13/05/2014 BBC News at Six

The first arrest on suspicion of murder in the case of Claudia

Lawrence. The chef who went missing five years ago. Claudia vanished

after work in York and despite numerous public appeals has never

been found. Now, police have arrested a 59-year-old man and are

searching two houses. We will bring you the latest on the most

significant breakthrough on the case in five years. Also tonight: The

International Criminal Court is to examine allegations that British

forces carried out abuses in Iraq. The head of AstraZeneca claims new

medicines could be delayed by a proposed Pfizer takeover. Nigeria's

missing schoolgirls. Now, the Nigerian government says it's ready

to talk with the extremists who took them. How a ruling in Europe could

force search giants like Google to get rid of old or embarrassing

information about you on the internet. Tonight, on BBC London.

Head-to-head, our two biggest airports ramp up rival proposals for

a new runway. Banned from teaching for life, the former Head who spent

thousands of public cash on personal expenses.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A 59-year-old man has

been arrested on suspicion of murdering the missing university

chef, Claudia Lawrence. She disappeared five years ago. Miss

Lawrence vanished from her home in York and despite police appeals and

national publicity campaigns, led tirelessly by Claudia's father,

there has been no significant intraebg through in the case, until

now. Police are now searching a property in North Shields and one in

York. Danny Savage is there for us. What more can you tell us? This

evening the BBC understands the man under arrest on suspicion of

murdering Claudia Lawrence is Michael Snelling. He is linked to

this property here in York and another in North Shields that was

searched today. The disappearance of Claudia has to be one of the most

high profile missing persons inquiries that is ongoing in the UK

at the moment. For half a decade people here have been baffled about

what happened to her. Today, it appears this inquiry has taken a

giant step forward. Claudia Lawrence, missing, presumed

murdered. Until now, there have been no significant arrests in this case,

but today that changed. Police have begun searching a property in York.

Detectives removed bags of belongings, and could also be seen

around the rear of the house making notes and setting up equipment. This

happened as police announced they had arrested a 59-year-old man from

the city on suspicion of murdering Claudia. Neighbours have been

watching as the house became the focus of close scrutiny. Just

surprised, not shocked. Surprised. You don't envisage somebody in your

street to be accused of something like that. There has been times

where it has been pretty dark. Outside Claudia's home, her best

friend Jen, spoke about the strain of the last five years. It's organic

in how you cope with. It I'm lucky, I can compartmentalise things. I

have coped quite well. Others haven't. Others have been quite

badly affected by the whole thing. After an extensive search for

Claudia, police treated her disappearance as murder. North

Yorkshire Police set up a crime unit which reviewed the case. Earlier

this year, un ie tified fingerprints were found at her house and a man's

DNA was discovered on a cigarette end in her car. Five years ago,

Claudia Lawrence disappeared from her home city of York... The

breakthroughs formed part of a Crimewatch appeal on the fifth

anniversary of Claudia's disappearance. It had requests for

help in tracing this car. The feeling is the inquiry gained

momentum since then. Resulting in today's developments. This

afternoon, a house 80 miles away in North Shields was also searched as

part of the investigation. It was Claudia Lawrence father who has been

at the forefront of the campaign to find out what happened to her. Where

are you Claudia? Are you safe? Is someone holding you? Have you been

hurt even, of course, are you alive? He is said to be encouraged by

today's progress. Police have partially boarded up Mr Snelling's

home here had in York with police officers standing guard. The BBC

understands he was arrested in in the north-east of England today and

a car was seized as well. He remains in custody this evening. Danny

Savage, thank you. Claims that UK forces abused Iraqi detainees are to

be examined by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. It will

be the first time the UK has been the subject of an inquiry by the

ICC. The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, says the UK will co-operate

fully with the court, but completely rejects the allegations. Our defence

correspondent, Jonathan Beale, is at the Ministry of Defence. How

embarrassing is this for the Government and the armed forces?

It's embarrassing for the government when they signed up to the

International Criminal Court I don't think they felt they would be the

subject of any kind of investigation. They join the likes

of Afghanistan, central Central African Republic to be under this

examination. The first stages of an ICC process. Hardly, shining beacons

of democracy. The allegations, there are 250 page dossier, they are

serious, no doubt about it. We heard about individual cases of of abuse.

Soldiers have been found guilty of carrying out abuse in Iraq and

Abbas. This says it was systematic. Hundreds of cases. That politicians,

senior commanders knew about it. There is anger here as well as

embarrassment here at the Ministry of Defence. They believe the lawyer

involved has tried to prove it in British courts. Has not been

successful. It is a victory for him in the first stage. The hope is it

gets no further. This preliminary examination will be the end of the

process. There won't be a full inquiry investigation by the the

ICC. OK. Jonathan Beale, thank you very much. The boss of AstraZeneca

says new medicines could be delayed if the company is en -- taken over

by the US pharmaceutical giantifieder. He made the claim

before a committee of MPs which is scrutinising what would be the

biggest ever foreign takeover of scrutinising what would be the

British company. The boss of Pfizer has defended the firm's track record

through the -- though has conceded there would inevitably be some job

cuts. Flash photography. MPs want to know if they can trust him. Ian Read

has been with Pfizer for 35 years. He says he will honour pledges on be

jobs and research. 2,000 people how many will be employed five years

from now? I will come back once we complete the accusation - Two years

from now, how many? Once we have completed One year from now, how

many? Is A substantial number will be employed. We do not take these

decisions likely. Mr Read admitted that overall job numbers could fall

if the deal goes through. He insisted that his pledge to bring

investment to Britain still stood. Let us put aside the legally

binding. I'm here today to make those commitments. I intend to

honour those commitments. The Pfizer board voted on those commitments.

For AstraZeneca this goes deeper than simple pounds and pence. The

company say it is will do better by retaining its independence. Or or

Pascal Soriot Turned the business around. One of our medicines was

delayed and essentially was delayed because in the meantime our two

companies were involved in saving taxes, or saving costs. To him

today, I pushed him on the commitments AstraZeneca was making

to scientific research in the UK. We have very, very deep roots in this

country. Our commitment is 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. Our commitment

is forever as long as we are an independent company. Bosses of the

two drugs companies came here to Westminster today to lay out their

case before MPs. It will now be down to the Government to decide if it

wants to play tough and intervene if it can or use softer powers of

influence. Will it be more carrot or stick? As if they haven't quite had

enough. Both men will be back tomorrow to face another Commons

committee, this time on science. Once these highly political days are

over, Pfizer will then consider increasing its offer to try and seal

this most tricky of deals. A teacher who was stabbed to death in her

classroom died from "shock and haemorrhage" following an injury to

her neck, an inquest has been told. Ann Maguire was attacked during a

Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds last

month. A 15-year-old boy is due to go on trial later this year accused

of murder. A woman who claims she was sexually abused by Rolf Harris

when she was 13 has today denied claims that their relationship began

years later and was consensual. The court saw a letter and cards from

Rolf Harris in which he said there was an affair. Under

cross-examination his alleged victim admitted asking the entertainer for

?25,000, but denied threatening to go to the papers if she didn't get

?25,000, but denied threatening to the money. Rolf Harris denies all

the charges. The Nigerian government says it's prepared to explore all

options to secure the release of over 200 schoolgirls that were

kidnapped over three weeks ago. Earlier, it had said it would not

talk to the Islamist terrorists who have taken them, Boko Haram. Some of

the schoolgirls have now been identified by receipt arrives a

video release by their captors. Our World Affairs Editor has travelled

to Maiduguri in Borneo, the region from where the girls were taken.

Some of the girls have been identified. There has been a little

movement in the efforts to get them back. After the scornful message

today yesterday by Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, that they

would only give the girls back in exchange for captured Boko Haram

militants, a government minister has said they will try and get talks

underway. It hasn't worked in the past, but it could now. In the skies

above us in north-easts Nigeria, American surveillance planes have

started operating, searching for any sign of the girls. There is still no

indication the Niger an government is stepping up its efforts. This is

Maiduguri Airport, it serves the capital of a state which is fighting

a major insurrection. You might expect the apron here to be packed

with military aircraft. Not a bit of it. I asked a local Senator why so

little was being done? The international community must put

pressure on the government because, on their own, left to them, they

don't care because it is not their own people who are dying. Hence the

fury in places like the town of Gamboru, attacked last week by Boko

Haram. The local governor went to visit it, we came with him. The

destruction was appalling. The governor came here to offer help and

money, but the survivors are working themselves up into a frenzy of anger

that the Nigerian government should be doing so little to fight Boko

Haram. The governor is not elected. The government does not help us.

They have let us down. There was no calming them. The governor was lucky

to get away unhurt. This is pretty extraordinary. The governor and all

of the rest of us are being thrown out of here by the anger of the

crowd. We are having to get back to our cars pretty quickly. All this

anger isn't surprising. People here feel utterly abandoned. They can't

understand why a world, which cares so much about the missing

schoolgirls, seems to care so little about the destruction of an entire

town. John Simpson, BBC News, Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria. Two

people have died and seven are seriously injured after a coach

crash in Cornwall. It happened at lunchtime just outside Looe when the

bus, which was carrying more than 50 pensioners on a day trip from

ex-mouth, hit a wall. Jon Kaye is at the scene where the crash happened

for us now. I understand in the last hour the coach driver has been

arrested? That is right. This is the coach we are talking about. It

crashed just before 1.00pm this afternoon. The windscreen has been

smashed out. There are scrapes all along one side. The police have been

looking at the markings on the road. Trying to work out exactly what

caused this crash. They believe that the coach hit, first of all, a

hedge, further up the hill, then smashed against the wall. 50 people

on board, pensioners on a day trip to Cornwall, most of them managed to

walk off. Many had to be taken to a village hall to be treated there.

They were triaged. The more seriously injured were airlifted

from the scene to hospital in Plymouth. One lady died in hospital

and another woman died actually of her injuries on board the coach

during the afternoon. We have heard tonight that a 57-year-old man, the

driver of this coach, has been arrested. He has been taken to a

police station and being questioned on suspicion of causing death by

dangerous driving. Fee Owen ya. Jon Kaye, in Looe in Cornwall, thank

you. The time is 6. 14pm our top story. A man has been arrested on

suspicion of murder in the case of Claudia Lawrence, the chef who went

missing five years ago. Still to come: How our body clock affects our

overall health and our response to drug treatments. Later on BBC

London. Why some flood victims in Surrey are accusing Thames Water of

failing to protect their properties. And, Tim Sherwood is sacked as

Tottenham's manager. We ask who could be next for the White Hart

Lane hotseat. Healthy women with low-risk

pregnancies will be encouraged to give birth in specialist units led

by midwives rather than hospital maternity wards, under new

guidelines for England and Wales. The National Institute for Health

and Care Excellence says new evidence suggests that midwife-led

units are as safe as labour wards led by doctors, and that home births

with a midwife are safe for women having their second baby. Here's our

Health Correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys.

Natalie had her second baby just last night, cradling little FTN

ready to head home with the new addition to the family. She chose a

midwife-led unit in hospital and had her first baby and labour ward but

told me she wanted a different experience. He came so much

quicker. I didn't need any drugs this time whatsoever and that is all

down to being in this environment, just being able to let go and

letting the baby come out. Many women may now be advised a

midwife-led unit is just as safe because the birthplace study into

low risk women has led to new guidelines. It looked at the risk of

complications for their first baby. In a doctor led labour ward it was

5.3 per thousand births. In a stand-alone midwife unit the rate

was 4.5, for a homebirth 9.3 although that falls for a second

baby. Deciding where to have your baby is an intensely personal

choice. Some women will want the experience of a midwife-led units,

others will prefer the reassurance of a traditional hospital ward, just

in case anything goes wrong during labour. At the Chelsea and

Westminster Hospital, midwife and Doctor units are next to each other.

Some women have to transfer when there are complications or when the

pain becomes too great. That's what there are complications or when the

happened to Catherine with her first baby. She moved from a birth centre

to a labour ward, the only place she could get a pain relief injection.

Knowing it was available gave her peace of mind. It may be that you

have no plan to that pain relief and it is not a necessity but myself, I

went into the birthing unit thinking I would like to

went into the birthing unit thinking possible delivery but at some point

I wanted an epidural and that's fine. Whatever advice women are

given about maternity units, each will weigh up the risks and benefits

differently. The internet giant Google has been

told it must remove some information about individuals if it is out of

date or irrelevant in a test of the so-called right to be forgotten. The

landmark ruling was made at the European Court of Justice after a

Spanish man complained his privacy had been infringed. Our Technology

Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones is here. Does this mean people have the

right to take off the Internet information that they don't like? It

could do. This is all about the information thrown up by search

results from Google. The man at the heart of this found that whenever he

put his name into Google, an old newspaper story from the 1990s about

is how is being repossessed because of unpaid debts came up first. He

wanted it removed but Google the years said it couldn't do that, but

the highest court, the Court of justice is, said that as a principle

that it will enshrine in law. Anyone in principle could go to Google and

say, I don't like these results, you will have to remove them. There will

be some protection, but this will be a huge task for Google and other

search engines and raises all sorts of questions.

The Health Minister for Wales, Mark Drakeford, has issued a public

apology after a report described the care of elderly patients at two

Welsh hospitals as unacceptable with poor professional behaviour and

practice. Mr Drakeford said he was shocked by some of the findings

about the Princess of Wales Hospital, in Bridgend, and Neath

Port Talbot Hospital. Here's our Wales Correspondent, Hywel Griffith.

Her tablets scattered across the floor, a patient is left slumped and

sedated. These family videos show the care that Lillian Williams

received at her two local hospitals. After her death managers apologised

but the case triggered a review that has found a catalogue of failings in

the care of elderly patients. Her son says its findings only skim the

surface. We have always known this case was the tip of the iceberg. Has

never been any greater confirmation of the dozens of people who have now

come forward to confirm their relatives were also treated in the

most shocking manner. The report describes a sense of hopelessness

within these hospital walls, chaos when it comes to giving medication,

patients told to go to the toilet in their own bed.

patients told to go to the toilet in conditions were not as poor as those

in the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal but they were shocked. It

was really the inconsistency so some patients were not getting the water

or the food or medication they needed. Last year some staff were

arrested at this hospital, so the others were suspended and managers

have apologised. I have said that I was ashamed, I said it to my board

last night and I said it today. There has to be a line in the sand.

We will not accept poor care. For the families who say their loved

ones have also suffered, an apology is empty without a resignation. They

say their campaign for answers will continue.

Some doctors are beginning to prescribe drug treatments to follow

the natural rhythm of our internal bodyclocks. Everything from our

blood pressure to hormone levels fluctuate according to the times of

day. This 24-hour cycle affects our alertness, energy levels and our

chances of falling ill. Now some doctors believe our internal body

clock can also have a profound effect on how we respond to drug

treatments. It's called the science of chronotherapy and it's gaining

increasing recognition. Fergus Walsh reports.

Day and night, we are governed by time. Despite every technological

advance, our bodies can't escape this biological cycle or circadian

rhythm. And this is our 24-hour body clock. It's partly driven by

hormones like melatonin, which peaks at night, helping us sleep. Or the

stress hormone, cortisol, which rises in the morning and keeps us

alert. These natural rhythms regulate our bodies and influence

our health, such as the increased risk of severe asthma or heart

attacks in the early-morning, to late afternoon being the period our

muscles are the strongest. It is dawn at Manchester Royal Infirmary

and Crystal is having blood taken. It will be analysed to establish the

best time of day to administer treatment for her rheumatoid

arthritis. It is painful every day. It limits how much I can move

around, if I can kneel down, what I can go out and do. So if they had a

drug that just worked, that would change everything. Chronotherapy is

the science of treating patients according to their body clock. With

rheumatoid arthritis, it means timing drugs so they dampen the

immune system for a few key hours. If we can make sure those medicines

are given at just the right time, we can hit the disease process and the

drug washes out the system, leaving the patient drug-free for most of

the day and therefore less likely to get side-effects. In Paris,

chronotherapy is now being used for some cancer patients. Philippe used

to suffer severe nausea and exhaustion until some drug infusions

were switched from day to night. The doctor pioneering cancer treatment

by body clock says early clinical trials have been promising. The

chronotherapy is reducing toxicity of treatments, increasing the

quality of life for the patients because it is respecting the

circadian rhythm of the patients, and also it is improving the

survival. Chronotherapy is still in its infancy but gaining ground as

more doctors recognise the importance of our body clock.

And you can find out more about how your body clock changes through the

day at bbc.co.uk/bodyclock. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Tomasz

Schafernaker. Today I got soaked. Yesterday evening, no doubt some of

us were caught out in the downpours won after the other but the chance

of catching a shower will lower as we go through the course of the

evening. By the time we get to around eight o'clock in the

evening, most of the showers will be across these eastern areas of the

country. It should be a dry end to the day, and by the time we get to

the small hours of the morning it is looking clear and call for many of

us. Temperatures could be as low as minus one degree in Scotland.

Wednesday starts fine for most of us, lots of sunshine around. Then

later in the day, some cloud and rain will drift into Scotland and

Northern Ireland, whereas in the bulk of England and Wales it should

be fine with temperatures reaching 19 Celsius. On Thursday, we have

settled conditions, translating to some sunshine with the odd shower

developing across the heart of the country, but look at those

temperatures in the south-east reasoning -- rising to 21 Celsius.

That will be the trend for the weekend. Either time we get to

Sunday, we could even be talking about 25 degrees. For the rest of

the week, dryer and warm with some sunshine around but the nights be

chilly. That's all from the BBC News at six

so it's goodbye