Is terminally ill his parents lose their final legal battle to give him experimental maxing out our credit cards a warning from the Bank Of England about forgetting the lessons of the past. Google faces a record fine from the eu competition watchdog, over £2 billion, for being unfair to other companies. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news, englands women post a record breaking total of 377 in their world cup match against pakistan. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has had to backtrack on her plans to push for a second Independence Referendum as early as next year. Todays decision follows the general election in which her snp lost 21 seats. Ruth davidson, the leader of the scottish conservatives, said ms sturgeon was as she put it Leaking Credibility and confidence. Heres our scotland editor sarah smith. Nicola sturgeon may not look like a woman thwarted. But she cannot now march ahead with her plans for an Independence Referendum, admitting today that voters have rejected that idea and she has had to think again. Having listened and reflected, the Scottish Government will reset the plan that i set out on march the 13th. We will not seek to introduce the legislation for an Independence Referendum immediately. Instead, we will, in good faith, redouble our effo rts will, in good faith, redouble our efforts and put our shoulder to the wheel in seeking to influence the brexit talks in a way that protect scotlands interests. She wants to keep open the option of a referendum after the brexit deal is cleared. The tories want her to abandon her plans completely. Im afraid to say that that statement will fail to give any assurance to those people that this First Minister is listening to them. Instead, she appears to be in denial about her mistakes about this over the past yearand, asa mistakes about this over the past yearand, as a result, is Leaking Credibility and confidence in her leadership by the hour. Nicola sturgeons message today is that she is listening to voters and she understands they dont want another Independence Referendum any time soon. But she has not taken It Com Pletely soon. But she has not taken it completely off the table and she says that she will continue to argue the case for why scotland should be an independent country. Yes in 2014, 40 5 of scots voted yes to independence. Support remains much the same today. The snp know that theyll have to make a fresh case if theyll have to make a fresh case if they are ever to win an Independence Referendum. And they will have to pick their timing of another vote carefully. Well, it is common sense, i think another referendum would be a disaster for scotland. I think another referendum would be a disaster for scotlandlj i think another referendum would be a disaster for scotland. I am an snp supporter, but i think it would make fio supporter, but i think it would make no sense , supporter, but i think it would make no sense, given the current political climate, it makes no sense for the snp to move forward with a vote on itjust now. I think we should have a vote on it, put it to the public and let them have a vote on it. The scottish greens back to the snp call for an early referendum and do not want to see the timetable slip. If we wait until autumn next year or slip. If we wait until autumn next year 01 even slip. If we wait until autumn next year or even later, we will be well out of the European Union before the people of scotland have the chance to say whether they consent to that. Scotla nd to say whether they consent to that. Scotland has not consented to leave the European Union or to have our rights and protections as european citizens torn up without our consent. Hollywood today heard Nicola Sturgeon says she was responding to voters that do not wa nt responding to voters that do not wantan responding to voters that do not want an independence vote, but also that she has not given up the fight. Hear opponents say she is not listening. Her party hope there is no more than a rain check, just a temporary delay. Has Nicola Sturgeon performed a u turn . She has abandoned a clear timetable she set out for scotland to have a vote on independence before the uk leaves the eu in march 2019. But she has not completely abandoned the idea of a referendum. That is why she is facing people who say she is in denial. But the snp did not want to take the referendum of the table. They think that once the terms of leaving the European Union are clear, they believe that support for a referendum will grow. Another day and another rise in the number of tower blocks around the country that have failed fire tests its now 95 buildings in more than 30 councils in england. The government has appointed a panel of experts to give advice on the immediate changes that can be made to avoid another Grenfell Tower disaster. Heres our home editor, mark easton. The Grenfell Tower fire is turning from sickening tragedy international scandal. The blaze appears to be exposing hidden risks and confusion over fire safety that stretches across the country. Every sample of cladding from 95 tower blocks, across 32 english local authorities, has now failed Government Tests, although the communities department, who 0rdered the testing, has named 0nly who 0rdered the testing, has named only 20 councils. The Prime Minister says there needs to be a Major National investigation. What we have seen national investigation. What we have seenin national investigation. What we have seen in tower blocks across the country is that we have so far seen 100 of the materials being combustible. Something is clearly gone wrong over a number of years and we need to find out what, why and we need to find out what, why and how to make sure it doesnt happen again. But there are questions about the testing process. Cladding from this block in norwich failed the Government Test last week. I am struggling to understand how it failed. But the Housing Association which owns it says the cladding past the fire test when it was installed. The certificate describes the panels as low risk, class zero. But the government now says they are class three, so dangerous they must be removed immediately. How come the test on friday moved from class 02 plus three . We can only presume what they did in the test, because we havent been told yet. All we have had is a Telephone Call on friday evening saying the product have failed the test, and what were we going to do about it . The bbc has learned that only weeks before the tragedy, the fire service warned every London Council that tower block cladding might be much more dangerous than realised if it had a flammable core. A new panel of fire and building safety expert is now advising the government on immediate steps to take. Peter bonfield is one of those experts, who also heads the Building Research establishment conducting the Cladding Tests for ministers. The government want to be able to screen and inform local authorities, Housing Associations and private landlords around the country, to inform them about whether or not they have this system on the outside. It doesnt mean the building is unsafe. But it is a helpful information that then stimulates inspections and other things that will help determine the risk or otherwise to the building. Many questions remain, however. As the combustibility test been changed . Traditional the combustibility test been changed . Traditional testing for Product Certification checks the Cladding Panel has a whole. At the Government Test focuses specifically on the core material inside it. Why test just Aluminium Cladding . On the core material inside it. Why testjust Aluminium Cladding . There are other kinds of cladding. What about insulation and firebreaks in the cavity behind it . It seems odd to look at just the cavity behind it . It seems odd to look atjust one part of the tower blocks fire safety. And what about the building as a whole . 0fficial regulations may allow some combustible elements if the tower blocks whole Design System is deemed fire resistant enough. Residents in some private tower blocks, like these in newcastle, wa nt tests blocks, like these in newcastle, want tests on their homes. The mayor of london fears some hospital buildings by not be safe enough. From this charred skeleton, a toxic cloud of uncertainty and anxiety has drifted across the country. Mark easton, bbc news. The governor of the Bank Of England has issued a warning about the amount of money banks are lending to us. It comes as Consumer Borrowing reaches its highest level since 2005. In fact, mark carney is concerned enough to ask banks to beef up their finances to protect themselves against the risk of bad loans. He told banks that they were in danger of forgetting the lessons of the past. Heres our economics editor kamal ahmed. Dylan brown works in it not badly paid, but often resorts to credit cards for the big bills. For him, read millions of others. Consumers working hard to make ends meet who are borrowing to fill the gaps and pay for those little extras. 0k, theres your bill, sir. Thank you. Just because obviously older, you know, renting a property, i have a car, i have a career and everything else, so in terms of. Turning to credit more so than a few years ago, yes, but abusing credit or misusing it . I wouldnt say that that would be the case. Its not a crisis yet, but today a warning from the Bank Of England. Consumer credit growth has far outpaced that of Household Income over the past year, with notable increases across credit cards, personal loans and to finance. So how bad is britains debt problem . The amount consumers have borrowed in loans on things like credit cards has risen to £198 billion. That is up 10 compared with the same time last year. Banks will now have to raise another £11. 4 billion as a safety net, in case people they have lent to dont pay them money back. I think mark carney wants to be proactive. He did talk of increasing Additional Capital a year ago, but he held off because of the brexit issue. And i think he wants to make sure the banks also are reminded they have to be more cautious in their consumer lending, given the speed at which their loan books have grown over the last few years. What are we borrowing for . To buy new cars with personalfinance deals, loans for holidays and home improvements, and with spending on our credit cards in the shops and online. I think this is an amber warning, for consumers and for banks. Not the flashing red lights of the financial crisis when Interest Rates were higher and banks, frankly, couldnt withstand any type of financial shock but a warning nevertheless. What if Interest Rates were to rise . What of prices keep going up . Could millions of people with billions of pounds worth of loans keep making those repayments . There are uncertainties ahead. Whether its that continuing Income Squeeze or those tricky brexit negotiations which could damage the economy. The governor struck a fairly relaxed note for the moment, but banks and consumers beware the economy can turn. Kamal ahmed, bbc news. Judges at the European Court of human rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally ill baby charlie gard to intervene in his case. Chris gard and connie yates lost their final legal bid to take their son to the us for treatment. The court concluded that undergoing experimental treatment with no prospects of success would continue to cause charlie significant harm. 0ur Medical Editor fergus walsh is with me now. A really sad case. What happens now . This is the end of the road, legally. It means at some point, possibly in the next couple of days, the medical team at great 0rmond Street Hospital will switch off the Mechanical Ventilator which keeps charlie alive. They will give him Palliative Care and he will be allowed to die. That will not happen until his parents have had some time to be with him. It is what all of the doctors, all of the medical team at Great 0rmond Street have wanted for months, and what everyjudge in the uk says should happen, and what all of the independent experts have said, including a guardian appointed to represent charlie. A lot of people will be saying to give them one more chance . I realise that, what an 80,000 people raised £1. 3 million in crowdfunding for this experimental treatment in the united states. Charlie is desperately ill, terminally ill. He cannot move, he cannot swallow. He has severe brain damage. The European Court backed uk judges, who they said were meticulous and thorough, that exposing him to treatment which could not help him was futile and would simply expose him to continued suffering and distress, and so he should be allowed to die with dignity. Thank you very much. Politicians in Northern Ireland are locked in intense talks about forming a new Coalition Government ahead of a deadline on thursday. The deal is dependent on the two biggest parties the democratic unionists and sinn fein resolving their differences. Stormont parties have been warned if they cannot reach agreement, direct rule from westminster could follow. The Us Technology giant google has been fined more than £2 billion by the European Commission for breaking competition laws. It ruled that the company had abused its dominance as a Search Engine by promoting its own shopping comparison service. The company says it is considering an appeal. Our Technology Correspondent rory cellanjones reports. Its the giant which dominates Online Search and now its been hit with a record fine. 0ver £2 billion. Rivals claimed that google had trampled on their business. The fine was imposed by europes competition commissioner, gaining a reputation for taking commissioner, gaining a reputation fortaking an commissioner, gaining a reputation for taking an powerful American Technology firms. Google has abused its Market Dominance as a Search Engine giving illegal advantages to other google products. Its shopping comparison service. The charges that it uses Search Engine might to favour its own shopping services. Lets put toaster into the box. Right at the top appears the google box with a series of adverts. If i click on these, google earns money. What you are not seeing, way down, out of sight, a rival Price Comparison sites. They are not getting the clicks and not earning the money. 0ne getting the clicks and not earning the money. One of those rivals says that todays fine is good news for shoppers. Without competition, google can charge merchants what they like for advertising. With competition, you end up with lots of Companies Competing on prices which brings the price down. Google says big rivals like amazon provide plenty of competition when it comes to choosing products and brussels doesnt understand the modern consumer. The search firm said. Get your products on google, other sites. There is concern at what firms see as interference. They say consumers wont benefit. If you are so consumers wont benefit. If you are so big, be careful about innovating because you could bring down the raft of the European Commission. Why do you want to risk that . For more than a decade, the European Commission has been taking on Technology Giants and today it makes clear that its battle against what it sees as an fair competition will continue. Our top story this evening scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backtracked on her plans to push for a second Independence Referendum as early as next year. And the flight of a lifetime for one of germanys most decorated Second World War pilots. Coming up in sportsday on bbc news, plenty of tries but the british and ireland lions blow a 14 point lead to draw the final midweek match of their tour to new zealand. The bullying of pupils for being gay, lesbian or transgender in secondary schools in britain needs to be urgently addressed, according to campaigners. They say although the number of incidents has fallen theres still a big problem. A study by the University Of Cambridge which was commissioned by the gay rights charity, stonewall says almost half of gay pupils who were questioned said they were bullied. More than 60 had self harmed and about one in five had tried to take their own life. 0ur Education editor Branwen Jeffreys has the story. B for is bisexual. So, someone who is sexually attracted to all the sexes, male and female. Giving them the facts not advice to understand themselves and others. Getting rid of the prejudice that leads to bullying. If we can create a culture that has a strong empathy towards others then we can challenge the attitudes that people might have and by overcoming any prejudice that way, that can also prevent any homophobic comments in the school. From cracking down on bullying to Hearing Talks from trans pupils, this Somerset School is building tolerance. Nobody is superior to another person. You cant. Diversity has superior to another person. You cant. Diversity has no limits. Some of these pupils are anti bullying mentors supporting others and being supported. Anti bullying mentors supporting others and being supportedlj anti bullying mentors supporting others and being supported. I was with a partner of the same sex and we we re with a partner of the same sex and we were treated like any other couple in the school. Thats a lovely thing to be to experience. Far too many schools arent doing enough to help jean far too many schools arent doing enough to Helpjean Agers who are grappling with their sexuality or gender. Teenagers. That puts them at risk of self harm or even attempting to take their own life. Teenagers told the charity stonewall. Some parents could he has supported as you like. Abbey was outed at school and it was among her darkest day. I felt it was like i didnt wa nt day. I felt it was like i didnt want to be here. There was no help. I felt like a freak and it felt horrible. Looking back at it now, why didl horrible. Looking back at it now, why did i feel that way . Today, promise of better support. Mental Health Training for teachers in all secondary schools. In the last few hours, Multi National companies around the world say theyve been hit by a major cyber attack. It began in ukraine and russia, before spreading to countries including france, denmark, and the uk. 0ur security correspondent, gordon corera, is here, what do we know about this current attack . Initially the first reports came out of ukraine and it looked quite serious there with airports, the bank, the metro head. It looked quite localised. Then reports of it spreading started to appear. We heard about a russian oil reducer being hit. We hurt about heard about the Port Of Rotterdam being hit and about the Port Of Rotterdam being hitand an about the Port Of Rotterdam being hit and an Advertising Firm in london. Clearly it is spreading. What users are faced with when they open them is a screen saying they have been locked out and they need to pay a ransom to be let back into their computers. It is similar to their computers. It is similar to the ransomware that hit the nhs last month. It seems to be spreading pretty fast but the nhs says they have no sign so far of nhs trusts being affected. Its a question of waiting and watching to see how far this has spread and what disruption it causes. The treatment of more than Seventeen Hundred nhs patients in england may have been put at risk by whats been described as a colossal administrative blunder. The National Audit office has found that over five years hundreds of thousands of documents including Cancer Diagnoses and other test results were left to pile up in a warehouse instead of being sent to hospitals or gps. Heres our Health Editor hugh pym with the story. They were important letters from hospitals to gps with test results and other vital information. But they piled up in a warehouse and hundreds, possibly thousands of patients could have been harmed. This situation is a scandal. For Something Like this to happen on such a scale, and to be so prolonged, is completely unacceptable. In january 2014, the company handling the letters became aware of a risk to patients, but didnt reveal it. In august 2015, a member of staff raised concerns some records were being destroyed. In march 2016, the Company Finally informed nhs england and the Department Of Health but Neither Parliament or the public were told at the time. We are shocked on behalf of patients, that such a scandal has occurred. And, to add to that, the lack of transparency is extremely worrying. All the letters have been recovered. Doctors are going through them to check whether patient care was affected. A department of Health Spokesperson said no cases of harm to patients had been identified so far and that work was continuing with nhs england to ensure this didnt happen again, with officials mindful of the need for transparency. In the commons, the Health Secretary said mistakes couldnt always be prevented. What we can do is make sure we react quickly when that happens, which happened on this occasion, but we can also make sure that we have better assurance than we had on this occasion. And i can assure the house that the appropriate lessons will be learned. But labour said it was a shambolic catalogue of failure. Hugh pym, bbc news. One of germanys most highly decorated Second World War pilots has achieved a long held ambition to fly in a spitfire. 95 year old hugo broch took to the skies over kent, where the raf held the line during the battle of britain. Robert hall has been talking to him. The roar of a merlin engine, heralding the meeting of a Great Machine with a great pilot. During his career, mostly on the russian front, hugo broch was credited with 81 victories in 324 missions. Every german squadron had heard of the spitfire, herr broch had waited most of his life to fly in one. Translation the spitfire was greatly respected. With these machines you have a great chance of feeling free and being able to do what you want. And i expect to get that feeling again today. The spitfire gained its iconic status during the summer of 1940 when the raf fought to hold off an invasion. There is still debate whether whether the planes or the pilots won the battle. As his ground crew hurried to scramble this spitfire ahead of the approaching rain clouds, herr broch clearly remembered the drill. Herr brochs delight as he soared above the kent hills. He declined an offer to take the controls, saying that in this case he was just a back seat driver. Then, all too soon, it was over. Summed up in one word. Wonderful. Translation the spitfire is an excellent aircraft and i had an excellent pilot. I remember how fantastic it is to be able to fly. On one question, herr broch was adamant. The aircraft he flew all those years ago were still the best. Robert hall, bbc news biggin hill. Time for a look at the weather. Heres tomasz schafernaker. A bit ofa a bit of a shock to the system, this rain. A bit like summer came to the abrupt end and autumn is knocking on the door. At a warning if youre travelling across south eastern areas. There will be spray on the roads, miserable conditions at times. You can see this lump of rain heading towards the south east, its already brought quite a bit of rain to the coast and there is more to come. That needs to barrel through to the south east of east anglia. Earlier, the heavy rain in the north has fizzled out. The wet weather will be across central and eastern areas tonight. By five oclock in the morning, still pretty warm in the morning, still pretty warm in the south. 16 degrees in the south. A lot fresher further north at 11. This low pressure is here to stay all week but not raining every single day. There are various areas of Rain Travelling and moving to different parts of the country. Tomorrow, this area is moving northwards and westwards so it will be stuck across this central swathe of the uk from lincolnshire to the north east. In the south tomorrow, it is going to be a better day and its also going to be a better day across scotland. The bit in the middle will have worse weather. That rain quite heavy at times. Then the rain quite heavy at times. Then the rain moves back into scotland on thursday. From aberdeen to edinburgh, some rain. It could improve a little bit by thursday in the south east. The south east experiencing the worst day today and this evening. The outlook is looking drier and brighter. Strongly suggesting that it is not looking ideal this weekend. Thanks very much. A reminder of our main story. Nicola sturgeon has had to backtrack hello. This is bbc news. The headlines. Scotlands First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her government is delaying plans for a second
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