:00:14. > :00:17.This is a BBC News. The headlines. Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief
:00:17. > :00:22.executive of News International. She says she wants to concentrate
:00:22. > :00:26.on clearing her name. As I said when I called her resignation 10
:00:26. > :00:30.days ago, this isn't about one individual but the culture of
:00:30. > :00:34.organisation. Rupert Murdoch meet the family of
:00:34. > :00:38.murdered teenager Milly Dowler. He gives what is described as a humble
:00:38. > :00:43.apology. We will have the latest
:00:44. > :00:46.developments in another dramatic day in the scandal. Also coming up:
:00:46. > :00:49.an investigation into three suspicious deaths at Stockport
:00:49. > :00:54.hospital. Police say solution was
:00:54. > :00:58.deliberately tampered with. A strike at the BBC. News services
:00:58. > :01:04.are disrupted as journalists take industrial action over compulsory
:01:04. > :01:12.redundancies. Europe's biggest ever lottery winners celebrate landing
:01:12. > :01:22.�161 million. We were tickled pink! The whole notion of winning so much
:01:22. > :01:33.
:01:34. > :01:37.Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News
:01:37. > :01:42.International. She faces allegation over her role in the phone hacking
:01:43. > :01:46.scandal. And illegal payments to police officers. In a statement she
:01:46. > :01:50.said Geller deep responsibility for the people who had been hurt. She
:01:50. > :01:54.wanted to concentrate on defending a record. This afternoon, Rupert
:01:54. > :02:00.Murdoch apologised to the family of Milly Dowler. The revelations about
:02:00. > :02:04.a can of her phone sparked the crisis. This report contains flash
:02:05. > :02:08.photography. She is the most high-profile
:02:08. > :02:12.casualties so far in the scandal which has spread to both sides of
:02:13. > :02:17.the Atlantic. For the past 10 days, she has been at the heart of the
:02:17. > :02:21.storm which has swept Rupert Murdoch media empire and remained
:02:21. > :02:31.by his side. Today she decided to step down. In her statement she
:02:31. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:47.I am pleased that Rebekah Brooks has finally accepted responsibility
:02:47. > :02:52.for what happened on her watch as editor of the News of the World,
:02:52. > :02:56.backing of the phones of Milly Dowler for example. When I called
:02:56. > :03:00.for her resignation 10 days ago, this isn't about one individual but
:03:00. > :03:06.the culture of an organisation. man picked up to replace her is
:03:06. > :03:10.already at his desk. He has been brought in from Sky TV in Italy.
:03:10. > :03:20.Writing to all at News International staff, James Murdoch
:03:20. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:35.thanked Rebekah books for 22 years -- Rebekah box. Not a view echoed
:03:35. > :03:36.
:03:36. > :03:41.in the House of Lords where she was referred to. She said she likes to
:03:41. > :03:44.be on the bridge. I was a seafarer for 10 years. I would like her on
:03:44. > :03:49.the bridge if you didn't know what direction she was going in. That is
:03:49. > :03:53.why she is gone, thank God. This afternoon, Rupert Murdoch acted to
:03:53. > :03:56.underline the apology offered by his former chief executive.
:03:56. > :04:00.Travelling across London to meet the family who lost their daughter
:04:00. > :04:05.and who are amongst the alleged targets of his paper's phone
:04:05. > :04:10.hacking. The shock expressed by Milly Dowler's family has fuelled a
:04:10. > :04:15.sense of national outrage. Mr Murdoch emerged after one hour to a
:04:15. > :04:22.barrage of questions. The lawyer eventually gave details of the
:04:22. > :04:32.conversation. He was humbled to give a full and a sincere apology
:04:32. > :04:33.
:04:33. > :04:39.to the Dowler family. We told him that his papers should lead the way,
:04:39. > :04:43.to set the standard of honesty and decency in the field, and not what
:04:43. > :04:49.had gone on before. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch the signature will
:04:49. > :04:51.appear on a further apology in every main national newspaper. The
:04:51. > :04:56.News of the World was in the business of holding others to
:04:56. > :05:00.account, he says. It failed when it came to itself. Rebekah Brooks may
:05:00. > :05:03.have left the bridge but her role in this developing story and her
:05:03. > :05:09.forthcoming appearance with her former employers at next week's
:05:09. > :05:13.select committee will ensure she remains in the headlines.
:05:13. > :05:17.Rebekah Brooks had worked for News International for 22 years before
:05:17. > :05:22.becoming chief executive. She edited its most popular tabloid
:05:22. > :05:26.titles. We look back at her career. Rebekah Brooks was closer to Rupert
:05:26. > :05:31.Murdoch and his own daughters, some said. She was close to his son,
:05:31. > :05:37.James, who runs the UK business. Even at Rupert's patronage couldn't
:05:37. > :05:41.save her. She took over the News of the World in 2000. She was
:05:41. > :05:45.Britain's youngest national editor at 32. Campaigns like Sarah's law,
:05:45. > :05:51.naming and shaming paedophiles, showed she was not afraid of
:05:51. > :05:55.controversy. The papers are on the side of protecting children and not
:05:55. > :06:00.the rights of paedophiles, and I strongly believe the public are
:06:00. > :06:06.behind us. A former colleague on the news of the World says she is
:06:06. > :06:12.tough and talented. She got to the top because she is ambitious. Some
:06:12. > :06:17.people might say ruthless. Others would say talented. She was
:06:17. > :06:21.certainly a person that did stand out. Rebekah Brooks is a well-
:06:21. > :06:25.connected woman, knowing its celebrities and politicians. Her
:06:25. > :06:30.former husband is a Ross Kemp. She was on good terms with more than
:06:30. > :06:35.one prime minister. Tony Blair. And the current Prime Minister, David
:06:35. > :06:41.Cameron. She would get on with Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David
:06:41. > :06:51.Cameron. They know that she says what she believes. As opposed to
:06:51. > :06:55.many people. Her friendships brought to access, influence and
:06:55. > :06:58.stories. But she made mistakes balls-up this admission to a
:06:58. > :07:03.parliamentary committee was one. have paid the police in the past
:07:04. > :07:07.for information. That is against the law. Her successor resigned as
:07:07. > :07:11.editor over the phone hacking scandal but Rebekah Brooks was
:07:11. > :07:15.promoted to News International's chief executive, denying all
:07:16. > :07:21.knowledge of wrong doing. Critics were not impressed. It is
:07:21. > :07:24.inexplicable to me that Rupert Murdoch has this strange
:07:24. > :07:31.affiliation with her because she wasn't that a brilliant as an
:07:31. > :07:35.editor. For example, she turned down a huge leak about the MPs
:07:35. > :07:39.expenses on the grounds that there wasn't enough sex in it. Of course,
:07:39. > :07:45.the Telegraph got the story. That's not very good. She seemed to think
:07:45. > :07:51.every story had to be about sex. No. Now the woman who had become a
:07:51. > :07:56.lightning rod for public anger has gone.
:07:57. > :08:00.Tom Barton is at Westminster. Earlier, you were at at hotel where
:08:00. > :08:05.the meeting between Rupert Murdoch and the Dowler family took place.
:08:05. > :08:12.It seems as though, overnight, Rupert Murdoch decided this was the
:08:12. > :08:17.day of apologies. Yes, Chris Comber it is hard to know for sure what
:08:17. > :08:20.led to this run of decisions by Rupert Murdoch and News
:08:20. > :08:24.International, first the announcement this morning before
:08:24. > :08:28.10am that Rebekah Brooks was stepping down as the chief
:08:28. > :08:36.executive of News International. At some point this morning, but calls
:08:36. > :08:41.also made from News International's lawyers to the lawyer for the
:08:41. > :08:46.Dowler family. They said Rupert wants to meet you. That meeting was
:08:46. > :08:52.set up for this afternoon. An extraordinary meeting at the end of
:08:52. > :08:56.an extraordinary 10 days. A meeting in which Mr Murdoch apologised to
:08:56. > :09:03.the Dowler family, he put his head in his hands several times, he
:09:03. > :09:09.looked humbled and shaken according to the family lawyer, who was in
:09:09. > :09:14.that meeting. That apology, of course, to be repeated tomorrow in
:09:14. > :09:18.the national newspapers. Everyone in the country, to print that
:09:18. > :09:25.personally signed apology by Rupert Murdoch. It has been an
:09:25. > :09:29.extraordinary day. I think one in which the Murdoch family, News Corp,
:09:29. > :09:36.News International will all be hoping they can begin finally to
:09:36. > :09:41.draw a line under what has been the most astonishing 10 days about the
:09:41. > :09:45.media. May be drawing a line under that but of course the questions
:09:45. > :09:50.will be asked from Tuesday when they come face to face for a
:09:51. > :09:55.grilling. Absolutely it. No matter how hard they tried to draw the
:09:55. > :10:01.line and the story, it seems that it keeps coming back. The sense
:10:01. > :10:07.amongst MPs and Peers here in Westminster is that everything the
:10:07. > :10:12.Murdoch family do is too little too late. It almost feels, to many who
:10:12. > :10:17.have been watching the story, who have been campaigning against the
:10:17. > :10:25.Murdochs, and against the actions of the News of the World, they're
:10:25. > :10:28.only doing things when it feels like they are forced to. They are
:10:28. > :10:33.hoping this will draw a line under it but no matter how hard they hope,
:10:33. > :10:38.there is no getting away from the fact, Tuesday next week, both James
:10:38. > :10:42.Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch, senior figures in News Corp, will be in
:10:42. > :10:47.front of MPs facing the culture of Media and Sport Committee. There
:10:47. > :10:51.will be Rebekah Brooks, because when she accepted that invitation
:10:51. > :10:54.she was chief executive of News International. She is no longer
:10:54. > :11:00.chief-executive of News International but has indicated she
:11:00. > :11:05.will still appear and it will be fascinating to see if her leaving
:11:05. > :11:10.the company, will in any way influenced what she has to say to
:11:10. > :11:17.that committee. How she response to M Ps, under what will be,
:11:17. > :11:21.inevitably, a very tough grilling. Tom, thank you.
:11:21. > :11:25.Police are investigating the deaths of three patients at Stepping Hill
:11:25. > :11:29.Hospital in Stockport after staff discovered vials of saline had been
:11:29. > :11:33.tampered with. A further 11 patients have been affected but are
:11:33. > :11:38.not seriously harmed. John Williams has the story.
:11:38. > :11:41.Staff at the hospital contacted police on Tuesday after patients on
:11:41. > :11:45.one ward were found to have unexplained low blood sugar levels.
:11:45. > :11:48.Detectives believe they were wrongly given insulin after their
:11:48. > :11:54.medication was tampered with. The police say someone had done so
:11:54. > :12:00.deliberately. Over the past two days, our major incident team,
:12:00. > :12:04.having now identified potentially three suspicious deaths, all
:12:04. > :12:09.involving a 44-year-old woman, and two involving males in the
:12:09. > :12:13.Seventies and Eighties. Detectives believe saline used to treat
:12:13. > :12:17.dehydration, patients are not able to take food and liquid orally, had
:12:17. > :12:22.been contaminated with insulin. Health service managers say the
:12:22. > :12:25.hospital is safe. It was the start who brought this matter to our
:12:25. > :12:29.attention and I have asked them to be extra vigilant to help safeguard
:12:29. > :12:34.patients. We have increased security in terms of access to the
:12:34. > :12:40.hospital and to medicine and replaced all saline drips in the
:12:40. > :12:45.hospital. Patrols at the hospital have been stepped up but at one
:12:45. > :12:50.place, people should feel most cared for, police say.
:12:50. > :12:53.A main opposition groups in Libya have been recognised as the
:12:53. > :12:55.country's legitimate government by America and the Alliance of
:12:55. > :12:59.countries seeking the removal of its leader Colonel Gaddafi. The
:12:59. > :13:04.announcement came at a special meeting in Istanbul of so-called
:13:04. > :13:08.Contact Group's. Top officials for the US, Britain
:13:08. > :13:13.and 40 countries and organisations meeting in Istanbul have reached a
:13:13. > :13:19.historic decision. To formally recognise the Transitional National
:13:19. > :13:23.Council, as the country's legitimate representatives.
:13:23. > :13:27.assurances they offered today reinforce our confidence that it is
:13:27. > :13:32.the appropriate interlock government for the USA in dealing
:13:32. > :13:39.with Libya's present and future. That is why I announced earlier
:13:39. > :13:43.that, until authority is in place, the USA will recognise the TMC as
:13:43. > :13:50.the legitimate government authority for Libya. We will deal with it on
:13:50. > :13:54.that basis. It came as NATO called for increased efforts to find and
:13:54. > :13:59.destroy Colonel Gaddafi's remaining weaponry. Britain is sending four
:13:59. > :14:02.more tornadoes strike jets equipped with sophisticated sensor pods.
:14:02. > :14:07.These can detect movement and weapons at some distance, allowing
:14:07. > :14:12.them to be targeted. Britain's Defence Secretary denied that
:14:12. > :14:15.NATO's campaign was running out of steam. We have been intensifying
:14:15. > :14:19.our campaign against the Libyan regime. We have been selecting
:14:19. > :14:24.targets to ram home the message that we are very serious, Colonel
:14:24. > :14:28.Gaddafi needs to stop the violence he is inflicting on his own people.
:14:28. > :14:33.The international community has international law and military
:14:33. > :14:37.capabilities but above all else, we have the resolve to see it through.
:14:37. > :14:41.Britain's Ministry of Defence says the additional tornadoes are a
:14:41. > :14:48.temporary deployment lasting just one month. Few are prepared to bet
:14:48. > :14:53.for certain that Colonel Gaddafi regime will be over in 30 days.
:14:53. > :14:58.Let's go to Washington to talk to our Correspondent there. Colonel
:14:58. > :15:04.Gaddafi has already dismissed the recognition, as expected, but how
:15:04. > :15:11.significant is it? Very significant. It is the final step in what has
:15:11. > :15:14.been a very slow evolution in the way the USA has dealt with the
:15:14. > :15:19.Libyan Transitional National Council, the rebel opposition group.
:15:19. > :15:27.It started with Washington a few months ago, acknowledging them as a
:15:27. > :15:32.representative, of the Libyan people. It then moved on at some
:15:32. > :15:37.point last month, to the USA saying they were the sole legitimate
:15:37. > :15:43.representative of the Libyan people. And now we have this final step,
:15:43. > :15:47.which is the USA saying and recognising them as the legitimate
:15:47. > :15:51.governing authority and that is different from saying that they are
:15:51. > :15:56.a legitimate government because the USA doesn't recognise governments
:15:56. > :16:01.but States. It needs to find a way to boost the credibility of the T N
:16:01. > :16:05.S C so it has chosen this wording of governing authority for this
:16:05. > :16:15.interim period until Colonel Gaddafi steps down and is removed
:16:15. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:22.from power. The Nato-led military Yes, there does not seem to be a
:16:22. > :16:26.military outcome to this in the near future, unless we see some
:16:27. > :16:32.sort of action on the ground in the coming weeks also. It is not clear
:16:32. > :16:35.how this ends. It is probably why Washington has taken this
:16:35. > :16:39.additional step in boosting the opposition in Libya, because this
:16:39. > :16:47.step will allow, not only the United States, but other countries
:16:47. > :16:53.around the world which deal with the TMC, to unlock frozen assets,
:16:53. > :16:59.some $30 billion which were frozen after the war started. The money is
:16:59. > :17:02.badly-needed to help the TMC boost their credibility in areas where
:17:02. > :17:08.they are operating, where they have to provide services to keep people
:17:08. > :17:12.fed and happy and enable them also to fight on the ground. We heard
:17:12. > :17:16.Hillary Clinton speaking from the meeting earlier, we are aware that
:17:16. > :17:20.America slipped back after the initial phase of the military
:17:21. > :17:25.campaign in Libya, just how much notice are the American people
:17:25. > :17:30.giving the campaign in Libya and how involved is the White House?
:17:30. > :17:36.The White House is very involved. United States is a key NATO member,
:17:36. > :17:41.but they have wanted to make sure that their NATO partners take
:17:41. > :17:46.responsibility, take their fair share of the load when it comes to
:17:46. > :17:50.fighting this war in Libya, to protect civilians. There is some
:17:50. > :17:56.dispute about whether it is only about protecting civilians or only
:17:56. > :17:59.about removing Colonel Gaddafi from power. The United States is coming
:17:59. > :18:05.under criticism that it is not going all the way, that it is not
:18:05. > :18:10.doing enough to move there so long. This is a country that is facing
:18:10. > :18:14.increased economic crisis and it simply cannot put itself forward as
:18:15. > :18:20.much as it did before and it wants its European allies to take a fair
:18:20. > :18:28.share of the low does well. That means it is taking much longer that
:18:28. > :18:32.-- than many people had anticipated. Thank you.
:18:32. > :18:36.The News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch has met the family of the
:18:36. > :18:41.murdered teenager Milly Dowler, to say sorry to them personally about
:18:41. > :18:46.the phone hacking. Tomorrow, a series of News
:18:46. > :18:48.International advertisements will appear in the papers apologising
:18:48. > :18:53.for what the Murdoch's call serious wrong doings that the News of the
:18:53. > :18:57.World. And Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief
:18:57. > :19:01.of News International. She says she feels a deep responsibility for the
:19:02. > :19:06.people hurt in the phone hacking scandal.
:19:06. > :19:10.Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a 24 hour strike in a
:19:10. > :19:15.dispute over compulsory redundancies. The walkout began at
:19:15. > :19:19.midnight and is affecting news services on television, radio and
:19:19. > :19:25.online. The BBC says it is disappointed by the action. What do
:19:25. > :19:28.want? Save our jobs. Pickets were outside the BBC in
:19:28. > :19:33.Cardiff today and at regional centres and local radio stations
:19:33. > :19:38.across Britain. The National Union of journalists described the strike
:19:38. > :19:42.as solid. Nobody wants to go on strike and lose a day's pay but
:19:42. > :19:47.management have left us with no option. At Television Centre in
:19:47. > :19:52.west London, managers and none striking staff worked to put out
:19:52. > :19:57.news programmes but services were affected. Some programme guests
:19:57. > :20:01.refused to cross picket lines. The strikes are over compulsory
:20:01. > :20:05.redundancies at Bush House, the headquarters of the World Service
:20:05. > :20:09.and the BBC Monitoring Centre at Caversham, brought on by government
:20:09. > :20:14.cuts to their grants. The NUJ says no one should be forced to leave if
:20:14. > :20:19.they do not want to. Management says that is not practical. In a
:20:19. > :20:22.statement, the BBC said, we apologise to our audience for any
:20:22. > :20:27.destruction this may cause. Industrial action will not alter
:20:27. > :20:31.the fact that the BBC is faced with a number of potential redundancies.
:20:31. > :20:37.Lucy Adams, the director of business operations said in an
:20:37. > :20:41.email, no business of our size could commit to such a policy. The
:20:41. > :20:48.NUJ has criticised the BBC for refusing to use the conciliation
:20:48. > :20:52.service ACAS, to find a way forward. It calls the BBC stance stubborn.
:20:52. > :20:59.Plans are being drawn up for big cuts across the organisation which
:20:59. > :21:03.will mean more job losses and possibly, more strikes.
:21:03. > :21:07.Eight European banks have failed tests to see how they would cope
:21:07. > :21:14.with any future financial meltdown. 90 banks, including four from the
:21:14. > :21:18.UK, had their finances examined in detail by the European Banking
:21:18. > :21:22.Authority. Five banks from Spain, two from Greece and one from
:21:22. > :21:26.Austria failed the test. All four UK banks were given a clean bill of
:21:26. > :21:31.health. Charlie Gilmour, the adopted son of
:21:31. > :21:36.the print -- Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for
:21:36. > :21:41.violent disorder. He was arrested last year after protests against
:21:41. > :21:46.student tuition fees. �15 million has been raised for
:21:46. > :21:48.victims of the worst drought in East Africa for six decades. The
:21:48. > :21:53.Disasters Emergency Committee so that is not enough to help the
:21:53. > :21:57.estimated 10 million people who are fighting famine and disease. Clive
:21:57. > :21:59.Myrie has been travelling through some of the worst affected areas in
:21:59. > :22:05.northern Kenya from where he sent this report.
:22:05. > :22:09.This is north-eastern Kenya, one of the poorest parts of the country,
:22:09. > :22:14.the landscape parched, the allowance -- lives of the people
:22:14. > :22:23.blighted by drought. In one hospital in the district of
:22:23. > :22:29.Habaswein, we found three-month-old Umi, she weighs less than a bag of
:22:29. > :22:39.sugar, less than half the weight of a healthy newborn child. The weight
:22:39. > :22:44.of her mother meant she was weak at birth. My daughter is a live now
:22:44. > :22:50.but I worry about how we take her home. We have so little. In the bed
:22:50. > :22:54.opposite, another mother consumed by malnutrition. She gave birth
:22:54. > :23:01.just before we arrived at the hospital but she is grieving. Her
:23:01. > :23:07.son was buried an hour ago. Azumi clings to life. She is a source of
:23:07. > :23:12.pride for a father. Later, he took us to a village and explained how
:23:12. > :23:18.the drought had wrecked lives. All our animals are dead, there is no
:23:18. > :23:23.grazing pasture, he said, because there is no rain. We have nothing.
:23:23. > :23:27.A short walk away, rotting animal carcasses bake in the sun.
:23:28. > :23:32.This village is typical of so many communities of this part of rural,
:23:32. > :23:37.north-eastern Kenya, reliant on livestock for everything, for milk
:23:37. > :23:40.and fruit and if the animals are sold for an income. Normally, this
:23:40. > :23:45.area would be teeming with cattle and goats but it is completely
:23:45. > :23:53.empty. Dusty roads around here twist
:23:53. > :23:59.through a land that has not seen rain for close to three years. We
:23:59. > :24:04.found an outreach clinic in a village. This child is hot, tired
:24:04. > :24:09.and underfed. This card says he is severely malnourished? He is
:24:09. > :24:14.severely malnourished, yes. with the right food supplements, he
:24:14. > :24:18.and so many others can survive. Already, the generosity of the
:24:18. > :24:24.British public means we are saving children's lives but we can address
:24:24. > :24:31.the underlying causes. We can help the communities rebuild their lives,
:24:31. > :24:36.harvest and build reservoirs when it finally rains. Help came too
:24:36. > :24:42.late for baby Mohammed, buried at just 20 days old. The sharp twigs
:24:42. > :24:51.around his grave are to stop hyenas digging up his body. But it is not
:24:51. > :24:56.too late to save others, if the world acts now.
:24:56. > :25:00.You are watching BBC News. A couple from Falkirk have emerged as the
:25:00. > :25:08.winners of the record-breaking Euromillions jackpot. Tuesday's
:25:08. > :25:15.prize of more than �161 million was Europe's over -- biggest ever. This
:25:15. > :25:21.report contains flash photography. They say they are just a normal
:25:21. > :25:26.family, not flashy, not celebrities. But Colin and Chris Weir, a retired
:25:26. > :25:31.TV cameraman and a former nurse are now one of Britain's wealthiest
:25:31. > :25:35.couples. It was some hours after Tuesday's draw when Chris realised
:25:35. > :25:39.she had the winning ticket. They were still checking the numbers
:25:39. > :25:44.when the dawn broke. We could see the sun coming up and it was just
:25:44. > :25:51.magical but we could not sleep, we were absolutely full of adrenalin.
:25:51. > :25:56.We even opened a bottle of wine and I do not drink! Here, those you
:25:56. > :26:01.root millions results now! With morning came the confirmation that
:26:01. > :26:07.they had won the jackpot, after weeks of rollover as. The wind
:26:07. > :26:11.catapults the couple to 130th on the Sunday Times Rich List, still
:26:11. > :26:15.some way behind the combined wealth of David and Victoria Beckham. They
:26:15. > :26:19.would have preferred not to go public but did not think they could
:26:19. > :26:25.keep their massive win secret but they want to enjoy it. We are not
:26:25. > :26:29.scared of it. It will be fantastic and so much fun. They are
:26:29. > :26:35.determined to do some good with their windfall. They do not plan to
:26:35. > :26:38.move house but there is talk of foreign travel and maybe a new car.
:26:38. > :26:44.I do not think we will be immediately swapping cars. If you
:26:44. > :26:49.have got a reliable car, what is the point? I will be swapping cars!
:26:49. > :26:53.And one of the first things they intend to buy? Eight ticket for the
:26:53. > :26:59.next draw. And that is a round-up of the day's
:26:59. > :27:03.news here on BBC News. One more story to bring you. The
:27:03. > :27:07.Queen has paid tribute today to the code-breakers who worked at
:27:07. > :27:11.Bletchley Park, the top secret cypher station which broke the
:27:11. > :27:15.German Enigma codes in the Second World War. She unveiled a memorial
:27:15. > :27:18.to the men and women who worked there and made such an important
:27:18. > :27:22.contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany.
:27:22. > :27:26.They were some of the darkest days of the Second World War, when
:27:27. > :27:30.Britain's survival was in the balance. Out in the Atlantic, the
:27:30. > :27:34.shipping convoys bringing essential supplies, the food without which
:27:34. > :27:38.the population would staff, the munitions without which the war
:27:38. > :27:44.effort would collapse, were being sunk by German submarines. The U-
:27:44. > :27:48.boats which had a largely free rein to plunder convoys that will. Adolf
:27:48. > :27:53.Hitler's Nazi Germany was in danger of winning. Britain desperately-
:27:53. > :27:57.needed a breakthrough to survive. It happened here in the secluded
:27:57. > :28:03.countryside 40 miles north of London. This is Bletchley Park,
:28:03. > :28:08.quiet and rather overlooked now. 70 years ago, these prefabricated hut
:28:08. > :28:11.were part of Britain's most vital establishment. It was here people
:28:11. > :28:16.break the codes of the German military. The country's most
:28:16. > :28:21.brilliant mathematicians, crossword experts and linguist were brought
:28:21. > :28:26.together to solve the messages of this, the supposedly impenetrable
:28:26. > :28:31.German cypher machine known as enigma. A British-built this. It
:28:31. > :28:36.was called colossus and it is generally considered to be the
:28:36. > :28:40.world's first computer. With it, codes which had taken the code-
:28:40. > :28:50.breakers six days to crack by hand could now be broken in a matter of
:28:50. > :28:51.
:28:51. > :28:56.Hello, if you had the sunshine, make the most of it. There will be
:28:56. > :29:00.spells of rain and showers and the temperatures will be coming down.
:29:00. > :29:04.This does not look like a chart we would expect in mid- July. Because
:29:04. > :29:08.of the low pressure, the wind will pick up. Tomorrow, the wettest
:29:08. > :29:14.weather will be in southern and eastern England. A band of heavy
:29:14. > :29:18.rain will move on three and elsewhere a rash of showers. By 4
:29:18. > :29:23.o'clock, we are into brighter, showery weather through North East
:29:23. > :29:27.England, the Midlands and East Anglia. The last of the rain will
:29:27. > :29:33.depart in the South East into Kent. Elsewhere along the south coast it
:29:33. > :29:38.is blustery. Showers will be hit and miss it nature. Dry and bright
:29:38. > :29:42.spells in between. Sunshine and between the showers in Wales and
:29:42. > :29:45.north-west England. They are driven along by a brisk wind. The range of
:29:45. > :29:52.not last too long. For Northern Ireland, the showers moved through