11/01/2012 BBC News at Six

The private company that fitted more low-grade breast implants than

any other refuses to replace them. It says PIP implants were approved

by the medical watchdog and replacing them would leave them

bankrupt We don't have the finance, the resource, we don't have the

hospitals, we don't have the GPs. We don't have that facility. They

are going to lose a lot of money over there. Rightly so. They have

made a lot of money over it. They should also lose. Also on tonight's

programme: The average Gas Bill looks set to fall. EDF Energy is

the latest to cut its charge. Could a price war follow? The couple

discovered dead in their home by their policeman son. 60 fellow

officers mount a massive manhunt. Twitter becomes the latest social

networking site to be infiltrated by paedophiles. A special report. A

revamp for computer lessons in England. Pupils should create games,

not just play them. Coming later on sport's day - it's all change, Mike

Tindall is left out by the interim Hello. Welcome to the BBC's news at

6pm. A private medical company at the heart of the best implant scare

has blamed the Government saying its own watchdog approved the

products. Harley Medical Group, which fitted more of the sub

standard implants than any other said it would go out of business if

it took responsibility for replacing them. As our medical

correspondent reports, while ministers and private companies

argue about who is to blame, thousands of women remain confused

and worried. Who is responsible? That is the

question at the heart of the PIP scandal, affecting around 40,000

British women. For the Government, it's the clinics.

But in his first interview, the boss of the firm which did nearly

14,000 PIP implants, says it is ministers. You are saying the NHS -

the Government - has a moral responsibility to these women.

Don't you have a moral responsibility? We don't have the

resources, we don't have the GPs. We are not geared up for that type

of facility. The NHS is geared up for that sort of facility. This is

a massive problem, created by the Government's agency, and they must

accept moral responsibility. They must do something for patients.

Harley Medical Group's publicity talks of inspiring confidence in

patients. Its refusal to replace implants for free is hardly likely

to do that. The company says it would go out of business if it

picked up the tab. Gemma has no sympathy. Her PIP

implants were fitted by the Harley Medical Group just days before they

were banned. The fact that they are blaming the

Government is, for me, just a way out. They are trying to find

something to grasp on to, because obviously they will lose a lot of

money over this. Rightly so. They have made a lot over it. They

should also lose. Almost all PIP implants were done privately.

Eight clinics, who treated 3,000 women say they will remove and

replace implants for free. The rest have either refused, not made their

position clear or gone out of business. For those women, if they

live in Wales, the NHS will remove and replace their implants. In the

rest of the UK private patients will be offered removal only under

the NHS. Ministers say clinics should do it.

The professional associations of surgeons have made it clear they

are recommending to members they should assist with this surgery, if

needed, without surgical charge. So, to that extent, I can not see why

it should not be possible for private providers, even including

the Harley Medical Group, who were among the largest of the providers

to be able to achieve this on behalf of their patients Dutch

health experts followed French and German officials, recommending the

removal of PIP implants as a precaution. Ministers here continue

to insist that is not needed. This private company has got a

point, hasn't it? The products were approved by the medical watchdog?

All medical products like implants and hips have to have a CE mark, to

say they are fit for use. That is the same mark you get for a new toy.

The tests on those are not nearly as strict as you would on a new

medicine. The Harley Medical Group said the medical watchdog here

approved the PIP implants and they did not pick up problems early

enough. The Government says, if you buy a new car, who do you blame?

The Government? No, you go back to the prn who sold it to you. So it

is the clinics who are responsible. We are likely to see tighter rules

Governing the cosmetic surgery industry. One of the largest energy

companies, EDF, will cut gas prices by 5% from next month, after a drop

in wholesale costs. It's the first time they have reduced their prices

in two years and follows a big increase last November when Gas

Bills rose by 15%. The move will put pressure on other energy

suppliers to follow suit. Are energy bills have never been

higher. Could prices be able to -- about to move lower? That is the

speculation tonight, following EDF's decision to cut gas tariffs

for their customers. Sadly for this pensioner, he's not one of them. He

switched to EDF in the summer, moving to a fixed tariff. While he

escaped November's rice, he is unlikely to benefit from this at

all. I have a feeling that if you are capped, you're capped. We're

locked into that price until September this year. I don't think

I'll get the 5% reduction. reduction will take effect next

month. The 5% cut only applies to gas. There's been no change to

electricity. It follows a 15% rise in gas tariffs by the company back

in November. The move will save a typical customer around �38 on

their annual dual-fuel bill. This was the first company to rise

prices last year and the first to cut prices this year. Freezing

weather and rising prices have pushed energy bills to record

levels in recent years. The main consumer group claims they have

risen by 21% in the last 15 months alone. The mild winter we are

experiencing has added to the downward pressure on the wholesale

cost of energy, the price the big companies have to pay for gas and

electricity. That has led to speculation that a round of price

cuts could be on the way. We have seen wholesale prices drop.

Suppliers say if wholesale prices drop, their retail prices will drop

as well. I am pleased EDF has started this. Today the Government

backed up that call for lower bills. There is speculation that British

Gas may be the next to move. Police in Birmingham are

investigating the murders of a man and woman whose bodies were

discovered this morning by their son. It is believed the 62-year-old

man and 58-year-old woman had been assaulted at their home in the

Handsworth Wood area of the city. Our correspondent is outside West

Midlands Police headquarters for us now.

George, with no suspect or motive in mind this evening, detectives

say they desperately need the public's help to solve this

terrible double murder. At 7.15pm last night all was well with Mr and

Mrs Kolar when they spoke to their family. This evening, their home

has become a crime scene. Avtar and Carole Kolar were attacked and

killed in their own home. Their murders have had a massive impact

on the whole community of Handsworth Wood in Birmingham. The

couple's son, a serving officer with the West Midlands force found

their bodies at 8am this morning. It was obvious from the scene that

the couple had been assaulted and had more than likely died of their

injuries. However, forensic postmortems are yet to take place.

It is likely they will take place tomorrow, or the following day.

Clearly the results of those will give us the actual cause of death.

Detectives were asked if this was a break-in, that become a double

murder? They say they are keeping an open mind about the motive.

Officers have been out in force though, reassuring the local

community. Any murder inquiry is an absolutely horrendous event for any

family, regardless of their profession, race, background. West

Midlands Police will do all we can, as we always do, to make sure the

offenders for such a horrendous crime are braugtd to justice. I

would like to re-- brought to justice. I would like to reassure

the community we will catch the people. A team of 60 detectives are

working flat-out in these crucial first 24 hours. Forensic experts

are at the house, searching for clues. Their colleagues are

searching CCTV footage and going house-to-house. While detectives

won't speculate on any motive or even a murder weapon, they say it

was pretty clear as soon as they entered that house that Mr and Mrs

Kolar had been attacked. This evening officers have been assigned

to support the couple's four children and eight grandchildren.

Thank you. An 18-year-old man has been

arrested on suspicion of murder, following a fire in Lancashire, in

which four members of the four family died. Reece Smith, who was

19, his four-year-old twin sisters and their two-year-old brother died

in the fire, which is thought to have started in a wardrobe in the

house in Freckleton. The teenager being held is not a member of the

family. They disagree on almost everything,

but today there was a rare degree of unity in the Commons as David

Cameron and Ed Miliband both opposed Scottish independence. They

said they would fight to maintain the United Kingdom and called on

the SNP to enter talks on how a referendum could be held. Our

correspondent has been to Gretna, to hear what people on both sides

of the border think. Tying the knot. This couple closed

the border to get married in Gretna. It is a happy union for this couple,

but what do they and their guests make of that other union between

the countries of Scotland and England. Scotland is Scotland,

England is England. If Scotland want their own independence, fair

enough. It will open up a can of worms. Once apart, we have the euro.

You talk to the Scottish, it's entirely up to them. There are many

ties binding England and Scotland together, not least jobs,

friendships and family - often through marriage. Many areas and

responsibilities which would need to be disentangled and divided up

if the union between the two countries were to end.

At Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron issued this warning.

There have been too many in the SNP who are happy to talk about the

process. They are happy to talk about the process. They don't want

to talk about the substance. I sometimes feel, when I listen to

them, it's not a referendum they want, it's a neverendu murbgs.

-- neverendum. We, on this side of the House, believe the United

Kingdom benefits the people of Scotland and the people of the rest

of the United Kingdom in equal measure. We are stronger together

and weaker apart. What if Scotland choose to go it alone? The SNP

wants to end nuclear weapons based on the Clwyd. They argue it's

Scotland's oil, but would the rest of the UK accept this? Scotland

would have to take on its share of the national debt if it became

independent. The Government in Edinburgh said they have answered

concerns about whether it is the euro or the pound. As to the

referendum, Scotland's First Minister insists it is up to the

Scottish people to decide. Scotland will not be bullied, intimidated or

dictated to by a Tory Prime Minister in London.

Back in Gretna, the river marks the border dividing the two countries.

Just beyond, the local hotel is on English soil and run by a Scotsman.

You are a Scotman running a business in England, what are your

views on independence? 300 years ago we all joined together. At the

moment I don't see why we should be splitting up. The referendum is

planned for autumn 2014. There could be legal battles over the

form it should take. It is still a long road ahead.

School pupils should be able to write programmes for computer games,

not just play them. Michael Gove wants a complete overhaul of the

way computer skills are taught. The new curriculum, due to be rolled

out in the autumn, will be designed with the help of industry and

This is ICT learning of the traditional way. But this is the

future. In fact, this is a music class. At Willows High School, in

Cardiff, information technology is embedded in lessons. It has a more

proactive approach of learning, which makes it more interesting,

and more enjoyable. This big technology trade fair is where the

education Secretary chose to attack school ICT. He wants to scrap the

curriculum and start again, to make it more exciting. At the moment we

are just training children to fill in Excel spreadsheet. We want them

to be capable of designing the applications of the future.

years ago, children learnt the basics of computing on the BBC

Micro, the machine which allowed a generation to understand computers.

Scrapping the ICT curriculum is a bold move, but Michael Gove is

confident that he has business, industry and some of the teaching

possession -- profession on his side. But opinion here was mixed.

From a computer science background, and like that sort of thinking, but

I do think children need a base to start from, going straight to

programming would be far too difficult. Lots of students know

how to use the software, and increasingly, they no more than the

teachers, so we need to make sure it is engaging. Driving this change

is the fear that Britain could lose its place as a leader in the

technology race if schools are not more ambitious. Whipping up the

curriculum shows ministers think it is urgent. Our main headline - the

private company that fitted more sub-standard breast implants than

any other has refused to replace them. And coming up... Making the

most of Britain's film industry - why the Prime Minister thinks it

needs to concentrate more on making Twitter has become the latest

social networking site to be exploited by paedophiles. An

investigation by the BBC has found that it is being used by them to

discuss abuse and linked to images of child pornography. The

organisation set up to tackle the exploitation of children says

Twitter is lagging behind other social networking websites in

tackling the problem. This report from our UK affairs correspondent,

Chris Buckler. Tens of millions of people use Twitter, but while the

vast majority assume plea sharing news and gossip, there are concerns

about paedophiles. The BBC has learned about users publishing

images of children, some suggestive, others of child pornography. What

he's saying is, I would like to have sex with a young girl...

man is a former detective who lectures in child pornography. He

has been investigating how Twitter is being used by some paedophiles,

and he says the company is acting too slowly in taking protective

measures. I understand they cannot do everything, but when they are

made aware of a profile, they must take it down. That profile should

be down within 48 hours, at the very latest. Twitter said in a

Twitter is just the latest social networking site to encounter

problems, with paedophiles using the Internet to get in touch with

children. I sent some quite revealing pictures in very

compromising positions. This man was persuaded to send a naked

photographs of himself at the age of 13. There was a plan for me to

meet one of these people, and then go back to Birmingham for shopping,

and go to his hotel room. And I was three days away from meeting that

person, my mum caught me. What age were you? I was 14. He said he was

about 29, police tell me he was at least 10-15 years older. I think

they are a little bit behind some others who have been around a bit

Twitter relies on users reporting problems, and there are concerns

about how locked accounts are monitored, because only their

followers are able to see what those users are seeing and sharing.

A scientists working at one of Iran's nuclear facilities has been

killed in a nuclear -- in a bomb attack. He is the fourth scientist

to be targeted in the country in two years. Reports say a man to

alongside his car on a motorcycle and placed an explosive device on

it. Our Tehran correspondent reports. This is how the Koreas of

Iran's nuclear scientists sometimes end. This morning, one scientist

did not even make it out of his car. TRANSLATION: I was taking a taxi to

work and I heard a huge blast. Later somebody told me that a

person on a motorbike had attached a bomb to a car, which had caused

an explosion. The victim was a supervisor at it in the Iranian --

uranium enrichment facility, in the centre of the country. No-one has

claimed responsibility - no-one ever does. Israel's military chiefs

did say yesterday that Iran could expect unnatural events in 2012.

This may be the first. It is the latest in a series of unclaimed

bombings and explosions in Iran. Two years ago, a physics professor

was killed as he left for work. In November 2010, motorcyclists bombed

two prominent nuclear scientists in the capital. And just two months

ago, an explosion killed 17 soldiers at a missile base outside

Tehran. But Iran says it will not be put off, a point it made during

missile tests earlier this month. If it has worries, it hides them

behind displays of power. The BBC is one of the few Western

broadcasters to have a reporter inside the country. He says that

people on the street have more to worry about than the killing of

nuclear scientists. People in Tehran are much more concerned

about economic problems, and making ends meet. And that could be the

point. Iran's government can survive attacks like this, but a

struggling economy is what keeps the country's leaders awake at

night. The BBC has won a High Court battle for the right to broadcast

an interview with a terror suspect who has been held without trial for

seven years, the longest on record for a British citizen. The Justice

Secretary had ruled that Babar Ahmad could not be interviewed

face-to-face while he was in detention. The 37-year-old is

fighting extradition to the US, where he is accused of raising

funds for Chechen and Afghan insurgents. Plans have been

unveiled for significant changes to the political map of Wales, which

would see the number of MPs reduced by a quarter. The Boundary

Commission's proposals are part of a UK-wide plan to reduce the number

of MPs at Westminster from 650 to 600. It represents the biggest

reshaping of Welsh constituencies since the Second World War. Hywel

Griffith is in Caerphilly. Who will be affected most? Well, in theory,

all the parties should feel a little pain, but in practice,

Labour have probably got the most to lose, that's because they hold

the majority of the current 14 seats in Wales. If it goes down to

13, -- if it goes down from 40 to 30, some of their safest seats

could disappear. The seats would be far less predictable, come the next

general election, in 2015. So, both Labour and Plaid Cymru have

criticised the plans. The idea is that all constituencies across the

UK should have roughly the same number of voters. Changes in

Scotland have been controversial, too. There's 12 weeks left for the

public to have their say. But these changes would not affect the future

of elections for the Welsh Assembly. Hollywood films are often described

as blockbusters, but films produced in Britain are known for their

realism and prettiness. They might get rave reviews, but they are not

always big hits. That has got to change, says David Cameron. This

report from David Sillito. Bleak. This film won 21 awards, and made

around �245,000. The King's Speech made more than �245 million. No

wonder it has attracted the attention of this movie goer. The

man in the director's chair today at Pinewood was David Cameron. This

is a Hi-Tec British business which has been doing well. And the

message is, they want more such commercial success. A new review of

the film industry is due out next week, and the Government says it

expects one of the key recommendations to be a rebalancing

of lottery funds towards more mainstream movie-making. And there

in the background was one of the people behind that review, the man

who created Downton Abbey. I have been critical of the idea that all

public money should go into minority, rather obscure films. I

think it is in the interests of the industry, and indeed the public,

but we start building up and making more films that people want to see.

One prominent film maker has his doubts. This idea that only

blockbuster films will get money is crass. It is a typical Tory notion

that only big is good. Nevertheless, there is a shift in emphasis. They

still like great art, but they really wanted to be popular and

really wanted to be popular and profitable. That brings us to the

weather. Good evening. We have got a air -- a change of air on the way.

By Friday, the sun will be back, but it will be feeling much, much

colder. Tonight it will be turning windy across the northern half of

the UK. Not so much across southern parts of England and Wales. Further

North, widespread gales, the heaviest of the rain tending to be

towards north-west Scotland. As the weather front pushes southwards, we

introduced the cooler air for the morning. You will notice across

northern England, you can start to see the divide between the mild air

and the cooler air. Across southern England, it will be chilly in one

or two spots, but it will warm up. Across the Midlands, and South

Wales, the chance of a few heavy showers. A lot more sunshine

developing for northern England and Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Temperatures back to where they After that frosty start on Friday,