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The Bank of England cuts interest rates for the first | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
time in seven years - amid signs the UK | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Interest rates have been cut to a new historic low - | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
a quarter of one per cent - as the Bank's governor hints | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
We're living through a time of considerable uncertainty, | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
and one thing we can do is reduce the uncertainty over | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
From home buyers to savers, we'll be looking at what impact | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
the interest rate cut could have on you. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Police say they believe a random knife attack in London that killed | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
an American woman was triggered by mental health issues, not terrorism. | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
Addicted to devices - British adults now spend an average | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
of 25 hours online every week, as more than half | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
And towering over Brighton - the town's new vertical pier finally | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Coming up in the sport on BBC News, it's advantage, Pakistan | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
after the second day of the third test against England, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Azhar Ali leading the charge of the century at Edgbaston. | :01:09. | :01:31. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to a new record low | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
of a quarter of one per cent amid concern about a slowdown | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
in the economy following the vote to leave the European Union. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
It's the first time rates have been cut for seven years since | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The decision is just one of a series of what the bank called "exceptional | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
measures" to boost growth - including a decision to pump | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
The Bank also announced the biggest ever cut to its growth forecasts | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
for next year - from 2.3% down to 0.8%.Here's our | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed. | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
We were saying farewell to a tough winter and an even tougher recession | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
the last time the Bank of England cut interest rates from 1% to 0.5%. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
Since then, we had wedding bells. We've had running, swimming, jumping | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
and an Olympics. Voters have trudged to the polls time after time after | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
time, and all the way through, the bank has resolute Idlib -- | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
resolutely not acted on that low number, until today, and a cut to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
0.25%. The governor decided it was time to act. We have, in the actions | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
we have taken, by acting through multiple channels with a coherent | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
policy package, we have improved the economic outcomes for this country. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
There will be less unemployment, more activity, and there will be a | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
greater prospect of a successful adjustment to the new realities. The | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
bank will create more money, ?170 billion, to be precise, increasing | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
quantitative reasoning by buying government and business debt. -- | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
quantitative easing. The government -- the Governor told me the post | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Brexit adjustment would have an effect. We expect unemployment to go | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
from just under 5% to about 5.6% more unfortunately. That is a little | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
more than 250,000 jobs that would be lost over the course of the next few | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
years. That shows you the real cost of Brexit. Well, that shows the cost | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
of this period of adjustment. What does today's package mean? 1.5 | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
million mortgage holders will see their bills fall. It will not be by | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
much, on average just ?22 a month, but for savers, it is not good news. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
If you have a savings pot of ?100, on average you would have received | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
40p a year before the cut. Now, that will fall to just 25p. The two sides | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
of the low interest rate debate. Sandy Saunders is a saver and Laura | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Brooks is just about to take on a new, cheap mortgage. The sandy, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
today's cut just makes things a little harder. It's just the fact | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
that when you are used to having that little bit extra coming in, the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
bottle money, as it were, and it's not there now, you have to fit | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
everything else into the budget you have got coming in. It was nice to | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
have that bit of interest, but now you don't get it any more. For | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Laura, low rates have put homeownership within her reach. It | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
would have been much harder to get on the property ladder in London if | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
interest rates were much higher. Every thing is going up and wages | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
don't seem to be increasing to reflect that. The other important | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
address today, Number 11 Downing Street, home of the Chancellor in a | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
government that will have to play its part supporting the economy. He | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
said he would do whatever it takes. We are trying to protect jobs and | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
economic growth, and the measures that have been taken today are | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
designed to ensure that any increase in unemployment as a result of the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
economic slowdown is kept to the minimum. For the Bank of England, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
the big question - will this package work? Yes, the interest rate cut is | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
modest. The stimulus relatively small. But Mark Carney has offered | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
himself as a one man confidence indicator, and for the economy, | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
confidence is important. While others fiddle, here is some action. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
We had to wait seven years for this interest rate cut, but we may not | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
have to wait as long for the next one. The bank is already looking at | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
cutting rates again, to 0.1%, a new historic low, as we digest the | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
economic impact of the referendum. So as Kamal pointed out, | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
people buying houses are among those Hywel Griffith has been | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to a new development in Newport to assess consumer | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
and business confidence. Economic growth requires a lot of | :06:10. | :06:22. | |
ingredients. If today's measures are going to shore things up, its places | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
like this new housing estate where they will be used. Through into the | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
kitchen. Tom and Fiona are buying their first home together. The | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
interest rate cut should make finding a mortgage cheaper. Both | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
work in the codfish trade, a service industry that has been booming, but | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
they are aware -- they work in the coffee tray, but other businesses | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
are not doing so well. It is terrible when people are losing | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
jobs. That is people's livelihood. But I think we all need to be a bit | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
more sensible with our money, and spend it where you need it. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Hopefully, the economy will turn around and we welcome at other side. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Their new home will need to be kitted out. Credit cards may be an | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
option. The Bank of England has warned against growing consumer | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
debt, a warning they are heeding. There are offers left, right and | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
centre if you want to take loans on this, interest-free on that. We | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
could go to town on every room in the house easily. But you have got | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
to live to your means. When they eventually move in, their new | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
neighbours will be Mohammed and his family, with two stores in Newport | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
and plans for a third on an economic slowdown will be felt in his tills. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Buying a new house now is a big decision, but he thinks the money is | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
better off in bricks and mortar than in the banks. You can't keep cash in | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
the back this time, because interest rates are too low. The best way is | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
to invest money in property or business. And it is the best time to | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
buy a house. Construction is an important part of the UK economy, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
but it's an industry that has been particularly nervous over what the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
next few months will bring. What they want is confidence and cash | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
flow so that they can carry on building. For developer Tim, the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
promise of economic stimulus is key, as long as the money does reach | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
them. We can't continue to build unless the banks are there to | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
support us as an industry. We clearly want to build as many houses | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
as we can. These brand-new streets will not be finished for another 18 | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
months. By then, we should know if today has put the economy on the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
right track. Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Newport. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Interest rate at a historic low and could go lower, but will it work? | :08:49. | :09:00. | |
What we have seen today is a big, confidence boosting measure, as far | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
as the bank felt it could go and a lot further than many thought. Mark | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
Carney also said he wants to make Brexit a success, or do what he can | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
to make it a success. So I think he is saying, don't panic, the economy | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
might be slowing, but we have got the tools to help the economy grow. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
But I think actually, we are only seeing half the picture. The bank | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
only controls parts of the economy. It is now down to the Government, | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
and what are they going to do to shore up the economy if this growth | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
problem gets worse? That will be things like taxes and spending and | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
whether they are going to borrow more or give go-ahead is too big | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
infrastructure projects. We will only know the detail of that and | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
whether it works in the Autumn Statement in November or December. | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
Kamal, thank you. For more on what the interest | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
rate cut means for you, do go to our website, | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
where you'll find plenty more information - | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
that's bbc.co.uk/news. A 19-year-old man has been arrested | :10:07. | :10:07. | |
on suspicion of murder after an American woman was killed | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
and five others were injured during a knife attack | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
in central London last night. It's believed the victims | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
were selected at random Police say the tragic incident | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
increasingly appears to have been triggered by mental health | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
issues, not terrorism. a 19-year-old who had taken one life | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
and left others injured as he lashed out with a knife in | :10:25. | :10:39. | |
a busy London square. A guy just came running, | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
desperate, with a knife, He was not showing | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
his face because he He was shouting, not | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
saying any words. Today, other witnesses described how | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
the attacker fled the scene and some officers went | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
after him on foot. He was eventually brought down | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
by a Taser stun gun. There was a guy running | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
on this street, a policeman was He screamed every time, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
"Stop, stop!" He was being shouted | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
at by the police. "Don't move, don't go any further. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Stop. Literally screaming at him | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
as he was coming down the street. They actually went out of my vision, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
but I did hear the Taser. Then he goes to the floor and lay | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
there for 45 minutes. The woman who was killed | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
here was American. The injured were a mix of British, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Israeli, American and Australian. During the day, detectives | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
were able to establish Whilst the investigation | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
is not yet complete, the work we have done so far | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
increasingly points to this tragic incident as having been | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
triggered by mental health issues. I emphasise that | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
so far, we have found no evidence of radicalisation that | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
would suggest the man in our custody The way that so many police officers | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
poured into this area so quickly shows how the city is primed to deal | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
with a security threat. Instead, this was all | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
about the safety of a group of people of different | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
nationalities, who were caught up in The man in custody is a Norwegian | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
national of Somali origin. His victim, believed | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
to be in her sixties, is being remembered at the spot | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
where her life suddenly ended. June Kelly, BBC News. It's still not | :12:37. | :12:56. | |
clear how many Russian athletes will be allowed to compete in the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Olympics. The IOC has been criticised for not imposing a | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
blanket ban. Our Sports Editor Dan Roan | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
is in Rio for us now. When will we know for sure how many | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
Russian athletes can take part? In the last few minutes, the IOC | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
president, Thomas Bach, has been given a press conference. He said we | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
would finally be told the official number later today. But according to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
the Russian state news agency, around 270 Russian athletes will be | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
able to take part in these Rio 2016 games. It is remarkable that it has | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
taken until the day before the opening ceremony before we learned | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
that. There has been chaos in the build-up to these games because of | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
that damning World Anti-Doping Agency report into state-sponsored | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
cheating last month. If it is 270, that is about 100 fewer than their | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
intended team, but it will still be among the largest teams of any | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
nation taking part, and that will anger many of the critics who | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
demanded they complete blanket ban. The IOC resisted those demands. They | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
passed responsibility onto the respective sporting federations. New | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
Aled Jones -- eligibility criteria were set. When that team walks | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
around the Olympic Stadium tomorrow night as part of the opening | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
ceremony at the Russian flag flies, there will already be more | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
controversy and that will anger many of the critics. Dan Roan, thank you. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
It's estimated that one in every 14 adults in England and Wales has been | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
sexually abused as a child, according to new research. | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
It's the first time the Crime Survey, which is carried | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
out every year, has included a question | :14:39. | :14:39. | |
The findings suggest some 11% of women and 3% of men - | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
an average of 7% of adults - were affected. | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
A convoy carrying foreign tourists in western Afghanistan | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
A group of a dozen tourists were escorted to Herat | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
by Afghan army personnel when they were ambushed. | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
The travellers included eight Britons, three US | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
citizens and one German, some of whom were injured. | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
The Taliban are suspected of carrying out the attack. | :15:00. | :15:12. | |
The full list of David Cameron's resignation on years has just been | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
published. Isabel Spearman will be awarded an OBE. Our political | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
correspondent is in Westminster with the details. We have just got the | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
full list in the past 15 minutes. David Cameron awarding 46 of his | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
former colleagues with honours and creating 30 new Conservative peers. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Former Chancellor George Osborne has become a companion of honour, | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
awarded for what is described as service of conspicuous national | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
importance. Who else then is on the list? Craig Oliver, the former | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
director of communications in Downing Street will become Sir Craig | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
Oliver. He is knighted. As is Oliver Letwin and Patrick McLauchlin. He is | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
currently the Conservative Party chairman. Also the executive | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
director of the Stronger capital at in campaign in the referendum. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Plenty will say these awards are justified for National Service and | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
others will think they are simply doing their job. | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
The Bank of England has cut interest rates | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
for the first time in seven years to a record low of a quarter | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
of a percent, amid signs the UK economy is slowing. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
The wait for the Games is almost over and Team GB are confident | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Four years on from the London 2012 opening ceremony, | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
West Ham play their first game at the Olympic Stadium | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
as they try to turn around their Europa League qualifying time. | :16:47. | :16:59. | |
Are you addicted to your mobile phone? | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Do you find yourself using a tablet or phone so much that it's | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Adults in Britain are now spending an average of 25 hours a week online | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
More than half of them say they're hooked on their devices | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Nothing beats getting away from it all. | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
But can we really switch off from our phones and devices? | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
If I Google that, we'll be able to look today. | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
I find it totally impossible just to put it away and not | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
I like to keep in touch with everybody and I like to be able | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
to post on my photos to Facebook so my friends can see where we are. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
a bit of Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
Sadly, I do have to admit I check my e-mails. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
I appreciate that my family don't always approve when I do that. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
I think, in industry today, there is a requirement | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
We are now spending on average 25 hours a week online. | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
But we are also becoming aware of the drawbacks. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
A third of adults, 15 million people, said they had gone | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
on a digital detox or break to strike a healthy balance. | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
For instance, 16% of us have delivered a gone on holiday | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Over on pitch 108, the Woodwards from Merseyside left | :18:45. | :18:59. | |
There is a lot going on in the world and different things at that. | :19:00. | :19:11. | |
Two weeks of the year you can chill out and forget about everything. | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Many parents are making kids take an online break. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Nearly two thirds have been digitally grounded. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
I don't find it something you need everyday. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
I am more than happy biking up and down. | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
We're better connected than ever before but | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
is to make sure our obsession does not negatively affect our | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
in Weston-super-Mare 33 years ago, has been jailed for nine years. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
David Green was arrested after a DNA breakthrough | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
He refused to comment when the police interviewed him | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
but confirmed he had a tattoo of the name "Dave" on his arm, | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
matching a description given by his victim. | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn has set out his vision to "rebuild | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
-- Jeremy Corbyn is due to hold his first head debate with his | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
challenger. The contest gets under way. How long before we know | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
leader will be? We will know the result by the end of September. This | :20:22. | :20:31. | |
time last year there were four candidates on the Labour leadership | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
ballot. Jeremy Corbyn had scraped on with little or no chance of winning. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Now he is the incumbent facing a leadership challenge. His team are | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
confident he will still be the leader once all the votes have been | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
counted up. Earlier today, he set out his policies including investing | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
?500 billion in infrastructure. Owen Smith has already promised to invest | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
?200 billion. In some way, Jeremy Corbyn has a bit of a victory of a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
victory as a leader because the policies being debated show the | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
agenda of this contest has shifted firmly to the left. This will be | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Owen Smith's debut as he warns the party is on a precipice and that he | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
is the person to unite it. Jeremy Corbyn has had plenty of experience | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
at these types of hustings from his successful campaign last year. Thank | :21:20. | :21:20. | |
you. On the eve of the 2016 rio games - | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
the Olympic torch has been riding the waves on one of Rio's famous | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
beaches - carried by Tomorrow night it will be carried | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
into the Olympic stadium Team GB - who'll be led | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
in by Andy Murray - are hoping to win 48 medals in Rio - | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
that's not as many as London - but it would still make | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Rio Britain's most Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
has been looking at their chances. 28 different sports, | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
one common goal. After weeks of preparing, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
the time for training With one day to go, Team GB | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
is starting to gather in Rio, including their flag bearer, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
an honour that caught Andy Murray I was just getting into | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
bed at about 11:15 pm. Um, our team leader came | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
and I was speechless really. For the team as a whole, | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
the challenge is to follow this. The success at London 2012 is set | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
in the gold standard So, what should we expect | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
from Team GB here in Brazil? London was the best Games for more | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
than a century. Here, their target is | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
a little more modest. That still would make | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
it their best overseas Games, beating the 47 medals they won | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
in Beijing eight years ago. It is really unusual | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
for a team to do really Some of them have really | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
slumped in the past. To have the best away Games ever | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
after a home Games like that in London would be | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
an outstanding result for us. The key could be a crop | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
of new stars, like World Champion Adam Peaty in the swimming, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
sailor Giles Scott, who's lost just once in three years, | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
and Katerina Johnson-Thompson, challenger Jessica Ennis-Hill | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
for heptathlon gold. I still do admire her and respect | :23:24. | :23:33. | |
everything she has achieved, so it can't be a rivalry | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
in that respect. I never thought our careers | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
would cross paths. It's a bit weird, going | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
for the gold. It will be good for Great Britain, | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
getting two medals in some capacity. Our athletes are an inspiration | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
to us all. For the team today, | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
a message of royal support. Topping 2012 might be a step too far | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
but it is time for Team GB to live It's called the i360 - this | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
is Brighton's new vertical pier. Towering more than 500 feet | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
above the seafront - it's been built by the same team | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
who created the London Eye - and today it opened to the public | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
for the first time today. Duncan Kennedy has been taking | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
in the views, Duncan. Good evening from 450 feet. Look at | :24:20. | :24:35. | |
the views we are getting from this sort of height. In the background | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
you might be able to make out the Brighton Pier. This whole project | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
has taken 12 years to come to fruition. Although this tower has | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
its critics, up here, it is a different world. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
It only opened today but it is being called everything from the people's | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
hold to the chimney stack. It is the i360 and today it took off. It is | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
incredible. You can see so much more than I thought you could see. The | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
temp Ahas a giant pod taking 200 people soaring above Brighton. What | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
do you think? Unbelievable. Amazing. What a day! Stunning! Brilliant. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Really nice. It costs ?13 for adults and seven for children. Visitors | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
rising to 450 feet. It is so high it takes seven minutes just to get up | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
here. When you are here, what a few exclamation that you can seek | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
distances up to 26 miles away. -- what a view! This is the world's | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
tallest, moving observation tower. Built by the same people who created | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
the London eye, it took 16 years to make this vertical vision a reality. | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
This is the loving little brother of the London Eye. The same DNA, the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
same kind of experience but a different pupils to if you have | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
experienced one,, never look at another. Others view this and less | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
polite terms saying it is an upended pier and an unwanted intrusion. | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
Isn't it vile! Isn't it a disgusting insult to the heritage you can see | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
surrounding us as we stand here. Something which is little more than | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
an industrial chimney plonked on the beach. The i360 may be an eyesore to | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
somebody's is his eye watering to others. A giant stick of Brighton | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
Rock reaching for the skies. The skies look pretty clear in | :26:48. | :27:03. | |
Brighton today. A great day for the opening. Not bad for most of us this | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
evening. A few showers around. Tomorrow there will be more sunshine | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
on the way for the a dry day was a nice picture from North Yorkshire. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Some sunshine and Fairweather cloud. On the satellite picture, this is | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
where the shower clouds have been. Speckled right across the country, | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
there have been quite a few pulled up some of us have had to run for | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
cover. There have been some heavy ones here and there. They are in the | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
process of dying away. The skies were clear and the winds will fall | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
light and the two bridges will dip away. In Scotland these are the city | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
temperatures. In Scotland it could be close to freezing in the | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
sheltered, Scottish blends. Tomorrow starts quite bright and fresh across | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
Scotland. -- Scottish blends. One or two showers around in Scotland and | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
some pesky ones in Yorkshire. Into the 20s in the south and upper teens | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
in the north. Friday evening is looking fine as well put things will | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
change that bit over the weekend. High pressure just about gets into | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
the UK temporarily. Look at that area of low pressure. It was it | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
across the country during the course of Saturday night and into Sunday. | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
Low pressure with a lot of white lines and isobars mean strong winds. | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
Gale force winds getting into the north-west of our neighbourhood. | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
Some rain as well. A big contrast across England and sunshine. The | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
south-western coasts could turn a little on the cloudy side. The winds | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
will increase. Northern England northwards, that is where it will be | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
blustery. Further south, breezy as well. It should be a fine day down | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
south. I do not want to paint a picture of too much doom and gloom. | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
The weekend is not looking that bad. | :28:46. | :28:51. |