22/06/2017 BBC News at Six

600 high rises across England are being checked after

Flammable cladding has already been found in seven buildings.

One London borough has started to remove it.

Every night I'm awake just thinking about it.

I just feel like I don't want to live here anymore.

We'll have the latest on those tower block checks.

Theresa May's first EU summit since the election.

She has an offer on the rights of EU citizens in Britain.

The Church of England Bishop who was jailed for sex abuse -

a new report says senior clergy helped to hide his activities.

Makram Ali suffered multiple injuries in the Finsbury

Park terror attack - his family pay tribute

We wish everyone to know what a lovely man he was.

He spent his whole life without any enemies,

Prince Harry remembers walking behind his mother's coffin.

And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

Crystal Palace are set to go Dutch for their new manager.

Frank de Boer saying they are his preferred option.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

Ever since the Grenfell Tower disaster last week there's been one

question uppermost on our minds - how many other tower

Around 600 high rise buildings across England have cladding

and checks are being carried out on them.

Already seven buildings in four local authorities have been found

Our Home Editor Mark Easton has been to Camden in London

where the council has decided to remove the cladding.

The consequences of the Grenfell Tower tragedy are spreading across

the country got hundreds of samples of cladding similar to that used in

North Kensington are being tested from tower blocks and other public

buildings. Cladding on seven blocks in four local authorities have come

back as combustible so far, including here on the Charcot estate

in Camden a few miles from the Grenfell Tower tragedy. This

resident is horrified to learn his block has exactly the same panels on

the outside. Just scared really. Scared full every night I am awake,

thinking about it. I have not stopped talking about it. None of

the residents have stopped talking about it since that day. These

blocks have non-come after the fibre installation behind the cladding. As

of now fire wardens will patrol 24 hours a day until every panel has

been removed. Council says it was misled about the fire resistance of

the cladding. We never felt the need to take off the panels and have them

tested to watch them burn. We thought we were dealing with

reputable companies. We feel let down and our tenants feel let down.

Our priority is to make sure our tenants feel safe. This test put on

by one company a few years ago shows the difference between external wall

insulation material. Noncombustible on the left and combustible plastic

based on the right. It is illegal in some countries to use combustible

cladding and installation in tower blocks but not here. Combustible

cladding is not bad. Government building regulations permit its use

even on tabla is like this one. It is used on hundreds of public

buildings all over the country. One question, are the regulations good

enough? As the Government confirmed that panels from 600 high-rise

buildings are being tested for combustibility, the Prime Minister

was repeatedly asked about the legality. Was cladding of the type

used in Grenfell Tower compliant with the fire safety and building

regulations applicable at the time when the refurbishment was

undertaken? Yes or no? They are testing the cladding on the building

and they expect to make the results of this public in the next, I think,

in the next 48 hours. The cladding on the tower is a standard product

that is available for sale. I do not understand why the Prime Minister

cannot tell us whether that product is compliant with building

regulations for a tower that is this high. Remember there is a criminal

investigation taking place in relation to this matter. The testing

of the cladding, the testing of the materials used is being undertaken

and a statement will be made by the police and the Fire Service within

the next 48 hours. Tower blocks in Plymouth have also been found to

have combustible cladding on the outside as the scandal widens.

Today, the chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea was forced to

resign over the council's handling of the tragedy, an event which looks

destined to become a watershed moment for fire safety regulation.

If I were watching your report and lived in a tower block, I would be

very worried tonight. After the Grenfell Tower de Kammerer urgent

questions about fire safety across Britain. Sprinkler systems, fire

extinguishers, fire alarms and so on. Many residents will be really

anxious putting the kids to bed tonight. Is it safe? I do not think

it is a time for panic. We don't know what caused the fire. We don't

know if any other tower block has the same fire system management. You

can use combustible cladding ber have other measures which make the

building as safe as it needs to be full of this is a moving scenario.

Councils have said they do not want to wait for a public enquiry. They

want to take down the cladding. We have seen the beginnings of a

nationwide review into what we think are acceptable safety standards in

our high-rise towers. Thank you. Theresa May is in Brussels -

and she's about to address the 27 other European leaders for the first

time since the general election. She won't actually be doing any

negotiating today but all eyes will be on what effect her weakened

position at home will have The president of the European

Council says he dreams of getting Britain to stay in the EU.

As our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

No victory lap, no majority, no expectation of an easy ride she

comes here with plans for EU citizens here and at home. How can

you carry on with your version of Brexit when a mandate you decide to

strengthen has weakened? I'm pleased to be at the European Council

following the constructive start of negotiations for the United Kingdom

to leave the European Union. What am going to be setting out is how the

United Kingdom proposes to protect the rights of EU citizens living in

the UK and see the rights of EU citizens in the UK protected. EU

citizens already in Britain will be allowed to stay. A lot more will be

said across the table before there is anything like a detailed deal.

The uncertainty after the election has allowed some EU enthusiasts to

ponder if Brexit will really happen. The European Union was built on

dreams that seemed impossible to achieve. So, who knows? You may say

I am a dreamer but I am not the only one. In this political circus, with

its store works and rising stars, all must parade, if not wink for the

waking cameras. There is not expectation that Britain will change

its mind but some may sniff more of a chance of getting the UK to

listen. I hate Brexit from every angle. My dream would be we will

come to an end state, or intermediate and state, for the

coming years in which the United Kingdom with stay connected to the

internal market. For me, the priority is shaping the future of

the 27 countries. That comes before Brexit. Leaving the European Union,

they took nine months to write a letter to trigger Article 50. The

situation now was so easy and without consequences. We are

waiting. The Prime Minister asked for your votes to give more power

among these leaders and back home. That has backfired so badly that

they cannot be sure that she will be the one to see the deal through.

Commiserations perhaps among those few who put themselves to the public

test. Theresa May's pain in this moment could be a taste of what is

ahead. Despite turmoil at home, the Government is trying to crack on

with this process. The Brexit secretary has been to Italy, Spain,

Poland and Latvia as a warm up act. Theresa May will present her

proposals as to what happens to the millions of EU citizens living in

Britain and the Brits abroad in other European countries. Theresa

May has said she wants to make a generous offer. I understand no

European Union citizen living in Britain will be asked to leave.

There will be clashes over the details. When will the new rules

apply? What will be the cut-off date? Third of all, who will be in

charge? In this building, the Brussels establishment is adamant

the European courts will be in charge of the new system. For the

British government, it is a red line that only British courts can do the

business. It is only one of the first aspects in all the complicated

negotiations that lie ahead. The population of the UK has

seen its sharpest annual The Office for National Statistics

says from June 2015 to June 2016 the population rose

by 538,000 people. That takes the total estimated

population of the UK It's thought the change has been

driven by immigration but also more Senior figures in the Church

of England helped to hide historical That's the conclusion

of an independent review. Peter Ball, who's now

85, was jailed in 2015 Today's review criticises

the former Archbishop And the current Archbishop,

Justin Welby, has asked Lord Carey to step down from his position

as an honorary assistant bishop. Here's our Religious Affairs

Correspondent, Martin Bashir. Charismatic and ambitious,

Peter Ball, like his twin brother Michael had been a bishop

in the Church of England. Their joint achievement

being heralded on But in 1993, Peter Ball was forced

to stand down as Bishop of Gloucester after accepting a caution

for gross indecency. Despite his admission,

he continued officiating in churches and several

public schools. A second police

investigation led to him being jailed at the Old Bailey in

2015 for abusing 18 adolescents and Today's review, entitled an abuse

of faith, says the Church colluded with Peter Ball instead of

being concerned for the welfare of They didn't follow any proper

process in considering the They approached it

again confused by the sense of Peter Ball being

fundamentally innocent. One of the witnesses

says this review should provoke immediate change

to Church practice. I think the Church has

demonstrated it can no longer be I think safeguarding in the Church

needs to be in dependent of the Church and I think

safeguarding should be nationalised and overseen

by an external body. The most striking revelation

in today's report concerns several letters that were sent

here to Lambeth Palace by victims of Peter Ball

in the early-1990s. Then Archbishop of Canterbury George

Carey chose not to pass those Today, Lord Carey

apologised, saying he Lord Carey has been

asked by the current Archbishop, Justin Welby, to step

down from his position as honorary The Church of England says

that safeguarding will Martin Beshir, BBC News,

at Church House in London. Single parents with a child under

two have won a court challenge against the government's benefits

cap. A High Court judge said the cap

was not intended to cover such households and the failure to exempt

them was discriminatory. The Government has

said it will appeal. The family of the man who died

in a terror attack outside a mosque in north London say he was a gentle

and peace-loving grandfather. Makram Ali, who was 51

and from Haringey, was struck by a van in Finsbury Park

on Monday night. A post-mortem examination

has found that he died Our Home Affairs Correspondent

Daniel Sandford reports. It now seems clear that Makram Ali

was killed in the attack. His death from multiple

injuries can only have been 51 years old, he moved

to Britain from Bangladesh at He had six children

and two grandchildren. We wish everyone to

know what a lovely man He spent his whole life

without any enemies, We as a family have

always believed that the actions of one person cannot be

a reflection of a whole people. And I have no doubt

that our father would not wish for there to be any

retaliation or recriminations, and would urge people to remain calm

and to pray for peace in Makram Ali suffered from a weak leg

and had collapsed that night He was being helped

in this cul-de-sac a few yards from his home,

by other worshippers, when the white van sped

round the corner The van with its distinctive yellow

logo was hired in Pontyclun Police are asking for information

on its movements over the weekend, and for people

who spoke to the driver. We need to hear from those people -

what conversation did they have, what do they know

about this person? And that 48-hour period

is incredibly important. But of course if you

knew him in the days and weeks leading up

to this attack, please come forward - we want to hear

from you too. 47-year-old Darren Osborne

from Cardiff is still being held on suspicion of murder,

attempted murder and terrorist offences, but he has

not yet been charged. 600 high rises across England

are being checked after Flammable cladding has been

found on seven buildings. Why these boys turned up

to school wearing skirts. Coming up in Sports Day on BBC News,

on Ladies Day the favourite is pipped on the line

in the Ascot Gold Cup as "Big Orange" holds off a late

challenge by "Order Of St George". Prince Harry has suggested that no

one in the royal family wants In an interview with an American

magazine, he said the royals were acting for "the greater good

of the people". The Prince also criticised

the decision to make him walk behind his mother's coffin

at her funeral, when he was just 12. Here's our Royal

correspondent Peter Hunt. It's a moment seared

on the nation's psyche, the funeral of a princess killed

in her prime. Her 12-year-old son

on unforgiving display. 20 years on, Prince Harry is

critical of those who put him there, and he's voiced his considerable

discomfort in an American magazine. The enduring Diana

fascination is global. My understanding was

that they chose to do it, But, of course, Harry

was just 12 years old. The whole process of his mother's

death will have been A monarch and three heirs,

an hereditary system secure. Now Harry is suggesting that

while the Windsors are selflessly focusing on the greater good,

none of them is desperate Is there any one of the Royal family

who wants to be king or queen? This interview will irritate

Republicans who seek an elected head of state and upset some monarchists

who believe that in return for a privileged palace life,

like the one Harry enjoys here, Royals should step up to the mark

without a fuss. I don't think it's such a good idea

to be quite so open. He has done a lot for mental health

in bringing out his own true feelings, but I think we've got

to a point now where enough enough. Harry is desperately seeking

the increasingly unattainable - Inspired by his mother's example,

the personable prince insists he's Older royals, like Prince Philip

who left hospital this morning after treatment for an infection,

know all about balancing They are a grandson

and a grandfather who know about service, duty and occasional

eyebrow-raising public utterances. It was a mosque sacred to Iraqis,

one that had withstood Today the al-Nuri mosque

in the Iraqi city of Mosul lies in ruins,

destroyed by so-called The Iraqi Government,

which is fighting IS, says the mosque's destruction

is a declaration of defeat. Orla Guerin reports

on the battle to re-take Mosul. An amatuer recording

captures a key moment in the collapse of the caliphate -

the destruction of the al-Nuri mosque and its landmark

leaning minaret. Now rubble remains in place of one

of Iraq's great treasures, Iraq's Prime Minister says

in destroying the mosque, so-called IS has officially

admitted defeat here. The BBC's Arabic service managed

to film the al-Nuri mosque just These are probably the last images

of the minaret still intact, It was inside, at the pulpit,

that the IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,

proclaimed himself leader Iraqi forces are hunting them down,

street by street, house by house. But the troops are facing fierce

resistance - the militants As they make their last stand,

civilians are fleeing the city - But for many, like this

man, it is a struggle "May God oppose the

militants," he said. The destruction of the mosque is not

the end of the fight But Iraqi military sources say

they hope they can now advance more swiftly,

closing in on the last They say IS is down to just a few

hundred men, and they are hemmed in Orla Guerin, BBC

News, western Mosul. Now, we know that the future

of workers moving across the EU will be a key aspect

of Brexit talks. At the moment, around 80,000

seasonal workers pick and process fruit and veg in the UK every year,

but a BBC survey of soft fruit and salad growers has found that

there's already a problem One in five farmers say they already

have fewer workers than they need, with seven out of ten saying they'd

consider cutting production if there are future restrictions

on seasonal workers. Our business correspondent,

Emma Simpson, reports Perfectly ripe and

ready to be picked. Right now there are small

armies of workers dotted All this produce is home-grown

but not home-picked. That's because just about everyone

here is from Eastern Europe. It's tough seasonal work,

especially in this heat, and with the weak pound and Brexit

looming, these jobs just aren't Next time I'm going to Germany

or the Netherlands, or Bulgaria. But what's coming down

the track after Brexit? The boss of this farm told me he's

already got 20% fewer This industry won't survive,

he says, if access to EU Without a seasonal workforce

to pick our crops, we are not going to get them picked

and the logical extension of that is that we will need

to import produce from Europe Why can't you get British

workers to pick the fruit? We do try very hard

but our experience has been The fact that it's a seasonal

operation makes it difficult for people, and as well unemployment

is very low in our They have been picking strawberries

for decades in this corner of Essex. The nationalities have

changed through the years. But if we want to keep buying

British, then growers say they need The Government says it also wants

this industry to thrive, but that there is insufficient

evidence for such Schoolboys in Devon have been forced

to resort to extreme measures When male pupils were told

they couldn't wear shorts and had to wear trousers,

they decided to wear skirts instead. Around 30 boys wore

skirts at Isca Academy today - borrowed from their sisters

and their friends. What does it feel

like to wear skirts? CHEERING

It's a protest... ..because they are not

allowed to wear shorts, They are fed up with

long trousers and, in a co-ed school, skirts

are officially part of the uniform. Girls are allowed to wear

skirts all year round. And then they get cold legs

and we have to sit there sweating. If they can't wear shorts then

they have to wear skirts. I don't think it's right,

then being told off for having hairy The headteacher wasn't

available today. In a statement, she said she might

allow shorts in future, And she says the boys have not been

disciplined for wearing skirts. There is an irony here

because on the very day they have decided to step up their

protest the temperature has dropped by 12 degrees and it is

actually quite breezy. How long do you think

you will continue with this protest? What about in the winter,

when it gets really cold? I think we can bear

that, to be honest. Until a final decision

is made, the school says boys can loosen their

ties in lessons. Time for a look at the weather -

here's Sarah Keith-Lucas. It is much cooler than it was

yesterday, the heatwave over for now but we have still seen some

sunshine. This was the view in Hailsham. There have been blue skies

around but for many scenes like this one, quite a lot of cloud captured

in County Down. Overnight many of us dry for the moment, then we will see

rain moving in, turning quite breezy, but you will be relieved to

hear probably that temperatures are much more comfortable for sleeping

overnight. Temperatures around 14 degrees first thing Friday morning.

Friday starts off on a drying out across much of England and Wales.

The weather front will be shifting its way further south through the

day so really through the central swathe of the country, that's where

it will be quite cloudy with patchy outbreaks of rain. To the south of

that largely dry with some sunny spells, in southern England

temperature is still around 20 degrees. In Scotland and Northern

Ireland its return to sunshine and scattered showers. Heading into the

weekend, on Saturday we will see the wet weather in the south-east at

first but they should clear away to leave sunny skies. A few showers

moving through, and temperatures 15 in the north, but 23 degrees further

south. Should feel pleasant enough. Breezy again on Sunday but the wind

is not quite as strong and we will have fewer showers around.

Temperatures much cooler than in recent days, around about 15-22d.

For now the heat is behind us but we still have a lot of dry weather over

the next few days.