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Two little boys questioned by police over their toy guns have been left | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
traumatised and stigmatised, according to their mother. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
The man accused of killing author Helen Bailey says he didn't do it. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
And colder, more wintry weather on the way. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The 5-year-old and 7-year-old questioned by police under | :00:23. | :00:49. | |
The pair had told their teacher they had toy guns, | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
so were taken out of class, and the police were called. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Our reporter Usman Azad spoke to the mother and we agreed | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
The whole experience was utterly humiliating, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
that parents saw uniformed police officers coming into the school | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
The 23rd of March last year was the worst day | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
The day her two children were identified as being | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The mother bought these guns as a gift for her boys. | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
They were on special for two for ?10, but she never thought | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
that this would be the reason why the police would be | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Her seven-year-old son told his classmates | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
For the school, it added to a range of concerns they had about the boys, | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
but the mum says there was nothing to worry about. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
The school said to me that he had been speaking Arabic in class | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
and scaring the other children and that he'd been talking | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
about going to Friday prayers, with his father to a mosque. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
He couldn't possibly have been speaking Arabic, | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
because we don't speak it as a family, in fact we speak | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
English at home and he wouldn't have been talking about | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
with his father because he's never set foot in a mosque. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
The boys were reported to the police the day after the bombing | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
The school raised its concerns under the Government's | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
anti-radicalisation scheme, Prevent. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
The human rights group Liberty argue the duty to report suspected | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
What it is doing is turning teachers and doctors, | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
who have themselves said that they don't want this duty | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
in place, it's trying to turn them into counterterrorist police. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
That is not their role and they don't have these | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
skills or the information with which to make those | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
We think that the duty needs to be be repealed and there certainly | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
needs to be an independent review of whether it is in | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Central Bedfordshire Council has apologised, and said: | :02:45. | :03:03. | |
They often have nightmares about the police. | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
My elder son, particularly, often gets scared at school and has | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
told me himself that he doesn't want to talk about anything to do | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
He wants to fit in now and that's heartbreaking, | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
for me, as a mother, that my child feels he needs | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
to hide his identity and hide who he is. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
The boys are already at a new school, but the emotional | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Their mum says she wishes she left the toy on the shelf. | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
Our reporter Mousumi Bakshi is with me. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
Mo, the school was acting on a Government strategy called | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
It's part of Britain's counter-terrorism effort, | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
an attempt to stop people being attracted to extremist | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
groups like Al-Quaeda, so-called ISIS, Al-Shabaab. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Now almost immediately, critics pounced on the scheme, | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
saying it was alienating the Muslim community. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
One senior Met Police officer even went as far as saying it | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
discriminated against Muslims, and that many people | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
felt this was a form of state-sponsored spying. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Many people will be shocked that children as young as five | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
Well, under the scheme, all public bodies and, yes, | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
that does include schools have a duty to "prevent" | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
The children in this case are very young, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and clearly mistakes were made but of course there have been some | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
high-profile cases of children being radicalised in the UK. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
You may remember the London schoolgirls who travelled | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
The Government is sticking with the strategy, saying it | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
has had some success, but what that measure | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Next tonight, the man accused of murdering the children's author | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Helen Bailey has told a court she was visited by menacing | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
strangers in the weeks before her disappearance. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Helen's fiance Ian Stewart denies drugging her, | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
killing her and hiding her body in the cesspit under | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
From St Albans Crown Court, Kate Bradbrook reports. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Ian Stewart told the court that in the weeks before Helen | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
disappeared, they received several visits from two former business | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
He said on one occasion Joe appeared rude and aggressive | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
The court heard on the day Helen disappeared, she returned, asking, | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
-- The court heard on the day Helen disappeared, he returned, asking, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
"Have you remembered anything or found anything | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
He then whispered, "Just think about it". | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Ian Stewart said Nick later returned and said, | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Ian Stewart said he believed if he told the authorities, | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
-- The jury heard Helen Stewart and Ian Bailey had | :05:51. | :06:03. | |
They never had an argument and in 2012 secretly got engaged. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
They heard that in early 2016, Ian Stewart had been | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
having trouble sleeping and was prescribed a sedative. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
The prosecution claimed that he drugged his fiancee | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
Asked today if he took the tablets, he said, "No." | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
He said Helen had searched the Internet and found | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
that they should not be taken by someone with his condition. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
He said she took the pills on several occasions as she too | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Asking if he had secretly poisoned his fiancee, he replied, "No." | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
Helen Bailey's body was found three months after she disappeared, | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Ian Stewart had recently undergone surgery following a cancer scare. | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
-- Asked if he could have picked up a dead body | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
or dragged a body on a duvet, he replied, "No." | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
"Any pushing or pulling was intensely painful. | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
Asked if he had killed harder for financial | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
He said he had more money than he could spend. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
He denies all the charges against him and his defence case | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Now, how to persuade more young doctors to train to become GPs | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
as a quarter of our GPs are over 55 and approaching retirement. | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
A new scheme in Bedford is hoping the opportunity to specialise | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Doctor Jasmin Ali, one of the first to sign up. | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
She is able to split her time between the GP rota and building up | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
With this scheme, it gives you a bit of balance between not | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
being expected to be in a GP practice for five days. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
It gives you that leeway, if you like, to balance out the way | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
you would want your profession to progress. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Here at this surgery, they do have enough GPs. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
But they hope that the project will help with general recruitment. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
The question is whether it's worth the trade-off of GPs not working | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
to clinics all week to try and help with recruitments. | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
While there are national GP shortages, it's even worse | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
They've got 250 GPs now, but still need another 30. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
I think that it needs to be attractive to medical students, | :08:37. | :09:07. | |
more incentives to young doctors to come and train in general | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
practice and a raft of things too - make the job more doable, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
less administration, less regulation and more time | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
It is hoped the new scheme will not only help to attract new GPs, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Emma Baugh, BBC Look East, Bedfordshire. | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
As you may have seen on the national news, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
MPs have backed another bill to start the process | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
But earlier today, a leading Cambridge scientist told politicians | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
the future success of genome research is under threat | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
Dr Julia Wilson from the Sanger Institute told | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the Science and Technology select committee that their | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
But the status of their EU workers is worrying. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
I would say the Wellcome Genome Campus is the Manchester | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
There may only be two or three experts in a particular area around | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
the world and we will attract to recruit them. | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
I would say we have about 30% non-UK staff on the wider campus, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
you're probably touching 40% of staff who are from the EU. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
And they no longer feel welcome, so that is a threat. | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
I'll leave you with the weather from Alex. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
The weather is turning much colder and more wintry | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
For tonight, a much colder night than last night. | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Yes, there will be quite a lot of cloud around and perhaps just | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
A lot of dry weather and turning very cold. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
So down down to freezing quite widely. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
So, tomorrow's weather, we get off to a cold and frosty start. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
An easterly wind is going to establish itself tomorrow | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
and that is going to make it feel bitterly cold. | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Temperatures no higher than 2 Celsius. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Some showers that are likely to turn wintery. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
As I say, 2 Celsius our expected high for tomorrow. | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
Factor in the wind chill and it will feel very cold indeed. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
Those showers are going to be fairly isolated | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
but they could move further West during the afternoon and evening. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
Here is the outlook and it's looking increasingly wintry. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
A lot of dry weather for Friday but also some snow flurries and that | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we | :11:02. | :11:15. | |
have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud, | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
there was some sunshine | :11:25. | :11:26. |