:00:00. > :00:07.At least 120 people have been killed by a powerful earthquake in central
:00:08. > :00:13.Italy but it's feared many more are missing.
:00:14. > :00:17.In some villages rescuers are having to dig out survivors with their bare
:00:18. > :00:23.hands after homes collapsed while people were sleeping.
:00:24. > :00:25.In just 20 seconds last night, when people were sleeping,
:00:26. > :00:36.the village was completely flattened by the earthquake.
:00:37. > :00:39.Looking at where the buildings have fallen down this hillside,
:00:40. > :00:41.it is hard to believe that anyone can still survive under there.
:00:42. > :00:44.We'll be talking to our correspondent in one of the worst
:00:45. > :00:46.hit towns as rescuers continue to search for survivors buried
:00:47. > :00:50.Turkish tanks roll over the border into Syria,
:00:51. > :00:53.pushing back Islamic State militants in their first major
:00:54. > :00:56.Three men die after getting into difficulties in the sea
:00:57. > :00:59.at Camber Sands in East Sussex on the hottest day of the year.
:01:00. > :01:01.Space scientists discover a planet just outside our solar system.
:01:02. > :01:04.It may host life and could be reached by future space missions.
:01:05. > :01:07.And the world's largest aircraft crash lands in Bedfordshire
:01:08. > :01:11.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Joe Hart has started
:01:12. > :01:13.Manchester City's Champions League qualifying match against
:01:14. > :01:15.Steaua Bucharest tonight but could it be his last match
:01:16. > :01:46.At least 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck
:01:47. > :01:49.central Italy in the early hours of this morning.
:01:50. > :01:51.But many more people are still missing and the death toll
:01:52. > :01:55.Rescue teams have been searching for survivors
:01:56. > :02:02.Tonight a 10-year-old girl was one of the latest
:02:03. > :02:07.The earthquake's epicentre was near the town of Norcia in Umbria.
:02:08. > :02:14.The tremor was strong enough to be felt up and down Italy.
:02:15. > :02:17.Among the worst hit places is Amatrice - known as one
:02:18. > :02:22.Locals say it was full of visitors - many of them young -
:02:23. > :02:24.who'd come to the town for its annual festival this weekend.
:02:25. > :02:31.Our correspondent James Reynolds has sent this report from Amatrice.
:02:32. > :02:35.Deep in the Apennine mountains, a piece of Italy has been destroyed.
:02:36. > :02:38.The residents of Amatrice, a hilltop town about to
:02:39. > :02:49.celebrate a summer festival, were hit while they slept.
:02:50. > :02:52.Through piles of rubble, rescue workers trying
:02:53. > :02:59.We have made it to the centre of Amatrice.
:03:00. > :03:02.There is a rescue going on in the rubble there.
:03:03. > :03:09.You can see they are bringing out someone on a stretcher.
:03:10. > :03:15.It looks like she is, which will be a huge relief
:03:16. > :03:21.The woman is being escorted down to an ambulance.
:03:22. > :03:28.We also saw rescuers carry away a number of dead bodies,
:03:29. > :03:38.Many survivors were barely able to talk.
:03:39. > :03:42.It is hard to comprehend how your town can fall
:03:43. > :03:49.TRANSLATION: There is nothing left standing, I am so sorry for so many
:03:50. > :04:01.I am so sorry, I hope they are safe.
:04:02. > :04:04.The village of Accumoli was also hit.
:04:05. > :04:07.An official talks to a woman who is trapped.
:04:08. > :04:18."Stay calm," he tells her, "we will come to get you."
:04:19. > :04:21.In Amatrice, Sister Marianna said she was pulled
:04:22. > :04:27.Some of her fellow sisters are still trapped inside.
:04:28. > :04:31.When I realised what happened, I tried to hide myself
:04:32. > :04:39.Then I went outside to ask for help, but no-one heard me.
:04:40. > :04:41.This region is vulnerable to earthquakes.
:04:42. > :04:48.From above, the devastation of Amatrice is clear.
:04:49. > :05:01.It is too dangerous to take them inside the damaged hospital.
:05:02. > :05:07.Tonight, rescuers continue to claw away at the broken buildings
:05:08. > :05:11.They promised to keep looking until they find all those
:05:12. > :05:21.Rescue workers have used helicopters to pluck survivors to safety
:05:22. > :05:24.from some of the more isolated villages in the area which have been
:05:25. > :05:30.In one village - Pescara del Tronto -
:05:31. > :05:32.all the houses have collapsed - the village no longer exists.
:05:33. > :05:34.Our correspondent Damian Grammaticas managed to get there
:05:35. > :05:41.Pescara del Tronto, razed to the ground
:05:42. > :05:48.Perched on a mountain ridge, it had been built up
:05:49. > :05:50.high hundreds of years ago, for safety.
:05:51. > :05:55.When the earthquake struck, the houses of ancient stone and wood
:05:56. > :06:03.As rescue teams poured into the area today,
:06:04. > :06:08.Under all that rubble, the sniffer dogs found
:06:09. > :06:13.But no earth-moving equipment could make it up here.
:06:14. > :06:24.He had come with his friends from a local rugby team.
:06:25. > :06:27.He lives down the valley and was woken by the tremors.
:06:28. > :06:32.I see my mother screaming and my father the same.
:06:33. > :06:36.After two minutes, me and my family went out of the house and went
:06:37. > :06:44.Like all the people in the city, we went in the big park in the city,
:06:45. > :06:49.As they searched the ruins of Pescara del Tronto,
:06:50. > :06:58.The building went down during our work.
:06:59. > :07:14.Confusing things further, Pescara del Tronto is
:07:15. > :07:20.People come in the summer, a refuge from the heat, so nobody
:07:21. > :07:25.This is the third body we have seen being brought out from this spot
:07:26. > :07:31.What the rescue teams hope is they will find people alive,
:07:32. > :07:35.but looking at where the buildings have fallen down this hillside,
:07:36. > :07:41.it is hard to believe that anyone can still survive under there.
:07:42. > :07:44.Back at the digging, as they got closer, they realised
:07:45. > :07:48.it was not a survivor, but somebody's pet trapped here.
:07:49. > :07:53.Eventually, they prised the dog free.
:07:54. > :07:58.The final toll in this one village, maybe 20 people dead, maybe more.
:07:59. > :08:02.But the truth is today Pescara del Tronto, population 100,
:08:03. > :08:12.Today's earthquake isn't the first to hit the region.
:08:13. > :08:15.Italy has, for decades, been prone to similar
:08:16. > :08:21.It's vulnerable because of the collision between the African
:08:22. > :08:23.and Eurasian tectonic plates which are pushing into each other.
:08:24. > :08:26.That process is ongoing, the plates continue to move
:08:27. > :08:34.The sea, which lies to the west of the country, is opening
:08:35. > :08:36.up and that's pulling apart the Apennines -
:08:37. > :08:39.the belt of mountains that runs down through central Italy.
:08:40. > :08:42.300 people died in an earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.
:08:43. > :08:47.In 1908, it is thought as many as 70,000 were killed when a 7.2
:08:48. > :08:51.magnitude tremor flattened Messina in Sicily.
:08:52. > :08:55.And today it was Amatrice, this is what the main street looked
:08:56. > :09:01.This is what it looks like now, much of it flattened in just seconds
:09:02. > :09:10.Damian Gramatticas is in Amatrice now.
:09:11. > :09:17.Are they still hopeful they could find survivors beneath all this
:09:18. > :09:21.rubble? They are and they're still trying all the way through the night
:09:22. > :09:27.here. Now in James' report you heard the story of a nun who was rescued.
:09:28. > :09:30.This was the convent where she was and where she was pulled out from.
:09:31. > :09:34.There were other people in here, and all this evening they're working
:09:35. > :09:39.here because the sniffer dogs went in earlier. They thought they
:09:40. > :09:42.detected someone inside. So the rescue teams are trying to make the
:09:43. > :09:46.building safe so they can work through it to go in and find
:09:47. > :09:53.someone. Of course, spirits were raised by the news earlier in the
:09:54. > :09:55.village down the valley where we were, Pescara, when that
:09:56. > :09:59.ten-year-old girl was pulled out alive. That was a couple of hours
:10:00. > :10:06.ago. That I think gives hope. But what makes it all so difficult is
:10:07. > :10:08.that it's a string of these historic hill-top towns, these beautiful
:10:09. > :10:12.villages with old stone buildings along the crests of the ridges that
:10:13. > :10:16.have been affected and it's really hard for them to get the teams up
:10:17. > :10:22.here and the earth-moving equipment to get in to dig people out. That
:10:23. > :10:27.will continue, but it's very, very difficult work. Thank you.
:10:28. > :10:30.Turkish tanks and special forces have rolled across
:10:31. > :10:32.the border into Syria - their first major incursion -
:10:33. > :10:36.supported by airstrikes from Turkish and American jets.
:10:37. > :10:38.They went in to drive so-called Islamic state out
:10:39. > :10:40.of the border town of Jarabulus and surrounding villages.
:10:41. > :10:43.By this afternoon the Turkish authorities were reporting
:10:44. > :10:51.Our correspondent Mark Lowen has this report from Gaziantep.
:10:52. > :10:56.Turkish and coalition jets hit Jarablus, held by so-called Islamic
:10:57. > :10:59.State, before tanks move in for the ground offensive.
:11:00. > :11:02.Hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters went with them.
:11:03. > :11:05.Within hours they had entered the key town, liberating it from
:11:06. > :11:14.A journalist who was quick to Jarablus before
:11:15. > :11:15.the offensive began said that
:11:16. > :11:18.the militants were completely overpowered.
:11:19. > :11:22.There was intense shelling that forced IS back, he said.
:11:23. > :11:26.The Turkish offensive had two aims, to push IS back from the border
:11:27. > :11:28.and stop Syrian Kurdish fighters advancing to Jarablus and
:11:29. > :11:36.Turkey sees them as a threat, encouraging Turkish
:11:37. > :11:45.The diplomatic timing was handy, coinciding to a visit to
:11:46. > :11:47.Ankara by the American vice president.
:11:48. > :11:49.Turkey has gone from a reluctant partner to coordinating
:11:50. > :11:55.In return Joe Biden ordered the Kurds, a US partner on
:11:56. > :12:04.They must move back across the river, they
:12:05. > :12:06.cannot, will not, and under no circumstances get American support,
:12:07. > :12:15.This appears to have been a swift operation meeting
:12:16. > :12:19.limited resistance and Turkey has achieved its two goals of ousting IS
:12:20. > :12:23.militants from Jarablus and getting coalition support to push the
:12:24. > :12:29.Turkey's biggest intervention in Syria since
:12:30. > :12:34.the war began will be seen here as a significant success.
:12:35. > :12:37.Nearby we met Abdul, he and his family fled here
:12:38. > :12:45.It is like we have been pulled out of a well, he says,
:12:46. > :12:47.houses have been destroyed and innocent people slaughtered, thank
:12:48. > :12:50.God we got rid of them, I'm so happy.
:12:51. > :12:53.Would you think of going home to Jarablus now?
:12:54. > :12:58.God willing, he tells me, beating IS will be long
:12:59. > :13:11.But this will give renewed hope of progress.
:13:12. > :13:17.Jeremy bow been is here. How much more is this being to complicate the
:13:18. > :13:21.situation? Over the years it's become very complicated. Things are
:13:22. > :13:25.changing a little at the moment which I suppose increases that. Now
:13:26. > :13:30.one way of looking at Syria is to regard it as, in effect, a mini
:13:31. > :13:36.world war. You can see we have a list of some of the countries
:13:37. > :13:41.involved there. Those on the pro-Assad side and the anti. Some of
:13:42. > :13:47.the world's biggest powers, that's why I use the phrased a vicedly,
:13:48. > :13:51.mini world war, but there's been some softening of late with Turkey
:13:52. > :13:55.making up after a big row with the Russians and that's something -
:13:56. > :14:01.they're not going to leave the Western camp, but it does give them
:14:02. > :14:06.quite a bit of leverage. People are now wondering could President
:14:07. > :14:13.Erdogan of Turkey perhaps do deals with even with President Assad? This
:14:14. > :14:18.isn't the kind of war where my enemy's enemy is automatically my
:14:19. > :14:21.friend. That would mean him perhaps dumping Sunni groups he has been
:14:22. > :14:26.supporting. That's unlikely. People are talking about it. But his main
:14:27. > :14:29.concern is the Kurds, not Islamic State and not the jihadists of
:14:30. > :14:34.Islamic State. He sees the Kurds as the biggest threat to Turkey. I
:14:35. > :14:39.don't think it's impossible he might want to make local deals that
:14:40. > :14:45.benefit Ankara and Istanbul and keep the Kurds bottled up a bit. Now for
:14:46. > :14:52.the Turks this operation, apart from IS, is about securing territory that
:14:53. > :14:56.the Kurds might have taken over and Erdogan says they need to go back
:14:57. > :14:59.east and the Americans perhaps worried about that new leverage as a
:15:00. > :15:05.result of the relationship with Russia, are backing them with all of
:15:06. > :15:10.that. Now would this war survive the defeat of Islamic State? Would it
:15:11. > :15:13.the war keep on going? I think it might because you can see there
:15:14. > :15:18.these are some of the conflicts going on. There is that Islamic
:15:19. > :15:21.State conflict. There is a wider sectarian conflict going on with
:15:22. > :15:26.Shia and Sunni which affects a lot of what's happening. Kurdish
:15:27. > :15:29.nationalists are in play. And various armed militias, regularly
:15:30. > :15:33.fall out with each other and trade bullets, as well. So, it's a
:15:34. > :15:39.difficult dangerous complicated situation. And one more tiny thing
:15:40. > :15:44.that's come up potentially very important, a joint investigation by
:15:45. > :15:50.the UN and the global chemical watchdog has found the Syrian
:15:51. > :15:54.Government troops have been using chemical weapons again, two toxic
:15:55. > :15:55.gas aattacks and that's something which clearly we will hear more
:15:56. > :16:01.about. Thank you. Five people have died
:16:02. > :16:03.after being pulled from the sea Emergency services and people
:16:04. > :16:07.on the beach tried to save them after they got into difficulties
:16:08. > :16:19.on one of the hottest The lifeguard has confirmed two more
:16:20. > :16:23.parties have been recovered and another person is missing.
:16:24. > :16:27.12 people have now died in the seas around the UK in less than a week.
:16:28. > :16:29.Helicopters, lifeboats and beach-rescue teams all took
:16:30. > :16:32.It was just after 2pm, they were called amid reports
:16:33. > :16:37.of a number of people in need of medical attention.
:16:38. > :16:42.A short time later, the three men were pulled from the water.
:16:43. > :16:52.It is not the nicest thing to see, somebody die in front of you,
:16:53. > :16:58.Sussex Police say it is not yet known if the men knew each other
:16:59. > :17:03.or whether this was one, two or three incidents.
:17:04. > :17:06.We are working with a number of agencies, the Council,
:17:07. > :17:10.the RNLI, Coast Guard, with the beach patrol.
:17:11. > :17:14.We have dedicated officers on the beach through the summer.
:17:15. > :17:16.After the incidents, police travelled up and down
:17:17. > :17:20.the beach with loud-hailers to clear the water.
:17:21. > :17:24.It has been the hottest day of the year so far.
:17:25. > :17:28.Last month, Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, a 19-year-old Brazilian
:17:29. > :17:32.man, died after getting into trouble in the sea here.
:17:33. > :17:36.The local council says incidents like this are extremely rare,
:17:37. > :17:46.that there are beach patrols to warn people of the dangers.
:17:47. > :17:53.Confirmation tonight that two more bodies have been recovered from the
:17:54. > :17:59.water tonight, making a total of five. It is not clear if they are
:18:00. > :18:02.male or female. A lot of emergency services activity tonight, including
:18:03. > :18:06.a search of the beach and a helicopter in the sky, amid reports
:18:07. > :18:10.of one more person missing. It has been one of the most tragic
:18:11. > :18:16.coastlines here for the past year or so, nothing seemed like this in many
:18:17. > :18:21.years, this by far the most serious incident of a summer of incidents
:18:22. > :18:24.and tragedies that the emergency services will be investigating.
:18:25. > :18:26.A British woman has been stabbed to death at a backpackers'
:18:27. > :18:29.21-year-old Mia Ayliffe-Chung was from Derbyshire.
:18:30. > :18:32.A British man was severely injured in the attack and is in
:18:33. > :18:35.Police say the suspect, who's from France, shouted
:18:36. > :18:39.in Arabic, but that they're not treating it as a terror attack.
:18:40. > :18:43.An elderly man has been sentenced to six years in a psychiatric
:18:44. > :18:47.hospital for shooting dead his wife, who suffered from dementia.
:18:48. > :18:49.Ronald King, who is 87, had been staying at a care home
:18:50. > :18:54.in Essex with his wife Rita last Christmas when he opened fire.
:18:55. > :18:58.The court heard that he also has dementia.
:18:59. > :19:00.A serving member of the British armed forces has been arrested
:19:01. > :19:04.on suspicion of terrorism linked to Northern Ireland.
:19:05. > :19:07.Ciaran Maxwell of the Royal Marines was held in Somerset today,
:19:08. > :19:10.and police said a house in South Devon and a wooded area
:19:11. > :19:13.In Northern Ireland, police have also been searching
:19:14. > :19:30.This investigation is taking place on both sides of the Irish Sea,
:19:31. > :19:34.connected to the discovery of weapons he earlier this year, which
:19:35. > :19:39.detectives have linked to does Republican paramilitaries, and they
:19:40. > :19:45.say those fines was a difficult. Among the weapons they discovered
:19:46. > :19:50.were and armour piercing improvised rocket and two antipersonnel mines.
:19:51. > :19:53.The man being questioned is Ciaran Maxwell, from the town, but he is
:19:54. > :19:58.serving with the Royal Marines in the West Country. Since his arrest
:19:59. > :20:03.today in Somerset, there have been a series of searches taking place
:20:04. > :20:08.appear at is to' homes as homes as well as in South Devon, where they
:20:09. > :20:12.have searched a house and wooded area. The MoD say they are aware
:20:13. > :20:16.that a serving member has been arrested, he is being questioned on
:20:17. > :20:18.suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism.
:20:19. > :20:20.Scientists say they've discovered a new planet just outside our solar
:20:21. > :20:23.system which is slightly larger than Earth and could harbour life.
:20:24. > :20:26.They've named it Proxima b, and at just four light years away,
:20:27. > :20:29.it's relatively close to us, which means it could be reached
:20:30. > :20:38.The research is published in the journal Nature.
:20:39. > :20:40.In the dazzling beauty of the skies above Chile,
:20:41. > :20:43.telescopes have focused on the pinprick of light coming
:20:44. > :20:51.They have found an alien world orbiting around it.
:20:52. > :20:56.Nobody has seen it directly, but researchers know
:20:57. > :20:59.it is there because of tiny movements in the star.
:21:00. > :21:03.It is a huge moment in the exploration of space.
:21:04. > :21:07.It is the nearest planet that potentially can have life
:21:08. > :21:13.and can be in a sense similar to our own planet.
:21:14. > :21:17.There are hundreds of planets being discovered every month,
:21:18. > :21:20.but this is a special one, the nearest one.
:21:21. > :21:23.It happens once, it will not happen again.
:21:24. > :21:28.It is hard to grasp distance in space and where this planet is,
:21:29. > :21:33.so let's begin with the moon, 239,000 miles from us.
:21:34. > :21:42.We go beyond the solar system to the next-nearest star,
:21:43. > :21:52.That is where a planet has been discovered orbiting around it.
:21:53. > :21:56.The reason scientists are excited, this alien world is the closest
:21:57. > :21:59.there is outside our own solar system.
:22:00. > :22:05.It is slightly larger than Earth, and although its star is cooler
:22:06. > :22:10.than the Sun, the planet is in just the right zone for liquid water
:22:11. > :22:17.That means in theory it could support life.
:22:18. > :22:22.Telescopes around the world will now be deployed to find out more.
:22:23. > :22:26.This changes, I think, our perception of how many habitable
:22:27. > :22:34.It means the prospects for alien life elsewhere in the galaxy look
:22:35. > :22:39.a lot more rosy than they did last week.
:22:40. > :22:41.Reaching the planet with the spacecraft we have
:22:42. > :22:44.now would take tens of thousands of years.
:22:45. > :22:47.There is a plan backed by Stephen Hawking for far-more-rapid
:22:48. > :22:50.forms of space travel, and that project now has
:22:51. > :22:55.In the meantime, it will be astronomers who hunt
:22:56. > :23:02.for clues about our nearest neighbour in deep space.
:23:03. > :23:05.Pictures have emerged of French police appearing to force a Muslim
:23:06. > :23:09.woman to remove her clothes on a beach in Nice.
:23:10. > :23:12.The images are fuelling an ongoing debate about a controversial ban
:23:13. > :23:16.in parts of France on full-body swimsuits, called burkinis.
:23:17. > :23:19.Critics have said it's a means of stigmatising Muslims.
:23:20. > :23:22.The highest court in France is due to begin considering
:23:23. > :23:26.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been defending himself
:23:27. > :23:29.after Virgin Trains challenged his claim that he had to sit
:23:30. > :23:32.on the floor because he couldn't find a seat on a service
:23:33. > :23:36.Yesterday, Virgin released CCTV footage which appeared
:23:37. > :23:40.Today Mr Corbyn said he'd been looking for two seats
:23:41. > :23:45.He claimed it was a ram-packed train, after walking
:23:46. > :23:48.through a carriage of apparently-empty seats.
:23:49. > :23:52.Why did Jeremy Corbyn not sit down after first boarding the 11am
:23:53. > :23:58.Today, at the launch of his NHS policy, unwanted questions
:23:59. > :24:10.I am aware we live in a free country, I am proud to.
:24:11. > :24:13.To his obvious irritation, he was quizzed about his
:24:14. > :24:19.Yes, I walked through the train, I looked for two empty seats
:24:20. > :24:23.together, so I could sit with my wife.
:24:24. > :24:30.Jeremy Corbyn was filmed sitting on the train floor because his team
:24:31. > :24:33.said there were no unreserved seats free.
:24:34. > :24:36.Now he says the problem was he could not find two together,
:24:37. > :24:45.After 45 minutes, his party were seated by train staff.
:24:46. > :24:48.Today, his campaign manager insisted they had played it straight.
:24:49. > :24:51.He is a man of principle and integrity.
:24:52. > :24:55.As he conceded, he could have had a seat on that train if he had
:24:56. > :25:03.If there had been seats available, he would have sat in those seats.
:25:04. > :25:07.He did not think there were any available.
:25:08. > :25:13.The crew apologised for the fact there were no seats.
:25:14. > :25:17.On today's departure from King's Cross to Newcastle,
:25:18. > :25:20.there were plenty of unreserved seats free, and some support
:25:21. > :25:26.I am on the service all the time, there are many times
:25:27. > :25:36.I have been on the return journey, but never in the day.
:25:37. > :25:39.It is ridiculous how it has become such a massive thing,
:25:40. > :25:41.there are so many bigger things going on.
:25:42. > :25:45.But his leadership rival was keen to stir the row.
:25:46. > :25:48.What is clear from the footage I have seen is that he had
:25:49. > :25:51.a seat on the train, and there were seats,
:25:52. > :25:55.and he chose to sit on the floor for the purposes of the video.
:25:56. > :25:58.This may have caused Jeremy Corbyn some discomfort, but a bust up
:25:59. > :26:06.with a private train company may well fire up his supporters.
:26:07. > :26:10.New figures show that Scotland's deficit was almost ?15 billion
:26:11. > :26:17.That's half a billion higher than the previous year.
:26:18. > :26:26.These figures show the very dramatic effect the fall in the oil price has
:26:27. > :26:32.In the year 2014-15, the tax raised from offshore oil
:26:33. > :26:35.and gas industries was worth ?1.8 billion to the Exchequer.
:26:36. > :26:39.Last year, it contributed just ?60 million.
:26:40. > :26:45.That's a fall of 97% in the revenue received from the North Sea.
:26:46. > :26:47.That loss was offset by a rise in other earnings,
:26:48. > :26:49.but it still leaves Scotland spending more public money
:26:50. > :26:59.The Scottish economy has a notional deficit of ?14.8 billion.
:27:00. > :27:05.That is pretty high, as it is 9.5% of Scottish GDP.
:27:06. > :27:07.By comparison, the deficit for the UK as whole
:27:08. > :27:13.This doesn't mean that the Scottish Government has to start slashing
:27:14. > :27:16.Their budget is not determined by how much tax
:27:17. > :27:20.But it does allow their political opponents to point to these figures
:27:21. > :27:22.and say they show how Scotland benefits economically
:27:23. > :27:25.from being part of the UK, and that if Scotland were to become
:27:26. > :27:28.independent, it would be struggling with a large,
:27:29. > :27:33.That matters because First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is currently
:27:34. > :27:37.considering whether to call a second referendum on Scottish independence.
:27:38. > :27:40.Today she says the biggest risk to the Scottish economy is not
:27:41. > :27:44.She has produced some additional statistics that she says show that
:27:45. > :27:55.Brexit could cost the Scottish economy up to ?11 billion a year.
:27:56. > :27:58.Almost 20 years after new grammar schools in England were banned,
:27:59. > :28:00.the Government is said to be considering allowing more
:28:01. > :28:04.At the moment there are just over 160 state-funded grammar schools,
:28:05. > :28:06.in which pupils get a place after passing an academic test.
:28:07. > :28:09.For the second in our series of big decisions facing Theresa May, our
:28:10. > :28:12.Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys reports from Lincolnshire,
:28:13. > :28:18.one of three counties that's kept a grammar system.
:28:19. > :28:22.Sunshine and sand in Skegness, but I've come to Lincolnshire
:28:23. > :28:27.These are the families Theresa May wants to reach,
:28:28. > :28:33.working to give their children the best they can manage.
:28:34. > :28:36.Skegness Grammar School is 600 years old.
:28:37. > :28:43.For Jo, who does accounts, and Andy, who runs a welding business, grammar
:28:44. > :28:48.There are some schools where children are there
:28:49. > :28:55.And they're sat at the back of the classroom looking around
:28:56. > :28:57.and for those that want to get on, that's off-putting.
:28:58. > :29:02.So, I think some sort of segregation, and if it's
:29:03. > :29:06.There is more discipline, it is stricter, but I don't see that
:29:07. > :29:09.as a bad thing and it does give the opportunity for other
:29:10. > :29:14.England isn't going back to the system where every
:29:15. > :29:19.11-year-old sat a test to decide if they got into a school like this.
:29:20. > :29:23.But more selection is back on the cards.
:29:24. > :29:26.Grammar schools can provide a great education for those that
:29:27. > :29:30.get a place, but poor, bright children are less likely
:29:31. > :29:37.Grammar schools only take the minority that pass their test.
:29:38. > :29:42.Most end up in a school like the one run by Ian Widdows 15 miles
:29:43. > :29:46.We offer the Duke of Edinburgh Awards for all our students,
:29:47. > :29:51.He is proud to call it a secondary modern, the old name for schools
:29:52. > :29:54.that take pupils rejected by grammars.
:29:55. > :29:58.Without some of the middle-class kids, some of the brightest kids,
:29:59. > :30:04.They're likely to have more students from a deprived background.
:30:05. > :30:06.They'll have students arriving already feeling like failures
:30:07. > :30:10.because they failed the 11-Plus and they may find it more difficult
:30:11. > :30:13.to recruit some of the better teachers and the more
:30:14. > :30:20.Grass-roots politics matter too after the Brexit vote.
:30:21. > :30:22.Here, Tory councillors fought plans to force good schools
:30:23. > :30:29.Lincolnshire gets less money than inner cities for its schools.
:30:30. > :30:32.So how do the priorities look from here?
:30:33. > :30:34.The first priority has to be funding.
:30:35. > :30:37.We have to get our schools funded the same as everybody
:30:38. > :30:47.And last, bottom of the list, would be academies.
:30:48. > :30:49.My journey's end, up the coast in Grimsby.
:30:50. > :30:53.No grammars here, but some struggling schools.
:30:54. > :30:56.Money is going into areas like this across the north to help drive up
:30:57. > :31:02.But many of the people involved in that work aren't convinced that
:31:03. > :31:07.grammar schools are the answer, and privately some have even told me
:31:08. > :31:13.Grimsby wants to better itself, and that's what grammar schools
:31:14. > :31:23.It's that belief in opportunity the Government wants to reach.
:31:24. > :31:26.The world's largest aircraft has crash-landed during its second test
:31:27. > :31:32.Airlander 10 is part-plane, part-helicopter and part-airship.
:31:33. > :31:34.It was damaged at its base at Cardington Airfield this morning.
:31:35. > :31:44.The world's largest aircraft takes a long time to crash.
:31:45. > :31:51.The pilot cannot stop it nosediving into the ground.
:31:52. > :31:54.The cockpit, with the crew upfront, is clearly smashed up.
:31:55. > :31:56.If there is somebody shaking less than me...
:31:57. > :32:00.For Angela, who shot this footage, it was frightening to watch.
:32:01. > :32:04.It was awful, you don't know if the people have come out alive,
:32:05. > :32:12.I shook when I held the camera, trying to get the pictures.
:32:13. > :32:16.I said, "If anybody can hold it steady, they are welcome to."
:32:17. > :32:26.Eyewitnesses told me they saw sparks coming from the mooring rope
:32:27. > :32:29.after it hit something, but I understand that is not
:32:30. > :32:34.There was no chance of a fireball because the Airliner is full
:32:35. > :32:39.of inert helium gas, not the explosive hydrogen gas
:32:40. > :32:42.of the famous old airships like the Hindenburg.
:32:43. > :32:45.This accident is an embarrassing setback on just its
:32:46. > :32:54.But the company says it should fly again soon.
:32:55. > :33:00.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.