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Tonight at 6: We're in Bradford where Labour has launched | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
its election manifesto - promising policies for | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Jeremy Corbyn unveils what he calls, a "radical and responsible" | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
plan for government, to help build a fairer society. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Whatever your age or situation, people are under pressure, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
The proposals include nationalising the railways | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
and scrapping tuition fees - Labour plans nearly ?50 billion | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
of taxes on business and the highest earners. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
I've been talking to people here in Bradford about the manifesto | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
and finding out whether it affects their voting intentions. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
I feel it's very very important that the state does have a bigger | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
We really really need radical change right now. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
I've always voted Labour but now, with Jeremy Corbyn, I won't. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
After the death of the Moors murderer, Ian Brady - | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
police say they won't close the case of Keith Bennett, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
The squeeze on the cost of living - inflation hits 2.7% - | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
Ruined by rubbish, the British island in the South Pacific | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
which has more plastic waste than anywhere else in the world. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
an important night in the Premier League as Arsenal | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
try to stay in touch with the top four. | :01:42. | :02:10. | |
Good evening from Bradford - where the Labour leader | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has launched what he's calling a "radical | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
and responsible" manifesto, promising to govern "for the many, | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Among his key policies are nationalising the railways, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Scrapping tuition fees and reversing some benefit cuts. | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
And spending ?37 billion on the health service in England. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
The pledges would be paid for - in part - by ?48 billion | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
of tax rises on business and on the highest earners. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
We'll be looking at those figures in detail and speaking | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
to voters here in Bradford but, first | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
here's our political editor Laura Kuenssberg on Labour's | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Here it is. Labour's proposed contract with you. This would be his | :02:53. | :03:10. | |
Cabinet. This is Jeremy Corbyn's deal. A massive moment for the man | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
who two years ago was a total outsider. I'm delighted to introduce | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
the Labour leader of the party and the next Prime Minister, Jeremy | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Corbyn. A plan he believes the country needs. Whatever your age and | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
the situation, people are under pressure, struggling to make ends | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
meet. Our manifesto is for you. Listing plenty of crowd pleaser is, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
here. Labour will scrap tuition fees, lifting the debt... APPLAUSE | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
Labour is guaranteeing the triple lock to protect pensioners incomes. | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
And Labour will take our railways back into public ownership and put | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
passengers first. More childcare, more cash for the NHS, paid for by | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
the richest 5% and taxes on business. With nearly ?50 billion of | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
extra spending. Paid for by nearly ?50 billion of tax. We are asking | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
the better off and the big corporations to pay a little bit | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
more. And of course to stop dodging their tax obligations in the first | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
place. This is a programme of hope. The Tory campaign by contrast is | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
built on one word, fear. For good or for ill, you think it is time to pay | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
for your ideas to tax more and spend more and to borrow more. Do you know | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
what, every other country in the world says, why does Britain invest | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
so little and pay itself so little while it allows touch grotesque | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
levels of inequality to get worse, let's turn it around and do it the | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
other way. Do you think the public are going to go to something as | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
radical as this? Those earning over ?80,000, paying a bit more to pay | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
for the National health service and our education, I think they will be | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
positive and supportive. Great manifesto. That manifesto is full of | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
popular policies and I'm fighting hard for a Labour victory and a | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Do you feel he is up to the job? Jeremy | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Corbyn has had to fight to keep his job, but broadly this is a manifesto | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
built in his image. This is his radical offered to you. You | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
manifesto is the biggest hypothetical expansion of the state | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
in many years, but how exactly what his ideas work? Why in this | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
manifesto is there no scale and no ballpark figure for how much it | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
might cost the public purse and how you are prepared to borrow and | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
renationalise four major industries? You don't know what the share price | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
is at the time we do it, the same in the case of rail, there is a neutral | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
cost and I believe in the same for water and the bond issue. You have | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
an promised to reverse all the Tory welfare cuts, and for some of your | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
supporters, that might be quite disappointing? -- you haven't | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
promised. What I have said on the welfare cuts and the cat issue, we | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
have set aside ?2 billion to deal with the worst effects of the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
benefit cap which will help a lot. You are not reversing the whole | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
thing? You will see a lot of changes, but bear in mind we have | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
had two weeks in order to prepare all of these policy issues because | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
of the speed with which the election has been called, but I accept the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
challenge and I think we have put forward a very credible manifesto in | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
a short space of time and we deserve some credit for that, actually. It | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
will be up to the voters. I look forward to their decision. There has | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
never been a question that he can pull shot -- Aykroyd, but he has | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
three weeks now to be heard across the board. Policies are not just to | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
can shout the loudest -- there has never been a question that he can | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
pull a crowd. There are some big commitments as we | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
heard. From extra funding for education | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
and health to paying for more police officers and lifting the cap | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
on public sector pay. Our economics editor, | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Kamal Ahmed has been taking a closer It's Labour's big offer | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
to the voter, an extra ?25.3 billion for education, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
enough to build a thousand schools. ?7.7 billion for the NHS, | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
that's quite a few hospitals. And a ?4 billion pay rise | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
for the public sector. Add in other commitments on policing | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
and the minimum wage, and the grand total of new spending | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
is ?48.6 billion. The question Labour was asked | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
today, how is it going Most of it will come | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
from new business taxes. Corporation tax will be | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
increased from 20% to 26%. Labour says that will raise nearly | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
?20 billion. There will be a new levy on firms that pay employees | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
over ?330,000 and Labour says that will raise ?1.3 billion. And there | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
are the personal taxes. Those earning above ?80,000 will pay a tax | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
rate of 45p in the pound. If you earn above that amount, the loss | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
will be around ?400, and for those earning ?123,000 the rate rises to | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
50p, that could lead some with a loss of up to ?23,000. Some are | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
sceptical about whether such large amounts will ever be raised. In the | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
end raising tax does bring in more money and if you put in all of their | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
tax plans together that would raise quite a significant amount of money, | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
but not as much as they are hoping, because corporate 's and companies | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
will change their behaviour and individuals will change their | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
behaviour and the scale of the changes are so weak they will be | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
some money for certain coming in. Labour has also said it wants to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
borrow, ?25 billion a year more than the present government. That money | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
will add to the national debt will be spent on high-speed railways and | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
broadband and gas and electric facilities. All that injection of | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
new money boosts the new economy? With interest rates so low that is a | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
real opportunity to borrow at record low rates and that means you can | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
back and the Bank of England is not able to stimulate the economy and so | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
investment of this kind, to build the road and infrastructure, is | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
really welcome. It is a very different prospectus, more tax and | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
spend, and balance the books. Labour says it would like to nationalise | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Royal Mail, the water companies and national rail, and the costs are | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
attached. If nothing else, the choice on the 8th of June is now a | :10:43. | :10:43. | |
clear one. Labour's history in Bradford goes | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
back more than a century. Today all three of the city's | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
constituencies are Labour. I've spent the day here talking | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
to people about the manifesto. Tucked into the foothills | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
of the Pennines, Bradford has travelled from Victorian splendour | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
to more challenging times. Unemployment is higher | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
than the national average. Bradford West has a large immigrant | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
community and it has one of the highest proportion of young | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
voters in England and Wales. Just give me an idea of what kind | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
of policy affects you. I feel it's very very important | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
that the state does have a bigger We really really need | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
radical change right now. The NHS is crumbling | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
and the rail prices have been You sound like you are just | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
parroting things that you've heard. The NHS is crumbling | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
and our railways aren't working. I asked about Labour's | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
plans for nationalisation There are many developed countries, | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
many wealthy countries, around the world, that have elements | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
of nationalisation that take into what they consider | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
the important sphere, And the man who has to sell these | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
policies to the voters? What is it about Jeremy Corbyn | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
that attracts you? He speaks on the same | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
level as Joe Bloggs. You are calling him a kind | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
of Joe Bloggs, but don't we want He comes across as a | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
normal human being. So Jeremy Corbyn has just been | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
spelling out the policies that Labour is going to be putting | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
to the people but what I'm picking up is that it's | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
about more than that. At this dealership in Bradford East, | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Angela Morris was having some I've always voted Labour but now, | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
with Jeremy Corbyn, I won't. He doesn't look like a Prime | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Minister for one thing, does he? You know, I couldn't imagine him | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
going into number ten. Is it fair to judge a man | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
on what he looks like and say that Dougal Keith has seen the business | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
grow from a wooden shed to one that Ultimately what is important to me | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
are my customers and my staff, and what they need more | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
than anything else They've just announced today that | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
they're going to buy That's millions and | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
millions of pounds. You can't take it out of the till | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
until you've put it in. So I just don't think they have | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
a credible economic policy. Some of the view is there of what | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
people in Bradford think about the manifesto. And what it means for | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
them. Our political editor | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
Laura Kuenssberg is with me. It is clear that voters are going to | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
face a real choice. It is chalk and cheese in plenty of places, the | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
biggest gap we have seen between the two parties for some time. Today we | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
have seen that is because of Jeremy Corbyn's 21st-century version of old | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
Labour, more tax and more spending and more state control, | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
nationalisation in four areas of industry, bold changes that he would | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
like to introduce. His calculation is that the frustrations of Britain | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
in 2017 mean that in his view the electorate is ready, right and ready | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
for something that is very different. He said to to me, look at | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
the crowd to turn out to hear me speak, but there are two things with | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
that, crowds that go to hear someone and necessarily representative of | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
the whole voting general public. -- aren't necessarily. Ed Miliband | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
moved a few inches to the left taking a couple of dainty steps and | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
he lost by doing that. Jeremy Corbyn is taking one big strides to the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
left, so it is certainly a challenge for him. Thanks for joining us. | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
And you can find more information on Labour's manifesto and other | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
election issues at the bbc website bbc.co.uk/news. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Now let's get the rest of the day's news with Reeta. | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
Greater Manchester Police say the death of the Moors murderer, | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Ian Brady, won't stop them looking for the remains of Keith Bennett, | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
who was the only one of his five child victims never found. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Brady, and his partner Myra Hindley, abducted the 12-year-old | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
in 1964 and refused to say where he was buried. | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
His name will always be notorious, his face the image of evil, | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
his crimes amongst the worst of the 20th Century | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
He took children and tortured them and brought their bodies up | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
On the desolate Moors, the police spent years | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
Brady's accomplice was his girlfriend, Myra Hindley, | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Brady's death closes a chapter of criminal history. | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
The youngest, Lesley Ann Downey, was just ten years old. | :16:15. | :16:33. | |
I remember, when I sat on the stairs in Hattersley, | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
And my mum had to go to identify Lesley. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
She just nodded you know, it still gets me now. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
At their trial, the pair were met with public jeers. | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
Sentenced to life, Brady was at first taken to prison but, | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
in 1985, he was transferred to Ashworth, | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
In one, he claimed to feel remorse, but he never showed any sympathy | :16:55. | :17:09. | |
to the family of 12-year-old Keith Bennett, whose | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
It consumed the life of his mother, Winnie Johnson, who spoke | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
I want it coming to an end and I want Keith found. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
When I found out that I'd got cancer and I said, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
"I want to know where Keith is before anything happens to me." | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Winnie often went to the Moors and never gave up hope | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
The police say that virtually every week someone | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
gets in touch touch purporting to be able to lead them to Keith, | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
but they're not actively searching the Moors at the moment. | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
They say though that they'll never close the case and Ian Brady's death | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Yesterday, knowing his death was imminent, Brady called his | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
I don't think there was anything he really knew or had any | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
information that would assist in the location | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
Did Brady say anything which would give the families | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Today, a coroner said that Brady's ashes must not be | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
scattered across these Moors, bad enough that he's | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
taken his Saddleworth secret to the grave - controlling | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
There's been more evidence today of the squeeze on living standards. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
Official figures show that last month inflation - | :18:25. | :18:25. | |
that's the rise in prices - hit its highest level | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
Our economics correspondent, Andy Verity, is here. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
We should be prayered for a nasty surprise? Be prepared. The price of | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
fish up 8 periods. If you want to buy a book, up 7% the bus that takes | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
you to the shops, transport, passenger transport by road up 10%. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Prices are going down, toys and games. Petrol took a dip. The | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
average price rise, if you look at that, the CBI measure, up by 2.7%. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
That hes a the highest it's been for three-and-a-half years. The | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
inflation won't do you much harm if your pay is keeping up. If your pay | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
rise is higher than 2.7%. For most people, that's definitely not the | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
case. If you look at the latest count for how much pay rises are | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
going up, 2.2%. That is data from February. We will get an update | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
tomorrow. We have been here before. We had a squeeze on living standards | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
where real incomes were falling between 2011-2014. Since then that | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
squeeze has loosened. Our pay has gone up by more than prices, now | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
it's tightening again. Pay isn't keeping up. If pay was going up by | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
more than inflation, the Bank of England would be worried and might | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
want to raise interest rates. As it is, it has no worries about that. | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Confident that this inflation is temporary. OK. Andy, many thanks. | :19:49. | :20:11. | |
Lloyds Banking Group is returning to private hands nearly nine years | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
after it received a Government bailout during the financial crisis. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
The UK gGovernment has now sold its remaining stake in the group, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
ending one of the largest bailouts of the crisis. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
The reprivatisation of Lloyds is expected | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
President Trump has defended discussing material related | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
to terrorism during a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
He was responding to newspaper reports that he shared classified | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
information with Russia during last week's meeting with Sergei Lavrov | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Mr Trump said on Twitter that it was his "absolute right" | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
to share information with Russia as he wanted it to "step | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
A Second World War bomb, discovered in Birmingham, | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Disposal experts say it contained almost 140 | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
A 500 metre cordon was set up by police, who also closed the M6 | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
motorway in both directions while the explosion took place. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
In Wales, the nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, has | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
launched its manifesto, promising to give the country | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
The document pledges to "protect" Wales from what it calls a "tidal | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Policies include scrapping business rates and a publicly owned bank. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Our Wales correspondent, Sian Lloyd, reports. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
Penygraig in the Rhondda Valley, it's bleen a Labour stronghold | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
at Westminster for more than 100 years. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
It's represented in the Welsh Assembly by Plaid Cymru | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
and the party has the parliamentary seat within its sights. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
No coincidence then that its leader, Leanne Wood, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
chose to launch her party's general election manifesto here. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
Voters tastes will need to change if Plaid is to make a breakthrough, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
one of the party's key pledges is to defend Wales post-Brexit. | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
How are you going to appeal to voters, in places like this, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
who voted to leave the EU when you are seen as somebody | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
We've carried on accepting it since the day that it was announced. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
We've put forward today a post-Brexit plan for Wales, | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
a positive plan, to try to take advantage of opportunities that | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
might arise as we leave the European Union. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Plaid's telling voters it rather than Labour will best defend Welsh | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
interests against what it calls cruel and wreckless Conservatives. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Probably be for Plaid Cymru, to be honest with you. | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
So that goes - That's more an anti-Labour vote | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Labour has let us down, year after year after year. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Plaid Cymru, OK, they're a party of Wales, but I don't think | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
they can fulfil anything, so the only other party to vote | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
If it's to alter the Welsh political landscape, | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Plaid Cymru will need to change the voting habits of generations. | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
It's nicknamed Plastic Island, and you can see why - | :22:47. | :23:01. | |
38 million items were washed up on these beaches | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
It's an uninhabited remote British territory | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
in the South Pacific and has been found to have the highest | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
density of plastic rubbish anywhere in the world. | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
There's a growing mass of waste in the Pacific and the study authors | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
say the island illustrates the scale of sea pollution. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
3,000 miles from the mainland, a remote paradise that's | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
Its beaches are now more densely polluted with plastic | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Henderson Island is home only to South Pacific seabirds | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
and marine wildlife and, with no human inhabitants, | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
But an international team of researchers, | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
who visited and studied the island, calculated that 17 tonnes | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
of our litter, washed or dumped into rivers and oceans, | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Dr Alex Bond saw the devastation up close. | :23:55. | :24:06. | |
We looked across the beaches in a variety of different plots | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
and counted the pieces of plastic on the surface and down | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
to about ten centimetres and from that we were able | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
to extrapolate the area of the beaches, that's how we came | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
up with our estimate of about 38 million | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
It's really shocking because, as you step along the beach, | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
the plastic is absolutely everywhere, no place is without it. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Researchers say most of the plastic waste they could identify | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
appeared to come from China, Japan and Chile. | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
Most plastic floats and it can take centuries to degrade, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
so when it reaches the ocean it stays at the surface | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
Henderson Island sits just next to a vast circular system | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
of ocean currents called the South Pacific Gyre and that's | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
depositing plastics from thousands of miles away onto its beaches. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
This is just a snapshot of the millions of tonnes | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
of rubbish in our oceans, but the researchers hope it might | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
persuade us to end a toxic addiction to plastic. | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
Time for a look at the weather, here's Nick Miller. | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
If yesterday the rain had us talking, today it's about the warmth | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
and nice weather from north-east Scotland into East Anglia and | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
south-east England and warmth as well. The UK reported its highest | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
temperature of the year so far. 26 Celsius, 22, Scotland's highest | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
temperature of the year so far. There has been rain in parts of | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
England and Wales. There will be again over night. The cloud making | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
for a mild and muggy night. It's feeling fresher in Scotland and | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Northern Ireland, under clear skies a chillier night here. Watch out for | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the northern lights, they make may make an appearance. Scotland and | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Northern Ireland will have pleasant sunny spells, showers for north-west | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Scotland, doughing in Northern Ireland. You will see a large swathe | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
of wet weather ebth affecting many parts of England and Wales leading | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
to a wet day. Western fringes of England and Wales may brighten up | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
later in the day. It will be cool with that rain, 10-13 degrees, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
pleasant in the sunny spells. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, warm | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
and humid again, in East Anglia and south-east England. Where those few | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
places stay dry it will turn wetter going into the evening rush-hour. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
The potential here for torrential thundery bursts. By the time it's | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
said and done there are parts of southern, central and eastern | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
England getting 20-40 millimetres of rain. It will be difficult for | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
travelling. It will clear away, Thursday sunny spells across the | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
board. Scattered showers will develop. It will feel pleasant when | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the sun makes an appearance, cooler when the showers move through. If | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
you catch a shower it could be heavy. For the weekend a mixture of | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
sunshine and showers. Warm when you get sunshine, temperatures come down | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
with a shower comes through after mild and warm nights, those nights | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
will be chillier. That's it for now. Reeta. Thank you, Nick. A reminder | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
of our main story. Jeremy Corbyn has launched the Labour manifesto | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
promising changes | :27:17. | :27:17. |