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This is Breakfast, with Naga Munchetty. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
George Michael, one of the biggest music stars of his generation, | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
After a string of top ten hits with Wham in the 80s, | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
he had further success as a solo artist, selling more | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Good morning, it's Boxing Day, Monday the 26th of December. | :00:27. | :00:48. | |
A day of mourning in Russia for the 92 people who were on board | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
a jet which crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
We'll find out how the community in Hebden Bridge has recovered | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
from Boxing Day floods, which left dozens of families | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
Everything was floating and downstairs there was one metre high. | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
It was about a quarter of the staircase. | :01:20. | :01:19. | |
Boxing Day sales have already started online - | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
we'll look at how changes in buying habits have affected the traditional | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
In sport, Sam Allardyce takes charge of a football match for the first | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
time since he was sacked as England manager. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
His new side Crystal Palace, will face Watford in the Premier | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Good morning. A wild and wintry day in store. Frequent snow show was in | :01:35. | :01:51. | |
Scotland and the storm Konta could bring 19 mile costs of wind. For | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
much of England and while the sun is -- the snow was gone and the sun is | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
out. One of the biggest pop | :02:03. | :02:02. | |
stars of the 80s and 90s, He was 53, and is believed to have | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
suffered from heart failure. He rose to fame as one | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
half of the group, Wham! but went on to have a | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
successful solo career. He sold 100 million albums worldwide | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
and had 11 UK number ones. Nick Quraishi looks | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
back at his life. # You put the Bohm Ballmer into my | :02:23. | :02:37. | |
heart... Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat songs propelled went to | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
number one around the world. They even conquered China. # Last | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Their most famous song heard every year will now have added poignancy. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
Born in north London, George Michael was 12 years old when he met Andrew | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Ridgeley. They left school at 15 and set up Wham. # And time can never | :03:07. | :03:23. | |
mend a careless whisper his biggest hit, Kellas Whisper came in 1984. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Three years later his solo album, Faith, marked a shift to serious | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
singer songwriter. With the success came brushes with the law. An arrest | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
falling behaviour in a public toilet in Los Angeles stop he had a stall | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
in prison after crashing his car into the shop. George Michael | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
announced he was gay, later revealing he had been in the closet | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
for years to prevent his mother from worrying about a stock in 2011 he | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
nearly died in Vienna after a bout of pneumonia. But more work was in | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
the pipeline. A collaboration and a documentary called Freedom which was | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
due for release next month. When it came to pop music, George Michael | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
had it all, looks, voice and the ability to write a string of hits | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
that will continue to be playful years to come. That was George | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Michael has died at the age of 53. Alex Premat correspondent joins me | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
now. 11 o'clock last night. As Christmas Day. Just such a sad end | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
to Christmas Day, the death of a true British superstar. He was | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
George Michael, a guy who went from appearing on top of the pops with a | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
shuttlecock down his shorts too, because of songs in his voice he had | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
the likes of Aretha Franklin can to work with him. Stevie wonder invited | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
him to appear at the Apollo in Harlem. Mary J Blige worked with | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
him. The biggest names in American music were wanting to work with him. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Elton John, our number one, though let the sun go down on me. Ladies | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
and gentlemen, missed Elton John, he came on. And there was spell in the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
1980s where wherever there was a big concert, George Michael was there. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
The 70th birthday for Nelson Mandela. A Freddie Mercury troop put | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
concert. Again, his version of somebody to Love showcased his vocal | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
talents. Tributes are coming in, aren't they? So many. Sir Elton John | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
as we would expect, one of the first he boasted a photo of himself with | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
George. He offered words of condolences to his family and | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
friends. The band, to run to run, 2016, the loss of another child had | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
sold. A love and sympathy to his family. Andrew Ridgeley, the other | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
half of lamb, the man who gave George Michael the confidence to get | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
on the stage perform saying that he was heartbroken at the loss of his | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
beloved friend. A world of music in the world at large loved him. He | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
found a quote from George Michael and quoted around it. George Michael | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
said that he believes that music is to one of the greatest gifts God | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
gave to man. Andrew originally replied that it was from God, it was | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
from George himself. And the horrible irony that George Michael | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
saying two of the biggest Christmas songs of all time, Do They Know It's | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Christmas?? By band aid and last Christmas by an Wham. It is still | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
number 16 in the charts at the moment. And on Christmas Day. Thank | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
you very much. Russia is holding a day of national | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
mourning for the 92 people who were killed when a military | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
plane crashed in the Black Sea. Authorities in Russia say they've | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
located the site where the plane came down yesterday, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
soon after it took off from Sochi, Our Moscow correspondent, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Steve Rosenberg reports. This is one of the final images | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
of the Tupolev 154 jet. It was taken by a journalist before | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
he boarded the plane. The aircraft crashed | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
into the Black Sea. The Russians scrambled | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
helicopters and ships, but the search became | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
a recovery operation. The plane had taken off from | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
a military airfield near Moscow. It flew south, stopping | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
in Sochi to refuel. The final destination was Syria | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
and Russia's airbase near Latakia, but minutes after leaving | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Sochi it crashed. President Putin offered his | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
condolences to the families of the victims and promised | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
them his full support. On board were more than 60 members | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
of the Russian army's famous song and dance ensemble once known | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
as the Red Army Choir. They'd been due to give a concert | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
at the Russian airbase in Syria. We are in shambles. We valued them. | :07:59. | :08:16. | |
They are our brothers, friends, colleagues, may they rest in peace. | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
Also killed in the crash, a prominent medic known to millions of | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
Russians as Doctor Lever. This disaster has left Russia stunned and | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
silent. The UK should leave the European | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
single market when it exits the EU, the former governor of the Bank | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
of England has said. Mervyn King told Radio 4's Today | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
programme that trading under the same conditions as countries | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
on the continent could stop Britain from taking full advantage | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
of the opportunities of Brexit. I don't think it makes sense for us | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
to pretend that we should remain in a single market and I think there | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
are real? Is about whether it makes sense to stay in the customs union. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Clearly if we do that we can make our own trade deals with other | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
countries. 50,000 thousand people in England | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
at risk of Type-2 diabetes could be helped by an NHS programme that's | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
being extended from today. The advice on better nutrition | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
and exercise had already It forms part of a package | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
of new measures to curb Type-2 diabetes - including funding | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
for more specialist nurses. Japan's Prime Minister is set | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
to visit Pearl Harbour, 75 years after the deadly attack | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
that drew the United States Shinzo Abe is travelling to Hawaii, | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
where he will visit the naval base that was targeted by Japanese | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
bombers in December 1941. More than 2,000 Americans, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
mainly military personnel, An adviser to Mr Abe said he was not | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
planning to offer an apology Millions of shoppers are expected | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
to hit the shops today as the traditional Boxing Day | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
sales get under way. However, research suggests that | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
pre-Christmas discounts - both online and on the high street - | :10:08. | :10:08. | |
mean fewer people now turn up To find out more, we can | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
speak to Diane Wehrle, a retail analyst, who is | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
in our London newsroom. Good morning. Thank you very much | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
for talking to us this morning. So, really, our shoppers almost | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
oversaturated with sales? You get a lot in the run-up to Christmas, why | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
go out again on Boxing Day? It is more of a tradition on Boxing Day as | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
anything else and I feel what has happened what our evidence is | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
showing as is that the Christmas trading period is becoming | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
polarised. It kicks off at the end of November and then it goes into a | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
lull. There is some discounting between Black Friday and Christmas | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
as we know and people are picking up on that. But the volumes of activity | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
in destinations, the numbers of people who visited dropping | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
year-on-year and that is a long-term trend. But is starting to flatten | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
out with small decreases and then there is a big uplift on Boxing Day. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
People like Boxing Day because of the tradition as anything else. With | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
the accessibility of being able to purchase online and avoid the crowds | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
it is inevitable, isn't it, that we will see fewer people out physically | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
shopping? Absolutely and we have a recorded that trend since 2009. More | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
recently however we have had a positivity about retail destinations | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
that have come from the growth of the leisure and hospitality sector. | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Coffee shops, restaurants etc. That pushes people back into destinations | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
because they view shopping trips much more as a leisure activity. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
They are not just going to shop and purchase because they can do that | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
online. They do it, they go out to destinations too big and drink and | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
meet friends and have a coffee. It is more of a broad-based shopping | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
experience. I suppose for retailers themselves they need to think about | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
positioning in the environment that vary in as well. Absolutely. | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Retailers are in a difficult situation. Discounting came on board | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
very strongly during the 2009 recession and of course the | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
recession was much longer than we anticipated the retailers continued | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
discounting and they got themselves into a situation now where shoppers | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
expect discounts but what they really need to be doing is focusing | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
on offering a fantastic shopping experience to encourage people back | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
into stores and make them want to visit. Are there any other | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
traditional sale periods? You see so much discounting ahead of Christmas | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
even then we have Boxing Day and then there is New Year's Eve as | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
world, New Year's Day thousands well. It seems as if sales are on | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
all the time. It is a long window, isn't it? And what we have seen in | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
terms of footfall figures is that sales have disappeared largely. When | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
I was young, thousand New Year's Day were a big thing but we're not | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
seeing that uplift that we once did on New Year's Day. It has been | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
superseded now by Black Friday and Boxing Day. So things are shifting, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
things are changing but that is inevitable in retail. We get that. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
It moves at a slower rate sometimes we do not see it and then suddenly | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
we have evidence in front of us. Things are shifting but everyone | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
likes a discount on the problem we have is that shoppers get very used | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
to discount and very used to them and they expect more and more and | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
even greater discounts. Thank you very much for joining us. Time now | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
with 13 minutes past six a.m. And you are watching Breakfast. Let's | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
bring you date on the main stories. Madonna and Sir Elton John have led | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
tributes to George Michael who have passed away at the age of 53. Russia | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
begins a day of mourning for the 92 passengers and crew who died when a | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
military plane taking them to Syria crashed into the Black Sea. Also | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
coming up on the programme, the year after floods devastated Yorkshire, | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
we returned to see how some residents are picking up the pieces. | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
Well, we were talking about shopping and whether or not people will be | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
keen to get out on the streets. Will the weather be good? Matt, I know | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
you are like me and you do not like going out and shopping. You are an | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
online man. If you are spending the all-important time today on the high | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
street for many across England and Wales it is looking a little like | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
this. Gone is the mild weather of Christmas Day and the grey skies | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
many experienced the sun is out now and it feels a lot cooler out there. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
A day of two halves across the UK today because while some of you | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
enjoy the sunshine, for others there is stormy weather. The further north | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
you are, the wilder the seas get. That is all due to what is cold | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
storm Connor. It is as world cloudier. To the north of Scotland | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
at the moment but it is battering northern parts and men in parts of | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Scotland into Orkney and Shetland in particular. 90 mile an hour gusts | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
possible across Shetland and there is a be prepared warning from the | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Met Office. Some wild wind from the far north of England and Northern | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Ireland, fewer showers with a bit of sunshine and further south, the | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
morning cloud and Walter isolated showers clear it is a lovely day | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
ahead. We continue to see showers across Scotland. Getting to low | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
levels of times and still the winters gusting in excess of 60 | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
miles an hour in the far north. These now could be mounting up, five | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
or ten centimetres over higher ground that in Northern Ireland, | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
fewer showers in the sun will be out for much of the time. Showers | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
limited to Cumbria. Much of England and Wales has a cooler day than | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
yesterday but a lovely sunny one in store and it will be dry with just | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
light winds. Further patchy rain and drizzle in | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
the north. The breeze easing down. With lighter winds and clearer skies | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
to the southern half of the country, a widespread frost is back. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Temperatures in some parts of central and southern England as low | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
as -6, maybe minus seven. It will be a crisp and fresh out the Tuesday. A | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
lovely day for many. England and Wales, a frosty start, lots of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
sunshine. Sunshine in Northern Ireland and a better day in | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Scotland. Couple of showers in the Shetland, but most sustained dry. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Sunny spells and temperatures down from where they should be, but it | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
should feel fairly pleasant with light winds. High pressure is in | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
charge and it moves into Wednesday. Around the centre, where the winds | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
are lightest, in southern and eastern parts of England, here into | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Wednesday morning we could have a problem with fog. Fog could linger | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
and began in eastern areas. There could be problems with the airports. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Check for you travel. Outbreaks of rain into Scotland and Northern | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Ireland. Eventually into the north-west Highlands. That's how it | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
is looking. Enjoy your day and be prepared for the strong winds in | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
northern Scotland. Thanks very much. It feels like a | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
long time since we have seen blue numbers on that map. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
After the unusually mild Christmas we have got it back, but it was only | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
a few weeks ago we had widespread frost. | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
Of course, thanks very much. Time to talk sport. Happy Boxing | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
Day! I wonder if it will be a happy | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
Boxing Day for Sam Allardyce. Earlier in the season, last season, | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
he was the manager at Sunderland. He has this reputation of the Midas | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
touch for keeping things up. A bit of a pantomime character today. A | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
lot of fans will be pleased to see him back. | :18:11. | :18:10. | |
Sam Allardyce will take charge of his first Premier League match | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
as Crystal Palace manager, at Watford this afternoon. | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
The former England boss took over at Selhurst Park last Friday, | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
just a day after Alan Pardew, was sacked. | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
He's already got his eye on the January transfer window, | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
and wants to keep his best players, as well as adding to the squad. | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
Rumours that may float around, but people might be interested in our | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
players, is also of great concern when you are manager, because that | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
is very disruptive and can put a player of his game. We don't want | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
any of that. We are trying to make the squad a bit bigger, with more | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
strength and depth. That would be a key area for me, but I think the | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
players here as good enough. But if we can add to that, let's try and do | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
it. Chelsea, who have a six-point lead | :19:04. | :19:03. | |
at the top of the Premier League, They'll set a new club record, | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
if they make it 12 straight league wins against Bournemouth, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
although they'll have to do it without N'Golo Kante | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
and Diego Costa, who are suspended. They are working very well this week | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
to try to find the solution to play good football, to continue to win, | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
to take the two points. We all know that it won't be easy against | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
Bournemouth because they are very good with great organisation. | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
It's been nearly five years since Arsenal lost three games | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
They're faced with that prospect today. | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
Defeats to Everton and Manchester City have seen them slip nine | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
points, behind Chelsea, at the top and manager Arsene Wenger | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
is determined to stop the rot at home to West Brom this afternoon. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
We are ready for a fight and we want to respond I think in 20 games we | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
lost two, but our quality has been consistent since the start of the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
season and we want to respond in a strong way and in a determined way. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
I think everybody is focused to do that. | :20:22. | :20:22. | |
David Moyes will make his first return to Old Trafford | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
as a manager this afternoon, when his struggling Sunderland side | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Moyes replaced Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
He was proclaimed the 'chosen one', but lasted only 10 months | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
as United struggled under his stewardship. | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
The current United boss, 'The Special One', has sympathy | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
I don't feel it as a person, I feel a great history of the club. Only | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
positive things and not negative things. In a certain period when | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
David came the situation was not so easy, it was not so easy to go in | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
that direction. At the same time, and I think this is even more | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
important, the Premier league was changing. | :21:14. | :21:14. | |
In today's late game Manchester City are away at Hull City, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
who are currently bottom of the table on goal difference. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Pep Guardiola's side are still without the suspended | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
Sergio Aguero, but travel to East Yorkshire having | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
won their last two games, including a 2-1 win over Arsenal. | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
I am not expecting the game against Hull City to be easel, for example. | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
My feeling here is quite similar. Elsewhere, Burnley take | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
on Middlesbrough, champions Leicester are at home to Everton | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
and relegation-threatened Swansea You can keep right up to date | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
with the action on Final Score on the red button, | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
as well as on Five Live and the BBC And of course it is also one of the | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
highlights of the racing calendar. The mid-season championship, the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
King George V race. What a matchup. We have the defending champion | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
against the young contender, Thistlecrack. The young horse to | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
watch out for. He has won all three races he has been in, unbeaten. And | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
of course a big contender for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Is it unusual there are only five? I think that is quite a low number, | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
yes. It is a keenly contested race. I am watching out for the stars of | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
NXT! Only one week away. Thanks very much. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Train travellers are facing significant disruptions this week as | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
200 sets of engineering works planned by Network Rail take place. | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Many people will be travelling by coach instead. Graham Satchell is at | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
Victoria coach Station this morning, they imagine it is getting very busy | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
day? Happy Boxing Day! Good morning. Yes, | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
very busy. It is one of the few transport hubs in the country | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
operating a full pretty much normal service today. Boxing Day is very | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
busy for people as they go out to visit relatives, or get to the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
sales. Football fixture list as well today. But if you are trying to get | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
a train today you will struggle. Have a quick chat to a travel | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
expert. Why are there no trains running? I think Britain is the only | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
place in the world where there are no trains on Boxing Day. That's not | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
strictly true. I can give you the entire national timetable in about | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
ten seconds. There are few trains running around the Merseyrail | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
network in Liverpool and some suburban services in Glasgow. The | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
train operators say there is no demand. But here at Victoria coach | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
Station, in next couple of hours bus is leaving for Aberdeen, learning, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Cardiff and other cities. There seems to be plenty of demand. -- | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Birmingham. The Tories have accused Labour of not doing enough about | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
this, but today the shadow transport minister has accused the Tories of | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
not doing anything. But the train operators don't have to run today, | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
do they? No, the franchises have said to have Christmas Day and | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Boxing Day off and talking to the rail delivery group who represent | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the delivery companies and Network Rail say there is no demand. But | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
here and at the airports, most of which have a pretty normal service | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
today, suggests there is plenty of demand. And talking to GWR, which | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
would normally run services from Paddington to the West Country and | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
South Wales, they say in a normal year if Paddington wasn't closed | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
over Christmas we might consider bringing back Boxing Day services. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
We know there's engineering work, but that doesn't cover the whole | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
network on the? Certainly not. 90% of the network is untouched. The | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
chief executive of Network Rail says they are perfectly happy to let the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
trains run if the train operators ask us. So it is up to the public to | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
demonstrate that they want to go places on Boxing Day. Thank you very | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
much indeed. The airports, as Simon said, are open and running. Not much | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
disruption on the roads, but you will struggle if you want to get a | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
train today. Good to see you. Thanks very much. | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
This time last year, the West Yorkshire town | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
of Hebden Bridge was being hit by a deluge of floodwater. | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Homes, shops, and schools were all affected and the recovery | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Breakfast's John Maguire reported from Hebden Bridge last winter, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
and has returned to see how residents there are coping. | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
Boxing Day, 2015. Torrents of water smashed through Hebden Bridge with | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
no respect for who, where or what they affected, nor indeed for the | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
time of year. 12 months on and riverside schools is receiving a | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
visit from the children's laureate Chris Wood Dell, who has helped | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
flooded communities before. Sketching as we talk, he says he is | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
impressed with the attitude here. Once somebody comes into the | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
communities and sees how resilient they have been in the face of some | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
very testy and trying times, and the way that often brings communities | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
together. The head teacher has been forced to add construction project | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
manager to her skill set. It has been a long returned to normal. The | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
heating system is running, but not until just before Easter. The | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
children were fantastic. As whether parents. Some of the children saw | :26:47. | :26:56. | |
damage both to their school and their home. Everything was crashed | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
and broken and we couldn't find any of our staff and there was a massive | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
canoe and a row decking and we didn't know how that got there. That | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
wasn't yours? No. We look downstairs and it was one metre high. It was | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
taking up a quarter of the staircase. An essential part of the | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
recovery is prevention. At this bookshop, a local mechanic has | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
devised a way to keep the books high-end hopefully drive. I | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
absolutely think that we wouldn't have survived on our own. We just | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
all pulled together, we genuinely did. Hopefully it's all behind us, | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
the Ms Croft. But it does feel like you are tempting fate to say that! | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
Whether you think flooding is caused by global warming or | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
overdevelopment, one thing for certain. When it in packs a | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
community like this it is very much a human response. It is people that | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
drag this town back up, that gets the businesses, schools and families | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
back on their feet. The shops either side were flooded. The pub that we | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
are walking towards was flooded. And that sense of resilience, stoicism | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
and community, that Hebden Bridge is renowned for, has been vital. The | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
little things like none of the cash machines worked in town, so there | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
was a regular series of somebody saying, well I'll drive to the next | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
town, I'll take a bunch of people, we can go to a cash machine and get | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
some cash. When the flood sirens sound is everybody stops and hopes | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
not to be hit again, but if it does happen this place will deploy its | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
best asset in the fightback, the town's people. | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
We're remembering George Michael, who's died at the age of 53. | :28:49. | :29:06. | |
We will talk to a producer who made a film about him and we will talk to | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
people about his life. Earlier we spoke to our correspondent about his | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
life. Of course he collaborated with many people, including Elton John, | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
Aretha Franklin, Mary J Blige. He started on as a Wham! But went on to | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
have a very successful solo career. Perhaps you can e-mail us and get in | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
touch with your memories of George Michael. Many people are waking up | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
to the news now. You can e-mail us at the address below. You can also | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
share your thoughts with other viewers on Facebook and Twitter | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
about today's stories. I will be back with the headline shortly. | :29:48. | :31:02. | |
on the career of George Michael throughout the programme today. In | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
other news: to bring you authorities in Russia say they have located the | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
site where a plane came down yesterday soon after taking off from | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
Sochi. The victims included nine journalists and over 60 members of | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
the Moscow-based red Army choir which was on its way to perform in | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
Syria. The UK should leave the European single market when it exits | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
the EU. Mervyn King told radio four's today programme that trading | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
under the same conditions as countries on the continent could | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
prevent Britain from taking full advantage of the opportunities of | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
Brexit. I don't go makes sense for us to pretend that we should remain | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
in the single market and I think were all? Is about whether it makes | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
sense to stay in the customs union. If we do that we cannot make our own | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
trade deals with other countries. 50,000 people in England or a type | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
of type 2 diabetes and could be held by an NHS programme that is being | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
extended from today. The advice on better nutrition and exercise has | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
already helped 20,000 people and forms part of a package of new | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
methods to curb type 2 diabetes. The Prime Minister of Japan is set to | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
visit Pearl Harbor 75 years after the deadly attack that drew the | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
United States into the Second World War. Abe is travelling to whole i.e. | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
Where he will visit the naval base targeted by Japanese bombers in | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
1941. Over 2000 Americans, mostly military personnel, were killed. An | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
adviser to the Japanese government said that he was not prepared to | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
offer a enough apology for the attack. Shoppers are expected to hit | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
the high street today for traditional Boxing Day sales. The | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
number of people going to the shops is expected to be down compared to | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
last year with analyst saying that earlier discount events like Black | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
Friday and cyber Monday will affect post- Christmas sales. Over ?3 | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
billion is expected to be spent at the registers today with ?900 | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
million spent online. I will be back at seven o'clock with the headlines | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
and I will see you then. But first, 2016, a great year for the Olympians | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
and Paralympian of Britain. We can take a look now at a golden summer | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
in Rio. Is coming four years after a | :33:20. | :33:43. | |
stunning one ten games, Rio 2016 was a tough act to follow. And while the | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
buildup was far from ideal with political scandals, financial crises | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
and worries about the Zika virus, Brazil was always going to offer a | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
spectacular setting for South America's first ever Olympic and | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
Paralympic games. There would be plenty of time for celebrations | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
after Woods and we had big ambitions, the best ever for an | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
Olympics. Paralympics GB were hoping to better their hall in London. | :34:14. | :34:22. | |
First of the athletics. The stadium erupts! Three gold medals for Great | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
Britain. Sydney 2000 heptathlon champion was | :34:25. | :34:39. | |
there as Jessica and Hill and Mo Farah tried to defend their | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
respective titles. We were all looking forward to the repeat of | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
super Saturday from London 2012. Mo Farah in the 10,000 metres. It was | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
not without its drama. The falling. He was clipped. The Bunting, the | :34:53. | :35:01. | |
barging and Mo Farah still managed to come through and the atmosphere | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
was electric. Mo Farah is the first British athlete to win three Olympic | :35:06. | :35:13. | |
gold medals. Jessica Ennis Hill was not great to have it all her own way | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
in the heptathlon. Straight back after giving birth, could she | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
retained her title? She fought hard and competed with such valour. To | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
come away with a silver medal was a great achievement for a woman who | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
has just graced our track for so many years. And Greg who was | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
desperate to try and retain his title. A jump of eight metres and 29 | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
centimetres was only going to be bronze. He meant was that 5000 | :35:45. | :35:51. | |
metres final. Mo Farah going for the double bubble. Could he do the | :35:52. | :36:03. | |
double? He did it on every count. Gold again to Great Britain! A | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
double bubble. My legs are a little tired but I did it. I did it! It is | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
the dream of every athlete, as I said, and I cannot believe it. We | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
had high hopes in the four x one relay. Would the women come through | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
and take a medal? Yes, they could. Doing a fantastic job to bring home | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
a medal for Britain. And who could forget Sophie in the women's hammer | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
throw? A totally unexpected bronze medal but she had to work hard for | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
it. Coming through on her sixth and final throw. Overall a fantastic | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
championships for British athletics but you will definitely have to go | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
to Mo Farah. Hello. I am Vicki Holland and in Rio | :36:49. | :37:01. | |
I was the first British woman to win a Olympic triathlon medal. It was | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
difficult conditions, a hilly bike ride, tough conditions in the surf. | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
Hot and humid is ringed finish and I came out with a bronze medal. Having | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
watched the Olympics since I was six, to come home and finally have a | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
medal was everything I ever wanted. We have a couple of other superstars | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
in triathlon. The boys winning gold and silver. They are the pioneers of | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
triathlon and I am pleased to have won a medal alongside them. The | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
British success did not stop there. Golf made a controversial return to | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
the Ludwig is in Rio and Justin Rose became the first Olympic | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
gold-medallist in the sport for 112 years. Andy Murray had a number | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
liveable year and offended if Olympic tennis title after in a peek | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
battle. -- Andy Murray had an unbelievable year. He defended his | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
tennis title after an intense battle. A matter of medals away from | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
the Stadium is the velodrome, one of the most challenging and finished | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
just weeks before the limb pics began. Any issues that the | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
organisers had with that paled into insignificance thanks to the | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
difficult buildup that the GB cycling team had. The performance | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
manager resigned after allegations of sex as comments on bullying. | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
Results on the track had been mixed at best. Once again, they peaked | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
when it mattered most. There was just one gold medal for grabs on the | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
opening day at the track. The men's team sprint. Or four years Great | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
Britain has struggled to fill the anchor role. But let out by | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
defending champions, another Scotsman rose to the occasion. Who | :38:47. | :38:54. | |
will claim the gold medal? The gold medal goes to Great Britain! The | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
Olympic champions again! The next day all of the focus was on Sir | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
Bradley Wiggins. Could he become Britain's most decorated Olympian of | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
all time? The British quartet trailed all the way until the | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
closing stages. Willoughby Australia? Will be Great Britain? It | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
is Great Britain a world record time! Another day another gold for | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
Great Britain. A successful defence of the women's team pursuit as Laura | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
Trott alongside her teammates came the first British woman to win | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
freely big gold medals. Not to be outdone by his fiancee, Jason Kenny | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
retained his Olympic crown in the individual sprint defeating his | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
compatriot and into silver. Becky James put over two years of injury | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
and illness behind her to take silver. While Mark Cavendish's | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
status as one of the all-time greats on the road is undisputed, and his | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
third Olympic Games, an Olympic medal was still a big hole in his | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
cabinet. And many doubted that would change. Howell wrong they were. -- | :40:05. | :40:15. | |
how wrong they were. The sixth and final day predictably provided more | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
gold as Laura Trott emphatically defended her title. Oche James | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
celebrated a second silver in the individual sprint and Kitty showed | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
her promise for the future with bronze. Jason Kenny going for a | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
British record. In the final event he was hoping to secure his third | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
gold medal of the games and equal the record of his predecessor. A | :40:43. | :40:49. | |
golden hat-trick for Jason Kenny! Six gold! So for an third Olympics | :40:50. | :41:01. | |
in a row, the British team dominated the cycling. Not to be forgotten, | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
out on the road, Christopher followed up a third Tour de France | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
victory time trial and a bronze. Swimming is undoubtedly one of the | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
most popular Olympic sports. But the British team has been notable | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
absentee from the podium. They miss their medal target in London winning | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
just three. Four years later, led by a new generation, the results would | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
be a little different. Here is double Olympic champion Rebecca | :41:33. | :41:43. | |
Appleton 's take. We are on target of four also gold medals and was | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
quickly got that rolling. At PT takes Olympic gold for Great | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
Britain. He has obliterated the world record! Most of his time it | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
was down to a fingernail, winning in such a way over 100 metres is huge. | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
It is surreal to get the first goal but this is a product of seven years | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
of work and, more importantly, for my country. It means so much to me. | :42:11. | :42:20. | |
Just to be one of those who got a gold medal lifts you. And to come | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
away with a silver medal in the relay is impressive. The fact that | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
we came back and got a silver, the women did equally as well. Jasmine | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
got two silver medals which, for me, I am so attached to because they | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
were the events that I used to do. I was so pleased for her and Rio was | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
her moment. Siobhan as well, she is in a difficult event so the fact | :42:48. | :42:55. | |
that she scared the dominant champion is a sense of what is to | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
come and I think they will have an even better Tokyo Olympics. Inspired | :43:00. | :43:09. | |
by the success of the British runners, the British divers wanted | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
to make their own impact. As far as Britain is concerned it is no longer | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
about Tom Daley. Sure he was the challenging for more honours but he | :43:18. | :43:26. | |
also has a few talented teammates. Here come the British divers. Jack | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
Law and Chris Smith. This pair are gunning for a medal today. There you | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
go. Yes! That is good enough! Yes, yes, yes! This is the moment for | :43:43. | :43:53. | |
Jack and Chris. Yes! Come on! It is gold! Pure gold for Jack and Chris. | :43:54. | :44:05. | |
They have done it! Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow. This will need to be so | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
good. The last one. Will it be enough? This will be a low, so | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
close. Let us wait and see. They have done it! They are bronze | :44:17. | :44:29. | |
medallist! A silver to add to the gold they got in the synchronised. A | :44:30. | :44:31. | |
terrific performance. I'm Jade Jones and I won my second | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
taekwondo Olympic gold in Rio. It was just relief | :44:36. | :44:44. | |
more than anything. Having all that pressure, | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
with being number one, So it was just amazing to do it | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
on the day and nail it. It was a great Games | :44:51. | :45:00. | |
for GB taekwondo. I was a half second | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
from accomplishing my dream! I don't want to cry on TV, | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
but I'm distraught! But in Rio, there was | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
another impressive medal. Bianca Walkden claimed | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
heavyweight bronze. One more sport I like and GB happen | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
to be good at is boxing. Like me, Nicola Adams | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
also defended her title. Whilst there was silver for super | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
heavyweight Joe Joyce Rounding off the combat | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
sports is judo. Sally Conway claimed Olympic bronze | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
medal in the -70 kilos division. Still to come on the programme: | :45:44. | :45:53. | |
We find out how the British rowing team continued their gold-medal run | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
which goes all the way back to 1984. Hollie Webb gives us her take | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
on that penalty which secured the GB women's hockey team an historic | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
first-ever Olympic title. And we take a look at some | :46:05. | :46:16. | |
of the record-breaking successes for Britain's Paralympic | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
athletes in Rio. Next, to gymnastics, | :46:20. | :46:21. | |
and a sport which from a British perspective has undergone a massive | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
transformation over Back at the 2004 Athens Olympics, | :46:25. | :46:26. | |
GB had just one male They now have some of the best | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
gymnasts in the world. And here at the Rio Olympic Arena, | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
history would be made. London 2012 bronze medallist | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
Beth Tweddle watched it all unfold. This summer was incredible | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
for Team GB gymnastics. I don't think ten years ago | :46:41. | :46:42. | |
we could have ever dreamt of coming Max Whitlock picking up | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
double Olympic gold, one of them being on the floor, | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
which, to be honest, I think I can openly say I don't | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
think anyone would have expected. He suddenly found himself in medal | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
contention and I don't think even realised when he had won | :46:57. | :46:59. | |
the gold, I think his coach And then to put that behind him | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
an hour later he had to walk out into the pommel final with Louis | :47:03. | :47:09. | |
Smith. We knew it was going | :47:10. | :47:11. | |
to be a close contest. But Louis did the routine | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
of his life and then Max Whitlock also performed the routine | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
of his life and took home that gold. I have completely outdone myself, | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
me and Scott can stand here very To come into the Olympic Games, | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
I don't know what to say, To see one and two for | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
Great Britain on that Olympic The next medal came | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
from Amy Tinkler. She's the only other girl that's | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
won an Olympic medal Three weeks later she was | :47:41. | :47:42. | |
picking up her GCSEs. So it just shows how far British | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
gymnastics are coming on. Nile then went on to pick up that | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
medal in the high bar, the first-ever British medal for us | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
on that piece of apparatus. That is going to | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
challenge, Nile Wilson. We cannot forget about Max, | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
he also picked up a third medal And finally, for trampolining, | :48:01. | :48:03. | |
Bryony Page picking up For me, to stand there | :48:04. | :48:14. | |
in the stands, being on the other side of the stage, I thought | :48:15. | :48:25. | |
I was going to be a little bit nervous, and a little bit - | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
do I wish I were still out there? But actually I was just | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
proud to be British. One of the major worries heading | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
into the Rio Olympics concerned water pollution, | :48:36. | :48:37. | |
following the discovery of drug resistant super bacteria | :48:38. | :48:39. | |
in the Guanabara Bay Would it impact athletes in some | :48:40. | :48:41. | |
of Britain's most successful sports? Years of intense preparations | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
clearly paid off as There are no guarantees in sport | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
of victory for Helen Glover and Heather Stanning | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
comes pretty close. They'd gone five years | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
unbeaten into the Games and ended their career together | :49:00. | :49:01. | |
with another success, defending their Olympic | :49:02. | :49:03. | |
women's pairs title. They are fearless, | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
they are without equal, they are history makers, | :49:08. | :49:09. | |
Great Britain's Glover and Stanning defend their Olympic title | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
and they have done it in such style. There would be gold medals, too, | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
for the men's coxless fours Many thought that Katherine Grainger | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
would retire after London but the temptation to return | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
proved too strong. Aged over 40 and after a long break | :49:30. | :49:38. | |
from the sport it is perhaps little surprise she and Vicky Thornley | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
failed to impress in But when the pressure | :49:43. | :49:44. | |
was on the result was different. Considering what we have been | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
through the last couple of years I'm That is a medal that not many people | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
would have given us so I'm pleased. Mum and dad, I promise, I'll never | :49:54. | :49:59. | |
put you through that again. After the rowing, the lake was clear | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
for the Sprint canoeists and Liam Heath lived up | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
to his billing as one of the preGames favourites | :50:07. | :50:08. | |
with victory in the K1 200. He also partnered John Schofield | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
to siler in the same Few saw Joe Clarke as a medal | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
prospect in slalom, but he produced one of the shocks of the Games | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
with a near-perfect David Florence secured a third | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
successive silver of his career, teaming up with Richard Hounslow | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
to finish second in the C2 event. Finally, to sailing, | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
and there would be no Sir Ben Ainslie in these Games | :50:34. | :50:35. | |
but his replacement in the Finn class, Giles Scott, delivered | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
a performance Ben Ainslie would have Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills also | :50:40. | :50:41. | |
navigated the tricky Rio waters to perfection, | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
and upgraded their London The windsurfer Nick Dempsey took | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
silver and became the first man to win three career Olympic medals | :50:50. | :50:59. | |
in this event. Hello, my name is Hollie Webb | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
and I was a member of the Team GB women's hockey team that won a gold | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
medal at the Rio Games. We knew that if we could get a good | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
game under our belts in the first game then we could use that momentum | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
all the way through the tournament. And the game is tough, | :51:18. | :51:20. | |
as we expect against Australia, We topped the pool, and won | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
all of our pool Games and I can remember thinking that night, | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
gosh, we're going to have to win every single game now to win | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
the Rio Olympic Games. So our next massive, | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
massive focus was the quarterfinal. The semifinal we were | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
up against the Kiwis, who were ludicrously fast | :51:39. | :51:49. | |
and so athletic and we Our coach just said to us, | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
OK, one more game. Great Britain are in | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
the Olympic final. The Netherlands hadn't lost | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
at the Olympic Games since 2004. The Dutch played out of their skins | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
and were sort of all over us. Inside the circle, Maddie Hinch | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
is down, the angle... They had four chances | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
and scored three. We were in a positive place | :52:15. | :52:16. | |
going into the penalties, and each person went, | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
Maddie was making some incredible It came to the third one, | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
and Helen scored hers. Great Britain are off | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
the mark in the shoot out. If I scored my last one then that | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
would be it, we would win. So we went up, made sure | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
I went really slowly Made sure I looked in | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
the eyes and looked as big Hollie Webb on her way, | :52:37. | :52:51. | |
to win gold for Great Britain. Webb... | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
Turns, scores! Great Britain have won | :52:56. | :52:56. | |
the Olympic gold medal. Hi, I'm Charlotte Dujardin and I won | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
the individual gold and team silver Winning my individual gold | :53:02. | :53:16. | |
meant the world to me and it was the perfect way | :53:17. | :53:23. | |
to finish my career with Valegro. I was not GB's only | :53:24. | :53:31. | |
equestrian gold medallist. Showjumper Nick Skelton became | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
Britain's second oldest Olympic Two other sports at the Diadoro | :53:34. | :53:35. | |
cluster were rugby The men's rugby team took home | :53:36. | :53:48. | |
silver in the sport's Olympic debut, while GB shooters had two bronze | :53:49. | :53:55. | |
medals to celebrate. Ed Lling in the trap | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
and Steven Scott in the double trap Can you sum up what this incredible | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
bronze medal means to you? GB secured their first medal | :54:04. | :54:11. | |
in the sport since 2004, with Marcus Ellis and Chris | :54:12. | :54:20. | |
Langridge claiming Rio's breathtaking geography | :54:21. | :54:28. | |
and spectacular seafronts make for a stunning setting but the city | :54:29. | :54:31. | |
isn't without its problems and life for disabled people here can be far | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
from straightforward. So the Rio Paralympics was seen | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
as an opportunity to improve accessibility and attitudes | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
here in Brazil. The British team were hoping | :54:42. | :54:42. | |
to improve on their medal Dame Sarah Storey already had | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
an incredible haul heading into Rio Three gold medals saw her become | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
GB's most successful female Paralympian of all | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
time with 14 titles. Other highlights included | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
Jonnie Peacock sprinting his way to a stunning defence | :55:06. | :55:07. | |
of his 100 metre crown. The historic 1-2-3 for the GB | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
archers, an emotional table tennis victory for Will Bayley, | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
and brilliant hat tricks for Hannah Cockroft on the track, | :55:14. | :55:15. | |
Bethany Firth in the pool, as well as for the equestrian | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
stars Sophie Christiansen There were countless | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
others who also excelled. Here's Kate Grey's take | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
on the best of the rest. The older more | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
experienced members of Paralympics GB delivered | :55:33. | :55:34. | |
once again here in Rio. But the young new stars have | :55:35. | :55:36. | |
also made their mark. The one standout performer | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
was Kadeena Cox, for whom one sport | :55:45. | :55:46. | |
just wasn't enough. Winning gold in both | :55:47. | :55:47. | |
cycling and athletics. It is just normal, | :55:48. | :55:49. | |
but everyone seems to think I have done | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
something special. It is amazing, the support | :55:53. | :56:02. | |
and the warm welcome. It makes you feel so | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
special and grateful for 15-year-old Ellie Robinson | :56:06. | :56:07. | |
and Kare Adenegan were inspired by Four years on they've now become | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
medallists here in Rio on It was also great to see | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
the veterans of the Sasha Kindred and Jody Cundy both | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
competing in their sixth Paralympic But we can't ignore the fact GB's | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
success has been helped by the absence of Russia | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
and the doping ban. But considering there | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
were fears that these Games would not even happen | :56:34. | :56:35. | |
at all in the lead up, for 11 days the Brazilian people | :56:36. | :56:38. | |
have embraced the Paralympic spirit. GB finished an impressive second | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
in the medal table behind China, with a stunning | :56:42. | :56:44. | |
total of 147 medals. Back to the Olympics now and away | :56:45. | :56:46. | |
from the golden performances of the British team in Rio, | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
there were of course many incredible achievements by athletes | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
from other countries as well. Usain Bolt rounded off | :56:56. | :56:57. | |
an unbelievable Olympic career with the third | :56:58. | :56:59. | |
sprint treble for Jamaica, winning the 100 metres, 200 metres | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
and the 4x100 metre relays. I look on it as an accomplishment, | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
you know what I mean? I enjoy pressure, I live | :57:10. | :57:12. | |
for these moments, and for me I came through and I | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
was proud of myself. From the greatest sprinter | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
of all time to the greatest ever swimmer, | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
Michael Phelps has rewritten the record books time | :57:22. | :57:23. | |
and time again for the USA. And extended his honour list | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
to an incredible 28 medals, 23 of those gold, | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
from five Olympics. He has said it before | :57:32. | :57:33. | |
but insists he is now Next to the host nation | :57:34. | :57:36. | |
and from poverty to the podium. Raffaella Silva grew up in one | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
of Rio's toughest neighbourhoods, was disqualified at London 2012, | :57:41. | :57:42. | |
and labelled an embarrassment. A fairy tale turnaround | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
was completed with an emotional victory and Brazil's | :57:46. | :57:47. | |
first gold of the Games. The title the hosts craved more | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
than any came in their favourite sport, never before have Brazil won | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
an Olympic football gold, but inspired by Barcelona star | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
Neymar, they finally completed 200 million Brazilians | :57:58. | :57:59. | |
scream with delight! There were also pretty wild | :58:00. | :58:12. | |
celebrations from the Fijian rugby sevens team, who won their country's | :58:13. | :58:15. | |
first-ever Olympic gold, while American teenage gymnast | :58:16. | :58:17. | |
Simone Biles dazzled with four gold medals, a star now and | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
for the future Games. It was a golden Games | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
for so many nations, but with 67 medals, 27 of them gold, | :58:27. | :58:29. | |
it was a historic Olympics They became the first nation ever | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
to beat their total from a home Games and just four years later, | :58:33. | :58:40. | |
and finished second on the medal table behind the USA | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
and ahead of China. Rio 2016 was an incredible Games, | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
it saw us say goodbye to major names like Sir Bradley Wiggins | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
and Jessica Ennis-Hill, who won't be competing | :58:52. | :58:53. | |
at the next Olympics. But it saw the rise of new stars | :58:54. | :58:55. | |
who will be looking to build So from the road to Rio we are now | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
on the Trail to Tokyo. This is Breakfast, | :59:00. | :00:07. | |
with Naga Munchetty. George Michael, one of the biggest | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
music stars of his generation, After a string of top ten hits | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
with Wham in the 80s, he had further success as a solo | :00:14. | :00:26. | |
artist, selling more Good morning, it's Boxing Day, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Monday the 26th of December. A day of mourning in Russia | :00:29. | :00:50. | |
for the 92 people who were on board a jet which crashed into | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
the Black Sea on its way to Syria. We'll find out how the community | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
in Hebden Bridge has recovered from Boxing Day floods, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
which left dozens of families Everything was floating and | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
downstairs there was one metre high. It was about a quarter of the | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
staircase. Boxing Day sales have | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
already started online - we'll look at how changes in buying | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
habits have affected the traditional In sport, Sam Allardyce takes charge | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
of a football match for the first time since he was sacked | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
as England manager. His new side Crystal Palace, | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
will face Watford in the Premier The storm brings a wild Boxing Day | :01:33. | :01:50. | |
two parts of Scotland. Strong winds elsewhere with frequent showers. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Fair to say it is a different story elsewhere. The sun is out and it | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
should be a lovely day. One of the biggest pop stars | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
of the '80s and '90s, He was 53, and is believed to have | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
suffered from heart failure. He rose to fame as one | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
half of the group, Wham! but went on to have a | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
successful solo career. He sold 100 million albums worldwide | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
and had 11 UK number ones. Nick Quraishi looks | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
back at his life. # You put the boom | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
boom into my heart... Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
songs propelled Wham to number one # But the very next | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
day you gave it away. Their most famous song heard every | :02:29. | :02:41. | |
year will now have added poignancy. Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
in north London, George Michael was 12 years old when he | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
met Andrew Ridgeley. They left school at 16 | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
and set up Wham in 1981. # And time can never | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
mend a careless whisper. His biggest hit, Careless Whisper | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
came in 1984 but was written Three years later, his solo album, | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Faith, marked a shift from teen idol With the success came | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
brushes with the law. An arrest for lewd behaviour | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
in a public toilet He had a stint in prison | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
after crashing his car George Michael announced | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
he was gay, later revealing he had been in the closet | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
for years to prevent his mother In 2011 he nearly died in Vienna | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
after a bout of pneumonia. A collaboration with producer | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Naughty Boy and a documentary called Freedom which was due | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
for release next month. When it came to pop | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
music, George Michael had it all - looks, voice | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
and the ability to write a string of hits that will continue to be | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
played for years to come. George Michael who has passed away | :04:04. | :04:15. | |
at the age of 53. Colin Paddison joins us now. 11 o'clock last night | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
and that is when the news came. I remember just being shocked. People | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
of a certain generation. Part of the pop conversation for the last 30 | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
years, he has been, and he has been so identified with Christmas with | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
two best-known Christmas songs of all time. Do They Know It's | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Christmas? And the song that was kept off number will one in 1984, | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
Last Christmas. People love it every year. So many tributes coming in for | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
him as well. We saw in that report he has collaborated with some | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
massive names and massive stars. That was one of the things. He was | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
on top of the pops, and the songs he wrote and his voice the big names of | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
music wanted to work with him. Elton John performed a duet with him. | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Elton John asked him to be a backup singer at one point because he knew | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
what a talented voice it had. Elton John said he has lost a close friend | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
and a generous soul. His heart goes out with family and fans. Aretha | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Franklin, just after he left wham, that is to he teamed up with to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
perform a song. That was how he pulled off what so few people do and | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
make the transition from boy band to a credible solo artist. And a very | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
successful one as well. Says produced for US number one. And then | :05:49. | :05:59. | |
his up following albums, there were no videos for them and then he | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
started to tackle subjects different to what he started with, Jesus to a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
child tackled the death of a former lover to AIDS. Thank you very much. | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
Russia is holding a day of national mourning for the 92 people | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
who were killed when a military plane crashed in the Black Sea. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Authorities in Russia say they've located the site where the plane | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
came down yesterday, soon after it took off from Sochi, | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Our Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg reports. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
This is one of the final images of the Tupolev 154 jet. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
It was taken by a journalist before he boarded the plane. | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
The aircraft crashed into the Black Sea. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
The Russians scrambled helicopters and ships, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
but the search became a recovery operation. | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
The plane had taken off from a military airfield near Moscow. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
It flew south, stopping in Sochi to refuel. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
The final destination was Syria and Russia's airbase near Latakia, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
but minutes after leaving Sochi it crashed. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
President Putin offered his condolences to the families | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
of the victims and promised them his full support. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
On board were more than 60 members of the Russian army's famous song | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
and dance ensemble once known as the Red Army Choir. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
They'd been due to give a concert at the Russian airbase in Syria. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
They are our brothers, friends, colleagues, | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Also killed in the crash, a prominent medic known to millions | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
Throughout the day Muscovites brought flowers to the headquarters | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
This disaster has left Russia stunned and silent. | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
The UK should leave the European single market when it exits the EU, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
the former governor of the Bank of England has said. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Mervyn King told Radio 4's Today programme that trading under | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
the same conditions as countries on the continent could stop Britain | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
from taking full advantage of the opportunities of Brexit. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
I don't think it makes sense for us to pretend that we should remain | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
in a single market and I think there are real questions | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
about whether it makes sense to stay in the customs union. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Clearly if we do that we can not make our own trade deals | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
50,000 thousand people in England at risk of Type-2 diabetes could be | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
helped by an NHS programme that's being extended from today. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
The advice on better nutrition and exercise had already | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
It forms part of a package of new measures to curb Type-2 | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
diabetes - including funding for more specialist nurses. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Japan's Prime Minister is set to visit Pearl Harbour, | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
75 years after the deadly attack that drew the United States | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Shinzo Abe is travelling to Hawaii, where he will visit the naval base | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
that was targeted by Japanese bombers in December 1941. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
More than 2,000 Americans, mainly military personnel, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
An adviser to Mr Abe said he was not planning to offer an apology | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Train travellers will face significant disruption this week, | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
as 200 sets of engineering works are planned by Network Rail. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
With so many trains cancelled or suspended, lots of people will be | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
So Breakfast's Graham Satchell is at Victoria Coach Station | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Good morning. It is getting quite busy behind you. It is. This is one | :09:36. | :09:49. | |
of the only transport hub is really working properly today. A busy day | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
for many people as they head out the South or to visit relatives, to a | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
football match. But I love you wanted a train, you will struggle. | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Why are there no trains? Train operators say there is not enough | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
demand to make it worth their while running services. Yes, there are | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
engineering most of the network is open. Having said that, looking at | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
the thousands of people going through the station today, owing to | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
places all over the country, it seems odd that the only place you | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
can go to from London Gatwick, Stansted, Brighton, Oxford. A few | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
trains around Liverpool and some in Glasgow. That is it. Lettuce wrap up | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
the other travel stuff. Roads and airports. There was going to be | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
astray, wasn't there? The British Airways dispute is over. No problems | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
that I see at Heathrow or any of the airports for the some problems in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the North of Scotland and if you are travelling by ferry, for example, to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
the western isles all to Shetland then check before you travel because | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
many services have been counselled. Interestingly, the Shadow Transport | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Secretary today accused the government of not doing enough to | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
get rail passengers moving on Boxing Day. The train operators do not have | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
to run today and with that they are not running today. Think very much. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
-- thank you very much. Millions of shoppers are expected | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
to hit the shops today as the traditional Boxing Day | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
sales get under way. However, research suggests that | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
pre-Christmas discounts - both online and on the high street - | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
mean fewer people now turn up Earlier on Breakfast, | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
retail analyst Diane Wehrle told us retailers need to focus | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
on attracting customers into stores Retailers are in a | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
difficult situation. but what they really need to be | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
doing is focusing on offering a fantastic shopping experience | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
to encourage people back into stores Matt will be here in around | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
five minutes to tell us what the weather's got in store | :11:56. | :12:08. | |
for the next few days. This time last year, | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge was being hit | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
by a deluge of floodwater. Homes, shops, and schools | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
were all affected and the recovery Breakfast's John Maguire reported | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
from Hebden Bridge last winter, and has returned to see how | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
residents there are coping. Torrents of water smashed | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
through Hebden Bridge with no respect for who, where | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
or what they affected, 12 months on and Riverside School | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
is receiving a visit from the children's laureate | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Chris Riddell, who has helped Sketching as we talk, | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
he says he is impressed One comes into the community | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
and sees how resilient they have been in the face of some very | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
testy and trying times, and the way that often brings | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
communities together. The head teacher has been forced | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
to add construction project manager The heating system is running, | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
but not until just before Easter. I emailed to ask them | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
not to pull them out! Some of the children saw damage both | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
to their school and their home. Everything was crashed and broken | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
and we couldn't find any of our stuff and there was a massive | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
canoe under our decking and we didn't know | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
how that got there. We look downstairs and | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
it was one metre high. It was taking up a quarter | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
of the staircase. An essential part of | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
the recovery is prevention. At this bookshop, a local mechanic | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
has devised a way to keep the books I absolutely think that we wouldn't | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
have survived on our own. We just all pulled together, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
we genuinely did. But it does feel like you're | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
tempting fate to say that! Whether you think flooding | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
is caused by global warming or overdevelopment, | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
one thing for certain - when it impacats a community | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
like this, it's very much It is people that drag this town | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
back up, that gets the businesses, schools and families | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
back on their feet. The pub that we are walking | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
towards was flooded. And that sense of resilience, | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
stoicism and community, that Hebden Bridge is renowned | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
for, has been vital. The little things like none | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
of the cash machines worked in town, so there was a regular | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
scene of somebody saying, well, I'll drive to the next town, | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
I'll take a bunch of people, we can go to a cash | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
machine and get some cash. When the flood sirens sounds, | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
everybody stops and hopes not to be hit again, but if it does happen | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
this place will deploy its best asset in the fightback, | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
the town's people. You're watching | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning: | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Madonna and Sir Elton John have led tributes to the singer | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
George Michael, who has died Russia is beginning a day | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
of mourning for the 92 passengers and crew who died when a military | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
plane taking them to Syria crashed Here's Matt with a look | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
at this morning's weather. It has been very mild of late. We | :15:41. | :16:00. | |
enjoyed those Christmas Day walks, or Boxing Day walks perhaps today? | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
It certainly is mild. After the mild Christmas Day, today, for the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
majority of the country, you can walk off the exodus of Christmas | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
trees. The blue skies are cooler than yesterday, but it won't be blue | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
skies everywhere. In the northern half of the country it will be a | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
wild and windy day. We have storm, the blame for that. It is currently | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
to the north of Shetland. -- Storm Conor. It is whipping up high seas. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Reports of 14 metre waves between Orkney and Shetland. Under that zone | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
we have a Met Office and the bee prepared warning in place. Further | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
damage and disruption could be possible. -- amber be prepared. | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
There could be severe gales. Frequent showers through the day, | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
dropping snow over the hills. Further south, any showers will fade | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
away. A fine day in store. We could still have up to 70 mph in the far | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
north of Scotland by the end of the afternoon. There will be showers | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
packing in as well. It would be hard pressed to avoid them in Scotland. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
The cold day. Northern Ireland has a fuchsia hours into the afternoon and | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
sunshine to end the day. Some showers in the far north of England. | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
The rest of England and Wales, a great day to get a walk in. The | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
winds easing the rout, even if it is substantially cooler than it was | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
yesterday afternoon. With the cooler day a cooler night will follow. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Still showers in Scotland. Dating back to spots of rain in Orkney and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Shetland later, loosely becoming dry. -- feeding back. A widespread | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
frost developing in England and Wales. Temperatures in the south | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Midlands getting as low as -6 or seven. Frost in parts of Ireland. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Isolated in central and eastern parts of Scotland. This is where we | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
have sunshine for Tuesday. A couple of showers. Most have a dry day on | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Tuesday after the crisp and frosty start. Another great day for a walk. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Plenty of sunshine around and temperatures on the fresh side, at | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
about 6-7 degrees. High pressure still in charge into Wednesday. In | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
southern eastern areas, with the winds light, and a frost there will | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
be dense patches of fog. That will hamper some of the roads and | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
airports in eastern England. Most will have a dry day, a bit of cloud | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Sunniest of all to the south and | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
west. Certainly after a stormy Christmas spell it is set to turn | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
quieter for the rest of the week and the leader of the new year. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
-- lead up. Still hat and scarf weather. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Definitely! Isn't it, Mike? | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Did you get any for Christmas? I always do. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
So all of those times you are going out, you need to wrap up warm. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Crystal Palace versus Watford today. A big game. Sam Allardyce back in | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
management, a few months after having to leave the England job. But | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
he has this reputation for keeping teams up. That's what they have | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
hired him for, the Midas touch, avoiding relegation. | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
Sam Allardyce will take charge of his first Premier League match | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
as Crystal Palace manager at Watford this afternoon. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
The former England boss took over at Selhurst Park last Friday, | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
just a day after Alan Pardew was sacked. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
He's already got his eye on the January transfer window | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
and wants to keep his best players, as well as adding to the squad. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Rumours that may float around, that people might be interested | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
in our players, is also of great concern when you are manager, | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
because that is very disruptive and can put a player off his game. | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
We are trying to recruit and make the squad a bit bigger, | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
That would be a key area for me, but I think the players | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
But also if we can add to that, let's try and do it. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Chelsea, who have a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League, | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
They'll set a new club record, if they make it 12 straight league | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
wins against Bournemouth, although they'll have to do it | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
without N'Golo Kante and Diego Costa, who are suspended. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
They are working very well this week to try to find the solution to play | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
good football, to continue to win, to take the two points. | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
We all know that it won't be easy against Bournemouth | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
because they are a very good team, with great organisation. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
It's been nearly five years since Arsenal lost three games | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
They're faced with that prospect today. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Defeats to Everton and Manchester City have seen them slip nine | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
points behind Chelsea at the top and manager Arsene Wenger | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
is determined to stop the rot at home to West Brom this afternoon. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
We are ready for a fight and we want to respond. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
I think in 20 games we lost the last two, but our quality has been | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
consistent since the start of the season and we want | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
to respond in a strong way and in a determined way. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
I think everybody is focused to do that. | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
David Moyes will make his first return to Old Trafford | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
as a manager this afternoon, when his struggling Sunderland side | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Moyes replaced Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
He was proclaimed the 'chosen one', but lasted only ten months, | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
as United struggled under his stewardship. | :21:56. | :21:56. | |
The current United boss, 'The Special One', has sympathy | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
I don't feel it as a person, I feel a great history of the club. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
Only positive things and not negative things. | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
In a certain period, when probably David come, | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
it was not so easy to go in that direction. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
At the same time, and I think this is even more | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
important, the Premier League was changing. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Elsewhere, Burnley take on Middlesbrough. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Leicester are at home to Everton and relegation-threatened Swansea | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
You can keep right up to date with the action on Final Score | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
on the red button, as well as on Five Live and the BBC | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
The first day of the second test between Australia and Pakistan in | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Melbourne has been abandoned due to rain. Pakistan were 142-4. Look at | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
them! Play will resume on day two at 11pm, our time. Remember Australia | :23:05. | :23:05. | |
on the first test. And its one of the highlights | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
of the racing calendar - steeple chasing's mid-season | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
championship, the King George Last year's winner, Cue Card, | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
one of the sport's long-term stars, faces his up and coming stablemate | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Thistlecrack for the first time. That is such a good name! | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
Thistlecrack, it sparkles off the name. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
You couldn't say it if you were a bit tired. It doesn't work. | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Thistlecrack! Well said, keeping me up. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Time now for a look at the newspapers. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
The broadcaster Rob McCloughlin is here to tell us | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Good morning. Good morning, Merry Christmas. Happy Boxing Day. We will | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
take a look at the stories you've picked out, but let's have a look at | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
the front pages first. The news that George Michael has died came late | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
last night, so the second edition shows this in the Daily Mirror, | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
George Michael dead at 53. The front page of the Times as well has the | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
news that... The first part of his career in Wham!. It's as he died | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
peacefully. The Sun says George Michael has died at the age of 53 | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
suspected heart failure. The Daily Telegraph has a look at the greed of | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
foreign aid groups to be exposed. The picture it has on its front page | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
is of Prince George. And the Express has a look at the queen -- Lee's | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
state of health, saying she was too ill to attend the Christmas service | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
in Sandringham. It is understood she has a cold. George Michael's death. | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
It's a real shame, a tragedy. 53 years old. I suppose one of the | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
interesting thing is, as you said, it is difficult for the papers | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
because it happened so late last night. Some of the papers, including | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
The Daily Mail, carry some of the tributes, mainly drawn from social | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
media. Elton John, who was very close to him. But they did have a | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
difficult relationship and they did fallout when Elton John was seen to | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
be giving him particular advice about drugs and the misuse of drugs. | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
At Elton John commented last night that he is heartbroken and his | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
thoughts go out to the family and his friends. George Michael was | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
also, earlier this year, it was announced he was going to make a new | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
documentary, take part in a new documentary, the Channel 4, taking | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
back on his -- looking back on his life. It has been such a dreadful | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
year. We are at that age, when people of a certain generation are | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
getting to a certain age. It is a day of mourning in Russia. 92 people | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
tragically died in a plane crash, a plane that was bound for Syria. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Russia is now saying the investigation has begun, but it is | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
refusing to rule out terrorism. A lot of the papers today spent | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
yesterday going through the tragic stories of individuals who died. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
There are remarkable stories. It seems there's always a story the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
person who actually avoided the tragedy and there is a story about a | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
soldier who woke up and discovered that it was announced he was dead | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
and in fact he couldn't make it onto the plane because his passport was | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
out of date, so he didn't go on it. He was one of the survivors. There | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
are other stories about other family members, young parents who have been | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
killed, so it's a terrible tragedy for the family. And you are right, | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
the Russians, because the plane was en route to Syria, they aren't | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
ruling out the possibility that terrorism is involved in this. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Although the likelihood, especially in reports carried overnight by | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
Reuters, indicate that this is possibly more likely to be | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
mechanical failure. As I said, that investigation is under way at the | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
moment. We were taking a look at the Christmas messages were coming | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
through from the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday, the Queen's | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Christmas message. Nigel Farage has taken umbrage. I thought the rule | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
was that politicians would stay away from Christmas Day? We had one from | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Theresa May. That they would make messages in the lead up, but allow | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
faith leaders to stand by and make their messages on Christmas Day. But | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
Nigel Farage has tweeted, saying the Archbishop of Canterbury was far too | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
negative and that we should ignore his message. His message yesterday | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
was of course about 2016 being a period of creating at the end of | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
2016 period great uncertainty and on predictability, which was picked up | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
in some of the messages that were also carried by the pope and other | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
people. -- unpredictability. But Nigel Farage has told the Archbishop | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
of Canterbury, stop it and start talking positively about Britain. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Would you hit the shops today? We were talking about the Boxing Day | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
sales. But we have had so many sales in the run-up to it, I wonder why | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
you need the Boxing Day sales. Yes, the papers are quoting that | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
yesterday we spend something like ?386 million online. Why won't | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
people watching Strictly and Dr Who instead? Today the papers predict | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
that we might break all records, with ?4 billion worth of tills | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
ringing. You are right. Some of the stories today suggest that computer | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
shops are reducing prices by as much as 50%, leading department stores by | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
as much as 80%. Is there anything unique -- you need that you will get | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
out and buy? Nothing. I will not be shopping today. I got a credit card | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
deliberately. Did you grow smack with will chat later! -- did you? We | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
will chat later. Still to come on Breakfast... We | :29:14. | :29:23. | |
will be remembering George Michael, has died at the age of 53. Later we | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
will speak to a producer who filmed documentary about the pop star, as | :29:30. | :29:30. | |
we look at that his life. Hello, this is Breakfast | :29:31. | :30:21. | |
on Boxing Day with Naga Munchetty. Now, a summary of this | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
morning's main news. George Michael, one of the biggest | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
pop stars of the 80s He was 53, and is believed to have | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
suffered from heart failure. He rose to fame as one | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
half of the group Wham alongside Andrew Ridgeley, | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
who has paid tribute to his co-star George Michael went | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
on to have an incredibly successful career both as a solo artist | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
and in collaboration with other musicians, including | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
Aretha Franklin and Sir Elton John. He sold 100 million albums | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
and had 11 UK number ones. We'll be looking back on the life | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
and career of George Michael throughout the programme - | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
and hearing some of your favourite Russia is holding a day of national | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
mourning for the 92 people killed when a military plane | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
crashed in the Black Sea. Authorities in Russia say they've | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
located the site where the plane came down yesterday, | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
soon after taking off from Sochi. The victims included nine | :31:18. | :31:19. | |
journalists and more than sixty members of the Moscow-based Red Army | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
Choir, who were on their way Mervyn King said today that trading | :31:23. | :31:45. | |
under the same conditions as countries on the continent could | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
prevent Britain from taking full advantage of the opportunities of | :31:50. | :31:50. | |
Brexit. 50,000 people in England at risk | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
of Type-2 diabetes could be helped by an NHS programme that's | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
being extended from today. The advice on better nutrition | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
and exercise had already It forms part of a package | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
of new measures to curb Type-2 diabetes - including funding | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
for more specialist nurses. Japan's Prime Minister is set | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
to visit Pearl Harbour, 75 years after the attack that | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
drew the United States Shinzo Abe will visit the naval base | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
in Hawaii that was targeted by Japanese bombers | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
in December 1941. More than 2,000 Americans | :32:19. | :32:20. | |
were killed in the raids. An adviser to Mr Abe said he was not | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
planning to offer an apology Millions of shoppers are expected | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
to hit the high street today as the traditional Boxing Day | :32:27. | :32:33. | |
sales get under way. The number of people | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
going to the shops is expected to be down on last year, with analysts | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
saying that earlier discount events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
will affect post-Christmas sales. Almost ?3 billion is expected to be | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
spent at the tills today, with a further ?900 | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
million spent online We'll be back at eight | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
with the headlines. David Bowie, Ronnie Corbett | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
and Victoria Wood - just a few of those who passed away | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
this year, and whose lives are celebrated in Review | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
2016: We Remember. There's another chance to see | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
Part One on the BBC iPlayer, # I heard there was a secret court # | :33:05. | :33:34. | |
That David played... I only do the kind of music that I do. I would | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
love to do other kinds but with the limits of my talent I am obliged to | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
do my own thing. # It goes like this the fourth, the fifth, the minor | :33:47. | :33:55. | |
fall, the major lift # The baffled king composing hallelujah. # Suzanne | :33:56. | :34:04. | |
takes you down to her place near the river... He wore it like a snail | :34:05. | :34:16. | |
shell everywhere... If we sold 400 books of poetry we considered | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
ourselves on the way to win mortality. But I could not pay my | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
rent. In hindsight it seems like a mad decision that I would rectify my | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
economic situation by becoming a singer. # I remember you well in the | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
Chelsea Hotel # You were talking so brave and so sweet. | :34:39. | :34:56. | |
If the ball is in my left hand, it is not in my hand it is in the cup. | :34:57. | :35:39. | |
You can go to a party and tell somebody, asked them if they have | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
seen a trick. And even if you have done it averagely well they will ask | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
you how you did it. You grow a little. I did not grow far. You will | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
like this. This is the Queen with a bent corner. Keep your eye on the | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
Queen. These 20 they do not matter. Where is the Queen for ?10? ?10. | :36:02. | :36:10. | |
That is it. ?10 and it is a black three. | :36:11. | :36:22. | |
# So let the happy times begin... Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome | :36:23. | :36:36. | |
Debbie McGee. What attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels? Soared | :36:37. | :36:48. | |
David Copperfield once make the Statue of Liberty disappear. If no | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
fewer ugly in heaven you would be beautiful. Wonderful news for that | :36:53. | :37:04. | |
girl there in front. 91 to Turkey, 92 to Turkey, 93 elsewhere. It is | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
not a patch on Turkey, is it. I said it has not got the same atmosphere. | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
It has not got the same atmosphere. See that there? Put that into the | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
toaster. You like that, don't you? I am not that keen on Turkey. I don't | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
like Turkey. Put it away. Will you call me to the hospital? Of course I | :37:32. | :37:41. | |
will. I will be right there. Outside. But your mother will be | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
inside with you. Of course I will stay with you. I will always be | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
there for you. All ways. # They said there would be snowwhite | :37:52. | :38:50. | |
Christmas # They said there would be peace on Earth # Hallelujah, now | :38:51. | :38:59. | |
well... # At Christmas we get what we deserve. | :39:00. | :39:46. | |
I know everything. I heard the verdict. It is dangerous for you to | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
come here. I must take the risk and you might as well. Girls, do not get | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
married. It is insanity. You have to become their servants, look after | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
their house and they cheat on you. Who the hell needs that? Let us go | :40:05. | :40:13. | |
down the street and Sokal seat. -- soak our feet. Ben, I never thought | :40:14. | :40:21. | |
I would see the day when you did not want to go for a walk. You do not | :40:22. | :40:35. | |
know what you are missing. # Do you remember # ... Love was changing my | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
mind # Chasing the clouds away... # The Mira stares you in the face... | :40:41. | :41:11. | |
-- the mirror. What will you do after the war? I will faithfully | :41:12. | :41:19. | |
execute the office of President of the United States, so help me God. | :41:20. | :41:34. | |
We are doing everything we can. Each day brings another reminder of this | :41:35. | :41:35. | |
very long goodbye. # Someone is knocking at the door # | :41:36. | :41:58. | |
Someone is ringing the bell # Someone is knocking at the door # Do | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
me a favour # Open the door and let them | :42:06. | :42:32. | |
Now, look here my good woman... I could not going on dropping | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
trousers. I was just repeating myself by coming in the same doors | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
and doing the same jokes. They pinched my braces! I began to look | :42:44. | :42:56. | |
for something else to do. I saw an advertising and in the Guardian one | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
day, applied for the job and eventually after a great deal of | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
doubt on behalf of the society actually got the job. Doctor Henry J | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
Heimlich, a leading specialist in oesophagus surgery has devised a | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
simple first aid procedure, the Heimlich manoeuvre which has proven | :43:16. | :43:18. | |
successful in saving the lives of choking victims. # Trying to loosen | :43:19. | :43:28. | |
my load I have seven women on my mind # For who want me... # You | :43:29. | :43:38. | |
can't hide your lying eyes we enjoyed what we were doing. We were | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
serious about our work and the songs and serious about where we wanted to | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
take the band. But along the way we rocked and we had a good time. # | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
Still those voices are calling from faraway # Wake you up in the middle | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
of the night... When you have a record like hotel California you | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
join a fraternity of only a few people who understand what it is | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
like to have a mega- record and then you have to get your head around, | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
you know, how do you make a record after Living it up at the hotel | :44:14. | :44:20. | |
California # What a nice surprise might bring your | :44:21. | :44:46. | |
alibi. I have the most stylish corner of the filthy store room out | :44:47. | :45:00. | |
the back. $10 a day. Things get hard when they find out you are on the | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
run. There is a dry wash south of town. Pick me up there. They make | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
another attempt on his life. I will be back in the morning. With my | :45:12. | :45:13. | |
people. Thank you, doctor. Knowing thrush as we do they're | :45:14. | :45:20. | |
going to keep at it. He said his enemies would have | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
to hunt down the four winds One more word. | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
Daughter. There is an envelope with the logo | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
of one of the few airlines The things I look back on with pride | :45:33. | :45:44. | |
are some of the songs. # Remember, when you tell those | :45:45. | :45:59. | |
little white lies...# An instant hit, it is very nice | :46:00. | :46:08. | |
for them, because they don't need The brand-new one, | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
straight in at number 12. # Love grows where my Rosemary goes | :46:12. | :46:36. | |
and nobody knows but me... # I can't deny, can't | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
you see I'm so confused? # I can't deny, | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
you see I'm tired...# I wanted to make | :46:47. | :46:57. | |
a glittery, disco record. And I wanted to work with stock, | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
Aitken, and Waterman. I am so lucky to have it, | :47:02. | :47:10. | |
I realise it now, as my knees get stiff and the teeth are falling out, | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
you know what I mean? # You're spinning right round, | :47:15. | :47:25. | |
baby, right round...# I am glad I did something that has | :47:26. | :47:28. | |
gone down in history. I looked down on him | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
because I am upper-class. I looked up to him because I am | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
upper-class. But I looked down on him | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
because he is lower class. I read it in the Reader's Digest | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
in between an article called, having fun with a hernia, | :47:43. | :48:13. | |
and a story about a woman who brought up a family of four | :48:14. | :48:16. | |
with one hand while waiting I am I doing a lot of sway in? | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
I think I am. In which Humphrey travelled | :48:20. | :48:32. | |
to the land of prologues. No, but I know where | :48:33. | :48:49. | |
I can get you some. I went those pills | :48:50. | :49:11. | |
where they belong. I did not know who shared my view | :49:12. | :49:19. | |
and the evils of drugs. It is because this despicable | :49:20. | :49:31. | |
pilfering is making a mess I think you know well enough | :49:32. | :49:33. | |
what to do with them, # Because I've gone | :49:34. | :49:49. | |
and got engaged again...# I thought I could be funny, | :49:50. | :49:59. | |
and I could play the piano, and I thought, somehow, | :50:00. | :50:08. | |
I'll do something with this, # I'll be back at Social Security, | :50:09. | :50:10. | |
queueing up to be abused...# # To be listed on a card index, | :50:11. | :50:20. | |
one singer, slightly used...$ I was at a party, I ended up | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
in a bedroom with a man who owned He ripped off all his clothes | :50:26. | :50:36. | |
and said, what would you like to do? I said, I would really | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
like to insulate the loft. The lady who seems to run | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
the centre, very tall, quite imposing, she sort of swept me | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
up and made me about 60 cups of tea. I liked her though, | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
she knew would she wanted. If Marjorie letter concentration | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
lapse for just one second # Let's go, 'cause I know how I want | :51:00. | :51:20. | |
you to behave # not particularly, not completely, beta | :51:21. | :51:35. | |
beyond the bottom with My mother first realised | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
I was an actor when she saw the movie and -- my uncle | :51:38. | :52:02. | |
rang her up and said, She had to be dragged | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
to see the film. The Imperial Japanese | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
Army shall be... The explosion of television meant | :52:14. | :52:29. | |
the world became smaller. And because it became smaller | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
there was room for much more international types | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
of entertainment. How come you have a | :52:37. | :52:38. | |
name like Entwistle? I thought you all listening | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
to the archers, or something... That was a very short bit | :52:45. | :53:08. | |
of football, or a very Somebody says we appear | :53:09. | :53:11. | |
to have lost that film. You are telling me! | :53:12. | :53:23. | |
We will try to find it. I was totally changed | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
by the experience of it. I went there and it was | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
such a dreadful shock. I hope I shall never, | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
ever see anything like this again. I think you have much more humility | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
after that kind of experience. You can't go around | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
being bombastic anymore. It just calms you down, | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
it makes you realise what some other We're now coming to the last | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
moments of Apollo 13, The best thing we can do now | :53:51. | :53:58. | |
is just to listen and hope. Architecture, like writing, | :53:59. | :54:10. | |
needs to be edited and refined over time, you have to be | :54:11. | :54:13. | |
very self-critical. There's a definite stigma | :54:14. | :54:15. | |
to a woman's thing. To be accepted as an architect, | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
I am not sure it is fully done. I'm still considered | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
to be on the margin. And I don't mind being | :54:28. | :54:32. | |
on the edge, actually. You will be malfunctioning within | :54:33. | :54:34. | |
a day, you near-sighted scrap pile. And don't let me catch | :54:35. | :55:49. | |
you following me, begging for help, # There is a star man waiting | :55:50. | :55:49. | |
in the sky # He'd like to come | :55:50. | :55:50. | |
and meet us but he thinks Just concentrate on feeling | :55:51. | :55:50. | |
the inside of the back of your head. You should notice, with a little | :55:51. | :56:20. | |
practice doing this, # Take your protein pills | :56:21. | :56:27. | |
and put your helmet on...# I am only | :56:28. | :56:40. | |
using rock and roll as a medium. I want it to be the instigator | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
of new ideas, to turn people I was never that confident | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
of my voice as a singer. So I thought rather than just | :56:48. | :57:04. | |
singing, I would like to kind I felt really comfortable | :57:05. | :57:07. | |
going on stage as somebody else. And it seemed a rational decision | :57:08. | :57:21. | |
to keep on doing that. And so I got quite besotted | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
with the idea of creating Nothing will prepare | :57:26. | :57:37. | |
you for the first dramatic performance in The Man | :57:38. | :58:05. | |
Who Fell to Earth. # I've got scars that | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
cannot be seen... # I've got drama that | :58:12. | :58:31. | |
can't be stolen... Hello, this is Breakfast, | :58:32. | :58:47. | |
with Naga Munchetty. George Michael, one | :58:48. | :00:02. | |
of the biggest music stars of his generation, | :00:03. | :00:04. | |
has died at the age of 53. # Time it can never mend | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
# The careless whisper...#. After a string of top ten hits | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
with Wham in the 80s, he had further success as a solo | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
artist, selling more Good morning, it's Boxing Day, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Monday the 26th of December. A day of mourning in Russia | :00:27. | :00:44. | |
for the 92 people who were on board a jet which crashed into | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
the Black Sea on its way to Syria. Boxing Day sales have | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
already started online - we'll look at how changes in buying | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
habits have affected the traditional In sport, Sam Allardyce takes charge | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
of a football match, for the first time since he was sacked | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
as England manager. His new side Crystal Palace will | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
face Watford in the Premier League. Good morning, stormy Boxing Day for | :01:09. | :01:25. | |
some in Scotland, 90mph gusts in Orkney and Shetland, frequent wintry | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
showers, but not the same for all. A cracking day for others to walk off | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
that excess Christmas pudding. All the details in 15 minutes. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
One of the biggest pop stars of the 80s and 90s, | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
He was 53, and is believed to have suffered from heart failure. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
He rose to fame as one half of the group, Wham! | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
- and went on to have a successful solo career. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
He sold 100 million albums worldwide and had 11 UK number ones. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Nick Quraishi looks back at his life. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
# You put the boom boom into my heart... | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
Suntans, bleached hair and upbeat songs propelled Wham to number one | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
# Last Christmas I gave you my heart | :02:08. | :02:21. | |
# But the very next day you gave it away. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Their most famous song heard every year will now have added poignancy. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in north London, George Michael | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
was 12 years old when he met Andrew Ridgeley. | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
They left school at 16 and set up Wham in 1981. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
# And time can never mend a careless whisper. | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
His biggest hit, Careless Whisper came in 1984 but was written | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Three years later, his solo album, Faith, marked a shift from teen idol | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
With the success came brushes with the law. | :02:58. | :03:12. | |
An arrest for lewd behaviour in a public toilet | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
He had a stint in prison after crashing his car | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
George Michael announced he was gay, later | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
revealing he had been in the closet for years to prevent his mother | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
In 2011, he nearly died in Vienna after a bout of pneumonia. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
A collaboration with producer Naughty Boy and a documentary called | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Freedom which was due for release next March. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
When it came to pop music, George Michael | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
had it all - looks, voice and the ability to write a string | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
of hits that will continue to be played for years to come. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
George Michael, who's died at the age of 53. Colin Paterson joins me | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
now. When this new came through at 11pm last night, most people sitting | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
around of the Christmas Day, is asking, what's going on? Everyone | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
can name a George Michael song. Just so sad. If you going to name a | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
song, you would say Last Christmas, a song that comes back every year, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
here is my those so tied in with Christmas, and now he dies on | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Christmas Day. Wisely made such an impact on the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
music industry? He could turn his hand to high-energy pop to soulful | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
ballads. He managed to do what so few boxers | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
do, he converted himself from a boy band to credible solo artist. He was | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
on top of the ports in the choose life T-shirts, one of the most | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
ridiculous songs of all time, Club Tropicana, and then as a solo | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
artist, Aretha Franklin wanted to work with them because of his voice | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
and the songs he wrote. He wrote songs and albums like Jesus | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
To A Child that was a song about losing the first love of his life to | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
aids. There was someone who can write disco and do ballads like that | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
will stop a song without meaning. -- a song with such meaning. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
There were so many people affected by him in a positive way. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Elton John did a tribute, they had a number one together with Don't Let | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
The Sun Go Down On Me. Elton John saying, I'm in deep shock, I have | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
lost a beloved friend and a brilliant artist, my heart goes out | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
to his friends, family and all of his plans. Duran Duran who appeared | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
with him on so many bills, the loss of another talented soul. And Andrew | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Ridgeley, half of Wham, paying tribute. People ask why he wasn't a | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
solo artist from the start, George Michael explained Andrew Ridgeley | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
gave him the confidence from the start. He did not have the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
confidence at that stage. Andrew Ridgeley saying, heartbroken at the | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
loss of my friend. The world at large forever locked in, kisses. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Thank you very much. In just over five minutes we'll be | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
speaking to a producer who filmed a documentary about Wham and made | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
the music video for Russia is holding a day of national | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
mourning for the 92 people who were killed when a military | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
plane crashed in the Black Sea. Authorities in Russia say they've | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
located the site where the plane came down yesterday, | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
soon after it took off Our Moscow correspondent, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Steve Rosenberg reports. This is one of the final images | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
of the Tupolev 154 jet. It was taken by a journalist before | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
he boarded the plane. The aircraft crashed | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
into the Black Sea. The Russians scrambled | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
helicopters and ships, but the search became | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
a recovery operation. The plane had taken off | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
from a military airfield in Moscow. It flew south, stopping | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
in Sochi to refuel. The final destination was Syria, | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
and Russia's airbase, near Latakia. But minutes after leaving | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Sochi, it crashed. President Putin offered his | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
condolences to the families of the victims, and promised | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
them his full support. On board were more than 60 members | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
of the Russian army's famous song and dance ensemble, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
once known as the Red Army choir. They had been due to give a concert | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
at the Russian airbase in Syria. TRANSLATION: Well | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
loved, this ansemble. They are our brothers, | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
friends, colleagues. Also killed in the crash, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the prominent humanitarian activist and medic, Elizaveta Glinka, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
known to millions of Throughout the day, Muscovites | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
brought flowers to the headquarters This disaster has left | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Russia stunned and silent. The UK should leave the European | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
single market when it exits the EU, the former governor of the Bank | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
of England has said. Mervyn King told Radio 4's Today | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
programme that trading under the same conditions as countries | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
on the continent could stop Britain from taking full advantage | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
of the opportunities of Brexit. I don't think it makes sense for us | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
to pretend that we should remain in a single market and I think | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
there are real questions about whether it makes sense to stay | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
in the customs union. Clearly, if we do that, | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
we can not make our own trade deals Japan's Prime Minister is set | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
to visit Pearl Harbour, 75 years after the attack that drew | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
the United States into Shinzo Abe will visit | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the naval base in Hawaii that was targeted by Japanese | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
bombers in December 1941. More than 2000 Americans | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
were killed in the raids. An adviser to Mr Abe said | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
he was not planning to offer Those are the main | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
stories this morning. Matt will have the weather | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
in around five minutes. He was the pop star that helped | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
define the distinctive sound George Michael, who has died | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
at the age of 53, sang, wrote and collaborated with some | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
of the world's greatest musicians. He first found fame as one | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
half of the duo Wham! who had huge success, | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
and became the first western group Martin Lewis produced a documentary | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
of that tour and the Wham! video to the song Freedom and joins | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
us on the phone now. Thank you for talking to us this | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
morning. Your memories of George Michael? | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
I have great, affectionate memories of George. I first met him in late | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
1984 in New York. And Wham were just making their first foray into | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
America. And I happened to have discovered his manager was an old | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
friend of mine. I asked George over dinner what they were doing next, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
and he said, we're going to China. I said, that's as like a film. His | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
immediate response was, oh, you should make the film. I was | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
astonished he should make a decision that rapidly. Actually, a good one | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
for most of us. I was amazed, at his young age, he was so adept. He was | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
almost like a manager himself. He had an overview of what he wanted to | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
do. You say he went to China, the grand | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
scale of his popularity was evidence, even in China, wasn't it? | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
It was like a comfortable revolution there, because they had never had | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Western pop music there, and the impact was considerable. This was a | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
time when China was trying to liberalise. I was struck by George | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Michael in a couple of ways. First of all, at the edge 21, a pop star | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
going abroad for a big event like that, you think you'd just want to | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
be with his buddies. No, he was family-oriented, it gives mum, dad | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
and two sisters. I was always very impressed with that. Another thing | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
coming here reminded me, not musically, but here made me of | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
George Harrison. He wanted to make music, not really be a star. That | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
was the same conundrum with George Michael. He was passionate about | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
creating music, but hated all the hoopla of having to deal with the | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
media, especially the British tabloid media. And all of that that | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
went that bit. He was good at it, but he didn't like it, he just | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
wanted to make music. You were also with George Michael at | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
a crucial time when he split up, when Wham split up, he and Andrew | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Ridgeley split up as a group. Yes, when we were working on the | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
film, it involved a lot of time following the year after the visit | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
to China in postproduction. When they were having breakfast, and he | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
told me he was going to leave his present managers and go solo. I was | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
astonished, Wham were the biggest pop group in the world at that time | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
and could easily have continued for several more, lucrative years. But | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
he was adamant and explained to me it was about what he wanted to do | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
musically. He was feeling cramped by the type of music that Wham fans | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
expected. In that regard, he was quite exceptional. Very few artists | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
start out in a boy band and then become a success with an adult | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
audience. You think of the Beatles, they did it. Elton John did it. Very | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
few did it, he did it successfully. He made a real impact on music. So | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
many people wanted to collaborate with him, so many established | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
artists. I remember his excitement when he | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
told me that Aretha Franklin wanted to work with him. That was something | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
special. Some people were just interested in vain, he was a music | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
junkie, he grew up loving music. The fact that Aretha Franklin, who was | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
clearly before his time, an iconic star, that she would be interested | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
in working with him, that meant something to him. I saw him at | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
parties where he would issue hanging around with stars, he would stay | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
with his mates. His interest in life where his music and friends. He | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
didn't crave the shallow things. Martin Lewis, a pleasure to talk to | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
you, thank you for sharing your memories and experiences of George | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Michael. That is our top story this hour. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
George Michael, who has died at the age of 53. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Madonna and Sir Elton John have led tributes to the singer. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Russia is beginning a day of mourning for the 92 passengers | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
and crew who died when a military plane taking them to Syria | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
Good morning. It is a bit mixed this at this morning's weather. | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
Good morning. It is a bit mixed this morning. If you have had a bit too | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
much Christmas pudding, it is a lovely day for a walk. Crisp and | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
clear skies across much of southern England and Wales. Further north, a | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
different story. This is five a short while ago, snow falling. It is | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
not just snow across Scotland. This storm corner, it is buffeting gawky | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
and cheque-books. -- buffeting gawky and ship schedule. Pretty wild and | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
they across Scotland. Frequent heavy sleet and snow. These showers and | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England. Notice, further south there | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
are blue skies for many. Certainly across Scotland, it will be wild. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
The winds will ease but still see costs in excess of... Further south, | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
shoppers keep going. A good cover of snow over higher ground. Few servers | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
by this afternoon. Head south of that and... A perfect Boxing Day. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
Lots of sunshine around. The wind is a good deal later. It is cooler out | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
of the across the UK. High pressure tonight, the frosts are back. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
England and Wales especially with Frost. A bit of Frost across eastern | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Scotland and certainly into Northern Ireland. Tuesday, another good day | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
to get out and about. The winds will ease. Drizzle and the far north of | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Scotland. But most will have a dry day. Plenty of sunshine to come. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Temperature is only around six or 7 degrees at best. A cold night will | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
follow. High pressure firmly in charge. A different problem. As well | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
as the Frost, we will see some issues with fork. -- with fork. Away | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
from that, frosty start. Lots of sunshine across the western half of | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
England and Wales. Some writers to eastern and northern Ireland. Some | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
rain later in the day. After a stormy Christmas period, the weather | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
will settle down for the rest of the week. It has been a pleasure | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
spending Boxing Day morning with you. | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
It's been a pleasure this morning. Crystal Palace will be hoping that | :17:38. | :17:52. | |
big Sam, back in England after leaving England in controversial | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
circumstances. She helped Sunderland survived last season, can he do the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
same with Crystal Palace? They are just very close to the relegation | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
zone. Sam Allardyce will take charge | :18:09. | :18:08. | |
of his first Premier League match as Crystal Palace manager, | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
at Watford this afternoon. The former England boss took | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
over at Selhurst Park last Friday, just a day | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
after Alan Pardew was sacked. He's already got his eye | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
on the January transfer window and wants to keep his best players | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
as well as adding to the squad. Rumours that may float around, | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
that people might be interested in our players, is also of great | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
concern when you are a manager, because that is very disruptive | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
and can put a player off his game. We are trying to recruit and make | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
the squad a bit bigger, That would be a key area for me, | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
but I think the players But also if we can add to that, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
let's try and do it. Chelsea, who have a six-point lead | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
at the top of the Premier League, They'll set a new club record, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
if they make it 12 straight league wins against Bournemouth, | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
although they'll have to do it without, N'Golo Kante | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
and Diego Costa, who are suspended. They are working very well this week | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
to try to find the solution to play good football, to continue to win, | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
to take the two points. We all know that it won't be | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
easy against Bournemouth because they are a very good team, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
with great organisation. It's been nearly five | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
years since Arsenal lost three games in a row | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
in the Premier League. They're faced with that | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
prospect today though. Defeats to Everton and | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
Manchester City have seen them slip nine points, | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
behind Chelsea at the top, and manager Arsene Wenger | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
is determined to stop the rot We are ready for a fight | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
and we want to respond. I think in 20 games we lost the last | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
two, but our quality has been consistent since the start | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
of the season and we want to respond in a strong way | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
and in a determined way. I think everybody is | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
focused to do that. David Moyes will make his first | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
return to Old Trafford as a manager this afternoon, | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
when his struggling Sunderland side take on Manchester United Moyes | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
replaced Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013. He was proclaimed the chosen one, | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
but lasted only ten months as United In today's late game, Manchester | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
City are away at Hull City, who are currently bottom | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
of the table on goal difference. Pep Guardiola's side are still | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
without the suspended Sergio Aguero but travel to East Yorkshire, | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
having won their last two games, I am not expecting the game | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
against Hull City to be Elsewhere Burnley take | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
on Middlesbrough, champions Leicester are at home to Everton, | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
relegation-threatened Swansea are at home to West Ham | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
and in the late game Manchester City You can keep right up | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
to date with the action on Final Score on the Red Button, | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
as well as on Five Live The first day of the second Test | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
between Australia and Pakistan in Melbourne has been abandoned due | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
to rain - Pakistan are 142-4. The half century saw this player | :21:24. | :21:37. | |
moved past the mark for this year. She helped Pakistan reach 142-4. To | :21:38. | :21:50. | |
make up to the time, data will get up on the go earlier than planned. | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Play will start on day two at 11:00pm our time. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
And it's one of the highlights of the racing calendar, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
steeplechasing's mid-season championship, the King George VI | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Last year's winner, Cue Card, one of the sport's long-term stars, | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
faces his up and coming stablemate Thistlecrack for the first time. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
I love the way you've built up to that. Oh, yes. It's like this time | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
of year. Thistlecrack. This kind of makes you. There are only five | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
horses in this race. Those are the ones to watch. Enjoy your Boxing | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Day. You're watching breakfast on BBC | :22:33. | :22:33. | |
News. Let's look at the papers. The broadcaster Rob McCloughlin | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
is here to tell us How you doing? Merry Christmas. I've | :22:39. | :22:53. | |
got my credit card soldier. We can go after the programme finishes. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Second additions these are because the news that George Michael died | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
came from about 11pm last night. She was 53. The front page of the mirror | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
we did with that. A front-page of The Times also about George Michael. | :23:15. | :23:27. | |
The main story is about from's Trader chief saying that they will | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
steal trade from the UK. The front page of the sun is also about George | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Michael. George Michael pop icon pass away yesterday. The front-page | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
of the Daily Telegraph carries a picture of Prince George. She is | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
leaving the church service yesterday. She attended with his | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
parents and sister. The main story says that charities and contract is | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
profit from foreign aid and spends taxpayers money on it exorbitant | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
salaries. They will be named and shamed under Government plans. The | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Daily Express is focused on the fact that the Queen was forced to cancel | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
her traditional church service. That is because she has fallen ill with a | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
cold. Use Brexit to steal UK trade. What does this mean? Yes, we going | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
to have to get very, very used to the new cabinet in America. They | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
look like they might be the most wealthy cabinet ever put together by | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
an American president. This man is reportedly worth something like ?2.5 | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
billion. He has done a load of financing. He was talking to a group | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
of subdued financiers and he made the point, as you said, that they | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
should take the opportunity of the God-given right of the uncertainty | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
in this period of confusion over Brexit to steal some business from | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
the City of London. Why is this significant? Apart from people he is | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
about to take up, he will be the man as commerce secretary that the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
Brexit years, the people leading Brexit in Britain, will be | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
negotiating with. She might already be prejudged in terms of his view of | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
Brexit. This speech could be a little embarrassing for those | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
involved. This is happening. The period of the inauguration. I'm sure | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
you've had your invite. I haven't had my invite. Well, the way that | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
things are going, we will have to sing out of. Stories are coming out | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
still about those that are appearing or having agreed to appear in at the | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
inauguration. Barack Obama had Beyonce, John legend, Bon Jovi. At | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
the moment, your ideas radio city rockets, which is also controversial | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
because they some of them don't want to appear. There is also the other | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
singing, was he coming or not? The story in America at the moment is | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
that Donald Trump rang him up and said, John Stuart, it's too | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
controversial. I'm not available, and every. Today Russia is marking a | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
day of mourning. 92 people killed. Terrible tragedy. The stories are, | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
the journalists yesterday were going into the studio. This is what | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
happens in a newsroom. You have to go through who are the people. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
Terrible stories of those who are died. A free role too has been | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
orphaned. Here is a story that was about somebody who was meant to be | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
on the plane, a soldier, his passport was out of date and he was | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
stopped from getting on the plane. Yet his name appeared on the death | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
list because he was still on the itinerary. So he was very lucky. In | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
these tragedies, she always tend to get a story of that nature. Third | :27:35. | :27:43. | |
page of the Times is taking a look at a tapestry. This is a seasonal | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
tapestry. This was apparently one of the greatest treasures that Henry | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
VIII actually commission. 100 years after his death it was valued at | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
something like over ?5,000. They have gone missing. There is also | :28:00. | :28:08. | |
some other things gone missing. Some crown jewels, etc. This tapestry and | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
the other tapestries in this election for auctioned many years | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
ago and have completely disappeared. However, maybe beard seems to have | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
found them. She seems to have found one of them in a rug shop in new | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
York city. I presume she has put a bidding it and has got it. It was | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
worth ?5,000 in 1649. Well, according to the article in the | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
newspaper, it is only one and not the entire collection. It is valued | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
at a friends 50,000 US dollars. He started off when is that Europe and | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
said that you had put your credit card. We were talking about the | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
Boxing Day sales. This is an article about how to save at least else. | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Yes, we were talking about this earlier. The sales numbers seem to | :29:04. | :29:15. | |
stop. We spent something like a ?850 million online. Today, lots of | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
newspapers are indicating that prices could go up in 2017 because | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
of the beginning of the pound. This comes way back to what we were | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
saying before about the warning about confusion. Import prices are | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
rising. This means that a lot of goods could increase. Interestingly, | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
one of the big shopping centres is reporting a dramatic increase in | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
foreign buyers coming into bright luxury goods. Chinese buyers are by | :29:49. | :29:57. | |
44%. Hong Kong buyers are up by 191%. It will be a very busy day on | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
the high street. So what time are we going shopping? No? It's 8:30pm. | :30:03. | :30:36. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast on Boxing Day with Naga Munchetty. | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
George Michael, one of the biggest pop stars | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
He was 53, and is believed to have suffered from heart failure. | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
He rose to fame as one half of the group Wham | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
alongside Andrew Ridgeley, who has paid tribute | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
to his co-star, saying he would be forever loved. | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
George Michael went on to have an incredibly successful | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
career both as a solo artist and in collaboration | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
with other musicians, including Aretha Franklin | :31:08. | :31:09. | |
He sold 100 million albums and had 11 UK number ones. | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
We were having breakfast in LA, anti-tummy had taken the decision he | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
was going to leave his present manager and go solo. I was | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
astonished, Wham with the biggest pop group in the world and could | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
have continued for many years. He was adamant and it's plain to me it | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
was about what he wanted to do musically. He was feeling trapped by | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
the type of music that Wham fans expected. | :31:42. | :31:43. | |
Earlier, I spoke to the music and film producer Martin Lewis | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
who was with George when he was making | :31:47. | :31:47. | |
Russia is holding a day of national mourning for the 92 people killed | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
when a military plane crashed in the Black Sea. | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
Authorities in Russia say they've located the site where the plane | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
came down yesterday, soon after taking off from Sochi. | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
The victims included nine journalists and more | :32:02. | :32:02. | |
than 60 members of the Moscow-based Red Army Choir, | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
who were on their way to perform in Syria. | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
The UK should leave the European single market when it exits the EU, | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
the former governor of the Bank of England has said. | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
Mervyn King told Radio 4's Today programme that trading under | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
the same conditions as countries on the continent could stop Britain | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
from taking full advantage of the opportunities of Brexit. | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
50,000 people in England at risk of Type-2 diabetes could be | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
helped by an NHS programme that's being extended from today. | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
The advice on better nutrition and exercise had already | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
It forms part of a package of new measures to curb Type-2 | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
diabetes - including funding for more specialist nurses. | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
Japan's Prime Minister is set to visit Pearl Harbour, | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
75 years after the attack that drew the United States into | :32:48. | :32:49. | |
Shinzo Abe will visit the naval base in Hawaii | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
that was targeted by Japanese bombers in December 1941. | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
More than 2,000 Americans were killed in the raids. | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
An adviser to Mr Abe said he was not planning to offer | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
Millions of shoppers are expected to hit the High Street today | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
as the traditional Boxing Day sales get underway. | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
The number of people going to the shops is expected | :33:12. | :33:13. | |
to be down on last year, with analysts saying that | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
earlier discount events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday | :33:17. | :33:18. | |
Almost ?3 billion is expected to be spent at the tills today, | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
with a further 900 million pounds spent online. | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
Louise is back with Breakfast from six tomorrow morning. | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
Now though, the BBC weather team bring you the stories | :33:34. | :33:36. | |
Here's Nick Miller with Weather World. | :33:37. | :33:44. | |
This time on Weather World we are going up in the world, | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
literally into the mountains of North Wales, and our method | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
of transport may surprise you, it is going to be quite a ride. | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
Extreme storms and the battle to survive them, as global | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
Winter fights back in the USA, but not in the Arctic. | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
It is still not cold enough on top of the world. | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
Plus, wild winds, how not to get caught out in extreme weather. | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
I will be here at the Oare Marshes nature reserve in Kent, | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
taking a look at how the weather impacts migratory birds, | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
from a quiet blue sky day here in Kent to the hazards | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
And why everything in this Welsh field is not as it seems. | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
The new type of sheep and what it can tell | :34:34. | :34:36. | |
This time we are in the North Wales, in Snowdonia, about to climb | :34:37. | :34:57. | |
Wales' highest peak, Mount Snowdon. | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
Now, I am up for a bit of climbing, I am a fairly fit guy, | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
dressed for the part, but I have got an easier | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
We are about to take a ride on the historic | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
If you know anything about this part of the world, | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
you will know that this railway is actually closed in the winter. | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
But I have got a special ride lined up on an engineer's train, | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
because I'm going to find out how this railway copes with | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
This railway has been taking people to the summit | :35:26. | :35:42. | |
An estimated 12 million people have made that journey since then. | :35:43. | :35:52. | |
The trains normally run from mid-March until November, | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
but it is the weather that dictates the schedule, and the toll | :35:57. | :35:58. | |
the weather takes on the mountain railway means for the maintenance | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
teams, winter is the busiest time of year. | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
Mike, you are the senior engineering manager of the railway here, | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
and already we are getting a sense of the climb we have started. | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
Yes, the railway follows the mountain. | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
The maximum gradient is one in 5.5, we have just come up one in 6.2, | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
it alters as we go over the terrain, but it is a steep railway. | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
Obviously, wind, rain, snow, they all impact on our maintenance | :36:25. | :36:40. | |
We have wind limits for operating trains. | :36:41. | :36:51. | |
And in the winter it is heavy rain on the lower mountain, | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
So you are doing a lot of maintenance. | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
I will see some of that take place and hopefully get | :37:00. | :37:01. | |
Winter has arrived in Snowdonia but there is no doubt that the main | :37:02. | :37:10. | |
Hurricane Matthew slams into Haiti in October, | :37:11. | :37:22. | |
killing hundreds as it cuts a path from here to the south-east | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
A massive storm, fuelled by warmer-than-average ocean water. | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
In the Pacific, in September, Taiwan feels the force | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
of Typhoon Meranti the strongest since Haiyan in 2013. | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
In October, in South Korea, cars are swept down flooded streets | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
in the strongest cyclone there in four years. | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
Rescues in Spain, in December, animal and human, as torrential | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
But in South America, rivers run dry. | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
Not enough rain has caused Bolivia to declare a state of emergency, | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
facing its worst drought in 25 years. | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
Israel, in November, fighting the flames, | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
as a two-month drought and arson leads to wildfires. | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
Australia, and beach-goers in Melbourne struggle | :38:19. | :38:20. | |
against strong winds whipped up by approaching thunderstorms. | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
Several people died from rare thunderstorm asthma in November, | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
after suffering breathing problems from pollen carried by the wind. | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
In the UK, the first named storm of the autumn, | :38:36. | :38:37. | |
Winds in the Irish Sea were so strong that this ferry | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
was stuck there overnight until it was safe enough to dock. | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
Not ideal if it is your maiden voyage. | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
It was lumpy and it made you feel sick. | :38:49. | :39:02. | |
It is impossible to link one whether extreme to a warming world | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
but scientists say that extreme events become more likely and well | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
before the end of 2016, the year was labelled as odds-on | :39:14. | :39:15. | |
We have just stepped off the train to see the first piece of work | :39:16. | :39:23. | |
This is Waterfall Halt, a storage facility for tools, | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
To make it safe we are building a platform and a storage area | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
on the left, and another platform on the right-hand side. | :39:36. | :39:37. | |
And this all needs to happen fairly quickly, doesn't it? | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
Because you have time and weather to think about. | :39:41. | :39:42. | |
We are open again in March, and we cannot have any | :39:43. | :39:45. | |
work on the operational railway from March. | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
It is obviously quite mild at the moment but we have had | :39:50. | :39:51. | |
freezing temperatures and we cannot lay concrete in | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
When it's heavy rain, it'll wash everything out. | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
OK, Nigel, what do you want me to do? | :39:57. | :40:15. | |
If you just grab hold of that one there, please, mate, | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
While I try to get the hang of cement work, Sarah Keith-Lucas | :40:18. | :40:26. | |
looks back at the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season. | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
Here I am at the Oare Marches nature reserve near Faversham in Kent. | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
It is a great spot for capturing a glimpse of these wintering birds | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
that are just settling into their home now | :40:38. | :40:39. | |
Later in the programme, we will have more analysis | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
about how the weather impacts these migratory birds. | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
Earlier this year, there was some incredible radar footage of some | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
birds that appeared to be trapped right inside the eye | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
Hurricane Matthew was of course the strongest and the most deadly | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
It initially formed off the West Coast of Africa before | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
moving across the Atlantic and strengthening, for a time, | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
to a major, category five hurricane in the Caribbean. | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
It has been a particularly active hurricane season again this year, | :41:11. | :41:13. | |
partly down to the declining El Nino effect and the transition to more | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
Let's take a look at how the El Nino Southern oscillation, | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
or Enso, has affected this year's hurricane season, and why it | :41:28. | :41:29. | |
has been so intense, especially compared to recent years. | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
In the year up to May 2016, the Enso was in the El Nino, or warm, phase. | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
The warming of the equatorial Pacific often leads to stronger | :41:38. | :41:39. | |
Wind shear refers to the changing wind speed, and/or direction, | :41:40. | :41:47. | |
Stronger wind shear leads to weaker hurricanes and makes | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
However, since May, the Pacific has been cooling, | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
becoming more neutral, and is now entering a weak phase | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
La Nina, or cool, phase, reducing the wind shear and hence | :42:03. | :42:10. | |
promoting stronger and more frequent hurricanes. | :42:11. | :42:12. | |
Another major factor in the summer was a big blocking | :42:13. | :42:14. | |
area of high pressure, feeding warm and moist air over | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
the western Atlantic and warming the waters there by as much as four | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
or five degrees, compared to the average. | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
These warmer waters have provided the fuel to power the huge, | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
formidable hurricanes that have formed in the region this year. | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
So the very active hurricane season of 2016 has now come an end. | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
Join me later in the programme, where we will take a more detailed | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
look at some of these migratory birds and just how the weather | :42:39. | :42:40. | |
This railway carries more than 130,000 passengers a year | :42:41. | :42:49. | |
But some people get there the hard way - on foot. | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
However you choose to go high, you need to respect the weather | :42:56. | :42:57. | |
Climbers battled fierce winds in the Scottish Highlands, | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
in footage released to show just how wild the weather can get. | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
This high, this exposed, it is too late to simply turn back. | :43:09. | :43:16. | |
We have just stepped away from the railway | :43:17. | :43:18. | |
Now I'm here in one of the Snowdonia Park warden's | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
You are one of the wardens, Rhys Wheldon Roberts, | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
and you are going to show me exactly what I need to be fully prepared | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
So you know, mountains are quite cold, so you need warm layers, | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
preferably a base layer first, then a mid-layer, something | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
like a fleece, maybe even two, if it is quite cold, | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
and some comfortable, warm trousers as well. | :43:44. | :43:45. | |
They are not necessarily the right thing, are they? | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
Not the best, they get quite cold when they are wet | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
and they are really uncomfortable, so something that will keep you warm | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
Jacket, trousers, I would also take some hats and gloves with me just | :43:55. | :44:04. | |
In summer, you would have those boots, at the end there, | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
And these are winter boots, they have a much stiffer sole. | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
They can support crampons as well which gives | :44:19. | :44:20. | |
They are am essential bit of kit for any snow on the mountain. | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
And if it is very snowy I would need one of these? | :44:26. | :44:28. | |
It provides some sort of support walking up | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
the mountain and if you slip, it can help stop you. | :44:34. | :44:36. | |
I want to know where I'm going, but I am OK because I have one | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
They are a start, but you want a proper map | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
A phone can run out of battery or signal and become useless. | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
And it sounds obvious, but you need something to eat | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
Fuel is very important so make sure you pack your lunch | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
and maybe your dinner, and some warm drinks if it is cold. | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
It sounds obvious but the weather at the top of the mountain is often | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
very different from the weather when you set off. | :45:07. | :45:08. | |
Absolutely, yes, here, it can be ten, 15 degrees colder | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
on the mountain than down in the valley. | :45:12. | :45:13. | |
Check the mountain forecast as well because it can be very different | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
If I come back and climb in Snowdonia, I will come anf find | :45:19. | :45:26. | |
you as my personal guide, and I promise I will | :45:27. | :45:29. | |
What electric sheep can tell us about the weather | :45:30. | :45:38. | |
Captured on camera, by a BBC Weather Watcher, | :45:39. | :45:45. | |
the building of the Queensferry crossing in Scotland, | :45:46. | :45:47. | |
In November, Weather Watchers celebrated its first anniversary | :45:48. | :46:00. | |
and the number of sky snappers now totals more than 130,000. | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
For many, it is about the beauty of the sky and the scenery around | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
Many people just walk along with their heads down, | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
and they don't look up, they don't see the clouds, | :46:11. | :46:12. | |
they don't see the sunrise, the sunsets, the rainbows, | :46:13. | :46:14. | |
and they thank me for that, and I think that is probably | :46:15. | :46:17. | |
And you can become a Weather Watcher by signing up at BBC | :46:18. | :46:22. | |
We are taking a look at how the Snowdon railway copes | :46:23. | :46:38. | |
We've stopped here at the Rocky Valley platform, | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
it is about two thirds towards the summit, | :46:42. | :46:43. | |
Already we are above some of the clouds, and you can tell how | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
It is colder and windier, and of course, all of the track has | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
to cope with these conditions, the heavy rain, the heavy snow, | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
and of course, the big change in temperatures from one season | :46:55. | :46:56. | |
Further up, Mike is taking a look at how this piece | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
With this instrument here, a measuring trolley, | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
we will put it on the track, amd this is going to tell me | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
It is going to tell me the cross level, the height | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
of one rail to the other, and it is going to tell me | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
I guess you're going to wheel it down the track. | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
I will just gently edge it down the track. | :47:25. | :47:32. | |
This is a fairly exposed piece of track so it must | :47:33. | :47:35. | |
This is one of our sections of track which requires constant maintenance. | :47:36. | :47:42. | |
In the spring, this will have moved, and we will come back and do | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
some more maintenance, lifting and packing. | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
We have moved down this short bit, so let's take a look | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
This is telling me we've travelled 12.75 metres from where we started, | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
telling me that at this particular point the track gauge | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
is 806.4 millimetres, and it also tells me that | :48:01. | :48:03. | |
I have a cross level negative of 4.9 millimetres. | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
No, the instrument is telling me it is all within tolerance. | :48:07. | :48:16. | |
But you never know what else you'll find. | :48:17. | :48:23. | |
I'll let you go and check some more track, Mike. | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
We're going to get back on the train and back | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
on the move and just a moment, but before we do that, | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
it has been a cold start to winter here in Snowdonia, | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
but in that direction, a long way in that direction, | :48:36. | :48:37. | |
there is a part of the world that should be very cold, | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
The amount of sea ice that survived summer 2016 | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
was the second lowest on record, with autumn regrowth slowed both | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
by air temperatures 20 Celsius above normal and the warmth | :48:51. | :48:52. | |
During summertime, when the sun comes up in the Arctic, | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
it reflects most of the Sun's energy back out to space. | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
If you start removing the reflective sea ice cover, | :49:02. | :49:03. | |
now the ocean absorbs the heat instead. | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
So what you see now as winter comes, the Arctic is very warm. | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
Part of that is because now the ocean has to release heat | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
again during the summer, back to the atmosphere | :49:16. | :49:17. | |
Records here show sea ice has not suffered to the same degree | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
But even so, National Snow and Ice Data Centre scientists say | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
that Antarctic sea ice shrank to a record November low. | :49:33. | :49:34. | |
A warming world does not mean the end of winter weather. | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
In the USA in December, snow and ice caused damage | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
and brought disruption to millions of people. | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
Then there is the occasional wintry surprise, such as here in Tokyo, | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
which had its first November snowfall in more | :49:49. | :49:50. | |
And this, from Siberia, what looks like rocks on the shore | :49:51. | :49:55. | |
are thousands of natural snowballs, formed from small pieces | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
of ice rolled ever larger by the wind and water. | :50:00. | :50:05. | |
We saw earlier how to properly dress for the great outdoors, | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
especially, of course, in winter, very | :50:09. | :50:09. | |
But you would think sheep, with their woolly coats, | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
would be good to go, whatever the weather. | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
But there is a unique experiment taking place here at the foot | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
of Snowdon which proves that they feel the weather, too. | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
You are a bit heavier than I thought you would be! | :50:25. | :50:32. | |
Now, you may have noticed that this is not a real sheep. | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
Thankfully, Pip Jones from Bangor University is a real human. | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
They might be fake but they tell us a lot about real sheep | :50:42. | :50:48. | |
and the environment they experience on a farm. | :50:49. | :50:49. | |
OK, we have two things, we have our sheep, we also | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
And the station is measuring sun, plus wind, plus ambient air | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
temperature, and those things together tell us how | :50:59. | :51:00. | |
So on a day like today when it is really windy that must | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
have an impact on how the sheep feels. | :51:07. | :51:08. | |
Absolutely, it's so much colder when the wind blows. | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
That is called wind-chill, and for warm-blooded animals | :51:12. | :51:13. | |
like us and the sheep, maintaining core body temperature | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
in these conditions is increasingly hard as the wind blows. | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
So what we are doing with these sheep is we maintain them | :51:22. | :51:23. | |
And what the computer is recording is how much energy the sheep | :51:24. | :51:38. | |
is using to keep that temperature in the prevailing conditions. | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
So we will pop it back in and have a look in a minute | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
If I was a sheep farmer, what difference does it make to me, | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
OK, so, for farmers, farming is essentially all about energy. | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
We record the energy that in, that's the food that the animals eat, | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
but there is also energy out in the equation, and weather | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
Keeping warm in conditions uses an awful lot of energy. | :52:01. | :52:09. | |
Can I do something on my farm to help my sheep keep warm? | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
Essentially planning your farm with weather in mind. | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
Providing shelter the form of trees and hedgerows which the animals can | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
use to take shelter from the wind especially, and that will reduce | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
And the all-important question is, how much energy has that used | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
So in the last few seconds, she has used a 37 watts just to stay warm. | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
And as the wind gets stronger and the air gets | :52:30. | :52:32. | |
colder, there will be more and more energy use. | :52:33. | :52:34. | |
Thank you for showing me the project. | :52:35. | :52:36. | |
I have become quite attached to my fake sheep. | :52:37. | :52:38. | |
Welcome back to the Oare Marshes nature reserve in Kent. | :52:39. | :52:51. | |
I am joined by Graham Madge of the Met Office and | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
So Graham, this is a very idyllic and peaceful day in Kent. | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
It is hard to imagine some of the hazards that these birds face | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
on their long journeys, including of course the weather. | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
Earlier in the year, there was some footage of some birds | :53:10. | :53:11. | |
that appeared to be trapped right inside eye of Hurricane Matthew. | :53:12. | :53:14. | |
Is this a typical kind of hazard that birds face | :53:15. | :53:16. | |
The situation is that they are crossing the path, the exact track, | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
that many hurricanes take, so it is quite likely | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
the birds do get caught up in these weather systems. | :53:25. | :53:26. | |
In fact, we know from bidwatchers' records in northern Europe that many | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
birds are brought to European shores on the back of these | :53:30. | :53:32. | |
cyclones, as they move up into the north Atlantic. | :53:33. | :53:35. | |
So it is a very big threat that these birds face, | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
and it is a very powerful hazard that these birds have to try | :53:39. | :53:41. | |
So I have heard some people say that birds can actually | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
Is there any evidence or science behind this? | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
It is a classic phrase, one swallow does not make a summer. | :53:50. | :53:52. | |
I think the evidence for birds being able to forecast the weather | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
But what we do know is that birds are affected by the weather, | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
so we all know that we get weather coming from different directions, | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
and that very often can bring birds associated with it. | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
So we get birds from North America turning up in Europe, | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
we can get birds from the tropical Atlantic, from all sorts of places. | :54:16. | :54:18. | |
So although birds might not be able to forecast the weather, | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
by seeing interesting and exotic birds, it gives you at least | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
an insight into what the weather has been like elsewhere | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
Thank you so much, Graham, for joining us. | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
That is it from us here in Kent, it's back to Nick in Snowdonia. | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
We have come as far as we can go now on the Snowdon Railway. | :54:38. | :54:49. | |
This is about three quarters of the way to Snowdon summit, | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
but we cannot get any further, because number one, | :54:54. | :54:55. | |
there is essential track work taking place, and if we did go any further | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
we would just encounter snow on the track anyway. | :55:00. | :55:01. | |
But before we start heading back down the mountain there is one more | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
It is something that is crucial to the operation of the railway | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
here, and the reason I'm excited is I am a weatherman and I have | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
found a weather station nearly at the top of Mount Snowdon. | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
Mike, how important is this piece of kit for you and the railway? | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
It gives us weather information, specifically wind information, | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
And how do you look at that information, when you are down | :55:26. | :55:33. | |
This weather station beams data through a data link, | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
we can pick this up on our computers down below, and we can | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
And what is that telling you, from a screenshot of something | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
That is giving me the wind direction, the wind speed, | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
the temperatures, and crucially, the gust speeds. | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
Because obviously we have got an average speed here, | :55:54. | :55:56. | |
The gust speeds can reach in excess of 130 mph. | :55:57. | :56:01. | |
Talking wind speed like that, the weather station, | :56:02. | :56:03. | |
much as I love it, can't cope with wind that strong. | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
So what are you going to do with it in the winter? | :56:08. | :56:10. | |
We don't need the information through the winter. | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
It is purely for the operating season. | :56:14. | :56:15. | |
We will send them away and get them recalibrated and erect them | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
Let's get this weather station to bed then. | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
As they get to work, and before we go, when is | :56:23. | :56:25. | |
As they get to work, and before we go, when is | :56:26. | :56:30. | |
This rare phenomenon was spotted in Scotland in November. | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
Water droplets in fog are much smaller than raindrops | :56:37. | :56:38. | |
and as the sun interacts with them, the result appears devoid of colour, | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
Still not a rainbow as we know it, but closer, this rare moon-bow | :56:44. | :56:50. | |
was spotted in northern England in October, as moonlight, | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
rather than sunlight, interacts with moisture | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
And finally, lighting up the sky and our imagination, the super moon, | :56:58. | :57:02. | |
seen around the world in the November, the closest | :57:03. | :57:05. | |
the moon has been to the earth in nearly 70 years. | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
An example of picture-perfect timing. | :57:10. | :57:18. | |
And that is it for this time on Weather World. | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
From Snowdonia, thanks to Mike, our driver, Dewi, guard | :57:22. | :57:23. | |
Steve, and everyone else at the Snowdon railway. | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
Snowdon summit still awaits me, but I will be back one day. | :57:28. | :57:30. | |
I've got a nice little friendly sheep here for you. | :57:31. | :59:19. | |
Why did the fairest of them all remove the mirror from the wall? | :59:20. | :59:23. |