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The decision to release serial sex

offender John Worboys from prison

will not be challenged

by the Government.

A public outcry over the case led

to calls for a review

of the parole board's decision,

but the Justice Secretary said

He would not seek one. Having taken

legal advice, I have decided it

would not be appropriate for me as

Secretary of State to proceed in

such a case. Honourable members

would appreciate I cannot go further

and expose details of the legal

advice I have been given. I know

this will disappoint the victims in

this case and members of this House.

Lawyers are two of the victims said

they will pursue a judicial review

of the parole Board's decision to

release Warboys at the end of this

month.

Everything about Warboys'

conduct and his denial of the

offence and the recent decision on

conditions suggests that the

decision is irrational and therefore

we seek a challenge to that decision

on that basis.

The merit of London, Sadiq Khan, has

said in the past hour he, too, will

seek a judicial review -- the Mayor

of London.

Also this lunchtime...

The parents accused of holding

their 13 children captive

at a California home plead not

guilty to torture, abuse

and false imprisonment.

Scientists in America say they're

a step closer to one

of the biggest goals in medicine -

a universal blood test for cancer.

A scathing assessment of Liverpool

jail as inspectors say

conditions there are the worst

they've ever seen.

And in tennis, Britain's Kyle Edmund

triumphs in five sets to reach the

fourth round of the Australian open.

And coming up in the

sport on BBC News...

Another win for England's

cricketers - they have gone

2-0 up in the one-day

series against Australia.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The Justice Secretary says

he will not seek a judicial

review over the decision to release

the serial sex

offender John Worboys.

David Gold said that after taking

legal advice it included it would

not be appropriate to challenge the

ruling. The Parole Board said it is

confident that besiegers were

followed. Warboys was jailed in 2009

after being convicted of offences

against 12 women.

Our home affairs correspondent

June Kelly reports.

He is one of the country's most

notorious serial sex offenders. John

Warboys' crimes caused revulsion. In

his black cap he cruised for

victims, not five. He was accused of

sexually assaulting 12 women, one of

whom he wrote, but it is feared he

may have attacked more than 100 in

total. The decision to release him

provoked at Ozment including at the

top of Government. In an

extraordinary development, the

Justice Secretary said he was

looking to challenge the decision in

the courts. This morning the

announced that after taking legal

advice he will not be, but offered

this reassurance to the victims.

Let

me be absolutely clear, Warboys will

not be released until their

representations have been properly

considered and his licence

conditions are in place. Indeed,

last week I asked for assurances

that the views of victims were being

taken into account and robust

licensing conditions

would be put in place to manage his

risk.

Warboys is currently being

held at Wakefield prison in West

Yorkshire. A lawyer for some of his

victims is questioning why he is

being freed from what is a top

security jail, and the victims

intend to press ahead with their

legal challenge to try to keep him

behind bars.

We presently don't know

the reasons why he has been granted

release but what we do know is the

nature and scope and extent of his

offending, we know that up until

very recently he was denying

responsibility for the offence, he

may still be. We know the Parole

Board only the previous year refused

to move him to open prison because

they considered he was still a risk.

What has changed over that time?

John Warboys' victims have spoken of

how they fear for their safety when

he is freed, and have called for him

to be banned from the hold of the

Greater London area. His licence

conditions are still being finalised

but while the victims' legal

challenge is going on, the black cab

rapist, as he is known, will remain

in prison.

And June is here now.

As may be expected there has been a

strong reaction to this?

That is right, and as one politician

has departed from the arena,

another, the Mayor of London Sadiq

Khan, has entered, he said he will

be looking at a legal challenge.

This morning the Justice Secretary

David Gauke said he will be looking

to expand the review that has been

announced into the Parole Board and

is obviously trying to get greater

transparency in all of this, and he

said among the areas that would be

looked at would be the mechanism

that allows parole decisions to be

reconsidered. This has been welcomed

by the Parole Board, its chair, Nick

Hardwick, an advocate of greater

transparency on this, said a couple

of days ago that the decision to

release Warboys, who served his

minimum tariff of eight years, he

said the decision had not been taken

lightly, was taken by a panel of

experienced people who considered a

wealth of evidence, but as we are

hearing the victims are very unhappy

about the fact that he is coming out

so soon,

so soon, they do not believe he has

served a long enough time, and they

feel that they have to now go ahead

with this challenge to try to keep

this man behind bars.

Thank you.

A couple accused of imprisoning

and torturing their 13

children have appeared

in court in California.

David and Louise Turpin

were arrested last weekend,

after one of their daughters escaped

from the family home

and called the police.

The siblings, aged between two

and 29, are said to be

severely malnourished.

The Turpins appeared in court hours

after prosecutors detailed

the horrific abuse allegations

against them, charges they deny.

Our North America correspondent

James Cook reports from California.

..Give up that right.

David Turpin appearing in court

to deny torturing his own children

and sexually abusing one

of his young daughters.

His wife, Louise, also

pleaded not guilty.

The couple are accused

of imprisoning, tormenting,

and beating their ten daughters

and three sons.

Prosecutors say the siblings endured

the abuse for years,

as their parents plumbed the depths

of human depravity.

One of the children

at age 12 is the weight

of an average seven-year-old.

Several of the victims have

cognitive impairment and neuropathy,

which is nerve damage,

as a result of this extreme

and prolonged physical abuse.

The children were supposedly

schooled here in their home,

but the district attorney said

they lacked basic knowledge -

some did not even know

what a police officer was.

They were reportedly allowed

to shower just once a year,

and were beaten, chained

up, and tormented.

They would buy food, including pies,

apple pies, pumpkin pies,

leave it on the counter,

let the children look at it,

but not eat the food.

About the only thing

the children were allowed

to do in their rooms,

or chained up, was

to write in journals.

We now have recovered

those journals, hundreds

of them, and we are combing

through them for evidence.

The 17-year-old, who raised

the alarm after climbing out

of the home through a window,

had been plotting the

escape for two years.

One of her sisters

made it out with her,

but turned back out of fear.

This case has sent waves

of revulsion across

the United States and beyond.

The authorities say the siblings

are doing well, but some of them

at least have almost certainly

suffered irreparable

physical and mental damage.

The parents are due

in court again next month.

If convicted, they

face life in prison.

James Cook, BBC News,

Riverside in California.

David Begnaud from CBS News

is in Perris in California.

David, I imagine among the many

shocking stories you no doubt will

have covered, this must be among the

worst?

It is, Kate. The child

protective services here at

Riverside County said yesterday they

are trying to figure out whether or

not some of the adults can function

on their own. As your correspondent

said, they lack basic knowledge like

what a police officer is, some of

them did not know what medication

and pills were. We are talking about

kids who literally did not have much

contact

with society. According to the

district attorney, inside this house

they would stay up all night, the

kids and parents, and sleep all day,

their rituals were bizarre to say

the least. But what is even more

bizarre, Kate, is that no one has

come forward claiming to know

anything, not a neighbour, family

member, co-worker, no-one has

noticed anything strange about this

family.

OK, we have to leave it

there, but thank you.

A judge has ordered

the Crown Prosecution Service

to disclose the reasons why it

dropped a rape charge against

a student from Oxford University,

more than two years

after he was arrested.

Oliver Mears, who is 19,

was cleared just days

before his trial was due to start.

Danny Shaw is at

Guildford Crown Court.

Tell us more?

Kate, this is another case which

raises searching questions about the

way police and prosecutors deal with

rape cases, how they are

investigated and how they are

managed up to trial. This is the

case of Oliver Mears, an Oxford

University chemistry student who was

arrested 2.5 years ago on suspicion

of rape but it has taken up to this

point today for him to be declared

not guilty here at Guildford Crown

Court. The judge asked the

prosecution to explain the reasons

why there had been, in the words of

the judge, so many unnecessary

delays in this case. The prosecution

said it had been a finely balanced

case but new material had emerged.

What that material was we are not

exactly sure, something to do with a

diary that has been obtained quite

late on, there is some sensitive

material relating to the alleged

victim, and also some investigations

around digital devices, but this is

the fourth time now in four weeks

that a rape prosecution has been

halted nearly at the 11th hour and

there certainly is an investigation

going on, a wider investigation,

into issues of disclosure, the

requirement on the crown to disclose

evidence, the defence, and there

will also now be urgent questions

asked about this case. The judge has

demanded answers within 28 days from

the Crown Prosecution Service.

Danny, thank you very much.

Scientists say they've moved a step

closer to developing a universal

blood test for cancer.

Researchers in America tested

a new method on 1,000 patients

to see if it could detect eight

types of the disease.

The CancerSeek test, as it's known,

had a success rate of 70%,

and the team say their goal

is to now develop an annual

test for everyone -

designed to catch cancer early

and save lives.

Our health correspondent

James Gallagher reports.

More than 14 million people find

out they have cancer

each year worldwide.

The sooner they're diagnosed,

the more likely they are to survive.

The test, called CancerSEEK,

is a new approach that looks

for mutated DNA and proteins that

tumours release

into the bloodstream.

It was tested on eight common types

of cancer, including ovarian,

pancreatic and lung.

In the study, on more than 1,000

patients known to have cancer,

the test correctly diagnosed seven

in 10 patients.

The researchers say more work

is needed and are starting trials

to see if the test can find cancers

in seemingly healthy people.

They say such tests could

have an enormous impact

on cancer mortality.

Experts in the UK said the approach

had massive potential.

This research is really interesting

because it suggests that in the

future something as simple as a

blood test could be used to help

doctors diagnose cancer at an

earlier stage alongside traditional

diagnostic tests, and that's really

important because the earlier a

cancer is diagnosed, the more likely

treatment is to be successful so we

could potentially help to save more

lives.

But some experts say it is

still early days.

This study has

been conducted in patients have

already been diagnosed with cancer,

so what we need in the next very

large studies is to know, can they

diagnose people with cancer who are

asymptomatic, who are well, who we

otherwise would not be able to pick

up? And if the blood tests can do

that, that is when I think we can be

really excited about it.

really excited about it.

CancerSeek

is now being trialled in healthy

people with no signs of cancer.

Experts said it has potential and

testing for more mutated DNA and

proteins would allow for a greater

range of cancers to be detected.

James Gallagher, BBC News.

Prison inspectors have delivered

a scathing report on Liverpool jail,

saying living conditions

there are the worst

they have ever seen.

They found damp and dirty cells with

rats and cockroach infestations,

as well as a backlog of around

2000 maintenance tasks.

Here's our correspondent

Adina Campbell.

Liverpool prison has faced a

long-running series of problems but

today's report by her Majesty's

Inspectorate of prisons underlines a

catalogue of squalid living

conditions. Including broken windows

and infestation of cockroaches and

blocked toilets. It also found two

thirds of inmates had easy access to

drugs, often smuggled by the growing

use of drones, with more than one

seized every week. And violence had

also increased, more than a third of

prisoners said they felt unsafe at

the time of the inspection.

What you

are witnessing there is a prime

example of the lack of investment at

Liverpool prison over the years, and

that is down to Government cutting

budget and cutting the staffing

levels. Now, it is due to, also, an

amount of repairs that were

outstanding at the time that

inspection. Over 2000 outstanding

repairs, simple repairs that are not

getting done.

The head of the prison

and Probation Service has admitted

there were failings in the jail but

says immediate action is being taken

by appointing a new governor,

including improvements to

cleanliness. Today's report had also

pointed to concerns over health

care, something the BBC revealed

last month, with worries about

suicide rates, staff shortages, and

access to specialist treatments.

Lancashire care NHS foundation trust

says it has made improvements over

the last two years, despite

challenging conditions.

All too

often what we are finding in prisons

is that there are an acceptable

levels of violence, that self harm

is high, that there are

self-inflicted deaths on a totally

tragic and astounding level. The

reasons for this are many and varied

but what it does need in our view,

the Inspectorate, is close and

serious attention to getting the

basics in to keep people safe.

Liverpool isn't the only prison with

problems. Yesterday the Government

was ordered to make immediate

improvements to Nottingham jail over

safety concerns. Another crisis in

some of England's present is

continuing.

Our top story this lunchtime...

The decision to release serial sex

offender John Worboys from prison

will not be challenged

by the Government.

And still to come -

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda

Ardern has announced she's pregnant.

She'll be only the second elected

world leader to give

birth while in office.

Coming up in the sport in the next

15 minutes on BBC News -

some like it hot.

Kyle Edmund defies the heat

and comes through another five set

thriller to reach the fourth

round at the Australian Open.

This weekend marks one year

since Donald Trump took over

the office of US President.

He vowed to change the face

of politics stateside,

with his campaign slogan promising

to "Make America Great Again".

So 12 months on, how supportive

are Americans of their leader?

Laura Trevelyan has been

to Pennsylvania to meet Trump

voters, and those less convinced

by the President.

She's in Pittsburgh this lunchtime.

Well, Donald Trump won. The great

state of Pennsylvania by less than

1%. A very narrow margin. But it was

a shock victory. Hillary Clinton was

predicted to romp home here by as

much as even 9%, so Donald Trump won

here by appealing to white

blue-collar voters in declining

manufacturing areas, promising to

bring back their jobs and their

dreams are promising to make America

greater gain full stop and in his

inaugural address almost a year ago

he promised the forgotten people of

America they would be forgotten no

more and he promised to end the

American carnage. So I've been out

and about

and about in the Mon Valley of

Pennsylvania, asking his voters if

they feel he's delivered on those

promises.

The Mon Valley in western

Pennsylvania is the

birthplace of US steel.

This factory was once

owned by the 19th-century

magnate Andrew Carnegie.

In its heyday it employed thousands.

Donald Trump tapped into the sense

of industrial decline,

winning by promising to "put

America first".

Over lunch I asked Trump voters

for their verdict on year one.

It seems like he cares

about the working class,

he cares about the people

who are trying to make a living

and have big businesses

and things like that,

small businesses, he cares

about that kind of stuff.

Some of the stuff he does I agree

with, like the tax cuts,

looking after working class people,

but I'm not a big fan

of all the rants on social media.

I think they can do

away with all that.

How are you feeling with that vote?

A little disappointed.

Juan Lacey, a small-business

owner in the Mon Valley,

hoped Mr Trump would run government

like a CEO, so does this

former Obama voter regret

switching to Trump?

When I went into the voting

booth and I pulled

the lever I was satisfied.

I'm having buyer's remorse.

Why?

Because it's not consistent.

John Fetterman is a Democrat

in Trump country.

You get out into some of these areas

that no one's visited,

no one's taken the time to care,

left it really open and ripe

for someone to step

in like a Donald Trump and say,

hey, I'm the guy that can fix this.

The populist mayor of Braddock,

with a tattoo of the town's ZIP

code, counsels his party

to understand Trump's appeal.

It's got to be more than Trump

is awful, vote for us,

and it has to come back

to like ernest, progressive,

populist message.

In his inaugural address a year ago,

Donald Trump promised people

in towns like Braddock that he'd

give them back their

jobs and their dreams.

There's an early electoral test

here in Pennsylvania

of whether the voters

feel he's delivering.

There's a special election

in the state in what should be

a safe Republican seat,

but the president

is taking no chances.

A real friend and a spectacular

man, Rick Saccone.

That's the candidate here.

Mr Trump doesn't want to lose this

election and he was in

the Mon Valley Thursday

with this message.

Very simply your pay cheques

will be much bigger,

because under our tax cuts

you will be keeping more

of your hard earned money.

The question is whether Mr Trump

can get the credit here

for an improving economy,

or if the heat generated

by his tweets and feuds

is distracting even his own voters.

Now, Donald Trump was planning to

mark the first anniversary of his

year in office by flying today to

his winter resort in Mar-a-Lago in

Florida. However, US media are

reporting in the last few minutes

that the president is not going to

go to Mar-a-Lago unless the bill is

signed in Washington to keep the

government running. There's a great

big drama going over there in

Washington about how exactly to fund

the government to keep it running.

Democrats are not supporting

Republicans, Democrats holding firm.

They want a deal on the fate of

young people brought here illegally

as children. Can Donald Trump, the

deal-maker, find a solution?

We shall see, Laura, thank you.

Well, President Trump's boisterous

style and frenetic Twitter feed have

certainly kept him in the limelight.

But how has he performed on some

of his key election pledges -

tax cuts, the controversial border

wall with Mexico, and repealing

and replacing Obamacare -

his predecessor's health care plan.

Christian Fraser takes a look now

at President Trump's

first year in office.

12 months in the White House,

his first year as a politician.

So, what does the report card

of the 45th President look like?

Well, let's remind ourselves

what candidate Trump had promised.

The mantra was of course,

Make America Great Again.

And here was how

he proposed to do it.

Isis will be gone if I'm

elected president.

Obamacare has to be replaced.

I'm going to build a wall and

Mexico's going to pay for it, right?

Right?

A complete shutdown of Muslims

entering the United States.

Our jobs are being stolen

like candy from a baby.

Not going to happen any more, folks.

Well, let's start with

the economy, because there's

a curious disconnect here.

The president has record

low approval ratings,

but the stock market

is hitting record highs.

This week, the Dow Jones smashed

through the 26,000 mark

for the first time ever.

And, the economists say,

it is Mr Trump that

should take the credit.

He's delivered on his

promise to cut taxes.

But will the boom on the markets

eventually translate

into wage growth?

On trade, there's more to do.

The first thing he did

in office was to withdraw

from the Transpacific Partnership.

The Nafta negotiation is ongoing.

Mr Trump's warning to Canada

and Mexico is that he wants better

terms, or he will pull out.

And he is serious.

What about repealing

and replacing Obamacare?

Well that turned into

a congressional nightmare

for the Republicans.

The tax reform does chip away at one

of the Affordable Care Act's

foundations, the individual mandate,

but the President's

comments in December that

essentially the job was done -

well, that's fake news.

It isn't.

Where the president will

think he scores highly,

is on foreign policy.

Having vowed to destroy Isis,

the caliphate is on the run in Iraq

and Syria, and despite the often

alarming public feud

with the Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un,

North and South Korea are at least

talking, for which the president

has claimed the credit.

What about the wall?

Perhaps the campaign promise that

resonated most with the base.

Right now, the president

is demanding congressional funding

as part of immigration reform,

and there is still

plenty of resistance.

We can say, with some

certainty that Mexico isn't

going to pay for it.

At least not directly.

The promised ban on Muslims, well,

that became a travel ban

on countries that were predominantly

Muslim.

The legal challenge

to that is ongoing.

The courts, much like the media,

have incurred the President's wrath.

What is for certain is that the

President through this year has

persisted with the mandate on which

he was elected, but approval ratings

are low. He's lost special elections

in Virginia and Alabama and perhaps

the ultimate test of Mr Trump's

presidency will come later this

year, with the mid-terms. Christian

Fraser.

There's been heavy shelling

of Kurdish positions in northern

Syria by Turkish forces,

ahead of a possible

ground offensive.

The United States has

given its support to the creation

of a 30,000 strong border force

led by the Kurds, as a defence

against the so-called

Islamic State group.

The Turkish administration sees

Kurdish forces as terrorists,

and fears a de facto state

is being set up.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda

Ardern has announced

that she is pregnant.

She and her partner, Clarke Gayford,

are expecting their first child

in June, after which she plans

to take a six week break.

Ms Ardern will be the second elected

world leader to give

birth while in office,

and the first to do

so in nearly 30 years.

Phil Mercer reports.

New Zealand's youngest

Prime Minister since 1856

is about to face a fresh challenge.

Jacinda Ardern and her partner

Clarke Gayford are expecting

their first child in June,

after which she plans

to take a six-week break.

Let's do this.

She found out about her pregnancy

in October, six days before

she became Prime Minister.

I had to announce eventually.

There's only so long you can

say you were eating too

many Christmas pies.

I was showing from about 12 weeks!

So yeah, eventually we had to say

and this felt as good a time as any.

Ms Ardern, who's 37,

says she plans to be PM and a mum,

and is confident she can juggle

the role of motherhood

with a high-profile day job.

I'm not the first

woman to multitask.

I'm not the first woman

to work and have a baby.

I know these are special

circumstances, but there will be

many women who will have done this

well before I have.

On her first day as opposition

leader last year, Ms Ardern

was controversially asked by a TV

talk show host whether she had

to decide between having a career

and becoming a parent.

News that she's pregnant is rare

for international leaders.

When Benazir Bhutto gave birth

to a daughter in 1990 while serving

as Pakistan's Prime Minister,

it was reported to be a first

for an elected world leader.

Phil Mercer, BBC News, Sydney.

Cricket now - and they may

have lost the Ashes,

but England are proving to be more

than a match for Australia

in the shorter form of the game.

They've won the latest

game by six wickets,

having restricted the hosts to 270.

Test captain Joe Root

starred with bat and ball,

taking two wickets, and hitting

a measured 46 to see England home.

England lead 2-0 in

the five match series.

Tennis - and Britain's Kyle Edmund

is through to the fourth

round of the Australian Open -

beating both his Georgian opponent

and punishing temperatures

of 40 degrees Celsius.

After the match, British number

one Andy Murray tweeted

that it was the best win

of his Davis Cup team-mate's career.

Here's our sports

correspondent, Joe Wilson.

It's 40 Celsius and we're

outside playing tennis.

In Melbourne, nowhere

to hide for Kyle Edmund.

One game at the start of the fourth

set against Nikoloz Basilashvili

of Georgia lasted 20 minutes -

just one game!

Under the most extreme pressure,

in the most extreme conditions,

Kyle Edmund peaked.

One of the best

rallies of the match.

Nothing much between the players

in world rankings and nothing much

between them on court.

Edmund was 2-1 sets down,

but from this moment

he took the fourth set 6-0.

He's got it.

Fifth set, 12th game,

both men stretched beyond previous

limits, so who wilts?

Who wins.

He's done it.

Edmund conceded that

if the tournament had said

it was too hot to play

he would gladly have

stopped, so was it unsafe?

Edmund is the kind of guy

who normally lets his

tennis do the talking.

It's a tough one.

It's professional sport.

It's meant to hurt.

It's not meant to be easy,

that's the whole point of it.

But yeah, I guess yeah, I mean,

if people do start to become ill

then it might be a concern,

but as far as I'm aware everyone

is just getting through.

And he is through.

The Australian Open said they came

close to implementing

their extreme heat policy.

Edmund's endurance impressed many.

Who described it as the biggest win

of Kyle Edmund's career?

None other than Andy

Murray, via Twitter.

Well, there are 16 men left

in the Australian Open.

Kyle Edmund is one of them.

Now, quick, while you can -

find some shade.

Joe Wilson, BBC News.

We stay with the weather theme. We

take a look at it with Sarah

Keith-Lucas. From seeking shade to

needing

Keith-Lucas. From seeking shade to

needing shelter in these

temperatures?

Some of us have blue sky and

sunshine but temperatures are pretty

chilly and more wintry weather on

the cards. This is the scene in

Dunblane in Stirling, a lot of lying

snow around there. The Met Office

has issued an amber warning, be

prepared, for disruptive weather due

to snow and ice, particularly across

this region of the south-west of

Scotland, where we

could see another 10-15 centimetres

of snow falling on top of what is

already there. Let's take a look at

snow depths, what's lying out there

on the northern half of the country.

36 centimetres in parts of the

Highlands, 22 centimetres in

Northern Ireland, three centimetres

in Bingley, in West Yorkshire.

There's a lot of wintry weather,

snow and ice across many northern

and north-western parts of the

country. Further south and east,

sunny skies, blue skies out there.

It's feeling almost springlike in

the London region but towards the

south-west of England and Wales

Cricket Board showers to come.

Further snow showers, particularly

over higher ground, the western half

of Scotland where we have an amber

warning in force. Also further rain,

sleet and snow showers for Northern

Ireland into northern England. For

eastern Scotland and the east of the

Pennines, quite a lot of dry, bright

weather, and some sunshine to take

us through the afternoon across East

Anglia and the south-east. Drift

towards the south-west of England

and why is, it's a mix of sunny

spells and scattered showers.

Temperatures around 3-7, but when

you add on the cool north-westerly

wind it's feeling subzero for many

others particularly across parts of

Scotland and Northern Ireland. Into

this evening, slowly the wintry

showers in the north tend to ease

away, then we turn our attention to

this batch of wet weather. Rain

moving in from the south-west. As it

bonds into the cold air we could see

a bit of snow tomorrow morning

across the higher ground Southern

Wales and parts of southern England,

the Chilterns, Cotswolds, Brecon

Beacons, some snow, some rain to the

south of that which will slowly ease

away. Turning milder in the south.

Still cold further north. We will

have lost the wintry showers, so a

return to something sunny for many

others during Saturday. A cold night

Saturday night. During Sunday, this

front moves in from the Atlantic. As

it moves in it bumps into the cold

air and we could see significant

snowfall on Sunday at least for a

time, before it turns back to rain.

We have the milder air moving in

from the south-west but for northern

England and Scotland temperatures

still on the chilly side. If you

have travel plans on Sunday,

particularly across parts of

northern England and Scotland, watch

out for potential disruption due to

more snow on the cards. Turning

milder for next week.

A reminder of our main

story this lunchtime.

The Justice Secretary says the

decision to release serial six

offender John Worboys from prison

will not be challenged by the

government. -- serial sex offender.

That's all from the BBC News at One.