28/08/2016 BBC Weekend News

BHS closes its doors for the last time -

ending nearly ninety years on the high street.

After efforts to find a buyer failed, 11,000

staff lose their jobs - and a once familiar

I have come especially this morning just to say how sad I am that it is

closing. we'll be looking at the continuing

battle over the BHS pension fund A rare report from north eastern

Nigeria where thousands displaced by the fight against Boko Haram

could die of malnutrition. The family of the late Lord Janner

say they'll use their inheritance to try and clear his name

after allegations of child abuse. And Lewis Hamilton fights

his way onto the podium The last BHS stores have closed

for the final time today after an 88 The closures came after the failure

to find a buyer for the retailer, which went into

administration in March. Its 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 store in St Albans. It has been here 44 years and some

local shoppers will miss it. Earlier, bargain hunters piled in as

the doors were unlocked for the last time.

I have come especially this morning, I don't know why, just to say I feel

Sorry, BHS, I am really sorry you are going.

And a lot of of people in this town are, too.

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

Does it matter that the store is closing down? It does, it really

does. It is part of the fabric of the High Street. This is what the

last few hours of a closing store looks like. The shelves are being

packed up and everything has been marked down to next to nothing. Some

things are completely gone. If you look over there you will see on the

shelves, and there are boxes of old DVDs for a pound. BHS injuried years

of underinvestment before Sir Philip Green bought the chain. He is one of

Britain's most famous, flamboyant and ostentatious retailers. He paid

himself well but fails to turn around BHS before selling it for a

pound to the twice bankrupt Dominic Chappell, a man without any

experience in retail. The collapse of BHS could've been avoided

according to MPs who probed Sir Philip, who appeared tetchy at

times. Do you mind not looking at me like that all the time? It is really

disturbing. The majority of BHS stores were shot -- shut down years

ago. Some may never open again. BHS were traditionally very large stores

and retailers are not looking to fill those types of premises any

more. What will happen is there will be obvious contenders like prime

mark and Zara, who are thriving on the High Street. We will see out and

tone -- out of town retailers experimenting with the High Street,

and the rest of them will have to be divided up. This afternoon, staff at

22 BHS stores up and down the country, including this one in

Glasgow, bid goodbye to their jobs for good. I am very sad. 27 years.

Now thousands head off to an uncertain future as an 88 year

history ends. Joe Lynam is live in St Albans this evening. What lies

ahead for the row over the hole in the BHS pension-fund? Sir Philip

Green is in talks with the pensions regulator about finding the correct

amount of money so that every single BHS employee gets the full pension

entitlement that they had expected before the company collapses. That

is going to take months rather than weeks. The final amount that will be

paid will probably be considerably less than the notional ?600 million

which is often used. That is the figure that insurance companies

would have to set aside to take on the liability from scratch of BHS's

pension scheme. In reality, the figure that will be paid will be

less than that. That means that quite a few people, especially on

the Work and Pensions committee, and some staff, will be very displeased.

Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian crisis

in north-eastern Nigeria, where more than two million

people have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The United Nations says fifty thousand children

could die from malnutrition unless they receive

Our correspondent - Martin Patience - has gained rare

access to the town of Bama, one of the worst affected

This was a town once controlled by Boko Haram. But it is only now that

the scale of the suffering is being revealed. 3-year-old Mohammed is

close to death. He is just one out of the 250,000 children suffering

severe malnutrition. Doctors are struggling to save his life.

TRANSLATION: We only had green to eat. There was no money to buy food.

Life in the village was the survival of the fittest. Rescued by the Army,

relief is now at hand but beyond the walls of this camp, street after

street of devastation. Bama feels frozen in time. When Boko Haram came

into town, like stopped here. These people were filling up their cars at

the local petrol station but most never got away. Hundreds, perhaps

thousands died in the violence. Nobody knows for sure. While there

are pockets of reconstruction in Bama, there is still a huge amount

of work to be done. But it is not just here. Towns and villages across

this region lie devastated. And it is the youngest that are suffering

the most. This girl is just three. She has only known the world of

hunger. Her mother could not afford food but finally she is getting

help. You have over 9 million people who desperately need humanitarian

aid. Four and a half million people who we have categorised as severely

food insecure, really on the edge of life and death. And we have 2.5

million people who have been forced from their villages and homes. They

may now be safe from the fighting but their future is far from secure.

Martin Patience, BBC News, Bama, Nigeria.

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 into Syria

last week to drive the so-called Islamic State group out of a town

close to the border but they also want to stop the Kurds extending

A British man has died while attempting to swim

Nick Thomas, from Ellesmere in Shropshire, got into difficulties

last night less than a mile from Calais.

He'd been swimming for 16 hours and was pulled

The M20 motorway in Kent has now fully re-opened

following the collapse of a footbridge yesterday

after a lorry carrying a digger crashed into it.

The bridge came down on the London-bound

carriageway causing severe disruption to traffic.

The motorway is the main route to the Channel Tunnel

Two United Airlines pilots are in custody, after being arrested

at Glasgow Airport on suspicion of being under the

They were detained after they arrived at the airport

They're expected to appear in court tomorrow.

The family of the late Labour peer Lord Janner are demanding

that the child abuse inquiry postpones plans to investigate him -

They say they should have the chance to cross-examine his accusers

in court first, and plan to use their inheritance

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds' report

Lord Janner was holed to court last year to face multiple charges of

child abuse. But he died within months leaving unresolved

allegations dating back to his life as a Labour MP and Leicester

regularly visiting children homes and schools. More than 30 men and

women now say he abused them. Some are planning to sue for compensation

from the money he left his children. His son, a criminal barrister, is

determined to fight the claims. 100%. Our family has decided this is

what we want to use such inheritance as there is to clear his name. But

first the independent enquiry into child sexual abuse will investigate

the case. It wants to know whether the earliest allegations were

covered up, resulting in a failure to prosecute. The family's position

is clear. He was not prosecuted because the allegations were

fabricated. They were investigated by the police and dismissed as the

rubbish they were. What this enquiry is doing is working on an assumption

of guilt when he has never been convicted of any offence. And he is

entirely innocent. The family have been told that they will not be able

to fully cross-examine Lord Janner's accusers at the enquiry, which is

why they want to bring the case to the civil courts. Of those who

represent alleged victims are worried that the courts may decide

that too much time has passed for there to be a ruling on whether the

abuse happened. They say the enquiry is vital. There have been many

serious allegations made against Lord Janner over many years. He was

somebody of huge importance in the political world and a member of

Parliament who sat in the House of Lords. The crimes are alleged to

have taken place within an institution so they fit neatly into

the remit of the national enquiry. Lord Janner's family are fighting

back against dozens of accusers making allegations spanning decades.

Neither side is prepared to back down.

Formula 1 - and Lewis Hamilton fought his way from the back row

of the grid to finish third in a chaotic and crash-hit

Nico Rosberg, who started on pole, won the race,

putting him within 9 points of Hamilton in the title battle.

After the summer break, this was the weekend's Spa retreat.

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton exiled to the back

row of the grid - punishment for a series

At the front, team-mate, rival Nico Rosberg

and in between plenty of smaller battles to be won.

Staying on the track would be one, keeping your

cool in the heat of battle quite another.

That and early drama saw Hamilton up to tenth before a moment

that made all come to a stop and catch breath.

Hamilton surged forward again, doing what he does best.

Still, for Hamilton, from the back row to the

podium, a surprisingly enjoyable Spa weekend.

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 it

earned more gallantry medals than any other branch of the Navy.

They were the Navy within the Navy. The small coastal boats that helped

change the tactics of maritime warfare. And now, a century after

their creation, the final few left have come together in Portsmouth for

an anniversary sale past, watched by veterans like Robin Coventry. He was

a junior officer assigned this nimble but deadly seaborne force. We

were going out to make trouble, and often enough, we did that not only

for ourselves but for the Germans as well, which was lucky. They must

have been fed up with us, too. They first fired up in 1916, with the

idea of three junior officers. 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. Their

enemies had never seen anything like them. By the end of the Second World

War, there were 2000 of them and they had an astonishing success

rate. They sank over 500 enemy vessels and they were awarded 3000

gallantry medals, more than any other branch of the Naval service.

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

100 years of lethal sea power. A miniature Navy that did not shrink

in the face of great danger. Duncan Kennedy, BBC News.

We are back with the late news at 10.