17/02/2016 BBC News at Six

at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturer.

That's a fifth of the workforce at the Bombardier aircraft maker,

a bleak day for workers and their families.

I've just got to hope I'm still employed next year.

It's shocking, but you know, what can you do?

The company has a plan, it's doing its best for us.

There's better news on the jobs front

for the rest of UK with record employment.

Also tonight, the high-street hot drinks

Some have more than 20 teaspoons of the sweet stuff.

The two-year-old who lost her battle with meningitis -

her mother wants all children, not just babies, to get the vaccine

Language skills at nursery are the key to future success -

Ttalking about it is really helpful in breaking down stigmas

and telling people what it's really like to have it.

how they're the taking on the taboos of mental illness.

a rescue operation is under way after an avalanche in the Highlands,

two people have been flown to hospital.

And a man who abducted and raped a 15-year-old girl

on her way home from school is jailed.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

It's the latest blow to the manufacturing sector

The aerospace company Bombardier has announced it will cut

more than a thousand jobs from its plant there.

That's about a fifth of its workforce.

at its train-making operations elsewhere in the UK.

Chris Buckler is in Belfast for us now. Chris.

George, you will not find a more significant employer in Northern

Ireland than Bombardier. It is of course a major name in the world of

aviation, but it has had a major financial troubles as well. Recently

the state government of Quebec in Canada gave them $1 billion to try

to tide them over. However, it has failed to deal with all of those

troubles. Workers left Bombardier's plants

today with real concern about their future. All were talking about the

potential impact of these job losses on their friends behind the gates

and their families beyond them. Everybody is depressed about it and

stuff like that. I have just got to hope I am still employed next year.

But like I say, I am 62, it is going to affect younger ones more than me,

honestly. It is shocking, but what can you do? The company has a plan,

it is doing its best for us. The Belfast factory where Bombardier

produces parts for planes has a long history associated with aviation. It

was originally home to Short Brothers, the world's first aircraft

manufacturer. A heart-warming sight for Northern Ireland, a 100 tonne

transport aircraft built for the RAF... The modern industry is very

competitive, and Bombardier has seen an international drop in demand for

its business jets. It has also had real problems with the C series, a

new passenger plane it is introducing to try to compete with

Airbus and Boeing. The spiralling costs of the new aircraft have left

it having to make cutbacks, despite huge financial support from the

state government in Quebec, where Bombardier is based. The whole

global aerospace world is trying to minimise the cost base, and that

includes going to what we would call lower cost countries, and if we want

to compete, being in a global marketplace, we need to take

advantage of that where it is relevant. Bombardier insists it

still sees a bright future at its plants here, but that continued

concern about costs will be a worry to some workers. It has been

confirmed for us, even in the board meeting earlier, that the long-term

future of the Belfast plant is secure, and we will see into the

future, generations, manufacturing and aircraft in Northern Ireland.

The relationship between Air Canada and Bombardier... Today in go back

the company was looking to concentrate on the positive. Air

Canada has made an order for 75 of the new C series planes, and it is

procuring jobs, which is important on this side of the Atlantic, where

the wings are made. But Bombardier knows that it is vital for its

business that sales of the C series really take off.

It is important to say that four out of five jobs are safe, and today

Northern Ireland ministers been talking up manufacturing, but the

unions are very concerned about the industry because these job losses

follow the decision by Michelin to pull out of the plant Ballymena and

Gallagher, a tobacco manufacturer, is shutting its plant there. Really,

those jobs are going to be very difficult to replace.

Well, across the UK as a whole, there was some better news on jobs,

with figures showing yet another fall in the number of unemployed,

I'm joined now by our industry correspondent, John Moylan.

I guess beggars like that when I gave show a labour market that is

strong? -- figures. The good news is that the trends are continuing,

unemployment is falling, employment is at record levels. We can see some

of the figures here, as you said, unemployment fell by 60,000 in the

last three months of the year to reach 1.69 million. If we look at

the jobless rate, it is now actually at 5.1%. I mean, that is the best

for about ten years. But he is the big conundrum, the labour market is

really tight, and yet pay is not rising in the way that we would

expect. Average earnings have risen by 2%, a little more last month, but

behind where we were in the middle of last year, and one reason for

that maybe the fact that we have record vacancies across the economy

at the moment. But these figures were broadly welcomed today, the

Government said it showed that the UK was the jobs workshop of Europe.

Labour, of course, focused on the pay issue, they talked about a pay

crisis. If there is a concern tonight, it is the fact that, yes,

the economy is creating lots of jobs, but what quality are these

jobs, and are they putting enough money in people's pockets? All

right, thank you very much. Now, we all know that fizzy drinks

are often the worst culprits when it comes to sugar,

but this will surprise you - some hot drinks from high-street

chains like Starbucks and Costa contain more than double

or even triple the recommended daily

intake of sugar. The campaigning group

Action on Sugar said one drink contained the equivalent

of 20 chocolate digestives. Our health correspondent

Sophie Hutchinson has more. A daily routine or an occasional

treat, new research suggests that some heartstrings from high street

cafes should be consumed in moderation. -- hot drinks. Today's

report by campaigners Action on Sugar says many of these things are

excessively sweet. It and lies 131 of them from nine of the UK's

biggest chains and found 98% had high levels of sugar. -- it

analysed. Just to put it into context, this contains 90 spoons of

sugar, but compare that to this caramelised drink which contains 13

teaspoons of sugar. This chai latte contains 20 teaspoons of sugar, but

the worst is this hot fruit drink, which contains 25 teaspoons of

sugar. Back out on the streets, there was some surprise that a

coffee had as twice as much sugar as a can of cola. Wow, two times? Good

heavens! Wow! That does surprise me, that it is double. That is a hell of

a lot. I don't really order things like that for that very reason, to

be fair. Starbucks has said that it is committed to reducing sugar by

25% by 2020 and already offers a wide range of lighter options, and

Costa said it had already taken significant steps to reduce sugar

content. But experts are concerned about the impact of these drinks are

on heart disease, dental health and obesity, and many insist people need

much more help to make healthier choices. If we had proper calorie

labelling on the dreams we consume out of home, in the way that we now

see on cans in the supermarket, for example, at least people could make

an informed choice. It is also a matter of portion size, because the

reason there is so much sugar in some of these drinks is they are

ridiculously large, and I think the time has come for us to think about

having a cap on the portion size of some of these drinks. Pressure has

been growing for the Government to bring in a tax on sugary drinks

after evidence from abroad that it can reduce the amount that people

buy. A decision is expected in its much delayed obesity strategy, which

may finally be published in the next few weeks. Sophie Hutchinson, BBC

News. Five people are reported

to have been killed in an explosion in

the Turkish capital, Ankara. near military buildings

in the centre of the city. Turkey has been hit by a series

of attacks recently, that killed ten people

in Istanbul last month. to a mother who's shared a photo

of her two-year-old daughter just before she died

from meningitis last Sunday. Faye Burdett from Kent was too

old too qualify for the NHS vaccine given to children

in their first year. Nearly 300,000 people have now

signed a petition calling for the meningitis B vaccine to

be made available to all children. This report from our health editor,

Hugh Pym, contains some images

you may find distressing. Faye Burdett, seen here as a happy,

healthy two-year-old, she had an 11-day battle

for survival. A photo shows little

Faye in her final days. Her parents have

chosen to release it. a severe condition which develops

from blood poisoning. Last September, a meningitis B

vaccination programme for all newborn children

in the UK was begun. It was backdated to include

those born from May. There's now a campaign to extend it

to a wider range of children. This online petition,

highlighted by Faye's family, has now been backed by

nearly 300,000 people. It seemed unfair,

the whole situation is unfair, I think that's the only word I can

really use to sum up my feelings on it, to say that one set

of children can have this vaccination and another set

can't is too simplistic. You can't place a value

on a life, and I don't understand how you can decide

there's this cut-off. The total number of cases

of meningitis B in the UK One in ten of those

result in death, Babies under the age

of one are most at risk. It is possible to get

the meningitis B vaccine privately, though it's hard to find

at the moment The Department of Health said

the UK was the first country in the world to introduce

a national meningitis B vaccination programme and that expert advice

had been taken on "Our thoughts are with Faye's family

at this difficult time." David Cameron is making a final push

to boost support for his plans to reform Britain's relationship

with the EU ahead of tomorrow's

crunch summit in Brussels. The Prime Minister spent the day

talking to European leaders and trying to win over senior

figures in his own party. The President of the European

Council, Donald Tusk, has told the BBC that there is

no choice for EU leaders except to do a deal on the

Prime Minister's reform plans, but it seems some countries

have yet to be convinced. David Cameron probably

won't have time Instead, after months of prep,

talks, tweaks and haggle, A deal on the Prime Minister's

renegotiation seems set to be done. trying to get all the EU

leaders on board. Today the UK is still a member

of the European Union, and I have a feeling

that it will not change tomorrow. Are you confident

you'll get a deal tomorrow? And this morning support from the UK

from a very important capital. Chancellor Angela Merkel told

the German parliament the proposals were not only

on narrow British interests but were legitimate

and justified more widely. But these warm words do not mean

that agreement is certain, and there are still

big sticking points around benefit curbs

and the future of financial rules. David Cameron's critics say the deal

on the table looks pretty feeble, and it's hard to see it

as a fundamental change to the UK's relationship

with the European Union. But remember, no EU leader

has attempted this before, coming to Brussels asking

for a new settlement that will then be put to voters

in a stay-or-leave referendum. If there is a deal in Brussels

this week, the starting gun for the

referendum will then be fired, and top Tories will then

be free to pick a side, Boris Johnson was still

keeping us guessing. I've said before,

there's no point saying anything We know what the deal is now.

We don't. at the most important European

summit for Britain for years. Our top story this evening: More

than a thousand jobs are to go at Northern Ireland's

biggest manufacturer, And still to come,

motoring into the future - the car that emits nothing more

dangerous than water. And coming up on Reporting Scotland

at 6.30: The online self-help courses for people suffering mild

mental illness being trialled And the Glasgow Film Festival gets

underway with the UK premiere of Hail Caesar,

starring George Clooney. Would you tell your employer

if you were diagnosed We asked a thousand people

across the UK and more than two A slightly higher proportion said

they'd tell their friends. And more than nine in ten said

they'd tell their family. It's one snapshot of attitudes

which appear to show that the stigma of mental illness may -

finally - be disappearing. Tonight for BBC One's In the Mind

season two women, Eden Taylor and Laura Nuttall, have

put their thoughts on dealing Having a mental illness is like

being controlled by a puppet master. It is like having your own brain

taken out and somebody else's brain pudding. I decided to become a

vlogger because I could not find any videos about it. It is quite a big

deal for me to talk about this. I have bipolar. The main part of it

was my manic episode. Kind of like how you are normally but on a more

extreme level. If you are really upset, you are really, really,

really upset. If you are happy, you are running around dancing and

singing. All of your emotions are exaggerated.

My memories from the psychiatric ward at very strange and surreal.

When I got there I was very confused because I did not know what was

going on. I thought I was being watched and I was on some sort of TV

programme and somebody was playing a joke. I was in a very delusional

state of mind. I was imagining things were happening that were not

actually happening. I was imagining that I was someone I was not. You

still have people dressing up for Halloween as psychiatric patients

and using words like mental to describe negative things. Talking

about it is really helpful for breaking down stigmas. And telling

people what it is really like to have it.

I have been making YouTube videos on and off for about four years. The

reason I do it is to show the honest nature of my illness and what my

life with this illness is like. I have done some weird things,

including harming myself, quite severely, to a life-threatening

point. If I was always well in my videos it

would be inaccurate. I try to be as honest as always. Schizoaffective

disorder is being absolutely fine one day and a week later being just

in the glitch of psychosis, been so depressed that I am contemplating

suicide. A week later I can be absolutely fine. I can hear voices

in my head. I can see things, shadows, people, animals. I no

longer know who I am, where I am. My connection with reality is

shattered. Sectioning is not widely talked

about because of the stigma attached.

Technology and the Internet and the way things are now has helped the

conversation about mental health. People like me are able to upload a

video to YouTube. It can help spread awareness and information.

I have had people message to say there are videos -- my videos have

conquered them to seek help. That is fantastic. That is the reason I

setup my channel and I didn't really think I would achieve that.

It makes day. And there's more on BBC

One's In the Mind season That's at bbc.co.uk slash

in the mind, including details of where you can find help

if you've been affected. And you can follow us on social

media at #In the Mind. Police say a hill walker found in

Dumfries and Galloway after being found overnight has died in

hospital. The search for two climbers has been suspended.

The missing couple - Tim Newton and Rachel Slater,

from Bradford - are said to be experienced climbers.

There's new evidence today that what happens to a child in nursery

could set the seal on how they fare later on in education.

A study carried out for Save the Children found that one

in five children who struggle with language skills in nursery fail

to meet expected standards in Maths and English by the time they are 11.

It shows, for the first time, that of all the factors influencing

how well children will do language skills in early years

Get me a big box. Words are opening a whole new world for Mohammed.

Language is the key not just to stories but to learning. Makes a

massive difference. If children can understand each other, they can

understand us, we can understand them. They love learning. The

children at this age have a thirst for learning. By the time children

start reception, they need to be able to use and understand a large

range of words. Not just for subjects like English, but also for

learning maths. This research shows that makes a difference throughout

school. And the children who struggle at the age of five will

still have problems at 11 if they do not have those crucial

communications skills. It may look simple but activities like this make

a difference. Two-year-olds playing a game that is all about words.

Small groups mean staff can pick up on children who are struggling. Ryan

has been at nursery a few weeks. His mother is already hearing a

difference. He has learned things like juice, post, biscuit. He has

learned so many new words. Every time he comes home he will say

something new. This nursery is run by a graduate

trained in early years. That meant Darcy was given extra speech

therapy. She should be able to start school without difficulty as a

result. She could not communicate with

people. She did not feel comfortable. Now she can

communicate. The social skills seem to have come

with it. This research shows why learning language early matters. But

not all of these courses are run by graduates. Children's charities say

that should change. They know how to structure the activities in the

Nursery so it brings out the best in children and in particular

stretching those crucial language skills. If they have language skills

Strong when they start primary school, they can go on to do well at

school. The government says it is committed to raising standards and

getting more graduates to work in early years.

A British company claims to have made one of the most fuel-efficient

The hydrogen-powered Rasa has been hand-built in mid-Wales,

and can cover 300 miles between re-fuelling.

But as Hywel Griffith has been finding out,

the company faces huge challenges if the cars are ever going to be

A small car driven by huge ambitions. This could either be the

future of motoring are another big idea set to stall. Hydrogen has been

used to power everything from space rockets to forklift trucks. The

races on to build a car that will go far enough and fast enough to over

motorists. With a top speed of 60 mph it is not made for motorways. It

only emits water. But its makers want to sell it as more than a green

machine. We are not targeting the eco-sector as our market. We want

people to take this car because they wanted, simple as that. Unless you

are on motorways, 60 mph feels to us as very adequate speed. The company

are against some giant competitors. Toyota, Honda and -by all make

hydrogen cars. Even Hummer have been going green. People are talked about

hydrogen cars being the future for decades. They have always been stuck

at a crossroads. Even now there are only about a dozen fuelling stations

around the UK. To build many more there would need to be a lot more

demand. The idea of this car is that you only need to fill up once a

week. But will that persuade people to come off cheap petrol and diesel?

Low oil prices are not forever. They are playing havoc with the car

market. With ?8 million riding just on this prototype, the company are

banking on drivers getting behind hydrogen sooner rather than later.

Time for a look at the weather - here's Louise Lear.

Apologies because I am starting off with a dreary picture. It is fairly

indicative of the story today. There has been some rain around. This is a

Weather Watchers photograph in Staffordshire. Cloud and rain

continues to sink South and East. We are still concerned that we could

see more of a mix of sleet and snow. Primarily for higher ground. But

maybe at lower levels. Further west, clear skies and ayes could be a

problem. If you are barely enough, check your BBC local radio station.

-- if you are up early enough. Further west in the morning it is a

cold start. Lovely sunshine. Ice could be an issue as temperatures

hovered close to freezing. Still the risk of some wintry showers in

Northern Ireland and Scotland. Temperatures at around 1 degrees as

a maximum first thing in the morning. Ice could be an issue.

Lovely sunshine on offer for most of us through the day. That front still

lingering across Norfolk, Suffolk and the Kent coast. Colder with grey

looking skies. Top ten pitchers of five to seven Celsius. As we move

into Friday it starts off cold and frosty with the best of the sunshine

in the east. Milder air from the West. Snow for a time but it will

continue to turn back to rain. Mild air in the south-west pushing in for

the start of the weekend. 14 degrees not out of the question for England

and Wales. Cold in the far north of Scotland. That would be the boundary

for a frontal system. It could cause some headaches with heavy rain to

the south, snow to the north.