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The patients waiting more than a hundred days to be | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The BBC reveals the depth of the crisis. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Hospitals in England under pressure, as councils struggle | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
It is probably the most worrying time in social care | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
that I've ever known in 20 years. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Eileen Kirton was lucky to get a place in care. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Otherwise she faced weeks more in hospital. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
I thought, I'm never going to come out of there, and I was getting | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
A leaked text message that has Labour asking questions. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Is this evidence of a sweetheart deal between ministers and a Tory | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Denise Brewster wins a legal battle on pensions that | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
The socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is found dead in her flat. | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
People like you caused the plague in London. | :01:03. | :01:17. | |
Alan Simpson, the writer behind TV classic Steptoe and Son has died. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
In the sport on BBC News, the Tinker man returns. Claudio Ranieri makes | :01:20. | :01:33. | |
changes for the game tonight. Good evening and welcome | :01:34. | :01:46. | |
to the BBC News at Six. The BBC has uncovered fresh evidence | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
of the length of time some patients remain in hospital waiting to be | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
discharged, often because of a lack Half of the acute hospitals in | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
England told us about their longest delays in discharging | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
medically fit patients. Over the last three years, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
130 patients spent a hundred days The longest delay was in | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Mid-Yorkshire, where one patient And today a report by | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
the Government's spending watchdog has warned that plans to ease | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
pressure on the NHS by joining up health and social | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
care, aren't working. Our Social Affairs Correspondent, | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Alison Holt, has been looking This is the road back to some sort | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
of independence for 85-year-old She's just spent more | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
than a month in hospital after I wasn't eating | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
and it took me all my time to drink because | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
I was frightened. The danger was she would be stuck | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
in an expensive hospital bed waiting for the care | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
she needed to cope at home. I was isolated in a little | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
room all by myself. I thought I'm never going | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
to come out of here. But she was moved | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
to this special flat with care on hand, without it | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
she could have been in hospital for council and the NHS locally are | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
working together to ease pressures. I feel as if they are helping me | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
to get my strength back. But North Yorkshire is a large rural | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
county with an ageing population. Despite investing in new services | :03:34. | :03:45. | |
like many authorities highlighted in today's | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
National Audit Office report, the council is struggling | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
with the sheer demand for care. And delays in getting people out | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
of hospital have increased. At Harrogate Hospital it is social | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
worker Carol Burdon who has to organise the community | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
support needed. There is a drive to get them out | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
as soon as possible, but then you have to do that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
liaising with families, any community nurses | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
or anyone that needs to be it can be quite hard to coordinate | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
that care and find the care. The ambitions of the council plan | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
or all about better outcomes for all North Yorkshire residents | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
despite reductions in local It is North Yorkshire | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
councillors and officials who have to find the money to pay | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
for a lot of that care. They are raising council tax, | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
but this conservative and authority is adamant a long-term | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
solution has to be found. I am too greatly | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
disappointed that the government hasn't seen fit to | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
provide genuinely new money when it Seven years ago this | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
council spent about a third of its budget on providing | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
care and support for people who are But now the cost of adult | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
social care is heading towards half of its budget, | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
with demand still increasing. And that is at the heart | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
of the problems they We will continue to plan | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
ahead for the future. We will continue to | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
prioritise social care. Social care is a much | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
bigger proportion of our budget. But it is probably the most worrying | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
time in social care that I And at each stage the care system | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
is showing signs of the pressure. And of course we have got this | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
evening's handover at 7:15pm. At this Harrogate home | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
care provider they are arranging support | :05:45. | :05:45. | |
for new council funded clients. But on the wages they are | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
able to pay it can be a struggle to compete | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
with supermarkets for staff. You are driving from | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
place to place, you're in your own vehicle, | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
and it is easier to be in one place. Now, that might be | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
a nursing home or it might And I think the only thing, | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
you know, carers are not paid enough, you know, | :06:02. | :06:15. | |
for the service that And people like 62-year-old Jenny | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
Dent rely on those care workers. She is partially | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
paralysed with other The four visits she gets each day | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
means she can remain at home. Vital support which she says | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
needs recognising. Value your carers, | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
give them more money, give them more respect and provide | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
more carers and adequate care for people who want to live | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
in their own home. The Government insists people | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
are benefiting from health and care services working together and that | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
more money is being invested. But change takes time | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
and for those on the front line in the | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
pressure is here now. Alison Holt, BBC News, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
North Yorkshire. Well, social care was also the focus | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
of Prime Minister's Questions today, with the Labour Leader, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, confronting Theresa May with what he said | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
were leaked text messages. He accused her government | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
of offering Conservative-run Surrey Council what he called a "sweetheart | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
deal" in exchange for dropping a planned council tax rise | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
to cover social care bills. Here's our political | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
editor, Laura Kuennsberg. The file under her arm, the Prime | :07:18. | :07:32. | |
Minister always properly prepared with her red government folders and | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
read government boxes. Maybe not this time. Theresa May on her way to | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
weekly Prime Minister's Questions into this time a good old-fashioned | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ambush. The Tory's Surrey council called off a vote on increasing | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
council tax just yesterday. Why? Can the Prime Minister tell the House | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
whether or not a special deal was done for Surrey? The decision on | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
whether or not to hold a referendum in Surrey is entirely a matter for | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
the local authority in Surrey. Was it? He was armed with leaked text is | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
where the council leader wrote of a government deal. Is the same | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
sweetheart deal on offer to every council with social care crisis | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
created by her government? He comes with all sorts of claims. What you | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
get from Labour are alternative facts. Not quite what she was asked. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
It absolutely goes against the grain for us to impose an increase in | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
taxation. The council leader seems to have thought he was having a | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
conversation with a government adviser. He wrote... | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
The numbers you indicated are the numbers I understand are acceptable | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
for me to accept and call of the art, the referendum. Really want to | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
kill this off. David Hodge. It is believed he sent them by mistake to | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
a Labour leader will stop a lot more awkward than text message finger | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
trouble. It is a Tory safe haven. Labour can claim central government | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
has done favours for friends. Yesterday, when the leader called | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
off the referendum, he hinted at a wider deal. Sometimes it is best to | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
say nothing. Sometimes I cannot say too much but I am much more | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
confident now about the future. I think the Government recognises that | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
adult social care is a national issue and we need to look at all | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
tentative ways of funding it. This meant to reason me was on the back | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
foot in the House of Commons. One senior council leader said it | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
smacked of the worst kind of political cronyism. It has turned | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
minds again to the pressing question of how we pay to care for the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
elderly. Ministers say privately they are looking hard for a | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
solution. In public there is not much evidence yet. Without an | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
answer, the Government faces much more than a little local difficulty. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Alison Khalili have told the story of one macro council. This is a | :10:15. | :10:28. | |
national problem. The I saw in North Yorkshire and Surrey are ones you | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
will find again and again in authorities around the country. What | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
is interesting about these two authorities is they are Tory | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
heartlands. North Yorkshire prides itself on keeping a good budget and | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
investing for the future. They have an ageing population and they are | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
feeling the pain and are worried about the future. Today we have at | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
the National Audit Office saying the better care fund is not releasing | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
the fans it expected. There are concerns about the pressures that. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
The Government says it is early days and it will work out. It also says | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
it is not just about money because some authorities do better than | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
others. We have looked at delayed discharges in England but different | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
systems elsewhere in the UK have made it difficult for us to make | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
direct comparisons with what is happening there. Thank you very | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
much. With the kind of evidence we have | :11:20. | :11:31. | |
broadcast today, is becoming more and more of a political problem? It | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
has come up the rails very fast. Not just because of pressure from local | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
government but more and more MPs are seeing direct evidence from their | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
constituents, members of the public who are seeing these issues upfront | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
and inside their own families and indifferent parts of the country. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
That means this is now extremely pressing. When you talk to ministers | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
about it behind closed doors they say a lot of work is going on. There | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
are -- is a long-term hunt for solutions within the Cabinet Office. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
I have heard the Prime Minister is prepared to be quite radical. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Successive governments have struggled with this. With the cash | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
crunch for local authorities and the Democrat big crunch coming as well, | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
perhaps this government will have no choice but to confront it. -- | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
demographic crunch. And for more in-depth analysis | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
on the pressures facing the NHS, go A woman, whose long-term partner | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
died without signing a form nominating her to receive his public | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
sector pension, has won a legal battle that could affect millions | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
of other unmarried couples. Denise Brewster argued | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
at the Supreme Court that she was the victim | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
of "serious discrimination". Our Ireland Correspodent, | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Chris Buckler, reports. Denise Brewster had lived | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
with her fiance, Lenny, for ten years and they were making | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
plans for their future. When I look at this picture, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
I think that's just how we were. He was a fun loving guy, | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
he had lots of friends. But in 2009, just days after | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
they got engaged, he died suddenly. It was such a difficult time and it | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
will always remain difficult for me. But I feel Lenny has | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
given me strength at For 15 years, Lenny worked | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
for Translink, which provides public transport in Northern Ireland and, | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
during that time, like many workers, he paid into a local | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
government pension scheme, which he thought would provide | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
some security for him But when he died, Denise | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
was informed she wouldn't benefit. Because Denise wasn't married, | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
she was told that she wasn't Her partner would have had to have | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
filled out this, a nomination form. She argued that that was a lawful | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
discrimination and today the Supreme Court ruled | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
in her favour. We say that she is entitled | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
to receive a pension and that the nomination requirement | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
should no longer be applied. It's a ruling that could benefit | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the partners of some other public sector workers like nurses, | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
teachers and civil servants although that could depend | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
on the rules of each There are over 6 million | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
people across the country Many of them are in company | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
pension schemes, public sector pension schemes, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and they should be treated equally So I hope all pension schemes | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
will review their rules And the woman who fought this case | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
hopes it will provide greater At least I just had to defend | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
for myself and I had to take my hardships but, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
when you have other families that have a young daughter or son | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
who are losing their daddy or their mummy, and then | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
they have the financial burden on top of that, | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
the inequality and the injustice And this is a judgment which perhaps | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
reflects changes to what the word Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the socialite and god-daughter of the Prince of Wales, | :15:08. | :15:20. | |
has been found dead The 45-year-old celebrity, | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
who rose to fame in the '90s, The 45-year-old celebrity, | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
was diagnosed with a brain Prince Charles said he was deeply | :15:32. | :15:32. | |
saddened by the news. Rebecca Jones looks | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
back at her life. Tara Palmer Tompkinson seemed to | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
have it all. Money, looks, and friends in high places. Here she is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
goddaughter of Prince Charles, she went on holiday with the Royal | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Family. Today he said he was deeply saddened by the news of her death. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
She became a regular fixture on catwalks, red carpets come in gossip | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
columns and on magazine front covers. Known as an it girl, in 2002 | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
she appeared on the reality television show I'm A Celebrity Get | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Me Out Of Here. Where she played up her party image. Who is taking me to | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
dinner? But fame had a darker side. Tara Palmer Tompkinson had been | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
addicted to cocaine and at one point she spent ?400 a day on the drug. On | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
the same programme she spoke about her habit. In the last weeks of my | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
using it literally was over the toilet, you know. To the most sordid | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
you can have as a junkie. She finished second on the show and went | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
on to appear on other programmes including celebrity mastermind. Do | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
you remain an it girl when you have become one? Certainly not. After | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
being diagnosed last January with a brain tumour at public appearances | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
by this became less frequent. I'm not the person I was, she said. The | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
party world scares me. Tara Palmer Tomkinson who died at the age of 45. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Patients waiting more than 100 days to be discharged from hospital in | :17:15. | :17:26. | |
England as consul struggle to provide social care. And still to | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
come... How much do you want? Have you gone raving mad? We look back at | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
the life of the man behind the comedy classic Hancock 's half hour, | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Alan Simpson, who has died. The funeral of Baroness Rachel | :17:43. | :17:43. | |
Heyhoe Flint has taken place today. The former England Women's cricket | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
captain and Wolves vice president MPs are set to approve a bill | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
in the next few hours giving the Prime Minister the power | :17:51. | :18:05. | |
to start Brexit negotiations in a major step towards the UK | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
leaving the European Union. The final vote is expected to be | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
at 8pm tonight as our Chief Political Correspondent Vicki Young | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
reports. It wasn't the government's | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
plan for Parliament to have a say on kick-starting | :18:25. | :18:25. | |
Brexit negotiations. Threatened rebellions have | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
melted away, but today there were still concerns | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
about the fate of EU I wonder if today she could reassure | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
all our constituents that those who were born elsewhere | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
in the European Union but settled here in the UK, | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
married or in partnerships with British citizens, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
could be reassured that they will Theresa May is sympathetic, | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
but wants guarantees for UK I intend to make it clear that | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
I want this to be a priority for an early stage of negotiations | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
so we can address this issue and give reassurance | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
to people concerned. MPs have fallen into line on crucial | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
votes, but in five hours of debates so far today, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
it is clear that many are deeply It just strikes me as bizarre | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
that we have given up extraordinary influence over a market | :19:14. | :19:26. | |
of 500 million people to sail off to negotiate free-trade | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
deals which will not be But to others Brexit | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
is a liberation. Courtesy of us leaving the EU, | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
sterling has fallen and manufacturing in this country | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
is having a field day as we can see And indeed the factory | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
output orders. But divisions among | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Conservatives have been dwarfed Many of its MPs are struggling | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
to obey Jeremy Corbyn's order not It is my intention to do what's | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
right by my constituents and by my conscience | :19:52. | :20:05. | |
and whatever that takes. Also I have to think | :20:06. | :20:06. | |
about the Labour Party. The Labour leader could be facing | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
more resignations from his team tonight while Theresa May Seems | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
to have dodged trouble. MPs are about to vote on that issue. | :20:13. | :20:31. | |
Tonight the government is about to clear a massive hurdle, letting the | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Brexit bill passed with the common unchanged which means when the | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
action moves to the House of Lords and a couple of weeks it will be | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
much harder for them to justify taking it all apart. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
The government is to close a legal route for unaccompanied child | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
refugees to come to the UK from Europe - after 350 | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Ministers agreed to what's known as the Dubs amendment last year, | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
amid mounting political and public pressure, but didn't set a cap | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
The former entertainer Rolf Harris has been found not guilty | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
of three counts of indecent and sexual assault. | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
A jury at Southwark Crown court was unable to reach verdicts on four | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
The allegations in this trial spanned a 40 year period | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
What happens to him now? The prosecution has already asked for | :21:20. | :21:36. | |
seven days to go and consider whether or not it wants to ask the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
court whether it can have a retrial on those cars that you just | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
mentioned. Whether juries simply could not reach a verdict. In the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
meantime Rolf Harris issued a statement in which she thanked the | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
jury for the care and consideration and deliberations and for clearing | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
him of three counts of indecent assault today. Rolf Harris has | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
protested his innocence throughout the trial but he did not walk out of | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
court today a free man. Instead he is heading back to prison because it | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
is there that he is already serving a sentence for indecently assaulting | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
four other women and girls and remember that trial was back in | :22:15. | :22:15. | |
2014. The Tunisian inquest has heard | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
that the gunman who killed 30 Britons could have been stopped | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
but for the negligence of the local Seiffedine Rezgui, an Islamic | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
extremist, was high on drugs and his phone contained instructions | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
on how to maximise casualties during Sarah Campbell reports | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
from Royal Courts of Justice. When he started shooting, | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
armed police were minutes away Holiday-makers stood no chance | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
against the gunman who had both Unchecked, he managed to cover | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
a distance of more than a mile. Walking from the beach, | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
through the hotel, and back again. According to evidence gathered | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
by the Tunisian judge and read out in court today, | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
one of the two Marine guards first on the scene did follow | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Rezgui to the pool area. The guard had a gun but terrified, | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
he fainted and then hid A police officer said his quad bike | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
was slow and incapable That is why a five-minute journey | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
took over half an hour. And then the inquest heard | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
today there was the head of the tourist police in Sousse, | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
he was in a patrol car with three officers, armour and weapons, | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
just minutes away from the hotel when the call came that | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
the attack had started. But instead of going straight there, | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
he went back to the police headquarters, he said to pick | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
up more weapons. By the time he did get to the hotel, | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
the attack had finished, Every minute been vital - | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
one Tunisian security to intervene amounted | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
to simple cowardice. A Brigadier from the National Guard | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
said the death toll could be traced back to the negligence | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
of first responders. For the families and survivors, | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
today has provided a more detailed picture of the ways | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
in which they and their Sarah Campbell, BBC News, | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
at the Royal Courts of Justice. The comedy scripter Alan Simpson - | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
responsible for co-writing the hits Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
and Sons - has died The Bafta award winner | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
was famous for his writing The pair developed ground breaking | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
sitcoms in the '60s, and wrote for the likes | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
of Frankie Howerd and Peter Sellers. Rebecca Jones looks | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
back at his life. I thought you came here to give | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
us some of your blood! It may be just a smear to you, mate, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
but it's life and some poor wretch! The work of Alan Simpson | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
and Ray Galton. I don't mind giving a reasonable | :24:45. | :24:56. | |
amount, but a pint! And it had all begun | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
in Milford Chest Hospital. Alan Simpson had met Ray Galton | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
while recovering from TB. They started to write | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
for hospital radio and then sent Eventually they got | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
the attention of a comic. We decided what we would like to do | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
with Tony would be a half-hour. You know, a half-hour, | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
what is now called sitcom but in those days, you know, | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
that was an American We just call them, you know, | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
the half-hour, you know, storyline. Look, you can see it | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
going round in there. After Hancock came a one-off comedy | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
playhouse, The Offer, In the 60s it was so popular the BBC | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
were contacted by the then Labour He was worried the voters | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
wouldn't turn out if it was Harold thought that we wouldn't get | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
a turnout of the Labour voters. He wanted the BBC to put it | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
out after nine o'clock There was a time when their scripts | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
might have lasted a music hall Or as the right wing word | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
jugglers prefer to call it when they are in power, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
a petty trade recession. Thus avoiding any | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
unpleasant memories... The partnership, apart | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
from one venture in the 90s, was essentially over | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
by the late 70s. It can't be much good if you've | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
done it that quickly! But their brand of comedy, rooted | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
in class and thwarted ambition, I'll be 110 by the time | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
you've finished! Alan Simpson, a pioneer | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
of the British sitcom. The scriptwriter Alan Simpson - | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
who's died at the age of 87. Time for a look at the weather, | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
here's Louise Lear. We're not done with yet. Add to the | :26:52. | :27:06. | |
west we had glorious sunshine today and double digit temperatures but | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
further eased a lot of cloud and nagging easterly wind making you | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
feel really cold. And that wind will win out over the next few days. Cold | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
air driving in some cloud and actually feel. So any showers across | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
the east coast through the night tonight could lead to stop icy | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
patches first thing in the morning. Elsewhere a cold night with a frost | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
brightly as well. We might just see a little glimpse of sunshine further | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
west in the morning but that is not going to last as more cloud moves | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
in. Western fringes clinging onto some sunshine but further eased it | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
is a different story. The wind driving in showers, Jenny wintry | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
across higher ground. It will fall as rain and sleet to the coast but | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
also some wintry flurries to the east of the Pennines and maybe even | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
towards the Home Counties as well. So a cold day across the east, two | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
or three degrees at best. Further west around four, 7 degrees. And it | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
is going to continue to stay cold with some sleet and snow showers | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
pushing further inland Thursday into Friday. Primarily on higher ground | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
but some even perhaps that lower level. Friday is a cold day with the | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
wind really digging in. A lot of cloud and a scattering of showers. | :28:39. | :28:49. | |
So we could see a few centimetres across higher ground but perhaps | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
even at lower levels of light dusting to come as well. Winter not | :28:52. | :28:52. | |
over yet. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:53. | :28:52. | |
- so it's goodbye from me - | :28:53. | :28:54. |