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A Service of Hope at Westminster Abbey to remember those | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
killed in the attack two weeks ago today. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Members of the Royal family joined victims, their relatives | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
There too was Melissa Cochrane whose husband was killed. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
She talks for the first time of the attack. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
The panic of not being able to see where my husband was, | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
You can hear more of that exclusive interview with Melissa | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
The suspected chemical attack in Syria - Russia and the West clash | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
The new welfare cuts leave some families getting just 50p | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
The first formal visit by Muslim leaders from | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
And Britain's oldest Olympic gold medallist at Rio decides to hand | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
With severe thunderstorms on the horizon, the course | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
at Augusta has been cleared ahead of this the start | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:20. | :01:46. | |
A service of hope and reconciliation has been held | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
in Westminster Abbey - a fortnight after the attack | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Khalid Masood drove a car into pedestrians | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
on Westminster Bridge, killing three people, and fatally | :01:57. | :01:56. | |
stabbing a police officer, before he was shot dead. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry joined families | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
and the emergency services attending the multi-faith service. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
In a moment we will be for the first time from Melissa Cochrane who was | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
injured in the attack and whose husband was killed. But first. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Two weeks ago the area around the Abbey at Westminster was caught | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Nearby on Westminster Bridge, there were casualties. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Closer still, just inside the gates of the Houses of Parliament, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
an unarmed police officer was killed. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
One of the four innocent people who died that day. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Two weeks after those events at Westminster Abbey, | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
Leaders of the different faith communities from across | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
the United Kingdom were joined in the congregation by the Duke | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, together | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
with members of the emergency services, some of the bereaved | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
families, and some of those who were injured. | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
Candles were lit to represent the light which can | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
never be extinguished by the darkness of terror. | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
In his address, the Dean of Westminster recalled that amongst | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
those who were directly affected by the attack were people | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
He posed the question so many have asked. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
What could possibly motivate a man to hire a car and take it | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
from Birmingham to Brighton, to London, and then drive it fast | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
at people he'd never met, couldn't possibly know, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
against whom he had no personal grudge, no reason to hate them. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
And then run at the gates of the Palace of Westminster | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
For all that divides and spoils our world. | :04:03. | :04:22. | |
Prayers were offered pledging respect between | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
The best of Muslims is the one who utters beautiful words. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Two weeks after the Westminster attack, from an ancient abbey | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
which has borne witness to so much, a message of hope. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
One of those attending the service was Melissa Cochrane - | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
she and her husband Kurt were both hit by Khalid Masood's car | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Kurt was killed, Melissa suffered a broken leg, | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
That day had been part of the trip of lifetime, | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
they'd travelled from their home in Utah through Europe | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
Earlier today Melissa spoke exclusively to me about her memories | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Kurt was probably the best man I have ever met. He was sweet and | :05:12. | :05:32. | |
kind. And I am extremely proud of him and very happy that the world | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
now knows what a wonderful man he was. He would probably hate all the | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
publicity that is going on, he is a very private kind of person. Very | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
generous, very sweet. The love of my life. What can you remember about | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
that day. We were just having another wonderful day in our | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
vacation. Just enjoying the sights, taking pictures, making our way to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
the abbey. I do not remember much after that. Crossing the bridge and | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
we were almost there. You have no recollection of the car and the | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
attack itself? I don't. There is a photograph that has been printed, I | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
imagine you're aware of it, you're on the ground being helped by a | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
passer-by. I do recall all of that. And the panic, you know, of not | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
being able to see my husband anywhere. Already know what was kind | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
of going on. It was quite scary. And when did you find out that Kurt had | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
been killed? It was after my surgery on my leg, I had come out of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
recovery and they placed me in a hospital room. My parents had come | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
to visit. And they were there waiting for me when I came out. I | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
asked them to find out what had happened to my husband. My parents | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
walked out of the room and came back in and they both took my hand and | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
said he did not make it. Which, you know, crushed me. Very strikingly | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
the press conference were so many members of your family came and | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
stood in solidarity with you. And also said that your husband would | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
not have felt ill will towards his attacker. I think that would | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
surprise a lot of people. I could not heal my injuries or as a person | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
if I had hatred in my heart. And Kurt would not want that either. So | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
there is no hate. Melissa Cochrane , whose husband | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
died in the Westminster attack, The UN Security Council is holding | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
an emergency session to discuss the suspected gas attack | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
on a rebel-held town in Syria. The attack is believed to have | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
killed more than 70 people, The Syrian government has | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
denied responsibility, while its ally Russia says the gas | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
came from rebel But those claims have | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
been widely rejected by western governments, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
as our Chief International All this five-year-old knows is he | :08:24. | :08:36. | |
went to sleep in his Spider-Man suit and he woke up in a nightmare. Now | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
he's in hospital bed, grandparents at his side. The many victims of a | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
toxic cloud which enveloped their village yesterday. Breathing in | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
poisonous gases as they slept. My grandchildren were sleeping, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
everyone woke up to a loud noise. They went outside and that is when | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
they came across the chemical attack. They just fell to the floor | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
and died. World leaders arriving here in Brussels this morning have | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
seen attacks in Syria time and again. Many in no doubt who was | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
behind this latest atrocity. I have seen absolutely nothing to suggest | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
that, or rather to lead us to think that it is anything but the regime. | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
I called out to the UN chief, was this attack a test of the UN | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
resolve? I do not think we need to quantify if it is a test or not, | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
everything we do is a test to some extent. But every attack in Syria... | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
With every attack in Syria, the words grow stronger. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Condemnation of yet another atrocity, calls for an investigation | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
But time and again it is Syrian civilians who continue to pay | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Russia says the Syrian military did carry out an air strike. But its | :09:57. | :10:10. | |
military spokesman said they struck what he called a terrorist warehouse | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
with an arsenal of toxic substances. A weapons expert told the BBC the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
chemicals were most probably dropped from the air. The claim is | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
implausible if the facility on the ground was hit by munitions dropped | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
from the air you would get other materials as well as the | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
particularly poisonous materials being spread. They have been | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
accidents in production plants before, these have not produced the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
same kind of spread of materials as we are seeing here and this leads me | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
on the evidence we can see so far to believe that this poison was from | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
weapons dropped from the air. This horrific attack is the deadliest | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
that Syria has seen in four years. The world said then that President | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Assad had to give up all his chemical weapons. But it is clear | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
that Syria is still a country with the worst kind of buttons and the | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
will to use them. -- weapons. Nick Bryant is at the UN | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
headquarters in New York. The UN security council has been | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
meeting today to draft a resolution about the suspected chemical attacks | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
but there have some very A very angry and impassioned | :11:17. | :11:29. | |
emergency meeting of the Security Council this morning. And the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
British ambassador pointing the finger of blame at the Assad regime. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
But also blasting Russia and China for vetoing UN resolution interbreed | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
that would have imposed sanctions on the Assad regime for using chemical | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
weapons in previous attacks. He said that it sends a message of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
encouragement to Damascus. But by far the most dramatic and | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
electrifying moment came when the champ administration ambassador | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
spoke. She got up to her feet which is rare in the Security Council and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
she branded photographs of the children who had died and asked | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
pointedly of the Russians, how many children need to die before Russia | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
cares. The European Parliament has voted | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
to take a tough stance on Brexit negotiations, | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
setting out "red lines" There were heated exchanges | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
as Nigel Farage accused MEPs of behaving like the mafia, | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
while the Parliament's Brexit negotiator blamed Brexit | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
on a "catfight" in the conservative From Strasbourg, our | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
Europe Correspondent Damian Smiles, genuine or not, | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
between the architect of Brexit and the man who says Britain | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
must pay billions. He's Michel Barnier, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the EU's chief negotiator. Today the European Parliament | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
backed his demand. The leader of the Socialist group | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
said the UK must pay its bill. "The gas bill, the electricity, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
it all has to be settled", he said. But he had a riposte of his own, | :12:55. | :13:08. | |
as soon as he was on his He said the EU was being | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
vindictive and nasty, You think we're | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
a hostage, we're not. Groans at the Mafia comparison | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
stopped him mid-flow. Then this, from the parliament's | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
Italian president. "I'm sorry, Mr Farage", | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
he interrupted, "but saying this parliament is behaving | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
like the Mafia is unacceptable". It's a sign of how fractious | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
the real negotiations could become. Michel Barnier responded | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
that he will not punish the UK, only ask that it live up | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
to its financial obligations. And he said they will have to agree | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
the separation terms before The sooner we agree | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
on the principles of a withdrawal, the sooner we can prepare | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
our future relation. Amongst the parliament's other | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
demands, that the UK can have no special access to the EU | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
single market for sectors The reason this debate matters | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
is that this Parliament will have a vote in two years' time | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
on any Brexit deal. If it doesn't like it, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
it can throw it out, A different future was laid out, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
too, where a young generation A young generation that will see | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Brexit for what it really is, a catfight in the Conservative Party | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
that got out of hand. But for now the EU is readying | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
in what it says will be a tough Damian Grammaticas, | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
BBC News, Strasbourg. Melissa Cochrane whose husband was | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
killed in the Westminster attacks speaks for the first time as a | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
service of hope is held at Westminster Abbey. And we get | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
exclusive access behind the teams at GCHQ. | :15:29. | :15:29. | |
The Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has praised his | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Chelsea counterpart Antonio Conte - saying he "may be the world's best | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
manager", ahead of tonight's crunch Premier League meeting. | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
A BBC investigation has found that thousands of families across Britain | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
have been left worse off by the cap on benefits | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
The total amount of benefits a family can receive is now ?20,000 | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
The BBC's Panorama programme surveyed councils across Britain | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
and discovered that 67,000 households have been affected. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
And more than 7,500 families are now getting just 50p a week | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
in housing benefit - though they can apply for help | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
The government says the policy will encourage people back to work. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
This is where I sit in the day and this is where I sleep at night. The | :16:18. | :16:35. | |
benefits cap has turned her life upside down. This is where I put a | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
few toiletries in. Her benefits were cut by ?44 a week last November, she | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
was evicted and made homeless. Sarah has seven kids, four were living | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
with her, but now they have gone. I've got no choice to basically | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
leave them where they are the time being. It absolutely kills me | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
inside. But there is nothing I can do about it. At the way, out the | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
way. Steve and Kim are struggling to keep their home, they have four | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
children and their benefits have been reduced by ?120 a week, it is | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
taken from their housing benefit which has been cut to just 50p a | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
week. It is only 50p per week, ?2 a month, but it is costing more to | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
send out the letter. ?20,000 a year does sound a lot but it isn't a lot | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
really. By the time you have paid your gas and electricity and rent, | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
council tax and food shopping," the kids, school trips, the weekly money | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
soon goes -- close for the kids. The government says these families are | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
still getting ?20,000 year another benefits and that is as much as | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
other families who are working on. The benefit cap is trying to change | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
the gap and fundamentally what we have tried to do is to incentivise | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
work because we know the outcomes for children will be better if they | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
are in families who are working. Neither Kim or Steve have been in | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
work for nearly nine years because of injury and ill-health if they | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
could find work between them, their benefit cap would be lifted. Steve | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
says he would like to find a job. I would like to stand on my own two | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
feet rather than the light on benefits. I don't want to rely on | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
benefits. Sarah is no longer on her sister's sofa and she has been given | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
a house but she is not looking for work because her life is still | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
chaotic. And without benefits she can't bring her children home. It's | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
all the fault of this stupid benefit cap and if it wasn't for that I | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
would not be living like this and my money would not have been stopped my | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
kids still be with me. About 5% of those caps have returned to work and | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
those that don't return to work are having their lives changed. | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
And you can see more on that story in a BBC Panorama Special | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Four British Muslim leaders have met Pope Francis in Rome as part | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
of efforts to improve relations between Christians and Muslims. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
It's the first time a formal delegation of imams from Britain has | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
From Rome, here's our Religious Affairs Correspondent Martin Bashir. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
In a city where Christians once feared to tread, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
four Muslim leaders arrived for a meeting that intentionally | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
crossed the borders of their own religion. | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
The four imams that serve communities in Leicester, | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
Birmingham, Glasgow and London, were taken to the Vatican's | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Pope Francis said such an interfaith gathering brought great joy, | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
that it furthered the most important work of humanity, that | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
And then he greeted each of the imams and even | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Thank you so much for allowing us to be here. | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
Islam gets a very bad press as you know because of some | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
Muslims who have behaved in an unIslamic way. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
But for the Pope, whose beliefs are so different to that of Islam, | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
yet for him to acknowledge that Islam is a religion of peace, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
is a very powerful message and I hope Muslims are listening, | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
especially those who are behaving in unIslamic way. | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
The meeting was organised by the leader of Catholics | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
What do you say to those who point at the persecution of Christians | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
in Muslim countries like Syria and Nigeria and Pakistan? | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
The violence in those countries is sometimes, | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
it certainly includes Christians, but it's not only directed | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
against Christians in some of those countries. | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
Clearly innate violence finds a lodging place in aspects of Islam. | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
And that is a real challenge for us to face together. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
This may have been more symbolic than substantive, | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
but in meeting with the Pope, these imams have signalled | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
to British Muslims that the way forward is one of friendship | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
The Pope will travel to Egypt at the end of this month, | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
in his continuing quest to improve Catholic Islamic relations. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
He offered his blessing to each of the imams and asked | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
The outgoing head of Britain's surveillance agency, GCHQ, | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
has called on technology companies to do more to tackle | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
In his final interview before leaving the role, | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Robert Hannigan spoke to our security correspondent | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
Gordon Corera, who was given exclusive access behind | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
GCHQ's iconic building houses a mixture of people and machines, | :22:15. | :22:26. | |
working at the cutting edge of technology, countering threats | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
In the heart of its headquarters the outgoing director told me that | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
so-called Islamic State will, as it faces defeat | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
on the battlefield, increasingly turn to the internet. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
They will continue to try to use the media to crowd source terrorism, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
and get people around the world to go and commit acts | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
But it's not just for governments to do operations online. | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
It's for the companies and the rest of media society | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
to have the will to drive this material off the internet. | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
This is our 24-hour operation centre. | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Inside the building, teams of analysts pour over | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
communications and data from around the world. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
There might be a team monitoring the kidnap | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
of a British hostage overseas, for example. | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Or a counterterrorist operation that is live at the moment with MI5. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
This is our cyber 24-hour monitoring cell. | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
We were shown a map which visualises cyber attacks on the UK. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
And high on the agenda is the cyber threat from Russia. | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
The scale has changed, they've invested a lot of money | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
and people in offensive cyber behaviour and critically | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
they've decided to do reckless and interfering things | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
Clearly they aspire to do similar things in the UK. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
There has been this accusation that has been aired in the United States | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
that GCHQ was asked to spy on Donald Trump by the | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
We get crazy conspiracy theories thrown to us everyday. | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
On this occasion it was so crazy that we felt we should say so, | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
This is one of our high-performance computers. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Deep under the building sits the electronic brain | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
of GCHQ, humming with data and supercomputers, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
this is the first time cameras have filmed inside. | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
Today our mathematicians are using them to tackle our most complex | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
Critics argue there is too much intrusive power within these walls. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
But it does acknowledge there needs to be greater public understanding | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Gordon Corera, BBC News, inside GCHQ. | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
The showjumper Nick Skelton, who was Britain's oldest Olympic | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
gold medallist at the Rio Games last year, is to retire. | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
He was competing at his seventh Games - 17 years after a broken neck | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Katie Gornall went to meet Nick and his Olympic | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
If ever there was someone for whom age is just a number, it is Nick | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
Skelton. Last summer in VOD showjumper became Britain's second | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
oldest Olympic gold medallist but now with his 60th birthday on the | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
horizon, Skelton and his famous horse Big Star will be taking things | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
a bit easier. I think any sportsman will be telling you that you think | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
it will be going on for ever and you never want to stop, but you have two | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
at some point. No better time to stop them when you are at the top. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
He has spent four decades at the top of his sport and the still holds the | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
British record for jumping the highest pence, clearing over seven | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
feet seven in 1978. Ten years later he competed in the first of seven | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Olympics, but the big prize eluded him until 2012 when he won the team | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
gold in London, an achievement all the more remarkable because 12 years | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
earlier he had suffered a broken neck. Back then he thought his | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
career was over. I didn't ride for a couple of years. I got back going | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
again, because I had a great horse at the time that I really looked | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
forward to and I thought he was going to be really good and he was. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
And then I thought when I finished with him that would be yet, but then | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Big Star came along and I had to do it all over again. It is a story | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
which has captured the attention and largely finished third in the sports | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
personality of the year. -- last year he finished. It is the age | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
factor, some guy doing what I did, ending up winning gold, they think | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
it is inspirational for the elder folks. Nick Skelton has always said | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
it is as much about the horse as him, and in Big Star he found one | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
worthy of his name and together they bow out on top. | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
It could be a beach day for some people on Sunday, watch this space. | :27:06. | :27:18. | |
This was from Troon, and watch the next few days, we are going to have | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
quite a bit of cloud on the scene. You can see the extent of the cloud | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
we have had, but we end the day with some sunshine in southern and | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
eastern areas where the cloud is a bit thinner. The tendency is to | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
increase the amounts of cloud and you can't totally rely on it. They | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
will be some breaks especially for eastern England and northern | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
England, but if you keep the cloud you will have around 7 degrees. High | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
pressure and are saying and that means for most areas it will be | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
quite liked in terms of the winds and also plenty of cloud -- quite | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
like. The westerly winds will mean we have more clout in western | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
Scotland, but eastern Scotland with a better chance of sunshine. A fair | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
but of cloud on on Thursday from Northern Ireland as there will be | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
four England and Wales. There will be a lot of cloud, but it should be | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
quite thin. There will be some sunshine and that will boost the | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
temperatures to around 14. As we head into Friday, deja vu, the best | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
chance of sunshine eastern Scotland and North East England, otherwise | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
dry but fairly cloudy. That is because of the position of the high, | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
but as we head into the weekend the high pressure is drawn into Central | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
Europe. We are going to draw up more of the southerly winds, and as we | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
get more sunshine on Sunday, especially over England and Wales, | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
temperatures will be soaring. So this is it, maybe more cloud, not as | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
warm here, but 23 is likely in the south of the country in the | :29:02. | :29:02. | |
sunshine. | :29:03. | :29:04. |