in the treatment of her family by the criminaljustice system". our correspondent daniel de simone broke this story — here's his report. the racist murder of teenager stephen lawrence took place 31 years ago at a south london bus stop. the failed first investigation is widely seen as one of the biggest disasters in the history of the metropolitan police. today an official review has concluded that four senior retired officers who ran the first inquiry should not be charged with a criminal offence. this is a dreadful crime, a completely unprovoked attack on a young 18—year—old black youth. their investigation failed to bring anyone to justice. two of those officers were bill ilsley and ian crampton, pictured here after being criticised by a landmark public inquiry 25 years ago. the others were brian weeden and his deputy ben bullock. prosecutors have been considering whether to charge the four with misconduct in a public office for investigative failures. the conclusion by prosecutors today upholds the decision not to charge made last year. as things stand it brings to an end attempts to hold met officers criminally responsible for the failed first case. last year the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect in the murder, matthew white, who died in 2021, and exposed a series of failures relating to him, including that he wasn't made a suspect by the first investigation, which also mishandled an approach by matthew white's stepfather who wanted to tell police his stepson had admitted being present during the murder. but this major failure wasn't part of the case against any of the officers who weren't charged today. two of the prime suspects were convicted in 2012, but others responsible remain free. so would you like to see the investigation reopened? definitely so. in april, stephen's mother, baroness doreen lawrence, told the bbc the case should be reopened. her call following the bbc�*s investigations led to an official review of the closed murder investigation being ordered. the breadth of that review is still being worked out, but it means there remains a prospect of furtherjustice for stephen lawrence. to the campaign trail now. it's the last day to register to vote in the general election. with just over two weeks to go — there are an estimated 11.3 million younger voters not registered. a social media campaign involving celebrities, influencers and sports stars has been launched to encourage more to sign—up. our political correspondent, damian grammaticas, has the details. today is the very last day you can register to vote. these may not be the voters of today, but rishi sunak has been taking his campaign far and wide. this was lincolnshire yesterday. mr sunak, in his search for voters, is sticking to his strategy to subject labour to scrutiny. today in devon, repeating that again. the choice is crystal clear, tax cuts at every stage of your life. if you are in work, setting up a small business and self employed, if you are a young couple wanting to buy a home, if you are a pensioner or have got a young family, the conservatives will deliver tax cuts for you. in contrast, labour willjust put up your taxes, and that will not create any financial security for anyone. the labour leader, meanwhile, keen to slay dragons about his party's plans, was also in the south of england in basingstoke, accompanied by the investor and tv personality theo paphitis. he is highlighting labour plans to set up banking hubs in towns to give people and companies access to banking services. but it is part of the challenge for small businesses — whether it's hospitality, retail, we have just been talking about — and that's why i'm really pleased today to unveil our plan for supporting small businesses, for supporting high streets, to make sure that more people are out using those small businesses on their high street. it is all part of our manifesto, which is a manifesto for wealth creation, growth and making sure people genuinely feel better off with labour. his every move being filmed too, sir ed davey is also in the south of england. today he is up to more genteel stuff, dishing out croissants, but pushing one of the liberal democrats' favourite themes — water quality and their plan to spend £10 million to hire new inspectors to toughen up enforcement. his campaigning in hampshire is another sign the battlegrounds in this election extend into what has long been deep blue conservative territory. across the blue wall seats i have talked about in the home - counties, in surrey, _ sussex, hampshire, hertfordshire, oxfordshire and cambridgeshire, so many parts of traditional- conservative heartlands, the liberal democrats i are the only party who can beat the conservatives. i i have just been - in the west country. in devon and somerset, - but also dorset and cornwall, we are seeing a revival- of liberal democrat support as people who traditionally have - voted conservative say they can't do it any more. and they will not vote labour, i they will vote liberal democrat. with just over two weeks until polling day, the parties are all fine tuning their campaigns ahead of what will be their final push for your vote in the coming days — if, that is, you register in time. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. let's speak to head of policy at the electoral commission, tom hawthorn. thank you for coming on the program. we've seen lots of encouragement for people to register to vote. haw we've seen lots of encouragement for people to register to vote.— people to register to vote. how has it been going? 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to help pinpoint which issues matter most to you, we're reporting from constituencies all over the uk, hearing what you have to say. today my colleague anna foster was in keighleyjust outside bradford in west yorkshire, in the constituency of keighley and ilkley. she asked local constitutents for their views. this is the bolt maker's arms in the middle of keighley. andrew is with me while the landlady of this fine establishment. so we were just seeing and hearing there, all the battle buses out today, all the party leaders, the politicians getting their message across. so what they want is at this time of the day, when everyone's gathered in the pub, talk about politics, winning people over. do you think that's what they're managing to do? certainly in the bolt maker, i would say so. however, there's not a subject that we don't debate at length. but definitely at the moment, politics is top of the agenda. and so people really following the election, are they engaging in it? are they interested? yes, i believe so. yes, they seem to be in here, definitely. is it causing any arguments or are you still friends? it causes arguments at the time, but then we make friends again afterwards. that makes sense. so i'm going to give you a little tour in here. i've got a map to show me who's sitting where you are, a beautifully behaved clientele. i'm really impressed by how peaceful you all are. so i'm going to start with james. james, do you think you can pull a pint and also speak to me i can multitask. that's lovely. so tell me this is going to be your first time voting, right? yes. so i haven't as a young person, we don't get taught a lot about the politics, especially at school. and i feel like that is something that we have to then go out and learn ourselves. so this year i've done a lot of research myself and it should be the first time vote and i haven't decided yet who because i want to do a bit more research. but yes, it should be the first time. well, that's very good. i'm very impressed by the research that you're putting in. so you're not sort of turned off by the huge amount of campaigning that you're seeing? you're finding it useful because you're learning new things, right? well, i think no matter what it is, if it's campaigning for anything local or big elections, you're going to see it no matter what, especially with social media, everyone's on that. but it's down to you as a person to make your own personal opinion because it's your vote and your vote matters for yourself. or you can look at the community and try and help to promote keighley and get keighley to become better. so i'm just deciding which one to go for, for that to help as a town become better, as well as look for myself to who i think will benefit. well, it's very socially minded. and i had to do i've been standing on tiptoes throughout that to stretch this microphone all the way to the back. so we've got steve over here. i'm going to nip closer to you, steve, so i can actually actually get to you with this microphone. so it's worth saying as well, this particular constituency, it's been conservative and it's been labour. you're a labour voter. on this occasion. so you'd be different in the past? i have. ijust with the old view, you have to work. vote for the party, which are very good. the best for yourself and your family and such. why labour for you this time? did you vote conservative last time? yes. and so do you feel maybe that you didn't didn't get what you were? well, it was in the height of the brexit thing. and i thought at the time my opinion was boris was probably the man for the job and he did break the ties with europe. but then with the covid crisis, which which from my point of view, industry wise, i think they did pretty well. but since then, they play politics with the country as opposed to producing politics for the country. now, where's peter? peter is here. hello, peter. i'm going to turn you in fact, rachel is going to step round here so we can see a beautiful face while you're talking to me. so you are still still a conservative voter. did you vote conservative last time? idid. you did. and you're sticking this time. so you're you're not feeling feeling some of the issues that steve did? yes, you do. and it is a problem, i must admit. but i always relate back to the bad times in the seventies when harold wilson was in power. and all we had was strikes and power cuts and it was horrendous at the time. and that still sticks with you even now? it does, yeah. yeah. well, that's really interesting. i was going to talk to now andy. you've never voted at all, andy. never voted in my life. why not? i'm not telling you off. i'm just curious. because think of any day when they all released a manifesto, they say they're going to do what they said they're going to do with that when they get into power. exactly the opposite record. got a conservative mp for his constituency. he's never done anything for this town. i'm ashamed that they're from keighley because town centre is practically a dump in this town. so you're just feeling jaded with with politics, with everything, really. yeah. is there anything that anybody could say, any of the politicians between now and the election that would win you over, that would make you think, actually, i'm going to go out and vote this time? or is are you a lost cause? i'm a lost cause. i'll never vote in my life. ok, that's interesting. and we've gotjohn down here as well. you're not going to escape, john. i'm going to sit down here. so you were telling me that you you sort of decide you're still undecided? i'm undecided. i always am, because. if i followed my heart, as a vote, i would go liberal democrat. but in this town, a liberal democrat was basically i vote conservative, so i switch and swap as i feel need to. i listen to what they have to say, and then i make my own decision as to which way i want to go. and this time round, do you feel that the issues that the politicians are talking about, do you feel that they they've got their finger on the pulse of what people want or what you want? partially. but i believe that they're also doing a lot of mudslinging with each between each other, which is not good for the country and not good for the constituents. okay. well, thank you very much, everybody. i just want to show as well, by the way, if you're watching, because we've been talking about various of the candidates in this particular constituency, there's a list of all of them that's on screen for you now. and actually, this is something you can do wherever you are in the country. you can put your postcode in on the bbc news website and it will show you a full list of all of the people who are standing in your constituency who you can vote for in a few weeks' time. thanks to anna for that. remember you can follow live updates. seven when a party debate is taking place, follow it on the bbc news website and the news app as well. the inquiry into the scandal caused by the failure of the post office's horizon it system has heard how senior managers tried to "sabotage" an investigation. the claim was made by ian henderson — a forensic accountant who was brought in to check the accounting software in 2012. he claimed that the company was more concerned with protecting its brand than supporting sub—postmasters. i had formed the view that quite early on in the process the post office was getting advice from external lawyers about the financial consequences of what we were finding. the fact that they might be looking at material amounts of compensation i remembered doing a back of a cigarette packet calculation and i felt that if all of the claims being raised by sub postmasters in working group materialise we were looking at at least £300 million in compensation. that was a huge underestimate. with the details of what happened at the enquiry today — here's our correspondent azadeh moshiri. well, many of the victims of the scandal are attending because these independent forensic accountants, investigators are considered champions to these victims. i spoke to one of them who told me, i've come because i want to hear them tell the truth. they feel it's something they haven't heard before. and they know that these are two people that they say are cooperating with the inquiry. now, as you said, those were big statements coming out of here. it's important to put some of the context in in place. ian henderson and ron warmington, who've been giving evidence today, are two independent investigators who were paid by the post office. they came on board as they were growing concerns about the horizon it system in 2012 and their names may sound fairly familiar. they were depicted in the itv drama, but depicted as one character, bob rutherford. now, ian henderson said by 2015, the relationship with the post office had completely changed. he claimed there was sabotage, as you just mentioned. he also said that paula venables, the former post office boss, tried to steer investigators away from looking into potential miscarriages ofjustice. and in his witness statement, he said he felt he was dealing with a cover up by the post office and possibly a criminal conspiracy. it's worth also mentioning what ron warmington, the other independent accountant, forensic accountant, said. he gave evidence that there was duplicity and disgraceful behaviour piled of even higher. now these are big statements. again, as you've mentioned, second site went on to be sacked by the post office later on, they say, because they were getting too close to the truth. researchers say they've taken a major step forward in diagnosing parkinson's — with a simple blood test that can predict the disease several years before symptoms appear. scientists used artificial intelligence to test for eight kinds of protein to identify patients at risk. they hope it can lead to a cheap, finger—prick test which could help to get an early diagnosis. let's speak to claire bale, she's the associate director of research at parkinsons uk — who co funded the research. thank you for coming on the program. how significant is this? it's really, really important. at the moment we don't have any objective test that we could use to help diagnose parkinson's. that means the diagnosis experience is long and difficult for many people with parkinson's. we desperately need simple test that can be used in the nhs and help people get that diagnosis accurately and earlier. this is simple. talk us through it. the research itself probably wasn't that simple. they look at people with parkinson's and compared the blood to people without parkinson's. they were able to use these machine learning techniques or ai they were able to use these machine learning techniques or al to identify differences in eight key proteins in the blood. what's impressive is the test was 100% accurate for the at distinguishing people between parkinson's for the update look that people with a condition, a rare sleep condition that predisposes people, gives people an increased risk of developing parkinson's they were able to spot parkinson's and those people or spark the signs in these eight key markers in the blood up to seven years before they eventually went on to develop parkinson's symptoms. it seems like it can pick it up way before symptoms actually appear. it up way before symptoms actually a- ear. , , , ., appear. just remind us, what parkinson's _ appear. just remind us, what parkinson's is, _ appear. just remind us, what parkinson's is, the _ appear. just remind us, what parkinson's is, the simpsons| appear. just remind us, what - parkinson's is, the simpsons and how widespread it is in the uk. that parkinson's is, the simpsons and how widespread it is in the uk.— widespread it is in the uk. at the moment we _ widespread it is in the uk. at the moment we think _ widespread it is in the uk. at the moment we think there - widespread it is in the uk. at the moment we think there around i widespread it is in the uk. at the l moment we think there around 153 thousands with parkinson's in the uk. it's a condition that affects the brain primarily. and causes problems with movement. things like slowness, stiffness, some people have a tremor. those are probably the most obvious physical signs. they can be up to a0 back symptoms of parkinson's that are way beyond movements. sleep difficulty, constipation, challenges of anxiety and mood, depression and increased risk of things like dementia. it's a really complicated and challenging condition that deteriorates over time. ~ ., ., condition that deteriorates over time. ~ . ., ., time. what are some of the advantages _ time. what are some of the advantages of _ time. what are some of the advantages of being - time. what are some of the advantages of being able i time. what are some of the advantages of being able to time. what are some of the - advantages of being able to get this test done earlier?— test done earlier? there is a coule, test done earlier? there is a couole. in — test done earlier? there is a couple, in the _ test done earlier? there is a couple, in the short - test done earlier? there is a couple, in the short term . test done earlier? there is a i couple, in the short term being test done earlier? there is a - couple, in the short term being able to offer people the test that helps them get that diagnosis quicker is really important. we hear all the time from people with the condition how challenging, anxiety there is associated with not knowing what's wrong with them. and being pushed from pillar to post thinking it can be a brain tumour, for example. being able to offer that definitive answer quicker i think will really improve peoples experience. in the future we hope chuck treatments i can actually slow or even stop the development of parkinson's. there are lots of trials under way right now to try and understand whether we already have some of those in development. in the future we hope we will be able to use this kind of tool to screen people and pick up people who might be at risk of developing parkinson's and we can stop it in its tracks. it's a really exciting development.- stop it in its tracks. it's a really exciting development. thank you for cominu on exciting development. thank you for coming on the _ exciting development. thank you for coming on the program. _ the pop starjustin timberlake has appeared in court in new york state, charged with driving while intoxicated. us police say the singer—songwriter was pulled over in the early hours of tuesday — in sag harbor — which is in the upmarket hamptons area of long island. our correspondent nada tawfik has more. justin timberlake was out for the night on monday in the hamptons, a wealthy new york beach destination popular with celebrities in the summer. he was out with friends when he was arrested by police in the early hours of tuesday for driving while intoxicated. now, the suffolk county district attorney's office provided no further comment, but court documents detail that he was stopped just after 12:30 in the morning. after he drove through a stop sign, an officer pulled him over and noted that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, that his breath smelled strongly of alcohol, and that he also performed poorly on all standard field sobriety tests. now, the officer said that the pop star told him that he had one martini and was following his friends home. and the tmz website about celebrity gossip included reporting that timberlake's friends allegedly tried to convince officers to let him go, that timberlake refused a breathalyser test and was ultimately taken away in handcuffs. now, penalties for drunk driving in the hamptons town of sag harbor include a fine of up to $1,000, suspended driving privileges it may not be completely dry, but the best of the brightness and the dry weather will probably be for eastern areas of england. and here temperatures, away from any showers, will rise to around 22 degrees celsius. and then we look out towards the atlantic to find our weather for the rest of the week. now, these will be the fronts that will be approaching, bringing outbreaks of rain into north west scotland, northern ireland on friday morning. and then that rain will continue to track further eastwards as we head through friday afternoon and into the evening. but lots of dry weather developing over the weekend. it will be feeling warmer and there'll be plenty of sunshine too. bye for now. this is bbc news, the headlines... four retired detectives who led the first investigation into the murder of the black teenager stephen lawrence will not face criminial charges. the billionairejohn caudwell who donated half a million pounds to the conservatives before the last election says he's voting labour for the first time. and we'll hear from voters in bradford — about what it will take for the politicans to win their vote as the campaigning goes on. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. (pres)the british billionaire entrepreneur and businessman, the british billionaire entrepreneur and businessman, john caudwell, who gave the conservatives half a million pounds before the last general election has told the bbc he will vote labour for the first time in his life next month. the founder of the phones au buisness invited our political editor chris mason to his house this afternoon and told him he thought rishi sunak was an "absolute dud" and said the labour leader sir keir starmer hits the spot on a lot of issues for him. no, i've no idea how many bulbs there are in those chandeliers either. mayfair and the labour party are not words that often feature in the same sentence, but the party wants to show off their new supporter, and invited me to interview him. the last general election you gave £500,000 to the conservatives, you are now saying "back labour." why? well, the reason of course for backing the conservatives, was couldn't possibly stand a corbyn government, and i am still exactly the same view there,