:00:00. > :00:07.Nissan makes a new commitment to its Sunderland plant.
:00:08. > :00:09.Ministers call it a vote of confidence in
:00:10. > :00:14.The company confirms it will make new models in the UK.
:00:15. > :00:23.This is fantastic news for the British economy from Nissan.
:00:24. > :00:26.This is a very important commitment of investment here in the UK.
:00:27. > :00:29.And latest figures show the economy grew by 0.5%.
:00:30. > :00:38.We'll be looking at how the news on Nissan and the economy
:00:39. > :00:39.could affect Brexit talks with the EU.
:00:40. > :00:45.The Calais camp may be cleared but there are fears that dozens
:00:46. > :00:49.of children have been left abandoned.
:00:50. > :00:52.Buying abortion pills - the women in Northern Ireland
:00:53. > :00:56.who say they have no option, despite the health risks.
:00:57. > :00:58.A record audience for The Great British Bake Off.
:00:59. > :01:05.More than 14 million watched the last final on the BBC.
:01:06. > :01:08.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, should West Ham be forced
:01:09. > :01:14.MP Mark Field thinks so, if there is a repeat of the ugly
:01:15. > :01:34.scenes that marred their win over Chelsea.
:01:35. > :01:37.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:38. > :01:42.The carmaker Nissan has confirmed that it will make not
:01:43. > :01:45.one, but two new models at its plant in Sunderland.
:01:46. > :01:48.The decision marks the first major investment in the industry
:01:49. > :01:53.Ministers argue it is a vote of confidence in Britain's
:01:54. > :01:59.The Nissan announcement comes on a day when new figures
:02:00. > :02:02.showed economic growth was better than expected.
:02:03. > :02:05.More on that in a moment, but first, here's our business editor
:02:06. > :02:13.Simon Jack, who's at the Nissan plant in Sunderland.
:02:14. > :02:18.George, yes, production was actually halted here at 11am for this
:02:19. > :02:23.announcement which was greeted by cheers. It will secure manufacturing
:02:24. > :02:28.here in the north-east, many years into a post-Brexit future. Now a lot
:02:29. > :02:31.of people are asking, what has the government offered Nissan to allay
:02:32. > :02:34.concerns the company expressed just a month ago? Nissan are not denying
:02:35. > :02:38.government support has been discussed but they are denying it is
:02:39. > :02:41.a sweetheart deal so whatever Nissan was offered, the rest of the
:02:42. > :02:42.industry will expect to get the same. Whatever the offer was, it
:02:43. > :02:49.worked. It was the news Sunderland have been
:02:50. > :02:53.waiting and hoping for, a commitment to make cars many years into a
:02:54. > :02:58.post-Brexit future and it was welcomed in the city. That's
:02:59. > :03:02.excellent news. Great for the north-east. I've got a lot of
:03:03. > :03:05.friends who work at Nissan as also obviously, if it secures jobs for
:03:06. > :03:10.them, it helps the local economy a lot. The city's biggest employer by
:03:11. > :03:14.far, committed to build the next-generation of its Qashqai model
:03:15. > :03:18.but an unexpected bonus, the X-Trail model will also be in production in
:03:19. > :03:27.four to five years' time. The head of European production at Nissan
:03:28. > :03:30.explained what it meant for the workers and for the city. It's
:03:31. > :03:32.fantastic news for all the workforce today. We stop the production line
:03:33. > :03:35.and you don't stop that likely. We stopped the line at 11am and briefed
:03:36. > :03:38.all staff because it is fantastic news for everyone here. It is a big
:03:39. > :03:43.pat on the back, big cheer, the place is buzzing with excitement.
:03:44. > :03:48.Nissan has been here since 1986 and makes more cars here than any other
:03:49. > :03:52.manufacturer. So the Prime Minister was understandably delighted at
:03:53. > :03:56.Nissan's vote of confidence. This is a very important commitment of
:03:57. > :03:59.investment here in the UK. I think it shows the strength of Aragon me.
:04:00. > :04:02.We have been showing Nissan and others that we are committed to
:04:03. > :04:05.getting the best possible deal from the future relationship that we will
:04:06. > :04:10.be negotiating with the European Union. We wish to ensure and assure
:04:11. > :04:17.the competitiveness of the British economy. 55% of cars built in
:04:18. > :04:23.Sunderland are for export to the EU. Those exports support 7000 direct
:04:24. > :04:28.jobs here at the plant. In total, the auto industry directly employs
:04:29. > :04:34.169,000 people with an estimated five times that number in the UK
:04:35. > :04:38.supply chain. That makes the UK car industry very sensitive to
:04:39. > :04:43.post-Brexit trade terms. That uncertainty prompted Carlos Ghosn,
:04:44. > :04:48.the boss of Nissan Renault, to say this just last month at the Paris
:04:49. > :04:53.motor show. As long as we don't have a handicap, and we can continue to
:04:54. > :04:57.do business the way we were doing it before, I have absolutely no
:04:58. > :05:01.problem. It means that what we would like is that wherever the decision
:05:02. > :05:09.will be taken in terms of Brexit, that the move of goods between the
:05:10. > :05:14.UK and Europe be as fluid as it is today. Now it's unclear exactly how
:05:15. > :05:17.the government managed to allay Nissan's concerns. It is that lack
:05:18. > :05:23.of character it that drew criticism today. -- lack of clarity. We hear a
:05:24. > :05:28.deal for Nissan which is welcome if it protects jobs but it can't be
:05:29. > :05:30.chaotic, if the government leaks individual statements, that they are
:05:31. > :05:35.dealing with individual sectors of the economy, not the whole economy's
:05:36. > :05:39.future. This is the pride of Sunderland, a boat full of cars
:05:40. > :05:42.heading to Europe. The exact course of the government's negotiations
:05:43. > :05:44.with Europe and the car industry is yet to be plotted. Simon Jack, BBC
:05:45. > :05:46.News, Sunderland. So let's go to those latest
:05:47. > :05:49.figures on the economy. New figures show that output rose
:05:50. > :05:52.by 0.5% between July and September, that's the first quarter
:05:53. > :05:54.since the EU referendum. The Office for National Statistics
:05:55. > :05:56.said there was "little evidence" that the Brexit vote had had
:05:57. > :05:59.a "pronounced effect" Our economics correspondent
:06:00. > :06:13.Andy Verity has more. This Sheffield a manufacturer is
:06:14. > :06:18.everything the economy was not supposed to be following about to
:06:19. > :06:21.leave, confident, growing healthily and exporting patented manufactured
:06:22. > :06:24.goods based on innovation and long-term investment. If anything,
:06:25. > :06:31.the weakness of the pound post-referendum has given it a lift.
:06:32. > :06:36.We will make gains. We are 85% export, 40% sales in euros, 30% in
:06:37. > :06:41.US dollars. So clearly, the value of those sales will go up in UK
:06:42. > :06:46.sterling. As the Chancellor visited a key export hub, Southampton docks,
:06:47. > :06:50.the picture emerging from the post-referendum fog is of an economy
:06:51. > :06:54.growing faster than most expectations, including his. Very
:06:55. > :06:58.strong third-quarter growth. That tells us that we go into the period
:06:59. > :07:03.of negotiation for our exit from the EU from a position of strength, with
:07:04. > :07:06.the economy doing very well. You want in the spring that a vote to
:07:07. > :07:14.leave the European Union would leave us as the country weaker and worse
:07:15. > :07:17.off, that it would have a chilling effect. Where you wrong? The economy
:07:18. > :07:19.has proved to be very resilient. We went into the referendum, I think
:07:20. > :07:23.the figures now show, stronger than we thought at the time. And the
:07:24. > :07:30.economy has held up very well since. But we are going to have a period of
:07:31. > :07:34.uncertainty ahead. On the official estimate, the value of all goods and
:07:35. > :07:40.services in the economy, GDP, grew entirely because of the services
:07:41. > :07:44.sector, up by 0.8%. Elsewhere, activity was down, with the
:07:45. > :07:49.construction sector shrinking by 1.4%, but manufacturing Avril was
:07:50. > :07:52.down by 1%. The economy may be slowing down but overall, the
:07:53. > :07:56.economic effects of the Brexit vote have been nothing like what the
:07:57. > :08:00.Treasury predicted. In fact, two exporters like this one, the
:08:01. > :08:04.weakness of the pound has given them a big lift. But that benefit is
:08:05. > :08:09.accompanied by a lingering anxiety. If we are not members of the single
:08:10. > :08:14.market, that short-term gain could morph into long-term economic pain.
:08:15. > :08:18.Across Sheffield, this company's had to pay much more for the circular
:08:19. > :08:22.saw blades and other tools that imports from China. If it hadn't
:08:23. > :08:26.announced higher prices, its profits would have been wiped out. We would
:08:27. > :08:29.have stayed in bed because it would not have been worth coming to work
:08:30. > :08:32.at that stage. We would not be making sufficient money to pay for
:08:33. > :08:38.heating, lighting, wages and everything else. It was inevitable
:08:39. > :08:42.we would have to put the prices up. In cutting interest rates to record
:08:43. > :08:45.lows, the Bank of England sought to protect towns like Sheffield from
:08:46. > :08:49.the chill of an economic winter. So far, at least, the climate has
:08:50. > :08:51.proved unexpectedly mild. Andy Verity, BBC News, Sheffield.
:08:52. > :08:56.Joining me is our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
:08:57. > :09:03.I want to explore the Nissan story further. If the company has given
:09:04. > :09:10.assurances to Nissan, won't it set a precedent perhaps for other
:09:11. > :09:13.industries? I think it will do, one minister said this government was
:09:14. > :09:17.not a haggle and I think the governor tried to do two things and
:09:18. > :09:20.succeeded both of them. They looked business in the eye and said they
:09:21. > :09:23.might not be leaving the EU but they are not screaming off and trashing
:09:24. > :09:25.everything behind them, they are not going to be reactionary, they're
:09:26. > :09:31.going to be sensible and reasonable but secondary -- secondly, if things
:09:32. > :09:34.go south, they might be able to use the cash from the taxpayer or
:09:35. > :09:38.support from the government in order to make things sweet for the whole
:09:39. > :09:42.industry. Maybe the promise of some kind of compensation. Maybe offers
:09:43. > :09:46.of government grants of some kind if things go very wrong in this period
:09:47. > :09:49.of uncertainty, as we prepare to leave the EU. I think other
:09:50. > :09:53.industries certainly will be wondering, look, the car industry
:09:54. > :09:58.asked and they got. Maybe we should do the same. But I think the other
:09:59. > :10:03.thing it tells us, George, is that in this period where, frankly, the
:10:04. > :10:07.government's ideas for Brexit are still so unknown, that ministers are
:10:08. > :10:10.really prepared to sweat it out to persuade big companies that it is
:10:11. > :10:13.worth staying in Britain right now and also that it will be worth being
:10:14. > :10:16.here in the future. Thank you for joining us.
:10:17. > :10:19.Aid workers say dozens of children were forced to sleep on the roadside
:10:20. > :10:21.last night after the French authorities closed down
:10:22. > :10:23.the so-called Jungle migrant camp in Calais.
:10:24. > :10:26.The Home Secretary Amber Rudd has spoken to her French counterpart
:10:27. > :10:28.and stressed the need for children who remain in Calais
:10:29. > :10:45.It's the slowly strangling of life in the Jungle. French police moved
:10:46. > :10:51.in today and then, this afternoon, sealed off the entry, reasserting
:10:52. > :10:56.control here. So it seems the police's patience is starting to run
:10:57. > :10:59.out. With each of these moves that they are making up here, they are
:11:00. > :11:03.just taking a bit more territory, pushing the remaining refugees that
:11:04. > :11:08.little bit further away from the Jungle. If you go on the bus to the
:11:09. > :11:12.registration centre... Those outside have a choice. You are not 17 or
:11:13. > :11:17.younger. You need to take the adult bus. They have a new destination,
:11:18. > :11:22.refugee processing centres around France. But for some children,
:11:23. > :11:25.uncertainty. Someone was killed in front of me. We found this
:11:26. > :11:32.16-year-old from Sudan, papers proving his age but they are still
:11:33. > :11:36.in the Jungle. I cannot enter inside. Yeah, the French people
:11:37. > :11:42.reject me to go inside, to come inside. The police? The police,
:11:43. > :11:47.yeah. So where did you stay last night? I sleep in the street. Just
:11:48. > :11:52.out here? Yeah. The children are meant to be going here, into care.
:11:53. > :11:59.Some will end up in the UK. Last night, a few were left in the open.
:12:00. > :12:07.And activists filmed this, today, children being detained by police.
:12:08. > :12:13.It is not clear why. The destruction of the Jungle is gathering pace.
:12:14. > :12:19.Homs and hopes demolished. The fear is up to 100 children may still have
:12:20. > :12:22.no place to go. Gilles de Beuve, from the police union, told us there
:12:23. > :12:28.are charities working here, who could bring the children to the
:12:29. > :12:32.police and they will get beds. But nearby were more boys, all under 17,
:12:33. > :12:38.wondering if they face another night on the streets. The Jungle is gone
:12:39. > :12:39.but a tangled web of problems and deals. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News,
:12:40. > :12:43.Calais. -- problems in deals. President Vladimir Putin has
:12:44. > :12:45.defended Russia's military strategy He said it was necessary
:12:46. > :12:49.to crush the militants there Russia's air campaign in support
:12:50. > :12:53.of the Syrian army's offensive has Poor morale among doctors could be
:12:54. > :13:00.putting patients at risk. That's the warning from
:13:01. > :13:04.the General Medical Council. Their annual report says
:13:05. > :13:07.there is a "state of unease within the medical profession
:13:08. > :13:09.across the UK that risks affecting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has
:13:10. > :13:18.come under fire over her government's handling
:13:19. > :13:21.of the NHS in Scotland. A new report from the spending
:13:22. > :13:25.watchdog Audit Scotland has highlighted a series of challenges
:13:26. > :13:27.including rising costs Our Scotland editor Sarah Smith
:13:28. > :13:40.joins us from outside I'm told there were some pretty
:13:41. > :13:45.lively exchanges in the parliament building behind you?
:13:46. > :13:50.There certainly were. Nicola Sturgeon was accused of presiding
:13:51. > :13:53.over a crisis in Scotland's NHS because the NHS missed seven out of
:13:54. > :13:57.eight of the government's waiting time targets and the Audit Scotland
:13:58. > :14:01.report also warned of worse to come. It said the NHS was struggling to
:14:02. > :14:05.cope with increased demand, harsh saving targets and it also
:14:06. > :14:08.criticised the failure to plan for the future. So the Scottish Tory
:14:09. > :14:09.leader, Ruth Davidson, accused Nicola Sturgeon of presiding over a
:14:10. > :14:11.scandal. Successive SNP health ministers,
:14:12. > :14:13.including this First Minister when she was in the role,
:14:14. > :14:16.have ducked the big challenges. But now we have an unavoidable
:14:17. > :14:19.crisis on our hands because this government has preferred
:14:20. > :14:32.sticking plaster solutions. Nicola Sturgeon herself was the
:14:33. > :14:37.health minister between 2007 and 2012 so this is quite personal for
:14:38. > :14:39.her. She fervently defended her government's record on the NHS.
:14:40. > :14:41.Health service funding is higher than when we took office.
:14:42. > :14:44.The number of people working in the health service is higher
:14:45. > :14:47.than when we took office and waiting times are lower than
:14:48. > :14:56.This is potentially a political problem for Nicola Sturgeon because
:14:57. > :15:00.she quite often likes to boast about how the Scottish NHS is performing
:15:01. > :15:04.better than that in England. But if people here start to lose confidence
:15:05. > :15:06.in how she is running the health service, they could start to lose
:15:07. > :15:06.confidence in her government as a whole.
:15:07. > :15:14.Thank you for joining us. Nissan makes a new commitment
:15:15. > :15:17.to its Sunderland plant Ministers call it a vote of
:15:18. > :15:27.confidence in post-Brexit Britain. We speak to the winner of this
:15:28. > :15:34.year's Great British Bake Off as millions share her
:15:35. > :15:36.moment of triumph. Coming up in Sports day on BBC News,
:15:37. > :15:40.England give a Test debut to Surrey He's been called up
:15:41. > :15:42.for the second Test against Bangladesh starting
:15:43. > :15:55.in Dhaka tomorrow. There are fears that women
:15:56. > :15:57.in Northern Ireland are putting themselves at risk by taking
:15:58. > :16:00.abortion pills which Under strict abortion laws
:16:01. > :16:05.in Northern Ireland, a pregnancy can only be terminated if the life
:16:06. > :16:08.or health of the mother According to the UN,
:16:09. > :16:12.six nations worldwide have a total ban on abortion
:16:13. > :16:16.under any circumstances. A further 38 - including
:16:17. > :16:18.Northen Ireland - have very strict controls normally
:16:19. > :16:20.only allowing abortion Chris Buckler has
:16:21. > :16:39.this special report. This was a deliberately provocative
:16:40. > :16:45.stunt by pro-abortion campaigners. Using a drone to deliver pills
:16:46. > :16:50.capable of causing a pregnancy to be terminated and then taking the drugs
:16:51. > :16:53.in full view of the police. But similar pills arrive in Northern
:16:54. > :16:58.Ireland regularly, despite the strict laws that prevent any
:16:59. > :17:03.abortion unless the mother's life or health is at risk. People are
:17:04. > :17:08.travelling to England to have an abortion privately and those who
:17:09. > :17:14.can't afford it are in a dangerous position or get the pills online.
:17:15. > :17:18.There have been warnings, that people can't be sure what they're
:17:19. > :17:22.ordering online. Purchasing and using the drugs is illegal across
:17:23. > :17:27.the UK and Ireland. But pills we ordered arrived from India with
:17:28. > :17:34.little documentation and we had them tested at Queen's University in
:17:35. > :17:39.Belfast. As with all drugs, there are risks. In particular concern
:17:40. > :17:44.would be the heavy bleeding and some women will require a blood
:17:45. > :17:49.transfusion. If you're talking about heavy blood loss as a result of
:17:50. > :17:56.these drugs, is that potentially life-threatening? Come pleatly yes.
:17:57. > :18:00.-- Completely yes. We have learned at least one woman was charged by
:18:01. > :18:05.police after she sought medical treatment. Groups like Amnesty have
:18:06. > :18:09.been involved in a long campaign to try to get the laws relaxed here.
:18:10. > :18:13.But abortion is a particularly sensitive issue in Northern Ireland.
:18:14. > :18:17.And that probably reflects the close links between religion and politics.
:18:18. > :18:21.We have been looking to the UK saying we don't want that to happen.
:18:22. > :18:28.Our politicians have been holding against the tide of some people like
:18:29. > :18:33.Amnesty and others trying to forcefully change our law. We made
:18:34. > :18:36.several requests to speak to the justice minister of Northern
:18:37. > :18:42.Ireland. She refused them all. But she was due to give interviews at
:18:43. > :18:51.this charity event. The SNPCC invited you. When it became clear we
:18:52. > :18:56.wanted to talk about abortion her press officer had us thrown out. Why
:18:57. > :19:03.is she refusing to answer questions from abortion. I'm not answering any
:19:04. > :19:09.for questions with this film. Northern Ireland's health minister
:19:10. > :19:12.also refused to speak to us. Stormont's Government continues to
:19:13. > :19:17.consider proposals for allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest
:19:18. > :19:22.or where the baby won't survive beyond birth. Campaigners a majority
:19:23. > :19:24.of people support change. But there is no sign of agreement among the
:19:25. > :19:30.politicians. A free trade agreement
:19:31. > :19:32.between the EU and Canada is finally set to go ahead after a Belgian
:19:33. > :19:35.region that was holding up Activists protested against the deal
:19:36. > :19:39.in front of the EU commission in Brussels just hours
:19:40. > :19:41.after the breakthrough The landmark free trade
:19:42. > :19:44.agreement is expected The Government has confirmed
:19:45. > :19:49.that it's dropping plans for an Education Bill for this
:19:50. > :19:54.session of parliament. The Bill was based on the white
:19:55. > :19:57.paper which initially suggested all schools in England would have
:19:58. > :19:59.to become academies. Our education editor
:20:00. > :20:09.Branwen Jeffreys joins me. Why have ministers dropped it?
:20:10. > :20:13.Really, they're doing a tidying up job and drawing a line under the
:20:14. > :20:18.policies of David Cameron in many ways. So back in May, when this was
:20:19. > :20:22.announced, the Government had already done a U-turn on the main
:20:23. > :20:28.item in this Bill, that was forcing even good schools to become
:20:29. > :20:32.academies. They dropped that after stiff opposition from within the
:20:33. > :20:40.Conservative Party. Since then under Theresa May we have had other items
:20:41. > :20:45.pushed back like a national funding formula and plans to make schools no
:20:46. > :20:50.longer have parents as governors. So there wasn't much left to put in the
:20:51. > :20:55.bill. So this clears the way for draft plans for Theresa May's big
:20:56. > :20:58.education idea. That is more grammar schools and we could see the first
:20:59. > :21:05.draft of legislation next spring. Thank you.
:21:06. > :21:11.A mental health trust has been criticised for failing to help a
:21:12. > :21:23.retired nurse who fell from a bridge. Marion Munns died last year.
:21:24. > :21:31.Her family called the trust, but were told no one could help as the
:21:32. > :21:36.office was closing. Marion was in the words of her daughter, a
:21:37. > :21:41.beautiful person, a wife, mother and grandmother who died too soon. She
:21:42. > :21:46.wasn't a fuddy-duddy pensioner. He was young in her years and she had
:21:47. > :21:54.us, her grandchildren, there was no way that this should have ever
:21:55. > :21:59.happened. A keen cyclist, fit and healthy, psychiatric problems
:22:00. > :22:05.blighted her final 18 months. Last year her health deteriorated and her
:22:06. > :22:12.daughters called a mental health nurse begging for help. She told me
:22:13. > :22:16.because it was 4 o'clock they were closing and I should make my way
:22:17. > :22:23.there, if I didn't like what I saw. Try and put a lid on it. Stay over
:22:24. > :22:33.night and call 999. She couldn't protect her mother, who escaped and
:22:34. > :22:39.disappeared. In the midsts of a psyche yachtic episode, she fell on
:22:40. > :22:43.to the M27 motorway. An investigation by Southern health
:22:44. > :22:52.found 13 failings in the care of Marion Munns. No wonder the trust
:22:53. > :22:56.say the death was preventible. South health errors did not cause the
:22:57. > :23:02.death said the core nor. Nothing could have stopped the night's
:23:03. > :23:10.events. The trust has been beset by care failings and the Chief
:23:11. > :23:15.Executive had to resign. Southern said care had improved and
:23:16. > :23:20.apologised to the family. I'm an old man now, I'm looking at it, I keep
:23:21. > :23:26.hearing this from governments and everyone, we will learn from this.
:23:27. > :23:32.But do people ever learn? The family now want a public inquiry into all
:23:33. > :23:38.deaths at Southern health to ensure others don't suffer as they have.
:23:39. > :23:41.The Queen has unveiled a statue of her mother on a visit
:23:42. > :23:44.The sculpture, by Phillip Jackson, sits
:23:45. > :23:47.at the centre of a square named after the Queen Mother in the suburb
:23:48. > :23:49.of the town of Dorchester that was the brainchild of
:23:50. > :24:10.It's the culinary creation that's risen beyond all expectations,
:24:11. > :24:13.with the final of the Great British Bake Off on the BBC watched
:24:14. > :24:17.It's popular with all age groups - a third of the audience
:24:18. > :24:20.And this year's shows even proved more popular
:24:21. > :24:22.Last night's record audience saw PE teacher
:24:23. > :24:26.She's been talking to our Entertainment Correspondent,
:24:27. > :24:38.His report does contain flash photography.
:24:39. > :24:48.The winner of the Great British Bake-Off 2016 - Candice! PE teacher,
:24:49. > :24:56.Candice Brown, the winner of this year's competition. A moment watched
:24:57. > :25:08.around the country by a record 14.8 million viewers. Including of course
:25:09. > :25:13.this year's bakers at a party hosted by losing semi-finalist Selasi. It
:25:14. > :25:20.is the most popular show on British TV and winning it has made Candice a
:25:21. > :25:25.face recognisable to millions. Winning means more to me than anyone
:25:26. > :25:29.will realise. I hope it will enable me do is what want to do, which is
:25:30. > :25:35.bake all the time. I love it. How do you feel about being the last win we
:25:36. > :25:40.are Mel and Sue and Mary? I have had the best experience. I have always
:25:41. > :25:46.watched it as a fan. I can't wait to the next series to see what they do
:25:47. > :25:54.with it. Is so it is a programme that is changing channel, but has
:25:55. > :25:57.changed TV and people's lives. Giving people the ingredients to
:25:58. > :26:06.follow their dreams. The programme has been prepared and produced as
:26:07. > :26:11.carefully as the bakers' creations. Rising into the biggest ratings
:26:12. > :26:16.success story on TV. The next series will be on Channel 4. Millions of
:26:17. > :26:22.fans waiting to see how big their appetite for the show will be in its
:26:23. > :26:26.new home. Last night's finalists are now embarking on a brief book
:26:27. > :26:29.signing tour, celebrating the show that brings happiness to those
:26:30. > :26:34.taking part and those that consider themselves part of the bake-off
:26:35. > :26:39.family. Who number at last count around 15 million.
:26:40. > :26:44.Time for a look at the weather. Here's Helen Willetts.
:26:45. > :26:54.From lovely cakes to lovely scenery. This was today on the Isle of Wight
:26:55. > :26:59.and near there we had 17 degrees. Not quite as high as yet. But it is
:27:00. > :27:04.well above average for October. We have more cloud today that is the
:27:05. > :27:09.reason. But it stays mild. Just that rogue weather front in the north
:27:10. > :27:16.that is giving some rain. But they will peter out tonight. Introducing
:27:17. > :27:19.more breeze and cloud in the south. That should eliminate the fog
:27:20. > :27:25.problems, but there will still be some patchy fog in the morning. In
:27:26. > :27:30.the north a chilling night. For most of us throughout Friday and into the
:27:31. > :27:37.weekend the south-westerly mild weather returns. Still good news if
:27:38. > :27:42.you're on half term. Tomorrow will be cloudier with some hill fog in
:27:43. > :27:47.Wales and northern England. If the sun brakes through, we will see the
:27:48. > :27:54.temperatures soaring up to 17 degrees. To the north not such high
:27:55. > :27:59.temperatures. But brighter skies. Just a few showers until the weather
:28:00. > :28:03.front returns and it may be over Northern Ireland for much of the
:28:04. > :28:09.day. For Saturday sit is further north and for most of us it is warm.
:28:10. > :28:13.Early mist and fog there. With some brightness and sunshine and
:28:14. > :28:17.temperatures above average. The difference on Sunday is the weather
:28:18. > :28:24.front advanced further across Northern Ireland and Scotland. So
:28:25. > :28:28.more rain here. But elsewhere a bit more sunshine in contrast. Bear in
:28:29. > :28:32.mind that the clocks go back as well this weekend. Thank you.
:28:33. > :28:36.Nissan makes a new commitment to its Sunderland plant,
:28:37. > :28:42.Ministers call it a vote of confidence in post-Brexit Britain.
:28:43. > :28:45.That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me
:28:46. > :28:48.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.