06/03/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

It's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

This morning, this programme can reveal that almost 80% of pupils

who resit their GCSE in English and Maths fail it.

I have had to do my English GCSE five times, coming up to the sixth.

I failed my maths GCSE four times. It is horrible. You feel like you

are stupid, you feel like there is something wrong with you.

Since 2013, students who don't get a grade C or above in those core

subjects have to keep taking it till they pass - or turn 18.

But there are calls to change that policy,

because it's stressful for teenagers and costly for schools and colleges

where nearly 500 animals have died in four years, to be shut down.

And this is the zoo you might remember where a keeper was also

Are the smartphones, tablets, blue light devices responsible for

destroying your child's sleep? We'll hear how hospital attendances

in England for children under 14 with sleep disorders have tripled

in ten years. I end up asking her if she wants it

because then I can get stuff done. In a second we will bring you more

on the deal about selling temper macro to the French.

And we'll discuss how police in Durham

are planning to give free heroin to addicts in a bid to cut

There are fears for thousands of jobs at Vauxhall plants

It's after the French company that owns Peugeot and Citroen struck

a ?1.9 billion deal to buy General Motors' European

4,500 workers are employed by the company

The Unite union says its priority is to safeguard their jobs.

Our business correspondent Joe Lynam is here.

What other worries about jobs? One half thousand people work for

Vauxhall. PSA is not just taking over Boxall, it is taking over the

German brand, Opel. There are factories in Germany and Slovakia as

well. There is a geopolitical play happening. The Germans will pitch

hard to keep their factories open and the Brits will pitch hard to

keep their factories open. In the last few minutes, the boss of PSA

has been giving a press conference. He has said he wants to create a

European automotive champion and unleash the potential of Vauxhall

and Opel. He is committed to the iconic brands. But there is a but.

They also want to increase profit margins. Their future, these

factories across Europe, is in their hands and based on their

performance. I quote him, he is a noted cost cutter and an

unsentimental cost cutter at that. If he thinks that temper macro

plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port are not productive enough and do not

make enough cars fast enough, he will have a long think about closing

them down post 2020. -- Vauxhall. Next year, 2018, he will think,

where are the next generation of Astra is going to be built? There

are currently made in Ellesmere Port. Britain will be in the middle

of a series of education with its European partners about the trade

deal, the result of which we will not have next year. Maybe the

decision will be taken with a blindfold. Thank you very much.

Thank you. More reaction throughout the programme to that deal. We will

talk to the Unite union later on. Joanna is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Police say 13 potential

terror attacks have been thwarted since 2013,

and that more than 500 investigations are being carried

out at any one time. Counter-terrorism officers

are encouraging the public to be vigilant, as our

Home Affairs Correspondent The moments caught on a security

camera when this man was visiting a bag of fertiliser. He was plotting

and Al-Qaeda type bombing campaign against shopping centres and

nightclubs. He was caught because a woman

working at a storage warehouse became suspicious and called police,

potentially saving If you have a concern

about something you have seen or heard that could identify

terrorist threats, report it. A new police campaign focuses

on the important contribution It could be anything that

strikes you as unusual. Detectives say the public

are still playing an important part in one third of their current

investigations. It might be a neighbour or someone

in the community who is showing signs of radicalisation. Maybe they

are visiting the dark web. Those forms of behaviour to somebody you

do not know, maybe where you work or where you get shopping. You see

someone in an area you know any thing that is not quite right. Those

are the bits of information that we want.

Senior detectives are warning that supporters of so-called

Islamic State are not the only threat.

Al Qaeda remains a danger as well, as does far-right terrorism.

New official figures show that the number of attacks

in Britain thought to have been thwarted since June 2013 has risen

to 13, one higher than the figure given six months ago.

At any one time, the security services are running

The threat level remains at severe, which means the risk of an attack

North Korea has fired four missiles - three of which landed less

than 200 miles from the north-west coast of Japan.

The missiles appear to have been launched from a remote military

Japan's Prime Minister described it as "an extremely dangerous action".

The World Health Organisation has warned that air pollution is one

of the biggest threats facing global public health today.

In a BBC interview, the WHO's director general Margaret Chan said

poor air quality is a problem on a greater scale than HIV or Ebola

and has a disproportionate impact on young people.

The former boxer Michael Watson says he hung on "for dear life"

as he was dragged several hundred metres along a road during a violent

Watson, who suffered a near-fatal brain injury during a fight

with Chris Eubank in 1991, spoke to the BBC's

Crimewatch programme about last month's attack.

I couldn't believe it, that it could actually happen.

And you can see that interview in full on Crimewatch

This programme has found that nearly 80% of GCSE students

who are forced to resit maths and English, fail the exam.

Since 2013, it's been compulsory for students in England who fail

to get a C grade to keep trying in further education

Schools and colleges are warning it's putting teachers

Victoria will be speaking to students and teachers

about the impact of re-sits a bit later in the programme.

FBI director James Comey has rejected President Donald Trump's

claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, tapped his phone.

Mr Comey reportedly asked the US Justice Department to reject

the allegation that Mr Obama ordered a wiretap during last

He is said to have asked for the correction because it

falsely insinuates that the FBI broke the law.

Survivors, victims' relatives and rescue workers will gather today

to mark the 30th anniversary of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.

193 passengers and crew died when the Herald of Free Enterprise

capsized shortly after leaving the Belgian port, as

The capsized hulk of one of Britain's's worst shipping

disasters. The Herald of free enterprise laying on its side close

to the entrance of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. The British ferry

disaster of Belgium... It was 30 years ago tonight that the vessel

went down for that there were 439 passengers on board, including

British day-trippers. The first someone -- some new what was

happening was when plates started to slip of the tables will do it took

90 seconds for the 13,000 tonne vessel to turnover. The rescue

operation helped to save many lives. 193 passengers and crew died. The

official enquiry found that the bow doors had mistakenly been left open

as she left port. An attempt to prosecute crew members and the

company collapsed in court. In David today, a memorial service will take

place to allow the victims families to mark the 30th anniversary. The

ship's which was later Savich will be presented at the service. Three

decades on, this disaster continues to affect the lives of hundreds of

ordinary people, the design of ships and Britain's maritime history.

Councillors will decide today whether to issue a new licence

for a zoo where almost 500 animals have died in the last four years.

South Lakes Zoo, in Cumbria, was fined almost three hundred

thousand pounds following the death of a keeper who was mauled

Government inspectors have criticised the zoo

for overcrowding, and lack of proper welfare for animals.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Here is a message from one dealer. That is about the story we will be

bringing una few minutes about all the thousands of 16-year-old who are

forced to rethink GCSE maths and English if they fail at the first

time, sometimes we sitting at four or five times. This viewer says

forcing them to keep resetting is cruel, unnecessary and probably

humiliating. Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use the hashtag Victoria live and ff

you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport with John

and why is Arsene Wenger leaving It was baffling when he started on

the bench. They lost against Liverpool. It turns out Arsene

Wenger dropped him to the bench following and argued with some of

his team-mates in the lead up to that game with Liverpool. It is

quoted that he walked away from a training session, argued with some

of his team-mates and had to be restrained. This was him warming up

at half-time. It was not enough despite setting up the goal for

Danny Welbeck. They did lose. Alexis Sanchez, the star man, move to

Arsenal to win trophies. I think he recognises that will not happen.

They looks likely to be moving out of the Champions League and will not

win the title. Following the defeat against Liverpool, unlikely they may

not finish in the top four places. These types of leaks do not -- leaks

do not come out when there is unity in the dressing room full that turns

out at Arsenal there is not unity which is why this type of thing is

being leaked. Fans are concerned because there is the real

possibility that they may be without their manager, Arsene Wenger, they

may be without Alexis Sanchez, and they may be without Champions League

football. Where would that leave Arsenal next season? Quite a lot of

the fans do want Arsene Wenger to go. Paris danger man is one place he

may be off to. It's been a great weekend

at the European Indoor Athletics Championships,

but there's a new golden girl Jessica Ennis-Hill announced her

retirement and Mo Farah has said he will concentrate on the longer

distances. Who will come in and replace these big names? Laura

Newell is right up there. She won two medals at the European

Championships in Belgrade. -- Muir. She set a new championship record in

the 3000 metres, which is fantastic for her. She had a slightly

disappointing Olympics where she finished seventh. To come back and

win two gold medals in quick succession is really impressive for

the 23-year-old. You may have seen her on Saturday. Rather overzealous

official did not allow her to go and celebrate a victory lap after her

1500 metres. Here she was. What shall I do? Shall I, shan't I?

Despite having run 1500 metres, she drops her shoulder and goes and runs

a celebratory lap. She was lulling her in and goes, no, I am not having

it. Things, I'm going to go for it now and off she makes it - for it.

She got a victory lap on Saturday and yesterday as well. The World

Championship is to come in London in the summer. We hope she will be one

of the star names. This morning, how hundreds

of thousands of pupils are stuck in a cycle of GCSE re-sits

as they try to achieve a grade C Since 2013, it's been compulsory

for students in England who fail to get a C grade to keep trying

again in further education For some students this means taking

the exam four or five times. And this programme can reveal

that nearly 80% of those who re-sit their GCSEs

continue to fail. Schools and colleges say

it is putting pressure Are there some students

who will never do well at subjects like English and maths

but are gifted in other Our reporter James Longman has

this exclusive report. I'm Mohammed and I'm

resiting English. I'm Gina Smassey and I'm retaking my

maths GCSE for the 5th time. English and Maths, some would say,

are the building blocks of a good education,

and in 2013, the Government made it compulsory for GCSE students

in these subjects to get at least The problem is a lot of people

find that quite hard. If they don't make that grade

then they have to resit. But the mjority of those

resitting English and Maths And incredibly last year in England,

80% of these students taking GCSEs after Year 11 didn't manage to make

the grade, even after four or five attempts, meaning thousands

are going back again and again It's demoralising, teachers say,

and it's putting a massive strain I failed my maths GCSE

about four times. It's horrible because you feel

like you're stupid. You feel there's something wrong

with you because I'm 18 and I'm being put

into a class with 15-year-olds. But you've got to keep

going because I need it to pass and I need it to get a job

and get into University. Every time I've taken the maths test

I've been about five marks away. I haven't got Us or anything

like that and I'm so close. It's so frustrating knowing that I'm

so close, yet so far. Develop those details

a little bit for me. The heads of English

and Maths teach resit classes here at Tollworth Girls' School,

which has a mixed sixth form, but their busy timetable means

they only get a couple So you've resat English

how many times? Is it not just every time,

going back to do another exam, Sometimes I find it a bit funny that

I'm always getting very It takes some of my time,

instead of doing A-Level subjects. What are your other

A-Level subjects? I'm doing Maths and Physics

and Further Maths. Okay, so really, you don't

care about English. You have to keep coming

back to the same I mean, I feel frustrated for them,

because they work incredibly hard. What would you be doing if you

weren't teaching this resit class? Teaching another class, a Year 7

or 8, or A-Level, for exmaple. So are students further down

the school having their time with you impacted because you need

to take these resit classes? I mean obviously I've got an amazing

department of teachers that can teach them,

but with budget cuts There is pressure to find staffing

so it can have a knock on effect. I have got some maths GCSE papers

here. I mean, I don't know half the answers to these! How does it,

having a look at this, I mean what, how does it make you feel like

reading through that? What's the problem with this paper? I mean why

aren't you getting it? I don't know. You're laughing having a look at one

of those questions. What's so funny about it? It's just, there is just

questions on here that are like I can never do those ones and that's

probably why I fail. I always like the ones where they go, "John and

Sally and Mandy have 25 apples. ." At the end it's like what time did

Sally go to school? And you're like hang on, that wasn't original of the

equation. I am the Director of Maths. If all these students aren't

making the grade, is that, doesn't that just mean the teaching isn't

good enough? Some might say perhaps the teaching isn't up to scratch,

but I refute that because we've got a very good set of teachers here who

are very committed and if you look at the set of results and what they

achieve, they are very good. It's a lot more of a challenge trying to

get students who have not been able to get there and who need more time,

but are not able to have the time and quality of support for them and

in some cases, I think, fundamentally, they are on the wrong

course because a different pathway is required for them.

For lots of students, academic subjects aren't for them. Norwich

College offers cooking, photography and hairdressing. The law says that

every needs to stay in item education or training until they're

18. Thousands of college starters on the back foot if they haven't got

the English and maths at GCSE. We're here at City College Norwich. Just

under half of everyone who starts here comes without the grades they

need. I'm Josh. I want to be a brick layer. My name is Ryan. I want to be

a photographer. I'm more of a hands on sort of person. I've tried so

hard just to try and get this one GCSE which is a letter on a bit of

paper. I'm a lot better in actually practical subjects. I've got eight

out of nine distinctions in this course so far. I have had to do my

English GCSE five times, coming up to the sixth. I just find it very

difficult sitting behind a desk and doing something like that. I'd

rather be outside laying bricks, laying concrete, doing that sort of

stuff. I have always found and I'm good at it. What is it about English

that you don't like? It is almost a slight bit of torture with the way

that they know that some people just don't get English, but they're still

making me do it. The criticism for the exams is they are very

one-size-fits-all. You're laying bricks and yet you're expected to

recite poetry by William Shakespeare and maybe that's not exactly the

kind of thing you want to be tested in? No, I find a lot of that

difficult and I find I can't show what I can do through doing English

and like you say through Shakespeare and stuff like that because it's not

what I'm good at. Now I've done my uni interviews I have got a place at

Ipswich and I don't need English! So you spent all this time doing it and

you didn't need it? Yeah, which is annoying.

City College Norwich has so many students that need to take their

GCSEs and they need to rent this space to fit them all in.

This is Norfolk showground, one of the biggest indoor spaces in the

county and it is not the only place being rented out by colleges need

more room. The Association of Colleges says neng gland last year,

one in five plans to hire external venues to cope with the numbers.

Two-thirds were forced to take on short-term staff and colleges say

there is no additional funding from the Government for any of this. I'm

head of school for GCSEs and maths at City College Norwich. How much is

it costing you to keep going with the exams? There is such a range.

The cost is ?50,000, the transport. We receive no funding. That's

because of this 2013? The numbers have increased. We have gone up by

440% in terms of numbers of students who are taking a GCSE. What would

you like the Government to do? What did they do wrong and what should

they change? The policy is a fantastic thing in principle that we

should hold on to that as a good starting point. We have had a good

run at it. We have seen what works and what doesn't and what we now

need is an alternative suite of level two qualifications which are

accessible for the hundreds of thousands of students who have

failed something that was to a degree designed for them to fail.

Designed to fail or pushing for better? The Government says it made

the C grade compulsory to up standards. By the way, thousands of

students are struggling to make the grade.

The Department for Education say, "school leavers who achieve GCSEs

in maths and English significantly increase their chances of securing

a good job" but is it time to rethink the policy of forcing

teenagers in England to keep re-sitting their Maths and English

GCSE until they get a grade C or above?

A viewer says, "My son has been forced to re-take his maths exam. It

is ridiculous that children who already have to fight so hard have

this added stress." This viewer says, "Our daughter has special

needs and diabetes. Neither of these facts are taken into contribution.

She sat maths twice and has been failed. Head has been bullied and

ridiculed. She has been told she has got another 18 months to keep

resiting. Please accept that some children just can't do it." This

viewer says, "I work at my university and I see a lot of

potential students re-think their decision to do further study. They

are held back by the fact that they don't have a minimum of C grade in

maths or English. When you're 16, this might not feel as important as

it really is." So your views on this, of course, welcome.

Whether you're someone who's had to resit your GCSes,

Do get in touch in the usual ways and more on this to come after 10am.

Vauxhall, the deal, PSA have bought the company. Concerns in this

country for the jobs at Luton and Ellesmere Port. This is what the

Government source say. They are cautiously optimistic about the

future of car production at Vauxhall. Ministers believe the

buy-out could even lead to more jobs in Britain. It suggested PSA may

seek to relocate some Peugeot production to British car plants to

maximise sales in Britain. It has argued that Britain is increasingly

attractive to car manufacturers because of its leading role in

developing electric cars and low-carbon and battery technology.

Government sources are saying that. North Korea has launched

four ballistic missiles At least three of them dropped

into a Japanese economic zone after flying for around 1,000

kilometres and have been described by the Japanese Prime Minister

as a "new stage of threat". Experts say that with successive,

repeated and multiple tests, Pyongyang's missile technology can

only be improving. The ranges of those missiles,

they've been estimated in these global maps here,

are thought to extend across Asia, parts of Europe

and parts of North America. North Korea claims it is in

the final stages of developing intercontinental ballistic missiles

capable of hitting US cities Still no confirmation out of

Pyongyang itself of what happened. It is just about the most

secretive society in the world - Our report ended there with US

baseball star Dennis Rodman, who struck up a controversial

friendship with the In Seoul for us now,

our correspondent, Stephen Evans. What kind of missiles are they? That

would seem to be quite crucial. Absolutely crucial. We do not know

at the moment. They looked to be intermediate range. Once North Korea

looses off quite frequently in this kind of situation. But they may be

intercontinental ballistic missile is all some kind of prototype which

could be turned into that. The significance could be that if they

were fully developed they could hit the United States. If North Korea

were making proper progress towards that, clearly it ups the ante

significantly. There is a bit of background to this. At the moment

South Korean troops and US troops are in caged in joint exercises.

North Korea says this is just planning and preparation for

invasion. If you look at the exercises, there are a lot of troops

on landing craft and that kind of thing. It happens every year every

year North Korea gets very angry and looses off missiles and that kind of

thing. If it is just that, it is not that untoward. It showing

significant improvement in the missiles, then people outside will

be properly worried. If they have missiles which can travel that

distance, reaching America, for example, do we know if they also are

capable of carrying nuclear warheads? They have not got them

yet. They need to get the warhead small enough and missiles that will

go far enough. They also need crucially to have material so that

the missile in the warhead can leave the atmosphere but also come back

again. They do not seem to be able to do that yet. Lots of

announcements from Pyongyang saying they have got the materials, now we

can do it, but no real proof. What the outside experts say, not

political people, they are making progress towards that, maybe five

years, maybe a bit less. But the progress is only going one way. It

is not something which many people expect not to happen at some stage.

Thank you very much. The zoo in Cumbria where almost 500

animals have died over the past four years. There are calls for it to

close down. Do you use tablets and smartphones

as a way of pacifying your Research suggests it is not good and

we will speak to one parent who has not slept for two years because her

toddler is not sleeping very well. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Government sources say they're

"cautiously optimistic" about the future of car

production at Vauxhall. It's after the French company that

owns Peugeot and Citroen struck a ?1.9 billion deal to buy

General Motors' European 4,500 workers are

employed by the company The Unite union says its priority

is to safeguard their jobs. Police say 13 potential

terror attacks have been The UK's most senior

counter-terrorism police officer has also revealed that more than five

hundred investigations are being He disclosed the figures

as he launched an appeal that aims to get members of the public

to report any suspicious behaviour. There has been international

condemnation of North Korea, after it launched four ballistic

missiles into Japanese waters. The missiles appear to have been

launched from a remote military Japan's Prime Minister described it

as "an extremely dangerous action". This programme has found that nearly

80% of GCSE students who are forced to resit maths and English,

fail the exam. Since 2013 it's been compulsory

for students in England who fail to get a C grade to keep trying

in further education Schools and colleges are warning

it's putting teachers That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Thank you for your comments on the

refit merry-go-round. It is ridiculous. My son's entire class

failed due to a teacher who was sacked. Now they are stuck on this

merry-go-round of resits. I am 16 and I'm hoping to get Cs for them if

I do not I am worried what people think of me in the future. One boy

had to be take the exam eight times. He felt useless. The anyway we coped

was to treat it as a joke. This obsession of getting a C is failing

our students. It appears Arsenal manager

Arsene Wenger dropped Alexis Sanchez to the bench for their match

with Liverpool after the player argued with his team mates and left

a training session early in the run At the time it looked a baffling

decision by the manager, Wenger said it was for tactical

reasons, but it now appears the player's behaviour may

have been behind it. The club's top goalscorer

did come at half time, but it wasn't enough to stop Arsenal

slipping to a 3-1 defeat. It's now looking increasingly likely

that the player may leave at the end of the season,

amid strong interest from some Laura Muir had a weekend

to remember, with record-breaking Gold medal performances in the 1500

and 3000 metres in the European Great Britain won ten medals in all,

and finished second After his defeat of David Haye

in the all-British heavyweight fight, Tony Bellew says that may

have been his last Bellew says he's not sure he wants

to put his body through that kind of punishment again amid suggestions

that there could be And England's cricketers

are enjoying their time in the Caribbean -

they've won the one-day international series

against the West Indies with one Joe Root hitting the winning runs

in Antigua yesterday. There are calls for a zoo,

where almost 500 animals have died Serious questions have been raised

about the way the animals at the South Lakes Safari Zoo

in Dalton-in-Furnes In 2013, the zoo was fined nearly

?300,000 after a keeper was mauled Today the local council

will discuss the zoo's future. Here's some of what

they'll be looking into. Let's talk now to Andrew Rosindell,

a Conservative MP and chair of the all-party parliamentary group

on zoos and aquariums. And Elisa Allen, the Director

of animal rights charity Peta UK. What has shocked you most about what

has happened over the last few years? This is the stuff of

nightmares. It is like a bad horror film. Animals, nearly 504 years,

have perished from malnutrition, hypothermia. There are reports of a

taut as he was accidentally electrocuted. It does not get much

worse than this. -- a tortoise. I would hate for viewers to take away

from this this was a bad apple, an isolated incident, when it is not.

The only difference between this particular zoo and many others in

this country is that the report has been made publicly available. Right.

Should it get a new license? It is important to recognise that most

zoos across the United Kingdom have a good record of animal welfare and

conservation. This is an isolated case. You say it is not. In 2013,

the Born Free Foundation conducted a review of zoos in this country was

that they found that two thirds of the 300 zoos did not meet the

criteria, did not provide adequate animal welfare for the animals in

captivity. There is legislation which deals with theirs. There

should be regular checks by qualified vets supported by Defra

and the local authority should be regularly checking zoos. There does

need to be proper inspections. This is an argument for making the system

more robust. It is not an argument for saying that zoos should be

closed down. With respect, the zoo did have a licence. It was inspected

and still these conditions were allowed to continue for years. This

was not something that happened from one day to the next. Again, I think

it goes to a wider conversation we need to have about whether or not

zoos have a place in society. This was an extreme example. There was a

particular management style which went very wrong. New people have

taken over. Over four years, despite inspections and having a licence,

animals continue to die. There should be an investigation. The

previous owner should have been stripped of his licence. No way

should he ever get a licence again. The new people running the zoo are

getting the zoo is back in good order again. Have you met them? I

have spoken to them, had communications with them. I have had

a report directly from the vet who has inspected the zoo, an

independent vet, who tells me things are improving to masticate. If you

meet the animals out, is it better for the animals? Closing the zoo is

not necessarily the best thing at this stage. The company in charge

declined giving as an interview. They said, we took on the challenge

with significant financial liabilities. We have work to do. We

are pushing hard to meet our goals without compromise to meet big

standards for animals in our care and for our staff and local

community. We drive forward to earn safaris to its place in the modern

community does they do not want to go anywhere soon. He talked about

Defra regulations and licenses. Nearly 500 animals have perished in

this facility. We are talking about a piece of paper, a stamp on a piece

of paper. Defra is also an organisation which has provided

licenses to circuses in this country. We know they have also

repeatedly failed animals. The British veterinary Association has

made it very clear that circuses have no place in this country. We

are talking about zoos today and not circuses. The same authority also

grants licences to them. Zoos provide a huge amount of good work

in this country for conservation, education, scientific research and

animal welfare is paramount. I work with zoos as chair of the committee

in Parliament all the time was that they do magnificent work. If you

look at the amount of people going to zoos, the money that is

reinvested in conservation and protecting endangered species, it

would be totally the wrong reaction to look at this one example and say

all zoos are doing a bad job are not looking after their animals. Do you

want all zoos in the UK to be closed? I think we need to look at

raising them out. I got into the metaphor of conservation a few years

ago. No animal born in captivity will ever be released back into the

wild. No Panda, no gorilla, no polar bear will be released into the wild.

There have been around ?400 about. Zoos in this country are investing

millions of pounds in conservation projects around the world. The

Association for zoos and aquariums in the United Kingdom is working

with all of the zoos in the United Kingdom. Money is invested in

conservation and research across the world. They do a fantastic job for

animal welfare and for conservation. Whilst I understand your concerns

and I hate the idea that any animal should be harmed and treated in this

way. The reality is that we should work with zoo -- the zoo community

to get the best for the animals. Closing them down is not the answer.

Just to end on that. 90% of animals in zoos are not in danger. Any talks

about conservation is really short lived. Zoos exist first and foremost

for people and not for the animals. Education, scientific research as

well for that they do a great job and we should appreciate the job the

zoo community does in the United Kingdom. OK. I shall be really

interested to see what our viewers think. Thank you for coming onto the

programme. Deciding whether the zoos should get a new licence. Thank you

very much. Many comments from you on teenagers

resiting maths and English GCSE. I'll read some in a second.

Coming up, stuck in a cycle of resits.

Students in England who fail to get a grade C in GCSE maths or English

have to carry on studying the subject until they achieve it.

We'll speak to two students who've failed to get that C grade,

and hear from teachers who believe the policy isn't working.

Ann says, "I am a private maths tutor and I see a wide range of

young people. The new syllabus is tougher and grade four will be

harder to achieve. These children need life skills maths so that they

can manage their finances etcetera, but this should be sufficient. The

Government need to re-think this urgently before the mental health of

these young people are seriously affected." On Facebook Erin says, "I

had to resit my maths GCSE three times. Every time I got a D grade

and still never managed to pass it, but I still managed to get on to a

bio degree at Leeds Beckett University."

Next this morning, how much sleep are your children getting at night?

Hospital attendances in England for children under 14 with sleep

That's according to NHS data analysed by BBC Panorama,

which also found there were ten times as many prescriptions

for the sleep medication, melatonin, over the same period.

Lack of sleep in children can lead to a greater risk of obesity,

mental health issues, and poor school performance.

And the reason our kids aren't getting enough sleep -

kids using smartphones and tablets in their bedrooms, and the blue

light they emit reduces the natural production of the hormone that

In a moment we hear from parents who are struggling to get

their toddlers to sleep but first here's a short clip

Let's talk now to some parents who have problems

with their toddlers using technology at bedtime.

Lucy Tobin and her two-year-old son Jamie and Cookie Kibbles and her

And in Leeds, Vicki Dawson - who says she didn't sleep for five

She's now set up and runs an organisation called

Welcome all of you. Cookie, you haven't slept for two years? Yes,

she is an appalling sleeper. Shes not a very good sleeper at all. What

do you do? We have resorted to co-sleeping. So she sleeps in

between you and your other half? It means we get more sleep than getting

up every ten minutes and settling her, but we get kicked and

scratched. Right, OK. Does Edith fall asleep with an iPad in your

bed? Yes, it is a really bad habit we've got into. We take her up to

bed and have to fall asleep with her. For those ten minutes where I'm

getting ready to get into bed, it's just, I don't want to say easier,

but it is easier just to give her the iPad to watch a cartoon and then

everything is OK, but we need to get out of doing that, because it is not

going to help the transition to her bed. How knackered are you on a

scale of nine to ten? Nine. How tired is she? She doesn't seem to

need sleep. She is one of those... Every child needs sleep. She is a

funny one. She will stay up, if you let her stay up late, she will just

keep on going and going and going. So... Hello. How are you? I'm good,

thanks. So in terms of Jamie, I think, he is pretty good at

sleeping, but he does watch an iPad when he's doing his teeth? I don't

think they're great to use as kind of replacements for parenting or

playing, but sometimes you need to distract him and obviously, we don't

want his teeth falling out and if he is making a fuss about not brushing

sometimes the Teletubbies about help and occasionally, that's a nice

cuddle... He will wake up early in the morning at 5am where we, my

husband and I are knackered and he is perfectly happy just wide awake

so occasionally there will be one episode of something while we can

doze next to him. What do you think about the research which suggests

the blue light from the tablets and the smartphones disrupts young

people's sleep? Yeah, that's true, but you can get, there is ways

around it. Shush. You shouldn't be getting ways around it. There is

things that you can do that take away the blue light for night-time

use. It is very, it is a worry because you think is that disrupting

the sleep. I lie there before I go to sleep another batch of Instagram

or Twitter and e-mails and you know it's wrong, but are addicted and I

don't want him to grow up like that. When you go to restaurants and you

see kids sitting there with the iPad in front of them, I don't think

that's a very good way to learn how to eat in restaurants and things

like that. We need to limit it and not fall back on it as an easy

option. Let me introduce you to Vicky. First of all, your reaction

to the fact that this suggestion that sleep disorders in under 14s

have tripled in the last ten years and it is to do with the blue light

from tablets and smartphones which we're giving to our kids before bed

or they have got them in their bedrooms? Yeah, absolutely. We are

seeing more and more referrals coming through to the children's

sleep charity and certainly, I think people are becoming more aware of

the importance of sleep in terms of children's mental health, their

physical well-being and their emotional well-being and that of the

parent as well. But certainly tablets don't help when it comes to

sleep. I mean you've heard what Cookie said and what Lucy said.

What's your advice to people when frankly, as a parent you're

knackered, your child is knackered and they're watching something on

the iPad or TV just before bed really helps? Yeah, absolutely. Some

parents believe it helps, but what we have got to remember is the

tablets have a blue light in them and that interferes with the sleep

hormone so it does make it harder for children to fall asleep. Also

tablets and any electronic devices are mentally stimulating so

actually, you know, lots of things are happening with brain activity

during sleep. We need bedtime fob as calm as possible and what we

actually need is more support for families around how to develop good

bedtime routines and we're working really hard in partnership with

Netmums in order to get that information out there because it is

not out there at the moment. I mean, most of the us know, don't we, that

a bath is good, you know, a bit of warm milk, a story, I mean... Some

people have been doing it for hundreds of years, right? That is

what we aim for most nights and I think that's what we have to try and

I guess stick to traditional parenting how we can. Yes. But it is

very difficult when you have got a routine where an iPad has got, or a

tablet has got introduced. What's your advice about weaning toddlers

off the smartphones and the tablets? Well, what we do at the sleep

charity is we work in partnership with the parents. So actually we

speak with the parents and decide do you want to get rid of the tablet?

It is not for us to say that that must happen. Let's assume we want it

to get rid of the tablet before bed? We will look at things like diet. We

would be looking at the bedroom environment because there can be

lots of stimulation in the bedroom environment through things like

colour. We look at temperature and we would look at devicing a good

calming bedtime routines that's in line with the children's interests.

We should there are no electronic devices in the hour running up to

bedtime. We would suggest a supper time and there are some foods that

can help around sleep. So avoiding sugary things and going for options

like porridge, bananas are good around sleep, milk. We would look at

fine motor skill activities, jigsaws, play dough, colouring, any

of those kind of activities are really calming. A bath half an hour

before bed because that helps raise the body temperature and it is the

slow decease in the body temperature that helps children to feel calm and

relaxed and ready for sleep. And of course, a bedtime story is a really

lovely way to end the day. Some messages from people watching

around the country. Alice says, "We modern day parents have no choice.

It just makes life easier to leave your child with an educational

programme on the iPad. Because don't vilify us anymore." Nicky says, "It

is ridiculous. It is just lazing parenting and bad parenting. I was a

single teenage mum. I managed to get my toddler asleep in his room every

night. Sleep use them as an excuse to not parent properly." How would

you respond? It is a mix. She does do imaginative play. We do bath time

and story time, she likes books, but with the iPad as well in this day

and age, I have got an older son and the amount of things that have

changed since he was her age, he's 14 now, by the time she grouse up,

it's everything is going to be so technology centred, but I think they

have to have small glimpses of using technology early on. I will be

falling back on Peppa Pig and co more. It is in modern. He loves

reading and playing. Oh, it is not working. Probably because it is not

making a noise, you see. He wants everything to be all buzzers and

whistles. I am worried about you not getting sleep. That's not

sustainable. I know, it is difficult. I feel like I've got that

to come! Not necessarily. Well... For his first year he never looked

at a TV and iPad and he was never the hottest sleeper. I think it is

nature. I could never do a routine. I tried leaving her to cry once and

I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. I remember my friend saying,

"She has done it once and we're in a routine. That will do." Isn't that

the thing everything is a phase, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Thank

you very much. Vicky, thank you very much for coming on the programme. I

really appreciate it. What a good girl you've been and

Jamie. Good little boy. And you can watch that

Panorama special tonight. That's Sleepless Britain

at 8.30pm on BBC One. Coming up, the French car company,

PSA owns Peugeot and Citroen has reached a deal to buy Vauxhall

in Britain and Opel in Germany Let's get the latest

weather update with Carol. The weather is not going to be as

cute as what you've just had. We have had a mixture of sunshine and

showers. As Victoria said, it is a cold start, even now, it is cold. As

well as the sunshine and showers, we have got some rain. That rain has

been pushing in courtesy of this area of low pressure which is now

moving quite swiftly across France and it will be in Italy by tea-time.

Around that, are strong winds and indeed gales, severe gales. We have

had a gust of wind at 119mph. That low pressure brought and still is

bringing rain across south-west England and the Channel Islands. But

as we go through the next few hours, you'll find that will turn more

showery. There will be bright spells or sunshine and really the forecast

for much of the UK today is just that. Bright spells, sunny spells,

and showers. A lot of the showers in the east, but by the afternoon, we

will be seeing rain coming in across Northern Ireland with hill snow. For

Scotland, it is a mixture of bright spells, sunshine and showers. Some

of the showers on the hills will be falling as snow. We have got an old

front producing rain. As we move into England, north-west England

seeing drier conditions, north-east England seeing the showers and the

showers continuing across East Anglia, Essex and Kent, but you know

the drill with showers, not all of us will see them. Some of us will

stay dry. Bright conditions across Southern England and the south

Midlands. After the rain in south-west England, a brighter

afternoon with just a few showers. The rain in Northern Ireland pushes

into Western Scotland, Northern England and parts of Wales. We've

got showers across the east, but look at the wind arrows. They are

coming from every direction and inland we are looking at frost and

the risk of ice on untreated surfaces.

should get a new licence. Thank you very much.

More rain coming into south-west England and Wales. The further east

to the better chance you have of hanging onto dry conditions with

sunshine until later in the day. As the band of rain crosses the hills,

some of us will see some snow. Temperatures, seven, eight. We're

looking at nine, 11 if you are not. Tuesday and into Wednesday, these

two fronts going east and this one coming south. This will produce

quite a bit of rain as we head on through the course Wednesday.

Looking at the chart for Wednesday, we have a band of rain going east

and another one going south. Quite wet across England and Wales and

northern Scotland. Still windy but a high of 14.

Students in England are struck in a cycle of resits.

Almost 80% of them fail their maths and English GCSE retakes.

I find I cannot show I can do through English and Shakespeare and

stuff like that. That is not what I good at. I am 18 and I am being put

into a class with 15-year-olds. But you have to keep going because I

needed pass. All that to come. Little later we will hear from

students about the general stress of taking GCSEs. Some tellers they are

physically sick the night before their Xsan is. -- some tell us they

are physically sick the night before their exams.

Be On Your Guard' - that's the warning from police

who reveal thirteen terror attacks have been thwarted since 2013,

and that hundreds of investigations are being carried out.

Sometimes members of the public can give this information to start an

investigation. Other times, they do this another piece of information to

help. Addicts in Durham may soon receive

free heroin, as police Could it work - or just lead to more

users moving to Durham? Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Government sources say they're

"cautiously optimistic" about the future of car

production at Vauxhall. It's after the French company that

owns Peugeot and Citroen struck a 1.9 billion pound deal to buy

General Motors' European Four and a half thousand workers

are employed by the company The Unite union says its priority

is to safeguard their jobs. Speaking at a news

conference in Paris, the chief executive of PSA -

Carlos Tavares - said the purchase will benefit all companies

involved. We will totally unleash the full

potential of Opel and Vauxhall brands. We are committed to the two

iconic brands with their German and British heritage. We trust the

talent of Opel and Opel employees to accelerate the turnaround and

enhance innovation capability to address electrification and mobility

services opportunities. Police say 13 potential

terror attacks have been The UK's most senior

counter-terrorism police officer has also revealed that more than five

hundred investigations are being He disclosed the figures

as he launched an appeal that aims to get members of the public

to report any suspicious behaviour. The former boxer Michael Watson says

he hung on "for dear life" as he was dragged several hundred

metres along a road during a violent Watson, who suffered a near-fatal

brain injury during a fight with Chris Eubank in 1991,

spoke to the BBC's Crimewatch programme

about last month's attack. I couldn't believe it,

that it could actually happen. And you can see that interview

in full on Crimewatch tonight This programme has found that nearly

80 percent of GCSE students who are forced to resit maths

and english, fail the exam. Since 2013, it's been compulsory

for students in England who fail to get a C grade to keep trying

in further education Schools and colleges are warning

it's putting teachers Victoria will be speaking

to students and teachers about the impact of re-sits

shortly. Councillors will decide today

whether to issue a new licence for a zoo where around 500 animals

have died in the last four years. South Lakes Zoo, in Cumbria,

was fined almost three hundred thousand pounds following the death

of a keeper who was mauled Government inspectors have

criticised the zoo for overcrowding, and lack of proper welfare

for animals. One animal rights charity told this

programme the problem was not isolated but a problem across zoos

in the UK. The Born Free Foundation together with Bristol University

conducted a review of zoos in this country. They found that two thirds

of the 300 zoos did not meet their criteria, did not provide adequate

animal welfare for their animals in captivity. Charlotte on twitter

says, we went to zoo and the animals look so unhappy that we left after

40 minutes. It was too upsetting. Another has e-mailed, I am so sad to

hear of these deaths. We have enslaved the animals and neglected

our duty to take care of them. Closing them down is the answer and

anyone who says otherwise is only after the money they make. Thank you

for those comments. Arsene Wenger's decision to drop

star man Alexis Sanchez to the bench for the crucial match with Liverpool

on the weekend may not have been It turns out the forward argued

with his team mates - with reports that one player had

to be restrained - after he left a training session

early in the run up to the match. Arsenal are on the brink

of being knocked out of the Champions League and outside

of the Premier league Speaking on the radio last

night, Ian Wright said If he is not playing in games and

storming out of training, it is not a problem for him when he comes on

because he still performs to the best of his abilities. Everything I

have read into it and seen and now hearing this, it says it is not

looking good for Arsenal and him. I believe his agent is probably on the

phone to be borne out. If I were him, I would probably want to leave

as well. This is not why he came to Arsenal. Especially not being in the

top four. He stormed out of training and not played in a game against a

rival. Everything points towards that he is unsettled and unhappy and

seems like he wants to go. And the BBC has just announced it

will broadcast every game England came third in 2015

at the tournament - after they beat Germany

in the play-off. That tournament reached more

than 12 million people Now is this the new face

of British Athletics? Scottish middle distance runner

Laura Muir announced herself on the international stage with two

record-breaking gold medal performances at

the European Indoor Championships Having broken Dame Kelly Holmes'

1500 metre record on Saturday, this was her setting

a new Championship record She wasn't even born the last time

a British athlete won two individual golds at the Championships,

that was 23 years ago I did not know what my legs are

going to do. I was hanging in that. I felt so tired I was so glad I

could do that today. Did it go according to plan? I thought it was

in the interests of the Turk to take it out. I'd tagged onto her the use

the speed yen to cross the line in first place.

World cruiserweight boxing champion Tony Bellew says he's not sure

Bellew beat David Haye in an all-British heavyweight fight

on Satuday, a bout that was built on animosity between the pair.

And speaking this morning, Bellew was asked if he would take up

the chance of a rematch against Haye if it came about.

I do not know. I just hope he gets helping as soon as possible. I'm

going to take some time out to recover with family. I'm not sure I

can go through this anymore. I will be totally honest. I'm not sure my

body can deal with it. I have far exceeded what I set out to do in

this business and this game. I really have. It is going to take

something special to draw me back out. I am being totally honest.

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster will go down in history

as a tragedy that happened because of a simple, careless error.

One man failed to shut the bow doors on the Herald of Free Enterprise.

Millions of gallons of water flooded into the ship and it capsized.

193 people died shortly after boarding the ferry to Dover.

In the darkness and confusion last night, many of the survivors found

themselves separated from their loved ones.

The horror continued this morning, as they wondered what

had happened to relatives or friends.

Some learned the worst comers but others had the joy of

being told their companions were safe.

As survivors were winched up or taken off by a flotilla of tugs

and rescue craft, every available medical team was sent to the area.

Hospitals in nearby Bruges and Blankenburg dealt with scores of

people with cuts, bruises, hypothermia and shock.

The Herald's captain was one of several people in

He told doctors that he'd heard a crash before his ship capsized.

It was one of the biggest peacetime shipping disasters in living memory.

That was 30 years ago and today ceremonies are being held

Our correspondent Gavin Lee is in Zeebrugge for us,

outside the church where the Service will take place.

Hello. This is the main church here in Zeebrugge, just by the coast.

Those who are here that date 30 years ago have come back, most of

the rescuing teams. Some British survivors have come here, who have

decided to brave the journey today that there are two parts of the

commemoration not just here behind me where flowers of being laid and

respect being paid but also on a commemoration vote. Some of the

survivors from Britain wanted to go out to the same spot where the

Herald of Free Enterprise capsized and laid flowers in the water. It

was all a catastrophic error. The bow doors were left open. The

assistant boson at the time who said at an inquiry later he was sleeping

in a cabin. Thousands of tonnes of water flooded the vehicle deck

within 90 seconds just of the harbour here in Zeebrugge. It had

capsized. 500 people on board, 193 people died for the all but seven

were British. Watching this ceremony are some of the divers, some of the

teams who were first on the day. I have Derek and Daniel. Derek first

of all, you're one of the very first diving teams. Terse wood was like

when you got to the water. We were working in the evening on a rack in

front of the harbour. Then we finish at seven o'clock. Then we go

drinking. We saw one of the Navy here. We turn immediately to the

ship and take the ship and we started the Zeebrugge one. When we

arrived, we are thinking, my friend and I. There were a lot of people in

the water. We got the look and there was nobody in the water. We

navigated the Zeebrugge one. We together on my friend and I, two

divers, going in the wreck will stop there were plenty of people crying,

help, help. The Navy, with the helicopter, they go into the back

side and we take the front side. We were working continually to take

people out. The survivors out. Till ten o'clock, 1015. After that,

everything... People coming on board. Many divers coming on board.

We organised the groups. Every group had to look everywhere. When we hear

a tick, tick, tick from people and then we take them out.

Danny you were in the water who are hours on end. You told me you saw

mostly dead bodies. There was a cabin and there were three British

lorry drivers. Maybe more, yeah. Tell me about that. You have been on

the boat after 30 years going back to the same spot. Tell me what's

that like for you coming back. I'm going there in respect for all the

people that died there. That's the only reason because as a diver and

when I arrived all the people there were dead. I don't rescue one person

living. After one hour I was only there and I don't rescue living

people. Only dive. Thank you for talking to me. You

said it's hard for you to be here and I really appreciate your time

and the memorial is continuing here. It was one of those events, it was

the biggest peace time maritime tragedies in history. A few of the

survivors didn't want to go on the boat. It was too much. They are here

within the crowd today, some of the survivors. Thank you very much,

Gavin and Gavin talking to the rescuers. More on that on BBC News.

This morning, why are almost 80% of students in England

who resit their GCSE English and Maths failing it?

Those figures, which we can reveal exclusively this morning,

have led to calls to overhaul the current policy of forcing

students to resit the exams until they pass or turn 18.

At the moment it means hundreds of thousands of pupils in England

are stuck retaking exams as they try to achieve a grade C

in Maths and English GCSE with many students continuing

to fail after taking it three or four times.

Schools and colleges say it is putting pressure

Our reporter James Longman brought you the full

exclusive story an hour ago, here's a short extract

English and Maths, some would say, are the building blocks

of a good education, and in 2013, the Government made it

compulsory for GCSE students in these subjects to get at least

The problem is a lot of people find that quite hard.

If they don't make that grade then they have to resit.

But the mjority of those resitting English and Maths

And incredibly last year in England, 80% of these students taking GCSEs

after Year 11 didn't manage to make the grade, even after four or five

attempts, meaning thousands are going back again and again

I failed my maths GCSE about four times.

It's horrible because you feel like you're stupid.

I'm 18 and I'm being put into a class with 15-year-olds.

If all these students aren't making the grade, is that,

doesn't that just mean the teaching isn't good enough?

Some might say perhaps the teaching isn't up to scratch,

but I refute that because we've got a very good set of teachers

here who are very committed and if you look at the set

of results and what they achieve, they are very good.

This is Norfolk showground, one of the biggest indoor spaces in the

county. It is not the only place being rented out by colleges needing

more room. The Association of Colleges says neng gland last year,

one in five plans to hire ex-venues to cope with the numbers. Two-thirds

were forced to take on extra short-term staff. The costs are

incalculable. The cost of the showground is ?50,000. It is the

cost of the transport, the first aiders and the catering. None of

this is being given to you by Government? We receive no additional

funding. That's because of the new 2013... Because the numbers

increased. We have gone up by 440% in the last three years in terms of

numbers of students who are taking a GCSE. What would you like the

Government to do? What did they do wrong and what should they change?

We have seen what works and what doesn't. We need an alternative

suite of level two, GCSE qualifications which are accessible

for the hundreds of thousands of students each year who have already

failed something that was to a degree designed for them to fail.

And if you want to watch the full version of that report you can find

it on our programme page - bbc.co.uk/victoria.

We asked the department for education to speak to us -

We can talk instead to Paige Bradley and Sophie Hastilow -

who have both failed to get that C grade - in Paige's case it's

Scott Stevens from Havering College in London and Jane Lunnon

And Catherine Sezen from the Association of Colleges -

they say the current policy isn't working.

The impact of resiting, what would you say? It is stressful because

having to resit another subject whilst doing your A-levels is just

not enough time to study with your other subjects as well as your

re-take and it's a task having to keep going back to resit something

that you just can't get. What about you Sophie? It is stressful. I have

sat this like four times now just because I didn't get my grades in

school. And I'm literally just doing it for that piece of paper. I have

got my eqave lants and I'm taking it to get that letter on a piece of

paper. Do you understand the Government's rational, that you need

the core subjects, you need a C in maths and English to get on in life?

Yeah, I understand that, but if it was functional skills, it would be

more understandable because with GCSEs they make you do, they like

you go above and beyond which is fair enough, but function skills,

every day skills, that's what you need in life to get by. As a

headteacher, do you think it is right that we force pupils to resit

until they get the grade C in maths and English GCSE? I'm not here to

defend the DFE policy because someone from the DFE should be doing

that. But I think this standard in English and maths is the gateway as

we've discussed to so much in your future life and I therefore do

understand why the Government have tried to do something quite radical

to get more people meeting that standard because... 80% of those who

take the resits fail again. That's why this is such a timely discussion

because we've got Philip Hammond producing his Budget this week. It

is not too late Philip, dig into your pocket and put some resource

and money behind this so that we can properly resource children being

supported in trying to meet this. Would that make a difference, Scott.

Do you think we should scrap this policy? The GCSE was designed for

A-level in mind. It is on a preamble to A-level. There is a lot of

students that I teach, they have chosen a lot of vocational subjects.

I reiterated what Sophie said. A qualification that would focus more

on problem solving skills and English and maths and that what

employers require rather than the GCSE that focuses on English and

analytical skills and evaluation skills. A lot of the students I

teach don't tend to see those on relevant to their future career

aspirations. What do you think? Is it? I think particularly the new

GCSEs coming out we will be doing them next year, I think we need to

have a closer look at functional skills rather than the GCSEs as it

stands. You think this policy is failing. It is a waste of time. All

these pupils resiting and so many still continuing to fail? We support

English and maths. I think it's really important and as we've said,

English and maths is really important... But this policy should

be scrapped? But in terms of the policy, it gives no flexibility so

the condition of funding means we have to treat everybody the same.

There is no degree of flexibility or meeting individual learning styles.

So we've already said that actually, functional skills meets those needs

in many ways. It prepares you as it says on the tin, it prepares you for

what you're going to be doing in the future for employability, it is more

functional. So, we need to go back to the position where functional

skills and GCSE are an equivalent. The Department for Education say,

"We know school leavers who achieve maths and English increase your

chances of securing a good job and we are working with the post 16

sector to ensure that more students are mastering these important

skills. We developing options through reforming skills

qualifications in maths and English to make sure they deliver the

knowledge and skills that employers need and have credibility and

prestige in the jobs market." It sounds like they won't change the

policy, but we've got the parallel qualifications coming up. They are

looking at reforming functional skills and ensuring it meets the

needs of young people because I'm not sure the current GCSE does. So

analysing the language of whether for example, very interesting if you

want to go and study English literature at university. But not

necessarily going to help new terms of communication in you're going to

work in industry. That isn't relevant, is it? The point is,

rightly or wrongly, it is not the Government who is saying, you know,

it is employers who are saying in a future, I want, I am looking for

maths or English GCSE. Regardless of the content. That's the

qualification that they are looking for. It seems to me, we do need to

be straining every nerve that we can to help our kids have the best

future life chances. We know, we have been falling down the league

tables in maths, we are 27th in the world. Why? We're one of the most

developed countries. Everyone, all of us in education also know if you

want to improve standards and performance, you raise aspiration

and you have really high expectations. So it has got to be

right, but I would argue, specially with maths, I think we have a

culture in this country which sort of sets us up to fail from the

moment kids walk into reception class let alone by the time we get

to 16 plus and that's where the money has got to go in. It is not

oon an embarrassment for people to say I'm no good at maths, it is like

a badge of honour and I was the same actually! We have got to tackle

that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you all of you. Thank

you for coming on the proing. We heard about the stress of taking

the resits whether it is the first time or the fourth, we will talk to

a group of students who are preparing for their GCSEs and hear

from mentors who have tips on preparing and dealing with the

pressure. Police in Durham are planning

to give free heroin to addicts Durham Constabulary will be

the first force in the country to hand the drug out,

to long-term users twice a day Ron Hogg is the Durham Police

and Crime Commissioner and David Raynes is from

the National Drug Thank you for coming on the

programme. Ron Hogg first of all, how will this work? Yes, this is

going to be based on trials that have been run in Darlington,

Brighton and in London whereby individuals who are selected because

of their propensity to respond to this treatment will be given medical

grade heroin free of charge. It will then be embedded in a package of a

full treatment programme and full support programme to help them get

off the drug and back into a drug-free life. Is there any

evidence to suggest that's what happens? Where have you looked for

the evidence to show that giving addicts free heroin in the end weans

them off it? The trial I referred to was evaluated by King's College

London and showed for a particular group of addicts, 5% to 10%, this

was an effective way forward and did deliver in reducing crime, reducing

blood borne diseases and other viruses that addicts get. And there

is a body of evidence across the world which shows such treatments

encourage people back into recovery and do work. David, how do you

respond to that? If it works it has got to be worth a try, hasn't it?

Ron Hogg would say it works. The unfortunate fact is Ron Hogg and his

Chief Constable have got a fairly long history of making bizarre

attempts to change national drug policy and I would argue that it is

not a matter for police officers. The UK doesn't actually have to look

outside itself for experience of providing heroin. Since the 1920s,

we have provided heroin to some addicts for years and years and now,

until the mid-60s that was a sustained policy and any doctor

could prescribe, that was changed in the mid-60s because it was found not

to be working effectively while it coped with a number of casual users,

what it did not cope with is where users were using heroin as a

lifestyle choice. I'm critical of it. The trials that Ron talks about

were run by Professor Strang and I have been at conferences with him

and sat beside him and discussed it with him and he doesn't think it

applies to many addicts. Why are the police driving this? Is it

appropriate for police funding voted to them for one purpose ie policing

to be used for providing state heroin? State heroin... Ron Hogg?

The primary purpose of policing is to prevent crime. We are investing

money into a project that will help to reduce levels of crime in the

first instance and secondly it will help to address the drugs problem.

You are quite right we have a look at evidence in the UK and across the

world. In my mind, the evidence is compelling that this will make a

real difference. I would have more confidence if they were not so

enthusiastic to legalising decriminalised drugs. This agenda is

pushed by people who wanted decriminalised and legalise drugs

was it has not been effective. The Lancashire Police have a project

which uses police intelligence and co-operative working with the

support agencies to target user dealers. One problem is, a lot of

heroin addicts are dealers and they sustain their habit by dealing. The

head of the world drugs agency said that countries get the drugs problem

they deserve. I would argue that police constabularies get the drugs

problem may deserve. The approach Lancashire Police is far more

intelligent and cerebral than the approach of Durham Police. It is all

with good to hear from David. We actually do listen to him very

carefully. Obviously we will learn from wherever we can. We believe

this approach will deliver in time can start -- stabber read. -- Durham

Constabulary. Also many other crime prevention projects. We want a

cost-effective way of reducing offending and reoffending and

projecting the individual. What David is not saying is that the

Misuse Of Drugs Act has not worked. We need to do something radical and

different and that is why we are looking at this scheme within Durham

Constabulary. It is interesting to note that colleagues in Scott and

are looking at similar scheme in Glasgow. A couple of messages from

our viewers. Bravo, the Durham Chief Constable, for trying something

different. Another says, I have been using and have been clean. I

achieved it on my own. If I could have got free drugs, I would not

have stopped and have the life I have now. Thank you very much. Still

to come? Would you report suspicious behaviour to the police? British

security services have prevented 13 potential terror attacks in the UK

since 2013. We will talk more about this. I am Norman Smith at

Westminster with the latest on Vauxhall big government sources

cautiously optimistic that British plants can be saved.

With the News, here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom.

Government sources say they're "cautiously optimistic"

about the future of car production at Vauxhall.

It's after the French company that owns Peugeot and Citroen struck

a ?1.9 billion deal to buy General Motors' European

4,500 workers are employed by the company

The Unite union says its priority is to safeguard their jobs.

And Victoria will be getting more reaction to the takeover shortly.

Police say 13 potential terror attacks have been

The UK's most senior counter-terrorism police officer has

also revealed that more than five hundred investigations are being

He disclosed the figures as he launched an appeal that aims

to get members of the public to report any suspicious behaviour.

There has been international condemnation of North Korea,

after it launched four ballistic missiles into Japanese waters.

The missiles appear to have been launched from a remote military

Japan's Prime Minister described it as "an extremely dangerous action".

Pop group brass have cancelled all their reunion concerts. The brothers

were due to pay a full UK tour this summer after a break of 24 years.

The dates in Newcastle, Glasgow, Nottingham and Birmingham have been

scrapped due to unforeseen logistical circumstances.

That's a summary of the latest news, join me for BBC Newsroom

What do we think there's unforeseen logistical circumstances might be? I

would hate to comment. Possibly the same thing ran through your head as

well. I will leave it to you. I used to love Bros. In the day they were

all right, won't they? It appears Arsenal manager

Arsene Wenger dropped Alexis Sanchez to the bench for their match

with Liverpool after the player argued with his team mates and left

a training session early He warmed up before coming on at

half-time. It is claimed he argued with his team-mates and left a

training session early. And it's just announced that

all of the 2019 Women's World Cup will broadcast exclusively

across the BBC. England came third in 2015

at the tournament in Canada, after they beat Germany

in the play-off. Laura Muir had a weekend

to remember, with record-breaking gold medal performances in the 1500

and 3000 metres in the European Great Britain won ten medals in all,

and finished second After his defeat of David Haye

in the all-British heavyweight fight, Tony Bellew says that may

have been his last Bellew says he's not sure he wants

to put his body through that kind of punishment again amid suggestions

that there could be General Motors has agreed a deal -

worth almost ?2 billion - to sell Vauxhall to the French

company that owns The deal could affect thousands

of British jobs at the Vauxhall Workers there have faced years

of uncertainty about their future. Here is Norman. The stakes are

massively high. 4000 people are employed directly by Vauxhall. There

could be up to 20,000 people in the supply chain for the a lot of jobs.

At the moment all sides sounding incredibly positive. The French

owned bosses are saying they recognise Vauxhall is an iconic

brand and they want to keep it. The Government is saying they have

received assurances there will be no changes up to 2021 under the current

Vauxhall Astra model. The unions also sounding cautiously optimistic

up till then was be honest, the real wild card in all of this is Brexit.

The danger is not just the uncertainty but what impact that

might have on the company's calculations. They have around 24

car plants now. Most of the industry think that is too many. There will

have to be rationalisation. The question is, where will that happen?

If Brexit leads to us not only being outside the single market, but

outside the customs union as well, the fear is that could possibly

result in tariffs, trade barriers, increased regulation, additional

burdens, which may make Britain a less attractive place. Even more

important is the politics of all of this. Perjury is French owned

company and might lead to want to close French plants. Germany is the

biggest player in the EU. Does that mean that the British plants become

more vulnerable? This morning, Len McCluskey, the boss of the Unite

union, says it is critical the British government made sure it is

in the talks when the French and German government are also there. I

am asking our government to make certain they are at the table

because the French and German governments will be. Batting for our

British plants will do whatever the French governments and the German

government are offering in terms of incentives, we should also be

looking at that. Of course, the Government talk about an industrial

strategy and they now need to demonstrate it is more than just

words will do we have to make certain there is proper government

led commitment. Last time there was a doubt about the UK-based car

plant, Nissan in the north-east, Greg Clark managed to reassure them

that this might be harder because of the politics and the fact that the

French and the Germans will be fighting to keep car plants in the

country. Let's talk now to Justin Madders,

the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, and from one

of the Vauxhall Plant's Government sources cautiously

optimistic. How would you describe your mood? So far we have not heard

anything to cause us concern. There has been a commitment to honour the

existing production runs and it does not put us in a different position

as managers and owners of the company. The car business goes in

five or six year cycles in terms of production. There is an opportunity

for us to get around the table with Peugeot, the Government and the

unions to put a good deal forward. The combined company will have 24

factories and the boss is saying we need to increase profit margins and

effectively the plants in Britain presumably saying the rest of the

plants in Germany and elsewhere for the your future is in your hands.

The productive and you will be all right. We have every reason to be

confident. We have a very efficient plant. Managers have beaten off

pressures in the past. We have a very good story to tell in that

regard. They say they want to increase profit margins by 2% by

2020. That often involves cost-cutting and could mean jobs.

Every company wants to improve profit margins. The challenge is

there for all of the plants if we look back at our successes in the

past, we have shown we can put in a very good beard and if the company

wants to look at improving profit margins, one of the biggest selling

points for Vauxhall vehicles in this country is that they are built here.

What about you leaving the European Union question not what difference

will that make? It is certainly a complication. We must remember that

GM import to this country about the quarter of their production. It cuts

both ways. It is not in any one's interest for a Brexit deal to be one

imposing tariffs or any kind of input and on the cross-border

trading with cars. No one wants that. We do not know what will

happen. Thank you for coming on to the programme.

British security services have prevented 13 potential terrorist

attacks in the UK since June 20 13. The UK's 's senior counterterrorism

officer says there are also 500 live counterterror investigations at

anyone time was he is appealing to the public to report suspicious

activity, saying your role is absolutely vital. There is the

British reserve. It is a bit odd but I'm not going to trouble anybody. We

are trying to build up confidence. If your instinct says it is wrong,

please call us. Even if it is not right, no one will lock you away and

throw away the key just on a call. Sometimes that call gives us the

starting point for an operation with targets we did not know about. If

you have a concern about something you have seen or heard that could

identify a terrorist threat, report it. I am a bit concerned about this

ban that has parked up. It could be any thing that strikes you as an

usual. Do not worry, do not delay, just act. Call the police in

confidence. Information from the public has helped police in the

third of the high risk investigations. That speak to Peter

Powell who now advises companies on how to deal with the threat of

terrorism and a counterterrorism expert at the University of Central

Lancashire. Good morning to you both. Let me start with you. First

of all, Mark Rowley is asking for continued help from the public in

countering the threat on the public. If you are worried about a family

member be carrying radicalised. If it is used as the resorts, yes. The

way it had been implemented in the past, probably not so much that is

why you are seeing the relaunch of a different kind of forward facing,

public facing way of doing it. Yes. In terms of the help that members of

the public can give counterterrorist officers, Peter Powell, it is

invaluable from some of the research that has been released today. There

are three things to remember. A lot of people are probably listening to

this and saying if this is true, why have there not been more arrests as

to why have people not gone to court? There is a big difference

between intelligence and evidence. What Mark Rowley from Scotland Yard

is talking about is purely intelligence. That is seldom, if

ever, something that is good enough to secure conviction in the court.

The second point is this, is it the bank or the fear of the banks that

really occupies us? The third point is, is it the bank at all? For most

people it is a catastrophic cyber attack questionably we find all our

power is out the hospice., food is not coming to us. Petrol stations

pack up. All of this. The cyber attack is a lot worse than a bomb.

We still think in terms of the bomb. That is a fair point. Evan Lawrence,

against some facts today for the people who convert to Islam are four

times more likely to become terrorists than people who were born

Muslim and three quarters of terrorists are British. Home-grown

terrorism by far the biggest threat to this country than imported

terrorism. Absolutely. Do not forget, we have an increasing number

of the extreme right wing as well, that are conducting attacks,

typically those attacks are considered hate crimes are not

terrorism. There is some discrepancy with that. Home-grown terrorism, I

think is what we're going to be seeing a lot more of in the future

and one of the main challenges that the police and security services in

the UK have to figure out how to deal effectively and quickly. Again,

dealing with people who have converted to Islam quickly, there is

an example here from becoming a Muslim to a would-be terrorist, a

teenager took two months to plotting to behead the soldier and plotting

the murder of Lee Rigby? You have to figure out what does

that text mean. The converts seem to be doing so over the internet. There

is no kind of other side of what they are hearing from terrorist

recruiters and things like that. Peter Powell, a final thought. The

number of women involved is going up full. Yes, it is. We have to part

being politically correct sometimes. In 2005 there was a survey carried

out after the 7/7 bombings which discovered to the relief of many

that something like a divide percent of those following Islam would want

nothing to do with terrorism. That is irrelevant. It is 6% who did

support them for that that equates to 50,000 people in this country

actively supporting terrorism of the type we last saw in 2005.

There is no gender split. We are seeing more and more men and women

able to blow themselves up and or plunge this whole country or parts

of it into darkness through as I said before cyberterrorism. That's

the biggest hitter. Thank you very much for coming on the programme.

This morning we've been talking about GCSE exams and the number

of pupils having to resit Maths and English over and over again.

We know taking exams can be incredibly stressful -

whether it's the first time or the fourth.

New figures out today show almost 80% of 16 and 17-year-old students

across England are worried about failing their exams.

Research from the National Citizen Service also highlights that 70%

of them feel overwhelmed by their school work.

Now in a bid to tackle that stress, in particular GCSE anxiety,

a scheme called The Mind Set has been set up by the BBC where past

GCSE students support those about to take them.

They share things like their tips on revision and planning.

In a moment we will speak to some of the students taking part,

but first here's a short film from BBC Bitesize with some tips

Don't let people limit you because that's what holds you back. I tried

my hardest and I achieved more than they expected. Just try and remember

no matter how bad you think you're doing or if you're not going it

achieve what you want to achieve or what people are telling you should

achieve, at the end of the day, no matter the outcome, you haven't

failed. It is the best that you could achieve. Tell yourself it's

fine. Say your name, it's going to be OK. Believe in yourself. You can

always set targets and then you can aim higher, but at least you've got

your targets. For me it was like Cs and I would be like oh, I passed it.

GCSEs are just GCSEs. There is more to life. You come out of them and

you can do your A-levels or go on to college and do something different

and that's when you focus on what you love. You're not working for

anybody else. You're not doing it for your teachers or paur parents or

faur grandparents, even though they will be proud of you. You're doing

it for yourself. Compare yourself to others if you do it in a light

hearted way. The only person you should compare yourself to is

yourself in the past because that's the only true sense of progress you

can have. So how overwhelming

can your GCSEs be? Let's talk now to a group

of students who are currently preparing for their exams,

plus Angel Nkomo and James Ryan who completed their GCSEs last summer -

they're acting as mentors to share their tips on preparing

and dealing with the pressure. How stressed do you get? Sometimes

if I know we have an exam, we had mocks in January and we have mocks

next week. Sometimes I'm so stressed, I vomit. You are

physically sick? Yeah. I can't sleep. I just feel like in bad

moods. Almost depression, but I'm not depressed. I don't self-harm and

stuff, but it's like... Those are only the mocks? I don't know how

it's going to be like for my real exams. What about you Aaron? When I

wake up in the morning, I feel really stressed and I can't eat

anything. I have butterflies in my stopl auk and I feel really sick.

What about others? Yeah, I have the same problem. It is feeling pressure

on yourself to do well. You feel going into the exam you can see the

result. You can't see yourself actually doing the questions. It is

the fear of the unknown. Not knowing whether that hard work that you put

into it really paid off in the end. As you were saying before the

expectations of yourself from your parents and from your teachers that

want you to do well. Who puts the most pressure on you? Sometimes

myself. Sometimes it could be teachers. They will be saying, "We