:00:00. > :00:00.A historic night for the Conservative Party,
:00:00. > :00:09.as it deals Labour a major blow in a supposedly ultra-safe seat.
:00:10. > :00:12.The Tories celebrate a stunning victory in
:00:13. > :00:14.the Copeland by-election - an area Labour represented
:00:15. > :00:19.Copeland is obviously very disappointing.
:00:20. > :00:21.I'd hoped we'd win the election there.
:00:22. > :00:28.Labour holds Stoke-on-Trent Central, seeing off a challenge from
:00:29. > :00:33.We'll be live in both constituenciesm getting reaction
:00:34. > :00:34.from our Assistant Poltiical Editor, Norman Smith.
:00:35. > :00:39."Inexplicable, unforgiveable, and gut-wretchingly sad" -
:00:40. > :00:44.Gary Lineker's verdict on the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.
:00:45. > :00:46.I personally think they should be building statues
:00:47. > :00:52.Murdered by a weapon of mass destruction -
:00:53. > :00:55.authorities in Malaysia say Kim Jong-nam was killed by a banned
:00:56. > :01:01.Royal Bank of Scotland reports a loss of ?7 billion for 2016,
:01:02. > :01:04.far worse than the previous year's figure.
:01:05. > :01:08.And a group of conservation charities is launching a recruitment
:01:09. > :01:12.drive for volunteers to help protect the native red squirrel.
:01:13. > :01:15.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, former Manchester City boss
:01:16. > :01:18.Roberto Mancini is the favourite to succeed Claudio Ranieri
:01:19. > :01:44.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at one.
:01:45. > :01:48.It was, by any standards, a great result for the Conservatives -
:01:49. > :01:52.causing a major electoral upset by winning the long-held Labour seat
:01:53. > :01:56.Their candidate beat Labour by more than 2,000 votes.
:01:57. > :01:59.It's the first time a governing party has gained a seat
:02:00. > :02:06.In the night's other by-election, Labour held Stoke-on-Trent Central -
:02:07. > :02:09.holding off the challenge of the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.
:02:10. > :02:12.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the party's win in Stoke was
:02:13. > :02:16."a decisive rejection of Ukip's politics of division"
:02:17. > :02:19.But he says their "message was not enough to win through in Copeland".
:02:20. > :02:29.Our Political Correspondent, Carole Walker, reports.
:02:30. > :02:39.Harrison, Trudy. The Conservative Party candidate. 13,748.
:02:40. > :02:42.This really was an astonishing results. Victory for the Tories in a
:02:43. > :02:48.seat which has been Labour territory and that was created.
:02:49. > :02:53.What has happened here tonight is a truly historic event. You would have
:02:54. > :02:58.to go back more than a century to find an example of a governing party
:02:59. > :03:04.taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like this.
:03:05. > :03:07.Height the Conservatives are jubilant.
:03:08. > :03:12.Though new MP increased the party's share of the vote by more than 8%.
:03:13. > :03:16.The Tories have seized on the result has a resounding endorsement of
:03:17. > :03:20.Theresa May's leadership and policies, and an outright rejection
:03:21. > :03:24.of labour and Jeremy Corbyn. For them to lose a seat to the
:03:25. > :03:28.governing party, this has never happened before. And that is a show
:03:29. > :03:35.of the weight which the Labour Party is just out of contact with what
:03:36. > :03:38.people of thinking. The defeated Labour candidate,
:03:39. > :03:43.Gillian Troughton, left without saying a word. The result has piled
:03:44. > :03:46.on the anguish for Labour MPs who fear their heading for defeat at the
:03:47. > :03:50.general election. Jeremy Corbyn has rejected suggestions he should step
:03:51. > :03:55.down I was elected to lead this party.
:03:56. > :03:58.I was elected to oppose the redistribution of wealth in the
:03:59. > :04:02.wrong direction, which is what this party was doing. We will continue
:04:03. > :04:06.our campaigning work on the NHS, social care and housing.
:04:07. > :04:10.And there was some comfort for Labour in Stoke Central, where
:04:11. > :04:15.campaigners saw off the threat from Ukip to hold onto the seat. The
:04:16. > :04:20.party's new MP said it was a victory for the whole labour movement.
:04:21. > :04:23.To those of you who came to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and
:04:24. > :04:27.division and to turn us away from our friends and neighbours, I have
:04:28. > :04:34.one very simple message. You have failed.
:04:35. > :04:37.Ukip leader Paul Nuttall's bit of a parliament failed, despite
:04:38. > :04:41.overwhelming support for Brexit locally. After a campaign dogged by
:04:42. > :04:46.controversy. It left him facing questions about the future of his
:04:47. > :04:50.party and his leadership. This seat was number 72 on our hit
:04:51. > :04:54.list. There are a lot more that will happen, there's a lot more to come
:04:55. > :05:02.from us. I'm not going anywhere. Therefore, we move on.
:05:03. > :05:05.The result has also cast doubt and Ukip's strategy of targeting
:05:06. > :05:09.traditional Labour seats. This lunchtime the Prime Minister arrived
:05:10. > :05:13.in Copeland to congratulate her party's newest MP and what she said
:05:14. > :05:17.was astonishing victory. And what I think we've seen from
:05:18. > :05:21.this victory is that this truly is a government that is working for
:05:22. > :05:29.everyone and for every part of the country. And that... That's the
:05:30. > :05:33.message that we bring here to Copeland, and that we will take
:05:34. > :05:38.across the country. The Theresa May knows that future
:05:39. > :05:40.success will depend not just on her domestic policies, but on her
:05:41. > :05:45.handling of Britain's departure from. -- from the EU.
:05:46. > :05:48.In a moment we'll get the latest from our Assistant Poltical Editor
:05:49. > :05:52.But first to Iain Watson, who's in Copeland.
:05:53. > :06:01.The stuff they're of Tory dreams and Labour nightmares. That just about
:06:02. > :06:05.sums it up. Let me expand. Certainly Theresa May's message here in the
:06:06. > :06:09.past hour is that the Conservative Party is now the party for everyone,
:06:10. > :06:16.not just the privileged few. It will really wrangle with Labour MPs. This
:06:17. > :06:21.seat, Copeland, back in 1983 at the height of Thatcherism, it stayed
:06:22. > :06:26.Labour. This time it's gone. The word historic will be a reduced. But
:06:27. > :06:29.many Labour MPs see this as not just a disappointing result, but a
:06:30. > :06:33.catastrophic results. The question is what do the party do about it?
:06:34. > :06:38.I've been speaking to voters this morning and there seemed to be three
:06:39. > :06:42.interlinked problems for Labour. The first distrust. Nuclear is a big
:06:43. > :06:46.issue here. People want investment in new nuclear capacity. Jeremy
:06:47. > :06:50.Corbyn came and said he believed in that after all. He was attacked for
:06:51. > :06:54.not being nuclear enough. Now he apparently believes in it. But not
:06:55. > :06:58.enough people believed him. The second problem is Jeremy Corbyn
:06:59. > :07:01.himself. Even left-wing Labour MPs here tell me that his leadership
:07:02. > :07:06.came up on prompted on the doorstep, and not in a good way. The third
:07:07. > :07:09.thing is that some of the people here don't necessarily see Jeremy
:07:10. > :07:13.Corbyn as an antiestablishment figure, that's how he'd like to
:07:14. > :07:18.portray himself. They see Labour as the establishment party, they've had
:07:19. > :07:21.the MP for the past 80 years and they don't think they've done enough
:07:22. > :07:25.for the local area. Those three problems together could be toxic for
:07:26. > :07:29.Labour at the next general election. But the overriding problem Labour
:07:30. > :07:33.MPs have is they try to dislodge Jeremy Corbyn last year and they
:07:34. > :07:38.failed. It looks like they have no workable plan B. Let's go to Norman
:07:39. > :07:43.Smith who is in Stoke, where Corbyn will be celebrating later on. One
:07:44. > :07:45.wonders how much celebration there will actually be. Paul Nuttall is
:07:46. > :07:52.not celebrating either, of course. I don't think there will be much
:07:53. > :07:56.celebrating by Mr Corbyn or Mr Nuttall. Let's be honest, this was
:07:57. > :07:59.not just a harrowing night for Labour in Copeland, it was a
:08:00. > :08:03.difficult night for them in Stoke, too. Even though they won, they had
:08:04. > :08:08.to struggle to hold on in what should have been an easy to the Park
:08:09. > :08:14.by-election for them, because Stoke has been a Labour seat pretty much
:08:15. > :08:21.since the year dot. -- should have been an easy cheesy stroll in the
:08:22. > :08:24.park. We are seven years into a Conservative government. We have
:08:25. > :08:29.what many people with a real problems in the health service. And
:08:30. > :08:35.still Labour is having to fight very hard in one of its safest seats. As
:08:36. > :08:40.for Ukip, the question that arises following their defeat in Stoke is
:08:41. > :08:46.if they can't win here, then where can they win? Stoke was a prime
:08:47. > :08:52.target for them. It is weak Brexit country. It's a traditional working
:08:53. > :09:01.class seat. -- it is big Brexit country. Paul Nuttall himself took a
:09:02. > :09:04.battering. The one person who seems to have emerged significantly
:09:05. > :09:09.strengthened is Theresa May, who pretty much seems to be master, or
:09:10. > :09:15.should I say mistress, and commander of all she surveys. And I have to
:09:16. > :09:19.say, it does remind me of the early 1980s, when then, as now, we seem to
:09:20. > :09:24.have a dominant female Prime Minister with a resurgent
:09:25. > :09:28.Conservative Party against a struggling opposition, led by a
:09:29. > :09:34.leading many of whom supporters have little confidence in. Norman Smith
:09:35. > :09:36.in Stoke and Iain Watson in Copeland, thank you.
:09:37. > :09:38.And if you'd like more information on the by-election results,
:09:39. > :09:41.there's more reaction and analysis on the BBC news website -
:09:42. > :09:44.Former Leicester and England footballer Gary Lineker
:09:45. > :09:47.has described the club's sacking of Claudio Ranieri
:09:48. > :09:50.nine months after he led them to the Premier League title
:09:51. > :09:52.as "inexplicable, unforgivable and gut-wrenchingly sad."
:09:53. > :09:58.The Italian was dismissed last night after a string of poor results,
:09:59. > :10:01.that has left the side just one point and one place
:10:02. > :10:11.Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, reports.
:10:12. > :10:20.And your manager, Claudio Ranieri! He was the smile, the face and the
:10:21. > :10:24.manager of the most extraordinary sporting success is anyone in
:10:25. > :10:29.Leicester had ever seen - well, quite possibly anyone anywhere had
:10:30. > :10:32.ever seen. And Leicester sacked him. The starkness of that reality has
:10:33. > :10:36.shocked even those who spent their life in football.
:10:37. > :10:41.Yellow ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Leicester City squad,
:10:42. > :10:46.including their coach, Claudio Ranieri! Flashback to Sports
:10:47. > :10:49.Personality Of The Year. Gary Lineker, former player and lifelong
:10:50. > :10:55.Leicester fan. To Ranieri, eternally grateful.
:10:56. > :10:58.The way that everybody got behind Leicester last season was just
:10:59. > :11:01.something that I had never witnessed really in football before. And I
:11:02. > :11:10.think to toss that all the way over a premature decision and a disloyal
:11:11. > :11:13.and in many ways a lack of gratitude, is quite gobsmacking. But
:11:14. > :11:19.I just think you deserve a little bit more, and certainly more time.
:11:20. > :11:23.-- I just think he deserved. I think they should be building statues, not
:11:24. > :11:27.backing him. Do you think the players are culpable? Do you think
:11:28. > :11:32.some players will be thinking, crikey, did I cause this? If the
:11:33. > :11:35.players are involved, they should have a long, hard look at themselves
:11:36. > :11:41.as well. There was always going to be and after the Lord Mayor's show
:11:42. > :11:45.season. It was never going to match anything like last season. This was
:11:46. > :11:49.the reality of where less than normally are. They're all sorts of
:11:50. > :11:56.different reasons why this happened, but I just think it's a really sad
:11:57. > :12:01.day for Leicester in many ways, that it's come to this. I think he
:12:02. > :12:04.deserved and bought himself a bit more time than this, really. I'm not
:12:05. > :12:10.ashamed to say that last night, when the news broke, I shed a tear. I
:12:11. > :12:16.shed a tear for Claudio, for football, and my club. Leicester's
:12:17. > :12:21.Thai owners stressed that the club is in crisis, that they acted to
:12:22. > :12:26.help the club survive. They urge Leicester fans to try to understand.
:12:27. > :12:30.I was shocked. I was not surprised, because when not playing too well,
:12:31. > :12:33.but I was definitely disappointed because after last season he
:12:34. > :12:36.deserved to stay with us, until the end of the season, even if we got
:12:37. > :12:41.relegated. You can't run a business like this.
:12:42. > :12:45.One year he did the impossible, the next you're sacking him. Disgusting.
:12:46. > :12:49.Days when players could be from selling fruit and veg on. That was
:12:50. > :12:55.the Lineker business before football. Days when winter pictures
:12:56. > :12:58.were often marred. But if the sacking of Ranieri is just modern
:12:59. > :13:00.football, what does that say about modern football?
:13:01. > :13:06.Let's speak to David Ornstein, who's at Leicester City's ground.
:13:07. > :13:13.As we saw there, there was real anger out there about this. Simon,
:13:14. > :13:17.there is a feeling of high emotion in the city, and among the support
:13:18. > :13:22.base today. It ranges from the sympathy for Claudio Ranieri to the
:13:23. > :13:26.downright anger at the decision to sack him. Some, however, it must be
:13:27. > :13:30.said, do understand the decision made by the club. When Ranieri was
:13:31. > :13:36.appointed in 2015, it was a decision that raised eyebrows. He proved
:13:37. > :13:40.those critics wrong. He answered them - and how! He brought
:13:41. > :13:45.celebrations to this city and this club, the like of which they had
:13:46. > :13:50.never seen before in the club's 133 year history. This stadium, the
:13:51. > :13:54.stadium work Craig Shakespeare, the assistant manager, is now giving a
:13:55. > :13:59.news conference as we speak. The stadium where we saw such scenes of
:14:00. > :14:03.celebrations. Now it's come to this. This is where Claudio Ranieri came
:14:04. > :14:07.last night to learn his fate. Now, however, that dream is over. All
:14:08. > :14:12.focus will turn to Liverpool on Monday. They visit the King Power
:14:13. > :14:15.stadium and Leicester must win that. They're one place and one point
:14:16. > :14:19.above the relegation zone. They could become the first club since
:14:20. > :14:24.Manchester City in the 1930s to become relegated having won the top
:14:25. > :14:27.flight the season before. A big task for Leicester, but they will have to
:14:28. > :14:30.do it without Claudio Ranieri. David, thank you very much.
:14:31. > :14:32.Police in Malaysia say the half-brother of North Korean
:14:33. > :14:34.leader Kim Jong-un was murdered with a highly toxic
:14:35. > :14:38.Kim Jong-nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.
:14:39. > :14:42.Our correspondent, Stephen Evans, sent this report from Seoul.
:14:43. > :14:50.The assassin pulled the cloth over Kim Jong-nam's face
:14:51. > :14:57.He sought urgent medical help, but so deadly is a chemical agent
:14:58. > :15:08.The Malaysian police chief was adamant it was VX.
:15:09. > :15:14.It is the VX nerve agent, which is a chemical weapon.
:15:15. > :15:16.You don't know how it was brought in?
:15:17. > :15:22.The police have three people in custody.
:15:23. > :15:24.The two women alleged to have actually attacked,
:15:25. > :15:27.and a North Korean man said to have helped.
:15:28. > :15:31.One of the attackers may have contaminated herself.
:15:32. > :15:33.Police want to talk to at least seven others, including
:15:34. > :15:36.a North Korean diplomat and an employee of North
:15:37. > :15:47.In 2013, Kim Jong-un inspected chemical weapons masks.
:15:48. > :15:51.North Korea's long been suspected of making chemical weapons.
:15:52. > :16:00.South Korean experts think the relation attack confirms that.
:16:01. > :16:06.-- think the Malaysian attack confirms that.
:16:07. > :16:09.A tiny drop of the VX agent can kill anybody within a minute.
:16:10. > :16:12.So I think it is this, it can absorb the skin, eye,
:16:13. > :16:18.So it's more than 100 times toxic than the nerve gas commonly
:16:19. > :16:25.And the problem with this VX is its toxic,
:16:26. > :16:34.The airport in Kuala Lumpur is to be swept for traces of any other deadly
:16:35. > :16:38.chemicals that the assassination team may have left.
:16:39. > :16:43.North Korea is, in effect, a dynasty.
:16:44. > :16:48.The all-powerful leadership goes from father to son.
:16:49. > :17:05.One threat to Kim Jong-un is now no more.
:17:06. > :17:06.Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes
:17:07. > :17:14.You have just been added to the airport where, according to
:17:15. > :17:21.authorities, a weapon of mass destruction was used a few days ago.
:17:22. > :17:26.How are they taking this? A little more relaxed than they perhaps
:17:27. > :17:30.should be, Simon. I have been in the airport this afternoon, this
:17:31. > :17:33.evening, it has taken a good hour or two to get back, when we left there
:17:34. > :17:36.were no signs at all that the authorities were carrying out this
:17:37. > :17:41.week for the decontamination effort they claimed they were going to. I
:17:42. > :17:45.am afraid to say there is little credibility to their claim that they
:17:46. > :17:49.are taking the threats of other people seriously and doing something
:17:50. > :17:53.about it. In terms of what happens now, what
:17:54. > :18:01.happens to the body, what does North Korea wants to happen to that?
:18:02. > :18:04.I think this takes the whole crisis between Malaysia and North Korea to
:18:05. > :18:08.a completely different level. We were talking about a potential
:18:09. > :18:12.assassination until today, now we are talking about not just an
:18:13. > :18:17.associate nation but potentially be used by a country of a banned
:18:18. > :18:20.chemical weapon in another country's major International Airport. This
:18:21. > :18:25.has really pushed relations between Malaysia and North Korea to the
:18:26. > :18:27.verge of breaking point. The Malaysians Foreign Minister today
:18:28. > :18:33.affectively threatened the North Korean ambassador but if he does not
:18:34. > :18:35.stop what he called spewing lies, Malaysia may well expel him. Thank
:18:36. > :18:37.you, Rupert. An historic night for
:18:38. > :18:40.the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow
:18:41. > :18:42.in the supposedly ultra-safe America moves to calm fears
:18:43. > :18:48.in Mexico that US troops could be sent in to deal
:18:49. > :18:53.with illegal immigrants. Coming up in sport at half-past,
:18:54. > :18:55.centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England
:18:56. > :18:58.in Sunday's Six Nations match Reports from the Iraqi city of Mosul
:18:59. > :19:15.say government troops have entered a neighbourhood in the western half
:19:16. > :19:18.of the city. They captured the airport yesterday
:19:19. > :19:21.as part of their battle to expel Islamic State forces from its final
:19:22. > :19:23.stronghold in Iraq. Let's speak our correspondent
:19:24. > :19:43.Wyre Davies, who is with Iraqi Just how significant is this
:19:44. > :19:43.progress? Sorry, we
:19:44. > :19:57.obviously have a problem with a link to Wyre Davies.
:19:58. > :20:02.Sorry about that, we will try to get him a little later.
:20:03. > :20:04.America's Homeland Security chief has moved to reassure Mexico
:20:05. > :20:07.that the US army won't be deployed to deal with illegal immigrants.
:20:08. > :20:09.John Kelly made the pledge during talks in Mexico
:20:10. > :20:11.with the country's President and other senior officials.
:20:12. > :20:13.Concerns were raised after President Trump spoke
:20:14. > :20:14.about a military operation to deport criminals.
:20:15. > :20:18.Our correspondent Dan Johnson reports.
:20:19. > :20:22.There's already been a change on Mexico's border with the USA.
:20:23. > :20:25.A new flow of people heading back south.
:20:26. > :20:27.These Mexicans were sent home because America says
:20:28. > :20:33.TRANSLATION: In Portland, Oregon, as I was coming out of the court
:20:34. > :20:36.when I went to pay my ticket that I owed, they were
:20:37. > :20:40.That's the new reality under what President Trump calls
:20:41. > :20:44.You see what's happening at the border.
:20:45. > :20:50.All of a sudden, for the first time, weeding gang members out,
:20:51. > :20:54.We're getting really bad dudes out of this country.
:20:55. > :20:56.And at a rate that nobody's ever seen before.
:20:57. > :21:01.Also crossing the border, Rex Tillerson, the Secretary
:21:02. > :21:04.of State from Texas, year to talk to his counterpart
:21:05. > :21:14.and forced to listen to Mexican concerns.
:21:15. > :21:16.TRANSLATION: It is a fact that is obvious that
:21:17. > :21:18.Mexicans are worried, irritated, before what is perceived
:21:19. > :21:20.as policies that might be harmful to our national interest
:21:21. > :21:28.and to Mexicans in Mexico and abroad.
:21:29. > :21:31.Inconsistency in tone is an early feature of the Trump administration.
:21:32. > :21:34.The Secretary of State took a much softer line than his boss.
:21:35. > :21:36.Two strong sovereign countries, from time to time,
:21:37. > :21:42.We listen closely and carefully to each other as we respectfully
:21:43. > :21:46.and patiently raise our respective concerns.
:21:47. > :21:49.There were discussions with the Mexican president, too.
:21:50. > :21:51.Promises of closer cooperation and reminders of the cultural
:21:52. > :21:57.Figures do show the number of Mexicans leaving the US
:21:58. > :22:03.in recent years actually outstripped new arrivals.
:22:04. > :22:08.Protesters have called for bridges to be built instead of walls.
:22:09. > :22:11.TRANSLATION: I think there couldn't have been a better symbolic protest
:22:12. > :22:13.than burning Trump's wall, because there shouldn't be
:22:14. > :22:23.He intends to deport more people he considers a threat and filters
:22:24. > :22:40.We have re-established links with Wyre Davies in the Iraqi city of
:22:41. > :22:43.Mosul and can update us on progress, they have entered parts of the West
:22:44. > :22:50.of the city? This is a very critic... Critical
:22:51. > :22:53.point in the battle for Mosul. We have heard that after taking the
:22:54. > :22:57.airport yesterday, as of dawn this morning Iraqi forces have moved in
:22:58. > :23:02.with heavily armoured units to try to push so-called Islamic State
:23:03. > :23:07.fighters into the city itself. It is a very built-up area, 750,000
:23:08. > :23:11.citizens, very difficult to fight in. I am at a joint American and
:23:12. > :23:15.Iraqi military base and it is apparent that international forces
:23:16. > :23:21.are very much part of this. There are American artillery units firing
:23:22. > :23:26.position shells at Isis positions in and outside of Mosul. Their boots on
:23:27. > :23:30.the ground, as the Americans call them, trying to help the Iraqi army
:23:31. > :23:36.to take the western part of the city. This is very critical part of
:23:37. > :23:39.a fight to try to remove so-called Isis from its last big stronghold in
:23:40. > :23:42.Iraq. Thank you very much, Wyre Davies.
:23:43. > :23:45.The Royal Bank of Scotland made a loss of nearly
:23:46. > :23:47.$7 billion last year, more the three times the loss
:23:48. > :23:52.Well, our business editor Simon Jack is with me.
:23:53. > :23:59.We have been talking about losses at RBS for a 031 time? If you have a
:24:00. > :24:04.sense of deja vu, this is the ninth loss in a row RBS has made, ?7
:24:05. > :24:10.billion today on top of 51 billion over the last decade, ?58 billion of
:24:11. > :24:15.losses in total. The UK taxpayer put in ?45 billion in 2009, we have gone
:24:16. > :24:19.through all of that and then some. It was not meant to take this long,
:24:20. > :24:23.we were meant to be back to health, so I spoke to boss Ross McEwan and
:24:24. > :24:25.asked why it is taking so long and whose fault it is.
:24:26. > :24:27.I don't think it's a matter of fault.
:24:28. > :24:30.I don't think people saw the magnitude of the conduct
:24:31. > :24:31.and litigation issues that would come through.
:24:32. > :24:34.Who thought that we'd be paying, as an industry,
:24:35. > :24:38.Who thought these charges would come through of this magnitude?
:24:39. > :24:46.It is not over yet, I think it is very likely that RBS will make
:24:47. > :24:50.another loss next year, they have too settled with US authorities over
:24:51. > :24:55.the RBS role in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, so more to come.
:24:56. > :25:00.Underneath the wreckage, there is a decent bank, ?1 billion of profit
:25:01. > :25:03.every quarter, lending to UK businesses and homeowners, but we
:25:04. > :25:07.have some way to go before we get there. Thousands of jobs could go
:25:08. > :25:11.over the next year, pain ahead but also some light at the bank today,
:25:12. > :25:15.they said for the first time they were confident they would make a
:25:16. > :25:17.profit in 2018. Thank you very much, Simon Jack.
:25:18. > :25:20.Police are questioning a man and woman over
:25:21. > :25:21.the escape of a convicted murderer in Liverpool.
:25:22. > :25:23.They're being held on suspicion of helping Shaun Walmsley,
:25:24. > :25:25.who got away from guards during a hospital visit.
:25:26. > :25:30.Let's get the latest from our correspondent Judith Moritz.
:25:31. > :25:42.Still no sign of him? That's right. Shaun Walmsley escaped from here on
:25:43. > :25:46.Tuesday afternoon, he came for a regular hospital appointment at this
:25:47. > :25:51.hospital and as he was leaving and was escorted here by prison officers
:25:52. > :25:55.from Liverpool prison a short distance away, as they were getting
:25:56. > :26:00.into a car to leave the group were ambushed by two men, whose faces
:26:01. > :26:07.were covered, brandishing a gun and a knife and who escaped with Shaun
:26:08. > :26:12.Walmsley in a gold covered Volvo. -- gold covered Volvo. Merseyside
:26:13. > :26:16.Police arrested a 27-year-old man and a 26 year macro woman, both of
:26:17. > :26:20.the same address in the Norris Green area of Liverpool. I understand they
:26:21. > :26:25.are being held at separate police stations on Merseyside and being
:26:26. > :26:28.questioned about the escape on suspicion of assisting an offender,
:26:29. > :26:32.it is not thought they are part of the group that at the hospital on
:26:33. > :26:36.the day. Police say they are still looking this Shaun Walmsley and the
:26:37. > :26:39.two men who were part of that escape effort and choose day. They are
:26:40. > :26:45.telling members of the public they should not approach Walmsley if they
:26:46. > :26:50.see him, he is a dangerous criminal who was sentenced to life in prison
:26:51. > :26:54.with the minimum term of 30 years back in 2015. Merseyside Police say
:26:55. > :26:57.they are combing CCTV footage, they have released imagery of what
:26:58. > :27:00.happened here that afternoon in the hope that witnesses may come
:27:01. > :27:04.forward, because it was in broad daylight. I know plenty of people
:27:05. > :27:09.may have seen what happened. I should add that Merseyside Police
:27:10. > :27:14.say they are working not just with police forces around the UK on this
:27:15. > :27:18.but also liaising with police forces abroad, notices of information have
:27:19. > :27:23.gone out to Port authorities, airports, they say they are working
:27:24. > :27:24.around the clock to try to get Shaun Walmsley back.
:27:25. > :27:27.Thank you, Judith Moritz. Prince Charles is reported to back
:27:28. > :27:29.new plans to sterilise grey squirrels in a bid
:27:30. > :27:32.to protect native reds. The proposals would see
:27:33. > :27:33.grey squirrels given an oral contraceptive -
:27:34. > :27:35.hidden in chocolate spread - The Wildlife Trusts are having
:27:36. > :27:39.their biggest-ever recruitment drive Conservation charities say
:27:40. > :27:42.the population could disappear from England,
:27:43. > :27:44.Wales and Northern Ireland Red squirrels were once a common
:27:45. > :27:55.sight across much of the UK. But the introduction of their grey
:27:56. > :27:58.cousins 141 years ago spelled Carrying a disease which kills reds,
:27:59. > :28:07.the bigger, greedier grey squirrel dominates our landscape more
:28:08. > :28:10.than a century on, with more There are just 140,000
:28:11. > :28:18.reds in comparison. But in recent years,
:28:19. > :28:23.efforts to protect reds have had some success and now for the first
:28:24. > :28:25.time the wildlife trusts are combining to recruit
:28:26. > :28:27.5,000 volunteers to help People will be asked to monitor
:28:28. > :28:33.and record data and, if they're willing, they'll be given
:28:34. > :28:36.training on how to cull They're hoping the Red
:28:37. > :28:41.Squirrels United project will not only maintain,
:28:42. > :28:47.but maybe even increase numbers. We can train people to help
:28:48. > :28:49.with monitoring, so using trail cameras and hair tubes,
:28:50. > :28:52.we also need people to record their sightings and report
:28:53. > :28:54.them to us and also help It's a really great opportunity
:28:55. > :29:01.for people to get involved in a large-scale conservation
:29:02. > :29:03.project but also at a local level This map shows how many red
:29:04. > :29:09.squirrels were around The campaign hopes to focus
:29:10. > :29:15.the efforts of volunteers on the nine areas where there
:29:16. > :29:18.are already red squirrels, including the Glens of Antrim
:29:19. > :29:20.in Northern Ireland, Anglesey in Wales,
:29:21. > :29:25.and Merseyside in England. The Saving Scotland's Red
:29:26. > :29:28.Squirrels volunteer project Most of us will never get this
:29:29. > :29:34.close to a baby squirrel. Rachel's nursing this
:29:35. > :29:37.one back to health. But with this campaign there's
:29:38. > :29:40.a chance to make sure this native species survives and maybe even
:29:41. > :29:44.flourishes once again in the UK. The price of first and second class
:29:45. > :29:56.stamps will go up by 1p next month. From the end of March,
:29:57. > :29:59.a first class stamp will cost 65p, with a second class stamp
:30:00. > :30:01.increasing to 56p. The Royal Mail have said
:30:02. > :30:03.the increase is needed to ensure the sustainability
:30:04. > :30:17.of the post service. A woman who died after being hit by
:30:18. > :30:20.debris and Wolverhampton city centre yesterday has been named as Tanni,
:30:21. > :30:24.she was 29 and from Stafford. Winds of up to 94 mph were recorded
:30:25. > :30:28.at its height in the UK, causing power cuts, flights to be
:30:29. > :30:37.grounded and trains cancelled. Some welcome tranquillity at last
:30:38. > :30:42.for some of us, a beautiful start to the day in Cumbria. In Cumbria the
:30:43. > :30:46.sunshine will not last long, as we see in a moment. Doris has been
:30:47. > :30:50.hurtling its way across northern parts of Europe, causing some
:30:51. > :30:54.problems. For us, a window of sunshine for many places this
:30:55. > :30:58.morning, there are further fronts lying in wait in the Atlantic and
:30:59. > :31:03.there will be rain for many through the weekend. Enjoy the sunshine
:31:04. > :31:06.while it lasts, across many parts of England and Wales it will be a fine
:31:07. > :31:10.afternoon with broken cloud and sunshine. Lots of cloud across
:31:11. > :31:14.eastern counties at the moment, I hope that will break up to some
:31:15. > :31:17.extent. Feeling cool after the chilly start, sixes and sevens but
:31:18. > :31:22.the winds are nothing like as strong as they have been.
:31:23. > :31:26.Sunshine in Cumbria, brightness and eastern Scotland but all the west
:31:27. > :31:29.rain in Northern Ireland and into western Scotland this afternoon.
:31:30. > :31:34.That rain will continue eastwards overnight. A period of snow over the
:31:35. > :31:40.Highlands before it turns back to rain. Rain will cascade its way down
:31:41. > :31:43.across many areas. Reaching... Very little reaching southern counties,
:31:44. > :31:48.it will be mostly further north. Temperatures will be on the rise
:31:49. > :31:51.here. Under clear skies it will be quite a chilly night.
:31:52. > :31:55.Tomorrow morning does not look that chilly. Lots of rain around the more
:31:56. > :31:59.northern and western areas. It will improve across Scotland and Northern
:32:00. > :32:03.Ireland, things will brighten up through the afternoon. Showers
:32:04. > :32:07.across the far north-west, dribs and drabs further south, across England
:32:08. > :32:10.and Wales at least. Technically and mild today but with the wind and the
:32:11. > :32:19.rain it will not feel that pleasant, the wane -- the rain will be most
:32:20. > :32:24.obvious across parts of Cumbria. Some respite before it comes back on
:32:25. > :32:27.Sunday. Keeping our eye on rainfall through Cumbria this weekend, the
:32:28. > :32:31.risk of some flooding. There are warnings in force, another
:32:32. > :32:34.weather system comes into Sunday, especially to more northern and
:32:35. > :32:39.western areas with increasing winds. Further south on Sunday, mostly dry
:32:40. > :32:41.and bright, there will be some sunshine around commerce and
:32:42. > :32:46.increasing cloud but are largely fine enter the weekend, temperatures
:32:47. > :32:52.doing pretty well up and down the UK, into double figures in many
:32:53. > :32:55.places. That will be tempered by wind and rain.
:32:56. > :32:59.Mild and blustery this weekend but nothing like as windy as it has
:33:00. > :33:02.been. Some rain around, particularly across the more northern and western
:33:03. > :33:04.areas. All the latest on the warnings can be found on the BBC
:33:05. > :33:06.weather website. A reminder of our main
:33:07. > :33:08.story this lunchtime... A historic night for
:33:09. > :33:10.the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow
:33:11. > :33:12.in the supposedly ultra-safe That's all from the BBC News at One
:33:13. > :33:22.- so it's goodbye from me, Copeland is very disappointing, I
:33:23. > :33:23.hope we would win, we did not.