Good Afternoon And Welcome to the Bbc News at one. The former Bbc Presenter Huw edwards has pleaded guIlty to three counts of makIng Indecent Images of chIldren, one as young as seven to nIne years old. He was arrested last november and charged last month, before makIng the plea thIs mornIng at westmInster magIstrates court. Our senIor Uk Correspondent SIma Kotecha Is there for us now. SIma, what more do we know . Afternoon, sally. Huw edwards made hImself Into courtjust after 9am thIs mornIng, he was flanked by several PolIce OffIcers who led hIm In through the double doors behInd me. The court heard he was sent the Images In a Whatsapp Chat wIth another man. Today, 41 of those Images were Indecent Images, we were told, maInly IncludIng chIldren between the ages of 12, at least two of the Images In both chIldren aged between seven and nIne years old. HIs lawyer told the court there was no suggestIon that he had made any of these Images to hImself. The judge saId he would not sentence
we start here in the uk, where another two energy suppliers have gone out of business the latest victims of the crisis caused by a huge increase in the cost of gas. the firms are green supplier and avro energy, with 800,000 customers between them. all affected customers will continue to receive energy while a new supplier is appointed by the regulator ofgem. it warns more firms are set to close, potentially affecting millions of customers. bulb, the uk s sixth largest energy company with 1.7 million customers, is already looking at its financial options. our business correspondent colletta smith has the latest. two more energy firms have collapsed. as avro and green call in the administrators, that clocks up a total of six energy companies folding within the last fortnight. the industry called for help, but the government says they won t bail out suppliers in trouble. in the first instance, the industry has to look to itself and, as you said at the beginning of your questio
ministers committed to ending rough sleeping by the end of this year. an inquiry into how a serving metropolitan police officer was able to abduct and kill sarah everard has concluded he remained on the force because of failures in recruitment and vetting. the inquiry said red flags were missed at the three different police forces where wayne couzens served over several years. he was off duty when he kidnapped the 33 year old in march 2021. he is now serving a whole life sentence for rape and murder. her killing by a serving police officer prompted a widespread outpouring of anger and grief and sparked demonstrations over concern for the safety of women. the chair of the inquiry said that without a radical overhaul of police vetting and recruitment there is nothing to stop another wayne couzens operating in plain sight. we are expecting the full police response shortly but we have heard an opening statement from chief constable gavin stevens who said the harrowing murder of s
that from the very beginning they thought this missing persons investigation, they treated nicola as high risk because she had specific vulnerability. they later clarified all that by telling us what those vulnerabilities wear. they said that nicola had alcohol issues and that she had struggled with the menopause, and that they had resurfaced in recent months. that provoked a lot of reaction. you heard that tweet from the home secretary. what followed was a lot of criticism, which perhaps the force was not expecting, from a number of groups who felt deeply uncomfortable that this kind of information was being released to the public, details of nicola s private life, three weeks into the investigation, and the questioned whether it was relevant, whether they had to do that at all. so the force was under a lot of scrutiny. lancashire police did inform nicola s family they were about to do this. they said that nicola would not have wanted that kind of information to be released.