24/11/2011 BBC News at Six

Famous and hounded. More AH list celebrities speak out about their

treatment at the hands of the press. Sienna Miller tells the inquiry

into press standards she was left in a state of anxiety and paranoia.

The author JK Rowling says says journalists camped outside her home.

It really was like being under siege or being a hostage. Every

area of my life was under constant surveillance. Also tonight:

A war of words over next week's public second sector walk out over

pensions. Unions dispute claims that disruption will cost jobs. The

Government says it's made its best offer. I think that is

irresponsible. I think it is wrong and people should know who to blame.

I think it's a bit silly for the Prime Minister to be trying to

demonise union leaders in this very, very simplistic way.

The Stephen Lawrence murder trial, a forensics expert said he had

worries about the contamination of crucial evidence.

And they left New Zealand under a cloud after a shambolic tour, now

the boss of the England rugby team says sorry. The World Cup has not

been good. I apologise to everybody. I am saddened by what's going on at

the moment. Coming up in sport on the BBC News

channel: Did it cross the line? Goal-line technology could be used

in the Premier League as early as Hello, and welcome to the BBC News

at Six. The Levein Inquiry into press standards has heard from more

celebrities today, including the actor Sienna Miller and the best-

selling author JK Rowling. Both spoke of how they and their

families were affected after their privacy had been invaded by

reporters and photographers. Sienna Miller said she had been spat on

and Miss Rowling recalled finding a message from a journalist in her

child's school bag. Nicholas Nicholas Witchall has spent the day

at the inquiry. She's written books which have captivated millions of

children. Yet for the writer JK Rowling there is an absolute rule,

that her own children are entitled to complete privacy. Unfortunately,

as she told the href is -- Leveson Inquiry. A significant section of

the press, in my view, have seen that almost as a challenge. Many

times she said she felt trapped in her home by photographers. She

recalled one incident just after the birth of her son. So we were

besieged for a week and then I believed that the photographers had

disappeared and, for the first time in a week, I was able to get out of

the house with my daughter and the baby. And we were - on this

occasion I saw the photographer taking the picture from across the

street. I pulled my daughter behind me because I didn't want her

photographed and I rather absurdly gave chase, how I thought I was

going to outrun a 20-something paparazzi, while pushing a buggy

and my daughter was "calm down, mum, don't be silly, it doesn't matter"

but it mattered hugely to me. another occasion a letter from a

journalist was slipped into the school bag of her five-year-old

daughter. I felt such a sense of invasion that my daughter's bag...

It's very difficult to say how angry and how angry I felt that my

five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a place of, you know,

complete security from journalists. Much of the media did excellent

work, she said but there was a section which seemed to have few

scruples. The attitude seems to be utterly cavalier, indifference.

What does it matter? You're famous, you're asking for it. JK Rowling

said that if you fought back against some newspapers you could

expect retribution. In the case of the actress Sienna Miller the risks

could amount to physical danger. She told the inquiry how for a

number of years she faced almost daily pursuit by photographers, at

times she said it had been terrifying. I would often find

myself, I was 21, at midnight running down a dark street on my

own with ten big men chasing me and the fact that they had cameras in

their hand meant that was legal but if you take away the cameras what

have you got? You have a pack of men chasing a woman and obviously

that's a very intimidating situation to be in.

Photographers seem to know her movements and reporters her secrets.

She accused her family of leaking information. There was one

particular very private piece of information that four people knew

about and I had been very careful to not - to only tell my mother, my

sister and two of my closest friends. A journalist had phoned up

saying they knew about this and so yes, I accused my family and people

who would never dream of selling any sort of information on me. I

accused them, someone in that room of selling a story. In fact, her

phone was being hacked. When she finally saw the notes kept by Glenn

Mulcaire, the News of the World investigator, this is what she

found. Dates referring to very personal things within my life, all

my telephone numbers, the three I changed in three months, my access

numbers, pin numbers, my password for my e-mail that was actually

used to hack my e-mail in 2008. whole experience she said had

created distrust and anxiety and had left her feeling violated.

We can talk to Nick at the Royal Courts of Justice. We have had some

days of this evidence, any sort of theme beginning to emerge? Four

days of witness testimony now and I think there are some themes

emerging. Today, from JK Rowlatt -- Rowling, Sienna Miller, Max Mosley,

first there is a section of the British media that has few scruples

in the way it deals with the rights and feelings of the people that

they come up against, the commercial imperative is to get a

story, a photograph. Second, that people, whether they be celebrities

or ordinary strepbs, -- citizens, feel genuinely intimidated about

standing up to some British newspapers. The impression, rightly

or wrongly, is that they can be bullies and that there is no

effective control over them. Thank you.

A future rows kwrou -- furious row has broken out between the unions

and the Government after Ministers claimed next week's strike could

cost half a billion pounds. Union leaders have hit back saying that's

fantasy economics. The industrial action is expected to cause

widespread disruption. They are the public services that

millions of us rely upon. But next week they face the worst disruption

in a generation as Wednesday's strike on November 30th now looks

inevitable. Hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants

walked out last June over plans to make them pay more and work longer

for their pension. Despite months of talks, unions and the Government

have so far failed to reach a deal. The responsibility for that

disruption lies squarely with the trade union leaders who have

decided on a strike even while negotiations are ongoing. I think

that is irresponsible. I think it is wrong. And people should know

who to blame. I think it's a bit silly for the Prime Minister to be

trying to demonise union leaders in this very, very simplistic way. He

needs to understand we have been working for months, trying to

engage his Ministers in serious negotiations. Unfortunately, that's

not been happening. The impact will be widespread and will start at our

borders. Civil servants across Government have been asked to

volunteer to check passports and man border posts. And for the first

time in years, the NHS will be hit, too. Next Wednesday will see the

first national strike in the health service since 1988. Now emergency

cover will be provided, doctors and the vast majority of nurses will be

at work. But hundreds of thousands of staff are expected to walk out

including healthcare assistants and the likes of porters and cleaners.

It's likely to be the biggest day of industrial action since the late

70s. Up to two million workers could strike. But in a worst case

scenario, today the Treasury said it could cost the economy up to

half a billion pounds. It estimates more than two thirds of all schools

will close, so many parents will be -- won't be able to work. This

primary school in Cardiff is one of thousands that will shut. It's a

lot of trouble really because you have parents going into work who

haven't got - especially my mum, she's no one to look after my

brother and he is special needs. my son has to suffer for one day, I

am sure it's going to benefit all round. There could be more

disruption. Today one union indicated November 30th could just

be the start and without a resolution to the dispute further

national strikes would be inevitable in the new year. That

strike will take place the day after the Chancellor's autumn

statement. His chance to show how he is going to get the economy

growing against a backdrop of gloomy forecasts. Figures out today

show the number of young people in England who aren't in education,

training or work has risen to a record high. But one company that's

bucking the trend is Toyota, which has unveiled plans for 1,500 new

jobs in Derbyshire. From there, our political editor Nick Robinson

reports. Stick to the plan and things will

get better, so says David Cameron and this is what better looks like.

Toyota are promising to create up to 1500 new jobs at their plant. A

welcome bit of good news for a Prime Minister who knows that next

week his Chancellor will have to tell the country the bad news,

about just how far the economy is off course. I want Britain to be a

manufacturing success story in this century and today's announcement is

unqualified good news for Derbyshire, for Toyota, and for

Britain. Derby's a place where they boost they make not just cars, but

planes and trains, too. David Cameron set up this city,

Derby, as a test of the Government's entire economic

strategy. A few months ago he brought the entire cabinet here to

Rolls Royce and promised that the economy would focus again on

manufacturing, on making things. But weeks later they were marching

in the streets here when bombardia said it would have to cut 1400 jobs

when an order for new British trains was given to the German

company Siemens. Alan's family business makes parts

for trains. That's a destination board. His firm had plans to expand.

Not now. How many jobs might that have created here? Two jobs over a

period of five years. Just making those? Just on that component.

does he want from the Chancellor next Tuesday? He can sum it up in

one word, confidence. We are in a position where we are in a status

quo and don't have the confidence to do anything much further than we

are at the moment. We would love to be in a position where we can

expand rather than stay as we are. That would increase training, jobs,

investment for the future. Unemployment here is up 13% in the

past year and today new national figures showed that more than one

in five 18-24-year-olds are classified as not in employment,

education or training. That's NEET, for short, that's not how it feels.

I have qualifications but still can't get work because of the

recession. With unemployment rising and growth stalling, Labour says

the autumn statement is the time to change course. The statement will

mark a crucial moment in the economic course of our country. It

will show comprehensively that the biggest economic gamble for a

generation has failed. So, it's far, far better to change course and

have a credible deficit reduction plan based on higher growth and

employment, rather than a failing plan based on low growth and high

unemployment. When the Chancellor delivers his autumn statement next

Tuesday it will in part be a report back on the state of the economy.

But the test of it will be whether he can give hope to communities

like this. Nick is in now back in London in

Downing Street. We heard in your report what business wants, any

hints about what's likely to be in the Chancellor's statement next

week? An intriguing hint today, which backs up what we have been

hearing that infrastructure spending, in other words, spending

on things like road projects and transport projects, broadband, for

example, things that persuade companies to invest and create jobs

will be the real focus of next Tuesday's statement. The

Chancellor's deputy, Danny Alexander, said in a speech today

at lunchtime that he wanted to switch spending to capital spending,

strip out the jargon, what does that mean? Cuts in day-to-day

spending in order to spend more on building things. And what that may

mean is simply looking around Whitehall for little bits of money

that have not been spent by Government departments and doing

that, but it may mean something much more dramatic than that. And

certainly one source tonight suggested this was an important

move that would switch money from one side of the balance sheet to

the other. The hope being that confidence is given to people when

they see that Britain is building again.

At the Stephen Lawrence murder trial the chief forensic scientist

in the investigation has spoken of the concerns he had about crucial

evidence. Adrian Wain said he had been worried about contamination of

clothing. Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murdering Stephen

Lawrence at a bus stop in London 18 years ago. Our home affairs

correspondent Tom Symonds is at the Old Bailey.

The case against Gary Dobson and David Norris hangs on forensically

microscopic particles, hair, fabric fibres and blood found on their

clothes and on Stephen's. The prosecution says it puts them at

the scene of the killing. The defence, that over the years the

The forensic scientist in charge, Adrian Wain, here on the right,

oversaw the examination of key clothing exhibits in the 1990s. In

1999, police carried out a review of the way clothes were stored in

these paper bags. The court heard quoted a report, referring to

The forensic scientist agreed he could imagine saying that. Shortly

after the killing his lab carried out the examination of Stephen's

black, blood-stained jacket, but not, his blue jumper, worn

underneath, it was less likely to have got fibres from the suspects.

In 2001 the police wanted to get it tested. The suspects told them,

eight years on, he had concerns. He Barrysters for Colin Norris, here

on the left and Gary Dobson have said they cannot -- David Norris

and Gary Dobson have said they cannot.... The prosecution has told

the jury that the risk of contamination is ther retal, not

realistic. Our top story tonight: More A-list

celebrities have criticised their treatment by the press. Coming up:

Caught on camera, partying hard at the disser tarous World Cup, now

the director of the England rugby union team has said "Sorry." Tough

times at two of Britain's best- known retailers. In manufacturing,

it's a different story. New jobs at New figures on migration in and out

of the UK have been published. The latest figures are for 2010 and

showed the difference between the number of people coming in, minus

those leaving the country is just over 250,000. That is a record. Our

home affairs correspondent has the details.

This latest net migration figure is the highest on record and a

headache for ministers, who know all too well that immigration is a

key issue for so many of the public. One of the reasons the figure is so

high is because of people like Claire Guile. She and her family

planned to emigrate to New Zealand, but then decided to stay put. They

are part of a trend. Emigration from the UK is at the lowest for a

decade. If we went to New Zealand we would have had to work harder.

We would have had to find childcare. We would have had to pay for

medical care. The houses were not much cheaper. It would meant we

both would have to work full-time. What are the annual figures? At

1,000 people came into the UK. These figures remain steady. Only

339,000 people emigrated. 252,000 is the difference. The net

migration total. This is more than double the Government's target of

100,000 by 2015. What the figures tell us is in 2010 net migration

was much too high. That is why we took immediate action when we came

into Government on the work route, on students and were about to

announce breaking the link between coming here and setting here and on

-- settling here and on the family route. We knew it would take a full

Parliament to get net migration down to sustainable levels we want.

We think the Government has the wrong target. They are not

fulfilling promises they made. They said net migration should go down.

It has gone up 10% on their watch. They said they would make sure more

people were repelled at the borders. The number has gone down instead of

up a suburban hair and beauty salon, which like so many shops have an

international staff. Agnieszka Wieczorek planned to stay

here for a short time before returning to her native Poland. Now

she sees herself address a long- term resident. I feel at home. When

I go to Poland, I think, thank good I am back home. Foreign workers

have been overtaken by students when it comes to the number of

immigrants arriving in the UK. The Government says it can exert

control over student numbers. The bodies of four soldiers, all

killed by bombs within four days of each other have been flown to RAF

Brize Norton today. Lance Corporal Peter Eustace of the 2nd Battalion

The Rifles died in Helmand province on November 16th. He was 25. The

next day, Lieutenant David Boyce, who was also 25 died when his

armoured vehicle was hit by a make- shift bomb.

35-year-old Lance Corporal Richard Scanlon was killed in the same

explosion. Both were from 1st The Queen's Dragoons Guards.

Private Thomas Lake, from 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales'

Royal Regiment was 29. He was killed on 20th November.

The operators of a helicopter which crashed in the North Sea killing

all 16 people aboard had been planning to replace its main gear

box a week before the disaster. That is according to an air

accident report published today. The helicopter was flying from an

oil platform in the North Sea to Aberdeen in April 2009. From there,

our Scotland correspondent sent this report.

It was called flight 85 November. This work was helicopter and what

should have been a routine journey, ferrying passengers from a platform

more than 100 miles off-shore. The wreckage was the evidence of a

catastrophic gear box failure. The crew making one Mayday call,

followed quickly by another, as the aircraft plummeted into the water.

All 16 on board died. In this, the worst accident in the North Sea for

r for more than 20 years. Those there to cancel their families

through their loss say they will welcome today's findings. People

have gone through a lot of grieve, a lot of pain, loss, anger. A lot

of uncertainty as well, because of what was actually the cause of the

disaster. Today is an opportunity that that part, at least, can be

established. This much was already known, there

was a huge search for any survivors. An eyewitness spoke of the aircraft

descending rapidly before it hit the surface of the sea. In the

beginning of March the helicopter's gear box was replaced. 25th, a

metallic particle was found and an inspection ordered. The

manufacturer was consulted. The report states this consultation led

to a misunderstanding or miss communication. Plans to replace the

faulty equipment were cancelled. are pleased to see the air accident

branch report. They provided us with a detailed, very painstaking,

obvious forensic examination of what went wrong. The off-shore

workers were returning home when this accident happened. The

helicopter was just 20 minutes away from landing.

The helicopter's operators say procedures have now been

strengthened and have been changed. This report makes 17 safety

recommendations for the industry to try and ensure that a tragedy like

this never happens again. Rob Andrew, England's elite rugby

director has admitted the RFU has hit rock-bottom. He refused to quit.

Stp an interview Rob Andrew apoll - - in an interview Rob Andrew

apologised for recent events. Yesterday, the RFU said it would

investigate the highly-damaging leak of reports, which lifted the

view on the England players' view on the failed World Cup. Today,

many who think it was to damage, drew drou drew, came out to fight -

- Rob Andrew came out to fight his corner. As they left New Zealand

last month having been knocked out of the quarter-finals, England's

players may have thought it could not get worse. Since then English

rugby has lurched from one crisis to another. Today, the man many

feel is responsible finally said "Sorry." I apologise. I am saddened

about what is going on at the moment. I am saddened for English

rugby, because it's not a fair reflection on everything in English

rugby. From the moment this drinking session spiralled out of

control, England's dismalWorld Cup was dogged by off-field

controversies. The sense of scandal culminated in three reports into

the campaign. They revealed a squad driven by the management. Today Ian

Smith resigned. I am absolutely shattered by what is going on.

Both on and off the field, at the moment.

You know, this last 127 months has been the most extraordinary working

environment that anybody could possibly be in.

-- this last 12 months. Amid all the chaos, it is easy to forget

that England are six nation champions. Time is running out to

find a road to recovery. Well, English rugby finds itself no

chief executive, no coach and no captain. It appears the Government

now have had enough. The Sports Minister said last night he wants

an entire revamp of the structure of the RFU. Four years until

England host the next World Cup, time is very much of the essence.

Thank you very much. That takes us to the weather.

A lively night out there A lively night out there

weatherwise. I have got a beauty of a satellite

picture to show you. Not too beautiful if you are stuck out in

the Atlantic. Nothing too exceptional for us. Nonetheless

very windy. The Northern Isles seeing gusts. It is this squally

weather front which brings rain across the country. Gusts across

the Pennines, 50-60 miles per hour. Be aware of that. Rain will extend

down to the south-escalator on. Clearing up behind and turning

chilli. -- chilly.

Sunshine across the heart of England. A nip in the air, mind you.

The last of the overnight rain clear from East Anglia and the far

south-east. A lot of Sunshine across southern counties. The winds

not too strong. Patchy cloud. All in all, a reasonable start to the

day. For Wales it should be dry, fine and sunny. Cloud across

Snowdonia. More cloud over the Irish Sea. Chilly, breezy and

showers around. Cold over Scotland. Snow falling to

low levels. It should be settling to 300 metres. High-level routes

could be affected by that. Some blustery showers across

northern areas. One or two making it further south. Through the

afternoon a lot of fine and sunny, if rather chilly weather out there,

particularly over the northern half of the UK, where temperatures will

struggle to seven or eight Celsius. Rain in the north and stormy again

on Saturday night across the far north.