:00:07. > :00:10.Teenage killers - a 15 year old girl is found guilty of murdering
:00:11. > :00:17.Elizabeth Edwards and 13 year old Katie were killed in their beds -
:00:18. > :00:24.the teenager and her boyfriend had planned the murder in detail.
:00:25. > :00:27.These two were 14 years of age when they planned and committed
:00:28. > :00:28.these callous senseless and unprovoked attacks
:00:29. > :00:32.Both killers are too young to be named.
:00:33. > :00:42.The controversial and long awaited decision on airport
:00:43. > :00:46.Ministers will choose next week - but a final decision
:00:47. > :00:50.The rising cost of fuel and clothing pushes inflation up to its highest
:00:51. > :01:00.There were challenges. We were kept at a distance and the panel had
:01:01. > :01:02.concerns about the qualities of leadership.
:01:03. > :01:05.New revelations about the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse -
:01:06. > :01:15.Melania Trump is standing by her man - she says his comments
:01:16. > :01:23.Remembering the victims of the Aberfan disaster 50 years ago -
:01:24. > :01:26.a special report on how a mining community was let down
:01:27. > :01:34.Leicester City look to take a giant step towards qualification
:01:35. > :01:37.for the knock out stages of the Champions League by securing
:01:38. > :02:03.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:02:04. > :02:06.A 15 year old girl has been found guilty of murdering a mother
:02:07. > :02:09.and daughter as they slept at their home in Spalding
:02:10. > :02:16.The trial in Nottingham heard how the teenager and her boyfriend -
:02:17. > :02:19.both 14 at the time - planned to kill Elizabeth and Katie
:02:20. > :02:22.The boyfriend pleaded guilty to murder before the trial began
:02:23. > :02:25.but the girl claimed that mental illness diminished her
:02:26. > :02:29.They are thought to be the youngest couple found guilty
:02:30. > :02:44.At 1230 this afternoon in court two the 15-year-old girl was told to
:02:45. > :02:51.stand to listen to the verdicts and she showed no emotion as she was
:02:52. > :02:55.unanimously found guilty of murder. Relatives of the victims in court
:02:56. > :02:59.cried out and sobbed at the end of this harrowing case.
:03:00. > :03:02.Liz Edwards and her daughter Katie were found murdered in their home
:03:03. > :03:07.They were both well liked and adored each other.
:03:08. > :03:11.This crime is exceptional, though, because they were killed
:03:12. > :03:13.by two children, a boyfriend and girlfriend drawn together
:03:14. > :03:20.She was today found guilty of murder, and has never
:03:21. > :03:28.What makes this case even more shocking is that these two were 14
:03:29. > :03:30.years of age when they planned, committed these callous,
:03:31. > :03:38.senseless and unprovoked attacks on Elizabeth and Katie.
:03:39. > :03:42.This case has left a number of lifes in ruins, not only Elizabeth
:03:43. > :03:44.and Katie's families but also the two juveniles who committed
:03:45. > :03:50.Liz Edwards, 49 years old, and enjoying Christmas with the man
:03:51. > :03:59.Friends say she was happy and content.
:04:00. > :04:03.I did notice a change in her, she was a lot happier in herself,
:04:04. > :04:06.she met somebody she could trust who loved her kids as much
:04:07. > :04:10.as she did which I thought was really sweet.
:04:11. > :04:12.Jane Blanford also knew Liz Edwards and said
:04:13. > :04:23.And she has strong views on the two 14-year-olds who sat down to watch
:04:24. > :04:25.teen romance vampire films after they killed.
:04:26. > :04:35.I hope he gets locked up and they throw the key away,
:04:36. > :04:41.She could have had a bright future ahead of her.
:04:42. > :04:44.If this didn't happen, he could have had a bright future.
:04:45. > :04:46.They have thrown everything all the way.
:04:47. > :04:48.And they didn't just throw everything away on a whim,
:04:49. > :04:51.the two teenagers planned these murders in detail and they sat
:04:52. > :04:56.And on the night of the killings the boy walked along
:04:57. > :04:59.this river in the dark to rendezvous with the girl,
:05:00. > :05:05.carrying kitchen knives to kill their victims.
:05:06. > :05:08.What happened next was described in court as cold, calculated,
:05:09. > :05:17.The girl told police she'd felt like murdering for quite a while.
:05:18. > :05:20.And that a gun would have been easier, the knife
:05:21. > :05:24.The murder weapon was shown to the jury who were asked
:05:25. > :05:25.to consider if the girl was mentally ill.
:05:26. > :05:32.The personal possessions of the victims have now gone
:05:33. > :05:35.from an end terrace in a Lincolnshire cul-de-sac.
:05:36. > :05:39.Many people will be left wondering how an intense teenage romance got
:05:40. > :05:41.to the point where killing this well liked mum and daughter
:05:42. > :05:54.The two 15-year-olds will be sentenced next month and they have
:05:55. > :05:58.to remain anonymous because of their age, although a judge could lift
:05:59. > :06:05.that order when it comes to sentencing, so in a few weeks we
:06:06. > :06:06.could be publicly -- they could be publicly identified. Thanks for
:06:07. > :06:11.joining us. The timetable for the long awaited
:06:12. > :06:14.decision on expanding Britain's airport capacity has
:06:15. > :06:15.become clearer tonight. Ministers will decide next week
:06:16. > :06:18.whether Heathrow or Gatwick should be expanded but a final vote
:06:19. > :06:20.in parliament will only take place at the the end of next
:06:21. > :06:23.year - at the earliest. The controversial decision has
:06:24. > :06:25.been repeatedly delayed. Let's talk to our deputy political
:06:26. > :06:32.editor John Penaar. The crucial choice of where and how
:06:33. > :06:35.to expend Britain's airport capacity has hung in the air for over a
:06:36. > :06:38.quarter of a century and today it has drawn closer, there will be a
:06:39. > :06:42.government recommendation next week, Heathrow or Gatwick, but
:06:43. > :06:50.Parliament's you won't be heard for years. He throws the controversial
:06:51. > :06:58.and most likely candidate, Demos have run for years, split parties
:06:59. > :07:02.and now the Cabinet -- Heathrow is. John McDonnell was holding the
:07:03. > :07:05.placard, and of course Boris Johnson, now Foreign Secretary, who
:07:06. > :07:10.offered protesters this pledge the moment he was re-elected as MP. I
:07:11. > :07:13.will lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the building.
:07:14. > :07:17.Stop the construction of that third runway. Theresa May has said those
:07:18. > :07:21.with strong views could stick to them but not campaign actively, and
:07:22. > :07:26.there will be no resignations, for now, but plenty of debate. Very
:07:27. > :07:29.important to get the decision and to get it right, we have been waiting
:07:30. > :07:33.for a long time for airport expansion in the UK and we need it,
:07:34. > :07:37.and after Brexit if we're going to be an open trading nation and
:07:38. > :07:41.looking at a new alliance around the world, we will need airport
:07:42. > :07:46.capacity. And you change your mind on Heathrow expansion? There is more
:07:47. > :07:50.at stake on Cabinet unity, but that is at stake and Theresa May is
:07:51. > :07:53.keeping her top team intact, at least until the final reckoning,
:07:54. > :07:59.until then, one of the most reduced debates in post Brexit Britain
:08:00. > :08:05.continues -- one of the most controversial debate. There might be
:08:06. > :08:10.no final political decision until deep into 2018 and even then there
:08:11. > :08:14.is every chance of a legal challenge, led by Greenpeace and a
:08:15. > :08:18.line-up of local authorities including one in Theresa May's own
:08:19. > :08:20.backyard. After 25 years of wrangling, those who have been
:08:21. > :08:28.pressing for this decision may just have to wait. STUDIO: Thanks, John.
:08:29. > :08:30.Inflation's on the rise - up nearly half a percentage point
:08:31. > :08:34.At 1%, it's at the highest rate for nearly two years.
:08:35. > :08:37.Rising prices for clothes and petrol are behind the rise.
:08:38. > :08:41.Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.
:08:42. > :08:49.How much we spend on a meal out. How much we pay to fill up with fuel.
:08:50. > :08:53.How much we pay for what we wear. All have increased in price as
:08:54. > :08:58.inflation starts to march upward. And it is just the start. I think it
:08:59. > :09:03.is fair to say that the trajectory for inflation from here is likely to
:09:04. > :09:07.be up and that really is largely as the falls in the currency feed
:09:08. > :09:10.through to higher import prices, we have only just started seeing signs
:09:11. > :09:17.of that. What is behind the inflation spike? Clothing prices
:09:18. > :09:21.were 6% higher last month as shops slowed aggressive discounting,
:09:22. > :09:25.restaurant and hotel prices were also up by 0.7% summer bargains
:09:26. > :09:33.ended. And if you're crept up a little. To 100 and 11p per litre
:09:34. > :09:38.compared with 100 10p last year, a small increase with larger rises
:09:39. > :09:45.over the next year. There is a double whammy at the moment, the
:09:46. > :09:50.main factor is the pound is so much weaker against the dollar, we buy
:09:51. > :09:55.fuel in dollars and that affects us, and Opec and Russia are talking
:09:56. > :10:00.about cutting back on production and that puts up the price of crude.
:10:01. > :10:03.Higher prices for fuel and high prices for food are difficult to pay
:10:04. > :10:07.especially if they are on lower incomes and also difficult
:10:08. > :10:11.politically. Theresa May knows there is one key equation in politics, if
:10:12. > :10:19.inflation is rising faster than incomes, people feel worse off, and
:10:20. > :10:22.that way lies political risk. That personal risk could crystallise as
:10:23. > :10:28.early as next year, with predictions inflation could rise above 3%. And
:10:29. > :10:32.with the government also freezing benefits for people in work, the
:10:33. > :10:36.just managing classes could be hit hardest. Theresa May has made it
:10:37. > :10:40.clear she would like to help those families who are just about managing
:10:41. > :10:45.or struggling to get by but actually that is the kind of group of
:10:46. > :10:49.families that this freeze in work in benefits affects, not just out of
:10:50. > :10:55.work families, but in workouts was, things like housing benefit and tax
:10:56. > :10:58.benefits, and if prices rise they will find it harder to afford them
:10:59. > :11:04.is like food and fuel over the next few years. There are already
:11:05. > :11:08.warnings, the head of Tesco in the UK said that food inflation was
:11:09. > :11:12.lethal for poorer people. Little inflation might be good for the
:11:13. > :11:13.economy but too much and the consumer will soon start to feel it
:11:14. > :11:19.in their pocket. Dame Lowell Goddard,
:11:20. > :11:22.the former head of the inquiry into child sexual abuse,
:11:23. > :11:24.kept panel members at a distance and would rather have worked
:11:25. > :11:26.alone, MPs have heard. Dame Lowell Goddard,
:11:27. > :11:33.the inquiry's third chairwoman, Today the Home Affairs Select
:11:34. > :11:36.Committee heard evidence from the current chair,
:11:37. > :11:38.and panel members - our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom
:11:39. > :11:45.Symonds was watching. They are the panel of experts trying
:11:46. > :11:49.to deliver a massive public inquiry into the abuse of children. At least
:11:50. > :11:54.they didn't have to queue for the hearing which would grill them
:11:55. > :11:57.today, on its troubles. Including the breakdown in relations between
:11:58. > :12:02.them and their former chair Dame Lowell Goddard. Followed by her
:12:03. > :12:10.resignation. It was clear from the beginning that Dame Lowell Goddard
:12:11. > :12:13.would have preferred to have sat on her own without the assistance of
:12:14. > :12:20.the panel. They were challenges, however. Very all-encompassing word.
:12:21. > :12:25.And very all-encompassing challenges, as well, but what I will
:12:26. > :12:30.say, the chair was not always present in the United Kingdom for
:12:31. > :12:34.that period. The panel had concerns about the qualities of leadership
:12:35. > :12:40.that were being evidenced through the course of the inquiry. Was she a
:12:41. > :12:47.nightmare to work with? I would not use that language. What would you
:12:48. > :12:50.say? That they were challenges. Dame Lowell Goddard was appointed in
:12:51. > :12:54.feathery 2015 but the Home Office which set up the inquiry said it
:12:55. > :13:00.only became aware of problems on the 29th of July this year. Dame Lowell
:13:01. > :13:03.Goddard resigned six days later, so did the Home Office really not know
:13:04. > :13:10.earlier? Enter most senior civil servant. The answer is a categorical
:13:11. > :13:13.no, I wasn't aware and there is nothing in the Home Office records
:13:14. > :13:17.to suggest any of my staff dealing with the inquiry were aware until it
:13:18. > :13:22.was brought to my attention on the 29th of July. Apart from months
:13:23. > :13:26.earlier a Home Office director-general was tipped off by
:13:27. > :13:30.the inquiry, but agreed not to say anything. One problem for the Home
:13:31. > :13:34.Office, is that the inquiry is independent of the government, there
:13:35. > :13:38.are victims groups which are deeply concerned at the number of Home
:13:39. > :13:42.Office staff working on the inquiry and some of them are strong
:13:43. > :13:46.supporters of Dame Lowell Goddard. If the government had intervened it
:13:47. > :13:49.might have been accused of interfering, a new argument, and the
:13:50. > :13:53.inquiry has had plenty of them. Maybe that is why the Home Secretary
:13:54. > :13:57.gave this reason for Dame Lowell Goddard's departure. She found it
:13:58. > :14:01.too lonely, she was a long way away from home. When giving evidence to
:14:02. > :14:04.MPs in September, without mentioning the tension behind the scenes, and
:14:05. > :14:06.today one member of the committee said they had been misled. Tom
:14:07. > :14:12.Symons, BBC News. President Obama has described
:14:13. > :14:14.the start of the military operation to take back the Iraqi city of Mosul
:14:15. > :14:17.- from so-called Islamic State - The city has been under
:14:18. > :14:21.the extremists since the summer of 2014 and dislodging them
:14:22. > :14:23.is expected to take many weeks. From the South,
:14:24. > :14:25.Iraqi Security Forces - backed by coalition air strikes -
:14:26. > :14:28.have captured a string of villages. From the east, Kurdish
:14:29. > :14:32.Peshmerga Forces have also Our Correspondent Orla Guerin
:14:33. > :14:46.is travelling with them In the distance, Mosul, a city in
:14:47. > :14:51.waiting for deliverance from a brutal regime. It is the last
:14:52. > :14:57.bastion of IS in Iraq, but for how much longer? On the rise in today,
:14:58. > :15:03.black smoke from burning oil. -- horizon. Extremists trying to thwart
:15:04. > :15:06.attacks on the air, but as the net closes on so-called Islamic State
:15:07. > :15:13.read the risks are increasing for those trapped down below in a Mosul,
:15:14. > :15:16.there is the danger of coalition air strikes, IS could try to use the
:15:17. > :15:21.local population as human shields, and if and when Iraqi forces make it
:15:22. > :15:26.inside the city there could be caught in the crossfire -- Bay. This
:15:27. > :15:31.is what IS want you to see from inside Mosul, its latest propaganda
:15:32. > :15:37.video paints a picture of normality. The message is, all is well, anyone
:15:38. > :15:42.daring to say otherwise could be beheaded.
:15:43. > :15:49., "thank you God Everything Eventually is fine. It's peaceful
:15:50. > :15:53.here, the TV channels really lying. Lying, lying, lying." Victory over
:15:54. > :16:01.IS can look like this. A year ago they were driven from this area by
:16:02. > :16:04.air strikes and troops from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, the
:16:05. > :16:09.Peshmerga. But this area is cleared? Yes. They took us to see what IS may
:16:10. > :16:16.have in store when the battle comes to Mosul. Here, a homemade chemical
:16:17. > :16:22.weapon. Chlorine gas attached to an improvised mortar. Crude, but
:16:23. > :16:26.potentially lethal. The fuses have already been removed. How many of
:16:27. > :16:36.these did you find? 24. Just in this village? Just in this village. As
:16:37. > :16:45.the Peshmerga advance deeper into IS territory, new insights below
:16:46. > :16:50.ground. This hidden lair was uncovered yesterday. They built a
:16:51. > :16:54.bedroom to rest, he says, there were blankets. The extremists had the
:16:55. > :16:58.basics for survival hidden from view. The authorities here hope they
:16:59. > :17:04.will run out of hiding places in the coming weeks and months. Orla
:17:05. > :17:11.Guerin, BBC News, east of Mosul. The time is a little after 6. 15pm.
:17:12. > :17:14.The mother and daughter murdered by teenage killers,
:17:15. > :17:16.a 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend are found guilty.
:17:17. > :17:19.An invitation to the Palace for Britain's Olympic
:17:20. > :17:32.Tour de France winner, Chris Froome, says questions still remain over
:17:33. > :17:35.Sir Bradley Wiggins seeking permission to use a banned
:17:36. > :17:48.This week, the people of Aberfan in South Wales are having to relive
:17:49. > :17:51.the terrible events of half a century ago when a mountain
:17:52. > :17:54.of coal waste collapsed onto the village school,
:17:55. > :17:58.claiming the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
:17:59. > :18:01.The scale of the disaster made headlines around the world
:18:02. > :18:05.and people gave generously to support the shattered community.
:18:06. > :18:08.But, as Huw Edwards reports, the families of Aberfan had to fight
:18:09. > :18:11.for decades for justice, a fight that started on that Friday
:18:12. > :18:18.NEWS REEL: We are now returning to the newsroom.
:18:19. > :18:24.Disaster struck suddenly this morning at the small Welsh
:18:25. > :18:25.coalmining village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil.
:18:26. > :18:30.At 9.15am, on the last morning of lessons before half-term,
:18:31. > :18:35.Pantglas Junior School was buried underneath a mountain of coal waste.
:18:36. > :18:38.The scale of the loss, 116 children and 28 adults,
:18:39. > :18:42.is still difficult to comprehend, half a century later.
:18:43. > :18:45.What happened at Aberfan was one of the greatest disasters
:18:46. > :18:49.in the modern history of Wales, indeed the modern history
:18:50. > :18:52.of the United Kingdom, and it's important to get one thing clear,
:18:53. > :19:00.It was a man made disaster, it was entirely foreseeable and it
:19:01. > :19:06.of negligence, arrogance and incompetence.
:19:07. > :19:09.One of those who survived the disaster, her life
:19:10. > :19:12.still overshadowed by the events of 50 years ago, is Gaynor Madgwick.
:19:13. > :19:15.She was eight at the time and lost her brother Carl and sister
:19:16. > :19:17.Marylyn on that day, she's since written a book
:19:18. > :19:22.We met in the memorial garden on the site of
:19:23. > :19:30.The ceiling of the school had come in and it landed on half
:19:31. > :19:33.the children and I had a radiator, that had come off the wall,
:19:34. > :19:39.I just remember looking at another friend of ours, who had literally
:19:40. > :19:46.tried to climb up through the roof, which was on top of the children,
:19:47. > :19:48.and she said, "I'm going to get help, I'm going
:19:49. > :19:54.I was whisked away in the ambulance to St Tydfil's Hospital
:19:55. > :19:59.and I remained there, isolated I feel, for over three months.
:20:00. > :20:04.And it was then, in the evening time, that I was told
:20:05. > :20:07.that my brother and my sister had died and all my friends had
:20:08. > :20:17.Within weeks of the disaster, an official tribunal was set
:20:18. > :20:19.up, under the Welsh, Judge Edmund Davies,
:20:20. > :20:22.ARCHIVE: Well, I should hate to think that anybody
:20:23. > :20:26.would connect me with any whitewashing exercise.
:20:27. > :20:28.But getting straight answers from the National Coal Board,
:20:29. > :20:31.the public body which owned the mines, proved a very
:20:32. > :20:37.The Chairman of the National Coal Board was Lord Robens and he denied
:20:38. > :20:40.any responsibility for the disaster and kept on insisting that it
:20:41. > :20:44.ARCHIVE: We have our normal procedures for ensuring that pits
:20:45. > :20:48.are safe, but I'm bound to say that we have no proceedure that
:20:49. > :20:52.tells us that there is a spring deep down under a mountain.
:20:53. > :20:56.This is the site of the old Merthyr Vale Colliery, this is where
:20:57. > :21:04.the coal waste was put in trams and then sent across the valley
:21:05. > :21:06.and piled high on the mountains opposite and those tips used
:21:07. > :21:10.There was plenty of evidence, based on previous incidents,
:21:11. > :21:13.that piling this waste on wet mountain sides was an exceptionally
:21:14. > :21:19.risky and dangerous thing to do, and yet those warnings were ignored.
:21:20. > :21:21.By the time the report was published, the National Coal Board
:21:22. > :21:27.had been forced to admit that the disaster was foreseeable.
:21:28. > :21:28.It was blamed, unequivocally, for what had happened,
:21:29. > :21:32.but no-one was disciplined or sacked.
:21:33. > :21:34.I only wish that Lord Robens was here today.
:21:35. > :21:36.They should have been sent to jail, lost their jobs.
:21:37. > :21:41.But the battle was far from over, there was still coal tips
:21:42. > :21:43.above Aberfan and people, quite naturally, wanted them gone,
:21:44. > :21:46.but no-one was ready to pay - not the Government, not the Coal
:21:47. > :21:53.The families lobbied the Welsh Office in Cardiff
:21:54. > :21:55.demanding help, what they got instead from the Welsh Secretary,
:21:56. > :21:59.He wanted the local community to use their charity fund
:22:00. > :22:10.ARCHIVE: Of course they will pay what they can afford,
:22:11. > :22:12.but the scheme will depend on what they pay.
:22:13. > :22:15.It took 30 years for the people of Aberfan to regain
:22:16. > :22:17.the money they'd lost, it was finally repaid
:22:18. > :22:19.by the Welsh Government and today the gardens and memorials
:22:20. > :22:22.of the village have been restored giving the families the sense
:22:23. > :22:30.Collectively, we've been able to 50 years get through it as a family.
:22:31. > :22:33.I've always said Aberfan is a family.
:22:34. > :22:38.We've shared our thoughts and feelings, so many good things
:22:39. > :22:41.have come out of Aberfan and have you to think like that.
:22:42. > :22:46.You know, they are courageous, courageous people.
:22:47. > :22:49.That was Gaynor Madgwick, a survivor of the Aberfan disaster,
:22:50. > :22:54.speaking to Huw Edwards in this week of the 50th anniversary.
:22:55. > :22:57.Tonight, at 10.45pm on BBC One, Huw will be telling the story
:22:58. > :23:07.In the United States, Melania Trump has insisted
:23:08. > :23:09.that her husband, Donald Trump, is a "gentleman" and that women
:23:10. > :23:13.who've alleged that he sexually assaulted them are lying.
:23:14. > :23:16.She also said that lewd comments he made about women that were caught
:23:17. > :23:18.on videotape did not represent the man she knows.
:23:19. > :23:21.Women are under attack, what do we do?
:23:22. > :23:30.A protest this morning outside the Trump headquarters in Philadelphia.
:23:31. > :23:32.There's ongoing outrage here over the billionaire's obscene remarks
:23:33. > :23:34.that were caught on tape and the allegations that he
:23:35. > :23:38.We're sick of him, we're sick of his comments.
:23:39. > :23:41.We don't want a sexual assaulter as our president.
:23:42. > :23:49.I think he has zero respect for women.
:23:50. > :23:53.In the midst of this storm, a serene Melania Trump, a wife,
:23:54. > :23:56.turned character witness, prepared to forgive her husband.
:23:57. > :24:00.Those words, they were offensive to me and they were inappropriate
:24:01. > :24:04.and he apologised to me, and I accept his apology.
:24:05. > :24:15.It's in the American suburbs that this election will be decided
:24:16. > :24:22.and here female voters often have the decisive say.
:24:23. > :24:24.Andrea is still voting Trump and thinks Bill Clinton
:24:25. > :24:29.I think Bill Clinton is the epitome, the epitome,
:24:30. > :24:38.And for Hillary to tolerate that, she's just as bad.
:24:39. > :24:41.But a new poll, in the Philadelphia suburbs, found that Donald Trump
:24:42. > :24:45.trails Hillary Clinton by a staggering 43% amongst female
:24:46. > :24:49.voters, the kind of numbers that spell disaster for his campaign.
:24:50. > :24:56.Nick Bryant, BBC News, Philadelphia.
:24:57. > :24:58.It's not every day you get to visit Buckingham Palace,
:24:59. > :25:01.but for Team GB's Olympic and Paralympic athletes
:25:02. > :25:09.After yesterday's parade in Manchester, the teams
:25:10. > :25:12.will receive a Royal welcome and that comes after a day
:25:13. > :25:22.Natalie Pirks was there and sent this report.
:25:23. > :25:24.Your Team GB and Paralympics GB athletes.
:25:25. > :25:27.Day Two of the nations' thank you to its Olympic and Paralympic
:25:28. > :25:31.athletes started here in Trafalgar Square.
:25:32. > :25:38.I'm not really into sport, but I've been glued to this.
:25:39. > :25:39.It's incredible, it's been incredible.
:25:40. > :25:41.If Brazil has samba, London has the Queen's Grenadier
:25:42. > :25:50.London, in October, isn't exactly the hottest spot north of Havana,
:25:51. > :25:52.but the sun made a welcome change from the downpour in
:25:53. > :25:56.Consequently, fans and athletes' families were here in their
:25:57. > :25:59.thousands to greet Britain's stars, they even got to see a re-enactment
:26:00. > :26:09.For the athletes though the pleasure was in seeing the public so inspired
:26:10. > :26:14.I grew up in Penzance, in Cornwall, and I was very far away
:26:15. > :26:19.The first Olympic medal I'd seen and held was my own,
:26:20. > :26:21.and I do think that there's something really special and unique
:26:22. > :26:27.in being able to see that and being able to be really close
:26:28. > :26:36.It ended with a performance by The Vamps and a whole
:26:37. > :26:40.Well, all 214 medallists will now swap out of their tracksuits
:26:41. > :26:42.and into their glad rags because they've got a date
:26:43. > :26:46.at the Palace, just down the road, but one of them is ready to break
:26:47. > :26:51.I really want a selfie with her, but I'm not sure I'm going to get
:26:52. > :26:56.A selfie might be a stretch too far, but at least they all stuck
:26:57. > :26:59.to the dress code as they arrived here tonight to receive a formal
:27:00. > :27:11.All of the medallists are in the down stairs State room behind me
:27:12. > :27:14.meeting the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke and Duchess
:27:15. > :27:19.of Cambridge and Prince Harry. There is plenty of room for all of them.
:27:20. > :27:23.For many of the athletes it will be their first visit to the Palace. For
:27:24. > :27:32.many others it won't be their last, they are expected to feature heavily
:27:33. > :27:36.in the new year's honours list. Now the weather with Matt Taylor.
:27:37. > :27:42.Showers today will continue overnight. Showers across from
:27:43. > :27:46.Liverpool, Manchester north North Wales into the Midlands. A few down
:27:47. > :27:50.the eastern coasts as well and northern and western Scotland. In
:27:51. > :27:55.between all those most of you will stay dry, largely clear. Moon lit
:27:56. > :27:59.skies, a little on the cool side, seven to nine degrees in towns and
:28:00. > :28:03.cities. Close to freezing for one or two. The breeze stops temperatures
:28:04. > :28:08.dropping too much for most. The most will start the day dry an Sunday.
:28:09. > :28:13.There may be a few showers in the morning drifting to the south-west.
:28:14. > :28:18.Showers to Scotland, most will fade away. Bulk of the showers throughout
:28:19. > :28:22.south-east Scotland and ooen eastern counties of England. It will feel
:28:23. > :28:26.warmer than it has done today. The winds will be strong and gusty along
:28:27. > :28:29.eastern coasts. The showers will keep going, heavier into the
:28:30. > :28:32.afternoon and evening, maybe the odd rumble of thunder as well. For the
:28:33. > :28:35.rest of the week we have this split of high pressure to the west and low
:28:36. > :28:39.pressure towards the east. The low pressure means we will continue to
:28:40. > :28:45.see showers feeding in, eastern England in particular. The showers
:28:46. > :28:48.will be lighter. The rest of the UK largely dry with chilly and misty
:28:49. > :28:52.mornings. One or two showers to the west on Thursday. Most will stay
:28:53. > :28:57.dry. Good sunny spells. Lighter winds. Feeling a touch warmer after
:28:58. > :29:01.that cool start. Down the eastern counties of England a threat of
:29:02. > :29:04.further showers, East Anglia and the south-east especially. Temperatures
:29:05. > :29:07.will hold up into Thursday night. Northern and western areas a greater
:29:08. > :29:13.risk of frost and fog into Friday morning. Dry and bright weather
:29:14. > :29:15.around central western areas. More cloud in Northern Ireland and
:29:16. > :29:19.western Scotland. That's all from the BBC News at Six,
:29:20. > :29:22.so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:29:23. > :29:26.news teams where you are.