critical tory mps and the public? also tonight. the energy regulator ofgem warns of a significant risk of gas shortages this winter. the man accused of murdering nine year old olivia pratt korbel appears in court in liverpool. cheers for the king and queen consort on their first public engagement since the end of the period of royal mourning. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel: there s always pride at stake in the east midlands derby, but there could be jobs on the line as well, as leicester face nottingham forest. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s been a tough day that s how the chancellor began his speech to the party faithful at the conservative party conference this afternoon. it follows a dramatic u turn this morning when the government suddenly dropped its plan to scrap the 45p top rate of income tax. only yesterday, the prime minister had insisted the tax cut would stay. but now kwasi kwarteng says criticism of
targets in areas such as supply interruptions and pollution incidents. the money will be taken off household bills from next april. rare photos of the beatles performing in their early days at liverpool s cavern club have been discovered. the images were taken in 1961, a year before their debut single love me do was released. police are investigating after a significant quantity of what is thought be cocaine was found washed up on a beach in wales. a large number of black bags tied to buoyancy aids were found on a beach near aberystwyth by passers by on saturday morning. our wales correspondent, hywel griffith, reports. washed up with the flotsam and jetsam, a giant haul of class a drugs. the black bags were spotted on tan y bwlch beach by a walker on saturday morning, who called in the police to this quiet corner of cardigan bay. then yesterday, more emerged. so the police boatjust came in down here and pulled up just at the start, really,