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After the shock of the scale of the child abuse revealed in Rotherham, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
calls for those in charge to be held to account. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The council, police and social services have all been criticised | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
for failing to protect 1,400 children. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Now the victims demand they take responsibility. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
They've got to put their hands up for what they've done, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
because they've played a big part. They've let 1,400 children not only | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
be sexually abused on one occasion, but a number of occasions. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner refuses to | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
resign, despite the Home Secretary calling on him to do so. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
I don't think any of this was my direct fault. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
What I take is collective responsibility. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
When you are a member of a 63-member council, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
you take collective responsibility for the members of that organsation. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
We'll be looking at the reaction in Rotherham to the | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
scale of the abuse that has been going on in their midst. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Also tonight, how the baby boom has been putting pressure on school | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
budgets in England, it's claimed creating ?1 billion shortfall. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
A UN report details atrocities carried out in Syria | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
by Islamic State extremists, such as frequent public executions. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
I will be reporting from Scotland's old industrial heartland. How | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
successful have campaigners been in persuading traditional Labour | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
supporters to vote yes next month? such as frequent public executions. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
And the couple celebrating their 80th anniversary and | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
their secret to a happy marriage. We do love each other. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
The most useful thing is...as long as I agree with her, then I'm safe. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Tonight on BBC London, after the Government calls | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
for a crackdown on laughing gas, we reveal widespread use | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
at one of London's top festivals. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
calls for stricter controls over the movement of terror suspects. | :01:52. | :02:12. | |
Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News At Six. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
There are increasing calls for people in positions of | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
responsibility to be held to account following the report into widespread | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
sexual abuse in Rotherham. A report has revealed 1,400 children | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
were abused by groups of men over a 16-year period up until last year. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
The police, the council and social services have all been | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
criticised for knowing about the abuse but failing to stop it. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
The spotlight has fallen on one of the most visible | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
of those in charge, the current South Yorkshire | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
Police and Crime Commissioner, Shaun Wright. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, says he should heed calls | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
for him to resign. He is refusing to do so. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
He was also the councillor in charge of Rotherham children's | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
services for some of the period. Our reporter Ed Thomas | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
is in Rotherham. It is the South Yorkshire town at | :02:59. | :03:11. | |
the centre of a growing scandal, 1400 children abused, and so far | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
there has only been one resignation. So who else should be held to | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
account? How about former chief constables of South Yorkshire | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Police, or former councillors responsible for protecting children? | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
I was treated worse than a criminal, and I was a victim, and not only | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
that I was a child. His victim was groomed and raped in Rotherham from | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
the age of 12. Were you ever listened to? No, never, not once, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
and I was never taken seriously. I went to the police. The first time, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
they lost my evidence. Then on the second occasion, they brought the | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
men in for questioning and released them without charge and said there | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
wasn't enough evidence. Like many others, the abusers have never been | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
caught. How would you describe your treatment by the police? Disgusting. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
How would you describe your treatment by Rotherham council? | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Disgusting. They've just let this happen. They should be investigated | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
and a criminal investigation. If you look at the families as well, how | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
many people's lives have been destroyed? There were many | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
opportunities to stop the abuse. In 2002, Rotherham Council received a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
report on runaway children at risk. In 2003, a report on sexual | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
exploitation was delivered to all agencies. In 2006, police and the | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
council were given a report on known criminals exploiting young girls. We | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
are told the inquiries were disbelieved and suppressed. Under | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
pressure, the former head of children's services in Rotherham, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Shaun Wright, now South Yorkshire's police and crime commission, is | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
facing increasing calls to step down. I apologise to any victim that | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
has been let down, as does every other council and council official. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
You are named in his report, cabinet member for children's services, | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
received a report on protecting children from sexual assault in | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Rotherham - you didn't do anything, 1400 children were abused, will you | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
resign? I will not resign as South Yorkshire Police commissioner. And | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
you are the watchdog of police here? People can be confident about that? | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
I hope they will judge me on the actions in this office. Is own | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
party, Labour, and the Government are demanding he resign. -- his. I | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
think, when 14 held Madrid children have been abused and the authorities | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
so badly failed to protect them, it is right that the police and crime | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
commission should stand down as well. -- 1400 children. He has real | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
questions to answer, and I think in the circumstances he should heed the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
call to resign. In Rotherham, there was also violence. Laura Wilson was | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
murdered by a man close to a grooming gang. Social services and | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
the police have kept things quiet for so many years and too many | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
people getting away with things. If they had acted all them years ago, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
my daughter would still be alive today. And because of this town's | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
Bailey, many of the men who raped and tortured young children here are | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
still walking the streets today. -- failure. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
So how was the abuse in Rotherham allowed to happen, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
and how has the community there reacted to the scale of what | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
was going on in their midst? Our correspondent Sian Lloyd | :06:39. | :06:39. | |
reports. This criminal gang, five men of | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
Pakistani heritage, were brought to justice for terror rising innocent | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
victims, but many more men are not punished for the sexual exploitation | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
of children in Rotherham. Once a thriving steel-making community, it | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
now as areas where unemployment is well above the UK average. Streets | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
like these were hunting grounds. Of the abusers. I hope I am not blamed | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
for the actions of a few... -- for some of the abusers. The council | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
found that some staff were afraid of being branded racist. We are | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
appalled by the council, the police and social services to use this | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
excuse of community cohesion, that it might be felt they were racist, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
but this was a criminal activity going on. The Pakistani Muslim | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
community does not stand to speak about sexualisation. The people of | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
this town come from a number of ethnic backgrounds. Everyone I have | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
spoken to here today has been appalled by the shocking abuse, but | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
from some, even within the wider community, there was a suspicion | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
that something was wrong. You are aware that young girls hang around | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
cars full of Asian men. I don't feel comfortable saying that, because it | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
is that age-old fear of coming across as being racist. If the | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
council and everyone works together, rather than just criticising, maybe | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
we can sort things out. This centre helps women and children from the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Asian community. Not all of the victims identified in the report | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
were white. Abusers will target anyone who is vulnerable, and at | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
this moment in time the abuse to have come forward happen to be white | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
girls. What I would say is that there are Asian girls who have been | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
abused to have not come forward. There are calls for the authorities | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
to be held to account for their part in covering up this scandal, and a | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
sense from the community that it needs to look closely at what has | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
happened on its own doorstep. Sian Lloyd, BBC News, Rotherham. | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
Iain Watson is in Westminster for us now, that was the view from | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Rotherham, political pressure is growing on South Yorkshire's police | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
and crime commission to resign, but clearly he is far from the only one | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
in a position of responsibility during this period. Absolutely | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
right, no council employee has been disciplined or resigned either, but | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
the political pressure on Shaun Wright is building tonight. The Home | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
significantly hard and the Government's line when she said he | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
should heed calls to resign. The Labour leadership have been trying | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
to persuade him all day, and I'm told that Shaun Wright is consulting | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
with his family about his future, but for now the man who was in | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
charge of children's services in Rotherham for five years, who | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
oversees police even now, is still in a job, and it is far more | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
difficult still as they police and crime commission than to get rid of | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
an MP. They have to be charged with a criminal offence, but this is a | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
much bigger than one man's career, and pressure is growing on the | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Government on when they will start their inquiry into overarching | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
historic abuse, and inquiry that is likely to show, sadly, that abuse | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
was not limited to Rotherham. The current baby boom is creating | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
so much demand for school places in England that it's forcing councils | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
to cut budgets elsewhere, according to the Local Government Association. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
It says school repairs and building projects have had to be cut back | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
to meet a ?1 billion shortfall, despite investment | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
from the Department for Education. Alex Forsyth has more. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Elliott starts school next week. He is already trying on his uniform, | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
but finding him a suitable place has been a struggle. His parents' first | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
choice was oversubscribed, and his mum felt classes were too large at | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the school on offer. Though she has chosen to drive 32 miles a day to | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
take him to a smaller primary. If you have got one or two teachers and | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
a class of 35, three or four children need help, how are they | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
supposed to do that without the children suffering? New schools, | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
like this one, are being built to accommodate a rise in pupils which | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
is down to a rapid increase in the birth rate. Some councils say they | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
are having to find the money due to a shortfall in government funding. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Here in Barnet, the council spent ?70 million on 4500 new places. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
Here in Barnet, the council spent ?70 million on It has been possible, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
and we have done it, and that is good. Whether we can do it in the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
future is another question, there is not much fat left in local | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
government, but we have to provide school places. Money is not the only | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
problem. All new schools, like this one, should be academies or free | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
schools, which are independent of council control, but some local | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
authorities say this growing number of autonomous schools makes it | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
harder for councils to ensure new places are created where and when | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
they are needed. With many more free schools and academies being part of | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
the picture, providing extra school places, that is a growing issue and | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
a growing concern. Conversely, the Government says academies and free | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
schools not only help create places but give parents more choice, and it | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
says it has provided significant funding for councils to meet | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
increased demand. We have provided ?5 billion of capital, double what | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
was spent in a similar period by the last government, and that has | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
created 260,000 new school places already, with a further 300,000 in | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
the pipelines. But while thousands of pupils like Elliott can look | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
forward to starting school next month, as these young children move | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
on to secondary school, the pressure on places will grow with them. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
United Nations investigators have published graphic details | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
of atrocities they say are being carried out by the Islamic State | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
group in Syria. The report says the extremists | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
are carrying out frequent public executions, forcing | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
adults and children to watch. It claims children as young as ten | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
are being recruited by IS for training in camps. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
The report also goes on to accuse the Syrian government | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
for using barrel bombs and chemical weapons against its own people. | :13:11. | :13:11. | |
James Robbins reports. His report contains details you may | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
find distressing. We do not know his age, but this | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
looks like a boy firing an American howitzer captured by Islamic State | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
extremists. The exact circumstances of the video cannot be verified, but | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
the United Nations is very clear - IS relies on mass recruitment of | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
fighters as young as 14, in Iraq as well as Syria. The group which | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
beheaded American journalist James Foley is accused by the UN panel of | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
using systematic terror against civilians, particularly children. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Among the most disturbing findings by this report are accounts of large | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
training camps where children, mostly boys, from the age of 14, are | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
recruited and trained to fight in the ranks of ISIS along with adults. | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
The latest United Nations reports documents crimes against you by both | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
rebels and the Syrian government, but it is the increasing abusers by | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
Islamic State which are highlighted this time. In areas they control, | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
the UN finds execution in public spaces have become a common | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
spectacle. In some cases, passers-by, including children, are | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
forced to watch. IS has also executed boys between 15 and 17, | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
reportedly renders of rival armed groups. In some cases, the UN | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
accepts that bodies are placed on crucifixes for up to three days, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
serving as a warning to local residents. But it is the finding | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
that both the Syrian government and ISIS rebels abused children by using | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
them as soldiers and spies with particularly troubles the UN. As the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
United States contemplates air strikes on IS bases in Syria, the UN | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
worries they could kill many boy soldiers and kidnap victims, warning | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
the United States that any decision to bomb must respect the laws of | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
war. The UN stresses that President Assad's government forces continued | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
their war crimes, among them indiscriminate barrel bombing of | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
civilian areas, including with chlorine gas in April. And the UN | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
can see no end to all this, reporting all sides engaged in | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
fierce fighting while none appears capable of achieving complete | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
military victory. And still to come, | :15:32. | :15:49. | |
they married in the '30s, now the couple are celebrating their | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
wedding anniversary 80 years on. Later on BBC London, | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
the phone app that asks others for first aid if you are badly hurt. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
It is hoped it could save hundreds of lives. | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
And how we are developing a taste for a French idea | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
to bring local suppliers together online and at a bar near you. | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
In just over three weeks, voters in Scotland will decide whether to stay | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
in the UK or choose independence. This week, the Six O'Clock News is | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
looking at the arguments from the yes and no campaigns, and today 130 | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Scottish business leaders came out against independence, claiming the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
business case has not been made by the Yes Campaign, though that is | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
hotly contested. For more on this, we're joined by our Special | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
Correspondent Allan Little, who's in New Lanark, in the historic | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
heartland of industrial Scotland. The textile mills of New Lanark were | :16:40. | :16:53. | |
built in the 18th century as an attempt to combine successful | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
business with a utopian socialist ideal of how an industrial workforce | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
should live and be treated. I am here in Scotland's old industrial | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
heartland, where many people believe this referendum will be decided. In | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
a moment, I will report on the battle between the yes and no | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
campaigns for support among Scotland's many Labour voters. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
First, our business editor, Ahmed reports on the way the independence | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
question is dividing Scotland's business leaders. | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
heartland of industrial Scotland. For a small engineering firm, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
whether Scotland votes yes or no in the independence referendum may | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
not appear to be the most important of questions. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
But for Alistair Lamond, it matters as much | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
as where the next set of gears are going to be exported to. | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
Independence would only put obstacles in the way | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
of our business. I can't see, clearly, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
the advantages that are going to come to us, particularly | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
as we are trading 40% of our turnover with the rest the UK. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
This morning, more than 130 business leaders said that the case | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
for independence had not been made. In a letter published | :18:05. | :18:29. | |
in The Scotsman, the group said that fears over the currency, | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
Scotland would use meant that remaining | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
in the UK was the best option. Many businesses do not agree. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Tony Banks claims the numbers are on his side. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
I think you will find that the yes campaign has far more | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
businesses signed up for an independent Scotland. | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
Individuals and companies invest far more and have more jobs here | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
that those in the no campaign. A key question is, does the debate | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
make any difference to how the public may vote? | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
on St the 18th. Would it matter | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
if businesses said yes, independence was a good thing or a bad thing? | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Not to me, no. But I think that business people do | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
have a point when they say it is not going to be | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
good for their businesses. It might affect it, yeah, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
because business is important for local people. | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
The debate about whether Scottish independence would be good or bad | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
for business will intensify tomorrow. | :19:10. | :19:10. | |
David Cameron arrives here in Glasgow for the CBI dinner, | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
and Business For Scotland are set to reveal over 100 names | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
of firms that support independent. This week, the yes | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
and no camps have tried to claim the vital business vote for themselves. | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
It will be up to the voters to decide which they find | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
the most convincing. Kamal Ahmed, BBC News, Glasgow. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
From the beginning, independence campaigners have been active | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
in traditional Labour communities, trying to persuade people that an | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
independent Scotland would better represent real Labour values. | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
Has it worked? Some pro-UK Labour activists are | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
worried that one in four, or in places one in three of their voters | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
- are planning to vote yes next month. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
The pro-independence campaign had a grassroots presence | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
and a creative energy that Better Together has often seemed to lack. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
The independence message has already persuaded many natural Labour | :20:18. | :20:18. | |
voters. I am English. | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
I was born in the north-east of England. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
My dad is English, his family are still there. | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
It is about where we want power to lie. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
his family are still there. It is about imagining the kind | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
of country we want and how we best make that happen. | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
The yes campaign has tried to persuade Labour voters that | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
an independent Scotland could be a fairer, more equal society than | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
is possible inside the UK. I believe in Labour very strongly. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
but you are going to vote yes? We are both going to vote yes. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
The only we can change is through independence. | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
And hopefully, we will be able to move back to the left and maybe | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
join up with the SNP and greens. What did rapid deindustrialisation | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
of the 1980s do to Scotland's Labour heartlands and to British identity | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
in working-class Scotland? The Newtongrange colliery | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
near Edinburgh closed in 1984. It's a museum now. | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
If you were a miner here in Midlothian, you were part of shared | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
interests with miners in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and South Wales. | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
The same was true in the great shipyards and steel | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
mills across industrial Scotland. The communities that sustained all | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
this were bedrocks not just of Labour loyalty, but of British | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
identity in Scotland. And they have all but gone. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling had a bitter falling out | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
when they were at Downing Street. They buried the hatchet today, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
appearing together for the first time since this campaign began, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
for the need to keep Labour voters loyal to the union, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
is urgent for them both. Determined to uphold independent | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Scottish institutions, proud also of our Scottish Parliament, demanding | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
the strengthening of the powers of that Parliament, but proud also | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
that we share roots and resources as part of the United Kingdom. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
The referendum will be won and lost in the Labour heartlands. | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
The no campaign retains its lead in the polls, but the yes campaign has | :22:18. | :22:18. | |
shown it has strong appeal here. The referendum takes place three | :22:19. | :22:32. | |
weeks tomorrow. This week, I am travelling across Scotland. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Tomorrow, I will be in the inner Hebrides, Ireland Scotland, to gauge | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
opinion on both sides of the geographical edges of the country. | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
For now, back to you. shown it has strong appeal here. | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
A nine-year-old girl in America has accidentally killed | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
her shooting instructor while he was showing her how to use | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
a high-powered automatic weapon. The child's parents were filming | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
the lesson as the 39-year-old man showed her how to use the submachine | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
gun at a firing range in Arizona. But when she pulled the trigger, | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
she lost control, as Alistair Leithead reports. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Otherwise the gun will fire, OK? The nine-year-old's shooting lesson was | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
filmed by her parents. In her hand, a powerful Uzi submachine gun. There | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
you go, like that. She fires a single shot. Give me one shot. But | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
on automatic, the gun kicks back out of control, shooting the instructor | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
in the head. He was 39, a former soldier. He was airlifted to | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
hospital in nearby Las Vegas, but died of his injuries. The last stop | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
shooting range in Arizona runs Blitz and burgers, lunch in a choice of | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
high-powered weapon to try. Why was a nine-year -year-old firing an Uzi? | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
A nine-year-old gets an Uzi in her hand. The criteria are eight. We | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
instruct kids as young as five and they do not get to handle firearms, | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
but they are under the supervision of their parents and are | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
professional range masters. This is the kind of weapon she was using. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
They are hard to handle for the first time. The blast is pushing | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
here, and your hand is down here. It causes the gun to rotate. While | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
there is shock here that and nine-year-old was using such a | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
powerful weapon, it is common for kids to visit a shooting range in | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
America. But this will raise questions over how young is too | :24:31. | :24:31. | |
young? as Alistair Leithead reports. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined ?14.5 million for failing to | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
ensure customers were given proper advice about their mortgages. | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
The City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
says the bank, which is largely owned by the taxpayer, | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
did not fully consider people's budgets, and also failed to advise | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
them on a suitable mortgage term. RBS has said it's "very sorry". | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
A couple from Bournemouth are celebrating their 80th | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
wedding anniversary today. Maurice and Helen Kaye, who are both | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
more than 100 years old, met in 1929 when Helen was just 15 years old. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Duncan Kennedy has been to meet them to find out the secret of | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
their long and successful marriage. Stop cheating! | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
The couple who have been dealt a lifetime of fun. | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
Helen and Maurice Kaye, today celebrating eight decades | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
of marriage. Did you think then that | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
this could last 80 years? I didn't think it would last a week. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Both Helen, 101, and Maurice, 102, can still remember the day they met. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
After about three hours, my mother said to me, "Who's going | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
to throw him out, you or me?" That was the beginning. | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
Today, 80 years ago, they got married, and never once | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
forgot their anniversary. What is the secret of this long | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
and happy marriage? We are very tolerant of each other, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
and we do love each other. The most useful thing is that | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
as long as I agree with her... then I'm safe. | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
That's not true. In 1934, bread was tuppence | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
and wages around ?3 a week. Coping | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
and caring has seen them through. If you have to give in a little bit, | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
give in a little bit. If you have to give in a little bit, | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
as she says, she gives in a bit. In eight decades, their family has | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
grown wider as they've grown closer, sadness and loss always trumped | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
by laughter and companionship. Do you still love each other? | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Oh, yes. Do you? | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Watch it, girl! Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, | :26:52. | :26:52. | |
in Bournemouth. Time for a look at the weather. Mick | :26:53. | :27:05. | |
Miller is here. They will be celebrating warmer weather next | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
week. Right now, though, it has been another glorious day across Scotland | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
and much of northern England, but the cloud brought rain to South West | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
England. We will all see that spread of rain across the UK as the evening | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
goes on. It is moving through fairly quickly. It means temperatures are | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
not going down as far as they have done on recent nights. That will | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
mean a big change across the northern half of the UK, nowhere | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
near as Chile tomorrow morning. Not as bright either, but the rain will | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
clear away in the morning. Then we get the brighter skies, head of this | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
area of cloud. Eastern England will have sunny | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
spells, feeling pleasantly warm. Behind the rain, for the sunshine | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
coming back. The wind is strengthening and this area of heavy | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
rain is moving into Northern Ireland tomorrow evening. On Friday, low | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
pressure is close by. Lots of showers in the West, merging to give | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
longer spells of rain. Not too many reaching southeastern parts of the | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
UK. For the weekend, low pressure is still close by on to say, so we | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
cater for showers, but then this high pressure is Sunday's weather. | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
Scattered showers, with the wind gradually easing on Saturday. On | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
Sunday, most places will be dry. On Sunday night into Monday and from | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
Tuesday onwards, high pressure comes in, meaning dry weather and | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
temperature is heading up once again. Something to look forward to. | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
That is all from the BBC News at six. Now we go | :28:53. | :28:53. |