31/08/2011 BBC News at Six

At last, hopes of justice for Yvonne Fletcher and her family -

calls for Libya's rebels to help the investigation.

Reports that one of the men wanted for WPC Fletcher's killing may

still be in Libya - David Cameron is planning talks with Libya's new

leaders. Obviously, I want justice for Yvonne Fletcher's family. There

is an ongoing police investigation, and I am sure the new authorities

in Libya will cooperate fully with that investigation.

She was gunned down 27 years ago - we hear from the officer who made a

pledge in her last moments. We will get the people that did this. We

will find them. I made that promise to her. I made it when she died. I

made it when I carried her coffin. $$WHITE: And for the first time

Libyans celebrate the end of Ramadan in a country free of

Colonel Gadafi. Also on tonight's programme:

Preventing another banking crisis - fears that promised reforms may not

take effect till after the next election.

The town that honoured the dead - a final service at Wooton Bassett as

military repatriations are moved. The school camp that ended with a

deadly attack by a polar bear - one of the survivors remembers the

frightening ordeal. I punched it because it was biting my head, and

Tonight on BBC London, what caused the riots? BBC London tries to find

Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. The revolution in Libya has brought

new hope of justice for WPC Yvonne Fletcher and her family. She was

gunned down 27 years ago by someone inside the Libyan embassy in London.

Today David Cameron and Nick Clegg both said they expect Libya's

interim administration to find the suspect - a key figure in the

Gaddafi regime who's still thought to be in the country. As Tom

Symonds reports, dealing with WPC Fletcher's case will be a key

element in Britain's relations with the new Libya. Especially by the

Metropolitan Police. She had been detailed to police a protest

outside the Libyan embassy. When the shooting started from an

upstairs window. The question, who killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher remains

unanswered. But now Libyan rebels are getting closer to a key Gaddafi

official alleged to have been involved. The case is at the heart

of Britain's relations with new Libya. Obviously, I want justice

for eave's family. There is an ongoing police investigation, and I

am sure the new authorities in Libya will cooperate fully with

that investigation. Former policeman John Murray was

also outside the embassy that day. He held Yvonne Fletcher in his

harms, and he made her a promise. said, "Don't worry. We will get the

people who did this. We will find them." I made that promise to her.

I made it when she died. I made it when I carried her coffin. That's a

promise I will fulfil any day now. You feel that day is coming closer?

That day is coming very, very soon. I am so proud. Abdulmagid Salah

Ameri has been named as the man who actually pulled the trigger. He's

thought to have died. Yesterday came news of another suspect, Abdul

Bagdadi, alleged to have been involved. We just found the body.

She was shot in the head. Probably it's an inside vendetta within the

regime groups themselves. The Met restated its commitment to the case

today. Even Gaddafi offered some cooperation, but in 1984 diplomatic

immunity resulted in the embassy's officials walking free. Now Libya

has a new Government. 27 years on it now may become easier to speak

to those people who were inside this building on that day.

Certainly, prosecutors say that gathering the evidence relies on

people talking, be they diplomats who witnessed what happened or

those responsible admitting for the first time their role in this

notorious crime. For the first time in more than

four decades, the people of Libya have been celebrating the end of

Ramadan without Colonel Gaddafi in charge.

The feast day marks a respite from the fighting - the battle for Sirte,

Gadafi's birthplace, is set to resume soon. As Jeremy Bowen

reports, whilst Tripoli remains quiet, Libyans living in the

capital have now been left to fend The war has swept through Tripoli

and back out into the desert, taking the Colonel with it.

SOUND OF GUNFIRE In this fragile capital, gunfire is

for celebration now, not killing, and prayers for Eid Al Fitr, the

Just after dawn, the former Green Square, now renamed after Libya's

martyrs, was full of people and memories of almost 42 years of

dictatorship. "They killed our children," said the Imam, "and

raped our women. He's a murderer, and God will punish him." Suburban

roads still have barricades put up by their residents to keep the

violent fall of the Gaddafi regime away from them. The wall had

already touched this street. NATO killed a family here. But now the

children, in their best clothes for Eid Al Fitr, can play outside, and

this man can say that the fighters gave their lives, "And we think

it's going to be fine for our family now." Tripoli is feeling

very local at the moment. People are looking after themselves.

They're looking after their families, and they're looking after

their neighbourhoods. There is a vacuum at the top. The National

Transitional Council has been recognised by some of the biggest

powers in the world, but around here, it's local people who are

taking the decisions. And decision making on this street

starts with these men - locals who picked up guns to fight the regime

stopping to check us out. Anyone suspicious gets taken to this

school requisitioned by the fighters. These three were

suspected mercenaries. The prisoners, one Ghanaian, two from

Niger, said they were innocent migrant workers picked up because

they were black. Everything is going to be fine. They were

terrified, and not much reassured when their captors, all fighters

from Tripoli, said there would be justice in the new Libya.

The hard part is starting now because now we're going to build

our country. We're going to create, to have creative people. We're

going to produce. We're going to do everything. Men with guns still set

the pace here, not civilian politicians who have been slow off

the mark. Long term, that doesn't equal stability.

And we can talk to Jeremy now. In your report you talked about a

vacuum at the top, a lack of leadership. That could become quite

dangerous, could it not? Yes. I think it matters because Colonel

Gaddafi used divide-and-rule tactics between different parts of

this country, which is quite a fragile - and it's a very big

country as well with a tradition of local differences. If regional

bosses fall out about the future, perhaps trying to gain credit for

what they did to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi, they all have effectively

a militia each now. That's dangerous. Colonel Gaddafi himself

has been making broadcasts to the people in his hometown of Sirte,

telling them to fight on. Jeremy, I want to turn to WPC Yvonne Fletcher

now. How realistic is it to assume that Libya's new leaders will deal

this kind of legacy from the Gaddafi regime? I think not

immediately. The reason for that is there isn't a new government yet.

Here in Tripoli, there is - there are men on the streets with guns.

The National Transitional Council is over in Benghazi, at least those

parts of it that are known and named. So I think that, yes,

ultimately if they set up a representational and democratic

government here - and it's going to be difficult - then they will be

redressed, but don't expect it overnight. OK, thank you very much.

Plans to shake up the way banks operate in the wake of the

financial crisis may not come into force until after the next election.

The Independent Commission on Banking is due to deliver its final

report in two weeks' time, and is expected to recommend that the

banks' riskier operations should be separated from the their everyday

customer business. With all the details, here's our chief economics

Correspondent Hugh Pym. Ever since those Northern Rock

queues, the future of banking has been on the line - major collapses

and taxpayer bail-outs followed, and that made the recession worse.

People said it must never happen again, but four years on, the shape

of reform still isn't clear. Today, the Business Secretary Vince Cable

visiting Edinburgh University attacked the banks for trying to

block a shape-up of the industry and said the Government was

committed to change. Given all the financial vol tilt and instability

in the world at the moment, it's all the more important that we have

reform of the banking system. How we do that - we have got to await

the final report of the Banking Commission. That final Banking

Commission report is due very soon. The Chancellor said in a speech in

June he wanted to go ahead with its key recommendations, though it's

emerged today they may not actually take effect until after the next

election. So what are the main banking reforms which have been

proposed by the Commission? Final details will be out the week after

next. Banks will have to build a firewall between their High Street

operations and other riskier trading in their investment banks,

so if the investment bank collapsed, the High Street operations would be

safe. Banks would have to have more capital. That's money set aside for

emergencies, and there would have to be more competition in High

Street banking, but many of the big banks strongly oppose the reforms.

They say it would be harder for them to raise money to lend to

businesses and consumers, and they point to the market turbulence this

month. The FTSE share index has plunged because of concerns about

the US economy and European leaders' handling of the debt

crisis, with some traders now worried about the health of the

banking sector. The economy is now sluggish, so do we want to make it

harder for bank at this moment to get money into the hands of small

businesses? Because mark this - the reality of a big, structural change

to the way Britain's banks are organised is they'll be less able

to lend to small businesses in Britain. So it could be several

more years on from the start of the crisis before change is aimed at

preventing more scenes like this take effect. There will be plenty

of wrangling over the detail before then.

We can talk to our deputy political editor who is in Westminster for us.

Given the levels of public interest in banking reforms - can the

government really get away leave this til after the next election?

The Government has a dilemma. On the one hand they want to move

quickly. They want to avoid the risk of this happening again, but

equally they know this is going to take time. It's complicated, time

to draw up the legislation, get it through Parliament channelment and

hammer out the details. Some are saying, look, this may not be

implemented until after the next general election. That'll infur

aiate Liberal Democrats. This has upset some Conservatives who accuse

Mr Cable of some politicking ahead of the Liberal Democrat conference.

The bottom line is this - there is a risk for the Government that they

raise expectations that aren't met and they be accused of giving way

to the banks and kicking all of this into the long grass. Thank you

very much. That was James Landale there.

A group of travellers have lost a High Court appeal to prevent their

eviction from a site near Basildon in Essex. 80 families have been

told to leave Dale Farm because they don't have planning permission

for their caravans and chalets. Basildon Council has said it will

use bailiffs, if necessary, to clear the site. Mark Worthington

reports. At the entrance to Dale Farm, the defences are ready. The

lines of resistance now firmly drawn after the failure of a final

legal challenge - the deadline to leave is just hours away. Beyond

the gate, a watchful community waits for the bailiffs. Some have

lived here for ten years. Most are resolved to stay until forcibly

removed. The worry for me is - is when the bailiffs comes in - the

trauma of it and the fear of it, and with everybody under so much

pressure, and when you're in pressure, you do things which you'd

never do in a lifetime. The other side of that metal fence is the

biggest illegal gypsy site in Europe called Dale Farm. For the

neighbours, though, the view is very different. Bigot? No. I have

stood up for this for the last ten years, I have had to put up with it.

If anyone came here and had to put up with where I live for ten

yearsior, think they'd last a week. How I have lasted ten years, I

don't know. The issue is this - Dale Farm close

to the village of Cray's Hill is essentially two sites. A number of

travellers bought this section in the mid '90s and set up 34 pitches,

all of which are legal. Those facing eviction bought the

adjoining green belt site in 2001. They established 51 pitches with no

planning permission. But it isn't as simple as it might

seem. Changes to the law in the '90s meant councils no longer had a

duty to provide travellers with suitable sites. Instead, they were

encouraged to buy land themselves and to seek planning permission.

That's exactly what the residents here say they have been trying to

do - without success. If there is trouble, the cost of clearing Dale

Farm could reach �18 million. But Basildon Council says its sheer

scale means it has to be done. That's just much too large for a

small village like this to deal with. The impact on that village

has been enormous. Now a High Court judge has ruled the council's plan

is entirely lawful. More supporters are expected to arrive to help

Our top story: The hopes of justice for Yvonne Fletcher and her family.

The Government says that finding her killer will be a key element in

the Government's relationship with the new Libya. And the transfer

deadline looms, has Arsene Wenger signed his way out of trouble?

The coming up in 15 minutes' time on the BBC News Channel: A Football

Focus transfer deadline day special. Will keep you across everything

that has been happening so far in the presence of Robbie Savage and

For almost four years a small Wiltshire market town, Wootton

Bassett, has pause to remember the servicemen and women killed in

Afghanistan. Now, military repatriations will be shifted to

RAF Brize Norton instead. A special service is being held to mark the

end of what has become a Wootton Bassett tradition. It comes out the

latest soldier in Afghanistan has been named. He was Sergeant Barry

Weston from 42 Commando Royal Marines, killed on foot patrol in

Helmand province yesterday. Let's go live to Wootton Bassett and John

Kay. When Sergeant Barry Weston's body is flown home next week, it

will not come into RAF Lyneham, just up the road. It will come into

RAF Brize Norton. That means it will not come through the high

street in Wootton Bassett. That town's role in repatriations is

coming to an end. Tonight at sunset there will be a special ceremony

here. This time, not involving a cortege or coffins, but focused

The flag has flown every time. In all weathers. All seasons. All

times of day and night. Nearly 400 military coffins have passed

through Wootton Bassett. But with repatriation flights now returning

to RAF Brize Norton, this town's duty is done. It is the end of an

era for Wootton Bassett. It is going to be a very emotional time.

It's very sad. At the end of the day, things move on. It is time for

RAF Brize Norton to take over. Tonight, in one final act of

respect, the town's flag will be lowered and blessed on the altar of

the parish church. Local people, keen to mark the end of their role

in a quiet and dignified manner. have done a good job and people are

thankful to us. I don't think that is foolish pride. I don't think

it's a lack of humility. I think it's appropriate to to say well

done. 30 miles away, this is the new Wootton Bassett. A purpose-

built garden, on a ring road next to RAF Brize Norton, where bereaved

families will now gather. Some local people feel it lacks the

authenticity of the vulture market town. But they are determined to

continue the tradition. -- the Wiltshire market town. Wootton

Bassett's top brass have been keen to help and advise. I'm sure they

will do just as good a job as owes. God help them if they don't. After

four years, life in this sleepy town can finally get back to normal.

People here will never forget the role they have played. But most of

all, they say, they will never forget the fallen.

What started as a small, impromptu gathering became a massive event

seen all over the world. But there will be one more ceremony here in

October, a royal visit. When his place becomes officially Royal

Wootton Bassett. The team that will read the review

into the riots in England earlier this month has been unveiled. It

will be led by the chief-executive of Jobcentre Plus, Darra Singh, who

met the deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today as he made another big

it to Tottenham in north London to see how the area is recovering. The

panel will deliver initial findings in November.

And 11-year-old boy from Romford has become the youngest person in

London to be sentenced over his part in the riots. The boy, who

cannot be named for legal reasons, was given an 18 month

rehabilitation ward after stealing a bin from Debenhams. Luisa Baldini

is outside the shop now. Talk us through the details of this case.

It was at the peak of the disorder on Monday 8th August that this boy

was arrested at 10:30pm. The court heard today that his mother had

thought that he was at his father's house. The court also heard how

just five days before he was arrested the boy had been before a

judge, charged with arson, criminal damage and for possessing a blade.

That related to an incident on a bus, where he had cut up some seats,

set fire to it and then tried to smash the glass doors to make his

escape. The judge sentenced him for both offences committed its

rehabilitation order. He says, I cannot send you to prison because

you are only 11. You think you can behave how you want and everybody

else has to put up with it. You need to understand you cannot get

away with committing offences of that nature.

It was an adventurer lifetime that turned into a terrifying ordeal.

For the first time, one of the teenagers attacked by a polar bear

in the Arctic has spoken of the attack. 16-year-old Patrick

Flinders says he thought he was going to die as the bear gripped

his head in its jaws. The savage attack happened earlier this month,

leaving one student dead. It should have been a great

adventure. 80 teenagers and leaders pitching camp inside the Arctic

Circle on the Norwegian island of SFA told. A chance encounter with a

polar bear left one dead and four others badly injured. A 13 strong

group aged between 16 and 23 had pitched their tents in a rocky

valley and settled down for the night. Patrick Flinders, who had

raised several �1,000 to join the trip, had travelled from his home

in Jersey. The party should have been protected by tripwires and

flares. But they failed to operate when the bear crossed them and

burst into a tent. I remember the bear coming into the tent.

Everybody was screaming. Looking at my sleeping-bag, just seeing people

really scared, seeing the polar bear. It grabbing my arm, biting it,

grabbing my head and biting it. Me punching it, just to get it off me.

The bear was eventually spot by -- shot by Spike Reid, one of the

expedition leaders, who was also seriously hurt. Experts believe

that the animal may have just been curious, but the encounter cost the

life of Horatio Chappell, who had been asleep alongside Patrick.

just glad that it was not me sleeping there. Every couple of

nights we swapped around where we were slipping. If I had been

sitting there that night, it could have been made. Patrick Flinders,

who needed surgery to remove fragments of the bear's teeth from

his skull vows he will never return to Svalbard. His injuries are

healing, but his family knows that the memories of that night will

take far longer to fade. A football fan has been acquitted

of a sectarian assault on the Celtic manager Neil Lennon. John

Wilson, 26, admitted a breach of the piece at Tynecastle Stadium in

Edinburgh in May. Pictures showed him lunging at Neil Lennon during

the game against Hearts. A charge of assault, aggravated by religious

prejudice, was found not proven by the jury.

It is deadline day in the football transfer market. The wheeling and

dealing is well and truly under way. All of that top clubs are in the

market to pick up a bargain and strengthen their squads, no one

more so than Arsenal after their dismal start to the season. Let's

Well, the nail-biting Countdown on this year's deadline day is truly

under way. Managers have until 11 o'clock tonight to conclude any

last-minute business and transfer dealings. Such is the money in the

sport, so much at stake, one deal can mean the difference between

staying in the Premier League or relegation. There's a huge amount

of pressure on all clubs, but especially at Arsenal. They have

about �80 million to spend with just a few hours now to spend it.

The lowest experience of all of his years at Arsenal manager. It was

the defeat that forced Arsene Wenger's hand. After years of

nurturing young talent, the humiliation by Manchester United

left the manager with just three days to replenish the depleted

squad and provide shell-shocked fans with some much-needed retail

therapy. In what has been a traumatic summer, they have lost

Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy. Coming in are Korean Chu

Young Park, Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos. For many, that is not

enough. Arsenal fans are looking for a Bow signing, world-class

players that will come in, immediately make a difference and

give us new heroes to replace people like Fabregas and Nasri.

While Arsenal tried desperately to spend big, that has been a problem

for the Premier League as a whole. Up to 2010, the market was worth as

much as �500 million. Last year that dropped to �350 million. But

now things are looking up again. Over �400 million will be spent by

the time the transfer window closes in less than five hours' time.

revenue side, the broadcasting deals, commercial deals, the

attendances, they are the three core revenue streams. They are

pretty strong and remain strong. Seven years after they last won the

title, Arsenal have fallen behind the Premier League's big spenders.

Deadline day brings into focus football's new financial reality,

that success does not come cheap. We understand in the last few

minutes that Arsenal have made a �10 million bid for Everton's

Spanish midfielder Michel Arteta. Scott Parker's move from West Ham

to Spurs, Peter Crouch looks set to go to Stoke City. Joe Cole has gone

on loan to Lille from Liverpool. It could be a few busy hours.

This time yesterday we were talking about how it has been a dull August.

I don't think the last date did much to improve the statistics. A

lot of cloud. It's going to be a dry Night and Day chilly one. A few

showers in northern Scotland and made eastern England. We might see

one or two drifting across the Channel into southernmost counties

of England. Most places stay in dry. A lot of cloud, but temperatures

will fall to single digits in Scotland. 10 or 11 elsewhere. A

similar day, certainly from Birmingham Northwood. Expect a lot

of cloud. Further south, it should be brighter. Maybe some sunshine on

offer in southern counties and across much of Wales. We might

reach 21 in Cardiff. Across Northern Ireland it will be dry but

predominantly cloudy. Maybe a few breaks in parts of the East. Parts

of Scotland also looking great. A little bit of rain working its way

into the Western Isles earlier on. For Eastern Scotland, a chance of a

few breaks in the cloud. Across most of England it will be dry but

predominantly cloudy. A lot of cloud across the Midlands and East

Anglia. As we head further south, we should see more in the way of

sunshine. It will feel quite a bit warmer, easily up to 21. It could

be higher in places. Sunny spells across the south-west of England.

Maybe just a breeze picking up across the course of the day. Many

central and eastern areas are having a fine day on Friday.

Temperatures are higher, 25 degrees. It changed for the North as that

weather front brings cloud about bricks of rain to Scotland and