28/08/2016 BBC Weekend News

The last BHS stores will close for the final time today after 88

It's after the retailer was placed into administration in March

The previous owners, Dominic Chappell and Sir Philip

Green, have been accused of mismanaging the company.

Our business correspondent Joe Lynam reports.

It is opening time for the last time at this shop in St Albans. It has

been here 44 years and some will miss it. I have come especially, I

don't know why, just to say I feel how sad it is closing. I am sorry,

BHS, I am sorry you are going. And a lot of other people in this town are

going to. A sad day to see an established firm like BHS go to the

wall. I am going to miss it. I will take a load of pictures today. The

first British home stores opened in Brixton in 1928 and became a fixture

on most high streets, in -- employing over 20,000 people. It is

the two most recent owners, Dominic Chappell and Sir Philip Green, who

have come in for criticism. Underinvestment and intense

competition on the high street could have brought down BHS but for many

staff, experts and a key group of MPs, one man caused the ultimate

demise in BHS, Sir Philip Green. He was described as the unacceptable

face of capitalism. A man who pitched himself while neglecting the

pension fund, before selling BHS for ?1 to a bankrupt with no experience

in retailing. Is -- his appearance before MPs was testy at times.

The average stay in our head office is 11 or 12 years...

Do you mind not looking at me like that all the time?

You're just staring at me, it's just uncomfortable, that's all.

The majority stores have already shut down and some will have new

owners on busy high streets. Some may never open again. The high

street is changing with more social retail with food and beverage

outlets, theatre and entertainment will stop big departmental stores

are cumbersome and heavy weight. By 5pm, the last bargains will have

been bought and the last store shuttered. An inauspicious end to an

88 year history. And Joe Lynam is in St Albans, where

one of the final stores is closing. So still no agreement over how

to fill the shortfall That is right, a shortfall of

approximately ?600 million and I understand Sir Philip Green is in

substantive talks with the Pensions Regulator but I am informed it will

be a matter of months rather than meets. The figure of 600 million is

the amount of money and insurance company would need to start from

scratch to replace the liabilities but in reality, the figure that

would be agreed will be less than that, though that will be less than

what some MPs, especially Frank Field, would agree and some staff

will be worried what will happen to their pension. They will get around

90% of their retirement earnings at the moment, rather than 100%.

The M20 motorway in Kent is due to reopen later today,

after being closed yesterday when a lorry hit a footbridge,

No one was seriously injured, but it's caused massive disruption

for drivers on one of the busiest weekends of the year.

Our correspondent Philip Norton is there.

It is a different scene, that even a few hours ago. It is very clear now,

the huge operation has taken place overnight, clearing all of this

concrete bridge knocked down around midday yesterday, off the motorway.

Contract is brought in from across the country -- con tractors.

Highways England had hope to open it by lunchtime but they tell me now

they hope to have it open by 6pm this evening, if not before, they

say. Focus this morning has been on the structural soundness of the

remaining bridge in place over the coast bow motorway and engineers

said it is classed as sound but they will fit motion sensors and when

they have the all clear from those, the motorway can be reopened.

At least 35 civilians are reported to have been killed and 50 injured

in the latest Turkish air strikes against Kurdish groups

Turkish tanks and troops began their offensive in Syria last

week to drive the Islamic State group out of a border town,

but they also want to stop the Kurds extending the territory

Two United Airlines pilots are in police custody

after being arrested at Glasgow Airport yesterday

on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol.

The men were detained after they arrived to join

They're expected to appear in court tomorrow.

Relatives of the late Labour peer Lord Janner are demanding the child

abuse inquiry postpones its plan to investigate him.

They argue civil cases by several alleged victims should be heard

in court first, and that the inquiry would not offer the family

the chance to cross-examine Lord Janner's accusers.

This report from our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds contains

Lord Janner died months after facing child abuse allegations in court.

Currently, more than 30 people, now adults, have accused him.

They say he committed sexual offences while a veteran

Labour MP in Leicester, during visits to children's

When police investigated in 1991, Lord Janner refused to comment.

But he denied the claims in the Commons and was never charged.

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse is now investigating

whether institutions turned a blind eye to the allegations.

But Lord Janner's son, a senior barrister, wants to fight

the accusers in the civil courts, not the inquiry, where he won't be

He says the inquiry is unfairly picking on his father.

When he is dead, when he cannot answer back, when he has never been

convicted of any offence, and is entirely innocent.

How serious are you about challenging this in the civil

courts, if it does go to the civil courts,

Our family has decided this is what we want to use such

inheritance as there is upon, to clear his name.

He says all of the allegations against Lord Janner are made up,

But their lawyers say the judge could decide too much time has

passed for the courts to rule if the claims are true,

making the scrutiny of a public inquiry vital.

This week, one of Britain's deadliest, but least well known,

naval forces celebrates its 100th anniversary.

The Coastal Marine Force was founded during the First World War

as a fleet of high-speed torpedo boats to attack the Germans.

In the Second World War, their crew earned more gallantry medals

The small, fast coastal boats that helped change the tactics

And now a century after their creation, the final few left have

come together in Portsmouth for an anniversary sail-past,

watched by veterans like Robin Coventry.

He was a junior officer assigned to this nimble

We were just going out to make trouble and that,

often enough, we did, not only for ourselves,

but for the Germans as well, which was lucky.

And they must have been fairly fed up with us, too.

They first fired up in 1916, and were the idea of

They were just 50 feet long and carried one or two torpedoes -

enough to hit large enemy ships and then escape at high speed.

In fact, they were sometimes called the Spitfire of the Sea,

because they were so fast, capable of 30 or 40 knots.

Her enemies had never seen anything like them.

By the end of the Second World War, there were 2,000 of them and they

They sank over 500 enemy vessels and were awarded

3,000 gallantry medals, more than any other branch

In war, these vessels fired more torpedoes than Britain's submarines.

100 years of lethal sea power and a miniature Navy that did not

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Portsmouth.

Good afternoon, it would not be a bank holiday without a little bit of

rain but for some, perhaps too much. Storms in the Midlands produced over

an inch of rain and through