:00:07. > :00:15.A blow for the Conservatives as a Tory MP defects to UKIP.
:00:16. > :00:21.I am leaving the Conservative Party and joining UKIP.
:00:22. > :00:29.Douglas Carswell's announcement has triggered a by-election
:00:30. > :00:37.The problem is, some of those at the top of the Conservative Party are
:00:38. > :00:42.not on our side. It is obviously deeply regrettable when things like
:00:43. > :00:48.this happen and people behave in this way. It is also good.
:00:49. > :00:52.We'll be looking at how damaging this to the Conservative party
:00:53. > :00:55.and to the prime minister. Also tonight:
:00:56. > :00:58.The Rotherham child abuse scandal - a former social worker there says
:00:59. > :01:00.the pressure to meet targets meant children were neglected.
:01:01. > :01:03.NATO accuses Russia of sending 1,000 of its troops over
:01:04. > :01:22.the border into Ukraine. I will be reporting to find out how
:01:23. > :01:25.the Scottish independence campaign is playing out in the promote
:01:26. > :01:30.geographical places of the country. the border into Ukraine.
:01:31. > :01:32.Postal voting starts in the Scottish referendum as
:01:33. > :01:34.the prime minister says why business is better off in a Kingdom.
:01:35. > :01:37.And after his first World Cup goal now Wayne
:01:38. > :01:38.Rooney becomes England captain. On BBC London:
:01:39. > :01:42.The killing of a robbery victim with the mental
:01:43. > :01:44.age of a nine-year-old - a gang of teenagers are found guilty.
:01:45. > :01:45.And the business secretary on Oxbridge elitism and whether London
:01:46. > :01:59.state pupils are denied top jobs. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:02:00. > :02:02.News at Six. A conservative MP has
:02:03. > :02:05.unexpectedly defected to UKIP. Douglas Carswell,
:02:06. > :02:10.the MP for Clacton, has triggered a by-election which he says he will
:02:11. > :02:12.contest on behalf of his new party. The seat currently has
:02:13. > :02:16.a 12,000 Conservative majority. Mr Carswell, a Eurosceptic, says he
:02:17. > :02:20.doesn't believe the prime minister is serious about change in Europe.
:02:21. > :02:25.Mr Cameron has called the MP's defection deeply regrettable
:02:26. > :02:27.and counterproductive. More from our political
:02:28. > :02:39.correspondent, Carole Walker. For once, Westminster news
:02:40. > :02:43.conference delivered a bombshell. I am today leaving the Conservative
:02:44. > :02:51.latte and joining UKIP. Douglas Carswell said it had not been an
:02:52. > :02:55.easy decision. A lifelong conservative, but he said only UKIP
:02:56. > :03:03.could shake up what he called the cosy little clique he calls
:03:04. > :03:07.Westminster. They talk the talk before elections and say what they
:03:08. > :03:13.feel they must say when they want our support. But on the recall of
:03:14. > :03:15.MPs, closing our borders, bank reform and cutting public debt and
:03:16. > :03:22.an EU wreck the random, they never actually make it happen. Nigel
:03:23. > :03:30.Farage predicted others will follow him into the UKIP fold. This is not
:03:31. > :03:36.my show today. It is Douglas's show. It isn't a great secret there are a
:03:37. > :03:38.number of members of Parliament sitting on the Conservative benches
:03:39. > :03:42.and the Labour benches who hold UKIP was Mac reviews very strongly. This
:03:43. > :03:49.will be the scene of the by-election battle. UKIP had a resounding
:03:50. > :03:55.victory here. Douglas Carswell has a significant, personal following.
:03:56. > :04:01.Will they vote for him now he has switched? Yes, it is the best thing
:04:02. > :04:07.he could do. He will get extra votes. I think it is the wrong move.
:04:08. > :04:11.I don't think he will be re-elected if he stands for UKIP. I have voted
:04:12. > :04:20.him before. I like his policies and I like the reasons he has moved to
:04:21. > :04:23.UKIP. It is good news. If Douglas Carswell does secure a foothold for
:04:24. > :04:30.UKIP here on the shores of ethics, it will help his new party make
:04:31. > :04:36.further inroads into both the Tory and Labour votes elsewhere in the
:04:37. > :04:40.country. David Cameron knows he has a fight on his hands. It is deeply
:04:41. > :04:44.regrettable when things happen like this and people behave in this way.
:04:45. > :04:48.But it is also dip. If you want to wreck the random on Britain's future
:04:49. > :04:56.in the EU, whether we should stay or go, the only way to get that is to
:04:57. > :05:01.have a conservative government after the next election. That is until
:05:02. > :05:06.only recently, what Douglas Carswell was saying. In the coming weeks, MPs
:05:07. > :05:07.will be back at the seaside, here, battling to turn the tide against
:05:08. > :05:15.UKIP. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson
:05:16. > :05:17.is in Glasgow where, as we've heard, he's been speaking to the
:05:18. > :05:25.Prime Minister. Was David Cameron taken by surprise
:05:26. > :05:33.by this defection as everybody else has been? Yes, he was not warned and
:05:34. > :05:40.he had not an idea Douglas Carswell was going. It is not because the
:05:41. > :05:45.Tories cannot live without one fewer MP, all it without losing a
:05:46. > :05:49.by-election, which they may do, it is more this will revive what David
:05:50. > :05:56.Cameron told his party was their dangerous obsession with Europe.
:05:57. > :06:01.Because now a Tory activist and Tory MPs and the Tory press will worry
:06:02. > :06:05.about who might follow Douglas Carswell. Is Nigel Farage telling
:06:06. > :06:09.the truth when he says other Tory MPs will follow him into UKIP. They
:06:10. > :06:14.will worry about whether David Cameron needs to harden up his
:06:15. > :06:20.European policy. This afternoon, I asked him to spell out would he be
:06:21. > :06:26.prepared to leave the EU if he did not get his way in every negotiation
:06:27. > :06:34.and he refused to do it. I asked him what he not met he had not met his
:06:35. > :06:37.immigration target. Again he refused. This is an issue once
:06:38. > :06:40.described as a previous Tory leader as an unexploded bomb. Fiona, it
:06:41. > :06:48.just went off. Prime Minister.
:06:49. > :06:51.New immigration figures show a big jump in the number
:06:52. > :06:53.of people from the European Union coming to Britain.
:06:54. > :06:56.The latest figures show that net migration - that's the difference
:06:57. > :07:00.between the number of people coming into the UK and those leaving -
:07:01. > :07:03.is up by nearly 40% in the past year and now stands at 243,000.
:07:04. > :07:05.The prime minister had pledged to reduce net migration to 150,000
:07:06. > :07:11.by next year. Matt Prodger reports.
:07:12. > :07:21.Multicultural Britain is a fact of life. But these figures are bad
:07:22. > :07:26.news. In fact, they show a significant annual increase. We have
:07:27. > :07:31.said previously, because of the increases in the level of net EU
:07:32. > :07:36.migration, it is challenging. These figures make it further challenging
:07:37. > :07:41.again. It is rightly focus on net migration because of the pressures
:07:42. > :07:45.on public services, integration and on issues of wage levels as well
:07:46. > :07:56.will stop annual net migration has risen from 175 thousand people up to
:07:57. > :08:06.243,000. The recent entrance from Romania and Bulgaria has more than
:08:07. > :08:12.doubled. David Cameron promised he would meet his next migration target
:08:13. > :08:16.and these figures show it is in tatters. It is a problem if there is
:08:17. > :08:22.such a gap between the rhetoric and reality because it undermines public
:08:23. > :08:26.confidence. Ministers have restricted immigration from outside
:08:27. > :08:30.EU, but they have little power to stop people from within the EU
:08:31. > :08:37.arriving here. About 2.5 million people in the UK citizens from other
:08:38. > :08:42.countries like Poland. For the first time they outnumber nationalities
:08:43. > :08:49.from countries outside the EU like China. So the complexion as well as
:08:50. > :08:54.the volume of immigration is changing. What is good news for the
:08:55. > :08:58.British economy is it is out performing other EU countries so it
:08:59. > :09:01.attracts more immigrants. It is bad news for those who see immigration
:09:02. > :09:10.as a detriment. A former social worker at
:09:11. > :09:13.Rotherham Council has accused her former employers
:09:14. > :09:16.of allowing children to slip through the net because of pressure to hit
:09:17. > :09:19.targets for child protection. Speaking anonymously to BBC News,
:09:20. > :09:21.she said not enough was done to help the victims.
:09:22. > :09:23.1,400 children were found to have been abused in Rotherham
:09:24. > :09:26.by a network of men of mainly Pakistani origin.
:09:27. > :09:39.Ed Thomas has the details. Children were groomed and abused all
:09:40. > :09:43.over Rotherham, in parks, town Centre alleyways, taken to their
:09:44. > :09:53.abusers in taxis and the police and the council both knew. Children at
:09:54. > :09:59.risk we just statistics and targets. Speaking to BBC News, Sarah is a
:10:00. > :10:04.former Rotherham social worker, because she still works with
:10:05. > :10:06.vulnerable children, we have protected her identity. It was how
:10:07. > :10:12.to manipulate the figures. Pressure was not to put people on the books.
:10:13. > :10:19.Then those people disappeared. All that mattered is that the target had
:10:20. > :10:23.been hit. The abuse would continue? The abuse would continue. She has
:10:24. > :10:33.shown as these letters from inside the council. It goes on to thank
:10:34. > :10:40.staff for low statistics that month. It was a fiddle, I cannot see it any
:10:41. > :10:45.other way that led to the children not getting the support they needed.
:10:46. > :10:48.Then he got out of control and that is worth the cover-up came. And
:10:49. > :10:51.consider South Yorkshire Police, these men represent the only
:10:52. > :10:57.grooming gang in Rotherham to be prosecuted. After 16 years of abuse,
:10:58. > :11:02.today report accused the force of earlier. The report was released
:11:03. > :11:09.this morning. It says, South Yorkshire Police spends too much
:11:10. > :11:13.time trying to disprove child victims. It says the for us fails to
:11:14. > :11:17.record some crimes against children properly. And because of this, boys
:11:18. > :11:24.and girls are still at risk. The police need to stop should --
:11:25. > :11:28.treating children as prostitutes. Failures, too familiar to
:11:29. > :11:32.campaigners like this. The way to stop it is to get alongside the
:11:33. > :11:37.families and the children and listen to them. This is one Rotherham
:11:38. > :11:42.barber who says he was not taken seriously. We were lied to, treated
:11:43. > :11:47.terribly. His daughter was repeatedly raped by a Pakistani
:11:48. > :11:52.grooming gang. Where you ever listen to? No, we went to a strategy
:11:53. > :11:57.meeting at the police station and officers came and said, sorry we
:11:58. > :12:02.have only got this room for 30 minutes because it is booked by
:12:03. > :12:08.somebody else. Treated terribly by the police and social services as if
:12:09. > :12:14.it was our fault as parents. My daughter was a big Tim. Pressure is
:12:15. > :12:20.building. The council will be inspected by the government and the
:12:21. > :12:21.police could be investigated. In this town, the calls for
:12:22. > :12:28.accountability will not go away. NATO says there are well over 1,000
:12:29. > :12:31.Russian troops operating inside Ukraine, a claim echoed by Ukraine's
:12:32. > :12:33.president after pro-Russian separatists opened up a new front
:12:34. > :12:36.in the south of the country. Russia has long denied that
:12:37. > :12:38.its forces have crossed Ukraine's border.
:12:39. > :12:40.The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting
:12:41. > :12:41.tonight to discuss the crisis. Our diplomatic correspondent
:12:42. > :12:52.James Robbins reports. A Ukrainian soldier warns his
:12:53. > :12:57.colleagues a sniper threatens. These government troops were pushing back
:12:58. > :13:00.against the separatists in eastern Ukraine, but as victory looks
:13:01. > :13:05.possible, they are being forced out from some areas, amid claims Russia
:13:06. > :13:12.has sent reinforcements to the rebels. Russia has sent a number of
:13:13. > :13:16.armoured personal vehicles, tanks and troops. Ukrainian forces are
:13:17. > :13:24.capable to tackle and to cope with the Russian led gorillas, but this
:13:25. > :13:31.is quite difficult for us to fight with Russia. Moscow denies its
:13:32. > :13:37.forces are in Ukraine. But that was undermined by this rebel leader, who
:13:38. > :13:41.admits Russian soldiers fight alongside his men, but claiming the
:13:42. > :13:46.Russians were simply on holiday. This week, these Russian
:13:47. > :13:49.paratroopers were caught about 15 miles inside Ukraine. Moscow says
:13:50. > :13:54.they crossed the border by mistake, but now their mother -- mothers are
:13:55. > :14:01.appealing to the Kremlin to get them released. Ukraine's government
:14:02. > :14:05.forces have been squeezing the rebels hard and shrinking the
:14:06. > :14:10.Territory Day control. It is almost two months since rebels were forced
:14:11. > :14:18.to flee from the North towards Donetsk. There are still thought to
:14:19. > :14:25.be between 3000 and 4000 fighters bolstered by a significant number of
:14:26. > :14:34.Russian troops, despite Moscow's formal denials. Another front in the
:14:35. > :14:39.South, open to fighting. Look at this video which the Ukrainians say
:14:40. > :14:44.is a Russian tank recorded near the town inside Ukraine. It could be
:14:45. > :14:50.another part of Russian efforts to prevent defeat. Defeat, not just of
:14:51. > :14:53.the rebels but the Kremlin's prestige.
:14:54. > :15:01.No NATO has released aerial pictures which show Russian armoury inside
:15:02. > :15:04.Ukraine. A blatant attempt to change the fighting, which currently
:15:05. > :15:05.favours the Ukrainian military. As the battle for control
:15:06. > :15:12.favours the Ukrainian military. As rages on, EU leaders used words like
:15:13. > :15:17.intolerable and aggression to describe Russian behaviour. David
:15:18. > :15:26.Cameron is warning of further consequences if President Putin does
:15:27. > :15:30.not change course. Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects do you get, saying
:15:31. > :15:35.he cannot support the Conservatives over Europe. Still to come, beyond
:15:36. > :15:36.his wildest dreams, Wayne Rooney on being appointed the new England
:15:37. > :15:40.captain. Later on BBC London,
:15:41. > :15:43.the woman groped and beaten at the Notting Hill Carnival
:15:44. > :15:45.tells us why she posted pictures of the injuries online.
:15:46. > :15:48.And the Champions League draw, we will reveal
:15:49. > :16:01.who our London clubs will face in Europe's biggest prize in football.
:16:02. > :16:06.With postal voting under way in the Scottish independence referendum,
:16:07. > :16:09.the debate ahead of the ballot in three weeks' time is intensifying.
:16:10. > :16:13.Over 200 business leaders in Scotland have signed an open letter
:16:14. > :16:17.backing independence in response to a similar attack yesterday
:16:18. > :16:24.supporting staying within the UK. Special correspondent is in Islay in
:16:25. > :16:28.the Scottish Hebrides. Tonight we are at a whisky distillery here on
:16:29. > :16:31.Islay, far from the Central Belt, and a part of the country where the
:16:32. > :16:35.centres of political power in Edinburgh and London can often feel
:16:36. > :16:48.very distant, quite a moat and out of reach. This is a very different
:16:49. > :16:53.Scotland, rural, coastal, Ireland. -- island. What are these bestial
:16:54. > :16:58.needs of this part of the country? In a moment, I will report on the
:16:59. > :17:03.independence campaign on the geographical margins of the country.
:17:04. > :17:09.-- what are the special needs? But first to Glasgow.
:17:10. > :17:14.The message couldn't be simpler and clearer on the streets of Glasgow,
:17:15. > :17:19.vote yes not just to end London rule but see the back of the
:17:20. > :17:26.Conservatives for good. Your bike is interesting. Sack the Tories. Vote
:17:27. > :17:30.yes. Yeah, simple as that. So independence is a way of getting rid
:17:31. > :17:36.of the Tories? Paving the way to a fairer society. But not everyone in
:17:37. > :17:42.the same house agrees. For me, it is too much of a risk, right? For me,
:17:43. > :17:46.as I said to you, you would not jump into a shark pool to see if you
:17:47. > :17:51.would get bitten. For me, it is too risky, that is the reason I am
:17:52. > :17:55.voting no. No wonder David Cameron has to tread carefully every time he
:17:56. > :18:03.comes north of the border. My heart is saying yes, but when I think
:18:04. > :18:08.about it... Your head is saying no? On a visit to a haulage firm, I
:18:09. > :18:11.asked him about a letter signed by 200 Scottish businessmen saying they
:18:12. > :18:16.backed independence and fear that a future Tory government could take
:18:17. > :18:21.Scotland and the UK out of the EU. My case is a positive case. If you
:18:22. > :18:24.stay inside the United Kingdom, you know absolutely you keep the pound
:18:25. > :18:28.is your currency, you have no border controls, you are part of a
:18:29. > :18:39.brilliant United Kingdom, and part of a European single market as well.
:18:40. > :18:41.And you have no idea Tuesday in, because if you become Prime Minister
:18:42. > :18:44.after the election, there is a referendum, Scotland and the UK
:18:45. > :18:48.could be forced out. The people in Scotland would have a choice about
:18:49. > :18:54.whether to stay in a reformed European Union or whether to leave
:18:55. > :18:59.it. But the yes campaign claims another risk will pack the voters in
:19:00. > :19:05.for them, the risk of more cuts to services, welfare and the NHS. We
:19:06. > :19:09.want to protect the NHS in Scotland. We should take control of it so that
:19:10. > :19:13.those decisions are ours in the future. But the no campaign say that
:19:14. > :19:21.Alex Salmond and Scotland's own health minister are trying to scare
:19:22. > :19:26.voters. You decide whether it is privatised or cut, so what has it
:19:27. > :19:32.got to do with independence? The overall budget is decided in London.
:19:33. > :19:39.You could increase the budget. At the expense of housing or... That is
:19:40. > :19:43.the real world, make your choices. If you have powers over taxation and
:19:44. > :19:48.borrowing, you have more choices. I put the point to the Prime Minister,
:19:49. > :19:52.wasn't a no result a guarantee that cuts would go on? The people who
:19:53. > :19:56.make the choices about that in Scotland is the Scottish Government,
:19:57. > :19:59.Alex Salmond, so his scare stories are ineffective because he has
:20:00. > :20:04.trying to frighten people about what he might do! But you decide the
:20:05. > :20:11.overall budget for Scotland. In truth, you would deliver more
:20:12. > :20:13.austerity, more spending cuts, more welfare cuts. Who knows, there could
:20:14. > :20:17.be a knock-on for the health budget. The whole of the United Kingdom
:20:18. > :20:22.faces a big budget deficit, the problems of excessive debt, we have
:20:23. > :20:25.to get on top of that in a very sensible, measured way. These
:20:26. > :20:30.arguments are determining our country's future bright here and
:20:31. > :20:36.right now. 1 million voters have the chance to vote early by post. But on
:20:37. > :20:42.the streets of Govan, voters are still agonising about what to do and
:20:43. > :20:50.how to -- who to trust. I am being very cagey, I don't know, maybe!
:20:51. > :20:54.Well, Islay is the mould whisky Island, home to eight mulled whisky
:20:55. > :21:03.distilleries, each with its own character, each with its own global
:21:04. > :21:08.reputation and market. -- malt. They depend upon wide-open spaces in
:21:09. > :21:11.remote locations, so what does the independence campaign mean here? I
:21:12. > :21:15.have been finding there is appetite for change to narrow the gap between
:21:16. > :21:18.the citizen and the state on both sides of the independence question.
:21:19. > :21:24.Just 90,000 people live in Argyll and Bute, but it has a coastline
:21:25. > :21:27.longer than that of France. There are so few people in Scotland
:21:28. > :21:33.that it has a population density just one
:21:34. > :21:35.seventh that of England and Wales. Pro-independence campaigners
:21:36. > :21:40.say that makes it a different kind of country, with different
:21:41. > :21:43.political challenges and needs. The Islay hotelier Davy Graham
:21:44. > :21:46.leaves his guests in no doubt about his allegiance.
:21:47. > :21:50.For him, independence is about making government more accountable.
:21:51. > :21:53.We still feel distant from Westminster,
:21:54. > :21:57.Westminster still controls a lot of the key levers that can make such
:21:58. > :22:00.a lot of difference to Scotland as an independent country.
:22:01. > :22:05.And I personally feel that if we had the politicians closer to
:22:06. > :22:12.home, they could be more answerable to the demands of the people.
:22:13. > :22:16.The independence debate reaches into every community.
:22:17. > :22:18.The level of engagement is unprecedented.
:22:19. > :22:22.The annual Islay agricultural show brings
:22:23. > :22:25.the island community together. Minds are being made up
:22:26. > :22:30.in places like this, in lengthy, passionate conversations
:22:31. > :22:34.between friends and neighbours. Definitely no. Why?
:22:35. > :22:38.I can just see chaos. What is the point
:22:39. > :22:42.in saying we want to be separate? In the meantime all we get is a list
:22:43. > :22:45.of things we don't want to lose. It would be nice to be one
:22:46. > :22:50.or the other, so sure of what you want to do, whereas
:22:51. > :22:54.I am pulled back and forwards. I think it is great,
:22:55. > :22:58.I think it is a one and only chance in my lifetime that we be able to
:22:59. > :23:01.take this step and give it a go. It won't be easy,
:23:02. > :23:07.it will probably be very hard and cost a lot of money,
:23:08. > :23:09.but I think it's well worth doing. Neither side now is backing
:23:10. > :23:12.the status quo. For even the most passionate
:23:13. > :23:17.no campaigners, like the local postmaster,
:23:18. > :23:21.Alistair Redman, also wants change. Centralisation, a central
:23:22. > :23:25.technocracy in Edinburgh, has not helped we on the islands.
:23:26. > :23:28.The best way to achieve devolution is not just increased devolution to
:23:29. > :23:31.Edinburgh, which I support, but from Edinburgh more local devolution,
:23:32. > :23:35.and the Nationalists have a terrible track record on this.
:23:36. > :23:37.In a place like this, you see something very important
:23:38. > :23:39.about the nature of this whole debate.
:23:40. > :23:43.It's not just about national identity.
:23:44. > :23:50.It's also been about power, about where it should properly reside.
:23:51. > :23:53.Yes, there's been national flag waving, but this has been
:23:54. > :23:57.an extraordinary and energetic debate that has energised people in
:23:58. > :24:01.every part of the country, in groups of friends, in families, about the
:24:02. > :24:07.nature of democracy itself and how to make it better.
:24:08. > :24:11.The pace of that debate is now accelerating fast.
:24:12. > :24:16.Both sides say they want change, and the decision - change
:24:17. > :24:18.in or out of the United Kingdom - is now just three weeks away.
:24:19. > :24:28.Allan Little, BBC News, Islay. That is the thing that comes up
:24:29. > :24:31.again and again, it is more than national identity, it is the nature
:24:32. > :24:34.of power, a great national conversation that has been taking
:24:35. > :24:39.place at grassroots level in every town, village under city and Street
:24:40. > :24:42.in the country, and will reach its conclusion to some extent three
:24:43. > :24:50.weeks from today when those polls open. The owner. Allan Little on
:24:51. > :24:53.Islay, thank you very much. Wayne Rooney says to be made England
:24:54. > :24:59.captain is beyond his wildest dreams. Roy Hodgson has appointed as
:25:00. > :25:02.the new skipper today. Natalie reports.
:25:03. > :25:15.At times he has been magnificent. At others much maligned. Nice to see
:25:16. > :25:18.your home fans booing you! But today the tabloid favourite said being
:25:19. > :25:22.named England captain was beyond his wildest dreams. The England manager
:25:23. > :25:27.said he is judging Rooney on the mature man he sees now, not his
:25:28. > :25:32.past. I have had no reason whatsoever, any time, to question
:25:33. > :25:36.anything about him, but he has that baggage with them, and he will have
:25:37. > :25:41.to accept that as a further part of the pressure. 16-year-old Wayne
:25:42. > :25:44.Rooney... Rooney burst onto the scene, becoming the youngest scorer
:25:45. > :25:51.in Premier League history with this goal against Arsenal. At 18, he lit
:25:52. > :25:56.up the 2004 euros for England and was named in the team of the
:25:57. > :26:00.tournament. -- Euros. But it was not until this summer that he finally
:26:01. > :26:04.scored a World Cup goal. Prior to that, there were calls for him to be
:26:05. > :26:09.trapped. Nevertheless, on 95 caps, he is now the most experienced
:26:10. > :26:14.player in the England squad. -- dropped. It is a proud moment, but
:26:15. > :26:20.the important thing is off the field, so we has to be a man of, and
:26:21. > :26:25.he has got to represent his country in a bigger way than he has ever
:26:26. > :26:28.represented his country before. When Rooney leads out England against
:26:29. > :26:32.Norway next week, it looks set to be the least attended England match at
:26:33. > :26:37.the new Wembley. Fans just cannot get excited after a dismal World Cup
:26:38. > :26:41.summer, with Steven Gerrard Anne Frank Lampard now retired, Wayne
:26:42. > :26:45.Rooney represents the last of the so-called golden generation who
:26:46. > :26:49.failed to live up to the hype. -- and. This is a team that has hit
:26:50. > :26:53.rock bottom in terms of performance on the pitch, popularity of the
:26:54. > :26:58.pitch. They need to start winning, never mind who has the armband. And
:26:59. > :27:01.therein lies Rooney's biggest problem, to help England achieved
:27:02. > :27:06.what only one England captain has ever done before him, and that is
:27:07. > :27:08.actually win something. Let's take a look at the weather
:27:09. > :27:20.with Peter Gibbs. Signs of summer returning over the
:27:21. > :27:23.coming days, but quite breezy through tonight, a pretty blustery
:27:24. > :27:28.old night across many north-western parts of the UK, near gale force
:27:29. > :27:33.winds through the Irish Sea, lots of rain feeding through, moving into
:27:34. > :27:38.Scotland and North West England. A few showers further south, but not a
:27:39. > :27:41.pleasant start to the day across much of Scotland, still breezy,
:27:42. > :27:44.still some outbreaks of heavy rain at times, perhaps more persistent
:27:45. > :27:49.rain edging away from Northern Ireland, but parts of northern
:27:50. > :27:53.England could get off to a wet start as well. Temperatures already up to
:27:54. > :28:01.the mid or high teens in places. Try and brighter across many eastern
:28:02. > :28:08.parts, the odd shower beading in. -- dryer. -- feeding in. Further rain
:28:09. > :28:13.feeding in, not too many showers getting into the Midlands and across
:28:14. > :28:19.eastern England, largely dry here. Get the sunshine and it will not
:28:20. > :28:24.feel too bad, 20-21d, but mid-teens, wind and rain will not feel quite so
:28:25. > :28:27.pleasant. Across the other side of the Atlantic, a hurricane of the
:28:28. > :28:31.east coasts of the states, and the remnants will be heading into the
:28:32. > :28:35.Atlantic towards the end of this week. Unlike Hurricane Bertha, which
:28:36. > :28:40.brought us cold air a week or two back, this one is go to pump up lots
:28:41. > :28:44.of warm air across the Atlantic, so the signs are that temperatures will
:28:45. > :28:46.start to rise through the weekend and particularly into the following
:28:47. > :28:49.week. Great, Peter, thanks very much. It
:28:50. > :28:50.is good