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The billionaire boss of Sports Direct admits | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
that members of staff were sometimes paid less than the minimum wage. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
at the firm's Derbyshire warehouse, says one union. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
He says he's not Father Christmas but is ready to address issues. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Will you find it 100% perfect? Of course you won't. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
that I obviously don't know are going on or happening. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
We'll be looking at the company's record. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Also tonight, Chelsea's team doctor accepts a settlement | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
in her discrimination case, the club apologises unreservedly. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Nigel Farage - | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
he says some comments on immigration legitimise racism. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Trapped between the White Cliffs and a rising tide - | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
the teenagers rescued by lifeboats and helicopter. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Hillary Clinton is set to become the first woman | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
Votes today could confirm her nomination. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Everton agree a deal to make Ronald Koeman their new manager. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
They'll pay Southampton around ?5 million | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. | :01:23. | :01:48. | |
It was the confrontation he'd originally tried to avoid, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
but today Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct, | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
faced MPs and admitted there were what he called issues | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
It followed accusations by one union that there was a culture | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
of fear at the company's warehouse in Derbyshire. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
And as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Mr Ashley accepted that there were times | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
when staff were paid less than the minimum wage. | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
It's a journey he didn't want to make. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Mike Ashley, one of Britain's richest men, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
the founder of Britain's biggest sports retailer. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
Have you created a culture of fear? Absolutely not. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
After months of resisting, he was finally on his way | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to face MPs, and to begin with he didn't have much to say. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
But if I may start with the review that you announced six months ago, | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
what's the current status of the review? | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
But he soon acknowledged some work practices needed changing. | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
If you were a minute late, you got docked 15 minutes' pay. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
You ask me what I think, I think it's unacceptable. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
He was also asked about long security checks | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
at the end of a shift, during which workers weren't paid. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
for example, stuff such as the bottlenecks at security, | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
I don't think that's even slightly acceptable. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Do you accept that the company was | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
effectively paying workers below the minimum wage? | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
On that specific point, for that specific bit of time, yes. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
It all happened here at Sports Direct's | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
vast distribution centre in Derbyshire, manned around the clock | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
by thousands of temporary agency workers, many from Eastern Europe. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
But it's alleged it was more of a workhouse than a warehouse. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
This BBC programme revealed a culture of fear. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Stuart Young was a security guard here. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
It feels like something out of Dickens, the way it's run. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Finding urine bottles in the warehouse, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
they can't go to the toilet unless it's their break time. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Today, the union claimed it led to people | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
coming to work when they weren't well | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
and countless ambulance call-outs to the site. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
You will see there were strikes in there, there were | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
five births or miscarriages or pregnancy-related issues in there, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
one of which was someone giving birth within a toilet, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and the last one happened in November of 2015. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
This was Mike Ashley on a recent visit to the site. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Today he reckoned such a high level of serious incidents | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
was impossible here, and last year Sports Direct | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
said its workers were free to use the toilet as needed. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Mr Ashley told MPs he couldn't be everywhere all the time. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
I'm not Father Christmas, I'm not sitting there, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
"Oh, I'm going to make the world wonderful." | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
You just have to try and get a balanced view | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
and say, "As an individual, would you tolerate that?" | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
And if I honestly believe it isn't, I change it. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Do you think your company has outgrown your ability to manage it? | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
He left pledging to make further changes if needed. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
He knows he's now got to get himself and his retail empire | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
And a backdrop to all of this, George, is that this is a business | :05:20. | :05:34. | |
that grew incredibly fast, in Mike Ashley's own words, from an | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
inflatable dinghy to an oil tanker overnight, and that clearly has been | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
difficult to manage. He said he couldn't have done it without all | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
these agency workers, but it's these workers, the union claims, who are | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
paid the price for the cheap goods is business sells. | :05:50. | :05:49. | |
Emma, many thanks. Chelsea has apologised unreservedly | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
after it settled a discrimination case with the team's former | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
doctor, Eva Carneiro. when Ms Carneiro ran onto the pitch | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
to treat a player, despite objections from the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
club's manager, Jose Mourinho. "fulfilling her responsibility | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
to the players as a doctor." Today was supposed to be Dr Eva | :06:05. | :06:21. | |
Carneiro's big moment in court, but when Jose Mourinho, the most famous | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
manager in world football, arrived unexpectedly, accompanied by senior | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
figures from Chelsea, it was the signal that a settlement agreement | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
was close to being reached. The roots of the dispute stem back to | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
last August, and Chelsea's opening fixture of the season against | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Swansea. Mourinho was incensed when Dr Carneiro ran onto the pitch to | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
treat an injured player, leaving his team a man down as they were chasing | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
a winning goal. She claims he called her a derogatory term in Portuguese, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
something which Mourinho and Chelsea denied. After the game comedy called | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
his medical team impulse of, naive and said they didn't understand | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
football. Within weeks she had resigned and started her employment | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and discrimination action. Today the club apologise and reserve and | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
leave. In a statement, Chelsea said, we wish to place on record that in | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
running onto the pitch Dr Carneiro was following but the rules of the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
game and fulfilling her responsibility to the players as a | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
doctor, putting their safety first. Jose Mourinho also thanks Dr | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Carneiro for the excellent and dedicated support she provided as | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
first team doctor. Chelsea offered Dr Carneiro ?1.2 million to settle | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
this claim, but it was rejected. On the opening day of this hearing, | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
there was astonishing detail laid out before the tribunal about the | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
nature of the claims against Chelsea and Jose Mourinho. They have now | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
reached an agreement, but it is confidential, and we may perhaps | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
never know the terms. She now, however, can look forward to moving | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
on in life and putting this long-running saga behind. In a | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
statement, she said, it has been an extremely difficult and distressing | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
time for me and my family, I now look forward to moving forward with | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
my life, my priority has always been the health and safety of the players | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
and fulfilling my duty of care as a doctor. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
But the drama wasn't quite yet finished. There were chaotic scenes | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
as first Dr Carneiro left the tribunal after the formalities had | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
been concluded, and then Jose Mourinho was, eventually, bundled | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
into his waiting car. He is now free to carry on as the new manager of | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Manchester United, knowing that the confidential agreement means that | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
further embarrassment from this dispute has been avoided. Richard | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Conway, BBC News, south London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
Justin Welby, has intervened in the EU referendum campaign with | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
a strong attack on Nigel Farage. He has accused the Ukip leader | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
of legitimising racism, when he suggested staying in the EU | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
might lead to sex attacks like those in Germany during | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the New Year celebrations. Mr Farage has denied | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
saying anything racist. Tonight he will take part in a | :08:59. | :09:10. | |
television discussion, also involving David Cameron. | :09:11. | :09:10. | |
Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
There's a long way to go, but we're in with a shout. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
So shy of self-promotion - Nigel Farage advertising | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
his own appearance on TV tonight, prepping for a fight | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
he's spent his whole career waiting for. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
I'm ready for this, I've been campaigning for | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
a quarter of a century for Britain to leave the European Union, | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
and I will do tonight what I've always done. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
and I will invite the Prime Minister to do the same. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Battling accusations too that he will use race to win. | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
At least I tell the truth, and at least I'm prepared | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
to stand up for the interests of this country. | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
If they start getting personal, if they start getting nasty, | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
and I saw a specimen of this back in 2014, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
after that happened, we went on to win | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
And the fact that they're stooping to these depths | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
But he grabbed attention with his earlier suggestion that | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
women could be at risk from sex attacks from migrants in the EU. | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury the latest to object. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
An inexcusable, pandering to people's worries and prejudices. | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
It's giving legitimisation to racism. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
It is accentuating fear for political gain, | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
A helpful line of attack for David Cameron perhaps, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
as the stage is prepared for the Prime Minister | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
But the Prime Minister made his own appearance first, | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
pushing warnings from Hitachi, the World Trade Organisation, | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
and the American central bank about leaving the EU. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Listen to the experts, don't stand on the sidelines. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
There are no second chances, no reruns. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
even his Tory friends, who tell you we'd be better off out. | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
A Leave campaign resorting to total untruths | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
to con people into taking a leap in the dark. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
You sound like you're pleading with voters | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
not some of your own Cabinet colleagues. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Are you worried you're losing? Not at all. | :11:30. | :11:30. | |
What I'm worried about, what I'm concerned about | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
is that people are being told things that aren't correct. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
The Leave campaign has called again for the Prime Minister to debate | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
them and what they repeatedly claim is scaremongering from his side. | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
I think it's actually quite disappointing to hear | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
so much negative rhetoric coming from the UK Government itself, | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
and people from the Remain campaign, because this is a great country | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
and a great economy, and what people know | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
is that we can do brilliantly if we take back control. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
It's now voters who are taking sides. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
is perhaps now out of the politicians' reach. | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
And in the last half-hour, Nigel Farage has delved in again, accusing | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the Archbishop of Canterbury of some kind of confected outrage, but it's | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
the Prime Minister will draw fire from Mr Farage denied. Both men will | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
appear on stage here at the Olympic Park in east London, not at the same | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
time, but they will both take questions from the same audience, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
and it is interesting to think perhaps these are the two | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
politicians in the country for whom this matters the most. Mr Farage has | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
arguably done more than any politician to bring this referendum | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
about in the first place. And for David Cameron, he is fighting not | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
just to keep the country I bod for his own legacy and for the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Conservative Party. Two men whose careers will be largely decided by | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the referendum result, but of course all of our votes will shape the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
country's future too. Thank you, Laura. | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
Today is the last chance for people to register to vote | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
in the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
which, of course, takes place on the 23rd June. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
The deadline for those wanting to be included on the electoral roll | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
is midnight tonight. Christian Fraser is here. | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
The politicians say it is the biggest electoral decision | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
And in the past month, there have been huge efforts | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
on all sides to get people registered. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
1.3 million people have applied online in just the past three weeks. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Friday and Monday were some of the biggest days for registration. | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
148,000 of them are under the age of 35. Today I have been in south | :13:40. | :13:55. | |
London, where people were being signed up to vote. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Exam day and Lambeth College, a day that could shape the future of the | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
students in this hall. Are you registered to vote in the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
referendum? And so could there be vote, in or out, Britain's future | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
with the EU will probably impact this generation the most. They have | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
been counting down for weeks, yet still so many had either forgotten | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
to register or they just don't believe there vote can affect the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
outcome. I feel like often they tell us stuff, if you vote, this will | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
happen, but once you vote, it never happens. They don't really relate. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Maybe you need to get more involved in politics and change it. May be! | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
If we vote, I don't think there will be a change. Why not? I don't know. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Nonetheless, they did sign up, and so did 25 others, in less than an | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
hour. Different people face different barriers in getting into | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
politics, if you are young and marginalised, you are less likely to | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
vote. There has been a huge social media campaign, including this viral | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
video featuring goats. This was a huge day for registrations... The | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
electro commission says it has led to a surge in applications. That is | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
not to say that it is purely young people they are hunting. In Cardiff, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
they were out reminding the older voters that the midnight deadline is | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
looming. If you are already on the electoral role, you don't need to do | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
anything. The voting cards should be on their way. But remember also | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
tomorrow's deadline, 5pm is the cut-off in England, Scotland and | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Wales to apply for a postal vote if you are away on the 23rd of June. | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
So you are eligible to vote if you are over 18, | :15:48. | :15:48. | |
you are from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
This is the web page address you need. | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
If you have your NI number to hand, that will help, | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
The local authority has to verify everyone on the register. | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
And with the deadline approaching, they have more time than you. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
34 teenagers and two adults had to be rescued by helicopter | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
and lifeboats, after they became trapped by the rising tide | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
beneath the white cliffs near Dover last night. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
The group, from Stamford Hill in north London, | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Ed Thomas is on the stretch of coast where the incident occurred. | :16:22. | :16:34. | |
George, 36 very lucky people tonight. It is tempting with this | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
warm weather and the blue skies to take a stroll up the cliffs, but | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
today we have also heard thunder, rain and lightning. Mix that with | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
these rising tides, and that shows you that very quickly this can | :16:56. | :16:56. | |
become a dangerous place. 34 teenage boys and two adults | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
cling to the White Cliffs of Dover. Some use mobile phones as torches, | :16:59. | :17:11. | |
trapped by rising tides after a light night walk along the beach. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
It took three lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter, | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
and more than 40 volunteers to save each life. | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Astonishingly, the group had walked straight past warning signs. | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
Very lucky to be alive from that area. | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
More often than not, unfortunately, the story from that area | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
where we've rescued that group tonight is very different | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
Just before midnight, cold and wet, they reached dry land. | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
The teenagers were on a day trip organised by a Jewish community | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
centre, and the children had no idea of the dangers they faced. | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
The waters here come in very quickly. | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
At this time of year, the spring tide is higher than usual, | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
and there is the constant risk of cliff falls. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
the group decided to walk along the beach at night. | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
that this could have been so much worse. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
You can't ignore the fact that, had the mobile phones not functioned, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
we would have been looking at a very different scenario. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
The organisers of the trip have said they'll investigate what went wrong | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
and are extremely grateful to those who saved their lives. | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
admits some of his workers were paid less than the minimum wage. | :18:33. | :18:53. | |
England in training ahead of Euro 2016. | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Northern Ireland manager | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Michael O'Neill plays down Kyle Lafferty's injury | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
during training today and says it's not a major concern | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
ahead of their Euro 2016 opener against Poland on Sunday. | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
Hillary Clinton looks set to become the first ever woman chosen | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
to run for US President by a major political party. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
With voting under way in the last major primaries, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
the former First Lady looks likely to gain enough | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
delegates needed to secure the Democratic Party nomination. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
But supporters of her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
have said it is too early to call the contest. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports from New York. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
In New York, and across the US, Americans woke to the news this | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
morning that was long-awaited, but is nonetheless historic. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
For the first time in this nation's history, a woman, Hillary Clinton, | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
On the Hoboken ferry to Wall Street commute, | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
Faced with a choice of Trump versus Clinton? | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
I'd rather throw myself off the boat right now | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
I'm just not sure that this is as good as we can do. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
You think you could do better than Hillary Clinton? | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
I think we can do better than all of them. | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
If I had to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
But that sounds like she is the least worst option? | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Pollsters here measure favourability ratings, | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are right | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
off the scale on how unfavourably people view them. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
This could be an election not about who do you like the most, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
but about who do you dislike the least. | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
Last night in California, with her fight song playing, | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
Hillary Clinton learnt that the glass ceiling she was only | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
able to crack eight years ago had finally shattered. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
We are on the brink of an historic, historic, unprecedented moment, | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
but we still have work to do, don't we? | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
And at her campaign headquarters, which the BBC was given access to, | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
First, she has to unite the Democratic party, | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and then work out how to fight Donald Trump. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
You can't be passive in the face of Donald Trump, | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
and just assume that people will ultimately come | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
to the conclusion that they won't accept him. | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
You have to make the case, you have to prosecute the case about why | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
We are not going to hesitate on a day-to-day basis. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
You have do, but what we are not going to do, what you are not | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
going to see us do is sink down to his depth, and get | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
into the gutter and try to hurl insults and taunts. | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
In a high-tech campaign, a decidedly low-tech | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Hillary Clinton has seen off Bernie Sanders. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
A man and a five-year-old boy are fighting for their lives | :21:59. | :22:12. | |
after being struck by lightning at a school sports | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Lisburn for us now. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Chris, this must have been frightening for everyone there. What | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
more do we know? Clearly it is sunny at the moment, but there have been | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
periods of bad weather across the UK today, including some torrential | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
rain and flash flooding. Here in Northern Ireland there have been | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
some lightning storms, and one of those two place as parents were | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
picking up their children here in Lisburn. A school Sportsday was | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
taking place and one father was walking with his son and his | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
daughter just towards the end of a playground behind me. And at the end | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
of that, fence version can see, they were struck by lightning. The man is | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
critically ill in hospital, as is his five-year-old man, and his | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
seven-year-old daughter is also seriously ill. Clearly tonight there | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
is a lot of concern about what happened, and unusually the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Ambulance Service has issued a warning for people to be | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
particularly aware, given that more thundery forecasts are forecast. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Football, and England have been in training today, | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
ahead of their opening game at the Euro 2016 tournament. | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
It comes as the Foreign Office has warned fans travelling to France | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
to be vigilant, because venues could be potential terror targets. | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
Our Sports Editor, Dan Roan, is in Chantilly. | :23:32. | :23:43. | |
Four days from now, it will be England's players singing the | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
national anthem. This morning it was local schoolchildren, the warmest of | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
welcomes for a squad ahead of an open training session at their Euro | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
2016 base. England's multilingual manager thanking Sean Kelly for its | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
hospitality. But its fluency on the pitch that England need. Hodgson has | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
picked an attacking squad with an average age of just 25. The defence | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
is seen as a weakness. Some players are recovering from injury. But in a | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
group that includes Wales, England are the favourites to qualify. I | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
don't see why we won't be successful in the competition, because we are | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
young. I don't cages are nothing to do with it, I think it is more how | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
you play as a team and how you gel as a team. England may have | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
qualified with a 100% record, but after a dire World Cup two years ago | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
in Brazil, this time they must do better. So here we are yet again. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
For England, the start of another major tournament carries with it so | :24:42. | :24:53. | |
many memories of hopes dashed, but with the youngest squad in this | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
competition, the hope will be that these players aren't weighed down by | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
the burden of past failures, like some of their predecessors. Much | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
will depend on a revitalised forward line led by Spurs striker Harry | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Kane. So how far could England go? All the way. All the way. I think we | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
have got a great squad. I am excited by this group. I have been here | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
before, I went to South Africa thinking we could win it. So it | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
would be the first time I have felt like that, but I didn't we have got | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
a good squad. England are under 24 armed guard here, but for the half a | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
million British supporters expected in France this month, a warning | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
today from the Foreign Office, that stadium, fans owns and transport | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
pubs are potential targets for terrorist attack. It is a football | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
tournament. You can't eliminate every fear from one's life. So I | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
would say go with confidence, be smart, but come and enjoy the | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
football. Despite the security concerns, England's management are | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
making themselves at home here in this genteel corner of France. The | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
road been straightforward, history suggests from now on it will be | :26:00. | :26:00. | |
anything but. Over the past few weeks, | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
we have been hearing from a range of voices across the UK about how | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
they plan to vote in the forthcoming referendum | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
and what issues matter to them. Tonight, it is the turn | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
of Sheila Davies, from My name is Sheila Elizabeth Davies, | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
I am 81 years of age. I have worked here for over 40 | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
years, and I live in Barmouth, I'm not sure yet what my | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
vote is going to be. This vote is very much | :26:28. | :26:41. | |
for the children that are coming behind us, | :26:42. | :26:53. | |
and we must do everything that we can to make this a better | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
place to grow up in, and to help each other and put it | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
right, so that the next generation that is coming | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
will have the best place. I think people must think | :27:03. | :27:16. | |
and do the right thing. We are trying to make things | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
right for our country. Some dramatic and dangerous weather | :27:21. | :27:47. | |
around through the course of today. Also widespread storms across | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
Scotland, northern England and the south-east of England as well. We | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
captured this image of a lightning strike from our roof camera across | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
the London area at about 2pm. Those storms are now heading up the A-1 | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
and the M1. Pretty miserable travel conditions. Further flooding is | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
possible in the next few hours. Storms will continue to rumble on | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
through the evening across Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England, | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
slowly fading here but further south storms will keep going across the | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
night, into the Midlands, parts of Northern Ireland being affected. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
Those downpours and the warmth and humidity making it quite tricky for | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
sleeping, with temperatures in towns and cities staying in the mid-teens. | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
More cool and comfortable across the north-east with the cloud returns | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
overnight. A grey start here with the breeze backing off the North | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
Sea, all eastern areas will be quite a bit fresher tomorrow. For many, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
another dry, bright, warm summer's day, but the warmth and humidity | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
will again trigger further thunderstorms. Not as widespread as | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
today, and Northern Ireland looks largely dry, but across parts of | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
western Scotland, north-west England in particular, the risk of further | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
vicious storms, some may be across the Midlands and North Wales. Very | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
much it and miss but the potential for some ugly storms again. Like | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
today, south Wales, south-west England staying dry, warm and sunny, | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
and we should not see too many storms across the South tomorrow, | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
23, 24, 25 possible. Eastern areas will be cooler particularly on the | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
coast. Those thundery downpours only slowly fade tomorrow evening, | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
leading into what should be a dry day on Thursday, still with some | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
humid air, but more of a genetic change as we go into Friday to the | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
weekend, the weather fronts return, the fresher air returns but it will | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
also be cloudier and wetter. | :29:32. | :29:33. |