13/05/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

In a court ruling that could affect families everywhere,

judges are to rule in the case of a father who took his

The council wanted to fine him - magistrates disagreed.

We have exclusive access to a new police training scheme open

Before, if I was at university, coming across a child for something,

you thought ring the police. Now I am the police.

Plus junk food adverts that target your children

when they're online - should they be banned

in the same way they are during children's TV programmes?

Whenever you go on a gaming website, I don't know, down both sides, there

is always adverts, you go on the site to play the

games, not to play the efforts Welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11 this morning. Also this morning -

you may have been following the story of a British-Iranian woman

who's been separated from her young As her family finally get

to see her in prison, Do get in touch on all the stories

we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria

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the case of a father who refused to pay a ?120 fine

for taking his daughter out of school for a holiday will be

heard at the High Court today. Magistrates ruled that Jon Platt had

no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

attended school regularly. But Isle of Wight Council has asked

the High Court to clarify whether a seven-day absence amounts

to a child failing Here's our Education Correspondent

Robert Pigott. Jon Platt has become a leading

figure in a campaign by parents to relax the rules

governing term-time holidays. He took his daughter on a family

holiday to Disney World in April 2015 without her

school's permission. After he refused to pay a fine

of ?120, the Isle of Wight Council It said he had failed

in his legal duty to ensure However, magistrates accepted his

argument that even with this and other absences, his daughter had

been in class for at least 90% of school days, and that it amounted

to regular attendance. They have asked the High Court

to decide whether they were right to take the girl's attendance into

account when deciding in his favour. Mr Platt says that what is at stake

in the High Court today is parents' freedom to decide

what is best for their children. Ultimately it boils down

to who decides what is best Is that a local

authority or parents? It is not ideal to take your

children out of school on a term-time holiday,

but if you can't get away... There are many people

who can't go in holiday time. Head teachers were once able

to take their children out of school Regulations now prevent them from

doing so even exceptional circumstances.

The Department for Education insists that even one day's absence

We will be live at the High Court for reaction. We will also hear from

John Platt himself. Please do get in touch with your thoughts.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

Operation Sophia, which began last June, was launched to disrupt

the business of people trafficking but a parliamentary committee says

that while the mission has saved thousands of lives,

it's not having any meaningful impact on the smuggling networks.

These pictures show one of the latest rescue efforts

Scores of boats like these leave every week.

Behind them, people smugglers, profiting from despair.

Operation Sophia was set up after hundreds

of migrants drowned when their boat sank near Italy last year.

EU naval vessels patrol the Libyan coast, and while they have

contributed to the effort, rescuing 9000 people,

they report Operation Sophia an impossible challenge.

They have not put a stop to the multibillion pound migrant

They have not put a stop to the multibillion pound migrant

It has found around 50 smugglers have been arrested, but they are

low-level targets and not the key figures within the networks.

While 80 smuggling vessels have been destroyed,

it claims smugglers have

simply changed their tactics, changing from wooden boats to

What we obviously need is a co-ordinated response by the

European countries that will deal not only with the question of people

smuggling, but also with settlement and repatriation and processing.

With spring turning to summer, record numbers

of people are expected to try and flee from Libya

The report concludes that without a strategy

to address the root causes of migration, there is no end in

This morning we are live on search and rescue boat

Our correspondent Christian Fraser is there.

From where you are, can USS Operation Sofia.

You can see we have 233 rescued migrants. Economic

them... Apologies, technical problems with the line.

The US Navy has fired the commander of the ten American sailors

who were briefly captured by Iran in January.

The sailors strayed off course in the Gulf and were held

and questioned in Iran for fifteen hours.

A US Navy official said the commander had failed to provide

The police watchdog has launched an investigation after a former

South Yorkshire Police press officer claimed she was asked to "spin" news

Hayley Court claimed she was asked to encourage the media to report

evidence favourable to the police, including that fans

South Yorkshire Police has said the allegations were

The advertising industry is considering a total ban

on adverts for unhealthy food which target children.

Current restrictions apply only during children's TV programmes,

but not to online media such as gaming websites.

The Committee of Advertising Practice -

an industry body - is proposing extending the ban

to cover all media, including online, because of the rise

And we'll talk to the Advertising Standards authority,

the Food and Drink Federation and parents with a variety

A quick-thinking train driver helped save passengers from major injuries

in a collision with a lorry on the tracks.

The driver had just seconds to warn passengers of an impending crash

as the train travelled at 62mph towards a truck blocking a level

as the train travelled at 62mph after a truck blocked

The Obama administration is instructing schools to allow

transgender students to use toilets that match their chosen

The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, says the decree

The Obama administration is instructing schools to allow

transgender students to use toilets that match their chosen

The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, says the decree

serves to protect transgender students from discrimination

The state of North Carolina has provoked a storm of protest

after issuing a law requiring people to use public toilets that

correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificate.

Fire crews are tackling a blaze at what's believed to be a fireworks

Around 50 firefighters are tackling the fire at the factory

There are no reported injuries but some homes have been evacuated.

Ireland has been knocked out of the Eurovision Song Contest

after former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne failed to qualify

in the semi-final in Sweden, where he was one of 18 competing

The UK automatically qualifies, with duo Joe and Jake

We'll be talking more about term-time holidays

Use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged

Taulafo sport to come this weekend. We will look further ahead to the

summer. After helping Sunderland avoid relegation by banking 15 goals

in the Premier League, Jermain Defoe has set his

sights on the England side for Euro 2016. Roy Hodgson is set to name his

squad on Monday, and he says he has done

everything right. He was last called up in November 20 13. Conscience has

delayed naming his Use without the Arsenal pair Danny

Welbeck in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain through injury. A big weekend,

Saracens will take on Racing Metro in the Champions Cup will stop

yesterday unions looks at plans to stop

players being overworked. That means the Six Nations could move to April.

The Harlequins director of rugby shares concerns. You can see the

work and you rest their bodies around. The shortness of the

pre-season, the ability to recover. You look at the end of the season,

England playing Wales. There are commercial realities to that.

Something has to give. Danny Willett was back in action last

night for the first time since winning the US Masters last month.

He was playing in the unofficial fifth major at TPC Sawgrass. He said

the gap between the Triumph and last night meant he was not great. A 73,

with three birdies. Jason Day equalled the course record with a

nine under it, the shops are closed, all you

have a dog food? No, not me. Serena Williams said she was physically

match yesterday because she felt like

trying has dog's food. I tried a spoonful, salmon and rice, all mixed

together. I feel really sick. It was just a spoonful. Pretty nice food

for a dog. Joanna, tell the truth, one by? Not sure.

The family of a British-Iranian mother being detained in Iran has

been able to see her for the first time since her arrest.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in a cell since being stopped

on the 3rd of April at an airport after visiting her family.

The charity worker was with her 22 month old daughter Gabriella

at the time of her arrest, she's now being looked

Let's talk now to Nazanin's husband Richard Ratcliffe.

Nazanin's parents have got to see her. And Gabriella. Yes, her parents

flew themselves down, 1000, to see where they live. They were picked up

at the hotel by the Revolutionary guard, and they were taken to a

hotel where they met Nazanin. They had about three hours together,

having lunch. Talking to Nazanin. Not allowed to talk about why she

was arrested. Not about her condition. They were allowed to be

together. The first 15 minutes, Gabriella sat in her mother's arms.

It was all stage-managed, but Gabriella given a goal by the

Revolutionary guard. It was played out in a statement. Reassuring to at

least have the contact. Have your parents-in-law said how she is?

Reassuring. They said this is not normal, this is because of Gabriella

when the baby deserves to see her mother. In terms of how Nazanin

look. They said she looked calm, stronger than expected. Did not go

into more details. He/she still being held in solitary confinement?

To the best of my knowledge. The hotel was much nicer, then back to

where she was before. Take us back to the 3rd of April, she was

arrested at the airport, along with Gabriella. They were preparing to

come home. They had been on a family holiday for two weeks. They were

stopped at the check-in. Told it was a passport issue. The passports need

to be looked after. Gabriella given back to her grandparents, while it

was sorted. Nazanin taken into a room with both

of the passports. That was the last we saw of her. Do you have an idea

why she was picked up from no charges have been made. The only

issue, national security. She's a young mother, charity worker, she

has been to Iran four times in the past two years. Hard to see what it

could be. Because she has a British husband for site it is just not

clear. There is a report she has signed a confession?

As far as I know what she has told her parents on the phone was that if

she corroborated with investigations at the end of the day she was

allowed to phone home and she confirmed to her father that she had

signed something. To say it was a small mistake. It is typical for

other cases for detainees to be kept in solitary and sign a confession

and then brought out and convicted later. So you don't know what she

has been questioned about. Her family were not allowed to discuss

that with her on Wednesday. The Foreign Office advised you against

speaking out. She had been held for around a month. Today is day 40 and

we spoke out on Monday. Why did you decide to do that? Partly because

the time was passing and it felt that we were not having any success

in getting through to her through the formal, official channels. I

spoke to other families of former detainees and current detainees.

There are quite a few. In the public domain, there may be two or three

and a couple more that haven't come forward yet. Talking to them, it is

different in different cases, they all said they wished they had gone

public earlier and I felt that we had left it too long. One of the

current detainees as a man of 76 who has been held in prison since 2011.

He was in solitary confinement for some time and it took the family

quite some time to start to talk about it. I know that you have been

in touch with that family. Presumably looking at that situation

where he's been held for a long time it must make you feel nervous.

Terrifying. That family have led a dignified campaign in trying to

raise his profile and doing what they can for their grandfather. Five

years the spurious charges is an extraordinarily long time. Goodness

knows what could happen to Nazanin. Does she have access to a lawyer?

Not to my best knowledge. She was not allowed to talk about it at the

meeting. Her father has an appointed lawyer for him but I don't think

he's been able to make contact with Nazanin, neither did the Red Cross.

The one hope is this petition we have started. We had a quarter of a

million signatures in four days. Yesterday someone wanted it

translated translated into Russian and 25,000 people signed it within

hours. The strength it has given to her family to see all these people

caring it has given me to go to the Foreign Office and say, there

are a lot of people who care, we will talk to the Foreign Office on

Wednesday and see what the new context is. Will you go to Iran?

Suddenly. Broadly I am more effective here at the moment. We

will see what the charges are and how things unfold. This has turned

your life upside down. Completely transformed it. One thing that has

been striking is how many old friends have got in touch and

reached out, and that sort of empathy that we've got in all sorts

of different ways. Whilst it is a horrible circumstance for people to

reach out in its actually the most important time for people to come

along and try to support in all the ways they can. When you took that

call to say what had happened, how did you react? The first call I got

was from her brother saying that she did not catch the plane, don't

worry, she will be on another plane, there is just a problem with her

passport. I did not understand things at that time so I believed

him. It was only when she could not be found for the first few days come

all the fears that go through your mind, she could have disappeared,

what could have happened, and then when she was able to call and say

she was OK and save that was reassuring. It has been an up and

down journey of emotions, hard-fought us to understand the

enormity of what she's going through. Thank you for talking to

us, Richard. To stay in touch. Thank you. -- do stay in touch.

This programme has been given exclusive access to a new police

training scheme open only to graduates with top degrees.

Police Now was set up last year to attract

what the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan Howe,

described as the "brightest and best" into policing.

Ashley John-Baptiste has been out on the beat with two of the first

The left. This is one of our local areas that we have issues with.

You'll see a lot of people start run away. Last year the Metropolitan

Police set up a new training scheme. They wanted to improve on what they

saw as a lack of university graduates applying for jobs. It is

called police Now. We went filming with two of the first year recruits.

This is the sort of thing you get. You are not being evicted today, we

just giving you the information so it's a surprise.

If we go further up there is a little market, and in the past, to

an extensible ongoing, we have had an issue with people selling drugs.

Three years ago I was a student at the University of Nottingham,

different from anything I'm doing now. I spent a lot of time in the

library and with my mates, playing, has parties, generally a good time.

-- has parties. I just wanted to introduce myself, how long have you

been here? After six weeks of intensive training the new recruits

were sent out to be local officers in some of the toughest

neighbourhoods in London. This is the first time officers from the

scheme have been filmed at on shift. Most of the day I spent in my

community, smiling at people, saying hello, it's about knowing my hotspot

areas for crime and anti-social behaviour. We've been to some of

those, we go to some of them everyday, for example, one of the

blogs has a problem with drug abuse. I will visit that most shift, if not

every shift. -- most shifts. How often are you coming to this part of

the area? Maybe twice a week also, it depends on whether it is an

issue. And then we will come down. Three days ago... The smell is just

awful. Overwhelming. We had three people smoking drugs here are couple

of days ago. The first week and I got sent to a house where there were

two children, my job was to take care of their welfare and part of

that was to put them into police protection. It's quite an emotional

experience, I had never been in that situation before in my daily life

and to be there in uniform, it's my responsibility. Before that, when I

was at university, if you found a child or something you would say,

best ring the police. Now I am the police. Have you ever felt out of

your depth in the job? Sometimes but you have colleagues next to you and

some are more experienced and know what they are doing. This is one of

the places where we found some of the guys hiding some of their drugs.

Wishing them in here so they would not have them on them when we came

around and did searches, for example -- pushing them in here. This is

just a part of what I do in neighbourhood policing. Arresting

someone stops an immediate situation but most of my work is around

solving long-term issues that we have in our communities. We cannot

arrest our way out of those! Yes, she's very good. We know her. She

comes to our events, she's very approachable, she is well known.

What is your view of the police? I think they target the teenagers

mostly around you, stop and search. You're judged by your skin colour

and stuff. The other day one of my friends got stopped, and they said

they wanted to touch, you was not comfortable, they did not care, they

were not respecting him. I think there's a lot of age discrimination

as well. They don't show respect to us. But fails provide security and

stuff. Mice to see you. Take care. The shops like us to do more stop

and searching because of the issues they have. We do so many, that's

always going to be the case. What we want to do is make sure that when we

stop someone we have the grounds, there is a reason we are there, we

would not do it for no reason, we also talk to them and see what their

concerns are and if their concerns are that people are carrying knives

or smoking drugs will be there to combat this, when you have a safe

environment for everyone. The anti-social behaviour has improved

dramatically. In the last couple of days I've issued three drugs

warrants. The scheme has covered community policing on the same

patch. Just over 60 recruits meet regularly to share their progress

with senior officers. But at a time when the government wants police

forces to reflect the communities that they work in, should the scheme

not be open to everyone, not just graduates? In the graduate

recruitment market we are targeting female recruits and black and

minority ethnic recruits. For example the intake coming in this

summer are more than 50% female, and around 20% black and minority

ethnic. With the female figure I'm really pleased, that to me as a sign

of big progress. The black and minority ethnic recruits, 20%,

that's progress but we are still not at the races. I had one report of

someone in one of these blocks, setting off fireworks. I did have

some concerns about going in. One of my concerns was about being a woman

and how that would affect me. I like your phone. Thank you, it's very old

and big! There are not many ethnic minorities within the Metropolitan

Police, would I be in a minority within a minority? In fact there are

quite a few ethnic minorities working in Haringey. Are you all

right? What are you doing. Why is everyone leaving? From a small

village so I'm not used to the city and the pressures and the challenges

and brings. But I enjoy the challenge and I like to talk to the

community and see what they want. Police Now is now an independent

charity. This year it will provide 120 officers to seven forces across

England. That's currently around 120,000 officers in England and

Wales are the numbers are still small. But could this be what the

future of policing looks like? Some of you getting in touch, one

viewer says that the special training scheme is a waste of money,

you'd need life experience and you don't have this when you come from

education and you certainly don't need a degree to be a good officer.

Trevor on Facebook says there's nothing as good as an officer being

promoted through merit. Rapid promotion through graduate entry can

never replace this all produce good and experienced officers.

Junk food adverts that target your children

when they're online - we'll ask if they should be

banned in the same way they are during children's TV

We will be asking parents and industry experts if this is a good

idea. And the High Court is to rule

in the case of a father who took his daughter out of school

to go to Florida. The council wanted to fine him -

magistrates disagreed. Here's ANNITA in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of todays news. An anti-smuggling mission is failing

to achieve its aims, says a parliamentary committee. Operation

Sophia which began in June was launched to stop people trafficking,

it is imported that while it has saved thousands of lives it is

having no impact on the smuggling networks. The US Navy has fired the

commander of ten American sailors briefly captured by Iran in January.

The sailors went off course in the Gulf and will hold and questioned in

Iran for 15 hours. The US Navy officials said the commander had

failed to provide effective leadership and had shown lack of

oversight and complacency. The advertising industry is considering

a ban on adverts for unhealthy food that target children. Current

restrictions apply currently only during children's TV programmes, not

to online media like gaming website. The industry body responsible is

proposing extending the ban to cover all media including online because

of the rise in childhood obesity. Hundreds of people have been

evacuated from their homes after an unexploded World War II bomb was

found in the next Mac bath. The device was found by developers

working on the former Royal health school site in the city. A safety

barrier has been put around 1000 homes as police assess the

situation. A quick-thinking train driver helped

save passengers from major injuries in a collision with a lorry

on the tracks. The driver had just seconds to warn

passengers of an impending crash as the train travelled at 62mph

towards a truck blocking a level as the train travelled at 62mph

after a truck blocked Ireland has been knocked out

of the Eurovision Song Contest after former Westlife singer

Nicky Byrne failed to qualify in the semi-final in Sweden,

where he was one of 18 competing The UK automatically qualifies,

with duo Joe and Jake We will talk more about Eurovision

later with some super fans and the winner. Let's catch up with the

sport. He scored 15 goals for Sunderland in

the league this season, now the 33 Rob Jermain Defoe says he has done

everything right to own a call up to the England squad for next month's

euros. Roy Hodgson will announce the squad on Monday. Kenya's

participation for the Olympics is in doubt after the IOC declared the

country's practices according to performance enhancing substances is

in breach of its rules. Danny Willett return to action after his

US Masters win at TPC Sawgrass. He scored a 73. Max Verstappen had his

first race in the rental head of the Spanish Grand Prix. Daniel Kvyat was

demoted to Toro Rosso. You have got in touch, regarding school holidays.

Richard says he missed months and months of school due to poor health,

I have college qualifications and a degree.

The advertising industry is considering a total ban

on adverts for junk food which specifically target children.

There have been strict rules on this for years,

but they mainly apply to children's TV programmes.

The new proposals would extent the ban to online video, apps,

magazines, billboards, even social media.

We went to Little Ealing primary school in West London to find out

what a bunch of 10 to 11 year olds make of it all.

My name is busy, my favourite fast food is Nandos. My favourite junk

food is ice cream. My name is Maisie. My name is Ruben. My

favourite website is Eugene. I watch a lot of music videos. How much do

you notice adverts? Whenever you go on a gaming website, down both

sides, and at the top, there are adverts. You go to play the games,

not to look at the adverts. I find it quite annoying. If we wanted to

buy a burger, we don't need people persuading us. What sort of adverts

do you see? A lot of McDonald's, fast food. A lot of adverts about

special deals, come and get our crispy chicken burger. I don't like

those. They are trying to over persuade someone. It makes you

think, you don't need to see that. Does not sound like the adverts are

convincing you? When you see adverts, do you want fast food? I

want it, I know it is really bad for us. What do you like? I don't like

McDonald's. I like KFC. You laugh about wanting fast food, you know it

is bad. How much do those adverts make you want the food more? I still

think they try to make it look really appetising, really nice. When

you get it, it just doesn't look appetising at all. Even though

they're trying to make it, does not really work. The suggestion is they

would stop advertising chocolate, sweets and crisps, other things will

be advertised and not bad for you. How does that sound? May be shutting

down the advertising would make them realise their food is not healthy,

making people want to eat it. If you take away the adverts, you less

people would be likely to go, eating more burgers, things that are

unhealthy. That way we would not be as obese. Sounds like pretty

switched on of kids. Let's talk more about this. We have

a mother of two boys, aged four and six. Bonner in mother of four, and

Kate, a mother of two. Let's start with a clear explanation of what has

been said? What would change if the proposals go through? We are

announcing a set of tough proposals, tightening up the rules on the

advertising of salty, sugary and fatty food, on media for children.

We recognise the scale of the obesity challenge facing the

country. One third of children are leaving school obese at the moment.

Advertising plays a small part. Bigger factors are parental

influence, school sports, education. There is a significant influence

between advertising and dietary choices. We want to play our part in

reversing the crisis. Another big driver in change, it children are

consuming media in a different way. Ten years ago kids watched

television, 96% of television have access to the Internet. Also

children watching 3.5 hours of programming on the Internet. It has

taken a while to catch up. It has been that way for a while. There are

other things coming into play, like billboards. A relatively recent

phenomenon. The rise of smartphones and tablets have contributed. Things

need to change, and if children are consuming media differently, the

rules need to be tightened up online, similar tough standards to

television already. You have two sons, are you concerned about the

adverts? Absolutely, the children use their iPad, watching child

friendly programmes, the adverts are food related, or adult based. I feel

that should be changed. What sort of adverts do you see? Don't tell us

about the brands, but the sort of things? Could be beauty, health

care, dental care, sports, music videos, adverts, not appropriate for

my age group of kids. Does it go over their heads? Eventually it does

get absorbed. They are sponges, they take in everything you give them. If

you are promoting the right thing, they will see that. Eventually it

takes over as they get older. Donna, you have four children. What are

they accessing, and the situation with adverts? My children I1, five,

eight and 11. My eight-year-old and 11-year-olds have their own tablets.

My daughter enjoys watching YouTube and Facebook. Adverts all over them.

Something you have been conscious about and concerns about? I was not

conscious until my daughter came to me and said I want McDonald's for

dinner. I realised she had seen an advert on the tablet. Is that what

she said? She would not have asked if she had not seen the advert. You

have a two -year-old and a four -year-old. I find this quite

patronising. Parents need so much guidance, in order to effectively

say no, exercising their power of no. Festering power -- the power of

children to pester you is enormous. But parents should be in charge of

healthy eating. Producers of junk food and drink have been enjoying a

loophole? This is something where we have seen the difference between the

rules of television and online, and posters. We came out last year said

we are supporting bringing all the broadcast rules into line. For us,

this cannot come soon enough. Anxious to get it into place, a

small and important step forward. Donna says one of her kids asked for

McDonald's, is a direct result of seeing it advert. Do you accept

there is a direct correlation between what they are seeing and the

results will stop the report says there is a modest impact from

advertising. One of many things that influence choices. What do you

think? Parents and public health professionals have been saying they

want to see tighter restrictions on junk food marketing, online,

television, all forms of media. It is a positive step. The industry has

already agreed to some of these things thanks to the pressure put on

them. I am not sure why we had to wait many months for the

consultation, which has a large scope for certain parts of the

industry to weaken what is proposed. Let's get Craig to answer that. It

is not a long period, ten weeks. The reason we're doing that, most

organisations when they pass changes, they want to say something.

We are interested from hearing from your organisation. There is a real

consensus from the industry, and there is a lot of support for what

we are saying. Interesting there is consensus from industry. The

industry setting the rules, setting the bar. We have to ask ourselves,

what are they looking at? The current rules on television do not

go far enough, allowing junk food to be advertised on the X Factor. What

sort of loopholes? Sponsorship, brand characters. Everything from

Star Wars promotions, Minions tie-ins. You think none of that

should happen? None of it should happen. Companies spend hundreds of

million pounds advertising these products to children. This will not

stop that overnight. We need to see what rules will be brought in. The

companies spend the money because it delivers results. They would not

spend it for nothing? The evidence points to a modest impact. That is

not to say there is no impact. points to a modest impact. That is

good one. points to a modest impact. That is

placements of the ads. Kids will not be seeing the adverts, in regards to

able to. Other changes are we are making it easier to see license

characters for the formation of healthy foods. Supporting public

health messages. What is the mothers think of that? Fantastic, if they do

that in a positive way, it will have a positive impact. With the adverts,

promoting junk food, sugars and fats, the children are influenced

stop when you give them spending money, you don't know where they are

putting it, crisps, chocolate, McDonald's. If you promoted in the

right way, exercise, fruit, salads. It will have a better impact. Donna,

Kate? I agree, fantastic idea. I am a founder of the parent group, last

night we had a poll of our members, 3000 members, to ask an opinion. The

biggest issue, consistently is an endorsement, the licensing of

characters. That really puts parents under a lot of pressure to say no.

People getting in touch. The three are saying similar. Stuart saying,

parents should take responsibility for their children's diet will stop

they have a duty of care. Laughable, banning junk food ads for kids.

Better to ban porn on the Internet. It causes bigger harm.

It comes down to parental responsibility then. I work

full-time and I'm a full-time parent so I do try to make the effort. I am

a big advocate of Jamie Oliver, I love the fact that he gives you 30

minute recipes where you can involve the children and get organic bits

and pieces but organic produce is quite expensive and a lot of people

would like access to cheaper because that is what they can afford in

terms of budgeting the weekly shop. In terms of cooking I do try to at

that time, I restrict junk food to a minimum, I try to get my children

involved in the cooking process so they can feel they participated so

that will encourage them to eat good food. Craig has said, Tim, and you

have said, that the impact and advertising on pester power and it

is a small element and what the parents are choosing to buy that

people don't spend money on advertising for no reason. Of course

not. These are products enjoyed by people across the country, of course

in the face of an obesity crisis we have to do more to help. Parental

responsibility is important, there are things we can do to help parents

and this is a positive step forward. Is the food and drink industry being

demonised? Yes. There's been a lot of regulation on the industry in the

last few years. We are facing sugar levy now we've got a child beastie

strategy coming from the government, there could be further restrictions

there. This proposal is something the industry has embraced, is

committed to voluntarily before we've even got the process going

through. It would be nice to season credit for the fact that the

industry is trying to do its bit, to sort this out. We have a

responsibility of course but so do many others in tackling a very

complex problem. Can I throw a challenge to the industry? We

welcome the fact that some parts of industry like the food and drink

Federation are saying that advertising of an healthy food and

drink should not target children under 16, and I think you've said in

the past that we should not see children to egg images of children

on those adverts. That's good. Now we've got to look at the specifics

of what has been announced today and say, if you look at the criteria

that says, 25% of audience indexing it is how many children are failing

that compared to adults, for instance. We will say will that be

enough, are there many things that could be done beyond what is being

asked in these rules? And I think that is the challenge ahead, because

at the moment, I spend a large amount of my week going online,

looking at advertising, where existing companies are targeting

children very much on line. Widget you see parental responsibility in

this? We all have parental responsibility. Parents absolutely

do. It can be very tiring to be bombarded time and again by all this

advertising, all these pressures to say yes, buy this product, yes my

children should have it, and tiring to say no overtime. That is what

actually want to the end to this environment, and ways of promoting

properly healthy food, and also at the moment even the proposals that

are talked about, it doesn't go far enough, saying what is properly

healthy, rather than something that is not as sugary as the very worst

offenders. Stuart has tweeted that children always ask for the latest

gadgets, you don't give in to your demands, your other parent, do your

job. John says, children as Paul sorts of things, just say No.

Another viewer says, the people to blame parents, what is wrong with

saying no. It seems as if people are getting in touch saying that maybe

there is no need for this if parents say no. It's a mixture of

responsibilities, the advertising industry house to play a part in

limiting exposure to these adverts and parental responsibility plays a

part. There are strong rules of the moment so it is not as if we are

going from a situation where there are no rules to this set of rules,

already there, the situation is that if someone makes a complaint about

an advertisement which happens to the biggest multinationals in the

world, we ban that advertisement and take it off the air so people can't

see it again. What we want to do is strike a balance between protecting

the rights of advertisers to market their product responsibility but

also doing more to... It'll be harder to police this online, than

on TV. There is audience indexing and data that we use. We've done

that successfully. Exposure to sugar and fatty foods adverts has gone

down. We are very open to talking to Malcolm and others about how to make

it happen. I think we just first want to confirm with everyone that

there's a consensus behind this. I most people agree that there's a big

step forward fighting obesity. Anyone who is a parent would agree

it is not easy. Do you feel the sort of advertising that we are talking

about makes the job harder? It means I have to say No more often. Do you

find it hard to say No to your kids? Not a lot but they know how to wind

you around them! All kids do, what about you, Luke? - Lou. It can be a

drain if they have it hissy fit in the middle of the street because

they want something! Kate? I think one of your most practised phrases

is, we are so used to saying this, and may curtail a lot of behaviours

we don't want to encourage in our children, I think we need to give

more kudos to the parents. The majority of parents there want

children to be healthy and offer them a balanced and healthy attitude

towards food and drink. I think No is a very simple word and must

children understand it. If advertising has a modest effect on

children's eating wire is so much spent on it, says one viewer.

Another suggests that the problem is a lot of children sitting in front

of games consoles. Endorsement of licensed characters should change.

One contributor says that in their childhood, their mother would give

them food and raw carrot. Thank you is much joining us. We've got some

extraordinary pictures now from Poland. We saw shot clipped on the

news. At the moment a train driver helped save all his passengers from

major injury when he saw that his helped save all his passengers from

train was about to crash into a lorry on

train was about to crash into a He had three seconds to warn his

passengers to get down so he ran through the train and told them to

move fast. Isn't that incredible? Amazing. A

lot of you are getting in touch about taking your children on

holiday in term time. Peter says, School offers young people a route

to independence and a degree of freedom from the tyranny of parents

who believe they know best. Michael said, I missed school for holiday

every and I got respectable results, this is absurd, one week or two

doesn't have an impact, another viewer suggests that when the

teachers go on strike this interrupt schooling, why can't parents to take

them to court for interrupting the schooling? My daughter was a

paramedic and could not get the time off in holiday time, they got

permission from the school to take the children on holiday in term

time, it'll got a fine. The local authority disagreed. Suit says that

parents taking children away from school for holidays are selfish.

Sylvia says it is grossly unfair to punish parents are taking holidays

in term time, when my children were young and simply did not go away, I

can see why parents are forced to do it. A tweet from Lee. Often working

parents cannot choose the holiday dates, they have to dig what is

available, only teachers and MPs get the summer. Lilly says that she had

time followed school and is now at university and has cherished

memories. Another contributor agrees with the father who took his

children away on holiday in term time because he could not afford to

go in holiday time and got a fine. Parents should be alleged to do this

if attendance is regular. It is good to hear from you. We will be talking

about that shortly. Now the latest weather update.

How is it looking? Gorgeous or terrible, two weeks ago we were

looking at heavy snow in the UK and last week and we have the warmest

day of the year so far. Huge variety of the weather at the moment and the

sick and we are seeing a dip in the roller-coaster. Temperatures all

over the place, typically, this time of year we do get really big

variations in temperature across the UK. Still quite cold at this time of

year, although the days are getting longer so the ground heats at recent

review, we get big varieties in types of weather in the early part

of summer. Will it ever properly subtle? Things are looking cool. A

different MRC is in charge of the next couple of days, we've had warm

weather, in the next couple of days things are looking cooler. These are

such weather watcher pictures. These are gorgeous, really eye-catching.

This one was taken in Devon. A beautiful sunrise this morning. That

was Gwyneth in South Wales, it's not like that everywhere. Similar

latitude to the previous picture although this is Lincolnshire,

further east. We've had drizzle coming out of the cloud there. It's

a real variation across the country. Things are getting a little cooler

as we go into the next couple of days. This is the forecast. We will

start with a satellite image that shows that we have quite a lot of

cloud across many central and eastern parts of the country,

further west, more in a way of sunshine, the cloud should then and

break in the next few hours, decent spells of sunshine across southern

England, further north, cloudier skies, this band of cloud is a weak

weather front slipping further south as we head through the day and

introducing to the north of that cold and fresher conditions. For

Scotland we will see a return to sunshine this afternoon, northern

Ireland having a decent afternoon, decent conditions, compared to

recent days, clouded this afternoon, as they had further south we will

keep the sunshine and the warmer conditions for longer. So

temperatures along the south coast ready to possibly 23 degrees, with a

chance of scattered, isolated showers especially for the

south-west of England and South Wales. This evening and overnight

those showers fade quickly, the cloud continues to move south, that

cold front moving south, a cold night head, in the countryside a

touch of Frost, especially for the sheltered glens of Scotland, where

temperatures are likely to dip below freezing. A chilly start to the day

tomorrow wherever you are, lots of dry settled weather, plenty of

sunshine and a northerly breeze, that will blow scattered showers

down eastern Scotland and England, the best of the driest weather will

be further west, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales, temperatures much

cooler than in recent days, at best around 10-15d. We are in for another

chilly night as we moved to Saturday night and on to Sunday. Clear skies

that cold air mass to, could be a touch of Frost again for some

northern areas and a few scattered showers heading into the North West

of Scotland, temperatures lower than this in the countryside first thing

Sunday, again after that fresh start, Sunday shaping up to be very

fine for most of us, the best the sunshine in the West again, more

cloud and showers in the east and it will feel fairly chilly way you are

exposed to the northerly breeze around the coast of 16 degrees

should not feel bad to the day. Into the new working week, temperatures

less warmer than this week, we will see some rain on the way

particularly towards the north and the West.

Our top story today - In a court ruling that could affect

families everywhere, judges are to rule in the case

of a father who took his daughter to Florida.

The council wanted to fine him - magistrates disagreed.

The 20 year old woman in Holland helped by doctors to end her own

life because she could not live with her mental suffering.

We have exclusive access to a new police training scheme open

Before when I was University, when you switch out, you thought I better

phone the police. Now I am the police.

Bev says - Education is very important, but common sense

and being streetwise is more important in a profession

Heather says - It's a great initiative as it's in addition

Eurovision is back tomorrow - but without Ireland,

the most successful country in the competition's history.

Former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne failed to qualify.

An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

The IMF says leaving the EE could cause significant harm to the UK

economy. They say while growth is broadly positive, exit could cause a

protracted period of uncertainty. The case of a father who refuse to

pay a ?120 fine is due to be heard at the High Court. The father says

there is no case to answer, but the Isle of Wight High -- Council want

to know if one week out of school constitutes a prolonged absence.

An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

Operation Sophia, which began last June, was launched to disrupt

the business of people trafficking but a parliamentary committee says

that while the mission has saved thousands of lives,

it's not having any meaningful impact on the smuggling networks.

Our correspondent Christian Fraser is there.

One of the migrants told him his story. What they told us and what

they came with was quite different. The people smugglers? They told us

it was a quick crossing, and the boat is safe. When they took us to

the seaside, what we saw. The boat you are going in? They could not

believe. I could not back out, everybody had guns. You could not

say no? They said they may kill you, The US Navy has fired the commander

of the ten American sailors who were briefly captured

by Iran in January. The sailors strayed off course

in the Gulf and were held and questioned in Iran

for fifteen hours. A US Navy official said

the commander had failed to provide The advertising industry

is considering a total ban on adverts for unhealthy food

which target children. Current restrictions apply only

during children's TV programmes, but not to online media such

as gaming websites. Practice, an industry body,

is proposing to extend the ban to cover all media, including

online, because of the rise Hundreds of people evacuated

from their homes in Bath because of an unexploded

World War Two bomb have been told they may not be able to go

home until the weekend. The large device was uncovered

by developers working on the former A safety cordon has been put

in place around as many as 1,000 homes, as police assess

the situation. The world's oldest person has died

in New York at the age of 116. She was born on a farm in Alabama. An

Italian woman just a few months younger now takes on the mantle as

the oldest person in the world. Ireland has been knocked out

of the Eurovision Song Contest after former Westlife singer

Nicky Byrne failed to qualify in the semi-final in Sweden,

where he was one of 18 competing The UK automatically qualifies,

with duo Joe and Jake That is the summary of the news.

More at 10:30am. Some comments on taking holidays in term time. Mrs

Lesley says holidays are too expensive outside term time. For

less well off people, the only option is to take them out of

school. Disgraceful the holiday companies skyrocket prices, making

going away impossible for many. They should be governor legislation to

stop this. Get in touch on that and other things we talking about. If

you text, you will be charged at the standard rate. Let's get the sport.

Breaking news, from the Premiership. Watford have announced Quique

Sanchez Flores will be leaving the club at the end of the season. He

led them to an FA Cup semifinal, they avoided relegation in their

first season back in the top flight, after just four wins from the last

20 league games the club announced he will be leaving after their final

league match against Sunderland. After helping Sunderland avoid

relegation scoring 15 goals, Jermain Defoe setting his sights on the

England side for Euro 2016. Roy Hodgson announces his 23 man squad

on Monday, and Defoe says he has done everything right. He was last

capped in 2013. Hodgson delayed naming his squad until after the

weekend, he is without the Arsenal pair Danny Welbeck and Alex

Oxlade-Chamberlain through injury. Saracens play racing 92 in the final

of the European Champions Cup. This evening Harlequins take on

Montpellier in the Challenge Cup. Yesterday the players union approved

plans to safeguard players through playing too many games. The Six

Nations could move from February to April. The Harlequins director of

rugby shares concerns on player welfare. I am hugely worried, you

see what their bodies are under. You look at the shortness of the

preseason, the ability to recover, before another seven matches. The

end of the season, England playing Wales will stop there are commercial

realities. Something has to give. Sheffield's Danny Willett was back

in action for the first time since winning the Masters title. He was

playing only Players Championship CBC Sawgrass. He said the period

after winning the title meant he was not great. He carded a 73. The world

number one Jason Day showed his pedigree, nine under par with a 63.

Serena Williams says she was physically sick during the Italian

Open because she felt like trying out her dog's food. She still won in

straight sets. This is what she said afterwards. It looks good. I ate a

spoonful. Do not judge me. That is the salmon and rice will stop mix

together. Now I feel really sick. Just one spoonful. Just a spoonful.

That is all the sport. A former victim of child sex abuse

has ended her life under Dutch euthanasia laws

because she could not live The woman, in her twenties -

who has not been named - was given a lethal injection last

year, but details of the case have Doctors are said to have

treated her for some time and despite improvements

in her psychological state - and being deemed 'mentally

competent' - they concluded her condition could not be cured

and agreed to assist with her desire Euthanasia cases have risen by 55%

in Holland for is cases from psychiatric cases rose from just two

people in 2010, 256 last year. -- to 56 last year.

Let's talk now to Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President

of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

and in Amsterdam Philip Nitschke, Director of the pro-euthanasia

What do you make of countries like Belgium and Holland allowing

assisted suicide for people with mental health issues?

I will give you a direct answer, I think this is ghastly. Several

reasons, the area of mental illness is very complicated. In this country

the assisted dying regulation was soundly rejected in Parliament, just

for people with terminal illnesses. One reason, it is difficult to know

what is terminal. In mental health, it is difficult if not

know what is terminal. Every psychiatrist knows people who have

been seriously ill for many years, but who do recover, partially or

fully. someone intolerably ill, never

coming through it. Lots of people do not get better. The same physical

illness. Many people do. Many people's circumstances change,

treatments change. A very genetic study, people, to all intents and

treatments change. A very genetic purposes -- intensive purposes

committed suicide, but one in 300 survive. When they

committed suicide, but one in 300 on, they were all glad they

survived, the life change. -- their lives changed. We cannot know how

many people's lives will get better. lives changed. We cannot know how

Is there a distinction between patients seeking euthanasia, with

mental health issues, compared to someone with a terminal illness? The

criteria is unbelievable suffering. I support their approach. It can be

just as much from mental as well as physical diseases. I know it has

been well established, it is difficult, but once it is

established that the person has the capacity to make decisions, you can

do that with mental illness. To tell them to sit around and wait, is like

telling the cancer patient them to sit around and wait, is like

there could be a cure for cancer around the corner. This girl was

only 20. Had long enough being given to treat her? There was two years

establishing she has capacity, even though she had mental illness, she

had the capacity. Because that was established, done in detail, they

did allow her to take this step. To slam the door because this is a

psychiatric illness, and things may change in the future is not good

enough. You have to respect a person's decision, rather than

saying anyone who wants to die cannot be taken seriously. They

should not be given the option. If someone is determined to die, is

this a gentler way? I have heard the word gentle suicide. It is

outrageous. Suicide is not gentle, the effects on the family are

devastating. I have worked with many families bereaved by suicide, it is

ghastly. Nothing gentle about this. The issue about determining

competence. It is not easy. I do this for a living. It is

fluctuating. People have capacity and they do not. Not easy, but

possible? Severe mental illness affects your

thinking capacities. Most cases of suicide are cases of depression. It

affects your cognitive abilities, feelings of helplessness, feelings

of burden, guilt. Intolerable physical symptoms. They are all

reversible. Difficult to know in extreme cases, and we are dealing

with extreme cases, it is not a normal thing you do. It is more

difficult, then with clinical cases. We have two are on the side of life,

we're here to try prevent suicide. This is something I can think with

certainty will never happen in this country. Our profession will never

support this. It was not even discussed in Parliament. Dreadful

state of affairs. I hope it never happens here. Talk directly to each

other. The live wanted to answer what you are saying?

One of these views is what is current in the medical profession to

say that there is no rational motive for ending 1's own life. This is a

path that we don't wish to go down. The trouble is that the appended has

gone too far. We saw this a lot, whenever a person indicates that

they wish to die a psychiatrist says that they must be depressed with

some untreated mental malady and as such the queue needs to be adopted.

Please let me finish this time professor. So the queue is that we

treat the illness rather than respecting the person's wish to die.

I think that's the worst aspect of paternalism in medicine and it shows

how far out of step the psychiatric profession has come with the wishes

of the normal public who want to know that they have access to cases

of chronic suffering, and psychiatric illness certainly

presents symptoms of undiagnosed suffering. There was nothing that

hadn't been diagnosed about it, this was a serious disorder. One never

knows although if that was stated quite recently, the nose. Rational

suicide is unusual. Yet one of the definitions is that it does not

occur in the context of serious mental illness. Again we say that

this is a person who had such serious mental illness that she

lacks the ability to make this decision. How many years do you need

to establish that this person has a chronic condition that won't be

resolved. How long do you tell that woman that she must go on suffering

because they may be some change around the corner? At what point do

you stop and respect the view of the patient? Would you ever refuse

someone who came to use to say they wanted euthanasia? If the person

does lack capacity and has no insight into what they are asking

they should not be given access to this option. That was not the case.

The facts of the case are not clear although it still remains the case,

all research shows that people's capacity fluctuates, they changed

their minds, good research from many countries saying that these things

are transient, one could say, how many years of experience, a lifetime

of experience. I suspect you would say that no one the psychiatric

illness should ever do an assisted suicide. We're talking about killing

people with mental disorders. I know that people can recover. Not

everyone recovers completely, I know that, but many people make

significant recoveries and their quality of life improves when all

sorts of things change around them. We are out of time, thank you both

very much for sharing your views on that. Let us know what you think.

Still to come the Commonwealth judo champion fighting for her life after

a motorbike accident in Vietnam. We will be speaking live to her sister

and her friend. The case of a father

who refused to pay a fine for taking his daughter

on a term-time holiday to Florida is due to be heard

by the High Court in London. Magistrates had ruled that Jon Platt

had no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

attended school regularly. But Isle of Wight Council has asked

the judges to clarify Campaigners say the case

could redefine the way the law Well, just before we came on air

I spoke to Jon Platt, and asked him why he thought

he was right to take his daughter I do know better than the school

what is right for my kids. When it comes to their education I cannot

pretend to be qualified as a teacher but I do know what is best for my

kids. And quality family time is extremely important to all families.

We have not arrived at a situation over the last three years where

100,000 parents in the UK have become criminally incompetent

parents because that is what it requires, 100,000 parents, more than

that number, got fines last year. Do we really have 100,000 parents in

England whose parenting is so incompetent that to a criminal

offence? We have not. What has happened is, in 2013, Michael Gove,

the then Education Secretary, changed the rules allowing

headteachers to authorise a holiday. Now it means that almost every

holiday is unauthorised. The headteacher cannot authorise it. So

when it is not authorised to get used to go on holiday, the local

authority, they don't all feel obliged to but the Isle of Wight

authority foot obliged to do is you a truancy notice and if you don't

pay they feel obliged to prosecute you in court. This is an

imprisonable offence. So because of a holiday, the number of days that

your daughter was out of school because of holiday taken in term

time, her attendance rate at school is 93%. And you think that is a rate

you are comfortable with. What if she fell ill and her attendance rate

fell below that? I would not go on holiday. I know attendance at school

is important. I know sometimes I get caught up in the doom and that

parents should be able to take the kids on holiday and they should but

the attendance of the child at school should comply with the Lord

and I believe that north of 90% is regularly and when you are getting

to 94 or 95% that is really good attendance. Although if you have a

child missing a lot of school because of illness or some other

reason maybe you should not take them on holiday, just accept that

you need to bust permit for six months, or a year. I'm not defending

parents who has risen can't get their kids to school on time. I'm

just saying that the run at criminally incompetent parents in

this country so indifferent to the well-being of their children that

this warrants court action. You could just have paid the fines, ?60

each time and have done with it, do you feel you are on a crusade? I did

not pick this fight. I pleaded with the education welfare Department,

don't take this to court because I want back down, I would defend

myself. And I did and now by no choice of mind we ended up with an

appeal to the High Court. I did not file that appeal. I don't want to

lose so I have to be represented. ?13,000 of my own money going on a

defence, an action that I have already won. If you lose will you

keep taking her out of school? I want to break the law, I believe I

haven't, if the High Court tells me today, which they are titled to dash

I will not break the law. If a High Court tells me today that it is a

criminal offence to take my child and of school for one single day I

will not take her away for a holiday because I don't want to break the

law. I haven't broken the law. The magistrates on the Isle of Wight

agreed that I hadn't and I hope that the High Court says so today because

there are hundreds of thousands of parents who care passionately about

this issue. Jon plat talking to me earlier.

Let's speak now to Saleha Davis, who was fined for taking her

children to Brunei for a 'once in a lifetime' family holiday.

In Salford we have Julie Robertson, a Solicitor who deals with cases

of Fixed Penalty Notices for parents, and Allan Foulds,

who as well as being a head teacher is the President of the Association

Thank you for joining us. Allan, what do you think about this case?

It's good to share Jon talking about the importance of education. By just

like to set the record straight concerning what he said about the

former Minister of education. Headteachers do have the right to

allow term time holidays in some cases. The concern, which most

parents do acknowledge is the impact that even a small amount of

non-attendance has an achievement. It's quite profound. We all want the

same thing which is to open doors and the best life chances for our

young people. Two years in the fires with parents who say taking your

kids on holiday in school holiday time is very expensive, much more so

than if they took a week at a school and if they have solid attendance

for the rest of the year is there a problem with this? It is easy to

feel cynical about the additional charges of holiday companies and I

do have some sympathy with parents who have those difficult choices to

make. But we heard earlier about a 90% attendance rate being a good

rate. It does sound good but if you do the numbers that is missing six

months of schooling across the secondary stage of schooling. That

will have a profound effect on learning. The way that learning

works. We would all be familiar with this, if you miss one little concept

and is hard to build on that, and the jigsaw can begin to crumble.

Saleha, you took your children out of school. Both of them. My

daughters were in you're one and U2. We went back to Brunei where I was

born. My family, my parents, my sisters, my brothers, their

families, I did not think my children lost out at school at all.

Why it was the holiday in term time? In December we needed to take two

weeks extra. One reason was because my husband and I both work in

project -based work so this was the time that we could take holiday, and

family members were coming to Brunei, we had planned this for a

few years, there were coming at the same time, in December so we met

with people we had not seen for many, many years. Allan, do you have

sympathy with Saleha? No one is saying that family conduct is not

important and the bonds of family very important in supporting an

education. Accent there needs to be questions asked about the catch-up

for young people when they come back. We share many people speak of

what is being referred to as a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Whilst

I understand that, education is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

That can be very difficult to catch up from missed work. Often the will

is there and parents have a good heart about that and they want to

have the children catch up but the skill lies with the professionals

and teachers need to work with children continually to promote

their progress so that they do the very best they can. Saleha? I

disagree that education is once-in-a-lifetime. I think you are

learning things all the time, between the age of man and 99. My

father is turning 19 next year and I'd like to go and visit again.

Without taking the children away in term time? If you might hope not, my

daughters are now at secondary school, it might be harder to take

them out because she's coming up to her GCSE years and it will be fully

to take them away in term time. When the exams are over, even if they

miss a couple of days of school, I don't think that is going to... You

got a fine last time you took them out. Yes. I have taken them out

since although I did not exceed the number of days. In 2008 and took

them out for ten days which the headmistress board exceeded the time

and that led to the fine. When I went to pay the fine the education

of only charged me for one child. Because she understood why I went.

She said, that is fine. The fact that you haven't done anything to

incur a fine since, is that because of the fine? Is it a deterrent? I

don't think so. I am responsible for my children. I do not think they

have been damaged at all. By missing ten days of primary education. We

tried to catch up with all the things they had missed at school. I

think parents know how important education is. Allan, you are nodding

and smiling, does that mean you agree or disagree? I am nodding and

smiling because it is good to hear the intent that Saleha had in terms

of helping their children catch up. That is good news. I also agree with

the breadth and scope of education that she refers to and the fact that

we learn from cradle to grave. That is the truth. But it is interesting

to hear her talk about the importance of the GCSE years ahead.

Statistics are quite profound there in terms of the dip below 90%

attendance, almost reducing the chances of a good suite of GCSE

grades by about half, and we should not step aside of these statistics

even the parents have difficult decisions to make. There is another

issue about proportionality. I believe there were 70,000 fixed

penalty notices is you'd last year. It sounds like an extraordinarily

high number yet we have eight and a half million children of

high number yet we have eight and a being educated currently. It

high number yet we have eight and a is less than 1% of parents who are

falling into this difficulty of the fixed penalty notice. I want to

bring in the lawyer. Julie, you fight cases of parents find by

schools, are there many out there? We heard that the statistic

schools, are there many out there? represents a small proportion of

parents. I regularly advise parents on this issue. They have been told

that they will get a on this issue. They have been told

have received fixed penalty notice and want to reject it.

have received fixed penalty notice difficulty is with many of the

cases, I don't come into contact with them. The risk of litigation

often puts off most parents. My with them. The risk of litigation

parents simply accepting fixed with them. The risk of litigation

penalty notices or choosing to take their children out

penalty notices or choosing to take legitimate reasons, often.

penalty notices or choosing to take father is taking his case to the

penalty notices or choosing to take High Court today and is fighting it,

the case hinges on whether his daughter attended school regularly.

How open to interpretation is that? The education of pharmacy have to

prove there has been regular attendance. This case will change

the legal landscape, in cases of this kind. Whether that is welcomed,

or should be left to the magistrate's

or should be left to the be seen. My own

against the backdrop of the child in question. Their achievements, the

attempts to catch up after the period of the absence.

attempts to catch up after the clear difference between truancy

attempts to catch up after the a parent taking their child away for

very different reasons. How much is riding on the outcome of the case?

Would it potentially open up the possibility of a parent taking their

children out of school without facing the penalty fine? It will

change the impact of the fixed penalty, how many are issued in this

country. That depends on the way the ruling will go. As yet, unknown.

There is a definition provided by the High Court, that may result in

more fixed and -- penalty notices. It may well affect the number of

parents fighting these cases. A lot of people may be waiting for the

decision to be announced before they consider whether to take litigation

further. If we're we may get something from the hearing before we

stop chatting. I want to go through some of the comments, it is a

subject people care about. Lucas said, how can one day's absence

affected child's education, they can catch up. Fining parents is

ludicrous. The government needs to break down -- bring down the cost of

hot holidays. In farming areas, families can not go away during the

school holidays. Previously it was down to common sense. Some parents

started having more than 12-macro week holiday in the year, because it

was cheaper. Two weeks is not the problem where authorised by the

school, where do you draw the line? Governments should pass legislation

mean prices are not so higher during the school holidays. We will

hopefully get something before the end of the programme. Thank you for

joining us, sharing your perspective on that. As we await that ruling

from the High Court. We'll speak to the sister and friend

of Scottish Commonwealth judo medallist Stephanie Inglis,

who is fighting for her life in a Vietnam hospital

after a motorbike accident. Eurovision is back, without

island-macro, the most successful country in the competition's is to

be. Nicky Byrne failing to qualify. We will speak to fans and a former

winner. Let's catch up with the news, from the newsroom.

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The case of a father who refused to pay a ?120 fine

for taking his daughter out of school for a holiday will be

no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

But Isle of Wight Council has asked the High Court to clarify

whether a seven-day absence amounts to a child failing

Power correspondent is live at the High Court. This case being watched

with massive interest? A lot of parents fall into this position,

taking children out of school during term time because it is cheaper and

they cannot go during other times. Prosecuted by the local council,

fined ?60, up to ?120 will stop they are taken to court if they do not

pay. Most parents have argued extenuating circumstances, visiting

a sick relative, and they have failed in cases. Mr Platt said my

daughter has been at school for 90% plus, she is a regular attendance.

He won his case at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court. It is up to the

High Court to decide whether that is upheld. There will be big

implications for parents, saying their child is a regular tender, why

can't I take my child as well? An EU mission to tackle people

smuggling in the Mediterranean is failing to achieve its aims,

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saved thousands of lives, it's not having any meaningful

impact on the smuggling networks. Firefighters have been tackling

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Practice, an industry body, is proposing to extend the ban

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up with the sport. The main sports story concerns

Premier League side Watford. Quique Sanchez Flores will be leaving at

the end of the season the club have announced. He reached the FA Cup

semifinal, they sit 13th in the table, winning just two of their

last 11 matches. Jermain Defoe has scored 15 goals for Sunderland, the

33 roll says he has done everything right to earn a call-up to the Euro

2016 squad. Roy Hodgson will announce the 23 players he's taking

on Monday. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has confirmed he is leaving Paris St

Germain at the end of the season. The 33-year-old has been linked with

a host of Premier League clubs. Masters champion Danny Willett was

back in action yesterday for the first time since winning the

competition last month. He carded a 73 at EPC Sawgrass. Max Verstappen

happy sixth fastest time on his first drive for Red Bull. Serena

Williams says she was physically sick during the Italian Open

yesterday because she felt like trying out her dog's food. She still

won in straight sets. We see her reaction on social media afterwards.

I am going to try apiece, it looks good. I ate one spoonful. That is

the salmon and rice. Mixed together. Now I feel really sick. Just one

spoonful. Those are the sport headlines. The main news, Watford

parting company with Quique Sanchez Flores. We will have more sport

throughout the day. You have been getting in touch on the conversation

whether it is right to let people with mental health problems to take

their own life at a euthanasia clinic. 120-year-old girl was health

to die at a clinic, when it was concluded her mental health issues

were enough to be allowed the right to die. Richard has tweeted, people

should have choice over their life. We have evolved enough to make

choices. Mental grief is as intense as physical pain, I have been there.

People should have the right to die, I am 59, and have no desire to die.

Once I am not working any more, my children have grown up, and cannot

partake in the physical activities I enjoy. I want the right to choose. I

don't want to be stuck in a home. Getting in touch on the school

holidays, taking children are in turn time. We are awaiting the

ruling from the High Court. Dave as e-mail, the government should pass

legislation to prevent holiday companies altering the prizes to

grossly inflated levels during holidays. Absurd parents are not

allowed to take children out of school, why does the government do

this? There is no law in the land that the child is to go to school,

merely educated to a minimum standard. The magistrates got it

right. in a Vietnam hospital -

after a motorbike 27 year old Stephanie Inglis,

who won silver at the 2014 Glasgow games, suffered severe head injuries

in the incident in Ha Long - After being told her insurer

would not cover her medical costs - Stephanie's family and friends

launched a campaign to help raise the money and it's already reach

?50,000 - Stephanie's sister Stacey and her friend

Khalid join me now... joining us. Stacey, tell us what

condition your sister is in? She's in a very critical state. In a coma.

I don't really know what is going to happen. There is a lot of leading to

the brain, swelling. We are not sure what is going to happen. It must be

awful. So far away. You are very worried about her. Who is with her?

My parents are with her the moment. They arrived yesterday. I have not

been able to contact them this morning. The phones are not that

great over there. We can only get through on Wi-Fi. Trying to keep

everything up to date with the family. The support has been

amazing. You are a friend of Stephanie. You will save play judo.

You have joined the campaign to raise money for her treatment. Silas

how you first heard about this? I got a call from my mum yesterday.

Just letting me know about the accident. It was very severe. At the

time, we weren't sure as to the extent of the damage, but we were

told she was in a coma. The hospital was supposed to transport her to

another hospital. Because of the insurance not being honoured, due to

a technicality, she took out a year-long policy, she had not read

the small print, saying she could not stay in the country for over 31

days. We found this out, when her parents got in touch, the hospital

was more concerned about how much the cost of the treatment would be,

rather than saving her life. They made her father signed document, to

be a guarantor to any costs that will be accrued. Her parents have

been told numerous times they would be better off serving machine off,

they don't know how long the treatment will take. I don't feel,

and did not feel at the time, enough effort was put into looking after

her. The fund was set up, just to get money together, in the hope

people would come together. Giving money towards the costs to help

Stephanie. Did not expect to get the response we did. It is overwhelming.

Testament to the person she was. People respected her for the person

she is. The funding we have received so far shows that. Hopefully going

forward we can keep that going, take the pressure away.

You said you have had an amazing response because people know

Stephanie and the sort of person she is, tell us more about her, what

sort of person is she. Anyone who knew her knew that she did a

ruthless sport, it was hard, when you watch it on TV you cannot

comprehend how physically intense it is. On the mat she was very good,

talented, off the mat you would never think that she would ever get

into a physical fight with anyone. She was the nicest person I have

ever met, she never raised a hand to anyone, all that and I've known her

she never said a bad word about a single person. She was in Vietnam

teaching and children English. -- teaching and a privileged children.

It was her first venture outside her sport, doing something alone. She

was looking forward to building her life. She had an exciting future.

Now she is in hospital in intensive care, not receiving the treatment

that I think she should be getting. I know that you are really upset but

you want to talk about your sister. It must be amazing to show such warm

tributes paid to what a lovely person she is. She is that. She is

my big sister. I look up to her cell much. She is one of the nicest

people, the best system you could probably have, so supportive to me.

-- the best sister. She gives the best advice ever, not but I always

take it fight Tory or -- not that I always take Ed! She has a way with

words. I just want her home. I just want her home! And any support, any

help to bring her home! Stacey, we send all our best wishes and we hope

that too. Thank you both. Let's talk more about the school

holidays, Gene Sauers people are aware of school holidays before

holidays, Gene Sauers people are have children, I have three adult

children, two of them with children of their own, I never took them out

of school, you should create your life around children, what counts is

spending time with them and not flying around the world. Thank you

all for getting in touch with that. Let's move on to the Eurovision Song

contest, it is back tomorrow but without the most successful country

in the 61 year history of the competition.

Ireland's contender, former Westlife singer

The pop star was knocked out in the semi-finals

Well, organisers did promise a 'dramatic finish' this year

and are testing our new voting rules in Saturday's final.

In previous contests each country's jury and public votes were combined

Now the votes will be split, with each country's jury vote cast

first, and votes from viewers in all countries combined

# Heartbeat, when you are not around its beatings

# Heartbeat, when you are not around # And it's something that I've never

known. Oh, oh. # I'll be the answer you've been

waiting for. # I'll be the truth that you've been

looking for. # You're not alone, we're in this

together. # All of that you want is right sure

for another # All of that you want is right sure

# And they don't need to know # And they don't need to know

# Free to let go because I'll be here for you.

# Free to let go because I'll be # And when you fall I'll be your

parachute. # Oh, oh

# I, I, I feel # Oh, oh

# I come alive when I'm with you # I come alive when I'm with you

# You're not alone # We're in this together

# You're not alone # All that you want is right sure

# You're not alone # And they don't need to know, oh,

oh, oh. # I, I, I, feel like I'm

the sky # I come alive when I'm with you

# Don't speak, your smile tells me all I need to know

# Your eyes show me where I want to go

# Oh, oh #. # You're not alone, we're in this

together # All that you want is with you

forever # And they don't need to know, and

they don't need to know oh, oh, oh # I, I, I feel like dancing in the

sky... #. It's all right, isn't it? 25-1, two

win. We can talk notice and super fans and also to one previous

winner. We can talk to Sweden's winner

from 1984's contest, Richard Herrey as well as fans

of the Eurovision, Natalie Richards in Australia

and Kevin Lee Lesley Sim Jason Watkins - Alistair Cheetham

who are in Stockholm Lesley, you were singing along, do

you like that one. I love them all. I'm supporting everyone with all the

flags! Not everyone can win! Can I bring its ten to three, France,

Bulgaria, and Croatia. I don't really care who wins. I love it so

much. Kevin, you are next to Lesley. And you spend a fortune travelling

around to follow your revision. Why is that? It's not just for the song

contest, it is an experience, once again, like Christmas, when it comes

to my work they know I don't care about taking a holiday in the summer

or at Christmas, the only holiday I want is you have Asian week. Jason,

I don't know if you can show us your arm but I gather you have ten

tattoos on Ed! Jason, can you hear me? It's Joanna. I'm not sure if

Jason can hear me. Hopefully we can get him to show us his arm coming he

has got ten Eurovision tattoos. Alistair, you are flying the flag.

Absolutely. Why are you such a fan of Eurovision? I agree totally with

Kevin and Lesley. Good friends that they are, it is good fun, you get to

meet new people, it is great entertainment, and good fun, and why

not. I said that everyone was in Stockholm, Natalie, you are in

Australia, you wish you were. We are in Perth, Australia. Do you watch

every year, how long have you been a fan. Since I was about five, Terry

Wogan got me into it with his great commentary, and a massive fan. I've

got a treat. I said we could meet a former winner, it is Richard Herrey.

I just want to play some of your winning entry before you speak to

us. It is scored Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley. It was the winner in

1984. It is classic Eurovision because it

brings a smile to the face and makes you want to join in. How do you feel

when you could it? It was a time, of course, us it meant a lot. We very

young. -- it was a wonderful time. It had an impact on our lives, we

got to go on tour and make many records, we got to see many

countries and meet new friends and do things that you dream of as an up

and coming artist. Tell us more about that. When did you decide to

go into Eurovision, and start to dream of perhaps winning? We were

younger, I was ten, when Abba won the Eurovision. In Sweden, your

revision was a big deal when I grew up, though for us to be asked to be

a part of the Swedish entry or be asked to send in songs to the

Swedish gravitation was big and to win the Swedish qualification was

very big and to win the revision, it was unbelievable. We were fortunate

that you have to be a bit lucky and have a good song and a good

performance and just hope no one else beats you! We have just been

looking at the pictures when you were announced as winners, how did

you feel then? It was euphoric. Unbelievable. Like winning a great

sport tournament winning the World Cup or something. It was fantastic.

Leslie, what has your Eurovision highlight been over the years? I

shook hands and said thank you to Lys Assia, the first winner.

What about you, Kevin? There are hundreds and hundreds of fans, we

see them every year and I always look forward to enjoying the contest

with them, together. Natalie Gumede spreading the word around Perth,

people catching on? They are getting there, because Australia was in and

last year, there is a fantastic atmosphere in all the pubs when it

is on, yeah. Alistair, you are hoping that the UK will win tonight,

do you think we could, 25-1. We've got a good position in the draw,

25th out of 26, we are late on, good for that, although there are a lot

of strong countries and in the end of the best song will win. Does it

matter who wins when you have all the enjoyment of the contest? I

don't mind where it is, it's great when it's outside the UK because you

see new places and meet new people, Facebook is a great thing, we are a

group of fans altogether on the page, it's just a great thing. It is

lovely to talk to you all, thank you so much for joining us. And thank

you for joining us as well. I hope that you have a lovely,

restful weekend. Goodbye. But then she goes too far.

Why? What happens?