27/10/2016 BBC News at Six

Nissan makes a new commitment to its Sunderland plant.

Ministers call it a vote of confidence in

The company confirms it will make new models in the UK.

This is fantastic news for the British economy from Nissan.

This is a very important commitment of investment here in the UK.

And latest figures show the economy grew by 0.5%.

We'll be looking at how the news on Nissan and the economy

could affect Brexit talks with the EU.

The Calais camp may be cleared but there are fears that dozens

of children have been left abandoned.

Buying abortion pills - the women in Northern Ireland

who say they have no option, despite the health risks.

A record audience for The Great British Bake Off.

More than 14 million watched the last final on the BBC.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, should West Ham be forced

MP Mark Field thinks so, if there is a repeat of the ugly

scenes that marred their win over Chelsea.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

The carmaker Nissan has confirmed that it will make not

one, but two new models at its plant in Sunderland.

The decision marks the first major investment in the industry

Ministers argue it is a vote of confidence in Britain's

The Nissan announcement comes on a day when new figures

showed economic growth was better than expected.

More on that in a moment, but first, here's our business editor

Simon Jack, who's at the Nissan plant in Sunderland.

George, yes, production was actually halted here at 11am for this

announcement which was greeted by cheers. It will secure manufacturing

here in the north-east, many years into a post-Brexit future. Now a lot

of people are asking, what has the government offered Nissan to allay

concerns the company expressed just a month ago? Nissan are not denying

government support has been discussed but they are denying it is

a sweetheart deal so whatever Nissan was offered, the rest of the

industry will expect to get the same. Whatever the offer was, it

worked. It was the news Sunderland have been

waiting and hoping for, a commitment to make cars many years into a

post-Brexit future and it was welcomed in the city. That's

excellent news. Great for the north-east. I've got a lot of

friends who work at Nissan as also obviously, if it secures jobs for

them, it helps the local economy a lot. The city's biggest employer by

far, committed to build the next-generation of its Qashqai model

but an unexpected bonus, the X-Trail model will also be in production in

four to five years' time. The head of European production at Nissan

explained what it meant for the workers and for the city. It's

fantastic news for all the workforce today. We stop the production line

and you don't stop that likely. We stopped the line at 11am and briefed

all staff because it is fantastic news for everyone here. It is a big

pat on the back, big cheer, the place is buzzing with excitement.

Nissan has been here since 1986 and makes more cars here than any other

manufacturer. So the Prime Minister was understandably delighted at

Nissan's vote of confidence. This is a very important commitment of

investment here in the UK. I think it shows the strength of Aragon me.

We have been showing Nissan and others that we are committed to

getting the best possible deal from the future relationship that we will

be negotiating with the European Union. We wish to ensure and assure

the competitiveness of the British economy. 55% of cars built in

Sunderland are for export to the EU. Those exports support 7000 direct

jobs here at the plant. In total, the auto industry directly employs

169,000 people with an estimated five times that number in the UK

supply chain. That makes the UK car industry very sensitive to

post-Brexit trade terms. That uncertainty prompted Carlos Ghosn,

the boss of Nissan Renault, to say this just last month at the Paris

motor show. As long as we don't have a handicap, and we can continue to

do business the way we were doing it before, I have absolutely no

problem. It means that what we would like is that wherever the decision

will be taken in terms of Brexit, that the move of goods between the

UK and Europe be as fluid as it is today. Now it's unclear exactly how

the government managed to allay Nissan's concerns. It is that lack

of character it that drew criticism today. -- lack of clarity. We hear a

deal for Nissan which is welcome if it protects jobs but it can't be

chaotic, if the government leaks individual statements, that they are

dealing with individual sectors of the economy, not the whole economy's

future. This is the pride of Sunderland, a boat full of cars

heading to Europe. The exact course of the government's negotiations

with Europe and the car industry is yet to be plotted. Simon Jack, BBC

News, Sunderland. So let's go to those latest

figures on the economy. New figures show that output rose

by 0.5% between July and September, that's the first quarter

since the EU referendum. The Office for National Statistics

said there was "little evidence" that the Brexit vote had had

a "pronounced effect" Our economics correspondent

Andy Verity has more. This Sheffield a manufacturer is

everything the economy was not supposed to be following about to

leave, confident, growing healthily and exporting patented manufactured

goods based on innovation and long-term investment. If anything,

the weakness of the pound post-referendum has given it a lift.

We will make gains. We are 85% export, 40% sales in euros, 30% in

US dollars. So clearly, the value of those sales will go up in UK

sterling. As the Chancellor visited a key export hub, Southampton docks,

the picture emerging from the post-referendum fog is of an economy

growing faster than most expectations, including his. Very

strong third-quarter growth. That tells us that we go into the period

of negotiation for our exit from the EU from a position of strength, with

the economy doing very well. You want in the spring that a vote to

leave the European Union would leave us as the country weaker and worse

off, that it would have a chilling effect. Where you wrong? The economy

has proved to be very resilient. We went into the referendum, I think

the figures now show, stronger than we thought at the time. And the

economy has held up very well since. But we are going to have a period of

uncertainty ahead. On the official estimate, the value of all goods and

services in the economy, GDP, grew entirely because of the services

sector, up by 0.8%. Elsewhere, activity was down, with the

construction sector shrinking by 1.4%, but manufacturing Avril was

down by 1%. The economy may be slowing down but overall, the

economic effects of the Brexit vote have been nothing like what the

Treasury predicted. In fact, two exporters like this one, the

weakness of the pound has given them a big lift. But that benefit is

accompanied by a lingering anxiety. If we are not members of the single

market, that short-term gain could morph into long-term economic pain.

Across Sheffield, this company's had to pay much more for the circular

saw blades and other tools that imports from China. If it hadn't

announced higher prices, its profits would have been wiped out. We would

have stayed in bed because it would not have been worth coming to work

at that stage. We would not be making sufficient money to pay for

heating, lighting, wages and everything else. It was inevitable

we would have to put the prices up. In cutting interest rates to record

lows, the Bank of England sought to protect towns like Sheffield from

the chill of an economic winter. So far, at least, the climate has

proved unexpectedly mild. Andy Verity, BBC News, Sheffield.

Joining me is our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

I want to explore the Nissan story further. If the company has given

assurances to Nissan, won't it set a precedent perhaps for other

industries? I think it will do, one minister said this government was

not a haggle and I think the governor tried to do two things and

succeeded both of them. They looked business in the eye and said they

might not be leaving the EU but they are not screaming off and trashing

everything behind them, they are not going to be reactionary, they're

going to be sensible and reasonable but secondary -- secondly, if things

go south, they might be able to use the cash from the taxpayer or

support from the government in order to make things sweet for the whole

industry. Maybe the promise of some kind of compensation. Maybe offers

of government grants of some kind if things go very wrong in this period

of uncertainty, as we prepare to leave the EU. I think other

industries certainly will be wondering, look, the car industry

asked and they got. Maybe we should do the same. But I think the other

thing it tells us, George, is that in this period where, frankly, the

government's ideas for Brexit are still so unknown, that ministers are

really prepared to sweat it out to persuade big companies that it is

worth staying in Britain right now and also that it will be worth being

here in the future. Thank you for joining us.

Aid workers say dozens of children were forced to sleep on the roadside

last night after the French authorities closed down

the so-called Jungle migrant camp in Calais.

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd has spoken to her French counterpart

and stressed the need for children who remain in Calais

It's the slowly strangling of life in the Jungle. French police moved

in today and then, this afternoon, sealed off the entry, reasserting

control here. So it seems the police's patience is starting to run

out. With each of these moves that they are making up here, they are

just taking a bit more territory, pushing the remaining refugees that

little bit further away from the Jungle. If you go on the bus to the

registration centre... Those outside have a choice. You are not 17 or

younger. You need to take the adult bus. They have a new destination,

refugee processing centres around France. But for some children,

uncertainty. Someone was killed in front of me. We found this

16-year-old from Sudan, papers proving his age but they are still

in the Jungle. I cannot enter inside. Yeah, the French people

reject me to go inside, to come inside. The police? The police,

yeah. So where did you stay last night? I sleep in the street. Just

out here? Yeah. The children are meant to be going here, into care.

Some will end up in the UK. Last night, a few were left in the open.

And activists filmed this, today, children being detained by police.

It is not clear why. The destruction of the Jungle is gathering pace.

Homs and hopes demolished. The fear is up to 100 children may still have

no place to go. Gilles de Beuve, from the police union, told us there

are charities working here, who could bring the children to the

police and they will get beds. But nearby were more boys, all under 17,

wondering if they face another night on the streets. The Jungle is gone

but a tangled web of problems and deals. Damian Grammaticas, BBC News,

Calais. -- problems in deals. President Vladimir Putin has

defended Russia's military strategy He said it was necessary

to crush the militants there Russia's air campaign in support

of the Syrian army's offensive has Poor morale among doctors could be

putting patients at risk. That's the warning from

the General Medical Council. Their annual report says

there is a "state of unease within the medical profession

across the UK that risks affecting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has

come under fire over her government's handling

of the NHS in Scotland. A new report from the spending

watchdog Audit Scotland has highlighted a series of challenges

including rising costs Our Scotland editor Sarah Smith

joins us from outside I'm told there were some pretty

lively exchanges in the parliament building behind you?

There certainly were. Nicola Sturgeon was accused of presiding

over a crisis in Scotland's NHS because the NHS missed seven out of

eight of the government's waiting time targets and the Audit Scotland

report also warned of worse to come. It said the NHS was struggling to

cope with increased demand, harsh saving targets and it also

criticised the failure to plan for the future. So the Scottish Tory

leader, Ruth Davidson, accused Nicola Sturgeon of presiding over a

scandal. Successive SNP health ministers,

including this First Minister when she was in the role,

have ducked the big challenges. But now we have an unavoidable

crisis on our hands because this government has preferred

sticking plaster solutions. Nicola Sturgeon herself was the

health minister between 2007 and 2012 so this is quite personal for

her. She fervently defended her government's record on the NHS.

Health service funding is higher than when we took office.

The number of people working in the health service is higher

than when we took office and waiting times are lower than

This is potentially a political problem for Nicola Sturgeon because

she quite often likes to boast about how the Scottish NHS is performing

better than that in England. But if people here start to lose confidence

in how she is running the health service, they could start to lose

confidence in her government as a whole.

Thank you for joining us. Nissan makes a new commitment

to its Sunderland plant Ministers call it a vote of

confidence in post-Brexit Britain. We speak to the winner of this

year's Great British Bake Off as millions share her

moment of triumph. Coming up in Sports day on BBC News,

England give a Test debut to Surrey He's been called up

for the second Test against Bangladesh starting

in Dhaka tomorrow. There are fears that women

in Northern Ireland are putting themselves at risk by taking

abortion pills which Under strict abortion laws

in Northern Ireland, a pregnancy can only be terminated if the life

or health of the mother According to the UN,

six nations worldwide have a total ban on abortion

under any circumstances. A further 38 - including

Northen Ireland - have very strict controls normally

only allowing abortion Chris Buckler has

this special report. This was a deliberately provocative

stunt by pro-abortion campaigners. Using a drone to deliver pills

capable of causing a pregnancy to be terminated and then taking the drugs

in full view of the police. But similar pills arrive in Northern

Ireland regularly, despite the strict laws that prevent any

abortion unless the mother's life or health is at risk. People are

travelling to England to have an abortion privately and those who

can't afford it are in a dangerous position or get the pills online.

There have been warnings, that people can't be sure what they're

ordering online. Purchasing and using the drugs is illegal across

the UK and Ireland. But pills we ordered arrived from India with

little documentation and we had them tested at Queen's University in

Belfast. As with all drugs, there are risks. In particular concern

would be the heavy bleeding and some women will require a blood

transfusion. If you're talking about heavy blood loss as a result of

these drugs, is that potentially life-threatening? Come pleatly yes.

-- Completely yes. We have learned at least one woman was charged by

police after she sought medical treatment. Groups like Amnesty have

been involved in a long campaign to try to get the laws relaxed here.

But abortion is a particularly sensitive issue in Northern Ireland.

And that probably reflects the close links between religion and politics.

We have been looking to the UK saying we don't want that to happen.

Our politicians have been holding against the tide of some people like

Amnesty and others trying to forcefully change our law. We made

several requests to speak to the justice minister of Northern

Ireland. She refused them all. But she was due to give interviews at

this charity event. The SNPCC invited you. When it became clear we

wanted to talk about abortion her press officer had us thrown out. Why

is she refusing to answer questions from abortion. I'm not answering any

for questions with this film. Northern Ireland's health minister

also refused to speak to us. Stormont's Government continues to

consider proposals for allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest

or where the baby won't survive beyond birth. Campaigners a majority

of people support change. But there is no sign of agreement among the

politicians. A free trade agreement

between the EU and Canada is finally set to go ahead after a Belgian

region that was holding up Activists protested against the deal

in front of the EU commission in Brussels just hours

after the breakthrough The landmark free trade

agreement is expected The Government has confirmed

that it's dropping plans for an Education Bill for this

session of parliament. The Bill was based on the white

paper which initially suggested all schools in England would have

to become academies. Our education editor

Branwen Jeffreys joins me. Why have ministers dropped it?

Really, they're doing a tidying up job and drawing a line under the

policies of David Cameron in many ways. So back in May, when this was

announced, the Government had already done a U-turn on the main

item in this Bill, that was forcing even good schools to become

academies. They dropped that after stiff opposition from within the

Conservative Party. Since then under Theresa May we have had other items

pushed back like a national funding formula and plans to make schools no

longer have parents as governors. So there wasn't much left to put in the

bill. So this clears the way for draft plans for Theresa May's big

education idea. That is more grammar schools and we could see the first

draft of legislation next spring. Thank you.

A mental health trust has been criticised for failing to help a

retired nurse who fell from a bridge. Marion Munns died last year.

Her family called the trust, but were told no one could help as the

office was closing. Marion was in the words of her daughter, a

beautiful person, a wife, mother and grandmother who died too soon. She

wasn't a fuddy-duddy pensioner. He was young in her years and she had

us, her grandchildren, there was no way that this should have ever

happened. A keen cyclist, fit and healthy, psychiatric problems

blighted her final 18 months. Last year her health deteriorated and her

daughters called a mental health nurse begging for help. She told me

because it was 4 o'clock they were closing and I should make my way

there, if I didn't like what I saw. Try and put a lid on it. Stay over

night and call 999. She couldn't protect her mother, who escaped and

disappeared. In the midsts of a psyche yachtic episode, she fell on

to the M27 motorway. An investigation by Southern health

found 13 failings in the care of Marion Munns. No wonder the trust

say the death was preventible. South health errors did not cause the

death said the core nor. Nothing could have stopped the night's

events. The trust has been beset by care failings and the Chief

Executive had to resign. Southern said care had improved and

apologised to the family. I'm an old man now, I'm looking at it, I keep

hearing this from governments and everyone, we will learn from this.

But do people ever learn? The family now want a public inquiry into all

deaths at Southern health to ensure others don't suffer as they have.

The Queen has unveiled a statue of her mother on a visit

The sculpture, by Phillip Jackson, sits

at the centre of a square named after the Queen Mother in the suburb

of the town of Dorchester that was the brainchild of

It's the culinary creation that's risen beyond all expectations,

with the final of the Great British Bake Off on the BBC watched

It's popular with all age groups - a third of the audience

And this year's shows even proved more popular

Last night's record audience saw PE teacher

She's been talking to our Entertainment Correspondent,

His report does contain flash photography.

The winner of the Great British Bake-Off 2016 - Candice! PE teacher,

Candice Brown, the winner of this year's competition. A moment watched

around the country by a record 14.8 million viewers. Including of course

this year's bakers at a party hosted by losing semi-finalist Selasi. It

is the most popular show on British TV and winning it has made Candice a

face recognisable to millions. Winning means more to me than anyone

will realise. I hope it will enable me do is what want to do, which is

bake all the time. I love it. How do you feel about being the last win we

are Mel and Sue and Mary? I have had the best experience. I have always

watched it as a fan. I can't wait to the next series to see what they do

with it. Is so it is a programme that is changing channel, but has

changed TV and people's lives. Giving people the ingredients to

follow their dreams. The programme has been prepared and produced as

carefully as the bakers' creations. Rising into the biggest ratings

success story on TV. The next series will be on Channel 4. Millions of

fans waiting to see how big their appetite for the show will be in its

new home. Last night's finalists are now embarking on a brief book

signing tour, celebrating the show that brings happiness to those

taking part and those that consider themselves part of the bake-off

family. Who number at last count around 15 million.

Time for a look at the weather. Here's Helen Willetts.

From lovely cakes to lovely scenery. This was today on the Isle of Wight

and near there we had 17 degrees. Not quite as high as yet. But it is

well above average for October. We have more cloud today that is the

reason. But it stays mild. Just that rogue weather front in the north

that is giving some rain. But they will peter out tonight. Introducing

more breeze and cloud in the south. That should eliminate the fog

problems, but there will still be some patchy fog in the morning. In

the north a chilling night. For most of us throughout Friday and into the

weekend the south-westerly mild weather returns. Still good news if

you're on half term. Tomorrow will be cloudier with some hill fog in

Wales and northern England. If the sun brakes through, we will see the

temperatures soaring up to 17 degrees. To the north not such high

temperatures. But brighter skies. Just a few showers until the weather

front returns and it may be over Northern Ireland for much of the

day. For Saturday sit is further north and for most of us it is warm.

Early mist and fog there. With some brightness and sunshine and

temperatures above average. The difference on Sunday is the weather

front advanced further across Northern Ireland and Scotland. So

more rain here. But elsewhere a bit more sunshine in contrast. Bear in

mind that the clocks go back as well this weekend. Thank you.

Nissan makes a new commitment to its Sunderland plant,

Ministers call it a vote of confidence in post-Brexit Britain.

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