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:00:00. > :00:07.A warning from two former Prime Ministers - leaving the EU could

:00:08. > :00:11.tear apart the UK and threaten stability in Northern Ireland.

:00:12. > :00:15.Sir John Major and Tony Blair speaking in Belfast.

:00:16. > :00:19.They're from different parties, but had one message today.

:00:20. > :00:23.The plain uncomfortable truth is that the unity of the United Kingdom

:00:24. > :00:29.itself is on the ballot paper in two weeks' time.

:00:30. > :00:34.I do find it rather disgraceful for two Prime Ministers who know

:00:35. > :00:36.full well the importance of the peace process

:00:37. > :00:39.here in Northern Ireland to come over here and suggest that a vote

:00:40. > :00:41.in a particular direction is going to undermine that.

:00:42. > :00:50.The former Libyan fighter who claims British spies arranged his torture.

:00:51. > :00:55.He's told there's not enough evidence to prosecute.

:00:56. > :00:58.The families of six Catholic men killed during the Troubles

:00:59. > :01:03.welcome a report which says police colluded with loyalist gunmen.

:01:04. > :01:08.Nobody cared that he was dying on a bar floor, but I did

:01:09. > :01:21.France is deploying an extra 90,000 police to keep them safe.

:01:22. > :01:25.Coming up at 6.30pm on BBC News, I'll be in Paris for our first

:01:26. > :01:29.Euro 2016 Sportsday as we get the latest from the England,

:01:30. > :01:54.Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:01:55. > :01:57.Sir John Major and Tony Blair set aside their political differences

:01:58. > :02:01.today to issue a stark warning about what they think would happen

:02:02. > :02:07.Speaking in Derry, they said Northern Ireland's stability

:02:08. > :02:10.could be threatened and the United Kingdom could be torn apart.

:02:11. > :02:13.But there was a swift reaction from Northern

:02:14. > :02:15.Ireland's First Minister, Arlene Foster,

:02:16. > :02:17.who called the intervention "disgraceful".

:02:18. > :02:25.Our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar reports.

:02:26. > :02:30.It was striking to see two former Prime Ministers, one red, one blue,

:02:31. > :02:34.campaigning today in perfect harmony. They came here to Northern

:02:35. > :02:41.Ireland, which for both of them, is a scene of lasting achievement. They

:02:42. > :02:45.were reaching out to hearts, minds, voters across the UK. Their warnings

:02:46. > :02:47.were dark as they joined a campaign which, just at the moment, looks

:02:48. > :02:49.very finely balanced. Two retirees on a morning stroll

:02:50. > :02:52.except John Major and Tony Blair were in Northern Ireland

:02:53. > :02:54.on business, walking the famous They had agreed an identical warning

:02:55. > :02:59.- the European Union and the gains of a peace they both

:03:00. > :03:04.brokered could be lost and the UK If they had been ageing rock stars,

:03:05. > :03:10.they would have called young to vote, too young

:03:11. > :03:15.for nostalgia, it sounded The unity of the United Kingdom

:03:16. > :03:19.itself is on the ballot Don't let them take risks

:03:20. > :03:27.with Northern Ireland's future. Don't let them undermine our

:03:28. > :03:30.United Kingdom. Was he saying peace

:03:31. > :03:34.itself was at risk? No one is saying the peace process

:03:35. > :03:37.is going to break apart the day after if you vote to leave,

:03:38. > :03:40.but one of the elements fundamental to that peace process,

:03:41. > :03:44.which is Republic of Ireland, UK both in the European Union,

:03:45. > :03:49.no border between north and south, A familiar scene at

:03:50. > :03:57.the height of the troubles. But it has been peaceful for years

:03:58. > :04:00.and Northern Ireland's leavers hit In my experience the commitment

:04:01. > :04:05.of people in Northern Ireland to the political settlement

:04:06. > :04:09.and to exclusively peaceful and democratic means to determine

:04:10. > :04:12.Northern Ireland's future, I think that commitment is rock

:04:13. > :04:16.solid and to say that it would somehow waiver or become less

:04:17. > :04:19.resolute if there was a democratic vote to leave the EU,

:04:20. > :04:23.I think not only unjustified, I do find it rather disgraceful

:04:24. > :04:29.for two Prime Ministers who know full well the importance

:04:30. > :04:32.of the peace process here in Northern Ireland,

:04:33. > :04:35.to come over here and suggest that a vote in a particular direction

:04:36. > :04:37.is going to undermine. Sir John Major was saying Scots

:04:38. > :04:43.might want out of the UK, Hadn't Downing Street said one

:04:44. > :04:49.referendum was enough? If the country demanded that,

:04:50. > :04:52.it would be politically impossible You can't keep people

:04:53. > :04:58.in a country by force. If the demand was sufficient,

:04:59. > :05:00.one would have to Today's young audience,

:05:01. > :05:06.like so many others, were split. I don't feel like any

:05:07. > :05:08.of the problems that they presented in there could be dealt

:05:09. > :05:11.with by our community and by our generation

:05:12. > :05:13.and I just think that They made some really,

:05:14. > :05:20.really fair points about staying in the EU and I think

:05:21. > :05:23.I would if I could vote Here, as across the UK,

:05:24. > :05:28.it's about the economy, borders, migration and the high stakes

:05:29. > :05:30.in play and the fact that it is impossible to call

:05:31. > :05:33.the outcome has made it brutal. The wounds being inflicted back

:05:34. > :05:37.and forth maybe impossible to heal, Just now, the voters

:05:38. > :05:41.in Northern Ireland and across the United Kingdom,

:05:42. > :05:43.have a more immediate problem, deciding their and their country's

:05:44. > :05:45.future So two former Prime Ministers

:05:46. > :05:51.were here today, back in the frontline of politics

:05:52. > :05:54.to defend their legacy and try, once more, to persuade voters

:05:55. > :05:57.to share their vision of the country A brief look at some other stories

:05:58. > :06:08.on the EU referendum today. The chairman of JCB,

:06:09. > :06:11.the construction equipment firm, has written to his 6,000 employees

:06:12. > :06:14.in the UK explaining why he favours a vote

:06:15. > :06:17.to leave the EU. Lord Bamford says he is very

:06:18. > :06:20.confident the UK can stand on its own

:06:21. > :06:23.two feet. A prominent Leave campaigner

:06:24. > :06:26.is considering a legal challenge after the government extended

:06:27. > :06:29.the deadline for voters to register Leave EU founder, Arron Banks,

:06:30. > :06:33.says there are grounds for a judicial review

:06:34. > :06:36.of the extension. The Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston

:06:37. > :06:39.has quit the campaign to Leave the EU and says she'll now be

:06:40. > :06:43.voting to Remain. Dr Wollaston, who is chairman

:06:44. > :06:46.of the Health Select Committee, said she didn't feel comfortable

:06:47. > :06:49.about Vote Leave's claim that Brexit would free up

:06:50. > :07:00.?350 million a week for the NHS. Senior MI6 officers will not face

:07:01. > :07:03.charges over the alleged detention and torture of an opponent

:07:04. > :07:05.of the former Libyan leader, Abdel Hakim Belhadj is one of two

:07:06. > :07:10.men who claim that the British spy agency played a significant

:07:11. > :07:13.part in his rendition - that's the illegal movement

:07:14. > :07:16.of people from one country Our Security Correspondent

:07:17. > :07:22.Gordon Corera has the story. The man who says he was sent

:07:23. > :07:27.by Britain to Libya to be tortured. With his wife speaking

:07:28. > :07:32.for the first time on TV They are angry at today's

:07:33. > :07:37.decision that no one TRANSLATION: I'm very disappointed

:07:38. > :07:42.that individuals responsible But there is political interference

:07:43. > :07:47.with the courts and it Abdel Hakim Belhadj had

:07:48. > :07:53.fought to overthrow When Tony Blair embraced

:07:54. > :08:00.Colonel Gaddafi in 2004, as relations were warming up,

:08:01. > :08:04.British spies were helping the Libyan leader get

:08:05. > :08:07.hold of his opponents. It was only when Gaddafi

:08:08. > :08:10.was overthrown in 2011 that details first publicly emerged suggesting

:08:11. > :08:16.MI6 had worked with the CIA to send Documents were found in Gaddafi's

:08:17. > :08:22.ransacked intelligence headquarters, Belhadj is referred

:08:23. > :08:28.to as a terrorist in letters, allegedly written by

:08:29. > :08:32.Sir Mark Allen, then MI6's One document reminds the Libyans

:08:33. > :08:37.that the intelligence behind Belhadj's capture,

:08:38. > :08:42.by the CIA, was British. Though it says the Americans paid

:08:43. > :08:47.for what is called the air cargo. That air cargo included Belhadj's

:08:48. > :08:51.wife, six months pregnant at the time and strapped

:08:52. > :08:56.on to a stretcher for the journey. TRANSLATION: My hands and legs

:08:57. > :08:59.were tied and my eyes were covered, I was so scared that

:09:00. > :09:09.I was going to die. She was released after four months,

:09:10. > :09:12.but her husband was held for six years and says he was tortured

:09:13. > :09:17.by the Libyans. The emergence Of the documents led

:09:18. > :09:21.to a police investigation into MI6 which produced 28,000

:09:22. > :09:25.pages of evidence. But today, the Crown Prosecution

:09:26. > :09:29.Service said witnesses could not recall sufficient detail and it

:09:30. > :09:32.thought the evidence was not strong We don't understand how the CPS can

:09:33. > :09:40.say on the one hand, British officials were definitely

:09:41. > :09:42.involved in rendition and on the other hand nobody

:09:43. > :09:46.will stand trial for it. The real question for all of us is,

:09:47. > :09:49.is MI6 subject to the law There will be relief inside MI6 that

:09:50. > :09:55.no former officers face prosecution. Those who have worked

:09:56. > :09:58.inside acknowledge that mistakes were made in the early years

:09:59. > :10:01.of the war on terror, but critics will say today's

:10:02. > :10:04.decision will mean no one will be Southern Health Trust has

:10:05. > :10:12.admitted causing the death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk,

:10:13. > :10:15.at a care unit in Oxford. He drowned in the bath nearly

:10:16. > :10:19.three years ago after suffering an epileptic

:10:20. > :10:21.seizure. The Trust initially blamed natural

:10:22. > :10:25.causes, but now says the death was the result of multiple systemic

:10:26. > :10:30.and individual failures. Northern Ireland's police watchdog

:10:31. > :10:34.has found there was collusion between some officers and loyalist

:10:35. > :10:37.paramilitaries who killed six Catholics more

:10:38. > :10:39.than 20 years ago. The men were killed at a pub

:10:40. > :10:42.in County Down in 1994. The Police Service

:10:43. > :10:44.of Northern Ireland And has apologised to the families

:10:45. > :10:57.of the victims. The name of this quiet rural village

:10:58. > :11:04.will forever be linked to a notorious attack,

:11:05. > :11:06.murders that have become In June 1994, people had gathered

:11:07. > :11:11.at the Heights Bar in Loughinisland COMMENTATOR: The Irish have taken

:11:12. > :11:20.over the Giants Stadium in New York. The Republic of Ireland were playing

:11:21. > :11:23.Italy in the World Cup. COMMENTATOR: Everywhere you look,

:11:24. > :11:26.you see orange, white and green. And people were focused on the game

:11:27. > :11:30.when gunmen entered the bar Six men who came here to be

:11:31. > :11:40.with friends died together. And ever since, their families have

:11:41. > :11:46.claimed that there was collusion Today, that was confirmed

:11:47. > :12:00.by Northern Ireland's policing They colluded in the murder of my

:12:01. > :12:03.father. Nobody cared he was dying on a bar floor. But I did.

:12:04. > :12:07.REPORTER: Because the truth has come out?

:12:08. > :12:10.Because the truth is out and they can't hide.

:12:11. > :12:12.Five years ago, another ombudsman report into the killings

:12:13. > :12:17.However, its findings were dismissed by the families of some of those

:12:18. > :12:20.who died as a whitewash and they were eventually

:12:21. > :12:29.In this new report, the ombudsman concludes that police informants

:12:30. > :12:31.were involved in importing the guns used at Loughinisland,

:12:32. > :12:35.but the killers had been involved in previous murders

:12:36. > :12:37.and if properly investigated, could have been brought to justice

:12:38. > :12:40.and may not have been involved in the Loughinisland attack.

:12:41. > :12:42.And he says the investigation was characterised in too many

:12:43. > :12:48.instances by incompetence, indifference and neglect.

:12:49. > :12:55.The ombudsman stated collusion was a feature of these murders. They were

:12:56. > :13:04.both wilful and passive acts carried out by police officers. That's

:13:05. > :13:09.entirely unacceptable to me. Those people should be held to account

:13:10. > :13:13.Recall the police apologised to those who died. All know the passing

:13:14. > :13:17.of time has made it unlikely anyone will ever be held accountable for

:13:18. > :13:20.the mass murder committed in this village.

:13:21. > :13:30.John Major and Tony Blair come together and warn that leaving

:13:31. > :13:36.And still to come, from the warehouse to your front door.

:13:37. > :13:46.Now Amazon takes on the supermarkets with fresh food deliveries.

:13:47. > :13:49.Coming up in Euro 2016 Sportsday at 6.30 on BBC News,

:13:50. > :13:51.we'll look ahead to the start of the tournament.

:13:52. > :13:54.We'll also get the latest from the home nation's team camps,

:13:55. > :14:05.including the Wales star, Gareth Bale.

:14:06. > :14:08.The educational gap between rich and poor children is narrowing.

:14:09. > :14:12.That's according to a report from the Social Mobility Commission

:14:13. > :14:16.Whether it's helping with homework or reading bedtime stories

:14:17. > :14:18.parents in poorer families are doing more than they used to.

:14:19. > :14:27.Our Home Editor Mark Easton has this exclusive report.

:14:28. > :14:34.I would like some ice cream and strawberries, please? What chance do

:14:35. > :14:39.these children have of fulfilling their potential? They live in one of

:14:40. > :14:47.Sheffield's most deprived neighbourhoods, a city with some of

:14:48. > :14:50.the widest inequalities in Britain. Across the UK, children from the

:14:51. > :14:55.poorest fifth of households are already a year behind the richest

:14:56. > :15:00.fifth by the age of five, but ambition is undimmed. Look what I

:15:01. > :15:06.can do! What about you, what are you going to be when you grow up? A

:15:07. > :15:11.hairdresser and a mermaid. A hairdresser and a mermaid.

:15:12. > :15:20.Is the gap between the prospects for rich and poor children getting

:15:21. > :15:25.wider? Or narrower? The social mobility commission has been looking

:15:26. > :15:34.at a gloomy prognosis from America and wondering is it the same story

:15:35. > :15:36.here. Robert Putnam offered an alarming assessment of social

:15:37. > :15:40.mobility in the United States warning the American dream is in

:15:41. > :15:46.crisis. Kids coming from well off backgrounds are doing better and

:15:47. > :15:50.better. They are more likely to take part in extra Carrick collar

:15:51. > :15:55.activities, kids from less educated homes are doing worse and worse. So

:15:56. > :15:59.the social mobility commission applied the methods to Britain and

:16:00. > :16:03.on key measures, the results were a surprise. Parents helping their

:16:04. > :16:07.children with homework among graduate parents, the proportion has

:16:08. > :16:13.fallen in recent years, among parents with low qualifications, it

:16:14. > :16:17.has risen, turning up at parents evenings, a similar story, again the

:16:18. > :16:21.gap narrowed. There is another measure of parental support. The

:16:22. > :16:25.researchers call Gruffalo time. The Gruffalo will be familiar to most

:16:26. > :16:29.British parents and it has become shorthand for adults reading with,

:16:30. > :16:36.talking with, and playing with their children. Back in the 70s children

:16:37. > :16:41.could expect 23 minutes a day of this kind of attention. Now, it is

:16:42. > :16:46.an average 80 minutes! Surprise! Surprise!

:16:47. > :16:50.Parenting support is no longer seen as something only for problem

:16:51. > :16:55.families. In fact, schemes like families and schools to go run in

:16:56. > :17:01.hundreds of schools by Save The Children are often over subscribed.

:17:02. > :17:04.Spending time with Aaron and Sophia, we've just doing a bit of craft and

:17:05. > :17:09.sometimes we don't always get the time to do it. Forces you to do it?

:17:10. > :17:15.Which is out of my comfort zone at times! Stronger parental support is

:17:16. > :17:18.thought to lie behind big recent falls in truancy, underage drinking

:17:19. > :17:20.and smoking and crucially, a narrowing of the gap in the

:17:21. > :17:24.experience of rich and poor. You name it, you can

:17:25. > :17:27.probably buy it on Amazon, There was one exception - fresh food

:17:28. > :17:38.but even that is about to change. In parts of London, the company

:17:39. > :17:40.will now deliver groceries As our business correspondent

:17:41. > :17:43.Emma Simpson reports it could mean extra competition

:17:44. > :17:45.for the supermarkets. Amazon has built a retail juggernaut

:17:46. > :17:49.with its one-stop easy shopping. There is not much it

:17:50. > :17:53.doesn't do these days. It's already doing deliveries

:17:54. > :18:01.Stateside with mixed success. Amazon Fresh, with thousands

:18:02. > :18:08.of different products. Here's the interesting thing -

:18:09. > :18:12.it's nearly lunchtime and Amazon says it can get this

:18:13. > :18:14.order here to me between The logistics of fresh food

:18:15. > :18:25.are far more complex. This speciality butcher

:18:26. > :18:28.is one of the suppliers, who has to get his orders over

:18:29. > :18:30.to the main warehouse The UK grocery market

:18:31. > :18:41.is worth ?178 billion. Online sales are still only

:18:42. > :18:43.a fraction of this at ?9 Set to nearly double

:18:44. > :18:49.to ?17 billion by 2020, That's the last thing

:18:50. > :18:54.the big supermarkets need. Amazon have disrupted every market

:18:55. > :19:00.they've entered and food is by far I think there's going to be

:19:01. > :19:06.a lot of waves made. But you have to pay for this

:19:07. > :19:16.service, and will it All the supermarkets are struggling

:19:17. > :19:26.to make online pay, but this company has deep pockets and patience

:19:27. > :19:29.when it comes to making profits. The Euro 2016 football tournament

:19:30. > :19:36.kicks off tomorrow. and half a million British football

:19:37. > :19:39.fans will be heading to France The hosts, France, take on Romania

:19:40. > :19:46.tomorrow amid tight security. 90,000 extra police have been

:19:47. > :19:48.deployed. The eve of Euro 2016

:19:49. > :19:53.and reminders everywhere Special Forces

:19:54. > :20:01.conducting a training exercise at a fan park in Lyon,

:20:02. > :20:07.one of ten host cities preparing to welcome millions of fans told

:20:08. > :20:10.to be vigilant amid warnings tournament venues could be a target

:20:11. > :20:12.for terrorist attacks. I think it's reasonable to assume

:20:13. > :20:15.that the threat is high. That what we know from

:20:16. > :20:17.so-called Islamic State is that they have a taste

:20:18. > :20:19.for the spectacular. That was clear from what they have

:20:20. > :20:22.done in Paris and Brussels We can expect that they would try

:20:23. > :20:27.to mount an attack. That's not the same as saying

:20:28. > :20:30.the risk is high because what I have seen are enormous

:20:31. > :20:33.security precautions. November's attacks began

:20:34. > :20:36.with suicide bombings at the Stad de France which hosts

:20:37. > :20:38.tomorrow's opening match. Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris,

:20:39. > :20:41.represented the city as it tried to come to terms with the atrocity,

:20:42. > :20:45.but she told me that Euro 2016 can TRANSLATION: This event

:20:46. > :20:55.is so important to us, to inspire a mood of optimism in the entire

:20:56. > :20:57.French population. It's also a way for us

:20:58. > :21:00.to say to the world, "We are here and we will

:21:01. > :21:02.be welcoming you." The best answer to give

:21:03. > :21:03.to terrorists is that we will not The start of Euro 2016 will see

:21:04. > :21:06.football take centre stage in a country that's still trying

:21:07. > :21:09.to recover from what happened The hope is it will help bring

:21:10. > :21:14.people together and heal some of the wounds caused

:21:15. > :21:18.by recent terrorist attacks. But rarely before has such a big

:21:19. > :21:21.international sports event taken place amid such

:21:22. > :21:25.heightened security concerns. With protests and nationwide strikes

:21:26. > :21:28.continuing this week, the build-up to Euro 2016 has been

:21:29. > :21:31.a troubled one, but France 16 years ago a national team,

:21:32. > :21:40.symbolic of multiculturalism, won the World Cup and helped unify

:21:41. > :21:43.a nation riven by racial tension. The hope now that history

:21:44. > :21:46.can repeat itself. France actually is facing

:21:47. > :21:59.a little bit of problem, at the security level,

:22:00. > :22:02.at the level of economy, We need football to be there for us,

:22:03. > :22:07.to enjoy, to have hope and this Tonight, the first real test

:22:08. > :22:10.for the authorities 90,000 people expected at a concert marking

:22:11. > :22:13.the opening of the capital's fan park, proof that despite

:22:14. > :22:15.everything, the French public And with the referendum just two

:22:16. > :22:21.weeks away, many of you will still be making up

:22:22. > :22:25.your minds over how to vote. To try to help, some of our top

:22:26. > :22:27.Editors have been answering some of your questions

:22:28. > :22:34.about the upcoming vote. Harrison Taylor has asked

:22:35. > :22:36.would Britain still enjoy long-term economic growth,

:22:37. > :22:41.even if the country leaves the EU? Well, the short answer

:22:42. > :22:43.to that is probably yes. But I think it is the speed of that

:22:44. > :22:49.growth that is the important issue. A lot of major organisations have

:22:50. > :22:51.suggested there would be a short-term economic

:22:52. > :22:53.shock even a recession, if Britain were to leave the EU

:22:54. > :22:56.and over the longer term, But those that support Brexit argue

:22:57. > :23:01.that freed from the shackles of the European Union,

:23:02. > :23:05.and with the ability to sign new trade deals with countries

:23:06. > :23:08.like America and China, Of course, the longer you look

:23:09. > :23:21.into the future the harder it is to make any judgements

:23:22. > :23:24.about the shape of the UK economy. Beverley from Oxford asks,

:23:25. > :23:29."Is it true that the Commons might vote to stay in,

:23:30. > :23:32.even if the public wants out?" Well, it's true that MPs

:23:33. > :23:44.would have to pass new laws It is true most MPs want to stay in.

:23:45. > :23:48.It has been suggested that some of them might group together and try to

:23:49. > :23:53.keep us in the single market, the giant trade area, but that would be

:23:54. > :23:57.pretty controversial and perhaps not very democratic and the Prime

:23:58. > :24:07.Minister has always been clear. A vote to leave means leave.

:24:08. > :24:10.Tony asks if the minimum wage is one of the main reasons that we get so

:24:11. > :24:14.many immigrants, well I think from the EU, certainly yes. While there

:24:15. > :24:17.are jobs here, people will look around Europe and we do have one of

:24:18. > :24:22.the highest levels of minimum wage and that, I think, is something of a

:24:23. > :24:26.draw. The Living Wage coming in now, rising to ?9 an hour by 2020, that's

:24:27. > :24:32.also likely to have a significant impact. That said, more than half

:24:33. > :24:35.the EU migrants coming to the UK are graduates and are likely to be

:24:36. > :24:44.largely unaffected by the minimum wage.

:24:45. > :24:48.Next question, is remain a vote for a European superstate and

:24:49. > :24:53.uncontrolled migration? Well, you know, there is an element of crystal

:24:54. > :24:56.ball gazing about the Remain and the Leave campaigns, but the freedom for

:24:57. > :25:01.European citizens to live and work across the block, it is a core EU

:25:02. > :25:05.principle and it won't change, but is Turkey about to join? Would its

:25:06. > :25:10.people free to move to the UK, no? It is light years away from meeting

:25:11. > :25:14.the required criteria. What of that federal superstate? Well, some

:25:15. > :25:19.politicians still dream of that, but they are few and far between. The

:25:20. > :25:22.people of Europe, the voters, have never been so Euro-sceptic. They

:25:23. > :25:33.want more power for national parliaments, not Brussels.

:25:34. > :25:36.Anna from York wants to know what would happen to the price of food?

:25:37. > :25:40.Well, Europe protects its farmers and puts tariffs on food coming in

:25:41. > :25:45.from outside like this piece of New Zealand lamb. If we went outside the

:25:46. > :25:49.EU, we could import as much as we like. Good for consumers, but not

:25:50. > :25:56.good for British farmers. We couldn't stop the EU putting tariffs

:25:57. > :25:59.on our food exports. Others could go down and others go up. Like

:26:00. > :26:01.everything in trade, it is a trade-off.

:26:02. > :26:06.Our editors have been answering your questions throughout the day.

:26:07. > :26:08.You can find special coverage of that on our website:

:26:09. > :26:20.Hello. Some weather changes. Today, Here's Darren Bett.

:26:21. > :26:24.Hello. Some weather changes. Today, was a lovely sunny day for most of

:26:25. > :26:29.us. Temperatures 23 Celsius, 24 Celsius in light winds. That was the

:26:30. > :26:33.picture in Lincolnshire. We saw a few showers today. You could see

:26:34. > :26:37.them earlier on from the Wirral as well. Most of the showers, mid-North

:26:38. > :26:41.Wales, Northern England and one or two in Scotland. They will continue

:26:42. > :26:44.through the evening. Some could continue through the night. There is

:26:45. > :26:47.more cloud coming in from the Atlantic to give us a shower or two

:26:48. > :26:51.for Northern Ireland. A bit of rain in the far south-west of England. A

:26:52. > :26:55.warm and muggy night once again. A few mist and fog patches that will

:26:56. > :26:59.soon go tomorrow. Tomorrow looks different. There will be more cloud

:27:00. > :27:02.around for a start and there will be more showers. The showers developing

:27:03. > :27:06.more widely across the northern half of the UK as we run through the

:27:07. > :27:09.afternoon. So for Northern Ireland, and for Scotland, with more cloud,

:27:10. > :27:13.and more showers, some of which could be heavy, it will be cooler

:27:14. > :27:17.than today, particularly noticeable, I think, in Glasgow where we enjoyed

:27:18. > :27:20.a lot of sunshine today. It will be turning cooler as the showers become

:27:21. > :27:24.more widespread across Northern England. Fewer showers perhaps for

:27:25. > :27:28.Wales, rain in the far south-west, but through the Midlands towards the

:27:29. > :27:31.South East, it may stay dry during the day. Hazy sunshine, a lot of

:27:32. > :27:35.high cloud, but feeling quite warm too. Into the weekend though and

:27:36. > :27:39.very unsettled weather really. Not a wash-out by any means. There will be

:27:40. > :27:43.sunshine and rain at times, but it will feel a touch cooler as well. I

:27:44. > :27:46.think Saturday looks like it will be cloudy and damp across much of

:27:47. > :27:49.Scotland. Better on Sunday. Elsewhere, some sunshine and

:27:50. > :27:56.showers, but turning a little cooler during Sunday.

:27:57. > :27:59.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.