:00:20. > :00:24.Motorists caught using hand held mobiles are to face much tougher
:00:25. > :00:31.The Government says the penalties will include six points and fines
:00:32. > :00:33.of ?200 - double the current punishments.
:00:34. > :00:47.It has been banned for 13 years but seeing drivers with a phone pressed
:00:48. > :00:52.to their ears or tapping away at the light is common. Even hard-hitting
:00:53. > :00:58.TV campaigns have failed to prevent motorists from constantly checking
:00:59. > :01:01.their phones. Darryl Martin's brother was killed by a driver who
:01:02. > :01:06.had been caught eight times previously for texting at the wheel.
:01:07. > :01:11.I don't want someone to be in the same position as me and my family
:01:12. > :01:15.and I don't want to be -- want someone to be in the position of
:01:16. > :01:22.killing someone. You have to live with that, and all over a text
:01:23. > :01:25.message. So now the Government is beefing up the punishment. From
:01:26. > :01:32.early next year the number of points you will get if court will rise from
:01:33. > :01:37.3 to six, and the fine will rise to at least ?200. That means you will
:01:38. > :01:40.lose your licence if court twice in the three-year period. Younger
:01:41. > :01:45.drivers who just passed their test will lose their licence immediately
:01:46. > :01:49.and have to resit the exam. Alongside doubling the points you
:01:50. > :01:53.will get on your licence now, the Government also wants to change the
:01:54. > :01:57.cultural attitude to texting and tweeting at the wheel, to make it as
:01:58. > :02:07.socially unacceptable as drink-driving. Of course the real
:02:08. > :02:11.issue is enforcement. Drug driving, speeding, using your mobile phone,
:02:12. > :02:14.they all fit into the same thing. We are distracted when we do that, we
:02:15. > :02:18.have got to make it anti-social. If you are sitting next to someone
:02:19. > :02:23.using their phone, tell them not to because you don't want to be injured
:02:24. > :02:28.because of their destruction. Technology may also have a role to
:02:29. > :02:30.play. Mobiles already have a flight safe mode, safety groups say that a
:02:31. > :02:35.car safe mode is also required. It's emerged a senior
:02:36. > :02:37.military commander warned the Defence Secretary in April that
:02:38. > :02:40.cuts had left Britain's Armed Forces ill-prepared for any
:02:41. > :02:42.serious attack on the UK. The comments are made
:02:43. > :02:44.by General Sir Richard Barrons in a memo seen by the Financial
:02:45. > :02:46.Times. The Government, in response,
:02:47. > :02:49.says Sir Richard - who retired as head of the Joint Forces Command
:02:50. > :02:52.- had backed its defence review. Here's our Defence
:02:53. > :02:58.Correspondent Jonathan Beale. This isn't the first time a senior
:02:59. > :03:03.military commander has warned about the impact of recent defence
:03:04. > :03:19.cuts in Britain's ability to defend After Iraq and Afghanistan,
:03:20. > :03:22.Britain's Armed Forces have once again been training in Eastern
:03:23. > :03:28.Europe with Nato allies amid concerns about a more aggressive
:03:29. > :03:32.Russia. General Sir Richard Barrons, until recently one of the Army 's
:03:33. > :03:38.most senior commanders, details the gaps in the nation's defences. He
:03:39. > :03:42.says, without adequate defence systems, neither the UK homeland
:03:43. > :03:46.Nora deployed force could be protected from a concerted Russian
:03:47. > :03:52.air effort. And with limited money often spent on big-ticket items like
:03:53. > :03:56.new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, he says, we operate platforms
:03:57. > :04:00.we cannot afford to use fully, damage or looms. He concludes there
:04:01. > :04:10.is no proper military planned to defend the UK against a conventional
:04:11. > :04:15.threat. There is a critical maths of not being able to fight a high-level
:04:16. > :04:19.fight against countries like the Soviet Union, Russia or China. We
:04:20. > :04:22.have some very capable equipment but we don't have much of it, and we
:04:23. > :04:31.have gaps, and Richard is highlighting some of those gaps. The
:04:32. > :04:35.MOD has insisted there is a plan, backed by a rising defence budget
:04:36. > :04:39.and crucially backed by all of the service chiefs, including Sir
:04:40. > :04:44.Richard himself before he left his post. Some will inevitably question
:04:45. > :04:47.the motives behind the leaking of this memo. General Sir Richard
:04:48. > :04:49.Barrons was a candidate to become the head of the Armed Forces but was
:04:50. > :04:51.overlooked for the top job. The Army has congratulated
:04:52. > :04:54.a transgender soldier for becoming the first female to serve
:04:55. > :04:56.with a front-line combat unit, Chloe Allen, who joined
:04:57. > :05:01.the Scots Guards four years ago as a man, says she hopes to inspire
:05:02. > :05:05.others to be themselves. The 24-year-old told The Sun she had
:05:06. > :05:08.been prepared to transfer out of the unit until a ban on women
:05:09. > :05:14.in combat roles was lifted in July. It feels amazing, but at the same
:05:15. > :05:17.time nothing's changed. I've just started hormones
:05:18. > :05:25.in the last month. I've had my deed poll done,
:05:26. > :05:30.I'm now Chloe. Everything that has been done, all
:05:31. > :05:33.the paperwork and that within the army and the battalion
:05:34. > :05:54.have all been changed. The father and first husband of a
:05:55. > :05:56.woman from Bradford have appeared in court in Pakistan again, accused of
:05:57. > :06:01.murdering her. Both deny killing Samia Shahid, who
:06:02. > :06:04.police say was strangled in July. She'd travelled to Pakistan
:06:05. > :06:06.after being told her father was ill. The BBC's seen an email
:06:07. > :06:09.which suggests she may not have legally divorced her first
:06:10. > :06:11.husband before remarrying. The leader of the Liberal Democrats,
:06:12. > :06:13.Tim Farron, says he's confident his party can offer strong
:06:14. > :06:15.opposition to the Government. Speaking before his party's
:06:16. > :06:17.conference in Brighton, he said it was the Lib Dems
:06:18. > :06:20.who could appeal to people of all political persuasions
:06:21. > :06:29.and provide a strong challenge I enjoyed the referendum campaign,
:06:30. > :06:33.because it meant I was talking to people who don't normally share my
:06:34. > :06:37.politics, but who do share my outlook on a range of other issues.
:06:38. > :06:42.What we have now is an opportunity to work with those people, and that
:06:43. > :06:46.means reaching out to people of all current political persuasions, and a
:06:47. > :06:53.new movement that could take on Theresa May and challenge her and
:06:54. > :06:54.replace her will be liberal movement.
:06:55. > :06:57.Day ten of the Paralympics and more hopes of gold for Great Britain
:06:58. > :07:00.with Dame Sarah Storey, competing in the road race.
:07:01. > :07:02.Paralympics GB has already passed the haul for London 2012
:07:03. > :07:06.The latest successes included another gold for athlete
:07:07. > :07:07.Hannah Cockcroft, as Adam Wild reports.
:07:08. > :07:14.Here, Hannah Cockroft once again blowing away the opposition.
:07:15. > :07:16.In the 800m, her third gold of these Games.
:07:17. > :07:23.Now she's getting used to beating just about everyone.
:07:24. > :07:26.Behind her was 15-year-old Kare Adenegan.
:07:27. > :07:30.A bronze medal and a future full of promise.
:07:31. > :07:34.That took Britain past the medal total set for years ago.
:07:35. > :07:40.In the pool, gold for the women's relay quartet, and in
:07:41. > :07:43.In fact, the success of this Paralympic squad meant
:07:44. > :07:48.at times they were left just competing against each other.
:07:49. > :07:50.Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid had already won men's
:07:51. > :07:52.tennis doubles silver, now the team-mates were rivals
:07:53. > :07:59.and it was Reid who came out on top, and on top of the podium.
:08:00. > :08:02.And that is a place the dressage team has made their own.
:08:03. > :08:05.Lee Pearson carried the flag in the opening ceremony.
:08:06. > :08:08.Here, once again, he was raising the standard.
:08:09. > :08:11.The 11th gold of his incredible career, followed by Sophie
:08:12. > :08:16.Christiansen and Natasha Baker, creating their Rio hat-trick.
:08:17. > :08:22.With medal targets met, others were now in their sight.
:08:23. > :08:28.He only took it up as a hobby after watching in 2012.
:08:29. > :08:34.So, too, does David Smith in boccia, a sport specifically designed
:08:35. > :08:40.Such was his dominance, it might as well have been
:08:41. > :08:45.And after bronze and silver in London, Paul Blake,
:08:46. > :08:47.who has cerebral palsy, finally takes home
:08:48. > :08:52.His mum, well she returns with a little souvenir of her own.
:08:53. > :08:58.Still, few celebrate quite like they do in table tennis.
:08:59. > :09:01.Team bronze, another medal for Britain's extraordinary tally
:09:02. > :09:05.on another extraordinary night in Rio.
:09:06. > :09:13.Let's go live now to Rio and our correspondent there, Kate Grey.
:09:14. > :09:19.Kate, more hopes for gold today as well then.
:09:20. > :09:26.Yes, you can expect another busy day here in Rio as Sarah Storey hopes to
:09:27. > :09:31.finish these games the way she started, going for her third gold
:09:32. > :09:35.medal in the road race. The men's wheelchair basketball team take on
:09:36. > :09:42.Turkey, and Paul Blake goes his second gold, hoping to better the
:09:43. > :09:43.bronze he won in London 2012. So much still to come on the
:09:44. > :09:47.penultimate day of these Games. You can see more on all of today's
:09:48. > :09:50.stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One
:09:51. > :09:54.is at a quarter past five.