09/03/2016 BBC News at Six

Sir George Martin, the musical genius behind the Beatles,

Over seven decades, he worked with the some of the most famous

and successful musicians in the world.

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But he'll be remembered most for guiding the Fab Four

no wonder he's been called the fifth Beatle.

I think George was incredibly important.

When you're a band and you have beautiful music like the Beatles

had, you need someone to be able to get it out the world.

And what George did brilliantly was open that door wide.

Sir Paul McCartney has led the tributes.

Five of the gang behind the Hatton Garden heist

Buckingham Palace complains to the press watchdog

after a newspaper claimed the Queen favours leaving the EU.

The third strike by junior doctors in England is under way -

thousands of operations have been cancelled.

English Premier League fans welcome a new ?30 cap on away tickets -

And coming up in the sport, we will be live at Stamford Bridge

where Chelsea will need to overturn a 2-1

deficit in the second leg of their Champions League tie

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

In the world of music, Sir George Martin was revered

His death, at the age of 90, has been followed by countless tributes.

Paul McCartney described him as the fifth Beatle,

acknowledging George Martin's pivotal role in taking

the Fab Four's raw talent and turning them into

Over seven decades, he worked with many of the most successful

Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito is outside Abbey Road,

We were a creative team, always looking for something slightly out

of reach. George Martin and the Beatles. Music would simply never be

the same again. Pick a song like Yesterday. George Martin suggested

to Paul McCartney adding a string quartet. This was it, and he wrote

on it at the top here, by Paul McCartney and John London, George

Martin Esquire and Mozart, his reference to the fact that it was a

classical piece of music. Born in London, he studied music and in the

40s formed a band with his childhood friend, Victor Moore, the fortune

tellers. The minute you met him, he knew what he wanted to do, and he

told us what he wanted us to do, and we did it. If George said, we are

going to do this, we did it. It was normal. He was a natural leader. At

EMI, he abused classical and novelty recordings. -- he produced classical

recordings. The Beatles were a new departure. He captured their energy

and prod them to record their own songs. And at Abbey Road, helped

create a completely new sound world. George had done no rock 'n' roll

when we met him and we had never been in the studio, so we did a lot

of learning together. He had a very great musical knowledge and

background. God bless George Martin, were Ringo's words today. Sir Paul

McCartney said he was like a second father to me, a true gentleman. In

the 60s, every other band was following in their wake. I think

George was incredibly important. When you're a band and you have

beautiful music like the Beatles had, you need someone to be able to

get it out the world, and what George did brilliantly was open that

door wide. This is George Martin's own recording studio. When he

started out, he didn't know much about pop music, which is perhaps

why he was so prepared to break boundaries. But he did understand

orchestration, arrangement, and the magical potential of the recording

studio. Let's punch up the computer mix. He recorded many famous film

scores here. He worked with John, Cilla, Shirley Bassey, Carly Simon,

Elvis Costello. For one producer in the 70s, working with the young

David Bowie, he was an inspiration. His work, combined with the Beatles,

busted open the recording studio, giving it the status of a musical

instrument in itself. It was a revolution, and George Martin was

there at the very centre of it all. Sir George Martin, who has died

today at the age of 90. Five of the men who raided a vault

in London's Hatton Garden over the Easter Bank Holiday last year

have been jailed for a total of 34 The gang stole ?14 million worth

of gold, jewellery and cash, two thirds of which has yet

to be recovered. Our home affairs correspondent

Daniel Sandford is in Yes, the judge said today that the

burglary here at the Hatton Garden safe deposit was unprecedented in

its ambition, its organisation and in terms of the value of property

stolen. He was limited in the length of sentences that he could pass,

Sikander does a burglary, not a robbery, and because the main

ringleaders pleaded guilty. But all the same, he passed the maximum

sentences that the law allowed. The reinforced wall, more than a

metre thick, that the Hatton Garden gang board through with a diamond

tipped drill. Once inside, they ripped open and 73 safe deposit

boxes, stuffing the diamonds, jewels, watches, cash and gold are

lean into wheelie bins. They made away with ?14 million worth. It was

Britain's biggest burglary. Today, the Hatton Garden gang learned their

punishments, although 77-year-old Brian Reid was too unwell to be

sentenced yet. Terry Perkins was given seven years in prison. So was

Kenny Collins, and a fourth ringleader, Danny Jones. Cawood, who

lost his nerve halfway through the burglary, but six years, but Bill

Lincoln, who helped store the loot, got seven. Hugh Doyle, the plumber

who have moved the stolen property, was given 21 months suspended. There

may be people out there who feel a bit of sympathy in relation to those

that were sentenced today. However, these were all colours career

criminals who had no thought in relation to the property they stole

from the victims. ?4 million worth of stolen jewellery and cash was

found by police, some buried in a north London graveyard. But ?10

million is missing. Also missing is the mysterious Basil, who worked

with the game, but has never been identified. He is now the flying

squad's most wanted man. The gang gave few clues in their police

interviews. What was your role in this burglary? No comment. What

specialist skill set have you got which made you valuable on this job?

No comment. Were you April? No comment. Secretly filmed here by

undercover detectives discussing the highest in the pub, the gang had an

average age of 63. So why were they still committing crime? When you are

a career criminal, that is your thing. No matter how old you get and

how much money you have got, you still get a sort of yearling to be

on the front line and do things. Although the gang long sentences for

this infamous burglary, things could get even worse for them at a hearing

next year, when they will be asked to give the money back, or face even

longer behind bars. Daniel Sandford, BBC News, Hatton Garden.

Buckingham Palace has made an official complaint to the press

watchdog about a report in the Sun which claimed the Queen wanted

The newspaper said the Queen made her opinion known

during a lunch at Windsor Castle in 2011, with the then deputy prime

Our Royal Correspondent Nick Witchell reports.

2011, the year of the royal wedding. But as many thousands focused their

attention on the marriage in April of that year of Prince William and

Catherine Middleton, the Queen, at her favourite home, Windsor Castle,

was letting rip about the European Union. That, at least, is the claim

from an anonymous source to the Sun. Alongside a front-page headline,

Queen backs Brexit, the Sun claims that as a lunch in Windsor, the

monarch said she believed the EU was heading in the wrong direction. Over

the page, the paper says the lunch was attended by the then Deputy

Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to whom the remarks were principally

directed, and a handful of other ministers. But today, Mr Clegg said

he had no recollection of such a conversation. I think it's appalling

that the people who want to pull the United Kingdom out of the European

Union are now trying to drag the Queen into the European referendum

debate. As for the story in the Sun, it's nonsense. It's not true. I

couldn't be clearer than that. Buckingham Palace initially stressed

the Queen's political neutrality. Later, it confirmed that it was

making a formal complaint about the story to the Independent Press

Standards Organisation. In response, the Sun said:

might this have been the occasion at the centre of the story? The court

circular shows that in early April 2011, there was a meeting of the

Privy Council at Windsor, attended by Mr Clegg. There was also Michael

Gove, then the Education Secretary, and several other ministers. None

has made any comment today. So what are we to make of all this? Well,

the Queen does ask questions and make observations on occasions, but

she doesn't take over the political positions. Her officials point to 64

years of pretty punctilious neutrality. They say any idea that

she would take sides in any way in the EU referendum is simply wrong.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, at Buckingham Palace.

Two of the world's biggest banks, UBS and Deutsche Bank,

have been ordered to pay tens of millions of pounds to the HM

Revenue and Customs after the Supreme Court ruled

that they were involved in an illegal tax avoidance scheme.

The Supreme Court ruled that bonuses received by investment bankers

and paid into offshore accounts more than a decade ago should

The third strike by junior doctors in their row with the Government

The walkout will last 48 hours, the longest one so far,

but medics are once again providing emergency cover in hospitals.

It comes after ministers announced last month that they would impose

A singing picket line outside one hospital today,

as junior doctors in England staged another strike,

the Government said it would impose another employment contract,

We will be here for as long as it takes for the Government to listen

to us and to stop threatening us with imposition.

We have a democracy that we live in, with an elected parliament,

and they're not there to just enforce changes

So what are the central issues in this dispute

The Government says the new contract will see higher basic pay balancing

and a cap on excessive working hours.

But the doctors' union, the BMA, says it will mean weaker safeguards

on working hours and for many doctors, see the loss of the premium

More than 5,000 routine operations have been postponed nationally

Hospitals like this one in Milton Keynes say they are trying

The boss is hoping he doesn't have to impose the contract.

I think imposition in any contract negotiation is the very,

very last resort, and I believe there is more that we can do

to ensure that both parties maintain face and deliver

While junior doctors protested outside one central London hospital,

the Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt, over at Westminster,

was moving onto the agenda he wanted to talk about -

unveiling new measures aimed at promoting patient safety.

His plans include a new health safety agency, similar

to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch,

with legal protection for those who give evidence in inquiries.

My intention is to use this reform to encourage much more openness

in the way the NHS responds to tragic mistakes.

Doctors will get support and protection to speak out,

and the NHS as a whole will become better at learning

The doctors claim safety will be undermined by the new contract.

That, in turn, is denied by ministers.

Saw George Martin, the producer who guided the Beatles to fame and

fortune, has died aged 90. And still to come, Sunday shopping plans

shelved - a defeat for the government tonight on its plans.

This weekend will be the 20th anniversary of the Dunblane School

massacre, when 16 children from this class and their teacher were shot

It was the worst mass shooting in UK history, and led to changes

in the law which effectively made private ownership

Now some of those affected by what happened that day have been

been speaking to a BBC documentary team for the first time.

Reports are coming in that one person is dead and several people

have been injured after a shooting incident at Dunblane primary School

in Scotland. And don't remember the pain of being

shot, I don't remember the noises, I just remember my leg turning to

jelly and falling to the floor and then dragging myself to the gym

cupboard where there were other people. I was crying for my mum. I

was very upset. I was trying to commit you know, the adults that

were there, the PE cupboard, they were trying to hush me, because they

would not have known, you know, if he was still alive, in the gym hall.

Biggar when I first rushed into the gym, -- when I first rushed into the

gym there was an incredible silence. The air was thick with the smell of

cordite and there was a group of children standing. I remember that

first in the streets there were a lot of bands running towards the

school. -- a lot of mothers. A friend shouted to me that there was

a gunman in the primary school. It was hours with no news. The most

incredibly long wait. It was like a form of torture. He was the only one

evacuated from the gym that did not survive. I was not with her when she

died. That is the thing that I regret most. That is the regret, the

one regret I have. I would like her mother to have been with her when

she died. I would like her to have had. That is an absolute betrayal.

Evil visited us yesterday. We don't know why, we don't understand it and

I guess we never will. I've got a scar on my left leg. The doctors had

at some point suggested that I might want skin grafts to cover them up

but these are my scars, they on my body, it is my schooling. I'm not

going to hide them. I'm not ashamed of them. This event was so

unprecedented that we really must mark this important anniversary. But

it is hugely important to help as best we can those who survived and

those lost. That was Ron Taylor ending that

report and you can see the documentary "Dunblane -

Our Story" on BBC 1 Scotland at nine o'clock tonight and at the same time

on BBC Two in the rest of the UK. The government has been defeated

in the Commons over its plans to extend Sunday trading hours

in England and Wales. with twenty Conservative MPs

threatening to join Labour And the S against powers to give

councils the power is to allow shops to open for longer hours.

For 20 years a compromise on the high streets of England and Wales,

customers can trade and shop although shorter hours makes and a

different to other days. Now the government thinks councils should be

allowed to lift those restrictions, what do shoppers think? I grew up in

a Christian family sayings and eight is a day for religious things in

church, not shopping. And is frustrating that the shops don't

open early enough and you have to wait for 30 minutes before you can

pay. I work on Sundays and I find that extra time in the evening gives

me time to have dinner with my family. Longer hours would stimulate

growth and create jobs, they say, the think the law needs updating to

catch up with our shopping habits. After all we can all shop online any

time on a Sunday and they say that large shopping centres should be

able to compete with that. In Parliament many Conservative MPs

agreed, saying it was right to let local areas decide what was best for

them. In life we all have to find our own balance and we are all

capable of deciding whether we work or shop on Sunday. Yet other Tory

MPs threatened to side with Labour and the SNP and oppose the idea.

I've heard so many MPs say that, I want to keep Sunday special for my

family. Why should shop workers be different? In Scotland extending

opening hours already in force yet the SNP in Westminster refuses to

support the same measures for England and Wales, saying they want

higher rates in Scotland protected. So with defeat on the cards time for

the government to come up with a plan. Rather than applying

legalisation Nationwide from day one the government will invite local

authority is that wished to liberalise hours to apply for

participation in an exploratory phase. The sound of a minister

backtracking promising to test the idea of longer opening hours in 12

areas at first. The owner of this chain of shops which does not open

at all on Sundays says it is a matter of priorities. Will they be

more money available to open for longer hours? I'm not sure. I think

we need to put some family values before money. Today has been a

victory for those wanting to protect Sundays at least for now.

This has ended in a highly embarrassing defeat for the

government, even the offer of compromise rejected by other 30

votes. A lot of anger directed at the is an Peter Wright from the

government. They have accused them of hypocrisy for failing to support

a measure in England and Wales that they already have in Scotland. The

truth is though that if the Conservative Party had been united

over this they would have got their way. The government has to decide

now whether to try again, try to get it through the Lords, maybe bring it

to the Commons but with deep divisions already in the

Conservative Party over the European Union they might decide it is best

just to shelve the whole idea. Thank you, Vicki.

Amazon has announced it's creating 1,000 new jobs at a centre

It's part of the internet company's plans to create 2,500 new jobs this

year, increasing its workforce to 14 and a half thousand and the number

New figures show the Scottish economy has been hit by the falling

price of oil - with a deficit reaching almost ?15 billion

In the latest calculation of expenditure and revenues

for Scotland, oil revenues are down by more than fifty per cent compared

Pembrokeshire has become the first place in the UK to ban smoking

To coincide with National No Smoking Day, the council is launching a 12

The ban, which also includes e-cigarettes, will be voluntary,

There's been a victory for football fans today.

From next season tickets for away games in the English Premier League

Currently, the most expensive ticket costs more than ?60.

Our Sports Editor Dan Roan is outside Manchester

Away fans coming here must pay between ?42 and ?58 for a ticket so

the announcement today of a cup of ?30 for a percent is a considerable

saving in the years to come. For a long time now the Premier League

clubs have defended rising ticket prices by pointing to high levels of

demand and the need to maximise match day revenue but today finally

after months of negotiation they accepted that some help was needed

for those who fear being priced out of the game.

It is the result many of these fans had hoped for, supporters groups had

united to campaign for a cheaper ticket prices for years. And today

with the threat of more protests on the way a big win. Loyalty in the

Premier League has come at an ever increasing cost, but the clubs have

now agreed to cap a tickets at ?30 the next three seasons. It feels

absolutely the right thing to do. We looking at our most loyal fans,

those who are almost invariably season-ticket holders, however many

away games they go to, the commitment and of course they are

going to travel, they are being asked to travel on Monday nights and

midweek and therefore to reward them and do something tangible, to butt

in place that ?30 cup is to be welcomed. Action like this as well

as the passionate atmosphere away fans helped generate has turned the

Premier League into a global phenomenon. But with a record new TV

deal worth ?8 billion the clubs were under mounting pressure to pass on

some of the wealth to their customers. Funds' groups had wanted

the tickets to cost no more than ?80 so is the -- ?20, so is this good

enough? We've been campaigning for 20 is plenty now, not quite got bad,

yet got some way towards it. Stoke fans paid ?50 at Stamford Bridge

last Saturday, like me, they will regard this as a good advance

although there may be more steps to be taken. Last month thousands of

Bull fans voted with their feet -- thousands of Liverpool fans voted

with their feet in protest at the prices by walking out at Anfield.

Some will feel that the step taken today is a step in the right

direction. From flooding across parts of the

Midlands, torrential rain in Rutland, one weather watcher sent

this picture, they have been out with their cameras, smoke on the

high ground, over the Brecon Beacons for example and part of the

Pennines, some sunshine in London, hopefully more of this than the

other in the next few days, the weather settling down, overnight

dampness persisting across parts of eastern England, from

Northamptonshire to the ease to Midlands and down to London, clear

in the west although this means this is where lower temperatures will be,

a shop frost first thing in the morning across the heart of

Scotland, a sparkling start to the day, some fog patches, not much of

an issue. The northern and western side of England and Wales will enjoy

sunshine, compared with the wet and windy weather we saw this morning in

that part. A great start further east, again through the south-east

and London towards Yorkshire, sunshine for East Anglia, and

hopefully within this cloudy zone things will improve a little but

don't hold your breath, it will probably stay a bit grey and as a

consequence, quite cool. Some sunshine although it will cloud over

across Northern Ireland, the best of the sunshine, where it will stay

grey, perhaps no more than six or 7 degrees. Into Friday, more fine

weather for England and Wales, variable cloud in the central area,

maybe staying cloudier, thicker cloud for northern and western

Scotland, wet weather coming in here. The message for the weekend is

optimistic, most areas will be dry, hopefully you will see sunshine,

although with fairly chilly nights. George. Thank you.

In a moment we'll join the BBC's news teams where you are.

But before that we leave you with some images

of Sir George Martin, who produced the Beatles,

George had done little or no rock and roll when we met him and we had

never been in a studio so we did a lot of learning together.

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