:00:08. > :00:09.Just weeks before official Brexit talks begin,
:00:10. > :00:17.and Britain's top EU diplomat quits.
:00:18. > :00:24.Sir Ivan Rogers was due to play key role in negotiations, but Leave
:00:25. > :00:25.campaigners say he was a Brexit pessimist.
:00:26. > :00:27.Clearly the wrong man for the job, the only regret I've got
:00:28. > :00:30.is that he didn't go the day after the referendum.
:00:31. > :00:33.It is a spectacular own goal, cos the only way we're going
:00:34. > :00:35.to deliver a successful, workable Brexit is precisely
:00:36. > :00:37.with the expertise of people like Ivan Rogers.
:00:38. > :00:39.We'll be asking where this leaves the Government's Brexit plans.
:00:40. > :00:44.Also tonight, the police operation that ended
:00:45. > :00:46.with a shooting off the M62 - Yassar Yaqub was killed
:00:47. > :00:50.by a firearms officer, an investigation is under way.
:00:51. > :00:53.Still on the run after the Istanbul nightclub terror attack -
:00:54. > :00:58.Turkish police are hunting for this suspect.
:00:59. > :01:01.The New Year's Day walk that could have ended in disaster -
:01:02. > :01:05.the couple saved by a Cairngorm rescue team.
:01:06. > :01:08.We didn't know really where we were going,
:01:09. > :01:10.you couldn't see a hand in front of your face,
:01:11. > :01:13.so we decided to get the survival bags out
:01:14. > :01:16.and get down for the night in them.
:01:17. > :01:20.MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
:01:21. > :01:28.vinyl sales hit a 25-year high in the era of streaming and downloads.
:01:29. > :01:31.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Swansea City have apointed
:01:32. > :01:34.Bayern Munich's assistant coach Paul Clement as their new manager,
:01:35. > :01:58.succeeding Bob Bradley, who was sacked last week.
:01:59. > :02:01.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.
:02:02. > :02:04.Britain's top diplomat to the European Union has resigned.
:02:05. > :02:07.Sir Ivan Rogers leaves his job just months
:02:08. > :02:10.before the Government is due to kick off formal Brexit talks.
:02:11. > :02:14.Sir Ivan found himself at the centre of a political storm recently
:02:15. > :02:18.when he told ministers a Brexit deal could take up to ten years.
:02:19. > :02:21.Leave campaigners accused him of being unduly pessimistic,
:02:22. > :02:23.while others said he was simply reporting sentiment in Brussels.
:02:24. > :02:38.Carole. Thank you, well, Sir Ivan Rogers'
:02:39. > :02:43.resignation caught Downing Street and the Foreign Office by surprise.
:02:44. > :02:47.He was due to be our man at the EU until November to see through the
:02:48. > :02:49.first opening phase of those crucial Brexit negotiations. But not
:02:50. > :02:53.everyone is disappointed at his badge. -- his departure.
:02:54. > :02:55.Behind the darkened windows, at the Prime Minister's side,
:02:56. > :02:59.as she arrived at last month's EU summit, Sir Ivan Rogers tried
:03:00. > :03:03.But his warning that it could take the UK ten years to get
:03:04. > :03:06.a new EU trade deal overshadowed what was already a
:03:07. > :03:13.Sir Ivan was one of Britain's most experienced negotiators,
:03:14. > :03:15.he was a key member of David Cameron's team
:03:16. > :03:18.when the former Prime Minister tried to get agreement
:03:19. > :03:22.on a new relationship with the EU before the referendum.
:03:23. > :03:26.believe his departure is a real loss to the Government.
:03:27. > :03:31.The only way we're going to deliver a successful, workable Brexit
:03:32. > :03:33.is precisely with the expertise of people like Ivan Rogers,
:03:34. > :03:37.who's now been forced to the margins, forced to the side lines,
:03:38. > :03:40.because of the angry zeal of Brexiteers who just won't accept
:03:41. > :03:46.to what they so happen to believe in.
:03:47. > :03:49.But leading Brexit campaigners are delighted he's gone.
:03:50. > :03:52.Sir Ivan is part of the establishment that, frankly,
:03:53. > :03:54.haven't accepted the referendum result
:03:55. > :03:57.and are hoping that, frankly, it will never happen.
:03:58. > :04:01.I'm sorry to say, but the Foreign Office
:04:02. > :04:03.is stuffed full of these people, from top to bottom.
:04:04. > :04:05.For decades, they've been taking Britain in completely the wrong
:04:06. > :04:08.direction, and I hope Sir Ivan's departure is followed
:04:09. > :04:14.In her New Year's message, the Prime Minister stressed her
:04:15. > :04:17.commitment to getting a Brexit deal that works for everyone.
:04:18. > :04:19.For we have made a momentous decision
:04:20. > :04:23.and set ourselves on a new direction.
:04:24. > :04:26.Whoever takes over as the UK representative to the EU
:04:27. > :04:34.It's important that we have someone in the job, as Sir Ivan was doing,
:04:35. > :04:38.and no doubt his successor will do as well, who will report back
:04:39. > :04:40.to the British Government and, through the Government
:04:41. > :04:42.to Parliament, about what the other member states
:04:43. > :04:51.it really pays to know where the other side is coming from.
:04:52. > :04:54.Theresa May has said she'll trigger Article 50 by the end of March,
:04:55. > :04:57.and the official line is that Sir Ivan Rogers has decided to leave
:04:58. > :05:01.now so a new appointment can be made before the start of those formal
:05:02. > :05:06.negotiations for Britain's departure from the EU.
:05:07. > :05:12.Now, whilst Downing Street is determined to convey a positive
:05:13. > :05:16.Brexit message, sources who knows Sir Ivan well, and no Brussels well,
:05:17. > :05:21.are concerned that his warnings simply did not fit the narrative so
:05:22. > :05:24.were dismissed out of hand. And they are concerned that it will be very
:05:25. > :05:28.difficult to find a replacement who knows Europe as well as he did, and
:05:29. > :05:32.is prepared to carry through those negotiations to get the sort of deal
:05:33. > :05:37.that Downing Street wants, whilst dealing with those EU leaders.
:05:38. > :05:41.All right, Carole, thank you very much. Let's get more on this from
:05:42. > :05:45.our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas, who joins us from
:05:46. > :05:50.Brussels. Most bus wouldn't have heard of Sir Ivan Rogers or the job
:05:51. > :05:55.he was doing, how important a role is it? George, it was very important
:05:56. > :05:58.and it will be even more so when those Brexit negotiations begin,
:05:59. > :06:02.because the ambassador here is not just an ambassador who hosts dinner
:06:03. > :06:06.parties. The way things work in this town, when the EU has to agree
:06:07. > :06:10.something, ambassadors from 28 countries sit around a table, thrash
:06:11. > :06:14.out the issues, then the ministers and leaders arrive to sign off on
:06:15. > :06:19.the final agreements. Losing Sir Ivan at this stage he's a big hole.
:06:20. > :06:23.Now, he had spent the last three years here doing exactly that, doing
:06:24. > :06:26.David Cameron's renegotiation, so his supporters would say that he
:06:27. > :06:30.knows what is politically Ozbilen for the UK to achieve. What you
:06:31. > :06:35.heard the other side say is that what the UK needs is an optimist,
:06:36. > :06:39.but in this town the talk about it taking possibly ten years to achieve
:06:40. > :06:43.a trade deal was well known before the referendum, the UK Government
:06:44. > :06:47.had said so itself, so there was no surprise about that. But this does
:06:48. > :06:52.leave now Theresa May with only a few weeks to find a replacement who
:06:53. > :06:56.knows that they will be in the spotlight, they will be scrutinised,
:06:57. > :06:59.and we'll be having to take on those Brexit negotiations very soon.
:07:00. > :07:02.Damian, thank you very much. West Yorkshire Police
:07:03. > :07:04.were following up information about an illegal weapon when
:07:05. > :07:06.they shot dead a man last night. Yassar Yaqub was driving off the M62
:07:07. > :07:09.slip road at Huddersfield when a number of unmarked
:07:10. > :07:11.police cars surrounded his vehicle. Police say it was
:07:12. > :07:13.a pre-planned operation. Danny Savage is at the scene
:07:14. > :07:18.of the shooting. and the cars involved remain exactly
:07:19. > :07:23.where they stopped last night. and the silver Mercedes
:07:24. > :07:29.are unmarked police cars. The two white cars are understood
:07:30. > :07:33.to be the target of the operation. As they boxed in the cars
:07:34. > :07:36.and stopped, armed officers were quickly out of their vehicles,
:07:37. > :07:39.and shots were fired. Bullet holes can be seen in
:07:40. > :07:43.the windscreen of a white Audi. have today been left
:07:44. > :07:48.on the bonnet of that car. Forensics officers have been
:07:49. > :07:51.examining the scene in detail. What was the exact
:07:52. > :07:54.sequence of events which led to a man
:07:55. > :07:58.being shot dead here? He was Yassar Yaqub, a 27-year-old
:07:59. > :08:02.father from Huddersfield. Eight years go, he was cleared
:08:03. > :08:06.of trying to shoot dead two people. "You were no angel
:08:07. > :08:23.but did not deserve this." The incident happened just outside
:08:24. > :08:26.Huddersfield as the cars came off the M62 junction 24. At around six
:08:27. > :08:30.o'clock, they drove on to this slip road and were hemmed in by police
:08:31. > :08:39.and Broadway stop. Shortly after that, shots were fired and Yassar
:08:40. > :08:43.Yaqub or shot. At the same time in Bradford another vehicle was shot
:08:44. > :08:45.and two people arrested. As the busy motorway junction
:08:46. > :08:47.was closed down last night, many people were caught
:08:48. > :08:49.up in the chaos. There were these rapid-response
:08:50. > :08:51.vehicles that kept pulling up, big, large vehicles, then a couple
:08:52. > :08:54.of ambulances turned up. As soon as the ambulance
:08:55. > :08:58.pulled up, some of the policemen ran up
:08:59. > :09:00.and told the ambulance they had to get down
:09:01. > :09:02.as quickly as possible It looked like somebody needed
:09:03. > :09:06.urgent medical help. armed police arrived
:09:07. > :09:10.this afternoon making inquiries. Friends and relatives
:09:11. > :09:15.who were visiting soon left. The operation related
:09:16. > :09:17.to information received about a criminal possession
:09:18. > :09:20.of a firearm, and I've been fully updated
:09:21. > :09:24.by the Chief Constable. The incident is
:09:25. > :09:27.not terrorism related. The Independent Police
:09:28. > :09:30.Complaints Commission is now overseeing
:09:31. > :09:33.the investigation. Among the questions they'll be
:09:34. > :09:35.asking are, did Mr Yaqub pose an imminent threat to life,
:09:36. > :09:50.what was he doing when he was shot, And one of those questions from the
:09:51. > :09:53.Independent Police Complaints Commission has been answered within
:09:54. > :09:57.the last few minutes in a statement from them. They say what appears to
:09:58. > :10:05.be a non-police issue firearm was discovered in the vehicle in which
:10:06. > :10:09.Yaqub was travelling, so in other words a gun was found in the vehicle
:10:10. > :10:12.that he was in. At the scene recovery vehicles have moved in in
:10:13. > :10:18.the last half-hour or so to begin taking those cars away. This is
:10:19. > :10:21.still shut, 24 hours on. It won't open until later this evening,
:10:22. > :10:25.causing quite a few traffic problems. But still a long way to go
:10:26. > :10:29.in this investigation. George. Danny, thank you.
:10:30. > :10:32.The main suspect in the New Year terror attack which left 39 people
:10:33. > :10:34.dead in an Istanbul nightclub is still on the run.
:10:35. > :10:37.Turkish police have detained more than a dozen people so far.
:10:38. > :10:42.has been into the club where the massacre took place.
:10:43. > :10:48.Three days ago, this place was full of joy, of life, of celebration.
:10:49. > :10:52.Today, Reina nightclub is a crime scene, scarred by terror.
:10:53. > :10:57.We were the first British broadcasters allowed in, briefly.
:10:58. > :11:02.A rare glimpse of where 39 people were killed on New Year's Eve.
:11:03. > :11:06.Imagine the horror as 180 bullets were sprayed here,
:11:07. > :11:10.people jumping into the freezing Bosporus to escape.
:11:11. > :11:13.The owners of Reina say they will reopen the nightclub.
:11:14. > :11:15.It's a sign of the defiant mood here.
:11:16. > :11:18.Yes, people are sombre, yes, they're fearful,
:11:19. > :11:21.but Turks have lived with the terror threat for decades,
:11:22. > :11:27.and they're determined not to let it defeat them.
:11:28. > :11:30.Watch the right-hand side of this footage from the attack.
:11:31. > :11:33.A man jumps over a low fence outside the nightclub
:11:34. > :11:41.Then the gunman runs up to the door, shooting his way into Reina.
:11:42. > :11:44.That man on the right of the video was the nightclub manager,
:11:45. > :11:52.TRANSLATION: I felt bullets explode next to me,
:11:53. > :12:00.the bullets went centimetres over my head.
:12:01. > :12:03.When I fell, he must have thought he had hit me,
:12:04. > :12:07.so he went inside, and I heard the terrible sounds.
:12:08. > :12:09.New pictures have been released of the suspect,
:12:10. > :12:16.So-called Islamic State called him their brave soldier.
:12:17. > :12:19.Turkish authorities have given no information about him.
:12:20. > :12:22.Overnight, an area of Istanbul was raided.
:12:23. > :12:26.Reports say the gunman travelled from there
:12:27. > :12:29.to the nightclub for the attack, but no arrests were made.
:12:30. > :12:32.There have, though, been others detained,
:12:33. > :12:34.including two foreigners at Istanbul airport.
:12:35. > :12:43.they're thought to have had with the attack.
:12:44. > :12:46.Those tired of terror went to the scene of the massacre today,
:12:47. > :12:50.Tributes were laid and thoughts gathered about how their country can
:12:51. > :12:54.rebuild and how the next generation can regain a sense of safety.
:12:55. > :12:56.I don't want to cry any more while I am watching
:12:57. > :13:01.the news, you know? It makes me really sad.
:13:02. > :13:05.to grow up in this kind of environment, you know?
:13:06. > :13:10.With this news in the background and everything.
:13:11. > :13:18.And so a nervous wait to see if those
:13:19. > :13:20.who protect this country are really closing in
:13:21. > :13:23.on the man who brought horror to New Year's Eve.
:13:24. > :13:31.A British soldier who died in Iraq yesterday has now been named.
:13:32. > :13:34.Lance Corporal Scott Hetherington, who was 22 and serving
:13:35. > :13:37.with the 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment,
:13:38. > :13:40.had only recently become a father to a baby girl.
:13:41. > :13:45.It's believed he was killed in an accidental shooting,
:13:46. > :13:50.Activity in the UK's manufacturing sector hit
:13:51. > :13:54.according to a survey of purchasing managers last month.
:13:55. > :13:56.It found that a weaker pound has helped
:13:57. > :14:03.but that cost pressures faced by firms remained high.
:14:04. > :14:08.Another day, another tweet from President-elect Donald Trump.
:14:09. > :14:12.His latest comments on the social-media site
:14:13. > :14:14.accused the American car maker General Motors of building
:14:15. > :14:17.vehicles abroad but importing them tax-free for sale in the US.
:14:18. > :14:20.Getting manufacturing jobs back to the US was a theme he returned
:14:21. > :14:22.to again and again during last year's election campaign.
:14:23. > :14:30.Let's get the latest from our North America editor, Jon Sopel.
:14:31. > :14:38.Jon, he isn't president yet, but already these remarks he makes on
:14:39. > :14:41.Twitter, it has people jumping. Yeah, if you want to get an example
:14:42. > :14:47.of the new style of politics that will be heralded with the Donald
:14:48. > :14:50.Trump era, it is this - if you are a businessman, politician, diplomat or
:14:51. > :14:54.journalist, the first thing you have to do each morning is checked Donald
:14:55. > :14:57.Trump's Twitter feed. This morning it was General Motors in the cross
:14:58. > :15:02.hairs with this tweet. General Motors is sending Mexican made model
:15:03. > :15:08.of Chevy Cruze to US car dealers across the border, make in USA or
:15:09. > :15:11.pay big border tax. That, of course, left General Motors grumbling for a
:15:12. > :15:20.response, they have pointed out that of 180,000 cars they sell in the US,
:15:21. > :15:26.only 4000 come from Mexico, most of the global market, but it has put
:15:27. > :15:30.them on the defensive. And listen to this, Ford, the subject of previous
:15:31. > :15:34.aggressive tweet by Donald Trump, announced today that they are
:15:35. > :15:40.abandoning plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and instead
:15:41. > :15:45.are going to create 700 new jobs in Michigan. The CEO of Ford saying,
:15:46. > :15:48.this is a vote of confidence in Donald Trump's business friendly
:15:49. > :15:54.policies. It seems for the moment that politics by intimidation on
:15:55. > :15:58.Twitter is working for Mr Trump. OK, Jon, thank you very much.
:15:59. > :16:00.A couple in their 50s, who narrowly escaped death
:16:01. > :16:03.after a night in the Cairngorm mountains, have been
:16:04. > :16:06.Bob and Cathy Elmer, from Lincolnshire, were caught out
:16:07. > :16:09.after miscalculating the length of their walk and had to shelter
:16:10. > :16:11.from blizzard conditions using a light survival bag.
:16:12. > :16:16.Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has the story.
:16:17. > :16:22.The brutal conditions of a Scottish winter -
:16:23. > :16:24.out on the hills, 50 mile an hour winds, freezing
:16:25. > :16:31.Experienced walkers, Bob and Cathy Elmer,
:16:32. > :16:33.had become disorientated in the appalling weather
:16:34. > :16:36.and had realised their only option was to hunker down
:16:37. > :16:42.This the moment Mountain Rescue teams found them and then
:16:43. > :16:47.The snow was at times up to our waist.
:16:48. > :16:52.We eventually got out onto the plateau with the intention
:16:53. > :16:56.of trying to find the summit of Cairngorm, then my head lamp gave
:16:57. > :16:59.up, so we decided that we couldn't go on any further because we didn't
:17:00. > :17:03.You couldn't see a hand in front of your face,
:17:04. > :17:06.so we decided to get the survival bags out and get down
:17:07. > :17:12.It was a move rescuers believed saved their lives
:17:13. > :17:14.and that of their dog, Meg, who had her own
:17:15. > :17:21.Conditions were Arctic and in the area they were, you know,
:17:22. > :17:24.no matter which way they walked there was steep ground
:17:25. > :17:26.there and in the dark, with one head torch and disorientated,
:17:27. > :17:29.it would have been so easy to take a very, very serious tumble.
:17:30. > :17:33.This is one of Scotland's highest mountains and conditions further up
:17:34. > :17:37.towards the summit can close in quickly, catching out even
:17:38. > :17:43.The couple's close call underlines just how dangerous
:17:44. > :17:50.It's like they say, if we hadn't had the right equipment,
:17:51. > :17:54.It is a grim place up there in the winter time, especially
:17:55. > :17:58.You know, you can - if you're not prepared for it -
:17:59. > :18:00.you can seriously run into some serious situations.
:18:01. > :18:02.Willie's a very careful driver, he'll look after you.
:18:03. > :18:05.The Elmers' say they will return to the mountains,
:18:06. > :18:08.although they added not to this one, where their New Year's Day walk
:18:09. > :18:20.Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Cairngorm mountain.
:18:21. > :18:28.Britain's top EU diplomat quits, just weeks before the start
:18:29. > :18:46.Still to come. Oh, it goes in the thing that goes around in a circle.
:18:47. > :18:49.Vinyl sales on the rise, but not with all music lovers.
:18:50. > :18:54.World Number One, Sir Andy Murray, begins his warm-up for
:18:55. > :18:56.the Australian Open later this month by beating Frenchman
:18:57. > :19:08.The Government initiative on starter homes for first time buyers -
:19:09. > :19:11.first announced last year - is due to get underway this year.
:19:12. > :19:14.But the housing backlog is so big that it could take
:19:15. > :19:18.Back in 1981, almost a third of English households
:19:19. > :19:23.Today, that number has dropped to less than one in ten.
:19:24. > :19:25.Jeremy Cooke asks whether it's possible to start building
:19:26. > :19:33.New homes for housing crisis Britain, and not
:19:34. > :19:39.just any new houses, these are council houses.
:19:40. > :19:41.They're a rare sight, but this is Birmingham,
:19:42. > :19:44.where they've built more council houses in the past seven years
:19:45. > :19:47.than any other local authority - on a mission to tackle a housing
:19:48. > :19:53.waiting list that stands at 18,000 people.
:19:54. > :19:55.The Osmonds' have been in their flat for eight years,
:19:56. > :19:59.but the family has long outgrown the space available.
:20:00. > :20:02.If we want to play, we have to just like play there for 10 minutes
:20:03. > :20:07.Now, they've heard it's their time to move into one
:20:08. > :20:12.We've been trying and trying and trying to get a house.
:20:13. > :20:19.We never expected to get a new house.
:20:20. > :20:22.Cambridge is one of a handful of local authorities who've just
:20:23. > :20:27.qualified for Government money to start building council houses,
:20:28. > :20:30.but there are warnings that it will take 20 years to fix a problem
:20:31. > :20:36.that's already been around for decades.
:20:37. > :20:38.The fundamental problem is that Government stops us
:20:39. > :20:43.The total value of all of our housing is ?1.5 billion,
:20:44. > :20:45.if they just gave us the freedom to borrow against that,
:20:46. > :20:51.we could build 10,000 homes over the next 20-30 years.
:20:52. > :20:53.The Government insists that the number of council houses
:20:54. > :20:58.being built today is at its highest rate since 1996 and that there
:20:59. > :21:04.are billions of pounds available to fund them.
:21:05. > :21:07.But the numbers are creeping back from an all-time low in 2004,
:21:08. > :21:10.when the UK built just 130 council homes.
:21:11. > :21:13.Hard to believe that in 1953, that number was a high of 245,000.
:21:14. > :21:19.Homes for the baby-boomers and beyond.
:21:20. > :21:21.NEWS REEL: ARCHIVE: Even by present standards,
:21:22. > :21:32.The dinette has a serving hatch to the kitchen.
:21:33. > :21:37.Ageing tower blocks, once the future, are being torn down,
:21:38. > :21:40.clearing the way for a new approach to modern, social housing.
:21:41. > :21:48.There are people living in these already?
:21:49. > :21:50.New council houses and new houses for sale.
:21:51. > :21:52.Now, in Birmingham, it's back to the future -
:21:53. > :21:56.We're also bringing empty properties back into use
:21:57. > :21:58.in the city and we're also, where necessary, using
:21:59. > :22:03.So we're using all the tool kit, really.
:22:04. > :22:06.But when council homes are built, they do change lives.
:22:07. > :22:08.The Osmonds get a first look at their house and,
:22:09. > :22:16.But for most of the 1.4 million on England's council
:22:17. > :22:19.house waiting lists, this is still a distant dream.
:22:20. > :22:47.British Airways cabin crew are to stage a 48-hour strike next
:22:48. > :22:50.week after rejecting an offer aimed at resolving a dispute over pay.
:22:51. > :22:52.Unite, the union representing the striking crew, have described
:22:53. > :23:03.The strike will start on the 10th January.
:23:04. > :23:05.Commuters unhappy about the cost of rail travel have protested
:23:06. > :23:07.at railway stations in England and Wales.
:23:08. > :23:09.Ticket prices went up yesterday by an average of 2.3%.
:23:10. > :23:11.The protests were organised by the campaign group,
:23:12. > :23:13.Action for Rail, which wants train services returned
:23:14. > :23:16.Commuters in Scotland will return to work tomorrow
:23:17. > :23:19.Daniel Boettcher's at King's Cross station in central London.
:23:20. > :23:22.As I understand it, Daniel, they weren't huge protests, do they
:23:23. > :23:26.represent wider sentiment among passengers and commuters? Well,
:23:27. > :23:31.certainly, many people that we spoke to here today were not happy that
:23:32. > :23:38.they will be paying more. This was their first day back at work since
:23:39. > :23:41.these increases came into force. 1.9% for regulated fares. That
:23:42. > :23:46.includes most commuter season tickets and overall an average
:23:47. > :23:50.increase of 2.3%. That doesn't apply to Northern Ireland. Action for Rail
:23:51. > :23:58.which organised the provide test here, and at other stations, say UK
:23:59. > :24:03.commuters spend more of their salary on rail fares than other European
:24:04. > :24:07.countries, including Germany, French and Italy and sometimes six times as
:24:08. > :24:13.much. The Government says more money is needed for investment. It says
:24:14. > :24:18.it's delivering the biggest rail modernisation for more than a
:24:19. > :24:22.century. 97p of every ?1 goes into providing and improving the rail
:24:23. > :24:30.service. OK. Daniel, thank you very much.
:24:31. > :24:32.Sales of vinyl records are at their highest for 25 years,
:24:33. > :24:34.boosted by a new generation of record collectors
:24:35. > :24:37.who buy the albums, but may not even play them.
:24:38. > :24:39.Most people these days listen to music via streaming
:24:40. > :24:42.But increasingly they're also buying records in their physical format,
:24:43. > :24:54.MUSIC: Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin
:24:55. > :25:02.For Phil Barton of Sister Ray Records, there is no debate -
:25:03. > :25:05.music just sounds better when it comes on a 12-inch disc.
:25:06. > :25:11.However, things have begun to change.
:25:12. > :25:14.Listen, ten years ago, I'd have given you the keys to the shop
:25:15. > :25:17.and said, "Look, I can't make any money out of this."
:25:18. > :25:20.I didn't realise this stuff was still going to be hanging around.
:25:21. > :25:27.David Bowie was the biggest seller last year.
:25:28. > :25:29.Prince was also in the top ten, along with Amy
:25:30. > :25:32.Winehouse, Fleetwood Mac and and the Beatles.
:25:33. > :25:35.Over the last ten years, sales have grown by 1,500%.
:25:36. > :25:37.However, a recent survey found that nearly
:25:38. > :25:49.Of course, it's worth putting this into some sort of context
:25:50. > :25:51.because just imagine that each of these records
:25:52. > :25:54.The BPI says if you add in streaming, digital downloads, CDs,
:25:55. > :25:58.about 123 million albums were sold last year.
:25:59. > :26:07.The number of vinyl albums sold last year - 3 million.
:26:08. > :26:09.But both were dwarfed by the real music
:26:10. > :26:17.Stream is a totally different beast, really, 45
:26:18. > :26:20.It is at the other end of the spectrum.
:26:21. > :26:22.It's not really recorded music in the physical
:26:23. > :26:38.A lot of people at uni buy them. Do they? For some it was an entirely
:26:39. > :26:47.new experience. What is that? It's massive. Look at it. What is that 12
:26:48. > :26:51.inches. It's like a pizza. Oh, it goes in the thing that goes round.
:26:52. > :26:53.The circle. You really have never touched or handled this ever before?
:26:54. > :27:04.No, never. It's a first. Even Drake, the world's most
:27:05. > :27:09.streamed artist, has issued his back catalogue on vinyl after discovering
:27:10. > :27:15.they were being bootlegged but most fans of Justin Bieber and other
:27:16. > :27:17.kings of streaming this way of listening is ancient history. David
:27:18. > :27:31.Sillito, BBC News. Beautiful blue sky and sunshine for
:27:32. > :27:35.Cornwall. Plenty of cloud gradually drifting down from the north
:27:36. > :27:40.throughout the afternoon. That cloud is thick enough for the odd spot of
:27:41. > :27:44.showery rain in Scotland. We will see gales or severe gales to the
:27:45. > :27:48.northern isles and a cluster of showers. The weather front will sink
:27:49. > :27:53.south. Preventing temperatures falling too low. Maybe light frost
:27:54. > :27:57.to the south-west for a start and a colder start to the north. We start
:27:58. > :28:00.off with that weather front sitting through Northern Ireland, through
:28:01. > :28:04.North Wales across the Midlands into's Anglesey Leah. Not as cold a
:28:05. > :28:11.morning, svrps seven or eight degrees. The cloud thick enough for
:28:12. > :28:14.light rain. An improving picture for northern England and Scotland,
:28:15. > :28:17.beautiful start to the day. Windy and a risk of scattering of showers
:28:18. > :28:22.to the north and east stretching down through the coast. A glorious
:28:23. > :28:25.day. Once that weather front sinks south we could see late afternoon
:28:26. > :28:30.sunshine into North Wales and the Midlands. Not a bad day in prospect
:28:31. > :28:34.for many of us. Not too cold, four to eight or nine degrees. However,
:28:35. > :28:38.the temperatures are really going to drop off like a stone. It will be
:28:39. > :28:44.another bitterly cold night to come Wednesday into Thursday morning.
:28:45. > :28:48.Towns and city centres may see temperatures dropping below freezing
:28:49. > :28:52.inch rural spots minus five, minus six degrees. That will lead to a
:28:53. > :28:55.frost, but it will lead to a glorious day in prospect on
:28:56. > :29:02.Thursday. Plenty of sunshine coming through. A bit more of a breeze and
:29:03. > :29:04.cloud out to the west, an indication of what's to come for Friday. Enjoy
:29:05. > :29:08.it. Thank you.