10/03/2017 BBC News at Six

A drug addict is sentenced to 12 years for crashing

a car into a family, killing two of them,

Rozanne Cooper and her 10-year-old nephew Makayah Dermott

Two other children were seriously injured.

The driver, Joshua Dobby, lost control of the car

The family's lawyer said he had shown no remorse.

They were taken from us with still many years

of their lives to live, and have left our family with a deep

As Dobby was sentenced, it emerged that he has over 50

Schools in England are having to drop GCSE and A-level courses.

Throughout all of these tasks, I hope I have never trodden

on anyone to get to where I have got to.

The Apprentice contestant and newspaper columnist

Katie Hopkins has to pay damages after committing libel by tweet.

The fight to prevent ebola decimating not humans now,

And the mini intruders into a BBC interview that's gone viral.

John Surtees, the only man to win the Formula One

and motorcycle world titles, has died aged 83.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A 23-year-old drug addict who crashed his car into a family

during a police chase in south London has been sentenced

In August last year, Joshua Dobby lost control of his car killing

34-year-old Rozanne Cooper and her ten-year-old nephew

Makayah McDermott and seriously injuring two other children.

It emerged in court Joshua Dobby has 53 previous convictions, dating

It was a summers day. The family had been on their way to the park when

this car came skidding off the road, hitting a bar large, lifting it into

the air and down on top of three children and their aunt. The

aftermath was horrific. There were five bodies under one car. Little

kids screaming, like... People passing by, drivers tried to move

the car and realised there were two girls under the bonnet at the bottom

of the car. The injuries suffered by Rozanne Cooper and Makayah McDermott

could not have been survived. He loved sport and acting. She was the

mainstay of her family, the court was told. They were taken from us

with still many years of their lives to live and have left our family

with a deep void that will never be filled. Joshua Dobby ran away before

being caught nearby. He was a drug addict, desperate to escape being

sent back to prison. The court heard a statement from a 13-year-old who

described Dobby stepping over her in an attempt to get away. This stupid,

ugly man has shattered my life and crushed my confidence, she said. Her

legs were badly scarred when she was crushed under the car. Five days

before, in Kent, police had chased Dobby in the same car, up to 80 mph,

so risky that officers stopped the pursuit. That in the Penge incident,

that did not happen. The Independent police watchdog is carrying out a

criminal investigation into the conduct of officers involved. But

Joshua Dobby took a deliberate decision to drive that way on that

day. His life as a drug addict was as out-of-control as the car. The

families say they will never recover. And they have also said

today that they are concerned at the 12 year sentence. This was a man who

was charged with manslaughter, rather than the lower level, causing

death by dangerous driving. Road safety campaigners want more

manslaughter charges because the maximum sentence is life, rather

than 14 years. Dobby received 12 years. He had to have his sentence

reduced for pleading guilty. It shows the complexities involved for

judges when they are sentencing in cases like this, where people are

killed on the roads. Schools in England are being forced

to make impossible choices, dropping GCSE and A-Level courses

and cutting back on school trips in an effort to balance the books,

according to a head teachers' union. And the Education Secretary,

Justine Greening, was heckled by headteachers at their annual

conference, as she spoke about Gillian Hargreaves

reports from Birmingham. Gives me an example of a receptor.

Peter might be a headteacher, but he still likes to work at the chalk

face, partly because he enjoys it, and partly because it saves money

for his school. The only reason we can survive is that we are carrying

forward money from last year. If the Government stick to their pledges

over the next five years with the cash flows and budget, we will be

making cuts of something like 70,000 every year, year-on-year. A poll of

more than 1000 union members said 72% said they had to remove GCSE

options or vocational subjects from the syllabus, while 79% said they

had reduced their A-level or vocational offering, and 82% say

that class sizes have had to increase. Head teachers here are

warning that creative subjects like music are under threat. Money, or

lack of it, has dominated the conversation. This is the first time

the Education Secretary has spoken to a teaching union. Headteachers

are generally a professional bunch, but they did jeer the Education

Secretary when she said there are plans for all grammar schools, at a

time when headteachers say there is not enough cash for existing

schools. Such is the sensitivity around the issue, we were prevented

from filming the speech. The only images available were photographs on

the union's Twitter feed, and hence were not impressed with her words.

It's annoying to find government constantly saying that funding has

never been higher. That is true, because we have more students. It is

absolutely dire. We are having to make cuts to our curriculum and it

is untenable, really. The chief inspector of schools has also caused

controversy, saying that some heads are deliberately offering less

academically rigorous subjects to boost results. We sometimes see

easier qualification is used, blanket entries, people being

entered for overlapping qualifications. Things that can

drift away from giving children what is absolutely right for them. The

Government insists the ?40 billion being spent on schools this year is

the highest cash figure ever. We need to think carefully about

resource in the education system because obviously we are leaving the

European Union and we will need a very rich variety of skills and

academic individuals who will be able to fill the jobs that we have.

But with teachers saying they need more money, the arguments will

continue. On that issue of some schools

seemingly teaching easier subjects so that pupils do well, headteachers

will tell you at struggling schools, what is the point of setting pupils

up to fail? Some children are so far behind, it is better that they do

subjects they enjoy and leave school with some qualifications, rather

than subjects space and we will not pass, and they end up leaving with

nothing. The former Apprentice contestant

and newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins has had to pay

thousands of pounds in damages after libelling a food blogger

in a series of tweets. Ms Hopkins suggested that

Jack Monroe approved of vandalising war memorials,

when there was no evidence of it. After the verdict, Ms Monroe's

lawyer said people need to understand that being defamatory

on social media is permanent Jack Monroe is a food blogger and

campaigner. Throughout these tasks, I hope I have never trodden on

anyone to get where I have got to. You have. Katie Hopkins made her

name as an outspoken contestant on the show the apprentice macro, and

went on to become an even more outspoken columnist for the Daily

Mail. The two met on Twitter. This tweet in May 2015 from Katie Hopkins

to Jack Monroe asked her about scrawling and vandalising a war

memorial. Katie Hopkins had sent her message to the wrong person. Jack

Monroe asked for an apology. She did not get one. Today, she left court

having won her 21 month libel battle. It struck a nerve and I knew

there would be a tidal wave of hate, abuse and vitriol, and I was right.

If it is a simple mistake, people apologise. I have made mistakes on

Twitter and I put my hands and say, sorry, I was out of order and I hope

we can move on. If she had done that, we would not be here today.

Jack Monroe says she is relieved, rather pleased. For Katie Hopkins?

Two tweets have proved expensive, ?24,000 in damages and an extra

?107,000 for Katie Hopkins in court costs. It is not the first time that

a tweet has led to legal action but it certainly points out the risks.

Generally, people are unaware that they are exposed to the libel laws

when they tweet. This case and others will help make that clear. A

lesson not just for Katie Hopkins but for anyone on social media.

Online comments can be very costly. They did Sillito, BBC News.

An 83-year-old farmer has been cleared after shooting a suspected

Kenneth Hugill was found not guilty of grievous bodily harm.

The jury heard he used a shotgun to shoot at the side of a vehicle

he found on his land in the middle of the night because he

was afraid the driver was going to run him over.

The head of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker says he hopes

the UK will one day re-enter the boat, that's to say return

Mr Juncker made his suggestion at the end of an EU summit

in Brussels, the last chance for European leaders to come

together before Theresa May triggers the political process for ending

BT has bowed to demands to hive off the part of the business that runs

the UK's broadband infrastructure, Openreach, into an entirely

It's in response to demands by the industry regulator Ofcom

and follows accusations that it prioritised its own customers

over rivals like Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone.

But will the move make any difference to customers

in terms of a better service and faster broadband?

90% of British homes can now get fast broadband but in this part of

rural Buckinghamshire, you can't get any connection at all from BT. Gary,

who has campaigned to get his village connected, thinks the

company and its broadband division, Openreach, are failing Britain. They

have a quasi monopoly on the market, and with a monopoly ComRes pounds

abilities. There should be a responsibility to connect every

house in Britain with broadband. It is a necessity, part of everyday

life now. Now, after pressure from Ofcom, BT has agreed to separate

from Openreach, which will have its own boss and board. The regulator

had been urged to act by other firms unhappy with the broadband

supplier's performance. They, like us as a regulator, have been

concerned that Openreach has not been performing well enough,

broadband has not been good enough. And they see the greater

independence as a great means for Openreach to operate with the

interests of the whole telecoms industry at heart, not just BT.

Openreach has been criticised for letting down British broadband

industry. Among the charges, it is accused of investing too little,

providing poor customer service and divert in profits to other BT

priorities, like sports rights. Now, as an independent operation with

much of BT's influence and its logo removed, the hope is that things

will improve. BT said that a shadow had been lifted from the company and

its employees. There had been the threat that it could have been

forced to sell off Openreach. There evidence that produces better

outcomes for customers. It often creates instability that undermines

investment. What we need in the UK is certainty, to create conditions

that promote investment and service, and this model allows us to do that.

The theory is that Openreach will now be able to cooperate better with

other companies, boosting investment in broadband. But whether that will

mean every home in Britain gets a connection remains to be seen.

A drug addict has been sentenced to 12 years for crashing a car

into a family during a police chase, killing two of them.

As Ed Sheeran has nine songs in the Top 10,

even he says it's time to have a rethink about the charts.

We are live in Cardiff, where Ireland must eat Wales to keep alive

their hopes in the six Nations. News about the recent outbreaks

of Ebola in West Africa has centred But gorilla populations

are known to have suffered A third of the world's gorillas have

been killed by Ebola When a group is infected,

around 95% of them die. With all four species of gorilla now

critically endangered, researchers from Cambridge University

want to immunize A vaccine has been tested on a small

number of chimpanzees with promising results,

according to a study in the journal, But some warn there

could be serious risks. Our science correspondent,

Rebecca Morelle, has more. In the African forests, an animal

at risk of vanishing forever. Gorillas already face many threats,

from poaching to habitat loss, but perhaps the most

worrying is Ebola. The deadly disease is thought

to have wiped out many thousands So we put it on the sides

of the nose and they This scientist has carried out

a small trial on captive chimps, the last before bio medical research

on these animals He found a vaccine protected them

against the virus and now he wants Ebola and other diseases

are a huge threat. If these were our children,

we vaccinate our children, right? We vaccinate wildlife

in the developed world. Why aren't we vaccinating our

closest relatives in Africa? The deadly toll of Ebola in humans

is all too well-known. The 2013 outbreak in West Africa

killed more than 11,000 people. Now, though, there's

an effective human vaccine. Ebola in humans and gorillas

is closely linked, the virus can Some argue that gorillas should

now be immunised, too. Gorillas are one of our relatives

and saving them from extinction is now a number one priority

for conservationists and an Ebola vaccine does offer

some much needed hope, but there could be

significant risks. Finding a method to get a dose

of the vaccine into every There's also a risk that it

could harm the animals, We, as great ape conservationists,

are concerned about any unintended impacts on the health of the target

apes, such as introduction of a disease that might spread

amongst the intended population that The future of these animals

is hanging in the balance. The forests are currently free

of Ebola, but it's inevitable Conservationists need to decide

whether the risk of vaccinating or not vaccinating is one they're

willing to take. He's the multi-millionaire

singer-songwriter whose hits including Thinking Out Loud and

A-Team. Ed Sheeran's current hit single,

The Shape of You, is staying at Number 1 in the singles chart

for a ninth week. # I'm in love with the shape of you

# We push and pull like a magnet too... #

It's just been joined in the top 20 by every other song

from his new album making chart history because of the number

of times they've been downloaded or streamed.

Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, is here.

So, Ed Sheeran's got nine songs in the Top 10 and even he thinks

something's got to change about the way the

It's totally extraordinary, Fiona. All the people who I spoke to in the

British record industry today are torn. On one hand they are delighted

a Brit has done this amazing feat. The world is not a future of Drake

and Beyonce and North American acts. They are concerned, if these 16

tracks sit-in that Top 20 for a long time, like a beached whale. That

singles chart can't promote new music as it has always done. It's

much more complicate than in our day. Someone would buy a single,

goes through the scanner, pay money and it goes towards the chart. The

Top 5 would not look like that? Nothing like that. Nobody goes into

a shop nowadays and buy a single. They download, pay for it, or they

stream. If they stream 50% of the singles are streamed. Aren't bought

they are listened to, passive in a way. You have to have 150 streams to

make one sale. He has had tonnes he put his album out last week. Which

means that it's not really recording engagement. Not recording what

people are buying but what people are listening to. It's consumption.

People listen to music on spotified, Google. They have new lists or hit a

mood, folk. Sheeran can come through those ways. The music industry is

concerned how to get a chart which reflects what people engage with,

not just listen to. They don't broadly think there is a problem.

They think there is a problem, Ed Sheeran accepts that, when the issue

is about passive listening and not necessarily total engagement and

love of music. Fascinating. Will, thank you.

John Surtees, the only man to win the Formula One

and Motorcycle Grand Prix titles, has died aged 83.

He started racing cars after winning multiple titles on two wheels.

The commentator, Murray Walker, has paid tribute saying that Surtees

was "undoubtedly one of the greatest people who has ever lived

Now, it's going to be a fantastic weekend of sport

With all the details, Katherine Downes is at

the Principality Stadium in Cardiff for us.

We are underneath the roof here where Ireland know that really only

a win here against Wales tonight will do for them if they want to

give themselves the best chance of lifting this trophy once again.

Going into the match they will also know that if results and bonus

points go their way, England could wrap up the Six Nations title

against Scotland at Twickenham tomorrow where the Scots haven't won

for 34 years. Joe Wilson looks ahead to the Calcutta Cup.

South again to Twickenham, where Scotland do win,

1983 was when it last happened, rugby union

COMMENTATOR: That really was one of the great Calcutta Cup tries!

Scotland winger, Roger Baird, worked in the grain industry then,

as he does now, and the spirit of '83 lingers.

I still see, you know, a lot of the guys that I played with.

So I think, yeah, you know, with a smaller nation,

you always feel up against it a wee bit, you know, so you

In adversity, you know, that maketh the man.

So, yeah, I think the spirit will be there in aplenty.

These days, England's rugby resources are unmatched, boasting

In Scotland, that figure's around 49,000, the smallest

This season, Scotland have already beaten Ireland and Wales.

If you can't go through your opponents, you can dodge round them,

COMMENTATOR: Two chances, two scores, two tries for Scotland!

Vern, knowing your players as you do now, what is the key

asset which will enable you to win this match?

Working hard as a team and making sure that, erm,

we back each other up and we keep our heads up the paddock

Well, back in '83, power ballads were the rage.

It was only whispered here as the team left,

but if Scotland beat England, they could win the Six Nations.

This weekend isn't just about rugby. Tomorrow could see one of the

biggest upsets in FA Cup history. Non-league Lincoln City travel to

the Emirates to take on Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Sometimes a mismatch can prove unpredictable. Lincoln have beaten

Premier League opposition in the last round. Natalie Pirks reports.

COMMENTATOR: Lincoln have made history.

The first time they've ever been in the FA Cup quarter-finals.

In an FA Cup where the romance has returned, Lincoln City's odyssey has

From the cathedral, all the way to Sincil Bank,

the club's exploits are the talk of the town.

Talk about Lincoln this year because that's how good it is.

I wouldn't mind betting that they could just nick it by a goal.

Well, Lincoln City is a team battling for honours on all fronts,

including two Cup competitions and the league, and it's

all been put down to their new management team.

If Arsene Wenger is 'The Professor', then Lincoln City

This time last year, manager Danny Cowley,

and his brother, assistant manager, Nicky, were PE teachers at a school

in Essex, working part-time with another non-league club.

They managed their first match in front of 62 people,

60,000 at the Emirates is quite a leap.

For us, we have to have a belief that we can win the game.

We respect the fact that it might be one in 1,000,

but if that is what the odds are, we go there expecting it

A non-league side hasn't reached the quarter-finals since 1914.

A year later, Lincoln beat Arsenal in their last competitive match.

Graham Lynn's grandad, Billy, scored the winning goal.

He'd have been so proud and he scored 18 goals

Striker Matt Rhead is one of the lucky ones who will be.

After a decade welding JCB's, the 32-year-old finally

To think that, five or six years ago, I was playing in front

in front of 200 people, to playing in front of 60,000.

It's something that you only see in movies, to be fair.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we'll

This Cup run has already netted the club more than ?1 million.

For the players and the 9,000 fans heading to Arsenal though,

Whatever the outcome it will be a historic weekend for Lincoln City.

Here we are, an hour-and-a-half away, from kick-off on a pivotal

weekend of Six Nations rugby. Wales v Ireland is live on BBC One from

7.30pm, fiona. Katherine, thanks very much.

Well, they do say you should never work with children and animals.

This morning South Korean expert, Professor Robert Kelly,

certainly added weight to at least half that argument.

During a live interview on BBC World News, he manfully soldiered

on despite a couple of unexpected and energetic intruders.

The question is, how did markets respond to those scandals?

What will it mean for the wider region?

I think one of your children has just walked in.

I mean, shifting sands in the region, do you think

I will be surprised if they do. The...

What's this going to mean for the region?

My apologies. Sorry.

..South Korea's policy choices on North Korea have been severely

limited in the last six months to a year.

I've been laughing about that all day. Right, let's take a look at the

weather. You saw that as well, didn't you Sarah? There have been

giggles from the newsroom all day. The panic from the mother's face

when she rushes in there. The weather has been a very quiet today.

A lot of cloud around, many places looking like this. This was the

scene outside Nottingham. There has been sunshine out there. This was

the north coast of Cornwall earlier today. Clearer spells, but for most

of us as we head through the evening hours we keep the blanket of cloud.

Looking largely dry with spots of briz drizzle here and there. Rain to

Northern Ireland and Scotland. If you are watching the Six Nations

rugby in carp difficult it will remain dry. Temperatures a mild ten

degrees or so. It will be mild and cloudy through tonight for most

places. The rain working into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Not particularly heavy. Overnight temperatures remaining between six

to ten degrees. A mild frost-free start to the weekend. Saturday is

shaping up to be a decent day. The cloud across England and Wales will

break up. Temperatures could be as high as 17 or 18 degrees in the

south-east. Scotland and Northern Ireland will see things warming up

with a return to sunshine. For northern England, rain through the

course of the day. For Saturday, Six Nations action then, dry and sunny

in Rome and also in London, at Twickenham, temperatures around 15

degrees. It's looking pleasant. As we head through the course of

Saturday evening and over night into Sunday the weather changes a bit.

The rain will pick up. It will push sis eastwards. A mild start to the

day on Sunday. For many of us it will be soggy from the word go.

Through Sunday the rain will linger longest across eastern parts of

England, towards the west sunshine and showers. Temperatures just 10-13

degrees. Fiona. Thank you, Sarah. That's all from the BBC News at Six.

Goodbye from me. On BBC