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Britain's most decorated female Olympian of all time - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Katherine Grainger rows into the history books in Rio | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The 40-year-old won silver with Vicky Thornley | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
in the double sculls - though they were agonisingly | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Mixed emotions after coming so close, but Kath Grainger only | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
came out of retirement two years ago to compete at her 5th Olympics. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
If I could come out with anything, a medal of any kind, | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
it would probably be my greatest achievement. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Just because of where it started from. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
There were many many dark days if I'm honest where I could | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
never really see how this could ever happen. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
We'll be looking at all the latest action from Rio | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Professor Alexis Jay is named as the new head | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse - | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Gas attack claims in Aleppo - the UN investigates reports that | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Syrian government forces dropped chlorine on rebel held areas. | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
And why Muslim women are the most disadvantaged in British society. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
According to a new report by MPs. Later, sports day on the BBC News | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
channel with the latest reports, results and features from the BBC | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
sports centre. Good afternoon, and welcome | :01:23. | :01:45. | |
to the BBC News at 6. The rower Katherine Grainger has | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
become Britain's most decorated female Olympian, | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
after winning her 5th medal She took silver with Vicky Thornley | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
in the women's double sculls - though the pair were agonisingly | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
close to taking gold. 40-year-old Kath Grainger came out | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
of retirement two years ago It's been a difficult road to Rio, | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
but afterwards she said having a medal around their neck | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
made it all worthwhile. Andy Swiss is at the Lagoa Stadium | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
in Rio. Andy. | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
Yes, what an incredible few hours we have had here at the rowing lake. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Katherine Grainger arrived here in Rio more than hope than expectation, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
her chances of that fifth Olympic medal seemed to be failing after a | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
troubled build-up but against all the odds, she is into the record | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
books. Rarely has a more remarkable journey | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
had a happier ending. Katherine Grainger, the new history woman of | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
British sport. After her gold in London 2012, Grainger took a | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
two-year break from rowing before a comeback with her new partner Vicky | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Thornley, but they struggled. Just months ago they were even in the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
team. But out of no where they produced something staggering. The | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
pair led for most of the way, on course for a fairy tale gold but | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Poland edged past to set up a thrilling finish. Cue the motion, | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
glacial and that, and for the 40-year-old Grainger, place in the | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
record books. Going away Olympic silver medallist. What an incredible | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
race and what an incredible moment for Katherine Grainger. Five games, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
five medals, the most decorated British woman in Olympic history. I | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
don't think anything could eclipse London because of everything that | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
surrounded it, but I remembered the start of this campaign, thinking if | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
I could come out with anything, medal of any kind, it would be | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
silver. There were many dark days, where I couldn't see how this could | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
happen. So to be standing here, with a medal round our next has made it | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
worthwhile. Great Britain's new heroine! Grainger's five medals | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
takes a clear of her only modern-day rival, Rebecca Adlington with four. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
I'm so pleased for her, to make that decision to come back and it was a | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
case of, not being among the medals, there has been a lot of talk about | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the form they are in and if she will get on the podium. To get that | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
silver medal, I think she will be very, very pleased with that. So | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
after silver medals at Sydney, Athens, Beijing 2008 and gold at | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
London 2012, she has made it a famous five. This will surely be the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
end of her career. But the Katherine Grainger... What a way to go out! | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Andy Swiss, BBC News, Rio. Well in terms of making history - | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
it's been a pretty successful 24 hours for Team GB, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
with Britain's first ever Olympic gold in diving and then the gymnast | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Max Whitlock's bronze late last night - Britain's first | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
all round gymnastics medal - Natalie Pirks reports | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
on a packed day of action. It was wet and windy, but proved to | :04:49. | :05:02. | |
be wonderful. Wednesday delivered a bounty of medals for Team GB from | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
across the sporting spectrum. Manages a double pirouette on top, | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
good job. In an historic night in both the pool and the gymnastics, | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Max Whitlock delivered bronze to claim Britain's first Olympic | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
all-round gymnastic medal in eight years. It is so difficult, unlike | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
any other medal, you have to get six pieces right on the day and I'm so | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
proud do that. The wet conditions for a bonus in the watersports after | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Joe Clark claimed gold in the men's kayak. Jack laughter and Chris Mears | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
BB US a in China to win gold in the synchronised springboard final. For | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Chris Mears, given just a 5% chance of survival in 2009 when he was in a | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
coma after rupturing his spleen, becoming Britain's first-ever diving | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Olympic champion is a proud moment. When you go through something like | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
that, it really helps shape you as a person. It's really taught me a lot | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
about myself and about myself believe, and knowing if I can get | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
through that, that is as low as low can get. That I can really work hard | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
at diving. Golf is back after a 112 year break, and Justin Rose has | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
already made history with the sport's first Olympic: one. He likes | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
this, he has a hole in one! Justin Rose has the first hole in one. | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
Kazakhstan broke the weightlifting record to lift gold yesterday and | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
become a sensation. Britain's Tom Daly has bumped into American's | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Samoan buyers. Her talent was already clear in footage of her as a | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
child, she is on course to get gold tonight. David Florence had to get | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
over the disappointment of his last place finish in the canoe slalom. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Him and partner Richard Hounslow are through to the finals of the men's | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
doubles later. Tonight sees the return of Sir Bradley Wiggins to the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
as the cycling team emulate look to any rate the success of London 2012. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
That sprint final tonight. Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Rio. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
This is how the medals table looks right now The United States | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
are still at the top, and Team GB are in 9th place with 13 | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Tonight, all eyes will be on the Velodrome as Team GB's track | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is in the Olympic Park. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
There are some serious medal hopes there, aren't there, Dan? | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
There certainly are. What is exciting for a Team GB perspective | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
it so far bed three gold medals have happened in events in which they | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
haven't traditionally enjoyed that much success, swimming, diving and | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
the canoe slalom. Now we are about to enter a phase in which they are | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
very strong indeed, track and field, which starts on the Olympic Stadium | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
tomorrow, and here as you say, track cycling, they won nine medals in | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
London 2012 in that sport. Seven gold, twice as many as almost any | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
other nation that was competing. There is no Sir Chris Hoy this time | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
after retirement, but as Natalie said based on Jason Kenny, Philip | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Hinds, both of them were part of that men's team sprint that enjoyed | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
success last time round. Jason Kenny and three gold medals already an | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Olympics in his career. The velodrome, of all the venues at | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
these Rio games, that was the one that gave organisers most cause for | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
concern. They only opened in June, but it is ready and I don't think | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
that will bother British cyclists this evening one iota, they will be | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
very confident. Also the rugby sevens, Team GB in the semifinals | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
against South Africa. If they win they will be in the final playing | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Fiji or Japan. They hope will be that they are inspired by Kath | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Grainger's great achievement today and continue the momentum generated | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
yesterday into this day as well. Dan Roan, thank you. | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
The independent inquiry into historical child abuse | :09:11. | :09:11. | |
in England and Wales has been beset by problems since it began in 2014. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Today the inquiry named its 4th chair in just two years. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Professor Alexis Jay - a child protection expert - | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
will now take over, after Dame Lowell Goddard became | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Professor Jay led the inquiry into child exploitation | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
Professor Alexis Jay is not a judge or even a lawyer, but she is a | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
hugely experienced social worker and former director of social services. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
At least 1400 individual children in Rotherham were victims of sexual | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
exploitation over the 16 years. She also led the successful and | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
ground-breaking inquiry into the rape and trafficking of children in | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Rotherham, which reported in 2014. The first chair of this England and | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Wales wide inquiry with Baroness Butler-Sloss, but she stood down | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
when an old recording emerged of her suggesting a bishop who had abused | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
children should not be named. Then came Dame Fiona Woolf, but she | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
stepped aside because of her friendship with the former home Home | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Secretary Leon Britton. The third chat Dame Lau Goddard came all the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
way from New Zealand but resigned last week, speaking of the inquiry's | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
legacy of failure. The inquiry has had a few false starts but this is | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
really good news, the appointment of Alexis Jay. The work needs to | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
continue apace and I'm sure it well. By asking an existing member of the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
inquiry panel to be the new chair, the Home Secretary has minimised the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
disruption in the huge task that lies ahead. But there is no escaping | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the fact that there are risks in appointing someone with no formal | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
legal training to run such a complex inquiry. Nonetheless, this senior | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
lawyer who represents survivors of abuse in North Wales thinks she's a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
good choice. Alexis Jay has got the background and she's already working | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
with this inquiry, so she's going to be bringing something to the inquiry | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
that may be a lawyer could not bring. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
What lies ahead for Professor J is five years of gruelling testimony | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
fostered she will hear the first evidence from survivors of sexual | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
abuse in February. The Court of Appeal will rule | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
on Friday in a dispute over voting The party has appealed | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
against a High Court ruling that those joining after 12th | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
January should be allowed to vote. Labour's argued that its ruling NEC | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
body, not the courts, were the "ultimate | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
arbiter" of the rules. But the QC for Labour members | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
questioned whether the NEC should have "unfettered power" over | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
who could vote. The United Nations says it's | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
investigating reports of a chlorine gas attack in the besieged Syrian | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
city of Aleppo. The UN said such an attack would be | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
a war crime but the Syrian government has denied any | :12:11. | :12:11. | |
involvement. Our Middle East Correspondent has | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
this exclusive report, on what victims say | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
was the aftermath of the attack. A warning - it contains | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
some disturbing images. The battle for Aleppo | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
is a desperate struggle, Last night, what appears to have | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
been a chemical attack on the people As the hospital struggled | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
to help, there was When chlorine gas gets inside small | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
lungs, it can do terrible damage. Children and babies | :12:43. | :13:00. | |
are especially vulnerable. When the rocket exploded we smelt | :13:01. | :13:22. | |
gas, my eyes were hot and burning. I had difficulty breathing, it was a | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
horrible smell, so horrible I cannot describe it. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
After a gas attack, clothing is removed and patients are washed | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
The medics here at this hospital have had training from British | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
doctors in dealing with chemical attacks. | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
They know what to look for and how to react. | :13:38. | :13:49. | |
We received lots of injuries, about 30 minutes ago. The injuries were | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
caused by chlorine attacks in the area. When we checked the injury we | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
set saw it was from chloride substance. We had people of all | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
ages. It's hurting me a lot, | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
says this boy. The doctors tell him, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
we will have to wash it out This neighbourhood was | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
hit by as many as four barrel bombs from regime | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
helicopters, say eyewitnesses. The remains of shells | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
were taken away for analysis. President Assad's troops are under | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
pressure and losing Despite evidence to the contrary, | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
the regime has denied The attacks come at night | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
because people can't see It's a desperate tactic | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
and it's horribly effective. A mother and two children | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
were killed in this attack Quentin Sommerville, | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
BBC News, Beirut. Katherine Grainger becomes Britain's | :14:47. | :15:08. | |
most decorated Olympian of all time, winning her fifth Olympic medal. | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
Still to come, sticking with Olympic legends, American legend Michael | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Phelps will be back in the pool later, trying to win his 22nd gold | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
medal. Coming up on Olympic sports day in the next 15 minutes on BBC | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
News, I will have the latest action on the sixth day of competition, as | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Team GB's cyclist hit the track for the first time in Rio. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
group in our society, according to a report by MPs today. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
of Muslim women are unemployed, compared to 5% of all women. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
And 58% are economically inactive, compared with 27% of all women. | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
MPs are calling on employers to change the way they recruit staff, | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
They say that's because white-sounding names are more likely | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Our Home Editor Mark Easton reports from Manchester. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
We are here today to talk about Muslims and the workplace. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
How hard is it getting a job if you are a Muslim? | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
On a community radio station in Manchester they are asking why | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Muslims emerge as the most economically disadvantaged group | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
It's just the stereotypes attached with Muslim women wearing a hijab, | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
The inequalities are bad for men but disastrous for women. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Even taking into account education and language skills, | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Muslim women suffer significantly higher levels of worklessness | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
than women generally, with evidence that employers | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
are illegally discriminating against job applicants | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
because of religious dress or Muslim sounding names. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
We have had reports of people changing their name by deed poll. | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
There are not a lot of examples where I've heard of that, | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
but there are examples and it shocks me. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Changing their names so they can get a job? | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
Changing their name to something sounding more English or white | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
Today, a report from MPs says many Muslim women face a triple penalty | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
of discrimination when trying to get a job. | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
They are women, they are from an ethnic minority, and most | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
It refers to a chill factor, where the fear of discrimination | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
and hostility in the workplace is putting off many Muslim women | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
I met a 21-year-old Muslim graduate who told me how, | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
after telephone interviews for a sales job, she was | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
But when she turned up for the face-to-face interview, | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
I was completely the same as I was on the phone, | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
But I felt there was a bit of a change in the tone. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
And I was the only other person there in the group | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Do you think that has changed your attitude to job | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
It can be nerve wracking already when you are going | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
for a face-to-face interview, but then to have that kind | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
of added worry that, what will they think they see me? | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Muslim women face really unacceptable levels | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
of discrimination, but that discrimination comes | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
from the workplace, from employers, and also | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Almost like a stereotyping of the role that | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
Support groups like this work to counter the isolation | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Although more are choosing careers, their traditional | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
They are four times more likely to be looking after home | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
The Muslim woman is seen to be the homemaker, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
a person who stays at home, looks after the kids, | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Now Muslim girls want to go into education, higher education, | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
and they want to do that and have careers. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
The government says progress is being made, but concedes | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
A woman and three children aged between 11 and 13 were killed | :19:09. | :19:21. | |
in a multiple vehicle pile up on the A34 in Berkshire | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
The woman has been named locally as Tracy Houghton | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Her two sons and an 11 year old girl travelling | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
This is the exact spot on the A34 where a mother was killed alongside | :19:33. | :19:50. | |
her children as she travelled home. She has been named in her hometown | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
of Dunstable as Tracy Houghton along with her sons, 13-year-old Ethan and | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
11-year-old Joshua. An 11-year-old girl travelling with them in the | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
same car was also killed. In all, 12 people were killed in this collision | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
that emergency services described as harrowing. Four articulated lorries | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
and four car is involved at the height of rush hour. One man remains | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
in a serious condition after being airlifted to hospital. Police say | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
they have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
dangerous driving. He remains on police bail. As you can see, the A34 | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
is very much open, more than 24 hours on. But the investigation into | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
what happened here is very much ongoing. Police want to hear from | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
anyone who might have seen what led up to this tragedy and the death of | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
a mother and three children. Then more reporting from the scene of the | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
accident in which four people died. A brief look at some of the day's | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
other other news stories. Hospitals in England have once again | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
missed key performance targets. Accident and emergency | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
departments saw 90% of patients within four hours in June - | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
below their 95% target. Ambulance response and cancer | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
treatment targets were also missed. NHS England said that frontline | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
services were under More than 50,000 litres of fuel are | :21:11. | :21:24. | |
thought to have leaked from an oil rig that ran aground in the Western | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Isles earlier this week. The rig was blown the islands of Lewis by high | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
winds, rupturing tanks. However, no oil has been seen in the water and | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
officials believe most of the fuel has evaporated. | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
A Requiem Mass has been held for the Bishop of Derry, | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Edward Daly, the priest who raised a blood-soaked handkerchief | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
and guided the body of a dying teenager through army gunfire | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
A message of condolence from Pope Francis was read | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
to mourners at St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Bishop Daly will be buried in the cathedral grounds. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
The number of houses for sale in most areas in the UK | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
is at a record low according to experts, with price growth | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
faltering and inquiries from new buyers falling. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
The monthly snapshot of the housing market by the Royal Institution | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
of Chartered Surveyors, suggests weakening activity in July. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
But longer term, the report says the market is likely to recover, | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
as our Economics Correspondent Andy Verity reports. | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
So what is it that makes a house like this worth ?6 million? | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
An upmarket property at the top of the hill | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
in leafy Wimbledon Village, and it's the top end of the housing | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
market that's suffered the sharpest slowdown. | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
Estate agents say purchasers of properties like this are trying | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
Sellers are responding by taking their houses | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Central London has almost come to a grinding halt. | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
In the suburbs there are fewer purchasers in the market. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
We are seeing viewings, and the most important thing | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
is we are in the middle of the summer season, | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
so we would expect to see more inspections by purchasers later | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
The monthly snapshot of surveyors' expectations often closely | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Here's where surveyors have expected prices to go, starting in 2007. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
And here's what actually happened to prices since then, | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
showing how close to reality surveyors' expectations can be. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
This isn't just a London story, it's right across the country. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
There are fewer estate agents reporting prices rising, | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
fewer new buyers making enquiries, fewer houses changing hands. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
And the number instructing estate agents to sell their houses | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
A month ago, after the shock of the Brexit vote, surveyors | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
expected prices in most areas to drop, but in central Birmingham, | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
for example, they are now convinced the market is bouncing back. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
I think the combination of people knowing there | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
is a stable government, the combination of low interest | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
rates being forecast long term, and I think particularly | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
in Birmingham we are seeing a level of confidence in the city | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
For young families needing a home, the prospect of a big drop in house | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
prices isn't a fear, it's a hope. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
But with a steady market outside London and such a dearth | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
of property for sale, that hope is now fading. | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Back to Rio, and the American swimmer Michael Phelps returns | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
He's already well established as an Olympic legend. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
But if he wins his 200 metre race tonight, he'll become the first | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
Olympian to win gold in the same event | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Our Sports Editor Dan Roan looks at the man behind the medals. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
With 25 medals, 21 of them gold, | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Michael Phelps is a sporting phenomenon. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
The American. born to swim and to win. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
If you look at his body shape, he's got a really long body, which | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
When he does that whippy kick underneath the water, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
he's just that much better and quicker than everybody else. | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
You get people like Usain Bolt who take sport to another level, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Michael Phelps has done that in the swimming pool. | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
And now the rest of the world has slowly caught up. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
He's had his time and I think after here he will retire and retire | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
as the greatest athlete, sportsmen, of all time. | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
Phelps' mind-boggling medal haul began in Athens 12 years ago - | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
his second Olympics - when he won six golds. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Incredibly, eight more followed in Beijing in 2008, | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
surpassing fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's record | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
His gold tally reached 18 in London in what he said | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
would be his last Olympics, but having changed his mind, | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
three more golds have followed here in Rio. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Well, there he is, the man himself, Michael Phelps. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Even before these games he was the most decorated Olympian | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
of all time, but now he's extended that invincibility. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
The medals he's won here in Rio could just be the most impressive | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
That's because, while dominant in the pool, Phelps has had | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
After a second drunk driving arrest in September 2014, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
the swimmer avoided prison but had to go into rehab and was | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
The last three months of my life have been some of the hardest times | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
And some of the biggest learning experiences I've ever had. | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
Phelps is still the centre of attention but appears reformed, | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
his recovery put down to a more settled family life and the birth | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
And with three more golds on offer, one of the Olympics' greatest ever | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
We might have some weather like Rio early next week, not for all of us. | :26:43. | :27:01. | |
It felt like Rio earlier, this was from Torbay earlier. The sunshine | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
was fairly limited though. A bit of cloud across the country and rain. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
This was from Argyll and Bute earlier. That's because we have | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
weather fronts draped around the periphery of the UK. High pressure | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
not close enough. Plenty of sunshine in the south but you can see the | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
extent of cloud around the weather fronts. Still some sunshine in | :27:23. | :27:35. | |
southern areas and no more than a spot of drizzle for the most part | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
but not across western Scotland, a pretty miserable drive this evening, | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
100 millimetres, about four inches, not great news if you want to head | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
into the hills. For most of us overnight, dry with some low cloud | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
around. It will not be cold and it should be a relatively bright start | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
to Friday. The wind will be an issue if you are travelling trans-Pennine | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
routes and into northern Scotland. Still rain across Scotland but | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
further south the wind has the effects of blowing more holes in the | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
cloud. Warm, 24, 25, prolonged sunshine across the Midlands, East | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
Anglia and the south-east. More whether building up in the | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
north-west, the heaviest rain advancing into the likes of Dumfries | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
and Galloway. Eventually starting to ease in the north and west, but | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
taking time. When it does finally move south, very little rain left | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
tomorrow night. Saturday looks like a day of sunshine and showers. | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Brighter across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, but | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
more cloud and the odd drizzly shower in the south. Still warm and | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
dry for many on Sunday, and then warmth. But not for everybody. | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me - | :28:43. | :28:45. |