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This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Cuts to hospital services are planned in most | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
A BBC investigation into 44 local plans reveals hospital | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
The Government says it's about giving patients better care. | :00:15. | :00:33. | |
Good morning. It's Tuesday, the 21st of February. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
The growing teacher supply crisis in our classrooms. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
A report by MPs says urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Catastrophic engine failure is blamed after a light aircraft | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
crashes into a shopping centre in the Australian city of Melbourne, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Good morning. Profit at I'm Rico Hizon in Singapore's biggest bank | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
HSBC fell by more than 60% last year, as growth slowed here and | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
abroad. -- profit at Britain's biggest bank. | :01:15. | :01:14. | |
In sport, Sutton United couldn't pull off what would have been one | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
of the biggest FA Cup giant-killings. | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
The non-league side from the fifth tier of English | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
football were beaten 2-0 by Arsenal in the fifth | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
It is about encouraging women from across the military but also | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
civilians to give things ago and there is no ceiling. | :01:31. | :01:31. | |
We meet the Ice Maidens, a team of British soldiers | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
who are preparing to become the first all-female group to cross | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Hoping to be a bit warmer here? Good morning from the roof of | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
broadcasting house in London, where it is down but mild. For much of | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
southern England it remains damp, cloudy and wet. It will be | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
rejuvenating through the day. Cold in the north but we will have rain | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
and strong winds coming in from the north-west. More details in 15 | :02:03. | :02:03. | |
minutes. Fax. Most areas of England will see | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
in the number of hospitals The government says patients | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
will receive better care Our health reporter | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protest outside this hospital in | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
closures and cuts to stroke and critical care. It is not the only | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
place. Right across England proposals for big changes are afoot | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
in the NHS. The BBC has analysed 44 of the transformation and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
sustainability plans. Two thirds include either hospital closures are | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
moving treatments to a new site. More than one third involve cuts to | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
the number of hospitals providing nonemergency treatment is and around | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals offering emergency | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
care. The post closures to hospital beds have been heavily criticised by | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
the think tank The King's Fund. More generally it says the plans are the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
best hope of delivering essential reforms to the NHS, but it says it | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
can't be done without extra funding. Ideally there ought to be an | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
earmarked fund for new investment, to strengthen and improve the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
out-of-hospital services, and to shore up adult social care, which is | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
really in crisis at the moment. If those additional funds are not | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
forthcoming the government needs to be honest about the consequences for | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
patients and what the offer to the public will be. The Department of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Health says it is confident the NHS plans will help patients get better | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
care, with improvements to Melbourne -- mental health and campus services | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers in schools | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
in England is getting worse, affecting key subjects | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
today that recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
in the profession long-term. The actual sums are adding and | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
taking... Maths class for these | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
are increasingly hard to come by, according to a group of MPs, | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
who say school teachers shortages I think that's mainly due | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
to workload, pressure, The Education Select Committee | :04:35. | :04:46. | |
is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
of job satisfaction, Researchers have found | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
teachers in England work nearly 20% more than they do | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
in other similar countries, an average of nearly | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
50 hours a week. 20 of those are spent | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
across is just how important teachers are to our | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
society and to our economy. They need to feel | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
valued, they need to The Department for Education says | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
it is investing in teacher recruitment and development | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
to make sure the best Five people have been killed | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
after a light plane crashed into a shopping centre | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
in the Australian city of Melbourne. The shops weren't open at the time | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
and no-one on the ground Let's speak to our Sydney | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
correspondent Hywel Griffith. The pictures are so dramatic. What | :05:52. | :06:06. | |
do we understand happened here? Yes, we are still learning exactly what | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
happened. What we know is that moments after takeoff this small | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
plane with five people onboard, the pilot radioed through a Mayday | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
message saying he had catastrophic engine failure. Within seconds | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
eyewitnesses saw the plane swooped down from the sky and within sight | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
of the runway hit the shopping centre, that's just at the periphery | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
of the airport. Incredibly, although there were some stuff in the | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
building, none of those were injured. But a fireball erupted. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Some people driving on a freeway nearby report feeling the heat | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
coming from there. Tragically all five people onboard died, including | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
the pilot and we've just had confirmation from the US embassy in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Australia that there were for American tourists on that plane. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
They were due to be going on a golfing holiday in the Tasmanian | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
island of king -- King Island. You would have seen the huge area of | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
devastation, crews were trying to dampen the flames. That will make | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the investigation harder, but already that key information that | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
authorities say this was due to catastrophic engine failure. In Q4 | :07:16. | :07:16. | |
now. -- thanks for now. The world's sixth largest bank, | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
HSBC, is reporting a bigger than expected fall | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
in pre-tax profits. We won't expecting this. They are | :07:26. | :07:34. | |
quite big numbers. Yes. They are still making billions of pounds of | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
profit, but when they fall by 60% you will have to look at the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
business and wonder what is going on. They say it's a lot to do with | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
the European business. They've had to write down some of the value | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
because of unfavourable market conditions. But over 2016 HSBC's | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
global bank saw some uncertainty. It mentioned the UK referendum on the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
European Union and on that it reminds us that it is thinking of | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
moving 1000 jobs to Paris. That's slowing economic growth in the UK. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
We can actually drill down a little bit and you -- look at the UK | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
business as well. Fewer customer accounts in 2016 and the year | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
before. That felt like 40,000. But our savings balances with HSBC | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
increased, so we saw more money coming in from the UK even though a | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
few of us... They said they put more money into the call centres after | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
lots of complex around the quality of its customer service. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Interesting. What are you going to be talking about later? Food prices! | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Childcare. Anything you want. Excellent. Thanks very much. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
The Chancellor Philip Hammond has assured Conservative MPs that he's | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
listening to concerns about a business rate revaluation | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
in England and Wales, which will leave more than a quarter | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
The rates are being updated for the first time in seven years, | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
and Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do more to help those affected. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Tom Bateman. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Looking through the papers this morning, this seems to be an issue | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
which the government is increasingly nervous about. It is potentially | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
explosive, isn't it? I think so. These businesses, about a quarter of | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
businesses in England and Wales are concerned about some of these rate | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
rises. Some complaining that they could be quite steep. I think this | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
is becoming a growing political issue for the government. Last night | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the Chancellor Philip Hammond was in a private meeting with Conservative | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
MPs in Parliament. Many of those concerns were put to him. But what | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
he said in response was that he was open to listening to the issues of | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
the hardest hit, however, there was no commitment to make any changes by | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the way to this. There is room for manoeuvre. Bills will start going | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
out to people this Friday. The government believes there is some | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
scaremongering over this. That over 70% of businesses will face no | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
change or even reductions in their business rates and they're saying | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
they believe this is the biggest change, biggest change that had to | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
be made, the business rate in a long time. Thanks for now. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Specialist police teams are digging up the gardens of two | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
One is believed to be the former home of Christopher Halliwell, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
President Trump has named General HR McMaster as his | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
He replaces General Michael Flynn, who resigned just three weeks | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
into the job, after misleading the Vice-President over | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
conversations with the Russian ambassador. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
Mr Trump's described his new appointment as a man | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
You think going shopping doesn't seem like a scary experience, but | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
have a look at this. A man in New York has had | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
an extremely lucky escape while doing his weekly shop | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
at a mini-mart in the Bronx. He was caught on CCTV, | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
going about his business, He realises He realises he's | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
forgotten something. He is unhurt, which is good news, | :11:21. | :11:39. | |
obviously trying to catch his breath and clearly in shock. He and the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
driver were later taken to hospital, but thankfully neither of them had | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
serious injuries. Terrifying! | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Just picking out your packet of biscuits and all of a sudden. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Stay away from the biscuit! That's the lesson. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Over to the sport. I think a lot of people were hoping | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
there would be a lovely ending to the FA Cup story. That's what | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
everyone said to me this morning. As you can see, just a little | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
disappointed at not getting the big victory and the Arsenal fans were | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
celebrating being into the quarter-finals. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
But that fairytale wasn't to be for Sutton United. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Their attempt to cause one of the FA Cups biggest shocks was thwarted | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
The lowest ranked team in the last 16 were beaten 2-0 | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
by Premier League side, who will now meet another non-league | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
team in Lincoln City for a place in the semi finals. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
The Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has urged his side | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
to enjoy their Champions League last 16 tie against Monaco tonight, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
but concedes the critics will "kill them" if they lose. | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
Great Britain Badminton has admitted to being "staggered" | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
after they were one of seven sports to lose appeals against UK | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
It means they'll receive no financial support in the build up | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
And Great Britain will have to play their next Davis Cup on clay | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
after France decided it will be the surface for their quarter final. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
The two countries last met in 2015 when Great Britain went | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
It will be interesting to see France play Great Britain again. | :13:11. | :13:22. | |
We will look at the back page is in a moment. Our little ray of sunshine | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
is on the roof! Good morning. It is still mild in | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
the south, but if you compare the temperatures to yesterday in | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Aberdeen, this time yesterday it was 12- 13, 5-6 at the moment. So | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
changes afoot. In London it is still 10-11. We've got a lot of cloud and | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
some patchy and light rain. Through the day for many, away from the | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
north, it will stay miles. Through the next few days that will change | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
and we'll have returned to whether more like what we would expect this | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
time of year. At 9am in Scotland you can see the first signs of rain | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
coming in the north-west. Iniesta, somewhat brighter. The north-west | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
England, a lot of cloud. The north-east of England having | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
sunshine and Bennett extends into Norfolk. It all points to the west | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
of that, through the Midlands, into Kent and southern counties. We have | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
the cloud and patchy rain and that main content -- continues in the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Southwest Wales. We have low-level fog and general damp is in the air. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
For Northern Ireland this morning it's a dry start. A little bit of | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
brightness and some cloud, but that's going to change as we go | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
through the course of the day. We've got a bit of a pincer effect going | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
on. The rain in the south will rejuvenate as it starts to move | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
northwards and it will be heavy over Wales and Northern Ireland. At the | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
same time the rain in the north and the windy conditions will sink south | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
and the two will merge. The brighter skies will be in the east. Very | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
windy for a time, especially with exposure in the north-west. Heading | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
into the evening and overnight the band of rain continue southwards. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
There will be a period of squally winds, especially across northern | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
England, as it continues its descent southwards across the UK. Behind it | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
under clearer skies we have snow showers, and snow on the mountains | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
of Scotland. Still comparatively mild in the south, but colder in the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
north. For tomorrow southern areas will hang on to most of the cloud | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
and some of the rain. Behind it there will be brighter skies, but | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
very windy. Especially in the far north of mainland Scotland and | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
southern parts of Shetland. 70- 80 locally, which could lead to some | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
disruptions. If you are travelling check before you set out. As we head | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
into Thursday if you are travelling on Thursday keep a close eye on the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
weather forecast because on Thursday we have low pressure moving across | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Northern Ireland, England as well. At the areas around it will be | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
affected as well. We are looking at heavy rain and snow across central, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
southern Scotland and in the northern England. Not just on the | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
hills, we could have some other levels. Very windy will stop up to | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
70- 80 in northern England. Some atrocious travelling conditions, | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
especially on higher ground. Good advice. Thanks very much. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Let's have a look at this morning's papers. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Tuesday morning. The Daily Mirror. The Lords have been discussing the | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
Brexit bell. Here is a reproduction of that famous headline. Lords Still | :16:45. | :16:56. | |
Leeching. And we will talk about life in the Lords as a documentary | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
uncovers what goes on there. A picture of Prime Minister Theresa | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
May in the House of Lords, unusual for the Prime Minister, as she waits | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
to hear the Brexit deal being debated. And then life changing when | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
you are 60. What happens that will last you a lifetime. Business rates | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
are the front of the Times again. What else have you got? In terms of | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
business, going to and fro with business rates. Are they benefiting | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
businesses across the country? The Times and others have talked about | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
fitness apps as being a step in the wrong direction for health. And one | :17:42. | :17:51. | |
professor is saying that 10,000 steps that everybody... Don't tell | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
me this. How many have you done today? What do you do when you get | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
the "ping" when you have walked that far? Have a chocolate bar. They | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
haven't named you. When you get to 10,000 steps you reward yourself, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
and maybe the net benefit is not as good. He says 10,000 steps was taken | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
from a Japanese study in the 1960s as being the best number of steps to | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
do in a day. Is that science? So the answer is do not treat yourself, | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
great. A cricket story. Millionaires in the Indian Premier League. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Auction for 1.4 million four Mills, who is only playing at 2020 level. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
And Ben Stokes was the highest paid foreign player, and they get to keep | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
that money. Kevin Pietersen was the first... The Indian Premier League | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
brings India to a standstill. All the children do not go to school and | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
people come home early from work. That getting the most money from the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
foreign players. Big money, isn't it? You do not want to reward | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
yourself with a chocolate bar, but maybe some cake. An interview with | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Mary and the Times. She said one thing she does not mess about Bake | :19:21. | :19:39. | |
Off is the crying when their bottom goes soggy or a pie burns in the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
oven. But didn't she cry? Maybe that was only once. Maybe she doesn't cry | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
when things go wrong, maybe only when things go right. She said | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
another channel was not an option. A profound statement. Thank you so | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
much. We will see you in a little bit. It is Tuesday morning. Another | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
health story for you now. Eight years after it was criticised | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
by inspectors for not having enough beds, operating theatres, | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
or trained staff, Birmingham Children's Hospital has become | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
the first of its kind to be The specialist hospital has | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
been praised for turning Our health correspondent, | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Jane Dreaper, is there I bet a lot of people are happy | :20:12. | :20:27. | |
there this morning, Jane. They certainly are. Flock to the Playing | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
Room in Ward ten at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Across the | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
hospital, 360 sleepy head are just waking up. They do a huge and | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
special job staff if it is not just about dividing excellent care, but | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
putting the young patients at ease, and looking after the whole family. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
-- providing. Play areas like this that are bright and provide toys are | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
important, but it is also about how staff across the board relate to the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
children, parents, and siblings. That is just as important as saving | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
lives. A mother's tender touch. Connacht is | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
just seven months old, and recovering in intensive care from a | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
liver transplant. -- Connor. His older brother James had to change | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
school because they live so far away. It is a tough time for the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
whole family, but they still supported by the staff in | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Birmingham. We have nearly lost it so many times from being here. We | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
have come close. Without them, we would not have a child playing in | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
this bed. We have got him and he is here. We have faith we will get to | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
take him home. That is the only ask as a parent of a sick child. This is | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
the play and admission is centre, designed to distract young patients | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
before their treatment. Their caring approach has been impressive for | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
parents. This hospital has come a long way since it was criticised by | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
inspectors eight years ago. Back then, the report found a shortage of | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
beds, poor training, and can. Paying much closer attention to the views | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
of parents and staff, and acting on their ideas, has helped change the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
culture in Birmingham and encourage better teamwork. Eight years ago we | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
were in an organisation that certainly was not listening to our | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
staff and not listening to what young people and families were | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
saying, and was in a really difficult place. Through focusing on | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
those areas of patient and staff engagement, we have now got an do a | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
position where we are improving. Some of the children in our patients | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
need increasing appointments. -- outpatients. So they need better | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
care. I was talking to a doctor and it wasn't scary or anything a couple | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
of weeks ago, it was relaxed. Is it scary when you come here, or do you | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
feel OK? I feel OK. The emotional support given to bereave parents has | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
also been praised in today's report. And they will now be able to use | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
this new room when they are going through the worst of times. Rachel | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
has helped raise thousands of pounds for this unit after the death of her | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
older daughter, Molly from kidney cancer. When you are given news like | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
that, you feel you cannot breathe sometimes. You need fresh air. You | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
need to absorb new information that is being told to use. And there was | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
not that opportunity within the existing building at Birmingham at | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
that time, just to be ourselves as a family and be together. The staff | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
here believe they can improve care even further, but today is a huge | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
improvement in showing how this hospital has turned the corner. Jane | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Dreaper, BBC News, Birmingham. And a quick update on baby Connor who use | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
or at the top of the film they are, he is showing some signs of | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
progress, so that is good news. -- who you saw. Sharing this proud | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
moment is the Chief Executive, Sarah marsh. You were here eight years ago | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
during those difficult times. Tell me about what was going on then and | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
what you have changed since. Thank you. Everyone here at Birmingham | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Children's Hospital is totally thrilled and delighted to be given | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
this rating. We have worked so hard over the last eight years. There | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
were things we did not get right, we did not have the right staff in the | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
right place at the right time with the right equipment. Over the last | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
eight years we have invested in staff and believed in them and | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
empowered them every step of the way and that is what has made this | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
improvement in the report. There are still things to do? We are not | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
perfect. We need to do something is better. But we will keep working | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
hard and working together and keep delivering care to our young people. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
This is the best and worst place to be, the best because you never want | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
to have your child in this hospital, but the best because at least they | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
are getting outstanding care. Back to you, Steph. And thank you to all | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
the people there at Birmingham Children's Hospital. A lot of pride | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
in that hospital. And today we're all also asking about pride. I love | :25:35. | :25:44. | |
this land. This land I have found over the last two years. This land | :25:45. | :26:04. | |
of silver rivers, this land of winding sheep tracks across the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
faces of escarpments and a wealth of butterflies and wild flowers. | :26:09. | :26:09. | |
We'll meet the vicar who's so passionate about the place | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
he calls home, the South Downs, that he's made a documentary about it. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
Are you passionate about where you live? We'd love to see your photos | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
of where you call home. You can e-mail us at | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
[email protected] or share your thoughts with other | :26:21. | :26:21. | |
viewers on our Facebook page. And you can Tweet about today's | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
stories using #bbcbreakfast or follow us for the latest | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
from the programme. Right it is time to get the news, | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
travel, and whether where you live and where you love. | :26:37. | :29:55. | |
This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. | :29:56. | :30:09. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
I think talking about it has certainly helped me and I think more | :30:13. | :30:25. | |
broadly on getting the sense that it is helping quite a lot of people. He | :30:26. | :30:35. | |
has covered a lot of stories, but the final story Steve Hewlett chose | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
to share was when he was dying of cancer. We will talk about how it | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
may have helped others. Do manufacturers need to come | :30:46. | :30:46. | |
clean about formula milk? We'll meet the MP calling | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
for companies to be banned from marketing it and | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
the blogger who says mums shouldn't feel guilty | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
if they don't breastfeed. He may only be human, | :30:55. | :31:02. | |
but Rag N'Bone man's first album was the fastest-selling debut | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
by a male artist in a decade. But now a summary of this | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
morning's main news. Most areas of England will see | :31:10. | :31:20. | |
hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
in the number of hospitals The Government says patients | :31:31. | :31:32. | |
will receive better care The shortage of teachers in schools | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
in England is getting worse, affecting key subjects | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
in the profession long-term. The actual sums are | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
adding and taking... Maths class for these | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
are increasingly hard to come by, that's according to a group of MPs, | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
who say school teacher shortages I think that's mainly due | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
to workload and pressure The Education Select Committee | :32:16. | :32:28. | |
is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack | :32:36. | :32:36. | |
of job satisfaction, Research has found teachers | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
in England work nearly 20% more than they do in other similar | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
countries, an average of nearly 50 20 of those are spent | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get across is just | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
how important teachers are to our society | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
and to our economy. They need to feel valued, | :33:05. | :33:06. | |
they need to feel trusted. The Department for Education says | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
it is investing in teacher recruitment and development | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
to make sure the best Five people have been killed | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
in a plane crash in Melbourne. All those on-board the small | :33:16. | :33:32. | |
aircraft were killed when it suffered what is believed to be | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
catastrophic engine failure and crashed a shopping centre, which was | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
preparing to open. Four of those killed were thought to be US | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
citizens. No one on the ground was killed. | :33:48. | :33:55. | |
Rates are being updated for the first time in seven years and it | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
will leave more than a quarter of companies facing higher bills. | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
Philip Hammond is facing more pressure to do more to help those | :34:05. | :34:06. | |
affected. HSBC has blamed slowing growth in | :34:07. | :34:16. | |
the UK, linking it to uncertainty over Brexit, for a profit loss. It | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
could move more than 1000 staff from London to Paris. | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
A heterosexual couple will find out today if they can have a civil | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, from London, | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
took their case to the Court of Appeal following a defeat | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
They say it's unfair that only same-sex couples can have a civil | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
Specialist police teams are digging up the gardens of two | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
One is believed to be the former home of Christopher Halliwell, | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women, | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
Feeding your children blueberries might just put your them -- might | :34:49. | :35:07. | |
put them in a better mood. A study carried out | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
by the University of Reading found that, during two trials with young | :35:12. | :35:13. | |
people, participants reported feeling better after drinking | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
a wild blueberry-drink, which contained an entire | :35:17. | :35:17. | |
punnet of the fruit. The researchers say they're | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
impressed by the results, Are you a bit tight on your | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
blueberries? A family of five, how many pundits | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
will you get through? -- punnets. | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
You are meant to have more than one type. | :35:40. | :35:41. | |
It might put the rest of the house in a better mood but it won't make | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
my wallet feel any better. You Scrooge! | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
Good morning. Iron talking about whether fairytale didn't quite | :35:48. | :35:59. | |
happen for Sutton United. On the right-hand side, in the yellow, not | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
quite so happy. A milestone for Theo Walcott, who is in the picture as | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
well. What it was a bit of a disappointment for Sutton United | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
fans, as their FA Cup adventure is over. | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
They were beaten 2-0 last night by Arsenal in the last 16 | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
The lowest ranked side left in the Cup didn't disgrace | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
themselves against the 12 time winners, but a first half strike | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's 100th goal in an Arsenal | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
shirt ensured that Arsene Wenger's side avoided an upset. | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
But they do have more non-league opposition next in Lincoln City. | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
20 years ago they weren't as fit as they were today. They didn't drop | :36:39. | :36:46. | |
physically at all. They remained absolutely focused and organised. | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
There was a huge desire in their game and I would say if you were not | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
mentally prepared we would not have come through today. | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
I think the players have been absolutely magnificent and so have | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
the volunteers. They've given up Sunday to tell this -- to sell the | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
tickets, everyone here is a volunteer. Remember that. We are not | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
a League two internationally, we are traditional club. But Lincoln and | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
Sutton have done our competition very, very proud and I hope... Best | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
wishes to Danny and Nick. Go and have your day in the sun as we have | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
done today. It is one of the best experiences you will ever have. | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
The manager doesn't get paid, he does that job for free. | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
Newcastle United have returned to the top of the Championship. | :37:35. | :37:36. | |
They were also 2-0 winners last night over Aston Villa. | :37:37. | :37:44. | |
Yoan Gouffran and this mistake from Henri Lansbury | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
helped Newcastle leapfrog over Brighton | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
Manchester City return to European action tonight, | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
hosting Monaco in the last 16 of the Champions League. | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
City reached the semi finals for the first time last season | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
but host a Monaco side currently leading the French first division, | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
having scored 76 league goals already. | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
They are intelligent, physically strong, they arrived to the box a | :38:04. | :38:12. | |
complete team, so it is the most successful team in Europe in terms | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
of goalscoring. A tough draw. Looking forward to playing them. | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
Just a compliment because they are a really good team. | :38:25. | :38:25. | |
GB Badminton says it is staggered at the decision not to award them | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
any funding during the next Olympic cycle. | :38:30. | :38:30. | |
Despite meeting its target in winning a bronze medal in Rio, | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
Badminton, along with six other sports including Fencing, | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
Archery and Wheelchair Rugby, lost their appeals with UK Sport, | :38:37. | :38:38. | |
the organisation which allocates the money. | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
We just can't reach those sports that have got limited medal | :38:47. | :38:55. | |
potential with, yes, a medal possibility, we do believe badminton | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
and wheelchair rugby and other sports have medal potential, but | :38:58. | :39:04. | |
it's not strong enough for it to be on the table and we've run out of | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
resources to let it go that far. Whatever you want to call it, it | :39:08. | :39:15. | |
should have the right to find that sport. Not cut it completely. We've | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
got players in the top ten of the world and to say that that's not not | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
possible chance of a medal, OK, they are the number one in the world, but | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
I wasn't number one in the world when I got my medal, I was only an | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
outside chance. I still believe we should do that and we lead to a | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
sport to be able to do that. -- we owe it to a sport. | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
Great Britain's next Davis Cup tie against France will be held on clay. | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
The last time the two nations met in the Davis Cup, | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
Andy Murray led Great Britain to victory on the grass at Queens. | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
As often happens when they play away though, they'll be faced | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
with the less familiar red dust, this time in Rouen. | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
The decision by Muirfield to hold another vote on allowing female | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
members has pleased the head of golf's ruling authority, | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
Muirfield was dropped as an Open Championship venue | :40:00. | :40:01. | |
after members voted against altering their male only membership policy. | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
Martin Slumbers wants a positive outcome to help grow the game | :40:05. | :40:07. | |
I do believe that if we are going to grow participation in the game, | :40:08. | :40:15. | |
family golf is at the heart of that strategy. I still believe that | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
getting more women as members of golf clubs, more women bringing | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
children to play, clubs creating opportunities for young people to | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
play, or even new facilities for children to learn to play, that's | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
what's important for the future generations. | :40:33. | :40:34. | |
He is now in charge of the R and they are trying to change things. | :40:35. | :40:43. | |
Even having mentorship is a start. There's a long interview with Martin | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
he talks about resident trump honour because he owns a golf course on the | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
open rotation. -- President Trump. The sting to have a look on the BBC | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
website. There are different issues facing that at the moment. | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
Thanks very much indeed. They're billed as radical changes | :41:02. | :41:02. | |
to secure the future of the NHS. The news this morning is that more | :41:03. | :41:11. | |
than half of the 44 plans aimed at transforming healthcare in different | :41:12. | :41:14. | |
parts of England include either closing the hospital or moving | :41:15. | :41:15. | |
treatments to different sites. Professor Chris Ham | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
is from the Kings Fund think-tank, which has given the plans a cautious | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
welcome but says proper funding must Good morning. Just to explain first | :41:22. | :41:33. | |
of all, the reason why there are 44 plans is because essentially NHS | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
England split the country into 44 areas and asked each of them to look | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
at what they could do to bring inefficiencies, cut costs and | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
improve services in the area. Is that right? That's right. We heard a | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
lot about the problems of the NHS, especially hospitals being | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
overcrowded in recent weeks and also social care. About one year ago NHS | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
England said 44 areas of the country should plan together. All the | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
hospitals, community services, social care should sit round the | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
table and say, how are we going to plan for the future and recognise | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
that these pressures will continue to grow? We've only got a fixed | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
budget, to develop land that set out what the priorities should be for | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
your area. What we've done today in the report published today is read | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
and review and analyse all 44 of those plans to read Ja the | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
assessment of whether they have a chance of doing that. What do you | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
think of them? We think they are the best hope for the NHS to find a way | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
through the most difficult times I can remember facing the health and | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
social care system. The issue is that demand is ever rising from a | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
growing population and an ageing population. Our system is really | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
struggling to cope and that in the headlines in your news reports ever | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
since the Christmas break. Something has to be done. These plans are by | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
no means perfect. We have our concerns about some of the | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
proposals. But the fact that people have come together, they've | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
collaborated around a county or city and said, if we work together and | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
think about how we used all of our staff and our resources we can | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
deliver better results. So our direction is one that we very much | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
welcome. As they are localised to different areas, they are different | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
in terms of things that are proposed. About one third say they | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
will move other nonemergency services so they are provided in | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
fewer hospitals in the area. Looking at them, a lot of them are involving | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
taking the pressure away from hospitals and putting the services | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
in the community. Do you think that's realistic? That the community | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
can provide the services that are needed? The big common idea, | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
accepting that difference between areas, is exactly to put more | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
emphasis on preventing people becoming ill in the first place. If | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
they do become ill providing care closer to home. The use of GPs, | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
district nurse is, the social care staff. All working in a much more | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
joined up way. -- better use of GPs, district nurses. This ought to be | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
welcomed. The challenge is the one you have highlighted. Where will the | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
resources,? There are couple of answers. One is making better use of | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
what we've already got. There are many skilled professionals working | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
in the community. We've invested a lot of money in those community | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
services. Every area has to look at what it does and improve on that to | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
reduce the overlap and duplication and some of the efficiency. We | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
believe that can be done. Much more difficult is the second thing. There | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
should be more funding to expand and improve the community services. We | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
need more GPs and nurses working out there. We especially need more | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
investment in social care, which is stretched beyond its limit. | :45:02. | :45:08. | |
Government has provided more funding, which is welcome, but most | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
of that is going towards cutting the deficit to hospitals which we heard | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
about yesterday and leaves very little left over for the new Tom | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
better services in the community. So we are calling on the government to | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
back these plans because they do represent the best possibility of | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
finding a way forward, but also to find some additional resource, | :45:29. | :45:30. | |
especially for social care, because if we don't have that care closer to | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
home will be a nice idea, not the reality. Thank you very much. You | :45:36. | :45:44. | |
can find out by putting your postcode on the NHS England website | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
to find out what impact it might have in your area. | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
You can also do it on the BBC website this morning. You can find | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
out what the plans are for the NHS in your area. | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. She is up on the | :46:01. | :46:11. | |
roof this morning. Is it dry? There is a bit of dampness in the air in | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
London. We are looking at 10 degrees at the moment. In Aberdeen yesterday | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
for comparison it was 13 degrees at this stage in the morning. It is now | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
six. The temperature is going down. For most of the UK today it is still | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
mild. Through the day, what will happen is especially in the west it | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
will be quite wet. The forecast starts at 9am in Scotland. Rain in | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
the north-west by nine, a lot of cloud in the west, brighter skies in | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
the east. North of England has cloud as well this morning. North England | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
seeing sunshine. That goes down towards the watch and East Anglia. | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
Kent, the Midlands, southern counties, a weather front dangling | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
across ringing patchy rain. Fairly light at the moment. South-west | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
England and Wales as well. Murky light yesterday. Low fog and | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
low-level fog as well. A damp feel. Northern Ireland, a dry start, | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
cloudy with one or two breaks. That will change through the day. Through | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
the day, we have got wet and windy weather moving in from the | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
north-west of will and going south. -- Scotland. The weather front will | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
rejuvenate as it goes north. Eventually the two will merge across | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
Wales, Northern Ireland, and south across western Scotland. Here we | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
will see the heaviest rain. It will become cloudier but brighter. The | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
evening and overnight, the system takes the rain moving south and | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
windy conditions as well. It will be especially windy in northern England | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
for a time. Gusting at 60 miles an hour. The rain will continue to push | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
down into the south of England again, weakening as it does so. | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Behind that, cold enough for some wintry showers at lower levels at | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
times, and in the Scottish mountains as well. Tomorrow, we still have a | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
weak band of rain in southern England. Quite a lot of cloud to be | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
as it continues south it will brighten up behind it. A fairly | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
windy day in Shetland, Orkney, the far north of England and Scotland, | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
and possibly, as far south in Scotland as Peterborough. 80 miles | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
an hour. That could lead to some disruption. Thursday, an area of low | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
pressure crossing the central part of the UK will introduce some heavy | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
rain and also some snow across central and southern Scotland and | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
northern England. Not just with height. Some at lower levels. With | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
the strength of the wind as well, because it will be pretty windy, | :48:55. | :48:56. | |
some atrocious travelling conditions. If you are planning to | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
travel on Thursday, stay tuned to the weather forecast. Back to you, | :49:02. | :49:11. | |
Steph and John. You look so wonderfully well lit this morning. | :49:12. | :49:21. | |
That is because of poor Cooper. The wonderful Cooper. | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
I have some food here for everyone. Drew | :49:29. | :49:40. | |
-- Blueberries and some alcohol. Good morning, everyone. | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Food and drink are big business for the UK. | :49:46. | :49:47. | |
In total, it employs around 400,000 people | :49:48. | :49:49. | |
This morning, we've got the latest figures on how much we're selling | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
In total, food and drink exports grew by more than 10% last year, | :49:54. | :49:59. | |
topping ?20 billion for the first time. | :50:00. | :50:01. | |
There has been lots of talk recently about trading with America. | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
It's our second largest export market after Ireland, | :50:05. | :50:06. | |
and sales to the US also grew strongly, to more than ?2 billion. | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
After alcohol and all that Scotch whiskey, the next bestsellers | :50:11. | :50:12. | |
from the UK are chocolate, salmon, and cheese. | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
Ian Wright is Director General of the Federation. | :50:16. | :50:17. | |
That is what we have got here. These figures were put together by you. | :50:18. | :50:27. | |
Good morning. Good morning. What has been a particular driver in 2016 for | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
us selling these stuff around the world. The devaluation of the pound | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
in the last several months has made us much more competitive with | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
exports. But also UK business people going out into markets in trying to | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
sell their products in a very organised and coherent way. It has | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
been successful. This is the 16th year of consecutive growth in | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
exports sales. That is a really amazing record. Who was buying this | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
and where is this going? All around the world. The EU remains our | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
biggest market and within that Ireland is absolutely critical. | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
Within the Brexit debate we have to figure out what we are doing with | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
the Irish border otherwise we will be in trouble. They are the most | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
important market in food exports. Beyond that, we have seen an | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
increase of a third in China, substantial increases in the US, and | :51:25. | :51:27. | |
many, many markets around the world have seen big increases to put it | :51:28. | :51:36. | |
cheese. With exports, what would the consequences be if we did not sort | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
out these borders? The Prime Minister talks about frictionless | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
borders, meaning they would stay as they are now. There are 200 roads to | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
cross the border, the idea of releasing them with customs is | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
ludicrous. What we need is a system that will allow people to pass over | :51:57. | :51:59. | |
the border whether they have products or labour that works | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
absolutely efficiently. Just on labour markets. The fishery industry | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
will have many farmers concerned about how that plays out. Farmers | :52:11. | :52:16. | |
are very concerned because they need seasonal workers to do the picking | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
at harvest time. And right now that is not looking as good as it should. | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
The manufacturing industry will be concerned about that. We have | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
120,000 European workers here and we need to give them security and | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
figure out how to replace them when they go home. Thank you very much. | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
Exports in food and drink doing very well in 2016 partly to do with the | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
weaker pound after the referendum. Thank you very much. | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
A former teacher, a doctor, and a marketing manager are amongst | :52:46. | :52:47. | |
a team of British soldiers hoping to become the first all-female group | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
They'll have to endure temperatures of -40 and walk for up to nine hours | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
a day carrying more than their own body weight in supplies. | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
Our reporter, Phil Mackie, donned his skiis and joined them | :53:00. | :53:01. | |
in Norway, where they're training for their 80-day challenge. | :53:02. | :53:12. | |
The Ice Maiden team is heading out across a frozen Norwegian lake at | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
the start of its final training exercise. In September, these | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
soldiers will begin an historic journey, hoping they will now | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
succeed and inspire a generation of women. It is not just about five | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
women crossing the Antarctic, it is about encouraging women everywhere | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
to get out there and realised the is no ceiling and you can achieve | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
anything. I think we can inspire someone to get out there and be | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
physically active. It doesn't have to be Antarctic us. Their 5k can be | :53:44. | :53:55. | |
their version. Their home will be a small tent. It will be a bedroom, | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
living room, and kitchen, for the next 80 days. High, mum dad. They | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
are a doctor, a former teacher, and electrical technician on the team. I | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
am just a normal person from Newcastle and I have just come | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
across an incredible opportunity. If you and work for it you can just do | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
it. They believe their families and partners behind to spend nearly | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
three months together on the ice. There is important research being | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
done as well. No one really knows what it would take to support and | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
sustain an all-female team on a journey like this. It is about the | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
composition of the rations, carbohydrates, protein, and trying | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
to figure out how we can manipulate that, I suppose. And also for a | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
group of women whose nutritional needs are different to men, there | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
has been very little research done and certainly not published. We have | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
little to go on. There are other more personal considerations, | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
especially when they need to have the call of nature. We have pee | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
funnels and that is straightforward. We can squat behind a little wall | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
without trousers down and do our business into a bag. We have shoes | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
to deal with. Then you can drag that rubbish for the rest of the journey. | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
One of the hardest things will be maintaining morale as each hard day | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
of marching goes by. They have just been for a two hour March. They will | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
have to do so many a day carrying everything in the Antarctic they | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
need along with them. It will be very, very tough, which is why they | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
need to practise in conditions as harsh as these. There are seven Ice | :55:42. | :55:49. | |
Maidens. Two will be reserves, as only five can cross the Antarctic, | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
where they hope to break the ice ceiling, putting them alongside | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
explorers like Scott and others. That looks tough, especially the | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
toilet situation. This is Breakfast, | :56:06. | :59:29. | |
with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. Cuts to hospital services | :59:30. | :00:08. | |
are planned in most Good morning. A report by MPs as | :00:09. | :00:43. | |
urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers quitting teaching. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Catastrophic engine failure is blamed after a light aircraft | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
crashes into a shopping centre in Melbourne, killing all five people | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
onboard. Good morning. Grandparents are | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
saving British families about ?16 billion a year in child care costs, | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
according to figures published this morning. Great for working parents, | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
but is it just chip -- cheap labour? In sport, Sutton United couldn't | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
pull off one of the biggest FA The non-league side | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
from the fifth tier of English football were beaten 2-0 | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
by Arsenal in the fifth I'm just a normal person from | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
Newcastle and I've just happened to come across this incredible | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
opportunity. If you want it, you work for it, you can do it. But | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
would you want it? a team of British soldiers | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
who are preparing to become the first all-female group to cross | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
the Antarctic unaided. Hopefully it will be a little bit | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
warmer here. Carol can tell us. It certainly is mild in southern parts | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
of the UK this morning. Also cloudy and damp. The rain we currently have | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
in the south will move northwards through the day. In the north-west | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
of Scotland we have another band of wet and windy weather coming in. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
They will merge and the driest conditions will be in the east. It | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
will be windy and wind will be a feature of the weather for the next | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
couple of days. More in 15 minutes. Most places in England will have | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
hospital areas cut. Analysis by the BBC has also | :02:13. | :02:26. | |
found that about a third of the proposals would see | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
a reduction in the number of hospitals offering | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
emergency care. The Government says patients | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
will receive better care Our health reporter | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protests outside Horton hospital | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
in Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
closures and cuts to stroke Right across England proposals | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
for big changes are afoot The BBC has analysed 44 | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
of the transformation Two thirds include either hospital | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
closures or moving treatments More than a third involve cuts | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
to the number of hospitals providing non-emergency treatments and around | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals offering | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
emergency care. Proposed closures to hospital beds | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
have been heavily criticised More generally, though, | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
it says the plans are the best hope of delivering essential | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
reforms to the NHS, but it says it can't be done | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
without extra funding. Ideally there ought | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
to be an earmarked fund for new investment, to strengthen | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
and improve the out-of-hospital services, and to shore up adult | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
social care, which is really If those additional funds aren't | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
forthcoming, the Government needs to be honest about the consequences | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
for patients and what the offer The Department of Health says it's | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
confident the NHS plans will help patients get better care, | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
with improvements to mental health and cancer services | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
in England's schools is getting worse, affecting key subjects | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
in the profession long-term. The Government says there are more | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
teachers in schools than ever And we'll be speaking | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
to a headmaster about why some teachers are still choosing | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
to leave the profession. Five people have been killed | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
after a light plane crashed into a shopping centre | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
in the Australian city of Melbourne. The shops weren't open at the time | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
and no-one on the ground is believed When the show the pictures it is | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
hard to believe. Let's speak to our Sydney | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
correspondent Hywel Griffith. What do we know about what happened? | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
Well, this plane took off in the morning in Melbourne and seconds | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
afterwards the pilot put out a mayday call, saying he had chronic | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
and critical engine failure. It seems that just after takeoff he | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
tried to turn around and come back into the airport but seconds later | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
eyewitnesses saw a fireball go into the sky as the plane hit the side of | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the shopping centre. There was the black smoke and it took about 13 | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
fire engines to bring the fire under control. Tragically we know that all | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
five of the people onboard died and we know one of them was the pilot, a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
man with 38 years flying experience and a good safety record, and defend | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
four American tourists. That's been confirmed by the US embassy in | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Australia. However, because the shopping centre hadn't yet opened, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
incredibly no one inside, though members of the public, were injured. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
The investigation continues but already fingers pointing towards | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
catastrophic engine failure. Thank you for the update. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Let's talk about HSBC. They have results out this morning. Sean is | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
here. A falling profits? And pretty important. They are our biggest dank | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
in the UK is how they get on a fix people in the UK. -- bank. Most of | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
the profits are made around the world and their profits are the 60%. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
In 2015 they made about ?15 billion. Last year about ?6 billion and they | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
say a lot of that's about the uncertainty created the referendum | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
on the EU. Market uncertainty, investors not sure where to put | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
their money and that have a hit on especially the European business. It | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
also reminded us that they might move on thousand jobs to Paris if | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
negotiations don't play out the way they want. Even if they do, there | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
has to be some contingency for them to do that. If you look at the UK | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
business, they had a falling customer accounts, about 40,000 last | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
year. But they say we are saving more with them. They also say they | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
are putting more money into their call centres because of a lot of | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
issues there with customer service. While you are here let's talk about | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
business rates, because they are on the front pages also many papers | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
this morning. What's going on? The latest move is that last night the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Chancellor Philip Hammond spoke to a lot of his backbench Conservative | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
MPs who are not happy with some of the writers that a lot of businesses | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
in their constituencies are seeing. He says he is listening to them. We | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
will find out in two weeks how much he is listening to the talk with | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Cinema papers, because that's when the budget is and that's when we | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
might get clarity on what will happen with business rates because | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
there is due to be a lot of changes coming in. Thank you very much. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
A day after declaring a famine in South Sudan, | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
the United Nations has warned that other countries | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
100,000 people are facing starvation as a result of the civil | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
But the United Nations says almost 1.5 million children | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
are at risk of dying of starvation in four countries in Africa | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
In this Children's Hospital in the countries capital there is acute | :08:14. | :08:28. | |
malnutrition. This boy gets one or maybe two meals a day. Her mother | :08:29. | :08:38. | |
can't afford to feed her. In a country where the fighting goes on, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
even more people are affected. In Unity State, the rebel stronghold. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
100,000 people are now in the grip of famine, a further million in the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
country are on the brink. Some eight has been delivered but not enough is | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
getting through. People are dying of starvation every day. -- some aid. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Three years of civil war have taken their toll. The real tragedy is that | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
this is largely man-made. We do have famine and food insecurity has | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
worsened in many parts of this country. Largely because of this | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
unfortunate conflict. And this is part of a bigger picture. The UN is | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
warning three more countries, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, are at | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
risk of famine. In South Sudan, over 3 million have been forced from | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
their homes. 1.5 million have fled to neighbouring countries, like | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
these people arriving in Uganda, creating one of the worst refugee | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
crises in the world. As these mothers and children wait for help, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
the UN warns urgent action is needed or the situation will only get | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
worse. A heterosexual couple will find out | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
today if they can have a civil Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
from London took their case to the Court of Appeal | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
following a defeat at They say it's unfair that only | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
same-sex couples can The singer and actor | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
David Cassidy has revealed He made the announcement | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
after he forgot his words during some shows in | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
California at the weekend. David Cassidy, who's 66, | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
becoming a teen idol and recording a string | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
of solo hits in the 1970s. A man in New York has had | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
an extremely lucky escape while doing his weekly shop | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
at a mini-mart in the Bronx. Have a look at this. It was all | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
caught on CCTV. There he is, buying a few bits and bobs. But look at the | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
window. Out of nowhere, a car appears and then straight through | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
the window and into him. Fortunately he was OK and managed as you can see | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
to stumble out. I imagine he was pretty shocked at the time. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
He was kind of protected by that first row of groceries. It gives him | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
a natural barrier. Both he and the driver were taken to | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
hospital but neither had serious injuries. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Dramatic pictures! Very lucky to have come out of that I'm harmed. -- | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
unharmed. An unimaginable workload is a key | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
reason for teachers leaving That's one of the findings | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
of a highly critical new report It says the Government urgently | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
needs to get to grips with the problem of teacher | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
recruitment and retention. Joining us now is Andrew | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Shakos, headteacher at Parrs Wood High | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
School, in Manchester. Good morning. It is half term for | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
you? We are making you work! The issue! There lies the issue. The | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
media's perception that we have so many holidays and don't do anything | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
else. Actually, I will be going into work later, even though it is half | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
term. Do you think that people don't understand how hard teachers work? | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
There isn't a profession where you don't work hard. You go into | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
teaching not to make money, you go into change lives and when you | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
invest so much of yourself into that, and it isn't just about | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
academic studies, it is about developing people socially as well, | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
it takes it out of you. It is a tough profession but it is very | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
rewarding. The government say, the statement from the department for | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
education, they say there are more teachers than ever before and they | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
are investing ?1 billion into recruitment. What's the reality of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
recruiting and retention? Retention is really good. We give our | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
colleagues and really good experience in terms of ongoing | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
professional development. I think if we can talk about... Deraa two | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
sides. One says there aren't enough teachers. The other says we are | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
meeting quotas. In management there are six new house -- in my area | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
there are six new high schools because there is an increase in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
school-aged children. If that is replicated throughout England there | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
could be a teacher shortage in key subjects on because the amount of | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
school age children is increasing. So you look at certain subjects like | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
maths, computing and science, there is a definite shortage, but also | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
performance thresholds have an impact. One of the performance | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
thresholds is eBack. So already there a focus on recruiting more of | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
those teachers from certain subjects to make sure performance measures | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
are met. Have you noticed when you are advertising jobs in your school, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
like the science subjects, but you don't have as many applicants as you | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
used to? Absolutely. What can you do about it? You obviously go for the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
best that's out there and you've got to make sure that the best out there | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
are supported in the school, that there is internal training. Like I | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
said, it is stressful and you have to make sure that there are no | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
members of staff who are in a position of self-doubt when it gets | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
tough. They have a team around them and you ultimately work with them to | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
get them to a better place and make sure they get out of education what | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
you got out of it, which, like I said before, it's a highly rewarding | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
job. You said lots of teachers will be going into work at half term. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Others will say teachers have a nice and easy life and you get predicted | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
breaks. Has it got tougher over the past 10- 20 years? I think if you | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
are doing your job, they won't argue that teaching is a tough profession | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
or more tough than other professions, but there is a big | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
emotional investment in teaching. It has got tougher in the sense that we | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
are working with families, people, a higher proportion of people with | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
socio-economic challenges and health and well-being challenges and | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
generally the solutions from the government are that schools can sort | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
it out. You know what? We probably are the best to sort it out. There's | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
quite a lot of comments coming in from people, some people who are | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
teachers. Vicki says there's too much paperwork instead of | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
concentrating on. Also some pupils can't be taught. Is that fair that | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
there's more paperwork? Comparator when I went to school in | :15:34. | :15:49. | |
the 80s. -- compare it to. There probably is more paperwork. But the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
system is more advanced. If paperwork means better lessons and | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
reflective feedback where children can look at what they can do and | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
getting support for what they cannot do, there is more administration to | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
it. But I think administration is possibly in the best place it has | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
been since I have known it. Interesting. And so many people are | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
writing into art. One from Nick. He says he discourages his girls from | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
becoming teachers as there is a lack of time and encouragement and change | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
within education. Keep them coming. We will get to them later. Before we | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
get the weather, some pictures. We were talking about being proud of | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
where you are from earlier and we ask you to send in pictures of where | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
you are and what you love. That is because of a vicar from the South | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
Downs making a documentary about his home that he loves. Here are some | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
pictures. That is from Andrea who lives in Scotland by the sea. What a | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
view to wake up to. Beautiful. This is from Richard in Dorset from 12 | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
years ago. A teacher from the hills of... I cannot pronounce it. Imagine | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
waking up to this every morning! Well, when the weather is good | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
enough. That is over Retondon in Essex over the fields. And this is | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
my home town. It was sent in by Paul who loves living in Middlesbrough, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
the famous bridge! Are you sure it was not straight off your phone this | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
morning? One last one from Barry from Northumberland. Early in the | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
morning in the morning mist. Thank you for those. We will show more | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
later. We are talking about where you are proud of. We need to get you | :17:52. | :18:03. | |
a Bristol picture in, don't we? And Carol has a beautiful picture this | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
morning. It is not bad. Central London near Regent Street. Like mild | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
outside. Not everywhere. Colder conditions coming in the far north | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
of Scotland. That will be the trend through this week. Colder than it | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
was. That is not difficult. Yesterday, the top temperature to | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
the west of London was 18 degrees. Wind will be a feature for the next | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
few days. Today, for many of us, staying mild. Temperatures higher | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
than we would expect at this stage in February. Starting the weather | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
forecast in Scotland at nine o'clock. The first signs of rain | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
coming in from the north-west. Much of Scotland has a cloudy start but | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
it is brighter in the east with sunshine. North-west England, a | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
similar story. A cloudy start. North-east England, brighter skies. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Does brighter skies continue down the east coast towards The Wash and | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
Norfolk. South of that, a cloudy start. London, damp as well. The | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
south-west, cloudy and damp. A weather front. That extends into | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Wales. Hill fog, murky conditions generally. At lower levels, patchy | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
fog to watch out for as well. Northern Ireland, a dry start. Still | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
fairly cloudy. Some bright spells as well. Through the course of the day, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
the across Scotland will have windy conditions will go steadily south. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
The rain in the south of England will rejuvenate as it goes north and | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
they will meet in Wales, Northern Ireland, and western Scotland, where | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
the heaviest rain will be for a time. It will be windy, especially | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
behind the rain coming out of Scotland. For a time this evening, a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
limited amount of time where you will have especially windy | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
conditions. The overnight period, rain coming down towards southern | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
England. That is where it will be tomorrow morning. Brightening up | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
behind that with some sunshine and showers in the north. It will be | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
windy tomorrow in the Northern Isles. Southern part of Shetland and | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Orkney and mainland Scotland. That could be pretty windy. Especially in | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Peterborough, that kind of area. 70 miles an hour and locally 80 miles | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
an hour. That could lead to some disruption. If you are planning to | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
travel, Jack before you set out. As we go into Thursday, again, some | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
disruption. An area of low pressure coming into Northern Ireland and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
northern England moving east. That will bring with it heavy rain and | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
snow across central and southern Scotland and also northern England. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Not just in the hills. Some will be at lower levels. Strong winds, some | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
will be very atrocious. Watch out for that on Thursday. Back to you. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Thank you. The air-conditioning behind you is making it look very | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
windy. And the pigeon and the cranes. Beautiful. | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Eight years after it was criticised by inspectors for not having enough | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
beds, operating theatres, or trained staff, Birmingham | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
Children's Hospital has become the first of its kind to be | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
The specialist hospital has been praised for turning | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, is there | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
Good morning. Good morning. The young patients are just beginning to | :21:27. | :21:45. | |
wake up here in the tenth ward, and arrests surgical ward, where some | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
children will have serious disorders like brain disorders. --A | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
neurosurgical ward. Parents need a lot of support in wards like this. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
You learn that that is an important part of the work they do here along | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
with saving lives. Connor's just seven months old, | :22:06. | :22:06. | |
and recovering in intensive care Home is 50 miles away, | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
so Connor's older brother, It is a tough time for the whole | :22:13. | :22:26. | |
family, but they are still supported We have nearly lost him so many | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
times from being here. Without them, we would not | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
have a child playing in this bed. We have got him and he is here, | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
though quite poorly. We have faith we will | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
get to take him home. That is the only ask | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
as a parent of a sick child. This is the Play and Admissions | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Centre, designed to distract young Their caring approach has been | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
impressive for parents. This hospital has come a long way | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
since it was criticised Back then, the report | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
found a shortage of beds, Paying much closer attention | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
to the views of parents and staff, and acting on their ideas, | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
has helped change the culture in Birmingham and encouraged | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
better teamwork. Eight years ago we were in | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
an organisation that certainly was not listening to our staff, | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
that not listening to what young people and families were saying, | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
and it was in a really difficult Through focusing on those areas | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
of patient engagement, we have now gotten to a position | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
where we are "outstanding." Some of the children in outpatients | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
need repeating appointments. I was talking to a doctor a couple | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
of weeks ago and it wasn't scary Is it scary when you come | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
here, or do you feel OK? The emotional support given | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
to bereaved parents has also been And they will now be able | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
to use this new room when they are going | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
through the worst of times. Rachel has helped raise thousands | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
of pounds for this unit after the death of her older | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
daughter, Molly, from kidney cancer. When you're given news like that, | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
you feel you cannot breathe You need to absorb new information | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
that is being told to you. And there wasn't that opportunity | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
within the existing building at Birmingham at that time, | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
just to be ourselves as a family The staff here believe they can | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
improve care even further, but today is a huge moment | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
in showing how this hospital has A quick update on baby Connor from | :24:59. | :25:13. | |
the start of the film, he is showing some signs of progress. Some great | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
news to add to the news from Birmingham Children's Hospital. And | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
here is one of the parents who spent a night on a camp bed on the floor | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
beside his son. Good morning. Good morning. Your son Olly is four years | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
old. He has had a brain tumour and 14 operations in two years. How is | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
he doing? Not too badly, thank you. Some signs of improvement, which is | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
very encouraging a bite and he had his fourth birthday just last week. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
There are some cards appear. What did the staff do to make that | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
special for you? It was wonderful. We had a small collection. Be | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
brought in some presence and a nice card and Dae-sung happy birthday to | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
him. And you want to get him home safe and well? That is my hope. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Hopefully sooner rather than later. Well, hospitals like this just means | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
so much to the parents whose children are in daycare. One mother | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
said to me it is the best of bases in the worst of places because you | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
do not want to have your child here, but they know that they are getting | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
outstanding care. -- places. Back to you. Yes, and happy birthday | :26:29. | :26:41. | |
to him. Best of wishes to everyone there. | :26:42. | :26:42. | |
We are asking the questions that you need to have answered. How do you | :26:43. | :26:57. | |
answer the call of nature when you're on a three-month expedition | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
to the South Pole? Here is the answer. Do your business into the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
bag and used tissues and it goes on to your book and you dragged out for | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
the rest of the expedition. Carrying it for three months? -- drag that. | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
That is your answer! We'll meet the women preparing to become the first | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
all-female group to walk across Antarctica. | :27:22. | :30:40. | |
This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. | :30:41. | :30:54. | |
Most areas of England will see hospital services cut or moved under | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
plans to save money and improve efficiency. | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
Analysis by the BBC has also found that about a third of the proposals | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
would see a reduction in the number of hospitals | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
The Government says patients will receive better care | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
The King's Fund gave the plans are cautious welcome but said proper | :31:13. | :31:25. | |
funding has to be in place. Something has to be done. These | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
plans are by no means perfect. We have our concerns about some of the | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
proposals. But the fact that people have come together, they've | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
collaborated around the country and city and said if we work together | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
and think about how we use all of our staff and resources we can | :31:44. | :31:44. | |
deliver better results. The shortage of teachers | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
in England's schools is getting worse, affecting key subjects | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
in the profession long-term. The Government says there are more | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
teachers in schools than ever Five people have died | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
in a plane crash in Melbourne. All of those on board the small | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
aircraft were killed when it suffered engine failure and crashed | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
into a shopping centre, which was preparing | :32:18. | :32:19. | |
to open for the day. Four of those killed | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
were US citizens. No one on the ground is thought | :32:23. | :32:24. | |
to have been injured. Here, the Chancellor Philip Hammond | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
has assured Conservative MPs that he's listening to concerns | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
about a business rate revaluation The rates are being updated | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
for the first time in seven years, and will leave more than a quarter | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
of companies facing higher bills. Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
more to help those affected. A heterosexual couple will find out | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
today if they can have a civil Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
Keidan, from London, took their case to the Court | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
of Appeal following a defeat They say it's unfair that only | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
same-sex couples can have a The singer and actor | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
David Cassidy has revealed He made the announcement | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
after he was seen on social media forgotting his words | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
during shows in California David Cassidy, who's 66, | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
becoming a teen idol and recording a string | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
of solo hits in the 1970s. Feeding your children | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
blueberries might just put them A study carried out | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
by the University of Reading found that, during two trials with young | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
people, participants reported feeling better after drinking | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
a wild blueberry-drink, which contained an entire | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
punnet of the fruit. The researchers say they're | :33:43. | :33:50. | |
impressed by the results, but further studies, and many more | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
blueberries, are needed. You wonder if they could have felt | :33:58. | :34:06. | |
better anyway. Can you imagine getting children to | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
drink a glass full of Drew Brees? The parents will be exhausted! -- | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
blueberries. You don't have to squeeze them | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
yourself... Carol will have your | :34:18. | :34:17. | |
full weather forecast. We have this crazy miles weather. | :34:18. | :34:28. | |
Will that continue? Does it help the blueberries grow? | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
Good morning. In the FA Cup we had Sutton United | :34:33. | :34:41. | |
plane. You can see the pitch they played on. There was a bit of hope | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
for those looking for an upset, that Arsenal would take some time to get | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
used to it, but the results were almost inevitable when they did get | :34:54. | :34:55. | |
used to it. Sutton United's FA Cup | :34:56. | :34:55. | |
adventure is over. They were beaten 2-0 last night | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
by Arsenal in the last 16 The lowest ranked side left | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
in the Cup did not disgrace themselves against the 12-time | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
winners, but a first half strike from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
100th goal in an Arsenal shirt ensured Arsene Wenger's | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
side avoided an upset. But they do have more non-league | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
opposition next in Lincoln City. Let's hear first from the Sutton | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
manager, speaking to our own Dan I think the players | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
have been magnificent. They've given up Sundays | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
to sell the tickets, everyone here is a volunteer, | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
remember that. We're not a League Two club, | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
international league, But Lincoln and Sutton have | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
done our competition You know, go and have your day | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
in the sun, as we've had today. It's one of the best | :35:40. | :35:50. | |
experiences you will ever have. 20 years ago they weren't | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
as fit as they were today. You could expect that they would | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
drop much more physically. They remained absolutely | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
focused, organised, I would say if we were not mentally | :36:01. | :36:02. | |
prepared we would not have Newcastle United have returned | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
to the top of the Championship. They were also 2-0 winners last | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
night over Aston Villa. Yoan Gouffran and this mistake | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
from Henri Lansbury helped Newcastle | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
leapfrog over Brighton Manchester City return | :36:23. | :36:23. | |
to European action tonight, hosting Monaco in the last 16 | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
of the Champions League. City reached the semi finals | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
for the first time last season but host a Monaco side currently | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
leading the French first division, They are intelligent, | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
physically strong, they arrived to the box a complete team, | :36:46. | :36:47. | |
so it's the most successful team Looking forward to playing | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
against them, with our level. So just compliment, | :36:51. | :37:04. | |
because they are a really good team. Great Britain Badminton says | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
it is "staggered" at the decision not to award them any funding | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
during the next Olympic cycle. Despite meeting its target | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
in winning a bronze medal in Rio, Badminton, along with six other | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
sports including fencing, archery and wheelchair rugby, | :37:18. | :37:19. | |
lost their appeals against a cut in funding from UK Sport, | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
the organisation which allocates We just can't reach those sports | :37:23. | :37:24. | |
that have got limited medal potential with, yes, | :37:25. | :37:31. | |
a medal possibility. We do believe badminton | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
and wheelchair rugby and other sports have got medal potential, | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
but it's not strong enough for it to be high on the table | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
and we've run out of resources to be able | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
to reach that far. Possible, probably, whatever word | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
you would like to call it, then I think you should have th | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
right toat fund that sport. We've got players in the top ten | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
of the world and to say that that's OK, they aren't number one | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
in the world, but I wasn't number one in the world when I won my | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
medal, I was only an outside chance. We owe it to a sport | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
to be able to do that. The decision by Muirfield to hold | :38:11. | :38:16. | |
another vote on allowing female members has pleased the head | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
of golf's ruling authority, Muirfield was dropped | :38:20. | :38:21. | |
as an Open Championship venue after members voted against altering | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
their male only membership policy. Martin Slumbers wants a positive | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
outcome to help grow the game I do believe that if we are going | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
to grow participation in the game, family golf is at the heart | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
of that strategy. I still believe that getting more | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
women as members of golf clubs, more women bringing children | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
to play, clubs creating opportunities for young people | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
to play, or even new facilities for children to learn to play, | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
that's what's important Great Britain's next Davis Cup tie | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
against France will be held on clay. That's not their best surface, | :38:54. | :39:15. | |
although they did win the Davis Cup in 2015 on that surface. | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
Interesting. Hopefully it will bring them the same luck. | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
For many parents, formula milk is a convenient or necessary | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
But one MP is calling for a change to the way these | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
And here on the sofa is blogger and mum-of-two Becky Sappor, | :39:34. | :39:45. | |
Alison, what are you think is the issue with the way formula milk is | :39:46. | :39:59. | |
marketed? At the moment it is marketed very aggressively on | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
television, magazines, through apps and websites and that's not giving | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
impartial advice that parents need. You think that... Why is it a | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
problem? When you say it isn't giving them the information it | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
needs, what are they missing? At the moment there is no impartial advice | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
that is given to parents, that parents can rely upon. Increasingly | :40:25. | :40:32. | |
they are relying on marketing and information from the formula | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
companies themselves. Health professionals are then advising | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
parents. I think there's a role for a body that oversees those things | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
and will regularly look at the information and make sure it is | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
correct. So this isn't about rest feeding versus bottle feeding? | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
Absolutely not. I appreciate parents will sometimes choose formula milk | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
for a variety of reasons, we just want to make sure the information | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
they get is right. Good morning to you two. Tell us about your | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
experience and whether you had enough information and impartial | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
advice available. I think when I made the decision to formula feed my | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
first son there is very limited resource out there and I think when | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
there is a small amount of readily available information for parents | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
you can be led by advertising. You think you were led? I don't | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
personally think I was, I did as much research as I could, but I do | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
agree that that information isn't necessarily readily available and if | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
that information is misleading in any way it needs to be fixed. | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
My only concern is that we have to be so careful in the way we go about | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
fixing that, so as not to create a stigma with formula-fed babies and | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
so on. Obviously one of the precious as well, there are so many things | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
when you are mum to think about and there's a certain stigma about if | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
you're not breast-feeding. When I wrote my article about bottle | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
feeding my first child, the response as you can imagine was completely | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
buried. There were women who completely understood where I was | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
coming from and there were women who thought I was a complete failure for | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
not trying, so there is already a stigma attached to those parents who | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
do for defeat, whether that's through choice or circumstance, and | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
we have to be so careful in the way we go about this whole thing, so as | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
not to encourage that stigma and not to alienate these parents that make | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
that choice. Going back to Alison. On that subject of stigmatising, one | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
of the things you are talking about is plain packaging, to remove the | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
marketing and advertising from the packaging of baby formula milk. | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
Doesn't that stigmatise? Is about treating it like cigarettes or | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
almost like a crime, something to be embarrassed about? Absolutely not. | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
That's not my intention that. At the moment if you look on a supermarket | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
shelf you will see the formula on the shelf and there is a | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
progression, they will be numbered from one to four. The intention is | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
to instil in the minds of parents that when you finish with one you | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
move onto the next, but the reality is you only really need that formula | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
which is suitable for babies up to one year. Things like toddler milk, | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
they aren't really necessary and they are being used as a way to get | :43:43. | :43:50. | |
around regulations because the first milks can be advertised, whereas the | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
others can't. We look similar, they look like Konica products. If you | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
start removing information from packaging, don't you then take away | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
the information which is exactly what you say you want parents to | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
have? You want them to have that information? I am not saying you | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
remove the information, absolutely not, I would like to see more | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
information on the packaging. The things I am trying to tackle are the | :44:16. | :44:26. | |
images on the packets as well. Images of crowns and shields and | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
teddy bears, idealised images that make the packages look attractive. | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
Because if you are standing there looking at a shelf a lot of | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
parents... I spoke to over 300 people and many felt they were being | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
led by the marketing and that's not good enough. And overseas industry | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
says the law is already very strict and formula is amongst the strict | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
the regulated of all foods and they are fairly critical of the | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
proposals. It is true that there is a lot of regulation around formula | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
and at the moment a lot of this is self-regulation by the industry | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
complying with these rules. There is no independent verification and | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
testing of the contents of formula. So it's a very cutthroat is this, | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
and they want to attract parents to choose their brands. So you will see | :45:20. | :45:26. | |
them say it has a certain amount of iron, or antibiotics. But there's no | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
real reason why those need to be there. They haven't been verified | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
and tested. If we tested those claims we would see if those things | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
were necessary. Or are they just a marketing gimmick for parents? | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
The official government advice is rest feed for the first six months | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
if that is possible. -- breastfeed. Has that been made clear? Very | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
clear. From advertising that is the message I have taken away for. It | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
has been made plainly obvious that the breast is nutritionally best. I | :46:10. | :46:17. | |
agree this misinformation needs to not be there. If we were to | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
physically remove that choice for parents, it is only going to sort of | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
embrace that stigma and allow it to continue. We have to be careful | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
about the way we go about doing this and getting the right information to | :46:32. | :46:40. | |
parents, that s my only fear. Thank all of you for that. Do we get a | :46:41. | :46:54. | |
smile from him? No, only withering looks. And now for the weather. Good | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
morning, Carol. This morning it is still mild. Yesterday to the north | :47:02. | :47:08. | |
of London the temperature reached 8.3 Celsius. That is not a February | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
record, but pretty good for February. Over the next few days, | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
temperatures will continue to go down. For some of us, that will | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
happen today, and it will be windy. It is still mild, but not everywhere | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
today. The forecast starting at nine o'clock in Scotland. Rain in | :47:27. | :47:34. | |
north-west Scotland with winds. And it will be cloudy with the brightest | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
skies in the east. North-west England, a cloudy start. North-east | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
England, sunshine. That goes down towards The Wash and parts of | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
Norfolk. The rest of East Anglia and Kent and the Midlands and southern | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
counties, eight weak weather front. --A. That is creating cloud, murky | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
conditions, damp conditions with patchy rain, and it extends into | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
Wales as well. Hill fog and patchy low-level fog as well. Northern | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
Ireland. A dry start. A lot of cloud. Brighter breaks. It will not | :48:08. | :48:13. | |
last. Take your umbrella. You will need it later. The rainy north-west | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
Scotland and the gusty winds go south through the day. Meanwhile, | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
the rain in southern England rejuvenates and will turn around and | :48:23. | :48:28. | |
go north. The rain will be heaviest in Wales, Northern Ireland, and | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
western Scotland. Some eastern areas will stay dry, but it will cloud | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
over before the rain arrives later. Overnight, as the rain clears | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, windy around it, especially for a short | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
time in the north of England. Then the rain continues its journey | :48:45. | :48:49. | |
southwards. Behind that, under Keira skies, cold, cold enough for snow on | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
the Scottish hills and mountains. -- clearer. Still mild further south. | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
We start for the south with a lot of cloud and also that patchy rain. | :49:01. | :49:03. | |
Increasingly through the day, brightening up. Brightening up into | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
northern England. Extending south through the day. But for north-east | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
Scotland, the Northern Isles, the far north of mainland Scotland, and | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
perhaps Aberdeen show, gusty winds, 70 miles an hour. Locally, 80 miles | :49:17. | :49:24. | |
an hour. -- Aberdeenshire. Thursday, an area of low pressure coming in. | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England, the North Sea, it will have | :49:29. | :49:34. | |
heavy rain, snow in central and southern Scotland and northern | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
England. Not just in the hills. It will be accompanied by very strong | :49:40. | :49:45. | |
winds. Atrocious cover conditions. Stay in touch with the network to | :49:46. | :49:54. | |
get more information on that. -- driving conditions. And you do not | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
use the word atrocious lightly. Thank you so much for that. | :50:00. | :50:01. | |
It's half-term in lots of places around the UK this week, | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
and lots of nanas and granddads will be stepping up to take | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
But new figures out this morning suggest grandparents are saving | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
families around ?16 billion a year in childcare costs. | :50:12. | :50:13. | |
That is not a surprise, isn't it? Good morning. Many families are | :50:14. | :50:22. | |
grateful their grandparents around this week. Good morning. | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
Grandparents have always played a big role in the upbringing of their | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
grandchildren. But the rising cost of childcare | :50:30. | :50:31. | |
means that role is becoming crucial According to the insurance company, | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
Ageas, grandparents are spending about eight hours a week looking | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
after their grandchildren. And that's saving families | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
on average around ?2,000 a year We spoke to a few families to see | :50:42. | :50:43. | |
how much they relied In the big school holidays, my mum | :50:44. | :50:57. | |
comes to help. That saves money. But sometimes we just need to take time | :50:58. | :51:05. | |
off. But I know people who need grandparents to do that. Happy days | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
when you get time off for school. Happy times. But many families are | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
dependent on grandparents to help out with childcare. Yeah. I am very | :51:16. | :51:22. | |
lucky because I have grandparents to help and take care of her. But in | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
circumstances they cannot, it leaves me stuck with work, and I absolutely | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
cannot afford to pay for childcare at the moment. | :51:32. | :51:32. | |
Megan Jarvie is Head of Policy at the Family and Childcare Trust. | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
Good morning. Is it all about childcare and cost saving? That is | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
part of the picture. Many families struggle to pay for childcare. Many | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
cannot find it in their local area. That is why grandparents step in. It | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
will be a positive choice for many families. Many parents will only | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
want their own parents looking after their children. What we are worried | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
about is when it is the only choice and there are no options. And some | :52:02. | :52:04. | |
families do not have grandparents living nearby or who are working and | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
cannot help out. Where will the whole be filled and where will the | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
help come from and the money? -- hole be filled. The government is | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
helping to boost outcomes for children and unable parents to go to | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
work. We need that to be a strategy that makes sure every parent is | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
better off working so they can pay for childcare and it is of high | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
enough quality to boost children's learning. Grandparents helping out | :52:36. | :52:42. | |
with grandchildren, that goes back, you know, to the beginning of time. | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
Should we be worrying about this? For some families, it will be | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
exactly what they want to do. Exactly what they choose. But we | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
need to make sure they have the choice, whether they choose to go to | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
grandparents, or have a childminder or a nursery. In most settings, they | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
are professionals who are helping children to learn and boost | :53:06. | :53:08. | |
learning. That can be a positive choice. It can be a good change for | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
working grandparents coming in in the next year or so. You might be | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
able to get grandparental leave, where it will be shared among | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
parents and grandparents. The great thing about grandparental leave is | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
that it allows grandmothers and grandfathers to share that and it | :53:31. | :53:37. | |
rakes that idea of it being a female thing. -- breaks. We need to free up | :53:38. | :53:46. | |
men to have the joy of helping to raise a child. Thank you. We should | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
have more information on that soon. Now there is working and there is | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
"working." A former teacher, a doctor, | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
and a marketing manager are amongst a team of British soldiers hoping | :53:58. | :54:00. | |
to become the first all-female group They'll have to endure temperatures | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
of -40 and walk for up to nine hours a day carrying more than their own | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
body weight in supplies. Our reporter, Phil Mackie, | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
donned his skiis and joined them in Norway, where they're training | :54:13. | :54:14. | |
for their 80-day challenge. The Ice Maiden team is heading out | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
across a frozen Norwegian lake at the start of its final | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
training exercise. In September, these soldiers | :54:24. | :54:25. | |
will begin an historic journey, hoping they will now succeed | :54:26. | :54:27. | |
and inspire a generation of women. It's not just about five women | :54:28. | :54:38. | |
crossing the Antarctic, it's about encouraging women | :54:39. | :54:47. | |
everywhere from across the military but also in civilian life to get out | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
there and realise there is no ceiling and you can | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
achieve anything. I think we can inspire | :54:55. | :54:55. | |
someone to get out there Their home will be | :54:56. | :54:58. | |
a small tent. It will be a bedroom, | :54:59. | :55:07. | |
living room, and kitchen, There are doctors, a former teacher, | :55:08. | :55:10. | |
and an electrical technician I'm just a normal person | :55:11. | :55:18. | |
from Newcastle and I have just come And if you want it and work | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
for it you can just do it. They will leave their families | :55:23. | :55:32. | |
and partners behind to spend nearly There's important research | :55:33. | :55:35. | |
being done as well. No-one really knows what it | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
would take to support and sustain an all-female team | :55:40. | :55:42. | |
on a journey like this. It is about the composition | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
of the rations, carbohydrates, protein, and trying to figure out | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
how we can manipulate that, And also for a group of women whose | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
nutritional needs are different to men, there has been very | :55:53. | :55:56. | |
little research done So, I haven't got | :55:57. | :55:58. | |
an awful lot to go on. There are other more | :55:59. | :56:12. | |
personal considerations, especially when they need | :56:13. | :56:14. | |
to answer the call of nature. We have individual pee funnels, | :56:15. | :56:17. | |
and that is straightforward. We can squat behind a little wall | :56:18. | :56:19. | |
without trousers down Then you can drag that rubbish | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
for the rest of the journey. One of the hardest things will be | :56:23. | :56:34. | |
maintaining morale as each hard day They have just been | :56:35. | :56:37. | |
for a two-hour march. They are going to have to do nine | :56:38. | :56:45. | |
hours a day in the Antarctic, carrying everything | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
they need along with them. It is going to be very, very tough, | :56:49. | :56:50. | |
which is why they need to practise Two will be reserves, | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
as only five can cross the Antarctic, where they hope | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
to break the ice ceiling, putting them alongside explorers | :57:01. | :57:02. | |
like Scott and others. God, that is incredible, what they | :57:03. | :57:19. | |
have to do. The winter here has been put into perspective. Now for the | :57:20. | :00:44. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Cuts to hospital services are planned in most areas of England. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
A BBC investigation into 44 local plans reveals hospital | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
The Government says it wants to give patients better | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Good morning, it's Tuesday, the 21st of February. | :00:59. | :01:17. | |
The growing teacher supply crisis in our classrooms - | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
a report by MPs says urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
We have every faith that we will get to take him home, that is the only | :01:26. | :01:40. | |
ask as a parent of a sick child. The specialist children's hospital | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
that's one of a kind. The care is outstanding - | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
and we'll be live there later. Profits at Britain's biggest bank, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
HSBC, fell by more than 60% last year as growth slowed both | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
here and abroad. I'll have all the details | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
in a couple of minutes. In sport, Sutton United couldn't | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
pull off one of the biggest Theo Walcott scored his 100th goal | :01:59. | :02:12. | |
for Arsenal as they beat the non-league side 2-0. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
# I'm only human, after all. He may only be human, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
but Rag'n'Bone Man has a record breaking debut album and he's | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
already picked up a Brit Award. And our award-winning weather | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
presenter Carol has more. Good morning, a fairly cloudy start | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
to date, murky in the West with Hill fog. For southern areas, there is a | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
weak weather fronts which will move northwards, producing heavy rain and | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
joint force with -- forces with another weather fronts coming from | :02:53. | :02:53. | |
Scotland southwards. Most areas of England will see | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction in the number | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
of hospitals offering The Government says patients | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
will receive better Our health reporter | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protests outside Horton Hospital | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
in Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
closures and cuts to Right across England | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
proposals for big changes The BBC has analysed 44 | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
of the transformation Two thirds include either hospital | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
closures or moving treatments More than a third involve cuts | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
to the number of hospitals providing non-emergency treatments and around | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
offering emergency care. Proposed closures to hospital beds | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
have been heavily criticised More generally, though, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
it says the plans are the best hope of delivering essential reforms | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
to the NHS, but it says it can't be The Government has provided more | :04:06. | :04:20. | |
funding for the NHS, that is very much to be welcomed. But most of | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
that is going into cutting the deficit in hospitals that we heard | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
about yesterday. It leaves very little left over for the new, better | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
services in the community. The Department of Health says it's | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
confident the NHS plans will help patients get better care, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
with improvements to mental health and cancer services | :04:39. | :04:39. | |
and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers in schools | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
in England is getting worse - affecting key subjects like physics | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
and maths - according The Commons Education Committee says | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row, | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
in the profession long-term. The actual sums are | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
adding and taking... Maths class for these | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
are increasingly hard to come by, that's according to a group of MPs, | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
who say school teacher shortages I'm into my fourth | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
year of teaching now. I think that's mainly due | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
to workload and pressure The Education Select Committee | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
of job satisfaction, Research has found teachers | :05:40. | :05:40. | |
in England work nearly 20% more than they do in other similar | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
countries, an average 20 of those are spent | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
across is just how important teachers are to our society | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
and to our economy. They need to feel valued, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
they need to feel trusted. The Department for Education says | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
it is investing in teacher recruitment and development to make | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
sure the best in the We've been getting a lot | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
of your comments on this Lots of teachers getting into touch. | :06:19. | :06:36. | |
One says teaching is an incredibly hard job, but very rewarding. She | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
says she regularly works over 70 hour weeks and drink the holidays as | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
well, that is one of the myths the told us, that teachers get loads of | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
holidays, when lots of them work in that time. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
The head teacher we spoke to earlier said he to retain staff and keep | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
people teaching, one teacher got in touch saying it is all very well | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
talking to head teachers, there are rewards but you need to talk about | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
the picture of workload, pressure and pay. I appreciate you don't want | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
to scare off potential new recruits but we need to be honest if the | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
teaching situation will ever improve. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
One of the big pressures as the paperwork, Gill says lead teachers | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
be teachers, stop giving them more and more data to crunch and start | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
bringing back respect in schools. If the upper echelons don't respect the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
teachers, why will the students? Lots of sarcastic people say that I | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
hope those teachers complaining are enjoying their half term break. Join | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
in on that debate on our Facebook page. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
Five people have been killed after a light plane crashed | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
into a shopping centre in the Australian city of Melbourne. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
All of those on board were killed when it suffered engine failure and | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
crashed into a shopping centre. Four of those killed were US citizens. No | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
one in the ground is thought to have been injured. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
Which is unbelievable, looking at those pictures. | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
The Chancellor Philip Hammond has assured Conservative MPs that he's | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
listening to concerns about a business rate revaluation | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
in England and Wales, which will leave more than a quarter | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
The rates are being updated for the first time in seven years, | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
and Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do more to help those affected. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Tom Bateman. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
He is life in Westminster. He has been looking into this for us. It | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
seems that the political pressure over business rates increases every | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
day at the moment ahead of the Budget? I think it is. Some of those | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
accounts of businesses, shop owners and others, small businesses in | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
particular, worried about rate increases, I think that is fuelling | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
some of the pressure on the Government at the moment, because | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Conservative MPs had a private meeting with Chancellor Philip | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Hammond in Parliament last night. I think there was quite a change of | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
tone from the Government because just yesterday we heard about her | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
ministers had written to MPs, talking about all of this as being a | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
campaign of distortions and half-truths. Last night Philip | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Hammond, with quite a different tone from some colleagues, said he was in | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
listening mode, prepared to hear about some of the issues, some of | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the most hard-pressed were facing. Crucially no word on any | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
concessions. The Government for its part says this is the biggest cut in | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
business rates it has ever put forward. And more businesses will | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
face reductions than increases. Thank you, Tom. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
A heterosexual couple will find out today if they can have a civil | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan from London took their case | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
to the Court of Appeal following a defeat at | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
They say it's unfair that only same-sex couples can | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
A man in New York has had an extremely lucky escape | :09:52. | :10:04. | |
while doing his weekly shop at a mini-mart in the Bronx. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
We have some astonishing pictures. Look at what happened. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Caught on CCTV, he is about to pay for his groceries when he realises | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Look in the window behind. That is unbelievable. As you can see from | :10:15. | :10:27. | |
another angle, he is protected by the two shelves. But first one was | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
like a barrier. He manages to get out unharmed. Both that man and the | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
driver went to hospital but we understand that neither had a | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
serious injury, which is unbelievable. You are going in for a | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
couple of bits and bobs that happens. | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
You are part of the story all over the world. | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
Good point. "The more we talk about cancer, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
the better it is for all concerned". The words of Steve Hewlett, | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
the broadcaster and journalist, Diagnosed with cancer | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
of the oesophagus last March, Steve shared his story in a series | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
of frank and moving In a moment we'll speak | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
to a clinical psychologist who helps But first let's hear some of Steve's | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
thoughts as told to both Radio 4 and to this programme | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
during our Shine a Light I've got cancer, can of the | :11:22. | :11:38. | |
oesophagus. It was discovered back in the very beginning of March. | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
My body has become a battle ground. I am the unfortunate host of it. I | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
don't even feel that the cancer is my enemy, I haven't given it a name | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
or anything and not -- and I don't think of it like that, I don't see | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
it in my dreams as an evil presence. It didn't feel like a big decision | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
to me to talk about it, it felt obvious, in a way. Go people are | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
surprised, they expect men to be" talk about it and I suspect both | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
fathers would have done exactly that, I my dad would have. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Those are very, very, very emotional moment that occur | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
when you're trying to tell the children, when you're | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
trying to tell the family, when you're trying to tell other | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Telling them is really hard, because you feel as if you're | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
burdening them with this dreadful news that they don't need. | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
Actually, of course, the truth is they do need it. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
You know what they mean to you, what you don't know | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
So I think talking about it has helped. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
And I think, more broadly, I think I'm beginning to get | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
the sense that it's helping quite a lot of people. | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
Steven Hewitt. With this now is Robin Muir, a clinical psychologist | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
at the Maggie's Respite Centre in Manchester. You met Steve when we | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
broadcast from Maggie's. It is one thing talking about cancer to your | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
friends and family but a whole other thing to talk about it to the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
nation, it is so personal that so important to do something like that? | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
I think what Steve did was fantastic, giving people almost a | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
role model to how people can talk about is that -- cancer, it is not | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
something we had to be afraid of, we can open up conversations and | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
dialogues about cancer and how people feel about it and the effect | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
it has on them. He was a journalist, a storyteller throughout his career, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
but he did not talk like a journalist when telling this story, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
it was him as a man. An individual story. He spoke like a human and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
told his story. I think Steve shows is the value of talking and telling | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
our stories around cancer, but also the value of being listened to, | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
having an audience to listen to your story, whether that is Radio 4 or | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
your partner and friends, there is an incredible value to being herds | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
in that way. Why do you think people find it so hard to talk about it? It | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
is a lot more, now, every day we hear about people who have it, it | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
has touched most people's lives? It is something that can affect us all, | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
it is something that we are perhaps on some level afraid of. So when we | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
hear that somebody we know have cancer it reminds us of our own | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
vulnerability, perhaps when somebody like Steve, who has a very | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
successful career, a partner to somebody, a father, when he is | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
diagnosed with cancer, perhaps it is the vulnerability that we see in | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
somebody when they are diagnosed and treated that scares us as well, it | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
can make it difficult for us to talk about what's cancer is and how it | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
can affect us. The fact he was a bloke as well, men | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
are notoriously... We know from statistics, not good at going to the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
doctor, talking about cancer or any other health problems? Definitely, | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
some of our role models as men, how we aspire to be powerful, strong and | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
other ideas, it can sometimes hold us back and make is more vulnerable | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
than we are diagnosed with an illness, we find it difficult to | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
seek support and open up difficult conversations, it makes it harder | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
for others to hear the stories that men have when men become vulnerable. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
When you're talking to people and how to deal with it. What advice do | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
you give to people who are struggling to talk to their family | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
and friends about it? Try and be as open and honest as possible. Often | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
people who are listening to somebody who is affected by cancer worry | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
about what they need to say to make things better for that person, but | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
often in my experience, it's perhaps not what you say, but it is how you | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
listen which is most important. That it's the value of using your ears, | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
and simply giving somebody that space to talk about it. So not | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
necessarily come back with advice and things, it is more taking it on | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
board? Sometimes we hear advice, people say all you need to do is to | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
be positive. That's a hard thing to do all the time and often that's | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
received badly by people with cancer. So often to try and give | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
that space and in a non-judgemental way is the best thing to do. Where I | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
work, it's something we try to offer. A place that people can come | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
and tell their story. Robin, thank you very much indeed. | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
It's 8.17am. Let's find out what's happening with the weather. It has | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
been unusually mild. Yes, yesterday we had a temperature | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
of 18 Celsius, it is not a February record, but it is a high temperature | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
for February. This morning, it is mild across many parts of the | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
country. We are looking at temperatures ten or 11 Celsius. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
That's not everywhere either because across parts of north-east Scotland | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
and noEntion gland the temperature is one to six Celsius at the moment. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
By 9am, we'll have rain coming in across north-west Scotland. It will | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
be cloudy except for in the east across north-west England you've got | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
a cloudy start, but north-east England, you've got something | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
brighter and colder. As we drift down the East Coast towards the Wash | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
and north for folk, we're in sunshine. But for the rest of East | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
Anglia and Kent and Midlands and heading across southern counties | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
into Wales we have a weather front and that weather front is producing | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
a lot of cloud and splashes of rain, and also murky conditions | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
particularly in the south-west and Wales where we've got some hill fog | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
and some patchy low level fog as wellment but for Northern Ireland, | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
you've got a dry start. Quite a bit of cloud, but there are going to be | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
brighter breaks. If you're setting out, take your brolly as you'll need | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
it later on. What is happening the rain and the stronger winds across | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
north-west Scotland will come south across all of Scotland and into | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
Northern Ireland and Northern England. Meanwhile, the patchy rain | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
in the south of England, it is a weather front, will pivot and come | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
back northwards. There will be heavy rain across Wales and Northern | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Ireland and Western Scotland in particular. But you can see where | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
else, we're looking at rain. Through this evening, what you'll find is | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
the rain will continue to push steadily southwards getting down | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
towards Southern England with a lot of cloud behind it. It will be windy | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
across Northern England this evening for a time. In the colder | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
conditions, overnight across Scotland, it will be cold enough for | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
snow in some of the mountains. So we start tomorrow with that scenario. | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
In the south, we've got the cloud and the rain. That continues to push | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
southwards so brightening up all the time behind it across Northern | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
England, North Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, but in Scotland, | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
we will have some showers and it will be very windy across southern | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
parts of Shetland, Orkney, the far north of mainland Scotland and | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
towards Frazer brew and Peterhead and we're looking at gusts 70mph and | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
80mph. If you're travelling bear that in mind. On Thursday an area of | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
low pressure coming across Northern Ireland and Northern England heading | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
towards the North Sea will bring with had yefy rain and some snow, | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
particularly so across the Central Lowlands and the southern uplands | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
and not just to higher levels, couple that with the strong winds | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
and there will be nasty travelling conditions. So something else just | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
to be aware of Steph and Jon. Carol, thank you very much. | :19:32. | :19:44. | |
Profits at Britain's biggest bank, HSBC, fell by more than 60%. | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
The bank has blamed slowing growth in the UK which it has linked | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
It's also repeated a warning that it could move 1,000 staff | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
The hotel giant, Intercontinental Group, the owner of Holiday Inn, | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
reported a near 10% increase in profits for 2016. | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
The group, one of the world's biggest hotel chains, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
said growth in China, new hotel deals and record | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
room occupancy rates helped to boost results. | :20:20. | :20:38. | |
Chocolate one of the British foods that helped drink | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
exports grew by more than 10pc last year topping ?20 billion | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
The industry is big business for the UK, employing | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
around 400,000 people across nearly 7,000 businesses. | :20:47. | :20:47. | |
Top of the table for sales abroad was Scotch whisky. That's all the | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
business news for this morning. Thank you very much indeed. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
Chocolate factory, you don't know how relevant that is. We're talking | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Roald Dahl right now! You think I didn't know that. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Roald Dahl's words have been adored by generations | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
of children and parents alike, but it's Quentin Blake's | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
illustrations that have helped bring many of his characters to life. | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
There's just one Dahl story that he hasn't drawn until now. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
For the first time in nearly 20 years, he's put ink to paper | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
and illustrated another classic written by his famous friend. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
We'll exclusively reveal the first illustration from that book - | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Billy and the Minpins in a moment - but first let's look back at some | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
favourite Roald Dahl moments, with some young fans. | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
I love Roald Dahl books because they're very unique and different to | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
lots of other authors. He just makes a lot of them and the way he writes | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
them. He makes them really good. Say like the BFG he uses his unmade up | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
words as well. My favourite Roald Dahl book is the BFG because I love | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
all the characters in it. They're just amazing. They're just | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
really good. I love his style and he's just a really, really good | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
author. Sometimes it's hard to picture things what the writer | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
actually means. So looking at the pictures gives you a bit more help | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
of thinking what it looks like. James And The Giant Peach because | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
the characters are unique and it's special because they're very | :22:46. | :22:45. | |
unusual. What's your favourite? Manchts till | :22:46. | :22:58. | |
la. I'm a BFG man myself. What's your favourite? Danny The | :22:59. | :23:19. | |
Champion Of The World. Danny is a great story about fathers and sons. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
I'm a father now. This is really exciting, isn't it? It is. Tell us | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
why, Billy and the Minpins, it's not one that is as famous as some of the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
others that we've mentioned? It was Roald Dahl last children's books and | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
at the time they went with a different illustrator and that seems | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
odd because we see that powerful connection, but Roald Dahl worked | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
with a range of illustrators. In the museum we've got records of 57 | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
different illustrators around the world. Quentin Blake we see as first | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
amongst these, but he's not the only one. So last year was Roald Dahl's | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
100th birthday. There was the Amazing BFG and the appetite is | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
there for Quentin to complete the set and complete the story. This is | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
the first time he has illustrated a Roald Dahl hero in 20 years. It is | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
not a new book, but it is a new version of a classic book? It is a | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
new interpretation. The original illustrations were by Patrick Benton | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
and Patrick has spoken of the quality of the illustrations, but he | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
has spoken the Minpins and doing one last piece of the collaboration with | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
Roald Dahl. You've got the drafts of the Minpins books. That's right. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
This is fascinating. The reason we have the museum is to preserve Roald | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
Dahl's archives. We can see how the stories went from the first idea, so | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
we have that here. It is the first idea for the Minpins. You can see | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
here the tiny humans in the hollow tree. So these are his initial ideas | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of what's going to be in it? When he had an idea he'd get it on paper and | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
come back to it. Over years, we think he wrote this down in the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
1950s. Number three, the tiny humans in the hollow tree and that was the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
inspiration, that was what the book became about? That's right. That's | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
right. That's Roald Dahl's handwriting. Didn't he use to write | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
in a cabin or something when he was at home? We've got the preserved | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
interior of his writing hut in the museum. His battered old armchair | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
and all the things he kept around himself for inspiration and that's | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
where he would have written these words. What's next? So this is the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
first full manuscript... Of Billy and the Minpins? Yes, he would have | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
scratched around with all sorts of things, but when he settled down to | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
it, this is the first full manuscript. What you can see is | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
little Billy and the Minpins were his title. We have Billy and the | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Minpins to bring Billy the hero into the same light as we've got behind | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
us, Charlie, Billy, Mctill da. Matilda. He has gone through | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
generations. Children love him as much as we did when we were kids? | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
That's right. That's right. OK we have seen the words. We have seen | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the handwriting. Let's see the pictures. For the first time | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
anywhere, the big reveal, Quentin Blake's illustrations to go with | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Billy and the Minpins, what are we seeing there, Steve? So what we're | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
seeing is the first one that Quentin has revealed. He doesn't normally do | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
this, but he said just how excited he is. You can see little Billy in | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
the tree in the forest where he has escaped from the villain of the | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
peace. That tiny mark on the tree trunk is a window into a Minpins | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
house in the hollow tree and what we will see when the book is published | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
in September in time for Roald Dahl's birthday is Quentin Blake | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
taking us through that tiny window into the Minpins world. It just | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
feels right, doesn't it, to have those pictures with this story? | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
There will be 50 illustrations in the boorks all in black and white. | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
We look forward to seeing them. Billy and the Minpins | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
with Quentin Blake's illustrations Time now to hand you back to Steph | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
and John and I'll see Hello this is Breakfast, | :27:21. | :30:41. | |
with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. Most areas of England will see | :30:42. | :30:53. | |
hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money | :30:54. | :31:00. | |
and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also | :31:01. | :31:02. | |
found that about a third of the proposals would see | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
a reduction in the number of The government says patients | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
will receive better The health care think tank, | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
The King's Fund, gave the plans a cautious welcome but said proper | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
funding must be in place. Something has to be done, these | :31:19. | :31:27. | |
plans are by no means perfect, we have our concerns about some of the | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
proposals, but the fact that people have come together, collaborated | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
around the county or city and have said, if we work together and think | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
about how we use all of our staff and resources, we can deliver better | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
results. The shortage of teachers in | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
England's schools is getting worse - affecting key subjects like physics | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
and maths - according The Commons Education Committee | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
says recruitment targets have been missed for five years | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
in a row - and there should be more focus on keeping teachers | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
in the profession long-term. The government says | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
there are more teachers Five people have died | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
in a plane crash in Melbourne. All those on board the small | :32:02. | :32:09. | |
aircraft were killed when it suffered engine failure | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
and crashed into a shopping centre, which was preparing | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
to open for the day. Four of those killed | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
were US citizens. No one on the ground is thought | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
to have been injured. The Chancellor Philip Hammond has | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
assured Conservative MPs that he's listening to concerns | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
about a business rate revaluation The rates are being updated | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
for the first time in seven years, and will leave more than a quarter | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
of companies facing higher bills. Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
more to help those affected. Specialist police teams are digging | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
up the gardens of two One is believed to be | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
the former home of Christopher Halliwell, | :32:49. | :32:57. | |
who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women, | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden. The singer and actor, | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
David Cassidy, has revealed He made the announcement | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
after he forgot his words during shows in California | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
at the weekend. David Cassidy, who's 66, | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
becoming a teen idol, and recording a string | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
of solo hits in the 1970s. Feeding your children | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
blueberries might just put A study carried out | :33:22. | :33:23. | |
by the University of Reading found that, | :33:24. | :33:32. | |
during two trials with young people, participants reported feeling better | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
after drinking a wild blueberry-drink, which contained | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
an entire punnet of the fruit. We are not just talking about a | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
couple of berries. The researchers say they're | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
impressed by the results, And now we can have a look at what | :33:53. | :34:05. | |
is on Victoria Derbyshire this morning. We will report on claims | :34:06. | :34:12. | |
that plays in the House of Lords are clocking in to get their ?300 daily | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
allowance and then clearing off without doing any work -- claims | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
peers what can we do about it? Join us | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
later. And coming up here | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
on Breakfast this morning. He may only be human, | :34:35. | :34:45. | |
but Rag N'Bone man's first album has scored him the fastest-selling male | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
debut of the decade. We'll meet the priest | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
who's so passionate about the South Downs that he's made | :34:51. | :35:01. | |
a documentary about it. We are really just Parliamentary | :35:02. | :35:06. | |
worms. There are more than 800 peers | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
in the House of Lords, We'll be behind-the-scenes | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
with a new programme looking at the weird and wonderful world | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
of Westminster's second chamber. First, though, here's | :35:19. | :35:20. | |
Karthi with the sport. The FA Cup dream is over for Sutton | :35:21. | :35:35. | |
United. Yes, last night was a picture of brilliant fans, the | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
atmosphere was fantastic. The night will go down in the club's history, | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
forever remembered. But the fairy tale run for Sutton United is over. | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
They were beaten 2-0 last night by Arsenal in the last | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
The lowest ranked side left in the Cup did not disgrace | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
themselves against the 12 time winners, but a first half strike | :36:01. | :36:06. | |
from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's 100th goal in an Arsenal | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
shirt ensured Arsene Wenger's side avoided an upset. | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
But they do have more non-league opposition next in Lincoln City. | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
Let's hear first from the Sutton manager, speaking | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
I think the players have been magnificent. | :36:17. | :36:18. | |
They've given up Sundays to sell the tickets, everyone | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
We're not a League Two club, in the National League, | :36:26. | :36:38. | |
But Lincoln and Sutton have done our competition very, | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
You know, go and have your day in the sun, as we've had today. | :36:42. | :36:47. | |
It's one of the best experiences you will ever have. | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
Newcastle United have returned to the top of the Championship. | :36:51. | :36:52. | |
They were 2-0 winners over Aston Villa. | :36:53. | :36:54. | |
Yohan Gouffran and this mistake from Villa's Henry Lansbury | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
helped Newcastle leapfrog over Brighton to return to | :36:59. | :37:00. | |
Great Britain Badminton says it is "staggered" at the decision | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
not to award them any funding during the next Olympic cycle. | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
Despite meeting its target in winning a bronze medal | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
in Rio, Badminton - along with six other | :37:11. | :37:16. | |
sports including fencing, archery and wheelchair rugby - | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
lost their appeals against a cut in funding from UK Sport - | :37:19. | :37:21. | |
the organisation which allocates money to sports. | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
The decision by Muirfield to hold another vote on allowing female | :37:26. | :37:27. | |
members has pleased the head of the R which is one of golf's | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
Muirfield was dropped as an Open Championship | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
venue after members voted against altering their male | :37:34. | :37:35. | |
Martin Slumbers wants a positive outcome this time to help grow | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
That is an interview. They also talk about they are thinking about | :37:40. | :37:55. | |
changing the prize money $2 because of the fall in the value of sterling | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
and they need to stay in competition with the other competitions around | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
the world -- the prize-money to dollars. That would be a big change | :38:05. | :38:13. | |
in this country. That is what the pressure of the financial markets | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
can do to things. Athletics are thinking about various things, as | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
well, so this does have an impact on sport. Chocolate coins? I would play | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
them. LAUGHTER He's packed a lot into a few short | :38:25. | :38:33. | |
months, having just broken the record for the best-selling male | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
debut album this decade, and been named the BRIT's | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
Critics Choice for 2017. But it's been a long journey | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
to success for the artist who goes Rory Graham, as he's | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
known to his friends, has worked in the music industry | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
for more than 15 years. We'll chat to him in | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
a moment, but first, let's take a look at the song that's | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
catapulted him into the limelight. # Oh, some people got | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
the real problems Welcome along. Do we call you Rag n | :39:07. | :40:33. | |
Bone Man? Rory? That is one of the interesting things. How the name | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
came about. How did it end up Vladimir -- being Rag n Bone Man? I | :40:39. | :40:53. | |
used to watch reruns of Steptoe and son at home and I always found it | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
funny, and the name kind of sounded like a blues name, so it kind of | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
stuck. Deliberately chosen for the music career? You were not known as | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
that at school? No, it wasn't a nickname. You have got your ward. I | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
take it everywhere with me now. Even to the post office. -- aboard. How | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
did you feel winning it? Pretty surprised, I was certain I would not | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
win it, actually, so when I did, I was outside my house, shouting. | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
Scare the neighbours. The whole neighbourhood heard it. It is | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
brilliant to get it, as we mentioned, you are not new to the | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
industry. We might be seeing you for the first time, but... I've been | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
around for a bit. How have you ended up here? I was interested in music | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
as a kid and I was more into jungle and hip-hop, and I just started to | :41:59. | :42:06. | |
play guitar and sing in pubs. I went to jam nights. I gradually got more | :42:07. | :42:13. | |
interested in writing songs and had a few support slots and built my own | :42:14. | :42:21. | |
fan base. And before I decided to sign to a major label. It worked out | :42:22. | :42:28. | |
for me all right. There was a video which you sent which changed a lot | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
for you? My girlfriend sent a song which I recorded in the toilet. Good | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
acoustics. That was exactly the reason. That is why I recorded it in | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
the toilet. It was a song my girlfriend sent in for a support | :42:46. | :42:53. | |
slot I was going for and I got it. Supporting Joan Armatrading. Yes, in | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
Brighton, that was really good. You have got this award? Yes, there are | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
some marks on that from where my cat has been chewing it, she would leave | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
it alone. How has life changed in the last couple of months? I don't | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
get to go home any more. Not really. It makes you cherish the time that | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
you have with your family and friends even more, which is quite | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
nice. You go home for a couple of days and you get to see people. It's | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
just really busy. It's like being on a train which doesn't stop. I love | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
it. But yeah, it's nice to have a rest now and again. Given that you | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
have worked for along time in the music industry, what are your | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
thoughts on reality TV and people who make it that way? That is a | :43:52. | :43:58. | |
valid way? Or you have earned your stripes doing it a different way? If | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
you want to do the X factor, that is you. That is not my thing. I don't | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
understand that world. It doesn't register with me, do you know what I | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
mean. If that is you, that's fine, but it's not me. If your girlfriend | :44:16. | :44:23. | |
had sent audio to the X factor, would you have followed it up? No. | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
Simply no. Even if you have the call from Simon Cowell? I did get a call | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
about going on the X factor, and I won't tell you what I said. Probably | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
a good moment for a clip, I reckon. You have sold 117,000 albums so far, | :44:39. | :45:34. | |
you must be well chuffed. I have been on the street selling them. The | :45:35. | :45:41. | |
suitcase! What is next? My favourite bit is going out on tour. Towards | :45:42. | :45:52. | |
the end of March we stopped going on tour. My life stuff does not stop | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
until September, so I am doing constant festivals and tour dates, | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
and that is what I love the most. You will have a lot more people | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
going to see you. A few more! Before that, you are at the Brit awards | :46:10. | :46:12. | |
tomorrow night, up for another award. Best British breakthrough. I | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
am kind of nervous. If you win that, your cat can have her own! She can | :46:21. | :46:22. | |
chew on it all she wants. Rag'n'Bone Man's album | :46:23. | :46:31. | |
is called Human. Later in the programme | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
we'll be talking to Reverend Peter Owen Jones, | :46:34. | :46:35. | |
who loves his home in the South Downs so much, | :46:36. | :46:37. | |
he's made a documentary about it. But before we do, all morning we've | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
been asking you to send in pictures of the places you live, | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
and tell us why you Kathy loves living in Somerset | :46:44. | :46:45. | |
so much she started Somerset Day. Kev has sent in a picture | :46:46. | :47:02. | |
of Cleethorpes beach Here is the view from | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
Rachel's back garden Looking across the Chilterns | :47:08. | :47:20. | |
to Bledlow Ridge. Lee loves living in Milton Keynes, | :47:21. | :47:32. | |
and took this photo to show it's not This is the Millenium | :47:33. | :47:35. | |
Wheel at Willem Lake. This is Port Talbot | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
in South Wales, taken by Wayne. He says it's an industrial | :47:40. | :47:41. | |
town with beauty. All of these different places, they | :47:42. | :47:52. | |
all have beautiful elements, and it is lovely to show them off on the | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
TV. Another person who always provides brilliant pictures is Carol | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
and the weather watchers. This morning, my backdrop is of | :47:59. | :48:09. | |
Regent Street, it is fairly cloudy, but it is mild across many parts of | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
the UK. The temperature is around ten or 11, but for some it is | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
between one and six. Today it stays mild, before the next few days, | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
things are changing, and it will turn more likely would expect at | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
this stage. At 9am, rain for north-west Scotland, accompanied by | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
stronger wind. It is cloudy away from the East. North-west England, | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
you have a cloudy start. For the north-east, it is brighter, and that | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
continues towards the wash and Norfolk. For the rest of East | :48:47. | :48:54. | |
Anglia, Essex camp --, Kent, the Midlands, a week weather front | :48:55. | :48:59. | |
producing patchy, light rain and murky conditions in the South West | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
and Wales, with hill fog, general dampness and low-level fog. For | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
Northern Ireland, you have a dry start, a fair bit of cloud, but if | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
you are just stepping out, take your umbrella. The rain in southern | :49:13. | :49:19. | |
England will turn heavier. The weather front will pivot and head | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
north. We are looking at heavy rain across Wales, Northern Ireland and | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
western Scotland. As the weather front moves north, the front across | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
Scotland comes south, and they will merge, hence the heavy rain. In the | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
east, drier conditions, but the cloud will build. This evening, as | :49:39. | :49:44. | |
the rain head out of Scotland and Northern Ireland and into England | :49:45. | :49:46. | |
and way is, it will be gusting around it, especially across | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
northern England. The rain continues south overnight. Behind it, it will | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
be cold, cold enough for snow on the hills and mountains. We start in the | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
south tomorrow with a lot of cloud and some rain. Through the day, as | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
it moves south, it will brighten up not just in northern England but | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
part of the Midlands and North Wales. For Northern Ireland, a fine | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
day, but showers across Scotland and windy across the south Shetland, | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
Orkney, the North Mainland of Scotland and around Fraser Brett and | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
Peter Fred we will have costs of 70 mph, or 80, leading to disruption. | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
On Thursday, low pressure across Northern Ireland and northern | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
England, heading off into the North Sea, will produce heavy rain, snow | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
across the central lowlands, Southern uplands and northern | :50:39. | :50:45. | |
England. Even some of that at low levels, plus strong wind, so it will | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
be blowing. Atrocious travel conditions. If you are planning on | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
travelling in those areas, keep in touch with the weather forecast. | :50:55. | :51:05. | |
Everybody can see her on the Victoria Derbyshire show. | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
They will be talking about something else on the show as well. | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
Many a Government has tried to reform it, but how many of us | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
know exactly what goes on inside the House of Lords? | :51:16. | :51:17. | |
That's something a new BBC documentary hopes to shed light on. | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
Meet The Lords follows a number of the UK's 800 peers in an attempt | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
to explain some of the quirks and eccentricities of | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
In a moment we'll speak to Baroness Kath Pinnock | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
and Javier Olivia, a constitutional expert from the University | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
of Manchester, but first, let's take a look at the programme. | :51:41. | :51:47. | |
We take all of the nonsense, the rubbish, legislation, | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
and some of it is rubbish, that comes down from the other end | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
And it disappears inside the House of Lords for six months | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
I look at what the Lords does and what the Commons does | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
and the comparative legislative chaos that is being sent | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
from the Commons to the Lords, and I genuinely think, | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
thank God the Lords are there to do the serious work | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
without being inundated with the political point scoring. | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
We're a bit like a composting machine. | :52:23. | :52:24. | |
Whatever comes out the other end is always more fragrant and more | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
So, you see, in the House of Lords, we're really just | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
Tell us a bit about what it is like. We saw a clip of the documentary | :52:34. | :52:57. | |
there, but what is it like day-to-day? It varies enormously, | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
depending on who you are and what your role is within the House of | :53:05. | :53:13. | |
Lords. Speaking for myself, every week I am involved in some | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
legislation of some sort, I am currently involved in the | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
neighbourhood planning Bill, which has a very big impact on local | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
Government, which is my background, and so I am very interested in | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
making sure that what comes out of that is fit for purpose for local | :53:31. | :53:41. | |
councils across the country. You are fairly new to it, what was it like | :53:42. | :53:44. | |
when you first went there, what was the first day like? Scary! I never | :53:45. | :53:55. | |
imagined in my wildest dreams or nightmares that I would end up being | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
asked to serve in the House of Lords. It is, of course, a huge | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
honour and privilege. But I regard it as another opportunity to stand | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
up for the people of Yorkshire and the North of England and to say from | :54:09. | :54:17. | |
my basic Liberal Democrat principles that -- how I think the country | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
should benefit from change. We are looking at the road 's and heraldry | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
and stuff. When most of us see this, it is so alien... It is like Steph's | :54:31. | :54:40. | |
life! But it is unlike daily life for most people, how relevant is it | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
today? It is an extremely important chamber, because it is the revising | :54:45. | :54:53. | |
chamber. It has to be understood in the way of the parliamentary context | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
and the relationship at the House of Commons. It is the weakest house, | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
the House of Lords. It plays an important role, it an men's and | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
revises legislation, so it's input is vital. But it has to be | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
understood that the primacy, the body which is in charge of the | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
process, is in the House of Commons, so the fact that the House of Lords | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
comes across as a bit idiosyncratic, unique, outdated, in the eyes of | :55:22. | :55:32. | |
some people, it matters, but the role is smaller in comparison with | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
the elected house. Yesterday, Theresa May and to the House of | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
Lords to watch the Brexit debate, there was talk of them putting the | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
Government... The House of Commons putting pressure on the House of | :55:49. | :55:50. | |
Lords. Do we need the House of Lords? It another interesting | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
question. Could we do better with only one house? At the end of the | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
day, it should be borne in mind that the Government has such an important | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
influence on the House of Commons, that the House of Lords is an | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
important buttress, a safeguard mechanism, it will make sure that | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
the proposals put forward by the Government are sufficiently | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
scrutinised and revised, therefore... As a Continental Europe | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
Ian, in the first instance I found the whole chamber surprising, even | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
the world rain, but the more stay here, I realise that to Chambers are | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
important. The role fulfilled by the House of Lords is crucial. I would | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
not want to see it go. You talk about the scrutiny they put on | :56:43. | :56:45. | |
things, but they face scrutiny themselves. | :56:46. | :56:47. | |
In the documentary former Lords Speaker Baroness D'Souza | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
described how a peer left a taxi waiting outside Parliament | :56:50. | :56:51. | |
while he went inside to register for his daily allowance. | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
There is a core of players who worked incredibly hard, who do that | :56:58. | :57:06. | |
work, and there are, sad to say, many, many, many peers who | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
contribute absolutely nothing but who claim the full allowance. I can | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
remember one occasion when I was leaving the house quite late and | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
there was a peer who shall be utterly nameless who jumped out of a | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
taxi just outside the entrance and left the engine running. He ran in, | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
presumably to show that he had attended, and then ran out again | :57:30. | :57:30. | |
while the taxi was still running. What do you think when you hear | :57:31. | :57:40. | |
things like that? It seems there are some peers who used the system for | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
allowances and face a certain amount of criticism. It is not defensible | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
in anyway. Unfortunately, in the House of Lords, because of the way | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
it has developed over centuries, there is a sense among 80 people of | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
entitlement -- among a fewer people. They have been given a title and | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
feel that somebody owes them a living. That is not acceptable. What | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
we need is to reform the House of Lords from top to bottom. We still | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
need a second chamber, as the previous exhibit has said. Because | :58:18. | :58:27. | |
the work of revising legislation and having a second look at things is | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
really important. But we need to reform it, and as Liberal Democrats | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
we have been committed to root and branch reform of the House of Lords | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
for over a hundred years. But we have failed so far, but we will keep | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
trying, because it is important to have a second chamber of our | :58:47. | :58:53. | |
Parliament which is accountable to the people who pay for it, the | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
general public. Rather like a parliamentary debate, I will have to | :58:59. | :59:02. | |
step in and hold you. But thank you for talking to us. That programme, | :59:03. | :59:10. | |
so we can get more of a sense of the House of Lords, is on BBC Two next | :59:11. | :59:13. | |
Monday night. Meet The Lords. | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
Eight years after it was criticised by inspectors for not having enough | :59:17. | :59:19. | |
beds, operating theatres or trained staff, Birmingham Children's | :59:20. | :59:21. | |
Hospital has become the first of its kind to be | :59:22. | :59:23. | |
The specialist hospital has been praised for turning | :59:24. | :59:31. | |
Our Health Correspondent Jane Dreaper is there | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
I bet it is busy. Yes, it has started getting really busy. The day | :59:37. | :59:51. | |
shift for nurses has started and they have been busy checking on the | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
children and some of the parents have been helping to give them | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
breakfast. This is a neurosurgical ward, a high level of specialism, | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
and the young patients can come here from many different parts of the UK, | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
but things like epilepsy surgery. I spent a day looking at the work that | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
the hospital does and one thing that strikes you is how much supporting | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
the families and making them part of things is just as important as | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
saving lives. Connor's just seven months old, | :00:18. | :00:30. | |
and recovering in intensive care Home is 50 miles away, | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
so Connor's older brother, It is a tough time for the whole | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
family, but they are still supported We have nearly lost | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
him so many times. Without them, we would not have | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
a child who is laying in this bed. We have got him and he is here, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
though quite poorly. We have faith we will | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
get to take him home. That is the only ask | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
as a parent of a sick child. This is the Play and Admissions | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Centre, designed to distract and relax young patients | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
before their treatment. Inspectors have been impressed by | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the caring approach. This hospital has come a long way | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
since it was criticised Back then, a report found a shortage | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
of beds, and poor training and care. Paying much closer attention | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
to the views of patients and staff, and acting on their ideas, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
has helped change the culture in Birmingham | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
and encouraged better teamwork. Eight years ago we were in | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
an organisation that certainly was not listening to our staff, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
that not listening to what young people and families were saying, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
and was in a really difficult place. Through focusing on those areas | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
of patient engagement, staff engagement, we have now gotten | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
to a position where Some of the children in outpatients | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
need repeated appointments. I was talking to a doctor | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't scary or anything, | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
it was relaxed. Is it scary when you come here, | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
or do you feel OK about it? The emotional support given | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
to bereaved parents has also been And they will now be able to use | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
this new room when they are going Rachel has helped raise thousands | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
of pounds for this unit after the death of her older | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
daughter, Molly, from kidney cancer. When you're given news | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
like that, you feel that You need to absorb new information | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
that is being told to you. And there wasn't that opportunity | :02:49. | :03:01. | |
within the existing building at Birmingham at that time, | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
just to be ourselves The staff here believe they can | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
improve care even further, but today is a huge moment | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
in showing how this hospital Yes, they are all very excited and | :03:13. | :03:26. | |
proud. I'm here with one of the young patients. All the term for | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
last week and his dad is here -- Ollie turned four last week. He has | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
had a brain shimmer, how is he doing? Not too badly, he is getting | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
better slightly every day, something as simple as picking up able, he is | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
progressing, doing OK. -- he has had a brain tumour. You have got to give | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
him the attention that he needs, but there are other children here that | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
need reassurances, as well. Great support from the staff? Yes, they | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
are always up for a laugh and a joke and I'm always up for that. They | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
made his fourth birthday last week very special. I was told. Sarah runs | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
the hospital and she was in charge of things and she took over just | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
eight years ago when things were proving difficult. Sarah Jane, what | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
makes you so proud to get this outstanding rating? Everybody at the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
hospital is so thoroughly proud and alighted at this rating, it is for | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the staff who work here and the patients and families that use the | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
services -- delighted. It is just the icing on the cake for us and we | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
could not be more proud. A few areas where you want to improve? | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Absolutely, we never give up at this hospital and we know there is always | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
more to do and we strive continually everyday to provide world leading | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
care and we will continue in all the areas where we know we need to | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
improve. Thanks for joining us. Thanks to all of the staff 11 made | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
us feel very welcome as they start their morning shifts and go about | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
another busy day -- thanks to all of the staff who have made us feel very | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
welcome. Thanks. In a moment: we'll be chatting about | :05:31. | :05:44. | |
the beautiful South Downs, Welcome back, it is now time to get | :05:45. | :07:28. | |
some fresh air. They were famously | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
described by William Blake as England's Mountains Green, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
and officially made It's also home to the film maker | :07:36. | :07:36. | |
and vicar Peter Owen Jones. He's spent the last 12 months | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
on a journey like no other, reacquainting himself with one | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
of the UK's most diverse landscapes We'll speak to Peter | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
in just a moment. But first let's | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
hear why the South Downs The South Downs is | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
seared into our psyche. The land that I've found | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
over the last year, this This land that has | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
a wealth of butterflies, But most of all what I've learned | :08:13. | :08:25. | |
is that this land has been formed And you can see their | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
influence through history, through the landscape, | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
which they clearly love, in every single aspect, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
of this extraordinary national park. Thanks for coming in. It must have | :08:48. | :09:01. | |
been a wrench to get you to leave the South Downs. Always, always. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Although Manchester is a fabulous town. Where are we talking about in | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
terms of the South Downs? Stretch of land going from East to West, | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Eastbourne to Winchester, 100 miles, you can walk either way and it is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
pretty much bang on 100 miles. You have travelled all over the world. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Wide EU love the South Downs so much? -- why do you love. We all | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
have a different sense of what is home. Some of us are fortunate | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
enough to find it. When I got out of the car I knew that this was where I | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
was going to be the sometime. That sense of home, you can be where | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
ever, but it is personal and intimate to each of us. I love it | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
because of the light and the people. It's got everything. Sea, hills, | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
wildlife, farmland. It's got towns. Lovely pictures from the | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
documentary. You grew up not far from the South Downs but you have | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
only got to know this as intimately as you have more recently. What is | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
your connection? I'm a parish priest and I looked after three small | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
parishes underneath the Downs and I've been looking after these | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
parishes and they have been looking after me in the last ten and a half | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
years. I've been pretty much embedded there in that time. You are | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
in a great position, you have been able to make a documentary about it. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
What are the highlights? I'm not sure I can name them. Too many. I | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
don't want to say, look out for this bit, just kind of take it in and see | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
which bits you like. It is quite a responsibility. Parishioners will be | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
given new feedback, that you didn't mention this or that. -- giving you | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
feedback. Yes, lots of stick, but that is fair. If I go into the pub, | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
of course I'm going to get ripped. You are a parish priest, but this is | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
a step away, documentary making. How did that come about? Communication. | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
Fair play. Did you just pitch the idea? I was lambing at the time and | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
turned up. We got talking and we both had wanted to make a film about | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
the South Downs. So we just did it. No one had commissioned it. We did | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
it because we wanted to. It was an act of complete foolishness. The BBC | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Ben came along and liked it. And they have put it on -- the BBC then | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
came along. You sort of let yourself go, describing your love for this | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
area. It is obvious in every word of the script. Our relationship with | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
the land at best is intimate. Home is somewhere that we feel intimately | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
about. That we can actually fall in love with the landscape. Can you | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
feel that about anywhere? No, only about particular places, depending | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
on who we are and what excites us. But it is a love affair. If you | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
listen to poets come what ever they might be writing about, they are | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
eulogising, expressing that what we feel, but can't quite get out of our | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
mouths and hearts. We saw this does morning, and we were asking people | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
to send their pictures of the places they love. Good. What is | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
interesting, people are from areas which might be taken the Mick out | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
of, like my hometown, people from Middlesbrough will say it is not | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
very nice, but every place has a beautiful element. Absolutely. You | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
have got the lakes in the North, Northumberland, we are so blessed in | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
this country. Thanks for joining us. Good luck with the documentary. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
South Downs: England's Mountains Green is on BBC 4 tonight 9pm. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Dan and Louise will be back with Breakfast tomorrow from 6am. | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Now it's time for Britain's Home Truths. | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
We'll leave you with Alison Steadman, who's taking | :13:51. | :13:51. | |
a look at how suburbia has changed throughout history. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
We Brits have a passion for property and, of course, | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
our national obsession is house prices. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
You're looking at about 1.7 million for an apartment like this. | :14:04. | :14:08. |