:00:00. > :00:07.Tonight at ten, a sharp fall in net migration as large numbers of EU
:00:08. > :00:13.Homeward bound - net migration is down to its lowest
:00:14. > :00:18.Many feel they're no longer earning enough here.
:00:19. > :00:33.We want to go there because we can find good jobs for the same money.
:00:34. > :00:36.Business leaders have expressed some concern, warning of the risk of
:00:37. > :00:38.labour shortages. Also tonight, the number
:00:39. > :00:42.of teenagers gaining the highest GCSE grades has fallen
:00:43. > :00:45.amid the biggest shake-up of exams The husband of the woman killed
:00:46. > :00:50.by a cyclist riding a bike with no front brakes calls for new laws
:00:51. > :00:55.to prevent another tragedy. Once thriving communities -
:00:56. > :00:57.a special report on the former mining towns where people claim
:00:58. > :01:12.disability benefits at up to three Show me some respect and a little
:01:13. > :01:14.bit of help. And, most of all, some understanding.
:01:15. > :01:17.The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson travels to Libya to urge military
:01:18. > :01:19.and political leaders to restore peace and stability
:01:20. > :01:26.And Test match Special is 60 years old today -
:01:27. > :01:31.we look back at that very British institution.
:01:32. > :01:34.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, there is a very tough draw
:01:35. > :01:37.for Tottenham Hotspur and Celtic, as this seasons's Champions League
:01:38. > :02:03.Net migration to the UK - that's the difference
:02:04. > :02:05.between the number of people entering and leaving -
:02:06. > :02:07.has fallen to its lowest level for three years,
:02:08. > :02:10.mainly because of the large numbers of EU nationals
:02:11. > :02:13.It's prompted warnings from employers about the risk
:02:14. > :02:19.The latest figures from March 2016 to March 2017 show net migration
:02:20. > :02:29.That's a fall of 81,000 compared with the previous 12 months.
:02:30. > :02:33.More than half of that change is due to the fall in net migration of EU
:02:34. > :02:38.But that still means there are twice as many EU nationals coming
:02:39. > :02:46.Here's our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford.
:02:47. > :02:52.For some Eastern Europeans, Brexit has been the trigger to go.
:02:53. > :02:54.Buses leaving London for Poland this afternoon -
:02:55. > :02:57.and some of the passengers won't come back.
:02:58. > :02:59.Among the crowds, telecoms technician Daniel, who is
:03:00. > :03:02.heading back to Romania at Christmas.
:03:03. > :03:06.He says the atmosphere in Britain has changed.
:03:07. > :03:15.I think they are a little bit racist with us, with the European people.
:03:16. > :03:26.That's why you are planning to leave?
:03:27. > :03:28.Yeah, and also because sterling is going down, you know?
:03:29. > :03:31.We want to go there, because we can find good
:03:32. > :03:34.At this chicken hatchery in West Oxfordshire,
:03:35. > :03:36.they've become reliant on workers from the so-called
:03:37. > :03:41.that joined the EU in 2004, like Poland.
:03:42. > :03:44.It's allowed their business to expand, year-on-year.
:03:45. > :03:46.But suddenly, almost as many people from E8
:03:47. > :03:47.countries are leaving Britain as arriving.
:03:48. > :03:54.For workers at this farm, Brexit was a sort of watershed.
:03:55. > :03:58.Over the last 12 months or so, it's just got worse and worse.
:03:59. > :04:00.People have thought about it more and more and it's
:04:01. > :04:04.This isn't something that might happen in the future, in 2019.
:04:05. > :04:05.For people like ourselves, recruiting staff, this
:04:06. > :04:10.Further up the chain in chicken production,
:04:11. > :04:12.they're even more reliant on EU workers.
:04:13. > :04:15.So for the first time in years, he's planning to shrink
:04:16. > :04:20.Rightly or wrongly, huge sections of the agricultural,
:04:21. > :04:23.food production, hospitality and manufacturing industries
:04:24. > :04:28.in the UK have become reliant on a ready supply of workers
:04:29. > :04:36.Now, all of a sudden, that supply is drying up.
:04:37. > :04:38.In nearby Witney, only some thought the
:04:39. > :04:41.fall in migrant numbers was a good thing.
:04:42. > :04:45.We're getting too many people in the country, so yeah, we'll get
:04:46. > :04:51.It does depend where the migrants come from
:04:52. > :04:52.and what skills they bring with them.
:04:53. > :04:56.I think we need the mix and they've been very
:04:57. > :05:01.In the year to March, overall migration into Britain fell
:05:02. > :05:08.sharply because fewer Europeans are coming and more are leaving.
:05:09. > :05:11.It is still almost a quarter of a million a year,
:05:12. > :05:13.far short of the government's aim of tens of thousands.
:05:14. > :05:18.There's still a lot of work to do and we'll continue to do that work,
:05:19. > :05:20.to deliver ultimately on the long-term ambition to see net
:05:21. > :05:28.A sense of uncertainty and falling pound.
:05:29. > :05:30.It's more expensive to live in the UK.
:05:31. > :05:33.But also, if you are earning money in the UK and
:05:34. > :05:37.you want to spend that money another country or send it home to your
:05:38. > :05:40.And one argument over student migration was
:05:41. > :05:46.Newly introduced exit checks discovered that almost
:05:47. > :05:49.nobody abuses their student visa and overstays in the black economy.
:05:50. > :05:59.Eleanor Garnier is at the Home Office.
:06:00. > :06:05.Just explain why the student numbers are proving tricky for the Prime
:06:06. > :06:10.Minister? Well, previous estimates have shown a big difference between
:06:11. > :06:13.the number of international students arriving and those leaving. That led
:06:14. > :06:20.to concern that student that one mights were being used as a sort of
:06:21. > :06:25.illegal back route into Britain. New figures, that officials say are far
:06:26. > :06:30.more accurate, show that the number of people who obeyed the rules,
:06:31. > :06:36.stuck to the rules, was as high as 97%. Fewer than 5000 overstayed
:06:37. > :06:40.their visas. Under Theresa May, this Government has rigidly stuck to its
:06:41. > :06:45.target to bring net migration down to tens of thousands. Despite calls
:06:46. > :06:49.even from within her own Cabinet, Theresa May has refused to remove
:06:50. > :06:52.international students from those immigration figures. Even though
:06:53. > :06:57.that could help the Government get much closer to its target. Now,
:06:58. > :07:01.tonight ministers are slapping themselves on the back and saying
:07:02. > :07:04.that this success with the student figures is down to a crackdown on
:07:05. > :07:08.bogus colleges and other measures brought in by the government. But
:07:09. > :07:12.this will put much more pressure on Theresa May to take those
:07:13. > :07:13.international students out of net migration figures once and for all.
:07:14. > :07:14.Thank you. The first GCSE results since new,
:07:15. > :07:17.more demanding, English and maths exams were
:07:18. > :07:20.introduced in England are out and they show a decline
:07:21. > :07:23.in the proportion of top grades. The overall pass rate
:07:24. > :07:26.across all subjects in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has
:07:27. > :07:28.also fallen slightly. Over the next two years all subjects
:07:29. > :07:34.will move to the new marking system. The old top mark, A*,
:07:35. > :07:38.is being replaced by a 9, It's all part of wider reforms
:07:39. > :07:45.designed to make GCSEs more rigorous and challenging, as our education
:07:46. > :07:51.editor Branwen Jeffreys reports. the first 16-year-olds
:07:52. > :08:08.to take the tougher exams. There's loads more new content
:08:09. > :08:11.that you have to learn. There's just not much
:08:12. > :08:15.time to learn it in. We're learning A-level stuff
:08:16. > :08:18.as well as GCSE stuff. It's just making sure smarter people
:08:19. > :08:25.get the grades they deserve, I say. At this Nottinghamshire school,
:08:26. > :08:33.tears mainly of relief. For the kids this year,
:08:34. > :08:35.the new GCSEs have been They've had to learn so much more,
:08:36. > :08:43.remember so much more, and their grades have all rested
:08:44. > :08:50.on these final exams. The results here, much better
:08:51. > :08:54.than last year - but at a cost. They couldn't teach it
:08:55. > :08:58.all in the school day. We've had a compulsory
:08:59. > :09:01.session after school, particularly focused on English
:09:02. > :09:03.and maths, but on a rotation for all other subjects,
:09:04. > :09:08.to get in the increased content. Of course, that's going to get
:09:09. > :09:10.even tougher as we move towards the new GCSEs
:09:11. > :09:15.in all other subjects. The pass rate in England for
:09:16. > :09:18.16-year-olds moved just a little. In English language,
:09:19. > :09:21.69.9% got a 4 or above, a little better than in
:09:22. > :09:29.the old exam last year. Both just slightly down,
:09:30. > :09:37.because the grade points are moved In Wales, results
:09:38. > :09:51.included six new GCSEs. As a result, fewer pupils
:09:52. > :09:58.got good grades - This is where they
:09:59. > :10:03.pick up the pieces. In England, maths and English
:10:04. > :10:09.resits are compulsory. That's for anyone
:10:10. > :10:11.getting a 3 this year. So does that help us be
:10:12. > :10:15.a better skilled nation? Not just about how they're
:10:16. > :10:20.going to do it, but also Because a lot of young people
:10:21. > :10:28.come to colleges to go into vocational education,
:10:29. > :10:33.into technical education. And GCSEs, traditional GCSE routes,
:10:34. > :10:38.are those the right routes? Today's results are
:10:39. > :10:40.just the beginning. What children learn in England
:10:41. > :10:43.is changing, with more Branwen Jeffreys, BBC
:10:44. > :10:51.News, Nottinghamshire. Amongst those receiving
:10:52. > :10:53.their results today The teenager lived on the 13th floor
:10:54. > :10:59.of Grenfell Tower and just hours after escaping from the fire,
:11:00. > :11:02.she went to school and sat her chemistry exam -
:11:03. > :11:04.dressed in the same clothes that Our correspondent
:11:05. > :11:19.Adina Campbell reports. The gloomy grey shell of what is
:11:20. > :11:25.left of Grenfell Tower has been home to Ines Alves for the past 16 years.
:11:26. > :11:31.Today, she is celebrating her GCSE results. How was it, hoping that
:11:32. > :11:35.envelope after what you had gone through? Mixed emotions. I was
:11:36. > :11:42.disappointed in some subjects, but really glad and really excited in
:11:43. > :11:47.others. She and her family had a lucky escape, but just hours later,
:11:48. > :11:55.Ines decided to sit her chemistry exam. I received an capital Ain my
:11:56. > :12:01.chemistry GCSE, the exam I did the morning of the fire. How much of the
:12:02. > :12:11.fire did you see? My dad burst into my room, and he said there was a
:12:12. > :12:14.fire in the building. We left our flat, reached down stairs. At first
:12:15. > :12:19.I was annoyed at him for pulling me out, because it was such a small
:12:20. > :12:22.fire. Then we realised how big it was getting when it started reaching
:12:23. > :12:28.six floors above it and it carried on going. Up, and up, then it was no
:12:29. > :12:32.turning back. Since the disaster, Ines's family have been living in a
:12:33. > :12:37.hotel and are still waiting to permanently rehoused. After
:12:38. > :12:44.everything you had seen, you had heard in that fire, you were at
:12:45. > :12:49.school the next morning taking an exam. Many people will be wondering
:12:50. > :12:52.why you had all of that courage to go into school? I had been revising
:12:53. > :12:59.for chemistry the night before. That was in the top of my mind. When I
:13:00. > :13:04.woke up, my dad barged into the room, my chemistry notes were right
:13:05. > :13:09.next to me. The first thing I grabbed. Whilst I thought they were
:13:10. > :13:13.going to put the fire out, I thought, why not waste my time and
:13:14. > :13:18.just revise? I don't really think I was thinking of much of the time. I
:13:19. > :13:25.thought it was a normal day, just doing an exam like everybody else.
:13:26. > :13:29.After her success today, Ines plans to carry on studying and says
:13:30. > :13:33.nothing will hold her back. Today, of course, is a day to celebrate.
:13:34. > :13:37.You have done so well with everything you have gone through.
:13:38. > :13:41.Are you positive about the future? Yes. I feel like if I could get
:13:42. > :13:46.through this, I could get anything, really.
:13:47. > :13:48.The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has travelled to Libya to urge
:13:49. > :13:50.military and political leaders to restore peace and stability
:13:51. > :13:55.Five years after the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya
:13:56. > :13:59.is still a country that is deeply divided by civil war.
:14:00. > :14:02.Forces loyal to one of Gaddafi's former generals, Khalifa Haftar,
:14:03. > :14:04.are controlling the east of the country.
:14:05. > :14:06.Rival militias are in control in the west,
:14:07. > :14:08.and no-one is in control of Libya's southern border.
:14:09. > :14:10.From Libya, our diplomatic correspondent, James
:14:11. > :14:18.When RAF jets crossed this coast six years ago,
:14:19. > :14:22.they were firing missiles against Colonel Gaddafi's forces.
:14:23. > :14:28.Today, they delivered a Foreign Secretary instead.
:14:29. > :14:30.Officials said Boris Johnson was the first senior
:14:31. > :14:32.Western politician to set foot in Benghazi since 2012.
:14:33. > :14:38.Only recently have the last remnants of so-called Islamic State been
:14:39. > :14:46.He came to see the troops who had taken the fight
:14:47. > :14:55.The self-proclaimed Libyan National Army is clearly
:14:56. > :15:05.But these forces matter because they control much of eastern
:15:06. > :15:08.Libya and will have to be part of any political deal
:15:09. > :15:13.that tries to unite this deeply divided country.
:15:14. > :15:16.So the intentions of their commander matter.
:15:17. > :15:18.Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a military strongman and great rival
:15:19. > :15:25.to the UN-backed government in Tripoli to the West.
:15:26. > :15:27.The question that many Western diplomats and politicians are asking
:15:28. > :15:30.is, will the man who commands these forces be willing to subject
:15:31. > :15:35.them to the control of democratically elected politicians?
:15:36. > :15:39.Can they be brought into any kind of political process?
:15:40. > :15:45.Because on that, the future of Libya may depend.
:15:46. > :15:49.There has got to be a civilian leadership here in this country.
:15:50. > :15:53.The marshal accepts that were he to be successful,
:15:54. > :15:56.were he to stand and be successful in an election, then he could not
:15:57. > :16:06.We had to travel around Benghazi in armoured vehicles.
:16:07. > :16:08.And yesterday, IS beheaded at least nine of Marshal Haftar's
:16:09. > :16:14.The Foreign Secretary told me there was a chance
:16:15. > :16:17.of a political deal, but only if other countries gave
:16:18. > :16:21.up their different agendas on Libya and worked with the United Nations.
:16:22. > :16:26.Our role, really, is to get the other players, all the friends
:16:27. > :16:29.and partners of Libya who may have varying ideas about the future
:16:30. > :16:32.of this country and who should be in charge, to get them to sing
:16:33. > :16:39.We are now able to fly the union flag once again...
:16:40. > :16:41.At the former British residence in Tripoli,
:16:42. > :16:44.Mr Johnson promised to expand the UK's presence here.
:16:45. > :16:48.But this country will be united not by foreign diplomats,
:16:49. > :16:50.but by Libyan politicians and commanders agreeing
:16:51. > :17:02.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:17:03. > :17:04.Councillors in Kensington and Chelsea have agreed
:17:05. > :17:06.a ?76 million package to help people who lost their homes
:17:07. > :17:11.?40 million will go towards buying homes from private
:17:12. > :17:16.Money is also being set aside to compensate people
:17:17. > :17:21.At least eight people are still missing in eastern
:17:22. > :17:24.Switzerland after the biggest landslide there in decades.
:17:25. > :17:29.Almost ten million tonnes of rock and mud rode down into the valley
:17:30. > :17:32.yesterday near the tiny village of Bondo.
:17:33. > :17:35.A rescue operation is under way, but police say the mud and rock
:17:36. > :17:42.covers an area of three miles - and is 30 feet deep in places.
:17:43. > :17:46.The husband of a woman - killed by a cyclist riding a bike
:17:47. > :17:48.with no front brakes - is calling for new laws to be
:17:49. > :17:50.introduced for death by dangerous cycling.
:17:51. > :17:52.The cyclist, 19-year-old Charlie Alliston, was convicted
:17:53. > :17:55.yesterday of "wanton and furious driving", an offence
:17:56. > :18:02.Kim Briggs' husband says it's time the law was brought up to date.
:18:03. > :18:10.She had this mantra of make every day count.
:18:11. > :18:14.Enormous believer in filling life with experiences, with travel.
:18:15. > :18:32.Kim Briggs' husband wants to make her death count. She died crossing
:18:33. > :18:38.the road in a coalition which he describes as senseless and
:18:39. > :18:44.avoidable. The law is inadequate. People keep saying I'm calling for a
:18:45. > :18:47.new law. I'm not. I'm calling for a change in the law to incorporate
:18:48. > :18:52.cycling. We have dangerous driving and reckless driving and causing
:18:53. > :18:56.death by Ulster bank calling for cycling to be incorporated into
:18:57. > :19:00.that, for the law to catch up. This case raises broader issues about how
:19:01. > :19:04.cyclists and pedestrians share the same space but the key question is
:19:05. > :19:08.how much responsibility should cyclists have for safety on the
:19:09. > :19:11.road. Should that responsibility be at the same level as car drivers.
:19:12. > :19:17.Some cycling groups accept a review is needed but they want all the
:19:18. > :19:19.rules of the road updated. The government promised four years ago
:19:20. > :19:24.to look at road traffic offences and it's been under the remit of four
:19:25. > :19:28.consecutive Justice Secretary. None of whom have progressed it. The
:19:29. > :19:33.matter is still in abeyance at the moment. It's prompted plenty of
:19:34. > :19:36.debate especially at this London cycle cafe. Everyone has a
:19:37. > :19:41.responsibility on the roads and I think someone's causing death by
:19:42. > :19:48.dangerous cycling, why should that be difference from causing death by
:19:49. > :19:52.dangerous driving. You regularly see bikes that aren't fit for the road,
:19:53. > :19:55.shouldn't be out on the road, bikes with three wheels that have brakes
:19:56. > :19:59.that don't work, that are more dangerous than fixed wheel without
:20:00. > :20:04.brakes. Matt Briggs writes about himself but he thinks the change in
:20:05. > :20:09.the law could save lives and prevent injuries. This is the right thing to
:20:10. > :20:13.do and yes, I'm doing it in Kim's name, but I'm also doing it to
:20:14. > :20:20.ensure that just perhaps we can stop this happening again. These deaths
:20:21. > :20:24.are rare. Many more people come on foot and on bikes, are killed by
:20:25. > :20:28.motorists. But our streets are getting busier, with the potential
:20:29. > :20:39.for more conflict. Dan Johnson, BBC News, London.
:20:40. > :20:42.Nearly 500,000 people are claiming this ability benefits in mining
:20:43. > :20:47.areas. Since closure of the Horden's
:20:48. > :20:51.Colliery in 1987, the population has fallen and it now
:20:52. > :20:53.suffers high unemployment. 34% of people have a long
:20:54. > :20:55.term illness, compared With 39% of children
:20:56. > :20:59.living in poverty, Nikki Fox has gone to see how
:21:00. > :21:11.the villagers are doing. She reports on the legacy of
:21:12. > :21:14.disability that has been left in one former coal-mining community.
:21:15. > :21:17.The old mining village of Horden, nestled along the north-east coast.
:21:18. > :21:19.The industry is gone, but the people remain.
:21:20. > :21:24.And, most of all, some understanding.
:21:25. > :21:26.The strength is absolutely going out of me.
:21:27. > :21:33.And that's why I am grateful for any help that I get.
:21:34. > :21:37.Both these men have spent years at the coal face.
:21:38. > :21:39.Like so many on these terraced streets, their lives have been
:21:40. > :21:49.For Nick, that's looking after his recently disabled wife, Dot.
:21:50. > :21:55.When she leaves hospital, he'll become her full-time carer
:21:56. > :22:01.It is one hell of a struggle, financially.
:22:02. > :22:05.Whereas when I worked at the pit, you never
:22:06. > :22:12.It was a dangerous job that left its mark on the miners
:22:13. > :22:14.who risked their lives, leaving many with hearing loss, lung
:22:15. > :22:27.Once part of a thriving community - now neglected, forgotten.
:22:28. > :22:31.High rates of unemployment, poverty and there's three times as many
:22:32. > :22:37.people claiming disability benefits than the national average.
:22:38. > :22:39.These people gave their life to this country to produce coal,
:22:40. > :22:42.they've just been left to wither on the vine.
:22:43. > :22:48.You shouldn't be treating people with disabilities
:22:49. > :22:56.His life underground left him deaf, and now he's blind.
:22:57. > :23:00.He no longer feels he belongs in the village he once loved.
:23:01. > :23:04.There's nothing in this area for us. Nothing.
:23:05. > :23:11.And I couldn't. I couldn't.
:23:12. > :23:18.The community is trying to regain what it's lost.
:23:19. > :23:20.I didn't know what I was entitled to...
:23:21. > :23:24.This friendly drop-in centre offers locals the chance to meet and get
:23:25. > :23:29.help with the very basics, like food, housing and transport.
:23:30. > :23:32.What we'll do is speak to the carers...
:23:33. > :23:35.Nick is one of those getting that help - a referral
:23:36. > :23:41.A proud miner who has hit rock bottom.
:23:42. > :23:44.Anybody asked for anything, I'd be there straight away to do it.
:23:45. > :23:48.But now, if it's me needing help, I don't know.
:23:49. > :23:56.The demise of the coal-mining industry has left
:23:57. > :24:02.It's unlikely this generation will see the investment that's
:24:03. > :24:05.so badly needed to improve the lives of disabled people who live in these
:24:06. > :24:17.Shares in Dixons Carphone - the company which owns
:24:18. > :24:21.Carphone Warehouse and Dixons - have dropped by nearly a quarter,
:24:22. > :24:23.after it warned that its profits would be lower
:24:24. > :24:33.Rory Cellan-Jones is at a Carphone Warehouse for us.
:24:34. > :24:40.Why aren't people buying so many phones then? It's not that people
:24:41. > :24:42.have stopped buying phones. What Dixons Carphone thinks it's spotted
:24:43. > :24:46.and what's really worried its investors is they may be holding off
:24:47. > :24:50.a little before upgrading, may be waiting another six months. Part of
:24:51. > :24:54.the reason is modern smartphones are capable devices, they all look much
:24:55. > :24:57.the same, and people are finding it quite difficult when a new device
:24:58. > :25:07.comes along to work out what is different about it. Then there's the
:25:08. > :25:10.price. We've seen of course the pound fall against the dollar, and
:25:11. > :25:12.as it's fallen, the price of these has risen. Just yesterday, Samson
:25:13. > :25:15.fought out a new phone with a price tag of ?869. There are rumours when
:25:16. > :25:19.the new iPhone comes out, probably next month, that its price could
:25:20. > :25:24.sort above ?1000 for some models. That phone is expected to be a
:25:25. > :25:28.really big hit, but it will need to be a huge hit to make investors in
:25:29. > :25:30.this retailer and others feel a bit more cheerful. Thank you.
:25:31. > :25:33.A woman in America has won the biggest lottery prize ever
:25:34. > :25:37.53-year-old Mavis Wanczyk - here wearing the black top -
:25:38. > :25:42.scooped almost ?600 million after spending $2 on a lottery
:25:43. > :25:45.ticket at a petrol station in Massachusetts.
:25:46. > :25:48.The mother of two says she has already quit her job.
:25:49. > :25:54.She chose her numbers based on her relatives' birthdays.
:25:55. > :25:56.The stand-out moment of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival -
:25:57. > :25:58.that's how one critic has described a new play that's opened
:25:59. > :26:03.It tells the remarkable story of a transgender asylum seeker
:26:04. > :26:15.He's making a new life for himself in Scotland. The new play doesn't
:26:16. > :26:21.just tell his story, he is the start of the show. Eloise Dickers has been
:26:22. > :26:23.following Adam's journey from Egypt to centre stage.
:26:24. > :26:26.The last time I've seen my mum I was in a girl's body,
:26:27. > :26:29.Adam felt he couldn't live freely in Egypt.
:26:30. > :26:32.They will harass, they might even torture, they will kill for that,
:26:33. > :26:35.because it's just something not normal, not normal.
:26:36. > :26:40.He sought asylum in a country that would allow him to live as a man.
:26:41. > :26:50.Once in Scotland he started reassignment surgery.
:26:51. > :26:52.They take a skin graft from your arm.
:26:53. > :26:55.Skin that they took from your arm with the nerves and artery
:26:56. > :27:03.I stopped having periods the moment I got on testosterone,
:27:04. > :27:07.so that was like four years ago, that was ages ago.
:27:08. > :27:17.This year, life changed dramatically again.
:27:18. > :27:24.It's something that just a few years ago he could never have imagined.
:27:25. > :27:29.She's not superficial in the slightest.
:27:30. > :27:32.She managed somehow to see through all that and just
:27:33. > :27:42.With the help of the National Theatre of Scotland, Adam has now
:27:43. > :27:45.turned his extraordinary journey into play.
:27:46. > :27:47.Who knew you were transgender in Egypt?
:27:48. > :27:53.How many of your friends knew you were transgender?
:27:54. > :27:58.It's had its premiere at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
:27:59. > :28:06.Female Adam is played by Neshla Caplan, and the real Adam
:28:07. > :28:21.He hopes that the play will inspire others like him to speak out.
:28:22. > :28:24.I had my inspirations from people on YouTube,
:28:25. > :28:28.showing the me the before and after, and that really gives me hope.
:28:29. > :28:31.He did it, he did it, he did it, why can't I?
:28:32. > :28:41.Really hope that I give the light to somebody else.
:28:42. > :28:44.Adam's story being told in Edinburgh.
:28:45. > :28:47.Today is the 60th birthday of Test Match Special and fittingly
:28:48. > :28:49.it was celebrated with a cricket match in Yorkshire.
:28:50. > :28:51.Teams of celebrities, coached by the BBC's cricket
:28:52. > :28:53.correspondent Jonathan Agnew and the former England batsman
:28:54. > :28:55.Geoffrey Boycott, were playing at the University of Leeds.
:28:56. > :28:57.Our media correspondent Amol Rajan was there, to reflect
:28:58. > :29:08.It's the sound of the English summer and this year it turns 60.
:29:09. > :29:10.He bowls to Weekes, and Weekes throws his bat
:29:11. > :29:11.at the ball wide outside his offstump.
:29:12. > :29:21.You have, you're spitting all into the microphone, too.
:29:22. > :29:23.For over six decades, Test Match Special has marked
:29:24. > :29:24.the fluctuating fortunes of England's cricketers
:29:25. > :29:29.And in 1991 it delivered perhaps the most famous episode
:29:30. > :29:33.of cricketing commentary ever when Brian Johnston and Jonathan
:29:34. > :29:37.Part of his thigh must have just removed the bails.
:29:38. > :29:39.He just didn't quite get his leg over.
:29:40. > :29:41.Hit a four over the wicketkeeper's...
:29:42. > :29:51.Hit a four over the wicketkeeper's...
:29:52. > :29:55.Head... And he...
:29:56. > :29:57.It's obviously funny because people still laugh at it.
:29:58. > :30:02.It kind of captured everything about Test Match Special, I think.
:30:03. > :30:05.There are people having a bit of fun in the commentary box,
:30:06. > :30:07.that bit of innuendo that goes on at the same time.
:30:08. > :30:15.Perhaps more than any other sport, cricket lends itself to talk radio.
:30:16. > :30:18.The long pauses within an epic drama that unfolds over five days have
:30:19. > :30:23.And that something has, for the past 60 years,
:30:24. > :30:28.been the eccentrically English banter of the TMS commentary box.
:30:29. > :30:30.Of course cricket itself has changed irreversibly over
:30:31. > :30:32.that period and TMS, celebrated in this birthday fixture
:30:33. > :30:36.today, has always tried to move with the times.
:30:37. > :30:39.It's the stories, it's the characters behind the microphone
:30:40. > :30:42.that bring the sport we love so much to life.
:30:43. > :30:44.Ebony Rainford-Brent played for Surrey and England
:30:45. > :30:47.as a professional and is now part of the TMS team.
:30:48. > :30:50.She says TMS has become more than just radio.
:30:51. > :30:52.Social media is another way of connecting,
:30:53. > :31:01.We bring people's thoughts and comments into the commentary.
:31:02. > :31:03.People send in really odd stats, things like that.
:31:04. > :31:06.It's just so nice you can be that close to the fans
:31:07. > :31:08.listening in and you can connect, and share.
:31:09. > :31:10.Citing social media has really helped TMS to thrive.
:31:11. > :31:13.In recent decades, television rights and then the internet dragged
:31:14. > :31:14.this most traditional of games into modernity.
:31:15. > :31:17.But before then it was the old transistor radio that
:31:18. > :31:19.beamed the latest score to an engrossed public.
:31:20. > :31:22.And Swanny, absolutely quaking in his boots!
:31:23. > :31:26.And, 60 years on, TMS is bowling over new audiences as never before.
:31:27. > :31:39.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:31:40. > :31:49.On Newsnight, what do today's migration statistics mean for
:31:50. > :31:53.Theresa May, and what lessons can the UK learn from Norway and border.
:31:54. > :31:55.Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.