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Donald Trump is forced to back down after a row | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
GCHQ says President Trump's claim that it tapped his phone | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
The governance and oversight of the organisation just does not | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
So I think in this case it is absolutely clear, this | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
President Trump's spokesman has promised not to repeat the claim, | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
George Osborne is appointed editor of a daily London newspaper, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Nicola Sturgeon hints that she might be prepared to look at a later date | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
How schools in England could be facing big funding cuts. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Tory MPs urge the Government to have a rethink. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
his first official visit there since the death of Diana. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Robbie Power hails the "genius" of trainer Jessica Harrington, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
as he rides Sizing John to victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. | :01:05. | :01:30. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The US government has backed down over claims that British | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
intelligence bugged Donald Trump during the presidential campaign. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
His press spokesman claimed Britain's GCHQ had tapped his phone. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
When GCHQ responded that it was nonsense | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
and utterly ridiculous, the White House assured Number Ten | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
that the allegations wouldn't be repeated, | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
Only yesterday an investigation by the US Senate concluded | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
there was no evidence that President Trump was bugged by US | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Britain's GCHQ surveillance agency - secretly listening in, | :01:58. | :02:11. | |
said the White House, on President-Elect Donald | :02:12. | :02:12. | |
Not true, says GCHQ, in a rare public rebuttal. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
It all began with a tweet, with Donald Trump alleging on social | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
media Barack Obama had ordered the tapping of his phone calls | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Then came the claim, from Fox News, that GCHQ may have been behind it. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Sources have told Fox News that President Obama | :02:34. | :02:34. | |
could very easily have, and probably did, use a foreign | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
intelligence service to gather this information for him. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
The probable culprit here is called GCHQ. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
The next thing, that unsubstantiated claim was being quoted | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
That triggered alarm bells in Whitehall. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
I'm told it was serious enough to be considered a threat | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
It prompted this unprecedented denial by GCHQ. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
Recent allegations, it said, made by media commentator | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
wiretapping against the then President-Elect are nonsense. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
This is just not something GCHQ does. | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
The legislation under which it operates doesn't allow it to happen. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
The governance and the oversight of the organisation just does not | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
I think, in this case, it is absolutely clear this | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
If Donald Trump was embarrassed, he wasn't showing it today - | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
seen here meeting the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
His administration has promised not to repeat these allegations, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
So, what is the damage to relations with Washington? | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
MI6, MI5 and GCHQ, Britain's three spy agencies, all have incredibly | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
close working relationships with their US counterparts. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Whitehall officials insisted today that partnership | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
remains as strong as ever, despite the controversy | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
Still, it is a bad day for Western intelligence, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
when Britain has to publicly contradict a statement coming out | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
of the highest office of its closest partner, | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
Frank Gardner, BBC News, outside MI6 headquarters in central London. | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
And our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, is outside the White House. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Is this climb-down embarrassing for President Trump or is it likely | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
to make no difference as far as his supporters are concerned? | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
As you say, we have not heard the words "I'm sorry" from President | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Trump and I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that happen. It | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
is hard to overstate the consternation on the British side | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
about what was said. Sean Spicer says that he did not say GCHQ tapped | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the phones, he said it was reported by Fox News that it had happened. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
That does not wash with the British and I understand the ambassador has | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
spoken to Sean Spicer about it. Equally, the national Security | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
adviser has spoken to his dish counterpart. While there has been no | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
formal public apology thing regrets have been expressed and undertakings | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
given that this will not be repeated. I spoke to someone who has | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
a close dealings with the administration who said the normal | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
law of a political hole is that when you are in one, you stop digging. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
This Administration brings in a mechanical excavator. Thank you. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
In a move that's astonished his fellow MPs and outraged some, | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
the former Chancellor, George Osborne, has been appointed | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
editor of the London Evening Standard daily newspaper. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Mr Osborne says he'll combine the role with his | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
job as MP for Tatton, as well as at least one other job | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
A number of MPs have responded with disbelief that one man can | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Here's our Media Editor, Amol Rajan, who broke the story. | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
George Osborne rose to Shadow Chancellor at the age of just 33, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
but six years after taking charge of rebuilding Britain's economy after | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the financial crash, he was sacked by Theresa May after the Brexit | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
referendum. But today he made a career change, at least half of one. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
In a shock announcement, he has been appointed editor of the London | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Evening Standard, a job he will do while continuing to be an MP. I am | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
thrilled and excited to be the editor of the Evening Standard. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
There are big issues in our world and what people want are | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
authoritative facts, good analysis, great journalism. It's an important | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
time for good journalism and the Evening Standard is gay to provide | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
it. George Osborne will take the editor's chair in this building, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
arriving at 5am and leaving at around midday. I spent years here as | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
editor of the Independent and there are managerial and commercial | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
responsibilities, too. Some managers are known to work up to 100 hours | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
per week, so the question the people are asking is how do you reconcile | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
being an editor with being an MP? In his constituency in Cheshire, this | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
is how some voters reacted. Thrilled for George, remaining in the public | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
spotlight. One just hopes he will continue his constituency duties. To | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
me, it should either be that one or that one. Make one of them your job. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
I thought he was an amazing Chancellor. He will be paid | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
substantially less than his predecessor but perhaps he does not | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
need the money. He already earns nearly ?75,000 as an MP and took | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
home over three quarters of ?1 million in the past year for | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
speeches. And he makes ?650,000 a year for four days work a month at | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
asset manager Blackrock. I thought it was fake news at first. Why is he | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
doing it? Not for the money. I can only conclude that he wants to build | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the Standard into an alternative power base to Theresa May, and in | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the event of Brexit going pear shaped, he will use this to launch | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
his attack. Some have said there is a conflict of interest. Others have | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
questioned George Osborne's commitment to Parliament. He is very | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
clever and able but this is ridiculous. How can you edit the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Evening Standard, which is for London, represent a Cheshire | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
constituency, and be a direct of a bank all at the same time? He may be | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
no stranger to headlines, but George Osborne has limited journalistic | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
experience and credentials. This appointment will intrigue | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
Westminster and readers of the Standard. The likelihood is that he | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
will be a newspaper editor long after he is MP for Tatton. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
We can talk to our political correspondent | :09:01. | :09:01. | |
Many will be thinking how on earth can George Osborne manage to be | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
a newspaper editor and an MP, both full time jobs for most people. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Yes, it is going to be a very difficult juggle four George Osborne | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
but he claims he can edit the newspaper in the morning and carry | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
out his duties in parliament in the afternoon. That was met with mockery | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
by a number of MPs today, who say that is not doable. Two opposition | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
MPs have said he should stand down. Jeremy Corbyn said the appointment | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
is an insult to Mr Osborne's Tatton constituency. It is a constituency | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
that is being abolished, the boundaries redrawn at the next | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
election, which must feed into his decision. The last time that a | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
sitting MP was the editor of a daily newspaper was actually 100 years | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
ago, so there is a distant precedent for this. Some might feel that this | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
is a classic example of a well greased revolving door working very | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
well for people with the right connections. It is an extraordinary | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
appointment but politically significant, too. George Osborne has | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
been clear that he does not think the Government are prioritising the | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
economy enough as they approach Brexit negotiations. Now, back in | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
the front line of politics, he has a powerful platform to make his case, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
reflect the views of London readers, who voted strongly for Remain in the | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
referendum, and hold Theresa May's government to account. | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
Nicola Sturgeon has hinted she may be prepared to delay the timing | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
of a second referendum on Scottish independence. | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Scotland's First Minister says she is up for continued discussion | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
about the matter with Theresa May, as long as the Prime Minister | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
But Mrs May repeated again today that a referendum would be bad | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Here's our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith. | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
Cheering and clapping. The SNP do not look like a party whose | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
referendum hopes have been dashed. Let there be no doubt, Scotland will | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
have its referendum and the people of this country will have their | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
choice. They will not be denied their say. Fighting talk, readying | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
the troops for battle. They are eager to engage, but how can the SNP | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
promised a referendum when the Prime Minister has said no? How can you | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
say you definitely will have a Scottish referendum when the Prime | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Minister says she is not prepared to discuss it? There comes a point | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
where just because a Prime Minister, who is a Prime Minister with just | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
one MP in Scotland, just because she says she wants to stand in the way | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of the Scottish parliament, it does not mean we should accept that is | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
right. There is nothing you can do about it. We have seen this week | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
that when the Prime Minister realises she is in an unsustainable | :11:53. | :12:04. | |
position, she is quick to engineer a U-turn. Her position is not | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
sustainable. It appears things have got acrimonious this week, with you | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
tweeting about the Prime Minister not being elected yet. Would you say | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
relations are at an all-time low? Clearly we have a disagreement. I am | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
saying today is, let's try and work through that disagreement. The Prime | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Minister has not put herself in opposition to me or to independence. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
She is within her rights to argue against independence. She seems to | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
be putting herself in opposition to the democratic will of the Scottish | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Parliament. I don't think that sustainable. Nicola Sturgeon is | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
telling delegates she thinks she can force Theresa May to change her | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
mind. She told me she might be able to compromise on the date of a | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
referendum, but the Prime Minister ruled out even talking about one per | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
at least two years, and you can't negotiate with someone who will not | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
speak to you. Theresa May, in Cardiff today, certainly does not | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
sound as though she is about to back down. It is now clear that using | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Brexit as a pretext to engineer a second independence referendum has | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
been the SNP's sole objective ever since last June. But it would be bad | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
for Scotland, bad for the United Kingdom and bad for us all. In | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
Scotland, there are plenty of people who do not want another referendum. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Unionists, protesting outside the SNP conference, hope the UK | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Government will not give in. Inside, activists believe they will get to | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
vote again for an independent Scotland, even though it is not a | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
fight they are guaranteed to win. A mother who hid the body | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
of her dead baby son in a garden shed for more than a decade has been | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
sentenced to 21 months in prison. Victoria Gayle admitted preventing | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
the decent burial of her son. How he died has not | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
been established. Now the police are trying to find | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
out whether she had any more children in a six-year period | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
from 2007, and have asked anyone For more than a decade, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Victoria Gayle carried Her baby son, Kyzer, died, | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
and she hid his body. 11 years on, the body was discovered | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
hidden in a box in a garden shed They said they didn't | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
know what had happened. Victoria Gayle told police | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
she found her son dead. Victoria has always denied any | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
involvement in Kyzer's death, and the postmortem determined | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
that it was inconclusive, and that's due to the passage | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
of time, over ten years. After he left Northwick Park | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Hospital as a newborn it appears the authorities had minimum contact | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
with Kyzer Gayle, and then A decade later Victoria Gayle's | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
two-year-old daughter An inquest found that she had | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
swallowed a tiny battery, and it was then the police began | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
investigating what had Victoria Gayle said that | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
in a bedroom crammed with junk she kept Kyzer's body for years | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
before moving it to the shed. On his birth certificate, | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
she didn't name Kyzer's father, but down the years she claimed | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
she had handed him She implied that she doesn't have | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
no contact with Kyzer and that was the best way | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
it was because that was So it was, if the dad wanted | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
Kyzer she wasn't allowed The local council, Barnet in north | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
London, said in a statement: The police watchdog, | :15:15. | :15:34. | |
the IPCC, is also examining whether This is a deeply disturbing, | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
deeply troubling case that raises a number of questions that | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
are going to need to be answered by the serious case review | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
and by the IPCC investigation. The Met Police are now looking | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
for people who knew Victoria Gayle They are trying to discover | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
whether she had any more The White House has backed down | :15:53. | :16:19. | |
after claiming British intelligence tapped Donald Trump's phone. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
And still to come, a first time winner comfortably beats | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
the favourite at the Cheltenham Gold Cup. | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Coming up on Inside Six Nations, I'm in Dublin for the final weekend | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
of rugby's Six Nations Championship as England take on Ireland, | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
Concern is growing about the impact of government funding on schools | :16:34. | :16:50. | |
in England with teachers and now even some Conservative | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
The Education Policy Institute is warning that secondary schools | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
could see their funding drop by nearly ?300,000 | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
But the Government, which is changing the way it funds | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
schools, insists it's spending more than ever - some ?40 billion. | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
Our education editor Branwen Jefferys has spent the day | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
In 20 years as an inner-city head, Ian Fenn has seen it all. What are | :17:14. | :17:31. | |
you doing? Don't do that. Shootings, stabbings, drugs, deprivation and | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
disability. Almost half his pupils have learning difficulties. He says | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
he needs every penny. But funding is not keeping up with the needs of his | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
school. Three quarters of the children coming into the school | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
can't read properly. They will be two, three, four years behind where | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
they should be. On top of that, a similar number have English as an | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
additional language. We have a large number of children with special | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
educational needs, they could have speaking and language problems, the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
list is endless. It's not just teachers, but extra teaching | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
assistants. The school employs social workers as well. Financial | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
pressures mean jobs are at risk. A new funding formula will share out | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
of money differently. It will give some areas a bigger slice, while | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
others get a smaller share. London loses most. School budgets are | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
already under pressure, despite a record ?40 billion pot. Pensions, | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
national insurance and pay are rising. So our pupil numbers. It | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
could add up to 86% to 11% real terms cut per pupil. How am I going | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
to care for the most vulnerable in society if they take the money away? | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
I don't have enough now. I have kids who are under resourced at the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
moment, and yet they are going to give me substantially less. Tonight, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
another warning from a senior Tory, adding to the pressure on ministers. | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
The mainly conservative counties have elections in May and some hope | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
for a better deal from the formula. One secondary school will be getting | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
?2 million less than another secondary school of a similar size. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Accepting that one is in an area of high deprivation and one is in more | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
of a leafy lane location, that 2 million differential between one | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
secondary school with the same pupil numbers, the need might be slightly | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
different in one, cannot amount to ?2 million. Could the funding | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
formula become the next U-turn for the Government? There was a lot of | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
pressure from Tory grass roots and backbenchers. But they are the ones | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
that also really want a new deal for their areas. There is another | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
problem. If you give more money to the counties and shires, it means | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
taking even more from inner-city schools like this. Schools in | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
England have had 20 years of funding increases. But as cost pressures | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
rise, no one feels like a winner. Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News, | :20:04. | :20:04. | |
Manchester. It's one of the biggest events | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
in the racing calendar - After 22 gruelling fences it ended | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
in a thrilling finish. So, let's join our | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
sports correspondent It was, Fiona. Yes, the thousands of | :20:13. | :20:26. | |
Irish fans were hoping for an Irish winner to celebrate on St Patrick's | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Day, and they got their wish. Plenty of drama along the way, but the Gold | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
Cup went to Sizing John. It's where riders and | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
horses become legends. Djakadam set off the bookies' | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
favourite, but other At the back, Lizzie Kelly, | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
only the second woman to ride in the race, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
was unseated, to her obvious frustration, while the popular | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Cue Card fell three from home. Horses and jockeys, | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
thankfully unhurt. As they came over the last, | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
it was Sizing John that led the way, ridden by the suitably | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
named Robbie Power. Minella Rocco and Native River | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
chased him home, but no Ten years ago, Power won | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
the Grand National on Silver Birch, I was 25 when I won | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
the Grand National, 35 now. When I was announced, | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
to go up onto the podium as a Gold Cup winning jockey, | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
that sounds very, very sweet. Victory too for trainer | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
Jessica Harrington, with her first Not a bad way to start, | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
on a day when Power took the glory. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
have arrived in Paris It's the first time Prince William | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
has been seen publicly since facing some criticism for missing | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
to go on a skiing trip. Our royal correspondent | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
Nicholas Witchell reports. The British Government is focusing | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
the foreign travel of the Royals No mystery why that should be, | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
who better to warm up relations So, this visit, the first | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
official trip to France by the Duke and Duchess, | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
matters more than many. Unfortunate then, it may be thought, | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
for William to have deflected attention from a serious purpose | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
by his antics of a week ago. He went off on a lad's | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
weekend to an exclusive He was caught by a camera giving, | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
shall we say, an exuberant display As a result, he missed | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
a church service in London, attended by his grandmother, | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
and he has reopened the debate, seized on with vigour | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
by some tabloid editors, that his commitment to royal duty | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
is rather less than it might be. And so this evening, | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
first at the Elysee Palace with President Hollande, | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
and then at the British embassy, this was a William focused on doing | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
what Royals do on visits like this. He listened carefully, | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
and engaged fully, supported, In a speech a few moments ago, | :23:07. | :23:07. | |
William spoke of the deep friendship between Britain and France and said | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
the partnership would continue, despite Britain's | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
decision to leave the EU. In the words of the British | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
ambassador here, there is a deep affection in France | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
for the British Royal family. What we are seeing here is part | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
of the wider effort to remind Europe of the breadth and depth | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
of the United Kingdom's That theme of enduring | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
and continuing friendship will continue this evening | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
at a dinner. But there will be no dancing, | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
an official confirmed. The Nobel prize-winning poet | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
and playwright Derek Walcott has Derek Walcott gained international | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
acclaim in the 1960s, with poems that explored the history | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
and culture of the Caribbean. He is perhaps best known for his | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
epic poem Omeros, which draws 50 years ago this weekend a super | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
tanker ran aground off the coast of Cornwall, | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
causing one of the world's The Torrey Canyon hit rocks | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly and began spilling over | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
100,000 tonnes of oil. Miles of coastline in Cornwall | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
and Devon were polluted and the huge oil-slick spread south | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
to the Channel Islands before reaching the coastline | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
of Brittany in France. Environmentalists claim oil | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
from the ship is still polluting It was out there, half a century | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
ago, that the sea turned black. ARCHIVE: A tragedy such as Britain | :24:40. | :24:53. | |
has never experienced before. The Torrey Canyon had run | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
aground, spilling its cargo That's me in the background, | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
you can see me looking on, Captain Eric Kemp | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
helped with the rescue. He remembers how desperate | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
he felt as the giant slick Absolute dread and disaster, | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
because you knew that we weren't going to be able to cope with that | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
amount of oil. You could smell it 30 miles | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
away and you could see the line in the water, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
slowly spreading, as it was As the days passed, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
there was a growing sense of chaos. The ship was bombed | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
to try to sink it. ARCHIVE: Almost resembling | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
an atomic mushroom. Thousands of birds were killed | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
from Cornwall to the Channel Islands and, 50 years on, some claim the oil | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
is still causing harm. Each winter, during rough times | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
of weather like we've got currently, we will see oil churned up | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
from the sea bed that could well be from the Torrey Canyon, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
affecting local wildlife. In Cornwall, chemicals used | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
to get rid of the oil only This is one of the rocks | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
I've been monitoring. Biologist Richard Pearce saw this | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
beach stripped of life and he's kept Although it's now thriving, he says | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
we must learn from what happened. I think the mistakes | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
are fairly obvious. I hope those who have the power | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
to do something about it Well, the shipping industry says | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
vessels and cargo are much safer now and the authorities say | :26:37. | :26:49. | |
we are far better prepared. 50 years on, much of that is | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
the legacy of the Torrey Canyon. How is it looking for the weekend? A | :26:53. | :27:13. | |
mixed bag. This is the view from one of the weather watchers. Grey skies, | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
you can see the rain on the window. More rain on the forecast for the | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
weekend, but most on the western side of the UK. Drier on the east, | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
but for all of us it will be a windy weekend. Here is the radar, heavy | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
rain developing in the South of Scotland, north-west England, parts | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
of Wales. Plenty more to come through the rest of this evening. It | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
is windy, as well. Even some snow to be had across the high ground of | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Scotland. Notice East Anglia and the south-east of England staying | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
largely dry. With the cloud and wind, not cold overnight, not as | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
cold as last night. Eight or 9 degrees is typical. In northern | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
Scotland, a touch of frost in places, particularly the Northern | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Isles. A windy start to the weekend, fairly cloudy. Some breaks to the | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
east of the Pennines and East of Scotland. Further west, cloud and | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
outbreaks of rain. Some of it might get across the eastern side. The | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
north-east of Scotland hanging on to the best of the weather. Relatively | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
mild further south, 16 in the south-eastern corner. A big day for | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
the Six Nations. At all three venues we will see a fair bit of cloud. | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
Quite breezy as well. The rain should hold off from most places for | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
much of the time. The second part of the weekend, similar to the first. | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
Breezy, cloudy. Some breaks east of higher ground. Question marks about | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
the northernmost extent of rain, it could be further south. East Anglia | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
and the south-east are staying largely dry. The early part of next | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
week, it looks like a change of wind direction to north-westerly will | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
bring some cooler, showery weather across our shores. Have a great | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
weekend. That's it from me. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:59. | :28:59. |