02/09/2017 BBC Weekend News

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it's paid

compensation to the former Chief of the Defence Staff,

Field Marshal Lord Bramall, and the family of the late

Home Secretary, Lord Brittan, who were both falsely accused

Both men were named a by an informant known as "Nick",

who's now being investigated for allegedly perverting

They were horrifying allegations, of a paedophile ring at the heart

of the establishment - but they all proved to be false.

During Operation Midland, police raided the homes of the former Chief

of the Defence Staff Lord Bramall, ex-Home Secretary Leon Brittan,

All on the say-so of this one man, Nick, whose real

But a scathing review of the investigation found:

Nick's credibility wasn't properly assessed, search

warrants were inaccurate, and the investigation

It's now been confirmed that Lord Bramall and Lord Brittan's

widow have received compensation from the Met.

The D-Day veteran, speaking last year, questioned the way detectives

I've never complained about being investigated.

It was only the heavy-handed and the unintelligent way

I mean, I think they could have said, well look,...

If they'd taken any trouble to put their effort onto questioning

the so-called victim, I think they would have found

It's thought former MP Harvey Proctor, also

cleared of any wrongdoing, has yet to agree a settlement.

The true cost of the failed Operation Midland is

Nearly 60,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh

since violence erupted in Myanmar a week ago.

The UN estimates scores of people are reported to have died

since Rohingya militants attacked police positions.

Subsequent clashes have sent civilians from all

Sanjoy Majumner has been to a refugee camp

on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and sent this report.

Exhausted and traumatised after escaping death.

Many of these Rohingya have walked for hours across hills and wading

through paddy fields to avoid border patrols before making it here. These

are fresh arrivals, as we've just arrived having crossed the border.

And with every passing hour there are more and more of them coming.

There is obviously no space left any more so they are just living on any

piece of open ground they can find, and many of them have the most

disturbing testimony to share. I meet this man, who is nursing a

bullet wound in his foot. He tells me his village, just across the

border, was attacked allegedly by the military and mobs. So many

people were killed, they just set fire to everything. I just ran. They

were shooting at us and I got hit. There were people whose throat was

slashed with knives. There have been reports of villages

being torched and hundreds of Rohingyas being killed. The violence

kicked off after a militant group attacked dozens of police posts in

the area last week. Those who can have fled the fighting, building

temporary shelters and trying to make a home for themselves.

Bangladesh, after initially trying to stop them coming, is now letting

them in. So for now, this represents freedom. But at what cost, and what

lies ahead? Sanjoy Majumner, BBC News, at the border.

Utility companies could soon be charged by-the-hour for digging up

The plans have been announced by the Government which believes

the policy would force contractors to speed up repairs -

The Local Government Association has welcomed the proposals.

Misery for motorists in Leeds today, costing time and money.

Now the Government is considering making companies pay

I think that's a good idea, and it may cut the roadworks down

You'll often come past and they'll nobody here but a lot of the time,

and you think, why did you dig it up if you are now working

over there, you know, how can you do it?

So, yeah, that could make a big, big difference.

2.5 million roadworks are carried out each year.

It is estimated to cost the economy ?4 billion,

as people are late to work or deliveries don't arrive on time.

Companies could be charged up to ?2500 per site,

The Government says trials have already seen severe

We've been trialling it in London and Kent and it's proved

extremely successful, and we estimate that there's been

about 600 less incursions into the highway surface

Motoring groups want some reassurances.

The idea that lane rental will actually be introduced

to encourage the utility companies to conduct their road works more

We just want to ensure that the quality of the work

they take and do to our roads is sufficient and it's not

going to end up with the local authorities coming back

The group that represents utility companies points out

that they are carrying out big infrastructure projects designed

to boost the economy, and if they have to pay to close

roads, it offers less value for money for their customers.

They also say that around half of all roadworks aren't carried out

by utility companies, but by highways authorities,

defined to improve the layout and surface of the roads.

Firms are being told they could avoid the charges

by carrying out work at night, or coordinating plans

The scheme could be introduced in 2019.

Some social housing residents in west London will be the first

in England to have free solar panels on their homes under

1,000 jobs are being created by the project.

The aim is to reach 800,000 homes over

Here's our business correspondent, Vishala Sri-Pathma.

The sun is out in Acton, in west London, and residents

here are hoping that it's going to help bring

These houses are some of the first beneficiaries of a new scheme that

will see 100,000 social housing properties have solar panels

Solar's become one of the cheapest sources of energy, and that's why

the Government thinks that panels like these are the solution

Solarplicity is the company that's installing the panels.

They say that they've found their tenants

save an average of ?240 a year on their energy bills.

These residents are hoping they're right.

In the long term, we're going to save a bit, I should think.

Ealing Borough Council say that they had planned

on covering more homes, but cuts to tariffs and subsidies

has meant they simply cannot afford to do so.

But the Government insists that the falling price of solar now

means that the industry does not require help.

What we want to see is, and this is actually a good scheme,

showing how you don't need to subsidise solar power as much,

We're talking here about the potential of 800,000 homes

homes across the country, in the next five years,

with a combination of a fantastic UK companies and investment coming

Cheaper and greener energy - that's our objective.

The expansion of solar is now largely reliant

on the business case for it, with councils and households

increasingly look to private investors for encouragement,

With all the sport, here's Mike Bushell

Good afternoon. Yes, good afternoon.

It's Wales who take centre stage in World Cup,

qualifying this evening, as they try to keep alive their

After Scotland, England and Northern Ireland all won away,

last night, Wales are at home in Cardiff, but face an Austrian

team who are level on points with Chris Coleman's men.

Both need the win, as they start tonight four points adrift

of the all important, top two places in the group.

I think it will be open and a draw really doesn't

So something will have to give, you would imagine.

But then if it is a draw, we have to see what happens

elsewhere, of course, with the other results.

This was always going to be a tight group, a tight campaign.

There are three or four teams that are very strong.

I have said before, I think it will go to the wire.

Lewis Hamilton will be hoping to claim the outright record

for pole positions in Formula One at Monza in the next hour.

The Briton equalled Michael Schumacher's record of 68

Qualifying has been halted temporarily after Romain Grosjean

crashed in the treacherous conditions.

You can follow the action on the BBC Sport website

Glamorgan have lost three early wickets, as they try to reach

Meanwhile, it's 50 years since the sport's first trade union,

the Professional Cricketers Association, was set up.

Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson has been to meet one of the men

A sitting-room in Worcestershire, talking cricket history with a man

who changed the game. Formed last night, cricket's first trade union,

the Daily Express in 67, and there in the front row is the instigator,

Fred Rumsey. You looked at the. I was young. I didn't care what was

said of me or what they did with me, I just felt it was grossly unfair

that the players were in a period of development that they were having

nothing at all to say about. They weren't even allowed to comment on

whether they should start at two o'clock in the afternoon on the

Sunday... Even the church had more say than the players! Said they were

almost like servants of the game? Yes, total servants. Servants.

Australian players would not recognise that term. They confronted

their governing body busier over contracts, even threatening the

ashes. Meanwhile, English bowler, Mills gets a contract in the IPL.

Players are powerful and Rumsey, in general, approves. Why not come if

you're a professional and you have your bat or your ball as your tool?

Take it where ever you can get the income. In the 1960s, Fred Rumsey

was a left-arm fast bowler measured at 93 miles an hour. All beat 2020

franchises would pay a mint to have you. Yes, possibly. But you could

bring a lot of the people from my era into this era and say that. 50

years ago Fred Rumsey decided cricketers should be paid and

treated better, and the history he keeps is the foundation of every

modern career. Joe Wilson, BBC News,

Worcestershire. Yes, how the sport has changed. That

is all for now, back to you. Thanks very much.

That's it for now - the next news on BBC One is at 6:10pm.