:00:00. > :00:00.More misery for hundreds of thousands of commuters as a deal
:00:07. > :00:08.to resolve one of the country's longest running rail
:00:09. > :00:13.Southern Rail passengers face the prospect of more
:00:14. > :00:15.strikes as train drivers go against their union refusing
:00:16. > :00:22.My husband pays almost ?4,000 a year for his season ticket and he doesn't
:00:23. > :00:25.know when he turns up at the railway station in the morning, whether he's
:00:26. > :00:30.I feel it's the job of both the unions and the management
:00:31. > :00:34.Surely that's what they're there for.
:00:35. > :00:37.We'll be asking when the next strikes are likely to take place.
:00:38. > :00:40.We report on the plight of hundreds of thousands of children in the UK
:00:41. > :00:43.who are forced to care for sick and disabled relatives
:00:44. > :00:49.Fears for the future of thousands of jobs at Vauxall's UK plants.
:00:50. > :00:52.Crisis talks are held with the government and unions.
:00:53. > :00:54.More than 150 thousand million million miles away,
:00:55. > :00:57.scientists build a telescope to see the black hole thought to be
:00:58. > :01:04.The new wren is welcomed by a Petty Officer and ushered
:01:05. > :01:06.into the presence of the Chief Officer.
:01:07. > :01:10.And the women's Royal Naval Service founded a century ago,
:01:11. > :01:15.that marked a huge change in women's roles in the armed forces.
:01:16. > :01:18.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Arsene Wenger's future will be
:01:19. > :01:21.decided at the end of the season, after his Arsenal side
:01:22. > :01:44.were humiliated in the Champions League by Bayern Munich.
:01:45. > :01:48.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:49. > :01:50.Hopes for an end to the rail misery that's affected hundreds
:01:51. > :01:52.of thousands of commuters in southern England
:01:53. > :01:58.Train drivers ignored their own union and voted against a proposed
:01:59. > :02:01.deal to end the long-running dispute with Southern Rail.
:02:02. > :02:04.It's one of the country's busiest commuter networks.
:02:05. > :02:06.Unions have been at loggerheads with the company for more
:02:07. > :02:08.than a year over staffing and safety issues.
:02:09. > :02:18.For nearly a year, around 300,000 commuters have
:02:19. > :02:21.endured overcrowded trains, delays and strikes.
:02:22. > :02:23.It's been one of the most intractable rail
:02:24. > :02:31.After two weeks of talks hosted by the TUC it was thought
:02:32. > :02:37.We are pleased to announce that Aslef and GTR Southern have
:02:38. > :02:48.For Southern travellers at Brighton that means huge disappointment.
:02:49. > :02:53.And I pay a lot of money for the train monthly as well,
:02:54. > :02:56.That's terrible. What can you do?
:02:57. > :02:58.It's a lot of money on Uber, isn't it?
:02:59. > :03:01.Disappointed, to be fair, because I pay a lot of money
:03:02. > :03:03.to travel to Brighton every day and I think the service
:03:04. > :03:13.Around 900 Aslef drivers who work for Southern voted in the ballot.
:03:14. > :03:18.There was a turnout of over 72%, nearly 46% voted in favour
:03:19. > :03:22.of the deal, but over 54% voted against.
:03:23. > :03:25.This is an embarrassment for Aslef, the deal negotiated
:03:26. > :03:27.by their leadership has been overturned by their rank
:03:28. > :03:32.Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef says,
:03:33. > :03:45."We understand and support the decision arrived at them
:03:46. > :03:50.The dispute is over how many members of staff should be on every train.
:03:51. > :03:52.Could there be driver only trains or must there
:03:53. > :03:54.always be a second person, a conductor, on-board?
:03:55. > :03:57.Aslef said they had got a deal where there would always be two
:03:58. > :03:59.staff members on a train, with some exceptions.
:04:00. > :04:03.The reality was there was a whole host of exceptions that meant up
:04:04. > :04:06.to 1800 trains a day would be able to run without the
:04:07. > :04:10.Southern's parent company Govia said in a statement:
:04:11. > :04:13."Naturally we are saddened and hugely disappointed, as will be our
:04:14. > :04:17.passengers with today's decision by drivers,
:04:18. > :04:19.particularly as the agreement carried the full support
:04:20. > :04:30.and recommendation of the Aslef leadership."
:04:31. > :04:34.The RMT has already scheduled another 24-hour
:04:35. > :04:36.strike on the Southern network for next Wednesday,
:04:37. > :04:38.and the same dispute about driver operated only trains is spreading
:04:39. > :04:46.Ballots are being sent out today to staff on Arriva Trains North,
:04:47. > :04:51.there's also the prospect of industrial action on Merseyrail.
:04:52. > :04:57.The big question for these passengers travelling home tonight
:04:58. > :05:00.is, what happens next? In the short term, the Aslef leadership would
:05:01. > :05:03.have to get back around the negotiating table to get a better
:05:04. > :05:07.deal if they can to their members. In the long term, there is the
:05:08. > :05:11.possibility, only the possibility at the moment, of more strike action,
:05:12. > :05:15.although no dates have been announced. Remember, this is the
:05:16. > :05:17.train drivers we are talking about here. When they go on strike, the
:05:18. > :05:20.network is virtually shut down. More than half a million children
:05:21. > :05:23.and teenagers in the UK are carers who look after their ill
:05:24. > :05:25.or disabled relatives. Some spend more than 12 hours
:05:26. > :05:28.a week looking after them. But budget cuts at local councils
:05:29. > :05:34.are making it increasingly difficult for these young people to get
:05:35. > :05:37.the support that they need - that's according to the Local
:05:38. > :05:39.Government Association They say it's crucial for councils
:05:40. > :05:42.to have better relationships with schools and hospitals
:05:43. > :05:45.to try to make sure more youngsters Our Midlands Correspondent
:05:46. > :05:49.Sima Kotecha reports. In Dudley, 17-year-old Alex
:05:50. > :05:56.looks after his mum, I suppose you could say it's
:05:57. > :06:02.a big responsibility, but it doesn't really feel like it,
:06:03. > :06:05.because, obviously It's just the normal thing to go,
:06:06. > :06:17.have you had your tablet today? How many tablets does
:06:18. > :06:19.your mum take everyday? It's just trying to
:06:20. > :06:24.sort out which ones. He's her primary carer
:06:25. > :06:27.and is one of 700,000 young It is frustrating at times
:06:28. > :06:36.because you do just want to throw the towel in sometimes and just
:06:37. > :06:38.go, I've had enough. But then you see at the end
:06:39. > :06:44.of the day, you just see how happy you make the person or the people
:06:45. > :06:47.that you care for, and it really Some of these young people do get
:06:48. > :06:51.support from the local authorities, but the organisation
:06:52. > :06:55.which represents local councils in England and Wales says,
:06:56. > :06:58.tight budgets means they are having to make tough choices about who gets
:06:59. > :07:04.help and who doesn't. There might be some people
:07:05. > :07:07.watching this thinking, is it fair to have a Child helping
:07:08. > :07:10.you and being there for you, when actually the adult should be
:07:11. > :07:14.there for the child. I agree with that,
:07:15. > :07:19.to be quite honest. I wish that I hadn't got to rely
:07:20. > :07:26.on Alex, sort of thing. So I've got to rely on him,
:07:27. > :07:32.sort of thing, to help me. It's not as though I'm somebody
:07:33. > :07:46.that he doesn't know. Not too far away in Wolverhampton,
:07:47. > :07:51.ten-year-old Ethan takes care With his mum, he's one
:07:52. > :07:57.of his primary carers. Sometimes he does things
:07:58. > :08:03.that makes us angry. But then he does lots of things that
:08:04. > :08:07.make us happy as well. Noah has complex learning
:08:08. > :08:08.difficulties which means He needs to be
:08:09. > :08:16.supervised at all times. The government says later this year
:08:17. > :08:22.it will publish a strategy that will outline what more it will do
:08:23. > :08:25.to help vulnerable young carers. There's an argument that
:08:26. > :08:37.being young and responsible for someone's well-being is a duty
:08:38. > :08:39.that's just too much. But in many of these cases,
:08:40. > :08:42.there is little choice. Sometimes he doesn't
:08:43. > :08:43.listen to anyone else. But if I tell him to do it,
:08:44. > :08:46.he will listen to me. And when I tell people about it,
:08:47. > :08:54.it just makes me feel proud. Sima Kotecha, BBC News
:08:55. > :08:59.in the West Midlands. The president of General Motors -
:09:00. > :09:02.which owns Vauxhall in the UK - has flown to London to hold crisis
:09:03. > :09:04.talks with the government and unions, amid fears
:09:05. > :09:07.that thousands of jobs A rival French company is in talks
:09:08. > :09:14.with General Motors about taking over its European business,
:09:15. > :09:17.but there's concern about what that would mean for Vauxhall's plants
:09:18. > :09:20.in Luton and Ellesmore Port. Our Business Editor Simon Jack
:09:21. > :09:22.is in Westminster. Those plants employ
:09:23. > :09:36.more than 4000 people. I think quite worried, because I can
:09:37. > :09:40.tell you the government is taking this threat of deadly seriously.
:09:41. > :09:44.After meeting the president of General Motors here today at the
:09:45. > :09:47.Department of business behind me, this Secretary Greg Clark got an EU
:09:48. > :09:52.row start train to Paris and is meeting with his opposite number in
:09:53. > :09:58.Paris, as we speak, the industrial minister. He will then meet the
:09:59. > :10:04.board of PSA, deep company that owns citron and Peugeot. This may come
:10:05. > :10:09.down to a 3-way fight between the French, German and British
:10:10. > :10:13.governments. In that fight, the French government owns 14% of
:10:14. > :10:16.Peugeot. The Peugeot family on another 14%, so there will be a
:10:17. > :10:22.distinguished French feel to this company. You have to feel that
:10:23. > :10:26.sacked in German auto engineers is considered three times more
:10:27. > :10:31.expensive. With 24 combined plants across continental Europe, with two
:10:32. > :10:34.in the UK, it's clear Greg Clark the Business Secretary will have to turn
:10:35. > :10:41.on the charm he did with Nissan to persuade them to stay in the UK. But
:10:42. > :10:42.that three could fight he has, it's a bit of a mountain to climb.
:10:43. > :10:44.A suicide bomber has attacked a crowded Sufi shrine
:10:45. > :10:46.in southern Pakistan, killing at least 50 people
:10:47. > :10:50.So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.
:10:51. > :10:52.It is the largest in a string of bombings by militants
:10:53. > :11:02.The Islamic State group has also claimed responsibility for a huge
:11:03. > :11:03.car bomb in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
:11:04. > :11:06.45 people died and at least 50 were injured in the blast
:11:07. > :11:09.which targeted a used car market in the southern district of Bayaa.
:11:10. > :11:11.It's the third car bomb attack in as many days,
:11:12. > :11:19.The new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has held his first
:11:20. > :11:22.face to face meeting with his Russian counterpart.
:11:23. > :11:25.It comes in the wake of turmoil in the White House over alleged
:11:26. > :11:27.links between the Trump administration and the
:11:28. > :11:33.Rex Tillerson also held talks with the foreign secretary,
:11:34. > :11:36.Boris Johnson, as part of a G20 summit in Germany.
:11:37. > :11:37.From Bonn our diplomatic correspondent, James
:11:38. > :11:46.Rex Tillerson's first day overseas as Donald Trump's top diplomat,
:11:47. > :11:49.and it's been the toughest of starts with Washington in turmoil over
:11:50. > :11:51.links to Russia and much of the outside world worrying
:11:52. > :11:57.where America's foreign policy could be heading.
:11:58. > :11:59.Top priority for the new Secretary of State - reassurance.
:12:00. > :12:02.Russia, he said, won't dictate to Washington.
:12:03. > :12:06.Where we do not see eye to eye, the United States will stand up
:12:07. > :12:11.for the interest and values of America and her allies.
:12:12. > :12:15.And this was the crucial first meeting, America's novice diplomat,
:12:16. > :12:19.although experienced in commercial dealings with President Putin,
:12:20. > :12:22.face-to-face with Russia's veteran Foreign Minister,
:12:23. > :12:27.Sergei Lavrov, eager to deny any Moscow wrong-doing.
:12:28. > :12:29.You should know that we do not interfere in domestic
:12:30. > :12:33.But if that was meant to close the issue of alleged
:12:34. > :12:36.Russian interference in the United States, it didn't.
:12:37. > :12:38.At Nato headquarters, America's Defence Secretary seemed
:12:39. > :12:43.REPORTER: Do you believe that the Russians interfered
:12:44. > :12:50.Right now, I would just say there's very little doubt that they've
:12:51. > :12:54.either interfered or they've attempted to interfere in a number
:12:55. > :13:00.So, could Boris Johnson somehow help America out?
:13:01. > :13:04.The Foreign Secretary came closest to making his new friend,
:13:05. > :13:09.Rex Tillerson, laugh at their first meeting.
:13:10. > :13:12.Afterwards, the Foreign Secretary told me they'd had a terrific
:13:13. > :13:14.conversation, he had no worries at all about the United
:13:15. > :13:17.We don't want to get into a new Cold War,
:13:18. > :13:23.that's something that London and Washington are
:13:24. > :13:27.I think that goes for all our European allies as well.
:13:28. > :13:29.But nor do we want to allow Russian behaviour to continue
:13:30. > :13:35.as it is and Rex Tillerson's been very clear about that.
:13:36. > :13:38.There are plenty of countries represented at this meeting
:13:39. > :13:43.They remain deeply anxious about the Trump administration,
:13:44. > :13:46.its policy towards Russia and the Middle East,
:13:47. > :13:49.over climate change, and the host of this global
:13:50. > :13:53.gathering, Germany, well, its leader, Chancellor Merkel,
:13:54. > :13:55.is blunt - no one country, she says, can solve the world's
:13:56. > :14:07.A 15 year old girl has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 7 year
:14:08. > :14:10.Katie Rough was found with severe injuries
:14:11. > :14:15.on a playing field, and died later in hospital.
:14:16. > :14:16.The teenager accused of killing her appeared
:14:17. > :14:18.at Leeds Crown Court this
:14:19. > :14:19.morning via videolink - charged with murder,
:14:20. > :14:24.This month we've been focussing on the pressures
:14:25. > :14:26.on the health service - particularly the crisis
:14:27. > :14:30.in social care brought about by the Uk's ageing population.
:14:31. > :14:33.Many say the key to solving it is greater cooperation
:14:34. > :14:36.between health and social care services - an approach that has been
:14:37. > :14:39.in place in Northern Ireland for many years with care provided
:14:40. > :14:41.for some patients at home rather than in hospital.
:14:42. > :14:46.Here's our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler.
:14:47. > :14:54.Hour after hour, people arrive at hospitals looking for treatment.
:14:55. > :14:59.And to ease that constant pressure, staff need to find ways
:15:00. > :15:01.of keeping some patients away from this building.
:15:02. > :15:06.In his living room, Thomas Wright is seeing a doctor.
:15:07. > :15:09.In his kitchen a nurse is preparing his antibiotics.
:15:10. > :15:12.Yet in the past, and even now, many 97-year-olds would be
:15:13. > :15:14.on their way to hospital for this kind of care.
:15:15. > :15:17.We actually got the call from the paramedic when he was in
:15:18. > :15:19.the back of the ambulance on his way to hospital.
:15:20. > :15:23.They rang us first and we said, look, why don't we see him at home?
:15:24. > :15:26.So we came straight out and saw him here with his son.
:15:27. > :15:28.He was delighted not to have to make that journey.
:15:29. > :15:32.In Northern Ireland, like elsewhere around the UK,
:15:33. > :15:34.operations are regularly having to be cancelled because beds
:15:35. > :15:42.Now we have all year round pressures.
:15:43. > :15:46.And we have such a stretch on beds that we are often unable
:15:47. > :15:50.Waiting lists in Northern Ireland are already among the longest
:15:51. > :15:52.in the UK, and in recent months politicians have warned the health
:15:53. > :15:56.At the end of last year they published this,
:15:57. > :15:59.a 10-year plan to try to change the way services are delivered.
:16:00. > :16:02.And with this report came a stark warning -
:16:03. > :16:05.currently, of the total amount of money that Stormont
:16:06. > :16:06.has for public spending in Northern Ireland,
:16:07. > :16:10.health and social care takes up around half.
:16:11. > :16:11.Ministers say unless there is significant change,
:16:12. > :16:19.that figure will rise to 90% of the total budget within a decade.
:16:20. > :16:25.It's already showing signs of struggle, financially
:16:26. > :16:28.showing signs of struggle, showing signs of struggle
:16:29. > :16:30.in terms of waiting times, and those will both exacerbate
:16:31. > :16:36.Unlike other parts of the UK, for decades here there's been one
:16:37. > :16:38.budget for both health and social care.
:16:39. > :16:43.It can make it easier to offer joined up services.
:16:44. > :16:47.Mervyn has been waiting years for a kidney transplant
:16:48. > :16:49.but with support he's able to look after his own dialysis
:16:50. > :16:55.It's different to the treatment he would get 20 miles away
:16:56. > :16:57.at hospital in Newry, but there are advantages
:16:58. > :17:03.It's probably at least a third, maybe in some
:17:04. > :17:12.cases half as expensive to deliver home dialysis.
:17:13. > :17:17.And money is a concern for the busy health service in Northern Ireland.
:17:18. > :17:19.Where the collapse of the power-sharing government has
:17:20. > :17:20.created uncertainty, not just for politics
:17:21. > :17:30.More misery for Southern Rail passengers as drivers go
:17:31. > :17:37.against their union and refuse to accept a deal to end the dispute
:17:38. > :17:45.Still to come, we'll be live here in Portsmouth Naval dockyard to mark
:17:46. > :17:49.100 years of the Wrens. Swapping the Premier League
:17:50. > :17:52.for the Middle East. After taking charge of three
:17:53. > :17:54.major finals in 2016, referee Mark Clattenburg quits
:17:55. > :17:57.English football to take up It's more than 150,000 million
:17:58. > :18:08.million miles away from earth - now an international team
:18:09. > :18:10.of scientist is determined to try to photograph
:18:11. > :18:12.the supermassive black hole that they believe is at
:18:13. > :18:17.the centre of our galaxy. So they've built what's effectively
:18:18. > :18:21.the world's biggest telescope. Our Science Correspondent,
:18:22. > :18:22.Pallab Ghosh has had exclusive access to this ambitious project
:18:23. > :18:29.underway in America. A swirl of stars and planets
:18:30. > :18:36.including our own Earth. At its centre it has
:18:37. > :18:38.a heart of darkness, It's an object with immense gravity
:18:39. > :18:47.that pulls in everything around it. It's so strong that it
:18:48. > :18:52.even sucks in light. In a few weeks' time,
:18:53. > :18:54.researchers here will try So, there's a tonne of excitement
:18:55. > :19:01.around getting this picture. We are all really looking forward
:19:02. > :19:04.to getting the data in April And not only because it's
:19:05. > :19:10.going to be super cool to take the first picture of a black hole,
:19:11. > :19:13.and see it looks like, the immediate environment
:19:14. > :19:14.around a black hole, So how are scientists down
:19:15. > :19:19.here on earth going to see the black No single telescope is powerful
:19:20. > :19:25.enough, so 12 of them, all around the world,
:19:26. > :19:27.will be linked together, and the images they collect will be
:19:28. > :19:31.fed into a computer in Boston. Now, our galaxy is a vast
:19:32. > :19:33.spiral with the earth here on one of the arms,
:19:34. > :19:38.and the black hole is right at the centre,
:19:39. > :19:43.153,000 million million miles away. It's four and a half million times
:19:44. > :19:47.the mass of our sun. No one has ever seen it
:19:48. > :19:51.but scientists think it looks And very soon they'll find
:19:52. > :19:59.out if they're right. It's a mind-boggling amount of data
:20:00. > :20:03.stored on dozens of hard drives flown in from telescopes
:20:04. > :20:06.all across the world. It will take the team here months
:20:07. > :20:10.to go through all the information. The project is the brainchild
:20:11. > :20:15.of Professor Shep Doeleman, who has waited 20 years
:20:16. > :20:17.for this moment. Black holes have been
:20:18. > :20:20.mysteries forever. It's been almost a holy grail
:20:21. > :20:25.for astronomers to be able to image and probe the area right around
:20:26. > :20:27.the point of no return, What we're going to learn is how
:20:28. > :20:33.black holes feed and swallow some The scientists here may
:20:34. > :20:37.have their first image by Christmas. And it'll help them discover how
:20:38. > :20:40.galaxies are created and what the centre of our own
:20:41. > :20:42.Milky Way is really like. While we've been on on air,
:20:43. > :20:56.Donald Trump has been giving his first solo
:20:57. > :20:58.press conference since He's used it to launch another
:20:59. > :21:11.attack on the media, The press has become so dishonest
:21:12. > :21:15.that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to
:21:16. > :21:22.the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk about it
:21:23. > :21:28.to find out what is going on because the press, honestly, the level of
:21:29. > :21:30.dishonesty is out of control. Our Washington correspondent was
:21:31. > :21:35.listening, more sharp words for the media, what else did he have to say?
:21:36. > :21:39.Extraordinary moment. We got about one hour notice this was going to
:21:40. > :21:43.happen, it came pretty much out of the blue. He's not given to doing
:21:44. > :21:48.press conferences, he's controlled them very, closely. We had a sort of
:21:49. > :21:52.meandering account of his first almost four weeks in government,
:21:53. > :21:56.almost a mixture of what he did in the campaign and some of the things
:21:57. > :22:00.he's done since. He said he'd done more than any other president had
:22:01. > :22:04.done in the amount of time. He rejected claims that the White House
:22:05. > :22:09.was in chaos. He said it was a fine tuned machine that was running in
:22:10. > :22:13.the White House at the moment. He introduced the new Labour secretary
:22:14. > :22:17.nominee, one of those pulled out last night, and that is in a week
:22:18. > :22:25.where he lost his National Security Agency. He also told us that the
:22:26. > :22:27.controversial executive order that banned people from those seven
:22:28. > :22:32.predominantly Muslim countries from coming into America for 90 days has
:22:33. > :22:37.been caught up in the courts, has been put on hold by the courts. He's
:22:38. > :22:41.promised to redraft that and issue a new one of those next week, as he
:22:42. > :22:45.puts it, to protect the American people. He promised that would
:22:46. > :22:50.happen this week. It's going to happen next week now. He's just
:22:51. > :22:54.about to start to take questions from reporters. We'll see whether he
:22:55. > :23:00.takes any from unfriendly organisations or those who are less
:23:01. > :23:03.friendly towards him. The first question he answered, he said that
:23:04. > :23:07.Michael Flynn had effectively lost his job because of the actions of
:23:08. > :23:09.the media. Gary O'Donoghue with the latest from the White House, thank
:23:10. > :23:13.you. In Wales more patients are having
:23:14. > :23:16.to wait over 12 hours at accident and emergency units -
:23:17. > :23:18.than a year ago. In January 4,000 patients
:23:19. > :23:20.were left waiting compared The proportion of patients waiting
:23:21. > :23:23.less than four hours held steady, according
:23:24. > :23:36.to the latest monthly figures. Plans by former footballers Ryan
:23:37. > :23:42.Giggs and Gary Neville to redevelop areas of Manchester would erase the
:23:43. > :23:46.history of the area. Historic England said the area which includes
:23:47. > :23:51.two skyscrapers and a five story hotel threatens the area history.
:23:52. > :23:52.The former Manchester United players claim the development would
:23:53. > :23:54.transform the area. They're famously known as the Wrens
:23:55. > :23:57.- the women's royal naval service - which was founded 100 years ago
:23:58. > :23:59.during World War One. It was the start of a huge change
:24:00. > :24:03.in the role women played Wrens initially served as cooks,
:24:04. > :24:06.stewards and dispatch riders but they went on to play other
:24:07. > :24:09.key roles in the Navy, during the Second
:24:10. > :24:11.World War, and beyond. Our Correspondent Duncan Kennedy
:24:12. > :24:25.is in Portsmouth, where events You know the story of the Wrens has
:24:26. > :24:29.never really been told in a full major exhibition like this,
:24:30. > :24:33.especially their lives and achievements. Royal Navy was of
:24:34. > :24:37.course the first of the three services to officially recognise
:24:38. > :24:39.women like this. And now 100 years after the formation of the Wrens,
:24:40. > :24:43.their story has been told in full. At 90 years old, Win Price still has
:24:44. > :24:46.an affection for the sea. And the Wrens who hold sway
:24:47. > :24:48.over her maritime memories that first began when she joined
:24:49. > :24:52.as a 17-year-old in 1944. They had cooks and
:24:53. > :25:05.stewards they wanted. Well, I couldn't cook,
:25:06. > :25:07.so I opted for a steward. Proud then, and honoured now to be
:25:08. > :25:10.celebrating 100 years of the Wrens. No, the ones before
:25:11. > :25:30.me were pioneers! The Women's Royal Naval Service
:25:31. > :25:37.was formed in 1917. By the Second World War they had
:25:38. > :25:42.become the home front force that Now a century of achievements
:25:43. > :25:51.are charted in this new exhibition. The strength of this exhibition lies
:25:52. > :25:54.in its detail and the telling This is the leave permit
:25:55. > :26:06.for a Jane Rossiter, it's dated December 1918,
:26:07. > :26:08.was obviously going But then we know that Jane
:26:09. > :26:11.subsequently left the Navy and then re-enlisted at the outbreak
:26:12. > :26:14.of the Second World War. Here we have her
:26:15. > :26:16.identity book for that. In 100 years women sailors have gone
:26:17. > :26:25.from medics to Marines, They had to prove themselves,
:26:26. > :26:31.which they did really well. After that it was for the other
:26:32. > :26:34.women to embrace that change, and they took it forward,
:26:35. > :26:37.and it's continued to go forward. Now called sailors, not
:26:38. > :26:38.wrens, women's have seen And for those like Win Price,
:26:39. > :26:49.the exhibition is a proud salute Duncan Kennedy, BBC News,
:26:50. > :27:01.Portsmouth Harbour. Not a huge amount of sunshine today
:27:02. > :27:07.but some amongst the showers in Scotland, a rainbow looking out
:27:08. > :27:11.towards Perth and sunny spells in Essex. In Northern Ireland it turned
:27:12. > :27:13.wetter and we've seen outbreaks of rain through Wales, north-west
:27:14. > :27:18.England, edging through the Midlands towards East Anglia. As the night
:27:19. > :27:24.goes on, some of that showing up in south-east England. You can pick up
:27:25. > :27:32.the dam zone here overnight. North of that becoming dry, clearing skies
:27:33. > :27:34.in Scotland, chilly overnight, top shelf frost for some, and fog
:27:35. > :27:40.patches developing in southern Scotland could be slow to clear. We
:27:41. > :27:45.still have this damp zone tomorrow morning but by the afternoon any
:27:46. > :27:48.rain left will be patchy in nature into western Scotland, and the rest
:27:49. > :27:53.of us will have a mainly dry Friday afternoon. The best of the sunshine
:27:54. > :27:57.in Scotland will be in the east and I stayed to north-east England.
:27:58. > :28:01.Increasing clouds in Northern Ireland. Lighter winds across the
:28:02. > :28:04.northern half, so although temperatures a degree or so down it
:28:05. > :28:09.will not feel different to today. Outbreaks of rain reaching West
:28:10. > :28:17.Wales and the far south-west of England. Brightening up, south-east
:28:18. > :28:20.England staying rather cloudy. A week weather front coming as we
:28:21. > :28:25.start off on Saturday, when speaking up across the northern half of the
:28:26. > :28:28.UK again. Quite wet in western Scotland at Saturday begins but it
:28:29. > :28:34.will ease as the rain edges further south. To the south of that the bulk
:28:35. > :28:37.of England and Wales staying dry. On Sunday breezy across-the-board and
:28:38. > :28:42.wet again in north-west Scotland. Some sunny spells elsewhere. Mild,
:28:43. > :28:46.potentially the start of next week very mild.