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managers of the most successful NHS hospitals in England are to be sent

into failing ones to try to improve them. 11 NHS trusts with poor

standards of care are targeted first, but the scheme may be

extended. We need to use the skills and talents that those inspirational

leaders have to turn around some of our hospitals were failure has

become really entrenched over very many years. Also this lunchtime, the

Office of Fair Trading orders crackdown on pension schemes with

high charges and poor value for millions of savers. The inquest into

the death of Mark Duggan, the jury is to be taken to the scene where he

was shot and killed by police two years ago. Crocodiles infest the

floodwaters in Mexico. A tropical storm is upgraded to a hurricane. I

can't walk away The Shining, pussy storm is upgraded to a hurricane. I

-- because it isn't just inside me, it is me. 36 years on, America's

master of horror, Stephen King, revisits his most famous work.

Later on BBC London, police investigate after Tony Blair's

daughter is held at gunpoint in Marylebone. And online only ink and

harassment is on the rise. How are the Met responding?

Hello, good afternoon, welcome to the BBC News that one. The best

managers in the NHS Todd be sent into England's failing hospitals to

help turn them around. 11 hospital trusts are currently in special

measures and the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says Maude trusts are

likely to be identified. The programme is reminiscent of the

super heads scheme, designed to improve underperforming schools.

Labour argues the cause of failure is understaffing, not poor

management. Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports.

Some NHS hospitals use cutting-edge technology. At the Queen Elizabeth

in Birmingham, nurses check every day how their ward is doing. The

chief executive says it is all about a relentless attention to detail.

Julie Moore is sending some of her top team to help struggling Trust,

with a contract that could bring back some money into her own

hospital. It to simple things, sometimes when you walk around an

area, getting a fresh pair of eyes and looking at things. When I was

walking around the hospital I was seeing things that actually a lot of

the stuff had become accustomed to and pointing out things that could

be done to improve. This is the hospital they will try to help. The

George Eliot Hospital and Warwickshire is in special measures,

one of 11 investigated because of concerns about patient safety. Some

of its staff are already spending time in Birmingham to borrow ideas.

Hospitals are big and consecrated. Experts warn they can't change

overnight. Many hospitals have a long history of struggling to

balance the books, achieve high-quality care for patients. It

would be a long haul to turn these hospitals around. It will be

unrealistic to expect any turnaround team to achieve quick results. Some

hospitals have already begun making changes. In Basildon Essex, they

have hired an extra 200 nurses, all the hospitals in special measures

have to publish plans to improve. In the end it will be patients who

judge if that is happening. I think we need to be honest with the public

that it takes three to five years to really turning around a hospital but

I am not going to wait that long and I think that members of the public

should see real changes in their hospital in a matter of months. At

its best the NHS is world-class. But there has also been increasing

interest in why some hospitals are better than others. Labour says

management solutions won't help close that gap and the real answer

lies in more nurses on the ward. Lets talk to Branwen Jeffreys. The

key question, how much confidence is there that this move will work, will

turn around these trusts? There is no underestimating the scale of this

task. Some of these hospitals, when you look at the list of names, they

have been in difficulties for a number of years. For many different

and often quite conjugated reasons. Some have troubled financial

legacies. Others have been nailed -- labelled previously as being

hospitals that are struggling or failing in some way. That makes it

very difficult for them to recruit top doctors, to keep enough stuff.

Some of them, in an attempt to get books in order in the past, have cut

back on staff, something which is -- often a false economy when it comes

to things that matter to patients, like having enough nurses on the

ward. The ministers here are saying they will give this scheme at least

three to five years. They say they accept it is not going to be changes

overnight but the real test will be on the wards of these hospitals,

whether at a time when the NHS is facing massive financial pressures,

bigger than at any other time in its facing massive financial pressures,

history, they can manage to improve these hospitals and prevent others

from sliding into difficulties. £40 billion worth of pension savings

may be invested in schemes that are poor value for money, according to

the Office of Fair Trading. It has announced a clamp-down on the

charges that erode the value of many schemes. The OFT is concerned that

millions of people, who will be automatically enrolled in a

workplace pension plan over the next five years, will not necessarily

achieve the best value. Our personal Finance correspondent Simon Gompertz

has the details. It started with the supermarkets. 9

million people are being signed up for workplace pensions over five

years, but well what is supposed to provide a safe retirement income for

savers turn out to be money for the city financiers managing the money?

We have identified some schemes that may be poor value for risk and we

have taken immediate steps were just those. We have put in place

governance across the market, a solution we believe the government

will take forward. Pension managers charge a percentage slice of the

year of the total money you have saved, an annual slice of half a

percent, which is around the average, results in the eventual

pension being 11% lower than it might have been. A 1% charge reduces

your pension by 21%. But charges range up to a colossal 2.3% a year,

fuelling widespread suspicion about pension saving. I can't afford to

save money at the moment because wages are so low and pensions I

think are basically a waste of money. Personally speaking I would

rather put monies away into a building society with lower interest

but knowing that those monies are safe. The Office of Fair Trading

wants a ban on extra charges which can be imposed on people who stop

contributing, an audit of schemes with higher charges and independent

committees to be set up to make sure that workplace schemes do not charge

too much. The government department responsible, the DWP, is widely

expected to cap annual pounds in charges at 1%. The Office of Fair

Trading has questioned that. It is worried that low-cost schemes might

be tempted to put their charges up to the cap. But what is clear is

that millions of workers' pensions will be helped by keeping these

charges low. It is important to bear will be helped by keeping these

in mind that whilst charges do make a difference, ultimately what is

really going to make a difference to how much you get back from your

pension at the other end is how much you pay in. The danger is if people

think the charges are unfair, they will opt out of workplace pensions

altogether. The government has asked the General

Medical Council to review the guidelines on the wearing of full

face veils by NHS staff in England. Ministers including the Health

Secretary Jeremy Hunt say a face covering can be a barrier to good

communication with patients. I feel that way, I would want to be

able to see the face of my doctor or my nurse. But I think this is

something that is really about professional standards rather than

about politicians and so my health Minister Dan Poulter has written to

the General Medical Council to ask them to clarify the professional

guidelines so that we can make sure that every hospital in the country

is then implementing those locally in the most appropriate way.

Lets talk to our correspondent Danny Savage, who is outside Bradford

Royal infirmary and what are they saying about it there? Bradford is a

city with a large Muslim population. Anecdotally, just talking to people

here today, talking to one man who has been in and out of here for 20

years, never in all that time has he ever met a member of staff here who

was wearing a face veil, but this hospital does have a policy today

they have released a statement. They , patients consistently tell us how

important good two-way communication is for them. We believe that seeing

someone's face is an infective and important part of health care. They

say some hospitals, it is about hygiene, but contrast that with the

Wirral, on the other side of the country, you say veils may be worn

if required for religious reasons. It seems the professional body has

to offer some clarification across-the-board.

Retail sales soar a surprise drop in August according to the latest

figures. The volume of sales dipped by 0.9%. Analysts had predicted

there would be a slight rise. Numbers were still 2.1% higher than

in August last year. That was when the Olympics hit spending.

The jury at the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting

by police sparked riots in England in 2011, has been told that they

will hear from a witness whose evidence could suggest that the

police planted the gun at the spot where it was found. Today, the jury

is visiting the sight of the shooting. Our home affairs

correspondent Matt Prodger is there. Explain what is happening today.

In the last few minutes the jury has arrived here. I can't show you the

jury. They are entitled to anonymity. Unfortunately as a result

of that I can't show you the exact scene where Mark Duggan died. It was

along the road behind me, in Tottenham, that he was travelling in

a mini cab when it was intercepted by three unmarked police cars. It is

just out of shot of the camera, about 30 metres in front of where I

am standing. Mark Duggan got out of the cab but what happened after that

is yet to be ascertained by this inquest. The police say he was

holding a gun, that he was presenting towards them and they

shot him dead. But the gun was found some ten to 20 feet away, on the

other side of railings on this patch of grass. Today, the jury was told

that it will hear evidence from a witness which could suggest that

police planted that gun on the grass. The entire inquest will last

about two months and will hear from 100 witnesses.

South African police failed to test the evidence in the Anni Dewani

Marder case according to a leading forensic scientist. -- murder case.

She was shot dead on her honeymoon in Cape Town three-day years ago.

Her husband Shrien is accused of firing -- hiring hit men to murder

her and is currently awaiting extradition to South Africa. The

BBC's Panorama programme has obtained secret police files about

the case, as Jeremy Vine reports. This CCTV, never seen before, shows

Anni's husband Shrien Dewani moments after learning his wife had been

found dead. When we found out that Anni had been shot, apparently I

just started screaming hysterically. Now Panorama has obtained secret

police files related to the case, which include statements, CCTV

footage and phone records. Panorama has discovered that statements from

three key witnesses, who have all struck deals with the South African

state in return for their testimony against Shrien Dewani, appear to

contradict factual records like lists of phone calls and CCTV and

the police files. This is not an investigation that would meet the

standards in this country. This is not what would be considered to be

standards in this country. This is good practice. They also fail to

just test the evidence, to corroborate the key facts and to

crucially challenge things that were not corroborated, that were central

to the story. We put our findings to the South African authorities. They

say it would be improper to engage with the media on the merits of the

case as trial by media would violate Shrien Dewani's right to a fair

trial. Members of Anni's family have also criticised the BBC for

conducting what they say as trial by television. Anni's family have

called on Shrien Dewani to return to South Africa to answer the charges.

He denies any involvement in the murder and remained sectioned under

the Mental Health Act. You can see that edition of Panorama

tonight, on BBC One this evening at 9pm.

The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has insisted that he remains

committed to an agreement to put his chemical weapons beyond use. In an

interview with America's Fox News Channel, he said it could take a

year to get rid of the weapons. Once again he denied that he had used

them. Iwan tropicals which has been battering southwestern Mexico has

been upgraded to a category one hurricane by US meteorologists.

Tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid have left thousands of people cut

off and at least 80 people are known to have died. About 40,000 people

are still/ -- stranded in the popular resort of Acapulco.

This was not a holiday in Acapulco these tourists had been expecting.

Thousands stranded in this city as the government arranges emergency

flights. The streets are full of filthy water which has dredged up

other dangers. Crocodiles like this one, have been hampering relief

other dangers. Crocodiles like this efforts which are already struggling

to cope with the scale of the problem. Across the city, people are

trying to find clean food and water. This lady says they were told the

authorities would help. So far she says, we have seen no one

at all. But elsewhere in western Mexico, the problems are worse.

There are more than 80 dead so far, that number is to rise. Landslides

been reported in several areas and thought to have killed at least 58

in a single village of Acapulco. Bridges and roads have been washed

away in some places, making it difficult to get supplies to

communities that have been cut off. At least a quarter of a million

people have been affected, and as the storm moves north, thousands

more are under threat. Our top story this lunchtime:

Managers of the most successful NHS hospitals in England are to be sent

into failing ones to try to improve them. Still to come: Five centuries

after his death, possible plans for Richard III's final resting place.

Later on BBC London: Can one of the capital's top hospitals help turn

around Basildon where there's one of the highest death rates in the

country? Plus a shock defeat for Chelsea as

the blues lose to Basel at Stamford Bridge.

The Mayor of the UK's least-white borough has introduced a number of

measures aimed at making it more integrated. Only 17% of the

population in Newham in East London is White British, and Sir Robin

Wales thinks people who live there need to speak English and adopt

British values. By pushing integration, is the Mayor uniting or

alienating people? The BBC Asian Network's Catrin Nye reports.

Tuesday morning at Eastham town hall and 31 different countries are

getting British passports. There are two of these ceremonies every year

and Newham has a population of 17%. Over the years, we have seen people

moving away and people from other communities, outsiders coming in on

settling down. As this borough becomes diverse, the mayor has

introduced some bold measures, aimed at holding on to some of its

Britishness. The library has removed foreign language newspapers,

withdrawn translation services and will no longer fund single community

event will stop you cannot get money or Bangladeshi street party any

more. I cannot make people do anything. People will spend time

with their own ethnic group. That is great, right. What we will say, if

we are doing some -- if we are doing something, we will support people

coming together. We don't want people being segregated. It is bad

for the community. Apartheid was wrong in South Africa and it would

be wrong here. Critics of the mayor argue that removing things like

translation services could further isolate some members of the

community. I can understand if you are not using your translation

services and at a time when the local authorities have to save money

and some of them are not value for money. But if you are removing them

from vulnerable people who need them for ideological reasons, then that

starts to make you question what the values are of the people who are

doing that. Next door to the Olympic Park in Newham sits Stratford

market. Traders have been here for decades and told me what they make

of the integration agenda. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. If you

have made England your home, then you should learn to speak English.

Whether they took the papers away, and the translators away, it will

not change nothing. The minute you close the door, it is back to normal

for them. The same as it is for us. Whether you agree with the tax ex or

not, integration experts are looking closely at what is being done in

Newham, to see if it can transfer elsewhere.

Congratulations, you are free to go. Catrin Nye's full documentary,

Congratulations, you are free to go. Naturalising Newham, is on the BBC

Asian Network website. And an extended film about the work will be

on Newsnight tonight at 22:30pm on BBC Two.

Nearly one third of households affected by the recent changes to

housing benefit have fallen behind with their rent, according to

research carried out by the TUC. It says 50,000 households can no longer

afford their accommodation because of what Labour calls the bedroom

tax. But the Department for Work and Pensions says it's wrong to suggest

that the early stages of the policy represent a long-term trend. Our

Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports.

This room is costing this lady £16 a week under changes for housing

benefit introduced in April, it is classed as a spare bedroom. Her

benefit has been cut and she has to find the extra money to pay the

rent. I have to cut back on housekeeping. I cannot afford to

have my hair cut. It used to be £10 every six weeks. I cannot do it

now. £10 is not much for a haircut these days. Other social housing

tenants are in a worse position, according to the TUC. A survey

carried out found nearly one third of tenants who had a benefit cut are

now in arrears with their rent. The government needs to rethink this

bedroom tax. We would like to see it government needs to rethink this

scrapped, but we would like to tackle the root causes of the

housing crisis and Bill more affordable homes. Another survey

from the National Housing Federation suggest many tenants in arrears have

not been busily fallen behind with their rent. There were never enough

smaller homes for people with spare bedrooms to move into, so coping

with a housing benefit cut became a question of reducing out goings

elsewhere or increase income by getting a job. According to this

report, that has not happened for getting a job. According to this

thousands of people. Ministers say change in the rules was necessary.

In a statement they said: I think it is right we try to cut

down on the £23 billion housing benefit well. It is a small way in

which we can begin to do this. I know it creates problems initially,

but as people get used to this arrangement, I think it will be seen

as sensible. Ministers will hope so, as soaring rent arrears will

knock the government's intention. Iran's new president has denied they

are building nuclear weapons. Hassan Rouhani said he had full authority

to resolve the stand-off with the West.

to resolve the stand-off with the Iran's new president has won

immediate goal. Reconciliation with the United States. For that reason,

Hassan Rouhani chose to speak directly to a US audience. He

addressed America's main concern, Iran's nuclear programme.

TRANSLATION: we have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we will

TRANSLATION: we have never pursued not do so.

We are seeking peaceful nuclear technology. We have said under no

circumstances would we seek weapons of mass destruction, including

nuclear weapons. Nor would we ever. Iran's supreme leader has made much

the same promise in the past. But the West no longer takes the

Islamic Republic at its word alone. For the last eight years, diplomats

chose to disbelieve or simply ignore most of what the former president

had to say. But his successor promises moderation and engagement -

a new start for his country. And last night, there was the first

wrong sign of change. This lady, one of the most prominent human rights

lawyers was released from Tehran's prison.

TRANSLATION: we don't expect miracles, but with collect tips

support we can tell the authorities and government what we want. Next

week, Hassan Rouhani will be in New York that the UN General assembly.

He has just spoken to America, in a York that the UN General assembly.

few days he will get to see his people for himself.

More than five centuries after he was killed on the battlefield, plans

for the possible final resting place of Richard III are being unveiled

today. His remains were unearthed in a car park in Leicester last year.

Our Correspondent Sian Lloyd is there for us. What do we think will

happen? The plans will be unveiled at 4pm. Just to give you a sense of

happen? The plans will be unveiled some of the work and a people that

will lay ahead, we can show you one of the four holes that have been

drilled in the cathedral floor. That is just to test this ancient

building can withstand the major overhaul that will be involved with

Rhian tearing King Richard here. But at the moment I judicial review is

taking place of the decision to at the moment I judicial review is

grant a licence to Leicester to re-enter the former king here, the

campaigners say he should be re-enter the former king here, the

returned to York. This is in danger of turning into a bitter battle that

the judge, when giving that decision, said there should be

dignity. He said an independent panel should be set up to decide,

but that is yet to take place. His work has been terrifying readers

for years. Now, Stephen King's most famous novel, the shining is being

revisited. 36 years after writing about a young boy with psychic

powers, we reveal what happens when he grew up. Stephen King has been

telling our arts editor why it was finally time for a sequel.

People kept ass King me. I would go to autograph sessions and they would

say, " what ever happened to the kid from the shining? I have never

wanted to revisit the past and I am weary about revisiting this scary

books because I feel like a lot of people read those books under the

covers with flashlights when they were children themselves. You need

people to say, I read that book, The Shining and I read Salem's Lot, and

it scared the hell out of me. Doctor Sleep starts about a year after the

hotel is destroyed at the end of The Shining. Dan Torrance is growing up.

I was furious about what would happen to him, because he was a real

child of a dysfunctional family. You have got a big surprise coming to

you. Do you like the film of The Shining? No, it is cold. I am not a

cold guy. One of the things people relate to in my books is a warmth,

in reaching out and saying to the reader, I want you to be a part of

this. With The Shining, I felt it was very cold. Jack Torrance, in the

movie, seems crazy from the jump. When you come in here and interrupt

me you are breaking my concentration I distract me. Jack Nicholson, I've

seen all his biker movies. Shelley Duvall is one of the most

misogynistic characters. She is there just to scream and be stupid.

That is not the woman I wrote about. Do you feel people are harder to

scare now than in the 70s? It is still possible to scare people in an

honourable way if they care about the characters. You cannot be afraid

for the characters if they are just cardboard cutouts. What I want the

audience to do is fall in love with these people and back creates the

suspense you need. Stephen King, thanks very much indeed.

Now let's have a look at the weather.

It will not be spectacularly sunny. But today's rain will be the last

most of us see for some time. Over the next few days it is mostly dry,

turning warmer but not always spectacularly sunny. The radar

picture shows where rain has fallen. It has been moving through quickly.

Most of it is light and patchy, being blown along on a westerly

wind. As the rain clears away from South Western England and Wales,

things are brightening up and it will start to warm up. 18 degrees

for Cardiff and Plymouth. Likely to stay cloudy across the south-east of

England with Spitz and spots of rain into the afternoon. A lot of cloud

the northern England. Northern into the afternoon. A lot of cloud

Ireland should brighten up. Central and southern parts of Scotland -

that is a place we will keep cloudy and damp conditions throughout the

afternoon and into the evening. Elsewhere, the rain should clear

away and we should see some clear spells. Fog patches here and there.

Nothing unusual for the time of year. In towns and cities, seven to

10 degrees. Could be cooler in this countryside. Tomorrow, there will be

cloud around but there should be holes in the cloud with bright and

sunny spells. Thickest cloud will be across Scotland where we will see

light rain and drizzle. Top temperature tomorrow between 14 and

17. Into the weekend, high pressure in charge of our weather. Follow the

white lines and it shows where the air is coming from will stop from

white lines and it shows where the the South West as it rushes across

the South Atlantic, but it picks up a lot of moisture and that will

translate into a lot of cloud. The big question is how much the cloud

will break up. We should see some breaks in eastern areas but for

Northern Ireland and Scotland we will see outbreaks of rain. It is a

question how quickly and widely the cloud rakes on Sunday. Eastern areas

have a better chance of brightening up. That could lead to temperatures

of 21, 20 two degrees. If you are in any of the coastal resorts in the

West, it could he cloudy with fog and drizzle in places. Further

east, better chances and drizzle in places. Further

up on Sunday. North-eastern Scotland will have a lovely day and Sunday

with lots of sunshine. A reminder of will have a lovely day and Sunday

the main story: The best managers in the NHS are to be sent into

England's failing hospitals to try the NHS are to be sent into

to turn them around.