09/04/2016 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister has admitted he could have handled the recent row

It followed his admission, earlier in the week that he did

invest in an offshore trust set up by his late father.

Speaking to Conservative activists, he said he should take

the blame for the way in which the news was dealt with.

Our Political Correspondent Carole Walker reports.

Demonstrators gathered to leave the Prime Minister in no doubt

about the strength of feeling amongst some people

They were out to attack his government for a tax system

The Prime Minister said he had been very angry about what some had said

about his late father, who founded an offshore fund.

But, he said, that should not have clouded the picture.

I know that I should have handled this better.

I know that there are lessons to learn, and I will learn them.

Don't blame Number Ten or nameless advisers.

David Cameron's promised to learn lessons from his handling of this

row, to be open and transparent in future, to publish

But Labour say this matter raises questions about his

Most Tories seem to be rallying around their leader.

But the London Mayor Boris Johnson chose not to lend his support

Boris, is it morally wrong to avoid tax by investing in

It took David Cameron several days to admits that he and his wife

did have shares in his late father's offshore fund, which they sold

for ?30,000 before he became Prime Minister.

And there is no suggestion he has done anything illegal.

The Labour leader has accused Mr Cameron of misleading people

It's not about an individual, it's not about one person,

It's about an ethos where the very rich are able to put their money

into tax havens and avoid income tax, sometimes also a zero

The Prime Minister insists he has acted to address the concerns

of protesters like these, closing the tax loophole.

And insuring greater international transparency on tax.

He will be hoping that by releasing unprecedented detail on his personal

finances that he can convince the public

David Cameron wanting to draw a line under this.

I think David Cameron has realised after a pretty bruising week that he

does need to do more if he is going to be able to move on from this.

That's why we are going to get, later tonight, his tax returns going

back six years. Downing Street know that is going to be yet another day

of headlines about his personal finances, another phase in this

story. Labour are showing no signs of being prepared to let this matter

drop. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has suggested a public

enquiry into the revelations of the Panama papers, about the scale of

the use of international tax havens. They want a statement from the Prime

Minister when Parliament returns on Monday. But there is some irritation

in Downing Street at some of the personal attacks from Labour on

calling into question the Prime Minister'spersonal integrity. They

believe that by revealing this unprecedented amount of detail about

the Prime Minister's personal finances, they can demonstrate that

he has nothing to hide. Thank you. Coastguards have found

the bodies of two fishermen, missing after their trawler sank off

the Western Isles of Scotland. They responded after receiving a

distress call in the early hours of the morning. One crew member has

been rescued but another is still missing.

Let's go live to our correspondent James Shaw at Prestwick Airport,

from where one of the rescue helicopters set off this morning.

That's right, and it was a big operation to try to find the boat

registered in Stornoway. It only started work about seven years ago.

It involved the lifeboat from a nearby island close to the southern

tip of the Western Isles. Prestwick and Ayrshire helicopters, and from

Stornoway, and when the aircraft arrived at the scene, it spotted

wreckage and also a survivor who had managed to make his way to the

rocks. He was winched onto the helicopter, taken to Hospital and it

was discovered he was not seriously injured. Meanwhile the lifeboat had

discovered two bodies in the water me they were recovered and the

search continued for the fourth member. After a period of time, a

judgment had to be made that that person's chances of surviving had

become very small, and the search was scaled down. Now the marine

investigators will try to find out why this sinking happened. Thank

you. The Archbishop of Canterbury,

Justin Welby, has discovered his -- he is the son of Sir Winston

Churchill's last private secretary. The Archbishop said a DNA test had

revealed his real father to be Sir Anthony Montague Browne not

Gavin Welby, the man Justin Welby is currently in Zambia,

meeting local Christians and digesting a revelation

that came, he said, The resemblance between

the Archbishop and Sir Anthony He had hoped to dispel

rumours they were related. Sir Anthony was Winston Churchill's

last private secretary. The Archbishop's mother also

worked with Churchill, and it seems the pair went to bed

together immediately Shortly before Easter,

the Archbishop agreed to a DNA Swabs from inside his cheek

were compared with hairs found on a brush that had once belonged

to Sir Anthony Montague Browne. The result, near certainty

that Sir Anthony was Justin Welby's mother married

Gavin Welby in 1955. Their baby son was born

nine months later. The Archbishop's childhood

was, he says, messy. The man he thought was his

father died in 1977. In a statement today,

he said too many families Friends believe the revelation won't

change him. I think it will make a difference, in some ways, to lots of

other people who have discovered their biological parents are

different to those they thought they were, rather later in life. They

will identify with the Archbishop's story, and he will with them, so I

think it will increase his Pastoral sensitivity even more. His mother,

now Lady Jane Williams, said today, this DNA evidence, say many years

after Gavin's death has come as an unbelievable shock. Admitting to a

relationship, she said, it appears that the precautions taken at the

time didn't work and my wonderful son was conceived as a result of

this liaison. The Archbishop says he is proud of his mother, who gave up

drinking 1968 and became a pillar of the community. As for himself, he

says he found in God the father he lacked in real life.

Four more suspects have been charged with participating in terrorist acts

linked to the deadly suicide bombings in Brussels.

The four men, who were arrested on Friday,

include Mohamed Abrini, who was also wanted

in connection with the attacks in Paris last November.

Prosecutors says it's still unclear whether he's the so-called

"man in the hat" caught on CCTV at Brussels Airport.

David Cameron has launched the Conservatives' campaign

for the local elections in England, insisting his party is the only

one that can be trusted to keep taxes down.

He says voters face a clear choice between what he called

the "competence" of strong Conservative councils

In the last half hour, a thrilling race was won

by Rule The World, a 33-1 outsider making its steeplechase debut.

Yes, Rule The World, 33-1, a very aptly named winner of this famous

race. Beforehand, all of the talk was about last year's when a Many

macro clouds, trying to make history by becoming the first horse since

red Rum in the 1970s to win back-to-back Grand Nationals. Before

the race, we had a downpour that made conditions particularly

testing. Many Clouds was in contention but fell away towards the

end. In the closing stages, it was a 3-way sprint between Rule The World,

the Last Samurai and another horse. Rule The World held on to win in a

thrilling finish. Victory for his 19-year-old jockey David Mullins, in

his first ever National. What a day for him. An emotional win for the

Irish trainer Mouse Morris. Only 12 of the 39 starters finished the

race. The good news, for the fourth year running, all of the horses have

returned home safely. That is all for now. I will be