07/02/2018 BBC News at Six

The victims of the black cab rapist

John Worboys win the right

to challenge the decision

to free him.

Worboys was ordered to appear

in court in person to hear

the High Court ruling.

The judges also decided

that he should continue

to remain in prison.

And the head of the Parole Board has

called for it to be easier

for victims to be able to challenge

the board's decisions.

Also tonight...

Government forecasts of the effects

of Brexit suggest negative reports

across all areas of the UK.

A report finds infeasible cost

cutting at a hospital trust

in Liverpool led to patients

being harmed and bullying.

Tesco is facing a potential record

equal pay claim of up to £4 billion

brought by women at its stores.

I think Tesco's are just one of many

companies that really aren't

addressing the fact that women seem

to still be paid less.

Jon Venables, one of the killers

of the toddler, James Bulger,

is jailed for more than three years

for possessing child pornography.

And plastic fantastic -

could the UK follow Norway's example

and recycle almost all our plastic

bottles?

And coming up on Sportsday

on BBC News...

The last place in the FA Cup fifth

round will taken tonight,

as League Two Newport County head

to Wembley for their

replay against Spurs.

Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

Two of the victims of the black cab

rapist, John Worboys,

have, together with London Mayor

Sadiq Khan, been given the go ahead

to challenge the decision

to release him from prison.

Worboys was ordered to appear

in person at the hearing

at the High Court in London.

Last month, the Parole Board

was criticised when it

announced he would be freed,

after less than ten years in prison.

Police believe he may have carried

out more than 100 rapes

and sexual assaults.

Daniel Sandford reports.

Brought to court in a high security

van for today's hearing, John

Worboys was taken to the cells in

handcuffs by four prison officers.

Convicted in 2009 of one rape,

six other six offences and 12 crimes

of drugging customers,

the London black cab driver

is suspected of assaulting around

100 female passengers.

And his victims hadn't expected him

to be released ever.

When we were told it was

an indefinite sentence, it was just,

well, justice has been served,

he has been dealt with.

He is serving a life sentence now.

Because that is the way

it was put across to us.

So we never thought

for one second that

he would be eligible for parole.

But today, there he

was, behind the bars

in the dock, potentially just

weeks from being freed.

Sir Bian Leveson had ordered

that John Worboys should

be present in person,

because he didn't trust the

liability of the court's

video link system.

The judge had been told that

Worboys' victims were unhappy

at the prospect of seeing him again.

"I am sorry about

that," Sir Brian said,

"but I'm sure you will appreciate

why it will not be possible sensibly

to conduct this hearing without him

being present in some way."

The women's lawyer

described afterwards

what it was like for one of her

clients to see her attacker again.

It was very, very difficult,

but she felt it was

really necessary to be

there and to say she wasn't

going to be frightened

of him being there and to

challenge, you know,

challenge his power, essentially.

But obviously it is hard

to see him there in the

flesh after all this time.

In court, the women's

barrister said the

Parole Board's failure to give

reasons for freeing Worboys

was unlawful.

"That kind of blanket secrecy

is something that is

contrary to a fundamental

principle of our law,

which is that justice

is administered in the open,"

Philippa Kaufmann QC said.

Talking to MPs at the same

time, the chair of the

Parole Board said he too

would like the rules to be changed.

I think one of the things

we should look at is

victims getting - victims

who want to get one -

getting a summary of

the Parole Board's decisions.

The judges then agreed

they would hear the

victims' legal challenge to Worboys'

release in five weeks' time,

and that until then,

he should remain in prison.

Daniel Sandford, BBC News

at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The government has released

its economic forecasts of how

different kinds of Brexit may

affect the economy.

The figures suggest all areas will

suffer negative growth, and some

of the most pro-Brexit areas

will be worst affected.

The figures have already been

challenged, and come

as the Prime Minister has been

holding the first of two key

meetings with senior ministers,

to try to agree the government's

approach to the next stage

of the Brexit negotiations.

Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg.

Cloistered in the Commons,

ministers' cars parked give away the

private meeting in the Prime

Minister's office. The cabinet

trying to meet -- reach a

compromise, continually pushed by

Brexiteers to adopt a tough line

towards the EU.

Would she be good

enough to be very robust when

discussing these matters in the

Brexit committee, has she will be,

in order to repudiate any of these

EU threats?

We will hear all sorts

of things being said about positions

being taken. What matters are the

positions we take in the

negotiations as we negotiate the

best deal. We have shown we can do

that, we did it in December and we

will do it again.

One Number 10

insider told me the problem is that

everybody always wants something.

The Prime Minister must broker a

deal within her own party before she

can get on with the negotiations.

Today the Brexit committee was

discussing how to avoid bringing

back the border between northern and

southern Ireland without keeping the

current customs arrangements at the

Prime Minister is ruled out. What

kind of immigration deal should be

done with the EU. One that controls

the numbers but gives business the

staff they need. Tomorrow the

discussion will move on to how we do

business in future. Why are

ministers still squirrelled away in

your having these conversations when

we voted to leave in the summer of

2016? The referendum didn't dictate

exactly the relationship we would

have with the European Union after

Brexit. So for months, the Tories

have been in a tug-of-war. Should we

stay closely intertwined with

Brussels after we go, or make a more

dramatic break? The EU and business

are running out of patients. The UK

takes its time to decide.

It would

demonstrate to the world the United

Kingdom is not leaving Europe as we

leave the EU.

Tory Remain rebels

line up this morning to put against

the idea of a lurch away from the

EU. They are outspoken, but they

fear the country will be worse off.

It is abundantly clear to me that

there is no model which will satisfy

all sections of the British public,

and I believe, and I've said many

times before, I believe a no deal

scenario would be bad for our

economy.

MPs have now seen the

government's forecast of what could

happen to different parts of the

country if there is no deal. Over 15

years the economy in London is

forecast to be 3.5% smaller. In the

West Midlands, that voted to leave,

it would be 13% smaller. And in the

north-east, which also chose Brexit,

hypothetically it is the worst

affected. The economy potentially

16% smaller than it is otherwise

expected to be. Forecasts often turn

out to be wrong. Very wrong. But the

government is preparing to make big

choices right now that will, for

better or worse, affect us all.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News.

A damning report into a failed NHS

Trust, seen by BBC News,

has found that infeasible financial

targets to cut costs led

to patients being harmed,

suffering fractures and having

the wrong teeth removed.

A review into the activities

of Liverpool Community Health found

a management team that was seriously

out of its depth, caused severe

staff shortages and bullying.

Despite the problems,

the trust's chief executive

was found another job in the NHS.

Our social affairs correspondent,

Michael Buchanan, has

this exclusive report:

Personally, it destroyed me. I was

suicidal. I was held against my will

by a patient's relative at

knife-point -- knife-point and

sexually assaulted.

The Lady died

six hours after she was admitted to

the ward.

It was absolutely the most

horrific time of my life.

Around

three quarters of a million people

in Merseyside relied on Liverpool

Community Health to provide services

such as district nursing, dentistry

and diabetes care. But the report we

have seen, looking at services

between 2010 and 2014, found it

caused needless patient harm by

putting costs before care. The

trust, which is based in this

building, was found to be

dysfunctional from the outset. Its

leadership team was described as

being out of its depth. They said

unfeasible financial targets that

damaged patient services.

We

suddenly were taking patients with

heart failure, with long cancers,

patients who were very medically

unstable and unwell. We had no piped

oxygen.

This district nurse, who

wants to remain anonymous, was

sexually assaulted on a home visit,

sent out without a personal

protection alarm.

I should have been

able to alert someone to where I was

and get the help to me straightaway.

I would have been out within minutes

rather than being subjected to a

horrendous time for over an hour.

The worst failings were arguably at

Liverpool prison, where the trust

provided health care services. The

review says it didn't know how to

manage it safely. They didn't learn

lessons from incidents and inmates

died. Simon McBride killed himself

in the prison in 2014. The

35-year-old had been convicted of

drugs offences. He wrote two letters

to prison medics asking for help.

His suicide could have been avoided

if a proper, diligent and competent,

effective system had been in place

to identify and treat his issues.

The trust was led at the time by

Bernie Cuff will. She was focused on

cutting costs so the trust could

achieve foundation status, giving a

more autonomy. We tried to get an

interview with her. Excuse me. BBC

News. We'd like guilty about

Liverpool Community Health. -- we

would like to talk to you about

Liverpool Community Health. We would

like to ask you a couple of

questions. Are you a bully? Are you

a bully? And as you can see, she

didn't want to answer any questions.

She resigned from Liverpool to work

at a trust in Manchester. We have

learned her new job, which

maintained her 6-figure salary, was

actually arranged by an NHS

regulator. Labour MP Rosie Cooper,

whose father was let down by the

trust, is appalled.

I don't

understand why anybody would want to

keep a failed chief Executive and or

any other members of the board if

they fail that badly, they should

have been disciplined and fired.

Liverpool Community Health is now

providing good services to the

people of Merseyside, a significant

improvement on its troubled past.

Michael Buchanan, BBC News,

Liverpool.

A coalition deal has

been struck in Germany,

between the centre-left

Social Democrats and Angela

Merkel's conservatives.

The agreement looks set to end four

months of political deadlock,

following an inconclusive general

election last September.

The deal still needs to be approved

by Social Democrat party members,

many of whom fear a coalition

would damage the party.

Tesco are facing a possible

potential record equal pay

claim of £4 billion.

It's being brought by women who work

in the company's stores who earn

less than men employed

in its warehouses, even though

they claim the work is comparable.

The supermarket says

all its staff are paid fairly,

whatever their gender.

Our economics editor,

Kamal Ahmed, reports

Who is worth more? Warehouse

workers, mostly men, loading and

unloading lorries, or store staff,

mostly women, loading shells and

dealing with customers? This is a

very different type of pay dispute.

Not equal pay for the same job, but

equal pay for different jobs. That,

lawyers argue, had the same value.

I

think the role has changed over

time.

Kim and Pam have worked in

Tesco supermarkets for more than 20

years. Their rates of pay are up to

three times lower than warehouse

staff.

We think we have equal

rights. There are times when there

are such discrepancies that he can't

explain them. I think Tesco's are

just one of many companies that

really aren't addressing the fact

that women seem to still be paid

less.

Obviously the jobs are

slightly different but to put it

bluntly, they are of equal value. We

deal with customers. They don't have

to deal with customers. We take the

stock and we load the stock. They

loaded of the lorry and we loaded

onto the shelves.

It is a debate

that goes back decades.

We are on

strike until the 27th of June.

Here

are women workers for Ford in the

1960s, arguing that their job sewing

car seat covers was comparable with

the men who built the engines. They

won after years of expensive

battles. So how do you test whether

a job is of equal value? First you

score how much training and skill it

needs to do the job. Second, how

difficult is the job and how much

responsibility does it carry? Third,

what are the physical and emotional

demands? For example, is customer

interaction a key part of the role.

--? If the roles are similar, the

jobs are comparable. I asked the

lawyer leading the case if workers

work is the same as working in Tesco

supermarkets.

A man in distribution

may score higher on a physical test,

but the woman may score higher on

the emotional content of the job

while dealing with the customers. If

the law has been there since 1984

that you can compare with a

different job, that is 34 years to

get your house in order.

Tesco said

they couldn't comment on the claimed

they had not received.

For Pam and Kim, it will be £20,000

each the legal battle is successful.

This is not about the money. You're

asking for fairness, auntie?

Absolutely, no more, no less. Kamal

Ahmed, BBC News.

Our top story this evening...

Victims of the black cab rapist

John Worboys win the right

to challenge the decision

to free him.

And still to come...

A surprise new look is unveiled

for Britain's earliest man.

Coming up in Sportsday in the next

15 minutes on BBC News, another

series gets underway for England's

cricketers, and they lose their

opening T20 against Australia in

Hobart.

It's an increasing

problem for the planet

and a concern for many of us -

how can we reduce the amount

of plastic in our lives -

and recycle what we do use?

One of the biggest culprits

is plastic bottles.

Here in the UK, nearly

60% of all bottles

are collected for recycling.

But in Norway almost all -

97% - are collected.

It's led to a big reduction

in plastic litter -

and could be adopted here.

Our Environment Analyst Roger

Harrabin has been to Norway

to see how they do it.

There is a 10p deposit

on this Norwegian bottle.

It encourages me to recycle.

Most countries, this

empty bottle would go

into the bin or worse,

onto the street.

Not here in Norway.

I have come back into this

shop and this machine

is going to reward me

for returning my bottle.

The deposit is paid

back with a coupon.

For some, the deposit scheme

is a useful source of cash.

This man collected

a bagful from an office.

He made £5 in ten minutes.

People seem to like the scheme.

It is very easy.

It is very easy.

You just take it with

you when you go shopping

and you get your money back.

I think I take it back,

like, every month or so.

It's not hard at all.

At the sorting plant,

a torrent of bottles.

The cans will be melted down,

the bottles separated

into different types of plastic,

then shredded and made

into new bottles.

The scheme is run by Norway's drinks

companies, after the government

threatened to tax every bottle

they don't recycle.

They enforced an environmental tax

in Norway that will say if you put

a bottle in the market and don't

have a collection system,

you have to pay a high tax.

But if you set up a collection

system like the deposit system

and you increase the collection

rate, then you reduce the tax.

And that is the big

motivation for the producer

and the importer in Norway.

Drinks firms are allowed only two

types of plastic bottle.

That makes recycling easier.

There are also restrictions

on the type of label,

even the glue that sticks the label.

But what about the hassle for

shopkeepers who take in the empties?

Well, they get a small

fee per bottle.

And there is another

surprise benefit.

They come and give us the bottle

and the money that they get from us,

they just come to us

and they buy things.

It is kind of increasing

the customers in our shops.

Norway has had this scheme

for more than 30 years.

Others will surely follow,

as worldwide concern grows

about plastic waste.

Roger Harrabin, BBC News, Oslo.

One of the killers of the toddler

James Bulger, has been jailed

for more than three years,

after admitting to having

indecent images of children,

for a second time.

Jon Venables, who served eight years

for the murder in 1993,

was recalled to prison last year

for breaching the terms

of his licence.

Daniela Relph is at the Old Bailey,

the parents of James Bulger

were in court and were very unhappy

with the length of

Venables' sentence...

They were very unhappy. Jon Venables

appeared via a video link from

prison, but sitting in court

watching him where James Bolger's

parents, and they heard how police

found more than 1000 images of child

abuse on Venables's computer. The

children ranged in age from very

young to around 13 years old. The

judge said the images were vile

heartbreaking. The police also found

what was described as a paedophile

manual, described as a sickening

document. Reacting to the sentence,

James bulge's father said it just

was not hard enough.

It was an

insult to James and the firm Dunn

family. He is just waiting for a

victim, so let's make sure there are

no more victims and keep him where

they should be.

John Venables's

barrister told the court that his

client apologised to the Bulger

family.

The police watchdog is examining

a video which appears to show

a Metropolitan Police officer

hitting a demonstrator.

The incident is said to have taken

place in London on Sunday

during a march against Turkey's

military campaign

against Kurdish fighters.

The Independent Office

for Police Conduct says

it is considering the footage.

The Chief Constable

of Police Scotland has resigned

with immediate effect.

Phil Gormley had been on special

leave since September, amid a series

of investigations into claims

of gross misconduct,

including bullying.

He denies any wrongdoing.

Here's our Scotland

Editor Sarah Smith.

Phil Gormley was brought in to

steady the ship that Police Scotland

just two years ago but he has not

been a for the last six months,

allegations of the leading were

being investigated. Mr Gormley was

cleared to go back to work by the

Scottish police authority back in

November, but that decision was then

reversed when the Justice Secretary

intervened. He was worried there

weren't adequate safeguards in place

for the serving police officers who

had made accusations against the

Chief Constable.

Raising questions today about

whether police Scotland is fit for

purpose.

Will soon be on our third

Chief Constable, and we are on our

third chair and chief executive or

stop surely the Justice Secretary

has to start asking himself whether

there is something else going on,

perhaps it is the structure that is

the root of the problem here.

I

believe a single police force is

still the appropriate model in

Scotland, and the reality is had we

not move to a single police force in

Scotland, we would have found

ourselves having to make significant

cuts to front-line policing.

Police

Scotland has had a turbulent times

and eight forces were merged into

one. The last Chief Constable stood

down early after controversies of

armed officers turning up the

routine incidents, and delayed

responses to 999 calls, including

one in which a couple lay

undiscovered in a crashed car for

three days nearly nine. Police

Scotland now has to look for its

third Chief Constable in five years,

a safe pair of hands will be an

essential job requirements. Sarah

Smith, BBC News, Glasgow.

Scientists say they now know

what our oldest known

ancestor looked like -

and it's something of a surprise.

They believe that so-called

Cheddar Man, a 10,000-year-old

skeleton, had skin that was dark

to black, and blue eyes.

Researchers were able

to sequence his genome for the first

time to establish aspects

of his appearance.

He was discovered in Cheddar Gorge

in Somerset and Jon Kay's there now,

this is not what scientists

expected...

It's not, and those scientists and

people around here are very excited

indeed, because for 10,000 years,

Cheddar man lay undisturbed,

undiscovered in this cave beneath

Cheddar Gorge, and this replica is

how we have tended to think of him,

as a skeleton, a pile of bones. Now

we can see him almost as a real-life

human being.

Putting flesh on his

bones. The

bones. The face of Cheddar Man

finally revealed. By extracting his

DNA and scanning his skull, experts

say they have created him in

unprecedented detail, and he looks

very different from what they were

expecting.

The hair, the eyes, the

face, that combination of blue eyes

and dark skin, really very striking,

something we wouldn't have imagined,

and also get from the DNA details of

his biology. The fact that he

couldn't they just milk as an adult,

that is something that came really

with the advent of farming, and

10,000 years ago people in Britain

didn't have that.

Look is changed.

This is what scientists used to

think he looked like, a

reconstruction from 20 years ago,

when DNA analysis was nowhere near

as developed.

Cheddar Man and I

share a common female relative.

This

is modern-day Cheddar Man. Adrian

target lives in the same village and

shares DNA with the skeleton found

in the gorge, so time to meet his

ancestor. Do you want to see you're

great, great, great, great, great,

great, great, great-grandfather?

Here he comes.

Oh, right!

What do

you think?

It is remarkable, isn't

it? I think there probably is some

resemblance, but yes, I think there

were certainly other members in my

family who he bears a resemblance to

come yes. Some of my cousins.

You

can see that in there?

Yes, I think

my eyes are blue.

Let's have a look.

They are blue!

Vea. His hair's not

quite as grey as mine is, or my

beard.

So, 10,000 years after he

died, 100 years after he was found,

finally a face to fit the name of

Adrian's ancestor. Jon Kay, BBC

News, Cheddar in Somerset.

Time for a look at the weather...

Here's Sarah Keith Lucas

Things

Things are turning a little bit

colder. We had a few glances of

wintry sunshine around but not

everywhere, and where we have had

those clear skies, that is where we

will see the coldest temperatures

developing overnight. If we take a

look back at what we had today, this

was the scene in Brecon, in Powys,

taken by one of our Weather

Watchers. Snow on the higher ground

and some clear skies around as well.

As we have through this evening and

the night, this weather front moving

in from the north-west, bringing

more clout and some outbreaks of

brain and hill snow towards the

north-west too. Clearer skies

holding on to central and south-east

and parts of England. There will be

here we see the coldest conditions

developing. Further north-west, more

clout, bringing rain and some snow

over the higher ground in Northern

Ireland and Scotland. The

temperatures towards the south-east

we could see minus five degrees or

even colder, certainly a frosty

start of Thursday morning for many

central and southern parts of the

country. Through tomorrow, we will

continue to see a band of cloud,

outbreaks of rain further south into

Wales and parts of northern England.

It will brighten up for Scotland and

Northern Ireland, sunny spells, a

few scattered showers and things

remaining mostly dry towards the

south-east too. Less cold than it

has been, temperatures around five

to 9 degrees, certainly no sign of

any early springlike warmth on the

horizon. We will stick with the

unsettled theme as we had through to

Friday. Another weather front

bringing further sales of rain and

some snow over the hills. This is

the outlook Friday into Saturday.

Those temperatures just sneaking up

a touch but it is remaining

unsettled, with stronger winds on

the way, more rain and more hill

snow in the forecast too.