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Nigel Evans, the senior conservative MP, has been arrested | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. The Deputy Speaker of the | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
House of Commons has been questioned about alleged attacks on | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
two men. Activists accuse the Syrian government of another | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
massacre, but the regime says it was fighting terrorists. After | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
UKIP's local election success, calls for a Conservative policy | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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rethink to win back the voters. And joy for Hull City - winning | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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automatic promotion to the Premier Good evening. The senior | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Conservative MP Nigel Evans has been arrested on suspicion of rape | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
and sexual assault. It is understood the MP for Ribble Valley, | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
who is also the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, - is being | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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questioned about alleged attacks on two men. Luisa Baldini reports. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
A popular figure in Westminster, Nigel Evans has been a member of | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
the Conservative Party since 1974, when he joined at the age of 17. Mr | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Evans is the first of three Deputy Speakers of the House of Commons. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
When elections were held for the position in 2010, he topped the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
poll. Later that year, he came out as gay, saying he was tired of | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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living a lie. In a statement this The alleged victims are understood | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
to be men in their 20s. This evening, a friend and fellow MP | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
spoke of his shock. I have known him to be a kindly, caring and | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
him to be a kindly, caring and gentle person. I do not believe | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
that he is capable of inflicting his way on anybody. Born and bred | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
in Wales, Nigel Evans fought elections there before contesting | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Ribble Valley in Lancashire, where he has been MP for more than 20 | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
years. Mr Evans was previously a vice-chairman of the Conservative | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Party and a shadow Welsh secretary. Prime Minister David Cameron has | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
been made aware of the arrest. It is understood that tonight, Nigel | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Evans is still being questioned by In Syria, hundreds of families have | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
been fleeing a town in the north- west of the country, where | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
activists say 150 people have been killed by government forces. State | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
media denied there had been a massacre, but said troops had | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
massacre, but said troops had killed what it called terrorists. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
It comes as Israel is reported to have carried out an air strike | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
inside Syria - targeting a weapons convoy. Our Middle East | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
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correspondent Wyre Davies has more An increasingly brutal conflict, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
where atrocities against civilians are a daily occurrence. But the | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
latest allegations from Syria are among the most shocking of the two | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
years of civil war. Amid reports that hundreds of civilians were | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
fleeing from the coastal city of Baniyas, images emerged which we | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
cannot verify and are too gruesome to broadcast, suing the mutilated | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
bodies of whole families, the alleged victims of pro-government | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
forces as they overran the area. But showing off pictures of | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
captured weapons, Syrian state television said government troops | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
had successfully driven off what it called terrorists from the area. In | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
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a statement, the US Government This man made it across the border | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
to Ilonen. He grieves for his four young nephews, all killed in Syria. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
-- to Lebanon. TRANSLATION: My son, who had been | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
up all night, had me and told me, may they rest in peace. I asked him | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
if my brother had died. He said no, but the four children were dead. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the situation deteriorates, reports from Israel said several Israeli | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
fighter jets entered Lebanese airspace late on Thursday, from | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
whence they are said to have bombed a weapons convoy inside Syria, a | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
convoy bound for the militant organisation Hezbollah, the arch- | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
enemy of Israel, based in southern Lebanon. Israeli sources say the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
convoy contained significant weaponry, probably Russian-made | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
surface-to-air missiles. While the Israeli Government rarely comments | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
on specific incidents, it has repeatedly said in the past that it | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
would intervene in Syria if it felt that weapons were falling into the | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
wrong hands. Earlier this week, I crossed the open border between | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Lebanon and Syria and saw how Hezbollah is playing an | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
increasingly decisive and active role in the civil war in Syria, | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
supporting fighters loyal to the Assad regime. As the world | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
prevaricates about if and how to support President Assad's opponents, | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
he and his supporters claim to be increasingly confident, immune to | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
mounting global criticism that the latest horror stories emerging from | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
The former Conservative Chairman Lord Tebbit has called on David | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Cameron to consider adopting some of the UK Independence Party's | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
policies to win back disaffected Conservative voters. He is one of | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
several senior Tories who have been speaking about the party's heavy | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
losses to UKIP in Thursday's local elections. This report from our | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
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political correspondent, Iain Nigel Farage's party members have | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
been called clowns, nutters and fruitcakes, but they say imitation | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
is the sincerest form of flattery. UKIP are now being taken so | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
seriously that some senior Conservatives are calling on David | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Cameron to steal their policies. has really got to look at the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
policies which Nigel Farage has been putting forward, and saying, | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
which of those are really Conservative policies that would be | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
attractive to the Conservative Party and to its traditional | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
supporters? And there are quite a lot of them. In fact, the Prime | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Minister has already begun formulating policies which might | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
appeal to some UKIP voters. Next week, new legislation on | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
immigration will be announced. The rhetoric on welfare reform will | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
also be upgraded. But there is still debate on what to do about | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
Europe. A man who once challenged David Cameron for the Conservative | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Party leadership has called for a referendum in this Parliament. It | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
will not happen, but other backbenchers have had other | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
suggestions. David Cameron says, if he is still here in 2017, he will | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
hold a referendum on EU membership. But some will worry that many | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
voters will not believe him, so some party members are calling on | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
him to bring forward a new law to pave the way for that referendum in | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
this Parliament, ahead of the general election, to try to | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
convince the sceptics that he is serious. The Home Secretary hinted | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
that voters might need more reassurance that a referendum will | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
take place good and we did give a very clear view to people, through | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
David Cameron's speech of Europe, about what we would be doing in | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
relation to Europe. We said we would renegotiate and then offer | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
people a referendum. The Conservatives are concentrating on | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the electoral challenge from UKIP, but they know that their room for | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
manoeuvre on Europe will be limited while they remain in coalition with | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
the Liberal Democrats. Accident accident and emergency | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
departments have been urged to make sure they have got sufficient staff | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
to cope with any increase in demand over the back, they began. It | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
follows a warning that patients are going to hospital with non-urgent | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
conditions because they are losing confidence in the new NHS 111 | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
helpline. It is the new number for non-urgent medical inquiries, with | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
a remit to give practical advice. But there are concerns that | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
teething troubles with the NHS 111 service may be putting patient at | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
risk. This call centre in Newcastle is working well, but like others | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
across England, it is expecting a surge in demand over the Bank | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Holiday weekend. The worry is that frustrated or badly advised callers | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
will overwhelm busy accident and emergency departments. This man | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
from Blackpool dialled 111 in the good of the night, feeling sick and | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
in a lot of pain. He was not impressed. I described my symptoms, | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
and she kept asking the same questions as to where the pain was, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
over and over again. It was like banging my head on a brick wall. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
was eventually told to dial 999 himself and admitted to hospital | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
with pancreatitis. According to the GPs' magazine, 22 potentially | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
serious incidents have been linked to the 111 number, three involving | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
patient deaths in the Midlands, which are now being investigated. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
But any just England says such cases are a tiny minority. -- NHS | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
England. The vast majority of patients have a very good service, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
getting their calls answered within 60 seconds, and getting the right | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
advice. The NHS 111 number is controlled by NHS England, the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
arm's-length body created by the Government as part of the NHS | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
reforms. Nonetheless, the Government says it is aware of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
issues around the service, and it says it is looking for what it | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
calls long-term solutions to a long-term problem. Time for the | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
sport now. The final day of the Championship season was a real | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
nail-biter. Hull are heading back to the Premier League. Meanwhile, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Wolves have been relegated to League One. Three weeks ago, Steve | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Bruce and Hull seem to be guaranteed a place in the Premier | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
League. Then they had three games without a goal, and serious doubts | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
were cast on the chances. Today, it was Cardiff who took the lead just | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
after half-time, Frasier Campbell haunting his former club. But Hull | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
equalised shortly afterwards. The Premier League was within their | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
grasp, when Paul McShane put them ahead. Hull looked to be following | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
the lead of their fans, surging towards promotion, especially when | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
they have wasted a penalty deep into injury time. Steve Bruce could | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
not watch, and Hull could not score. Then, incredibly, Cardiff got a | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
penalty of their own. Nicky Maynard equalised, and it finished 2-2. But | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
the drama had barely started. A draw would only be enough for Hull | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
if Watford drew or lost at home to Leeds. The match was running late, | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
so Hull faced an agonising wait. Watford had pressed desperately for | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the victory which would see them promoted, but their hopes were | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
dashed when Ross McCormack scored for Leeds in the dying seconds. For | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
the watching Hull players, anxiety turned to jubilation. The contrast | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
the Wolverhampton Wanderers could not be more stark. Wolves and | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Peterborough were both relegated to League One, a second successive | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
relegation for Wolves, reflecting a club in freefall. But for Hull, the | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
only way is up. So, well done to Hull. They will be | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
on Match Of The Day next season, and that programme follows the news. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
The results coming up in the next few seconds. The battle for the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Champions League places is really hotting up, and a top four finish | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
is still in spurs' hands, after Gareth Bale got a late winner | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
against Southampton. The great escape could be on for Wigan, again. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
They are still in the relegation zone, but survival is in their own | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
hands, after they beat West Brom 3- 2. Callum McManaman got the winner. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Gabriel Agbonlahor scored twice for Aston Villa, who won at Norwich. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Walcott's goal, within 20 seconds, was the fastest of the season, and | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
was the fastest of the season, and it was enough for Arsenal to beat | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
QPR. There were just three matches in the Scottish Premier League | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
today. St Mirren are not yet say chick from relegation. Inverness | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
stay third. Dawn Approach has won flat racing's first Classic of the | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
season. It was owned by Sheikh Mohammed, the owner of the stables | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
recently at the doping -- centre of the doping scandal. Mark Cavendish | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
has won the first stage at the Giro d'Italia, coming out on top in a | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
sprint finish in Naples. It means he will wear it the leader's Pink | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Jersey tomorrow. Sir Bradley Wiggins, favourite to win the race, | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
is well placed, 18 seconds behind Cavendish, as he looks to complete | :14:26. | :14:30. |