26/08/2016 BBC News at Six

The number of dead in Italy's earthquake now stands at 278.

A state of emergency has been declared.

Marcos Burnett, who was 14, and Will and Maria Henniker-Gotley,

All died in the same collapsed building.

TRANSLATION: There was nothing we could do with our bare hands.

They were sleeping in a room on the ground floor and it

As time passes, with so much devastation, the authorities say

there's little hope of finding anyone else alive.

We'll have the very latest from the scene.

The BBC learns of significant cost cutting plans, that could affect NHS

France's highest court lifts the ban on burkinis,

Lifeguards will be on the beach at Camber Sands this

bank holiday weekend, after the deaths of five men.

And West Ham's newest signing, who'll never put his boots on.

Hamilton will be playing catch up at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Three British citizens, all from London, are among

the dead after Wednesday's earthquake in central Italy.

Marcus Burnett, who was 14, was on holiday with his parents

and sister, who both survived, while Will Henniker-Gotley,

who was 55, and his wife, Maria, who was 50, also died.

They were all just outside the the town of Amatrice,

where emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors.

278 people are now known to have died.

Two British families, the Henniker-Gotleys and

This is the house in which both British families were staying.

And you can see that the damage is dramatic.

Both families have paid tribute to the work of those relief workers

Their neighbour, Nando Bonnanni, was the first to reach them.

TRANSLATION: I shouted and called out for Maria and Will,

There was nothing we could do with our bare hands.

They were sleeping in a room on the ground floor and it

The Burnett family from London lost their 14-year-old son,

His school called him a much loved and admired boy.

50-year-old Maria Henniker-Gotley and her 55-year-old husband,

They were from Stockwell in south London.

They were always fun, you could always have a laugh with them.

It's just shocking that you go off on a lovely summer holiday and,

you know, we won't ever see them again, really.

Many survivors are left with a simple, powerful question.

Why did so many buildings fall and so many people die?

11-month-old Elena Sofia has no idea that she,

She and her mother, Sonia, are recovering in hospital.

I freed myself and started asking for help, but everyone

So I went back and with my hands I freed my daughter from the rubble.

I could only see her little foot and I just pulled her out.

The worst hit town, Amatrice, will soon begin to hold

This town, and others, will have to find new ground

Damian Grammaticas is in Amatrice, one of the worst affected towns.

The authorities are clearly believing finding anyone beneath

that rubble is diminishing. Yes, but the rescuers have not given up hope.

If you hunt yard is a way they have set up a temporary airfield. Pelle

tops of -- helicopters have been ferrying rescue teams to outlying

villages. Some places where no specialist teams have been yet. A

couple of yards that way there is dust still rising from the centre of

Amatrice, where the diggers are working. All around, rescue teams

are busy moving up and down, because they have told us they believe there

is still hope. They say people can survive three days or longer and

they will continue to look. The difficulty, as with the British

casualties, will and Maria Henniker-Gotley and Marcos Burnett,

the locations are remote and the construction, too, you take a look

and you can understand these old stone buildings are not built to

withstand earthquakes. When it hit, the buildings came down and it is

unlikely that more people have survived.

NHS services across England could be cut, as part of wide ranging

The proposals include ward closures in some areas,

cuts to bed numbers and changes to Accident Emergency departments.

NHS England needs to save ?22 billion by the end of 2020,

and says local people will be consulted on the plans.

Yes, here in West Yorkshire and in communities around England, a lot of

debate has been going on about what the NHS might look like in future.

It has been going on under the radar until now but it seems to add up to

something significant. NHS managers say it is simply about making better

use of money at a time of increasing pressure, but campaigners say it is

really a license to make cuts which will inevitably affect patients and

services. It could result in a radical

shake-up of health care and services in some areas, with possible

closures of A units, hospital buildings and a review of GP

services. It looks like quite a lot of these plans are proposing

large-scale reconfigurations, shifting services, or shutting them

down and providing them elsewhere. Here in Leeds, plans have been drawn

up for the possible closure of some wards across several hospitals in

the city. Government officials with their hands in the NHS pockets

should get the cuts, not the doctors, nurses, patients and people

who use and work on the NHS, front lines. The population is growing, so

how can you make cuts? In Middlesbrough, the local A is a

marked for closure. Care will suffer. Campaigners are concerned by

the latest news of a wider local reorganisation. Everything seems to

be piecemeal and there does not seem to be an overarching plan that puts

patients and the public at the centre. There needs to be a huge

debate about the NHS. Other plans include Leicester, Leicestershire

and Rutland, with proposals to reduce three General hospitals to

two. The Black Country area of the West Midlands, with a plan to close

and A unit. And Inc or more, a plan to move resources from hospital

care into the community. -- in Cornwall.

The word from NHS England is that local councils and leaders will work

together to decide the best use of resources to meet increasing demand

for patient care. The background to this is the need for efficiency

savings to help make NHS finances add up. NHS leaders say it is not

about cuts for the sake of it, but how to meet the needs of a growing

and ageing population. With demand comes rising costs. We are not

trying to save the simple answer is to slash and burn and close

services, but we need to think about how we deliver services. And what

tends to drive up costs. NHS England says that no plans have been

finalised. When published in October, there will be a chance for

local people to have their say. Judging by today's exchanges,

stand-by for a heated debate about the future shape the NHS.

If you talk to senior people at the top of NHS England they say this is

an important process for the NHS. They have to find these ?22 billion

of savings by 2020 and this exercise is all about that, finding how to

make money go further. But it will be a hard sell. Local patient groups

and others will undoubtedly oppose closures. And some will be arguing

that what the NHS really needs is more money.

Hugh Pym, live in Leeds. An optometrist who failed to spot

symptoms of a life-threatening brain condition during a routine eye test

of a young boy, who later died, has been given a two-year

suspended prison term. Honey Rose failed to notice that

Vincent Barker had swollen optic discs when she examined him

at a branch of Boots in Ipswich. The abnormality is a symptom

of fluid on the brain. Eight-year-old Vincent died

in July 2012, about five Thousands of civilians have begun

to move out of a suburb of the Syrian capital,

Damascus, after living under The evacuation from Daraya

follows a deal between Hundreds of rebel fighters will also

be allowed to leave under the deal Lifeguards will be deployed this

bank holiday weekend at the beach in East Sussex where five men

from London died on Wednesday. Council officials hope the temporary

service at Camber Sands Relatives say those

who died may have survived Ian Palmer is there

for us this evening. This is what local people have been

campaigning for, but it is only temporary. It is only temporary. It

will last until the end of the bank honoured a weekend on Monday. When

you walk past these families on the beach, the dominant conversation is

water safety. To reassure them, they are going to introduce up to six

lifeguards over the weekend. It will be a difficult task. There are seven

miles of beach and when it is busy there are 25,000 people enjoying its

delights. A petition that has been started allowing recent events has

attracted 7000 signatures, calling for a permanent lifeguard. But

having -- having spoken to beach patrol teams here, they say having a

permanent lifeguard could be counter-productive. Because

particularly those people coming from outside the area, not sure

about the hidden dangers of the beach, they may feel overly

reassured by having lifeguards on the beach. The beach patrol teams

say that really the water safety message needs to be learnt well

before you come to this beautiful spot on the east Sussex coast. Ian

Palmer, thank you for that. France's highest court has suspended

a ban on full-body swimsuits, While the ruling only

applies to one town, that of Villeneuve-Loubet,

it's likely other resorts, including Cannes and Nice, may have

have to lift the restriction. Campaigners said the burkini ban

infringed the rights of women Hugh Schofield is in

Villeneuve-Loubet. You join me on the beach at

Villeneuve-Loubet, which is not the most picturesque of beaches. But

maybe it is more typical, ordinary, popular, with people from all

backgrounds coming to enjoy the sun and the sea. It is also the

epicentre of this burkini row. Because it was on this beach here,

the ban on this each here that has been overturned by this Court in

Paris. This afternoon we were able to meet some Muslims in on the beach

and break the news to them and they were very happy.

This was the moment we told this woman and her family the burkini ban

had been lifted. She is Muslim, originally from Tunisia, and she

told me that if it were not for the ban, she would have been wearing a

burkini on the beach today. Now that the news has come from Paris, she

will be covering herself more fully tomorrow.

TRANSLATION: It has been really hard because we all felt we were being

judged. Even though I have been covered for 30-year is, it has never

been a problem. In the last two weeks, I felt awkward. It is the way

people were looking at me. Before, people did not show how they felt

towards us but now they say they don't like it and that really hurts.

One woman knows what it feels like. She was photographed apparently

being told by police to remove an item of clothing. That made the

burkini ban not just a French but an international story. But now the

state Council in Paris has reversed the local banning orders, which were

issued over the last two weeks by some 30 towns along the Riviera. The

towns had said that after the lorry attack, there was a risk to public

order from outward signs of Muslim affiliation on a public beach. The

judges disagreed. It is based on the principle of the Freedom of

religion, the freedom to express religion and to be able to wear

whatever you want, even on the beach. Of course, not everyone in

France will agree with the court's decision. Former President Nicolas

Sarkozy says he wants a burkini ban across the whole country. And the

polls suggest that a majority of the French would probably agree. They

want to stop what they see as the gradual encroachment of Islamic

lifestyle and symbols into the public sphere. Outside France, such

arguments seem to cut little ice. The burkini ban sparked protests

outside French embassies in London and Berlin, and campaigns on the

internet urged the French to let women wear what they want. At France

is a comp that is country. Things that might seem obvious in other

places do not seem so obvious here. -- France is a complex country.

Things like letting women wear religiously inspired clothing on the

beach. Three British victims of the Italy

earthquake have been named. Marcos Burnett who was 14,

and Will and Maria Henniker-Gotley, Meet the new kind of

professional football player. Coming up in Sportsday, will have a

close look at the weekend's but all with four managers looking to

maintain their 100% start to the season.

One of the biggest names on the high street, BHS,

will close its remaining 22 stores this weekend, bringing

to an end almost 90 years of British retail history.

It's collapse into administration has meant the loss of 11,000 jobs,

and resulted in a parliamentary inquiry.

Our Business Correspondent Emma Simpson has more.

The dying days of a once great high street name,

Today the bargain hunters were out in force.

The sad thing is my grandmother worked for them 60 years ago.

First time in a very long time, just to get a bargain.

I don't really shop in there whatsoever.

I shall miss it very, very much - and I mean that.

This store was purpose built for BHS in the 1960s and one of the few

I'm being shown around the vast BHS store on Edinburgh's Princes Street,

by the man with big plans for this site.

On every floor there are stark reminders of the past.

Yes, this is a measure of the human scale of what happened to BHS.

There are 250 lockers in here, which reflects the number of people

They hope to create new jobs, with plans for a shop,

This is the rooftop and this is what I think is one of the most

And hopefully a restaurant right at the top.

Nobody would have wanted the set of circumstances which has led

to BHS failing, but luckily for us this is the right building

in the right place to deliver something really

BHS had some of the biggest stores on our high streets,

Many, like this one, are riddled with asbestos up

in the ceilings and it will cost landlords many millions of pounds

It's clear that some will be easier to re-let than others.

A large number of these BHS stores are in weak and declining towns,

and therefore the issue lies in, will they ever be reoccupied?

To reoccupy them will require finding retailers who are willing

to move into that space, which may be the wrong

All of this space seemed right in the 60s, like this old staff

canteen, but BHS failed to keep up with the times.

The end of an era, but the BHS story, with so many questions

and investigations, is far from closed.

In the last half hour, police have confirmed that five men

have been arrested in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion

An Army Bomb Disposal Team have been called

in as a precautionary measure to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham.

Detectives are searching a number of properties as part

Police in Brazil have charged the American swimmer, Ryan Lochte,

The 12-time Olympic medallist, had claimed he and three team-mates

were robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Games,

The maximum penalty is 18 months in jail, and the 32-year-old

could be tried in his absence, if he fails to return to Brazil.

The entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson,

says he's lucky to be alive after coming off his bicycle

in a high speed crash on the British Virgin Islands

The 66-year-old suffered a cracked cheek, torn ligaments and severe

Sir Richard was on a training ride heading down a steep hill

Today he tweeted "My life flashed before my eyes as I fell headfirst

New files released today, shed light on Germany's attempts

to compensate British victims of Nazi persecution.

In the mid 1960s, the West German authorities paid one million pounds

to the British Government, to give to victims.

But despite 4000 people claiming they'd suffered at the hands

of the Nazis, little more than a thousand received any money.

Many were from the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles

occupied by the Germans, and Nick Higham is in

Clive, we are all familiar with stories of the Holocaust and Nancy

brutality but it's rare to come across first-hand evidence and

research still that those were British. Dash-macro Nazi. These

archives contain both and they show that many who were entitled to

compensation as part of the scheme didn't get it, they were not

eligible however bad their treatment. They showed some who got

money for it wasn't enough. Final scenes of the long drama

in the Channel Islands. May 1945 and Guernsey has

been liberated after Far-away in Germany,

Channel Islanders too Paul and Phil's father

Gerald was one, caught with two sacks of stolen German

coffee and sentenced to hard labour. At the war's end he had

been at risk of death. They were actually

on their way to Dhaka,

they didn't know it at the time, the Allies

were advancing and the German army

was in a bit of disarray. Didn't understand they were shooting

prisoners who Gerald's health was ruined

by his imprisonment. Letters, one from

the Foreign Office... In the mid-1960s he was one of 4000

people applying for compensation as victims of Nazi

persecution, only a quarter of a Gerald got ?2100,

around ?28,000 today. The files are now being released

at the National Archives, those of other Channel

Islanders are harrowing reading. Frank Tuck describes

being beaten with a pick handle and flogged with

the 'The fear that ruled us

was indescribable', he wrote. He saw a fellow Guernsey man die

of Jack Harper was sometimes

chained in a standing position without food all night,

by a sadistic German guard. And Thomas describes

working in clothes soaked through that dried on one's back,

sometimes frozen stiff. Thomas one of 17 Guernsey

policemen sentenced for sabotage and was so weak

by the end he couldn't stand. He got two and a half thousand

pounds, Margaret Godfrey Do you think he felt the money

was sufficient or do you think he thought

that was meagre? I think they thought

it was Today Guernsey is a peaceful place,

these files reminder that even here, some people suffered

terribly under Nazi Germany. Video gaming is a multi billion

pound industry worldwide, and it's marketing potential is now

attracting conventional So now Sean Allen who's

from Somerset has achieved huge success playing

FIFA 16 on a console, he's been snapped up

by West Ham United to represent Our Technology Correspondent,

Rory Cellan-Jones has more At West Ham's training ground

they are preparing for the big match against Manchester City on Sunday

but one new signing is watching from His skills lie in a virtual

version of football, rather Sean Allen whose game name

is Dragonn plays the video game Fifa, the 24-year-old

lives in Somerset, signed in May for West Ham after he was

the runner-up in this year's I am just always trying to keep

the higher pressure... The first e-sports player signed

by a Premier League club is expected

to represent West Ham every time he plays

in a But his training takes place

in front of the games What would you say to

people who thought... Obviously people are always going to

think about that, sitting indoors, playing video games, but I have

proved the amount of money made this year especially from Fifa,

I've proved most people like... Earn less than what I earned

in a year just from working and I've been sitting

here doing video games. West Ham who have moved

into the Olympic Stadium, believe e-sports will one day be big

business for the club. Football is, of course,

a vastly lucrative sport with also vast revenue earning

opportunities while e-sports is One day could a vast

stadium like this be filled with an audience who turned up

to watch a video game? In fact, in South Korea,

that's already The stadium was packed out

for the final of League of Legends, and much more

popular games than Fifa. And football isn't

the only sport trying to connect

with video games fans. The car-maker Nissan has been

running the PlayStation academy,

taking the best online games players to race

for West Ham believe its initiative

will help it connect In the club shop many

fail to identify Signed back in May,

do you recognise him? We need a striker, hopefully

he's a striker, yes. West Ham won't say but you can bet

Sean Allen is paid a tiny fraction of what

Cheikhou Kouyate earns. Mind you, in this game,

Sean won 5-0. A Bank Holiday weekend almost upon

us and of course that means there is rain in the forecast but not a

complete wash-out. Some sunshine around. This afternoon, it has been

glorious, here is the same west of Sheffield, blue skies, Fairweather

cloud. You can see from the satellite image, most of England and

Wales has been clear, Scotland and Northern Ireland some cloud

producing one or two isolated showers mainly in the north-west. If

you have planned this evening, most places looking dry. Tonight, fairly

fresh across most places but hot and humid in the south-east,

temperatures in the high teens. By the early hours of Saturday, rain

creeping up from the English Channel fishing across the south of England.

Some uncertainty about this area of rain on Saturday but it looks like

it will affect parts of the Midlands, England, Central and

southern England, to the north fresher with sunshine, to the south,

hot and humid with the chance of isolated showers. Through the course

of Saturday night, looking like this area of rain drifts northwards, in

the firing line parts of northern England, North Wales, light surface

water first thing on Sunday. Improving story on Sunday, the

low-pressure area clearing gradually towards the east, sunshine and

showers but as we head through the day, it showers becoming fewer and

further between, chances of some heavy ones in the South,

temperatures between 15-23. Looks like Bank Holiday Monday should be

quiet, lighter winds, driver most, still a chance of some showers

towards the south. Not a complete write-off. Clive... Thank you.

That's it, so goodbye from me and now on BBC One,

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