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The rising tide of knife crime in Britain - | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
and why police say they can't deal with it on their own. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
Paula had a call from her daughter stating her 15-year-old grandson has | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
been stabbed. Caller is hysterical. On patrol in Birmingham - | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
the knife is this country's number one murder weapon - | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
and they're wielded by children. We need to step right back, | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
and that's eight year olds, nine year olds, and guide them | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
in a better direction We'll be looking at efforts | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
to change attitudes to knife crime. It's three weeks since | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
the Grenfell Tower disaster - just 14 households have been | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
found satisfactory accommodation. A damning report on how police | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
treated a disabled refugee before he was murdered - | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
racial bias may have played a part. A vision of the future - | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Volvo becomes the first major car maker to say it will phase out | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
petrol and diesel -only A tough match and a thrilling | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
end takes Joanna Konta We'll have all the latest from a big | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
day for the British players Join me for Wimbledon | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
Sportsday at 6:30. Good evening and welcome | :01:24. | :01:49. | |
to the BBC News at Six. Knife crime is now one | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
of the greatest challenges facing In fact, the knife is Britain's | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
number one murder weapon. The figures are all the more | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
shocking because increasingly both victims and perpetrators are young - | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
children and teenagers. Last year nearly 32,500 knife crimes | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
were committed in England and Wales. That figure was up 14% | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
on the previous year. Senior police officers say | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
there needs to be a change Our Home Affairs correspondent, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
June Kelly, has been on police patrol in Birmingham and met some | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
of those working A summer evening in Birmingham | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
and the Force Response teams from West Midlands Police | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
are dealing with dozens Caller has had a call | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
from her daughter stating the 15-year-old grandson | :02:34. | :02:55. | |
has been stabbed. He doesn't live in this | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
road, he was found here. The teenager is helped | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
into the ambulance by his mate. No sign of the attacker and no | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
information from the victim. Are you doing anything productive | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
at that particular job? And once again there is no | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
corporation from this second victim. Unfortunately he didn't | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
want to provide a statement or provide us an account or tell us | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
where the incident had occurred. So there is very little | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
we could actually do or investigate. But we can still record | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the matter as a crime. In the West Midlands just | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
like the rest of the country, Do you understand the reasons why | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
you're being searched? Lives lost, victims | :03:48. | :03:59. | |
scarred and maimed. And more people found | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
to be carrying blades. The teenage grime artist | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
from Birmingham had fans He was murdered weeks | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
after his 18th birthday. A row over a girl spiralled | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
into a fight and then his rival pulled a knife and plunged it | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
into his heart. Seven hours later, Depzman, | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
real name Joshua Ribera, was dead. Now his mum Alison goes into schools | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
and uses her son's name, fame and death to drive home | :04:34. | :04:42. | |
the consequences of carrying knives. We're not showing these children's | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
faces because they have been permanently excluded | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
from mainstream schools. Every single time his heart stopped, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
he fought back and fought back But on the morning of the 21st | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
of September at 5:58am, We were given unique | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
access to this class, part of City of Birmingham School | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
which looks after excluded children. At the entrance there is a scanner | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
to stop any weapons coming in. Why do you think someone | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
is going to carry a knife And today the pupils are also | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
hearing from Constable Rob Pedley. He's in different schools every week | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
as part of a campaign by West Midlands Police | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
to try to turn teenagers away If you go to your kitchen drawer | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
at home, take out one of the sharp knives, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
you are carrying the country's Staff here have enlisted Rob | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
and Alison because every day they are battling | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
to keep his children While we cannot show their faces, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
we were able to record their words. They know about knives being used | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
as initiation into gangs. When you take a beating, they only | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
have to stab you in the arm. Nathan spent most of his teens | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
in and out of young And has served jail | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
terms for knife crime. He has tried to turn his life around | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
and now as well as being a rapper, How are you going | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
to break that cycle? People who have been through things, | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
people who have gone to prison, real people who have been | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
in situations are the best people to help reform | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
people and give people, tell people about their experiences | :06:38. | :06:38. | |
and definitely workshops and help promote more awareness | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
about these things. And showing, you know what I mean, | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
looking at the consequences of why these things, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
what can happen. And as the mother of a murdered | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
son, Alison is calling for a different approach to stop | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
so many ruined lives. Looking at them as being scum | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
of society is not working. We need to step right | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
back to nine-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and guide them | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
in a better direction. It is going to be a big | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
old blue light, then. Around the country, | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
police are trying to crack And it will take a change | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
of mindset and culture As you said police believe they are | :07:12. | :07:33. | |
dealing with the crime but also a whole culture. Yes and last week the | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
most senior police officer, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
Cressida Dick said it would be about changing attitudes and behaviour and | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
to do that they need the help of individuals and organisations. So | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
the work of someone like Alison in that piece is so vital because as a | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
bereaved mother she can drive home the consequences of carrying knives. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Of course all young people are under peer pressure but some teenagers in | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
some parts of society when they leave home will pick up a knife in | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the same way as they pick up their mobile phone and that is the mindset | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
all anti-knife campaigners are trying to change and challenge. | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
Thank you very much. Just days after calls for him | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
to step down the chairman of the Grenfell Tower public inquiry | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
has promised to listen It comes as the government has sent | :08:19. | :08:33. | |
a task forced to run key parts of the council. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Our Special correspondent Lucy Manning reports. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
The missing posters have been here for three weeks. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
They flutter a painful reminder, because time has | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Now the police search through the 15 tonnes | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
of debris on each floor, still trying to find all the Grenfell | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Karim Musilly was at the meeting the police and coroner | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
He went over to comfort some young children, | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
I want that to stick and stay with the family. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
We may never know if my uncle is ever going to be | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
The family is just broken, you know, and... | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
This is something that can never be fixed and they want to | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
be able to bury their loved ones, pray for their loved ones, you know, | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
say goodbye in any way, shape or form, and it sounds like always | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
- all we are going to have is the brief on his flat, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
The police now say they have recovered all the | :09:49. | :10:02. | |
remains from the building that were visible, | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
and 87 recoveries, as they | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
put it, have been made, but they stressed because of the catastrophic | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
damage done that doesn't mean 87 people, and they still can't say how | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Meanwhile, survivors struggle carrying bags of donated | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Three weeks and you will have housing, was | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
This survivor didn't want to be identified, scared of being | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
I didn't take them up on the offer, they were very expensive to rent and | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
although they have promised that they were going to pay for a whole | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
year, I didn't have to pay for a year, | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
but after that I said, you | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
know, put it in writing, and they said the legal documents are not | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
People would prefer to stay in their emergency temporary | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
accommodation within hotels, and make one move into permanent | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
accommodation, so there have actually only been | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
You would like to move the children away | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
With the residents feeling scared and let down, the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
government has now sent in an external task force to run some | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
parts of the council, including housing. | :11:15. | :11:15. | |
Hearing the harrowing account of survivors has been the most | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
humbling and moving experience of my life. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
The families that I've met have been through unimaginable pain. | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
Today at the interest a six-year-old was named and Sheila Smith described | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
as a truly beautiful person. Lucy Manning, BBC News. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
The public sector pay cap was the subject of some fierce | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
exchanges in the House of Commons today. | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Theresa May suggested she won't back the lifting of the current one | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Labour accused the Prime Minister of 'recklessly exploiting | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
the goodwill' of teachers, nurses and other | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
We need to balance the need to be fair to public sector | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
To protect jobs in the public sector, and to be fair | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Instead of offering platitudes, offer some real help and real | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
support for those in work, young people, who deserves | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
better and deserve to be given more optimism, | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
So the argument is over what the country can afford. | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
Well, there are some new figures out today. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
According to the office for national statistics UK productivity has | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
dropped back to below what it was before | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Essentially, productivity is a measure of how much | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
wealth is created by every worker in Britain. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Let's talk to our economics editor Kamal Ahmed. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
What you make of these figures and how do they feed into this argument | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
about pay? Well there are disappointing, productivity has | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
fallen for the first three months of the year. That puts the UK again at | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
a disadvantage to the main competitors, productivity is far | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
better in America, Germany, and France. A stark illustration of that | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
in productivity if we look at the amount of value that workers | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
produce, for the amount of time it takes the UK worker to produce ?1 in | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
value from their work, a German worker produces ?1.36, so the German | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
economy is far more efficient, there is much more business investment in | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
making their businesses operate better. Productivity is important | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
because if we have good productivity figures it tends to feed through | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
into good wages. Looking at the wages, the history UK, we know that | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
people are struggling. If we look at wage growth from February to April | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
this year just 1.7%, in stark contrast to that figure, 2.8%, for | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
the past 16 years that. So wage growth being depressed by the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
productivity problem. And if you have poor productivity is bad for | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
economic growth, bad for tax receipts for the government and that | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
means the government has less income to spend on public services, those | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
services they were arguing about today in Westminster. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
A disabled refugee who was beaten to death and set alight | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
by his neighbour in Bristol four years ago - was repeatedly failed | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
That's the conclusion of the Independent Police | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Complaints Commission, who say officers ignored | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
The commission said there was evidence that "racial bias" | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
at the force affected the officers response. | :14:43. | :14:43. | |
the sisters of Bijan Ebrahimi have some more answers. | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
They've been told their vulnerable younger brother was repeatedly | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
failed by police in the years before he was murdered - treated | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Reading that report, it was devastating. | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
They say the list of failings has shocked them. | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
It was so hard to see Bijan all these years been suffering, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
He always thought that he's in a country that the police | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Don't you dare take pictures of me, all right... | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Today's report says Bijan didn't just fear for his life in the days | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
before he was murdered by this neighbour, Lee James... | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
But that he'd called police repeatedly from a number | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
of addresses over several years, asking for help. | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
But time and time again, he was ignored. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
What part of be quite do you not understand? | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Today's report runs to hundreds of pages, and it says this whole | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
case has laid bare what it calls the disrespect, the prejudice | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
and even contempt with which some officers and staff treated | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Bijan Ebrahimi in the days before he was murdered here. | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
Last year, PC Kevin Duffy and community support officer | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
Andrew Passmore were jailed after being convicted | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
PCs Leanne Winter and Helen Harris were cleared by the jury, | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
but were later sacked by a misconduct hearing. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
Bijan's family have raised questions about racism within the force. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
There are some hallmarks of discrimination that could be | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
There are overwhelming elements of evidence that indicate | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
this was discrimination against a very vulnerable man. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Avon and Somerset Police say this case has already | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
We accept that we failed Bijan Ebrahimi at his time | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
of greatest need, and throughout that time he was respectful | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
and he had confidence and trust in us, the police, | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
and we let him down, and for that, we are sorry. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
In this city, known for its tolerance, tonight | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
many questions remain, and four years after the murder | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
of Bijan Ebrahimi, there is still another major report | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
The rising tide of knife crime in Britain - | :17:12. | :17:28. | |
officers say there needs to be a change in attitudes | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
And still to come, Wimbledon on Wednesday has had the sunshine and a | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
very successful British centre court. | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
All the action from day three of Wimbledon, and there's | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
a new leader at the Tour de France, a familiar face too, | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
because the defending champion - Chris Froome - | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
has taken the leader's yellow jersey on stage five. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
It was one of the key issues in the recent election - | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
the cost of going to University and the debts students pile up. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Now a new study from the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Those from the poorest backgrounds will owe up to | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
And three-quarters of them will never clear it. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
However, the Government says that those from poorer backgrounds | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
are now going to university at a record rate - | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
Here's our education editor Branwen Jeffreys. | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
A sunny afternoon on campus, but in the background, | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Many students want tuition fees scrapped. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
I was the first year to experience the 9K debts. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
It means that many students will leave higher education | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
with a lifetime of debt that they will never | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
People I know have struggled to work and to continue | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Some of them have even been forced to drop out. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
We don't just need engineers, linguists, computer programmers | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
We also need people who generate culture, | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
people who think about society, imagine the new societies | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
?9,000 a year tuition fees, 6.1% interest from September; | :19:14. | :19:25. | |
a threshold frozen at ?21,000 in earnings to start to repay, | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
with up to ?57,000 in total debt for poorer students. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
They now have loans for living costs, not grants. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
The money from tuition fees has allowed universities to expand. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
And despite the tuition fee increases, growing numbers of young | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
people are applying to study for a degree. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
Well, today's report shows just how much the burden of debt has | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
increased for the poorest students, and for the first time in many | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
years, there's a different kind of political debate | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Still, ministers say this is about sharing the cost fairly. | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Between the individual student, who goes on in most circumstances | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
to have much higher lifetime earnings, and the general taxpayer, | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
who in many cases won't have had a chance to go to university | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Close to the university, the leafy Regent's Park | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Estate, people are working hard, paying taxes. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
People who get good jobs, solicitors, barristers and all that, | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
yeah, they can afford to pay it back. | :20:33. | :20:33. | |
But a lot of people leave college with good grades and find it very | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
The 3000 level was affordable to normal human beings, | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
ie not the rich, but 9000 is a little bit too | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
If they get the rewards at the end of it, then | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
obviously it's worth it, isn't it? | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
It's worth, I suppose, getting into debt. | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
I suppose there's two ways of looking at it. | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
There are indeed, and with more poor students dropping out, | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
The Italian government has made the latest offer to help | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
But the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, says that for legal | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
reasons it is impossible for him to be transferred to the Vatican's | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
Charlie Gard's parents have already lost their legal battle, | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
both here and in the European Court, to keep him alive against | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
the advice of doctors at the Great Ormond Street | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
A man has been found guilty of killing two former | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
52-year-old Robert Trigg was convicted of the murder | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
of Susan Nicholson in 2011, and the manslaughter | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
He had denied the charges, claiming they had died in their sleep. | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
Volvo will become the first major car manufacturer to ensure that | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
all models will be powered by either electric or hybrid | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
So-called 'alternative fuel vehicles' are currently the fasting | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
growing sector in the car market, although they still only make up | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Here's our transport correspondent Richard Westcott. | :22:05. | :22:14. | |
The shapes have changed a bit over the years, but thank goodness when | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
it comes to the Brown Allegro, but all these things have one thing in | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
common, an internal combustion engine, burning petrol or diesel. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
We've relied on it for 100 years, but is that about a change? Volvo | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
cars is taking a bold step forward, heralding the end of an era for the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
pure internal combustion engine. Volvo says all its new models will | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
be partly electric. Ambitious plans, but experts say it won't be quick. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Diesel and petrol will have a long life, yet a lot of people will | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
choose to adopt hybrids before they go all electric and during that time | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
back trees will improve, which will increase the range of miles you can | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
do, and prices will drop, which will make them more tenable for people to | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
buy. It will be quite a while before we see all electric cars as all cars | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
on the road. In fact, sales of alternative engines remain small. In | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
June last year, more than 8300 electric and hybrid vehicles were | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
registered in the UK. That increased to nearly 11,000 this year, but it | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
is still dwarfed by the quarter of a million petrol and diesel cars | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
people bought. This street sums up one of the big reasons that plug-in | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
cars haven't sold in any great numbers. Many of us live in houses | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
like this, we don't have garages, we live in flats, you often can't even | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
park near your house, so how are you supposed to charge your electric | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
car? Then there's the problem of topping | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
up mid-journey. Certainly some of the country is | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
better than others. Newcastle in the north-east, there's quite a lot of | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
charging infrastructure. Wales is very poor. To get to where we are, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
where we need to be, lots of different parties will have do come | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
together and put in charging points. Workplaces, businesses will need to | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
put it in for their staff, supermarkets, anyone with a public | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
car park available. Electric cars are getting cheaper with a better | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
range. It will be still some years yet before the internal combustion | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
engine drives off for good. Richard Westcott, BBC News. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
After injury retirements left the centre court crowd | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
shortchanged yesterday, Wimbledon promised | :24:26. | :24:26. | |
Sunshine, and the number 1 seed in the men's draw and the number 6 | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Quick tour, take in the band, hydrate with a friend... A healthy | :24:33. | :24:51. | |
snack. OK, not so healthy. You are here for the traditional, but also | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
the unusual. Two British players, woman and man, contender and | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
defender, both on Centre. Here was a match of true intensity. Johanna | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Konta at the top of the screen, the Croatian Donna Vekic at the other | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
end and the ball flying. Konte took the first set and took the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
tie-break. The trouble was, in the second set Konte could not hold her | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
serve does that she was broken again here and the set went to Vekic 6-3. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
The match had altered course, alarmingly. Flying ants on course, | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Vekic dealt with that opponent, but the tennis was relentless. This | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
match stretched on past three hours. Look at this point, in the 17th game | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
of the third set. Someone had to win, and quantum broke decisively. | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
-- Konte broke decisively. 10-8 in the final set, how it feels to give | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
everything and women, and to give everything and lose. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Well, compose yourself and prepare for more. Now it was Andy Murray. He | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
knew his second-round opponent well, good friends with Dustin Brown and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
new to expect the unexpected. That can mean really good tennis. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
But all the players took towels filled with ice to deal with high | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
temperatures on court, a diet of iced barbs is helping Murray get the | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
tournament and he had the greater consistency in the first set, taking | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
it 6-3. Back and forth it went in the second set, the difference | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
between the two players was that often Dustin Brown made the | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
mistakes. The set went to Murray, 6-2, moving pretty well. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Moving better and better. I can tell you Andy Murray raced through the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
third set and won 6-2 to complete victory in the match. He was on | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
court for one hour and 36 minutes. He can really enjoy his ice bath. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
All rows in a comfortable win for Andy Murray against Dustin Brown. | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
Also victories for Aljaz Bedene and Heather Watson, both through to | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
round three. Barely a cloud on the British horizon tonight, and Rafa | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Nadal just coming onto Centre Court. Thank you very much. | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
Barely a cloud he said. Yes, some had some sunscreen has been as | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
important as stories and green today. It has been a scorcher. | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
We peaked at around 29, tomorrow a similar story and those temperatures | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
set fair for the remainder of this week's play. Today, just under 30 | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
degrees in the south-east corner. Look where we saw some cloud, | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
disappointing, cold and grey for the far north-east. Through the night | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
like, those temperatures we have had through the day and not falling very | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
far at all. Mid-to high teens quite widely. It will be an uncomfortable | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
night if you're trying to get a decent night's sleep and some sharp | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
showers rolling through Northern Ireland, western Scotland and moving | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
up through the Channel coast as well. Some of them possibly heavy | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
thundery and still lingering through the early morning rush hour, close | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
to the M4 corridor. A warm start for many. There will be some sunshine in | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
East Anglia, and into Wales. Clouding over a little into the | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
North of England. For Northern Ireland, already though showers | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
easing away. They will be sitting across much of western Scotland. So | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
yes, some showers first thing in the morning but it is important to | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
emphasise that tomorrow is going to largely be dry, hot and sunny for | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
many of us. But as those temperatures start to climb into the | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
afternoon, there is a chance of one or two home-grown but isolated | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
showers. These really could be quite heavy if you catch one or two of | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
them. Hopefully they will stay fairly isolated. Look at the highs, | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
30 in the south-east. Mid-to high 20s across England and Wales, even | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
21 degrees, not bad, for Scotland, in comparison to what you have had | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
so far this week. A great story continues into Friday, clouding over | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
into the far north-west with signs of rain to come for the weekend. | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
Thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
news teams where you are. | :29:12. | :29:14. |