martin shannon, from southampton, took guns, ammunition and explosives and grenades from his base in and is outside the old bailey for us. daniel, tell us more the old bailey for us. daniel, tell us more about the background to this. yes, ben, martin shannon was caught on 1st september, when he met an undercover officer who he believed to be a criminal. he said he believed him to be an old—style criminal like the great train robbers and when he met that undercover officer, he tried to sell him seven high explosive hand grenades and plastic explosive for that he took £5,000, and then he then took the under cover officer outside and rented him an assault rifle, loaded, a self loading pistol which was loaded and a sawn—off shotgun. for that he said he was going to rent them to the man he believed was a criminal for £5,000 and collect them a week later. the court heard that martin shannon was a serving royal marine reservist and had been since 1996 and actually for the majority of that time, although he was a reservist, he was working full—time. he had served in iraq, in 2003, in afghani

there are just hearing that a royal marines reserves —— reservist, martin shannon, has been jailed forhat robert mak manyara has been jailed hearing that robert mak manyara has beenjailed for hearing that robert mak manyara has been jailed for trying to burgle wayne rooney's mansion while wayne rooney was playing a testimonial game —— robert mcnamara. he has been jailed for two years and eight months. and we will have much more from berlin. we will get more on the continuing search for whoever carried out the attack on the christmas market. this is the site. the emergency services and authorities are now beginning to clear that site. 12 people were killed and nearly 50 injured. we will be live in berlin at four o'clock. now we will pause just before the top of the hour and look at the weather prospects with darren bett. thank you. good afternoon. the run—up to christmas looks very interesting weather—wise. we will find spells of rain and showers, some of which will be wintry. storm barbara is on the way in the next couple of days. there is some rain to move south eastwards away from en

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