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Labour attacks as undemocratic plans to cut the number of MPs. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Constituency boundaries could be changed to create | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
There is an absence of fairness in these proposals, which I don't | :00:21. | :00:37. | |
But the government says the changes would ensure | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
Also in the programme: he Great British bunfight - | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
now hosts Mel and Sue say they'll quit. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
The British nurse who contracted ebola is accused | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Day two of the temporary truce in Syria holds | :00:55. | :02:01. | |
to cut the number of MPs and to create equal-sized seats | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the former Chancellor George Osborne | :02:09. | :02:26. | |
are among those whose seats would go. | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
The total number of MPs across the United Kingdom | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
The changes would affect at least 550 constituencies. | :02:31. | :03:06. | |
The party performs better in urban seats | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
like Stoke, which tend to have fewer voters. | :03:09. | :03:09. | |
Under the plans, every constituency will have between 71,000 | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
So in England the number of MPs will fall from 533 | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
From 40 to 29 in Wales from, 59 to 53 in Scotland and from 18 | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
Orkney and Shetland and the Western Isles will | :03:24. | :03:42. | |
have fewer voters, as will the two new constituencies on the Isle of | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
The Government's determined every seat shall be equal. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Currently, we have seatings which are three | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
So one elector's vote is worth three times | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
That simply is not fair, which is why we are determined | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
to ensure that we have equal sized constituencies, which is | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
But some of the plans are controversial. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
For the first time a new constituency will straddle the | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Cornwall/Devon border across the Tamar and there is strong local | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
We are one country, they're another country. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Why don't they just keep it to themselveses? | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
I think it will be fine, because you | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
know we are all very similar Devon and Cornwall. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
For Labour there is another dimension to these boundary | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
All three of the MPs here in Stoke have been really critical | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and his supporters have already raised | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
the possibility of using the shake-up of the constituencies to | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
get rid of these MPs and bring in their own people, potentially | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
changing the face of the Labour Party. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
In terms of anyone trying to | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
exploit this for political gain, for making this about them and not | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
about the people we choose to serve, they | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
This process has been likened to a game of | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
musical chairs, but MPs and | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
the House of Lords still have to approve | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
the measures and there is a | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
public consultation, so the is still everything to play for. | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
If you want to know how your local area could be affected, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
here's lots of information on our website - including a full breakdown | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
The two hosts of the Great British Bake-Off, Sue Perkins | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
and Mel Giedroyc will quit the programme when it leaves the BBC | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
after the current series to go to Channel Four. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
BBC News understands the corporation would have had to spend an extra | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
?10 million a year to keep one of its most popular programmes. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
The BBC said it doesn't have infinite resources. | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Our Media Correspondent, David Sillito, is outside the | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
What does this mean for the future of the programme? | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Well, all this came from more than a year of talks and last night the BBC | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
said - ?15 million, and no more. It seems like the end for the BBC and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
suddenly in came Channel Four offering ?25 million and it seemed | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
like a done deal. But it appears - it has certainly emerged, that | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
no-one had been talking to the presenters. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Three weeks in, they are on a roll, as are we. Mel and Sue. The | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
presenters of Britain's biggest show. Welcome to Great British Bake | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Off. It is not welcome today. It is goodbye. Following a decision to | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
move to Channel 4, they issued a statement saying - we were very | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
shocked and saddened to learn yesterday evening that Bake Off will | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
be moving from its home: It's gutting. They are one of the | :06:21. | :06:39. | |
main reasons I watch it. It is a real shame. They add a lot to the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
programme. I think it is terrible. It is part of our constitution. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Channel 4 and Love Production said they respected Mel and Sue's | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
decision to go but it raises a few questions about the move. It emerged | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
today the BBC was outbid by Channel 4 by around ?10 million and a former | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Channel 4 Chief Executive was not happy with what they have done. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Channel 4 has very seriously shot itself in the foot with this deal. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
They have spent two years arguing against privatisation and they have | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
now behaved precisely like a fully privatised company. In response, | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Channel 4 said its public service programming is at a record level. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
But what seemed like a done deal has more than a few unanswered | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
questions. Mary Berry is reported today to have said the move | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
certainly wasn't her decision, but TV is a business. And the take-off | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
of the Bake Off's ratings has changed everything. This year's tent | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
has now been packed away but when it reappears, it looks set to be | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Channel 4's signature dish. MPs are calling for an emergency | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
debate as hundreds of low income families say their tax credits have | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
been cut in error. One example is a teenage mother | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
who says she was left struggling to feed her child after her money | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
was stopped when she was incorrectly accused of being married | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
to a dead 74-year-old. Labour is demanding the US company | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
hired by the government to investigate suspected benefit | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
fraud be stripped of its contract. Concentri sx, a high value, global | :08:06. | :08:18. | |
business company. We are a multinational company who | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
have been asked to reduce the benefits bill. We are global and | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
local. The company stand accused of making numerous errors themselves. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
They were accusing me of being married to a 74-year-old bloke that | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
used to live here, way before I did. 19-year-old Nicola Mackenzie is a | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
single mother from West Yorkshire. Her tax credits were stopped when | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
krflt oncentrix told her she was married. The man who is meant to be | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
her husband, is actually dead but she told Victoria Derbyshire | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
programme, the company wanted her to prove T I said he was deceased in | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
July 2016. They said, you need him to make contact. I said -- heaven | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
doesn't have opening hours. Hundreds of tax credit recipients, mostly in | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
low-wage jobs, have contacted MPs in recent weeks to complain about | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Concentrix stopping their benefit. This single mother says she has been | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
left with just ?20 to last the next fortnight. It's soul destroying. I | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
have worked 3 # years. I worked from the day I left school, full time. - | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
32 years And to come to this. Concentrix has a three-year contract | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
to save the Government some of the billion or so wrongly paid annually | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
in tax credits. It is a payment by results model. Essentially the more | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
they save tax payers, the more they earn. So far they've put nearly ?300 | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
million from the overall bill but MPs say they are increasingly making | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
mistakes. They have given them case after case after case, where they | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
have cut first, and thought and acted afterwards and I hope the new | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Government is actually going to be concerned with this and will act. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
In a statement, within the past half hour, the company told us: | :10:22. | :10:37. | |
Those who have lost out will hope Concentrix resolve their problems | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
quickly. The ceasefire in Syria's | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
five-year war is largely The seven-day truce hopes to allow | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
in humanitarian aid and suspend fighting between Syrian Government | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
forces and many of the main If the ceasefire holds, | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
then the US and Russia will carry out joint air strikes on militant | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
groups not included in the truce - The confirmed death toll | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
from the five-year conflict has now risen to over 301,000 people - | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
with the actual figure Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
is in Aleppo in Syria and sent this report from the city's | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
old market place. They say a couple of | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
dozen metres from rebel positions and this is - | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
was - one of the oldest covered Today, because of the ceasefire, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
they tell me that things are quieter than they have been | :11:34. | :11:45. | |
because there has been fierce fighting over | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
the course of the summer. Certainly I was speaking to one | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
general and he said by about midday More if things have | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
really flared up. The question about this | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
ceasefire is, if it lasts, Will there be some kind of political | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
process built upon it that might inch this country away | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
from war towards peace? Or will it simply be, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
as others have been, a time for armies to rest, | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
to regroup, to resupply and to get Of course, the damage | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
here is absolutely tragic. But, the loss of human life, | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
perhaps 400,000 dead in Syria, over more than five years, | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
that's much worse. You can't bring back all those | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
who've died in the country that used to be here - | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
the mix of people. Jeremy Bowen reporting | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
there from Aleppo. Campaigners calling for a public | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
inquiry into the policing of the clash between the police | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
and striking miners at Orgeave 32 years ago have met | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
with the Home Secretary, They were told she will give her | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
decision by the end of October. The campaign has focussed | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
on the conduct of South Yorkshire police outside a coking plant, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
and the accounts they gave The highest September temperatures | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
since 1911 have been recorded The mercury hit more than 34 | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
degrees Celsius in places, and much of the south of England has | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
been bathed in sunshine. The unusually hot weather has | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
brought health warnings, too. Duncan Kennedy is Eastbourne - | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
an unexpected last blast of summer? This beach was crowded today. One of | :13:40. | :13:55. | |
the places which saw temperatures rise into the late 20s, 28. But it | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
was at Gravesend in Kent we saw the incredible figure of 34.4. A | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
September figure not seen since 1911. Now, whilst many people like | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
here and elsewhere have been enjoying it, you are right, there'll | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
besome health warnings as well. This morning forecasters were right | :14:12. | :14:23. | |
about the scorcher bit. Dry, warm and sunny highs... But way off on | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
the temperatures. This was Brighton. It could have been Benidorm. Whilst | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
next door in Eastbourne, the swimmers and sunbathers couldn't | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
believe it. What difference does it make having temperatures around 30? | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Well, it is a bonus. Is it a sign of things to come, I don't know sn Did | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
you expect to be on the beach in September? No. Gravesend in Kent hit | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
34.4 degrees. The highest September temperature since 1911. Public | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
Health England warned elderly people to be careful. What is the message | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
for the elderly? To put on plenty of cream and fluids. Here in Sussex, | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
they were applying suntan lotion to the llama's ears, whilst the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
merecats were treated to cooling broccoli ice lollies and with it a | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
message to animal owners. Animal welfare doesn't stop at the zoo. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Good ventilation, and going for a walk in the cool part of the day. | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
Sun striking thing is the number of daddy long legs around. Researchers | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
think there are 200 billion of them. We have a warm climate with warmer, | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
milder summers, perfect conditions. Temperatures also soared. Further | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
north, in Bradford it was playtime in the park, whilst at Gillingham in | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
kept, they saw 30 degree temperatures for serve hours today. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
But look at this - Cardiff. One area in western Britain where yellow rain | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
warnings are in place. September 2016, exceptional for | :16:09. | :16:09. | |
some, forgettable for others. Plans to cut the number of MPs | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
and change constituency boundaries And still to come - | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
celebrating the scrumdiddlyumptious magic of Roald Dahl 100 years | :16:21. | :16:32. | |
since he was born. Coming up in Sportsday | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
on BBC News... Scottish Champions Celtic return | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
to the Champions League for the first time in three years | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
with a dauntiong assignment Paralympics GB's Rio | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
success story continues - following on from a golden night | :16:41. | :16:55. | |
in the pool where the team claimed three golds in an incredible 45 | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
minutes , there was a gold world record this afternoon in the javelin | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
as well as the 400 metres. This report contains some flashing | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
images. # | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
For Ellie Simmonds, it is a sound and a sight that's become fan | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
toastically familiar. At just 21, this remarkably is his third | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Paralympics. - fantastically familiar. She used every ounce of | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the experience. She trailed at half way but timed her final push to | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
perfection. ! It is gold again. It was to prove a great night. Three | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
British champions in 38 minutes. First Sasha Kindred at I his last | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
games, bringing down the curtain in style. And Susie Rodgers for sheer | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
shock value it is hard to top. Rodgers had planned to retire after | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
201. Good thing she didn't. It capped another glorious day for the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
British team. Aled Davies collecting his shot put gold. He is room mates | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
with Jonnie Peacock. He posted photo and told me his win proved his | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
inspiration. He is my best mate. I was dreading I arrived after the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
heats. I knew he was in good shape. I thought - he is going to smash it | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
that night. Which he did. Then it was like - I need to do that, too. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
And the medals keep racing N Georgie Hermitage,er is real ral palsy with | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
her second gold, and she said she wanted to show her young daughter | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Tilly anything is possible. In the javelin, 22-year-old, Hollie Arnold | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
took her title in style. Delight for her and her watching family. A World | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Record with her final throw. And then Rob Davies. Once a rugby player | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
until a serious spinal cord injury. Now a Paralympic table tennis | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
champion. On another day of British elation and emotion. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
And there could be more success in the pool later on. Ellie Simmonds | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
going for her second gold in 24 hours in the 400m freestyle. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
15-year-old Ellie Robinson also in with a chance T could be another | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
dramatic night. The Scottish nurse, | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted ebola in West Africa in 2014 has | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
appeared at a hearing to decide whether she deliberately | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
concealed her high temperature The panel agreed to drop the charge | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
that she acted dishonestly when her temperature was recorded during | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
screening. Let's speak to our Scotland correspondent. Pauline | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Cafferkey has suffered a protacted ordeal in terms of contracting | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
Ebola. What else was said at the hearing today? Yes, it's been a very | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
stressful two years for Pauline Cafferkey. She was here throughout | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
this first day of the hearing. She has admitted allowing her | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
temperature being recorded incorrectly while transiting through | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
an Ebola screening area at Heathrow. At the time her temperature was | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
above 38. Instead it was recorded by a colleague as being 37. 2. We heard | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
from two medical experts who said her judgment at the time would have | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
been impaired because she was in the early stages of this life | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
threatening illness. And she was suffering from exhaustion. The | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
dishonesty charge is dropped but others are still handing. Falling | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
short of the standards expecting and potentially putting the public at | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
risk. Miss Cafferkey and her solicitor reject those allegations. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Her solicitor said there was no evidence of serious professional | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
misconduct by Miss Cafferkey, who has been excellent unblemished | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
record as a nurse. The hearing here will continue tomorrow. | :20:53. | :20:53. | |
Thank you. Jeremy Corbyn is delusional | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
and kidding himself - not the barbs of a Conservative | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
opponent, but the words of the Labour MP fighting Mr Corbyn | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
for the leadership of the party. The winner will be announced in just | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
under a fortnight and contender Owen Smith has been talking | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
to our Political Editor, I'm calling from the owen Smith | :21:13. | :21:25. | |
campaign. Owen has a track record for taking on the Tories and beating | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
them. Hard going. Owen Smith's supporters trying to persuade Labour | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
members even when they are opted move. They know and he knows Jeremy | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
Corbyn's the overwhelming favourite. Well, a room in a leisure centre is | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
ready for another marathon call. Good morning. A leader has to win. | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
With Jeremy we have no chance. Jeremy Corbyn claims the Tories are | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
in retreat I think it is delusional and I think the reality is Jeremy | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
needs to think a bit more about the straight, honest politics he started | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
his campaign with. The straight, honest truth is that we are, right | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
now, at our lowest ebb in the polls, ever. I think he is misleading | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
himself if he thinks we are heading towards an electoral victory. So you | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
are suggesting that he and some of his supporters are lying. They have | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
said repeatedly - look, they have been ahead in some opinion polls, | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Labour has been doing well in by-elections and won mayoral | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
elections. That possibly isn't true. Isn't truth he has been able to | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
motivate thousands of supporters and you haven't, in the same way. | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
Michael Foot drew 20,000 to rallies. We have had mass rallies many times | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
in the past. It doesn't necessarily translate into the only mass | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
movement that really matters, which is the mass movement of people | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
voting Labour. He says his values are the same as the leader he is | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
trying to beat. We are going to ask you to write down the most important | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
thing for the next Labour Party leader. But for some of Owen's | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
supporters, the most important thing seems that he is not Mr Corbyn. | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Reveal your words. Unity, leadership, listening. | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
It feels like Jeremy closes himself off Hynd the walls in the Opposition | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
office and refuses to listen to anyone with a different opinion. | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
It's as simple as that. The Labour Party has always been in coalition | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
with the Members of Parliament and the members of the party and the | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
trade unions. I have written communication. I have written | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
voters. Principles. Feminism. I think we have forgotten that we are | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
a movement and not a man. Don't you and your colleagues, though, in | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
Westminster, have to accept that if he wins again, the party is changed? | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
Well, my vision of the Labour Party is a serious party of power. Is of a | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
party that's created, was created, still exists in order to hold power | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
at Westminster through the ballot box in order to change people's | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
lives. If you don't win this time, would you run again? I'm not going | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
to get into that. I will wait and see what happens on 24th. Would you | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
rule it out? I'm in the ruling anything in or out. Thinkties a | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
hypothetical question for the dim and distant future. Let's get to the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
24th and see what happens. So, what is most important to him? That's | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
what we need. Labour's huge new membership will judge if he is a | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
priority for them. His characters capture | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
the imagination and bring joy to millions of children | :24:48. | :24:48. | |
in the Britain and around the world. The BFG, Willy Wonka and Matilda | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
are just some of the many creations of the writer Roald Dahl who would | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
have been 100 years old today. And nowhere is commemorating him | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
with more enthusiasm than Cardiff, where he grew up - | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
as Sian Lloyd now reports. "I is not understanding human beings | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
at all", the BFG said. "Mr Willy Wonka can make | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
marshmallows that taste of violet." Stories that are loved by millions | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
of children, including pupils at Roald Dahl's | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
former school in Cardiff. Reading to celebrate the centenary | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
of his birth, when his work is more | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
popular than ever. His story began here, | :25:28. | :25:28. | |
100 years ago today. The family home in Cardiff has | :25:29. | :25:42. | |
changed little since Roald Dahl His earliest recollections were | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
formed here and some played a part in the magical stories | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
that he later went on to write. "Ah", said the BFG, "I is wondering | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
how long it is before Roald Dahl wrote many | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
of his books in a shed An idea he said he got | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
from the Welsh author Dylan Thomas, "Oh you wicked beastly | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
beast", cried Trunky. He began writing for children | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
more than 70 years ago. His stories still rank alongside | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
modern day best sellers. He popularised, I think, | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
the children's book as a genre and now those readers are parents | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
who are passing on that legacy. Dahl worked closely | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
with the illustrator Quintin Blake. He used to say you could talk | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
to children about everything, I think the drawings | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
are a way of saying - you are not to take | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
this too seriously. And in some schools, | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
the celebrations for what would have been Roald Dahl's 100th birthday, | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
have been as colourful Nick. For some parts of the country | :26:58. | :27:16. | |
a scorcher. Absolutely. For others, it has been chucking | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
down. We have had 27 mm of rain in one hour in Keel in Staffordshire. | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
Let's talk about the heat. It is exceptional for this time of year. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
29 in Hull. Glasgow sitting around 15 this afternoon. So, why the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
difference? It all depends how close you are to this weather front across | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
western parts of Britain. Along that weather front we have had pulses of | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
energy riding north, along it, producing under thisry outbreaks of | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
rain and intense downpours in places. This weather front still a | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
player over the next few days. We will look at the rainfall picture as | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
it developed over the past few hours. The rain bouncing off the | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
ground in the West Midlands and heavy bursts into north-west | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
England. We are concerned about the risk of intense thunderstorms, the | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
north Pennines into south-east Scotland. At the very least, some | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
developing surface watered and spray. All this pushing further | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
north may clips parts of Northern Ireland and into northern Scotland | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
and storms maybe later into the night in the far south-west and does | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
by day, big temperatures that's the picture by night. Warm today and | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
very hot overnight. Near 20. Tomorrow cloud in Northern Ireland | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
could deliver outbreaks of rain, still to northern Scotland and the | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
early storms will push away from the south-west, leaving much of England | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
and Wales dry, sunny spells. A cloudier day for south-east Scotland | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
north-east England. Warmer for Wales and west of England but heat very | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
much into south-east England, East Ang Leeia, the East Midlands, here | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
temperatures near 30. Fronts moving north across northern Britain, | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
Thursday to Thursday night. Cooler for all by the end of the | :28:55. | :28:55. |