05/10/2016 BBC News at Six

Theresa May reaches out - she says the Tories

Speaking at the party conference, she pledges a fairer Britain

All that should matter is the talent you have, the amount that

Mrs May promised a government for the good of the people -

we'll be asking some what they think of

Also tonight, Ukip in fresh turmoil after its new leader quits

The undercover reporter famed for exposing celebrities

is convicted of perverting the course of justice.

Scientists believe the maximum will be 115 years.

And the moment one man completed his last marathon

After admitting cocaine use, the World Heavyweight Champion

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The Prime Minister Theresa May has set out her vision for

a Conservative party representing ordinary working class families

She told the Tory conference she wants Britain to be a country

of fairness and opportunity where the weak are protected

In a break with past Tory governments, she pledged

what she called a responsible capitalism which would intervene

in free markets when they don't work properly and put jobs at risk.

Here's our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

Take your seats, the new Prime Minister's big

But Theresa May wanted you to as well.

It was quiet resolve that propelled her on to the main stage

What's my vision for Britain, my philosophy?

In June people voted for change and change is going to come.

Because of the quiet revolution that took place in our country

A revolution in which millions of our fellow citizens

stood up and said, they were not prepared to be

Easy to say, much, much harder to make it happen.

I want us to be a country where it doesn't matter where you were born,

who your parents are, where you went to school,

watch your accent sounds like, what God you worship,

whether you are a man or woman, gay or straight, black or white.

All that should matter is the talent you have

and how hard you are prepared to work.

Three months ago it might not have been her.

Now firmly in charge, Theresa May wants to take her party

It's time to remember the good that government can do.

Time for a new approach that says while government doesn't

have all the answers, government can and should be

Time to reject the ideological template provided by the Socialist

And to embrace a new centre ground in which government

steps up and not back, to act on behalf of us all.

A Tory Prime Minister applauded for praising the state.

Then using her famous challenge to her own party to go

The Labour Party is not just divided, but divisive.

Fighting among themselves, abusing their own MPs.

Tolerating anti-Semitism and supporting voices of hate.

You know what some people call them?

It was a speech about her basic beliefs, to the audience

But above all, it was a self-portrait of the

As I leave the door of my office at Number Ten, I pass

that famous staircase, the portraits of

Men, and of course, one woman, of consequence, who have steered

this country through difficult times and changed it for the better too.

Those portraits remind me of the good that government can do.

And as I pass them every day I remember that our nation has been

shaped by those who stepped up to be counted when the big moments came.

Such opportunities are rare, but we face such a moment today.

So to everyone here this morning, and the millions beyond,

whether leavers or remain, I say come with me and we will write

Come with me and we will make that change.

Come with me as we rise to meet this moment.

Come with me and together let's seize the day.

The Prime Minister nearly overwhelmed by

But political success is determined over years,

Theresa May's offer to you, do the right thing and the government

She wants to scoop up voters in the middle as Labour has moved

But ultimately, she will be judged by what she does,

Very good speech, reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's speeches.

Bringing this hall to its feet, the Tory party

Persuading you, the country, to follow her now is a very

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Birmingham.

So, Mrs May says the Conservatives are now "the party of the workers",

but do the "workers" believe her, and will

Our correspondent Danny Savage has spent the day talking

to some in Grimsby, and he's there for us now.

Danny, what's been the response there?

The constituency of Great Grimsby is along the coastline from here, a

rock-solid Labour seat. Back in 2010 the Conservatives came within about

700 votes of taking it and so the prospect is not impossible. But for

that to happen a lot more people here are going to have to like what

Theresa May is saying, starting from today.

Now the Prime Minister is casting out her net to bring in those

who drifted away from the Tories who have never supported them.

Roger, a Labour man, isn't convinced.

So when Theresa May says she wants her party to be the party

of the working class people, what do you think?

Glenn, the shop floor manager, recently voted Conservative

after a lifetime of supporting Labour.

For him, the big fish Theresa May has to land is getting Brexit right.

Our guys are on the phone to people in Europe every single day.

And if we are not a part of Europe, I don't know

So Brexit is a big deal for you and a big priority when it

It's a massive big deal for me personally.

The factory looks out on the changing

Fish processing and renewable energy are the main employers.

Sitting alongside the older refineries, chemical

This area has changed with the times and is proud to have done so.

What the PM says is listened to hear.

Upstairs in marketing, Lisa likes Theresa May,

but wants better prospects for her sons from the Tories.

Apprenticeships which gives them more understanding, better skills,

better qualifications, without having the need to go

You know, higher degrees, which might not serve them

As for the boss, he thinks Mrs May went fishing for votes today.

We all work and so let's get rid of the class.

When she says she's going to reach out to working-class people,

I feel it's a little bit of a pitch for the election,

trying to get people who are a little bit disenchanted

with what has happened in the Labour Party.

Good luck to her, but let's not pitch for an election now.

But mainly out of deep concern about what happens next.

Ukip has been rocked by the resignation last night

She'd only been leader for 18 days and said she had to step down

as she didn't have the support of her MEP colleagues.

Nigel Farage, who technically hasn't even had time

to step down as leader, says he'll hold the fort

So what next for the party once more plunged into turmoil?

Our Political Correspondent, Alex Forsyth has more.

Her report contains flash photography. Diane James! The

enthusiastic victor just three weeks ago. Diane James knew that she had

big shoes to fill as the new Ukip leader and after a period of bitter

infighting she urged members to rally behind her. I ask you, support

me, work with me, when with me. But some suspected she was quietly

reluctant to take the helm and 18 days later she stepped down

suggesting some in the party will ever fully behind. Along with family

illness and some personal abuse, the job proved too big, big drifts deep.

So this man who has returned after resigning twice before, is back in

charge. I keep trying to escape, I keep running for the hills and

before I'm finally free they dragged me back. Insisting that it is only

temporary. I think I've done my bit, I had no intention of ever coming

back to Ukip or any other political party. I'm done. The leadership

contest will be rerun with some new contenders. The MEPs Steven Woolfe

is the first to declare. Other former candidates are hedging their

bets. One said rather than a shambles, this was good PR for the

party. I see it as a positive thing, positive PR and people enjoy the

excitement. Almost like being a part of Dynasty. But can any new leader

matched this man's success especially when in winning the EU

referendum, Ukip lost its main reason for being. Now the UK has

voted to leave the EU, some wonder what is the point of Ukip. The party

must not just overcome its internal turmoil but convince voters it is

still relevant in post-Brexit Britain. You could drive the

political agenda on far more than just the European question. In

respect -- irrespective of our position within the EU, and we are

delighted we are going to leave, but Ukip has a solid future in driving

the agenda for common-sense policies. So the next leader whoever

that may be must heal the divisions, said their authority and set out

what Ukip now stands for. The partner of the former Eastenders

actress Sian Blake has been given a whole life sentence

for murdering her and Arthur Simpson-Kent

stabbed his family to death The court heard how he killed them

when he learnt Ms Blake was planning to leave him

and take their sons away. A newspaper journalist known

as the fake sheikh has been found guilty of plotting to pervert

the course of justice. For 25 years, Mazher

Mahmood has exposed celebrities, even royalty,

with his elaborate entrapments, often posing as a sheikh,

for papers such as the Sun Now he's been convicted of tampering

with evidence in the collapsed drugs trial of the singer and former

X-Factor judge Tulisa. David Sillito's report

contains flash photography. The man in the anorak,

hiding his face, is Mazher The master of the undercover

tabloid sting. He dressed as an Arab sheikh and set

up dozens of deceptions that led He dressed as an Arab sheikh and set

to front page news. His story on the Sinitta Lisa led to

her going on trial on a drugs charge. -- Tulisa.

It was catastrophic, as far as I was concerned, in my

However, the trial collapsed, Tulisa walked free.

A vital piece of evidence had been concealed by Mahmood.

This man, Alan Smith, Mahmood's own driver,

had told police that he had overheard Tulisa's strong

But after phoning and e-mailing Mahmood, he changed his statement.

Mahmood claimed he knew nothing, even though the statement had

Phones were destroyed, e-mails deleted.

And events here today cast a new layer of doubt about many

Remember, Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, his evidence has

been instrumental in convictions that go back over

The actor John Alford was one of his victims, it

His is now one of six cases in the hands of the Criminal

25 previous convictions have been re-examined.

This is going to dwarf phone hacking in a way, because although there

might be a smaller number of claims, the amount of damage that has been

done to people goes back many, many years.

Lost income, lost houses, lost liberty.

Phone hacking, corrupt payments, this is far from the first time

that the tactics of the press have been in the spotlight.

But Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, he was the secret star and Tulisa's

lawyer says police have strict controls about undercover

traps, but when it comes to evidence from journalists...

Sadly that is not the case, as the recent Tulisa

in the case of investigative journalists.

They are in effect a law unto themselves.

His employer for the Sun on Sunday said it was disappointed

A man who spent 25 years hiding his identity has

Prime Minister Theresa May sets out a vision for a fairer Britain

Still to come, what did you achieve today, this guy is about to complete

his 401st marathon in as many days. Keep going, Ben!

Coming up on Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News.

There's another win for Murray in Beijing and that sets up

an all-British quarter-final at the China Open.

Life expectancy has risen steadily in the past century.

But now, a team of US scientists suggest it may be reaching its peak,

and that 115 years is the maximum age most of us can

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

Aged 112, Bessie Camm is the oldest person in Britain.

The former nurse was born in 1904 when Florence Nightingale

was still alive, and the First World War a decade off.

I never had a quarrel with a soul in my life.

I've always been an easy-going person who listened.

But no one has come close to matching Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment,

who died in 1997 aged 122, the oldest person who ever lived.

Research in the journal Nature suggests human life span

More and more of us are living to a ripe old age.

Just look at how life expectancy has risen relentlessly since 1900.

Apart from dips in the First and Second World Wars.

And notice that women, the red line here, generally live

In the UK there are now more than half a million people aged 19

- aged 90 and over, more than double the number 30 years ago.

The number of centenarians is soaring.

From 3,500 to 14,500, a fourfold increase.

But, while more and more of us will live beyond 100,

researchers say the maximum age of death has plateaued

And only a handful of individuals worldwide will live beyond that.

At the moment most people die between about 65 and 95.

That is likely to shift upwards with current health trends,

although of course the wave of obesity amongst the young

We may start to see the population splitting along

Scientists are trying to discover how to halt the natural ageing

process, but until they do, few of us can hope to match

A man has appeared in court charged with drugging and murdering

four young men he met on gay dating sites.

Stephen Port, from Barking in east London, is accused

of plying his victims with drugs, sexually assaulting them and then

leaving their bodies in or near a churchyard

He denies the four murders and raping or sexually

It's the fiercest storm in the Caribbean for a decade --

and now, Hurricane Matthew is moving towards the Bahamas and Florida

after hitting Haiti with winds of more than 130 miles an hour.

The UN says it's the largest humanitarian disaster in Haiti

since the devastating earthquake six years ago.

From there, Nick Bryant sent this report.

Disaster must seem like a way of life for the residents of Haiti. The

bridge linking the main road from the capital to the worst affected

communities in the south of this country have been washed away. It

has severed this town in half and severely hampered the relief effort.

Homes have been swamped by the deluge of rain. And destroyed by 140

mile an hour winds. This shanty dwellings only just survived a

hurricane force winds. But here, just a few yards away in what now

looks like wasteland, the homes of four families were washed away as

the flood waters rushed down the valley. These other people made

homeless, these are the children whose features seem to be

continually blighted by tragedy. The epicentre of the 2010 earthquake was

a short drive away. So it is not just sorrow they are feeling but

despair. The children have just started school, their mother told

me, and their new uniforms were washed away. Hurricane Ma'afu has

continued to go tearing through the Caribbean, it's winds have blasted

the eastern edge of Cuba -- hurricane Matthew. The Bahamas have

been in its path. America is also likely to be hit. A first word

emergency in the making but in Haiti the storm has left the trail of

third World description. In this impoverished country is struggling

to cope. -- destruction. Nick Bryant, Haiti. The former Portuguese

Prime Minister is set to become the next secretary-general of the United

Nations after securing the backing of the high Council. He was

commissioner for refugees until September and will be formally

confirmed in the job in the coming days. He will take up the position

when Ban Ki-moon stands A 48-year-old man has been found

guilty of stabbing an Indian waiter to death in a village in Lanarkshire

18 years ago. Ronnie Coulter killed 32-year-old

Surjit Singh Chokkar After a change in the law on double

jeopardy, Coulter was tried for a second time 17 years

after he was originally cleared. The British songwriter

Rod Temperton, who wrote some Thriller is arguably the most

famous song that Temperton composed for Jackson,

but, among others, he also wrote He first found success as a member

of the disco band Heatwave, He died in London last week

at the age of 66. Imagine running a marathon

a day for over a year. That's what 34-year-old

Ben Smith has been doing, 401 marathons in 401 days,

more than 10 and a half thousand That's the equivalent of running

from Sydney to London. He's raised ?250,000 for charity,

and Jon Kay joined him I never thought this day would come.

Nearly done, after 400 marathons in 400 days travelling all over Britain

in his camper van, just one last run. I've got through 22 pairs of

trainers, 2.4 million calories. And after today you are done. It's quite

final, that. What Ben has done is thought to be unprecedented, over

10,000 miles and this is a man who only took up running three years

ago. For marathon of Bristol, several hundred

fans decided to run with him, inspired by this extraordinary

story. We joined him for a short section. How's it going? A bit

crazy. We are almost halfway. You've only got 13 miles to go, Jon, you

will miss that! You know these people have been calling your Forest

Gump? What did you make of that? They should call me Ben Smith.

Forest Gump is a fictional character. By real. The money is the

charities that helped him, he was bullied as a schoolboy for being

gay, in all thousands of people have run with him, Lynn and barely came

from Lancashire today. It's amazing that he gets up every day to run a

marathon. Unbelievable. It is amazing, the way that he is raising

money and awareness for bullying and her children. Good luck, I'm

stopping here. Bye bye! Ben was finally stopping as well. 401

marathons complete. He was welcomed by his partner, Kyle. What do you

think of your lad? It makes me cry, it's just wonderful. I always

thought he was special from the very first time I saw him. I'm just a

normal guy! You're not. Maybe that's a pity. Challenge over. And a

quarter of ?1 million for charity. It was cider in the bottle, steak

and chips for dinner tonight, he says and when he has finished these

media interviews, tomorrow morning, it isn't really over because

tomorrow he starts one month of daily half marathons and then there

will be one month of daily ten kilometre races and then one month

of five grommet is a day to try to take that down and get his body back

to normal. But no one really knows what impact the challenge has had on

his body because nobody has done anything like this before. I feel

exhausted just hearing about it. Jon, thank you.

You are a marathon runner, you have run five. Imagine 401!

It was a nice day for running a marathon, crisp and sunny as

confirmed by a weather watcher in Hampshire, confirmation from the

satellite picture of some cloud but for most, blue skies prevailed and

it was a feel-good afternoon. It is a fine evening. Through the night I

think the cloud will increase, drifting in on the breeze and the

combination of cloud and breeze. To keep temperatures from falling too

low. Some rural spots, single figures, no dramas with Frost. A

fresh start. Tomorrow we'll have more clout than today in general,

having said that there will still be breaks in cloud, the further west

you go, north-west Scotland doing well, by the same token, the other

end of the UK, the crowd could thicken up enough to bring the odd

shower later in the day particularly across East Anglia and the far

south-east. Feeling cooler than recently, temperatures a few degrees

down. In Friday, the showers will become more widespread, not

completely wet by any stretch of the imagination but some showers around,

Western areas will be best for some channel especially the west of

Scotland, feeling cooler in the breeze especially when exposed, the

North Sea coast, 12 or 13 degrees. At the weekend there will be some

bright spots, but also some shower clouds, and some of those eventually

will become heavy and feel quite chilly. What about Harry Kane

Matthew? -- hurricane Ma'afu? It will cause a lot of damage in the

Bahamas, a colossal amount of rain and yes some severe wind and rain,

and it's too close to call for the Florida coast by Friday. We'll keep

you up to date. Thank you. A reminder of the main story, Prime

Minister Theresa May has sat at a vision of a fairer Britain providing

opportunities for