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:00:08. > :00:09.BHS closes its doors for the last time -

:00:10. > :00:19.ending nearly ninety years on the high street.

:00:20. > :00:21.After efforts to find a buyer failed, 11,000

:00:22. > :00:23.staff lose their jobs - and a once familiar

:00:24. > :00:31.I have come especially this morning just to say how sad I am that it is

:00:32. > :00:35.closing. we'll be looking at the continuing

:00:36. > :00:39.battle over the BHS pension fund A rare report from north eastern

:00:40. > :00:42.Nigeria where thousands displaced by the fight against Boko Haram

:00:43. > :00:47.could die of malnutrition. The family of the late Lord Janner

:00:48. > :00:50.say they'll use their inheritance to try and clear his name

:00:51. > :00:52.after allegations of child abuse. And Lewis Hamilton fights

:00:53. > :00:55.his way onto the podium The last BHS stores have closed

:00:56. > :01:21.for the final time today after an 88 The closures came after the failure

:01:22. > :01:26.to find a buyer for the retailer, which went into

:01:27. > :01:29.administration in March. Its previous owners,

:01:30. > :01:31.Dominic Chappell and Sir Philip Green have been accused

:01:32. > :01:33.of mismanaging the company Our business correspondent

:01:34. > :01:51.Joe Lynam reports. It is opening time for the last time

:01:52. > :01:54.at this store in St Albans. It has been here 44 years and some

:01:55. > :01:59.local shoppers will miss it. Earlier, bargain hunters piled in as

:02:00. > :02:01.the doors were unlocked for the last time.

:02:02. > :02:06.I have come especially this morning, I don't know why, just to say I feel

:02:07. > :02:10.Sorry, BHS, I am really sorry you are going.

:02:11. > :02:13.And a lot of of people in this town are, too.

:02:14. > :02:19.A sad day to see an established firm like BHS go to the wall.

:02:20. > :02:26.Does it matter that the store is closing down? It does, it really

:02:27. > :02:30.does. It is part of the fabric of the High Street. This is what the

:02:31. > :02:33.last few hours of a closing store looks like. The shelves are being

:02:34. > :02:37.packed up and everything has been marked down to next to nothing. Some

:02:38. > :02:42.things are completely gone. If you look over there you will see on the

:02:43. > :02:51.shelves, and there are boxes of old DVDs for a pound. BHS injuried years

:02:52. > :02:57.of underinvestment before Sir Philip Green bought the chain. He is one of

:02:58. > :03:01.Britain's most famous, flamboyant and ostentatious retailers. He paid

:03:02. > :03:05.himself well but fails to turn around BHS before selling it for a

:03:06. > :03:09.pound to the twice bankrupt Dominic Chappell, a man without any

:03:10. > :03:13.experience in retail. The collapse of BHS could've been avoided

:03:14. > :03:16.according to MPs who probed Sir Philip, who appeared tetchy at

:03:17. > :03:21.times. Do you mind not looking at me like that all the time? It is really

:03:22. > :03:28.disturbing. The majority of BHS stores were shot -- shut down years

:03:29. > :03:31.ago. Some may never open again. BHS were traditionally very large stores

:03:32. > :03:35.and retailers are not looking to fill those types of premises any

:03:36. > :03:40.more. What will happen is there will be obvious contenders like prime

:03:41. > :03:44.mark and Zara, who are thriving on the High Street. We will see out and

:03:45. > :03:48.tone -- out of town retailers experimenting with the High Street,

:03:49. > :03:52.and the rest of them will have to be divided up. This afternoon, staff at

:03:53. > :03:56.22 BHS stores up and down the country, including this one in

:03:57. > :04:03.Glasgow, bid goodbye to their jobs for good. I am very sad. 27 years.

:04:04. > :04:09.Now thousands head off to an uncertain future as an 88 year

:04:10. > :04:14.history ends. Joe Lynam is live in St Albans this evening. What lies

:04:15. > :04:20.ahead for the row over the hole in the BHS pension-fund? Sir Philip

:04:21. > :04:23.Green is in talks with the pensions regulator about finding the correct

:04:24. > :04:28.amount of money so that every single BHS employee gets the full pension

:04:29. > :04:30.entitlement that they had expected before the company collapses. That

:04:31. > :04:35.is going to take months rather than weeks. The final amount that will be

:04:36. > :04:39.paid will probably be considerably less than the notional ?600 million

:04:40. > :04:42.which is often used. That is the figure that insurance companies

:04:43. > :04:47.would have to set aside to take on the liability from scratch of BHS's

:04:48. > :04:51.pension scheme. In reality, the figure that will be paid will be

:04:52. > :04:55.less than that. That means that quite a few people, especially on

:04:56. > :05:00.the Work and Pensions committee, and some staff, will be very displeased.

:05:01. > :05:02.Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian crisis

:05:03. > :05:04.in north-eastern Nigeria, where more than two million

:05:05. > :05:09.people have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.

:05:10. > :05:11.The United Nations says fifty thousand children

:05:12. > :05:12.could die from malnutrition unless they receive

:05:13. > :05:16.Our correspondent - Martin Patience - has gained rare

:05:17. > :05:26.access to the town of Bama, one of the worst affected

:05:27. > :05:32.This was a town once controlled by Boko Haram. But it is only now that

:05:33. > :05:45.the scale of the suffering is being revealed. 3-year-old Mohammed is

:05:46. > :05:50.close to death. He is just one out of the 250,000 children suffering

:05:51. > :05:58.severe malnutrition. Doctors are struggling to save his life.

:05:59. > :06:05.TRANSLATION: We only had green to eat. There was no money to buy food.

:06:06. > :06:14.Life in the village was the survival of the fittest. Rescued by the Army,

:06:15. > :06:22.relief is now at hand but beyond the walls of this camp, street after

:06:23. > :06:30.street of devastation. Bama feels frozen in time. When Boko Haram came

:06:31. > :06:36.into town, like stopped here. These people were filling up their cars at

:06:37. > :06:39.the local petrol station but most never got away. Hundreds, perhaps

:06:40. > :06:44.thousands died in the violence. Nobody knows for sure. While there

:06:45. > :06:49.are pockets of reconstruction in Bama, there is still a huge amount

:06:50. > :06:56.of work to be done. But it is not just here. Towns and villages across

:06:57. > :07:02.this region lie devastated. And it is the youngest that are suffering

:07:03. > :07:08.the most. This girl is just three. She has only known the world of

:07:09. > :07:13.hunger. Her mother could not afford food but finally she is getting

:07:14. > :07:17.help. You have over 9 million people who desperately need humanitarian

:07:18. > :07:22.aid. Four and a half million people who we have categorised as severely

:07:23. > :07:26.food insecure, really on the edge of life and death. And we have 2.5

:07:27. > :07:31.million people who have been forced from their villages and homes. They

:07:32. > :07:39.may now be safe from the fighting but their future is far from secure.

:07:40. > :07:42.Martin Patience, BBC News, Bama, Nigeria.

:07:43. > :07:45.At least 35 civilians are reported to have been killed and 50 injured

:07:46. > :07:47.in the latest Turkish air strikes against Kurdish groups

:07:48. > :07:54.Turkish tanks and troops began their offensive into Syria

:07:55. > :07:57.last week to drive the so-called Islamic State group out of a town

:07:58. > :08:00.close to the border but they also want to stop the Kurds extending

:08:01. > :08:03.A British man has died while attempting to swim

:08:04. > :08:07.Nick Thomas, from Ellesmere in Shropshire, got into difficulties

:08:08. > :08:10.last night less than a mile from Calais.

:08:11. > :08:12.He'd been swimming for 16 hours and was pulled

:08:13. > :08:18.The M20 motorway in Kent has now fully re-opened

:08:19. > :08:20.following the collapse of a footbridge yesterday

:08:21. > :08:23.after a lorry carrying a digger crashed into it.

:08:24. > :08:25.The bridge came down on the London-bound

:08:26. > :08:28.carriageway causing severe disruption to traffic.

:08:29. > :08:33.The motorway is the main route to the Channel Tunnel

:08:34. > :08:38.Two United Airlines pilots are in custody, after being arrested

:08:39. > :08:40.at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of being under the

:08:41. > :08:43.They were detained after they arrived at the airport

:08:44. > :08:50.They're expected to appear in court tomorrow.

:08:51. > :08:52.The family of the late Labour peer Lord Janner are demanding

:08:53. > :08:55.that the child abuse inquiry postpones plans to investigate him -

:08:56. > :09:00.They say they should have the chance to cross-examine his accusers

:09:01. > :09:02.in court first, and plan to use their inheritance

:09:03. > :09:05.Our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds' report

:09:06. > :09:23.Lord Janner was holed to court last year to face multiple charges of

:09:24. > :09:27.child abuse. But he died within months leaving unresolved

:09:28. > :09:31.allegations dating back to his life as a Labour MP and Leicester

:09:32. > :09:35.regularly visiting children homes and schools. More than 30 men and

:09:36. > :09:39.women now say he abused them. Some are planning to sue for compensation

:09:40. > :09:43.from the money he left his children. His son, a criminal barrister, is

:09:44. > :09:48.determined to fight the claims. 100%. Our family has decided this is

:09:49. > :09:53.what we want to use such inheritance as there is to clear his name. But

:09:54. > :09:59.first the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse will investigate

:10:00. > :10:02.the case. It wants to know whether the earliest allegations were

:10:03. > :10:10.covered up, resulting in a failure to prosecute. The family's position

:10:11. > :10:13.is clear. He was not prosecuted because the allegations were

:10:14. > :10:17.fabricated. They were investigated by the police and dismissed as the

:10:18. > :10:21.rubbish they were. What this enquiry is doing is working on an assumption

:10:22. > :10:25.of guilt when he has never been convicted of any offence. And he is

:10:26. > :10:31.entirely innocent. The family have been told that they will not be able

:10:32. > :10:34.to fully cross-examine Lord Janner's accusers at the enquiry, which is

:10:35. > :10:38.why they want to bring the case to the civil courts. Of those who

:10:39. > :10:41.represent alleged victims are worried that the courts may decide

:10:42. > :10:47.that too much time has passed for there to be a ruling on whether the

:10:48. > :10:51.abuse happened. They say the enquiry is vital. There have been many

:10:52. > :10:55.serious allegations made against Lord Janner over many years. He was

:10:56. > :10:59.somebody of huge importance in the political world and a member of

:11:00. > :11:03.Parliament who sat in the House of Lords. The crimes are alleged to

:11:04. > :11:07.have taken place within an institution so they fit neatly into

:11:08. > :11:11.the remit of the national enquiry. Lord Janner's family are fighting

:11:12. > :11:14.back against dozens of accusers making allegations spanning decades.

:11:15. > :11:17.Neither side is prepared to back down.

:11:18. > :11:20.Formula 1 - and Lewis Hamilton fought his way from the back row

:11:21. > :11:22.of the grid to finish third in a chaotic and crash-hit

:11:23. > :11:29.Nico Rosberg, who started on pole, won the race,

:11:30. > :11:31.putting him within 9 points of Hamilton in the title battle.

:11:32. > :11:36.After the summer break, this was the weekend's Spa retreat.

:11:37. > :11:43.Championship leader Lewis Hamilton exiled to the back

:11:44. > :11:44.row of the grid - punishment for a series

:11:45. > :11:52.At the front, team-mate, rival Nico Rosberg

:11:53. > :11:55.and in between plenty of smaller battles to be won.

:11:56. > :11:58.Staying on the track would be one, keeping your

:11:59. > :12:01.cool in the heat of battle quite another.

:12:02. > :12:09.That and early drama saw Hamilton up to tenth before a moment

:12:10. > :12:12.that made all come to a stop and catch breath.

:12:13. > :12:18.Hamilton surged forward again, doing what he does best.

:12:19. > :12:36.Still, for Hamilton, from the back row to the

:12:37. > :12:37.podium, a surprisingly enjoyable Spa weekend.

:12:38. > :12:40.This week, one of Britain's deadliest, but least-well known,

:12:41. > :12:43.naval forces celebrates its 100th anniversary.

:12:44. > :12:47.The Coastal Marine Force was founded during the First World War as it

:12:48. > :12:50.earned more gallantry medals than any other branch of the Navy.

:12:51. > :13:04.They were the Navy within the Navy. The small coastal boats that helped

:13:05. > :13:11.change the tactics of maritime warfare. And now, a century after

:13:12. > :13:19.their creation, the final few left have come together in Portsmouth for

:13:20. > :13:22.an anniversary sale past, watched by veterans like Robin Coventry. He was

:13:23. > :13:28.a junior officer assigned this nimble but deadly seaborne force. We

:13:29. > :13:32.were going out to make trouble, and often enough, we did that not only

:13:33. > :13:39.for ourselves but for the Germans as well, which was lucky. They must

:13:40. > :13:47.have been fed up with us, too. They first fired up in 1916, with the

:13:48. > :13:51.idea of three junior officers. They were just 50 feet long and carried

:13:52. > :14:00.one or two torpedoes. Enough to hit large enemy ships and then escape at

:14:01. > :14:04.high speed. In fact, they were sometimes called the Spitfire of the

:14:05. > :14:11.sea because they were so fast. Capable of 30 or 40 knots. Their

:14:12. > :14:18.enemies had never seen anything like them. By the end of the Second World

:14:19. > :14:23.War, there were 2000 of them and they had an astonishing success

:14:24. > :14:26.rate. They sank over 500 enemy vessels and they were awarded 3000

:14:27. > :14:32.gallantry medals, more than any other branch of the Naval service.

:14:33. > :14:38.In war, these vessels fired more torpedoes than Britain's submarines.

:14:39. > :14:42.100 years of lethal sea power. A miniature Navy that did not shrink

:14:43. > :14:46.in the face of great danger. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News.

:14:47. > :14:50.We are back with the late news at 10.