23/01/2017 BBC News at Six

Britain's nuclear deterrent - Labour accuses the

Ministers still refuse to say whether the last test of the Trident

We do not comment on the detail of submarine operations.

Ministers faced urgent questions in the Commons -

with Labour saying they want the truth.

At the heart of this issue is a worrying lack of transparency

and a Prime Minister who has chosen to cover up a serious incident.

Donald Trump offers massive tax cuts to US businesses -

but only if they keep their factories in the country.

From bio technology to better transport -

a more active role for government in its new industrial strategy.

So how do you like your toast - the food agency says one of them

Would you believe it possible that the plot has now thickened?

The actor Gorden Kaye - who starred in Allo,

And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Nicola Adams

will make her professional boxing debut in April.

The double Olympic champion has her sights set on becomming

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Labour has accused Theresa May and her ministers of

a cover up after she - once again - refused to confirm

or deny reports that during the last test of Britain's nuclear deterrent

The defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon who faced urgent

questions in the Commons said he would not comment

As our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports -

the test occurred last June - just before MPs voted to renew

Britain's independent nuclear defence capability.

Set condition one SQ for weapons system readiness test.

A process that is practised and practised.

But just before the Prime Minister took charge, a test like this,

it seems, did not go according to plan.

But Theresa May yesterday refused to say if she had known.

There are tests that take place all the time, regularly,

What we were talking about in that debate that took place.

OK, it's not an answer, I'm not going to get an answer.

It matters because the trial appears to have gone wrong just weeks

before her new government asked MPs to approve billions of pounds

we are launching this strategy here...

Having failed to answer yesterday, today on a Cabinet visit,

the Prime Minister had to admit she did know.

I'm regularly briefed on national security issues,

I was briefed on this successful certification of HMS

We don't comment on the operational details for national

This spectacular misfire in the late 80s of an American

The vast majority of tests have been successful.

And it's not clear what went wrong with this weapons trial.

But Labour has found a lot wrong with the government's

At the heart of this issue is a worrying lack of transparency,

and a Prime Minister who has chosen to cover up a serious incident

rather than coming clean with the British public.

This House and more importantly the British public deserves better.

The details of the demonstration and shakedown operation I am not

going to discuss publicly on the floor of this House.

We simply want to know, was this test successful or not?

Should we believe the White House official, who, while we've been

sitting here debating, has confirmed to CNN

that the missile did auto self-destruct off

Once stories get out there that a missile may have failed,

isn't it better to be quite frank about it?

There are always some things that government wants to keep

from MPs and the rest of us, but this time Theresa May's

hope of staying quiet seems to have backfired.

The most straightforward questions, like who knew what, can be

The political arguments over whether we need nuclear weapons

A fight over whether they work is a battle ministers would

Our Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale is at the Ministry of Defence.

Suggestions night that the British public is being kept in the dark,

but some people abroad know the details. The fact is, these tests

are publicised in advance, in the sense that aviation, shipping our

ward to avoid hazard areas and even in the past, Russian spy ships have

observed them from a distance, so it is strange that the British public

find out about this test when they read in the media that something

went wrong. Michael Fallon in the Commons committee refused to confirm

that something did go wrong, citing national security reasons, you would

only confirm that the actual launch, the certification of the submarine,

was a success. That said, there are problems with this line, in the past

the Ministry of Defence has publicised these tests when they

have been a success, so why not this time? Was a big is of the crucial

Commons vote on renewing the Trident missile system. The other problem

is, in Washington we are hearing from unnamed officials that there

was a failure in this test. It seems strange that while Michael Fallon

says this is an independent British nuclear deterrent that the

government cannot comment, but US officials, it appears, can. Thanks

for joining us. On his first working day

as American President, Donald Trump met business leaders

and promised to cut taxes and slash He also warned chief executives that

companies which move jobs out of the United States

will face border taxes. Here's our North America

Editor Jon Sopel. Coming back, I wanted

to sit next to him. Cheery bonhomie

from the president as he met business leaders this morning,

but don't mistake that for a relaxed demeanour,

as he starts his first week A company that wants to fire

all its people in the United States and build some factories someplace

else and then thinks that that product is then just

going to flow across the border into the United States,

that's not going to happen. They're going to have a border tax

to pay, a substantial border tax. He's promising to slash

regulations by 75%. The Trump administration was going

to be an enabler to business. If somebody wants to

put up a factory, it's You have to go through the process,

but it will be extradited. We're going to take care

of the environment and we're going to take care of safety

and all the other things we have to take care of,

but you're going to get such great service and there will be no country

that is faster, better, more fair, and at the same time protecting

the people of the country. And there is an eye-catching

promise to cut taxes. What we're doing, we're going to be

cutting taxes massively for both the middle

class and for companies, We've been talking about

this for a long time. The president has also been busy

signing a whole pile One, that the United States

will have nothing to do with the Pacific trade deal,

but also his intention to renegotiate the NAFTA agreement

with Mexico and Canada. But it's these issues that won him

the election and not a bizarre row over how big the crowd

was at his inauguration. One other executive order

particularly eye-catching that was signed today, aid agencies in

receipt of US government funds will now no longer be able to offer

abortions or advice on abortions in their fieldwork around the world.

This has been a political football going back for many decades with

Democrats rescinding it and Republicans three opposing it, but

it is an important indication of where Donald Trump stands on this

issue. And what might be be future social policy for America as well.

The inquest into the deaths of 30 British people murdered

by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia two years ago has begun hearing

The court heard evidence from several eyewitnesses

to the shootings and from the family and friends of the first

The shocking details of their death, today the court began to hear about

each individual killed. Joan and Janet were amongst the first people

to be shot dead -- John. Their family was in court as the couple

were described as having died together doing what they enjoyed

most, being side-by-side. Trudy Jones from South Wales was also

killed on the beach, she was described as someone who put

everyone happiness before her own. The court was shown a map which

illustrated the position of the sun lounges and Trudy Jones was

sunbathing on the front row. John Stocker had been alongside her. Next

him his wife Janet. They were the gunmen's first victims as he

murdered tourist after tourist -- gunman's. This shows people fleeing

from here in fear when they realised what was happening. The court also

saw this 3-D animation of the resort, the blue skies and the sand

and the pictures of those murdered. Each person shown where they were

shot. One eyewitness accounts summed up the horror of that day. Simon

Greaves described the gunman to the court.

The question of tourist safety is a recurrent one here, and today an

eyewitness said that the police response during the attack was poor

as was security generally around the hotel. Today was about just three

victims, but there are many more harrowing stories to be told.

Science, technology and infrastructure.

That's the focus for the government after they unveiled

They hope it will get the economy firing on all cylinders as the UK

Theresa May said it would mean a more active role for the government

as she outlined her plans. But critics say it

doesn't go far enough. Our business editor

Simon Jack has more. Growing an economy

for the 21st-century. This biotech firm is trying

to increase crop yields, reduce fertiliser use

and provide high-paying jobs. Most Conservative

governments have preferred a What this is about is creating

the right conditions for As we leave the European Union I'm

ambitious for the opportunities available to us, building

a truly global Britain. But we need to ensure

that our economy is working for everyone, working in every

part of the country. The government's ten point plan

includes investment in research and development

in high-growth sectors. ?170 million for technical

colleges to improve skills. And infrastructure investment

targeted to fit regional needs. I think it's absolutely essential

and it's been too long in coming. And it's all about coordination,

and directed and focused input to meet the needs of the economy

of this country. And why wouldn't we be doing it

if it's going to bring us the skills we need in a coordinated way,

with the key industry sectors that have the most

potential for growth based The government wants

businesses of the future, like biotechnology or life

science, to grow. But with limited amounts

of new money available, the fear is that while some sectors will be

cultivated, others may wither, leaving behind the workers

in those industries. I don't think we can afford

to leave any sector behind in an industrial strategy,

particularly given so many millions of workers are employed

in areas like retail, food, care, where wages are often

too low and investment too scarce. So it has to be a holistic

industrial policy ARCHIVE VOICEOVER

After the government stepped in... Previous attempts to get involved

in industrial strategy Millions were afforded

to British Leyland for The strategy that somewhat

ironically became known Modern industry leaders

say this is different. Picking winners is much

more about picking the What I think you are

seeing here is much earlier in the cascade

of economic growth. This is all about building skills,

building capabilities, These are just proposals

at this stage but ones the governments hopes will inject

new life to a post Brexit Ministers still refuse

to say if the last Trident missile test went wrong -

Labour say it's a cover-up. And coming up, the new face

of Sinn Fein - Michelle O'Neill Coming up in Sportsday

on BBC News: Johanna Konta will face Serena Williams

in the quarter-finals The British number one hasn't

dropped a set all tournament. It's one of Britain's

best known new towns - but half a century ago

this was Milton Keynes - a small rural village in

Buckinghamshire. Then, within just a few years

the surrounding area was transformed And this is the town today as it

celebrates its 50th anniversary. Our Home Editor Mark Easton has been

to see how it has aged - and what lessons it might hold

for future new towns. # Happy birthday to you. Happy

birthday, Milton Keynes Dons the Little Los Angeles of

Buckinghamshire. That's what they call to 50 years ago with your

shopping malls and grid planned streets. Your concrete cows. Not so

much a new town as a new city. More than a quarter of a million people

now contributing ?10 billion a year to the UK, this has been one of the

fastest-growing places in the country. The roundabouts make some

giddy, the lack of a high street makes others lost. Resident Peter

holding, also 50 today, loves Milton Keynes Dons. There's always

something to do in Milton Keynes Dons whether you like shopping,

theatre, there's always something to do. I can be in London in 30

minutes, in the Peak District in an hour. As the buildings make wafer

boulevards the whole pattern of life will change. Milton Keynes was built

on farmland and villages adequate distance between London, Birmingham,

Oxford and Cambridge. Protests were bulldozed aside. England then, as

now, needed houses. The grid system is based on roads. The grid

represents a different community because in each grid square there is

a different community and when people first came to Milton Keynes

they tended to talk about their local community and their grid

square. Officials say England need to build the equivalent of two

Milton Keynes every year and the idea of new towns is back in fashion

in Whitehall. At the Milton Keynes blueprint, carving a name modern

city from ancient farmland, a model copied around the world, that has

never been repeated in this country. Eco-towns are coming, but where will

they be built? In 2007 Gordon Brown promised ten new eco-towns in

England. Amid noisy opposition, not one was ever built. And now plans

for three new garden towns look likely to anger the guardians of the

English countryside once again. If I was living in a chocolate box

village and this is what we are talking about, and somebody came to

me and said, from now on there is going to be a big building site for

about two years and you will end up in the middle of a town, I can't

imagine what's going through those people's minds. Milton Keynes

promised a new kind of city, but its layout and lifestyle were always at

odds with English tradition. For all its success there is still no where

else quite like it. Wouldn't it be nice if all cities were like Milton

Keynes? An investigation into the death

of prisoner Dean Saunders has found a catalogue of failures contributed

to his suicide and he should have The Prison Ombudsman said staff

ignored significant risks Dean Saunders killed himself

at Chelmsford Prison Our Social Affairs Correspondent

Michael Buchanan has been Dean Saunders had no previous

history of mental illness but in December 2015 the young dad

suddenly became paranoid and delusional, convinced

he had to kill himself. The hand with the knife was free,

and this time he come down Mark, Dean's father,

put his life on the line. On the kitchen floor he struggled

to get the knife from his son. At one point he held

the knife in his own stomach. At that time I thought I can't

let him have the knife. And I put my hand over the top

of his so he could not pull it out. As he pulled it out, I held it in,

I could not let him have that knife. Dean was charged with attempted

murder and remanded in custody at Chelmsford prison,

initially on constant watch. But then three staff,

none of whom were medically trained, none of whom had read his notes,

reduced his observations His family pleaded the prison not

to do it, but were ignored. I said, "I'm telling you now,

if you don't put my son back on constant watch then

he will kill himself." "You won't be able to

say you didn't know, you hadn't been told,

weren't aware, because you know." "And if he kills himself it

will be your fault." Today's report found numerous

problems in his care, including a failure to properly

appreciate his risk of suicide. Dean Saunders was one of a record

number of prisoners in England and Wales who killed

themselves in 2016. There is a proliferation

of official reports, reviews, inquest findings that all point

to the crisis in our prisons, in particular the way

in which people with mental Ministers say they are investing

millions to make prisons safer, but for Dean's family it's

all too late. I can't handle knowing that he died

on his own, away from family that was so important to him,

and they done nothing at all. The new Sinn Fein leader has been

announced as Michelle O'Neill - O'Neill will take over

from Martin McGuiness who is standing down

because of ill health. Her appointment comes

just weeks before a snap How Ireland correspondence is at

Stormont. I wonder how much of a break with the past does Michelle

O'Neill represent? She is from a staunchly Republican family but she

does not have that personal IRA past that her predecessor had and that is

a significant difference. It is worth remembering what a central

figure Martin McGuinness played in bridging the gap between unionists

and Republicans and allowing power-sharing here. Of course that

power-sharing government has collapsed in recent weeks and that

means the challenges begin almost immediately for Michelle O'Neill.

Election posters are already going up. Even after votes are cast there

will have to be negotiations between Sinn Fein and the GU P2 tried to get

power-sharing back up and running again. All indications are that

those talks are not going to be easy. All right, Chris, thank you

very much. Government scientists are warning

that overcooked potatoes, toast and crisps could increase

the risk of developing cancer. The Food Standards Agency says

a potentially harmful compound called Acrylamide is produced

when starchy foods are roasted, fried or grilled for too long

at high temperatures. However, cancer research charities

have questioned the evidence. Here's our Health

Correspondent Dominic Hughes. A nice slice of toast

or a crisp roast potato. But do they really carry

a risk of causing cancer? Concerns lie with the

chemical acrylamide, caused by cooking starchy

foods like potatoes, Now, a major public health campaign

by the Food Standards Agency, building on years of research,

says studies in mice suggest The FSA says while the risk

in humans is hard to judge, it makes sense to think about how

much we are exposed to. To be precautionary and to enable

people to help make decisions for themselves, it would be good

reason for them to reduce the amount So what exactly is the danger posed

by acrylamide and how does it compare to other

factors that might cause cancer? 4% of all cancers in the UK

are thought to be linked to drinking too much alcohol,

5% are associated with being overweight or obese,

and an estimated 19% of all cancers are caused by exposure

to tobacco smoke. When it comes to acrylamide,

the chemical that's produced in burnt toast, well,

there is no proven link to cancer in humans,

and that has led some experts to suggest there is no real

danger to public health. I think there is a risk that public

health advice like this which can't put a number on either the current

harms or the benefits of people changing their behaviour is,

could be damaging to people's trust in that public health advice

because it is important what we eat. Obesity is linked to 18,000 cancers

a year in this country. And it would be a shame

if people became sceptical And scepticism, too,

from some cafe customers today You'll get frightened of eating

because if you eat that, And if you eat that,

that will happen. But, you know, you can't eat that

because of the health risk. I'm not worried about the risk

when it comes to burn food. A prudent precaution

or an overreaction? The advice, if you want to take it,

is to bin the burnt toast. The comic actor Gorden Kaye,

known to millions as Rene Artois the cafe owner in the BBC sitcom

'Allo 'allo, has died. He appeared in all 82

episodes of the show, which was set in Nazi-occupied

France. Our Arts Correspondent,

David Sillito, looks For ten years and 82 episodes,

Gorden Kaye was the harassed heart of one of the most popular

comedies of the 80s. Would you believe it possible

that the plot has now thickened? Cafe owner Rene Artois

had an unfathomably complicated love life and endless

problems with fallen madonnas. Can nobody resist me? Good

afternoon. She'll fix you up. This was not the first time TV audiences

had met Gorden Kaye, in Coronation Street he played Bernard Butler. I'm

going to miss you when you go back, you know? Born in Huddersfield, he'd

spent years on stage. Writer and producer David Croft spotted him.

After guest appearances in Ayew being served and it ain't half hot

Mum, he sent him a script. It's set in a French cafe and that's that,

and the laughs are leaping off the page almost visibly, and you think

this is a caucus. A comedy about the resistance? However, it works. But

in 1990 he was seriously injured in an accident. Two years later the

show was cancelled. But 'Allo 'Allo never ended, all around the world it

continued to be seen in 200 countries, there's even a German

version. Gorden Kaye was right, it was a corker.

The actor Gorden Kaye who has died at the age of 75

Variety is the spice of life and we've had that recently, haven't we?

Lots of sunshine for some, but for others stuck in the gloom. Fog at

the castle in Dover. Fog thickening up again tonight, freezing fog

patches will cause disruption into the morning. You can go online for

the latest updates. Cloud shifting across to clear some fog, but more

fog behind, Wales and down into the Southern counties as well. This

could be the scene first thing. Not everybody waking up to fog, but

allow extra time for your journey. Warnings in force from the Met

office and temperatures well down, slippery surfaces. Far West avoiding

the fog, not so much across northern England but some patches around. For

Northern Ireland and Scotland it will be much milder, well above

freezing. Bit of a breeze and some rain around especially across

western Scotland. No great amounts and lot of dry weather, albeit quite

cloudy. Best sunshine further south and east to England and Wales wants

the fog has shifted. For some places, just like today, it may not

shift and it will be particularly chilly. My oldest weather out West,

double figures in some places. -- the mildest weather will be out

West. More fog around on Wednesday morning. Probably confined to

easternmost part of England. Particularly windy out West where

there will be more cloud for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Rain

clouds held at bay. Most of us try. Hopefully you will see some

sunshine. Chilly feeling day across the south and east. Thursday looks

especially cold a bitter south easterly wind.

So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's