08/03/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello it's Tuesday it's 9.15, I'm Joanna Gosling in for Victoria,

Maria Sharapova, the World's highest paid female sports star is facing

a lengthy ban from tennis after failing a drugs test.

I made a huge mistake and I've let my fans down, I've let the sport

down that I've been playing since the age of four that I love so

deeply. The tennis world has been

divided on her fate. 18 times grand slam winner

Martina Navratilova called it an "honest mistake" whereas 3

times grand slam champion Jennifer Capriati says she's

"extremely angry and disappointed". Also on the programme,

"no significant investment" in mental health services

for children despite Government promises of an extra ?150 million

this financial year. Plus, Energy firm Npower is cutting

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or our website bbc.co.uk/victoria. Mental health providers in England

say they've seen "no significant investment" in psychiatric services

for children despite Government Last summer, ministers said they'd

invest an extra ?150 million Health trusts say some services

are still being cut. So what impact is this having

on people trying to use She's been using child adolescent

mental health services since she was 11 and says she often

has to wait months for Sean Duggan, is the chief executive

for the Centre for Mental Health an independent charity

and Dr Jon Goldin is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Tells your view on this, Sean? The

Priority's got to be in mental Health Services, we've always known

this, for child and adolescent mental health care. One in ten

children suffer from a mental health problem so that's three children in

every class. We are expecting and we are delighted about extra investment

in the services. The fact it's not coming through, the providers are

telling us it's not coming through, is a cause for real concern. Why do

you think it's not coming through? It was promised? A number of

reasons. We need to get hold of the facts. But there are reports the

money's being used by Clinical Commissioning Groups for other

reasons, other pressing priorities. There is no other better priority

than child and adolescent mental health care. It's a very complicated

set-up, a very complicated arrangement, and this, for the money

to be used efficiently and effectively, it really has to be

designed really well. We know a lot about the evidence as to the

interventions that work. They have to be targeted properly, they have

to have the right professionals in place to do that. All that takes

time but that should have been thought of at the very beginning, so

we are not in this position now, towards the end of the financial

year suggesting the money's not getting through. That's not an

excuse. There are some probably legitimate delays. Let's be open and

transparent about that. Let's not have a situation where we are

thinking the money's maybe been used for other reasons. Joining us as

well now Dr John Golding, child psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street

Hospital. Thank you very much for joining us. Are you seeing any

evidence of extra money filtering through? It's good news that more

money has been promise and we are seeing some evidence but I don't

think all the money is getting to the front line services as it should

be. So what evidence have you seen? I know there have been

transformation plans over the last few months which have bid for money

and they have been successful in achieving that money. So some money

is reaching it. So it's all promises at the moment still is it or, are

you hearing about front line services getting the cash? I'm

hearing about some front line services getting the cash but also

hearing about some money not reaching the services anecdotally.

The money isn't ringfenced for CAMS. ?1. ?1. 24 billion has been promised

over the next I think five years but there's evidence not all of the

money is getting to the NHS. CCG is using the money for other things.

CAMS is child and adolescent mental services. There is a real suspicion

that the money could go elsewhere. The money's gone to Clinical

Commissioning Groups then. How important is transparency? It's

crucially important and, unfor Natalie the Clinical Commissioning

Groups are under huge financial pressure and the money doesn't go

direct to where it's promised to go to always so we need to track the

money and make sure it goes where it should. Do you think the money

should be ringfenced? I do. It's an absolute priority and we have seen

in the past that where money's been promised in certain areas, and with

mental health it's not uncommon, if you don't ringfence the money, it

can go off to seemingly more important areas. We definitely need

to be transparent about this because the only way this will work is for

Clinical Commissioning Groups to work in partnership with education,

with schools, with the NHS providers, and they all need to have

trust in that the money's being put through and that they can work out

the financial plans and get the job done. The Government's identified

this as a key area. Let's talk a bit more about the impact of resourcing

on treatment for young people. Earlier, the parents of 15-year-old

Matthew Garnett who has been sectioned for the last six months

told BBC Breakfast that they feet like they had no rights.

Parents and the child in this are seem to be devoid of their rights.

It is absurd and when I tell friends who've got typical children, they

don't believe that this can be happening in 2016. Our most

vulnerable people are being abused by this system and I can't think of

a better word, to me it feels like abuse. Systematic abuse. Isabelle

Garnett. Amy, you have needed help through mental Health Services? Yes.

How have you felt about the service you have received? Well, once I've

had access to the service, it was fantastic and I, you know, owe my

life to the mental Health Services. The problem that I face and many

other people are facing is getting that access to them. When I was

referred to the child and adolescent mental Health Service, it took three

months. That three-month period, I was getting worse and worse,

unfortunately, I was very suddal and hadn't had one appointment with

them, so three months of referrals and I still hadn't seen them. It

wasn't until I had to take myself to A because I was at risk that they

finally noticed me and gave me an appointment. Honestly, if I hadn't

gone to A, I don't know when I wouldn't have been seen, I don't

know if I would still be here, it's so urgent. What was it that took you

to A, it's a story we have heard from so many people seeking mental

health support that they have ended up getting it only as a result of

going to A? Yes, absolutely. My mum was aware of the issues going

on. One night she found me self-harming and it was getting to

the point where she didn't know what to do. My mum is a single mum, how

could she help me, she could see her daughter hurting herself and

suicidal and she didn't know what to do. There was no other option than

to go to A because obviously CAMS had been paying no attention to me

and it was to the point that my mum didn't... When you say paying no

attention to you. What were you being told when you were going to

see, presumably your GP initially, what were you told about what help

you might expect and when you might get it? As soon as I went to the GP

and got diagnosis I was put on medication. How old were you then? I

was 15. They said, you need to have ongoing therapy every week, as well

as the medication from CAMS. They referred me and said I would hear

from them within a week. Every time I'd called CAMS to chase them up, I

was told, I'm on a waiting list, they have to put high priority cases

in front of me. That was hordible to hear because I felt why aren't I a

high priority case -- horrible to hear. I thought, do I need to stand

in front of you with a gun to my head for you to see that I need

help. John, being prescribed medication at 15 sounds drastic?

There is evidence for the use of medication but therapeutic

approaches are important too. What Amy says is often sadly too that the

threshold in CAMS is often too high so one needs to be suicidal or

self-harming before one reaches the threshold. CAMS colleagues work hard

under difficult circumstances and are very committed but the resources

aren't adequate to meet the need. So explain in practise how that works

then? Is it a common thing for a child to present as needing help but

they are told well, you are not serious enough at the moment and

then, as time goes on, they hit the threshold? That does unfortunately

happen far too frequently. For very stretched service that are under

resourced, they have to manage the demand as best they can and they are

in a very difficult. Situation, as Amy, is, as a young person that

needs help. Sean, are kids just being let down here? Well, they are

and three months was clearly and is too long to wait until you get a

treatment plan. We have reports across the UK where it's over a

year. Real access problems and kids are being let down. They need access

to child and adolescent mental Health Services, but there is a

whole raft of other interventions that work well. For example,

parenting programmes, group anti-bullying programmes at school

and anger management programmes at school for children. These are

really effective programmes. They are not expensive and the savings

that you get back on that are really quite impressive that. 'S why we

have extra money coming in now and we really by this stage should start

to be seeing some improvements. There is some inprovements across

the country but not enough. In terms of the general trajectory

and the fact that it's an issue being talked about much more widely

in politics, as well as obviously in other environments too, are you

confident that the money has been promised and that the trajectory is

now the right one, the right thing is being done? I am and we are

confident. And the money that is being promised, the ?1. 25 billion

over five years, what change will that deliver? Oh, it will deliver

considerable improvements. There is arguments as to whether it's enough,

there always is arguments. But it will speed up the access, eradicate

some of the problems Amy is describing earlier, so there'll be

better access, my honourable friend more staff within the services to be

able to help the assessment and a treatment plan and it will provide

some of the things I was talking about, the wider treatment areas

which are really effective - help in schools, bringing in the education

authorities, making sure the teachers can screen and talk to

professionals when they want to so they can pick up problems at an

early stage. John, why have resources been so stretched? Is it

because it's a growing problem in terms of the number of children you

are seeing and the issues that you are dealing with? There is been

dis-investment in CAMS. It's only recently there's more awareness of

CAMS and there is an increased prevalence of child mental health

problems, anxiety self-harm, depression, they are all on the

increase amongst teenagers in our society today sadly. What is the

best advice that you would give to somebody who perhaps is like Amy was

when she was waiting for that help and it wasn't forthcoming and

obviously time passes, the situation gets worse. What would you say to a

parent or a child who's currently in that exact position? It is very

difficult to offer advice that will simply meet the need but talking to

people is crucial, not being isolated. A lot of people use online

services but making sure that you talk to someone. A friend, parent,

teacher, your GP. Obviously, they need to put pressure on the CAMS

services to offer you the resource needed. CAMS are stretched so we are

in a bind but I'm hoping, those of us that work in CAMS that things

will improve. Amy, in the end, you have come through having been

treated success think, you are 18, at 15 you were prescribed

medication. What was it that particularly worked for you in the

end? Just finding a therapist who worked for CAMS that really worked

for me and took the time to treat me really. Once I'd got the access to

them and started seeing him, you know, it got so much better just

having someone who can explain things to you, you know, young

people, they have these conditions but it's so hard to understand what

is happening to us or to our minds, especially with mental health

conditions, so just having a professional to sit and explain

things to you and make you feel, you know, have an understanding of

yourself, it's so important. That's what really helped me the most.

Thank you all very much, John, Sean and Amy. An anonymous texter saying

CAMS are under funded. If children get help earlier in life, they have

a level based approach to adulthood. As a magistrate I see how long it

takes to access CAMS. We asked the Government

to talk to us this morning The FA bans a club chairman for five

games for allegedly saying a female ref can't

cut it in the men's game - we speak to her exclusively -

it comes as a new survey says half of all women working in football

have experienced sexism including 27-year-old Josh Hanson was killed

in a London pub last October. He was stabbed in the neck

in an apparently unprovoked attack. We speak to Josh's family,

who are desperate for a man wanted in connection with his death

to hand himself in. First it's the main

news this morning. The energy firm Npower confirms

it is cutting 2,400 jobs in the UK after reporting an annual loss

of ?90 million. The job losses represent

about a fifth of the workforce. EU leaders reach a broad agreement

with Turkey on returning migrants In return, the EU will promise

to resettle a similar number of Syrians and will speed up

the payment of financial after the tennis champion admitted

failing a drugs test. The sportswear giant Nike says it's

suspending its relationship with the star while the Swiss watch

brand Tag Heuer says it's stopped Boris Johnson says a memo

instructing his senior staff to back him over the EU

referendum has been withdrawn. The London mayor, who wants to leave

the EU, said the email was "a cock-up, and not

something I agree with". Mental health providers in England

say they've seen "no significant investment" in psychiatric

services for children Last summer ministers said

they would invest an additional we have more on Maria Sharapova and

what could potentially signal the end of her career.

Last night we knew she had called a press conference and half expected

her to retire there and then. It was about half filled drugs test and it

leads the papers. It is front and back page news on the Daily Mirror.

She has failed a drugs test. Mel Dorney is thought to improve injury

during Sandra Coveney but she's then she has been using it for the past

decade and a dozen ever caused the problem. Apparently only since

January has this been banned. She faces a four year ban. To offer her

main sponsors have suspended their relationship with the tennis star

until the investigation concludes. We will be looking at that in detail

after 10am. Victoria Pendleton, Britain's Olympic cycling champion,

has been given the go-ahead to race at the Cheltenham festival last --

next week. We will have more details on that and Maria Sharapova just

after 10am. A majority of women working

in football say they've witnessed sexism at work, almost a quarter say

they've experienced bullying and 15% claim they've been victims

of sexual harassment. That's according to a survey

from the campaigning organisation Women in Football who say

the game has an "ingrained, systemic problem of sexist culture"

and criticised football's institutions for not doing

enough to improve it. So is football stuck

in the dark ages when it comes This programme can reveal

for the first time that the Football Association fined and banned a club

chairman for abusing a female official after he was alleged

to have said she wasn't fit Martin Potton, the chairman

of non-league club Wellingborough Town,

was fined ?75, yes ?75, and banned for five games last year

by the FA for using derogatory and insulting language

towards a 22-year-old The referee, Mary Harmer,

has been speaking exclusively Our reporter Robyn

Cowen has the story. Women are becoming more visible

in the football industry, in the boardroom, pitch

side, whether it is playing or working as a referee

or doctor, and in the media. But it seems there

are still those who do not want females in

any part of football. Lindsay England runs

the anti-homophobia campaign Just Last year football fan Lindsay

was at a match at Wellingborough Town Football Club when she heard

somebody abusing the female referee Just after half-time

I was out on the decking area The team was losing 4-0 at the time

and within a few minutes And this gentleman

who was part of the corporate area enjoying

the hospitality as well decided to say that it was the referee's

fault that his team were losing 7-0 because she happened to be

female and she wasn't fit to referee in a women's game,

let alone in a men's game. And then he carried

on and carried on and he was going on about -

I don't understand what the world's coming to these days,

women seem to get in everywhere. Wherever you turn these days,

you can't go to work or you

can't go to enjoy yourself without women being there

and being in charge. I was shocked to find

out it was the chairman Lindsay reported these

comments from Wellingborough Town chairman Martin Potton

to the Football Association. We understand her claims

were corroborated by After a hearing which Mr Potton

didn't attend the FA fined him ?75, banned him from the ground for five

matches and ordered him to attend Mr Potton denies the

claims and continues "I deny all the charges

but was found guilty in my absence because I was denied

the opportunity of a personal The FA say they offered

Mr Potton a personal hearing The referee that day

was Mary Harmer. She didn't hear Mr Potton's comments

at the time and wasn't involved I didn't find out about the comments

until a few weeks after when I was perhaps contacted by the county FA

asking whether I heard these I was actually refereeing the game

at the time so I didn't hear them because I'm so focused

on getting the decisions right that I don't often hear what

the players say or the crowd. I think sometimes when you hear

those comments it makes you want to work even harder

and prove that actually women are good referees

and sometimes we might These comments were something that

are part of the past and it's The game is changing and sometimes

people turn their heads, when I warm up and referee

a game it's quite funny, it's like dominoes,

they turn their heads. They say, it is a female

referee today. But actually, I see a time

in maybe five years' time, and it might be five years,

it's a referee, it's not a female referee, it's just a referee

and they are there to do their job. Just an equal, just

as much as a male I've seen quite a few referees over

the last two or three years and they know it goes

on and sometimes it just goes over Sometimes it does upset them,

sometimes it does hurt them, sometimes they don't report it

and sometimes they do. It's just part and parcel

of the game, sadly, which is there, To be honest, I've

gone to a game before and someone has said to me,

I don't think we should have female referees in the game and I said

let's get a cup of tea and sit down and chat, and talk to me

as to why you think we shouldn't have

females in the game. And I'm really interested

to get your point of view. To be honest, he simply said I'm

a dinosaur and I don't like change. I said, I'm sorry but actually

football is changing. My experience of male football has

been very positive and the comments I have received from them have

always been very embracing I think players just

want to have a referee that always does their best,

shows that they want to be there and are enjoying the game just

as much as the players are and I think that's probably

the most important thing. Although Mary is determined to be

positive the sanctions handed out by the FA to Martin

Potton have divided opinion on how

effective they will be. Janie Frampton was only the second

woman to referee in men's I don't think it really

matters what you gave him. Because I think again it's

about changing the mindset. Are you going to fine him

?200, ?300, are you Is that really going to make

any more difference? I think maybe doing some form

of community service with women's football

might be more helpful. Make them see the sort of people

that actually are involved, what they do and the passion

that drives them. I have been driven by a passion

for football per se since Why shouldn't I be allowed to be

involved in football At the age of just 22

Mary is just one of only four women in England who are

county referee development managers. She was recruited by Laura Smith,

the CEO at Suffolk County FA. I believe that once

people get to know you and how passionate

you are about the game and your understanding of the game

then your agenda has You could do a good

job, whether you are at Suffolk, males

and females, have all I'm responsible for

all of the referees in Suffolk, responsible

for recruiting them and leading a team that will find

opportunities for I always say that my

role is to fulfil every referee's

potential in Suffolk. Whether that means they want to get

to the county level, or whether they want to reach

the professional game I will always and courage them and

support them until We are there to provide

a service and to referee the game and to give our

best, whatever game it is. I think that's also

really important that we treat each game equally as if it's

a cup final every time we go I guess I could go back

to when I started refereeing. And I used to think

then that the FA were doing a great job around racist

comments, even back then. But I felt that people

could almost call me Being a gender issue

there was no route to take it, The FA say they have now put

into place a system that means unacceptable behaviour

can be challenged. Any time that discriminatory abuse

occurs in football it's just frankly Generally across the game we've been

an encouraging environment of collective

responsibility from club level, with stewards,

safety officers etc, all the way through to ourselves,

that whenever discriminatory abuse arises, of any form,

that people are confident It's really important

that we create an environment where people feel

comfortable to challenge And confident they'll

be supported if they do challenge, whether that's

in an employment setting, or whether that's in

a match environment. But that people feel they will be

listened to and be investigated and there will be an outcome

through that process. New research published today

by Liverpool University for Women in Football revealed that 70%

of the survey respondents felt they had to be better

than their male counterparts to succeed

in all jobs in football. I think unfortunately in the past

I have felt that to be better than the boys I have

to be twice as good. And unfortunately that

has been the case. But I think again moving

forward that's the kind of mindset that is being opened

and everyone is equal, the fact we are embracing

females in the game in all I think, female or male,

anyone interested in becoming a referee never to take

the comments that people shout at you

or say personally. If every referee took

the comments personally then unfortunately we wouldn't

have any referees. We need to be doing all we can

to support referees and encourage more referees to take up

the whistle and get involved. Martin Poulton denies the claims

being made against him. But is football stuck

in the dark ages when it comes We can speak now to Anna Kessel,

a journalist at the Guardian who runs the campaign

group Women in Football, who've released a survey today

which suggests most women working in football have experienced sexism,

Annie Zaidi, who coaches Leicester City's under-11s,

Janie Frampton, a former referee, and Carolyn Radford,

who's the Chief Executive He denies that he did it, but the FA

found against him and decided ?75 fine and a five match ban was the

right punishment. The level of the find tends to reflect the level of

football so if it was the Premier League he would have received a

bigger fine. There is an educational element alongside that. In our

survey woman said that her organisation has paid out thousands

of pounds re-educating people landed there is not changing anything. We

have to look at how effective it is. Burying in mind that so few of these

cases ever get reported. See the light of day. Women in football has

these new statistics. What would you say about the broader trends? It is

worrying that over half of women have experienced sexism in the

workplace. These statistics are concerning an sexism has been left

off the radar when it comes to football. We have had 20 years of

other kinds of campaign so we have to catch up. What have your

experiences been? I experienced racism and sexism and I think sexism

is sugar coated in the game. It demoralises the female coach,

undermines you. I started out as a grass roots

coach. Women in the game are far and few. You have to question why, is it

because we are not good enough, no, the opportunities aren't there for

us. There's no-one there pioneering or giving us the opportunity to have

a go and show us the respect we Zoe serve. What's your experience been?

Very similar experience. Early days when I was refereeing, you didn't

think there was anybody there to support you if you did want to say

anything, so I think we tolerated it. What sort of things did you

experience? Oh, awful things. Some of the comments wereth made were

horrendous. The worst thing ever said was that I was running the line

at a professional club and I was told that, I hope your children die

of cancer. I looked at that and thought, what has that got to do

with football, are you doing it to put me off my game or, is it just

because I'm female? They wouldn't say that to a male assistant

referee. Steve on Twitter says refs of both sexes get abuse in football,

jostled and intimidated, try it in rugby and you're off. Is that a fair

comment, it happens to all? I think it does. All the way through you get

the ref abuse which is normal, male and female, then on top of that, we

get the gender abuse added. Like Annie said, there was never anywhere

to report it so you felt you had to put up with it to stay in the game

you were passionate about. Carolyn, do you feel like a woman in a man's

world? Yes. I mean I think football's still very hostile

territory for women. The language described on my appointment was made

me quite alert, it was how I looked, my blonde hair and there were

horrible comments made about me. I don't look on the Internet or

anything like that. But it definitely wasn't about my

qualifications or ability to do a job. You'd gone into football as a

CEO from the business world hadn't you, so was it a bit of a culture

shock for you? A huge culture shock. I don't think really that, it's

almost like you are involved with football so you are expected to put

up with it, but I don't think any other industry in the world would

put up with the level of abuse that you have to dismiss and just put up

with. It's not right. How do you deal with it at your

club? Well, since I've come in, at our

club, we didn't have a female football team at all. So they'd been

dismissed a couple of seasons prior to my appointment. They've brought

them back in and we are allowed to play on the same pitch as the first

team and use the same facilities. In other professional clubs and

non-league as well. Women are very much sidelined in the football arena

in other clubs. Anna, you said it's demoralising when you get the abuse

that you have experienced. How do you deal with it? You report it but

then you end up being not wanting to break the mould because football is

a tight-knit community. If you complain about anything, you are

labelled a troublemaker after ruffling the feathers. Are there

signs that it's being taken seriously at senior level? I think

last season, highlighting, as we did, the sexist abuse that Dr

Canieiro got, it brought up this issue, so I hope that things are

changing but very strongly saying things that women are frightened to

report it. When they do, there were several claims they were threatened

to withdraw the complaint or if they were reporting it, they didn't know

where to go, sometimes it was their boss and like Annie says, it's a

close-knit community, if you burn your bridges, you could be out. You

have high ambitions Annie to be a top flight coach haven't you? In a

men's game, yes. If you achieve it, you would be the first woman to get

there. What help are you getting? I'm for Nat that QPR manager, Les

Ferdinand saw potential in me as a coach, not as a woman, but both him

and Chris are nurturing my development. My ambition is to work

in a men's game and they are saying, if you want to gain experience, yes.

After a few years, I was given the opportunity to go to QPR week in

week out to coach the under 21s and 18s in that male environment. How

are you finding it? I love it, I can't get enough of it. Society

makes a big deal out of it. As long as you know what you are doing and

you are a confident and good coach, that's all the players are concerned

about. Some e-mails, let me know what you think about them. Tony on

e-mail, football's always been a man's game, women should expect

problems when they become involved. There is a successful women's game

so why are women so keen to infill freight the men's. An anonymous

texter, no objection to referring to women's football but every time we

see a female Hoy profile ref it always endsth ends up with issues or

the courts. Peter, women complaining again, if life if you are good

enough no-one notices you, if you need to use your gender to get on,

maybe you should question your ability. From a referee's point of

view, we don't have problems with the players. They are the least of

our problems, they are brilliant. Very rare do you have a problem as a

female referee on the field of play. But it is the administration, the

management, the decision-makers, that's where the problem is. They

are the mindsets that just can't seem to change and move on. I think

it's important to say the survey covered all levels of football right

up to the most elite level but also across the men and women's game so

it's not to say that all the problems are located in the men's

game, in the women's game, women are being squeezed out, there are only

two female coaches in the WSL league and the women's game is still

predominantly run by men. On that, women in sport have unfailed the

first woman, Mark Sampson the English patron? That's following the

trend of he for she and that's something we want to encourage more,

male mentors and it's important when you see what Annie is doing at QPR

with Les and Chris. There are women coaches wanting to come through and

facing a lot of barriers. Thank you all very much for your comments.

Still to come: Maria Sharapova is facing a lengthy ban from tennis

after failing a drugs test. Still to come today; 'they can

accomplish anything, The words of artist Dan White

who has transformed his nine-year old disabled daughter into a comic

book superhero whose disability I'm Dan White, writer and creator of

the Department of Ability. I'm father to Emily, she's nine and has

spina bifida and hydro-cephalis. It's a comic for kids. It's going to

be a comic book about five main characters, each with a visible

disability which becomes their ultimate weapon to fight bad guys.

I'm the head of the gang and I've got a flying wheelchair. Giving up

the job was a necessity. I was working long hours 6-6, that took a

lot of time, I would draw through to the early hours, be out the door

again in the morning. I've been commissioned by Strong Bones

Charitable Trust who're saying, create a comic book around your

heroes, we'll pay for print and distribution because we are after

getting the message of inclusion out there via something that all

children love which is super heroes. We are just getting by. Obviously we

have got loans and things like that to support us, but it's never really

been about the money side of it. It's nice to be part of the whole

diversity inclusion umbrella that seems to be gathering speed. I feel

left out sometimes. She was always super. Her attitude's always been

like, I'm going to do something and it's not going to hold me back.

That's a general trend around the kids regardless of ability because

all kids are fantastic little sponges that will soak up knowledge

and information. There's no reason why disabled kids are any different.

How was school? Good, thank you. I've been working on a new

character. Rio with the running blade, I've drawn him in, he's going

to save Pawsey at the end, leap on his back at the end. What do you

reckon? He and Pawsey could be a team. Brilliant.

I want to see that people like me can go in shows and feel included.

When Emily was first diagnosed, we made a promise as parents like no,

we are going to get on with they are, she's going to be independent

and she'll make good of herself. People are doing it these days

because they want to say to other community, look, my child's in a

wheelchair but they love Star Wars and science fiction. We are not

doing it purely to say they are in a wheelchair look we made them look

good, no, it's because they like doing it, these kids love the action

heroes, music, they want to dress up, parents help them do it because

this generation actively believe in their children and their spirit and

that they can accomplish anything if given the chance. I just like being

in comics. My dad's my hero. I think that people who've got a disability

can be super heroes too. You can read more on that on the BBC News

site. Let's catch up with the weather with Carol.

Good morning. I want to show you the difference A weather front makes to

our with. This morning we have had this weather front -- weather front.

This is all depicted beautifully in the weather-watchers' pictures. We

love a beautiful sun rise. Look at this in Nottingham this morning.

Gorgeous colours. Stunning. Isn't that beautiful. Here is another one.

This is in West Yorkshire. A lot of lovely sunshine around. But, just

ahead of the weather front, the cloud was building, as it did in

with us IIshire, it also produced some snow. Lovely picture of falling

snow in Aberdeenshire. As we go through the day, and that weather

front continues... It's beautiful. Here is the sun coming in behind.

The weather front strolls south, so some of us will see some rain. The

rain will continue to push, but as it does, what you will find is, it's

going to be more of a weakening band so the rain will turn more showery

and the cloud will continue to build ahead of it. Here is the weather

front. Behind it, a return to bright spells. Some in the shelter of any

hills and mountains but also some showers. Showers in Scotland will be

wintry. In Northern Ireland, temperatures up to eight. Cloudy, a

bit of brightness but still the showers peppering the north and the

west of Scotland. On the hills, they'll be wintry. In the shelter of

the Grampians and Highlands, we'll see some sunshine.

After this morning's rain clears the north of England, again we'll see

some sunshine but a few showers still too.

The cloud continues to build. The tip of Kent seeing some sunshine.

Further west, on the other side of the weather front, still some

showers and a lot of cloud, not just in south-west England but also

Wales. In the shelter of the hills once again, sunny spells. For most,

it will be fairly cloudy. Through the evening, the next system romps

in from the Atlantic introducing rain, sleet and snow and

strengthening winds too. It's not going to be as cold a night as the

one that's just gone. The one that just went for example in

Oxfordshire, the temperature fell the minus seven. We won't see

anything like that this coming night. Slow progress tonight and if

you look at the isobars, that tells us it will be windy in England,

Wales, particularly so for Wales and south-west England where we are

looking at gusts to severe gale force. Inland gusts of 50mph so you

will notice that. Very, very slowsly the rain pushes towards the

south-east. But for many parts of central and eastern England, it's

going to be a dull day. Behind that, brightness coming through, showers

peppering the north and west and some of those will be wintry.

Tomorrow will be cold, particularly if you are stuck under the band of

rain. As we head from Thursday into Friday, even into the weekend, the

milder air is depredict bid the yellows here, that flows across us

all. Hello, it's Tuesday,

it's just after 10am, Welcome to the programme

if you've just joined us. Coming up before 11am: This

morning Maria Sharapova, the world's highest paid female

sports star, is facing a lengthy ban from tennis after

failing a drugs test. I made a huge mistake. I have let my

fine stone. I have let this put down that I have been playing since the

age of four that I love so deeply. The tennis world has been

divided on her fate. 18 times Grand Slam winner

Martina Navratilova called it an "honest mistake" whereas three

times Grand Slam champion Jennifer Capriati says she's

"extremely angry and disappointed". We will get reaction from other

tennis players. " Is losing 2400 jobs. If you work at the company,

get in touch. And legalise cannabis and sell

it in licensed shops. That's the message from

the Liberal Democrats today. We'll hear from them and people

who've used cannabis. The energy firm Npower confirms

it is cutting 2,400 jobs in the UK after reporting an "extremely

disappointing" performance in 2015. Including losing customers after

problems with complaints handling and billing.

The job losses represent about a fifth of the workforce.

We will have more on that before 11am. Let us know if you are

employed by them or if you have been a customer who has been led down.

The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker,

has said a plan to ease the migrant crisis, agreed in principle

between EU leaders and Turkey, is a "real game changer".

The Turkish government has said it will take back all illegal migrants

arriving on the Greek islands as long as the EU accepts

an equivalent number of Syrians from camps in Turkey,

and allows Turks to travel in the EU without visas by June.

The plan will be considered at an EU summit next week.

Two leading sponsors have already moved to distance themselves

from the tennis champion Maria Sharapova after she last night

admitted failing a drugs test.

The sportswear giant Nike says it's suspending its relationship

with the star while the Swiss watch brand Tag Heuer says it's stopped

Boris Johnson says a memo instructing his senior staff

to back him over the EU referendum or keep quiet has been withdrawn.

The London mayor, who wants to leave the EU, said the email

was "a cock-up" and that his staff were not being silenced.

You can tell they are not gagged because they have for some days been

producing all sorts of views completely different in my own. That

is what people would expect from this. What about the email? As so

does isolate it ceased to be operative and it has not really been

operative at all. We will talk to Norman Smith later on that.

Mental health providers in England say they've seen "no significant

investment" in psychiatric services for children

Last summer ministers said they would invest an additional

The television reported in the US has been awarded compensation after

being recorded in the heart hotel room by a stalker. The videos were

posted online. We have more on Maria Sharapova and what could signal the

end of her career potentially. We have a bulletin full of women but

not met the family positive reasons. -- necessarily.

The highest-earning female athlete in the world has failed

Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova tested positive during last month's

Now, the banned substance in question

is meldonium, which she says she's been taking since 2006

But, Sharapova says she was unaware it had recently been added

to the World Anti Doping Agency's banned list, because it's thought

Here's our tennis correspondent Russell Fuller.

Maria Sharapova's lawyer has spoken of a laundry list of extremely

mitigating circumstances he thinks should result in a dramatic

reduction of any sanction. If you tribunal decides the five-time Grand

Slam champion ingested the substance unintentionally the ban would be a

maximum of two gears which could be released reduced by half. She has

been the happiest earning athlete for each of the last five years but

that position could be under threat and Nike has suspended a contract.

Former Chelsea doctor Ava Carneiro has failed to come to an agreement

The two parties met for six hours yesterday,

as she looks to reach a settlement for constructive dismissal

The two parties will now proceed to a full public tribunal in June.

But it is still possible for a settlement to be

One of Britain's most prominent sporting stars and the double

Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton,

who only switched saddles and started

horse racing last year, will be riding at the Cheltenham

Despite critics arguing she's not ready, Pendleton won her first race

as an amateur jockey on Pacha du Polder last week,

and will partner him again in the Foxhunter Chase

at National Hunt Racing's premier meeting.

Within the first couple of days, it got me in the heart and I voted was

amazing. I loved it and I loved everything about them. And that it

has been successful and that I have found a second chance to do

something sporting in my life. So if Pendleton can switch

from cycling to horse rising, can another Olympic

star repeat the trick? Double Olympic gold medallist

Laura Trott, who also won two golds at the track world championship

in London last week, certainly doesn't see

herself switching saddles. I could not think of anything worse.

It is not for me. Hats off to Victoria. What she has done

switching over is incredible. She has some serious guts. To fall off

and come back and win shows the kind of character that she is. Good luck,

I guess, in her next race. I will have the headlines at 10:30am.

Welcome to the programme. We are on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel

until 11 a. We will bring you the latest news and developing stories.

We are keen to hear from you. My 12-year-old was suffering from

depression. Our GP referred him to a mental health service and during a

nine-month waiting time to see them we find our son in the kitchen with

a carving knife at his chest. We rang them to stress the urgency of

him seeing someone. We were told it might be worthwhile knowing that in

order to get an early appointment our son would need to seriously harm

themselves sufficient to take him to A Someone says it is hard to

explain mental health issues in this country. My 18-year-old daughter are

suffering because of slow process by the system. Someone says please

continue your brilliant efforts on behalf of children. Only by publicly

talking about it will anything change. Keep doing your best. All

the usual ways of getting in touch. You will be charged at the standard

network rate for text messages. You can watch the programme online or on

the BBC News app. She was born in the shadow of Chernobyl. She worked

her way up to become the worlds highest paid female sports star

worth almost $200 million. Maria Sharapova's career is in tatters

after admitting that she failed a drugs test in January. The former

world number one who has won five tennis grand slams tested positive

for a drug used to treat blood through restriction. She says she

has been taking it legally for ten years but failed to notice it was

put on a list of banned substances that applied from this January. I

wanted to let you know that a few days ago I received a letter from

the ITF that I had failed a drugs test at the Australian Open. I felt

the test and I take full responsibility for it. For the past

ten years I have been given a medicine by my doctor, my family

doctor. A few days ago after receiving the ITF I found out that

it also has another name which I did not know, meldonium. For ten years

this medicine was not on the banned list and I had been legally taking

the medicine for the past ten years. On January the 1st the rules changed

and meldonium became a prohibited substance. Which I had not known. I

was given this medicine by my doctor for several health issues that I was

having in 2006. I was getting sick a lot, I was getting the flu every

couple of months. I had a regular results. As well as indications of

diabetes with a family history of diabetes. I thought it was very

important for me to come out and speak about this in front of all of

you because they wrote my long career -- throughout my long career

I have been open and honest about many things and I take great

responsibility and professionalism in my job every single day and I

made a huge mistake and I have let my fans down, I have let the sport

down that I have been playing sings the age of four that I love so

deeply. I know that with this I face consequences and I do not want to

end my career this way. I've recall that I will be given another chance.

-- ie hope. She is facing a lengthy ban and two of her sponsors have

suspended their relationship with her. Her lawyer says he is hopeful

she can avoid a lengthy ban saying we think there is a laundry list of

extremely mitigating circumstances that once taken into account would

reduce any sanction. Jo Durie joins us now

from north-west London and we can also speak to Paul Dimeo

an expert at in sport doping What is your reaction? Shocked. It

is a desperate mistake from Maria Sharapova they did not look at the

new less than did not open email by all accounts. Every tennis player is

given a new less of banned substances. She has been taking it

for ten years for health problems. December of the 31st it is OK and

January the 1st it I think it is a genuine mistake and the desperate

mistake. Do you feel sympathy for her? I feel sympathy for her because

she is not stupid, she would not take something that is banned. She

is a good professional. She is being honest. If anybody watches that

interviews she has given you can see how devastated she is. Every athlete

knows whatever you put in your body you have to check that it is all

right and if you are taking something that is not all right you

are going to be banned. There was prior warning before the ban came in

from January saying that you did not open an email, is that enough? Yes,

I think every athlete knows that you have to look. She is surrounded by a

team of experts. That is what she pays them for. Why were they not on

this? Tell us about this drug. It is not something that has been on the

radar more widely but it was brought in to the list of banned substances

from the start of this year. What could it do? It is designed for

heart problems. It don't Mike increases circulation of red blood

cells which carry oxygen, the muscles can work better. It can aid

in general and sand work capacity. There were some signs that was going

to become a mag issue last year when surveys showed high prevalence,

athletes were using it. Particularly Russia, 17% of athletes were using

it compared to a wider international survey of 2.2% using it. There is

some context to this. I take the point that the people surrounding

Maria Sharapova should have been more aware of it. She says she had

been taking advertising years because of health issues. What sort

of health issues wouldn't be used for? -- would it.

Heart conditions, angina and things like that. She said she had small

issues. She also mentioned diabetes and magnesium deficiency, but I'm

not sure how they are connected. I do think it's potentially a genuine

case, but if it's her family Doctor Who's prescribed this, there seems

potentially to be a communication issue between that doctor and her

sports doctor. I'm not sure where she was getting

it. I believe she lives in the US, so if there were some questions that

came out... Lots of people getting in touch via social media on this.

Maria on Twitter says, she should know what a banned substance is and

be stripped of all her titles. William on e-mail, it's a technical

cheat, not a philosophical cheat. That ought to make the difference in

life. Derek on Twitter, not her fault, she should not be banned. I

feel disgusted by the Tennis Federation for not telling her.

Another texter, sorry but she got caught, her excuse is laughable. How

would you react to comments like that? A lot of comments going around

but it's been OK to take that drug for ten years. They only started

victing it last year and, from January 1st, they put it on the

banned list -- investigating it last year. She hasn't been cheating but

she's made a really big mistake not looking but the people around her

also not looking and there's ignorance of the facts. A lot of

tennis players and athletes will be now looking at the list of banned

substances and some might be panicking a bit. What would your

feeling be? Obviously we don't know all the facts, we have heard from

Maria Sharapova, she could potentially face a four-year ban but

her lawyers say there is a laundry list of mitigating circumstances,

the ban could be reduced to almost nothing, where on the spectrum is

your gut on this one this morning? Well I think it was a big mistake

but I still think it is a banned substance, yes, she should be

banned, I don't think four years, I think no, I think probably a year, I

don't know, it's going to go to arbitration obviously. Something

must be done to show, you know, the whole world, not only the tennis

world, that you can't take stuff, whether you are ignorant of the fact

or not. Thank you very much Jo and Paul. Another of Maria Sharapova's

sponsors Avon has been speaking, a holding statement, saying they don't

have a statement to make at this time, following on from Nike and Tag

Hauer withdrawing their sponsorship of Maria Sharapova.

The hidden abuse of breast ironing where girls living in this country

are forced to have their chests burnt with hot objects to destroy

breast development and prevent unwanted male attention.

One Tory MP tells this programme more needs to be done.

The family of a 27-year old man killed in a London pub last October

are calling for the man wanted in connection with his murder

Josh Hanson was stabbed in the neck in what is thought to be

Police say they're looking for 27-year-old Shane O'Brien

in connection with the assault and have offered a ten thousand

pound reward for information leading to a successful prosecution.

His name - and that of four others have been added to the UK's list

of most wanted fugitives who're thought to be hiding

The other four fugitives who police are keen to speak to are; 24 year

old David Ungi who is from Liverpool.

Police want to speak to him in connection with a fatal shooting

He's also accused of conspiracy to supply heroin.

Then there's 40-year-old David Walley who is described

He's wanted by police over allegations of drug trafficking

following a police operation in Manchester.

Also on the list is 29-year-old Shazad Ghafoor who's also

from Manchester and is wanted by police in connection with fraud,

possession of criminal property and possession of cannabis

And then there's Ahmed Omar who was on trial for drug offences

in November last year but absconded before it concluded.

Police are asking for anyone with any information about any

of these men to call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

We can talk now to Tracey and Brooke Hanson,

mother and brother of Josh Hanson who was stabbed and killed in a pub

Police want to speak to 28-year-old Shane O'Brien in connection

with the murder and believe he's now in the Netherlands.

Thank you for joining us Tracey and Brook. It was only last October that

your son was killed in a pub so it's all very recent for you. Must have

been an extremely difficult time. Take us back to that night and what

you're able to say about your understanding of what happened in

this what police say was a completely unprovoked attack? In the

early hours of Sunday morning 11th October, Josh was with his

girlfriend for a very short period of time. He was stabbed in the neck.

I received a phone call in the early hours of the morning to tell me that

Josh had been stabbed and Brooke and I made our way to the bar in East

Coates. That was confirmed to us by the police officers.

Total shock, dismay. Overwhelmed, obviously, trying to process that

information. Then finding out three days later that there was a suspect

that the police would like to speak so in connection with Josh's murder

and since that day we've been sharing a lot of grief alongside the

murder investigation and we are here today to ask for the public to come

forward if they know of anyone anywhere who might have information

as to the whereabouts of Shane O'Brien, or he himself, to make

contact with the police. What impact has that had on you knowing since

three days after the killing that there was somebody in particular

police want to be able to speak to about what happened and that they

haven't been able to speak to him yet? Well, at first, I think we felt

OK, so there is somebody that the police would like to speak to and

this would happen quite quickly. Every single waking moment of the

day is sharing our grief alongside the murder investigation, so where

we see Josh's face, we see Shane O'Brien's face. So we are sharing

our grief really, we are not being able to mourn in peace, if you like,

and just hold our memories of Josh. We are constantly aware that we need

to keep driving our justice for Josh Hanson campaign forward, sending out

the word and posters and asking the public for help in the hope that

Shane O'Brien will be caught. Tell us more about your son, Josh?

We have got pictures that you've given us of Josh, tell us what he

was like? Yes. Erm... Just lovely. A lovely

young man, hard-working, funny. Sorry.

Just very caring and considerate. A fantastic laugh. He kept us all

upbeat. He was our best friend as well. We had a were strong bond.

It's just every day, it's just not the same without him in our lives,

in this world, you know, it's just, we feel like, well I feel like I'm

behind a curtain for most of the time. We celebrated Josh's birthday

recently. I did a skydive which is something he did a few years back

for charity. We felt that being up in the sky would bring us closer to

him. It was an amazing experience and we've just been through Mother's

Day which was horrendous to look back on the cards that he'd given me

in the past few years and to read those messages and for Brooke to

have to write his card this year, so painful.

Just awful. Can't describe this pain. I wouldn't wish this on

anyone, it's just off, there's no goodbyes, just an horrific end to

such a promising life. Josh had so much to look forward to this year.

He was going to be an usher at his best friend's wedding. He had lots

of holiday plans. We were going on holiday. So... All of those hopes

and dreams for him have been just taken away. And also taken away from

us. How do you remember your brother, Brooke? Just my world

really, just addictive, amazing, always put a smile on your face.

Like mum said, it's just so empty without him. It's boring, it's dull,

we just miss him. He's just one of a kind. Police say he was a very

hard-working young man? Yes, very. He loved work, seven days a week.

Loved the gym as well seven days a week. He was very dedicated to the

gym and work. A very good boy. Very proud of him. Thank you both very

much for coming in and talking to us.

The Liberal Democrats are supporting a new report that calls

for the legalised sale of marijuana through licensed outlets,

The party says criminalising cannabis use is a waste of police

time and increases health risks by leaving many people in the dark

The Conservatives rejected Lib Dem calls to review drug laws

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, is at Westminster

and in Stockton-on-Tees is Tina Williams.

Tina saw for herself the effects of her children using cannabis.

Thank you very much for joining us. Tim Farron, why do you think it

should be legalised? The problem is that cannabis is at the moment

unregulated. The people who use it have no idea of the strength of what

they are using, and the stronger strains are I think proven to have

caused all sorts of problems, psychosis, emotional behaviour

disorders and other serious health problems. You also realise there are

billions of pounds every year going into the pockets of criminals, of

dealers, at the same time you have got the police spending time chasing

relatively low use and low risk users and, I guess the onus on the

government is to come up with reasons why we keep the status quo,

the status quo helps criminals, it makes people who're users, puts them

at huge risk of the more dangerous strains and causes massive health

problems. So we took the view, we need to look at this in an

evidence-based way, not to decide beforehand what our view was, but to

look at the evidence, to criminologists, police officers,

medics, academics, who could look at the evidence and see if there is a

way forward and we can make this problem less bad. These are our

proposals and we hope people will now take them forward. Tina, what do

you think? I think it's the wrong idea to actually legalise and

licence this so that you can raise revenue. Even the weaker strains

cause psychosis. I was around in the '60s and we saw it then with the

weaker strains. For me, what we see now is a lot of young people,

whether you legalise or don't, there'll still be a black market

because people want the stronger strains. The arrests for people

who're drug-driving is gone up 800%. What are you going to do, say we can

have it in one sense and not police the driving in another sense? Living

with some of these kids that we see in our service, we deal with

families in addiction, we see their behaviour, they become demotivated,

they don't want to work, the college suffers and the tempers flare up at

home, so much so that the families break apart. Now, whether it's

legalised or not, these are the effects of the resin and the skunk.

There's no differences in it really. Some people it causes psychosis,

some get away with smoking it and it doesn't, but for me to legalise it

sends the wrong message the people that it's OK to do this.

Tim? My response to that is that addiction is a bad thing. I mean,

let's put it bluntly, I'm a Liberal, I'm against anything that robs you

of your Liberty, including addiction to substances. The most dangerous

substance that've s the largest number of people in this country is

alcohol. In the same way that we regulate that and it's illegal to

drive under the influence of that, you should do the same with the

drugs and there should be harsh penalties. The point is, working out

how best the deal, because there is no perfect solution to this, how to

best deal with this situation and the evidence is from around the

world that if you put cannabis in a regulated market, then you can not

keep people utterly safe but better protect them than they currently

are. For one thing you make the mass of majority of cannabis users out of

the same place where heroin, cocaine and other hard-drug users are in.

The linkage,s the not me saying we should have a free-for-all or saying

cannabis is good for you, it really isn't. It's me saying here's the

evidence, we have got to look at it and stop pretending the current

situation isn't working. I meet loads of people affected by

different levels of drug addiction for themselves personally or within

their family. Alcohol addiction even more. What I ask myself is, how can

I make that situation even a bit better? The evidence is, if you

regulate the market, treat users as people who're got a health problem

rather than a criminal one, you undermine the dealers and the

criminals, you give the police the ability and the tools to tackle

those who 're the real criminals and you provide at least some protection

for those people who use the substances.

Tina? Listen - this is the beginning, you legalise cannabis,

then what's next, legalise cocaine? The most dangerous drug in our

society is alcohol which is fully legalised and regulated. I'm not

sure if you or I if someone came up with alcohol today should decide

whether we should or not put it in a legal framework. What about the

question about cocaine? The evidence is not supported around

harder drugs. There are a lot many places where harder drugs are

legalised. My inkling is that should not. What

Dax up is that if you provide regulated framework for cannabis

then people who use it go to that place to buy yet and therefore are

not being offered the hard drugs that people on the street are

offered a new so if you regulate cannabis use then you prevent people

moving onto heroin, cocaine and so on. The argument from people moving

onto heroin, heroin is a drug that is in decline. The rise in drug use

is cocaine which is widely used every week and we have seen problems

in the family with that. We need to police these problems, put more

money into policing the issues. We do not agree with criminalising

people who take drugs. It is an addiction and we need more money in

treatment. We agree. We do not criminalise people. There has been

very few convictions for personal position. The police do not waste

time with that. We need more police to tackle the dealers, the big

problem is that we have in our society. It is wrong to say that

because we cannot deal with that we are going to legalise it. To say

from a defeatist point of view we cannot deal with that and we must

legalise it that would be wrong. In my community at his heartbreaking

the situation. We live it. Do not trivialise that. We see the

families. Smashed to pieces because of kids who cannot cope. Even if it

was legal and they were buying at they would still have problems

because it takes their motivation away. I see it. I would take anybody

to get the idea that I think drugs are a good thing. I think the

opposite. I take my duty as a constituency MP phenomenally

seriously and I see people in my surgeries every week when I see

people on the street and I see people who themselves or family

members have serious addiction problems, nine times out of ten it

is alcohol, it is how best do you help these people. Thank you. No

proven link with psychosis, that is debunked mess, someone says. Mental

health problems where mental health is already an issue. Let us move

with the times and change our approach to drugs.

The hidden abuse of breast ironing where girls living in this

country are forced to have their chests burnt with hot objects

One Tory MP tells this programme more needs to be done.

The energy firm Npower confirms it is cutting 2,400 jobs in the UK

after reporting an "extremely disappointing" performance in 2015,

including the loss of more than 350,000 customers

after problems with complaints handling and billing.

Its boss said overhauling the group would be a huge task.

EU leaders say they have made a breakthrough plan to ease

the migrant crisis by agreeing the outlines of a deal with Turkey.

The Turkish government says it will take back all illegal migrants

arriving on the Greek islands as long as the EU accepts

an equivalent number of Syrians from camps in Turkey.

Two leading sponsors have already moved to distance themselves

from the tennis champion Maria Sharapova after she last night

The sportswear giant Nike says it's suspending its relationship

with the star while the Swiss watch brand Tag Heuer says it

won't continue talks to renew her contract.

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has told MPs that British

membership of the EU has increased the dynamism of the UK economy and

helped it to grow, the first time he has expressed a view on the EU in or

out debate. Boris Johnson says a memo

instructing his senior staff to back him over the EU referendum

or keep quiet has been withdrawn The London mayor, who wants to leave

the EU, said the email was "a cock-up" and that his staff

were not being silenced. The world's highest earning

sportswomen Maria Sharapova has felt a drugs test. She tested positive

during last month's Australian Open. The substances got to improve

endurance and recovery. If a chimera has felt to come to an agreement

with Chelsea. The parties will proceed to a full tribunal in June

but it is possible for a settlement to be reached before then. Double

Olympic cycling champion, who started horse racing last year, will

be riding at the Cheltenham festival last week. She won her first race as

an amateur last week and will partner the same horrors. -- horse.

There is more throughout the day on the BBC News Channel. Mark Carney

has given his strongest hint yet that he supports Britain remaining

in the European Union. Our political editor can tell us what he has been

saying. A surprising morning because all of us watching the governor of

the Bank of England thought it would be cautious, careful, on the one

hand, on the other hand, far from it. Mark Carney has said he thinks

we are better off economically in the EU. In a letter to MPs on the

committee he said we conclude that EU membership as likely increase the

dynamism of the UK economy and its ability to grow without generating

risks to the bank's primary objectives. That is about as clear a

signal as you can get that Mark Carney thinks we are by and large

better off remaining inside the EU. Not surprisingly it has infuriated

many of those campaigning to get out of the EU on the Tory and Labour

side. A Labour MP said he was overstating the case for Britain's

membership. A Tory said he was damaging the reputation of the Bank

of England and demeaning his reputation. Why did he say this? Is

argument seems to be because of access to the single market. He

regards that has a massive boost to the sort of trade Britain can do. He

says we can get more foreign companies investing in Britain than

any other country in the EU because we are part of the EU. He said he

had been told by the bosses of some big banks that the reason they have

their headquarters in London is because we are part of the EU. I

have no doubt that Number 10 and those who want us to remain in the

EU will be doing a dance of joy this morning. Mark Carney got a kicking

in the committee from those MPs want to leave were not happy about what

he said. This was his reply. The language we have used in the report,

the language we use in the letter, is careful. It is not conclusive. It

is arguable. These are these long pauses between each word. It matters

because the governor is the governor and people tend to listen to what he

says. This referendum is a battle of credibility. How do you trust? How

do you believe? In that class Mark Carney is the sort of person you

want on your side. The remains side are probably thinking yes, that as a

result. A new phrase has entered the lexicon, an ex-edict.

The borders story this morning is this. Or this work up to accusations

of hypocrisy following the disclosure that his chief of staff

had said an email to senior staff at City Hall barring them from

contradicting Boris Johnson's support for leaving be you. This is

what the email actually said. I would

expect, given your roles, you either advocate the mere's position

or do not openly contradicted. -- mayor's. That

prompted accusations of hypocrisy because he led the charge against

the so-called agents of project failure. The boss of the British

Chambers of Commerce broke out in favour of Brexit.

8:30am this morning and suddenly Boris executed what can only be

described as a crunching U-turn. This is what he said. You can tell

they are not gagged because there might have been producing all sorts

of use completely different to my own. That is what people would

expect. Why did your G. I saw that it ceased to be operative

and it has not really been operative at all. You have seen all sorts of

views. Insofar as that was ever operative, it is over, dead, this

indeed, it is an ex-edict. It has ceased to be

operative and ceased to function. It has gone

from history. All right? We wanted a robust debate in which everybody can

express their point of view. That is what the people want and that is

what they are going to get. I would point out there is a stark contrast

in our know if you saw the Monty Python

sketch, the dead parrot sketch, when he goes on about it being a dead

parrot. I think that is what he was alluding to. Fun and games, but it

matters. Talking about Mark Carney and credibility. So much of this

tussle will come down to who we think are the credible figures. Who

do voters look to in terms of trust? The danger for Boris Johnson is that

maybe people think he is great fun but am I sure he is on the detail?

This followed what people thought was a difficult interview people

thought he had at the weekend with Andrew Marr when there were lots of

bold statements but when you got down to the nitty-gritty there was

criticism of Boris Johnson for perhaps not being as much in control

of the details. That is why these two stories matter because for all

of the arguments we get at the end of the day when people have to

decide yes or no it may come down to that very basic thing of who do I

trust? He knows how to perform a U-turn in style.

It's a painful form of mutilation where young girls, as young as 10,

are forced to have their chests burnt with hot objects to destroy

breast development and prevent unwanted male attention.

It's known as breast ironing and is practised in parts of west

Now one Conservative MP tells us more needs to be done in the UK

to prevent what is described as the "hidden abuse".

There have been no prosecutions for breast ironing in the UK,

but campaigners believe this is because it is a secret abuse

in which young women are too scared to speak out.

Stella endured breast ironing every day for 3 months whilst she was 13

and living in Cameroon in West Africa:

They took a spatula and put it in a fryer and pressed it and pressed it

and they kept on doing it until the breasts finally went.

Of course it hurts, it's hot, it's hot.

It feels like if you put something hot

It takes away your confidence, your self-esteem, you cannot

take your dress off in front of people.

It really affects you psychologically.

Conservative MP Jake Berry is calling for police forces

and government departments to do more to recognise breast ironing

And Margaret Nyuydzewira from CAME Women

and Girls Development Organisation - a charity that specialises in

, Jake do you believe it's happening in the UK? I do. It's difficult to

recognise it's happening because it's a form of abuse sometimes

commitd by close members of the family, mother, sister, aunt,

grandmother. The nearest thing I can compare it to is female genital

mutilation which we believed wasn't happening in this country until

people raised awareness of it and gained more confidence to come

forward and say, I am a victim of this form of abuse and I believe

breast ironing is similar. It originates in Cameroon, I believe it

may be endemic within the black African community in the UK who will

bring cultural practices with them and I think it's really, really

important that, else specially on International Women's Day, that we

speak out and say, people who are suffering in this way have to have

the confidence to come forward, report it, it's a crime. There's a

lot more I believe the Government should do to tackle it and raise

awareness of it. I was particularly concerned at the figures that have

been released today show that police forces in the UK either don't know

this exists because they'd never heard of it and it's an unnone

problem or freely admit they don't have the tools and information to

tackle it if they do crop across it. Why do you believe it's happening in

the UK? Is it an expectation, or have you had people talking to you?

Margaret and I have been working together to try to identify it in

the UK. Margaret, with her charity, has done fantastic work and spoken

to victims of breast ironing here in the UK who simply won't come

forward. If you look at the 2015 change in the law we made around

FGM, we provided anonymity for victims to enable them to feel

empowered to come forward and report the crime. We need, I think,

anonymity for victims in the case of breast ironing, we also need a

Government directive that goes out to the police forces, to ask them to

identify it. Crucially and finally, with FGM, we made it a criminal

offence for people, when they become aware of it, not to report it. I

think if we could do the same with breast ironing, we'd see this is a

problem happening here to young women and girls in the UK. Margaret,

tell us what you understand about what is going on?

We started work in 2010: We started work because we realised that the

practise was ongoing. We come from the practising community, let me

say, and we work with African women and girls. This is one of the

violences which is among African women and girls here in the UK.

Has it been happening here in the UK on a daily basis to young girls? We

cannot say on a daily basis because no research has been carried out.

Nobody has carried out any research to realise who is doing it, but we

know that it's being done. How many people have you come across and what

stories have you heard? Well, the first story I heard was the lady who

was arrested in Birmingham, that was in 2011, for breast ironing by a

policeman. She was arrested for breast ironing? For performing that

on her daughter, yes. But, because the lady argued that that was her

culture, they let go. I said no, it's not culture or practises which

is done in secrecy on young girls at home. We cannot allow that to go on

as a culture. If culture is doing harm to young girls. Any harm that

is done to a little girl in this country, it's an issue and we must

talk about it. It's not the numbers that we are counting. We know a list

is ongoing. We cannot say it's ten people, even if it's when person...

Have you heard of any other cases being reported to police where PLOs

hasn't gone ahead -- prosecution? Yes, a doctor reported a case in

North London and then there was a lady who was deported from here

because of breast ironing. Is that the answer? That's not the answer.

What do you think about that, Jake It's very hard to quantify the

extent of breast ironing. But if cases are being put forward to

police and they are not moving that forward? I think that's completely

wrong because this is a criminal offence but I don't believe the law

is clear and that's why I'm hoping the Government will take action in

the call I make today which is to ask the Government to take further

action in a similar way they did with FGM. The Government's done

fantastic work with that, but ten years ago, people were probably sat

on sofas like this saying FGM doesn't happen in the UK, it was

completely hidden. Today, we have to release the figures. I'm working on

a further report seeing what local authorities' responses are to the

issues and hoping to raise the profile to empower young women and

girls to feel they can come forward. This is a hidden problem. If you put

yourself in a normal family situation, if your mother is doing

something to you, even if you don't feel comfortable with it, you are

being told it's the right thing, it's normal, your culture practise,

you wouldn't necessarily believe this is something you have to report

to the police. Until we raise people's awareness of this female

mutilation, then no-one will feel confident enough to do that.

Jake and Margaret, thank you very much.

"The Government is serious about stopping violence

against women and girls and has made it a priority.

No one should live in fear of these crimes."

Breaking news. The Court of Appeal says smoking ban does not apply to

prisons and other places. The prison Governor's association

supports the ban, but the legal ban on smoking in public places does not

apply to state prisons and other crown premises in England and Wales,

the Court of Appeal has ruled. We'll bring you more on that as we get it.

Npower workers are facing an uncertain future

morning after the company confirmed that a fifth of its UK workforce

will lose their jobs, that's 2,400 people -

The firm's reported a loss of almost ?100 million for last year.

With me in the studio is Niall Trimble of the Energy

Unison says the company's offices in Leeds will be closed down as part of

this. Niall Trimble and Tom Allison from GMB are with me. Your reaction

Tom? It's devastating news, Joanna. .

There was a leak on Sunday which indicated huge job losses which

affected npower employees and spoilt Mothering Sunday for people. It's a

devastating impact. Especially in the northern area. You've mentioned

Leeds where I am in the studio now and we have a huge employee base

where I represent in Houghton and Peterlee as well. Niall, hello. The

company has had problems, 350,000 customers have walked away. Is that

what has been behind all of this? Some of it. They have had huge

computer problems which means people have been getting the wrong bills or

they haven't billed people at all or can't bill them because the time

lapses. They have had problems with low power prices in particular so

it's a combination of things. Tom, does the company only have itself to

blame? Well, I would suggest that the problems that Niall's outlined

would be on the management of our members so, you know, I think it's a

higher level, maybe the culpability. If it's an issue of energy prices,

could other energy firms find themselveses in the same

predicament? Not so much. Quite a lot of the problems, some are

suffering, certainly with power prices but the problems with the

computer systems seem to be yew knee to npower. In terms of picking up,

it's cutting 2400 jobs as it tries to get its business into better

shake -- unique. Do you see them getting anywhere from here? They

have to sort out the computer problems, better that than making

people redundant. Tom, how do you see that? Devastating for people and

they are obviously hoping the problems can be sorted out? One of

the reasons is, we don't know the scale of the job losses and how it

will effect us. That's the uncertainty and insecurity, it's not

good for the employees and the members and because of the effect in

the northern area, what we are finding, we haven't got a northern

powerhouse with the job losses in the northern areas, they are tended

to be regarded as the northern "poor" house.

Time to bring you this. Adele super fans got pulled on stage by Adele in

Dublin. She'd become aware of them because they made cover versions of

her songs. This is what happened. You can't put it online and me being

in Dublin not tell you to come up. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Can you hear yourselves? Take it away.

# I've heard that you're settled down

# That you found a girl # And you're married now

# I heard that your dreams came true

# Guess he gave you things

# # I can't keep up with your turning

tables # Under my thumb

# I can't breathe... # Victoria is back