17/05/2016 BBC News at Six

Violence is the biggest challenge facing prisons

in England and Wales - thousands of assaults every year.

Two gangs fight it out in a battle over who controls

the supply of drugs - a warning from the chief

Some of these prisons are failing, there is no doubt about that.

So I suppose the answer, the honest answer to question is, yes, some

prisons are not fit for their purpose.

A war of words inside the Conservative party

over the EU referendum - Lord Heseltine attacks

He is behaving now irresponsibly and recklessly and I fear

I've got lots of tips and secrets to share.

But her recipes could be harder to find -

the BBC Food website is to close to cut costs.

25 years on, Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut,

warns about a lack of funding for more missions.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News:

An Olympic doping crackdown - retests on hundreds of Beijing

samples could see over 30 atheltes banned from the Rio Games.

Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Tens of thousands of acts of violence, the emergency

services called out several times every hour -

it's a troubling picture of prisons in England and Wales and it comes

from none other than the new chief inspector of prisons.

Peter Clarke has told the BBC that many prisons are simply not

Here's our special correspondent Lucy Manning with her latest insight

Wandsworth jail, two weeks ago, and in the prison yard a fight

breaks out, one prisoner is beaten and stabbed.

It's a fight between an Albanian gang and a local one over

the control of the supply of drugs on the wing.

For the new Chief Inspector of Prisons, it's a toxic mix.

The biggest single challenge is violence.

The levels of violence in our prisons are

Last year there were 100 self-inflicted deaths.

There were 32,000 incidents of self-harm.

With legal highs fuelling violence and health problems inside,

combined with mental health challenges and too few staff,

Are some of the prisons that you're seeing not fit

If the purpose is to develop an environment in which meaningful

rehabilitation and resettlement can take place then, again,

some of these prisons are failing, there's no doubt about that.

So, I suppose, the answer, the honest answer to your question

is, yes, some prisons are not fit for their purpose.

Guards have to step in to deal with a prisoner.

For those who spent time in jail, they saw the new synthetic drugs,

like Spice, as the root of the problems.

I've seen it messed up a lot of people.

Literally, people were getting heart attacks and ambulances were coming

Sometimes you see like three ambulances outside because of

the amount of drugs that's coming in from all different parts.

The BBC has learnt emergency services were called out to prisons

Police forces, ambulance trusts and the Fire Service were called out

That's a rise of 50% over the last four years.

The impact which these drugs are having is not of course limited

simply to within the prison walls because it has an enormously

draining effect on other services, particularly the Ambulance Service.

There are just too many prisoners on the wings struggling

It is another destabilising factor inside prisons.

I think there needs to be a serious review about the availability

of secure beds outside prisons, so that people can receive treatment

Fewer staff are having to deal with more problems.

I think everyone would like to see more staff in prisons.

I haven't spoken to anybody who thinks that the current staffing

levels are right or that it wouldn't be a good thing to have more staff.

I think that's self evident, but obviously we know

The problems inside are laid bare, so many areas that need fixing,

at a time when staff complain there's not enough

These warnings are more worrying, given who they are coming from?

Peter Clark has only been the chief inspector of prisons for three

months. He was the head of counterterrorism at Metropolitan

Police. But what he has seen in that short time is pretty Turk troubling,

he told us. The admission he thinks some prisons are not fit for purpose

is a pretty significant admission. On the legal highs, he thinks some

jails are being completely destabilised by them. The Ministry

of Justice to night on the figures were revealed on emergency call-outs

says a significant number arms are serious issue that they are called

out, it is a precaution. On the comments made by Peter Clarke, their

response, they are open about it. Changes and reforms are needed and

governors need more independence to help prisoners rehabilitate. When

they come out of prison without proper rehabilitation, they

reoffend. We will be hearing more about this in tomorrow's Queen's

Speech. Tomorrow we will be inside Wandsworth prison for special report

on what prison is like and Michael Gove will be asked if he agrees with

his chief inspector that some prisons are not fit for purpose.

Thank you, Lucy. The war of words in

the Conservative party over the EU referendum reached

a new level today when the former cabinet minister, Lord Heseltine,

accused Boris Johnson of losing his judgement

with "preposterous, obscene, The former London Mayor,

who is campaigning to leave the EU, Said voters are more interested in

the political arguments. Take back control of this country,

can you hear me at the back. Whose side are you on? Both sides are

desperate to get him on theirs. But claims of residence Obama invoking

Hitler has joined the debate. Someone who knows a thing or two

about the Tory leadership said Boris Johnson has gone too far. I think

the strain of the campaign is telling on him, I think his judgment

is going. It is the most serious decision Britain has faced in a

generation and it is descending into a nasty situation. Campaigns get

dirty and people say things they don't necessarily mean because they

are trying to win. He is behaving irresponsibly and recklessly, and I

fear his judgment is going. Could he potentially be the leader of the

Conservative Party? When he makes these utterances, people in the

Conservative Party will make the judgment whether he has the

capability of that position. His team say tonight people want the

arguments about the EU and not personalities. He made his strongest

attack on his Tory opponents in the Remain camp. Saying they are

colluding with big business and the establishment. It is a colossal

stitch up. You have people in big businesses who see their pay packets

going up. Because of large-scale immigration, wages on the shop floor

are not going up, they have been falling in real terms. Of course

they campaigning to remain in the EU, these fat cats. The decision for

us is bigger than the career of any Conservative politician. But this is

a conservative slapped down for Boris Johnson and the bitterness

inside the party is hard to ignore. But both sides have to make this

feel it matters and they have both been accused of hype. Labour says

the danger is, Tories on both sides of the campaign make it negative. In

the glitter of the city, the Prime Minister claimed the leader of the

so-called Islamic state would be pleased if we leave. It is worth

asking the question, who would be happy if we left. President Putin

would be happy, you should ask what it means for your country's

prosperity, what it means for families and jobs. Ask your friends

what they think. Boris Johnson had been accused of choosing out because

of his own ambition. If it all goes wrong, perhaps that decision could

burn his future chances. Meanwhile Ukip leader Nigel Farage,

who campaigning to leave the EU, has suggested that anger over

migration could lead He was talking to our

Deputy Political Nigel Farage, 37 days to go, are you

going to win? I am confident, the other side won't talk to me, that

must be good. Perfect sincerity, when you can fake that coming have

cracked it. Not that his desire for Britain to quit the EU is unreal, it

is his life. But Nigel Farage, the him, win or lose, this is no

farewell tour. The message couldn't be clearer. Isis say they will use

this migrant crisis to flood the country with Jihadi fighters, I

suggest we take them seriously. Over lunch, there is more. Anger over EU

migration just might lead to blood on the streets. I think it is

legitimate to say that if people feel they have lost control

completely, and we have lost control of our borders completely as members

of the EU. If people feel voting doesn't change anything, violence is

the next step. Even in this country, peaceful Britain? I find it

difficult to contemplate it happening here, but nothing is

impossible. What if Britain voted to remain, pressure for a second

referendum? If the Prime Minister was to get a narrow victory, I think

a lot of them wouldn't be reconciled to it. The debate audience showed

this effect, in a campaign that is getting more bitter by the day, he

splits opinion like no one else. I am afraid he is too far right. He is

a Nazi. He has been brandished a racist because he is talking common

sense about numbers. He is the only person telling us the truth. He is

not the kind of guy that stands with working people, but does a good job

at making it look like he is. The Eurosceptic feeling drove David

Cameron to promise this referendum in the first place. He is a divisive

figure, people tend to like him or loathe him. That is why the official

Leave campaign is keeping a distance. For this political

outsider, nothing would taste sweeter than about to leave. 37 days

to go, we are in battle, we are charging and I will keep doing that.

Nigel Farage preaches best to the converted. So much depends on

getting his supporters to turn out and vote. Who is to say he won't

have the last laugh? Are we voting out? Yes. Good.

Some of the Uk's largest private employers have waded into the EU

referendum debate by sending letters directly to staff.

Microsoft and Aviva are among those warning of the risks of voting leave

while the Chairman of Whetherspoons said a leave vote was

Our business editor Simon Jack is here.

You have got some of those letters? Yes, if you are fed up with the

politicians, what would you make of what your employer has to say.

Microsoft, this one that their view is UK should remain. Aviva says the

economic recovery could go into reverse if we were to leave. And

United technologies sake a detrimental impact on the long-term

prospects for employment. Playing the job card. Tim Martin, the

chairman of Wetherspoon 's says continuing to give power away to an

unelected leader in Brussels is a bad idea. I suppose the question is,

how appropriate is this to get involved? If it is a general

election, people might take a dim view. The CBI has said it is

appropriate for people to lay out what the prospects for the company

are. The vote lead business counsellor John Longworth says it is

bosses ganging up on workers and telling them how to vote. All those

letters are saying, we're not telling you how to vote, just what

we think. They are making it clear which side they think the bread is

buttered on. Will it be effective, make people pause for thought? We

don't know what will happen. We know what happened in the Scottish

referendum and the company and your employer will have no idea how you

vote in the referendum. Three weeks after an inquest jury

concluded that the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster

were unlawfully killed the process to dismiss

the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire

police is underway. In Bournemouth, where

the Police Federation is holding its annual conference,

members observed a minute's silence Police in Cambridgeshire have begun

an investigation after a severed It was discovered by a worker

at the site near Ely. Police cannot say whether the victim

was male or female and believe it may have come from a construction

site nearly 40 miles away. More than 100,000 people have signed

an online petition protesting at plans to close the BBC

Food website. The closure is part of the BBC's

latest cost-cutting exercise. Among other savings,

the BBC's online news magazine is to be shut down

and the Corporation is looking at whether to merge the News Channel

and BBC World News, its international

television news service. If you want to join in and cook

at home, for many it now I persuaded my mother to throw

all of hers away. If I ever do home cooking ,I'll

often use a BBC recipe because, to be honest, it's one of the first

ones that usually comes up They are very clear,

very straight-forward and they always work because they've

got stars, they've got people's reviews, so you know you're

on to a good thing, actually. Bake Off, Rick Stein, Nigella -

all these food programmes There are more than 11,000,

more than 3,000 pies, Now, if you tap in say,

Yorkshire pudding, it's almost always the BBC recipe that's

at the top of the search page. However, thousands of these recipes

will soon be disappearing The pages will become harder

and harder to find. However, BBC Good Food,

another website run by the BBC's commercial arm, will carry

on and it may take on some For a famous chef, such as Ken Hom,

the BBC is simply an essential part A lot of people, like myself,

started with the BBC 32 years ago. The BBC, more or less,

made my career. It's nice to have my recipes on that

website, simply because it helps people who maybe are not

going to buy the book right away But it's not just food,

the News Channel may merge with BBC World News,

news presenters' pay is under Many, especially the papers,

do want a smaller BBC. I don't think that the fundamental

questions in the minds of newspaper proprietors will have gone away

as a result of the announcements today but, none the less,

every little bit helps and there may be a sense that these concessions

are the start of a kind So a little off the top for the BBC,

but it's far from the end They will now accelerate the

transfer of content to BBC Good Food. Your recipes will not be lost.

A warning from the chief inspector of prisons that violence

is the biggest challenge with thousands of

Retesting of athletes from the Beijing Olympics -

The Premier League season finally comes to a close.

Postponed because of a bomb-scare, the match between Manchester United

and Bournemouth takes place this evening.

Britain's first astronaut has said the UK risks becoming a "backward

nation" if the Government does not pay to send more people into space.

Helen Sharman said the UK would lose many of the benefits of Tim Peake's

current mission if a commitment to more British missions

She spoke to our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh,

on the eve of the 25th anniversary of her space flight.

It's 1991 and Britain's first astronaut is on board a small space

Little did they know that during the launch,

we had an oxygen valve that was stuck open and had it

remained stuck open, we would have had too much oxygen,

risk of explosion and we would have had to land on the very next orbit.

25 years on, Helen Sharman relives her historic mission.

She's seeing many of these pictures for the first time.

We were supposed to put a special mouthpiece on the end

of this tube but of course, it is much more fun just to blast

Helen's mission to the Soviet Mir Space Station was paid

That's because the Government did not want to be involved in

That changed last year when Tim Peake followed

She is concerned though that he could be Britain's last astronaut.

The Government has paid for one spaceflight.

This is Tim Peake, he has been in space for a few months.

He will come back in June and that is it.

The good work has not totally finished, we don't

lose what we have done, we don't lose the enthusiasm

from the young people for science but where are we then in the UK?

Just another backward nation who's not participating

in the international stage, in the future of the human race.

Helen thinks it's essential for the British Government to commit

funds for more missions by the end of this year.

Her trip to space though was not all serious science.

I got out my pink frilly outfit and then I floated

through wearing my pink frilly socks and Sergei got out his tie

and, he had been in space before, and he knew his tie

was going to go straight out in front so we ate our dinner,

we had our party dinner and we were wearing our

Would she blaze it again if they asked her?

I haven't met a single astronaut who would not go back into space

A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

The world's largest cruise ship has arrived at Southampton ahead

The Harmony of the Sea is 50 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower,

has 23 swimming pools and can carry 6,000 passengers.

It's also the most expensive cruise liner ever built and cost nearly

A deal has been struck in the Welsh Assembly which clears

the way for Labour's Carwyn Jones to be re-elected as

Last week, Assembly members failed to elect a first minister

after opposition parties united behind a rival candidate,

the leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood.

Carwyn Jones is expected to be confirmed in the role

Nicola Sturgeon has been confirmed as the Scottish Parliament's

Ms Sturgeon - who saw off a challenge from

the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie -

will now be formally appointed by the Queen.

The SNP leader became Scotland's first female First Minister in 2014

Police in Northern Ireland say they've made one of their most

significant arms finds in recent years.

Weapons, ammunition and bomb-making equipment were discovered by two

walkers in Capanagh Forest in County Antrim.

31 athletes could be banned from this year's Olympics

after hundreds of doping samples were retested from the 2008

The International Olympic Committee says athletes, from six different

Our sports correspondent, Richard Conway, is at

When are we likely to get details on this? In the coming weeks the IOC

saying they do not want people who have cheated in the past to take

part in this summer's Rio Games. It's part of a message of getting

tough on the dopers much the latest technology has been applied to 454

sarms samples from those Beijing Games in 2008, technology

unavailable to testers back then to detect for performancing-enhancing

drugs. 31 samples have thrown up suspicion. No names yet. We will get

their identities in the coming weeks once a formal disciplinary process

has taken place. We look back to London 2012, which took place here

at the Olympic Park, the drama and excitement, that afterglow is fading

a little. We had previous issues with medals being taken away from

certain athletes who performed here. The IOC say 250 samples from these

Games will be retested as well. No word yet on when the results will be

known. The IOC making it clear today it doesn't matter when you cheated

or how you cheated, if you did, they will go back and they will find out.

Richard, thank you. The UK's inflation rate fell

in April for the first time since September,

largely because of cheaper air fares The Office for National Statistics

said the rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index,

fell to 0.3%. The ONS said the main causes

were falls in the prices of air fares, vehicles,

clothing and social housing rents. With just over five weeks to go

to the referendum on Britain's future in the European Union,

we'll be hearing from a range of voters about the issues that

will determine how they vote Tonight, we hear from Stuart Main,

a student from Dunfermline. My name's Stuart Main,

I'm 19 years old, and I'm I like to spend what free time

I have playing games, so coming to an event like this,

to me, is quite a big thing because it's a lot of people

who have the same interests, but also people I watch play video

games and people who actually make It's quite strange to be this

close to somebody I watch I have been thinking about the EU

referendum and my thinking is, I mean, obviously, there are issues

within it and perhaps some things don't seem as fair as we might like,

but the fact is we can't sustain ourselves as a one nation

island, essentially. I think working as well as being

a student has affected my views because of the fact

that the employer I work with there are a few employees

who are from Europe, There's no reason that we should

take that from people We need these people to kind of keep

the country rumbling on. As somebody who, hopefully,

has quite a long future ahead, I'd like to think that I will be

able to travel at some point or go on holiday at some point,

and whilst these a selfish reasons, because I speak German,

I would love to move to Germany day, which would be a lot

easier within the EU. This is all about doing sweet

tricks. Europe is one of those things

that sort of happens and we're part of it,

and that's fine. I was already in the Remain camp

before hand, but when I did research into it, it occurred to me that,

actually, we definitely need That was Stuart Main, who's decided

he wants to stay in the EU. Hello. The weather is not appetising

this week at all, even into the weekend. It's looking very

unsettled. This week we will have spells of sunshine, rain, sunshine,

again, probably back to rain as we go through the weekend. Lots of

weather fronts out there in the Atlantic. Woe showed you a similar

picture yesterday. Here are the weather fronts knocking on the door.

Rain-bearing cloud to western areas of the UK. Dry so far across most of

England. The clouds have been developing. That is the story of the

evening and into tonight. Thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain. Some rain

will turn heavy in the north-west of the British Isles, Wales and

south-western parts of England. With the cloud, rain the breeze

temperatures will be the same across the shop. 11 degrees in London and

we match that in London. Tomorrow you might catch downpours across

England. Rain will be heaviest to the west in the morning. It will

push into England, hail and thunder around as well. Here is Thursday's

outlook. Another weather front coming our way. There is quite a

succession waiting in the wings. The morning might be quite bright and

the afternoon across much of the country, at least England. To

western areas more rain and wind heading our way. Temperatures up to

19 degrees in the brightness. Western areas around 14 or so. Let

us look at the weekend weather forecast, this is Friday, first. One

area of low pressure with icer bars. The winds will be brisk. Another

changeable day from sunshine to perhaps the odd downpour and

sunshine again. This isn't cold air. Still 19 degrees despite the

scattering of showers. Here's the weekend. Low pressure could bring

gale force winds to western and north-western parts of the UK. Yuk!

Exactly. Thank you. That is all from the BBC's news at Six, goodbye from

me. On welcome welcome one