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Plans for more cuts get the cold shoulder from head teachers. They | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
say a funding crisis is forcing them to increase class sizes and cut | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
courses. We will be live at the head teachers' conference in Birmingham. | :00:23. | :00:23. | |
Also... EU leaders meet in Brussels - | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
without Theresa May - in what's billed as the last | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
European summit before Brexit BT bows to demands to run a legally | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
separate broadband operation, British Cycling admits not giving | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
enough care to staff and athletes after ongoing claims | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
of sexism and bullying. A new study aims to tell us | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
about our musical tastes And coming up in the sport on BBC | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
News, Owen Farrell remains a doubt for England's Six Nations match | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
against Scotland tomorrow, but they have until an hour before | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
kick-off to make a decision. Good afternoon and welcome | :00:57. | :01:20. | |
to the BBC News at One. Schools in England are being forced | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
to cut GCSE and A-level courses in an effort to balance the books, | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
according to a head teachers' union. The Association of Scool and College | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Leaders has warned that budget pressures are causing them to cancel | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
things like school trips. They have said budget constraints are driving | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
up class sizes. Let's go to our education | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
correspondent Gillian Hargreaves, who's at the conference | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
in Birmingham. Between now and Easter there will be | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
a number of teaching union conferences, this morning, head | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
teachers in Birmingham. Justine Greening could have been left in no | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
doubt about how strong their grievances are. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Peter Woodman at the wheeled school might be a head teacher, but he | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it am | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
partly because it saves money. The only reason we can't survive as we | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
are carrying forward money from last year, if the Government stick to | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
their pledges at the cash flow and budget, we will be making two cuts | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
to around ?70,000 every year, year on year. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Peter is one of dozens in heads in southern England who wrote to | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
parents, informing them of the impact. | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
In a poll, almost three quarters of members of this union said they had | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
had to cut GCSE or vocational courses in the last 12 months. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
The most common web design and technology, performing arts, music | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
and German and many teachers reported bigger class sizes to save | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
money. Head teachers gathered in Birmingham | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
this morning for the first of a series of teachers' conferences, the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
conversation dominated by cuts. It is the first time Education | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Secretary Justine Greening has laid out the Government's case in how | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
schools should operate in these straitened times. | :03:22. | :03:22. | |
Education Secretary Justine Greening has halted -- told head teachers | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
that well there is no one money she will do her utmost to help them ease | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
their way through the worst financial pressures in schools for | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
20 years. It is really annoying to find | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Government constantly saying funding has never been higher, yes, because | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
we have more students and because of inflation. We have an 8% cuts and | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
are expected to continue delivering quality. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
How difficult is it? Like many schools across the country, we are | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
all struggling to make ends meet. It is absolutely dire, we are having | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
to make cuts to the curriculum and it is untenable. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
The Government points out that class sizes are at the lowest level for a | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
decade and ?40 billion is being spent on schools in England this | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
year, the highest cash figure ever. Now, this afternoon the new Chief | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
inspector of schools for England, Amanda Spielman, will get up and | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
make a speech to head teachers in which she says some schools are | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
quite deliberately narrowing the range of subjects they are teaching | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and moving difficult pupils out of their schools to help them write up | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
school league tables. Again, I suspect that will not go down well | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
at all with some head teachers. Downing Street says it is confident | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
it will meet its own deadline of the end of March for triggering | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the start of Britain's departure It comes as EU leaders met | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
in Brussels to shore up unity Let's cross to Brussels and our | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Europe correspondent, Ben Wright. Well, European leaders are just | :04:53. | :05:07. | |
leaving the summit now, having spent the morning talking about the EU's | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
priorities, mapping out its future, a feature that will not include | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Britain. While the formal divorce Brexit talks have not started yet, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
there is a feeling that the separation has already begun. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
This is not quite as usual this morning as 27 EU heads of Government | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
gathered without Britain Daesh business not quite as usual. Within | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
weeks, the UK will start to unpick a decades long relationship with the | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
EU and try to build a new one. Everyone expects the divorce to be | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
difficulty. A crucial player on the EU side will be Donald Tusk, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
re-elected yesterday as President of the European Council, which | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
represents EU leaders. In a fortnight, EU leaders will meet | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
in Italy to celebrate 60 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, a | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
foundation stone of the European unit. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
At Brexit will no doubt overshadow the party. Theresa May, who left the | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
summit last night, insists she will trigger the starter Brexit by the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
end of the month and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
clear about the future cost of access to EU markets. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
It is not reasonable, I don't think, for the UK, having left the EU, to | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
continue to make vast budget payments. I think everybody | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
understands that and that is the reality. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
From the other side of the negotiation, an idea from the senior | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
MEP who was not a negotiator but will represent the European | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
Parliament during Brexit. He says there could be some way for UK | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
citizens who wanted to retain their EU identity. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Many UK citizens say I want to continue to have my European | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
citizenship, I think we need to examine what type of special | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
arrangement we can make for these individual citizens who want to | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
continue to have a relationship with the European Union. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
But how that might work in practice is anyone's guess. We are on the | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
brink of negotiations that have never been attempted before. The | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
risks for both sides are high. Now, EU leaders desperately did not | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
want Brexit to happen, but now it is going to they are keen to get on | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
with it and there is a real sense of the phoney war phase of this coming | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
to an end. Theresa May has said for a long time she intends to get the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
best deal for Britain, EU leaders and people within the institutions | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
have insisted they will get a really good deal for the EU, crucially one | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
serving as a warning to EU countries who might think about leaving in the | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
future. But the next time Theresa May is here, the rhetoric around | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Brexit will have been replaced by the reality of tough negotiations. | :07:52. | :07:52. | |
Thank you, Ben Wright. The row continues over | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
the Government's plans to increase National Insurance contributions | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
for some self-employed people. Labour has accused the Government | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
of a partial U-turn after the Prime Minister said MPs | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
won't vote on the plan Let's speak to our political | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
correspondent, Iain Watson. He is at Westminster for us. Has the | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
Prime Minister blinked here? Yes, she has. She is not closing her rise | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
to the concerns of her own Conservative MPs, but it is not | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
clear how far she will change your view. -- she is not closing her | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
eyes. Because this boat will now be in the autumn, to bring in these | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
measures, it will be after a review into working practices have been | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
published -- because this bowled. It is likely to recommend more rights | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
for the self-employed, such as rights to maternity and paternity | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
leave, so the Government can argue from the autumn that the | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
self-employed are getting more value for money from the National | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Insurance rise. What they might do, I have spoken to potential | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Conservative rebels and they say the Government to be more radical, to | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
draw a clear distinction between the genuinely self-employed and those | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
who worked just one company, such as a career company. They say that | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
latter category should be hit with higher National Insurance but in | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
return for full climate rights and perhaps the chance that they could | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
find a little bit of time and space to ease the pain on the genuinely | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
help -- self-employed such as hairdressers and plumbers. At every | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Conservative MP I have spoken to has said, of the record at least, that | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
the Government should be more upfront about the fact that it had | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
broken a manifesto pledge to some workers and explains why. They say | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
they are not sure that a relatively small financial gain, ultimately, is | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
worth all of this extended political pain. Thank you. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
BT has agreed to set up a new company to run the UK's | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
national broadband network after being criticised | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
BT Openreach has been accused of looking after its own customers | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
at the expensive of rivals like Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Those companies welcomed the news, saying everyone's customers | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Here's our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
It's got a massive and vital task rolling out fast broadband across | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
the UK. Its critics say BT's Openreach has not been up to the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
job, delivering poor service are not investing enough. After a long | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
battle, office-macro has said that Openreach should be separated from | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
BT. This is what customers have demanded. They have been concerned | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
that open reach is not performed well enough, broadband has not been | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
good enough and they see the greater independence as a greater means for | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Openreach to operate with the telecoms industry at heart, not just | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
BT. This deal is meant to make Openreach much more independent. It | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
will have 32,000 employees working directly for it, there will be an | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
independent board in charge of what goes on and it will have its own | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
brand, the BT logo will disappear. BT had been accused of taking | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
profits from Openreach and spending them on sports rights, a charger | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
denies. The firm could have been ordered to sell the division | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
completely and seems content with today's deal. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
We have listened to the criticisms from the general public, service | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
providers, politicians and the media and looked to address them. That is | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
what we are doing with the fundamental reforms today. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Around 90% of UK homes have access to fast broadband but the hope is | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
that the roll-out will accelerate and service will improve. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
We hope these reforms will really lead to a big change by Openreach | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
and make them much more focused on delivering for their customers, but | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
also transformed this market so that we see more competition and | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
customers having much more choice about who they get their broadband | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
and phone services from. Even rivals like TalkTalk who had | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
once called for BT to be split up of welcome this more limited move, but | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
they are calling for Ofcom to make sure that open Reach -- Openreach | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
delivers on its promises. In South Korea, two people | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
have died in clashes between police and demonstrators | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
who were protesting at the removal from office of the President | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
by the country's highest court. Park Geun-hye was found | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
guilty of corruption But she's refusing to leave | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
the presidential palace, as our correspondent in Seoul, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Stephen Evans, now reports. The head of South Korea's highest | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
court says President Park committed It was against the constitution | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
and the trust of the people. Outside the court, pro-Park | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
protesters clashed with police. Two died, one apparently by falling | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
from the top of the bus The central allegation | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
is that the country's biggest companies paid money | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
to the President's best friend So top business leaders now face | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
awkward questions which may yet The police have been out in force | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
because feelings run so high. There will be a general | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
election in 60 days. One of the consequences of that may | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
be a move to the left. If the government here moved | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
to the left, there would be a different attitude | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
towards North Korea, Every Saturday night | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
for three months now, there have been huge demonstrations | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
against President Park. But what pushed her from office | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
was a Constitutional Court finding her guilty of crime | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
in a country which has only been Stephen Evans, BBC | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
News, South Korea. A short time ago, Steve went out | :13:51. | :14:02. | |
into the streets of Seoul to gauge the atmosphere, | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
and sent this update. The centre of Seoul tonight feels | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
like a victory rally for the protesters who pushed | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
the president from power. There are also pro-Park people | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
who are nursing their wounds, President Park, ex-President Park, | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
rather, is in the presidential She emerges tomorrow as an ordinary | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
citizen and she may well face criminal charges and end | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
up behind bars. Steve Evans in Seoul. | :14:41. | :15:03. | |
British cycling has admitted not paying enough care and attention to | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the welfare of staff and athletes. It was responding to the leak of the | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
draft report into its handling of allegations of discrimination | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
against Jess Varnish by Steve Sutton. David Ornstein is that the | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
National cycling Centre, tell us about what is in the document? | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
For almost one year this has been hanging over British Cycling, | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Britain's most successful and well funded Olympic sport, like a dark | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
cloud. It started when Sprint cyclist Jess Varnish made | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
allegations of sexism and discrimination against the former | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
performance director Shane Sutton. That is before other riders and Stav | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
supported her, talking about a culture of fear and bullying. -- | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
other riders and staff. A report into the culture of British Cycling | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
was commissioned, a leaked draft published in the Daily Mail backed | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
up many of the complaints, perhaps most damningly describing certain's | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
predecessor, Sir Dave Brailsford, as being untouchable. It said many | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
elite riders experienced trauma while with British Cycling and | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
confirmed that culture of fear. Today British Cycling issued a | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
statement disagreeing with the factual accuracy of some of the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
points made in the report, but admitting to specific shortcomings | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
and a failure to address early warning signs of problems. It said a | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
39 point action plan for reform announced here last week was already | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
under way, while many of the key staff have since departed and been | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
replaced. For the first time no British Cycling and, perhaps, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
British sport as a whole, have to address that difficult balance | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
between them no compromise approach that has brought so much success and | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
also a duty of care to athletes and Stav. Thank you. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Classes in England are going up, say headteachers. | :17:06. | :17:17. | |
And coming up in the sport at half-past: Ireland must win | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
in Wales tonight in the Six Nations to realistically keep | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Anything less and they could open the door for England to wrap it up | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
It may be more than 60 years since the Great Smog of London, | :17:32. | :17:43. | |
but air pollution in the capital is again a huge issue. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
It damages people's health and contributes towards thousands | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
All this week, the BBC has been highlighting the growing | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
As part of our 'So I Can Breathe' series, our correspondent | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Graham Satchell has been looking at the changing conditions | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
in Britain's cities, and how to achieve cleaner air. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
'London has been brought to a halt by dense smog, | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
The Great Smog of 1952, dramatised in the Netflix series The Crown. | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
'Be careful out there, it's a real pea-souper.' | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Anne Goldsmith was eight in 1952 and remembers it well. | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
We could hardly see in front of us really, and when I got to school, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
the handkerchief would be absolutely black. | :18:34. | :18:45. | |
'Special filtering masks are the latest weapons...' | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
It's now thought 12,000 people died in the Great Smog. | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
The enemy then - coal, used in factories and people's homes. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
What followed the smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956. | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
It introduced smoke-control areas, where only smokeless | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Fast-forward 60 years and the enemy now is nitrogen dioxide, | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
These are the engines that have been removed out | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
The local authority here in Birmingham has got funding | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
to replace the diesel engines in 65 taxis. | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
We removed 99% of the nox that the taxi was producing. | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
There are hundreds of taxis in Birmingham. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
The Government's overall plan is to introduce so-called 'clean air | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
I will look at the evidence, and when the evidence comes | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
through as to where the key areas of pollution are, we will take | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
the action that is needed to address the need for clean air in the city. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
Well, I'm afraid the Government's been hopeless. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Critics like Client Earth say what we need today | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
is a new Clean Air Act, and a scrappage scheme | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
You have to phase diesel vehicles off our roads. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
But it would cost a fortune, wouldn't it? | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Well, yeah, it's going to take time to do it, but we've got | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Back in Lewisham, in London, Anne is meeting nine-year-old | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
We called it 'smog', and you couldn't see, | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
On days when pollution is bad, Amy and Eloise are kept | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
indoors at playtime, just as Anne was in 1952. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
Sometimes, we have to stay inside because the air is bad. | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
More than 60 years on, air pollution is still damaging children's health, | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
A tennis coach is on trial, accused of causing child cruelty | :20:39. | :20:50. | |
as he coached his daughters to become tennis stars. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
In one incident, John De'Viana from Essex, is said to have kicked | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
and punched one of his daughters after a tennis match. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Our correspondent, Helena Lee, is at Snaresbrook Crown Court. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Tell us more about what was said in court. This is the second day that | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
the defendant John De'Viana is giving evidence in his own trial. He | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
is accused of subjecting his two daughters, now 21 and 90, two years | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
of physical and mental abuse, in his desire to get them to become tennis | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
champions. The girls went on to become a successful junior tennis | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
player, but in court today, John De'Viana told the jury that it was | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
the decision of the girls to play tennis, that he had never forced | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
them. He was asked by his defence team, did you force Monaei, his | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
eldest daughter, to play? He said, no, that would be | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
counter-productive. He said, you cannot just force a child to play a | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
particular sport, especially when that child is progressing at a rapid | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
rate. The court also heard earlier how Mr De'Viana had written an | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
abusive notes on the back of match reports after the girls had played | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
tennis when it did not reach the standard that he wanted them to and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
he was asked in the last moments in court why he used such language. He | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
replied, it was the only way I could vent my frustration as a coach. He | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
denies two charges of child cruelty in the case here at Snaresbrook | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Crown Court, which continues. Thank you. | :22:33. | :22:33. | |
Rugby's Six Nations returns this weekend, | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
with England playing Scotland in the Calcutta Cup at Twickenham. | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Scotland are after their first Triple Crown since 1990, | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
while England are aiming to equal New Zealand's record | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
We'll have more on that in a moment but, first, to Cardiff, | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
where Wales take on Ireland in a match the visitors have to win, | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
if they're to have any chance of securing their third title | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Katherine Downes is at the Millennium Stadium. | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
-- the Principality Stadium. No pressure on Ireland! Yes, as you | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
say, the Six Nations returns after a couple of weeks away and this will | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
be the most pivotal weekend of the tournament so far because while the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Championship cannot be won this weekend, it can certainly be lost. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
With still over six hours until kick-off at the Principality | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Stadium, the city centre in Cardiff is buzzing with pre-match | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
excitement. Perhaps even pre-match nerves, particularly if you are an | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Irish fan, Ireland come here knowing they must beat Wales tonight to keep | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
alive their chances of winning this year's Six Nations title. Welsh | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
hopes already disappointed after those back-to-back losses to both | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
England and Scotland. If Ireland win here tonight, they set up a final | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
weekend showdown against England and that could well end up being the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
championship decider in a week's time. So let's look ahead to the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
night, and both sides name an unchanged starting line-up. Not | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
surprisingly Ireland given the way they have played over the last | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
couple of weeks, but Wales have had strong criticism for making that | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
decision and some say it shows too much of a Conservative approach | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
under their interim coach, Rob Howley. Attitude aside, besides | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
equally matched in terms of experience. Ireland have 715 | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
international caps in their side, Wales just one fewer, 714. Ireland | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
playing the way they have, Wales playing here at home in front of | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
those passionate home fans, it is set to be a fiery encounter when the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
lights go down here at the Principality Stadium and this place | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
comes alive. You can watch the pre-match build-up from 7:30pm on | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the match kicks off at 8:05pm also on BBC One. Thanks very much. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
More now on England's match against a resurgent Scotland team | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
which has just reached its highest ever world rankings. | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
So it's a team which believes it can do what no Scottish side has | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
done for over 30 years - beat England at Twickenham. | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
Here's our sports correspondent, Joe Wilson. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
South again to Twickenham, where Scotland do win, | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Rugby union was strictly an amateur sport. | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
That really was one of the great Calcutta Cup tries! | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
Scotland winger Roger Baird worked in the grain industry then, | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
as he does now, and the spirit of '83 lingers. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
I still see, you know, a lot of the guys that I played with. | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
So I think, yeah, you know, with a smaller nation, | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
you always feel up against it a wee bit, you know. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
In adversity, you know, that maketh the man. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
So, yeah, I think the spirit will be there in aplenty. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
These days, England's rugby resources are unmatched, boasting | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
In Scotland, that figure's around 49,000. | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
This season, Scotland have already beaten Ireland and Wales. | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
If you can't go through your opponents, you can dodge round them. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Two chances, two scores, two tries for Scotland! | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
Vern, knowing your players as you do now, what is the key | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
asset which will enable you to win tonight? | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
And making sure that, um, we back each other up | :26:25. | :26:37. | |
and we keep our heads up the paddock and see what's coming. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
Well, back in '83, power ballads were the rage. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
It was only whispered here as the team left, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
but if Scotland beat England here, they could win the Six Nations. | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Whether it's pub music, summer festivals, or street buskers, | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
the UK is alive with the sound of live music. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
But what does it tell us about our musical likes and dislikes? | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Today, the UK is carrying out its first live music | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has been taking | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
a look - and a listen - to the music scene in Glasgow. | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
Buskers on the streets of Glasgow, passionate about their music, | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
I love it and I do it every day, and it's a way I can play | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
with my friends and enjoy life with other people and share | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
From classical to contemporary, from concert halls to gigs in pubs, | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
In our cars, at home, on our phones, we listen to plenty of music. | :27:41. | :27:54. | |
Volunteers in six cities across the country are | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
We're asking them how many events they go to, | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
why they maybe go to an event, what's the main reasons | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
There are plenty of free performances to go to but, even so, | :28:09. | :28:19. | |
British consumers spend more on concert tickets than on physical | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
records, digital downloads and streaming combined. | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
And the organisers of this census say that even those who think that | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
silence is golden should care about the state of the | :28:28. | :28:29. | |
Music is a huge driver economically within the creative | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
industries which are, of course, a big export for the UK, | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
There's a lot of research to suggest that music is also important | :28:37. | :28:45. | |
for our health and well-being but, for me, music is really | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
important because it's part of what makes us human, | :28:49. | :28:50. | |
it's a fundamental part of being part of the human species. | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
Glasgow has a really active music scene. | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
There are 70 live music events in the 24-hour period this | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
census is taking place, but here and across the UK, the live | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
Some iconic locations where famous groups honed their acts have closed | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
Some smaller, more intimate, venues are only just breaking even. | :29:14. | :29:23. | |
Surviving as a small venue is difficult at the moment | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
because property prices are increasing, because of the tight | :29:26. | :29:27. | |
This attempt to measure the economic and cultural | :29:28. | :29:40. | |
benefits of live music is, census organisers | :29:41. | :29:41. | |
Whatever they find out, that live music in all its glorious | :29:42. | :29:51. | |
forms brings joy to many is already beyond doubt. | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
Now, you know that saying about how showbiz and children don't mix? | :29:58. | :30:07. | |
Our colleagues on BBC World News were interviewing a contributor | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
live from his his home, via the internet, when one | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
of his children decided to make a guest appearance. | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
Not to be upstaged, along came child number two. | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
Followed very, very, quickly by a harassed mum! | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
The interview, of course, faultlessly continued! And I am sure | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
nobody noticed. Well, not many millions of people, anyway! | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
That she had a lot of people this morning. | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
It cheered us up in the weather centre. Yesterday, we were talking | :30:49. | :31:00. | |
about how beautiful the clear blue skies were. This is today. A layer | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
of grey, one of our weather watchers sent this picture. This is from | :31:07. | :31:15. | |
Wales! This is another one from Dorset. Foggy here. And a nice | :31:16. | :31:27. | |
sunrise from Hull. I will practice that Welsh name, I promise you. Cold | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
breaking in some areas but overcast for most of the day with a what more | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
cloud in the Atlantic heading our way for this weekend. Quite a mixed | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
picture overall. Let's concentrate on this afternoon first. We have | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
established with that great picture, cloudy across most of Scotland, | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
although I suspect the Western Isles will be getting some glimmers of | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
sunshine now and then. And you will notice some rain across the UK, | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
almost anywhere really. Temperatures today getting no higher than around | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
13, 14 degrees. Still feeling relatively mild. You have got some | :32:08. | :32:13. | |
mist along the South Coast. The weather does not change this | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
evening, so for the Six Nations, Wales versus Ireland, that kicks off | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
just after eight o'clock, around 10 degrees and cloudy skies. Tonight, | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
we keep the cloudy skies and the temperatures will not take away a | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
lot of staying around double figures in London, up to 9 degrees. Rain | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
pushing through. For Saturday, I have mentioned a lot of cloud across | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
the UK, more cloud lining up in the Atlantic. This will come rushing our | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
way during this weekend, so the first weather front is here on | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
Saturday, in the North. We will see a weather front crossing the country | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
on Saturday, but the weather is not that bad because on one side, to the | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
North, there is sunshine across Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast gets bright weather. In the South, clouds | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
break up, we could get temperatures up to 18 Celsius. But those weather | :33:07. | :33:14. | |
fronts keep coming and a different picture I think on Sunday. To | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
summarise, the weekend, Saturday is your best today and by Sunday, it | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
looks like we will get at least a bit of rain. Back to you. | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime: | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
Head teachers say cuts in funding are leading the courses in England | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
being scrapped and class sizes going up. | :33:37. | :33:37. | |
That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me. | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
And on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :33:41. | :33:42. |