:00:00. > :00:07.The Prime Minister promises a double dose of tax cuts if
:00:08. > :00:13.David Cameron claims he can deliver the tax pledge while also
:00:14. > :00:26.With the Conservatives, if you work hard and do the right thing,
:00:27. > :00:29.we say you should keep more of your own money to spend as you choose.
:00:30. > :00:32.That is what our long-term economic plan means for you.
:00:33. > :00:35.We'll be looking at exactly what tax cuts Mr Cameron is proposing
:00:36. > :00:37.and whether he'd be able to deliver them.
:00:38. > :00:42.Police find a body and launch a murder inquiry.
:00:43. > :00:44.Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong issue an ultimatum.
:00:45. > :00:46.They'll occupy government buildings unless the leader
:00:47. > :00:52.The mother of a schoolgirl thought to have run off to Syria appeal
:00:53. > :00:58.And the end of the road for the tax disc, though there's confusion
:00:59. > :01:14.On BBC London, more on the discovery of a body near to where Alice Gross
:01:15. > :01:16.disappeared. Criticism of care received by cancer patients in the
:01:17. > :01:31.capital. Good evening and welcome to the
:01:32. > :01:34.BBC News at Six. David Cameron has put tax cuts
:01:35. > :01:37.at the heart of his pre-election campaign, promising cuts that would
:01:38. > :01:40.affect 30 million people He claims he can do that while
:01:41. > :01:47.also eliminating the UK's deficit. The Prime Minister promised he
:01:48. > :01:49.would raise the personal tax-free allowance from ?10,500
:01:50. > :01:57.next April to ?12,500 by 2020. And that the threshold
:01:58. > :01:59.for the 40% income tax rate would rise from 42,000 next April to
:02:00. > :02:03.?50,000 by the end of a five-year The combined costs
:02:04. > :02:08.of the tax changes would be ?7.2 The Prime Minister also used
:02:09. > :02:15.his speech at the Tory Party Conference to outline his party's
:02:16. > :02:19.policies on the NHS and Europe. Our first report from
:02:20. > :02:22.our political editor, Nick Robinson, After the warning of more more pain,
:02:23. > :02:32.more austerity, more spending cuts to come, a promise of much better
:02:33. > :02:39.times and of tax cuts ahead. This very personal plea to be
:02:40. > :02:47.given another chance to serve. I don't claim to be
:02:48. > :02:49.a perfect leader. But I'm your public servant,
:02:50. > :02:51.standing here, wanting to make our country so much
:02:52. > :02:57.better for your children and mine. I love this country
:02:58. > :03:01.and I will do my duty by it. The Tories may be losing votes
:03:02. > :03:04.and losing MPs to UKIP but the shared belief here is that
:03:05. > :03:07.the country will choose their leader, not Ed Miliband,
:03:08. > :03:13.the man who forgot the deficit. People forget their car keys,
:03:14. > :03:16.my children sometimes forget I once even forgot that I left Nancy
:03:17. > :03:23.down the pub. Let me say this,
:03:24. > :03:26.you cannot be Prime Minister of this country and forget the most
:03:27. > :03:33.important issue that we face. The Tories, he claimed,
:03:34. > :03:35.would balance the books That is three years later than
:03:36. > :03:39.their original target. They would do it he said,
:03:40. > :03:42.by cutting government spending. There would be no tax rises, indeed,
:03:43. > :03:46.he promised there would be tax cuts I would tell you now that
:03:47. > :03:52.a future Conservative government will raise a tax-free personal
:03:53. > :04:02.allowance from ?10,500 to ?12,500. If you work 30 hours a week
:04:03. > :04:05.on minimum wage, The cost of that tax giveaway,
:04:06. > :04:15.?5 billion. The cost of the next,
:04:16. > :04:21.another 2 billion. We will raise the threshold at
:04:22. > :04:25.which people pay the 40p rate. In the next Parliament,
:04:26. > :04:37.we will raise it to ?50,000. That punch in the air from the man
:04:38. > :04:41.whose job it is to cut another ?12 David Cameron insisted there would
:04:42. > :04:45.be no cuts to the health service, ignore what Labour tells you,
:04:46. > :04:51.he said, this is personal. I am someone who has relied
:04:52. > :04:55.on the NHS and his family knows more Who knows what it is like
:04:56. > :05:00.when you go to hospital in the middle of the night with
:05:01. > :05:03.a sick child in your arms, knowing that when you get there,
:05:04. > :05:06.there are people who will love that child and care for that child just
:05:07. > :05:09.like as if it were their own. How dare they say I would put that
:05:10. > :05:13.at risk for other people's children? How dare they frighten those who
:05:14. > :05:17.rely on the National Health Service? That a plea, think of my family the
:05:18. > :05:21.next time you are told, you can't They would have stayed
:05:22. > :05:26.on their feet if he had pledged to leave the EU if he could not
:05:27. > :05:29.negotiate a better deal. He didn't promise that
:05:30. > :05:32.but the man who said he loved his country did promise to cut
:05:33. > :05:36.immigration from Europe. Turning first to stare
:05:37. > :05:41.down the lens of the TV camera. It will be at the very heart of my
:05:42. > :05:45.renegotiation strategy for Europe. Britain,
:05:46. > :05:49.I know you want this sorted. So I will go to Brussels,
:05:50. > :05:52.I will not take no for an answer, and when it comes to free movement,
:05:53. > :05:58.I will get what Britain needs. Anyone who thinks, anyone who thinks
:05:59. > :06:03.I cannot or will not deliver this, If that does not sway those tempted
:06:04. > :06:10.to defect to UKIP, Me in Downing Street or Ed Miliband
:06:11. > :06:25.in Downing Street. If you vote UKIP,
:06:26. > :06:28.that is really a vote for Labour. On the 7th of May, you could go to
:06:29. > :06:31.bed with Nigel Farage Let's not, he urged,
:06:32. > :06:42.go back to square one. Let us finish what we have begun,
:06:43. > :06:44.let us build a Britain we are proud to call home
:06:45. > :06:51.for you, your family, for everyone. In just 217 days' time, you will
:06:52. > :06:57.be asked to decide, to choose. I am your public servant,
:06:58. > :07:04.David Cameron said today. His gamble is that people who may
:07:05. > :07:08.not like the Tories the Tories, may not like him that much,
:07:09. > :07:12.will still vote for him. They came here prepared
:07:13. > :07:15.for the worst, They leave here believing they might
:07:16. > :07:26.just still be in with a chance. Let's talk a little more about those
:07:27. > :07:29.two tax cuts proposed by David Cameron. Our economics
:07:30. > :07:31.correspondent, Simon Jack, is here to look through the numbers. Simon,
:07:32. > :07:34.how will they affect working people These proposed tax rises are
:07:35. > :07:42.eye-catching, affect a lot of people So, just to recap -
:07:43. > :07:46.starting with the rise in the personal allowance - that is
:07:47. > :07:49.the amount you are allowed to earn The Prime Minister said that would
:07:50. > :07:54.rise from ?10,500 to ?12,500 over That would lift
:07:55. > :07:59.an additional 1 million people out A giveaway for higher earners as
:08:00. > :08:05.well - the threshold at which people start paying 40% tax will rise
:08:06. > :08:10.from 42,000 to 50,000 by 2020.That means 800,000 people who would have
:08:11. > :08:14.been in the 40% band now won't be. If you make ?12,500 a year or less,
:08:15. > :08:22.no income tax to pay. Basic rate tax payers will pay
:08:23. > :08:26.on average ?500 less tax per year And if you earn between ?50,000
:08:27. > :08:33.and ?100,000, If you earn under ?10,500,
:08:34. > :08:44.you already don't pay any income tax so pushing the personal allowance
:08:45. > :08:49.up makes no difference. Middle income earners, however,
:08:50. > :08:52.will notice a big difference. The threshold before you pay 40% tax
:08:53. > :08:57.has gone down in the last few years. This will be a big increase and
:08:58. > :09:01.so will be really noticeable So,
:09:02. > :09:09.how much will these giveaways cost? Raising the personal allowance
:09:10. > :09:11.will leave the Government coffers Raising the higher rate means
:09:12. > :09:17.a hit to the public purse Total cost to the Exchequer,
:09:18. > :09:22.7.2 billion per year by 2020. Very unclear where it
:09:23. > :09:28.is going to come from. The Government is already saying
:09:29. > :09:31.it has got to be cutting ?30 This adds another 7 billion to
:09:32. > :09:37.that on top of the big spending We don't know where you can
:09:38. > :09:42.find that additional 7 billion. The Conservatives says they will
:09:43. > :09:44.not raise taxes elsewhere. Of course, it's worth repeating,
:09:45. > :09:49.this is only if the Conservatives win the next election and if the
:09:50. > :09:53.public finances drastically improve. Any tax changes wouldn't come
:09:54. > :10:04.in immediately. Our political editor, Nick Robinson,
:10:05. > :10:16.is in Birmingham. The Prime Minister has promised an
:10:17. > :10:20.awful lot, not just on tax cuts but on the NHS and Europe. Should he be
:10:21. > :10:23.given the keys to Number ten next May, what other chances he could
:10:24. > :10:28.deliver all of that? You'll Ait could be too good to be true. In
:10:29. > :10:33.theory you can do all these things. You can cut taxes at the same time
:10:34. > :10:37.as cutting borrowing, providing you are prepared to cut spending quite
:10:38. > :10:42.drastically. The Tories will say, we have done some of this, we have cut
:10:43. > :10:47.spending and borrowing and cutting taxes through an increase in the
:10:48. > :10:55.personal allowance. Reply coming loud and clear from the Labour Party
:10:56. > :10:58.tonight hold on isn't this the unfunded spending promised that the
:10:59. > :11:03.Tories used to condemn when they were in opposition. Shouldn't they
:11:04. > :11:07.be forced to spell out exactly who would suffer, which service would be
:11:08. > :11:12.cut, which tax might have to be raised in order to raise for this
:11:13. > :11:16.sort of promise? One other thing Labour are saying. Looking at the
:11:17. > :11:23.figures of Hugh Gaines, lots of people gain from a removal of tax at
:11:24. > :11:27.the bottom, it is the wealthiest who gain from this combination of tax
:11:28. > :11:32.cuts that David Cameron has promised. He says he is standing up
:11:33. > :11:36.and speaking for what he called the trade union of hard-working people.
:11:37. > :11:38.His opponents are likely to say, actually, he is speaking up for the
:11:39. > :11:41.club of the better off. Let's have a look at some of the
:11:42. > :11:52.other stories making the news today. A former Conservative donor who has
:11:53. > :11:56.switched his support to UKIP has said he will give the party
:11:57. > :11:59.?1,000,000. He had originally said he would donate ?100,000.
:12:00. > :12:02.RAF jets have carried out more air strikes on Islamic State targets in
:12:03. > :12:04.Iraq - the second attack since Parliament backed military action.
:12:05. > :12:07.Two Tornados destroyed an armed truck and a transport vehicle when
:12:08. > :12:12.they were sent to examine a suspected IS command-and-control
:12:13. > :12:15.position near Baghdad. The Crown Prosecution Service has
:12:16. > :12:20.dropped seven terrorism charges against Moazzam Begg, a former
:12:21. > :12:22.detainee at Guantanamo Bay. He's now been released from prison after
:12:23. > :12:26.being in custody since February. He had been due to stand trial next
:12:27. > :12:38.Police investigating the disappearance of Alice Gross have
:12:39. > :12:43.launched a murder enquiry after a body was found last night in a river
:12:44. > :12:47.in West London following one of Scotland Yard 's biggest ever search
:12:48. > :12:51.operations. Our home affairs correspondent is near where the body
:12:52. > :12:57.was discovered. This must be the news Alice 's family have been
:12:58. > :13:00.dreading. Absolutely. The police broke the news to them as soon as
:13:01. > :13:09.they could after the discovery late yesterday. We must stress that, at
:13:10. > :13:14.this stage, stood here tonight, the body has not yet been identified.
:13:15. > :13:17.The police have said this is clearly a significant development, which
:13:18. > :13:23.comes 33 days after Alice Gross disappeared. After a search spanning
:13:24. > :13:27.dozens of square miles, these 2 small tent cover the place where the
:13:28. > :13:32.body was lifted from the water. The water. Forensics officers have been
:13:33. > :13:37.here all day. This spot, surrounded by trees, in the grounds of a nearby
:13:38. > :13:42.hospital is on Alice 's likely route home or just yesterday, this team
:13:43. > :13:49.are working their way up the canal, towards the location hours, -- a few
:13:50. > :13:53.hours later, the body was found. They explained why it might have
:13:54. > :13:57.been difficult to find it. Significant efforts were made to
:13:58. > :14:02.conceal the body. For several reasons, including protecting the
:14:03. > :14:08.investigation, I do not wish to comment any further at this point on
:14:09. > :14:15.the circumstances. Alice was last seen on CCTV at 4:26 PM on the
:14:16. > :14:19.afternoon of August 28, walking along the tow path. Five days later
:14:20. > :14:24.her bag was discovered next to a nearby pass. Police staged a
:14:25. > :14:30.reconstruction of her walk from Brentford Lock. She had been heading
:14:31. > :14:35.home. The body was found here and late yesterday. Her parents have
:14:36. > :14:41.been informed. The Latvian builder is a suspect because he was cycling
:14:42. > :14:45.on the tow path that day. He has a previous murder conviction and he
:14:46. > :14:49.has disappeared. It has been a fast moving day. Police arrived at this
:14:50. > :14:55.housing development in nearby Isil worth. They have sealed off what
:14:56. > :14:58.appears to be a builder is shared. We understand the Latvian builder
:14:59. > :15:04.was working on those buildings over there. Somebody has been in this
:15:05. > :15:14.facility that might have done that awful thing. It does make you feel
:15:15. > :15:20.very vulnerable. The yellow ribbon has come to symbolise the hope that
:15:21. > :15:22.Alice Gross might still be alive. Now flowers have begun to arrive, an
:15:23. > :15:29.expression of the growing sorrow. The Prime Minister promises
:15:30. > :15:33.a double dose of tax cuts if The cost of the supermarket
:15:34. > :15:40.price wars for Sainsbury's. Four men are found guilty
:15:41. > :15:44.of beating to death a man while he was using a computer in
:15:45. > :15:48.a community centre in South London. And we look ahead to
:15:49. > :15:50.Arsenal's Champions League Match Pro-democracy protestors have issued
:15:51. > :16:05.an ultimatum to the city's leader, saying they will start to occupy
:16:06. > :16:07.government buildings The demonstrations have spread to
:16:08. > :16:16.new parts of the city as the territory's pro-Beijing leadership
:16:17. > :16:17.celebrated China's National Day. Tens of thousands of protesters are
:16:18. > :16:21.now occupying four key junctions. Our China Editor Carrie Gracie
:16:22. > :16:38.reports from Hong Kong. It is National Day but there is not
:16:39. > :16:47.a Chinese flag insight. 65 years ago, Chairman Mao said the Chinese
:16:48. > :16:49.people had stood up. Hong Kong and a new generation. Standing up for a
:16:50. > :17:02.different revolution. To see the Chinese flag and National
:17:03. > :17:07.Day, you had to come here, a ceremony to remind Hong Kong that
:17:08. > :17:16.however different its way of life, it is still part of China.
:17:17. > :17:21.She tells me it is a day to celebrate nationally and Ursula XII.
:17:22. > :17:28.But outside, disunity made its presence felt. -- national unity.
:17:29. > :17:33.Hong Kong's leader will not torture protesters but they came to make
:17:34. > :17:38.their point anyway. -- will not talk to protesters. In Beijing, a made
:17:39. > :17:43.for TV celebration to celebrate the Communist Party, no pictures of the
:17:44. > :17:50.protesters of the sympathisers detained. Nothing to disrupt
:17:51. > :17:54.stability. This is no longer a party of revolution but the establishment.
:17:55. > :17:59.Hong Kong once one man and one vote at the President already has it. He
:18:00. > :18:04.is the man and his is the only vote that counts. Not for long if they
:18:05. > :18:08.have their way. Tonight, they are threatening to occupy Gottman to
:18:09. > :18:15.buildings. Is this movement now too big to fail?
:18:16. > :18:22.He says, no compromise. They will not go home and less Hong Kong's
:18:23. > :18:31.leader resigns. But China will not giving either. It feels it cannot or
:18:32. > :18:33.it will get this on the mainland. We just need to keep our momentum of
:18:34. > :18:47.the movement. No one here ever imagined that so
:18:48. > :18:52.many of them would be prepared to break the law for the idea of
:18:53. > :18:56.freedom. No wonder the impossible now seems possible. On the
:18:57. > :18:57.anniversary of one Chinese revolution, there is talk of
:18:58. > :19:03.another. The family of
:19:04. > :19:06.a missing schoolgirl who is thought to have gone to Syria, possibly to
:19:07. > :19:09.join Islamist fighters, say they are Yusra Hussien,
:19:10. > :19:12.who is 15 and from Bristol, -- left. At a news conference,
:19:13. > :19:20.her family said she was a typical teenager and there was no
:19:21. > :19:23."concrete evidence" that she wanted Yusra Hussien, a grade-A student
:19:24. > :19:28.described by her family as bright and bubbly, but now her whereabouts
:19:29. > :19:34.and her intentions are unknown. Today, the schoolgirl's mother
:19:35. > :19:36.described her heartbreak and made a direct appeal
:19:37. > :19:42.for the 15-year-old to come home. Please, please, please, we miss you,
:19:43. > :19:48.come back, I love you so much. All your brothers and your sisters,
:19:49. > :19:55.we miss you se, so much. -- so. The house is not
:19:56. > :19:58.the same way you left. Her parents thought Yusra had gone
:19:59. > :20:10.to school as normal last week, but police say instead
:20:11. > :20:14.of turning up here for lessons, she headed to Heathrow
:20:15. > :20:17.and took a flight to Istanbul. Officers fear
:20:18. > :20:20.the GCSE pupil intended to cross Her mother said Yusra's
:20:21. > :20:25.disappearance from this neighbourhood
:20:26. > :20:28.of Bristol a week ago had come She said there had been nothing
:20:29. > :20:34.about the teenager's behaviour in the days before she went missing to
:20:35. > :20:38.suggest that she was planning to go. She was just a typical teenager,
:20:39. > :20:42.her mum said. Yusra's family said police comments
:20:43. > :20:45.that she might have been radicalised by leaving
:20:46. > :20:50.the UK were just speculation. There have been many assumptions
:20:51. > :20:53.claiming that Yusra is travelling to Syria and that maybe she is
:20:54. > :20:58.an extremist, and planning to become a Jihadist bride, all which have no
:20:59. > :21:07.concrete evidence to back this up. Yusra's family said
:21:08. > :21:10.the only thing that mattered now was Sainsbury's has blamed price wars
:21:11. > :21:21.between the biggest supermarkets and discount rivals
:21:22. > :21:23.for another fall in its sales. They're down
:21:24. > :21:25.for the third quarter in a row. New boss Mike Coupe says
:21:26. > :21:28.the industry is "changing beyond all recognition", with customers
:21:29. > :21:32.choosing to shop "little and often". Kamal Ahmed, our business editor,
:21:33. > :21:43.reports. It has been a long time since
:21:44. > :21:50.Sainsbury's has seen numbers this bad. From 2005, the UK's
:21:51. > :21:55.third-largest retailer enjoyed year after year of sales growth. In 2014,
:21:56. > :22:01.that ended. Today, Sainsbury's announced sales were down 2.8% on
:22:02. > :22:04.the same period last year. At the end of any rate for
:22:05. > :22:10.Sainsbury's and deplete the entire industry. Growth is almost
:22:11. > :22:14.impossible to combine these days, discount stores are taking an
:22:15. > :22:19.increasing share and people are moving into convenience and online.
:22:20. > :22:25.The share rice falling, down over 6% today, how can they fight back? Bash
:22:26. > :22:31.the share rise. We send the man Chief Executive Stern to for advice
:22:32. > :22:36.to give us his opinion. He takes hundreds of pictures of promotions
:22:37. > :22:40.and he analyses the results. It has moved from lots of promotions to
:22:41. > :22:45.less emotions and more lowers prices -- and more low prices, leading them
:22:46. > :22:52.into competition with stores who operate at a low cost model. And as
:22:53. > :22:57.to do the same. Today's news might be bad for investors on the High
:22:58. > :23:01.Street, add news for the retailer is good news for them. The Chief
:23:02. > :23:07.Executive Ursula XII macro has said it is the first time he has known of
:23:08. > :23:11.falling food prices in a generation -- Mike Coupe. One problem it said
:23:12. > :23:18.it was not facing was over at counts. Tesco announced the
:23:19. > :23:22.regulator had launched an investigation after the retailer
:23:23. > :23:26.admitted it overstated profits expected to make this year. -- was
:23:27. > :23:33.over accounts. For the first time in nearly 100
:23:34. > :23:36.years, drivers no longer have to display a tax disc on the windscreen
:23:37. > :23:39.of their car and, instead, there will be a new electronic
:23:40. > :23:42.version that can be bought online. But the DVLA's website has been
:23:43. > :23:46.so swamped, some people have A little piece of history disappears
:23:47. > :23:49.from our windscreens today. The government says there is no
:23:50. > :23:52.point having a piece of paper The reality is,
:23:53. > :23:56.the authorities have not really done this for years - checked people's
:23:57. > :23:59.tax disc by physically looking Instead, they use cameras that take
:24:00. > :24:06.a photograph of your number plate, they check it against
:24:07. > :24:09.their database and, if you have not On patrol with the DVLA on the A12
:24:10. > :24:17.in Essex. Around one in every 200 cars
:24:18. > :24:22.they check is not taxed. As you can see, we have just had
:24:23. > :24:25.a hit and that vehicle was showing Jonathan, I would assume you are
:24:26. > :24:30.mainly catching people in older That is what a lot
:24:31. > :24:36.of people seem to assume. People
:24:37. > :24:43.on their way to a wedding with a bride in the back, ambulances,
:24:44. > :24:45.three buses from the same company. If there is time left on your disk,
:24:46. > :24:50.it is still valid, -- disc. You can still renew it at
:24:51. > :24:58.the Post Office or online, although Critically,
:24:59. > :25:01.if you purchase a second-hand car, That means
:25:02. > :25:07.the government gets two lots of tax I find having a disc on your car,
:25:08. > :25:17.you do actually check it So if it is there,
:25:18. > :25:22.it does remind you that your disc is It will make life
:25:23. > :25:27.a little bit easier because I've got So once every two months,
:25:28. > :25:33.I have to tear one of these off. At least they'll never have to worry
:25:34. > :25:36.again about accidentally ripping The weather will change in a big way
:25:37. > :26:04.by the end of the week. We have had to dry weather for a
:26:05. > :26:16.long time but that will be swept away this week, cooler air and
:26:17. > :26:18.wetter weather from the Atlantic. Most places will be dry but a
:26:19. > :26:25.difference in temperatures North and South. Cold in the North.
:26:26. > :26:31.Temperatures close to freezing. The South will hang on to more cloud, --
:26:32. > :26:40.keeping temperatures up. Mist and fog patches by the morning. What
:26:41. > :26:43.does it mean by the afternoon? It will warm up nicely across Southern
:26:44. > :26:50.parts of England and Wales, close to 20 degrees. One or two showers at a
:26:51. > :26:55.dry day and good-looking for everybody. -- but a dry day.
:26:56. > :26:58.Increased cloud in northern Wales and Northern Ireland. Hazy in
:26:59. > :27:01.Northern Ireland and the wind will increase in the North of Scotland.
:27:02. > :27:09.Gales by the end of the day, possibly severe as this low pressure
:27:10. > :27:14.brings this weather front our way. Wet and windy conditions by the end
:27:15. > :27:23.of the week mainly. And and Northern Ireland on Friday. For most of
:27:24. > :27:27.England and Wales, it still looks good -- mainly for Scotland and
:27:28. > :27:33.Northern Ireland. Heavy rain, that will sweep East on Friday night. And
:27:34. > :27:37.on Saturday. Across the whole of the UK. Sunshine follows behind but
:27:38. > :27:42.showers also and chilly by the weekend. Temperatures back to where
:27:43. > :27:44.they should be at this time of year but a chilly wind, rain at at times
:27:45. > :27:46.as well.