02/06/2016

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:00:00. > :00:07.The end of a high street era - BHS is to close, with the likely

:00:08. > :00:12.The store has been a feature of Britain's town centres

:00:13. > :00:14.for nearly 90 years - where did it go wrong?

:00:15. > :00:22.We'll be looking at the questions being asked of its former owners.

:00:23. > :00:28.It wasn't the cheapest, it wasn't the coolest, it wasn't the most

:00:29. > :00:30.innovative, it didn't have the best food, it wasn't a destination. That

:00:31. > :00:33.simple. the German Chancellor,

:00:34. > :00:37.Angela Merkel, intervenes in the EU referendum debate suggesting the UK

:00:38. > :00:40.is unlikely to get a good Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn says

:00:41. > :00:42.the case for staying in the EU is overwhelming -

:00:43. > :00:45.and rejects criticism that Labour isn't getting

:00:46. > :00:49.its Remain message across. We have a special report on the

:00:50. > :00:53.risks of radicalisation in prison. Swapping life in London

:00:54. > :00:58.for war-torn Somalia. Extremism haunts the capital city -

:00:59. > :01:00.even as its citizens And it's waterproof

:01:01. > :01:06.but not inflation proof, England gets a new plastic,

:01:07. > :01:12.flexible fiver. And coming up in the

:01:13. > :01:14.sport on BBC News... Aston Villa appoint former Chelsea

:01:15. > :01:16.boss Roberto Di Matteo The Italian replaces Remi Garde

:01:17. > :01:41.at the Championship club. Thousands of jobs are to go

:01:42. > :01:45.as a giant of the High Street - BHS - is to be wound

:01:46. > :01:50.down by administrators. The news emerged this afternoon

:01:51. > :01:52.after efforts to find a buyer Altogether some 11,000 people make

:01:53. > :02:00.up the workforce of BHS. They will now hold "Closing Down

:02:01. > :02:15.Sales" over the coming weeks. It ends and 88 year history for the

:02:16. > :02:18.firm that was last year sold for a pound by Sir Philip green.

:02:19. > :02:21.Here's our Business Editor Simon Jack.

:02:22. > :02:28.A desperate last-ditch campaign to get the public behind a 90 year high

:02:29. > :02:32.Street veteran today ended in failure. With no buyer found, the

:02:33. > :02:37.company will be liquidated, its assets sold off and its 11,000

:02:38. > :02:41.employees will be out of a job. It is the biggest high-street collapse

:02:42. > :02:46.since Woolworths went bust in 2008. Shoppers around the country

:02:47. > :02:51.expressed their shock today's news. I'm sad to see it go, yes, it is a

:02:52. > :02:57.shame. We are losing an awful lot of retail shops in the clothing. I

:02:58. > :03:02.think it's terrible for the country. Woolworths went, now British Home

:03:03. > :03:06.Stores. What's next? I am a bit angry as well that despite having so

:03:07. > :03:11.many millionaires in this country, we couldn't save a British tour. And

:03:12. > :03:14.yet maybe it should not have come at such a surprise will stop retail

:03:15. > :03:20.experts say BHS has been losing touch with its own customers for

:03:21. > :03:23.years. Great retail these years is about destination, people do

:03:24. > :03:27.research online and they go for a reason. There was no reason to come

:03:28. > :03:29.here, it was in the cheapest, not the most innovative, it didn't have

:03:30. > :03:32.an extraordinary shopping experience, it didn't have a

:03:33. > :03:35.brilliant food offer, and it never led the way in anything, and

:03:36. > :03:43.therefore it fell by the wayside. Simple as that. But this was no

:03:44. > :03:47.normal retail failer, it is as much about it owners. Billionaire tycoon

:03:48. > :03:50.Sir Philip green owned BHS for 15 years and at first profits rolled in

:03:51. > :03:55.and then straight out again as he took hundreds of millions of pounds

:03:56. > :03:59.in dividends. In later years, BHS was propped up by the rest of Sir

:04:00. > :04:03.Philip green's empire, until finally he sold it last year for just ?1 to

:04:04. > :04:10.this man. Former racing driver and former bankrupt Dominic Chappel, a

:04:11. > :04:14.man with no retail experience whatsoever. He took millions out of

:04:15. > :04:19.the company in fees and loans before it collapsed into administration in

:04:20. > :04:23.April. Despite multiple expressions of interest, no credible buyer was

:04:24. > :04:28.found and the plug was pulled today. My reaction is little compared with

:04:29. > :04:36.the 11,000 workers who now face the dole queue. And the 20,000 people

:04:37. > :04:41.who built up and expect if not already drawing to draw a pension.

:04:42. > :04:46.They must feel very deserted, and we know other people in this whole

:04:47. > :04:50.terrible 's saga have been able to walk away taking quite a bit of

:04:51. > :04:51.money with them. As the doors close tonight, those issues and many more

:04:52. > :05:04.remain open. In many ways, that is economic life.

:05:05. > :05:07.Companies that don't give up the time, don't adapt to a changing

:05:08. > :05:10.customer needs, they perish, other ones thrive, that is just life but

:05:11. > :05:14.this is more than that. This is really a story about the owners, how

:05:15. > :05:18.much money they took out of the business and did they put it in and

:05:19. > :05:23.in the border states it had very little chance of surviving? Those

:05:24. > :05:26.are the questions that will asked of Philip green and Dominic Chappel,

:05:27. > :05:29.who face MPs, including Frank Field who you saw in that piece. They will

:05:30. > :05:34.want to know how much did you take out, how much did you know, did

:05:35. > :05:39.Philip green Celek two and irresponsible new owner -- did

:05:40. > :05:43.Philip green sell it to an irresponsible new owner.

:05:44. > :05:46.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the EU can deliver positive

:05:47. > :05:49.change on a wide range of issues - and that there is an "overwhelming

:05:50. > :05:54.Mr Corbyn insisted that he IS getting his pro-EU message across -

:05:55. > :05:56.despite criticism from a union leader that his support so far

:05:57. > :05:59.He also addressed fears over EU immigration,

:06:00. > :06:02.saying it could be a 'disconcerting' issue for many Labour supporters.

:06:03. > :06:04.Here's our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.

:06:05. > :06:11.Has Labour just been looking on as the Tories fight it out? That is the

:06:12. > :06:15.fear among the in camp, as the debate grinds towards the end. So

:06:16. > :06:21.there has been a squeeze on to push the party's leader to speak loud and

:06:22. > :06:26.proud. We, the Labour Party, are overwhelmingly for staying in,

:06:27. > :06:29.because we believe the European Union has brought investment, jobs

:06:30. > :06:34.and protection of workers, consumers and the environment. But many Labour

:06:35. > :06:37.voters think that has also come with too much immigration, acknowledged

:06:38. > :06:42.more clearly than ever by Mr Corbyn today. But some communities can

:06:43. > :06:46.change dramatically and rapidly and that can be disconcerting for some

:06:47. > :06:51.people. That doesn't make all of them little Englanders, xenophobes

:06:52. > :06:54.or racists. One of your biggest supporters, the leader of the GMB,

:06:55. > :06:58.has told the BBC that Labour has failed to get its message across. I

:06:59. > :07:03.think the message has been very, very clear, that we are campaigning

:07:04. > :07:07.to defend and extend workers' rights and trade union rights in Britain as

:07:08. > :07:10.we would across Europe, working with others, and also pointing out that

:07:11. > :07:18.it is the British government does not economic austerity measures that

:07:19. > :07:25.have caused many of the problems. What is loud and clear at this

:07:26. > :07:28.Labour club in Preston, an overwhelming sense that this group

:07:29. > :07:34.at least want to take the chance of leaving. It is immigration, the

:07:35. > :07:40.number one priority is immigration. It is a small island, we are overrun

:07:41. > :07:46.by people. I am undecided, all of my family is voting out. It is about

:07:47. > :07:53.taking England back. They don't call us great Britain for nothing, do

:07:54. > :07:57.they? I'm with Boris. LAUGHTER And Labour's official campaign to

:07:58. > :08:03.stay in isn't always receiving, shall we say, the warmest of

:08:04. > :08:08.welcomes. Go back to London with all of you yuppie friends and your bank

:08:09. > :08:11.appends, we are Cornish fishermen. In Cornwall, it seemed there were

:08:12. > :08:17.more placards than members of the public turning out to listen. What

:08:18. > :08:20.we are about is to ensure that Cornwall continues to benefit from

:08:21. > :08:27.an incredible level of EU funding. One powerful union leader worries

:08:28. > :08:34.that the inside may lose because Labour dead villages their vote dump

:08:35. > :08:38.-- don't feel it is their fight. We have tens of thousands of GMB jobs

:08:39. > :08:42.directly reliant on Europe, and it leaves those jobs from rubble in the

:08:43. > :08:46.least and downright going down the toilet in the worst-case scenario.

:08:47. > :08:50.Only a clutch of Labour MPs believe we should leave the EU, but they

:08:51. > :08:54.claim they have the air of party supporters. They want to take

:08:55. > :08:57.control back to own country, and I'm afraid the leadership of the Labour

:08:58. > :09:02.Party is very much out of touch with the rank and file Labour supporter.

:09:03. > :09:08.Jeremy Corbyn's promise in the next few week, days will become more

:09:09. > :09:14.intense, but what is striking listening to him today is the listed

:09:15. > :09:19.almost as many downsides as good sides at the union. He wants you to

:09:20. > :09:24.vote to stay in, but he is also pushing for a very different

:09:25. > :09:27.European Union. An ovation here, but to help keep Britain in the EU,

:09:28. > :09:29.Labour needs more than applause. Jeremy Corbyn wasn't the only

:09:30. > :09:32.person pressing the case The German chancellor Angela Merkel

:09:33. > :09:35.has also been expressing her hopes Let's speak to Laura

:09:36. > :09:48.who's at Westminster now. Rita, thanks very much. What voters

:09:49. > :09:51.are not suffering from right now is a shortage of politicians getting

:09:52. > :09:55.involved in this whole date. In the last 34 hours we have the Spanish

:09:56. > :09:59.leader, the Dutch leader, and now this afternoon Angela Merkel,

:10:00. > :10:03.arguably the most powerful politician in Europe saying a bit

:10:04. > :10:10.more diplomatically than this simply we would be crazy if we were to vote

:10:11. > :10:15.to leave the European Union. TRANSLATION: In my experience over

:10:16. > :10:18.the last few years, you will never get really good results in

:10:19. > :10:23.negotiations, particularly on very important issues, when you are not

:10:24. > :10:27.in the room and giving input to the decision. It is no great surprise

:10:28. > :10:30.that we have known that for a while, what matters is that she has chosen

:10:31. > :10:35.to intervene at a really sensitive time for the campaign. The actors

:10:36. > :10:41.show David Cameron is panicking and getting his mates from the EU

:10:42. > :10:45.involved, but it is also tricky for the out campaign, because she warned

:10:46. > :10:50.very directly that life for the economy outside the EU could be very

:10:51. > :10:52.chilly indeed. The out campaigners have consistently said common-sense

:10:53. > :10:57.dictates that we would be able to trade with our European partners,

:10:58. > :11:02.even outside the EU. What Angela Merkel did in that comment was for a

:11:03. > :11:06.cold bucket of Walker over that, and I think we can expect the remain

:11:07. > :11:07.side to remind voters of that again and again in the days to come.

:11:08. > :11:10.Laura, many thanks. The Ministry of Justice

:11:11. > :11:13.is to investigate allegations raised by the BBC about a controversial

:11:14. > :11:15.teaching manual used in prisons by imams to educate

:11:16. > :11:19.inmates about Islam. An Islamic scholar says

:11:20. > :11:21.the manual risks "turning A former prison officer says some

:11:22. > :11:26.Muslim prisoners are "taking over the law" at the high-security prison

:11:27. > :11:28.where he worked. Our Special Correspondent

:11:29. > :11:34.Lucy Manning reports. Muslim prisoners on their way to

:11:35. > :11:46.Friday prayers at Wandsworth Jail. Moving the 300 Muslim prisoners

:11:47. > :11:48.to the jail's mosque meaning the rest of the prison more

:11:49. > :11:51.or less shuts down One in seven prisoners in England

:11:52. > :11:56.and Wales is a Muslim and in this A former prison officer

:11:57. > :12:04.at a different jail and has told the BBC there are prisoner run

:12:05. > :12:07.Sharia law courts incrementing The bottom of this prisoner's feet

:12:08. > :12:15.had been whipped as punishment and the punishment was

:12:16. > :12:17.from a court session. There were a number of occasions

:12:18. > :12:19.where the feet were beaten Another incident saw them fined

:12:20. > :12:25.for not adhering to what they were The programme was introduced

:12:26. > :12:28.by the Ministry of Justice in 2011 The BBC has seen the teaching

:12:29. > :12:32.manual. A key section of the

:12:33. > :12:36.course is on jihad. In it the immam is asked to discuss

:12:37. > :12:41.with prisoners the difference between the internal jihad,

:12:42. > :12:43.the struggle for self-improvement, and external jihad, the struggle

:12:44. > :12:46.against the enemies of Allah, which sometimes involves

:12:47. > :13:02.taking up arms. Although both kinds of jihad

:13:03. > :13:05.are taught on the course, experts say too much emphasis

:13:06. > :13:10.is on the fighting kind. It prepares people for violence,

:13:11. > :13:13.if I put it that way. And it could turn people,

:13:14. > :13:15.when they come out of prison, supposedly rehabilitated,

:13:16. > :13:22.back into violence. They need to remove it as quickly

:13:23. > :13:25.as possible and then rehabilitate The programme was co-written

:13:26. > :13:39.by a prison's adviser. Another Ministry of Justice course

:13:40. > :13:42.was withdrawn last year because it was based on some text

:13:43. > :13:46.written by extremists. Belmarsh Prison is home to some

:13:47. > :13:48.of Britain's most dangerous One Muslim who was there for fraud

:13:49. > :14:05.said the there was a failure to get And the wider prison system doesn't

:14:06. > :14:07.protect inmates. His identity has been disguised.

:14:08. > :14:10.I lived in amongst these young, impressionable guys and I saw

:14:11. > :14:13.the conveyor belt of radicalisation in full effect.

:14:14. > :14:15.I witnessed these people convicted of terrorism,

:14:16. > :14:32.domain roaming around freely able to manipulate minds.

:14:33. > :14:34.The Ministry of Justice says it is already doing

:14:35. > :14:37.understands it will now investigate the allegations raised

:14:38. > :14:42.It's been reported in the US that the singer Prince died

:14:43. > :14:45.The 57-year-old star was found dead in a lift

:14:46. > :14:49.As part of their investigations, detectives have questioned a doctor

:14:50. > :14:54.who saw Prince twice in the weeks before he died.

:14:55. > :14:56.The Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond has met the first contingent

:14:57. > :14:59.of British troops who will be deployed to Somalia in the coming

:15:00. > :15:01.months to support missions there by the United Nations

:15:02. > :15:06.He arrived the day after a bomb blast hit a hotel

:15:07. > :15:09.From Mogadishu, Alastair Leithead reports now on a city attempting

:15:10. > :15:16.to live life normally, despite the outbreaks of violence.

:15:17. > :15:21.Patrolling the dangerous streets of Mogadishu.

:15:22. > :15:28.We joined a checkpoint, manned by Somali police and troops

:15:29. > :15:30.from other African nations supporting them on the long road

:15:31. > :15:35.Mogadishu, like much of Somalia, still isn't safe.

:15:36. > :15:39.The risk here is car bombs, suicide attacks.

:15:40. > :15:41.Al-Shabbab, although they have been driven from many cities, still

:15:42. > :15:45.Security isn't good, but with regards to businesses

:15:46. > :15:48.opening up and politics, it is a bit more optimistic.

:15:49. > :16:02.And so Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond met the president,

:16:03. > :16:06.Far from fully democratic, but a big step towards rebuilding

:16:07. > :16:09.a new federal-state after 25 years of civil war, as long

:16:10. > :16:11.So let me start off by introducing yourself...

:16:12. > :16:14.At a hip rooftop pizza place that has just opened, we were preparing

:16:15. > :16:17.to interview Marian Hassan, born and bred in London,

:16:18. > :16:19.but as of January, permanently living and working here.

:16:20. > :16:32.It was a suicide attack on a hotel, followed by gunfire.

:16:33. > :16:38.Al-Shabbab militants then went inside, killing at least 15 people,

:16:39. > :16:40.including two British Somali MPs, who, like Marian, had

:16:41. > :16:46.In London, I have almost been mugged three times.

:16:47. > :16:49.That hasn't happened to me in Mogadishu.

:16:50. > :16:52.The Somali security forces are the key to the country's stability.

:16:53. > :16:57.British-trained police put on a demonstration for

:16:58. > :17:02.What's happening here now is addressing our security concerns,

:17:03. > :17:05.it is addressing our migration concerns, and having a stable

:17:06. > :17:06.and secure Somalia is good for Britain,

:17:07. > :17:12.And more troops will soon be joining the mission in Mogadishu.

:17:13. > :17:23.BHS is to close, with the likely loss of 11,000 jobs.

:17:24. > :17:36.Separated at birth, the couple who took a DNA test to prove they'd

:17:37. > :17:42.England play their final friendly ahead of Euro 2016

:17:43. > :17:45.tonight against Portugal, and the captain Wayne Rooney backs

:17:46. > :18:02.Marcus Rashford to make an impression.

:18:03. > :18:05.The final design for the new plastic Bank of England five pound note

:18:06. > :18:08.featuring Sir Winston Churchill has been unveiled at Blenheim Palace -

:18:09. > :18:12.The use of thin, see-through polymer is a first for the Bank.

:18:13. > :18:14.Our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed is at Blenheim Palace

:18:15. > :18:28.Yes, so here it is. The first plastic note printed by the Bank of

:18:29. > :18:34.England. The public won't be able to use this note until the autumn but

:18:35. > :18:40.the bank has already printed 440 million of these banknotes. The

:18:41. > :18:45.plastic is made in Cumbria. These banknotes are going to be printed in

:18:46. > :18:51.Essex. This is a very British palace, and this, it seems, is a

:18:52. > :18:57.very British note. A long and noble history, the humble fiver, launched

:18:58. > :19:02.in 1973 and today receiving its most significant makeover. From paper to

:19:03. > :19:05.plastic and a new face to join the Queen, Sir Winston Churchill. The

:19:06. > :19:09.governor of the bank of England launched the note today at Blenheim

:19:10. > :19:14.Palace, Sir Winston's birthplace. He told me this new note will be a

:19:15. > :19:19.whole lot better. With polymer we can add a whole bunch of jazzy

:19:20. > :19:22.security features which means the British public can continue to use

:19:23. > :19:28.them with confidence. And it's stronger. It lasts at least two and

:19:29. > :19:36.a half times as long as they existing ?5 note, so it is better

:19:37. > :19:40.for the environment. Here is the new ?5 note. It cost the Bank of England

:19:41. > :19:48.about 35mm is to research, develop and bring this note. The big

:19:49. > :19:54.question? What happens if you dunk it in a cup of tea? Not bad at all.

:19:55. > :20:01.Still can't Paire at, and it wipes clean. But what about the ultimate

:20:02. > :20:06.test, a washing machine? Scotland launched its own plastic note last

:20:07. > :20:10.year and in this not overly rigorous scientific test the BBC put the new

:20:11. > :20:15.fiver through the hot cycle. Compared to the old paper note it

:20:16. > :20:19.turned out pretty well. Acid test, the public, who will be using the

:20:20. > :20:23.new note in the autumn. This isn't going to tear and crumple and get

:20:24. > :20:29.dirty the same way as the old ones. They get an awful lot of use. Surely

:20:30. > :20:33.you will be using Apple pay, electric payments, this stuff is a

:20:34. > :20:38.bit old-fashioned, isn't it? It is, but there are certain times when

:20:39. > :20:42.money is useful. Electronic payments, mobile, all are pushing us

:20:43. > :20:50.towards a cashless society, but with over ?300,000,005 notes in situation

:20:51. > :20:53.it will be a long time before cash, even plastic cash, isn't king.

:20:54. > :20:55.Northern Ireland is to end its lifetime ban

:20:56. > :20:59.The Health Minister Michelle O'Neill announced the move on a visit

:21:00. > :21:07.A similar ban was lifted in England, Scotland and Wales in 2011.

:21:08. > :21:10.It was replaced with rules that allowed gay men to give blood 12

:21:11. > :21:14.months after their last sexual relationship with another man.

:21:15. > :21:17.France is about to declare a state of natural disaster in the areas

:21:18. > :21:21.worst hit by flooding over the last few days.

:21:22. > :21:24.The move will free up funds to help towns in central France

:21:25. > :21:26.which are suffering their severest floods in decades.

:21:27. > :21:30.10,000 homes are without electricity.

:21:31. > :21:33.Heavy rains across Europe have left at least 10 people dead,

:21:34. > :21:38.More downpours are forecast for the weekend.

:21:39. > :21:42.The footballer Lionel Messi, who's on trial for alleged tax fraud

:21:43. > :21:45.in Spain, has told the judge he has no involvement in the management

:21:46. > :21:50.The five-times World Footballer of the Year and his father both deny

:21:51. > :21:53.defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of millions of dollars -

:21:54. > :21:57.by concealing earnings from image rights.

:21:58. > :22:00.A British father and his wife who were given the wrong baby

:22:01. > :22:03.by a hospital in El Salvador have finally been allowed to return home

:22:04. > :22:12.Richard Cushworth, who's from Bradford but lives in America,

:22:13. > :22:15.and his Salvadoran wife Mercy, had DNA tests carried out to prove

:22:16. > :22:17.the child they were given last May wasn't theirs.

:22:18. > :22:19.Now, a year later they've finally got a birth certificate

:22:20. > :22:28.It was only when they landed in Dallas that it sank in.

:22:29. > :22:34.A year after their son had been taken from them, nine months

:22:35. > :22:39.after they had been reunited, they were finally back home

:22:40. > :22:45.We are overwhelmed, we are happy, we feel safe.

:22:46. > :22:49.She had given birth in her native El Salvador to this child

:22:50. > :22:53.but he was taken to the hospital nursery and the next day the wrong

:22:54. > :23:01.The child did not look like them and four months later she took

:23:02. > :23:07.It was impossible that that was your son?

:23:08. > :23:12.And how did you feel at that moment?

:23:13. > :23:22.The thought that the baby I had been nursing, taking care of,

:23:23. > :23:30.loving him, bathing him, that he was not mine.

:23:31. > :23:36.Then I had another thought which came with it -

:23:37. > :23:57.He was in El Salvador with another family.

:23:58. > :23:58.The children were switched back last year.

:23:59. > :24:01.It has taken the Cushworths since then to get Moses' birth

:24:02. > :24:05.Taking nine months to get paperwork for this child has been probably

:24:06. > :24:07.the most painful part of the entire process.

:24:08. > :24:09.It has forced our families to be separated for nine months.

:24:10. > :24:11.It has almost bankrupted us financially.

:24:12. > :24:15.They still want answers as to why the babies were swapped

:24:16. > :24:28.Over the past few weeks we've been hearing from a range of voices

:24:29. > :24:33.across the UK about how they'll vote in the forthcoming referendum

:24:34. > :24:35.and what issues are helping to guide their decision.

:24:36. > :24:37.Tonight it's the turn of Graham Prior, a biker

:24:38. > :24:46.I work for my local builders merchant.

:24:47. > :24:52.And I'm actually a member of the Deal and District Motorcycle

:24:53. > :24:56.I feel that I really want to vote out.

:24:57. > :24:59.The British taxpayer's money is now just been given over to the Europe,

:25:00. > :25:03.We should really be putting our own money

:25:04. > :25:09.into our own country and making Great Britain great again.

:25:10. > :25:12.Well, they reckon it cost ?53 million a day to keep in the EU.

:25:13. > :25:15.Imagine what that could do for our own NHS system

:25:16. > :25:20.I am getting rather annoyed with the amount of literature

:25:21. > :25:28.Just trying to brainwash the British public into staying

:25:29. > :25:34.I think we should leave Europe to stop the immigration system

:25:35. > :25:37.because we are getting far too many over now.

:25:38. > :25:39.It's obviously going to have a knock-on effect

:25:40. > :25:49.We should have more control over our own borders

:25:50. > :25:53.And if they are immigrants they should have to go

:25:54. > :25:55.through the right channels to apply to come over to England.

:25:56. > :25:58.Great Britain was fine before they joined the EU.

:25:59. > :26:02.So you come out of the EU, OK, it might have a slight change

:26:03. > :26:06.But eventually it will all balance itself out, settle down again,

:26:07. > :26:09.and we can actually start spending the money on our own country.

:26:10. > :26:11.I think it will be the best for the British economy

:26:12. > :26:15.Graham Prior from Deal in Kent there with his views

:26:16. > :26:29.It's very difficult to pick one headline for the weather, we have

:26:30. > :26:33.both extremes across the country, we've had that for the past few

:26:34. > :26:39.days. This picture is from Cornwall, absolutely stunning. Temperatures in

:26:40. > :26:43.western areas have been in the 20s, very warm in the West of Scotland as

:26:44. > :26:47.well. In the eastern half and closer to the North Sea coast, completely

:26:48. > :26:52.different story. Cloudy, cold, feels like November. At lunchtime in

:26:53. > :26:57.London, temperatures between 11 and 13 degrees. The sunshine in the

:26:58. > :27:03.West, thick cloud across eastern areas of the UK. Very much what we

:27:04. > :27:07.call an east-west split across the UK, and that will continue through

:27:08. > :27:10.the course of and into tomorrow as well, and wherever you are across

:27:11. > :27:15.the country tonight temperatures more or less the same. Low grey

:27:16. > :27:19.cloud, missed in places. It might start cloudy tomorrow morning in

:27:20. > :27:23.places that have sunshine right now. Cloud should break up in central

:27:24. > :27:27.part of the UK. Eastern areas noticed this wriggling weather front

:27:28. > :27:33.which will be dilly-dallying towards the west through the course of the

:27:34. > :27:35.day. That spells rain for North and West Scotland, Newcastle, East

:27:36. > :27:41.Yorkshire and down into East Anglia and the London area as well, bits of

:27:42. > :27:45.drizzle. Through Saturday more sunshine, temperatures rising. We

:27:46. > :27:53.are going to see showers. Hit and miss when developing apart parts of

:27:54. > :27:58.Wales. Looking better on Sunday for many of us. More clear blue skies,

:27:59. > :28:02.temperatures recovering. North Sea coasts, with wind coming in from the

:28:03. > :28:07.chilly North Sea, it will feel cold in Newcastle down into East Anglia.

:28:08. > :28:11.Here's a hint from next week. These winds coming from the south, you

:28:12. > :28:16.know it is worn down there, not so warm here, so from warmer climes we

:28:17. > :28:17.see that air heading our way but with that comes the threat of

:28:18. > :28:30.thunderstorms. BHS is to close with the likely loss

:28:31. > :28:35.of 11,000 jobs. That's all from all of us on the team at the BBC News at

:28:36. > :28:36.six, goodbye from me, and on BBC