23/04/2014 BBC News at Six

A mother is arrested after three of her children are found dead. They

are all thought have been disabled by a life-limiting condition. The

bodies of a four-year-old girl and her three-year-old twin brothers

were discovered last night at their home in South London. Their father

was out of the country at the time. Neighbours describe the family as

kind and loving. They just did everything they could to make those

children happy. But all the equipment they could get and toys.

They have been very good parents, both of them. An older sibling is

unharmed. We'll bring you the latest. Also tonight. The number of

people suffering injuries as a result of violence drops to its

lowest level in a decade. The drug being denied to breast cancer

patients because it's too expensive. And David Moyes speaks out after his

sacking by Manchester United. On BBC London that the businessman shot

dead in the Philippines, a local man admits the killing. And the latest

twist in the court case of the police whistle-blower accused of

vindictive mess. Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A

42-year-old mother has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three

of her children were found dead at a house in South London. The

four-year-old girl and three-year-old twin boys are thought

to have been disabled with a life-limiting genetic condition.

Their bodies were discovered last night at their home in New Malden.

The children's father was away with an older sibling at the time. Ben

Geoghegan is in New Malden for us now. Police officers have been

inside the house this afternoon for much of the afternoon and they have

also been talking to some local residents here but that they are

still at a very early stage of the investigation and what they want to

find three died here. All day, people have been coming to the house

to leave messages filled with sorrow. When police arrived at

around 9:30pm last night, they find the bodies of a four-year-old girl

and two boys, twins, aged three. There is a strong sense of shock and

sadness here. In this wealthy suburban street, people cannot

believe what has happened. Utterly shell-shocked. This house has been

refurbished for the last six months, it is such a really lovely

house. This is a very quiet road. You would never expect something

like this to happen anywhere like this. It is terrible, really.

Unbelievable, it is a bit of a shock. It is a big shock. The

children's mother was treated in hospital for minor injuries before

being arrested on suspicion of murder. She is now being held in

custody. I would like to reassure the local community that we have

made an arrest in this incident and were not looking for any further

suspects. The children's parents, who are thought to have been from

South Africa, have been named locally as Gary and Tania Clarence.

They had four children the age of eight, three of them, including twin

boys, were thought to have been disabled as a result of the genetic

illness. Ken Smith is a local councillor who helped the family

after they modified their home to cope with their children's physical

needs. I thought of the family as a unit, I thought the parents were

caring and I thought they would do everything within the house to

ensure the children had a secure environment to live in. Neighbours

say the three children were Kate for full-time by their mother. They just

did everything they could to make those children happy. With all the

equipment they could get and toys. They have been very good parents,

both of them. Police have not given a cause of death for the children.

Postmortem examinations will be carried out and officers say they

were speaking to the wider family to try to understand what lies behind

this tragedy. Ben Geoghegan, ABC News, New Malden. For injuries by

violence has fallen to its lowest level for more than a decade

Accident and Emergency departments in England and Wales suggests there

was a 12% fall last year. It's thought that alcohol becoming less

affordable and a drop in binge drinking could be partly why. The

trend mirrors the findings of other crime surveys and the pattern in

other Western countries, as our Home Editor, Mark Easton, reports.

British town centres on a Friday and Saturday night have been likened to

war zones. A culture of drinking and fighting that keeps emergency

services at full stretch. But the reputation belies an extraordinary

change. If years ago, Crawley Town Centre at night was regarded as the

worst in the county. In no-go area for the law abiding majority. Like

many places, binge drink in and anti-social behaviour and

hand-in-hand. But recently, police, publicans and the local council have

worked together to transform the culture of the night-time economy. I

have seen a change coming through because nine or ten years ago there

was a culture of fighting and certainly in Crawley, when I arrived

four years ago, there may have been but what I think has happened is

people don't tend to guide for a fight night, they go out to

socialise and enjoy themselves and have a good night. Figures show that

numbers treated for violent injuries in English and Welsh hospitals

filled 12% last year, just the latest reduction in trend that goes

back more than ten years. Researchers believe it is action to

do with alcohol-related violence that has made a real difference. We

find in our own research also that where this multi-agency prevention

is well organised and well led, it is in those regions of the country

where violence has come down most. It was 2001 when Labour's Michael

Ryan helped to woo voters with the promise of a cafe style drinking

culture. The argument was that of Britain relaxed licensing laws and

tougher sanctions on those who abuse the new freedoms, it will encourage

a more responsible attitude towards alcohol. Adam Boxley runs Crawley's

biggest nightclub. He has witnessed a real change. The incidents we have

where people are assaulted in clubs and bars has reduced dramatically

and usually when that stuff does happen, it is always from an ongoing

feud that has happened, perhaps in the past. It is not like we're going

to go out and have a fight, that has changed. Cafe culture may have

arrived in stock among young people there appears to be a greater

intolerance of aggression, from barroom brawls to domestic violence,

from knife crime to football hooliganism. Evidence is mounting

that these day, it is cool to be cool. A new drug to treat breast

cancer which can cost ?90,000 per patient is too expensive for the

NHS, according to the medicines watchdog. The National Institute for

Health and Care Excellence says it's unlikely to recommend routine use of

the drug in England and Wales. It can extend a patient's life by up to

six months. Cancer specialists and charities have described the

decision as a huge blow. Our Health Correspondent, Dominic Hughes,

reports. The new generation of cancer drugs offers the chance of a

huge advance in the treatment of the disease. Kadcyla is one of them, it

is a last-resort treatment when other drugs have stopped working,

with fewer side-effects. Around one in five best cancer patients could

benefit. -- breast. But the NHS medicines watchdog for England and

Wales says the price being asked by the drug company, Roche, is too

high, unless a deal can be done. It would be good if they could consider

that because this is an important development, this is a drug which

would be good to recommend for routine use in the NHS. The new

drug, Kadcyla, is not cheap. An average treatment costs around

?90,000. It can give very ill patients almost six months more time

with family and friends. But generally, NICE will only approve

drugs that give an extra year of life for around ?30,000. A little

over two years ago, Manny had run out of treatment options. She

started taking Kadcyla as part of a clinical trial. Since then, her

tumours have shrunk and she has been able to enjoy precious time with her

11-year-old daughter. Every second with my child is important. So that

is the main thing. It has given me hope as well. Because there are new

treatments that are becoming available. The money saved by not

buying this expensive new drug could then be made available to fund

treatments for a whole range of illnesses that would benefit

hundreds of patients across the NHS. But the drugs companies say they

spend millions of pounds each year researching, developing and

marketing drugs that can present a real breakthrough for illnesses like

cancer. Around 130 women in England are already taking Kadcyla through

the Government's drugs fund but what drugs company Roche really needs is

to access the huge market presented by the NHS to start to recoup its

investment. It takes a long time to get these medicines, if you like, to

the patient and a lot of money, about ?1 billion. During which, of

course, the company is not making any income from the drug. This is

the start of a process. A The final decision is not due until later this

year and a similar evaluation is being undertaken in Scotland. In the

meantime, expect some hard bargaining between the NHS and the

drug's manufacturers, Roche. Dominic Hughes, BBC News. British police

investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say they are

looking into more incidents involving a male intruder in holiday

villas in the area in Portugal where she vanished. They say six new cases

have emerged since Scotland Yard made a fresh appeal last month.

Three-year-old Madeline went missing while on holiday with her family

seven years ago. Russia has warned that it will retaliate if the

interests of Russian people are threatened in Ukraine. The warning

from the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, comes a day after

Ukraine's acting president ordered a resumption of military operations

against pro-Russian militants in the east of the country. Four more crew

members from the ferry that sank last week off the coast of South

Korea have been arrested, bringing the total number detained to 11.

Prosecutors said all were on the bridge when the ferry began to

capsize. The number of people known to have died has reached 156, with

another 152 still missing, their bodies thought to be trapped in the

submerged ship. Memorial services have been held for them in the city

of Ansan, where they all went to the same school. Lucy Williamson sent

this report. White flowers told their story of purity and of death.

One each from grieving mothers, classmates and many strangers. A

whole nation wanting ritual to contain the horror of this loss.

They were meant to be schoolchildren, not heroes. Their

faces are too young for this. What should I do, she says, what should I

do? TRANSLATION: I feel angry when I think of all the students who were

not rescued. If we had acted sooner, they would have survived. I often

imagine what they must have gone through. They must have screamed for

help. That thought tortures me. The messages left by mourners spoke of

sympathy and guilt but also pride. My beloved little sister, this one

said. We heard you saved your friend. We are so proud of you.

There were faces missing from the commemorations. Scores of students

still have not been found. In Jindo, the nightly searching and

identifying has become a grim routine now. Tonight, more crew

members are being questioned over whether they left their passengers

to drown. There is a need here to find some answers. Or, at least,

someone to blame. For some, the hardest day in this grim story will

be tomorrow. The high school at the centre of this tragedy has become a

memorial site, a place of funerals and grieving. But tomorrow, with

half its classrooms empty, it will open as a school again. Their desks

and lockers will now be empty spaces. School friendships ended,

futures gone. These smiling faces will be missed by so many. You hope

they would have known how much. Our top story this evening. A woman is

arrested after three of her children are found dead at their home in

South London. Still to come. Could you understand it? The blockbuster

BBC drama viewers have complained they just couldn't hear. In BBC

London... How working dads are fighting the long hours culture to

spend more time with their children. And meet Frank, plus 199 other

Londoners, for a special portrait of the city. With a referendum on

Scottish independence just five months away, - both the Prime

Minister and Scotland's First Minister have marked Saint George's

Day with messages about independence. David Cameron has

urged Scotland to remain united with England while Alex Salmond will say

in a speech tonight than an independent Scotland and the rest of

the UK would still be closest friends. Only those living in

Scotland can actually vote. But what do people living in England think of

the referendum? Allan Little has been the mood. The symbol of English

national identity flies proudly at your work, a city founded by the

Romans and midway between London and Edinburgh. What is happening to the

censoring the shares? As Scotland debates its future? At this local

business, opinion was consistently against Scottish independence. --

business fair. I think it is bonkers, I cannot understand why

they would want a separate with us when the world is becoming more

global. The control will ultimately be about the currency. And without

an effective control over their own currency, you can never really have

independence. I think there is a growing entrepreneurial spirit, in

my industry, the tech industry, particularly. You will not have a

South, middle and North divide by the North will prosper, as in

Scotland, because it has got more independence, it is growing, they

will become a hub of business, we have London which is effectively the

hub of the UK, and we will be stuck in the middle in a business

wasteland. Middle England is relatively new to the independence

debate. Baffled by the realisation that the country might soon be two

countries and increasingly perplexed that they have no formal say in it.

Scotland has been arguing about this for decades and for most of that

time, English opinion has been marred by a kind of benign

neutrality with most people taking the view that it is entirely a

matter for Scotland to decide. Well, that is changing, with more and more

people across the country starting to believe that the rest of the UK

has a stake in this, too. There are different colour palettes... And the

Gentle calm of an art class, more mixed views. For the North, like

Scotland, feels distant from Westminster, too. Emotionally, I

have to say who can blame them? I feel that Westminster don't listen

to what they are saying so, if they feel they could do better on their

own, then I am sympathetic. Do you want them to vote yes? No. If I

think Scotland can do it, then the North of England could have a few

decisions made a peer. Or at least it might help some decision-making,

out of the site, if Scotland actually do vote for independence.

We might benefit in the North of England from that. It is not really

a good thing, making enemies, which we were for hundreds of years. But

the last 300 400 years, it has worked quite well. But is it still?

Scotland's debate about independence might yet still stir questions about

the way the whole of the UK is governed. The former Manchester

United football manager David Mize has broken his silence after being

sacked yesterday. In a statement he thanked supporters and said he

understood their frustration at recent results. The League Managers

Association said Manchester United were guilty of behaving in an

unprofessional manner. David Moyes being diplomatic in public but

privately, he is understood to be furious. You only need to look at

the language used in this statement on his behalf today to realise just

how angry, use of words such as sad, very disappointed,

unprofessional. He is angry because the stories of his imminent

departure were leaked to the media many hours before anybody at the

club spoke to him. He had to wait until the evening of Easter Monday

before someone at the club spoke to him, and then he was only summoned

to a meeting the next day when he was fired. Despite that, David Moyes

has been gracious, thanking almost everybody at the club, notably,

except the players. As for the club, the search is on for a new manager.

They wanted to wait until they had dismissed David Moyes before

looking. They want to find a boss with a proven track record at the

highest level and get him in time for the summer transfer window when

they need to do be building. There is no guarantee they can do that in

time. It has been a bit of a mess. It was billed as a BBC One

blockbuster about sex, smuggling and skulduggery. The TV adaptation of

Jamaica Inn started on Monday night. Many viewers struggled to understand

a word the actors were saying, and more than 700 have complained. The

BBC has apologised for what it calls sound issues. Unclear dialogue has

become an increasingly common complaint.

Did you catch that? Listen carefully. How about this? If you

get too nosy... Jamaica Inn, a dark, Landmark costume drama. Even at the

real Jamaica Inn in Cornwall they have been struggling. In audible. I

cannot understand what he says. A bit of a mumble, but isn't this

modern drama? It is not just Jamaica Inn. 60% of us struggle with some TV

sound. This man was my job is to improve it. He says the skill of

recording has been neglected. There is a current trend in factual

programming to not send a sound recorders out at all. And actors are

mumbling more, had they? There are actors doing that. There is a trend

for naturalistic dialogue. This is far from the first drama to have

left people struggling. The issue of mumbling was raised by the

director-general. The new televisions often lack the sound

quality of old televisions. I think sound levels are a problem across

the industry, and there are many complaints about it and we take it

really seriously, and I want to make sure that we correct this in the

future, so people enjoy drama as much as they possibly can. If you

were having problems, you are not alone. It is not just about actors

not speaking clearly, but what was he actually saying?

Of course. It might be time to find that subtitle button. The Duke and

Duchess of Cambridge have been taught how to DJ as part of their

latest tour of Australia. There was a lot of flash photography when they

visited a studio in Adelaide. They also watched a BMX display and were

given a customised skateboard for Prince George. They are random Acts

of kindness, and helping hand, bunch of flowers, cup of tea, which are

now the focus of a new Internet craze. The find is a man from

Gloucestershire who got fed up with drunken teenagers phoning

themselves. He has taken it into a gentler and more positive direction.

It started at a fast-food drive-through in Gloucester. Can I

pay for the person behind me? Buying dinner for strangers in the queue

was his first act of kindness. Since then, he has performed a good deed

daily, keeping a diary online. From donating his personal possessions to

a charity shop, cooking a meal for elderly neighbours, to giving our

Valentines rose to somebody who had been jilted. I opened doors for

people. He wanted to make strangers smile every day this year. How good

has this made you feel? I feel amazing. Being selfless is much

nicer than being selfish. Instead of thinking about yourself all the

time, it is about helping people. You walk away and they are having a

better day and that is a good thing. His good deeds have been viewed by

thousands on the Internet. Here he is handing out food to the homeless

and giving away his games console. But despite all this, he says this

is not about achieving fame but getting others to be kind. I did not

go into this with an agenda, wanting anything out of it, I am overwhelmed

by the amount of media attention, I want to inspire people. That is the

only reason I'm doing it. Good deed 110 ticked off the list. 255 more

until the end of the year full. Time for a look at the weather now. There

is a lot to talk about, I will start with the rainfall pictured today,

which has produced outbreaks of rain for the West but is now going

through central England. This is moving across south-east England.

This line of rain is transferring East as the night goes on. We have

heavy downpours, thunderstorms in Northern Ireland. These will

eventually fade. It will be quite chilly in the countryside. We could

see some ground frost. Significantly, there will be for

developing. It could be dense in places so bear that in mind early

tomorrow morning. Once that has gone, it is a fine day for many of

us. Broken cloud, some sunny spells, the last of the overnight rain will

clear in the morning. What follows behind will be some sunshine but

also a few showers developing. Most of us will not see the showers, but

you can see them dotted about, and if you catch them you will know

about it. They will not pass through quickly like some . It will be very

hit and miss. If you see a dark cloud in the distance, you will hold

onto the sunshine. Some spots will be higher than 15. On Friday we will

see outbreaks of rain heading into eastern Scotland. Showers could

merge to give longer spells of rain across England and Wales. This is

the weekend weather, low pressure, bands of rain and showers but

hopefully not a complete wash-out. A reminder of our main story tonight,

a woman has been arrested after three of her children are found dead

at their home in South