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The footballer Ched Evans is found not guilty of rape in a retrial. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Emerging from court, Evans said he was overwhelmed | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
The former Welsh international was originally convicted | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
But his conviction was quashed, leading to the retrial and today | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Expect food prices to rise as the pound falls, warns | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
A four-month-old baby has died after being | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Big cuts in spending on mental health trusts, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
despite government pledges to increase it. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And what happened when a shark got into a cage with a diver inside. | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
And coming up on sport in BBC News... | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
He's into the Shanghai Masters semifinal with a straight sets win | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:00. | :01:26. | |
The footballer Ched Evans has been found not guilty of raping | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
The Welsh international was originally convicted | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
of raping her in a hotel in May 2011 and served over two years in prison. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
There was then an outcry when he tried to return | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
His conviction was later quashed at the Court of Appeal. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
After today's acquittal, Evans said he was | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Sian Lloyd is outside Cardiff Crown Court. | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
It has taken five years for Ched Evans to get to this point but very | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
little time for the jury to acquit him? Yes, it took the jury three | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
hours to find Ched Evans innocent, there were gasps and cries from the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
public gallery where his family had been watching and they have been | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
with Ched Evans every step of the way. Leaving court a free man. His | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
fiancee Natasha by his side, for five years Ched Evans maintained his | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
innocence and today a jury of seven women and five men acquitted him of | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
rape. He has cleared his name. Thanks go to my friends and family, | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
most notably my fiance, Natasha. Who chose perhaps incredibly to support | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
me in my darkest hour. Whilst my innocence has been established, I | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise to anyone | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
who might have been affected by the events of the night in question. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Minutes earlier the couple had hugged and cried after Ched Evans | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
was released from the dock. Members of his family shouted yes as the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
verdict was read out. At the age of 22, Ched Evans had his career in | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
front of him when charged with raping a 19-year-old woman in hotel | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
room. He had been capped 13 times for Wales and was playing for | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Sheffield United. His career ended when he was convicted in April 20 | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
12. That conviction was quashed in the Court of Appeal after fresh | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
evidence was produced and a retrial ordered. That trial began last | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
Monday. The prosecution took a trip back to the early hours of the 30th | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
of May 2011 when Ched Evans let himself into the hotel room with | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
fellow footballer who had been having consensual sex with the young | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
woman. Simon Medland QC said she was so drunk she did not know what was | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
happening. She could not have consented to sex with Ched Evans, he | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
said. But Ched Evans told the jury she had allowed him to join in. The | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
court heard from two men who had not spoken | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
before and they described occasions when they have sex with the young | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
woman. Evidence of alleged victim 's sexual behaviour is only put before | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
a jury in exceptional circumstances. In this case it was said the events | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
be two men described were so similar to what Ched Evans claimed that the | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
jury had to hear them before deciding whether the woman was | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
capable of giving consent. The prosecution suggested they were | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
motivated by a ?50,000 reward that had been posted on a website. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Looking for information that could lead to its original conviction | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
being overturned. Both bentonite asking for or being offered any | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
money. Leaving court, Ched Evans was asked whether the apology in his | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
statement applied to the young woman. No statement. He didn't | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
respond to that. What does the future hold for you? Or say what his | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
future holds. Ched Evans is now free to return to his club, Chesterfield, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
where he signed in the summer. Tonight the club issued a statement | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
and the Chief Executive said it welcomed the news of his acquittal, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
particularly for Ched Evans, his family and friends and added, we can | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
move forward and focus on football. Sian Loyd at Cardiff Crown Court. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Thank you. Expect prices to rise - | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
that's the warning from the the Governor | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
of the Bank of England. Mark Carney says inflation will go | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
up as a direct result of the fall in the value of the pound caused | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
by uncertainty over Britain's He said life would get difficult | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
for those on lowest incomes as we move from no | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
inflation to some inflation. Food is likely to be the first | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
to experience price rises as we currently import over half | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
of what we consume from abroad. Our economics editor | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Kamal Ahmed reports. Uphill for the governor. He has | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
admitted the bank has intervened more often than usual as the UK | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
economy becomes familiar with a new era of uncertainty. And some of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
those rather uncertain members of the public gathered today in the | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
West Midlands to hear what the governor that with the key | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
challenges as Britain plots its way out of the European Union. What are | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
you hoping to hear? I am constantly looking at inflation figures for my | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
job but for the impact on my husband's job, my son's potential | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
employment, these are massive considerations. Mr Carney said | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
inflation was creeping back and could hit the poorest hardest. We | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
have had a long period of low inflation, very low, and it is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
starting to go up. The principal reason will be the movement in the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
currency, that will flow through to prices on the high-street relatively | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
quickly. This public meeting in Birmingham is really part of the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
bank's attempts to be more transparent, concern has focused on | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
inflation but it is more than simple price rises, it is the effective as | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
price rises on what Theresa May described as the just managing | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
classes. People who are in work but are still struggling to get by. But | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
with the threat of inflation approaching and the economy | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
performing strongly, does that mean another interest rate cut is off the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
table? The economy is performing a little better than expected. I'll be | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
at it has slowed relative to the rate it had prior to the referendum. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
We have to take into account inflation considerations, we will | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
take all of that into account. Afterwards I caught up with a | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
teacher. Do you feel more confident you have had time to listen to the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
governor and other members of the Bank of England? Absolutely, he | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
clearly said we will save some jobs at this point if necessary and we | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
might have short-term inflation in two years and we will worry about | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
solving that after that. And lower pound can be a spark for growth and | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
a little bit of inflation can also help. For the steel company just | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
down the road, the falling pound is good news. We will be able to sell | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
cheaper into foreign markets, we just expect an increase in turnover | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
as a result of that, which we desperately need. Mark Carney is | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
engaged in a tricky balancing act. He's any economic slowdown but do | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
not allow inflation to become too hot. If prices march upwards it will | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
not be long before the complaints begin. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News, | :08:34. | :08:34. | |
Birmingham. A four-month-old baby boy has died | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
after being attacked by a dog His 22-month-old brother was also | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
attacked and received what police The children's mother was also taken | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
to hospital with minor injuries. Daniel Boettcher is in Colchester | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
for us this evening. Daniel, this is the second time | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
a child has been killed by a dog Yes, in August three-year-old boy, | :08:50. | :09:05. | |
Dexter Neal, died after being by it dog in Essex and today, confirmation | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
from police that a four-month-old boy has died after being attacked in | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the house behind me by what is believed to be a Staffordshire bull | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
terrier-type dog. The house remains sealed off as detectives try to | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
establish exactly what happened here. | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
Set out on the pavement in front of the house, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
flowers and messages of sympathy, tributes to a life lost so young. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
The baby boy who died here was just four months old. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
The dog that attacked him also left the boy's 22-month-old brother | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Friends, neighbours and strangers have all come to pay their respects. | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
As a parent, you can't imagine how the parents feel and what | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
So I just wanted to put some flowers down. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
I cannot imagine what the parents must be going through. To lose a | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
child or a baby is just awful. Police and paramedics were called | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
to the house yesterday afternoon. Inside, the dog had attacked | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
not just the two boys, but their mother too, | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
though she suffered Police say the dog, | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
which has been put down, was a Staffordshire | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
bull terrier-type. It's not clear if it | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
belonged to the family. An investigation is now under way | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
to establish the facts as to how I can confirm that nobody | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
has been arrested. This is obviously a very difficult | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
time for the family, who are being supported | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
by specially trained officers. The law on dangerous dogs has | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
already been tightened, in part because the number | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
of injuries has been rising, hospital admissions going up | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
from just over 6000 in England five years ago to more than 7,300 | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
in the most recent figures. This tragedy has already led to some | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
calls for a further review. We've seen two really terrible | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
attacks in the last few months here in Essex, | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
and questions will be rightly asked to take more action nationally | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
with regard to legislation This evening, the police | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
inquiry here continues. The 22-month-old boy | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
who was seriously injured in the attack has been transferred | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
to a specialist unit in hospital. The former Chief of the Defence | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Staff, Lord Bramall, says he's received a personal | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
apology from the head of the Metropolitan Police, | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
Sir Bernard Hogan Howe, over its handling of | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
an investigation of historic child According to Lord Brammall, | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Sir Bernard apologised for the raid on his home and for the length | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
of time it took to let him know no The New Zealand judge who resigned | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
as head of the inquiry into child sexual abuse says allegations | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
about her behaviour A newspaper has claimed | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
the Home Office was warned about the conduct of | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Dame Lowell Goddard, which included negative remarks | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
about Asian men and poor This afternoon she issued | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
a statement, calling Scotland's First Minister, | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, has insisted she's not bluffing about her intention | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
to hold a second Scottish The SNP leader has told the BBC | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
she promises to explore all options short of independence that | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
would maintain Scotland's place But if that fails, Scots | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
have a right to consider She was talking to our Scotland | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
editor, Sarah Smith. Nicola Sturgeon thrilled conference | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
delegates with the news that she's preparing for a second referendum | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
on Scottish independence. Of course, the message was aimed not | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
just at them, Ms Sturgeon told me why she doesn't | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
trust that Theresa May will take her concerns | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
about Brexit seriously. So far, I don't see the signs | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
of her being serious. I think Theresa May has to prove | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
that she meant what she said, just as I have to prove to people | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
that I'm serious The ball, to some extent, | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
is in her court. She's the one who says | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
she values the UK. My message to the Prime Minister | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
is, time to prove it. Why should the Prime Minister take | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
seriously the ultimatum She reads the same opinion polls | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
you do and she can see that support for independence has not gone up | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
since the EU referendum. She might conclude | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
that you're bluffing. This is not some game of chicken | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
or dare, this is about the best interests of the country I'm | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
elected to represent. She is obviously the Prime Minister | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
and has duties in that regard, but my advice to her would | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
be, don't play games. This is about the best interests | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
of Scotland and the UK. But you say if Scotland can't remain | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
in the single market, you would explore the option | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
of independence, but an independent Scotland may not be part | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
of the single market with the rest I know that UK Government ministers | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
don't accept that either, because I can hear and read | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
what they're saying The Prime Minister, David Davis, | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
they have both been in Ireland in recent weeks saying to Ireland, | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
it's not a case of choosing between the EU and the single market | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
on the one hand and links I think the direct quote was that | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
you shouldn't have to choose What do you think the chances | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
are that there will be another referendum on Scottish independence | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
in the next couple of years? That's what I said the morning | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
after the referendum. Nothing has happened | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
to change my mind. In many respects, because of this | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
intransigence and some of the high-handed arrogance | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
of the comments we heard from the Tory party | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
conference, it makes me think more that it's not in the interests | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
of the UK to leave the single But I can make sure that Scotland | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
is not forced down a path that it doesn't want to go down | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
without at least having the opportunity to choose to do | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
something different. Ms Sturgeon has deliberately not | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
promised her supporters they will definitely | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
get another referendum. They know it, and so does | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the Prime Minister. Sarah Smith, BBC News, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
Glasgow. The former Welsh international | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
footballer Ched Evans is cleared Still to come: The sound | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
of history repeating itself - the Battle of Hastings, | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
recreated 950 years on. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the Premier League returns this weekend as Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
prepare to take on Manchester United and Jose Mourinho in what should be | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
an electric contest. Funding for many mental health | :15:26. | :15:40. | |
services in England has been cut despite an NHS order that | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
spending be increased. The research organisation | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
The Kings Fund says 40% of mental health trusts had their budgets cut | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
last year and that six trusts out of 58 have had their funding cut | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
for three years in a row. One of those is the Norfolk | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
and Suffolk Foundation Trust, who've admitted responsibility | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
for the death of a Neil Jewel died three years ago - | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson has been speaking | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
to his family. I suppose he was his most happy and | :16:12. | :16:23. | |
relaxed when he was up with the family. He just wanted to be part of | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
the family, really. It's very sad to think that this awful illness that | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
he had took that happiness away from him. Christine's brother Neil Jewel | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
struggled with schizophrenia, but he died after what his family say was a | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
catalogue of failings in the local mental health services, both in the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
community and in hospital. It is a complete nightmare, what happened to | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
him. It should never have happened. Then you start getting angry. You | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
think, these are people's lives. My brother was just left to cope on his | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
own. The whole point of going through this pain is to make sure | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
Neil's voice is heard through this and for people to understand that | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
mental health issues don't just affect people like my brother. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Anybody in society, no matter who you are, can suffer with it at | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
various times in their life. Mental health workers failed to ensure Neil | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Jewell had enough medication. They failed to find him a safe hospital | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
bed. He ended up being restrained by police, driven 75 miles while | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
psychotic, before he had a heart attack and died. Cuts don't always | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
coincide with poor treatment like that suffered by Neil Jewell, but | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
the Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust, which treated him, is | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
one of a handful to have its budget is cut for three years in a row, and | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
a leading research organisation says last year, 40% of mental health | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
trusts in England had their budgets cut again. Cutting mental health | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
services is just as risky as cutting our Acute Hospital services. We are | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
talking about people in crisis, who need expert care in a timely way. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Often, that is not being provided at the moment. That is bad for patients | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
and their families. It is also a risk to communities when you have | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
people who are severely ill who aren't able to access the right | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
care. But last year for the first time, NHS commissioners in England | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
were instructed to increase money for mental health. NHS England says | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
overall spending did go up, so why did so many mental health trusts, | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
who provide the bulk of the care, see their funding cut? There is a | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
real pressure on acute trusts. That is the big hospitals. But there is | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
real pressure on mental health. So commissioners are working hard to | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
make sure that they deliver mental health care for their populations. | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
There are tough choices to make, but we are committed to making sure that | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
people with mental health are treated as well as anybody else in | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
this population. Remember when we used to bring me over here for | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
walks? The trust in charge of Neil Jewell's care in Norfolk and Suffolk | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
has expressed its deepest sympathy to his family. Inspectors have said | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
it should no longer be classified as a failing trust, despite ongoing | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
concerns about high rates of deaths there. You can't mess about with | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
people's lives, people that haven't got the ability to speak up for | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
themselves. This is people's lives, and how quickly they can be snuffed | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
out, just like that. Christine Welfare there, ending that | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
report by Sophie Hutchinson. Private Sean Benton was just 20 | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
when he died from gunshot wounds to his chest | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
at Deepcut Barracks in 1995. His family spent the next 21 years | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
trying to get to the bottom Today they moved a big step | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
forward, when they were He was one of four soldiers to die | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
at the barracks in seven years. The original inquest returned | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
a verdict of suicide, but his family have questioned that | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
and claim he was severely bullied, Deepcut barracks in Surrey, | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
where four young army recruits died, prompting years of campaigning | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
by their families, Today, Sean Benton's brother | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
and sister were in court on a day his parents | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
didn't live to see. A bit sad, because Mum and Dad | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
weren't there, where they? Relieved as well that something's | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
going to come of this. So it's now actually | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
going to happen, hopefully. Sean Benton was on guard | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
duty when he died. Friends say he'd been | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
bullied and victimised. I feel that at the time, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
he was singled out and constantly punished, which I've | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
discussed before in the past. There were several incidences | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
when we'd be on a parade in the morning and we'd be having | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
our kits or uniform inspected, and Sean would be pulled out | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
of the parade and punished, often for no reason | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
or for a silly misdemeanour. The Ministry of Defence said today | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
that it cares deeply Sean Benton's family | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
don't think it does. Like the other families involved, | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
they believe successive investigations by the police | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
and media revealed a culture of bullying and intimidation | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
at Deepcut, and that the army tried to prevent proper scrutiny | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
of what went on there. The other recruits who died | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
were Cheryl James in 1995, Geoff Gray in 2001 and | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
James Collinson in 2002, Inquests into their deaths | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
recorded open verdicts, but a second inquest on Cheryl James | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
in June this year concluded that Some still want a full public | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
inquiry Among them, Cheryl James' father | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Des, who told the BBC today that the place was out of control | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
between 1994 and 2002. Now, 1066 and all that - | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
it may be the only date you remember But the significance | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
of the Battle of Hastings, which changed the course of British | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
history, is being remembered today, Duncan Kennedy is at the site | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
of the battle for us this evening, and some people are going to fight | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
the battle all over again. They are. It is a re-enactment | :22:29. | :22:41. | |
process that has been going on today and over the course of the weekend. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
But the weekend is sold out. So many people are interested in this | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
battle. It is thought that this actual field where I am standing is | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
the place that most historians believe is where the battle took | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
place. Up there are gathered the forces of Harold. Down here is where | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
William's troops were. It was a battle that was ferocious. It lasted | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
all day, maybe nine hours or so, with many thousands of casualties on | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
this field. But today, 950 years on, you're right singer that it is still | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
a member of the day that helped change the course of British | :23:17. | :23:17. | |
history. This was a battle for the very | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
future of England - King Harold's army against | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
the troops of William of Normandy. A clash of culture and power that | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
realigned the destiny of Europe. And re-enacted today, exactly 950 | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
years after its brutal conclusion. Around 20,000 men took | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
part in the fighting. The battle lasted for | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
about nine hours. By the end, so many Saxons | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
were dying, there was hardly King Harold was killed, | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
his hopes and ambitions For those taking part today, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
nine and a half centuries of time But how important is it | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
to remember this day? It's really important, | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
because this battle is the most significant in British | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
history, European history 600 children marched | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
in commemoration of the battle. 1066 is part of our | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
historical hinterland. And even today, this | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
cataclysmic event Our relationship with Europe, | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
for example, is very current. That is affected by the Norman | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
conquest, because after 1066, for the next 500 years, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
English kings will have a very There will be more | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
re-enactments over the weekend, but English Heritage says | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
they're all sold out. 950 years on, this remains | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
a day full of impact, still informing our culture, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
our society and our lives. And finally, some footage of a truly | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
terrifying encounter with a shark. It shows the moment when it got | :25:05. | :25:17. | |
into a supposedly shark-proof cage, The shark is attracted to the cages | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
with a large lump of tuna, After a frantic few | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
seconds, the animal beats | :25:30. | :25:43. | |
its way over the top. With mounting concern for the safety | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
of the diver, who can't be seen. The experienced divemaster is shaken | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
but, thankfully, unharmed. He dropped beneath the cage when it | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
gave way, with two other sharks | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
just below him. These cages are professionally | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
engineered to withstand Time for a look at | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
the weekend weather. I have never wanted to go diving | :26:24. | :26:37. | |
with a shark, and now I never will. The weather is not as terrifying, so | :26:38. | :26:52. | |
you can relax. A beautiful picture here. A lot of clout, but at least | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
it was dry. In Jersey, that corpuscular rain -- crepuscular rain | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
is coming through. Look at this, Martin's way in from the west. We | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
are being squeezed from both sides with that rain, so it will be a wet | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
night for most of us. Still that gale force is twinned for some of | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
us. In between, a bit of Mitterand. What a miserable start to our day it | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
looks for Scotland tomorrow. As for the weekend, we will all see some | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
rain. It is not going to be a wash-out, but we are losing that | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
easterly wind, so it will not feel as cold, although it will for | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
Scotland. That is the exception. Driving rain along the East. Some | :27:47. | :27:59. | |
sunshine will return after the early rain further east. It will feel | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
pleasant after we use the east wind, but not for Scotland. They have that | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
bracing easterly wind and some intense downpours coming later to | :28:11. | :28:19. | |
the south, with hail and thunder. Saturday is not looking too bad. | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
Sunday is looking a bit more showery in the South, but in the north, | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
Scotland looks a bit more promising after a wet and windy day tomorrow. | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
A reminder of our main story: the former Welsh international | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
footballer Ched Evans has been cleared of rape at his retrial. | :28:41. | :28:43. |