it could have been a completely different story, you know, if they'd just took the time and said, "hold on a minute, we know there's problems, we won't take the risk." we'll hear more from some of the families affected. also tonight. the prime ministerjoins eu leaders in austria for a summit as brussels warns her chequers plan needs reworking. a woman has died after her caravan is blown off a cliff by storm ali — which has swept across large parts of the uk taking on aldi and lidl — tesco launches jack's its new discount food store amid growing pressure from competitors. it'll be all right on the night. with denis norden.

and tributes to the tv presenter and comedy writer denis norden, who has died aged 96. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, the champions manchester city start their champions league campaign. we'll have the very latest from the etihad stadium, ahead of their match against lyon. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. dozens of families have come forward in the past month and claimed that their babies died unnecessarily or suffered life changing injuries because of mistakes made at an nhs trust. the bbc has learned that a review into maternity errors at shrewsbury and telford nhs trust is now looking at what happened to more than 100 babies going back to the year 2000. the families have come forward

after the bbc revealed last month that there were ongoing concerns about errors made by maternity staff at the trust. here's our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan. two children born one year apart. two children born one year apart. two toddlers now finding their way in the world. two people whose pa rents fear in the world. two people whose parents fear might have been affected by maternity errors he doesn't talk, walk. when his mother was 28 weeks pregnant, a scan revealed a problem with his skull. but despite the concern, staff encouraged her to have a natural birth. birth. it didn't work, she needed an emergency caesarian. experts have repaired his skull and insisted it is not the cause of his delayed development. why, did you let me try natural

birth when you knew that there was something wrong with his head? it could have been a completely different story, you know, if you'd just took the time and said hold on a minute, we know there's problems, we won't take the risk and we will book you in for a caesarian, they took that risk and i feel that he is took that risk and i feel that he is to suffer. sofia will soon turn two. she was born prematurely at 27 weeks and needed support to breathe. but a mistake was made insorting a feeding tube. sofia needed to be resuscitated. the trust failed to it will parents about the incident days so will parents about the incident days so they wonder if her delayed development is due to being born early or medical errors. she might not be here now, you know, if she hadn't have ought the way she did and put up a fight, she wouldn't know, she would not have been here, we would have been looking at

pictures of a baby and not a healthy you know running round crazy lunatic as she is, but, you know, we still don't know. we don't know the damage. that has been caused. the trust wouldn't comment on either family but we have learned 104 cases are the subject of an independent review into maternity services here, more than 100 families alleging their child died or suffered harm due to mistakes. not every family will have been failed by this trust. it is the case some babies die for reasons that are neither predictable nor preventable but the sheer number of people coming forward suggests that for years, scores of families have been unhappy, with the care they have received here. ina they have received here. in a statement the trust but the problems aren't simply

historical. today, the care quality commission raised concern about the current maternity service. for those families who have long suspected the trust had made mistake, it is little comfort that maternity problems remain. and michaeljoins me now. what is happening now at the trust? asi what is happening now at the trust? as i say, one of the regulators has told the trust they have ongoing concerns about the current service, we don't know the details, because of legal issues but we understand one of the concerns at least is to do with how the trust treats women who are rated as having a high risk pregnancy. the problem this creates is they have tended to try and paint this independent review as relating to problems in the past at the trust, and this clearly shows that the those problems are continuing and it raises further questions for those women who are currently

pregnant, the trust of course say their services are safe. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has warned theresa may that key areas of the brexit plan agreed at chequers need to be "reworked". he was speaking ahead of tonight's summit in the austrian city of saltzburg where theresa may is due to address eu leaders. she's already warned them not to push ‘unacceptable' proposals on the northern ireland border issue. from salzburg, here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. red carpet time again. prime minister's and presidents on the way. every one wants to line up a deal, and the president of the leader's club wants to be helpful. but listen, for the eu, the uk's proposals still aren't good enough. some of prime minister may's proposals from chequers indicate a positive evolution, in the uk's

approach as well as a will to minimise the negative effect of brexit. 0n minimise the negative effect of brexit. on other issues such as the irish question, or the framework for economic cooperation, the uk's proposals will need to be reworked, and further negotiated. today, there is perhaps more hope, but there is surely less and less time. the gathering here is the first since the prime minister published her plans for how we leave, the so—called chequers proposals, where parts of the economy would stay tied closely to the eu, to guard against disruption, and a return to an old fashioned northern irish border. but the eu's chief negotiator has shrugged at much of that plan. he says the uk can't pick and mix. and the irish government and the

rest of the eu is so far sticking together. donald tusk said the uk has to rework some proposals why?|j think we need to find a solution with the key issues especially northern ireland, ireland. fair brexit is the most important. we would like to get a fair deal between us and the british. leaders landing in austria want legal guarantees that northern ireland would follow the same rules as their countries still in the eu if a big trade deal can't be done. for the british government that be allowed to happen. they need to talk them round. theresa may has the opportunity today for the first time, since we tabled the chequers proposals to sit down with all 27 european union member states not talking through the commission, but talking through the commission, but talking directly to the politicians. these talks were always going to be complicated but at summit after

summit the biggest obstacle always becomes what happens a thousand miles away or so from here. when we leave the european union, the border between northern ireland and the rest of the island will become the line between europe's huge trading club, and another country, the uk on the outside. and the two sides in the outside. and the two sides in the talks have very different ideas over how to handle that change. this week though will see diplomacy not decision, its‘s already the 13th occasion she and other leaders have met like this. lucky for who this time? theresa may will have a chance to make her pitch in person over dinner, to herfellow eu presidents and prime ministers from round the continue innocent and her message will be do not ask me to accept your plans that she fears could carve up the uk, dividing off northern ireland, and great britain, for them

to live under two different sets of rules. she will make the point for her that is just unacceptable, for the two sides in the talks are still extremely far apart not just the two sides in the talks are still extremely far apart notjust on the practicalities although there is chatter about how to is often the arguments but they are stu stuck on two different principles even though everybody gathering here does want to find a two people have died after storm ali swept across ireland and parts of the uk with winds gusting to over 90 miles an hour. a woman died after a caravan was blown off a cliff and a man in his 20s has been killed by a falling tree. scotland and the north east of england have also been hit. emma vardy is in cultra in northern ireland. emma. we northern ireland has recorded its strongest ever winds for september. the storm has brought down many trees here and caused widespread

disruption, more than 200,000 homes and bys were left without power and first thing this morning the danger became apparent after the death of a woman on holiday. a casualty of the extreme weather which lashed the west coast of ireland. early this morning, police received reports of a caravan blown onto a beach in county galway. the body of a woman in her 50s was recovered to, believed to be a tourist visiting from switzerland who'd been asleep inside. powerful winds wrenched this cruise ship from its moorings at inverclyde in scotland. the nautica became detached from the dock and had to be secured at sea by tugs. no—one on board was injured. elsewhere in scotland, a major incident was declared as people were injured by flying debris, and network rail worked to clear trees that struck a level crossing. as storm ali swept across the uk, a roof torn off a hotel in the isle of man damaged cars below. the strong winds ravaged

northern ireland, a man was killed by a falling tree and another injured. parks and playgrounds were closed as branches fell on cars and houses. i heard a thud on the back of my roof which i was a bit worried about but it was smaller type branches, it was only about five minutes later i went out to the front and i noticed all the big branches down. dozens of roads were closed as debris blocked the way. there's two large trees that have come down across this road, taking the power lines with them, and there's now teams working on site here and across the country to clear up some of the damage that storm ali has caused. we're still experiencing extreme gusts of winds and more problems are occurring. we definitely do at this stage expect to be working through the night and into tomorrow and having customers self—supply into tomorrow at least. in northern ireland, with the worst of the storm now believed to have passed, the clear—up operation

is well under way. a court has been hearing details of the violent, criminal past of the man who carried out the westminster attack. new cctv footage was also released of khalid masood renting the car he used in the attack and buying the knives , he used to kill pc the knives he used to kill pc keith palmer from tesco. his final words were said to be to his mother — he told her "don't say i'm a terrorist, i'm not". inflation has risen to 2.7%, its highest level in six months, partly because of the rising price of air travel and petrol. the jump in august surprised many economists, who'd expected a slight fall, as our economics correspondent andy verity reports. this leicester based food supplier makes its spring rolls, samosas and otherfrozen indian snacks by hand, but that means big labour costs, and it's also being squeezed by the energy prices. the raw material, like peas, carrot, that is less of a big pressure. electricity, just this time last

year the price has gone up 20%. because we use electricity quite a lot because it's a frozen food business, that's something that's impacting us a lot. and the wages as well. that's increasing over time. but wages aren't rising fast enough for many wprkers to feel for many workers to feel obviously better off. yeah, i think so going up, prices are going up, yeah. so it's a bit difficult. i feel sometimes i feel very bad, everybody can't afford to buy all things. earlier this year we had some good economic news. the squeeze on living standards had lifted. pay was finally rising faster than prices. meaning you could buy more what you were paid. that's still happening, but with inflation at 2.7%, onlyjust. in the year to august gas bills rose by 4.3%. electricity was up 7.4 %, and petrol jumped by 11.7%. there is still a lingering effect from the fall in the pound

after the brexit referendum, and we see that in terms of very high imported prices, so import price inflation is still around about 10% per annum. it's been hinted the government may raise fuel duty in the next budget. again, pushing up the price of petrol. 0n the markets they are betting the bank of england will have to head off further inflation, with another rise in interest rates by may next year. andy verity, bbc news. ca rava n the time is 6.15pm/ .0ur top story this evening. more than 100 babies are feared to have died or suffered life changing injuries because of mistakes made by maternity staff at one nhs trust. should five—year—olds be tested at school? scotland's parliament has voted against it. and coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, australia get their revenge. commonwealth champions england are beaten in the quad series. injust over six months‘ time, the uk will leave

the european union. all this week, bbc news is answering some of the most common questions that are being asked about brexit and its impact. one of them is what brexit will mean for trade and for businesses who import and export goods. our business editor, simonjack, has been to felixstowe, to find out. will we be richer or poorer? will it definitely happen? why haven't we left yet? how will trade work after brexit? trade in action at the port of felixstowe. when we talk about trade, we simply mean the amount we buy from and sell to the rest of the world. how will it be affected by brexit? well, to get an idea of where we're headed, we're taking a look at where we are now. ok, let's have a closer look. the uk sold £616 billion worth of goods and services to the rest of the world last year. of that, we sold 44% of them to the eu. now, we imported or bought

£642 billion worth of stuff from the rest of the world and of that, we bought 53% of it from the eu. so does that mean that they need us more than we need them? not really, because the eu, of course, is much bigger than the uk. of the eu's total exports, the uk made upjust 8%. so what happens next after brexit? well, this is the tricky bit. lots of options, lots of acronyms, eea, fta, wto. now, you can disappear down alleyways of complexity with all these different permutations, but the basic principle is this. the closer we stay to the eu, its market, its rules, its regulations, the easier and cheaper it is to trade with the eu, but the harder it is to make new trade deals with some of the fastest—growing economies around the world. now, the government's preferred position, the so—called chequers deal, tries to tread a middle ground between all of that, with no tariffs on goods, close cooperation on services, close alignment on rules, no free movement of people

and importantly, freedom to make our own trade deals. or we could just leave with no deal at all, clean break, fall back on world trade organisation rules. you're then talking big tariffs on things like cars and meat. this is the one that businesses fear. they think it would be the most disruptive and the most expensive. now, a lot of people say it's impossible to forecast what's going to happen in 15 years' time and that's probably right. so let's forget about the numbers and consider this, some say. the uk already exports £100 billion worth of stuff to the us every year. there's no trade deal. germany exports four times more than the uk does to china every year and manages to do that from within the eu. so do you need to leave the eu to do your trade with the rest of the world? this kind of crystal ball gazing is difficult.

the government and other forecasters don't have a brilliant track record. but one thing seems widely accepted and intuitively right, and that is if you make trade with your nearest and biggest market more cumbersome and more expensive, that's got to result in an economic hit, at least in the short term. it may be decades before we really know whether leaving the european union was good or not for uk trade. our business editor simon jack there — and we'll have more key brexit questions coming up throughout the week. and you can watch the series so far on the bbc iplayer — just click on the news category. britain's biggest retailer, tesco, has unveiled its new discount chain, called jack's, which it hopes will compete with the likes of aldi and lidl. the launch comes at a time when tesco is being squeezed, notjust by budget rivals, but by a possible merger between giants sainsbury‘s and asda. our business correspondent emma simpson has more. it's tesco, but not as you know it.

this new chain is called jack's, after tesco's founder, and inside, no—frills, fewer products but it is promising eight out of ten of them will be british. this is jack's, a celebration of 100 yea rs of this is jack's, a celebration of 100 years of tesco, going back to what oui’ years of tesco, going back to what ourfounder was all years of tesco, going back to what our founder was all about. that may be but the boss of britain's biggest retailer is also trying to beat the discounters at their own game. is this going to be cheaper than aldi 01’ this going to be cheaper than aldi or liddell, that is what people want to know? we're opening two stores tomorrow, definitely the best prices in town and the intention is always to be the lowest price in the market. so you will be the discounters on price, that's a promise? we are going to be the lowest price in town and the best value in the market. so what is behind this? a decade ago, aldi and lidl had 4% of the grocery market but that has grown to 13% today.

that means these discounters have taken more than £10.5 billion worth of sales from their rivals this year. that is a huge slice of the grocery pie. but will shoppers bite? price is always important when you are shopping forfood, price is always important when you are shopping for food, it's the most important factor, i go to different supermodels depending on what i want. i will probably go for a look but since aldi has been opened, i'm quite happy with that because it halved my shopping bill. tesco says it only planning up to 15 of these stores are now. that won't trouble the discounters just yet. shoppers will decide if jack's will become the discounters just yet. shoppers will decide ifjack‘s will become a far bigger, more permanent fixture. emma simpson, bbc news. the scottish parliament has voted to scrap school tests for five—year—olds introduced last year to assess whether pupils need extra help in certain subjects. critics say they put too much pressure on young children. however, despite today's vote, the tests are set to continue across scotland.

here's our scotland editor sarah smith. five—year—old theo has just started at primary school, where his mum sara wants him to have fun. she doesn't want him to sit the controversial standardised assessment that will test his literacy and numeracy skills. it's more the way it would be pushing the curriculum, i think, so rather than allowing it to be more relaxed and having a kind of play—based approach, as they do in some of the other european countries, i think it would encourage teachers to focus more on the traditional three rs. other parents whose children took the tests for the first time last year said they found it stressful and upsetting. although some teachers do believe they are useful. nowhere else in the uk are kids assessed as young as five. in england, tests are planned from 2020. so this has the potential to be embarrassing. i will take an example of the assessment that is given to primary 1 pupils on this computer here. this one's asking me... choose the dog. to choose the dog. so i click on the dog. if i do get that wrong, it doesn't

actually tell me i'm wrong, but it deliberately moves me on to an easier question for the next one. drag all the pictures of birds. the diagnostic information that comes from these assessments is really very high quality. what i want to make sure is that teachers are able to plan the future learning stages for young people as effective as they can, based on that information, to make sure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. all the opposition parties in scotland want the tests scrapped. stop and think, halt the tests so that we can reconsider the facts before us and the whole approach to evaluating pupil progress in primary 1. the snp minority government lost the vote on the matter in the scottish parliament this evening. yes, 63, no, 61. there were no abstentions. the motion is therefore agreed. but theo will still face an assessment this year as the government does not now have

to change its policy. sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh. the tv host and comedy writer denis norden has died at the age of 96. he began writing in the 1940s and became a star with his show it'll be all right on the night. david sillito looks back at his career. # take it from here...#. 1948, and the beginning of a hit new show, take it from here, featuring the glums. written by frank muir and dennis norden. we didn't have this problem on take it from here, did we? this young jewish writer from east london spent his war years entertaining the troops. norden and muir would become one of comedy‘s great partnerships. balham, gateway to the south. he also wrote for peter sellers... butterworth wouldn't be your mother? no, he isn't. richard briers... he's my uncle. and david frost.

and then in 1977, he had an idea. the funniest material was often the stuff we didn't get to see, the mistakes. laughter. some people now claim there are no mistakes... and so began nearly 30 years of it'll be all right on the night. dennis norden. in his war years, he had seen the horrors of life, the belsen concentration camp. let's have another drink. righto, yes. but the years after, there was only ever one objective. # this is my lovely day...#. to help us see the funny side of life. denis norden, who's died at the age of 96. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. have we seen the back of the storm now? looks like it has swept away but

left us with a trail of damage and destruction in northern ireland and also scotland but the winds have dropped, nowhere near as strong as they were earlier. still pretty gusty out there, mind you, pretty much across the board as well. but nowhere near as windy as it was earlier today. things will calm down overnight, a few showers going towards the north—west, and in the south, the rain really getting its act together, turning steadier and heavier, pushing back northwards into wales, through the midlands and lincolnshire. south of that, warm again overnight but to the north, a different story, quite a bit cooler than of late. still quite windy berthing in the morning with showers in northern scotland but otherwise much like to win for scotland and northern ireland, some sunshine for a while. it will cloud over and we may eventually get some rain because this lot is developing more widely across england and wales, heavy rain in north wales and northern england, the southeast and east anglia may miss most of the rain through the day, some sunshine and still feeling quite warm. heading into the evening and overnight tomorrow, we need to

focus on two things, the rain which will be heaviest across wales and north—west england and could lead to flooding, as much as four inches over the hills. and gale force winds will pick up widely across england and wales, gusts of 50—60 mph. the whole lot due to the weather front bringing the rain and an area of low pressure swee ps bringing the rain and an area of low pressure sweeps through the night, the worst should be gone by friday. and any of the warm conditions as well. we will be left with cooler, fresher north—westerly winds, quite a blustery day on friday. quite a few showers getting blown down across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, into north wales. further south, you might well get away with a dry day with sunshine. but temperatures will be lover, near what they should be for the time of year. that's all from the bbc news at six. now on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister arrives in salzburg to present her brexit plan to eu leaders.

she said the eu will need to move its position to make brexit a success. bbc news has learned that a review into maternity errors at shrewsbury and telford nhs trust is now examining more than 100 cases. two people have died as storm ali brings winds of up to 100 miles an hour, with a woman swept to her death in a caravan in ireland and a man in his 20s killed by a falling tree in northern ireland. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news: beyond 100 days will be live in salzburg as theresa may prepares to deliver her brexit pitch to eu leaders. we'll be live in dumfries to bring you the latest updates on storm ali, which has brought winds of up to 100 miles per hour to ireland and parts of the uk.

and later at 10:40 and 11:30 — we'll be bringing you tomorrow's front pages in the papers. our guests this evening will be the writer and broadcaster mihir bose, and asa bennett, brexit editor at the daily telegraph. that's all ahead on bbc news. as we heard — the prime minister theresa may has arrived in salzburg for dinner with eu leaders. upon arrival, mrs may called on fellow european union leaders to follow her lead and adapt their brexit negotiating stance to get a good deal. the prime minister told reporters "if we re going to achieve a successful conclusion then, just as the uk has evolved