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Police Officers who worked for South Yorkshire Police are told | :00:07. | :00:19. | |
they "did a good job" in the 1980s, despite the damning criticism | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
of them in the Hillsborough inquests. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Thousands attended a vigil in Liverpool last night as pressure | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
mounts for a fundamental shake-up of the South Yorkshire force. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
They're some of the most vulnerable | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
children in the country, so why is the mental | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
health of kids in care not being looked after properly? | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
And doctors say e-cigs are better for you than the real thing | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
and if you're a smoker you should switch to vaping - | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
and the BBC news channel until 11 this morning. | :00:59. | :01:15. | |
We're all going to get our say on whether we should be in or out | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
of Europe in a few weeks but what about Brits who live abroad | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Some of them want to have a vote in June and this morning a court | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking | :01:28. | :01:41. | |
about this morning - use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
And don't forget if you've got a story you think we should be | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
Some of our best stories come from you, our viewers. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
a good job" in the 1980s, despite the damning criticism of | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The officers have been praised as dedicated, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Those remarks are from a group supporting retired | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
officers, and they've accidentally been made public. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
The Chief Constable was suspended yesterday because of the approach | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
Tens of thousands filled the centre of Liverpool to remember the 96, | :02:18. | :02:37. | |
joining together in the anthem they sing in their honour. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Then the news filtered through that the Chief Constable | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
of South Yorkshire Police, David Crompton, had been suspended. | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Let's hope that's only the beginning of what is going to be | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
done, because all of you alongside all of us have had 27 years | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Let's hope they're getting theirs now. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Throughout the two-year inquest, lawyers for South Yorkshire police | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
repeatedly suggested the Liverpool fans were partly | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
David Crompton was suspended by the Police and Crime Commissioner | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
of the force, who said there had been an erosion of trust. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
The Chief Constable is the public face of South Yorkshire Police | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Therefore, if there is a draining away of confidence in the chief | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Two criminal investigations into South Yorkshire Police have | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
One into manslaughter and another possible offences on that day | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
at Hillsborough, the 15th of April 1989. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
The other is examining allegations of a police cover-up afterwards. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
It's taken 27 years for the families to hear their loved ones | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
were unlawfully killed, and they won't stop their fight | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
until they feel those responsible have been brought to justice. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
Our correspondent Dan Johnson is outside the South Yorkshire Police | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
Fresh controversy this morning over comments made by a retired member | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
This force just cannot escape the scandals and failures of its past. | :04:16. | :04:30. | |
That is completely overshadowing the current day force, and it has cost | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
the job of the Chief Constable at least, who was suspended from duty | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
yesterday. It is the Deputy Chief Constable who will be leading this | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
force when she arrives for work this morning, and the force has to | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
somehow try to rebuild and move on from everything that has gone on, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
because there are still officers out on the streets who have to do the | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
job will protect people in South Yorkshire. No doubt their morale has | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
suffered across the force has taken such a battering. It is the response | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
of some of these historical failings that is still having such an impact, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
and this fresh controversy linking to comments that were posted by | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
mistake on the website of the South Yorkshire retired police officers | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Association. There was a press statement posted there yesterday, a | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
public statement which sent out condolences to the Hillsborough | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
families in the aftermath of the inquest conclusions, and said that | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
the association stood by those verdicts. But below that, there was | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
another posting which was entitled, it was a bad day, and it appears | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
this was only supposed to be circulated between retired police | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
officers. In that posting, the secretary of the Association, wrote, | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
we tried to remain dignified amongst all the bile and hatred directed | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
towards South Yorkshire Police and those of us who served in the 80s. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
After all that transpired yesterday, I worked in a great police force, it | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
is my belief, with fantastic people who did extraordinary things. He | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
goes on to say he is extremely proud to be an ex-South Yorkshire cop, and | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
will hold his head up high. He goes through the challenges that the | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
force faces, the steel strike, the miners dispute, Hillsborough, and he | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
says yes, mistakes were made, and we would all like to turn the clock | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
back, but he said beyond those headlines, the people of South | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Yorkshire would served by dedicated police officers. He says you will be | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
feeling angry and disheartened, but we did a good job, we all did. These | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
comments have caused some hurt amongst Hillsborough families. Last | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
night, we got reaction from Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
died in the disaster. There were 200 officers walking around, aimlessly, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
no direction, no leadership. And when people were trying to climb out | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
of pens three and pen four, police officers were pushing them back in, | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
so I don't accept that. The officer who made that posting has now taken | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
the comments down and says they were never intended for public | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
consumption and he never meant to cause offence, it is another example | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
of how this force is struggling to move on from its past. There are | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
even questions about whether the force should continue to exist in | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
the future. Dan, thank you very much indeed. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Well, more on that in a few minutes, but first here's Annita | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
The Labour Party has a serious problem with anti-Semitism, | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
according to one of its most high profile peers. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
following the suspension of the Labour MP, Naz Shah, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
for comments she made about Israel before she entered Parliament. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
She has apologised, but the peer said people were increasingly | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
using attacks on Israel as a way of showing their hatred | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
I think it just shows such ignorance, and the tweets and | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
comments she made on Hitler, I just begin to almost scratch my head in | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
despair as to how people like this can enter our Parliament. Lord | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Leavy. A group of economists will say today | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
that leaving the European Union would benefit Britain's | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
financial services sector and could lead to a fall | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
in unemployment. the Prime Minister and the former | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
leader of the TUC, Sir Brendan Barber, have set | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
aside their political differences to write an article | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
for the Guardian, arguing the case Smokers should be encouraged | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
to switch to e-cigarettes to help them quit, according to a report | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
by the Royal College of Physicans. It says its findings lay to rest | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
nearly all the concerns Here's our health correspondent, | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Adam Brimelow. The growing popularity | :08:43. | :08:57. | |
of e-cigarettes has prompted debate about their safety and potential | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
to help people quit tobacco smoking and the risk they may | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
encourage some to take it up. The Royal College of Physicians | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
concludes the impact so far has been positive, | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
they have helped many thousands to quit and the switch | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
to vaping is a dramatic step The report says e-cigarettes are not | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
a gateway to smoking. In the UK they are used mostly | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
by current or former It acknowledges harm | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
from long-term use is possible, but is likely to be very small | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
and it says they will become safer We have so far seen a very positive | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
development and in particular have helped many thousands | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
of smokers to quit smoking. So this is an opportunity | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
that we should be seizing for public health and managing, | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
rather than trying to snuff out. Welcoming the report, | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
the Department of Health in England said there were now more | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
than a million people who have completely replaced | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
smoking with e-cigarettes. But some public health experts | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
remain cautious and say more research is needed | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
to understand the risks. A group of MPs says many | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
children in care are falling through the cracks when it comes | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
to their mental health. The education select committee found | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
that almost half of children who are looked after by local | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
authorities or in foster care have a diagnosable | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
mental health disorder. The MPs say children | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
in care are four times more likely than their peers | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
to have a mental health condition. Profits at Facebook have tripled | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
in the first quarter of 2016, compared to a year ago, | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
rising to more than Most of the revenues came | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
from a boom in advertising The social networkers continued to | :10:34. | :10:45. | |
grow, and 1.65 billion people are logging on at least once a month, | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
that is 200 million more people than time last year. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Back to you, Norman. Annita, thank you so much. | :10:56. | :11:08. | |
Should the Labour Party Stamp Act anti-Semitism? Some feel that it | :11:09. | :11:23. | |
should. Do get in touch with the usual methods. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Sport now, and more crisis in British Cycling this morning. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Good morning. The crisis at British Cycling has | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
deepened since we covered The suspended technical director | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Shane Sutton has now resigned, he says to take any distraction away | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
from the team as they prepare UK Sport has also asked | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the organisation to investigate whether official TeamGB kit, | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
paid for by National Lottery funds - including a high-performance bike - | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
is being sold online for profit. Well, Sutton has been accused | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
of making sexist comments and also being highly offensive | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
in the terms he used to describe He denies the specific claims | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
against him and says he will co-operate with an independent | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
review to examine the culture It is really, really important that | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
we have this independent review so that anybody who has had those | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
experiences, they get a chance to talk to an independent panel, and we | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
can fully investigate that. It is not many people's experience of | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
British Cycling, but it should be investigated independently? Is it | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
your experience? Not at all. So are you surprised? I am, but that is why | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
we need an independent panel to investigate this, we need to look at | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
these allegations. Ian Drake talking to our | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
sports editor Dan Roan. You know we had Vladimir Klitchsko | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
doing the rounds here yesterday, thankfully we didn't have Tyson Fury | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
because we might have seen this. The | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
World heavyweight Champion showed went head to head to promote | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
their rematch in Manchester in July. Fury goaded Klitschko by saying how | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
the Ukrainian lost to a fat man six months ago but he can beat him again | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
in any kind of shape although he did I am naturally fit. I could do 12 | :13:14. | :13:31. | |
rounds when I weigh 20 stone, fat pig, it is not about how hard you | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
train, it is the natural energy you have got. I could do ten rounds | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
right now. I ran six miles yesterday afternoon, and then I did one hour | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
on the cross trainer and one hour on a bike, so I can't be that unfit, | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
and I have only just started training! | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
We had a goal in the second of the Champions League semifinals | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Atletico Madrid have a 1-0 lead against | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Bayern Munich ahead of the second leg in Germany next week . | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
It was a terrific solo effort from Saul. | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Remember Manchester City and Real Madrid drew 0-0 | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
Champion John Higgins to reach his first semifinal | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
at the World Snooker Championship in 23 years. | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
He beat his good friend and compatriot 13 frames to 11 | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
The other semifinal will be between Marco Fu and world number | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
Fu was 9-1 up against Barry Hawkins but held on to win 13-11 as well. | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
Both semifinals will be on BBC Two and across the BBC, | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
the first of them starts at one this afternoon | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
That's all your sport for now, I'll be back | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
The inquest sat for over two years and whilst the families of the 96 | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
Hillsborough victims celebrated the conclusions, the focus is now | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Despite the damning criticism of the force, a group representing | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
retired officers in South Yorkshire has told its members they should be | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
proud of their work during the 1980s. | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
The message was made public accidentally and then withdrawn. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
The current Chief Constable was suspended yesterday and some | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
are calling for the force to be broken up. | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
30,000 people attended a vigil in Liverpool last night | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
There were emotional scenes as the crowd joined together | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
# When you walk through the storm # Hold your head up high | :15:36. | :15:53. | |
# And don't be afraid of the dark # At the end of the storm | :15:54. | :16:09. | |
# There's a golden sky # And the sweet silver | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
# Walk on through the wind # Walk on through the rain | :16:20. | :16:45. | |
# Though your dreams # Be tossed and blown | :16:46. | :17:03. | |
# Walk on walk on # With hope in your heart | :17:04. | :17:20. | |
# And you'll never walk alone # You'll never walk alone #. | :17:21. | :17:47. | |
Louise Brookes lost her 26-year-old brother Andrew at Hillsborough. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Louise, I imagine with the inquest verdict comic you had hoped to have | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
reached the end of the road and yet it seems not, with very serious | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
questions Navas in South Yorkshire Police. Let me ask you first, what | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
was your feeling when you heard this morning about that posed by the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
retired officer saying they should be proud because they had done a | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
good job? I am not surprised at all with their attitude. This just goes | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
to prove what kind of people us families and the survivors have been | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
up against for the last 27 years. Let me make myself perfectly clear. | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
The 96, and the survivors and us families are really the victim of a | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
crime. And these officers, the minority of the police officers, did | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
help, but the majority of the officers that they were too busy | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
holding hands across the football pitch. Some of them were looking in | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
the pens and literally turned away, some were putting people back in the | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
pens. Not only that, they carried on by lying, covering up, trying to | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
blame the 96 and the survivors, but also accusing us families and the | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
campaigners of actually lying. Now, as we know, there have been | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
statements edited, amended, and I just think it is absolutely | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
disgraceful that in a country like this where both myself and Andrew | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
were brought up to respect the police, and we were taught that if | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
we were in any trouble at all that the police were there to help us. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Let me ask you this, Louise, if I may, a lot of people watching might | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
have thought that the police were disgrace. Although that was a long | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
time ago. Surely the key question now is, is that historic, whether | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
the South Yorkshire Police force has changed or whether those attitudes | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
are still endemic in the Force? Obviously I cannot speak for the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
other officers within the force. I can only speak in relation to the | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
Chief Constable, and obviously by his actions, recently, and even when | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
he accused usual Mac families and campaigners of lying,... Should he | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
be sacked because he's been suspended. I do think so. Another | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
thing I want to make clear is, not one police officer ever lost one | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
day's pay due to Hillsborough. And as we know some of these high | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
ranking officers as well as the PC sergeants, inspectors, they have | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
retired on full pensions. My father had in breakdown and he never | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
returned to work. And then my father had to live on what was classed as | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
half a pension. And we did absolutely nothing wrong. The 96, | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
our families, survivors, we did absolutely nothing wrong! These | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
offices are living their lives, they have no shame, they just don't care, | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
they are covering themselves constantly. And I really believe, | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
that when you tell a Lie, and tell that life was so long you start | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
believing it is the truth. Where will this end? Because potentially | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
it could end in criminal charges, it could end with the disbanding of the | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
South Yorkshire force. From your point of view what do you want to be | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
the potential outcome -- the eventual outcome? I would like | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
certain people to go to prison because in my opinion, criminal | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
offences have occurred, also, if you think about South Yorkshire Police, | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
I have never known a police force with such a bad reputation in my | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
life. The miners strike, Hillsborough, Rotherham... It's just | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
absolutely despicable. The country we live in, it shouldn't be | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
happening in a country like this. It just should not. In the House of | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Commons yesterday Andy Burnham was saying that it wasn't just the | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
police. There was a culture in the media, the establishment, | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Parliament. Do we now live in a different country, or are those | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
attitudes in the press and amongst politicians that allowed this | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
cover-up to happen still exist? I still think cover-ups go on but it | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
is a bit more difficult to cover up. A prime example with the police for | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
instance is, back in the 1980s, when people were interviewed, it was all | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
done by witness statement and was no record of interviews. That has | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
changed for the better. There are a minority of people who think they | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
are above the law. And they think they can do things all get away with | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
it. I think one thing is that your past will always catch up with you. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
And these people need to be accountable for their actions, or | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
that lack of actions that day which sent 96 innocent people to their | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
graves. For many people watching, one of the most extraordinary things | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
about your story is the persistence and determination to keep going | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
through those long years, through the odds against you, whether ever | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
times when you thought, we'll have move on? Absolutely not. I don't | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
know one single person within the families who ever thought that, who | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
ever said that. Us Hillsborough families come from all over the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
country, from different backgrounds, different personalities, but we have | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
such a unique bond, I am absolutely proud of every single family member, | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
everything one of them. And do you know what, I would not have wanted | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
to have fought this battle with any other 95 families. I am so proud of | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
of them. We heard about how bruising and painful the inquest process was | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
when the police almost seemed to disown their previous apology, again | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
putting forward the stories about the behaviour of the fans. How | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
difficult was that? Personally, for me, it is difficult but when you | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
have been fighting, fighting these people for 27 years, sadly, you get | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
used to it. Nothing shocks us Hillsborough families any more. And | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
that is the sad thing about it. We are just used to it. We have done | :25:38. | :25:49. | |
absolutely nothing wrong. The 96 survivors did absolutely nothing | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
wrong. This is my personal opinion. This is what goes through my mind, I | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
actually wonder if there is anything more sinister behind Hillsborough | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
because I don't understand why people are so determined for the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
truth not to come out. I find that very, very difficult. We've had | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
investigations in the past into different things like the Jimmy | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Savile case. And the truth has come out. But for some reason, people do | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
not want the full truth. There have been suggestions about the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Freemasons. Whether that had some sort of influence, do you think that | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
was part of it? I definitely believe that. That is my personal opinion, I | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
cannot speak for anyone else, any other families, that is my opinion. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Louise, thank you so much, we really appreciate this. Thank you. An | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
e-mail from Derek. He says, I think the police should be accountable for | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
what happened at Hillsborough but what good is it in suspending the | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Chief Constable of South Yorkshire? He had nothing to do with | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Hillsborough. It is those who were involved that should be tried. One | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
tweet says that South Yorkshire Police are a disgrace with lies and | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
covering up and nothing to be proud of. A text message from Allison, can | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
someone say publicly that many of the officers serving in the South | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Yorkshire Police to date have nothing to do with this disaster. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Many of them were not born of them. They are not the ones rotten to the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
core. How can they do their jobs now with all this hatred towards their | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
force? And e-mail message from Robert, making one mistake doesn't | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
make you bad at your job. Also you can't take an incident in isolation. | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
There was a lot of bad behaviour by football hooligans at the time of | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Hillsborough and this cannot but influence the behaviour of police. | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
That is not to excuse the police but neither should they take all the | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
blame. Tweet from Russell, Hillsborough shows a culture of | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
cover-up and deceit does exist. Another area of concern is the | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
activities of social services. Still to come. Almost half of children in | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
care or living with foster parents have a mental health disorder. We | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
will hear some of their stories and talk to people trying to make a | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
difference. And should expats who have lived outside the UK figures be | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
allowed to vote in the EU referendum? We'll bring you the | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
latest on a court judgment to decide if they can. | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
Well, more on that in a few minutes -- but first here's Annita | :28:46. | :28:59. | |
in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest of the day's news. | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
The Labour Party has a serious problem with anti-semitism, | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
according to one of its most high profile peers. | :29:05. | :29:06. | |
Lord Levy was speaking following the suspension | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
of the Labour MP, Naz Shah, for comments she made about Israel | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
She has apologised, but the peer said people were increasingly | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
using attacks on Israel as a way of showing their hatred | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
A group of economists will say today that leaving the European Union | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
would benefit Britain's financial services sector - and could lead | :29:22. | :29:23. | |
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and the former | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
leader of the TUC, Sir Brendan Barber, have set | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
aside their political differences to write an article | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
for the Guardian, arguing the case for staying IN the European Union. | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
A group of MPs says many children in care are falling | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
through the cracks when it comes to their mental health. | :29:40. | :29:47. | |
The Education Select Committee found that almost half | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
of children who are looked after by local authorities or in | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
foster care, have a diagnosable mental health disorder. | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
The MPs say children in care are four times more | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
likely than their peers to have a mental health condition. | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
Smokers should be encouraged to switch to e-cigarettes to help | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
them quit, according to a report by the Royal College of Physicans. | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
It says its findings lay to rest nearly all the concerns | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
The report also says that fears that e-cigarettes are gateway to smoking | :30:10. | :30:21. | |
are unfounded. Philip Hammond is due to arrive | :30:22. | :30:29. | |
in Cuba later today. It'll be the first time | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
a British Foreign Secretary has During the trip he is expected | :30:33. | :30:34. | |
to formalise an agreement to cancel millions of pounds worth | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
of Cuba's debt. The visit comes after a UK trade | :30:39. | :30:40. | |
delegation to the country agreed around ?350 million worth | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
of investment in a wide range A 26-year-old woman has been shot | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
dead by her two-year-old son while driving in the American | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
city of Milwaukee. Police say the child found the gun, | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
which belonged to the victim's boyfriend, and accidentally fired | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
it from the back seat. Profits at Facebook have tripled | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
in the first quarter of 2016, compared to a year ago, | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
rising to over ?1 billion. Most of the revenues | :31:01. | :31:02. | |
came from a boom in By the end of March, 1.6 billion | :31:03. | :31:17. | |
people were logging on at least once a month. That is a summary of the | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
latest BBC News, more at ten o'clock. Now we get the latest | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
sports news. The crisis at British Cycling has | :31:29. | :31:39. | |
deepened since we covered The suspended technical director | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
Shane Sutton has now resigned, he says to take any distraction away | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
from the team as they prepare UK Sport has also asked | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
the organisation to investigate whether official TeamGB kit, | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
paid for by National Lottery funds - including a high-performance bike - | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
is being sold online for profit. Tyson Fury insists that he is | :31:56. | :32:08. | |
fighting fit and ready to beat Wladimir Klitschko again. | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
The World heavyweight Champion showed | :32:12. | :32:12. | |
went head to head to promote their rematch in Manchester in July. | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
Fury goaded Klitschko by saying how the Ukrainian lost to a fat man six | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
months ago but he can beat him again in any kind of shape although he did | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
We had a goal in the second of the Champions League semifinals | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
Atletico Madrid have a 1-0 lead against | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
Bayern Munich ahead of the second leg in Germany next week . | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
It was a terrific solo effort from Saul. | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
Champion John Higgins to reach his first semifinal | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
at the World Snooker Championship in 23 years. | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
He is the oldest semifinalist for 31 years. More sporting half an hour. | :32:45. | :33:37. | |
Does the Labour Party have an anti-semitism problem? | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
The MP for Bradford Naz Shah was suspended from Labour yesterday | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
for comments she made on social media about Israel - | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
Tom Bateman is our Poltical Correspondent | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
She says that the comments were made before she was an MP, but the | :33:50. | :33:59. | |
comments have since been taken down, and now what you have is a situation | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
where it has really come a test of Jeremy Corbyn is leadership. Is he | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
really have a grip on this issue that many people are now saying of | :34:12. | :34:18. | |
anti-Semitism in the Labour Party? Lord Levy, a fundraiser under Tony | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
Blair, says the party has a problem. And is it taking the Corbyn | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
leadership to long to do anything about it? So you have to things | :34:28. | :34:38. | |
going on, the questions over Naz Shah herself and whether she will be | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
expelled, but more fundamentally, questions about Mr Corbyn's | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
leadership and whether he did enough, quickly enough, to tackle | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
this, and others, like Lord Levy are saying that he should have added or | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
quickly. Thank you very much indeed. | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
Joining me now from Westminster is the Labour MP John Mann - | :34:59. | :35:00. | |
who's also Chair of the All-Party Group Against AntiSemitism - | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
and in the studio Richard Angell, director of the Labour thinktank | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
Progress, and Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, senior | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
John, I heard you yesterday saying that Naz Shah should go to Israel. | :35:08. | :35:20. | |
Is she being scapegoated for stupid remarks? They are stupid remarks, | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
but they are also racist remarks and highly offensive. Either she is | :35:28. | :35:37. | |
thrown out, or she is educated about anti-Semitism and the offence she | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
has created. You think she should be thrown out, expelled? That is John | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
McDonnell's line on this. They are the two options. What I have | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
recommended, and I did so before she was suspended to Jeremy Corbyn, and | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
to her rectory, that she should be a GK to do in anti-Semitism in order | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
that she could be one of the people who fights it, and that should | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
include, and I have asked Jeremy Corbyn to do this, that she should | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
go to Israel, to the Holocaust Centre, and also to Sid rot where | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
the missiles from Hamas hit families, to get a better | :36:15. | :36:22. | |
understanding of Israel, and why her remarks are so offensive. Can I ask | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
you this blunt question. You believe she is an anti-Semite? Her remarks | :36:26. | :36:32. | |
are anti-Semitic. We can do two things with her anybody else in the | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
Labour Party or elsewhere. We can castigate and ignore them, or we can | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
educate them. Prejudice comes from ignorance, and the best counter to | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
prejudice is education, and that is what she seems willing and happy to | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
engage, that is a good sign. Let me bring in Rabbi Laura. You know Naz | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
Shah. Do you believe she is an anti-Semite? No, I don't. I agree | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
with John that the posts were anti-Semitic. They swapped Israel | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
and Jews, they were awful, they were terrible. I am certain that she is | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
up for a change in learning, and from the point of view of a | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
modelling change in Britain, that is excellent, to say, I was wrong, I am | :37:20. | :37:24. | |
sorry, I offended many people, and she details what was wrong. If only | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
we could all do that in our lives, because we know that racism and | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
anti-Semitism, homophobia, they are all out there, and when somebody | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
saying something doing something wrong, if they have the courage and | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
the integrity to say, I really was wrong and I am up for learning, and | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
I agree with John, I would love to take Naz Shah to Israel, to the | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
territories, not just to the Holocaust Museum, down into the | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
street to hang out in a cafe, because that is how you learn about | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
normality. The backdrop to this is the Labour Party more broadly, | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
because this is not the first time we have had a row about | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
anti-Semitism. We have investigations into various Labour | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
university clubs. Do you think Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has a | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
problem with anti-Semitism? Undoubtedly it has a problem with | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
anti-Semitism, and the inaction when these things come about, and how | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
quickly they are dealt with, is troubling for people. People fear | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
that when people like Ken Livingstone said they have never | :38:26. | :38:28. | |
heard or seen anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, they wonder what part | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
of the party he is part of. But is it inaction? To be fair to Mr | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
Corbyn, he set up an inquiry into anti-Semitism in various Labour | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
clubs, he was straight out of the blocks in condemning what Naz Shah | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
has said. She was removed, as John McDonnell's Parliamentary aide, and | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
at the end of the day, she was suspended. All that happened in | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
24-hour is. There was a bit of the space between them. Had the process | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
been followed, she would have been immediately suspended, that then | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
gone to an investigation, and my understanding is it was part of the | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
leaders office that was holding back that formal process just being | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
administered by the staff at the normal way. So there is often a | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
hesitation before these things happen, I'm afraid. I fear there are | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
too many political judgments that seem to be made and rather than feel | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
confident in our party, people say wrong things. Sometimes we attract | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
as a party people who misbehave, but the point is, when these situations | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
happen, you have to act to agreed rules. Our agreed rules are not good | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
enough at the moment, but they are not even followed when something | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
like this comes up. Let me put this to you, much of the row as a | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
surrogate for a row about Jeremy Corbyn, because he is identified as | :39:56. | :40:06. | |
similarly, so it is wrapped up in the tension around his leadership. I | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
have been talking about this for years, on the BBC as well, and this | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
isn't a new problem. This is an old problem that is resurrected in quite | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
a big way. Social media is one factor, but what leadership has to | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
be is to say the right things, but also to act, and critically, there | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
needs to be an effective education programme across the Labour Party | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
about anti-Semitism, what it is, so that people understand what is | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
offensive and why it is offensive. Yesterday, I was getting e-mails | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
that said, you can't be racist against Jews because they are rich. | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
That is coming from people on the left. Some quite extraordinary | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
stuff. The levels of prejudice and ignorance are very high. From the | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
perspective of the Jewish community, how damaging is this to Labour? To | :41:04. | :41:12. | |
Labour, I think it is damaging, and people are frightened, which is why | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
I think the reaction of both repentance and also the suspension | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
are good. And I don't think it is just about the Labour Party, we need | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
to look across the board at all parties, and not just the political | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
institutions. The language that is slipping in in the general public | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
around Jews, around Muslims, needs to be called out, so I am concerned | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
that it is very easy to deflect it on the Labour Party rather than to | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
say, what does it mean to Britain that we are further away from World | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
War II, and the language between Israel and Jews gets muddled up, and | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
what we saw two years ago, the wall between Hamas and Israel, the | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
language that exploded on social media, that is not to do with the | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
Labour Party, and that is why I think the Naz Shah thing is | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
interesting, because what she did is utterly wrong, and now she is | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
saying, I'm sorry. That is a very good model. Richard, let me ask you | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
one more question on the Labour Party. You talked about how Labour | :42:12. | :42:14. | |
had taken their time to deal with this. Is part of it again because of | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
the Palestinian/ Israel political argument, and bluntly, Naz Shah was | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
seen, is seen, as on the same side as Jeremy Corbyn, and therefore | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
maybe there was a reluctance to crack down on her? I think that is | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
true. One of the reasons I have always liked Naz Shah is how much | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
George Galloway hates her, lots of things spoken in a passionate way, | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
she has experienced social injustice in a way I have always found quite | :42:43. | :42:50. | |
inspiring, which is why I was so disappointed but her words have been | :42:51. | :42:52. | |
useful in that she seeks to do something better, and John is being | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
helpful by saying, let's see the action and not just the words. Laura | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
was generous about the Labour Party, but the reason why this is a | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
problem, and members like me are so appalled by this, is we pride | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
ourselves on being the anti-racist party. We are the party that fights | :43:09. | :43:16. | |
social injustice, and what we cannot have is people turning a blind eye. | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
While there are lots to criticise Israel, many of them Israel people, | :43:21. | :43:33. | |
when they conflate Israel and Jews, that must be called out, and more | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
importantly, British Jews must not be held responsible for a country | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
they may never have visited or be part of. And what I see on my | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
timeline, on Twitter, is that people seem to think all Jews are | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
responsible for various bad things that happen elsewhere. We are going | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
to have to leave it there. Coming up, are you a smoker? Some doctors | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
are saying you should be offered and encouraged to use e-cigarettes to | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
help you quit, because they are so much better than conventional | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
cigarettes. Let us know if you have used them. And we will try and | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
discuss that later. Many children in care are already | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
extremely vulnerable and now a group of MPs says they are falling | :44:17. | :44:19. | |
through the cracks when it comes The education select committee found | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
that almost half of children who are looked after by local | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
authorities or in foster care have a diagnosable mental health | :44:30. | :44:31. | |
disorder, with kids in care four times more likely than their peers | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
to have a mental health condition. We can speak to Daniel Harris, | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
who's in our Brighton studio. Daniel spent time in care and has | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
recently been diagnosed Here with me is Paul Jenkins, | :44:45. | :44:46. | |
the Vice-Chair of the Cavendish Square Group which looks after some | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
of the mental health services in London, Natasha Devon who advises | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
the Government on young Natasha, a fairly shocking picture | :45:00. | :45:14. | |
painted in this report, when you recognise? Yes, we know attachment | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
is incredibly important for good mental health. We mean by that the | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
relationship you have with your caregiver, while parent, it forms a | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
blueprint for all your future relationships. Neuroscientists | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
believe that if you don't have good attachment in early life it can | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
affect cognitive development. So children in care who have been two | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
different foster families are far more vulnerable to mental illnesses | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
because of affects their cognitive development. Within wider population | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
it is one in ten young people who have a mental illness, in looked | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
after children, it is half, so it is far more within that community. The | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
difficult thing for people to understand is, you would think that | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
children coming from dysfunctional homes, Rogan Holmes, who have moved | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
around a lot, -- broken homes, they of course will be more vulnerable to | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
mental health issues. So why are alarm bells not ringing more loudly | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
when it comes to children in care and mental health? We have known for | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
a long time about the much greater incidence of mental health problems | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
among children who have been looked after like this, and the reasons why | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
it happens, as Natasha explains, are widely known. I think for one, the | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
pressure on services raising the threshold that only those with the | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
most acute problems are being seen but also in some services, which at | :46:39. | :46:50. | |
this particular population. We know from experience in London that there | :46:51. | :46:53. | |
are good things you can do about it, some good services have this and do | :46:54. | :47:02. | |
good work among children. Who should ring the alarm bells, teachers, for | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
example, who should be the person to identify about a problem? Good | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
mental health services for young people work at two levels, one by | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
having the right set of skills amongst everyday organisations to | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
support those young people, so if it is looked after children, social | :47:23. | :47:24. | |
workers who are working with their foster carers or adopted parents, | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
but also would then have the ability to fast track problems into formal | :47:31. | :47:37. | |
services when they arise. A very good model is what we do in Camden, | :47:38. | :47:45. | |
where we have clinicians working with individual schools, building | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
relationships, and helping to build the sense of trust between teachers | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
and others in those schools. Daniel, let me bring you in. You have been | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
through the care system. I think you had post-traumatic stress disorder? | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
It was not identified. What was your experience in terms of the support | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
that you were offered or not offered? I wasn't offered any, | :48:10. | :48:17. | |
actually. Which is quite sad. 25 years it has taken for me to get a | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
diagnosis. I've just gone through a process that many kids who leave | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
care nowadays go through, you can get access to your historic files, | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
by getting access to my files, what I've found is, it is actually | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
written within my files that there was no funding available. And while | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
this was historic, I am really worried about some of the cuts being | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
pushed by the government, and how this will affect some of the care | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
leavers today. What actually happened to you? I was sexually | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
abused. My mother and father were previously looked after children so | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
we were considered vulnerable family. And part of the safeguarding | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
of children is that I was taken into care, on a temporary basis. This | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
happened throughout my life. But I had a very good care experience, I | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
had good foster parents and I have some good memories from that. | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
Natasha, Daniel mentioned funding. Is it bluntly initial resources, we | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
know that in the austerity and there has been cutting back, cutting back, | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
is this an issue of austerity or awareness? Both, I would say. When a | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
historically mental health has only had 0.7% of the NHS budget despite | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
the fact that one in three GP visits is for a mental health issue. | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
Because it can't be seen and is not considered urgent. There's a great | :49:49. | :49:58. | |
organisation in Braintree called the Foyer which looks after young | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
adults, give them a place to sleep, teachers and social skills, cookery, | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
CB skills. That is in danger of being closed by the local council. | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
-- CV skills. I can think of 200 things I would sacrifice in Essex | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
before I sacrificed about that because most of the time we don't | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
hear from you people like this, it is easy to silence them so well done | :50:21. | :50:23. | |
for inviting this young man on the show. Again and again it is stressed | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
that mental health is being given increased priority so how can this | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
happen at a time when the government is apparently trying to divert focus | :50:34. | :50:36. | |
from physical well-being to mental well-being. I think in the last five | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
years we've seen a tremendous change in society in our attitudes towards | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
mental health, but greater awareness for people to share their stories. | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
This is beginning, I stress, beginning to change attitudes, | :50:53. | :50:55. | |
politicians are seeing this as a priority. I think it is hard work to | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
shift the funding. This is a point we've ridged, you can't talk in | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
public about mental health being a priority if you don't back up your | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
actions by the level of funding it attracts. Daniel, you are nodding. | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
I've read the report and I want to stress that it says that 50% of | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
children in care or leaving care have mental health disorders at the | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
moment. And these are going pretty much undiagnosed. One thing is when | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
the report, it's going the right way, there is support for previously | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
looked after children and the age of 25, that's the recommendation put in | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
place, I am partial and about kids that are in care and then getting | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
the right support but lets face it, 23% of adult prisoners have been in | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
care. That's 21,000 people currently in the prison system that were in | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
care. We need to start asking questions, why is a society are we | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
allowing this? It's definitely something we need to focus on. It | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
costs ?65,000 a year to keep a prisoner in prison. Over 21,000 | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
people, that is ?1.5 billion again spent when we could be taking that | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
money and investing it in to mental health services and getting the | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
support early, not when it is too late and these people are pretty | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
much left voice less in society. Natasha, given that there are huge | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
savings to society and huge savings cost wise, you are sitting in | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
government, what do you do to try to ensure that those savings can be | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
achieved and to rectify the problem? If you had to list three bullet | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
points to do what would they be? To make it clear, I don't work for the | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
government although I do advise the Department for Education about how | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
we can work at a preventative level. This is what Daniel is saying, we | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
need to identify children who are vulnerable and give them the extra | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
support they need as early as possible. Mental health is something | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
we should think about from birth in the same way that we think about | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
physical health. The way that mental health problems often manifest in | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
later life is criminal activity, as Daniel says. At that point you are | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
looking at a huge cost to that individual and to society so | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
prevention, prevention, prevention, are my three bullet points. Same | :53:23. | :53:30. | |
thought? Just one second, Daniel! There has been money promised for | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
children and young People's mental health services. What the | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
politicians need to make sure happens is that money translates | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
into real further investment in front line services, like some of | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
the ones that we run that screening in some borrowers, all looked after | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
children for mental health issues, reaching out to those young people | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
from specialist services. Daniel, if you had had your hands on the levers | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
of power at what would you have done? I would make sure that there | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
are regular checks and mental health assessments, psychological | :54:06. | :54:07. | |
assessments, I would make sure all children in care are offered this | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
service. Potentially throughout their life or their stay within the | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
care system. That will give us an opportunity to get in the early. We | :54:17. | :54:19. | |
can also look at other options. One thing that I'm trying to do is bring | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
more of a holistic approach to mental health. I'm passionate about | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
singing and music and one thing that I have done recently, I was inspired | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
to going to a recent event, there were 700 children there, who are | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
currently in the care system, and we formed a choir called Voices Matter. | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
We want to work with care leavers and get them involved in that. | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
There's a lot of emotional expression, these young adults need | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
to get out. If we can get them and offer alternative approaches, I | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
think this would really help these looked after children. Daniel, thank | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
you! There's a promotion for Daniel. In just a few weeks' time we will | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
get our say on whether Britain should remain in or leave | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
the European Union. But what about British citizens | :55:15. | :55:16. | |
who have lived abroad in other European countries | :55:17. | :55:18. | |
for more than 15 years? Should they be able to vote | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
in the EU referendum? Jacqueline Maclennan was one of the | :55:21. | :55:50. | |
expats to bring the case, why should you be able to vote when you don't | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
live in Britain? The vote is fundamental and taking away some | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
on's folk should only be done in circumstances where there is reason | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
for that. -- vote should be kept. Although I have been living in | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
Belgium for 15 years I am rooted in the UK and deeply connected to it. | :56:09. | :56:11. | |
And many UK citizens in my position are | :56:12. | :56:24. | |
the same. My family are still in Scotland and our holiday there. I | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
have three children, brought up in Belgium, two of them are studied in | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the UK and currently reside there, and my daughter, the third, hopes to | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
go to the UK the University next. Isn't the difficulty that somewhere | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
you have to draw the line because you could say, if you left button 50 | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
years ago or your aunt is British, the government has to draw a line | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
somewhere, do you accept that? -- if you left Britain 50 years ago. I | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
accept that there may be justification for drawing a line but | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
this government has said that drawing a line where the line has | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
been drawn is arbitrary. It has in fact said -- it is in fact said - | :57:06. | :57:18. | |
the government has said if you choose 15 years and is like sticking | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
a dart in a dart board, why not 14 or 13 years 16? There is something | :57:25. | :57:27. | |
really wrong when the results of choosing that date is to take a | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
fundamental right away from citizens who are, as I say, deeply connected | :57:33. | :57:40. | |
to the UK. People like me are not a nebulous expat that has severed all | :57:41. | :57:49. | |
ties to the UK and has no wish to maintain my rights and obligations | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
to the UK. Where I pay tax, where I have these strong connections, as I | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
say, I believe I should also have the right to vote. We will leave it | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
there, thank you, Jacqueline. Now the latest weather update with Phil. | :58:05. | :58:11. | |
I am sure we can manage whether expectations, forget the May bank | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
holiday, or January, it's much the same sort of tail with winter | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
showers overnight in Lancashire, is the good news to report, there has | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
been sunshine further east in the British Isles, a foggy start but the | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
transformation, and it will be quite some transformation, it will come in | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
the shape of a southern weather front spreading rain or snow. | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
Spreading snow ever further towards the east. It's already that way | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
across western Scotland. It's miserable there at the moment. You | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
will see a progression of these weather fronts further towards the | :58:47. | :58:50. | |
east and south as we get through the day. Not all doom and gloom, we have | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
had persistent stuff, then wintry showers falling behind for parts of | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
Northern Ireland, or a hint of brightness, but the top end of | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
Northern Ireland, a mixture of sunshine and showers, but, and it is | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
a big but, this will stretch away towards the Lothians, down into the | :59:09. | :59:11. | |
Borders, the top end of the Pennines, and then we come to | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
something a little drier all the windows that bright start across | :59:15. | :59:18. | |
East Anglia, holding it in Kent until late in the day, you will not | :59:19. | :59:22. | |
see rain here until later in the afternoon but when the rain is with | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
you and it is there to be had this afternoon across the south-west, | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
rain and the Midlands, miserable fare. Wendy, cold, five, six, seven, | :59:30. | :59:35. | |
8 degrees, and the rain sticks around for awhile. It's not so much | :59:36. | :59:38. | |
the rain that I'm concerned about for many of you, it's the | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
persistence the snow. The weather front sticks until Friday. Look at | :59:43. | :59:48. | |
this. Another of isobars, some of the snow could blow around. By this | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
stage some of the threat has transferred from eastern Scotland to | :59:53. | :59:55. | |
the south-east of Scotland to the north-east of England. If you were | :59:56. | :59:58. | |
thinking of the cycle ride in Yorkshire tomorrow, so are we | :59:59. | :00:02. | |
although probably not for the same reasons! It is wet and it could well | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
be lying snow on the ground and there's a gale force northerly, and | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
that system keeps it miserably cold. With that threat of further snow, we | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
are talking centimetres across here, elsewhere, sunny spells and showers. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Relief from the misery on Saturday, sunshine and showers and at least | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
some of those figures are beginning to reach double figures. Will it | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
last? It worked. Any set of fronts arrived with the best of the | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
sunshine across the south-east. Hello, I'm Norman Smith | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
in for Victoria Derbyshire. Welcome to the programme | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
if you've just joined us. A group representing former | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
South Yorkshire Police officers has told its members to be proud | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
of their work in the 1980s despite the findings | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
of the Hilsborough inquests. A relative of one of | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
the victims told us she's not The majority of the officers on duty | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
that day were too busy holding hands across the football pitch. Some of | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
them were actually looking into the pens, and literally turned away. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Some of them were pushing people back in. But not only that, they | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
then carried on by lying, covering up, trying to blame our 96 and the | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
survivors. Also today: Smokers should switch to | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
e-cigarettes, the roll call of physicians says we are safer. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Facebook shares jump after the company reports | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
soaring profits it's mainly because many of us are now | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
It is one minute past ten o'clock, and here is Annita with a summary of | :01:52. | :02:06. | |
the news. Norman, thank you. The Labour Party has a serious | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
problem with anti-semitism, according to one of its most | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
high profile peers. Naz Shah has apologised for the | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
Facebook post which she made before entering Parliament. Labour MP John | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Mann is also chair of the all-party group against anti-Semitism, and | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she should be better | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
educated. What I have recommended, and I did so before she was | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
suspended to Jeremy Corbyn, and to her directly, personally, is that | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
she should be educated in anti-Semitism in order that she can | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
be one of the people who fights it, that should include, and I have | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
asked Jeremy Kyle bin to do this, that she should go to Israel, to the | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
Holocaust Centre, and to where the missiles from Hamas hit families, to | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
get a better understanding of Israel and why her remarks are so | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
offensive. John Mann. British expats should be allowed to vote in the | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
referendum, according to ministers. The passenger plane which was | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
thought to have hit by a drone as it approached Heathrow Airport probably | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
wasn't, the Government has revealed. An investigation was launched | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
earlier this month into what was thought to be the UK's first drone | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
strike on a passenger aircraft after a BA flight from Geneva reported | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
colliding with an object. But the Transport Secretary says it is now | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
thought it wasn't a drone incident. A group of MPs says many children in | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
care are falling through the cracks when it comes to their mental | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
health. The education select committee found that almost half of | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
children looked after by local authorities or in foster care have a | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
diagnosable mental health disorder. The MPs say children in care are | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
four times more likely than their peers to have a mental health | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
condition. Smokers should be encouraged | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
to switch to e-cigarettes to help The UK's Royal College of Physicians | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
says there is resounding evidence that e-cigarettes are "much safer" | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
than smoking and can help quitting. The report also says fears that | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
e-cigarettes are a gateway Philip Hammond is due to arrive | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
in Cuba later today. It'll be the first time | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
a British Foreign Secretary has During the trip he is expected | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
to formalise an agreement to cancel millions of pounds worth | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
of Cuba's debt. The visit comes after a UK trade | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
delegation to the country agreed around ?350 million worth | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
of investment in a wide range A 26-year-old woman has been shot | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
dead by her two-year-old son while driving in the American | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
city of Milwaukee. Police say the child found the gun, | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
which belonged to the victim's boyfriend, and accidentally fired | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
it from the back seat. Profits at Facebook have tripled | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
in the first quarter of 2016, compared to a year ago, | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
rising to over ?1 billion. Most of Facebook's revenues come | :05:08. | :05:24. | |
from the boom in the advertising revenues. 1.6 billion people log on | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
at least once a month, 200 million more than this time last year. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News; more at 10.30. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Annita, thank you very much indeed. Coming up, UK sport has asked | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
British cycling De Gea investigate whether official Team GB kit has | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
been sold online for profit less than 24 hours after it was unveiled. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
We will get the latest. Do get in touch with us | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria live | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some more sports news with | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Olly Foster. A slight clarification, I think, on | :06:01. | :06:17. | |
the British cycling and UK sport investigation. We know that there is | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
also the fire fighting going on at the moment at the organisation since | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
we cover the story yesterday. The suspended technical director | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Shane Sutton has now resigned, he says to take any distraction away | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
from the team as they prepare UK Sport has also asked | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
the organisation to investigate whether official | :06:34. | :06:51. | |
British Cycling kit, Amat is different from the Team GB | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
kit that was unveiled yesterday. Well, Sutton has been accused | :06:53. | :07:06. | |
of making sexist comments and also being highly offensive | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
in the terms he used to describe He denies the specific claims | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
against him and says he will co-operate with an independent | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
review to examine the culture It is really, really important | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
that we have this independent review so that anybody who has | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
had those experiences, they get a chance to talk | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
to an independent panel, It is not many people's experience | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
of British Cycling, but it should be I am, but that is why we need | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
an independent panel to investigate this, | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
we need to look It cannot be British Cammack cycling | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
investigating itself here. Ian Drake talking to our sports | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
editor Dan Roan. You know we had Vladimir Klitchsko | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
doing the rounds here yesterday, thankfully we didn't have Tyson Fury | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
because we might have seen this. The world heavyweight champion | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
showed off his ample physique as the two went head to head | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
to promote their rematch Fury goaded Klitschko by saying how | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
the Ukrainian lost to a fat man six months ago but he can beat him again | :08:17. | :08:29. | |
in any kind of shape. Although he did insist he's | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
fitter than he looks. I reckon I can do 12 rounds | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
when I weigh 20 stone, fat pig, it is not about how hard | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
you train, it is the natural I ran six miles yesterday afternoon, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
and then I did one hour on the cross trainer and one hour on a bike, | :08:46. | :08:57. | |
so I can't be that unfit, and I have We had a goal in the second | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
of the Champions League Atletico Madrid have a 1-0 lead | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
against Bayern Munich ahead of the second leg | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
in Germany next week. It was a terrific solo | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
effort from Saul. Remember Manchester City | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
and Real Madrid drew 0-0 That's all your sport | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
for now, I'll be back The inquest sat for over two years | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
and while the families of the Hillsborough victims | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
celebrated the conclusions, the focus is now on South Yorkshire | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
Police and whether there Despite the criticism of the police, | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
a group representing retired officers in South Yorkshire | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
who worked for the force in the 1980s, has told its members | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
they should be proud The message was made public | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
accidentally and then withdrawn. 30,000 attended a vigil | :09:48. | :09:58. | |
in Liverpool to remember the 96 fans who died | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
at Hillsborough 27 years ago. There were emotional scenes as the | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
crowd join together to sing the club was Makoun sum. --'s anthem. | :10:10. | :10:24. | |
# When you walk through the storm # Hold your head up high | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
# And don't be afraid of the dark # At the end of the storm | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
# And the sweet silver song of a lark | :10:38. | :11:00. | |
Steering stuff. You have been sending in more of your comment is | :11:01. | :12:23. | |
on Hillsborough. Roger: What happened at this football ground was | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
terrible. The authorities were found wanting for sure. It was clear by | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
footage shown that there appears to have been no violence from the fans, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
but serious mistakes were made by the authorities. There was a huge | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
cover-up of the true facts, and that must only have come from the top. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
But in the 1980s, football fans didn't have a good reputation with | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
the authorities due to the violence at some matches. It is because of | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
this violence, which was common at this time, that the grounds had | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
these awful fences installed. I cannot get out of my mind that if | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
these fences were not there, this disaster would never have happened, | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
so could some blame be laid at the feet of those fans who were | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
irresponsible for this violence? Maria says, emotional scenes in | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Liverpool last night. I watched it and I was in tears, I sang the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
anthem holding my West Ham scarf high. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Elkan Abrahamsen is lawyer for 22 of the families. | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
And Mike Pannett is former police officer with North Yorkshire police. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
We have had the suspension of the Chief Constable, the Home | :13:28. | :13:44. | |
Secretary's statement, the damning verdict at the inquest. What more do | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
you and the families want? I think now may be the time to take a step | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
back and look at the general problems, some of which remain, | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
which led not just of the disaster, but to the cover-up. Firstly there | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
is the problem within South Yorkshire Police, which seems to | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
continue, where they failed to accept their responsibility, and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
indeed are prepared to lie to cover up their own conduct. And this is an | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
overriding problem, not just for South Yorkshire Police, but | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
generally for organisations, a ten nation to not confess your mistakes | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
but cover up things have gone wrong and protect colleagues, that is all | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
too strong, and we need to develop a system to fight the temptation. And | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
how do you do that? You can understand in most organisations | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
there is a tendency to be defensive when you are under attack, so how do | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
you counter that temptation to cover-up? What you need to have is a | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
deep rooted sense of ethical behaviour. Police forces nationally | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
do now have a code of ethics, they have had one for a couple of years, | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
it is still taking some time to bed in, but for a colleague to say I | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
will support you in everything I do up to the point where you act | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
illegally, in morally or unethically, and then that support | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
goes. It is not impossible for everyone in an organisation to | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
accept that, to accept that there is an overriding moral code. Mike | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Pannett, from a police perspective, do you accept the criticism now | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
being levelled at the South Yorkshire Police, in particular for | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
the fact that at the inquest, it seemed there were almost going back | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
on a previous apology and continuing to take the stance they took the | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
time of original tragedy? Hello, Norman. I have just listened to the | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Merseyside, the families there, singing that song, and that brought | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
emotion to me. I have been a lifelong football fan, but there are | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
two or three strands to this. Firstly we had the events leading up | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
to that football match. Should the ground have been used? Then we saw | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
what happened at that match, and the disastrous consequences. Following | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
that, we saw what now is a cover-up by South Yorkshire Police officers | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
at the time, and that has catastrophic consequences for the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
police. But look at the third strand, which is really important, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
too, and we must discuss this. Where have the police gone subsequently? | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
We saw Lord Justice Taylor, we have seen the massive improvements with | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
safety at football matches. Back in the 80s, at the time, the policing | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
focus was on crowd disorder. But now, thankfully, it is on crowd | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
safety, and we have safety advisory groups set up, we have the Green | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
guide which looks at monitoring foot or matches, the amount of people | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
going in, so if anything good has come out of this absolute tragedy, | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
it is that we are in a different place altogether. Police officers at | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
these matches are trained to a national level, and the whole aspect | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
of how we handle these sporting events has changed for the good, and | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
that is the one, only thing that I am really grateful from those | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
Eikan is this question that South Yorkshire Police are almost a rogue | :17:21. | :17:36. | |
force. I can say this because Andy Burnham said in the Commons | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
yesterday that it was not just Hillsborough, it was Rotherham and | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
other places, so are we dealing with a force that has particular | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
problems? I think to an extent we are. The behaviour of the suspended | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Chief Constable Mr Crompton indicates that he's still quite | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
happy to peddle lies even after they have been disproved. I am sorry my | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
earpiece is coming out! I also think there is a problem endemic to not | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
just police forces but organisations generally that we need to look at. | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
From the South Yorkshire perspective, if you live in South | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Yorkshire are a suspect you will have serious questions about the | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
policing you receive. Is there a case for either rebranding or even | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
disbanding the South Yorkshire force, reconstituting it, maybe | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
putting it together with other forces? We must be really careful. | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
If we are talking about Hillsborough, like I've said before | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
in interviews I've given, these people, anybody, no matter what | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
rank, anywhere in proven to have committed an offence must face the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
consequences. Although we have to be very careful. There are men and | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
women in South Yorkshire Police, I have never worked in South Yorkshire | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
but I know a lot of very decent men and women will work within the South | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Yorkshire Police. Remember that when Hillsborough happened a lot of those | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
officers and staff working for South Yorkshire Police were not even born. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
We are talking about 27 years later. Things have improved, quite rightly. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
I am absolutely all for learning from these lessons from the pastoral | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
we cannot tar everyone with the same brush and there are decent men and | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
women who not even born when Hillsborough happened and they are | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
feeling this personally, they are the ones going out and putting on | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
their stab proof vests and facing the public and dealing with | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
difficult situations so we must be very careful to make sure that all | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
the South Yorkshire Police, decent men and women... I think that one of | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
the many reasons that people have been shocked is because of the | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
conduct of the force at the inquests when it seemed that they were almost | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
reinventing many of the allegations about the fans. That has led to the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
accusation that maybe attitudes have not changed, at least at the top of | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
the police force. And then we had that posted message from retired | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
officers today and it suggests a lack of awareness, sends the gravity | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
of this. -- a sense of the gravity of this. What has saddened me, we | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
have looked at Hillsborough and we had another review that did not pick | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
up the those poor families have had to endure 27 families to get to the | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
truth... 27 years to get to the truth, and now quite rightly anyone | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
who has done wrong should face charges although it does get me, why | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
are we still in this situation with the police and just admit that | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
mistakes were made and that they saw the disastrous consequences, instead | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
of just admitting, we have made a mistake, let's put it right. Too | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
often people are terrified of litigation and terrified of saying | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
things that cannot be right. We as a country need to take a look at | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
ourselves. If someone has done something wrong they should be able | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
to put up their hands and say, we got it wrong. Eikan, you mentioned | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
the need for transparency and greater willingness to concede when | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
things have gone wrong, let me mention some specifics, the Chief | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Constable has been suspended, should he go? He should be subject to | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
rigorous objective impartial investigation, the kind that was | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
denied to the families for so long, and of that investigation feels he | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
should be dismissed then he should. In terms of charges we know there's | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
an investigation underway and allsorts of charges could be | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
brought, the likelihood of them being brought in 26 years later? We | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
must be careful to talk about charges, again there must be a | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
proper investigation and if appropriate charges should be | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
brought I would not like to comment on the likelihood. Theresa May | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
seemed to signal yesterday that she planned to look at what is clearly | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
an adversarial, and satisfactory inquest process. Will we see a | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
shake-up of inquests and the way that families are treated? Hope so. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
It is not so much the inquest procedure, it is the way that public | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
bodies are allowed to have a public phase where they will apologise and | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
a private face with a will litigate and be adversarial. This is a real | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
problem. These are public bodies, we fund them, governments control them, | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
if we have done something wrong and especially of the admit to doing | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
something wrong then they should not be allowed to take an entirely | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
contrary route through the courts or through litigation. And time frames, | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
this has gone on for so long now, the Home Secretary yesterday | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
suggested that it could be a year before any files are presented to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
the CPS. This could still presumably be going on for years to come? It | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
could but it should. You cannot hide the truth and 27 years and then say, | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
it has taken so long, let's forget it! It takes a lot of time to | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
unravel a web of deceit that starts at the highest level. From the point | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
of view of South Yorkshire if this goes on and the questions continue | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
to be raised about the force, how do they, as a force, really builds | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
confidence and trust with the local community that they please? You are | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
absolutely right, Norman. This will be very difficult for South | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Yorkshire because unfortunately it has been in the spotlight because of | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
some things that haven't gone as well as they should have done. But | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
I've said from the start that we have staff and officers serving in | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
South Yorkshire now which had nothing to do with those events, not | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
even born at the time of that tragedy, it's about leadership at | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
the top of the South Yorkshire Police to make sure that those staff | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
can go out there, it's all about morale, they will be on their knees | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
now, people are looking at them and questioning them, what do do do | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
about Hillsborough, those officers they are pointing the finger at had | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
nothing to do with that and that's what we could be clear about, that | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
the South Yorkshire and do their job and do it well. Thank you both very | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
much. Still to come, Facebook's profits are soaring as the company | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
attracts more and more advertising. We will have the details. The Sun | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
newspaper could be made to pay compensation to alleged victims of | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
phone hacking after a judge's ruling at the High Court this morning. The | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
newspaper has always denied that it listened to mobile phone messages | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
but a new messages set of victims say their phones were hacked. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Around 600 claims have been settled for hacking victims of the now | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
let's get the latest from legal eagle Clive Coleman. For those of | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
you who thought the phone hacking litigation was in the past, think | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
again, it rumbles on. Today a significant new development. We just | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
had a ruling from Mr Justice Mann at the High Court that four claimants | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
can amend the cases they had already brought against knees but | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
newspapers, significantly to include claims against the Sun newspaper, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
claims that there was phone hacking that took place at that newspaper. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
It's always been denied by News group newspapers will continue to | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
deny it, by the way, that phone hacking took place at the Sun | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
newspaper. We have had an application by four claimants. Simon | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Clegg, Chief Executive Officer of the British limbic Association. Les | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Heseltine, more familiarly known as Les Dennis, the entertainer -- the | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
British Olympic Association. The manager of the band Babyshambles, | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
and the head of press at Liverpool Football Club. Those claimants want | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
to amend their claims to include claims against the Sun. It was | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
vigorously opposed by the newspaper, who indeed wanted those claims | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
struck out completely. Today the judge says he is going to dismiss | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
the application to strikers claims that committee will allow those four | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
claimants to continue their claims against the Sun. Now we know that up | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
to 50 new claims against News group newspapers, many of which will | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
include claims of hacking against the Sun are to be is it. A number of | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
new claims the pipeline. I'm joined by Christopher Hutchings. One of the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
claimants. I imagine some of the other 50 will bring claims? Affair | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
number of them. What it tough fight this was. The ruling today was | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
significant because it brings the Sun squarely into the civil | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
litigation friend. Newsgroup for this vigorously and the judge has | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
found that there is sufficient evidence to allow the four claimants | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
to claim for articles that come from the Sun but more substantially this | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
will allow up 250 further claimants to plead some articles. It doesn't | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
mean that these cases have been won, they have to be brought, yet to | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
bring them you'll had to satisfy the judge that there was enough evidence | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
to bring a case. Fisher correct, we had to put forward a significant | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
amount of evidence including from individuals such as Glenn Malka and | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
Paul McMullen. Denmark it was a private detective at the heart of | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
the phone hacking scandal and the other Glen was a former news editor | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
at the News of the World. He had something interesting to say about | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Rebekah Brooks, the editor of the Sun from 2003. Yes, the judge | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
specifically refers to evidence that he believes that Rebekah Brooks, the | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
former editor, was aware of phone hacking, she knew that certain | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
stories were sourced through phone hacking. Of course Rebekah Brooks | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
was acquitted of phone hacking at that criminal trial at the Old | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
Bailey in 2014 but the judge in this civil case has taken note of what | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
one witness says about what she knew Benji was editor. Witnesses working | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
at the Sun have also given evidence as to knowledge and complicity at | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
the highest levels of the newspaper. Thank you. Norman, just one other | :29:22. | :29:38. | |
interesting fact. We were told... Bunker I'm sorry, I think the | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
technology has gone wonky although we got the general idea from Clive, | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
the legal eagle. Still to come. Some doctors say that you should be | :29:45. | :29:57. | |
encouraged to use e-cigarettes to help you quit because they are | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
better than conventional cigarettes. Tell us if you have used them or if | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
you find the message still a It is half past ten, and here with | :30:05. | :30:15. | |
the news is Annita in the BBC newsroom. | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
Thank you and good morning. There has been a further concern delete | :30:23. | :30:41. | |
and criticism of Nas Shah over marks she made before entering Parliament. | :30:42. | :30:50. | |
British expats have lost a High Court battle over their right to | :30:51. | :31:02. | |
vote in the European referendum. Many expats fear a decision in | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
favour to leave the EU may Syriza disrupt their lives. | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
A passenger plane which was thought to have been hit by a drone as it | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
approached Heathrow airport probably wasn't hit by a drone after all, | :31:15. | :31:16. | |
An investigation was launched earlier this month | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
into what was thought to be the UK's first drone strike on a passenger | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
aircraft after a BA flight from Geneva reported colliding | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
But the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said it is now thought | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
A 26-year-old woman has been shot dead by her two-year-old son | :31:29. | :31:38. | |
while driving in the American city of Milwaukee. | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
Police say the child found the gun, which belonged to the victim's | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
boyfriend, and accidentally fired it from the back seat. | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
That is a summary of the latest news. Join me live at 11 o'clock. | :31:47. | :31:55. | |
Annita, thank you very much. More from our sports supremo, Olly | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
Foster. And beginning to like it. | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
There could be more trouble for British Cycling, | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
UK Sport has asked them to investigate as a matter | :32:07. | :32:15. | |
of urgency whether high-performance kit purchased with | :32:16. | :32:17. | |
is being sold online for profit The teams technical director | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
Shane Sutton resigned yesterday after being accused of making sexist | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
remarks and using derogatory terms to describe para-cyclists. | :32:23. | :32:24. | |
He has denied the specific claims against against him. | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
He will call operator with an independent review of the culture at | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
the organisation. Tyson Fury insists that he is in | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
good enough shape to beat Are you sure? Looks more like me! | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
Yes, I am breathing in. The World Heavyweight Champion | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
showed off his physique as they went head to head | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
to promote their rematch in July. He says he would beat the Ukrainian | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
as a 30 stone fat pig. Atletico Madrid will take a 1-0 lead | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
to Germany next week after beating Bayern Munich | :32:53. | :32:54. | |
in the first leg of their Champions And Alan Mcmanus has reached his | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
first World Snooker Championship The 45-year-old beat John Higgins | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
and will face Ding Junhui. He's the oldest | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
semi-finalist for 31 years. Marco Fu faces Mark Selby in the | :33:09. | :33:20. | |
other semifinal, the first time two Asian players have reached the | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
semifinals in Sheffield. That's all your support for this morning. | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
Can the Government help save the future of the steel | :33:30. | :33:36. | |
That's one of the questions likely to be asked of | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
the Business Secretary Sajid Javid this morning - as he's giving | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
evidence to the House of Commons Business Committee. | :33:43. | :33:44. | |
Its future has been in doubt since Tata Steel, which employs | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
11,000 people in Britain, announced it would be | :33:48. | :33:48. | |
The Government has said it would be willing to front up the cash | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
for a 25% stake in any takeover, but yesterday the Prime Minister | :33:54. | :33:55. | |
said there was no guarantee the plan would help find a new buyer. | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
I'm joined by our Business Editor Simon Jack. | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Simon, is there a better news for the steelworkers? As you know, on | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
March the 29th, we got the news that everyone in the steel industry was | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
dreading, that Tata couldn't make a go of it and was putting it up for | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
sale. 10,000 jobs at stake. Can a buyer be found? Crucially, what can | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
the Government do to make this industry viable? Can they give | :34:23. | :34:28. | |
assistance, you talk about the 25% stake, what else could they do? And | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
how long have we got to find a buyer before Tata decide to shut up shop. | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
Those were some of the questions put to the boss, and here he is. We have | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
always acted responsibly. We will continue to act responsibly, but we | :34:45. | :34:57. | |
cannot pre-empt what a buyer will want, and we cannot continue to | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
bleed. We will consider all other options, including the support given | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
by the Government, and then we will take any decision. On the matter of | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
the support given by the Government, has that been sufficient, in your | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
opinion? We have been in constant positive dialogue with the | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
Government. We do see that there is an emerging awareness that there is | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
more that needs to be done and can be done than what has been done in | :35:25. | :35:31. | |
the past. Such as what? The energy rebates, for example, that have come | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
in in the past, that has been helpful, the transformation plan, | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
also helpful in Port Talbot, but it does not take away from the | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
structural weaknesses we suffer in the UK. We do have structural | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
weaknesses such as business rates, costs which are much higher, and to | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
give you an example, if we were at the same editors do price as | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
Germany, the UK system would be better off by ?40 million. We would | :35:59. | :36:05. | |
not be having negative numbers. That is interesting, what he is saying | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
there is the support the Government is already announced isn't quite | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
enough in his view to make those viable. A very interesting point | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
about energy prices in Germany, there are half the price they are | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
here to heavy intensive users like that. So the fact that the | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
Government should be doing more, has to do more or less a buyer cannot be | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
found, in which point, Bimlendra Jha says that it will have to go. And is | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
there Areola stick chance of saving all of Tata Steel -- a realistic | :36:41. | :36:52. | |
chance? It is very hard to imagine Port Talbot and the rest of the Tata | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
operation surviving in its current form. The difficult bit to solve is | :36:58. | :37:04. | |
the old blast furnaces. Those are where the fundamentals, the cheap | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
steel from overseas, the high business rates, all combine to make | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
that a very difficult business to make viable, so it doesn't look | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
great. Tata have said they have got until next week the people to put in | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
expressions of interest. You then have to have a more binding | :37:21. | :37:22. | |
commitment by the end of me which could slip into June. Abel who think | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
they can make this work had better get their skates on, and the | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
Government needs to think quite hard about what it can do. Simon Jack, | :37:31. | :37:36. | |
thank you very much indeed. Some doctors say that | :37:37. | :37:38. | |
you should be encouraged to use e-cigarettes | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
to help you quit because they are | :37:42. | :37:42. | |
better than conventional cigarettes. The message has been confusing. | :37:43. | :37:51. | |
E-cigarettes help you quit smoking, but could they harm you in other | :37:52. | :37:55. | |
ways. Now doctors tell us to put aside concerns because they are so | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
much better than cigarettes. The Royal College of Surgeons says | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
smokers should be encouraged to vape. | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
Here to discuss those findings is Dr John Britain | :38:09. | :38:10. | |
from the Royal College of Physicians, along | :38:11. | :38:12. | |
with Sarah Jakes, who quit smoking three years ago and now used | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
e-cigarettes, and Joanna Miller who works with smokers | :38:16. | :38:17. | |
Thank you for joining us. John, how confident are you that vaping is | :38:18. | :38:31. | |
actually save? There have been a lot of stories out there, that they have | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
trialled it with mice, and mice have had breathing difficulties. Are you | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
sure that it is safe? Nothing is absolutely safe. What we conclude in | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
the report, and one of the reasons for bringing the report out, to look | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
at this issue. Long-term, electronic cigarettes probably do have some | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
adverse effects, but the magnitude is extremely small. What effects? | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
The likely effects would be an increased risk of chronic | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
obstructive pulmonary disease, possibly cardiovascular disease or | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
risk of cancer. That sounds pretty grim to me. That sounds like it, but | :39:07. | :39:14. | |
the size of the increase in risk is much, much smaller than with tobacco | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
smoking. If you are a nonuser of nicotine, it makes no sense to start | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
using an electronic cigarette, but if you are a smoker, it is | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
no-brainer to switch because the risk is lower. Sarah, you did | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
switch? It was a no-brainer. I smoked 20 cigarettes a day, on and | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
off for 34 years before I bought a refillable type device just to use | :39:39. | :39:44. | |
in my car, and within two weeks, I had switched. Is that because you | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
thought, I have got to stop smoking? At the time, I wasn't looking to | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
quit. I just thought the device to use in my car. I had tried to give | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
up several times before, and several times successfully, but giving up | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
smoking is the easy bit, the hard bit is staying off them, not going | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
back to it. Joanna, the question mark in my head about e-cigarettes | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
is, are they still addictive, and don't they contain nicotine? So is | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
this progress? Elektra next ago Reds do contain codeine. These days you | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
can also get a electronic cigarettes without nicotine or with extremely | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
low nicotine content. Ashworth and electronic cigarettes do contain | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
nicotine. I would say that with time, they could move on to lower | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
doses. What is wrong with cold turkey, just quit? It is quite a | :40:45. | :40:53. | |
difficult thing, and you also experience withdrawal symptoms from | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
withdrawing from nicotine. There is evidence to suggest that if you | :40:58. | :41:03. | |
consider may be having some help in quitting smoking in terms of coming | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
to a clinic like the Stop Smoking service that I work out, and you | :41:11. | :41:13. | |
have behavioural support, that can help you more successfully quit | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
smoking, and if you have different types of medication, or nicotine | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
replacement products along the way, that can increase your chances even | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
further. John, do you think the Government should promote | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
e-cigarettes if the health risks are so much less? Should they actually | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
aggressively say, think about changing. We would like to see a | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
change in the way that all nicotine products are regulated and | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
recommended by Governments and health authorities in such a way | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
that the pressure is always to move away from smoking tobacco. If you | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
are going to use nicotine, inhaling tobacco smoke is the most dangerous | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
way you could possibly do it, so we want to encourage people to switch, | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
ideally to medicinal products and behavioural support, but if that | :42:04. | :42:05. | |
doesn't work for them or they don't feel ready for that, then an | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
electronic cigarette. Do you know how many people use e-cigarettes? Is | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
it a tiny number of smokers, or is it beginning to build up? There are | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
over 2 million... 2 million? ! To varying degrees. There are 9 million | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
smokers. It would be good if the figure was higher. And Sarah, do you | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
suppose there were over, time when you just take the e-cigarette, chuck | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
it out and give it couple together, or are you now addicted to that? I | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
was always dependent on nicotine, so I probably still am, but the | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
dependency is lower, but answer your question, I think probably for me, | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
it wouldn't be the right thing to do to ditch my e-cigarette, because | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
past six periods of quitting tells me that then I will relapse probably | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
to smoking. I presume you have tried patches, gum, any use? Know, and | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
every time I gave up with any degree of success, it was cold turkey, I | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
have to say. Joanna, if e-cigarettes are the way to get people off | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
smoking, and 2 million, I am surprised at the figure. Is your | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
sense that this is the way to crack the issue of smoking addiction and | :43:32. | :43:37. | |
the health risks that go with it? Is this the answer? I would be | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
reluctant to say it is the answer. Every person is different, and the | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
way that they stop smoking should be tailored to their individual needs. | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
I think they probably find an method, something new on the market | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
that hasn't been there before, and it most closely mimics the actions | :43:56. | :43:58. | |
and feelings of smoking, so it can be quite an easy switch. That is the | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
thing about it, it is the appeal. And there are so varied within | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
themselves, people can always find something they want. We have some | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
e-mails to read. Graham says, I was smoking at age 15, I tried to give | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
up many times using patches and prescribed medicines, but always | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
went back to them. I finally stopped smoking last May after my daughter | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
bought me an e-cigarette. And Victoria: I find it unbelievable | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
that the findings are still showing that e-cigarettes are only used the | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
people who want to stop smoking. It is my opinion that it has made | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
smoking acceptable again. That is an interesting point. It might have the | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
reverse effect, suddenly it is socially OK to have a blast on an | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
e-cigarette? The evidence is that people who use a electronic | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
cigarettes are almost entirely people who would otherwise be | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
smoking. So you could also argue that seeing people using electronic | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
cigarettes in public places normalising the act of not smoking, | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
but using an electronic cigarettes. On a risk spectrum, that is a far | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
less hazardous as thing to see. And this e-mail I thought was | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
interesting from Tony. Having stopped smoking for the past few | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
months, I find it really disgusting the e-cigarettes are allowed to be | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
smoked in public places. I was walking along outside Westminster | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
the other day, and this guy in front of me was like a steam train with | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
smoke billowing out of him. Do you find that people actually don't like | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
it, even though it is an e-cigarette? People do. I think | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
there is an etiquette needs to develop around this. It is basically | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
manners. You don't blow stuffing people's faces. I have a little | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
device on the table there, which is incapable of creating clouds, so I | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
physically couldn't annoy anybody like that with that, but I have got | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
devices that will do that, you just have to be careful when and who is | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
around you when you use it. And another e-mail, we're getting a lot | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
on this. Julie says, I went from smoking more than 50 a day, goodness | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
me, to five per day over night when I picked up my first e-cigarette | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
over two years ago. If vaping were banned or curtailed, I would be back | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
on the fags as quickly as I dropped them. Joanna, is vaping on the | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
growth just here, or is this worldwide, that there is now a move | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
from smoking cigarettes to e-cigarettes? Are way ahead of | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
everyone else or just in-line? I am not sure about the statistics, | :46:42. | :46:53. | |
I would say it is quite on the rise in Western countries, I am not sure, | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
John? UK is well ahead of most countries in the world and we have a | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
high take-up of e-cigarettes because we haven't had the additions or | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
other restrictions on their sale. Other countries are close, but some, | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
Australia for example, prohibit use, and I think that is bad for Public | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
health in those countries. Very interesting, thank you. We | :47:18. | :47:18. | |
appreciate it. You've also been sending | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
us your reaction to this report from a group of MPs that kids | :47:26. | :47:28. | |
in care with mental health issues Tweet from David - | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
Every school should have a qualified mental health first aider to support | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
students with mental health issues. Tweet from Russ - | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
There are children in care being ignored, their wishes | :47:41. | :47:42. | |
and feelings denied, this all has an impact | :47:43. | :47:43. | |
on their mental health. Tweet from Beverley - | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
Worked with kids in care, requested mental health training | :47:49. | :47:50. | |
from my employer, retired 18 years Tweet from Misty - | :47:51. | :47:52. | |
I was a failed looked after child. I got no help then and had | :47:53. | :48:09. | |
to give my own son counselling Watching discussion on mental | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
health in care. As a sexually abused victim myself | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
it's good to see this Tweet from Ness - Good foster | :48:18. | :48:20. | |
carers are SO important Earlier we heard from Daniel Harris | :48:21. | :48:37. | |
who spent time in care and has been diagnosed with post to Maddox does | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
disorder and bipolar disorder. He talked of his experiences with the | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
system and I asked about the support he had received. I wasn't offered | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
any. It's quite sad. It's taken me 25 years to get a diagnosis. I've | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
just gone through a process which many kids who leave care nowadays go | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
through, you can get access to your historic files, by getting that | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
access to my historic files, what I found was, is actually written | :49:06. | :49:08. | |
within my files that there was no funding available, and while this is | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
historic, I am really worried about some of the cuts that are being | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
pushed by the government at the moment and how this will affect some | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
of today's care leavers. What exactly happened to you? I was | :49:24. | :49:28. | |
sexually abused. My mother and father were previously looked after | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
children so we were considered a valuable family. Part of the | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
safeguarding of children is that I was taken into care on a temporary | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
basis. And this happened throughout my life. But I had a really good | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
care experience. I had some really good foster parents and I have some | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
really good memories of that. Daniel mentioned funding, is it bluntly and | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
issue of resources? We know that in the austerity and there has been | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
continual cutting back, is it about austerity or awareness? Above, I'd | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
say, we know that historically mental health has been given 0.7% of | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
the NHS budget despite the fact that one in three GP visits this for a | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
mental health issue. Because mental health cannot be seen it is not | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
considered urgent. This is a organisation called the Foyer in | :50:22. | :50:30. | |
Braintree, which looks after young adults who are homeless, gives them | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
a place to sleep, teaches them social skills, cookery, skills for | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
their resume, that is in danger of being closed by the local council. I | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
can think of 200 things in Essex that I'd sacrifice before I | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
sacrificed that. But because most of the time we don't hear from young | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
people like this disease and to ignore them so well done for having | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
this young man on the show. Ministers, again and again, stressed | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
that mental health has been given increased priority so how can this | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
happen at a time when the government is repeatedly trying to turn the | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
attention from physical well-being to mental well-being. I think in the | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
last five years we've seen a tremendous change in society about | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
attitudes towards mental health. Much greater willingness for people | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
to talk about it in public and share their stories. That is beginning, I | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
stress, beginning, to change political attitudes, to get | :51:25. | :51:27. | |
politicians to see this as a priority but it is hard work to | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
shift the funding. That is the point we've reached come you cannot talk | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
in public about mental health being a priority if you don't back up your | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
actions by the level of funding it attracts. Daniel, you nodding. I've | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
read the report and I want to stress that it says that 50% of children in | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
care or leaving care have mental health disorders at the moment. And | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
these are going pretty much and diagnosed. One thing I saw in the | :51:56. | :52:00. | |
report which is going the right way is that there is support for looked | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
after children until the age of 25, pretty much. That is the | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
recommendation put in place. I am passionate about kids in care | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
getting the right support. Let's face it, 23% of adult prisoners have | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
been in care. That's 21,000 people currently in the prison system that | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
were in care. We need to start asking questions as a society, why | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
are we allowing this? OK. Facebook's profits have tripled | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
in the first quarter of 2016, with a big rise in income | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
from mobile phone advertising credited | :52:34. | :52:35. | |
with driving its performance. We can talk to Eleni Marouli, | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
an advertising analyst What is going on here? Facebook is | :52:38. | :52:52. | |
outpacing all of its peers and showed massive growth in the first | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
quarter which is traditionally very weak in advertising. Growing to $5.2 | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
billion in advertising revenue, massive growth from mobile if you | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
think that in 2012, $0 came from mobile revenue and now they have | :53:08. | :53:16. | |
created a market of $13 billion. In 2015 so much revenue came from | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
Facebook and of online advertising revenue will be mobile which puts | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
Facebook in a good place to succeed long-term. I thought Facebook was | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
beginning to fade in popularity. I know, talking to my kids, it doesn't | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
seem to have a central place in their life which it used to have. So | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
mobile phones have rescued Facebook, in a way. If you look at the | :53:41. | :53:47. | |
engagement Facebook has, it's higher, and we measure that by daily | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
active users compared with monthly active users. Family people use | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
Facebook, it's going up because of the mobiles. Now it will be | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
expanding into video content and advertising. The first time it can | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
be streamed live and seen on an entertainment network in North | :54:08. | :54:09. | |
America which is very attractive to the bigger brand of advertisers. | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
Tell me about its audiences. It is still overwhelmingly younger folk | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
all our oldies like me clambering onto it as well. -- or our oldies | :54:22. | :54:29. | |
like me joining it? It appeals to all age groups. Its main currency is | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
that it can identify those online and mobile users, something very | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
hard to do in an age of a lot of ad fraud, so that is its main currency. | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
Mobile phones have changed everything in terms of social media | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
and its profitability and viability. Absolutely, mobile is no longer an | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
afterthought, it is the main way advertisers think about Digital Mono | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
tries Asian, and going forward what Facebook is betting on is the future | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
of messaging apps. Which explains its big acquisition of WhatsApp, and | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
also Virtual reality, we are waiting to view more about the future of | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
that. A question and maybe unfair, where does Twitter fit in this? In | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
the rivalry between Twitter and Facebook who uses Twitter and who | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
uses Facebook and which is the more lucrative, looking forward? It is | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
not a fair comparison, Facebook and Twitter are different propositions | :55:32. | :55:33. | |
with different goals. Different starting points. Twitter had its | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
results announced earlier this week as well, slightly below expectations | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
although still robust growth in a traditionally weak quarter. That is | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
expired 5% is very decent growth. The struggle with Twitter has been | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
committed getting to investors what its value is. It held on to the | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
similar magic of monthly active users which hasn't gone well. I | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
think it added 5 million users in the first quarter which is very | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
small. But it has this massive audience of about 5 million people | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
which takes it up to billions of monthly active users which is quite | :56:09. | :56:19. | |
serious audience. Thank you. I find it quite infuriating when someone is | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
walking down the street looking at their mobile phone and expect you to | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
get out of the way! Come on, guys, you are the one looking at your | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
phone! More of your comments. Mark says that e-cigarettes should be | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
taxed at the same rate as normal cigarettes. | :56:35. | :56:46. | |
Brian says that he gave up smoking and his health has improved | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
massively. Jennifer says excuses made by people who don't give up | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
smoking but shift to e-cigarettes just annoys me. She says she smoked | :56:58. | :57:04. | |
for 20 years and gave up cold turkey and has not smoked since. Yes, there | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
were withdrawal symptoms, she says, but I dealt with them at home! David | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
said, I used to smoke 30 cigarettes a day, switched to e-cigarettes and | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
haven't looked back. You are emphasising the nicotine levels, yet | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
it is the carcinogen is in cigarettes that number the thousands | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
that caused the problems, the water vapour does not have those | :57:28. | :57:28. | |
carcinogens. Thank you so much for your input | :57:29. | :57:38. | |
into this programme because it is your e-mails and tweets that help us | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
and it is great to have your input into all the different bits and bobs | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
we have been discussing. Keep in touch any time through social media, | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
of course. Maybe you are using Facebook now! This is the hashtag to | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
use, and don't forget the old ancient website, it sounds old | :58:01. | :58:01. | |
school but you can still use it! Joanna will be presenting tomorrow, | :58:02. | :58:14. | |
so normal service tomorrow, have a tiptop day. Cheerio! | :58:15. | :58:18. |