13/05/2016

:00:17. > :00:19.In a court ruling that could affect families everywhere,

:00:20. > :00:22.judges are to rule in the case of a father who took his

:00:23. > :00:25.The council wanted to fine him - magistrates disagreed.

:00:26. > :00:29.We have exclusive access to a new police training scheme open

:00:30. > :00:47.Before, if I was at university, coming across a child for something,

:00:48. > :00:49.you thought ring the police. Now I am the police.

:00:50. > :00:51.Plus junk food adverts that target your children

:00:52. > :00:53.when they're online - should they be banned

:00:54. > :00:55.in the same way they are during children's TV programmes?

:00:56. > :01:01.Whenever you go on a gaming website, I don't know, down both sides, there

:01:02. > :01:05.is always adverts, you go on the site to play the

:01:06. > :01:14.games, not to play the efforts Welcome to the programme,

:01:15. > :01:22.we're live until 11 this morning. Also this morning -

:01:23. > :01:24.you may have been following the story of a British-Iranian woman

:01:25. > :01:27.who's been separated from her young As her family finally get

:01:28. > :01:30.to see her in prison, Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:31. > :01:35.we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria

:01:36. > :01:37.Live and If you text, you will be charged

:01:38. > :01:40.at the standard network rate. Our top story today -

:01:41. > :01:42.the case of a father who refused to pay a ?120 fine

:01:43. > :01:47.for taking his daughter out of school for a holiday will be

:01:48. > :01:51.heard at the High Court today. Magistrates ruled that Jon Platt had

:01:52. > :01:53.no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

:01:54. > :01:55.attended school regularly. But Isle of Wight Council has asked

:01:56. > :01:58.the High Court to clarify whether a seven-day absence amounts

:01:59. > :02:01.to a child failing Here's our Education Correspondent

:02:02. > :02:08.Robert Pigott. Jon Platt has become a leading

:02:09. > :02:10.figure in a campaign by parents to relax the rules

:02:11. > :02:15.governing term-time holidays. He took his daughter on a family

:02:16. > :02:18.holiday to Disney World in April 2015 without her

:02:19. > :02:22.school's permission. After he refused to pay a fine

:02:23. > :02:27.of ?120, the Isle of Wight Council It said he had failed

:02:28. > :02:31.in his legal duty to ensure However, magistrates accepted his

:02:32. > :02:40.argument that even with this and other absences, his daughter had

:02:41. > :02:44.been in class for at least 90% of school days, and that it amounted

:02:45. > :02:47.to regular attendance. They have asked the High Court

:02:48. > :02:50.to decide whether they were right to take the girl's attendance into

:02:51. > :02:57.account when deciding in his favour. Mr Platt says that what is at stake

:02:58. > :03:01.in the High Court today is parents' freedom to decide

:03:02. > :03:05.what is best for their children. Ultimately it boils down

:03:06. > :03:08.to who decides what is best Is that a local

:03:09. > :03:10.authority or parents? It is not ideal to take your

:03:11. > :03:21.children out of school on a term-time holiday,

:03:22. > :03:23.but if you can't get away... There are many people

:03:24. > :03:35.who can't go in holiday time. Head teachers were once able

:03:36. > :03:46.to take their children out of school Regulations now prevent them from

:03:47. > :03:48.doing so even exceptional circumstances.

:03:49. > :03:50.The Department for Education insists that even one day's absence

:03:51. > :04:09.We will be live at the High Court for reaction. We will also hear from

:04:10. > :04:11.John Platt himself. Please do get in touch with your thoughts.

:04:12. > :04:13.Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:04:14. > :04:17.An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

:04:18. > :04:21.Operation Sophia, which began last June, was launched to disrupt

:04:22. > :04:24.the business of people trafficking but a parliamentary committee says

:04:25. > :04:26.that while the mission has saved thousands of lives,

:04:27. > :04:28.it's not having any meaningful impact on the smuggling networks.

:04:29. > :04:36.These pictures show one of the latest rescue efforts

:04:37. > :04:45.Scores of boats like these leave every week.

:04:46. > :04:47.Behind them, people smugglers, profiting from despair.

:04:48. > :04:48.Operation Sophia was set up after hundreds

:04:49. > :04:54.of migrants drowned when their boat sank near Italy last year.

:04:55. > :04:56.EU naval vessels patrol the Libyan coast, and while they have

:04:57. > :04:59.contributed to the effort, rescuing 9000 people,

:05:00. > :05:01.they report Operation Sophia an impossible challenge.

:05:02. > :05:03.They have not put a stop to the multibillion pound migrant

:05:04. > :05:33.They have not put a stop to the multibillion pound migrant

:05:34. > :05:36.It has found around 50 smugglers have been arrested, but they are

:05:37. > :05:39.low-level targets and not the key figures within the networks.

:05:40. > :05:41.While 80 smuggling vessels have been destroyed,

:05:42. > :05:42.it claims smugglers have

:05:43. > :05:44.simply changed their tactics, changing from wooden boats to

:05:45. > :05:50.What we obviously need is a co-ordinated response by the

:05:51. > :05:53.European countries that will deal not only with the question of people

:05:54. > :05:55.smuggling, but also with settlement and repatriation and processing.

:05:56. > :05:58.With spring turning to summer, record numbers

:05:59. > :06:01.of people are expected to try and flee from Libya

:06:02. > :06:03.The report concludes that without a strategy

:06:04. > :06:06.to address the root causes of migration, there is no end in

:06:07. > :06:10.This morning we are live on search and rescue boat

:06:11. > :06:15.Our correspondent Christian Fraser is there.

:06:16. > :06:27.From where you are, can USS Operation Sofia.

:06:28. > :06:47.You can see we have 233 rescued migrants. Economic

:06:48. > :07:01.them... Apologies, technical problems with the line.

:07:02. > :07:07.The US Navy has fired the commander of the ten American sailors

:07:08. > :07:09.who were briefly captured by Iran in January.

:07:10. > :07:11.The sailors strayed off course in the Gulf and were held

:07:12. > :07:13.and questioned in Iran for fifteen hours.

:07:14. > :07:15.A US Navy official said the commander had failed to provide

:07:16. > :07:30.The police watchdog has launched an investigation after a former

:07:31. > :07:33.South Yorkshire Police press officer claimed she was asked to "spin" news

:07:34. > :07:37.Hayley Court claimed she was asked to encourage the media to report

:07:38. > :07:38.evidence favourable to the police, including that fans

:07:39. > :07:41.South Yorkshire Police has said the allegations were

:07:42. > :07:47.The advertising industry is considering a total ban

:07:48. > :07:49.on adverts for unhealthy food which target children.

:07:50. > :07:51.Current restrictions apply only during children's TV programmes,

:07:52. > :07:53.but not to online media such as gaming websites.

:07:54. > :07:55.The Committee of Advertising Practice -

:07:56. > :07:57.an industry body - is proposing extending the ban

:07:58. > :07:59.to cover all media, including online, because of the rise

:08:00. > :08:04.And we'll talk to the Advertising Standards authority,

:08:05. > :08:07.the Food and Drink Federation and parents with a variety

:08:08. > :08:12.A quick-thinking train driver helped save passengers from major injuries

:08:13. > :08:14.in a collision with a lorry on the tracks.

:08:15. > :08:17.The driver had just seconds to warn passengers of an impending crash

:08:18. > :08:20.as the train travelled at 62mph towards a truck blocking a level

:08:21. > :08:22.as the train travelled at 62mph after a truck blocked

:08:23. > :08:32.The Obama administration is instructing schools to allow

:08:33. > :08:34.transgender students to use toilets that match their chosen

:08:35. > :08:40.The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, says the decree

:08:41. > :08:42.The Obama administration is instructing schools to allow

:08:43. > :08:45.transgender students to use toilets that match their chosen

:08:46. > :08:48.The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, says the decree

:08:49. > :08:49.serves to protect transgender students from discrimination

:08:50. > :08:53.The state of North Carolina has provoked a storm of protest

:08:54. > :08:56.after issuing a law requiring people to use public toilets that

:08:57. > :08:58.correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificate.

:08:59. > :09:05.Fire crews are tackling a blaze at what's believed to be a fireworks

:09:06. > :09:09.Around 50 firefighters are tackling the fire at the factory

:09:10. > :09:13.There are no reported injuries but some homes have been evacuated.

:09:14. > :09:15.Ireland has been knocked out of the Eurovision Song Contest

:09:16. > :09:17.after former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne failed to qualify

:09:18. > :09:22.in the semi-final in Sweden, where he was one of 18 competing

:09:23. > :09:27.The UK automatically qualifies, with duo Joe and Jake

:09:28. > :09:38.We'll be talking more about term-time holidays

:09:39. > :10:04.Use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged

:10:05. > :10:13.Taulafo sport to come this weekend. We will look further ahead to the

:10:14. > :10:16.summer. After helping Sunderland avoid relegation by banking 15 goals

:10:17. > :10:21.in the Premier League, Jermain Defoe has set his

:10:22. > :10:26.sights on the England side for Euro 2016. Roy Hodgson is set to name his

:10:27. > :10:31.squad on Monday, and he says he has done

:10:32. > :10:34.everything right. He was last called up in November 20 13. Conscience has

:10:35. > :10:45.delayed naming his Use without the Arsenal pair Danny

:10:46. > :10:52.Welbeck in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain through injury. A big weekend,

:10:53. > :10:54.Saracens will take on Racing Metro in the Champions Cup will stop

:10:55. > :11:04.yesterday unions looks at plans to stop

:11:05. > :11:07.players being overworked. That means the Six Nations could move to April.

:11:08. > :11:11.The Harlequins director of rugby shares concerns. You can see the

:11:12. > :11:15.work and you rest their bodies around. The shortness of the

:11:16. > :11:24.pre-season, the ability to recover. You look at the end of the season,

:11:25. > :11:29.England playing Wales. There are commercial realities to that.

:11:30. > :11:31.Something has to give. Danny Willett was back in action last

:11:32. > :11:38.night for the first time since winning the US Masters last month.

:11:39. > :11:44.He was playing in the unofficial fifth major at TPC Sawgrass. He said

:11:45. > :11:52.the gap between the Triumph and last night meant he was not great. A 73,

:11:53. > :11:53.with three birdies. Jason Day equalled the course record with a

:11:54. > :12:08.nine under it, the shops are closed, all you

:12:09. > :12:11.have a dog food? No, not me. Serena Williams said she was physically

:12:12. > :12:15.match yesterday because she felt like

:12:16. > :12:32.trying has dog's food. I tried a spoonful, salmon and rice, all mixed

:12:33. > :12:38.together. I feel really sick. It was just a spoonful. Pretty nice food

:12:39. > :12:44.for a dog. Joanna, tell the truth, one by? Not sure.

:12:45. > :12:46.The family of a British-Iranian mother being detained in Iran has

:12:47. > :12:49.been able to see her for the first time since her arrest.

:12:50. > :12:52.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in a cell since being stopped

:12:53. > :12:55.on the 3rd of April at an airport after visiting her family.

:12:56. > :12:58.The charity worker was with her 22 month old daughter Gabriella

:12:59. > :13:00.at the time of her arrest, she's now being looked

:13:01. > :13:11.Let's talk now to Nazanin's husband Richard Ratcliffe.

:13:12. > :13:24.Nazanin's parents have got to see her. And Gabriella. Yes, her parents

:13:25. > :13:29.flew themselves down, 1000, to see where they live. They were picked up

:13:30. > :13:34.at the hotel by the Revolutionary guard, and they were taken to a

:13:35. > :13:40.hotel where they met Nazanin. They had about three hours together,

:13:41. > :13:45.having lunch. Talking to Nazanin. Not allowed to talk about why she

:13:46. > :13:52.was arrested. Not about her condition. They were allowed to be

:13:53. > :14:03.together. The first 15 minutes, Gabriella sat in her mother's arms.

:14:04. > :14:07.It was all stage-managed, but Gabriella given a goal by the

:14:08. > :14:14.Revolutionary guard. It was played out in a statement. Reassuring to at

:14:15. > :14:22.least have the contact. Have your parents-in-law said how she is?

:14:23. > :14:26.Reassuring. They said this is not normal, this is because of Gabriella

:14:27. > :14:32.when the baby deserves to see her mother. In terms of how Nazanin

:14:33. > :14:38.look. They said she looked calm, stronger than expected. Did not go

:14:39. > :14:45.into more details. He/she still being held in solitary confinement?

:14:46. > :14:49.To the best of my knowledge. The hotel was much nicer, then back to

:14:50. > :14:51.where she was before. Take us back to the 3rd of April, she was

:14:52. > :14:59.arrested at the airport, along with Gabriella. They were preparing to

:15:00. > :15:04.come home. They had been on a family holiday for two weeks. They were

:15:05. > :15:11.stopped at the check-in. Told it was a passport issue. The passports need

:15:12. > :15:13.to be looked after. Gabriella given back to her grandparents, while it

:15:14. > :15:19.was sorted. Nazanin taken into a room with both

:15:20. > :15:25.of the passports. That was the last we saw of her. Do you have an idea

:15:26. > :15:36.why she was picked up from no charges have been made. The only

:15:37. > :15:40.issue, national security. She's a young mother, charity worker, she

:15:41. > :15:47.has been to Iran four times in the past two years. Hard to see what it

:15:48. > :15:52.could be. Because she has a British husband for site it is just not

:15:53. > :16:01.clear. There is a report she has signed a confession?

:16:02. > :16:04.As far as I know what she has told her parents on the phone was that if

:16:05. > :16:08.she corroborated with investigations at the end of the day she was

:16:09. > :16:13.allowed to phone home and she confirmed to her father that she had

:16:14. > :16:17.signed something. To say it was a small mistake. It is typical for

:16:18. > :16:23.other cases for detainees to be kept in solitary and sign a confession

:16:24. > :16:28.and then brought out and convicted later. So you don't know what she

:16:29. > :16:34.has been questioned about. Her family were not allowed to discuss

:16:35. > :16:40.that with her on Wednesday. The Foreign Office advised you against

:16:41. > :16:47.speaking out. She had been held for around a month. Today is day 40 and

:16:48. > :16:50.we spoke out on Monday. Why did you decide to do that? Partly because

:16:51. > :16:55.the time was passing and it felt that we were not having any success

:16:56. > :17:02.in getting through to her through the formal, official channels. I

:17:03. > :17:06.spoke to other families of former detainees and current detainees.

:17:07. > :17:12.There are quite a few. In the public domain, there may be two or three

:17:13. > :17:16.and a couple more that haven't come forward yet. Talking to them, it is

:17:17. > :17:21.different in different cases, they all said they wished they had gone

:17:22. > :17:28.public earlier and I felt that we had left it too long. One of the

:17:29. > :17:33.current detainees as a man of 76 who has been held in prison since 2011.

:17:34. > :17:37.He was in solitary confinement for some time and it took the family

:17:38. > :17:42.quite some time to start to talk about it. I know that you have been

:17:43. > :17:45.in touch with that family. Presumably looking at that situation

:17:46. > :17:52.where he's been held for a long time it must make you feel nervous.

:17:53. > :17:54.Terrifying. That family have led a dignified campaign in trying to

:17:55. > :18:00.raise his profile and doing what they can for their grandfather. Five

:18:01. > :18:05.years the spurious charges is an extraordinarily long time. Goodness

:18:06. > :18:11.knows what could happen to Nazanin. Does she have access to a lawyer?

:18:12. > :18:18.Not to my best knowledge. She was not allowed to talk about it at the

:18:19. > :18:22.meeting. Her father has an appointed lawyer for him but I don't think

:18:23. > :18:27.he's been able to make contact with Nazanin, neither did the Red Cross.

:18:28. > :18:31.The one hope is this petition we have started. We had a quarter of a

:18:32. > :18:37.million signatures in four days. Yesterday someone wanted it

:18:38. > :18:41.translated translated into Russian and 25,000 people signed it within

:18:42. > :18:45.hours. The strength it has given to her family to see all these people

:18:46. > :18:51.caring it has given me to go to the Foreign Office and say, there

:18:52. > :18:57.are a lot of people who care, we will talk to the Foreign Office on

:18:58. > :19:04.Wednesday and see what the new context is. Will you go to Iran?

:19:05. > :19:09.Suddenly. Broadly I am more effective here at the moment. We

:19:10. > :19:14.will see what the charges are and how things unfold. This has turned

:19:15. > :19:18.your life upside down. Completely transformed it. One thing that has

:19:19. > :19:23.been striking is how many old friends have got in touch and

:19:24. > :19:28.reached out, and that sort of empathy that we've got in all sorts

:19:29. > :19:32.of different ways. Whilst it is a horrible circumstance for people to

:19:33. > :19:36.reach out in its actually the most important time for people to come

:19:37. > :19:41.along and try to support in all the ways they can. When you took that

:19:42. > :19:45.call to say what had happened, how did you react? The first call I got

:19:46. > :19:49.was from her brother saying that she did not catch the plane, don't

:19:50. > :19:53.worry, she will be on another plane, there is just a problem with her

:19:54. > :19:57.passport. I did not understand things at that time so I believed

:19:58. > :20:01.him. It was only when she could not be found for the first few days come

:20:02. > :20:05.all the fears that go through your mind, she could have disappeared,

:20:06. > :20:09.what could have happened, and then when she was able to call and say

:20:10. > :20:15.she was OK and save that was reassuring. It has been an up and

:20:16. > :20:18.down journey of emotions, hard-fought us to understand the

:20:19. > :20:23.enormity of what she's going through. Thank you for talking to

:20:24. > :20:29.us, Richard. To stay in touch. Thank you. -- do stay in touch.

:20:30. > :20:32.This programme has been given exclusive access to a new police

:20:33. > :20:34.training scheme open only to graduates with top degrees.

:20:35. > :20:36.Police Now was set up last year to attract

:20:37. > :20:38.what the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Bernard Hogan Howe,

:20:39. > :20:40.described as the "brightest and best" into policing.

:20:41. > :20:43.Ashley John-Baptiste has been out on the beat with two of the first

:20:44. > :20:58.The left. This is one of our local areas that we have issues with.

:20:59. > :21:03.You'll see a lot of people start run away. Last year the Metropolitan

:21:04. > :21:07.Police set up a new training scheme. They wanted to improve on what they

:21:08. > :21:14.saw as a lack of university graduates applying for jobs. It is

:21:15. > :21:19.called police Now. We went filming with two of the first year recruits.

:21:20. > :21:24.This is the sort of thing you get. You are not being evicted today, we

:21:25. > :21:35.just giving you the information so it's a surprise.

:21:36. > :21:42.If we go further up there is a little market, and in the past, to

:21:43. > :21:50.an extensible ongoing, we have had an issue with people selling drugs.

:21:51. > :21:52.Three years ago I was a student at the University of Nottingham,

:21:53. > :22:00.different from anything I'm doing now. I spent a lot of time in the

:22:01. > :22:07.library and with my mates, playing, has parties, generally a good time.

:22:08. > :22:12.-- has parties. I just wanted to introduce myself, how long have you

:22:13. > :22:14.been here? After six weeks of intensive training the new recruits

:22:15. > :22:17.were sent out to be local officers in some of the toughest

:22:18. > :22:23.neighbourhoods in London. This is the first time officers from the

:22:24. > :22:28.scheme have been filmed at on shift. Most of the day I spent in my

:22:29. > :22:31.community, smiling at people, saying hello, it's about knowing my hotspot

:22:32. > :22:37.areas for crime and anti-social behaviour. We've been to some of

:22:38. > :22:41.those, we go to some of them everyday, for example, one of the

:22:42. > :22:49.blogs has a problem with drug abuse. I will visit that most shift, if not

:22:50. > :22:56.every shift. -- most shifts. How often are you coming to this part of

:22:57. > :23:04.the area? Maybe twice a week also, it depends on whether it is an

:23:05. > :23:09.issue. And then we will come down. Three days ago... The smell is just

:23:10. > :23:13.awful. Overwhelming. We had three people smoking drugs here are couple

:23:14. > :23:19.of days ago. The first week and I got sent to a house where there were

:23:20. > :23:22.two children, my job was to take care of their welfare and part of

:23:23. > :23:29.that was to put them into police protection. It's quite an emotional

:23:30. > :23:33.experience, I had never been in that situation before in my daily life

:23:34. > :23:38.and to be there in uniform, it's my responsibility. Before that, when I

:23:39. > :23:43.was at university, if you found a child or something you would say,

:23:44. > :23:49.best ring the police. Now I am the police. Have you ever felt out of

:23:50. > :23:52.your depth in the job? Sometimes but you have colleagues next to you and

:23:53. > :23:57.some are more experienced and know what they are doing. This is one of

:23:58. > :24:01.the places where we found some of the guys hiding some of their drugs.

:24:02. > :24:06.Wishing them in here so they would not have them on them when we came

:24:07. > :24:13.around and did searches, for example -- pushing them in here. This is

:24:14. > :24:16.just a part of what I do in neighbourhood policing. Arresting

:24:17. > :24:20.someone stops an immediate situation but most of my work is around

:24:21. > :24:27.solving long-term issues that we have in our communities. We cannot

:24:28. > :24:32.arrest our way out of those! Yes, she's very good. We know her. She

:24:33. > :24:42.comes to our events, she's very approachable, she is well known.

:24:43. > :24:50.What is your view of the police? I think they target the teenagers

:24:51. > :24:54.mostly around you, stop and search. You're judged by your skin colour

:24:55. > :25:03.and stuff. The other day one of my friends got stopped, and they said

:25:04. > :25:07.they wanted to touch, you was not comfortable, they did not care, they

:25:08. > :25:12.were not respecting him. I think there's a lot of age discrimination

:25:13. > :25:21.as well. They don't show respect to us. But fails provide security and

:25:22. > :25:27.stuff. Mice to see you. Take care. The shops like us to do more stop

:25:28. > :25:32.and searching because of the issues they have. We do so many, that's

:25:33. > :25:35.always going to be the case. What we want to do is make sure that when we

:25:36. > :25:39.stop someone we have the grounds, there is a reason we are there, we

:25:40. > :25:43.would not do it for no reason, we also talk to them and see what their

:25:44. > :25:46.concerns are and if their concerns are that people are carrying knives

:25:47. > :25:52.or smoking drugs will be there to combat this, when you have a safe

:25:53. > :25:56.environment for everyone. The anti-social behaviour has improved

:25:57. > :26:04.dramatically. In the last couple of days I've issued three drugs

:26:05. > :26:07.warrants. The scheme has covered community policing on the same

:26:08. > :26:13.patch. Just over 60 recruits meet regularly to share their progress

:26:14. > :26:16.with senior officers. But at a time when the government wants police

:26:17. > :26:20.forces to reflect the communities that they work in, should the scheme

:26:21. > :26:26.not be open to everyone, not just graduates? In the graduate

:26:27. > :26:31.recruitment market we are targeting female recruits and black and

:26:32. > :26:38.minority ethnic recruits. For example the intake coming in this

:26:39. > :26:42.summer are more than 50% female, and around 20% black and minority

:26:43. > :26:46.ethnic. With the female figure I'm really pleased, that to me as a sign

:26:47. > :26:52.of big progress. The black and minority ethnic recruits, 20%,

:26:53. > :27:00.that's progress but we are still not at the races. I had one report of

:27:01. > :27:06.someone in one of these blocks, setting off fireworks. I did have

:27:07. > :27:11.some concerns about going in. One of my concerns was about being a woman

:27:12. > :27:18.and how that would affect me. I like your phone. Thank you, it's very old

:27:19. > :27:22.and big! There are not many ethnic minorities within the Metropolitan

:27:23. > :27:26.Police, would I be in a minority within a minority? In fact there are

:27:27. > :27:35.quite a few ethnic minorities working in Haringey. Are you all

:27:36. > :27:43.right? What are you doing. Why is everyone leaving? From a small

:27:44. > :27:48.village so I'm not used to the city and the pressures and the challenges

:27:49. > :27:55.and brings. But I enjoy the challenge and I like to talk to the

:27:56. > :28:00.community and see what they want. Police Now is now an independent

:28:01. > :28:05.charity. This year it will provide 120 officers to seven forces across

:28:06. > :28:09.England. That's currently around 120,000 officers in England and

:28:10. > :28:11.Wales are the numbers are still small. But could this be what the

:28:12. > :28:25.future of policing looks like? Some of you getting in touch, one

:28:26. > :28:28.viewer says that the special training scheme is a waste of money,

:28:29. > :28:32.you'd need life experience and you don't have this when you come from

:28:33. > :28:36.education and you certainly don't need a degree to be a good officer.

:28:37. > :28:42.Trevor on Facebook says there's nothing as good as an officer being

:28:43. > :28:45.promoted through merit. Rapid promotion through graduate entry can

:28:46. > :28:47.never replace this all produce good and experienced officers.

:28:48. > :28:50.Junk food adverts that target your children

:28:51. > :28:52.when they're online - we'll ask if they should be

:28:53. > :28:55.banned in the same way they are during children's TV

:28:56. > :28:58.We will be asking parents and industry experts if this is a good

:28:59. > :29:01.idea. And the High Court is to rule

:29:02. > :29:09.in the case of a father who took his daughter out of school

:29:10. > :29:11.to go to Florida. The council wanted to fine him -

:29:12. > :29:14.magistrates disagreed. Here's ANNITA in the BBC Newsroom

:29:15. > :29:32.with a summary of todays news. An anti-smuggling mission is failing

:29:33. > :29:36.to achieve its aims, says a parliamentary committee. Operation

:29:37. > :29:41.Sophia which began in June was launched to stop people trafficking,

:29:42. > :29:44.it is imported that while it has saved thousands of lives it is

:29:45. > :29:49.having no impact on the smuggling networks. The US Navy has fired the

:29:50. > :29:53.commander of ten American sailors briefly captured by Iran in January.

:29:54. > :29:59.The sailors went off course in the Gulf and will hold and questioned in

:30:00. > :30:01.Iran for 15 hours. The US Navy officials said the commander had

:30:02. > :30:06.failed to provide effective leadership and had shown lack of

:30:07. > :30:10.oversight and complacency. The advertising industry is considering

:30:11. > :30:15.a ban on adverts for unhealthy food that target children. Current

:30:16. > :30:19.restrictions apply currently only during children's TV programmes, not

:30:20. > :30:25.to online media like gaming website. The industry body responsible is

:30:26. > :30:28.proposing extending the ban to cover all media including online because

:30:29. > :30:32.of the rise in childhood obesity. Hundreds of people have been

:30:33. > :30:36.evacuated from their homes after an unexploded World War II bomb was

:30:37. > :30:39.found in the next Mac bath. The device was found by developers

:30:40. > :30:44.working on the former Royal health school site in the city. A safety

:30:45. > :30:46.barrier has been put around 1000 homes as police assess the

:30:47. > :30:51.situation. A quick-thinking train driver helped

:30:52. > :30:53.save passengers from major injuries in a collision with a lorry

:30:54. > :30:55.on the tracks. The driver had just seconds to warn

:30:56. > :30:58.passengers of an impending crash as the train travelled at 62mph

:30:59. > :31:01.towards a truck blocking a level as the train travelled at 62mph

:31:02. > :31:03.after a truck blocked Ireland has been knocked out

:31:04. > :31:07.of the Eurovision Song Contest after former Westlife singer

:31:08. > :31:09.Nicky Byrne failed to qualify in the semi-final in Sweden,

:31:10. > :31:14.where he was one of 18 competing The UK automatically qualifies,

:31:15. > :31:42.with duo Joe and Jake We will talk more about Eurovision

:31:43. > :31:44.later with some super fans and the winner. Let's catch up with the

:31:45. > :31:53.sport. He scored 15 goals for Sunderland in

:31:54. > :31:58.the league this season, now the 33 Rob Jermain Defoe says he has done

:31:59. > :32:03.everything right to own a call up to the England squad for next month's

:32:04. > :32:11.euros. Roy Hodgson will announce the squad on Monday. Kenya's

:32:12. > :32:25.participation for the Olympics is in doubt after the IOC declared the

:32:26. > :32:30.country's practices according to performance enhancing substances is

:32:31. > :32:34.in breach of its rules. Danny Willett return to action after his

:32:35. > :32:44.US Masters win at TPC Sawgrass. He scored a 73. Max Verstappen had his

:32:45. > :32:56.first race in the rental head of the Spanish Grand Prix. Daniel Kvyat was

:32:57. > :33:15.demoted to Toro Rosso. You have got in touch, regarding school holidays.

:33:16. > :33:24.Richard says he missed months and months of school due to poor health,

:33:25. > :33:26.I have college qualifications and a degree.

:33:27. > :33:28.The advertising industry is considering a total ban

:33:29. > :33:30.on adverts for junk food which specifically target children.

:33:31. > :33:32.There have been strict rules on this for years,

:33:33. > :33:34.but they mainly apply to children's TV programmes.

:33:35. > :33:37.The new proposals would extent the ban to online video, apps,

:33:38. > :33:44.magazines, billboards, even social media.

:33:45. > :33:47.We went to Little Ealing primary school in West London to find out

:33:48. > :33:56.what a bunch of 10 to 11 year olds make of it all.

:33:57. > :34:10.My name is busy, my favourite fast food is Nandos. My favourite junk

:34:11. > :34:15.food is ice cream. My name is Maisie. My name is Ruben. My

:34:16. > :34:22.favourite website is Eugene. I watch a lot of music videos. How much do

:34:23. > :34:29.you notice adverts? Whenever you go on a gaming website, down both

:34:30. > :34:35.sides, and at the top, there are adverts. You go to play the games,

:34:36. > :34:40.not to look at the adverts. I find it quite annoying. If we wanted to

:34:41. > :34:47.buy a burger, we don't need people persuading us. What sort of adverts

:34:48. > :34:56.do you see? A lot of McDonald's, fast food. A lot of adverts about

:34:57. > :35:05.special deals, come and get our crispy chicken burger. I don't like

:35:06. > :35:10.those. They are trying to over persuade someone. It makes you

:35:11. > :35:16.think, you don't need to see that. Does not sound like the adverts are

:35:17. > :35:21.convincing you? When you see adverts, do you want fast food? I

:35:22. > :35:30.want it, I know it is really bad for us. What do you like? I don't like

:35:31. > :35:39.McDonald's. I like KFC. You laugh about wanting fast food, you know it

:35:40. > :35:44.is bad. How much do those adverts make you want the food more? I still

:35:45. > :35:49.think they try to make it look really appetising, really nice. When

:35:50. > :35:55.you get it, it just doesn't look appetising at all. Even though

:35:56. > :36:00.they're trying to make it, does not really work. The suggestion is they

:36:01. > :36:05.would stop advertising chocolate, sweets and crisps, other things will

:36:06. > :36:14.be advertised and not bad for you. How does that sound? May be shutting

:36:15. > :36:22.down the advertising would make them realise their food is not healthy,

:36:23. > :36:31.making people want to eat it. If you take away the adverts, you less

:36:32. > :36:36.people would be likely to go, eating more burgers, things that are

:36:37. > :36:41.unhealthy. That way we would not be as obese. Sounds like pretty

:36:42. > :36:58.switched on of kids. Let's talk more about this. We have

:36:59. > :37:07.a mother of two boys, aged four and six. Bonner in mother of four, and

:37:08. > :37:14.Kate, a mother of two. Let's start with a clear explanation of what has

:37:15. > :37:20.been said? What would change if the proposals go through? We are

:37:21. > :37:25.announcing a set of tough proposals, tightening up the rules on the

:37:26. > :37:35.advertising of salty, sugary and fatty food, on media for children.

:37:36. > :37:39.We recognise the scale of the obesity challenge facing the

:37:40. > :37:44.country. One third of children are leaving school obese at the moment.

:37:45. > :37:50.Advertising plays a small part. Bigger factors are parental

:37:51. > :37:54.influence, school sports, education. There is a significant influence

:37:55. > :38:01.between advertising and dietary choices. We want to play our part in

:38:02. > :38:06.reversing the crisis. Another big driver in change, it children are

:38:07. > :38:13.consuming media in a different way. Ten years ago kids watched

:38:14. > :38:18.television, 96% of television have access to the Internet. Also

:38:19. > :38:23.children watching 3.5 hours of programming on the Internet. It has

:38:24. > :38:28.taken a while to catch up. It has been that way for a while. There are

:38:29. > :38:33.other things coming into play, like billboards. A relatively recent

:38:34. > :38:40.phenomenon. The rise of smartphones and tablets have contributed. Things

:38:41. > :38:44.need to change, and if children are consuming media differently, the

:38:45. > :38:49.rules need to be tightened up online, similar tough standards to

:38:50. > :38:56.television already. You have two sons, are you concerned about the

:38:57. > :39:03.adverts? Absolutely, the children use their iPad, watching child

:39:04. > :39:08.friendly programmes, the adverts are food related, or adult based. I feel

:39:09. > :39:13.that should be changed. What sort of adverts do you see? Don't tell us

:39:14. > :39:20.about the brands, but the sort of things? Could be beauty, health

:39:21. > :39:26.care, dental care, sports, music videos, adverts, not appropriate for

:39:27. > :39:34.my age group of kids. Does it go over their heads? Eventually it does

:39:35. > :39:38.get absorbed. They are sponges, they take in everything you give them. If

:39:39. > :39:44.you are promoting the right thing, they will see that. Eventually it

:39:45. > :39:52.takes over as they get older. Donna, you have four children. What are

:39:53. > :40:00.they accessing, and the situation with adverts? My children I1, five,

:40:01. > :40:05.eight and 11. My eight-year-old and 11-year-olds have their own tablets.

:40:06. > :40:10.My daughter enjoys watching YouTube and Facebook. Adverts all over them.

:40:11. > :40:15.Something you have been conscious about and concerns about? I was not

:40:16. > :40:21.conscious until my daughter came to me and said I want McDonald's for

:40:22. > :40:28.dinner. I realised she had seen an advert on the tablet. Is that what

:40:29. > :40:32.she said? She would not have asked if she had not seen the advert. You

:40:33. > :40:39.have a two -year-old and a four -year-old. I find this quite

:40:40. > :40:46.patronising. Parents need so much guidance, in order to effectively

:40:47. > :41:08.say no, exercising their power of no. Festering power -- the power of

:41:09. > :41:14.children to pester you is enormous. But parents should be in charge of

:41:15. > :41:22.healthy eating. Producers of junk food and drink have been enjoying a

:41:23. > :41:26.loophole? This is something where we have seen the difference between the

:41:27. > :41:33.rules of television and online, and posters. We came out last year said

:41:34. > :41:39.we are supporting bringing all the broadcast rules into line. For us,

:41:40. > :41:45.this cannot come soon enough. Anxious to get it into place, a

:41:46. > :41:50.small and important step forward. Donna says one of her kids asked for

:41:51. > :41:55.McDonald's, is a direct result of seeing it advert. Do you accept

:41:56. > :41:59.there is a direct correlation between what they are seeing and the

:42:00. > :42:03.results will stop the report says there is a modest impact from

:42:04. > :42:09.advertising. One of many things that influence choices. What do you

:42:10. > :42:12.think? Parents and public health professionals have been saying they

:42:13. > :42:20.want to see tighter restrictions on junk food marketing, online,

:42:21. > :42:26.television, all forms of media. It is a positive step. The industry has

:42:27. > :42:31.already agreed to some of these things thanks to the pressure put on

:42:32. > :42:36.them. I am not sure why we had to wait many months for the

:42:37. > :42:42.consultation, which has a large scope for certain parts of the

:42:43. > :42:48.industry to weaken what is proposed. Let's get Craig to answer that. It

:42:49. > :42:56.is not a long period, ten weeks. The reason we're doing that, most

:42:57. > :43:01.organisations when they pass changes, they want to say something.

:43:02. > :43:05.We are interested from hearing from your organisation. There is a real

:43:06. > :43:10.consensus from the industry, and there is a lot of support for what

:43:11. > :43:14.we are saying. Interesting there is consensus from industry. The

:43:15. > :43:24.industry setting the rules, setting the bar. We have to ask ourselves,

:43:25. > :43:28.what are they looking at? The current rules on television do not

:43:29. > :43:34.go far enough, allowing junk food to be advertised on the X Factor. What

:43:35. > :43:46.sort of loopholes? Sponsorship, brand characters. Everything from

:43:47. > :43:53.Star Wars promotions, Minions tie-ins. You think none of that

:43:54. > :43:56.should happen? None of it should happen. Companies spend hundreds of

:43:57. > :44:01.million pounds advertising these products to children. This will not

:44:02. > :44:07.stop that overnight. We need to see what rules will be brought in. The

:44:08. > :44:13.companies spend the money because it delivers results. They would not

:44:14. > :44:15.spend it for nothing? The evidence points to a modest impact. That is

:44:16. > :44:24.not to say there is no impact. points to a modest impact. That is

:44:25. > :44:29.good one. points to a modest impact. That is

:44:30. > :44:38.placements of the ads. Kids will not be seeing the adverts, in regards to

:44:39. > :44:41.able to. Other changes are we are making it easier to see license

:44:42. > :44:47.characters for the formation of healthy foods. Supporting public

:44:48. > :44:52.health messages. What is the mothers think of that? Fantastic, if they do

:44:53. > :44:58.that in a positive way, it will have a positive impact. With the adverts,

:44:59. > :45:02.promoting junk food, sugars and fats, the children are influenced

:45:03. > :45:06.stop when you give them spending money, you don't know where they are

:45:07. > :45:13.putting it, crisps, chocolate, McDonald's. If you promoted in the

:45:14. > :45:21.right way, exercise, fruit, salads. It will have a better impact. Donna,

:45:22. > :45:29.Kate? I agree, fantastic idea. I am a founder of the parent group, last

:45:30. > :45:35.night we had a poll of our members, 3000 members, to ask an opinion. The

:45:36. > :45:41.biggest issue, consistently is an endorsement, the licensing of

:45:42. > :45:48.characters. That really puts parents under a lot of pressure to say no.

:45:49. > :45:52.People getting in touch. The three are saying similar. Stuart saying,

:45:53. > :45:57.parents should take responsibility for their children's diet will stop

:45:58. > :46:03.they have a duty of care. Laughable, banning junk food ads for kids.

:46:04. > :46:12.Better to ban porn on the Internet. It causes bigger harm.

:46:13. > :46:19.It comes down to parental responsibility then. I work

:46:20. > :46:24.full-time and I'm a full-time parent so I do try to make the effort. I am

:46:25. > :46:29.a big advocate of Jamie Oliver, I love the fact that he gives you 30

:46:30. > :46:33.minute recipes where you can involve the children and get organic bits

:46:34. > :46:37.and pieces but organic produce is quite expensive and a lot of people

:46:38. > :46:41.would like access to cheaper because that is what they can afford in

:46:42. > :46:48.terms of budgeting the weekly shop. In terms of cooking I do try to at

:46:49. > :46:51.that time, I restrict junk food to a minimum, I try to get my children

:46:52. > :46:54.involved in the cooking process so they can feel they participated so

:46:55. > :47:02.that will encourage them to eat good food. Craig has said, Tim, and you

:47:03. > :47:07.have said, that the impact and advertising on pester power and it

:47:08. > :47:11.is a small element and what the parents are choosing to buy that

:47:12. > :47:18.people don't spend money on advertising for no reason. Of course

:47:19. > :47:24.not. These are products enjoyed by people across the country, of course

:47:25. > :47:29.in the face of an obesity crisis we have to do more to help. Parental

:47:30. > :47:35.responsibility is important, there are things we can do to help parents

:47:36. > :47:40.and this is a positive step forward. Is the food and drink industry being

:47:41. > :47:45.demonised? Yes. There's been a lot of regulation on the industry in the

:47:46. > :47:49.last few years. We are facing sugar levy now we've got a child beastie

:47:50. > :47:54.strategy coming from the government, there could be further restrictions

:47:55. > :47:57.there. This proposal is something the industry has embraced, is

:47:58. > :48:02.committed to voluntarily before we've even got the process going

:48:03. > :48:08.through. It would be nice to season credit for the fact that the

:48:09. > :48:12.industry is trying to do its bit, to sort this out. We have a

:48:13. > :48:18.responsibility of course but so do many others in tackling a very

:48:19. > :48:21.complex problem. Can I throw a challenge to the industry? We

:48:22. > :48:27.welcome the fact that some parts of industry like the food and drink

:48:28. > :48:30.Federation are saying that advertising of an healthy food and

:48:31. > :48:36.drink should not target children under 16, and I think you've said in

:48:37. > :48:39.the past that we should not see children to egg images of children

:48:40. > :48:44.on those adverts. That's good. Now we've got to look at the specifics

:48:45. > :48:50.of what has been announced today and say, if you look at the criteria

:48:51. > :48:54.that says, 25% of audience indexing it is how many children are failing

:48:55. > :48:58.that compared to adults, for instance. We will say will that be

:48:59. > :49:03.enough, are there many things that could be done beyond what is being

:49:04. > :49:08.asked in these rules? And I think that is the challenge ahead, because

:49:09. > :49:15.at the moment, I spend a large amount of my week going online,

:49:16. > :49:24.looking at advertising, where existing companies are targeting

:49:25. > :49:30.children very much on line. Widget you see parental responsibility in

:49:31. > :49:37.this? We all have parental responsibility. Parents absolutely

:49:38. > :49:43.do. It can be very tiring to be bombarded time and again by all this

:49:44. > :49:48.advertising, all these pressures to say yes, buy this product, yes my

:49:49. > :49:55.children should have it, and tiring to say no overtime. That is what

:49:56. > :49:59.actually want to the end to this environment, and ways of promoting

:50:00. > :50:03.properly healthy food, and also at the moment even the proposals that

:50:04. > :50:08.are talked about, it doesn't go far enough, saying what is properly

:50:09. > :50:15.healthy, rather than something that is not as sugary as the very worst

:50:16. > :50:18.offenders. Stuart has tweeted that children always ask for the latest

:50:19. > :50:23.gadgets, you don't give in to your demands, your other parent, do your

:50:24. > :50:28.job. John says, children as Paul sorts of things, just say No.

:50:29. > :50:34.Another viewer says, the people to blame parents, what is wrong with

:50:35. > :50:37.saying no. It seems as if people are getting in touch saying that maybe

:50:38. > :50:43.there is no need for this if parents say no. It's a mixture of

:50:44. > :50:47.responsibilities, the advertising industry house to play a part in

:50:48. > :50:51.limiting exposure to these adverts and parental responsibility plays a

:50:52. > :50:56.part. There are strong rules of the moment so it is not as if we are

:50:57. > :51:00.going from a situation where there are no rules to this set of rules,

:51:01. > :51:06.already there, the situation is that if someone makes a complaint about

:51:07. > :51:10.an advertisement which happens to the biggest multinationals in the

:51:11. > :51:15.world, we ban that advertisement and take it off the air so people can't

:51:16. > :51:18.see it again. What we want to do is strike a balance between protecting

:51:19. > :51:24.the rights of advertisers to market their product responsibility but

:51:25. > :51:28.also doing more to... It'll be harder to police this online, than

:51:29. > :51:33.on TV. There is audience indexing and data that we use. We've done

:51:34. > :51:40.that successfully. Exposure to sugar and fatty foods adverts has gone

:51:41. > :51:44.down. We are very open to talking to Malcolm and others about how to make

:51:45. > :51:47.it happen. I think we just first want to confirm with everyone that

:51:48. > :51:53.there's a consensus behind this. I most people agree that there's a big

:51:54. > :51:58.step forward fighting obesity. Anyone who is a parent would agree

:51:59. > :52:03.it is not easy. Do you feel the sort of advertising that we are talking

:52:04. > :52:12.about makes the job harder? It means I have to say No more often. Do you

:52:13. > :52:18.find it hard to say No to your kids? Not a lot but they know how to wind

:52:19. > :52:32.you around them! All kids do, what about you, Luke? - Lou. It can be a

:52:33. > :52:39.drain if they have it hissy fit in the middle of the street because

:52:40. > :52:44.they want something! Kate? I think one of your most practised phrases

:52:45. > :52:48.is, we are so used to saying this, and may curtail a lot of behaviours

:52:49. > :52:53.we don't want to encourage in our children, I think we need to give

:52:54. > :52:59.more kudos to the parents. The majority of parents there want

:53:00. > :53:05.children to be healthy and offer them a balanced and healthy attitude

:53:06. > :53:13.towards food and drink. I think No is a very simple word and must

:53:14. > :53:17.children understand it. If advertising has a modest effect on

:53:18. > :53:21.children's eating wire is so much spent on it, says one viewer.

:53:22. > :53:28.Another suggests that the problem is a lot of children sitting in front

:53:29. > :53:35.of games consoles. Endorsement of licensed characters should change.

:53:36. > :53:39.One contributor says that in their childhood, their mother would give

:53:40. > :53:43.them food and raw carrot. Thank you is much joining us. We've got some

:53:44. > :53:48.extraordinary pictures now from Poland. We saw shot clipped on the

:53:49. > :53:50.news. At the moment a train driver helped save all his passengers from

:53:51. > :53:54.major injury when he saw that his helped save all his passengers from

:53:55. > :53:58.train was about to crash into a lorry on

:53:59. > :54:01.train was about to crash into a He had three seconds to warn his

:54:02. > :54:03.passengers to get down so he ran through the train and told them to

:54:04. > :54:43.move fast. Isn't that incredible? Amazing. A

:54:44. > :54:48.lot of you are getting in touch about taking your children on

:54:49. > :54:52.holiday in term time. Peter says, School offers young people a route

:54:53. > :54:56.to independence and a degree of freedom from the tyranny of parents

:54:57. > :55:00.who believe they know best. Michael said, I missed school for holiday

:55:01. > :55:04.every and I got respectable results, this is absurd, one week or two

:55:05. > :55:09.doesn't have an impact, another viewer suggests that when the

:55:10. > :55:13.teachers go on strike this interrupt schooling, why can't parents to take

:55:14. > :55:19.them to court for interrupting the schooling? My daughter was a

:55:20. > :55:22.paramedic and could not get the time off in holiday time, they got

:55:23. > :55:28.permission from the school to take the children on holiday in term

:55:29. > :55:31.time, it'll got a fine. The local authority disagreed. Suit says that

:55:32. > :55:35.parents taking children away from school for holidays are selfish.

:55:36. > :55:39.Sylvia says it is grossly unfair to punish parents are taking holidays

:55:40. > :55:44.in term time, when my children were young and simply did not go away, I

:55:45. > :55:49.can see why parents are forced to do it. A tweet from Lee. Often working

:55:50. > :55:54.parents cannot choose the holiday dates, they have to dig what is

:55:55. > :55:59.available, only teachers and MPs get the summer. Lilly says that she had

:56:00. > :56:05.time followed school and is now at university and has cherished

:56:06. > :56:09.memories. Another contributor agrees with the father who took his

:56:10. > :56:14.children away on holiday in term time because he could not afford to

:56:15. > :56:18.go in holiday time and got a fine. Parents should be alleged to do this

:56:19. > :56:22.if attendance is regular. It is good to hear from you. We will be talking

:56:23. > :56:24.about that shortly. Now the latest weather update.

:56:25. > :56:38.How is it looking? Gorgeous or terrible, two weeks ago we were

:56:39. > :56:42.looking at heavy snow in the UK and last week and we have the warmest

:56:43. > :56:47.day of the year so far. Huge variety of the weather at the moment and the

:56:48. > :56:51.sick and we are seeing a dip in the roller-coaster. Temperatures all

:56:52. > :56:53.over the place, typically, this time of year we do get really big

:56:54. > :57:01.variations in temperature across the UK. Still quite cold at this time of

:57:02. > :57:05.year, although the days are getting longer so the ground heats at recent

:57:06. > :57:09.review, we get big varieties in types of weather in the early part

:57:10. > :57:15.of summer. Will it ever properly subtle? Things are looking cool. A

:57:16. > :57:19.different MRC is in charge of the next couple of days, we've had warm

:57:20. > :57:25.weather, in the next couple of days things are looking cooler. These are

:57:26. > :57:29.such weather watcher pictures. These are gorgeous, really eye-catching.

:57:30. > :57:41.This one was taken in Devon. A beautiful sunrise this morning. That

:57:42. > :57:44.was Gwyneth in South Wales, it's not like that everywhere. Similar

:57:45. > :57:49.latitude to the previous picture although this is Lincolnshire,

:57:50. > :57:55.further east. We've had drizzle coming out of the cloud there. It's

:57:56. > :57:58.a real variation across the country. Things are getting a little cooler

:57:59. > :58:03.as we go into the next couple of days. This is the forecast. We will

:58:04. > :58:06.start with a satellite image that shows that we have quite a lot of

:58:07. > :58:12.cloud across many central and eastern parts of the country,

:58:13. > :58:16.further west, more in a way of sunshine, the cloud should then and

:58:17. > :58:22.break in the next few hours, decent spells of sunshine across southern

:58:23. > :58:26.England, further north, cloudier skies, this band of cloud is a weak

:58:27. > :58:31.weather front slipping further south as we head through the day and

:58:32. > :58:35.introducing to the north of that cold and fresher conditions. For

:58:36. > :58:40.Scotland we will see a return to sunshine this afternoon, northern

:58:41. > :58:44.Ireland having a decent afternoon, decent conditions, compared to

:58:45. > :58:48.recent days, clouded this afternoon, as they had further south we will

:58:49. > :58:52.keep the sunshine and the warmer conditions for longer. So

:58:53. > :58:56.temperatures along the south coast ready to possibly 23 degrees, with a

:58:57. > :58:59.chance of scattered, isolated showers especially for the

:59:00. > :59:03.south-west of England and South Wales. This evening and overnight

:59:04. > :59:08.those showers fade quickly, the cloud continues to move south, that

:59:09. > :59:12.cold front moving south, a cold night head, in the countryside a

:59:13. > :59:17.touch of Frost, especially for the sheltered glens of Scotland, where

:59:18. > :59:20.temperatures are likely to dip below freezing. A chilly start to the day

:59:21. > :59:24.tomorrow wherever you are, lots of dry settled weather, plenty of

:59:25. > :59:28.sunshine and a northerly breeze, that will blow scattered showers

:59:29. > :59:33.down eastern Scotland and England, the best of the driest weather will

:59:34. > :59:38.be further west, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales, temperatures much

:59:39. > :59:43.cooler than in recent days, at best around 10-15d. We are in for another

:59:44. > :59:47.chilly night as we moved to Saturday night and on to Sunday. Clear skies

:59:48. > :59:51.that cold air mass to, could be a touch of Frost again for some

:59:52. > :59:55.northern areas and a few scattered showers heading into the North West

:59:56. > :59:59.of Scotland, temperatures lower than this in the countryside first thing

:00:00. > :00:03.Sunday, again after that fresh start, Sunday shaping up to be very

:00:04. > :00:08.fine for most of us, the best the sunshine in the West again, more

:00:09. > :00:12.cloud and showers in the east and it will feel fairly chilly way you are

:00:13. > :00:17.exposed to the northerly breeze around the coast of 16 degrees

:00:18. > :00:20.should not feel bad to the day. Into the new working week, temperatures

:00:21. > :00:23.less warmer than this week, we will see some rain on the way

:00:24. > :00:28.particularly towards the north and the West.

:00:29. > :00:32.Our top story today - In a court ruling that could affect

:00:33. > :00:34.families everywhere, judges are to rule in the case

:00:35. > :00:41.of a father who took his daughter to Florida.

:00:42. > :00:43.The council wanted to fine him - magistrates disagreed.

:00:44. > :00:46.The 20 year old woman in Holland helped by doctors to end her own

:00:47. > :01:09.life because she could not live with her mental suffering.

:01:10. > :01:12.We have exclusive access to a new police training scheme open

:01:13. > :01:23.Before when I was University, when you switch out, you thought I better

:01:24. > :01:25.phone the police. Now I am the police.

:01:26. > :01:27.Bev says - Education is very important, but common sense

:01:28. > :01:29.and being streetwise is more important in a profession

:01:30. > :01:33.Heather says - It's a great initiative as it's in addition

:01:34. > :01:48.Eurovision is back tomorrow - but without Ireland,

:01:49. > :01:50.the most successful country in the competition's history.

:01:51. > :01:52.Former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne failed to qualify.

:01:53. > :02:18.An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

:02:19. > :02:24.The IMF says leaving the EE could cause significant harm to the UK

:02:25. > :02:33.economy. They say while growth is broadly positive, exit could cause a

:02:34. > :02:44.protracted period of uncertainty. The case of a father who refuse to

:02:45. > :02:49.pay a ?120 fine is due to be heard at the High Court. The father says

:02:50. > :03:04.there is no case to answer, but the Isle of Wight High -- Council want

:03:05. > :03:07.to know if one week out of school constitutes a prolonged absence.

:03:08. > :03:10.An EU mission to tackle people smuggling in the Mediterranean

:03:11. > :03:14.Operation Sophia, which began last June, was launched to disrupt

:03:15. > :03:16.the business of people trafficking but a parliamentary committee says

:03:17. > :03:18.that while the mission has saved thousands of lives,

:03:19. > :03:23.it's not having any meaningful impact on the smuggling networks.

:03:24. > :03:26.Our correspondent Christian Fraser is there.

:03:27. > :03:41.One of the migrants told him his story. What they told us and what

:03:42. > :03:45.they came with was quite different. The people smugglers? They told us

:03:46. > :03:51.it was a quick crossing, and the boat is safe. When they took us to

:03:52. > :03:57.the seaside, what we saw. The boat you are going in? They could not

:03:58. > :03:59.believe. I could not back out, everybody had guns. You could not

:04:00. > :04:03.say no? They said they may kill you, The US Navy has fired the commander

:04:04. > :04:21.of the ten American sailors who were briefly captured

:04:22. > :04:23.by Iran in January. The sailors strayed off course

:04:24. > :04:26.in the Gulf and were held and questioned in Iran

:04:27. > :04:28.for fifteen hours. A US Navy official said

:04:29. > :04:30.the commander had failed to provide The advertising industry

:04:31. > :04:33.is considering a total ban on adverts for unhealthy food

:04:34. > :04:35.which target children. Current restrictions apply only

:04:36. > :04:37.during children's TV programmes, but not to online media such

:04:38. > :04:39.as gaming websites. Practice, an industry body,

:04:40. > :04:43.is proposing to extend the ban to cover all media, including

:04:44. > :04:45.online, because of the rise Hundreds of people evacuated

:04:46. > :04:48.from their homes in Bath because of an unexploded

:04:49. > :04:51.World War Two bomb have been told they may not be able to go

:04:52. > :04:54.home until the weekend. The large device was uncovered

:04:55. > :04:56.by developers working on the former A safety cordon has been put

:04:57. > :05:01.in place around as many as 1,000 homes, as police assess

:05:02. > :05:16.the situation. The world's oldest person has died

:05:17. > :05:24.in New York at the age of 116. She was born on a farm in Alabama. An

:05:25. > :05:26.Italian woman just a few months younger now takes on the mantle as

:05:27. > :05:39.the oldest person in the world. Ireland has been knocked out

:05:40. > :05:41.of the Eurovision Song Contest after former Westlife singer

:05:42. > :05:43.Nicky Byrne failed to qualify in the semi-final in Sweden,

:05:44. > :05:48.where he was one of 18 competing The UK automatically qualifies,

:05:49. > :06:00.with duo Joe and Jake That is the summary of the news.

:06:01. > :06:06.More at 10:30am. Some comments on taking holidays in term time. Mrs

:06:07. > :06:10.Lesley says holidays are too expensive outside term time. For

:06:11. > :06:14.less well off people, the only option is to take them out of

:06:15. > :06:21.school. Disgraceful the holiday companies skyrocket prices, making

:06:22. > :06:26.going away impossible for many. They should be governor legislation to

:06:27. > :06:33.stop this. Get in touch on that and other things we talking about. If

:06:34. > :06:39.you text, you will be charged at the standard rate. Let's get the sport.

:06:40. > :06:45.Breaking news, from the Premiership. Watford have announced Quique

:06:46. > :06:51.Sanchez Flores will be leaving the club at the end of the season. He

:06:52. > :06:55.led them to an FA Cup semifinal, they avoided relegation in their

:06:56. > :07:00.first season back in the top flight, after just four wins from the last

:07:01. > :07:06.20 league games the club announced he will be leaving after their final

:07:07. > :07:10.league match against Sunderland. After helping Sunderland avoid

:07:11. > :07:15.relegation scoring 15 goals, Jermain Defoe setting his sights on the

:07:16. > :07:21.England side for Euro 2016. Roy Hodgson announces his 23 man squad

:07:22. > :07:28.on Monday, and Defoe says he has done everything right. He was last

:07:29. > :07:32.capped in 2013. Hodgson delayed naming his squad until after the

:07:33. > :07:35.weekend, he is without the Arsenal pair Danny Welbeck and Alex

:07:36. > :07:42.Oxlade-Chamberlain through injury. Saracens play racing 92 in the final

:07:43. > :07:45.of the European Champions Cup. This evening Harlequins take on

:07:46. > :07:50.Montpellier in the Challenge Cup. Yesterday the players union approved

:07:51. > :07:57.plans to safeguard players through playing too many games. The Six

:07:58. > :08:00.Nations could move from February to April. The Harlequins director of

:08:01. > :08:08.rugby shares concerns on player welfare. I am hugely worried, you

:08:09. > :08:13.see what their bodies are under. You look at the shortness of the

:08:14. > :08:16.preseason, the ability to recover, before another seven matches. The

:08:17. > :08:24.end of the season, England playing Wales will stop there are commercial

:08:25. > :08:26.realities. Something has to give. Sheffield's Danny Willett was back

:08:27. > :08:34.in action for the first time since winning the Masters title. He was

:08:35. > :08:38.playing only Players Championship CBC Sawgrass. He said the period

:08:39. > :08:45.after winning the title meant he was not great. He carded a 73. The world

:08:46. > :08:51.number one Jason Day showed his pedigree, nine under par with a 63.

:08:52. > :09:01.Serena Williams says she was physically sick during the Italian

:09:02. > :09:06.Open because she felt like trying out her dog's food. She still won in

:09:07. > :09:13.straight sets. This is what she said afterwards. It looks good. I ate a

:09:14. > :09:19.spoonful. Do not judge me. That is the salmon and rice will stop mix

:09:20. > :09:23.together. Now I feel really sick. Just one spoonful. Just a spoonful.

:09:24. > :09:28.That is all the sport. A former victim of child sex abuse

:09:29. > :09:31.has ended her life under Dutch euthanasia laws

:09:32. > :09:33.because she could not live The woman, in her twenties -

:09:34. > :09:37.who has not been named - was given a lethal injection last

:09:38. > :09:40.year, but details of the case have Doctors are said to have

:09:41. > :09:48.treated her for some time and despite improvements

:09:49. > :09:49.in her psychological state - and being deemed 'mentally

:09:50. > :09:52.competent' - they concluded her condition could not be cured

:09:53. > :10:10.and agreed to assist with her desire Euthanasia cases have risen by 55%

:10:11. > :10:27.in Holland for is cases from psychiatric cases rose from just two

:10:28. > :10:29.people in 2010, 256 last year. -- to 56 last year.

:10:30. > :10:31.Let's talk now to Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President

:10:32. > :10:33.of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

:10:34. > :10:35.and in Amsterdam Philip Nitschke, Director of the pro-euthanasia

:10:36. > :10:38.What do you make of countries like Belgium and Holland allowing

:10:39. > :10:40.assisted suicide for people with mental health issues?

:10:41. > :10:44.I will give you a direct answer, I think this is ghastly. Several

:10:45. > :10:49.reasons, the area of mental illness is very complicated. In this country

:10:50. > :10:53.the assisted dying regulation was soundly rejected in Parliament, just

:10:54. > :10:59.for people with terminal illnesses. One reason, it is difficult to know

:11:00. > :11:06.what is terminal. In mental health, it is difficult if not

:11:07. > :11:09.know what is terminal. Every psychiatrist knows people who have

:11:10. > :11:11.been seriously ill for many years, but who do recover, partially or

:11:12. > :11:21.fully. someone intolerably ill, never

:11:22. > :11:29.coming through it. Lots of people do not get better. The same physical

:11:30. > :11:34.illness. Many people do. Many people's circumstances change,

:11:35. > :11:40.treatments change. A very genetic study, people, to all intents and

:11:41. > :11:42.treatments change. A very genetic purposes -- intensive purposes

:11:43. > :11:47.committed suicide, but one in 300 survive. When they

:11:48. > :11:55.committed suicide, but one in 300 on, they were all glad they

:11:56. > :11:58.survived, the life change. -- their lives changed. We cannot know how

:11:59. > :12:02.many people's lives will get better. lives changed. We cannot know how

:12:03. > :12:07.Is there a distinction between patients seeking euthanasia, with

:12:08. > :12:19.mental health issues, compared to someone with a terminal illness? The

:12:20. > :12:24.criteria is unbelievable suffering. I support their approach. It can be

:12:25. > :12:31.just as much from mental as well as physical diseases. I know it has

:12:32. > :12:34.been well established, it is difficult, but once it is

:12:35. > :12:43.established that the person has the capacity to make decisions, you can

:12:44. > :12:46.do that with mental illness. To tell them to sit around and wait, is like

:12:47. > :12:52.telling the cancer patient them to sit around and wait, is like

:12:53. > :12:59.there could be a cure for cancer around the corner. This girl was

:13:00. > :13:05.only 20. Had long enough being given to treat her? There was two years

:13:06. > :13:11.establishing she has capacity, even though she had mental illness, she

:13:12. > :13:20.had the capacity. Because that was established, done in detail, they

:13:21. > :13:23.did allow her to take this step. To slam the door because this is a

:13:24. > :13:28.psychiatric illness, and things may change in the future is not good

:13:29. > :13:33.enough. You have to respect a person's decision, rather than

:13:34. > :13:39.saying anyone who wants to die cannot be taken seriously. They

:13:40. > :13:48.should not be given the option. If someone is determined to die, is

:13:49. > :13:51.this a gentler way? I have heard the word gentle suicide. It is

:13:52. > :13:57.outrageous. Suicide is not gentle, the effects on the family are

:13:58. > :14:03.devastating. I have worked with many families bereaved by suicide, it is

:14:04. > :14:08.ghastly. Nothing gentle about this. The issue about determining

:14:09. > :14:12.competence. It is not easy. I do this for a living. It is

:14:13. > :14:16.fluctuating. People have capacity and they do not. Not easy, but

:14:17. > :14:31.possible? Severe mental illness affects your

:14:32. > :14:35.thinking capacities. Most cases of suicide are cases of depression. It

:14:36. > :14:40.affects your cognitive abilities, feelings of helplessness, feelings

:14:41. > :14:46.of burden, guilt. Intolerable physical symptoms. They are all

:14:47. > :14:53.reversible. Difficult to know in extreme cases, and we are dealing

:14:54. > :14:59.with extreme cases, it is not a normal thing you do. It is more

:15:00. > :15:08.difficult, then with clinical cases. We have two are on the side of life,

:15:09. > :15:12.we're here to try prevent suicide. This is something I can think with

:15:13. > :15:18.certainty will never happen in this country. Our profession will never

:15:19. > :15:22.support this. It was not even discussed in Parliament. Dreadful

:15:23. > :15:27.state of affairs. I hope it never happens here. Talk directly to each

:15:28. > :15:37.other. The live wanted to answer what you are saying?

:15:38. > :15:50.One of these views is what is current in the medical profession to

:15:51. > :15:55.say that there is no rational motive for ending 1's own life. This is a

:15:56. > :16:01.path that we don't wish to go down. The trouble is that the appended has

:16:02. > :16:04.gone too far. We saw this a lot, whenever a person indicates that

:16:05. > :16:10.they wish to die a psychiatrist says that they must be depressed with

:16:11. > :16:13.some untreated mental malady and as such the queue needs to be adopted.

:16:14. > :16:19.Please let me finish this time professor. So the queue is that we

:16:20. > :16:23.treat the illness rather than respecting the person's wish to die.

:16:24. > :16:29.I think that's the worst aspect of paternalism in medicine and it shows

:16:30. > :16:32.how far out of step the psychiatric profession has come with the wishes

:16:33. > :16:38.of the normal public who want to know that they have access to cases

:16:39. > :16:44.of chronic suffering, and psychiatric illness certainly

:16:45. > :16:51.presents symptoms of undiagnosed suffering. There was nothing that

:16:52. > :16:57.hadn't been diagnosed about it, this was a serious disorder. One never

:16:58. > :17:05.knows although if that was stated quite recently, the nose. Rational

:17:06. > :17:08.suicide is unusual. Yet one of the definitions is that it does not

:17:09. > :17:13.occur in the context of serious mental illness. Again we say that

:17:14. > :17:16.this is a person who had such serious mental illness that she

:17:17. > :17:20.lacks the ability to make this decision. How many years do you need

:17:21. > :17:24.to establish that this person has a chronic condition that won't be

:17:25. > :17:27.resolved. How long do you tell that woman that she must go on suffering

:17:28. > :17:35.because they may be some change around the corner? At what point do

:17:36. > :17:38.you stop and respect the view of the patient? Would you ever refuse

:17:39. > :17:45.someone who came to use to say they wanted euthanasia? If the person

:17:46. > :17:48.does lack capacity and has no insight into what they are asking

:17:49. > :17:55.they should not be given access to this option. That was not the case.

:17:56. > :17:59.The facts of the case are not clear although it still remains the case,

:18:00. > :18:03.all research shows that people's capacity fluctuates, they changed

:18:04. > :18:09.their minds, good research from many countries saying that these things

:18:10. > :18:15.are transient, one could say, how many years of experience, a lifetime

:18:16. > :18:21.of experience. I suspect you would say that no one the psychiatric

:18:22. > :18:26.illness should ever do an assisted suicide. We're talking about killing

:18:27. > :18:31.people with mental disorders. I know that people can recover. Not

:18:32. > :18:34.everyone recovers completely, I know that, but many people make

:18:35. > :18:39.significant recoveries and their quality of life improves when all

:18:40. > :18:44.sorts of things change around them. We are out of time, thank you both

:18:45. > :18:51.very much for sharing your views on that. Let us know what you think.

:18:52. > :18:57.Still to come the Commonwealth judo champion fighting for her life after

:18:58. > :18:58.a motorbike accident in Vietnam. We will be speaking live to her sister

:18:59. > :19:01.and her friend. The case of a father

:19:02. > :19:03.who refused to pay a fine for taking his daughter

:19:04. > :19:05.on a term-time holiday to Florida is due to be heard

:19:06. > :19:08.by the High Court in London. Magistrates had ruled that Jon Platt

:19:09. > :19:11.had no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

:19:12. > :19:13.attended school regularly. But Isle of Wight Council has asked

:19:14. > :19:16.the judges to clarify Campaigners say the case

:19:17. > :19:19.could redefine the way the law Well, just before we came on air

:19:20. > :19:24.I spoke to Jon Platt, and asked him why he thought

:19:25. > :19:34.he was right to take his daughter I do know better than the school

:19:35. > :19:40.what is right for my kids. When it comes to their education I cannot

:19:41. > :19:47.pretend to be qualified as a teacher but I do know what is best for my

:19:48. > :19:50.kids. And quality family time is extremely important to all families.

:19:51. > :19:55.We have not arrived at a situation over the last three years where

:19:56. > :19:59.100,000 parents in the UK have become criminally incompetent

:20:00. > :20:03.parents because that is what it requires, 100,000 parents, more than

:20:04. > :20:08.that number, got fines last year. Do we really have 100,000 parents in

:20:09. > :20:13.England whose parenting is so incompetent that to a criminal

:20:14. > :20:18.offence? We have not. What has happened is, in 2013, Michael Gove,

:20:19. > :20:23.the then Education Secretary, changed the rules allowing

:20:24. > :20:29.headteachers to authorise a holiday. Now it means that almost every

:20:30. > :20:32.holiday is unauthorised. The headteacher cannot authorise it. So

:20:33. > :20:37.when it is not authorised to get used to go on holiday, the local

:20:38. > :20:40.authority, they don't all feel obliged to but the Isle of Wight

:20:41. > :20:44.authority foot obliged to do is you a truancy notice and if you don't

:20:45. > :20:50.pay they feel obliged to prosecute you in court. This is an

:20:51. > :20:53.imprisonable offence. So because of a holiday, the number of days that

:20:54. > :20:57.your daughter was out of school because of holiday taken in term

:20:58. > :21:04.time, her attendance rate at school is 93%. And you think that is a rate

:21:05. > :21:09.you are comfortable with. What if she fell ill and her attendance rate

:21:10. > :21:13.fell below that? I would not go on holiday. I know attendance at school

:21:14. > :21:16.is important. I know sometimes I get caught up in the doom and that

:21:17. > :21:19.parents should be able to take the kids on holiday and they should but

:21:20. > :21:24.the attendance of the child at school should comply with the Lord

:21:25. > :21:28.and I believe that north of 90% is regularly and when you are getting

:21:29. > :21:32.to 94 or 95% that is really good attendance. Although if you have a

:21:33. > :21:36.child missing a lot of school because of illness or some other

:21:37. > :21:39.reason maybe you should not take them on holiday, just accept that

:21:40. > :21:43.you need to bust permit for six months, or a year. I'm not defending

:21:44. > :21:48.parents who has risen can't get their kids to school on time. I'm

:21:49. > :21:53.just saying that the run at criminally incompetent parents in

:21:54. > :21:58.this country so indifferent to the well-being of their children that

:21:59. > :22:02.this warrants court action. You could just have paid the fines, ?60

:22:03. > :22:09.each time and have done with it, do you feel you are on a crusade? I did

:22:10. > :22:12.not pick this fight. I pleaded with the education welfare Department,

:22:13. > :22:17.don't take this to court because I want back down, I would defend

:22:18. > :22:20.myself. And I did and now by no choice of mind we ended up with an

:22:21. > :22:27.appeal to the High Court. I did not file that appeal. I don't want to

:22:28. > :22:31.lose so I have to be represented. ?13,000 of my own money going on a

:22:32. > :22:37.defence, an action that I have already won. If you lose will you

:22:38. > :22:41.keep taking her out of school? I want to break the law, I believe I

:22:42. > :22:46.haven't, if the High Court tells me today, which they are titled to dash

:22:47. > :22:51.I will not break the law. If a High Court tells me today that it is a

:22:52. > :22:54.criminal offence to take my child and of school for one single day I

:22:55. > :23:00.will not take her away for a holiday because I don't want to break the

:23:01. > :23:02.law. I haven't broken the law. The magistrates on the Isle of Wight

:23:03. > :23:07.agreed that I hadn't and I hope that the High Court says so today because

:23:08. > :23:12.there are hundreds of thousands of parents who care passionately about

:23:13. > :23:13.this issue. Jon plat talking to me earlier.

:23:14. > :23:16.Let's speak now to Saleha Davis, who was fined for taking her

:23:17. > :23:19.children to Brunei for a 'once in a lifetime' family holiday.

:23:20. > :23:23.In Salford we have Julie Robertson, a Solicitor who deals with cases

:23:24. > :23:30.of Fixed Penalty Notices for parents, and Allan Foulds,

:23:31. > :23:33.who as well as being a head teacher is the President of the Association

:23:34. > :23:46.Thank you for joining us. Allan, what do you think about this case?

:23:47. > :23:50.It's good to share Jon talking about the importance of education. By just

:23:51. > :23:54.like to set the record straight concerning what he said about the

:23:55. > :23:59.former Minister of education. Headteachers do have the right to

:24:00. > :24:04.allow term time holidays in some cases. The concern, which most

:24:05. > :24:08.parents do acknowledge is the impact that even a small amount of

:24:09. > :24:12.non-attendance has an achievement. It's quite profound. We all want the

:24:13. > :24:18.same thing which is to open doors and the best life chances for our

:24:19. > :24:22.young people. Two years in the fires with parents who say taking your

:24:23. > :24:27.kids on holiday in school holiday time is very expensive, much more so

:24:28. > :24:30.than if they took a week at a school and if they have solid attendance

:24:31. > :24:36.for the rest of the year is there a problem with this? It is easy to

:24:37. > :24:39.feel cynical about the additional charges of holiday companies and I

:24:40. > :24:47.do have some sympathy with parents who have those difficult choices to

:24:48. > :24:51.make. But we heard earlier about a 90% attendance rate being a good

:24:52. > :24:56.rate. It does sound good but if you do the numbers that is missing six

:24:57. > :25:00.months of schooling across the secondary stage of schooling. That

:25:01. > :25:05.will have a profound effect on learning. The way that learning

:25:06. > :25:09.works. We would all be familiar with this, if you miss one little concept

:25:10. > :25:20.and is hard to build on that, and the jigsaw can begin to crumble.

:25:21. > :25:27.Saleha, you took your children out of school. Both of them. My

:25:28. > :25:33.daughters were in you're one and U2. We went back to Brunei where I was

:25:34. > :25:36.born. My family, my parents, my sisters, my brothers, their

:25:37. > :25:42.families, I did not think my children lost out at school at all.

:25:43. > :25:47.Why it was the holiday in term time? In December we needed to take two

:25:48. > :25:51.weeks extra. One reason was because my husband and I both work in

:25:52. > :25:57.project -based work so this was the time that we could take holiday, and

:25:58. > :26:00.family members were coming to Brunei, we had planned this for a

:26:01. > :26:04.few years, there were coming at the same time, in December so we met

:26:05. > :26:12.with people we had not seen for many, many years. Allan, do you have

:26:13. > :26:18.sympathy with Saleha? No one is saying that family conduct is not

:26:19. > :26:23.important and the bonds of family very important in supporting an

:26:24. > :26:26.education. Accent there needs to be questions asked about the catch-up

:26:27. > :26:32.for young people when they come back. We share many people speak of

:26:33. > :26:38.what is being referred to as a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Whilst

:26:39. > :26:42.I understand that, education is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

:26:43. > :26:48.That can be very difficult to catch up from missed work. Often the will

:26:49. > :26:52.is there and parents have a good heart about that and they want to

:26:53. > :26:57.have the children catch up but the skill lies with the professionals

:26:58. > :27:00.and teachers need to work with children continually to promote

:27:01. > :27:07.their progress so that they do the very best they can. Saleha? I

:27:08. > :27:12.disagree that education is once-in-a-lifetime. I think you are

:27:13. > :27:17.learning things all the time, between the age of man and 99. My

:27:18. > :27:22.father is turning 19 next year and I'd like to go and visit again.

:27:23. > :27:27.Without taking the children away in term time? If you might hope not, my

:27:28. > :27:32.daughters are now at secondary school, it might be harder to take

:27:33. > :27:36.them out because she's coming up to her GCSE years and it will be fully

:27:37. > :27:39.to take them away in term time. When the exams are over, even if they

:27:40. > :27:44.miss a couple of days of school, I don't think that is going to... You

:27:45. > :27:50.got a fine last time you took them out. Yes. I have taken them out

:27:51. > :27:56.since although I did not exceed the number of days. In 2008 and took

:27:57. > :28:00.them out for ten days which the headmistress board exceeded the time

:28:01. > :28:07.and that led to the fine. When I went to pay the fine the education

:28:08. > :28:14.of only charged me for one child. Because she understood why I went.

:28:15. > :28:19.She said, that is fine. The fact that you haven't done anything to

:28:20. > :28:24.incur a fine since, is that because of the fine? Is it a deterrent? I

:28:25. > :28:31.don't think so. I am responsible for my children. I do not think they

:28:32. > :28:35.have been damaged at all. By missing ten days of primary education. We

:28:36. > :28:41.tried to catch up with all the things they had missed at school. I

:28:42. > :28:49.think parents know how important education is. Allan, you are nodding

:28:50. > :28:54.and smiling, does that mean you agree or disagree? I am nodding and

:28:55. > :28:58.smiling because it is good to hear the intent that Saleha had in terms

:28:59. > :29:04.of helping their children catch up. That is good news. I also agree with

:29:05. > :29:07.the breadth and scope of education that she refers to and the fact that

:29:08. > :29:13.we learn from cradle to grave. That is the truth. But it is interesting

:29:14. > :29:17.to hear her talk about the importance of the GCSE years ahead.

:29:18. > :29:23.Statistics are quite profound there in terms of the dip below 90%

:29:24. > :29:28.attendance, almost reducing the chances of a good suite of GCSE

:29:29. > :29:33.grades by about half, and we should not step aside of these statistics

:29:34. > :29:39.even the parents have difficult decisions to make. There is another

:29:40. > :29:43.issue about proportionality. I believe there were 70,000 fixed

:29:44. > :29:46.penalty notices is you'd last year. It sounds like an extraordinarily

:29:47. > :29:50.high number yet we have eight and a half million children of

:29:51. > :29:52.high number yet we have eight and a being educated currently. It

:29:53. > :29:56.high number yet we have eight and a is less than 1% of parents who are

:29:57. > :30:03.falling into this difficulty of the fixed penalty notice. I want to

:30:04. > :30:07.bring in the lawyer. Julie, you fight cases of parents find by

:30:08. > :30:13.schools, are there many out there? We heard that the statistic

:30:14. > :30:17.schools, are there many out there? represents a small proportion of

:30:18. > :30:19.parents. I regularly advise parents on this issue. They have been told

:30:20. > :30:23.that they will get a on this issue. They have been told

:30:24. > :30:27.have received fixed penalty notice and want to reject it.

:30:28. > :30:30.have received fixed penalty notice difficulty is with many of the

:30:31. > :30:32.cases, I don't come into contact with them. The risk of litigation

:30:33. > :30:37.often puts off most parents. My with them. The risk of litigation

:30:38. > :30:41.parents simply accepting fixed with them. The risk of litigation

:30:42. > :30:46.penalty notices or choosing to take their children out

:30:47. > :30:50.penalty notices or choosing to take legitimate reasons, often.

:30:51. > :30:53.penalty notices or choosing to take father is taking his case to the

:30:54. > :30:57.penalty notices or choosing to take High Court today and is fighting it,

:30:58. > :30:59.the case hinges on whether his daughter attended school regularly.

:31:00. > :31:12.How open to interpretation is that? The education of pharmacy have to

:31:13. > :31:17.prove there has been regular attendance. This case will change

:31:18. > :31:22.the legal landscape, in cases of this kind. Whether that is welcomed,

:31:23. > :31:28.or should be left to the magistrate's

:31:29. > :31:35.or should be left to the be seen. My own

:31:36. > :31:40.against the backdrop of the child in question. Their achievements, the

:31:41. > :31:48.attempts to catch up after the period of the absence.

:31:49. > :31:50.attempts to catch up after the clear difference between truancy

:31:51. > :31:54.attempts to catch up after the a parent taking their child away for

:31:55. > :32:00.very different reasons. How much is riding on the outcome of the case?

:32:01. > :32:03.Would it potentially open up the possibility of a parent taking their

:32:04. > :32:09.children out of school without facing the penalty fine? It will

:32:10. > :32:14.change the impact of the fixed penalty, how many are issued in this

:32:15. > :32:20.country. That depends on the way the ruling will go. As yet, unknown.

:32:21. > :32:29.There is a definition provided by the High Court, that may result in

:32:30. > :32:36.more fixed and -- penalty notices. It may well affect the number of

:32:37. > :32:40.parents fighting these cases. A lot of people may be waiting for the

:32:41. > :32:46.decision to be announced before they consider whether to take litigation

:32:47. > :32:51.further. If we're we may get something from the hearing before we

:32:52. > :32:56.stop chatting. I want to go through some of the comments, it is a

:32:57. > :33:02.subject people care about. Lucas said, how can one day's absence

:33:03. > :33:07.affected child's education, they can catch up. Fining parents is

:33:08. > :33:23.ludicrous. The government needs to break down -- bring down the cost of

:33:24. > :33:28.hot holidays. In farming areas, families can not go away during the

:33:29. > :33:35.school holidays. Previously it was down to common sense. Some parents

:33:36. > :33:41.started having more than 12-macro week holiday in the year, because it

:33:42. > :33:45.was cheaper. Two weeks is not the problem where authorised by the

:33:46. > :33:54.school, where do you draw the line? Governments should pass legislation

:33:55. > :33:58.mean prices are not so higher during the school holidays. We will

:33:59. > :34:02.hopefully get something before the end of the programme. Thank you for

:34:03. > :34:05.joining us, sharing your perspective on that. As we await that ruling

:34:06. > :34:10.from the High Court. We'll speak to the sister and friend

:34:11. > :34:13.of Scottish Commonwealth judo medallist Stephanie Inglis,

:34:14. > :34:15.who is fighting for her life in a Vietnam hospital

:34:16. > :34:27.after a motorbike accident. Eurovision is back, without

:34:28. > :34:32.island-macro, the most successful country in the competition's is to

:34:33. > :34:40.be. Nicky Byrne failing to qualify. We will speak to fans and a former

:34:41. > :34:42.winner. Let's catch up with the news, from the newsroom.

:34:43. > :34:45.The international monetary fund is warning that a vote to leave

:34:46. > :34:49.the European Union could cause substantial harm

:34:50. > :35:01.The Fund says that while the UK's growth prospects

:35:02. > :35:02.are 'broadly positive', it describes the long run

:35:03. > :35:05.effects of a UK exit on economic output and incomes,

:35:06. > :35:09.The case of a father who refused to pay a ?120 fine

:35:10. > :35:12.for taking his daughter out of school for a holiday will be

:35:13. > :35:17.no case to answer as, overall, his daughter had

:35:18. > :35:21.But Isle of Wight Council has asked the High Court to clarify

:35:22. > :35:23.whether a seven-day absence amounts to a child failing

:35:24. > :35:35.Power correspondent is live at the High Court. This case being watched

:35:36. > :35:40.with massive interest? A lot of parents fall into this position,

:35:41. > :35:45.taking children out of school during term time because it is cheaper and

:35:46. > :35:53.they cannot go during other times. Prosecuted by the local council,

:35:54. > :35:57.fined ?60, up to ?120 will stop they are taken to court if they do not

:35:58. > :36:03.pay. Most parents have argued extenuating circumstances, visiting

:36:04. > :36:10.a sick relative, and they have failed in cases. Mr Platt said my

:36:11. > :36:16.daughter has been at school for 90% plus, she is a regular attendance.

:36:17. > :36:20.He won his case at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court. It is up to the

:36:21. > :36:26.High Court to decide whether that is upheld. There will be big

:36:27. > :36:27.implications for parents, saying their child is a regular tender, why

:36:28. > :36:31.can't I take my child as well? An EU mission to tackle people

:36:32. > :36:34.smuggling in the Mediterranean is failing to achieve its aims,

:36:35. > :36:36.according to a parliamentary Operation Sophia, which began last

:36:37. > :36:40.June, was launched to disrupt the business of people trafficking

:36:41. > :36:42.but the House of Lords EU committee says that while the mission has

:36:43. > :36:45.saved thousands of lives, it's not having any meaningful

:36:46. > :36:50.impact on the smuggling networks. Firefighters have been tackling

:36:51. > :36:52.a major blaze at a tyre dump The authorities have ordered

:36:53. > :36:56.local residents to stay Officials have said the fire seems

:36:57. > :37:03.to have been started intentionally. The advertising industry

:37:04. > :37:05.is considering a total ban on adverts for unhealthy food

:37:06. > :37:07.which target children. Current restrictions apply only

:37:08. > :37:09.during children's TV programmes, but not to online media such

:37:10. > :37:17.as gaming websites. The Committee of Advertising

:37:18. > :37:19.Practice, an industry body, is proposing to extend the ban

:37:20. > :37:21.to cover all media, including online, because of the rise

:37:22. > :37:23.in childhood obesity. The world's oldest person has died

:37:24. > :37:33.in New York at the age of 116. Doctors said Susannah

:37:34. > :37:37.Mushatt Jones was born An Italian woman, Emma Morano,

:37:38. > :37:49.just a few months younger than Ms Jones, now takes

:37:50. > :37:51.on the mantle of oldest Join me at 11 o'clock. Let's catch

:37:52. > :38:07.up with the sport. The main sports story concerns

:38:08. > :38:12.Premier League side Watford. Quique Sanchez Flores will be leaving at

:38:13. > :38:19.the end of the season the club have announced. He reached the FA Cup

:38:20. > :38:24.semifinal, they sit 13th in the table, winning just two of their

:38:25. > :38:29.last 11 matches. Jermain Defoe has scored 15 goals for Sunderland, the

:38:30. > :38:35.33 roll says he has done everything right to earn a call-up to the Euro

:38:36. > :38:40.2016 squad. Roy Hodgson will announce the 23 players he's taking

:38:41. > :38:46.on Monday. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has confirmed he is leaving Paris St

:38:47. > :38:50.Germain at the end of the season. The 33-year-old has been linked with

:38:51. > :38:55.a host of Premier League clubs. Masters champion Danny Willett was

:38:56. > :39:03.back in action yesterday for the first time since winning the

:39:04. > :39:11.competition last month. He carded a 73 at EPC Sawgrass. Max Verstappen

:39:12. > :39:18.happy sixth fastest time on his first drive for Red Bull. Serena

:39:19. > :39:21.Williams says she was physically sick during the Italian Open

:39:22. > :39:30.yesterday because she felt like trying out her dog's food. She still

:39:31. > :39:35.won in straight sets. We see her reaction on social media afterwards.

:39:36. > :39:45.I am going to try apiece, it looks good. I ate one spoonful. That is

:39:46. > :39:49.the salmon and rice. Mixed together. Now I feel really sick. Just one

:39:50. > :39:55.spoonful. Those are the sport headlines. The main news, Watford

:39:56. > :40:06.parting company with Quique Sanchez Flores. We will have more sport

:40:07. > :40:11.throughout the day. You have been getting in touch on the conversation

:40:12. > :40:14.whether it is right to let people with mental health problems to take

:40:15. > :40:22.their own life at a euthanasia clinic. 120-year-old girl was health

:40:23. > :40:27.to die at a clinic, when it was concluded her mental health issues

:40:28. > :40:34.were enough to be allowed the right to die. Richard has tweeted, people

:40:35. > :40:45.should have choice over their life. We have evolved enough to make

:40:46. > :40:50.choices. Mental grief is as intense as physical pain, I have been there.

:40:51. > :40:58.People should have the right to die, I am 59, and have no desire to die.

:40:59. > :41:05.Once I am not working any more, my children have grown up, and cannot

:41:06. > :41:13.partake in the physical activities I enjoy. I want the right to choose. I

:41:14. > :41:17.don't want to be stuck in a home. Getting in touch on the school

:41:18. > :41:24.holidays, taking children are in turn time. We are awaiting the

:41:25. > :41:28.ruling from the High Court. Dave as e-mail, the government should pass

:41:29. > :41:31.legislation to prevent holiday companies altering the prizes to

:41:32. > :41:38.grossly inflated levels during holidays. Absurd parents are not

:41:39. > :41:43.allowed to take children out of school, why does the government do

:41:44. > :41:46.this? There is no law in the land that the child is to go to school,

:41:47. > :41:49.merely educated to a minimum standard. The magistrates got it

:41:50. > :41:55.right. in a Vietnam hospital -

:41:56. > :41:57.after a motorbike 27 year old Stephanie Inglis,

:41:58. > :42:01.who won silver at the 2014 Glasgow games, suffered severe head injuries

:42:02. > :42:04.in the incident in Ha Long - After being told her insurer

:42:05. > :42:08.would not cover her medical costs - Stephanie's family and friends

:42:09. > :42:10.launched a campaign to help raise the money and it's already reach

:42:11. > :42:13.?50,000 - Stephanie's sister Stacey and her friend

:42:14. > :42:30.Khalid join me now... joining us. Stacey, tell us what

:42:31. > :42:39.condition your sister is in? She's in a very critical state. In a coma.

:42:40. > :42:47.I don't really know what is going to happen. There is a lot of leading to

:42:48. > :42:54.the brain, swelling. We are not sure what is going to happen. It must be

:42:55. > :43:03.awful. So far away. You are very worried about her. Who is with her?

:43:04. > :43:10.My parents are with her the moment. They arrived yesterday. I have not

:43:11. > :43:17.been able to contact them this morning. The phones are not that

:43:18. > :43:23.great over there. We can only get through on Wi-Fi. Trying to keep

:43:24. > :43:30.everything up to date with the family. The support has been

:43:31. > :43:38.amazing. You are a friend of Stephanie. You will save play judo.

:43:39. > :43:45.You have joined the campaign to raise money for her treatment. Silas

:43:46. > :43:50.how you first heard about this? I got a call from my mum yesterday.

:43:51. > :43:57.Just letting me know about the accident. It was very severe. At the

:43:58. > :44:02.time, we weren't sure as to the extent of the damage, but we were

:44:03. > :44:08.told she was in a coma. The hospital was supposed to transport her to

:44:09. > :44:19.another hospital. Because of the insurance not being honoured, due to

:44:20. > :44:24.a technicality, she took out a year-long policy, she had not read

:44:25. > :44:31.the small print, saying she could not stay in the country for over 31

:44:32. > :44:40.days. We found this out, when her parents got in touch, the hospital

:44:41. > :44:49.was more concerned about how much the cost of the treatment would be,

:44:50. > :44:56.rather than saving her life. They made her father signed document, to

:44:57. > :45:04.be a guarantor to any costs that will be accrued. Her parents have

:45:05. > :45:08.been told numerous times they would be better off serving machine off,

:45:09. > :45:16.they don't know how long the treatment will take. I don't feel,

:45:17. > :45:27.and did not feel at the time, enough effort was put into looking after

:45:28. > :45:32.her. The fund was set up, just to get money together, in the hope

:45:33. > :45:38.people would come together. Giving money towards the costs to help

:45:39. > :45:45.Stephanie. Did not expect to get the response we did. It is overwhelming.

:45:46. > :45:50.Testament to the person she was. People respected her for the person

:45:51. > :45:54.she is. The funding we have received so far shows that. Hopefully going

:45:55. > :46:00.forward we can keep that going, take the pressure away.

:46:01. > :46:06.You said you have had an amazing response because people know

:46:07. > :46:13.Stephanie and the sort of person she is, tell us more about her, what

:46:14. > :46:17.sort of person is she. Anyone who knew her knew that she did a

:46:18. > :46:20.ruthless sport, it was hard, when you watch it on TV you cannot

:46:21. > :46:26.comprehend how physically intense it is. On the mat she was very good,

:46:27. > :46:31.talented, off the mat you would never think that she would ever get

:46:32. > :46:35.into a physical fight with anyone. She was the nicest person I have

:46:36. > :46:38.ever met, she never raised a hand to anyone, all that and I've known her

:46:39. > :46:49.she never said a bad word about a single person. She was in Vietnam

:46:50. > :46:52.teaching and children English. -- teaching and a privileged children.

:46:53. > :46:56.It was her first venture outside her sport, doing something alone. She

:46:57. > :47:02.was looking forward to building her life. She had an exciting future.

:47:03. > :47:06.Now she is in hospital in intensive care, not receiving the treatment

:47:07. > :47:12.that I think she should be getting. I know that you are really upset but

:47:13. > :47:16.you want to talk about your sister. It must be amazing to show such warm

:47:17. > :47:22.tributes paid to what a lovely person she is. She is that. She is

:47:23. > :47:28.my big sister. I look up to her cell much. She is one of the nicest

:47:29. > :47:35.people, the best system you could probably have, so supportive to me.

:47:36. > :47:41.-- the best sister. She gives the best advice ever, not but I always

:47:42. > :47:48.take it fight Tory or -- not that I always take Ed! She has a way with

:47:49. > :47:59.words. I just want her home. I just want her home! And any support, any

:48:00. > :48:01.help to bring her home! Stacey, we send all our best wishes and we hope

:48:02. > :48:16.that too. Thank you both. Let's talk more about the school

:48:17. > :48:18.holidays, Gene Sauers people are aware of school holidays before

:48:19. > :48:23.holidays, Gene Sauers people are have children, I have three adult

:48:24. > :48:27.children, two of them with children of their own, I never took them out

:48:28. > :48:33.of school, you should create your life around children, what counts is

:48:34. > :48:38.spending time with them and not flying around the world. Thank you

:48:39. > :48:42.all for getting in touch with that. Let's move on to the Eurovision Song

:48:43. > :48:48.contest, it is back tomorrow but without the most successful country

:48:49. > :48:53.in the 61 year history of the competition.

:48:54. > :48:54.Ireland's contender, former Westlife singer

:48:55. > :48:58.The pop star was knocked out in the semi-finals

:48:59. > :49:01.Well, organisers did promise a 'dramatic finish' this year

:49:02. > :49:03.and are testing our new voting rules in Saturday's final.

:49:04. > :49:05.In previous contests each country's jury and public votes were combined

:49:06. > :49:10.Now the votes will be split, with each country's jury vote cast

:49:11. > :49:12.first, and votes from viewers in all countries combined

:49:13. > :49:33.# Heartbeat, when you are not around its beatings

:49:34. > :49:39.# Heartbeat, when you are not around # And it's something that I've never

:49:40. > :49:43.known. Oh, oh. # I'll be the answer you've been

:49:44. > :49:49.waiting for. # I'll be the truth that you've been

:49:50. > :49:56.looking for. # You're not alone, we're in this

:49:57. > :49:58.together. # All of that you want is right sure

:49:59. > :50:04.for another # All of that you want is right sure

:50:05. > :50:27.# And they don't need to know # And they don't need to know

:50:28. > :50:29.# Free to let go because I'll be here for you.

:50:30. > :50:32.# Free to let go because I'll be # And when you fall I'll be your

:50:33. > :50:41.parachute. # Oh, oh

:50:42. > :50:48.# I, I, I feel # Oh, oh

:50:49. > :50:53.# I come alive when I'm with you # I come alive when I'm with you

:50:54. > :50:57.# You're not alone # We're in this together

:50:58. > :51:02.# You're not alone # All that you want is right sure

:51:03. > :51:07.# You're not alone # And they don't need to know, oh,

:51:08. > :51:14.oh, oh. # I, I, I, feel like I'm

:51:15. > :51:28.the sky # I come alive when I'm with you

:51:29. > :51:32.# Don't speak, your smile tells me all I need to know

:51:33. > :51:38.# Your eyes show me where I want to go

:51:39. > :51:42.# Oh, oh #. # You're not alone, we're in this

:51:43. > :51:48.together # All that you want is with you

:51:49. > :51:53.forever # And they don't need to know, and

:51:54. > :52:01.they don't need to know oh, oh, oh # I, I, I feel like dancing in the

:52:02. > :52:08.sky... #. It's all right, isn't it? 25-1, two

:52:09. > :52:09.win. We can talk notice and super fans and also to one previous

:52:10. > :52:11.winner. We can talk to Sweden's winner

:52:12. > :52:13.from 1984's contest, Richard Herrey as well as fans

:52:14. > :52:15.of the Eurovision, Natalie Richards in Australia

:52:16. > :52:18.and Kevin Lee Lesley Sim Jason Watkins - Alistair Cheetham

:52:19. > :52:25.who are in Stockholm Lesley, you were singing along, do

:52:26. > :52:35.you like that one. I love them all. I'm supporting everyone with all the

:52:36. > :52:39.flags! Not everyone can win! Can I bring its ten to three, France,

:52:40. > :52:47.Bulgaria, and Croatia. I don't really care who wins. I love it so

:52:48. > :52:52.much. Kevin, you are next to Lesley. And you spend a fortune travelling

:52:53. > :52:58.around to follow your revision. Why is that? It's not just for the song

:52:59. > :53:01.contest, it is an experience, once again, like Christmas, when it comes

:53:02. > :53:10.to my work they know I don't care about taking a holiday in the summer

:53:11. > :53:14.or at Christmas, the only holiday I want is you have Asian week. Jason,

:53:15. > :53:18.I don't know if you can show us your arm but I gather you have ten

:53:19. > :53:25.tattoos on Ed! Jason, can you hear me? It's Joanna. I'm not sure if

:53:26. > :53:30.Jason can hear me. Hopefully we can get him to show us his arm coming he

:53:31. > :53:39.has got ten Eurovision tattoos. Alistair, you are flying the flag.

:53:40. > :53:43.Absolutely. Why are you such a fan of Eurovision? I agree totally with

:53:44. > :53:47.Kevin and Lesley. Good friends that they are, it is good fun, you get to

:53:48. > :53:53.meet new people, it is great entertainment, and good fun, and why

:53:54. > :53:58.not. I said that everyone was in Stockholm, Natalie, you are in

:53:59. > :54:04.Australia, you wish you were. We are in Perth, Australia. Do you watch

:54:05. > :54:11.every year, how long have you been a fan. Since I was about five, Terry

:54:12. > :54:16.Wogan got me into it with his great commentary, and a massive fan. I've

:54:17. > :54:25.got a treat. I said we could meet a former winner, it is Richard Herrey.

:54:26. > :54:31.I just want to play some of your winning entry before you speak to

:54:32. > :54:34.us. It is scored Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley. It was the winner in

:54:35. > :55:10.1984. It is classic Eurovision because it

:55:11. > :55:18.brings a smile to the face and makes you want to join in. How do you feel

:55:19. > :55:24.when you could it? It was a time, of course, us it meant a lot. We very

:55:25. > :55:30.young. -- it was a wonderful time. It had an impact on our lives, we

:55:31. > :55:33.got to go on tour and make many records, we got to see many

:55:34. > :55:39.countries and meet new friends and do things that you dream of as an up

:55:40. > :55:45.and coming artist. Tell us more about that. When did you decide to

:55:46. > :55:52.go into Eurovision, and start to dream of perhaps winning? We were

:55:53. > :55:56.younger, I was ten, when Abba won the Eurovision. In Sweden, your

:55:57. > :56:03.revision was a big deal when I grew up, though for us to be asked to be

:56:04. > :56:10.a part of the Swedish entry or be asked to send in songs to the

:56:11. > :56:14.Swedish gravitation was big and to win the Swedish qualification was

:56:15. > :56:19.very big and to win the revision, it was unbelievable. We were fortunate

:56:20. > :56:22.that you have to be a bit lucky and have a good song and a good

:56:23. > :56:27.performance and just hope no one else beats you! We have just been

:56:28. > :56:33.looking at the pictures when you were announced as winners, how did

:56:34. > :56:40.you feel then? It was euphoric. Unbelievable. Like winning a great

:56:41. > :56:47.sport tournament winning the World Cup or something. It was fantastic.

:56:48. > :56:50.Leslie, what has your Eurovision highlight been over the years? I

:56:51. > :57:14.shook hands and said thank you to Lys Assia, the first winner.

:57:15. > :57:17.What about you, Kevin? There are hundreds and hundreds of fans, we

:57:18. > :57:23.see them every year and I always look forward to enjoying the contest

:57:24. > :57:29.with them, together. Natalie Gumede spreading the word around Perth,

:57:30. > :57:33.people catching on? They are getting there, because Australia was in and

:57:34. > :57:38.last year, there is a fantastic atmosphere in all the pubs when it

:57:39. > :57:45.is on, yeah. Alistair, you are hoping that the UK will win tonight,

:57:46. > :57:50.do you think we could, 25-1. We've got a good position in the draw,

:57:51. > :57:53.25th out of 26, we are late on, good for that, although there are a lot

:57:54. > :57:58.of strong countries and in the end of the best song will win. Does it

:57:59. > :58:03.matter who wins when you have all the enjoyment of the contest? I

:58:04. > :58:07.don't mind where it is, it's great when it's outside the UK because you

:58:08. > :58:17.see new places and meet new people, Facebook is a great thing, we are a

:58:18. > :58:21.group of fans altogether on the page, it's just a great thing. It is

:58:22. > :58:22.lovely to talk to you all, thank you so much for joining us. And thank

:58:23. > :58:25.you for joining us as well. I hope that you have a lovely,

:58:26. > :58:42.restful weekend. Goodbye. But then she goes too far.

:58:43. > :58:43.Why? What happens?