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Tony Blair says he's determined to persuade Britons to rise up | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
and change their minds about Brexit. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The former prime minister calls for voters to rethink | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
the decision to leave the EU, saying they did not know | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
As these terms become clear it is their right | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Our mission is to persuade them to do so. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
We heard all these arguments last year. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
It really is insulting the intelligence | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
of the electorate to say that they got it wrong. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
We'll be asking whether Mr Blair is likely to have | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
The US food giant Kraft Heinz offers more than ?100 billion for Unilever, | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
The driver of the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow, | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
killing six people, admits a driving offence | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
We have a special report from Guernsey where people | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
And after more than 20 years at Arsenal, what next | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
for Arsene Wenger as he hints he could be managing | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
And coming up on BBC News: Can non-league Lincoln | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
continue their run in the FA Cup as they prepare for a fifth round | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:30. | :01:55. | |
Tony Blair says he's on a mission to persuade British voters | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
to change their minds on leaving the European Union. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
He's called on people to rise up against Brexit. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
The former Prime Minister said the government was now set | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
on leaving the EU "at any cost", which would damage the economy | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
But the speech has been ridiculed by Leave supporters, | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
with the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, accusing | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
Mr Blair of insulting the public's intelligence. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Carole Walker. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
A rallying cry from the former Prime Minister. | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Time, he said, to rise up and force a rethink on the decision | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
The people voted without knowledge of | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
As these terms become clear, it is their right to | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Our mission is to persuade them to do so. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
He said he would expose the risks of the | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
current plans for Brexit, damage to the economy and jobs, put the | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
break-up of the UK back on the table. | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
He said controlling immigration had become the | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
government's main consideration as it took the country towards not just | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
I would actually question whether the referendum really provides a | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
We will withdraw from the single market, which is around half of our | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
We will also now leave the customs union, | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
covering trade with countries like Turkey. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
This impacts everything from airline travel to financial | :03:33. | :03:33. | |
The Prime Minister has been meeting her French | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
counterpart this afternoon as she prepares to begin the formal Brexit | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
She said she will seek the greatest possible | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
access to the European single market through a new free trade agreement. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Will you take the advice of Tony Blair? | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Ministers are scathing about Mr Blair's intervention. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
We heard all these arguments last year. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
It is insulting the intelligence of the electorate | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Tony Blair believes the government's approach | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
to Brexit is being driven by ideologues passionate about the move | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
to take Britain out of the European Union | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
and that the Labour Party is failing to provide | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
But some will doubt whether he is the man to lead a | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
popular movement to overturn the Brexit vote. | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
Tony Blair did not say he wants a second referendum. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Do you really think you are the one with | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the popular appeal to get a different answer if you did get a | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
This is a free country, so I have a right to speak and you | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
If you do not want to listen to me, do not listen to me. I am clear and | :04:45. | :04:58. | |
simple on this. I know there will be a volley of abuse coming my way for | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
speaking like this, but I care about the country. He has supporters in | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the party he used to lead. Whether you love him or not he is somebody | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
we should listen to. He has huge experience of politics at the top | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
level. Theresa May is unlikely to be swayed by the warnings of one of her | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
predecessors as she embarks on complex negotiations to take us out | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
of the EU. And Carole joins me | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
now from Westminster. Tony Blair calling for the creation | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
of a new political movement. Is he likely to succeed? He wants to | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
change the terms of the debate to convince us that Brexit is not | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
inevitable. He is setting up an Institute to try to further the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
cause. He has provoked an onslaught of abuse from many of the leading | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Brexit campaigners who say that it shows that he is arrogant, out of | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
touch, it is undemocratic, teaching the British people as fools. It is | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
worth remembering he is also contradicting the present Labour | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
leader Jeremy Corbyn who says that his party will respect the vote in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the referendum last year and has instructed his MPs to support the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
move is to begin the formal Brexit negotiations. Tony Blair is somebody | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
who in his day was a remarkable campaign. He won three general | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
elections. The legacy of the Iraq war means he is a hugely divisive | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
figure and even some of those who share his concerns about Brexit may | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
be wary of his involvement. Tony Blair's intervention is not going to | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
problem for the government as it embarks on this mission but it does | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
face some really huge difficulties on the road to Brexit. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
One is famous for its brands like Marmite. | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
The other, the US food giant Kraft Heinz, has ketchup | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
But now Kraft Heinz has made a ?100 billion takeover bid for Unilever, | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
But the signs are that Kraft may well continue to push for a deal. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
If it happens it would be one of the largest mergers | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Our Business Editor Simon Jack reports. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
Unilever, a name that may not be known in every household, but every | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
household will recognise what techniques. Marmite, PG tips, Surf | :07:24. | :07:36. | |
and dozens more. Hines which makes beans, and Cadbury, wants to put | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
these brands in one basket. Unilever say that Kraft trying to get the | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
company on the cheap and have rejected the offer but in mega deals | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
like this the first offer is rarely the last and Kraft will have a plan | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
to justify a higher one. They do that by radically cutting costs with | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Unilever and pushing up Unilever's profits beyond what Unilever have | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
been prepared to offer to the market. Kraft will do that because | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
they have a different perception of what they are rated profit is done | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
here in Europe. When it comes to takeovers that does not get much | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
bigger than this. Kraft is offering ?115 billion which would put it in | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the top three mergers and acquisitions of all time. The | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
combined company would be worth over ?200 billion. It would wield | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
enormous power. One of the reasons both company's shares rose on the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
prospect that a deal may yet be done. Kraft has a track record of | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
buying well-known UK brands and not a good one. In 2009 Ed Bott Cadbury. | :08:43. | :08:51. | |
After promising to keep the factory near Bristol open it backtracked. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
That led to changes to the takeover rules requiring companies to spell | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
out their plans for jobs and premises in more detail but many | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
feel they do not go far enough. At the moment the legal powers do not | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
allow the government to block takeovers of this kind but there is | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
a wider competition this year which the competition authorities should | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
investigate. Sky was snapped up. Great businesses on special, say | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
others. Unilever says it is not just about price. These two companies | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
just do not go well together. Shareholders will have the last | :09:35. | :09:34. | |
word. The driver of a bin lorry that | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
crashed in Glasgow in 2014, killing six people, has admitted | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
to a motoring offence that occurred Harry Clarke, seen here | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
on the right, pleaded guilty to culpable and reckless driving | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
in September 2015. His licence had already been | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
revoked after the crash Our correspondent Steven Godden | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
is at Glasgow Sheriff Court. It was the mag days before Christmas | :09:55. | :10:10. | |
in 2014 Harry Clark was driving a bin lorry through the centre of | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Glasgow when he lost consciousness and the chaos that followed his | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
out-of-control vehicle, knocking over pedestrians, and six people | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
were killed. In the vehicle accident on Friday it was determined that | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
tragedy could been prevented if Harry Clarke had not lied about his | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
history of blackouts. He has never been prosecuted for what happened | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
that day but he had his licence revoked. That is crucial to today. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Nine months after the bin lorry crash, neighbours saw Harry Clarke | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
in the car park outside his house. He drove the car out onto the street | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
and return two hours later. Prosecutors said he was a danger to | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the public, he should have known he was unfit to drive. They accepted | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
his guilty plea to a charge of reckless and dangerous driving. He | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
left without making any comment but he will be back here at the end of | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
next month for sentencing when he could be jailed. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Retail sales fell unexpectedly in the UK last month, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
They'd been expected to rise by 0.9%. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Instead, sales in January dropped by 0.3% compared | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
The pound fell against the dollar and the euro | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Analysts have blamed food and fuel price hikes for the squeeze | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Business rates, they're the commercial version of council tax. | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
And in April they're set to change for the first time in seven years | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
to reflect the shift in property values in many areas. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
But some of the revaluations are so dramatic that many | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
businesses, big and small, are worried about the impact. | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
Some even fear they could be put out of business. | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
But the government maintains that more will end up benefiting | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
It is a tale of two high streets. On the left there is Bolton where many | :11:54. | :12:05. | |
business rates are going down. On the right, London's Brick Lane, now | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
the home of hipsters where rates are going up. The owner of this | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
chocolate shop currently pays ?29,000 in rates. She does not know | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
her new bell but that's expert has worked it out. It is not good. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Unfortunately your bill over the next five years will increase up to | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
?47,000 per year. Effectively a 62% increase over five years. I am | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
speechless. If we can afford it it will be by the skin of our teeth. | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
It is all change on business rates, from shops and pubs | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
It affects 1.85 million properties in | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
It is set to rake in ?23.5 billion for the Treasury this year. | :12:54. | :13:06. | |
The government says 920,000 businesses will see their bills go | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
420,000 will stay the same, but to make the sums add up, it | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
More than half a million of them whose bills are going up. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
The level of increases is just enormous. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
And it is very difficult to see any business, particularly | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
when business rates are often the third largest | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
outgoing, to sustain that level of increase. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
It is very difficult to see those businesses | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
This is the biggest shake-up to business | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
Streets like this one will have to share a far | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
bigger burden than they used to because property values have gone | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
But in other parts of the country, the changes will bring | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Back to Bolton and a family run bakery who reckon | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Our rateable value on this premises has gone down. We are a net gain in | :13:54. | :14:06. | |
this shop by about ?4000 a year. We quite like it. Under devolution | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
there are changes in Scotland and Wales as well. Edinburgh Castle will | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
see its rates rocket. Northern Ireland will not get an overhaul for | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
another few years. In England the government says the changes will be | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
phased in and more will benefit than lose out but for those who do life | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
may be far from sweet. Tony Blair calls on people | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
to "rise up against Brexit", Saying they have a right to | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
reconsider. But his critics accuse him | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of insulting the intelligence And still to come: They've been | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
dubbed The Lady and The Tramp - she gave him a cup of tea | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
when he was homeless, now more than 40 years later - | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
they're getting married. he will be managing next season - | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
whether that's at Arsenal or somewhere else, as his future | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
hangs in the balance. Should patients be forced to pay | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
to see a GP or for a visit to A to ease the financial | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
pressure on the NHS? It's a controversial subject but one | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
that some feel should be considered. Well just 100 miles off | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
the south coast of England, the channel island of Guernsey has | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
been doing just that for decades - with islanders paying for many | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
aspects of their care. But critics say it can deter | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
people from seeking help. Our Health Editor Hugh Pym has been | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
to Guernsey to find out more. A card payment machine | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
in a hospital. Yes, it does happen in one part | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
of the British Isles. You see the list of | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
charges when you arrive. ?49.50 during the day, | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
more at night. 25% of the service's running costs | :15:55. | :15:55. | |
come from patient fees. This marine Ambulance Service | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
mainly covers the small Local people can either take out | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
an annual subscription, or might have to pay hundreds | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
of pounds to be picked up That subscription, | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
less than ?1 per week, If you don't have it, | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
the service says, it won't Payment is never mentioned as part | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
of the clinical care we provide. They are sent an invoice | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
within a couple of weeks following their use | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
of the Ambulance Service and they normally then | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
settle by whatever means This doctor thinks that | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
is fair for patients. I think there are enough | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
safeguards to ensure people go I think inevitably payment | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
for a service does make you think as to whether you really | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
should be going. Some residents pay | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
for medical insurance. Anyone on benefits has their health | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
costs covered by the state, though pensioners and children | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
are not automatically exempt. I had an accident at Christmas | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
and I had to go to A There could be a reduction | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
for pensioners. Because it is a lot of money | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
out of your pension. You can get to see a doctor | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
with one or two days of notice and the hospital | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
is first class, yes. You do have to pay for a GP and A, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
but not ongoing hospital that people on low income might | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
delay seeking timely care. I think that for those people just | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
above the benefits threshold, they might not go to the GP early | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
enough, and that might mean when they do present, | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
things have got worse and then they have to be treated | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
in a hospital environment It is an island community relatively | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
well off with a population That's equivalent to | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
a medium-sized town in the UK. So it is hard to draw obvious | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
conclusions about what the NHS might The real risk of charging | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
is we do not raise very much money. We increase the administrative | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
complexity and, in fact, people with really important health | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
care conditions are deterred even further from going to see | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
their medical practitioner If anyone wants to see | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
a charging model, it's here. But, politically, it's not even | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
on the horizon for the NHS. Any party advocating it | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
might find its electoral Pakistan has told Afghanistan | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
to hand over more than 70 high profile militants | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
after a suicide attacker killed at least 80 people at | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
a Sufi Muslim shrine. In Pakistan the security | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
forces have carried out raids across the country, | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
killing and arresting dozens of suspected militants, | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
following yesterday's attack. The so-called Islamic State have | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
claimed responsibility He's been in charge of Arsenal | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
for more than 20 years - but will he be there | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
for much longer? Arsene Wenger said today that he'll | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
definitely be managing a team next season - | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
whether that's at Arsenal This week his team were thrashed | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
5-1 by Bayern Munich After the match some former players | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
suggested it was time Our Sports Correspondent David | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Ornstein is at the Emirates Stadium. For 21 years Arsenal and Arsene | :19:33. | :19:49. | |
Wenger have gone hand in hand. But the club have struggled to get their | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
hands on a major trophy recently. He has been under pressure before but | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
is out of contract in the summer and today for the first time | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
acknowledged that his time here could be coming to a close. For | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Arsenal the feeling was all too familiar. Badly beaten, all eyes on | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
the boss. For club and coach, is the end finally in sight? No matter what | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
happens I will manage next season. Visit here or somewhere else, you | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
know? That's absolutely for sure. You do not stay somewhere for 20 | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
years and what out after a defeat like that. I have the strength and | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
experience to respond to that. In 1996 he arrived to headlines of | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
Arsene who? But he silenced critics by collecting trophies. He turned | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
the likes of Thierry Henry into superstars and his team became | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
invincible is, going an entire league season unbeaten. Three | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Premier League titles and six FA cups among his achievements. Arsene | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Wenger has not only managed this club but transformed it. The club, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
the new stadium, and this state-of-the-art training ground are | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
all based on his vision. But not everything has gone to plan, he has | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
failed to conquer Europe and has not won league title since 2004 causing | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
a split amongst the fans. I have never seen Arsenal win the league | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
which is sad and I want that to happen. He has done us proud but I | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
think he has overstayed now. Enough is enough, we need to move on. I | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
would like to announce he's going to step down now so he can go out on a | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
good vibe and the fans can reunite. People have to be careful what they | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
wish for. I think it is important the club makes the right decision | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
for the future, I did not work here for 20 years not to care for this | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
club, I had many opportunities to go elsewhere during that period and it | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
is important the club is always in safe hands. Arsenal are still in | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
three competitions, the season is far from over. But the future of | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
their greatest manager looks more uncertain than ever before. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
A deputy headteacher has been banned from schools for a minimum of ten | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
years for having sex with teenage girls. The council has launched an | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
enquiry into why he received an ?8,000 payoff and a reference | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
despite his actions being known about. One of the ringleaders behind | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
the Hatton Garden rate of 2015 has admitted trying to steel ?1 million | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
worth of gems from our London jewellers five years earlier. Daniel | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Jones is serving a prison sentence for his role in the infamous | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
jewellery heist. He tried to break into a Mayfair jewellers in 2010. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Dick Bruna, the Dutch illustrator and author who created | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
the much-loved cartoon rabbit Miffy, has died at age of 89. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
He wrote more than 30 books about Miffy's adventures | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
which sold over 80 million copies worldwide. | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
They've been nicknamed The Lady and The Tramp. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
That's because when Joan Neininger met Ken Selway - | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
more than 40 years ago - he was sleeping rough | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
The pair - who are both now 89 years old - | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
This weekend they're getting married. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Joan ran the little shop in the centre of Gloucester | :23:17. | :23:35. | |
with her husband, and one day in 1975 she saw Ken | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
What sort of food would you take? Anything that was beatable. | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea that day and sketched | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
She invited him to live with her husband and children and as the | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
decades passed he became part of the family. In 1983 her husband died and | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
she was left alone. How lonely life can be, the shadows follow me. Which | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
brings us to today, they are living in the same sheltered housing block | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
and tomorrow they get married. He sings like Perry Como. How much of a | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
difference has she made to your life? Big difference. I have got | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
security now. A roof over my head. Food every day. And who would have | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
thought it, all these years on, a wedding? Yeah, well I never drink | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
it. He is lovely. When he's not being grumpy and stinky and | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
horrible. He's lovely. It hasn't always been easy. Joan helped Ken | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
get treatment for schizophrenia. Did she save your life? Yes. We just | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
belong together, that's all. We made it, didn't we darling? You know what | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
I think of you, I don't have to put it into words. He's just that part | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
of me. They will marry tomorrow with the full support of their families | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
on what will be Joan's birthday. What does the future hold in store? | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Well it would be babies and it would be a white wedding dress! -- it will | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
not be babies and it will not be a white wedding dress! | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
Spring blooms encouraged again this weekend, some mild weather for the | :25:46. | :25:57. | |
past few days, staying that way, the breeze will pick up once again but | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
it would be bone dry, outbreaks of rain affecting western and northern | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
parts of the UK overnight am not amounting to match, pepping up a bit | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
in west of Scotland later in the night. With the blanket of cloud it | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
will be frost free for the vast majority, one or two fog patches, | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
hill fog, quiet start to Saturday morning. Early reign in Northern | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
Ireland clearing, behind it brightening up, there will be blast | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
the showers. A band of rain moving its way through Northern England and | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
North Wales, to the size of that we start with plenty of cloud, | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
brightens up a bit more especially into south-east England. What about | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
these temperatures for mid-February? Going out on Saturday evening light | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
rain moving south through parts of England and Wales, still blustery | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
showers across north-west Scotland and looking ahead to the second part | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
of the weekend, breezy across the board, variable cloud, the odd spot | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
of rain around. Later moving into part of Northern Ireland and western | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Scotland. So we have established the mild weekend and in fact going into | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
the start of next week it will be even milder. It's just possible on | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
Monday that somewhere might get as high as 17 Celsius. But before you | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
get too carried away we are not expecting clear blue skies, lots of | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
cloud coming and might see a bit of sunshine and maybe realise the 1617. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
Many of us will fall short of that but it will still be very mild for | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
the time of year although later next week it will turn colder again but | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
still nowhere near as cold as it was last weekend. The forecast wherever | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
you are or where you are going is on a website and you can see in more | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
detail what is happening next week with the weather for the week ahead | :27:59. | :27:59. | |
video. A reminder of our main story: | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
Tony Blair calls on people to "rise But his critics have | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
accused him of insulting And the US food giant Heinz makes a | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
takeover offer for Unilever. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:13. | :28:24. | |
- so it's goodbye from me - | :28:25. | :28:27. |