tonight at 6:00: the computer error which may have shortened the lives of almost 300 women. the it problem meant letters inviting them for a final breast cancer screening were never sent. hundreds of thousands of women should have received them. tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. patricia minchin didn't receive her letter inviting her to be screened when she was 70 — she discovered she had breast cancer three years ago. you'd like to think that if the government says every three years you get mammograms, if you had one in that period, they would find if something was wrong. we'll be asking how much of a blow this is for the nhs cancer screening service and finding out what those affected should do. also tonight... who does the buck stop with? me. tsb's boss apologises repeatedly for the it error that left thousands locked out of their accounts and says he's giving up his million pound bonus. charged with murder — a woman accused of throwing acid

over her former partner tells a court he was violent during their relationship. the prime minister under pressure amid crunch talks in the cabinet over the uk's customs arrangements post brexit. and i will be live at the olympic stadium, where liverpool are on the cusp of the champions league final. and coming up on bbc news, in a tournament of shocks, favourite ding junhui is dumped out by barry hawkins, who progresses to the semifinals of the world snooker championship. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. almost 300 women may have had their lives shortened —

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journey i went on, this traumatic journey i went on, this traumatic journey of all of the treatment, it may have never had to have caused —’ f caused in f f part by it screening, caused in part by it problems, with sometimes tragic consequences. there may be number of questions needed to be answered. eight years is a long time foran answered. eight years is a long time for an error of this magnitude to go undetected. did the department

received any warnings in that time, is there any record of how many women raised concerns that they had not received appropriate screening, we re not received appropriate screening, were there any opportunities to change this mistake which witnessed? women between the age of 50 and 70 are invited every three years to come for a routine breast screening, involving a mammogram on an x—ray machine like this. what has emerged is that some of them in their late 60s never got the invitation to come for the final screening. about 2 million women a year take up the offer of screening. it is thought about 450,000 were affected by the failure. some have since died from a range of causes, 309,000 are still alive. in 2009, the national screening programme alive. in 2009, the national screening programme up alive. in 2009, the national screening programme up to the age of 70 was launched in england. in 2016 there was an it upgrade. potential problems became clear. injanuary this year, public health england was informed. i feel extremely sad for the women affected by this colossal

administrative disaster, really. it is hugely significant. we have to be concerned about confidence in the screening service now. but we need to know how it has happened. women and 72 that were affected will receive a letter offering a new screening. those aged above that will be offered a chance to discuss whether a screening would benefit them. and hugh's with me now. how much of a blow is this to people confidence in the breast cancer screening service? well, sophie, ithink well, sophie, i think there is a danger that public confidence in screening both for breast cancer and other cancers will be dented. it is a real blow to the government and public health england, who have presided over this. jeremy hunt has announced an independent review. i think questions are already being asked about who knew what, when. should alarm bells have been ringing earlier? should more have been done earlier? should more have been done earlier? in terms of scotland, wales and northern ireland, they run similar programmes for women between the age of 50 and 70. in scotland

there is a different it system, so there is a different it system, so there probably aren't any problems there. wales does use a similar system, although the welsh government is making clear they don't think there are some issues there. but they are checking back whether women should be offered again the chance to have breast screening. thank you. the department of health is asking patients affected not to contact their gp in the first instance, but to contact the dedicated national helpline instead that has been set up. the number is 0800169 2692 or you can look on the nhs choices website for more information. the boss of the high street bank tsb has told mps that he is truly sorry for the problems that have affected thousands of customers over the past week after an it upgrade went badly wrong. many customers were unable to access their online accounts for days. and paul pester admitted that the problems were not all fixed yet — saying he could not say when they would be. here's simon gompertz.

it's the bank that wasn't available. all because of a systems upgrade. customers shut out of their accounts, complaining they couldn't get help. and when they could log in, about wrong information. 0ne shocked to be £1 million in the red. my name is paul pester and i'm the ceo of tsb bank. the chief executive apologised to mps but said most people could now use their online accounts. the percentage that are logging in successfully are 95%. though of course 5% of customers are not logging in. that is often the case for any bank. but he was told he was trying to defend a bank that was broken. what we are hearing this afternoon is that most staggering example of a chief executive who seems unwilling to realise the scale of the problem that is being faced. and it didn't impress lee, a tsb business customer who runs

a delivery company in essex. he has had to pay 16 staff out of his personal account. it makes me feel frustrated. and it makes me feel really, really angry. and if he was in front of me, i would shake him and try to wake him up out of his daydream. because the guy is in cloud nine with regards to what his clients are going through. he doesn't fully understand what we are going through. i feel that our situation should be put on him. with that level of unhappiness, mps wanted to know if the bosses would resign. are you going to lose either chairman or chief executive? erm, no. so they are staying, but paul pester does appear to be losing £2 million of bonus. is mr pester going to get his bonus? let me answer, then. and i was going to offer paul the opportunity to say,

to announce that he will not be taking any bonus for this integration. how are we doing for volume next week? but forgoing a bonus isn't enough to satisfy lee from essex, who just wants a bank account which works. he is switching his furniture delivery business to another bank which has promised a fully functioning account in 48 hours. simon gompertz, bbc news. the prime minister has been meeting with senior ministers today, to discuss britain's trading relationship with the european union after brexit. theresa may has committed to taking the uk out of the customs union, but her party is split over what kind of arrangement should replace it. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. it never rains but it pours, especially in this famous street. so, would a custom partnership make trade deals impossible? the prime minister stuck between her senior ministers. keeping schtum outside on how they think customs should work after brexit.

but on the inside, however much hurry they are in, they simply don't agree. what they're clashing about matters. how should we sort out customs after we leave the eu? well, one of the prime minister's ideas is the so—called customers partnership. where britain would collect house on behalf of the whole continent when goods arrrive here from the rest of the world. but many of her colleagues think that is fanciful and unworkable, too. and they are trying to get rid of that plan. brexiteer backbenchers put their objections in black and white. a hefty document, passed to the bbc and sent to number 10, described to me as and sent to number 10, described to measa and sent to number 10, described to me as a threat they would collapse the government if the idea remains. it would be extraordinary if the prime minister were to undermine her own policy by following this scheme, which sounded superficially attractive, initially, but now the details have been looked at and the consequences examined, appears to be a bad steed. but other elements in

the tory party protest. they want to preserve closer ties with the eu and keep the partnership principle. we shouldn't be closing down options. ifi shouldn't be closing down options. if i have a criticism of some of my conservative colleagues, it's that they seem to be resolute, obsessed, and closing down options. the two sides at home pushing the pm are joined by the realities of the two sides on the irish border. the irish government and the eu keep warning that unless there are better solutions to the customs conundrum, the whole brexit deal could stall. we wa nt the whole brexit deal could stall. we want to see real and meaningful progress byjune, if we are to meet the december deadline. there is a real risk, the october deadline, rather, that we won't if we don't see progress in june. this afternoon's crunch meeting was, in the end, more like chewing the ideas over. but listen very carefully to

the prime minister early on. does she sounds stuck on just one idea? we are committed to delivering on our commitment of no hard border between northern ireland and ireland, and ensuring we have as frictionless trade as possible with the european union is. there are a number of ways that can be delivered. a number of ways, she says. ideas evolving. it is suggested this afternoon that the partnership model was rejected. number 10 sources deny that, but say revised proposals are on the way. this has taken time, a long time. in other words, no decision yet. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. some of today's other stories... the family of a man who died after being restrained by police in fife nearly three years ago is suing the acting chief constable of police scotland. the relatives of sheku bayou says the investigation into his death was flawed, and a national disgrace. they're seeking almost £2 million pounds. the police haven't commented. gwent police say an 18—year—old man has been charged with attempted murder and dangerous driving,

after a car drove into pedestrians in newport on sunday. a 19—year—old man has also been charged with affray in connection with the incident, in which four people were injured. northern ireland's two most senior police officers have been cleared of allegations of criminal activity and misconduct in public office. chief constable george hamilton and his deputy drew harris were investigated by the police 0mbudsman after complaints about the conduct of a bribery inquiry by the psni. george hamilton told the bbc he was "relieved but not surprised" by the findings. a court has begun hearing evidence in the trial of a woman accused of throwing acid over herformer partner. berlinah wallace is charged with murdering mark van dongen by leaving him with such catastrophic injuries that he asked for assistance in ending his life. she denies all the charges. 0ur correspondent, jon kay, was in court. it was september 2015 when mark van dongen suffered what the prosecution called catastrophic acid burns.

paralysed and partially blinded, he chose to end his life last year at a euthanasia clinic in belgium. today, his father came to bristol crown court to hear the woman denies of throwing the acid and denies murder. at times, berlinah wallace wept uncontrollably as she described her life with the dutch engineer. she told the jury they met in 2010 after she came to the uk from south africa. she claimed the early days of their relationship were fun, like a party, but she said mark van dongen later became erratic and abusive, racist and violent. the fashion student admitted she could be nasty to him at times, scratching, biting and name—calling, but she denied having a temper. she told the court she was shocked when he moved out of their flat in summer 2015 after finding a new girlfriend. she said she'd made silent calls to annoy him, but she said it was nonsense to suggest that she bought a bottle

of sulphuric acid to harm anyone. berlinah wallace said she had bought the acid to clean the drains. she claimed mark van dongen told her to drink some of it to help cure her depression, but she said, now i know he wanted me to harm myself. the prosecution alleges that she threw the acid over him while he lay in bed, saying, if i can't have you, no one will. the trial continues. jon kay, bbc news. our top story this evening: almost 300 women may have had their lives shortened because of a series of computer errors which meant they were not invited to attend a routine screening for breast cancer. and still to come, the reds are in rome for the champions league semifinal. coming up, liverpool fans are in rome and getting set for one of the biggest nights in the club's history, jurgen klopp's side looking

to reach a first champions league final in11 to reach a first champions league final in 11 years. voters go to the polls in local elections right across england tomorrow. as ever, these elections will be a good signal of what people think of the main parties right now. with me is our deputy political editor, john pienaar, to take us through what's up for grabs and what to look out for in the results. nearly 4,400 seats are up for grabs across 150 unitary authorities, metropolitan and district councils england—wide, and six mayoral elections — the first such test since last year's general election. all council seats are being fought in london, and in cities including manchester, leeds and newcastle. elsewhere, a third of seats are up for grabs, so most of the action's taking place in towns, cities and urban areas, where labour tends to be strongest party. labour is defending the highest number of seats — over 2,200 — and hopes to do well in london, where the party gained seats at the last general election,

and perhaps they'll be helped by the strength of support in london for remaining in the eu. but can labour show it's making progress across the country? labour's leader seemed keen to manage expectations. i don't know what the result‘s going to be. i'm making no predictions about it. i hope we do well. obviously, i hope we hold the seats we've got now and i hope we gain a lot more as well particularly in conservative held boroughs. let me tell you, people are very angry. the conservatives are defending about 1,350 seats and they will be hoping to pick up votes in areas supportive of brexit. the party will hope it has been helped by the fact that ukip has shrunk in terms of poll ratings and numbers of candidates. but the tories expect a tough fight. eight years into government, they are always going to be a difficult set of elections for us. but we are out there working for every single vote. in every part of the country, good conservative candidates and councillors are working hard to show people what we can do. the liberal democrats will be able

to show they are stronger on the ground than their poor showing in the national polls. or at the last general election. i think there will be quite a lot of encouragement tomorrow. and i think what we will see over the next few years is a steady but very significant recovery in which we reoccupy the centre ground we used to have. as for the greens, they may face a strong challenge from labour in particular but hope to gain in sheffield where there has been a row about felling thousands of trees in public spaces. you know, when people see the greens can get elected, they vote green. and we are seeing an increase in greens right across the country, we already have several hundred councillors and i'm anticipating that will go up. in london, barnet could well fall to labour. there'll be a lot of attention on tory flagship councils wandsworth and westminster. if the tories lose one or both of those, they'll be celebrating at labour h0. outside the capital,

swindon is a tory council that could give an early indication of which way the wind is blowing. swindon is also one of five places where people will need to bring id to be able to vote as part of a pilot scheme. you could say no two votes are cast for exactly the same reasons, but that won't stop the parties searching the results for reasons to be cheerful, or clues to what went wrong. if you want to know any more about these elections, you can go to our website at bbc.co.uk/news. the man who leads the un's chemical weapons watchdog has told the bbc that the taboo against using such weapons could be eroded — unless more is done to punish those who deploy them. ahmet uzumcu was speaking after his agency investigated two cases of chemical weapons use — in syria and salisbury. he's been talking to our security correspondent, gordon corera. they are the weapons it was once hoped would disappear. but the last two months have seen chemical weapons deployed.

here, allegedly, in syria and closer to home in salisbury. raising fears that their use is becoming normalised. the battles over what really happened and who was responsible in both cases are fought in the 0pcw, the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague. last week russia brought children from syria into the 0pcw itself, using them to back its claim that no chemical agent had been used against them. today the director of the 0pcw told me what he thought of that move. i didn't attend, of course, the meeting. i asked myself not to attend it because i thought that it was not appropriate for the impartiality of the work that this organisation has been doing. so you wish it hadn't happened? absolutely. i made this very clear to the russian delegation. in the salisbury poisoning,

the 0pcw independently confirmed britain's scientific analysis. russian officials then tried to cast doubt on the conclusions. today, ahmet uzumcu defended his team's work. the samples collected by our experts cannot be tampered. so there is a full chain of custody as we call it. they were attended by experts from the place they were collected or from the patients. and then they were taken here to the laboratory. so this is a well established procedure which cannot be interfered with. there had been a taboo on the use of chemical weapons but the concern is this could now be at risk. if we are not able to address seriously the case of use of chemical weapons and to hold accountable those who are responsible and prosecute and punish them then there are high risks of erosion. this organisation is now at the

heart of an international struggle. whose outcome will determine whether chemical weapons belong to the past or also the future. gordon codera, bbc news, the hague. president trump's former doctor said he did not write the letter that he signed during the presidential election campaign in 2015, vouching for mr trump's "astonishingly excellent" health. dr harold bornstein said mr trump dictated the whole letter himself. it declared mr trump to be "the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency". the white house has not yet commented on the dr bornstein's allegations. hundreds ofjobs could be at risk at the struggling department store house of fraser. it's the latest blow to the high street, following the recent collapse of maplin and toys "r" us. the chinese company buying the majority stake from its current owner says it will only agreed the deal some stores are closed. emma

simpson is in central london. do we know how many stores could be affected ? know how many stores could be affected? not at this stage. the company isn't saying. today's news isn't surprising, because house of fraser has been struggling for a very long time. it is under pressure, with falling sales and rising costs. this business has 59 stores across the uk. it has got 6000 employees, and then there are a further 11,500 people who work in all of the concessions in its stores. what happened today was that house of fraser confirmed it wanted a formal deal with its landlords and creditors to close stores and cut costs. what we also learned today was that the owner of hamleys, a chinese company, has agreed to buy a controlling stake from house of fraser, which also has a chinese owner, but this will only happen if

a separate restructuring deal is agreed. the general house of fraser didn't mince his words, saying the future of the business depended on it. -- future of the business depended on it. —— the chairman of the house of fraser. we will learn more in a month. thousands of liverpool fans who've travelled to rome for tonight's champions league tie have been warned that they should take shuttle buses to the stadium and that under no circumstances should they attempt to walk there. the game's being tightly policed after a liverpool fan was left in a critical condition last week when he was attacked during the first leg at anfield. 0ur sports editor, dan roan, reports from rome. they'd come here seeking success, but also safety. liverpool fans, heeding the advice of their club today and travelling to rome's olympic stadium on specially organised buses. getting to the match by foot seen as too dangerous. been fine, haven't seen anything. nothing to worry about. you're not worried about anything tonight? well, we'll see when we get up by the ground. it might be a bit different up there. once at the stadium, fans subjected to rigorous checks, amid a massive security operation. if you follow the instructions

from the club, it's fine. we've had a police escort, it's been well organised. talking to the roma fans out here right now, no problems at all. earlier, in a show of unity, liverpool fans met city officials to pay tribute to the supporter left critically injured last week after an attack by roma ultras before the first leg at anfield. translation: this event underlines that football is about fairness and friendship. we are very close to the liverpool supporters, and we hope this will be a big football festival. liverpool have conquered europe on five previous occasions, more than any other british team. and, having won the first leg 5—2, tonight they have a golden chance to reach their first champions league final for 11 years. the visitors won this competition against roma here in 1984, and one of the heroes of that famous night is confident. i think it's much more difficult for roma, what they do tonight. do they sort of go hell for leather, try to get an early goal, build up the pressure?

or do they kind of sit back and wait, knowing that liverpool go hell for leather for the first 15 or 20 anyway? i think it's a really difficult thing. if i were playing in the roma team tonight, i would be worried. these fans have already enjoyed an exhilarating european campaign. it could and should be about to get even better. it may seem remarkable to some that, in this day and age, fans in a major european capital are being told they can't walk to a game of football, but that illustrates the level of concern, not just but that illustrates the level of concern, notjust because of the violence last week, but because english fans have been targeted here in recent seasons. so english fans have been targeted here in recent seasons. so far, so good. 0n the pitch, a huge amount at sta ke. 0n the pitch, a huge amount at stake. win, and liverpool will be through to their first champions league final since 2007. it's one of the most important night in their history. time for a look at the weather.

here's stav da naos. you've probably heard for some time that this bank holiday weekend is looking fine and settled, thanks to high pressure. temperatures rising through the weekend, and he was a good example in manchester, how many temperatures will feel for many of us. temperatures will feel for many of us. it's been a bit grim through the day. we've had this band of rain spreading across the country, with a few showers left behind, but plenty of sunshine. a fine end to the day for most. 0vernight, largely dry and clear. a bit more cloud pushing into northern ireland and western scotland, with a bit of rain and maybe some low cloud. not quite as cool as it will be elsewhere. we could be looking at lowes close to freezing in one or two rural places. tomorrow morning will be chilly, lovely and bright, lots of sunshine, particularly eastern areas, which will keep the best sunny spells. through the afternoon, cloud beginning to build up. fairly

cloudy, especially in the west, with the odd shower, but it will be warm, temperatures up to the mid teens celsius. friday, we pick up this warm airfrom the celsius. friday, we pick up this warm air from the south—west, so still warm, and most of the cloud in the north and west, with the odd shower over the north and west, with the odd shower over western the north and west, with the odd shower over western hills. eastern scotland, central and eastern england, the best temperatures on friday afternoon, 18 or 19, perhaps even 20 in the south—east. we are into the warm side of the jet to the north of the country. this will steer a few weather systems into the north—west of the uk through the bank holiday weekend but, for most of us, it will be warming up, dry, with plenty of sunshine, and a cool breeze along eastern coasts. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me. 0n bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. this is bbc news. our top stories... scores of women may have died early

because they didn't get a final screening for breast cancer due to an it failure. letters inviting them for an appointment before their 70th birthdays were never sent. the impact may have been less than it was if i had had a mammogram in 2013 when i was 70. but i never received a letter. the boss of tsb has apologised repeatedly for the it error that left thousands locked out of their accounts last week. he says he's giving up his £2 million bonus. senior members of the cabinet have been discussing options for a future trading relationship with the eu after brexit. some mps have told theresa may to abandon her preferred option for a new customs arrangement.