13/02/2017 BBC News at One

A BBC undercover investigation discovers widespread drug abuse

and major security failings at a privately run jail

Secret filming over two months revealed inmates threatening staff,

a hole in a security fence and drug taking.

The Ministry of Justice says it's urgently reviewing the findings.

The Co-op Bank has put itself up for sale -

four years after it almost collapsed.

Deal or no deal - numerous Tesco offers are revealed to be out

of date with customers being charged full price at the till.

England's new Test captain - 26 year old Joe Root says

he feels privileged, humbled and very excited after

Almost 200,000 people living below America's tallest dam are ordered

to leave their homes amid fears part of it might collapse.

And what we are looking at is approximately a 30 foot wall of

water that would be coming out of the lake, not the lake draining but

a 30 foot wall of water. An award too many for record

breaking Adele as she says she can't accept her fifth Grammy of the night

for best album. I can't possibly except this award.

The artist of my life is Beyonce and this lemonade album was so

monumental Beyonce, so monumental! And coming up on the

sport on BBC News... Premier League could be reduced

to eight points if Pep Guardiola's Manchester City can win

at Bournemouth tonight. Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. A BBC investigation has found

evidence of major security failings at a privately-run

prison in Northumberland. An undercover reporter

from the BBC's Panorama spent two months working as a prison officer

at the jail near Morpeth. He secretly filmed widespread drug

abuse and discovered that door alarms didn't work

and there was a hole in a fence. The Ministry of Justice says it's

looking into allegations. Our correspondent Ed Thomas reports.

Undercover in one of our biggest jails. For two months, BBC Panorama

film what was happening inside. Staff pushed to the limits. HMP

Northumberland is a private jail run ID French firm said XO and home to

more than 1300 inmates. On his first day inside the reporter discovered

two and a half kilos of spies, and a legal high with a prison value of a

quarter of ?1 million was found in two sells. Despite this, Panorama

was told there was no lockdown so the block could be completely

searched. The BBC secretly filmed inmates high

on drugs. This inmate had taken spies. And then there is the

valance. CCTV cameras recorded and inmate

being stamped on. At one point Panorama's undercover

reporter was threatened by an inmate.

During filming the BBC discovered a serious security breach, alarms on

to Michael Dawson were not working. -- on two doers. A hole in an inner

security fence, it meant drugs could have been passed into the jail. The

reporter asked the governor of what went wrong.

Sodexho, the company that runs the prison said the safety of staff and

inmates is their top priority. The Ministry of Justice said it would

urgently investigate the footage. And that the government is

determined to reform our prisons. It Thomas, BBC news.

Our political correspondent Carole Walker is in Westminster.

This comes at a time when the government is under pressure to do

something about the prison system, overcrowding and staffing levels.

What are they saying? As you heard, the government says it is urgently

investigating these revelations in the Panorama programme but says

there are long-standing issues to be resolved. The government has

announced ?100 million to try and boost the number of front-line

prison staff by around two and a half thousand but this comes after

five years in which while the prison population has remained largely

stable the number of prison officers on the front line has fallen by

around 6000. Now we are hearing this afternoon from the Justice Secretary

Liz Truss who is setting out her longer term views about the prison

population sentencing and so on. And she is going to criticise Labour for

seeking what she says is a quick fix but also strike a very different

tone from her predecessor Michael Gove he had plans to try and reduce

the prison population. What Liz Truss will be seen as an art now

more serious offenders in prison than ever before, three out of five

in for drug pushing, six offences or for violent offenders and it would

be a responsible to reduce the sentences of people who are inside

for those sorts of serious offences. She says she wants to see more

rehabilitation to try and turn prisoners lives around but she will

say that reducing prison sentencing is something that she won't be

because that would put the public at risk. Thank you.

The Co-Op Bank has announced it's putting itself up for sale.

The high street bank, which has more than 4 million customers -

almost collapsed in 2013 after a series of

It was bailed out by American hedge funds but has struggled

to strengthen its finances because of low interest rates.

Our business editor Simon Jack is here.

First of all what does it mean for the bank's customers?

The problems started with an ill-fated merger with Britannia

Building Society in the aftermath of the financial crisis back in 2009.

By 2013 some of those loans had gone bad and punished an enormous hole in

the company finances and ever since then it's found it hard to nurse

itself back to health and it said today it hasn't been able to earn

enough money to put money into the kitty for a rainy day, hasn't got

enough capital. The other option is to ask its owners, the Co-op group

and American hedge fund is, they might be reluctant to put in extra

money because it's difficult to make the returns in this low interest

rate environment. The third option is put yourself up for sale and that

a bank with 4 million customers might be good idea to add to an

existing bank, some candidates out there including TSB might be able to

put the bank together, have economies of scale and get on and

make a success of that. For customers, nothing too wary about,

not in any danger whatsoever, this is a process that will go on, the

customers of Court, 4 million who have been loyal to the bank after

its reputational problems, they'd stuck around and nothing to worry

about. Britain's biggest supermarket,

Tesco has promised to take immediate action after a BBC investigation

revealed that two thirds of deals on the shelves were out of date

and weren't being deducted An undercover team visited 50

branches across England over Tesco says it's working to make

sure its prices are accurate. If we see a special offer

on the supermarket shelves, we expect to pay that price

at the till. But that doesn't always

happen at Tesco. The BBC's Inside Out programme

visited 50 Tesco stores across England and found out-of-date

special offers in 33 of them. At some stores, staff say it's

a recurring problem. And at another store a worker blames

the error on being short-staffed. In most stores, workers removed

the label straightaway At this store the cashier

refunds the difference but doesn't remove the label,

so it's still on display when we go back in the next day,

the next week and one month later. The fourth cashier

finally removes it. There are obviously major

problems with the control Special offers bring customers

in, make people reach for more and maybe spend more than they meant

to when they came into the store, Throughout our investigation,

Tesco did refund the difference when The company wouldn't provide anyone

for interview but, after reviewing Following our investigation,

Britain's biggest supermarket has said it will be double-checking

the accuracy of That's more than 3,500

stores across Britain. And viewers in most English regions

will be able to watch Inside Out's full report on BBC One at half past

7 this evening and online Pensioners are on average better off

than those of working That's according to new research

by the think-tank, It says a new wave of pensioners

are more likely than previous generations to own their home,

have generous private pensions Our personal finance correspondent

Simon Gompertz reports. Pensioners' incomes rolling ahead

with company pensions, their own homes, even above-inflation

increases in the state pension. These pensioners in Harrow say

money can still be tight. Seven years down the line,

everything's gone up. My husband and I had company

pensions and got the state pension and we have paid more for our house,

so quite comfortable. If I didn't have a private

pension, no way Going back to 2001 and after paying

housing costs like rent and mortgage, pensioner households had

?70 a week less on average Then there was a big

switchover four years ago so now pensioner householders

are ?20 a week better off. More cash in their pockets

especially if they have What's pushing up pensioner

incomes is this younger generation of pensioners

born after the war with good company pension

schemes, owning their own home, often with

the mortgage paid off, and the challenge

is if you look 20 years ahead that could be a real problem

for younger generations who will not retire

with the same advantages. So if it's current

pensioners who are winning, some say levels the playing field

by being less generous about increases in the state pension,

but that would mean when today's younger people retire

they would be up against it. Fewer own a home or have

a quality private pension. It's important they

have better pensions and find it easier to buy

into the housing market. On the pension side of things

they are saving much less Government has a role

in this because they set We're asking government

to increase that Even today there is

a growing divide among the elderly. Many newly retired people

are wealthier, many older pensioners They would object to being

called "better off". Joe Root has been named

England's new Test captain. The 26-year-old described it

as "a huge honour" and said he was feeling "privileged,

humbled and very excited." The Yorkshire batsman takes

over from Alastair Cook, Root will lead England

in the summer's Test series against South Africa

and West Indies, with an Ashes series in Australia

to follow next winter. He is the dynamo

of the England team. Joe Root has got used to being

English cricket's great hope. The way in which he plays

his cricket, he goes about his business,

you would imagine it will lend itself

to being a great captain. In January he became

a father for the first time, he'll approach leading just

as he does parenting. It's one of those things

that you sort of have to I suppose being a dad you don't

really know what to do until you sort of just have to go

with it and see how it was, I You could see baby Alfie

is already in white, this is after all a family

that starts them early. You'll find the root

of Root amongst fertile Here on the outskirts

of Sheffield is where Root still goes back

to Sheffield Collegiate which has ready produced one England

captain in Michael Vaughn. His brother Billy and dad Matt

also played here and the name has appeared on local scorecard

scorecards further back still. The family are everywhere,

even upstairs So how do those who know him

best judge Joe's hand? Yes, I think it should be OK

but you can only really And there is a lot of onerous

responsibility being England cricket captain,

hopefully it will be successful. You see Roots don't

get carried away. Despite Joe's progress

from Sheffield to Yorkshire to England to world number

one batsman for a time, he's already scored 11 Test centuries and plays

all three forms of the game, still He has only rarely led

his county and might Root the captain compromise

Root the run maker? They don't dwell

on that around here. It is a big job but Joe

is that kind of person who will take it in his stride, I think

he's more than capable of dealing with the pressures of

what captaincy brings. Root inherits a team that

lost 4-0 in India last year and faces South Africa

in the summer before In the words of his

grandfather, 'mad keen'. Patrick Geary, BBC

News, in Sheffield. A BBC undercover

investigation discovers widespread drug abuse and major

security failings at a privately run The dramatic rescue of a bell-ringer

who was hoisted 80ft in the air Full up the sport at half-past,

figures show that at least 39% of players who played in the English

Football League last season were not drugs tested. The authorities say

they were prioritising the elite end.

Almost 200,000 people living below America's tallest dam

in California have been ordered to evacuate their homes.

Residents started fleeing the area after being told a channel

used to release water was in danger of collapsing.

At one point, authorities feared a ten-metre wall of water

was about to be unleashed on towns downstream.

100,000 cubic feet per second of water, rushing out of Lake Oroville

in California. This is home to the tallest damn in California, and

after weeks of heavy rain, water levels have been rising. But a

measure designed to help the situation has instead made things

much worse. When water began flowing down this never before used

emergency spillway, it started to crumble, leaving a 30ft hole and

230,000 people who live below the Oroville Dam in peril. What we are

looking at is approximately a 30ft wall of water which will be coming

out of the lake, not the lake draining but a 30ft wall of water,

that's why we took the measures that we didn't. And those measures meant

a massive evacuation. We're looking at a proximity 35,000 residents

under evacuation. In the other county, we're looking at city 5000.

In the city, 76000 and evacuation. Marysville city, 12,000. People

tried to get away quickly, as it was predicted that the spillway could

collapse within an hour, causing potentially devastating flooding.

Those who have left their homes are being provided for at a special

centre around 20 miles away. It was surprising with all the traffic just

in my neighbourhood was already basically empty. I panicked and

started putting things in my car. I'm a little bit scared. We are

trying not to go near the flooding area so we can go home, but we're

going to be probably stuck down here. For the first time in 25

years, the National Guard has put out a state wide alert. We'll be

sending eight helicopters to assist with the spillway reconstruction

activities, beginning tomorrow. Those aircraft will also be

available for search and rescue if we have to move into that mode.

We're sending military police to assist with law enforcement and

securing the evacuated areas. We're also going to be sending shelter

units which can shelter either responders or displaced people.

Engineers say the lake's water level has now dropped, meaning repair work

can now start on the spillway. But the state governor said the

situation remained complex and rapidly changing. With more water

predicted later in the week, the people affected may not be allowed

back to their homes for some time. At least four people have died

and up to five others are missing after an avalanche in the French ski

resort of Tignes this morning, Rescue teams are still trying

to find those buried beneath The eight skiers and a guide

were off-piste when the avalanche struck just before 11 this morning -

it was more than 1,000ft wide. Rescue teams along with police

and helicopters are still trying Local police have told the BBC that

the four victims were French. The resort is particularly busy

at this time of year with French The actress Sara Coward,

who played Caroline Sterling in The Archers for almost 40 years,

has died at the age of 69. She was diagnosed with

terminal cancer last year. The editor of The Archers said

Sara Coward was a gifted actress President Trump will meet Canada's

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House today

for their first meeting since last Mr Trudeau said he expected

the two leaders would find "a lot of common ground",

despite their differences over trade And we do know, they do have some

differences, particularly over immigration? Well, let's see. Justin

Trudeau is a liberal, he is a feminist, he's pro-immigration and

he has welcomed refugees with open arms into Canada. So, should, and

quite a lot of differences between the Northern Premier League from

over the border and the new president in Washington. But they do

have interests in common. There is a lot of trade between the two

countries, 75% of Canada's trade is with the US, and for the US, 18%

goes the other way. Millions of jobs across the border, dependent on one

another. So they have things in common, not least the North American

Free Trade Agreement, which Donald Trump wants to renegotiate. That's

something the Canadians will want to talk about today. And also, this new

keystone oil pipeline which was put on hold under the Obama

administration, but Justin Trudeau is in favour of. So that will be

something for them to talk about. However, there's a lot of other

things going on in Washington at a moment which will be distracting

Donald Trump, not least his National Security Advisor, who's under a

cloud at the moment over contacts he had with the Russians during and

after the election. The allegation is that he may have discussed

sanctions with them, the sanctions which were imposed by President

Obama on Russia for allegations of interfering in the election. There

can be a lot of pressure on Mr Trump over Michael Flynn today and I'm

sure that will come up in his press conference come with Justin Trudeau

at his side. A bell-ringer at Worcester Cathedral

had to be rescued by the emergency services on Saturday evening

after his foot got caught in the rope and he was

pulled upside down. The 51-year-old, who was one of 20

bell-ringers in the bell tower, So, what exactly happened, then?

Well, 51-year-old Ian Bowman was visiting this cathedral, Worcester

Cathedral, with several other bell-ringers, when he was involved

in an accident. He was in the ringing room, just above me here,

where you can see those four lights. He was running some bells when a

piece of rope got tangled round his foot. He was pulled several feet up

into the air, and then he fell down several feet, banging his head. I'm

joined by Grant Wills from the Hereford And Worcester Fire

Investors Service. Thank You Very Much For Joining Us. How conflict

was this operation? We're talking about winching him down 80ft? These

kind of operations are compact and challenging. It was a team effort.

We worked with our colleagues from the bill and service to the best

rescue we possibly could for this individual. Thankfully he was in a

fairly stable condition and we were able to choose the best method of

exit for him, which in this case was to use lines to allow him down. How

do you prepare for incidents like this? , Right in thinking, it is

pretty unique? Well, thankfully, these incidents are few and far

between, they're not particularly common, and the public do not see

these types of resources deployed all the time by the fire investors

service. But we are training, we are planning, we planned specifically

for this eventuality at this site. We actually carry out training

exercises in the cathedral to do exactly this kind of thing. So when

it does actually happen, we are very quick to effect a rescue. And

briefly, what was the state of Mr Bowman when he rescued him?

Thankfully, things to the efforts of our Anne Boleyn is colleagues, he

was in a very stable condition. Obviously, he had suffered an amount

of shock and the best thing that we could do was to keep him stable and

not move his back or his neck as much as possible, which was widely

used the method that we did. Thank you, Grant Wills, from the local

Fire Service. And to leave you with a quote from Mr Bowman which is

reported in some of the papers today, he said, it was just an

accident, these things do happen sometimes in life.

The Hollywood musical La La Land won five Baftas in London last night,

including Best Film, Best Director and Best Leading

The Best Actor award went to Casey Affleck for his role

Ken Loach's drama I, Daniel Blake was named Best British Film.

Our entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba was on the red carpet -

his report contains some flash photography.

On the red carpet, there was acting royalty like Meryl Streep

and Eddie Redmayne, writing royalty, like JK Rowling, and actual royalty,

all there to see which film would be crowned the big winner.

Yes, the musical set in Los Angeles won five awards,

including Best Film, Best Director and Best

Right now, this country and the US and the world seems to be

Hers wasn't the night's only political speech.

Producer-director Ken Loach took to the stage after his

about a man struggling with the benefits system,

Thank you to the Academy for endorsing the truth

of what the film says, which hundreds of thousands

Casey Affleck won Best Actor, one of two awards for grief

Best Supporting Actress - Viola Davis, for 1950s

Speaking afterwards, she said diversity might have

improved at this year's awards ceremonies,

If there are no films that are being produced, then there's

Best Supporting Actor - British star Dev Patel,

He was clearly overwhelmed to have won.

What was it like when they read out your name?

All of this isn't just about the glory of winning a Bafta,

because voting will soon be under way in the all-important Oscars.

Even before tonight, La La Land looked likely

to win Best Picture there, and this evening's strong showing

underlines its position as favourite to win Best Film at the Oscars

While British film talent was somewhat eclipsed

at the Baftas last night, British musical talent dominated

at the Grammy Awards in LA, thanks to Adele and David Bowie.

The singer made history becoming the first person to win

But she didn't want to accept the Grammy for Best Album,

saying it should have gone to the American star

Beyonce, whom she called the "artist of her life".

She was the night's big winner, but Adele looked far

from comfortable with that, and dedicated Album

But I can't possibly accept this award.

My artist of my life is Beyonce, and this album, for me,

the Lemonade album, was just so monumental...

The performance by the proudly pregnant megastar was stunning.

But this most consequential of artists really was only

For the second year in a row, she had performance problems.

I know it's live TV, I'm sorry, I need to start again.

I'm sorry for swearing and I'm sorry for starting again,

The second take of her tribute to George Michael was flawless.

Chance The Rapper won Best Rap Album and the big Best Newcomer award.

While David Bowie won more Grammys in death than in life.

"Persist" was the word on Katy Perry's arm -

a political statement from an artist who campaigned for Hillary Clinton.

Busta Rhymes was even less subtle, calling Mr Trump "Agent Orange".

I just want to thank President Agent Orange

for perpetuating all of the evil that you've been perpetuating

This was billed as a battle between Beyonce and Adele.

But behind that simple summary was a deeper layer of questions,

not least about race and a country where cultures continue to clash.

Time for a look at the weather, with Darren Bett.

And the cold blast is over, or not? Yes, I actually bring you good news,

for a change! This was yesterday, where the temperatures struggled to

about three degrees, in many places. For many parts of the country there

was a covering of snow. But it is getting milder by midweek, 12

degrees not out of the question, and no fresh snow, either. Still quite

chilly wind today, but at least many parts of the country are seeing some

sunshine. You can see the difference - lovely blue skies tempering that

hold wind here, close to Peterborough. But in the north-east

of Scotland, it's grey skies, and likely to stay that way for most of

the rest of the day. The Western Isles, central and eastern areas of

Scotland, cold and grey and maybe a little bit of drizzle. But it is

brighter in Northern Ireland. A little bit of sunshine here boosting

the temperature is. And sunshine across East Anglia. Lots of sunshine

to come through the Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east of

England. In the south-west we will see the highest tractors. Gusty

winds today taking the edge off temperatures. Overnight, the winds

do drop just a little bit. Some low cloud over the hills of Wales,

northern England and particularly Scotland. Some breaks in the cloud

elsewhere, but not to hold -- not too cold. Milder in the south-west,

where we've got this rain. That will be pushing its way north-eastwards.

It will be threatening one or two showery bursts of rain. We're still

looking at double figures across southern parts of England. And

that's the thing, as we run through this week - it is slowly turning

milder as we change the wind direction. On Wednesday, perhaps

will be Wales and the south-west of England seeing the most of any rain.

Because we're losing that is to be wind and getting more of a south to

south-westerly wind, we will keep that milder air, even later on in

the week. A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime... A BBC undercover investigation

discovers widespread drug abuse and major security failings

at a privately run jail