22/03/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

This morning, exclusive access into the first ever school run

It's Everton Free School and it's set up for pupils who've been

I always thought that teachers hated every single kid in the school.

You're wearing an Everton badge and you're getting to play football. I'm

living the dream. We'll bring you that

full report shortly. Also on the programme,

memorial events are taking place today to mark the first anniversary

since the Brussels attacks which saw 32 people killed

and over 300 injured. We'll hear from some

of those who were injured. I was walking down the road and it

felt like a ghost explosion into my hip. It will hit me and it will take

me back to the moment of that explosion.

And we'll hear calls for a new law to be introduced to protect victims

of grooming who commit crimes whilst under the control of their abuser.

Throughout the programme we'll bring you the latest breaking news

and developing stories and, as always, really

Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

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School governors say the government should press ahead

with its new funding formula for schools in England,

but they argue there isn't enough money to fund it over all.

Their views were shared as part of a BBC survey of more than 4,000

members of the National Governors Association.

Drayton Park Primary School says it is already operating on very

tight financial margins, but it predicts its budget in real

terms by 2019 will be at least ?176,000 smaller.

A proposed new national funding formula in England will change

Ministers argue it will narrow historical inequalities

between different areas, but schools across the country are facing costs.

Cuts to funding mean cuts to our service so what we will see

is fewer members of staff, lower quality of service and things

that we currently do that we will have to decide

In a survey to the BBC, school governors who responded

and had a view on the proposed new formula were broadly in favour

of the principle, but many also expressed serious concerns

Some said they planned to cut back on staff and others,

that they were looking at ways of raising extra cash

including asking parents for voluntary contributions

Everybody pretty much agrees that the principle

of the formula is right, the elements are right

but the problem is there isn't enough money in the formula.

The Government says funding is at record levels and the proposed

formula is a fairer way to help all schools.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the changes would correct clear

in equities in funding levels between local authorities

but such radical reform would create winners and losers.

Let's talk to our education editor Branwen Jeffreys. The funding issue

and the cap are the same? Parents will have been getting letters from

their schools telling about the difficult decisions ahead. Schools

are mini employers and all their bills, national insurance, pay and

pensions they're going up and the money is not keeping up with that.

So within a few years, they will have had 8% less per pupil to spend.

That's a big hole to fill in your budget which is why some parents

will be getting begging letters from their schools saying, "Can you help

us out a bit here?" The Government is trying to make things, it says,

fairer, clearer and more transparent, get rid of an old

system that's a mishmash of local arrangements and have a nice, simple

clear way, but the problem is when there is not a lot of money in the

system, taking it away from one area like the inner cities and places

like Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and London, to give a bit more to

places like Somerset, Lincolnshire, some of the big rural counties. No

one feels like a winner at the end of this process. So this morning,

the national governors association and a lot of governors we have

within hearing from are saying we like the idea of a formula, please

don't throw that away as an idea. But the problem is, there is not a

lot of money in the system and we're really feeling the pain and they're

the ones that have to make school budgets balance. What kind of

difficult decisions are schools having to make then? The 4,000

governors who got in touch told us about losing teaching assistants in

the classroom, teachers, getting rid of extra support staff, inner city

schools have counsellors, but they are looking at practical things. We

found a school being sponsored by a paint company and another one hiring

a fund-raiser on commission to get extra money into the schools. They

are trying to tap up local businesses. Anything they can do to

get extra money and one little school told us, we haven't had a

caretaker for years, we're relying on parents to do our basic repairs

for us. Thank you very much, Branwen.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Princess Anne has told the BBC that she believes gene technology

has important benefits to offer in terms of providing food.

The Queen's daughter is a working farmer and patron of nearly 50

In an interview with Farming Today, she said that it would not be

Today marks the first anniversary of the Brussels bombings

which claimed the lives of 32 people and injured hundreds more.

Two suicide bombs were detonated inside Zaventem Airport and an hour

later a third bomb exploded in the Maelbeek metro station.

Today, three memorial events will take place around the city

Two new jails are to be built in south Wales and Yorkshire as part

of a ?1.3 billion government pledge to create 10,000 modern

Two sites - one in Port Talbot and the other in Full Sutton near York -

have been earmarked, and two existing jails in Kent

Meanwhile, details of plans to close a number of older prisons

Detectives have launched a murder investigation following a shooting

in east London. A nineteen year old man died from gunshot injuries

following a shooting in Ilford last night. Paramedics found the man

unconscious on Ilford Lane, at the junction with Bedford Road.

Everton Free School, the first school to be run

by a Premier League football club has opened its doors to allow

The school takes in teenagers who have not been able to stay

in mainstream education and in many cases would end up in

The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, says the government

is working with the aviation industry to try to minimise

the impact of new restrictions on cabin baggage.

Passengers flying to the UK from six countries in the Middle East have

been banned from carrying large electronic devices including laptop

computers and tablets after intelligence suggested

terrorist groups were actively targeting airlines.

If you have any questions on the new restrictions, you can put

them to the travel expert, Simon Calder on the BBC Newsroom

Get in touch by texting 61124 or on social media

Iraqi forces are entering what could be the final phase

of their operation to reclaim Mosul, which has been an Islamic State

The government there says the battle for west Mosul,

which has been going on for three months, has caused more than 180,000

Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has sent this report.

The fight for West Mosul goes on and Iraqi forces,

assisted by American air power and by Special Forces as well,

have been advancing into the city and they are winning their battle

against the Jihadists of so-called Islamic State.

They've stalled a little since they reached the old city

but this battle is only going in one direction.

They are going to win it and Mosul will be free from the jihadist

It is not the end of the fight against IS.

They still hold large amounts of territory,

not to mention the attitudes of the Sunni Muslim community.

The rise of Islamic State happened because they capitalised

If Iraq is to have any hope of a decent future then the Sunnis

need to feel safe and secure, otherwise some other version

of the Jihadists may well emerge and capitalise once again

Their fear is that with a majority Shia

government in Baghdad they will

The Northern Ireland Assembly will reconvene today for a special

sitting to allow politicians to reflect on the life

Last night, thousands of people gathered at a candlelit vigil

in west Belfast for the former Deputy First Minister who died

Thames Water is likely to receive a huge fine this morning

for polluting the River Thames with nearly one and a half

billion litres of raw sewage in 2013 and 2014.

The judge hearing the case at Aylesbury Crown Court said

the company had harmed local fishing businesses, and farms.

Dads who want to be more involved in looking after their children

worry that asking for flexible hours might damage their careers,

the chair of the Women and Equalities Committee says.

Launching an inquiry, the Conservative MP Maria Miller says

requesting flexible hours can even lead to employers questioning

The committee's investigation will look at how much support

fathers receive at work and aims to find out whether there

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.

In a few minutes time we will take you inside Everton Free School. It

is the first time they will have allowed the TV cameras into their

school. It is really interesting. Their uniform involves wearing the

Everton badge so we'll bring you that in the next few minutes. Get in

touch with us this morning. Let's get some sport

with Katherine Downes. Katherine, England and Scotland

both have international friendlies this evening,

but you can tell us about another Good morning.

England take on the world champions Germany. So a big first test for

Gareth Southgate as he takes full control of the team for the first

time since being the caretaker-manager from back in

November. All part of the home nations push for World Cup

qualification for the next World Cup in Russia, but a big few days for

another less high-profile team hoping to qualify for their own

World Cup, the Syrian women's team are about to play four games in

eight days. Since the fighting started in Syria, there hasn't been

an international match for the Syrian women's team for six years.

So Richard Conway has been out to Syria to see how their preparations

are going. It is great to see that women's

football is restarting in Syria. Richard's trip is part of our State

of Sport Week. Every day this week, you can read more from Richard's

trip to Syria on the BBC Sport website. In the next hour we will be

telling you the stories as well about how football has brought back

hope and also some asemblance of normality to thousands of refugees

who have been displaced by the fighting in Syria. But now, it is

back to you. Thank you very much. And to Richard

Conway in Syria. This morning, an exclusive

insight into life inside the first ever school run

by a Premier League football club. Everton Free School takes

in teenagers who have not been able to stay in mainstream education

and in many cases would end up The school has 120 students

aged between 14 and 16, Kids with behavioural problems,

gang members, persistent truants. With the help of Everton Football

Club, teachers say they're turning lives around,

but is it actually getting results? For the first time ever,

they've opened their doors to the TV cameras, and our reporter

James Longman has been there. He was kicking everything,

punching everything, hysterical. I never used to do

nothing in school. The way teachers came

across and people came across with me, I just thought thought that they

didn't like me, so I began to not Some of them missed

years of education. All of them in danger

of vanishing from the But these pupils in

Liverpool have found And it's all thanks

to their local football club. These are going to be

young men and women in a couple of years and if we can

give them a decent foothold to get As a fan, it makes you proud to wear

your team on your chest every day. The question is, does Everton

really make a difference? Tell me what it was like before,

this routine in the It was very very different

because Liam wasn't happy It was very anxious to me as well,

as a parent, knowing I was having to go to work all day

and my son was somewhere where he Liam has attention deficit

disorder and autism. It was just hard

to get the work done, because I would always

need the one-on-one. It would just be so hard

to complete the task. Like, "Today is he going

to get hit at break time? Are they going to be

waiting for him after Through all the time he was getting

bullied, he was losing so He got his tooth

knocked out one day. I think that was towards

the end, when I was Liam moved to a second

mainstream school, but The teacher called me

in and said, "He is going to need something

more one-to-one." They recommended

Everton Free School. Everton Free School was set up

in 2012 with the express intention of engaging

young people who had fallen out of education,

for a multitude of reasons. Our curriculum at

Everton Free School focuses very much on English, maths

and sciences as the core GCSEs. We then do a range

of subjects that we think will support them in getting

into further education, into work This is all paid for

by the Government. Children often sent here

by mainstream schools who It is an alternative

to a pupil-referral unit, run as a free school,

independent of the National Some of our young people have

extremely difficult home lives, kicked out of their

previous schools. Some of our young people,

unfortunately, have become mixed up Some of them might

actually be in care. I suppose we are

a lifeboat for them. Quite often, we are

a last-chance saloon. Everton Free School takes

on lots of students who have It was definitely without a doubt

the hardest decision The thought of throwing

my child kind of from Am I putting them

with all these children who have been excluded from school,

for whatever reason? So I was thinking,

"Am I doing the best thing It is normal education,

not a football school, but links with a Premier League

club bring big benefits. We were practising our calculator

work last week in class. You have brought them over today

to a box at Everton. Some of them are Everton fans,

so it means the world It helps to get them

into school, get them engaged Just a better environment

than a mainstream What did you not enjoy

about your last school? There were too many

people in the classes. I couldn't get my

head down and learn But in Everton Free School I just

feel like they are teaching for me to learn and I have learned

so many more things than what I did A lot of parents might

be watching this and thinking, "I would

love my kids to go thinking, "I would love my kids

to go to school with four, five Some of them are coming off maybe

five, 10% attendance in their previous school, which is

maybe one day a month. Our main aim is to get them back

up to the 80s and 90s. I suppose it is kind

of the idea that if an organisation like Everton

cares about their education, This is the first school based

through a football club and I think there are something

like 17 of the other Premier League clubs that

are doing their own thing That's about three times

what a mainstream place would be. Is it fair that these

kids, who have acted up perhaps in the past, are somehow

being rewarded for that now? We work closely with

Merseyside Police. Young people who are not

engaged in their education, there is a high correlation

between those young people who end up in

the criminal justice system. In a sense, by engaging

them in their education, that has got to

beneficial to everybody. I would rather go over Stanley Park

and sit in Liverpool's You can go over and sit

in the box and have a chill, The whole point of it is to get

you out of the classroom. When we come here and when you see

these cranes, at some point we will develop partnerships

with employers. The first module is the history

of transportation in Chloe is 15 and has

behavioural problems. And you got kicked

out of that school? I never used to do

nothing in school. I used to argue with

all the teachers. In Liverpool, it's violent but not

as violent as it was in Manchester. When you say it is

violent, what is that? People used to go

around carrying knives. If you did have a fight,

they would stab them. And here, it is not

like that so much? The students are pretty

shy about their past. But gangs are clearly

a part of life for some. I've got members of

my family who are in a gang, but you keep yourself out

of it, just get your head down. It is pointless,

really, I think myself. You are just fighting against people

who are either going to try to stab And that is exactly

what the gang is like. He has seen domestic

violence in the past and had The worst time in my life

was when he was quite suicidal. There was this evening

and he just completely He was kicking everything,

punching everything. I was hysterical, crying,

because I did not know what I said to him, "I will have to take

you to Alder Hey Hospital, I tried to explain to him why,

"I am really worried about you, I He said, "Yeah, I want

to go to hospital." They referred him to

child psychologist. And that is why when

Everton Free School came up, it was like,

"This is an option." Every term there is a classroom

visit from an Everton player. Today it is captain

Phil Jagielka, who is We have got the Bunsen

burners going, have we? It doesn't want to go

red, that's why. A few of them want to speak to you,

a few of them want to give you a A couple of Liverpool

fans in here, so... They refuse to write

the word "blue" down, Oh, they didn't want

to write the colour blue? I would not say I

loved it and enjoyed it, but it was something

I understood was part and parcel of I ended up with a BTEC

sports science. I have not had to use it yet,

but it is something, you know, I think it is easy to throw

the Scouse, the vibe, and stuff like that out, but I have

been here a long time now and I have met some

fantastic characters, some great If you give these kids a chance

to open up and talk, more often than not, you

have had a great day. These are going to be

young men and women in a couple of years

so if we can give them a decent foothold to get there,

like you say, with the stuff they do around here,

hats off to the club. You get the sense the football

club, they can pay for things that the school would not

otherwise be able to get. They kind of give

the school a brand. All the kids can walk

around with a badge on Most importantly, for me,

it is a massive symbol of success and, for a lot of these

kids, that is probably the most Teachers say they

are getting results. Almost a quarter of

students here get five or That is far higher than the national

average for pupils like these. I had a good chat to

Liam and said, "Do you want to go down the route of being

in jail at 16 years of age and having no life ahead of you,

or do you want to follow the dream?" "I have a dream that one

day this nation will "I have a dream that one day

everybody shall be..." From the beginning they

said to him, what is And they said, "We will support

you and get you to that." "I have a dream that

one day, even the state He has always had the same dream,

and that is to be a football On a Monday afternoon,

I come up here and coach these. Just people who came

from other places. You know, just really

coach them in footy. And they learn the English

language, as well. It is great the school

trusts me and they have the You know, if they can trust you,

you can trust them, Liam learns respect

and responsibility. What do you like most

about the school? They all cooperate with

you and talk to you fine. You cannot say a bad

thing about them, really. Did you ever think that

you would be saying I always thought that

teachers just hated every If the schools were connected

with a team that is as successful as them, I can

see that will succeed. I know your mum fought

hard to get you here. What is your relationship

like with her? I have got a real good

relationship with my If you think where

you were a few years ago and where you are now, doing

this, did you think you would be And you are wearing an Everton badge

and you are going to Jonathan says, this should be

applauded and is a great example. Liz says, as a supporter of

Liverpool, I congratulate Everton, a brilliant initiative. James says, I

see lots of Everton kids in my area, they always have a smile on their

faces. A lot of people make this point, the school, the aid that

people and you get in, it is about rewarding the bad kids? Steve says,

we are rewarding bad behaviour. One person says, Everton are respecting

students, and issue inherent to the current system.

After 10am we'll speak to a former pupil who's gone

on to work at the club, and we'll hear from Spurs

and Newcastle about work they're doing in schools.

We'll be live in Brussels as the city marks the first

anniversary of the attacks at the airport and

A victim of a child grooming gang waves her right to anonymity to tell

us why she wants a pardon for victims who committed crimes whilst

under the control of abusers. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. School governors say

the government should press ahead with its new funding formula

for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

money to fund it overall. Their views were shared as part

of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

Association. Princess Anne has told the BBC

that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

she said that it would not be Today marks the first anniversary

of the Brussels bombings which claimed the lives of 32

people, and injured hundreds more. Two suicide bombs were detonated

inside Zaventem Airport and an hour later a third bomb exploded

in the Maelbeek metro station. Today, three memorial events

will take place around the city Two new jails are to be built

in south Wales and Yorkshire as part of a ?1.3 billion government pledge

to create 10,000 modern Two sites, one in Port Talbot

and the other in Full Sutton near York, have been earmarked,

and two existing jails in Kent Meanwhile, details of plans to close

a number of older prisons The Scottish Parliament

will vote today on a call by the First Minister,

Nicola Sturgeon, for a second The motion, which is likely to be

passed after a second day of debate, will give the Scottish Government

a mandate to open negotiations with Yesterday, Ms Sturgeon told Holyrood

it would be "unfair and utterly unsustainable" for Westminster

to block her request. That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Here's some sport now

with Katherine Downes. The former Liverpool captain

and coach Ronnie Moran has Along with Bill Shankly

and Bob Paisley, he was part He served twice as caretaker

manager, leading the team out England manager Gareth Southgate

says his side need to "lose They face world champions Germany

in a friendly this evening, in what's Southgate's first game

in permanent charge of the side. Scotland face Canada this

evening at Easter Road. It's thought manager Gordon Strachan

will field an experimental line-up, ahead of their crucial World Cup

qualifer against Slovenia on Sunday. England head coach Eddie Jones says

Warren Gatland should pick four captains for the upcoming Lions tour

to New Zealand this summer. Jones believes picking one from each

nation will help Gatland choose the best candidate once

the warm-up matches are over. Los Angeles and Paris have said

they only want to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,

not the ones in 2028 The International Olympic Committee

has suggested whichever city loses its bid for 2024,

should be awarded the Games in 2028, but both cities have said that's

not an option. Alan on Facebook regarding the

Everton film and the fact that they are the first Premier League club to

run a school. "Not the richest football club, but certainly the

richest in terms of caring for people." Says Alan on Facebook. "Not

just about making millions, giving back to the community and that's why

I love this club." Clare says on Twitter, "So proud to see what the

school has become and have loved being part of the journey."

32 people died and 340 people were injured in co-ordinated attacks

in Brussels last year and this morning memorial events are taking

place across Belgium to mark the first anniversary

They'll be attended by the Belgian king and queen and survivors.

We'll speak to our correspondent who has been at one of the events

in a moment, but first you may remember this image

of Sebastien Bellin, a 38-year-old basketball player

who was seriously injured at Brussels Airport.

This is his road to recovery, one year on.

I had eight surgeries since the attack.

I most of all I have been able to walk again.

Which was a challenge, you know, from being a professional basketball

player and being so active, to almost starting from zero.

Having to learn to walk, having to learn to just be

I remember speaking to you and you talked about what was going through

your head. All this time on given your way of thinking, how that's

changed you, your philosophy of life before the attack and your

philosophy of life afterwards. When something like this happens

to you and you overcome it, it is a little bit like life giving

you a little wink, you know, about, this is hey, what you are doing,

the way you think, your approach And one of those things

is there is no longer any I don't have the notion of fear

and that's extremely liberating. Some of the people injured were

taken to the back of the airport where they wouldn't get medical

attention immediately. You said, "Take me to the front whatever

happens." When I was in the back of the

airport, they said no, everybody has to stay here. Well, I was the only

one willing to go forward. If you are the only one, they have no

choice. I said, I'll risk it, I need to get to the ambulance. I said no,

push me to the front. If I had been so focussed on dying, I would have

missed maybe the scar of that was to my right that you used as a

tourniquet. I would have missed the suitcase that was to my left that I

asked people around me, to raise my leg up to stop the flow of blood. I

wouldn't have noticed a cart in the distance that I asked to bring over

so they could put me on to push me around instead of people carrying a

big two meters five guy, 110 kilos, it wouldn't have been a very easy

thing to do, but on a cart it changed the outcome.

How are you thinking about the moment of marking the Memorial?

I've been back to Brussels airport several times.

Sometimes I fly out late at night and I go there.

I have taken 9:15pm, 9:30pm flights at night

and I will go earlier, like two hours before

and just stand in the spot where the picture was taken,

or where I first landed after the explosion.

I will just collect myself, you know.

You are standing in the same place where you were lying down?

Sometimes I have a moment to myself where I find energy in that place.

I find the strength to continue building myself back up to be even

One thing that I've heard survivors talk about before is this phantom

I know from talking to you you've talked about how you have sensed,

felt the wave of the blast in your hip.

Still now, I'll be walking down the road and I'll just feel

like a ghost explosion into my hip, especially my hip area

It'll take me back to that moment of the explosion

and because an explosion is, my goodness, the powerful, you know,

I was 15 metres away from the second explosion and so the power of that

I'm interested to know whether that's put an extra pressure

on you in some ways of helping them cope and whether you've,

how you've conveyed what happened and whether you've wanted to think

about giving them so much to protect them and how you make that journey

There are very visible ways for kids to see me make progress every day

That's a great message to say hey, you're worst-case scenario,

You can overcome it, and come out even more

appreciative of life, with even more qualities

Am I right to say that you're still seeking some answers,

some kind of redress from the Belgian government,

from American Airlines as well and looking at potential legal

You have two hit hard and say listen, guys,

these are people's lives you're talking about.

I know the pain and suffering my family went through,

I want this to be preventable as much as possible,

The king and queen of Belgium are at the station. You can see them there.

They are meeting victims. Those who were injured and also the emergency

services. There was an attack here an hour after the attack at Brussels

Airport and the king and the Queen are unveiling a memorial here for

the victims in the next few minutes. So you can see the king and queen at

the station. An hour after the attack at Brussels Airport an

explosion took place nearby here killing 16 people.

In the next few minutes they will unveil a memorial there for the

victims. This image of Nidhi Chaphekar

also became iconic. She's a flight attendant

who was pictured looking dazed My crew member was behind.

He told me, just wait. Then people started

rushing towards us. We didn't know what was

actually happening. It was a very...you say that a sight

which I can't forget till this day. Then I sensed and I took a left turn

and the moment I took a few more steps and there was a second bomb

blast and I flew from one place to the other and the moment I landed

and while I was collapsing behind, I told myself, I said, Oh, Nidhi,

it was a bomb blast. While I was on the ground,

my back of the mind, my subconscious was asking me

to wake up, to get up because they said that my kids

are having exams and the news would reach to them and how

would they react, you know? And you are fine, you are OK.

Come on. And with fear I opened my eyes

because I had that fear that if I would move maybe there are more and

they would kill us. It was hard to see anything because it was smoke

all over. With great heart, you know, I managed to sit, but what I

saw, I cannot describe and my heart started sinking. I'm looking at

people. Those who were injured, but they were not tabling. They were not

-- talking. They were not moving. Then I said what to do. I wanted to

drag, but the pieces were sticking in my hands and piercing as needles

so it wasn't possible. Then I looked at my legs and I said, "Oh my god,

they are badly injured." And I was unable to lift them. Then I saw a

soldier. I heard a noise of their shoes and then I saw and I waved,

hello, help, like that. He said, "Lady, I'll be right back. I'll send

someone. OK. I have to take position." And within no time either

the same one because they all lookalike and I can't remember, you

know, he came and he gave me his hand and I said, "I'm unable to get

up." With his help he made me sit on the chair and then a few minutes

later I was put on a stretcher later o they took me out.

And that photograph of you in that moment was seen around the world.

What do you think now when, do you look back at that photograph?

Does it stir up certain emotions for you?

Sometimes when I feel weak, I look at that picture and I say,

Nidhi, you've crossed, you've come here.

People say that that picture was a picture of, you know,

a symbol of the bomb blast of Brussels, you say, but I say this

It is a picture for me which generated that

courage and I will continue and that is a picture for courage.

That is a picture where I feel that for those nine hours where my family

and my friends could not find me, where I was exactly,

that picture gave them hope and courage to believe

So I looked up to that picture sometimes, yes.

I may not be able to hold my emotions. The feeling of those who

are no more with us, but their memories will always remain with us.

It will be a mixed feeling. Some more messages about the Everton

free school. Stephen says, as a retired pupil referral unit teacher,

the unit being a reward is nonsense. Most of these children have troubled

backgrounds, which you would not wish on anyone. Ralph says, the

item, Liverpool have helped children through you -- four years, but it is

funded by the club, and not paid for by taxpayers. James says, good item

on Everton, as a supporter I am proud of what they do for the people

of Liverpool. One downside, you showed the wrong about in the

studio. It will not happen again! One person says, if all schools had

ten pupils per class, teachers in state schools would be less frazzled

and children would do better. Keep them coming in, get in touch in the

usual ways. Now, best friends in Canada and

their legal battle. Natasha and Linda are platonic best friends who

fought a two-year legal battle to be officially recognised as co-parents

to Natasha's disabled son. It is the first time in Canadian history that

two people who have never been in a romantic relationship have been

legally recognised as parents. My name is that Usher, I am his

mother. And I have his mother as well. We are very good friends. We

decided to raise him together. Since he turned out to have

disabilities, Natasha needed more help than she thought, I had the

appetite to help, she had the need, I was over here a lot. We were very

happy, parenting together. We want relationships for each

other. We are very excited and open to the possibility of the family

growing. Whoever comes in to our family, we want them to know that

they come with whoever the romantic partner is, the other parent and

Elaan. The family law cases are full of parents who do not want to take

responsibility, so when you have somebody who does, the legal and

societal infrastructure should support that.

From Canada to Thailand, a group of blind children have cried funded

their own orchestra. The group, who started without money or

instruments, received donations from all over the country and play

concerts at an 11th century. Next this morning, a victim

of a child-grooming gang in Rotherham has waived her right

to anonymity to tell this programme why she wants a pardon for victims

who committed crimes while under Sammy Woodhouse was just 14 years

old when she was targeted by a British Pakistani man called

Arshid Hussain. He abused her on an

almost-daily basis. Last year he was jailed for 35 years

after being convicted of 23 offences Ms Woodhouse, who's spoken to us

before under the pseudonym Jessica, committed several offences whilst

he was abusing her. She's calling for Sammy's

Law to be introduced. She's also suing police

and the local authority for the shocking failures

to protect her. Sammy Woodhouse is now 31

and we can talk to her. Some of the story she will tell

us may be upsetting, you may not want young children

to hear it. How are you? I am all right, thank

you. Tell us a bit about what happened to you aged 14. I grew up

in a good family in Rotherham. The youngest of three daughters my were

married. My passion as a child, I was a dancer, that is all I wanted

to do, I went around the country competing Tom winning medals, that

was my dream. Just after my 14th birthday, I was at some shops and I

met him. I came in contact with him on a daily basis, my parents found

out straightaway, they were not happy, they reported it to the

police. The police said because I would not make a statement, there

was nothing they could do and I was consenting to my own abuse. I was

going missing for days, weeks, sometimes months. I was pregnant at

14 and again at 15. My parents put me into care, hoping they could keep

me safe, but that backfired. The authorities said as long as I met

him at the top of the street, and I was back by 10pm and I went to

school, he could have access to me. Which is absolutely extraordinary.

It is. I have got copies of my record, the negligence of it is

unbelievable. I was caught on a daily basis in his car, I was caught

half naked in bed with him. I had a trench and in my bag that he gave

me, I was arrested for it. On that occasion when you were found in his

bed with half your close missing, you were treated at the perpetrator?

Yes, I was arrested, he was not even question. I was never treated as a

victim, I was always treated as an equal, as his mistress. And as part

of his criminal gang. I was not just being groomed for sex, it was for

crime as well, which was clever, because I was the one getting in

trouble, and it is something that paedophiles do to prevent us from

coming forward. I remember he said, if I go down, I am taking do with

me. How did he groom you? It is like brainwashing, very instant. He gave

me attention that nobody else could have given me, different attention

from parents and friends, I was bubbly, strong personality. He made

me feel good about myself, he built up my self-esteem, he told me I was

amazing at everything, he made me feel very confident. It was the nice

things he bought me. He was like Prince Charming. At 14 I had met my

Prince Charming. He groom you to accuse you, to commit crime, what

sort of things did you do? The one I have just told you about, that is on

my record now, possessing a dangerous weapon. That is going

against me. He had me doing a lot of things which are not on my record.

There was one occasion where he put me halfway through a window of a

drug dealer's house, he wanted me to open the door so he could rob the

drug dealer. The light came on, I came out of the window and ran off,

so the burglary was not committed, but in the eyes of the law that is

burglary. He was teaching me how to drive, he wanted me to be his

getaway driver for when he did robberies. There was a long list of

things. Explain why you feel that those things that you did should be

pardoned, effectively, so they not on your record, so they do not

impede you trying to get a job. They were committed whilst I was being

groomed. My abuser has been sentenced to 35 years before the

sexual nature that he did. I was groomed to commit crime, that is not

my fault as a child. I am a success story, because I am now working, I

am self-employed, I travel around the country, speaking to

professionals about my experience, so I have changed the negative into

a positive, but there are lots of people that cannot get work. The

reason I am doing this is to get the message out to survivors, you can

come forward, get justice and not be prosecuted. A lot of people are

scared to come forward. I am not asking for everyone's record to be

wiped, we have to look at it properly and it has to be done on

individual circumstance. I was a perfect child, I was going around

the country competing and was not involved in any crime until I met

him. The moment I did, I got a criminal record. I am not a danger

to people now, I have not been involved in crime for a long time,

and it is blaming me as a victim. Thank you for talking to us.

The latest news and sport. First, weather.

Some of us had some snow this morning, in northern England and

crossing into south-west England and Wales. But now for most of us it is

rain. This is a picture from earlier, I love it. We have a couple

of centimetres of snow. In the Highlands, we have blue skies.

Recent snow in the hills, and it is quite sunny. The north of the

country is prone to wintry showers. This rain that has piled up from the

south, depositing snow across the north of England, but increasingly

you will see that the snow level will rise as temperatures rise. We

have the rain moving from the West towards the east, eradicating the

bright start some of us had, and it is quite windy. Brighter skies

across Scotland and Northern Ireland. After the rain, it will

brighten up across south-west England, but watch out for showers,

some of which will be heavy. Windy across the south coast. Then we run

into the other end of the rain. Still one or two showers across

parts of southern Scotland, some of those could have some sleep in them.

One or two wintry showers across the north of Scotland, but dry weather

with sunshine in between. Western parts of Northern Ireland hang on to

the sunshine. For Wales, Pembrokeshire, you have sunshine,

but we have the rain extending across northern and eastern Wales.

Through this evening and overnight, we still have a great big arc of

rain. We might see some sleet coming out of that. Then it starts to pull

over towards the west, and it will head south. A lot of dry weather

around, and it will be cold. Tomorrow, we start off with an arm

of rain, and it will critically to push into Wales, south-west England,

the Channel Islands, gusty wind around it, coming from a cold

direction. Behind it, it brightens up quickly. The sun will come out

across the Midlands, Wales, Norfolk, into northern -- northern England,

Scotland and Northern Ireland. Look how the temperatures are responding

in the sunshine. It is still fresh in the north. It will feel quite

cool. So I looked up to that

picture sometimes, yes. Raez High pressure establishes

itself across the UK and we have a nagging easterly wind which will

drag in cloud at times across the south and it will feel cooler here.

Hello. It's 10am.

It's Wednesday. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

This morning, exclusive access into the first ever school set up

It's Everton Free School and it's set up for pupils who've been kicked

If you give these kids a chance to open up and talk, more often than

not, you know, you have had a great day. I always thought that teachers

just hated every single kid in the school.

Thames Water is expected to receive a record fine this morning

for polluting the River Thames with nearly 1.5 billion litres

We'll get all the latest from the court.

Selling land and asking parents for more cash and getting rid of

teaching assistants. Just some of the ideas being considered by school

governors as they try to balance their budgets as a new funding

formula is introduced in England. We'll speak to three governors in

the next hour. Joanna is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary School governors say

the Government should press ahead with its new funding formula

for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

money to fund it over all. Their views were shared as part

of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

Association. Drayton Park Primary School says

it is already operating on very tight financial margins,

but it predicts its budget in real terms by 2019 will be

at least ?176,000 smaller. A proposed new national funding

formula in England will change Ministers argue it will narrow

historical inequalities between different areas,

but schools across the country Cuts to funding mean cuts

to our service so what we will see is fewer members of staff,

lower quality of service and things that we currently do

that we will have to decide In a survey to the BBC,

school governors who responded and had a view on the proposed

new formula were broadly in favour of the principle,

but many also expressed serious concerns about the financial

pressures ahead. Some said they planned to cut back

on staff and others, that they were looking at ways

of raising extra cash including asking parents

for voluntary contributions Everybody pretty much

agrees that the principle of the formula is right,

the elements are right but the problem is there isn't

enough money in the formula. The Government says funding

is at record levels and the proposed formula is a fairer way

to help all schools. The Institute for Fiscal Studies

says the changes would correct clear in equities in funding levels

between local authorities, but such radical reform would create

winners and losers. Princess Anne has told the BBC

that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

she said that it would not be Today marks the first anniversary

of the Brussels bombings which claimed the lives of 32 people

and injured hundreds more. Two suicide bombs were detonated

inside Zaventem Airport and an hour later a third bomb exploded

in the Maelbeek metro station. Today, three memorial events

will take place around the city Two new jails are to be built

in south Wales and Yorkshire as part of a ?1.3 billion government pledge

to create 10,000 modern Two sites, one in Port Talbot and

the other in Full Sutton near York, have been earmarked,

and two existing jails in Kent Meanwhile, details of plans to close

a number of older prisons Everton Free School,

the first school to be run by a Premier League football club

has opened its doors to allow The school takes in teenagers

who have not been able to stay in mainstream education and in many

cases would end up in The Transport Secretary,

Chris Grayling, says the Government is working with the aviation

industry to try to minimise the impact of new restrictions

on cabin baggage. Passengers flying to the UK from six

countries in the Middle East have been banned from carrying large

electronic devices including laptop computers and tablets

after intelligence suggested terrorist groups were actively

targeting airlines. If you have any questions

on the new restrictions, you can put them to the travel

expert, Simon Calder on the BBC You can Text 61124 or

e-mail [email protected] Thames Water is likely to receive

a huge fine this morning for polluting the River Thames

with nearly one and a half billion litres of raw

sewage in 2013 and 2014. The judge hearing the case

at Aylesbury Crown Court said the company had harmed local fishing

businesses, and farms. Thames Water is likely to receive

a huge fine this morning Dads who want to be more involved

in looking after their children worry that asking for flexible hours

might damage their careers, the chair of the Women

and Equalities Committee says. Launching an inquiry,

the Conservative MP Maria Miller says requesting flexible hours can

even lead to employers questioning the chair of the Women

and Equalities Committee says. fathers receive at work and aims

to find out whether there That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Thanks for your comments. Darren

says, "Thank you for a programme full of beautiful stories today. It

is good to see the film about the free school." Joan says, "You

mentioned the cost of mainstream costs versus the Everton free

school. It would be useful to know the costs of people being in a PRU

which comes out of the mainstream school's budget. My understanding

that the costs are similar to the Everton free school budget. Another

viewer says, "Great respect to Everton football club. I think the

Government should take an example from them on how to run a school in

order to better the younger generation. Generation rather than

stereotyping them as problem children because they are the future

with lots of potential." Charlie "That's a good idea, but they

quantity to make it, so it is good to get them reintroduced back into

school." Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use #Victoria Live and if you text,

you will be charged Now the sport.

The children are the few fewer and they need some kind of compassion.

All this week, BBC Sport is looking at the State of Sport.

Our correspondent Richard Conway has been to Syria to look at football

on the front line and as part of his trip he travelled

to the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.

The camp houses 80,000 Syrian refugees and the children have

Most of the kids saw the war. It was difficult to watch the killing. So

when they came here, it was difficult for them to leave their

caravan, but they adopted with the situation. It was first from the

boys and when they saw some girls were interested we started to work

with them. They are so happy now. REPORTER: How old are you? 13. And

what do you like about coming here to play football? Do you like it?

Yes. What do you like about it? What is it like? Why do you enjoy coming

here? Because I like the football. You

like the football. Are you good at football? Yeah.

You can find out more about Richard's visit on the BBC

I'll be back with more sport at around 10.30am.

They say it's a "last chance saloon" for teenagers

who are at risk of falling out of education altogether.

It's the first school ever run by a Premier League football club.

Pupils at Everton Free School have been kicked out of mainstream

There are truants, children with behavioural issues,

some are in care, many have had family traumas.

The school comes at a cost, ?14,500 per pupil,three times more

expensive than a mainstream school -

but about the same as a pupil referral unit, where many

For the first time ever the school has opened up its doors to TV crews

and our reporter James Longman has been to some classes.

We played you his full report an hour ago.

Some of them missed years of education.

All of them in danger of vanishing from the education

But these pupils in Liverpool have found a way back in.

And it's all thanks to their local football club.

Liam has attention deficit disorder and autism.

It was just hard to get the work done, because I would always

And it be just so hard to complete a task.

Through all the time that he was getting bullied,

Like today, is he going to get hit at break times?

Are they going to be waiting for him after school?

And that's why when Everton Free School came up,

Everton Free School was set up in 2012 with the express intention

of engaging young people who had fallen out of education

Some of our young people have extremely difficult home lives.

Kicked out of their previous schools.

Some of our young people, unfortunately, become

It's just a better environment than a mainstream school.

What did you not enjoy so much about your last school?

There were too many people in the classes.

I couldn't get my head down and learn properly.

But in Everton Free School, I feel like they are teaching for me

to learn and I have learned so much more things than I what I did

Do you think kids around here get a bad rep?

I think it's easy to throw the Scouse, the vibe,

and stuff like that out, but I've been here a long

time and I have met some fantastic characters,

If you give these kids a chance to open up and talk,

more often than not, you have had a great day.

These are going to be young men and women in a couple of years

and so if we can give them a decent footholds to get there,

like you say, with the stuff they do around here,

On a Monday afternoon, I come up here and coach these.

It's great that the school to trust me and they have the trust in you.

So if they can trust you, you can trust them, really.

So what do you like most about the school?

They all cooperate with you, they talk to you fine.

You cannot say a bad thing about them, really.

Did you ever think you would be saying positive things

I always thought that teachers just hated every

You're wearing your Everton badge and you are

Let's talk to Claire Lamontagne who is the Deputy Principal

Poppy Comer was the first female student there.

She's now gone on to get full time employment at Everton.

Richard Allicock is in charge of a scheme at Tottenham Hotspur

which goes into existing mainstream schools.

Andy Foster runs the education programme at Newcastle United,

where they're looking at the possibility of building

Tell us a bit more about some of the pupils at your school.

I initiate a commissioning interview with the students, families, carers,

the local education or the mainstream school referring the

student. The commissioning process would start with an honest and open

conversation about the area of need of the student. Give us some

examples. This affection comes in many forms, there may be children

who are struggling with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health issues, we

have students who question their sexuality, so that can cause

problems for them, there are family factors, so they may be living in

homes where there is conflict, the film has mentioned some domestic

abuse, there is often poverty, there are also students in communities

where areas of high deprivation are, there could be drug abuse, lack of

leisure facilities, and then we have got an educational disaffection. A

lot of our students are low achievers, there are patterns of

truancy, non-attendance, they have been bullied or they could have been

the bully. All of that is discussed the beginning. At 15, tell us about

what you were like. I have a quote from you, you said you were making

other people's lied to hell. At 15 I was still in mainstream school, it

was not working out for me, I was getting involved in gangs and crime

and doing stuff I should not have been doing. That is when mainstream

school came to an end. How different was the free School for you? A

massive difference, it was a big impact on my life. As soon as I went

there, I realised how much of an opportunity I had been given, just

the support you get through this stuff, they care about you, they sit

down and want to work with you, because they know there is light at

the end of the tunnel. You have to take the opportunity. Tell us about

the work you do at Spurs. We go into the mainstream schools as well of

the pupil referral unit to complement the teachers, we support

the young people who have come from difficult backgrounds. The aim is to

do some workshops around life skills to support those individuals back

into their community. Where does the football come in? Through the PE

sessions, but with the package that would deliver holistically, we offer

them the opportunity to go to our programmes after school, so they get

a full package every week of more contact time with the mental,

because that is crucial. Who pays for that? It is part funded and

partly schools will pay. Does the club pay for anything? Yes. Your

salaries. Yes. We have an education programme, we support mainstream

schools. Rather than going into the unit, we go into the mainstream

schools to work with the people is at risk of being excluded, who may

end up in a unit. Our aim is to stop them ending up in there. We help to

provide some structured education using the badge and passion of the

football we have. We have a unique set in Newcastle. We are a one club

city, so we have a massive cohort of young people and adults who are

massive Newcastle fans, unlike some of the other cities. In Newcastle,

everybody is black and white. We go in in our Newcastle tracksuits and

we use our inspirational tech takes to work with those young people. It

is the badge, the history, that which engages young people? Exactly.

The badge is the big motivation to get through the door. As soon as we

walk in, the students engage with our staff. Beyond that, it is the

quality of the staff to engage with them and try to make a difference to

their education and their lives. You got six GCSEs and an apprenticeship

with Everton as a social inclusion coach, what is that? When I first

started, it was working with the community, getting a feel of

different programmes. We go into primary schools, disability

sessions, and working with different young people. Getting the skills and

building confidence to hopefully go on and get a full-time role as a

coach. I have achieved that. A number of viewers say, what a

brilliant idea, a number say, it is about rewarding the bad kids. Ten in

a class, every parent would like only ten in a class. The chance to

meet Phil Jagielka, tickets to games, a lesson in one of the boxes,

that is just amazing. How do you deal with that criticism? The areas

of disaffection are great. The funding meet the need. We are not

awarding bad behaviour, the children, the families, the schools

sign up to a partnership ledge, a code of conduct. We are instilling

respect, responsibility and resilience. We are aiming for the

students with historical low attendance to attend every day of

the week, we recognise the positive behaviours, we will reward the

positives, and what we are trying to do ultimately is re-motivate,

re-energise, get these students back on track and be very aspirational.

We have an aspirational curriculum. Poppy got six GCSEs, we are

developing the curriculum. The school results, 24.3% of students

get five or more GCSEs compared with just over 12%, which is the national

average for other alternative provisions, other pupil referral

units. From the Department for Education, you receive 14,500 pounds

per pupil. It is a big difference. It is, but what we are doing is

baseline in children. We are diminishing the differences,

narrowing the gaps. Some of these children have massive gaps in their

education. We are having to really focus on their reading, literacy,

new Morrissey. The young person has been excluded already, so you do not

want to exclude them further. By putting these privileges in place,

you are putting the positive impact back in their lives, so they can

either go back into mainstream school, or you are providing them

with opportunities, through the support that each of the mentors is

doing. That is what we strive to do, make sure that we can equip them as

much as we can to support them, because what happens if a young

person goes into the prison system? That will cost even more money. Alan

says, brilliant, this is what humanity is all about. Expert says,

I was a troubled child, while a sporting environment would not have

helped, this shows how taking a different approach can be a solution

for children failing in mainstream education will stop maybe we should

look at other organisations that have something to offer. Danny says,

I love that Everton have started funding a school. To be clear,

taxpayers fund the school. What a great way for a football club to

give back. Everton to contribute, don't they? The club gift to us in

kind. We can use the facilities. It is not hard clash, it is Access? We

have an amazing collaboration with Everton in the community, a massive

part of the club is the community, over 40 programmes, which we can

access as well after school, human the holidays, within school life.

That is free to us. Andy says, have you heard, Sunderland are going to

build their own school, they might get their head of Newcastle? They

are in the middle of their build. Come on, then! We have got a

different geographical area. We have a good working relationship with

them, but we are not competing for the same students. Our aim is to

work with 52,000 people, which is enough to fill St James's Park,

across a massive range of programmes. Other alternative

provision works with 500 young people a year will stop we have

programmes available to everybody, not just the is engaged students.

Thank you for coming on the programme. Thank you for giving us

access to your free school, the first time the cameras have been

allowed. Breaking news to do with the former

football coach Barry Bennell, he has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of

child sexual abuse against four boys in the 1980s. This news just in. The

former football coach has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of child

sexual abuse against four boys back in the 1980s. More on that to come.

School governors say they like the new funding formula

proposed by the Government to make sure money is distributed

in a fairer and more simple way, but they say there's just not enough

of it, and they're having to consider drastic

The Scottish Parliament will vote this evening on whether there should

be a second referendum on independence from the UK.

The last vote in 2014 went narrowly in favour of people who wanted

But the ruling party in Scotland the SNP is arguing that

because of the vote to leave the European Union there needs

to be another referendum on the future of Scotland.

Let's talk to four people who voted in the Scottish

independence referendum in 2014, but have since changed their minds

Andrew Perry and Lauren Gilmour both voted for an independent Scotland,

but now think it should remain in the UK.

Elizabeth Carnahan and Tom Fahey both voted to remain in the UK,

but now think Scotland should be independent.

Lauren is on the phone, by the way. Why did you vote for an independent

Scotland last time? Part of the reason was because the campaign was

so contentious. There was a promise that there would be a change, an

independent Scotland would mean we would not have any more right-wing

Government. There was an energy that I have never seen before. If there

was a very tomorrow, how would you vote? I would vote no, to stay in

the UK. There have been massive changes over the last three years

that led me to take that position. Andrew, you have changed your mind

as well, why? My original vote for independence was not motivated by

nationalism, it was by my appetite for social justice and my belief

that the Tories are ruining our country, and if we go independent we

can sort it out. But there was a no vote returned, and I have been

looking at the political developments down south, the Labour

Party, and it shift towards the left, and it has shown me there is

an appetite for social justice, equality, defending the NHS, the

welfare state, nationalisation of the railways and buses. Then with

Brexit, we have got an assault coming in on EU migrants and

migration and immigration. It has become a hot topic. In Scotland, the

SNP believe, we will go independent and sort ourselves out, and leave

these guys to do their thing. The only migrants that defence of the

people that will move to an independent Scotland in the EU in

the future. It does not help the country or people up and down. We

are no longer a voice. Scotland can be a voice for these people across

the country. You both voted to remain in the UK, in 2014, but now

you would like to vote for Scotland to be independent, should there be

another referendum. Why? There are two reasons. I feel that liberal

democracy all over the world is in threat from the far right. I also

think there is an economic case. The planned hard Brexit changes the

economic case for remaining in the union. What about you, Tom? Devoted

to stay part of the UK in 2014, now you have changed your mind.

Primarily because of Brexit. In 2014 I was not an SNP member. I was

concerned that with independence we would be taken out of Europe. That

was part of the projection, if we left the UK. I thought to be a small

independent country on the Western fringes of Europe, isolated from the

rest of the EU, that would not be a good place to be, therefore I voted

to remain part of the UK. Since then, of course, the world has

changed, and we are now in a situation where Scotland have been

dragged out of the EU against our wishes, against 60% of people who

voted to remain. Scotland would have to reapply to

become a member of the EU, you're prepared for that and the

possibility of political pressure to join the euro and all that? Well, no

one knows how that's going to work out. What I do know is that Scotland

as an independent country can take decisions for its relationship. The

relationship that -- itself and the relationship that we have with

Europe and there are positive signs from European politicians unlike in

2014. Scotland is a very different kettle of fish to a Tory right-wing

England. OK. Thank you. We will talk to school governors who

say the Government should press ahead with its new funding plan, but

need more money. We will hear about the huge fine that Thames Water is

likely to receive this morning for polluting the River Thames with

nearly 1.5 billion of raw sewage. Here's Joanna with a

summary of today's news. The former Crewe football coach

Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to twenty charges of a sexual nature

relating to offences allegedly He appeared at Chester Crown Court

this morning. The charges relate to child sexual abuse against four

boys. School governors say

the Government should press ahead with its new funding formula

for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

money to fund it over all. Their views were shared as part

of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

Association. King Philippe of Belgium has

been leading events, to remember the 32 people killed

in the Brussels bombings a year ago. A minute's silence was observed

at the city's airport to mark the moment when two suicide

attackers blew themselves up Teachers have voted to merge two

unions to form a new super union Members of the National Union

of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers backed

the link up by more than 2-1. The National Education Union will be

formed later this year, representing 450,000 teachers

and other education workers. Princess Anne has told the BBC

that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

she said that it would not be Thames Water is likely to receive

a huge fine this morning for polluting the River Thames

with nearly one and a half billion litres of raw

sewage in 2013 and 2014. The judge hearing the case

at Aylesbury Crown Court said the company had harmed local fishing

businesses, and farms. Join me for BBC

Newsroom live at 11am. So many comments about the Everton

Free School. Mike says, "Congratulations to Everton for

supporting these disadvantaged children. It is so much better to

bring these kids back from the brink." Another tweet says, "If you

don't reward the bad kids." There are different ways of learning and

Stevie says, "What a damning indictment of the UK education when

football clubs are running schools." William says, "The Everton Free

School, a great idea." Here's some sport now

with Hugh Woozencroft. Good morning, some sad

news this morning. The former Liverpool captain

and coach Ronnie Moran has Along with Bill Shankly

and Bob Paisley, he was part He served twice as caretaker

manager, leading the team out England manager Gareth Southgate

says his side need to "lose They face world champions Germany

in a friendly this evening, in what's Southgate's first game

in permanent charge of the side. Scotland face Canada this

evening at Easter Road. Manager Gordon Strachan will use

the match to build "confidence and fitness" ahead of their crucial

World Cup qualifier England head coach Eddie Jones says

Warren Gatland should pick four captains for the upcoming Lions tour

to New Zealand this summer. Jones believes picking one from each

nation will help Gatland choose the best candidate once the warm-up

matches are over. Los Angeles and Paris have said

they only want to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,

not the ones in 2028. The International Olympic Committee

has suggested whichever city loses its bid for 2024,

should be awarded the Games in 2028, but both cities have said

that's not an option. That's all the sport for now, but

I'll be back with more after 11am. 32 people died and 340 people

were injured in co-ordinated attacks in Brussels last year and this

morning memorial events are taking place across Belgium to mark

the first anniversary of those deaths at Zaventem Airport

and Maelbeek metro station. They are attended by the Belgian

king and queen and survivors. You might remember this image of a

basketball player who was injured at Brussels Airport. This is his road

to recovery one year on. I had eight surgeries

since the attack. Most of all I have been

able to walk again. Which was a challenge, you know,

from being a professional basketball player and being so active,

to almost starting from zero. Having to learn to walk,

having to learn to just be When something like this happens

to you and you overcome it, it's a little bit like life giving

you a little wink, you know, about, this is hey, what you're doing,

the way you think, your approach And one of those things

is there is no longer any I don't have the notion of fear,

and that is extremely liberating. This image of Nidhi Chaphekar

also became iconic. She's a flight attendant

who was pictured looking dazed Some people say that was a symbol of

the bomb blast of Brussels. I say that is a picture of hope. It

generated that courage and that's a picture for courage. That is a

picture where I feel that for those nine hours where my family and my

friends could not, you know, find me, where I was exactly, that

picture gave them hope and courage to believe that she is alive. She

will live. So I look up to that picture, sometimes, yes.

Our correspondent Gavin Lee is at the airport for us.

Tell us about the events there this morning. Well, under tight security.

The airport was opened and paused for half an hour. Several

check-points to get through, but the commemorations, 250 survivors and

families of the 32 victims who died here came and at the moment the

first of the two suicide bombers detonated their devices close to

where I'm talking to you now, they had a minute's silence, just meters

away from where the bomb went off. I was an hour after the bombs went

off, some people found it difficult to come back and thought whether

they should at all. We will bring in somebody very brave today, Eddie,

your wife died. She was working here. She was on a shift and decided

she would work two hours later, is that right? Can you tell me about

her. Normally she stopped at 6.30, but that day someone was ill so she

replaced that person and unfortunately, she just had to stop

at 8am and I suppose she wanted to go home when the bomb exploded and

she was hurt badly and she bled so much that nobody could save her. You

met her when you were eight and today you sang a song that you have

specially written for her? Yes. And also because the victims needed some

support. Some support, psychological support because it brings a lot of

solidarity, even with a song, that music can be wonderful, but also,

the victims needed financial support. So we hope to find some

support for them through the song and through the selling of the song

that you can have on iTunes. There is a number of people who say that

they're taking legal action against the Belgium Government and against

American Airlines, the authorities didn't protect them and didn't have

the after care, and that's why your association was set-up to help other

victims? Initially it was for that, yes. You're right by saying this,

because now the Government admits it and it is a big step. I think

that's, at this moment, the very important thing we realise that the

Government apologised, you know, and said OK, we were wrong and we were

late and let's try now to be positive. OK, we hope to have some

results in the future, but it will be hard work. Can I ask you what it

is like to be back here for the first time today? It's strange. It's

like people go on living and we were looking for one year about what will

be our life, you know. After one year, we didn't have any answer for

this and here I'm like between the past and the future, nits a switch

and you see people moving and also she comes back to life. Because I

always brought her and we drank a cup of coffee and we were together

and some days, it is as if she is alive again. So maybe it will be

more difficult when I leave from here to realise it is not true. I

know you said part of the reason you're here, is not for you, but for

fabbian? Yes, for Fabiane and I'm sure she is somewhere and also for

the victims. I saw so many people today, nice people, everyone is so

grateful and so thankful. The atmosphere was nice today. I was

much afraid before. I was stressed and I didn't know what would happen

really, but it was good. The atmosphere was really good. Some of

the deep human values coming up. Thank you very much for talking to

me, Eddie. I mean that. A lot of people have come up as we were

talking to Eddie to say thank you. People were just moved by listening

to him before and some people recognise him by the work he has

been doing. There is a sculpture behind me, it was called Flight Of

Mind. They have instated it so anybody going to Brussels Airport

will see it, they kept all the damage to it as a reminder of what

happened a year ago today. Gavin, Eddie, thank you so much.

School governors say the Government should press ahead

with its new funding formula for schools in England,

but have expressed concern that there is too little

A BBC survey of 4,000 governors reveals deep concern about budgets.

Some say teachers' jobs are at risk, while others are considering selling

The Government says it will end "unfair" and "inconsistent" funding.

Let's talk now to Charlene Laidley, governor at a primary school

Matt Dronfield, a governor at Scargill Junior School

Nicola West-Jones, governor at Horniman

Are you in favour of the new formula? Yes. Matt? It is a fairer

system for all pupils. Yes, with caveats. What are the caveats? I

don't think anyone could argue against the principle of fair

funding. I think in practise there are nuances. We are in a relatively

affluent part of Lewisham which is not a particularly affluent Borough

of London and that means that we attract less pupil premium funding.

Sorry, we have fewer pupils in our school who would attract pupil

premium funding. What that means is... Extra cash? So you have...

More people on free school meals? You have a situation where there

might be a handful of those children in a class and that doesn't attract

much funding to do much. We can't bring in extra staff or resources or

support and we're expecting to make progress with those children. I'd

say in principle, yes, I agree with it, but the reality, it is not so

simple on the ground. Matt? He drink will gain 0.5%, but that is

wiped out by the apprenticeship levy. That will affect every

employer, including local authorities. My school is run by the

local authority, so we'll have to contribute your .5% of our payroll

into the levy to support apprentices across the country. So that game is

wiped out immediately. Pension contributions will increase

significantly. The other change that we face is the change in

demographics of London means that the population is growing, more

children need educating, the number of peoples with English as an

additional language is growing, that is extra resources in our school. So

although it is more .5% gain, what we have to do is more. Some

difficult questions need to be asked. I am in favour. I have been a

governor of two schools, one a special needs school in west London,

and a primary school in north London. I am in favour of this

proposal on the grounds that I have witnessed myself inconsistencies

with the efficiency of funding getting two schools, so hopefully

this new proposal will address that first of all. Secondly, I am in

favour of the new proposal because when we look across London at the

inconsistency in funding reaching people's according to the borough, I

believe this is more fair. I do not believe a child in South Kensington

should receive more funding than a child in Hackney. Nevertheless, we

agree with the way before Miller has been put together, because the

principle is right, it has been fair -- it will be fairer, but plenty of

school governors say, overall, there is still not enough cash, which

means ethical positions are having to be made. You have thought about

costs going up, how would the decisions impact on your schools? We

have a great school, a lovely ethos, and families are attracted to the

school because of that ethos. We are at about the whole child, we deliver

on the literacy and new Morrissey and every thing else, but we have

lots of lovely things that happen, we have a Forest School, chickens,

we offer philosophy for children, just a snippet, we try to develop

the whole child. It is those things that will have to go. Hopefully not,

because we are working really hard with the PTA, the governors and the

community to try to offset that, and we are setting ourselves a

challenging target. The PTA raised about ?12,000 a year. That is

basically from events. We are hoping to raise about ?40,000, we are

setting that as our target. We are doing that in an organised way,

trying to turn this into a positive outcome. If the chickens have to go

and the philosophy, it is not the end of the world? It is not like

cutting teachers or teaching assistant? There are other part of

the curriculum... I am being devil 's advocate. Of course. We pay a

tiny amount of money into a pot which allows sports fixtures to

happen. That money is in jeopardy. Things like music lessons, we

subsidise those. The parents pay towards that. The subsidy is in

jeopardy. Those things are part of a child's education. What about the

difficult decisions at your school? With the new funding formula, there

is a cap on how much a school can gain or lose. The most a school can

lose is 1.5%, but they are difficult decisions they will have to make

each year for the foreseeable future. For primary schools, we

cannot cut classroom teachers. Other staff costs at some point will have

to be addressed. Secretaries, librarians? Those crucial supporting

roles that allow us to give a first-class education. They are now

the teachers to teach. Exactly. The people that speak English as an

additional language, we are fortunate that we can take them out

of class and give them additional supervision that they need from

specialists. In future, schools will have to question if that is a

luxury. I think it is not, it is a right that every pupil should have

the right to. Unfortunately it is coming down to, will we be able to

offer a first-class education for all pupils, or a bare minimum

curriculum? We will see what happens.

Breaking news, the former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not

guilty this morning to 20 charges of historical sexual abuse. Tell us

what has happened today. Once again, he did not appear here in person. He

appeared via a video link, wearing a blue jumper. Back in January he

pleaded not guilty to eight charges of sexual assault, today he repeated

those pleas and he pleaded not guilty to a further 12 charges,

seven of indecent assault and five of serious sexual assault. The

offences are alleged to have happened between 1980 and 1987. They

relate to three separate components, all of whom were under 16 at the

time, it 11 of the alleged offences are said to have taken place in

Derbyshire, one is alleged to have taken place in North Wales. Barry

Bennell is 63, a former football coach with Crewe Alexandra, he also

worked for other clubs across the north-west, including Stoke City and

Manchester City. He will next appear at Liverpool Crown Court on the 13th

of July, with a view to a trial starting in early January next year.

When a billion litres of raw sewage spilled into the River Thames

in 2013 and 2014 it killed hundreds of fish, polluted nature reserves,

farmers were left with sick animals, and angling

Today the company responsible, Thames Water, is likely to get

the biggest-ever fine for river pollution imposed.

We will hear that punishment in the next hour or so.

Let's speak now to Sir Tony Redmond from Consumer Council For Water,

which is the consumer body for the water industry

Barry Mullen, chairman of Tame Angling club,

which says it has lost thousands of pounds and hundreds of members

Tell us about the impact of the pollution. The impact has been

twofold. We have seen a noticeable decline in stocks of fish in the

river. To such an extent that we understand there has been a decrease

of at least 10% per annum in the stock levels, as in the form to us

by the Environment Agency. We have been losing members. We have gone

down from in excess of 300, down to about a hundred, which has impacted

on the club. Did you see it happening? Were you aware of it

happening when it was actually pouring into the river? It is an

insidious thing. Unless you are at the point where the sewage goes in

and you can see dead fish, it will carry on down the river and have an

effect over a period of time, you do not always see the effect until

perhaps weeks later. As far as we were concerned, we did not see

anything directly, but we noticed a significant decline in the stock of

fish in our river. In terms of the fine that is going to be imposed, we

are told it will be huge, which presumably you would agree with? We

are actually concerned about these incidents, 14 incidents in total.

The gravity of the offences has got to be recognised in a very

substantial fine. The judge has indicated prior to sentencing today

that it will be a substantial fine. The largest fine that they have ever

experienced is 1.1 million. It would be surprising if it is not more than

that. How did it happen? In large part it was due to the fact that the

treatment works failed. They were under manned and the company has

recognised that. Secondly, there is an issue around the equipment