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The Supreme Court rules you CAN be fined or prosecuted | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
for taking your child out of school in England without permission. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
A father has lost his bid for the right to take his child | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
The issue is no longer, if ever it was, about term time holidays. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
It is about the state taking the rights of | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
parents away when it comes to making decisions about their children. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
But is the situation any clearer for parents now with the rules | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
As samples are collected for testing, | :00:30. | :00:43. | |
Syria denies it carried out a chemical attack | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Labour's recipe for free school meals for every primary | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
And the British gaming industry, worth more than film | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
and music combined prepares to celebrate its best | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Coming up in sport on BBC News, will the Masters go | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
after a fall at home Dustin Johnson has to overcome a back injury | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:12. | :01:26. | |
Any parent who takes their child out of school in England during term | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
time could be fined, or even face prosecution. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
That's the ruling of the Supreme Court after a father lost his case | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
that he could take his daughter out of school as long as | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Jon Platt - who's from the Isle of Wight - | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
had refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
The High Court had originally ruled in his favour but the Supreme Court | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
has now overturned that judgment - saying parents need to act | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Here's our Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys. | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
the dad who took on the system and today lost. Jon Platt refuse to pay | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
a fine for a term time holidays. Highest court in the land has ruled | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
against him. I say this, the legal battle is not over. There is no | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
right of appeal on this place. Be a generation or more before this court | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
revisits this decision, if ever it does. Later, Jon Platt told me he | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
has no regrets for his daughter has attendance of more than 90%. You are | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
not plead guilty when it goes back to the magistrates, and could face a | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
fine of up to ?1000. Not every day missed at school as a negative | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
impact. If it did we would not have schools taking children to a museum | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
or library. What do you say where people argue it is areas where | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
people miss a lot of school and results are poor? If that is the | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
case, prosecute them. Where does this leave England's schools? It | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
means they get to decide rules on attendance, something head teachers | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
have welcomed. We have always stood our line at school. We said to | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
parents, when you chose to send a child to this school, you signed an | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
agreement. It is not just us saying it will stop it is with the full | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
force of the law behind us. It is the start of the Easter break and | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
many are annoyed at the higher holiday prices. Sympathy for the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
view of the judge that if too many children miss school, it is | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
disruptive. If everyone took their children out of school because of | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
cheaper holidays, then school would not be the same. That increase out | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
of term time is ridiculous. I think they should be taken out of school | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
because they always did in our day and it never did as any harm. A week | :04:07. | :04:16. | |
or two they did not miss much. In this seaside town, this woman says | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
it is hard for parents who have seasonal work. We are busiest in the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
half term and summer holidays. It is hard to get time off work and easier | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
when we are not in season. In England, parents now face a choice. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Pay the premium prices or face the fines. It could not be more | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
different from Wales, where parents can ask for ten days extra away from | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
school. The holidays are beginning that schools will expect children | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
back the first day of term. Branwen, this ruling has clarified | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
the situation for parents, except that the rules | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
about when you can and cannot take your child out of school vary | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
from council to council. So, there is a little bit of a | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
postcode lottery for parents at the moment in the sense that it depends | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
how winning your local council is to issue a fine if the head teacher has | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
refused permission for you to take your child on a term time holiday. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
We saw suffered issuing 6000 fines in one year but Richmond-upon-Thames | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
in leafy south London issued none at all. Tonight, councils have called | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
for a bit of clarity from the Government about how they choose for | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
this rule to be interpreted. A note of caution from head teachers. We | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
are delighted that courts have recognised the disruption caused by | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
term time holidays but they also say issuing fines to parents can be | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
little bit of a blunt and divisive instrument. Thank you. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Syria's Foreign Minister has denied the Government carried out | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
a chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Idlib. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
More than 70 people, including many children, | :05:54. | :05:54. | |
are reported to have died in the air strike on Tuesday. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Turkey says the results of postmortem examinations carried | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
out on the victims confirm chemical weapons were used and has blamed | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
The international investigation is under way. Some victims of Tuesday's | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
poisoning are now being treated in Tech Jos Buttler. Samples taken from | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
them, as well as postmortem examinations of three people who | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
died in Turkey have left the Government there long-time opponents | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
of President Assad in no doubt. Unfortunately, it is very clear to | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
us that the Assad regime has no hesitation in using chemical | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
weapons. They attacked with chemical weapons. The war in Syria is in its | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
seventh year. The first forensic medical results from this latest | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
outrage cannot, on their own, prove who is to blame. Crucially, if there | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
is a postmortems in Turkey were apparently attended by international | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
experts from both the World Health Organisation and the OPC W, the UN | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
organisation for the Prohibition of chemical weapons. In the tests, | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
three bodies were examined and they were found to be victims of a | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
chemical agent. The health authority says it was the nerve agent, sarin. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
It is partly for that reason that it is said President Assad is | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
responsible. This man has been collecting samples we hope can be | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
submitted to an international investigation. Such samples seem | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
unlikely to be regarded as reliable. The Syrian government today flatly | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
rely any responsibility. TRANSLATION: Our army has never used | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
chemical weapons and will not use any chemical weapons, not only for | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
our civilians, our people, but also the terrorists. Not for the first | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
time America and its allies do not believe a word of this. The crucial | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
thing is what the United States will do in response. There is no doubt in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
our mind that the Syrian regime is responsible for this horrific | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
attack. We think it is time that the Russians think carefully about their | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
continued support of the Assad regime. The secretary of state would | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
be in Moscow pressing the case. Russia has already rounded on its | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
critics, made sure it is sticking with President Assad and blamed | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
opposition forces for the chemical attack. Deadlock, and the war, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
continue. As James said, Donald Trump's | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
response to the suspected Syrian Earlier his administration said that | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
military action against Syria Meanwhile Donald Trump is preparing | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
to meet later today the leader of the world's other economic | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
superpower - President The agenda for the talks | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
will focus on two areas. Trade will feature heavily as the US | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
and China have perhaps the world's most important trade relationship - | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
but discussions could be The other hot topic of conversation | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
will be North Korea's nuclear programme - | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
with President Trump demanding Beijing does more to rein | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
in its reclusive neighbour. For both these reasons Mr Trump says | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
he believes the summit in Florida Let's speak to our North | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
America Editor Jon Sopel - What are both men hoping | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to get from this summit? Make no mistake. This is the most | :09:21. | :09:34. | |
consequential meeting President Trump has held since taking office. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
You could describe them both as populous and both projecting a tough | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
guy image. Both are nationalists. Both men will want to come away with | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
something at the end of their meetings together. It is also worth | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
saying that the trade issue is very difficult indeed. There may be some | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
kind of agreement with China promises to invest in the US | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
economy. Donald Trump's infrastructure plan, you know what, | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
we won't go ahead with our threat of tariffs or declaring you a currency | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
manipulator, both of which could have serious consequences for world | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
trade. If Donald Trump gets a commitment of increased inward | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
investment in the US from China it could be seen as something of a | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
victory. North Korea is very difficult. Donald Trump believes | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
that only in Beijing can people exercise wheel leveraged over the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
North Korean rulers. They will look to see China taking a tougher stance | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
on North Korea. Maybe there is a quid pro quote where the US has less | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
to say about Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea in return for | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
China taking it tougher stance over North Korea. This place is meant to | :10:57. | :11:09. | |
be somewhere to go for relaxation but there will not be much we lack | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
the over the next 24 hours. Donald Tusk, the President | :11:15. | :11:15. | |
of the European Council, has visited Downing Street | :11:16. | :11:15. | |
for Brexit talks with Theresa May. Officials say they agreed to seek | :11:16. | :11:15. | |
to lower tensions over Britain's exit from the EU, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
especially with issues Their meeting was described | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
as "good and friendly" The head of BP has had his salary | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
slashed by 40 % as part of changes at the oil company | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
to reduce executive pay. Bob Dudley's pay packet has been cut | :11:28. | :11:46. | |
to ?9.3 million a year, He was given a big pay rise | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
in 2015, despite job cuts Explosives have been found in a raid | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
on a flat in St Petersburg, similar to those used in the terror | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
attack in the city's Three people were also arrested | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
and there are now fears of a plot to bomb more locations | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
in the Russian city. 14 people died in Monday's attack | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
including the main suspect. Labour says if it wins the next | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
election it'll provide free school meals for every primary school pupil | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
in England - and it will pay for them by charging VAT | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
on private school fees. Jeremy Corbyn says it | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
will improve the health and performance of young children, | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
but critics say Labour's sums don't add up, as our correspondent | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Danny Savage reports. A political hot potato | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
which Labour is reheating. The Labour Leader was at a holiday | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
club in Lancashire talking about free school meals for state | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
educated primary age children in England, | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
paid for by adding VAT What could be more important | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
than making sure our What could be more important | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
than making sure our children grow up having a balanced diet | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
and reliable lunch every It is the families of these private | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
school pupils who will be paying for the initiative, | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
a prospect which does not impress The thing is, it wouldn't | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
just be taxing the rich, these are the very people | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
who are struggling to send Paying twice through their taxes | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
and making the choice It costs ?9,000 a year to send | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
a child to this school. If Labour gets their way, attacks | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
of 20% will be added to the bill, These two ladies have put | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
four children through And say the rise will prize families | :13:26. | :13:38. | |
out of the independent system. It will make a huge difference | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
for most people who are just about affording to send | :13:48. | :13:48. | |
their children to private school. I honestly think that's the majority | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
of people who do without holidays, I think it will be a deal-breaker | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
for the majority of parents today. My own daughter is now | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
sending her child to the same I know full well that the majority | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
of her friends will not be able to continue if they have | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
to pay another 20%. There are those who support | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
a tax on school fees. I had children in private school, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
I also had them in mainstream. When we could afford it, yes, | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
I wouldn't have minded paying Labour has pointed to research it | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
claims shows providing free school meals at primary level | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
raises children's braids. The actual research clarified | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
their position today. Our research showed there | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
was a positive academic benefit to having universal free school | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
meals in deprived areas. It says nothing about whether it | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
would have the same impact Labour says the tax could raise | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
?1.5 billion a year. Danny Savage, BBC | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
News, West Yorkshire. The Supreme Court has ruled you can | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
be fined or prosecuted for taking your child out | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
of school without permission. It makes more in terms of sales than | :15:10. | :15:23. | |
music and films combined. Tonight, it celebrates the best of the best. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
We are live at the red carpet at the gaming Baftas. | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, less than three weeks | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
since the big fall at Cheltenham, Lizzie Kelly leads Tea | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
for Two to the big race on day one at Aintree, | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
landing the Betway Bowl Chase ahead of favourite Cue Card. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
A senior police officer has told the BBC that possession of drugs - | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
even cocaine and heroin - should not be punished | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
15% of the prison population have been convicted of drug offences | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
and the man in charge of tackling drug abuse for Avon and Somerset | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
police says the current law is outdated and unworkable. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
As an alternative to prosecution, the force has set up | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
the Drugs Education Programme, a three hour course for drug users. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
After a year, of the 400 people attending the session, | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
exclusive access to see how the course works. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Police out on the streets of Bristol, looking for dealers... | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
But, when they do find them, these days many drug users | :16:29. | :16:40. | |
If police in Bristol now catch people carrying even class A drugs, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
there is another option other than the criminal justice system. | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
We can go with this, a drugs educational programme. | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
The Drugs Education Programme, or DEP, a compulsory three | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
I found myself homeless and living on the streets. | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
Graphic images of heroin users designed to shock... | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
And a discussion on the effects of drugs. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
I was found with cocaine, in a nightclub. | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
Most on the course don't want to be identified. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
But they all tell us being here is better | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
I'll not use again, because of the shock that | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
I've had, and the whole process and everything. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
Would you go as far as to say it's a life changer? | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
I would have lost my job, if I'd got a criminal record. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
This new approach has come from this man, Paul Bunt. | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
He says the current legislation isn't working. | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
Is this not just legalising drugs through the back door? | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
It's dealing it appropriately for the 21st century. | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
I think there's a general feeling out there now that | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
people who use substances, and don't use violence or commit | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
crime in any other way, why should we be filling our prisons | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Back on the streets, the emphasis is on getting drug | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
users onto the course or into treatment. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
People like this man, addicted to heroin and crack cocaine. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Every time I see you, you're scrambling around | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
And this man, blatantly breaking the law. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
He'll face court for criminal damage, but he too will be offered | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
But police forces across the UK are watching with interest, | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
and it could soon be rolled out nationwide. | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
The Ukip Welsh Assembly Member Mark Reckless has left the party | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
and says he will now vote with the Conservatives. | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
It means they now overtake Plaid Cymru as the second largest | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
It's a further blow for Ukip after its only MP Douglas Carswell - | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
another defector from the Tories - announced he was leaving. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Here's our political correspondent Ben Wright. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
A Tory MP defects to Ukip and is hurled into the spotlight - | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
The move, by Mark Reckless, symbolised a party on the up. | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
Mr Reckless leaves Ukip looking like a Party on the slide. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
Well, I think now Article 50 has been triggered, | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
the Conservative government is taking us out of | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
That's something I campaigned for my adult life. | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
I would like to support them in doing that. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
His decision to quit Ukip comes days after the party's | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
only MP at Westminster, Douglas Carswell, decided | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
So, with the EU referendum over, is that Ukip done for? | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
If Mark Reckless believes that's all Ukip was good for, then, | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
We don't need people in the party that only believe | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
But the party's new leader, Paul Nuttall, failed to win a recent | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
by-election in Stoke, despite throwing everything at it, | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
and for months after the referendum rows within the party were played | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
On the Richter scale of political defections, | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
the latest by Mark Reckless is a minor tremor. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
But it raises again the question of what the party's for, | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
now Britain is leaving the European Union. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Mark Reckless will now sit with the Conservatives | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
in the Welsh Assembly and his former party colleagues there say | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Well, I think Ukip voters will be disgusted | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
at what they will undoubtedly see as a personal betrayal. | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
But I think, more generally, it's a betrayal of | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
The two Tory defectors to Ukip have abandoned the party, declaring job | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Next month's local elections will be a test of whether voters agree. | :21:05. | :21:20. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories... | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
A mother has been arrested in Nottinghamshire on suspicion | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
Samantha Baldwin and her two boys had been missing since last Monday, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
and were found by police in the town of Ollerton today. | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
The boys are now in the care of authorities. | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Political parties in Northern Ireland have been given ten | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
days to resolve power sharing talks in an ultimatum from | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Secretary of State James Brokenshire issued the deadline in a bid | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
to avoid imposing direct rule from London. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
An inquest has opened into the death of a British Airways pilot. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
The family of 43-year-old Richard Westgate say he had | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
complained for years of severe headaches and vision problems | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
and they believe he may have been poisoned by toxic fumes | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Duncan Kennedy is at the coroner's court in Salisbury. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Well, Fiona, Richard Westgate was a pilot of many years standing. A | :22:06. | :22:19. | |
British Airways pilot who loved flying. As you said, his family | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
believe he was a victim of cabin fume poisoning. Although all of | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
those airline industries like British Airways, like Boeing, say | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
cabin air is absolutely safe, his family said that they believe this | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
is an issue that could affect millions and millions of passengers. | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
This is a British Airways plane, one of the type of aircraft Richard | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Westgate flew for many years and one of the safest in the skies. When the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
43-year-old pilot died in 2012, it came after he complained of | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
long-term health problems that he said were due to breathing cabin | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
air. His mother and brother, who came to the inquest today, also | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
believe he was the victim of toxic cabin air, having read that over | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
many years while flying, which they say affected his nervous system. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
This 2015 fight from Florida to New York shows a visible example of what | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
the industry calls a cabin fume event. Richard Westgate was not | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
involved with this flight. The pictures appear to show what can | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
happen when oil vapour from the engine is sucked into the aircraft | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
itself. UMC it is black... Tristan says he also suffered their toxicity | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
as a pilot and showed me the pipe that links the engine to the cabin. | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
He says nearly all commercial aircraft could be affected by this | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
problem and the industry must accept what is happening. You assume | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
everything is safe. You board a train, you assume it is safe. The | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
airline industry is an incredibly safe industry. It is. But the | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
realities on this particular issue, this is the Achilles heel of. This | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
doesn't just affect British Airways. Both British Airways and the Civil | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Aviation Authority deny there is a problem with cabin air. British | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Airways said it would not operate an aircraft if there was contamination. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
It says there has been substantial research into cabin air and none of | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
it shows there is a risk to long-term health. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
The coroner said today he would not be looking at cabin fumes, he would | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
be focusing solely on the inquest. Although the industry says cabin air | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
is absolutely safe, campaigners say it is time for the aviation industry | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
to take this matter seriously. Tonight's the night to celebrate | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
the best of gaming - with the British Academy Gaming | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Awards. 50 games are being recognised | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
within an industry which makes more sales worth over ?4 | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
billion here in the UK. More than 12,000 people, | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
directly employed by more And, according to the industry, | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
18 million of us are games players. Let's go live now to the awards | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
ceremony and the BBC Newsbeat's Steffan Powell, | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
who's there. We are here in sunny east London, on | :25:04. | :25:19. | |
the red carpet at the gaming Baftas. It is the most prestigious awards | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
ceremony in the UK game industry. We have had some of the top developers, | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
games makers and performers here. They are desperately waiting to find | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
out if they will walk away with a golden trophy. | :25:30. | :25:30. | |
Going on adventures with a giant feathered cat... | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
Gaming can take players on an untold number of adventures and, tonight, | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
the best of the bunch are being recognised | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
And they're not all what you'd expect. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
We don't have, like, a big studio anywhere. | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
We're literally working out my spare room at the minute. | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
It wasn't shared, I had my laptop on my lap throughout | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
the entire development, sitting on Phil's sofa. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
So we've moved from the front room, my sitting room, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
We've literally moved up in the world. | :26:16. | :26:25. | |
They quit their jobs and uses their savings to make the game. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
At one stage, they were down to their last ?13. | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
Now, they've been nominated for four Baftas. | :26:32. | :26:32. | |
For those that prove worthy, paradise awaits. | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
In order to win, though, they'll have to get the better | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
of some of the bestselling and most successful games of last year. | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
The game we just saw their Uncharted 4, that is up for eight awards. In | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
the past, they have thrown up some surprises. Who knows, another | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
lesser-known independent game might be victorious again tonight. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
It has been looking summary, let's have a look at the weather. | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
It will be warmer as we head into the weekend for many of us. A lovely | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
spring day in Peterborough, taken by one of the wedge of the leg Weather | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
watchers. That hasn't been the case everywhere. In Belfast, a glimpse of | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
sunshine, but it has clouded over more and more. As we end the day, | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
south Wales, eastern England and eastern Scotland. Western Scotland, | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
perhaps North Wales, Northern Ireland, hanging onto a lot of cloud | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
this evening and overnight. A few bits of cloud going southwards. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
Where we have the clearest skies, it will turn quite cold, particularly | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
in the countryside, perhaps down to two three degrees. It will warm up | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
quickly in the sunshine. Probably the best of the sunshine tomorrow, | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
across eastern Scotland, perhaps North East England for a while, | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
central and southern parts of Wales and the south-west of England, a | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
little bit more cloud perhaps developing through the Midlands, | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
eastern England, and more clout for Northern Ireland and western | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
Scotland. In the sunshine, another pleasantly warm day, with | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
temperatures getting up to the mid-teens quite easily. It starts to | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
warm up over the weekend. We even push some sunshine more widely | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
across the UK, moving into Scotland and Northern Ireland. Those | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
temperatures are continuing to rise, perhaps 18 or 19 degrees. The reason | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
for the change is the high-pressure shifting position. It is currently | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
right over us. On Sunday at moves to the continent. We allow the weather | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
front to arrive in the Northwest. Otherwise, we are drawing in dry and | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
warm air from the near continent and that will lift the temperatures in | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
the sunshine. The sunshine will not be everywhere, it has to be said. | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
Across a good part of Scotland, western areas, Northern Ireland and | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
coming into western parts of England and Wales we will see some cloud. | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
Really warmer for central and England. Briefly! | :28:52. | :29:01. | |
So it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :29:02. | :29:03. |