27/06/2017 BBC News at One

The internet giant Google is fined a record ?2.1 billion

for putting its own online shopping services at the top

The European Commission said Google had abused its market

dominance and gave it 90 days to stop the practice.

Google has abused its market dominance in its search engine

by promoting its own shopping comparison service in its search

We'll have the latest, as Google says it is considering an appeal.

Theresa May says there was a national investigation needed into

the use of cladding, sample from 95 buildings around the country have

failed safety tests since the Grenfall Tower fire.

The Bank of England warns car finance deals

and borrowing on credit cards are rapidly increasing.

A Sikh couple say a Berkshire adoption agency told them

they were the wrong culture to adopt a white child.

Less a cash machine than a mini bank.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Johanna Konta prepares

to carry British hopes at Wimbledon as she continues her grass court

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The internet giant Google has been fined a record ?2.1 billion

by the European Commission for putting its own online

shopping services at the top of search results.

It's the biggest fine in the Commission's history.

It said Google had abused its market dominance.

Google now has 90 days to end the practice.

More details from our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones.

But the name of something you might want to buy into Google 's search

engine and right at the top, up pops a helpful box with images of

products. Do it on a mobile phone and the images are even more

prominent. Every time you click on one of the adverts, the search giant

aims money. It is called Google shopping and now it has resulted in

a record fine from Europe's competition Commissioner. Google has

abused its market dominance in its search engine by promoting its own

shopping comparison service in its search results and demoting its

competitors. Google is under fire because of its sheer size for the

pit accused of using its position as the dominant player in online search

to squash rivals. A price competitive site is being squeezed

by Google shopping is celebrating today's move. Without competition,

Google can charge merchants whatever they like for advertising. With

competition, you end up with lots of people like ourselves, companies

competing on prices which brings the price down and that's got to be good

for consumers. Merchants will charge less. That a good day for consumers.

Google said it come from tech giants like Amazon and it believes Brussels

has improved the consumers are being harmed for the firm released a

statement saying Google showed shopping at connecting our users

with thousands of advertisers large and small in ways that are useful

for both. We respectfully disagree with the conclusions announced

today. This is the latest in a series of battles which have pitched

Europe against American technology companies. The EU says it's

enforcing competition law and the Americans may suspect this is all

about politics. It's an eye watering finer. What is the significance of

it? It's hugely significant added the latest in the battles in which

Brussels has been seen by Americans as unfairly picking on them. One

interesting thing to see what happens next is whether the

president tweets about this. It is a very political affair. Google has

its own decisions to make. It looks likely it will appeal and that could

tie it up in the courts for many years, but there will also have to

become compact negotiations between Google and the European Commission

about what sort of action it would need to take to the mode that

shopping service. There are also worrying implications for the

company in that it has all sorts of services which will now come under

the microscope and could have further legal action against it.

There will be a lot of work for competition lawyers in all of this.

Thank you very much. The Bank of England has warned

against rising consumer borrowing and household debt

in its twice-yearly report Borrowing on credit cards and car

finance are at their fastest rate Banks will also be forced to find

a further ?11 billion in the next 18 months to protect their finances

against the risk of bad loans. Our economics correspondent

Andy Verity has the details. Are we borrowing too much? Could we

still afford it if something went wrong? The Bank of England warned

today banks were loosening their lending to consumers and action was

needed to make it tighter. Consumer borrowing outside of mortgages is

nearly ?200 billion. Consumer credit crowd has far outpaced household

income in the past year with notable increases across credit cards,

personal loans and auto finance. In an environment of intense

competition, interest margins of fallen and risk assessments by banks

have declined, by lenders, I should say, have declined. Lenders are more

vulnerable to losses and stressful stop the big concern is consumer

lending, lending on credit cards, personal loans and notably car

finance. So far, there haven't been many people who can't keep up their

payments, but the bank said lenders may be assuming it's just going to

carry on that way. The banks acting to stop lenders being complacent in

case those loans go bad, with consumer credit act by 10.3%, car

loans growing at 15%, far faster than wages, banks are being ordered

to set aside ?11 billion in case those loans can't be repaid. I think

Mark Carney wants to be proactive and he talked about increasing

capital a year ago but he held off because the Brexit and I think you

want to make sure the banks are reminded they have to be more

cautious in their consumer lending given the speed at which their loan

books are grown in the past few years. If banks are forced to

tighten up consumer lending, households won't find it as easy to

top up cycling incomes with borrowing. There will be

consequences. Banks will charge more and lend less and currently in our

country there are 8.8 million people who are using credit just for daily

living costs. And it's those people who I'm concerned about because they

will get into trouble and what we need to make sure is we need to

protect those people. Most of the growth in consumer borrowing has

been in personal purchase agreements for cars where car buyers can return

the car when the loan period is up. Second heart prices will drop but

lenders could be hit. If that did happen, the banks at least could

withstand any losses. Our economics editor

Kamal Ahmed is here. We often hear about as borrowing too

much. Out concerning an significant is this particular warning do you

think? Mark Carney the governor has raised an amber warning today. We

are not back in the time of the financial crisis where a huge high

level of consumer debt were a real problem, interest rates were far

higher and people were at risk from the recession, losing their jobs.

It's not like that. He is saying we have become very used to ultralow

interest rates and to very high levels of employment and so that has

led to this increased borrowing. He has given an amber warning, saying,

make sure you lend strictly, to banks, and you don't lend to people

who can't repay. That's why he has increased the safety net. And also

to the consumers, I asked him in a press conference, are you warning

consumers? The answer very carefully, no, people should go

around their business, being careful, but nevertheless, if

interest rates go up and Brexit affects the economy negatively as

people think it might do, then be aware that you might struggle to

make those repayments, so test the future now, relatively safe, but

test the future, can you repay if things changed? Thank you.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will set out her position

this afternoon on what she refers to as "the way forward

Nicola Sturgeon had called for a second independence referendum

to be held in the autumn of next year or the spring of 2019.

But it's thought she has been reflecting on those proposals

since the general election earlier this month.

Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh.

What are you hearing, Lorna? Its three month since Nicola Sturgeon

set out her plans to hold a second independence referendum and after

that, of course, she mandate from the Parliament in Holyrood to try

and make that happen but a lot has happened since then. The general

election campaign where the Unionist party in Scotland, who are

implacably opposed to a second independence referendum, campaigned

heavily on that issue in a general election result which saw the SNP

lose a considerable number of their seats, 21 seats in total. They still

do remain the largest party here in Scotland, nonetheless, Nicola

Sturgeon said the prospect of an independence referendum was a factor

in the election result and said that she would go away and reflect on

that. I think it is likely or widely expected this afternoon she may well

soften her position on that second referendum. While, of course, trying

to do the difficult juggling act of keeping options open going forward

but that will be difficult. She has Unionist parties heavily opposed to

the idea and on the other she has the Greens saying they want the

timetable to stick and members of her own party saying they strongly

believe in an independence referendum going forward. Lawler,

thank you. Lorna Gordon. Downing Street and the DUP

say their deal to secure support for Theresa May's minority

Conservative government makes the restoration of power sharing

in Northern Ireland more likely. The Prime Minister has been accused

by Sinn Fein of jeopardising the Good Friday peace agreement

by promising the DUP a billion pounds of extra funding

for Northern Ireland. A deal to revive power sharing

at the Stormont Assembly has Theresa May has told the Cabinet

that there needs to be a major national investigation into the use

of cladding on high-rise buildings, New figures show that 95 samples

of cladding have failed fire safety tests conducted

following the Grenfell Tower fire - Our Home Affairs Correspondent

Tom Symonds is here. What more is Theresa May saying and

tell us more about these protests. -- tests. It clear the kind of tests

the government is using is stricter than the previous standards for this

sort of material on these sorts of buildings. The government has yet,

and with ask this question almost daily for the last week, to tell us

what those tests are and how they are being carried out. I know this

is starting to be an issue because around the country councils are

being told effectively you failed a serious safety test, they are also

being told if you fail the test, you have to take certain steps, for

example in the case of Camden, moving out five tower blocks of

residence, four in the end, so the big issue for them. They want to

know what they're doing wrong so that's the first current issue.

Theresa May signalling now she wants a much wider public enquiry so not

just looking at the Grenfall Tower fire, the response to it, the

history of its refurbishment, and the way in which residents were

treated, but also looking at the whole method of refurbishing these

council tower blocks with a material that is opposed to make the tower

blocks warmer and make them look better. And, of course, when you

start an enquiry like that, that's a considerable job and you have to

have terms of reference, decide who is going to give evidence and get a

chairman. Theresa May will know that doing it quickly will run into

problems. She was the person who set up the child abuse enquiry and that

was two years of turmoil before it properly got going. Tom, thanks very

much for now. Two weeks after the devastating fire

at Grenfell Tower in west London, families from the area

and beyond are still facing Hundreds of people were told

to leave their flats in Camden in north London at the weekend

after tower blocks there were found to be covered in the same type

of cladding as Grenfell but some people are now adamant

they will return home, as our correspondent Tom Burridge

has been finding out. Help for the hundreds in North

London still out of their homes. Most turning up here

at the local leisure centre 10.45 in the evening,

somebody called and said, we've I said, yes, I can,

but for how long? I'm not going to move

for two nights. With the children

and everything, you wake them up 10.45 in the evening,

they don't sleep because we have We will be somewhere else and then

tomorrow you have to return Other residents pitched

up this morning with donations for those

who had been evacuated. On the one hand, Camden Council

says their homes are not safe, but for many moving out suddenly

with small children or elderly residents and into a hotel simply

hasn't worked and many tell us they're now moving

back into their flats. People like Osman and his wife

and their five children - last night The hotel told us we have to check

out today 12 o'clock and we have got one hour and a half to go

and pack our stuff and leave and we don't know where we

are going to go next. All this because the cladding,

together with other fire safety measures in their block of flats,

was not deemed safe. Some residents have complained

about conditions in In response Britannia Hotels

released a statement: Buildings across the country, public

and private, are being inspected It was a tragedy

that demands change. At least 1,700 patients could have

been harmed by an administrative error which led to thousands of NHS

records being accidentally The records included test results

for cancer and child protection notes that should have been sent

to hospitals or GP surgeries. Test results including cancer and

treatment plans were among letters from hospitals which never got to

GPs. A company contracted to forward mail for patient twhos had moved or

changed doctors allowed letters to pile up in a warehouse. A report by

the watchdog the National Audit Office said a backlog of 709,000

letters built up. For everyone, every bit of correspondence, they're

looking to see if there was harm and they're letting the patients know

and getting experts to look at it. They have identified potential harm.

For those cases they're looking into it to find out has there been actual

harm caused. Patients' representatives are angry that the

programme was allowed to continue for so long and some people may find

their care was affected. We are shocked on behalf of patients that

such a scandal has occurred. And to add to that, the lack of

transparency is worrying. For everyone. And patients will have

their confidence in the system dented even further. The Department

of Health said no cases of harm to patients had been identified so far.

And that work was continuing with NHS England to ensure that this

didn't happen again with officials mindful of the need for

transparency. The issue was raised by Labour in the House of Commons.

Isn't it a scanned that will 709,000 letterses were failed to be

delivered, left in an unknown warehouse and many destroyed. I no

government on any side can ever guarantee there will be no breach of

contract. But what we can do is make sure we react quickly when that

happened, which happened on this occasion and we can make sure we

have better assurance than we had on this occasion and I can assure the

Our top story this lunchtime: will be learned.

Google has been fined ?2.1 billion by the European Commission for

The Queen gets a ?6 million boost to help with repairs

Coming up in sport - England's women look to bounce back

with a win in their second match at the women's

The United States has accused the Syrian government of preparing

for another chemical weapons attack on forces opposing President Assad.

80 people died in the attack in April, which prompted

President Trump to order a strike against a Syrian air base.

The US State Department said President Assad and his military

would pay a heavy price if chemical weapons were used again.

Our correspondent Richard Lister reports.

When the US launched a cruise missile strike

on a Syrian air base in April, the world was taken by surprise.

Donald Trump had said the US should stay the hell out of Syria,

but now he's threatening to intervene again.

The US was prompted to act then by images of injured children

and other civilians in Syria after a chemical attack

Washington believes another such strike is being prepared, warning...

There's plenty of American firepower in the region already,

targeting fighters at the so-called Islamic State, but now Mr Trump

is putting President Assad on notice, too, and Britain

We supported the last American strike, which took out some

of the aircraft and the support infrastructure that delivered

those chemical strikes and if the United States is carrying

out, is planning a similar strike, then we will support it.

The US ambassador to the UN, Nicky Hayley, says Syria's allies,

Russia and Iran, will also be blamed for any further chemical attacks.

Moscow has condemned what it calls America's unacceptable threats,

but Washington's hardline now may avoid a more dangerous

I think the Americans are absolutely right to warn the Syrians that any

use of chemical weapons will be dealt with and they will be struck

firmly and hopefully this will prevent their use.

In Syria, rebel groups are making gains against Islamic State

But elsewhere, Assad's forces are driving back the rebels.

Washington prefers to stay out of that battle, but it's now clear

that another chemical attack by President Assad will force

A Sikh couple say they were told they couldn't adopt a white child,

Sandeep and Reena Mander were both born in Britain,

and told an adoption agency they were happy to take a child

from any ethnic background, but say they were advised instead

It's legal for adoption agencies to give preference to parents

from the same ethnic group, but government guidelines say

different racial backgrounds shouldn't be a barrier.

Our correspondent Sara Smith has been to meet the couple.

After seven years of trying and 16 failed IVF attempts San deep and

Reena went to a session on adoptionment when they told the

agency they would like to move forward, they were informed with

only white babies needing family, their Indian heritage meant there

was no point in proceeding. I was hurt, we had gone through a long

journey and initially I was hurt and then I was angry. They should be

looking at us as people and understanding more about our lives,

who we are and not just one particular area, such as cultural

heritage. The couple, born and raised in Britain, tried to get the

decision reversed. They have had support from their MP, Theresa May,

but they have not been allowed to start the application process. So

they're taking legal action. I feel the council has got it wrong in the

sense they have prioritised cultural heritage as the one and primary

factor they will consider before allowing couples to register. And

the effect of doing that is creating a form of segregation. Adoption

Berkshire is the council's adoption agency, when we asked about this

case a spokesman said they wouldn't comment on court cases, but on the

web-site it says when placing children for adoption it will try to

identify adopters that reflect the child's culture. Colour doesn't mean

a thing to us, love does haven't a colour, why differentiate that and

the well being of the child down to the fact that we are brown-skinned.

The legal battle, they say, is for future couples in the same position.

They have now been approved for adoption from the US.

The amount of public money the Queen receives to carry out her work

as head of state is to rise next year by ?6 million,

The increase will cover the salaries of her household, official travel,

Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is here.

Those repairs come with a hefty bill? Repairs, ?370 million over

enyears. Year -- over ten years. That is the bill that is

necessitating the increase in the sovereign grant. It is the based on

the net profits of the Crown estate. They own a lot of land. Normally it

is 15% of net profits. It has been increased to 25%. Also because the

crown estate is doing well. But it is tied to the refurbishment. Thank

you. A man has denied murdering

a schoolgirl more than 40 years ago, before dumping her body

on a school field. Stephen Hough is also on trial

for the sexual assault and manslaughter of 15-year-old

Janet Commins, whose body One man has already served

a sentence after admitting Janet's manslaughter,

but he insists he did not kill her. Our Wales Correspondent Sian Lloyd

is at Mold Crown Court. Janet Commins's body was found near

a school in Flint three days after she was reported missing. The

prosecution say that the 15-year-old had been raped and murdered by

Stephen Hough. He turned 17 the day after her body was found. The jury

here has been told it is an unusual case, it dates back 40 years and the

jury was told that in the 1970s another man was prosecuted for

Janet's murder. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter. And he served six

years in prison. He claims that he is not the killer and he says that

he confessed, because of pressure that he felt was placed on him at

the time. Now, Stephen Hough was questioned back in the 1970s by the

police, while they were carrying out their inquiry, the prosecution say

he was arrested in 2016 following DNA profiling and the doter was told

about break throughs in science over those 40 years. Stephen Hough denies

all the charges and the case here continues. Thank you.

It was a nail-biting finish for rugby fans in Wellington,

as the British and Irish Lions were held to a disappointing 31-31

A Tommy Seymour double and a George North try had put

the Lions in control, but down to 14 men they shipped two

Not ideal preparation ahead of the second Test

50 years ago, the world's first cash machine was installed,

outside a branch of Barclays in Enfield in London.

Now we rely on 70,000 in the UK, and 3 million

across the world to get hold of money.

And as Simon Gompertz reports, the machines are now

so sophisticated, they're proving yet another threat to

1967, a revolution - the first money from

You put in a voucher and then a code and you

Reg Varney, a TV celebrity of the time, had a go and

Less a cash machine than a mini-bank.

On these ones you can even open a bank

You will be able to see and talk to bank staff directly

on the screen and take out money using your mobile phone.

So we are light years ahead of 50 years ago,

but is this the sort of banking we actually want?

We are doing our banking on our mobile phones and laptops,

why do I need to do it at a cash machine?

You're not the only user, there are other users.

Don't think of it as a machine, it is a

What can you do with a kiosk with a real estate

that's expensive how can you bring more things into this

By the time I get there, it will be a

It's a piece of real estate which changed our lives,

because you didn't have to wor which about when the banks might be open.

No, thanks I never accept money from strangers.

But now cash itself is under threat from

The Bank of England's chief cashier, who signs our banknotes, agrees

the cash machine has to do other things.

Some people may just like the plain vanilla bits they can

get, others will be looking for the whizzy bits the cash machine

can offer like trading in shares on a cash machine.

Some people will be sort of striving to get more from

that machine and if you get a one-stop shop, brilliant.

This one shows you if someone's looking

over your shoulder to steal your PIN code.

Reassurance you might want if they close your branch

We are moving towards a no bank branch era.

We used to have about 20,000 bank branches

And ATMs, smart ATMs as we call them, will actually provide 99%

of all the services that people can get from bank branches today.

That's not a world everyone will welcome, but the technology

unleashed back in the 60s is still transforming

the way we bank half a

Time for the weather. Let me tell you, I think we have got a little

overdrawn with the sunshine last week. Look at this picture, artistic

it maybe, but its awful and the outlook for this week is just

disappointing. What will it look like this week? All week long we

will have this low pressure over us. There is a fair bit of rain with it.

There will be some sunshine from time to time. But today hardly any

sunshine across the UK. Just over cast, right across the board and for

some of us it will be a grotty day. This what is it looks like now. We

have had some thunder storms in the south-east. And more of them to

come. There could be some thunder storms in Northern Ireland as well.

Let's start the afternoon with the south-east. Look at that - 18

degrees, rain and the rain will get heavier and heavier through the day.

The South West, Wales and the Midlands, the rain is more patchy

and in the the north we have had the heavier rain last night. But in

Northern Ireland after the soggy morning, here showers will be

breaking out during the afternoon. So there could be some down pours in

places. And look at that eastern coast of Scotland from Inverness

down to Dundee, 11 degrees in Aberdeen, rain and a wind off the

North Sea. That doesn't feel at all summery. Yorkshire with some rain.

Tonight the rain gets heavier and heavier in the south-east. It moves

into the Midlands and drifts slowly further north into northern areas.

So actually it is not going to be cold, 16 in the south. Fresher in

Scotland. This ugly looking low, with lots of weather fronts around

it, it is not shifting. It has decided to stay here all week long.

So I think on Wednesday, the worst of the weather transfers to more

central and eastern areas. From Lincolnshire up to Newcastle a wind

off the North Sea and it will be cool, but there is some good news,

in Scotland tomorrow, a much better day than today. You get the message

the, the low pressure won't give rain every where. It will change

from time to time. On Thursday, we could have some sunshine across the

south-east and central areas. Is there a light at the end of the tun

-- tunnel. Yes it is drier and brighter at the weekend. Thank

goodness! Thank you. Our main story here: Google has been fined ?1.1

billion by the European Commission for breaking competition