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:00:07. > :00:12.The disabled man murdered because he was wrongly branded a paedophile -

:00:13. > :00:13.his neighbour is jailed for life. The judge calls Bijan Ebrahimi's

:00:14. > :00:24.death an act of murderous injustice. Just days before he was killed,

:00:25. > :00:34.Ebrahimi filmed this confrontation with the murderer - the police

:00:35. > :00:41.didn't respond to his calls. A wonderful son, brother and uncle has

:00:42. > :00:45.been lost. Next to be answered is whether Bijan's death could have

:00:46. > :00:46.been avoided if he had received a protection he deserved from the

:00:47. > :00:50.authorities. Also on tonight's programme: fears

:00:51. > :00:54.of a housing price bubble - the Bank of England scales back a scheme

:00:55. > :00:57.designed to make mortgages cheaper. Guilty - three care home workers who

:00:58. > :00:58.left elderly residents traumatised - the 70- and 80-year-olds were

:00:59. > :01:10.slapped, stamped on and humiliated. A court hears that Charles Saatchi -

:01:11. > :01:11.Nigella Lawson's former husband - funded household credit card bills

:01:12. > :01:23.of hundred thousand pounds a month. And Lewis Collins - best known for

:01:24. > :01:27.his role in The Professionals - has died of cancer.

:01:28. > :01:33.And coming up in the sport on BBC News - the latest on the six arrests

:01:34. > :01:37.made over alleged match fixing in English football. The arrests were

:01:38. > :01:56.made as part of a crackdown by the National Crime Agency.

:01:57. > :02:02.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:02:03. > :02:04.A man has been jailed for life after admitting he murdered his disabled

:02:05. > :02:08.neighbour because he wrongly thought that he was a paedophile.

:02:09. > :02:14.24-year-old Lee James killed Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol in July and set

:02:15. > :02:19.fire to his body. The judge described the killing as an act of

:02:20. > :02:28.murderous injustice. Jon Kay is in Bristol for us this evening.

:02:29. > :02:34.The judge said what happened here was a deeply shocking vigilante

:02:35. > :02:39.attack. Bijan Ebrahimi was kicked and punched in front of his flat

:02:40. > :02:43.here. His head, repeatedly stamped on and then his body was dragged

:02:44. > :02:49.around the corner and set on fire. I should warn you that some of the

:02:50. > :02:53.images in this piece are upsetting. Bijan Ebrahimi was described in

:02:54. > :03:00.court as a vulnerable man who felt under siege. Registered disabled

:03:01. > :03:04.with a back problem, the shy Iranian refugee was being harassed on the

:03:05. > :03:08.estate where he lived. So he gathered evidence to show the

:03:09. > :03:14.authorities. Here, filming the James as he drank beer in the communal

:03:15. > :03:20.garden. Don't you dare take pictures of me... James thought Ebrahimi was

:03:21. > :03:26.filming children, wrongly assumed he was a paedophile and burst into his

:03:27. > :03:35.flat to confront him. Get out of my house. Two days later, Lee James

:03:36. > :03:41.murdered Bijan Ebrahimi. He admitted to police that he kicks his victim

:03:42. > :03:45.like a foot all. Today, James was jailed for life. Another neighbour,

:03:46. > :03:50.Stephen Norley, was jailed for four years for helping him dispose of the

:03:51. > :03:54.body. They were caught on CCTV that night in footage which is shocking.

:03:55. > :03:58.After the murder, you see them dragging his body to a roadside,

:03:59. > :04:03.where they doused it with white spirit and set it alight. The

:04:04. > :04:08.Ebrahimi family left court wanting the brutality of his murder to be

:04:09. > :04:14.understood. We now know who was responsible for murdering and

:04:15. > :04:19.learning Bijan. -- and burning. A wonderful son, brother and uncle has

:04:20. > :04:25.been lost. The next question to be answered is whether Bijan's death

:04:26. > :04:29.could have been avoided if he received the protection he deserved

:04:30. > :04:35.from the authorities. In court, Bijan's sister wept as she heard he

:04:36. > :04:39.had made several calls to police in the days before he was murdered but

:04:40. > :04:43.they did not get a response. The conduct of five officers and six

:04:44. > :04:47.call handlers is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints

:04:48. > :04:51.Commission. The local council is also carrying out a review. The

:04:52. > :04:55.police and other agencies and the community, we must collectively have

:04:56. > :05:01.failed. Because here is a guy, yet he was a bit different, you looked

:05:02. > :05:04.different, whose interests were different to people in the area and

:05:05. > :05:09.clearly people in the area took against him, and he was brutally

:05:10. > :05:12.murdered. The official reviews will look into the way Bijan Ebrahimi was

:05:13. > :05:17.dealt with during the decade he spent in the UK. The judge made it

:05:18. > :05:22.clear in his final remarks that the 44-year-old was not a paedophile.

:05:23. > :05:27.The Bank of England and the Treasury have decided to scale back a scheme

:05:28. > :05:29.designed to encourage cheaper home loans. The bank's governor, Mark

:05:30. > :05:31.Carney, cited the risk of an overheated housing market as he

:05:32. > :05:39.announced that the Government-backed Funding for Lending scheme will no

:05:40. > :05:44.longer apply to mortgages. Here's our chief economics correspondent,

:05:45. > :05:47.Hugh Pym. The housing market is not

:05:48. > :05:51.overheating yet, but it could go that way. That was the latest

:05:52. > :05:55.message from the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney. In a

:05:56. > :05:58.significant change of tone, he and his colleagues at the bank are

:05:59. > :06:03.warning there is a danger a bubble could develop. The risk of financial

:06:04. > :06:08.instability may grow if there are further substantial and rapid

:06:09. > :06:13.increases of house prices and further build-up of household

:06:14. > :06:16.indebtedness. These risks would be amplified if mortgage lending was to

:06:17. > :06:22.weaken, as has been the case in previous cycles. He announced plans

:06:23. > :06:26.to try to reduce those risks and insure banks don't go on a lending

:06:27. > :06:29.spree. The Bank of England and the Treasury are raining in a scheme

:06:30. > :06:33.they launch together in the middle of last year, called Funding for

:06:34. > :06:36.Lending. It involves cheap loans being offered to banks as long as

:06:37. > :06:45.they pass them onto lending to and households. The mortgage side of it

:06:46. > :06:53.will now be could sail -- lending to businesses and households. On -- the

:06:54. > :06:56.mortgage side will now be curtailed. It is possible a tougher test for

:06:57. > :07:01.borrowers will be introduced. Mortgage deals improved as a result

:07:02. > :07:04.of the Funding for Lending scheme. Home-buyers will want to know what

:07:05. > :07:08.happens after the scheme is cut back. In the medium term, the impact

:07:09. > :07:14.has to be that mortgage rates will go up. Banks and building societies

:07:15. > :07:17.have access to a really cheap source of funds, a quarter of a percent

:07:18. > :07:21.over bank rate. If that source is withdrawn, the other opportunities

:07:22. > :07:26.they have to borrow will almost certainly be more expensive. A

:07:27. > :07:30.recent recovery in house-building has seen brick makers at full

:07:31. > :07:34.stretch. Production has been ramped up at this site in Hertfordshire.

:07:35. > :07:38.During the recession there were extended shutdowns but now they are

:07:39. > :07:43.working at full capacity. They are concerned about today's news. We

:07:44. > :07:48.have got through the recession, we have survived. And we have seen an

:07:49. > :07:51.improvement, particularly of late, and we think that has been aided

:07:52. > :07:54.considerably by government initiatives, and we are very

:07:55. > :07:59.grateful for that. Anything that removes that now can only be bad

:08:00. > :08:03.news for this industry. Some may not like it but the Bank of England

:08:04. > :08:07.believes house price rises are spreading beyond London, and Mark

:08:08. > :08:11.Carney feels it is best to move early, to fend off the threat of the

:08:12. > :08:14.market getting out of control. Three care assistants have been

:08:15. > :08:17.found guilty of the ill treatment and neglect of eight elderly

:08:18. > :08:20.residents at a care home near Lancaster. The victims, who are in

:08:21. > :08:23.their 70s and 80s, suffered from advanced dementia. They were

:08:24. > :08:32.residents at the Hillcroft Slyne-with-Hest care home. Ed Thomas

:08:33. > :08:36.reports. It should have been a place of

:08:37. > :08:40.care, but instead, eight residents in their 70s and 80s, suffering from

:08:41. > :08:47.advanced Alzheimer's, were bullied, humiliated by their so-called

:08:48. > :08:51.carers. One was Carol Ann Moore, a team leader, who slapped an elderly

:08:52. > :08:56.patient as a punishment for his family asking questions. Another was

:08:57. > :08:59.27-year-old Katie Cairns. She stamped on a resident and made fun

:09:00. > :09:04.of others. Her collie, Gemma Pearson, tipped a man out of a chair

:09:05. > :09:10.because he didn't have any energy to stand up. -- her colleague. The son

:09:11. > :09:15.of one of their victims spoke for all the families. These

:09:16. > :09:21.professionals have a duty to treat the people they looked after with

:09:22. > :09:26.dignity and respect. Smith, Moore, Cairns and Pearson have failed in

:09:27. > :09:29.this duty and we hope that sentencing will reflect that these

:09:30. > :09:33.crimes were committed against vulnerable people who could not

:09:34. > :09:38.stand up for themselves. The court was told the elderly patients would

:09:39. > :09:41.scream and shout as beanbags were thrown at their heads and when the

:09:42. > :09:45.carers were asked why they were doing it, they said they were bored

:09:46. > :09:49.and it was entertainment. One former worker turned whistle-blower told us

:09:50. > :09:55.what they witnessed here. We have protected their identity. I noticed

:09:56. > :10:00.bruises on arms, legs and faces. When I approached the carers, I was

:10:01. > :10:03.told they must have fallen or they didn't know. Seven out of ten nights

:10:04. > :10:07.I would find patients sitting in their own dirt with wet trousers.

:10:08. > :10:13.They must have sat there for hours, not being changed. The noise was

:10:14. > :10:17.unreal, loud TV, carers chatting and playing on their phones. I could not

:10:18. > :10:21.continue working there any more. A fourth carer, Darren Smith, has

:10:22. > :10:25.already pleaded guilty to neglecting eight patients. One witnessed, a

:10:26. > :10:31.cleaner, saw him in bed with a resident. Smith, more, Cairns and

:10:32. > :10:35.Pearson showed total disregard for their well-being. Displaying

:10:36. > :10:41.contemptible behaviour that should never be tolerated. Today, Hill

:10:42. > :10:46.Croft care homes said all of those involved have now left. New managers

:10:47. > :10:50.are now in charge of the Slyne-with-Hest home. As for its

:10:51. > :10:58.former employees two there was no apology outside court. Do you have

:10:59. > :11:09.anything to say to the family? They will return next January to be

:11:10. > :11:12.sentenced. Get out of my face! The fraud trial of two women

:11:13. > :11:14.employed by the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and her former

:11:15. > :11:17.husband, Charles Saatchi, has heard that they charged luxury holidays

:11:18. > :11:20.and designer clothes to a household credit card. Mr Saatchi was funding

:11:21. > :11:25.credit card bills of a hundred thousand pounds a month. Luisa

:11:26. > :11:31.Baldini has been following the trial at Isleworth Crown Court.

:11:32. > :11:37.The court has been hearing from the first witness in this trial, Charles

:11:38. > :11:44.Saatchi's company accountant. The prosecution say he discovered the

:11:45. > :11:49.alleged fraud. Rahul Gajjar said that bills for credit cards used by

:11:50. > :11:55.personal assistance, press -- assistants, to buy things on behalf

:11:56. > :12:00.of the family, were paid off in full by Charles Saatchi. That he usually

:12:01. > :12:04.gave the statements the quick once over but he became suspicious when

:12:05. > :12:08.he noticed that the monthly expenditure of the co-accused

:12:09. > :12:16.sisters had risen to ?48,000 and ?28,000, compare to Nigella

:12:17. > :12:20.Lawson's ?7,000 a month expenditure. My report contains some flash

:12:21. > :12:25.photography. Mr Saatchi arrived at court, ready

:12:26. > :12:28.to give evidence in a fraud case, but a trial in which details have

:12:29. > :12:32.also emerged about his marriage to Nigella Lawson. Both millionaires,

:12:33. > :12:36.they seemed to have a charmed existence. One taste and it is cut

:12:37. > :12:46.power! She was the woman dubbed the

:12:47. > :12:48.domestic goddess. He was the co-founder of advertising agency

:12:49. > :12:58.Saatchi and such it, who had become a successful art collector and

:12:59. > :13:03.collector -- Saatchi and Saatchi. In the summer of this year they

:13:04. > :13:08.divorced acrimoniously after these paparazzi photos taken at a

:13:09. > :13:11.restaurant were published showing Mr Saatchi's hands around Nigella

:13:12. > :13:17.Lawson's neck and him tweaking her nose. Their personal assistants,

:13:18. > :13:22.Francesca Grillo and her sister, Elisabetta, claimed they had a tacit

:13:23. > :13:26.agreement, an understanding with Nigella Lawson that they could spend

:13:27. > :13:31.on the credit card provided by Mr Saatchi's company if they did not

:13:32. > :13:36.reveal her alleged use of class a and class B drugs to her husband.

:13:37. > :13:39.The prosecution alleges they went on a four-year personal spending spree,

:13:40. > :13:44.shopping in Chanel and Louis Vuitton. They have admitted spending

:13:45. > :13:50.some of the money but deny fraud. Mr Saatchi's accounted Rahul Gajjar

:13:51. > :13:53.told the court he did not immediately tell his boss and

:13:54. > :14:03.ex-wife his suspicions about the expenditure because:

:14:04. > :14:09.Cross-examination of the accountant took so long on the Mr Saatchi left

:14:10. > :14:13.court without having made it onto the stand. He is due to return

:14:14. > :14:20.tomorrow. Every tasting we do is blind. Nigella Lawson, who starts a

:14:21. > :14:27.new series in America in the New Year, is expected to give evidence

:14:28. > :14:31.at a later date. He told the court he sent two sisters a letter asking

:14:32. > :14:35.them to acknowledge they had been spending money fraudulently. They

:14:36. > :14:39.refuse to sign it. The defence said it was because they were under the

:14:40. > :14:48.impression they could use the cards on themselves. The trial continues

:14:49. > :14:54.here tomorrow. Many thanks, Louisa. Our top story this evening. A man is

:14:55. > :14:57.jailed for life for murdering his disabled neighbour. Lee James

:14:58. > :15:00.wrongly thought Bijan Ebrahimi was a paedophile. And still to come. The

:15:01. > :15:07.rubbish tip hiding a ?4 million fortune thrown away by its owner.

:15:08. > :15:16.In the sports day, we will see how the Spurs manager and his young team

:15:17. > :15:18.are getting on in Norway with the pressure on after the drubbing at

:15:19. > :15:34.Manchester city. The government has confirmed it is

:15:35. > :15:37.looking again at introducing plain packaging for all cigarettes sold in

:15:38. > :15:40.England. In July, ministers announced they were not pressing

:15:41. > :15:43.ahead with the changes, but now it's asked an expert to look at whether

:15:44. > :15:45.the move would reduce the number of young people who start smoking.

:15:46. > :15:52.Here's our health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Over the past 30

:15:53. > :15:56.years, life has been getting harder for those who want to smoke. First

:15:57. > :16:01.came the price hikes, then hard-hitting anti-smoking adverts

:16:02. > :16:06.and bans on smoking in public places. Now the packaging is the new

:16:07. > :16:09.target. Standardised packaging, drab colours, shocking images of disease

:16:10. > :16:13.and no corporate branding has already been introduced in

:16:14. > :16:15.Australia. So what do these young students think would happen if

:16:16. > :16:20.similar packets were introduced here? I think it would be very

:16:21. > :16:25.effective because these are very shiny, glamorous, pretty, whereas if

:16:26. > :16:29.they had to carry this box, I think it would, for those who might want

:16:30. > :16:33.to start smoking, I think it would go against it. If you want to try a

:16:34. > :16:39.cigarette, you're still going to try it. Not everybody cares about the

:16:40. > :16:42.packaging. Introducing standardised packaging doesn't aim to persuade a

:16:43. > :16:48.60 road lifelong smoker to quit. Instead, it's targeting young people

:16:49. > :16:52.to dissuade them from starting the first place. The key question is,

:16:53. > :16:56.how effective is it? The hardest will come from Australia. The ban

:16:57. > :17:02.has been in place for less than a year. Countless studies have shown

:17:03. > :17:08.that unbranded cigarette packaging which we're talking about makes

:17:09. > :17:11.smoking and cigarettes much less appealing to children. I don't think

:17:12. > :17:15.we need any more evidence than we already have. But the pro-smoking

:17:16. > :17:20.groups save packaging is not the main issue. Education information is

:17:21. > :17:25.the way to stop the uptake of smoking, not packaging which makes a

:17:26. > :17:28.difference. There was some surprise that today's announcement after

:17:29. > :17:33.ministers seem to withdraw support in July for that today, though,

:17:34. > :17:36.different story. This government has been consistent in its desire to

:17:37. > :17:44.have an evidence -based approach to public health. We will introduce

:17:45. > :17:45.some -- standardised packaging following the review and

:17:46. > :17:51.consideration of the wider issues raised and we are satisfied there

:17:52. > :17:54.are sufficient grounds to proceed. We have seen plenty of U-turns in

:17:55. > :17:59.the last three years but only a government as shambolic as this one

:18:00. > :18:02.could be you turning on a U-turn. Pro-smoking groups been lobbying

:18:03. > :18:06.hard, even resorting to newspaper ads later ruled to be misleading for

:18:07. > :18:13.them they seem to have lost the fight for them and we could see new

:18:14. > :18:16.cigarette packaging I2015. In the last half hour, two men have been

:18:17. > :18:18.charged in connection with football match-fixing. It follows six arrests

:18:19. > :18:20.by officers from the National Crime Agency investigating allegations in

:18:21. > :18:25.connection with English non-league football games. Four other men have

:18:26. > :18:28.tonight being bailed. Three are reported to be footballers although

:18:29. > :18:33.BBC understands that none of them are currently at professional league

:18:34. > :18:42.clubs. Our Chief Sports Correspondent Dan Roan reports.

:18:43. > :18:47.A meeting with a match fixer. Evidence of what has been described

:18:48. > :18:54.as British football's guest corruption scandal in decades. That

:18:55. > :18:58.the guest. In Manchester hotel,, man from Singapore tells an undercover

:18:59. > :19:02.reporter from the Daily Telegraph he can bribe the players in English

:19:03. > :19:12.football to fix results so how much he is asked, will it cost to fix a

:19:13. > :19:17.game? Perhaps even more shocking, the man's claims even match

:19:18. > :19:23.officials can be bought. Former Premier League footballer Delroy

:19:24. > :19:27.face it was one of seven people arrested on suspicion of fixing

:19:28. > :19:30.matches. It included some current players although none are links to

:19:31. > :19:34.professional clubs and tonight, two men, neither of them footballers,

:19:35. > :19:38.were charged with conspiracy to the fraud. The manager of Lincoln city

:19:39. > :19:42.admitted his suspicions had been raised before at a different club. I

:19:43. > :19:51.have been involved in games where you think, something 's not right. I

:19:52. > :19:58.certainly flagged one of them up. But... I don't know how they're

:19:59. > :20:02.going to stop it. How can match B mini belated? A fixer infiltrates a

:20:03. > :20:06.club in the lower tiers where players are susceptible to bribes,

:20:07. > :20:09.most often goalkeepers and offenders paid to ensure, for instance,

:20:10. > :20:14.certain amount of goals scored. With the fixer watching on, the

:20:15. > :20:17.co-conspirator gets booked as a signal the scam is on for the best

:20:18. > :20:22.southern coast thousands of miles away in Asia and the fix is

:20:23. > :20:25.complete. The government needs to do more, believed to be more funding,

:20:26. > :20:31.and there needs to be a consistent and competence of approach to this

:20:32. > :20:35.issue. The National Crime Agency was recently set up to tackle organised

:20:36. > :20:40.criminal activity. That now includes match fixing. The focus of operation

:20:41. > :20:43.is a suspected international illegal betting syndicate, the latest

:20:44. > :20:49.reminder of the global threat that gambling rated corruption now poses

:20:50. > :20:52.to sport. Earlier this, grow for English players were charged with

:20:53. > :20:57.fixing matches in Australia but now it seems the threat is not just

:20:58. > :21:00.overseas. There's absolutely no place in British sport for this sort

:21:01. > :21:03.of criminal activity but I think that the actions that have been

:21:04. > :21:08.taken today by the National Crime Agency show that we do have robust

:21:09. > :21:14.measures in place to tackle the sort of problem as it happens and when it

:21:15. > :21:17.happens. The battle against match fixing is intensifying from

:21:18. > :21:22.cricket, which saw three Pakistan players jailed in 2011 to snooker,

:21:23. > :21:24.former top lawyer Stephen Lee being banned for ruining frames but now at

:21:25. > :21:32.English football under the spotlight. For the first time in two

:21:33. > :21:35.years, there's been an increase in net migration. That's the difference

:21:36. > :21:38.between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving

:21:39. > :21:42.the country. Net migration rose to a 182,000 by the end of June this

:21:43. > :21:46.year. That's compared to 167,000 in the previous 12 months. Let's speak

:21:47. > :21:54.to our political correspondent Carole Walker who's at Westminster.

:21:55. > :21:57.Cutting immigration numbers was a key pledge for the government and it

:21:58. > :22:02.looks like they are struggling to achieve it? Yes, that's right,

:22:03. > :22:05.George. There were long way off. Today we were told it absolutely

:22:06. > :22:10.still the Prime Minister's objective to get net migration down to the

:22:11. > :22:14.tens of thousands by the time of the next election but it's hard to see

:22:15. > :22:19.how they can cut that figure by more than 82,000 over the next year and a

:22:20. > :22:22.half and when you look at the figures, most of the increases are

:22:23. > :22:26.due to be becoming from other parts of the EU and of course we know the

:22:27. > :22:29.big concerns about a further increase in those numbers when

:22:30. > :22:34.restrictions on people from Romania and Bulgaria are lifted at the

:22:35. > :22:37.beginning of January, so all of this helps to explain why the Prime

:22:38. > :22:41.Minister has announced this week those plans to limit the benefits

:22:42. > :22:46.that people newly arrived in this country can claim. At an EU summit

:22:47. > :22:52.at the moment and will be talking about of that but I think it also

:22:53. > :22:54.helps to explain why he is also raising but more controversial idea

:22:55. > :23:00.of restricting the free movement of people from the European Union.

:23:01. > :23:04.That's the fundamental sensible of the EU and it has to be said, any

:23:05. > :23:10.changes to that has so far provoked a pretty hostile reaction across the

:23:11. > :23:12.rest of the EU. Thank you very much. Now, a cautionary tale about

:23:13. > :23:15.throwing out the rubbish. James Howells from Newport says he's lost

:23:16. > :23:20.a ?4 million fortune after throwing out a computer hard drive. Only

:23:21. > :23:22.afterwards did he remember that it stored a digital wallet holding

:23:23. > :23:29.7,500 Bitcoins, the virtual currency. The value of Bitcoins has

:23:30. > :23:38.now reached an all time high. Hwyel Griffith picks up the story.

:23:39. > :23:43.Retracing the steps of the multi-million pound mistake. When

:23:44. > :23:47.James Howells brought his old computer hard drive to the dump in

:23:48. > :23:55.the summer, he had no idea he was earning a fortune. He had forgotten

:23:56. > :24:01.it contained 7500 Bitcoins, virtual currency now with serious hard cash.

:24:02. > :24:08.It was a penny dropping moment and, yet, sinking feeling. What have you

:24:09. > :24:12.done? Why? You have never thrown hard drives away in the past. Why

:24:13. > :24:19.this time? From these the bread bins, it would have been taken to a

:24:20. > :24:24.compact. Crushing any realistic hope of recovery. For James to make his

:24:25. > :24:29.millions, he would have to find that hard drive but it could be buried

:24:30. > :24:35.anywhere on this site. Under 25,000 cubic metres of earth and rubbish

:24:36. > :24:38.and he would have to search the equivalent of two whole football

:24:39. > :24:47.fields and then hope it survived months under wet ground. Bitcoins

:24:48. > :24:51.can be entered by mining, using your computer's power to carry out

:24:52. > :24:55.complex calculation is. Their monetary value has rocketed in

:24:56. > :24:59.recent months. As they have become more widely recognised. A couple of

:25:00. > :25:04.years ago they were worth nothing, only of interest to geeks, I suppose

:25:05. > :25:07.you might say. They have sort of escaped into the wild and become

:25:08. > :25:12.part of a huge speculative bubble. The reason why people are paying

:25:13. > :25:17.$1000 for a Bitcoin is because they think someone else will pay more

:25:18. > :25:23.than $1000 for a Bitcoin. For James, his chances of cashing in our public

:25:24. > :25:27.at an end. The local council has warned it won't allow virtual

:25:28. > :25:31.treasure hunters on its landfill site. Any hopes of recovering the

:25:32. > :25:38.hard drive of the bleed dead and buried. The actor Lewis Collins has

:25:39. > :25:40.died aged 67. He was best known for playing Bodie in the 1970's action

:25:41. > :25:50.drama The Professionals alongside co-star Martin Shaw. Our arts

:25:51. > :25:57.correspondent David Sillito looks back at his career. In the late 70s,

:25:58. > :26:04.Lewis Collins of the all action tough guy, from The Professionals.

:26:05. > :26:10.His character Bodie was fond of the ladies and weapons. And in private,

:26:11. > :26:16.Acra farm shed some of his enthusiasms. His co-star Martin Shaw

:26:17. > :26:20.said it was a tough four years but he traded Nikon of British

:26:21. > :26:29.television. The show's writer also paid tribute. He also predicted

:26:30. > :26:36.great masculinity with that lovely edge of sort of humour. The kind of

:26:37. > :26:41.humour that Connery bought to James Bond. And I think Lewis would have

:26:42. > :26:47.been a wonderful James Bond. And he would've loved to have been 007.

:26:48. > :26:50.However, Lewis Collins did not set out wanting to be an actor. Born in

:26:51. > :26:55.Birkenhead commie started out as a drama chasing success in the heyday

:26:56. > :26:59.of the Mersey beat. He was also a trained hairdresser, his big break

:27:00. > :27:18.into acting with the comedy The Cuckoo Waltz. His biggest film role

:27:19. > :27:27.was the SAS film, Who Dares Wins? After that, the path is dried up for

:27:28. > :27:30.the pantomime, his acting heyday had passed. It was hard to escape the

:27:31. > :27:38.long shadow of Bodie, the archetypal 70s hero. The actor Lewis Collins

:27:39. > :27:43.who's died aged 67. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Louise Lear.

:27:44. > :27:50.Good evening. The month of November is best known for its fireworks but

:27:51. > :27:53.been rather done that stole in recent days by suspect because he

:27:54. > :27:57.won last sparkle tomorrow with sunny spells and scattered showers and the

:27:58. > :28:00.wind very much a feature. That is due to the frontal system which

:28:01. > :28:06.arrives tonight across the far north-west. It brings a fairly

:28:07. > :28:09.narrow but intense band of rain across the North West of Scotland.

:28:10. > :28:15.The isobars squeezing together which means gale force wind by dawn. Ahead

:28:16. > :28:19.of it, it stays cloudy with drizzle perhaps time to time with patchy fog

:28:20. > :28:25.but a frost free night across the country overnight. 3-7. We start off

:28:26. > :28:29.with the weather front a decaying as it pushes further south. A spot or

:28:30. > :28:33.two of rain. Some decent sunshine coming through. Something we've not

:28:34. > :28:37.seen of late but a windy day and, yes, plenty of showers particularly

:28:38. > :28:42.for further north and west. Across the south coast, a little more cloud

:28:43. > :28:46.into the afternoon. Further inland, lovely sunshine. Breezy and cool

:28:47. > :28:51.about the sunshine should compensate and, because the wind are coming

:28:52. > :28:55.north-westerly, we may see some showers running through the Cheshire

:28:56. > :28:59.gap affecting the Pennines and down to the Midlands. For Northern

:29:00. > :29:06.Ireland, a cool day on exposed coasts. A rash of showers and here

:29:07. > :29:10.are some of them turning wintry on the high ground. To the start of the

:29:11. > :29:14.weekend, the weather front pushes into the near constant and it stays

:29:15. > :29:20.windy over the North Sea coasts. -- near continent. High-pressure bills

:29:21. > :29:25.yet again. The start of the weekend looks promising -- high-pressure

:29:26. > :29:31.bills yet again. We see a return to the cloud apps of Sunday, the start

:29:32. > :29:37.of December. More details throughout the evening.

:29:38. > :29:39.Louise, thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's