:00:21. > :00:26.Some voters in England are to be asked to provide photographic
:00:27. > :00:29.proof of identity before being allowed to vote.
:00:30. > :00:34.The measure is to be piloted as part of efforts to curb electoral fraud.
:00:35. > :00:36.A Government-commissioned report published in August concluded
:00:37. > :00:40.that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye to fraud in areas
:00:41. > :00:43.with large Pakistani or Bangladeshi communities
:00:44. > :00:56.because of "over-sensitivities about ethnicity and religion".
:00:57. > :01:05.An election victory, but one steeped in claims of corruption. This man
:01:06. > :01:09.became mayor of Tower Hamlets two years ago. The people of this
:01:10. > :01:15.borough will judge me on my record. He was judged instead by an election
:01:16. > :01:18.court, which threw him out of office. It heard claims of voter
:01:19. > :01:23.fraud and intimidation. The case helped want a wider review of
:01:24. > :01:27.election practice carried out by the former divinity Secretary Sir Eric
:01:28. > :01:30.Pickles. He called for the introduction of ID checks at polling
:01:31. > :01:35.stations in England. Today the Government backed his proposals.
:01:36. > :01:39.Electoral fraud has the potential to undermine confidence in our system,
:01:40. > :01:42.which is why we need to ensure that when it comes to full noble
:01:43. > :01:46.individuals in certain committees who want to be able to exercise
:01:47. > :01:49.their individual right to vote, they are given the opportunity of doing
:01:50. > :01:53.so without the possibility of intimidation. The report said
:01:54. > :01:57.authorities were turning a blind eye to corruption, what he called the
:01:58. > :02:03.worrying and covert spread of electoral fraud. He accused some
:02:04. > :02:06.bodies of a state of the Nile and failing to challenge alleged vote
:02:07. > :02:10.rigging because of political correctness. He saw evidence of
:02:11. > :02:15.pressure put on full noble people to vote according to the will of elders
:02:16. > :02:19.in some communities of Pakistani and Bangladeshi background. The plans
:02:20. > :02:25.mean voters will have to bring photo ID, like a passport or proof of
:02:26. > :02:29.address, in a trial areas of England at local elections in 2018. But
:02:30. > :02:32.Labour said changes to the voting register had already harmed the
:02:33. > :02:36.party and some claimed the announcement today would make things
:02:37. > :02:40.worse. The people most likely not to have a passport or driving licence
:02:41. > :02:45.are going to be the poorest, and I suspect that is going to, like the
:02:46. > :02:50.decision to knock a lot of people off the electoral register, hit the
:02:51. > :02:54.Labour Party. The number of voter fraud claims is relatively low. The
:02:55. > :02:56.Government hopes today's plans will help reduce them further.
:02:57. > :02:58.The Children's Commissioner for England says the vast majority
:02:59. > :03:00.of young carers receive no support from local-authority
:03:01. > :03:04.Anne Longfield says four out of five young carers,
:03:05. > :03:09.who look after sick and disabled family members, are invisible
:03:10. > :03:13.The Local Government Association says funding cuts mean councils
:03:14. > :03:19.are being forced to make difficult decisions.
:03:20. > :03:23.This is Daniel, one of thousands of young carers in England.
:03:24. > :03:27.He's ten and lives with his mum, Florella, who has a brain tumour.
:03:28. > :03:33.When he's not at school, he helps around the house,
:03:34. > :03:37.but he constantly worries about his mum when he isn't there.
:03:38. > :03:44.I started becoming more responsible and I started doing the cleaning.
:03:45. > :03:51.I started paying more attention to what my mum was doing.
:03:52. > :03:55.Then, because I wasn't around, I was always
:03:56. > :04:02.Today's report by the Children's Commissioner found, of the 160,000
:04:03. > :04:07.young carers in England, just over 128,000 children aged five
:04:08. > :04:11.to 17 may not be known to local authorities.
:04:12. > :04:16.And councils identified 160 young carers in England
:04:17. > :04:23.This is often systematic support for vulnerable family members
:04:24. > :04:29.who may have mental illness or physical disabilities.
:04:30. > :04:31.They need to be able to flourish at school,
:04:32. > :04:34.they need to be able to enjoy childhood and grow up,
:04:35. > :04:38.whilst they're still offering the familial support that
:04:39. > :04:43.The Local Government Association says funding cuts to children's
:04:44. > :04:46.services means councils are being forced to make difficult
:04:47. > :04:50.decisions about what support they are able to provide.
:04:51. > :04:54.But it says all young carers should receive an assessment to find
:04:55. > :05:03.A senior police officer has defended the Government's
:05:04. > :05:07.anti-extremism programme, known as Prevent, saying some
:05:08. > :05:10.criticism of the initiative has been hysterical.
:05:11. > :05:14.Simon Coles, who is responsible for implementing the strategy,
:05:15. > :05:16.said Prevent is "absolutely fundamental" in helping
:05:17. > :05:23.England's chief nursing officer has urged the NHS to invest more
:05:24. > :05:28.Jane Cummings says money is being wasted on keeping elderly
:05:29. > :05:33.She says reform is needed to make sure patients don't get caught
:05:34. > :05:40.between different parts of the system.
:05:41. > :05:42.Rescue teams have recovered one of the flight recorders
:05:43. > :05:45.from a Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea shortly
:05:46. > :05:49.The Russian defence ministry said an engine, landing gear and parts
:05:50. > :05:56.All 92 people on board the aircraft are thought to have died when it
:05:57. > :06:07.Recovered from the seabed, twisted and broken, part
:06:08. > :06:15.Thousands of people are still involved in the search, scouring
:06:16. > :06:24.the area where the 30-year-old Tupolev 154 came down.
:06:25. > :06:27.Specialist teams have found one of the plane's flight recorders.
:06:28. > :06:35.The military flight from Moscow to Letakia in Syria had more than 90
:06:36. > :06:44.It touched down to refuel in Sochi, but crashed after taking off again.
:06:45. > :06:51.Across Russia, there have been services to pray for the dead.
:06:52. > :06:57.A day of national mourning was declared.
:06:58. > :07:00.On board were more than 60 members of the Russian
:07:01. > :07:09.Their base in Moscow has become a shrine.
:07:10. > :07:12.In Sochi, recovery teams use the latest technology.
:07:13. > :07:23.Pilot error or mechanical failure, a focus for investigators.
:07:24. > :07:25.Terrorism has been all but ruled out.
:07:26. > :07:34.So, in the waters of the Black Sea, the search for answers continues.
:07:35. > :07:37.The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Hawaii for an historic
:07:38. > :07:40.visit which will see him pay his respects at the site
:07:41. > :07:44.of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.
:07:45. > :07:48.Shinzo Abe will be accompanied by the US President Barack Obama,
:07:49. > :07:50.making the visit the first by the leaders of both
:07:51. > :07:56.Japan's Prime Minister will pray for the dead,
:07:57. > :08:04.The Magistrates Association has expressed concern about plans
:08:05. > :08:07.to allow people to go online to enter a guilty plea, or pay fines
:08:08. > :08:14.It says an internet-only system could lower public confidence.
:08:15. > :08:16.The Ministry of Justice said it received "a significant number"
:08:17. > :08:19.of responses to a consultation about the plans, which it
:08:20. > :08:26.The actress Liz Smith, best known for playing Nana
:08:27. > :08:32.in the BBC sitcom The Royle Family, has died at the age of 95.
:08:33. > :08:35.She acted in numerous television series and films,
:08:36. > :08:40.and won a Bafta for her role in A Private Function in 1985.
:08:41. > :08:44.Daniela Relph looks back at her life.
:08:45. > :08:57.Could she have wafer-thin ham, Barbara?
:08:58. > :09:11.Liz Smith was the eccentric, loveable centre of The Royle Family.
:09:12. > :09:14.I put in a bit of promise a lot as well!
:09:15. > :09:17.In The Vicar Of Dibley, more of her perfect comic timing.
:09:18. > :09:28.A single mother of two children, in a series of part-time jobs.
:09:29. > :09:30.She didn't start acting properly until she was 50.
:09:31. > :09:37.It was like a wonderful realisation that at last
:09:38. > :10:07.She owed that first acting role to the director, Mike Leigh.
:10:08. > :10:11.She loved being batty old ladies because in a way she was a batty
:10:12. > :10:13.old lady, except that underneath the eccentricity
:10:14. > :10:16.she was a really focussed person, but she loved it.
:10:17. > :10:20.Does this think play cassettes as well?
:10:21. > :10:23.She may have started late, but made up for it.
:10:24. > :10:25.The last time it was just like Jeremy Clarkson.
:10:26. > :10:30.Liz Smith at her scatty and brilliant best.
:10:31. > :10:42.The actress Liz Smith, who has died at the age of 95.
:10:43. > :10:45.Now on BBC One, we join the BBC's news teams where you are.