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Concerns for thousands of jobs at Vauxhall's UK plants after it's | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
The new owners try to allay the fears of more than 4000 people | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
who work at Luton and Ellesmere Port - but many are concerned. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
We're all going to be worried because we've all got families. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
I myself have been here nearly 30 years. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Disbelief because no one really knows what's going on. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Ministers say they're "cautiously optimistic" about the future - | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
we'll be asking if they are right to be. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
President Trump orders a new travel ban - | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
on citizens from six mainly Muslim countries - this time | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
ADVERT VOICEOVER: Don't worry, don't delay, just act. | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The new drive by counter-terrorism police to keep the public alert | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
as they reveal they've thwarted 13 potential plots in four years. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Threatened with closure - the Cumbrian zoo where almost 500 | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
animals have died loses its licence - what now for the hundreds | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And how cold weather testing for new black cabs could save our | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: after facing | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
criticism over its make up, the FA table a series of proposals | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6. | :01:19. | :01:42. | |
There are concerns about the future of around 4,500 | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
people who work at Vauxhall plants in the UK after the business | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
PSA - which already owns Peugeot and Citroen - | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
has agreed a deal to buy Vauxhall in Britain and Opel in Germany | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Vauxhall has two factories - in Luton and Ellesmere Port. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
Unions say the fight begins now to try to safeguard jobs. | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Here's our industry correspondent John Moylan. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Vauxhall's vast vehicle plant at Luton, for decades a cornerstone | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
But soon what happens here will be decided in France. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Creating uncertainty for thousands of workers. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
We're all going to be worried because we've all got families. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
I myself have been here nearly 30 years. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Disbelief because no-one really knows what's going on. | :02:33. | :02:33. | |
I don't see the reason to shut it down. | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
Earlier in Paris, Peugeot's boss, Carlos Tavares, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
alongside his counterpart from General Motors confirmed plans | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
to create a European auto giant, second only to Volkswagen. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Huge cost savings are planned, and we asked him what that will mean | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
I trust my Vauxhall employees in the UK, I trust them. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
I know that they are dedicated and I know they are committed | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
and I trust that they will be in a very good position by working | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
in a constructive and open manner, as long as we | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
improve the performance and we become the best, | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
The deal redraws the map of the European car industry. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Across Europe, the PSA group has 14 production sites | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
It's buying GM Europe, known as Opel, with its eight plants | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
The deal includes Vauxhall's plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Here at Ellesmere Port, the Vauxhall Astra has been rolling | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
off the production line since the 1980s. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
To secure the future of the site, unions know the new French owners | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
must commit to a new vehicle for the plant in the coming year. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
A message to PSA, or indeed, General Motors before it. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
If they want to sell cars in the United Kingdom, | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
they're going to have to build cars in the United Kingdom. | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
That's Unite's position and we will fight tooth and nail | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
The conversations that I and the Prime Minister have had, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
both with GM and PSA, tell me that they | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
intend to safeguard the plants, honour their commitments | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
and look to increase the performance and the sales of cars. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
So, we want to hold them to those commitments. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
UK plants are known to be amongst the most productive | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
But it's what goes into the vehicles, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
which are built in our plants, which could be the big problem. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
60% of the components that go into the Vivaro van which is built | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
For the Astra built up at Ellesmere Port, it is 75%. | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
The former boss of GM's European operations warns that this crucial | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
issue puts the UK's plants at a disadvantage. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
They just don't have enough components purchased here, | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
because they have to import so many components. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
the UK is in a weaker position than other operations. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
The UK's Brexit deal will play into this, too. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Trade tariffs could increase the cost of those components, | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Britain's auto sector has been a huge success story. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
But the creation of this new European car giant | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Well, bosses from across the global motor industry are meeting | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, and our | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
business editor Simon Jack is there for us now. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Ministers here saying they are cautiously optimistic about the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
future, are they right to be? It is what everyone is talking about, the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
bosses would rather people were talking about their shiny new cars, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
but GM moving out of Europe after 100 years and PSA doubling down, | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
those things moving in both directions, but one thing people | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
agree on, the 24 plants they will have across Europe is too many and | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
that will have to come down. In the short-term ministers are right to be | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
optimistic or not too worried, because they will be no immediate | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
changes. The Vauxhall Astra is to be made there until 2021 but after | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
there, the boss of the new company was pretty clear that it will be | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
every plant for itself and the subtext of the message, don't | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
imagine that what you have been doing until now will be good enough | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
then. Automated jobs have a political resonance, so these | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
governments will be getting involved around Europe, and the government of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
the UK scored the early victory by persuading Nissan to invest more in | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Sunderland and they have to turn on the charm after 2021 for that to | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
happen here, although in the short term no immediate changes, and in | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
the long-term, efficiencies will have to be made and governments | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
around Europe will have to be fighting to make sure they not the | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
ones that get trimmed. Thanks for joining us. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
President Trump has announced a new travel ban to prevent citizens | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
from a number of predominantly Muslim countries from | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
His original version was blocked by the US courts. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
The latest temporary ban will now affect people from six countries | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
who are seeking new visas but Iraq will no longer be affected. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Here's our North America correspondent Nick Bryant. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
There was anger, chaos and confusion at America's airports | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
when the original travel ban on entrants from seven | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Muslim-majority countries was hurriedly put into effect. | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
But the US courts ruled it was unconstitutional, | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
delivering an embarrassing rebuke to President Trump. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
So, today, the president signed a revised ban, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
this time drafted more carefully, with the involvement | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
of key Cabinet members, which the administration hopes | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
will withstand an inevitable legal challenge. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
It is the President's solemn duty to protect the American people, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
and with this order, President Trump is exercising | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
his rightful authority to keep our people safe. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
The Department of Justice believes that this Executive Order, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
just as the first Executive Order, is a lawful and proper exercise | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
While citizens from Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
and Yemen are still affected, Iraq, unlike last time, | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
People with legal residency in the US, who are holders of green | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
cards, and those who already have visas, | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
And Syrian refugees, originally banned indefinitely, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
are not singled out for harsher treatment. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
In Muslim neighbourhoods of America, such as Dearborn, Michigan, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
the travel ban affects family members and friends, | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
and many complain it also marginalises them. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
It's really sad, because it's affecting a lot of people, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
and it's going to hurt a lot of people. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
I wish he would teach us how to love each other more | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Do not say, "this group is bad, that group is bad". | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
America has long celebrated its welcoming tradition | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
towards immigrants, symbolised by the Statue of Liberty. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
But opinion on the travel ban exposes deep divisions here, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
between those who protest it's un-American and those who believe | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
it's necessary to protect the American homeland. | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
And of course this order is a massive conversation changer, the | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
talk was about his Twitter tirade against Barack Obama, over the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
weekend, and it was noticeable the photograph we saw, President Trump | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
signing the executive order, but no press was allowed in. Perhaps they | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
are trying to shield him from reporters questions, because they | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
will doubtless ask what evidence does he have two back of his | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
accusations against his predecessor. STUDIO: Thanks for joining us. | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
Police say 13 potential terror attacks have been thwarted | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
The UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer has | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
also revealed that more than 500 investigations are being | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
He disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal that aims | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
to get members of the public to report any suspicious behaviour. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
ADVERT VOICEOVER: If you have a concern about something you've | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
seen or heard that could identify a terrorist threat, report it. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
A new police advertisement, a reminder to the public | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
It could be anything that strikes you as unusual... | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Detectives say that in one third of recent high | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
risk investigations, the public has provided | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
This man stored a huge bag of fertiliser to make | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
He was stopped because a woman at the storage warehouse | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
tipped police off, saving hundreds of lives. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Detectives are concerned some people might be worried | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
Their advice is, don't worry, use your instincts, and if you see | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
something suspicious, call the anti-terrorist hotline | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
In the background, the devastating attacks in mainland Europe. | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
The trucks driven into crowds in Berlin and Nice. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
The mass shootings in Paris and Brussels. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
All inspired by so-called Islamic State, from a distance. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
We see increasing use of encrypted communications which can | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
instantaneously and dynamically link terrorists across the world. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
That brings about a greater danger for us in our communities, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
that somebody in our community can be influenced by someone working | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
in a terrorist stronghold on the other side of the world. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
In Westminster the Home Secretary was also asking for the public's | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
It's essential that we don't simply think we can solve this | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
We need to work closely with local communities so that everyone plays | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
a part in countering this vile crime. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
And to emphasise the scale of the threat, police said today | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
they have now thwarted 13 terrorist attacks on Britain in | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News, at New Scotland Yard. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
The supermarket chain Asda has been fined ?300,000 | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Inspectors found dead mice and flies at its north London home delivery | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
depot which distributes food to online customers | :12:35. | :12:35. | |
Mouse droppings were also found on the shelves. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Cereal and sugar packets had been gnawed by rodents. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
A zoo in Cumbria where a keeper was mauled to death by a tiger - | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
and nearly 500 animals have died over a three year period - | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
has been ordered to close, pending appeal. | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
South Lakes Zoo had been sharply criticised | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
by inspectors for overcrowding and poor animal welfare. | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Our correspondent Danny Savage is there. | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
Conditions here for some of the animals were very poor, the exotic | :13:02. | :13:14. | |
animals were kept in on heated rat infested conditions, falling over on | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
icy surfaces, as well. If you read the report, by inspectors who, you | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
would be large white has been granted a licence and has been told | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
to close down. -- you would soon see. Thin this afternoon, visitor | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
attraction as singled out as having so many problems it has now been | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
ordered to close -- South Lakes Zoo this afternoon. The issue is animal | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
welfare, and inspection found multiple problems with accommodation | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
and a lack of proper care. We have had reports from the public over | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
many years that we have chased up with the council, with animals | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
having head injuries from feeding experiences where people have been | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
absolutely disgusted at the state of them. It has been an ongoing issue | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
with animal welfare and neglect for even the most basic needs. The zoo | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
has been dogged with trouble for a keeper 24-year-old Sarah was killed | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
by a tiger in 2013. Her partner told me today that a lot needs to change, | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
but it can be turned around. With so many other zoos in the country being | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
able to manage in a safe way, it stands to reason that these can be | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
managed appropriately. It will take some time to fix the faults but | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
there's no reason why they can't operate a safe zoo. The man refused | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
a licence was David Gill, described by inspectors as being desperate to | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
keep control here one way or another. And it was David Gill's | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
attitudes towards the number of animal deaths which concerned | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
inspectors. They say he did not seem to have a problem with it. And a | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
keeper told the inspection team that they are instructions were to | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
dispose of bodies and not tell anyone about them. David Gill says | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
he wants to stand aside from running the zoo but the new operating | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
company needs his licence and without it the site will close. | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
Danny Savage, BBC News. There are concerns for thousands | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
of jobs at Vauxhall's UK plants, after the company is sold | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
to a French car maker. The beauty of the brain - | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
and the British-based researchers Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Can anyone stop Chelsea? The league leaders look | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
to re-establish a ten-point lead at the top of the table with victory | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
over West Ham tonight. Air pollution is one | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
of the greatest dangers to public health around the world - | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
that's according to the head of And diesel fumes are one | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
of the worst pollutants. The problem is particularly severe | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
in cities like Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham and London with diesel | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
being largely to blame. To try to combat it, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the firm behind London's diesel-powered black cabs | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
is introducing a brand As part of our ongoing series, | :16:13. | :16:13. | |
Richard Westcott travelled to Arctic Norway, where the taxi | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
is being tested to the limit. On some of the coldest | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
roads on earth, in some of the cleanest air, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
secret tests are going on. For a vehicle that could help | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
cut pollution thousands This is the brand-new design | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
for the iconic London black cab. It's camouflaged because | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
it's a test vehicle. But before they can put this | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
through its paces, in the cities, they have to try it out in one | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
of the most hostile And it doesn't get a lot | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
more hostile than here. It looks like the traditional | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
London black cab. Most of the time driving | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
with zero emissions. Although a small petrol | :17:02. | :17:13. | |
motor charges the battery It feels like a ride | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
in any normal black cab except it is a lot quieter, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
because you haven't What you can't see is all the wires | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
and the computers that are rigged up in here, | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
because they are live analysing how the cab is performing in this kind | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
of hostile weather. So this really is the traditional | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
design and shape, isn't it? It's a 21st-century take | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
on a 19th-century design. It's never easy finding a cabbie | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
who will go to Norway Steve McNamara represents | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
many London taxi drivers Do cabbies care | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
about the environment? Cabbies care much more | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
about the environment The worst place to be, | :17:56. | :17:56. | |
sitting in traffic, breathing the poor air, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
is in a vehicle. You're better off | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
walking or cycling. If we can go some way to cleaning | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
up our own air and better the city the city we work in, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
and Londoners recognise that, The people they'll need | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
to convince are here in London. Even with subsidies, the new cabs | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
will be more than ?40,000. Too steep for the drivers | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
we flagged down. They've got to put all the charging | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
points on ranks and it just wouldn't But as long as you've got the charge | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
points and the money to pay for it. It all comes down to | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
the dollar, Governor. Back in Norway, government support | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
means you can even get a fast charge The new taxis will be built | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
in Britain, using Chinese money, More and more countries are looking | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
to make the centre of the cities We developed a taxi | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
for the City of London. And other countries | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
and cities in Europe By the start of next year, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
every newly-licensed taxi in London will have to be capable of running | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
with zero emissions. But it will be some years | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
yet before every famous Richard Wescott, BBC | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
News, the Arctic Circle. Talks aimed at forming | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
a new power-sharing government are underway | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein and the DUP have three | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
weeks to agree a deal or risk having direct rule | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
imposed from Westminster. Our Ireland Correspondent Chris | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Buckler is at Stormont tonight. Complex negotiations - | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
and they've not got There is a lot that Sinn Fein and | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
the DUP disagree on. Perhaps no more fundamental disagreement within | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
these negotiations than the position of Arlene Foster. Sinn Fein want the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
DUP leader to step aside as First Minister while an investigation | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
takes place into a financial scandal surrounding a botched green energy | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
scheme. The Democratic Unionist party say she has done nothing wrong | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
and that Sinn Fein's demand is completely unacceptable. That is how | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
they walk into these talks, a total stalemate. Sinn Fein have been | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
overly jubilant, celebrating their election results which have seen | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
them reduce the difference between them and the DUP at Stormont from | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
ten seats to just a single seat. The Democratic Unionists have been | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
somewhat defensive. Arlene Foster has been here having to defend | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
herself against claims of a revolt within her party. She says she is | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
facing problems but it has got to be said that power-sharing has a | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
difficulty. That is meeting that three-week time period to get it | :20:46. | :20:46. | |
back and running again. Thank you. The Zeebrugge ferry tragedy | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
is the worst peacetime British maritime disaster at | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
sea in living memory. of Free Enterprise capsized | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
within minutes of setting sail They died because the ship's bow | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
doors hadn't been closed. Today, ceremonies have been held | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
in Britain and Belgium Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
joined the families, In the choppy waters | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
of the North Sea, not far from where the Herald went down, | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
the day of remembrance began It was 30 years ago tonight, | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized just outside | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
Zeebrugge harbour. A crew member had left | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
the bow doors open. Across-Channel sailing became | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
a mid-Channel disaster. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Below, | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
there was chaos, people clawing and fighting their way up, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
injured and freezing cold. In the grim night of horror and loss | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
that followed, 193 people died. All the lights went out, | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
it was completely pitch black dark and we could hear | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
the inrushing water. Brian Gibbons used his watch to tap | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
on pipes and alert his rescuers. With the screams and the shouts | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
and everything else, and unfortunately some people | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
didn't make it. And the reason I'm talking | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
to you today is because I think people need to know what happened | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
because of the 193 Three decades on, the legacy | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
of the Herald's loss is its capacity to fill a church | :22:35. | :22:48. | |
with family and friends. Amongst them, the aunt | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
and uncle of Kim Spooner, then eight years of age, | :22:56. | :23:07. | |
but still able to recall her My goodness, I remember | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
it so vividly. Didn't really process what it meant | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
at the time, to be honest. But sitting up all night waiting | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
to hear them call, waiting To the lasting regret | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
of Kim and many families, no-one was ever prosecuted | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
for the Herald disaster. Today, her salvage bell was finally | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
returned to the harbour that the Herald had set sail | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
for but never reached. It's one of the most prestigious | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
awards in the world of science. A prize of almost ?1 million | :23:40. | :23:54. | |
for cutting-edge research aimed And this year, it's been won by | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
three British-based neuroscientists for their work on how the brain uses | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
a system of chemical rewards They've been speaking to our Medical | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
Correspondent, Fergus Walsh. How do we motivate | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
ourselves in life? Whether it's the choices we make | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
about the food we eat - cream cake or fruit - | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
to the friends we make. The pleasure of a hug, or the goals | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
we set ourselves at work to succeed, What underpins our decision-making | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
is a chemical in the brain called dopamine, which is released whenever | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
there is a reward. This sense of reward, | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
which can sometimes be equated with happiness, | :24:39. | :24:39. | |
pleasure, or simply a desire to do something, has been | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
crucial in human evolution. The three neuroscientists | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
who share the prize, given by the Lundbeck Foundation | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
in Denmark, have spent 30 years studying the dopamine reward | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
pathway, and say it underpins If you look at a menu | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
in a new restaurant, you have an interesting thing - | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
should you explore a new type of cuisine that | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
you haven't tried before? So, you make a prediction | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
of what it might be like, and then you say, "well, | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
maybe I'll try it". If you try it and it's | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
better than you expect, Next time you come back to that | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
restaurant, you have a higher chance of choosing that food | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
that you liked. If it's worse than you expected, | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
then you won't choose it. There is a dark side | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
to the dopamine reward pathway. It can reinforce poor | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
decision-making, such as with drug addiction, | :25:28. | :25:28. | |
and lead to compulsive behaviour. Parkinson's disease | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
leads to the loss of Drugs that boost dopamine levels | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
can sometimes trigger It can often have very negative | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
effects, leading to excess gambling. I had numerous patients who, | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
when treated with these drugs, have resorted to gambling, | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
often secretive, and this has resulted in the tragedy of them | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
losing their entire life savings. The three prizewinners | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
are all based in the UK, which has a track record | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
of world-leading brain research. Their work will help | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
in the development of treatments for patients with psychiatric | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
illnesses like schizophrenia, where the brain reward | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
system goes wrong. Springlike sky in West Yorkshire. | :26:11. | :26:31. | |
Equal measure of blue. It could have been a different story today with an | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
area of low pressure giving a glancing blow to south-west England | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
and the Channel Islands with wet weather to start the day. Wind gusts | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
of almost 120 mph in an exposed part of north-west France. The dodged | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
that one and it moves away. Showers this evening, East and west in the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
UK. In the east, they will fade. North Seaton of Aberdeenshire in the | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
Northern Isles. In the west, they will take longer to die away, some | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
in north-west governed by the end of the night. Temperatures lower than | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
this in rural spots, widespread ground frost tomorrow. One or two | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
fog patches around. You can see the extent of the fine weather as we go | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
into Tuesday morning. Chilly start, that good and sunny spells. Showers | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
in north-west Scotland but not many in the afternoon, and some rain in | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Shetland. Wet weather coming in from the west. Not much progress into | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Scotland at this stage but across Northern Ireland with a freshening | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
breeze by 4pm, a wet end to the day. Fine end for Northern England, the | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Midlands. Wales and south-west England, you get the breeze picking | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
up, cloud moving in and aspects of rain. East Anglia South East | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
England, you hold onto the fine weather at this stage. Like wind in | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
comparison. Temperatures 7-10. If you are snug at the end of the day | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
and not yet wet, tomorrow evening -- if you are smug. Especially in | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Scotland. Sales in north-west Scotland lasting into Wednesday with | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
showers. Sunny spells elsewhere. Away from southern parts of Wales | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
and England but some cloud and rain to clear away on Wednesday. Wet at | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
times. Not all the time. Drier and brighter moment that time | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
and turning milder, especially for Thursday and Friday with | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
temperatures into double figures and some spots in the mid-teens. | :28:17. | :28:17. | |
There are concerns for thousands of jobs at Vauxhall's UK plants | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
after the company is sold to a French car maker. | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:30. | :28:32. |