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From paramilitary to politician - Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness has | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The one-time IRA commander turned his back on years of violence - | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
to help bring peace to Northern Ireland. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
He was a divisive and controversial figure - | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
but tributes have been paid to him from across the spectrum. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
The ledger has both a debit and a credit side | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
He came across as a very reasonable man. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
This may seem crazy, given his early life, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
but, in his later life, he was an easy man to talk to. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
We'll be live in Londonderry and Westminster with more reaction. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Inflation leaps to 2.3% - the highest since 2013. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Economists blame rising fuel and food prices. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
MSPs begin their debate about holding a second referendum | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Stolen 15 years ago - now these two paintings are back | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
Manchester United's German World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger has | :01:08. | :01:20. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:21. | :01:45. | |
Politician, former senior IRA commander, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Martin McGuinness has died at the age of 66, | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
two months after stepping down as Northern Ireland's | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
It's understood he'd been suffering from a rare heart condition. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Many people have paid tribute to a man who played a pivotal role | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
in the Northern Ireland peace process, and whose relationship | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
with former adversaries would become a symbol of reconciliation | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Lord Tebbit, who was injured in the IRA attack on the Grand Hotel | :02:11. | :02:22. | |
in Brighton in 1984, called him a coward and a multi | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
murderer, and said the world is a "sweeter place" without him. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
We'll have reaction from Londonderry and Westminster shortly. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
But first Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler looks back | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
at Martin McGuinness's life - and a warning, his report | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
To paint a true picture of Martin McGuinness, | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
He was a paramilitary who once embraced violence, | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
but also a peacemaker who reached out to rivals, a man who could be | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Born in Londonderry, into a large Catholic family, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Martin McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
In that time of violence, he joined the IRA, quickly | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Can you say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future, | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Well, I always take into consideration the feelings | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
The 1970s saw him become one of the faces of ruthless | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
Irish republicanism, and he was jailed for terrorist | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
McGuinness has changed considerably from the young man who used | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
to swagger around the no-go areas in Londonderry, as commander | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
What had started as a fight for civil rights had | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Yet, alongside the many bombings and shootings, | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Martin McGuinness saw opportunities at the ballot box for | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the IRA. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Even then, the language of threat remained. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
We don't believe that winning elections, and winning | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
any amount of votes, will bring freedom in Ireland. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of IRA | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
But after years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
IRA ceasefires offered the opportunity for talks | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
Not only would they shake hands, after the signing | :04:23. | :04:35. | |
of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
Eventually, at its head was the unlikely partnership | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of two former enemies - Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
The firebrand unionist and radical republican became so close | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers. | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
There were republicans who continued to threaten that political progress. | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
But when a police officer was killed, the then deputy first | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
minister stood side-by-side with the chief constable to condemn | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
They are traitors to the island of Ireland. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Alongside the words, there were actions on all sides. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Yet, after the Troubles, royal and republican were able | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
Thank you very much, I am still alive! | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
However, relationships at Stormont always seemed strained | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
after Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister, to be | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
replaced by Peter Robinson, and then Arlene Foster. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Earlier this year, with his ill health by then obvious, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Martin McGuinness walked out of government, amid a row | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
between Sinn Fein and the DUP, the boy from Derry's Bogside | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
retiring as deputy first minister after years in the IRA. | :05:54. | :06:08. | |
Even though it breaks my heart. My heart lies in the Bogside and the | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
people of Derry. The past actions of the IRA | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
will colour many people's views But as a republican who worked | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
towards reconciliation, he will be remembered as a key | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
figure in changing Northern Ireland. Well, the former First Minister | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, summed up the thoughts of many this | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
morning when she said history would record differing views | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
and opinions about his role. While some have paid tribute | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
to his contribution to the peace process, others have said | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
there are still questions about his IRA activity which may | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
now never be answered. There is some flash photography | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
in this report from our our political correspondent, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Chris Mason. From an IRA commander to shaking | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
hands with the Queen, a man reviled and admired. A giant of Northern | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Ireland for a generation, he would swap the gun for politics. Political | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
parties of Northern Ireland have reached agreement. After the Good | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Friday Agreement 19 years ago, he would rise to become Deputy First | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Minister of Northern Ireland. Some people will remember him as the man | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
of war, and who can never forget the violence of his early years, but for | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
those of us who helped put together the Northern Ireland peace process | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
with him, we will remember his legacy as the man of peace. I | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
observed from my standpoint that wicked as those acts were by the IRA | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
until the peace process, Martin McGuinness did play a significant | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
part on the IRA's behalf towards bringing that to a conclusion and | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
peace process. The current Prime Minister said... | :08:11. | :08:29. | |
That contribution, working alongside, even joking alongside, | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
Ian Paisley, a man known as Doctor no, who said yes to sharing power | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
with him. As a Christian and person who reflects on life, it is not how | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
you start your life that is important but how you finish your | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
life and I think a lot of people will be thankful that Martin | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
McGuinness finished his life a lot better than it could have been. The | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
journey was remarkable. From the Republican side of Northern Ireland | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
divide, this reflection from Gerry Adams, the man so often at his side. | :09:08. | :09:28. | |
But some remember Martin McGuinness very, very differently. In 1984, the | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton, in the middle of the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
night. Their target, Margaret Thatcher. Five people were killed | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
and many injured, among them a former Conservative Cabinet list | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret, who was left paralysed. Lord Tebbit | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
said he hoped Martin McGuinness was parked in a particularly hot and | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
pleasant corner of health for the rest of eternity. He had a | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
significant role because of his cowardice. He knew the IRA had been | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
penetrated to the highest levels by British intelligence and that before | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
long he would have been arrested and charged with some of the many | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
murders which he personally committed, and so he opted for the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
coward's way out and said, I am a man of peace. Two months ago, Martin | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
McGuinness was still a central figure at Stormont. It was his | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
resignation that led to the collapse of power-sharing government. It was | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
to be the final act of a man whose actions for around half a century | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
had helped define Northern Ireland. Tim Parry was 12 years | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
old when he was killed by an IRA bomb, planted in a rubbish | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
bin in Warrington. His father, Colin, founded | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
a charity in his memory, dedicated to improving relations | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
between Britain and Ireland and he He's given us his reaction, | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
and his assessment of the legacy I reached the point where I have to | :11:03. | :11:17. | |
tell you I liked the man. He was a very mild, softly spoken... He came | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
across as a very reasonable man, and this may seem crazy given his early | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
life, but in later life he was an easy man to talk to. He was quite | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
open. It was not like talking to a politician often, where they are | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
almost like reading from a crib sheet. I felt he talked to me man to | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
man. Any risk giving I had, we reached the stage beyond handshakes | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
and he would give me a man hug. I felt awkward but I did not tell him. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
I was not fond being hugged by a man. If you split his life in half, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
in the second half, a serious and committed peacemaker in Northern | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Ireland. If you look at the totality of his life, the early part of his | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
life he was a terrorist. There is no getting away from the fact he killed | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
people. History is littered with former terrorists who become | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
statesman. Nelson Mandela. People who forced the state of Israel. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Martin comes from the same group who have gone from Warriors to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
peacemakers. Colin Parry, who lost his 12-year-old son in Warrington. | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
We'll have reaction from Westminster in a moment, | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
but first to Londonderry, and our Ireland Correspondent, | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Give us your assessment of how Martin McGuinness will be | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
remembered. Looking back on someone's life too often people look | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
for a hero or villain but usually it is much more complicated and that is | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
true in the case of Martin McGuinness. You cannot ignore the | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
fact the years he defended IRA violence and hurt caused to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
individuals throughout this society, but you have to recognise the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
contribution he made to peace and progress of politics here. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Ultimately, how you eventually view Martin McGuinness will depend often | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
on where you are and the divides that existed throughout his life | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
still exist today and Unionists will see him differently to nationalists. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
While the divides exist, much of the conflict has gone and it is worth | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
remembering the impact of the conflict that shape society and | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
individuals' lives, including Martin McGuinness. When he was young, the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Bogside in Derry was a place often caught up in turmoil and trouble. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Those days are gone. Many of the scenes of those days whenever | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
violence was a regular feature, there are murals on the wall, pieces | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
of the past. I suppose in judging Martin McGuinness' legacy in the | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
long-term the key question will be, can the work continue to ensure the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
images remain pieces of history? Chris Buckler. | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
To Westminster now, and our assistant political | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
Martin McGuinness never wanted to recognise the authority of | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
Westminster but ultimately he had to work with them. I think that is | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
right. There is a contradiction, paradox about his relations with | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Westminster. A man clearly reviled, loathed, detested Westminster and | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Westminster rule and the role of British governments in Ireland over | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
generations and yet he had to come to terms with and deal with and | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
negotiate with successive governments and it was Martin | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
McGuinness who sent the message to Sir John Major saying the conflict | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
is over. From the position of Westminster politicians, many viewed | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
him as the hard uncompromising face of the IRA, a man with blood on his | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
hands but they had to deal and negotiate with him and in a way it | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
was the fact he was an IRA man that gave him such standing in the | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
republican community that enabled him to bring hardline republicans | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
into the peace process and make sure they stayed, despite difficulties in | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
the peace process. And did not give up. Will he be forgiven? The truth | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
is opinion will remain divided. He was and remains a polarising figure. | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
Often it is generational. You find politicians of an older age you | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
remember the IRA in its heyday and its bombing campaigns in the 70s and | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
80s in Northern Ireland and Britain. You think of Birmingham, Guildford, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
they cannot forget. The younger politicians tend to focus on his key | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
role in the peace process and bringing republican movement on | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
board. I suspect the truth is it depends which part of his life you | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
choose to emphasise. Inflation has risen | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
above the Bank of England's target Prices rose by 2.3% | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
in February, a bigger rise Economists say the leap | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
is a result of the fall in the value of the pound, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
and rising oil prices. Here's our economics | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
correspondent Andrew Verity. Until these latest figures, food had | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
been getting cheaper for 2.5 years. Not any more. It is now among the | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
reasons that inflation, above the official target of 2%, is back. At | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
this firm of bespoke kitchen makers in Sheffield, they no-one of the big | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
reasons why. The weaker pound is cutting into their profits. They're | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
paying more for the raw materials they import and the fuel to | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
transport them. Even though they're raising prices, it's not by enough | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
to cover their higher costs. We've been hit with a lot of price rises | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
on goods that we buy in from Europe, whether that be Appliances or | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
components. One reason we buy in from Europe is because on those | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
products, we can't get the same qualities in UK, and quality is | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
really important to what we sell. Unfortunately it's been very | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
difficult for us to pass all of those cost increases onto alkusshh | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
customers, because we're in a very competitive market. In today's | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
official figures, you can see further price rises coming down the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
line. Consumer prices are on average 2.3% higher. But at the factory | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
gate, producers are charging 3.7% more than last year, not least | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
because they in turn are paying 19% more for imported raw materials and | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
fuel. The fact that prices are now rising as fast as pay means that | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
real pay growth has disappeared. And unfortunately, in the next two | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
months, it's likely that our wages in real terms will start to shrink. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
In the budget two weeks ago, the official forecast was that inflation | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
would hit at 2.7%. That now looks optimistic. Inflation could go out | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
to over 3%. Some people have been expecting it to be near 4%, and that | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
is of course because of the fall in the pound, plus energy prices. The | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
question for any everybody is, what is going to happen to sterling in | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
the future, is it likely to go down even further? The Bank of England | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
has not raise interests for nearly ten years. But the odds of an | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
interest rate rise later this year are already getting shorter. | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
In the next hour, MSP's begin a two day debate | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced last week | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
that she wants to hold a new vote, following the UK's | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
Holyrood will vote tomorrow on whether to begin negotiations | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
with the Westminster government on holding another referendum - | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Here's our Scotland Correspondent, Lorna Gordon. | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
Who decides if there's to be another referendum on Scottish independence | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
and who sets the date on which it be held? | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
The government in Edinburgh believes they have the moral authority | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
It was, they point out, an SNP manifesto commitment | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
if circumstances changed, such as Scotland being taken out | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Nicola Sturgeon is not taking no for an answer. | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
The UK Government was clear in 2014 that an independence referendum | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
should, in their words, be made in Scotland | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
That is a principle that should be respected today. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
The detailed arrangements for a referendum, | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
including its timing, must be for the Scottish | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
But the Scotland Act sets out how the legal authority to decide | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
on whether or not there should be a referendum lies with Westminster | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
and the Prime Minister, Theresa May, has said there will be no vote | :19:59. | :20:18. | |
on Scottish independence before the UK leaves the EU, | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
backed Scotland staying in the UK in 2014 then supported the UK | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
staying in EU in 2016, and that almost half a million | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
independence supporters actually backed Brexit last year seems | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
The opposition unionist parties at Holyrood agreed. | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
They will oppose the vote in the Scottish Parliament, | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
arguing the will of the Scottish people was expressed in the first | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and is not what Scots want or need at this time. | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
The SNP are in a minority at Holyrood, but with the support | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
of the Scottish Greens, the vote will likely pass. | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said any move | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
by the UK Government to block an independence referendum will be | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
democratically indefensible if she wins the backing | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Let's speak to our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith. | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
That debate gets under way very soon, what are we expecting? Well, | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
this is going to be one of the most important debates the Holyrood | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
chamber has heard, and there will be passion on both sides. First | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be making the case for why it should be | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
up to the Scottish Parliament to decide when there is another | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
independence referendum, and she will be asking the parliament to | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
vote to give her that authority. Lined up against her, you will have | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems, all of them opposed to another | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
referendum, one of them saying it is not what the people of Scotland | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
want, that there is no public clamour for another referendum, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
apart from people who are very enthusiastic supporters of | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
independence. And they will keep saying that it is more important | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
that the Scottish Government should focus on running schools and | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
hospitals than it is to constantly argue for another independence | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
referendum. The result of the vote is not in much doubt. The Scottish | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Rings will back the SNP and when there is a vote in the House | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
tomorrow, the SNP will win the vote, which means the First Minister will | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
then have the authority to make a formal request to the Prime Minister | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
for another referendum. She knows what the answer is going to be, we | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
know that, Theresa May has already said, now is not the time. Nicola | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Sturgeon says, she's prepared to talk about the timing, maybe they | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
could find a compromise there. It is not clear whether the Prime Minister | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
is in the space to that. The former Deputy First Minister | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, has | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
died at the age of 66. He had been suffering | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
from a rare heart condition. I think maybe the best thing about | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
cricket is whacking the ball like say wag, what do you think? If you | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
work it, you can just get out. Can cricket recapture a lost | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
generation of children who've never On BBC London, the latest sculptures | :23:04. | :23:20. | |
for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth are unveiled. And what does the | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
weather have in store? Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh, | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
which were stolen in 2002, have been The works - a seascape | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
and a painting of Van Gogh's father's church - | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
were stolen from the van Gogh Museum on the orders of an | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
Italian crime family. They were found last year | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
during a police raid in Naples. From Amsterdam, Anna | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
Holligan reports. After 14 years and a traumatic | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
journey, the paintings Now protected by thick screens, | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
they're not taking any chances. Two early works by one | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
of the Netherlands' We have no idea what happened | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
to them in the intervening years. In this beach view, a small | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
piece in the lower left But it does not really disturb | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
the image as such too much. And the small church | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
is practically unharmed. It took opportunist thieves less | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
than four minutes to break in through the roof, | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
using a rope and sledgehammer, rip the paintings from the nearest | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
wall with brute force, and escape before the police | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
arrived, leaving a hole Italian police arrested | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
two men in 2016. They'd been investigating | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
allegations of drug trafficking, but apparently, one detainee | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
confessed that the network The Italian authorities | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
were proud of their work. These two works are of vast historic | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
and sentimental value. The Sea View at Scheveningen is one | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
of only two seascapes painted by van Gogh during his time | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
in the Netherlands. The wind was so blustery that day, | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
it blew tiny grains of sand The Congregation Leaving | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
the Reformed Church In Nuenen was a gift for van Gogh's mother | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
after she'd broke her leg. He changed it after his father | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
died to include images The museum is deliberately | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
displaying the paintings as they were found, with slight | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
damage representing Now, anticipating the moment they're | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
back in the admiring public eye. It all began when a headteacher | :25:36. | :25:52. | |
in West Sussex wrote to the Government detailing his | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
concerns about his school's And now, hours before the end | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
of the consultation period, the number has snowballed - | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
thousands of headteachers, representing one and a half million | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
students, are now urging ministers to rethink their new funding | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
formula for schools. Our education correspondent, | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Gillian Hargreaves, reports. Here are my magnets, two very | :26:15. | :26:15. | |
powerful bring back that is. Tonbridge House in Horsham in | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
West Sussex provides an outstanding Even though it's one | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
of the worst funded ?2000 less per child | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
than some other schools. It had hoped to be | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
a winner when the new way of allocating cash was announced | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
by the Government, giving more money to rural areas and less to inner | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
cities, but when the head looked at his school's finances, | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
he found he was out-of-pocket. So, we've just got another e-mail | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
coming in and that's another head. With only hours to go before | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the Government ends its public consultation, Jules White | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
is one of thousands of head teachers who've written to their MPs saying | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
they can't manage and the new We're having to make | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
devastating cuts at the moment. I'm not replacing | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
staff as they leave. I lost three members | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
of staff last year. year. Maybe four to five | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
members of support staff, and that can be office-based, | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
administration, also help our most vulnerable | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
youngsters, we can't afford them. Under this new funding formula, | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
he will receive ?180,000 more, but his costs, for things like pay, | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
National Insurance, heating and lighting, | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
have risen to ?220,000. So now the school is | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
?40,000 worse off, even It is unprecedented | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
for thousands of heads to come together like this | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
without trade union coordination. But that's a measure | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
of both the fear and furious teachers feel about the cuts | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
they're having to make. At this school, these | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
are anxious times for teachers and support staff, | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
but it's not only southern England. There have been protests | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
across the country. This one was in Cheshire at | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
the weekend, with teachers saying, even with a new deal, there is not | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
enough cash to pay the bills. The Government says | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
the funding formula It's promised to help those | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
in difficulties and is spending a At the moment, it's | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
hard to see how both How does cricket win back | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
what's known as the 'lost generation' of school children, | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
who've never had any Cricket's governing body, the ECB, | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
will this summer target five- to eight-year-olds, | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
to try to attract If they are not playing cricket | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
by eight, it is probably too late. ?4 million invested to attract | :28:43. | :28:52. | |
50,000 children, or else Cricket is the heartbeat | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
of the English summer. All Stars Cricket - | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
parents sign up, their children get a backpack with accessories | :29:04. | :29:12. | |
and eight coaching There will normally be ?40 to pay, | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
but it is a system designed for fun. The ECB recruited an Australian | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
expert to drive participation. He's dealing with some | :29:20. | :29:21. | |
stark realities. We saw some stats come out 12 months | :29:22. | :29:23. | |
ago that the average child in this country spends less time outside | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
than a prison inmate, and that a fairly scary stat, | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
so we need to be more proactive in getting kids to play | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
and get them active. Well, this launch has been taking | :29:36. | :29:37. | |
place in London 2012 territory. The cricket demonstration has been | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
going on underneath the Orbit. And a great legacy of | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
all that recent Olympic Britain has suddenly won | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
medals in triathlon, Where does a traditional sport | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
like cricket fit in now? Will English cricket ever reach | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
the heights of 2005, when the Ashes commanded huge | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
free-to-air TV audiences We probably have missed | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
a generation, we probably have missed a great opportunity, | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
but it doesn't mean you just stop and go, all right, | :30:12. | :30:13. | |
we just let game drift. There are so many other | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
sports that we all know about now that we didn't know | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
about 12 years ago and I guess Part of the idea here | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
is to demystify cricket. There is a lot to it, | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
there are a lot of rules to it. It can be quite a complicated sport, | :30:28. | :30:35. | |
but for the kids this age it's just about running about, | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
having some fun and being Don't underestimate the cricketing | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
wisdom of some eight-year-olds. A lesson I learned | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
with with these two. I think maybe the best thing | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
about cricket is whacking It's not about whacking | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
it all the time. If you whack it once and do a silly | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
stroke and just get out. If you're playing against a tight | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
defence, you have to hit it with a ground stroke, | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
because that's the easiest way. This doesn't look like traditional | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
cricket, and it's not supposed to. If only the ECB could | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
guarantee sunny summer days. That's just another | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
part of the challenge. With the spring flowers out, the | :31:15. | :31:27. | |
cricket season is not far away. But while some have been dancing in the | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
sunshine, others have been sitting on the snow. Believe it or not, snow | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
is more likely in March than it is in December. We have seen plenty in | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
parts of Scotland and northern England as well so far today. | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
Becoming a little less abundant during the afternoon. In Wales and | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
the south-west of England, the showers will become more frequent | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
this afternoon. Central and eastern areas, should stay dry. Cold for | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
all. Arctic air in place at the moment. Rain, sleet and Hill snow | :31:56. | :32:04. | |
across the south-west of Wales and into northern England. That could | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
cause some problems. Towards the south and east, staying dry and | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
frost free, but a cold night in store in Scotland. Tomorrow, much | :32:16. | :32:17. | |
more sunshine around. For the morning commute, it is | :32:18. | :32:31. | |
northern England where we see the ugliest of the weather, with some | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
heavy snowfall over the top of the Pennines. Quite a bit of rain around | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
north-west England, north-east Wales, down in towards central and | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
southern parts of England. Bright start for the south-west tomorrow. | :32:45. | :32:54. | |
Sunshine and showers towards the south-west, some of them heavy. Much | :32:55. | :33:02. | |
of Scotland and Northern Ireland, a much better day than today, but | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
feeling cold in a strengthening wind. Fizzling out of it, but into | :33:07. | :33:15. | |
Thursday, plenty of cloud across England and Wales. Occasional rain | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
at times. Scotland and Northern Ireland, driest and brightest after | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
a frosty start. Southernmost counties of England and Wales, there | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
could be a spell of heavy, persistent rain on Friday. But it | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
does clear through, with high pressure building into the weekend. | :33:33. | :33:39. | |
Crisp mornings but some lovely sunny days at the weekend. | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
Our main headline... Former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, | :33:45. | :33:53. | |
Martin McGuinness, has died at the age of 66. That is all from | :33:54. | :33:55. |