28/09/2012 BBC News at One

Seven British tourists are among 19 people killed in a plane crash in

Nepal. It burst in to flames shortly after take-off from

Kathmandu this morning. There were no survivors. The British group,

all men aged between 27 and 60, were heading to Everest base camp

for a two-week trek. The LIBOR rate-rigging scandal. A

review says the system's broken, and bankers caught manipulating it

in future should face jail. Pregnant women will be offered a

whooping cough vaccine from next week, after nine babies died in the

biggest outbreak of the disease in 20 years.

Two G4S directors have resigned, after the Olympic security shambles,

but the boss stays on. And breaking with his past. Lewis

Hamilton leaves McLaren, the team he joined as a schoolboy, to join

On BBC London: A coroner investigating the death of a mental

health patient in police custody says the same could happen again.

And, the brother of a former EastEnders actress, whose body was

found in Regent Canal, admits Good afternoon, and welcome to the

BBC News at One. Seven British tourists have been

killed in a plane crash in Nepal this morning. In total, 19 people

were on board, there were no survivors. The Britons, all men

aged between 27 and 60, had booked their trip to Everest base camp

through a travel company in Hampshire. They were due to start a

two-week trek today. Their relatives have been informed. The

cause of the crash hasn't been confirmed, but it's thought it may

have been a bird strike. The plane, which was heading for Lukla close

to Everest, came down in Kathmandu shortly after take-off. Daniel

Boettcher reports. Engulfed in flames, the wreckage of

the twin-engined aircraft lies a short distance from Kathmandu

Airport. It had been in the year for two minutes when the pilot

reported difficulties. Witnesses said it was on fire when it crashed

but that has not been confirmed. This man said the flames burnt all

parts of the plane. All 19 on board the small aircraft died. The

Foreign Office has confirmed seven passengers were British. Five were

Chinese. The other passengers and crew were from the poor. The

wreckage was pointing back towards the airport. It is possible the

pilot was trying to make an emergency landing near river. The

aircraft at a craft here this year was operated by a local company,

Sita Air, one of many planes used to take passengers on a trekking

tours. Investigators are trying to establish the cause of the crash.

One official said the plane had struck a bird. We do know that

bulges tentacle get around Kathmandu Airport. It is a

possibility. There are lots of other possibilities as well,

aircraft on take-off, the most vulnerable part of the flight. All

sorts of issues can crop up, including mechanical failure.

aeroplane had taken off for lucky macro, the seven Britons who died

were travelling with a farm there based company. The company is

sending a senior manager to an There have been six fatal aircraft

-- air crashes in the poor in recent years. Small high altitude

airstrips hold their own dangers, this is footage taken from lucky

macro in his them that aircraft. But this is that happened in the

capital. What is surprising is where it happened. You would not

expect the plane to crash in Kathmandu. The really dangerous

part of the flight is flying into lucky macro because Lukla airport

is 500 metres long, with a drop at one end and a cliff at the other.

Investigators are still at the scene, one of the flight recorders

has been recovered and should not establish the circumstances of this

accident. -- should establish. The seven Britons who've died have

been named by a travel company in Nepal as: 58-year-old Raymond Eagle,

from Macclesfield. 51-year-old Christopher Davey. Vincent and

Darren Kelly, in their 40s and 50s. 57-year-old Timothy Oakes. 60-year-

old Stephen Holding. And Ben Ogden who was 27.

The Foreign Office says the families of those who've died have

been informed. Our South Asia correspondent Andrew

North is in Dharamsala in the Himalayas.

This is a well-travelled route for trekkers heading to the Everest

region. There have been some concerns about the safety of these

flights recently. Party is right. It is very well-

travelled route, in fact, more than 30,000 British people good in the

bought every year, most of them to go trekking. Lucky macro is a main

destination. Every day, they fly out of Kathmandu Airport on small

aeroplanes, a journey I have made several times to go climbing in the

Himalayas. As your contributor was saying, one question which will be

asked is, why it happened, this crash, on what is the safest part

of that journey. The most dangerous part his landing in lucky macro,

perched on a cliff, where there have been many crashes -- in Lukla.

Investigators are already beginning to try to work out what happened.

They have the flight data recorders. There is a report of bird strike,

but experts think it is unlikely. There are reports the pilot had

turned back to the airport, after some other kind of technical

problem. A fire was seen on the plane as it was coming in,

eyewitnesses saying it came into land still burning. And some will

be saying, perhaps the safety record of airlines there needs to

be looked at, given the number of crashes over the past few years.

Breaking news, Sussex police have said the school governor went

missing a week ago with her maths teacher has been found in France.

The 30-year-old teacher has been arrested, and the teenager has been

taken into protection. A huge relief for the family, what are the

police saying? As you said, this news is just

reaching us within the last few minutes. We only have the briefest

of updates from sussex police where I am now. They say that Megan and

Jeremy forest have been located safe and well in France. They were

found today at 12:15pm UK time. Megan has been taken into

protection. They say the information which led to them being

located, came as a direct result of media coverage in France. They say,

at this stage, we are not confirming the specific location

where they were found. Their families have been informed, and

arrangements, they say, will now be made for Megan and Jeremy's safe

return. This will be of huge relief to Megan's family and Jeremy's

family. His parents made a direct appeal to them yesterday. They were

both very upset indeed. Both families will be relieved. We here

have they were found as a result, the police believe, of the direct

media coverage that was in France. The press conferences which had

been held here, have been translated into French. On Tuesday,

a Europe-wide arrest warrant was issued. Now, the pair have been

found, in France. A review, commissioned after banks were found

to be manipulating a key interest rate, has said the system for

setting it is "broken". The report, by a senior City regulator,

recommends an independent body to oversee the LIBOR rate, and says

bankers who attempt to fix it should be prosecuted. LIBOR is used

as a benchmark for millions of transactions, and determines some

loan and mortgage rates. Simon Gompertz reports.

The City of London's LIBOR interest rates are used to Prize 300

trillion dollars of loans and mortgages around the world. Banks's

tend to read the rates are ignoble scandal. -- rig. The system is

broken and needs complete overhaul. Governance of LIBOR has failed,

resulting in the shameful behaviour we have seen. His problem has been

exacerbated by a lack of regulation and a comprehensive mechanism to

punish those who manipulate the system. The London interbank

offered rate depends on the honesty of banks and Traders, it relies on

them telling the truth about what it costs them to borrow from each

other. Barclays Bank showed that banks could not be trusted, it was

fined �290 million for trying to manipulate LIBOR for its own

advantage. Martin Wheatley once District the British Bankers

Association from its role managing LIBOR, bringing in a new

administrator, he wants tougher controls.

We, as a government, will implement them as soon as we can. We will

introduce legislation into the Financial Services Bill currently

before Parliament. Notoriously, bike riders told each other they

were always happy to help when fiddling the rates. One promising

to celebrate with a bottle of Bollinger. Now, the chastened BBA

Bank customers have seen scandals, and very rarely any individual held

to account. It will be good to see in the future potential criminal

prosecution. Martin Wheatley said the Bankers Club which managed

LIBOR was callous and failed, the system was riddled with gross

misconduct, and LIBOR was a toxic brand which needed to be cleansed.

That process can now start but it will depend on deep cultural change

happening within the banks. The reforms won't happen until next

year, but there was a warning to david more Bank will face huge

fines son. RBS is known to be one of them.

Pregnant women will be offered a vaccination for whooping cough from

next week, after the biggest outbreak of the illness for 20

years. Ten babies died in the UK this year. Women in the last stages

of pregnancy will be offered the jab from Monday. Our medical

correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. This little girl got whooping cough

when she was just four weeks, too young to be immunised. The bacteria

infection has killed 10 infants this year. This little box and a

mob in hospital. It is the worst thing seeing your baby during bloop

and you can't do anything as a mother to help her. -- going blue.

The vaccine will boost the immunity of pregnant women. Antibodies will

cross to the unborn baby giving them protection and will they are

old enough to be vaccinated at two months. It also protects against

diphtheria, tetanus and polio, and is the same vaccine given to three-

year roles as a pre-school booster. Health officials say there are no

safety concerns about the vaccine and pointed to raise in the

programme underweight in the United States for a year.

We are talking about children who get extraordinary ill, and indeed,

who die from whooping cough. That is a real risk. And that is

something we need to do our utmost to prevent, to protect these babies,

that is what mothers can do. There was a mixed reaction among these

pregnant mothers in Bristol. Whenever a vaccine is offered to

meet, in the past, with my first child, such as the swine flu and

flu vaccine, I have always taken that up, that offer. It is a

positive step. It is not something I would take up

until I found out a bit more about it. In terms of vaccination, and

tend to be wary. The vaccine programme will begin next week. It

will be offered to all women between 28 have and 38 weeks of

pregnancy, at their routine antenatal appointments.

The brother of the former EastEnders actress, Gemma McCluskie,

whose dismembered body was found in a canal in London last year, has

accepted responsibility for her death. Tony McCluskie will go on

trial at the Old Bailey next January, to determine whether he is

Nine men have pleaded not guilty to more than 50 charges of committing

sexual offences against children, including trafficking, prostitution

and rape. The offences are alleged to have happened in Oxford and an

old girls as Jenas 12. Tom Simons is at the Old Bailey. This is the

result of a major police investigation by Thames Valley

Police, which has seen raids in the Oxford area over the last year

Rossell. Today, in quite a long process, we heard 51 counts

covering a wide range of sexual abuse, a rape, prostitution,

trafficking. In one case using an instrument to procure a miscarriage.

And also assaults on children and the supply of Class A drugs. There

are nine defendants. I counted more than 70 police from them. Every

single one was not guilty. This is going to be a big and complicated

trial that will start at the Old Bailey in January. Two directors of

the security contractor G4S have resigned, following a review of the

company's failure to provide the guards it had promised that Olympic

venues. But the chief executive, Nick Buckles, who apologised to a

committee of MPs for what had happened, is to keep his job.

British troops coming to the rescue. G4S was supposed to provide more

than 10,000 staff to safeguard the Olympic venues. But just two weeks

before the Games began, it failed to deliver. It is clear that G4S

let the country down in all the preparations for the Olympics

security. It turned into a fiasco. This was an 11th hour move. Had it

not been for the government, low carb and the Ministry of Defence --

LOCOG, and the Ministry of Defence, we would not have had the splendid

Games that we subsequently had. has revealed what went wrong. An

internal review found by monitoring and tracking of the security work

force was inadequate. And that management failed to appreciate the

scale and exact nature of the project. At the time, the boss was

hauled in front of politicians to explain. It is a humiliating

shambles, isn't it? It's not where we would want to be, that is

certain. Be so humiliating shambles for the company, yes or no?

cannot disagree with you. Today, he is still in a job at the track on

his left is going. The director of global events. He is resigning

along with David Taylor Smith, the man responsible for the Olympic

contract. It was a debacle but today G4S's share price rose,

partly because the boss, Nick Buckles, is being kept on. From a

shareholder perspective, profits have increased, he's built a global

number one player in security and the share price performance over

the last seven years has been very strong. Investors take a longer

term investment horizon than just looking at the events of the last

12 months. Those events have cost his company dear. The real test now

was whether it will continue to secure valuable government

contracts in future. The breaking news this lunchtime, the schoolgirl

Megan spammers, who went missing a week ago with her maths teacher

Jeremy Forrest, has been found in France. -- Megan Stammers. This was

the scene at the Medinah Country Club in Chicago, where the Ryder

Cup is about to get under way. Later on BBC London. Compact living

- how buyers are queueing up for one of the smallest city pads on

the market. And their local hero. We visit the Buckinghamshire club

where one Ryder Cup hopeful started The Formula One racing driver Lewis

Hamilton has left the British Racing Team McLaren and signed for

their rivals, Mercedes. It brings to an end the former world

champion's 14 year association with McLaren. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren.

Names which will have passed -- for the past decade have stuck together.

It has been a winning combination. But at the end of this season it

will be over. He has been with the team since he was just 13, signed

up on a young driver support programme. Even back then he knew

exactly what he wanted from the sport. My ambition is to get a

Formula One, definitely. I enjoyed the speed, I like to be with all

the big guys and I like to be making lots of money. Lewis

Hamilton is the world champion. Those ambitions were fulfilled in

style. Rich beyond his wildest dreams and world champion in 2008.

During those celebrations it was hard to see Hamilton ever leading

McLaren for another team. But they have been tensions. This incident

with team-mate Jensen Button, a sign of the rivalry and perhaps a

great frustration of a driver struggling to replicate his world

championship success. In a It was probably time for him to

make that move up. His new management team, 19, probably were

very much behind this because they want to make him into a global name,

just like they've done with David question over the future of Michael

Schumacher, the man Hamilton is replacing at Mercedes. The seven-

times world champion, now 43 years old, is once again without a team.

A soldier who Ledaig a net charge against insurgents in Afghanistan

and another soldier who fought on despite being shot in the head of

both been awarded the Military Cross. They were among more than

100 servicemen and women who received military honours in

recognition of their bravery. At the National Army Museum they

remember battles past. But today was about honouring those who are

still fighting the walls of the present. Those in uniform, who'd

just returned from Afghanistan, with their own stories of

extraordinary courage. Men like Corporal Sean Jones, has been

awarded the Military Cross. Surrounded by insurgents and under

fire, he ordered his men to fix their nets and charge. His citation

states the speed, aggression and audacity of that response forced

the insurgents to flee. It is straight away the first port of

call to thrust into the enemy and finish them off. What was the

reaction of the other guys with you? You saw them put their heads

back a bit as if to say, is this happening? They were all quite a

younger lads but it was happening and that was the decision that was

made. But they were all good to go. And then this moment, filmed by a

BBC crew, when a British convoy narrowly avoided a roadside bomb.

They were the target but it was this passing minibus loaded with

Afghans that caught the blast. 18 people were killed, but Sapper Ryan

Pavey saved others including children, despite the risk of other

IEDs. He receives the Queen's commendation for bravery. Me and

the other lads, they saved five lads out of everyone, five

survivors. How does that feel? great. Out of such a terrible

situation, a little bit of hope came from it. And another close

call but 21-year-old Rifleman Matt Wilson. Here he is holding the

helmet that saved his life but he was shot in the head, leaving him

briefly unconscious. Under intense fire he'd gone to the aid of a

wounded comrade. When he came round he continued the fight. He has also

been awarded the Military Cross. couldn't believe it. I had been

shot in the helmet, you don't really hear anything... I was

pretty happy about it. It was a weird feeling. Knowing that I was

that close to getting shot in the face. Pretty scary. Just a few of

the incredible stories from the men and women who have received battle

honours in a war that is still being fought. Tales of individual

heroism, though they say they were just doing their job. One of the

sport's most anticipated tournaments in golf, the Ryder Cup,

has just got under way. The competition is being held at the

Medinah Country Club in Chicago. And a glorious skies the start of

one of sport's most enthralling contests. Few events stir the

emotions like the Ryder Cup. Eating at the opening ceremony, a tribute

to the late Seve Ballesteros bringing tears from Europe's

captain, Olazabal. Inspiration for his players as they looked to

attack from the start. We're going to do our best out there and try to

win points, period. That is it. That is the only way I see we might

have a chance of winning this event. But of course the US team have won

a very noisy weapon. The crowd. Their players have already been

lapping up the support in practice, but might the decibel level also

inspire their opponents? It's exactly the same at football games.

A small group of away fans arrive and they are out matador outsang by

the home fans. That is what we are going to expect here, that is what

they are going to get. I know for a fact that several players on the

European side just love that type of atmosphere. And if the US have

home advantage, Europe have the confidence. They've won four of the

last five Ryder Cups, so can they do it again? They certainly look

relax in the build-up. And they have three of the world's top four

golfers. Conditions have been perfect so far this week. But if

Europe are champing at the bit, so are their opponents. This has been

an exciting week so far, a busy week so far. They are primed and

ready for sure. So with the formalities over, finally it is

down to business. In the last few minutes the opening shot of this

year's Ryder Cup, three days of spellbinding drama are guaranteed.

Let's go back to the breaking news schoolgirl who went missing a week

ago with a teacher Jeremy Forrest, has been found in France. -- Megan

spammers. Jeremy Forrest has been arrested and Metin has been taken

into protection. Any more details about where in France they were

found? Yes, I understand they were found in Bordeaux on a street by

the local police. There had been a number of reported sightings in

France since the weekend. There were seven of phone calls after the

BBC Crimewatch programme last night. One reported sighting in Paris. A

woman said she'd seen them walking hand-in-hand on Sunday, when they

were supposed to return to the UK. If that is the case, then from here

they made their way it seven ourselves to Bordeaux. I understand

from the prosecutor here in Paris that since Tuesday and the issue of

a European arrest warrants for Jeremy Forrest and child abduction,

they employed the services of a specialist team in France, drawn

from the gendarme and the civil police. They have access to

specialised computer software. It will have helped them home in very

quickly on mobile phone signals, car registration plates, e-mail

connections, credit cards and that sort of thing. That, together with

a higher profile for the story, has So much to play for across the pond

with the Ryder Cup just getting under way. The weather looks set

fair. A gentle breeze from the north-east, pretty good

temperatures and mostly sunny skies. Coming out of North America is this

mass of cloud. That is heading our way for Sunday. The gap in the

clouds is Saturday's weather. But at the moment across the UK we've

got this tail-end of a weather front moving its way from west to

east, being pushed along by a noticeable breeze. But it is

fragmenting, no persistent rain just a scattering of showers and

some sunny spells across Wales through the afternoon. Breezy

across Northern Ireland with sunny spells and a scattering of showers,

but the strongest winds will be in the West of Scotland, up to 40 mph.

A few showers but not many of them getting across the campions. One or

two showers across the North of England bat down towards Manchester

and Leeds it should be largely finance dry. There will be at

Youxian was around in the London area and a few clipping their way

along the south coast, where it is still quite breezy. But it's not

going to be raining everywhere, there will be some dry and bright

interludes. It stays breezy overnight, particularly in the

north. Eventually the showers fade away and the skies were clear and

it will turn quite chilly. Meanwhile, the winds Stay pretty

strong across Northern Ireland and more particularly into the West of

Scotland, where it will be wet overnight. Rural spots will get

cold, well into single figures. For most of England and Wales it is a

decent looking day. Good spells of sunshine around, maybe one or two

showers in the north-west of England but those will tend to fade

away. Good spells of sunshine and light winds for most of us.

Temperatures into the middle teens. But there is some rain gathering to

the far north-west. That is in advance of this weather system,

which is heading our way for Sunday. It will be a breezy day across the

board. Those weather fronts are bringing rain. Initially the rain

and the strongest winds will be across Scotland and Northern

Ireland, but it is on the move. They could be heavy bursts of rain

towards Cumbria, but that rain is on the move and getting down to the

south-east later in the date. Saturday is the day for getting out

and about. It will be dry and bright. All change on Sunday with