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A victory for common sense - or a recipe for disaster? | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The High Court rules a father was allowed to take his daughter out | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The father celebrates the verdict but the local council warns it | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
could cause chaos in schools and damage children's grades. | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
Obviously I'm delighted with the outcome, as will hundreds | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
of thousands of parents in England, that have had to live with this | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Clearly shown in court was a link between education | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
attainment and attendance, so my worry is those children that | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
are taken out of school will suffer in their education. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
We'll be asking what this means for parents planning | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The head of the IMF warns leaving the EU could be at best | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
"pretty bad" for the UK - at worst "very, very bad". | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The EU deal with Turkey slows the flow of people for now - | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
A special report on the legal synthetic drugs driving a huge | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
increase in addiction among young people. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And the friendliness of the short distance runner - | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
why more and more of us are donning trainers in our local | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And coming up on BBC News, can Leicester sign off | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
with a flourish at Stamford Bridge and who will clinch that final | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
It is the last weekend of the Premier League. | :01:22. | :01:43. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Judges have ruled in favour of a father who refused to pay | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
a fine for taking his daughter out of school for a week's holiday. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
Jon Platt from the Isle of Wight was fined ?120 | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
when he took his six year old to Disneyworld in Florida | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
But the High Court has decided that because the child did | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
attend school regularly - despite her unauthorised holiday - | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
The ruling could have implications for parents across England. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
One father's decision to take his daughter on a term time holiday to | :02:14. | :02:27. | |
Disney World in Florida lead to this court room battle. John Platt | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
refused to pay the fine imposed by his local council and two High Court | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
judges ruled in his favour. Obviously I'm absolutely delighted | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
with the outcome, as will hundreds of thousands of parents across | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
England who have had to live with this Draconian situation, taking | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
your kids on a family holiday and mounted to a criminal offence | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
according to authorities around the country. -- amounted to criminal | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
offences. His daughter attended school regularly. The Isle of Wight | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Council took it further and today's battle centred on the education act | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
and what the term regularly meant. The argument continued to rage long | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
after the judgment had been given. The Department for Education and | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
schooling in this country is MS because we don't know the situation, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
can you take your child out of school and should you be able to? -- | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
is a mess. There is a link between attainment and attendance and that | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
link has apparently not been accepted by the court and I fear | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
massive disruption. The thing that stops them taking their kids out of | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the school is not the fear of the ?60 penalty notice. That is the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
restraining factor, they can work it out themselves, they know if I pull | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
my kids out of school in term time and their attendance falls to 70%, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
my child will suffer so they don't do that. Teachers in England can | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
only grand term time absence in exceptional circumstances, parents | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
face a ?60 fine for unauthorised leave. -- can only grant. This | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Birmingham headteacher fears more parents will now follow suit. Some | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
parents will think, it has happened for this gentleman, it can happen to | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
us, let's save ?500 and it gives the green light and it's not OK. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Something should be done with travel agents more than parents because it | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
is travel agents causing high costs of holidays during term time. I | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
welcome the decision and I hope it sets a precedent for the UK. I | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
certainly believe that is up to an individual parent to decide what is | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
a good education. One man's legal battle may have been won in the High | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Court today but tonight the Department for Education says that | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
attendance is not negotiable, it is already looking to change the law. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
That will include new guidance for schools and local authorities. Sian | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
Lloyd, BBC News. With me now is Our Home | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Editor Mark Easton. We heard one parent saying that it | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
sets a wonderful precedent for parents across England, does it? If | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
we had a situation where every parent could take their child out of | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
school without the permission of the headteacher and in fact the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
headteacher says no, we would have a chaotic situation and it's no | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
surprise that the Department for Education is looking to change the | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
law in England and it has published research that if your child misses | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
just seven days a year the impact can be great on GCSEs and its own | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
guidance makes the point that it's about child welfare, not just about | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the child going to Disneyland or wherever, but the children back in | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
the classroom whose education will be affected when the teacher has to | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
help the other child catch up. I suspect this loophole will be closed | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
quickly but this is happening across the world and in France if you want | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
to take your kid out of school for a holiday you not only need permission | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
from the headteacher but from bureaucrats in the town hall and if | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
you go abroad you need a special Visa from the police. Parents on the | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
other hand say, holidays are so expensive out of term time, and | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
travel broadens the mind and those arguments are there, but schooling | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
has been compulsory in this country for 130 years, brought in to protect | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
the welfare of children and the government argument is a cheap | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
holiday is not a good enough reason for taking children out of school. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Thank you very much. It could be at least "pretty bad" | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
and at worst "very, very bad". Another day and another | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
stark warning. This time it's from | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Christine Lagarde, the head She says leaving the European Union | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
would hit British growth, Vote Leave campaigners say the IMF | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
has been wrong before about the British economy | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
and is wrong again. So will this latest warning | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
have any impact on how Our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed has | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
been trying to find out. Step-by-step the government believes | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
the economic case is being made, today another expert and another | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
warning. A particular welcome to Christine Lagarde and her team. The | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
IMF argued house prices could fall, borrowing costs increase, and the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
government may have do raise taxes and cut public services further. I | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
asked Christine Lagarde for the outlook if Britain left the EU. The | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
consequences would be negative if the UK was to leave the European | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Union. It would impact people's life, so that means higher prices, | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
less growth, that means less jobs, and higher unemployment. Does the | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Treasury influence you? Are you pushed by George Osborne to be as | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
bleak as you can be about the effects of Britain leaving the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
European Union? The IMF does not get pushed around. What we do is we | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
study their numbers, we assess the validity, we'd talked to many other | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
people. Another day in this referendum campaign and another | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
major international organisation warns Britain about the economic | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
risks of leaving the European Union. Of course here in the Treasury they | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
are pleased that the IMF has broadly backed George Osborne's assessment | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
and it's not the last we will hear from the IMF, a few days before the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
referendum they will produce a report which will talk about | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
employment, will talk about house prices and the Brexit risk. It's | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
thought it will be equally gloomy. Looking for votes, the Leave | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
campaign on the road today with a message that the IMF have been wrong | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
before and was wrong now. We can take their forecasts at face value | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
because of their background and also on the basis that our economy is | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
successful right now. And I believe that if we vote to leave the | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
European Union Britain has a brighter and more secure and | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
prosperous future outside of the EU. Shoreham on the south coast, here to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
ask the question, is anyone listening? As everyone from the Bank | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
of England to the IMF is warning against leaving. I would feel they | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
know more about what they are talking about, and yes, I would | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
listen to that information and take it on board and it would help me | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
make a decision. You constantly get different information from one side | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
and another, personally I would not take any notice. There is more to | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
the UK economy than the referendum, the IMF said there were other | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
long-term risks, high levels of household debt and low productivity, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
there will still be problems however Britain votes on June 23. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
There are signs tonight that the European Union's efforts | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
to stop the flow of migrants into Europe are beginning | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
from Turkey onto the Greek islands are down around 90 per cent in April | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
compared with the previous month following a deal struck | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
Gavin Hewitt now reports from Izmir, political pressures mean | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
the deal is now looking increasingly vulnerable. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
These are the Turkish beaches from where tens of thousands | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
of refugees left for their perilous journey to Europe. | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
Today all that remains are discarded clothes, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
almost no refugees are making the crossing to Greece. | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
But the deal between Turkey and the EU to solve the migrant crisis | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Go into the fields near the Turkish coast close to Greece, | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
and you find Syrian refugees like Marat who once dreamt | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
The Turkish-EU deal signed in March has all but blocked | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
TRANSLATION: The sea border with Greece is now closed. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
If someone wants to go to Europe they cannot. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
The Turkish Coast Guard patrols are much more rigorous. | :11:10. | :11:19. | |
Just two months ago 8000 refugees crossed here in one month. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
So far in May the numbers are around 300. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
For those who make it to Greece, the route north through the Balkans | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
is lined with fences and riot police. | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
There is no possibility to move further from Greece. | :11:34. | :11:42. | |
And in Greece, the movement from the islands to the mainland | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
In Turkey the tables where the smugglers did their deals | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
are almost empty, and the shops can't sell their life jackets. | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
The Turkish government says it has honoured its part of the deal. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
TRANSLATION: If the refugees go outside the cities | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
where they are registered, they are told to go back. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
If they try to reach the coast and escape the police | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
The easing of the refugee crisis depends on a controversial deal | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Turkey, clamping down on the migrants in exchange for | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
But the European Parliament is insisting that first Turkey must | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
carry out further reforms and Turkey says it has done enough | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
and the whole deal is looking fragile. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
So there is a risk that the migrant crisis could return and developments | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
are being followed closely in Germany, where most | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
of the previous refugees went, and by the referendum | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
While the route from Turkey may be closing off, migrants - | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
many from Africa - are still making the journey | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
to Europe but via a longer route from Libya. | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
has been on board a charity rescue boat in the Mediterranean all week | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
which has now docked in the Italian port of Crotone. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Christian, what's your assessment of the situation from what you've | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Well, the decks are clear this evening, the Aquarius has this | :13:10. | :13:23. | |
embarked on another 233 migrants here in the port of Crotone and you | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
can see they have been processed and sent to centres around the country. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
They may well have a temporary solution between Turkey and Greece | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
but after spending a week aboard the Aquarius I can tell you that across | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the central Mediterranean route people smugglers are winning and | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
with all of the chaos in Libya, you wonder how they will. Them. Through | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
most of the crossing they slept. Huddled beneath blankets as if | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
trying to shield themselves from the world they should Google to survive | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
in. -- how they will stop them. In the morning there was a brighter | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
mood, he was Europe and a new future, whatever Europe is it must | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
surely be better than the Libya they escaped. 233 mostly economic | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
migrants from West Africa. Italy's ports are founded on mercantile | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
trade but this is the new cargo, migrants and lots of them, and this | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
will be a record year. Why do they come? This 20-year-old said the boat | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
was the only escape from the horrors of Libya. I was imprisoned for three | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
months. What were conditions like? Very hard conditions. You told me | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
earlier that you were beaten. Yes, and we were only allowed to eat once | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
a day. He is lucky to be alive, we found them two days ago in this | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
rubber boat off the coast of Libya, people smugglers packed them in and | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
gave them just enough fuel to leave Libyan waters. An hour after this | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
rescue a storm blew in. This is what happens when the waves get bigger. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
The boats fold and they sink. Look at the smiles, this is the moment | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
they dreamt of, the moment that many risked it all for. Their first steps | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
onto European soil. How many more will come? 233 here, 801 in Messina | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
and over 1000 migrants just today. I am very happy to be standing in | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
Europe right now. Among those also leaving the Aquarius today, were | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
young men under the age of 17 travelling alone. Here is one from | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
Guinea-Bissau, 14. It is a lonely world for a boy So Yeon Ryu. One | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
proposed solution is to send Europe's navies into Libya's waters, | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
but to do that, you need a government and a partnership. So | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
long as there is money to be made from the dirty business of people | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
trafficking, they will come. The time is just gone a quarter past | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
six. A High Court victory means a father | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
was allowed to take his daughter out of school for a holiday | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
during term time. And still to come: Two's company - | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Dame Kelly Holmes tells us why she's joining thousands of others | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
for a run in the park. Coming up in Sportsday | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
on BBC News: More magic He's through to the semifinals | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
of the Italian Open after a straight sets win over Belgium's David | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Goffin. There has been a dramatic rise | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
in the number of young people being treated for addiction | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
to legal highs. Public Health England recorded over | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
a 170% increase in those under 18 and dependent on synthetic cannabis, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
known as "spice", which can be Government legislation to ban such | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
substances is expected to come into effect in the coming weeks, | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
but there are concerns it may not Our UK affairs correspondent, | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Jeremy Cooke, has the story. Spice is potent, addictive, | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
and until now legal. He is 24, alone, no | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
job, one priority. I've got hooked on it, | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
the first time I ever tried it, my mate just goes, I've got | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
a spliff for you. I had three or four burns | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
and I was stuck up against the wall for about two hours and he came back | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
to see me and I asked him for another spliff, and ever | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
since that day I haven't At least for Dean and others, | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
there is some help. Just go back to your | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
accommodation for the weekend. This charity is dealing with soaring | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
numbers of young homeless. It is the most dangerous drug that | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
has caused the most damage in the shortest space of time | :17:59. | :18:11. | |
to the most vulnerable I can't emphasise enough how | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
much other destructive, It is absolutely awful and I've | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
never seen anything like it. Spice is a synthetic cannabis | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
but it's much stronger. Grace is 18 and she and her | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
mates have worked hard My emotional attachment | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
to spice was ridiculous, I have given myself black eyes | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
before, just because I haven't got it and I needed to de-stress myself | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
and calm down so I could go I would just punch myself | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
in the head repeatedly. It affects your mental health | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
as well, it spirals out of control and it turns you into such a nasty | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
person because you are like, It was keeping me homeless, spice, | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
because it was so easy to get, and you can just walk into shops, | :18:55. | :19:07. | |
or if you walk past somebody that you know and ask them for one, | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
they will give it to you. It's on the streets that the spice | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
crisis is most visible You can buy it in the shops | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
for a fiver a gram, And all with slick marketing | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
and fancy names aimed The Government is racing to catch | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
up and spice will be outlawed within weeks, | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
but will it be enough to stop this? Dean has been lucky to survive | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
a collapse fuelled by the drug. A young man in his 20s, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
fighting for his life. And still using despite knowing | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
spice could have killed him. All I remember is me in the hospital | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
and some woman saying to me, this is the fourth time we have seen | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
you, we just had to bring you back I don't really like it, | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
but I don't know... Many police officers still need | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
convincing that making spice illegal A man from Luton has been sentenced | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
to life in prison after he was found guilty of planning a terror attack | :20:15. | :20:38. | |
on American military Junaid Khan will serve a minimum | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
of 12 years. He was also found guilty of planning | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
to travel to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
along with his uncle, Shazib Khan, who was sentenced to eight | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
years in jail. A father accused of beating his | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
six-year-old daughter to death in a fit of rage has told a court | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
how he believes he's the subject of an unfair trial - | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
for a second time. Ben Butler was jailed | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
back in 2009 for cruelty and assaulting his daughter Ellie | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
when she was a few weeks old, He's now on trial at the Old Bailey | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
accused of murdering Our social affairs correspondent | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Alison Holt was in court. It was in the bedroom of one | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
of the upper-level maisonettes here in south London that | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
six-year-old Ellie Butler was found with serious head | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
injuries in October 2013. Ben Butler denies murdering his | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
daughter in a fit of rage. Giving evidence for the first time | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
today, he has been describing how he fought for years to be able | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
to look after Ellie. That was after he was accused | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
of shaking her violently He was found guilty of harming her, | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
but was later cleared on appeal. Ellie's mother, Jennie Gray, | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
arriving at court today, Butler described how the two had | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
been bamboozled by the legal system, but Ellie was finally returned | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
to them ten months before her death. At times appearing angry and upset, | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Butler told the court, "The first Ben Butler was referring | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
to prosecution evidence that has already been heard, | :22:09. | :22:25. | |
including abusive and threatening He then went on to question | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
the medical evidence in the trial, accusing some of the experts | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
of being biased and corrupt. At this point, the judge, | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
Mr Justice Wilkie, intervened, warning that this was difficult | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
territory. Ben Butler responded by saying, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
"I will not be muzzled." Butler later told the court | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
that he wouldn't get a Blue Peter badge for likeability, | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
but he shouldn't be judged He'll continue his | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
evidence next week. Alison Holt, BBC News, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
the Old Bailey. Let's take a brief look | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
at some of the day's Three people have been detained | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
after a woman was killed when she was hit by a car | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
being chased by police in Edinburgh. Police Scotland said a fourth man | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
was also being sought. It's understood that the victim | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
is Jill Pirrie, a nurse A massive fire has broken | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
out at a shop selling fireworks in Southampton, | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
setting many of them off. Over 70 firefighters | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
were needed to help bring It happened in the Bitterne | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
area of the city. Meanwhile, in a land far, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
far away... - well, Malin Head, the most | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
northerly point in Ireland - residents are hoping for a tourism | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
boost after filming began for the latest | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Star Wars blockbuster. While details are strictly guarded, | :23:44. | :23:44. | |
there's speculation that a strange construction along the coast | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
could be a replica of It started more than a decade ago | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
with a group of friends who decided to meet up every week for a run | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
and a coffee. They called it Parkrun, | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
and they never imagined it Tomorrow organisers will celebrate | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
passing the one million mark Sophie Raworth put on her trainers | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
to find out the appeal. 13 friends who began meeting | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
for fun in London's Bushy More than 1000 people join them | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
in this park alone, and new Parkruns And this is happening at nine | :24:22. | :24:33. | |
o'clock every Saturday at hundreds You go online, register once, | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
get yourself a bar code - and run. Parkrun's founder says he cannot | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
believe its success. I think the next ten years | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
is going to see the real impact that Parkrun has delivered | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
to changing the well-being, not just the health | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
but the well-being of the nation. We're helping people come out | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
of their houses who are lonely, we're helping people | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
who have weight issues. We're helping people | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
who have mental issues. This is a fundamental part | :25:09. | :25:09. | |
of changing a generation. There are now almost 400 Parkruns | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
across the UK alone. Last Saturday more than | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
100,000 people took part. We have diabetes and heart disease | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
and we don't really have a culture of getting fit and active | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
and I genuinely think Parkrun Last month there was an outcry | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
when a Gloucestershire parish council voted to charge Parkrun | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
to use Little Stoke Park, a decision the nonprofit | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
organisation is appealing. Parkrun's ?2 million annual bill | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
for events around the world is paid for by sponsors and | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
Government grants. Runners, they say, will | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
never be asked to pay. The latest recruit, the double | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes, who dropped in on different Parkruns | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
as part of her London It's not that enjoyable all the time | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
to be an elite athlete. Doing this, where you can run | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
and actually relax and enjoy what you do for a lifestyle | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
and fitness activity, I found that kind of really | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
appealing and energising. I think that for me | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
made everything happy. To think that all those people, | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
running and walking at the same It looks good whether for running | :26:39. | :27:05. | |
this weekend. It won't be the snow of two weeks ago or the heatwave | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
last weekend, somewhere in between. Some disappointment today because of | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the lack of sunshine in Central and eastern areas, but we do have some | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
sunshine still, this photo in the day from Holyhead in Anglesey. The | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
cloud in Norfolk is coming through the afternoon, and this last shot | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
capturing the edge of a thunderstorm that is now in Pembrokeshire. The | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
storms will tend to rumble away this evening, overnight the colder air | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
will filter south. The main thing tonight is how cold it will be, we | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
will have grass frost to content with first thing tomorrow morning, | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
so a very different start of the day, but hopefully an abundance of | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
sunshine. Still remnants of cloud in the south and west, and that bracing | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
northerly breeze, but outside that breeze across western Scotland, it | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
will probably be warmer. Still relatively warm across Northern | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
Ireland, not as warm as it has been. The best of the sunshine in the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
West, further east has the breeze to content with. Despite the drop in | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
temperatures, the sun is just as strong, not temperature dependent at | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
all. Another chilly start as we head into Sunday, and in the north we are | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
starting to cut off the northerly wind, so again, when you are in the | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
sunshine, it will feel very pleasant indeed. Lots of usable weather | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
around this weekend, it will just not be as hot as it has been in | :28:40. | :28:41. | |
recent weeks. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
- so it's goodbye from me, | :28:45. | :28:48. |