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scenes as Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale had to be dragged

from the dock after they started fighting with prison guards. The

judge said they had butchered Fusilier Lee Rigby in a barbaric

murder that would have a lasting and severe impact on his family. It has

brought us comfort and we are satisfied that justice has been

served for Lee. It just remains to be said - rest in peace, Lee. We'll

have the latest from the Old Bailey. Also tonight: Northern Ireland's

First Minster threatens to resign over the collapse of the Hyde Park

bombing case - unless there's a judicial inquiry. I'm not prepared

to be the First Minister of a Government that has kept in the dark

on matters which are relevant, very relevant. Facing its heaviest losses

in history - the Co-op is to sell off its farming business. Millions

of children have been diagnosed as dyslexic, but now a group of experts

say the term is meaningless. After the storm that swept away the tracks

at Dawlish - we have a special report on the work to repair the

main rail line to Cornwall. On BBC London: The Met carries out its

biggest ever series of raids on a suspected criminal network. And

hundreds of millions will be spent making junctions safer for cyclists

and pedestrians. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

News at 6. The two men who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby outside the

Woolwich barracks in London last year have been given life sentences.

Michael Adebolajo was told he will die in prison, and 22-year-old

Michael Adebowale will spend at least 45 years behind bars. The

judge said the two British Muslim converts had butchered the

25-year-old soldier to death in a barbaric murder that would have a

lasting and severe effect on his family. The two men weren't in court

to hear their sentences - they'd been dragged from the dock after

fighting broke out. June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. The judge told the

two men that what they had done was a betrayal of Islam. They started

shouting back from the dock, that it was not. There were scuffs and

security staff and the two men were taken down to the cells and Michael

Adebolajo had to be carried down the stairs. They were not in court to

hear the sentences. This report contains some flash photography. It

is ten weeks since Lee Rigby's killers were convicted. Today they

were brought back for sentencing. Michael Adebolajo and Michael

Adebowale saw themselves as soldiers of Allah. Michael Adebolajo

described the killing as an act of war. So Lee Rigby, who had survived

the battlefields of Afghanistan lost his life in a barbaric act on a

London street. In court for the sentencing, those who loved Lee

Rigby. The prosecution said their lives had been changed forever for

the worse. The family welcomes the whole life and significant sentences

that have been passed on his killers. We feel that no other

sentence would have been acceptable and we would like to thank the judge

and the courts for handing down what we believe to be the right prison

terms. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us in the

last nine months. It has brought us a lot of comfort and we feel

satisfied that justice has been served for Lee. It just remains to

be staid - rest in peace Lee. Lee Rigby's wife said their son would

grow up to see images of his dad that no one should endure. Lee's

uncle spoke to the BBC. We have just seen this as a murder. I think that

is the hardest thing to comprehend. Lee Rigby in a Help For Heroes top

was targeted by the killers. As he crossed the road, they drove their

car at him. Michael Adebolajo tried to behead him with a meat cleaver

and Michael Adebowale was cutting at his body with a knife. It culminated

in them dragging his dead body into the road to put on public display.

With his hands soaked in blood, Michael Adebolajo delivered a

message. They waited for police and their plan was to be shot by

firearms officers, martyring themselves as they saw it. Michael

Adebolajo ran at the police officer. Michael Adebowale was then

surrounded. In one hand a revolver and in the other a knife. He too was

shot. These two men wanted to end their lives together on their chosen

day with the world watching. Instead, they were spend the rest of

their lives apart and Michael Adebolajo will die behind bars. The

judge said that neither man had shown any remorse. For the family

this is the final chapter of the trial process, but as was

acknowledged in court, there is no end when it comes to their sense of

loss. Thank you. Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson, is

so furious about the collapse of the case against the Hyde Park bombing

suspect that he has threatened to resign. The case against John Downey

was thrown out of court yesterday after it emerged he'd been assured

in a letter from government officials that he was no longer a

wanted man. Mr Robinson is demanding a judicial inquiry into the secret

letters given to paramilitary suspects. It's now emerged that 38

of the letters were signed under the current government, as our Ireland

correspondent Chris Buckler reports. They are murders engraved in the

memories of many. The bombing at Hyde Park killed four soldiers from

the Household Cavalry. Although he denied involvement in the killings,

John Downey was the main suspect and yesterday he walked free from court,

because of an assurance from the Government that he would not be

prosecuted. This cannot happen again. Today the Prime Minister

admitted that that had been a huge mistake. First let me say I

understand the depth of anger and concern that people will feel ray

cross this country about the appalling events that happened in

1982 and the fact that the person responsible is not going to be

tried. Yes, 71.12%. When people voted in support of the Good Friday

agreement, the politicians hadn't agreed on what to do about so-called

on the runs. People suspected of terrorist offences. The then Prime

Minister, Tony Blair, give a written assurance to Sinn Fein that he would

address the issue. Since then 200 letter have been given to Republican

suspected of terrorist offences. They ashoed them -- assured them

they would not face prosecution. However unionists say they knew

nothing about the deal with Sinn Fein and it strained relationships

to the point where the First Minister has threatened to resign,

unless there is a judicial review. I'm not prepared to be the First

Minister of a Government that has kept in the dark on matter that are

relevant, very relevant to what we are doing. We have spent the last

number of months dealing with the Hass talks. That they were about

people getting justice. Now we find that they never would get justice.

In a place where divisions are too obvious, claims of secret deals are

capable of eroding trust. But Sinn Fein is defending the process that

up to now wasn't made public. Peter can resign. But that won't address

the past. That is something that we will to return to. Relationships

often seem strained here, but the revelations have done real damage

and Dee that is a perception that this scheme was set up specifically

and exclusively for Republicans. With claims that this was an

amnesty, Conservative and unionist politicians are asking why the

soldiers at Bloody Sunday still face potential prosecution. Northern

Ireland's past again hanging over the politics of the present. Our

Political Editor Nick Robinson is in the Houses of Parliament England's

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has backed calls

What chance of a he zru. The review Peter Robinson will not get. But

ministers know they will have to make some concession. They have said

there will be an inquiry into how this particular mistake was made.

They have also said they will be fact-checking to make sure a similar

mistake cannot be made. But there is something deeper at stake, not just

the the fact the Northern Ireland administration claim they were kept

in the dark, but also the sense that something was being done that means

there were different rules for different parties on the two sides

of this long and bloody conflict. And it is that that has for so long

caused anger not just in Northern Ireland, but among many people here

in Westminster as well. There is one key fact which has dogged the

Northern Ireland peace process. It is simply this - the argument that

opt one hand you have to wipe the slate clean of the grim past in

order to make progress and yet the outrage that causes to individuals

involved who are still suffering hurt and are still suffering pain.

Thank you. The dd bod kwi which advises the Government on the

national minimum wage has recommended it be increased by 3%.

The Chancellor called for an above inflation rise and said it would

need to do to ?7 an hour to have its value restored to what it was before

the banking crisis. The Co-op is to sell off its farming business and is

also considering the future of its pharmacy chain in a bid to revive

the troubled mutual. The Co-op's expected to announce a loss of

around ?2 billion next month - the biggest in the group's history. The

losses are mainly from the Co-op's bank, which had to be bailed out by

investors last year. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

The Co-Op, a family face on the high street. But the group is hurtling

into the red. Its results were never going to be pretty. Now we know the

losses will run into the billions. The Co-Op had a terrible 2013. The

main thing that went wrong they found a 1.5 billion black hole in

the bank and sorting that out and the other things means they may end

up making more than two billion in losses. Here is the fall out. The

Co-Op is one of Britain's biggest farmers, going back more than 100

years. No I the for sale sign is going up. It has 15 farms in the UK.

All being sold. They cover more than 17,000 hectares of land. Producing

mainly cereals. There are 200 workers in a business no longer

deemed to be essential. Britain's biggest mutual is a sprawling mix of

businesses from food to pharmacies. This chain with more than 750 stores

may also end up being sold. The new management believe big changes need

to be prescribed to restore the Co-Op's fortunes. This bastion of

the co-operative movement goes back a long way. Its future is now being

reshaped some predict a clash of values. You will see strategies

presented by management and more rigorous questioning from the bottom

up and you will see a lot of unhappiness I think from many of the

members who feel like they're shifting fromming with a

co-operative to being a corporation. Make your opinion count. The boss is

asking the members what they think their mutual should look like and

whatever their views it seems change is looming which could lead to big

job losses as this group tries to get back on its feet. The Russian

President Vladimir Putin has ordered an immediate test of combat

readiness of troops in the central and western part of Russia. It comes

after the overthrow of a key ally - the Ukrainian president - Victor

Yanukovic. Today in Ukraine activists were combing Mr

Yanukovic's enormous presidential retreat for evidence of his alleged

crimes and lavish spending. Our correspondent Steve Rosenberg

reports. When Viktor Yanukovych fled his luxury estate, there were seek

represents he wanted destroyed. Documents were disposed of in this

reservoir, but they didn't disappear. Hours later, a team of

divers fished them out. And ammunition too. Now, the recovered

documents are being dried. Rather fittingly in one of Viktor

Yanukovych's own saunas. Each Ed folder had from one hundred to five

hundred pages. If we didn't rescue them within 72 hours they would die.

The documents are scanned. Some show millions in cash payments and

extravagant spending. Like the $6 million Viktor Yanukovych spent on

furniture for this boat. A banquet hall in his back garden. The team

investigating say they have fished around 50,000 documents from the

lake. There are details of bank accounts. Transactions, property

deals - all relating to Viktor Yanukovych and his luxury Villa. It

is a race to dry them and save them and analyse them. The team didn't

just try to drown the documents, they tried burn some too. There are

details about pension funds, about companies that had connections with

the presidential residence and all of this will be handed to the police

for a thorough investigation. The police arrived while we were filming

and checked the cupboards. Inside, was a giant silver Faberge egg and

something to wash it down with. Today prosecutors accused Viktor

Yanukovych of stealing billions. They intend to review every economic

deal he made and request international help to trace his

assets. Our top story this evening. Two British Muslim converts have

been sentenced to a life behind bars for the murder of Fusilier Lee

Rigby. Still to come: The baby dubbed the miracle of 3rd Avenue

after her British mother gave birth on a New York street. Later, on BBC

London. A man from Sutton was jailed for four years for killing a man

with a single punch. Now, the sentence could be reviewed. And, Sir

Roger Bannister - the man who first ran a mile under four minutes - on

inspiring a new generation of athletes.

Millions of people have been diagnosed with dyslexia, now a group

of experts is calling for the term to be scrapped because they say it's

unscientific and lacks educational value. The NHS in England estimates

that between 4% and 8% of the population have the learning

disorder. It's recognised in education guidelines and disability

discrimination law in England and Wales. But the experts from Yale and

Durham universities say the term "dyslexia" is used to broadly that

it becomes "meaningless". That prompted sharp comment and criticism

from some parents up-and-down the country, as Danny Savage has been

finding out. What's next? Sid is seven years old and was diagnosed

with dyslexia last year. Once-a-week he has a special one-to-one lesson

to help him. Dyslexia what sort of things do you find difficult to do?

Reading, writing and other, like tricky words and spelling. His

parents pay to have Sid assessed and say a diagnosis was essential. It

was exstroo Emily important to get him diagnosed. That's... It's led me

to being able to get him help he needs. He was struggling at schooled

school. He wasn't enjoying going to school. Now he is. He likes nothing

he is dyslexia for the fact he is different from everybody else. It

has made him more confident. Experts have today said the term dyslexia

should be abandoned. It's too broad to be meaningful, they say, instead

suggest that all those with reading difficulties should be treated

equally. There's a significant number of children who have reading

difficulties of one kind or another who don't get the diagnosis, don't

get the extra help and sympathy. These youngsters suffer as a result

of this practice. The new suggestion is that professionals like teachers

should spot reading difficulties early in any child and intervene as

quickly as possible as opposed to the sometimes lengthy process of

looking for a diagnosis of dyslexia, and then getting the specialist

tuition. Those who treat dyslexia say there is great value in a

diagnosis. It also helps people engage with things like schools and

authorities, in terms of getting the support they need to be successful

at school or the workplace or even get a job. What has been suggested

today is a complete rethink about the way reading difficulties are

assessed. Lindsay Davenport, BBC News, Leeds. The Health Secretary,

Jeremy Hunt, has backed calls to dissolve the trust that runs

Stafford Hospital that was hit by scandal. Mr Hunt said Mid

Staffordshire NHS Trust would be scrapped and while its two hospitals

would remain open, many services would move to other hospitals. The

Trust has been in administration since April when services were

deemed "unsustainable." Campaigners, who oppose the move, said they may

challenge the decision in the courts. The NHS in Wales is paying

for heart patients to be treated in England after warnings that people

were dying while waiting for surgery. It's been confirmed that

almost 100 people had died over five years while on the waiting list. The

Royal College of Surgeons has raised concerns for the second time in six

months about the risk to patients. Our Branwen Jeffreys reports from

Cardiff. Life-saving surgery can fix damaged hearts, but waiting too long

puts lives at risk. Over the last five years, 99 people have died on

the waiting list for heart surgery in Wales. Robin Williams struggles

for breath. He has had a heart bypass and may need further surgery.

He's part of a support group for heart patients and says many are

struggling to live with the anxiety of waiting. A lot of the families

are complaining. They complain to me, and the patients complain, but

they don't want me to complain on their behalf to the NHS in case they

get taken off the list. That particular fear may be misplaced.

It's hard to complain when you are ill. Surgeons share the concerns

that some patients are waiting too long. The issue isn't with the

quality of heart surgery here in south Wales, it's the amount of time

it might take you to get to the operating table. Very simply, the

risk that you could die, waiting for a heart operation in Wales. How many

people wait a long time in Wales and England? The heart surgery waiting

list figures for December show the difference. Waiting over 36 weeks

were 60 people in England. In Wales, which has a very small population in

comparison, 183. So Wales is now paying three heart centres in

England to treat patients. The Chief Medical Officer told me it it is

part of their plan to cut waiting. We have been able to get hold of

operations provided through other places in England, other centres in

England. People are being reviewed on the waiting lists and prioritised

and offered the opportunity to have their treatment in different

centres. The NHS in Wales has struggled with waiting times,

pressures on A, and to cut waiting for heart surgery in the long-term

could cost the health service here millions of pounds. Branwen

Jeffreys, BBC News, Cardiff. It was one of the most start ling images of

the recent storms, the Railtrack at Dawlish, which connects Devon and

Cornwall to the rest of the country, destroyed by the huge waves. Now, a

massive engineering operation is underway to restore the main rail

link. Our correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been to see the damage

close up for the first time. He is there now. Richard. Sophie, around

here they are calling this "the hole" the 100 meter stretch of track

that was completely destroyed by the Atlantic a few weeks ago. These guys

are working through the night, like they are every night today, for the

first time, they let us in to see how they are planning to fix the

line. It's one of the most rain soaked winter. The only rail link to

Cornwall and much of Devon, swinging in the wind like a rope bridge. This

is that gaping hole today. It's the first time cameras have been allowed

in. This machine is pumping around 5,000 tonnes of concrete into the

new wall, they will shore it up with steel rods and eventually, around

April time, they will lay the new track, ruffle where I'm walking now

-- roughly where I am he a walking now. The race is to fix the line.

300 people, working night and day. Dodging the tides. Building a

tougher wall to avoid the scene that met engineers on that first morning.

A bomb site. It looked like an explosion in the ground and a bomb

had literally hit the tracks. It, basically, was a great big hole. In

fact, the repair work stretches way beyond the town. It's not just about

that famous piece of missing sea wall at Dawlish, they have actually

lost a third of a mile of this wall which keeps the track safe. This

famous line has been confronting the sea for 170 years, it's a history

not lost on the people working here. The challenge is -- challenges that

we have, the tides, the weather, and the time constraints, obviously the

Victorians would have had all these without the technology, the tools

and techniques we have. You have to admire how they did it in the first

place, given the challenges we are having now putting it back. The

images will be etched on people's memories for years to come. The new

line should be ready for the Easter holidays unless this beautiful

weather suddenly turns ugly again. Richard Westcott, BBC News, Dawlish.

The mirdcle of 3rd Avenue that is what they are you calling the baby

in New York who was born in the gutter. Her mother, who is British,

had just gone into labour and was standing outside her home trying to

get a taxi to the hospital. In true New York style, a camera crew

happened to be passing by and film it Auld. As nick Bryant reports now

from New York. Say hello. Say hello. She is precious. , yeahs latest a--

New York's latest attraction. Now safely in her British mother's arms,

after being delivered in the gutter. Realising she was in labour, Polly

McCourt tried to hail the cab with the help of a friendly door man. It

was the start of a dramatic few New York minutes. He was trying to hail

a cab. A woman hailed a cab and got into it. I went, "no, that's my cab.

I want that cab." This New York nativity scene was captured by a

passing new crew which watched as Polly gave birth at the start of the

evening rush-hour. Stuck in traffic, her husband arriveded moments after

their new daughter. I knew instantly that it was Polly. Then I feared the

worse. You think - she's been knocked down. It's been the

bitterest of New York winters. Onlookers immediately started taking

off their clothes to keep the newborn baby warm. One woman offered

up her coat. They have lost her phone number. They will always

remember her name. Now you have named your baby the middle name

after Isabelle. It was meant to be my name. It was meant to be Isla

Polly, it's now Isla Im McCourt. She weighed in 6llbs and 7 ounces. The

city that supposedly never sleeps. Time now for a look at the weather:

She was lucky it wasn't snowing at the time. They have had a lot of

snow in New York this winter. We have had very little. There is some

in this forecast. Tonight it's rain. Ahead of this cloud we have had

sunshine and showers. Some across central Scotland which are fading

away. The cloud will swamp all areas over night tonight. It could be

heavy for a time. It whizzes through quickly because of the strength of

the wind. As it clears, it may turn chilly in Northern Ireland. For most

places it will be a fairly mild night. The rain hasn't completely

gone. In the morning a soggy start across parts of Scotland and eastern

England, takes a while before it heads out into the North Sea. A

breezy day with a mix of sunshine and showers. More showers tomorrow,

certainly across the bulk of England and Wales compared to today. The

rain hasn't really cleared from Shetland, it will stay soggy here.

For mainland Scotland there will be sun and showers. Sunny spells and

showers for Northern Ireland. That is the theme across England and

Wales. The feeling fresh in the breeze. The breeze could get gusty,

particularly close to the showers. There will be more of them across

the Midlands, Wales and southern England compared to today. Heavy

ones possibly with hail and thunder mixed in. Tomorrow night, a little

area of low pressure, the small features are difficult to pin down.

There will be strong winds with that low. Potential for lively gusts

along the south coast and a risk of snow. At the moment, northern

England, the Midlands and Wales. Over the hills here, that is where

we are most likely to see snow. There is uncertainty. The message is

stay tuned to the forecast. We will firm up on the details for Friday

soon. That is all from the BBC News at Six, goodbye from me. On BBC One

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