08/09/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Thursday, nine o'clock. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

Theresa May paves the way for more grammar schools,

despite fierce opposition from many, including her chief

He says the idea poor pupils will benefit is "tosh".

Also, female students Telus sexual harassment at university is out of

control, with more than half of them experiencing it. -- tell us. And

Britain's Paralympians are hoping to beat their medal haul from London

2012 as the Rio get under way. Sorry, that was my phone. It is on

silent now! We will be previewing the action.

Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

We're also talking about the new iPhone 7.

Lots of people are unhappy because Apple has ditched

You have to buy some really expensive, daft looking headphones

for it to work. We will find out how it affects its success.

We'll also be talking to the headteacher who's sent more

than 50 children home this week for flouting his school's

This guy is straight. We will also talk to one of the girls he sent

home and her dad. She is not in school again today. We will talk to

them after ten o'clock. Do get in touch on all the stories

we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

and if you text, you will be charged Theresa May has defended

plans for new or expanded More Than This from Norman Smith.

What has Theresa May said? This is Theresa May's big non-Brexit idea,

reintroducing grammar schools, which she hopes will boost social mobility

and give poorer families a better chance in life. You may see a

kerfuffle behind me in a minute because the president of the

European Council, Donald Tusk, is arriving for crucial Brexit talks

with Theresa May. There he is now just going in. That is what is going

on now. But the big moment now is really Theresa May deciding she

wants to reintroduce grammar schools. Hugely controversial. There

is Mrs May. Let's have a look. Mrs May, do you want to reintroduce

grammar schools? RU in favour grammar schools? -- are you in

favour? She has got other things to talk about. Let me just recap. It is

a massive moment because grammar schools are hugely divisive. Many

people view them as socially divisive. If you are thinking of

really controversial policies, grammar schools are right up there

with fox hunting and inheritance tax. It is a big move by Mrs May.

What do Labour say about the possibility of more grammar schools

are being introduced or current one is expanding? Not just Labour. There

is massive opposition to the idea across the political spectrum, even

in our own party, where there are a number of MPs and local council

leaders who are deeply wary of the -- reintroducing grammar schools. It

is not a given, actually, that Theresa May can do this. Many people

will argue she does not have a mandate as it was not in the

Conservative Party manifesto. Her officials are uncertain they can get

this through the House of Lords. This really is a dramatic move by

Mrs May. It is a high risk strategy. Although she thinks it plays to

ambitions of encouraging social mobility, many people will take the

view this is deeply conservative, harping back to the 50s and 60s. The

danger is it is undermining the central pitch of her premiership.

Thank you, Norman. We will talk more about grammar schools later. Really

interesting to get a feeling of where you stand. Whatever your

background, whether you consider yourself working class or

middle-class, tell us what you think. We will talk about it later.

Annita McVeigh's in the BBC newsroom with a summary

A review into England's flood defences will be published today.

It was commissioned by the government after record

rainfall last winter caused flooding, resulting in more

than ?1 billion worth of insurance claims.

Wave after wave of huge storms rolled in last winter.

The nightmare began in early December.

Cumbria was hit with a month's rain in the space of a single day.

The centre of Carlisle and homes around it quickly went under.

From the air, I saw for myself the vast reach of the waters.

Downstream in Cockermouth, the town's Christmas tree stood

Over Christmas and then into the New Year, further deluges

In York, military helicopters had to be deployed to help fix

Rescue teams were praised for their bravery, in getting people

to safety, but critics raised questions about the government's

handling of the crisis - did you spend enough on defences?

Were the computer models used to make forecasts up for the job?

Would the government had done more if the same floods had hit southern

Today there will be a look at how ministers will prepare the country

for the next big storm as winter approaches.

And we'll be bringing you more on that story

on the Victoria Derbyshire programme once that report's published

A leading member of a group representing hundreds of people

who suffered abuse in children's homes run by Lambeth Council

in south London, says he's lost faith in the independent inquiry

Raymond Stevenson represents those who attended the Shirley Oaks home

He says he no longer has confidence that the inquiry

The Home Secretary has rejected a claim by the former chair

of the inquiry that she'd been prevented from choosing

The number of children seeking counselling

because they are considering suicide has more than doubled in five years,

Turbulent home lives, pressure at school and mental health

conditions were all major triggers for suicidal thoughts,

with children as young as 10 contacting the charity for help.

Liam was very, very funny. He liked playing jokes on people.

Six years ago, Aaron's younger brother Liam took his own life.

I noticed he was acting differently, he was very quiet.

You know, some of the things he was saying, he was asking me

There was obviously something with him that he didn't feel

comfortable speaking about, especially to someone like myself,

we spoke about everything, but obviously on this occasion

ChildLine says a child with suicidal thoughts is contacting their charity

every 30 minutes and, although some children may call

a number of times, that's nearly 20,000 calls in the past year.

10% more than the previous year and more than double the figure

This is one of 12 ChildLine call centres around the UK.

Children calling in here, some as young as ten,

say pressures at school, problems at home, bullying and abuse

The Children's Commissioner for England recently highlighted

a lack of adequate mental health services for children,

and ChildLine believe this may be behind the increase

What's very important, and the NSPCC is campaigning

on this, is that the government invests resources into providing

mental health support for children at a much earlier stage.

The Government says it's investing a record ?1.4 billion to help young

people before they reach crisis point.

ChildLine said winter is a particularly difficult time

for many of the children who contact them, but that the increasing calls

could also mean that children are now more willing ask for help.

Britain is to send another 100 soldiers to join a UN peacekeeping

The country gained independence five years ago but has

Three hundred British troops are already in the process

of being deployed and the defence secretary, Michael Fallon,

says the move will help to keep the UK safe.

Eighty countries are taking part in a conference in London to discuss

Three weeks before their first head-to-head TV debate,

the two main American presidential candidates have taken part

in question and answer sessions with military veterans.

The Democrats' Hillary Clinton was forced to defend her judgement

after being quizzed about the controversy

over her deleted emails, while Republican candidate

Donald Trump complimented Russia's President Putin and refused

to disclose details of his heralded plan to defeat so-called

Our Washington correspondent, Laura Bicker, reports.

Hillary Clinton is dogged by one key question -

She was repeatedly asked about her use

of a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State

and whether that compromised classified material.

It was a mistake to have a personal account.

I would certainly not do it again. I make no excuses for it.

Her years of experience are both a blessing and a curse.

She has supported military action in the past, including

She now says this was a mistake and her

strategy to fight the Islamic State does not involve troops

We need to wage this war against Isis in the air,

on the ground and online in cyberspace.

For Donald Trump there was no political

record to question, just his own words.

He once said he knew more than the generals when it came

I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and

Hillary Clinton the generals have been reduced to rubble.

They have been reduced to a point where it's

of Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

I think when he calls me brilliant I'll take the compliment.

This was the first chance for both candidates to form lines of attack

The head-to-head debate is in just two weeks' time.

Some news just coming in. Two men have been arrested in London today

on suspicion of being involved in terrorism. The men, aged 19 and 20,

were in bed -- arrested in west London as part of a preplanned

intelligence operation by the Met police counterterrorist command.

A parliamentary committee is to recommend that all MPs

and Peers vacate both Houses of Parliament for six years

Parts of the Palace of Westminster are so riddled with asbestos

and ageing electrics, it's been said the building will be

The report will suggest relocating to nearby offices, as early as 2020.

The tech giant Apple unveiled its latest version of the iPhone

The new device has attracted controversy for not having

The launch of the iPhone 7, which is also water-resistant

and has a two-lens camera, comes after a year of falling iPhone

sales and a decline in Apple's share of the phone market.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie have settled a court dispute over the custody

A spokesman for the New York State court system said the pair had

reached an agreement, but did not release any details.

Guy Ritchie's lawyer said Rocco would continue to live

Madonna and Ritchie married in 2000 and divorced eight years later.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.

In a moment, sexual harassment at university.

If you've suffered, especially during freshers' week,

Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text,

you will be charged at the standard network rate. Let's get some sport.

And the Paralympics is underway, what can we expect over

Good morning. There were more superb scenes from Rio yesterday. The

Paralympic Games was lost in brilliant fashion last night. We

should expect a raft of success stories. 121 medals is the target

for Britain. One more than they did in London. It was a vibrant and

colourful scene at the Maracana Stadium. We should expect a party

atmosphere over the next ten days. There was music, there was singing,

there was dancing. Exactly what you would expect from Brazil. But the

Brazilian Prime Minister was booed. Neither that nor a bit of rain

spoiled the party. Lee Pearson, the equestrian rider, led the British

team out. Amy Purdie, the American athlete, dancing. The doors once

again open on what I'm sure will be a brilliant celebrant is not scored

in Real. They won a competition sees the cyclist, Dame Sarah Storey,

attempting to become the most successful female Paralympian. She

will be out on the track just after nine o'clock tonight.

Andy Murray's been knocked out of the US Open.

Partly because of some really annoying sound system that kept

making a noise in one set when he was on crucial points? Yes, and

crucial points. A bit of a boy was coming out of the malfunctioning

audio system. Andy said it distracted him. He did not blame it

for his defeat. We know he is easily distracted. In Rio he was distracted

by an overhead camera. Like most major sports, you find you are most

distracted when you are not playing well. After the match it was the

least upset we have seen him after an exit from a Grand Slam. Beaten by

Kei Nishikori in a five set match. It took almost four hours. Murray

was not at his best. He lost the second set from a break up.

Nishikori forced the match into a decider. He took the final set 7-5.

He plays Stan Wawrinka next. For Murray, it is the Davis cup against

Argentina next weekend in Glasgow. I have not let anybody down. I tried

my best. I fought as hard as I could with what I had. I didn't let

anybody down. Certainly not myself. I pushed myself as hard as I could

and I'm very proud of what I have done. If someone had offered me the

summer that I have had, before Wimbledon, I probably would have

signed for that. Not the happiest day for Andy Murray. What a

spectacular 12 months. The odd Britain win their first Davis cup

from 80 years, success at Wimbledon and the Olympics. And England's

cricketers trashed in the Twenty20 game. How come?

And how were England thrashed it really is a different format.

Pakistan cruised home in the end. It was a disappointing end to the

series, but for England in general it was a positive summer.

Behind all the hype and excitement associated with going to university,

More than half of all female students report being sexually

harassed, with alcohol-fuelled freshers' parties, initiation

ceremonies and fancy dress pub crawls at the beginning of term,

In a moment we'll be talking to a group of students

about the scale of the problem and what universities

First, this report from Catryn Nye, who's been speaking

I've been to some clubs where they say you have to show me

what you're wearing before you go in.

Ie, open up your coat so I can see what

You went to a club and that was the dress code?

code for men, for the girls it was you have to dress sexy and once

you're inside it was worse because you're already

there as a sexualised object, therefore once you're in

men are probably more likely to try and take advantage of you.

I've been on a night out with the lads.

It turns into a game, kind of, like, before

you go to a club it's like, a strategy is devised for the night.

Lads, what are we going to do tonight?

How are we going to get the girls and who can get the most kind of

I guess the most common type is when you're

dancing and you get approached by a boy,

usually from behind, which speaks

for itself in the fact that I think the boys say

and is meant to be, I think you're beautiful and want to speak to you.

behind, it is quite an oppressive and weird situation anyway.

One-time when I was at a phone party during

freshers, quite early on, and was separated from my friends,

we were in quite a big group, but because it's

a phone party you can't see anything clearly and at one point

I was all on my own and I was like, this is

Your friend helped you out, or was there, I've had

Yes, I'm kind of a big man that has to

stand there and give eyes, leading on to fights

because of the guys been really weird about my

So this union guy went to a club, there was, I think it

was a freshers night, so their tag line for the night

I don't know if any of you guys remember that?

past this point and we are liberated and we know it is tongue

Rape happens at universities all the time

and I'm so conscious of being considered

the point where it's just not funny and boys need to realise it's not.

The statistics show that only one in seven girls were surprised

by being sexually harassed, is that what you

I don't think I've ever been on a night out when not one

person has had some form of sexual harassment.

People almost want to hear these really traumatising

stories of just like almost sexual assault,

but it's not that, it's the

kind of everyday grating feeling of knowing

that it is a given that if you

go you will get unwarranted attention or you will

get someone coming up to

you after you giving no signal that you're interested.

On the night bus after a

You always like end up just discussing who was the creepy

In light of all of these cases that have come

out recently with girls making accusations of rape and boys saying

they've been given these signals, I think it is only beneficial

to boys and girls to re-establish consensual,

I don't want to say sex, but consensual anything.

I think clubs have a responsibility to look out

for girls and boys, because obviously it

What do you do about the culture? Here are some students to try to

answer that. Welcome, all of you. Step, you change your clothes and

you think about carefully what you are going to wear when you go on a

night out? Why? Definitely because it is so now. What would you not

where and why? When I am getting dressed I put on an outfit and look

in the mirror and think, is this shirt too low or is this skirt too

short? It is not for me because I feel comfortable in it, but I do not

feel comfortable with the fact that I will get groped or cat called in

it, so I will change my clothes and I will not wear what I want to wear

on a night out, especially in clubs in town. Am I right in saying that

the sexual harassment you have experienced is in part responsible

for sometimes you thinking I am not going out because it is too much?

Sometimes because it has become an inevitability and it is no longer

something we question or get angry about, it is something we expect,

sometimes when you are getting ready or planning a night out evening, I

cannot be bothered to deal with that and I am not in the mood to push

someone of meat or say no several times. Yes, sometimes it does put me

off going out and I know it puts off a lot of friends going out. You have

experienced it on night out at uni and also on degree courses. Can you

give us some examples? Courses that I put on where the male was to

dominate the classroom and they want to have patronising shut up, little

girl type rhetoric. It is not sexual harassment. It highlights the

domineering culture that does not let women speak up. On some courses

girls do not tend to participate that much academically because it is

curtailed either fact that there is a lot of lad culture with sexual

harassment at its gravity, but the pervading theme is misogyny. Give me

some examples of the courses? Maths courses, engineering courses,

particularly the dense courses. Their academic well-being is not as

valued as much as the other students or their input is not as valued that

much, so that feed into the rhetoric. These figures that so many

e-mails students say they have experienced sexual harassment at

university. Joss and Nick, it is not your responsibility, but why do so

many young men think it is OK to pinch a woman's backside? We have

seen in running our campaigns in Oxford a lot of men come to

university and they have no concept of the idea of sexual consent and

most of them have not heard the phrase sexual consent and have not

thought about what it means to respect body autonomy. Most people

do not necessarily go out and think I want to harm someone and make

someone feel afraid, they just do not know it is not appropriate. It

is not an appropriate way to treat anyone, woman or man. For people who

go about doing it they think it is a laugh and the normalised, acceptable

way of behaving. It is a game and they do not realise the impact it

has on people's lives. Where do you think that normalisation attitude

has come from? Lad culture. What does that mean? It is this huge kind

of brother Shep. The closest thing we have is fraternities in America.

It is nowhere near as bad in the UK. It is this brotherhood that they

form and it is solidarity and companionship with each other, so it

becomes a group activity to engage in sexual harassment. You said

especially with thinking involved. As soon as alcohol is involved,

whether the person who is being harassed is trying or the person

harassing is drunk, it is perceived as OK because, oh, well, we are

drunk, it is fine, the rules go out the window. You have to accept it

because you chose to come out tonight. It is just not the case, it

is ridiculous you cannot have a drink or you cannot comfortably get

drunk in a safe environment any more, especially in clubs. It is

almost a pack mentality as well. A lot of men know they would not

behave like that on their own, or they would not behave like that when

they were sober. They are assuming when they are in a group that it

becomes acceptable because you are protected by the fact it is a group

activity. It is obviously wrong when people sit down and think about it,

but it is normalised in male culture. People often do not sit

down and think about it. Matt on Facebook says Wenders chatting up a

woman in a club become sexual harassment. Everybody wants to

become a victim these days. No. Know what? It is not necessarily that

everyone wants to become a victim and become sexually harassed. If

that is the case, 15% of rapes are reported and 85% are not. One in

five go to court. This is all within the university domain. What would

you say to that Facebook from Matt? I would say it is about being

respectful to someone. If you talk to someone and they say, I am not

interested... The thing I have noticed is guys repeatedly go after

girls and they do not realise it. A big issue that is part of this is we

do not talk about this in sexual education at schools. That is how

you tackle it, you go to the core of it. When I was having sexual

education as Gould people would say things like girls should think about

what they are wearing, which almost puts the blame on women themselves.

There is no excuse for sexually assaulting someone. Somebody has

tried to grope me in a club and I would turn around and say, I am not

interested, and he would continue to talk to me. It was preaching on

verbal abuse and I said, now I have a boy thing, I am not interested.

That was not enough. He asks me to prove I had a boyfriend. He said, I

do not believe you, as if that is a reason for it being OK. He asked me

to point him out in the club, to prove thy I was under the row of a

boyfriend. To directly answer Matt's question, it becomes sexual

harassment when you start doing something in someone's physical

space without their consent. Talking to somebody can become harassment if

it is verbally abusive, but it is when you start to cross that

boundary and most people know what the boundary is. You should know

what the boundary is. Even without sex education lessons, they should

know that. It is not OK to touch someone without their permission.

What is it like to be sexually harassed by a woman? It is not as

common practice, it is a different experience for men because it is not

the same in terms of physical fear. I know a lot of women can feel

physically intimidated and fearful for their safety when a man is

looming over them in a club. One of the girls said they came from behind

and that could be fear inducing. For a woman it is a different thing in

that most men are taught not to physically react to women. If a man

came up to you and did that, you would shove them away. A man would

not feel comfortable doing that, so you are stuck in a situation where

you do not know what to do because you cannot have a verbal

communication. What sexual harassment did you experience? If

anyone has got children who have not gone to school or very young

children, turn the volume down now. It doesn't happen every time I go

out. A woman, especially sometimes older women, make me feel because I

am a younger guy, especially groups of women. It is coming up and

touching you from behind. Running their hands down your body. It is

minor stuff that can make you feel uncomfortable. What do you say?

Somebody has come up to me and tried to dance with me. Almost going down

to the floor. I have had to stand there really rigidly and shake my

head and say, no, go away please. It is a fine line between... It will

resonate with a lot of men. They don't know what to do in that

situation. A quick final thought. It is a huge question. If you do not

have an answer, that is fine. What do we do to get rid of low-level

sexual harassment? Education. There needs to be a societal movement.

From sexual education to freshers at University to the second years and

be 30 years having the social responsibility to instil that kind

of environment. I completely agree. It has to be in secondary schools

where we have to talk about it. Universities have to be harsher on

it. People think they can ruin other people's studies by doing this to

people and they have no consequences. I would say just

opening up the discussion for everyone to be able to participate

in, regardless of your gender or your sexuality, that it is OK, it is

something that is going to be taken seriously by people. You are not

going to be seen as just complaining or making it up. It will be taking

it as Makabu be taken seriously. Education from an early age. And

universities taking it seriously as opposed to looking at the Rome

public relations are keeping people out of prosecution.

Thank you very much. We will talk to Universities UK after ten o'clock.

They are the organisation responsible for universities across

England and Wales. We will ask how seriously they are taking it.

Still to come, a memorial to the 96 who died.

We'll examine calls for a Hillsborough Law,

which would make it illegal for police officers and other public

servants to give misleading evidence.

And we'll talk to family and friends of some of Britain's Paralympians,

as the Rio Games get under way with a spectacular opening ceremony.

Can Para GB do even better than in London 2012?

A couple of e-mails about grammar schools, which we are going to talk

about. Vic says, all of life is selective. University entries, job

applications, even the Olympics. Labour, as usual, is promising a

race to the bottom. The rain is horrified by the grammar school

proposals which would merely select wealthy children and cause further

social divide. Weigl says he is from a working class background who went

to teach. -- Michael. He thinks grammar schools are an excellent

idea for academically minded students as trade schools are for

other students. Now the news. Theresa May has defended plans for a

new expanded grammar schools in England.

At a meeting of Conservative MPs, the Prime Minister said she wanted

an "element of selection" in the education system -

though new grammar schools would not be forced on areas that

The comments were made after a document outlining proposals

was caught by a photographer outside Downing Street on Tuesday.

A review into England's flood defences will be published today.

It was commissioned by the government after record

rainfall last winter caused flooding, resulting in more

than ?1 billion worth of insurance claims.

We will have more in the next few minutes.

Two men have been arrested in London on suspicion

The men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested at an address

Officers are searching a number of addresses

and vehicles in the west, south east London and Thames Valley areas.

A leading member of a group representing hundreds of people

who suffered abuse in children's homes run by Lambeth Council

in south London, says he's lost faith in the independent inquiry

Raymond Stevenson represents those who attended the Shirley Oaks home

He says he no longer has confidence that the inquiry

The Home Secretary has rejected a claim by the former chair

of the inquiry that she'd been prevented from choosing

The number of children seeking counselling

because they are considering suicide has more than doubled in five years,

Turbulent home lives, pressure at school and mental health

conditions were all major triggers for suicidal thoughts,

with children as young as 10 contacting the charity for help.

The tech giant Apple unveiled its latest version of the iPhone

The new device has attracted controversy for not having

The launch of the iPhone 7, which is also water-resistant

and has a two-lens camera, comes after a year of falling iPhone

sales and a decline in Apple's share of the phone market.

More from me at ten. Now the latest sport. Good morning.

The start of the Paralympics is upon us. Lee Pearson, the ten time

Olympic champion from equestrianism, was Great Britain's flag bearer.

There was blowing towards the Brazilian Prime Minister. A packed

Maracana Stadium saw another entertaining start. Lott is expected

in the next ten days, including Sarah Storey today. Andy Murray says

it will be hard for him to be fully fit and ready for next week's Davis

Cup tie against Argentina. He was not dead in the US open quarterfinal

by Japan's Kei Nishikori in five sets. -- knocked out. England's

cricketers suffered one of the biggest ever defeats in Twenty20

cricket last night, Pakistan beating them by nine wickets at Old Trafford

is with more than five of their overs remaining. Liberty Media has

bought the rights to Formula one. Bernie Ecclestone will stay as chief

executive. That is all the sport for now. I am back after ten.

Families of some of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy

are calling for a new law which would make it illegal

for police officers and others in public service to give misleading

They say the so-called Hillsborough Law, which includes

penalties and fines, would address a "culture of denial"

She lost her 18-year-old son, James, in the disaster and is chairman

of the Hillsborough Family Support Group.

And Elkan Abrahamson, a lawyer who represented 20

of the families at the new inquests and helped draft this bill.

Welcome to both of you. Margaret, tell me why this is so important to

you and the other families? It is important because when you look back

over the past 27 years of what the families have gone through, we have

got to make sure this can never happen again. I think anybody of any

institution, especially of public office, who have protection, should

be allowed to... It is important that Hillsborough can never happen

again. And that they hand all documentation, everything,

statements, correspondence, it should be handed over immediately to

the victims of any kind of disaster for the good of the public. Things

have got to change. We have got this it James Jones, who has been

commissioned by the previous Home Secretary, to look into what lessons

can be learned. -- Bishop James Jones. So many lessons have got to

be learned. I think we have got to go deeper than what the families

agreed to. We have to go deeper than that. It is also about funding. You

have to bring funding into it. It has got to be a level playing field

on every level. Families did not have funding. They had to raise

funds. It has got to be a lot deeper. A draft law that would make

it illegal for people to lie. All sorts of things are illegal, from

the most serious crimes to Leicester on the spectrum. It does not stop

people from committing them. Why would this make a difference? It is

not just about lying, it is about not fully disclosing. It is also

intended not to put sanctions on people, but to help people who want

to tell the truth. If we take the argument away from Hillsborough and

think about an operating theatre where something has gone badly wrong

and there is pressure on the junior staff in the theatre to support the

consultant, they can rely on this law and say, I have to tell the

truth because if I don't I will be committing a criminal offence. That

really does make sense. We have heard Andy Burnham talking about a

Hillsborough law. This is different, isn't it? Yes, Andy put forward a

Hillsborough law in the last session of Parliament. Parliament rose

before anything could be done. The point he wanted to block -- to

promote was parity funding. This address is another problem.

Margaret, another thought from you. Had this law been in place when

Hillsborough happened, I just wonder what difference it would have made

to you and the other families? It would have made a big difference.

What was just said, I totally agree with. It would've made a big

difference. Families would had more information. We learned an awful

lot. It is not just about Hillsborough. This is hopefully to

try to change things for the better, for the good of the ordinary people.

We saw things in the court, we saw things for the very first time, and

we thought we knew everything. That was all there for 20 odd years. That

is a disgrace. It has got to change. We should never have had to sit in

another inquest to find that this information that was already there

are 27 years ago. It is an absolute disgrace. Can you describe for our

audience the toll on you of being at those inquests over two years each

day? It is not just the toll on me, it was the toll on all of the

families. Every one of them. They have had 27 years of torture. 27

years knowing there was a lot of evidence that was not handed over.

And to me, also the toll on the ordinary people to fund raise for

the families. Without their help we could not have got where they are --

we are. A lot of things have got to be changed for the good of the

ordinary people. Thank you very much for your time. Margaret Aspinall,

who lost her son, James, at Hillsborough, he was 18. And Elton

Abrahamson. Within the last few minutes

the official report into England's flood defences has been published

following severe The government's promised to take

a "hard look at how our cities, towns and villages stand up

to severe flooding". Our correspondent Dan Johnson

is at the Dalton Barracks near Abingdon, where a new flood

barrier is being unveiled. Tell us more about the report, this

barrier and whether it will work? Yes, that is the key question. That

is what everybody is wondering. This is what we are talking about. The

sort of thing the government is announcing more of. Mobile steel

barriers is at locations like this airfield in Oxfordshire but can be

taken around the country. Miles and miles of this barrier has been

announced as part of this review into last winter's flooding. This is

the sort of kit that will be put out around the country, ready to react

if we do see those levels of rainfall again, that kind of

flooding risk. You can see that the team here can very quickly assemble

and disassembled this sort of barrier to provide protection to

communities awaiting more prominent flood defences. That is what the

government is saying. They had committed billions of pounds two

extra flood protection. But in the meantime, this temporary defence

will be ready if we do see a repeat of the flooding of last winter. What

they also say is that one key finding from last winter's floods

was that the key bits of infrastructure work at too great a

risk from floods. Power stations, electricity substations, the water,

sewage supplies and key railway lines were all The headlines: in

different parts of the country, especially in the north of England.

The government says it will work with the utility companies to

provide protection for those key bits of infrastructure. They are

also today announcing better forecasting of what the rainfall

will be like in future. They think they can get a more precise idea of

where the heavy rain will be. Where the flood risk is. And where they

can deploy protection like this to try to stop community is getting

flooded. They are also offering help those who were hit by the floods.

Still people having to clear up the mess. Thank you for your messages on

sexual harassment of university students, predominately women, but

some men as well. David said, I have run large clubs for many years and

if any woman complained to security about harassment, action would be

taken. Someone says heavy drinking

epitomises our universities today. A 21-year-old in London said, I have

never expected this, harassment between other students, instead it

is older men lurking around our buyers and making us feel uneasy.

Another one said clubs will change their policies if male and female

members decline. Another one says there is ignorance about where

consent level ends. These are degree level students, but they feel they

can get away with it because it is so normalised.

How many pupils will Kent headteacher Matthew Tate send home

today for not wearing the absolutely correct uniform?

Since Tuesday, he's sent 70 away. We'll talk to him to live and ask

if he's the strictest head in England?

Plus, we'll hear from one of the pupils he's turned away.

The Paralympics kicked off in Rio last night with a spectacular

opening ceremony that featured blind dancers, fireworks and a spectacular

performance by the wheelchair jumper, Aaron Wheelz,

who backflipped into the stadium down a giant ramp.

More than 260 British athletes will take part in 19 sports

The organisers say they're confident that Rio is ready despite the

build-up that's been marred by poor ticket sales and funding problems -

but will it end in sporting triumph for Paralympics GB?

Let's talk now to friends and family of Paralympic medal hopefuls

We've got Ruth Taylor, friend of cyclist Dame Sarah Storey.

Nyree Kindred, wife of swimmer Sascha Kindred.

Annie Giglia, sister of cyclist Megan Giglia.

And Charles Johnston from Sport England.

Welcome, all of you. Ruth, can I start with you? Dame Sarah could

become Britain's most decorated Paralympian if she wins gold tonight

overtaking Tanni Grey-Thompson. That would be amazing. It would be

amazing. I am hopeful it is going to happen. Tell us how you know Sarah

and what she is like. I know Sarah because I ride on her cycling team.

She has got two cycling teams, a professional cycling team and the

team I am on, which is a scholarship programme. I met her through cycling

and she is actually really normal. She is this incredible, amazing

athlete, but when you get to know her she is really lovely. She is

meant mental to you. Yes, she looks after us and I do not know how she

has enough hours in the day. She does her own training, she looks

after the team and she has got a daughter, I do not know how she does

it. Annie, your sister had a stroke less than three years ago. I think

you and the family knew something was wrong. Tell us about what

happened. She came home to stay with us after she split up with a

girlfriend. The doctors said she might have epilepsy. She was acting

erratic, but she still seem to sell, but she was on edge all the time and

she kept changing her mind. That was like anyway, but it was a bit more.

Then she moved up to Warwickshire and we got a phone call saying she

had fainted and was in hospital and she had had a brain aneurysm. So

that is what it was. But it was really serious. Yes, and it was hard

for us because we were in Folkestone and my mum had to keep travelling up

to see her in hospital and we were waiting to hear the news all the

time. She had to have an operation, but it went wrong. They could not do

what it was they needed to do, so they had to wake her up to get

permission to do another one and it was a 50-50 operation and they run

us up and they said at midnight there were drinkers up to tell us if

it had gone well. I was at my friend's trying not to think about

it, waiting for the phone call. I kept looking at the clock and the

room went a bit quiet to me and that was all I could see and I thought in

ten minutes everyone's world was going to explode. I am not as

positive as Megan. She is a very positive person? A very positive

person. That is why she is here now. I would have curled up in a ball and

cried and thought, this is not fair. She is the sort of person who goes,

that is life, I'm getting on with it now. Why she always into cycling?

She always cycled, she has always been sporty. That is her life. But

from what I know she was mainly into contacts was like rugby and hockey.

She was a sports coach. That is what upset me the most. These things

happen to the people where it is going to affect the one thing that

keeps them going in life. But she is in the Paralympics, so she kept

going. She found away. Welcome to the programme, you are a former

Paralympic swimmer and you have 110 medals M yes, ten medals over the

four Paralympic games I competed that. You and your husband both have

cerebral Wolsey, Sasha stars competing tomorrow, how do you

expect him to do? I am optimistic, he has had great training sessions

in the last few years and he has gone in there with a positive

attitude to perform as fast as he can. You cannot control what the

rest of the world is going to do, so he is going to focus on doing his

best because he has done everything he possibly can. I will be proud of

him. Mentally, how prepared is he? He is mentally prepared. This is his

sixth Paralympics. He has left me and his daughter at home. But he is

very upbeat and is enjoying himself and is ready to race tomorrow.

Finally it has started, it was an amazing opening ceremony. Does that

mean we can forget the poor ticket sales, the lack of funding and the

build-up and the rest of it? We have worked really hard since London 2012

to make sure they have had all the support and facilities they need and

all the technology. Can you give as examples of what you have spent

money on to prepare? At the last won the wheelchair rugby guys caught the

imagination and we have got a system where we have GPS trackers on their

wheelchairs, so the analysis as to how much energy they use and where

they go and that's the thing is used for our wheelchair bowling teams.

The surface is a horrible green colour, which is different to what

they normally train on. What colour do they normally train on?

Everything from wood to a red mat, so we bought a replica Rio surfers.

That is what the training teams do, they make sure they are as well

prepared as they can be, so when they walk into the environment in

Rio, they are as well prepared as they can be. They have green in Rio

and we practice on red, but it is much quicker on green. Very much so.

We bought particular table tennis bats and balls and they have used

over 12,000 balls in training to get ready for Rio. When they go there

they can concentrate on their game and they can get straight in to

perform they can do. We have got world-class facilities and

world-class support here from centres in Manchester where Megan

trains, right down to Bath. There is a huge amount of expertise that is

supporting them and they are as well prepared as they can be and I am

sure they will be very successful. Will they be 120 medals from four

years ago? I lost a lot of money betting on the Olympics, so I would

not buy to Hazzard. They are as well prepared as they can be and the

messages we are getting back is they are raring to go. If Sarah launches

us with a gold medal, that will inspire a lot of people to perform.

That is true, Ruth, the first time a British Paralympian wins a gold

medal, it sets the tone for the others. Yes, it will get everybody

off to an amazing start and there will be a lot of positive energy and

it will be a good way to kick the games. It really would, talk about

inspiring. Is that true from your own experience and your husband's?

Your team-mates are winning things and you think, I need to match this.

Definitely, seeing your team-mates winning the medals gives you a bus

to go out there to try and equal them and perform your best and walk

away with a medal yourself. In London I felt so immensely ready to

get on that block and race and seeing other people when I was one

of the first swimmer end, but to see Johnny Fox win a gold medal on day

one, it was something you wanted to do yourself. Thank you for telling

us about your husbands, mentors, etc. Thank you for coming on the

programme. Do you support the Kent head who has turned away around 70

pupils so far this week? The kids went back on Tuesday. He has sent 70

away for breaking school uniform rules. We will be talking to Matthew

Tait after ten. We are going to talk to one of the girls he has turned

away and her dad. Sharon says, get your kids back into school with the

correct uniform. Every pupil will look the same. Patrick tweeted,

uniforms are not optional. Parents agree to their children wearing them

when they accept the offer of education. Peter says, what sort of

a message is this teacher giving a child? Would he go to a job in the

real world and try to change what was required in the workplace? He

would get sacked. People complain about a lack of respect and no

boundaries being set. It has to start somewhere, so why do we not

support this headteacher? Another one, the headteacher is right about

wearing the correct uniform. You may change your mind possibly when you

hear the dad and the little girl after the break. Now, the weather.

For some of us it has been a beautiful started the day, for

others so good. This picture was taken in Glasgow. You can see the

rain we have had, streaming in from the West, moving eastwards. It will

eventually clear. It is courtesy of this weather front, which is a cold

front, so behind it are fresher conditions coming our way. Blustery

showers will follow on behind the rain. Some of the rain will be heavy

in North East Scotland. Behind it, it is clearing. The blustery showers

will continue across Scotland through the afternoon. It is

particularly windy in the north and west. For Northern Ireland after a

wet start it dries up with some brightness. For Wales and south-west

England we are looking at bright or sunny spells with temperatures up to

19. Drifting across southern counties and into the Midlands, East

Anglia and the south-eastern corner is largely dry. Places in East

Anglia could hit 26 Celsius today. There will be bright spells here,

with the odd shower. Through the evening and overnight there will be

clear skies, but we have got a plethora of showers coming in from

the West. It will be quite a breezy night. As a result, it will not be a

cold night. We are looking at temperatures of 12 in the north to

about 15 in the south. I'll start to the day tomorrow. The showers

continued to drift from west to east. But it will be breezy. This

next area of low pressure sweeps in across Northern Ireland and western

Scotland and it will bring heavy rain and stronger winds. Inland it

could be pretty gusty. We are looking at possibly severe gales.

Temperatures tomorrow, 17 in Glasgow to highs of 23 in Norwich. A level

of uncertainty as to the timing and position of this rain on Saturday.

It is crossing from the West into the south-east. The position of it

has changed in the last few days and it could change again. Do not take

this as your final look at the forecast. Behind it there are

brighter skies. Hello, it's 10 o'clock on Tuesday,

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme if you've

just joined us. Do you back the expansion

of grammar schools? The Prime Minister Theresa May wants

to allow more in England - Or is it - as Labour say

- social segregation? Also on the programme,

sexual harassment at universities is "out of control",

with more than half of female students saying

they've experienced it. I would look in Lima ranting, is

this top two low, or this skirt too short? Not for me. But I would be

concerned I would get groped called. And is this the toughest

headteacher in Britain? Over 70 pupils have been turned away

from school for not We'll talk to the defiant head

teacher who's not backing Here's Anita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Theresa May has defended

Government proposals to open new grammar schools in England

or expand existing ones. At a meeting of Conservative MPs

last night, the Prime Minister said she wanted an "element of selection"

in the education system but that new grammar schools would not be

forced on areas that Let's talk to Norman Smith in

Downing Street. Good morning. Theresa May says Grammar schools

help social mobility and increase choice. Critics question those

premises. The subject is hugely controversial? It is very emotive,

very divisive and highly politically charged. But Mrs May's view is we

already have a diverse school system, private schools, academies,

free schools, why not Grammar schools? She also believes it will

be popular and, above all, that it will boost the prospects of poorer

children. And last night she told her MPs that we are all guilty of

hypocrisy when it comes to schools because, in terms of selection, she

argues we already have selection. House price selection, in that

better off parents can buy their way into the catchment of successful

state schools. But be in no doubt, this is very risky. All of the

indications are the move will face significant opposition, not just

from Labour and the SNP, but from the educational establishment, some

factions within her own party. And there is doubt over whether she can

get this through Parliament over likely opposition in the House of

Lords. It is a very big move by Theresa May. I understand that

Michael Fallon has been talking about this this morning? Well, Mr

Fallon has Grammar schools in his own constituency and he believes

that by creating more of them, that will broaden choice for parents. The

aim is very clear. To have more choice for parents in every part of

the country. We are fortunate in Kent that we have a grammar school

system. They have it in Buckinghamshire as well. Parents

have a choice. I want parents everywhere to have the same kind of

choice between a range of different schools. The risk also for Theresa

May is that she has made much of her desire to help those who cannot get

on and she believes grammar schools will do that. They will encourage

social mobility. The danger is that critics will paint her as returning

to the 50s and 60s. In other words, it looks exactly the opposite. It

looks as if Theresa May is a social conservative and seeking to go back

to a previous era. Thank you. Two men have been arrested

in London on suspicion The men, aged 19 and 20,

were arrested at an address Officers are searching a number

of addresses and vehicles in the west, south east London

and Thames Valley areas. Millions of pounds are to be spent

on new flood defences in England. The government has made

the announcement after reviewing England's defences in the wake

of flooding which forced thousands of people out of their

homes over Christmas. Its long-awaited report promises

that more than 12 million pounds will be spent on new barriers

and high-volume pumps. The number of workers on zero hours

contracts has increased by a fifth over the past year,

according to official figures that The controversial contracts mean

workers do not know how many hours they will work from one week

to the next. Research by a think tank,

the Resolution Foundation, suggests more than two out of three

adult contract workers have been A leading member of a group

representing hundreds of people who suffered abuse in children's

homes run by Lambeth Council in south London, says he's lost

faith in the independent inquiry Raymond Stevenson represents those

who attended the Shirley Oaks home He says he no longer has

confidence that the inquiry The tech giant Apple unveiled

its latest version of the iPhone The new device has attracted

controversy for not having The launch of the iPhone 7,

which is also water-resistant and has a two-lens camera,

comes after a year of falling iPhone sales and a decline in Apple's share

of the phone market. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30. Six minutes past ten. Good morning.

Thank you for tuning in. I have got some comments about sexual

harassment. This text does not leave his name. To say that lads do not

know when they're harassing is rubbish. We all know difference

between right and wrong. Another, nobody is complaining that a boy

cannot approach a girl, it is when the boy does not understand no are

not interested yet continues to persist. Saying you have a boyfriend

is usually the best way to stop being harassed. They respect the man

they cannot see more than the woman they can see. Now the sport with

Hugh. There were more spectacular scenes

in Rio as the Paralympic Games were launched last night. We should

expect a raft of success stories. 121 medals will be the target for

Great Britain. It was a vibrant and colourful scene at the Maracana

Stadium. The music and dancing highlighting the party atmosphere we

should be expecting to see over the next ten days. No party in Brazil

without -- is complete without a beach. Team GB was led out by Lee

Pearson. The American para athlete, Amy Purdie, danced on her prosthetic

legs with a giant robot. The doors once again opening on another

celebration of sport. Andy Murray performed so spectacularly in Rio,

but after his quarterfinal defeat at the US Open, he was in a more

positive frame of mind than we are used to. The Wimbledon and Olympic

champion was beaten by Kei Nishikori in five sets. But he was not at his

best after losing the second set from a break-up. Nishikori forced

the match into a decider before wrapping up the final set 7-5. He

plays Stan Wawrinka. For Murray, it is the Davis cup for GB against

Argentina. I have not let anybody down. I tried my best. I fought as

hard as I could with what I had. I didn't let anyone down. Certainly

not myself. I pushed myself as hard as I could over the last few months.

I am very proud of what I have done. If someone had offered me the summer

that I have had befallen them, I probably would have signed for that.

England's cricketers lost heavily in the one-off Twenty20 match against

Pakistan. Eoin Morgan's side struggled to 135 from their 20

overs. Pakistan cruised home in the end. They reached their target with

nine wickets and more than five overs to spare. A disappointing end

to the International summer for England. Next up is the winter tour

of Bangladesh and India. I still believe we are on and broad curve in

our progression as a side in 50 over and T20 cricket. If we do, up

against conditions like that again, it will be difficult to force a win

unless we get off -- you have to get off to an absolute flyer. Liberty

Media is buying Formula one for more than ?3 billion. The company has

stakes in several sports and entertainment businesses, including

the Atlantic Braves baseball team. There will be plenty of changes.

Bernie Ecclestone will be staying on as F-1 Chief Executive. That is all

the sport for now. I am back with more later.

Thank you. Around 70 pupils have been sent home from a school in Kent

because they were not wearing the correct uniform. It has led to angry

scenes. The police were called after some parents criticised the school's

new head for being overzealous. This girl's father said it would be the

last day she would attend the school.

That was parent Dave Hopper you saw in the video.

He joins me now with his daughter Kim who was refused entry twice

to school because the head teacher wasn't happy with her uniform.

Hello both of you. Hi, Kim. How are you? Good, thank you. Why are you

not in school today? Because of my shoes. I am not allowed in because

they are swayed. Can I see them? Here. We can see them. They are

really smart but they are not leather. Dave, the headteacher,

Mathew Tait, says you have to buy some leather ones. Yes. The problem

is unfortunately the school policy has left so much in the way of

interpretation and ambiguity in their policy. We have ended up with

a situation where we have gone out and bought a pair of shoes that are

fit for purpose. They are smart. They will not affect her education

in any way, shape or form. Can I just say that I wholly support a

uniform policy. But I think if you're going to make exceptions for

one, if you are going to bend the rules here and there, you have to

make it for all our might not at all. Kim, did you know it was good

to be really strict when you went back this term? We got told by Mr

Summers before he left and before we left, that it was going to be strict

on uniform. But we didn't realise how strict he was going to be. Dave,

is this really worth Kim missing school over? I would have to bounce

the question back, to be fair. It could be argued both ways. If the

policy was completely fair and completely clear, unbiased towards

some people and not others, then, no. It would not be worth 100%. The

thing is, you care mostly about your own daughter, irrespective of what

you say is happening with other pupils. I will put that to the

headteacher when we talk to him. He has clearly said, you need to get

some leather shoes, yes, please. He is the head. You can say that. No,

of course. I support a uniform policy but I will support a uniform

policy that everybody adheres to. And not one that everybody gets an

interpretation of and he gets to decide when and where he wants to

enforce it. A girl that was refused on the Tuesday went in on the next

day wearing exactly the same and she was allowed in. By the head? She was

allowed in by the head on the next day, or was it someone else? She was

indeed, yes. And there have been several exceptions made now, where

the parents have been allowed to let their parents -- children in with

trainers and other things. As much as I say I supported, it is the way

they have gone about it for me. A lot of people watching you are

sending messages saying, what sort of message are you giving to Kim?

That she is breaking rules. I am not breaking any rules. I have, caught

against a lot of criticism for this. I am steadfast that if you make an

exception for one, you make an exception for all. If Michael Brad

turned up in a pair of trainers, not dressed appropriately, and not

looking fit for purpose, I would understand. But she has come to

school wearing a pair of shoes that are 100% respectable. She deserves

an education. You obviously went this morning. Digi Klok are many

other people were turned away today? You see how many people were turned

away today? No. One message says, it is ridiculous to send people home

for wrong bits of uniform. School is about education, not clothing. Sarah

says if parents do not send the kids to school wearing the wrong uniform,

fine them for nonattenders. These children are students, education is

more important. There is some support their beer. Kim, would you

not rather be at? I would, but I keep getting sent home. Do you not

think your dad should just get you some leather shoes? I am not too

sure really because my shoes right now are sensible and smart. What is

the point of buying another peer? Only because the headteacher has

asked you to. Again, it is a conversation I have tried to keep

open, I have left every line of communication open and the school

have failed to contact me to resolve it. Other parents have been offered

free school uniform. We have not had that extended to us. I would love

for it to be put to him as to why. I think genuinely we have become the

hated couple out of everyone. I am interested to know how this will be

resolved. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Kim,

thank you. Dave Hopper, thank you for coming on the programme. We will

keep trying to get through to the headteacher. He has agreed to talk

to us, but we cannot sort out the technicals at the moment. Apple

wants to push consumers into a wireless world and its tactic is to

get rid of the headphone socket in this newest iPhones and market tiny,

wireless earbuds. We will talk about how the iPhone has been received.

Some people are not happy. Thank you for your comments on sexual

harassment. More than half of students talk

about being sexually harassed in freshers week. First, we sent our

correspondence out to talk to some students last night.

I've been to some clubs where they say you have to show me

what you're wearing before you go in.

Ie, open up your coat so I can see what you're wearing is sexy enough?

You went to a club and that was the dress code?

The dress code was, there was no dress code for men,

for the girls it was you have to dress sexy and once you're

inside it was worse because you're already there as a sexualised

object, therefore once you're in then they are probably more

likely to try and take advantage of you.

I've been on a night out with the lads.

It turns into a game, kind of, like, before you go to a club it's like,

Lads, what are we going to do tonight?

How are we going to get the girls and who can get

I guess the most common type is when you're dancing and you get

approached by a boy, usually from behind,

which speaks for itself in the fact that I think the boys say that

it's a compliment and it's meant to be, I think you're beautiful

But if someone comes up from behind, it is quite an oppressive

One-time when I was at a foam party during freshers, quite early on,

I was separated from my friends, we were in quite a big group,

but because it's a foam party you can't see anything

I was surrounded literally on all four sides by guys.

I was all on my own and I was like, this is not OK.

Your friend helped you out, or was there, I've had to do that

so many times for my friends on nights out.

Yes, I'm kind of a big man that has to stand there and give eyes,

nearly getting into fights if the guy's been really

So this union guy went to a club, there was,

I think it was a freshers night, so their tag line for the night

I don't know if any of you guys remember that?

We might might like to think we're past this point and we are liberated

and we know it is tongue in cheek, but rape isn't funny!

Rape happens at universities all the time and I'm so conscious

of being considered a killjoy, but it's got to the point where it's

just not funny and boys need to realise it's not.

The statistics show that only one in seven girls were surprised

by being sexually harassed, is that what you would expect?

I don't think I've ever been on a night out when not one

person has had some form of sexual harassment.

People almost want to hear these really traumatising stories of just

like almost sexual assault, but it's not that, it's the kind

of everyday grating feeling of knowing that it is a given that

if you go, you will get unwarranted attention or you will get someone

coming up to you after you giving no signal that you're interested.

You always like end up just discussing who was the creepy

In light of all of these cases that have come out recently with girls

making accusations of rape and boys saying they've been given these

signals, I think it is only beneficial to boys and girls

to really establish consensual, I don't want to say sex,

I think clubs have a responsibility to look out for girls and boys,

because obviously it happens to boys as well,

Let's talk to a women's officer for the National Union of Students.

Nicola Dandridge, chief Executive of universities UK, and Jason who runs

a student led group tackling lad culture. That is at Durham

University. How is it going? It is going pretty well. Our group is not

specifically only targeting lad culture, it is talking to men who

want to make a difference about all aspects of masculinity and sexism.

How popular is your group? So far it has just been a small group of us

because Durham is quite a small university and at the minute things

like this are still kind of considered a niche interest. I think

we have had more of an online presence than a physical one, but we

are hoping to get a lot more people in the following year, because we

have only been going for a year anyway. It is interesting it is

considered a niche interest because when you look at the figures today

more than half of female students say they have been sexually

harassed. That is not niche interest either from their women or the men's

point of view. Let me ask you, Nicola Dandridge, if universities

take this seriously? Of course we take this seriously. This is an

extraordinarily important issue. Why is it so prevalent then? The

overwhelming majority, a large number of people, men and women,

have a very happy and secure time in university. Having said that, there

is strong evidence of harassment and violence against women. Give me some

examples of how universities are taking it seriously? There are all

sorts of different ways that universities are tackling it, but

universities make it very clear this is not acceptable conduct. There is

no space for this harassment and behaviour and that has to be

explicit right at the beginning in freshers week. That is not happening

now? It is, but we need to do more. So they are making it explicit and

it is still happening? There is more we need to do in terms of reaching

out into schools and engaging with schools to make sure that the

expectation of behaviours students have when they arrived at University

on the birthday fits with the expectation is that universities

have. The other thing that is important is a lot of this

harassment and violence against women takes place off campus in

clubs and bars in the local communities. Universities do a lot

of work and training and engagement with the managers of bars and clubs

in their area to make sure they shared the same standards. A lot of

work is going on and it is expensive and it has to happen in partnership

with communities and schools. Our universities doing enough? Certain

universities are doing quite a bit, however there is a promotional

issue. Even though there are universities that have taken steps

to evaluate harassment procedures and make sure it does not trickle

down to students, whilst there is progress at the top, down at the

ground people are not aware. You were raped university and you have

waived your right to anonymity, but I wonder how that experience affects

the campaigning you do against sexual harassment. My experience has

led to be to share about it in the community. A number of people have

come to me and talked about their experiences. What is most striking

is hearing the stories and in many stories it is how normal these rates

look. We are not talking about the kind of thing you see in the media,

someone being attacked in an alleyway by a stranger. We are

talking about day-to-day relations which are in fact sexual violence.

We need to look at the broad cultural shift when you think about

our sexual practices in society. It links very well when you say it is

great to have these consent workshops, but by the time students

have got to university they have already been embedded in a society

where they have been taught to think about sex in a specific way. When

you say embedded in society, bits of society are watching you this

morning, parents, students, kids and they do not condone this. I do not

bring up my boys to invade the woman's sexual space and harass

them. When you say society, what do you mean? It is all over the place.

All the stuff we have going on in the media, the social media,

sexualisation of women anyway which is still very prevalent. Does that

become embedded in some young man's brains, women are sexualised objects

and you can treat them like that? Absolutely. And with a lack of

decent sex relationship education in schools in the UK, which there is a

dearth of, kids are learning about sex and relationships from

pornography and it does not take much to realise that is deeply

problematic. Is this something that is out of control on university

campuses? I do. But there is a lot of work with regards to what the NUS

has been doing for years. 50% or more experience unwanted attention

or inappropriate touching. This research was conducted by the NUS

and we have been talking about this for years. This is what interests

me. I know you have and it has not had any effect. I'm not sure I would

agree with that. But how can it be out of control still? We are dealing

with something that is deeply rooted and I would not expect it to change

in five years. When I was raped, the first thing I did was to try to find

contact services on the University website and I could not find

anything. Now you can go onto the website and that information is

there. We are making progress, but what we have got underlying this is

a much broader social problem. We need to have conversations about the

way people drink and approach the pub culture. Let me bring in Jason.

Drinking is a massive part of this. Is that something you tackle in your

group? Is that impossible to tackle? You are at university and you will

drink. To be honest, our goal is not something we talk about that much

because from our point of view, and I guess the point of view of the

feminism society which we work under, alcohol is frequently used as

an excuse for why people have behaved the way that they have. I

think in the majority of cases people may be drinking, but people

have still made that choice to assault somebody and I think they

would do it regardless of whether they were drunk or not. The majority

of these crimes that are outside of universities still happen when

people are not drunk, so I'll call cannot be the thing that is causing

these things do happen. Yes, you can talk about perpetrators

drinking and the role that place. We don't want that to be an excuse. And

it isn't an excuse. I am concerned about the culture we have, where it

is normal for people to go out and get really drunk and to be taken

home and have sex with. No blame whatsoever. Women should be able to

drink as they like. But we are in a hookup culture where men are willing

to take the risk of taking someone home who is intoxicated, and there

is a high risk they will not be able to consent. Yet, that is ordinary

hookup culture. That is how people have sex in our generation. This is

a massive problem and we need to talk about it. Thank you very much

for coming in. Thank you. Still to come, do you back

the expansion of grammar schools? In a moment we're expecting an

urgent question in the House of Commons about grammar schools from

the Shadow Education Minister good to the. Angela Rayner. -- from the

Shadow Education Minister Abott grammar schools.

Loads of comments from you this morning. Also, we will talk to be

proud parents of one of Britain's's Paralympians.

Now over to Anita for a summary of the news.

Theresa May has defended Government proposals to open

new grammar schools in England or expand existing ones.

At a meeting of Conservative MPs last night, the Prime Minister said

she wanted an "element of selection" in the education system but that

new grammar schools would not be forced on areas that

She said the existing systems already includes selection because

only wealthy people can afford properties near good schools.

Millions of pounds are to be spent on new flood defences in England.

The government has made the announcement after reviewing

England's defences in the wake of flooding which forced thousands

of people out of their homes over Christmas.

Its long-awaited report promises that more than 12 million pounds

will be spent on new barriers and high-volume pumps.

Two men have been arrested in London on suspicion

The men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested at an address

Officers are searching a number of addresses and vehicles

in the west, south east London and Thames Valley areas.

The number of workers on zero hours contracts has increased

by a fifth over the past year, according to official figures that

The controversial contracts mean workers do not know how many hours

they will work from one week to the next.

Research by a think tank, the Resolution Foundation,

suggests more than two out of three adult contract workers have been

A leading member of a group representing hundreds of people

who suffered abuse in children's homes run by Lambeth Council

in south London, says he's lost faith in the independent inquiry

Raymond Stevenson represents those who attended the Shirley Oaks home

He says he no longer has confidence that the inquiry

A parliamentary committee is to recommend that all MPs

and Peers move out of the Houses of Parliament for six years

to allow for major repairs to the whole building.

Parts of the Palace of Westminster are so riddled with asbestos

and ageing electrics, it's been said the building will be

The report will suggest relocating to nearby offices, as early as 2020.

That is a summary of the latest news. Join me for BBC newsroom live

at 11. Lots of you want to talk about the uniform issue at the

Academy in Kent. We spoke to Dave, dad, Kim, his daughter, who is at

home. The third day back into the new school term. She has been sent

home three times. For not wearing the correct shoes today. Yesterday

it was to do with the blazer. Gary says the dad may be right but just

bite the bullet and buy some leather shoes for the sake of your

daughter's education. Your daughter is more important than any

principle. Another says the head needs to educate, not dictate. Sarah

from Twitter, sent home from school for wearing suede shoes. That is

pathetic. It is not like they are flip-flops. Another says it seems

insane that kids wear expensive uniforms for school when they are

outgrowing them all the time. Another says, why did he choose not

dressed uniformly Jim McGrath another had the same problem at

their daughter's School of Doctor Martin boots. Hard-working parents

are not made of money. Michelle 100% agrees with the head teacher. Rules

are there for a reason. Read the policy and buy your uniform. It is

not rocket science. I have two children and I made sure I knew the

policies. We are still trying to talk to the headteacher. We will try

very hard. Before that, the sport. The start of the Paralympics is upon

us. Lee Pearce and was Great Britain's flag bearer at the opening

ceremony. There was blowing from the crowd towards the Brazilian Prime

Minister. -- Lee Pearson. A packed Maracana Stadium saw another

entertaining start. Lots to come in the next ten days. Andy Murray says

it will be hard for him to be fully fit for next week's Davis cup tie

against Argentina. The Olympic champion was knocked out in the US

open quarterfinal by Kei Nishikori in five sets. He admitted he needs

some rest. England's cricketers suffered one of their biggest ever

defeat in Twenty20 cricket last night. Pakistan beating them by nine

wickets at Old Trafford, with more than five overs still remaining.

American company Liberty Media has confirmed it is buying Formula one

for ?3.3 billion. The company has stakes in several sports and

entertainment businesses. But Bernie Ecclestone will be staying as chief

executive. That is all the sport for today. Back throughout the day.

Thank you. It's one of the most divisive issues

in our children's education. Grammar schools are seen

by supporters as a way of helping bright kids get on,

but by opponents as condemning children who don't get

in to the scrap heap. Theresa May wants to pave the way

for more of them, despite fierce opposition from many,

including her Chief Grammar schools are state

secondaries that select pupils Out of more than 3,000 state

secondaries in England, And in Northern Ireland

there are 67 grammar schools. In Scotland and Wales,

schools are non-selective Grammar schools in England

were phased out from the 1960s, and in 1998, Labour banned

the creation of new ones in England. Now the Prime Minister wants to

bring back an element of selection to education. We are expecting a

question in the House of Commons from the shadow Education Secretary

on this. That was due at half past ten. If that happens we will cross

to it live. Sean Worth is a former

Special Advisor to David Cameron and previously, head

of the Conservative Chris McGovern is a retired

head teacher and chair of the Campaign for Real Education.

He joins us from Tunbridge Wells. Lucy Powell is a Labour MP

and the former Shadow Education Secretary.

She's in our Salford studio. Sean Worth, what do you think of

this plan? The debate is whether grammar schools do or don't work.

The evidence is clear. They do work. But the big problem is access for

the poorest kids. They have had a divisive effect in the past. If we

do see an expansion of grammar schools, we've very clearly want to

see them targeted in the poorest areas and for the benefit of the

poorest children. Critics say they could be targeted in the poorest

areas and wealthy middle class parents will move into the area,

house prices will shoot up and the very children who are supposed to

get into those grammar schools from poor backgrounds will be priced out?

You cannot ever stop parents from trying to get a good school for

their kids. The key point about getting really good bright kids from

poor backgrounds into decent school, because let's face it, the school

system has failed the poorest families for many years, that is why

there should be more attention on policy-making... The key point is to

look at is the selection process. The test at age 11 is totally

unfair. It has always been. If you want to reform the grammar system,

look at that. Don't think grammars are the answer to improving schools

generally. Do not take your foot off the gas in terms of improving all

schools through the pupil premium, better teaching, higher paid

teachers, more challenging schools. There are a host of policy levers

you can pull off which grammar schools are one. Chris McGovern, can

you make an 11 plus that is tutor proof, so that you genuinely -- you

are genuinely testing the brightest kids? 11 is a very young age. I am

an 11 plus failure. I did pass at 30. There needs to be flexibility

within the system. We have that combines of schools for 50 years. In

the international league tables we are bottom for social mobility but

top for illiteracy and in numerous Eve. The comprehensive system is not

working. We need to teach children in line with their ability. We

totally support grammar schools as long as they are put alongside

higher standard vocational schools. We need bright academic children to

be taught in an academic environment. We need children with

nonacademic skills to have a vocational education. We should be

debated when that happens, had aged 13 or 14 in most countries. It is

nonsense to suggest that grammar schools will be an impediment to

social mobility. It is the comprehensive system which is an

impediment to social mobility because parents buy into the

catchment area of good schools if they have money. Let me bring in

Lucy Powell, former shadow Education Secretary. There are plenty of

working class parents who really would like the opportunity to get

their child into a grammar school because their child is bright

enough. They will welcome this expansion, while they? No. When they

look at the evidence they realise their kids have got very little

chance of getting into these schools. If you look at today's

grammar schools, the 163 you talked about, you are than 3% are on free

school meals in these schools. What if there is a proportion of kids

that had to be on free school meals in the new grammar schools? Why not

start with the existing grammar schools and forced the existing

grammar schools to reform how they operate, so they can prove the model

first. The Conservative government have done nothing to address that

over the last six days. That is why David Willetts, the former Tory

education minister, one of the brains of the Conservative Party,

has been saying over the past couple of days that grammar schools are the

domain or the preserve, if you like, of the privately tutored rich

families. They do nothing at all for social mobility. In fact, they

entrench advantage because they put poorer people at a disadvantage.

That is why the evidence is so incredibly clear. If you look at a

place like Kent, that still has grammar schools and most of its

schools are grammar schools... When you create grammar schools, you

create secondary modern is. The poorest children perform far worse

in Kent than they do in nearby London, which is a comprehensive

system, where they perform much better, because we have put a huge

amount of heavy-duty -- into creating outstanding combines of

schools right across London. Chris McGovern, do you accept that? Not at

all. It is nonsense. Northern Ireland has had the best result in

the UK forever. London is a particular case. There are a lot of

highly motivated immigrant children. The immigrant population raises the

standards. We are the only country in the developed world where the

grandparents outperform grandchildren in literacy and

numeracy. I'm going to interrupt to cross to the House of Commons so we

can hear the urgent question from the shadow Education Secretary.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. As the Prime Minister has said, this government

is committed to building a country that works for everyone. Not just

the privileged few. We believe every person should have the opportunity

to fulfil their potential. No matter what their background or where

they're from. Education is at the heart of this ambition. We inherited

a system from the last Labour government, however, where far too

many children left school without the qualifications or the skills

they needed to be successful in life. And our far-reaching reforms

over the last six years have changed this. Strengthening school

leadership, improving standards of behaviour in our classrooms and

ensuring children are taught to read more effectively. Improving maths

teaching in primary schools. As a result there are now 1.4 million

more pupils in schools rated as good a right standing, than in 2010. This

means more young people are being given the opportunity to access

better teaching and to maximise their potential. This is what we

want for all children and where we are continuing our reforms so every

child can have the best possible start in life. It is why we are

doubling free childcare to 30 hours for working parents of three and

four-year-olds. As I said in July, on the issue of academic selection,

I am open-minded because we cannot rule out anything out of that could

help us grow opportunity for all and give more people the chance to do

well in life. The landscape for schools has changed hugely in the

last ten, 20, 30 years. We now have a whole variety of educational

offers available. There will be no return to the simplistic binary

choice of the past were schools separate children into winners and

losers. We want to build on our success and create a truly 21st

century School system. We need a truly diverse range of

schools and specialisms. We need more good schools in more areas of

the country responding to the needs of every child, regardless of their

background. We are looking at a range of options. We want to help

everybody go as far as they can with the individual talent that they

have. Angela Rayner. Thank you, Mr Speaker, despite that wobble, the

cat is out of the bag. The government has revealed their plans

for grammar schools in England, but not in this house. But through leaks

to the press and at a private meeting of the members opposite. So

much for the one nation government we were promised. Will the Secretary

of State promised today that future such announcements will be made here

so that we can give the policy the scrutiny it so badly needs? Perhaps

she can tell us the evidence base for it today. As she read the ISS

report into grammar schools in England? If so, perhaps she

remembers the conclusion that among high achievers, those who were

eligible for free school meals or live in poorer neighbourhoods are

significantly less likely to go to grammar school. The OECD, the Sutton

trust and even the government's own social mobility czar and their chief

inspector of schools have all cited evidence against this policy. In

Kent where we have grammar schools in the attainment gap is far wider

than elsewhere. Can she tell us what evidence she has to support her

belief that grammar schools would help disadvantaged children and

close the attainment gap? Mr Speaker, at a time when our schools

are facing a crisis in teacher recruitment and retention with

thousands taught in super-sized classes and schools facing real term

cuts to their budget for the first time in nearly two decades, pushing

ahead with grammar schools shows a dangerous misunderstanding of the

real issues facing our schools. Can the Secretary of State tell us what

she will be doing to address the real problems that are facing our

schools today? The Prime Minister has said this policy is justified

because we already have social selection. Quite how making things

worse by bringing back grammar schools is a solution remains a

mystery. Perhaps the Secretary of State can tell us why she is not

ensuring all children get a decent education. This policy will not help

social policy, but it will be the lucky few who can afford the tuition

who will get ahead and the disadvantage will be left behind. A

policy for the few at the expense of the many. I was told the Tories know

the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I do not think they even

know that any more. The Prime Minister promised to lead a one

nation government. She said her policy would be led by the evidence

and she claimed she would govern for the disadvantaged and not the

privileged few, yet this policy fails on every single parent. Angela

Rayner, a very animated Shadow Education Secretary. Before that you

heard from the cob rounds educated Education Secretary Justine

Greening. Thank you for all your comments and thank you to Sean