:00:00. > :00:07.The Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland -
:00:08. > :00:10.the case against the only remaining suspect collapses.
:00:11. > :00:13.More people were killed in the 1998 atrocity than in any other terror
:00:14. > :00:23.Prosecutors accept their evidence against him is unreliable.
:00:24. > :00:27.I think most families have given up on justice.
:00:28. > :00:29.They've given up on the criminal justice system because
:00:30. > :00:35.We'll be asking if this is the end of the road
:00:36. > :00:40.New clashes at the Calais refugee camp
:00:41. > :00:43.as the authorities try to move people to new sites.
:00:44. > :00:46.Shares in Barclays plunge after it announces a drop in profits.
:00:47. > :00:52.Can anyone stop Donald Trump's bid for the White House?
:00:53. > :00:56.It's Super Tuesday in America's election season.
:00:57. > :00:58.Notice the refreshing absence of traffic congestion.
:00:59. > :01:00.That's because no vehicles are allowed in the shopping area,
:01:01. > :01:02.That was the promise a generation ago.
:01:03. > :01:07.Now the NHS says new towns should be about healthy living.
:01:08. > :01:11.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, there's a big night
:01:12. > :01:18.Leicester could go five points clear at the top of the table with a win
:01:19. > :01:41.Hello, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:42. > :01:45.The Omagh bombing was the worst, single atrocity of Northern
:01:46. > :01:48.Ireland's troubles and today the prospect of justice
:01:49. > :01:51.for the victims' families seems as remote as ever.
:01:52. > :01:53.The case against the only remaining suspect charged with the attack
:01:54. > :01:59.Seamus Daly has always denied the murders of 29 people
:02:00. > :02:03.in the Real IRA attack and today he was released from prison.
:02:04. > :02:06.The prosecution said it was withdrawing the charges
:02:07. > :02:08.because a key witness was unreliable.
:02:09. > :02:22.This report contains flash photography. August 15th 1998 was a
:02:23. > :02:27.day unparalleled. Even in Northern Ireland's history of brutality. This
:02:28. > :02:33.was a Saturday afternoon in a busy market town. It had been a day out
:02:34. > :02:39.for families. By evening, children and parents were grieving because of
:02:40. > :02:44.a massive car bomb left among the throng. 18 years later, shops have
:02:45. > :02:48.been repaired, this street rebuilt but nothing is forgotten in Omagh
:02:49. > :02:52.with the relatives of those who died still looking for justice. However,
:02:53. > :02:58.they didn't find it when they went to court today. The cause against
:02:59. > :03:02.Seamus Daly, the man accused of all 29 murders collapsed before it even
:03:03. > :03:06.reached trial. Soul destroying. If you notice here this morning,
:03:07. > :03:11.there's not many families. Most families have given up on justice.
:03:12. > :03:17.They've given up on the Chris name justice system they've been let down
:03:18. > :03:22.so many times. Seamus Daly's always strongly denied any part in the
:03:23. > :03:28.explosion in Omagh. I'd like to ask you some questions, please,s with
:03:29. > :03:32.Omagh bombing. However, in 2,000, panorama named him as one of the
:03:33. > :03:36.Real IRA gang who was involved in the bombing. Key to the prosecution
:03:37. > :03:40.case was a mobile phone used by the bombers. Their main witness said he
:03:41. > :03:45.could connect Seamus Daly to the phone. However in court he gave
:03:46. > :03:52.inconsistent evidence and contradicted his earlier testimony.
:03:53. > :03:58.The prosecution against the defendant, Seamus Daly, was based on
:03:59. > :04:03.a how of straw. The failure of this case to reach trial means only one
:04:04. > :04:09.man has ever been prosecuted for the murders at Omagh. In December 2007,
:04:10. > :04:14.Sean Howie was acquitted and cleared of involvement in the attacks after
:04:15. > :04:21.a lengthy criminal case. Two years later, four other men, including
:04:22. > :04:24.Seamus Daly, were found Abell in a civil case but they continued to
:04:25. > :04:29.push for criminal convictions. Two years ago, Seamus Daly was arrested
:04:30. > :04:33.and charged. However, today, the case against him collapsed with the
:04:34. > :04:40.prosecutors admitting they didn't have enough evidence. To bring it to
:04:41. > :04:44.that level where it's even been at a committal hearing was pointless. I
:04:45. > :04:49.don't understand why they put families continually through it.
:04:50. > :04:53.This afternoon, Seamus Daly left prison where he's been held on
:04:54. > :04:57.remand for almost two years. He's no longer wanted in connection with the
:04:58. > :05:03.murders of all those who are remembered in Omagh. But the town's
:05:04. > :05:10.them otherial garden also serves as a reminder no-one's been held to
:05:11. > :05:12.account for their deaths. As you can understand, different families here
:05:13. > :05:17.in Omagh feel very differently here today. Some are still pushing for a
:05:18. > :05:21.full cross-border inquiry. They believe there is information about
:05:22. > :05:26.what happened in this street behind me in August 1998 that's not yet
:05:27. > :05:31.come to light. However, as far as a criminal prosecution's concerned,
:05:32. > :05:36.most of those hopes seem dashed. . I was told by prosecutors currently
:05:37. > :05:39.the police have no ongoing lines of criminal inquiry. Thank you.
:05:40. > :05:42.There have been new confrontations between migrants and police
:05:43. > :05:44.at the Calais refugee camp - also known as The Jungle.
:05:45. > :05:47.It follows a decision by the French authorities to move some
:05:48. > :05:50.of the 4,000 migrants and refugees to new sites elsewhere.
:05:51. > :05:51.As Lucy Williamson reports from the camp,
:05:52. > :05:59.activists oppose the forced relocation.
:06:00. > :06:06.This small white shack is where these people lived. Today, it was
:06:07. > :06:12.marked for demolition. Take our house, they cried, and we'll take
:06:13. > :06:17.our lives. It was a protest of the powerless ended in minutes by the
:06:18. > :06:21.police. Around them, other figures watched defiant from their own
:06:22. > :06:28.flimsy rooftops, wrapped against the cold. The irony is migrants are are
:06:29. > :06:33.clinging on to makeshift shelters in a country most don't want to be.
:06:34. > :06:38.Moving to official migrant camps with heat and electricity means
:06:39. > :06:44.registering in France. These temporary shacks show their resolve
:06:45. > :06:48.not to settle here. This road marks the Jungles new boundary. Everything
:06:49. > :06:53.to the south of it will be cleared out and the people evicted.
:06:54. > :06:57.Everything, that is, except for the communal buildings, the mosques,
:06:58. > :07:01.schools, community centres, the churches. Many people facing
:07:02. > :07:04.eviction today say rather than leave their community, those communal
:07:05. > :07:10.buildings are where they'll sleep tonight. After yesterday's violence,
:07:11. > :07:15.there's a sense of resignation among many migrants here. But as more
:07:16. > :07:19.shelters burnt today, the Government directed its anger towards the
:07:20. > :07:25.extreme and violent actions by some of the activists here. Police on the
:07:26. > :07:31.ground told us off camera, most of the agitators are British.
:07:32. > :07:34.TRANSLATION: We've arrested four people, mostly British. These are
:07:35. > :07:38.people who use others but are never on the frontline themselves. They
:07:39. > :07:46.use the migrants inciting them to start fires and throw stones. But
:07:47. > :07:51.the shrinking of Calais's migrant camp hides truth. Suggest the rate
:07:52. > :07:55.of any arrivals across the Med has almost tripped since last year. The
:07:56. > :07:59.buildings might be cleared, but as for their owners, many are still
:08:00. > :08:04.waiting for their chance in England and many more are on their way.
:08:05. > :08:09.is only part of a much wider migrant crisis facing Europe.
:08:10. > :08:12.Official figures from Europe's border control agency
:08:13. > :08:15.show that the number of migrants crossing into Europe
:08:16. > :08:20.was 30 times higher than the levels reached at the same time last year.
:08:21. > :08:22.Next week, European leaders will meet once more
:08:23. > :08:25.to try and find a way out of the crisis.
:08:26. > :08:27.Our Europe Editor Katya Adler is in Athens.
:08:28. > :08:32.Katya, what chance of any kind of solution?
:08:33. > :08:38.This is not the first time they have' discussed this issue. Slim
:08:39. > :08:44.from where I'm standing, George. Greece remains the main point of
:08:45. > :08:47.entry into Europe for refugees and other migrants arriving this knows
:08:48. > :08:51.large numbers you mentioned. Numbers which are predicted to rise now
:08:52. > :08:56.spring's comings. The weather's gets warmer and the sea's calmer. The key
:08:57. > :09:00.to stopping that flow of people into Europe lies in Turkey. That's where
:09:01. > :09:05.most of the asylum seekers and others are jumping on those people
:09:06. > :09:09.smugglers' dinghies and making that short but dangerous hopover to the
:09:10. > :09:14.Greek island. That meeting on Monday is between the EU and Turkey. There
:09:15. > :09:18.is a problem. Turkey has little incentive to stop people leaving its
:09:19. > :09:23.shores. It's having a hard time looking after well over two million
:09:24. > :09:30.Syrian refugees who fled their civil war. The EU is not speaking with one
:09:31. > :09:37.voice. Here in the south, Greece feels abandoned and resentful.
:09:38. > :09:42.Further north, Germany is struggling to accommodate the asylum seekers it
:09:43. > :09:46.took in last year. Slovenia have taken matters into their own hands.
:09:47. > :09:50.Slammed their borders shut. Reducing the number of migrants they are
:09:51. > :09:54.letting through for their own protection, they say. The clumsy
:09:55. > :09:57.handling of this migration is weakening and destabilising Europe.
:09:58. > :10:02.Can a meeting on Monday solve all that? It is extremely unlikely
:10:03. > :10:05.though it may make some baby steps of progress. Thank you.
:10:06. > :10:08.Shares in Barclays dropped sharply today
:10:09. > :10:10.after the bank reported a fall in profits.
:10:11. > :10:12.Barclays also announced, plans to sell its controlling stake
:10:13. > :10:15.in the bank's Africa operations - ending its presence on the continent
:10:16. > :10:21.Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.
:10:22. > :10:29.It's been travelling in one direction and that's downwards.
:10:30. > :10:35.Barclays share price, a barometer of its financial health has been sickly
:10:36. > :10:41.for a year. Today, it sank by 8% as it was struggling to make profits
:10:42. > :10:46.and was quitting the emerging committees of Africa. Geoff told me
:10:47. > :10:51.the heart of Barclays, the UK business and Barclaycard, was still
:10:52. > :10:56.strong. There are clearly challenges in running a bank begin the
:10:57. > :11:00.regulatory response to the financial crisis and the conduct issues banks
:11:01. > :11:05.were facing. If you look inside of those numbers, a lot of what I'll
:11:06. > :11:09.focus on today, Barclays has had a core franchise, a terrific set of
:11:10. > :11:13.businesses. We are eight years after the financial crisis. Your results
:11:14. > :11:19.are sfil littered with conduct issues. You've new provisions for
:11:20. > :11:24.payment protection misselling, when will banks, when can the public
:11:25. > :11:29.trust banks are behaving better? I do believe the banks lost their way
:11:30. > :11:33.ten or 15 years ago. We lost a lot of trust through the financial
:11:34. > :11:40.crisis. We have an obligation to return that. I interviewed Jez daily
:11:41. > :11:44.on the top floor of Barclays' steel and glass headquarters here in
:11:45. > :11:49.Canary Wharf. This building, almost from a different era, a time when
:11:50. > :11:54.bangs were swashbuckling global businesses making billions of pounds
:11:55. > :11:59.of profit and Suing the seeds of the financial crisis. Jess daily made it
:12:00. > :12:05.clear to me this was a different time, a time of lower profits, a
:12:06. > :12:11.time of smaller bonus payments, a time for a smaller Barclays. It will
:12:12. > :12:15.be smaller here, Kenya, one of the countries affected by Barclays
:12:16. > :12:21.decision to pull out of Africa. It's a very difficult decision. You go to
:12:22. > :12:26.places like Uganda and Kenya, the brand of Barclays is as strong there
:12:27. > :12:30.as it is in the UK. We have to make some very difficult decisions if
:12:31. > :12:33.we're going to get Barclays into a focussed clear, compelling business
:12:34. > :12:39.model that generates returns for our shareholders. Those investors will
:12:40. > :12:43.need some persuading, not constantly changing the person at the top might
:12:44. > :12:48.help. It's not good for any bank to have four VEOs in five years. More
:12:49. > :12:54.like a Premiership football club than a financial institution. We had
:12:55. > :12:59.a CEO last year who was a lifetime banker. The markets have been
:13:00. > :13:05.worried about that. Not the towering giant it once was but with 110,000
:13:06. > :13:11.employees and as a major contributor to our pensions, Mr Staly's rescue
:13:12. > :13:14.effort matters. He is the new broom. Can he sweep the?
:13:15. > :13:17.Details of a review into the state pension age have just been announced
:13:18. > :13:22.The news prompted pension experts to warn that the government
:13:23. > :13:25.could accelerate rises in the state pension age.
:13:26. > :13:27.Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins joins us
:13:28. > :13:33.Ross, are we all going to be working for longer?
:13:34. > :13:40.We will. There's a plan for that age to rise to 66 and 67 over the next
:13:41. > :13:45.12 years. None of that will change. This review will look at whether the
:13:46. > :13:50.system is sustainable in the longer term. It is a ?90 billion bill for
:13:51. > :13:56.the state pension. We are all living longer. While ministers say just
:13:57. > :14:01.because there's a review it doesn't mean it is inevitable the state
:14:02. > :14:06.pension age will rise, many younger people entering the jobs market now
:14:07. > :14:09.will look at any prospect of a state funded rye tirement for them
:14:10. > :14:12.receding further and further into the distans.
:14:13. > :14:19.The only remaining suspect in the Omagh bombings,
:14:20. > :14:22.Seamus Daly, is released after the case against him is dropped.
:14:23. > :14:29.A top international award for three British scientists
:14:30. > :14:33.Professional boxers, like Anthony Joshua here,
:14:34. > :14:36.have been told they will be allowed to compete at this years Olympics,
:14:37. > :14:52.as long as the International Boxing Federation approves the change.
:14:53. > :14:54.Americans began voting today in what's dubbed Super Tuesday,
:14:55. > :14:58.a day when voters in nearly a dozen states get to pick who will end up
:14:59. > :15:03.It's widely expected that Donald Trump will get enough support
:15:04. > :15:09.For the Democratic Party, this is Hillary Clinton's chance
:15:10. > :15:11.to open up a credible gap with her rival, Bernie Sanders.
:15:12. > :15:15.Our correspondent, James Cook, is in Houston, Texas.
:15:16. > :15:23.James. Well, George, eight months to go and the field seems to be
:15:24. > :15:28.narrowing at last. Hillary Clinton forging ahead in the polls. Donald
:15:29. > :15:32.Trump trying to see off his main rivals, the Senators, Ted Cruz and
:15:33. > :15:34.Marco Rubio. This Super Tuesday, may well be the moment when we find out
:15:35. > :15:43.who is all hat and no cattle. In Houston, it's the
:15:44. > :15:45.biggest show in town. Not Super Tuesday, but the annual
:15:46. > :15:47.livestock fair and Rodeo. They've come to Texas from all over
:15:48. > :15:50.the United States for this event and when it comes to politics,
:15:51. > :15:58.folk here, like everywhere, Donald Trump is stating exactly
:15:59. > :16:01.and what this country needs is a leader in business and not
:16:02. > :16:11.I don't really care for Trump because I feel like he attacks
:16:12. > :16:13.people when he's trying to make a point.
:16:14. > :16:16.to point out everyone else's flaws and not really focus
:16:17. > :16:22.It's kind of crazy right now, if I can go-ahead and say it -
:16:23. > :16:24.I dislike, kind of, what he stands for.
:16:25. > :16:33.Whatever he tells you, he does what he tells you.
:16:34. > :16:41.In 11 states, Democrats and Republicans are doing just that
:16:42. > :16:44.today - picking the person they want to stand for President.
:16:45. > :16:48.Here in Texas there are local elections, too.
:16:49. > :16:53.But in the White House race the votes will be counted,
:16:54. > :16:56.who will confirm their choice at party conventions in the summer.
:16:57. > :17:00.For everyone involved in the presidential race this
:17:01. > :17:02.is the biggest test so far, but here in Texas there's particular
:17:03. > :17:11.If he loses here, his campaign will be in real trouble.
:17:12. > :17:17.Polls suggest the Texas Senator is on course for victory
:17:18. > :17:21.Almost everywhere else though Donald Trump is the favourite.
:17:22. > :17:28.Illegal immigration has turned out which votes in a fortnight.
:17:29. > :17:31.Illegal immigration has turned out to be one of the big factors in this
:17:32. > :17:34.entire campaign. You wouldn't even be talking about it. You had
:17:35. > :17:40.wouldn't be hearing about it if I didn't take take all that heat.
:17:41. > :17:42.As for the Democrats, Bernie Sanders left-wing challenge
:17:43. > :17:44.to Hillary Clinton seems to be fading.
:17:45. > :17:47.Secretary Clinton stands out in a very positive way and I think
:17:48. > :17:51.Mr Trump is an embarrassment to our country.
:17:52. > :17:53.Bernie Sanders, he makes the most sense, he has the most experience
:17:54. > :17:56.and he's really making a change for America.
:17:57. > :17:59.The presidential election isn't until November,
:18:00. > :18:06.James Cook, BBC News, Houston in Texas.
:18:07. > :18:09.A head teacher has told a murder trial how she found a 16-year-old
:18:10. > :18:11.pupil bleeding to death after he was stabbed
:18:12. > :18:15.The court heard how Bailey Gwynne was involved in a fight
:18:16. > :18:18.at Cults Academy in October last year.
:18:19. > :18:20.The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal
:18:21. > :18:28.Steven Godden is outside the High Court in Aberdeen.
:18:29. > :18:34.Over to you, Steven. It was lunchtime at school school, a school
:18:35. > :18:40.in the west of the city, what started an argument over a biscuit,
:18:41. > :18:43.ended with one pupil, 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, dead, stabbed through
:18:44. > :18:46.the heart, and another 16-year-old who can't be named for legal
:18:47. > :18:51.reasons, in the dock charged with you ared mer. Today, Bailey Gwynne's
:18:52. > :18:54.family were in court to hear what was at times highly charged
:18:55. > :18:59.evidence. One friend of both boys broke down as he spoke, he wered the
:19:00. > :19:04.fight. He told the jury that he saw the accused reaching into his blazer
:19:05. > :19:07.and pulling out a knife. The head teacher of the school gave evidence
:19:08. > :19:11.much she spoke of seeing Bailey lying on the corridor seriously
:19:12. > :19:16.injured, bleeding and very, very pale. She said she had an exchange
:19:17. > :19:20.with the accused in which he was distraught and he gestured towards
:19:21. > :19:23.Bailey suggesting this was my fault. Now the 16-year-old denies
:19:24. > :19:27.murdereder and two other charges of having weapons on school property.
:19:28. > :19:30.The trial here at the High Court in Aberdeen continues. All right,
:19:31. > :19:35.Steven, thank you. The Home Office has tightened up
:19:36. > :19:40.privacy safeguards in new legal proposals allowing police
:19:41. > :19:42.and intelligence services to monitor electronic
:19:43. > :19:43.communications. The legislation will give police
:19:44. > :19:45.more powers to see internet browsing Service providers will need to store
:19:46. > :19:51.browsing history data for 12 months. The NHS is getting involved
:19:52. > :19:56.in the planning for 10 It's part of a plan to put healthy
:19:57. > :20:01.living at the heart of the design. Some of the options being looked
:20:02. > :20:04.at include special zones free of fast-food outlets
:20:05. > :20:05.and dementia-friendly streets. Our health editor,
:20:06. > :20:20.Hugh Pym, has the details. How they used to w build a new town
:20:21. > :20:25.with convenient access to the shopping centre. But now it's not
:20:26. > :20:30.short steps but longer walks which the planners want to encourage.
:20:31. > :20:33.Here, close to the Thames, Barking and Dagenham council are encouraging
:20:34. > :20:38.development with walking and cycling right at the centre. The idea is We
:20:39. > :20:41.don't want people thinking they have to go to a gym. We want people
:20:42. > :20:45.having nice walks out with the family. The leader told me why he
:20:46. > :20:49.signed the council up with NHS England as a healthy new town for
:20:50. > :20:53.the next round of house building. We have to make sure we are the friends
:20:54. > :20:57.of the walker, cyclist, not of the car. That is what we will look at,
:20:58. > :21:03.making sure we make the development as friendly as possible for people
:21:04. > :21:06.that want to use their own steam. The council's planning 10,000 new
:21:07. > :21:11.homes on this site and will follow the advice of NHS leaders. One in
:21:12. > :21:15.five children is regularly out playing outside. We know that fewer
:21:16. > :21:19.are getting to walk to school or cycle. We know it's harder for older
:21:20. > :21:23.people to walk down to the local shops if there aren't benches or
:21:24. > :21:28.other facilities, pavements where one in ten old people fall each
:21:29. > :21:33.year. We can design in health to make healthy living the easy choice
:21:34. > :21:39.for people. Fast-food outlets are part of the inner city landscape you
:21:40. > :21:42.don't have to go too far from the propose newed development in Barking
:21:43. > :21:46.and Dagenham to find them. That is a challenge for all policy makers
:21:47. > :21:50.trying to promote healthier environments. While health
:21:51. > :21:56.campaigners welcome the announcement they point out the Government's
:21:57. > :22:01.childhood and antiobesity policy has been postponed it looks like a lack
:22:02. > :22:07.of joined up thinking. I'm not against making it a healthy
:22:08. > :22:11.environment, walk and all that. That is a good idea. The idea it will
:22:12. > :22:18.solve a vie Russ of public health in the UK is ridiculous. The healthy
:22:19. > :22:25.towns plan includes help for people with dementia. Staff could be
:22:26. > :22:28.trained and more understanding when appointments are missed. After
:22:29. > :22:31.having the training it made us understand the problem. We don't get
:22:32. > :22:36.stressed now. We put plans into action to help those people when
:22:37. > :22:47.they come in so they feel more comfortable. The staff feel mo
:22:48. > :22:56.confident. Building it is now the challenge. Hugh Pym, BBC News.
:22:57. > :22:59.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
:23:00. > :23:01.A timber storage warehouse was destroyed and several vehicles
:23:02. > :23:03.badly damaged when a huge fire broke out at an industrial yard
:23:04. > :23:09.Over 70 firefighters were needed to put the blaze out.
:23:10. > :23:13.This winter was the wettest recorded in Scotland since records
:23:14. > :23:16.Met Office statistics show that an average of two-and-a-half foot
:23:17. > :23:19.of rain fell across the country in December, January and February.
:23:20. > :23:22.There's more bad weather on the way with a warning of snow and ice
:23:23. > :23:26.being issued for large parts of Scotland overnight.
:23:27. > :23:29.Tim Peake has sent Wales a St David's Day message
:23:30. > :23:32.from the International Space Station.
:23:33. > :23:35.Wales is an important part of our UK space community and from up
:23:36. > :23:39.here it's also beautiful looking down on Snowdon,
:23:40. > :23:42.the Brecon Beacons and the Valleys and so I'd like to wish
:23:43. > :23:47.you all a very happy St David's Day, iechyd da.
:23:48. > :23:50.Three British researchers have won one of the world's most coveted
:23:51. > :23:52.science awards for their work on the brain.
:23:53. > :23:54.They were praised for making significant advances into finding
:23:55. > :24:03.And guess what - it's called the Brain Prize.
:24:04. > :24:04.Here's our science editor, David Shukman.
:24:05. > :24:06.Throughout our lives we collect memories,
:24:07. > :24:09.some remaining clear, others fading, they're part of a system that allows
:24:10. > :24:14.Without it, we'd never advance and everyday tasks,
:24:15. > :24:21.like driving, would be simply impossible.
:24:22. > :24:23.Until recently, no-one knew how the brain could store information,
:24:24. > :24:26.but researchers at this lab in Edinburgh, together with teams
:24:27. > :24:28.in Bristol and London, have found ways to explain
:24:29. > :24:37.Memory we've now got a good handle on because we know about the events
:24:38. > :24:41.that occur when memories are laid down.
:24:42. > :24:46.We know more or less where it happens and we know at the level
:24:47. > :24:49.or connections between nerve cells what's happening.
:24:50. > :24:51.How the brain actually holds memories was for years something
:24:52. > :24:54.that was too difficult to understand, but scientists then
:24:55. > :24:56.realised that one part of it, called the hippocampus,
:24:57. > :25:06.Inside it there are billions of connections between the brain
:25:07. > :25:07.cells and, when those links become stronger,
:25:08. > :25:09.that's the key mechanism allowing us to remember.
:25:10. > :25:12.So one crucial discovery is that the brain can change,
:25:13. > :25:14.creating new connections and breaking them.
:25:15. > :25:17.Another is that faults with this process can be linked to conditions
:25:18. > :25:20.including depression, autism, addiction and Alzheimer's.
:25:21. > :25:26.An image of some of the billions of connections inside the brain.
:25:27. > :25:28.One hope with this research is to fight Alzheimer's
:25:29. > :25:38.If we could zero in on this connection process between brain
:25:39. > :25:40.cells and understand why that connection process is,
:25:41. > :25:45.as it were, under stress, and making it difficult for people
:25:46. > :25:48.to keep a record of their daily events, then maybe we could develop
:25:49. > :25:53.new kinds of drugs that could help that process.
:25:54. > :25:56.As the scientists delve into the mechanism of memory,
:25:57. > :26:03.That some day in the future people who are suffering from trauma,
:26:04. > :26:08.like soldiers after battle, might be helped by having their bad
:26:09. > :26:10.memories deleted, a whole new world of possible treatments has
:26:11. > :26:18.The skies above north-east Scotland were alight last night.
:26:19. > :26:21.It was probably caused by a meteor shower.
:26:22. > :26:24.Many people reported seeing what looked like a fireball
:26:25. > :26:28.and a bright flash, others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused
:26:29. > :26:35.Most meteors aren't seen by the naked eye, this one
:26:36. > :26:38.was thought to have been about 10 centimetres wide and travelling
:26:39. > :26:52.Plenty of interesting facts. It's only Tuesday and I'm exhausted. We
:26:53. > :26:57.had frost and sun yesterday. Mild and wet today. Snow tomorrow,
:26:58. > :27:02.believe it or not! If we look at today in detail. The cloud and rain
:27:03. > :27:05.cleared to the south-easterliy on. Brightening skies, scattering of
:27:06. > :27:08.showers to the north-west. A mild afternoon, temperatures peaking 15
:27:09. > :27:13.degrees, felt almost spring-like. All that is set to change as we move
:27:14. > :27:18.through tonight. Colder air filters in from the argue Arctic it will
:27:19. > :27:23.turn showers in the north-west from rain to sleet and snow. Across
:27:24. > :27:27.Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England as temperatures fall below
:27:28. > :27:29.freezing ice could be an issue. I wouldn't be surprised if we see
:27:30. > :27:34.lying snow first thing in the morning. There is the potential
:27:35. > :27:37.maybe for two to five centimetres, maybe more to higher ground to
:27:38. > :27:40.south-west Scotland into Northern Ireland as well. Accompanied by
:27:41. > :27:45.strong winds. That will be blowing any lying snow around, potential for
:27:46. > :27:48.snow across north-west England and North Wales first thing in the
:27:49. > :27:53.morning. There could be some disruption for your early morning
:27:54. > :27:58.commute, tune into your BBC local radio stations for updates. It' tied
:27:59. > :28:04.into this system which has been called Jake. It will bring strong to
:28:05. > :28:07.damaging gusts of winds across the south-west first thing in the
:28:08. > :28:12.morning. We are concerned about this cluster of wintry showers moving
:28:13. > :28:17.across north-west England, Wales and through the Midlands. As it pushes
:28:18. > :28:21.into the south-west wet snow and sleet. Behind it brighter, but still
:28:22. > :28:23.colder weather, there will be a scattering of winter showers to the
:28:24. > :28:30.far north and west. A disappointing day. Thursday will be quieter, I'm
:28:31. > :28:33.pleased to say, dryer, brighter and a little bit milder, six to nine
:28:34. > :28:37.degrees. We do it all again into Friday. There is the potential for
:28:38. > :28:48.another system to draw in some colder air and there is a potential
:28:49. > :28:51.maybe for some sleet and some snow as