:00:10. > :00:11.Murders, assaults and self-harming - prison officers issue a warning
:00:12. > :00:16.As official figures show that violence in prisons continues
:00:17. > :00:18.continues to rise, ministers hold urgent talks.
:00:19. > :00:21.The prisons are a bloodbath at the moment.
:00:22. > :00:24.They're causing mass hysteria for both our staff and prisoners.
:00:25. > :00:30.We'll be asking about government plans for prison reform.
:00:31. > :00:37.England and Scotland players want to wear poppies
:00:38. > :00:41.on for their match on Armistice Day - Fifa says it's against the rules.
:00:42. > :00:43.We want our players to be able to wear those poppies.
:00:44. > :00:46.And I have to say to Fifa, that before they start
:00:47. > :00:48.telling us what to do, they jolly well ought
:00:49. > :00:55.Asda apologises after a BBC undercover investigation finds home
:00:56. > :00:59.delivery crates as dirty as a kitchen floor.
:01:00. > :01:02.With less than a week to polling day in the US election,
:01:03. > :01:09.after all the twists and turns, we will be looking at what these two
:01:10. > :01:15.candidates still have to do to become the 45th president.
:01:16. > :01:18.pioneering surgery after suffering terrible burns
:01:19. > :01:29.Leicester look to make more history tonight.
:01:30. > :01:47.in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
:01:48. > :01:50.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:51. > :01:54.The conditions in English and Welsh prisons has been likened
:01:55. > :01:57.to a bloodbath by the head of the Prison Officers Association.
:01:58. > :02:00.That stark assessment comes as the association has been
:02:01. > :02:08.holding urgent talks with the Justice Secretary,
:02:09. > :02:10.Liz Truss, about tackling increasing levels of violence
:02:11. > :02:13.The government's set to unveil its plans
:02:14. > :02:20.Our Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly has more.
:02:21. > :02:30.Prison works. The old conservative mantra repeated a few years ago by
:02:31. > :02:35.Theresa May. But in some jails, this is Wandsworth, south London, earlier
:02:36. > :02:40.this year, the government is facing an explosive combination of staff
:02:41. > :02:45.shortages, violence and drug abuse. And some inmates are turning to the
:02:46. > :02:51.latest technology using drones to smuggle inbound items. The basket
:02:52. > :02:54.attached to this trial was carrying a consignment of this synthetic drug
:02:55. > :03:01.Spies and mobile phones. It was intercepted. The prison officers
:03:02. > :03:06.Association says the situation is at crisis point. Today they were set to
:03:07. > :03:09.take part in an unofficial walk-out. It was called off after the Justice
:03:10. > :03:17.Secretary agreed to an urgent meeting with PO PO a leaders this
:03:18. > :03:21.afternoon. Can I ask you whether meeting? Prisons are a bloodbath at
:03:22. > :03:25.the moment, they are causing mass hysteria for staff and prisoners,
:03:26. > :03:29.everyone is in a really bad way. Prisoners are on their knees and we
:03:30. > :03:33.hope the Justice Secretary can give some positive news for our members
:03:34. > :03:38.and prisoners are like. Today the BBC obtained a letter from an inmate
:03:39. > :03:43.at Pentonville where a prisoner was stabbed to death two weeks ago. He
:03:44. > :03:47.writes, a wing was just locked down again because after ten o'clock
:03:48. > :03:51.there were two violent incidents involving weapons. One involved what
:03:52. > :03:56.looked like a kitchen knife with a blade of 10-12 inches. I have
:03:57. > :04:00.frequently seen an individual set upon by half a dozen attackers in
:04:01. > :04:06.the exercise yard. This was a fight over drugs in a prison yard. Rival
:04:07. > :04:10.gangs and one person ended up with stab wounds. Current levels of
:04:11. > :04:16.prison violence, drug taking and self harm shame us all. The words of
:04:17. > :04:19.David Cameron nearly one year ago. While the political front line has
:04:20. > :04:22.changed in the last 12 months those at the sharp end in the present
:04:23. > :04:28.service have watched and experienced the situation simply getting worse.
:04:29. > :04:39.The latest figures show that over the past year, there were 107 self
:04:40. > :04:48.inflicted deaths. That is up 13%. 22,775 assaults, up 34% and 5954
:04:49. > :04:51.attacks on staff, up by 43%. Tomorrow there will be a big
:04:52. > :04:55.announcement from the Justice Secretary on the future of prisons
:04:56. > :04:58.in England and Wales. Tonight at the end of their talks the prison
:04:59. > :05:02.officers Association said it would mean nothing without safety
:05:03. > :05:06.guarantees for all those on the inside, prisoners and staff. And
:05:07. > :05:12.June Kelly is with me now. We are hearing about the prison reforms
:05:13. > :05:16.tomorrow from the government, what should we expect? This should be
:05:17. > :05:20.interesting, the first major announcement by Liz trust is Justice
:05:21. > :05:26.Secretary. We want to see if she will continue their work of her
:05:27. > :05:30.predecessor Michael Grove, seen as a reformer. She says this will be the
:05:31. > :05:33.biggest overhaul in prisons in England and Wales for a generation
:05:34. > :05:38.and she has spoken of ?1 million earmarked for new prisons but the
:05:39. > :05:42.big issue for people at the coal face, the governors and the prison
:05:43. > :05:46.officers as we heard is staffing levels. And what they say is never
:05:47. > :05:52.mind the long term plans, we cannot do this job unless we have more
:05:53. > :05:56.people and we need them now. The government said that one of the
:05:57. > :06:00.difficulties they have is, while they can recruit staff, sometimes
:06:01. > :06:03.they cannot keep them. So the challenge for everyone at the
:06:04. > :06:08.Ministry of Justice is to make this a job that people want to go into
:06:09. > :06:10.and then want to stay in. Thank you very much. Thank you.
:06:11. > :06:13.Two children and a man have been found dead in a house
:06:14. > :06:16.Police were called to the residence last night,
:06:17. > :06:21.A woman was taken to hospital where she is in a stable condition.
:06:22. > :06:25.Our correspondent, Dan Johnson, reports.
:06:26. > :06:33.David Stokes, a 43-year-old father of two young boys. Detectives are
:06:34. > :06:36.now trying to work out how he and his sons ended up losing their
:06:37. > :06:42.lives. Adam was 11 years old, Matthew was five. This is their
:06:43. > :06:46.house, where police were called at 930 last night after neighbours
:06:47. > :06:50.reported disturbance. Negotiators were brought in and the stand-off
:06:51. > :06:54.lasted until the early hours. A woman, believed to be David 's wife
:06:55. > :06:59.Sally, was taken to hospital and is still being treated. The officers
:07:00. > :07:04.entered the address found a male who has been pronounced dead within the
:07:05. > :07:07.address. Tragically and very dramatically the officers, in
:07:08. > :07:12.searching the address, have also found two deceased children. At this
:07:13. > :07:17.stage the inquiries are at a very early stage and we are trying to
:07:18. > :07:22.understand what happened last night in but also to understand the
:07:23. > :07:26.circumstances leading these deaths. Police say it's still too early to
:07:27. > :07:31.confirm how they died but they are not looking for anyone else. They
:07:32. > :07:34.believe the key to the investigation is understanding fully what went
:07:35. > :07:40.wrong here last night and in the lead up to and what tore a family
:07:41. > :07:44.apart. Because police had contact with the family here last night
:07:45. > :07:47.officials from the Independent Police Complaints Commission are now
:07:48. > :07:51.overseeing this investigation. Neighbours have described this as a
:07:52. > :07:55.nice family and they are completely stunned by what has happened in the
:07:56. > :07:59.last 24 hours. They are struggling to understand what can have resulted
:08:00. > :08:01.in a father and his two young boys ending up dead in the family home.
:08:02. > :08:04.Thank you. Environmental campaigners have
:08:05. > :08:06.won their latest legal battle to force the government to improve
:08:07. > :08:08.plans to deal with harmful The High Court has ruled
:08:09. > :08:12.that the government must Campaigners from ClientEarth argued
:08:13. > :08:15.that the current plan would not The Department for the Environment
:08:16. > :08:20.said it accepted the judgement. Our Science Editor David
:08:21. > :08:30.Shukman joins me now. David, just how significant the
:08:31. > :08:37.victory is this for the environmental campaigners?
:08:38. > :08:43.It is incredibly embarrassing for ministers. The second time in two US
:08:44. > :08:46.courts have ruled against them, today the High Court said government
:08:47. > :08:50.plans to reduce traffic pollution don't go far enough and are not
:08:51. > :08:54.moving quickly enough. We are talking about pollution that you
:08:55. > :08:59.cannot see but can do real damage to your health, nitrogen dioxide. A
:09:00. > :09:03.problem in London and in dozens of other places around the UK. The
:09:04. > :09:11.government hopes to tread to clean up. It said it would by 2020 or
:09:12. > :09:17.2025, the court said, not soon enough. The environment ministry,
:09:18. > :09:20.Defra, says it will listen to the court judgment and not to challenge
:09:21. > :09:22.it and look at its options closely which means it must come up with a
:09:23. > :09:27.robust plan pretty thank you. Theresa May has described football's
:09:28. > :09:29.world governing body, Fifa, as "utterly outrageous" for saying
:09:30. > :09:32.it would be against its rules for England and Scotland
:09:33. > :09:34.footballers to wear poppies during their World Cup qualifier
:09:35. > :09:36.match on Armistice Day. Our Sports Correspondent Richard
:09:37. > :09:49.Conway is outside Wembley. Richard? George, when England play
:09:50. > :09:53.Scotland here on Armistice Day and there a full range of commemorations
:09:54. > :09:58.planned, both England and Scotland want to wear a poppy on their shirt
:09:59. > :10:03.or on an armband. Sheaffer say it is against their rules. Both sides
:10:04. > :10:06.refuse to change the position -- Fifa say it is against their rules.
:10:07. > :10:13.And today the Prime Minister got involved.
:10:14. > :10:21.The football Association believed a deal of players displaying the poppy
:10:22. > :10:25.had been brokered in 2011. England, Scotland and Wales asked Fifa to be
:10:26. > :10:29.able to wear the remembrance symbol on their shirts or an armband when
:10:30. > :10:34.they play on, or close to Armistice Day later this month. But speaking
:10:35. > :10:38.to the BBC tonight the secretary-general of the governing
:10:39. > :10:46.body said the rules would not be changed. Britain is not the only
:10:47. > :10:51.country has been suffering from the result of war. Syria is one example.
:10:52. > :11:00.My own continent has been torn by war for years. And the only question
:11:01. > :11:04.would be why are we making an exception for just one country and
:11:05. > :11:07.not the rest of the world? The row reached the House of Commons today
:11:08. > :11:12.with the Prime Minister making her feelings on the issue and football's
:11:13. > :11:16.world governing body abundantly clear. I think the stance that has
:11:17. > :11:23.been taken by Fifa is utterly outrageous. Our footballers want to
:11:24. > :11:29.recognise and respect those who have given their lives. Is my our safety
:11:30. > :11:34.and security. I think it is absolutely right that they should be
:11:35. > :11:38.able to do so. Premier League teams are free to display the poppy but
:11:39. > :11:42.national teams must stick to the Fifa rules which ban any symbols of
:11:43. > :11:46.political or religious significance on their clothes. The three home
:11:47. > :11:50.football associations argue that the poppy does not have political
:11:51. > :11:55.connotations. Talks will continue between all parties this evening at
:11:56. > :11:58.Wembley but with Fifa showing no sign of backing down it is believed
:11:59. > :12:03.the FA are increasingly minded to defy the governing body and risk
:12:04. > :12:07.being punished. Richard Conway, BBC News, Wembley.
:12:08. > :12:10.It seems some customers of the Asda chain received rather more
:12:11. > :12:12.than their groceries when they used the supermarket's home
:12:13. > :12:15.BBC One's Watchdog programme carried out an undercover investigation
:12:16. > :12:17.after whistleblowers and customers raised concerns.
:12:18. > :12:20.Tests of bacteria levels on some crates found some were "equivalent
:12:21. > :12:31.Asda is one of the biggest providers of home shopping and
:12:32. > :12:34.promises customers they can sit back and relax while their personal
:12:35. > :12:36.shoppers pick and pack the items as carefully as you would.
:12:37. > :12:38.But BBC Watchdog has heard from a number of
:12:39. > :12:40.whistle-blowers from the company who raised
:12:41. > :12:46.concerns about the state of
:12:47. > :12:59.the crates, or totes as they call them, that shopping
:13:00. > :13:02.The conditions of the totes are not monitored.
:13:03. > :13:06.And I can tell they are dirty and I wear gloves.
:13:07. > :13:08.Because I'm scared of catching something.
:13:09. > :13:10.Raw meat, fresh vegetables, they are all being
:13:11. > :13:13.Another whistle-blower got in touch with
:13:14. > :13:15.photos of what he said he regularly sees on shift.
:13:16. > :13:17.There is mould on a lot of the totes.
:13:18. > :13:22.But you are not talking one or two, you
:13:23. > :13:26.Some of the things that these are rolled in,
:13:27. > :13:29.the mould, the dirt, it is not stuff I would feel comfortable
:13:30. > :13:32.A recent change in the law has also made it all the
:13:33. > :13:35.more important that groceries are delivered in clean crates.
:13:36. > :13:39.In October last year England joined the
:13:40. > :13:42.rest of the UK and introduced a 5p plastic bag charge.
:13:43. > :13:44.Since then, the number of plastic bags used has
:13:45. > :13:46.fallen by 85% and if you do the shopping
:13:47. > :13:48.online you can cut out the
:13:49. > :13:52.Watchdog tested out Asda's home shopping
:13:53. > :13:55.service, ordering deliveries to ten houses across the country.
:13:56. > :13:57.One crate from each delivery was swabbed and
:13:58. > :14:04.sent to a government accredited microbiology lab for analysis.
:14:05. > :14:06.Out of our ten orders, just one delivery
:14:07. > :14:09.arrived in a crate that the lab deemed to be satisfactory.
:14:10. > :14:13.Three were classed as acceptable, as for
:14:14. > :14:15.the rest, three were dirty, one was very dirty, two were extremely
:14:16. > :14:21.Give me an idea of how dirty we are talking, here?
:14:22. > :14:32.Well, dirty would be, say, a typical kitchen floor.
:14:33. > :14:35.And extremely dirty or very dirty would be the sorts of
:14:36. > :14:38.levels that I would expect to find on the inside of the kitchen bin.
:14:39. > :14:41.There could be dangerous bacteria harboured in the crates.
:14:42. > :14:44.That's why they need to be cleaned and disinfected every time.
:14:45. > :14:47.Asda told Watchdog that it had not lived
:14:48. > :14:53.up to the standard of service its customers expect and said,
:14:54. > :14:55.although some policies and procedures hadn't
:14:56. > :14:57.been followed in the six stores involved it has taken immediate
:14:58. > :15:00.action to permanently improve standards across all home shopping
:15:01. > :15:04.And you can see more on that investigation on tonight's Watchdog
:15:05. > :15:15.Prison officers have likened conditions in English and Welsh
:15:16. > :15:17.jails to a bloodbath - they've been holding urgent talks
:15:18. > :15:24.What's so special about these plants?
:15:25. > :15:29.The space age experiments carried out by school children.
:15:30. > :15:33.After coming out of international retirement, Celtic captain
:15:34. > :15:36.Scott Brown is recalled to the Scotland squad for their
:15:37. > :15:50.They're known as the Guinea Pig Club, a group of airmen
:15:51. > :15:53.severely injured and burned during the Second World War
:15:54. > :15:57.who underwent pioneering experimental surgery.
:15:58. > :16:00.The techniques used by their plastic surgeon, Sir Archibald McIndoe,
:16:01. > :16:03.had a lasting impact on modern medicine.
:16:04. > :16:08.Just 17 survivors are still alive in the UK and today
:16:09. > :16:10.they were honoured at a ceremony attended by the Duke of Edinburgh
:16:11. > :16:13.at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
:16:14. > :16:19.Our Health Editor Hugh Pym has the story.
:16:20. > :16:22.At East Grinstead, newly-knighted Sir Archibald McIndoe,
:16:23. > :16:26.meets 227 members of the Guinea Pig Club.
:16:27. > :16:29.They were known as the guinea pigs because the burns treatment
:16:30. > :16:36.Little did they know then how much it would shape modern medicine.
:16:37. > :16:40.That was a photograph of me in hospital.
:16:41. > :16:43.Desmond O'Connell, who is nearly 97, is the oldest surviving member
:16:44. > :16:48.How they did this in wartime, I don't know.
:16:49. > :16:51.He was on a bombing mission in 1941 and suffered serious burns
:16:52. > :17:13.Three times they operated because it wasn't quite right.
:17:14. > :17:15.I had new eyelids, new ears and the backs
:17:16. > :17:26.The Duke of Edinburgh has been the Guinea Pig
:17:27. > :17:31.Today he unveiled a commemorative monument at the National Memorial
:17:32. > :17:35.Arboretum with some club members there too.
:17:36. > :17:39.The club is remembered at the Queen Victoria hospital,
:17:40. > :17:41.still a specialist burns and plastic surgery centre,
:17:42. > :17:48.The biggest thing is the philosophy of plastic surgery
:17:49. > :17:58.Which was really the fact that you can treat these horrifically
:17:59. > :18:02.burned patients and to do it by using techniques that
:18:03. > :18:10.are considered now, to be standard, but then they were quite radical.
:18:11. > :18:12.There's now a statue of Sir Archibald McIndoe with one
:18:13. > :18:14.of his patients here in East Grinstead.
:18:15. > :18:16.It was a community which welcomed the often severely disfigured
:18:17. > :18:19.servicemen on visit from the hospital.
:18:20. > :18:28.It became known as the town that didn't stare.
:18:29. > :18:33.I was unfair to McIndoe and for years later, it wasn't
:18:34. > :18:37.until I was a bit older and more wise, you realise just what he'd
:18:38. > :18:50.It's a unique club and the members and their patron know,
:18:51. > :18:52.there may not be too many more gatherings like this.
:18:53. > :18:56.Police in the US state of Iowa say they've captured a man suspected
:18:57. > :18:58.of killing two police officers in ambush-style attacks.
:18:59. > :19:01.Both men were killed in the city of Des Moines while sitting alone
:19:02. > :19:11.The motive for the killings is not clear.
:19:12. > :19:13.Who should have access to your social media account
:19:14. > :19:15.and what should they be able to do with it?
:19:16. > :19:18.Well, today Facebook blocked the plans of one insurer to look
:19:19. > :19:20.at young drivers' posts to help set insurance premiums.
:19:21. > :19:21.Our correspondent Simon Gompertz is here.
:19:22. > :19:35.It was one of our biggest car insurance companies, Admiral who
:19:36. > :19:40.wanted to look at the likes and posts of young drivers and do a sort
:19:41. > :19:44.of personality test. Look at writing style to see if they are organised
:19:45. > :19:50.and punctual and tried to deduce if they would be safe drivers and offer
:19:51. > :19:53.a reduced premium. But Facebook has stopped that saying they should not
:19:54. > :19:58.be using this private information. It does point out how valuable this
:19:59. > :20:05.information is and even Facebook users it when it sees what are likes
:20:06. > :20:08.art and directs advertising towards us.
:20:09. > :20:12.As the race to become America's next President tightens,
:20:13. > :20:14.both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are spending
:20:15. > :20:15.their final few days criss-crossing the country.
:20:16. > :20:18.They're focusing their efforts on the key battleground states that
:20:19. > :20:22.Christian Fraser has more more on how and where the presidential
:20:23. > :20:36.Welcome to our virtual world of Congress.
:20:37. > :20:39.Beneath this great dome of Capitol Hill, we are going to try
:20:40. > :20:42.and bring a little more clarity to a race that has gripped us,
:20:43. > :20:49.confused us, perhaps even shocked us.
:20:50. > :20:52.Yet still, with less than a week to go to the vote,
:20:53. > :20:55.we can't be sure which of these two candidates will become the 45th
:20:56. > :20:59.In fact, it is still possible one of them wins the most votes
:21:00. > :21:11.Think of this as not one election but 51 mini elections.
:21:12. > :21:14.You will see each of these states is allocated a fixed
:21:15. > :21:16.number of state electors, determined by the size
:21:17. > :21:18.Altogether, 538 electoral college votes.
:21:19. > :21:29.Obviously, it's these states with the because populations,
:21:30. > :21:31.with the most state electors that become crucial.
:21:32. > :21:34.So California, for instance, where Hillary Clinton to win 50%
:21:35. > :21:38.of the vote plus one, and we expect her to do that,
:21:39. > :21:44.then all 55 votes would go Democrat blue.
:21:45. > :21:47.And then look how many other states Trump has to win to equal Now,
:21:48. > :21:50.in these final frenzied days of campaigning, the focus falls
:21:51. > :21:54.There are up to 13 of them and some big ones among them,
:21:55. > :21:55.including that last one there, Ohio.
:21:56. > :22:01.Ohio has not backed a losing presidential candidate since this
:22:02. > :22:04.Now the national poll of polls has tightened.
:22:05. > :22:06.The gap has got closer in recent days.
:22:07. > :22:08.But really, it's the polling within those battle ground
:22:09. > :22:19.If we colour them as some polls project it will go today,
:22:20. > :22:22.then you will see nine go Democrat blue and four go red, including Ohio
:22:23. > :22:25.and currently Florida, though only by a whisker.
:22:26. > :22:32.There are around 320 million people in the United States.
:22:33. > :22:35.On our graphic, everyone of these people represents 10 million voters.
:22:36. > :22:38.Now, we can lose 103 million who are either children
:22:39. > :22:42.60 million took part in the primaries, so we know they vote.
:22:43. > :22:45.Taking the figures from the last election, we expect another
:22:46. > :22:51.But that leaves some 90 million who never do.
:22:52. > :22:54.And that's where the Trump campaign is pinning its hopes.
:22:55. > :22:58.We have seen here in the UK, with the Brexit result,
:22:59. > :23:00.people who don't ordinarily vote, can tip the balance
:23:01. > :23:07.And don't forget, they are also voting to decide the make-up
:23:08. > :23:16.The colour of these two Chambers will determine how
:23:17. > :23:18.much power the next president will have.
:23:19. > :23:21.Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in Florida.
:23:22. > :23:29.We've seen the arithmatic of what they have to do to win,
:23:30. > :23:37.How are these candidates going to make their sums add up? If you had
:23:38. > :23:45.asked me a few days ago, it would have been a normal battle stakes.
:23:46. > :23:50.Since the FBI announcement, Donald Trump feels emboldened and he has
:23:51. > :23:55.announced he is spending a lot of money advertising in Wisconsin,
:23:56. > :23:59.Michigan in the North, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico in the
:24:00. > :24:04.south-west. It is a sign of his growing confidence that things are
:24:05. > :24:08.turning in his direction. Against that, it is still very tight and in
:24:09. > :24:14.the places where Hillary Clinton needs to win, she is still doing OK.
:24:15. > :24:18.But there is no room for complacency. In Florida, the number
:24:19. > :24:25.of African Americans going out to vote seems to be down on four years
:24:26. > :24:30.ago and that could cause Hillary Clinton big problems. Donald Trump
:24:31. > :24:33.has great enthusiasm and Hillary Clinton has a great ground again.
:24:34. > :24:37.John, thank you very much. Is it possible for astronauts
:24:38. > :24:40.to grow their own food in space? That's what thousands of school
:24:41. > :24:42.children have been finding out. They've carried out experiments
:24:43. > :24:45.to see whether seeds that have been in space grow as well as those that
:24:46. > :24:48.have stayed on Earth. Our Science Correspondent,
:24:49. > :24:58.Pallab Ghosh has been Eating on the International Space
:24:59. > :25:02.Station is a little different. The food is freeze-dried, bland and has
:25:03. > :25:08.a life of its own. So the plan is for astronauts to grow their own
:25:09. > :25:15.food. We are going to get a packet of these space seeds... Can seeds
:25:16. > :25:20.survive in space? Earlier this year, Tim Peake sent seeds that had been
:25:21. > :25:25.with him on the space station to 3000 schools and asked people is to
:25:26. > :25:29.plant them alongside one that had stayed on earth. Today, at a special
:25:30. > :25:33.conference, children came from across the country to hear the
:25:34. > :25:40.results. They brought models, baguettes and even specially made
:25:41. > :25:44.cakes for Tim. Experiment, run by the Royal horticultural Society,
:25:45. > :25:50.showed space seeds grew almost as well as the earth seeds. It is a
:25:51. > :25:54.boost to the possibility of growing crops in outer space? As well as
:25:55. > :25:58.being a fun experiments, there is a fun side to this and it is to
:25:59. > :26:04.improve our knowledge on how to improve growing food in space and
:26:05. > :26:09.how seeds can survive the harsh conditions in space. The experiment
:26:10. > :26:16.has inspired a new generation to the wonders of science. Who wants to be
:26:17. > :26:22.a scientist? Why do you want to be a scientist? You get to do loads of
:26:23. > :26:30.fun things and activities. You get to do different potions. I have
:26:31. > :26:34.always liked science stuff. I don't know why. I have always liked it and
:26:35. > :26:37.if I got the chance, I absolutely would.
:26:38. > :26:54.We need to protect our plants to night from frost. The frost is
:26:55. > :26:59.setting in now, as temperatures dipped quickly this evening. But a
:27:00. > :27:02.change with weather fronts close to Scotland and Northern Ireland as the
:27:03. > :27:08.night goes on, the coldest part of the night is round about now. Cloud
:27:09. > :27:12.will increase with outbreaks of rain in the night. The clearer skies, the
:27:13. > :27:16.coldest weather by morning in England and Wales and there will be
:27:17. > :27:21.a few freezing fog patches in the Midlands and in south-east England.
:27:22. > :27:26.Take care with any of those. Change tomorrow after today's Sunny spells
:27:27. > :27:29.in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Cloud and outbreaks of rain feeding
:27:30. > :27:38.into north-west England and western parts of Wales. Much of East Anglia,
:27:39. > :27:41.mainly dry until after dark. Temperatures no less warm,
:27:42. > :27:45.particularly where you have Cloud and outbreaks of rain. Maybe a few
:27:46. > :27:51.late sunny spells for Northern Ireland. Some of the rain towards
:27:52. > :27:55.East Anglia, South East England. Not very much. On Friday, the sunshine
:27:56. > :27:58.comes back but there will be showers around on some of those heavy
:27:59. > :28:01.running through northern Scotland, moving out of Northern Ireland
:28:02. > :28:07.towards north-west England and West Wales. But some sunny spells. The
:28:08. > :28:12.weekend, low pressure at this stage is moving away from us, but the flow
:28:13. > :28:16.of air around the low pressure for the weekend coming down from the
:28:17. > :28:21.north. A feed of colder air coming back towards us, but it is coming on
:28:22. > :28:29.a stronger wind as well. It was mild for Harrow ween -- Hallowe'en.
:28:30. > :28:33.Bonfire night will have to contend with the cold wind. A few showers
:28:34. > :28:36.around the coastal areas but many inland areas will be staying dry.
:28:37. > :28:39.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,
:28:40. > :28:44.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.