:00:00. > :00:00.We report from the frontline, as Iraqi troops make a major
:00:07. > :00:12.breakthrough against so-called Islamic State.
:00:13. > :00:14.After a huge military operation, Iraqi troops secure
:00:15. > :00:17.the airport in the country's second largest city.
:00:18. > :00:20.Over there, it's the Iraqi flag that's flying on the airfield again.
:00:21. > :00:28.Iraqi forces now have the Islamic State group on the run.
:00:29. > :00:31.We'll be looking at whether this is a turning point in the battle
:00:32. > :00:37.A lucky escape for one driver, as Storm Doris wreaks
:00:38. > :00:52.Migration figures are down - but some industries worry they'll be
:00:53. > :00:58.A special report into the widespread sexual abuse perpetrated by UN
:00:59. > :01:03.peacekeepers against the children they should protect.
:01:04. > :01:05.And what police found in an old nuclear bunker -
:01:06. > :01:11.almost ?1 million worth of cannabis plants.
:01:12. > :01:13.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:14. > :01:16.Whilst Ranieri's off, Wayne Rooney's staying -
:01:17. > :01:40.he's decided to stay at Manchester United for the time being.
:01:41. > :01:43.Tonight, we report from the frontline as Iraqi troops make
:01:44. > :01:47.a major breakthrough in the battle against so-called Islamic State.
:01:48. > :01:49.After fierce fighting, they've taken the airport
:01:50. > :01:51.in Iraq's second city, Mosul.
:01:52. > :01:54.It's a key staging point to driving the militants
:01:55. > :01:58.The east has already been recaptured.
:01:59. > :02:01.The massive military operation, Iraq's largest in years,
:02:02. > :02:06.has involved tens of thousands of troops, including some British
:02:07. > :02:09.Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman
:02:10. > :02:12.Nik Millard were there as Iraqi government troops
:02:13. > :02:37.Before the attack, came the rockets and artillery. It's day five of the
:02:38. > :02:42.offensive to retake western Mosul. Slowly, the forces make their way
:02:43. > :02:47.past a suspected IS car bomb, talks en route. These armoured columns are
:02:48. > :02:54.now moving forward to Mosul airport. The attack of the airport is
:02:55. > :02:57.underway. All night, we've heard coalition aircraft and Iraqi
:02:58. > :03:02.artillery slamming this area to the north of us. The onslaught had
:03:03. > :03:16.cleared this village of IS fighters and civilians. It's a really quiet,
:03:17. > :03:23.as the men proceed on foot. A local man tells the special forces there
:03:24. > :03:32.were up to 100 IS here yesterday. They have hidden bombs all over. So
:03:33. > :03:40.the men took to higher ground. And we followed at a safe distance. As
:03:41. > :03:53.the day went on, there was no letup. It's from this factory that IS
:03:54. > :04:02.defended the airport. Their flag flew here yesterday, but no longer.
:04:03. > :04:06.In less than four hours, Iraqi forces had breached the airport
:04:07. > :04:12.barometer, but IS fought back. -- remixer.
:04:13. > :04:23.First, a huge roadside bomb which killed an Iraqi officer. Despite the
:04:24. > :04:30.air strikes, IS fighters were still putting up resistance. From the
:04:31. > :04:37.cover of an armoured vehicle, we were able to see the battle ahead.
:04:38. > :04:54.There is a gun battle going on at the moment.
:04:55. > :05:05.It was a short battle, but there were no casualties from the front.
:05:06. > :05:14.The more they advance, the more civilians they meet, and they are in
:05:15. > :05:18.a wretched state. These people had hung on during years of Islamic
:05:19. > :05:25.State group rule but, in the midst of this final battle, they were
:05:26. > :05:31.overwhelmed. This man says, they are dead in this house, all dead. My
:05:32. > :05:34.brother has already gone to the camp. He is heartbroken. Six of his
:05:35. > :05:46.family were killed in an air strike. This is the last open ground before
:05:47. > :05:55.west Mosul. The desert and farmland here made for swift progress. Iraqi
:05:56. > :06:01.forces are now less than a mile away from the city. They are also in
:06:02. > :06:08.range of mortars from IS. But it's the Islamic State that is under
:06:09. > :06:13.threat. Mosul airport may be in ruins but, more importantly, it's
:06:14. > :06:16.back in government hands. Over there, it's the Iraqi flag bats
:06:17. > :06:22.flying on the airfield again. This is a landmark moment. Iraqi forces
:06:23. > :06:28.now have the Islamic State group on the run. IS might transform itself
:06:29. > :06:31.into something else but right now, in Iraq, we are witnessing the final
:06:32. > :06:34.days of the caliphate. Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Mosul.
:06:35. > :06:36.Storm Doris has brought chaos across the UK.
:06:37. > :06:39.Winds of up to 95 miles per hour have caused one death as a woman
:06:40. > :06:41.was killed by flying debris in Wolverhampton.
:06:42. > :06:43.Trees have been brought down, taking power lines with them.
:06:44. > :06:45.Nearly all rail operators have been reporting delays,
:06:46. > :06:50.Planes have been grounded and bridges and roads have been closed.
:06:51. > :06:52.Tens of thousands of homes have been left without power.
:06:53. > :07:06.It was late morning when emergency services were called to
:07:07. > :07:11.Wolverhampton city centre. A woman had been hit by flying debris. Her
:07:12. > :07:17.head injuries were so serious, she died at the scene. Hours later, a
:07:18. > :07:23.heavy panel was taken away as an investigation started. Storm Doris
:07:24. > :07:28.swept into Scotland this morning, leaving drivers struggling in snowy
:07:29. > :07:34.conditions, like here, on the auto macro -- A71. The high winds did not
:07:35. > :07:39.stay anywhere for long but they did enough damage on the way, like on
:07:40. > :07:43.this moorland road in Staffordshire. Further south, this railway line
:07:44. > :07:47.near St Albans was closed by a single voluntary. Such scenes were
:07:48. > :07:54.repeated across the rail network. The result was a long, frustrating
:07:55. > :08:00.day for many travellers. This was used and, where West Coast Main Line
:08:01. > :08:04.services ground to a halt. My train has been cancelled so I'm unsure how
:08:05. > :08:09.to get home. I might have to stay an extra night. We didn't know till we
:08:10. > :08:14.got here that all Virgin Trains were cancelled, so we are stranded and we
:08:15. > :08:19.can't get back to Manchester. 145 miles north in Retford, they were
:08:20. > :08:26.very laid back but they knew it could have been worse. Thankful to
:08:27. > :08:31.have got back tonight. Absolutely. Still a lot of people in London.
:08:32. > :08:36.Yes, it was awful at King's Cross, hundreds of people. I talked to a
:08:37. > :08:41.lady and she got on the 1:10pm train, sat there for an hour and had
:08:42. > :08:45.to get off the train, and she was still in King's Cross at 5pm. Look
:08:46. > :08:47.at the lucky escape a driving instructor had in Spalding this
:08:48. > :09:00.morning. Spare a thought for the bumpy
:09:01. > :09:07.landings endured by air passengers. This was a service coming into
:09:08. > :09:16.Manchester. Storm Doris will be remembered for its southerly track.
:09:17. > :09:17.It is now gone, but certainly not forgotten.
:09:18. > :09:19.Claudio Ranieri has been sacked as Leicester City's manager.
:09:20. > :09:21.Despite guiding the club to what had seemed
:09:22. > :09:23.an impossible dream - Premier League
:09:24. > :09:25.triumph last season - and being voted Fifa's
:09:26. > :09:26.coach of the year, the club's owners tonight
:09:27. > :09:28.dismissed him, citing "long-term interests".
:09:29. > :09:30.Leicester's dismal season has left them teetering
:09:31. > :09:32.above the relegation zone, as our Sports Editor
:09:33. > :09:49.He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles, at less than a
:09:50. > :09:53.year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City became one of the
:09:54. > :09:59.most unlikely Premier League winners ever, the magnitude of the dream has
:10:00. > :10:03.been dismissed. Leicester City are the Premier League champions! Last
:10:04. > :10:06.season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation. In a statement
:10:07. > :10:22.tonight, the club's vice-chairman said:
:10:23. > :10:31.despite being 5000-1 rank outsiders for the title last season, Ranieri
:10:32. > :10:37.somehow guided his team to a barely believable triumph. Jamie Vardy's
:10:38. > :10:44.goals helped the side window title by ten points and admirers across
:10:45. > :10:52.the world. -- win the title. And Italian deservedly crowned coach of
:10:53. > :10:59.the year. Incredible that it's happened. But this years and --
:11:00. > :11:02.season the euphoria evaporated, and Leicester are languishing one point
:11:03. > :11:08.above the relegation zone. Manager real loyalty is in notoriously short
:11:09. > :11:12.supply in the Premier League but, given what Ranieri achieved, many
:11:13. > :11:18.will be dismayed. Tonight, former Leicester star Gary Lineker
:11:19. > :11:21.described the dismissal as inexplicable, unforgivable and
:11:22. > :11:30.ducked wrenchingly sad. Ranieri's last game in charge was this 2-1
:11:31. > :11:35.game against Sofia last night. He was seemingly unaware of his state.
:11:36. > :11:40.We know they are better than us, a very high quality team, very
:11:41. > :11:46.experienced. But we have a very big heart. Very big fought. We have each
:11:47. > :11:52.other. And I think we deserve this goal. But it is Leicester's for
:11:53. > :11:58.performances in the Premier League that could see them becoming only
:11:59. > :12:02.the second champion in history to see a title defence ending in
:12:03. > :12:07.relegation, and that is what cost Ranieri his job. The memories of
:12:08. > :12:08.what he achieved will always be treasured but the fairy tale is
:12:09. > :12:08.over. The business of professional
:12:09. > :12:13.football can be brutal but even by those standards this will strike
:12:14. > :12:23.many as very harsh. Ruthless, cut-throat, a number of
:12:24. > :12:28.words you could use. Many people thought Claudio Ranieri would be
:12:29. > :12:32.given at least a full season, an act of loyalty perhaps from grateful
:12:33. > :12:36.owners given the fairy tale success he delivered just nine months ago.
:12:37. > :12:41.The fans are perhaps in shock. Saying about the gratitude they head
:12:42. > :12:44.towards Claudio Ranieri. But the owners are worried. They are
:12:45. > :12:48.flirting with relegation. The team is just above the relegation zone,
:12:49. > :12:53.and that would be financially damaging. There is ?9 million of TV
:12:54. > :12:57.revenue to be carved up over the Premier League clubs over the course
:12:58. > :12:59.of three seasons and in sporting terms they want to be fighting among
:13:00. > :13:06.the best. Relegation threatened that. With 13 games left, they are
:13:07. > :13:09.in terrible form. Claudio Ranieri had been described as performing
:13:10. > :13:12.miracles to get Leicester City to that title and it may now need
:13:13. > :13:14.another miracle worker to save their season.
:13:15. > :13:16.The first official figures following last year's EU referendum
:13:17. > :13:19.show a fall in net migration to the UK - the difference
:13:20. > :13:22.between the number of people coming to live here and those leaving.
:13:23. > :13:24.It stands at 273,000, down 49,000 on the previous
:13:25. > :13:28.year, though still far above the Government
:13:29. > :13:33.The fall is partly due to Eastern Europeans
:13:34. > :13:36.returning home to countries like Poland and Hungary.
:13:37. > :13:39.There's also been a significant fall in overseas student numbers.
:13:40. > :13:41.Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, reports.
:13:42. > :13:48.So you need to cross the wall, the gate, sorry, and on the right
:13:49. > :13:49.hand you will find the Minster Cathedral.
:13:50. > :13:51.Not that there's too much but that there
:13:52. > :13:56.The oldest street in town is Shambles.
:13:57. > :13:58.York's tourist industry is booming, now worth a remarkable half
:13:59. > :14:02.a billion pounds a year and supporting a record 20,000
:14:03. > :14:07.But growth here, as in much of the hospitality industry,
:14:08. > :14:26.In fact, with very low unemployment in York,
:14:27. > :14:30.businesses like this cannot grow or even survive without a supply
:14:31. > :14:35.A quarter of British hospitality businesses say they have
:14:36. > :14:38.currently got vacancies that they are struggling to fill.
:14:39. > :14:41.With the UK labour market close to capacity and the prospect
:14:42. > :14:45.of a squeeze on EU migrant labour, there are real concerns
:14:46. > :14:50.It would create a staffing crisis, to get to a point where we can't
:14:51. > :14:54.fill that resource with a European worker, then there's a big gap
:14:55. > :15:01.For York as an example, there isn't enough of them around.
:15:02. > :15:04.The latest figures show a big drop in the numbers coming to work
:15:05. > :15:08.in Britain from countries like Poland, down 16%, Hungary,
:15:09. > :15:16.More are coming from Romania, up 11%, and Bulgarian, up 8%.
:15:17. > :15:18.But many experts predict those arrivals will
:15:19. > :15:24.Now it is beginning to change to Germany or beginning to learn
:15:25. > :15:27.more German because the UK is beginning to be quite less
:15:28. > :15:31.attractive for young people coming to work.
:15:32. > :15:37.Contributing to the fall in net migration, the number
:15:38. > :15:39.of international students has dropped significantly
:15:40. > :15:42.since the Brexit vote, with warnings from universities that
:15:43. > :15:48.In the last few days, government ministers have struck
:15:49. > :15:54.The UK will always be a welcoming place for people
:15:55. > :15:56.who want to come here, work here and contribute
:15:57. > :16:03.It's just that there's no support for uncontrolled immigration.
:16:04. > :16:05.Reducing net migration by almost two thirds remains a clear commitment
:16:06. > :16:11.Supporters of the policy say Britain needs to overcome its addiction
:16:12. > :16:15.to cheap migrant labour and train and recruit more home-grown workers.
:16:16. > :16:18.But the owner of this Yorkshire carrot farm says he has
:16:19. > :16:21.to employ eastern Europeans because there are simply not
:16:22. > :16:25.My message is very simple to Mrs May.
:16:26. > :16:28.Take my workers away from me, but you'll take yours out
:16:29. > :16:31.of your health service and your care homes and see how you can
:16:32. > :16:34.run your businesses, because I can't run mine.
:16:35. > :16:36.Cutting immigration may currently enjoy broad public support
:16:37. > :16:40.but turning Britain into a low migration economy
:16:41. > :16:52.Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker is at Westminster.
:16:53. > :16:54.That's the dilemma with falling migration, and the Government
:16:55. > :17:03.appears to be trying to tread a very careful line on it.
:17:04. > :17:09.And interesting that that fall of 49,000 in the net migration figure
:17:10. > :17:14.has been met by a pretty muted response, partly because the ONS,
:17:15. > :17:17.which drew up the statistics, said it was not significant statistically
:17:18. > :17:21.and partly because they say it is too soon to say if it has anything
:17:22. > :17:25.to do with Brexit. But also nobody expects the big change until we are
:17:26. > :17:30.out of the EU and the country no longer has to accept the free
:17:31. > :17:33.movement of EU citizens. Ministers are well aware that many people
:17:34. > :17:38.voted to leave the EU because of concerns about immigration, the
:17:39. > :17:44.pressures on local communities and services and so on. But they are
:17:45. > :17:48.also well aware, as you heard in that report, that many companies say
:17:49. > :17:52.they need those EU workers, the agriculture sector said it cannot
:17:53. > :17:57.cope without the seasonal workers, the health service has tens of
:17:58. > :18:00.thousands of staff from across the EU, the universities say they need
:18:01. > :18:05.those foreign students to bring in the funding they need. Ministers
:18:06. > :18:11.still face a big challenge even when we are out of the EU, they are well
:18:12. > :18:16.off that target of net migration down to below 100,000 and there is
:18:17. > :18:19.no clear plan as to how they will achieve that even when we are out of
:18:20. > :18:20.the EU. Thank you. A task force set up to tackle child
:18:21. > :18:23.sex abuse by UN peacekeepers is due to report to member
:18:24. > :18:26.states next week. After a two-year investigation,
:18:27. > :18:30.the new head of the UN, Antonio Guterres, has called
:18:31. > :18:32.for "game-changing" solutions Sexual abuse by some UN peacekeepers
:18:33. > :18:39.has blighted the lives of children In some incidences, they have been
:18:40. > :18:45.accused of raping them Our special report from Fergal Keane
:18:46. > :18:50.and his cameraman Tony Fallshaw This is the story of how
:18:51. > :19:00.international peacekeepers are accused of betraying the trust
:19:01. > :19:02.of some of the world's TRANSLATION: At night
:19:03. > :19:11.it was very cold and the man offered my son a pill,
:19:12. > :19:14.claiming it would warm him. It took my son five
:19:15. > :19:18.minutes to fall asleep. It's the story of children being
:19:19. > :19:30.abused and a culture of impunity. In July 2014 I informed the French
:19:31. > :19:33.government about allegations of French soldiers abusing children
:19:34. > :19:39.in Central African Republic. Nine months after that I was asked
:19:40. > :19:42.by the UN leadership to resign and when I refused to resign,
:19:43. > :19:51.I was forced out. The scandal began in late 2013
:19:52. > :19:55.at this refugee camp, an airport runway where French
:19:56. > :19:58.peacekeepers protected thousands of people
:19:59. > :20:00.and their children from violence They and the UN helped
:20:01. > :20:08.to prevent genocide. But some are accused
:20:09. > :20:14.of becoming sexual predators. TRANSLATION: After the rape
:20:15. > :20:19.he was crying and afraid, but the soldier reassured him
:20:20. > :20:21.and said not to mention They allege the soldier then
:20:22. > :20:27.threatened to stab him TRANSLATION: At first our child
:20:28. > :20:34.tried to avoid us, hardly When I asked why, he explained
:20:35. > :20:40.what had happened. His friends were mocking him
:20:41. > :20:42.because of the rape. Now he takes drugs and won't go
:20:43. > :20:45.to school or socialise The peacekeeping operation
:20:46. > :20:57.was launched by the French but it would soon expand
:20:58. > :21:01.into a full UN mission. As peacekeepers from other
:21:02. > :21:03.nations were deployed, Senior officials were made aware
:21:04. > :21:17.but they are accused of failing to act, apart
:21:18. > :21:20.from one brave individual. Anders Kompass was a senior UN human
:21:21. > :21:23.rights official who, in mid-July 2014, was shown
:21:24. > :21:25.an internal report alleging sexual I remember I went home
:21:26. > :21:33.and I couldn't sleep during that night because I was struggling with,
:21:34. > :21:39.what is it that I can do. At the UN offices in Geneva,
:21:40. > :21:42.Kompass approached the country whose soldiers were the first to be
:21:43. > :21:46.accused of abuse. He leaked the report to the French,
:21:47. > :21:48.prompting them to start The UN was furious,
:21:49. > :21:52.claiming his action potentially I was asked to resign for giving
:21:53. > :22:01.this report and the accusation A year after Anders Kompass
:22:02. > :22:11.alerted the authorities, this 14-year-old was approached
:22:12. > :22:14.by a soldier from the Her father was killed in the war
:22:15. > :22:20.and her mother was ill TRANSLATION: Hunger drove my
:22:21. > :22:27.daughter to see the soldier. He gave her money, food rations,
:22:28. > :22:44.and took her to watch videos. The abuse had life
:22:45. > :22:47.altering consequences. The girl became pregnant and was
:22:48. > :22:51.infected with HIV by the soldier. There is no hope, no possibility
:22:52. > :22:59.for my children to go to school I suffer constantly thinking
:23:00. > :23:10.about my children's future. It took another month
:23:11. > :23:12.and the case of this girl, then aged 12, to push the UN
:23:13. > :23:15.leadership into action. UN troops had raided the family home
:23:16. > :23:22.to arrest a close relative. TRANSLATION: They started to bang
:23:23. > :23:25.at the door to shout, United Nations police,
:23:26. > :23:31.get out of here! Her mother told me the girl
:23:32. > :23:33.had become separated She told me there was
:23:34. > :23:42.a man who took her. She showed us the place
:23:43. > :23:44.where it happened. But this incident and the killing
:23:45. > :23:57.of civilians prompted alarm at UN headquarters in New York,
:23:58. > :23:59.after being reported I cannot put into words how
:24:00. > :24:07.anguished and angered The head of mission was sacked,
:24:08. > :24:17.there was a clamp-down on abuse, and a UN report would later harshly
:24:18. > :24:19.criticise senior figures, including the head of human
:24:20. > :24:22.rights on the mission, It said he was one of the top
:24:23. > :24:28.figures, whose failure to intervene exposed children to repeated
:24:29. > :24:31.assaults and stated he had helped But what has happened
:24:32. > :24:37.to Renner Onana? More than a year after being
:24:38. > :24:40.condemned in the UN's own report, he has been promoted and is seen
:24:41. > :24:43.here still working in The UN said Mr Onana would not
:24:44. > :24:48.comment as headquarters It is understood he
:24:49. > :24:52.rejects the allegations. We did speak with his boss,
:24:53. > :24:54.a respected UN veteran, As an organisation, the UN has
:24:55. > :25:04.established rules and procedures and in the case of the individual
:25:05. > :25:08.you just mentioned, the staff member you just mentioned,
:25:09. > :25:13.the process is ongoing whereby he is being allowed to rebut
:25:14. > :25:17.the allegations against him and that process hasn't been completed,
:25:18. > :25:21.as far as I'm aware. Do you understand,
:25:22. > :25:25.and you are with the UN a long time, how it looks to the people
:25:26. > :25:29.who are critical of this organisation when you
:25:30. > :25:32.have that situation? Everything that people
:25:33. > :25:37.say about the lack of We have processes and those
:25:38. > :25:45.processes are now being, And it's my strong belief that,
:25:46. > :25:52.at the end of the day Peacekeepers can only be prosecuted
:25:53. > :25:57.by their own countries and while a whole contingent has
:25:58. > :25:59.since been sent home over allegations, there have only been
:26:00. > :26:02.a handful of charges. After two years of investigation,
:26:03. > :26:04.France hasn't charged It's terrible for the credibility
:26:05. > :26:16.and the trust of the United Nations. First of all vis-a-vis the people
:26:17. > :26:20.and the children who have been effected but also to all the people
:26:21. > :26:23.who are inside the United Nations The UN says new peacekeepers
:26:24. > :26:31.face strict controls. Even if there was only
:26:32. > :26:34.one single case left, The hopes of the victims
:26:35. > :26:50.depend on it being kept. Fergal Keane, BBC News,
:26:51. > :26:56.Central African Republic. A brief look at some
:26:57. > :27:00.of the day's other news stories. The fiance of children's
:27:01. > :27:02.author Helen Bailey, who murdered her and dumped her body
:27:03. > :27:05.in a cesspit, has been Ian Stewart was convicted
:27:06. > :27:10.of secretly drugging and suffocating Ms Bailey in a plot
:27:11. > :27:13.to inherit her money. Her body was found under their
:27:14. > :27:16.garage in Hertfordshire last July. The judge said it was "difficult
:27:17. > :27:22.to imagine a more heinous crime". Prisons in England and Wales
:27:23. > :27:25.will expected to reform and rehabilitate offenders,
:27:26. > :27:27.as well as punish them, under new plans to overhaul
:27:28. > :27:29.the prisons system. Other measures presented
:27:30. > :27:32.to Parliament today include to clamp down on the use of drugs
:27:33. > :27:35.and mobile phones in jail. The Justice Secretary said the bill
:27:36. > :27:37.aims to reduce prison CCTV images of the moment
:27:38. > :27:43.a convicted murderer escaped during a hospital visit have been
:27:44. > :27:45.released by police. Shaun Walmsley, 28, was getting
:27:46. > :27:48.into a cab with prison officers when he was sprung
:27:49. > :27:51.from custody by two armed men. Walmsley is described
:27:52. > :27:58.as "highly dangerous". Polls have closed and counting
:27:59. > :28:00.will get underway shortly Both were Labour seats -
:28:01. > :28:03.Copeland in Cumbria Our Deputy Political
:28:04. > :28:07.Editor, John Pienaar, There's a lot at stake here,
:28:08. > :28:21.and not just for Labour. An enormous amount at stake. These
:28:22. > :28:25.by-elections can flare up and be forgotten just as quickly but these
:28:26. > :28:30.elections have the capacity to set or resit the mood in British
:28:31. > :28:35.politics. Why? The city of Stoke has been in labour hands since 1935 and
:28:36. > :28:38.so have the Copeland by-election and they ought have been banalities but
:28:39. > :28:49.Labour has had to fight for its life. -- formalities. It has tempted
:28:50. > :28:53.the Ukip new leader Paul Nuttall two chances on here and if he can beat
:28:54. > :28:57.Labour and strike fear into labour seat because the north and Midlands
:28:58. > :29:00.in particular. Paul Nuttall and Ukip have wobbled in recent days,
:29:01. > :29:03.admitting a claim on his website that he lost friends in the
:29:04. > :29:07.Hillsborough disaster was wrong and that has given Labour hope they can
:29:08. > :29:11.hang on. Meanwhile, Theresa May and the Tories are watching Ukip and
:29:12. > :29:15.labour in this life or death struggle and they are a mile ahead
:29:16. > :29:19.in the polls and believing that in Copeland they might take that seat.
:29:20. > :29:24.The first win by a governing party in a by-election for 35 years. The
:29:25. > :29:28.voting is going on as you can see, they are stacking up the seat and
:29:29. > :29:30.after an awful day of weather, a lot is at stake and it is not just
:29:31. > :29:33.election hype. Thank you. Thousands of cannabis plants have
:29:34. > :29:36.been discovered by police growing in an underground nuclear bunker
:29:37. > :29:38.near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The crop has an estimated street
:29:39. > :29:41.value of more than ?1 million. Officers say the plants
:29:42. > :29:43.were being grown in 20 large rooms with almost every part
:29:44. > :29:46.of the bunker dedicated to what they described as the "wholesale
:29:47. > :29:48.production" of cannabis. Hidden in the Wiltshire countryside,
:29:49. > :30:00.RGHQ Chilmark, a vast underground bunker built to protect Britain's
:30:01. > :30:05.leaders in a nuclear war. This afternoon, police showed us
:30:06. > :30:13.the vast cannabis growing operation How would you describe
:30:14. > :30:20.what you have discovered here? A huge, massively professional
:30:21. > :30:24.setup, the biggest cannabis factory farm that I've seen in my 25
:30:25. > :30:26.years of service. To find this in the heart of rural
:30:27. > :30:30.Wiltshire is quite incredible. Each one kitted out with specialist
:30:31. > :30:37.equipment to grow the plants Officers say huge amounts of power
:30:38. > :30:43.have been secretly siphoned Every room has got this
:30:44. > :30:49.setup in it as well. The vents at the top to withdraw
:30:50. > :30:52.all the fumes and take that outside In some of the rooms
:30:53. > :30:57.you see signs of people This was the old canteen,
:30:58. > :31:02.still being used last night, it seems, years after the bunker
:31:03. > :31:04.was sold off by the Three people were arrested inside,
:31:05. > :31:10.including a 15-year-old boy. Three older men were arrested
:31:11. > :31:12.outside on suspicion of human In this room police have found
:31:13. > :31:19.hundreds of bags of old compost and they say that suggests this
:31:20. > :31:22.bunker has been used It is all very different
:31:23. > :31:25.from when the Cold War bunker The site had been under surveillance
:31:26. > :31:33.for some time but officers swooped last night when they saw
:31:34. > :31:35.the doors opening. They say local people had reported
:31:36. > :31:38.suspicious activity and a powerful Newsnight's about to begin over
:31:39. > :31:49.on BBC Two in a few moments. Tonight, a rare interview with one
:31:50. > :31:54.US Supreme Court judge And we're on the ground
:31:55. > :32:00.in the by-election which could reshape the contours
:32:01. > :32:05.of British poliitcs. Here on BBC One, it's time
:32:06. > :32:08.for the news where you are.