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Proposals to allow all schools in England to apply | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Prime Minister says along with new grammars, it'll boost | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
I want to see children from ordinary working class families given | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
the chancees their richer contemporaries take for granted. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
That means we need more great schools. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
But the plans will face stiff opposition, even from the head | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
The challenge in what she is proposing will be to make sure | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
that the children who are not selected for grammar schools | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
also get a really high quality school experience. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
We'll be looking at how the plans might work, | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
and whether they're likely to win sufficient support. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
I can see. It's 22 minutes past nine. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The ground breaking surgery restoring sight where it | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
North Korea's leader is called a "reckless maniac" | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
for carrying out another nuclear test. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
More gold for Para GB, as records tumble in Rio. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
And the real-life drama of the people trapped thousands | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
We'll look ahead to the Manchester derby, where old rivals, | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, come face-to-face at Old Trafford. | :01:19. | :01:45. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
All schools in England could apply to select pupils by ability. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
That's the proposal from Theresa May, part of her plans for a massive | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
shake-up in education, with a new generation of selective | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
She also said the new grammars would have to take children | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
But her proposal will face strong opposition from many in the teaching | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
All change in English schools. That's the plan. All schools free to | :02:07. | :02:26. | |
seek to become grammars. The biggest, most controversial shake-up | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
in decades. The grammar school educated Prime Minister is going | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
further than any leader before. Politicians, many of whom benefited | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
from the type of education they now seek to deny to others, have four | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
years put their own dogma and ideology before the interest and | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
concerns of ordinary people. We know grammar schools are popular with | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
parents. We know they are good for pupils that attend them. So we have | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
no one, not -- we help no one, not least those who can't afford a | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
private education, by saying to those who want a selective education | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
for their child that we will not let them have it. What about children | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
from poorer homes who don't often get into grammar schools, and what | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
about schools like this in a London comprehensive? She insisted no one | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
would be left behind. Britain had not just voted out of the EU. People | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
wanted a fairer deal. They want change and this government will | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
deliver it. Everything we do will be driven not by the interests of the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
privileged few, not by those with the loudest voices, specialist | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
interests, greatest wealth or accessed influence. This | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
government's priorities are those of ordinary working-class people. She | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
said that new grammars would preserve places for disadvantaged | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
children, with new entrants at 14 and 16. She said independent schools | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
must offer more in return for tax breaks. They would have to sponsor | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
state schools, or provide help with teaching. Universities which want to | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
raise fees would have to set up new schools, or sponsor underperforming | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
ones. She also wants to relax prescriptions on -- restrictions on | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
oversubscribed faith schools, which would no longer have to offer half | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
the places to children from outside the faith. You say there should be | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
more academically elite state grammar schools, meaning more talent | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
drawn away from nonselective schools, and the losers, who do not | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
get into those schools, are dim eyed those opportunities, with the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
greater sense of unfairness and injustice that causes. Fair points? | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
It is not fair today when some people are unable to get into a good | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
school because parents are unable to buy the house next to that school. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
There are too many children in our society who are not getting access | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
to a good education. The plan went down badly at this comprehensive. We | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
are going to see genuine mixed schools like this sufferer. This | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
school does a great job by all children, most able, least able and | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
middle ability children. By taking one group out of schools like this, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
schools like this will battle to survive. The head of the Prime | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Minister's old school, no longer a grammar, agrees. I hope she can make | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
sure the diverse provision is also high-quality but selection is not | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
the best way forward. Theresa May does not see politics, or big | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
changes in policy as an ideological game with rival theories batted | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
backwards and forwards. She is interested in what works, and | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
creating a school system with more winners, without creating more | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
losers, fits her idea of a fairer Britain after Brexit. Her critics do | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
not believe it can be done. The competence of system is working. The | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Academy movement, the free School movement, greater autonomy for | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
schools, better governance, is working and needs time to bed in. My | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
fear is that this will throw a spanner in the works and slow the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
momentum down. The Prime Minister's old school has changed, a grammar no | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
longer. But it's most illustrious old pupil came away with a clear | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
conviction that what worked for her can work for anyone, and she is | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
sticking to it. The proposals announced | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
by Mrs May apply to England. In Northern Ireland, | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
nearly half of all pupils go to grammar schools, but there | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
are none in Scotland and Wales. Branwen Jeffreys reports now | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
from two very different parts of greater Manchester - | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
Tameside, which doesn't have grammar schools, | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
and Trafford which does. Educating the girls of all tinge for | :06:16. | :06:28. | |
100 years. One third of pupils in Trafford go to grammar schools now. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Somehow, in this leafy area, can they be open to all? With the right | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
circumstances all children can flourish. The head teacher tells me | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
they have started a quota system, setting aside some places for poorer | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
families. We cannot change where we are and would not want to. That does | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
not mean we cannot work with schools in other parts of Manchester to make | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
sure all of us provide the best possible education for our students. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
The lessons learned here are being shared. This school is part of a | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
group which includes comprehensives. So grammar schools argue that they | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
are already changing, that they are no longer just about improving the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
life chances of the privileged few. Schools like this are reaching out | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
to others in deprived areas and working with them to raise standards | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
across the education system. But look at grammar schools across | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
England, and just 3% of pupils are entitled to free school meals. In | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
nearby nonselective schools, it is 18%. And 13% of grammar school | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
pupils come from independent schools. Here, most pupils also need | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
to live nearby to get in. In streets of smart houses and clipped hedges. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
No surprise that for social mode in to, Trafford is at the top end. Grow | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
up here and it is more likely you will go to university, get a | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
well-paid job. Travel to the other side of Manchester, and it is a | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
different story. Tameside is in the bottom 10% for social mode and it. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
That is not just down to education but jobs and health, too. You can | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
eat any leftovers. Primary school is about letting your imagination fly. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
This primary School is in an area not rich, not poor. Kids go on to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
local high schools, one good, one struggling. Our motto was putting | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
children first regardless of ability. The head here is uneasy | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
about selection. We bring them in, nurture them, get to know the | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
parents in the school. To me, that is what education is about, getting | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
to know the family and treating the children as they are, regardless of | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
ability. This is the kind of area where most parents go out to work, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
sometimes juggling two or three jobs to make ends meet. Just the kind of | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
families that Theresa May wants to reach. So I asked some parents hear | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
what they made off the suggestion of new grammar schools. If you are | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
asking if I think kids should be around other kids on the same level | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
as them, I think it's a benefit and will push them further forward. It | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
does not fill me with confidence. Children from all backgrounds should | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
be getting the same quality of education, regardless of ability. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Will this be a new generation growing up with this election? Not | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
everywhere, and not for everyone, and only if the government can push | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
through the legal changes needed. John Pienaar is at Westminster. This | :09:37. | :09:49. | |
is Theresa May's first big domestic policy announcement, proposing a | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
massive shake-up in education but she is likely to face opposition. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
You can bet there is trouble ahead. Theresa May was welcomed by much of | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
the public as a reassuring presence in a time of political turbulence. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
She owes much of her popularity to the perception of her as a force for | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
stability amidst the uncertainty in the aftermath of the EU referendum | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
campaign. She is a reformer, but she is no great ideologue. Today we see | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
that she is not one to back away from big changes, radical changes, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
even if it means a fight, and these plans will mean a fight. The | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
government has a very small majority in the House of Commons. There will | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
be an argument among MPs, including on her own side. In the House of | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Lords, we might see peers trying to fight the plan to a standstill. You | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
can bet Theresa May will be pressing on very hard. Standing here, there | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
is no knowing how this will shake out and there is no reason to doubt | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
that there is political trouble ahead. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Surgeons in Oxford have used a robot to operate inside the eye, | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
The milestone for robotic technology should mean that in future surgeons | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
will be able to do more complex procedures than are | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
Fergus Walsh has this exclusive report. | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
Deterioration of sight in my right eye is progressive. Bill Beaver is | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
going blind in one eye. If, for example, I take a book, and I cover | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
my left eye, which is still good, all I see is Marsh. His central | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
vision is completely gone. But that is about to change. At Oxford's John | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
Radcliffe Hospital. In theatre, the surgeon uses a joystick to move to | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
the robot arm, which has a thin needle attached. Robot assisted | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
surgery is now commonplace, especially in cancer operations. But | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
this will be a world first. Never before has a robot been used to | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
operate inside the eye. This is delicate surgery, involving tiny, | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
precise movements to remove a membrane which is causing sight | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
loss. Crucially, the robot can filter out the surgeon's hand | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
tremors. The robot has to pivot around a tiny hole in the wall of | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
the eye. Inside, it removes a membrane just 100th of a millimetre | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
thick, shown in blue, which is covering the retina. That allows the | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
hole in the retina to close. If you could hold the watch up. A few days | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
later, the results are clear. I can see. It is 22 minutes past nine. | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
Before long, his distance vision will return to normal. It is almost | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
the world of fairy tales but it is true. It is the difference between | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
being active and doing the things I need to do and enjoying art and | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
enjoying life. The surgeon says that the robot was more accurate than the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
human hand. We are going into a new era of eye surgery where we will be | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
placing things at the back of the eye, under the retina, very much | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
more accurately and with greater precision than at the moment. We can | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
certainly improve on current operations but I hope we can do new | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
operations that currently we cannot do with a human hand, we can now do | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
with a robot. Retinal disease is the main cause of blindness in the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
developing world. -- the developed world. Robots should allow many more | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
patients to have their site saved. Three former Tesco senior executives | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
have been charged with fraud It follows an investigation | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
by the Serious Fraud Office after a black hole of over | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
?300 million was found in the supermarket's | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
accounts two years ago. Emma Simpson joins us | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
from outside a Tesco store. This was hugely embarrassing | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
for Tesco at the time. That's right. It has been nearly two | :13:53. | :14:05. | |
years since Tesco was plunged into turmoil because an accounting | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
scandal stunned the city and sparked a host of investigations. It centred | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
on how it had incorrectly recorded income from suppliers which resulted | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
in its profits being inflated. Today, the SFO charged three men, | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
the former finance director for Tesco UK, Tesco's former UK | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
commercial director and the most senior man, Chris Bush, Tesco's | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
former UK boss. All are accused of fraud by abuse of position, and a | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
charge of false accounting. This afternoon, Chris Bush said through | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
his lawyer that he was not guilty and would be vigorously contesting | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
the allegations. As for Tesco, it said it would continue to cooperate | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
with the SFO, and it had made extensive changes over the last | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
two-year is. In other words, this business is a very different one | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
compared to its darkest days in 2014. But the SFO investigations are | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
ongoing and it is possible down the line that Tesco itself could be hit | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
with a multi-million pound fine. World leaders have reacted | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
with anger to North Korea's latest nuclear test, | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
believed to be it's South Korea has accused | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, Even China, long an ally | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
of the isolated communist nation, Stephen Evans reports from | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the South Korean capital, Seoul. The North Korean newsreader says | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the nuclear test will protect In South Korea, they | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
monitor the tremors. Each test has been bigger | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
than the one before. The device detonated this time | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
is just short of the power From Japan today, planes took off | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
to gather air samples to try to determine what kind | :16:00. | :16:09. | |
of device was exploded. We are very much concerned | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
and the resolutions of the Security Council must be | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
implemented and they will send this The underground blast happened | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
at this site in North Korea, only nine months after | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
the last nuclear test. Kim Jong Un is in a rush | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
to fulfil his nuclear ambition. Yesterday in Pyongyang, | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
the regime's leaders clapped in unison as the country | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
celebrated the anniversary For them, the bomb is | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
the icing on the cake. Here tonight in Seoul | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
in South Korea, life goes on. People assume Kim Jong Un's | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
bloodthirsty threats to turn the place into a heap | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
of ashes will not happen. Even though he's appeared alongside | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
what he claimed was a nuclear warhead small enough | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
to go on a rocket. North Korea is just 50 kilometres | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
from here, 30 miles, The regime there is celebrating | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
a great triumph tonight. But there is no sign of that regime | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
being close to collapse. North Korea does not have | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
nuclear-tipped missiles yet. But it's working steadily | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
towards getting them. Theresa May says she wants to see | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
more grammar schools in England and the chance for all schools | :17:42. | :17:54. | |
to select by ability. Are the side effects of statins | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
as bad as they're made out? Coming up in Sportsday | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
on BBC News: tributes are paid to Sylvia Gore, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
the scorer of the first official goal for the England women's team, | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
who's died aged 71. Gore was a pioneer of | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
the women's game and had been It's been a victorious | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Day Two for Britain's At the velodrome, | :18:16. | :18:29. | |
Para-cyclist Sophie Thornhill - and pilot Helen Scott - | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
won gold in their women's The team also won their first | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
athletics medals of the Games. Two riders, one common goal. At the | :18:35. | :18:51. | |
back of the tandem, Sophie Thornhill, who is visually impaired, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
piloted by Helen Scott, together the perfect peddling partnership. That | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
made the them fastest so far in the time trial, but would anyone go | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
faster? Well, when their last rivals failed | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
to beat their time, they knew the gold was theirs. Through tears of | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
joy, another moment for the British team to savour. There was also | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
success in the athletics, long jumper Stef Reid matching the silver | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
medal she won in London four years ago. There was also controversy, | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
though, visually impairedp spribter, Libby Clegg, setting a new World | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Record on her way to the final but she was later disqualified after it | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
was ruled her guide runner had pulled her along during the race a | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
decision which her team have appealed. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
But no doubting Britain's star of the show so far. | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
The welcome committee out in force for Dame | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Sarah Storey after she charged her way to a record 12 Paralympic title. | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
It was her first though watched by her daughter Louisa | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
and Storey told me that made it particularly special. | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
Having Louisa here is just the icing on the cake. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
It doesn't get much better than having your kids to | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
watch you win and whether she remembers it or not, she is really | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
There was never a thought that we could at home | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
because she is included in everything we do. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
It's just fantastic to have her here. | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
But for the hosts this is their hero. | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
Daniel Diaz, Brazil's most successful Paralympian and, and | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
roared on by his fans he proved precisely why. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
The 1st of a possible 9 gold medals Diaz here. | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
A potentially extraordinary achievement from an extraordinary | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
Well, just to give you the latest on that controversy with Libby Clegg. | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
We have just learned her appeal has been successful. She's been | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
reinstated and she will compete in the final tonight. | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Andy, thank you. A British-Iranian woman who has been | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
detained in Iran for more than 150 days has now been | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
jailed for five years, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
accused of plotting to topple the Iranian regime during a visit | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
there in April to see her parents. Caroline Hawley is here with me, | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
you've talked to the husband, Richard Ratcliffe, | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
what more do you know? Well, he spoke to his wife on the | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
phone this morning. She was allowed a call. She apparently described her | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
time in jail as horrendous. She has been tried in a revolutionary court | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
on unspecified national security charges. She's essentially accused | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
of trying to engineer the soft overthrow fted Islamic republic. Now | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
of the Islamic republic. Her job in the UK is to train journalists. She | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
has done it in the Middle East but never Iran. She was actually, as you | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
said, in Tehran on holiday with her young daughter who turned two while | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
her mother was in captivity. Sentenced to five years and this all | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
happened, apparently, the day after Iran and the UK upgraded diplomatic | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
relations. I think the view of many Iranians is this is an atestimony by | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
hardliners within the regime to embarrass the moderate President. -- | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
an attempt. Amnesty International has called the it travesty of | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
justice. Tonight the Foreign Office is saying it is deeply concerned at | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
the sentence. Thank you. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
A review of statins - the drugs used by around ?6 million | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
people in the UK to reduce cholesterol levels - has found | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
they are much more beneficial and far less harmful | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
The report, in the Lancet medical journal, | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
says the drugs can cut the risk of strokes and heart | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
attacks in both high and low-risk patients. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Our Health Correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports. | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
Statins, recommended as a major preventative medicine | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
against the UK's biggest killer, heart attacks and strokes. | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
There has been controversy about whether they are overused | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
but a new review says they are not used enough. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Gerald Bond's mother and grandmother both died in their 50s | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
Now, aged 41, he takes statins and believes | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Before I took the statin I was at high risk. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
They said to me - there is possibility of having | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
a heart attack within the next ten years. | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
I have reduced my cholesterol and now my risk is lower | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
than the general population and I've got a life expectancy | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
of the mid-80s, so it's added potentially 20 years it my life. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Researchers who carried out the review of statins examined | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
They've concluded that taking them over five years protected 10% | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
of people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes and 5% of people | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
at risk because of their age, blood pressure or diabetes | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
and they found side effects were low, with no more | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
than 1% of people suffering from muscle pain. | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
If you have a heart attack or stroke it can be fatal. | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
The damage can be irreversible, whereas the side effects, the muscle | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
problem that rarely occurs, if you stop the drug, | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Statins are among the most commonly-prescribed drugs in the UK. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
It's estimated that around 6 million people take them. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
But the authors of today's report say an extra 2 million people should | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
And guidelines suggest it could be many millions more. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
But there's concern from a minority group of critics that healthy people | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
are being encouraged to take pills unnecessarily. | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
My biggest concern as a doctor is I'm having to make | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
decisions for patients, based upon information that's | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
mainly industry-sponsored and clearly biassed. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
What we need now is an independent review of all the data and access | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
to the raw data that is being held as commercially confidential | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
and this, in my view, is not acceptable, as a clinician, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
trying to make decisions for my patients. | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
Many family doctors have struggled to convince patients | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
The Royal College of GPs is among a number of major organisations that | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
agree the drugs are the best way to protect patients. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
Dangling thousands of feet up above the Alps in a broken cable | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
That's how dozens of tourists spent last night above Mont Blanc. | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
Suspended 12,000 feet above the highest mountain | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
in the Alps, over 100 tourists, including a ten-year-old child, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
The cars had become stuck after their cables became tangled. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
You can just see rescuers suspended from helicopters. | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
One of those involved said it was like "performing surgery | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
By night fall, 80 people had been rescued, some by helicopter, | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
others in cabins a little nearer the ground were | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
TRANSLATION: While the day was sunny and not foggy, they | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
They couldn't use helicopters any more. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
And they lowered people on to the glacier on the places | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
When dark arrived, they decided to stop the rescue operation | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
But 33 people had to be left dangling overnight, | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
In the morning, the helicopters came back, but there was still no | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
clear idea about how to get the people down. | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
Their ordeal finally ended when engineers managed to free | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
the tangled cables and get the cars going again. | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
I can't imagine what that night must have been like. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Right, let's look at the weekend weather. Sarah Keith-Lucas is here. | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
How is it looking? Autumnal over the next 24 hours. Not | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
all doom and gloom. Some sunshine for most one day of the weekend but | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
also heavy rain. Here was Fife earlier on this afternoon. We had | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
cloud building and the rain sweeping in. We have had a lot of rain around | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
across much of Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-west England, too. | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Here is the recent radar picture. A lot of lying surface water on the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
roads, if you have got travel plans in the north-west this evening. The | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
winds a real feature, gusting 50 or 60 miles per hour over the next few | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
hours. Those strong winds ease as this weather front pushes further | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
southwards and eastwards overnight. Through the early hours of Saturday, | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
we will see rain across parts of central and southern England, | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
eastern Wales, up towards Lincolnshire, mild under the rain, | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
fresher but also drier towards the north-west. So, a mixed picture | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
through the day tomorrow. We'll keep this weather front moving gradually | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
further southwards and eastwards. Cloud across the south-east corner. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Outbreaks of rain on and off and fairly breezy. Away from | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
south-eastern and southern parts of England things looking drier and | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
brighter with sunshine, one or two showers in the north-west and | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
temperatures around 16-to-21. On Saturday evening, many of us, late | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
brightness and dry weather but we will hold on it the drizzly rain in | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
the far south-east. Heading into Sunday, low pressure | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
from the Atlantic but before it gets there, a ridge of high pressure it | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
start the day on Sunday. A fresh start with some mist and fog patches | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
around, too. They should clear away fairly quickly and in the a bad day | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
across much of the country. England and Wales and eastern Scotland keep | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
the sunshine but across western Scotland and Northern Ireland, too, | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
things will turn increasingly wet and windy once again later on, on | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Sunday. A mixed picture but bear with the weather. Some sunshine on | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
at least one day. Thank you very much. | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
A reminder of the main story. Theresa May says all schools in | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
England should have the chance to select via ability and there should | :28:38. | :28:38. | |
be more grammar schools. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
so it's goodbye from me | :28:42. | :28:43. |