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This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The veteran Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
just a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
She was 84 and had been rushed to hospital with a suspected stroke. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Her son said the stress of his sister's death was too | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
It's Thursday, the 29th of December. | :00:21. | :00:37. | |
Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
That's the stark warning from the UK's leading GP. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has announced his retirement | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
from cycling, after a career during which he won five Olympic | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Lawyers for a group of children who lived in the Calais Jungle | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
refuge camp launch a legal challenge accusing the British government | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
of breaking its promise to take a fair share of the most vulnerable. | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
Interest rates, the prices in our shops and the strength | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
of the pound will all be closely watched next year. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
I'll be taking a look at the big stories for our finances in 2017. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
And Carol has our weather forecast. Very similar to what we had | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
yesterday. Starting on a frosty note, with patchy fog, some of which | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
is dense and will be slow to clear. But there is sunshine in the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
forecast and some rain coming in the north-west. More details in 15 | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
minutes. The Hollywood actress | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
of her daughter, the film star She was 84 and is believed | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
to have suffered a stroke. Her career spanned seven decades, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Singin' in the Rain, Our Los Angeles correspondent | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
David Willis reports. Good morning, good morning, it's | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
great to stay up late. Good morning, good morning to you. Debbie | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Reynolds, 19 years old, singing and dancing on film for the very first | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
time. It was her performance alongside Gene Kelly in Singin' in | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
the Rain that set her on the path to fame. Born in Texas, she moved with | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
her family to California and landed a contract with Warner Brothers | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
after winning a local beauty contest at the age of 16. She married the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
popular crooner Eddie Fisher and together they had two children, | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Carrie and Todd. He later left her for Elizabeth Taylor, a friend of | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
hers at the time. Two subsequent marriages also ended in divorce. A | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
popular choice for movie musicals in the 1950s and 60, Debbie Reynolds | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
got a -- earned an Oscar nomination for her depiction of a titanic | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
survivor in the unthinkable Bobby Brown. She opened her on hotel, | :03:06. | :03:18. | |
filling it with movie memorabilia she had accumulated, but she was | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
forced to auction it. I seem to marry very poorly, I have no taste | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
in men. Lucky for me what was good and I have two lovely children and | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
my son helps me run my hotel in Vegas. Good morning, good morning... | :03:34. | :03:45. | |
She went on to play Grace's mother in Will and Grace and played | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Liberace's mother of in Behind the Candelabra. She suffered a terrible | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
loss when her daughter died after suffering a heart attack on a flight | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
from London to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. She herself was taken | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
ill while discussing the arrangements for her funeral. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Singer, dancer, Hollywood icon. Debbie | :04:11. | :04:10. | |
Reynolds was 84. We will be talking to our Los Angeles correspondent | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
about Debbie Reynolds a little bit later. | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
says that longer waiting times could pose a "serious | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Every winter and increasing workload puts pressure on NHS because more | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
people are sick. Some patients are already waiting to - three weeks to | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
get a seat in the AGP's waiting-room. Come on in and have a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
seat. Now the chair of the Royal College of GPs says that's likely to | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
climb to over a month in some areas and she is profoundly concerned | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
about how general practice will cope. Firstly, there just aren't | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
enough GPs out there. We don't have enough conditions in the workforce, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and we haven't got enough nurses and other healthcare professionals. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Secondly, there's been a serious underinvestment in practitioners for | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
up to a decade. We have some promises of good news coming, more | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
money and people coming through the system, but they've yet to get to | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the front line, so the problem this winter is as bad as it has ever been | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
and that's a real worry. She says she is particularly worried about | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the impact on preventative care and chronic disease management, while | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
the knock-on consequences could take years to manifest. The people who | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
suffer are those with long-term conditions, because we have to | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
prioritise those who are sick today. If however we are ignoring those | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
with longer term conditions then we are storing up albums for the future | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
and increasing their risks in the long-term. NHS England says GP | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
services are on track to receive an extra 2.5 million by 2020, and will | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
expand access to appointments throughout the week. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
We'll speak to the chair of the Royal College of GPs | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Going back to our top story, the death of Hollywood actress Debbie | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
Reynolds. David Willis joins us now from Los Angeles. After the death of | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
Carrie Fisher two days ago, this is, just on a personal level, a very | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
tragic story for the family. Absolutely. Poignant and ironic as | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
well, bearing in mind that Debbie Reynolds had been at her son, Todd | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Fisher, his house in Beverly Hills and apparently they were discussing | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
plans for Carrie Fisher's funeral. She developed reading difficulties, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
was taken to hospital and a couple of hours later was said to have | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
died. It appears of a stroke. Toured Fisher has said that her final words | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
were, I just want to be with Carrie. He says for his part he is | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
heartbroken and this truly is a family tragedy, because spare a | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
thought if you will for Carrie Fisher's daughter, also an actress. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
She revealed to the press that Carrie Fisher had died on Tuesday | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
and she in the last 24 hours had lost both her mother and a | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
grandmother. Just a thought for us. Debbie Reynolds was very much a star | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
from a different era of Hollywood. Very much so. A Hollywood icon, if | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
you like. A star from the golden age of Hollywood. This is somebody who | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
got their big break at the age of 19 in a film with a veteran called Gene | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Kelly, who was by all accounts not terribly impressed with the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
selection of this young lady as the lead female in that film, she blew | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
everyone away, despite never having some or danced on camera before. She | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
went on to make a series of films in the 1950s and 60s, before | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
transferring the television and the stage. David, for the moment, thank | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
you. Dozens of children who lived | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
against the Home Office over its handling of | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
asylum applications. Lawyers representing 36 | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
children say the government broke its promise to take | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
had their applications turned down Let's speak to our political | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. What can you tell us about the legal | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
challenge? These lawyers, as you say, representing some of the | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp, before it was taken | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
down in October, they are accusing the government of failing to bring | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
some of the most vulnerable child refugees to the UK. These lawyers | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
represent 28 children who have already had their asylum | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
applications rejected, a further eight are a waiting decision. These | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
lawyers say some applications were dismissed without good reason and so | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
they have launched a legal challenge. We asked the Home Office | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
for their response and they said it would be inappropriate to comment | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
while legal proceedings were ongoing. We do know that about 900 | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
children have been brought to the UK this year, about 750 at accompanied | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
children have been bought from France. What we know now is the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
current transfer of children from France has now ended, but we do | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
expect more eligible children from across Europe, including from | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
countries like Greece and Italy. We expect them to be brought to the UK | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
in the coming months. Thank you. Rebel groups expected to meet | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Russian negotiators in Turkey today as part of a fresh push | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
for a ceasefire in Syria. One key group says it's already been | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
in talks with Turkish officials about ways | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
to end the fighting, but that it's too early to say | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
whether there could be a truce. It's believed one key point | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
of contention is the exclusion of a key rebel-held area | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
on the outskirts of Damascus An automatic braking system | :10:12. | :10:23. | |
prevented a Tunisian man from killing many more people when he | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
drove a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market, according to | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
German media reports. The system kicked in when the lorry hit the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
first market stalls. 12 people died in the attack which took place | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
earlier this month. Barcodes are to be printed | :10:37. | :10:36. | |
on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
and surgical tools in an effort to reduce the rate of avoidable | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
deaths in English hospitals. They say the idea could also save | :10:43. | :10:56. | |
the NHS up to ?1 billion over seven years. | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Apparently migrating birds are arriving at their breeding grounds | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
of earlier, as global temperatures rise. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
The research conducted by scientists at the University of Adelaide say | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
some species are missing out on vital resources like food and | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
nesting places as a result. Up, up and away. At least 4000 | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
different species of birds, with some flying many thousands of mild | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
from one continent to another, any moving to where they breed in the | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
winter. Scientists say the changing climate is having an effect on | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
somehow plants and animals behave and now scientists at the university | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
of Edinburgh as a some are reaching their summer grounds earlier, on | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
average one day soon for every one degree in Greece in temperature. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
They see reaching these grounds at the wrong time even by a few days | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
could mean birds miss out on food and nesting places. Those with | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
further to go may miss out most at which may affect those born and | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
their chances of survival. Researchers hope scientists will be | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
able to improve their research into how animals respond to current and | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
future environmental change. Keepers at Chester Zoo | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
are celebrating the arrival This six-foot-tall youngster, | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
who is yet to be named, The Rothschild giraffe is said to be | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
one of the most endangered species of the animal, with fewer | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
than 1600 left in the wild. It is very, very cute. You know the | :12:43. | :12:56. | |
great giraffe that I've got? They spend 16- 20 hours everyday eating. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
Is that unusual for an animal? It is quite a lot of time. | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
What about a cow? They spend all day! I'm not impressed with those | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
stats. On the whole, most animals that are | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
roaming... I'm going to get a better giraffe | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
sacked for next time, OK? Anyway, Bradley Wiggins, we're | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
talking about the retirement of written's most decorated Olympian. | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
There will be a massive hole on the British sporting landscape in 2017 | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
without Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has been a talisman for British sport. | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
How many years? 16 years he has been an Olympian and he has risen through | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
the ranks of cycling and to become a sporting superpower, really. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Often we complain about characters in sport and how there aren't enough | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
of them, IT delivered on both accounts. Amazing sporting success, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
in terms of medals and achievements, but also a really unusual character. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
He was a rock star. I remember when he was the sports personality in 20 | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
years. Everyone was a little bit nervous | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
about how his speech was going to go. He is that sort of person. He | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
changes the atmosphere in a room. He does. And when he brings his a | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
game, personality wise he is a superstar. | :14:25. | :14:25. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins said he had achieved his childhood dreams, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
following his retirement from cycling. | :14:29. | :14:29. | |
Wiggins was the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France, | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
and he is the most decorated British Olympian, with eight medals | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Tottenham beat Southampton 4-1, to move within a point | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Dele Alli scored the first and last goals for Spurs | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
In the Scottish Premiership, second-placed Rangers were held | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
1-1 at St Johnstone. | :14:53. | :14:53. | |
They're now 16 points behind Celtic, who beat Ross County. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
And defending champion Gary Anderson is through to the quarter-finals | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
He beat the Dutchman Benito van de Pass 4-2 at Alexandra Palace. | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
You know it is Christmas when there is darts on the television. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
Yes! Charlie spent quite a bit of time invested in the darts | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
yesterday. It is quite a spectacle. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Have you got a giraffe fact? Charlie is not happy with my giraffe | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
fact. Totally unprepared. You never know | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
what you will get. I was impressed because they spend | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
almost all of their daily eating, about 16- 20 hours. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
That is an amazing fact. Charlie says it is rubbish. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
All who animals spend hours eating grass. But 20 hours, I am with | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
Sally. We are divided. Ask your average cowl, they won't be | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
impressed. Charlie says my next fact should be | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
that giraffes have long neck. This is the front page of the Daily | :16:03. | :16:16. | |
Telegraph. Sir Bradley Wiggins who announced his retirement yesterday. | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
That sums him up. As we said a moment ago, quite rock and roll, a | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
bit of a rock star. The main story is saying there was a move to | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
Theresa May to reconsider reforms. Two stories on the front of the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Daily Mail. We can't confirm this. There are suggestions that Victoria | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Beckham have been given an OBE. We don't know anything about that at | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
this stage. Millions of tons of wrapping paper and Christmas cards | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
and up in landfill because it can't be recycled if it has glitter on | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
them. You can't recycle...? Apparently. Freezing fog causing | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
terrible trouble on the road yesterday. We will be talking to | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Carol soon. Also a record high as well. Sometimes around Christmas, | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
these things jump to new heights. More importantly, cereals suffer in | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
the morning bash. The traditional bowl of cereal is being ditched as | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
we rush to work or school eating on the go. Sales of cereal are down? | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
Sales of cereal usually it with milk are down. Basically, people aren't | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
eating breakfast. On what they are eating is changed. Companies are | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
becoming more innovative and eating bars on the go. There are questions | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
about whether they are good for you. Bit of fluff in the Daily Mail. The | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
paper is finding it difficult to block their pages. They have got to | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the bottom of why perhaps Bradley lost his job at Swansea. Was it | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
before Christmas? It was, wasn't it. He hasn't spent and up on his watch. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
He only spent 40 quid which meant he is bottom of the league. That makes | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
me like him more. How much the Premier League managers spent on | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
their watch. Burnley, ?45,000. If you were the chairman, you would be | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
thinking that you are paying him a bit... I wonder how many of them | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
actually bought their own watches. Some quite prominent snaps. Have you | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
seen managers in press conferences do this? Lim they do it. They come | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
off court and put them on straightaway. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
If you are travelling once again, watch out for patchy fog. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Particularly across England. In places it is dense. Sometimes it | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
will take its time to clear if indeed at all. It will lead to | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
destruction. You can find out what is happening where you are on your | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
BBC local radio station and the BBC travel pages. It is cold, it is | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
frosty. You might find ice on some untreated surfaces but further | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
north, look at the squeeze on the isobars. Too much wind to have any | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
problems with Frost fog. There in mind, it is patchy fog. It is not a | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
blanket so you will run in and out of it which of course makes it | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
treacherous plus the slippery element because of the low | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
temperatures. It is -6 in England and parts of Wales. As we push into | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, a bit more cloud around. There are some | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
breaks. Thicker cloud around the north-west producing stronger | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
showers. And we have winds bringing rain later. A windy day in the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
north-west. Some of the cloud will break and some of the fog will lift. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Some of the parts of the Midlands, East Wales and East Anglia, not | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
clear at all. There will be sunshine today in a forecast. It will still | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
feel cold if you are stepping out and if you are in the fog, it will | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
feel cold. Through the evening and overnight, the weather front in the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
north-west advances in South ringing rain. It will also be windy. A | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
breezy night, variable amount of cloud. As it moves eastward, it will | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
list but some in the south, around the Midlands, East Anglia, some of | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
the fog will be slow to clear. Some of it may not clear. East Anglia is | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
prone. Tomorrow as well some breaks in the cloud. A bit of sunshine here | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
and there. In the south-west, parts of north-east England, the weather | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
front continuing to seek a southwards and are still very breezy | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
and around it. Look how mild it is for the bulk of the UK. As we head | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
into the New Year's Eve, we have an active weather front slipping | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
southwards. The timing of this could change. It goes up to three PM. We | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
think at the moment it will clear Scotland and by the time we get to | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
new years, it might not. Behind it, a return of colder conditions so the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
mild weather that we will enjoy will disappear. It won't be for long, it | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
will be back next week. In New Year's Day, there goes the weather | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
front, thinking southwards. Behind it, dry and bright. Some sunshine. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
The showers by then will be wintry by nature in the north. You can see | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
the difference in the temperatures, looking 9- ten. Once again, a lot | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
going on with the weather. Could paintings teach us more | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
about early on-set dementia? An analysis of more than 2,000 works | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
by seven famous artists has shone new light on the development | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
of diseases like Alzheimer's and The research shows that neurological | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
conditions could be detected by subtle changes in composition | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
and brush strokes, long before any Our health correspondent | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Dominic Hughes has more. Can you remember what | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
the painting is called? Living with dementia, | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Joyce Cope still enjoys painting. But today, her work is very | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
different from the highly detailed pictures she used to produce before | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
the disease took hold. There is this really good | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
copy of the masters, She can remember | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
things from years ago, but generally if you ask | :22:38. | :22:50. | |
what she had for breakfast this But can art, and more specifically | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
the way artists work, tell us something about | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
the development of dementia and other degenerative | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
brain diseases? Much of the research into dementia | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
has obviously been very medical. But now, a new approach | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
combines both maths and art, and offers an intriguing | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
insight into what might be going on in the brains of those | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
artists who develop dementia, long before any symptoms | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
become obvious. There is some fractal content | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
in this, which is what we call very Fractal analysis is a complex, | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
mathematical method of looking The recurring patterns of our | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
brainwaves and heart means fractals. The same applies to the individual | :23:27. | :23:42. | |
brushstrokes of artists, Now, an analysis of more than 2,000 | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
works by 17 artists has revealed Artists who went on to develop | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
dementia or Parkinson's disease, the fractal pattern started | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to change, in an unusual way. So what we find is, up to 20 years | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
before they had a diagnosis of a neurological disorder, | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the fractal content within their paintings had | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
started to decrease. So anything that helps us understand | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
more about how the brain operates is a useful way to inform future | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
directions for research. Artist Willem de Kooning | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
was diagnosed with Alzheimer's The brushstroke patterns seen | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
in his earlier work were different But in the work of Picasso, | :24:18. | :24:30. | |
who died free of any known neurological disease, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the pattern remained constant throughout his life, | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
regardless of what he was painting. This won't help diagnosed dementia, | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
or similar diseases, So is it easy to use oils or | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
watercolour? but it does give a valuable insight | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
into changes that are taking place in the brain, years before | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
the illness appears, and so could help answer questions | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
about these devastating conditions. With just three days of the year | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
left, your thoughts may be turning to what the next 12 months might | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
bring, and what you'd like to leave For the last decade, | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
New Yorkers have been taking this seriously by gathering | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
in Times Square at the end of each December, to symbolically | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
destroy their bad memories Good Riddance Day is based | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
on a Latin American tradition which sees people burn | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
dolls stuffed with objects Was that a pie? They look like they | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
were smashing pies. So, what did the people | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
of Manchester and New York want to bid farewell | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
to as we head towards 2017? Are few extra Christmas pounds. Of | :25:41. | :26:00. | |
the weather. Too cold. Ad like to see places with them off the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
streets, the homeless. Working long hours. Working far too much. The | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
memory of David Bowie's death. It still hurt by it a year later. I | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
want to shed the stress and the anger. Sometimes I have it. I don't | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
want it any more. I love this idea. It's kind of like a New Year 's | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
revolution but in reverse. -- resolution. | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
So, what will you be saying "good riddance" to ahead of 2017? | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
You can e-mail us at [email protected] | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
or share your thoughts with other viewers on our Facebook page. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
I'm going to say good read and to this cold. Definitely! Been | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
You can get your latest travel news lingering? Oh, yes. | :26:51. | :30:13. | |
You can get your latest travel news from your local radio and forget, we | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
will be back for another update in half an hour's time. | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
Britain's most decorated Olympian is calling it a day. | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
As Sir Bradley Wiggins announces his retirement, | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
we'll look back at his career highs and lows, | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
with his former team-mate, Rob Hayles. | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
Could a roll-out of barcodes on medicines and surgical equipment | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
help reduce the number of avoidable deaths in hospital? | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
We'll find out why NHS England believes the idea could save more | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
We'll find out how rising global temperatures are affecting | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
they way birds migrate, meaning they're missing out on vital | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
resources like food and nesting places. | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
But now a summary of this morning's main news. | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died, | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
just one day after the death of her daughter, the film star | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
The 84-year-old had been at her daughter's bedside | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
since the Star Wars star suffered a heart attack on Christmas Eve. | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
Reynold's son, Todd Fisher, said the stress of his sister's | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
death had been too much for their mother | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
and that her last words had been that she wanted to be with Carrie. | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
Stars have been paying their tributes to Debbie Reynolds. | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
William Shatner, who played James T Kirk in the Star Trek | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
franchise described her as "one of the last | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
Dame Joan Collins hailed her as "a wonderfully warm | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
The singer Gloria Gaynor called her "an American icon | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
Fans in Hollywood paid tributes to Debbie Reynolds. | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
Debbie Reynolds, the girl next door, I remember when she was in The | :32:03. | :32:13. | |
Unsinkable Molly Brown. Unbelievable, this is the worst year | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
for Hollywood, I'm telling you. It was so sad. It was a shocker. What | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
were the odds of this happening? Incredible. Sad. In shock. It is so | :32:25. | :32:32. | |
surprising that it happened. To hear it I think it may be caused her to | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
be so distraught that it brought on a stroke. | :32:37. | :32:37. | |
Debbie Reynolds' career spanned seven decades, | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
Singin' in the Rain, opposite Gene Kelly. | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
Our Los Angeles correspondent David Willis looks back | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
# Good morning, good morning, it's great to stay up late | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
# Good morning, good morning to you...# | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old, singing and dancing on film | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
It was her performance alongside Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain | :33:00. | :33:07. | |
Born in Texas, she moved with her family to California | :33:08. | :33:16. | |
and landed a contract with Warner Brothers after winning | :33:17. | :33:18. | |
a local beauty contest at the age of 16. | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
She married the popular crooner Eddie Fisher and together they had | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
He later left her for Elizabeth Taylor, a friend | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
Two subsequent marriages also ended in divorce. | :33:33. | :33:41. | |
A popular choice for movie musicals in the 1950s and '60s, | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
Debbie Reynolds earnt an Oscar nomination | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
for her depiction of Titanic survivor Margaret Brown | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
She opened her own hotel in Las Vegas in 1992, | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
filling it with movie memorabilia she had accumulated over the years, | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
but the business folded and she was eventually forced | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
My personal life is always sort of like that choo choo train that | :33:59. | :34:08. | |
says "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can". | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
I seem to marry very poorly, I have no taste in men. | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
Luckily for me, God is good and I have two lovely children | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
and my son helps me run my little | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
She went on to play Grace's mother in the hit sitcom Will and Grace | :34:22. | :34:28. | |
and returned to the big screen to play Liberace's mother | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
in the 2013 biopic Behind the Candelabra. | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
She suffered a terrible loss when her daughter died | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
She herself was taken ill while discussing the arrangements | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family | :34:48. | :35:02. | |
doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP. | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
says longer waiting times could pose a "serious risk" to patients. | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
NHS England says surgeries have been promised more funding. | :35:11. | :35:19. | |
Dozens of children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp have | :35:20. | :35:22. | |
launched a legal challenge against the Home Office | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
over its handling of asylum applications. | :35:26. | :35:26. | |
Lawyers representing 36 children say the government | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
broke its promise to take in its fair share of child refugees. | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
They say hundreds have had their applications turned down | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
The Home Office says it will not comment | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
Birds could be missing out on food and nesting spots because they're | :35:40. | :35:49. | |
migrating to their breeding grounds earlier. | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh | :35:52. | :35:52. | |
found that some species are reaching their summer breeding | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
grounds about a day sooner for every one degree increase | :35:56. | :35:57. | |
It's hope the findings will help scientists improve predictions | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
of how different species respond to future environmental changes. | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
It doesn't come at the lot, one day, but apparently it makes a big | :36:10. | :36:17. | |
difference because there's a lack of when they get there. | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
Over to the sport now. The big story on the front and back of the pages | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
is Bradley Wiggins announcing his retirement from cycling, and | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
therefore disappearing from our sporting landscape. | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
Will he really? No, he used to much of a superstar to really disappear, | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
but it will be ashamed to not see compete. The first edition Tour de | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
France winner. An amazing achievement. -- British. | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
Sir Bradley announced his retirement by saying "Kids from Kilburn don't | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
win Olympic Golds and the Tour de France. | :36:52. | :36:53. | |
Wiggins is the most decorated British Olympian, | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
with five gold medals in his total of eight medals. | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
The most recent coming in the team pursuit in Rio. | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
The spotlight over recent months has been on his use | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
of theraputic-use exemption medication. | :37:05. | :37:05. | |
In August, he spoke of his plan following his retirement. | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
To remain riding my bike, involved in cycling. I have children's bikes, | :37:09. | :37:22. | |
so very much cycling has been a huge part of my life and it will continue | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
to be. I don't expect too much to change, other than I would be in | :37:27. | :37:28. | |
Olympic finals any more. Sir Bradley's former Olympic team | :37:29. | :37:29. | |
mate Rob Hayles will be on the sofa He will tell us exactly what it has | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
been like riding with him. There has been another high-profile | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
retirement in the world of sport, with tennis player Ana Ivanovic | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
ending her career at 29. The Serbian won the | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
French Open in 2008 and, after struggling | :37:46. | :37:47. | |
to repeat that success, she mounted a comeback last year | :37:48. | :37:49. | |
and reached the semi-final She married Manchester United's | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
Bastian Schweinsteiger this summer. Andy Murray says he will plan | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
differently at the Australian Open next month, to do all he can to win | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
the first Grand Slam of the season. Murray has reached the final | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
in Melbourne five times, but this time he'll go | :38:04. | :38:05. | |
into the event as world number one. I played really well there in the | :38:06. | :38:14. | |
past and it hasn't happened for me, so I need to do something a little | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
bit different this year. But I love the conditions there, I enjoy the | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
tournament a lot. I'll be going in hopefully playing well with a lot of | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
confidence, because of the way I finished 2016. | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
Tottenham are just a point behind their North London rivals | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
Arsenal in the Premier League table, after winning 4-1 at Southampton. | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
Harry Kane had gone three league matches without a goal, | :38:38. | :38:39. | |
but he put an end to that last night. | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
And Dele Alli scored twice, as Southampton finished the game | :38:43. | :38:44. | |
They're ten points behind leaders Chelsea. | :38:45. | :38:52. | |
Ahead of the Old Firm derby on New Year's Eve, | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
Celtic have stretched their lead at the top | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
of the Scottish Premiership to 16 points. | :38:58. | :38:59. | |
They beat Ross County 2-0 last night, while | :39:00. | :39:01. | |
second-placed Rangers were held to a 1-1 draw at St | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
A defensive blunder allowed Steven Maclean to score | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
There were also wins for Motherwell and Partick Thistle. | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
In darts, defending champion Gary Anderson was the first man | :39:13. | :39:14. | |
through to the quarter finals of the PDC World Championship. | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
The Scotsman averaged 107.68, the highest in the tournament | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
as he beat the Dutchman Benito van de Pass 4-2 at Alexandra Palace. | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
Anderson is joined in the last eight by Raymond van Barneveld. | :39:26. | :39:34. | |
Let's return to the retirement of Sir Bradley Wiggins, | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
who has decided to hang up his cleats after almost 20 years | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
When it comes to cycling he's won just about all there is to win. | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
Here are just a few of his career highlights. | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
He does write an incredible amount of maturity, this young fellow. -- | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
ride with. This is a virtuoso performance by | :39:57. | :40:10. | |
Bradley Wiggins! He is turning on the style! He will be the 4000 | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
metres Olympic champion! Bradley Wiggins is a gold-medal winner and | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
Olympic champion! Bradley Wiggins is the master of the time trial and the | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
master of this Tour de France. He will become written's first-ever | :40:29. | :40:36. | |
winner! This is going to be a golden moment for Bradley Wiggins and the | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
crowd are already going ballistic. Here comes Bradley Wiggins up to the | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
line and into the lead! It's coming down to the last lap! It is Great | :40:50. | :40:56. | |
Britain! Sir Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic gold for the fifth time in | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
history. We're joined by former Olympic | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
and world track cyclist Rob Hayles, who was team mates | :41:04. | :41:06. | |
with Sir Bradley. I know you said as a cyclist you | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
argues the getting up in the early of the morning? I don't know how you | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
do it. Well thank you for making the effort. We saw so many brilliant | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
moments in his career. What do you think it will be best remembered | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
for? All of the results, there are so many and so broad, from the track | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
to the Tour de France and back to the track. That has never happened | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
before. But his character, I think, is the big thing. He is larger than | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
life. He is the centre of attention so often, especially after a couple | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
of drinks. I'm sure he will be looking forward to more often than | :41:45. | :41:50. | |
not. Just the Union Flag, the Union Jack, the way he has been so proud | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
to wear that and whenever he commits to an event, whether it is on the | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
track over four minutes or whether it is over three and a bit weeks in | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
France, if he commits to the chances are will come away with a gold | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
medal. You can see him after the time trial Tour de France victory. | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
That was quite a special summer in 2012. I think that's the big thing. | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
In all of the years as a professional, 20 years full-time, we | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
go back to 1998 when he was a junior and had just come back from the | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
Junior World Championships. 2012 was quite a special year for Brad and | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
for British cycling in general. The way that cycling has come on over | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
the years to where it is now, from where it was when Brad started, and | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
he has been kind of one of the key protagonists in that change, I feel. | :42:52. | :42:59. | |
One of the great things, we saw him pokies tongue out as he got the | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
medal, IT is so reverent and seems to have no respect for authority at | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
all. That's really unusual. Has that helped him? It has been part of | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
that. Like I said, if he committed to it, but chances are he would be | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
at his best and if he was at his best that would be good enough. But | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
it was all or nothing. He would either win the race or he wouldn't | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
finish. But no one will tell him to finish the race. It is his decision. | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
It is all under his steam. This is one of the things that has made him | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
so good. He was a very quotable and trainable rider. -- coachable. But | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
it was on his terms. He wasn't daft... Well, he wasn't stupid. He | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
was daft at times. That helped him through. He is quite a shy character | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
and to get over that he went to the line and often kicked the door down | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
and went beyond it. Can I just ask you, from the outside looking in, | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
you are an insider, for outsiders looking in, and we have all met him, | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
we character and unbelievable achievements, but as he retires | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
there is this little cloud hanging over. There is the issue of broken | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
the rules, but. Can you help us with inside cycling howl IU thinking | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
about the issues that seem to be a little bit outstanding? -- how are | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
you. You know what I am talking about. It is a shame this has come | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
at the end of his career and it's a cloud and it is understandable. In | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
terms of the rules of the sport he has broken them. The world governing | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
body have said there is nothing to answer. But there is still obviously | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
a question of whether it has been ethical and I think that's a | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
separate issue. But in terms of the rules that have been broken or not, | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
there are none. But it is certainly not the ideal way that Bradley | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
Wiggins would have wanted to retire. Has that been potentially a little | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
bit of a push to him making this decision now? Potentially. Will we | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
see him back in six months racing? Who knows? He has hinted, earlier | :45:15. | :45:22. | |
this year, that he wouldn't stop, and here he is. And what does he do, | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
where does he go from here? He will certainly be within sport. Like most | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
of us he is probably only employable within cycling. He has been in it | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
that long. What hopefully he will remain and continue in the sport and | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
help with the younger riders, it is one of the things he has done in the | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
past. People might have thought they want to share with you. I know you | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
will be coming back later. Thank you. | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
Watch out for fog this morning. Particularly some of it is dense. | :45:59. | :46:07. | |
We're not looking in a blanket but in some ways, patchy fog is more | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
dangerous because there no warning. You can find out what is happening | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
where you are in your BBC local radio station. It is a cold start | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
across England and Wales will stop temperatures falling to almost minus | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
seven. There is the risk of ice. You can see further north, looking at | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
the spacing of the isobars, too much of a breeze to be any issues with | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
fog or frost. Southern counties of England, there is an patchy fog | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
around this morning, some of which is dense. It is the same across the | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
Midlands, it Wales, East Anglia. Do take extra care. Some patchy fog up | :46:40. | :46:46. | |
to the Vale of York. As the go up to Northern Ireland and Scotland, more | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
cloud and more of a breeze some parts will see a touch of Frost and | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
rural sheltered glens. You will sunshine first thing. The cloud | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
building through the day but in some parts of Ireland, rain coming in at | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
Sunshine. Some fog will slowly lift but some will stick. East Midlands, | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
Vale of York, East of Wales, some will struggle to break free them. -- | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
freezing. There will be sunny spells. Overnight, the weather front | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
faces south. Breezy in the north and we will see more cloud push across | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
us as well. The early fog we have will start to live. In some parts of | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
the Midlands and into East Anglia, the far south-east, we will see some | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
fog by this time tomorrow morning. Some of it could be dense and slow | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
to clear. As we go through tomorrow for the rest of the UK, there will | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
be a fairly cloudy day. One of two hole here and there but we will see | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
some glimmers of sunshine. The weather front continuing to push | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
slowly southwards across Scotland. The and it will be a windy day but | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
temperature wise, also quite a mild day unless you are stuck under some | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
of the fog which will pull down the cabbage. On New Year's Eve, the | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
weather front continuing to sink southwards, it is an active one and | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
will bring heavy rain. Gusty winds around it as well. This front keeps | :48:12. | :48:19. | |
changing its times. What is going to happen is it as it pushes it | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
southwards, cold air will feed in Bihar did and as we head into New | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
Year's Day, eventually we see that front, behind each dry and sunshine | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
and the showers in the call the air will be wintry but mild in this far | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
south. It has called for a softer couple of days and then mild Arad | :48:41. | :48:42. | |
about Tuesday Wednesday next week. It's all very complex and changing, | :48:43. | :48:53. | |
Carol, thank you. Complex and changing, that could apply to 2016, | :48:54. | :48:59. | |
Sean? I have a few predictions for you. | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
Well, the big story for British business in 2016 has of course been | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
that vote to leave the European Union, | :49:11. | :49:12. | |
but while we wait for the details of what that will look | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
like for the country, there will be some more short term | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
The fall in the pound after we voted to leave affected everybody. | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
Holidaymakers found it more expensive, British-made goods looked | :49:23. | :49:24. | |
cheaper, and it's had a knock on effect on prices in our shops - | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
So can we expect to see it recover in 2017? | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
So, as Michelle says, experts think the pound | :49:33. | :49:35. | |
is going to remain unpredictable, but if it stays around the levels | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
it's at now, that will have a big effect on prices next year. | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
- when retailers and suppliers fell out about increasing costs | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
Well in the coming months, economists and the retailers | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
themselves expect some of those rises to be passed | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
- when retailers and suppliers fell out about increasing costs | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
The sterling is important for us but not the others. It will be whipsawed | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
around. Well in the coming months, | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
economists and the retailers themselves expect some | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
of those rises to be passed So what about the money | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
that we save and that we owe? 76% of us think prices are going up | :50:14. | :50:25. | |
next year as a result of Brexit and will be concerned about our own | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
economy and how we can save money. What we can expect to see is loads | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
of cost saving measures coming back. Vouchers and value in everything we | :50:33. | :50:34. | |
buy. So what about the money | :50:35. | :50:34. | |
that we save and that we owe? It's been another bad year | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
for savers after rates were cut But mortgage holders have had it | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
good with low rates. But last month, this | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
woman, Janet Yellen, who is in charge of | :50:46. | :50:47. | |
America's Central Bank, raised interest rates in the USA - | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
and experts here in the UK have told us they are expecting mortgage rates | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
to edge back upwards next year. It was the interest rate rise in the | :50:54. | :51:06. | |
UK sometime. The Bank of England have said they want to see the | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
impact of Brexit first so let's wait and see how they play it out but | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
they will probably try and react slower and faster. -- slower than | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
the faster. With interest rates | :51:23. | :51:24. | |
potentially increasing, prices expected to rise | :51:25. | :51:25. | |
and the pound continuing its uncertain path, there should be | :51:26. | :51:27. | |
more than enough to keep Steph, So we still have a job. You have | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
plenty of work, Sean, don't worry. Now, you may remember little Harry, | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
his mum 12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
then, Harry was facing an anxious wait for | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
a life-saving liver transplant. In March, with no other donor | :51:46. | :51:47. | |
available - his dad Simon Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
to catch up with the Maceachen family and some of the people | :51:51. | :52:04. | |
helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place | :52:05. | :52:06. | |
for families like them. For the Maceachen family, 2016 was | :52:07. | :52:23. | |
life changing. One event was lifesaving. With no other donor | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
available, Simon donated part of his liver to his son, Harry. Was born | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
with a condition which means a blockage in the bowel ducts. We had | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
occasions where Harry would go to bed at night fit and healthy and | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
then at 6am he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting and we | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
would end up in hospital for ten days to a fortnight. Harry's first | :52:47. | :52:49. | |
appearance on Breakfast last December was memorable. In March, we | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
filmed as the family prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
risky and rare and only possible because the liver is the one | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
internal organ that can be generated. Ash regenerate. 2016, | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
what a year. How are you feeling now? -- regenerate. No competition. | :53:09. | :53:16. | |
It took a while to recover from the surgery. Harry bounced back quicker | :53:17. | :53:23. | |
than me. I love you. I love you too. I love you, mummy. I love you, | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
daddy. Are you have daddies live in now? -- liver. Thank you, daddy. | :53:31. | :53:43. | |
You're welcome. What can you do now that you couldn't before? What | :53:44. | :53:52. | |
really fast. What other medals? How much better do you feel now than | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
before? A lot better. Hospitals can be unfamiliar and I'm settling | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
especially for children. For their operations, Harry and Simon Wong | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
matching downs, specially made by volunteers known as the bout pyjama | :54:07. | :54:20. | |
Sam it -- varies. -- faeries. They have had an incredible 12 months. | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
The market is been an incredible year. -- it has been an incredible | :54:24. | :54:31. | |
year. It stops people from wearing boring scrubs in theatre. We | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
distribute about a thousand garment a month. I had breakfast telly on | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
that morning and I was interested in learning more about the charity and | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
becoming involved. And here a today. A couple of 100 garments later, yes. | :54:48. | :54:59. | |
The latest batch is bound for the hospital. Who have you brought | :55:00. | :55:09. | |
before? The little ones. In the hospital, they away from their | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
family, active and environment. We have to make it a more homely | :55:13. | :55:15. | |
environment. The pyjamas give us something to talk about, something | :55:16. | :55:22. | |
to choose. Every garment comes with a pole and written by the fairies. | :55:23. | :55:30. | |
It is aimed to reassure children at a difficult time. At no time while | :55:31. | :55:38. | |
we are -- at night time while you are sleeping, we bring our fairy | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
dust. We hope this will make you smile. | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
That is my favourite thing I have seen all day. Very moving, isn't it? | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
Can you imagine how fast he could run around the studio now? What a | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
brilliant thing for children in hospital now. A little note saying | :56:03. | :56:04. | |
do you Time now to get the news, | :56:05. | :56:04. | |
travel and weather where you are. Still to come on Breakfast | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
this morning: Are you suffering | :56:11. | :56:12. | |
from sales fatigue? As high street shops see | :56:13. | :56:14. | |
a drop in customers, we'll ask if shoppers are sick | :56:15. | :56:16. | |
of being bombarded by constant Time now to get the news, | :56:17. | :56:19. | |
travel and weather where you are. This is Breakfast, | :56:20. | :00:07. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The veteran Hollywood actress | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died just a day after her | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
daughter, Carrie Fisher. She was 84 and had been rushed | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
to hospital with a suspected stroke. Her son said the stress | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
of his sister's death was too It's Thursday, | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
the 29th of December. Patients could be forced to wait up | :00:23. | :00:44. | |
to a month to see their family That's the stark warning | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
from the UK's leading GP. In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
announced his retirement from cycling, after a career | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
during which he won five Olympic Lawyers for a group of children | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
who lived in the Calais Jungle refuge camp launch a legal challenge | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
accusing the British government of breaking its promise to take | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
a fair share of the most vulnerable. Interest rates, the prices | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
in our shops and the strength of the pound will all be | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
closely watched next year. I'll be taking a look at the big | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
stories for our finances in 2017. Once again today for England and | :01:20. | :01:34. | |
Wales it's a cold and frosty start, with patchy fog. Some of it is | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
dense, some of it will lift but some will stick. In Northern Ireland a | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
bit more cloud, sunny spells and rain coming from the south-west. | :01:43. | :01:43. | |
The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died, | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Debbie Reynolds was 84 and is believed to have | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
She had been at her daughter's bedside since the Star Wars actress | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Earlier we spoke to our LA correspondent David Willis, | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
who told us that Debbie Reynolds had been struggling to deal | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Debbie Reynolds had been at her son Todd Fisher's house in Beverly Hills | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
when she was taken ill. Apparently they had been discussing plans for | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Carrie fisher's feudal and she developed breathing difficulties, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
was taken to hospital and a couple of hours later was said to have | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
died. It appears of a stroke. Now, Todd Fisher has said that her final | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
words were" I just want to be with Carrie". He says for his part he is | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
heartbroken and this truly is a family tragedy, it was spare a | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
thought if you will for Carrie Fisher's daughter. She is also an | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
actress. It was she who revealed to the press that Carrie Fisher had | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
died on Tuesday and she in the last 24 hours has lost both a mother and | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
grandmother. Debbie Reynolds' career | :03:05. | :03:05. | |
spanned seven decades, but she was best known | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
for her role in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
opposite Gene Kelly. Our Los Angeles correspondent | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
David Willis looks back # Good morning, good morning, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
it's great to stay up late # Good morning, good morning | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
to you...# Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old, | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
singing and dancing on film It was her performance alongside | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Born in Texas, she moved | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
with her family to California and landed a contract | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
with Warner Brothers after winning a local beauty contest | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
at the age of 16. She married the popular crooner | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Eddie Fisher and together they had He later left her for | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Elizabeth Taylor, a friend Two subsequent marriages | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
also ended in divorce. A popular choice for movie musicals | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
in the 1950s and '60s, Debbie Reynolds earnt | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
an Oscar nomination for her depiction of Titanic | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
survivor Margaret Brown She opened her own hotel | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
in Las Vegas in 1992, filling it with movie memorabilia | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
she had accumulated over the years, but the business folded | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
and she was eventually forced My personal life is always sort | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
of like that choo choo train that says "I think I can, | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
I think I can, I think I can". I seem to marry very poorly, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
I have no taste in men. Luckily for me, God is good | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
and I have two lovely children and my son | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
helps me run my little She went on to play Grace's mother | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
in the hit sitcom Will and Grace and returned to the big screen | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
to play Liberace's mother in the 2013 biopic | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Behind the Candelabra. She suffered a terrible | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
loss when her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. She herself was taken ill whilst | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
discussing the arrangements Patients could be forced to wait up | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
to a month to see their family doctor this winter, according | :05:17. | :05:32. | |
to the UK's leading GP. Helen Stokes-Lampard, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
who chairs the Royal College of GPs, says that longer waiting times | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
could pose a "serious Every winter an increasing workload | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
puts pressure on NHS because more Some patients are already waiting | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
2-3 weeks to get a seat Now the chair of the Royal College | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of GPs says that's likely to climb to over a month in some areas | :05:55. | :06:04. | |
and she is profoundly concerned about how her general | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
practice will cope. Firstly, there just aren't | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
enough GPs out there. We don't have enough | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
clinicians in the workforce, but also we haven't got enough | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
nurses and other healthcare Secondly, there's been a serious | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
underinvestment in GP practices We have some promises | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
of good news coming, more money and people | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
coming through the system, but they've yet | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
to get to the front line, so the problem this winter | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
is as bad as it has ever been She says she is particularly worried | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
about the impact on preventative care and chronic disease management, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
while the knock-on consequences The people who suffer | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
are those with long-term conditions, because we have | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
to prioritise those If however we are ignoring those | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
with longer term conditions then we are storing up | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
problems for the future and increasing their | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
risks in the long-term. NHS England says GP services | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
are on track to receive an extra ?2.5 billion by 2020, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
which will expand access to convenient appointments | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
throughout the week. We'll speak to the chair | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
of the Royal College of GPs Dozens of children who lived | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
against the Home Office over its handling of | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
asylum applications. Lawyers representing 36 | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
children say the government broke its promise to take | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
had their applications turned down Let's speak to our political | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. What can you tell us | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
about the legal challenge? These lawyers are representing 28 | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
children who have already had their applications rejected and then a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
further 82 are still waiting for a decision. The lawyers say that some | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
applications have been rejected without reason and so for that | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
reason they are launching a further legal enquiry, if you like. They are | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
launching a legal challenge. These children have been living in the | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Jungle, before it was pulled apart in October. Their lawyers say the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
government has broken its promise and is failing to bring some of the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
most vulnerable children who are unaccompanied to the UK. For its | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
part of the Home Office says it can't comment on ongoing legal | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
proceedings, but it has said that 900 children have been brought to | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
the UK so far this year and of those 750 were unaccompanied children from | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
France. As for the current transfer of children, those coming from | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
France, that has now stopped, but we do expect children from across | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Europe, from countries like Rees and Italy, who are eligible, they will | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
continue to come to the UK. -- Greece and Italy. Thank you. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins says he has achieved his childhood dreams, | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
following his retirement from cycling. | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
He was the first British cyclist to win the Tour de | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
France, and he is the most decorated British Olympian, | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
with eight medals in total, five of them gold. | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
Birds could be missing out on food and nesting spots because they are | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
arriving at their breeding grounds earlier. Researchers from the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
University of Edinburgh said some species are reaching their breeding | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
grounds about one day earlier for every degree increase in | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
temperatures. They are hoping scientists will discover ways to | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
combat the changes in environmental conditions. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
"One of the last of Hollywood royalty". | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
That's how William Shatner has paid tribute to the actress | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Debbie Reynolds, who's died at the age of 84. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Her death comes just one day after her daughter, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
the Star Wars star Carrie Fisher, passed away following | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
The entertainment journalist Jeanne Wolf joins us | :10:01. | :10:12. | |
It was just 24 hours ago we were talking about Carrie Fisher and now | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
we are talking about her mother. Shocking and terrible news. I | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
understand when you say you don't know how to start talking about it, | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
because it is almost impossible to think about. We just heard that her | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
last words were that she wanted to be with Carrie. I can understand | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
that. We have to feel for her, because her daughter never gained | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
consciousness after that heart attack and when she was in the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
hospital, so for days Debbie had to soldier on, watching her daughter | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
lying there, knowing that she would die soon and in effect she was | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
really no longer there. That's too much for a mother to bear. The | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
emotion and shock of that. Let's also remember that Debbie for the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
last few years was very frail and in bad health. So all the dreams she | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
had of taking it easy didn't come through and when she was awarded the | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
screen actress to she couldn't show up. Debbie wanted to be there in | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
sequence and feathers and singing to the crowd and instead Carrie had to | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
accept her award. We have been saying this morning that she was | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
almost the last of that Hollywood royalty. What was she like? She was | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
very ladylike. She had a very sweet voice and always had a smile on her | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
face. She had a greater sense of humour. She said, other people to | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the lemon into lemonade, I turn tragedy into jokes and performance. | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
She had a great sense of humour and read wit about the world and | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
everything that happened to her and about herself, which was part of | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
what made her entertaining. I found out later when I saw her nightclub | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
act in Las Vegas is the sweet girl next door Debbie Reynolds could be | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
quite all -- outrageous. You can imagine how the audience adored it. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
People appreciated her here. They appreciated her dignity, they | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
appreciated all of the charity work she did, how much a part of the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
community she was and the fact that they could really call her the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
unthinkable Debbie Reynolds. Which is of course the reference to the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
fantastic film she won an Oscar for. At her big rake was singing in the | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
rain. Is it true that she wasn't the first choice for that role because | :12:55. | :13:06. | |
she wasn't seen as the best dancer? -- big break Singin' in the Rain. I | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
heard Gene Kelly saw the tape and said she was perfect. The casting | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
director said, I'm not sure she can dance, and Gene Kelly said, no | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
problem, I can teach her! She is perfect! And she did turn out to be | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
perfect. But the movie is perfect. Instead of a memorial we should all | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
watch Singin' in the Rain. I couldn't agree more. That's what I'm | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
going to try to do over the next couple of days. We have to mention | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
that the relationship with her daughter wasn't always the best. I | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
know that she spoke about it being a kind of typical mother- daughter | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
relationship, where sometimes she was brutally honest with Carrie and | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Carrie didn't want to hear it. I think it was a typical at all. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Typical in the sense that mothers and daughters often potheads, but | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Debbie was really frightened that her daughter would die from a drug | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
overdose and there were years... It is unbelievable to think about, | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
knowing how close they were, when they didn't speak. Eventually they | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
moved into houses next door to each other and Debbie's great-grandmother | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
was a great-grandmother to carry's daughter, who is 24 now and | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
beginning to be an actress. All of us should remember that not only did | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
she lose a mother, but she lost her grandmother, who I am told used to | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
play cards with her and sing and dance with her. So she is somebody | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
we will watch and, you know, Debbie was unthinkable, but this was really | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
too much and you can understand it would be too much for anybody. Thank | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
you so much for your time this morning, talking to us live from | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Hollywood this morning. That is an incredible point. For Debbie | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Reynolds' granddaughter, she has lost her mum and granny in the space | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
of 24 hours. It is a family tragedy. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Time for us to have a look at the weather forecast. Winter brings all | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
sorts of things. Fog is one of the things which can be horrible, | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
especially if you have to travel. We have fog and the forecast again | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
today, especially across England and Wales. It is patchy fog, some of it | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
is dense, some of it will linger for much if not all of the day. It could | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
lead to some travel disruption, so keep up-to-date with what is going | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
on on your BBC local radio station. The other thing is we have got very | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
low temperatures. In parts of Wales fell to -7 and across parts of | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
England two minus six. Not everywhere, obviously, but there is | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the risk of ice on untreated surfaces this morning so we have a | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
double whammy of risks. You can see across southern England there will | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
be some bright skies first thing, but equally we have got that patchy | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
fog, cold, frosty, and the risk of ice. Let's have a look in Northern | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Ireland and Scotland. There is more of a breeze this morning and a bit | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
more cloud. You may encounter those problems and in sheltered cleanser | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
touch of frost. The thicker cloud producing spots of rain but we have | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
a weather front waiting in the winds which will bring heavy rain much | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
later. The wind will strengthen in the north-east through the course of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
the day. The fog will tend to slowly lift, some into low cloud. Some will | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
stick, for East Midlands and of York, and we will see some sunshine | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
come through. If you are stuck in an area which hangs on to the fog for | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
much of the day then temperatures will really struggle even to break | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
freezing. It is going to feel cold. We will see some early frost and fog | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
as we go through the evening and overnight, a weather front coming | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
south Scotland accompanied by gusty winds and a bit more cloud pushing | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
eastwards. As that cloud pushes eastwards it will lift some of that | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
fog. However, we still expect to it at this time tomorrow morning across | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
parts of East Anglia and the south-eastern corner and that could | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
be slow to clear as we go through the course of tomorrow. Tomorrow | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
quite a lot of cloud around, some brighter breaks. A band of rain | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
slowly moving southwards across Scotland. Gusty winds across the | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
northern half of the country that temperature-wise, unless you are in | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
the fog, we are in pretty good shape. It is going to feel quite | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
mild. As we had from Friday into New Year's Eve, we have the weather | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
front across Scotland slowly slipping southwards. The timing of | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
this keeps changing. This chart finishes at 3pm in the afternoon. On | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
current timings, by the midnight hour we expect the rain to be across | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
the borders and northern England and north Wales, and parts of Northern | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Ireland. So for midnight in Scotland at the moment, fingers crossed but | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
that could change. As we head on through the course of the New Year's | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
weekend, the front does sink south, and behind it much colder air | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
streams in. The effect that will have on the forecast is the rain | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
moves across England and Wales, pushing down in the southern | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
counties. Behind it, bright skies, some sunshine and showers but in the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
colder temperatures you will find that we will see increasingly wintry | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
showers. So it is all to play for four New Year's Eve or Hogmanay, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
depending on what area of the country you are in. I am delighted | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
you said Hogmanay at last, I have been waiting for you to say it. She | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
always has a marvellous Hogmanay! Barcodes are to be printed | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
and surgical tools, in an effort to reduce the rate of avoidable | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
deaths in English hospitals. Ministers say the scheme, | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
which is being piloted in six areas, could also save the NHS up to ?1 | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
billion over seven years, as our health correspondent | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
Robert Pigott reports. An angiogram, designed to reveal | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
the condition of patients' blood vessels, is carried | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
out in Salisbury. As part of the piloting | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
of the Scan4 safety scheme, barcodes on medication and equipment | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
record the materials used to treat patients, the time and | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
place of the procedure, and the name of the medical | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
staff taking part. We can trace that | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
patient very quickly. We scan all the equipment, | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
so there should be no drug errors. And it's to the correct patient, | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
so we scan the patient, making sure | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
the right drug or the right blood product, et cetera, goes | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
to the right patient. And if they're going to roll it out | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
to orthopaedics and other type equipment, we can then trace | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
those back in the future Barcoding will reduce the average | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
of an hour that nurses spend collecting medicines, | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
and alert staff to those Everything from screws used in knee | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
operations to breast implants will be barcoded, so their | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
quality can be monitored. About once a week, tragically, | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
someone dies in the NHS because they're given | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
the wrong medicine. We also have a number of operations | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
where the wrong implant is put into someone's body, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
and that then has to be changed And if we use modern | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
bar-code technology, we can deal with a lot | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
of these problems. One of the biggest advantages | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
of Scan4 safety could be in tracing patients when faulty products | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
have to be recalled. Nearly 50,000 British women had | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
the breast implants made by the French company PIP, | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
when they were revealed to be at risk of rupturing, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
but patchy record-keeping made it He is in charge of procurement | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, one of six places | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
piloting the scheme. Good morning to you. What an | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
interesting idea. Listening to what was said in the piece that, one of | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
the medical staff said that some drugs look very similar. Barcodes | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
will help to ensure that the right drugs go to the right people. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Correct. There is a bit of me that if thinking we are reliant on | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
technology rather than the expertise of medical staff. I understand that. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
It is really a check and balance. It is so we are able to recall not only | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
what the Stuffer scene but the actual information from the product, | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
so that we've got record all the way through the patient journey, | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
covering obviously medicines but also devices as well. If there is a | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
recall and devices, we have recorded the information into the patient | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
notes. We have the lot, the serial number and the expiry date and we | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
are able to track and trace products to patient level. I am holding up | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
what looks like a little piece of card, which has a very important | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Barco, and I am holding at the wrong way. You are indeed. Good job I am | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
not putting this in because it is for a mid- phase 1.5 millimetres | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
screw. Correct, so we use that in trauma, in terms of missing bones | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
together with plates, et cetera. What we are trying to do is get | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
effectively retail technology on the product, so that we are able to | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
track and trace those products right the way through from receipt in the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
hospital right the way through the implant in those into the patient. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Don't we do that already? We don't unfortunately. You would think we | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
do. One of the issues has been the lack of standards around products. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
So the NHS is now deploying standards to all its product and | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
what asking all of its products to deploy a GS1 barcode. Up until now | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
manufacturers have applied whatever Barco they want so we have not been | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
able to track products. Trace it through for me. So the product you | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
are talking about is what? That is screw. Help me with the cost saving. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
You are not going to use any less screws, so knowing where they are | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
going does not make a difference to how much money is being spent, does | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
it? What it does do, it allows us to track wastage through the system, | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
and variation through the system. But different clinicians will use | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
different products and different volumes. By tracking the product to | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
the patient, identifying the clinician at point of use, we can | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
make sure we are using standard processes throughout the whole of | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
healthcare. From a supply chain point of view what we are also doing | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
is ensuring that we have the right amount of product is on the shelf, | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
we have not got excess stock in the system. Also, if you take a device | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
we are talking about here, it costs about ?12,500. It is an implantable | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
device. That is worth ?12,500? That is worth ?12,500. It is a pain | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
stimulator, a super TENs machine, implantable within the body. We want | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
to make sure it is still in date, the shelflife is less than 12 months | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
from receipt in hospital so we need to make sure we have visibility of | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
that from receipt in hospital right the way through to the patient. A | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
bit like supermarkets track what is going out. Or motor manufacturers. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
When your car is recalled they know exactly who has a car, where it is | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
and what is being replaced. From this point of view we have the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
serial number, the lot number, the batch number, and we know the | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
patient. So what we have managed to do is get the barcode on the patient | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
as well, so we are also occurred in the patient and making that link | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
using the NHS number, linking the patient all the way through the | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
journey. It is early stages. And trial stages, so we will find out in | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the future just what devices there are. Thank you for your time. | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
Could paintings teach us more about early-onset dementia? | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
An analysis of more than 2,000 works by seven famous artists has shone | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
new light on the development of diseases like Alzheimer's and | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
The research shows that neurological conditions could be detected | :24:42. | :24:54. | |
by subtle changes in composition and brushstrokes, long before any | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
Can you remember what the painting is called? | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
It is one of my favourites that he did. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Living with dementia, Joyce Cope still enjoys painting. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
But today, her work is very different from the highly detailed | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
pictures she used to produce before the disease took hold. | :25:16. | :25:28. | |
There was these really good copies of the masters, | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
She can remember things from years ago, but generally if you ask | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
what she had for breakfast this morning, she can't remember. | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
But can art, and more specifically the way artists work, | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
tell us something about the development of dementia | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
and other degenerative brain diseases? | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
Much of the research into dementia has obviously been very medical. | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
But now, a new approach combines both maths and art, | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
and offers an intriguing insight into what might be | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
going on in the brains of those artists who develop dementia, | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
long before any symptoms become obvious. | :26:04. | :26:15. | |
There is some fractal content in this, which is what we call very | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
Fractal analysis is a complex, mathematical method of looking | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
The recurring patterns of our brainwaves and heart | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
The same applies to the individual brushstrokes of artists, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Now, an analysis of more than 2,000 works by 17 artists has revealed | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Artists who went on to develop dementia or Parkinson's disease, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
the fractal patterns started to change, in an unusual way. | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
So what we find is, up to 20 years before they had a diagnosis | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
of a neurological disorder, the fractal content | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
within their paintings had started to decrease. | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
So anything that helps us understand more about how the brain operates | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
is a useful way to inform future directions for research. | :26:55. | :27:08. | |
Artist Willem de Kooning was diagnosed with Alzheimer's | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
The brushstroke patterns seen in his earlier work were different | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
But in the work of Picasso, who died free of any known | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
neurological disease, the patterns remain constant | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
throughout his life, regardless of what he was painting. | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
So is it easier to use oils than it is to use watercolours? | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
This won't help diagnosed dementia, or similar diseases, | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
but it does give a valuable insight into changes that are taking place | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
in the brain, years before the illness appears, | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
and so could help answer questions about these devastating conditions. | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
We have had some great guests on the programme. Little Harry made quite | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
an impression when he visited us here a year ago. He was facing an | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
anxious wait for a life-saving liver transplant. You can see he was in | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
good form when he came to visit, and then in March, with no other donor | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
available, his father Simon volunteered to share his liver. We | :28:08. | :28:09. | |
have been to catch up with him. I love you. I love you too. But yes, | :28:10. | :28:21. | |
no publications. I have daddy's liver now. It is yours now, you can | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
keep it! -- no complications. I think that was very nice of daddy to | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
do. You are welcome. I love you, Harry, is all I have to | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
say about that. Here's a bit special, he caused mayhem when he | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
was here. We will look at hospitals and the work they are doing to help | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
families in similar situations. Your local radio station will have | :28:46. | :32:13. | |
the latest travel news and we will be back with another date in half an | :32:14. | :32:15. | |
hour. Goodbye. -- another update. This is Breakfast, | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. We'll bring you all the latest news | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
and sport in a moment, The Hollywood actress | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
of her daughter, the film star The 84-year-old had been | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
at her daughter's bedside since the Star Wars star suffered | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
a heart attack on Christmas Eve. Reynold's son, Todd Fisher, | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
said the stress of his sister's death had been too | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
much for their mother and that her last words had been | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
that she wanted to be with Carrie. Stars have been paying | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
their tributes to Debbie Reynolds. William Shatner, who played | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
James T Kirk in the Star Trek franchise described her | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
as "one of the last Dame Joan Collins hailed her | :32:59. | :33:00. | |
as "a wonderfully warm The singer Gloria Gaynor | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
called her "an American icon In the last half-hour entertainment | :33:05. | :33:21. | |
righted Jeanie Wolf said her mother had found it difficult to come to | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
terms with her daughter's death. We moved into houses next door to each | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
other. She was a great-grandmother to carry's daughter, who is now 24 | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
and beginning to be an actress, all of us should remember that not only | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
did she lose her mother, but she lost her grandmother, who I am told | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
used to play cards with her and sing and stands with her. The Billie | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
Lourd is someone we will watch and Debbie was unthinkable, but this was | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
really too much and you can understand it would be too much. | :33:54. | :33:55. | |
Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP. | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
says longer waiting times could pose a "serious risk" to patients. | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
NHS England says surgeries have been promised more funding. | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
Dozens of children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp have | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
launched a legal challenge against the Home Office | :34:18. | :34:19. | |
over its handling of asylum applications. | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
Lawyers representing 36 children say the government | :34:24. | :34:25. | |
broke its promise to take in its fair share of child refugees. | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
They say hundreds have had their applications turned down | :34:29. | :34:30. | |
The Home Office says it will not comment | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
Rebel groups are expected to meet Russian negotiators in Turkey today | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
as part of a fresh push for a ceasefire in Syria. | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
One key group says it's already been in talks with Turkish | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
officials about ways to end the fighting, | :34:48. | :34:49. | |
but that it's too early to say whether there could be a truce. | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
It's believed one key point of contention is the exclusion | :34:57. | :34:58. | |
of a key rebel-held area on the outskirts of Damascus | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
Keepers at testers who are celebrating the arrival of a very | :35:02. | :35:13. | |
rare and very deep baby. The 6-foot tall youngster who is yet to be | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
named arrived on Boxing Day. The Rothschild giraffe is said to be one | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
of the most endangered species of the animal, with less than 1600 left | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
in the wild. Very cute. Looking around at the world, to see what it | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
looks like. Earlier you were a little bit | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
dismissive of my giraffe fact. Remind us. | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
I said one hour ago that giraffe eat for about 20 hours a day. Charlie | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
wasn't impressed, so I've got another one. This is from Nick. | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
Thank you very much. Apparently giraffes have the highest blood | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
pressure of any animal. Well, that is quite interesting. | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
And it makes logical sense, because they have to have enough pressure to | :36:03. | :36:05. | |
get it up to their brain. Because their neck is very long. I | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
like the fact. Giraffes have long necks! You are | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
going to talk to us about Bradley Wiggins. | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
One of the most recognisable haircuts in sport, of course. | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
And one of the most brilliant athletes we have ever had. It was | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
interesting talking to Rob Hayles who wrote in the Olympic team in | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
Sydney with him. He will be coming back later to talk to us about | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
Bradley and his achievements, but will he retire? He has hinted that | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
he will, but he says he is doing OK, he doesn't think he will, but now he | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
says he will and I think this time it will stick. | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
He says this is it. It is a moment to reflect on. | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
It is incredible. Let's take a minute to reflect on that incredible | :37:11. | :37:11. | |
career. Sir Bradley announced his retirement | :37:12. | :37:12. | |
by saying "Kids from Kilburn don't win Olympic Golds and | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
the Tour de France. Wiggins is the most | :37:16. | :37:17. | |
decorated British Olympian, with five gold medals | :37:18. | :37:20. | |
in his total of eight medals. The most recent coming | :37:21. | :37:22. | |
in the team pursuit in Rio. He spoke of what he might do when it | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
came to his retirement. To remain riding my bike, | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
involved in cycling. I have children's bikes, | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
so very much cycling has been a huge part of my life and it | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
will continue to be. I don't expect too much to change, | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
other than I won't be in Olympic Sir Bradley's former Olympic team | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
mate Rob Hayles will be on the sofa Tottenham are just behind Arsenal | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
after winning at Southampton. Harry Kane had gone three league | :37:54. | :38:09. | |
matches without a goal, but he put an end | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
to that last night. And Dele Alli scored twice, | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
as Southampton finished the game They're ten points behind leaders | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
Chelsea. Ahead of the Old Firm | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
derby on New Year's Eve, Celtic have stretched | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
to 16 points. They beat Ross County | :38:26. | :38:27. | |
2-0 last night, while second-placed Rangers | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
were held to a 1-1 draw at St A defensive blunder allowed | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
Steven Maclean to score There were also wins for Motherwell | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
and Partick Thistle. There has been another high-profile | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
retirement in the world of sport, with tennis player Ana Ivanovic | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
ending her career at 29. The Serbian won the | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
French Open in 2008 and, after struggling | :38:45. | :38:46. | |
to repeat that success, she mounted a comeback last year | :38:47. | :38:48. | |
and reached the semi-final She married Manchester United's | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
Bastian Schweinsteiger this summer. She was of course the former world | :38:52. | :39:01. | |
number one as well and a semifinalist at three grand slams. | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
I wonder, is there something about the turn of the year that makes | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
people make decisions? Well, she has been injured since | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
August as well. It must be tough trying to get back | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
into things after the winter. On that theme, of things changing, | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
have a think about this one. Three days left, thoughts turning to what | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
the next 12 months might bring and what you would like to leave behind | :39:28. | :39:29. | |
you in 2016. For the last decade, | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
New Yorkers have been taking this seriously by gathering | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
in Times Square at the end of each December, to symbolically | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
destroy their bad memories Good Riddance Day is based | :39:41. | :39:42. | |
on a Latin American tradition which sees people burn | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
dolls stuffed with objects So, what did the people | :39:48. | :39:49. | |
of Manchester and New York want to bid farewell | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
to as we head towards 2017? Good Riddance Day few extra | :39:55. | :40:05. | |
Christmas pounds. The weather here. Too cold! Homelessness, shocking. | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
I've never seen it so bad. I would like to see places for them off the | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
streets more than anything. Working long hours. The memory of David | :40:16. | :40:25. | |
Bowie's death. I want to shred the stress and anger that sometimes I | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
have. I don't want it any more. I love the idea of saying goodbye to | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
stop. Stress, that would be good! | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
One person who will definitely be wanting to say "good riddance" | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
to 2016 is the TV presenter Charlie Webster. | :40:44. | :40:45. | |
Good morning. I am going to read this. You were in a coma after | :40:46. | :40:52. | |
contracting malaria. We're also joined by psychological | :40:53. | :40:54. | |
therapist Emma Kenny. Good morning to both of you. How are | :40:55. | :41:03. | |
you? I'm doing really well. I love this time of the morning. No, I am | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
doing well. I am so lucky. Quite a few people know the story about 1.0 | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
was given 24 hours to live. My brother flew over, I was on life | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
support. Four months ago I was still on life support and to be here now I | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
just feel very grateful. It has been extremely tough and I think people | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
see the physical side. I had complete organ failure and I went | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
through a huge trauma mentally. I was told I was dying and I remember | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
what happened in a coma. So I would like to say goodbye to 2016. We've | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
seen the pictures of you in your hospital bed. Is it that easy? Are | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
you capable of doing that, compartmentalising things and | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
saying, it is then, he ran now? Just to confirm, those pictures were from | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
before I got ill. It was when I went to hospital dehydrated. When I went | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
to hospital I was about 14 stone, I was extremely blown up, I couldn't | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
see through my eyes. That was very traumatic for my family. But I don't | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
think you can do that and I wouldn't advise anybody to do that, who is | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
going to any trauma, no matter whether it is physical or mental or | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
a loss of somebody. It was as soon as you do that, which I can be like | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
that, I will put on a front and try to put it behind me, but it comes | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
out. I ensure you agree that I get quite a lot. There are certain | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
things, a loud noise also is in environments, that trigger any. The | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
other day I was lying in a bed and it brought back so many memories of | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
me not being able to move. I was strapped down as well in restraints. | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
So a lot of things flashed back to me. The most important thing is to | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
work through them and be kind to yourself. That's interesting. This | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
idea of good riddance to certain things, it isn't that you are | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
pretending it didn't happen, a difference between those two places. | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
Absolutely. Avoidance and denial are not the way forward. You can't | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
imagine you can pop something in it all and set fire to it and | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
everything is all right. The most important part of any situation is | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
progress. The thing that works in this circumstance is the fact that | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
you are actually taking power over the scenario, so you recognise when | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
something has affected you, but you aren't willing to have that affect | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
you any more. So you create agency. But what we wouldn't want to do is | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
to avoid going through the process, because actually it is often the | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
awful times that we recognise our resilience and forge new | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
opportunities and we harness our self power. So I think the most | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
important part is not to deny it, but certainly to let go once you've | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
worked through it. We talked a moment ago about the ceremony of | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
letting go. You have obviously survived a huge trauma. What can you | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
do? Is there a physical thing you can do? Burn at all! To say goodbye | :44:11. | :44:19. | |
to all of it. -- burn a doll. I completely agree. I've learnt not to | :44:20. | :44:23. | |
do that. I possibly have a habit of doing that, because like to be seen | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
as strong and inspiring and achieved all these things, but for me it was | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
hard to show and the vulnerable, which I am and I am still very much | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
at the moment and I've had to process and the people, care | :44:39. | :44:41. | |
specialists and psychologists, to process the feelings I went through. | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
For me, the scariest thing was thinking that I would never be here, | :44:46. | :44:52. | |
but on a positive I had such a love of life and I desperately fought for | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
my life and I believe I made a decision to stay alive because I | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
wanted to be here. You can't go through that and be the same person. | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
For me, it is like, I want to 2017 to come because then I can feel I | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
can put it behind me and start making small goals which then | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
accumulate to a big one to get over it. It seems to me, a bit of amateur | :45:13. | :45:19. | |
psychology, but it has -- that we've got better at acknowledging that | :45:20. | :45:22. | |
something bad has happened, say it out loud, whatever it might be. We | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
realise that strength. The whole idea of the stiff upper lip worked | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
for a time. We've recognised that emotional intelligence and being | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
able to speak your feelings and recognise your pain is the first | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
step in settling it and I think the post trauma that you've called | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
through, undoubtedly the first step is to realise you can't go it alone | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
and that is power and strength. You can't be the same person he were one | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
year ago, but actually what you've recognised is the fight you have in | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
you and this deal you have a new and the recognition that things can get | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
in your way. Once you do that, that's how powerful acknowledging | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
pain can be at acknowledging trauma. It can change you, are changing for | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
the better. And maybe not comparing yourself. One thing I started to do | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
is, I could do this six months ago, but then I've gone, OK, I can't do | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
that, I am a new person, the bubbly a better person. 2016 has been the | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
worst year of my life but it has shaped me for the better. And now | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
you've achieved getting up early in the morning! | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
You can't believe it, four months ago. It is interesting how actually | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
letting go of bad stuff is quite similar to making a New Year's | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
resolution. What I was going to say was, I wonder if our Carol maybe has | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
a New Year's resolution or something she wants to let go of over the last | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
year. I think we need to let go of that freezing fog, don't we? We | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
certainly do, there is some freezing fog around, as you rightly say. Some | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
of it dance, especially across East Wales and England and it could lead | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
to travel disruption. Some of it will slowly lift, some will not lift | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
at all but there is sunshine into their's forecast as well, after a | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
cold start. Luckily across parts of England and Wales temperatures have | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
fallen as low as -6 -7 so watch out for on untreated surfaces. Watch out | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
for patchy fog as well. It is not everywhere but there are dance | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
pockets of it and for Northern Ireland in Scotland we don't have | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
the same problems, because here there is more cloud and more of a | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
breeze. Pockets of frost in sheltered glens, and that is about | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
it. The thicker cloud across north-west Scotland is introducing | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
spots of rain, that will turn more persistent later and also much | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
windier. Meanwhile for England and for Wales we are looking at the fog | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
slowly lifting, sunshine coming through, but the fault is likely to | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
stick across the part a Mac parts of East Wales, Midlands and the Vale of | :48:01. | :48:08. | |
York. It is going to feel cold. This evening and overnight the breeze | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
picks up, the weather front moving across northern Scotland, bringing | :48:14. | :48:16. | |
some rain. We will also see some more cloud on the forecast, although | :48:17. | :48:23. | |
we will start off with some fog, we will see that clear across East | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
Anglia and the south-east and here it will drag its heels in terms of | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
clearance. Here the temperatures will be that bit lower. Now tomorrow | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
is essentially going to be quite a great day. There will be a lot of | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
cloud around, some brighter breaks, but we also have a weather front | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
straddle across the far north of Scotland, accompanied by gusty | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
winds. Temperature-wise, unless you are stuck under the fog will feel | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
quite mild to the stage in December. In New Year's Eve, the same weather | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
front is going to be slowly slipping southwards. We see around it, the | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
timing on this keeps changing. This chart finishes at 3pm in the | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
afternoon, so you can see it is going to be wet across Scotland and | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
Northern Ireland. By midnight we expect the rain to have slipped into | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
northern England, north Wales and Northern Ireland, but as I said the | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
timing keeps changing, so do keep in touch with the forecast if you have | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
midnight plans. Further south, quite a bit of cloud around with the odd | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
spot of rain or drizzle, especially in the coast sandhills. As this | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
weather front sinks away, we see cold are coming in behind and we | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
will see a return to wintry showers. Here is our weather front moving on | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
New Year's Day across England and Wales, breezy around it. Kind of | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
cold air filters in, with the showers increasingly wintry. We will | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
talk to you again very soon. Let's get the latest | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
from the world of business now, and as the New Year approaches, | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
Sean is here with a few predictions for what 2017 could | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
mean for our money. Well, the big story for British | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
business in 2016 has of course been that vote to leave | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
the European Union. But while we wait for the details | :50:00. | :50:01. | |
of what that will look like for the country, | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
there will be some more short-term The fall in the pound after we voted | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
to leave affected everybody. Holidaymakers found it more | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
expensive, British-made goods looked cheaper, and it has had a knock-on | :50:14. | :50:15. | |
effect on prices in our shops. So can we expect to see | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
it recover in 2017? So, as Michelle says, | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
experts think the pound But if it stays around | :50:24. | :50:25. | |
the levels it is at now, that will have a big effect | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
on prices next year. The Sterling is most important than | :50:31. | :50:43. | |
most currencies, increasingly the Chinese currency, the yen, and the | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
sterling is going to be whipsawed around. Experts think it will remain | :50:49. | :50:50. | |
unpredictable. Remember Marmitegate, | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
back in October, when retailers and suppliers fell out | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
about increasing costs Well, in the coming months, | :50:56. | :50:57. | |
economists and the retailers themselves expect some | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
of those rises to be passed Prices are going to be bigger than | :51:05. | :51:16. | |
shoppers' agenda. 70% of us think that prices will go up next year as | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
a result of Brexit and we are all going to be very concerned about our | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
own economy and how we will save money. What we can expect to see is | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
loads of cost saving measures coming back, coupons, vouchers, and we will | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
be seeking value in everything we buy. | :51:33. | :51:33. | |
So what about the money that we save, and that we owe? | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
It has been another bad year for savers, after rates were cut | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
But mortgage-holders have had it good, with low rates. | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
But last month, this woman, Janet Yellen, who is in charge | :51:45. | :51:46. | |
of America's central bank, raised interest rates in the USA, | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
and experts here in the UK have told us they are expecting mortgage rates | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
We will see interest rates start to rise in the UK sometime. The Bank of | :51:54. | :52:02. | |
England have said they want to see the impact of Brexit first. So let's | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
just wait and see how they play it out. But they are going to probably | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
try and react slower than faster. With interest rates potentially | :52:12. | :52:13. | |
increasing, prices expected to rise, and the pound continuing | :52:14. | :52:16. | |
its uncertain path, there should be more than enough to keep Steph, | :52:17. | :52:18. | |
Ben and I busy in 2017. There is plenty more work, do not | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
worry about that. Now, you may remember little Harry, | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
his mum 12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels then, | :52:34. | :52:35. | |
Harry was facing an anxious wait In March, with no other donor | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
available, his dad Simon volunteered Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
to catch up with the Maceachen family, and some of the people | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place for | :52:48. | :52:50. | |
families like them. For the Maceachen family, | :52:51. | :53:12. | |
2016 was life changing. With no other donor available, | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
Simon donated part of his liver He was born with a condition | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
called biliary atresia, so he's got a blockage | :53:24. | :53:31. | |
in the bowel ducts. We had occasions where Harry | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
would go to bed at night fit and healthy and then at 6am | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
and we would end up in hospital Harry's first appearance | :53:41. | :53:42. | |
on Breakfast last December In March, we filmed as the family | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are risky | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
and rare and only possible because the liver is the one | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
internal organ that can regenerate. No complications, no | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
problems at all, really. It took a little while to | :53:58. | :54:05. | |
recover from the surgery. He's a bit younger than me | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
so he was a bit quicker than me. Well, it's yours now, | :54:09. | :54:23. | |
you can keep it. And I thought that was | :54:24. | :54:30. | |
really nice of Daddy. What can you do now that | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
you couldn't before? So you've been taking | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
part in the transplant How much better do you | :54:38. | :54:40. | |
feel now than before? Hospitals can be unfamiliar, | :54:41. | :54:48. | |
unsettling places, For their operations, | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
Harry and Simon wore matching gowns, specially made by volunteers known | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
as the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. There's hospitals up and down | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
the country getting in touch, their children want something | :55:03. | :55:17. | |
that is friendly and brings a smile to the kid's faces instead | :55:18. | :55:20. | |
of wearing boring scrubs in theatre. before, we distributed | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
about 200 garments a month, we probably distribute around 1,000 | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
garments every month now. I had breakfast telly on that | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
morning and I was so interested in learning more about the charity | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
and becoming involved. A couple of 100 | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
garments later, yeah. The latest batch is bound | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
for the Princess Royal Hospital in Do you want to find | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
some little ones? When they're in hospital, | :55:51. | :56:03. | |
it's very scary, they're away from their parents, they're | :56:04. | :56:05. | |
in a different environment. We have to make it a more | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
homely environment. The pyjamas give us something | :56:09. | :56:10. | |
for them to talk about, Every garment comes with a poem | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
written by the Wrap Pyjama Faries. It's aimed to reassure children | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
at a difficult time. So, at night time while you are | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
sleeping, we bring our fairy dust along to help you to get better | :56:26. | :56:28. | |
and to make you strong. Harry knows how | :56:29. | :56:32. | |
comforting it can be. From us to you, we hope this | :56:33. | :56:33. | |
will make you smile. What a brilliant idea. It is a great | :56:34. | :56:55. | |
idea. Thank you to Harry and his family for letting us fill. And | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
those medical staff who will be working all through Christmas and | :57:00. | :57:00. | |
New Year. Time now to get the news, | :57:01. | :57:02. | |
travel and weather where you are. I'm back with the latest | :57:03. | :00:23. | |
from the BBC London newsroom Hello, this is Breakfast, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The veteran Hollywood actress | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died just a day after her daughter, | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Carrie Fisher. She was 84 and had been rushed to | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
hospital with a suspected stroke - her son said the stress | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
of his sister's death Good morning, it's Thursday | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
the 29th of December. Patients could be forced to wait up | :00:45. | :01:02. | |
to a month to see their family doctor because of | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
winter pressures - a stark warning In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
announced his retirement from cycling after a career | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
during which he won five Olympic Lawyers for a group of children | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
who lived in the Calais Jungle refugee camp launch a legal | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
challenge accusing the British government of breaking its promise | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
to take a fair share Good morning. Stock markets in the | :01:28. | :01:42. | |
UK have hit record highs as the FTSE 100 continued its strong run in | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
December. I will have more shortly. And Carol | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
has the weather. Good morning, it is a frosty start across England and | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Wales with freezing fog patches. There will be more sunshine than | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
yesterday. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, cloudy and breezy with | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
some sunny spells. I will have more details in 15 minutes. | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
Thank you. The Hollywood actress | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
of her daughter, She was 84 and is believed | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
to have suffered a stroke. Reynolds' career spanned seven | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
decades, but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
Singin' In The Rain, Our Los Angeles correspondent | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
David Willis reports. Debbie Reynolds had been at her son | :02:26. | :02:45. | |
Todd Fisher's house in Beverly Hills Apparently they had been discussing | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
plans for Carrie's funeral # Good morning, good morning, | :02:49. | :03:00. | |
it's great to stay up late # Good morning, good morning | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
to you...# Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
singing and dancing on film It was her performance alongside | :03:06. | :03:06. | |
Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Born in Texas, she moved | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
with her family to California and landed a contract | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
with Warner Brothers after winning a local beauty contest | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
at the age of 16. She married the popular crooner | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Eddie Fisher and together they had He later left her for | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Elizabeth Taylor, Two subsequent marriages | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
also ended in divorce. A popular choice for movie musicals | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
in the 1950s and '60s, Debbie Reynolds earnt an Oscar | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
nomination for her depiction of Titanic survivor Margaret Brown | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She opened her own hotel | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
in Las Vegas in 1992, filling it with movie memorabilia | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
she had accumulated over the years, but the business folded | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
and she was eventually forced My personal life is always sort | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
of like that choo choo train that says "I think I can, | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
I think I can, I think I can". I seem to marry very poorly, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
I have no taste in men. Luckily for me, God is good | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
and I have two lovely children and my son helps me run my little | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
hotel, here in Vegas. # Good morning, good | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
morning...# She went on to play Grace's mother | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
in the hit sitcom Will and Grace and returned to the big screen | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
to play Liberace's mother in the 2013 biopic | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Behind The Candelabra. She was taken ill whilst | :04:25. | :04:37. | |
discussing the arrangements It was so sad, it was a shocker. | :04:38. | :04:57. | |
What are the odds of that happening? It is very sad. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
And we will be sharing more stories about Debbie Reynolds this morning. | :05:02. | :05:13. | |
Patients could be forced to wait up to a month | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
to see their family doctor this winter, according | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
says that longer waiting times could pose | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Every winter an increasing workload puts pressure | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
on the NHS because more people are sick. | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Some patients are already waiting 2-3 weeks to get a seat | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
Now the chair of the Royal College of GPs says that's likely to climb | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
to over a month in some areas and she is profoundly concerned | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
about how her general practice will cope. | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Firstly, there just aren't enough GPs out there. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
We don't have enough clinicians in the workforce, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
but also we haven't got enough nurses and other | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Secondly, there's been a serious underinvestment in general practices | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
We have some promises of good news coming, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
more money and people coming through the system, | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
but they've yet to get to the front line, so the problem this winter | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
is as bad as it has ever been and that's a real worry. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
She says she is particularly worried about the impact on preventative | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
care and chronic disease management, while the knock-on consequences | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
The people who suffer are those with long-term conditions, | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
because we have to prioritise those who are sick today. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
If however, we are ignoring those with longer term conditions then | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
we are storing up problems for the future and increasing | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
NHS England says GP services are on track to receive an extra | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
?2.5 billion by 2020, which will expand access | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
to convenient appointments throughout the week. | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
We'll speak to the chair of the Royal College of GPs | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Dozens of children who lived in the Calais "Jungle" camp have | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
launched a legal challenge against the Home Office over | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Lawyers representing 36 children say the government broke its promise | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
to take in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
had their applications turned down without good reason. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Eleanor, what can you tell us about this legal challenge? | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Well, these lawyers are representing 28 children who have had their | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
applications rejected and then a further eight who are still waiting | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
for a decision. The lawyers say some applications have been rejected | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
without reason, and for that reason they are going to be appealing and | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
they are launching a legal challenge. These children have been | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
living in the jungle, the Calle camp when it was dismantled back in | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
October, and these lawyers are accusing the government of failing | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
to take some of the most vulnerable children and the camp into the UK. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
The Home Office said it would not be appropriate to comment on the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
ongoing legal proceedings but we do know around 800 child refugees were | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
brought to the UK this year, and that includes 750 from France. As | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
for what is going on at the moment, the current transfer of child | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
refugees from France to the UK has now ended but we understand there | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
will be children from across Europe, who, if they are eligible will be | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
brought to the UK over the next few months. Thank you. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Rebel groups are expected to meet Russian negotiators in Turkey today | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
as part of a fresh push for a ceasefire in Syria. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
One key group says it's already been in talks with Turkish officials | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
about ways to end the fighting, but that it's too early to say | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
It's believed one key point of contention is the exclusion | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
of a key rebel-held area on the outskirts of | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Barcodes are to be printed on medicines and medical equipment | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
such as replacement hips and surgical tools. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Ministers say the scheme, which is being piloted | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
in six areas in England, will help reduce the rate | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
They claim the idea could also save the NHS up to one billion | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
An angiogram, designed to reveal the condition of patients' blood | :09:13. | :09:24. | |
vessels, is carried out in Salisbury. | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
As part of the piloting of the Scan4 safety scheme, | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
barcodes on medication and equipment record the materials used to treat | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
patients, the time and place of the procedure, and the name | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
We can trace that patient very quickly. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
We scan all the equipment, so there should be no drug errors. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
And it's to the correct patient, so we scan the patient, | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
making sure the right drug or the right blood product, | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
et cetera, goes to the right patient. | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
And if they're going to roll it out to orthopaedics and other type | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
of equipment, we can then trace those back in the future | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Barcoding will reduce the average of an hour a day that nurses spend | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
collecting medicines, and alert staff to those | :10:09. | :10:09. | |
Everything from screws used in knee operations to breast implants | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
will be barcoded, so their quality can be monitored. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
About once a week, tragically, someone dies in the NHS | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
because they're given the wrong medicine. | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
We also have a number of operations where the wrong implant is put | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
into someone's body, and that then has to be changed | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
And if we use modern bar-code technology, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
we can deal with a lot of these problems. | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
One of the biggest advantages of Scan4 safety could be in tracing | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
patients when faulty products have to be recalled. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Nearly 50,000 British women had the breast implants | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
made by the French company PIP, when they were revealed to be | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
at risk of rupturing, but patchy record-keeping made it | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Migrating birds are arriving at their breeding grounds earlier | :10:51. | :11:02. | |
as global temperatures rise, a study has found. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
The research, conducted by scientists at the University | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
of Edinburgh, says some species are missing out on vital resources | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
like food and nesting places as a result. | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
It is hoped the findings of research will help scientists improve the way | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
that different species respond to future environmental changes. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
We have the weather coming up for you and warnings about the fog. And | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
in the sport we are talking about Bradley Wiggins announcing his | :11:37. | :11:37. | |
retirement. This time of year is always | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
busy for GP surgeries, but there are concerns this morning | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
that some will struggle to cope The chair of the Royal | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
College of GPs, Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
says the situation poses a serious risk to patients and she joins us | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
now from Tamworth in Staffordshire. Good morning. Thank you for your | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
time this morning. Give us a sense of the scale of the problem. Well, | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
this is a problem which is rapidly expanding. We have seen a series of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
disinvestment in general practice. The consequences we have GP | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
surgeries closing. Many are finding it difficult to recruit GPs and many | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
people will find it hard to get a routine appointment to see their GP. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
We are all pushing and firefighting to make sure urgent cases are being | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
seen but the inevitable consequence is that the patients who have less | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
urgent problems are being pushed to the back of the queue. You have many | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
years of experience, would you say it is worse now than it has been | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
before or is this something we see every winter? Well, we do see this | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
every winter, but it has got to the stage now in the NHS where this is a | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
year-round problem which gets worse in the winter. We are seeing the flu | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
season starting now and that is only going to get worse through January. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
We also see a lot more other infectious illness as well as slips | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
and trips in the icy weather so the workload increases across general | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
practice in the winter every year, but it is particularly bad because | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
we have fewer health care professional seeing people and the | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
demand will go up. 1.6 million patients will see a GP in the UK and | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
we are seeing 60 million more patients every year than we used to | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
a few years ago. Demand is rising, we have fewer health care | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
professionals and resources are shrinking so it is at crisis point. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
So, one part of this is the big picture, you have talked about the | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
lack of staff and funding issues which people will be familiar with. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
On a practical level, often seeing the GP is the first call for someone | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
who has medical conditions, you run a practice, you are a GP, if someone | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
is calling your practice this morning, what is their reality, what | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
will happen? The reality is, if they need to be seen today, they will be | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
seen. We are really doing everything we can to keep that part of the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
service going because that is the really urgent stuff but what we are | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
having to do is cut back on routine appointments. People who want to see | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
me with something less urgent, people who need their blood pressure | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
monitored or their diabetes care reviewed, that is being delayed and | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
it could be three weeks to get a routine appointment and and that is | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
not good enough. If we are missing out on these things, things will | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
slip through the net and my theory is that things will be missed. No | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
health care professional wants to be missing serious conditions. We are | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
there to look after our patients but we are all stretched so then working | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
such long hours, we cannot work more than we are. It is a real worry. GPs | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
are going off with stress and exhaustion and they are leaving the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
profession because they cannot do a safe enough job. That is a tragedy | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
for everybody. That is the experience that many people face | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
now. GP services are on track to receive an extra ?2.4 billion by | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
2020, is that sum of money... I think we have just lost Helen | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
Stokes-Lampard. For the record, the statement from NHS England in | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
relation to the funding issues is GP services are on track to receive | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
more investment by 2020 but as you heard from the Royal College of GPs, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
they say that is not making any practical difference on the ground | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
if you are seeking an appointment today will stop you are watching | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The Hollywood actress Debbie | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
Reynolds has died aged 84, just one day after the death of her daughter | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Carrie Fisher. The UK's leading GP is warning | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
winter pressure in some patients could face a month long wait to see | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
their family doctor. It has been very, very cold for a | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
lot of people waking up this morning. I don't know if we can show | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
you a view of outside our studio here, it has gone a bit foggy. It | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
was beautiful 30 seconds ago. It was a beautiful sunrise. Let's go to | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
beautiful carol instead. The fog that we have is patchy and | :16:39. | :16:54. | |
it is dense in places. It could lead to some travel disruption. You can | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
find out what's happening where you are on your BBC local radio station. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Temperatures have fallen widely, around freezing or below across | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
England and Wales and locally -6 or seven, but around the coasts it is | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
much higher than that. By ten o'clock we have got the sun coming | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
out but there are still these stubborn areas of fog. Across the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Midlands and the Vale of York it could linger for much of the day. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Brightening up in the far north of England and for Northern Ireland and | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Scotland it is a very cloudy start for you. We will see some sunshine. | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
When we find the breaks in the cloud this morning there are pockets of | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
frost. Through the day the fog continues to lift. I'm mentioned | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
areas it is likely to stick and we will see increasing amounts of clout | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
with the wind strengthening and more persistent rain coming through the | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
midwest. It will be a cold day for England and Wales but more sunshine | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
than yesterday. Especially so if you are stuck under one of the areas | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
where the fog persist, temperatures will struggle to break freezing. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Through this evening and overnight, some of the cloud will lift the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
frost and fog. At the same time the weather front is making slow | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
progress heading south across northern Scotland. Into Friday the | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
progress of that weather front, it is still quite windy. Move away from | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
that and we're looking at some cloud, one or two breaks here and | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
there. The temperature will be depressed. For much of the UK, these | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
temperatures are pretty high for this stage in December. A mild day | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
tomorrow. As we head into New Year's Eve or Hogmanay, the weather front | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
still slow moving as it pushes across Scotland and Northern | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Ireland. This is what we expect on current thinking the rain to be at | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
3pm. The rest of the UK, England and Wales, looking at variable amounts | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
of cloud. The timing of this front could change. By the time we get to | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
midnight it looks as though the front will be across England and | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
Wales but that could change. What we know will happen is that as the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
front goes backwards, the mild air will be pushed away and we will have | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
a cold or north-easterly winds. There will be some sunshine and the | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
rain will continue its journey south eventually into the south-east. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
Thanks. Very changeable in the next few days. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Let's talk about the markets now. A break. Yes. After they opened | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
yesterday they hit some new highs. Let's start with an | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
update on the stock They are down a little, | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
after the record highs yesterday. The index of our 100 biggest listed | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
companies the FTSE 100 hit a record 7,106 yesterday after what is often | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
called a Santa Rally, when shares rise in the last | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
few weeks of the year. Toshiba has seen a big fall | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
in the value of the company in the last few days, | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
but it's nothing to do with the electronics side | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
of the business we're more The company is now worth just over | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
half of what it was before Christmas, after it warned its US | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
nuclear business is worth less You might have been treating | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
yourself to a bitter chocolate for breakfast around Christmas and all | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
kinds of things, I know I have. On the whole, the more traditional bowl | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
of is falling out of favour. Figures from the grocer showed that sales of | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
cornflakes and others were down around ?80 million this year, | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
consumers were tending to choose more on the go. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
I'm eating less chocolate at the moment for breakfast! I'm definitely | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
eating more! But Charlie is very good with his breakfast. This | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
morning you had porridge companies said it was very good. | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
For the last five weeks it seems we've been bombarded by retailers | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
offering us deals and discounts, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
pre-Christmas discounts and now into the Boxing Day Sales. | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
But new figures out this week revealed a 2% drop in high | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Does the decline mean we're suffering from "sales fatigue"? | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
We asked some bargain hunters in Manchester what they thought. | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
It used to just be that people look forward to the Boxing Day sales or | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
the summer sales but now there are pre-sales, it's not such a big deal | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
any more I think. I enjoy it more than normal shopping to be honest. | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
You see stuff that you wouldn't normally see but it is half price | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
all the time. I feel sorry for these people who work in these shops that | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
work until ex-PM Christmas Eve, I think it's wrong. The shops | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
shouldn't be open on Boxing Day. I got some shirts and jackets. I think | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
you can get some relief or bargains. We're copying America, just copying | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
that model and doing what they do. Black Friday is not a British thing | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
as far as I know. It's just good to have a sale so you can get the | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
bargains rather than being bombarded with it all the time. | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Diane Wehrle is from Springboard, a company that analyses | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
What is changing? We are definitely changing our habits a bit. We are | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
and they love that that is driven by the retailers. A few years ago Black | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Friday didn't exist and then three years ago it came on the same and | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
that has really created the beginning of retail trading | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
performance, I guess, but it had this little Philip at the beginning | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
or the end of November and then paying out. At this point is | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
everyone sick of the shops? Can I just ask on the Black Friday thing, | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
has anyone checked whether those reductions you see on Black Friday | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
are really on that day? Do the prices go up on a Monday? Some do | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
but some don't, it does vary from retailer to retailer. I find myself | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
cynical about that, if you are bigging it up and saying this is | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
your chance to go shopping and get a discount, it has to be that | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
otherwise next year I will think, what is the point? Because it wasn't | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
a genuine reduction. That's the problem that shoppers are having | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
because whether or not we believe that those discounts are true will | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
influence our shopping habits. That will influence how many people buy | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
on the high street and how many buy online. They have to have trust in | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the retailers. Interesting the point you make about being cynical. Don't | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
retailers rely on those of us who are not cynical, who just blindly | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
think, that is definitely cheaper, it looks like it might be 30% off. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Most people panic a bit, don't they, and then buy on whatever Black | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Friday or Cyber Monday, whatever it is? The problem that all the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
retailers have, if you buy when it is cheap and next week you go back | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
and the price is the same committee gets cynical. Then next year you're | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
not so ready to buy an Black Friday. It's a the gated process. It's | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
something retailers really have to get their head around, rather than | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
just chase a discount. -- it's a complicated process. The first start | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
for retailers is often just to go to a sale. This came from the recession | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
in 2009 or 2010 when retail was really on its knees and retailers | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
were struggling. Before that you didn't really get any pre-Christmas | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
discounting a Boxing Day was the day. Then that only in 2009, 2010, | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
we had pre-Christmas sales for the first time, people lapped it up and | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
they thought we will do it again and this Pandora's box has been opened. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
We make much of online shopping but actually are we spending more money? | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Less of us on the high street, we understand that, but overall? The | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
IMS has identified that overall 85% of spending is still in store. While | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
we have been seeing big gains in online shopping, the majority of our | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
shopping is still in store. Sales over the Christmas period in stores | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
have dropped by about 4.5% this year. If that is accounting for over | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
85% of total sales then no, total sales have gone down this year. You | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
bought anything in the sales? I bought a jacket. Nice. Have you? No. | :25:55. | :26:08. | |
Have you? Yes, I bought a code. It's clothing. -- I bought a code. The | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
boys yesterday bought suits. Now, I don't know if you remember one | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
little special guest we had last year, Harry. He made quite an | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
impression when he visited us in the studio. He was facing an anxious | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
wait for a life-saving liver transplant. That was in March, with | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
no other donor available. His dad Simon volunteered to share his live | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
and we have been to catch up with them. I love you. I love you too. We | :26:40. | :26:51. | |
love you, Harry, that's all we need to say. It's an insight into the | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
medical teams who have been helping out that family and many other | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
families as well. That's coming up a little | :27:02. | :30:23. | |
families as well. That's coming up a hour. Now, back to Sally and | :30:24. | :30:24. | |
Charlie. Hello, this is Breakfast | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The Hollywood actress | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death | :30:34. | :30:35. | |
of her daughter, the film The 84-year-old, whose acting career | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
spanned seven decades, had been at her daughter's bedside | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
since the Star Wars star suffered Reynolds' son Todd Fisher said | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
the stress of his sister's death had been too much for their mother, | :30:49. | :30:58. | |
and that her last words had been Hollywood stars have been paying | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
their tributes to Debbie Reynolds. William Shatner described | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
her as 'one of the last Dame Joan Collins hailed her | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
as 'a wonderfully warm The singer Gloria Gaynor | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
called her 'an American icon In the last hour, the entertainment | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
journalist Jeanie Wolf told us that Debbie Reynolds had struggled | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
to come to terms with They moved into houses | :31:26. | :31:27. | |
next door to each other, and Debbie's great-grandmother | :31:28. | :31:37. | |
was a great-grandmother to Carrie's daughter, | :31:38. | :31:38. | |
Billie Lourd, who's 24 now, All of us should remember that, | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
you know, not only did she lose her mother, | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
but she lost her grandmother, who I'm told used to play cards | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
with her, and sing and dance with her, so Billie Lourd | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
is someone we will watch. And, you know, Debbie, | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
she was unsinkable, but this was really too much, | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
and you can understand it would be Patients could be forced | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
to wait up to a month to see their family doctor | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
this winter, according Helen Stokes-Lampard, | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
who chairs the Royal College of GPs, says longer waiting times could pose | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
a "serious risk" to patients. NHS England says surgeries have been | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
promised more funding. Dozens of children who lived | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
against the Home Office over Lawyers representing 36 children say | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
the Government broke its promise to take in its fair share | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
of child refugees. They say hundreds have | :32:36. | :32:37. | |
had their applications turned down The Home Office says it | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
will not comment on ongoing Barcodes are to be printed | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips | :32:45. | :32:54. | |
and surgical tools. Ministers say the scheme, | :32:55. | :32:56. | |
which is being piloted in six areas in England, | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
will help reduce the rate They claim the idea could | :32:59. | :33:00. | |
also save the NHS up to Keepers at Chester Zoo | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
are celebrating the arrival of a very rare | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
- and very big - baby. This six-foot-tall youngster, | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
who is yet to be named, The Rothschild giraffe is said to be | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
one of the most endangered species of the animal, | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
with fewer than 1600 Do you want in the giraffe fact? | :33:28. | :33:37. | |
What have we got so far, what they eat a lot? | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
They eat for 20 hours a day, you were not impressed by that, I was | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
very impressed. The highest blood pressure of any animal. Sean on | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
business tells me they can run at 35 mph. Why are you laughing? | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
Sean knows this? Just a business thing he has tucked away in case he | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
is doing a giraffe story sometime?! There we go. | :34:01. | :34:02. | |
Coming up here on Breakfast this morning... | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
Britain's most decorated Olympian is calling it a day. | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
As Sir Bradley Wiggins announces his retirement, | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
we'll look back at his career highs - and lows - along with his former | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
The pagans worshipped nature, just like Chris Packham, and their | :34:15. | :34:24. | |
calendar revolved around two big annual events, also like Chris | :34:25. | :34:25. | |
Packham. She's the clueless commentator | :34:26. | :34:32. | |
on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, and now Philomena Cunk | :34:33. | :34:34. | |
has her own show. We'll meet the comedian behind | :34:35. | :34:36. | |
the character, Diane Morgan. And just before nine, | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
we'll find out how rising global temperatures are affecting they way | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
birds migrate - meaning they're missing out on vital resources | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
like food and nesting places. But first, here's | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
Kat with the sport. We will talk about an amazing | :34:48. | :35:00. | |
success story, Bradley Wiggins. Yes, the tatties, the gold medals, | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
the irreverent attitude, the poor one at high Court. He was the man | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
that put the rock 'n' roll into cycling, and not only rock 'n' roll | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
into cycling but into British sport. You see the phenomenal rise of the | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
level of success that Britain has had in sport Prom the moment he | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
started cycling, right the way through to now, 2016, when he won | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
the team pursuit in Rio, we have become a world superpower and he has | :35:26. | :35:34. | |
been one of the athlete who has lifted our sporting profile around | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
the world, so we have a lot to thank Bradley Wiggins for as he announces | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
his retirement. He has decided to hang the peacekeepers after almost | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
20 years at the top, winning just about all there is to win. Here are | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
some of his career highlight. He rides an incredible amount of | :35:49. | :35:57. | |
majority, this young fella. -- with an incredible amount of majority. | :35:58. | :36:05. | |
This is a virtuoso performance by Wiggins. He is turning on the style. | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
He will be the 4000 metre Olympic champion! | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
Bradley Wiggins is a gold medal winner and Olympic champion. | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
Wiggins is the master of the time trial, he is a master of this Tour | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
de France, he is going to become Britain's first ever winner! | :36:27. | :36:33. | |
This is going to be a golden ride for Wiggins and the crowd are | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
already going ballistic! Here comes Bradley Wiggins up to the line, into | :36:39. | :36:45. | |
the lead! It is coming down to the last lap | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
here, will it be Britain, will it be Australia? | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
It certainly will be Great Britain! Sir Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
gold for the fifth time. Amazing memories from the career of | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
Sir Bradley Wiggins, and we are joined by his former team-mate Rob | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
Hayles, who won back in 2000 with him in Sydney. You know him better | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
than us, definitely, and because of the personality that he has, because | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
of the profile that he has, one question I am always asked about Sir | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
Bradley Wiggins is, what is he actually like? I can't answer that | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
question, but you can! What is he actually like? It depends what day | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
of the week you are talking! Brad is quite shy, which is one of the | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
reasons why, when he comes out of his shell, he is truly out there, | :37:35. | :37:43. | |
but he is one of those riders who you want alongside you, because you | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
know that as long as he is on his game then the sure he will help you | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
attain your best performance. He really is an incredible bike rider, | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
an incredible athlete, it really was amazing to see his career from | :37:54. | :37:58. | |
junior world champion back in 98 all the waiter when he won in 2012 which | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
was phenomenal and certainly helped increase the level, the profile of | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
cycling as a sport. He has certainly been part of that. People love lists | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
of the greats, in any sport, who was the greatest. Where does he said, | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
his achievement? It is difficult, the greatest bike rider of them all, | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
Eddie Marks, Bragg is kind of on a different list, really. His | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
performances from the track to the road, the biggest performances on | :38:33. | :38:35. | |
the track to the biggest performances on the road in terms of | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
the Tour de France, back to where it all started, it has never been done | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
before by anybody. It is hard to see many riders who would be able to do | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
that in the future. What is it about him that made him so determined? He | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
is obviously a fantastic athlete. His mind is... He's of those guys, | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
once he set himself a task, he will follow that. He lives like a monk in | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
that respect, but then obviously when he's off the ball, off his | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
game, that's it, it is out there for everybody to see. They needle kind | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
of goes from the green right into the red then back again in terms of | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
his personality, but I think that's what makes him so great. That is the | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
way he needed to do it, put it that way. And he has given us an amazing | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
moments over the years. Incredible. Thank you. | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
Pagan festivals, the Nativity story and Santa Claus are just some | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
of the Yuletide rituals the clueless commentator Philomena Cunk is | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
The comedy character, originally created for | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, began with Cunk On Shakespeare, | :39:49. | :39:50. | |
and now she's back, trying to "track down the true meaning of Christmas". | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
Centuries before Jesus arrived, late December was already a time | :39:55. | :40:02. | |
of celebration for the pagans, who existed so long ago there aren't | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
any YouTubes of them, so we've had to make do | :40:07. | :40:08. | |
To find out what the pagans were, I spoke to an expert. | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
Were there pagans before there were humans? | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
No, you've got to be a human to do anything. | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
Pagans are just people who lived in Europe before | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
How difficult was it for the pagans to get about on all fours? | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
They didn't travel on all fours, they travelled upright, like we do. | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
The pagans worshipped nature, just like Chris Packham. | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
And their calendar revolved around two big annual events, | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
One of these events took place in late December and was known | :40:39. | :40:46. | |
It is tricky, that one, isn't it? Diane, 30 good morning to you. The | :40:47. | :41:02. | |
beauty of what you do, that little play on words, it is so perfectly | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
done, because as you will know from your observations, reporters, and | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
that is what you are doing, that spoof role. They are always going on | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
a journey, let's go on a journey to find out about Christmas. And you do | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
go on your own journey. I do go on my end journey, I generally spoof | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
anything that Brian Cox does. You find comedy, funny moments in those | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
little or no things that sometimes if you are not really paying | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
attention can pass you by. Are you paying huge amounts of attention to | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
the TV and commentators all the time? I suppose I must be. There are | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
things you keep noticing that everyone does, everyone copies | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
everyone else. When you notice things like that, I like to latch | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
onto them and make people feel really bad about it. CHUCKLING | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
The truth is, there is quite a lot of nonsense in the world that we | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
inhabit, there is quite a lot of nonsense, and when someone comes in | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
and sort of pointed out, it can be quite painful, in a way. Yeah, I'm | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
surprised more people don't do it. Yeah. There are some priceless | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
moments of this. One of the delights of it is that you interview serious | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
experts in your persona, and just have me with this one, without | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
wanting to spoil any of the magic, do they know that you are in it to | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
take the Mickey? Well, I'm not in it to take the Mickey, because I'm the | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
idiot, they are not the idiots. But do they think you are a serious...? | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
It is not their reaction to my idiocy that is funny. A lot of the | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
early interviews we did, people had no idea, but now the cat is pretty | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
much out of the bag and people are happy to play along, and I think | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
they are great. That must make it harder, actually, because now as the | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
character is more well-known and your face is now instantly | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
recognisable, people are a little bit more clued up about it. Yeah. | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
One of my favourite things of the last year though, I have to say, I'm | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
not sure if you have seen this one, I loved Motherland, a pilot you in | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
for a series that has now been commissioned. It was bleakly funny | :43:12. | :43:19. | |
and scary, and it is all about motherhood, and fatherhood, and at | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
times it was very cutting. Let's have a look at this. There we are. | :43:23. | :43:34. | |
Downton Abbey. T? Yeah, you haven't got any herbal have you? Fennel, | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
ginger, Jasmine or mint? I'll have a mint, please. I'm joking, I don't | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
have any herbal tea. Yorkshire. I've got tea from Yorkshire, how's that? | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
I love that character! Do you know someone like this. No, I'm not a | :43:53. | :44:01. | |
mother. It's basically me. CHUCKLING I've had so many mothers come up to | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
be in the street saying, I'm so pleased that they made this, because | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
it had to be told, people need to know how awful it is being a mother! | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
LAUGHTER Kind of competitive motherhood. | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
Where will Philomena Cunk stag gaze next? I've no idea. Cunk on Cunk has | :44:18. | :44:28. | |
been mentioned, just because it rhymes. Cunk on Christmas. Cookery. | :44:29. | :44:40. | |
Cunk on Cakes. Beautifully observed, very funny, I recommend it to | :44:41. | :44:42. | |
anyone. "Cunk on Christmas" | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
is on BBC Two tonight at 10pm. Let's have a word with Carol. Things | :44:46. | :44:54. | |
go wrong for the time, don't they, Carol? They certainly do, and my | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
charts have gone wrong if you times in the past when it has been -99, | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
and it has not been anywhere like that. It has been a cold start | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
today, not -99, but some beautiful pictures coming in from our Weather | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
Watchers. This one nice and frosty in East Sussex, and a foggy one. | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
This one is from Staffordshire, forget that dog, le Clos much like | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
he is saying "What?" . They keep sending those pictures, we have | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
quite a lot of around. Particularly across East Wales and parts of | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
England. Some of it is dense, a lot of it is patchy. Even by the time we | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
get the ten o'clock, there will still be some fog around but today | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
there will be more sunshine across inland and Wales than there was | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
yesterday. Freezing fog, the badgers widely below freezing in England and | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
Wales accept on the coast of Northern Ireland and Scotland, a | :45:50. | :45:51. | |
different story for you. A bit more cloud around, some sunny breaks, a | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
touch of frost here and there. Some spots of rain. Later that rain will | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
turn more persistent and the wind will strengthen. In Northern | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
Ireland, communities and brighter breaks through the course of the | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
day, for England and Wales, most of the fog will lift, but areas where | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
it is going to stick will be across East Wales, the Midlands and the | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
Vale of York. Here, if the fog does linger where you are, temperatures | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
will tend to struggle to break freezing. So it is going to be cold. | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
Through the evening and overnight, some early frost and some fog | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
return, but as cloud advances towards the east, the cloud will | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
lift the fog but we still will have some across the south-east and East | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
Anglia first thing in the morning. Meanwhile, a weather front is | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
pushing slowly southwards across the North and Scotland. You can see the | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
difference in temperature between North and South. Tomorrow the | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
progress of that will be continued to be slow as it comes a bit further | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
south, cloud building ahead in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the | :46:52. | :46:53. | |
eastern parts of Northern Ireland into Scotland seeing brighter skies. | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
For England and Wales, again there will be some brightness, quite a bit | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
of cloud, and if you are stuck under the fog in the Southeast, that will | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
depress the temperature as well. But you can see temperatures still quite | :47:06. | :47:08. | |
high for the stage in December. Then as we head into New Zealand, or | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
Hogmanay, depending on your point of view, we have the weather front | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
coming slowly southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland. The | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
timing of this has changed, though it is starting to level out now. | :47:21. | :47:25. | |
This chart finishes at 3pm, whether time you get to midnight on current | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
thinking, the rain should be across the borders into northern England | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
also North Wales. Whereas across England and Wales, in daytime hours, | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
quite a cloudy day with some drizzle and showers, particularly in the | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
West and particularly on the hills and coasts. As the weather front | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
sinks south, it won't go back quickly, but behind it we was is | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
colder air as the wind veers to more of a northerly or north-easterly. | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
Here is the weather front on current thinking across England and Wales on | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
New Year's Day, pushing down towards the south-east, behind it some | :47:59. | :48:01. | |
sunshine, some showers, feeling colder, so the showers will be | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
wintry in nature and we still have that stiff northerly or | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
north-easterly wind. Carol, we have been talking quite a lot about not | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
new years was allusions but things that you really want to see the back | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
from 2016, how it is good to say goodbye to staff. I am dying to know | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
what would you like to say goodbye to this year? I would like to say | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
goodbye to chocolate, actually! On a positive note, I have to say goodbye | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
to chocolate, but 2016I had quite a good year, there were lots of things | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
that happen, like all of these deaths, there are deaths every | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
single year, but it seems to have been a particularly said year from a | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
point of view. But you have had a great 2016 yourself, which is good | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
to hear. 8:48am. Now, you may remember little Harry, | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with his mum | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels then, | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
Harry was facing an anxious wait In March, with no other donor | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
available - his dad Simon Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been | :49:00. | :49:07. | |
to catch up with the MacEachen family and some of the people | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
for families like them. For the Maceachen family, | :49:14. | :49:23. | |
2016 was life changing. With no other donor available, | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
Simon donated part of his He was born with a condition | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
called biliary atresia, so he's got a blockage | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
in the bowel ducts. We had occasions where Harry | :49:40. | :49:41. | |
would go to bed at night fit and healthy and then at 6am | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
and we would end up in hospital Harry's first appearance | :49:52. | :49:53. | |
on Breakfast last In March, we filmed as the family | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are risky | :49:59. | :50:05. | |
and rare and only possible because the liver is the one | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
internal organ that can regenerate. No complications, no | :50:09. | :50:10. | |
problems at all, really. It took a little while to | :50:11. | :50:17. | |
recover from the surgery. He's a bit younger than me | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
so he was a bit quicker than me. Well, it's yours now, | :50:21. | :50:31. | |
you can keep it. And I thought that was | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
really nice of Daddy. What can you do now that | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
you couldn't before? So you've been taking part | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
in the transplant games, have you? How much better do you | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
feel now than before? Hospitals can be unfamiliar, | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
unsettling places, For their operations, | :51:00. | :51:02. | |
Harry and Simon wore matching gowns, specially made by volunteers known | :51:03. | :51:11. | |
as the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. They too have had an | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
extraordinary 12 months. There's hospitals up and down | :51:16. | :51:28. | |
the country getting in touch, their children want something | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
that is friendly and brings a smile to the kid's faces instead | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
of wearing boring scrubs in theatre. Before, we distributed | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
about 200 garments a month, we probably distribute around 1,000 | :51:38. | :51:39. | |
garments every month now. I had breakfast telly on that | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
morning and I was so interested in learning more about the charity | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
and becoming involved. A couple of 100 | :51:49. | :51:50. | |
garments later, yeah. The latest batch is bound | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
for the Princess Royal Do you want to find | :51:58. | :51:59. | |
some little ones? When they're in hospital, | :52:00. | :52:14. | |
it's very scary, they're away from their parents, | :52:15. | :52:16. | |
they're in a different environment. We have to make it a more | :52:17. | :52:18. | |
homely environment. The pyjamas give us something | :52:19. | :52:20. | |
for them to talk about, Every garment comes with a poem | :52:21. | :52:22. | |
written by the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. It's aimed to reassure children | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
at a difficult time. So, at night time while you are | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
sleeping, we bring our fairy dust along to help you to get better | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
and to make you strong. Harry knows how | :52:41. | :52:42. | |
comforting it can be. From us to you, we hope this | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
will make you smile. Well done, Harry, and everybody else | :52:48. | :53:03. | |
working on those pyjamas. So thoughtful of all those people, | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
it can be a difficult time if you are in hospital or have family in | :53:11. | :53:12. | |
hospital. Birds are migrating | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
to their breeding grounds earlier as temperatures around the world | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
rise, and this could affect their access to food and nesting spots, | :53:18. | :53:19. | |
according to experts It's hoped the research will help | :53:20. | :53:21. | |
scientists learn more about how different species react to changes | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
in the environment. Joining us now is Tom Clare, | :53:26. | :53:27. | |
from the Martin Mere Wetland Good morning to you. Are you seeing | :53:28. | :53:38. | |
evidence of what this study is showing? Yes, definitely seeing it | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
on ground level. Birds arriving area, things like swallows, avocets, | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
a good breeding bird. Take is what their journey is and what is | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
changing? Swallows are migrating from Africa to the UK, they come | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
across the African continent, the first big challenge they are facing | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
with climate change is the Sahara desert is getting bigger, so it is a | :54:05. | :54:07. | |
big journey for them to get over and causes lots of problems for the | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
birds. When they get to southern Europe, the temperature indicates if | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
they are going to move further north if it is warmer, further south, | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
places like Spain, they will try to get to breeding grounds quicker, and | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
what we have to try to hope for with climate change is these birds | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
arriving on the breeding ground when the food supply is good. They lose a | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
lot of energy in migration, they need to feed in good conditions. | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
What is the challenge, is the food sometimes not available? It | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
definitely can be, there are lots of problems, if they arrive and start | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
breeding early and the food supply is not there, it will affect the | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
chick survival and rearing the young to fledgling stage, or sometimes | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
even birds further north, it might sound strange, the warmer it gets | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
further north, the more snowfall there is, so some of the birds | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
migrating in April to places like Iceland, Siberia, Greenland, they | :55:07. | :55:08. | |
will find lots more snowfall on the ground and it takes longer for that | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
out, so they don't get the food they need. Life changes but animals, | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
human beings can adapt to their surroundings, I assume the same | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
applies to birds, they presumably can adapt to changes in climate? | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
Some birds can adapt quite quickly, they are the ones that will succeed | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
with climate change. Like which ones? Species like swallows are | :55:31. | :55:37. | |
adapting quite well, more broods throughout the summer, the breeding | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
season is longer so we hope they can produce more offspring to fledgling | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
stage so they can hopefully succeed. Does this mean people will be able | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
to see different types of birds arriving maybe to this country now? | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
We will see some birds from the continent move further south, things | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
like spoonbills, fantastic birds to see with a big long built like a | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
spoon shape at the end of it, but there was a problem with that in | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
that birds that are really southern birds, things like snow bunting is | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
that breed in Scotland, they might get pushed out of the UK because | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
they have to follow their habitat further north. That is interesting. | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
Are you back at work today? No, I worked over Christmas so I have some | :56:23. | :56:25. | |
time off but back in the New Year. Thank you for joining us today. | :56:26. | :56:28. | |
Let's take a last brief look at the headlines | :56:29. | :56:30. | |
That's it from Breakfast this morning. | :56:31. | :58:22. | |
We will be back tomorrow at 6am, we will hear from Benedict Cumberbatch | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
about the new series of Sherlock. It's very exciting, it really has | :58:28. | :58:29. | |
been fantastically rich and challenging and new, | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
and that's the thing that kept us The roads we walk have demons | :58:33. | :58:34. | |
beneath, and yours have been waiting It looks like it is just getting | :58:35. | :58:48. | |
better and better than ever. A little darker as well. Scary at | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
times. We will hear more of that tomorrow. | :58:54. | :58:53. | |
When a woman writes something it's her that's judged. | :58:54. | :59:17. | |
When a man writes something it's what he's written that's judged. | :59:18. | :59:20. |