:00:11. > :00:12.Murders, assaults and self-harming - prison officers issue a warning
:00:13. > :00:18.As official figures show that violence in prisons continues
:00:19. > :00:20.continues to rise, ministers hold urgent talks.
:00:21. > :00:23.The prisons are a bloodbath at the moment.
:00:24. > :00:25.They're causing mass hysteria for both our staff and prisoners.
:00:26. > :00:32.We'll be asking about government plans for prison reform.
:00:33. > :00:38.England and Scotland players want to wear poppies
:00:39. > :00:42.on for their match on Armistice Day - Fifa says it's against the rules.
:00:43. > :00:45.We want our players to be able to wear those poppies.
:00:46. > :00:47.And I have to say to Fifa, that before they start
:00:48. > :00:50.telling us what to do, they jolly well ought
:00:51. > :00:57.Asda apologises after a BBC undercover investigation finds home
:00:58. > :01:00.delivery crates as dirty as a kitchen floor.
:01:01. > :01:04.With less than a week to polling day in the US election,
:01:05. > :01:10.after all the twists and turns, we will be looking at what these two
:01:11. > :01:16.candidates still have to do to become the 45th president.
:01:17. > :01:19.pioneering surgery after suffering terrible burns
:01:20. > :01:30.Leicester look to make more history tonight.
:01:31. > :01:49.in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
:01:50. > :01:52.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:53. > :01:55.The conditions in English and Welsh prisons has been likened
:01:56. > :01:58.to a bloodbath by the head of the Prison Officers Association.
:01:59. > :02:01.That stark assessment comes as the association has been
:02:02. > :02:10.holding urgent talks with the Justice Secretary,
:02:11. > :02:11.Liz Truss, about tackling increasing levels of violence
:02:12. > :02:14.The government's set to unveil its plans
:02:15. > :02:22.Our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly has more.
:02:23. > :02:32.Prison works. The old conservative mantra repeated a few years ago by
:02:33. > :02:37.Theresa May. But in some jails, this is Wandsworth, south London, earlier
:02:38. > :02:42.this year, the government is facing an explosive combination of staff
:02:43. > :02:46.shortages, violence and drug abuse. And some inmates are turning to the
:02:47. > :02:52.latest technology using drones to smuggle inbound items. The basket
:02:53. > :02:56.attached to this trial was carrying a consignment of this synthetic drug
:02:57. > :03:02.Spies and mobile phones. It was intercepted. The prison officers
:03:03. > :03:07.Association says the situation is at crisis point. Today they were set to
:03:08. > :03:11.take part in an unofficial walk-out. It was called off after the Justice
:03:12. > :03:18.Secretary agreed to an urgent meeting with PO PO a leaders this
:03:19. > :03:22.afternoon. Can I ask you whether meeting? Prisons are a bloodbath at
:03:23. > :03:26.the moment, they are causing mass hysteria for staff and prisoners,
:03:27. > :03:30.everyone is in a really bad way. Prisoners are on their knees and we
:03:31. > :03:35.hope the Justice Secretary can give some positive news for our members
:03:36. > :03:39.and prisoners are like. Today the BBC obtained a letter from an inmate
:03:40. > :03:44.at Pentonville where a prisoner was stabbed to death two weeks ago. He
:03:45. > :03:48.writes, a wing was just locked down again because after ten o'clock
:03:49. > :03:52.there were two violent incidents involving weapons. One involved what
:03:53. > :03:57.looked like a kitchen knife with a blade of 10-12 inches. I have
:03:58. > :04:01.frequently seen an individual set upon by half a dozen attackers in
:04:02. > :04:07.the exercise yard. This was a fight over drugs in a prison yard. Rival
:04:08. > :04:11.gangs and one person ended up with stab wounds. Current levels of
:04:12. > :04:17.prison violence, drug taking and self harm shame us all. The words of
:04:18. > :04:20.David Cameron nearly one year ago. While the political front line has
:04:21. > :04:24.changed in the last 12 months those at the sharp end in the present
:04:25. > :04:29.service have watched and experienced the situation simply getting worse.
:04:30. > :04:40.The latest figures show that over the past year, there were 107 self
:04:41. > :04:50.inflicted deaths. That is up 13%. 22,775 assaults, up 34% and 5954
:04:51. > :04:52.attacks on staff, up by 43%. Tomorrow there will be a big
:04:53. > :04:56.announcement from the Justice Secretary on the future of prisons
:04:57. > :04:59.in England and Wales. Tonight at the end of their talks the prison
:05:00. > :05:04.officers Association said it would mean nothing without safety
:05:05. > :05:07.guarantees for all those on the inside, prisoners and staff. And
:05:08. > :05:13.June Kelly is with me now. We are hearing about the prison reforms
:05:14. > :05:17.tomorrow from the government, what should we expect? This should be
:05:18. > :05:21.interesting, the first major announcement by Liz trust is Justice
:05:22. > :05:27.Secretary. We want to see if she will continue their work of her
:05:28. > :05:31.predecessor Michael Grove, seen as a reformer. She says this will be the
:05:32. > :05:35.biggest overhaul in prisons in England and Wales for a generation
:05:36. > :05:39.and she has spoken of ?1 million earmarked for new prisons but the
:05:40. > :05:44.big issue for people at the coal face, the governors and the prison
:05:45. > :05:47.officers as we heard is staffing levels. And what they say is never
:05:48. > :05:53.mind the long term plans, we cannot do this job unless we have more
:05:54. > :05:57.people and we need them now. The government said that one of the
:05:58. > :06:01.difficulties they have is, while they can recruit staff, sometimes
:06:02. > :06:04.they cannot keep them. So the challenge for everyone at the
:06:05. > :06:09.Ministry of Justice is to make this a job that people want to go into
:06:10. > :06:12.and then want to stay in. Thank you very much. Thank you.
:06:13. > :06:15.Two children and a man have been found dead in a house
:06:16. > :06:18.Police were called to the residence last night,
:06:19. > :06:22.A woman was taken to hospital where she is in a stable condition.
:06:23. > :06:26.Our correspondent, Dan Johnson, reports.
:06:27. > :06:34.David Stokes, a 43-year-old father of two young boys. Detectives are
:06:35. > :06:38.now trying to work out how he and his sons ended up losing their
:06:39. > :06:44.lives. Adam was 11 years old, Matthew was five. This is their
:06:45. > :06:47.house, where police were called at 930 last night after neighbours
:06:48. > :06:52.reported disturbance. Negotiators were brought in and the stand-off
:06:53. > :06:56.lasted until the early hours. A woman, believed to be David 's wife
:06:57. > :07:00.Sally, was taken to hospital and is still being treated. The officers
:07:01. > :07:05.entered the address found a male who has been pronounced dead within the
:07:06. > :07:08.address. Tragically and very dramatically the officers, in
:07:09. > :07:14.searching the address, have also found two deceased children. At this
:07:15. > :07:19.stage the inquiries are at a very early stage and we are trying to
:07:20. > :07:24.understand what happened last night in but also to understand the
:07:25. > :07:28.circumstances leading these deaths. Police say it's still too early to
:07:29. > :07:32.confirm how they died but they are not looking for anyone else. They
:07:33. > :07:35.believe the key to the investigation is understanding fully what went
:07:36. > :07:41.wrong here last night and in the lead up to and what tore a family
:07:42. > :07:45.apart. Because police had contact with the family here last night
:07:46. > :07:49.officials from the Independent Police Complaints Commission are now
:07:50. > :07:52.overseeing this investigation. Neighbours have described this as a
:07:53. > :07:56.nice family and they are completely stunned by what has happened in the
:07:57. > :08:01.last 24 hours. They are struggling to understand what can have resulted
:08:02. > :08:02.in a father and his two young boys ending up dead in the family home.
:08:03. > :08:05.Thank you. Environmental campaigners have
:08:06. > :08:07.won their latest legal battle to force the government to improve
:08:08. > :08:10.plans to deal with harmful The High Court has ruled
:08:11. > :08:13.that the government must Campaigners from ClientEarth argued
:08:14. > :08:16.that the current plan would not The Department for the Environment
:08:17. > :08:21.said it accepted the judgement. Our Science Editor David
:08:22. > :08:31.Shukman joins me now. David, just how significant the
:08:32. > :08:38.victory is this for the environmental campaigners?
:08:39. > :08:44.It is incredibly embarrassing for ministers. The second time in two US
:08:45. > :08:48.courts have ruled against them, today the High Court said government
:08:49. > :08:51.plans to reduce traffic pollution don't go far enough and are not
:08:52. > :08:56.moving quickly enough. We are talking about pollution that you
:08:57. > :09:00.cannot see but can do real damage to your health, nitrogen dioxide. A
:09:01. > :09:04.problem in London and in dozens of other places around the UK. The
:09:05. > :09:13.government hopes to tread to clean up. It said it would by 2020 or
:09:14. > :09:19.2025, the court said, not soon enough. The environment ministry,
:09:20. > :09:21.Defra, says it will listen to the court judgment and not to challenge
:09:22. > :09:23.it and look at its options closely which means it must come up with a
:09:24. > :09:28.robust plan pretty thank you. Theresa May has described football's
:09:29. > :09:30.world governing body, Fifa, as "utterly outrageous" for saying
:09:31. > :09:33.it would be against its rules for England and Scotland
:09:34. > :09:35.footballers to wear poppies during their World Cup qualifier
:09:36. > :09:38.match on Armistice Day. Our Sports Correspondent Richard
:09:39. > :09:50.Conway is outside Wembley. Richard? George, when England play
:09:51. > :09:54.Scotland here on Armistice Day and there a full range of commemorations
:09:55. > :09:59.planned, both England and Scotland want to wear a poppy on their shirt
:10:00. > :10:04.or on an armband. Sheaffer say it is against their rules. Both sides
:10:05. > :10:08.refuse to change the position -- Fifa say it is against their rules.
:10:09. > :10:15.And today the Prime Minister got involved.
:10:16. > :10:22.The football Association believed a deal of players displaying the poppy
:10:23. > :10:26.had been brokered in 2011. England, Scotland and Wales asked Fifa to be
:10:27. > :10:31.able to wear the remembrance symbol on their shirts or an armband when
:10:32. > :10:35.they play on, or close to Armistice Day later this month. But speaking
:10:36. > :10:39.to the BBC tonight the secretary-general of the governing
:10:40. > :10:47.body said the rules would not be changed. Britain is not the only
:10:48. > :10:52.country has been suffering from the result of war. Syria is one example.
:10:53. > :11:01.My own continent has been torn by war for years. And the only question
:11:02. > :11:05.would be why are we making an exception for just one country and
:11:06. > :11:09.not the rest of the world? The row reached the House of Commons today
:11:10. > :11:14.with the Prime Minister making her feelings on the issue and football's
:11:15. > :11:17.world governing body abundantly clear. I think the stance that has
:11:18. > :11:24.been taken by Fifa is utterly outrageous. Our footballers want to
:11:25. > :11:31.recognise and respect those who have given their lives. Is my our safety
:11:32. > :11:35.and security. I think it is absolutely right that they should be
:11:36. > :11:39.able to do so. Premier League teams are free to display the poppy but
:11:40. > :11:44.national teams must stick to the Fifa rules which ban any symbols of
:11:45. > :11:48.political or religious significance on their clothes. The three home
:11:49. > :11:51.football associations argue that the poppy does not have political
:11:52. > :11:56.connotations. Talks will continue between all parties this evening at
:11:57. > :12:00.Wembley but with Fifa showing no sign of backing down it is believed
:12:01. > :12:05.the FA are increasingly minded to defy the governing body and risk
:12:06. > :12:09.being punished. Richard Conway, BBC News, Wembley.
:12:10. > :12:12.It seems some customers of the Asda chain received rather more
:12:13. > :12:14.than their groceries when they used the supermarket's home
:12:15. > :12:17.BBC One's Watchdog programme carried out an undercover investigation
:12:18. > :12:18.after whistleblowers and customers raised concerns.
:12:19. > :12:21.Tests of bacteria levels on some crates found some were "equivalent
:12:22. > :12:32.Asda is one of the biggest providers of home shopping and
:12:33. > :12:35.promises customers they can sit back and relax while their personal
:12:36. > :12:38.shoppers pick and pack the items as carefully as you would.
:12:39. > :12:40.But BBC Watchdog has heard from a number of
:12:41. > :12:41.whistle-blowers from the company who raised
:12:42. > :12:48.concerns about the state of
:12:49. > :13:00.the crates, or totes as they call them, that shopping
:13:01. > :13:04.The conditions of the totes are not monitored.
:13:05. > :13:07.And I can tell they are dirty and I wear gloves.
:13:08. > :13:10.Because I'm scared of catching something.
:13:11. > :13:12.Raw meat, fresh vegetables, they are all being
:13:13. > :13:14.Another whistle-blower got in touch with
:13:15. > :13:17.photos of what he said he regularly sees on shift.
:13:18. > :13:19.There is mould on a lot of the totes.
:13:20. > :13:24.But you are not talking one or two, you
:13:25. > :13:27.Some of the things that these are rolled in,
:13:28. > :13:30.the mould, the dirt, it is not stuff I would feel comfortable
:13:31. > :13:34.A recent change in the law has also made it all the
:13:35. > :13:36.more important that groceries are delivered in clean crates.
:13:37. > :13:41.In October last year England joined the
:13:42. > :13:43.rest of the UK and introduced a 5p plastic bag charge.
:13:44. > :13:45.Since then, the number of plastic bags used has
:13:46. > :13:47.fallen by 85% and if you do the shopping
:13:48. > :13:49.online you can cut out the
:13:50. > :13:54.Watchdog tested out Asda's home shopping
:13:55. > :13:56.service, ordering deliveries to ten houses across the country.
:13:57. > :13:59.One crate from each delivery was swabbed and
:14:00. > :14:06.sent to a government accredited microbiology lab for analysis.
:14:07. > :14:08.Out of our ten orders, just one delivery
:14:09. > :14:10.arrived in a crate that the lab deemed to be satisfactory.
:14:11. > :14:14.Three were classed as acceptable, as for
:14:15. > :14:17.the rest, three were dirty, one was very dirty, two were extremely
:14:18. > :14:23.Give me an idea of how dirty we are talking, here?
:14:24. > :14:34.Well, dirty would be, say, a typical kitchen floor.
:14:35. > :14:36.And extremely dirty or very dirty would be the sorts of
:14:37. > :14:40.levels that I would expect to find on the inside of the kitchen bin.
:14:41. > :14:43.There could be dangerous bacteria harboured in the crates.
:14:44. > :14:45.That's why they need to be cleaned and disinfected every time.
:14:46. > :14:48.Asda told Watchdog that it had not lived
:14:49. > :14:55.up to the standard of service its customers expect and said,
:14:56. > :14:56.although some policies and procedures hadn't
:14:57. > :14:59.been followed in the six stores involved it has taken immediate
:15:00. > :15:01.action to permanently improve standards across all home shopping
:15:02. > :15:06.And you can see more on that investigation on tonight's Watchdog
:15:07. > :15:16.Prison officers have likened conditions in English and Welsh
:15:17. > :15:19.jails to a bloodbath - they've been holding urgent talks
:15:20. > :15:26.What's so special about these plants?
:15:27. > :15:30.The space age experiments carried out by school children.
:15:31. > :15:35.After coming out of international retirement, Celtic captain
:15:36. > :15:37.Scott Brown is recalled to the Scotland squad for their
:15:38. > :15:52.They're known as the Guinea Pig Club, a group of airmen
:15:53. > :15:54.severely injured and burned during the Second World War
:15:55. > :15:58.who underwent pioneering experimental surgery.
:15:59. > :16:01.The techniques used by their plastic surgeon, Sir Archibald McIndoe,
:16:02. > :16:05.had a lasting impact on modern medicine.
:16:06. > :16:09.Just 17 survivors are still alive in the UK and today
:16:10. > :16:12.they were honoured at a ceremony attended by the Duke of Edinburgh
:16:13. > :16:14.at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
:16:15. > :16:20.Our Health Editor Hugh Pym has the story.
:16:21. > :16:23.At East Grinstead, newly-knighted Sir Archibald McIndoe,
:16:24. > :16:28.meets 227 members of the Guinea Pig Club.
:16:29. > :16:30.They were known as the guinea pigs because the burns treatment
:16:31. > :16:37.Little did they know then how much it would shape modern medicine.
:16:38. > :16:41.That was a photograph of me in hospital.
:16:42. > :16:44.Desmond O'Connell, who is nearly 97, is the oldest surviving member
:16:45. > :16:50.How they did this in wartime, I don't know.
:16:51. > :16:53.He was on a bombing mission in 1941 and suffered serious burns
:16:54. > :17:14.Three times they operated because it wasn't quite right.
:17:15. > :17:17.I had new eyelids, new ears and the backs
:17:18. > :17:27.The Duke of Edinburgh has been the Guinea Pig
:17:28. > :17:32.Today he unveiled a commemorative monument at the National Memorial
:17:33. > :17:36.Arboretum with some club members there too.
:17:37. > :17:41.The club is remembered at the Queen Victoria hospital,
:17:42. > :17:43.still a specialist burns and plastic surgery centre,
:17:44. > :17:49.The biggest thing is the philosophy of plastic surgery
:17:50. > :17:59.Which was really the fact that you can treat these horrifically
:18:00. > :18:04.burned patients and to do it by using techniques that
:18:05. > :18:11.are considered now, to be standard, but then they were quite radical.
:18:12. > :18:13.There's now a statue of Sir Archibald McIndoe with one
:18:14. > :18:15.of his patients here in East Grinstead.
:18:16. > :18:18.It was a community which welcomed the often severely disfigured
:18:19. > :18:20.servicemen on visit from the hospital.
:18:21. > :18:29.It became known as the town that didn't stare.
:18:30. > :18:35.I was unfair to McIndoe and for years later, it wasn't
:18:36. > :18:38.until I was a bit older and more wise, you realise just what he'd
:18:39. > :18:51.It's a unique club and the members and their patron know,
:18:52. > :18:53.there may not be too many more gatherings like this.
:18:54. > :18:57.Police in the US state of Iowa say they've captured a man suspected
:18:58. > :18:59.of killing two police officers in ambush-style attacks.
:19:00. > :19:02.Both men were killed in the city of Des Moines while sitting alone
:19:03. > :19:12.The motive for the killings is not clear.
:19:13. > :19:14.Who should have access to your social media account
:19:15. > :19:16.and what should they be able to do with it?
:19:17. > :19:19.Well, today Facebook blocked the plans of one insurer to look
:19:20. > :19:21.at young drivers' posts to help set insurance premiums.
:19:22. > :19:23.Our correspondent Simon Gompertz is here.
:19:24. > :19:36.It was one of our biggest car insurance companies, Admiral who
:19:37. > :19:41.wanted to look at the likes and posts of young drivers and do a sort
:19:42. > :19:45.of personality test. Look at writing style to see if they are organised
:19:46. > :19:51.and punctual and tried to deduce if they would be safe drivers and offer
:19:52. > :19:55.a reduced premium. But Facebook has stopped that saying they should not
:19:56. > :19:59.be using this private information. It does point out how valuable this
:20:00. > :20:06.information is and even Facebook users it when it sees what are likes
:20:07. > :20:09.art and directs advertising towards us.
:20:10. > :20:13.As the race to become America's next President tightens,
:20:14. > :20:15.both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are spending
:20:16. > :20:17.their final few days criss-crossing the country.
:20:18. > :20:19.They're focusing their efforts on the key battleground states that
:20:20. > :20:24.Christian Fraser has more more on how and where the presidential
:20:25. > :20:38.Welcome to our virtual world of Congress.
:20:39. > :20:41.Beneath this great dome of Capitol Hill, we are going to try
:20:42. > :20:44.and bring a little more clarity to a race that has gripped us,
:20:45. > :20:51.confused us, perhaps even shocked us.
:20:52. > :20:53.Yet still, with less than a week to go to the vote,
:20:54. > :20:56.we can't be sure which of these two candidates will become the 45th
:20:57. > :21:01.In fact, it is still possible one of them wins the most votes
:21:02. > :21:12.Think of this as not one election but 51 mini elections.
:21:13. > :21:15.You will see each of these states is allocated a fixed
:21:16. > :21:17.number of state electors, determined by the size
:21:18. > :21:19.Altogether, 538 electoral college votes.
:21:20. > :21:30.Obviously, it's these states with the because populations,
:21:31. > :21:32.with the most state electors that become crucial.
:21:33. > :21:35.So California, for instance, where Hillary Clinton to win 50%
:21:36. > :21:39.of the vote plus one, and we expect her to do that,
:21:40. > :21:45.then all 55 votes would go Democrat blue.
:21:46. > :21:49.And then look how many other states Trump has to win to equal Now,
:21:50. > :21:51.in these final frenzied days of campaigning, the focus falls
:21:52. > :21:55.There are up to 13 of them and some big ones among them,
:21:56. > :21:57.including that last one there, Ohio.
:21:58. > :22:02.Ohio has not backed a losing presidential candidate since this
:22:03. > :22:05.Now the national poll of polls has tightened.
:22:06. > :22:07.The gap has got closer in recent days.
:22:08. > :22:09.But really, it's the polling within those battle ground
:22:10. > :22:20.If we colour them as some polls project it will go today,
:22:21. > :22:24.then you will see nine go Democrat blue and four go red, including Ohio
:22:25. > :22:26.and currently Florida, though only by a whisker.
:22:27. > :22:34.There are around 320 million people in the United States.
:22:35. > :22:37.On our graphic, everyone of these people represents 10 million voters.
:22:38. > :22:39.Now, we can lose 103 million who are either children
:22:40. > :22:44.60 million took part in the primaries, so we know they vote.
:22:45. > :22:46.Taking the figures from the last election, we expect another
:22:47. > :22:52.But that leaves some 90 million who never do.
:22:53. > :22:56.And that's where the Trump campaign is pinning its hopes.
:22:57. > :22:59.We have seen here in the UK, with the Brexit result,
:23:00. > :23:01.people who don't ordinarily vote, can tip the balance
:23:02. > :23:09.And don't forget, they are also voting to decide the make-up
:23:10. > :23:17.The colour of these two Chambers will determine how
:23:18. > :23:20.much power the next president will have.
:23:21. > :23:22.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in Florida.
:23:23. > :23:30.We've seen the arithmatic of what they have to do to win,
:23:31. > :23:38.How are these candidates going to make their sums add up? If you had
:23:39. > :23:47.asked me a few days ago, it would have been a normal battle stakes.
:23:48. > :23:51.Since the FBI announcement, Donald Trump feels emboldened and he has
:23:52. > :23:56.announced he is spending a lot of money advertising in Wisconsin,
:23:57. > :24:00.Michigan in the North, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico in the
:24:01. > :24:05.south-west. It is a sign of his growing confidence that things are
:24:06. > :24:09.turning in his direction. Against that, it is still very tight and in
:24:10. > :24:15.the places where Hillary Clinton needs to win, she is still doing OK.
:24:16. > :24:20.But there is no room for complacency. In Florida, the number
:24:21. > :24:27.of African Americans going out to vote seems to be down on four years
:24:28. > :24:32.ago and that could cause Hillary Clinton big problems. Donald Trump
:24:33. > :24:35.has great enthusiasm and Hillary Clinton has a great ground again.
:24:36. > :24:38.John, thank you very much. Is it possible for astronauts
:24:39. > :24:41.to grow their own food in space? That's what thousands of school
:24:42. > :24:43.children have been finding out. They've carried out experiments
:24:44. > :24:46.to see whether seeds that have been in space grow as well as those that
:24:47. > :24:49.have stayed on Earth. Our Science Correspondent,
:24:50. > :24:59.Pallab Ghosh has been Eating on the International Space
:25:00. > :25:04.Station is a little different. The food is freeze-dried, bland and has
:25:05. > :25:09.a life of its own. So the plan is for astronauts to grow their own
:25:10. > :25:17.food. We are going to get a packet of these space seeds... Can seeds
:25:18. > :25:22.survive in space? Earlier this year, Tim Peake sent seeds that had been
:25:23. > :25:26.with him on the space station to 3000 schools and asked people is to
:25:27. > :25:30.plant them alongside one that had stayed on earth. Today, at a special
:25:31. > :25:34.conference, children came from across the country to hear the
:25:35. > :25:42.results. They brought models, baguettes and even specially made
:25:43. > :25:46.cakes for Tim. Experiment, run by the Royal horticultural Society,
:25:47. > :25:51.showed space seeds grew almost as well as the earth seeds. It is a
:25:52. > :25:55.boost to the possibility of growing crops in outer space? As well as
:25:56. > :25:59.being a fun experiments, there is a fun side to this and it is to
:26:00. > :26:06.improve our knowledge on how to improve growing food in space and
:26:07. > :26:11.how seeds can survive the harsh conditions in space. The experiment
:26:12. > :26:17.has inspired a new generation to the wonders of science. Who wants to be
:26:18. > :26:23.a scientist? Why do you want to be a scientist? You get to do loads of
:26:24. > :26:31.fun things and activities. You get to do different potions. I have
:26:32. > :26:35.always liked science stuff. I don't know why. I have always liked it and
:26:36. > :26:38.if I got the chance, I absolutely would.
:26:39. > :26:55.We need to protect our plants to night from frost. The frost is
:26:56. > :27:00.setting in now, as temperatures dipped quickly this evening. But a
:27:01. > :27:03.change with weather fronts close to Scotland and Northern Ireland as the
:27:04. > :27:09.night goes on, the coldest part of the night is round about now. Cloud
:27:10. > :27:13.will increase with outbreaks of rain in the night. The clearer skies, the
:27:14. > :27:17.coldest weather by morning in England and Wales and there will be
:27:18. > :27:22.a few freezing fog patches in the Midlands and in south-east England.
:27:23. > :27:27.Take care with any of those. Change tomorrow after today's Sunny spells
:27:28. > :27:30.in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Cloud and outbreaks of rain feeding
:27:31. > :27:39.into north-west England and western parts of Wales. Much of East Anglia,
:27:40. > :27:42.mainly dry until after dark. Temperatures no less warm,
:27:43. > :27:47.particularly where you have Cloud and outbreaks of rain. Maybe a few
:27:48. > :27:52.late sunny spells for Northern Ireland. Some of the rain towards
:27:53. > :27:57.East Anglia, South East England. Not very much. On Friday, the sunshine
:27:58. > :28:00.comes back but there will be showers around on some of those heavy
:28:01. > :28:02.running through northern Scotland, moving out of Northern Ireland
:28:03. > :28:09.towards north-west England and West Wales. But some sunny spells. The
:28:10. > :28:13.weekend, low pressure at this stage is moving away from us, but the flow
:28:14. > :28:18.of air around the low pressure for the weekend coming down from the
:28:19. > :28:22.north. A feed of colder air coming back towards us, but it is coming on
:28:23. > :28:31.a stronger wind as well. It was mild for Harrow ween -- Hallowe'en.
:28:32. > :28:34.Bonfire night will have to contend with the cold wind. A few showers
:28:35. > :28:37.around the coastal areas but many inland areas will be staying dry.
:28:38. > :28:41.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,
:28:42. > :28:44.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.