:00:00. > :00:07.The tipper truck crash that killed four people -
:00:08. > :00:16.a company boss and his mechanic found guilty of manslaughter.
:00:17. > :00:18.Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood failed to comply with routine guidelines
:00:19. > :00:24.on truck maintenance - its brakes failed.
:00:25. > :00:26.A four-year-old girl and three others were killed
:00:27. > :00:30.by the the out of control truck - one of the men was newly married.
:00:31. > :00:36.Especially having to spend your first wedding anniversary alone was
:00:37. > :00:40.so far removed from the one said we had planned. It has just been
:00:41. > :00:44.absolutely horrendous. was cleared of all the charges
:00:45. > :00:48.he faced ...Also tonight. The prime suspect in
:00:49. > :00:52.the Berlin terror attack - police say his fingerprints link him
:00:53. > :01:01.to the carnage at I wonder, though, if this year we
:01:02. > :01:04.might remember how the story of the Nativity unfolds.
:01:05. > :01:07.Prince Charles says religious persecution today has echoes
:01:08. > :01:11.And the words of a child who moved thousands -
:01:12. > :01:13.we speak to seven-year-old Bana who took to social media to describe
:01:14. > :01:21.After one win in 11, Palace give Alan Pardew the Christmas sack.
:01:22. > :01:28.Sam Allardyce is favourite to replace
:01:29. > :01:48.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:49. > :01:50.The owner of a haulage company and his mechanic
:01:51. > :02:02.have been found guilty of the manslaughter of four people,
:02:03. > :02:05.who died when a tipper lorry ploughed into them in Bath.
:02:06. > :02:07.The court heard that the vehicle had been poorly maintained -
:02:08. > :02:10.on the day of the crash its brakes failed.
:02:11. > :02:12.The driver, Philip Potter, who had only just started
:02:13. > :02:14.working for the firm, was cleared of the charges he faced
:02:15. > :02:16.including causing death by dangerous driving.
:02:17. > :02:18.Three men and a four-year-old girl died in the crash
:02:19. > :02:30.Jon? George, the court heard that this truck was in such a bad state
:02:31. > :02:34.that the crash was predictable, it was preventable, it was an accident
:02:35. > :02:39.waiting to happen. The prosecution said of the company had done the
:02:40. > :02:43.right checks, looked at the brakes, done that paperwork, not cut
:02:44. > :02:47.corners, the four victims could still be alive today.
:02:48. > :02:50.Police said it was "carnage", a 32-tonne truck, with defective
:02:51. > :02:53.brakes, had careered down a steep hill towards a city centre.
:02:54. > :02:58.Four-year-old Mitzi Steady didn't stand a chance,
:02:59. > :03:01.hit while she was crossing the road with her grandma.
:03:02. > :03:03.Then the truck crushed this car, killing the men inside.
:03:04. > :03:06.Robert Parker and Philip Allen were heading back to South Wales
:03:07. > :03:18.Their driver, Stephen Vaughan, was 34 years old and newly married.
:03:19. > :03:21.It's just been a horrendous time, I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
:03:22. > :03:23.Sian Vaughan told me that being widowed, so soon
:03:24. > :03:25.after her wedding day, had left her heartbroken.
:03:26. > :03:29.The future that we had together has just all been taken away.
:03:30. > :03:35.We were only married for six months and especially having
:03:36. > :03:38.to spend your first wedding anniversary alone was just so far
:03:39. > :03:40.removed from the one that we had planned.
:03:41. > :03:45.It's just been absolutely horrendous.
:03:46. > :03:48.Today, the boss of Grittenham Haulage, Matthew Gordon,
:03:49. > :03:50.and mechanic, Peter Wood, were both found guilty
:03:51. > :03:57.The trial heard the company was a shambles, failing to carry out
:03:58. > :04:02.The jury was told that as the tipper truck came down
:04:03. > :04:05.the hill that afternoon, its brakes were badly worn,
:04:06. > :04:11.Matthew Gordon had no transport manager and effectively flouted
:04:12. > :04:14.every regulation laid down to ensure safety.
:04:15. > :04:17.Peter Wood signed off vehicles as safe when clearly they were not.
:04:18. > :04:20.Many of the faults at the time of this crash were longstanding.
:04:21. > :04:39.Phillip Potter, who was at the wheel of the tipper truck was found not
:04:40. > :04:41.guilty of causing death by careless or dangerous driving.
:04:42. > :04:45.He left court sending his sympathy to the bereaved families.
:04:46. > :04:48.He told the jury he hadn't realised the truck was in such a poor state.
:04:49. > :04:51.This one is for Mitzi because when it is blooming,
:04:52. > :04:55.Before the trial, he told BBC News he'd planted trees on the family
:04:56. > :04:59.It's like you press replay in your head every night
:05:00. > :05:02.and you close your eyes and you just see it and you think -
:05:03. > :05:05.there was nothing else I could have done that day to have prevented it.
:05:06. > :05:08.Just thinking of the four people all the time,
:05:09. > :05:10.just thinking how horrible it must be for the families.
:05:11. > :05:14.Just how hard it would be to lose someone that you love so much.
:05:15. > :05:18.Phillip Potter told the trial that as he sat here that afternoon,
:05:19. > :05:20.trying to take in what had just happened, his boss,
:05:21. > :05:24.Matthew Gordon, came over to him, grabbed him and said,
:05:25. > :05:26."Don't tell the police about the brake warning light."
:05:27. > :05:36.Sian Vaughan says she's been horrified to hear in court
:05:37. > :05:39.about the state of the truck, especially as her chauffeur husband
:05:40. > :05:49.A word he would have used to describe them would have been
:05:50. > :05:51."cowboys" because there's no way that Steve would ever
:05:52. > :05:58.have put anybody's life in danger, let alone his own.
:05:59. > :06:01.The families hope Matthew Gordon's conviction will send a clear
:06:02. > :06:03.message to the owners of all haulage companies.
:06:04. > :06:05.He and Peter Wood were remanded in custody to be
:06:06. > :06:19.All the bereaved families have issued statements this afternoon
:06:20. > :06:22.paying tribute to those they lost. A family of little Mitzi Steady said
:06:23. > :06:26.in their statement that these four-year-old was coming into her
:06:27. > :06:31.own, she was growing in confidence before her life was suddenly cut so
:06:32. > :06:38.short. They now face a second Christmas about her. George. Jon,
:06:39. > :06:41.thank you very much. -- they now face a second Christmas without her.
:06:42. > :06:43.German police say they now believe it's likely
:06:44. > :06:46.their main suspect - Anis Amri - did drive the lorry that
:06:47. > :06:48.ploughed through a Christmas market on Monday killing twelve people
:06:49. > :06:51.His fingerprints have been found in the cab.
:06:52. > :06:54.Speaking at the family home in Tunisia, Amri's brother called
:06:55. > :06:58.This afternoon Angela Merkel said Germany had known for a long time
:06:59. > :07:00.that it was a target for Islamist terrorists.
:07:01. > :07:04.Our correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in Berlin.
:07:05. > :07:12.George, this is a significant development. Yesterday the police
:07:13. > :07:15.had said they were searching for the 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri
:07:16. > :07:20.because they've found identity documents of his in the cab of the
:07:21. > :07:22.lorry that drove through the market. Behind me today they say
:07:23. > :07:28.investigations of the lorry have convinced them it is likely he was
:07:29. > :07:29.the man driving it. Of course he remains on the run, tonight, armed
:07:30. > :07:39.and dangerous. This is Anis Amri, the man European
:07:40. > :07:43.police are hunting, filming himself humming nonchalantly in Berlin,
:07:44. > :07:48.video posted to his Facebook page in September. Another 24-year-old
:07:49. > :07:51.Tunisian is Europe's most wanted man. Police are now sure that he was
:07:52. > :07:55.the driver of the lorry that ploughed through the Christmas
:07:56. > :08:01.market, his fingerprints been found on the steering wheel and the door.
:08:02. > :08:07.Angela Merkel today thanked Germans for their measured reaction to the
:08:08. > :08:10.attack. TRANSLATION: Our thoughts are constantly with the relatives of
:08:11. > :08:15.the victims and the injured, we owe it to them to give this our very
:08:16. > :08:20.best. I can say that we've done a lot in recent years to meet the
:08:21. > :08:24.challenge of terrorism. Police raids in Germany earlier today targeted
:08:25. > :08:28.known contacts of Anis Amri, turning up nothing. His family in Tunisia
:08:29. > :08:33.last saw him five years ago. They say that he was not religious, he
:08:34. > :08:36.drank alcohol and dreamt of owning a car and starting a business.
:08:37. > :08:40.TRANSLATION: And my brother is listening I want to tell him to
:08:41. > :08:45.surrender for the sake of our family. We will be relieved. If he
:08:46. > :08:49.did what he is suspected of having done he will be sanctioned and it
:08:50. > :08:54.will be a dishonour for us. I am sure my brother is innocent. Anis
:08:55. > :08:59.Amri left his family and travelled in the league to Italy in 2011,
:09:00. > :09:02.spent four years in jail for violence and theft but without a
:09:03. > :09:09.passport could not be deported so last year he moved to Germany, a
:09:10. > :09:13.game, he was not deported, it was feared he was trying to get weapons
:09:14. > :09:16.for an attack but with no new evidence surveillance of him was
:09:17. > :09:19.halted in September. There are serious questions, should the
:09:20. > :09:26.authorities have taken the threat posed by Anis Amri more seriously?
:09:27. > :09:28.Most Germans, as the markets reopen with the security barriers,
:09:29. > :09:33.criticisms of the police are less important than how they respond. So
:09:34. > :09:37.getting the market back up and running today was symbolic for
:09:38. > :09:45.Berlin. We have to respond to the terrorism. But we don't care, we are
:09:46. > :09:50.going to open, we are not scared, because that is exactly what they
:09:51. > :09:56.want. The crowds were thinner than usual but wanted to show that they
:09:57. > :10:00.would not be cowed. I can to show we must not hide, says Rosemary, I am
:10:01. > :10:04.sad, I was here on Monday, luckily I left before it happened. I feel
:10:05. > :10:08.anger and sadness, more anger, says Anneka. I did not know any of the
:10:09. > :10:15.victims but it makes me really angry. Not so much fear as defiance.
:10:16. > :10:18.The people of Perlin determined to show they will not give up the
:10:19. > :10:20.things they value and enjoy. Damian Grammaticas, Berlin.
:10:21. > :10:25.With me is our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner.
:10:26. > :10:31.Is it fair to say the German authorities missed some
:10:32. > :10:36.opportunities to stop this attack? They did. He was someone on their
:10:37. > :10:40.radar but there are parallels to the way that MI5 missed the ringleader
:10:41. > :10:44.of the 7/7 bombers, Mohammed Siddique Khan. Because this was
:10:45. > :10:47.someone that they knew had Islamist tendencies, he was on the edge of a
:10:48. > :10:51.circle, they followed him for six months but could not find anything
:10:52. > :11:02.really incriminating, they filmed him dealing drugs in a park and
:11:03. > :11:05.getting into a brawl but nothing relating to terrorism, so they moved
:11:06. > :11:07.on. The problem with watching people, putting them under
:11:08. > :11:09.surveillance is that it is intensely Labour intensive, it can take 18 to
:11:10. > :11:13.30 people watching somebody 24-7, you have to have translators,
:11:14. > :11:17.decoders, people to change shifts and he was simply not a priority so
:11:18. > :11:19.they moved on, dropped him and in the end it was a mistake. Thank you,
:11:20. > :11:21.Frank. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
:11:22. > :11:24.have made their trip to Sandringham for Christmas
:11:25. > :11:26.after delaying it because they A helicopter arrived
:11:27. > :11:29.at Buckingham Palace to take them Both had been scheduled
:11:30. > :11:33.to travel by train yesterday, but plans were changed
:11:34. > :11:35.at the last minute. The Palace confirmed
:11:36. > :11:36.their departure, but wouldn't Prince Charles has warned
:11:37. > :11:43.against religious intolerance, saying it was reminiscent
:11:44. > :11:45.of what he called the "dark The Prince of Wales was speaking
:11:46. > :11:51.on Thought for the Day, He also warned about aggression
:11:52. > :11:55.towards minorities from "populist Here's our Royal Correspondent
:11:56. > :12:08.Nicholas Witchell. The situation on the grounds of
:12:09. > :12:12.religion is as old as faith itself and it is still happening today --
:12:13. > :12:17.persecution. A Coptic Orthodox church blown up in Cairo. Christians
:12:18. > :12:21.in Iraq and Syria kidnapped or driven from their homes. Attacks on
:12:22. > :12:27.Yazidis and Jewish people and others. Tolerance between the faiths
:12:28. > :12:33.and freedom of worship are important to the Prince of Wales. He recently
:12:34. > :12:37.attended the consecration of the new sillier Orthodox Cathedral in west
:12:38. > :12:41.London. He is troubled by the growing evidence of religious
:12:42. > :12:47.intolerance. Normally at Christmas we think of the birth... His
:12:48. > :12:53.starkest warning yet in a pre-recorded broadcast for Thought
:12:54. > :12:57.For The Day on BBC Radio 4 he likened the persecution of
:12:58. > :13:02.Christians in Iraq to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. We have
:13:03. > :13:04.seen the rise of populist groups across the world who are
:13:05. > :13:09.increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a minority
:13:10. > :13:15.faith. All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of the dark days
:13:16. > :13:20.of the 1930s. I was born in 1948, just after the end of World War II,
:13:21. > :13:25.in which my parents's generation had fought and died in a battle against
:13:26. > :13:33.intolerance, monstrous extremism and an inhuman attempt to exterminate
:13:34. > :13:38.the Jewish population of Europe. That nearly 70 years later we should
:13:39. > :13:44.still see such evil persecution is, to me, beyond all belief. The world
:13:45. > :13:48.was witnessing what the Prince called insidious forms of extremism,
:13:49. > :13:52.seeking to eliminate really adversity. He ended his broadcast
:13:53. > :13:57.with a plea for tolerance. Whichever religious path we follow, the
:13:58. > :14:02.destination is the same. To value and respect the other person,
:14:03. > :14:06.accepting their right to live out their peaceful response to the love
:14:07. > :14:09.of God. In due course, when he is king and supreme Governor of the
:14:10. > :14:15.Church of England, Charles knows that his freedom to speak out will
:14:16. > :14:19.be constrained but for now, and on subjects like this, he feels he has
:14:20. > :14:23.a duty to try to make his voice heard. Nicholas Witchel, BBC News,
:14:24. > :14:26.at Clarence House. Killed by a truck that
:14:27. > :14:37.was out of control - The four victims of a road haulage
:14:38. > :14:39.boss and his mechanic, who have been found guilty of manslaughter.
:14:40. > :14:44.the remarkable story of Alex Lewis who lost all his limbs to an illness
:14:45. > :14:48.Which started with what he thought was a cold.
:14:49. > :14:50.Coming up on Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News:
:14:51. > :14:53.Tottenham tie down another of their top players at the club.
:14:54. > :15:07.Captain Hugo Lloris commits his future to Spurs until 2022.
:15:08. > :15:09.The Red Cross in Syria says the operation to help people leave
:15:10. > :15:12.the remaining rebel-held parts of Aleppo is close to finishing.
:15:13. > :15:15.One of those who managed to leave is seven-year-old Bana Alabed, whose
:15:16. > :15:18.messages on social media captured everything from the death of friends
:15:19. > :15:20.to her family's attempt to live a normal life.
:15:21. > :15:32.Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, has been to meet Bana and her mother.
:15:33. > :15:35.Hello, I am Bana, I'm seven years' old, I am from Aleppo.
:15:36. > :15:38.From the rubble of Aleppo to the red carpet in Ankara,
:15:39. > :15:41.Bana Alabed and her family are now being hosted by the Turkish
:15:42. > :15:45.government, which opposes the Syrian regime.
:15:46. > :15:48.When we met, this child of war told me how her own home
:15:49. > :15:57.TRANSLATION: We were playing happily and planning to go out
:15:58. > :16:05.So, we got scared and ran to the basement.
:16:06. > :16:12.When our house was bombed, we got out of the rubble safely,
:16:13. > :16:18.but we were about to die because the house was collapsing.
:16:19. > :16:22.From inside Aleppo, her message echoed around the world,
:16:23. > :16:30.with help from her mother, who manages her Twitter account.
:16:31. > :16:32.But some have questioned whose views were being shared.
:16:33. > :16:34.When your mum was tweeting, was she tweeting your words
:16:35. > :16:45.Her mother, Fatima, insists the Twitter account was Bana's idea,
:16:46. > :16:54.but admits it is a way to combat the regime.
:16:55. > :16:57.I think there now was a big fight out there.
:16:58. > :17:12.But the tweets attracted threats and made it harder for the family
:17:13. > :17:14.to join the mass evacuation of eastern Aleppo.
:17:15. > :17:17.Fatima got Bana on to one of the buses, disguised as a boy.
:17:18. > :17:21.Today, even the fighters are openly leaving their former stronghold,
:17:22. > :17:26.but bad weather is slowing the last of the departures.
:17:27. > :17:35.Just days after leaving, Bana is already missing her old home.
:17:36. > :17:40.TRANSLATION: I was happy to leave but sad at the same time.
:17:41. > :17:45.I wish I could go back to Aleppo, go back home.
:17:46. > :17:49.I want to live in my house, because I love it,
:17:50. > :18:00.Before saying goodbye, Bana sang us a song about childhood
:18:01. > :18:10.# I am a child with something to say...#
:18:11. > :18:13.raised for countless others, who often go unheard.
:18:14. > :18:20.Donald Trump has taken to Twitter again -
:18:21. > :18:23.this time the President-elect said the United States must greatly
:18:24. > :18:25.strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.
:18:26. > :18:31.Let's cross to Washington and speak to our Correspondent Laura Bicker.
:18:32. > :18:43.Laura, if he follow up on this, it would mean a massive change to US
:18:44. > :18:50.policy? This is not just a radical departure from President Obama's
:18:51. > :18:57.administration, it is a radical departure dating back to George W
:18:58. > :19:00.Bush. Mr Trump tweeted he wanted to dramatically strengthen the United
:19:01. > :19:04.States' nuclear capabilities until such time as the world come to its
:19:05. > :19:10.senses. The tweet echos the comments of Vladimir Putin who said earlier
:19:11. > :19:12.today that he also wanted to increase his country's nuclear
:19:13. > :19:18.capabilities and develop new nuclear missiles. As for Mr Trump's plans,
:19:19. > :19:22.well apart from that 140-character tweet we have few details. He has
:19:23. > :19:28.hinted he may want it use nuclear weapons as a last resort against
:19:29. > :19:32.enemies such as the so-called Islamic State and in 29 days, it
:19:33. > :19:35.will be his finger on the nuclear code and he will be behind the
:19:36. > :19:38.nuclear defence policy. All right, Laura, thank you.
:19:39. > :19:41.Prison officers have rejected a pay deal offered to them
:19:42. > :19:45.The Prison Officers Association had recommended
:19:46. > :19:47.the proposed agreement, which would have allowed prison
:19:48. > :19:49.officers to retire at 65 but members voted against it
:19:50. > :19:54.The Ministry of Justice said Justice Secretary,
:19:55. > :20:03.to meet with union leaders in the New Year.
:20:04. > :20:06.Six months ago the UK went to the polls in the EU referendum
:20:07. > :20:10.Wales, unlike the other nations in the UK, gets more money back
:20:11. > :20:13.from the EU than it pays in but still voted to leave.
:20:14. > :20:16.As part of our series reflecting on the impact of the referendum,
:20:17. > :20:18.our Wales correspondent, Sian Lloyd, has taken a journey
:20:19. > :20:25.The train from Cardiff is approaching the end of the line
:20:26. > :20:27.and the former steel down of Ebbw Vale.
:20:28. > :20:28.European Union funding paid to re-open this
:20:29. > :20:33.It was part of a plan to regenerate the South Wales valleys.
:20:34. > :20:35.Millions of pounds of EU funding have been invested
:20:36. > :20:38.here but in the county of Blaenau Gwent, there
:20:39. > :20:40.was an overwhelming vote to leave the EU by the biggest
:20:41. > :20:47.It's taken so much longer than I thought it would be.
:20:48. > :20:49.I thought once I voted Leave that would be it,
:20:50. > :20:51.they'd start changing things, but they didn't.
:20:52. > :20:54.Sports centres, schools, colleges and I know it was massively
:20:55. > :21:00.funded by the European Union, so, I was disappointed
:21:01. > :21:04.because I realised that now we might have to fight to get this money
:21:05. > :21:13.The Welsh government is still looking to be
:21:14. > :21:15.the European Union to help boost the fortunes of these
:21:16. > :21:28.A Metro system that would better-connect 1.5 million people
:21:29. > :21:32.Just this month, the First Minister, Carwyn Jones, visited Brussels,
:21:33. > :21:37.But according to this public policy expert,
:21:38. > :21:38.many people living in communities like this, haven't felt the benefit
:21:39. > :21:42.In a lot of cases we've had more of the same.
:21:43. > :21:44.So we've had a new road, but there was already a road.
:21:45. > :21:46.We've had a new college, but actually there
:21:47. > :21:53.So the kind of transformational effect that we'd like to have seen,
:21:54. > :21:56.But the Welsh government says EU structural funds has been crucial
:21:57. > :22:05.Between 2000 and 2013, ?3.3 billion was allocated to Wales.
:22:06. > :22:08.A further ?1.9 billion was due to be spent here between 2014 and 2020.
:22:09. > :22:10.The UK Government has given assurances that it
:22:11. > :22:16.Getting on board for a future outside the European Union
:22:17. > :22:22.is what those in the business community are now focussing on.
:22:23. > :22:25.We need to see delivering on measures such as the M4 relief
:22:26. > :22:28.road, the electrification of the Valleys Line.
:22:29. > :22:31.We are looking at big investment in infrastructure and energy.
:22:32. > :22:34.Let's go on and deliver those and that will create
:22:35. > :22:40.Cardiff is the final destination for these passengers -
:22:41. > :22:44.the city that gets the lion's share of investment in Wales.
:22:45. > :22:47.The Welsh capital voted to stay in Europe.
:22:48. > :22:50.It's many of those who travel into the centre every day
:22:51. > :22:54.They wanted change but the route to realising their ambition,
:22:55. > :22:56.and the future it'll create, is still uncertain.
:22:57. > :23:03.Three years ago Alex Lewis thought he just had a common cold.
:23:04. > :23:05.But in fact it was something much worse, he collapsed
:23:06. > :23:11.Doctors diagnosed a Strep A infection, which then developed
:23:12. > :23:17.It led to the loss of all of his limbs.
:23:18. > :23:20.For many, looking for a job in such circumstances might be unthinkable
:23:21. > :23:25.but this week Alex defied the odds and returned to work.
:23:26. > :23:34.Duncan Kennedy has been to Hampshire to hear his remarkable story.
:23:35. > :23:37.Precious moments with the family that kept and keep Alex Lewis going.
:23:38. > :23:45.A man whose body was devoured by flesh-consuming bacteria.
:23:46. > :23:49.Nothing at all and I think in some respects that's better.
:23:50. > :23:58.You know, no-one tried to blow me up in war,
:23:59. > :24:04.Alex's "bad luck", as he puts it, started in 2013 when he went
:24:05. > :24:09.from this, to this, after a cold became a strep A infection,
:24:10. > :24:17.For his partner, Lucy, seeing his mouth and nose
:24:18. > :24:23.disintegrate and his arms and legs amputated, was devastating.
:24:24. > :24:26.I couldn't go into the room and see him after it.
:24:27. > :24:32.I found it really difficult to go in and see.
:24:33. > :24:34.I could deal with the legs, I could deal with legs.
:24:35. > :24:36.I couldn't just deal with the arms very well.
:24:37. > :24:39.Alex began three gruelling years of recovery.
:24:40. > :24:51.But during his 20 operations, Alex always kept one goal in mind -
:24:52. > :25:02.What sort of feeling does that bring, being back at work?
:25:03. > :25:05.It shows that you can get out, you can go back to work.
:25:06. > :25:08.You're not resigned to being stuck at home because you are
:25:09. > :25:18.Alex has become an interior designer.
:25:19. > :25:21.He tested his ideas in this restaurant but now he's won
:25:22. > :25:25.All with the imagination he never knew he had.
:25:26. > :25:29.If we can get through the previous three years, like we have done,
:25:30. > :25:34.going back to work and creating a new business, Is the topping
:25:35. > :25:37.going back to work and creating a new business, is the topping
:25:38. > :25:39.on the cake, really, the icing on the cake.
:25:40. > :25:44.Alex will base himself at home, and make site visits
:25:45. > :25:50.But just listen to how he sums it all up.
:25:51. > :25:52.They have been the best three years of my life, I think,
:25:53. > :25:57.because I wasn't making the most of the life
:25:58. > :26:01.I think falling ill made me realise what I had.
:26:02. > :26:03.People watching this may use words like "hope",
:26:04. > :26:04."courage", "inspiration", what is your message
:26:05. > :26:10.It means that I can move on and hopefully live
:26:11. > :26:14.an extraordinary life in a different body.
:26:15. > :26:38.Three days until Christmas, let's see what the weather will be doing.
:26:39. > :26:42.Darren? Not great news for anyone travelling. This area, the cloud
:26:43. > :26:47.here is our second named storm of the season, Storm Barbara, which is
:26:48. > :26:50.hurtling towards the UK. Ahead of it we had a winter chill today and some
:26:51. > :26:53.more snow in Scotland but the showers in the north are becoming
:26:54. > :26:56.fewer and less wintry overnight. We have clear skies across much of
:26:57. > :27:00.England and Wales for a while, so it'll turn quite chilly. One or two
:27:01. > :27:04.mist and fog patches, perhaps. But the wind will strengthen later. This
:27:05. > :27:08.rain in the north-west is the first sign of this storm that's heading
:27:09. > :27:12.our way. So, it is a deep area of low pressure. It'll run to the north
:27:13. > :27:15.of Scotland but bring some very windy weather across the board.
:27:16. > :27:21.Heavy rain on that weather front as well. It gets windy, wet and quickly
:27:22. > :27:24.in the morning, in Scotland and Northern Ireland and that squally
:27:25. > :27:27.rain and winds just pushes into western parts of England and Wales
:27:28. > :27:31.during the afternoon, towards East Anglia and the south-east it may
:27:32. > :27:35.well stay dry until late in the day. Behind that band of heavy rain,
:27:36. > :27:39.where we get showers in Scotland and Northern Ireland later on in the
:27:40. > :27:42.afternoon. It is later in the day, into the evening that the winds
:27:43. > :27:46.ratch up a notch or two or the north and north-west of Scotland. Gusts of
:27:47. > :27:53.80, possibly 90 miles per hour. It is because of that that we have an
:27:54. > :27:57.amber, be prepared wind warning. As the centre of the storm, Barbara
:27:58. > :28:00.runs away tomorrow night so the winds will ease but tell' have
:28:01. > :28:05.strong winds for a while across the north and even on Christmas Eve
:28:06. > :28:07.we'll have some blustery winds, blustery showers blowing across
:28:08. > :28:12.northern areas, snow over the hills in Scotland. Brighter, breezy
:28:13. > :28:16.further south. Increasing cloud and rain coming into the north-west
:28:17. > :28:20.later, in time for Christmas day which looks like it will be mild.
:28:21. > :28:24.Temperatures could be close to record levels but it'll also be very
:28:25. > :28:27.windy. Really gusty winds for many parts of the country which could
:28:28. > :28:34.bring some disruption. Later on in the day on Christmas day, as we get
:28:35. > :28:40.colder air in Scotland t could eventually be a white Christmas.
:28:41. > :28:42.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,