19/06/2016 BBC Weekend News

Campaigning on the EU referendum has restarted

after it was suspended following the death of MP Jo Cox.

The warning today from the Prime Minister

was that the UK faces an 'existential choice'

For the Leave campaign, Michael Gove insisted the UK

would be able to 'deal with whatever the world throws at us'

Here's our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier.

Looming ever closer, the big question about our nation's future.

Now overshadowed by the death of the MP Jo Cox. After glowing tributes to

their former colleague the politicians were back to business as

normal. Dominating the debate today this poster, unveiled last week by

Ukip, but drawing criticism from fellow Leave campaigners. When I saw

that poster I issuedered. I thought it was the wrong thing to do. Now, I

am pro migration but I believe the way we secure public support for the

continued benefits that migration brings and the way in which we

secure public support for helping refugees is in need is for people to

feel they can control the numbers coming here. Your colleague on the

Leave side, Michael Gove, said this morning that when he saw that poster

he issuedered. Have you seen their posters? They've been doing very

strong posters, not only about Turkey but about the number of

terrorists and criminals who come to country on current rules. It is a

critical question of the debate, who and how many overseas should Britain

be letting in. The Labour ladder was asked if there should be an upper

limit. I don't think you should have one if you have the free moment of

labour. It means you have is to balance the economy, so you have to

improve living standards and conditions. And stark warn forensic

examination the Prime Minister today, writing in the Sunday

Telegraph he said we face an existential choice. This country has

a big decision to make, he said, and there is so much at stake. The

biggest risk, the Remain side argue, is that leaving would damage the

economy. It is important for people to understand if we vote to leave

there is no turning back. It is a one-way door to a much more

uncertain world, where people's jobs and livelihoods are at risk. If we

vote to remain we can have a prosperous and stronger economy

going forward. Politics had been put on hold. The referendum paused on

both sides of the debate. But with the vote just four days away this

campaign will be fought hard right to the wire.

Three 12-year-old girls are in a serious condition

in hospital in Manchester after taking Ecstasy.

Police say they took a type of the drug known

Our correspondent Dan Johnson joins us live.

This is Salford shopping precinct. Officers were called to reports that

three 13-year-olds girls had taken ecstasy tablets. The pills were

marketed as "Teddy Tablets". The three girls are in hospital in a

very serious condition, the police say. They have warned about the

risks of taking these pills, the contents of them can't be

guaranteed, and that the risks can even be fatal. Greater Manchester

Police referred to the death of 17-year-old Faye Allen. She died in

Manchester last month after taking ecstasy pills after a night out

clubbing. Detectives have appealed for anybody who has these pills in

their possession to hand them in as soon as possible. They want to get

information about who is distributing them in the area,

saying these pills are very dangerous with potentially fatal

consequences. They want to know how Class A drugs could have got into

the hands of is 12-year-old girls. Dan, thank you.

The MP Jo Cox has been remembered at church services

at Birstall in West Yorkshire, where she was killed on Thursday.

The Reverend Paul Knight, who led the service,

described Jo as an "advocate for the poor and the oppressed".

Our special correspondent Ed Thomas is in Birstall.

Four days on and this place, the centre of Birstall, is still the

focus for people to come down here, to stop, pause, see the flowers and

read all of the messages for Jo Cox. Today services is not just here in

Birstall but across the country to remember the MP. Here in her own

town it was led by the Anglican Reverend Paul knight. He told the

congregation that her humanity was powerful and compelling. He said she

was a 21st century good samaritan. We've also heard more from Jo Cox's

husband, Brendan. He sent out a tweet. He said Jo loved camp and

last night the kids and I camped in her memory and remembered the last

time we were woken by the down chorus. He thanked the thousands of

people who've raised money in her memory. More than ?500,000 have been

raised in this Memorial Fund. It is to help causes close to Jo's heart,

to help Syrian refugees, to combat loneliness. Tomorrow a chance for

MPs, colleagues from all sides, to go back to Parliament. Parliament

will be recalled and in Parliament at Westminster the MP will be

remembered there. Ed, thank you. Health unions have written

to David Cameron urging him to halt a plan to scrap nursing

and midwifery bursaries in England. The Government says a new system

of loans would create more training places and it's promising 25%

extra financial support Here's our health

correspondent, Dominic Hughes. For months, nurses and other health

workers have been protesting against plans to end bursaries,

the means-tested allowance paid to some trainee nurses in England

that goes towards living expenses. Nurse Ellie Archer is one of those

who has joined the demonstrations defending the bursary that allows

her to pursue her dream career. She believes the intensity

of a nursing degree means Because of the time spent

on placement, it is very difficult for them to pick up second jobs,

so there isn't really any other way of getting an income other

than having the bursary in place. Training nurses can be

an expensive business. The Government argues that

abolishing the bursary will allow the creation of an extra 10,000

student nursing places each year, These student nurses being put

through their places in Chorley hospital in Lancashire are among

the first in England I think what that tells us is there

really is the demand out there. This course is a potential model

for a future when bursaries have been abolished and nurses have

to pay for their own training. But some are concerned those changes

could exacerbate an already serious We are concerned that we perhaps

wouldn't get the same diversity of people into nursing

that we have currently. That having to take out a loan

will put people off. Currently, training courses

are hugely oversubscribed. In 2014 there were more

than 50,000 applicants, but the NHS in England

could fund just 20,000 places. So the leaders of the universities

that run the training courses This change actually

enables universities At the moment they are capped,

and really on the basis of affordability and estimates

of what the NHS might need, which clearly have been

wrong over many years. The Royal College of Nursing says

two thirds of its members wouldn't have studied nursing if they had

to take out a student loan, making an existing staff

shortage even worse. But ministers say scrapping

the bursary will remove an artificial cap on the numbers

who could be trained. Tens of thousands of demonstrators

have gathered on the Japanese island of Okinawa to protest

against the heavy American The protesters are angry

after a former US Marine employed as a civilian worker was arrested

over the rape and murder The case has reignited calls

for the 26,000 US troops to be moved British astronaut major Tim Peake

has been reunited with his parents, for the first time since he landed

back on Earth. He was greeted as he stepped off

the plane at the European Space A news conference is scheduled

for Tuesday, in which he'll talk about his six-month mission on board

the International Space Station, but speaking earlier he said he'll

need some time to adjust. Obviously it's going to take a few

days before I feel normal again. I'm feeling a lot of dizziness

and vertigo at the moment any time I move my head,

which is to be expected. That's normal after

six months in space. Those first few moments on the steps

in Kazakhstan, the smells and Those first few moments

on the steppes in Kazakhstan, the smells

and It was great to be back on Earth,

it really was. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is

at 5.15pm.