15/05/2014 BBC News at One

A woman tells a court how the entertainer Rolf Harris assaulted

The alleged victim broke down in tears as she described a moment

that she says "came out of nowhere" when she asked for his autograph.

We will have the latest from Southwark Crown Court.

Confusion after a leading medical journal admits two articles

questioning their effectiveness were based on wrong figures.

Police in Turkey fire water cannons as anger erupts around

the country over the mine disaster which has claimed nearly 300 lives.

The coalition tries to dampen claims of tensions between the Tories

and Lib Dems over free school meals for under sevens.

And saved by a whisker, the boy rescued from a dog attack

And in BBC London: The inquest continues into the death of a couple

who drowned at a luxury hotel in Essex. And the Government report

which appears to back claims that dredging could have prevented

Good afternoon and welcome to BBC News at one.

A second woman has been telling the trial of Rolf Harris how she

was allegedly assaulted when she was as young as seven.

She told Southwark Crown Court that it was around the time

the former entertainer had released his single Two Little Boys.

She had gone to a community centre to get his autograph

The woman , who is now 52, said the incident had changed her life.

Sarah Campbell has been listening to the evidence.

This case involves four alleged victims with indecent assault

ranging from 1968 to 1986. This is the first of the alleged assault

involving the youngest alleged victim. The woman gave evidence from

behind a screen, but she was clearly at times in tears. The centre of

attention as he has been for much of his adult life. Rolf Harris made his

way into court along with his daughter. The 84-year-old veteran

entertainer sat in the dock as he has for five days listening intently

to a hearing loop. Today the court heard from a woman who is the

youngest alleged victim. The jury was taken back to the late 1960s.

Rolf Harris was already a well established star in mainstay family

entertainment programmes. One Saturday according to the woman his

fans packed a community centre near Portsmouth to see him and sign

autographs. The alleged victim then was around seven or eight and she

told the court he signed of paper and then he indecently assaulted

her. When asked by the prosecution how

she felt, she said different, I was not the same child. The alleged

victim said she did not remember telling anyone at the time but years

later when Rolf Harris appeared on television she told her husband

saying he could not watch him as he was, in her words, a dirty old man.

Rolf Harris denied ever visiting the community centre and denies all 12

charges against him. This morning the women said it was

only after she heard of Rolf Harris Lord McCalpine arrest and Operation

Yewtree that she came forward. She said in her thoughts, I am not the

only one. A leading medical journal is to

re-examine two of its own reports that suggested statins,

the drug used to lower cholesterol, The British Medical Journal is

setting up an expert panel to decide if the articles should be withdrawn

after questions were raised Let's get more from our medical

correspondent Fergus Walsh. What does it mean for people taking

these drugs? Many of them will be confused and worried by this. But

statin 's are hugely beneficial for anyone who has had a heart attack or

a stroke. It is estimated they save may be 7000 lives a year. If you are

at serious risk of cardiovascular disease, you should stay on them.

That is the clear advice and no one dispute that. The row has arisen

because there are plans to lower the risk threshold for people to take

the drugs. Maybe 6 million more people should be on them. Some

people said that was making the whole population taking medication.

An article said 18-20% of people on statin 's suffered side-effects and

the British Medical Journal now said it was incorrect and a misreading of

an earlier trial. How does a magazine with such a reputation get

it wrong? It is a good question. Having looked at the original

article on which it was based, it is hard to see how the authors got it

so wrong and why it has taken seven months for the British Medical

Journal to collect -- correct it. The problem is there are

side-effects, one of the main ones being a muscle pains. If you are in

your 50s or 60s, many of us suffer muscle pains. If you put somebody on

a pill saying, you might suffer muscle pains, many of them will come

back and say, yes, I have. There is not different between some people

taking a daily pill. The British Medical Journal has withdrawn only

one sentence from these papers, but it has now been put out to an

independent panel. If you would like more information on statin is and

had to work, you can find out much more on the BBC website.

Throughout the morning rescue workers in Turkey have been bringing

out more bodies from the mine in the west of the country where it

is thought more than 280 died in Tuesday's explosion and fire.

No mine rs have been brought out alive since

early Wednesday and hopes of finding any more survivors are fading.

The disaster led to widespread protests

From Soma Rajesh Mirchandani sent this report.

Morning brought scant hope to Soma, the mine is now a scar on the

landscape and a wound to the heart for families unsure whether to

grieve. It has been a long time since it seems like these, two

miners emerge alive. Into this grief came Turkish -- Turkey's president,

Abdullah Gul, hoping to avoid the protests the Prime Minister drew

yesterday. TRANSLATION: The rescue efforts are going on around the

clock. All our efforts are being directed towards the disaster. The

pain is everybody's, not just those who have lost relatives, husbands

and wives. Two days since Turkey's worst mining accident and one of the

most telling things about this scene is this line of ambulances has

pretty much not moved all day. Many of the search teams are exhausted,

but it has been a long time since they have pulled out anyone alive.

The mood is pretty sombre and it does not feel like a rescue

operation any more. Around the country authorities are responding

with four is as Turks take to the streets in anger. This was the

coastal city of is mere today. People here are angry that

privatisation of the mining industry might have left it and it does not

feel like a rescue operation any more. Around the country authorities

are responding with four is as Turks take to the streets in anger. This

was the coastal city of is mere today. People here are angry that

privatisation of the mining industry might have left it unsafe and in the

town the bodies are taken to the morgue for identification and

storage, but digging mass graves is the best way this small, mining

community can cope with such huge loss.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, says free school meals

for 5-7-year-olds will happen and will happen on time in September .

His comments come after reports of a rift between the

Liberal Democrat and Conservatives and suggestions that the Tories did

Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports.

The Education Secretary Michael Gove was all smiles, but had he come

under pressure to write a joint article with his Lib Dem colleague

to quell a bitter, coalition row? I enjoyed writing the article. So you

have kissed and made up? You could say that. Ministers say giving

children free school meals boosts their health and academic

achievements and boosts morale in the classroom. But arguments between

coalition partners about how to pay for the policy prompted a furious

barrage of briefings from both sides.

In today's article Michael Gove and his Lib Dem deputy David Laws say

people might expect us to be crouched under our desks, only

popping out to blast each other with shotguns. But they say long after

the current political spats are forgotten this policy will create a

generation of young people who are healthier, happier and doing better

in their studies. The Deputy Prime Minister told the BBC free school

meals will be in place this autumn with the resources to pay for it. It

is going to happen and it will benefit many children up and down

the country and save families money. ?400 is being spent per

child. It helps children share meals together which has a great social

factor and is a big, bold and together which has a great social

progressive policy. But at this primary school in Leeds the

headmaster said he could only afford to provide school lunches if he cuts

costs elsewhere. I believe the Government have lied about the fact

they have a fully funded it. I found out yesterday we need extra

equipment in our kitchen because we would be serving between 40-60 extra

dinners and I found out yesterday I have to find 50% of the cost out of

the school budget. The row over school meals was fuelled by Tories

and Lib Dems came to expose their different policies in the run-up to

next week's elections. They will be judged on whether children like

these get a free lunches next autumn.

It is a week before elections in 161 councils in England

All through the campaign our chief political correspondent Norman Smith

has been speaking to the major party leaders about their prospects.

All morning he has been with the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and assessing

The last time these elections were fought the Lib Dems were on a roll,

but now it is different and they look set to pay a heavy price for

their time in Government and support for posterity. They have been

damaged in terms of opinion polls and they have lost council seat

since 2010. There is a price to pay for going into Government. They have

lost a lot of people to a protest vote. It has hurt them in electoral

terms. They are hoping it has a long-term payoff that will reward

the party in ten years time. Nick Clegg has also taken an almighty

Euro gamble presenting the Liberal Democrats as the pro-European party

and the only party ready to take on UKIP. Nick Clegg has staked out his

position. UKIP is winning people by saying, get out of Europe. Nick

Clegg is taking up a less popular position saying, let's stay in

Europe. What it has done is it has buoyed up the Lib Dem party itself.

Activists and members are keen on Europe. They are proud to see Nick

Clegg flying the flag for being in Europe. Why bother voting Liberal

Democrat? Not my question, but one posed by one of Nick Clegg's own

MPs. His point is either Liberal Democrats a distinct party or are

they useful allies to have in a coalition? We can speak to Norman

who is live in a much warmer Birmingham. These reports of a rift

in the coalition, are they causing a problem during this campaign?

Absolutely not. These rows are pretty much exactly what Nick Clegg

wants. He wants to smash a few plates and create a bit of a scene

in front of the electorate because the Lib Dems are terrified of

becoming like the magnolia of the middle ground. People do not know

what they are for, where they stand, what they are about. Nick Clegg's

way of getting around that is to throw his weight about on issues

that matter to him so he can show to the electorate, this is where we

stand. He is quite happy to barge into Michael Gove over free school

meals and he is happy to crash into Nigel Farage over Europe and clash

with the Chancellor over who can claim credit for the raising of the

tax threshold. I am thinking he might probably be tempted to cross

the street and start a fight with a Tory.

They are two of the biggest names in British retail

and now electricals retailer Dixons and Carphone Warehouse are to merge

The companies are banking on a future where all of us will

increasingly use our mobile phones and tablets to control everyday

household goods like washing machines , fridges and boilers They

are big brands. Currys and PC World sells lots of electrical kit.

Carphone warehouse is about mobile technology. They are joining forces.

A new, high Street Alliance to create Britain's biggest electronics

empire. Increasingly, customers want to think about the mobile device,

connectivity and the rest of their lives as one seamless whole. Nowhere

on the planet are they able to do that and from this merger conclude,

we will be able to tell that story in a way that is completely unique.

We can control quite a lot of kit already with our smartphone, whether

it is calorie counting, home music systems or central heating. Now,

this is just a bit of fun. But it does perhaps give you a glimpse into

the future. The new company will be called Dixons Carphone, but the

names on the high street will stay the same. It will have combined

sales of some ?12 billion a year, with more than 40,000 workers across

the UK and Europe. And it will have nearly 3000 stores around one third

in the UK. But will they all stay? If the deal goes ahead, the firm

says more jobs should eventually created that lost but is this merger

more about survival in an industry in the midst of big structural

change? By staying independent these companies are exposed to the risk

that the product category in which they specialise goes into decline,

or they are somehow caught out by technological change in those

products categories. Merging brings risks, particularly in the retail

business. Carphone Warehouse knows all about that. Its partnership with

this US electronics giant failed to crack the UK. But will this merger

take-off? They are banking that conductivity will be the key to

future success. Our top story this lunchtime. A

woman tells the court how the entertainer Rolf Harris assaulted

her when she asked for his autograph, aged just seven. Still to

come, the tale of Tara, the four-legged friend who showed a dog

just what it means come, the tale of Tara, the

four-legged friend who to be four-legged friend who showed a dog

just a top cat. Later on BBC London, with a week to

go until the local elections we look at the key battle ground Borough of

Hammersmith and Fulham. And Prince Harry posts his first tweet, as he

helps launch the Invictus Games for injured servicemen and women.

The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank last month with the

loss of more than 290 lives has been charged with manslaughter. Lee

Joon-seok and three other crew members are accused of leaving the

ship as it was sinking, while telling passengers mostly

schoolchildren to stay put. Mike Wooldridge reports. His report does

contain flash photography. Rescue efforts began as the ferry

sank off the South Korean coast on a routine passage to the holiday

island of Jeju. Mobile phone footage captured the disaster unfolding. The

helicopters and the boats involved in the operation were to rescue only

just over one third of those on board. Today, the captain and three

crew members were charged with manslaughter. 11 other crew members

with negligence. Accused of escaping from the doomed vessel before

passengers, the captain publicly apologised after the sinking, saying

he was deeply ashamed. But there could have been other factors behind

the tragedy. It is thought that unsecured cargo contributed to the

ferry developing a severe list. The captain's papers declared that on

board were 150 cars and 657 tonnes of other cargo, but investigators

say the ferry was actually thought to be carrying more than 3000

tonnes, far beyond its official capacity. Another possible factor in

the rapid capsize, modifications made to the ferry between October

2012 and February last year. Approved by safety regulators, but

only as long as the Sewol carried enough the last, and there have been

allegations that it did not. A month after the disaster, this memorial in

Seoul was a focus for the grieving that continues. Many of those who

died were from the party of children and teachers on a school trip. This

message reads, our babies, how will we be able to express this sorrow?

South Korea is still a nation in mourning.

New figures show the economy of the Eurozone continued to grow

But the growth of 0.2% was slower than expected and there were marked

In the latest of our special reports in the run up to the European

elections our correspondents Matthew Price and Chris Morris have been

assessing the public mood in the cities of Copenhagen and in Athens.

Buffeted by the strongest economic wins in the Eurozone crisis and

Greece is still suffering. It's fertile ground for the poster boy of

the European left, Alexis the past, and his anti-austerity campaign.

Things are getting worse by the minute. We have hospitals without

beds for the sick. We have schools without books and teachers. And

while the government says a corner has been turned, there will be a

huge antiestablishment vote from the hard left to the extreme right. It

is hardly surprising, given the level of economic pain they have

lived through over the last few years. But right across Europe in

this election season there is a political malaise. What about where

you are? I guess it is an extent of being for armed is forewarned. Here

in Denmark people are pretty fed up with their government and that is

leading to a massive swelling support for this lot, and you don't

need to speak Danish to understand their message. Meet the Danish

People's party. They believe EU rules are eroding traditional Danish

values. They could win the most votes here. Their message seems to

resonate. I think it is good we are members of the union but I really

think that is too much. I like it, I am a fan. There are some problems.

Do they -- does there have to be so much integration? Denmark lies the

oldest flag in the world, is proud, small country. At the national

public broadcaster fair correspondent believes attitudes to

the EU are changing. There is nobody who wants to leave the European

Union, but from time to time you see Paul who like the European Union to

leave us alone. Many Danes seem pretty well-informed about the

European Union. They believe it brings economic benefits to their

country. And yet there is an increasing concern here about the

costs of EU membership. And a growing number one this reformed.

It's a decade since hospitals were told they had to provide

round-the-clock specialist care for those at the end of their life.

But ten years on a review of hospitals in England showed

the care given to the dying was still "deeply concerning",

with only one in five giving the level of care they're supposed to.

Here's our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys.

Many people spent the last days of their life in hospital. Their care

at the end of life something families live with long after. The

medical care of thousands of cases in this review was generally good,

but almost a quarter of relatives said they didn't feel supported.

Doctors who led this research say that is not good enough. I am afraid

that care of people in their last days and weeks of life has not been

a high enough priority for us until now. For this audit of care, the

dying in hospitals in England, more than 6000 deaths were reviewed in

detail. 858 relatives all -- or friends contributed their views. 24%

said they did not feel involved in decisions at all. More than half of

all deaths happen in hospital. For a significant minority of families it

is a very poor experience. Often because of bad communication and not

feeling involved. Linda's husband Neal died two years ago in

hospital. She felt there simply wasn't any compassion from the

staff. To see him in that bed and this is an image unfortunately that

does still haunt me, you know, not being looked after, I wanted to take

him out of bed and put him into a wheelchair and perhaps get some

fresh air and I went to ask for a wheelchair. The response was, who is

Neal? Some hospitals have specialist nurses and doctors on call for the

dying, seven days a week. But this report says that is not happening

everywhere in England, despite evidence it makes a difference to

care. The last 24 or 48 hours of life is crucial. Particularly for

the families. It is important they see their loved ones are well

symptom - controlled unsettled. The care of patients in hospital is

under review in England. It follows the review of deaf it follows the

withdrawal of a controversial set of guidelines. New advice is expected

soon. Two men have pleaded guilty to

stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of rare artefacts

from wrecks off Britain's coast. It's the first prosecution

of its kind and follows a four-year investigation by

the Maritme and Coastguard Agency. Raiders of the lost wrecks. Today,

they pleaded guilty to 19 offences of taking historic artefacts from

sunken ships. This was Hussey, posing with one of his trophies, a

200-year-old canon he found off Dover. In all, six cannons were

taken from a ship heading to India in 1809. But the pair also brought

up crockery, dozens of pristine is bottles and valuable lamps, the haul

worth more than ?250,000. This is a case of systematic and long-term

recoveries of large scale wreck material using underwater cutting

equipment and explosives to low chunks of shipwrecks. This is not

recreational divers? This is above and beyond the average diver. The

two men left court saying the rules governing wrecks were unclear. Is it

like you were prosecuted? It should have been done two years ago. The

waters of Britain's posts are littered with wrecks, but anything

taken from them must be declared to authorities. Something the men in

this case failed to do. Today's cases the first time the Maritime

and Coastguard Agency has ever brought a prosecution like this.

They say the wrecks at the bottom of the Sea of Britain's co-star part of

our cultural heritage and that those who rob from them are stealing from

Britain's Maritime history -- they are part of Britain's cultural

heritage. They will be sentenced in July. The case, a warning to any

diver, Britain's laws extend to the sea floor.

And finally - this is Tara and she's no scardy cat.

In fact, she's become something of an internet sensation

after her family posted a video of her rescuing their four-year-old

The four-year-old has no idea that a neighbour's doggies on the prowl. It

had accidentally got out. CCTV shows the animal sneaking around a car.

Suddenly, the boy is set upon but Tara the cat races to his rescue.

She sees the dog off and returned to the boy. In slow motion, it is

easier to see just how Tara leaps into action, fights off the

dangerous dog and chases it away from the child. Jeremy's parents say

if it was not that they're fearless cat it have been much worse. Just

how it happened so fast out of nowhere, I did not even really know

what had happened until afterwards and my husband showed me our

surveillance video and said, our cat saved our son! It was truly amazing.

She is my hero. After the attack the youngster needed stitches for

various bite marks to his leg. The dog was handed over to the

authorities and is likely to be put down. While Tara the cat was unhurt.

It is a good thing she was not injured in the incident anyway and

he was not injured worse. It was just localised to the leg. So I was

relieved, proud of him. He handled it like a champ. As Jeremy recovers

at home, Tara is enjoying plenty of well-deserved attention. The family

adopted the stray cat five years ago. They say the pet bonded with

their son almost as soon as he was born. Cheesy hero! And now Tara has

proved that a cat is a boy's best friend.

There is more sunshine, high pressure is building across the UK.

We have the weather front bringing -- the weather front bringing cloud

to Scotland, there are a few spots of rain in the North of England and

Wales. Temperatures rising. Away from the far north of Scotland,

where we will keep cloud and rain, the rest of Scotland should be

cheering up. The cloud thinning, sunshine coming through. Warmer than

yesterday. A warm day for Northern Ireland. 19 Celsius in Belfast with

sunny spells. A bit more cloud for a good part of the afternoon and to

the south, temperatures widely 19 or 20 Celsius. It could get higher than

that. Those temperatures have led to cloud bubbling up, but it should not

spoil things. Good spells of sunshine. Any cloud that does

develop will melt away this evening. For many blazes it will have clear

skies, patchy cloud further north. It is the far north of Scotland that

will cede any rain. It does not look too cold but in rural parts of

southern England, four or 5 degrees is not out of the question. Mist and

fog clearing in the morning. For many, a bright, sunny start as

temperatures rise. Cloud will bubble up mainly across England and Wales.

Wet, windy arriving -- wet, windy weather arriving at the far north of

Scotland. Temperatures climbing up to 22 or 23 Celsius as we head into

the afternoon. The Queen's Batten relay heads into the Isle of Man as

it works its way towards Douglas. It should be

relay heads into the Isle of Man as it works its a dry day, plenty of

it works its way towards Douglas. It should sunshine and temperatures in

the mid teens. More sunshine in England and Wales in particular on

Saturday. Another warm day. We will see a change into Scotland and maybe

the North of Northern Ireland with cloud, outbreaks of rain. Cooler

here, particularly in Scotland. To the south, 20 or 21 Celsius quite

widely, 23 or 24 is possible in the south-east, the warmest it has been

all year. It is due to the high pressure. That is eased away during

the second half of the weekend. The rain on the weather front in the

north-west starts to push into the United Kingdom and signals a change

mainly for next week. Over the weekend it is the North and Northern

Ireland that will see the rain. One or two showers possible elsewhere

but some sunshine. Warm. 25 LCF, very pleasant.

The top story, a woman has told a court how the entertainer Rolf

Harris assaulted her when she asked for his autograph when she was just