:00:13. > :00:16.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. A media empire
:00:16. > :00:18.brought to account. Rupert Murdoch and his son James face tough
:00:18. > :00:24.questions from MPs. There's contrition but no admission of
:00:24. > :00:30.responsibility for the alleged hacking at the News of the World.
:00:30. > :00:39.This is the most humble day of my career. In all that has happened, I
:00:39. > :00:43.know we needed to be here today. There is drama in the committee
:00:43. > :00:49.room as a protester tries to attack Rupert Murdoch. His Chinese-born
:00:49. > :00:54.wife retaliate. Proceedings are suspended. Next up, Rebekah Brooks,
:00:54. > :00:58.former chief executive of News International. She tells MPs she
:00:58. > :01:04.was repeatedly told at the News of the World that allegations of phone
:01:04. > :01:14.hacking were untrue. As one of the world's largest media organisations,
:01:14. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:24.we ask where now for Rupert Murdoch Hello and welcome to Westminster,
:01:24. > :01:28.where it has been a dramatic day. Rupert Murdoch, one of the most
:01:28. > :01:33.important and powerful media moguls in the world, said it was a
:01:33. > :01:37.humbling day for him as he apologised to MPs for the scandal
:01:37. > :01:42.that has engulfed his empire. The proceedings were momentarily
:01:42. > :01:49.suspended almost at the end of the hearings, when a protester with a
:01:49. > :01:59.custard pie of shaving foam tried to attack Mr Murdoch. His Chinese-
:01:59. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:02.born wife, Wendi Deng, slapped the protests are down. After that,
:02:02. > :02:08.Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, a
:02:08. > :02:12.woman who was arrested by police on Sunday, was taking questions by MPs.
:02:12. > :02:17.She denied any personal knowledge of paying police officers and said
:02:17. > :02:22.she had not done so herself. She was also asked about the Milly
:02:22. > :02:26.Dowler case, and said that although she was on holiday it was on her
:02:26. > :02:36.watch and she took responsibility. Let's get an update on the
:02:36. > :02:37.
:02:37. > :02:41.proceedings today. Moment when two of the world's most
:02:41. > :02:47.powerful media moguls, Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch,
:02:47. > :02:57.arrived to be held to account by MPs about the way the News of the
:02:57. > :02:57.
:02:57. > :03:02.World systematically invaded the privacy of individuals. So, after
:03:02. > :03:06.decades of wielding huge power at the top of the British UN global
:03:06. > :03:13.media industry, how was it for Rupert Murdoch? I would just like
:03:13. > :03:16.to say one sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. This is
:03:16. > :03:22.Fleet Street reporting on rottenness at the heart of Fleet
:03:22. > :03:28.Street, the media directing a lens at the UK's biggest UK newspaper
:03:28. > :03:31.company. There has never been anything quite like it. So what did
:03:31. > :03:36.the Murdochs know about the alleged abuses at the News of the World?
:03:36. > :03:42.Watched by his wife Wendi Deng in the chair behind, not as much as
:03:42. > :03:48.you might think, said Rupert Murdoch. Can I just say something?
:03:49. > :03:56.This is not as an excuse, maybe explanation, the News of the World
:03:56. > :04:04.did less than 1% of our company, I employee 50,000 people around the
:04:04. > :04:14.world who are great and ethical and distinguished people, professionals,
:04:14. > :04:14.
:04:14. > :04:20.and perhaps I am spread watching and appointing people whom I trust.
:04:20. > :04:23.The revelation only 15 days ago of the alleged phone hacking of Milly
:04:23. > :04:29.Dowler at the instigation of the News of the World is why the
:04:29. > :04:39.Murdochs have to explain themselves. At what point did you find out
:04:39. > :04:39.
:04:39. > :04:47.criminality was endemic at the News of the World? Endemic is a very
:04:47. > :04:55.wide-ranging word, and I also have to be extremely careful not to
:04:55. > :05:05.prejudice the course of justice which is taking place now. That
:05:05. > :05:12.which has been disclosed, I became aware as apparent. I was absolutely
:05:12. > :05:16.shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case
:05:16. > :05:22.only two weeks ago. But was there a cover-up? Given that most of the
:05:22. > :05:29.alleged phone hacking and illegal bribing a police happened between
:05:29. > :05:33.2002-2006. James Murdoch says he was not made aware of the contents
:05:34. > :05:37.of News of the World females uncovered earlier that year. If I
:05:37. > :05:43.knew then what we know now, with the benefit of hindsight we can
:05:43. > :05:47.look at these things, but if I knew then what I knew now we would have
:05:48. > :05:53.taken more action around that and move faster to get to the bottom of
:05:54. > :06:00.these allegations. He said he replied -- relied on advice by
:06:00. > :06:06.lawyer's Harbottle & Lewis. One of the things I went back and looked
:06:06. > :06:10.at was that file and it was looked at again, opened up, and it was
:06:10. > :06:16.rapidly brought to our attention that this was something week...
:06:16. > :06:26.When did this happen? For again, between April, May, June, that
:06:26. > :06:38.
:06:39. > :06:44.period. Was it given to police on June 20th? yes. Is it not time for
:06:44. > :06:49.your organisation to say do your worst. You behaved disgracefully,
:06:49. > :06:55.we are not going to pay any more of your cost? I would like to do that,
:06:55. > :07:00.I don't know the status of what we are doing or indeed what his
:07:00. > :07:07.contract was. What other friends in high places of Mr Murdoch, the long
:07:07. > :07:14.seen breaker and maker of prime ministers? I was invited within
:07:14. > :07:19.days to have a cup of tea in support of David Cameron. No other
:07:19. > :07:23.conversation took place. The from high drama to the circus, a custard
:07:23. > :07:33.pie in the face of the shaken tycoon. Have you considered
:07:33. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:43.resigning? Know. Why not? Because I feel that people, I am not saying
:07:43. > :07:49.who, have let me down, behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company
:07:49. > :07:54.and me and it is for them to pay. Frankly, I am the best person to
:07:54. > :07:58.clean this up. Many questions are still unanswered about who
:07:58. > :08:03.committed the appalling that at the News of the World and who knew what
:08:03. > :08:08.when. The Murdochs were probably seen to be bruised but not broken
:08:08. > :08:12.by today's ordeal, now they will have to wait for the results of
:08:12. > :08:16.investigations by the judge and the police.
:08:16. > :08:21.Let's get the thought of two people intimately involved with the
:08:21. > :08:25.political spinning machine when it comes to dealing with media
:08:25. > :08:28.operations. We will go to them in a moment, but first Rebekah Brooks is
:08:28. > :08:34.still giving evidence to this committee and she has been talking
:08:34. > :08:40.in more detail about Milly Dowler. Let's see what she said. I don't
:08:40. > :08:45.know anyone in their right mind who would authorise, no, sanction,
:08:45. > :08:49.approve of anyone listening to the voice mails of Milly Dowler in
:08:49. > :08:54.those circumstances. I don't know anyone who would think it was a
:08:55. > :08:59.right and proper thing to do at this time or any time. I know we
:08:59. > :09:03.know a lot more now, but that is all I can tell you. Rebekah Brooks
:09:03. > :09:09.is still giving evidence to that committee, we expect that to go on
:09:09. > :09:12.for another 15 minutes. Let's catch up with these two media specialists.
:09:12. > :09:14.George Eustice is a Conservative Member of Parliament and former
:09:14. > :09:24.press secretary to David Cameron. And Lance Price is former director
:09:24. > :09:29.of communications for the Labour party. George, if I can start with
:09:29. > :09:34.you. A lot of anticipation about what they would say today, we have
:09:34. > :09:39.seen them in the flesh now, what did you make of their strategy in
:09:39. > :09:43.terms of dealing with these allegations head-on? I don't think
:09:43. > :09:47.their appearance today would have done them any harm at all. News
:09:47. > :09:51.International is in a serious position, and we had protesters
:09:51. > :09:55.outside talking about the evil Murdoch empire, this shadowy
:09:55. > :10:00.organisation, but what most people would have felt is that here we had
:10:00. > :10:07.a rather frail man, like any other eight year-old man you might expect
:10:08. > :10:11.to meet, and his son. I don't think any remarkable came out of their
:10:11. > :10:16.interviews but I think it was right for them to appear. They did not
:10:16. > :10:22.want to appear originally and said the dates were not convenient. But
:10:22. > :10:26.on that human level, there was a frailty, wasn't there? Do you get
:10:26. > :10:30.the impression that father and son were trying to protect each other,
:10:30. > :10:35.and actually Rupert Murdoch's handling of the empire now was very
:10:35. > :10:40.much more hands-off than it would have been 15 years ago? Yes, he has
:10:40. > :10:46.already handed over a lot of the power of European operations to his
:10:46. > :10:49.son, James, and you got a sense from some of the MPs that they were
:10:49. > :10:54.incredulous that the man of the top, Rupert Murdoch, actually didn't
:10:54. > :10:58.know the answer to some of the questions they were asking. It
:10:58. > :11:02.didn't help that he could not always hear the questions, because
:11:02. > :11:08.of that frailty we have been discussing, but it was an
:11:08. > :11:13.interesting dynamic between the two. It almost -- also left unanswered
:11:13. > :11:18.questions about how News Corporation is run. What struck me
:11:18. > :11:22.is that this empire is run in autonomous sections, very much left
:11:22. > :11:26.to the chief executives running them. Is that a good enough excuse
:11:26. > :11:33.for MPs and the wider public about him saying he didn't know what was
:11:33. > :11:39.going on in terms of the alleged phone hacking? It is a huge company,
:11:39. > :11:44.and News of the World accounts for maybe just 1% of their turnover. It
:11:44. > :11:49.is no surprise that any company would have subsidiary companies
:11:49. > :11:52.that are largely autonomous in the way they are on. Today when James
:11:52. > :11:57.Murdoch was probed about these confidentiality clauses in some of
:11:57. > :12:07.the payments that were made to Mr Taylor and Max Clifford, and some
:12:07. > :12:08.
:12:08. > :12:12.quite good pro -- probing, that is where they have particular
:12:13. > :12:17.questions to answer. It was very interesting the fact that the legal
:12:17. > :12:21.fees of Clive Goodman, the royal editor, and Glenn Mulcaire the
:12:21. > :12:25.private investigator, the two who went to jail a few years ago
:12:25. > :12:31.because of this were being paid for by News International. What is your
:12:31. > :12:34.reaction to that? Everybody suspected that was the case. They
:12:34. > :12:41.were employee in top lawyers, clearly no individual could have
:12:41. > :12:45.afforded to pay that. Some people got over the top when they describe
:12:45. > :12:50.this as Britain's Watergate but it is what people do when they are
:12:50. > :12:54.covering their tracks after the event that catches the mild. Rupert
:12:54. > :12:58.Murdoch was talking about why he entered Number 10 by the back door,
:12:58. > :13:02.quite amusing on that, saying the Prime Minister of the day wanted to
:13:02. > :13:07.avoid photographers. Also interesting was the very close
:13:07. > :13:12.friendship he had had with Gordon Brown, a man who attacked him so
:13:13. > :13:18.viciously in the Commons last week, describing his News International
:13:18. > :13:22.business like the rats departing the sewers. I thought Gordon
:13:22. > :13:26.Brown's speech was partly aimed because this has uncovered a real
:13:26. > :13:31.problem with our whole media, particularly print press. We need
:13:31. > :13:36.to achieve some proper media standards, some new regulation for
:13:36. > :13:39.the media, because it is not just confined to News International. The
:13:39. > :13:43.information commissioner a few years ago identified problems with
:13:43. > :13:50.other papers including the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. We have
:13:50. > :13:54.to emerge from this with a stronger print press. I agree Gordon Brown's
:13:54. > :13:59.intervention was not well judged but his speech shows how personal
:13:59. > :14:05.it becomes. Prime Ministers take it personally when Rupert Murdoch
:14:05. > :14:09.takes his love away, if you like. Murdoch senior like Gordon Brown,
:14:09. > :14:13.he was what a prime minister should be, what a man should be, Goa and
:14:13. > :14:19.serious, and he was not impressed with David Cameron who he thought
:14:19. > :14:26.was flash. But Gordon Brown looked which way the wind was blowing and
:14:26. > :14:31.got behind the winner. Thank you. This was not the only committee
:14:31. > :14:38.hearing at Westminster today. Earlier, two senior former
:14:38. > :14:41.policeman appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee. Sir Paul
:14:41. > :14:45.Stevenson and John Yates, Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan
:14:46. > :14:51.Police. He was Britain's top serving counter-terrorism officer.
:14:51. > :14:56.Both men have resigned in the last 48 hours or so because of this
:14:56. > :14:59.phone hacking investigation and also of their role and
:14:59. > :15:03.responsibility in checking the facts that the time. Sir Paul
:15:03. > :15:13.Stevenson said he regretted leaving but felt he had to, and John Yates
:15:13. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:17.said it would be a distraction if It was a Scotland Yard
:15:17. > :15:22.interrogation but this time it was senior officers required to answer
:15:22. > :15:26.questions. The centrepiece of the cross-examination was the
:15:26. > :15:30.relationship between two institutions, Scotland Yard and
:15:30. > :15:34.News International. It emerged there have been close links with
:15:34. > :15:39.senior officers being wined and dined by Murdoch executives and
:15:39. > :15:44.restaurants like this one. The commission accepted he had had 18
:15:44. > :15:47.lunches and dinners with News International figures in five years,
:15:47. > :15:54.seven or eight with the news of the World journalist now accused of
:15:54. > :16:01.phone hacking. News International represents 42% of press readership,
:16:01. > :16:07.a fine maintain a relationship with the media it was not my decision to
:16:07. > :16:12.allow News International to be so dominant in the market. Of the 45
:16:12. > :16:17.Media staff at the met 10 are former News International employees.
:16:17. > :16:21.It was another Murdoch man given a job at the yard the committee were
:16:22. > :16:25.interested in. Neil Wallace, now arrested for alleged phone hacking,
:16:25. > :16:29.the former deputy editor of the News Of The World was hired weeks
:16:29. > :16:35.after detectives decided not to pursue press claims of widespread
:16:35. > :16:39.hacking at the paper. The in the chair, the head of public affairs.
:16:39. > :16:46.He insisted he never asked Mr Wallace if he knew about phone
:16:46. > :16:49.hacking because a colleague, John Yates, about 4 in. John Yates
:16:49. > :16:55.conducted due diligence of Mr Wallace and he can explain better
:16:55. > :16:59.than I. Mr Yates, the Assistant Commissioner who resigned yesterday
:16:59. > :17:03.confirmed Neil Wallis was a front for 10 years. He was also the
:17:03. > :17:07.officer who decided there was no need to reopen at the phone hacking
:17:07. > :17:13.inquiry following revelations by Guardian journalists. Back in the
:17:13. > :17:19.chair he occupied a wicket, John Yates said he thought his role in
:17:19. > :17:24.it Mr Wallace's appointment was over edge. I sought assurances of
:17:24. > :17:32.Mr Wallace before the contract was let to the effects and a have a
:17:32. > :17:38.note, is there anything in the matters he is reporting on that
:17:38. > :17:42.could embarrass you, Mr Wallace, meet or the Commissioner? I
:17:42. > :17:47.received assurances that was not the case. Paul Stephenson hinting
:17:47. > :17:52.today would be his last as commissioner at the Met headed back
:17:52. > :17:55.to the art pursued by media. There was an irony because what today is
:17:55. > :18:01.illustrated his it has been a too cosy relationship between police
:18:01. > :18:06.and press, particularly between the Met and Murdoch.
:18:06. > :18:12.The appearance of Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks has made
:18:12. > :18:13.headlines across the world. Including in countries where Rupert
:18:14. > :18:16.Murdoch's News Corporation plays a significant role.
:18:17. > :18:19.In America, where Murdoch has his biggest assets, such as the Fox
:18:19. > :18:21.networks and the Wall Street journal, there are growing
:18:22. > :18:25.questions over his future as chief executive officer. If claims prove
:18:25. > :18:28.true that there was also hacking on US soil, the company could lose its
:18:28. > :18:31.broadcasting licences there. In Australia there's intense
:18:31. > :18:35.interest in the effect the News of the World scandal will have on the
:18:35. > :18:40.Murdoch empire. This is the country not only of Rupert Murdoch's birth,
:18:40. > :18:43.but of the birth of News Corporation too.
:18:43. > :18:46.And there's very close scrutiny in Asia where News Corp owns nine
:18:46. > :18:52.cable channels under the Star name, and owns or hold significant shares
:18:52. > :18:54.in eight others. In India, which has had a long and close
:18:54. > :19:04.association with News Corp, there's been rolling news coverage of
:19:04. > :19:06.
:19:07. > :19:13.today's hearings. Let's get the thoughts of John Burns and Paul
:19:13. > :19:17.McMullen, a former features editor at the News Of The World. Sean, how
:19:17. > :19:24.closely is is being followed in America and what impact is the
:19:24. > :19:28.hearing having for investors? it is the best running soap opera
:19:28. > :19:35.but has been seen on either side of the ocean in a long time. It is
:19:36. > :19:40.more than that. It affects the world's in America and here,
:19:40. > :19:48.doubtless -- regardless of whether there was phone hacking on 9/11, it
:19:48. > :19:53.affects the press, politicians and it affects a Rupert Murdoch and
:19:54. > :20:00.Wall Street. Will he investors have been impressed by Rupert Murdoch's
:20:00. > :20:07.performance? Yes, this was the beginning of a fightback. If I was
:20:07. > :20:12.the chief executive, those managing the public relations, I would take
:20:12. > :20:20.a glass of champagne. It was a consummate performance. Not to say
:20:20. > :20:24.it is behind them but they had an extraordinary stroke of good luck.
:20:24. > :20:29.The attack on Mr Murdoch, you could not have designed weather for soap
:20:29. > :20:35.opera or a gradual beginning of a process they hope will eventually
:20:36. > :20:45.ring and redemption, and 80-year- old man being hit in the face with
:20:46. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:56.a custard pie. And his young Questions about the breach of
:20:56. > :21:00.security. You are a former features editor at News Of The World and no
:21:00. > :21:04.Rebekah Brooks, how convincing was she? It did not convince me at all.
:21:04. > :21:11.I had a call from colleagues saying I cannot believe what she is
:21:12. > :21:18.staying. She is still denying it. That she had no knowledge,, the
:21:18. > :21:22.same line she keeps bringing out. It is not fair. Still throwing her
:21:22. > :21:28.reporters to the waltz, nothing to do with me. I never saw what was
:21:28. > :21:31.going on, I never looked a my accounts to see who was paying, the
:21:31. > :21:37.facts I was deputy features editor and noticed four grand a week to
:21:37. > :21:42.private eyes, I wanted to know what for and why. My first question at
:21:42. > :21:46.four reporter is where did you get the story from and what is the
:21:46. > :21:53.evidence? She is the world's worst editor or has been walking around
:21:53. > :21:59.with her fingers in her ears. MP said he would suspend his
:21:59. > :22:02.incredulity. In terms of any punches that had been landed today,
:22:02. > :22:07.what was the most significant thing you felt by these British MPs and
:22:07. > :22:11.the questioning. I was impressed with how astute many of the
:22:11. > :22:17.questions were, they had really done their homework. But is not
:22:17. > :22:22.always true with these scrutiny committees. The answer lies in the
:22:22. > :22:29.forensics. There were some tough and and answered questions, it was
:22:29. > :22:34.a concert performance, it was in that they managed what is a very
:22:34. > :22:39.bad case about as well as a kid. They dodged and weaved but they did
:22:39. > :22:45.not always absolutely appeared to be doing so unless you listened
:22:45. > :22:50.carefully. One of my favourite lines from Rupert Murdoch was this
:22:50. > :22:57.country benefits from -- from its press which is inconvenient for
:22:57. > :23:07.some people. I thought we would get a boss who would stand up for the
:23:07. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:17.things we found out about the politicians. Thank you. A day off
:23:17. > :23:22.theatre, James Murdoch looked very shocked and surprised as a man made
:23:22. > :23:30.towards his father, Rupert Murdoch younger Chinese wife stepping in
:23:30. > :23:36.his love. Let's look at the key moments of today. I would like to
:23:36. > :23:42.say when sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. If you are
:23:42. > :23:46.not line then, someone like to you, who? I don't know. That is what the
:23:46. > :23:52.police are investigating and we are helping. You acknowledge your
:23:52. > :24:01.misled? Clearly. Do you accept ultimately you are responsible for
:24:01. > :24:10.this whole fiasco? No. Who is? people I trusted to run it and
:24:10. > :24:17.maybe the people they trusted. would like to say how sorry I am,
:24:17. > :24:22.and how sorry we are, particularly to the victims of illegal voice
:24:22. > :24:29.mail interceptions and families. What happened at denise macro was
:24:29. > :24:38.wrong. We and I have apologised profusely and unreservedly for that.
:24:38. > :24:48.My father has as well. At it is your father who was responsible for
:24:48. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:55.corporate governance. What did he Do you have any regrets? Well, of
:24:55. > :24:59.course I have regrets. The idea that Milly Dowler's phone was
:24:59. > :25:04.accessed by someone being paid by the News Of The World or even worse
:25:04. > :25:09.authorised by someone at the News Of The World is as abhorrent to me
:25:09. > :25:14.as everyone in this room. Once you have broken the trust with readers
:25:14. > :25:20.there is not much going back and unfortunately the News Of The World
:25:20. > :25:25.Easter leader headlines for the right reasons, the cricket scandal
:25:25. > :25:28.recently, but unfortunately for the last few months and the last the
:25:28. > :25:33.years, it's been leading the headlines for the wrong reasons. Of
:25:33. > :25:39.course there were mistakes made in the past but I think and hope you
:25:39. > :25:49.agree since who saw the evidence at the end of December we have clear
:25:49. > :25:56.
:25:56. > :26:00.Let's see how well it did in terms of PR. The Danny Rogers, John Burns
:26:00. > :26:07.set if he was a PR adviser who will be raising champagne, would he
:26:07. > :26:11.think? The protest and the custard pie it took the pressure off the
:26:11. > :26:15.Murdochs because it was a farce, briefly. I would not raise a glass
:26:15. > :26:19.of champagne, they were not apologetic enough, they were not
:26:20. > :26:24.open or contrite enough. This scandal has dragged on and
:26:24. > :26:29.threatens to drag on further. wanted to make an opening statement
:26:29. > :26:33.about contrition which was not allowed, it was put to the back of
:26:33. > :26:38.proceedings. Rupert Murdoch said this was the most humble day of his
:26:38. > :26:44.life. Did you feel that is something you would have told him
:26:44. > :26:48.to say or something he felt? It was something his PR advisers told him
:26:48. > :26:53.to say and he was a wise move. He needed to back it up with openness
:26:53. > :26:57.and transparency and he failed to do that. There was an illegal
:26:57. > :27:02.blocking many anticipated, because there is a criminal investigation
:27:02. > :27:08.undergoing, it was used a couple of times but in terms of the day-to-
:27:08. > :27:15.day handling of this empire, will investors have been reassured by
:27:15. > :27:19.the answers? No, they will not be. I think they did well to engage to
:27:19. > :27:23.that extent but this is a man who has lost its mystique, his
:27:23. > :27:28.reputation, you compare News International a year ago with today,
:27:28. > :27:35.shareholders are worried. When it comes to the money paid out, that
:27:35. > :27:39.was illuminating, these parameters as you would expect but up to �1
:27:39. > :27:44.million, Rupert Murdoch would he nothing about it. Yes, I'm sure he
:27:44. > :27:48.knew about the money. If you are Chief Executive you know when large
:27:48. > :27:52.amounts of money are paid to victims like that. And when it
:27:52. > :28:00.comes to the relationship of senior politicians and prime ministers, he
:28:00. > :28:04.was quite disarming saying that is why they ask me to come in. He may
:28:04. > :28:09.be disingenuous about that, the Murdoch relationship with all sorts
:28:09. > :28:17.of readers for decades has been powerful. Underestimate that actual
:28:17. > :28:24.barrel. Thank you. A dramatic day today, lots of questions put to the
:28:24. > :28:34.Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks are normally clear answers. -- not that
:28:34. > :28:34.
:28:34. > :28:38.Hello, we have seen some torrential downpours today but also some
:28:38. > :28:44.occasional sunshine. Through tomorrow the unsettled weather
:28:44. > :28:48.continues, cool and cloudy. More showers around and the weather is
:28:48. > :28:52.dominated by low pressure, cloud and rain moving into the south-west
:28:53. > :28:57.tonight and Wednesday and a weather front across southern Scotland and
:28:57. > :29:02.north-east England. Showers from the word go continuing through the
:29:02. > :29:07.afternoon. Some will be heavy and possibly thundery with temperatures
:29:07. > :29:10.around 16. East Anglia and the south-east, although some sunshine
:29:10. > :29:18.in the morning it clouds over come up breaks of rain, top temperature
:29:18. > :29:23.21. A July afternoon in the south- west, light showers but not much
:29:23. > :29:27.brightness. Quite overcast skies. Glimmers of sunshine of fruit
:29:27. > :29:33.Cardigan Bay, temperatures in Holyhead at 16. For Northern
:29:33. > :29:39.Ireland, cool and cloudy conditions continuing, the breeze coming down