23/02/2017 BBC News at Six

Storm Doris causes havoc across the UK -

Railway lines are blocked by fallen trees, an entire rail

Winds of up to 95 miles an hour close roads and bridges.

This plane battled through the winds but many flights are grounded.

There's chaos for commuters tonight trying to get home.

Migration figures are down - but some industries worry they'll be

On the front line with Iraqi troops as they make a major breakthrough

What police found in an old nuclear bunker -

almost a million pounds worth of cannabis plants.

And never mind 5 a day - now scientists say double that

could bring you significant health benefits.

And coming up in sport on BBC News, Lewis Hamilton describes

his new Mercedes as incredible, as he and team-mate Valtteri Bottas

look ahead to the upcoming F1 season.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Doris has stormed her way across the UK, leaving havoc in her wake.

Winds of up to 95mph have caused one death as a woman was killed

Trees have been brought down, taking power lines with them and blocking

Nearly all rail operators are reporting delays.

Planes have been grounded, the Port of Liverpool was shut,

and the strong gusts have forced the closure of bridges

Thousands of homes have been left without power.

Danny Savage is in Retford in Nottinghamshire.

Danny, for some time today, the entire network

Fiona, this is the east Coast Main line behind me, which should be busy

with services at this time of day, but they are few and far between. To

be fair to virgin east coast, they try to keep things going, but by

mid-afternoon, they had to say to passengers, do not travel to date.

Storm Doris swept from West to east across the country. The strongest

winds were fairly short lived in individual locations, but that

didn't stop them causing damage, and there has been one fatality.

The most serious incident today was in the Midlands -

a woman was killed by flying debris in Wolverhampton city centre.

She died at the scene after suffering fatal head injuries.

The most widespread problem was travel disruption.

This was Euston station - the red Virgin trains

The train's been cancelled, so I'm unsure how I'm going to get home.

I might have to stay an extra night, I'm not sure, which would be

We didn't know until we got to the station that all the Virgin

trains had been cancelled, so we're stranded here,

and we can't get back to Manchester, back home again.

And we do need to get back home today.

There was no hope of 120 mph on the East Coast Main Line -

there was a 50 mph speed limit because of the wind before Virgin

eventually asked people not to travel today.

And spare a thought for those aboard planes landing

in strong crosswinds - a bumpy ride was assured for

arrivals here at Manchester Airport, with some planes needing more

than one attempt to get on the ground safely.

The sea off the west coast of the UK turned white,

whipped up by storm-force winds, caused by what forecasters

Storm Doris is an example of a weather bomb, a rapidly

intensifying area of low pressure that had brought severe gales

We've already had wind gusts over 90 mph, we've had

disruption to power supplies, we've also had

Those kind of strength winds can easily knocked trees down and cause

And never mind the fallen lamp post on the right here -

look at the lucky escape this driving instructor

A scene repeated elsewhere, by the force of Storm Doris.

Danny Savage, BBC News, Nottinghamshire.

Our correspondent Sarah Bishop is in Wolverhampton,

where a woman has been killed by flying debris.

Well, we still have no official confirmation tonight as to who

exactly this woman was who was so tragically killed here in

Wolverhampton earlier this morning. In the last hour, the authorities

have moved to take away the piece of wood that struck out, this hefty

piece of wood, about three feet in length. The Ambulance Service say it

struck a soundly on the head, causing major trauma, and that she

was confirmed dead at the scene. We have been hearing on the ground all

this afternoon from witnesses that this piece of wood that hit the

woman they had been part of a larger structure, possibly an air vent some

of which came off the roof behind me, slipped off the canopy of

Starbucks there and fell on this poor woman, just at the moment that

she happened to be in Wolverhampton city centre. A tragic accident. Star

Bucks say that they had been shocked and deeply saddened by this terrible

incident. They have been helping police with their investigation, and

in fact, West Midlands Police are due to name this woman first thing

in the morning. Sarah, thank you. Net migration to the UK has dropped

to 273,000 in the year to September. It means 49,000 fewer people came

to live in to the UK than left it. The figures are the first

to include migration estimates But as our home editor,

Mark Easton, reports, for some industries,

the drop in migration So you need to cross the wall,

the gate, sorry, and on the right hand you will find the

Minster Cathedral. Not that there's too much,

but that there soon York's tourist industry is booming,

now worth a remarkable ?500 million a year,

and supporting a record 20,000 But growth here, as in much

of the hospitality industry, Romanians change the hotel beds,

the waiter is Spanish. And your pot of tea.

Thank you very much. Enjoy! In fact, with very low

unemployment in York, businesses like this cannot grow

or even survive without a supply A quarter of British hospitality

businesses say they've currently got vacancies that they're

struggling to fill. With the UK labour market close

to capacity, and the prospect of a squeeze on EU migrant labour,

there are real concerns It would create a staffing crisis,

to get to a point where we can't fill that resource with a European

worker, then there's a big gap For York as an example,

there isn't enough of them around. The latest figures show a big job

in the numbers coming to work in Britain from countries

like Poland, down 16%, Hungary, More are coming from Romania,

up 11%, and Bulgaria, up 8%, but many experts predict those

arrivals will start Now it's beginning to change

to Germany or beginning to learn more German,

because the UK is beginning to be less attractive for young

people coming to work. Some argue Britain needs to rid

itself of its addiction to cheap migrant labour and employers should

do more to train and recruit On this Yorkshire carrot farm,

with a turnover of ?35 million, Eastern Europeans make up around 80%

of the staff. If we didn't have an access

to non-UK labour, we just I wouldn't even attempt

to try and run it. I'd have to stop, it isn't that

I want to stop, I'd have no choice. Take away 80% of my work

force, how can I operate? The UK will always be

a welcoming place for people who want to come here,

work here and contribute It's just that there's no support

for uncontrolled immigration. The aim is still to cut net

migration by almost two thirds, but Government has conceded it

will take years before British citizens do jobs currently filled

by migrants in areas Turning Britain into a low-migration

economy won't be easy. After three years of protests,

lengthy debates by MPs and an eleventh-hour bid to scupper

it in the House of Lords, the first phase of the controversial

High Speed Two rail project has Construction will now begin

on the line from London to Birmingham, but it will be nearly

a decade before passenger Burton Green, a rural village with

almost 300 homes. HS2 will travel straight through the middle of this

place. Today, the high-speed rail project's London- Birmingham route

has been given the green light. Some here believe it couldn't happen soon

enough. So, this is where we live, just here. This is our... Like Alan

Marshall, a man who worked in railway transport for more than 35

years. The West Midlands as a region is booming at the moment, with huge

development in the motorcar industry, in particular, especially

jaguar- Land Rover. This will contribute to improving access, make

it easier for people to get to places of work more quickly, and

with the speed, more people will travel, because speed always

attracts. The HS2 trains are expected to be a lot quicker, with

speeds of up to 225 mph. The journey time will be cut by more than 30

minutes, and the line will be complete by 2026. This pathway,

which used to be a railway track, will be replaced by the HS2 line.

Now that the plans had been given the go-ahead, construction will

begin in the spring. The centreline of the railway is approximately 160

metres from our boundary fence. But many here are furious, and those who

have campaigned to stop the line from happening are now changing

their focus. Mike Lynch lives 160 metres from where the new railway

track will be. From our point of view, the only thing we can

campaign... The only to make things we can campaign for without feeling

that we will be in anyway successful is mitigation, some form or measure

that will reduce the potential noise levels, and also, the seven years of

inconvenience while they build it. The cost of the entire project,

including the second phase, will be ?56 billion. For those who have been

against this from the outset, today's news will be difficult to

digester. Sima Kotecha, BBC News, Warwickshire.

The fiance of children's author Helen Bailey,

who murdered her and dumped her body in a cesspit, has been

Ian Stewart was convicted of secretly drugging

and suffocating Ms Bailey in a plot to inherit her money.

Her body was found under their garage in Hertfordshire last July.

The judge said it was "difficult to imagine a more heinous crime".

Voters are at the polls today in two Parliamentary by-elections

in Staffordshire and Cumbria following the resignations

of the Labour MPs in Stoke on Trent Central and Copeland.

The polls are open until 10pm tonight.

The results are expected around 3am tomorrow.

Iraqi security forces have made a breakthrough in their offensive

against so-called Islamic State in Iraq's second city, Mosul.

They've taken the city's airport, a key staging point in the battle

to drive militants from the western half of the city.

Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville was there

as Iraqi government troops fought their way in.

Before the attack came the hour strikes, rockets and artillery. --

the air strikes. It is the fifth day of the offensive to to rip the

leg-mac retake westernmost all. Slowly, the forces make their way

past a suspected IDS car bomb that lies torched on the route. These

armoured columns are now moving forward to muzzle airport. The

attack for the airport is underway. All night, we have heard coalition

aircraft and Iraqi artillery slammed this area just the north of us. In

daylight, they didn't let up. This factory flew the IDS flag yesterday.

Today, it burned. -- the Islamic State flag. In less than four hours,

Iraqi forces had breached the airport perimeter, but Islamic State

fought back. First, a huge roadside bomb. It killed an Iraqi officer.

Despite the air strikes, IS fighters were still putting up resistance.

This is the main road to the airport will stop there is a serious gun

battle going on at the moment. -- the road to the airport.

The more they advance, the more civilians they meet, and they are in

a wretched state. This man says, they are dead in this house, all

dead. My brother has already gone to the camp. He is heartbroken. Six of

his family were killed in an air strike. This is the last open ground

before westernmost all. Iraqi forces are now less than a mile away. They

are also in range of IS mortars from within the city, but it is Islamic

State that is under threat. Most will airport may be in ruins, but

more importantly, it is back in Government hands. Over there, it is

the Iraqi flag flying on the airfield again. This is a landmark

moment. Iraqi forces now have the Islamic State group on the run. IS

might transform itself into something else, but right now, here

in Iraq, we are witnessing the final days of the caliphate. Quentin

Somerville, BBC News, Mosul airport. Storm Doris roars across the UK -

one woman is killed, and there's travel chaos

on the roads and rail. And coming up, making a mint -

but are businesses prepared Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

can Spurs get past Gent at Wembley this evening and into

last 16 of the Europa League? They trail the Belgian side 1-0

in the tie. Smoke alarms are essential

to our safety in the home. Adults are woken by them

if they go off in the night, but forensic scientists and fire

investigators are warning children Now a new alarm sound has been

developed with a lower-pitched tone and a woman's voice, which is

thought to be much more effective. Our medical correspondent

Fergus Walsh reports. what does it take to

wake a sleeping child? Outside her boys' bedrooms,

Melanie Wilkins is about to show me. Three of her four boys

remain fast asleep. Your children are like gold,

the most precious thing, and it's a horrible thought

to think that if that was real, your children are gone.

That's it. In tests, Derbyshire Fire Service

and Dundee University found 27 out of 34 children never

woke to the sound of a smoke alarm, They are not mini adults -

they are very different. the way their brains work

during sleep is different. The way they actually

interpret what sounds So we have to look

at them differently. In a house fire,

as this demonstration shows, This is a powerful reminder

of the speed with which a house fire can spread,

and the threat from toxic smoke. and one which will wake you,

is so important. In 2012, these six children died

in a house fire in Derby, set deliberately

by their father, Mick Philpott. Dave Koss was one of

the fire investigators. Two smoke alarms had failed

to rouse the children. It made him determined to come up

with something better. I don't like to use

the word "crusade", It's quite heart-wrenching

when you see children die in a house fire,

and it's even more upsetting when you think you could have

prevented that from happening. with a lower pitched tone

and a human voice. ALARM VOICE: Wake up!

The house is on fire! Which researchers think

is more likely And which Melanie is

going to demonstrate. ALARM VOICE: Wake up!

The house is on fire! 13-year-old Jack is awake

immediately. They want 500 families

to test the prototype. We're just doing some

testing for the fire, OK? Fire officers stress

that standard smoke alarms They do wake adults,

but parents need to know it could be up to them

to wake their children Thousands of cannabis plants have

been discovered by police growing in an underground nuclear bunker

near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The crop has an estimated street

value of more than ?1 million. Officers say the plants

were being grown in 20 large rooms, with almost every part of the bunker

dedicated to what they described as the "wholesale

production" of cannabis. Six men have been arrested.

Jon Kay reports. Hidden in the Wiltshire countryside,

RGHQ Chilmark, a huge and ground bunker built to protect Britain's

leaders in a nuclear war. -- underground. If we go in here, mind

your head... This afternoon, police showed us the vast cannabis growing

operation they uncovered here overnight. How would you describe

what you have discovered here? A huge, massively professional setup,

the biggest cannabis factory farm I have seen in 25 years of service. To

find this in the heart of rural Wiltshire is quite incredible.

Police found 20 large rooms filled with plants and equipped with

specially installed equipment. Every room has got this set up in it, the

venting at the top to withdraw the fumes, take that outside, contain

the heat. Officer says huge amounts of power have been secretly siphoned

off the National Grid here. In several rooms, you see signs of

people sleeping and working here. This was the old canteen, still

being used last night, it seems, years after the bunker was sold off

by the Ministry of Defence. Six men were arrested, three of them on

suspicion of human trafficking offences. In this room, police have

found hundreds of bags of old compost, and they suggest the bunker

has been used for cultivation for months. This is what the bungalow

like when it was filmed by the BBC during the Cold War, with walls that

almost two feet thick, police described it as almost impenetrable.

They have been monitoring the site for some time and swooped when they

saw the doors opening last night. They say local people had reported

suspicious activity and a powerful smell coming from the vents. Jon

Kay, BBC News, Wiltshire. The England and Manchester United

captain, Wayne Rooney, has announced he's to stay

with his club. He'd been linked with a possible

move to China after his agent But he says he'll be staying

at Manchester United, We're often being told

about the benefits of eating at least five portions

of fruit and veg a day. Double that to ten and

you could significantly reduce your risk of heart disease

and cancer, as providing the greatest

protection against disease. that eating more fruit and

vegetables helps you live longer? The study by Imperial College London

estimates almost 8 million premature by eating ten portions

of fruit and veg a day. That is a lot more

than the current recommendation A portion is 80 grams,

or three ounces, equivalent to a small banana, an apple,

or three heaped tablespoons of spinach, and researchers

found eating ten a day How many pieces of fruit

or vegetables would you I don't eat none, no.

You never eat any? No, the last time I ate

vegetables was two weeks ago. I've got four kids,

there's no way I can afford to give them ten a day

each, that is 40 items. The research found the risk

of cancer was lowered by eating vegetables such as spinach and

yellow peppers, for heart disease and strokes, apples

and oranges are recommended. Compared to eating no fruit

and vegetables at all, eating ten portions a day gives

the greatest health protection, But if that seems too difficult,

the good news is you can get most of that protection

from eating five portions. But some people think they can

get benefits in other ways. We're doing

the hot chilli challenge, The Royal Mint

is to release a new ?1 coin, The 12-sided coin is out

next month, on March 28th. The old coin will continue

to be legal tender, As people are urged to check

beneath the sofa cushions are we and businesses

going to be ready? This is the build-up -

400 a minute per machine. The Royal Mint near Cardiff

working day and night to be ready

to launch the 12-sided pound, the old one

no longer fit for purpose. Well, the current ?1 coin has been

in circulation for a long time, and it's becoming

very susceptible to fakes. about one in every 30

are counterfeit. What we think we've got here,

in our new ?1 coin, is the most secure coin

in the world. Checking the security features,

which include making it from two metals, some tiny lettering,

symbols which change in the light, the edges alternately

rough and smooth. To strike the coins,

they have to join together an outer and an inner,

and they're doing it at full tilt. The Royal Mint reckons

that it's already halfway of producing one and

a half billion ?1 coins. And for the first time, we have

been able to take it out on show. It's lighter, isn't it? Yeah.

Can I feel? Oh, yeah, much lighter, yeah.

It doesn't feel real. ?400 million of ?1 coins

people have in their homes. Right.

What are you going to do it? We're going to take them back.

You'll have to. Yes, definitely. I like that

it's a different shape, But they don't like it so much here,

Cardiff's White Water Centre, because of the lockers

they put their clothes in, What we have to do is change

each one of these mechanisms, take about a good ten

or 15 minutes to change. You've got more than 100

lockers, so what, ?1500? Yeah, it's a lot of money

that we could spend elsewhere. And parking meters

will have to be reprogrammed, along with shopping trolleys

and vending machines and amusement arcades, at a cost

of ?120 million - and maybe more. But most agree it's time

for a more secure pound. there are nearly 500 million

new coins now stockpiled, Simon Gompertz,

BBC News, South Wales. We were talking rather weather at

the top of the programme, let's take a closer look with Tomasz

Schafernaker, you won't us yesterday.

Such a busy day in the weather centre, all that disruption across

the country, we're probably going to be waving goodbye to this storm, off

you go, we don't want it, a really nasty one. It is sweeping across the

UK, right now it is across Belgium and Holland, so disrupting areas

there. But for us, the worst is over. Still very blowy in the

south-east, these are the kind of gusts we have had. Even in London,

62 mph. We get winds like that during the winter, but usually on

the coast. Inland, that is when we have problems. We have spectacular

pictures, even in Durham, further north, we felt the effects of the

storm, and some pretty scenes. I will get out of the way to show you

that one, isn't it beautiful? It is not all bad, although tricky

conditions in the snow, I'm sure. Still nasty weather for the next

couple of hours, East Anglia, the south-east, still blowing a gale in

London. About nine hours worth of gales across a large chunk of the

UK. Later this evening, the winds die down, showers, temperatures drop

away, and a risk of some icy patches. The only real hazards

tonight will be one or two icy patches, particularly northern parts

of the UK. Then we wake up to sunshine, a nice crisp start to the

day. Not for very long, because eventually Northern Ireland and

western Scotland get the rain, no storms, just a regular sort of

winter cloudy day with a bit of rain. Saturday, quite a few isobars,

and that means a lot of wind. There will be a lot of wind over the

weekend, but nothing like what we have had, and a weekend, actually,

that could say Saturday and Sunday, you know what? Ignore that! Back to

you. Our main story is Storm Doris, which

has caused chaos across the UK, and now 40,000 homes in East Anglia are

without power. That's all from the BBC News At Six,

so it's goodbye from me,