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to the Queen about the world's most corrupt countries. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Just days before he hosts a summit on global corruption, | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Mr Cameron tells Her Majesty about his invitation list. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
We have got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
We'll be asking if those unguarded comments will offend | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
those he needs to join the fight against corruption. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Iain Duncan Smith says the EU works for the well off, | :00:38. | :00:52. | |
but not for Britain's poor - he's backing the Leave campaign . | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
A row over school tests after another paper is leaked. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Josh is back in Cornwall, where he belongs. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
One family's struggle to get the right treatment for his autism | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Singer Meghan Trainor pulls her promotional video | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News... | :01:11. | :01:22. | |
The World Anti Doping Agency will investigate new claims | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
of doping by Russian athletes, at their own Sochi | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:27. | :01:47. | |
Just days before he hosts an international conference | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
on corruption, David Cameron has been overheard making unguarded - | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
and candid - comments about some of the participants. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Speaking to the Queen he described them as leaders of fantastically | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
corrupt countries, citing Nigeria and Afghanistan as examples. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Co-operation from both leaders will be crucial to the summit's | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
success and Downing Street said both men had acknowledged the scale | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Here's our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. | :02:10. | :02:21. | |
The Prime Minister was among leading figures from both Houses of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Parliament, marking the Queen of the 90th birthday at Buckingham Palace. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
The Palace cameraman filming captured the moment when Mr Cameron, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
flanked by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Chris Grayling, is | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
joined by the Queen and the Speaker of the House of Commons by John | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
Burke oh. So, was that unremarkable or a | :02:44. | :03:30. | |
diplomatic gaffes? Some would conclude the Prime Minister was | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
speaking the truth. Some may think he is not quite right, others that | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
the mood became more jocular on this most serious topic. Could this | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
undermine efforts to tackle corruption? Historically, it is true | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
that Nigeria and Afghanistan have had major corruption problems and | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
they continue to have them. At the same time, we have leaders in those | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
countries that have sent strong signals they want to change that. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Let's remember, this is also important for the UK. The UK | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
continues to provide a safe haven for corrupt money are both here and | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
in its overseas territories. David Cameron knows both presidents. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Downing Street says they have been invited because they are driving the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
fight against corruption. Some people may question the hundreds of | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
millions in British aid. The summit may also renew some public doubt | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
about the sacrifice of over 450 British lives in Afghanistan. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Demands for real progress tackling corruption will now be higher than | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
ever. Looking at the reaction from Downing | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
Street, they seem pretty relaxed. I think they are. This is a very | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
important summit in the Prime Minister's mind. He has been leading | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
the summit. Pressure groups want to drive down corruption, which robs | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
the world's poorest of the hopes of a better life. It is important to | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
stress that he, the Prime Minister, was indirectly quoting the president | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
of Nigeria and the president of Afghanistan. They had written in a | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
book to be published when the summit starts that they recognise the | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
endemic problems of their countries. Why would you have a global | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
corruption summit in who did not ask those who suffered some of the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
greatest problems? It is interesting that when they were asked about | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
this, Downing Street suggested that perhaps the Prime Minister did know | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
what he was saying was on camera and he might be quite relaxed about it. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Staying in the EU may be fine for the well off but it's | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
That's the argument from the former minister Iain Duncan Smith, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
a leading figure in the Leave campaign. | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
He blamed unchecked immigration for driving down wages and putting | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Meanwhile, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
launching Labour's referendum battle bus, said that EU membership had | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
For richer or poorer. Has EU immigration made life better for | :06:03. | :06:12. | |
some but were for others? A squeeze on public services, a squeeze on | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
jobs. It has arrived on the campaign stage. The EU, despite its grand, | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
early intentions by has become, I believe, a friend of the haves | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
rather than the have-nots. If we're not careful with the fear huge rise | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
and an explosion of the have-nots. We will see a rise in people who | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
have a home of their own and those who are at the back of the queue. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
For many of us, Eastern Europeans who have come to live and work here | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
have become the human face of our EU permission. Iain Duncan Smith claims | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
in many places, even the Olympic Park, Britons have lost work to them | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
because they will take cheaper wages. People have said they could | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
not get jobs because they were outbid by migrant workers staying in | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
bedsits. Over 50% of the jobs were taken by foreign workers. Not only | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
were you in the Cabinet for six years, but you are also in charge of | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
the Department for Work and Pensions, where significant cuts | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
were made to the kind of payments that go exactly to the kind of | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
people that today you say you are concerned about. If you have an open | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
border, you cannot control the competition at the bottom end which | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
has become very fierce and is a detriment to those who have based | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
costs which cannot change. There is some evidence that immigration has | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
pushed some wages down a little. Economic turbulence could dwarf any | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
potential rises. New arrivals have put new demands on public services. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
And could that change how we vote in the referendum? This choice is about | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
all of our futures. Weighing up pressure on schools and the NHS | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
might be part of these families decisions. There are not enough | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
places for schools and hospital beds. I definitely think there | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
should be controls on that front. There is lots of chat as they get | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
older about what school they will go to and whether they will have enough | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
places and the rest of it. Rejecting Iain Duncan Smith's argument, | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
accusing the outers of being extreme. If we left the European | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Union, exploitation would be worse. There be no protection of | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
part-timers getting the same pay a full timers, no protection for | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
temporary workers, maternity leave or paternity leave. They're not just | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
making this case because it is what they believe, it might be their best | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
bet at winning the referendum. It is suggested that the less well off you | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
are, the more likely you are to want to quit to be you. Maybe this is an | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
argument between the haves and have-nots. Politicians have often | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
been squeamish over talking immigration. In this campaign, it | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
might decide how we choose our final destination. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
You can find lots more information on the facts behind the EU | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
referendum claims on a special section | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Staying with the referendum, a new survey suggests the gap | :09:30. | :09:42. | |
and those who want to leave has narrowed. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
The British Chambers of Commerce says 54% of its the members surveyed | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
in April said they would vote Remain, that's down from 60% | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, has been hearing both | :09:55. | :10:11. | |
When it comes to whether it would be better to leave or remain in the EU, | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
their opinions couldn't be further apart. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Teresa Auciello is sales director at a wind turbine company in Corby, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
I think it is important for us to stay in the EU so that we can | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
actually be influencing and shaping the future of Europe, | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Other businesses, of course, have different views. | :10:41. | :10:56. | |
I'm on my way to another business, it's about 15 miles away. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
why does the opinion of business leaders matter, | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
any more than say the opinion of doctors or lawyers? | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
I suppose that comes down for both the Remain and the Leave campaign | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
to the fact that they believe that businesses really speak to a vital | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
issue in this referendum campaign, and that is the issue of jobs | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
We export to every country within Europe. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Guy Schanschieff is the founder of a reusable nappy company. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Leaving the EU holds no fears for him and he thinks it | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
We are continually looking as a company that is growing rapidly | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
We certainly see the new markets we want to go into to continue | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
to grow in the US, in India, and South America, and being out | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
of the EU would give the Government the opportunity to negotiate | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
quicker, more efficient trade deals, which would help us grow and export. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
What this Brexit survey of 2,000 businesses reveals if there is not | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
Of those that export to the EU, 62% support remaining in. | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
For those that do not, that support falls to 43%. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
For large businesses, that is with over 250 employees, | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
For smaller businesses, with under 50 employees, | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
Remain campaigners insist that all reputable business polls show | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
some support for staying in the EU but opinions still clearly differ | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
for this most important voice in the referendum campaign. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
There's a fresh controversy over the credibility of school tests | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
in England after an English paper was put online by mistake | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Three weeks ago another Sats paper appeared online. A rogue marker is | :12:53. | :13:04. | |
blamed. Here's our education correspondent | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Robert Pigott. About 600,010 and 11-year-olds in | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
England did that Sats today. After the latest leak of papers, even as | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Year 6 sat down to take their tests, and increasingly bitter argument | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
about the effect on people than the benefits of the papers was | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
intensifying. After their second Sats test, ordinary English classes | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
seem easy for people that Beatrix Potter primary school. This morning, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
most of these ten and 11-year-olds felt a lot hung on the exams, for | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
them and their school. Some people have been nervous and some people | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
have not really been bothered too much. I was quite nervous. It was | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
not very hard, it was quite easy. The children are not that stressed | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
at first. Then, the parents when they say little things that build up | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
the stress. The test might never have happened. Pearson, the company | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
that supplies the exams, the stately allowed the paper on a secure | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
website. A marker leaked it to a journalist. The leak comes three | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
weeks after another primary school test had to be abandoned because it | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
had been mistakenly posted on a government website. Earlier, tests | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
for four-year-olds had to be suspended because the three versions | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
on offer were found not to be comparable. There was chaos in | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
assessment. They should scrap these tests and not use the results of any | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
that have been done this year and talk with the profession about what | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
appropriate assessment for primary school children looks like. The | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Government had said Billy King of the test had been an attempt to | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
sabotage the exam but insisted it has not been compromised. People | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
position of trust must be relied upon to act appropriately. In this | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
case, it appears one person did not. They leaked the key stage two | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
English grammar and punctuation and spelling test to a journalist. The | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
Government insists its tough new curriculum and rigorous exams are | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
essential for raising standards. Parents have complained the new | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
tests leave children stressed and anxious. Teachers say, not only do | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
they distort the curriculum but the new tests were introduced in a way | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
that was rushed and chaotic. Sadly, this year, it has been a bit of a | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
shambles. The children themselves are not totally prepared because we | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
have had a new curriculum. Supporters say it allows children's | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
progress to be monitored. This is echoed in Scotland where | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
standardised testing is on the way back. | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
Our top story: David Cameron's remarks about some of the leaders | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
attending an anticorruption summit in London. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
And still to come, why Megan Trainer decided this video should be | :16:25. | :16:25. | |
withdrawn. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
West Ham prepares to say goodbye They play their last match | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
there against Manchester Over the last two years we've been | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
following the story of Josh Wills. Josh, who's 15, has learning | :16:36. | :16:51. | |
disabilities and autism. Three years ago, he was sent | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
to a specialist hospital in Birmingham, over 250 miles | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
from his Cornish home because it was the only place | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
he could get the right care. Now, after a major campaign, | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Josh is back in Cornwall living Our social affairs correspondent | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Alison Holt has been to see him. These are the sort of precious | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
moments that Josh Wills' family Tomorrow we are going | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
to go to the fair. This is the first time his father | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
has been able to take him for a walk with his stepmother, | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
half-brother and half-sister. For three years I had | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
three words on my mind Josh has learning | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
disabilities and autism. He wears a headguard and his arms | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
are tucked into his top A lack of suitable care in Cornwall | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
meant he was living hundreds of miles away | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
in a Birmingham hospital. Finally, last November, | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
he came home. It was such a positive day in this | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
one story that we had worked so hard with so many | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
people to bring forward. Josh was 12 when he | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
left Cornwall. He finally made the long journey | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
home after a campaign in which nearly a quarter | :18:08. | :18:24. | |
of a million people signed a petition demanding the care | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
he needed be provided in Cornwall. It's now like our life's | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
begun again really. For Josh's mother Sarah | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
and her family it's a huge relief For all of us, especially Josh, | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
it wasn't a life. He was overmedicated and I was just | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
broken-hearted and the only way I survived was sort of switching off | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
emotionally for three years. Josh's behaviour will | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
always be challenging. But now, rather than him | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
being in an institution, the authorities have | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
built care around him, allowing family like his stepfather | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
to play a vital role. His new home is designed | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
to allow him to live as full a life as possible with the help | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
of specially trained staff. It cost thousands of pounds | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
a week but so does a bed Robin Gunson heads the team | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
providing care for Josh and others. It's a baseline expectation that | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
everybody has, a person-centred approach to enable them to be | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
a citizen of society. It's not the person that | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
needs fixing generally, it's the system and support around | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
someone in the first place. The Government has said it wants | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
to see the sort of care that Josh now gets available to many more | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
people with challenging behaviour who currently live | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
in hospitals in England. But, on the ground, change has | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
been slow to happen. The most recent figures show | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
there are still 165 children with learning disabilities | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
and autism in hospital, assessment and treatment units, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
many a long way from home. Josh's family say the care | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
he is getting now is His confidence is growing, | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
and that is the main thing, seeing him happy, seeing him | :20:19. | :20:30. | |
independent and just seeing him Alison Holt, BBC News, | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Cornwall. The Crown Prosecution Service says | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
it's received a file of evidence relating to an allegation | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
of historical sex abuse Prosecutors say they'll | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
decide whether there's sufficient evidence to proceed | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
and whether it is in Sir Cliff says the claim | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
is completely false. Police in Manchester have apologised | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
for racially stereotyping during a counterterrorism training | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
exercise. It was designed to test the response | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
of emergency services but has been criticised for using a fake Muslim | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
terrorist yelling "God is greatest" in Arabic before | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
detonating an explosive. West Ham football club will play | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
their final competitive game at their ground tonight | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
against Manchester United. The West Ham manager described | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
tonight's match as The team will leave | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Upton Park and move to Some of the biggest arguments in | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
the EU referendum campaign revolve around the issues of | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
borders and immigration. To help guide you through | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
the complexities here's our Europe correspondent | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Damian Grammaticas with the next in He starts on the EU's | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
eastern edge, at the border between Hungary and | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Serbia and the new fence built to Borders, they define us, protect us, | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
do they limit us too? of Europe to the other without ever | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
having to show this because you are Citizens of all EU countries, | :22:13. | :22:24. | |
including the UK, share The right to travel freely | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
in the EU; to work in any EU country; and even if you don't work, | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
you are retired or a student, you can live in any EU | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
country provided you aren't At the next border we reach entering | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Austria the guards are long gone. A quarter of a century ago | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
the Iron Curtain that divided Europe between communist | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
east and democratic west For the EU, removing borders | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
controls is not just about making the world's biggest free trade area, | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
it's about broader freedoms. 26 countries are now | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
part of the so-called We are heading there, | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
1,000-mile trip. When we reach Calais | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
the border controls reappear, under a deal with France UK | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
officials are stationed We have been all the way | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
across Europe and this is the first place you have to | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
show your passport. Last year, over 2,000 EU citizens | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
were denied entry to the UK as threats to public | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
security or health. Almost 12,000 asylum seekers have | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
been deported back to EU countries We don't know what would happen | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
to this co-operation Of course, because we are part | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
of the single market with its free movement rules most EU citizens | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
are able to enter the UK. Last year, just over 170,000 more EU | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
passport holders moved to the UK Where we do control immigration | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
from the rest of the world net migration was slightly | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
more, 190,000 came. What's left at the end | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
of our journey? If we quit the EU would our borders | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
be more secure or perhaps less? Could we gain more | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
control over immigration? But would that be at the cost | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
of less access to that huge All things that we will have | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
to ponder. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
on the White Cliffs of Dover. The singer Meghan Trainor | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
has withdrawn the video promoting her new single | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
after campaigning that images She said she didn't approve | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
the final video which appeared online and she's embarrassed | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
by the changes made Our entertainment correspondent | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
Lizo Mzimba has the details. Meghan Trainor's seen as a champion | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
for fuller-figured women. Her song All About That Bass | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
criticised magazines that # I see them magazines | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
working that photoshop. But when the Grammy award-winning | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
performer released her latest video yesterday fans were quick to point | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
out that her waistline appeared She's now released | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
a new unaltered version. And this is how she was | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
initially digitally altered. The singer used social media to say | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
she hadn't approved anyone altering how she really looks | :25:37. | :25:48. | |
and that she ordered the airbrushed version of the video | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
removed from sites. My waist is not that tiny. I don't | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
know why they didn't like my waist. I didn't approve that video and it | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
went out for the world auto so I am embarrassed. Accurate and honest | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
portrayal of body image has become an important issue and not just in | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
the entertainment. This Sport England campaign uses images that | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
aren't stylised or altered in any way. We use women of all different | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
shapes and sizes and levels of ability. We have not manipulated | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
them digitally, not retouched them, that is what has struck a | :26:30. | :26:46. | |
Time for the weather now. Oh, to be in the Highlands now that | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
spring is here. What a fantastic picture by one of our weather | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
watchers this afternoon. The Western Highlands has been the warmest in | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
the UK, it's been a glorious day for Scotland and Northern Ireland as | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
well. Further south we were engulfed by cloud across much of England and | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Wales. It's been pretty wet in some places. Persistent rain moving | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
northwards through the Midlands and Wales and into parts of northern | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
England. Some heavy thundery downpours across southern counties | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
in the last few hours. This has been the scene on some of the motorways. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
If you are on the move across the southern half of the UK this evening | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
take it steady on the roads. A lull before more rain comes up from later | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
in the night. Nasty rain around. Muggy across the south. Under clear | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
skies across the Glens of Scotland it will be chilly but another | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
fantastic day for Scotland. Early showery rain across southern parts | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
of Northern Ireland will drift away and it will brighten here. Sunshine | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
for northern England too. Further south some heavy downpours again. | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Another day of contrasts. Mid-afternoon fantastic again across | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
the west of Scotland. As we have seen in recent days if you are | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
exposed to the breeze off the North Sea eastern coasts will be cooler | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
but lots of sunshine still. Fine for Northern Ireland and further south | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
hopefully some brightness. The Midlands will be an improvement on | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
today. Heavy slow moving downpours across the south of England. A muggy | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
feel. Into Thursday, showers diminishing and drifting | :28:28. | :28:29. | |
south-westwards. Other places having a fine day on Thursday and in the | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
best of the sunshine temperatures doing well, perhaps as high as 24 in | :28:34. | :28:34. | |
London. That's all from the BBC News at Six. | :28:35. | :28:43. | |
We can now join the | :28:44. | :28:44. |