29/08/2014 BBC News at Six

The UK's terror threat level is raised to severe - meaning an attack

is considered highly likely. Security and protection measures

will be increased including more armed police on the streets.

The prime minister said extremists fighting in the Middle East present

a greater threat to our security than ever before.

The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart

of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security here in the UK.

New legislation is promised to make it easier to take passports

away from those who travel to join terrorist groups abroad.

Also tonight. The search

for the seriously ill five-year-old who's been taken from hospital

by his parents and is now missing. The Rotherham child abuse scandal -

the chief constable promises to act on any evidence that was previously

ignored. Would you want to eat this?

New standards to try to improve hospital food in England.

And new, unseen chapters of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reveal how

Roal Dahl intended to include more children winning that lucky golden

ticket. On BBC London. Police tackle Roma

gypsies living rough in the capital. And is the mayor failing poorer

communities? Good evening and welcome to the BBC

News at Six. The UK's terror threat level has

been raised today in response to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

The Home Secretary Theresa May announced the level had been raised

by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, or JTAC, from substantial to

severe - the second highest of five possible levels.

It means an attack is highly likely but the government says there is no

intelligence to suggest an attack is imminent.

The Prime Minister said Islamic State represent a "greater

and deeper threat to our security than we have known before".

He promised new legislation to make it easier to take passports away

from people who travel abroad to join terrorist groups such as IS.

Our Political Editor Nick Robinson reports - you may find some images

in his report disturbing. Standing guard against the threat of

terrorism. A threat we have been told to date has just got vigour.

This afternoon, a sombre Home Secretary read out the

recommendations of the joint terrorism analysis Centre. JTAC

today has raised the threat told to date has just got vigour.

level for the UK from international terrorism from substantial to

severe. That means a terrorist attack is highly likely. But there

is no intelligence to suggest an attack is in mint. The decision to

raise the threat level was taken here, the home of the

counterterrorism experts, MI5, MI6, the police and key government

departments. There are five levels of threats, severe is the second

highest. The reason, say ministers is the increased threat of extremist

jihad ease, many home-grown who are claiming to be fighting 's to make

an Islamic state. It was they who beheaded the American journalist,

James Foley before warning they would go on to kill other hostages.

It is a threat the Prime Minister said today, faces as at home also.

It was clear evidence, that this is not a foreign conflict thousands of

miles from home we can hope to ignore. The ambition to create an

Islamic caliphate in the heart of Iraq or Syria is a threat to us here

in the UK. A week ago David Cameron said there was no knee jerk response

to James Foley's death. It is becoming clear there are some gaps

in our armoury and we need to strengthen them. We need to do more

to stop people travelling and stop those who do go, from returning and

deal decisively with those already here. Ministers have the power to

remove passports from those who fight abroad but the post -- Home

Office says it can only be used sparingly and the courts can reverse

their decision. Downing Street have given almost no detail of what the

government will propose instead. He had the scenes, ministers are trying

to overcome their differences over this and other terror laws. Labour

said they are ready to help. We have served the prevents programme should

be strengthened but we should look again at control orders. We have got

to have the powers and safeguards we need in place to keep the country

safe. The threat level was raised to severe in 2007 after a Jeep loaded

with propane was driven into Glasgow airport and again four years ago,

when there was an attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner. Today we

are being told the current fighting in Iraq and Syria will change our

lives, whether we like it or not. So what exactly is the threat to

the UK and what will change by raising the threat level?

Here's our correspondent Frank Gardner.

Just some of the estimated 500 plus Britons who have gone to Syria with

many joining ISIS, now renamed Islamic state. At least half of that

number have already returned to Britain. It is the job of MI5 in

London to detect any plans anyone may have to carry out an attack in

Britain. They are helped by communication intercepts by GCHQ.

Together, the threat is assessed by analysts who advise the government

what is the level of risk facing the public. The newly raised threat

level is partly a response to what you could call easy jihad. To join

an extremist group like ISIS, British passport holders have simply

been hopping on a flight to Turkey, getting a bus to the border and

walking into Syria. Over 200 have returned to Britain, many having

witnessed extreme brutality. This is also the age of social media jihad,

attract ding a constant stream of recruits. Then there are the gaps in

the government's response. Despite new measures, there aren't enough

policeman and spies to watch around the clock, everybody who comes back

from the Syrian battlefield. I think the terrorist threat level at the

moment is linked and substantial. You are dealing with a situation

where you are dealing with groups who have been fighting in Syria and

Iraq and expressed a rhetoric of wanting to attack the West. Some

have been out to fight and have come back. Europe has been disrupted with

links to Syria and Iraq. One that wasn't stopped was a shooting in

Brussels in May by jihadist returning from Syria. Three people

were killed. The government here fears more attacks like this. Police

and MI5 work closely across the country and it is harder than it

used to be for terrorists to plan a large-scale attack like the London

bombings. But the longer the Syrian conflict continues, the greater the

risk some of those who have taken part in it may be tempted to use

their new-found skills over here. Frank Gardner.

Our Political Editor Nick Robinson is at Westminster.

Nick, terror threat is raised here, new security measures promised,

but nothing on how to deal with the source of the threat -

groups like Islamic State. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson

is at Westminster. Nick, terror threat is raised here,

new security measures promised, but nothing on how to deal with

the source of the threat - groups like Islamic State.

There was a lot of rhetoric but no specific measures. There are

negotiations now and the Prime Minister will announce what he will

say in the House of Commons on Monday. They tell me they will only

do this if the measures are taking calmness -- calmly and they will not

agree to the return of terrorist control orders, they will not agree

to tougher data protection, data supervision orders and I think they

will argue about how far you should go in removing passports. And the

suggestion there could be military action against this sort of

terrorism in Iraq and Syria, I asked the Prime Minister about that today.

He says his focus is on protect ding us here at home and was

Police in the UK and France are searching

for a missing five-year-old boy who needs urgent medical care.

Ashya King was being treated for a brain tumour at

Southampton General Hospital when the police say he was taken

by his parents without consent. The family, who are Jehovah's

Witnesses, then boarded a ferry to the French port of Cherbourg.

Police say they have serious concerns for his life

as his battery operated feeding tube is likely to have run out by now.

Our Correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is in Southampton.

Police in the UK and France are searching

for a missing five-year-old boy who needs urgent medical care.

Ashya King was being treated for a brain tumour at

It is a massive search on both sides of the Channel? Yes, Ashya, last

seen here more than 28 hours ago, caught on CCTV being led away by his

father. They ended up in France and that is where the search is

concentrated. In the past half an hour, confirmation from the police

that the batteries on the special machine that feeds Ashya are likely

to have run out. Batteries easily replaced by his family, and the

medical staff here say his life may be in danger.

Sitting in his buddy, this is the moment yesterday when Ashya King was

led away from the hospital by his father. He has a brain tumour. His

parents have been at his bedside. So has his brother, who went on YouTube

to talk about the family's distress. I have not slept, I have been awake

all night worrying. We love you so much. We are all here for you. It

has been confirmed, both of his parents are Jehovah's Witnesses. But

a spokesman for the organisation says there is no indication their

religious beliefs are behind their decision to remove Ashya and

travelled to France. Events started yesterday around 2pm when Ashya was

taken from the hospital. At 4pm his family boarded a ferry. At eight

p.m., six hours later, the police were alerted. It is impossible for

us to know what his parents motivation was in taking him. It

won't help us solve his whereabouts and we need to get in the care he

needs. There is no indication his parents are broken any law. The

hospital said they had the right to escort him off the ward. And the

alarm was raised at the moment it was realised Ashya went missing.

Even though that it was six hours after he left. At South Hampton

Ashya was being fed by a tube that is that a. Experts say it cannot be

taken apart to change the batteries when they run out. If it runs out,

you will be running on either no fluid or nutrition going through, or

it may potentially go wrong in terms of having the wrong setting. The

battery life is generally used for a temporary period when transferring

from one place to another. The family posted this video showing a

recent trip to Spain where it is believed they know people. But there

is no indication tonight that is where they are heading. Ashya is a

very sick little boy and the unexplained events of the past

couple of days will only be answered when he is found. Leading the search

tonight are the French police. They are looking at CCTV pictures,

checking hotels and road junctions. But no news yet. So the worries and

concerns of medical staff are that those batteries will have run out

and Ashya's life is now in danger. The UKIP donor, Stuart Wheeler,

has confirmed that he had lunch with eight backbench Conservative

MPs in an attempt to encourage them to switch allegiance.

One of those he met was Douglas Carswell, who defected to

UKIP yesterday and is hoping to be re-elected for the party in his

constituency of Clacton in Essex. Another UKIP source has told the BBC

that several Labour MPs are also thinking about switching sides.

NATO has claimed 1000 Russian that soldiers with heavy weaponry are in

Ukraine. A former care worker in Rotherham

has described how it was commonplace for girls as young as 11

from a care home to be groomed and sexually abused.

He said the girls were often taken away from the home in the middle of

the night in taxis by their abusers. A report published earlier this week

found that 1,400 children in Rotherham were sexually

exploited over 16 years. Ed Thomas reports.

16 years of abuse, at least 1000 400 victims, why weren't the children

listen to? This man approached the BBC to tell his story. His

granddaughter was groomed when she was 12. How would you say about your

treatment by the police? Awful. She was found in house with men. She was

charged with being drunk and disorderly. Like so many others, her

abusers have never been jailed. The police and social services let me

down and I will fight until the day I die to get justice. In response,

South Yorkshire Police said it will investigate if any officers ignored

victims and failed families. It is my duty to take forward, and raise

any issues if people have been let down. More questions for Rotherham

Council. They were put bed sheets together and climb out of the

window. This care home worker revealed the scale of the abuse.

Phone calls through the night right through to 12 o'clock. They would

come back, returned by the police and comeback by taxi, sanctioned by

ourselves. Within half an hour they would be back out again. An

independent enquiry said most of the men were Pakistani heritage, but

this is the only grooming gang jailed in rather than them. They

also said this man, Rotherham's former deputy counsel leader

described the gang as a one off. Why did you say it was a one-off? In

2010, it was the first time we had the report. You said it is wrong

now? Agreed. Do you think the Pakistani community has done enough?

, parents bear a lot of the responsibility to make sure they

know what their children are getting up to.

This community has to confront what went so wrong in this town.

The UK's terror threat level is raised to severe, meaning an attack

As Charlie and the Chocolate Factory turns 50, Roald Dahl's discarded

If Boris's Thames Estuary airport isn't an option,

Heathrow bosses ask the Mayor to back their expansion plans.

With two teams in the national finals,

we look at the increasing popularity of baseball in the capital.

Now, would you eat any of these meals if you were in hospital?

For the first time, the NHS is introducing new standards

for hospital food in England through legally binding contracts.

They'll focus on the quality and choice of meals, as well

Hospitals will be ranked on the meals they prepare,

Patients will be also assessed for malnutrition when they're admitted.

But campaigners argue the changes don't go far enough.

Our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, reports.

Photographs of hospital food, cold and congealing, one of seven

patients say their food is poor. No surprise to Michael who has been in

and out of hospital most of his life and he has sometimes ordered

takeaway is because the food has been so bad. Macaroni cheese,

between the nurse and myself, we worked out there was four pieces of

pasta and macaroni cheese. Scrambled egg is, powdered eggs and everything

else. The Health Secretary is promising patients things will

change even though around half of hospitals in England are using

preprepared meals. The best things are not necessarily things that cost

money. This hospital saved money by bringing catering in-house. They

prepared a vast majority of food on the side. The staff eat the same

food as the patients and the nurses regularly test the food. What could

the hospital food standards mean in practice? A trace of healthy meals

including fish twice a week, half of deserts should fruit and high

calorie snacks for patients who miss meals -- deserts. Serving up

thousands of meals three times a day, seven days a week, is a massive

challenge. But this is absolutely crucial, many patients are

malnourished when they arrive and having decent hot food is essential

to their recovery. Some hospitals do spend much more than others, Diana

is in the Royal London for a couple of days. It seems every hospital has

got different standards. And different menus. So they should be a

bit more uniform. The rest of the UK has similar standards but

campaigners say they are not bold enough, they want them written into

law to force all hospitals to be as good as the best.

A senior Labour MP has suspended his campaign for a NO vote in the

Scottish referendum, because of what he described as co-ordinated abuse

Jim Murphy had eggs thrown at him in Fife yesterday.

He said his recent meetings had been disrupted by what he called

A Scottish government minister said the Yes campaign did not

Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Glasgow.

Things get it he -- things are getting heated on the campaign

trail. There is a lively debate and there is a small minority on both

sides who are noisily and sometimes aggressively trying to drown out the

argument is from the other side. Today, Labour MP Jim Murphy

campaigning for Better Together said he was suspending his campaign tour

of Scotland because of what he called, or dilated abuse from the

Yes campaign. He is suspending it for 72 hours to get advice from

police about safety and to give the 80 side -- and to give the Yes

campaign side time to call off their mobs. A government Minister speaking

for the Yes campaign says there is no place for aggression on either

side and today, a man was convicted of behaving in a threatening manner

towards the First Minister. Shares in Tesco have fallen

by more than 6 per cent, after it announced its second

profits warning in two months. The supermarket blamed

challenging trading conditions. It also plans to cut costs

and says its new Chief Executive Our business editor, Kamal Ahmed,

reports. It is tough on the High Street.

There are discount shops and major competitors. It has all become a bit

difficult for Tesco. It is finding it hard to convince customers to

stick with Britain's biggest retailer. Shoppers we spoke to

outside the shop in Cardiff explained why. They need to put

prices down on a lot of food because you can get them for half price

here. Nobody will spend more on food if it is cheaper elsewhere. They

need to reinvigorate the brand. In the last ten years, Tesco has been

about all things to all people and they need to give it a distinct

identity. It is a long way away from the heady days of the former Tesco

boss who built a business that still commands nearly a third of the

groceries bought in the UK. But profits are falling from a high of

3.8 green pounds in 2011 to two point 4 billion this year. From

these nondescriptive headquarters, Tesco helped a supermarket giant.

Now investors are demanding the retailers take a fresh direction to

get shoppers back. That job will be down to Dave Lewis, the new Chief

Executive who is starting work four weeks ahead of schedule. So what is

on his list as he looks to turn Tesco around? Analysts believe he

would need to cut prices, to bring in more customers. Tesco should also

improve its stores after criticism they are not keeping up with the

competition. That will mean more staff to help shoppers. Senior

figures in Tesco I have spoken to today say that more price cuts are

ahead as the retailer struggles to rediscover its market potential.

It's 50 years since Roald Dahl wrote the children's classic Charlie

The book's characters have become household names.

But it turns out they were only part of the original story.

The discovery of new unpublished chapters reveals Dahl had intended

to include more children lucky enough to win the golden ticket

and meet Willy Wonka, but dropped them from the final version.

Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz has the story.

Not sure I would do that! The gluttonous character comes to a

sticky end. In this 50 year story which continues to work its magic.

It is unique. A lot of things that do not happen in life happen in the

book. And he always adds a few surprises. But they do not know the

half of it. When Roald Dahl originally wrote the story, there

were ten and not five children winning golden tickets. This is a

re-creation of his writing hut in a museum, and this is an early draft

of what would become Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is full of

corrections and it is even called something different. Chapter five

was cut by the author and it saw the demise of two unused characters.

Both of them or disobedience and spoiled. They were discovered along

with their parent -- parents in the author's archive by a writer who was

impressed by what she found. You literally see more of his

imagination, you see his imagination. And you can see him

learning his craft. Charlie is only the second children's book he wrote.

The illustrated Quentin Blake worked with Roald Dahl and produced many

drawings for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I knew he rewrote

and rewrote many times for this for the starstruck to -- and rewrote

many times. For this last chapter, it is interesting to see something

at an early stage. What happens in the cooking is fascinating. How does

a writer feel about leaving a character on the cutting room floor?

It is sad but sometimes they do not do anything to further the plot or

they do not bring as much as they should. You feel you are placing

that on them a bit. The extra characters over complicated the

story but half a century later, they give a fascinating insight into one

of the world's most imaginative authors.

This Hurricane Bertha is about to do to our weather the opposite of

Hurricane Bertha and it is heading across the Atlantic. Showers around

and longer spells of rain in Southern Scotland and northern

England. Showers will push South and East through the night so if you

need to dry weather tonight, I cannot promise that but there will

be some sunshine, 12, 15 degrees as we start the weekend. Claudia Love

the South East coast but that will clear away first thing leaving

brighter conditions -- cloudy along. They will transfer East during the

day, not as strong as the these today. Heavy showers in North East

Scotland and showers from Northern Ireland through parts of Wales, and

the Midlands. Even here, dry weather. And even if you only see

some rain, most of the day will be dry and it should be pleasant in the

sunshine, as will some day. High pressure with us, a dry night. -- as

will some day. There will be some rain to end the day the degree for

Northern Ireland and western Scotland, that links into a weather

front linked to the hurricanes. -- particularly for Northern Ireland.

We still have some weather fronts so it will not be completely dry and

sunny but compared to the August we have experienced, the start of

September will settle down with Sony spells and it will get warmer --

sunny spells. A story with a happy ending.

Now we