate Bush fans, I | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
would imagine. The last time Kate Bush played a concert was 14th May, | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
1979. The venue was the same. The Hammersmith Apollo or the | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Hammersmith Oweden as it was known then. Tonight I have spoken to | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
people from Australia, Thailand, Los Angeles. Some without tcts, | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
desperate it get in, and see this singer, who they thought would never | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
perform live again. -- some without tickets. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
This is the moment which made Kate Bush a stacks her Top of the Pops | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
debut at the age of 19, in 1978. Wuthering Heights was the first song | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
written and former by a woman to top the UK charts. The following year | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
she went on tour. It was an experience she loved. Report report | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
are you really happy? I can't believe the audience. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
# I make a deal with God... # Since then, Kate bush has released | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
eight albums, won a Brit award and become one of music's most | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
influential artists. They are not normal songs. None of her songs have | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
been normal. ! She is just who she is, unique. She is a mystery. What | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
she has never done s play another show -- is play another show, until | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
tonight. But why? The time has not been right. I think she spent her | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
time writing and recording these albums and she is a complete | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
perfectionist. I think that's what she wants - she felt her time was | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
best doing, creating music and also, obviously, raising a family. But now | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the wait is finally over. I can't wait. I'm so excited. I have been | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
excited for months. I have waited 35 years. It is going to happen now. I | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
have no words. Just like her life, the shows have been shrouded in | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
secrecy, although the concert poster shows her in a life jacket, leading | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
to speculation there could be a watery theme. Tonight we find out. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Colin Paterson is at the Apollo. Time for a look | :27:03. | :27:03. | |
at the weather with Nick Miller. The Wuthering Heights of 22. | :27:04. | :27:13. | |
You had to get it in! A for effort. | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
Corn England has been played with -- plagued with heavy showers. The good | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
news is they are edging into the channel and edging away. Overnight a | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
lot of dry weather. The odd rogue light shower. A few spots of rain in | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
south-west England. Enough cloud and breeze across southern areas to stop | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
the temperature going down too far but cooler than last night. Under | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
some clear spells, northern England northwards is chilly in the | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
countryside and in Highland Scotland, a touch of frost on offer, | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
as tomorrow begins A fine day. If you start with broken cloud and | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
sunny spells, it is likely you will stay that way throughout the day and | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
have dry days. The next weather system is knocking on the door of | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
south-west England, thickening cloud all the while and outbreaks of rain | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
coming in. In Scotland in the sunshine it'll feel pleasantly warm, | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
all the while and outbreaks of rain coming in. in the afternoon for | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England. There will be a freshening | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
breeze not just here but across the UK but a difference for south-east | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
England and the Midlands. Not just drier and brighter but it'll feel | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
warmer. All the while, some outbreaks of rain edging into | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
south-west England and wae.s turning more persistent into the evening but | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
whoever bats second in the cricket one-day international at Cardiff may | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
deal with rain late in the day, certainly a strengthening wind. By | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
Thursday the rain is moving north across Scotland, clearing eastern | :28:40. | :28:40. | |
England, then a bright, across Scotland, clearing eastern | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
breezy day with a scattering of showers. It looks as if the showers | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
will be more widespread on Friday, heavier, windier, too. They ease on | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
Saturday. Going into next week t looks like the weather is planning | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
on settling down and turning warmer. That is all from the BBC News at | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
Six. Goodbye from me. On BBC | :29:00. | :29:00. |