05/08/2013 BBC News at Six

newspaper seller during the G20 protests, Ian Tomlinson's family

gets a formal apology from the Metropolitan Police. Mr Tomlinson

was the victim of unlawful and excessive force - his family accept

compensation. We are happy for the Met accepting liability. We need to

take that on board and move on as a family. We'll be asking why it's

taken so long for the police to act. Also tonight: Household names

accused of exploiting workers - more than a million people are on zero

hours contracts, with no guarantee of work.

It looks like a burger and cooks like a burger, but it's been grown

in a lab- is this the future of food?

And a rainy day draw at Old Trafford is enough for England to retain the

Ashes. Coming up in the sport here on BBC News, Walter Smith resigns

from his role as the chairman of Rangers. He is said to be upset at

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at six. The Metropolitan Police

has issued a formal apology to the family of Ian Tomlinson, the

newspaper seller who died after being pushed to the ground by an

officer during the G20 protests in London in four years ago. In a

statement, the force acknowledged that the use of "excessive and

unlawful force" caused Mr Tomlinson's death. Our Home Affairs

Correspondent June Kelly joins us from the City of London. As part of

its agreement with the Tomlinson family, Scotland Yard has agreed it

is paying them compensation, but the family said it was never about the

money. They just wanted to get some sort of justice. It became the most

notorious image of the G20 protests in London. Ian Tomlinson was walking

away from the police line when Constable Cyberman Harwood pushed

him from behind. It has been described as a gratuitous act of

aggression. Ian Tomlinson's family have faced a long battle to get this

apology from the net. All I can say is we are not going to get any

better than that. We are happy for the Metropolitan Police at accepting

that liability. We need to move on as a family and prepare for the

future. On that April evening, Ian Tomlinson was trying to get home

through the blocked streets. He posed no threat to the police but PC

Harwood attacked him. In previous policing areas he might have got

away with it but he was filmed by an American visitor. If it had not been

for this footage, Ian Tomlinson's death might have been put down to

heart attack and the officer who pushed him might still have been on

the streets. There are questions over whether Simon Harwood should

have been a police officer in 2009. He was facing disciplinary hearing

and left the Metropolitan Police Force but he got back in. This was

something that the Metropolitan Police Force apologised for today.

In the past hour, the veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has been

rearrested for sexual offences. David Sillitoe is with me. What more

can you tell us? Rolf Harris first spoke to police in

November of last year. He was arrested following allegations of

sexual offences. This was part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation

which arose as part of the Jimmy Savile allegations. This was part of

people who were unconnected with Jimmy Savile. He was rearrested

following further allegations of sexual offences. He has not been

charged and he denies strenuously any wrongdoing. He is one of eight

people on police bail. 13 have been arrested, two charged and three

others released without charge facing no further action.

Thank you. The Business Secretary Vince Cable has told the BBC that he

is prepared to take action to stop employees abusing so-called zero

hours contract. Employees say they do not know how many hours they will

work and how many hours they will work from week to week. James

It is a life where you don't know how many hours you will work each

week or how much pay you will take home. For some it is convenient, for

others it is terrifying and uncertain, such as this man in his

20s who works for McDonald's and says it makes life difficult.

terrifying because you don't know what you will get from week to week.

A few weeks ago I had no shifts. They are called zero hours contracts

and he says juggling such a job with childcare is almost impossible.

makes it very difficult to have a life, to do anything. I don't know

if I can have my son, if I can pay my bills. A spokesman for McDonald's

said many of its employees choose to work there because of the

flexibility it provides, such as students or parents who want to fit

childcare around work. It is clear McDonald's is not alone. A new

survey suggests as many as 1 million people are now employed with zero

hours contracts, four times as much as official estimates, but the

survey also find only 14% of these workers are unhappy, saying their

employer only offered enough work to give them a basic standard of

living. Some employers say the flexibility suits them. For me it is

great because I can work around my partner's ours. We don't have the

luxury of having regular childcare. The issue will be discussed by MPs

next week. We are worried by the number of people on zero hours

contracts. This is not a healthy development and it is perhaps a sign

that the economy has pushed businesses to construct themselves

in such a way where they push workers and the labour market

further and further and try to squeeze more value out of them.

of Westminster say these contracts help to explain why unemployment

remains so low and why the government is being so cautious,

carrying out a low-key review, but the Business Secretary told me that

where he finds serious exploitation he will act to change the law.

one end of the market there is some exploitation taking place. I think

we are concerned about exclusive contracts where it is said employers

prevent people from doing other work when they are on zero hours

contracts, but for many people it is a perfectly good arrangement.

some it is flexible working, for others it is exploitation, but it is

clear that zero hours contracts are here to stay and Westminster need to

work out how and if they need to change. There has been an angry

reaction from organisations representing stay at home mothers as

the government launches a consultation into a childcare

vouchers scheme. Under the plans, families where both

parents work and earn less than �150,000 each could claim up to

�1,200 a year for each child. But the scheme will not cover parents

who look after their children at home. Emma Simpson joins us now from

a West London nursery. government said it was hoping for

feedback on this consultation, the Chancellor certainly got plenty of

that today. In an interview he said he had huge respect for mothers who

stayed at home but added it was for lifestyle reasons, and that has

angered quite a few of them. The politics of childcare can be

complicated. Good quality childcare doesn't come cheap. Here at this

nursery in Cheshire, parents pay around �800 per month per child for

full-time care and it can be difficult for families to make the

numbers add up. Childcare is the equivalent of having another

mortgage, particularly with two children under five. We miss out on

other things like holidays and stuff like that. The Chancellor was also

at a nursery today, promoting his vouchers scheme to help cover the

rising costs. This is tax free childcare, and we want to help all

families so later in this parliament we will be introducing tax breaks

for married couples but this tax-free childcare will be an

enormous help to families on struggling budgets. The proposed

scheme will not start until 2015 after the election, and only cover

under fives to begin with. The government claims it will help 2.5

million working families. Today it is said full-time carers, as well as

those on maternity and paternity leave, would also qualify, but not

stay at home mothers like Gillian Smith. She says she doesn't like

being branded as having made a lifestyle choice by the Chancellor.

For many of my friends who have returned to work, I think that is a

slap in the face for them because it is hard for them to leave and to go

to five days a week, and effectively only see their child on evenings and

weekends. To say it is a choice, it is a far more complicated issue than

that. The government says the scheme is all about helping parents afford

to work and it is putting three quarters of �1 billion of new money

to help fund it, but labour says it still doesn't make up for the cuts

to family support. Only David Cameron's government could make an

announcement like this for help in 2015 and beyond and expect families

to be grateful for help, when they have taken so much support for

families away. They have cut support for childcare and people are

struggling. This scheme was announced months ago in the budget

but the debate is far from over. Paul Gascoigne has been fined �1000

for assaulting a railway guard and being drunk and disorderly. The

former Newcastle and Spurs star, who has battled alcoholism for many

years, admitted attacking a guard at Stevenage railway station last

month. Assault charges relating to his ex-wife Sheryl Gascoigne were

withdrawn. It's a burger but not as we know it.

It was made in a laboratory and cost more than �200,000. An artificial

burger grown using stem cells from a dead cow. The first one was served

up to food critics today, and the Dutch scientists responsible hope

this new way of making meat could one day help feed the world. Pallab

Ghosh explains. Grown in a laboratory and cooked in a pan, the

world's first synthetic hamburger, but what does it taste like? There

is an intense taste, it is close to meet, not that juicy, but the

consistency is perfect. The taster is a food writer chosen by the

organisers of the event. The burger started off in this dish, a few

cells taken from a dead cow. They were then grown into these pale

white circles of muscle. Food technologists then added

breadcrumbs, caramel and saffron to make it taste better, and beetroot

juice to make it look the right colour. A simple solution would be

for people to meet less meat, no? agree and I would favour that but

the hard fact globally is that meat consumption is going to increase.

the UK, on average each person eat 80 kilograms of meat a year, likely

to remain the same over the coming years, but there will be rising

demand internationally by a growing population and more people wanting

to eat meat in emerging nations like China. Currently 258 million tonnes

of meat is produced across the world every year to satisfy demand. In

2050, it is estimated it will need to be 455 million tonnes.

solutions lie with changing the systems of supply and access and

affordability so that not just more food but better food gets to the

people who need it. Even those behind the project had met their

meat will never taste as good as the real thing, but they argue that as

prices rise and environmental concerns in Greece, their way is the

only ethical and pragmatic way forward. The researchers say it will

be at least ten years before they perfect their burger, and the first

laboratory grown meat is on sale. Our top story this evening. Four

years after the G20 protests in London, an apology for the family of

the newspaper seller who died after being pushed over by a police

officer. Still to come: Life under the Blackpool Tower - what is

happening to our seaside towns. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

Wayne Rooney pulls out of the Manchester United trip to Sweden for

a friendly. The club has rejected a transfer bid

from Chelsea. With countries around the world

demanding more and more energy, the race is on to find new sources of

oil and gas. One company is claiming a technological breakthrough in its

attempts to recover gas supplies of the Norwegian coast. It has built

the world's largest underwater machine which has been lowered onto

the sea bed and is expected to pump �20 billion worth of gas which would

otherwise have been left untapped. From Norway Roger Harrabin reports.

Wharf in the buildings on a Norwegian fjords, a structure the

size of a football pitch. The frame for what is said to be the world's

biggest underwater machine. This monster will be towed 125 miles out

to sea and sent plunging to the bottom.

It is being built to turn an exhausted reserve into a rich leap

was up to have reserved by pumping it harder than it has ever been

pumped before. The woman in charge said it could make tens of billions

of dollars. The gas would have been left in the reservoirs if we had not

valid this project. Normally, a platform above the sea would be used

to pump gas from an offshore gas field. Putting the compressor close

to the source of the gas means they can get much more gas and at a lower

cost. Statoil hopes to put more facilities under the waves. But

there is a downside to this marvel of technology. It is part of an

industry which governments agree is steadily changing the climate.

Clearly, it makes sense for the firm for them to squeeze as much gas as

they can out of the field but companies have bigger ambitions to

find more coal, oil and gas all around the world, even though

mainstream scientists are warning we cannot burn all the fossil fuels we

have already found if we want to protect the climate. We have

discovered coal, oil and gas which will emit nearly 3000 billion tonnes

of the greenhouse gas CO2 will start less than a third of this can be

burned if we want to stick to agreed danger limits for the climate.

still a huge problem, they think the only one rational way forward is to

look for more, to the last barrel, so our challenge in society is to

not use the oil, gas and coal which has already been discovered.

there may be a get out thanks to experimental plants like this one

further north in Norway. It takes the exhaust gases from a power

station and using chemicals, it captures the CO2 so it does not

escape and warm the atmosphere. We need this technology to be

widespread, if we want to burn fossil fuels, while also tackling

climate change. But it is years behind schedule. We know that we

have technology available today to remove 90% of CO2, however, the

technology is too expensive and there is no economic drive in the

system. The firm says if governments want this technology they will have

to force it to happen. Meanwhile, the relentless hunt for fossil fuels

continues. It took the world's biggest offshore crane to manoeuvre

the Statoil structure into place. The firm will win billions if this

monster of the deep delivers its riches. The project is glamorous,

high-profile, exciting. Worrying about climate change will have to

wait. The family of a man who died after

an argument over a disabled parking space at a supermarket say they are

devastated by his death. 64-year-old Brian Holmes from Sandy in

Bedfordshire died at Addenbrooke's Hospital yesterday. A man arrested

over the death has been bailed. Our correspondent Sian Lloyd joins us

now from Biggleswade. What do we know about this incident?

During this row, which does appear to have been about a disabled

parking space at the ASDA store behind me, Brian Holmes, a

grandfather who had recently been given the all clear from cancer, was

allegedly knocked to the ground. He was airlifted to Addenbrooke's

Hospital in Cambridge but died yesterday. Police have issued an

appeal to the people they would like to hear from. If anyone was in the

ASDA car park at Biggleswade around 3pm on Saturday 3rd of August, it

was a busy car park with lots of shoppers, and we would ask them to

contact editor Chip police on 101. His wife has said in a statement

that she has lost her husband, best friend and carer all in one go. The

family are devastated and shocked. A 65-year-old man has been arrested on

suspicion of manslaughter. He has been released on police bail pending

further enquiries. Thank you. Some of our seaside towns are becoming

dumping grounds for vulnerable people, that is according to the

Centre for social Justice. The thing bank said some councils take

advantage of cheaper accommodation and it is warning that some coastal

towns have deprivation levels on a par with major cities.

Michael Buchanan has been to Blackpool to find out more. It is

known as the Golden Mile but it has been a long time since Blackpool

glistened. Tourists still come but not as many and they are not

spending as much. When once workers and families visited, the poor and

vulnerable now head. Blackpool's challenges are most

apparent at night. Among the young clubbers I meet Jody who moved to

Blackpool a few months ago. I sleep in toilets. The council do not help

us. This is how we sit and beg to try and make our money. A mile away

and as the clock strikes midnight, a small group gathered to draw their

benefits. A deployment here is 70% higher than the national average.

What will you do with it? First thing first, go shopping at ASDA but

usually I spend it all on weed. be honest, I do not want a job. I am

one of the lazy people. I am not interested in getting a job. All of

them chose to live in Blackpool. When you have had a great holiday in

Blackpool and then your luck changes, you might think, why not go

back there because that is where I was happiest. It may not turn out

like that but those holiday memories are key reason why people come back

to seaside towns. What a wonderful site for land ladies, they will be

doing a roaring trade... In the days when guesthouses were packed,

accommodation was at a premium in Blackpool. Today, many of the same

buildings are now cheap, poor quality bedsits and there are too

many of them. You could not go to Bath, Tunbridge Wells for Oxford and

access a one or two bedroomed flat with �100 in your pocket and a bin

bag full of clothes but you can here. Britain's love affair with

seaside resorts may largely be over. Revising the towns left behind is

proving an uphill struggle. The chairman of Glasgow Rangers has

resigned. Walter Smith, former manager of the club, was in the job

for just over two months. His resignation follows a period of

bitter infighting at Ibrox. Rangers were demoted from the Premier League

last year after going into liquidation.

Rain stopped play and saved the day for England's cricketers. That means

they retained the Ashes. Australia had been in a commanding position

but the showers intervened. Joe Wilson is at Old Trafford. This is a

remarkable achievement by England, to retain the Ashes with two trade

matches to spare. But Australia word the better team.

It almost feels like an escape to victory.

Protection was clear at Old Trafford. Raid at 10am, protect the

ground, protect yourself, protect the Ashes. From the trams, a trickle

of enthusiasts. They knew it suited England for nothing to happen. What

are you hoping for today? A bit of play. One ball and we will go home

happy! They would get a bit more than that. At 11:30am and a clear

skies, the match was on. It only takes a second to take a wicket.

Cook, LBW. Trott departed with a flick to the wicket keeper.

Suddenly, England seemed gripped by uncertainty. Tension everywhere.

Kevin Pietersen given out. Did he hit it? No sign of the ball hitting

back on the HotSpot camera. The umpire confirmed the dismissal.

Kevin Pietersen fumed to the dressing room. After two o'clock,

the rain fell like champagne. All Australia's captain could do was

watch and she was the chance for victory was washed away. The England

players will not care how they finish the game. They are desperate

to retain the Ashes. They have done. In this match, Australia have been

excellent. Howwood Australian fans described the outcome? Robbed.

England celebrations were brief and restrained. It is not a day but an

era of success. That brings us to the weather. The

the end. It has been doing its job across the country today. There has

been heavy to torrential rain across parts of Wales, western England, the

far north of England and the Scottish Borders and in the past few

hours moving through the south of England. There has been around three

inches in the wettest part of Wales. A substantial amount of rain has

fallen in a short space of time which is why we have had flooding

issues and surface water. Still some rumbles of thunder. It is moving

through and eventually it clears away. It will turn out to be cooler

than this away from town and city centres. Cooler, fresh start to the

day. There will be plenty of sunshine from the word go to

compensate. Although some clout will build as we go deeper through the

day, unlike today, it will stay mainly dry. Let's take a look at

four o'clock in the afternoon. For England and Wales in the afternoon,

it is looking so different. Yes, there will be an isolated shower.

Still some bright sunny spells coming through. For the warmest

parts of south-east England and East Anglia, up to 24 degrees. These

temperatures are normal for the time of year. Pretty similar for