Cassettes as well . No nana, itsjust cds. Why, do you have cassettes . No. The bafta winner played nana in the royle family. One of her co stars, the actress suejohnston, said she was devastated at her passing. In halfan in half an hour, reporters takes a look at the bbcs bestjournalism from the last year, including an exclusive report on chinese militarisation of International Waters. Some Breaking Newsjust in. The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams has died, aged 96. His tale about a family of rabbits was a bestseller and also became a celebrated film. A statement from his family said he died on christmas eve. They posted a quote from the book on the Watership Down website which read it seemed to hazel he would not be needing his body any more. Nick higham looks back at his life. They seem sad, like trees in november. It became a worldwide bestseller and animated film and made its creator a millionaire. Not bad for a story about Intrepid Rabbits originally devised by a Civil Servant to entertain his children in the car. Watership down was a fantasy, but one as compelling as the classical myths its author beloved, and its setting was authentic. Richard adams had grown up authentic. Richard adams had grown up near the real Watership Down in hampshire. In one respect, the book is anything but fantastic because the topography and landscape in which it takes place is completely real. This is the country where i was born and where i grew up, and i know it all like the back of my hand, and everything in the story, down to very often individual gates and trees, is perfectly real. The nover and trees, is perfectly real. The novels phenomenal success sent it up novels phenomenal success sent it up into tax exile in the isle of man. He wrote more books. None quite match the success of Watership Down, but one grew out of his passion for Animal Welfare and hatred of vivisection. It was called the plague dogs. It featured animals which escaped from a research laboratory. Richard adams became president of the rs pci but resigned over a clashed over how radical the organisation should be. Something has gone wrong with the planet. One species has become so mostly dominant that it is threatening to crowd the others off the face of the earth. It is villainous league exploiting and ill treating other species and many it has destroyed altogether of the face of the earth simply for its own greed. As the yea rs simply for its own greed. As the years grew simply for its own greed. As the yea rs grew by, simply for its own greed. As the years grew by, Richard Adams became increasingly eccentric but not before he had created a modern myth with enduring appeal. Richard adams, who has passed away at the age of 86. Some voters in england are being asked to provide photographic id before registering to vote. It is part of efforts to curb Electoral Fraud. A government commissioned report commissioned in august concluded that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye to fraud in areas with large pakistani or bangladeshi communities because of oversensitivity is about ethnicity and religion. An election victory, but one steeped in claims of corruption. Lutfur rahman became mayor of Tower Hamlets two years ago. The people of this borough willjudge me on my record. He wasjudged instead by an election court, which threw him out of office. It heard claims of voter fraud and intimidation. The case helped bring about a wider review of election practice, carried out by the former communities secretary sir eric pickles. He called for the introduction of id checks at Polling Stations in england. Today, the government backed his proposals. Electoral fraud has the potential to undermine confidence in our system, which is why we need to ensure that when it comes to vulnerable individuals in certain communities who want to be able to exercise their individual right to vote, they are given the opportunity of doing so without the possibility of intimidation. The report said authorities were Turning A Blind Eye to corruption, what he called the worrying and covert spread of Electoral Fraud. He accused some bodies of a state of denial and failing to challenge alleged vote rigging because of political correctness. He saw evidence of pressure put on Vulnerable People to vote according to the will of elders in some communities of pakistani and bangladeshi background. The plans mean voters will have to bring photo id, like a passport, or proof of address in trial areas of england at local elections in 2018. But labour said changes to the Voting Register had already harmed the party, and some claimed the announcement today would make things worse. The people most likely not to have a passport or Driving Licence are going to be the poorest, and i suspect that is going to, like the decision to knock a lot of people off the electoral register, hit the labour party. The number of voter fraud claims is relatively low. The government hopes todays plans will help reduce it further. Earlier we spoke to sir eric pickles and asked him to outline why he thinks the proposals are needed we want to avoid people voting on your behalf, we want to avoid people impersonating others. And we want to avoid elections being taken by the use of fraud. Now all im really suggesting is exactly the same kind of proof that you would have if you want to wander down to the post office to pick up a parcel. Im asking nothing more onerous than that. Earlier i spoke to labours cat smith, the shadow minister for voter engagement. Labours thoughts are that, while we do need to crack down on Electoral Fraud where it takes place, this is somewhat taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The numbers of insta nces crack a nut. The numbers of instances of impersonation at Polling Stations are very low, but this would disenfranchise or make it a lot more difficult for millions of voters to cast a vote. 3. 5 Million People do not have the required forms of id that will be trialled by this government. Its notjust that. If you were to be on your way home from work, for instance, and you remembered there is an election on, you cant just nip remembered there is an election on, you cantjust nip into the Polling Station. You would have to go home, pick up some id, and it Willjust Drive down turnout. You said labours thoughts on it, and yetjim fitzpatrick, the mp for poplar and limehouse, says he doesnt have any issues with this scheme as most people carry id. Jim says that most people carry id. Jim says that most people carry id. Jim says that most people carry id, but not all people do. To have a strong democracy, we need to increase participation in elections by making it more convenient for people to vote. Thats not to say that, where fraud ta kes thats not to say that, where fraud takes place, we shouldnt be firm with it, and there are measures the government could take. We could for insta nce government could take. We could for instance have a National Telephone line for people to report incidents where they feel Electoral Fraud has taken place. We could give the police more resources to investigate where it has taken place. But requiring every electoral to turn up ata requiring every electoral to turn up at a Polling Station with one of the required forms of id, a Driving Licence or a passport, where many people dont have these forms of id, is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Do you think Electoral Fraud needs to be addressed . Absolutely, where it takes place, we should address it. There is no doubt about that. But the measures are very extreme compared to the scale of the problem. We should have a proportionate response to the problem, and Something Like that would be a Telephone Line to report concerns or perhaps some of the recommendations around postal vote in the report, which are quite reasonable and are already best practice by Political Parties. For instance, not allowing an individual to hand in more than a certain number of postal votes at a Polling Station would be a reasonable measure. Mr pickles did highlight 50 recommendations and he himself was quite cautious about these, which is why, he said, he wanted it to be a pilot. Well, if those pilots go ahead, i suspect we will see a decline in the number of people turning out to vote, because 3. 5 Million People dont have the required forms of id. To put that in perspective, that is the total number of people who cast a ballot in london at the last general election. That is a lot of people wait you are making it difficult if not impossible for them to cast a vote. The way that you strengthen democracy as a whole is by increasing turnout and encouraging people, not putting hurdles in the way. You said that labour supports measures to tackle Electoral Fraud and will be backing a number of the reasonable proposals, so what are the reasonable proposals that you agree with . That would be some of the things i have outlined around restricting the handling of postal votes by Political Parties once they are completed, restricting the number of postal votes you could hand in at a Polling Station. It would also be reasonable to make sure that Police Forces have the resources to investigate when allegations of fraud are made, and that people would find it easier to report instances of fraud, if there was a helpline advertised in Polling Stations. The childrens commissioner for england says the vast majority of young carers receive no support from local authority social services. Anne longfield says 4 out of 5 young carers are Under The Radar. The local Government Association says funding cuts mean councils are being forced to make difficult decisions. Helena lee reports. This is daniel, one of thousands of young carers in england. Hes ten and lives with his mum, florella, who has a brain tumour. Daniel is her main carer at home. When hes not at school, he helps around the house, but he constantly worries about his mum when he isnt there. I started becoming more responsible and i started doing the cleaning. Started doing cooking better. I started paying more attention to what my mum was doing. Then, because i wasnt around, i was always worried about how she was. Todays report by the childrens commissioner found, of the 160,000 young carers in england, just over 128,000 children aged five to 17 may not be known to local authorities. And councils identified 160 young carers in england who are under the age of five. This is often systematic support for vulnerable Family Members who may have Mental Illness or physical disabilities. They need to be able to flourish at school, they need to be able to enjoy childhood and grow up, whilst theyre still offering the familial support that you would expect. The local Government Association says funding cuts to Childrens Services means councils are being forced to make difficult decisions about what support they are able to provide. But it says all young carers should receive an assessment to find out if they need help. Englands Chief Nursing Officer has urged the nhs to invest more in caring for people at home. Jane cummings says money is being wasted on keeping elderly patients in hospital unnecessarily. She says reform is needed to make sure patients dont get caught between different parts of the system. Rescue teams have recovered one of the Flight Recorders from a Russian Military plane that crashed into the black sea shortly after ta ke off on sunday. The Russian DefenceMinistry Said an engine, Landing Gearand parts of the fuselage had also been found. All 92 people on board the aircraft are thought to have died when it came down near the resort of sochi. Angus crawford reports. Recovered from the seabed, twisted and broken, part of the planes fuselage. Thousands of people are still involved in the search, scouring the area where the 30 year old tupolev15a came down. Specialist teams have found one of the planes Flight Recorders. Sonar traces showed parts of the aircraft a mile out to sea. It has been opened by expert air accident investigators, who have begun analysing recordings of the planes last movement. The Military Flight from moscow to Letakia In Syria had more than 90 passengers and crew on board. It touched down to refuel in sochi, but crashed after taking off again. Translation all found parts have been brought to shore and handed to investigators. The Search Operation in the area of the plane crash has gone on for 2h hours without breaks. During the day, one more body was found and recovered. Soldiers and civilians die side by side, all travelling to syria for new year celebrations. On board, too, were more than 60 members of the russian armys world famous members of the russian armys world famous choir. At members of the russian armys world famous choir. At their base in moscow, people have been laying flowers a nd moscow, people have been laying flowers and lighting candles. A national day of mourning was declared. In sochi, Recovery Teams use the latest technology. The cause of the crash unknown. Pilot error or Mechanical Failure a focus for investigators. Terrorism has been all but ruled out. So, in the waters of the black sea, the search for answers continues. The headlines on bbc news the family of the Watership Down author Richard Adams says he has died peacefully, aged 96. Ministers reject criticism that plans to require voters to show id at Polling Stations are a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The childrens commissioner for england warns that four in five young carers are not receiving the help they need from social services. Sport now. For a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres steve white the days only Premier League game is just underway at anfield. Liverpool with the chance to trim chelseas lead at the top to six points by beating stoke. Jurgen klopp has named an unchanged liverpool side for the third game running. So Simon Mignolet remains in goal Danny Sturridge and emre can amongst the substitutes. Stokesjoe allen lines up against his former club for the First Time Since leaving in the summer. They are just underway and they have played 70 seconds. It is scoreless. Brighton are back on top of the championship after an emphatic 3 0 win over qpr. Newcastles slip up at home last night presented brighton with the opportunity, and they went ahead thanks to that wonderful sam baldock strike. Not so sure about the celebration brighton were then awarded a penalty early in the second half for this foul on dale stephens, and baldocks strike partner glenn murray stepped up to make it 2 0. It was all going wrong for rangers who had defender nedum onouha sent off shortly before Anthony Knockaert rounded off the scoring for the seagulls dedicating the goal to his late father who passed away earlier this year. So brighton two points clear at the top but its a sixth Straight Defeat for qpr. Its about getting better, because football is turned into this insta nt because football is turned into this instant coffee, which is a load of baloney. Im going to keep going because i know what im doing. Ive done it before and hopefully ill be given that trust to build a club, a tea m given that trust to build a club, a team and a spirit, because what we dont have at the moment is a spirit that believes it can do stuff. I need to bring some people in to help my boys actually see that. It might it my boys actually see that. It might it might take me to get a fuel out. Maybe one or two dont want to be there. Derby got their eighth win in nine matches with a 1 0 win over birmingham. Richard keough in the penalty area to earn his side the second half spot kick from which the former aston villa striker darren bent scored. Derby are within a point of the play off places, quite a turnaround under steve mcclaren. Aberdeen have won the first of the two games in the Scottish Premiership today. They beat Hamilton Academical 2 1, with adam rooneys goal midway through the second half proving decisive. This evening, 11th placed hearts host kilmarnock. To rugby and in the pro