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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
More than 100 stars of the Olympics and Paralympics are recognised | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Andy Murray and Mo Farah are given knighthoods. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Nearly 1,200 people are on this year's list, from entertainers | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
We'll be hearing from some of them on this morning's programme. | :00:22. | :00:40. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday 31st December. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Warnings of travel disruption on the roads and at airports | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
as freezing fog continues to affect parts of the country. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
Security plans for New Year's Eve celebrations are modified | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
in response to this year's terror attacks in Berlin and Nice. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
In sport away from the New Year's Honours, | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Hull City were denied their first league win for almost two months | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
by Everton, they drew 2-2, but the point was enough to lift | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
them off the bottom of the Premier League. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
And Matt has more on those tricky weather conditions. | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
Still somersault around this morning, particularly around | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
southern areas but not as bad as yesterday. -- still summer fog. I | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
will have the details later. More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
stars have been recognised in the New Year Honours list, | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
with knighthoods for Andy Murray Jessica Ennis-Hill and the rower, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Katherine Grainger, have received damehoods, while the gold | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
medal-winning paralympian, Our correspondent Andy | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Swiss has the details. At the end of a glittering | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
year for British sport, for five of its greatest stars, | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
the greatest of honours. First, a knighthood for the man | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
who spent 2016 scaling COMMENTATOR: Wimbledon champion | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
again, a supreme performance. After winning a second Wimbledon, | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
a second Olympics and the world number one spot, it's | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
now Sir Andy Murray, a fitting finish | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
to a remarkable season. There's also a new title | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
for Mo Farah's collection. He described his knighthood | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
as a dream come true. Having come to Britain | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
as an eight-year-old from Somalia, he added, he could never | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
have imagined it. Another athletics star, | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
meanwhile, becomes a dame. London 2012 heptathlon champion, | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill, There's also a damehood | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
for rower Katherine Grainger. After five medals at five | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
consecutive Olympics, It's not something I ever thought | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
I would get but what a great time It's the end of a 20-year career | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
for me in competing for my country, and it's a lovely way | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
to bring the curtain down. And there's a knighthood for one | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
of Britain's top Paralympians. Dressage rider Lee Pearson | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
won his 11th gold medal in Rio Among the other honours, | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
two sporting couples. CBEs for cyclists Jason | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
and Laura Kenney, while hockey gold-medallists Kate | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
and Helen Richardson-Walsh become And after their impressive run | :03:25. | :03:25. | |
at Euro 2016, Wales football manager Chris Coleman becomes an OBE, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
and his Northern Ireland counterpart Just a few of more than 100 | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
sporting figures honoured Stars of the stage and screen, | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
including Ken Dodd and Patricia Routledge, have also been included | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
in the New Year's Honours list. They're among more than 1,000 people | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
to have been recognised, as our Entertainment correspondent | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Lizo Mzimba reports. He's been one of Britain's favourite | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
entertainers for more than half a century, | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
now Ken Dodd has The best day ever, you can't | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
get better than this. I've played lots of big theatres, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
I've worked abroad, but this is it. Patricia Routledge | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
has been made a Dame. # You got me so I don't know | :04:20. | :04:38. | |
what I'm doing...# Kinks frontman, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Ray Davies, said he felt "humility A knighthood too for award-winning | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
actor, Mark Rylance. Bond actress Naomi | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Harris was made MBE. Figures from fashion and design have | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
also been recognised. American Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
said she was touched to be Designer Victoria Beckham | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
becomes an OBE. Obviously great pride, | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
but mixed with sadness because of that enduring sadness | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
of the families who have continued to feel the loss | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
of their loved ones. he is one of hundreds being | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
recognised for their contribution across the UK. | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
This morning on Breakfast we'll be hearing from people who've been | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the Met Office says driving conditions will be difficult in many | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
areas of central, eastern and south-east England. | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
Our reporter Simon Jones is at Heathrow Airport this morning. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Bring us up to date this morning. I've just checked the departure | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
board here and it makes for pretty grim reading. We have a number of | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
flights already delayed and some have been cancelled. It is thought | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
that yesterday around 30,000 passengers flying to and from the UK | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
had their flights cancelled and spare a thought for the passengers | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
trying to head to Frankfurt from here. They were due to leave at 530 | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
yesterday afternoon on board a Lufthansa flight and that is yet to | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
depart. They have had a delay of 16 hours. This is due to a yellow | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
warning for fog. That means people should be prepared. Although the fog | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
has lifted somewhat from its worst position yesterday afternoon, still, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
we are told on the roads there could be treacherous conditions with dense | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
fog and visibility under 100 metres. It is not just the fog that is | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
causing trouble here in southern England and central England, in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
north-west Scotland, also a yellow warning for rain and strong winds | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
ahead of the hop and a celebration this evening. -- New Year's Eve | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
celebrations. Around 3,000 police officers will be | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
on duty across central London tonight as crowds gather | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
to celebrate the new year. Scotland Yard says extra | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
resources have been brought in to keep people safe | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
following the terror attacks in Berlin and Nice | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
earlier this year. Greater Manchester Police and other | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
forces say they've also stepped up We spent a long time planning this | :07:30. | :07:51. | |
operation. Westminster City Council and the mayor 's office. Making sure | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
people have good time. There will be a surge regime in place. Something | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
like 3000 police officers in duty in central London alone and stewards as | :08:04. | :08:04. | |
well. Donald Trump has praised | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Russia's President Putin for his decision not | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
to engage in a row about In a tweet, the US President-elect | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
said he always knew the Russian President Obama has ordered 35 | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Russian diplomats to leave the country after accusing | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Moscow of interfering The man credited with | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
discovering the Beatles has Allan Williams was the owner | :08:23. | :08:38. | |
of a Liverpool music club and arranged the band's first | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
performances in the early 60s, but he parted company | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
with the group before they shot His memoir was called | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
"The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away". 40% of councils in England have no | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
procedures in place to prosecute people who misuse | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
disabled parking permits. New analysis of official figures | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
found blue badges could be used fraudulently without fear of | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
being fined in 61 local authorities. The finding has been | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
described as "staggering" From midnight tonight, | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
anyone who owns an air gun The legislation was introduced | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
after a toddler was killed by an airgun pellet | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
in Glasgow in 2005. Thousands of the weapons have been | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
surrendered in advance of the deadline, though critics say | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the change won't reduce gun crime, These are the guns that by January | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
one will be illegal unless it their owners have a licence. Already | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
11,000 people have applied for a certificate and anyone with a gun | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
licence already can add air weapons to that. Thousands of air gun owners | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
have missed the deadline of the 31st of October to apply for a permit. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Anyone who applied residue to get before October 31 is OK because they | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
applied early. -- for a certificate. Those who applied for the next | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
couple of weeks we'll have to wait some time before it is processed. | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
They will have to make arrangements for the storage of their guns will | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
stop this place is providing a safe house whose owners want to keep them | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
but won't be licensed by Sunday morning. Many of those think the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
clampdown is using a sledgehammer to crack and out. Shooting people at a | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
high rates flight is illegal. -- flat. This is tokenism which will | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
achieve nothing. The people who will miss use a rifle is not the type of | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
people who are going to go to the trouble of licensing their weapons | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
anyway. But hackers of the new laws they eat weapons are involved in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
half of all gun crime in Scotland -- air weapons. Tightening the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
legislation is justified. Thousands of airguns have already been handed | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
into police to be destroyed. Craig Anderson, News, Inverness. | :11:01. | :11:14. | |
Thousands of Star Wars devotees turned out in New Orleans yesterday | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
to pay tribute to the actress Carrie Fisher. | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Fans dressed as a variety of characters from the film series - | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
from her iconic character Princess Leia, to Wookiees and Stormtroopers. | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
A group called the "Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus" organised | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
the parade in honour of the woman they consider royalty. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Let's have a look at this morning's papers. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
A lot of them are with pictures of those being announced on the honours | :11:38. | :11:53. | |
list. This is one on the foreign aid budget. That is the Daily Mail's | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
take. Also a play on the word. You can see what they have done. We will | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
hear more about some of the sporting nominations and also many of those | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
who have an awarded for service to the community, we are speaking to | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
them later. Andy Murray is on the front of the Daily Telegraph was not | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
now, Sir Andy Murray, of course. Also a story of people drinking and | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
the pressure of -- that people who drink put on the NHS. Also on the | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
front page of the Daily Mirror, they are also highlighting the award for | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
Sir Ken Dodd. Finally being awarded an knighthood. He is now 89 years | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
old. Look at the quote. "I'm Very, very happy. I'm full of | :12:54. | :13:07. | |
plumptishousness...". He is very tickled. You are watching breakfast | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
from BBC News. Andy Murray and Mo Farah have been | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
recognised with knighthoods, while Jessica Ennis-Hill | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
and Katherine Grainger become Dames Thousands of travellers face | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
disruption this morning as freezing fog in parts of England | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
leads to flights being cancelled, It is time to find out how the | :13:27. | :13:40. | |
weather is looking for the next couple of days. That is a pretty | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
funky picture. Just a little bit. We have some fog around. Happy | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Hogmanay. The fog is not as dense or as widespread as yesterday. If you | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
are on the move across central and southern England in south-east | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Wales, it could be impacting travel. Not as bad as yesterday. It makes | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
for a great start across southern areas. Chilly as well. Not as much | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
frost. Temperatures above freezing for the most. A few breaks in a | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
cloud across north-east England. Rain or drizzle more likely to be | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
across the fells of Cumbria. A dry start from Northern Ireland and much | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
of southern Scotland. Brightness for eastern Scotland. A miserable start | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
for the west. It has been raining relentlessly for the last 24 hours. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Over 100 millimetres of rain in the Highlands. There will be flooding | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
issues. The rain pushes southwards later and across the rest of | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Scotland to the afternoon. Eventually into Northern Ireland. | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Away from that, dry. The best of the brighter breaks will be to the east | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
of high ground. Temperatures around 7- 12 degrees. If you are out this | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
evening, be prepared for rain early in Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
but by midnight, clearer skies and cold conditions. Winter conditions | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
for northern parts of Northern Ireland. If you are celebrating | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
across England and Wales, rain pushing into north-west England by | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
the time to get to midnight and to the north and west of files. Patchy | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
rain and drizzle across western areas. The rest of you will see the | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
New Year under dry conditions. A mild start to 2017 across the south. | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Chilly conditions across midnight in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
will push southwards. A slow process through New Year's day, but it will | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
eventually reach all of us. Beware that will struggle to shift away. It | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
is through a good part of south and central England through the day. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Whole debate brighter conditions for Scotland and Northern Ireland with | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
winter showers, and the colder weather takes us into Monday and | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
Tuesday. A few winter flurries here and there, but most will be clear | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
and dry by day and cold and frosty by night. That is how it is looking. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Another update in an hour. Thank you. | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
Security's being stepped up ahead of tonight's New Year's Eve | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
celebrations in London, following the terror attacks | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
The Police Federation says that while there's no specific | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
intelligence about an attack in the capital, more officers | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
will be on duty than in previous years, | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
Greater Manchester police and other forces say they're also | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
putting on extra crowd protection measures. | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Peter Bleksley is a former Scotland Yard detective | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
A lot of this is about reassurance. Yes, but it is also very necessary. | :16:27. | :16:43. | |
As with so -- as we saw in building in ace, those opportunistic attacks | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
by difficult for intelligent sensors to detect -- Berlin and knees. They | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
need to be in a position to thwart any attack should happen. We'll be | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
public notice any difference? I think people will be somewhat | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
alarmed, and as we saw in Northumbria a couple of weeks ago, a | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
couple of heavily police officers were at a Christmas market, and were | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
smiling and having photographs taken by children. There was an uproar. I | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
would say to the public, I'm afraid this is the state of affairs need to | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
reverse entry. You will have to get used to C and heavily armed police | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
at sporting events and all of that. There will become -- they will be | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
compound of everyday life. It is sad and very necessary. We have to | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
understand and appreciate there are those who would like to wipe us from | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
the face of the Earth. We need to do as much as we possibly can | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
collectively to try to thwart these people. The way these changes have | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
been described is that the plans have been modified. How often are | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
plans being modified? It is only right that the police review their | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
tactics after each and every atrocity, especially with billing | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
and knees, but people may see tonight is more roadblocks. They | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
will be out accordance as well as in accordions -- Berlin and Nice. More | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
traffic will be stopped and roadblocks put in place to stop | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
trucks and lorries and flagged down the drivers in question them and see | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
what they are doing before waving them on their way if they are of | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
course just going about their business. We talked mainly about | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
because parts about what is going on, but a scattering of the work, we | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
don't know about that -- obviously a lot of the work. As we enjoy the | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
revelry of New Year's if tonight, I can guarantee you somewhere around | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
the country, there will be people from the intelligence services or | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
the police digging into observation points in very cold, wet and | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
uncomfortable situations doing their job 24/7, 365 days of the year, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
often quite heroically to try to keep us also. Peter, thank you for | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
your time this morning. Have a happy New Year. | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
The singer and actor Paul Robeson was a key figure in the American | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
But what's less well known is his solidarity | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
One of his lesser known films, The Proud Valley, has now been | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
remastered by the British Film Institute, and is to be taken | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
on tour as part of their season celebrating black actors. | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
# Back to work # All through the night #. | :19:36. | :19:57. | |
The story of a black man who enchanted a South Wales mining | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
community. Paul Robeson's film The Proud Valley was a box office flop, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
but now it is being remastered and taken on tour. This is a former | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
miner and trade union leader. For him, Paul Robeson is a leader. We | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
remember seeing him there, he has something. Not only a voice but a | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
way of speaking about half of his people, and that stayed with me for | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
many years. Mining has now largely disappeared from the valleys of | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
South Wales, but that connection between the people of these | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
communities and the son of a slave who became a lawyer, a civil rights | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
activist and one of the most famous actors of his generation endures. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
# Let it be known as two be proud Valley was made in 1940, but Paul | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Robeson's connection to Wales dates back to the 1920s when he met a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
group of miners who walked from South Wales to London to draw | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
attention to the hardship they enjoyed. The first time, he saw the | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
miners' struggle was similar to his own for rights. My warmest greetings | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
to the people of my beloved Wales. In 1957, Paul Robeson was banned | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
from travelling. He addressed a group of miners from a secret | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
studio. Thousands gathered to hear him sing at the miners' area. It was | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
quite stunning, quite electric that we heard his voice coming from the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
studio in New York. Paul Robeson was one of the few people who actually | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
stood up to racism and the lynchings in the deep South and campaigned for | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
peace and campaigned for Colonial Freedom. He had that same | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
internationalist view that the southern Wales miners had, a shared | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
common humanity. It is that history that the British Film Institute is | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
celebrating as part of its black start season. Paul Robeson was | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
especially proud of this film because it gave him an opportunity | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
to express his socialist beliefs, and he could represent the Wales | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
working class. In many of his films he felt he could not do this | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
through, because he was oppressed by the Hollywood system. An exhibition | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
of his work will run at the BFI Southbank in London until the end of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
January, but perhaps it is in South Wales he will be most fondly | :22:29. | :22:29. | |
remembered. We will take a moment now to look | :22:30. | :22:41. | |
back at what has been an extraordinary year, 2016. It has | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
been quite incredible. A lot of people feel like they need a lie | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
down in a dark room after it. From the deaths of some | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
of the world's best-known celebrities, to dramatic political | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
moments, extraordinary scientific feats and epic sporting | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
achievements, to name but a few. It's also been a year of big | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
change here on Breakfast. So as 2017 approaches, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
we'd like to share with you some of the moments that made us laugh | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
and cry over the last 12 months. 2016 was a year of change on BBC | :23:04. | :23:20. | |
Breakfast. The year we say goodbye to a old friend, Bill. Straight down | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
the middle. I was taking a great interest in your isobars. Are they | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
tightly packed? They are. I meant nothing by that. I'm so glad they | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
did not do the job is one. Goodbye. After 15 years on BBC Breakfast, | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Bill Turnbull finally gave up the four AM alarm calls. Now the day has | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
come for you to sort that sofa for a bed in the long-awaited my ins. We | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
said goodbye to tell. Do you see the love and affection he has? | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
Beautiful. All change, all over. So much of it so surprising. There will | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
be a new president and it could be Donald Trump. I believe that won't | :24:06. | :24:19. | |
reveal itself. It really has been a year of surprises, and who could | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
have predicted this? Describe yourself in one word. Awesome. | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
Awesome. Awesome. BBC Breakfast thrilled in a glittering gold rush | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
of a summer. 52 models. Do you shove the bronze in the top job? Where | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
will you put all of the gold? Just a few have popped over to see Sally. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
She has some new friends. Fresh from Rio, there was one place our | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
medallists chose to come. Go for it. Is that Max Whitlock on the pole | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
vault outside my office? It is really him! I can touch him, he is | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
real. Describe yourself in one word. Determined! Kadeena Cox and Gordon | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
Reid. I can't leave you out. From Olympic champions... To read so the | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
champions. Naga shone on Strictly. Louise was nearly the Masterchef. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
The trophy you didn't quite win. So close. And as for Ore... But the | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
real star of BBC Breakfast has always been you, and in 2016, so | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
many of you have inspired us. Running for me has been something | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
that I have used to help combat mental illness that I suffered | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
throughout my 20s. Four years ago, I could not even run for a bus. We | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
have done it. We are so proud of what we have done. What are you | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
right now? Cattanach. -- cancer free. Again? Cancer free. How does | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
it feel? As stories are due to get that check, make that change. I | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
would say to the boys and girls, to never give out. 2016 was not all | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
bad. And we have helped deliver some of the best bits. There she was, | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
just presenting Harper Lee. And then she decided to have an event later | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
on. -- Papley. We have also delivered some of the West. We will | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
be joined by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, talking about plans | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
for a second referendum on independence. We have clearly run | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
the wrong pictures over that particular sequence. We have not | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
always got it right. I will get it wrong now. Yes, but no, but. And you | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
have been happy to tell us where we got wrong. I'm so sorry. Lots of | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
people have been commenting on this lovely dress. Some people said it | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
was rhubarb custard. Some people have suggested you are wearing the | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Lothian away kit today. I have been getting grief today about this nice | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
bit of whistle. But most of you choose to watch us over your cereal | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
than any other breakfast you. -- show. And for that, the BBC | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
Breakfast family would like to say thank you. Thank you! I say happy | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
New Year. LAUGHTER | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
Just watching Jessica Ennis-Hill during the hulahooping, now she is | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
dying Jessica Ennis-Hill. How many have done hulahooping live on | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
television? -- Dame. We will have more on the honours late on. And we | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
will have the headlines next. Stay with us. | :28:16. | :28:49. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
Coming up in just a few minutes, Kat will have your sports round up. | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
But first at 6:30, a summary of this morning's main news. | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
More than 100 of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars have been | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
recognised in the New Year Honours list, with knighthoods | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
The tennis world number one has capped off a year which saw him | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
win Wimbledon, and Olympic gold, for a second time. | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
Katherine Grainger, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
has become a Dame, as has heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill. | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
There's also a knighthood for the gold medal-winning | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
The honours also include many famous names from | :29:20. | :29:29. | |
Patricia Routledge, who played Hyacinth Bucket | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
in "Keeping up Appearances", is made a Dame. | :29:33. | :29:34. | |
And Ken Dodd, the veteran comedian famous for his tickle stick, | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
There are also knighthoods for Ray Davies from the Kinks, | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled more | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning | :29:53. | :30:05. | |
across the South and south-east, as a blanket of fog is set to make | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
driving conditions "difficult" and lead to yet more | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
Around 3,000 police officers will be on duty across central London | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
tonight as crowds gather to celebrate the new year. | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
Scotland Yard says extra resources have been brought | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
in to keep people safe following the terror attacks | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
in Berlin and Nice earlier this year. | :30:24. | :30:25. | |
Greater Manchester Police and other forces say they've also stepped up | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
40% of councils in England have no procedures in place to prosecute | :30:29. | :30:42. | |
people who misuse disabled parking permits. | :30:43. | :30:43. | |
New analysis of official figures found blue badges could be | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
used fraudulently without fear of being fined in 61 local authorities. | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
The finding has been described as "staggering" | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
Those are the main stories this morning. | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
We have been talking about the sporting champions who have a new | :30:56. | :31:12. | |
years now. Really end. Whatever else has been going on, at the Euros as | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
well. Hull City are off the bottom | :31:15. | :31:14. | |
of the Premier League but they missed out on a first | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
league win in nearly two months after a late Everton | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
equaliser at the K-com. The Tigers went ahead | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
but were pegged back then Robert Snodgrass scored this | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
brilliant free kick in the They couldn't hang | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
on for victory though, Ross Barkley nodded | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
in the Everton equaliser late on. I'm really pleased because over the | :31:31. | :31:43. | |
past four weeks, we put in a shift and got nothing and today we got one | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
point. We could be greedy and ask for more but I'm proud of the | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
players for their efforts. The Old Firm derby between Rangers | :31:51. | :31:51. | |
and Celtic takes place in the Scottish Premiership this | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
lunchtime, meanwhile, The goal came from Jonny Hayes | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
in the 66th minute. The third placed Dons are now six | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
points ahead of Hearts, To rugby union, and George North | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
will return for Northampton Saints in their Premiership match | :32:04. | :32:13. | |
at Gloucester tomorrow. It will be the Welshman's first game | :32:14. | :32:15. | |
since suffering a head injury against Leicester | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
on December the third. That was North's fifth | :32:19. | :32:20. | |
concussion in two years - including two in the match | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
on your screen now between England A review board said North shouldn't | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
have continued to play against Leicester but they didn't | :32:26. | :32:34. | |
sanction Northampton. As we've been hearing | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
Andy Murray has been knighted He'll play in the third-place | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
playoff this morning after a surprise defeat yesterday | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
to David Goffin in the semi-finals of the World Tennis | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
Championship in Abu Dhabi. The world number one had won | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
all five of his previous meetings with Goffin but lost | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
the first set on a tie-break. Murray went 4-2 up in the second | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
but Goffin fought back to win the set and take the match | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
by two sets to love. Is great see Rafael Nadal back. It | :32:58. | :33:16. | |
just goes to show how tough the composition is at the moment. You | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
would think he was onto a surefire win. David Goffin has been | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
relatively easy to beat previously this year. | :33:29. | :33:29. | |
It's not surprising that so many athletes feature in this year's | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
It's been such a successful year for British sport. | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
Before we come back with the headlines at seven, | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
let's have a look back at some of the incredible sporting moments | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
Hello and welcome to Salford, the home of BBC Sport. | :33:42. | :34:02. | |
With the Olympics, the Paralympics, football's European Championship, | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
and a whole host of other major sporting events, 2016 was a year | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
that began full of optimism, and it did not disappoint. | :34:08. | :34:44. | |
2016 was a year of extraordinary sporting achievement - | :34:45. | :34:46. | |
athletes striving to go faster, higher, stronger. | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
If those were the aims then this was very much the reward - | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
the heroes' parade of returning Paralympics and Olympians, many | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
living up to the high expectations, so many surpassing it. | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
There's only one place, really, we can start this review of 2016, | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
and that is some 6000 miles away from murky Manchester - | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
Rio, where this heroes' parade, really began. | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
Brazil welcomes the world with open arms. | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
But just who would be lining up beside them? | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
After months of claims and revelations of widespread | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
doping, Russia were at the Olympics - their track and | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
But, as they say in sport, you can only beat what is in front of you. | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
Team GB, at times, were beating everybody. | :35:39. | :35:40. | |
Adam Peaty takes Olympic gold for Great Britain. | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
In the pool, Britain's best games for over a century. | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
Above the waves, around the bays, rowing in Rio was truly spectacular. | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
And it is Great Britain who are men's Olympic champions. | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
It is carnival time for Great Britain. | :35:53. | :35:54. | |
History being written and then rewritten. | :35:55. | :35:56. | |
These were tales of triumph, passion. | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
All games need their superstars, Rio had plenty. | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
Some catapulted themselves onto the biggest stage. | :36:09. | :36:10. | |
For others, a final flourish before a fond farewell. | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
There were those that arrived as superstars, leave as legends. | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
Usain Bolt is going what he always does, it is gold again. | :36:21. | :36:28. | |
Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold medallist. | :36:29. | :36:35. | |
Some were doing what no Brit had done before. | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
Some what no one had done, for a very long time. | :36:40. | :36:50. | |
Justin Rose of Great Britain takes Olympic gold. | :36:51. | :36:52. | |
Whilst others, well, they were just doing | :36:53. | :36:54. | |
Mo Farah has gone, he is away, he is going to get gold | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
But amidst such company even giving everything | :37:00. | :37:07. | |
Great Britain have won the Olympic gold medal. | :37:08. | :37:18. | |
Marvellous moments in the marvellous city, and that was before | :37:19. | :37:20. | |
When they did, those special moments just kept on coming. | :37:21. | :37:27. | |
147 medals for Para GB, 64 of them glittering gold. | :37:28. | :37:29. | |
Again and again expectations met, and then exceeded. | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
You can see a detailed review of all the Rio games | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
on the BBC News Channel over the festive period. | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
So many extraordinary achievements on which to look back and enjoy. | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
Few people could have predicted the scale of the success | :37:46. | :37:53. | |
for Great Britain in Rio, but then perhaps 2016 was the year | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
And there were no bigger shocks anywhere than in the Premier League. | :37:58. | :38:09. | |
In the beginning I felt something special, but of course | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
There were no odds I would have taken at the start of the season. | :38:13. | :38:26. | |
10 million to one, I would have thought, "No, | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
The more that the games passed, we started to | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
COMMENTATOR: The title has gone for Tottenham. | :38:37. | :38:52. | |
Claudio Ranieri wins the Premier League, Leicester City | :38:53. | :38:54. | |
Seeing my team do this it has been amazing. | :38:55. | :39:07. | |
This is a team of players where they have been | :39:08. | :39:24. | |
plucked from other clubs, free transfers, it is just the most | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
incredible achievement, I believe, in British sport. | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
I think it is genuinely the biggest sporting shock in... | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
I cannot think of anything that surpasses it in terms of the team. | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
And if it means I have to wear my pants during Match Of The Day, | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
Leicester repeating that incredible season was always a lot to ask | :39:44. | :40:00. | |
but they did continue their amazing journey into the Champions League. | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
There were hopes of another upset in the FA Cup. | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
Crystal Palace ahead, but their joy would not last. | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
A rare moment of triumph for Louis Van Gaal's | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
side as his reign came to a rather inevitable end. | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
The League Cup went to Manchester also, City defeating | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
Liverpool on penalties, the Reds were also defeated | :40:33. | :40:34. | |
Manchester clubs dominated the domestic cup competitions, | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
the women also did their bit - Manchester City winning | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
the Continental Cup and the Woman's Super League One. | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
A more established name on the FA Cup. | :40:44. | :40:45. | |
Arsenal Ladies winning for a 14th time in front of a record crowd. | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
In Scotland, Celtic were champions again with Glasgow City dominant | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
in the women's game, and at Hampden Park, their 114 year | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
wait for a Scottish Cup ended for Hibernian. | :40:55. | :40:56. | |
It's been a long wait, too, for Ross County. | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
The League Cup was their first major trophy. | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
They were allowed to keep it for just eight months. | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
Celtic now champions as the cup was awarded | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
But for Scottish football fans the domestic | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
But for the other home nations, well, plenty of tales to tell | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
With Wales, Northern Ireland, and England all making it | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
to the European Championship in France, hopes were high | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
But at times those memories were threatened with being tarnished, | :41:27. | :41:35. | |
violence on the streets involving England fans a worrying reminder | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
On the pitch, disappointingly, it was the same story. | :41:39. | :41:53. | |
A late Russian equaliser in Marseille set the tone | :41:54. | :41:55. | |
A horrible, horrible end to the night. | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
But whilst they were underachieving, Northern Ireland and Wales, well, | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
they were far exceeding expectations. | :42:02. | :42:02. | |
For both, it was a first European Championship. | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
Even a late, late defeat against England could not | :42:06. | :42:18. | |
A rare high note for England, but it was Wales who | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
Ramsey, on side, Aaron Ramsey with a dink, and Wales have the lead! | :42:23. | :42:33. | |
Ramsey, weaving it through to Bale, he is onside, surely this time... | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
In Paris they would meet Northern Ireland. | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
What a moment for everybody involved. | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Only one team could progress, a heartbreaking end | :42:50. | :42:51. | |
for Michael O'Neill's side, in particular for Gareth McAuley. | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
Another Welsh win, and they go to the quarterfinals. | :42:57. | :43:06. | |
With the Northern Ireland tournament over, they left with plenty | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
If only the same could be said for England. | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
Ahead against one of the tournament's big surprises, | :43:14. | :43:15. | |
Iceland have turned it round to lead. | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
Defeat was as humbling and humiliating as anything | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
There is disbelief right around the ground. | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
From England fans, and Iceland supporters. | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
The England manager, Roy Hodgson, has resigned | :43:34. | :43:35. | |
Now is the time for somebody else to oversee the progress | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
of this young, hungry, extremely talented group. | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
So it was left to Wales to fly the flag for the home nations, | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
a quarterfinal against Belgium, perhaps the most magnificent night | :43:48. | :43:50. | |
Something special is happening here tonight. | :43:51. | :44:06. | |
For most fans, even beyond their wildest dreams. | :44:07. | :44:13. | |
Passion, determination and desire had carried them further | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
than anybody thought possible, but even all that just | :44:17. | :44:18. | |
It will be Portugal in Paris on Sunday. | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
Welcome to the end of the month-long party. | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
To upset that French party, Portugal took their time. | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
But the wait for a first major tournament win was worth it. | :44:33. | :44:44. | |
Back home, for Wales, hopes that this now might begin | :44:45. | :45:00. | |
Wales came to the airport and I got my shoe and my book signed. | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
Tonight at ten, a significant error of judgment means that | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
Sam Allardyce is no longer the England football manager. | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
He had been in the job for just two months. | :45:16. | :45:17. | |
The FA has terminated his contract with immediate effect... | :45:18. | :45:20. | |
So in came Gareth Southgate, the third manager in as many | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
And as the Football Association continues to recover, above them, | :45:24. | :45:32. | |
Fifa were trying to start afresh with Gianni Infantino the new man | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
charged with rescuing the damaged reputation of the organisation. | :45:36. | :45:46. | |
Danny Willett was not even supposed to be at the Masters, | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
let alone win it, but the early arrival of his baby son | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
His round finished, he watched on from the clubhouse | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
A quick call to tell his new family that he would be bringing home | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
The 2016 US Masters champion, Danny Willett. | :46:04. | :46:12. | |
There was a first Major winner too at Troon in the Open, | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
an astonishing final round from Henrik Stenson | :46:17. | :46:17. | |
In the Women's British Open, Ariya Jutanugarn became the first | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
Major champion from Thailand, in fact this was a year | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
of maiden Major winners, Dustin Johnson taking the US Open | :46:28. | :46:30. | |
All this made for one of the most eagerly anticipated | :46:31. | :46:38. | |
Raucous, emotionally charged, as we have come to expect, but, | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
for Europe, they could not quite live up to the expectation, | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
2016 was full of success for sporting greats, | :46:47. | :46:55. | |
but there's still only one who can lay claim to being The Greatest. | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
And this was the year we said goodbye. | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
In June, Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74. | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
For British fighters, it has been some year. | :47:07. | :47:15. | |
They now have a glittering array of world champions. | :47:16. | :47:17. | |
But Tyson Fury is no longer amongst them - | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
his battles outside the ring continue. | :47:21. | :47:29. | |
In Formula One, Lewis Hamilton was the defending champion, with his | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
The season began in Melbourne, and the Brit quickly realised | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
retaining that crown would not be easy. | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
Victory for team-mate Nico Rosberg, in the opening race, | :47:42. | :47:43. | |
Hamilton second, the tone set for the season. | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
By the time they reached Barcelona the lead of Rosberg was 43 points, | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
on the track the two would be much closer. | :47:51. | :47:52. | |
A crash on lap one opened the door for Max Verstappen, Formula One's | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
At Silverstone Hamilton was out on his own, leading | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
from start to finish, now just one point | :48:02. | :48:03. | |
But in Malaysia, Hamilton's hopes appeared to go up in smoke. | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
So down to the jewel in the desert in Abu Dhabi. | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
Victory for Hamilton, but it was not enough | :48:13. | :48:14. | |
to stop Nico Rosberg winning his first world title. | :48:15. | :48:16. | |
It came just days before his shock retirement. | :48:17. | :48:26. | |
The year in rugby union began as always with a bang | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
in the Six Nations tournament, and whilst all teams | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
had their moments, the story of success was built | :48:33. | :48:34. | |
They had been a side in crisis, but a new coach, a new captain | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
and suddenly they were looking like a new team and, | :48:42. | :48:44. | |
in this tournament, nobody could compete. | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
A glorious Grand Slam won on foreign shores but built in England. | :48:49. | :50:07. | |
That was just the beginning, they had to go to the other side | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
of the world to see just how far they had come. | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
A 3-0 whitewash over Australia and again the rugby | :50:15. | :50:16. | |
Fittingly, it was back at Twickenham against Austria that England | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
They have beaten everybody put before them. | :50:22. | :50:29. | |
In the Women's Six Nations, France were crowned champions. | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
Whilst in the club game, Saracens were all conquering, | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
Premiership and Champions Cup winners. | :50:39. | :50:40. | |
Welcome to Wembley Stadium for one of the showpiece events | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
In rugby league, 2016 was a year of history-making achievement | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
Hull FC had famously never won at Wembley. | :50:50. | :50:57. | |
Ahead, just, against Warrington, they managed to cling | :50:58. | :50:59. | |
on as the Wolves agonisingly let it slip. | :51:00. | :51:06. | |
Listen to the noise from the black-and-whites. | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
Warrington did win the League Leaders Shield | :51:12. | :51:13. | |
but when it really mattered, at the Grand Final, | :51:14. | :51:15. | |
Wigan are the Super League champions. | :51:16. | :51:25. | |
The Four Nations then wasan opportunity to test | :51:26. | :51:27. | |
British rugby league against the game Down | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
Under, for Scotland, the progress continues apace. | :51:31. | :51:32. | |
A draw with New Zealand, their greatest ever result. | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
Defeat to the Kiwis and then eventual winners Australia shows | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
the northern hemisphere is still some way behind. | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
England's hearts are being ripped out. | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
For England's cricketers, an eventful year. | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
An historic series win over South Africa, and then | :51:53. | :51:54. | |
against Sri Lanka, captain Alastair Cook became the youngest | :51:55. | :51:57. | |
Series against Pakistan, Bangladesh and India | :51:58. | :52:06. | |
were rather less successful, but the real heartbreak | :52:07. | :52:08. | |
came at the World T20, all the way to the final, | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
Victory batted from their grasp, Carlos Brathwaite and the West | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
Indies uncontrollable, Ben Stokes and England, | :52:17. | :52:17. | |
It was a double for the West Indies as they claimed | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
Drama only rivalled by the end of the County Championship season. | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
Middlesex, winners, and one of the tightest finishes in years. | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
So much of sport is about getting across the line first. | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
33/1 shot Rule The World lived up to his name, | :52:40. | :52:41. | |
On-board was teenager David Mullings, proving that even | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
on its 169th running, this great race is still | :52:48. | :52:49. | |
There are others for whom crossing that line first is now | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
A third Tour de France title for Chris Froome. | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
It feels amazing, I mean, it really could be the first | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
It is a combination of months of hard work, of all my team-mates, | :53:04. | :53:14. | |
all the support of the team, and what it symbolises, | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
standing on this final podium, on the Champs Elysees here in Paris, | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
It is monumental, such an amazing feeling. | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
But being the first to cross the line is not always everything. | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
Getting to the finish can be a triumph too. | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
2016 was the year of the one millionth finisher of | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
Just a little behind Jemima Sumgong and Eliud Kipchoge - | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
who missed the world record by an agonising seven seconds. | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
Getting to the end, just, was Johnny Brownlee. | :53:41. | :53:44. | |
The heat of Cozumel taking its toll, even on one of sport's very best. | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
Being helped toward the line by his brother, Alistair, | :53:49. | :53:50. | |
Second-place, and second place overall in the world | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
But there are some who won't mind being pipped to the line. | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
Just 13 minutes after Leicester City won the Premier League, | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
another of the city's sons, Mark Selby, became | :54:06. | :54:07. | |
Even in this crowded year of sport, this corner of South West London | :54:08. | :54:20. | |
remains centre stage, for two summer weeks at least. | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
A history is rich in glory and triumph. | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
Still, for the British, Wimbledon had remained, for so long, | :54:29. | :54:30. | |
More recently, and in 2016 in particular, there | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
The crowds always come, and now with a little | :54:37. | :54:43. | |
added expectation to go with all that hope. | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
Having lost the Australian and French Open finals, | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
Andy Murray was again the flag bearer for British tennis, but these | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
Liam Brodie on the other side of the net, in the all-British | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
battle the round one, the signs as encouraging | :55:01. | :55:02. | |
And it is a welcome back to SW 19 for Andy Murray, straight sets. | :55:03. | :55:14. | |
For Murray there would be tougher tie ahead, not in round two. | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
For a moment, Yen-hsun Lu looked like causing trouble, | :55:18. | :55:19. | |
John Millman floored in straight sets, Murray, | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
through to week two, but something far less familiar | :55:26. | :55:27. | |
There will be no Novak Djokovic in week two at Wimbledon. | :55:28. | :55:41. | |
There was now a chance for Andy Murray. | :55:42. | :55:43. | |
Against Nick Kyrgios, that is exactly what he did. | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
Ruthless, clinical, and he is a quarterfinalist yet again. | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
But if he was making things look simple, a quarterfinal | :55:55. | :55:57. | |
against Jo Wilfred Tsonga was anything but. | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
Arms raised aloft, another triumph on Centre Court for Andy Murray. | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
As it turned out, it was Murray's biggest test. | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
Tomas Berdych in the semifinal proved little obstacle. | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
Murray in straight sets, a demolition job, really. | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
That is Sunday afternoon taken care of. | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
The men's singles final is between Milos Raonic of Canada | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
Wimbledon champion again, a supreme performance, | :56:30. | :56:43. | |
For the women's trophy, another familiar name. | :56:44. | :56:53. | |
The Wimbledon champion, Serena Williams. | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
A 22nd grand slam title, equalling the record of Steffi Graf. | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
But this year at Wimbledon had a very British feel. | :57:04. | :57:05. | |
Jordanne Whiley, a wheelchair doubles champion. | :57:06. | :57:11. | |
And as for Gordon Reid, he was peerless - winning | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
the wheelchair doubles with Alfie Hewitt before going it | :57:15. | :57:16. | |
And it was a story that would just get better. | :57:17. | :57:35. | |
Good luck, Andy, you have always been our number one. | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
Big good luck for tonight, I hope you smash it. | :57:38. | :57:44. | |
You are world number one and you should stay. | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
Wimbledon and Olympic champion Andy Murray, | :57:50. | :58:07. | |
finishing the year ranked as the best in the world. | :58:08. | :58:10. | |
His brother, Jamie, doubles world number one, | :58:11. | :58:12. | |
with Gordon Reid also at the top and Johanna Konta in the top ten, | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
it has been an incredible year for British tennis. | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
And there was still one more piece of history to be made. | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
Nobody had ever won the BBC Sports Personality | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
Few have ever done more to deserve it than Andy Murray. | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray. | :58:35. | :58:50. | |
It has been an amazing year for British sport and I am very | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
Thank you, I hope you all have a great night. | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
So a truly deserving winner after quite an extraordinary year. | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
With the World Athletics Championships, the Women's European | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
Championships in football, a Rugby League World Cup | :59:11. | :59:12. | |
and the Ashes, there's plenty to look forward to. | :59:13. | :59:14. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :59:15. | :00:11. | |
More than 100 stars of the Olympics and Paralympics are recognised | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Andy Murray and Mo Farah are given knighthoods. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Nearly 1,200 people are on this year's list, from entertainers | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
We'll be hearing from some of them on this morning's programme. | :00:25. | :00:42. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday 31st December. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Warnings of travel disruption on the roads and at airports | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
as freezing fog continues to affect parts of the country. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Security plans for New Year's Eve celebrations are modified | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
in response to this year's terror attacks in Berlin and Nice. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
In sport away from the New Year's Honours, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Hull City were denied their first league win for almost two months | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
by Everton, they drew 2-2, but the point was enough to lift | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
them off the bottom of the Premier League. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Still fog around this morning particularly in southern areas but | :01:14. | :01:25. | |
not as bad as yesterday. I will have details on that and the conditions | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
as we finish this year and head-on to next. See you in 15 minutes. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic stars have been recognised | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
in the New Year Honours list, with knighthoods for Andy Murray | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill and the rower, Katherine Grainger, have received | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
damehoods, while the gold medal-winning paralympian, | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
Our correspondent Andy Swiss has the details. | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
At the end of a glittering year for British sport, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
for five of its greatest stars, the greatest of honours. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
First, a knighthood for the man who spent 2016 scaling | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
COMMENTATOR: Wimbledon champion again, a supreme performance. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
After winning a second Wimbledon, a second Olympics and the world | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
number one spot, it's now Sir Andy Murray, | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
a fitting finish to a remarkable season. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
There's also a new title for Mo Farah's collection. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
He described his knighthood as a dream come true. | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
Having come to Britain as an eight-year-old from Somalia, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
he added, he could never have imagined it. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Another athletics star, meanwhile, becomes a dame. | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
London 2012 heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis-Hill, | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
There's also a damehood for rower Katherine Grainger. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
After five medals at five consecutive Olympics, | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
It's not something I ever thought I would get but what a great time | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
It's the end of a 20-year career for me in competing for my country, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
and it's a lovely way to bring the curtain down. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
And there's a knighthood for one of Britain's top Paralympians. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
Dressage rider Lee Pearson won his 11th gold medal in Rio. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
Among the other honours, two sporting couples. | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
CBEs for cyclists Jason and Laura Kenney, while hockey | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
gold-medallists Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh become | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
And after their impressive run at Euro 2016, Wales football manager | :03:24. | :03:39. | |
Chris Coleman becomes an OBE, and his Northern Ireland counterpart | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Just a few of more than 100 sporting figures honoured | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Stars of the stage and screen, including Ken Dodd and Patricia | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Routledge, have also been included in the New Year's Honours list. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
They're among more than 1,000 people to have been recognised, | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
as our Entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba reports. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
He's been one of Britain's favourite entertainers for more | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
now Ken Dodd has received a knighthood. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
The best day ever, you can't get better than this. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
I've played lots of big theatres, I've worked abroad, but this is it. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Actress Patricia Routledge, she's been made a Dame. | :04:17. | :04:31. | |
# You got me so I don't know what I'm doing...# | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Kinks frontman, Ray Davies, said he felt "humility and joy" | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
A knighthood too for award-winning actor, Mark Rylance. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Bond actress Naomi Harris becomes an OBE. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Figures from fashion and design have also been recognised. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
American Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, said she was touched to be | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Designer Victoria Beckham becomes an OBE. | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
The Hillsborough Independent Panel was chaired by the former Bishop | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
Obviously great pride, but mixed with sadness | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
because of that enduring sadness of the families who have continued | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
to feel the loss of their loved ones. | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
He is one of hundreds being recognised for their contribution | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :05:30. | :05:47. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
The Met Office says driving conditions will be difficult in many | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
areas of central, eastern and south-east England. | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
Our reporter Simon Jones is at Heathrow Airport this morning. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
Are we expecting more delays? Since I last spoke to you one hour ago, | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
the fog has become the car. The departures make for grim reading -- | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
thicker. We have flights with up to 16 Howard delays. -- 16 hour. | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
Already around 30,000 people have had their flights to and from the UK | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
cancelled at what is a very busy time of year as people try to get | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
away for New Year's Eve celebrations stop wife is happening? We have a | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
yellow weather in place. -- why is this happening. People should be | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
prepared. It's not just airports facing disruption, also there are | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
problems on the roads. Foggy conditions mean that in places | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
visibility can be reduced to around 100 metres. The advice is don't | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
travel on the roads if you don't have two and check before you set | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
out to see what the conditions are actually like. Good advice. Matt | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
will keep us up to date with what is expected from the weather in the | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
next few days. Around 3,000 police officers will be | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
on duty across central London tonight as crowds gather | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
to celebrate the new year. Greater Manchester Police and other | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
forces say they've also stepped up Scotland Yard says extra | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
resources have been brought in to keep people safe | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
following the terror attacks in Berlin and Nice | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
earlier this year. We've spent a long time carefully | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
planning this operation They include Westminster City | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Council and the mayor's office and many others, to make sure people | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
coming to central London on New Years Eve | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
have a fantastic time. And when they come to give us extra | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
time because there will be a search There's something like 3,000 police | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
officers on duty in central London Donald Trump has praised | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Russia's President Putin for his decision not | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
to engage in a row about In a tweet, the US President-elect | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
said he always knew the Russian President Obama has ordered 35 | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Russian diplomats to leave the country after accusing | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Moscow of interfering The man credited with discovering | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
the Beatles has died Allan Williams was the owner | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
of a Liverpool music club and arranged the band's first | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
performances in the early 60s, but he parted company | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
with the group before they shot His memoir was called | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
"The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away". 40% of councils in England have no | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
procedures in place to prosecute people who misuse | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
disabled parking permits. New analysis of official figures | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
found blue badges could be used fraudulently without fear of | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
being fined in 61 local authorities. The finding has been | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
described as "staggering" Offices in Oxfordshire checked | :08:50. | :09:06. | |
hundreds of blue badges during a three-day operation over the festive | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
season. Many were confiscated because they were not being used by | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
the owner. It is something we need to enforce. We need to make sure | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
that people are using their badges correctly. It is so that people can | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
get to the shops who need to get to the shops and are disabled. Fines of | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
up to ?1000 could be given to those who abuse the system of the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Department of Transport says 61 out of 152 local authorities don't have | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
a policy. Where legal action was taken, almost all people were using | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
someone else's blue badge. The figures have been labelled | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
staggering. A spokesman representing local authorities say they take it | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
seriously and are working hard to combat blue badge misuse. | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
From midnight tonight, anyone who owns an air gun | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
The legislation was introduced after a toddler was killed | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
by an airgun pellet in Glasgow in 2005. | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Thousands of the weapons have been surrendered in advance | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
of the deadline, though critics say the change won't reduce gun crime, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
These are the guns that by January 1 will be illegal | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
unless it their owners have a licence. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Already 11,000 people have applied for an air gun certificate | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
and anyone with a gun licence already can add air weapons | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
But thousands of air gun owners have missed the deadline of October 31 | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
Anyone who applied for a certificate before October 31 is OK | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Unfortunately, those who applied after that will have to wait | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
They will have to make alternative arrangements for the safe storage | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
Registered gun dealers like this one in Inverness are providing a safe | :10:55. | :11:07. | |
house for air weapons whose owners want to keep them | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
but won't be licensed by Sunday morning. | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
Many of those in the gun trade think the clampdown | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
Shooting people at high rise flats is illegal. | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
You're not allowed to do that, you never were. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
This legislation is a piece of tokenism which will achieve nothing. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
The people who will misuse air rifle are not the type of people | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
who are going to go to the trouble of licensing their weapons anyway. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
But backers of the new laws say air weapons are involved in half | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
of all gun crime in Scotland and with an estimated 500,000 | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
of them in Scotland, tightening the legislation is justified. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Thousands of airguns have already been handed in to police | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The New Years honours list recognises some of the biggest names | :11:45. | :12:02. | |
But, of the 1,197 people who've been awarded medals, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
three-quarters of them are being recognised for their work | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
One of those is the mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
He's been made an MBE, and he joins us from our London newsroom. | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
Thank you for talking to us this morning. First of all, I do know how | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
many people have said it so far but congratulations. Thank you, I | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
appreciate it. Have you had much reaction from friends and family | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
yet? Killam it is been astonishing. It hasn't sunk in yet. -- it has | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
been astonishing. Added the wheel until I get to the palace and | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
receive the awards. It doesn't feel real. --I don't think it will. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Remind us of your story. It goes back a few years when you were at a | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
low point? It was nine years ago at this current point and I was unwell, | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
I had just been diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia. I had given | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
up and went to a bridge to take my own life. A passerby stopped me and | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
talk me out of it. He gave me words of hope and encouragement. We went | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
our separate ways and I began to recover eventually and six years on | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
I launched a campaign to find him which went viral and we were | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
reignited two weeks into the campaign which was extraordinary. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Since then, I've been doing lots of campaigning work in schools, | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
prisons, hospitals, businesses to talk about suicide and mental | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
health. We were taught more about the campaign at the moment but you | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
are running in the marathon? You're running partner is the man who spoke | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
you on that day. It is extraordinary when I think about it. Yes, we are | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
running together. We are running for Heads Together which is the charity | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
that Prince William and Kate Middleton set up. We haven't started | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
training at. I probably shouldn't say that... We have a big challenge | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
ahead of us. A few months of hard work coming up. People will be | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
interested in your story because he had a very difficult time in your | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
life and what you chose to do was start to try and help other people. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
When other people might have thought of just looking after themselves, | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
why did you go down that path? I suffered in silence for so many | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
years, throughout my teenage years and into my early 20s. I suffered in | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
complete silence. It's torture. Whether you have any type of | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
illness, physical or mental but to go through it in silence and to | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
isolate yourself, it adds to the impact of the illness. I just want | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
to get rid of that stigma and the fear that is attached to mental | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
health. That's why I've been doing all the work. | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Particularly working with young people. I'm desperate to get mental | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
health into the education system. 75% of all mental health begins in | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
adolescence and I know if people had come into my school, things might | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
have been different. I want to stop other young people from going down | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the road I did. Suicide is now the biggest killer of young people in | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
this country under 35. I desperately want to do more to reduce that. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Those figures are shocking. Do you think the climate is changing. The | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
fillets getting easier, better, people are more prepared to talk | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
openly? -- do you feel. People are being more open. People are doing | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
amazing things out there, trying to raise awareness and reduce stigma | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
but until there is a parity of things between mental and physical | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
health, particularly in the NHS, there is still not the parity that | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
the government promised. People have been waiting three years mental | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
health treatment which is unacceptable. Until mental health is | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
treated the same as physical health, it won't change. We wish you all the | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
best with your quest for marathons successful stop you might get a few | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
tips from Sir Mo Farah. Congratulations. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Thank you. What an amazing lead, and making such a difference. | :16:42. | :16:53. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
Andy Murray and Mo Farah have been recognised with knighthoods, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
while Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katherine Grainger become Dames | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Thousands of travellers face disruption this morning | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
as freezing fog in parts of England leads to flights being cancelled, | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
We mentioned weather causing travel disruptions, and to match can tell | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
us how it will pan out over the next couple of days. That is not the most | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
optimistic picture. It is not as bad as it has been over the last couple | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
of days. There will be some fog patches around. It is most dense | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
towards the south-east of England. Not as bad as recent days. It was | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
though they moved into low cloud. It will impact the roads and airports | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
do the coming hours. Be aware if you are heading out. You can see the Fog | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
showing up here. Low cloud elsewhere across parts of central and southern | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
England. Breaks in the cloud for Wales and the east of northern | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
England. Morning sunshine. Brighter spells to the east and brightness | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
across the east of Scotland. In the north-west, a risk of flooding. Lots | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
of rain. Over 100 millimetres of rain in the past 24 hours in the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Highlands. Rain for much of the day but it will eventually shift with | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
gusty winds into Northern Ireland and the south of Scotland by the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
time we enter the afternoon. Most will be dry. The best brighter skies | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
for Eastern Wales and England with sunshine. Temperatures up to 12 | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
degrees in one or two struggling at around five or six. It is New Year's | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
it. Hogmanay, what weather can we expect? If you are heading out early | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
across Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will need a rain jacket | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
for the evening. That will clear by midnight. It will feel cold with | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
showers. Further south, ring into northern England by the time we get | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
to midnight. It will turn increasingly wet. Drizzle across | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
other parts of western England and Wales, but most will be dry. Across | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
the southern half of the UK, compared to recent days, | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
comparatively mild. The coldest conditions as we keep midnight will | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
be across Scotland and Northern Ireland, not helped by a strong cold | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
wind. It will make itself known as we started us on 17. Especially for | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
the northern half of the country. The weather front will take a long | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
time to clear away -- started 2017. Rain on and off with a bit of sweet | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
mixed in on the hills. For the northern half of the country, one or | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
two wintry showers, and that nicely for Monday and Tuesday. One or two | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
wintry flurries. Mostly dry and sunshine by day, but the nights will | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
be chilly with widespread frost. The nights will be chilly. I am | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
impressed with the fireworks in graphics. For a moment, I thought | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
what is that going on? Then I realised it is fireworks, we are all | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
right. To celebrate the New Year! Thank you. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
The singer and actor Paul Robeson was a key figure in the American | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
But what's not as well known is his solidarity | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
One of his lesser known films, The Proud Valley, has now been | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
remastered by the British Film Institute, and is to be taken | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
on tour as part of their season celebrating black actors. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
who enchanted a South Wales mining community, Paul Robeson's film | :20:18. | :20:37. | |
The Proud Valley was a box office flop, | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
but now it's being remastered and taken on tour. | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Ivor England is a former miner and trade union leader. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
The old man, I could remember him saying Robeson has got something. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
Not only a voice, but a way of speaking on behalf of his people, | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
and that stayed with me for very many years. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Mining has now largely disappeared from the valleys of South Wales, | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
but that connection between the people of these | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
communities and the son of a slave who became a lawyer, | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
a civil rights activist and one of the most famous | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
but Paul Robeson's connection to Wales dates back to the 1920s | :21:16. | :21:27. | |
when he met a group of miners who walked from South Wales | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
to London to draw attention to the hardship they endured. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
For the first time, he saw the miners' struggle was similar | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
to his own struggle for civil rights. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
My warmest greetings to the people of my beloved Wales... | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
In 1957, Robeson was banned from travelling. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
He addressed a group of miners from a secret studio. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Thousands gathered to hear him sing at the Miners' | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
It was quite stunning, quite electric that | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
we heard his voice coming from this studio in New York. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Paul Robeson was one of the few people who actually | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
stood up to racism and the lynchings in the deep South and campaigned | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
for peace and campaigned for colonial freedom. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
He had that same internationalist view that the South Wales miners | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
It is that history that the British Film Institute is celebrating | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Paul Robeson was particularly proud of this film | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
because it gave him an opportunity to express his socialist beliefs, | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
and he could represent the Wales working class. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
In many of his films, he felt he could not do this | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
through, because he was oppressed by the Hollywood system. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
An exhibition of Robeson's work will run at the BFI Southbank | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
in London until the end of January, but perhaps it is in South Wales | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
If you were watching yesterday, you may remember we brought you news | :23:03. | :23:21. | |
of the 'leap second' - an extra moment of time | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
which will be added to the final minute of 2016. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
It's fair to say we found the entire concept pretty baffling, | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
so this morning we've brought in an actual | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
bona fide scientist to set us straight. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
We'll chat to Professor Tim O'Brien in a moment, but first, | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
here's our science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
This New Year's if, you have a tiny bit longer to enjoy the | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
celebrations. An extra second is being added to the world time. It is | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
all because of a slight wobble in the Earth's rotation. Our planet | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
speeds up and slows down as it spins. While a single rotation | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
equates to one day, Sunday 's end up being a tiny fraction longer or | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
shorter than others. And gradually the Earth's time drifts out of sync | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
with our clocks. Right now, that difference has grown too large, so | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
just before the clock struck midnight, an extra second is being | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
added to bring everything back into place. They have been calls to | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
abolish the extra seconds. Communications networks, financial | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
markets and computer software all rely on extremely precise | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
timekeeping. Some say but having to reprogram an extra second puts them | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
at risk. Others warned that without leap seconds, over thousands of | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
years, the's time and our clocks will grow more and more offkilter, | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
so much so that one day you watch might say it is midnight as the sun | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
is starting to rise. Fascinating. With us is professor | :24:59. | :25:14. | |
Tim O'Brien, and associate director. And a president for popular | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
astronomy. You should know what you are talking about. From what Rebecca | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
said they are, in the 1970s, this first started, and they have been 27 | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
times we have had an extra second added. Explain why it is so | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
important. When you think about how long a day is, you might say it is | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
24 hours long, but historically, we would have counted it by movement of | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the sun, from noon on to noon on the next day. The time it takes for the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Earth to spin around once is just slightly longer than 24 hours. 24 | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
hours and to thousands of a second. So as time goes by, those 2/1000s of | :25:54. | :26:03. | |
a second ad you end up being ahead of the time measured by the sun. We | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
look at how far apart these are and try to keep it within one second of | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
each other. We have to add these extra seconds every now and again. | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
The Earth is going down in its rotation. Because of the tides, the | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Earth is gradually slowing down, so the days are gradually getting | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
longer because of the tides. If you did not do it and it is a long time | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
ahead, something like four or 5000 years, you would end up with 12 noon | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
being at midnight in the middle of the night. It would be so offset. | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
Over a long period of time. I got confused yesterday about when the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
extra second is. It is at the end of the day. . Is part of the state or | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
tomorrow? It is an extra second added to the end. There are | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
different ways of doing it. If you look at your digital clock and | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
imagine it ticking towards midnight, it will go to 2359 and 59 seconds. | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
Then it would go to 0000. We have to is putting an extra 62nd. -- 60 | :27:22. | :27:34. | |
second. So you have an extra second. In terms of computers, what are the | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
implications? There has been a lot of debate. A lot of discussion about | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
whether we should get rid of the week seconds altogether. | :27:47. | :27:56. | |
Historically, thousands of years in the future, it is less if computers | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
to handle. It is not impossible for them to do it. Lots of computer | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
systems will be doing it today. The Google systems have slowed down | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
clocks slightly all the way through the day, so rather than adding a | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
second in one big lump at the end, they have gradually slowed things | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
down. I love the fact that one second could be seen as a big lump. | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
It is all important. You are right, especially when you get up this time | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
of morning. And you will be with us later. I'm sure people will have | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
questions. We will see you later. What will you do with your extra | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
second tonight? I don't know. Could do anything! Another gin and tonic. | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
danced under water and pommel-horsed with Max Whitlock. | :28:39. | :28:51. | |
We'll bring you Mike Bushell's best bits from 2016. | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and | :28:59. | :29:51. | |
Coming up in just a few minutes, Kat will have your | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
But first at 07:30, a summary of this morning's main news. | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
More than 100 of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars have been | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
recognised in the New Year Honours list, with knighthoods | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
The tennis world number one has capped off a year which saw him | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
win Wimbledon, and Olympic gold, for a second time. | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
Katherine Grainger, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, | :30:12. | :30:13. | |
has become a Dame, as has heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill. | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
There's also a knighthood for the gold medal-winning | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
The honours also include many famous names from | :30:19. | :30:28. | |
Patricia Routledge, who played Hyacinth Bucket | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
in "Keeping up Appearances", is made a Dame. | :30:35. | :30:36. | |
And Ken Dodd, the veteran comedian famous for his tickle stick, | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
There are also knighthoods for Ray Davies from the Kinks, | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled more | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
across the South and south-east, as a blanket of fog is set to make | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
driving conditions "difficult" and lead to yet more | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
To bomb explosions in Iraq in Baghdad have been reported at a | :31:09. | :31:29. | |
market. Nobody has admitted carrying out the attacks. | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
Around 3,000 police officers will be on duty across central London | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
tonight as crowds gather to celebrate the new year. | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
Scotland Yard says extra resources have been brought | :31:48. | :31:49. | |
in to keep people safe following the terror attacks | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
in Berlin and Nice earlier this year. | :31:53. | :31:53. | |
Greater Manchester Police and other forces say they've also stepped up | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
Those are the main stories this morning. | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
It feels as though this has been a sports programme. It has been top of | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
the show with all the sports stars getting the honours in the new Year | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
's honours list and then the review of the year, we look back on what | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
was a great 2016 per sport. We know that for a number of us, 2016 has | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
been one that we want to move on from that in sporting terms, it has | :32:22. | :32:28. | |
been phenomenal. It is my job to techie through a skip of the action. | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
-- take you. Hull City are off the bottom | :32:32. | :32:32. | |
of the Premier League but they missed out on a first | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
league win in nearly two months after a late Everton | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
equaliser at the K-com. The Tigers went ahead | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
but were pegged back then Robert Snodgrass scored this | :32:42. | :32:43. | |
brilliant free kick in the They couldn't hang | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
on for victory though, Ross Barkley nodded | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
in the Everton equaliser late on. I'm really pleased because over | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
the past 3-4 weeks, Today we put in a shift | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
and got a point. We could be greedy and ask for more | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
but I'm really proud of the players for their efforts and we have to go | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
again in two, three days' time. He came backward from Argentina. | :33:04. | :33:24. | |
Finally he came back after seven games. We are happy here is back. I | :33:25. | :33:39. | |
hope that gave him the opportunity to have 3.5 weeks off. He can only | :33:40. | :33:59. | |
score goals if people give him it. He can defend. | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
The Old Firm derby between Rangers and Celtic takes place | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
in the Scottish Premiership this lunchtime, meanwhile, | :34:10. | :34:11. | |
The goal came from Jonny Hayes in the 66th minute. | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
The third placed Dons are now six points ahead of Hearts, | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
To rugby union, and George North will return for Northampton Saints | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
in their Premiership match at Gloucester tomorrow. | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
It will be the Welshman's first game since suffering a head injury | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
against Leicester on December the third. | :34:28. | :34:29. | |
That was North's fifth concussion in two years - | :34:30. | :34:31. | |
including two in the match on your screen now between England | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
A review board said North shouldn't have continued to play | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
against Leicester but they didn't sanction Northampton. | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
As we've been hearing Andy Murray has been knighted | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
He'll play in the third-place playoff this morning | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
after a surprise defeat yesterday to David Goffin in the semi-finals | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
of the World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
The world number one had won all five of his previous | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
meetings with Goffin but lost the first set on a tie-break. | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
Murray went 4-2 up in the second but Goffin fought back to win | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
the set and take the match by two sets to love. | :35:02. | :35:11. | |
And that is all the sport. There are no easy matches, as they say. | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
We'll be back with the headlines at eight o'clock. | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
Now, though,, let's have a look back at the biggest movie successes | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
of 2016 - with a review of the year in film. | :35:22. | :35:33. | |
Hello and welcome to this review of The Year In Film. | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
I'm Mark Kermode, and we're here at the Cinema Museum in south | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
London where, for the next half an hour, we will be | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
looking back at some of the best movies released | :35:44. | :35:45. | |
2016 was a pretty tumultuous year, what with the "Brexit" vote in June, | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
and the results of the American election in November proving that | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
In the world of politics, uncertainty can be alarming. | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
When it comes to movies, it is the unexpected which really | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
While the naysayers claim that movies today are just | :36:03. | :36:14. | |
an endless slew of sequels, remakes and superhero franchise | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
fodder, let's spend some time celebrating the films which offered | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
something different, which prove that cinema today really | :36:20. | :36:21. | |
2016 got off to a remarkable start with Room, Irish director | :36:22. | :36:52. | |
Lenny Abrahamson's film about a mother and child inprisoned, | :36:53. | :36:54. | |
adapted by screenwriter Emma Donoghue from her bestselling novel. | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
Room opened in the UK in January to rave reviews, | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
particularly for Brie Larson, who went on to win both the Bafta | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
You're going to help me trick Old Nick. | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
Old Nick is going to come and take you outside, | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
and I'm going to be there in your head talking | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
The Oscar for Best Picture went to Spotlight, a fact-based drama | :37:23. | :37:40. | |
about the Boston Globe's coverage of a child abuse scandal | :37:41. | :37:42. | |
But the Oscars themselves were mired with headline-grabbing controversy | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
when the subject of racism in Hollywood and the Oscarssowhite | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
Of the 20 Oscar nominees for Best Actor, Actress, | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
Oh, and in the Best Director category, all the nominees | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
It's a depressing state of affairs and the Academy have taken steps | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
to ensure their membership becomes more diverse, but, despite such | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
embarrassment, there was one area in which the Oscars got it right, | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
and that was in the Foreign Language Film category. | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
Having premiered in Cannes, back in 2015, Laszlo Nemes' searing | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
holocaust drama Son of Saul took the Oscar for Foreign Language | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
With Claude Lanzmann the filmmaker behind Shoah, | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
declaring that this Hungarian masterpiece presented a very real | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
sense of what it was like to be in the Sonderkommando. | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
Son of Saul was a deserving Oscar winner, but nominated alongside it | :38:33. | :38:50. | |
were some of the best films to open in UK cinemas in 2016. | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
From director Ciro Guerra came Embrace of the Serpent, | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
a monochrome mix of fact and fantasy, Western exploration | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
and Amazonian myth that earned Colombia its first nomination | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
From France, Mustang, a tale of Turkish sisters | :39:01. | :39:14. | |
imprisoned in their home by a controlling uncle. | :39:15. | :39:16. | |
Beautifully directed by Deniz Gamze Erguven, | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
who coached vibrant performances from her ensemble cast, | :39:19. | :39:20. | |
Mustang also benefited from a terrific score by Warren | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
Ellis is one of modern cinema's most intriguing composers. | :39:24. | :39:38. | |
alongside the likes of Johnny Greenwood and Clint Mansell, | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
who did superb work on Ben Wheatley's adaptation of JG | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
Ballard's dystopian novel, High-Rise, his woozy, | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
sensuous score perfectly capturing the film's | :39:50. | :39:51. | |
High-Rise opened in UK cinemas in March, where it went head-to-head | :39:52. | :40:11. | |
with the Coen Brothers' splendid throwback Hollywood fantasy, Hail, | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
Caesar!, one of the most delightfully silly films | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
Why do you say it like that, why do you say "t'were"? | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
Well, you said "say it like I say it." | :40:21. | :40:22. | |
It's interminable, the word, I'm wondering when it will end, | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
and we shouldn't be wondering, should we, we should be marching | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
When April rolled around, nothing could touch The Jungle Book, | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
Disney's reboot of its classic cartoon which became the real | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
king of the swingers at the UK box office. | :40:40. | :40:41. | |
Billed as a live action affair, The Jungle Book | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
was in fact almost entirely CGI with the young star, | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
Neel Sethi's Mowgli being one of the very few | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
live-action elements in a movie which cast Idris Elba as a digital | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
Shere Khan, Bill Murray as a lovable Baloo the bear, | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
and Christopher Walken as a gigantic King Louie. | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
Moving on to May, and Once director John Carney's Sing Street put | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
a smile on my face and a spring in my step with its tale | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
of a teenager's pop-tastic adventures in the mysterious world | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
Meanwhile, over in France, the 69th Cannes Film Festival | :41:11. | :41:28. | |
offered yet more reason for rejoicing as Ken Loach | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
won his second Palme d'Or for the social realist drama I, | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
Having previously claimed the top prize with The Wind | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
That Shakes The Barley, Ken Loach, who turned 80 this year, | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
won the judges over once again with his blistering tale | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
of a Newcastle joiner recovering from a heart attack who finds | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
himself on the wrong end of a bureaucratic benefit system. | :41:50. | :42:00. | |
Superbly scripted by Paul Lafferty, with outstanding performances | :42:01. | :42:02. | |
by Dave Johns and Hayley Squires, I, Daniel Blake is powerful | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
No wonder both Johns and Squires were honoured | :42:06. | :42:11. | |
with trophies at the recent British Independent Film Awards. | :42:12. | :42:13. | |
What I gather now is the decision-maker, | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
the decision-maker's gonna be sending you a letter | :42:16. | :42:17. | |
My kids have to start school tomorrow, I've got | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
All because you can't just calm down and listen to people when they talk, | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
You know what, I've listened to you, you've created a scene. | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
No mate, if I was going to create a scene, you'd know about it. | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
Do you mind if this young lass signs on first? | :42:37. | :42:44. | |
Now you can go back to your desk and let her sign on and do the job | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
The Jury Prize at Cannes also went to a British film-maker, | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
Andrea Arnold, whose first US-set feature, American Honey, went | :42:55. | :42:56. | |
Centring on Sasha Lane's Texan teen who hits the road with a group | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
of young magazine sellers, American Honey was shot by I, | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
Daniel Blake's cinematographer, Robbie Ryan, who worked wonders | :43:06. | :43:07. | |
with the square Academy ratio frame which is | :43:08. | :43:09. | |
Remarkable, too, to see Transformers star Shia LaBeouf doing career-best | :43:10. | :43:30. | |
work in a film which is the very antithesis of those | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
bloated blockbuster movies, which made him a star. | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
Of course, those blockbuster movies continue to thrive. | :43:38. | :43:40. | |
The Transformers franchise was very much in evidence | :43:41. | :43:42. | |
here in the autumn as they shot scenes | :43:43. | :43:44. | |
for the forthcoming Transformers: The Last Night, which we can | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
In the mean time, the summer of 2016 was dominated by the return | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
of a forgetful fish, who made a whale-size | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
splash at the box office despite her diminutive portions. | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
Disney-Pixar's Finding Dory was one of a slew of animated features, | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
which breathed life into UK cinemas in 2016. | :44:03. | :44:10. | |
Everybody does it, nothing to be ashamed of. | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
In June, we got the long-delayed release of the anime gem | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
When Marnie Was There, Studio Ghibli's Japanese | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
adaptation of Joan G Robinson's Norfolk-set novel. | :44:21. | :44:21. | |
That mansion feels familiar, somehow. | :44:22. | :44:30. | |
It's really best for you to stay away from that old Marsh House. | :44:31. | :44:40. | |
Then there was Zootropolis, or Zootopia as it's known in the US, | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
which is currently shaping up as a strong contender | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
for the forthcoming Animated Feature Oscar. | :44:48. | :44:49. | |
We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room. | :44:50. | :45:01. | |
Other contenders include Kubo and the Two Strings, | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
a sublime stop-motion animation from Paranorman | :45:05. | :45:06. | |
Yes, he's very powerful, but he still has much to learn. | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
And Moana, Disney's current cinema offering from the directors | :45:12. | :45:26. | |
The real treat for me, however, was Makoto Shinkai's Your Name, | :45:27. | :45:38. | |
a thrilling body swap anime which topped the Japanese box office | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
charts for three months before wowing audiences here in the UK. | :45:42. | :46:00. | |
While films like Finding Dory and Zootropolis delighted audiences | :46:01. | :46:02. | |
and critics alike, some of the year's other blockbusters | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
Take, for example, Zack Snyder's much-hyped Batman vs | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
Superman: Dawn of Justice, which proved a solid box office hit | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
when it opened here in March, despite almost universally negative | :46:15. | :46:24. | |
who were variously accused of being corrupt, idiotic | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
Now in fact, what the financial success of Batman vs Superman proved | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
is that reviews have zero effect on box office. | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
Audiences don't go to see films because critics | :46:41. | :46:42. | |
love them or hate them, they go because they | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
Take note, Alex Proyas, director of this year's | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
copper-bottomed stinker Gods of Egypt, who took to social media | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
to call critics "a pack of diseased vultures, | :46:53. | :46:54. | |
pecking at the bones of a dying carcass", | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
without realising that in doing so, he was effectively calling | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
While Batman vs Superman caught its fair share of critical | :47:02. | :47:09. | |
flak, other superheroes did better with the critics. | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
Take Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool, Marvel's wisecracking self reflexive | :47:14. | :47:16. | |
antihero who took the box office by storm and earned pretty decent | :47:17. | :47:19. | |
Captain America: Civil War performed well too, | :47:20. | :47:34. | |
In the autumn, Dr Strange offered up a winning | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
mix of superhero antics and Ken Russell-style hallucinogenics. | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
On the evidence of these movies, we are not going to see an end | :47:45. | :48:07. | |
to big budget blockbuster comic book film franchises any time | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
But it was at the other end of the financial spectrum, | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
and indeed often on the other side of the Atlantic, that the really | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
Encouragingly, 2016 saw the release of a number of low-budget home-made | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
features which really put their more expensive counterparts to shame. | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
Take, for example, Notes On Blindness, an electrifying | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
adaptation of the memoirs of theologian John Hull, | :48:33. | :48:34. | |
who made cassette recordings documenting his loss of sight | :48:35. | :48:36. | |
and subsequent journey from darkness into light. | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
Getting actors to lip sync to these recordings in a manner | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
similar to that used by Clio Barnard for The Arbor, film-makers | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
Peter Middleton and James Spinney created something really unique, | :48:47. | :48:48. | |
a film which is informative, empathetic and deeply spiritual - | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
one of the very best films of the year. | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
The pictures in the gallery of my mind have dimmed somewhat. | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
I could no longer remember easily what my wife looked | :49:04. | :49:09. | |
like, or what my daughter, Imogen, looked like. | :49:10. | :49:11. | |
Who had the right to deprive me of the sight | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
Notes On Blindness was one of several home-made indie pics | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
Other admirable oddities included Stephen Fingleton's stripped down | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
Northern Ireland thriller The Survivalist, Joe | :49:31. | :49:32. | |
Stevenson's Chicken, superbly shot by rising star | :49:33. | :49:35. | |
and Jane Gull's My Feral Heart, with a brilliant central performance | :49:36. | :49:42. | |
My favourite film of 2016 was the spine-chilling British | :49:43. | :49:53. | |
production Under The Shadow, from Iran-born London-based | :49:54. | :49:55. | |
The UK's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, | :49:56. | :50:09. | |
Under The Shadow, was set in Tehran, shot in Jordan and filmed in Farsi. | :50:10. | :50:22. | |
There are nods to Roman Polansky and the Guilermo del Toro | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
but Anvari's superbly creepy chiller conjures an atmosphere, | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
With very strong performances by Narges Rashidi and Avin Manshadi | :50:32. | :50:40. | |
as the mother and daughter terrorised by falling bombs, | :50:41. | :50:42. | |
religious zealots and marauding djinn spirits, | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
Under The Shadow is a film you simply must not miss, | :50:50. | :50:52. | |
believe me, it will take your breath away. | :50:53. | :51:10. | |
Films like Under The Shadow and Notes On Blindness | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
found their audiences, thanks in large part to the efforts | :51:15. | :51:17. | |
of the UK's still thriving independent cinema circuit, | :51:18. | :51:19. | |
If you're lucky enough to have a local arthouse cinema, | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
then make sure you make the most of it. | :51:26. | :51:27. | |
Multiplexes are fine, up to a point, but without the independents | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
we will end up with an endless string of movies which all look | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave. | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
There are exceptions, including criminals. | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
The loophole was immediately exploited... | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
Of course, in the age of the internet, viewing | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
habits are changing, with more and more people choosing | :51:56. | :51:57. | |
This, in itself, is not a problem unless the film's online presence | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
prevents people from seeing it in cinemas and that was kind | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
of the case with the brilliant documentary 13th, by Ava Du Vernay, | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
which provocatively teased out connections between the history | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
of slavery and modern-day imprisonment in the US. | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
It's powerful polemical fare and, for me, one of the real | :52:18. | :52:20. | |
highlights of the year but having been funded by Netflix, | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
13th was only allowed to play in one cinema in the UK, | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
this, despite the fact that several independent cinemas were hammering | :52:30. | :52:32. | |
In an ideal world, streaming services and cinemas | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
would work hand-in-hand, not in competition. | :52:37. | :52:44. | |
It became virtually impossible for a politician to run | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
The kinds of kids that are called super predators. | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
Millions of dollars will be designated for jail facilities. | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
As the autumn rolled around, fans of science fiction welcomed | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
the arrival of Arrival, the beautiful first-contact movie | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
from French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, | :53:10. | :53:10. | |
who made the great thriller, Sicario. | :53:11. | :53:12. | |
Based on a story by Ted Chiang, Arrival starred | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
Amy Adams as a linguist, recruited to help communicate | :53:15. | :53:16. | |
with aliens, whose nature and purpose is unknown. | :53:17. | :53:21. | |
A film of ideas rather than special effects, | :53:22. | :53:33. | |
Arrival played in UK cinemas around the same time | :53:34. | :53:35. | |
as Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, which also starred | :53:36. | :53:37. | |
Amy Adams, in a very different role, this time as an LA art dealer, | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
Other outstanding female performances in films released | :53:42. | :53:52. | |
in the UK in 2016 include Isabelle Huppert's wonderful work | :53:53. | :54:00. | |
in Mia Hansen-Love's Things To Come, a drama | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
about an academic, whose life is unexpectedly changed when her | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
Then there was Pedro Almodovar's Julieta, | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
sensibly adapted from the writings of Canadian author Alison Munro, | :54:11. | :54:13. | |
with awards worthy performances from Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte, | :54:14. | :54:19. | |
the younger and older incarnations of the eponymous character. | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
For me, this was Almodovar's best work since Volver. | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
I was also bowled over by Meryl Streep as the so-called | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
Diva of Din in Stephen Frear's affectionate and funny | :54:31. | :54:32. | |
Florence Foster Jenkins, a celebration of the life of the first | :54:33. | :54:35. | |
Plaudits too to Kate Beckinsale, who was an acerbic delight | :54:36. | :54:50. | |
in Whit Stillman's Love Friendship, perhaps | :54:51. | :54:52. | |
the most perfect screen rendering of Jane Austen's | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
I would never speak to a stranger like that. | :54:57. | :55:11. | |
And, let's not forget, Kate Dickie, deeply disturbing | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
in the ultra-creepy new England folktale The Witch. | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
When it comes to leading men few were better than David Oyelowo | :55:18. | :55:39. | |
in A United Kingdom, which opened the London Film | :55:40. | :55:41. | |
Directed by Amma Asante, a female British director | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
A United Kingdom broke several glass ceilings as it retold the story | :55:45. | :55:55. | |
of a love affair between British girl Ruth Williams, played | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
by Rosamund Pike and African king-in-waiting Seretse Khama. | :55:59. | :56:00. | |
Having been overlooked for his sterling work in Selma, | :56:01. | :56:02. | |
David Oyelowo would be top of my awards pack this year. | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
We should not be fighting for segregation, we should be | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
That is where we should be focusing our minds, | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
who means you no harm, whose only apparent crime has been | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
to fall in love with me, and mine to fall in love with her. | :56:19. | :56:27. | |
I'd also like to include a shout out for Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan, | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
who brilliantly handles the dual role of a superstar | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
and his obsessive devotee in the thriller, Fan. | :56:35. | :56:37. | |
Taking inspiration from films like Martin Scorsese's King | :56:38. | :56:39. | |
of Comedy, Fanis a roller-coaster ride, built on not one | :56:40. | :56:42. | |
but two great performances by Shah Rukh Khan, no wonder | :56:43. | :56:45. | |
he is one of the world's most popular movie stars. | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
2016 was also the year we lost some great stars, from Gene Wilder, | :56:49. | :57:00. | |
star of timeless classics like Blazing Saddles | :57:01. | :57:01. | |
and Young Frankenstein, to Alan Rickman, who worked wonders | :57:02. | :57:04. | |
both behind and in front of the camera, to David Bowie, | :57:05. | :57:07. | |
whose Man Who Fell To Earth got a poignant | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
Other significant re-issues include the 30th anniversary outing | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and a big-screen rerelease | :57:19. | :57:20. | |
of In The Heat Of The Night as part of the BFI's Black Star season, | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors. | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
Perhaps the most remarkable return of 2016 was of Napoleon, | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
Abel Gance's silent masterpiece from 1927, back on our screens | :57:33. | :57:35. | |
with a magnificent score by Carl Davis. | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
Seen in its most complete form, this reissue | :57:43. | :57:44. | |
was the result of decades of research and restoration work, | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
and what a glorious sight it was to see! | :57:48. | :58:00. | |
As the end of the year rolled around, Star Wars is back | :58:01. | :58:03. | |
in our cinemas in the shape of Rogue One, a stand-alone anthology | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
instalment set shortly before the events of the 1977 original. | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
Like its iconic predecessor, Rogue One relies heavily | :58:11. | :58:12. | |
on British talent, from director Gareth Edwards to star | :58:13. | :58:15. | |
Felicity Jones, to the army of technicians | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
at Elstree Studios where much of the film is shot. | :58:21. | :58:29. | |
Worth noting too that another of the year 's runaway hits, | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
Bridget Jones's Baby, was also a home-grown success story, | :58:36. | :58:38. | |
with Welsh director Sharon Maguire helming the third series instalment | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
to record-breaking box office success. | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
Maintaining good relationship with ex. | :58:48. | :58:49. | |
And my love life is showing signs of improvement. | :58:50. | :59:04. | |
Everything is completely under control! | :59:05. | :59:16. | |
Whether you like your movies big or small, down-to-earth | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
or out of this world, there really was something | :59:23. | :59:24. | |
Sometimes, you just had to look a little bit harder to find it. | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. | :59:31. | :00:05. | |
More than 100 stars of the Olympics and Paralympics are recognised | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
in the New Year's honours list At the end of a glittering | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
year in sport Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Andy Murray | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
are among more than a hundred athletes honoured. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Nearly 1200 people are on this year's list, from entertainers | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
to community workers, we'll be hearing some | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
It has been astonishing really. I don't think it will until I go to | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
the palace and get the words. Good morning, it's | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
Saturday 31st December. Warnings of travel disruption | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
on the roads and at airports as foggy conditions continue | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
to affect parts of the country. Security plans for New Year's Eve | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
celebrations are modified in response to this year's terror | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
attacks in Berlin and Nice. Hull city are off the bottom of the | :01:03. | :01:17. | |
Premier League after a 2-2 draw with Everton. | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
Still some fog this morning across southern areas but nowhere near as | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
bad as yesterday. I have the details on that and details of the weather | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
conditions as we finish this year and head on to the next. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic stars have been recognised | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
in the New Year Honours list, with knighthoods for | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill and the rower, Katherine Grainger, | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
have received damehoods, while the gold medal-winning | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Paralympian, Lee Pearson, has also been knighted. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Our correspondent, Andy Swiss, has the details. | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
At the end of a glittering year for British sport, for five of its | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
greatest stars, the greatest honours. First, a noted for the man | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
who spent 2016 skilling dizzying new heights. Wimbledon champion again. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
After winning a second Wimbledon, a second Olympics and world number one | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
spot, it is no sir Andy Murray, fitting finish to a remarkable | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
season. There is also a new title for Mo Farah's collection. The | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
double double. He described his noted as a dream come true, having | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
come to Britain as an 18-year-old from Somalia, he could never have | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
imagined it. Another athletic star meanwhile becomes a game. Jessica | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Ennis Hill, she retired this year. There is also a game had fought | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Katherine Grainger after five medals at five consecutive Olympics, the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
perfect ending for her career. It is not something I ever thought I would | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
great, but what a great time together. It is the end of a 20 year | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
career. It is a lovely way to bring the curtain down. There is a noted | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
for one of the top parliamentarians, Lee Pearson, the dressage rider, who | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
won his 11th gold medal in Rio. Two sporting couples, CBEs for Jason and | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Laura Kenning won hockey gold medallist Kate and Helen Richardson | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Walsh become an OBE and MBA respectively. After their impressive | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
run at Euro 2016, the Welsh football manager, Chris Coleman, becomes an | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
OBE and Michael O'Neill becomes an MBE, just a few of more than 100 | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
sporting figures honoured for a memorable 12 months. | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
Stars of the stage and screen, have also been included | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Ken Dodd said he was 'tickled' to have been knighted | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
at the age of 89, and joked that he would wear his medal in bed. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Patricia Routledge, the star of Keeping up Appearances | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
has been made a Dame, an announcement that would make | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Ray Davies, frontman of the Kinks, said he felt humility and joy | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
He's been recognised for services to the arts. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
And he picked up the best-supporting actor award at the Oscars | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
earlier this year, now Mark Rylance, star of the film Bridge of Spies | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
and BBC Two's Wolf Hall, has been made a Sir. | :04:25. | :04:36. | |
Around three quarters of those who received the words were recognised | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
for their services to the community. One of those said it was a | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
marvellous surprise. It has been astonishing really. It would sink in | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
until April to the Palace and get the awards. It still doesn't feel | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
real for me yet. I just want to get rid of the stigma and the fear | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
attached to mental health. That is what I haven't been doing the work I | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
have been doing and focusing on young people. We launched a mental | :05:04. | :05:04. | |
health workshop in schools. There's a warning that heavy | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
fog could cause further Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled The Met Office says driving | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
conditions will be difficult in many areas of central, | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
eastern and south-east England. Our reporter, Simon Jones, is at | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Heathrow airport this morning. I know you are keeping a close eye | :05:20. | :05:35. | |
on conditions. What is the latest? We have the strange situation this | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
morning where you can hear the planes coming and going, but it is | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
difficult to make them out because the fog is quite dense and if you | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
look at the departure boards it is a pretty grim picture. We have a lot | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
of flights delayed for several hours. One for 16 hours. That is if | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
I to Frankfurt. We have had flights cancelled. BA have cancelled more | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
than 50 flights coming and going from the UK. That could affect | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
around seven and a half thousand passengers. Yesterday some 30,000 | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
passengers had flights to and from the UK cancelled. We have a Yellow | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
weather warning in place for forward for the south-east, for southern | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
England, central England and the Midlands and also Yorkshire, meaning | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
people should be prepared. It is not just a problem at the airports. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
There are also issues on the roads were driving conditions are | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
extremely bad. Visibility less than 100 metres. The advice is Jacobi | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
travel situation before you decide to head out. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Around 3,000 police officers will be on duty across central London | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
tonight as crowds gather to celebrate the New Year. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Greater Manchester police and other forces say they've also stepped up | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Scotland Yard says extra resources have been brought in to keep people | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
safe following the terror attacks in Berlin and Nice | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
We spent a long time carefully planning this operation with our | :06:58. | :07:12. | |
partners including the mayor 's office, Westminster City Council and | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
others to make sure people can into central London and fantastic time. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
There will be a search regime in place. Something like 3000 police | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
officers on duty in central London alone and there will be stewards as | :07:26. | :07:26. | |
well. Meanwhile, the German Chancellor | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
Angela Merkel has said that Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
facing her country. In her New Year message, | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Mrs Merkel referred to the deadly truck attack in Berlin earlier this | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
month by a Tunisian asylum seeker. Damian McGuiness | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
joins us from Berlin. We know that security has been | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
stepped up there. What is the atmosphere like that? Everyone is | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
preparing to party because the whole country is determined not to feel | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
cowed by the recent terror attacks in Germany. That doesn't mean police | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
are taking it lightly. There is unprecedented levels of security and | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
surveillance around the Brandenburg gate here where the main party is | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
expected. About 1 million people are expected to come to a two kilometre | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
stretch around the Brandenburg gate. That would stretch is fenced off. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
There are concrete barriers up and, unusually for Germany, CCTV cameras. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
That is to prevent a repeat of the attack we saw before Christmas when | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
a truck ran into a Christmas market, killing 12 people. Also in Cologne, | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
we have got other levels of unprecedented security. That is to | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
avoid a repeat of the incident last year and new receive 100s of women | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
assaulted on the night of neuroses itself. That area will be lit up and | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
there are hundreds of police officers just around the station and | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
thousands in the city centre. Security officials are really taking | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
it extremely seriously because the last thing they want is a repeat of | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
what happened last New Year's Eve in Cologne. Thank you very much. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Two bomb explosions at a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Dozens more were wounded in the blasts which happened at a market. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
The motives are not known and no one has admitted | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Donald Trump has praised Russia's President Putin | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
for his decision not to engage in a row about the | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
In a tweet, the US president-elect said he always knew the Russian | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
President Obama has ordered 35 Russian diplomats to leave | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the country after accusing Moscow of interfering in November's | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
40% of councils in England have no procedures in place | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
to prosecute people who misuse disabled parking permits. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
New analysis of official figures found that in 61 local authorities | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
blue badges could be used fraudulently without | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
The finding has been described as 'staggering' | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
Our main story is the new years Honours. The recent reintroduction | :10:06. | :10:26. | |
of the British Empire medal has put service in the community at the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
heart of list. This year, the BDM has been ordered to more than 320 | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
people and two of those recipients are with us now. Good morning to you | :10:36. | :10:50. | |
both. Big smiles today from you. I know when we talk to people who get | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
their owners, they said we didn't do it for the honours, we were doing | :10:55. | :10:55. | |
the work because we love what we do. Have you been able to talk to your | :10:56. | :11:07. | |
family get about it? Since putting the message online last night the | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
phone has been crazy. To the point where I have not been able to | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
respond. The response has been amazing. It gives me a nice feeling. | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
Tell us about the work that you do? In 2007 I began to do some community | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
work because that was the year when the gun and knife crime rate was | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
very high, so I started working with police and local councils to put on | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
under dating events to put on projects to get young people working | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
with the elderly, to give them an opportunity to do something and to | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
be in a safe environment. One thing that I began to train to work with | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
children to join the teaching field. I started working that their old | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
primary school as a teaching assistant. I have been there for six | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
years so I have been eating cold listings from home to try to get | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
young people ready to join work. I have been acting CV workshops and a | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
job application workshops from home on weekends, because I am strong in | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
the sort of food. I have been wanting to help young people to | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
prepare to become adults so that is what I have been doing. It has not | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
been easy, but it is finding the time to do so. That has not been an | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
issue for me because I just enjoy it and it is just about helping each | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
other to grow. Such important work. Jackie, for you, really important as | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
well. You have been helping veterans with addiction. Also | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
congratulations. I work for a charity, the only charity of its | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
kind in the UK, perpetrates addiction in veterans. What we know | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
about veterans, their problematic trekking is much higher than the | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
mention population, you'd think there would be as centres around the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
country, but we were founded three years ago and we have had incredible | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
results. We are full at the moment. We have 12 beds in our centre and we | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
are completely flew over Christmas and New Year. What we are doing is | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
working and much needed. Influencing the Ministry of Defence because you | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
have worked with them. I have got to hang out in Whitehall quite a bit | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
and go to see the Minister. Just to make sure that they are taking us | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
seriously because if you are wounded, injured or six, it is taken | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
seriously but when it comes to addiction it is very much the last | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
to be about how we can help people. What was the thing that made you | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
want to do something? Often we say it would be easy not to and there | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
are a lot of people who step out of the ordinary life and help. What was | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
your inspiration? My inspiration was definitely my parents because I feel | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
that are growing up I have had the support from my mum and dad and from | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
people in local community that have supported me to be worked out and | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
today and when I look at young people today, many are from single | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
parents, some have only a mum or a dad, so I have looked at that and | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
realised that there is not support out their four young people. Myself | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
and other US workers in Manchester, being on the streets supporting | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
young people, that has given them someone to come for advice and that | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
has just given them someone to speak to. You had loads of people knocking | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
on your door saying could you help with jobs and the things. As a part | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
of the City Council, they made me an ambassador for where I live in the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
local area and as the role of an ambassador you are supposed to be | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the first point of call for your community, so if they need someone | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
to speak to or if they want to report a letter issue they come and | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
speak to you. I think some quite a bit mixed up with what the road was. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
People were knocking on the door and saying I am looking for a job. I am | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
the type of person if I can help I can help. I was looking for jobs for | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
people. It got so popular. 20 people would be at the doorstep on a | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Saturday and how can I make this manageable for myself so that is | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
when I need a Facebook group called Manchester job opportunities and we | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
have 17,000 members, over 200 are getting a full time job and I have | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
linked with over 200 businesses. I don't know if in your line of work | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
there is something corresponding. Where people try to get involved? | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
Now, addiction isn't always the Cinderella charity that it was. I | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
used to work for a charity with the Duchess of Cambridge was the patron, | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
so she raised the profile of recovery and addiction for us and | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
now, with the charity work for now being related to veterans, people | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
are beginning to take it seriously and say there is a correlation | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
between high levels of trekking and military service and so it is my job | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
to keep getting out there and winning an award like this is | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
leveraged to do this. For me, that is what the word does, it is below | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
average to get this out. The key for taking time to talk to us this | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
morning and thank you for doing what you are doing for your community. | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
It is foggy out there, is it going to get any better? Good morning. | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
Ford is not as widespread as dense as yesterday but it is causing an | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
issue and some roads this morning, across parts of East Anglia and the | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
South and causing delays at airports in the south-east of England and in | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
parts of north-west Europe. Pretty misty around the channel islands but | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
fog free here. They could suck. That's it is forced -- frost free. | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
The fog will lift and shift. The breaks in the cold in north-east | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Wales and northern England, into eastern Scotland. Some brighter | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
moments to the east of Northern Ireland. Largely dry here through | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
the morning. The wettest area is the Highlands of Scotland. We have seen | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
more than 100 millimetres of rain. There is a risk of minor flooding | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
through the day. Strong and gusty winds but this afternoon the rain | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
band will shift further south, introducing clearer conditions to | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
the far north of Scotland. Most of us will be dry through the day. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Temperatures around eight to 12 degrees. One or two spots will be | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
cooler than that with the mist and fog linger. If you have plans of | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
this evening, if you are heading outdoors, you might need an | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
umbrella. Early on across Scotland and Northern Ireland would be a | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
spell of brain working south but by the time the bells rain in 2017, | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
much of Scotland and Northern Ireland would be cold and clear. | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
Some winter showers in the North. A little bit of snow even. The rain | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
pushes into northern England by the time we get to midnight and it will | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
be a wet start to 2017. One or two spots of rain and drizzle. Much of | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
England and Wales will be dry and quite a mild start to the New Year | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
with temperatures staying around seven or 8 degrees. Scotland and | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
Northern Ireland, the frost will set in away from the coast. Much cruder | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
air to see in the new year. A good day for blowing the cobwebs away if | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
tonight is a bit too much for you. The study did it with some rain and | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
snow across northern England. Reading, sleep and still continues | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
across parts of Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia and the South into the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
afternoon with some white snow over higher ground. We will get some snow | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
in northern Scotland and in parts of the north-east of England on higher | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
ground. Much in the North will be dry and sunny. More sunshine to come | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
through Monday and Tuesday nights will be particularly chilly. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
Childhood memories of growing up with an alcoholic father have | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
prompted the Shadow Health Secretary to call for greater | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
recognition of the damage done by excessive drinking. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth chairs an all-party | :19:43. | :19:43. | |
parliamentary group dedicated to the children of alcoholics. | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
The group, which is publishing research in the New Year, | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
says millions of young people are 'suffering in silence'. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Jonathan Ashworth joins us now from our London newsroom. | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
Good morning and thank you for joining us. We were just talking to | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
Jackie who helps to run the Thomas Harrison foundation which helps | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
veterans addicted to alcohol and you are looking into the issue of | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
children whose parents are alcoholics. How much of a problem is | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
it? A huge problem. It is my Parliamentary colleague, Liam Byrne, | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
who runs the Parliamentary group on this, but I am Shadow Health | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Secretary. My job is to come on TV every day and complain about what | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
the Conservatives are doing to the NHS, cutting funding and so on, but | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
I grew up with a father who was an alcoholic. That coloured my | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
childhood and one thing I wanted to do as the health spokesperson for | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Labour is make a difference for the millions, perhaps even 2 million, | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
who grew up with a parent who is an alcoholic, because if you grew up | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
with an alcoholic parent, it has a huge impact on you. It can lead to | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
issues to do with mental health, to do with addiction as well. I want to | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
make a difference on those issues and make a difference for the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
children. It could be up to 2 million children living with an | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
alcoholic parent. They talk about the impact. What impact did it have | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
on your life, having an alcoholic father? My parents were divorced and | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
when I stayed with my father at weekends, grow up I was almost | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
looking after him. I was about 11 or 12, my father drank so much that he | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
locked himself in the bathroom and couldn't open the door. I had to | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
bash at the door down as an 11-year-old. I would often go home | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
or go to my dad at the weekend and there was nothing in the fridge | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
except big bottles of white wine and I would have to go to the shop and | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
get some food and and for me, I had to grow up very quickly. It also | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
made me very determined. I love reading, so I threw myself into | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
reading. It sounds like a cliche, but I did my best at school. When I | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
was 15 I threw myself into the Labour Party and that is why I am | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
here today. I know there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
millions of children, who deeply, deeply affected by grow up with an | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
alcoholic parent. My dad was very loving. He was a lovely man. Alcohol | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
took his life in the end, but he was a loving parent. There will be | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
thousands of children who have an alcoholic parent who live in fear | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
because that parent is violent, that parent is abusive. I never had that | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
with my father, I just had somebody who was basically drunk whenever I | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
was with them. We just saw some pictures of yourself with your dad. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
What would have made a difference to you? What should you have got? My | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
dad and I saw lots of people will recognise this, he didn't recognise | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
you had a problem. I tried to talk to him, he refused to engage. I | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
don't think that is only support more generally. I wouldn't have | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
known who to turn to. That is what I have talked about having a national | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
phone line. There is a charity who run a full-blown. I am not sure | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
where children would put it in schools or in the public service | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
system, but there is a big road for the community nurses in Sherston | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
censors -- centres. 1 million people go going to A because of alcohol | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
related incidents. Those hospitals treat those people, but perhaps | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
should we be asking whether there are children at home? We need a | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
broader understanding of the issues of how alcohol is not just affects | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
the individual, but affects the broader family. That is what we are | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
calling for. We are calling for the government and public services to | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
put in place a broader strategy to support all those children who grew | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
up with an alcoholic parent. Thank you very much for your time. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
Time now for a look at the newspapers. | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Anne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
is here to tell us what's caught her eye. | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
So many things obviously affected children. Our guest in month ago who | :24:32. | :24:46. | |
was awarded a new Year Honours talking about the young people he is | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
helping and the problems they are facing. That was very moving, the | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
peace there and I think what was being asked for most of was | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
recognition that this was a problem for as parents and the fantastic | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
work that was being done and reward it was just inspirational. It makes | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
us all pause for thought. You have lived through The Papers. Where will | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
we start? We will start on the unsung heroes with the honours. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
There is lots and lots of coverage across The Papers today around the | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
honours, but there are sections in most of The Papers about people who | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
are the celebrity names, they are not the people everyone knows. They | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
have been doing important things for the community. We have a lady who | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
has been selling poppies since 1952, we have the first Samaritan who has | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
been doing that for 57 years. We have two young people who were 17, | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
one who is looking and doing work around campaigning around street | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
crime and won a round of bullying as well. Really important things. It is | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
important to recognise and say as a society we want people to do more. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
We were just saying they are pivotal to communities. When you look at the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
other names here, the pensioner who is 70 and for 50 years she has been | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
volunteering at Didcot Railway Centre. There are people who have | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
given most of their lives to help other people. They don't did for the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
reward with the glamour, but it is what we all value in opportunities, | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
people doing the things that are the glue around us. Other important | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
people in society, head teachers. We have a piece in the Times today | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
which talks of a shortage of head teachers. They are highlighting the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
fact that they say headteachers are leaving the profession, they point | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
to salaries are too low and we are not rewarding head teachers enough, | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
but there is increased pressure on headteachers. Government says that | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
is a lower turnover of head teachers than ever. It highlights the fact | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
how pivotal these jobs are. We want schools to be the place where | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
children can find the chance to change their lives, especially those | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
with complicated home backgrounds, but we need the special set of | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
skills which is fantastic leaders, inspirational, brilliant organisers | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
and the like. We want more people to come in and to these important jobs. | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
We hear a lot about stress to teachers generally, you can't help | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
but wonder if that has quite a big bearing? Certainly. I can be one of | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
those who set lots of things needed to happen around schools because | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
that is where all children go. If you want to know the people who know | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
most about children's lives, it is the teachers in schools. Really, we | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
need to recognise that and support them in their important role. | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
Another story he picked out here, it is about the family courts. This is | :28:17. | :28:27. | |
the president of the family division of the High courts who is pointing | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
to fact that there is a situation in the family courts, not so in the | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
criminal courts, but in family courts where it is possible for | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
alleged abusers to still be able to cross examine their victims. It is | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
one that women's aid have been highlighting the sub the Guardian | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
have been highlighting and Sir James Mundy saying that needs to change. I | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
get a lot of people telling me how stressful courts can be and, | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
especially for children. There is a crossover here too many children as | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
well who find terrible trauma when they have to go to court and are | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
cross-examined. Being in court is a stressful situation that is led them | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
there. Secondly, domestic violence has been an issue that has been | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
raised throughout the year. The five-day high-profile archers trial, | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
although fiction has touched a lot of people, it has brought home the | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
seriousness of this to people. Important at the end of the year. | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
Our time is up for now. You will be back in an hour. We will go for | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
something slightly more cheerful. A list of reasons to be cheerful in | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
2016, so we will look at those. We will see a little bit later on. | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
Still to come and breakfast, your New Year's Eve party will be longer | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
tonight by exactly one second. We will find out what with the help of | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
the top astrophysicist. The headlines are coming up. | :30:07. | :30:41. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Matt will have your full weather forecast. | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
But first, a summary of this morning's main news. | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
More than a hundred Olympic and Paralympic stars have been | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
recognised in the New Year Honours list, | :30:58. | :30:58. | |
with knighthoods for Andy Murray and Mo Farah. | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
saw him win the Wimbledon title, an Olympic gold medal, | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
and BBC Sports Personality of the Year. | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
But the biggest honour of all was saved for last, | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
although the 29-year-old said he felt he was | :31:15. | :31:16. | |
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah | :31:17. | :31:25. | |
said that being awarded a knighthood was a "dream come true" for a boy | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
who arrived in London from Somalia unable to speak any English. | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill has been made a Dame for her services to athletics. | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
she said that she was "truly, truly honoured". | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
is Britain's most decorated female Olympian. | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
She's won five medals at five successive games | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
And gold-medal winning para-equestrian Lee Pearson | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
He's been knighted for services to his sport. | :31:50. | :31:59. | |
Stars of the stage and screen, including Ken Dodd | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
and Patricia Routledge, have also been included | :32:03. | :32:03. | |
They're among more than a thousand people | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
as our entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba reports. | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
He's been one of Britain's favourite entertainers | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
Now Ken Dodd has received a knighthood. | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
The best day ever, you can't get better than this. | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
I've played lots of big theatres, I've worked abroad, but this is it. | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
Actress Patricia Routledge, she's been made a Dame. | :32:32. | :32:45. | |
# You got me so I don't know what I'm doing... # | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
said he felt "humility and joy" to become Sir Ray. | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
A knighthood too for award-winning actor Mark Rylance. | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
Bond actress Naomi Harris becomes an OBE. | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
Figures from fashion and design have also been recognised. | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
said she was touched to be made a Dame. | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
Designer Victoria Beckham becomes an OBE. | :33:14. | :33:14. | |
was chaired by the former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones. | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
Obviously great pride, but mixed with sadness, | :33:19. | :33:32. | |
because of that enduring sadness of the families who have continued | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
to feel the loss of their loved ones. | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
He is one of hundreds being recognised | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
for their contribution across the UK. | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
The Met Office says driving conditions will be difficult | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
in many areas of central, eastern and south-east England. | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, | :34:03. | :34:03. | |
Morning to you, Simon, quite a few problems there today, how was it | :34:04. | :34:16. | |
looking at the moment? It is looking better than it was earlier, you can | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
actually see the runway behind me. Earlier on this morning, it was | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
really eerie, you could hear the aircraft but you could not see them. | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
What happens when there is fog, of course there was lots of high | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
technology that allows aircraft to land and take off without much | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
visibility, but the air traffic controllers have to slow the | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
arrivals. Heathrow is Europe's busiest airport, and that means | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
things start to unravel ready quickly. Yesterday, as you say, | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
about 150 flights were cancelled, about 30,000 people are waking up | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
this morning not where they wanted to be. Today so far British Airways | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
has cancelled another 50 flights, mostly from Heathrow to places such | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
as Barcelona, Munich and Milan, from London city to Amsterdam, Geneva and | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
Dublin. Not too much chaos in the terminals, because most people have | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
been told about it, but lots of unhappy people who have spent the | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
night at a hotel in this area rather than where they wanted to be. It is | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
an awkward time of year, often people want to be with family or are | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
trying to get back after their breaks. Almagro, most certainly, and | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
once your flight has been cancelled, you go straight to the back of the | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
queue, you are not put on the next flight. All the people going on | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
flights and they take precedence, and very few seats at this time of | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
year are going spare. About Stansted, where Ryanair cancelled | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
about 20 flights yesterday, that is 3000 people out of position with | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
very few options to get to where they need to be by midnight and | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
night. Simon, thanks very much, Simon Calder from the Independent. | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
Around 3,000 police officers will be on duty across central London | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
tonight as crowds gather to celebrate the new year. | :36:05. | :36:06. | |
Greater Manchester Police and other forces | :36:07. | :36:07. | |
say they've also stepped up crowd protection measures. | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
Scotland Yard says extra resources have been brought in | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
to keep people safe following the terror attacks | :36:13. | :36:14. | |
in Berlin and Nice earlier this year. | :36:15. | :36:19. | |
Two bomb explosions at a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
Dozens more were wounded in the blasts | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
and no-one has admitted carrying out the attacks. | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
Donald Trump has praised Russia's President Putin | :36:34. | :36:35. | |
for his decision not to engage in a row | :36:36. | :36:37. | |
In a tweet, the US President-elect said | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
he always knew the Russian leader was "very smart". | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
President Obama has ordered 35 Russian diplomats | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
to leave the country after accusing Moscow | :36:49. | :36:50. | |
of interfering in November's presidential election. | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
anyone who owns an air gun in Scotland will need a licence. | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
The legislation was introduced after a toddler | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
was killed by an air-gun pellet in Glasgow in 2005. | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
People in England and Wales can own the weapons | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
It's the time of year for charts and lists and best-ofs, | :37:09. | :37:17. | |
so we thought we'd take this opportunity to share our most | :37:18. | :37:20. | |
popular clip from the BBC Breakfast social-media accounts | :37:21. | :37:22. | |
Is it a hard-hitting piece of journalism or a stunning expose? | :37:23. | :37:30. | |
It's this footage of giant panda Da Mao | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
battling a snowman at Toronto Zoo. | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
Thousands of you liked and shared these pictures | :37:40. | :37:41. | |
when they went online a couple of weeks ago. | :37:42. | :37:48. | |
He does manage to demolish the whole thing in the end! We can stay with | :37:49. | :37:54. | |
it for a moment if it is the most popular thing that has been on | :37:55. | :38:02. | |
Breakfast! You can see why! Come on, he is going to get back on again. | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
You cannot get enough panda as far as I am concerned. | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
It is agony watching! Is eager to roll over again? | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
How would you describe that technique? Is that a high jump | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
technique? Don't bring me in as the panda | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
expert! That was a forward roll. | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
Just thinking about how the moralising it is, all the hard work | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
from the producers and editors for a whole year, and all the viewers want | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
to watch is a funny video of a panda. Give them what they want, | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
that is what I say! We are having a chat around the New | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
Year's Honours list, I know you have been leading the programme on the | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
sporting superstars like Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Dame Jessica | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
Ennis-Hill, all getting the top honours. Loads of other stars, 100 | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
Olympic and Paralympic stars, Kate Richardson-Walsh has been given an | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
OBE, Chris Coleman McCombs CBE after that amazing run to the semifinals | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
of the Euros. -- becomes. And the entire hockey team, | :39:11. | :39:22. | |
captained -- Captain Kate Richardson-Walsh is CBE, but the | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
whole team are OBE. And Sam Quek is coming in later. I | :39:27. | :39:34. | |
will skip through the latest action in sport this morning. | :39:35. | :39:35. | |
Hull City are off the bottom of the Premier League, | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
but they missed out on a first league win in nearly two months | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
after a late Everton equaliser at the KCOM. | :39:42. | :39:43. | |
The Tigers went ahead but were pegged back then | :39:44. | :39:45. | |
Robert Snodgrass scored this brilliant free kick | :39:46. | :39:46. | |
They couldn't hang on for victory, though. | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
Ross Barkley nodded in the Everton equaliser late on. | :39:50. | :39:51. | |
I'm really pleased, because over the past three or four weeks, | :39:52. | :40:01. | |
Today we put in a shift and got a point. | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
We could be greedy and ask for more, but I'm really proud of the players | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
for their efforts and we have to go again in two, three days' time. | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
I am really pleased tonight about our performance. I wasn't happy | :40:16. | :40:25. | |
about our slow start, 1-0 down, but we showed twice, really, in the | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
result a really good attitude and a good reaction. And I think we played | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
good football. There was one game in | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
the Scottish Premiership last night The goal came from Jonny Hayes | :40:41. | :40:42. | |
in the 66th minute. The third placed Dons are now | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
six points ahead of Hearts, Dan is presenting Football Focus | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
this lunchtime, and he is here now. Welcome back. Happy Christmas? I | :40:50. | :41:00. | |
managed to do that thing when you stop work for a bit, I got a cold | :41:01. | :41:06. | |
immediately, I am throwing it off. What have you got today? I know | :41:07. | :41:14. | |
there is a busy... Oh! I was waiting for you there! That was fascinating | :41:15. | :41:24. | |
to watch! That has thrown me! Great panda news! We have a big fixture | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
list in the Premier League particularly, and we have available | :41:29. | :41:30. | |
interview with two Brazilian twins who you might remember, they both | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
used to play at Manchester United, Fabio is now at Middlesbrough, and | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
they played Manchester United this weekend, so we got them both | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
together for Christmas, they clearly enjoy each other's company, and we | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
ask them, what will it be like to go back and play Manchester United? | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
Have a listen. I don't think I had what it is going to be, 1000 things, | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
like are they going to react? I think it is going to be nice. It is | :41:59. | :42:05. | |
incredible, because I can watch the game, the first game he comes back, | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
and I will be there to watch, it will be very nice. You have to | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
decide who you are going to support! Well, I love Manchester United! | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
But... I will support my brother, I want him to win. So I think I will | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
be supporting Middlesbrough! There you go, that is what you | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
wanted to hear! I will be at that match later, pleased to hear that! | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
Dele Alli, the second part of his interview, back in the goals again, | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
Spurs looking good. John Motson is at Stamford Bridge, where Chelsea | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
look unstoppable this season. A lovely piece with Kenny Dalglish as | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
Liverpool play Manchester City, looking at Klopp's rain, what he | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
thinks about him. A nice piece on Barnsley over Christmas, we will be | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
looking back at the year, as everyone does at this time, and all | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
the goals from this week, and we will wedge it all in from midday on | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
BBC One. Lie excellent, we will be watching that. Dan thank you very | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
much. To rugby union, and George North | :43:11. | :43:12. | |
will return for Northampton Saints in their Premiership match | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
at Gloucester tomorrow. It will be the Welshman's first game | :43:16. | :43:17. | |
since suffering a head injury That was North's fifth | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
concussion in two years, including two in the match | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
on your screen now between England and Wales | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
in February 2015. A review board said North | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
shouldn't have continued to play against Leicester, but they | :43:29. | :43:30. | |
didn't sanction Northampton. Wasps are top of rugby union's | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
Premiership after a topsy-turvy bonus-point | :43:35. | :43:36. | |
victory over Newcastle. Wasps found themselves | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
12-0 down after five minutes, but Danny Cipriani's superb | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
individual effort was the first of their four tries | :43:43. | :43:45. | |
in a 34-30 victory. Second-place Saracens | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
play on Sunday. Andy Murray has been knighted | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
in the New Year's Honours list. He'll play in the third-place | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
playoff within the next hour, after a surprise defeat yesterday | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
to David Goffin in the semifinals of the World Tennis Championship | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
in Abu Dhabi. The world number one had won | :44:05. | :44:06. | |
all five of his previous meetings with Goffin but lost the first set | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
on a tie break. but Goffin fought back to win | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
the set and take the match 2-0. Goffin will play Rafael Nadal | :44:13. | :44:20. | |
in the final after he beat Milos Raonic | :44:21. | :44:22. | |
in three sets. Nadal's making his comeback | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
from a wrist injury which has troubled him | :44:26. | :44:27. | |
throughout the year. Good to see the veil Nadal back on | :44:28. | :44:34. | |
top form. -- Rafael Nadal. Mike Bushell will be making a | :44:35. | :44:48. | |
comeback in the New Year. In his absence, we have put together a | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
compilation of all the things he has been up to. | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
Walked under water, pommel-horsed with Max Whitlock | :44:57. | :45:08. | |
and played in goal for Team GB's Olympic-winning hockey squad. | :45:09. | :45:10. | |
They're just some of the highlights of Mike Bushell's year. | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
Every week, BBC Breakfast's own action man | :45:14. | :45:14. | |
gets stuck into a different sporting challenge | :45:15. | :45:16. | |
to encourage you to get off the sofa and try something new. | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
What the hell is that? It's Mike Bushell. | :45:20. | :45:39. | |
You've still got it as well, haven't you? | :45:40. | :46:23. | |
Pretty slow, mate! It's great to see the kids play. | :46:24. | :46:31. | |
It's always thought about, we've trained for it, | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
we've live it, we've breathed it. | :46:34. | :46:34. | |
We will all do all we can do for our cause! | :46:35. | :46:50. | |
I've brought some protection. Come on, then, come on! | :46:51. | :48:07. | |
I bet that still hurt! He survived it all, though, he will | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
be back for more in 2017. He must have done absolutely | :48:15. | :48:17. | |
everything by now! Time to find out what is happening with the weather | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
with Matt, that looks for the air than the last picture you | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
Rabiot when a! This was taken in south-east Wales, | :48:30. | :48:38. | |
fog not as widespread as yesterday but still causing problems on the | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
roads, and if you are on the Move over the next few hours, take it | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
gingerly across southern England and East Anglia in particular. Fairly | :48:48. | :48:57. | |
cloudy across Wales, away from the fog, the north-east will see the | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
best of the sunshine. The cloud in Northern Ireland will break about | :49:03. | :49:05. | |
times to the east, at least for a while. We have had over 100 | :49:06. | :49:16. | |
millimetres in the last 24 hours in the North of Scotland, gradually | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
edging away from the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. It will push to | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
the north of Northern Ireland by the end of the afternoon and into | :49:23. | :49:25. | |
southern Scotland. Away from that, a dry New Year's Eve, where you get | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
sunshine, 12 Celsius is possible. Where the fog lingers, five or six | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
at the very best. Some of you may be spending your evening outdoors, | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
building up to the big midnight hour. If you are in Scotland, take | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
some waterproofs, rain in the early evening does clear by the time the | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
bells ring in 2017, only one or two showers, mostly dry, fairly clear | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
but cold. The rain edges into northern England by the time we had | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
midnight, and it will also push into the north-west of Wales too. Much of | :49:59. | :50:07. | |
central and southern England and Wales will be dry as we see in 2017. | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
Fairly mild too, but the temperatures at midnight dropping | :50:13. | :50:14. | |
away quite rapidly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Colder air set to | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
work southwards, a slow process during New Year's Day, colder but | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
brighter conditions in the northern half of the country. A slight | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
covering of showers to lower levels in northern Scotland. Rain initially | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
in northern England with some sleet over the hills, a bit of a damp | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
start to the New Year in much of Wales, the Midlands and southern | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
England. Some heavy outbreaks of rain, wet snow over high ground | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
mixed in for good measure. Temperatures in double figures here, | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
colder further north. That takes over for the first few days of 2017, | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
sunshine by day but chilly by night. Just before I go, it is less than | :50:52. | :50:59. | |
four hours away from 2017 in Sydney, this is the scene from the famous | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
bridge just a short while ago, currently 24 degrees with a | :51:04. | :51:04. | |
south-east wind. Security's being stepped up ahead | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
of tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations in London, | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
following the terror attacks The Police Federation says that | :51:16. | :51:17. | |
while there's no specific intelligence about an attack | :51:18. | :51:20. | |
in the capital, more officers will be on duty | :51:21. | :51:22. | |
than in previous years, Greater Manchester Police | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
and other forces say they're also putting on extra | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
crowd protection measures. Peter Bleksley is a former Scotland | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
Yard detective and joins us now. A very good morning to you, the | :51:33. | :51:42. | |
message here is about reassurance, isn't it? It is, reassurance and | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
vigilance, although of course be policing that members of the will | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
see tonight, the overt side of policing, some of the cops with | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
firearms, the other security measures, is only the tip of a very | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
unseen iceberg. There are so much other work going on by the security | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
services and the police behind-the-scenes, completely unseen | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
and often heroic, but night we see the overt, the open side of it. So | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
there will be more officers with guns, what else will people notice? | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
Well, there will be roadblocks set up, because of Berlin and Nice, both | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
of those attackers used heavy articulated vehicles, so there will | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
be roadblocks set up. Anybody driving around tonight near a city | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
centre in a truck or lorry will invariably questioned before they | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
are allowed to go on their way. So there will be roadblocks, there will | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
be a lot of security staff supporting police, and they will be | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
doing the jobs which not the police's role, checking armbands and | :52:49. | :52:51. | |
tickets, more of the stewarding of people while police will be doing | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
more of the protecting our people. Yes, in a way, what we are seeing is | :52:57. | :53:00. | |
more of some of what we have seen in the past. We are used to it now in | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
airports, people in London will remember the ring of steel in the | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
City of London. Various parts of the security measures are being seen | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
more often and more frequently. Yeah, absolutely, and part of that | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
is to serve as a deterrent, to put people off doing what they might be | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
thinking of plotting and planning to do, and that is only right, and we | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
will see more of it, unfortunately, this very clear and present threat | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
and danger that exists to us all is not going to go away any time soon - | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
if in fact ever. We will, as unpalatable as it may seem to some | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
people to seek heavily armed cops patrolling the streets, we have got | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
to get used to it. They are there plans for our benefit. For people | :53:45. | :53:49. | |
celebrating New Year's Eve, they don't need to behave differently, do | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
they? No, but there is a slight responsibility upon all of us to | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
remain vigilant in our everyday lives, you know, we are part of the | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
collective effort here to try to stop these people, so if you see | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
something that you are not quite happy about, that raises suspicions, | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
then pick up the phone, ring the cops, ring the anti-terror hotline. | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
But yes, tonight is largely about going out and enjoying ourselves, | :54:16. | :54:17. | |
and I would urge people to do exactly that. Do not be cowed, to | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
not be terrorised, drink, dance, party, whatever you like, but stay a | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
little bit vigilant. Peter, thank you for your time this morning. | :54:30. | :54:37. | |
On the subject of time, it has thrown up a bit of an anomaly this | :54:38. | :54:40. | |
New Year's Eve. If you were watching yesterday, | :54:41. | :54:41. | |
you may remember we brought you news of the leap second - | :54:42. | :54:44. | |
an extra moment of time which will be added | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
to the final minute of 2016. It's fair to say we found | :54:48. | :54:49. | |
the entire concept pretty baffling, so this morning we've brought in | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
an expert to set us straight. We'll chat to Professor Tim O'Brien | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
in a moment, but first here's our science | :54:56. | :54:57. | |
correspondent Rebecca Morelle. you have a tiny bit longer | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
to enjoy the celebrations. An extra second is being added | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
to the world's time. And it's all because of | :55:11. | :55:18. | |
a very slight wobble Our planet speeds up | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
and slows down as it spins. So while a single rotation equates | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
to one day, some days end up being a tiny fraction longer | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
or shorter than others. And gradually the earth's time | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
drifts out of sync with our clocks. Right now, that difference | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
has grown too large, so just before the clocks | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
strike midnight, an extra second is being added | :55:37. | :55:38. | |
to bring everything back into phase. It's the 27th leap second since | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
they were introduced in the 1970s, but there have been calls | :55:45. | :55:47. | |
to abolish them. Communications networks, financial | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
markets and computer software all rely on extremely precise | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
timekeeping. Some say that having to reprogram | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
an extra second puts them at risk. Others warn that without leap | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
seconds, over thousands of years, the earth's time and our clocks | :56:04. | :56:05. | |
will grow more and more off-kilter - so much so that one day your watch | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
might say it's midnight So what we need now is a professor, | :56:09. | :56:36. | |
and we have got, talk us through, when is the leap second? Well, | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
officially it will be the end of today, this day would last one | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
second longer, but it sort of depends how people are adjusting for | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
it. Some people are taking the time to slow the clock down, Big Ben is | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
slowed down by adding or removing an old penny as a weight from the | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
pendulum. That slows down over a period of a day or a few days, to | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
get it to the right time. But officially the end of the day. It is | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
only a second, why does it matter so much? People have been debating | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
whether we should keep doing this or not, but the reason is because it is | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
to keep our clock time, which is determined by very accurate atomic | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
clocks, in step with astronomical time, which is determined by how the | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
earth spins. If we didn't include them, gradually we would get out of | :57:26. | :57:29. | |
step, and in quite a long time admittedly, something like 4000 | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
years, we would end up with 12 noon on your watch happening at midnight, | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
rather than at midday, because you would be out of step with where the | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
sun is in the sky. Whose decision is it? There is an international body | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
based in Paris that keeps an eye on this, the bravery regular atomic | :57:50. | :57:51. | |
clock time that stays steady, but the spin of the earth is constantly | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
changing due to weather, the motion of stuff inside the earth, | :57:59. | :58:01. | |
earthquakes, and it is gradually slowing down because of the tides. | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
They keep an eye on these things all the time, they will make an | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
announcement that we need to add a leap second. And everyone agrees | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
that we all stick to this? Yes, we all stick to the rules. They | :58:15. | :58:22. | |
sometimes call these people be Time Lord yeah! Obviously it is over a | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
long period of time that it would make a difference, but there have | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
been 27 changes since the 1970s, so our year is 27 seconds longer than | :58:31. | :58:40. | |
it was then? Yeah, well, each day is basically two Millie seconds longer | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
than 24 hours, and so as you go, the next day, you will be two out, then | :58:45. | :58:54. | |
four, so it is the out of step that changes, rather than the length of | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
the day changing. When will be an extra day? I could really do | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
without! It would be quite a while? Yes, quite a while! On the issue of | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
time, thank you, we will have the headlines at exactly nine o'clock. | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
That is coming. Hello this is Breakfast, with | :59:13. | :00:00. | |
Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. More than 100 stars of the Olympics | :00:01. | :00:02. | |
and Paralympics are recognised in the New Year's honours list | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
At the end of a glittering year in sport Mo Farah, | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill and Andy Murray are among more than 100 | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
athletes honoured. Nearly 1200 people are on this | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
year's list, from entertainers to community workers, | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
we'll be hearing some It has not been easy. It is finding | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
the time to do so. That has not been an issue for me because I have | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
enjoyed it and it is about helping each other to grow. | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday 31st December. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Warnings of travel disruption on the roads and at airports | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
as foggy conditions continue to affect parts of the country. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Security plans for New Year's Eve celebrations are modified | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
in response to this year's terror attacks in Berlin and Nice. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Hull city are off the bottom of the Premier League | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Should a young footballers be stopped from heading the ball? We | :01:17. | :01:32. | |
have to look at the fact of the damage being caused to children. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
Football is the game of football, if you take heading out, where do you | :01:40. | :01:40. | |
draw the line? Still some foreground across | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
southern areas but nowhere near as bad as history. I have the details | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
and details of what the conditions as we finish this year and head onto | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
the next. See you in minutes. More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
stars have been recognised in the New Year Honours list, | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
with knighthoods for Jessica Ennis-Hill and the rower, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Katherine Grainger, have received damehoods, | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
while the gold medal-winning Paralympian, Lee Pearson, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
has also been knighted. Our correspondent, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Andy Swiss, has the details. At the end of a glittering | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
year for British sport, for five of its greatest stars, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
the greatest of honours. First, a knighthood for the man | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
who spent 2016 scaling COMMENTATOR: Wimbledon champion | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
again, a supreme performance. After winning a second Wimbledon, | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
a second Olympics and the world number one spot, it's | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
now Sir Andy Murray, a fitting finish to | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
a remarkable season. There's also a new title | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
for Mo Farah's collection. He described his knighthood | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
as a dream come true. Having come to Britain | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
as an eight-year-old from Somalia, he added, he could never | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
have imagined it. Another athletics star, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
meanwhile, becomes a dame. London 2012 heptathlon champion, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill, There's also a damehood | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
for rower Katherine Grainger. After five medals at five | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
consecutive Olympics, It's not something I ever thought | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
I would get but what a great time It's the end of a 20-year career | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
for me in competing for my country, and it's a lovely way | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
to bring the curtain down. And there's a knighthood for one | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
of Britain's top Paralympians. Dressage rider Lee Pearson | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
won his 11th gold medal in Rio. Among the other honours, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
two sporting couples. CBEs for cyclists Jason | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
and Laura Kenney, while hockey gold-medallists Kate | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
and Helen Richardson-Walsh become And after their impressive run | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
at Euro 2016, Wales football manager Chris Coleman becomes an OBE, | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
and his Northern Ireland counterpart Just a few of more than 100 | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
sporting figures honoured Stars of the stage and screen, | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
have also been included Ken Dodd said he was 'tickled' | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
to have been knighted at the age of 89, and joked | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
that he would wear his medal in bed. Patricia Routledge, the star | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
of Keeping up Appearances has been made a Dame, | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
an announcement that would make Ray Davies, frontman of the Kinks, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
said he felt humility and joy He's been recognised | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
for services to the arts. And he picked up the best-supporting | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
actor award at the Oscars earlier this year, now Mark Rylance, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
star of the film Bridge of Spies and BBC Two's Wolf Hall, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
has been made a Sir. Around three quarters of those | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
who received the words were recognised for their services | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
to the community. People are working on the door, they | :04:59. | :05:16. | |
said I'm looking for a job. I am the type of person were if I can help I | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
will help. I was looking for jobs for people, it then got so popular | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
where it began to be 20 people on my doorstep. I made a Facebook group | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
called Manchester job opportunities and now we have 17,000 members, over | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
200 getting full-time jobs and I have linked with more than 200 | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
businesses. He got the British Empire medal for that. He is only 22 | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
as well. Congratulations to all those awarded today. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
There's a warning that heavy fog could cause further | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
The Met Office says driving conditions will be difficult | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
in many areas of central, eastern and south-east England. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Our reporter, Simon Jones, is at Heathrow airport this morning. | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
There is still fog, but it looks clearer. How is it going? Still a | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
lot more delays? It is a bit better than it was this morning regarding | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
the fog. You can just about make out the fog -- the planes coming and | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
going. Easier to hear them than see them. There are long delays on many | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
flights from Heathrow and Gatwick and other airports in southern | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
England. Some flights have been cancelled. BA this morning have | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
cancelled around 50 flights, largely to and from Heathrow. Seven and have | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
thousand passengers are going to be affected by that. It is because | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
there is a Yellow weather warning in place for this fraud. That is in | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
place for southern England, parts of Central England, the Midlands and | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
also the Humber. We also have problems on the roads. Advice is to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
take care because in some parts driving conditions could be reduced | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
to around 100 metres. Best to check before you head out on your journey | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
today. We will keep up-to-date on the weather. | :07:17. | :07:17. | |
Around 3,000 police officers will be on duty across central London | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
tonight as crowds gather to celebrate the New Year. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Greater Manchester police and other forces say they've also stepped up | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
Scotland Yard says extra resources have been brought in to keep people | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
safe following the terror attacks in Berlin and Nice | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
We've spent a long time carefully | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
planning this operation with our partners. | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
They include Westminster City Council and the mayor's office | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
and many others, to make sure people coming to central London | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
on New Years Eve have a fantastic time. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
And when they come to give us extra time because there will be a search | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
There's something like 3,000 police officers on duty in central London | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Meanwhile, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Islamist | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
terrorism is the biggest challenge facing her country. | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
In her New Year message, Mrs Merkel referred to the deadly | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
truck attack in Berlin earlier this month by a Tunisian asylum seeker. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Damian McGuiness joins us from Berlin. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Tell us a little more about what she said. She referred to the three | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
attacks we have seen this year, saying that what was particularly | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
propulsive for her was they were committed by people who were | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
pretending to be refugees. What is interesting is that she stood by her | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
migration policy because she said it was right and proper that Germany | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
had helped people who legitimately needed help, people fleeing from | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Syria because she said when you look at pictures of the bombings in | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Aleppo, it is impossible not to want to help. She stood by the fact that | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Germany would take in legitimate refugees. That is a wider debate | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
here because the attack we saw in Berlin just before Christmas was | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
carried out by a failed asylum seeker, someone who should have been | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
deported and wasn't and that is the debate in Germany, about what to do | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
with those people whose application for asylum has been rejected and | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
told to get them out of Germany for the sake of the security of the | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
country because we are seeing unprecedented levels of security in | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
the run-up to the celebrations. Donald Trump has praised | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Russia's President Putin for his decision not to engage | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
in a row about the In a tweet, the US president-elect | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
said he always knew the Russian President Obama has ordered 35 | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Russian diplomats to leave the country after accusing Moscow | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
of interfering in November's 40% of councils in England have | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
no procedures in place to prosecute people who misuse | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
disabled parking permits. New analysis of official figures | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
found that in 61 local authorities blue badges could be used | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
fraudulently without The finding has been | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
described as 'staggering' They host of other big stars have | :09:58. | :10:18. | |
been recognised in the New Year 's Honours list, including the whole GB | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
women pass by pocketing. It has been an outstanding year for them. They | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
became the first squad to win gold. We will have one of those | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
medallists, no NBA. First, let's have a look at some of the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
highlights from Rio. Holly Webber on her way to win gold. She scorers. | :10:39. | :11:14. | |
Well, how does it feel hearing that last remark it is mad. Winning the | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
gold was insane and one of the best moments of my life so far, to have | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
an MBA is just making it sink in that I only gold medallist. Very | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
excited and very proud. Have you had a chance to share the news with | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
friends and family? It was my mum who said you need to check your | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
e-mails. I said, why? She said you just need to check your e-mails. She | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
knew before I did and she was really proud, as is my dad. To be honest, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
it is more for them, the amount they have done for me and the time and | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
effort, they got me here. Huge thank you to them. My granny was the next | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
person, but I had to keep it confidential. How did she react? She | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
is 96 in March and she is a tough cookie, one of the first people are | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
killed. What about the rest of the team? This is history Maginn, the | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
fact that a team is one, you have altered the MBE. There were 16 | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
others representing Team GB there. Without us being a group of 31 we | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
would never have achieved what we did. As well as the background | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
stuff. I uncovered some of them have not been recognised. I will write a | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
letter to get in on the next year 's Honours list. It is full credit to | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
everyone we have and the fact only 16 have been honoured, that is a | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
credit to wider team. When we watched that as outsiders, this is a | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
really special moment. How would your own actions? Is it still looked | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
like something that didn't happen? I am getting goose bumps watching it. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
It never gets old. You can see from our faces that we go into shock. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Pure elation and joy. It is incredible. The MBE has made it sink | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
in that much more. As well as all that, you also went into the jungle. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
He did really well in that. Did you enjoy it? I loved it. It was tough. | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
I learned things about myself. I love the jungle and there was | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
pressure only to go there and be able model and act like an athlete | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
but it wasn't too bothered because I have been doing for 16 years and to | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
experience it, keep oche on the map and export crude and make sure we | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
are inspiring the youngsters youngsters then every little helps. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
A lot of sports stars sit one of the things about New Year 's Honours is | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
it is it as an opportunity to say to someone somewhere who might be | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
watching the snow, you could be doing what I have just done. Maybe | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
it can happen. Absolutely. It is very easy for youngsters to say I | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
want to be the gold medallist. That is brilliant and love the fact | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
youngsters aspire to do that because it can be used. You just have to | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
make sure you never give up. It is important that is hockey girls reach | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
out to the grocery might look at that and say that is intimidating, I | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
don't think I could do that. It is important to get them involved, the | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
nature of the healthy and enjoy the social side and to recognise that | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
sport is crude and get out, get the local hockey club, football, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
whatever sport. If we inspire one youngster, let alone a thousand, we | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
have done our job. You talk about being a role model, we see the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
glamorous side, the winning, there is a lot of hard work as well. How | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
long have you been training for? It must feel like for ever. I got my | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
first senior international cap in 2007, that was the start of my | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
career. That was it. People see the Champagne moments, what they don't | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
see, which happens more often, by the terms you are injured, you don't | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
get selected for you wake up at six aim to be on the page 47. There are | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
tough times when you think, what am I doing this? You look ahead and you | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
think, that is my dream and I want to achieve that. Now, you are going | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
to have an MBA, that is in metal, do you have a place for them? They are | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
in my bedside drawer at the moment. There is a cabinet being built next | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
to my montage that my boyfriend got me, a big montage of the press | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
cuttings from the Olympic finals. What they could present. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Congratulations. Face to see. It is coming up to 70 minutes past nine. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Now, the main stories this morning. Andy Murray and O'Farrell have been | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
recognised with natives while Jessica Ennis and becomes a game in | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
the New Year 's Honours list. Thousands of travellers face | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
disruption as fog in parts of England leads to flights being | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
cancelled. Let's find out what is happening with the weather. Fog has | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
been causing issues once again. This shop, from Wiltshire. There is some | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
folk out there. It isn't as dense as widespread as yesterday. That is | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
some good news, but causing problems on the roads and at the airport. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
City parts of fronts, Belgium and the Netherlands. The good news is, | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
with more praise of developing and we are starting with that as | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
widespread it will withdraw through the swinging. Mr across southern | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
areas into East Anglia. There will be brighter breaks and the beast of | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
wills. And the start in north-east England and even some hazy sunshine | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
in this Scotland. He will visit north of mainland Scotland it is | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
thoroughly wet. As before 24 hours. Well over 100 millimetres, four | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
inches, has fallen for something that could minor flooding. Another | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
issue to be wary of. Green edges towards the north of Northern | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Ireland by the end of the afternoon. With from God, what spots of rain. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Most of us will be dragged through New Year's Eve. Temperatures up to | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
12 degrees. Where the club lingers, five or six Celsius. If you have | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
plans, heading off to a big outdoor event this evening, this is what you | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
can expect. Reading for a time this evening. Some heavy rain and gusty | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
winds. That spreads into northern England by the time we reach | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
midnight. The bells will rain in 2017 with largely clear conditions, | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
just one or two wintry showers. As we finished with a 16 in southern | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
parts of the UK, patch of rain and drizzle. By the time we get to me | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
that it will start to throw it down in the north-west of Wales and some | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
gusty winds. Temperatures will hold up nicely in south-westerly winds, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
feeling increasingly cold across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Cold, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Arctic air is coming our way. It will be with many of us for New | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
Year's Day. Come on behind the weather front that will stand much | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
of southern England and South Wales to New Year's Day. Clearing away in | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
the day from those in England but as colder digs in the could be wet snow | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
mixed in on higher ground. Best day of brightness for Newsday. If you | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
want to work of the events of the previous day for the northern | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
England and those in Scotland, even here there will be one or two wintry | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
showers and abide to the wind. It leaves us with the drier conditions | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
from old and Tuesday. Lots of sunshine poor Dave Brad Trost by | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
night. What are you doing tonight? I am celebrating with an early night, | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
I am about three o'clock tomorrow morning. We should celebrate with | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
the Australians and a few hours. They are supposed to help disabled | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
people live independently but an investigation has a 40% of councils | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
in England are failing to prosecute motorists for misusing blue badges. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Figures from the Department for Transport should disabled parking | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
permits have been used without fear of finds in 61 out of 152 local | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
authority areas. James Taylor is from a disability charity and joins | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
us now from our London newsroom. Good morning. Give us a sense of how | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
this is playing out in the lives of people, what difference does this | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
make? It is staggering that many councils are not committed to | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
tackling blue badge abuse and prosecuting blue badge misuse. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Councils have a duty to disabled people in that area and taxpayers to | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
get this right. Many disabled people, around 2 million, rely on | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
the blue badge scheme to live independently, to take part in the | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
community and to contribute to the local economy and, for them, the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
scheme is a lifeline, whether it is going to work, getting to school, | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
being near to park near Tesco's. Are you hearing many stories of the | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
abuse of the badges? What are they doing, borrowing them, using them | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
when they shouldn't be, what do you hear? Misuse can take several forms. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
It can using a stolen badge, altering a badge, knowingly using a | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
stolen badge, but the majority of cases this year have been drivers | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
using a badge belonging to someone else. Fines of ?1000 are available, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
however that is a deterrent if policies are not in place. What do | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
you make of the fact that local authorities, what this asks is do | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
they have a policy for prosecuting drivers and what becomes apparent is | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
an awful lot don't? We want to see consistency across the country. Some | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
councils are doing a lot to clamp down on blue badge misuse, but what | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
is clear from the data is that many are not. No, blue badges are a | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
lifeline to many disabled people and help them to live independently and | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
contribute to the local economy. When blue badge misuse takes place | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
it stops this from happening. Is the Dan Suter ticket out of the control | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
of local councils that local authorities? Treated like you would | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
a different motoring offence? The powers are there, what we need is | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
consistency and greater awareness. There are councils that have taken | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
many steps to Micklewood wrists and drivers aware of the prosecutions | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
that are available if they do part in a blue badge space. We need to | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
see that happening more across the country. Thank you very much for | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
your time. Time now for a look at the newspapers. Now, and Longfield | :22:30. | :22:41. | |
is children's commissioner for England. Thank you for joining us. | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
That's the good work for dry because you started with a nice cheerful | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
story. Going global as well. So, this is billed as it charts to give | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
you reasons to be cheerful if you feel that 2016 could have been | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
better. It tells us that why there are a lot of things that need | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
sorting, actually, in missions for the last three years, greenhouse | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
emissions, have flattened of. Diseases are following, Sri Lanka | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
has eradicated malaria now, for instance. Extreme poverty following | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
in the world. Also an interesting point about connectivity in Africa. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
That is the place that by 2020, 300 million people will be connected | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
digitally which will be twice as many as in North America. That will | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
be an amazing change over the next few years. The number of people who | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
live on less than $1 and 90 cents a day, that is another drop. With many | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
of those statistics, maybe it doesn't feel like that. With | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
greenhouse emissions it says it has two dropped by 80% to stop the earth | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
warming up to the amount needed. There is a lot to do, but | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
interesting. Nice to have a bit of cheerful as well. We have a story | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
about twitter. For the Twitter community, this will be a big thing. | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
We have seen increasingly politicians taking to twitter and | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
making big statements on Twitter over recent weeks. They have been | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
unable to edit their tweets before and there has been a big push that | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
they should be able to rather than just delete them. Are we talking | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
after you have posted it? Yes. At the moment there is no edit button. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
We have to get rid of it, delete it and put another one up instead and | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
not you will be able to edit it. Yesterday I did a tweet and made a | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
mistake. I posted that wearing a Christmas suit. Instead of hour that | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
I posted out that and I thought I'll have to delete and read it. It is | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
unhelpful. There are ways people can find deleted tweet. It will become | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
particularly important with a new resident who will carry on tweeting. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
You have shown the treaty is putting out at the moment. Weather and of | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
those get and that it would not, we shall see. People are pleased that | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
is on its way. It is an easy communication method to | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
misunderstand. It is so brief and so fast. Actually, it is faster than | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
most medication. It is doubly risky, in many ways. That is why Charlie is | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
not honoured. We all like going to the pictures, this is Anderson Jones | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
who has taken it a step further. He is quite quirky. This is a gentleman | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
in Stoke who loved his local cinema so much that when it closed he | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
wanted to build one in his back garden. It is in replica of the | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
1980s tune. He has 34 seats, it has taken years to build. It is in his | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
garden. It is only for family and friends, he has the good seats, a | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
replica carpet and he has a little for you and people, his wife who is | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
very supportive, comes out with refreshments. There is an usher. | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
This is an absolute replica. For someone, I love the film Cinema | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Paradiso, which is about being in love with cinema, I think there is | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
something lovely about this. There is no financial gain. He has just | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
put a lot of time and effort into it. What would be your first film, | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
if that was yours? I love Cinema Paradiso. It is about someone grew | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
up in Italy with cinema. I would go for that. And you can pause when you | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
go to the toilet as well. There are toilets in here as well. It has got | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
it all. Lovely to see you. Happy New Year. Let's see what is still to | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
come this morning. 2016 has been a year of highs and lows. We will be | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
joined by the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and we will | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
talk to her about plans for a second referendum on independence. We have | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
very clearly run the Royal pictures over the sequence. One of those | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
moments. You want the charities will look you up. Olympic stars of | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
course. Who was the thing they all played well with us throughout the | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
Olympics. So, but to look forward to from us here. We will bring you the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
best bet in our major review of the last 12 months. The headlands are | :28:15. | :28:15. | |
coming up. Hello, this is Breakfast with | :28:16. | :28:50. | |
Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Matt will have your | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
full weather forecast. But first, a summary of | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
this morning's main news. More than a hundred Olympic | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
and Paralympic stars have been recognised | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
in the New Year's Honours list, with knighthoods | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
for Andy Murray and Mo Farah. saw him win the Wimbledon title, | :29:11. | :29:12. | |
an Olympic gold medal, and BBC Sports Personality | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
of the Year. But the biggest honour of all | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
was saved for last, he felt he was too | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
young to be a Sir. Four-time Olympic gold | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
medallist Mo Farah said that being awarded a knighthood | :29:30. | :29:30. | |
was a "dream come true" for a boy who arrived in London from Somalia | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
unable to speak any English. Jessica Ennis-Hill has been made a | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
Dame for her services to athletics. she said that she was | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
"truly, truly honoured". is Britain's most decorated | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
female Olympian. She's won five medals | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
at five successive games And gold-medal winning | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
para-equestrian Lee Pearson He's been knighted for | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
services to his sport. Stars of the stage and screen, | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
including Ken Dodd and Patricia Routledge, | :30:05. | :30:06. | |
have also been included They're among more | :30:07. | :30:07. | |
than a thousand people as our entertainment correspondent | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
Lizo Mzimba reports. He's been one of Britain's | :30:13. | :30:21. | |
favourite entertainers Now Ken Dodd has received | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
a knighthood. The best day ever, | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
you can't get better than this. I've played lots of big theatres, | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
I've worked abroad, but this is it. The "Bouquet" residence! | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
The lady of the house speaking. Actress Patricia Routledge, | :30:35. | :30:48. | |
she's been made a Dame. # You got me so I don't | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
know what I'm doing... # said he felt "humility and joy" | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
to become Sir Ray. A knighthood too for award-winning | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
actor Mark Rylance. Bond actress Naomi Harris | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
becomes an OBE. Figures from fashion and design | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
have also been recognised. said she was touched | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
to be made a Dame. Designer Victoria Beckham | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
becomes an OBE. was chaired by the former | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones. Obviously great pride, | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
but mixed with sadness, because of that enduring sadness | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
of the families who have continued to feel the loss | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
of their loved ones. He is one of hundreds | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
being recognised for their contribution | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
across the UK. There's a warning | :31:46. | :31:46. | |
that heavy fog could cause Yesterday the UK's biggest airports, | :31:47. | :31:55. | |
Heathrow and Gatwick, The Met Office says driving | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
conditions will be difficult in many areas of central, eastern | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
and south-east England. Simon Calder, travel editor | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
of the Independent, Simon, I understand you have an | :32:10. | :32:22. | |
update on what is happening. I'm afraid things are getting worse, it | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
is a pretty bleak day, as you can see, the fog is actually clearing a | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
little. At seven o'clock this morning you couldn't see anything, | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
merely hear the old plane arriving. While there was all sorts of hi-tech | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
stuff to get them to land safely even if there is low visibility, | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
unfortunately air-traffic controllers have to slow down the | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
arrivals rate, and that gums everything up at an airport as busy | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
as Heathrow. So British Airways have cancelled about 50 flights today. | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
Unfortunately, if you are trying to get to Istanbul on the flight | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
leaving three minutes ago, that has just been cancelled, as has the | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
flight to Rome in two minutes' time. Across the other side of the | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
capital, London City is even worse affected. Incoming passengers are | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
finding themselves in various parts of Essex, having been diverted to | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
Stansted all South end, and other airlines have all cancelled flights | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
this morning from London City. Unfortunately, the airport closes | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
for its normal weekend curfew at lunchtime, so if you don't get out | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
this morning, you are kind of stuck. So flights cancelled and delayed, | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
what can people do if they are due to fly in the next 24 hours also? It | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
is really tricky, if your flight has been cancelled you go to the back of | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
the queue, trying to find seats on the few available sites. I have been | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
to the Heathrow hotels, talking to passengers who have missed | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
connections. If you fall give me a Ray Davies reference, they spent all | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
of the day and all of the night here at Heathrow, tried to book another | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
flights, but very few seats available. Airlines are responsible | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
for paying for accommodation and meals until they can get you to your | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
destination, but I'm afraid it does look bleak. Simon, thank you very | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
much for your time this morning, Simon Calder, travel editor at the | :34:18. | :34:18. | |
Independent. Around 3,000 police officers will be | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
on duty across central London tonight as crowds gather | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
to celebrate the new year. Greater Manchester Police | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
and other forces say they've also stepped up | :34:27. | :34:27. | |
crowd protection measures. Scotland Yard says extra resources | :34:28. | :34:29. | |
have been brought in to keep people safe | :34:30. | :34:31. | |
following the terror attacks in Berlin and Nice | :34:32. | :34:33. | |
earlier this year. Donald Trump has praised | :34:34. | :34:36. | |
Russia's President Putin for his decision | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
not to engage in a row In a tweet, | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
the US President-elect said he always knew the Russian leader | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
was "very smart". President Obama has ordered | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
35 Russian diplomats to leave the country | :34:48. | :34:49. | |
after accusing Moscow of interfering in November's | :34:50. | :34:50. | |
presidential election. anyone who owns an air gun | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
in Scotland will need a licence. The legislation was | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
introduced after a toddler was killed by an air-gun pellet | :35:02. | :35:03. | |
in Glasgow in 2005. People in England and Wales | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
can own the weapons It's the time of year for charts | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
and lists and best-ofs, so we thought we'd take this | :35:10. | :35:18. | |
opportunity to share from the BBC Breakfast social-media | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
accounts over the last 12 months. Is it a hard-hitting piece | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
of journalism or a stunning expose? It's this footage of | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
giant panda Da Mao battling a snowman | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
at Toronto Zoo. Thousands of you liked | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
and shared these pictures when they went online | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
a couple of weeks ago. It is quite mesmerising, actually, | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
this is my favourite bit, are you ready for this? | :35:58. | :36:05. | |
It does carry on for quite a while, and you can understand why it is so | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
popular, because he get backs up now. | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
It is the determination. It is hard to get a grip, what is this, a | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
straddle? He gets on top, and then look out! | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
I call that uncomfortable, personally! | :36:21. | :36:28. | |
Such elegance and grace! I wonder what the snowman did to upset him! | :36:29. | :36:37. | |
We could watch that all day. We will leave him there. | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
He is still on the social media page, if you want to watch the whole | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
thing. So many sports stars recognise | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
today. Yes, great to see so many Olympians | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
and Paralympians on the list, you have been talking about the big | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
ones, and all of those in those round of the -- VTs. Kate | :36:55. | :37:04. | |
Richardson-Walsh has been made, because you do not get given, she | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
has been made CBE, and Chris Coleman, the Wales manager, has been | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
made an OBE. The whole of the British hockey team, you were | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
talking to Sam Quek, they are MBE. So many, the list goes on and on, | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
hundreds of them. It is great to have a chance to talk about what | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
they did, look back on everything, and the round-up of the year that we | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
showed early on the programme, absolutely brilliant. All that | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
remains for me to talk about is a bit of football that has been | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
happening over the last couple of days, you have been taking the big | :37:41. | :37:41. | |
stories of the day! Hull City are off the bottom | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
of the Premier League, but they missed out on a first | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
league win in nearly two months after a late Everton | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
equaliser at the KCOM. The Tigers went ahead | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
but were pegged back when Robert Snodgrass scored | :37:52. | :37:53. | |
this brilliant free kick They couldn't hang | :37:54. | :37:55. | |
on for victory, though. Ross Barkley nodded | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
in the Everton equaliser late on. I'm really pleased, because over | :37:59. | :38:00. | |
the past three or four weeks, we've put in a shift | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
and got nothing. Today we've put in a | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
shift and got a point. We could be greedy and ask for more, | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
but I'm really proud of the players for their efforts and we have to go | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
again in two, three days' time. I am really pleased tonight | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
about our performance. I wasn't happy about | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
our slow start, 1-0 down, but we showed twice, really, | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
in the result, a really good attitude | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
and a good reaction. It's a busy day in the | :38:33. | :38:34. | |
Premier League with top billing against Manchester City, | :38:35. | :38:42. | |
who are third. City will be boosted by the return | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
of striker Sergio Aguero, No, he is ready, he can play good | :38:48. | :39:01. | |
for us. Yeah, finally come back after seven games banned, three | :39:02. | :39:09. | |
games plus four. And we are happy he is back. | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
Actually, I hope Pep gave him the opportunity to have three and a half | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
weeks off, somewhere with good weather, Argentina is good at the | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
moment. He can only score goals of somebody gives him the ball, so we | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
have to avoid the easy passes, I would say. Probably each pass in his | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
area, but the easy ones we should avoid, and we can defend. | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
There was one game in the Scottish Premiership last night | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
The goal came from Jonny Hayes in the 66th minute. | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
The third placed Dons are now six points ahead of Hearts, | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
Celtic could extend their lead over Rangers to 19 points | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
in the Scottish Premiership if they win the Old Firm derby | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
Celtic are unbeaten in 23 domestic matches this season, | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
and it's their last game before the winter break in Scotland. | :40:02. | :40:09. | |
We have had a really tough month of nine games, seven of which we won, | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
one draw in the Champions League. So we want to win the game, of course. | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
However, whatever way the result goes for us, we had a brilliant | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
opening period to the season. We will go away, reenergise and refocus | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
and be better in the second part of the season. | :40:30. | :40:31. | |
Andy Murray has been knighted in the New Year's Honours list. | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
He'll play in the third-place playoff within the next hour, | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
after a surprise defeat yesterday to David Goffin in the semifinals | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
of the World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
He is already a couple of breaks up against Milos Raonic. | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
Goffin will play Rafael Nadal in the final | :40:51. | :40:52. | |
after he beat Milos Raonic in three sets. | :40:53. | :40:54. | |
Andy Murray on course for third place at the world tennis | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
championships in Abu Dhabi. To rugby union, and George North | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
will return for Northampton Saints in their Premiership match | :41:01. | :41:02. | |
at Gloucester tomorrow. It will be the Welshman's first game | :41:03. | :41:04. | |
since suffering a head injury That was North's fifth | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
concussion in two years, including two in the match | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
on your screen now between England and Wales | :41:11. | :41:12. | |
in February 2015. A review board said North | :41:13. | :41:14. | |
shouldn't have continued to play against Leicester, but they | :41:15. | :41:16. | |
didn't sanction Northampton. Raymond van Barneveld knocked out | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
Phil "The Power" Taylor in the quarter-finals of | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
the PDC World Darts Championship. In what was billed as | :41:31. | :41:32. | |
the El Clasico of darts, the Dutchman saw off Taylor 5-3 | :41:33. | :41:34. | |
at Alexandra Palace. He'll play world number one | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
Michael van Gerwen in the semis. I always think the crowd would put | :41:38. | :41:52. | |
the off if I was playing darts. I think that in any sport, in golf, | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
with the huge ground, I would lie down in the feudal position! | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
It is quite unusual, the darts, it is such a social occasion, it is | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
like being in a club or something and someone playing darts in front | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
of you. You have got to be the kind of | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
personality that thrives on that, and the players do, they love it, | :42:14. | :42:14. | |
don't they? The rules of rugby and boxing are | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
often changed to make the sport safer for children to play, but is | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
it now time for football to do the same? | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
With research linking heading the ball to brain injuries, | :42:32. | :42:33. | |
the Professional Footballers Association says | :42:34. | :42:34. | |
it's time to think about banning headers in the junior game. | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
In America, they're banned for under-10s. | :42:38. | :42:38. | |
visiting the National Football Museum think of the idea. | :42:39. | :42:52. | |
As a mum, I am concerned about a ball impact in on my son's head. If | :42:53. | :43:02. | |
they are having a kick around in the park, you're not going to be able to | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
stop them. It is ridiculous, where do you draw the line? If children | :43:06. | :43:13. | |
are trained to do it correctly, unless there is evidence otherwise, | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
we should leave it to run as it is. If there were no headers allowed, it | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
would change football. If children and ten not able to do it, they | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
would not want to play. It is a bad idea, because like some people are | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
defenders and they have to head the ball to get it out. If they don't, | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
the other team will probably school. Some good views there! | :43:39. | :43:40. | |
With us now are children's football coach Nathan Sargerson | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
a neuroscientist from the University of East Anglia. | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
Good morning to you both. You are a football coach, you are used to kids | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
in training, what will they make of this idea? It will be... I think it | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
will be difficult to take out of the game initially. I think it has got | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
to come from governing bodies like the FA, and it will be hard at | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
first, I think. But something to work on, and the doctor has done his | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
research, and he knows a lot about it, more than I do. So I think we | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
have got to listen to people like Dr Michael Grey. Talk us through what | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
science is telling us at this stage about what heading the ball does to | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
the body, and in this case we're talking about a child. Right, so a | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
number of issues. The first is, I think, is really important that we | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
dispel the idea that we are trying to say stop sport, stop children | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
from playing sport. It is really important that children are doing | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
that. The issue now is with repetitive impacts to the brain. The | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
brain sits inside the cranium, and each time there is an impact, the | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
brain is rattling around inside the cranium, and the rotations are | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
causing structural damage to the neurons. Break this down for us, you | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
know, say you all the football coach more specifically heads the ball, | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
what happens each time the ball is headed? Each time the brain is | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
rotating, really wobbling. So it should be able to do that? | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
Absolutely. Why is it a problem? The idea is that, over a career of doing | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
this, over a long time of heading the ball repeatedly, we are having | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
increased damage with each and every hit. And the idea is that what we | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
know is that it leads or can lead to neurodegeneration. And that is | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
measurable? What is the evidence? We do have evidence, so over a long | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
period of time, we do have evidence where what we call white-matter | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
changes in the brain. So the bits of the neurons that are communicating | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
with our brain, we note that they are thinner in people who have been | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
heading the ball for a career. The issue with children, a number of | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
issues with children, the biggest one is that they do not have the | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
same protection as do adults, they are a lot more vulnerable, so the | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
idea is that if we restrict children from heading the ball at a very | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
young age, when they are most vulnerable, the idea is that we are | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
protecting them. Nathan, when you are teaching kids football, are you | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
teaching them about how to head a ball safely? Or is it just not | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
possible? No, it is, and we do that at a really low age, so I coach kids | :46:41. | :46:46. | |
as young as three, and we are making sure that the footwork is OK, and | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
that has a knock-on effect about the body, the stance, and they know that | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
it is the forehead, not the top of the head. You get that in as young | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
as possible, and then they will know. And the sort of correct | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
themselves, really. If they do it wrong, they generally know the | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
answer. Does it make a difference? If they are using soft. Michael | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
talking specifically about where on the head, the forehead is the | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
technique? Not in terms of concussion, no, but for neck injury, | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
definitely, teaching people to do the skill properly is definitely | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
important. Where we are at the moment, the PFA is calling on | :47:30. | :47:35. | |
authorities to consider a. Given what you said, how the doctor | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
explains it, in America they seem to be head of us, what has to happen | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
for somebody to say you can out of children having constant impact on | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
the head? We need the will to change. I liken this very much to | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
what happened in Canada, where I am from, with eye socket. We banned the | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
body checking a long, long time ago. -- with ice hockey. There was a lot | :47:58. | :48:05. | |
of opposition to it at first, but now it is accepted. Do you think it | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
might go that way? Possibly, when you're talking about injuries to | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
children, you have got to take it quite seriously, and the research | :48:15. | :48:17. | |
behind it, we were talking backstage, there has got to be more | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
research to replicate it. But it is possible. And I think that the | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
younger end, there isn't that much heading, because kids are struggled | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
to kick the ball off the floor. The USA have brought it in at under ten, | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
and where they get that and ten from I would like to know. But you never | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
know. Thank you both very much for your time this morning. Time now for | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
a look at the weather with Matt. We have had for being an issue as | :48:46. | :48:56. | |
you have been hearing throughout breakfast. It is not as dense or | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
long-lasting as it has been through the past few days, but still a few | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
patches causing trouble on some of the roads, especially over the hills | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
and at some of the airports of south-east England, but also into | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Most of it will lift | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
into low cloud, making for a grey day across many southern areas, but | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
a few breaks allowing sunshine through, particularly to the | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
north-east of Wales and north-eastern England, lovely start | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
here. The clouds thicken up across Cumbria and dump it and Galloway for | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
some drizzle. Raining relentlessly across northern Scotland for 24-hour | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
is, a risk of minor flooding, breezy conditions around it as well. That | :49:38. | :49:47. | |
rain band does make a ship southwards,. -- a shift southwards. | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
Head of that rain, ten or 11 degrees, where the mist and low | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
cloud lingers, five or six Celsius. In bright spots, around 12 Celsius | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
through this afternoon. If you are heading outside to celebrate this | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
evening, as the midnight hour approaches, take somewhat approves | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
for the early start across Scotland and Northern Ireland, a spell of | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
heavy rain will move into Northern England and Northwest Wales by | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
midnight. As the bells ringing in Scotland, most will be clear, cold, | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
but one or two wintry showers in the North. Largely dry for central and | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
southern England, drizzle before the heavy rain arrives in the north-west | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
of Wales later. Compared to recent nights, comparatively mild, seven or | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
8 degrees as we had midnight in the South, much colder in the north, the | :50:37. | :50:39. | |
wind making it feel colder than those temperatures would suggest. | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
That cold wind from the Arctic nudges southwards into New Year's | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
Day, it will take a while, this weather front will be straddling | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
parts of England and Wales, meaning a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain, | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
heavy at times. Sleet and snow over the hills. The best of the | :50:57. | :50:58. | |
brightness into Northern England during the afternoon, but even here | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
one of two rain or snow flurries, feeling very cold indeed. More of | :51:08. | :51:10. | |
that cold weather to take is into Monday an Tuesday, sunshine by day, | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
frosty by night. However you are enjoying, happy Hogmanay. | :51:15. | :51:24. | |
was a key figure in the American civil-rights movement. | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
is his solidarity with Welsh mining communities. | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
One of his lesser known films, The Proud Valley, | :51:32. | :51:33. | |
has now been remastered by the British Film Institute, | :51:34. | :51:35. | |
as part of their season celebrating black actors. | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
The story of a black man who enchanted a South Wales mining | :51:41. | :51:59. | |
community, Paul Robeson's film The Proud Valley | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
was a box-office flop, but now it's being remastered | :52:05. | :52:06. | |
Ivor England is a former miner and trade union leader. | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
The old man, I could remember him saying Robeson has got something. | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
Not only a voice, but a way of speaking on behalf of his people, | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
and that stayed with me for very many years. | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
Mining has now largely disappeared from the valleys of South Wales, | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
but that connection between the people of these communities | :52:28. | :52:29. | |
a civil-rights activist who became a lawyer, | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
and one of the most famous actors of his generation endures. | :52:36. | :52:42. | |
The Proud Valley was made in 1940, but Paul Robeson's connection | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
to Wales dates back to the 1920s, when he met a group of miners | :52:50. | :52:52. | |
who walked from South Wales to London | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
to draw attention to the hardship they endured. | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
For the first time, he saw the miners' struggle | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
was similar to his own struggle for civil rights. | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
My warmest greetings to the people of my beloved Wales... | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
In 1957, Robeson was banned from travelling. | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
He addressed a group of miners from a secret studio. | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
Thousands gathered to hear him sing | :53:17. | :53:19. | |
at the Miners' Eisteddfod in Porthcawl. | :53:20. | :53:21. | |
It was quite stunning, quite electric | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
that we heard his voice coming from this studio in New York. | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
Paul Robeson was one of the few people who actually | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
stood up to racism and the lynchings in the Deep South | :53:39. | :53:48. | |
and campaigned for peace and campaigned for colonial freedom. | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
He had that same internationalist view | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
that the South Wales miners had, a shared common humanity. | :53:55. | :53:56. | |
It is that history that the British Film Institute is celebrating | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
Paul Robeson was particularly proud of this film | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
because it gave him an opportunity to express his socialist beliefs, | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
and he could represent the Wales working class. | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
In many of his films, he felt he could not do this through, | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
because he was oppressed by the Hollywood system. | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
An exhibition of Robeson's work will run at the BFI Southbank | :54:23. | :54:24. | |
but perhaps it is in South Wales he will be most fondly remembered. | :54:25. | :54:33. | |
That is fascinating, isn't it? Just 14 hours left in 2016. | :54:34. | :54:45. | |
And one second! Let's take a look back at the year on BBC Breakfast. | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
It has been an eventful year, have a look at this. | :54:51. | :54:53. | |
# Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes # Turn and face the strain...# | :54:54. | :54:55. | |
2016 was a year of change on Breakfast. | :54:56. | :54:57. | |
The year we said goodbye to our old friend Bill. | :54:58. | :54:59. | |
I was taking great interest in your isobars. | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
Would you say they were tightly packed? | :55:04. | :55:04. | |
Honestly, I really meant nothing by that. | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
I'm so glad they did not do the jugs one. | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
Bill Turnbull finally gave up the 4:00am alarm calls. | :55:12. | :55:20. | |
Now the day has come for you to swap that sofa | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
for a bed and those long-awaited lie-ins. | :55:24. | :55:25. | |
Do you see the love and affection Naga has? | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
Oh, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
There will be a new president, and it could be Donald Trump. | :55:35. | :55:44. | |
I believe that won't reveal itself. | :55:45. | :55:56. | |
It really has been a year of surprises, | :55:57. | :55:58. | |
and who could have predicted this? | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
Breakfast thrilled in a glittering gold rush of a summer. | :56:03. | :56:12. | |
Honest, do you shove the bronze in the top drawer? | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
Just a few have popped over to see Sally. | :56:17. | :56:25. | |
Fresh from Rio, there was one place our medallists chose to come. | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
Is that Max Whitlock on the pommel outside my office? | :56:32. | :56:39. | |
From Olympic champs...to red sofa champs. | :56:40. | :57:02. | |
The trophy that you didn't quite win. | :57:03. | :57:11. | |
But the real star of Breakfast has always been you, | :57:12. | :57:24. | |
and in 2016, so many of you have inspired us. | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
Running for me has been something that I have used to help | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
combat the mental illness that I suffered throughout my 20s. | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
Four years ago, I could not even run for a bus. | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
We have done it. We did it. | :57:43. | :57:44. | |
We are so proud of what we have done. | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
This year, you helped us shine a light on cancer. | :57:48. | :57:58. | |
You told us these stories encouraged you | :57:59. | :58:00. | |
to get that check, make that change. | :58:01. | :58:02. | |
I would say to all the boys and girls to never give up. | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
And we have helped deliver some of the best bits. | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
There she was, just presenting very happily. | :58:14. | :58:16. | |
And then she decided to have an event later on. | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
We have also delivered some of the worst. | :58:24. | :58:25. | |
We will be joined by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
talking about plans for a second referendum on independence. | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
We have very clearly run the wrong pictures | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
And you have been happy to tell us when we haven't. | :58:35. | :58:51. | |
Lots of people have been commenting on Louise's lovely dress. | :58:52. | :58:59. | |
Some people said it was a slice of Battenberg. | :59:00. | :59:01. | |
Some people said it was rhubarb and custard. | :59:02. | :59:03. | |
A few people have suggested you are wearing the Heart | :59:04. | :59:05. | |
I have been getting grief this morning | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
But more of you choose to watch us over your cereal | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
And for that the Breakfast family would like to say thank you. | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
There is always someone, that was Tracy, our floor manager, we know | :59:24. | :59:38. | |
what she meant! And have a lovely New Year's Eve, | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
whatever you are doing, thank you for watching over the last year. We | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
will be back tomorrow from six. Bye-bye. | :59:47. | :59:59. | |
as he explores Naples, Venice and Florence. | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
It's like we're walking through a giant's armpit. | :00:04. | :00:05. | |
We can follow the escape route of Michelangelo. | :00:06. | :00:13. |