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:00:00. > :00:00.Trouble for Trump - less than a month in office

:00:07. > :00:15.The president's right hand man - Michael Flynn was the top adviser

:00:16. > :00:18.adviser on security, but he misled his boss

:00:19. > :00:24.about the extent of his discussions with Russian officials.

:00:25. > :00:25.We'll be asking where this leaves an administration.

:00:26. > :00:30.Fuel prices push inflation up to a two and a half year high -

:00:31. > :00:33.expect more rises in the cost of living.

:00:34. > :00:40.Reports that the half-brother of North Korea's dictator has been

:00:41. > :00:44.Ukip's leader admits his claim that he lost a close friend

:00:45. > :00:51.I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend,

:00:52. > :00:59.there were people I knew in football.

:01:00. > :01:03.He earns millions with his pithy clips on YouTube -

:01:04. > :01:07.but now he's accused of anti-Semitic and Nazi references.

:01:08. > :01:09.And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

:01:10. > :01:13.Will Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus play again this season?

:01:14. > :01:37.City confirm he's fractured his right foot.

:01:38. > :01:41.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:01:42. > :01:44.Donald Trump's presidency is just 24 days old and already a key member

:01:45. > :01:46.of his team has been forced to resign.

:01:47. > :01:50.Michael Flynn quit overnight after it emerged that he'd misled

:01:51. > :01:53.the administration about the extent of his conversations with Russia's

:01:54. > :02:01.But the resignation is unlikely to close down the controversy.

:02:02. > :02:06.Here's our North America editor Jon Sopel.

:02:07. > :02:14.They were oh so close, politically inseparable, but after just three

:02:15. > :02:18.weeks of national security adviser, Michael Flynn has gone in a stunning

:02:19. > :02:23.fall from grace, after day of chaos and confusion at the White House.

:02:24. > :02:30.The camera loving president suddenly becoming camera shy when asked his

:02:31. > :02:35.future. Do you have confidence in him? Today, the Republican

:02:36. > :02:38.leadership welcomed his departure. You cannot have a national security

:02:39. > :02:42.adviser misleading the president and others so I think the president was

:02:43. > :02:46.right to ask for his resignation and I believe it is the right thing to

:02:47. > :02:52.do. This all goes back to action taken over the Christmas period by

:02:53. > :02:56.the former President Barack Obama to impose sanctions over Russia over

:02:57. > :03:00.its interference in the election. On the 29th of December, Michael Flynn

:03:01. > :03:05.speaks to the Russian ambassador in a series of calls. On the 15th of

:03:06. > :03:10.January Mike Pence denies sanctions were discussed. What I can confirm

:03:11. > :03:13.having spoken to him about it, is that those conversations which

:03:14. > :03:18.happened to occur around the time that the national states -- United

:03:19. > :03:24.States took action to dispel diplomats have nothing whatsoever to

:03:25. > :03:27.do with those sanctions. But in late January the former acting Attorney

:03:28. > :03:31.General warned the White House it might have been led by General

:03:32. > :03:37.Flynn's account. No action was taken. On the 9th of February, the

:03:38. > :03:40.Washington Post revealed Flynn did discuss sanctions and then the

:03:41. > :03:45.pressure group. Today, the White House was trying to draw a line

:03:46. > :03:49.under the affair. In the end, it was misleading the vice president that

:03:50. > :03:53.made the situation and sustainable. Which the White House knew about

:03:54. > :03:57.last month and yet you went on the air and said General Flynn had the

:03:58. > :04:04.complete and full confidence of the president. And General Flynn decided

:04:05. > :04:08.he should resign last night and the president accept resignation. Please

:04:09. > :04:14.welcome to the stage General Mike Flynn! Michael Flynn was a spear

:04:15. > :04:21.carrier for Donald Trump during the election making Hillary Clinton's

:04:22. > :04:25.honesty is central part of the attacks. We do not need a president

:04:26. > :04:37.who believes that she is above the law. Lock her up, that's right. Yes,

:04:38. > :04:42.that's right, not corrupt! But now it is Michael Flynn who, on a

:04:43. > :04:46.question of trust, has been found wanting, and finds himself very much

:04:47. > :04:48.alone. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.

:04:49. > :04:57.In your report you said the White House is trying to draw a line under

:04:58. > :05:02.this whole affair, will they manage that? I doubt it, George. I think

:05:03. > :05:06.they are trying to isolate it and say it was purely a question that

:05:07. > :05:10.might Flynn had misled the vice president. But that is not quite it.

:05:11. > :05:18.What happened was the problem started when it got made public. It

:05:19. > :05:20.is not just the misleading, it is the misleading coming into the

:05:21. > :05:23.public domain. There is the whole series of questions, who knew what

:05:24. > :05:27.and where? What did the president know about the calls which took

:05:28. > :05:31.place to the Ambassador? What about the advice the acting Attorney

:05:32. > :05:35.General gave to the White House counsel? Those will fade away I

:05:36. > :05:39.suspect in time. There is a much bigger question than all of this and

:05:40. > :05:44.it all centres on what is the trump relationship with Putin's Russia. If

:05:45. > :05:45.you think of all the people Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter,

:05:46. > :06:02.freely, the one person he will not have a word said against is

:06:03. > :06:03.Vladimir Putin, and that question is a big one and is here to stay. Thank

:06:04. > :06:05.you. Higher oil prices and the fall

:06:06. > :06:08.in the value of the pound have pushed inflation to its highest

:06:09. > :06:10.level since June 2014. The rate - as measured

:06:11. > :06:13.by the Consumer Price Index - As our economics correspondent,

:06:14. > :06:16.Andy Verity reports - the cost of living is likely to rise

:06:17. > :06:19.further as companies pass Prices may be up, but it's not

:06:20. > :06:23.yet the consumer who's being squeezed hardest,

:06:24. > :06:25.it's the company that sells you the goods and, even more so,

:06:26. > :06:28.the companies that produce them. This East London brewery has

:06:29. > :06:30.boosted prices by 5%, but it's costs have risen

:06:31. > :06:32.twice as fast. We've got auto enrolment for

:06:33. > :06:35.the pensions coming in this year. We've got huge business

:06:36. > :06:41.rate increase this year. And, on top of that,

:06:42. > :06:46.we've not got a weaker pound so our raw material,

:06:47. > :06:48.imported raw material price. In the shops, prices rose by 1.8%,

:06:49. > :06:55.but further up the supply chain The price of goods leaving

:06:56. > :07:01.the factory, wholesale prices, are up by 3.5% and producers aren't

:07:02. > :07:05.yet passing on the much higher cost of raw materials,

:07:06. > :07:11.up by more than a fifth. Well, I'd remind you that

:07:12. > :07:16.the inflation figure announced this morning, 1.8%,

:07:17. > :07:17.is still below The Bank of England

:07:18. > :07:22.Monetary Policy Committee is seeking to manage inflation,

:07:23. > :07:26.to maintain itself at or around 2%. So when inflation is at this level,

:07:27. > :07:31.the economy should be working well. It's worth remembering,

:07:32. > :07:33.we've been through one of the tamest periods for inflation

:07:34. > :07:36.since the 1960s, the price of food overall is down

:07:37. > :07:39.2% on two years ago. If you take vegetables,

:07:40. > :07:43.like potatoes, down by 4%. The key question is -

:07:44. > :07:47.with petrol prices rising by 17%, when will these prices

:07:48. > :07:51.start to go up again? So far, retailers are shrugging off

:07:52. > :07:55.higher transport costs and they're still selling us goods they bought

:07:56. > :07:57.last year When that stock runs out, they'll be

:07:58. > :08:03.faced with an unpalatable choice - absorb the higher cost

:08:04. > :08:05.and watch their profits shrink or raise prices and accept the risk

:08:06. > :08:09.that customers walk away. The half-brother of the North Korean

:08:10. > :08:19.leader Kim Jong-un is reported to South Korean media

:08:20. > :08:25.sources say Kim Jong-Nam was killed at Kuala Lumpur

:08:26. > :08:27.airport yesterday morning. He's thought to have left

:08:28. > :08:30.North Korea after being passed over Here's our diplomatic

:08:31. > :08:44.correspondent, James Robbins. It is a country where public joy is

:08:45. > :08:49.the test of loyalty. This is currently the man loyalists must

:08:50. > :08:53.venerate, Kim Jong Un, latest to the Qin dynasty who have ruled North

:08:54. > :09:04.Korea since the 1950s, the world's oddest and most secretive Stalinist

:09:05. > :09:09.nature does this explain the leader's half brother Kim Jong-Nam

:09:10. > :09:16.apparently poisoned as he went to board a flight. He was attacked with

:09:17. > :09:23.spray on needles. He died on the way to hospital. It is hard to know who

:09:24. > :09:25.would have had it in for Kim Jong-Nam, other than his half

:09:26. > :09:33.brother the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. Why? Although Kim

:09:34. > :09:39.Jong-Nam had been lying low for a while, he had gone off message badly

:09:40. > :09:44.before. He had said some stuff about not believing in hereditary

:09:45. > :09:55.accession. No nation is stranger than North Korea, in the grip of the

:09:56. > :10:01.Qin dynasty for -- Kim dynasty. Kim Il Sung was leader and then his son

:10:02. > :10:13.Kim Jong Il succeeded him. Then the question was who should be next. The

:10:14. > :10:21.man believed to have been murdered was passed over and power instead

:10:22. > :10:31.went to Kim Jong Un. North Korea's pursuit also explains the pursuit of

:10:32. > :10:34.nuclear weapons. This week's test prompted public displays of joy at

:10:35. > :10:39.home and condemnation around the world.

:10:40. > :10:43.The Ukip leader Paul Nuttall has been forced to admit that he did not

:10:44. > :10:45.lose any close personal friends in the Hillsborough disaster -

:10:46. > :10:49.He was speaking on Liverpool's Radio City Talk and the admission calls

:10:50. > :10:59.into question his account of what happened that day.

:11:00. > :11:03.I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend,

:11:04. > :11:05.there were people I knew in football.

:11:06. > :11:07.I basically went through your website last night, searched

:11:08. > :11:12.It's PaulNuttallMEP.com, that's your website.

:11:13. > :11:28.It is your". That is wrong. -- your own quote.

:11:29. > :11:30.Our deputy political editor John Pienaar is in Stoke,

:11:31. > :11:33.where Mr Nuttall is standing for MP in the upcoming by-election,

:11:34. > :11:44.How damaging is this for the Ukip leader? Well, George, this

:11:45. > :11:49.by-election is important to the credibility of Labour but also Ukip

:11:50. > :11:54.and its leader. To have Paul Nuttall's account of his involvement

:11:55. > :11:56.in the Hillsborough disaster is not only emotionally loaded but

:11:57. > :12:01.politically significant. Paul Nuttall has called suggestions that

:12:02. > :12:07.he was not present at the Hillsborough disaster disgusting and

:12:08. > :12:13.cruel. Labour are keen that his credibility is damaged. Why? Because

:12:14. > :12:18.Stoke is an important test of how well or badly Labour is doing at

:12:19. > :12:22.hanging on to traditional supporters in areas which voted heavily to

:12:23. > :12:29.leave the European Union. Paul Nuttall has had a lot of flak. This

:12:30. > :12:31.is a dispute and the election that either side can afford to lose.

:12:32. > :12:33.Thank you. And here is a full list

:12:34. > :12:36.of all the candidates standing in the Stoke-on-Trent Central

:12:37. > :12:42.by-election as well as Mr Nuttall. Police are investigating the death

:12:43. > :12:45.of a 10-year-old boy at a branch He's been named locally

:12:46. > :12:47.as Kaden Reddick. Officers say he was injured

:12:48. > :12:50.after an incident involving store furniture yesterday afternoon,

:12:51. > :12:52.and died later in hospital. His death is being treated

:12:53. > :12:58.as unexplained but not suspicious. The owner of the French car firm,

:12:59. > :13:02.Peugeot, says it could buy the Vauxhall and Opel brands

:13:03. > :13:05.from America's General Motors. Here, General Motors employs 4,500

:13:06. > :13:09.people at the Vauxhall car plants As our business editor, Simon Jack,

:13:10. > :13:16.reports if the deal goes through it Vauxhall makes 60,000 vans

:13:17. > :13:20.here in Luton every year, it makes another 120,000 cars

:13:21. > :13:26.at Ellesmere Port and both factories could have a new owner

:13:27. > :13:28.if General Mortars sells its European business to the owner

:13:29. > :13:33.of Peugeot and Citreon. Any potential deal

:13:34. > :13:35.would redraw the map Across Europe, the PSA Group

:13:36. > :13:44.has 14 production sites GM Europe is known as Opel and has

:13:45. > :13:51.eight factories outside the UK with 39,000 employees and of course

:13:52. > :13:53.there's Vauxhall in Luton Now, these are only talks

:13:54. > :13:58.at the moment, but if a deal did go-ahead putting together Peugeot,

:13:59. > :14:03.Citreon, Vauxhall and Opel, it would be a game-changer,

:14:04. > :14:07.creating a giant behind only Volkswagen in

:14:08. > :14:12.European car production. And whenever you get consolidation

:14:13. > :14:15.on that scale it's bound to cause understandable concern

:14:16. > :14:18.at plants like this in Luton and all around Europe

:14:19. > :14:20.about whether job cuts could be Cutting costs I think would mean

:14:21. > :14:24.closing some plants in Europe to try If we think about that,

:14:25. > :14:28.then where does that leave the UK, in the sense that we've got flexible

:14:29. > :14:41.labour markets here. General Motors has already indicated

:14:42. > :14:43.it faces a financial I think there's going to be some

:14:44. > :14:47.vulnerability for the UK plants The French government

:14:48. > :14:53.owns 14% of PSA, as does The French government owns 14%

:14:54. > :14:56.of PSA, as does the Peugeot family. The French government

:14:57. > :15:00.own a significant chunk of Peugeot. They've already come out and say

:15:01. > :15:03.they welcome the prospect of Peugeot buying Vauxhall Opel

:15:04. > :15:05.and we want to make certain our Government is not

:15:06. > :15:07.sitting on the side lines, because you can bet your life

:15:08. > :15:10.that the French government will be The Government told the BBC

:15:11. > :15:13.tonight it was monitoring There are a lot of moving parts

:15:14. > :15:26.in this negotiation, but these manufacturers have

:15:27. > :15:28.collaborated before and together they hope to assemble

:15:29. > :15:31.a European car giant. One of President Trump's top

:15:32. > :15:35.advisers is forced to resign over claims he misled the administration

:15:36. > :15:37.about contacts with Turning the clock back -

:15:38. > :15:47.for the first time in half a century a steam train carries passengers

:15:48. > :15:57.on a scheduled mainline service. Coming up in Sportsday

:15:58. > :15:59.on BBC News... Arsenal build up to their

:16:00. > :16:01.Champions League last 16 tie against Bayern Munich,

:16:02. > :16:03.with Arsene Wenger's future There's been a huge growth in what's

:16:04. > :16:18.called the gig economy - that's when people juggle a number

:16:19. > :16:21.of jobs without guaranteed hours Now, the Government is carrying out

:16:22. > :16:25.a review into working The TUC says tax lost from those

:16:26. > :16:29.using self-employed laws in the gig Here's our economics

:16:30. > :16:35.editor, Kamal Ahmed. Meet Jonathan Esseku,

:16:36. > :16:37.Uber driver and a member of the new economy, self-employed,

:16:38. > :16:39.his own boss. In a changing world of work that has

:16:40. > :16:45.thrown up controversies over tax, over security of employment,

:16:46. > :16:48.over the very way we will work Uber's good for me because it

:16:49. > :16:57.enables me to be flexible. You know, you can work

:16:58. > :17:00.the hours you want. When you're ready to work,

:17:01. > :17:04.you work and when you're working, you know, you'll be quite reasonably

:17:05. > :17:06.rewarded for your efforts. Talking to entrepreneurs,

:17:07. > :17:12.the man the Prime Minister has asked for a plan

:17:13. > :17:17.for the new world of work. He says the amount of tax raised

:17:18. > :17:20.by the Government has fallen as some businesses use it to avoid tax

:17:21. > :17:23.and rights such as maternity Self-employment is a legitimate

:17:24. > :17:28.route for many companies, but we've got to make sure that

:17:29. > :17:32.people aren't simply trying to find a way of disguising real work

:17:33. > :17:35.as self-employment in order to avoid paying taxes or living up

:17:36. > :17:41.to employment regulations. A new study by the unions says

:17:42. > :17:44.the Government could be losing up to ?4 billion a year

:17:45. > :17:46.in lower tax payments. That is made up of ?2.1

:17:47. > :17:49.billion lost from the rise in the self-employed,

:17:50. > :17:54.who pay less tax. And then there is the ?1.9 billion

:17:55. > :17:57.lost from those on zero-hours contracts, who tend to be pushed

:17:58. > :18:02.into lower paid work. Workers are losing

:18:03. > :18:04.out on basic rights. The taxpayer is losing out

:18:05. > :18:06.on funding for the Exchequer But of course, the taxpayer is also

:18:07. > :18:16.having to fund a higher in-work benefits bill because very often

:18:17. > :18:18.the self-employment, For many people, like here

:18:19. > :18:22.in central London, the new world of work is a pretty positive

:18:23. > :18:25.development, but for others Theresa May has pledged to enhance

:18:26. > :18:29.the rights of many people When Matthew Taylor's report

:18:30. > :18:33.comes out in the summer, expect it to pledge new rights

:18:34. > :18:36.to fair and decent employment. And fairer taxation,

:18:37. > :18:44.the Treasury is on the case, looking to next month's Budget

:18:45. > :18:47.to reform the rules on how businesses are taxed

:18:48. > :18:49.in this new world of work. Felix Shellberg - otherwise

:18:50. > :19:02.knows as PewDiePie - is the highest paid

:19:03. > :19:17.star on YouTube. 15 billion times -

:19:18. > :19:20.that's right 15 billion. Now Disney has decided

:19:21. > :19:22.to end its lucrative collaboration It says some of his videos have

:19:23. > :19:26.included Nazi references Mr Shellberg denies being anti

:19:27. > :19:37.semitic and says he meant Mr Shellberg rose to fame playing

:19:38. > :19:44.games on YouTube. I have an eye on you, sir. With more than 53 million

:19:45. > :19:50.subscribers he's the world's highest pay YouTuber, reportedly earning ?12

:19:51. > :19:56.million from the site in 2016 alone. Recently, his videos have been

:19:57. > :20:00.extremely controversial. Containing Nazi references or anti-Semitic

:20:01. > :20:07.pictures. I like the editing. He asks these two boys to hold up a

:20:08. > :20:14.sign saying, "death to all Jews." Disney cut its ties with the star

:20:15. > :20:20.calling it the videos inappropriate. The challenges comes, his ability to

:20:21. > :20:25.reach a massive audience. Brands at your peril work with people like him

:20:26. > :20:29.because he is provocative he can be a dangerous proposition for any

:20:30. > :20:33.brand, particularly Disney. The 27-year-old responded by saying he

:20:34. > :20:38.was trying to show how crazy the modern world is, but he's in no way

:20:39. > :20:44.supporting any kind of hateful attitudes. What does that mean for

:20:45. > :20:50.him on YouTube? They told us he didn't break any of their rules.

:20:51. > :20:55.However, his up-and-coming subscription feature has been

:20:56. > :21:02.cancelled. He's been taken off the Google preferred list, which means

:21:03. > :21:11.top advertisers won't be posting on his void Yeos. You need to shout the

:21:12. > :21:13.loudest and be the most controversial so these new

:21:14. > :21:17.broadcasters write about what you are doing in a negative way. Traffic

:21:18. > :21:23.is traffic. That's how you earn your living. With more people heading

:21:24. > :21:29.online to do just that, it's yet to be seen whether successful YouTubers

:21:30. > :21:46.can remain controversial and still appeal to the advertisers?

:21:47. > :21:48.The complex needs of our ageing population present challenges

:21:49. > :21:51.In Scotland, the integration of health and social care

:21:52. > :21:53.is intended to improve older patient's experiences,

:21:54. > :21:56.many can be treated at home rather than in hospital.

:21:57. > :21:58.Since April last year, the budgets for NHS and local

:21:59. > :22:00.council services have been merged to try to improve co-ordination.

:22:01. > :22:03.Here's our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith.

:22:04. > :22:07.Elizabeth Gibson has both a psychotherapist and a social

:22:08. > :22:10.worker calling on her at home, helping her recover

:22:11. > :22:13.Without their help, she might well still be in hospital,

:22:14. > :22:16.taking up a bed that can now be used for patients with more

:22:17. > :22:20.Well, I think I got better quicker, which is great.

:22:21. > :22:21.In the hospital, they haven't enough beds.

:22:22. > :22:25.If they can do it at home - a, I think you're much better at home.

:22:26. > :22:28.You don't get bugs and infection, etc, and I think it's

:22:29. > :22:34.Placing one foot in front of the other.

:22:35. > :22:39.This is the Scottish Government's flagship NHS policy in action,

:22:40. > :22:41.the integration of health and social care.

:22:42. > :22:43.All the medical staff involved in Mrs Gibson's care meet

:22:44. > :22:48.regularly to co-ordinate their patient's needs.

:22:49. > :22:54.By providing care at home, they should be able to reduce

:22:55. > :22:59.Integrated health and social care centres, like this one,

:23:00. > :23:02.combine GP practices with social work, mental health services,

:23:03. > :23:06.physiotherapy, district nurses and health visitors.

:23:07. > :23:09.Having all of that under one roof, managers say, makes it much easier

:23:10. > :23:14.to co-ordinate a patient's different care needs.

:23:15. > :23:17.We have traditionally had hospital care, people were in-patients,

:23:18. > :23:22.they were acutely unwell and then they went out to the community,

:23:23. > :23:24.to a nursing home, and those two things were very separate.

:23:25. > :23:28.But in fact, we realised that people get much more out of our care

:23:29. > :23:31.if we can have them looked after in their own environment but,

:23:32. > :23:32.importantly, that they have the right care,

:23:33. > :23:38.Spending on the NHS in Scotland is higher

:23:39. > :23:41.than in the rest of the UK, but there are still problems

:23:42. > :23:43.and it's too soon to see any measurable, nationwide change

:23:44. > :23:50.We do know at the moment there are some great examples,

:23:51. > :23:52.but they're not being rolled out fast enough or consistently enough

:23:53. > :23:57.across Scotland given the scale of the challenge.

:23:58. > :23:58.90-year-old Neta Hastings discovered integration does

:23:59. > :24:04.After what should have been a very brief hospital stay,

:24:05. > :24:07.her daughter had to battle to get her the care she needed at

:24:08. > :24:11.I was really annoyed about it, you know.

:24:12. > :24:17.There's lot of people in there who don't have somebody

:24:18. > :24:19.battling for them and they're lying there waiting for care,

:24:20. > :24:42.Mrs Hastings' experience is exactly the kind of problem integrated care

:24:43. > :24:45.is meant to address, but her case shows it is not yet

:24:46. > :24:49.For many, it was a romantic era of travel.

:24:50. > :24:53.The sights - and sounds - of the steam train was once

:24:54. > :25:01.Well today, steam power returned for the first time in nearly half

:25:02. > :25:04.a century in a timetabled service between Cumbria and North Yorkshire.

:25:05. > :25:05.Let's go live now to our correspondent,

:25:06. > :25:19.We maybe in a fairly remote spot but a steam train will pull into this

:25:20. > :25:22.platform, pulling eight carriages with hundreds of passengers on

:25:23. > :25:25.board. Way more than you would normally expect to find on a train

:25:26. > :25:27.at this time of the week. That's because the attraction of steam has

:25:28. > :25:34.proved very strong for people today. On the Settle to Carlisle line

:25:35. > :25:37.today, the sights and sounds It's a long time since

:25:38. > :25:40.the mid-morning service from Skipton B.

:25:41. > :25:46.B. But then this was the first

:25:47. > :25:48.timetabled steam train in England Standard fares and discounts

:25:49. > :25:55.applied, you'd normally pay a hefty premium for a steam trip,

:25:56. > :25:58.but not here, not this week. I thought I'd fetch my wife

:25:59. > :26:02.for Valentine's Day. so it was cheaper

:26:03. > :26:07.than a bunch of roses. So what do you make

:26:08. > :26:09.of the Valentine's present? On the footplate, the crew

:26:10. > :26:18.were working hard, tonnes of coal were shovelled as the train went

:26:19. > :26:19.back-and-forth between And this isn't just

:26:20. > :26:24.about a trip on a steam train, for lots of people it's a ride

:26:25. > :26:27.through the Yorkshire Dales countryside as well and crossing

:26:28. > :26:32.the Ribblehead viaduct. Talking to some customers

:26:33. > :26:38.on the train that had travelled from Essex,

:26:39. > :26:40.Norfolk, you know, just for I think, you know, Valentine's Day,

:26:41. > :26:45.the Settle and Carlisle railway, on a stream train, I mean,

:26:46. > :26:49.how better does it get? So could we see more

:26:50. > :26:51.timetabled steam trains It's something we could do once

:26:52. > :26:55.a year, maybe twice a year. You know, it would fit in Cornwall

:26:56. > :26:58.in Anglia, in Scotland say. Yeah, we could take

:26:59. > :27:02.it round the country. This maybe the start of something

:27:03. > :27:05.special on Britain's railways, 49 years after mainline

:27:06. > :27:28.steam officially ended. From the mountains to the coast, a

:27:29. > :27:33.glorious day today in the west of Scotland, 14 degrees. Sticking out

:27:34. > :27:38.in the sunshine, nicely indeed. Not so sunny for all of us. Cloud in

:27:39. > :27:46.Northern Ireland through to Wales and in Holyhead. In Hollywood it was

:27:47. > :27:50.warmer than this. In Holyhead it was disappointing with rain. They will

:27:51. > :27:55.push northwards through the night. We could see showers to the far

:27:56. > :27:59.south-east and wet weather to the far south-west of England.

:28:00. > :28:02.Temperatures not that low. Maybe a touch of frost to the northern

:28:03. > :28:09.Glenns of Scotland. Frost-free but a wet start to the day, breakfast time

:28:10. > :28:14.across parts of Cornwall, pushing into Devon and thundery bursts here

:28:15. > :28:18.up into south-west Wales. Murk around and fog up over high levels,

:28:19. > :28:22.but should brighten up a little bit. Don't hold your breath. Showers into

:28:23. > :28:26.Northern Ireland, for west side of Scotland. Scotland will have

:28:27. > :28:30.sunshine to the northern Glens. It will be chilly. Through the day,

:28:31. > :28:34.hopefully it will brighten up for some of us. The best of the sunshine

:28:35. > :28:37.to the north of Scotland. This band of showery rain pushing up through

:28:38. > :28:42.the heart of England, through Wales, through Northern Ireland we will see

:28:43. > :28:46.showers into north-west England, south-west Scotland. Behind that it

:28:47. > :28:49.will brighten up to the far south-west of England and Wales.

:28:50. > :28:52.Double figures in many places. Another mild one coming up.

:28:53. > :28:56.Thursday, quiet to the southern half of the UK. Any fog should lift.

:28:57. > :29:00.Sunshine will develop. Further North, a boisterous day for Scotland

:29:01. > :29:03.and Northern Ireland, for north of England, a breeze here and blustery

:29:04. > :29:07.showers to the far north of Scotland. Pretty mild. Watch out for

:29:08. > :29:13.fog on Friday morning. It could be an issue. John, thank you.

:29:14. > :29:16.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,

:29:17. > :29:18.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.