iyou you have an old £5 note in your pocket you may want to spend it rather soon! it won't be accepted in shops after the close of business tomorrow. the bank of england says there are still 150 million of them in circulation, although banks and building societies will accept them. there are some flashing images in this report. the period ofjuggling both the old and new £5 notes is coming to an end. the old ones have to go back to the bank. but some at this london market aren't prepared for the paper five is being ceased as legal tender at midnight tomorrow. do people not know? i haven't seen it on the news, i haven't read it in the paper. so a real surprise. there are 150 million out there so you might see some more. it's not legal tender after friday so it's no good. people got

used to the paper five featuring elizabeth fry. she is now making way for the winston churchill plastic fiver. it means that after this there won't be a bank of england note with a woman on it, except for the queen. but the bank of england says 150 million notes remain at large. so why the abrupt cut—off? the new polymer £5 note featuring winston churchill has lots of clever security features that make it much more secure. we want the public to have those notes rather than the old note, setting a clear doubt of the 5th of may to reduce the elizabeth fry note, meaning people know exactly which notes to have, which to check, which security features to understand. after friday you will still be able to take your old notes into your bank and deposit them or exchange them, but shops won't be

accepting them, so you're probably best off just spending accepting them, so you're probably best offjust spending them before then. the bank of england says it will take paper five is then. the bank of england says it will take paperfive is back for all time, but be warned — at the till, they will be rejected! more now on 0bamacare and the vote from the house of representatives. we can go to gary 0'donoghue in washington. it squeeze through. we can go to gary 0'donoghue in washington. it squeeze throughm four votes. 217 and 213. the house of democrats voting to vote against —— planning to vote against it so it like some republicans defied their own party. that's what it takes, a simple majority. it's as good as anything as far as the republicans are concerned, and they will take it. also getting on and heading for a little party in the rose garden at the white house as we speak. the president is holding that for them.

they will see this as a day to celebrate, a big day. they failed to do this twice early in the year and 110w do this twice early in the year and now they've got it through. it's a victory but it's not the end, because the bill now has to go through the senate, the upper house of congress, and air, the majority of congress, and air, the majority of republicans is much tighter. 5248. some are already planning to change this bill in terms of the bits they don't like, the bit they wa nt to bits they don't like, the bit they want to add. —— 52/ 48. the two will have to we reconcile, and that's the point where they might start losing support as well. a long way to go but i step on the way, a milestone on the way, for president trump, no doubt. it doesn't seem clear, though, how many people will lose coverage as a result of this, does it? you have all sorts of think—tanks and various sort of esteemed academics making all sorts of addictions about that, as you would expect at this sort of time,

but there's been no official scoring of this bill. in other words, how much will it cost? who will it affect? how will it affect them? that's what happens with every piece of legislation, or tends to. that's what happens with every piece of legislation, ortends to. it that's what happens with every piece of legislation, or tends to. it has with this one because they've been changing it up to the last minute and they can't do that kind of work very quickly. so they have voted on this not knowing how much it will cost or who it is going to affect, and that will emerge, i think, in the next few weeks. then you will perhaps see some more pressure and concerned in the senate for changes and then we will see what they do to the bill. but this might not be a very quick process. this could take weeks and weeks and weeks for this to be resolved. don't forget, it took president 0bama a lot longer than this to actually put 0bamacare in place in 2009. thank you very much. let's speak to a senior research fellow in health policy studies in

0hio, a conservative think—tank. thank you forjoining us. it is passed this first hurdle in the house of representatives. why are you so keen to see the repeal of 0bamacare? well, what people have missed in this debate is there's been a lot of focus on the roughly 20 million people who gained subsidised coverage for health care through 0bamacare, but what has been missing is the focus on the 25 million, at least as many if not more, people who have not got any subsidies but got hit with the enormous increases in premiums, and then loss of coverage. those people are self—employed people, small businesses, and those are the constituents behind the republicans' effort to repeal and replace 0bama care. those are the ones who put donald trump and the republicans in office is based on their promise to

do this, so obviously those people aren't going to be very happy, or at least see that progress is being made. just yesterday, and said... we had another indication of the problem is those people are facing in the state of iowa. they keep losing money under the 0bamacare regulations, and that could leave self—employed and small businesses there with no insurers. the congressional budget office suggested the initial bill back in march would have seen 24 million people without insurance. they haven't done a calculation for this latest version, but what is your estimate of how many people won't be insured? as your correspondent pointed out, they have to revise it and there is considerable disagreement. the congressional office is the official scorekeeper, but just like other office is the official scorekeeper, butjust like other scorekeeper is, it doesn't mean they are always

right, and the previous director of the office about a month ago at the speech in boston admitted that what a number of us researchers have known for a while — they actually had got a lot of these numbers wrong. and we've seen that several times. they overestimate consistently the number of people who will sign up or the market subsidies. they've underestimated the number of people who will get the number of people who will get the programme coverage. so it remains to be seen what their score will be. the other question is how much their score is accurate. but there are some suggestions that some states will be able to opt out of pre—existing conditions and that older customers could be charged up to five times more for their premiums. what was your message to those people, who will dojack premiums. what was your message to those people, who will do jack —— who will lose out due to age or geography? they won't lose out. what the legislation is doing is saying

that will only apply if you had done the wrong thing and not bought coverage but just the wrong thing and not bought coverage butjust waited till you we re coverage butjust waited till you were sick to get coverage. the thing people need to understand in the uk is our system works in reverse. you don't have universal health—insurance but you do effectively have the universal right to get treated, so if you show up at the emergency room you have to be treated, and that creates an incentive for some people to say, hey, i don't need to pay in, i will just get treated and pass the bill onto somebody when i need it, and that's the issue they are trying to deal with. but this will be a very small number of people. let's not get into a comparison of your system with our system. we will be here or thank you very much. —— we will be here all—night! thank you very much. more now on the duke of edinburgh, who will stop carrying out public engagements this autumn.

buckingham palace says prince philip, who will be 96 next month, made the decision with the full support of the queen. professor gordon masterton is a fellow at the royal college of engineering, which prince philip helped set up in 1976. hejoins me from our studios in glasgow. welcome. tell us about your first meeting with prince philip. that would be prince philip presenting the award for engineering, which is effectively the oscars of engineering for the profession! he has been doing that continuously, not that i saw him on the first occasion, but he's been doing it since 1969. there are organisations here in glasgow which have been awarding a prince philip prize for engineering students for 50 years. it isa engineering students for 50 years. it is a remarkable period of longevity and continuity that you just wouldn't get with politicians, for example. indeed. that might be controversial in some quarters so i will move on! how did prince philip

come to be involved in the setting up come to be involved in the setting up ofan come to be involved in the setting up of an academy for engineering? backin up of an academy for engineering? back in the 1960s and early 70s, prince philip spoke about this in terms of seeing britain's economy in need of an injection and britain should be building things. he saw engineers as key to that. part of that was about raising the status and improving the status of engineers. we have the royal society for pure scientists but nothing equivalent of engineers. and so the idea was a fellowship of engineering, which quickly became the academy of oil engineering, and that was born, and prince philip was very influential in making that happen. —— the academy of engineering. when we have had more conversations in informal situations, he likes the company of engineers. i would say that, i am an

engineer! but perhaps we tend to prefer facts to opinions, we talk straight, we don't put spin on what we say, perhaps. and i like to think that if he was —— he feels co mforta ble that if he was —— he feels comfortable with that. he certainly talks straight himself! what was he like, though, when you were talking one—to—one with him? like, though, when you were talking one-to-one with him? these are potentially very tense situation to anyone preparing with a meeting —— for a meeting with somebody like prince philip, so you would probably have your questions ready to deal with any embarrassing pauses in the conversation, but you never need them because he is extremely engaging, he keeps the conversation going, he makes you feel at ease and his enthusiasm still comes across, even though he's been doing it for many, even though he's been doing it for any even though he's been doing it for many, many years. what is your reaction, then, to this news today that after all those years he's going to hang up his boots mostly in terms of public service? obviously

huge regret that we perhaps won't see him in the public arena quite so much, presenting awards or being present at prestigious events. but nevertheless, just feel he's probably earned the right to have a bit more leisure time in his own right! so absolutely no... nothing to regret about that whatsoever. but we will miss him. but the continuity with other members of the royal family to continue with the patronage of the royal academy of engineering and the engineering professional bodies is really important. and they will bring their own particular attitudes and approaches to that as well. so we look forward to that. who have you got lined up to take over? prince philip is a senior fellow of the academy of engineering but we also have oil fellows in the princess royal and the duke of kent. —— or

oil fellows in the princess royal. thank you very much for talking to us. my pleasure. let's get a look at the weather. good evening. a good deal of sunshine today and it's still pretty breezy with the cloud streaming in on that breeze in southern counties. some light rain and drizzle coming in over the next few hours but most places fine and dry. a pretty good recipe for quite a chilly night in the north. in more rural parts of northern england and scotland, down to about freezing orjust below, so a chilly start for some. a lot of fine, sunny weather across much of the uk through friday. still a bit ofa the uk through friday. still a bit of a breeze from the north sea,

keeping the coast on the cool side, with a fair bit of cloud the southernmost counties. despite the cloud, staying fine and dry. some places in the west will get to sift -- 16 places in the west will get to sift __‘|6_ places in the west will get to sift -- 16 - 18. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8:00... the bill is passed and the motion is laid upon the table. president trump edges a step closer to repealing 0bamacare, as the us house of representatives passes a health care bill. the duke of edinburgh announces he's to retire from all public duties, with full support from the queen. but it was business as usual for the 95—year—old, who his place alongside the queen this lunchtime. i'm christian fraser, live in paris, building up to the french election. emmanuel macron and marine le pen are back on the campaign trail in france following their tv debate ahead of the presidential election on sunday. bbc news learns that an nhs trust which is facing an investigation

into maternity errors has paid out millions of pounds in compensation, after similar mistakes led to children being born with brain injuries.