13/02/2017 BBC News at Six

A BBC undercover investigation reveals widespread drug abuse

and security failings at one of Britain's biggest prisons.

An undercover reporter worked as a prison officer for 2

months and filmed drug use and inmates threatening staff.

Move away from me. Can you move away from me?

The Justice secretary Liz Truss calls for reform inside prisons

but warns there can be no quick fix to cut prison numbers.

The Co-op bank puts itself up for sale 4 years

after it almost collapsed - we'll find out what it means

The torrent of water from America's tallest dam -

that's forced almost two hundred thousand people from their homes.

When is a deal not a deal - how Tesco customers at dozens

of stores have been short changed at the till.

And the freak accident that meant a bellringer had to be rescued 80

And coming up, England's new test captain says he is privileged and

humbled to be replacing Alastair Cook.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A BBC investigation has exposed widespread drug abuse

and security failings at one of Britain's biggest prisons.

An undercover reporter from the BBC's Panorama team spent

two months working as a prison officer at a privately-run

He found inmates threatening staff and even a hole

The Ministry of Justice says it's looking into the allegations.

Here's our Special Correspondent Ed Thomas.

Undercover in one of our biggest jails.

BBC Panorama filmed the drugs feeding addiction inside.

And the staff pushed to their limits.

HMP Northumberland is a private jail run by the French company Sodexo

And for two months, BBC Panorama's Joe Fenton.

On his first day, 2.5 kilograms of Spice,

an illegal high with a prison value of ?250,000, was found in two cells.

Despite this, Panorama was told there was no lockdown, so the block

The BBC secretly filmed inmates high on drugs.

The reporter also witnessed a prison officer on the floor,

suffering a seizure, after accidentally inhaling Spice.

CCTV cameras recorded an inmate being stamped on.

At one point, Panorama's reporter was threatened by an inmate.

The BBC discovered a serious security breach -

Nearby, officers found wire-cutters and later

It meant drugs could have been smuggled into the jail.

The reporter asked the governor what went wrong.

So who will take responsibility for this

Today the Justice Secretary confirmed an investigation

Do you think Sodexo should be running this jail, Liz

We're conducting an investigation on this issue.

I take this issue very seriously, that is

why we are investing in 2500 officers across our prisons.

What about HMP Northumberland, though?

As for Sodexo, the company that runs the prison,

they said the safety of staff and inmates is their top priority.

You can see the full undercover investigation tonight.

This afternoon, the Justice Secretary, Liz Truss explained how

she plans to address the problems facing prisons in England and Wales.

She acknowledged that re-offending rates were too

high but warned against, what she called, "dangerous

Our Home Editor Mark Easton looks at the challenges in dealing

The presence of England and Wales are struggling to keep control. Most

of them are registered as overcrowded. If we take the long

view and go back to 1900 we can see how the present population has been

rising for more than a century. It has doubled in the last quarter of a

century. Obviously, the population has risen but the proportion jailed

in 1901 was 86 out of 100,000 people, today it is more than

double. British incarceration rates are the highest in Western Europe.

France lock up far fewer, Italy and Germany lower still. In Scandinavian

countries present is used much more rarely. Why have our present numbers

doubled in recent decades when crime has halved? Commenting on the jail

population figures, Labour's Shadow Attorney General recently said it

was inconceivable that the sum of human wickedness could have doubled

in her lifetime. Today, the Justice Secretary Liz Truss said the real

explanation is we've exposed more of the wickedness that was always

there. The criminal justice system has got better at catching and

convicting criminals. Sentence length is no better reflect the

severity of crimes like domestic violence, rate and child abuse. It

is not the sum of human wickedness but has doubled, it is that we are

driving it out from the shadows and pretending -- putting it where it

belongs, behind bars. There are 300,000 more six offenders in jail

than before but less violent offenders. What has happened is

sentences have got longer, the population has clearly shifted, but

the budgets have got smaller. The number of front line officers has

fallen sharply and with fewer staff, assaults, self harm and suicide have

reached record levels. What is to be done? You could spend more money but

the Ministry of Justice is demanding efficiency savings. You could insist

fewer people are jailed but ministers claimed that would

endanger the public. This government is pinning hopes on reoffending

dropping. The Co-Op Bank has announced it's

putting itself up for sale. The high street bank -

which has more than 4 million customers -

almost collapsed in 2013 after It was bailed out by American hedge

funds but has struggled to strengthen its finances

because of low interest rates. Our business editor Simon Jack

reports on its problems and what the sale could mean

for the bank's customers. At the co-operative bank we believe

actions speak louder than words. Well named for its ethical stance,

the actions of the Co-op Bank have given it a rather more difficult

reputation. Co-op Bank's problems started with

an ill-fated merger with Britannia Building Society. It helped punch a

hole in the finances. Paul Flowers was embroiled in a drug scandal in

November of the year. The required an emergency rescue in me which saw

their stake cut to 20%. Today, the foresail SANE was put up and the new

boss explained why. The scale of the transformation challenge that we

took on was bigger than expected. Since there are near death

experience, the Co-op Bank has never really regained full financial

health. A combination of problems have meant it has been very

difficult for banks big and small to build up their cash reserves and the

only options open to them are for the current owners to put in more

money or put themselves up for sale. The Co-op is a classic bank caught

in the middle, not big enough to join the big boys and too big to be

nimble. Other banks are in a similar position. PSP, virgin money. -- TSB.

If you joined them with a bag of that size you could start to make

the kind of cost savings. Getting that right is important. Whoever

they sell to have to have the same sort of principles. It seems to have

gone downhill. Is everything going to go online? For customers it is

business as usual but the high Street could lose 150-year-old name.

4 people have been killed in an avalanche in the French alps

while they were skiing off piste this morning.

They were in the resort of Tignes near Val d'isere.

Those who died were all French - and are thought to include a father

The resort is particularly busy at this time of year with French

Almost 200 thousand people living below America's tallest dam

were ordered to leave their homes last night - amid fears that part

of it could collapse and flood the area.

The authorities warned that both overflow channels were damaged

and they are concerned that a 30 foot wall of water could hit homes

Overnight they've been trying to reduce water levels -

The Oroville dam has been unable to cope with historically high levels

of rain. The overflow channel crumbled to pieces. For the first

time since it was built, it was relying on an emergency overflow

channel, but that was soon in trouble as well. Nearly 200,000

people were told to leave their homes immediately, sent to

evacuation centres set up across the surrounding area. My neighbourhood

was already basically empty. I panicked and started putting things

in my car. I'm a little bit scared. We are trying not to go near the

area so we can go home but we will probably be stuck down here. For the

first time in 25 years the National Guard has put in place a state-wide

alert and soldiers are being sent into the area amidst worries from

locals about looting. Last time we did this was the 1992 riots. We put

out a notification not to report them but to be ready to go for all

who are part of the Californian National Guard. Effort to plug the

damaged by using helicopters were successful, the authorities said. By

Sunday night the water level had decreased enough that the emergency

channel was no longer in use. But there was relief expected. No

rainfall is expected until the end of the week.

A BBC undercover investigation reveals widespread drug abuse at one

of Britain's biggest presence. And still to come. A record-breaking

night for Adele at the Grammys but the British star says she cannot

accept one of the awards. Coming up, Manchester City face Bournemouth

knowing that a victory will move them up to second in the table and

to within eight points of Chelsea. Buy one, get one free. They are the

sort of offers you see on the shop all the time.

But the BBC has discovered for customers at Tesco deal is not

always a deal. An undercover reporter shop at 50 stores from

Newcastle to Cornwall. But at 33 of them he was overcharged on multi-buy

offers because promotions were out of date and no longer valid at the

till. Tesco says it is now checking the prices of all items in every

store. If we see a special offer

on the supermarket shelves, we expect to pay that price

at the till, but that doesn't The gingerbread, they're are on two

for ?3 but it hasn't come off, and the cat food,

the deal was three for ?8. The BBC's Inside Out programme

visited 50 Tesco stores across England and found out-of-date

special offers in 33 of them. At some stores, staff say it's

a recurring problem. And at another store,

a worker blames the error In most stores, workers removed

the label straight away, At this store, the cashier refunds

the difference but doesn't remove the label, so it's still on display

when we go back in the next The fourth cashier

finally removes it. There are obviously major

problems with their control of the special offers,

and it's the special offers that bring customers in,

make people reach for more and perhaps spend a little bit

more than they meant Throughout our investigation,

Tesco did refund the difference when The company wouldn't provide

anyone for interview but after reviewing the BBC's

evidence, said: Following our investigation,

Britain's biggest supermarket has said it will be double checking

the accuracy of every That's more than 3,500

stores across Britain. But with some customers complaining

it's a sector-wide problem, other big retailers could

soon follow suit. That full Inside Out report will be

on BBC One in some English regions at 7.30 this evening and everyone

can watch it online All last week we brought you reports

on the pressures facing the Health Service in England,

but how do patients cope when they have to deal with two

different NHS systems? Devolution has complicated

cross-border health arrangements for thousands of people

who are being treated by NHS England Some complain they're caught

in a two-tier system as our Wales That's the dividing line

between 18 weeks and 26. The border between Wales

and England, for Mariana Robinson and Pam Plummer it represents

different targets for Mariana is an artist who says

she's battled to get the pancreatic treatment she needs

because the specialism is only Because I live in Wales,

I do not have access to any choice of hospital, any choice

of consultant, or any choice of going into England

for my secondary care. And now, to me that is wrong,

and I feel that I'm just being treated as a second-class

citizen in Wales. Her friend Pam lives on the English

side of the border but she says she has no choice but to register

with her nearest GP, The other issue is that we have no

democratic representation in Wales whatsoever so we are

just in no man's land. Two legs both side of the border

with the worst of all worlds. In the Wye Valley, the river

separates two nations. Following devolution,

Wales and England have taken different paths,

particularly when it comes to health policy,

and people living in communities along its banks are having

to navigate their way So, just what is the flow

of patients across the border? Latest figures show 15,000 Welsh

patients registered with an English GP while 21,000 patients

from England were registered Just over 58,000 Welsh patients

were treated in English hospitals, while more than 10,500 patients

from England were treated Welsh health policy

is determined in Cardiff Bay. Decision-makers here say they focus

on outcomes and patient experience What do they make of concerns

of cross-border patients To try and say this means

they are somehow second-class citizens, I don't think

that is a fair way to describe what we are able to do,

which is - in England and in Wales - to deliver high quality health care

to our citizens a great majority of the time,

but this really is how we understand the nature of the problem and then

do something practical about it rather than trying to condemn

the system and say devolution But along the border,

some patients feel penalised. Offering a choice of hospital

is a policy of NHS England. It says it's working with the Welsh

government on a pilot project to bridge the gap and give English

residents that choice. The Welsh government

says its priorities to make sure that patients get the right care

at the right time. Devolution, it says, involves

different choices being made. Sian Lloyd, BBC News,

on the Welsh border. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin

Trudeau, is at the White House for his first face-to-face meeting

with President Trump. The pair, who differ

on a range of policies, are expected to avoid contentious

issues like immigration and focus instead on cross-border trade

and women in the workplace. Bell-ringing - it's not the kind

of weekend activity you'd think But one enthusiast found himself

in all kinds of trouble at Worcester cathedral on Saturday after his foot

got caught in the rope Our Midlands Correspondent Sima

Kotecha has the story. 51-year-old Ian Bowman

was was visiting Worcester Cathedral with some fellow bell-ringers

but his trip on Saturday Mr Bowman was ringing the bell

here along with somebody else He was on tip toes to give

himself more leverage, but this rope got tangled

around his foot and he was pulled up into the air several feet,

and was then dropped back down the same distance, hitting his head

on the edge of this box here. These are dangerous,

they are the biggest musical We are very careful how we teach,

so we teach people road safety, Once you can do it you are safe

but even driving a car He was ringing the heaviest

bell in the tower. Firemen had to winch him down 80

feet in what's called a vacs mattress which moulds itself

to his body, keeping him still. On arrival, we recognised that,

due to the nature of his injuries and the fact we wouldn't

want to move him any more than we had to,

the best method of rescue was to lower him down by line

down through hatches All in all it took about an hour

to rescue the gentleman concerned. That was because we took

our time because of Mr Bowman fractured a bone in his

back but is still able to walk. Despite his misfortune,

he seems positive and has said these Joe Root has been confirmed

as the new Test captain The 26-year-old Yorkshire batsman

succeeds Alistair Cook Root said he felt "privileged,

humbled and very excited". The biggest names in the music

industry gathered in Los Angeles last night for the annual Grammy

Awards. And it was a night of British

success, with Adele picking up five awards, including the album

of the year. She dedicated the win to her rival

Beyonce, who she called There were four awards

for the late David Bowie too as our correspondent

James Cook reports. This was about much more

than a battle of two divas. Adele looked far from

comfortable with her sweep. This was the ninth year in a row

when a white artist had But I can't possibly

accept this award. My artist of my life is Beyonce,

and this album for me, the Lemonade album was just

so monumental and so beautiful and soul baring, and the way that

you make me and my friends feel, the way you make my black friends

feel is empowering. The performance by the proudly

pregnant megastar was stunning. But this most consequential

of artists really was only For the second year in a row she had

performance problems. I know it's live TV,

I'm sorry I need to start again. I'm sorry for swearing and I'm

sorry for starting again. The second take of her tribute

to George Michael was flawless. Host James Corden poked fun

at himself and at President Trump. Right, all I'll say is any negative

tweets that you see are fake tweets. "Persist" was the word

on Katy Perry's arm, a political statement from an artist

who campaigned for and even dressed A Tribe Called Quest

and Busta Rhymes were even less I just want to beg President Agent

Orange to perpetuate none of the evil that you have

perpetuated throughout This was billed as a battle

between Beyonce and Adele, but behind that simple summary

was a deeper layer of questions, not least about race and a country

where cultures continue to clash. James Cook, BBC News,

at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles. Time now for a look at the weather

with John Hammond, and some warm weather at last.

We are heading in the right direction, slowly. Remember

yesterday? A quick reminder if you needed, very cloudy and cold. Three

degrees was typical across the UK through the course of Sunday

afternoon. For some today, a complete transformation and it felt

almost like spring. On the Cornish coast almost beach weather, 13

degrees here, very nice too. The other end of the UK was still

shrouded in cloud across the far north-east of England and in

Scotland we were shivering once more, just four degrees. It stays

really cloudy here overnight and to the far north-east of England, the

wind coming off the North Sea. The change in weather across the far

north-west, but for the rest are finite, but a chilly night. Some

frost in some places but sunshine to wake up to in the morning. Not for

everyone though, the changing weather in the south-west. Cloud and

patchy rain pushing through, not in great amounts but the change in the

web nonetheless. Then sunshine from the south-east of the north-west, a

fine start of the day here, albeit on the cold side. The temperatures

will pick up in the sunshine, but for eastern Scotland it stays cloudy

and it won't get all that warm here. This patchy rain across the

south-west will stagger across parts of the west Country, Wales, knocking

on the door of Northern Ireland, but it will brighten up later across the

south-west. A relatively mild day, and another chilly day across the

north-east despite some brightness, but we all get miles later in the

week. Thank you. A reminder of our main

story this evening. A BBC undercover investigation has revealed

widespread drug abuse and security failings at one of Britain's biggest

prisons. On BBC One