:00:00. > :00:00.Team GB celebrates its most successful ever overseas Olympics
:00:07. > :00:14.The golden couple, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny, now have ten
:00:15. > :00:27.It doesn't seem like something I could have achieved.
:00:28. > :00:29.If I obviously didn't win another day, I could retire
:00:30. > :00:31.a happy man either way, I think.
:00:32. > :00:34.Another gold medal on its way this evening, with Hannah Mills
:00:35. > :00:36.and Saskia Clark about to be crowned in the sailing.
:00:37. > :00:39.But controversy too as the president of the European Olympic Committees
:00:40. > :00:46.is arrested in Rio over alleged ticket touting.
:00:47. > :00:55.Campaigners say they fear the Government's plans to tackle
:00:56. > :00:57.childhood obesity in England won't go far enough.
:00:58. > :00:59.The businesswoman paralysed by a stun gun then stabbed to death
:01:00. > :01:04.And changing the face of farming in Britain.
:01:05. > :01:07.Calls for subsidies to big farms to be slashed and given
:01:08. > :01:12.And coming up in Olympic Sportsday on BBC News, away from Britain's
:01:13. > :01:15.gold in the sailing, Mo Farah stumbles into the men's
:01:16. > :01:38.5000 metre final with a double- double still on.
:01:39. > :01:40.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6.
:01:41. > :01:43.With five more days to go at the Rio Olympics,
:01:44. > :01:47.Team GB have already had their best ever away Games.
:01:48. > :01:50.They've beaten the target set for them by UK Sport
:01:51. > :01:57.Last night's nail-biting action in the velodrome helped boost
:01:58. > :02:00.the tally with Jason Kenny winning the sixth gold of his career.
:02:01. > :02:04.His fiancee, Laura Trott, won her fourth gold medal -
:02:05. > :02:11.becoming the most successful female British Olympian ever.
:02:12. > :02:13.Today the most successful olympic couple in the world
:02:14. > :02:15.have been reflecting on their remarkable achievement.
:02:16. > :02:19.They've been talking to our Sports Editor Dan Roan.
:02:20. > :02:26.It is a record-breaking relationship like no other. Jason Kenny and Laura
:02:27. > :02:31.trot now the most successful male and female Olympians Britain has
:02:32. > :02:36.ever had. After their heroics last night in the velodrome they now have
:02:37. > :02:42.ten gold medals between them. Today, here in Rio, they told me that the
:02:43. > :02:45.nominal success will not change them. When you were spotted
:02:46. > :02:50.canoodling behind the stands, Realistically, I ready for this
:02:51. > :02:55.upsurge in interest in the two of We still feel like the
:02:56. > :03:05.couple that, like you say, worked together before London,
:03:06. > :03:07.it's just neighbourly knew about You like to live quite, I guess,
:03:08. > :03:17.a normal and quiet life. We lived literally in the middle
:03:18. > :03:18.of nowhere for them is quite nice
:03:19. > :03:22.that we go out for dog walks and do not see anybody
:03:23. > :03:26.for miles and miles. That is just us, that's the way
:03:27. > :03:28.we've always been. I guess, yes, it might
:03:29. > :03:32.change if it does, we will For us, we still feel
:03:33. > :03:48.like the same kind of two in London, all of my dreams came
:03:49. > :03:51.true. I did not know how do it for seems insane for study does not feel
:03:52. > :03:58.like me, it does not seem like something I could achieve. You are
:03:59. > :04:04.hoping all your dreams country. I was obviously massively proud and
:04:05. > :04:10.happy for her. Kenny, meanwhile, won his sixth Olympic gold. Emulating
:04:11. > :04:16.the achievement of his former team-mate, Chris Hoy. We just focus
:04:17. > :04:19.on going through the process and taking each race as it comes that as
:04:20. > :04:24.I have been doing for them this morning, waking up with three gold
:04:25. > :04:27.medals, it feels like a dream. British track cycling was the best
:04:28. > :04:31.funded team at these Olympics and how it has paid off with all 14
:04:32. > :04:35.members of the squad winning a medal here in Rio. Such is the domination,
:04:36. > :04:38.one beaten opponent called their ability to deliver when it matters
:04:39. > :04:43.questionable. What you make of that kind of comment from a rival? It is
:04:44. > :04:47.understandable at the end of the day. We take a natural step. We went
:04:48. > :04:52.to the World Championship six months ago and went whirl. Now is slightly
:04:53. > :04:58.better. Very often, nations come to the Olympics and do slightly worse.
:04:59. > :05:02.That seems bizarre to others. The Olympics is everything that we would
:05:03. > :05:09.be devastated if we were not going on the form of our lives. Team GB
:05:10. > :05:12.achieved its target of a best ever away Games. The British Olympic
:05:13. > :05:17.Association said it is not a one-off. If you look through our
:05:18. > :05:21.medal success, it is not just about the medals he won in Rio. There is a
:05:22. > :05:24.really strong generation coming through the Tokyo and I think Team
:05:25. > :05:32.GB will be a power in Olympic sport for many years to come. That should
:05:33. > :05:38.include Kenny and Laura Trott. The power couple of Olympic sports are
:05:39. > :05:45.to be the driving factor of Olympic sport in years to come.
:05:46. > :05:52.Another gold is guaranteed in the sailing. They are in the lead and
:05:53. > :05:56.cannot be caught. Mo Farah was back on the track this afternoon in the
:05:57. > :05:58.5000 metre heat with a moment of drama as yours that again. With the
:05:59. > :06:11.latest from Rio, here is Natalie. All is peaceful. They only need to
:06:12. > :06:14.finish their final race in the sailing to ensure they become
:06:15. > :06:20.Olympic champions. It has been delayed, owing to lack of wind. We
:06:21. > :06:24.get excited to go out and race. We will raise hard and put in a good
:06:25. > :06:30.show for everyone. I cannot wait to get it done. Over in the athletics
:06:31. > :06:34.stadium, a glimpse of a defending champion in the heats of the 5000
:06:35. > :06:38.metres. Mo Farah was not going to let blazing sunshine affect his
:06:39. > :06:44.chance of reaching Saturday's final. Avoiding a potential stumble on the
:06:45. > :06:48.home straight to easily qualify. In the mid-morning sun, one athlete was
:06:49. > :06:59.feeling the heat more than most. Like Mo Farah, Caster Semenya is
:07:00. > :07:03.well used to being in the spotlight. In the heats of the 800 metres, the
:07:04. > :07:09.silver medallist in London that Serena was she is at the centre of a
:07:10. > :07:16.rout over hyper androgynous. In 2009 she was gender tested. She was born
:07:17. > :07:20.with male six organs. The rare condition leaves her with elevated
:07:21. > :07:25.testosterone levels and she was made to start taking suppressors and her
:07:26. > :07:28.times dropped. Lastly, a successful court challenge by another other
:07:29. > :07:33.intersex athlete meant the rule was suspended until after these games.
:07:34. > :07:41.Since then, how times have usually improved to the point where she is
:07:42. > :07:45.now the hot favourite. In many ways, she cannot win. Paula Radcliffe said
:07:46. > :07:51.her case highlights a wider issue. It is not just Caster Semenya. It is
:07:52. > :07:54.the issue of the elevated testosterone was and how much of a
:07:55. > :08:01.difference that makes in female athletics. Joshua Pozner bronze last
:08:02. > :08:08.night marked the official moment Team GB hit its medal target. --
:08:09. > :08:12.Joshua's bronze. He was working in McDonald's in Olympic Park and
:08:13. > :08:16.became inspired by Anthony Joshua. Inspiration comes in many forms.
:08:17. > :08:20.This moment is the perfect illustration of Olympic spirit. When
:08:21. > :08:26.New Zealand's Nicky Hamlin fell four and a half laps in the women's 5000
:08:27. > :08:32.metre heats, she tripped up American Abbey D'Agostino. She stopped to
:08:33. > :08:36.help her, insisting they had to finish. It was the American who was
:08:37. > :08:43.most injured. She finally crossed the line. They have both been
:08:44. > :08:45.awarded with a place in Friday's final.
:08:46. > :08:48.Well, Rio is already Team GB's best ever overseas Games.
:08:49. > :08:50.We're in second place in the medal table with 19 golds
:08:51. > :08:54.Team GB won a record 65 medals at London 2012.
:08:55. > :09:02.If they do, it would be the first time a host country has
:09:03. > :09:04.increased its medal tally at the next summer Games
:09:05. > :09:06.since the modern Olympic era began in 1896.
:09:07. > :09:12.One of the big problems Rio's organisers have had during these
:09:13. > :09:15.Games are the hoards of empty seats at many of the venues.
:09:16. > :09:17.And today it emerged that police have arrested the head
:09:18. > :09:19.of the European and Irish Olympic Committees on suspicion
:09:20. > :09:23.Live now to our correspondent, Wyre Davies.
:09:24. > :09:38.71-year-old Pat Hickey is one of the most senior figures in the European
:09:39. > :09:42.Olympic movement. He is president of the Olympic Council of Ireland he
:09:43. > :09:45.was arrested at his luxury hotel earlier this morning. According to
:09:46. > :09:49.Brazilian police, his wife said he was not there and had already
:09:50. > :09:53.returned to Ireland. On closer inspection, they found him in an
:09:54. > :09:58.adjoining room for he is accused of being part of an elaborate scheme to
:09:59. > :10:02.resell luxury high end Olympic tickets at inflated prices including
:10:03. > :10:06.tickets for the athletics finals here and the opening and closing
:10:07. > :10:10.ceremonies. Police have already earlier arrested several executives
:10:11. > :10:14.from a company called THD. They have denied doing anything illegal. Even
:10:15. > :10:17.though this only applies to a few thousand tickets out of several
:10:18. > :10:22.million Olympic tickets, a scheme that could have netted about ?2
:10:23. > :10:27.million, it is hugely embarrassing for the IOC and Rio 2016 when, as
:10:28. > :10:31.you say, ticketing has been such a huge story at these Olympics.
:10:32. > :10:33.The rest of the news now and the Government's long-awaited
:10:34. > :10:35.plan to tackle childhood obesity in England will be
:10:36. > :10:39.It will include details of the new sugar levy which,
:10:40. > :10:40.the BBC understands, will make manufacturers cut
:10:41. > :10:44.the added sugar content of food and drink by 20% over four years.
:10:45. > :10:48.But campaigners are angry the measures don't go far enough.
:10:49. > :10:50.For example, there will be no new curbs on TV
:10:51. > :10:53.and restrictions on cut price promotions in supermarkets.
:10:54. > :11:12.Dancing in the playground. At one school's to keep pupils fit and
:11:13. > :11:15.avoid longer help term problems associated with weight. There are
:11:16. > :11:20.more plans to boost physical activity in schools will stop
:11:21. > :11:24.healthy is that as a healthy food for school meals is another plan in
:11:25. > :11:27.the London Borough of Haringey put that there is a recognition of any
:11:28. > :11:31.similar to begin to announce a bigger problem to be dealt with
:11:32. > :11:36.beyond the school gates. We are surrounded in this area by a host of
:11:37. > :11:41.cheap, 99p, chicken and chips meal deals. On a lower income, you would
:11:42. > :11:45.be drawn to those deals. Supermarkets are offering perhaps
:11:46. > :11:55.lower quality food at an affordable price. The new government plan for
:11:56. > :11:57.England is trying to tackle that, focusing on cutting sugar content of
:11:58. > :12:01.food and drink in shops, making healthy choices is not always easy,
:12:02. > :12:07.as Melanie Horner told us. The unhealthy stuff is being used,
:12:08. > :12:14.cakes, crisps, biscuits. Things like vegetables, by one, get one free.
:12:15. > :12:21.The new child obesity plan is expected to improve information on
:12:22. > :12:28.products with 20% less sugar over the years and moves to promote or
:12:29. > :12:32.sports. There will be no action on supermarket deals on unhealthy food
:12:33. > :12:36.or promotions during family TV shows. Work on this strategy has
:12:37. > :12:39.been going on for months at Westminster put up David Cameron had
:12:40. > :12:46.been set to an bail it. Theresa May has taken her own view on what is a
:12:47. > :12:52.reasonable balance on voluntary action and government intervention.
:12:53. > :12:55.Ministers suggest it has been watered down. Campaigners say the
:12:56. > :13:01.strategy has left out important measures and it is a missed
:13:02. > :13:15.opportunity. This is a major crisis we face. We are very disappointed if
:13:16. > :13:19.these measures are not taken. Ministers will highlight moves to
:13:20. > :13:22.boost sport in schools that details of the sugar tax on fizzy drinks
:13:23. > :13:27.that will apply across the UK will be unveiled. Plans are in Scotland
:13:28. > :13:30.to approve diets have also been published today. Policymakers can
:13:31. > :13:35.only hope measures will do something to produce measures which are seen
:13:36. > :13:39.as a major threat to the nation's health.
:13:40. > :13:41.A 35-year-old woman has been jailed for life for murdering
:13:42. > :13:45.Sarah Williams used a stun gun on 60 year old Sadie Hartley before
:13:46. > :13:47.stabbing her to death in her home in Lancashire.
:13:48. > :13:49.She'd planned the brutal murder with a friend,
:13:50. > :13:54.The court heard how Sarah Williams, who was described as a Bunny
:13:55. > :13:56.Boiler, had had an affair with Sadie Hartley's partner and had
:13:57. > :14:07.Sarah Williams and Katrina Walsh, described as two monsters who
:14:08. > :14:09.butchered an innocent woman for their own amusement.
:14:10. > :14:14.Sadie Hartley was, the court heard, slaughtered
:14:15. > :14:24.She was happy with her partner, Ian Johnston, but
:14:25. > :14:26.his obsessed ex-girlfriend had an elaborate plan to kill her.
:14:27. > :14:28.He had sent explicit messages to Sarah
:14:29. > :14:31.Williams but says he has no idea what she was planning.
:14:32. > :14:33.I am indifferent, I have no energy for it.
:14:34. > :14:37.Just complete indifference as to why, oh, why, would somebody
:14:38. > :14:47.Williams and her Friend, Katrina Walsh, left a trail of CCTV
:14:48. > :14:50.evidence though they thought they were planning the perfect crime.
:14:51. > :14:56.They even bought the murder weapon, the
:14:57. > :15:14.knife at Tesco, using a loyalty card.
:15:15. > :15:19.her diaries, delighting in their depravity.
:15:20. > :15:21.She wrote, Sarah came round, so got caught up in endless
:15:22. > :15:29.After 18 months of scheming, Sarah Williams
:15:30. > :15:31.went to the wealthy businesswoman's half ?1 million home in Lancashire.
:15:32. > :15:34.Sadie Hartley had just returned from the riding stables and was home
:15:35. > :15:37.alone here when there was a knock at the door.
:15:38. > :15:40.She answered it to Sarah Williams, who lunged at her with a
:15:41. > :15:42.stun gun and stabbed her more than 40 times.
:15:43. > :15:44.Sadie Hartlepool 's match children have been in court to hear
:15:45. > :15:46.weeks of graphic detail about their mother's do.
:15:47. > :15:49.She is going to miss many of the things in life is really
:15:50. > :15:52.looking forward to Charlotte and Rob's forthcoming wedding and
:15:53. > :15:54.She'll miss birthdays, Christmases, and many
:15:55. > :15:57.Our lives will never be the same again.
:15:58. > :15:59.Sadie Hartley knew that Sarah Williams was jealous.
:16:00. > :16:02.She'd received a nasty letter from her but she could not have
:16:03. > :16:08.imagined that rivalry would result in her brutal murder.
:16:09. > :16:19.Team GB celebrates its most successful ever overseas Olympics -
:16:20. > :16:21.cycling's golden couple now have 10 golds between them.
:16:22. > :16:24.And still to come: We visit the cycle club where it all began
:16:25. > :16:26.for the most successful female British Olympian ever.
:16:27. > :16:29.Coming up on Olympic Sportsday on BBC News:
:16:30. > :16:33.After another medal rush in the Velodrome in Rio,
:16:34. > :16:35.Sir Dave Brailsford hits back at Great Britain's rivals who've
:16:36. > :16:47.questioned their dominance in track cycling.
:16:48. > :16:50.There should be a revolution in the way that subsidies are handed
:16:51. > :16:53.out to British farmers - following the vote to leave the EU.
:16:54. > :16:56.That's according to the campaign to protect rural england.
:16:57. > :17:00.It says that the government should give assistance to smaller,
:17:01. > :17:03.more diverse farms rather than what it calls 'industrial
:17:04. > :17:11.There are 116,000 farms in Britain - and they are all currently eligible
:17:12. > :17:17.They receive more than ?2.5 billion a year.
:17:18. > :17:21.Those grants can amount to 60% of some farmers' income.
:17:22. > :17:24.Our Environment Correspondent Claire Marshall has been guaging opinion
:17:25. > :17:43.Freshly milked, of out to pasture, the cows of Ivy house farm. Jeff and
:17:44. > :17:48.his family run this farm in rural Somerset. It is close to a village
:17:49. > :17:52.and providing and milk and jobs for the locals. But small businesses
:17:53. > :17:56.like this are vanishing. There are 30,000 fewer farms than a decade
:17:57. > :18:00.ago. Today's report says EU subsidies have favoured what they
:18:01. > :18:05.call industrial farms. Brexit means it is time to change how the money
:18:06. > :18:12.is handed out. Farmers are finding it so difficult to survive, small
:18:13. > :18:16.farmers are very much their own efforts, family efforts keeping the
:18:17. > :18:19.businesses going and as they get towards the end of their working
:18:20. > :18:24.life there does not seem to be the young people coming on behind
:18:25. > :18:27.because there isn't the money to do it. The Campaign to Protect Rural
:18:28. > :18:35.England says these smaller farms are less damaging to environment. There
:18:36. > :18:40.are around a or so cosier and his neighbour Chris whose farm we can
:18:41. > :18:44.see has five times as many. Today's report says he should get less
:18:45. > :18:52.money. So you're off to see what he says. We find Chris bringing his
:18:53. > :18:57.herd in. He farms much more intensively. His cows produce some
:18:58. > :19:04.three and a half million litres of milk a year. He believes the subsidy
:19:05. > :19:10.system should be improved but at the end of the day his meeting demand.
:19:11. > :19:14.The environment is important but everyone has to eat and we have to
:19:15. > :19:17.produce food for the country and that can only be met with larger
:19:18. > :19:23.scare farms which are more efficient. And keeping the costs of
:19:24. > :19:28.production down. So for decades ruled is made in Brussels are played
:19:29. > :19:29.a big part in shaping our farms. Now the debate starts about how they
:19:30. > :19:33.should look in the future. At least 60 people have been injured
:19:34. > :19:36.after a train crashed into a tree which had fallen onto the line
:19:37. > :19:38.in southern France. The regional train was travelling
:19:39. > :19:43.between Nimes and Montpellier when the accident happened
:19:44. > :19:45.near the town of Le Cres. Rescue workers say ten people have
:19:46. > :19:51.been seriously hurt. A Conservative activist was given
:19:52. > :19:53.a key campaigning role despite warnings of his past
:19:54. > :19:55."aggressive and bullying conduct", Law firm Clifford Chance carried out
:19:56. > :20:02.the report into Mark Clarke, following the suicide of activist
:20:03. > :20:04.Elliott Johnson, who said He's denied all allegations
:20:05. > :20:09.of wrongdoing. The number of people out of work
:20:10. > :20:12.fell between April and June - There was also a surprise drop
:20:13. > :20:18.in the number of people claiming out Our Economics Correspondent
:20:19. > :20:22.correspondent, Andy Verity is here. A surprise given it was just
:20:23. > :20:31.after the vote to leave the EU. That's right, you don't have too
:20:32. > :20:36.have that long memory to remember the pre-Brexit vote era when there
:20:37. > :20:39.were predictions from the likes of the IMF that after a vote we would
:20:40. > :20:43.have unemployment going up but they were also saying that in the run-up
:20:44. > :20:47.to the Brexit vote there was uncertainty causing a slowdown which
:20:48. > :20:51.appeared to harm the jobs market. These figures have time-lag in them,
:20:52. > :20:56.we are looking at the period for April to June for the official
:20:57. > :21:01.unemployment number and it shows it fell by an estimated 52,000 to 1.64
:21:02. > :21:06.million in that time. Significantly we also have the first official data
:21:07. > :21:10.from after the vote, that is the claimant count which is not as
:21:11. > :21:15.reliable, it is based on the number of people claiming jobseeker's
:21:16. > :21:20.allowance and the like. 763,000, significantly that is down which is
:21:21. > :21:24.against the expectations of most economists. A bright spot in the
:21:25. > :21:34.data following the vote, you cannot place too much reliance on it, we
:21:35. > :21:37.won't really know if the jobs market has been harmed or not by the
:21:38. > :21:39.decision to leave the EU. Not for a few months' time. There are downbeat
:21:40. > :21:43.numbers coming in which suggest permanent placements are slowing
:21:44. > :21:46.down and there is not as much confidence among employers but there
:21:47. > :21:47.is not gloomy news to distract you from all the good news coming out of
:21:48. > :21:51.Rio. The Labour Leadership challenger
:21:52. > :21:53.Owen Smith has suggested that so-called Islamic State
:21:54. > :21:55.will eventually be brought into peace talks -
:21:56. > :21:57.if the violence in Syria comes He made the comments
:21:58. > :22:00.during a televised BBC But the Labour leader
:22:01. > :22:06.insisted there was no place Here's our Political
:22:07. > :22:09.Correspondent, Chris Mason. It is Jeremy Corbyn's job right now
:22:10. > :22:15.but this man, Owen Smith, reckons he would be rather
:22:16. > :22:18.better at it. Who do you want to be the next
:22:19. > :22:22.leader of the Labour Party? What is very clear is that Labour
:22:23. > :22:28.is a party fighting with itself. Even having rows about the rows
:22:29. > :22:31.they are having. Any complaints about abuse on social
:22:32. > :22:37.media, personal abuse or abuse of anybody else, it has no place
:22:38. > :22:40.in any political party. Jeremy has not stamped down
:22:41. > :22:43.on it hard enough. This was a debate which was
:22:44. > :22:45.often tense, even angry. The economy, the EU referendum
:22:46. > :22:50.and education all came up. But it was on foreign policy that
:22:51. > :22:53.Mr Smith showed how sometimes Would he ever be willing to talk
:22:54. > :23:02.to so-called Islamic State? My view is that ultimately
:23:03. > :23:05.all solutions to these sorts of crises, the sort
:23:06. > :23:08.of international crises do come So eventually if we are to try
:23:09. > :23:15.and solve this all the actors do But at the moment Isil are clearly
:23:16. > :23:19.not interested in negotiating. As soon as the programme finished
:23:20. > :23:22.I asked Mr Smith what exactly Nobody is suggesting that we will be
:23:23. > :23:28.able to bring Isis around the table right now,
:23:29. > :23:31.they are a murderous organisation. I don't know, we don't
:23:32. > :23:36.know, we would all hope It was a reminder for Mr Smith
:23:37. > :23:41.of just how carefully you have to choose your language if one day
:23:42. > :23:49.you would like to be Prime Minister. As the stage is packed up
:23:50. > :23:54.here today's hustings will have reminded both candidates of two
:23:55. > :23:57.things; just how divided their party is and just how much scrutiny
:23:58. > :23:59.they are both under. They say the Olympics should
:24:00. > :24:03.inspire a generation - This is Laura Trott
:24:04. > :24:09.at the age of just 12 - wearing Bradley Wiggins's gold medal
:24:10. > :24:11.that he won in the 2004 Just 12 years later she has four
:24:12. > :24:18.gold medals of her own - and is without doubt one of Team
:24:19. > :24:22.GB's brightest lights. Joe Wilson has been finding out how
:24:23. > :24:25.this young girl from Hertfordshire found herself on the fast track
:24:26. > :24:29.to Olympic history. The gold medal is going
:24:30. > :24:35.to go to Laura Trott! Laura Trott is Britain's most
:24:36. > :24:45.successful female Olympian. I can't even explain what I'm
:24:46. > :24:47.going through right now. Well, every journey to the summit
:24:48. > :24:54.needs somewhere to begin. Laura Trott's mind and body may be
:24:55. > :24:57.in Brazil but perhaps we can trace her heart back
:24:58. > :25:02.here to Hertfordshire. Laura Trott remains an honorary
:25:03. > :25:06.member of this club. Those angelic eyes became fixed
:25:07. > :25:10.on a cycling career. From her premature birth,
:25:11. > :25:13.through conditions which gave her difficulty even breathing,
:25:14. > :25:18.she found a solution in the saddle. Francis Gallacher brought
:25:19. > :25:20.the family to this velodrome. With some children, they have that
:25:21. > :25:32.sort of inner belief and approach to being competitive
:25:33. > :25:34.and they always want to win, There is a difference between taking
:25:35. > :25:39.part and actually having that drive Nearby in Cheshunt the name
:25:40. > :25:48.is used to inspire anyone But they are also counting
:25:49. > :25:54.the days until the Trott Laura's friend for as long
:25:55. > :26:00.as they can both remember. When we was at school,
:26:01. > :26:06.if she wasn't going to make it in a cycling she would have
:26:07. > :26:08.made it as a runner, It would have been one or the other,
:26:09. > :26:13.she was always, the individual sports she was really,
:26:14. > :26:15.really good at. But if you put her with a ball game
:26:16. > :26:19.she wasn't so good, so, like, football, I used to like playing
:26:20. > :26:21.football against her because she Velodromes are scarce,
:26:22. > :26:24.at Welwyn they've had to start new races just
:26:25. > :26:27.to meet the female demand. Laura Trott's in another continent -
:26:28. > :26:30.her influence is right here. Joe Wilson, BBC News,
:26:31. > :26:44.Hertfordshire. You did not really like the weather
:26:45. > :26:50.chart for the weekend yesterday did you? You want better news. We will
:26:51. > :26:54.get to that in a minute. Not a bad end to the day, Scarborough had the
:26:55. > :26:58.clout to begin with but some sunshine at the moment. Most finish
:26:59. > :27:01.on a fine zero but a different story in Northern Ireland. The rain
:27:02. > :27:05.pushing across the South West and parts of Wales as well. Rumbles of
:27:06. > :27:11.thunder and heavy downpours into the first part of the night, fizzling
:27:12. > :27:15.out later, stays damp but away from that dry night, low cloud towards
:27:16. > :27:22.Eastern parts. Further south at the start to tomorrow morning, much more
:27:23. > :27:25.grey than we have been used to. Some occasional, mainly light and patchy
:27:26. > :27:29.rain but that hope is allowed, skies will brighten and we will see Sunny
:27:30. > :27:33.spells and one or two isolated showers. I think many will have dry
:27:34. > :27:37.afternoon and further north in the morning cloud breaks up and a good
:27:38. > :27:43.afternoon of sunny spells. Not as warm as it has been but temperatures
:27:44. > :27:46.still of 22-24 especially across Northern Scotland, north-west
:27:47. > :27:51.England and parts of the Midlands. Brady is where the change begins,
:27:52. > :28:00.low pressure pushing from the West, most will start dry early on,
:28:01. > :28:03.occasional rain pushing x-ray eastward, brightness in between the
:28:04. > :28:08.wetter moments but the temperatures down on what they should be. But
:28:09. > :28:15.this is what is happening into the weekend, low pressure shifting out
:28:16. > :28:18.its stall, and usually deeper this kind of year. Mixture of sunshine
:28:19. > :28:23.and showers, longer spells of rain and the odd rumble of thunder but
:28:24. > :28:28.the big story especially if you have weekend activities planned is the
:28:29. > :28:34.strength of the wind. West parts of Wales, gale force winds and rough
:28:35. > :28:36.seas expected. With that I will pass you to someone who I am not on their
:28:37. > :28:39.Christmas card list any more. Team GB celebrates its most
:28:40. > :28:43.successful ever overseas Olympics - cycling's golden couple now have 10
:28:44. > :28:51.golds between them. Helping to bring the tally to 50
:28:52. > :28:52.medals with five days