:00:00. > :00:12.The UK's terror threat level is raised to severe - meaning an attack
:00:13. > :00:15.is considered highly likely. Security and protection measures
:00:16. > :00:18.will be increased including more armed police on the streets.
:00:19. > :00:21.The prime minister said extremists fighting in the Middle East present
:00:22. > :00:25.a greater threat to our security than ever before.
:00:26. > :00:28.The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart
:00:29. > :00:34.of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK.
:00:35. > :00:37.New legislation is promised to make it easier to take passports
:00:38. > :00:40.away from those who travel to join terrorist groups abroad.
:00:41. > :00:43.Also tonight. The search
:00:44. > :00:47.for the seriously ill five-year-old who's been taken from hospital
:00:48. > :00:50.by his parents and is now missing. The Rotherham child abuse scandal -
:00:51. > :00:54.the chief constable promises to act on any evidence that was previously
:00:55. > :00:56.ignored. Would you want to eat this?
:00:57. > :01:07.New standards to try to improve hospital food in England.
:01:08. > :01:11.And new, unseen chapters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reveal how
:01:12. > :01:13.Roal Dahl intended to include more children winning that lucky golden
:01:14. > :01:33.ticket. On BBC London. Police tackle Roma
:01:34. > :01:35.gypsies living rough in the capital. And is the mayor failing poorer
:01:36. > :01:52.communities? Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:53. > :01:56.News at Six. The UK's terror threat level has
:01:57. > :01:58.been raised today in response to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
:01:59. > :02:00.The Home Secretary Theresa May announced the level had been raised
:02:01. > :02:06.by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, or JTAC, from substantial to
:02:07. > :02:14.severe - the second highest of five possible levels.
:02:15. > :02:26.It means an attack is highly likely but the government says there is no
:02:27. > :02:28.intelligence to suggest an attack is imminent.
:02:29. > :02:31.The Prime Minister said Islamic State represent a "greater
:02:32. > :02:34.and deeper threat to our security than we have known before".
:02:35. > :02:43.He promised new legislation to make it easier to take passports away
:02:44. > :02:48.from people who travel abroad to join terrorist groups such as IS.
:02:49. > :02:50.Our Political Editor Nick Robinson reports - you may find some images
:02:51. > :02:52.in his report disturbing. Standing guard against the threat of
:02:53. > :02:58.terrorism. A threat we have been told to date has just got vigour.
:02:59. > :02:58.This afternoon, a sombre Home Secretary read out the
:02:59. > :02:59.recommendations of the joint terrorism analysis Centre. JTAC
:03:00. > :03:01.today has raised the threat told to date has just got vigour.
:03:02. > :03:05.level for the UK from international terrorism from substantial to
:03:06. > :03:10.severe. That means a terrorist attack is highly likely. But there
:03:11. > :03:18.is no intelligence to suggest an attack is in mint. The decision to
:03:19. > :03:23.raise the threat level was taken here, the home of the
:03:24. > :03:27.counterterrorism experts, MI5, MI6, the police and key government
:03:28. > :03:33.departments. There are five levels of threats, severe is the second
:03:34. > :03:39.highest. The reason, say ministers is the increased threat of extremist
:03:40. > :03:46.jihad ease, many home-grown who are claiming to be fighting 's to make
:03:47. > :03:49.an Islamic state. It was they who beheaded the American journalist,
:03:50. > :03:56.James Foley before warning they would go on to kill other hostages.
:03:57. > :04:02.It is a threat the Prime Minister said today, faces as at home also.
:04:03. > :04:05.It was clear evidence, that this is not a foreign conflict thousands of
:04:06. > :04:12.miles from home we can hope to ignore. The ambition to create an
:04:13. > :04:19.Islamic caliphate in the heart of Iraq or Syria is a threat to us here
:04:20. > :04:23.in the UK. A week ago David Cameron said there was no knee jerk response
:04:24. > :04:28.to James Foley's death. It is becoming clear there are some gaps
:04:29. > :04:31.in our armoury and we need to strengthen them. We need to do more
:04:32. > :04:37.to stop people travelling and stop those who do go, from returning and
:04:38. > :04:41.deal decisively with those already here. Ministers have the power to
:04:42. > :04:47.remove passports from those who fight abroad but the post -- Home
:04:48. > :04:52.Office says it can only be used sparingly and the courts can reverse
:04:53. > :04:58.their decision. Downing Street have given almost no detail of what the
:04:59. > :05:03.government will propose instead. He had the scenes, ministers are trying
:05:04. > :05:06.to overcome their differences over this and other terror laws. Labour
:05:07. > :05:11.said they are ready to help. We have served the prevents programme should
:05:12. > :05:17.be strengthened but we should look again at control orders. We have got
:05:18. > :05:23.to have the powers and safeguards we need in place to keep the country
:05:24. > :05:28.safe. The threat level was raised to severe in 2007 after a Jeep loaded
:05:29. > :05:32.with propane was driven into Glasgow airport and again four years ago,
:05:33. > :05:37.when there was an attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner. Today we
:05:38. > :05:39.are being told the current fighting in Iraq and Syria will change our
:05:40. > :05:49.lives, whether we like it or not. So what exactly is the threat to
:05:50. > :05:51.the UK and what will change by raising the threat level?
:05:52. > :05:54.Here's our correspondent Frank Gardner.
:05:55. > :06:04.Just some of the estimated 500 plus Britons who have gone to Syria with
:06:05. > :06:09.many joining ISIS, now renamed Islamic state. At least half of that
:06:10. > :06:14.number have already returned to Britain. It is the job of MI5 in
:06:15. > :06:19.London to detect any plans anyone may have to carry out an attack in
:06:20. > :06:27.Britain. They are helped by communication intercepts by GCHQ.
:06:28. > :06:29.Together, the threat is assessed by analysts who advise the government
:06:30. > :06:35.what is the level of risk facing the public. The newly raised threat
:06:36. > :06:42.level is partly a response to what you could call easy jihad. To join
:06:43. > :06:46.an extremist group like ISIS, British passport holders have simply
:06:47. > :06:51.been hopping on a flight to Turkey, getting a bus to the border and
:06:52. > :06:55.walking into Syria. Over 200 have returned to Britain, many having
:06:56. > :07:01.witnessed extreme brutality. This is also the age of social media jihad,
:07:02. > :07:08.attract ding a constant stream of recruits. Then there are the gaps in
:07:09. > :07:11.the government's response. Despite new measures, there aren't enough
:07:12. > :07:16.policeman and spies to watch around the clock, everybody who comes back
:07:17. > :07:20.from the Syrian battlefield. I think the terrorist threat level at the
:07:21. > :07:24.moment is linked and substantial. You are dealing with a situation
:07:25. > :07:28.where you are dealing with groups who have been fighting in Syria and
:07:29. > :07:34.Iraq and expressed a rhetoric of wanting to attack the West. Some
:07:35. > :07:41.have been out to fight and have come back. Europe has been disrupted with
:07:42. > :07:46.links to Syria and Iraq. One that wasn't stopped was a shooting in
:07:47. > :07:50.Brussels in May by jihadist returning from Syria. Three people
:07:51. > :07:56.were killed. The government here fears more attacks like this. Police
:07:57. > :08:03.and MI5 work closely across the country and it is harder than it
:08:04. > :08:08.used to be for terrorists to plan a large-scale attack like the London
:08:09. > :08:10.bombings. But the longer the Syrian conflict continues, the greater the
:08:11. > :08:13.risk some of those who have taken part in it may be tempted to use
:08:14. > :08:19.their new-found skills over here. Frank Gardner.
:08:20. > :08:21.Our Political Editor Nick Robinson is at Westminster.
:08:22. > :08:23.Nick, terror threat is raised here, new security measures promised,
:08:24. > :08:27.but nothing on how to deal with the source of the threat -
:08:28. > :08:28.groups like Islamic State. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson
:08:29. > :08:31.is at Westminster. Nick, terror threat is raised here,
:08:32. > :08:34.new security measures promised, but nothing on how to deal with
:08:35. > :08:35.the source of the threat - groups like Islamic State.
:08:36. > :08:39.There was a lot of rhetoric but no specific measures. There are
:08:40. > :08:42.negotiations now and the Prime Minister will announce what he will
:08:43. > :08:46.say in the House of Commons on Monday. They tell me they will only
:08:47. > :08:53.do this if the measures are taking calmness -- calmly and they will not
:08:54. > :09:00.agree to the return of terrorist control orders, they will not agree
:09:01. > :09:04.to tougher data protection, data supervision orders and I think they
:09:05. > :09:09.will argue about how far you should go in removing passports. And the
:09:10. > :09:14.suggestion there could be military action against this sort of
:09:15. > :09:25.terrorism in Iraq and Syria, I asked the Prime Minister about that today.
:09:26. > :09:36.He says his focus is on protect ding us here at home and was
:09:37. > :09:41.Police in the UK and France are searching
:09:42. > :09:45.for a missing five-year-old boy who needs urgent medical care.
:09:46. > :09:46.Ashya King was being treated for a brain tumour at
:09:47. > :09:47.Southampton General Hospital when the police say he was taken
:09:48. > :09:48.by his parents without consent. The family, who are Jehovah's
:09:49. > :09:49.Witnesses, then boarded a ferry to the French port of Cherbourg.
:09:50. > :09:50.Police say they have serious concerns for his life
:09:51. > :09:52.as his battery operated feeding tube is likely to have run out by now.
:09:53. > :09:54.Our Correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is in Southampton.
:09:55. > :09:57.Police in the UK and France are searching
:09:58. > :09:59.for a missing five-year-old boy who needs urgent medical care.
:10:00. > :10:04.Ashya King was being treated for a brain tumour at
:10:05. > :10:14.It is a massive search on both sides of the Channel? Yes, Ashya, last
:10:15. > :10:22.seen here more than 28 hours ago, caught on CCTV being led away by his
:10:23. > :10:25.father. They ended up in France and that is where the search is
:10:26. > :10:28.concentrated. In the past half an hour, confirmation from the police
:10:29. > :10:35.that the batteries on the special machine that feeds Ashya are likely
:10:36. > :10:42.to have run out. Batteries easily replaced by his family, and the
:10:43. > :10:46.medical staff here say his life may be in danger.
:10:47. > :10:49.Sitting in his buddy, this is the moment yesterday when Ashya King was
:10:50. > :10:58.led away from the hospital by his father. He has a brain tumour. His
:10:59. > :11:06.parents have been at his bedside. So has his brother, who went on YouTube
:11:07. > :11:11.to talk about the family's distress. I have not slept, I have been awake
:11:12. > :11:19.all night worrying. We love you so much. We are all here for you. It
:11:20. > :11:24.has been confirmed, both of his parents are Jehovah's Witnesses. But
:11:25. > :11:29.a spokesman for the organisation says there is no indication their
:11:30. > :11:33.religious beliefs are behind their decision to remove Ashya and
:11:34. > :11:39.travelled to France. Events started yesterday around 2pm when Ashya was
:11:40. > :11:44.taken from the hospital. At 4pm his family boarded a ferry. At eight
:11:45. > :11:52.p.m., six hours later, the police were alerted. It is impossible for
:11:53. > :11:56.us to know what his parents motivation was in taking him. It
:11:57. > :12:01.won't help us solve his whereabouts and we need to get in the care he
:12:02. > :12:06.needs. There is no indication his parents are broken any law. The
:12:07. > :12:10.hospital said they had the right to escort him off the ward. And the
:12:11. > :12:17.alarm was raised at the moment it was realised Ashya went missing.
:12:18. > :12:23.Even though that it was six hours after he left. At South Hampton
:12:24. > :12:27.Ashya was being fed by a tube that is that a. Experts say it cannot be
:12:28. > :12:32.taken apart to change the batteries when they run out. If it runs out,
:12:33. > :12:38.you will be running on either no fluid or nutrition going through, or
:12:39. > :12:44.it may potentially go wrong in terms of having the wrong setting. The
:12:45. > :12:51.battery life is generally used for a temporary period when transferring
:12:52. > :12:55.from one place to another. The family posted this video showing a
:12:56. > :13:01.recent trip to Spain where it is believed they know people. But there
:13:02. > :13:05.is no indication tonight that is where they are heading. Ashya is a
:13:06. > :13:12.very sick little boy and the unexplained events of the past
:13:13. > :13:14.couple of days will only be answered when he is found. Leading the search
:13:15. > :13:19.tonight are the French police. They are looking at CCTV pictures,
:13:20. > :13:27.checking hotels and road junctions. But no news yet. So the worries and
:13:28. > :13:28.concerns of medical staff are that those batteries will have run out
:13:29. > :13:43.and Ashya's life is now in danger. The UKIP donor, Stuart Wheeler,
:13:44. > :13:46.has confirmed that he had lunch with eight backbench Conservative
:13:47. > :13:48.MPs in an attempt to encourage them to switch allegiance.
:13:49. > :13:51.One of those he met was Douglas Carswell, who defected to
:13:52. > :13:56.UKIP yesterday and is hoping to be re-elected for the party in his
:13:57. > :13:58.constituency of Clacton in Essex. Another UKIP source has told the BBC
:13:59. > :14:04.that several Labour MPs are also thinking about switching sides.
:14:05. > :14:09.NATO has claimed 1000 Russian that soldiers with heavy weaponry are in
:14:10. > :14:20.Ukraine. A former care worker in Rotherham
:14:21. > :14:32.has described how it was commonplace for girls as young as 11
:14:33. > :14:35.from a care home to be groomed and sexually abused.
:14:36. > :14:39.He said the girls were often taken away from the home in the middle of
:14:40. > :14:42.the night in taxis by their abusers. A report published earlier this week
:14:43. > :14:43.found that 1,400 children in Rotherham were sexually
:14:44. > :14:44.exploited over 16 years. Ed Thomas reports.
:14:45. > :14:55.16 years of abuse, at least 1000 400 victims, why weren't the children
:14:56. > :14:58.listen to? This man approached the BBC to tell his story. His
:14:59. > :15:02.granddaughter was groomed when she was 12. How would you say about your
:15:03. > :15:09.treatment by the police? Awful. She was found in house with men. She was
:15:10. > :15:16.charged with being drunk and disorderly. Like so many others, her
:15:17. > :15:20.abusers have never been jailed. The police and social services let me
:15:21. > :15:27.down and I will fight until the day I die to get justice. In response,
:15:28. > :15:31.South Yorkshire Police said it will investigate if any officers ignored
:15:32. > :15:41.victims and failed families. It is my duty to take forward, and raise
:15:42. > :15:45.any issues if people have been let down. More questions for Rotherham
:15:46. > :15:50.Council. They were put bed sheets together and climb out of the
:15:51. > :15:56.window. This care home worker revealed the scale of the abuse.
:15:57. > :16:02.Phone calls through the night right through to 12 o'clock. They would
:16:03. > :16:06.come back, returned by the police and comeback by taxi, sanctioned by
:16:07. > :16:09.ourselves. Within half an hour they would be back out again. An
:16:10. > :16:14.independent enquiry said most of the men were Pakistani heritage, but
:16:15. > :16:21.this is the only grooming gang jailed in rather than them. They
:16:22. > :16:28.also said this man, Rotherham's former deputy counsel leader
:16:29. > :16:34.described the gang as a one off. Why did you say it was a one-off? In
:16:35. > :16:43.2010, it was the first time we had the report. You said it is wrong
:16:44. > :16:46.now? Agreed. Do you think the Pakistani community has done enough?
:16:47. > :16:50., parents bear a lot of the responsibility to make sure they
:16:51. > :17:06.know what their children are getting up to.
:17:07. > :17:13.This community has to confront what went so wrong in this town.
:17:14. > :17:17.The UK's terror threat level is raised to severe, meaning an attack
:17:18. > :17:22.As Charlie and the Chocolate Factory turns 50, Roald Dahl's discarded
:17:23. > :17:27.If Boris's Thames Estuary airport isn't an option,
:17:28. > :17:29.Heathrow bosses ask the Mayor to back their expansion plans.
:17:30. > :17:34.With two teams in the national finals,
:17:35. > :17:51.we look at the increasing popularity of baseball in the capital.
:17:52. > :17:54.Now, would you eat any of these meals if you were in hospital?
:17:55. > :17:57.For the first time, the NHS is introducing new standards
:17:58. > :17:59.for hospital food in England through legally binding contracts.
:18:00. > :18:02.They'll focus on the quality and choice of meals, as well
:18:03. > :18:05.Hospitals will be ranked on the meals they prepare,
:18:06. > :18:10.Patients will be also assessed for malnutrition when they're admitted.
:18:11. > :18:13.But campaigners argue the changes don't go far enough.
:18:14. > :18:25.Our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, reports.
:18:26. > :18:32.Photographs of hospital food, cold and congealing, one of seven
:18:33. > :18:37.patients say their food is poor. No surprise to Michael who has been in
:18:38. > :18:39.and out of hospital most of his life and he has sometimes ordered
:18:40. > :18:44.takeaway is because the food has been so bad. Macaroni cheese,
:18:45. > :18:50.between the nurse and myself, we worked out there was four pieces of
:18:51. > :18:59.pasta and macaroni cheese. Scrambled egg is, powdered eggs and everything
:19:00. > :19:01.else. The Health Secretary is promising patients things will
:19:02. > :19:07.change even though around half of hospitals in England are using
:19:08. > :19:11.preprepared meals. The best things are not necessarily things that cost
:19:12. > :19:17.money. This hospital saved money by bringing catering in-house. They
:19:18. > :19:20.prepared a vast majority of food on the side. The staff eat the same
:19:21. > :19:24.food as the patients and the nurses regularly test the food. What could
:19:25. > :19:29.the hospital food standards mean in practice? A trace of healthy meals
:19:30. > :19:36.including fish twice a week, half of deserts should fruit and high
:19:37. > :19:39.calorie snacks for patients who miss meals -- deserts. Serving up
:19:40. > :19:44.thousands of meals three times a day, seven days a week, is a massive
:19:45. > :19:50.challenge. But this is absolutely crucial, many patients are
:19:51. > :19:54.malnourished when they arrive and having decent hot food is essential
:19:55. > :19:58.to their recovery. Some hospitals do spend much more than others, Diana
:19:59. > :20:04.is in the Royal London for a couple of days. It seems every hospital has
:20:05. > :20:13.got different standards. And different menus. So they should be a
:20:14. > :20:15.bit more uniform. The rest of the UK has similar standards but
:20:16. > :20:21.campaigners say they are not bold enough, they want them written into
:20:22. > :20:25.law to force all hospitals to be as good as the best.
:20:26. > :20:29.A senior Labour MP has suspended his campaign for a NO vote in the
:20:30. > :20:31.Scottish referendum, because of what he described as co-ordinated abuse
:20:32. > :20:35.Jim Murphy had eggs thrown at him in Fife yesterday.
:20:36. > :20:38.He said his recent meetings had been disrupted by what he called
:20:39. > :20:41.A Scottish government minister said the Yes campaign did not
:20:42. > :20:48.Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow.
:20:49. > :20:57.Things get it he -- things are getting heated on the campaign
:20:58. > :21:01.trail. There is a lively debate and there is a small minority on both
:21:02. > :21:04.sides who are noisily and sometimes aggressively trying to drown out the
:21:05. > :21:09.argument is from the other side. Today, Labour MP Jim Murphy
:21:10. > :21:13.campaigning for Better Together said he was suspending his campaign tour
:21:14. > :21:19.of Scotland because of what he called, or dilated abuse from the
:21:20. > :21:23.Yes campaign. He is suspending it for 72 hours to get advice from
:21:24. > :21:28.police about safety and to give the 80 side -- and to give the Yes
:21:29. > :21:35.campaign side time to call off their mobs. A government Minister speaking
:21:36. > :21:38.for the Yes campaign says there is no place for aggression on either
:21:39. > :21:42.side and today, a man was convicted of behaving in a threatening manner
:21:43. > :21:48.towards the First Minister. Shares in Tesco have fallen
:21:49. > :21:51.by more than 6 per cent, after it announced its second
:21:52. > :21:53.profits warning in two months. The supermarket blamed
:21:54. > :21:54.challenging trading conditions. It also plans to cut costs
:21:55. > :21:58.and says its new Chief Executive Our business editor, Kamal Ahmed,
:21:59. > :22:10.reports. It is tough on the High Street.
:22:11. > :22:18.There are discount shops and major competitors. It has all become a bit
:22:19. > :22:20.difficult for Tesco. It is finding it hard to convince customers to
:22:21. > :22:26.stick with Britain's biggest retailer. Shoppers we spoke to
:22:27. > :22:31.outside the shop in Cardiff explained why. They need to put
:22:32. > :22:37.prices down on a lot of food because you can get them for half price
:22:38. > :22:42.here. Nobody will spend more on food if it is cheaper elsewhere. They
:22:43. > :22:45.need to reinvigorate the brand. In the last ten years, Tesco has been
:22:46. > :22:50.about all things to all people and they need to give it a distinct
:22:51. > :22:55.identity. It is a long way away from the heady days of the former Tesco
:22:56. > :22:59.boss who built a business that still commands nearly a third of the
:23:00. > :23:04.groceries bought in the UK. But profits are falling from a high of
:23:05. > :23:14.3.8 green pounds in 2011 to two point 4 billion this year. From
:23:15. > :23:18.these nondescriptive headquarters, Tesco helped a supermarket giant.
:23:19. > :23:24.Now investors are demanding the retailers take a fresh direction to
:23:25. > :23:29.get shoppers back. That job will be down to Dave Lewis, the new Chief
:23:30. > :23:33.Executive who is starting work four weeks ahead of schedule. So what is
:23:34. > :23:39.on his list as he looks to turn Tesco around? Analysts believe he
:23:40. > :23:45.would need to cut prices, to bring in more customers. Tesco should also
:23:46. > :23:48.improve its stores after criticism they are not keeping up with the
:23:49. > :23:54.competition. That will mean more staff to help shoppers. Senior
:23:55. > :23:58.figures in Tesco I have spoken to today say that more price cuts are
:23:59. > :24:05.ahead as the retailer struggles to rediscover its market potential.
:24:06. > :24:07.It's 50 years since Roald Dahl wrote the children's classic Charlie
:24:08. > :24:12.The book's characters have become household names.
:24:13. > :24:16.But it turns out they were only part of the original story.
:24:17. > :24:18.The discovery of new unpublished chapters reveals Dahl had intended
:24:19. > :24:21.to include more children lucky enough to win the golden ticket
:24:22. > :24:24.and meet Willy Wonka, but dropped them from the final version.
:24:25. > :24:29.Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz has the story.
:24:30. > :24:41.Not sure I would do that! The gluttonous character comes to a
:24:42. > :24:48.sticky end. In this 50 year story which continues to work its magic.
:24:49. > :24:54.It is unique. A lot of things that do not happen in life happen in the
:24:55. > :24:58.book. And he always adds a few surprises. But they do not know the
:24:59. > :25:02.half of it. When Roald Dahl originally wrote the story, there
:25:03. > :25:08.were ten and not five children winning golden tickets. This is a
:25:09. > :25:11.re-creation of his writing hut in a museum, and this is an early draft
:25:12. > :25:19.of what would become Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is full of
:25:20. > :25:24.corrections and it is even called something different. Chapter five
:25:25. > :25:27.was cut by the author and it saw the demise of two unused characters.
:25:28. > :25:35.Both of them or disobedience and spoiled. They were discovered along
:25:36. > :25:39.with their parent -- parents in the author's archive by a writer who was
:25:40. > :25:42.impressed by what she found. You literally see more of his
:25:43. > :25:49.imagination, you see his imagination. And you can see him
:25:50. > :25:53.learning his craft. Charlie is only the second children's book he wrote.
:25:54. > :25:57.The illustrated Quentin Blake worked with Roald Dahl and produced many
:25:58. > :26:02.drawings for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I knew he rewrote
:26:03. > :26:11.and rewrote many times for this for the starstruck to -- and rewrote
:26:12. > :26:15.many times. For this last chapter, it is interesting to see something
:26:16. > :26:21.at an early stage. What happens in the cooking is fascinating. How does
:26:22. > :26:25.a writer feel about leaving a character on the cutting room floor?
:26:26. > :26:29.It is sad but sometimes they do not do anything to further the plot or
:26:30. > :26:36.they do not bring as much as they should. You feel you are placing
:26:37. > :26:39.that on them a bit. The extra characters over complicated the
:26:40. > :26:43.story but half a century later, they give a fascinating insight into one
:26:44. > :26:48.of the world's most imaginative authors.
:26:49. > :27:03.This Hurricane Bertha is about to do to our weather the opposite of
:27:04. > :27:11.Hurricane Bertha and it is heading across the Atlantic. Showers around
:27:12. > :27:14.and longer spells of rain in Southern Scotland and northern
:27:15. > :27:20.England. Showers will push South and East through the night so if you
:27:21. > :27:28.need to dry weather tonight, I cannot promise that but there will
:27:29. > :27:31.be some sunshine, 12, 15 degrees as we start the weekend. Claudia Love
:27:32. > :27:37.the South East coast but that will clear away first thing leaving
:27:38. > :27:42.brighter conditions -- cloudy along. They will transfer East during the
:27:43. > :27:47.day, not as strong as the these today. Heavy showers in North East
:27:48. > :27:50.Scotland and showers from Northern Ireland through parts of Wales, and
:27:51. > :27:56.the Midlands. Even here, dry weather. And even if you only see
:27:57. > :28:00.some rain, most of the day will be dry and it should be pleasant in the
:28:01. > :28:05.sunshine, as will some day. High pressure with us, a dry night. -- as
:28:06. > :28:10.will some day. There will be some rain to end the day the degree for
:28:11. > :28:22.Northern Ireland and western Scotland, that links into a weather
:28:23. > :28:25.front linked to the hurricanes. -- particularly for Northern Ireland.
:28:26. > :28:31.We still have some weather fronts so it will not be completely dry and
:28:32. > :28:35.sunny but compared to the August we have experienced, the start of
:28:36. > :28:40.September will settle down with Sony spells and it will get warmer --
:28:41. > :28:42.sunny spells. A story with a happy ending.
:28:43. > :28:44.Now we