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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

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Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

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to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

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Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life,

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

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Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

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to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

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Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life,

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In the next hour, more than 1,000 people will be moved to safety

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Thousands of people have been told to evacuate. I will have the details

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live in Jaywick. Good morning, it is

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Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More

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men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before,

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according to a new study of those Almost 5 million people

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switched their energy supplier last We will find out how

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you could save money on your bill. More people took their first step

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on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research

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for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer

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buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

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of one of its true gentlemen Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

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Aston Villa and England manager, who died after a heart attack

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yesterday at the age of 72. Good morning to you. Lots to talk

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about in terms of the weather. Snow and ice warnings as well as strong

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winds and potential flooding around the east coast. A full forecast in

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15 minutes. First, our main story: The army

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is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast,

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where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued

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seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast, floodgates

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have been closed in preparation for the storm surge. Gale force winds

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are combining with high tides to threaten coastal defences. In

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Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning, meaning a risk to

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life. The emergency services have arrived in force. The residents are

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being urged to leave. Evacuation centres are on standby. We've got

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exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially

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with gusts stronger than that going to coincide with a high tide just

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after lunchtime, so that's why we've put in place this operation to

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evacuate safely the people of Jaywick. Some have already heeded

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that warning. Others are waiting to see. We have had the text messages,

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saying have you evacuated yet? The neighbours next door get all

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panicked, because she is not very well next door, and things like

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that. So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay. On the

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Lincolnshire coast on at Skegness, the military have been brought in to

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help if needed. About 100 soldiers have been based at the police

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station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

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to protect their businesses. There will be a significant rise in the

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water. But whether it will be enough to top the defences depends on

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Mother Nature, I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is said to bring

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more wintry weather today, causing even more travel disruption. Nearly

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all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow or ice or. -- or

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both. In a moment we will get

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the latest on the snow, but first we can speak

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to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex,

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where residents are being moved I can see a couple of people behind

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you. That's right. I'm currently standing in a very warm rest centre.

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Approximately 17 people here, as you can see, six are resting behind me.

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I have unfortunately woken up this morning but they are very warm, very

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safe, and that is what the police have been telling them all

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throughout the night. They were told approximately at 4pm yesterday

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afternoon when they received a knock on their door telling them they had

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to leave their home because they were in fact at risk of flooding.

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Overnight here this centre has been open, providing hot drinks, Lang

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gets, lower beds. Some safe haven for these people. This is just the

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beginning, the first of 2500 residents who are being told that

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they are at risk. The fear is that the strong winds during the high

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tide will break the defences, and flood the village, destroying

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thousands of homes. It is of course a very anxious time for not just

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these people but for people along the coast throughout the country. We

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have already seen the army over in Lincolnshire. There are also serve

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rural weather warnings and flood warnings around the east coast --

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several weather warnings. The advice is to pack a bag of clothes and have

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essential medical items as well, ensure that valuables and expensive

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electrical items are put in high places, and if you have any concerns

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please do contact the police on the 101 number. Thank you, we will get

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back to you throughout the morning. The weather caused some problems

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for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays,

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including queues in both directions There are warnings of

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similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones

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is in a very snowy Canterbury We had some snow in a few places

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last night. I can see some around where you are. The snow started

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coming down here at around 6pm yesterday evening, and it snowed

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heavily for around three hours. We are told at was about five

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centimetres, which is an unusual amount in this part of the world.

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And down there you can see some of the snow. But because it has been

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freezing overnight it is actually largely turned to ice, and that

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means it is pretty grim as you are trying to walk around. Very, very

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sleepy. We've got more snow down here, and it is not really very nice

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at all. Now the roads largely have been greeted. This one isn't too

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bad, the gritters have been out and about throughout the night. This one

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down here is pretty much sheet ice so not nice to drive on. The advice

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is if you are driving go very slowly. We have had a few incidents,

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part of the 20 is closed because the lorry has blocked that road -- and

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20. We are told there could be more snow today, starting in Scotland,

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heading for the north of England and then heading for the east. So we

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have a situation of snow, we have ice, we have strong winds. The

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advice is take care and stay indoors if you don't have to be out on this.

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Thank you very much. Simon Jones is in Canterbury for us. We will be

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taking a look at the weather as it develops throughout the morning.

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The number of men in low-paid, part-time work has increased

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New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that

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one in five low paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time.

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That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades.

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But for women, the opposite is the case, as our business

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Top earning men in the professions normally work full-time. In fact,

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only 5% of them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst the lowest

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paid men, often in areas like catering and hospitality, 20% now

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work half-time. And that number has increased fourfold in the last 20

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years. That has meant that wage inequality for men has increased, as

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higher paid, full-time staff have done far better than low paid,

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part-time workers. But for women, the opposite is the case. For women,

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earnings growth has been consistently higher than that for

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men over the last 20 years, and more of them are in work. For men,

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particularly the lowest paid, they've actually seen falls in the

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numbers of hours of work, which has suppressed the amount of pay that

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they get. It is far from clear why low paid men are increasingly

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working part-time. It might be because they want to, although that

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seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low paid and part-time jobs are

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either in retail, wholesale, restaurants or hospitality might

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suggest that men who previously worked in low paid but secure and

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full-time jobs, in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

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and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid and

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less secure services sector of the economy.

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A week to go until the new American president is sworn in,

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and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet

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nominees on some of the vital questions facing

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His choice for the CIA leader has endorsed the work of the US

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intelligence community, hours after it was criticised

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Also, the potential defence secretary said Moscow posed a threat

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in Europe, after Mr Trump called for warmer relations with Russia.

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Our correspondent Laura Bicker reports from Washington.

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The nation's capital awaits a new commander-in-chief.

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But, as the gates go up for expectant crowds,

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Donald Trump is still facing questions about intelligence,

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suggesting Moscow tried to help put him in Washington.

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The President-elect's choice for CIA director's said that he valued

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the judgement of the staff he hopes to lead.

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It's pretty clear there was Russian involvement in efforts to hack

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information and have an impact on American democracy.

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I'm very clear-eyed about what the intelligence report says.

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That view on Russia is more hawkish than what Donald Trump has

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His fiercest criticism has mostly been aimed at spy agencies.

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He accused US intelligence agencies of leaking unverified reports that

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the Kremlin gathered compromising material on Donald Trump,

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The dossier is supposed to have come from a British spy,

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Donald Trump announced it as fake news.

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But Christopher Steele's former colleague says he is reliable.

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Chris was a strong, middle-ranking SAS officer.

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I do not quite agree this was a subpar report.

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He has been careful to find as many sources to back it up,

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but also to make it clear these are stories, and the intelligence

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This controversy is likely to continue long after

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Inauguration Day, and has cast a shadow over Donald Trump's

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administration before he has even taken the oath of office.

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And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele,

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the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump,

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was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team.

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It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world

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Emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

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as President Obama surprised his Vice-President with the country's

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Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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to Joe Biden for his faith in his fellow Americans

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Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise.

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More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent locum

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doctors, according to a review by the General Medical Council.

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The regulator says a reluctance to share information weaknesses

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in checks is allowing some poorly performing stand-in doctors

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Our health correspondent Elaine Dunkley has more.

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The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

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The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

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equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

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with software that regulates emissions results.

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The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

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Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees

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in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge,

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Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled,

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but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear

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whether survivors of torture or violence are getting

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The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

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Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five

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million people changed their electricity supplier last

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year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

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to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

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It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

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We will be speaking to energy expert Stephen Murray about the figures

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Killer whales and humans have something in common,

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They are two of only three mammals that go through the menopause.

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A 40-year study of a population of orcas has shown scientists why

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any species would evolve to stop having babies early in life.

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The research uncovered the crucial role grandmother whales play

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in their family pod, and that their daughters' offspring

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has a higher chance of survival once the grandmother stops reproducing.

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Yesterday we spoke about a nine-year-old British boy

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who melted hearts while competing in the Spanish version

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of Junior MasterChef, after his fish and chip dish didn't

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Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain with his family two years ago,

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was invited to cook for the British Ambassador to Spain

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Let's hope it wasn't a repeat of his nightmare moment

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Moat! That was the moment when it all went wrong for him. He had a bit

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of a hug, and anyway, he has a lot of attention, and as we say, he has

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gone on the other people. Hopefully it'll be right. We have all done

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that in the kitchen, spilt the source, have a bad moment.

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Graham Taylor, one of the nicest people you will ever meet. The sort

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of person you want to be your brother or your dad. You can imagine

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what it was like for young players as a football manager. Reassuring,

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so warm. No ego. These days of press conferences for football managers,

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he was always asking about you. Can I get you a cup of coffee? Don't

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worry, you are far too busy. But a great club manager as well. But he

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was haunted. I remember reassuring him here that what happened when he

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was manager shouldn't taint his reputation, it was that moment

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redefined the way the press deal with England managers, when he was

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depicted as they turn it on the back page of the Sun. He said it stayed

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with him forever and it to find his four years in charge. He was a

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fantastic and dumber manager in terms of Watford and Aston Villa. --

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he was a fantastic manager. Sir Elton John, who brought

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Graham Taylor to Watford at the start of their rise

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to the top, said it was like he had The former Watford, Aston Villa

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and England manager is believed to have suffered a heart

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attack at the age of 72. His family say it was

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totally unexpected. There was a minute's applause

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in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match

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between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League

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wins in a row, thanks Andy Murray will start his

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Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

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for a Grand Slam for the first time, and he is chasing a first

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title in Melbourne. In the women's draw,

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Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sellout crowd

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at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably

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beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season

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game to be played in the capital. Not surprisingly he is all of the --

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all over the front pages. The table lookup The Daily Mail. A

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lot of interest in this. An ex- MI6 man, who has corn into hiding to

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make -- gone into hiding. Questions over what he knew about the dossier.

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It is said he shared the information with quite a lot of people in the

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run-up to the renovation by one of the websites more recently.

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A lot of speculation about that. The Express has a story about what's

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going on with the weather at the moment, saying Britain will be

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plunged back into the deep freeze next week. Of course we will be

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talking to Sarah to find out what's going on.

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Send us any pictures if you are affected. These are some of the

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pictures on the front of the Daily Telegraph. That was Cumbria. Some

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places having up to six centimetres. The Trump dossier on the front page

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here. Have you got anything? The front of the FT, the emission

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scandal. We talked about Volkswagen before. Fiat is getting dragged in.

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If you are one of the 4000 Jeep grand Cherokee owners, you might

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want to keep an eye on this story cause they are getting accused of

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having software installed by Fiat that may have allowed those cars do

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not have as much... Sorry, to have more pollution than they were

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allowed. So Fiat say they have done nothing illegal and in fact the boss

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says it is absolute nonsense. It sounds very similar to the scandal

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with Volkswagen. We have another one. We have been talking a lot

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about housing. We are talking about how it is getting cheaper to have a

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mortgage if you are first-time buyer. The Telegraph a different

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spin. Lucky for home buyers. If you are willing to get involved today,

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the demand isn't quite as high as you might think. So if anyone is

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actually buying a house today, on the 13th... We have all of the

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coverage on Graham Taylor. And we have Elton John, who looks like he

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is tickling his ears, that's at Watford in the early years. And he

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gives a moving tribute to his great friend and, as he says, his brother.

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Deeply saddened and shocked to hear about his passing. We shared an

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unbreakable bond since we met. He says it will stay with him forever

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because he took Watford from the lowest division to the top of the

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game and they are back there today. And you will speak to some of the

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people... Well, he did so much to tackle

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racism. We will be speaking to someone at 8:30am about that.

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Let's get the latest on how that severe weather is developing.

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Sarah is here with a look at this morning's weather.

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Good morning. Lots going on in terms of the weather today. Still feeling

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wintry. We have ice around this morning and snow, but it isn't just

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the wintry weather, also strong winds and the potential for that

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postal flooding. Low pressure moving south around the east coast, ringing

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the fleet, snow as well. -- ringing the fleet. There are strong winds

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blowing. At about 8am for Scotland a windy picture. A few showers for

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Northern Ireland through the day. As we head down the east coast we will

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see the low pressure bringing sleet and snow, as well as the strong

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winds. Later in the day with the strong winds in the east, combined

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with high tide, we could see severe in packs around the east coast,

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especially around east Anglia. Plenty going on. We have the strong

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winds for many of us. Coastal flooding in east Anglia and eastern

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England. This area of sleet and snow will clear the south-east of England

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by about lunchtime and then it's a quieter story as we had through the

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afternoon, in terms of the weather. In cooking dry, with wintry

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sunshine. Temperatures about 2- five degrees. -- temperatures looking

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dry. Towards the west of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, some of

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the sleet and snow showers will turn back to rain. Things milder from the

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west. For most of us another cold night. Under clear skies we could

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have a sharp frost and icy stretches heading into Saturday morning.

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Subzero temperatures to stop the weekend. Some calls, icy weather and

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again snow, Aditya Lelia round the east coast, where we will have

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further snow showers. Towards the west some of that will turn back to

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rain and sleet in -- sleet, but not a bad day. Temperatures one or two

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for eastern areas, but towards the west more like six or seven. Things

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continue to turn mild from the west through the weekend. Saturday night

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and into Sunday you can see the yellow colours returning to the map.

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Through the day on Sunday, wet weather. A cloudy picture. Drizzly

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on Sunday and moving eastwards across the UK. Temperatures 5- ten

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degrees by the time we get to Sunday. Watch out today for the ice

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and snow and strong winds which could lead to travel disruption.

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Thank you. A record number of households

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switched to a different electricity That's according to

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the industry body Energy UK. Their findings, out today,

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show that almost five million customers changed

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their electricity supplier in 2016. This is the highest recorded number

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of switches since Energy UK started publishing

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their data back in 2013. And not everyone moved over

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to one of the Big Six, a fifth of electricity

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switches in December But the regulator Ofgem says that

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two thirds of all households are still on standard variable

:23:40.:23:46.

tariffs, which tend to be more Joining us now to talk

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through these findings is Stephen Murray, an energy expert

:23:50.:23:53.

from Money Supermarket. Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

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This is something I've talked about loads. People can save money if they

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switch and for a long time lots of people haven't been bothered, what

:24:08.:24:10.

it sounds like the tide is turning? It is a little bit. As you say it

:24:11.:24:16.

has been nearly 20 years in the market was deregulated and nearly 19

:24:17.:24:20.

million customers are still the standard variable tariffs of the big

:24:21.:24:25.

six suppliers. But we have seen a shift. Ely 5 million people have

:24:26.:24:31.

shifted this year, nearly four -- 400,000 this month, which shows the

:24:32.:24:35.

market is opening up. Clearly the best incentive for people to changes

:24:36.:24:41.

that they will save money. What sort of savings are people making? This

:24:42.:24:51.

-- last year prices were lower than a long time, so people were

:24:52.:24:54.

previously paying 300 pounds or than they needed to. Towards the end of

:24:55.:25:02.

the year the prices were rising. For those who use more, savings are

:25:03.:25:05.

significant. One of the things people say to me is it's a hassle,

:25:06.:25:10.

they are all the same, I know you say I could save this money but it

:25:11.:25:14.

isn't worth the hassle. What do you say? I think that might have been a

:25:15.:25:21.

reason a while back, but there is an excess of 40 current suppliers. So

:25:22.:25:25.

customers have a choice of 40 suppliers, they can't all be the

:25:26.:25:30.

same. A lot of them are new and are offering green tariffs. Energy

:25:31.:25:33.

switching guarantee makes it very simple. The advocacy is nearly 90%,

:25:34.:25:40.

which means it only takes about three weeks to go through and while

:25:41.:25:44.

there are couple of horror stories the vast majority of customers can

:25:45.:25:48.

save those ?150 - ?200 almost immediately. Why is the onus on the

:25:49.:25:53.

consumer? If I am someone who is sitting at home and I am thinking, I

:25:54.:25:58.

don't think about my energy, it just comes in and I pay the bill, why is

:25:59.:26:03.

there no pressure on the supplier to offer a better deal? If they've got

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a better deal and you are their customers, why did they offer it to

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you? They do now. Ofgem has put in a lot of regulations over the last few

:26:13.:26:15.

years and on energy bills the energy supplier must now come but it is

:26:16.:26:23.

called the cheapest tariff regulation. They must put it on

:26:24.:26:27.

their bill. The regulations don't allow suppliers to review onto

:26:28.:26:30.

anything other than a variable tariff. The regulator is looking at

:26:31.:26:35.

how to best give customers choice, but if customers aren't happy with

:26:36.:26:39.

where they are it's a simple process to switch away and get a cheaper

:26:40.:26:47.

deal. People are moving to smaller suppliers as well, as some companies

:26:48.:26:54.

ended up going into administration. Do people need to worry about that?

:26:55.:26:59.

Six months ago people may have said they were worried, but previous

:27:00.:27:04.

cases were dealt with seriously. No customers lost money or supply. So

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that was a great move to show that people can have confidence moving to

:27:11.:27:15.

a smaller suppliers because there are protections in place. Many of us

:27:16.:27:21.

are -- the small suppliers are doing well. Thanks very much.

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Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

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Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Steph.

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Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:30:48.:30:53.

We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:30:54.:31:05.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:31:06.:31:08.

We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:31:09.:31:14.

But also on Breakfast this morning: As thousands of people are advised

:31:15.:31:18.

to leave their homes in preparation for storm surges and heavy snow,

:31:19.:31:21.

we will be speaking to the Environment Agency

:31:22.:31:23.

about the latest weather warnings affecting the UK.

:31:24.:31:25.

Why buying a home could be cheaper than renting.

:31:26.:31:28.

As research shows that in some areas monthly rents are outstripping

:31:29.:31:31.

average mortgage payments, we ask what it means for the housing

:31:32.:31:34.

market, and for those struggling to get on the property ladder.

:31:35.:31:37.

We are discussing a controversial documentary featuring a leading

:31:38.:31:39.

psychologist, who was sacked after questioning whether children

:31:40.:31:41.

should be allowed to decide if they want to change their gender.

:31:42.:31:45.

But now a summary of this morning's main news:

:31:46.:31:48.

The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east

:31:49.:31:52.

coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit.

:31:53.:31:54.

The Environment Agency has issued seven severe flood warnings,

:31:55.:31:57.

All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed

:31:58.:32:02.

Gale-force winds are combining with high tides

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In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning,

:32:10.:32:14.

The emergency services have arrived in force.

:32:15.:32:22.

The residents are being urged to leave.

:32:23.:32:24.

We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles

:32:25.:32:31.

an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that,

:32:32.:32:33.

and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime.

:32:34.:32:36.

So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely

:32:37.:32:39.

Some have already heeded that warning.

:32:40.:32:44.

We've had the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet?

:32:45.:32:52.

I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked,

:32:53.:32:55.

because she's not very well next door, and things like that.

:32:56.:32:58.

So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay.

:32:59.:33:01.

On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been

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About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station.

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Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

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There will be a significant rise in the water.

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But whether it will be enough to top the defences,

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that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really.

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And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today,

:33:28.:33:30.

Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings,

:33:31.:33:34.

The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased

:33:35.:33:39.

New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that

:33:40.:33:44.

one in five low-paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time.

:33:45.:33:46.

That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades,

:33:47.:33:50.

And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele,

:33:51.:33:59.

the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump,

:34:00.:34:02.

was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team.

:34:03.:34:05.

It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world

:34:06.:34:08.

There were emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House

:34:09.:34:17.

last night, as President Obama surprised his Vice-President

:34:18.:34:19.

with the country's highest civilian honour.

:34:20.:34:21.

Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom

:34:22.:34:24.

to Joe Biden, for his faith in his fellow Americans

:34:25.:34:27.

Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise.

:34:28.:34:42.

Hospitals are failing to pass on their concerns about incompetent

:34:43.:34:45.

locum doctors, according to the General Medical Council.

:34:46.:34:47.

The report for the doctors regulator found some hospitals take no action

:34:48.:34:50.

when they see poor practice among stand-in doctors,

:34:51.:34:52.

who often cover staff shortages in surgeries and hospitals.

:34:53.:34:55.

The Department of Health said further progress in monitoring

:34:56.:34:57.

The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

:34:58.:35:02.

The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:35:03.:35:05.

equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:35:06.:35:08.

with software that regulates emissions results.

:35:09.:35:10.

The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:35:11.:35:13.

Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees

:35:14.:35:25.

in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge,

:35:26.:35:28.

Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled,

:35:29.:35:31.

but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear

:35:32.:35:34.

whether survivors of torture or violence are getting

:35:35.:35:36.

The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

:35:37.:35:46.

Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five

:35:47.:35:51.

million people changed their electricity supplier last

:35:52.:35:53.

year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

:35:54.:35:56.

to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

:35:57.:35:59.

It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

:36:00.:36:02.

Those are the main stories, and Mike is here with the sport. Paying

:36:03.:36:25.

tribute to one of the true gentleman of football. One of the nicest men

:36:26.:36:30.

you would ever meet. Came onto the Breakfast sofa to talk about England

:36:31.:36:35.

games on numerous occasions. Always had a great sense of humour,

:36:36.:36:41.

self-deprecating as well. No ego, which is rare. He was haunted by his

:36:42.:36:49.

unsuccessful time for England, which changed the way the press dealt with

:36:50.:36:54.

football managers, after England lost to Sweden. That troubled him

:36:55.:36:58.

for many years afterwards but he should be remembered for far more

:36:59.:37:03.

than that. Just a great man. It is hard to remember so much genuine

:37:04.:37:09.

love for a foot or manager. -- football manager.

:37:10.:37:10.

Tributes have been paid to the former England manager

:37:11.:37:13.

Graham Taylor, who died yesterday at the age of 72.

:37:14.:37:15.

Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977,

:37:16.:37:18.

and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top

:37:19.:37:22.

flight within five years, and reached the 1984 FA Cup final.

:37:23.:37:25.

He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves.

:37:26.:37:27.

Taylor has been described as one of football's true gentlemen.

:37:28.:37:30.

A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game of

:37:31.:37:38.

football, and who was straight and who was honest, and who would tell

:37:39.:37:42.

you as it was. And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young

:37:43.:37:46.

player or whether you are a very experienced player and I think that

:37:47.:37:50.

is the way he will be remembered. You always talk about people's

:37:51.:37:54.

contribution within football, but you remember them most is people and

:37:55.:37:58.

he was somebody that had time for everybody and was generous with that

:37:59.:38:07.

time. And I think they are the human qualities that you remember the

:38:08.:38:08.

most. There was a minute's applause

:38:09.:38:10.

in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match

:38:11.:38:13.

between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League wins

:38:14.:38:15.

in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's winner, scoring

:38:16.:38:19.

against his old club. Andy Murray will start his

:38:20.:38:20.

Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

:38:21.:38:22.

for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final

:38:23.:38:27.

in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw,

:38:28.:38:29.

Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sell-out crowd

:38:30.:38:33.

at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably

:38:34.:38:37.

beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season

:38:38.:38:39.

game to be played in the capital, It was a great night to be in the

:38:40.:38:54.

crowd, because there was a lot of football stars in the crowd. It

:38:55.:39:01.

seemed like half of the team, and Henry, the great legend. You can

:39:02.:39:05.

often look across at the fans and get selfie with those behind you.

:39:06.:39:16.

Britain's east coast is bracing itself for coastal flooding, seven

:39:17.:39:22.

severe flood warnings for parts of Suffolk and Essex. In a moment we

:39:23.:39:28.

will get the latest from areas where flooding is expected. Let's find out

:39:29.:39:33.

how heavy snow has been affecting travel. Our correspondent is in

:39:34.:39:37.

Canterbury for us this morning. What has happened there? Lots of snow

:39:38.:39:43.

around on the ground. It came down yesterday evening for about three

:39:44.:39:48.

hours, and it was very happy. If you take a look down there you can see

:39:49.:39:53.

how snow is still on the ground, but because it has been freezing

:39:54.:39:55.

overnight it is actually largely turning to ice and it is really I

:39:56.:40:00.

see on the foot path. You have to be careful to remain on your feet. And

:40:01.:40:05.

still a lot of snow down here as well. As regards the roads, the

:40:06.:40:13.

gritters were out and about in force during the night and that means

:40:14.:40:17.

these main roads are largely not too bad, but the side roads have been

:40:18.:40:22.

problematic. There is a lot of ice, a lot of black ice, and it can be

:40:23.:40:26.

difficult driving around. The advice is if you are heading on to the

:40:27.:40:31.

roads, take things easy. As regards other travel issues, yesterday we

:40:32.:40:35.

had a number of flights cancelled at Heathrow, and some at Gatwick. We

:40:36.:40:39.

have been told today that airports have been hoping things are going to

:40:40.:40:43.

be as normal as possible but the advice is still check before you

:40:44.:40:47.

travel, and at the moment we are being told that things are OK on the

:40:48.:40:51.

railways but if you are trying to travel on Southern it is a strike

:40:52.:40:55.

day so there will be no trains despite the weather. As regards the

:40:56.:40:59.

situation we are being told it is actually a large amount of snow

:41:00.:41:03.

which came down in one go for this part of the world, in the space of

:41:04.:41:07.

just about three hours. On this road last night I saw people pushing cars

:41:08.:41:11.

up the road because it was so icy and the conditions were so

:41:12.:41:15.

difficult. We are expecting more snow from Scotland, heading down to

:41:16.:41:19.

the north of England and the east of England. So snow, ice and heavy

:41:20.:41:24.

winds. It is not very nice out there. Thank you very much, we will

:41:25.:41:26.

talk to you again later on. Kate Sweeting is in Hessle,

:41:27.:41:29.

where there is a severe flood Well, it is a cold but calm morning,

:41:30.:41:42.

which will come as a relief to residents because tidal surges have

:41:43.:41:46.

happened with a combination of high winds and high tides. I am keeping a

:41:47.:41:50.

close eye on the water behind me because the pinch point is at high

:41:51.:41:55.

tide in the next hour here and again this evening. People are preparing

:41:56.:42:00.

with sandbags, there are council workers on standby and police but in

:42:01.:42:04.

Lincolnshire the army was brought in to help evacuate people. More than

:42:05.:42:08.

3000 residents were told to leave their homes or move upstairs and

:42:09.:42:12.

special rest centres were set up for them. Here, the threat of a tidal

:42:13.:42:18.

surge is especially worrying because in 2013 it happened. The water came

:42:19.:42:23.

over more than 1400 properties, which were flooded. The last severe

:42:24.:42:29.

tidal surge before that was in 1953, when hundreds of people died. When

:42:30.:42:33.

it happened in 2013 here, people were told, or believe, that it was a

:42:34.:42:38.

once in 60 year event and yet three years on here we are on high alert.

:42:39.:42:43.

Thank you very much, the situation in Hessle this morning. A lot of

:42:44.:42:48.

people worried about the danger of flood warnings. Let's get the big

:42:49.:42:52.

weather picture this morning. We have concerns about the snow in some

:42:53.:42:57.

places, and it is pretty cold in a lot of places as well. That's right.

:42:58.:43:01.

There is plenty going on in terms of the weather today. We have the ice

:43:02.:43:05.

and the snow around as well but the combination of those strong winds

:43:06.:43:08.

and high tides in the east may well lead to some coastal flooding. If

:43:09.:43:13.

you are heading out this morning be prepared to encounter some icy

:43:14.:43:17.

conditions on untreated surfaces and as we had to the day we have this

:43:18.:43:20.

low pressure frontal system moving south, around Central and eastern

:43:21.:43:24.

parts of England in particular, bringing with it a mix of rain,

:43:25.:43:28.

sleet and snow and we are seeing those very strong winds towards the

:43:29.:43:32.

east. Gales at times across northern and eastern Scotland, further wintry

:43:33.:43:36.

showers here. Much of southern Scotland says predominantly dry

:43:37.:43:39.

through the morning but as we move down the east coast we see those

:43:40.:43:50.

winds picking up in combination with the high tides. We could well see

:43:51.:43:53.

coastal flooding problems, combined with this band of rain, sleet and

:43:54.:43:56.

snow. The Environment Agency have seven severe flood warnings

:43:57.:43:58.

currently in force, mainly around part of East Anglia but watch out

:43:59.:44:02.

around the east coast for the potential for coastal flooding. As

:44:03.:44:05.

we head through the course of the day this band of rain, sleet and

:44:06.:44:09.

snow will push its way gradually south eastwards, clearing the south

:44:10.:44:11.

of England by about lunchtime. Further west we will see showers for

:44:12.:44:14.

Northern Ireland, northern and western Scotland, parts of Wales and

:44:15.:44:17.

the south-west as well. Temperatures around two to five degrees but

:44:18.:44:21.

colder than that if you are exposed to the brisk northerly winds today.

:44:22.:44:25.

Many of us having quite a good deal of dry weather as we had through the

:44:26.:44:29.

afternoon and on into the evening the winds start to ease a little but

:44:30.:44:32.

we will have some blustery wintry showers around the east coast, west

:44:33.:44:36.

coast as well, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales. Under clear

:44:37.:44:42.

skies, another very cold night ahead so that will be icy stretches once

:44:43.:44:45.

again to start off your weekend. Through Saturday, eastern parts of

:44:46.:44:50.

Scotland and eastern England will be prone to seeing further sleet and

:44:51.:44:54.

snow showers. Towards the west some rain and sleet showers pushing in as

:44:55.:44:59.

well but many of us again having a lot of dry weather through the

:45:00.:45:02.

course of Saturday. Lighter winds than today and temperatures slightly

:45:03.:45:07.

milder. Two or three in the east, six or seven Celsius in the west.

:45:08.:45:11.

That milder air will start to creep in through the weekend, especially

:45:12.:45:15.

as we head into Sunday. The yellow colour starting to displace the

:45:16.:45:19.

Blues, living into Sunday with a cloudy day and fun outbreaks of rain

:45:20.:45:24.

washing eastwards across the UK. The wind coming in from the westerly

:45:25.:45:28.

direction, so a different feel to the weather by the time to get to

:45:29.:45:31.

Sunday. Temperatures back at around five to 10 degrees so we will have

:45:32.:45:35.

lost the wintry weather by the time we get to Sunday but at the moment

:45:36.:45:40.

if you are heading out the moment if you are heading out today, be

:45:41.:45:43.

prepared. There are strong winds, ice and snow, and coastal flooding

:45:44.:45:46.

in the east. Keep tuned to your latest forecast. For first-time

:45:47.:45:54.

buyers mortgage payments are lower than rent in over 10% of the UK.

:45:55.:45:59.

That's according to research carried out for us on Breakfast.

:46:00.:46:03.

Forecasters suggest rent will continue to rise. Is looking at --

:46:04.:46:15.

Sean is looking at what it means. Of course it can build up a little

:46:16.:46:17.

bit over time. There were more people getting

:46:18.:46:20.

on that first rung of the housing ladder last year than since

:46:21.:46:23.

the financial crisis began. Well, some research done for us

:46:24.:46:26.

on Breakfast says that rising rents -- the gap is narrowing. In fact in

:46:27.:46:39.

some places, it is cheaper each month to own a home than rent one. I

:46:40.:46:44.

caught up with James in his lovely new home to hear why he persevered

:46:45.:46:46.

with trying to buy his own place. It isn't a small thing, eyeing the

:46:47.:46:56.

house, so you have to go through the whole saving process, go through the

:46:57.:47:00.

whole sacrificing holidays and things like that and then it just

:47:01.:47:05.

takes a while to find the right place. You can't go out as much as

:47:06.:47:09.

you would like, you can't enjoy yourself as much and you have to

:47:10.:47:13.

bring prepacked lunches in the work and things like that. Silly things,

:47:14.:47:17.

but they adult. You stuck at it in the end? -- they add up. We want our

:47:18.:47:27.

walls be -- the colour we want, and you do smile every time you walk

:47:28.:47:30.

through the front door. With me now is James Jones,

:47:31.:47:31.

from Experian, the organisation People like James, why are they

:47:32.:47:43.

looking more and more at trying to get housing quicker, when rent

:47:44.:47:48.

seemingly shouldn't be that high in the long run. This buyer index shows

:47:49.:47:53.

that many tenants can save money simply by buying a home instead of

:47:54.:47:57.

renting. We have seen historically high rent payments at the moment in

:47:58.:48:02.

the third quarter of 2016. We measured a 10% increase in average

:48:03.:48:06.

rents. At the same time mortgage deals are historically cheap, so

:48:07.:48:11.

many people can save money, especially places like Glasgow and

:48:12.:48:15.

Manchester. But for people who can save money, to buy any house you

:48:16.:48:20.

need a deposit. What can you get by with a 100% mortgage and still get

:48:21.:48:24.

cheaper mortgages than rental payments? The challenge for many

:48:25.:48:28.

tenants is saving up that all-important deposit, so it is

:48:29.:48:31.

important that people take advantage of incentive schemes, like help to

:48:32.:48:36.

buy, whether government will help you. But at the same time we know

:48:37.:48:40.

many people have no idea what their credit score is, so we are trying to

:48:41.:48:44.

help people by giving them access to their credit score for free and we

:48:45.:48:48.

will help you use it to save money on things like mortgages and other

:48:49.:48:51.

types of credit, to show you things you are likely to be accepted for

:48:52.:48:55.

and take away the guesswork. when you rent that is often the limit of

:48:56.:48:59.

what you can pay that month plus a few of your bills. When you own a

:49:00.:49:04.

home if the boiler goes you've got to pay for it. Surely that's a big

:49:05.:49:07.

difference and it could be more expensive to have a mortgage? You

:49:08.:49:11.

have to factor these things in. Our research shows that in some parts of

:49:12.:49:14.

the country there are significant savings to be had. In Manchester

:49:15.:49:18.

tenants could save up to ?50 a month will stop that can make all the

:49:19.:49:21.

difference. But you still need all of that cash in the reserve for that

:49:22.:49:25.

rainy day. If something went wrong with James's house, he has to cough

:49:26.:49:31.

up, even if he feels month by month he is in a better situation. That's

:49:32.:49:35.

right and that's why you need to factor these things in, to make sure

:49:36.:49:39.

you are financially secure. For many people the best way to get financial

:49:40.:49:43.

security is to get on the mortgage ladder. Many people are on

:49:44.:49:48.

short-term tenancies are they don't know what the lie ahead in terms of

:49:49.:49:52.

property security. So there is a great opportunity for many people

:49:53.:49:55.

right now. How much of these lower the mortgage payments for first-time

:49:56.:50:00.

buyers is actually first-time buyers looking at houses that are cheaper

:50:01.:50:04.

now and may be setting their sights lower, the whole mortgage they pay

:50:05.:50:10.

back is less? I think over the last few years we have all had a reality

:50:11.:50:14.

check. There's been a squeeze on real incomes. Poverty prices have

:50:15.:50:19.

generally been increasing, so I think people are getting Savea and

:50:20.:50:22.

research in the market, taking their credit score and putting themselves

:50:23.:50:26.

in the right position to get a deal when they have that deposit.

:50:27.:50:31.

Mortgage interest rates are starting to sneak up again. Do you think this

:50:32.:50:36.

might be as good as it gets in terms of the difference and it might not

:50:37.:50:40.

be quite as good for those who are on mortgages as they have been? No

:50:41.:50:44.

one has a crystal ball. Mortgage rates right now are at historical

:50:45.:50:48.

lows. I think the most popular mortgage product is a two-year fix.

:50:49.:50:53.

People are looking to lock in and security, so they know what they are

:50:54.:50:58.

paying in the future. We've seen the rising popularity of longer term

:50:59.:51:01.

fixtures and they are at great rates historically. So there is a great

:51:02.:51:05.

opportunity for people. And she very much. We will be talking all morning

:51:06.:51:09.

about first-time buyers getting on the ladder. Is it better value or

:51:10.:51:14.

not to get a mortgage, or to keep renting and keep saving?

:51:15.:51:17.

More on that later. A lot of questions people are asking

:51:18.:51:21.

themselves when they are deciding whether to buy a house.

:51:22.:51:24.

And if you do have any questions, we might be able to answer them.

:51:25.:51:28.

Get in touch. Thank you. The chap that Sean spoke to was saying he

:51:29.:51:34.

feels good everytime he walks into the house. This story might make you

:51:35.:51:38.

smile even more. You move into your house, I think one of the first

:51:39.:51:42.

things you do is check everything. Maybe even check out the

:51:43.:51:47.

floorboards. Check under the floorboards!

:51:48.:51:49.

You never know what will be hidden. That's borderline creepy.

:51:50.:51:53.

I am gradually getting around to it. So these people bought a piano. That

:51:54.:51:59.

comes into their home. They were checking the back of the piano. Lo

:52:00.:52:04.

and behold they found gold coins hidden inside the piano! My point

:52:05.:52:09.

being, if they haven't looked they wouldn't have found it. This is in

:52:10.:52:14.

Shropshire. Now they have to determine whether they own them, or

:52:15.:52:18.

whether they belong to someone who owned the piano before.

:52:19.:52:21.

Have they had been valued yet? We haven't got a number yet, but they

:52:22.:52:25.

are thought to be worth an enormous amount of money. When you move into

:52:26.:52:29.

place, have look around. Maybe not under the floorboards!

:52:30.:52:31.

I did. How funny. Right, let's talk about

:52:32.:52:35.

Disney films. Snow White, Cinderella,

:52:36.:52:36.

Sleeping Beauty, Disney animated films have brought many

:52:37.:52:38.

a fairy tale to life. But only one Disney princess has

:52:39.:52:41.

ever been based on an actual person. The film Pocahontas,

:52:42.:52:45.

released in 1995, was inspired by a Native American woman

:52:46.:52:47.

who died 400 years ago. This week special events

:52:48.:52:52.

marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location

:52:53.:52:54.

might surprise you. # Have you ever heard

:52:55.:52:57.

the wolf cry... It took a quarter of ?1 million at

:52:58.:53:15.

the box office, but of the millions who have seen the 1995 film

:53:16.:53:19.

Pocahontas, few in all likelihood could tell you where she is actually

:53:20.:53:29.

buried. Just outside the M25 in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a

:53:30.:53:32.

native American who married an English settler. They became

:53:33.:53:37.

Virginia's first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed

:53:38.:53:42.

with the movers and shakers of the day, including king James and

:53:43.:53:46.

Queensland. But on their return, as their ship passed through Gravesend,

:53:47.:53:52.

Pocahontas, or Rebecca, took ill and died. This is where she is buried

:53:53.:54:00.

and this is her great, great, great, great, great, great...

:54:01.:54:09.

Great-grandson. Also called John. I am very proud to be a descendant of

:54:10.:54:14.

Pocahontas, 17 times down the line. Very frustrating at times. Many

:54:15.:54:18.

people growing up had never heard of her. It was like saying, I am

:54:19.:54:22.

related to Cinderella or sleeping beauty. As the 400 anniversary of

:54:23.:54:27.

her death approaches there is a chance to honour her brief but

:54:28.:54:31.

extraordinary life. It is one of the first recorded instances where two

:54:32.:54:34.

very different cultures were formally married and formally

:54:35.:54:37.

celebrated. And they were celebrities when they came over?

:54:38.:54:42.

Indeed. Very much so, because many people had never met a Native

:54:43.:54:46.

American, so the young Pocahontas was fated as a celebrity. She died

:54:47.:54:52.

with king James -- dined with king James and Queensland and I feel

:54:53.:54:55.

proud to be part of this amazing very true story, and this very

:54:56.:55:01.

powerful woman. The Pocahontas 2017 festival is under way at St John's

:55:02.:55:07.

school in Gravesend, special lessons and a special visit. I am an art

:55:08.:55:11.

historian and the cultural ambassador for my tribal nation. I

:55:12.:55:18.

definitely feel a connection with Pocahontas. I feel like I am part of

:55:19.:55:24.

the story, I am following in her footsteps. I married an English

:55:25.:55:28.

person and changed my culture and became an ambassador for my people,

:55:29.:55:33.

which is what I think she was. She was such a strong lady and she did

:55:34.:55:38.

lots of things before she died. She influences most of us in how she

:55:39.:55:50.

lived and how brave she was. Some historians believe Pocahontas heard

:55:51.:55:52.

this song during her trip to England. Special performances in

:55:53.:56:03.

schools are planned. A remarkable life, a remarkable story, but no

:56:04.:56:05.

fairy tale. That's fascinating. If you were

:56:06.:56:15.

related to a Disney character, which one would be yours?

:56:16.:56:18.

You've got to give me time to think about that!

:56:19.:56:21.

Probably The Beast. I think I would be related to # Oh

:56:22.:56:25.

Bye for now. death -- related to Goofy.

:56:26.:59:57.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:59:58.:00:16.

Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

:00:17.:00:21.

to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

:00:22.:00:23.

Seven severe flood warnings, meaning a risk to life,

:00:24.:00:35.

More than 1,000 people are now beginning to be moved to safety

:00:36.:00:39.

It is breakfasttime at this rest centre where 17 people have stayed

:00:40.:00:48.

overnight. More than 2500 residents have left their homes after being

:00:49.:00:56.

told to evacuate. And snow is causing disruption. These are the

:00:57.:00:59.

images of Kent where they have already been delays on the M20.

:01:00.:01:12.

There has been snow and ice as well as those winds, the full forecast in

:01:13.:01:14.

about 15 minutes. Good morning, it is

:01:15.:01:20.

Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More

:01:21.:01:23.

men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before,

:01:24.:01:25.

according to a new study of those We take a rare look

:01:26.:01:29.

inside a children's home, as one charity warns that not

:01:30.:01:38.

all young people are getting the support they need,

:01:39.:01:42.

and that is costing the UK billions. More people took their first step

:01:43.:01:44.

on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research

:01:45.:01:48.

for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer

:01:49.:01:51.

buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

:01:52.:01:54.

of one of its true gentlemen, Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

:01:55.:01:58.

Aston Villa and England manager, who has died of a suspected heart

:01:59.:02:01.

attack at the age of 72. First, our main story: The army

:02:02.:02:04.

is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast,

:02:05.:02:14.

where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued

:02:15.:02:16.

seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast,

:02:17.:02:20.

floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are

:02:21.:02:28.

combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex,

:02:29.:02:34.

there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services

:02:35.:02:43.

have arrived in force. The residents are

:02:44.:02:48.

being urged to leave. We've got exceptionally strong

:02:49.:02:50.

winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially

:02:51.:02:56.

with gusts stronger than that, and going to coincide with a high

:02:57.:02:59.

tide just after lunchtime. So that's why we've put in place

:03:00.:03:02.

this operation to evacuate safely Some have already

:03:03.:03:05.

heeded that warning. Everyone in the text messages,

:03:06.:03:07.

saying, have you evacuated yet? I said, the neighbours next

:03:08.:03:18.

door get all panicked, because she's not very well next

:03:19.:03:20.

door, and things like that. So I think a lot of people

:03:21.:03:23.

are actually planning to stay. On the Lincolnshire coast,

:03:24.:03:27.

at Skegness, the military have been About 100 soldiers have been based

:03:28.:03:29.

at the police station. Along the coast, those most

:03:30.:03:36.

vulnerable are doing what they can There will be a significant

:03:37.:03:39.

rise in the water. But whether it will be enough

:03:40.:03:43.

to top the defences, that depends on Mother Nature,

:03:44.:03:45.

I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is set to bring

:03:46.:03:47.

more wintry weather today, Nearly all the UK is covered

:03:48.:03:51.

by weather warnings for snow, In a moment we will get the latest

:03:52.:03:57.

from Simon Jones on the travel disruption being caused by snow

:03:58.:04:06.

and ice affecting some parts But first we can speak

:04:07.:04:09.

to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex,

:04:10.:04:15.

where residents are being advised to leave properties that

:04:16.:04:18.

are at risk of flooding. As you can see behind me, we have

:04:19.:04:30.

residents who have stayed here overnight. This is the rest centre

:04:31.:04:34.

which has been set up and I have been told that 17 people stayed here

:04:35.:04:38.

overnight, and also the police are now moving the remaining 2500

:04:39.:04:45.

residents, that is half of Jaywick's population, out towards safety.

:04:46.:04:49.

Lawrence has been evacuated, and you have been through this before, in

:04:50.:04:54.

2013. How worried are you this time around? It sounds a bit more urgent

:04:55.:04:58.

this time, as last time they gave us a choice, but this time I had a

:04:59.:05:02.

knock on the door and they said you have got to get out now. And

:05:03.:05:06.

basically I just left, and I didn't bring my medication, it was quite

:05:07.:05:10.

urgent. And you have left your home, and everything in there? And my

:05:11.:05:15.

medication as well, so I have to try and get some from the chemist if

:05:16.:05:19.

we're not let back in soon. It seems like it was quite a rush to get out.

:05:20.:05:24.

There was banging on the door, and my friend who lives near me was on

:05:25.:05:28.

the phone to me telling me we might have to get out tomorrow, and they

:05:29.:05:32.

said we have to get out straightaway. Hopefully you are in

:05:33.:05:35.

good, safe hands. It is great, they have really done us proud. As I say,

:05:36.:05:42.

half the population in Jaywick, that is 2500 people, has been evacuated.

:05:43.:05:46.

Red and yellow warnings have been issued around the east coast, severe

:05:47.:05:50.

weather warnings here in Essex and Suffolk. That is the highest alert

:05:51.:05:55.

possible, to see if you are affected please check the Environment Agency

:05:56.:05:59.

website. Thank you very much, we will be back with you a little bit

:06:00.:06:01.

later on. The weather caused some problems

:06:02.:06:01.

for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays,

:06:02.:06:04.

including queues in both directions There are warnings of

:06:05.:06:07.

similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones

:06:08.:06:09.

is in a snowy Canterbury That is one of the places which has

:06:10.:06:19.

had quite a bit of snow during the last part of yesterday evening.

:06:20.:06:24.

Absolutely. Very cold this morning, after a very cold night. The snow

:06:25.:06:28.

started falling at around 6pm yesterday evening and came down for

:06:29.:06:33.

around three hours very heavily. We got around five centimetres of snow,

:06:34.:06:37.

and a lot of it has settled. Down there you can see some of the snow,

:06:38.:06:42.

but it has largely turned to ice because it has been so cold

:06:43.:06:46.

overnight. And then here on the path of very, very icy situation so

:06:47.:06:51.

tricky getting around at the same can be said for the roads. This one

:06:52.:06:56.

has been gritted a number of times, so not too bad at the moment. The

:06:57.:07:01.

gritters have been out and about but overnight in Kent there were some

:07:02.:07:04.

problems when the snow came down very heavily in a short space of

:07:05.:07:08.

time and the number of drivers said they had to spend several hours in

:07:09.:07:13.

their cars as they tried to get up and down that hill in pretty

:07:14.:07:17.

treacherous conditions. The main roads not too bad at the moment

:07:18.:07:21.

outside roads are causing problems, and we are told so far this morning

:07:22.:07:25.

we have had a number of jackknifed lorries and also a number of crashes

:07:26.:07:30.

and trees down. The advice is, if you are going out onto the roads,

:07:31.:07:35.

drive slowly and drive gently. Accelerate and break very gently,

:07:36.:07:40.

because the driving conditions are rather different. As well as snow

:07:41.:07:44.

and ice we also have the winds starting to whip up, talk of

:07:45.:07:49.

potentially more snow showers here during the morning. Scotland, the

:07:50.:07:52.

north of England and the east of England, so still some pretty

:07:53.:07:55.

treacherous conditions out there this morning. Thank you for that,

:07:56.:08:00.

and we will of course keep you right up-to-date with any transport

:08:01.:08:01.

problems on the roads. Let us know if you are affected,

:08:02.:08:03.

and send us your pictures, too. The number of men in low-paid,

:08:04.:08:06.

part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:08:07.:08:09.

for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men

:08:10.:08:13.

between the ages of 25 and 55 now That means wage inequality for men

:08:14.:08:17.

has risen over two decades. But for women the opposite

:08:18.:08:22.

is the case, as our business Top-earning men in the professions

:08:23.:08:25.

normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of

:08:26.:08:34.

them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst

:08:35.:08:38.

the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering

:08:39.:08:41.

and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number

:08:42.:08:47.

has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality

:08:48.:08:49.

for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff

:08:50.:08:56.

have done far better But for women, the

:08:57.:08:58.

opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been

:08:59.:09:02.

consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years,

:09:03.:09:07.

and more of them are in work. For men, particularly

:09:08.:09:11.

the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours

:09:12.:09:17.

of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear

:09:18.:09:21.

why low-paid men are It might be because they want to,

:09:22.:09:25.

although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid

:09:26.:09:31.

and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale,

:09:32.:09:34.

restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously

:09:35.:09:37.

worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs,

:09:38.:09:41.

in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

:09:42.:09:44.

and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid

:09:45.:09:47.

and less-secure services sector There is a week to go

:09:48.:09:49.

until the new American president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems

:09:50.:09:57.

to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet nominees on some

:09:58.:10:01.

of the vital questions facing His choice for the leader of the CIA

:10:02.:10:04.

has endorsed the work of the US intelligence community,

:10:05.:10:09.

hours after it was criticised Also, the potential defence

:10:10.:10:11.

secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, after Mr Trump called

:10:12.:10:15.

for warmer relations with Russia. Our correspondent Laura Bicker

:10:16.:10:17.

reports from Washington. And it has emerged overnight

:10:18.:10:26.

that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:10:27.:10:28.

of lurid claims about Donald Trump, was hired by the England

:10:29.:10:32.

2018 World Cup bid team. It is believed he was brought

:10:33.:10:35.

in to provide information on world There were emotional scenes

:10:36.:10:38.

during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama

:10:39.:10:43.

surprised his Vice-President with the country's

:10:44.:10:46.

highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:10:47.:10:47.

the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:10:48.:10:50.

in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:10:51.:10:53.

a complete surprise. Yesterday we spoke about

:10:54.:11:14.

a nine-year-old British boy who melted hearts while competing

:11:15.:11:16.

in the Spanish version of Junior MasterChef,

:11:17.:11:18.

after his fish and chip dish didn't He has melted the Spanish nation's

:11:19.:11:21.

heart. Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain

:11:22.:11:41.

with his family two years ago, was invited to cook

:11:42.:11:44.

for the British Ambassador to Spain We wish him well, and there he is

:11:45.:11:58.

with his apron on, and recovered from his ordeal. We all have bad

:11:59.:12:02.

days in the kitchen. And to be fair the British ambassador has done

:12:03.:12:05.

well, getting potentially a professionally cooked meal by that

:12:06.:12:13.

lad, because to get on the Masterchef itself.

:12:14.:12:17.

There is a week to go until the new American president

:12:18.:12:20.

is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key

:12:21.:12:24.

Cabinet nominees on some of the vital questions facing

:12:25.:12:27.

And at the heart of it is the former British spy Christopher Steele,

:12:28.:12:34.

who has reportedly gone into hiding, fearing for his safety,

:12:35.:12:36.

after allegedly preparing memos claiming Russia has compromising

:12:37.:12:39.

So what do we know about the former MI6 officer?

:12:40.:12:46.

We can talk now to Dr Rory Cormac, from the University of Nottingham,

:12:47.:12:50.

who is a specialist in secret intelligence.

:12:51.:12:53.

Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us. Tell us a

:12:54.:13:02.

little bit about Christopher Steele, and what do we know about him? What

:13:03.:13:07.

we know is he was a MI6 officer, a Russian specialist to spend a lot of

:13:08.:13:11.

time in MI6 headquarters in London, but also spent a bit of time abroad

:13:12.:13:15.

and the Moscow Embassy as well. And he spent about 20 years in MI6

:13:16.:13:19.

before starting his own private consultancy company. One of the

:13:20.:13:23.

problems he is facing immediately, as we understand he is in hiding at

:13:24.:13:27.

the moment, is that people in that line of work, and he is a retired

:13:28.:13:34.

intelligence officer, you are never retired if you work for MI6, they

:13:35.:13:38.

like to work in the shadows and now there is a great deal of scrutiny on

:13:39.:13:42.

him about other work he has been doing. In this, the suggestion this

:13:43.:13:45.

morning he may have worked to get information for the England 2018

:13:46.:13:50.

World Cup bid so there is a great deal of Spotlight now on him and

:13:51.:13:54.

what he has done. Intelligence officers by their very nature don't

:13:55.:13:58.

like the spotlight. They like to work in the shadows, as you say, and

:13:59.:14:03.

this will be undoubtedly very uncomfortable for him but it is

:14:04.:14:06.

probably unwise to speculate as to his safety, the Russians being after

:14:07.:14:12.

him. As a Russian specialist he will know the retribution that Russia

:14:13.:14:16.

pays out to critics of the regime but at the same time he is not a

:14:17.:14:21.

Russian dissidents, he is a British citizen so it is probably unwise to

:14:22.:14:25.

speculate as to his welfare. The big issue here I think adds to this

:14:26.:14:32.

level of intrigue, suspicion and paranoia and conspiracy just a week

:14:33.:14:38.

before the inauguration and whether that is true or not, it plays into

:14:39.:14:46.

Putin's hand. What Putin and the FSB have wanted all along is to dent

:14:47.:14:51.

American self-confidence, to question the American political

:14:52.:14:54.

process. America is a city on the hill, it likes to boast proudly

:14:55.:14:58.

about its free and fair elections and now for the first time in a long

:14:59.:15:03.

time we're all talking about corruption, Russian agents,

:15:04.:15:06.

impeachment, the dreaded Watergate word has been mentioned. It is a

:15:07.:15:15.

win-win for Putin, really. One of the issues is Donald Trump's

:15:16.:15:18.

relationship with the intelligence service in the US now and how that

:15:19.:15:22.

has to be rebuilt. As we mentioned earlier, we've got his potential

:15:23.:15:26.

chosen people to be the head of the CIA or the Defence Secretary who are

:15:27.:15:31.

saying things at odds to what he has said about things like the

:15:32.:15:33.

intelligent services and the relationship with Russia. That will

:15:34.:15:37.

be a tough and important role. That is very crucial. Intelligence is

:15:38.:15:41.

crucial in the decision-making process. It informs the most

:15:42.:15:49.

important, serious decisions that a president has to make and that Trump

:15:50.:15:54.

may have to make in a week. Have a healthy scepticism isn't a bad

:15:55.:15:59.

thing, but do not trust their very motives is dangerous, and to

:16:00.:16:03.

disregard intelligence as a whole is equally dangerous. The incoming CIA

:16:04.:16:10.

director will have to tread a very fine line between sticking up for

:16:11.:16:15.

his organisation, when morale is very low in American intelligence

:16:16.:16:19.

after Trump has been so publicly hostile. So the new director has to

:16:20.:16:24.

stick up for his organisation while also not alienating the president.

:16:25.:16:28.

It will be a crucial role and it's a very fine line to tread. I bet you

:16:29.:16:32.

love this sort of story, in your line of work, this intrigue? It is

:16:33.:16:40.

very intriguing. I am a Cold War historian by training and there are

:16:41.:16:45.

some intriguing parallels. Thank you very much.

:16:46.:16:48.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:16:49.:16:52.

The main stories this morning: The Army is helping to evacuate

:16:53.:16:55.

thousands of people from the east coast of England ahead

:16:56.:16:58.

People across Britain are preparing for the worst,

:16:59.:17:03.

with warnings of wind, snow and ice covering large parts

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Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather.

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The worst of the snow seems to have been late into the evening last

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night? That's right. This was the scene

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taken yesterday evening. This was in London. You can see the snow. We had

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about three hours of heavy snow across parts of the south-east

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through the course of yesterday, but much of the country has seen wintry

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showers. We have this frontal system moving south across central and

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eastern parts of England at the moment. That's bringing further

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sleet and snow, a bit of remixed in a lower levels as well. For Scotland

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this morning we are continuing to see for the snow showers. Perhaps a

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bit of rain at lower levels. Strong winds, especially around the east

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coast. Where the strong winds combined with high tides, that's

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where we are concerned about seeing coastal flooding, especially in east

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Anglia. This sleet and snow as well. Several severe flood warnings have

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been issued around the east coast, so here is the flood line number if

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you are concerned. This area of rain, sleet and snow will gradually

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clear from the south-east by about lunchtime. Further west there will

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be sleet and snow showers for northern and western Scotland, parts

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of Ireland and Wales as well. But much of the country by the afternoon

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is looking dry, with cold and wintry sunshine. By degrees the top

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temperature. But it will feel subzero for many. That's when we add

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on the windchill. Moving into the evening we still have the chance of

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a few wintry flurries towards the east and for western fringes of the

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UK also some rain, sleet and snow showers. Clear skies for many and

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winds for light, so a cold night tonight. Sub zero widely. We are

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likely to see quite an icy start to Saturday morning again. Through the

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day on Saturday we are likely to see further snow showers across parts of

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eastern Scotland, down to east Anglia. Many areas having a dry day.

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There will be more cloud moving in from the west, bringing in rain and

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sleet showers later in the day. Temperature 6-7 in western areas.

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Still about in the east. Looking pretty chilly to start the weekend.

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As we had through Saturday and Sunday we will start to draw in this

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much milder air from the west or the north-west, which brings with it

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more cloud by the time we get to Sunday. Patchy outbreaks of rain on

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the frontal system working gradually eastwards through the country and

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winds coming in from a westerly direction. By the time we get to

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Sunday we've lost the wintry weather for now. Back to about 5- 10

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degrees. But certainly the day the weather is causing some disruption.

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Likely to have ongoing problems with ice, snow and strong winds that

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could lead to coastal flooding in the east. Would you like to see some

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pictures of snow right now? Yes, I love a snow picture. People

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have been busy sending in pictures from various places.

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David in Gateshead has taken a picture of his back garden under

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It makes everything look really pretty.

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John from Stoke on Trent has captured this picture of his road.

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Lots of people, like me, spent part of the morning removing the ice from

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the car. We saw quite a few of the problems

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in south-east London particularly. This pictures been sent

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in by Lydia in Sidcup. Quite a lot of bad snow late into

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the evening yesterday. Paul in Macclesfield snapped this

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lovely winter wonderland pic. It looks very pretty. Of course we

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will keep you up-to-date with everything going on with the travel

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situation and also flood warnings. Let's go over to Sean. News about

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emissions. We are familiar with VW and the ongoing story on what we

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have a new name? Another one dragged into it.

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Volkswagen is the only one that has admitted wrongdoing, but other

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companies have been accused. Today it's Fiat's turn

:21:27.:21:27.

in the headlines. The car manufacturer has been

:21:28.:21:29.

accused of not telling authorities about software in some of its cars

:21:30.:21:34.

that is there to regulate emissions in more than 100,000

:21:35.:21:39.

of its diesel vehicles. It involves cars like this, the Jeep

:21:40.:21:42.

Grand Cherokee. Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne

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said the firm had done nothing But this will continue with those

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American authorities. We are talking housing this morning. The gap

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between average mortgage payments and average rent is narrowing. In

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fact, in 10% of places in the UK it is cheaper to own a house each month

:22:14.:22:17.

than it is to rent one. Also this morning the lenders at Halifax have

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said there were more first-time home buyers last year that has any time

:22:22.:22:25.

in the start of the financial crisis. The stock market is hitting

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records again. It's getting boring! The FTSE 100 closed at a record 11th

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day in a row top levels, all-time records. Something it has never

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managed before. We will keep an ionic. Will it get to a 12th? -- an

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eye on it. I bet next week we will talk about a

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low record! Thanks very much. Shall we have a look at some of the

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front pages? I think we will move straight onto

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the weather. The main worry this morning is the severe flood

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warnings. There are now 14 severe weather

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warnings in place. Emergency services are on standby and an

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evacuation centre has been set up at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.

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Let's get the latest from the Environment Agency. Good morning.

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Thank you for your time. I know it's a busy time. Just bring us up to

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date with the latest information. Thank you. We are continuing to warn

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about high tides right across the east coast, a particular focus in

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Sussex and ethics. Our concerns for the morning tide, it stretches

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through the morning, through mid-day. And also the evening tide.

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Levels could be even higher. How many severe flood warnings are in

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place at present? Seven are issued at the morning. There is the

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potential that more could be issued through the day. I encourage people

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to keep up-to-date either by using our flood line, or by looking on the

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website, really getting the latest information they can. You are in one

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of the centres set up to help people and we were talking to some of them

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earlier. What are they experiencing? What are they being advised? The

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advice we are giving people here, where we issued flood warnings

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yesterday afternoon, is that high tide warnings are expected about

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midday. People should to the evacuation centre or get everything

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ready so they can work with the emergency services who are leading

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the evacuation. We really strongly advise people to stay away from high

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tides, and not just people being evacuated, but more generally.

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People should be sensible about not wave watching, not driving through

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floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves say. It is very important

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today. You will know from previous experience that some people are

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reluctant to leave their homes in this Galatians, aren't they?

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Absolutely. -- in these circumstances. When we issue

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floodwater warnings we do it because we consider it a danger to life.

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People need to heed the evacuation warnings that we can keep them safe.

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You try to do your calculation to anticipate what levels the floods

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will be out. What's happening so far this morning? Are they know are all

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more than you expected? What we are seeing this morning is that the

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levels are coming in slightly below what was forecast, which hopefully

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will be good news for most communities, but we need to still

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stay vigilant. It is still serious and the winds can change and rip up

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to the water at any point, so people need to stay focused. This evening

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we are looking at levels potentially above forecast. Some very high tides

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indeed. Really important people stay focused on warnings throughout the

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day and are ready to take any action they need from there. And you are

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from the Environment Agency. When you have a lot of your staff working

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on it and we've seen a military on standby to help. Give us an idea of

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the level of staffing available. Significant numbers of staff. We've

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been moving equipment and staff all week in preparation for this. And

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also working closely with partners and emergency services, local

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authority and the military as you say are on standby. A huge number of

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temporary barriers. They are in place and ready to protect and we

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are all standing by to do anything additional that is needed today and

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we will continue to work around the clock to do everything we can to

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minimise impact and keep people safe. Thank you very much for your

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time this morning. That was coming from one of the

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centres set up to help. Some people have already being evacuated. We

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will keep you up-to-date. Problems with the floods and also the roads.

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Just to get you up-to-date on the national projects, there are now 17

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severe flood warnings. That means a risk to life in 17 areas now. That's

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a number that has been increasing throughout the morning. We will of

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course keep you up-to-date about which areas they are and what is

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happening in those areas. More on that later.

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Bye for now. travel and weather where you are.

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

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The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east

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coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit.

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The Environment Agency has issued 14 severe flood warnings,

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All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed

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Gale-force winds are combining with high tides

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In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning,

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The emergency services have arrived in force.

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The residents are being urged to leave.

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We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles

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an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that,

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and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime.

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So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely

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Some have already heeded that warning.

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Everyone in the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet?

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I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked,

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because she's not very well next door, and things like that.

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So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay.

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On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been

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About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station.

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Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

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There will be a significant rise in the water.

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But whether it will be enough to top the defences,

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that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really.

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And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today,

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Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow,

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Kate Sweeting is in Hessle, near the Humber Bridge,

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where there is a severe flood warning in place.

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I can see there is pretty heavy snowfall. Indeed, it is very cold

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here but relatively calm, and that will come as a relief to residents.

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Tidal surges are caused by a combination of high winds and high

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tide, and the winds haven't been as high as predicted. And so high tide

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has passed here this morning without event, but we are not part of the

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woods yet, because there is another high tide this evening at around

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6pm, which is expected to be more severe. There are still flood

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warnings in place along the east coast, which means that flooding is

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expected. People here are on standby, with sandbags, there are

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council staff and police ready for this evening and in Lincolnshire the

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army was called in to help evacuate people. More than 3000 residents

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were told they should leave their homes or go upstairs, and special

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rest centres have been set up for them. But for the people hear the

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warning of a tidal surge is particularly worrying because in

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2013 one happened in the water came over. It flooded more than 1400

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homes. The last time there was a serious tidal surge was in 1953,

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when hundreds of people died. The people here were told, and believed,

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when it happened in 2013, that this was a once in 60 year event and

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three years on here we are on high alert.

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We will bring you up-to-date on the weather picture across the UK a

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little later in the programme. The number of men in low-paid,

:34:38.:34:39.

part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:34:40.:34:41.

for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men

:34:42.:34:46.

aged between 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:34:47.:34:49.

has risen over two decades, There were emotional scenes

:34:50.:34:52.

during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama

:34:53.:35:03.

surprised his Vice-President with the country's

:35:04.:35:05.

highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:35:06.:35:06.

the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:35:07.:35:09.

in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:35:10.:35:12.

a complete surprise. This is a remarkable man, and I just

:35:13.:35:28.

hope that the asterisk in history that is attached to my name when

:35:29.:35:34.

they talk about this presidency is that I can say I was part of, part

:35:35.:35:36.

of the journey of a remarkable man. The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been

:35:37.:35:42.

accused of violating pollution laws The US Environmental Protection

:35:43.:35:45.

Agency says the manufacturer equipped tens of thousands of diesel

:35:46.:35:49.

Jeep and Dodge vehicles with software that regulates

:35:50.:35:51.

emissions results. The firm has denied doing anything

:35:52.:35:53.

illegal, but has seen its share The number of people changing

:35:54.:35:56.

who they buy their electricity Research from the industry body

:35:57.:36:06.

Energy UK shows that nearly five million people changed

:36:07.:36:11.

their electricity supplier last year, and a fifth of those

:36:12.:36:13.

who switched in December went to a smaller supplier rather

:36:14.:36:16.

than one of the Big Six. It is the highest number of switches

:36:17.:36:19.

since Energy UK began Sarah will have the weather forecast

:36:20.:36:22.

in around five minutes. Lots going on, of course, with the

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weather. Time to talk about sport with Mike, and lots of tributes

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coming in for Graham Taylor. Yes, a shock to all and football is morning

:36:45.:36:50.

loss of a great human being. Kind, courteous and totally without ego.

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That is my big memory of him, when he came on the sofa for Breakfast or

:36:56.:37:00.

when he was still managing and I interviewed him, it was like talking

:37:01.:37:04.

to a friend. Often with football managers, you worry about saying the

:37:05.:37:07.

wrong thing, will they stormed out? Not him at all. He had a great sense

:37:08.:37:12.

of humour and could laugh at himself. So many stories about how

:37:13.:37:17.

humble he was, right at the end. He agreed to be best man at Watford

:37:18.:37:26.

fan's wedding after meeting him only once. And I am mindful, looking at

:37:27.:37:34.

the image behind us and the pictures in the papers, a very infectious

:37:35.:37:38.

smile he had. Everyone who paid tribute to him said he had a great

:37:39.:37:44.

sense of humour. As I say, he could laugh at himself, self-deprecating,

:37:45.:37:48.

but he was interested in you. You would offer to make a cup of tea,

:37:49.:37:53.

and he would say no, I will do it, you're fine.

:37:54.:37:54.

It is hard to remember so much genuine love for a football manager,

:37:55.:37:57.

but Graham Taylor was a top-class coach at club level,

:37:58.:38:00.

and a true gentleman inside and outside of the game.

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Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977,

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and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top

:38:07.:38:09.

flight within five years, and they reached the 1984 FA

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He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves,

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and he was England manager for four years.

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A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game

:38:24.:38:27.

of football, and who was straight, and who was honest,

:38:28.:38:30.

And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young player,

:38:31.:38:35.

or whether you are a very experienced player.

:38:36.:38:38.

And I think that is the way he will be remembered.

:38:39.:38:41.

You always talk about people's contribution within football.

:38:42.:38:43.

But you remember them most as people, and he was somebody that

:38:44.:38:46.

had time for everybody, and was generous with that time.

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And I think they are the human qualities that

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There was a minute's applause in memory of Graham Taylor ahead

:38:52.:39:00.

of last night's Championship match between QPR and Reading.

:39:01.:39:02.

QPR made it three League wins in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's

:39:03.:39:06.

winner, scoring against his old club.

:39:07.:39:09.

West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic says they will not sell

:39:10.:39:12.

Dimitri Payet, even though he is refusing to play for the club,

:39:13.:39:15.

Payet's former club Marseille have reportedly already had a bid

:39:16.:39:20.

Bilic said Payet is out of the team, and won't be training

:39:21.:39:29.

until he changes his attitude, but he is not for sale.

:39:30.:39:33.

We don't want to sell our best players. We want to keep them.

:39:34.:39:40.

Here's definitely one of the more... Our best player. That is why we gave

:39:41.:39:48.

him such a long contract. I informed him of that, and he refused to play

:39:49.:39:51.

for us. Andy Murray will start his

:39:52.:39:53.

Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

:39:54.:39:55.

for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final

:39:56.:39:59.

in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw,

:40:00.:40:02.

Johanna Konta will face Kirsten England's test captain,

:40:03.:40:05.

Alastair Cook, will meet director of cricket Andrew Strauss today,

:40:06.:40:16.

but no decision on his role Cook admitted to having questions

:40:17.:40:19.

over his position during the recent 4-0 series defeat in India,

:40:20.:40:24.

but still has the backing You questioning a guy that's got

:40:25.:40:31.

11,000 Test runs, the most decorated English Test match player that we've

:40:32.:40:36.

ever had. And to be questioning him so much about whether or not he

:40:37.:40:42.

should stay on as captain, and this, that on the other, I think it is up

:40:43.:40:47.

to him whether he wants to stay on. I think he has got to make that

:40:48.:40:51.

decision and I'm sure that when he makes that decision it will be the

:40:52.:40:53.

right one for him and the team. The man who twice rode Red Rum

:40:54.:40:56.

to victory in the Grand National, Fletcher won the National

:40:57.:41:00.

as a 20-year-old in 1968, on board Red Alligator,

:41:01.:41:05.

but will be best remembered for his back-to-back wins at Aintree

:41:06.:41:07.

on Red Rum in '73 and '74. The popularity of NBA basketball in

:41:08.:41:21.

this country shows no sign of waning.

:41:22.:41:22.

And a sell-out crowd at London's O2 Arena saw

:41:23.:41:24.

the Denver Nuggets comfortably beat the Indiana Pacers

:41:25.:41:26.

It is the seventh regular-season game to be played in the capital,

:41:27.:41:30.

The crowd included many Arsenal and Chelsea players as well. A final

:41:31.:41:41.

word about Graham Taylor, and his reign change the way it the press

:41:42.:41:45.

treated English managers because there was that vilification of him

:41:46.:41:51.

on the back page of the Sun, when he was depicted as a turnip, with the

:41:52.:41:57.

headline Swedes two, turnips, one. That one headline defined his spell

:41:58.:42:03.

in charge of England, which didn't go according to plan for him but we

:42:04.:42:07.

mustn't forget what he did for those clubs, for Aston Villa, Watford and

:42:08.:42:12.

Lincoln, and he was overseeing a lot of comings and goings, so he can't

:42:13.:42:17.

totally be blamed for what happened with England. But it got quite sour

:42:18.:42:22.

at times. And you will talk to one of the players later on. Yes,

:42:23.:42:26.

because he also did a lot to tackle racism and again, one of the first

:42:27.:42:30.

pioneers to tackle it head on. He signed John Barnes for Watford for

:42:31.:42:37.

just a pair of shorts and a football kit. He has overseen it all.

:42:38.:42:41.

A public health crisis on a par with obesity and diabetes.

:42:42.:42:44.

That could be the result of not properly assessing the needs

:42:45.:42:47.

of children in care, according to the head

:42:48.:42:49.

Mark Kerr from the Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma

:42:50.:42:54.

says the failure of successive governments to properly care

:42:55.:42:56.

for looked-after children could cost society billions of pounds a year.

:42:57.:42:59.

But first, Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin has been to a children's

:43:00.:43:04.

home in Yorkshire, to see what life is like for those who live there.

:43:05.:43:17.

It is rare for a camera to be invited inside the children's care

:43:18.:43:24.

home. Here in Yorkshire, and struck I how normal it all is. And it feels

:43:25.:43:34.

really homely. Everything in the whole house is picked by the young

:43:35.:43:38.

people as well. This is their house, this is their home, this is where

:43:39.:43:43.

they live. Nothing he feels institutional. Only two young people

:43:44.:43:47.

live here, looked after by eight specially trained staff. We have one

:43:48.:43:52.

young man who was 14, and the young lady who is 17. Those who live here

:43:53.:43:56.

will probably have suffered serious neglect, trauma or abuse. To

:43:57.:44:02.

understand how happy he feels or how angry he feels, it can feel like

:44:03.:44:06.

anger but it is not the same, anxiety, and we have to do a lot of

:44:07.:44:11.

work with them about that. That is one of the sleeper is just over

:44:12.:44:15.

there, and this is one of our other young people's rooms, who is most

:44:16.:44:21.

comfortable in clutter! We will leave well enough alone. I give you

:44:22.:44:26.

permission to read this out. I asked him to tell me what kind of things

:44:27.:44:31.

he is into, and he says looking at cars, going to school, playing

:44:32.:44:34.

football, playing on the Xbox. Can you say thank you to all my foster

:44:35.:44:39.

parents in the past? Clearly he has had lots of connections with people

:44:40.:44:44.

in the past. But he feels more settled here. Yes, the bounce to

:44:45.:44:48.

about six or seven different placements but he has been here now

:44:49.:44:53.

for over two years now, doing really well. There are no timetables.

:44:54.:44:57.

Friends are welcome to visit. Day trips and holidays are taken. This

:44:58.:45:05.

is... This is Christmas Day. Yes, so we like to take pictures. A lot of

:45:06.:45:09.

them we've got memory boxes that we keep for the young people but a lot

:45:10.:45:13.

of them do go up around the house. Because the plan is always for a

:45:14.:45:17.

young person to eventually move on from here, hopefully back to their

:45:18.:45:21.

own home, not always possible. What is the relationship like with

:45:22.:45:25.

neighbours, people in the area? I think the majority of the time it is

:45:26.:45:29.

really good. I think when things go wrong in the community we are the

:45:30.:45:33.

first ones that get the knock on the door, because unfortunately our kids

:45:34.:45:36.

are perceived as being bad kits, and that is not the case at all. They

:45:37.:45:40.

have been through a lot in their lives, a lot of trauma, they just

:45:41.:45:44.

need that help and support from us. That is what we are trying to give

:45:45.:45:46.

them. We will talk about a couple of those

:45:47.:45:50.

issues now. Joining us now is Dr Mark Kerr,

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chairman of the Institute for Recovery from Childhood Trauma

:45:59.:46:02.

and Liam Hill who's the director at the charity Voice for Children

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and was himself a child in care. This is very personal for you, cause

:46:06.:46:12.

you spend a lot of time in many, many different elements of care.

:46:13.:46:15.

What the brief outline of what happened to you? At the age of five

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I was put into care, and over my time I was put into 64 different

:46:25.:46:29.

placements. These were roughly around 40 to foster placements and

:46:30.:46:35.

the rest was residential. Given your own experience, I speak on behalf of

:46:36.:46:40.

those brought up in this, what progress or any has been made? Where

:46:41.:46:44.

do the problems lie now? This reporter says clearly there is a

:46:45.:46:49.

problem right now. The problem for me is around the timescales of

:46:50.:46:52.

children and young people and whether they get the help they need.

:46:53.:46:57.

As mentioned before I had 42. Owns and that was a lot of the time

:46:58.:47:02.

because Foster the People weren't trained properly. So residential

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places that have facilities to help with the trauma and affects. I do

:47:11.:47:18.

independent inspections in kids' home. There are smaller homes now,

:47:19.:47:26.

less institutionalised. There's more emphasis on the voice of the and

:47:27.:47:30.

young people. But there are still issues in terms of homes actually

:47:31.:47:35.

being well-equipped with staff who can manage this behaviour.

:47:36.:47:38.

Criminalisation sometimes with young people, displaying aggressive

:47:39.:47:42.

behaviours. That's one of the issues for me. And obviously it is about

:47:43.:47:47.

keeping consistent people for those young people and getting the best

:47:48.:47:51.

care. You've done a lot of research in this area, Mark, and you can tell

:47:52.:47:56.

us about the scale. I was surprised by how many children there are in

:47:57.:48:00.

care homes and the impact it has. Now we are down to... The number has

:48:01.:48:05.

gone down the vividly. Historically the residential homes in England,

:48:06.:48:10.

therapeutic, were viewed around the world as leading. But that has

:48:11.:48:15.

eroded over the years as politically they've been out of favour in terms

:48:16.:48:20.

of moving away into care in the community. Lots of focus now on the

:48:21.:48:25.

symptoms around the causes. So we talk about offending, for example we

:48:26.:48:30.

already know that between trauma and mental health problems and offending

:48:31.:48:35.

there is a link. And we know that for example adverse child

:48:36.:48:41.

experiences, which is the common symptom and cause of what happens to

:48:42.:48:49.

these children, before care. It is difficult to deal with that in

:48:50.:48:52.

foster care. So as much as foster carers have lots of care and love to

:48:53.:48:56.

give, they don't have the psychological skills. Mental health

:48:57.:49:04.

services have cuts as well. Is it your opinion that a lot of children

:49:05.:49:09.

are put into force the care, when what they need is a different kind

:49:10.:49:12.

of approach? Absolutely. Because if we keep tackling the symptoms, the

:49:13.:49:18.

amount of movement and different foster placements, we pass it on

:49:19.:49:24.

into adulthood and that's cost shunting. You speak to people who

:49:25.:49:30.

are caught up into this and that's what you are hearing? All the time.

:49:31.:49:35.

The difficulty is that children and young people, a lot of the people we

:49:36.:49:41.

speak to, have more trauma due to all of the different placements

:49:42.:49:44.

moves. Not getting the right support and help. As people know if you have

:49:45.:49:51.

been in care Bears and 80% chance that if you have a child it will go

:49:52.:49:55.

back into the system. So therapeutic residential setting can cost of

:49:56.:50:01.

?80,000 a year... The stories are very moving. Was there a moment, and

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we haven't got much time, sorry, was there a moment for you that changed

:50:09.:50:13.

things for you sit negatively? In terms of... Progress. Whether there

:50:14.:50:19.

was a moment where you were on one path and then something changed? I

:50:20.:50:24.

was placed in a therapeutic setting after all of my foster home

:50:25.:50:27.

breakdowns and they did real therapy, worked with me to help me

:50:28.:50:31.

get back to my local area, get back into mainstream education. Then I

:50:32.:50:35.

was once again placed in a foster placement and that placement broke

:50:36.:50:38.

down because they still couldn't manage, so after all of that great

:50:39.:50:43.

progress I sort of took a step back. Very interesting to talk to you

:50:44.:50:47.

both. Thank you very much for your time.

:50:48.:50:51.

So much to talk about. It is snowing heavily near the Humber Bridge this

:50:52.:50:55.

morning. Have a look at this picture.

:50:56.:50:56.

Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather.

:50:57.:51:02.

Good morning. We have got a lot of wintry weather around this morning.

:51:03.:51:11.

Many of us will be waking up to scenes like this for top but it is

:51:12.:51:16.

not just the ice and snow that will be causing problems, but also strong

:51:17.:51:21.

winds and the chance along the east coast that we could have coastal

:51:22.:51:24.

flooding problems. Lots to tell you about. We have a band of sleet and

:51:25.:51:29.

snow pushing across northern England, Lincolnshire, down into

:51:30.:51:33.

east Anglia and across Scotland further wintry showers, especially

:51:34.:51:36.

towards the north and west. We have strong winds towards the east coast.

:51:37.:51:41.

Flooding could be a problem. Coastal flooding in particular further

:51:42.:51:44.

south, where strong winds are combining with high tides. We have

:51:45.:51:48.

sleet and snow pushing across east Anglia, east Midlands. That will

:51:49.:51:54.

clear later in the day. If you are concerned about the risk of flooding

:51:55.:51:57.

where you live here is the flood line number. The environmental

:51:58.:52:00.

agency has several severe flood warnings in force. As we move

:52:01.:52:04.

through the day we've got the band of sleet and snow gradually clearing

:52:05.:52:08.

the south-east by about lunchtime. Further wintry showers towards the

:52:09.:52:12.

west, the northern and western Scotland, Northern Ireland and

:52:13.:52:15.

Wales. Set to see more snowfall in here. For many of us as you can see

:52:16.:52:20.

in the afternoon with got clear skies and sunshine. It will feel

:52:21.:52:24.

cold when you add on the windchill, is a feeling sub zero, with

:52:25.:52:28.

temperatures about 2-5. Temperatures dip away through this evening and

:52:29.:52:33.

overnight under clear skies. We continue to see sleet and snow

:52:34.:52:37.

showers, potentially around the east coast, but also some moving in from

:52:38.:52:40.

the west. In between under clear skies a sharp frost. Iciness and

:52:41.:52:45.

subzero temperatures first thing Saturday morning. It will be a

:52:46.:52:49.

wintry start to the weekend and we are like to see further snow showers

:52:50.:52:52.

across the east of Scotland, perhaps down to east Anglia. Towards the

:52:53.:52:56.

west the showers turning back to sleet and rain, increasingly through

:52:57.:53:01.

the course of Saturday. But there will be sunshine for many central

:53:02.:53:04.

parts. Temperatures 1-2 towards the east coast. Milder towards the west.

:53:05.:53:10.

So a change in the weather through the weekend after the cold snap.

:53:11.:53:14.

Start to draw in the milder air, working in from the west and

:53:15.:53:17.

north-west, especially through Sunday, where we have a weather

:53:18.:53:21.

front bringing outbreaks of rain. The weather fronts move east across

:53:22.:53:24.

the country, bringing patchy rain for many. Quite a bit of cloud by

:53:25.:53:29.

the time we get the Sunday and a different feel to the weather after

:53:30.:53:33.

the cold and with the weather. Back to about 5- ten degrees in the

:53:34.:53:36.

second half of the weekend. So things eventually turning milder,

:53:37.:53:41.

over the next 24 hours or so watch out for the snow, ice, strong winds

:53:42.:53:45.

and coastal flooding. Lots going on and we could see further disruption.

:53:46.:53:46.

Thank you very much. The 9095 film Pocahontas was

:53:47.:53:57.

inspired by the native American woman who died 400 years ago. --

:53:58.:53:59.

1995. This week special events

:54:00.:54:03.

marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location

:54:04.:54:05.

might surprise you. # Have you ever heard the wolf cry

:54:06.:54:08.

to the blue corn moon...# It took a quarter of a billion

:54:09.:54:15.

pounds at the box office, but of the millions

:54:16.:54:18.

who have seen the 1995 film Pocahontas, few in all likelihood

:54:19.:54:21.

could tell you where she is actually Just outside the M25

:54:22.:54:24.

in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a Native American

:54:25.:54:29.

who married an English settler, They became Virginia's

:54:30.:54:32.

first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed

:54:33.:54:37.

with the movers and shakers of the day, including

:54:38.:54:42.

King James and Queen Anne. But on their return,

:54:43.:54:48.

as their ship passed through Gravesend, Pocahontas,

:54:49.:54:59.

or Rebecca Rolfe as she was now This is where she is buried

:55:00.:55:02.

and this is her great, great, great, great,

:55:03.:55:07.

great, great, great... ..great-grandson, also

:55:08.:55:08.

called John Rolfe. I am very proud to be

:55:09.:55:09.

a descendant of Many people growing up

:55:10.:55:12.

had never heard of her. It was like saying, "I'm related

:55:13.:55:22.

to Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty". As the 400th anniversary

:55:23.:55:26.

of her death approaches, there is a chance to honour her

:55:27.:55:28.

brief but extraordinary life. It's one of the first

:55:29.:55:31.

recorded instances where two very different cultures

:55:32.:55:34.

were formally married and And they were celebrities

:55:35.:55:35.

when they came over? Very much so, because many people

:55:36.:55:40.

had never met a Native American, so the young Pocahontas

:55:41.:55:44.

was fated as a celebrity. She dined with King James

:55:45.:55:48.

and Queen Anne and I feel proud to be part of this amazing

:55:49.:55:52.

very true story, and this Time now to get the news,

:55:53.:55:55.

travel and weather where you are. Good morning

:55:56.:56:13.

from BBC London News. Shopkeepers across the capital have

:56:14.:56:14.

been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for selling illegal skin

:56:15.:56:18.

whitening treatments. London Trading Standards says 15

:56:19.:56:23.

shops have been fined more than ?160,000 each and some

:56:24.:56:25.

business owners given The treatments include poisonous

:56:26.:56:27.

chemicals like mercury and can cause organ

:56:28.:56:34.

failure and even cancer. The courts are looking at this

:56:35.:56:39.

as criminal activity, It is not the kind of activity

:56:40.:56:42.

where people can think they can run a legitimate business and sell

:56:43.:56:51.

these kinds of products. There's more misery

:56:52.:56:53.

for Southern Rail commuters today as drivers go on another

:56:54.:56:56.

24 hour strike. It means there'll be no trains

:56:57.:56:59.

at all, apart from a very limited peak service between Caterham

:57:00.:57:02.

and London Victoria. Around 200 buses will run

:57:03.:57:04.

on some other routes. Let's get the rest of the travel now

:57:05.:57:08.

and of course we have had some snow so we'll look at how that's

:57:09.:57:12.

affecting things in a moment. Now we've got a few

:57:13.:57:15.

problems on the tube. The Circle Line has

:57:16.:57:18.

minor delays clockwise. Minor delays on the District line

:57:19.:57:23.

between Barking to Upminster and Earls Court to Richmond,

:57:24.:57:26.

Ealing Broadway and Wimbledon. The Hammersmith and City line has

:57:27.:57:28.

minor delays eastbound. Hello this is Breakfast, with

:57:29.:59:37.

Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Thousands of people along the east

:59:38.:59:39.

coast of England are told to leave their homes as gale force

:59:40.:59:41.

winds combine with high tides. There are now 13 severe -

:59:42.:59:44.

meaning a risk to life - More than 1,000 people

:59:45.:59:47.

are being moved to safety And the snow caused

:59:48.:59:50.

disruption overnight - especially in Kent where there

:59:51.:59:54.

were delays on the M20. We've got more disruptive weather on

:59:55.:00:06.

the cards today, not just the snow and ice around, but also strong wind

:00:07.:00:09.

and the potential coastal flooding in the east. We will have a full

:00:10.:00:12.

forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning, it's

:00:13.:00:25.

Friday 13th January. More men are in low-paid,

:00:26.:00:26.

part-time work than ever before according to a new study of those

:00:27.:00:32.

aged between 25 and 55. More people took their first step

:00:33.:00:36.

on the housing ladder last year than for 10 years and research

:00:37.:00:41.

for Breakfast says it's also getting cheaper for first-time

:00:42.:00:44.

buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

:00:45.:00:46.

of one of its true gentlemen - Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

:00:47.:00:52.

Aston Villa and England manager, who's died of a suspected,

:00:53.:00:54.

heart attack at the age of 72. The army's on standby to help

:00:55.:01:03.

evacuate communities along the East Coast where a tidal surge

:01:04.:01:07.

is expected to hit. The Environment Agency has issued 13

:01:08.:01:10.

severe flood warnings, All along the east coast,

:01:11.:01:15.

floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are

:01:16.:01:21.

combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex,

:01:22.:01:25.

there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services

:01:26.:01:33.

have arrived in force. The residents are

:01:34.:01:36.

being urged to leave. We strongly advise people to stay

:01:37.:01:51.

away from high tide, not just those being evacuated but more generally,

:01:52.:01:55.

people be sensible about not watching the waves or driving

:01:56.:01:58.

through floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves safe. It's very

:01:59.:02:03.

important day with this weather. Some have already heeded that

:02:04.:02:05.

warning and others are waiting to see. Had a text message, the

:02:06.:02:13.

neighbour next door is all panicking, because she's not very

:02:14.:02:16.

well. Things like that. I think a lot of people are planning to stay.

:02:17.:02:22.

On the Lincolnshire coast at Skegness, the military have been

:02:23.:02:25.

brought in to help if needed. About 100 soldiers are based at the police

:02:26.:02:34.

station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

:02:35.:02:38.

to protect their business. There will be a significant rise in water,

:02:39.:02:41.

whether it's enough to top the defences depends on mother nature, I

:02:42.:02:46.

suppose. And mother nature is said to bring more entry weather today,

:02:47.:02:51.

bringing more travel disruption. Nearly all the UK is covered by

:02:52.:02:54.

weather warnings for snow or ice or both.

:02:55.:03:01.

We will bring you up-to-date with the problems with storm surges and

:03:02.:03:09.

quite a bit of snow falling. This is a live shot from Hull, people waking

:03:10.:03:13.

up to quite a bit of style, replicated in many parts of the

:03:14.:03:17.

country. In the south-east, particularly in Kent, there was

:03:18.:03:21.

heavy snowfall into the evening last night. We will have a full look at

:03:22.:03:26.

the forecast and some of the images. Some pretty treacherous conditions.

:03:27.:03:29.

This was later in the evening last night. We will bring you right up to

:03:30.:03:34.

date with weather conditions and the problems on the roads throughout the

:03:35.:03:35.

programme this morning. The number of men in low-paid

:03:36.:03:39.

part-time work has increased "dramatically" over

:03:40.:03:42.

the last 20 years. New research by the Institute

:03:43.:03:43.

for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low paid men

:03:44.:03:46.

between the ages of 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:03:47.:03:49.

has risen over two decades, but for women the opposite

:03:50.:03:56.

is the case, as our Business Top-earning men in the professions

:03:57.:03:58.

normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of

:03:59.:04:06.

them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst

:04:07.:04:08.

the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering

:04:09.:04:12.

and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number

:04:13.:04:15.

has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality

:04:16.:04:19.

for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff have done far better

:04:20.:04:24.

than low-paid, part-time workers. But for women, the

:04:25.:04:28.

opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been

:04:29.:04:32.

consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years,

:04:33.:04:36.

and more of them are in work. For men, particularly

:04:37.:04:40.

the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours

:04:41.:04:44.

of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear

:04:45.:04:47.

why low-paid men are It might be because they want to,

:04:48.:04:51.

although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid

:04:52.:04:58.

and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale,

:04:59.:05:02.

restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously

:05:03.:05:07.

worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs,

:05:08.:05:10.

in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

:05:11.:05:13.

and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid

:05:14.:05:18.

and less-secure services sector A week to go until the new American

:05:19.:05:20.

president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds

:05:21.:05:29.

with some of his key cabinet nominees on some

:05:30.:05:32.

of the vital questions facing His choice for the CIA leader has

:05:33.:05:34.

endorsed the work of the US intelligence agency,

:05:35.:05:47.

hours after it was criticised Also the potential Defense

:05:48.:05:49.

secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe,

:05:50.:05:52.

after Mr Trump called for warmer And it's emerged overnight

:05:53.:05:54.

that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:05:55.:05:59.

of lurid claims about Donald Trump was hired by the England

:06:00.:06:04.

2018 World Cup bid team. It's believed he was brought

:06:05.:06:07.

in to provide information on world football's governing body,

:06:08.:06:09.

Fifa. There were emotional

:06:10.:06:12.

scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:06:13.:06:14.

as President Obama surprised his vice-president with the country's

:06:15.:06:18.

highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:06:19.:06:22.

the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:06:23.:06:25.

in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:06:26.:06:27.

a complete surprise. Best vice president America has ever

:06:28.:06:36.

had, Mr Joe Biden. APPLAUSE This also gives the Internet one

:06:37.:06:49.

last chance to talk about our bromance.

:06:50.:06:53.

The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

:06:54.:06:56.

The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:06:57.:07:00.

equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:07:01.:07:04.

with software that regulates emissions results.

:07:05.:07:08.

The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:07:09.:07:11.

More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent local

:07:12.:07:25.

doctors says the General Medical Council. The review says a

:07:26.:07:33.

reluctance to share checks allow some poor doctors to go undetected.

:07:34.:07:38.

The NHS is increasingly relying on local doctors in order to deal with

:07:39.:07:42.

staff shortages in our hospitals and surgeries. With some charging up to

:07:43.:07:47.

?115 per hour, questions have been raised about the cost. But that

:07:48.:07:52.

isn't the only concern. The General Medical Council says more needs to

:07:53.:07:56.

be done to ensure that all local doctors are properly vetted. The

:07:57.:08:01.

report has highlighted a number of problems and found it wasn't clear

:08:02.:08:07.

which organisation was responsible for the appraisal of doctors on

:08:08.:08:11.

short-term contracts. Hospitals were also criticised for failing to share

:08:12.:08:16.

information and feedback when a locum was not up to the required

:08:17.:08:20.

standard. The General Medical Council also warned that some

:08:21.:08:24.

agencies that supply staff are not carrying out checks and ensuring

:08:25.:08:29.

adequate paperwork can support. There was also evidence that some

:08:30.:08:32.

patients were afraid to give negative feedback about their doctor

:08:33.:08:37.

in case it impacted on their care. In response the Department of Health

:08:38.:08:43.

said, making sure doctors are up-to-date is vital to providing

:08:44.:08:46.

high quality patient care and further progress was needed.

:08:47.:08:52.

The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

:08:53.:08:55.

Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that

:08:56.:08:58.

nearly 5 million people changed their electricity supplier

:08:59.:09:00.

last year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

:09:01.:09:03.

to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

:09:04.:09:06.

It's the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

:09:07.:09:09.

All the sport is coming up in a few minutes. Back to the main story now.

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Let's get the latest on the flood threats.

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There are 13 severe weather warnings now in place.

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In Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast around 100 soldiers

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from the Catterick army base have been deployed to help 3,000

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Transport in central London has been affected by snowfall

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over the last 48 hours, with delays on trains,

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long delays on the roads and flight cancellations at both Heathrow

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Residents of Jaywick in Essex are currently

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being moved to an evacuation centre in Clacton-on-Sea.

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And heavy snowfall in Scotland has caused road closures and a number

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of schools are likely to stay closed.

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Further disruption is expected as the Met Office warns of up

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The Environment Agency says people need to stay vigilant.

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We really strongly advise people to stay away from high tides, not just

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those being evacuated, but more generally of people can be sensible

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about not wave watching, not driving through floodwater, and focusing on

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keeping themselves safe. It's very important today with this weather.

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In a moment we'll get the latest from our reporter in Canterbury

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on how the weather's affecting travel.

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But first let's go to the Essex coast, where emergency services have

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opened for people who have had to leave their homes.

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You are with some of the people who have been sent to the Centre. What's

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going on this morning? Quite a lot has changed in the last hour. It has

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got busier at this rest centre, 17 people stayed overnight after they

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were told to evacuate their homes. In total, 2500 residents have been

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told to leave their homes, that's half the population of Jaywick.

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After 7am, police have transported people out of Jaywick and

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surrounding areas to places like this. Also, the Environment Agency

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within the last hour has said they have that news and good news. To

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start with is the good news, at the moment the tide, or the level of

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water, is lower than expected. So good news at the start. But the bad

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news is yet to come. In the evening the actual levels are expected to be

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much higher. What that means for residents and their homes is unknown

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as yet. The tide, the high tide, is expected at one o'clock. These

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residents are in a warm and safe environment. If I was to ask you if

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you are happy or sad, what would you say? Very happy to be here and safe.

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A silver lining around every cloud. A real change in picture. Thank you.

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Let's head to Canterbury now where there's plenty of snow.

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It looks rather beautiful, I can see the sunrise behind you, but pretty

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treacherous conditions. The sun is coming out but it's very, very cold.

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We've had a lot of snow overnight and that snow has now turned to ice.

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Looking down there, you can see that ice that has begun to settle. And

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you also have ice on the footpath in, making it pretty difficult to

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remain on your feet. Stowe still on the ground here. As a result,

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difficult conditions on the roads. -- snow is still on the grounds. The

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roads have been gritted. We see people driving slowly and carefully.

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On the corny here, it's very icy. Some cars have been struggling for

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traction as they try to come past that side road. We have had a number

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of accidents already this morning, jackknifed lorries and cars that

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crashed last night on Bluebell Hill in Kent. Treacherous conditions

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where some people were trapped on cars for two or three hours trying

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to get up and down hills. We are told things are looking better at

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the airports. Yesterday there were a large number of cancellations,

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particularly at Heathrow, but they hope things will run more smoothly

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today. What we have is a combination of snow that has become ice. Wind

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will whip up during the day making some pretty grim combination. More

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snow forecast, particularly for Scotland, heading into northern

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England and eastern England. Possibly more snow showers here in

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Kent. The advice is to check before you set out. It's pretty grim on

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foot and on the road. The situation in Canterbury. Sarah will have the

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full weather forecast in a second. Before that, we will show some of

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the pictures you have sent us this morning. A snow topped car sent in

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by a weather watcher from near Newport. Alfred sent this image of

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snow-covered roads in the early hours of the morning in North

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Shields. It really is a winter wonderland in this picture sent in

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by David in Reigate. The dog Pickle at the bottom of the picture out for

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a snowy walk. And in Maidstone overnight, we know there were a few

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problems last night, in the evening and in rush hour on the roads.

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Important to take care if you are out and about in that weather. Let's

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find out more about what's happening across the UK. What does it mean and

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what's happening, what should we expect in the next few days?

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We're not Out of the Woods yet in terms of the wintry weather. The

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scene behind me was taken in Wales in the early morning. More in the

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way of snow and ice as well as strong winds as well as the risk of

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coastal flooding along the east coast. Low-pressure heading south

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down the east coast bringing sleet and snow through parts of northern

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England, Lincolnshire, East Anglia. North and west, we are set for

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wintry showers. Scotland at 9am, snow showers in the north and west.

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Brisk wind around the east, so they could be some coastal flooding

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problems across eastern Scotland and certainly down to East Anglia where

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strong winds have combined with a high tide, so we could see a surge

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coming to bring flooding to the coast. The Environment Agency have

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issued several severe flood warnings. The flood line number if

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you are concerned about flooding where you live. Four seasons in one

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day today. Sleet and snow across East Anglia and the south-east that

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should clear by lunchtime. Many of us seemed a good deal of dry weather

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and sunshine, but plenty of showers coming in from the north-west. Parts

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of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will see a further covering of

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snow throughout the day. Temperatures above freezing but will

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feel subzero, especially when you are exposed to the cold northerly

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wind. Into the evening, the wind will become lighter with clearer

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skies for many central and eastern areas. Not just a widespread frost

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overnight tonight, but we also expect to see further icy stretches,

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particularly where you see snow accumulations. Subzero temperatures

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for all of us heading into the weekend. Saturday shaping up with

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more snow showers across eastern Scotland and down to East Anglia.

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Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow moving in from the West. But much of

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the country is looking reasonably dry with cold, wintry sunshine on

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offer. Temperatures on the face of it looking around one or two max

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towards the east, in the wind. Towards the West, things turning

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milder. Those showers turning back into rain in the West on Saturday.

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Overnight into Sunday, milder air spilling in from the north-west.

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Weather fronts also bringing some outbreaks of rain that will push

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slowly east across the country. A grey day to come on Sunday. Breeze

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coming in from the west, it will be. Temperatures back at 5-10d on

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Sunday. But here and now, the weather is likely to cause

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disruption today with ice and snow to content with as well as strong

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wind and coastal flooding in the East.

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We hear a lot about women working part-time.

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But figures suggest one in five men on low wages

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And it's said to be a growing trend, highlighted in a new report

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on inequality by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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So what do these figures say about the changing nature

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We spoke to one young worker in London who does

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My name is Declan, and 25, originally from Manchester, I now

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live in London and I'm in part-time work that is not well paid. I am

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currently doing my masters at an institution that is

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once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so the idea of having flexible work to

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fit around what should be my priority is something I had to give

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the go. Being in low paid work, you don't particularly have any

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responsibility, it is pretty brainless. These are both pros and

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cons. It is manual Labour based, so it can be tiring, but it is not

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really sustainable. I am yet to see how it is financially viable. I

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don't think I do like the job, you don't particularly feel like you are

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of any value, you do just feel like... You know, like a piece of

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meat, really. That was Declan talking to us.

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With us to talk about this is Robert Joyce, from the IFS,

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Good morning to you, Declan was describing the circumstances in

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which he ended up in a part-time low-paid job. What is the big

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picture? The big picture is there are many more low-wage men doing

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that kind of work now than they used to be, so there is growing

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association between low hourly wage and doing low hours of work, and

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that increases the disparities in what lower earning and higher

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earning men are taking home. Take the lowest wage fifth of men, 20

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years ago one in 20 of them worked part-time, now that has

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risen to one in five amongst prime age men, 25 to 55, not including

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students or the semi retired. It is a striking, surprising trend. On the

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face of it, you would assume no one wants to get low wages, but they

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might want to work part-time? Indeed, so there is a big question

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which we have not yet definitively been able to answer, it is difficult

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to describe what is going on, which is, is there an element here of

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choice, maybe there are some low-wage men who would have wanted

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to work part time 20 years ago but those kinds of flexible jobs perhaps

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were not available and now they are? Or is it another plausible story,

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more about lower skilled men finding that the demand for their Labour in

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the labour market means that they would like to work full time but

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they actually can't? Those explanations have different

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implications. One of the things we need to do next is understand which

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of those is the dominant force. Traditionally we talk about women in

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low-paid work, part-time, flexible working. Are they levelling up now?

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For women, the trends have been completely different, they are

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better understood and have been commented on before so we know many

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more women are in the labour market and used to be the case and many

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more work full-time, particularly true amongst those on the lowest

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hourly wages, the increase in full-time work in that group has

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been particularly big. Traditionally it is men who have been viewed as

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more boring in this sector, in the middle of a life, the traditional

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view is that they just work full-time and what we are showing is

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that assumption is not as reliable as it was at the low-wage end. You

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mentioned before that it is harder to know why, but who tries to work

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that out? Your job is to compile the figures, in a way, what do you do

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next with these figures? We also do very much want to understand what is

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going on. We have looked at various possible explanations, some of the

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obvious things that might have been going on that are easier to test

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have not turned out to be the explanation that works, so for

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example you might think it is about the recession but that is not true,

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it was happening before the recession. You might think it is

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some specific policy change that has changed the nature of who is working

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and doing different kinds of jobs, that

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does not seem to be the case because it is a long-running gradual trend,

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not one that appeared at a certain point in time. One more positive

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story would be that because more women are working full-time, their

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partners feel the need to do less work, but that does not seem to

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explain it either because we see the same trend amongst single men as men

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in couples, so there are things we have been able to rule out but the

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key is to find the things which were, and that is the important work

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we need to do. Robert Joyce, thank you very much for your time, from

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the ISS, one of the report authors. More men working part-time and in

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lower paid employment. You probably saw me leaning over the

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sofa earlier to reach the printer, that was so that we could give you

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the latest on the weather situation, the number of severe warnings now

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down to 12, meaning there is a risk to life. In terms of the homes

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affected, 5000 homes directly affected, this is police in Norfolk

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saying that, 1100 properties at high risk in Suffolk, police saying

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there. We heard from our reporter in J Wick in Essex earlier, 3000 to

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5000 people and Essex Police say it will be evacuated, so thousands of

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people being affected by the flooding situation at the moment,

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but do get in touch with us if you have any thoughts or comments on

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that. The other thing to note this morning

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is the weather situation with the snow, we know there is heavy

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snowfall during the evening yesterday, very heavy snowfall in

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Scotland as well so we will bring you right up-to-date with the

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weather situation as well. Killer whales and humans have

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something in common - according to research,

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they're two of only three species Scientists who have studied

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a population of orcas for 40 years now have an idea why some species

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have evolved to stop having Our science reporter

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Victoria Gill reports. These researchers have been

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documenting the lives of killer And their findings have revealed

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new insight into something that we humans share with a mammal

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so very different from us. Orcas and humans are two of only

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three mammals on the planet that stop reproducing partway

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through our lives. And this 40-year study of killer

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whale society has already shown that grandmothers play a crucial role,

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leading their pod and helping But scientists have now used this

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unique dataset that's recorded births and deaths in every orca

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family here to prove that when grandmothers stop having

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babies of their own, their daughter's offspring

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have a significantly The benefits of grandmothering

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are not enough to explain why human It's only when you consider

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the conflict and competition within the family group you can

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actually understand and explain why Avoiding this so-called reproductive

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conflict between the generations seems to give babies

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the best possible chance. Really interesting just how

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important that bond is. And that's something that

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could finally explain the evolutionary story

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of human menopause. Like us, these highly-intelligent

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now-endangered animals And this long and careful

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observation of killer whale society could change our perspective

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on our own. Interesting, that, to see the

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commonalities we have with different species.

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Let's see what is coming up in a moment on the BBC News Channel,

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Business Live. Here on Breakfast, the Hollywood musical La La Land is

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due to big up a raft of awards. Last night there was a big UK premiere.

:26:48.:26:51.

We seem to be showing a clip of some people sitting at a desk, which does

:26:52.:26:55.

not seem relevant! We will celebrate musical and all

:26:56.:26:58.

that comes with them later, but now the news, travel

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This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern.

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Let's bring you up to date. Thousands of people are being told

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to evacuate their homes across the East coast of England because of

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fears of a storm surge as gale force winds combined with high tide.

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Kate Sweeting is in Hessle where there's a severe

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It looked calmer than did earlier. Tell us what is happening there now.

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The snow has died down and it has been a relatively calm morning. And

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that is good news because it means the high wind that was predicted has

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not materialised and that means that the high tide has passed without

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event. Tidal surges are caused by a mixture of high wind and high tides,

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but we are not out of the woods yet because we are told there is another

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high tide this evening and that could be more severe so there are

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still flood warnings in place along the east coast and that means

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flooding is expected. People are ready with sandbags. Council workers

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are on stand-by. In Lincolnshire, the army evacuated people. 3000

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people were told to leave their homes and move upstairs and special

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centres have been set up for them. For people here, the warning of a

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tidal surge is particularly concerning because in 2013, one came

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and the water came over and flooded 1400 properties. There had not been

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a serious tidal surge since 1953 before that when hundreds of people

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were killed. In 2013, when that happens, people believed it was a

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once in a 16 year event and yet, here we are, three years on, on high

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alert once again. Kate, thank you very much. Snow was causing

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problems. 29 schools closed in Scotland today. The freezing

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temperatures causing travel disruption as well. Simon Jones is

:27:00.:26:59.

in Canterbury for us. Clearly quite a bit of snow there? Yes, we had

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three hours of snow last night between 6pm and 9pm. It came down

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very heavily and some of it has stuck. You can see down there it has

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turned to ice. Someone has written help in the snow. That a sign of how

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treacherous conditions will be this morning. It's not just the snow

:27:00.:26:59.

itself but the ice on the pavement. It can be very slippery and also

:27:00.:26:59.

difficult conditions on the roads. The main road has been gritted but

:27:00.:26:59.

this side road, very icily passing by. Cars are slipping on the ice.

:27:00.:26:59.

Yesterday evening, people struggled to get up the hill and people had to

:27:00.:26:59.

come out and help them push their cars. The snow came down so quickly.

:27:00.:26:59.

This morning, we have had a number of accidents on some of the minor

:27:00.:26:59.

roads, jackknifed lorries, which shows there are difficult conditions

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but the ice is the big challenge today. We are perhaps going to get a

:27:00.:26:59.

little bit more snow during the morning here. But it's largely going

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to be the aftermath we will have to deal with particularly on the roads.

:27:00.:26:59.

The advice is to driving very slowly. You can see people are

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queueing, taking the conditions fairly slowly, with a queue forming

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as people try to get up the hill this morning. The advice is dry

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slowly because, at times, it is going to be very, very icy on the

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roads. Simon, for the moment, thank you. The situation in Canterbury

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this morning. The weather in a few moments time. I wonder if the person

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who wrote help in the grass got help? I hope so. Let's look at some

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of the other news this morning. The number of men in low-paid

:27:00.:26:59.

part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:27:00.:26:59.

for Fiscal Studies has found that The number of men in low-paid

:27:00.:26:59.

part-time work has increased The number of men in low-paid

:27:00.:26:59.

part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:27:00.:26:59.

for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low paid men aged

:27:00.:26:59.

between 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:27:00.:26:59.

has risen over two decades, A week to go until the new American

:27:00.:26:59.

president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds

:27:00.:26:59.

with some of his key Cabinet nominees on some

:27:00.:26:59.

of the vital questions facing His choice for the CIA leader has

:27:00.:26:59.

endorsed the work of the US intelligence community,

:27:00.:26:59.

hours after it was criticised Also the potential Defense Secretary

:27:00.:26:59.

said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, after Mr Trump called

:27:00.:26:59.

for warmer relations with Russia. And it's emerged overnight

:27:00.:26:59.

that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:27:00.:26:59.

of lurid claims about Donald Trump, was hired by the England

:27:00.:26:59.

2018 World Cup bid team. It's believed he was brought

:27:00.:26:59.

in to provide information on world football's governing body,

:27:00.:26:59.

Fifa. There were emotional

:27:00.:26:59.

scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:27:00.:26:59.

as President Obama surprised his vice-president with the country's

:27:00.:26:59.

highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:27:00.:26:59.

the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:27:00.:26:59.

in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:27:00.:26:59.

a complete surprise. The best vice president America's

:27:00.:26:59.

ever had, Mr Joe Biden. This also gives the Internet

:27:00.:26:59.

one last chance to... The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been

:27:00.:26:59.

accused of violating pollution laws The US Environmental Protection

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Agency says the manufacturer equipped tens of thousands of diesel

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Jeep and Dodge vehicles with software that regulates

:27:00.:26:59.

emissions results. The firm has denied doing anything

:27:00.:26:59.

illegal, but has seen its share Hospitals are failing

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to pass on their concerns about incompetent locum doctors,

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according to the General The report for the doctors'

:27:00.:26:59.

regulator found some hospitals take no action when they see poor

:27:00.:26:59.

practice among stand-in doctors, who often cover staff shortages

:27:00.:26:59.

in surgeries and hospitals. The Department of Health

:27:00.:26:59.

said further progress Meeting the target of resettling

:27:00.:26:59.

20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees in the UK by 2020 remains

:27:00.:26:59.

a significant challenge, Meeting the target of resettling

:27:00.:26:59.

20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees Around 4,500 refugees have

:27:00.:26:59.

already been resettled, but the Public Accounts Committee

:27:00.:26:59.

says it is not yet clear whether survivors of torture

:27:00.:26:59.

or violence are getting The number of people changing

:27:00.:26:59.

who they buy their electricity Research from the industry body

:27:00.:26:59.

Energy UK shows that nearly five million people

:27:00.:26:59.

changed their electricity supplier last year, and a fifth of those

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who switched in December went to a smaller supplier rather

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than one of the Big Six. It's the highest number of switches

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since Energy UK began Coming up here on

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Breakfast this morning. We're discussing a controversial

:27:00.:26:59.

documentary featuring a leading psychologist who was sacked

:27:00.:26:59.

after questioning whether children should be allowed to decide

:27:00.:26:59.

if they want to change We discover why Pocahontas,

:27:00.:26:59.

the woman whose life inspired a Disney blockbuster,

:27:00.:26:59.

ended up being buried As critics make song and dance

:27:00.:26:59.

about the Hollywood musical La La Land, the writer and composer

:27:00.:26:59.

Neil Brand joins us to explore Tributes today. I can imagine in a

:27:00.:26:59.

musical. Strutting my stuff on stage Gretchen Mark I think my singing

:27:00.:26:59.

would let me down. Graham Taylor has died at the age of 72. The most

:27:00.:26:59.

courteous of human beings, lovely man without ego which is pretty rare

:27:00.:26:59.

in football. It says it all about this great man after he was vilified

:27:00.:26:59.

in the press and turned up on the back page of the Sun newspaper after

:27:00.:26:59.

Britain lost to Sweden in 1992, he allowed cameras to follow him around

:27:00.:26:59.

in the documentary called the impossible job and became famous for

:27:00.:26:59.

that catchphrase, do why not like that? He was a good actor as well

:27:00.:26:59.

and did it in several adverts. Always able to laugh at himself.

:27:00.:26:59.

That such an admirable quality in this game.

:27:00.:26:59.

Fans and players and people beyond the world of football have

:27:00.:26:59.

been paying tribute to the former England manager, Graham Taylor,

:27:00.:26:59.

He managed the national side for three years from 1990

:27:00.:26:59.

and was a highly successful club manager at Lincoln,

:27:00.:26:59.

Luther Blissett played for Watford under Graham Taylor and joins us now

:27:00.:26:59.

Thanks for joining us on this sad day.

:27:00.:26:59.

It's a pleasure. What's your own feelings today looking back on the

:27:00.:26:59.

life of this great man? Yesterday was one of the worst days I can

:27:00.:26:59.

remember. When I got the news. It took awhile for it to to sink in.

:27:00.:26:59.

Following that, to have the opportunity to tell people what

:27:00.:26:59.

Graham Taylor was really like as a man rather than what people saw in

:27:00.:26:59.

football, that was something which has given me a lot of pleasure to be

:27:00.:26:59.

able to do so and it's been a good way to help me grieving. What is

:27:00.:26:59.

your first memory of him? What are the first say when you met him? When

:27:00.:26:59.

he arrived in 1977, he planned meetings with every player signed

:27:00.:26:59.

the club to discuss moving forward, whether he was going to keep them

:27:00.:26:59.

and let them go, so I walked in and the first word he said to me,

:27:00.:26:59.

face-to-face, he said my name three times. Luther Blissett. And the

:27:00.:26:59.

third time, he said my name again, Luther Blissett. With a name like

:27:00.:26:59.

that, you've got to be a star. He then gave me the opportunity to

:27:00.:26:59.

become the player that I did become and achieve the things I did at

:27:00.:26:59.

Watford, so it was brilliant. Underground Telecom you never took

:27:00.:26:59.

yourself too seriously because he liked everybody to have a smile on

:27:00.:26:59.

their face. When you come to training, you enjoy it. You enjoy

:27:00.:26:59.

your work. That was the atmosphere he created at vicarage Road and

:27:00.:26:59.

success came from that. The family club and all that sort of thing,

:27:00.:26:59.

especially vicarage Road tomorrow, I expect it will be an emotional day.

:27:00.:26:59.

But it will be a day or so to celebrate a really truly great man

:27:00.:26:59.

for what he achieved at vicarage Road. An incredible things he

:27:00.:26:59.

achieved there. What qualities help take the side from the bottom lead

:27:00.:26:59.

to the top in the FA Cup final? Absolutely, he made us feel and

:27:00.:26:59.

believe that there was no one we could not be when we walked out on

:27:00.:26:59.

the football pitch, so, you know, we turned up for games and it was

:27:00.:26:59.

almost like it didn't matter who the opposition were. We just went out

:27:00.:26:59.

and we just gave it everything and the result would look after itself,

:27:00.:26:59.

was one of his great savings for the another one was take care of the

:27:00.:26:59.

detail of things and the bigger picture looks after itself. He had

:27:00.:26:59.

all these sayings and they were all very true. Many players of my error

:27:00.:26:59.

took that on into their own coaching and managerial careers from what we

:27:00.:26:59.

heard from Graham Taylor, because it's proven to be absolutely the

:27:00.:26:59.

right way to do it. It's interesting, give me the Alnwick --

:27:00.:26:59.

anecdotes. And expressive face. Some people would put on an act when they

:27:00.:26:59.

meet people but it was never that way with Graham Taylor. I was always

:27:00.:26:59.

stunned at the way he would remember people's names and occasions and

:27:00.:26:59.

incidence, when it's not spoken in such a long time, and he would

:27:00.:26:59.

always remember. Absolutely fantastic at that, remembering faces

:27:00.:26:59.

and names and bringing them together and working people out full top the

:27:00.:26:59.

big thing with him was understanding where players heads were and what

:27:00.:26:59.

they wanted to do because it wasn't just having to have ability, but you

:27:00.:26:59.

had to fit into the family he created there. It was the same when

:27:00.:26:59.

he went to Aston Villa, wherever, because he wanted things done a

:27:00.:26:59.

certain way and was always done with humidity and properly. You conducted

:27:00.:26:59.

yourself in the right way and when you walked onto the pitch, you were

:27:00.:26:59.

representing 20,000 people that were your supporters on that day and

:27:00.:26:59.

that's what he made us all appreciated fully understand.

:27:00.:26:59.

Absolutely. We could talk all day about the great man but we've got to

:27:00.:26:59.

leave it right there. Thank you so much for joining us with lovely

:27:00.:26:59.

memories. Aston Villa and will meet this weekend to imagine the

:27:00.:26:59.

atmosphere there, his former clubs, tomorrow.

:27:00.:26:59.

There was a minute's applause in memory of Graham Taylor ahead

:27:00.:26:59.

of last night's Championship match between QPR and Reading.

:27:00.:26:59.

QPR made it three league wins in a row thanks to Jamie Makee's

:27:00.:26:59.

Andy Murray will start his Australian Open campaign,

:27:00.:26:59.

Murray is the top seed for a grand slam for the first time.

:27:00.:26:59.

He's reached the final in Melbourne five times but never won it.

:27:00.:26:59.

In the women's draw, Johanna Konta will face

:27:00.:26:59.

Kirsten Flipkins and Konta is in good form going

:27:00.:26:59.

She's current on court in the final of the Sydney International,

:27:00.:26:59.

She is just taken the first set. She is looking good for his second tour

:27:00.:26:59.

victory. That's a sport for now and I will be back. Thank you.

:27:00.:26:59.

Last night, BBC Two aired a controversial documentary

:27:00.:26:59.

that explores gender dysphoria in children.

:27:00.:26:59.

The programme, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?, features

:27:00.:26:59.

Kenneth Zucker, a Canadian psychologist who believes children

:27:00.:26:59.

who want to change sex can eventually overcome

:27:00.:26:59.

He was sacked for his approach which challenges the idea that children

:27:00.:26:59.

should ultimately decide which gender they identify with.

:27:00.:26:59.

Shortly we'll speak to someone who's received therapy at the same clinic

:27:00.:26:59.

But first, here's a clip from the documentary.

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Dr Kenneth Zucker is one of the world's foremost

:27:00.:26:59.

child psychologists, specialising in gender

:27:00.:26:59.

dysphoria, a condition where a person is unhappy

:27:00.:26:59.

We received a referral and I spoke with Dr Zucker.

:27:00.:26:59.

My child was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

:27:00.:26:59.

Euphoria means you're happy about something,

:27:00.:26:59.

Children as young as two or three up to the end of adolescence will come

:27:00.:26:59.

in because either the child himself or herself is expressing

:27:00.:26:59.

an intense unhappiness about being a boy or a girl.

:27:00.:26:59.

I feel like there wasn't sort of this big push to just talk

:27:00.:26:59.

It was more just, you know, "How was your week?

:27:00.:26:59.

"Oh, I see you're wearing blue shoes today.

:27:00.:26:59.

What made you choose the blue shoes over the pink shoes?"

:27:00.:26:59.

The clip we've just watched featured a parent who wanted their child

:27:00.:26:59.

We're joined now by Dr Helen Webberley.

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Doctor Helen is a... And expert in this area and Susie is the parent of

:27:00.:26:59.

the transgender daughter. But Victoria, you went to this therapy?

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I was in Ontario, I ended up in A when I was five years old for

:27:00.:26:59.

attempting my own gender confirmation surgery, cheering which

:27:00.:26:59.

point I was put into repetitive therapy, I went to a psychiatrist

:27:00.:26:59.

and they said obviously you need to accept your own... Who you are, you

:27:00.:26:59.

are a boy, etc. And they threatened if there was no compliance that they

:27:00.:26:59.

would have to proceed with electroshock therapy, and they did

:27:00.:26:59.

things like... In the treatment they do things like... I call it a

:27:00.:26:59.

masculinisation programme. My parents... They would do things

:27:00.:26:59.

like... Obviously they do a clear road, so I was no longer allowed to

:27:00.:26:59.

have female friends, my female cousin was my best friend, I have

:27:00.:26:59.

not spoken to her in years. I was prohibited. All my toys, anything

:27:00.:26:59.

that had anything... I had a very gender neutral upbringing to that

:27:00.:26:59.

point, I had male and female type toys. They threw them all out. Then

:27:00.:26:59.

they also did things like while I was in... I wasn't allowed to sit

:27:00.:26:59.

down to your innate, they would keep the door open. It sounds deeply

:27:00.:26:59.

traumatic. Fast forward to is at what point did something change for

:27:00.:26:59.

you, when did you get the help you really needed? What actually

:27:00.:26:59.

happened was that were two reactions that the trans kids have, you turn

:27:00.:26:59.

it on yourself become self-destructive, I external lives

:27:00.:26:59.

my anxiety and became extremely aggressive as an individual. I have

:27:00.:26:59.

learned how to be very combated, I teach close quarters combat for LGBT

:27:00.:26:59.

communities and so on. In the UK victims of hate crime can be

:27:00.:26:59.

referred to me by the police etc. You either become destructive in

:27:00.:26:59.

society or you get the help you need, it is not a question of right

:27:00.:26:59.

or wrong with the Zucker approach, it is the effect not only on the

:27:00.:26:59.

child but on society as a whole. Susie, you're 23-year-old daughter,

:27:00.:26:59.

I believe that the age of red four, they said they thought they were

:27:00.:26:59.

transgender child, not in those words? Until that point I thought

:27:00.:26:59.

that I had a very sensitive little boy who would maybe be gay, very

:27:00.:26:59.

feminine traits. A range of toys but lots of things that would be

:27:00.:26:59.

classically seen as feminine. But when she was four be watching the

:27:00.:26:59.

television and she said, money, I need to tell you something. I said,

:27:00.:26:59.

whatever. She said, God has made a mistake and I should have been a

:27:00.:26:59.

girl, that is the first time she vocalised it about is how she

:27:00.:26:59.

explained it to me. What did you do? Panicked, quite frankly. I didn't

:27:00.:26:59.

know what to do. For the next couple of years I spent a lot of my time

:27:00.:26:59.

telling her it is fine for boys to my girl things and it is fine to be

:27:00.:26:59.

a boy that wants to wear dresses and play with girl toys and play with

:27:00.:26:59.

the girls. And she kept telling me, that is not it. Doctor, watching the

:27:00.:26:59.

documentary I was mindful and hearing what your son said to you

:27:00.:26:59.

that about their own situation, Austin children say the wisest

:27:00.:26:59.

things because they know in themselves, but therein lies part of

:27:00.:26:59.

the debate -- Austin children say. Sometimes adults think they know

:27:00.:26:59.

best. It is all about listening to the children and the family

:27:00.:26:59.

supporting those children. We are not taking a snapshot of Suzy's

:27:00.:26:59.

child on one day the child says I want to be a girl and then that is

:27:00.:26:59.

it, we are talking about the whole of a child's life and upbringing, so

:27:00.:26:59.

when they are making decisions for these children, you are going on a

:27:00.:26:59.

long history from very small all the way to puberty and beyond. The

:27:00.:26:59.

programme last night said what if your child said I want to be a dog?

:27:00.:26:59.

That is one kind of role-play, will it change and make doctors like me

:27:00.:26:59.

medically intervened with children? We are talking about true identity

:27:00.:26:59.

which exists from a very early age. What kind of assessment do you go

:27:00.:26:59.

through with the children when families come to you? What

:27:00.:26:59.

supporters that? The group if you listen to the trans community, they

:27:00.:26:59.

want to tell you please listen to the child, the family of a child,

:27:00.:26:59.

all the people that support them, their brothers, sisters and teachers

:27:00.:26:59.

and they will tell you a story. We don't steal a snapshot assessment of

:27:00.:26:59.

one hour in a clinic, I wish there was a blood test or a scam, it would

:27:00.:26:59.

make medical job so which easier. Listen to the children, the family,

:27:00.:26:59.

the story. You will hear about children who clearly identify as one

:27:00.:26:59.

or the other gender or somewhere in between.

:27:00.:26:59.

Victoria, Susie was describing when her daughter first said, and your

:27:00.:26:59.

reaction was panic and then how do I do the right thing? Presumably that

:27:00.:26:59.

first interaction when you say to somebody that you care about, that

:27:00.:26:59.

first moment is very difficult? Sure it is. Obviously this goes deeper

:27:00.:26:59.

into the culture than an unwillingness to listen to children,

:27:00.:26:59.

this is why we have such abuse and sexual abuse in society as well, why

:27:00.:26:59.

it is creeping up now. If we listen to the tell-tale signs... I just

:27:00.:26:59.

wanted to go back to the clinical diagnosis elements, it is not like

:27:00.:26:59.

that is the only thing that is looked at. Even in the gender

:27:00.:26:59.

clinics in the UK and the guidelines, you are separate out

:27:00.:26:59.

gender variance kids from gender dysphoric kids. The DSM diagnostic

:27:00.:26:59.

criteria is very different for the two sets. Zucker groups them

:27:00.:26:59.

together as if all gender variance kids include gender dysphoric kids

:27:00.:26:59.

and they require the same type of therapy. The truth was, and this was

:27:00.:26:59.

pulled offline by the clinic and the executive summary is on there now

:27:00.:26:59.

but they still allude to it, I read about it at a gender clinic here

:27:00.:26:59.

with the chief neuroscientist of one of the clinics in the UK in 2015,

:27:00.:26:59.

Zucker was not only doing that type of therapy, what he was reporting to

:27:00.:26:59.

the government was a significant percentage of gender dysphoric kids

:27:00.:26:59.

grew into adults are no longer being transsexual. That was not the case.

:27:00.:26:59.

A significant percentage of gender variance kids grew up not presenting

:27:00.:26:59.

to the opposite gender, but 100% of transsexual kids diagnosed by the

:27:00.:26:59.

DSM were, in fact, still transsexual in adulthood, that is where the crux

:27:00.:26:59.

had the farm, statistically. Susie, last word, in a way, your daughter

:27:00.:26:59.

now, how have things developed? My daughter is very happy, she is a

:27:00.:26:59.

23-year-old young woman living her life, very confident. I listened to

:27:00.:26:59.

her, and when it became obvious that this was very much deeply held and I

:27:00.:26:59.

had to start educating myself, that is why I represent... I am the CEO

:27:00.:26:59.

of Mermaids, charity supporting children and young people, I

:27:00.:26:59.

represent those families and those families find the kind of things put

:27:00.:26:59.

in the documentary as deeply disturbing because a pathology rises

:27:00.:26:59.

their children as having mental health illnesses, it is like going

:27:00.:26:59.

back to the dark ages. We don't look at treatment methods for

:27:00.:26:59.

blood-letting with leeches to deal with colds, why are we looking at

:27:00.:26:59.

therapy that has been very much discredited, made illegal in Canada?

:27:00.:26:59.

Why are we continually harking back to things that are no good for

:27:00.:26:59.

children? That has been proven. The new way of supporting transgender

:27:00.:26:59.

children has been proven to be very effective and leads to children with

:27:00.:26:59.

better self-esteem and less issues around mental health illness.

:27:00.:26:59.

I want to thank you all for sharing your stories this morning.

:27:00.:26:59.

Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? is on iPlayer now.

:27:00.:26:59.

We have been talking a lot about the weather and the problems in various

:27:00.:26:59.

parts of the UK. Here's Sarah with a look

:27:00.:26:59.

at this morning's weather. The weather is causing some

:27:00.:26:59.

disruption, we have snow and ice around, this scene was sent in from

:27:00.:26:59.

the Weather Watcher in Kent. The snow and the ice are not the only

:27:00.:26:59.

trouble making factors, we have some really strong winds around the east

:27:00.:26:59.

Coast, with the pressure moving south. Further sleet and snow to

:27:00.:26:59.

come and wintry showers piling in from the north-west. Certainly for

:27:00.:26:59.

northern and eastern Scotland, a strong northerly winds, gales at

:27:00.:26:59.

times, heading down the east coast, at times those strong northerly

:27:00.:26:59.

winds will provide high tides. Especially across parts of East

:27:00.:26:59.

Anglia we are likely to see some coastal flooding impact through the

:27:00.:26:59.

day, as well as the sleet and the snow. The Environment Agency has

:27:00.:26:59.

issued several flood warnings, here is the floodlight number if you are

:27:00.:26:59.

concerned. It will mainly be across parts of East Anglia and the

:27:00.:26:59.

south-east of England. We have an area of sleet and snow

:27:00.:26:59.

bringing wet weather, sleet and snow across East Anglia and the

:27:00.:26:59.

south-east, which should clear by lunchtime. Towards the north-west,

:27:00.:26:59.

further wintry showers. The Northern Ireland, western Scotland and Wales,

:27:00.:26:59.

snow showers to come, temperatures between two and five but feeling

:27:00.:26:59.

since the rope when you add on the wind-chill. The brisk winds easing a

:27:00.:26:59.

bit through the evening and overnight.

:27:00.:26:59.

Tonight, more in the way of ice and snow, snow showers coming in on the

:27:00.:26:59.

west and westerly breeze, affecting the East Coast and the West,

:27:00.:26:59.

temperatures -2-macro also even in the towns and cities, -8 at ten

:27:00.:26:59.

across rural parts. A cold start to Saturday morning. Through the day

:27:00.:26:59.

tomorrow, further showers for the East of Scotland, Lincolnshire and

:27:00.:26:59.

East Anglia, sleet and snow showers moving from the West, likely to turn

:27:00.:26:59.

back to rain later in the day. Quite a good deal of dry weather. The

:27:00.:26:59.

winds will be much lighter than today and tomorrow.

:27:00.:26:59.

A change in the weather through the cause of the weekend, the blue

:27:00.:26:59.

colour is being squeezed away towards the therapies. The yellow

:27:00.:26:59.

colours are moving in, means that things will be turning milder

:27:00.:26:59.

through Sunday. Quite a bit of cloud, patchy rain sweeping

:27:00.:26:59.

eastwards by Sunday. Back to around five to 10 degrees, but watch out

:27:00.:26:59.

for the snow, ice, strong winds and potential coastal flooding today.

:27:00.:26:59.

Rents across the UK went up by over 10% last year -

:27:00.:26:59.

and according to research for us here at Breakfast.

:27:00.:26:59.

And the forecasts are that rents will keep on rising.

:27:00.:26:59.

Sean is looking at what's happening for tenants.

:27:00.:26:59.

It is interesting, you assume it will be more expensive to have a

:27:00.:26:59.

mortgage than to rent? It sounds like the tide is turning? If you are

:27:00.:26:59.

buying a house that is ?150,000, ?200,000, that is a lot of money,

:27:00.:26:59.

but we're talking about the monthly outgoings. Halifax says that last

:27:00.:26:59.

year there were more first-time buyers than we have seen since the

:27:00.:26:59.

beginning of the financial crisis. Some research done for us by

:27:00.:26:59.

experience shows that the cost difference between average monthly

:27:00.:26:59.

rental outgoings and mortgage payments is decreasing, in some

:27:00.:26:59.

parts of the country it is cheaper for first-time buyers to get on the

:27:00.:26:59.

housing ladder and pay for the mortgage instead of renting. To find

:27:00.:26:59.

out about how difficult it is, I went to see James who has just

:27:00.:26:59.

bought his new place. It's not a small thing,

:27:00.:26:59.

buying a house. So you've kind of got to go

:27:00.:26:59.

through the whole saving process, you've got to go through the whole

:27:00.:26:59.

kind of sacrificing nights out, you've got to go through sacrificing

:27:00.:26:59.

holidays and things like that. And then it just takes

:27:00.:26:59.

a while to find the right place. You can't go out as much

:27:00.:26:59.

as you'd like, you can't enjoy yourself as much,

:27:00.:26:59.

you have to start kind of bringing prepacked lunches into work

:27:00.:26:59.

and things like that. And it is the silly things,

:27:00.:26:59.

but it's those silly things We stuck at it, because we want

:27:00.:26:59.

the security, we want... It sounds silly but we want

:27:00.:26:59.

the walls our own colour, we want the furniture to actually

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have a home and things like that. You want to feel like you've

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actually got something. You do smile every time you walk

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through the front door. We're joined by Sam Mitchell

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from Rightmove, and also Kate Webb Kick-off with you, Sam, talking

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about rental prices. How much have the rental market changed in the

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last year? Quite dramatically. The rental market is quite simple,

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supply and demand. Demand for rental properties is incredibly high. It

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has been for some time. Rents are driven by the fluctuating supply and

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the best way to demonstrate that was last year there was a rush of

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landlords looking to buy properties because of the stamp duty changes in

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April. It was focused in London. A huge supply of rental market in

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London which meant rent in London came down by 4.4% last year. The

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rest of the UK came down, and rents went up, so what will happen to

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rents going forward? Unfortunately, it looks like supply is likely to

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restrict further and the reasons for that is 3% extra stamp duty on

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buying property and lending criteria, you get stressed tested up

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to 5.5%, and London is resisting it. Also income tax changes in April.

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All of those things make it a disincentive to buy properties if

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you are a landlord. Landlords are now starting to sell off properties

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so likely supply will be restricted further. In my opinion, rentable

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increase over the next year. Should we be in courage in more landlords?

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It sounds like there are fewer coming on the market? We have a

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problem at the moment with a huge number of people who need to rent,

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because we don't have enough social housing any more, and home-buying is

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not affordable for most people saw huge number of rental people in a

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limited pool of properties. We are not convinced increasing private

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landlord members is necessarily the right thing to do. We have a very

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amateur buy to let market where we have six-month tenancies the

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standards for families, rent which can go up at any time, poor

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conditions, landlords who often don't know their responsibilities,

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so within that context, we are encouraging more people to take a

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punt on becoming a private landlord and it doesn't seem like a good

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idea. In terms of the ownership against renting, it's a lovely idea,

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and in some places it might be cheaper, but a lot of people, it's

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just not possible. Yes, when I saw the figures this morning I thought

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this is going to be a kick in the teeth for many renters. The Halifax

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figures you mentioned, an average of ?13,000 deposit but in London it's

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over ?100,000. For most people, you can't say maybe is the time to buy

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because they can't get a deposit together. If their incomes are not

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high enough, to borrow the mortgages you need... So where do you see the

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future of this? It's hard to see what's going to stop this. Either

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you need an increase in the supply to the market. That will be

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difficult in the short-term. The government has tried helped by

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schemes, but that the wealthiest of tenants. In terms of supply, very

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little will help in the next 12 months but there is something on the

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horizon. A lot of build to rent, incredibly topical at the moment. A

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lot of developers will talk about that next year but there is little

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supply coming on this year. It's likely to come online in 2018-19 and

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in reality, you're talking about hundreds of thousands. You got some

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comments from people. Yes, James got in touch and said that he has bought

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his own place but he can see why people would rent because he think,

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for his mortgage, you could rent a better property, but then you hear

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rental properties aren't up to the standards people might have when

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they own their own home because you can do it up yourself. Sean, thank

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you very much. Thank you. It's one of those Marmite things. Love them

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all low loads of. Musicals. I love musicals. I like a musical.

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The writer and composer Neil Brand will be here to tell us exactly how

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those big West End productions really grab audiences -

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but first a last, brief look at the headlines where you are this

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The new Hollywood musical La La Land is already tipped to win Oscars,

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and the Broadway show Hamilton is expected to be a sell-out

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when it opens in London so are musicals having a bit

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The writer and composer Neil Brand has explored our love of musicals

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and how they've evolved over the last century in his

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Good morning. You would be happier if you had a piano in front of you

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right now because that is your thing, isn't it? Yes, I love the

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piano. I love musical theatre. If you did have a keyboard in front of

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you right now, if you are trying to entice someone into the world of the

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musicals, what would you first play? I'd probably first play something

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very, very, very melodic like If I Loved You from Carousel, a big heart

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song. You would think it was beautiful. As soon as it got the

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characters sing it in the context of the show, it all lights up. Let's

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take a look at some of the things that you discovered.

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Each year, 15 million people make the pilgrimage

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Every kind of drama is available, but when we talk about going to see

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a show, we really mean one thing - a musical.

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Taking 60% of London's box office receipts,

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musical theatre towers over all other types of dramatic

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performance and rakes in a third of a billion pounds a year.

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I so want to carry on that song forth I love that musical but there

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are so many. Why are they doing so well? I think people need them. I

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think they need them in times which may be not that happy. You go to a

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musical to get cheered up and it's also the reason I think why we

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booked a year in advance, we pay a lot of money to get a seat. It's

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because it guarantees you a good time. You come away actually feeling

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better about yourself. There's not many things you can say I'm going to

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do that. Why now? Do you think we are all sad and we need to see

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musicals? I think there is an element of that. Life is pretty

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tough. People wanted taken out of themselves and what musicals do is

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give you a story and characters you care about and then the music just

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lifts you and after awhile you think, I wish I could do that. I

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wish I could be standing waiting for a bus and an orchestra would start

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up and everybody in the bus station would start dancing. Wouldn't want

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that? I'm going to say it loud and clear. It's fair to say, you will

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know this, some people say, I can't bear musicals. There is a school of

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thought along those lines but often people say I can't bear musicals but

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I like that song. It's curious, isn't it? There's a love hate thing.

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I think so but also musicals are a very broad church force of most

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people when he think musicals sink tap dancing into big teeth and all

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the rest of it. Actually, a great musical, Hamilton, in Broadway at

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the moment, coming to London later on this year, it's the American War

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of Independence done in rap music. That will have a huge audience,

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who've never been to a musical maybe. The thing people may have

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heard about that is what happened on stage in the US elections. That was

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a moment. The craziness of a show clashed with reality. Mike pence,

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the vice president to Donald Trump went to see Hamilton and at the end

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of the show the entire cast start up and the leading man said this is

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about freedom and reality, please take this away with you. It has to

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be said, musical theatre has always been like that. The Rodgers and

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Hammer Steyn shows, they were talking about racism, all sorts of

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quite political things. Billy Elliot as well. Absolutely, where it is not

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bother musical smooths over the problems at all, it actually puts

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across but also in way that is very emotive. It's one of the things

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which people don't think of the same time. Do you think they are

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changing? For a long time they've had politics in them but using the

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stylus changing? I do and I think modern composers for musicals are

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aware of popular culture. The guy I spoke to, Robert Lopez, the man

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behind book of Mormon, he grew up The Simpsons and the Muppets, and he

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loves popular culture. He reflects that in his shows full speed on the

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musicals could be about other things, the way they are put across,

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and audience can hear the music, and say, I know where we are. That's how

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the big changes happening. Sometimes people can be posted about theatre

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but I know with musicals at one end of the market, people dress up. They

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dress up as characters, things like the Rocky horror picture show. It's

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pure entertainment. It's a big night out. It's also buying into the

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event. I love the singalong sound of music. I saw one person dressed as a

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brown paper package tied up with string because that is half the fun.

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You go dressed as a member. It's an involving thing. I think people

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seeing the Rocky horror show will go seven or eight times --

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there's thousands of people in a theatre and they are all getting off

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on the music. And the spectacle. Also there's a big difference

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between musicals that you go to at the theatre and films and obviously

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we got the likes of La La Land. I don't like film musicals. We are

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just seeing pictures of La La Land, the premiere in London last night.

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Why'd you think the films are doing so well? Is there a difference? The

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films have understood that people are really into musicals. For

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instance, they're making a film of beauty and the beast, which came a

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film, a show and then goes back into a film again. It's about the Times.

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People have kind of, they want to go to the movies to forget what's going

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on outside. Rogue one does the job one way and La La Land desert the

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other way. Thank you very much the next time you come, bring the piano.

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That's all from Breakfast this morning.

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