06/05/2017 BBC Weekend News

The main political parties have been out canvassing support on the first

full weekend of the general election campaign.

Theresa May says she's taking nothing for granted after success

in the local elections, as Jeremy Corbyn insists Labour

France seeks to stop hacked emails and documents from influencing

the outcome of tomorrow's presidential run-off vote.

Prince Philip may be standing down from his royal duties,

but Prince Edward says he, "Won't stop for a minute".

I don't believe that he's going be putting his feet up completely

and disappearing into the background and never being seen again.

He'll pick and choose what he wants to do and how he wants to do it.

And the young racing driver who lost both legs in a horrific crash

says he won't give up, after support from racing legends

It just shows you that, like, when a tragic event like this

The main political parties have been out canvassing support

on the first full weekend of the general election campaign.

Theresa May says she's grateful for the support her party's received

in the local elections - but she says she's taking nothing

for granted ahead of next month's general election.

Earlier, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn admitted his party

faced an historic challenge - but said his party was closing

Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright reports.

Step by step, Theresa May is closing in on polling day, now with hundreds

of new Conservative councillors in her ranks.

At Wolverhampton aerospace factory, she toured the floor

with the new West Midlands mayor, Andy Street.

I need support from across the United Kingdom to strengthen my

hand, and only a vote for me and my team will ensure

that Britain has the strong and stable leadership we need

to get the best deal for Britain from Brexit.

Theresa May needs Tory voters to turn out on June 8th.

That's why she claims this contest could be close.

After winning the West Midlands first metro mayor contest yesterday,

the Conservatives are confident of turning this much of this Labour

In Wolverhampton, a sense from some of allegiances shifting.

The Labour Party has let itself down over the past few years.

I am not very confident in the current leader.

I have no confidence in Labour at the moment.

Jeremy Corbyn did not seem down after yesterday's drubbing.

His supporters are as fired up as ever.

Visiting Leicester and the East Midlands,

Mr Corbyn conceded Labour faced a huge challenge.

Of course I am disappointed with the election results on Thursday.

But we're giving a message about how our economy and society

After losing all 146 council seats it was defending,

Paul Nuttall insisted the party's voters would return.

It needs to stay on the pitch and hold its ground and people

The SNP were the biggest winners in the Scottish council elections,

replacing Labour as the largest party in Glasgow and Aberdeen.

There today, Nicola Sturgeon met the SNP's councils group.

We won the election yesterday emphatically.

We are the largest party, not just compared to five years ago

but compared to every other party in Scotland.

This strange, unexpected election has yet to set passions alight.

But it is in battlegrounds like this the next government will be decided.

Labour's Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, is to announce that

95% of workers won't face a rise in income tax, if Labour wins

Mr McDonnell is promising his party would not increase income tax

in the next parliament for anyone earning less than ?80,000 a year.

Labour is also ruling out any increase in VAT or national

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to increase spending

on the NHS and social care - by raising income tax

They say it would raise an extra ?6 billion and would be

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would be able to decide how

Our political correspondent Leila Nathoo reports.

Would you pay more to fund more GPs, for better mental health

They have said they will increase all income tax bands by one

percentage point to raise ?6 billion, ring fenced for health

If we want the best health and social care for our families,

our loved ones, going into the future, we have

Everyone else is pretending it can be done on the cheap.

The party says someone earning ?25,000 next year will pay ?133

On a salary of ?100,000, the income tax bill would increase by ?883.

Taking the focus away from Brexit, this is the Liberal Democrats'

main election pitch on tax and spending.

They think the policy will be popular despite the risk of already

committing to tax rises because of voters' concerns

Scotland has its own powers over income tax.

There is no doubt the NHS and social care are under pressure

across the UK with demand soaring and budgets squeezed.

Over the past few years, spending in the NHS in real terms has

It has gone up, but at a slower rate in the past.

This funding will be double of what is promised in the last few

years and would look generous compared to increases in the last

few years but is not that large compared with spending increases

The Conservatives say they would keep taxes low,

while Labour are ruling out tax rises for low

The Liberal Democrats think a tax rise across the board is the only

French officials have issued a warning about documents

believed to have been stolen from the presidential favourite

Emmanuel Macron's campaign by computer hackers.

They say anyone who shares the contents could face

It comes ahead of tomorrow's presidential run-off vote which pits

Mr Macron against the far-right candidate, Marie Le Pen.

Our Europe Correspondent James Reynolds reports.

Emmanuel Macron arrived last night for his final interview,

assuming that his campaign was basically done.

But whilst he was speaking, documents stolen from his team

Coming at the last hour, his team said, this intervention

is an attempt to destabilise democracy, as happened in the USA

In the past, Emmanuel Macron has suggested that Russian-backed

But one cyber expert says that this hack looks different.

It is very low level for the Russians, compared

to what they have done in the United States,

which was really a highly creative and high end information war mixed

What we're witnessing right now with Macron is very low

But many French people, here braving the Saturday drizzle,

On this, the day before the vote, the French media

is banned from doing any in-depth political reporting.

A last-minute hack is dramatic, showing Emmanuel Macron has capable

enemies but it may not change the course of this election.

Many French people have already decided which way they'll vote.

And some have already cast their ballots.

These French citizens in Canada have made an early start.

47 million voters here in France will soon follow.

At least 82 girls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Islamist

militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria three years ago have been released.

The girls were taken from a secondary school in Chibok -

a remote area in the north of the country.

An official told the BBC that the girls are now

Prince Edward has been speaking about his father's decision to stand

down from royal duties later this year.

He said he was sure Prince Philip wouldn't disappear

into the background, as our royal correspondent,

Prince Philip, as we soon won't be seeing him, in public,

From the autumn, the soon to be 96-year-old will be giving

Retirement beckons but Prince Edward insists his

I don't believe that he is going to be putting his feet up completely

and disappearing into the background and never being seen again.

I still think, he'll pick and choose what he wants to do and how he'll do

it and what's sensible and what's practical.

As I said, I don't think we'll see him completely disappear

but he's making it absolutely clear to organisations, please don't come

round asking me to do things and expect me to say yes,

Hopefully he can enjoy more of what he enjoys doing.

This is an ancient institution adjusting to the fact that one

of its key players will be on display a lot less.

Out and about, the Queen relies on her husband.

Others will have to step up to the mark.

It is always a team effort and that's what we do.

If an actor retires from a show, guess what, the show goes on,

everybody shuffles around and we fill in the spaces

It doesn't require any massive reorganisation, that's what we do,

Here, Prince William was on hand, a grandson helping his grandmother,

the Queen, as she met her guest, Aung San Suu Kyi,

With all the sport, here's Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre.

Wasps have finished top of rugby union's Premiership table

Victory against Saracens secured first place in the regular season

just ahead of Exeter, while Leicester are also

Eight months, 126 matches, and the search was still

on to find first place in the English Premiership, as well

Wasps and an understrength Saracens had a chance of both.

Fitting that they played each other, then.

Even more fitting that Christian Wade scored for Wasps,

his 17th try of the season, equalling the league record.

It helped the home side dominate the second half.

Their only Lion, Elliot Daly, will hope to feast against

the All Blacks next month, and he got in some practice

here before his team-mate, Thomas Young, son of the coach Dai,

rounded off the win with his hat-trick.

Wasps top, Saracens third, and in between them are Exeter.

They beat Gloucester to secure second for the second successive

season, while the fourth and final play-off spot went

23 points from departing fly-half Freddie Burns got them over

the line at Worcester, but the celebrations

It is the play-offs next, and the search for England's

That's how the regular season finished.

Wasps will face Leicester in their play-off in a fortnight.

The Pro 12 regular season has also come to a close.

Scarlets' biggest win against Ospreys, 40-17,

sees them finish third, and they'll face Leinster in the play-offs.

Ospreys still finished fourth and will play

Some other rugby union news this evening, England's Ben Youngs has

withdrawn from the British and Irish Lions squad tour

to New Zealand next month after the wife of his brother

and team-mate Tom was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Scotland's Greg Laidlaw has been called up.

Match of the Day follows the news, but if you want today's

Premier League results now, here they come.

Swansea have moved out of the relegation zone after a 1-0

They have two more games left to play.

Elsewhere, there were draws at Bournemouth and Burnley.

Hull have dropped into the relegation zone

Champions Leicester can't go down after beating Watford 3-0,

The bottom club in the Scottish Premiership,

Inverness Caledonian Thistle, could have been relegated today,

but beat Hamilton 2-1 to keep alive their hopes of staying up

There were also wins for Champions Celtic,

The England rugby league team have won their final match before

They were facing Samoa in Sydney and scored five tries.

They'll return to Australia for the tournament that

The first Classic race of the Flat season, the 2000 Guineas,

was won by the favourite, Churchill.

It's a record eighth victory in the race for the Irish

Dream Castle and Eminent, sons of the legendary Frankel,

the Guineas winner in 2011, were fifth and sixth.

The teenage racing driver who lost both legs in a horrific crash says

he's "lost for words" after well wishers raised hundreds

Billy Monger was racing in the Formula 4 championship last

month when he was involved in a high speed collision.

One of the rising stars of British motorsport.

He was supposed to be racing this weekend.

Instead, he's reading messages from driving legends

like Lewis Hamilton and Niki Lauda after the injuries

And as I turn over, there'd be signatures

I was lost for words, and I still am now.

Three weeks ago he was racing at Donington Park at 120 miles

an hour when he struck a stationary car.

He was airlifted to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham,

where they carried out partial amputations of both legs.

Today he was preparing to go home, grateful to the staff

Without them I wouldn't be here today, so a massive thanks

to every single one of the staff that have helped me.

It's going to be emotional, saying goodbye to them all.

Billy turned 18 yesterday and is contemplating a return

His team has already helped raise more than ?800,000

towards his recovery and those who will be racing at Thruxton this

weekend are ensuring that although he won't be there,

his nickname will at least still feature on the grid.

It just shows you that when a tragic event like this happens,

I definitely want to take the positives out of this and make

sure that I use it in a positive way for the rest of my life now.

I've still got a few years left in me, for sure.

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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