01/03/2016 BBC News at Six

The Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland -

the case against the only remaining suspect collapses.

More people were killed in the 1998 atrocity than in any other terror

Seamus Daly leaves prison - prosecutors accept their evidence

against him is unreliable - disappointment for the families.

I think most families have given up on justice, they have given up on

the criminal justice system because they have been let down so many

times. We'll be asking if this is the end

of the road for the victims' Shares in Barclays plunge after it

announces a drop in profits - Can anyone stop Donald Trump's bid

for the White House? It's Super Tuesday in

America's election season. Notice the refreshing absence of

traffic congestion. That was the promise

a generation ago - now the NHS says new towns should be

about healthy living. Coming up in the sport there is a

big night Premier League action ahead, Leicester could go five

points clear at the top of the table with a win against West Bromwich

Albion. Hello and welcome to

the BBC News at Six. The Omagh bombing was the worst,

single atrocity of Northern Ireland's troubles and today

the prospect of justice for the victims' families

seems as remote as ever. The case against the only remaining

suspect charged with the attack Seamus Daly has always denied

the murders of 29 people in the Real IRA attack and today

he was released from prison. The prosecution said

it was withdrawing the charges because a key witness

was unreliable. August 15, 1998 was unparalleled

even in the Northern Irish history of brutality. This was an ordinary

market town, a day out for families, by the evening parents and children

were grieving because of a massive car bomb. 18 years later shops have

been repaired, this street rebuilt, but nothing is forgotten. The

relatives of those who died are still looking for justice, however

they did not find it when they went to court today. The case against

Seamus Daly, the man accused of all 29 murders, collapsed. You will

notice there are not many families, most families have given up on

justice, they have given up on the criminal justice system because they

have been let down so many times. Seamus Daly has always strongly

denied any part in the explosion in Omagh. I would like to ask you some

questions please about the Omagh bombing. In 2000, panorama named him

as one of the men involved in the bombing. The key to the prosecution

case was a mobile phone owned by the bombers. A witness said he could

connect Seamus Daly to the phone, but in court he gave inconsistent

evidence and contradicted his earlier testimony. The prosecution

against the defendant Seamus Daly was based on a house of straw. The

failure of this case to reach trial means only one man has ever been

prosecuted for the murders at Omagh. In December 2007, Sean Hoey was

acquitted and cleared of involvement in the attacks after a lengthy

criminal case, two years later for other men including Seamus Daly were

found liable for the bombing in a civil case brought by some of the

Omagh families. They continued to push for criminal convictions and

two years ago Seamus Daly was arrested and charged. However, the

case against him collapsed with the prosecutors admitting they did not

have enough evidence. To bring it to that level where it has even been at

a committal hearing was pointless and I do not understand why the

families are put continually through it. This afternoon Seamus Daly left

the prison, but he has been held in remand therefore almost two years.

He is no longer wanted in connection with the murders of all those who

are remembered in Omagh. The town's Memorial garden also serves as a

reminder no one has been held accountable for their deaths. As you

can understand different families in Omagh feel very differently today.

There are some who are still pushing for a full cross-border enquiry

because they believe the information has not yet come to light about this

attack. But hopes to seemed dashed. I was told that prosecutors

currently have no ongoing lines of criminal enquiry.

There have been new confrontations between migrants and police

at the Calais refugee camp - also known as the jungle.

It follows a decision by the French authorities to move some of the four

thousand migrants and refugees to new sites elsewhere.

As Lucy Williamson reports from the camp, activists oppose

This small white shack is where am these men lived. Today it was marked

the demolition. Take our house, they cried, and we will take our lives.

It was a protest of the powerless ended in minutes by the police.

Around them, other figures watch to find from their own flimsy rooftops

wrapped against the cold. The irony is that migrants here are clinging

on to makeshift shelters in a country most do not want to be.

Moving to official migrant camps with heat and electricity means

registering in France. These temporary shacks show their resolve

not to settle here. This road marks the jungle's new boundary,

everything to the south of it will be cleared out and the people

addicted. Everything that is except that the communal buildings, the

mosques, the schools, the community centres, churches and many of the

people who are facing eviction today so rather than leave their

community, those communal buildings where they will sleep tonight. After

yesterday's violence, there is a sense of resignation among many

migrants here, but as more shelters burned today, the government

directed its anger towards the extreme and violent actions by some

of the activists here. Police on the ground told us off camera that most

of the agitators are British. TRANSLATION: Have arrested four

people, mostly British, these are people who use other but are never

on the front-line themselves. They use the migrants inciting them to

start fires and throw stones. The shrinking of the Calais migrant camp

either bigotries. Fresh figures from the UN's refugee agencies suggest

the rate of new arrivals across the Mediterranean has almost tripled

since last year. The buildings may be cleared, but as for their owners,

many are so waiting for their chance in England and many more are on

their way. What's happening in Calais is only

part of a much wider migrant Official figures from Europe's

border control agency show that the number of migrants crossing

into Europe in January and February this year was 30 times higher

than the levels reached Next week European leaders

will meet once more to try and find a way

out of the crisis. Our Europe Editor Katya

Adler is in Athens. Katya, what chance of

any kind of solution? Slim from where I am standing,

Greece remains the main point of entry into Europe for refugees and

other migrants arriving in those large numbers that you mentioned.

Numbers which are predicted to rise now spring is coming and the weather

is getting warmer and the sea is calm. The key to stopping that flow

of people into Europe lies in Turkey. That is where most of the

asylum seekers are jumping on the people smuggling tinnies and making

the short but dangerous hop over to the Greek islands. The meeting on

Monday that you mentioned is between EU and Turkey, but Turkey has little

incentive to stop people leaving it sure is. It is having a hard time

looking after well over 2 million Syrian refugees who fled their civil

war and another complication, the EU is not speaking with one voice. The

South Greece feels abandoned and abandoned and resentful and Germany

are struggling to accommodate more than 1 million asylum seekers that

it took in last year. The countries in between like Austria, Hungary and

Sabine you have broken ranks and taken matters into their own hands,

slammed the border shop and are reducing the number of migrants they

are letting through for their own protection they said. -- Slovenia.

Can a meeting on Monday solve all that? It is extremely unlikely, but

it may make some baby steps of progress.

Shares in Barclays dropped sharply today after the bank reported

Barclays also announced plans to sell its controlling stake

in the bank's Africa operations - ending its presence on the continent

Here's our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed.

It has been travelling in one direction and that is downwards.

Berkeley 's share price is a barometer of its financial health

and it has been sickly for a year. Today it sank by 8% as the bank said

it was cutting its dividend to investors, struggling to make

profits and was quitting the emerging economies of Africa. The

new chief executive told me that the heart of Barclays, the UK business

and Barclaycard, was still strong. There are clearly challenges in

running a bank given the regulatory response to the financial process

and the issues bankers are facing. If you look at the numbers, and a

lot of what I will focus on today is that Barclays has a core franchise

which is to refix that businesses. We are eight years after the

financial crisis, your annual results are still littered with

conduct you have new issues with PPI mis-selling, when Wilbanks, when can

the public trust that banks are behaving better? -- will banks. We

lost our way ten or 15 years ago, we lost a lot of trust in the financial

crisis and we have an obligation to return that. I interviewed him on

the top floor of Barclays glass and steel headquarters here in Canary

Wharf. This building is almost from a different era, a time when banks

were swashbuckling global businesses making billions of pounds of profit

and sowing the seeds of the financial crisis. He made it clear

to me that this was a different time, a time of lower profits, a

time of smaller bonus payments, a time for a smaller Barclays. It will

be smaller here, Kenya, one of the countries affected by the decision

to pull out of Africa. It is a very difficult decision, you go to places

like Uganda and Kenya and the brand is strong there just like it is in

the UK, but we have to make some very difficult decisions if we are

going to get Barclays into a focused, clear, compelling business

model that turns over for our shareholders. Though shareholders

will need some persuading, not constantly changing the person at

the top may help. It is not great for any bank to have four CEOs in

five years, it is more like a Premier League football club than a

financial institution. We had a CEO last year who was a lifetime

financial banker, this one has been an investment banker, the markets

are worried about. Not the Tarrant dried it once was, but as a major

contributed to our pensioners, he is the new broom, can he sweep the bank

clean? Details of a review into the state

pension age have just been announced The news prompted pension experts

to warn that the government could accelerate rises

in the state pension age. Ross Hawkins joins us now from

Westminster, are we all going to be working longer? We will because

there is already a plan for the age to rise to 66 and 67 over the next

12 years and none of that will change. This review will look at

whether the system is sustainable in the long term and the big issue is a

simple one. It is a ?19 billion bill for the state pension, we are all

living longer. While we are living longer, it does not mean that the

state pension age will rise. Many young people will look at any

prospect of a state funded retirement for them receding further

and further into the distance. The time is very nearly quarter past

six. Our top story this evening: the only remaining suspect in the Omagh

bombings. Seamus Daly is released after the case against him is

dropped. And still to come just how do we make memories? A top

international award for three British scientist. In the sport,

Anthony Joshua has been told that he can compete in the Olympics as long

as the changes approved. Americans began voting today

in what's dubbed Super Tuesday - a day when voters in nearly a dozen

states get to pick who will end up It's widely expected that

Donald Trump will get enough support For the Democratic Party,

this is Hilary Clinton's chance to open up a credible gap

with her rival, Bernie Sanders. Our correspondent James Cook

is in Houston, Texas. Eight months to go and the field

seems to be narrowing at last. Hillary Clinton forging ahead in the

polls and Donald Trump trying to see off his main rivals, Ted Cruz and

Marco Rubio and this super Tuesday may be the moment when we find out

who is old hat and no cattle. In Houston it is the biggest show in

town, not super Tuesday but the annual livestock fair and Rodeo.

They have come to Texas from all over the US that this event and when

it comes to politics folk here like everyone else are transfixed by one

man. Donald Trump is stating exactly what this country needs and what

this country needs is a leader in business and not a leader in

politicians. I do not really care for Trump because I feel he attacks

people when he is trying to make a point. I believe he is trying to

point out other people's flaws and not focus on his own plans. It is

kind of crazy right now, but if I can go ahead and say I'd just like

Trump and what he stands for. I want Trump to get it. You do? Why? I

think he is the best man and whatever he tells you, he does what

he tells you. Vote! In 11 states Democrats and Republicans are doing

just that today, picking the person they want to stand for president.

Here in Texas there are local elections as well, but in the White

House race the boats will be counted, shared among the candidates

and then turned into delegates who will share their choice at party

conventions in the summer. Everyone involved in the presidential race

this is the biggest test so far, here in Texas there is particular

pressure on Ted Cruz, if he loses here his campaign will be in real

trouble. Polls suggest the Texas senator is on course for victory in

his home state. Almost everywhere else though Donald Trump is the

favourite. Today he campaigned in Ohio which votes in a fortnight.

Believe me, folks, illegal immigration has turned out to be one

of the really big factors in this entire campaign. You would not even

be talking about it, hearing about it if I did not take all that heat.

As the Democrats, Bernie Sanders, the left-wing challenge to heal a

dude Clinton seems to be fading. Secretary Clinton stands out in a

very positive way. Mr Trump is an embarrassment to our country. Bernie

Sanders makes the most sense and he has the most experienced and he is

really making a change in America. The presidential election is not

even until November, but even now it feels like make or break.

A head teacher has told a murder trial how she found a 16-year-old

pupil bleeding to death after he was stabbed

The court heard how Bailey Gwynne was involved

in a fight at Cults Academy in October last year.

The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal

Steven Godden is outside the high court in Aberdeen.

It was lunchtime at cults Academy and what started as an ardent over a

biscuit ended with Bailey Gwyn dead, stabbed through the heart. -- as an

argument. Today the victim's family were in court to hear highly charged

evidence. One boy who was friends with both recalled the fight and

broke down. He saw the queues reaching into his blazer and pulling

out a knife. The headteacher of the school gave evidence. She spoke of

seeing baby lying on the corridor, seriously injured and bleeding and

very pale. -- sealing the victim lying on the corridor. The

16-year-old denies murder and two other charges of having weapons on

school property. Trial here continues.

The Home Office has tightened up privacy safeguards in new legal

proposals allowing police and intelligence services

to monitor electronic communications.

The legislation will give police more powers to see internet

browsing records in specific investigations.

And service providers will need to store browsing history data

Now, this is unusual - the NHS is getting involved

in the planning for ten new towns in England.

It's part of a plan to put healthy living at the heart of the design.

Some of the options being looked at include special zones free

of fast-food outlets and dementia friendly streets.

Our Health Editor Hugh Pym has the details.

How they used to build a new town, Stevenage in the 1950s with

convenient access to the shopping centre. The housewives themselves

have only a short step to the shopping ways. Now it is not only

short steps but longer walks that the planners want to encourage. Here

close to the Thames Barking and Dagenham Council are encouraging

development with cycling and walking right at the centre. The idea is we

do not want people thinking they go to the gym, nice walks out with the

family. The leader told me why he had signed the council up with NHS

England as a healthy new town for the next round of house-building. We

have to make sure we are friends with the walker and the cyclist and

not the car. That is what we will be looking at, we make the development

as friendly as possible for people that want to use their own steam.

The council is planning 10,000 new homes on this site and will follow

the advice of NHS leaders. Now only one in five children are playing

outside and fewer are getting to walk to school or cycle. We know it

is holder for older people to walk to the shops if there are not

benches or other facilities, pavements where one in ten older

people fall each year. We can design in health to make healthy living the

easy choice the people. Fast food outlets are very much part of the

inner-city landscape, you do not have to go too far from the proposed

development in Barking and Dagenham to find them. That is a challenge

for all policymakers trying to promote healthier environments.

While health campaigners welcomed today's announcement, they point out

that the governments chartered anti-abuse city policy has been

postponed. It looks like a lack of joined up thinking, they say. I am

not against when you build a new town, making it a more healthy

environment, that is a good idea, the idea it will solve the crisis in

public health in the UK is ridiculous. It is not just to be

city, the healthy towns plan also includes helpful residents with

dementia. This hairdresser in Bristol is an example which could be

followed with staff specially trained and more understanding when

appointments are missed. After having the training it made us

understand the problem and we do not get stressed and now, we put plans

into action to help those people when they come in so they feel more

comfortable and the staff feel more confident. Creating communities

which are dementia and exercise friendly is the dream, building them

is now the challenge. A brief look at some of the day 's other news

stories. A timber storage warehouse

was destroyed and several vehicles badly damaged when a huge fire broke

out at an industrial yard Over 70 firefighters were needed

to put the blaze out. This winter was the wettest recorded

in Scotland since records Met Office statistics show that

an average of two and a half foot of rain fell across the country

in December, January and February. And there's more bad weather

on the way with a warning of snow and ice being issued for large parts

of Scotland overnight. Tim Peake has sent Wales

a St David's Day message. Wales is an important part of our UK

space community. From up here it is also beautiful looking down on

Snowdon, the Brecon Beacons and the valleys and so I would like to wish

you all are very happy St David's Day.

Three British researchers have won one of the world's most coveted

science awards for their work on the brain.

They were praised for making significant advances into finding

And guess what - it's called the Brain Prize.

Here's our Science Editor David Shukman.

Throughout our lives, we collect memories, some remaining clear,

others fading. They are part of a system that allows us to learn,

without it we would never advance and everyday tasks like driving

would be simply impossible. Until recently know one knew how the brain

could store information, but researchers at this lab in

Edinburgh, together with teens in Bristol and London have found ways

to explain the mystery of memory. Memory we now have a good handle on

because we know about the events that occur when memories are laid

down, we know where it happens and we know at the level of connections

between nerve cells what is happening. How the brain actually

holds memories was the year is something too difficult to

understand, but scientists then realise that one part of it called

the hippocampus plays a crucial role. Inside it there are billions

of connections between the brain cells and when those links become

stronger, that is the key mechanism allowing us to remember. So one

crucial discovery is that the brain can change, creating new connections

and breaking them. Another is the full sweep this process can be

linked to conditions including depression, autism, addiction and

Alzheimer's. An image of some of the billions of connections inside the

brain. One hope that this research is to fight Alzheimer's by spotting

trouble early. If we can zero in on this connection process between

brain cells and understand why that connection process is as it were

under stress, and making it difficult for people to keep a

record of their daily events, then maybe we could develop new kinds of

drugs that could help that process. As the scientist delve into the

mechanism of memory, they raise an extraordinary idea, that Sunday in

the DJ people who are suffering from trauma like soldiers after battle

may be helped by having their bad memories deleted. -- that Sunday,

people who are suffering from trauma like soldiers after battle may be

helped by having their bad memories deleted.

The skies above north-east Scotland were alight last night.

It was probably caused by a meteor shower.

Many people reported seeing what looked like a fireball

and a bright flash, others reported hearing the rumbling sound caused

Most meteors aren't seen by the naked eye, this one

was thought to have been about 10cm wide and travelling

What about the night skies tonight? Now the weather. It is only Tuesday

and I am exhausted. We had frost and son yesterday, mild and wept today,

snow tomorrow believe it or not. Cloud and rain cleared away to the

east. A scattering of showers to the north-west and a mild afternoon,

temperatures peaking 15 degrees, it felt almost springlike. That is set

to change as we move through tonight, Caldaire moves into the

Arctic and it turns showers across the North West Brom rain to sleet

and snow. -- hold air. Ice could be an issue and I would not be

surprised if we see some lying snow first and in the morning. There is

the potential may be for two to five centimetres, maybe more to higher

ground across parts of South West Scotland into Northern Ireland as

well, accompanied by strong wind. That will be blowing any snow

around. There could be some disruption to your early morning

commute, certainly to -- certainly listen to your local BBC radio

stations the information. There will be damaging gusts of wind across the

south-west first thing in the morning and we are more concerned

about this cluster of wintry showers moving across north-west England,

Wales, through the Midlands, there could be some disruption, as it

passes into the south-east, there could be sleet and snow, behind it

somewhat brighter, but still colder weather and a scattering of winter

showers to the far north and west. A disappointing day. A visible bit

drier. A little bit milder, six to 9 degrees. Then we do it all again

into Friday. There is potential for another system to draw in some

colder air and there is the potential maybe for some sleet and

some snow as long as well. Co-reminder of the main story, the

only remaining suspect in the Omagh bombings, Seamus Daly, has been

released after the case against him was dropped. -- a reminder. More

people were killed in that atrocity than any other attacked during the

troubles. That is all from the BBC News at six. That is all from me and

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