14/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

The Prime Minister is warning GPs they could face funding cuts,

if they don't keep surgeries open for longer to meet

The Government says many people are going to hard-pressed accident

and emergency departments because they can't

Doctors leaders accuse the Government of failing to address

Our political correspondent Tom Barton reports.

The news from the NHS last week wasn't good.

Now there's a suggestion from Number Ten that part

of the cause is that family doctors just aren't open for long enough.

A Downing Street spokesman said, "It is increasingly clear that

a large number of surgeries are not providing the access that patients

need and that patients are suffering as a result".

And so ministers are proposing withholding extra funding from GPs

who can't show they're offering appointments at the times

The Government sees GPs as key to reducing pressure on hospitals,

pointing to figures which suggest that nearly 30% of patients at A

But those who represent GPs see today's announcement as an attack

There's no point in blaming hard-working doctors

There's no point blaming one part of the system when clearly,

we know what the reasons for the problems are.

The reasons are we have too few doctors - lower

So patients who are in hospital can't come out into the community.

Jeremy Corbyn today defended GPs and argued the solution to pressure

in hospitals is to improve funding in the care system.

A Labour Government would give social care the funding it needs

and give a firm commitment to take failed private care homes

into public ownership to maintain the social care protection

It's the very least we can do to guarantee dignity for people

who have given so much to our country.

Ministers say stopping people from using A inappropriaty should ease

pressure on hospitals and they say other parts of the NHS including GPs

must play their part in making that happen.

Residents in parts of the east coast of England have been returning

to their homes after escaping largely unscathed from a tidal storm

in Great Yarmouth, following fears of significant flooding.

There are no longer severe flood alerts although more than a hundred

Our correspondent Alex Dunlop is in Great Yarmouth.

How are things there, Alex? Well, not too bad. This river flows

through Great Yarmouth. It is calm now, but at 9.30pm last night, at

the peak of the high tide, there was 13 inches from topping the defence.

The waters have receded and apart from a few pockets of isolated

flooding, Great Yarmouth has escaped the worst of the surge. However, at

Hornsea in East Yorkshire, 30 properties were flooded and three

people had to be saved from a car that was trapped in five-feet of

water on the sea-front after the water overtopped the sea defences.

We had 17 severe flood warnings in place. Now, there are none. So, a

huge relief for coastal communities down the East Coast, but emergency

services say that this was a close call.

Alex, thank you very much. Now a cross-party group of MPs has

called on the Government to publish its Brexit plan

by mid-February at the latest. The Exiting the EU Committee also

called for transitional arrangements to smooth Britain's departure

from the European Union. Our Business Correspondent

Joe Lynam reports. Britain's biggest industries

employing millions of people have long been calling for some sort

of transitional arrangement They needed to avoid a sudden change

in the rules post Brexit. Now, they've got support

from a key group of MPs We think that any return to tariffs

or bureaucratic obstacles would not be in the interests of British

business and the committee believes that transitional arrangements

will be needed to smooth the process as we leave the European

Union particularly, if there were to be any

changes to the way we trade The Brexit committee of MPs says

the Government should set out by mid-February whether it aims

to remain in the single market It should press for a transitional

arrangement with the EU if it can't secure a full deal within the two

year time frame. Crucially the committee said

that the Government should offer MPs a vote on whatever is agreed

at the end of the negotiation. But some lobby groups

dismissed the idea. We should spend the two years

of negotiations on the financial services and ensuring

the City is OK. We don't need

a transitional arrangement. The Government said we will set

out our plans by the end of March and that Parliament will be

appropriately engaged throughout the process of exit,

abiding by all constitutional Next week, Theresa May gives

a big speech on Britain's At the same time, the Supreme Court

could decide whether she, or all MPs in Parliament will decide

whether and when to formally A teenager stolen as a newborn baby

from a Florida hospital 18 years ago has been found in South Carolina.

Kamiyah Mobley was found after a tip-off and DNA tests confirmed her

real identity. The woman who raised her has been charged with

kidnapping. This is Kamiyah Mobley with the

woman who she believed was her mother. She seemed a normal and

happy family living in a quiet part of South Carolina. But today, her

mother, Gloria Williams is under arrest, charged with kidnapping her

after she was born 18 years ago and giving her a false identity. In

South Carolina, we found an 18-year-old, young woman, with the

same date of birth, but a different name. So further investigation

revealed that fraudulent documents were used to establish that young

woman's identity. In interviews with people, it supported the possibility

that this young woman maybe Kamiyah Mobley. After she was born in this

hospital in Florida in 1998, Kamiyah Mobley was abducted by a woman

posing as a nurse. But it was only last year, that police received a

tip which eventually led to the arrest. For her biological family, a

moment of huge relief. She sounds so intelligent and so respectful and

she says she will be here to see us. For Kamiyah, disbelief, that the

mother she loved as a mother is now being accused as her abductor.

Now let's get a round-up of the latest sports news

with Mike Bushell at the BBC Sports Centre.

Spurs can go second in the Premier League this lunchtime,

for a day at least, if they can beat West Brom at White Hart lane.

They're approaching half-time and Tottenham have continued

where they left off last week against Chelsea with Harry Kane

And they were helped to a second when West Brom's Gareth McCauley

Questions are being raised about Diego Costa's future at Chelsea.

He hasn't travelled with the team for their match at Leicester today.

It follows a disagreement between the player and coach

about his fitness, but comes amid reports of a huge money offer

The reported offer of ?30 million a year is more than the sum that

tempted Oscar to leave Chelsea for China.

Ahead of the Australian Open that starts on Monday,

Britain's Dan Evans has lost in the final of the warm-up event,

But it was his first ATP Tour final and after his run this week,

Evans is already guaranteed to climb to a new career-high ranking,

He saved two set points, against Gilles Muller of Luxembourg

before losing the opening set on a tie-break.

Evans couldn't recover in the second as he lost

Tonight in New York, James DeGale will attempt to unify boxing's

super-middleweight division against Badou Jack.

DeGale was the first British boxer to win an Olympic gold medal

But even that hasn't yet made him a household name,

In the bustling streets of London and anonymity is the norm. Even for

Olympic Gold Medallists and world champions. James DeGale enjoys that

luxury which is surprising given his record. Listen, I don't want to blow

my own trumpet, but my results speak for itself. Being Olympic world

champion and now I'm about to unify the world. Do I get enough

recognition? Probably not, but it's coming.

Arguably recognition might have come sooner had it not been for this man,

Anthony Joshua, an Olympic Gold Medallist four years after DeGale at

London 2012 and now a world champion too. I always say I have done it the

hard way like, just look at our Olympic Games. It went to Beijing. I

went away from home. COMMENTATOR: And James DeGale is the

Olympic champion. Anthony Joshua won it at home. I boxed a former bronze

medallist at the Olympics. My journey has been similar, but I've

done it the harder way and Anthony Joshua is a fantastic fighter and he

will be a superstar. Superstar Dom would follow for DeGale with a win

in New York, but it demands a certain approach. My mum says all

boxers are mad because when I'm in camp, she called me De Gold because

she says I change as a person. I'm a diva, I'm like rude. Those traits

haven't gone unnoticed in the States, but DeGale embraces,

anything to help him reach his goals. I'm dreaming about this. I'm

ticking off the boxes and I will become the first Olympic Gold

Medallist from Britain. Now it is time to unify and be the man. A win

might bring some of the recognition that DeGale deserves.

And Sam Sunderland has won the Dakar Rally bikes

classification, making him the first British rider to win

More on that historic win in Sportsday on BBC News at 6.30pm,

The next news on BBC One is at 5.20pm.

Good afternoon. Well, throughout the weekend we're

going to lose the cold wintry weather that we have seen of late

and replace it with something milder, but wetter. There is some

cloud around and a few nuisance showers it has to be said. Those

showers have been driven in by a north-westerly wind across the Irish

Sea and into north-west