:00:00. > :00:00.The billionaire boss of Sports Direct admits
:00:00. > :00:11.that members of staff were sometimes paid less than the minimum wage.
:00:12. > :00:15.at the firm's Derbyshire warehouse, says one union.
:00:16. > :00:22.He says he's not Father Christmas but is ready to address issues.
:00:23. > :00:27.Will you find it 100% perfect? Of course you won't.
:00:28. > :00:34.that I obviously don't know are going on or happening.
:00:35. > :00:36.We'll be looking at the company's record.
:00:37. > :00:39.Also tonight, Chelsea's team doctor accepts a settlement
:00:40. > :00:45.in her discrimination case, the club apologises unreservedly.
:00:46. > :00:47.The Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Nigel Farage -
:00:48. > :00:52.he says some comments on immigration legitimise racism.
:00:53. > :00:54.Trapped between the White Cliffs and a rising tide -
:00:55. > :01:00.the teenagers rescued by lifeboats and helicopter.
:01:01. > :01:09.Hillary Clinton is set to become the first woman
:01:10. > :01:15.Votes today could confirm her nomination.
:01:16. > :01:17.And coming up in the sport on BBC News,
:01:18. > :01:20.Everton agree a deal to make Ronald Koeman their new manager.
:01:21. > :01:22.They'll pay Southampton around ?5 million
:01:23. > :01:48.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.
:01:49. > :01:52.It was the confrontation he'd originally tried to avoid,
:01:53. > :01:55.but today Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct,
:01:56. > :01:58.faced MPs and admitted there were what he called issues
:01:59. > :02:03.It followed accusations by one union that there was a culture
:02:04. > :02:05.of fear at the company's warehouse in Derbyshire.
:02:06. > :02:07.And as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports,
:02:08. > :02:09.Mr Ashley accepted that there were times
:02:10. > :02:18.when staff were paid less than the minimum wage.
:02:19. > :02:20.It's a journey he didn't want to make.
:02:21. > :02:22.Mike Ashley, one of Britain's richest men,
:02:23. > :02:24.the founder of Britain's biggest sports retailer.
:02:25. > :02:28.Have you created a culture of fear? Absolutely not.
:02:29. > :02:31.After months of resisting, he was finally on his way
:02:32. > :02:36.to face MPs, and to begin with he didn't have much to say.
:02:37. > :02:40.But if I may start with the review that you announced six months ago,
:02:41. > :02:42.what's the current status of the review?
:02:43. > :02:52.But he soon acknowledged some work practices needed changing.
:02:53. > :02:56.If you were a minute late, you got docked 15 minutes' pay.
:02:57. > :02:59.You ask me what I think, I think it's unacceptable.
:03:00. > :03:02.He was also asked about long security checks
:03:03. > :03:06.at the end of a shift, during which workers weren't paid.
:03:07. > :03:13.for example, stuff such as the bottlenecks at security,
:03:14. > :03:20.I don't think that's even slightly acceptable.
:03:21. > :03:22.Do you accept that the company was
:03:23. > :03:24.effectively paying workers below the minimum wage?
:03:25. > :03:30.On that specific point, for that specific bit of time, yes.
:03:31. > :03:32.It all happened here at Sports Direct's
:03:33. > :03:35.vast distribution centre in Derbyshire, manned around the clock
:03:36. > :03:40.by thousands of temporary agency workers, many from Eastern Europe.
:03:41. > :03:47.But it's alleged it was more of a workhouse than a warehouse.
:03:48. > :03:51.This BBC programme revealed a culture of fear.
:03:52. > :03:54.Stuart Young was a security guard here.
:03:55. > :03:58.It feels like something out of Dickens, the way it's run.
:03:59. > :04:03.Finding urine bottles in the warehouse,
:04:04. > :04:07.they can't go to the toilet unless it's their break time.
:04:08. > :04:11.Today, the union claimed it led to people
:04:12. > :04:14.coming to work when they weren't well
:04:15. > :04:17.and countless ambulance call-outs to the site.
:04:18. > :04:21.You will see there were strikes in there, there were
:04:22. > :04:24.five births or miscarriages or pregnancy-related issues in there,
:04:25. > :04:27.one of which was someone giving birth within a toilet,
:04:28. > :04:32.and the last one happened in November of 2015.
:04:33. > :04:35.This was Mike Ashley on a recent visit to the site.
:04:36. > :04:38.Today he reckoned such a high level of serious incidents
:04:39. > :04:42.was impossible here, and last year Sports Direct
:04:43. > :04:45.said its workers were free to use the toilet as needed.
:04:46. > :04:50.Mr Ashley told MPs he couldn't be everywhere all the time.
:04:51. > :04:53.I'm not Father Christmas, I'm not sitting there,
:04:54. > :04:55."Oh, I'm going to make the world wonderful."
:04:56. > :05:01.You just have to try and get a balanced view
:05:02. > :05:03.and say, "As an individual, would you tolerate that?"
:05:04. > :05:07.And if I honestly believe it isn't, I change it.
:05:08. > :05:10.Do you think your company has outgrown your ability to manage it?
:05:11. > :05:16.He left pledging to make further changes if needed.
:05:17. > :05:19.He knows he's now got to get himself and his retail empire
:05:20. > :05:34.And a backdrop to all of this, George, is that this is a business
:05:35. > :05:37.that grew incredibly fast, in Mike Ashley's own words, from an
:05:38. > :05:40.inflatable dinghy to an oil tanker overnight, and that clearly has been
:05:41. > :05:45.difficult to manage. He said he couldn't have done it without all
:05:46. > :05:49.these agency workers, but it's these workers, the union claims, who are
:05:50. > :05:49.paid the price for the cheap goods is business sells.
:05:50. > :05:52.Emma, many thanks. Chelsea has apologised unreservedly
:05:53. > :05:56.after it settled a discrimination case with the team's former
:05:57. > :05:58.doctor, Eva Carneiro. when Ms Carneiro ran onto the pitch
:05:59. > :06:02.to treat a player, despite objections from the
:06:03. > :06:04.club's manager, Jose Mourinho. "fulfilling her responsibility
:06:05. > :06:21.to the players as a doctor." Today was supposed to be Dr Eva
:06:22. > :06:26.Carneiro's big moment in court, but when Jose Mourinho, the most famous
:06:27. > :06:29.manager in world football, arrived unexpectedly, accompanied by senior
:06:30. > :06:34.figures from Chelsea, it was the signal that a settlement agreement
:06:35. > :06:39.was close to being reached. The roots of the dispute stem back to
:06:40. > :06:43.last August, and Chelsea's opening fixture of the season against
:06:44. > :06:46.Swansea. Mourinho was incensed when Dr Carneiro ran onto the pitch to
:06:47. > :06:51.treat an injured player, leaving his team a man down as they were chasing
:06:52. > :06:54.a winning goal. She claims he called her a derogatory term in Portuguese,
:06:55. > :06:59.something which Mourinho and Chelsea denied. After the game comedy called
:07:00. > :07:05.his medical team impulse of, naive and said they didn't understand
:07:06. > :07:09.football. Within weeks she had resigned and started her employment
:07:10. > :07:12.and discrimination action. Today the club apologise and reserve and
:07:13. > :07:16.leave. In a statement, Chelsea said, we wish to place on record that in
:07:17. > :07:20.running onto the pitch Dr Carneiro was following but the rules of the
:07:21. > :07:24.game and fulfilling her responsibility to the players as a
:07:25. > :07:28.doctor, putting their safety first. Jose Mourinho also thanks Dr
:07:29. > :07:33.Carneiro for the excellent and dedicated support she provided as
:07:34. > :07:38.first team doctor. Chelsea offered Dr Carneiro ?1.2 million to settle
:07:39. > :07:42.this claim, but it was rejected. On the opening day of this hearing,
:07:43. > :07:45.there was astonishing detail laid out before the tribunal about the
:07:46. > :07:50.nature of the claims against Chelsea and Jose Mourinho. They have now
:07:51. > :07:53.reached an agreement, but it is confidential, and we may perhaps
:07:54. > :07:57.never know the terms. She now, however, can look forward to moving
:07:58. > :08:01.on in life and putting this long-running saga behind. In a
:08:02. > :08:05.statement, she said, it has been an extremely difficult and distressing
:08:06. > :08:09.time for me and my family, I now look forward to moving forward with
:08:10. > :08:12.my life, my priority has always been the health and safety of the players
:08:13. > :08:17.and fulfilling my duty of care as a doctor.
:08:18. > :08:22.But the drama wasn't quite yet finished. There were chaotic scenes
:08:23. > :08:26.as first Dr Carneiro left the tribunal after the formalities had
:08:27. > :08:32.been concluded, and then Jose Mourinho was, eventually, bundled
:08:33. > :08:36.into his waiting car. He is now free to carry on as the new manager of
:08:37. > :08:42.Manchester United, knowing that the confidential agreement means that
:08:43. > :08:44.further embarrassment from this dispute has been avoided. Richard
:08:45. > :08:46.Conway, BBC News, south London. The Archbishop of Canterbury,
:08:47. > :08:48.Justin Welby, has intervened in the EU referendum campaign with
:08:49. > :08:51.a strong attack on Nigel Farage. He has accused the Ukip leader
:08:52. > :08:53.of legitimising racism, when he suggested staying in the EU
:08:54. > :08:56.might lead to sex attacks like those in Germany during
:08:57. > :08:58.the New Year celebrations. Mr Farage has denied
:08:59. > :09:10.saying anything racist. Tonight he will take part in a
:09:11. > :09:10.television discussion, also involving David Cameron.
:09:11. > :09:12.Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
:09:13. > :09:17.There's a long way to go, but we're in with a shout.
:09:18. > :09:19.So shy of self-promotion - Nigel Farage advertising
:09:20. > :09:22.his own appearance on TV tonight, prepping for a fight
:09:23. > :09:25.he's spent his whole career waiting for.
:09:26. > :09:27.I'm ready for this, I've been campaigning for
:09:28. > :09:30.a quarter of a century for Britain to leave the European Union,
:09:31. > :09:33.and I will do tonight what I've always done.
:09:34. > :09:36.and I will invite the Prime Minister to do the same.
:09:37. > :09:40.Battling accusations too that he will use race to win.
:09:41. > :09:43.At least I tell the truth, and at least I'm prepared
:09:44. > :09:45.to stand up for the interests of this country.
:09:46. > :09:52.If they start getting personal, if they start getting nasty,
:09:53. > :09:54.and I saw a specimen of this back in 2014,
:09:55. > :09:56.after that happened, we went on to win
:09:57. > :10:01.And the fact that they're stooping to these depths
:10:02. > :10:05.But he grabbed attention with his earlier suggestion that
:10:06. > :10:08.women could be at risk from sex attacks from migrants in the EU.
:10:09. > :10:14.The Archbishop of Canterbury the latest to object.
:10:15. > :10:24.An inexcusable, pandering to people's worries and prejudices.
:10:25. > :10:31.It's giving legitimisation to racism.
:10:32. > :10:32.It is accentuating fear for political gain,
:10:33. > :10:36.A helpful line of attack for David Cameron perhaps,
:10:37. > :10:39.as the stage is prepared for the Prime Minister
:10:40. > :10:42.But the Prime Minister made his own appearance first,
:10:43. > :10:48.pushing warnings from Hitachi, the World Trade Organisation,
:10:49. > :10:52.and the American central bank about leaving the EU.
:10:53. > :10:57.Listen to the experts, don't stand on the sidelines.
:10:58. > :11:04.There are no second chances, no reruns.
:11:05. > :11:15.even his Tory friends, who tell you we'd be better off out.
:11:16. > :11:17.A Leave campaign resorting to total untruths
:11:18. > :11:20.to con people into taking a leap in the dark.
:11:21. > :11:25.You sound like you're pleading with voters
:11:26. > :11:29.not some of your own Cabinet colleagues.
:11:30. > :11:30.Are you worried you're losing? Not at all.
:11:31. > :11:32.What I'm worried about, what I'm concerned about
:11:33. > :11:35.is that people are being told things that aren't correct.
:11:36. > :11:44.The Leave campaign has called again for the Prime Minister to debate
:11:45. > :11:47.them and what they repeatedly claim is scaremongering from his side.
:11:48. > :11:49.I think it's actually quite disappointing to hear
:11:50. > :11:51.so much negative rhetoric coming from the UK Government itself,
:11:52. > :11:59.and people from the Remain campaign, because this is a great country
:12:00. > :12:01.and a great economy, and what people know
:12:02. > :12:06.is that we can do brilliantly if we take back control.
:12:07. > :12:11.It's now voters who are taking sides.
:12:12. > :12:20.is perhaps now out of the politicians' reach.
:12:21. > :12:25.And in the last half-hour, Nigel Farage has delved in again, accusing
:12:26. > :12:31.the Archbishop of Canterbury of some kind of confected outrage, but it's
:12:32. > :12:34.the Prime Minister will draw fire from Mr Farage denied. Both men will
:12:35. > :12:38.appear on stage here at the Olympic Park in east London, not at the same
:12:39. > :12:41.time, but they will both take questions from the same audience,
:12:42. > :12:44.and it is interesting to think perhaps these are the two
:12:45. > :12:49.politicians in the country for whom this matters the most. Mr Farage has
:12:50. > :12:52.arguably done more than any politician to bring this referendum
:12:53. > :12:56.about in the first place. And for David Cameron, he is fighting not
:12:57. > :13:00.just to keep the country I bod for his own legacy and for the
:13:01. > :13:04.Conservative Party. Two men whose careers will be largely decided by
:13:05. > :13:08.the referendum result, but of course all of our votes will shape the
:13:09. > :13:10.country's future too. Thank you, Laura.
:13:11. > :13:13.Today is the last chance for people to register to vote
:13:14. > :13:15.in the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union,
:13:16. > :13:17.which, of course, takes place on the 23rd June.
:13:18. > :13:20.The deadline for those wanting to be included on the electoral roll
:13:21. > :13:22.is midnight tonight. Christian Fraser is here.
:13:23. > :13:25.The politicians say it is the biggest electoral decision
:13:26. > :13:29.And in the past month, there have been huge efforts
:13:30. > :13:32.on all sides to get people registered.
:13:33. > :13:36.1.3 million people have applied online in just the past three weeks.
:13:37. > :13:39.Friday and Monday were some of the biggest days for registration.
:13:40. > :13:55.148,000 of them are under the age of 35. Today I have been in south
:13:56. > :14:00.London, where people were being signed up to vote.
:14:01. > :14:06.Exam day and Lambeth College, a day that could shape the future of the
:14:07. > :14:10.students in this hall. Are you registered to vote in the
:14:11. > :14:14.referendum? And so could there be vote, in or out, Britain's future
:14:15. > :14:18.with the EU will probably impact this generation the most. They have
:14:19. > :14:21.been counting down for weeks, yet still so many had either forgotten
:14:22. > :14:27.to register or they just don't believe there vote can affect the
:14:28. > :14:31.outcome. I feel like often they tell us stuff, if you vote, this will
:14:32. > :14:35.happen, but once you vote, it never happens. They don't really relate.
:14:36. > :14:46.Maybe you need to get more involved in politics and change it. May be!
:14:47. > :14:51.If we vote, I don't think there will be a change. Why not? I don't know.
:14:52. > :14:55.Nonetheless, they did sign up, and so did 25 others, in less than an
:14:56. > :15:00.hour. Different people face different barriers in getting into
:15:01. > :15:04.politics, if you are young and marginalised, you are less likely to
:15:05. > :15:09.vote. There has been a huge social media campaign, including this viral
:15:10. > :15:15.video featuring goats. This was a huge day for registrations... The
:15:16. > :15:18.electro commission says it has led to a surge in applications. That is
:15:19. > :15:23.not to say that it is purely young people they are hunting. In Cardiff,
:15:24. > :15:26.they were out reminding the older voters that the midnight deadline is
:15:27. > :15:30.looming. If you are already on the electoral role, you don't need to do
:15:31. > :15:36.anything. The voting cards should be on their way. But remember also
:15:37. > :15:39.tomorrow's deadline, 5pm is the cut-off in England, Scotland and
:15:40. > :15:47.Wales to apply for a postal vote if you are away on the 23rd of June.
:15:48. > :15:48.So you are eligible to vote if you are over 18,
:15:49. > :15:55.you are from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth.
:15:56. > :15:57.This is the web page address you need.
:15:58. > :16:00.If you have your NI number to hand, that will help,
:16:01. > :16:05.The local authority has to verify everyone on the register.
:16:06. > :16:08.And with the deadline approaching, they have more time than you.
:16:09. > :16:14.34 teenagers and two adults had to be rescued by helicopter
:16:15. > :16:16.and lifeboats, after they became trapped by the rising tide
:16:17. > :16:19.beneath the white cliffs near Dover last night.
:16:20. > :16:21.The group, from Stamford Hill in north London,
:16:22. > :16:34.Ed Thomas is on the stretch of coast where the incident occurred.
:16:35. > :16:41.George, 36 very lucky people tonight. It is tempting with this
:16:42. > :16:46.warm weather and the blue skies to take a stroll up the cliffs, but
:16:47. > :16:55.today we have also heard thunder, rain and lightning. Mix that with
:16:56. > :16:56.these rising tides, and that shows you that very quickly this can
:16:57. > :16:58.become a dangerous place. 34 teenage boys and two adults
:16:59. > :17:11.cling to the White Cliffs of Dover. Some use mobile phones as torches,
:17:12. > :17:17.trapped by rising tides after a light night walk along the beach.
:17:18. > :17:18.It took three lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter,
:17:19. > :17:21.and more than 40 volunteers to save each life.
:17:22. > :17:28.Astonishingly, the group had walked straight past warning signs.
:17:29. > :17:31.Very lucky to be alive from that area.
:17:32. > :17:33.More often than not, unfortunately, the story from that area
:17:34. > :17:35.where we've rescued that group tonight is very different
:17:36. > :17:42.Just before midnight, cold and wet, they reached dry land.
:17:43. > :17:45.The teenagers were on a day trip organised by a Jewish community
:17:46. > :17:54.centre, and the children had no idea of the dangers they faced.
:17:55. > :17:57.The waters here come in very quickly.
:17:58. > :18:00.At this time of year, the spring tide is higher than usual,
:18:01. > :18:05.and there is the constant risk of cliff falls.
:18:06. > :18:12.the group decided to walk along the beach at night.
:18:13. > :18:17.that this could have been so much worse.
:18:18. > :18:20.You can't ignore the fact that, had the mobile phones not functioned,
:18:21. > :18:23.we would have been looking at a very different scenario.
:18:24. > :18:30.The organisers of the trip have said they'll investigate what went wrong
:18:31. > :18:32.and are extremely grateful to those who saved their lives.
:18:33. > :18:53.admits some of his workers were paid less than the minimum wage.
:18:54. > :19:02.England in training ahead of Euro 2016.
:19:03. > :19:05.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Northern Ireland manager
:19:06. > :19:06.Michael O'Neill plays down Kyle Lafferty's injury
:19:07. > :19:09.during training today and says it's not a major concern
:19:10. > :19:20.ahead of their Euro 2016 opener against Poland on Sunday.
:19:21. > :19:22.Hillary Clinton looks set to become the first ever woman chosen
:19:23. > :19:25.to run for US President by a major political party.
:19:26. > :19:28.With voting under way in the last major primaries,
:19:29. > :19:30.the former First Lady looks likely to gain enough
:19:31. > :19:35.delegates needed to secure the Democratic Party nomination.
:19:36. > :19:37.But supporters of her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders,
:19:38. > :19:41.have said it is too early to call the contest.
:19:42. > :19:47.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports from New York.
:19:48. > :19:50.In New York, and across the US, Americans woke to the news this
:19:51. > :19:55.morning that was long-awaited, but is nonetheless historic.
:19:56. > :19:57.For the first time in this nation's history, a woman, Hillary Clinton,
:19:58. > :20:05.On the Hoboken ferry to Wall Street commute,
:20:06. > :20:09.Faced with a choice of Trump versus Clinton?
:20:10. > :20:11.I'd rather throw myself off the boat right now
:20:12. > :20:17.I'm just not sure that this is as good as we can do.
:20:18. > :20:19.You think you could do better than Hillary Clinton?
:20:20. > :20:21.I think we can do better than all of them.
:20:22. > :20:24.If I had to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,
:20:25. > :20:28.But that sounds like she is the least worst option?
:20:29. > :20:35.Pollsters here measure favourability ratings,
:20:36. > :20:37.and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are right
:20:38. > :20:43.off the scale on how unfavourably people view them.
:20:44. > :20:46.This could be an election not about who do you like the most,
:20:47. > :20:54.but about who do you dislike the least.
:20:55. > :20:59.Last night in California, with her fight song playing,
:21:00. > :21:01.Hillary Clinton learnt that the glass ceiling she was only
:21:02. > :21:04.able to crack eight years ago had finally shattered.
:21:05. > :21:07.We are on the brink of an historic, historic, unprecedented moment,
:21:08. > :21:16.but we still have work to do, don't we?
:21:17. > :21:19.And at her campaign headquarters, which the BBC was given access to,
:21:20. > :21:23.First, she has to unite the Democratic party,
:21:24. > :21:27.and then work out how to fight Donald Trump.
:21:28. > :21:32.You can't be passive in the face of Donald Trump,
:21:33. > :21:34.and just assume that people will ultimately come
:21:35. > :21:36.to the conclusion that they won't accept him.
:21:37. > :21:39.You have to make the case, you have to prosecute the case about why
:21:40. > :21:43.We are not going to hesitate on a day-to-day basis.
:21:44. > :21:47.You have do, but what we are not going to do, what you are not
:21:48. > :21:51.going to see us do is sink down to his depth, and get
:21:52. > :21:53.into the gutter and try to hurl insults and taunts.
:21:54. > :21:55.In a high-tech campaign, a decidedly low-tech
:21:56. > :21:58.Hillary Clinton has seen off Bernie Sanders.
:21:59. > :22:12.A man and a five-year-old boy are fighting for their lives
:22:13. > :22:15.after being struck by lightning at a school sports
:22:16. > :22:18.Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Lisburn for us now.
:22:19. > :22:29.Chris, this must have been frightening for everyone there. What
:22:30. > :22:33.more do we know? Clearly it is sunny at the moment, but there have been
:22:34. > :22:37.periods of bad weather across the UK today, including some torrential
:22:38. > :22:39.rain and flash flooding. Here in Northern Ireland there have been
:22:40. > :22:43.some lightning storms, and one of those two place as parents were
:22:44. > :22:47.picking up their children here in Lisburn. A school Sportsday was
:22:48. > :22:51.taking place and one father was walking with his son and his
:22:52. > :22:57.daughter just towards the end of a playground behind me. And at the end
:22:58. > :23:02.of that, fence version can see, they were struck by lightning. The man is
:23:03. > :23:06.critically ill in hospital, as is his five-year-old man, and his
:23:07. > :23:09.seven-year-old daughter is also seriously ill. Clearly tonight there
:23:10. > :23:13.is a lot of concern about what happened, and unusually the
:23:14. > :23:16.Ambulance Service has issued a warning for people to be
:23:17. > :23:20.particularly aware, given that more thundery forecasts are forecast.
:23:21. > :23:22.Football, and England have been in training today,
:23:23. > :23:26.ahead of their opening game at the Euro 2016 tournament.
:23:27. > :23:29.It comes as the Foreign Office has warned fans travelling to France
:23:30. > :23:31.to be vigilant, because venues could be potential terror targets.
:23:32. > :23:43.Our Sports Editor, Dan Roan, is in Chantilly.
:23:44. > :23:49.Four days from now, it will be England's players singing the
:23:50. > :23:53.national anthem. This morning it was local schoolchildren, the warmest of
:23:54. > :23:58.welcomes for a squad ahead of an open training session at their Euro
:23:59. > :24:04.2016 base. England's multilingual manager thanking Sean Kelly for its
:24:05. > :24:08.hospitality. But its fluency on the pitch that England need. Hodgson has
:24:09. > :24:12.picked an attacking squad with an average age of just 25. The defence
:24:13. > :24:17.is seen as a weakness. Some players are recovering from injury. But in a
:24:18. > :24:21.group that includes Wales, England are the favourites to qualify. I
:24:22. > :24:24.don't see why we won't be successful in the competition, because we are
:24:25. > :24:29.young. I don't cages are nothing to do with it, I think it is more how
:24:30. > :24:33.you play as a team and how you gel as a team. England may have
:24:34. > :24:37.qualified with a 100% record, but after a dire World Cup two years ago
:24:38. > :24:41.in Brazil, this time they must do better. So here we are yet again.
:24:42. > :24:53.For England, the start of another major tournament carries with it so
:24:54. > :24:56.many memories of hopes dashed, but with the youngest squad in this
:24:57. > :24:58.competition, the hope will be that these players aren't weighed down by
:24:59. > :25:00.the burden of past failures, like some of their predecessors. Much
:25:01. > :25:05.will depend on a revitalised forward line led by Spurs striker Harry
:25:06. > :25:09.Kane. So how far could England go? All the way. All the way. I think we
:25:10. > :25:12.have got a great squad. I am excited by this group. I have been here
:25:13. > :25:16.before, I went to South Africa thinking we could win it. So it
:25:17. > :25:21.would be the first time I have felt like that, but I didn't we have got
:25:22. > :25:25.a good squad. England are under 24 armed guard here, but for the half a
:25:26. > :25:29.million British supporters expected in France this month, a warning
:25:30. > :25:33.today from the Foreign Office, that stadium, fans owns and transport
:25:34. > :25:39.pubs are potential targets for terrorist attack. It is a football
:25:40. > :25:43.tournament. You can't eliminate every fear from one's life. So I
:25:44. > :25:48.would say go with confidence, be smart, but come and enjoy the
:25:49. > :25:52.football. Despite the security concerns, England's management are
:25:53. > :25:59.making themselves at home here in this genteel corner of France. The
:26:00. > :26:00.road been straightforward, history suggests from now on it will be
:26:01. > :26:03.anything but. Over the past few weeks,
:26:04. > :26:05.we have been hearing from a range of voices across the UK about how
:26:06. > :26:08.they plan to vote in the forthcoming referendum
:26:09. > :26:11.and what issues matter to them. Tonight, it is the turn
:26:12. > :26:13.of Sheila Davies, from My name is Sheila Elizabeth Davies,
:26:14. > :26:18.I am 81 years of age. I have worked here for over 40
:26:19. > :26:27.years, and I live in Barmouth, I'm not sure yet what my
:26:28. > :26:41.vote is going to be. This vote is very much
:26:42. > :26:53.for the children that are coming behind us,
:26:54. > :26:55.and we must do everything that we can to make this a better
:26:56. > :26:58.place to grow up in, and to help each other and put it
:26:59. > :27:02.right, so that the next generation that is coming
:27:03. > :27:16.will have the best place. I think people must think
:27:17. > :27:20.and do the right thing. We are trying to make things
:27:21. > :27:47.right for our country. Some dramatic and dangerous weather
:27:48. > :27:49.around through the course of today. Also widespread storms across
:27:50. > :27:53.Scotland, northern England and the south-east of England as well. We
:27:54. > :27:58.captured this image of a lightning strike from our roof camera across
:27:59. > :28:02.the London area at about 2pm. Those storms are now heading up the A-1
:28:03. > :28:07.and the M1. Pretty miserable travel conditions. Further flooding is
:28:08. > :28:10.possible in the next few hours. Storms will continue to rumble on
:28:11. > :28:14.through the evening across Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England,
:28:15. > :28:17.slowly fading here but further south storms will keep going across the
:28:18. > :28:21.night, into the Midlands, parts of Northern Ireland being affected.
:28:22. > :28:25.Those downpours and the warmth and humidity making it quite tricky for
:28:26. > :28:29.sleeping, with temperatures in towns and cities staying in the mid-teens.
:28:30. > :28:33.More cool and comfortable across the north-east with the cloud returns
:28:34. > :28:36.overnight. A grey start here with the breeze backing off the North
:28:37. > :28:41.Sea, all eastern areas will be quite a bit fresher tomorrow. For many,
:28:42. > :28:44.another dry, bright, warm summer's day, but the warmth and humidity
:28:45. > :28:49.will again trigger further thunderstorms. Not as widespread as
:28:50. > :28:52.today, and Northern Ireland looks largely dry, but across parts of
:28:53. > :28:55.western Scotland, north-west England in particular, the risk of further
:28:56. > :28:59.vicious storms, some may be across the Midlands and North Wales. Very
:29:00. > :29:03.much it and miss but the potential for some ugly storms again. Like
:29:04. > :29:06.today, south Wales, south-west England staying dry, warm and sunny,
:29:07. > :29:14.and we should not see too many storms across the South tomorrow,
:29:15. > :29:16.23, 24, 25 possible. Eastern areas will be cooler particularly on the
:29:17. > :29:21.coast. Those thundery downpours only slowly fade tomorrow evening,
:29:22. > :29:24.leading into what should be a dry day on Thursday, still with some
:29:25. > :29:28.humid air, but more of a genetic change as we go into Friday to the
:29:29. > :29:31.weekend, the weather fronts return, the fresher air returns but it will
:29:32. > :29:33.also be cloudier and wetter.