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David Cameron says he can't give any guarantees about the future | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The company's UK operations are under threat - | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
more questions for ministers about what they plan to do. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
I don't believe nationalisation is the right answer. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
What we want to do is secure a long-term future for Port Talbot | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
and for other plants in the United Kingdom. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
If there isn't a buyer coming forward very very quickly it will be | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
nationalised to stabilise, and then we look at the investment | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
We'll be asking if steel plants in the rest of the EU | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
And it's goodbye from him - for the last time - | :00:44. | :01:04. | |
Ronnie Corbett dies at the age of 85. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
A desperate search for survivors after a half-built flyover | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
in the Indian city of Kolkata collapses. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Donald Trump's U turn on abortion - he faces a backlash after saying | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Time for a nappy change - new pictures of baby Afia seven | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
weeks after she was born at Bristol Zoo. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Police investigate claims that a leading member of Scotland's | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
largest mosque had links with a banned Islamic terrorist | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
And, a deal to transfer large quantities of nuclear waste | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:33. | :01:56. | |
David Cameron has said the government will do all it can to | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
help Britain's still industry but doesn't make any promises about its | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
success. He also ruled out nationalisation of the Port Talbot | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
plant. There has been criticism of the government's handling of the | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
crisis. Here's our deputy political | :02:15. | :02:15. | |
editor James Landale. This is a steel plants living on | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
borrowed time. With jobs and pensions at risk, if one day the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
furnaces stop burning, and these gates are locked for good. We make a | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
top quality product. We are second to none. They need to hear we have a | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
future for this plant. Somebody needs to come down here. I would | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
like to see Mr Cameron himself, but you cannot see that happening. But | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
somebody needs to come here. The steel industry is going to go. The | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Prime Minister, back from holiday, said the government would do what it | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
would do. We are not rolling anything out. I don't believe | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
nationalisation is the answer. We want to secure a long-term future | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
for Port Talbot. The fear in Downing Street is that the owners will not | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
give them enough time to find a buyer and just close the plant down. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
But just listen to the caution in David Cameron's voice. We were | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
concerned there was a chance that there could have been an outright | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
closure of Port Talbot. That is why we worked very hard with the company | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
to make sure there is a proper sales process. We will do everything we | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
can to encourage people to come forward, but this is a difficult | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
situation. There are no guarantees of success. The government has been | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
criticised for acting slowly. Today ministers were summoned to talk | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
about the crisis. But if you don't recognise them all, don't worry, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
most of the Cabinet wasn't there. And the Business Minister was still | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
on a trip with his teenage daughter, so he sent his junior minister in. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Is this the end of the steel industry? We hope not. The | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
government has also -- is also accused of failing to protect the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
industry by opposing EU plans for higher tariffs on cheap Chinese | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
imports which have flooded the market and lowered prices. An | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
accusation pressed on by the MP that represents Port Talbot and was in | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
India this week ago shaking with Tata. This is a shambles. It seems | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
to be a blend of incompetence and indifference. -- meeting with Tata. | :04:19. | :04:33. | |
Labour and the unions want to give financial support to Tata Steel in | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
the short-term while a buyer is found. And more state aid in the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
long term to make it more viable and pay for it all by raising capital | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
gains taxes. If a buyer isn't coming forward quickly it will have to be | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
nationalised to stabilise. Then we will look at the strategy for the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
long-term future. Buyers may emerge, we may want to keep a Public stake. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
The government is in a tight spot. Under political pressure. But it | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
doesn't hold all of the cards. Tata Steel will decide how long it wants | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
to give this plant open. A potential buyer will decide if it is worth | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
buying at the glut of global steel isn't going away. Ministers now I | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
admit there is only so much they can do. To be sustainable it has to be a | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
solution that recognises the context and the reality of a world which is | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
drowning in an oversupply of steel. We cannot simply ignore that. It has | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
to be a more nuanced solution that focuses on supporting the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
communities. That is what this comes down to, the impact on communities | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
whose lives revolve around the steel plant, and whose future is dependent | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
on choices made in the coming days. Tata's board decided to pull out | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
of steel production in the UK because it was not able | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
to make money here - the Port Talbot plant alone | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
was losing ?1 million a day. Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
been looking at why UK steel has suffered more than | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
competitors across Europe. Yes, George, so the question is, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
does Britain get a bad Much of the regulation and support | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
for the steel industry across Europe Tariffs against other | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
countries' imports - such as China - which are lower | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
than those imposed by countries like America - or financial | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
support by way of loans But, there are strict rules | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
on actual state aid - I would say our hands are tied. The | :06:33. | :06:58. | |
rules of the single market do not have any discriminatory help to any | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
industry. I think some countries violate the rules. They get taken to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the European Court. By the time they are taken to the European Court they | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
may have just gone past the problem, and simply happily be slapped on the | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
rest. Today the European Union said it was ready to act to support | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
British steel. There are EU retraining funds, for example, that | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
the UK Government has never used. We are | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
the UK Government has never used. We authorities. Obviously | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
the UK Government has never used. We are under development. As you | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
understand while that is ongoing we are not in a situation to be able to | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
provide any further are not in a situation to be able to | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
But we are there basically to provide guidance. More generally, | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Britain has been criticised for failing to invest in steel-making, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
and for applying high business and for applying high business | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
rates, and high green taxes. The weakness of the year against | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
rates, and high green taxes. The sterling has also meant steel | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
imports to the UK are cheaper, and other major steel producers such as | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Belgium and Italy have faced allegations of flouting | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Belgium and Italy have faced state aid rules. The other countries | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
realise that steel-making is not just another company. It isn't like | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
two restaurant in just another company. It isn't like | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
closes and just another company. It isn't like | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
That means not being able to make steel ever again. The other European | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
countries realise that. The impact is clear - | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
in the last year British steel In Germany - Europe's | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
largest producer - that figure has fallen | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
by less than 1%. There is something | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
fundamental at the heart of this steel debate - the Conservative | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
government is more sympathetic to market forces, which can mean | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
some sectors failing Others, including parts of the EU, | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
are more interventionist, protecting jobs, but that can | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
sometimes mean higher prices. Ronnie Corbett, a comic legend | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
and one half of the Two Ronnies He passed away in hospital | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
surrounded by his family. Tributes have been pouring | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
in from the world of entertainment. At the height of their powers | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
in the seventies and eighties the Two Ronnies show on BBC One | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
was a television institution. I looked down on him because I am | :09:26. | :09:39. | |
upper-class. I looked up to him because he is upper-class. But I | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
looked down on him because he is lower class. I am middle class. I | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
know my place. By the time he recorded that famous sketch with | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
donkeys and Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett was already an established, | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
it -- established comic. But it was the Two Ronnies with Roddy Barker | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
which really made his name. They brought genial comedy into peoples | :10:08. | :10:22. | |
homes. Ronnie Barker. Chosen subject is to answer the question before. Is | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
that correct? George Smithers. What is palaeontology? Absolutely | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
correct. LAUGHTER | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
There you are, four candles. Fork handles. There you are, four | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
candles. Fork handles, handles for forks. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
LAUGHTER His reactions, he was great that we | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
acting. If ever you watch it in a sketch, it might have been a | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
brilliant Ronnie Barker talking, but you look at Ronnie Corbett's face, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
it was reacting all the time. He was brilliant at that. When they | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
reunited for a Royal variety show years later it was clear how much | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
they had been laughed. One of the saddest days of my life. Ronnie was | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
a friend. Somebody I admired so much. He was... We always say a one | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
off, and he certainly was a one off and a half. I was walking along... | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
His particular contribution were the monologues he delivered from an easy | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
chair, often including jokes about his own height. Name, Ronald Goliath | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
Corbett. The younger generation of comics like Harry Enfield viewed him | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
with admiration and affection. What's the problem? My blackberry | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
isn't working. Many made tributes today. And many grew up watching one | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
of Britain's's most loved comedy partnerships. The last time, it is | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
good night from me... And it is good night from him. Good night. Good | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
night. Ronnie Corbett - | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
who's died aged 85. Rescue workers in the Indian city | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
of Kolkata have been using their bare hands | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
to try to save dozens of people feared trapped when | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
a flyover collapsed. Police say at least eighteen people | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
died when the structure - which was still under | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
construction - caved in. This is normally one | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
of Kolkata's busiest areas, Shoppers had been heading | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
to the City's largest market at midday when the flyover collapsed | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
and people fled for their lives, some escaped but eyewitnesses say | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
that many asked trapped. Loved ones are coming | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
here desperately seeking information as to what has | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
happened to their relatives, the police are having to use | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
wooden sticks to move them away as they try to get more | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
and more equipment into this area. Every minute more ambulances | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
are leaving the scene and taking The Army is leading | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
the rescue operations - they are using thermal cameras | :13:21. | :13:32. | |
to try to find those missing and have brought in cranes | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
to remove the rubble. Many locals have | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
described the initial For the first few | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
hours volunteers used their bare hands to try to move huge | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
slabs of concrete which had people This rescue operation | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
will continue into the night. As one of India's largest cities | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
tries to deal with what one local politician has called | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
a monumental tragedy. David Cameron has said that the | :13:54. | :14:14. | |
government will do all he can to help the steel industry but is | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
criticised by Labour and still unions. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
What would the Premier League look like without players from other | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Footballers join the referendum argument. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
We'll have more memories of Ronnie Corbett, who maintained | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
lifelong links with his Scottish birthplace. | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
And the ice hockey team with a combined age | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
From tomorrow, Greater Manchester will take direct control | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
of ?6 billion worth of annual health and social care funding - | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
money previously managed by central government. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
It is the most ambitious aspect of the English devolution package | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Our Home Editor Mark Easton looks at what difference the change | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
For the first time in over a century, some of Greater | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
municipal powers are clicking back into place. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
When the city's clocks tick to midnight tonight ?6 billion | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
of health and social care funding previously administered in London | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
will be directly controlled by ten local councils that make up | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
But Greater Manchester is planning something truly radical. | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
The health and care cash will be spent not according | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
to the priorities of Whitehall departments but on whatever | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
it is felt will improve the well-being of people and places | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
That could mean some of the cash is diverted away from hospitals | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
and doctors and into things like improving housing, | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
Greater Manchester is abandoning the Whitehall model, | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
instead of protecting their own budgets and power, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
organisations will, it is claimed, work together for the common good. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
Here at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport for example | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
Chief Executive Anne Barnes says she would be delighted | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Some of the budget that is funding this should actually be used | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
You would give up some of your budget, would you? | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Yes, we will absolutely give up some of our budget to allow social care | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
to keep looking after people in their homes instead | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
Life expectancy in parts of Greater Manchester is among | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
the lowest in the developed world and demands on the NHS and social | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Even with a ?6 billion annual budget they must somehow save ?2 billion | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
The answer, they believe, is to smash the silos, | :16:52. | :17:04. | |
the institutional badges, they are being removed, literally. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
It is that different thinking, thinking outside | :17:08. | :17:08. | |
In this neighbourhood of Wigan agencies are trying to improve | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
the well-being of residents, health, housing, the Council, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
they all pool their budgets and resources for the good | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
This isn't about multi-agency or partnership working, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
this is about us coming together to get common outcomes, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the main one being that we are improving the lives of this area | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Who takes the credit if it goes well? | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Who takes responsibility if a hospital won't hand over some | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
We don't see ourselves as competitors, we don't see | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
Why do they think you can make it work? | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
People will say, in the end, what is good for the service | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
It's hard not to raise a sceptical eyebrow, | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
but Greater Manchester is not just taking the money but rethinking how | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
the state can deliver services and improve people's lives. | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
If they can achieve the ambitious health and well-being targets | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
they have set themselves it may change the way we are governed. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
The Liberal Democrats have launched their local election | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
campaign with a two-day tour of key battlegrounds. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Leader Tim Farron visited Sheffield and Hull and will also travel | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
to Newcastle, Southport and Liverpool over the next 48 hours. | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
The party said its campaign will focus on defending local | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
services, housing and dedication to serving the community. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
The US presidential race now - and for weeks it's seemed | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
as if the Republican front runner Donald Trump could - | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
and did - get away with almost anything. | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
He's made a hasty retreat after making some controversial | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
remarks on abortion - saying women should be punished | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
if abortion becomes a criminal offence. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel has more. | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
So far so normal, another town hall, another interview, another highly | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
provacative comment from the Republican front runner. | :19:22. | :19:22. | |
This time on abortion, and what should happen to women | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
who have the procedure if it has been outlawed. | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
You do believe in punishment in principle? | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Yes, there has to be some punishment. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
What he said today is just among the most outrageous and dangerous | :19:38. | :20:05. | |
What he hadn't anticipated was that his own backers would pile | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
I don't think he was prepared and I don't think | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
He had to walk it back and issue a statement to clarify | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
It was a terrible answer, no one will defend what he said, | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
because the idea of, well, we have do have some punishment, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
and even in his answer it looked as though he was fumbling around | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
The statement was a spectacular U-turn. | :20:37. | :20:50. | |
Donald Trump is in Washington today meeting his foreign policy advisers, | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
but perhaps when he needs most help is with women, | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
since issuing the statement last night to has had nothing to say | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
about the controversy on social media, very unusual for him, | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
for the first time we have seen Donald Trump on the run | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories... | :21:07. | :21:21. | |
A review of end-of-life care in England suggests many hospitals | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
are failing to provide round-the-clock specialists | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
The study by the Royal College of Physicians, found that | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
improvements have been made - but there were also unacceptable | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Police are investigating alleged links between Muslim leaders at two | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
of Scotland's largest mosques and a banned sectarian | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
A BBC investigation found evidence that Sabir Ali and Hafiz Abdul Hamid | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
took roles in a political party which was banned for its links | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
The girl band Little Mix have been forced to cancel two concerts | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
in Belfast after one of their members, Jessy Nelson became unwell. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
The girl band were due to play a matinee and evening show | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
The announcement came after doors had already opened for the matinee | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
So far the arguments about the EU referendum have tended | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
to concentrate on issues like the economy or migration. | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
Leading figures in the sport say the game could face changes | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
if the UK votes to leave the European Union. | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Our Sports Editor Dan Roan has more. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
It's a result that could change the face of British football, European | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
talent has helped make the Premier League hugely popular, players from | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the EU are currently free to play here but the UK could vote to leave | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
in the summer and some are worried about the impact of so-called | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Brexit. We have the best players in the world and we have access through | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Europe to those best players, not to have them is self-evidently very | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
damaging, very damaging. That's a real threat to us. We should not go | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
down that road. The government could agree to freedom of movement as part | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
of its exit negotiations and little would change but what if the rules | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
for non-EU players that they must be regulars for their country to | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
automatically get a work permit applied to European footballers too? | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
125 out of 199 players would not qualify based on their international | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
records. In the Scottish Premiership none of the 53 would have the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
required number of caps. Across British football 441 EU players face | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
an uncertain future. If you have fewer players coming from Europe it | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
opens up squads in the first team for local players, so there is a | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
potential benefit. Whether those players would be brought on as much | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
without access to European players is another question. Here at | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Cosmopolitan Stoke City the make-up of the squad could change can | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
magically. The club has nine EU players who wouldn't automatically | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
qualify to stay based on their international appearances. They | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
would have to appeal and hope they could make a case to be granted a | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
permit. Some may be successful but others may not. However according to | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
one leading manager Brexit needn't mean an exodus of talent. The | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Premier League and the football Association, especially the Premier | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
League, they will adjust the rural is accordingly. I think there could | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
be massive trouble otherwise. It is such massive revenue, are the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
government would not put up with it because they get so | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
government would not put up with it it's unbelievable. Players like | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Dimitri Payet are among the biggest stars in English football, but the | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
game now faces potential uncertainty. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
You might remember last month we told you about a baby gorilla | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
born at Bristol Zoo in a rare emergency Caesarean operation. | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
She's now seven weeks old and is being cared | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
for by keepers as her mother has been critically ill since her birth. | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Jon Kay has been to see her and the team caring | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Lindsey looks like any proud mum, carrying a newborn through the park. | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
But look closely in her sling, this is a seven-week-old baby | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
It was on a Friday last month that she was born in a rare | :25:20. | :25:37. | |
Caesarean operation when her mother became unwell. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Until Mum has fully recovered, Afia needs to be hand reared | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
by staff at Bristol Zoo. | :25:46. | :25:46. | |
Which even involves taking her home with them at night. | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
Lindsey told me that she sleeps with Afia downstairs | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
while her husband and two human children sleep upstairs. | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
I get my bed set up for the evening, I might watch a bit of telly | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
and have a cup of tea, but I'm always aware of feeds | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
and trying to get myself some sleep in between them. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Just like you are when you have young babies at home. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
You are snatching sleep where you can. | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
My husband jokes, we could have a third one, | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Zookeepers say the priority is to get Afia back with her gorilla | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
family where the public can see her, but it will take time, | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
first she has to get to know her relatives like Dad, | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
Jock, and if her real mum can't bring her up then Auntie Remina | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
is said to be showing maternal interest. | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
In the meantime, though, she has got Lindsey. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Time for a look at the weather now with Alex Deakin. We will keep the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
animal theme going because March came in like a lion but as it | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
normally does it is going out like a lamb. Quite a calm and sunny day for | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
most today but there were storms in eastern England. A big thunderstorm | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
in Ipswich producing significant hailstones, also across south-east | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Scotland. Some storms rumbling on in the East at the moment but they are | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
fading away. Most having a dry night and light last night it will be | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
another chilly one, particularly across England and Wales. These are | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
the temperatures in the countryside, down to freezing or a touch below, | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
but not in the North West because there are signs of change. The | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
breeze is picking up and wet weather also pushes in, a soggy day for | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Northern Ireland and western Scotland and the rain trickles into | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
other parts of England and Wales. Southern parts will stay dry. The | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
rain slowly heads to eastern Scotland but the Murray Firth will | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
stay dry and bright, 13 possible. It is dismal and cruel in Northern | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
Ireland, Belfast. -- cool in Belfast. Where the sun shines | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
longest after a cold start the afternoon should see temperatures | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
getting into the teens. The weather front looks as though it will sweep | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
across for the weekend but it stops and starts to grind further north | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
during the weekend so some places look rather soggy with rain pushing | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
back into southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, to the north of | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
that it is dry and bright but chilly and further south there will be | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
warmer weather with some sunshine. Again into the teens. Heavy showers | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
on Saturday night and still some on Sunday where they are | :28:39. | :28:54. | |
lingering in some areas but signs of things getting warmer still on | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
Sunday. I like that. Thanks very much. A reminder of the main | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
story... David Cameron has said the government will do all it can to | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
help the steel industry but has been | :29:03. | :29:03. |