charming, peruvian, paddington, charming, peruvian, accident prone. the creation of a former bbc cameraman, michael bond. and modelled on his father. good afternoon, he said, coming help you. my father was a very polite man and always wore a hat in case he met someone. always wore a hat in case he met someone. and paddington has a lot of him in it. he wrote the first or after it bought the toy bear. he never thought it would be published but it was just the beginning, millions were sold and translated into more than 30 languages. there was of course the tv programme. 32 winter gardens. paddington musical. paddington film. mrs bird made very good stew. friendly, polite, fond of marmalade. there have been many fictional bearers but none quite like michael bond's paddington bear. the author michael bond who died at the age of 91. let's turn to the

weather prospects. more rain to come. yesterday i was soaked to the skin. not because i forgot my umbrella but the car went by and i'm sure other people had similar experiences. a lot of large puddles out there. more rain is on the way but not necessarily in the same places. let's look at the rain in the past 2a hours, south—eastern and eastern areas got most of that yesterday was an absolute deluge across the south—east. 0ne particular spot in suffolk got 90 millimetres of rain. that is a lot of water, more than a month in under a day. and hence those big puddles. as far as this afternoon is concerned the heavy rain has moved away from the south—east and east anglia. a little further north. but also some rain communion across

south—western areas. it has been raining quite heavily across parts of cornwall and also clipping parts of cornwall and also clipping parts of wales. we are seeing most of the rain to the east of the pennines. but northern ireland and scotland, a different story. it is dry with some sunshine around. some blue skies off the coast of aberdeenshire. it looks as though the weather front will painfully slowly overnight move further north. so back into easter scotla nd further north. so back into easter scotland and into the lowlands as well. the second arm of rain curling backing into central and southern england. so the low pressure if it moves slowly, the rain clouds will moves slowly, the rain clouds will move slowly as well. so tomorrow across scotland, into northern ireland, the heavier rain as well. some of that tipping wales and the south—west. across the south east

and central areas the weather is going to dry out and maybe even some brightness. this low pressure still with us on thursday, moving a little further north. then moving down south again. all that action across these western areas so it is not in a hurry to go. on top of that we have a wind blowing as well, quite strong. sunshine perhaps developing across the south—east, up to 23 degrees possible but also some showers around. so we still have some more days to go in the week but just like yesterday, i promised some sunshine and i think sunday is looking good. thank you very much. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. six people are to be charged in connection with the hillsborough football stadium disaster, 28 years ago. former chief superintendent david duckenfield will be charged with the

manslaughter of good afternoon, the latest from bbc sport centre. the world number one and defending champion andy murray has been confirmed as the top seed for wimbledon. it takes into account recent grass—court form, with murray heading the "big four", followed by novak djokovic, roger federer and rafael nadal. it is the first time in 12 grand slams that the four players have been named top seeds for a major and that keeps them apart until the semi—finals, of course. german angelique kerber is the top women's seed with britain'sjohanna konta sixth. well, the second seed in the men's draw for wimbledon, novak djokovic, has been in action this morning in eastbourne. after a near wash—out yesterday on the south coast, centre court was packed, as the world number four beat vasek pospisil in straight sets. it was djokovic's first game on grass this season,

and he was in a good mood as he looks to get his game in top form for wimbledon, which starts on monday. it's the first time he has played at eastbourne and the first time in seven eastbourne and the first time in seve n years eastbourne and the first time in seven years he has appeared on a grass court tournament. john mcenroe has proposed a contest between men and women, to prove his claim that the serena williams would be ranked "700th in the world" on the men's circuit. williams won the last of her 23 grand slam titles in australia this january, before announcing she was pregnant. she asked mcenroe to leave her out of his comments but mcenroe stuck to his guns, saying "i've got a solution. men and women play together, then we don't have to guess. i'm sure the men would be all for it". williams expects to return to the circuit as early as january next year. england under—21s manager aidy boothroyd says he's certain there are players in his team who will represent england at senior level in due course. they went out in the semi—finals of the european championship — once again, an england side losing on penalties to germany. england came from a goal

down to take the lead through chelsea's tammy abraham. but the germans equalised and it went to penalties — abraham's was saved — and so was nathan redmond's — and they followed the fate of the senior teams in 1990 and 1996. we've been practising for weeks but in the end of the two players you would put odds on to score every time, the goalkeeper makes a great save so we'll have to take that. it's been a real team effort and i think we can be pleased with a lot of things we've done. and in the end we've lost on a penalty shootout and next time we need to be better for it. the australian jockey michelle payne, the only woman to win the melbourne cup, has been stood down from riding after failing a drugs test. she tested positive for an appetite suppressant, after a meeting in australia two—and—a—half weeks ago. stewards will hold an inquiry tomorrow. great britain's bianca walkden will win at least silver at the world taekwondo

championships in south korea. men's heavyweight mahama cho has guaranteed the british team a second medal — he's into the semi—finals after beating iran's sajad mardani. like walkden, cho won a bronze medal in rio last year. but the rio silver medallist lutalo muhammad has gone out in the second round. it was his first event after his defeat at the olympics. you can watch the action on the red button and online now. that's all sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you very much. as we been hearing today, six men are to be prosecuted in connection with the hillsborough disaster. they include a police commander on the day, david duckenfield, and a former chief

co nsta ble duckenfield, and a former chief constable sir norman bettison. in the last few minutes, the families of the victims have been giving a news conference. it began with a statement for the lawyer for the families. the families have asked me to say today that the hillsborough families have waited 28 years for justice. some of the truth was exposed by the independent panel and some the inquestjury on the 26th of april 2016. now we await the results from the long overdue process of accountability. accountability is being key and at the heart. the families are sensitive to the issues of fairness and due process and no one wishes to process or to jeopardise this. there are, of course, very as legal options open to the families where decisions have

been made not to prosecute. in the form of the victim ‘s and judicial review process. as i have said, 28 yea rs review process. as i have said, 28 years for justice. review process. as i have said, 28 years forjustice. now is the time for accountability. thank you. applause you'd think you were a solicitor! yes, obviously, we're in a difficult position because we know subjudice in terms of the people who have been charged. i will give you a personal response, if i may. a mixed bag. couple of names that we didn't expect and a few that we think have been omitted. as master has said already, we need a bit of time to go

away and look at all the due process and whatever, but you know, we move another step forward. there will be six people facing criminal charges who might not have done if we hadn't have been resilient and all stuck together and fought this long fight. well, if i'm honest, no. we didn't think we would. but, you know, this isn'tjust about think we would. but, you know, this isn't just about us. we think we would. but, you know, this isn'tjust about us. we have said this, it has been said inside today many times. this is a success for the society at large, notjust many times. this is a success for the society at large, not just for us. the society at large, not just for us. there are no winners in this. it doesn't bring anybody back from the disaster, but what it does do is send a message out of accountability as we keep saying, that nobody but nobody is above the law, be at the police or anybody else. and so, you know, any organisation and we all know, any organisation and we all know with grenfell tower know, any organisation and we all know with gre nfell tower and know, any organisation and we all know with grenfell tower and all these things, watch out, because families will come after you if you

don't do yourjob properly. well that like you know, we've had so many knock backs, we doubted whether it would ever happen sometimes. mixed feelings, i think. as i said, there is no victors in this. but we do feel, we've said all along, that things have been done and said that should never have happened, things haven't been done that should have been. an obviously, for the independent cps on our perhaps and society at large have now referred to charges against the people and we can't discuss those now because of subjudice, asi can't discuss those now because of subjudice, as i said. i'mjust going to add to what trevor said. i think what it is done today, obviously, we have changed the course hopefully for the future of the country that, you know, don't ever give the country that, you know, don't evergive up. if the country that, you know, don't ever give up. if you keep fighting like the families have for all of

those years, things can change and things will change and this must never happen again. no one should have to go through what these families have gone through for 28 years to get to the truth, to get accountability especially. i think thatis accountability especially. i think that is important and i think now what has been achieved today will change things for the good of this nation and i think that's the legacy of our 96 that they will have left behind on their behalf. we can't talk about names. . for obvious reasons, we do not want to prejudice any thing. even the ones that don't, as you here, there are appeal processes that may or may not be taken. so in the interest of fairness to everyone including, you know, those who have been charged or who may be charged, there are some possibilities of other charges anyway. i think... we gave them a

ha rd anyway. i think... we gave them a hard time. they didn't get away with things easily. similarly, it all the very technical and we are not lawyers, we are victims, if you like. and so we have had a little bit of difficulty understanding some of the things that have been said and obviously that is why as i say, we will have to go away and take advice and various other things but as we have said in the past, if we think something's not right, we will sort it out one way or another. inaudible i think it comes back to what we've said all along. when you feel that right is on your side,

every time they knock you down, you get up and you give it a bit harder next time round. you've heard the expression what makes you eat makes you stronger, every time we were not down, we were determined to come back stronger. i think that's what the families have proved on what they can do. but when we go back and maybe ten years ago, eight years ago, we had snow one. we have now achieved and we have six. that, to me, isa achieved and we have six. that, to me, is a great achievement. yes, we are disappointment, we did feel we should have had a lot more, but at this moment of time, who knows what's going to happen as we go along with this process? we do not know. well, to me now, this is the beginning of the end. definitely the beginning... i thought that obviously a good few years ago that it was the beginning of the end. these families, it's notjust about

trevor and myself, it is about all of these families, 28 years they've had of torture, really. it has been hell on earth, and they need an end to this. and now this hopefully, this is definitely the start of the end. ithink this is definitely the start of the end. i think everybody needs that. i think we all need peace from hillsborough but we can never have peace until we've got truth, justice, accountability. ithink that's the time we all have peace. thank you very much, yeah. representatives of the hillsborough family there. earlier a lawyerfor the family said they were sensitive to due process and don't want to say anything that will prejudice any proceedings but she said that accountability was now key. ina in a moment, the business news, but first the headlines on bbc news. and in the last row while, it has been

announced that six people including fourformer announced that six people including four former south yorkshire police officers have been charged with offences relating to the 1989 hillsborough disaster. among those is match commander david duckenfield who has been charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 of the 96 liverpool football fans. the prime minister, theresa may, says that a total of 120 tower blocks across 36 local authorities in england have failed fire safety tests. hello, now the business use. tesco is cutting 1200 jobs at head office. that's about a quarter of staff at welwyn garden city and hatfield. it's part of plan to cut costs and boost the company's fortunes. good news for the co—op bank. it's agreed a £700 million rescue package to stop it being wound up. investors have agreed to swap their debt for a stake in the bank. house prices are back on the rise after three months of falls. nationwide says prices rose

byjust over 1% this month. so, that means the average house now costs around £211,000. the people who manage investment funds are in for a shake—up. the people who handle our investments must be more transparent about how much they charge and offer more competitive fees. that's according to the financial conduct authority. it says that despite making a lot of profit, fund managers don't offer great value for money and there's no link between performance and reward. andrew bailey is the boss of the financial conduct authority. andrew, thank you forjoining us. good afternoon. a lot of your focus is on fees. what do you want to see happen in regards to fees? we think it is important that there is sensible and clear disclosure of the fee element so that investors know, essentially, what they are paying and what they are purchasing. this

does divide into at least two elements. there is an element of fixed fees for all funds and then for those funds that are active and transacting, there will be transactions costs. there will be for all funds but for active funds more of that as we have tried to design that take account of that, both the fixed element and the variable element, to give greater transparency. one of the things you talk about is an all—inclusive fee, or rather an all in fee. a lot of critics are saying that what you should be having is a fee that is all—inclusive, a flat fee, so that people know what they are getting into when they are going in. what we think is that there is an element of fee that is fixed and therefore, in a sense, that can be treated as as near to a flat fee but has a fixed fee and people should know that. there and then transaction costs and some funds will transact more than others and some will transact more than some years than in other years depending on market conditions. we think fans should give investors as good a steer as possible as to what

those steers should beat and then after the event, the year that has concluded, they should tell customers what fees they have paid in that area. is it easier and simplejust to in that area. is it easier and simple just to have a flat fee? the issue with the flat fee is that it wouldn't take account of the fact that in some market conditions, there is a very strong case for transacting differently, more or less. so you would... you've got to allow funds to have the fight ‘s ability to do that because it can be in the best interest of investors. and you can still be transparent. andrew bailey, thank you very much. here in london, asset managers have seen their share price fall after that news of a big shake up being imposed on the industry. energy companies are also under pressure as more evidence emerges of a glut of oil on the market. sterling has hit a seven month low against the euro. back to you. theresa may has told mps that the cladding used on grenfell tower was not compliant with building regulations.

at prime minister's questions, she said the cladding on a total of 120 tower blocks in england have so far failed fire safety tests. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, said the disaster had to serve as a "wake up call" and warned over cuts to public services. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster. anita, thank you very much. it was only a matter of time before politics began to intrude on the whole argument over grenfell tower. theresa may today saying it was under the last labour government or tony blair's labour government that cladding had first been put up on tower blocks. she said that had also been accompanied by a relaxation in the rules around fire inspections, building regulations, you got the feeling that the blame game was almost beginning. have a listen to what mrs may said. it's notjust a

question of what laws you have, it's how those are being applied. and that's that mind that is the issue. we have the building regulations about compliant materials. the question is why is it that despite that, we have seen in local authority area after local authority area, materials being put up that appear not to comply with those building regulations? as for mr keogan, he appeared to fairly directly blamed cuts for grenfell tower saying that it had exposed, quote, the disastrous effects of austerity. have a listen to what he said. when you cut local authority budgets by 40%, we all pay a price for public safety. fewer inspectors, fewer building control inspectors, fewer building control inspectors, fewer planning inspectors, we all pay a price. let's mull this over. the first vote

in this parliament will occur tonight on austerity, calling for an end to the public sector pay cap. i enjoyed by the conservative mp mark cobbett, labour's and snp representatives. are we on the cusp of seeing the government abandoned the public sector pay cap? one of the public sector pay cap? one of the things it is interesting is that it is the case now that public sector wages have started to rise a little bit faster as well and clearly when you are recruiting in the public sector, you have to look at the balance between the two. but we also stuff is very tough public spending constraints. although we have reduced the deficit by three quarters, we are still spending more money then we raising taxation after seven money then we raising taxation after seve n yea rs money then we raising taxation after seven years of economic growth. so it's very tough. i actually understand the concerns of workers in the public sector. we heard that on the election trail. but public finances are very difficult to it difficult balance. let me quote you what was said at the post pmq lobby

briefing about the pay cap. he said, we have heard the message of the election and people are weary. we will listen to the evidence of pay review bodies. that sounds to me like it's farewell to the public sector pay cap. it may well be the case, but you have to look at the pressures on public finances and the balance for spending public money and what that buys you in terms of more people in those public services, the level of services you can services, the level of services you ca n afford services, the level of services you can afford and the pay and you have to look at the balance with the public sector. what you have said they're from the lobby briefing suggests that it may well be that pay reviews... cosmic do you think it's going to be axed? atlevi right. the austerity argument ended years ago. in reality, if you can find nearly £2 million on the back of a sofa for northern ireland, then frankly all arguments about not being able to afford it in the strong and stable economy doesn't work. the number of tory mps i've spoken to, good and honest people,

we re spoken to, good and honest people, were horrified by what they were that was determined factor of what happened in the election. this doesn't exactly more and we can't keep telling nurses that they will have known that pay rises. hannah, isn't the case that although we still have a deficit and a debt of 1.7 trillion, politically after seven yea rs, 1.7 trillion, politically after seven years, it it is just impossible to continue with the public sector pay cap? it certainly seems that way. the gap between rich and prayer has been identified as going to be bigger than it was during thatcher's generation. we have hundreds of thousands of families across the uk going to be facing increased prices as a result of brexit and, you know, so much of ourdebt is of brexit and, you know, so much of our debt is already predicated on consumer spending. people are in more debt than they've ever been before. that is not a sustainable position and if we can find 1 billion for the dup, why can we not find billions for the poorest people in our society. it absolutely has to come to an end. should the

government not be prioritising, rather than public sector pay, the benefit freeze? that is the prce people in society and we understand the benefit freeze continues. we have advocated for that and we are spending hundreds of billions of pounds in scotland plugging the black hole that has been created in our budget by this conservative government and that is not sustainable. we get a block grant from westminster to spend and that should not be used up cleaning up the mess of westminster. although labour cox about ending austerity, you would continue the benefit freeze? notley public sector pay cap, we are dedicated to getting rid of that. but there are real problems. what has happened particularly with local rent caps as we are seeing particularly with local rent caps as we are seeing some particularly with local rent caps as we are seeing some social cleansing taking place particularly in cities like london. an important point about the benefits freeze is added effect different parts of the country in different ways and we absolutely take on board the fact that this is impacting the weakest and the poorest people and we are going to see people being cleared out of the centre of london by that.

let's talk about grenfell tower which dominated the exchanges at pmq ‘s. mark, will you comfortable with the toll of today's exchanges between the frontbenchers?” the toll of today's exchanges between the frontbenchers? i was listening to what you said at the opening and i think the prime minister was my point that she was trying to make about explaining this was an issue that has arisen over decades was slightly pushback on jeremy corbyn's attempts to politicise it. it is very clear that... wasn't just the same? politicise it. it is very clear that... wasn'tjust the same? she was saying it might be better that it would be better if we waited until the public inquiry took place. this is a conflict issue. cladding has been put up over decades in areas of the country run by councils of different persuasions and under parties of both... government of both parties and it behoves all of us as both parties and it behoves all of us as politicians to look at the evidence and facts before we start rushing tojudgment. evidence and facts before we start rushing to judgment. that was what she was saying. xuzhou reader and john mcdonald is hold back until we get this public inquiry under way? let them the credit? it is not an

either or. it was political, no one can pretend for a minute that this was not a political decision and i have to say that the royal borough council have been shown to be wanting terribly at this particular. they had been warned over and over again. we talk about how it happened and not do anything for it, the first effort has to be for those people who need to be looked after and find somewhere to live but we have to make sure this never happens again which is why the councils throughout the whole of the united kingdom have been checking the high—rise buildings. that didn't stop because the other thing was happening. how do you feel about the tone? we have to be very, very careful. people have lost their lives, we have to understand all the reasons and some of those were political decisions. questions have to be asked. the chief of staff was the previous housing minister but it goes back, as the prime ministers said, to previous government. we have looked very carefully in scotland and gladly have found that no public buildings have, but we continue to do that. it's very, very tragic that we are in this position.

thank you for your time. the weather here is pretty dreadful. more details on this grim weather. it has dried out in westminster but still some big puddles there. in other parts of the country today, rainfall, more rain on the way not just today but also into tomorrow and the rain actually will be travelling northwards over the next 24 travelling northwards over the next 2a hours as it has been travelling northwards for the last 24. a 24 hours as it has been travelling northwards for the last 24. a real stalking their across parts of the south east into east anglia. at the moment, the heaviest of the rings east of the pennines or really soggy afternoon on the way and this will pressure is bringing the bad weather and will be with us for quite some time as it slowly pulls away to the north. it is raining quite heavily at times across the south—west of the country. temperatures in london in the dry spot there are around 19 degrees, fresher there in scotland are 13 or14 degrees, fresher there in scotland are 13 or 14 also in dry weather. notice as that rain moves a little further north, it eventually reaches

scotland, east of scotland there through the lowlands, rain by the early hours of thursday morning. again, spots of rain down the west into central and southern england, but that area in the south—east and east anglia still staying dry with temperatures of around 30 degrees. that's the weather for now. —— 13 degrees. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown live in warrington, where it's been announced that six people are to be charged in connection with the hillsborough football stadium disaster 28 years ago. that has been announced by the crown prosecution service. following these thorough investigations and our careful review of the evidence in accordance with the code for crown prosecutors, i have decided there is sufficient evidence to charge six individuals with criminal offences. the senior police officer at the match, former chief

superintendent david duckenfield, will be charged with the manslaughter of 95 people. relatives of some of those who died at hillsborough say it's the right decision. i'm absolutely delighted.