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:00:00. > :00:00.Tonight - the first big political casualty from the mass leak

:00:00. > :00:09.of documents about secret companies and tax havens.

:00:10. > :00:12.The Prime Minister of Iceland is forced to resign after leaked

:00:13. > :00:14.documents appear to show he and his wife hid

:00:15. > :00:20.It follows protests outside the parliament building,

:00:21. > :00:23.increasing the pressure on him to stand down.

:00:24. > :00:26.Here, David Cameron is forced to deny he or his immediate family

:00:27. > :00:31.I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds.

:00:32. > :00:38.The Labour leader calls for every Briton named in the leaked documents

:00:39. > :00:40.about money hidden in tax havens to be investigated.

:00:41. > :00:46.Two 15-year-old girls who battered and tortured a woman to death

:00:47. > :00:48.in her own home are found guilty of murder.

:00:49. > :00:52.A flurry of talks to try to rescue the Tata steel plant at Port Talbot.

:00:53. > :00:55.One potential buyer raises hopes jobs could be saved.

:00:56. > :00:57.And the military hero awarded the highest honour for saving

:00:58. > :01:03.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

:01:04. > :01:08.The England prop Joe Marler faces a World Rugby disciplinary

:01:09. > :01:11.hearing over the potentially racist comment he made to Wales player in

:01:12. > :01:33.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:01:34. > :01:36.Tonight has seen the first big political casualty of the leak

:01:37. > :01:39.of millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm

:01:40. > :01:44.about secret companies and tax havens.

:01:45. > :01:47.The fallout from the huge data leak from the company Mossack Fonseca has

:01:48. > :01:53.Now Iceland's Prime Minister has been forced to resign

:01:54. > :01:56.after documents appear to reveal he and his wife concealed millions

:01:57. > :01:58.of dollars' worth of investments in an offshore company.

:01:59. > :02:07.Our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, has the latest.

:02:08. > :02:12.The Prime Minister of Iceland is the first major casualty of the massive

:02:13. > :02:18.Panama Papers Lakes which have shone a powerful Spotlight on the secret

:02:19. > :02:20.world of offshore finance. Sigmund Gunnlaugsson was accused of

:02:21. > :02:27.concealing millions of dollars of family assets. He insists he has

:02:28. > :02:33.done nothing wrong. But huge crowds in front of the Icelandic parliament

:02:34. > :02:37.disagreed, some estimates say one tenth of the population took to the

:02:38. > :02:42.streets. This is where the global scandal originated. A Panama -based

:02:43. > :02:47.law firm, Mossack Fonseca. 11 million documents held here are

:02:48. > :02:51.passed to a German newspaper which shared them with over 100 media

:02:52. > :02:55.organisations, including the BBC. They shall have the company helped

:02:56. > :03:00.clients want money, dodge shank and evade tax. Mossack Fonseca says it

:03:01. > :03:06.has never been charged with criminal wrongdoing. When the Prime Minister

:03:07. > :03:09.sat down for a series of interviews, he was challenged about allegations

:03:10. > :03:17.that he was involved in financial concealment. Then, his response was

:03:18. > :03:20.to walk out. Now, he has walked from high office and tonight the

:03:21. > :03:24.journalist who got the interview told the BBC here stand and said the

:03:25. > :03:33.crisis goes far wider. The publishing of Icelandic is around

:03:34. > :03:35.330,000. -- published. So far we have fined around 800 offshore

:03:36. > :03:44.companies linked to a slant in the data. And some 600 Icelandic names.

:03:45. > :03:52.We are setting another world record here. Tonight, the Icelandic

:03:53. > :03:55.president rejected the calls for a snap election, saying he needs to

:03:56. > :03:59.consult other party leaders. Sigmund Gunnlaugsson might be going but the

:04:00. > :04:01.government of Icelanders in turmoil as the fallout from the Panama

:04:02. > :04:07.Papers spreads. -- I slant is in. Here, the Prime Minister has been

:04:08. > :04:09.forced to lift the lid on his personal finances as Labour

:04:10. > :04:12.calls for an investigation into all British people linked

:04:13. > :04:14.to millions of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, including

:04:15. > :04:16.David Cameron's own family. The Prime Minister insists no

:04:17. > :04:18.government has done more to crack down on tax evasion

:04:19. > :04:21.and that he personally has no savings off shore

:04:22. > :04:23.or any shares at all. Here's our Economics Editor,

:04:24. > :04:33.Kamal Ahmed. But come the Prime Minister. Binding

:04:34. > :04:37.onto the stage, attempting to bind away from the tax controversy, David

:04:38. > :04:40.Cameron was asked about an investment fund set up by his late

:04:41. > :04:44.father in the tax haven of the Bahamas. Did the Prime Minister or

:04:45. > :04:49.his family gain anything from the fund, nine or in the past? In terms

:04:50. > :04:55.of my own financial affairs, I have no shares, I had a salary as Prime

:04:56. > :05:01.Minister, and I have some savings. Which I get interest from and I have

:05:02. > :05:05.a high is, which used to live in and we let out while living in Downing

:05:06. > :05:10.Street and that is all I have, no shares, offshore trusts or funds,

:05:11. > :05:14.nothing like that. Ian Cameron said at the fund in the 1980s and is no

:05:15. > :05:19.suggestion he broke any rules. Downing Street said the fund 's

:05:20. > :05:24.operation was a private matter and no government had done more to clamp

:05:25. > :05:28.down on abuses of tax haven status. We have now got country after

:05:29. > :05:31.country sharing text information, committing to beneficial ownership

:05:32. > :05:35.registers which we never had before. Is there more to do? Absolutely. Am

:05:36. > :05:41.I committed? Absolutely. That was not enough to satisfy the Leader of

:05:42. > :05:45.the Opposition, the call for an enquiry into the Prime Minister and

:05:46. > :05:48.any British person named in the Panama Papers. Jeremy Corbyn said he

:05:49. > :05:53.would publish his own tax returns and said it was time to get tough on

:05:54. > :05:57.tax havens. Britain has a huge responsibility because many of those

:05:58. > :06:02.tax havens are in British overseas Territories or Crown dependencies.

:06:03. > :06:06.The leaked documents show that tax havens have become honeypots of

:06:07. > :06:11.international corruption, tax avoidance and tax evasion. What is

:06:12. > :06:16.it that makes a secret worth keeping? In the spotlight today, one

:06:17. > :06:21.of those territories, the British Virgin Islands, accused of helping

:06:22. > :06:27.the wealthy avoid tax. Esther Corbyn even raised the possibility of

:06:28. > :06:36.direct rule from the UK if Britain's tax havens did not follow the rules.

:06:37. > :06:38.This is the headquarters of the British Virgin Islands government in

:06:39. > :06:43.London. It is actually remarkably easy to set up a business in the

:06:44. > :06:47.country. There are websites offering off-the-shelf company names which

:06:48. > :07:00.say that you can set up a business overnight. For as little as $1500,

:07:01. > :07:03.say that you can set up a business small change has made the British

:07:04. > :07:08.Virgin Islands are leading tax haven. Some 432,000 international

:07:09. > :07:12.businesses are registered there, making it the second-largest to

:07:13. > :07:16.international businesses behind Hong Kong. The tax regime for those

:07:17. > :07:22.countries is certainly light touch. There is no income tax, no capital

:07:23. > :07:27.gains tax and no inheritance tax. There is also no public record of

:07:28. > :07:32.any owners of the business and no accounts are published, injuring

:07:33. > :07:36.secrecy and those operating there. The BVI said it had robust controls

:07:37. > :07:40.and was strengthening them. An opinion backed by a senior figure

:07:41. > :07:45.from another British overseas territory, the Cayman Islands. The

:07:46. > :07:48.Cayman Islands and other territories display the highest standards of

:07:49. > :07:52.transparency. Clearly, the British Government, whether Jeremy Corbyn is

:07:53. > :07:59.a part of this or not, cannot go around imposing colonial rule

:08:00. > :08:05.without substantial justification for doing so. David Cameron

:08:06. > :08:08.certainly like to leave any personal controversy behind and next month's

:08:09. > :08:12.corruption summit in London will be his opportunity to prove to the

:08:13. > :08:18.public that he takes the issue of the wealthy and tax seriously. Kamal

:08:19. > :08:26.Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in Reykjavik.

:08:27. > :08:28.Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in around the

:08:29. > :08:31.Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in political scalp claimed tonight

:08:32. > :08:34.Ahmed, BC news. Gavin Hewitt is in and I slant? -- is in I slant?

:08:35. > :08:39.Absolutely. He might be able to and I slant? -- is in I slant?

:08:40. > :08:44.the protesters are back on the streets, kicking the fences of

:08:45. > :08:49.Parliament and banging drums. They want a wider clean-out beyond that

:08:50. > :08:57.of the Prime Minister resigning. And to understand this, you must go back

:08:58. > :09:00.to 2008 and the collapse of three banks, it nearly brought down the

:09:01. > :09:03.economy and they were involved in offshore dealings involving some

:09:04. > :09:10.very precarious a natural products. The fact that the Prime Minister

:09:11. > :09:15.here did not declare an interest in his wife's offshore company was a

:09:16. > :09:21.failure of transparency and on top of that, and this is very important,

:09:22. > :09:24.in other areas as well, they saw a conflict of interest because the

:09:25. > :09:29.Prime Minister was involved in negotiations with creditors over

:09:30. > :09:33.those failed banks and his wife stood to gain from that. His

:09:34. > :09:39.position was almost impossible. The other key factor is, the mood

:09:40. > :09:44.generally is different from 2008 after the financial crisis and the

:09:45. > :09:48.people here certainly want to live in an atmosphere of absolute

:09:49. > :09:51.transparency. Gavin Hewitt, thank you.

:09:52. > :09:54.Other news now and two 15-year-old girls have been found guilty

:09:55. > :09:57.of battering and torturing to death a woman in her home in Hartlepool.

:09:58. > :10:03.Leeds Crown Court heard Angela Wrightson, who was 39,

:10:04. > :10:05.died after a sustained and brutal attack which left her

:10:06. > :10:12.The teenagers were 13 and 14 at the time.

:10:13. > :10:15.Angela Wrightson was well liked in her local community.

:10:16. > :10:18.They knew she was an alcoholic and looked out for her.

:10:19. > :10:21.But her weakness was exploited by local children who would get her

:10:22. > :10:27.And it was two vulnerable children who murdered this vulnerable woman.

:10:28. > :10:28.A horrific, prolonged attack using household

:10:29. > :10:38.A murder carried out by two girls, aged 13 and 14.

:10:39. > :10:40.Throughout almost 25 years of service, I have never come

:10:41. > :10:46.across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.

:10:47. > :10:48.Angela was subjected to a long and sustained attack

:10:49. > :10:50.and the pathologist identified a significant number of injuries

:10:51. > :10:54.to her body caused by at least 25 blows with weapons.

:10:55. > :10:57.The young killers even took selfies in the hours

:10:58. > :11:01.Their victim was still conscious at this point.

:11:02. > :11:06.The girls' identities have been obscured because of their age.

:11:07. > :11:08.The violence started here at 9pm in the evening.

:11:09. > :11:16.At 11pm, the two killers left, but they returned a few hours later.

:11:17. > :11:18.Then at 4.20am the next morning, they called police

:11:19. > :11:23.They were both in care and were used to officers

:11:24. > :11:28.In the back of the police van, they took more selfies

:11:29. > :11:34."On the busy van again" they wrote as a caption.

:11:35. > :11:36.Their crime has left people here disgusted.

:11:37. > :11:45.You cannot imagine two young girls doing that to another human being.

:11:46. > :11:49.I went round to the house a few times and just sat with her.

:11:50. > :11:53.Especially in the street where she lived, everybody

:11:54. > :11:57.knew her in the street and everybody looked out

:11:58. > :11:59.for her because they knew she was vulnerable.

:12:00. > :12:02.The two killers of this woman wept as they were found guilty today.

:12:03. > :12:04.Convicted of murder, aged just 15.

:12:05. > :12:12.The Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, is on his way to India for talks

:12:13. > :12:15.with the chairman of Tata Steel as efforts continue to find a buyer

:12:16. > :12:23.The Welsh government has held its own talks with ministers.

:12:24. > :12:25.Thousands of jobs in South Wales are under threat

:12:26. > :12:28.Our Wales Correspondent, Hywel Griffith, is in Newport.

:12:29. > :12:35.Hywel, is it looking more hopeful at all today?

:12:36. > :12:41.One week into the crisis, there are still uncertainty, not least for the

:12:42. > :12:46.tat outworkers in Newport but the city is home to smaller companies

:12:47. > :12:50.with good ideas. Liberty highs says it could take over all of the

:12:51. > :12:55.operations of Tata Steel without massive redundancies but wants to

:12:56. > :12:58.decommission the blast furnaces at Port Talbot, the very centre of the

:12:59. > :13:00.biggest steelworks in Britain. Dominating this landscape

:13:01. > :13:03.for decades, Port Talbot's blast furnaces form what's known

:13:04. > :13:05.as the 'heavy end' of this heavy industry, so the idea

:13:06. > :13:08.that they could be taken Mark and Kate both know their jobs

:13:09. > :13:16.are on the line as Tata put this place up for sale,

:13:17. > :13:19.but they are not convinced different The heartbeat of this whole

:13:20. > :13:23.community, the whole of the steel If they were to disappear

:13:24. > :13:28.from the skyline, then the heartbeat, the dragon's breath

:13:29. > :13:31.of Port Talbot would be taken away. We definitely would be looking

:13:32. > :13:33.for somebody to take on the business as it is,

:13:34. > :13:36.but we can't really reject Liberty says it would want

:13:37. > :13:44.to replace these with electric arc furnaces that melt scrap steel

:13:45. > :13:47.instead of using raw ingredients. It says it's a greener,

:13:48. > :13:51.more flexible way of working. The company is clear this

:13:52. > :13:56.is where Port Talbot's problems are. Upstream is where the challenge

:13:57. > :13:57.lies. But in the upstream,

:13:58. > :14:02.there is a solution, even though it is a very challenging

:14:03. > :14:05.solution, and the solution is to change from making new steel

:14:06. > :14:07.into recycling steel. Liberty does already have a small

:14:08. > :14:10.stake in steel making here. In 2013, it took over this plant

:14:11. > :14:14.in Newport, keeping workers on half pay for 18 months

:14:15. > :14:19.until they resumed production. Ricky says workers in Port Talbot

:14:20. > :14:22.have nothing to fear. Half pay or no pay, that's

:14:23. > :14:25.all it was. You have to take the

:14:26. > :14:27.lesser of two evils. Hopefully, Port Talbot

:14:28. > :14:30.will come through. At the end of the day,

:14:31. > :14:33.it's all the steel industry. This place may be big,

:14:34. > :14:37.but it's nowhere near as vast But are Liberty the only

:14:38. > :14:48.company coming forward? The Business Secretary says

:14:49. > :14:52.others are interested. After being heavily criticised

:14:53. > :14:56.for failing to be in Mumbai to talk to Tata last week,

:14:57. > :14:58.he is heading there tonight. What I want to achieve

:14:59. > :15:02.is to have a final sales Again, it comes back to our role,

:15:03. > :15:06.the UK government role. I want to make sure that

:15:07. > :15:09.when the documentation for that is issued, that it is clear

:15:10. > :15:12.that the UK government understands it has got a role with every

:15:13. > :15:16.potential buyer and that we are well For now, negotiations are producing

:15:17. > :15:20.more heat than light. Any buyer may need the government

:15:21. > :15:25.to help on power costs, pension liability, whilst

:15:26. > :15:27.staying within EU rules. Any deal is still a long

:15:28. > :15:36.way down the line. The Prime Minister of Iceland has

:15:37. > :15:40.become the first political casualty following the mass leaking

:15:41. > :15:45.of financial documents. Jail for the criminal gang who stole

:15:46. > :15:51.artefacts worth millions And coming up in the

:15:52. > :15:56.Sport on BBC News: It's the first of the Champions

:15:57. > :15:57.League quarterfinals. Can anyone stop the

:15:58. > :16:15.Champions, Barcelona? New regulations come into force

:16:16. > :16:17.tomorrow targeting people who consider themselves

:16:18. > :16:19.to have a problem with gambling. It affects nearly 300,000 people

:16:20. > :16:21.in England and Scotland. The clampdown means every bookmaker,

:16:22. > :16:23.casino, arcade and bingo hall across Britain must carry out a risk

:16:24. > :16:26.assessment considering how to better protect children and gambling

:16:27. > :16:29.addicts, and how to stop criminals The spin of the wheel,

:16:30. > :16:45.the buzz of placing a bet. Despite the surge in online

:16:46. > :16:48.gambling, going down to the bookies, the arcade or the casino

:16:49. > :16:50.still appeals, and it's temptation A ruinous addiction saw Tony feed

:16:51. > :17:01.more than ?1 million With it went his home,

:17:02. > :17:12.his job and his marriage. So it was ?4,100 in the space of,

:17:13. > :17:15.well, you can see here... And I just sat down and I thought

:17:16. > :17:20.to myself, you know, And actually, I did contemplate,

:17:21. > :17:24.you know, doing myself in. This addiction just completely takes

:17:25. > :17:26.over your life. My son, you know, isn't

:17:27. > :17:28.having the upbringing that I think my wife has reached

:17:29. > :17:33.the limit of what she can take These assessments offer an extra

:17:34. > :17:46.layer of protection. It's another form to fill in,

:17:47. > :17:49.will it make a real difference? It will make a difference because it

:17:50. > :17:52.will get businesses to really focus It will also help local authorities,

:17:53. > :18:00.who are there to license those premises, understand what actions

:18:01. > :18:02.the operators are taking. Some areas have

:18:03. > :18:03.already gone further. In Manchester, this map combines

:18:04. > :18:06.all the risks, to show There are plenty of

:18:07. > :18:12.opportunities to win or lose. Bookmakers here, another

:18:13. > :18:14.one on the corner and And if you need access to quick

:18:15. > :18:19.cash, there's one, two, three, The map also shows schools,

:18:20. > :18:26.homeless hostels and drug and alcohol treatment centres,

:18:27. > :18:35.all adding to the risk. So I've now taken the steps

:18:36. > :18:38.of getting myself banned from every But not before he'd piled up debts

:18:39. > :18:41.across three countries. The risk assessments,

:18:42. > :18:43.would they have made any difference? Would they have stopped you losing

:18:44. > :18:46.that much money? I personally don't believe

:18:47. > :18:48.that they will make one Bookmakers say they

:18:49. > :18:54.welcome a further step A brief look at some

:18:55. > :18:59.of the day's other news stories. have criticised the prosecution

:19:00. > :19:05.to be made legal in Northern Ireland A judge at Belfast Crown Court

:19:06. > :19:09.handed down a three-month suspended prison sentence to the woman,

:19:10. > :19:14.who bought the drugs online. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:19:15. > :19:16.has launched his party's He said the government

:19:17. > :19:19.was systematically making the wrong choices and had the wrong

:19:20. > :19:21.priorities, taking money from the very weak to fund tax cuts

:19:22. > :19:25.for the very wealthiest. Elections will take place

:19:26. > :19:29.across the UK on May 5th. A file of evidence linking

:19:30. > :19:31.the serial killer Robert Black to the 1978 murder of the schoolgirl

:19:32. > :19:34.Genette Tate has been handed to prosecutors by Devon

:19:35. > :19:38.and Cornwall Police. Officers said they were close

:19:39. > :19:40.to charging Black with the case, which is believed to be Britain's

:19:41. > :19:42.longest-running missing person inquiry, when he died

:19:43. > :19:46.earlier this year. The 13-year-old's body

:19:47. > :19:50.has never been found. A criminal gang has been jailed

:19:51. > :19:53.for stealing rhino horn and Chinese antiques worth almost ?60 million

:19:54. > :19:59.from museums around the UK. The fourteen men were said

:20:00. > :20:01.to have caused 'significant cultural loss' to Britain,

:20:02. > :20:03.and the value of what they stole dwarfs the robbery last

:20:04. > :20:07.year in Hatton Garden. Our correspondent

:20:08. > :20:12.Robert Hall has more. They were dubbed 'the Rathkeale

:20:13. > :20:14.Rovers', after the Irish town where Their targets were collections

:20:15. > :20:31.of high-value Chinese artefacts and, in particular, objects made of rhino

:20:32. > :20:44.horn, whose price on the black some of them were experts and they

:20:45. > :20:48.knew they could sell the items with the network available.

:20:49. > :20:51.The men at the top, the planners, didn't take part in the actual

:20:52. > :20:53.break-ins, so mobile phone tracking was crucial in establishing links

:20:54. > :20:56.with other gang members and putting callers in the right place,

:20:57. > :21:04.Two gang members who snatched a Ming dynasty vase at Durham's Oriental

:21:05. > :21:08.Museum were tackled before they could escape. In Norwich, another

:21:09. > :21:12.raid verging on incompetent when four of the gang tried to steal a

:21:13. > :21:15.rhino hedge during opening hours, it proved too heavy.

:21:16. > :21:17.One of my staff kicked the man who was holding

:21:18. > :21:21.The other member of staff immediately grabbed it

:21:22. > :21:32.Ramon Fonseca a month later, the gang spotted a rhino horn cup in

:21:33. > :21:36.Sussex but when the latest recruit strolled through the door, they look

:21:37. > :21:40.went for the wrong cup and they were grabbed by staff. Foiled again, they

:21:41. > :21:45.returned to Durham Oriental Museum, checking out the galleries and

:21:46. > :21:48.smashing their way in. They hit ?2 million worth of Chinese artefacts

:21:49. > :21:52.in a hedge but one burglar forgot where he put them and they were

:21:53. > :21:56.recovered. The gang were now desperate for success and a new plan

:21:57. > :22:00.took them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Any spring day in

:22:01. > :22:05.2012, in Cambridge. Any spring day in

:22:06. > :22:08.the museum. They took a particular interest in the Oriental galleries.

:22:09. > :22:11.Just before half past seven the following evening, the alarms went

:22:12. > :22:17.off. In just a couple of minutes, the burglars grabbed objects with a

:22:18. > :22:22.market value of ?40 million which have not been seen since.

:22:23. > :22:24.It's a sort of betrayal of trust, because these objects actually

:22:25. > :22:29.Their theft by a series of selfish individuals

:22:30. > :22:38.One by one, the gang were arrested and charged, linked by phone

:22:39. > :22:41.A criminal network that's thought to have operated across Europe

:22:42. > :22:43.has been closed down, but the treasures that

:22:44. > :22:45.belong to all of us have yet to be recovered.

:22:46. > :22:49.A military dog which lost a leg sniffing out a roadside bomb

:22:50. > :22:51.in Afghanistan has been awarded the animal equivalent

:22:52. > :22:54.Lucca, a twelve-year-old German Shepherd, took part in more

:22:55. > :22:57.than 400 missions with the US Marine Corps in Iraq

:22:58. > :22:59.and Afghanistan, helping protect thousands of troops

:23:00. > :23:05.Balancing on three paws, Lucca was today recognised

:23:06. > :23:09.Her handler, Gunnery Sergeant Chris Willingham,

:23:10. > :23:15.It is the highest honour a military animal can achieve in combat,

:23:16. > :23:21.It's on missions like this one in Iraq in 2006 that Lucca

:23:22. > :23:26.worked to keep hundreds of allied troops safe.

:23:27. > :23:28.Sent out ahead of army patrols, she searched

:23:29. > :23:36.for and discovered IEDs, arms caches and even insurgents.

:23:37. > :23:38.She completed over 400 missions with the US Marines,

:23:39. > :23:42.Not a single human life was lost while she was on patrol.

:23:43. > :23:45.It's a bond the soldier who trained Lucca says is unbreakable.

:23:46. > :23:55.And your job is to properly employ the dog and just look out

:23:56. > :23:58.for her when you're out on patrol, so it's a true team effort.

:23:59. > :24:01.But it was during the last day of her last mission in Afghanistan

:24:02. > :24:04.that things went terribly wrong, when she tripped an IED.

:24:05. > :24:06.The massive explosion severed Lucca's leg and she suffered

:24:07. > :24:11.She was finally retired and returned to her handler,

:24:12. > :24:16.who says it is to her that he owes his own life.

:24:17. > :24:19.She was also there for me during my worst moments in combat

:24:20. > :24:22.when I lost one of my fellow dog teams in an operation

:24:23. > :24:26.Lucca's citation describes her as 'A symbol of hope

:24:27. > :24:33.The soldiers whose lives she saved would certainly agree.

:24:34. > :24:39.Sangita Myska, BBC News, Wellington Barracks.

:24:40. > :24:53.A spell of fine weather for most of us today. Certainly competitors

:24:54. > :24:58.today. It will not last long because tomorrow, we do it all over again

:24:59. > :25:02.with lots of heavy showers around. This is fair weather clouds

:25:03. > :25:06.scattered across the country. Chilly in rural areas tonight. But

:25:07. > :25:10.tomorrow, it is the wind that makes it feel cold. We will see blustery

:25:11. > :25:16.showers with hail and thunder. The changes already taking shape across

:25:17. > :25:20.the Atlantic. This weather front, colder air following behind and that

:25:21. > :25:26.races across the UK during tomorrow. But for the time being, a lot of dry

:25:27. > :25:31.weather about. Some showers around earlier, but on balance, a dry

:25:32. > :25:37.evening. Tonight, the rain reaches Northern Ireland and Western and

:25:38. > :25:40.Northern areas. The selfie should stay dry, clear skies, five, 6

:25:41. > :25:47.degrees in towns and cities and that chilly air reaches us tomorrow,

:25:48. > :25:53.blustery winds around the post. And hail and thunder and sleet and snow

:25:54. > :25:56.across the hills in the North. A blistering, chilly and changeable

:25:57. > :26:00.day tomorrow with sunshine in between. These are the apparent

:26:01. > :26:04.temperatures, what it might feel like, one or 2 degrees above

:26:05. > :26:09.freezing, so you really notice the difference compared to today.

:26:10. > :26:13.Copycat conditions on Thursday, if anything, across the South, it might

:26:14. > :26:19.be worse, more cloud around, the rain might come and go. And rain

:26:20. > :26:23.possible anywhere across the UK. Temperatures, 9 degrees, with a

:26:24. > :26:30.strong wind, it feels colder. On Friday, another weather front at so

:26:31. > :26:33.you get the message it is unsettled. This is Friday morning, Friday

:26:34. > :26:37.afternoon, the rain getting into Northern Ireland, the West and

:26:38. > :26:43.south-west and showers ahead of it. If you go out for the entire day,

:26:44. > :26:47.take an umbrella, rain at any time. We want something better!

:26:48. > :26:54.The Prime Minister of Iceland has become the first political casualty

:26:55. > :26:56.following the mass leaking of documents about

:26:57. > :27:00.Here, David Cameron has tonight he or his immediate family hold any

:27:01. > :27:04.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.

:27:05. > :27:06.And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.