15/04/2016 BBC News at Six

Terror arrests in the UK in the wake of the Paris and Brussels attacks.

Five people from Birmingham are being questioned,

as officials describe the arrests as significant

They're the first UK arrests connected with the investigation

We will have the latest. Also tonight:

Definitely not every day, after the manufacturer warns

some products contain so much sugar and salt

you should only have them once a week.

As the EU referendum campaign is officially launched,

the Chancellor warns that mortgage rates could go up

Prices will go up, and there will be instability in financial markets,

is that mortgage rates are likely to go up.

Locked away for seven years now, the mother fighting

to free her autistic son from a medical institution.

I was allowed ten minutes on the phone a day.

"You've got to get me out, Mummy, you've got to get me out."

And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

set off on a three hour-trek to reach Bhutan's holiest site.

Manchester City draw Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals.

Meanwhile, Liverpool face Villarreal

in the last four of the Europa League.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

Five people have been arrested in Birmingham and at Gatwick Airport

in connection with the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.

Whitehall officials have described the arrests as significant.

Three men and a woman were detained in Birmingham last night,

and a fifth person was arrested at Gatwick

Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford

is in Birmingham for us this evening.

Daniel. Yes, Sophie, five people are still

in custody here in the West Midlands being questioned on suspicion that

they were preparing acts of terrorism. And this is the first

time that we have seen arrests in Britain as part of the

investigations that arose out of those attacks in Paris and Brussels,

and not for the first time in this case the focus has been on

Birmingham. The operation began late last night

when West Midlands counterterrorism detectives arrested four people

in Birmingham - three men aged 26, 40 and 59,

and a woman aged 29. This part of Britain once again in

the terrorism spotlight. It has always had a question around it, it

is one of the biggest urban areas in the United Kingdom. So, you know, it

is an area where forces are very active in trying to watch and detect

and detained. Then, a few hours later,

in the early hours of this morning at Gatwick Airport,

a fifth arrest, of another 26-year-old man as he stepped off

a flight from North Africa. Police say the arrests,

described by security sources as significant,

follow a joint investigation with French and Belgian security

services after the recent It's three and a half weeks

since the bombs in Brussels - at the airport and on the Metro -

in which 32 people died, and five months since the attacks

in Paris which killed 130. Both attacks have been

linked to a Belgian man who was known to have

visited Birmingham. Mohamed Abrini is thought

to be the man in the hat, seen here at Brussels airport

just before the attack. He was arrested after

four weeks on the run. He is also thought to have been

caught by a CCTV camera at a French petrol station with the leader

of the Paris attacks just two days potentially connecting him

to both Brussels and Paris. The BBC has been told that Abrini

visited Birmingham last summer, Pictures of a football stadium

were later found on his phone. All five people arrested last night

are still being questioned They are being held

on suspicion of terrorism, And if there are to be charges, and

they may not come soon, because under counterterrorism legislation,

police can repeatedly asked for more time for questioning and to do more

investigations. So it may be some days before the suspects are either

charged or released. Sophie. Daniel Sandford, thank you. Security

correspondent Frank Gardner is here, Whitehall officials are calling this

significant, what does that mean? These were not spontaneous, they

were the result of a five-month long investigation which was intelligence

led, they were carried out by the West Midlands counterterrorism unit,

a fusion cell in the West Midlands between West Midlands Police and

MI5, the Security Service. Remember that this country, Britain, is one

of the most surveilled of any country in Europe. We have far more

CCTV countries, far more digital interception and any other country

in Europe. They got some input from Belgian and French authorities, but

primarily this was a British investigation. Separately from these

arrests, there is still an ongoing investigation on the continent, with

some input from Britain, some help from Britain into the extensive

jihadist networks, because there is a big support network. It is

believed that around 5000 European based jihadists have gone to Syria

in the last or years. Now, some of those have returned, some are still

at there, some are dead, some have supporters. They are trying to find

them. Frank Gardner, thank you. One of the country's biggest

food manufacturers has told shoppers that

some of their products they shouldn't be eaten

more than once a week. Mars, which makes Dolmio sauces

and Uncle Ben's rice, to distinguish between what it calls

everyday foods and occasional ones. Here's our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes. Busy mum of two Suzanna's time is

precious. When it comes to getting dinner on the table, there's no

messing about, and that is where a cooking sauce comes into its own.

They are ideal, nowadays everybody has got pastor in the cupboards, it

is easy, heated up, pour it over, a meal in ten or 15 minutes. When you

have got babies crying, you need to have something quick when it is

mealtime. But there has been growing concern around the amount of salt,

sugar and fat hidden in prepared sauces, and the impact they are

having on our health. Of course, it is not just the Mars group that

produces these products, most of the major food manufacturers have come

up with similar products. The problem for consumers, shoppers, is

trying to calculate how much salt, fat or sugar these sources contain.

So concentrating just on sugar content, in this jar of tomato

sauce, there are the equivalent of four teaspoons of sugar. This jar

contains five teaspoons. But this Dolmio sauce in a slightly larger

jar as the equivalent of 70 spoons of sugar. Now the food giant Mars

has decided to publicly warned its customers that some of its products

have so much bad sugar and salt they should only be consumed once a week.

-- fat, sugar and salt. The ingredients of other products will

be changed in the coming years to make them healthier. We really hope

that others will follow us, we are set up very well when it comes to

not just the UK but around the world, and we would be delighted if

other industry members joined us too. Food retailers say it is an

interesting proposal but for it to be effective it should apply across

the industry, and in the wake of the sugar tax on busy drinks, some

experts believe Mars is being clever, making sure it is well

positioned in and of any possible legislation in the future. They are

definitely leading the way, but it is not enough to tackle the obesity

crisis, so it is not taking responsibility for the unhealthy

ingredients in their food. They are still relying on consumers to make

those choices, when there is not a great healthy food supply for them

to do so. Concerns about our diet and a growing problem with obesity,

especially among children, has ramped up the pressure on food

companies. They want to show their responding and can readily

themselves, so where Mars is leading, others are likely to

follow. Dominic Hughes, BBC News. In the last hour, there has been

another powerful earthquake in southern Japan. According to the US

Geological Survey it had a magnitude of 7.1 at a shallow depth of seven

kilometres. A tsunami advisory warning has been issued. Yesterday

the region suffered a quake which killed at least nine people and saw

hundreds injured, with widespread damage to buildings and

infrastructure. A mother who admitted

murdering her baby son has been sentenced to a minimum

of 13 years in prison. 37-year-old Lesley Dunford

killed seven-month-old Harley at their family home

in East Sussex in 2003. She is already serving a seven-year

sentence for the manslaughter A memorial service

has been held at Anfield to mark the 27th anniversary

of the Hillsborough disaster. John Alfred Anderson, Colin Mark

Ashcroft... Friends and relatives

of the 96 people who died were joined at Liverpool's home

ground by past and present players It was announced that this year's

memorial would be the last. The starting gun has been fired

for the official EU referendum campaign with ten

weeks to go until polling day. The Leave and Remain campaigns

have been out in force at events around the UK,

setting out their core message to voters before the vote

on June 23rd. Our political correspondent

Carole Walker reports. You may have thought you and heard a

lot about the EU referendum, but both sides are now stepping up their

efforts to persuade you of their arguments. The latest poster from

those campaigning to leave unveiled by a former Labour health minister

claimed we could spend millions more on the NHS if we were outside the

EU. If we leave the EU, we can take back control of the ?350 million

that we hand to the EU every week. ?50 million a day. And that money

can be invested in our priorities, like the NHS, and we can also ensure

that we take back control of our borders and take back control of our

laws. So what about that claim? Would we really have ?350 million a

week to spend on the NHS? In fact, the rebate takes our net

contribution down to 276 million a week, but we get some of that back

in regional aid support for farmers and research, which might still

needs to be funded, so that would leave 161 million. Although even if

we did leave, we might still have to contribute to the EU budget to get

access to the single market. Those campaigning to stay in point to

recent warnings from organisations from the International Monetary Fund

to the big unions of the dangers and an certainty of an out vote. A

former Labour Chancellor said it would be a leap in the dark. They

are offering a fantasy future where we keep all the benefits of Europe

without being part of the single market. In the single market, we

trade freely right across Europe, and we have a say in making the

rules across the continent. If we leave, we give up all of that with

no idea what we will get in return. Voting to leave is simply not a risk

worth taking. On the date new spending limits begin, Ukip's leader

returned the campaign leaflet sent out by the Government just before

the deadline. The Government has chosen to spend nearly ?10 million

of our money to tell us how we should think and how we should vote.

I do not believe that is within the rules. Even the Electoral Commission

has said it is not within the spirit of the rules. For all the claims and

counterclaims, the two sides to agree that the decision we take on

June the 23rd on whether or not to stay within the European Union will

shape the future of our country for decades to come, and the race is too

close to call. Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has warned that mortgage rates

could go up if the UK votes to leave the EU.

He was speaking in Washington, where he's attending a meeting

Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, is there.

Kamal, what exactly has the Chancellor been saying?

Well, Sophie, he has really been adding to this long list of warnings

we have had over the last week about the risks to Britain if Britain left

the European Union. You will remember we had the chief economist

of the IMF earlier this week talking about severe damage if Britain were

to leave. We have just had a communique here from the G20

nations, those are the largest world economies, talking about a shock if

Britain were to leave the European Union. And I think George Osborne

has really changed tack as well today, he has warned about something

that he believes really brings this debate into the heart of millions of

people's homes. The Bank of England is independent,

it makes its decisions on interest rates, but the overwhelming view

of the experts here in Washington is that if Britain leaves

the EU, prices will go up, and there would be instability

in financial markets. That means it's likely

that mortgage rates would go up, families would pay the price

for Britain leaving the EU. It's another reason

why we are better off in the EU and why families would be

more prosperous inside the EU. Now, the thing is, with those type

of warnings, when you are talking about the economy, there are, of

course, different points of view. I think those in the Leave campaign

and economist to support Britain leaving the European Union would

say, if there is going to be all this economic turmoil if we leave,

the last thing the Bank of England would do would be to raise interest

rates, they would surely cut interest rates, and that would be

good for mortgage holders. The big point is that most people now agree

that, short-term, there will be uncertainty, there will be

volatility. Where they disagree is over what would happen long-term.

For those who say we should be out of the European Union, long term

they say it would be better for Britain to do that. For those who

say we should remain, staying there would be better ultimate for our

economy. Kamal, thank you. In Birmingham, five people

are being questioned on suspicion of terrorism in the wake

of the Paris and Brussels attacks. And archaeologist uncover the

remains of two German destroyers from World War one.

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Andy Murray looks back to his best

thrashing Milos Raonic in the Monte Carlo Masters.

He'll play Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals.

Eden Norris has learning disabilities and autism.

At the age of 17 he was locked away in a medical institution.

Seven years later - despite campaigns from his family

Now his mother and a group of other families are planning to take legal

action against local authorities and hospitals because they say

the system is failing some of the most vulnerable in society.

Our disability news correspondent Nikki Fox has this report.

Eden, a young man trapped, miles away from home, stuck in a system

All he wants is to to be near his family

Eden would just say to me, "You have got to get me

out mummy, you've got to get me out."

And then he'd say, "They're just pulling me, they're pushing me to

the ground and these nasty injections."

At the time he just kept saying, "Needles mummy, needles."

Medicated and isolated, Eden put on 16 stone in weight

Watching Eden like that is just unbearable, to see him change

That's when I knew we lost him and I don't think we are

We are not going to get Eden back the way he was,

Because Eden has a learning disability and autism, his mum

But what she thought was going to be short-term treatment ended up with

her son being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

He has been in institutions for seven years.

Now, a group of families have had enough and

they're planning to take legal action.

There aren't enough community provisions being provided.

Which means that people who no longer meet the criteria to be

detained, so who shouldn't be being detained, remain locked up, because

there is nowhere else for them to go.

And if they're locked up when

they shouldn't be locked up, then they're being detained unlawfully

and that's a breach of their human rights.

Eden is one of around 2,500 people with learning disabilities

After much criticism, NHS England promised to

reduce that number by 50% over the next three years,

so that many more can live in the community.

But those that work inside the system are

It takes months and months to actually train people up

and we don't have months and months to get people out now.

Packages of care will cost money and often there

is many local authorities whose funded community-based packages are

NHS England is confident that the situation will improve.

It says that local areas will begin a three-year

plan to ensure housing, care and advocacy services become available

My life has just revolved around trying to keep

hope for Eden and trying to believe that one day he'll have his rights

as a human being and be able to come back in

life like a human being should be able to.

A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted

murder of a police officer with an axe in Sheffield.

Nathan Sumner, who's 35, has been remanded in custody

and will appear before a crown court next month.

PC Lisa Bates lost a finger and suffered a fractured skull

and broken leg while attending a domestic incident in the city

A young boy has been giving evidence in the trial of two women accused

The jury at the High Court in Livingston was played a pre

recorded video in which the boy told a police woman that he strangled

But he said the two-year-old was fine moments later.

Nyomi and Rachel Fee have been accused of falsely blaming the child

The Green Party has launched its manifesto for the local council

elections in England and the Assembly elections in Wales.

Speaking at a rally in Bristol, the party leader, Natalie Bennett,

said she wanted to turn what she called a "Green surge"

at the last General Election into "Green seats".

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have trekked

to Bhutan's holiest site - the ancient Tiger's Nest monastery

It's perched on a cliff more than 10,000 feet above sea level.

To reach it the Royal couple had to walk for three hours -

a journey Prince William described as "easy".

Our Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell trekked with them.

Hand in hand, they look like a couple setting out for a couple

Ahead of them a climb of getting on for 3,000 feet,

that is about three quarters of the height of Britain's

Their destination the Tiger's Nest, a 17th

Century Buddhist monastery, built on an almost sheer cliff face.

It is a steep climb, quite a scramble in

some places, and here they are at approximately half way

point, still strolling and barely breaking sweat.

He's probably just saying that to embarrass the press corps, who have

struggled up with the aid of pack horses - well, just to carry

At the half way point, there were prayer

wheels to examine and a rather hurried photo call with William and

Catherine posing with the Tiger's Nest in the distance behind them.

All very picturesque, except that William and Catherine

are in Bhutan briefly at the request of the Foreign Office,

There is a tricky balance on a day such as this.

We shouldn't forget that this is an official visit paid for by

It is also an opportunity of course for some pretty

spectacular sight seeing and the couple's wish, perhaps

understandably, is to do that as privately as possible.

They strolled on arm in arm, a further steep climb

ahead, which brought them to a position overlooking the

Another photo call and then a private visit to the

Nearly 20 years ago William's father, Prince Charles,

He too climbed to the Tiger's Nest, reportedly with ten

pack horses, which brought, among other things,

his easel and paints so he could capture the view.

Today his elder son and his wife left with

only their memories and a sense of satisfaction.

It is is an amazing experience, we are very lucky and

fortunate to see such beautiful scenery.

My father didn't make it to the top, so that is something I will

A visit to the Tiger's Nest, more pleasure than business certainly -

The remains of two First World War German destroyers have been found

at the home of the British Navy in Portsmouth.

The ships were taken were taken there after the Great War and left

Archaeologists discovered the wrecks - one of the destroyers took part

in the Battle of Jutland 100 years ago.

The BBC has been given exclusive access to the site,

The presence of the German navy in the home of the Royal Navy. This is

V82, a 30 metre German destroyer. Ten metres away lie the remains of

V44, another German destroyer from the Great War and the most

significant of the two. Archaeologists believe these images

could show V44 at the end of World War one. It had played a crucial

part in the Battle of Jutland, one of the largest naval engagements in

history. This is V44 during its trials... It was one of ten

destroyers that forced the British command ship to turn around, a move

that is believed to have changed the course of the war. The destroyers

were significant, their action in going into the centre of the battle

field and firing gave the German fleet the opportunity to escape and

the royal knavive was not able to inflict a damning victory on the

German fleet and that could have had a significant impact on the outcome

of the war. These remnants of V stretch across the mud. The ship was

brought here with V82 at the end of the war, but for years nobody knew

what these lumps of metal were until now. Using these 3D images,

archaeologists have identified the two ships and matched them with

records. The rusting hulks now have names and history. To have something

from the German high seas fleet, which is rare, and to have them just

down the road was quite amazing. And very unexpected. Side pi side, a

British destroyer now lies next to the old German ones. Relics of a

battle whose centenary is marked next month and now share a watery

berth with the enemy they once fought.

With snow? Yes and this doesn't look like a scene from April. This was

taken in Moray in Scotland earlier on today. There is more sleet and

snow to come over the higher ground in the north. A mixture of sunshine

and showers and turning the colder across the country with a return to

night-time frosts. Arctic air work south. As we head through tonight

and tomorrow. A cloudy picture, with this band, a front bringing rain at

lower levels and sleet and snow in the hills of northern England and

Wales. That cold air filtering across Northern Ireland and Scotland

and a sharp frost first thing tomorrow with some ice on untreated

surfaces. Through the day tomorrow a chilly start, we have got the cloud

bringing rain, some sleet and snow across the higher ground in central

and eastern parts. Drifting south and a cold northerly wind too. The

temperatures for most places stuck in single figures. Five degrees in

Norwich. Scattered showers on Saturday and they will ease away to

become dry with the wind falling. It will be a particularly cold night

and by dawn on Sunday temperatures even in towns and cities just a

degree above freezing. Gardeners be warned of the frost. Through the day

England and Wales having sunshine and dry weather, more cloud for

Northern Ireland and Scotland. With a few outbreaks of rain.

Temperatures by Sunday warmer than we will see on Saturday. Thank you.

Our main story: Five people have Birmingham are being questioned on

suspicion of terrorism as part of an investigation in the wake of Paris a

Brussels attacks. As the EU referendum starts, the Chancellor

warns mortgages could go up if Britain leaves. That is the all from

us.