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High street history in the balance - British Home Stores goes | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The stores are trading for now, but 11,000 jobs are at risk | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Look for another job I think, that's the only thing we | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
What job do you do, are you a shop assistant? | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Former owner Sir Philip Green offers tens of millions to plug | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
the company's pensions, but could be asked for even more. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
We'll be looking at went wrong for the 88 year old brand. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
NHS managers in England are preparing for the first ever | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
The EU referendum - Leave campaigners warn of a free | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
for all at our borders, if Britain votes to remain a member. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
The Home Secretary steps in about the on immigration and Britain's | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
role in Europe. the jury in the Hillsborough inquest | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
say they're ready to And all sound, but no action - | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
the high rise blocks that left the demolition teams with red | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
faces. Coming up in the sport on BBC News: | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
The race for the title in the Premier League continues, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
as Tottenham face West Brom looking for a win to keep | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
the pressure on table Good evening, and welcome | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
the BBC News at 6. After 88 years on the high | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
street, the BHS department store chain has finally | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
run up the white flag. With debts of more than ?1 billion | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
and a rescue plan in ruins, the current owners - | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
who bought the stores from the billionaire | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Philip Green last year - The company's 164 stores | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
will continue to trade for now, but if a new buyer cannot be found, | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
11,000 jobs will go. Our Business Correspondent Emma | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Simpson takes a look at what's gone As the doors open this morning, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
BHS workers waiting for news, By lunchtime this household name | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
had collapsed. BHS has been on our high streets | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
for nearly 90 years, generations have bought | :02:31. | :02:45. | |
its homewares and clothes as it changed through the decades, | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
but will it be missed? I wouldn't normally come here, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
because it's not the sort of clothes But I'm just going to see | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
if there is anything. The variety in John Lewis | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
is a lot more. Back in 2000 it was bought | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
by Sir Philip Green, A disillusioned workforce, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
demoralised people, a business, in all honesty, that would have gone | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
broke if I had not bought it. BHS helped Sir Philip | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
build his retail empire A billionaire who mingles | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
with celebs and famous That helped drive sales | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
at his new venture, Topshop. But BHS failed to keep up | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
with the competition, and after six years of losses, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
he sold it last year for ?1. The new owners were a little-known | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
group of financial investors, I understand they earned at least | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
?8 million from BHS, This goes back a very long way, | :03:48. | :04:03. | |
over the past ten years or so, where BHS has been | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
invested in as a business. It looks dated, the range looks | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
tired, and of course, people haven't gone to the shop | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
and that has pushed the economic This is the biggest failure | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
on our high streets since the collapse of | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Woolworths eight years ago. It's not just the thousands of jobs | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
at risk, BHS left debts of up to ?1.3 billion, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
including a pension And its pension schemes have | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
to be rescued. His pension is safe, | :04:30. | :04:44. | |
but will be less than he was expecting, and says Sir Philip Green | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
has questions to answer. He could have quite easily afforded | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
to pay that pension scheme up front. He sold it for ?1, thinking | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
it was really clever to do so. Sir Philip has offered to pay part | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
of the shortfall, Tonight the pension | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
regulator is investigating. As for the business, | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
he sold it nice and tidy, Things are far from tidy now | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
though, as the race begins Our Business Editor Simon Jack | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
is outside a BHS store Is this the end of the line, do you | :05:21. | :05:40. | |
think, for BHS? I think in its current form the answer is probably | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
yes. This is a brand that generates more affection than it does in | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
trade. Any potential buyer would have to work out if there is enough | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
mileage in that brand to be worth investing in it. In its current form | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
it is unlikely. As we are seen with previous high street busts, like | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Woolworths, a similar brand held in affection not generating enough | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
sales, it got split up piecemeal. This one has been sold for ?50 | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
million. I think in its current format it is unlikely to survive. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
The Business Minister has been on her feet in the Commons in the last | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
few moments saying, remember, it does continue to trade. She also | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
said they stand by with rapid reaction response in job centres, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
which sends a more gloomy message to employees today. OK Simon, thank you | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
very much. In just over twelve hours' times | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
junior doctors in England For the first time in the history | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
of the NHS they will not cover emergency services, such as A | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
departments and intensive care. Last minute pleas for the doctors | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
and the Government to get around a table again have failed - | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
as our health editor They have already been strikes | :06:46. | :06:58. | |
affecting routine care in this bitter and long-running dispute. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Doctors walked out over pay and conditions back in the 1970s, but | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the escalated action in England over the next two days is unprecedented | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
in the NHS. Junior doctors protesting at the Department of | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Health today say the government was wrong to end talks and impose a new | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
contract on them. I asked how they could justify the planned full-scale | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
walk-out. Of course I don't want to be on strike tomorrow, of course I | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
want to be looking after my patients. But for me, the greater | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
harm that will occur to patients in the future of this contract being | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
proposed parsley outstrips the risks of tomorrow. To help secretary says | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
the doctor 's union wouldn't negotiate so he had to press on with | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
the contract and this afternoon he set out his case in the Commons. Mr | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Speaker, the NHS is busting a gut to keep the public say. But we should | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
not lose sight of the underlying reason for this dispute, namely this | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
government's determination to be the first country in the world to | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
operate and offer a proper patient focused seven-day health care | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
service. Labour said the way ministers had handled this dispute | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
was the equivalent of pouring oil on a blazing fire. In previous strikes | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
routine operations and appointments were affected, but this time junior | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
doctors will also strike in areas like accident and emergency units, | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
maternity services, intensive care units and mental health crisis care. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
So all will stay open during the action. Once again, routine work has | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
been postponed. Kevin has action. Once again, routine work has | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
injury but twice appointments with consultants have been put off | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
because of junior doctors strikes. He is not against their action but | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
he is frustrated. It is not knowing when it's going to be done. I just | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
want to know. The main thing is, how long am I going to be off work | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
question mark that is the main thing. NHS and hospital management | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
are stressing essential care will be provided tomorrow and Wednesday by | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
senior doctors and nursing staff to stop anyone considering going to A | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
is being asked to think twice if they don't need urgent attention. At | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
hospitals like this one, medical chiefs are reviewing plans to cover | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
gaps in AMD. How our preparations for industrial action going? Very | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
well, we have been through all the rotors and we have names in every | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
box. The plans may be in place. Whether they hold up under pressure | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
during the strikes is another matter. This is uncharted territory | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
for the NHS. Theresa May has intervened for the first time in the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
EU referendum campaign. She made clear her commitment to staying in | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
the European Union but said Britain should leave your's leading human | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
rights body. The leave campaign says it faces are free from if it stays | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
in the EU. Here is our political editor Laura Kuenssberg. As many | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
people as live in Middlesbrough came to live in the UK from other EU | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
countries last year. The Home Secretary believes that is just too | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
many, but it is not enough to make her want to leave the European | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Union. There are certainly problems caused by EU membership, but there | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
are advantages as well. Our decision must come down to whether, after | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
serious thought about the pros and cons, we believe there is more in | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the credit column than the debit column for remaining on the inside. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
She is an David Cameron's side in the big argument over stay or go, | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
but the speech was full of subtle swipes, although the government is | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
meant to have a target on immigration, listen carefully. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Do you concede as long as we are in we cannot put a limit on the overall | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
numbers of people coming here from the European Union, for good or ill? | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
There is only one area in which we have a numerical limit on movement | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
of people into the United Kingdom. That is the workers coming from | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
outside the European Union. So no, you cannot limit the numbers. The | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Home Secretary pitched herself as reluctant Remain, challenging David | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Cameron new countries like Turkey joining the European Union. Calling | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
for us to quit the European Convention on human rights, a treaty | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
that is separate to the EU. If we want to reform human rights laws in | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
this country it is not the EU we should leave, but the EC HR and the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
jurisdiction of its core. The Home Secretary was borrowing a week where | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the Prime Minister and Remain side felt they were in control, after the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
President's hefty swing of a nine iron, but her support might raise as | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
many questions as it answers. The Home Secretary wants you to vote to | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
stay in the European Union, but it seems there are almost three | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
positions on this at the top of the Tory party now. Remain, which is | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
what David Cameron is arguing. Leave, being pushed by people like | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
Boris Johnson, and a Home Secretary's apparent position, stay | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
through gritted teeth. Her arguments are enough to persuade me to vote | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
leaves and most people to Vote Leave because you can only control those | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
area she spoke off by leaving the European Union. Isn't the fact | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
you're losing the argument here and Theresa May's speech gives you | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
something to focus on? I think this is only begun. I think she would | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
have expected the government has everything at their power, they have | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
all the money, the civil servants, they have taken the remaining camp | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
and stuck it in Downing Street summer. They have everything in | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
their favour at this stage of the contest. That is how the government | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
will approach to this campaign and they hang on for fear of something | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
worse. Until now the outcome pain were accused of struggling to | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
contain differences were accused of struggling to | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
but there may be cracks on the other side as well. In the heat of | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
political campaigns, any thing can happen. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
So Britain's ability to control immigration was one of the big | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
themes today. Daniel Stanford is here with me. Let's get this right, | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
what is the position now, what are the numbers? There is no doubt the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
European union Freedom of movement rules have made a significant | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
contribution to those coming to live in the UK. Not quite a big | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
proportion as you might expect. If you take British citizens out of the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
equation the net migration to the UK with 363,000 in the year to | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
September. That was the number arriving minus the number leaving. | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
The Remain and Leave agree we can do nothing to stop them coming here. We | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
can still check on people arriving and under EU rules we have the power | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
to expel people on security grounds, for example. Let's look at the EU | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
migration. What would the likely difference be between a vote to | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
remain and a vote to leave? If the UK left the EU in theory migration | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
from the European Union could be completely stopped. However, | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
presumably at the moment of leaving we would want to do a trade deal | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
with the EU. When Switzerland did a trader with the EU they had to | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
accept some of the EU freedom of movement rules. Now they have a much | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
higher proportion of EU citizens living in Switzerland and we do of | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
non-British citizens. They are trying to get out of that agreement | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
at the moment but to do that they might have to abandon their trade | :14:31. | :14:31. | |
deal. And would we say no EU citizens, no | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
German doctors, Lithuanian farm workers at all can come to the UK? | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Presumably not. If the economy stayed strong even if we left the EU | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
some EU citizens would still be coming to the UK. On the other hand, | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
if we remain in the EU, the freedom of movement rules will almost | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
certainly stay, and with other countries like Turkey and Albania | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
potentially joining the EU further down the line, the pool of people | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
who might want to come here could go up, unless we change the rules about | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
new people coming. Thank you. It is 6:15pm. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
British Home Stores goes into administration, | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
putting 11,000 thousand jobs at risk. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Should all schools in England be turned into academies ? | :15:19. | :15:31. | |
And in the sport, the former number one Judd Trump is the last name to | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
be knocked out of the Snooker championship being beaten 13-10 by | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
China's Ding. Whoever wins will be one of the most | :15:42. | :15:56. | |
powerful politicians in Britain and the decision will be made, the | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
theft. The race to replace Boris Johnson as Mayor of London is in its | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
final fortnight, but the campaign has been dogged by personal attacks | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
and accusations of racism. Our deputy political | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
Trouble is, it's the other guy who needs the attention. | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Zac Goldsmith is out to follow Boris Johnson as London mayor. | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
Accusations of playing the race card always do. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Are you comfortable with supporting a campaign which has been | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
accused now of mudslinging and even of racism? | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
All political campaigns have to ask tough questions. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Getting your hands dirty in a campaign is one thing. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
Cultivating the idea your main opponent is unfit for office | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
No one to my knowledge, no one serious, has accused my | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
No one can pretend it is not legitimate to ask that someone | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
who wants to be Mayor of London, with a big security remit, | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
no one can pretend it is not legitimate to ask about that | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
person's links to people who wish to do this city harm. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
My campaign, my focus, has to be about my action | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
About delivering for London by working with government, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
keeping council tax low, it is a pledge I have made, | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
keeping London safe, making London the greenest | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Somehow at home in any crowd, meet Sadiq Khan. | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
He played a part as Minister with Gordon Brown. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
Back on his old estate, he says he will fix the housing | :17:35. | :17:49. | |
Unite communities in a city where diversity is one reason | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
Even if he keeps distance from Labour. I'm asking Londoners to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
trust my experience and my vision to be a mayor for all Londoners. On the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
question of religious extremism as has been discussed, what do you say | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
to that? Could you have done more to demonstrate your own moderate | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
approach? I voted for same-sex marriage and there was a fatwa put | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
out against me and I was discussing police protection. I'm the candidate | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
with a plan and a British Muslim who wants to tackle radicalisation. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
There is nothing new about an election campaign turning nastier | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
and this one could be a political game changer. Jeremy Corbyn believes | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
a big win in London could help him see off mutinous MPs, and there are | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
lots of them, who want to show that Labour can't win with him in charge. | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
Some conservatives believe David Cameron wouldn't break his heart if | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
he won either, he believes rightly or wrongly that they can beat Labour | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
in their sleep with Jeremy Corbyn in charge. The greens are enjoying the | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
campaign more than the likely result. Which number will it be | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
next? Like the Liberal Democrats, kept going by memories of better | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
days and future hopes. And Ukip? If only they could tap into Eurosceptic | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
feeling as they once did. London is choosing a new face and the odds say | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
it is Sadiq Khan or Goldsmith, who won't give up even if Boris Johnson | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
is a hard act to follow. Here is a list of all of the candidates | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
standing. On the 5th of May. After a case lasting two years, | :19:27. | :19:48. | |
the jury at the Hillsborough Inquests has reached a decision | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
on whether the 96 Liverpool fans Their conclusions will be | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
formally returned tomorrow. Let's get more now from our | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
correspondent at the We know this has been tough for the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
juror 's. They have been here for more than two years, listening to | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
more than 600 witnesses, thousands of documents and hours of footage | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
and their task has been to work through all of that to provide | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
answers to a 14 section questionnaire. We know they have | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
made unanimous decisions on 13 of the questions that deal with topics | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
including the actions of South Yorkshire Police and Ambulance | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Service. They were stuck on the central issue of whether the 96 | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
people who died were unlawfully killed. This morning they were told | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
they could come back with a majority decision, we know they have done | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
that but we haven't got their answer yet. That will be tomorrow. The | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
court is breaking until tomorrow to give the families of those who died | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
every chance possible to get here for the big day and we expect so | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
many people to be here at the court in Warrington that they will have | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
two relay proceedings to other buildings. This moment coming 27 | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
years after Britain's worst stadium disaster and right at the end of | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
what is now Britain's longest ever running inquest. Thank you. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Tributes have been paid to an army officer who died while running | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Captain David Seath, from Fife, suffered a suspected cardiac arrest | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
The Afghanistan veteran and Green Beret was an officer in 29 Commando. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
His family and friends plan to walk the final three miles | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
of the route in his honour, starting at the place | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Any donations they receive will go to the charity Help for Heroes - | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
which David was fundraising for when he died. | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Should all schools in England be forced to become academies? | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
That's what Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary thinks. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
But even among Tory councils there are worries about the plan | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
which would see them lose control of well-run schools | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
Now the government has confirmed its looking at ways | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
of allowing councils themselves to set up chains of academy schools. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Our Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys has more. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
Who's making it hard for coach Martin to follow them? Lots are -- | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
lots of people are making it harder for the government so will it have | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Duport 's plans to make all schools academies? Not if it can help it. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
But they might have the budget on the details. Not one school in this | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
borough has chosen to become an academy, so what if the council | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
itself set up some kind of academy trust? I think we may just have | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
reinvented the wheel. I'm not sure it going to make a difference to | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
children and standards. I think the more pressing issue that will do | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
that is focusing on teacher recruitment and retention and making | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
sure children have great teachers who are led by great headteachers. | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
There are 15,000 schools like this in England, in these plans all would | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
be forced to become academies. Where will all of the new bosses come | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
from? It looks like some may be from councils. There are intense | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
behind-the-scenes discussions going on about how local councils could | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
set up a multi-academy trust in the area to provide support and oversee | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
some schools if they chose to join. But there are still plenty of tough | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
questions for Education Secretary Nicky Morgan about how exactly all | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
of this might work. Is it still her intention to ask Parliament for | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
these new powers? Yes or no? I have been very clear that I will not be | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
the Secretary of State that leaves the job of making our school system | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
as strong as possible for the benefit of all pupils under. | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
Lincolnshire, like many rural counties is conservative run, here | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
they fear for the future of small village schools. Writing to the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Education Secretary to ask for reassurance. We don't feel the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
residence will want this and we know that our small schools, as I say, if | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
they wanted to be an academy they would have done it already. More | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
obstacles lie ahead for these school plans. Ministers might have to give | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
way on details, on how exactly councils get involved. And where the | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
buck stops for the quality of England's schools. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
The Scottish novelist and poet Nan Shepherd will feature | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
on the Royal Bank of Scotland's new ?5 note when it comes | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
The announcement came as the bank unveiled | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
the designs for its new 5-pound and 10-pound polymer notes. | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Scientist Mary Somerville had already been selected | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
A tower block on Merseyside has proved to have unexpected staying | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
power, after surviving two attempts to demolish it. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
A neighbouring block at Seaforth was successfully destroyed | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Another explosion today only brought down part | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
They were supposed to come down yesterday morning, the 15 story | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
buildings left and right of your picture had been standing since the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
1960s. Nearby houses were evacuated and residents placed well away from | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
the danger zone. Then this. EXPLOSIONS | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
The moment both buildings should have come down. Loads of noise but | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
no demolition. Is it safe, yes or no?! Onlookers were confused and the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
demolition team embarrassed. Then two hours later as engineered -- | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
engineers tried to find out what went wrong one of the blocks | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
suddenly collapsed. The public scattered for safety. It came down | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
on its own! This afternoon a robot was sent in to nudge the second | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
block down. But guess what? It still standing. Time for a look at the | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
weather now. It seems as though we have had all four seasons in one day | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
today? Pretty much right. That is illustrated nicely by the following | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
pictures. Maybe a hint of summer towards the Isles of Scilly. Love -- | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
lovely sunshine, look at those daffodils in the wind and yes, that | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
is falling snow. I pressure in the North Atlantic and in between these | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
brands we have a cold northerly wind as Arctic air pushes across the UK | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
and you can see the speckles of cloud and showers with sunshine in | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
between. Also moving quite quickly. It has been blowing a gale today in | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
northern Scotland. Gusts of up to 60 mph bringing wintry showers along | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
the eastern coasts but most wintry weather will be in the Highlands and | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
maybe a dusting across western areas. Cold night across the board | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
with frost for many and also icy patches in Scotland in particular. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
with frost for many and also icy Into the morning still snow showers | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
falling. Probably dry, bright and cold in | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
falling. Probably dry, bright and Scattered showers and so shine but | :27:27. | :27:27. | |
for the Scattered showers and so shine but | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
England it will be a cold morning with cold wind. In Wales and the | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
south-west, any snow should not last long, disappearing quickly, sunshine | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
in the Midlands and wintry weather in East Anglia. Generally speaking a | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
day of sunny spells and showers and when they come along through the | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
afternoon they could be heavy with hail and thunder. Notice there is | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
still wintry weather over the higher ground in Scotland. Thermometers may | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
be 7-11, but it will feel only one or 2 degrees above freezing when you | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
factor in the wind. Not too bad in any sunshine but showers could be | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
quite wintry. Beware of frosty nights. Thank you very much. The | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
remainder of the main stories tonight. BHS has gone into | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
administration with 11,000 jobs at risk, the company has debts of more | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
than ?1 billion. NHS managers are preparing for the first ever all-out | :28:30. | :28:38. | |
strike by junior doctors. It's goodbye from me and | :28:39. | :28:39. |