in what's being seen as a key test of the party's ability to regain seats in scotland. with a larger than expected swing of 20.4%, labour's michael shanks secured just under 18,000 votes, more than double the total for the snp's katy loudon, who came second. the by—election was triggered by the removal of the snp's margaret ferrier, after she broke covid lockdown rules. 0ur scotland correspondent lorna gordon was at the count. welcome to scotland's newest mp, michael shanks! fix, welcome to scotland's newest mp, michael shanks!— michael shanks! a striking victory in what was _ michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a _ michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal— michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal seat, - michael shanks! a striking victory in what was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. the?a as a seismic and historic win. they said that we _ as a seismic and historic win. they said that we couldn't _ as a seismic and historic win. they said that we couldn't change the labour_ said that we couldn't change the labour party, and we did it. they said that — labour party, and we did it. they said that we couldn't win in the south _ said that we couldn't win in the south of— said that we couldn't win in the south of england and the north of england. — south of england and the north of england, and we did it. they said you will never beat the snp in scotland. _ you will never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. ., , scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. from the party plans 's leader to activists _ it. from the party plans 's leader to activists working _ it. from the party plans 's leader to activists working the - it. from the party plans 's leader to activists working the streets, l to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into the constituency and the win was much, much bigger than many had expected. michael shanks, scottish labour party, 17,841. michael shanks, scottish labour party. 17.841.— michael shanks, scottish labour pa ,17,841. ., , party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for — party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for the _ party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for the snp. _ party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for the snp. the _ party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for the snp. the party - party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes for the snp. the party of. the votes for the snp. the party of power at holyrood face challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so it was a bruising result for them. i even so it was a bruising result for them. u, , even so it was a bruising result for them. _, , ., ., ., , them. i recognise that we have a big challenae them. i recognise that we have a big challenge on — them. i recognise that we have a big challenge on our— them. i recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and - them. i recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as - them. i recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a - challenge on our hands and as a party— challenge on our hands and as a party we — challenge on our hands and as a party we need to come together collectively to write to the wrongs that have — collectively to write to the wrongs that have happened in the last few months _ that have happened in the last few months. ., ., , ., , months. turnout was low, but those crunchin: months. turnout was low, but those crunching the _ months. turnout was low, but those crunching the numbers _ months. turnout was low, but those crunching the numbers say - months. turnout was low, but those crunching the numbers say if- months. turnout was low, but those crunching the numbers say if this . crunching the numbers say if this result was repeated uniformly across scotland, labour could win as many as 42 seats in a general election. by—elections will often exaggerate the swing against the government but still it is the direction of travel you cannot ignore in this by—election. i suspect that if this type of swing was replicated across scotland as a whole, labour would clearly be the dominant party north of the border again.— clearly be the dominant party north of the border again. labour believes the win demonstrates _ of the border again. labour believes the win demonstrates they - of the border again. labour believes the win demonstrates they are - of the border again. labour believes the win demonstrates they are back| the win demonstrates they are back in business in scotland, and with the general election looming hope it will give momentum for their push to more scottish seats and the keys to number ten. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, is in rutherglen. what could this result mean for labour at a general election? well, there is no doubt this is a big win for labour. the question is, how big? the party knew they had to win here, and convincingly, and they have with a pretty thumping majority in the end. if replicated across the country, senior people in the scottish labour party think they could win 25, 30 seats in scotland at a general election. that would be crucial for sir at a general election. that would be crucialfor sir keir at a general election. that would be crucial for sir keir starmer�*s hope of winning a majority across the uk at a general election. he will be absolutely hoping that happens, because the last time labour won a general election in 2005, they won 40 seats in scotland, so this matters across the uk, it matters for a general election result. but so do the caveats. this seat is pretty volatile, it has changed hands at every election since 2010. it is worth remembering that in terms of the snp, they will now try to regroup and find ways of presenting more of a challenge to the labour party. chatting to senior snp people they think there have been some pretty difficult circumstances, be it the sacking of the last mp here for breaking covid laws or the fact that the police are investigating snp funding. but even with those caveats, this is a really big moment in scottish politics. labour think they are back. nick eardley, thank you. every family in a village in north—eastern ukraine has been affected by yesterday's missile attack on a cafe, according to the country's interior minister. 52 people are now known to have been killed — about a fifth of the village's population. the attack took place in the kharkiv region of eastern ukraine. the blast, in the small village of hroza, is the deadliest in the country in more than a year. russia hasn't officially commented on the strike, but has claimed it doesn't target civilians. 0ur correspondent abdujalil abdurasulov reports from kyiv. the search operation continued overnight. thousands of bodies were recovered from the rubble. among them, a six—year—old boy. almost every household in the small village lost a family member in this attack. translation:— lost a family member in this attack. translation: my sunscreen that we should run to — translation: my sunscreen that we should run to the _ translation: my sunscreen that we should run to the seller. _ translation: my sunscreen that we should run to the seller. these - should run to the seller. these fascists need to be kicked out, all of them. they should be a missile that will destroy all of russia —— my son screamed that we need to rush to the cellar. this my son screamed that we need to rush to the cellar-— to the cellar. this is what is left ofthe to the cellar. this is what is left of the buildings _ to the cellar. this is what is left of the buildings hit _ to the cellar. this is what is left of the buildings hit by _ to the cellar. this is what is left of the buildings hit by a - to the cellar. this is what is left j of the buildings hit by a ballistic missile — of the buildings hit by a ballistic missile in— of the buildings hit by a ballistic missile in the village of hroza. local— missile in the village of hroza. local villagers gathered for a funeral wake and a cafe, only a few survive. tatiana's daughter, her son—in—law and his mother were killed in the air strike and she says rescuers are still searching for her to —— her daughter's body. reports from the scene have not indicated the presence of any nearby military target. translation: there were only civilians, _ military target. translation: there were only civilians, the _ military target. translation: there were only civilians, the dead - military target. translation: tics were only civilians, the dead and injured are only civilians, only civilian powers, no signs military personnel were stationed here. this is a small settlement and a third of the village died in this room. furs; the village died in this room. fury in the morning — the village died in this room. fury in the morning too. _ the village died in this room. fury in the morning too. the search is turning to collaborators who might have helped the russians. translation: we have helped the russians. translation:— have helped the russians. translation: ~ ., . ., translation: we are conducting all necessary investigative _ translation: we are conducting all necessary investigative actions - necessary investigative actions aimed at identifying the person or persons who directed the rockets at these premises.— persons who directed the rockets at these premises. another attack this mornin: . these premises. another attack this morning. ukraine's _ these premises. another attack this morning. ukraine's second - these premises. another attack this morning. ukraine's second largest l morning. ukraine's second largest city of kharkiv was hit by a missile and several apartment blocks were severely damaged. they pulled this man's son and wife from the rubble but he says his mother and ten—year—old son are still inside. this is a cruel war, ukrainian officials say. such deadly attacks happened with terrifying frequency. and what it is even more devastating for people here is that they see no end to this war any time soon. we are getting reports that the mother and son of the man you saw in my report were likely killed during the attack on kharkiv. the military administration reports that the body of a 68—year—old woman and her ten—year—old grandson were retrieved from the rubble and these were probably a mother and son of oleg, from my report. for the village of hroza worriedly 62 people were killed during an air strike, the un convention on human rights and sending a team to investigate that attack and to see. a 36—year—old man has been charged in connection with a suspected plot to kidnap the itv presenter holly willoughby. she didn't appear on yesterday's edition of this morning, and is believed to be under police protection at her home. sarah campbell has joined sarah campbell hasjoined me, what do we know? sarah campbell has “oined me, what do we know?— sarah campbell has “oined me, what do we know? 5: ~ , ., ., , do we know? 36-year-old gavin plumb from harlow — do we know? 36-year-old gavin plumb from harlow in — do we know? 36-year-old gavin plumb from harlow in essex _ do we know? 36-year-old gavin plumb from harlow in essex has _ from harlow in essex has been charged with soliciting to commit murder and incitement to commit kidnap. holly willoughby did not appear on this morning yesterday, details first revealed in the sun of an alleged plot which it said mean she is now under police protection. essex police have confirmed that the 36—year—old man was arrested. detective superintendent rob kirby called this an extremely fast paced investigation with many officers and national partners working overnight to secure the charges. itv, holly willoughby is clearly one of their biggest stars, they had said the news has come as a huge shock to everybody at this morning and itv, they are providing support to her and herfamily. dermot o'leary they are providing support to her and her family. dermot o'leary and alison hammond were presenting this morning, dermot said they would not speak too much about it but holly was on the front pages, alison hammond said we are shocked, we want to send our love and biggest perks to send our love and biggest perks to herfamily, the prime minister was on the programme, he said he was sorry to hear it and he sent his best wishes to the presenter. thank ou, sarah best wishes to the presenter. thank you, sarah campbell. _ the most vulnerable children will be living with impact of covid lockdowns for the next ten or even 20 years, according to the former children's commissioner for england. anne longfield has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry, and said that in any future emergency, schools should be the last thing to close and the first to reopen. our education reporter vanessa clarke is in salford. tell us more about what anne longfield has been saying? if rare longfield has been saying? if we cast our minds _ longfield has been saying? if we cast our minds back _ longfield has been saying? if we cast our minds back to _ longfield has been saying? it "has: cast our minds back to march 2020, thatis cast our minds back to march 2020, that is when all schools closed apart from to those families with vulnerable children. injune, things started to open back up, theme parks opens back up, garden pubs were allowed to open, as well as nonessential shops. anne longfield told the inquiry this was a terrible mistake, she said it was eat out to help out instead of opening schools. she said the inquiry and the decisions made by the government at the time were incoherent and indifferent to the impact on families and students and she said any future decisions or any future emergencies should have them at the heart, schools should be the very last thing is to close and the very first to reopen. she spoke about at—risk children at the time, they had fewer opportunities for face to face visits with surgeries close and children's centre is closed and she thinks policies around at—risk children at the time make them extremely vulnerable. this part of the inquiry is looking up decisions made at the time. today anne longfield was quite critical of the fact that children were not at the heart of those and in the future we will have consequences because of those. vanessa clarke, thank you. the nobel peace prize has been awarded to the jailed iranian human rights activist, narges mohammadi. the nobel committee in oslo praised what it called her fight against the oppression of women in iran, and her efforts to promote freedom for all. the 51—year—old is serving a ten—year prison sentence for offences including propaganda against the state. caroline hawley has this report. in iran last year, spearheaded by women, an extraordinary rebellion set off by the death in police custody of a young woman detained for allegedly not wearing her veil properly. the nobel committee said this award was for the hundreds of thousands of iranians who had stood up thousands of iranians who had stood up against a theocratic regime's policies of discrimination and oppression against women. now personality is around's most prominent human rights activist. here she was seven years ago criticising the regime for forcing women to wear the hijab while allowing corruption to run rampant —— narges mohammadi is the country's most prominent human rights activist. she is currently serving a ten—year sentence. her activist. she is currently serving a ten-year sentence.— ten-year sentence. her brave stru: ale ten-year sentence. her brave struggle has _ ten-year sentence. her brave struggle has come _ ten-year sentence. her brave struggle has come with - ten-year sentence. her brave - struggle has come with tremendous personal cost. altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted herfive regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.— in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians _ in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians who _ in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians who see _ in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians who see her - in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians who see her as - in prison and 154 lashes. among the many iranians who see her as a - in prison and 154 lashes. among the | many iranians who see her as a hero is nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe who was held in the same jail as her. is nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe who was held in the samejail as her. they became friends. she told the bbc... it comes amid international concern for the 16—year—old girl. cctv caught her on sunday walking purposefully unveiled into the metro in tehran. this is her a little later. iran has not released images of what happened inside the carriage but activists say iran's morality police beat her and she is now in a coma. the awarding of the nobel peace prize to narges mohammadi sends a very strong message that the world is watching the iranian regime. the time is 13:15. our top story this afternoon... labour celebrates winning the rutherglen and hamilton west by—election with a swing of more than 20% from the snp. and still to come — we're with the wilko staff who are shutting up shop for the last time. coming up on bbc news, lioness alessia russo prepares to face herformer club for the first time, as manchester united face arsenal in the women's super league tonight. every year, thousands of people in england and wales are accused of crimes of which they're later acquitted. while their names may be cleared, they are often left emotionally and financially devastated — with many forced to pay huge legal fees out of their own pockets. our correspondent nick garnett has been to west wales to meet brian buckle, whose family spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on his defence. this is the first time he's spoken publicly since being cleared of all charges earlier this year. when i was put in the cell, i just sat there all night and just cried and cried. sentenced to 15 years after being wrongfully convicted. at that point, you realize you're a convicted sex offender. yes, yeah. it took brian buckle six years to clear his name and it had a huge emotional and financial impact on him and his family. we've spent over half a million pounds. brian is a victim of what some call the innocence tax. if you earn very modest amounts, you don't get legal aid. so you then have to fund yourself, you're innocent and you're taxed by the state. you have to pay for your defence when you shouldn't, i would say. the bbc understands that despite the government announcing that it's lifting the cap on legal aid for crown court cases, that help won't be available for up to two years. we started straight awayl getting the appeal going. brian's aunt, mum and wife decided to dedicate their time to proving his innocence, using savings, loans and inheritance money. we didn't know where to start. not a clue. elaine felt the weight of justice was on their shoulders. you're guilty until you prove yourself innocent. _ and it's you who has to do the work. one of britain's most senior legal figures has written a report on false allegations and believes there's a weakness in the system. police officers, as soon as they find some evidence that tends to support an allegation, a charge follows and the investigative process ceases. that is wrong. weaknesses in the legal system can also affect victims of crime. support groups say that the number of allegations that make it to court is tiny compared to the number that actually get made to the police. wrongfully convicted of sexual abuse against a child, brian spent overfive years in prison. his accuser has lifelong anonymity. it was hard. you're sitting in there with real sex offenders and you hear people gloating and itjust makes your blood boil. forensics, my words. using a specialist legal and forensics team, they uncovered new dna evidence. a hearing at the court of appeal was granted. brian watched from prison on a video link. clerk of the court's come out and said to me, "mr buckle, do you know what's happening here now?" and i said, "no, not really." "you're released," he said. "you're going home." i was like, what? all 16 verdicts were quashed that day. i know that you never done it. and eight months later, when the case went to a retrial, brian was found not guilty of all charges. it's been an emotional roller—coaster. diagnosed with ptsd, brian was left facing damage to his mental health. i know i need help and i need counselling, but it's trying to find that. there's no help out there for you. let me ask you what the cost of your innocence has been. i missed my daughter's 18th birthday. zist. her dad taking herfor her first driving lesson. it's been a lot. beautiful day. brian now makes every day count... my little family. ..with elaine and georgia. if i can help other people that are going through this, that's what i want to do. if i didn't have the family support me, i'd be still in prison, an innocent man. i wouldn't be here now. brian is still waiting to hear if he'll get any compensation in the hope he can recover some of the huge costs they've paid out. nick garnett, bbc news. and you can see more about brian's fight for freedom in the documentary the cost of innocence, available now on the bbc iplayer. the final wilko stores will close for good this weekend. the 90—year—old budget home ware chain went into administration in august. some shops have been bought by rival retailers, but will be rebranded. the owner of poundland has bought 71 sites, which they will rename. another rival chain, b&m, has agreed to buy up to 51 stores, although there are no details about which ones. wilko employed about 12,500 staff. some have been offered roles with other retailers, but the majority have been made redundant. our business correspondent emma simpson has been to leicester, where wilko was founded, to join workers for their final shift. # so long, farewell # au revoir, auf wiedersehen...# it's been a long goodbye. across the country, the workers from wilko have been posting videos on social media... ..including the distribution centre... # sha—la—la—la—la—la—la—la.# ..going out in style. £1 cake tin, sir. but when it's the final day of trading, there's still a job to do. just clear the shelves. that's the aim of the game today. sell every last piece. never thought it would come to this. we were big business. pleasure to work with you. you too. aw, like a family. one last shift together in leicester — shirts to be signed, plenty of hugs, an emotional day for everyone. thank you. customers have come to say cheerio, too. she made my shopping trips happy with her smile. such a sad day. there's a parting gift. the shelves are almost empty, but this tribute board, at least, will survive, heading to the local museum. there are some really lovely messages here. i've reported on an awful lot of retailers going bust over the years, and i haven't seen such affection for a brand and its staff since the collapse of woolies 14 years ago. meetjan and david — they've racked up nearly a century at wilko between them. the good old days. we still traded the store really, really aggressively, didn't we? we did. cheap and cheerful — that was our name. yeah. wilkos has been my life, my outside family. you know, it is a family—run business. and ijoined it when i was 18, and i'm still here now on this very last day. i've made an effort to come in to say goodbye. tough day? tough day, very tough day. it's been our lives. and, you know, it's been... we grew up with people. we've met people. we've learnt from people. it's been a fabulous ride. but the ride's coming to an end now. you know, we want to go out with a big smile and to say goodbye and people will remember, and thank you. yeah. and that is exactly what the team here did, as the shutters closed for the last time. emma simpson, bbc news, leicester. a man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of pc sharon beshenivsky. the police officer was shot dead after she and a colleague responded to a report of a robbery in bradford in 2005. piran ditta khan — who's 74 — appeared at leeds crown court this morning after being brought to the uk from pakistan in april. the next paralympic games get under way in paris in august next year. and it's been announced that from now on, the paralympic flame will begin its journey for the torch relay, which takes place in the run—up to every games, at stoke mandeville — because that's where the paralympics movement was born, back in 1948. john maguire has this story. it's incredible to think that what was called a hospital sports day, coinciding with the london olympics in 1948, has grown into one of the biggest international events on the planet. it was the brainchild of professor sir ludwig guttmann, a neurologist who fled the nazis and at stoke mandeville hospital in buckinghamshire set about rehabilitating people with spinal injuries. well, i haven't got much hope. you haven't got much hope? no. oh, look here. cut that out. at the time, life expectancy for a paraplegic patient was just two years. immobility led to infections. but the professor had other radical ideas and he was characteristically blunt about it. to put it quite clearly, to transform a helpless individual, severely disabled, into a taxpayer. that sounds very materialistic, but there's a deep philosophy behind it. a just 18, sally haynes was a very promising horsewoman. but a riding accident damaged her spine, and she was treated at stoke mandeville. living near the hospital, she was well used to seeing patients in wheelchairs. so when i actually finished up being one of them, i wasn't scared. i...i was horrified, but i wasn't scared because i had this great faith in guttmann because of his already acknowledged achievements. naturally competitive, sallyjumped at the chance to join the team for what was now known as the stoke mandeville games, being staged after the rome olympics in 1960. she went on to win gold and silver medals at subsequent events and became a trailblazer for wheelchairfencing in the uk, all the while embodying the spirit of the games. it was compensation for what i couldn't do with my riding and racing, show jumping. it was a replacement for that because i hadn't found anything to replace that feeling of...i wanted to make myself better doing it. which was the same with riding all the time. it was what you were looking for and the wheelchair sport was giving me what i was looking for. her family and friends organised a horse show to raise money and this is sally as a cheque is handed over to professor guttmann to pay for the athletes' flights to rome. over the years, the stoke mandeville games have become the paralympics. they've grown hugely in scale, ambition and global recognition, with the idea to create the flame here and start every torch relay from now on. the fire that was lit by professor guttmann 75 years ago should now burn brighter than ever. john maguire, bbc news. a tropical turtle that was found washed up on a beach in scotland last year has been released into the atlantic ocean, after what's been described as a remarkable recovery. when the turtle was found off the island of iona, she was malnourished and dehydrated — and not expected to survive. graham satchell tells her story. iona the turtle — these her final moments in captivity before being released into the wild. she is alive today because of the kindness of strangers and has come on a remarkable journey to get to this point. the loggerhead turtle was found in january last year. covered in sand, she was dehydrated, malnourished, barely alive. jane kindlen, who found her, gave her the name iona. it's the island off the west coast of scotland where she'd landed. iona was taken to the sea life centre in loch lomond, where a team of experts started her recovery. she was then moved to scarborough, where she made gradual and steady progress, putting on more than ten times the weight she had when she was found. most loggerhead turtles start their life in the gulf of mexico. it's thought iona may have been carried on the gulf stream to the inner hebrides. after spending time at sea life centres in scotland and then in scarborough, this week she was flown to the azores in the atlantic to be released into the wild. on the quayside, time for one last quick clean before being taken on to a small boat and fitted with a tracking device. when everybody�*s ready... and then, finally, the moment of freedom. the second it went back in the water, in the ocean, it was back to doing its absolutely natural behaviour, and that was...we were ecstatic to see that, to see how well it adapted instantly. it was a really lovely feeling to see her kind ofjust go i off into the big blue. and i think the biggest thing, . that apprehension really of kind of what's going to happen to her — where's she going to go now. - but i know that the part that we've all played has given her the best . chances that we can do in the wild. iona was the smallest turtle to be found alive in the uk. today, thanks to a small army of helpers, she is fully grown and back in the wild. graham satchell, bbc news. fantastic! time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith—lucas. there is mixed weather types, very mixed fortunes depending on where you are. this is the picture hampton, west london, warm blue sky and sunshine out there but a different picture further north, more cloud, outbreaks of rain, this is the scene on the banks of lake windermere a bit earlier on. what many of will notice is the temperature, as we head through the next few days, particularly across england, wales and northern ireland, well above what we would expect for the time of year, but notice the blue hue for scotland, that will show as temperatures will be colder than average there and that's because we've got a weather front that will be slow moving and producing a lot of rain. over the next few days this is the rainfall likely to accumulate. we could see 150 millimetres or more than that over the higher ground off western scotland and that sort of amount of rain means we could see some disruption so that an amber warning in force for that heavy rain across western parts of scotland valid from 3am on saturday until 6am on sunday, so it's a slow moving feature, you can see the weather front on the pressure map, whereas further south it's going to be high pressure setting across europe that will dominate our weather.