28/06/2017 BBC News at Six

Almost 30 years after Hillsborough six people are told they face

criminal charges for their role in Britain's worst ever

96 men, women and children - all Liverpool supporters -

died as a result of the crush at the FA Cup semi-final

The police commander on the day, David Duckenfield, faces

the most serious charge - that of manslaughter

The families of the victims who have fought for justice for decades

welcomed the announcement, but with mixed emotions.

28 years they've had, of torture really -

it's been hell on earth, and they need an end to this,

and now this, hopefully, this is definitely now

We will have all the latest. Also on the programme tonight...

Police say the number of dead and missing in Grenfell Tower has

risen to at least 80 - most of the victims

The police officer who fought off the London Bridge attackers speaks

publicly for the first time about his ordeal.

I just had one voice in my head saying, don't go down,

don't go down, and I was just swinging all over the place.

And the author Michael Bond, the man who created Paddington Bear,

Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Johanna Konta powers ahead with a

victory over the Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. For 28 years, they have fought

for justice for the 96 Liverpool fans who died

at Hillsborough Stadium in 1989. Today the victims' families

applauded when they finally heard that six men would face criminal

charges for their roles in Britain's Among them, the policeman

who was match commander on the day - former Chief Superintendent David

Duckenfield. He faces charges of manslaughter

by gross negligence. And former South Yorkshire Police

Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison has been charged with misconduct -

he said he was disappointed Yes, and you may remember that when

the Hillsborough inquests finished last year the jury concluded that

the 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed,

but of course an inquest is not a criminal trial. No one was convicted

then of any offence, and so the announcement of prosecutions today

extends the long legal journey for the bereaved families and survivors.

As you say, they have been fighting for nearly three decades. Today came

the news that they will see yet more court appearances. The first

defendant is due to appear before the magistrates in August.

They've had enquiries, inquests and investigations

but the Hillsborough families have never had public criminal

They have waited almost 30 years for this moment.

We got absolutely everything today we could have asked for. We look

forward to the due process to the courts of law. David Duckenfield

will face prosecution. There is sufficient evidence to charge David

Duckenfield with the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 men, women

and children. The match commander ordered the opening of an exit gate

through which the fans poured onto overcrowded terraces. He is charged

with the manslaughter of all but one of the victims. Tony Bland died too

late to be included in the charges. In the years after Hillsborough,

Norman Bettison rose through the ranks to become Chief Constable of

Liverpool. He said he is disappointed to be charged and will

vigorously defend his innocence. Andrew Brooks was one of those

killed at Hillsborough. He was 26. His sister Louise has long

campaigned for justice, and was in Warrington today to hear that

charges will be brought. It's another event where my parents...

They have not been alive to see it or do hear it, and it's not just my

parents, its other Hillsborough families who have gone to their

graves never seeing today. The families were told the 23 suspects

were originally considered for prosecution. In the event, six will

face trial. Graham Mackrell was the Sheffield Wednesday company

secretary responsible for safety and is accused of failing to carry out

his duties. Peter Metcalf was the solicitor acting for South Yorkshire

Police. He is charged with perverting the course of justice in

relation to amendments made to police statements. At home today, he

would not answer questions. No comment. Former Chief Superintendent

Donald Denton, in the middle here, is also charged with perverting the

course of justice, said to have overseen the process of altering the

statements. Former inspector Alan Foster faces the same charge,

accused of being central to the process of changing statements.

Nobody from the Ambulance Service is facing charges and no organisation

will face corporate charges over Hillsborough, which has disappointed

some. A mixed bag. A couple of names we didn't expect and a few that we

think have been omitted. There will be six people facing criminal

charges who might not have done if we hadn't have been resilient and

all stuck together and fought this long fight. This professor has spent

years working to expose what happened at Hillsborough, and says

the passage of time must have had an effect on the number of charges. If

we had had the kind of investigation then that we have had now, and the

kind of attention paid to the detail of prosecutable charges then as we

have now I think we would see a lot more prosecutions. The youngest to

die at Hillsborough was just ten years old. The oldest was a

pensioner. They were all unlawfully killed. There have long been calls

for justice. Now, nearly 30 years after they died, those said to be

responsible to face trial, and the prospect of jail. Judith Moritz, BBC

News, Warrington. Police say they now believe

at least 80 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire,

but the real figure may not be known It's been revealed that almost

all of the people who died or are missing were in just 23

of the tower block's 129 flats. And police say that the intense heat

of the fire means that tragically Here's our special correspondent

Lucy Manning - you may find parts 23 flats where no one has been

found. 23 flats in this charred shell of a building, for police now

presume no one has survived. Sajad rushed home with his sister as the

building bird. His mother made it out of the third floor, but the

family are still suffering. -- is the building burned. My sister, my

mum, myself, we need immediate help. He has just had bad news about his

sister. Is your sister OK? She is dizzy at the moment. The ambulance

should be nearby. I think they will take her to hospital. I am honestly

begging for help. I don't think it is really fair for us to beg for

help. We don't deserve that kind of life. He is gathering his own list

of survivors, one of many here who just does not believe the

information from the police. I do not believe the official figures. I

really want to know what happened to my best friend. I really want to

know what happened to my neighbour. The police did get a lot more detail

today, much of it hard to contemplate. From the 23 flats were

no one has been found, 26 999 calls were made during that night. The

residents of the block started to move up to escape the flames, and it

is thought many of them did gather in one flat. The police now say it

will take them until at least the end of the year to be sure how many

people died here. We've looked at many evidence gathered by the local

community and also by other companies, such as fast food

delivery companies. We are going everywhere to try and get a true

number, and I believe that number will rise. For the survivors, there

is still too much to feel sad and angry about. The Housing minister

confronted. I want permanent accommodation... If you don't give

me permanent accommodation, I'm not going to accept it. I'm not just

going to take any hows you give me. If you give me a host I don't want,

I'm not going to take it. What we are guaranteeing is that they will

have an offer of a home with a three-week period. The inquest today

heard about the death of Syrian refugee Mohammed al-Haj Ali, found

the building. Mother and daughter found on the 17th floor. A taxi

driver, found outside the tower. The 77-year-old who died on the 11th

floor. Eight-year-old Malak and her sister, little Lina, just a baby.

Malak and Lina and her parents were buried yesterday. Lina, the youngest

victim of this fire. She had lived for just six months. And she died in

her mother's arms. Two Cabinet ministers have appeared

to suggest today that the public sector pay cap of 1% should be

reviewed. Labour are forcing

a Commons vote tonight on the public sector pay cap,

which has been in place since 2013. They're calling on the Government

to abandon the limit - in what will be the first

parliamentary test for Theresa May since she failed to win an outright

majority at the General Election. Here's our political

editor Laura Kuenssberg - Governing feels a bit like a work

in progress right now. Almost with each new day in this

new era, hints more of the Tories' Other ministers were willing to say,

to hint, that the limit on public Well, we have had to take some tough

decisions and in the wake of the general election

we are going to have to think through what we do

come the next budget. This is obviously something

we have to consider, not just for the Army,

but right across the public Nurses, teachers, most public sector

workers in England and Wales and Northern Ireland have been

limited to 1% pay rises It was meant to save

?5 billion by 2020. To help close the gap

between what the Government takes Scrapping the cap was a big part

of Labour's collection campaign. With the first Prime

Minister's Questions since, nearly every Labour frontbencher had

the message pinned to their chest. The public sector pay cap is hitting

recruitment and retention right But one of the architects

of the original plan thinks now it is time

that the protests were heard. We have seen the public sector fall

back into the position where many public sector workers are now paid

less well than comparable people And therefore gradually you have

to adapt to that reality by doing something

about public sector pay. Using their new-found forced to get

rid of the cap would be a huge win for this gaggle of Labour,

with all its new MPs. The party is forcing a vote tonight

to try to do just that. Despite ministers' public hints,

by late afternoon Number Ten said One Cabinet minister told me

they just don't know But carry on with the cap,

the Government looks deaf to concerns they have themselves

acknowledged. Ditch it, though, and it costs

the taxpayer billions. Or make no decision -

the alternative is confusion, People up and down this country want

an end to austerity, they want an end to public

sector pay freezes. And it looked as though this

morning the Government That nothing has changed

is really worrying and should send out alarm bells to Conservative

MPs that thought they Numbers 10 and 11 said there is no

difference in their positions despite suggestions the Treasury

was less than impressed. But the problem of public sector pay

for the main resident of this Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

News, Westminster. Well, tonight's vote

comes amid signs that public attitudes to pay

and taxation are changing. The annual survey of public opinion

shows that nearly half of us now want higher taxes to pay for more

spending on health, education Here's our economics

editor Kamal Ahmed. Because of our plan,

things are getting better. And on the other

a government, past and present, which says we must fix

the public finances. I have come to Ealing

in west London. Before the election this

was a marginal seat. With the Conservatives just a few

hundred votes behind Labour. Thousands turned out

for the local candidate. Does that mean that

voters want more taxes or Do you think you should

be paying more tax? I think I should be paying

more tax, absolutely. I would pay more tax -

I do not have children myself, but so that I know that

children are going to better No, I would rather see the taxes

that we are paying spent more This is the big tax

and spending debate, and In 2010 32% of people

questioned supported At the same time those

who support keeping tax and spending at the same level

has fallen, from 56% to 44%. That significant shift

comes as austerity Government spending as a share

of overall economic The question now,

could they go higher? If you want something

that is a game changer, something that is going to result

in you having tens of billions of pounds of additional

revenue to spend, you can't just do that from

the rich or indeed You have to have a broader-based

increase in tax as we see actually in many other

competitor countries which have higher levels of spending

and higher levels of tax. Today a hint - the public

sector pay cap could be reviewed, but everyone

percent pay increase Increasing spending might be

popular, but take care. In principle if you increase

spending, you will increase growth, at least

in the short-term. But it is very important to think

about what that spending is Because that will influence

the longer term growth Plenty of people might

want a change of direction, but the big

question to answer, Six people are told they face

criminal charges for their role And still to come: We look back

at the life of the creator of Paddington bear,

Michael Bond, who's died. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

British Taekwondo history's been made with Bianca Walkden

successfully defending her title with victory over

American Jackie Galloway at the world championships

in South Korea. A police officer who was repeatedly

stabbed during the London Bridge terror attack has been speaking

publicly about his ordeal 38-year-old PC Wayne Marques is

a British Transport Police officer. He was one of the first on the scene

as the three men carried out their attack on the bridge

on June the 3rd. All he had to protect

himself with was a baton. But he launched himself

at all three of them to try to protect others,

as our Home Affairs Correspondent Clear the area now! It was just

after ten on the 3rd of June when three men started their attack on

London Bridge. PC Wayne Marques of the British Transport Police had

just come on shift and walked out into the scene of chaos. I am about

to get my Radiohead and I hear a woman screaming and when I look I

see a woman, a young lady, and she has been attacked. Then he told me

before he had collected his thoughts he saw a man knocked to the ground

and an knife man standing behind him. He was on the floor, screaming

for his life, and the first attacker stands over him, attacking him. I

take my baton with my right hand like a racket and I take a deep

breath and I charge him. I try to take the first one out and I swing

as hard as I can, with everything behind it, I aimed straight at his

head. While I frightened the first one, I got a massive whack to the

side of my head. I felt metal, I thought maybe it was a bar at first.

Afterwards I realised it was an knife. He was temporarily blinded in

one eye. The first attacker was still on the floor, but the second

attacker was joined by a third. I was fighting the two of them and

while I am fighting my left leg starts wobbling and I am thinking,

what is wrong with my leg? And I looked down and I see there is an

knife in the side of my leg. He fought all three men off before

collapsing and being taken to hospital, but he had bought crucial

time, allowing people to escape, reducing the time the attackers had

before they were shot by armed officers. I would just like to think

that I did what I did to keep the people that I saw being attacked and

being hurt, keep them alive, keep them out of danger as best as I

could, and that is what I tried to do. I was just keeping them alive.

Get them away from danger. PC Wayne Marques speaking for the first time

The Co-operative Bank has secured a ?700 million rescue package

from hedge funds to stop the lender from being wound down.

The bank, which has nearly four million customers,

said it had also agreed to separate itself from the wider

Co-operative Group pension scheme which has ?8 billion of liabilities.

Now, have you ever received a phone call at home from someone telling

you there's a problem with your computer and that they can

Well, tens of thousands of people fall for the scam every year,

forking out in total around ?20 million.

Now four people have been arrested on suspicion of committing fraud,

following a joint operation between City of London Police

and Microsoft as our technology correspondent

My name is Michael from the service and

You're told your computer has a fault, but

it often ends with the caller taking large sums from your bank

We have come to know about some problem in your computer...

And the scam is getting more sophisticated.

I simply saw this pop-up on my computer screen when I

He was instructed to ring a call centre,

and after hours on the phone, ended up being robbed of over ?1000.

So I did, I felt embarrassed, actually,

I felt the sense that I have been cheated,

It just feels there is somebody intruding in your life.

Microsoft has been working with the City of London Police

to investigate this global scam and this week in

The police officer leading the enquiry says the focus now moves

This is a global issue but focused very much with Indian

I think we have what we need now to work with our partners in India

to have a dramatic impact to take out

This has become one of the most common

Over the last year getting up to 35,000 cases were recorded.

And police suspect they were far more.

The average loss was ?600 and the typical

If people receive a phone call from someone pretending to be from

So if they think they have been scammed, they

should get in touch with Action Fraud.

Of course if you keep them on the phone for long enough,

The author who created Paddington Bear, Michael Bond,

He was working as a BBC cameraman in 1958 when he published his first

It was such a success that he turned to full-time

David Sillito looks back at his life.

It was just over 60 years ago on Christmas eve that a young BBC

cameraman, Michael Bond, soccer lonely toy bear sitting on a shelf

in a department store. It inspired him to write Bear Called Paddington,

applied, accident prone immigrant from Peru. He has got a strong sense

of right and wrong and he is a very polite bear called based on my

father. He was always a very polite man and Paddington has got a lot of

him in it. Good afternoon, can I help you? So the manners were from

his father, but that opening scene, the meeting on the station platform,

there was in it's an echo of his child in the 30s when he saw Jewish

child refugees arrived in Britain. But the world of Paddington was,

despite all his many scrapes, a gentle place, rooted in the

character of its duffle coat wearing author. It really does feel very

sad, particularly because the publishing party he always comes to

is next week and he will be really missed. He is the most lovely person

to chat to. He is very funny. I think it proves that children still

do love those quiet books. It is about the character. He wrote the

characters so beautifully. There is parsnip. Sometimes Mr onion let's

him ring the school bell. Michael Bond also created the herb garden

along with dozens of other books, but nothing came close to

Paddington. He guided his friendly creation closely and he had doubts

about the recent film version, but when he saw that Paddington's

essential decency was not touched, he even agreed to a little cameo

performance, a little wave of welcome to his old friend.

The author Michael Bond, who's died at the age of 91.

It is very hard to believe it was only a week ago that we were

sweltering in 34 degrees. Yes, that is right, a totally

different story. It is amazing in our climate what a week can do. In

some places the temperature was 20 degrees lower. Last Wednesday it was

up to 35 Celsius. It has not been bad everywhere, but for Scotland and

northern England there is more rain tonight and tomorrow. This is the

rain we had in the south and central areas. 90 millimetres is more than

one month's worth in one band of rain. 60 on the south coast and

closer to the North Sea coast a lot of rain. Quite an angry looking

cloud. But the problem is this weather is slowly moving and it will

rain for a long time. It is not just that the rain has been heavy, it has

been so slow to move across the country. Eventually it reaches

northern parts of England and into Scotland tonight. It tries to curl

around back into itself. We can see how the wind is blowing. We have a

better window of weather in South East Anglia. In the cloud and the

rain in the north that is where we will have the coolest weather, 13,

14, 15 degrees. Low pressure is dominating a large bit of the

continent from Poland to Germany and back into the UK and even parts of

France. Again it is these western areas during the course of Friday

where we have the coolest, wettest weather. In the South East something

dry and bright. The weekend is looking better.

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me