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Tonight at Six - Scotland's First minister postpones her plans | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
For a second independence referendum. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Nicola Sturgeon's SNP lost 21 seats in the general election - | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
The Scottish Government will reset the plan I set | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
We will not seek to introduce the legislation | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
for an independence referendum immediately. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Opponents argue that the SNP's obsession with independence has | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
She appears to be in denial about her mistakes | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
And, as a result, is leaking credibility and confidence | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
We'll be asking where this leaves the drive | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
Now it's nearly 100 tower blocks that fail fire tests - | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
ministers ask experts to give immediate advice. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Little Charlie Gard is terminally ill - | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
his parents lose their final legal battle to give him experimental | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Maxing out our credit cards - a warning from the Bank of England | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
about forgetting the lessons of the past. | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
Google faces a record fine from the EU competition watchdog, | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
over ?2 billion, for being unfair to other companies. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, England's women post a | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
record-breaking total of 377 in their World Cup | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:33. | :02:01. | |
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has had to backtrack | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
on her plans to push for a second independence referendum | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Today's decision follows the general election in which her SNP | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
said Ms Sturgeon was - as she put it - "leaking | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
Here's our Scotland editor Sarah Smith. | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
Nicola Sturgeon may not look like a woman thwarted. But she cannot now | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
march ahead with her plans for an independence referendum, admitting | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
today that voters have rejected that idea and she has had to think again. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Having listened and reflected, the Scottish Government will reset the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
plan that I set out on March the 13th. We will not seek to introduce | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
the legislation for an independence referendum immediately. Instead, we | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
will, in good faith, redouble our efforts and put our shoulder to the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
wheel in seeking to influence the Brexit talks in a way that protect | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Scotland's interests. She wants to keep open the option of a referendum | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
after the Brexit deal is cleared. The Tories want her to abandon her | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
plans completely. I'm afraid to say that that statement will fail to | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
give any assurance to those people that this First Minister is | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
listening to them. Instead, she appears to be in denial about her | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
mistakes about this over the past year and, as a result, is leaking | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
credibility and confidence in her leadership by the hour. Nicola | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Sturgeon's message today is that she is listening to voters and she | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
understands they don't want another independence referendum any time | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
soon. But she has not taken it completely off the table and she | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
says that she will continue to argue the case for why Scotland should be | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
an independent country. Yes! In 2014, 40 5% of Scots voted yes to | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
independence. Support remains much the same today. The SNP know that | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
they'll have to make a fresh case if they are ever to win an independence | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
referendum. And they will have to pick their timing of another vote | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
carefully. Well, it is common sense, I think another referendum would be | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
a disaster for Scotland. I am an SNP supporter, but I think it would make | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
no sense, given the current political climate, it makes no sense | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
for the SNP to move forward with a vote on it just now. I think we | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
should have a vote on it, put it to the public and let them have a vote | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
on it. The Scottish Greens back to the SNP call for an early referendum | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
and do not want to see the timetable slip. If we wait until autumn next | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
year or even later, we will be well out of the European Union before the | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
people of Scotland have the chance to say whether they consent to that. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Scotland has not consented to leave the European Union or to have our | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
rights and protections as European citizens torn up without our | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
consent. Hollywood today heard Nicola Sturgeon says she was | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
responding to voters that do not want an independence vote, but also | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
that she has not given up the fight. Hear opponents say she is not | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
listening. Her party hope there is no more than a rain check, just a | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
temporary delay. Has Nicola Sturgeon performed a | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
U-turn? She has abandoned a clear timetable she set out for Scotland | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
to have a vote on independence before the UK leaves the EU in March | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
2019. But she has not completely abandoned the idea of a referendum. | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
That is why she is facing people who say she is in denial. But the SNP | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
did not want to take the referendum of the table. They think that once | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the terms of leaving the European Union are clear, they believe that | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
support for a referendum will grow. Another day and another rise | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
in the number of tower blocks around the country that have failed | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
fire tests - it's now 95 buildings in more than 30 | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
councils in England. The Government has appointed a panel | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
of experts to give advice on the immediate changes that can be | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
made to avoid another Here's our home | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
editor, Mark Easton. The Grenfell Tower fire is turning | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
from sickening tragedy international scandal. The blaze appears to be | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
exposing hidden risks and confusion over fire safety that stretches | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
across the country. Every sample of cladding from 95 tower blocks, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
across 32 English local authorities, has now failed government tests, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
although the Communities Department, Who Ordered The Testing, Has Named | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Only 20 Councils. The Prime Minister Says There Needs To Be A Major | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
National Investigation. What we have seen in tower blocks across the | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
country is that we have so far seen 100% of the materials being | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
combustible. Something is clearly gone wrong over a number of years | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
and we need to find out what, why and how to make sure it doesn't | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
happen again. But there are questions about the testing process. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Cladding from this block in Norwich failed the Government test last | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
week. I am struggling to understand how it failed... But the housing | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
association which owns it says the cladding past the fire test when it | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
was installed. The certificate describes the panels as low risk, | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
class zero. But the government now says they are class three, so | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
dangerous they must be removed immediately. How come the test on | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
Friday moved from class 02 plus three? We can only presume what they | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
did in the test, because we haven't been told yet. All we have had is a | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
telephone call on Friday evening saying the product have failed the | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
test, and what were we going to do about it? The BBC has learned that | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
only weeks before the tragedy, the Fire Service warned every London | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
council that tower block cladding might be much more dangerous than | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
realised if it had a flammable core. A new panel of fire and building | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
safety expert is now advising the Government on immediate steps to | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
take. Peter Bonfield is one of those experts, who also heads the Building | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Research Establishment conducting the cladding tests for ministers. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
The Government want to be able to screen and inform local authorities, | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
housing associations and private landlords around the country, to | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
inform them about whether or not they have this system on the | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
outside. It doesn't mean the building is unsafe. But it is a | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
helpful information that then stimulates inspections and other | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
things that will help determine the risk or otherwise to the building. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Many questions remain, however. As the combustibility test been | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
changed? Traditional testing for product certification checks the | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
cladding panel has a whole. At the government test focuses specifically | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
on the core material inside it. Why test just aluminium cladding? There | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
are other kinds of cladding. What about insulation and firebreaks in | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
the cavity behind it? It seems odd to look at just one part of the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
tower block's fire safety. And what about the building as a whole? | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Official regulations may allow some combustible elements if the tower | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
block's whole design system is deemed fire resistant enough. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Residents in some private tower blocks, like these in Newcastle, | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
want tests on their homes. The Mayor of London fears some hospital | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
buildings by not be safe enough. From this charred skeleton, a toxic | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
cloud of uncertainty and anxiety has drifted across the country. Mark | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
Easton, BBC News. The governor of the Bank of England | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
has issued a warning about the amount of money banks | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
are lending to us. It comes as consumer | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
borrowing reaches its In fact, Mark Carney | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
is concerned enough to ask banks to beef-up their finances to protect | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
themselves against He told banks that they were in | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
danger of "forgetting Here's our economics | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
editor Kamal Ahmed. Dylan Brown works in IT - | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
not badly paid, but often resorts Consumers working hard to make ends | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
meet who are borrowing to fill the gaps and pay | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
for those little extras. Just because obviously older, | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
you know, renting a property, I have a car, I have a career | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
and everything else, Turning to credit more | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
so than a few years ago, yes, I wouldn't say that | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
that would be the case. It's not a crisis yet, but today | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
a warning from the Bank of England. Consumer credit growth has far | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
outpaced that of household income over the past year, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
with notable increases across credit cards, | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
personal loans and to finance. So how bad is Britain's | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
debt problem? The amount consumers have borrowed | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
in loans on things like credit cards has risen | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
to ?198 billion. That is up 10% compared | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
with the same time last year. Banks will now have | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
to raise another ?11.4 billion as a safety net, in case | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
people they have lent to don't pay I think Mark Carney | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
wants to be proactive. He did talk of increasing additional | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
capital a year ago, but he held off And I think he wants to make sure | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
the banks also are reminded they have to be more cautious | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
in their consumer lending, given the speed | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
at which their loan books have grown To buy new cars with | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
personal finance deals, loans for holidays and home | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
improvements, and with spending on our credit cards in | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the shops and online. I think this is an amber warning, | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
for consumers and for banks. Not the flashing red lights | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
of the financial crisis - when interest rates were higher and | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
banks, frankly, couldn't withstand any type of financial shock - | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
but a warning nevertheless. Could millions of people | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
with billions of pounds' worth of loans keep | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
making those repayments? income squeeze or those tricky | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Brexit negotiations which could The governor struck a fairly | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
relaxed note for the moment, but banks and consumers | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
beware - the economy can turn. Judges at the European Court | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
of Human Rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally-ill | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
baby Charlie Gard to Chris Gard and Connie Yates | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
lost their final legal bid to take their son | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
to the US for treatment. The court concluded that undergoing | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
experimental treatment with no prospects of success | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
would continue to cause Our medical editor Fergus | :12:51. | :12:51. | |
Walsh is with me now. A really sad case. What happens now? | :12:52. | :13:08. | |
This is the end of the road, legally. It means at some point, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
possibly in the next couple of days, the medical team at Great Ormond | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
Street Hospital will switch off the mechanical ventilator which keeps | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Charlie alive. They will give him palliative care and he will be | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
allowed to die. That will not happen until his parents have had some time | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
to be with him. It is what all of the doctors, all of the medical team | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
at great Ormond Street have wanted for months, and what every judge in | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
the UK says should happen, and what all of the independent experts have | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
said, including a Guardian appointed to represent Charlie. A lot of | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
people will be saying to give them one more chance? I realise that, | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
what an 80,000 people raised ?1.3 million in crowdfunding for this | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
experimental treatment in the United States. Charlie is desperately ill, | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
terminally ill. He cannot move, he cannot swallow. He has severe brain | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
damage. The European Court backed UK judges, who they said were | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
meticulous and thorough, that exposing him to treatment which | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
could not help him was futile and would simply expose him to continued | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
suffering and distress, and so he should be allowed to die with | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
dignity. Thank you very much. Politicians in Northern Ireland | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
are locked in intense talks about forming a new | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
coalition government The deal is dependent | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
on the two biggest parties - the Democratic Unionists | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
and Sinn Fein - resolving Stormont parties have been warned if | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
they cannot reach agreement, direct rule from Westminster could follow. | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
The US technology giant Google has been fined more than ?2 billion | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
by the European Commission for breaking competition laws. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
It ruled that the company had abused its dominance as a search | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
engine by promoting its own shopping comparison service. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
The company says it is considering an appeal. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones reports. | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
It's the giant which dominates online search and now it's been hit | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
with a record fine. Over ?2 billion. Rivals claimed that Google had | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
trampled on their business. The fine was imposed by Europe's competition | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
commissioner, gaining a reputation for taking an powerful American | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
technology firms. Google has abused its market dominance as a search | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
engine giving illegal advantages to other Google products. Its shopping | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
comparison service. The charges that it uses search engine might to | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
favour its own shopping services. Let's put toaster into the box. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
Right at the top appears the Google box with a series of adverts. If I | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
click on these, Google earns money. What you are not seeing, way down, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
out of sight, a rival price comparison sites. They are not | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
getting the clicks and not earning the money. One of those rivals says | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
that today's fine is good news for shoppers. Without competition, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Google can charge merchants what they like for advertising. With | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
competition, you end up with lots of companies competing on prices which | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
brings the price down. Google says big rivals like Amazon provide | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
plenty of competition when it comes to choosing products and Brussels | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
doesn't understand the modern consumer. The search firm said... | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
Get your products on Google, other sites... There is concern at what | :16:59. | :17:12. | |
firms see as interference. They say consumers won't benefit. If you are | :17:13. | :17:22. | |
so big, be careful about innovating because you could bring down the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
raft of the European Commission. Why do you want to risk that? For more | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
than a decade, the European Commission has been taking on | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
technology giants and today it makes clear that its battle against what | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
it sees as an fair competition will continue. | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backtracked on her | :17:42. | :17:53. | |
plans to push for a second independence referendum as early as | :17:54. | :17:54. | |
next year. And the flight of a lifetime for one | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
of Germany's most decorated Second World War pilots. | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
plenty of tries but the British and Ireland Lions blow a 14-point lead | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
to draw the final midweek match of their tour to New Zealand. | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
The bullying of pupils for being gay, lesbian | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
or transgender in secondary schools in Britain needs to be urgently | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
They say although the number of incidents has fallen | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
A study by the University of Cambridge - which was commissioned | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
by the gay rights charity, Stonewall - says almost half of gay | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
pupils who were questioned said they were bullied. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
More than 60% had self harmed and about one in five had tried | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has the story. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
So, someone who is sexually attracted to all the sexes, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Giving them the facts - not advice - to understand themselves and others. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Getting rid of the prejudice that leads to bullying. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
If we can create a culture that has a strong empathy towards others then | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
we can challenge the attitudes that people might have and by overcoming | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
any prejudice that way, that can also prevent any homophobic comments | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
in the school. From cracking down on bullying to hearing talks from | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
trans-pupils, this Somerset school is building tolerance. Nobody is | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
superior to another person. You can't... Diversity has no limits. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Some of these pupils are anti-bullying mentors supporting | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
others and being supported. I was with a partner of the same-sex and | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
we were treated like any other couple in the school. That's a | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
lovely thing to be to experience. Far too many schools aren't doing | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
enough to help Jean Agers who are grappling with their sexuality or | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
gender. -- teenagers. That puts them at risk of self harm or even | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
attempting to take their own life. Teenagers told the charity | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
Stonewall... Some parents could he has supported | :20:24. | :20:48. | |
as you like... Abbey was outed at school and it was among her darkest | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
day. I felt it was like I didn't want to be here. There was no help. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
I felt like a freak and it felt horrible. Looking back at it now, | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
why did I feel that way? Today, promise of better support. Mental | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
health training for teachers in all secondary schools. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
In the last few hours, multi-national companies around | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
the world say they've been hit by a major cyber attack. | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
It began in Ukraine and Russia, before spreading to countries | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
including France, Denmark, and the UK. | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
Our Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera, is here, | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
what do we know about this current attack? | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Initially the first reports came out of Ukraine and it looked quite | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
serious there with airports, the bank, the Metro head. It looked | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
quite localised. Then reports of it spreading started to appear. We | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
heard about a Russian oil reducer being hit. We hurt about -- heard | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
about the port of Rotterdam being hit and an advertising firm in | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
London. Clearly it is spreading. What users are faced with when they | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
open them is a screen saying they have been locked out and they need | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
to pay a ransom to be let back into their computers. It is similar to | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
the ransomware that hit the NHS last month. It seems to be spreading | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
pretty fast but the NHS says they have no sign so far of NHS trusts | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
being affected. It's a question of waiting and watching to see how far | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
this has spread and what disruption it causes. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
The treatment of more than seventeen hundred NHS patients in England may | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
have been put at risk by what's been described as a "colossal" | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
The National Audit Office has found that over five years hundreds | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
of thousands of documents - including cancer diagnoses | :23:01. | :23:01. | |
and other test results - were left to pile up in a warehouse | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
instead of being sent to hospitals or GPs. | :23:06. | :23:06. | |
Here's our health editor Hugh Pym with the story. | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
They were important letters from hospitals to GPs with test | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
But they piled up in a warehouse and hundreds, possibly thousands | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
For something like this to happen on such a scale, | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
and to be so prolonged, is completely unacceptable. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
In January 2014, the company handling the letters became aware | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
of a risk to patients, but didn't reveal it. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
In August 2015, a member of staff raised concerns some records | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
In March 2016, the company finally informed NHS England | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
and the Department of Health - but neither Parliament or the public | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
We are shocked on behalf of patients, that such | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
And, to add to that, the lack of transparency | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Doctors are going through them to check whether patient | :24:03. | :24:12. | |
A Department of Health spokesperson said no cases of harm to patients | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
had been identified so far and that work was continuing with NHS England | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
to ensure this didn't happen again, with officials mindful | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
In the Commons, the Health Secretary said mistakes couldn't | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
What we can do is make sure we react quickly when that happens, | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
which happened on this occasion, but we can also make sure | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
that we have better assurance than we had on this occasion. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
And I can assure the House that the appropriate | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
But Labour said it was a shambolic catalogue of failure. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
One of Germany's most highly decorated Second World War pilots | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
has achieved a long held ambition - to fly in a Spitfire. | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
95-year-old Hugo Broch took to the skies over Kent, | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
where the RAF held the line during the Battle of Britain. | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
Robert Hall has been talking to him. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
heralding the meeting of a great machine with a great pilot. | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
During his career, mostly on the Russian Front, | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
Hugo Broch was credited with 81 victories in 324 missions. | :25:23. | :25:39. | |
Every German squadron had heard of the Spitfire, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Herr Broch had waited most of his life to fly in one. | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
TRANSLATION: The Spitfire was greatly respected. | :25:47. | :25:47. | |
With these machines you have a great chance of feeling free | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
And I expect to get that feeling again today. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
The Spitfire gained its iconic status during the summer of 1940 | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
when the RAF fought to hold off an invasion. | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
There is still debate whether whether the planes or the pilots won | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
As his ground crew hurried to scramble this Spitfire | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
ahead of the approaching rain clouds, Herr Broch clearly | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
The flight was captured by documentary cameras so we can share | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Herr Broch's delight as he soared above the Kent Hills. | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
He declined an offer to take the controls, | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
saying that in this case he was just a back-seat driver. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
TRANSLATION: The Spitfire is an excellent aircraft and I had an | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
I remember how fantastic it is to be able to fly. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
On one question, Herr Broch was adamant. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
The aircraft he flew all those years ago were still the best. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
A bit of a shock to the system, this rain. A bit like summer came to the | :26:52. | :27:10. | |
abrupt end and autumn is knocking on the door. At a warning if you're | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
travelling across south-eastern areas. There will be spray on the | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
roads, miserable conditions at times. You can see this lump of rain | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
heading towards the south-east, it's already brought quite a bit of rain | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
to the coast and there is more to come. That needs to barrel through | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
to the south-east of East Anglia. Earlier, the heavy rain in the North | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
has fizzled out. The wet weather will be across central and eastern | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
areas tonight. By five o'clock in the morning, still pretty warm in | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
the south. 16 degrees in the south. A lot fresher further north at 11. | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
This low pressure is here to stay all week but not raining every | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
single day. There are various areas of rain travelling and moving to | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
different parts of the country. Tomorrow, this area is moving | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
northwards and westwards so it will be stuck across this central swathe | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
of the UK from Lincolnshire to the north-east. In the South tomorrow, | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
it is going to be a better day and it's also going to be a better day | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
across Scotland. The bit in the middle will have worse weather. That | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
rain quite heavy at times. Then the rain moves back into Scotland on | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
Thursday. From Aberdeen to Edinburgh, some rain. It could | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
improve a little bit by Thursday in the south-east. The south-east | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
experiencing the worst day today and this evening. The outlook is looking | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
drier and brighter. Strongly suggesting that it is not looking | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
ideal this weekend. Thanks very much. | :29:03. | :29:03. | |
Nicola Sturgeon has had to backtrack on her plans to push for a second | :29:04. | :29:14. | |
independence referendum as early as next year. That's all from the BBC | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
News at six. So it's goodbye from | :29:23. | :29:23. |