tonight at ten — the conservative mp owen paterson resigns after a furious backlash and a major government u—turn in the wake of a vote about his conduct. the former cabinet minister — who was found to have broken lobbying rules — was again facing suspension, after yesterday's vote to review the disciplinary system was put on hold. instead owen paterson announced he was leaving what he called "the cruel world of politics". also tonight... all right, david, you're under arrest on suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce. a hospital electrician admits murdering two women and sexually abusing at least 100 dead bodies in mortuaries in kent. yorkshire county cricket club has been suspended from hosting england matches, amid a row over racism at the club.

cervical cancer has been virtually eradicated in young women because of the hpv vaccine programme, says a new study. and the veteran entertainer lionel blair has died at the age of 92 — after a career spanning seven decades. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel — antonio conte leads tottenham for the first time as they welcome dutch side vitesse arnhem to north london. good evening. the former conservative cabinet minister owen paterson has resigned as an mp, saying he is leaving what he called "the cruel world of politics". his decision came hours after the government was forced into a major u—turn, following a furious backlash over proposed changes to the way mps are reprimanded

for breaking the rules. the prime minister's retreat came shortly after the chair of the committee on standards in public life described the government's behaviour as a very serious and damaging moment for parliament and public standards in this country. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. can you take a step back? a different kind of protest. a different kind of attack to green activists busy in westminster today. come down here. sleaze is the accusation against the government, corruption the claim. a former minister has now quit as an mp after he was found to have lobbied the government more than a dozen times for companies who paid him thousands of pounds. standing down, owen paterson said...

the ayes to the right, 250... but downing street had tried to save him. ..232. tories last night voted to tear up the rules he broke. but listen to the atmosphere in there. jeering. order. what have you done to this place? dozens of conservatives, outraged, stayed away. but number ten had backed the attempt to overhaul the system that monitors behaviour that would have saved him. the immediate backlash was bruising. nearly all of the front pages damning. the internet alive with claims of sleaze, political rivals immediately sharpening attacks. many tories, too, were appalled. so by mid—morning, ministers were back in the commons ditching the idea, and in effect ditching owen paterson too. last night's vote has created a certain amount of controversy. it is important that standards

in this house are done on a cross—party basis. while there is a very strong feeling on both sides of the house that there is a need for an appeals process, there is equally a strong feeling that this should not be based on a single case or applied retrospectively. in other words, changing the rules that mr paterson broke is off for now. but the opposition says it's a wider pattern. corrupt, i mean there's no other word for it, i'm afraid. and often in a situation like this you have a prime minister who is trying to lead on public standards. what you've got with this prime minister is a prime minister who is leading his troops through the sewer. and so it is a complete mess of their own making. it's a very strong accusation to say this is corrupt. well, it is corrupt because there was a clear finding after due process. the attempt to protect owen paterson has backfired, spectacularly so. it's stirred questions again

about the prime minister's attitude to obeying the rules, doubts about downing street's politicaljudgement, and it's done the reputation of this place no favours at all. borisjohnson says he's sorry to see mr paterson go, but outrage at how the prime minister tried to use parliament will take time to fade. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. a 67—year—old man has admitted murdering two women, wendy knell and caroline pierce, in kent almost 35 years ago, and then decades later sexually abusing at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. for more than 30 years david fuller was a hospital electrician at the kent and sussex hospital and then the tunbridge wells hospital, until police finally tracked him down last december — thanks to advances in dna testing. detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds

contains disturbing details. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david, you're under arrest on suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand 7 yeah. david fuller, mr normal, at least on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce were starting out in life in a quiet town. you don't expect it _ in tonbridge wells, like myself, we were alljust working locally. it could have happened to any of us. julie monks was a friend of wendy's. she always wanted to get| married and have children and be a home—maker. that is what she, that is what she wanted to do. | but wendy's home, her tiny bedsit, was where she was murdered. caroline was attacked

on her doorstep and taken away. three weeks later, a farm worker look down from his tractor into a drainage ditch and spotted a body. like wendy, caroline had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted. police were pretty sure the same man had killed both of them, but back then there was very little cctv, especially around here, no phones to track, and dna techniques were rudimentary. but that has changed. fuller was tracked down using modern dna techniques which can identify a criminal through his family members. when this dna swab was taken it matched samples from the murder scenes, carefully stored for decades. fuller's house provided more evidence. this picture, see the shoes he is wearing? they matched this footprint in blood from wendy's bedsit. today's been a very big surprise.

finally fuller has admitted the murders at court. wendy's family have gotjustice. after all these years, it is hard to believe it's suddenly happened. but the investigators made other discoveries... then he has got, "no 52, date of death". he has identified the victims. ..which really revealed what david fuller was all about. he has killed them and evidence is indicating that he has killed them to then... ..sexual abuse them. after death? after death. and that's the evidence that's presented in court. horrific murders. these young ladies 25 and 20 brutalised for his sexual satisfaction. the search continued. it looks like he has got some hard drives in there, i would say. but they're stuck to the back. and these hidden hard drives contained devastating evidence. fuller, a hospital

maintenance man in two hospital mortuaries, carrying out sexual acts with dead bodies. he had set up a camcorder and videoed himself. his swipe card gave him access to all areas. at the kent and sussex hospital and its successor the tunbridge wells hospital, at least 100 dead women and girls were abused. including a nine—year—old and a victim aged 100. fuller recorded some of their names in a little black book, but said practically nothing to police... is there anything you would like to add or clarify at this point, david? ..leaving them to identify more than 81 victims so far and visit their families. we have got to tell them, we must tell them. and there are some that have said, "we wish you hadn't told us". i don't know how i would react if it happened to one of my close loved ones, whether i would want to know about it.

fuller's claim that she was mentally ill fell apart in court. psychiatrist dr richard badcock had advised the police on cases, including that of harrold shipman. the psychology at work here is very definitely one of sado—masochism, which in essence is not being able to deal with your own issues, except by manipulative behaviour of other people. although you're doing extreme things, you don't feel alive most of the time. david fuller will become notorious for crimes which will revolt the nation. his victims, so many women and girls, wendy and caroline, were not even safe after their deaths. tom symonds, bbc news, maidstone crown court. david fuller worked at hospitals in kent for over 30 years until his arrest. his crimes in the mortuaries span

a 12—year period, starting in 2008. tonight the health secretary sajid javid has asked all nhs trusts in england to review access to mortuaries. our health correspondent catherine burns looks at how he was able to commit his crimes for so long. i'm admitting the offences, be i won't go into detail. this is the moment that david fuller confirmed what police already knew. he had spent years abusing dead women and girls in hospital mortuaries. but we may never know the full extent. the main evidence against him was what prosecutors called a "library of depravity". 12 years of his photos and videos. he had worked in two nhs hospitals for more than 30 years though. it is beyond comprehension, nothing to compare with this has come across my desk as a prosecutor. in mortuaries it is normal practice for a range of staff to need access — porters

and maintenance teams. part of david fuller's role was to check the fridge temperatures. mortuary staff left mid—afternoon, but his shifts went on until the evening, so it was easy for him to be there alone. like in many hospitals, mortuary security here was largely focussed on stopping unauthorised access. visitors had to be buzzed in and there were six cctv cameras. it is understood though that there weren't regular spot checks on that cctv footage. that only happened when and if someone raised a problem. the trust has apologised to victims' families and started an investigation into what went wrong. my immediate priority is to ensure that the families of fuller's victims are given the time, space and privacy to come to terms with what they have learned. nhs england has also written to all trusts with mortuaries, telling them it is not enough to have cctv and swipe card access. they have to be properly monitored too.

but should these steps already advised? david fuller's case has echos from a0 years ago, a report thatjimmy savile abused dead bodies when he was a volunteer porter at leeds general infirmary. when this came out, the hospital took it seriously. the controls around - access to the mortuary, up to the early 1980s were not robust. - there was a wider report intojimmy savile by the department of health, called lessons learned. 150 pages long. it didn't mention mortuaries once. it seems the lessons learned were only about protecting the living. david fuller carried on abusing dead bodies until his arrest last year. catherine burns, bbc news.

the government's latest coronavirus figures for the uk show there were just over 37,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period, down 2,500 on the same time last week. on average, there were 39,000 new cases reported per day in the last week. there were more than 9,000 people in hospital with covid as of yesterday. 214 deaths were recorded, that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. on average in the past week, 170 covid—related deaths were recorded every day. 9 million people have received their boosterjab, this includes third doses for those with certain health conditions. the uk has become the first country in the world to approve an antiviral pill against covid — the first of its kind — which will be used for vulnerable patients. in trials the drug, called molnupiravir, was shown to halve the chances of dying or being hospitalised. the government has bought enough supplies to treat nearly half a million covid patients. our medical editor

fergus walsh reports. a pill that can stop covid in its tracks — it's been the goal of scientists since the pandemic began. now there is molnupiravir, and it's likely to be the first of many antiviral treatments. anne—marie tested positive for coronavirus on tuesday and has just started a five—day course of molnupiravir as part of a trial in liverpool. she's had cancer, and so is more vulnerable to covid. it's absolutely a life—and—death situation. i do have a family that i need to think about, and i need to be here for them. and if this gives me the opportunity to be around for my son's wedding and everything else, then so be it. when coronavirus infects cells, it makes multiple copies of itself. molnupiravir, originally

designed to treat flu, introduces errors in the virus's genetic code, which hampers its ability to spread. it's over a year since the clinical research facility at royal liverpool university hospital began testing molnupiravir on patients. global trials have shown it halves the chances of dying or being hospitalised with covid. to have a drug like this, to have an antiviral that's potent, that's able to be taken orally, is a very important moment and does mark a milestone in our discovery of effective medicines against covid. the uk has ordered 480,000 courses of molnupiravir, with the first doses expected to arrive here later this month. it's being approved for people with at least one risk factor for covid, such as being over 60, obese or having heart disease.

it's most effective when given within five days of symptoms appearing. the cost of the drug hasn't been revealed, but in the us it's £500 per patient. the uk was the first country in the world to authorise the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines, and now regulators here have again led the way by approving molnupiravir. it will be months before doctors know how effective it is outside trials. but antivirals look set to play a key role in keeping covid patients out of hospital. fergus walsh, bbc news. the government says the "end of coal is in sight", after more than a0 countries promised to phase out the fossil fuel in the coming decades. poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast—growing economies that now say they'll reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal, such china and america,

haven't signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing... if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we'll need to stop climate change, but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate change and more than a0 countries have now committed to move away from it. i do believe that the end of coal is in sight. i do believe we are getting to a point where we consign coal power to history. the agreement includes coal—reliant

countries like poland and south korea, but missing the us, india and most significantly china, where half of the world's coal is burned. it has the biggest transition, - the biggest challenges and needs to really drive a structural change in its energy system. - today's precedent and movement really increases the _ pressure for them to come up with |those solutions sooner than later. | moving away from coal is the future aim, but what's happening to greenhouse gas emissions now? since the 1990s, carbon dioxide levels have been mainly rising, but during the pandemic, when the world shut down, they fell sharply. this year though they have increased rapidly again to almost the same amount. behind those numbers is really a big rebound in coal in particular, so probably what is happening here is that the stimulus packages to come out of covid, they have stimulated the current economy, which is a fossil fuel economy. but if we are to get to net zero emissions, what do we do

about oil and gas? they have been filling some of the gaps behind coal, but some countries like costa rica and denmark are setting a date to end their use and other nations at cop26 are expected to do the same. but the clock is ticking for decisions about our energy future. scientists are clear — our reliance on fossil fuels needs to end fast. rebecca morelle, bbc news, glasgow. the england and wales cricket board has suspended yorkshire county cricket club from hosting international matches amid a row over racism. it comes after an investigation found spin bowler azeem rafiq had been the victim of racial harassment at the club but no action was taken against any staff. tonight, former england captain michael vaughan has revealed that he is named in that report, but denies accusations of racism. our sports editor dan roan is at headingley for us.

today the ecb said yorkshire's handling of the situation had been unacceptable and there were questions over its governance. headingley was meant to stage two big england matches, but they could now go elsewhere. costing the club potentially millions in lost ticket revenue, on top of the financial hit it has taken with more sponsors deserting the club. the punishment is a reflection of the gravity of the crisis that has engulfed yorkshire. gary ballance, their batsman has been handed a ban after he admitted using a racial slur against rafiq and a second player admitted they were named. michael vaughan saying that he had been accused by rafiq of in 2009 using,

making a racist comment towards him and two other asian players. he denies that allegation, he says. tomorrow, the board here at yorkshire will hold an emergency meets and i have learned that a number of the board members are preparing to announce their resignation, as the fallout continues.— the bank of england has kept interest rates at the historic low of 0.1%, but warned that we should expect rates to rise towards 1% in the coming months. the warning came as inflation — the rise in price of goods and services we buy — is on track to be more than 5% by next spring. our economics editor faisal islam reports. the economic picture is not as transparent as the main manufacture of clayton glass in county durham. what is crystal clear is that inflation is everywhere — in the wiring, in the packaging, and here at least in the wage packets. all the gas—related price rises

have come through in raw glass to us, circa 30%. drivers' wages, 26% in the last four months. general wages, 10% in the last 12 months. should inflation get to 5%, i don't believe that that level of inflation and cost pressures we're seeing in the business is sustainable at all. but that's exactly what the bank of england is now forecasting. that means interest rates will go up, just not at today's meeting. heading to around 1% in the next year. so, rates are on hold this month, but they're going up in the near future. it was a close—run thing, because although the bank says there's not much it can do about inflation hitting 5% by april, it wants to stop a spiral of price rises then wage rises leading to even more price rises. and deep in the forecast was some rather depressing news about post—tax, post—inflation pay packets.

it is energy prices that will push inflation to a decade—high next year, says the bank. the outlook for wages and pay after inflation and taxes isn'tjust sluggish. they'll in fact go down over the next couple of years. before the financial crisis this measure grew by over 3% a year. we have signalled today that we think that there will be some need to increase interest rates to bring inflation sustainably back to target. and we will be ready to do that. various claims have been made about high wage economy, a new prime minister's economy the chancellor said at the budget. not much evidence of that in your forecast today. that is unfortunately the effect of having higher inflation. and high taxes? particularly higher inflation, actually. and that is unfortunate. none of us wants to see this. we understand the causes of it and we want to see it obviously, you know, move away and go away as quickly as possible. and with widespread supply chain difficulties too, there

are concerns about the strength of the post—lockdown recovery. faisal islam, bbc news. a new study suggests that cervical cancer has been virtually eradicated in young women because of the hpv vaccine programme. around 3,200 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the uk each year and 99% of these are caused by the human papilloma—viruses. but cases of the disease have fallen by nearly 90% among women now in their 20s — who were the first generation to get the jab. the vaccine is offered to all girls and boys in the uk at some stage between 11 and 13 years old depending on where they live and up to the age of 25 if they missed out at school. our health editor hugh pym reports three women give their perspective on an historic day and a big leap forward for medicine, with the success of the hpv vaccine. evie missed out at school, but then found

she could get the injections on the nhs. i've now at 23 got the vaccine and, yeah, this news isjust really, really good, because you can just see that the changes are happening and that the vaccine is working. lynne highlights the huge fall in cancer risk for those vaccinated. the fact that can be drastically reduced by 90% isjust such good news. fantastic. penny had cervical cancer, but it was picked up early thanks to a smear test and, after a major operation three years ago, she is now clear. i have three kids, i had no. intention of having any more children, so although it was major surgery, for me it didn't have the _ same impact that it might have - on somebody, on a woman who gets diagnosed in her 20s who hasn't had any. children, who is faced with the _ option that they have to you know. have a hysterectomy and they're not going to be able to have children naturally. - in 2019, vaccines were extended to boys. they had been introduced in 2008 for girls age ranges of between 11 and 13, differing slightly

in the uk's nations. hpv can cause some cancers, including head and neck, in men and the vaccine could help prevent those. no wonder scientists are talking of a dramatic break through. it is a really historic moment to show that at last we have concrete proof that the vaccine is actually stopping people from getting cervical cancer. so it is an incredible story of the power of science and research and what we can achieve when we put that into practice. the vaccine could make a big difference in developing countries like laos, where it's been introduced for girls. 90% of deaths from cervical cancer are in low and middle income countries, where access to screening is limited. there have been calls for action to eliminate cervical cancer and that goal is now several steps closer. hugh pym, bbc news. the veteran entertainer lionel blair has died at the age of 92. he started out as an actor but taught himself to tap dance

watching the films of fred astaire. in a career that lasted over 70 years he was a regular on tv variety shows and danced with sammy davisjunior. first of all a gentleman who has beenin first of all a gentleman who has been in the business for many years. so long in fact, he was a godfather at the christening of sammy davis senior. it is lionel blair! a long—running team captain on give us a clue in the 1980s, he was a much—loved stalwart of game shows such as blankety blank. lionel blair, who's died at the age of 92. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

this is bbc news, the headlines. in britain, a conservative mp at the heart of a row over standards in public life has resigned. owen paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules. the government then tried to alter the disciplinary system, prompting a furious backlash. with millions trapped in an escalating conflict in ethiopia — a diplomatic effort is under way — to defuse the war. a us envoy is in the capital, and the eu and regional groups — have again called for a ceasefire. at the glasgow climate conference, more than a0 countries have promised to phase out coal power. but china, india and the us — have not signed up. controversial rules to push tens of millions of american workers into getting vaccinated will come into effect from january. the mandates affect all healthcare workers and businesses with more than a— hundred employees.