21/11/2011 BBC News at Six

Milly Dowler's mother in her own words. She speaks about the effect

of the phone-hacking scandal on her family. Sally Dowler describes the

false hope, thinking the deleted messages on Milly's phone meant she

was still alive. She's picked up her voicemails, she's alive! It was

then, really. Hugh Grant accuses another paper, the Mail on Sunday,

of listening into his private messages. I cannot for the life of

me think of any conceivable source for this story in the Mail on

Sunday except those voice messages on my mobile telephone.

Also tonight: Plans to boost England's housing market but should

the taxpayer guarantee loans for first-time buyers?

Egypt's protesters are back in Tahrir Square. More than 30 killed

in new clashes as the revolution stalls.

Edinburgh Zoo prepares to welcome two new arrivals from China.

In sport: Andy Murray makes a disappointing start to the World

Tour Finals. He lost in straight Good evening. Welcome to BBC News

at Six. Milly Dowler's mother has described how she believes she was

duped by a phone hacker into thinking her daughter was still

alive. She told the Leveson Inquiry about the moment when after days of

finding Milly's voicemail full she was able to leave a message. What

she didn't know was that Milly was already dead. The inquiry heard

from the actor Hugh Grant who accused the Mail on Sunday of being

involved in exposing his private conversations. This report contains

flash photography. They suffered the devastating pain

of losing a beloved daughter. Only to find that their anguish was

compounded by the gross intrusions of trab Lloyd journalists. Bob and

Sally -- of tabloid journalists. Bob and Sally came to the Leveson

Inquiry and took the witness stand together. They recalled their

daughter, they told how one day after her disappearance they had

gone in private, thoi thought, to retrace her final steps -- they

thought, to retrace her final steps. There was a photographer from the

News of the World nearby. I can remember seeing it and I was really

cross because we didn't see anyone, they had obviously taken the

picture with some sort of telephoto lens. How did they know we were

doing that walk on that day? It felt like such an intrusion into a

really private grief moment. there was the hacking of Milly's

phone, again by the News of the World. Messages were deleted from

her previously full voicemail box, that meant that Mrs Dowler could

get through to the voicemail. It gave her hope. We were sitting

downstairs in reception and I rang her phone, and it clicked through

on to her voicemail so I heard her voice. I was, it was like, "She's

picked up her voicemails, Bob, she's alive!" It was then, really.

When we were told about the hacking, that is the first thing I thought.

Later came the crushing news that it had been the News of the World

fiddling with the voicemail in the hope of finding a story. As soon as

I was told it was about phone hacking, literally I didn't sleep

for three nights because you are replaying everything in your mind

and just thinking, "That makes sense now." Tonight, the former

News of the World investigator Glenn Mulcaire denied deleting

Milly Dowler's voicemail messages. After the Dowlers came a very

public figure full of passionate complaint, the actor Hugh Grant.

His principle targets were the daily mail and the Mail on Sunday.

Mr Grant said the Mail on Sunday had once falsely accused him of

having an affair with a woman in Los Angeles. How he wondered had

they come across the story. I would love to hear what the Daily Mail's

explanation for that source was. Much more recently, Mr Grant has

fathered a baby with a former girlfriend. They tried to keep the

birth secret. It worked until he went to visit her in hospital.

day after that, the phone calls started from the Daily Mail saying,

"We know about this baby, we know about Hugh having visited, we will

write this story." His concluding point was that the press is the

only major industry in Britain regulated only by itself and that,

he said, had not worked for more than 20 years. We can talk to Nick

now. I gather in the last few minutes there's been some reaction

from the Mail on Sunday about Hugh Grant's comments? Indeed. They have

issued a statement. They say that they utterly refute the claims made

by Hugh Grant in the Leveson Inquiry, that the story in 2007 was

obtained by phone hacking. They say that it came from a freelance

journalist and they say that Mr Grant's claims are "mendacious

smears". We know of 18 more witnesses who will be giving

evidence during the next four days of the inquiry. Among them,

tomorrow Steve Coogan, on Wednesday, the father of Madeleine McCann,

then Sienna Miller, the author JK Rowling. Next week Charlotte Church,

Chris Jefferies who was implicated into the murder of Jo Yeates.

you. The average age of the first time

homebuyer is fast approaching 43. Today, David Cameron and Nick Clegg

said they were determined to help those desperate to get on to the

housing ladder. They have announced a new scheme under which loans of

new homes in England to first-time buyers will be backed by the

Government. Labour says it's small beer. In England, the number of

houses built last year was just over 100,000. 4.5 million people

are on a waiting list for social housing. An estimated 1.4 million

are trying but are unable to buy a house. Today's announcement comes

ahead of next week's Autumn Statement in which the Chancellor

will outline the Government's strategy for bringing growth to the

economy. Radical and unashamedly ambitious

is how the Prime Minister and his Deputy described their long-awaited

housing strategy for England. It needs to be. I think it is vitally

important that we build more houses in our country. Decades of

political failure on housing, the Government admits, are causing huge

damage to the economy and our society, measured in lost jobs,

overcrowded homes and shattered dreams. The Government is trying to

inject some confidence into the beleaguered housing sector, for

institutions to invest, the banks to lend, for developers to build

and for consumers to borrow. But with the state spending less and

less on housing subsidy and the economy on a knife-edge, success is

as uncertain as the times. InVi Virgin rating supply and demand for

houses is -- invigorating supply and demand for houses is key. Today

Ministers announced they are putting back �400 million which may

help stalled projects like this new town in Devon to get re-started.

Another idea means developers can build on unused public land without

having to pay for it until homes are sold. But more than 230,000 new

homes are needed each year. I have looked at the housing strategy.

Nowhere can I find the number of houses you are going to build next

year? We need to build a lot more. There is is a lot of demand out

there and we need those homes. We are not going for figures that

hasn't worked in the past. You are not going to tell us how many

houses you are going to build? don't know the answer. The market

needs to provide the houses. millions, the problem is finding an

affordable home. There is access through... Jon and Anna in York can

only dream of getting the deposit required for their first house.

When you are renting a property, as it is, you can't really afford to

do that. The mortgage payments will be less than our rent. Yeah. It is

so frustrating. We can pay our rent but they don't think we can pay the

mortgage. The couple might benefit from a mortgage indemnity scheme.

But what does the strategy offer those who would once have relied on

social housing? Sandra is expected to be evicted any day. Her landlord

wants to put the rent up to �350 a week. The cap on housing benefit

and a lack of social housing means she and her five-year-old son

cannot afford to stay. For the people like me and a lot of other

people that don't have enough money to buy their own home, it's not

very good because if they can't rent, where are they going to live?

You will have to move out? I know. It is terrible. Today's strategy

may be billed as radical and ambitious, but whether it works

will depend on the confidence of the markets.

Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for us now. We know that housing is

key for growth. But the Prime Minister was admitting today we are

a long way from where we should be on the economy? Extraordinary

striking words from the Prime Minister. They would have been

striking if uttered by anybody commenting on the Government. For

the head of the Government to say "we are well behind where we need

to be" when talking about the economy and then to go on, "Getting

debt under control is proving harder than anyone envisaged." Next

Tuesday, the Chancellor makes his big Autumn Statement, not a Budget,

but something close to it. At the same time, he has to unveil the

forecast made now not by Treasury officials, but by the independent

office of Budget Responsibility. Growth is lower than expected.

Borrowing is going to be higher than hoped. What the Chancellor

already knows, and the Prime Minister already knows is not just

the numbers but the verdict that those clever boffins have got. Is

the Government on or off course to cut the deficit at the speed that

it's set out to do? If they say the Government is off target next week,

there will be a furious debate about what to do. The Government is

saying that it can get the economy growing again without spending

money that we haven't got. Today on housing, on Wednesday there will be

an announcement about making it easier for companies to hire and a

little less expensive to fire people. On Friday, there will be an

initiative on youth unemployment as well. Labour will look at these

figures and will conclude you do need to spend more in order to grow

more, in order to cut the deficit more. Expect that ferocious debate

to get under way again next week. Thank you.

The Attorney General has won permission to start contempt of

court proceedings against Sky News. The broadcaster is accused of

breaching an injunction taken out to protect the safety of the

British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler who were kidnapped in

Somalia. They were held captive for more than a year before being

released. Two missing children from Hampshire

have been found dead in Turkey. The bodies of eight-year-old Yaanis and

six-year-old Mira Mellersh were found with the body of their German

mother in the seaside town of Soke on Friday. They were reported

missing in February last year and their mother was wanted on

suspicion of child abduction in Germany.

The trial of two men accused of murdering the black teenager

Stephen Lawrence in South London 18 years ago has been hearing how the

police handled the evidence they gathered. The teen idge -- the

teenager's clothing was placed in bloodstained evidence bags.

court has heard from the witnesses who saw what happened that night

and today it began on the bulk of the evidence. The forensic links

between Stephen and the two men alleged to have killed him.

Evidence the jury is expected to examine in literally microscopic

detail. Detective Constable William Patculuk, one of the detectives who

handled the clothes of Stephen Lawrence in the hours after the

killing. His red polo shirt, his green trousers. The prosecution

says fibres from these clothes as well as Stephen's blood and hair

were found on the defendants' clothes. The defence argues it

happened because of contamination. And so part of today's evidence

focused on the brown paper bags similar to these used to store and

transport evidence in 1993. The court heard standard practice was

to fold the top down two or three times and then seal them with sell

tape. The defence claims the tape could have come loose, the top

unrolling, dried blood or fibres could have got stuck to the sides

of the bags and possibly transferred to the clothes seized

from Gary Dobson and David Norris. The jury were told there would be

detailed evidence about where the clothes went after they were taken

They also heard evidence from former detective Graham Cook, who

did house-to-house interviews. In this road he spoke to Gary Dobson,

in his home. He said nervous, the detective said. Gary Dobson said he

had not been out at night, but he later admitted in interviews that

he had. The court heard he claimed not to know David Norris, despite

these police surveillance photographs of them together,

outside the home of brothers that will also under investigation.

David Norris and Gary Dobson denied murder. The Brown bounce were the

subject of much discussion today. Detective Constable Steve Pyke, who

put some of steam's clothes in the bag, was asked if he might have

left some of the bags open because the clothes were bloody and needed

to dry out late around. He was asked if they might be the bags

that had most led to contamination of perhaps the suspects' clothes

themselves. He said he might have Our top story: Milly Dowler's

mother, in her own words. For the first time, she speaks about the

effect of the phone hacking scandal on her family. Coming up: Panda

diplomacy. The two bears heading from China to Scotland. But who

will foot the bill? The CBI calls for a focus on

exports to help British business. And it is 25 years since the big

British Gas sell-off. We look back Nine months since the fall of

Egypt's dictator Hosni Mubarak, pro-democracy protesters are back

on the streets tonight. They are unhappy with the power of the

military, who are running the country until elections can take

place. There have been clashes with security forces in several Egyptian

cities including Alexandria and Suez. The worst Wellens has been in

Cairo. More than 30 people have been killed and 800 people wandered

around Tahrir Square. Wyre Davies Despite their success in toppling

Hosni Mubarak, a cross section of Egyptians are again out on the

streets. Thousands of Christians, Muslims, secular and religious, all

concerned that their revolution is being stolen by a military

reluctant to relinquish power. This report contains some strong images.

Outside the hated Interior Ministry, a long-time symbol of authoritarian

rule in Egypt, protesters clashed for a 4th consecutive day with riot

police. Shocking images, been almost instantly around the globe

on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. None more disturbing than pictures,

apparently showing protesters being viciously beaten in front of a sign

proclaiming freedom. Completely overcome by tear gas, dozens and

even hundreds rushed to pavement clinics in Tahrir Square this

afternoon. At times, there simply were not enough scooters and mopeds

to ferry bodies back for treatment. It is thought many of those who

died in the clashes suffocated under the effects of tear gas. One

man wanted to tell us what happened to him. He was struggling to get

his words out. The policeman... I would say that... Moments later, he

collapsed into the arms of his friends. It is almost as though the

February Revolution and all that was achieved here in Tahrir Square

never happened. None of these protesters can quite believe they

are back out on the streets of Cairo, calling for those political

reforms and freedoms they thought they had secured nine months ago

when the Mubarak regime fell. But here they are, fighting in clashes,

some of them being killed, many being wounded, and demanding that

the military get out of politics altogether. It was perhaps naive to

assume that having forced Mubarak to resign the entire system would

collapse. It was a big mistake. At the time, people were euphoric

about it. They could not believe the fact they could topple Hosni

Mubarak. But of course, he is just one, just the tip of the iceberg.

Under intense pressure to announce an accelerated programme for reform,

asking the military to yield power in Egypt is a tall order.

As you can see, thousands of Egyptians have again gathered and

Tahrir Square tonight. That figure of 30 dead has shocked many people.

More protests are set to continue. With elections due in less than a

week, it is difficult to see if they can take place with so many

protests taking place around the country, not just in Cairo but the

north and south as well. The situation is incredibly tense.

A woman has been jailed for 22 years for killing her grandmother

for money. 36-year-old Sheila Jones from Norton Canes in the West

Midlands pleaded guilty to murder at Wolverhampton Crown Court. She

had stolen more than �6,000 from Daisy Myring's savings.

92-year-old Daisy Myring was found by one of her carers. She was lying

battered on the floor of her bedroom. She was calling out for

help. They had been a struggle. Injuries to her hand suggested that

she had tried to defend herself. She was covered in bruises, had two

black eyes, a fractured collarbone and a dislocated shoulder. Two

hours later, she died. It was her granddaughter, 36-year-old Sheila

Jones, who had batted her to death. She had withdrawn nearly �7,000

from her building society account. The pensioner was distraught about

the missing money and was trying to find out where it had gone. Her

granddaughter wanted to silence her. This afternoon, her grandson gave

his reaction outside court. Daisy meant the world to all of us. No

sentence will ever be able to bring her back. She was a kind and

generous lady, who will be sorely missed by all members of her family.

Police say it was all about the money. We believe the motive for

the crime was agreed. The money that was stolen from Daisy was

frittered away. She led Jones showed no emotion when she was

arrested or when she was being sentenced. The judge said taking

her grandmother's savings was callous and cruel, taking her life

was unforgivable. Despite all of the talk of

conservation and renewable energy, greenhouse gases reached record

levels in 2010. That is according to experts at the United Nations.

They say the levels are rising more quickly than ever. David Shukman is

here. Every year we get a global assessment of greenhouse gases in

our atmosphere. For the last half century, they have gone up, year

after year. Let's give you the context first. At the start of the

Industrial Revolution, 1750, that was the level of carbon dioxide in

the atmosphere. 280 parts per million. 280 molecules of CO2, for

every million in the air. Let's fast-forward to 2010. You can see

how that leapt up to 389. It is not just the scale the increase that

concerns climate scientists, but also the rate of increase. Let's

look at the latest figure from the UN. 2.3. That does not sound a lot.

But it is a higher rate of increase than the average for the past two

decades. If this continues, we will be on course for the worst case

scenario for what global warming could mean in later decades.

think people watching this kind of thing is going to say, what is the

point of making all of these savings? It is a fair question. But

to turn it around, at a time of rising bills it makes sense to be

as efficient as possible about our use of energy, if only to bring

those bills down as much as possible. Overall, the global

situation is certainly confused. We are a week away from the annual

international negotiations on what is meant to be a new treaty on

climate change. Ministers from nearly 200 countries are meeting in

South Africa. The prospects look as bleak as ever for that.

Their names mean sweety and sunshine, but their story might not

end up sweetness and light. Two pandas are heading to Edinburgh Zoo

from China. It is part of an international conservation effort,

and it is hoped that they will breed in time. But the big issue

could be footing the bill. Meet Sunshine. He is eight years

old, a little bit grumpy and his favourite pastime is munching

bamboo. In the pen next door, more laid-back, Sweety. They are both

bred in captivity and are about to be shipped to Edinburgh Zoo, part

of China's panda conservation effort. Once in Scotland, the hope

is that they will mate. The problem, pandas are notoriously fickle. Even

then, only one panda ever born in captivity has been reintroduced to

the wild, and that died soon after. Pandas do not come cheap. Edinburgh

will pay �700,000 a year for each bear, plus �70,000 a year to feed

their Ambit habit. And there is no guarantee they will pair up.

TRANSLATION: They must like each other for there to be mutual

attraction. That is the key. When they do not like each other, they

will just walk away and nothing will happen. China's panda breeding

programme is producing around 30 bears a year, mostly from

artificial insemination because they are not very good at conceding

-- conceiving naturally. Females are only fertile for one day a year.

While they are pampered in captivity, in the wild they are

threatened. Their mountain home is under pressure. The bamboo they eat

is dying off, and China's roads and cities are becoming ever closer.

The national park was created 30 years ago to help conserve the

panda. Today, it gets 2 million visitors each year. The wealthy

Chinese, starting to spend their money on leisure time. It has even

become a favoured backdrop for wedding photographs. But there are

no wild pandas left here now. The only ones you will find out the

cheap souvenirs. The real ones have all died or moved away. Making the

national park was the idea of this man. He thinks development has

helped push pandas out. TRANSLATION: Think about it. If a

place is full of tourists, will pandas continue to exist there? It

is not possible. The only thing they can do is migrate elsewhere.

Soon, Sunshine and Sweety will be moving as well. They will stay in

men breath for 10 years. The zoo is hoping they prove so popular that

visitor numbers double. In the wild, the survival of these icons of

conservation is ever more Now time for the weather.

I want to talk about fog. At the weekend, there was some disruption

across the south-east. It is the same situation at the moment.

Confidence is not high on this, but the impact perhaps will be. So we

have issued a yellow warning. Most of it is sitting on the hills, but

it could move down towards the surface later on, particularly in

East Anglia. A pretty murky night in Scotland, Wales and western

England. Across Scotland and Northern Ireland, there could be a

touch of frost first thing in the morning. For most of us it will be

cloudy, if not a damp start to the day. Murky in East Anglia and

south-east. For your journey to work, I would check before you

travel. There could be some nasty patches of fog. Some dampness for

the West Country, Devon and Cornwall. Precious little in the

way uprightness across the morning. Similar for Wales. In western parts

of Wales, I am hopeful things will pick up later run in the day. For

Northern Ireland, A touch of frost. To compensate it will be a bright,

sparkling start today. A very nice indeed in this part of the world.

For Scotland, some outbreaks of rain moving eastwards. These

clearer skies will spread from Northern Ireland across much of

Scotland. They are eventually getting into western fringes of

England and Wales. Further east, patches of rain staggering across,

still grey and misty. A fairly mild day again, and the wind should not

be too strong. Wednesday morning, you could be waking up to the

prospect of a cloudy windscreen. The best of the sunshine on

Wednesday will be on the southern half of the UK. The wind and rain

is across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the West of England and

Wales. For more details on the fog The main news: Milly Dowler's