05/10/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Our top story today - chaos at Ukip as their leader quits

Wonder how former leader Nigel Farage reacted to the news?

Was it like this? Or like this?

Or maybe like this? You get the picture.

Also on the programme, a woman who helped her husband

fake his own death tells this programme she will feel guilt

"for the rest of my life" for lying about it to her two sons.

That guilt will remain with me for the rest of my life and I am just so

grateful that they have allowed me back into their lives and offered me

a second chance. In an in-depth interview Anne Darwin

also tells us she's now happy I'm comfortable in my own skin. I

feel a more confident person. I do enjoy life.

We'll bring you the full interview throughout the programme.

And fears for the boxer Tyson Fury as he says he's taken

"lots of cocaine" over the past six months and hopes someone kills him

We'll get reaction from those who know him.

Throughout the morning we'll bring you the latest news

and developing stories - including the latest from Aleppo

in Syria where 106 children have been killed in the last nine days.

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

The UK Independence Party is facing fresh turmoil after its new leader,

Diane James, announced she was resigning.

Ms James, who was elected less than three weeks ago,

said in a statement she didn't feel she had sufficient support.

Her predecessor, Nigel Farage, stood down after the Brexit vote

in June and has ruled out standing in any future leadership contest.

He also said that Diane James had faced "considerable unpleasantness"

Ladies and gentlemen, it is an absolute pleasure

to announce, with 8,451 votes, the leader of the UK Independence

Less than three weeks ago, Diane James was chosen by Ukip

An MEP from the south-east, she was deemed by many the credible,

stable hand the party needed and she promised change,

speaking of the need for unity after a period of bitter infighting.

Wherever you are in the United Kingdom at the moment,

I ask you, support me, work with me, win with me,

make Ukip the winning machine it will become.

In a statement she says she is stepping outside saying:

Diane James cited professional and personal reasons.

It's thought she is contending with family illness

as well as having suffered some abuse since her election.

Speculation is rife about who will take over.

There will be an emergency meeting of the party's ruling body

to decide the next steps but for now her sudden departure

Speculation is rife about who will take over.

Our Political Correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster.

It is not clear what happens next and I will explain why. First of

all, Nigel Farage told me this morning that he is checking with the

Electoral Commission to find out if he is still leader of the party

because what Diane James should have done was put a form into the

Electoral Commission saying she was leader of the party after her

election, there are rumours she wrote on to that form that she was

doing it under duress. If that's the case Nigel Farage is still

technically leader. However, it doesn't look as if he is willing to

stay on in the job unlike after the general election when he unresigned

within a few days so it is likely we will get fresh elections. We don't

know who the runners and riders are, but Suzanne Evans, who has suspended

from the party, that suspension has been lifted and Steven Woolfe who

was unable to stand last time because he got his nomination papers

in 18 minutes too late, he may well throw his hat in the ring as well.

Lisa Duffy a UK councillor told the BBC this morning that shao he is not

ruling it out. We expect elections in the next couple of months, but

the first thing we have to clarify is whether there will be an interim

leader or whether Nigel Farage will be back on our screens with the

title Ukip leader in evidence? Joanna is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Theresa May will pledge to make

the Conservatives the party for "ordinary working-class people"

in a speech on the final day of The Prime Minister will make clear

she wants to claim the "new centre ground of British politics",

and that Labour has lost the right to represent the interests

of its traditional voters. Our political correspondent

Carole Walker reports Hurricane Matthew has hit Cuba

after leaving a trail of devastation in its wake across Haiti

and the Dominican Republic. A number of people were killed

in the strongest hurricane to hit Our correspondent Nick Bryant

reports from Haiti. Haiti has taken a brutal pounding

from the worst storm to rip through the Caribbean

in almost a decade. Hurricane Matthew has brought

sustained winds of 145mph. This is one of the world's

poorest nations. And many of the country's 11 million

people live in shanty towns that offer little protection

from the high winds and rains. Many refuse to evacuate,

fearing the few possessions This is the main route

into the capital, Port-au-Prince, almost impassible as the floodwaters

began to rise. And the fear is of catastrophic

mudslides in a landscape badly Hurricane Matthew could drop as much

as three-feet of rain and we're seeing evidence of

flash-flooding already. The conditions here are

absolutely atrocious. To step outside is to become

drenched within seconds. But coastal areas along the southern

shoreline, which we've yet been able to reach,

are by far the worst hit. There the floodwaters are said

to be shoulder high. The two American vice-presidential

candidates have clashed over foreign policy,

the economy and Donald Trump's taxes in their first

and only televised debate. The Democratic senator, Tim Kaine,

said he was scared to death by the thought of Donald Trump

as commander-in-chief of US forces. Mr Trump's Republican running-mate,

Mike Pence, said people were right to question the trustworthiness

of Hillary Clinton. We have a tax code, senator, that

actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship... Well, why won't

he release his tax returns. His tax returns show he went through a very

difficult time but he used the tax code the way it is supposed to be

used and he did it brilliantly. He said he would release his tax

returns. When Hillary said, "You haven't been paying taxes. He said,

"That makes me smart. So it is smart not to pay for teachers and I guess

all of us who pay for those things, I guess we're stupid.

The president of the Philippines has renewed his attack

on President Obama over his drugs policy which has resulted

in the killing of thousands of alleged drug dealers in just

Last month Rodrigo Duterte called Obama a "son of a whore",

prompting the White House to cancel a meeting between the two leaders.

Now Mr Duterte has said that Mr Obama could "go to hell",

and that he might end his country's alliance with the US.

A United Nations official in Syria has called for an immediate end

to the bombing of eastern Aleppo by Government and Russian forces.

Kieran Dwyer of Unicef says the types of attacks that

are being carried out using massive explosives

106 children in rebel-held Aleppo have died in the past nine days.

A woman who helped her husband fake his own death has said

she will feel guilt "for the rest of my life" for lying

Ann Darwin hid John Darwin in their Teesside home for several

years after he pretended to go missing on a canoe trip in the North

But their story unravelled and both were sentenced to more

The actor Ben Stiller has revealed he's been successfully treated

The 50-year-old was diagnosed with a tumour in 2014.

Writing about his experience on social media, he says he wants

to share his story to lend support for a screening test that he says

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

We have clips of the interview with Anne Darwin on Facebook. Emily says,

"Other poor me. Bla-bla." Maggie says, "She put greed before her

children. A despicable woman." Lisa, "Surely this woman doesn't want

sympathy." This viewer says, "She knew more than she let on. To lie to

her sons was disgusting." I will be really interested to hear what you

have got to say after you have seen the full interview.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text, you will be charged

He's often in the news isn't he, and often not for good reasons.

He did a interview with Rolling Stone magazine recently

In it he reveals he's taken lots of cocaine, is suffering

from depression, and doesn't want to live anymore.

Earlier this week, people close to Fury told of how worried

He pulled out of a world heavyweight rematch with Vladimir Klitschko

for a second time recently, saying he was suffering

He has a anti-doping hearing next month for an alleged drugs

Here's what he had to say to Rolling Stone.

I should add that Fury also says he stopped all drug and alcohol use

And wants to be left alone to deal with his demons.

So it seems unlikely Victoria that we'll see him

Maria Sharapova, the ban for doping has been cut. There has been a mixed

response, hasn't there? Essentially this

is a tennis player - one of the best tennis

players in the world - found guilty of taking

a banned substance and although she had her ban

reduced from 24 months to 15, But her racquet sponsors Head

were quick to release a statement of congratulations for Sharapova

saying "justice has been served" They added that they were "proud"

to have stuck by Sharapova and even called for a "wholesale

comprehensive review" Some people weren't happy

about that, certainly not on social media, feeling that Head

were supporting a drugs cheat. Remember that Nike and Porsche

suspended their relationships with Sharapova when news

of her failed drugs test came to light, but Head taking

a very different response. And Wayne Rooney and comments about

Sam Allardyce. He's basically defended himself

against claims made by the former Rooney came in for a bit of stick

after an unimpressive performance in England's 1-0 win over

Slovakia last month. Allardyce claimed Rooney had

played where he wanted. Rooney has now said actually,

I played exactly where I was asked. Rooney told the media that Allardyce

knew he had made a mistake and that Allardyce had even apologised

to him on the plane home. Rooney goes on to say

he was "slaughtered" by the press and fans

but he thought his performance Interesting to get such candid

comments from the England captain. We will have more on that at 10am.

The headlines at 9.30am. "The guilt will remain with me

for the rest of my life" - that's how Anne Darwin

describes her decision to make her sons believe their father

John Darwin had died Speaking to this programme,

Anne Darwin says that going along with her husband's decision

to fake his own death in order to claim insurance money

was like "getting on a roller-coaster ride

that she couldn't get off". They were both eventually caught

five years later and sentenced Take the North Sea, a canoe

and a death certificate. The conclusion, under normal

circumstances, the tragic death But this case is

anything but normal. In reality, John Darwin,

saddled with debts, had faked his own death

as part of a ?250,000 fraud. In 2002, he took his canoe down

to the water near where he lived with his wife, Anne Darwin,

and paddled out to sea. He left his canoe in the water

and came back to shore, arranging for his wife to dispose

of his wet clothes in a skip A body, of course, was never found,

but in 2003, a coroner announced Of course, he was alive and well,

living in a vacant bedsit at the side of the family home,

accessed via a secret entrance I didn't think I would be caught

for the simple reason that I would change my

appearance dramatically. I had a stick, I had

a limp, I had a stoop. Whenever the couple's sons came

to visit their mother, he would make His wife, Anne Darwin,

has always described this as the most difficult part

of the ruse. John Darwin was, however,

spotted from time to time. Some neighbours didn't quite piece

together the truth. Now, when I look back now,

yeah, I actually saw him, where he was, especially

when he said where he The couple's ultimate

aim was to move abroad. John Darwin would use the identity

of a dead baby, born around the same time as him to acquire a fake

passport and move to Panama, buying a house with Anne Darwin

using the money from the scam. The problem however

was that the Panama government decided to have a crackdown on visas

for immigrants and that meant it would be impossible for John Darwin

to stay under his fake identity. He decided to return home

and pretend he had amnesia, reporting himself to

the police in London. His wife, Anne Darwin,

feigned shock and surprise. John Darwin very well might have

been suffering amnesia Then the media picked

up on the story. Publishing a photo of

the couple from 2006, The couple were

arrested and charged. John Darwin was sentenced

to six years and three months and Anne Darwin

six and a half years. She had pleaded not guilty, using

the defence of marital coercion, While in prison, she ended her

marriage with John Darwin over the phone and work

hard at rebuilding her In an in-depth interview she tells

us that she never thought She says she's not a good liar and

that she is now happy her life. We'll play you that interview in two

parts over the programme - here she starts by telling us why

she's speaking out now. I think I have just reached a point

in my life where I want to finally put this whole episode behind me,

and I want to start looking What do you think about your former

husband, John Darwin, now? I have no feelings

toward him whatsoever. Completely zero,

nothing, no emotion? He obviously has embarked

on a new life in the Philippines with his new wife and that is fine,

that is his new life and I am not part of it and I am happy I am

living the life I lead now When your husband first

talked about this plan of somehow faking his death,

what do you recall about those I was absolutely shocked that he

would even contemplate such a thing. I begged of him to declare

bankruptcy and he just wouldn't hear of it and it

didn't matter what I said, or how many times I said it,

he was just having none of it. He said he couldn't live

with the shame of bankruptcy, but instead we had to live with

the shame of a criminal record now. And why, because you owned various

properties you are renting out? We did, but they were all grouped

together in one mortgage. We started out buying one house

to let and that was as a replacement pension fund for myself,

because I hadn't paid I was quite happy to go along

with that, but then John just wanted more and more, until eventually

we had something like 12 properties. But he wasn't able to finance them

properly and it was just a nightmare So this idea of pretending that he'd

died so you could claim the life insurance and mortgage

company pay-outs, you said you were shocked initially,

but the conversation didn't just happen one day and the next day

he paddles out in a canoe, It was weeks, I think,

when he suggested faking his death. Initially he contemplated

crashing his car but then thought he could either injure himself badly

or indeed kill himself and he didn't He did watch the weather and just

sprung it on me the day before that it will be ideal weather

conditions tomorrow to put this At this point you are

saying what to him? I am still saying don't do it,

please don't do it, He always said it will all be over

in a couple of weeks. It will only take two weeks and then

I will be able to come back Neither of us envisaged that it

would be as prolonged as it was. I certainly didn't expect

it to go on for years. Once you get on that roller coaster,

it is difficult to get out. What is the roller-coaster that

means you can't get off when you are going to have

to pretend that he is dead and you're going to lie to your sons

who are then going to be grieving? That is easy to get off that

roller-coaster, isn't it? It wasn't, because John had always

been the controlling partner. He'd always made all of

the decisions in life, particularly I always felt he was better equipped

to deal with those things from the early days in our marriage,

and I just got into a habit Because he was adamant that it

would be over in a short time, I just got swept along with it,

and I just didn't have the courage Talk us through the morning

when John Darwin is going off It was an awful, surreal,

strange moment to be living. How I got through

the day, I don't know. It was just going through

the motions and at one point in the afternoon

there was a phone call from him and I thought he has seen sense

at last, he went through with it, but his phone call was asking me

to get home sooner, if I could, to take him on to his journey,

where he could travel I was just a complete wreck and then

I had to meet him at the rendezvous point and again I said do you really

want to go through with this, He said I have not gone

through all of this, we have not got to this point

to turn back, I'm going through with it

and I need your help. It was you who had to ring

the police, I thought I am here and I am doing

this and I just don't want to do it but all the time I had his voice

in my head saying you have to do it, you have to do it,

I need you to do this. Then that launched the lifeboats

going out and a search party which went on for a number of hours,

and all the time you knew Yes, and I feel dreadful

that I did that. It is something that is quite

unforgivable, to have endangered I would like to say sorry

to the RNLI for doing that. This is one of the reasons I want

them to benefit from the book. I am not allowed to profit

from the book because I would end up back in prison, and having

experienced that once in my lifetime I certainly don't want

to experience it a second time. Tell us what it was like telling

your sons the news that their dad was missing, feared

dead, when he wasn't. Fortunately I didn't have

to do that in person. Nonetheless, that guilt will remain

with me for the rest of my life and I am just so grateful

that they have allowed me back into their lives and offered

me a second chance. For most people it is unimaginable

that this massive lie you have to carry it on to your children,

who you love dearly, you have to go through

a funeral, you have Tell us about your husband coming

back to the family home and hiding, effectively, next door

whenever your sons came round or anybody knocked

on the door, how he was having keep It was two quite large houses

and there were connecting doors on each floor,

so if we heard a car approaching on the gravel drive,

or it was a knock on the window, or a knock at the door,

I would go to the window to see who was there,

who was approaching, and we would then decide

whether he had to make an escape into his bedsit next door,

or whether he could remain In fact, as time went on,

John Darwin got more and more confident and would be out

and about in disguise, but one of his former

colleagues thought he The police telephoned one day

and said it had been reported by someone that John had been

in the area and they asked me had I seen him, and I said no,

I hadn't and it wasn't until much later it had been a former

colleague of John's. Then, the plan to go

to Panama, he had looked at various other places,

but it ended up being Panama. Because he had always been that

controlling influence in my life. I couldn't envisage

life without him. At what point did John Darwin

say and why did he say, I am going to go back to England

and say I have had an easier and here I am alive

and everything will be all right? He had known for a while that

the visa rules in Panama were not He felt it was too

big a risk to stay... Because he was

on a fake passport So he wanted to come back

to England, re-establish himself as John Darwin and then hopefully go

and return back to Panama. It was in Panama that the now

infamous photograph was taken of yourself and your husband

and a property agent which led, When that photograph

was being taken, did you think that was a risk,

that was potentially careless? My biggest fear was that the boys

would see the photograph if it should be posted on an internal site

somewhere, but we were just led to think that it would go

on to the wall of the property agent I tried to put all thoughts of that

to the back of my mind. Because he thought he got away

with faking the death, he thought he could get away

with just turning up in a police station one day and saying he had

had amnesia for a number of years? Well, he came across to me

as believing that the police would just more for less

accept what he was saying. I thought they really

would see through it. But actually, the police

did take his story They contacted your sons,

who were completely overwhelmed and a huge mass of emotion

because they had grieved, but then this amazing feeling of elation,

but then confusion and bewilderment and lots of questions

and so on and so forth and you had to pretend when you got a phone call

from one of your sons that you were shocked that

suddenly your husband had turned up, having forgotten his memory

apparently, Again, that phone call

was so full of emotion but it was relief on my part knowing

that they once again knew I had all those feelings of guilt

and regret and it was just a very Then it unravelled, because that

photograph of you and your husband and the property agent had been

found on the internet because your names were in the press

again because John Darwin had turned up and that was sent to a journalist

and that journalist travelled That was the beginning

of the next stage, yes. Lynn says, "I worked with Anne

Darwin. She cried every day and fooled us all." Another viewer says,

"People make mistakes when they are desperate. It is easy to get into.

Not so uneasy to unravel and easy for others to judge. Annie says,

"Anne Darwin is only sad that she was caught." This from Denise, "I

knew Anne Darwin and her husband John many years before she committed

this crime, no matter how despicable people think she is, I can accept

completely that she was under the complete control of her husband and

did not have the confidence to refuse to do what he demanded of

her. What she says about him is true."

And after 10am we'll hear more from Anne Darwin.

She'll talk about her relationship with her sons and her

Her book "out of my depth" is out now.

And of course we didn't pay Anne Darwin for her interview with us.

With the airstrikes and violence in Aleppo increasing

over recent weeks - the impact on children

has been devastating - Over one hundred have been killed

We will speak to those trying to help them.

Boxer Tyson Fury says taking cocaine and getting drunk out of his mind

are the only ways he can cope with his manic depression.

He says he hopes someone kills him before he kills himself.

We'll get reaction from those who know him.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The leader of Ukip Diane James has resigned just 18 days

She cited personal and professional reasons for her resignation,

saying she didn't feel she had sufficient authority.

Her predecessor, Nigel Farage, has said he doesn't want

Theresa May will pledge to make the Conservatives the party

for "ordinary working-class people" in a speech

on the final day of the Tory conference in Birmingham.

The Prime Minister is expected to criticise MPs who view patriotism as

distasteful. in its wake across Haiti

and the Dominican Republic. Hurricane Matthew has hit Cuba

after leaving a trail of devastation in its wake across Haiti

and the Dominican Republic. A number of people were killed

in the strongest hurricane to hit 145mph winds destroyed

houses, left roads blocked Preparations are beginning

in some US states for The two American vice-presidential

candidates have clashed over foreign policy,

the economy and Donald Trump's taxes in their first

and only televised debate. The Democratic senator, Tim Kaine,

said he was scared to death at the thought of Donald Trump

being in charge of US forces. Mr Trump's Republican running-mate,

Mike Pence, said people were right to question the trustworthiness

of Hillary Clinton. A woman who helped her husband

fake his own death has told this programme that she will feel guilty

for the rest of her life for lying Anne Darwin hid John Darwin

in their Teesside home for several years, after he pretended to go

missing on a canoe trip in the North But their story unravelled and both

were sentenced to more I have no feelings towards him

whatsoever. Completely zero, nothing? Completely, zero. No

emotion whatsoever. He has embarked on a new life in the Philippines

with his new wife and that's his life and I'm not part of it and I'm

happy that I'm living the life that I lead now as an Independent person.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Thank you for your comments about Ukip. This text from Mark says, "I

am a Ukip member. There is no turmoil for the party. There won't

be a general election until 2020 and we will have a new leader soon, so

where is the turmoil. PS, I wish Diane James well." Michael says,

"Not long after she was voted leader Diane James was accosted, spat and

abused by a left-wing activist. You have been reporting on stories where

Labour MPs especially women have been abused by left-wing activists,

why not this one? Is it because it is Ukip?" After 10am, we will talk

to Nigel Farage as well. Could he return as leader? Despite

protestations from him that he won't?

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has admitted to taking

"lots of cocaine" and wanting to kill himself.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Fury said he was suffering

from depression and wanted to be left alone to deal with his demons.

Some comments from Wayne Rooney this morning. He says former manager Sam

Allardyce knew he made a mistake when he said that Rooney played

wherever he wanted against Slovakia. Maria Sharapova still doesn't

believe that meldonium has any performance enhancing qualities. She

said in Russia, where she is from, the drug is taken like aspirin.

British number one Johanna Konta is through to the third

round of the China Open in Beijing after a straight sets win over

Victory too for Kyle Edmund in the men's singles.

Sorry I had a few issues with pictures. We'll get that right at

10am. Theresa May will say today she wants

the Conservatives the party to be She will be making a speech

on the final day of the Tory Our political guru,

Norman Smith, is there. And I think, where is he?

There he is! Phew, you are there Norman!

LAUGHTER I'm on the balcony, don't worry.

They are loving their new Prime Minister, aren't they? They are.

Today, Vic is May Day when we get the Prime Minister's big pitch and

we're told it will be about building a new centre ground in British

politics. Of course, I have to say, pretty much all party leaders tend

to talk that sort of language, you think Tony Blair talked about

famously Mondeo man and Gordon Brown had his hard-pressed working

families, David Cameron, I think, had a squeezed middle. What we get

from Theresa May today is those who are just getting by. People who have

got a job, got a house, but they are still struggling. They are still

maybe they have got to take two jobs. They are finding life hard.

Those are the sort of people Theresa May is trying to appeal to, but

let's listen how she cat gor rises those just getting by people? If

you're from an ordinary working class, life is harder than most

people in Westminster realise. You have a job, but you don't always

have job security. You have your own home, but you worry about paying the

mortgage. You can just about manage, but you worry about the cost of

living and getting your kids into a good school. If you're one of those

families, if you're just managing, I want to address you directly. I know

you're working around the clock, I know you're doing your best and I

know that sometimes life can be a struggle. The Government I lead will

be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours. We

will do everything we can to give you more control over your lives.

When we take the big calls, we'll think not of the powerful, but you.

When we pass new laws, we'll listen not to the mighty, but to you. When

it comes to taxes, we'll prioritise, not the wealthy, but you. When it

comes to opportunity, we won't entrench at the advantages of the

fortunate few, we will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever

your background, to go as far as as your talents will take you.

So, what is Mrs May going to do for those who are just getting by? Well,

she will point to grammar schools because she believes grammar schools

can be an engine of social mobility. They can help ordinary working class

kids to get on, to get good jobs. She has pointed out that she and

Jeremy Corbyn both went to grammar schools and wouldn't have got where

they are today if they hadn't gone to grammar schools. And she'll talk

about housing and she'll point to the fact that her Government, she

says, is going to borrow money to lend to small developers to build

more affordable homes. She'll talk about using more land which is owned

by the State for developers to build homes on. To make more affordable

housing available to people who are just getting by and lastly, she is

going to talk about jobs and she'll say there will be new obligations on

companies to recruit and train and offer apprenticeships to more

British workers. There will be new tests that companies have to face

before they can simply go abroad and recruit people from abroad before

looking at the sort of available labour in the UK. But you have to

say Vic, the big hulking elephant sitting in the living room is, of

course, Brexit! And again and again Europe has been the issue which has

devoured previous Tory leaders, think of David Cameron, the man who

offered that referendum, he seemed pretty confident he was going to win

it. He launched Project Fear and the rest is history. He was out of a job

the next morning. Think of John Major, he called his Cabinet

colleagues names for plotting against him over Europe and there

were constant rebellions and revolts against him during his premiership

because Tory MPs didn't believe he was tough enough on Europe and Mrs

Thatcher, the woman who said, no, no, no Europe, even in the end, she

too was forced to step down because of that crunch issue of Europe and

Theresa May will know those tensions still exist. Well, let's mull over

some of that with two Tory members who have come to this conference,

Carol and Hugo. Carol, Europe is the issue which divided your party for

so long, the question is can Theresa May put it back together again over

Brexit? I believe so. I'm confident she will. I really hope today that I

will hear she will. I'm a recent Conservative member and a reluctant

leaver. You want to know exactly how leaving and Brexit is going to

impact on small businesses, normal people, people in surburbia, I want

to know how she is going to help guide us through that, that's what I

want to hear today. Hugo, you will know, looking at the history of the

Tory Party, every Tory leader seems in the end to have been devoured by

Europe. Is history about to repeat itself? I don't think so, Norman,

no, if you look at David Cameron, the economy figures are quite strong

at the moment and history will look back at David Cameron as the man who

gave us a referendum on Europe and history will thank him for doing

because eventually everyone will thank us for leaving. Theresa May is

off to a flying start. The at moss fore in the conference is

acceptance. The remainers accepted the result. We want to know what the

world is going to hold for us after Brexit. Theresa May is a mystery in

many ways. She has barned politics a long time, but a lot of people think

she is a bit of an enigma, what does she have to do and she has to tell

us about herself? I think she does. I wasn't a member of the Bullingdon

club, I struggled to relate to the Cameron-Osborne era, but Theresa May

maybe I can relate to her more. I want to back her. I want to hear

more about how normal she is. And Hugo, I mean when people try to

identify who Mrs May is, you get the sense that she is not really a very

sort of idea sort of person. You almost feel she is more of a

pragmatist when it comes to politics, she doesn't have a core

set of beliefs, she tries to handle issues and problems as they crop up?

Well, we do see a different style of leadership to David Cameron. David

Cameron was more of a thinker, I think Theresa May is more of an

actions person. And I think that's a good thing. I think it is a good

thing to shape up a bit differently, but I'm looking forward to hearing

what she has to say because I think that this will divine her

premiership. Let's talk immigration, are you

happy with what the parties propose -- what the party is proposing?

Immigration isn't a big issue for me, personally. I voted Leave in the

end because of the democratic deficit. I think immigration has a

huge part to play in Brexit. I would like to see we're looking towards a

world, rather than just focusing on Europe. I think it's a balance that

can be struck and I really hope the party can, the government can strike

that balance. Your thoughts? I don't want to see too much bureaucracy

placed on immigration. I was opposed to free movement of people in

general, but you should be able to go to a country and accept a job,

particularly a high skilled job that country needs. I don't want to see

too much red tape put on the system. There we go, thank you for your

time. I think it is fair to say that although Theresa May has quite

successfully managed to contain the issue of Brexit at this conference,

there has been a lot of big policy announcements, it has gone to plan

for team May, my feeling is when it gets back to Westminster it will be

game on when it comes to Brexit and difficult to keep a lid on how on

earth we get out of the European Union. Thank you very much, Norman.

Theresa May's speech live later on BBC News today.

The world's most awarded and iconic club closes its doors

And after ten o'clock we will talk to a former leader of Ukip, he's

done it a couple of times... Nigel Farage, about whether that party is

in turmoil or not after Diane James, the recently elected leader,

resigned after 18 days. A United Nations official in Syria

is calling for an immediate end to the bombing of eastern Aleppo

by Government and Russian forces. Kieran Dwyer of Unicef says

there have been blatant 106 children in rebel-held

Aleppo have been killed in the past nine days,

and as our Special Correspondent Fergal Keane reports,

many more have been injured. A warning his report contains

some distressing images Russian and Syrian government bombs

fall on rebel held eastern Aleppo. Abu Al-Zayat, seven,

has shrapnel lodged near his spine. We can speak now to Fira Al Khateeb,

spokesperson for the UN refugee And Sonia Khush, Syria Director

for Save the Children. She is in Antakya, the Turkish city

bordering Syria which is only a few It is absolutely grim for every

family, Fira, particularly in the east of Aleppo, but for those

families and children being killed, it is horrific? Yes, this is because

of ongoing conflict. Ever since this crisis started. This has really been

the main obstacle stopping us from delivering aid, the ongoing

conflict. And now we are witnessing both sides of the city in Aleppo

have no electricity or freshwater supplies and they are in dire need.

Were missed the last time you did get access to Aleppo with aid?

Aleppo, we operate in Aleppo and we have an office that receives

products. It's been very disrupted and we have not been able to get

through. The only time that we were able to do so in a smooth and

ongoing manner with during the cessation of hostilities, that

started earlier this year in February. We were able to reach over

one point million civilians in besieged towns. Sonia Khush from

Save The Children, you are there Syria director. The Syrian president

doesn't care that kids are being killed, the Russians don't care they

are killing kids, so I don't know how you stop this? Yes, it's really

tragic to see there's been such a discriminant bombing of civilian

areas. If they are bombing apartment buildings and schools and hospitals,

surely they know that civilians make up the majority of people in those

areas. Children just an safe anywhere in Aleppo right now. With

this buster bombs, they are now hitting schools. There is no safe

place to be a child in Aleppo now. For those who are severely injured,

some of those bombs are also hitting hospitals? That's true. One of the

main hospitals in Aleppo is completely out of service as of this

week. There are very few remaining field hospitals. There's no chance

to evacuate into Turkey any more. Options are limited for emergency

health care. What else can anyone do to stop it? What really needs to

happen is the bombardment needs to stop and then needs to be a

ceasefire that nationally works this time, unlike the last time this was

tried. At this point that's really the main issue. We need the bombing

to stop. We need to get medical supplies back into those field

hospitals to restock them. We need to get some sort of infrastructure

running, schools up and running, so kids have a place to be that say.

Options are running out while the aerial bombardment continues. Thank

you very much to both of you for talking to us. Sonia Khush from Save

The Children and Fira Al Khateeb from the UN refugee aid agency.

Thank you for your e-mails. There was one that said thank you for your

interview with Anne Darwin, does this individual thing she can fall

us with faked his quest much she knew what she was getting into.

Nobody believes she was being controlled by her husband. She

should have served longer in jail for this crime. Don't give her the

pleasure by buying her book, she is a fake like a husband. She said the

proceeds of her book would go to the RNLI and RSPCA, where she now works.

Another view is that I'm shocked the BBC has given this viewer airtime as

if she was a victim. She was just as much a criminal as her husband. It

was pure greed. She could have said no and left him. She was clearly

happy in Panama, spending her ill gotten gains, I'm disgusted. Another

says, and Darwin does seem genuinely sorry for what she did and she is a

very lucky person of her sons can forgive her. I couldn't. Part two of

her interview in the next hour of the programme.

The world's most awarded and iconic club, Space Ibiza,

has closed its doors for forever after 27 years of captivating

It'll be replaced by a new club run by Ushuaia next year.

Here's a film about why it was so good.

Space has always been there, for something of which it's a

discovery within yourself and the music.

It's always been one of these places.

That something magical happens.

Something about being outside on the terrace, you never get

I think what makes it so unique and special is Pepe.

He never really thought I will build a club and make money.

He just thought I'll build a club and make people

So this is what Space has always been about.

It was a match made in heaven based on our ethos and our initial success

based on how people walked away from the club and kept

I've been here for aeons and played too many people over the years.

It was the sun coming up, everybody's out on the terrace,

and the vibe was just, you felt like you

The music would be playing in the afternoon and as

the plane would come screaming down the crowds would just go "Yeah"

and as the plane goes by overhead and the record kicks in, it's just

You see these people that basically couldn't be any younger than their

60s and 70s going for it, the same way 19, 20,

And it's just those moments were the ones that made me

realise how important music is to connect people.

I kind of want to celebrate the spirit of the era of Space.

Space is a worldwide award-winning club and its

everybody's dream to be able to DJ and played music to people there.

If you want to see the film again or share it it is on the BBC News site.

Let's get the latest weather. Carol is with us and that hurricane has

caused some damage. Yes, it has. Let me show you the track of Hurricane

Matthew. You can see how over the next couple of days it goes through

the Bahamas, eastern seaboard of Florida, heading towards Georgia and

the Carolinas. Whether its landfall is open to question, it may do, but

you can see the circles, that is the kind of area where the impacts will

be felt. Currently there is a hurricane warning in force in the

Bahamas, eastern parts of Florida, Miami has a tropical storm warning.

This track could change out to sea or inland. If you have a look at the

rainfall picture, as this hurricane transfers towards the Bahamas, which

is fairly low lying, it's going to have wind speeds of 125 miles an

hour. Those are sustained winds, the gusts will be much more. It will

produce 200-400 millimetres of rain and you can imagine the impact,

flash floods and huge storm surges. As it moves north-westwards, it's

also going to be travelling at six miles an hour, quite slow, which

means the impacts will be felt. It's quite a big beast still to be

reckoned with. We will of course keep you updated on it as they go

through the next few days. Back to the UK, the UK's forecast is

a lot quieter. We have sunny spells today, feeling cooler than it did

yesterday and it's going to feel cooler again by the time we get to

Thursday. High pressure across Scandinavia is

blocking weather fronts coming to our direction but you can see the

flow of the isobars, today the wind coming from the south-east, tomorrow

it will be more easterly. Which will be cooler. Today, after a cloudy

start, the cloud turning over. Some of us already have a lot of

sunshine. More sunshine to come. Breezy as well. If you are in the

cloud and breeze it will feel quite nippy, but out of the cloud and

breeze in the sunshine will feel nice. It should stay dry. In East

Anglia, Essex and Kent this afternoon, blue skies. The same from

the Midlands down to the Isle of Wight, heading towards the

south-west. Here and now there will be bits and pieces of cloud but

nothing that will be rain bearing. A lovely afternoon in Wales through

Cheshire improve Lancashire, Cumbria, the Isle of Man. After a

cloudy start in Northern Ireland, there will be some sunshine this

afternoon. Highs in Belfast of around 15. For Scotland, sunshine

across north-west Scotland. That will carry on through the day. Where

we have cloud across eastern and southern parts of Scotland at the

moment, that will break up. Some will cling to the East Coast. For

north-east England, a chilly feel if you are on the coast without breeze

coming in from the North Sea. As we head through the evening and

overnight, to start with the breeze will be very noticeable. It will

ease a little through the night and slowly we will see more cloud

developed. With that combination means it won't be a particularly

cold night. Most of us staying in double figures, except in rural

areas where it will be a bit lower. Tomorrow, starting off on a cloudy

note, but like today some of that cloud will break up. We will see

sunny spells develop. Still quite breezy and somewhere could see the

odd shower coming from thicker cloud. Showers will be hit and miss

and most of us will miss them. Tomorrow with more of an easterly

flow, it will feel cooler. Add on the fact that temperatures will be

that bit lower at 13-14- 15, you get the picture. A quick look at Friday.

A bit of cloud, some sunshine around, breezy conditions, 102-macro

showers, more in the east, but most of us will miss them again.

Temperatures feeling much more like autumn.

Ukip is looking for a new leader again after the woman who got

the job just over two weeks ago throws in the towel.

Wonder how former leader Nigel Farage reacted to the news?

Was it like this? Or like this? Or maybe like this?

You get the picture. And we'll be asking him that

when he speaks to us live In an in-depth interview

Anne Darwin also tells us she's I had no idea that would happen. I

was shocked when I learned that would be the case.

I wish I could have spared them from that ordeal.

Anne Darwin tells us about the first meeting she had with one of her sons

after she went to jail. His first meeting with him and his wife in

prison is when I found out that I had my first grandchild.

Boxer Tyson Fury says taking cocaine and getting drunk out of his mind

are the only ways he can cope with his manic depression.

And that he hopes someone will kill him before

We'll get reaction from those who know him.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The leader of Ukip, Diane James, has resigned just 18 days

She cited personal and professional reasons for her resignation,

saying she didn't feel she had sufficient authority.

Her predecessor, Nigel Farage, has said he doesn't want

Theresa May will address the Conservative conference later,

saying she wants to position the party on the centre-ground

The Prime Minister is also expected to criticise MPs who view patriotism

as "distasteful" and she'll say that working people will no longer be

ignored by the "powerful and the privileged".

Hurricane Matthew has hit Cuba after leaving a trail of devastation

in its wake across Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

11 people are known to have been killed

in the strongest hurricane to hit the Caribbean in almost a decade.

145mph winds destroyed houses, left roads blocked

Preparations are beginning in some US states for the arrival

The two American vice-presidential candidates have clashed

over foreign policy, the economy and Donald Trump's

taxes in their first and only televised debate.

The Democratic senator, Tim Kaine, said he was scared to death

at the thought of Donald Trump being in charge of US forces.

Mr Trump's Republican running-mate, Mike Pence, said people were right

to question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Some comments about Ukip and the fact that their new leader has

resigned. Phil says, "I want to make a comment. I have been a Labour

voter all my life, but started voting for Ukip a couple of years

ago, but when Nigel Farage left recently I decided not to vote for

them again because I think the party is without nothing as Nigel as its

leader." David on Facebook says, "I will be backing Steven Woolfe, he is

a great guy. He will move our cause forward. I wish Diane well and thank

her for her service." Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live

and If you text, you will be charged World heavyweight champion

Tyson Fury has revealed he's taken lots of cocaine,

is suffering from depression, In a interview with Rolling Stone

magazine, Fury said he was suffering from depression and wanted to be

left alone to deal with his demons. He told them, "Why

shouldn't I take cocaine? He continued, "I'm in a very bad

place at the moment. I don't know if I'm going to see

the year out to be honest." And then, "If I could

take my own life and I wasn't a Christian,

I'd take it in a second. I just hope someone kills me before

I kill myself." Fury also says he stopped all drug

and alcohol use on the first But it seems unlikely that we'll

see him in a boxing ring any time Maria Sharapova has spoken

after her ban for taking the banned drug meldonium was reduced

by nine months. The Russian was yesterday told

she could resume her career next April by the Court

of Arbitration for Sport. But despite being found guilty

of doping, Sharapova still insists that meldonium

is not performance enhancing. No, because I know how common it is.

I know how common it is. I know that it is on the vital and essential

list in Russia which protects along with ibrfen. I can't get my head

around that fact and when I started taking it, I took it under my

doctor's orders and that's why I kept taking it for years.

And finally, an example of how not to repay friendship.

American cyclist Jeremy Santucci was coming to the end

of the Red Hook Criterium race in Milan when his frustration got

the better of him - and he broke his bike in two.

The trouble was - it wasn't his bike but his friend Sergio's who had

I don't think Sergio will be loaning him anymore bikes or anything for

that matter. No, but Sergio will forgive him, I think.

It was a scam so brazen it shocked the world.

In 2002 husband and wife John and Anne Darwin faked John's death,

pretending he'd died in a canoeing accident.

For years the couple lived a lie with John Darwin hiding in half

of the large house they owned, while cashed in on

In 2007, they moved to Panama with Mr Darwin

He returned to the UK that year and walked into a police station,

Mrs Darwin pretended to be shocked at his return but this photograph

of the couple with an estate agent in Panama surfaced later

Now in an in-depth interview Anne Darwin has told this programme

she will feel guilty "for the rest of her life" for lying

In this second part of our interview, she tells

us about the moment she realises journalists had

I was just flabbergasted at the speed in which I was tracked

down to the very apartment in which I was living and I tried

to ignore them for as long as I could but David

He kept knocking and he said he could help me and he painted

a very bleak picture of many more journalists coming to knock

on the door and at that point I was absolutely

terrified of being stuck in there and surrounded

But Anne, you still carried on the lies with him, didn't you?

This was part of the plan, I had to do it.

His voice is still in my head saying this is the next stage.

But you still had a chance in court to plead guilty

The reason for pleading not guilty was because I wanted people

to see that I hadn't gone along with it willingly.

I always knew I would be found guilty.

I didn't expect to get away with it by any means.

You tried to persuade the jury that you did what you did,

you went along with it, because of marital coercion,

that your husband was effectively coercing

I interviewed your husband, John Darwin, your ex-husband,

back in 2011 and he had a slightly different picture

I'm not going into percentages, but it was joint.

At the end of the day, when she sold the properties,

she was in the UK, I was abroad, everything was in her name,

I didn't force her to go over to Panama, for example,

She could have gone off to Australia and just disappeared into thin air.

She wanted to be with me just as much as I wanted to be with her.

But I wanted people to see that I hadn't gone

along with it willingly but I feel that I didn't get that

I was just in that alien environment and mentally and physically

By pleading not guilty, what it meant was that your sons

then ended up testifying against you in court.

I had absolutely no idea that would happen.

I was shocked when I learned that would be the case.

I wish I could have spared them from that ordeal.

From entering prison I had written to them on a regular basis just

saying to them I do love you and I am sorry.

The jury didn't believe your defence that you had been coerced and,

in fact, you were given a longer jail sentence than John Darwin.

Yes, I got six months longer than he did.

Because you had pleaded not guilty, he pleaded guilty.

What, and it is a huge question, what was it like in prison for you?

It wasn't easy. I felt very isolated.

To find yourself in a high security prison at the age of 56,

having led a good life up until that incident was a bit of a nightmare.

I was surrounded by some quite notorious people.

I just felt like I didn't belong there.

Knowing that everyone in prison knew my story made it even harder

and I lost all contact with every member of my family.

It took a few months before I heard from anyone at all.

You wrote several letters to your sons and eventually

Yes, a few months after the trial when I actually got a letter,

But still, a sign that he was acknowledging you.

Getting that letter offered me some hope that perhaps I hadn't

lost them forever, which by this point,

Then it was some months before I heard from him again

and he asked if he could come and see me in prison.

Because this was the first time he was going to ask me

I was waiting for the visit and it was quite a cold greeting,

a difficult visit, but when it came to an end, there was some affection

and I was just greatly relieved and hopeful.

That was effectively the beginning of you trying to rebuild trust

It was quite a few more months after that before I actually

It took him longer, and his first meeting with him

and his wife in prison is when I found out that

Again, that was a very emotional visit.

It was when you were in prison that you decided to end your

Do your sons still have a relationship with him, or do

He felt, Anthony it was, felt that John had shown no

remorse for what he had done, and so he has no contact

He told me that he was really interested in contacting you once

He wanted to carry on with your married life, he wanted

I may have ruined three years, six years, of our life.

Are you trying to turn round and say well, because of what one action,

yes it was a long action, but because of one action,

all of our married life has been a joke, for nothing?

I don't know, I am just saying, I am just wondering.

It is such a huge thing that you did, perhaps it does

Well, perhaps it does, all I was interested in, when I came

I'd wanted to carry on with our married life,

All I really wanted was to sit in front of her when we were both

out, even in a McDonald's or somewhere else,

So, yes, I have ended up putting in divorce papers and yes the court

has found that her behaviour, her behaviour, is unreasonable

for not wanting to try to patch up the marriage or even

Why had you made the decision that that was it then?

I think probably, about half way through my prison sentence,

I had really hit rock bottom and it wasn't until that point where I got

so very badly depressed, and I began to recognise that I needed

Once I'd accepted that help and treatment was given,

then I was able, with the help of a psychologist, to actually look

back over my life, not just those six years,

but go right back to the beginning of my life and just examine

where I had gone wrong, and it was only at that point that

I realised that a lot of it had come about through my lack

I thought, I need to do something about this.

I wasn't happy at the way things had progressed

There had been numerous times when I'd felt perhaps I wasn't

I by no means had an equal partnership with John, and I think

it was only because I had been removed from that situation that

I had the opportunity to really fully explore my feelings,

and from that point on, I began to think about leading

The more time we spent apart, his voice began to fade

in my head and I had room for my own thoughts and ideas.

I decided that that was the best way forward.

I did, as I have explained, go along with it unwillingly.

I felt I was just following the pattern of our marriage.

I'd got into the habit and that was just no way out of it.

As for taking responsibility, yes I have to take responsibility

for my own actions, I can't put 100% of the blame onto John either

I can see that now, but at the time, when you are in that

My life was unbearable and once you get onto that slippery slope,

There will be people watching who will be able to relate not

to the huge fraud that you and your husband carried out,

but will relate to the way you describe feeling trapped

in a marriage and not able to exit it.

For all sorts of reasons, children, money, debt,

This is one of the reasons for writing the book as well,

to give some hope and encouragement to people who can identify with some

Have the courage of your convictions.

If you are not happy in a relationship, don't stay there.

It is possible to lead an independent life and I am quite

I am coming out of it and I have got an independent life.

I am responsible for my own actions, I answer only to myself.

I can take a full role in family life and I have got my job

and I pay my own bills and if I can encourage someone else to do maybe

take that step then I would love to do that.

Indeed, another aspect that I feel I would like to happen is maybe

if by some means I could go into women's prisons

and speak to women prisoners, and I can give them some hope

Do people recognise you in the street?

People often say have we met before, I recognise your face,

But no one has ever actually come up to me and said are you Anne Darwin?

And usually I just pass it off by saying no, I am sorry,

if we had met I think I would remember.

Or I will say to them, have you been into the RSPCA

recently, you might have seen me on the reception desk.

I feel a more confident person and I do enjoy life.

It would be nice to have someone to go home to at the end

Anne's book, Out Of My Depth is out now.

And, of course, we didn't pay Anne Darwin for her

Just when it seemed British politics in 2016 could get through a month

without a leadership crisis, Ukip's new leader, Diane James,

has announced she's quitting after 18 days in the job.

It means her time as leader lasted longer than Britney

Spears' first marriage - 55 hours - but not as long

as Sam Allardyce's reign as England manager -

So how do you think former Ukip leader, Nigel Farage,

who's already un-resigned once before, reacted to the news?

Hello to you, Mr Farage. Welcome to our programme. You had dinner with

Diane James the night before last, so what did she say to you about why

she was going to resign? She obviously had personal problems. I

think that being attacked on Waterloo Station and realising that

her life would mean being surrounded by security and everything else... I

think she recognised it is a 24-7 job, it isn't very much fun and

better, I think, to recognise she'd made a mistake now than to do so in

6-9 months' time. So I'm sorry for her. It's a very difficult thing to

have done. As far as the parties concerned, it's not a great day, but

it's not the end of the world. Can you shed a bit more light on those

personal problems you referred to? I think you will find there is a

problem with health in the family. As I say, I think to be attacked on

the station the way that she was was a shock. And with that came a

realisation that actually, when you take this job, your life finishes.

This is what you are, 24-7, there is nothing else. I think she looked

down the barrel of that and thought, this is not how I want to live my

life. But she would have known, certainly from your own experience,

it's tough being the leader of a political party and it comes with

all sorts of added responsibilities and challenges that you don't have

when you are not a leader? Nobody in life heaven knows what something is

like until they are there and doing it. She has made this decision. It's

been 18 days. It hasn't been very long, but I would rather she has

made that decision now than perhaps made in the middle of next year. So

what we will do is I will continue as the interim leader of Ukip. We

will go through the electoral process again. After all, we are

hardly unique to this. Labour have had two leadership elections in the

space of a year. Many think this morning that Ukip without a leader

is more electable than Labour with one. You are the interim leader

until fresh elections? Yes, I keep trying to escape, I keep getting

over the wall and running for the hills but before I'm finally free,

they dragged me back! I will continue as the interim leader until

we complete this process. There are rumours that your ruling governing

body is going to put Neil Hamilton in as interim leader. They are going

to install Mr Hamilton as interim leader? Really? We will have to see

about that, won't we? I find that extremely unlikely. I do not see any

prospect of that horror story coming to pass. Why would that be a horror

story, he's the leader of Ukip in the Welsh Assembly? I'm afraid he

is. Why would it be a horror story? Because I'm afraid he doesn't do

what our public image a whole host of good. But there we go, that's

life. We are at the Democratic party and he was chosen by the people to

become a member of the Welsh Assembly for us. I don't think it's

done is a lot of good, but that's life. I'm interested. You said you

are interim leader. There is this suggestion the ruling governing body

will put its own interim leader in. Who has the initiative here? I've

spoken to the electoral commission this morning. I'm technical still

leader of the party as Diane James's forms didn't get processed, so I

will continue as interim leader. Irrespective of what your ruling

governing body wants to do... You don't know that either. This is wild

speculation, isn't it? Which is why I was putting it to you, to see what

your take was. Steven Woolfe was one of the favourites last time. He was

banned from taking part last time. Will he win it next time? Is he your

favoured candidate? Last time I didn't publicly back any of the

candidates, and it's not my intention at this stage to back any

of them this time round. I don't know if Steven Woolfe. And not, I

would be surprised, frankly, if he doesn't. There are people saying

this is the demise of Ukip, really. You've gone, OK your back as an

interim, as long as you mean that this time. You've successfully

persuaded the government to give a referendum which you won. There is

no need for Ukip any more? There are millions of people out there who

voted Ukip and through doing so had seen a dramatic change in British

politics. A lot of those people want to go on voting for Ukip. Labour has

now put itself in a position where it is so far away from those voters,

particular in the Midlands, the North and Wales, who voted for

Brexit, that I think actually Ukip can harvest a lot more votes from

them. Theresa May's government, it all sounds terrific, doesn't it? But

will she actually deliver? And if Brexit doesn't mean Brexit and we

don't get our passports back and we don't get our fishing waters back,

come the next general election Ukip will be bigger than it's been

before. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you. Nigel Farage who is the

interim leader of Ukip and they have fresh elections.

We can speak now to two other potential leadership contenders.

Good morning to you. Good morning. First of all your reaction to the

fact that Diane James stepped down one because somebody would appear to

not be very well in her family and two because of somebody spitting at

her not that long ago when she had become leader? Well, it is a huge

disappointment for the party. Not only did we have the shock of Nigel

resigning on the Monday morning, now we have this other shock of Diane

resigning as well. I mean, it put our party back I would say several

months now so I can't see we will be up and running with regard to fresh

policies and with regard to a vigorous approach to planning the

2017 local elections until the end of this year or the beginning of

next year so it is a huge disappointment to us. Peter, Diane

James didn't take part in any hustings, didn't, there weren't many

interviews when she put her candidacy forward, I wonder if she

had gone through that process and the questioning from the likes of

terrible journalist that she would have realised it wasn't a job she

didn't want? Diane took the decision not to do the debates and hustings,

it didn't do her any harm when it came to the actual leadership

election. Think the point is this really - things are very

hypothetical when you want to maybe become leader, it is still

hypothetical even if you are on the frontline of politics, but when you

take over as Nigel said, it becomes a different story altogether. Not

long ago xhoum was going to stand to be leader of the Labour Party, this

wasn't long ago and then he withdrew after two or three days because the

level of pressure on his family and all the rest of it was just too

much. And what happens therefore, is that people have different

thresholds of what they can take and I think that really in a way, credit

where credit is due, Diane went sooner rather than later and I think

that you know, the fact is I don't think really that the party has been

put back because this will be forgotten about by next year, we

will have a new leader and we are 16% in the polls, we are setting the

whole political agenda at the Tory Party conference at the moment, we

have an absolute point. We have a bigger point than ever in fact. When

does your ruling governing body meet next to discuss this turmoil? We

will behaving a meeting on 17th October when we will be discussing

the issue of interim leader. I only heard today coming into the studio

that Nigel Farage is now positioned as the interim leader and has had

information from the Electoral Commission about that. Clearly, we

will be discussing that at length. When I say the party has been put

back, it has really, because we were hoping to be up and running, to be

organising for the local elections and this resignation stalled that

process. You will throw your hat into the ring? I may well do. Are

you prepared for what Diane James hasn't been prepared for? God, yes,

I have been through a lot of this before. I have contested 11

elections for Ukip. Sure. Nigel Farage says unless you're doing it,

it is only then when you realise? It is a 24/7 responsibility, but if

you're from a professional background then I'm sure, well, I

wouldn't say it is easy, but it is a predictable state of stresses that

you will be experiencing. And you're going to throw your hat into the

ring, are you? I'm thinking about it. But this is not the point really

at the moment. What we've got to do is look at the extraordinary talent

that we have in the frontbench if you like of our party. Have a proper

discussion over the next few weeks, do all the hustings and then emerge

with someone that we know and that we have questioned. That's really

what we should do. But I must emphasise again that, we are not

going anywhere soon. Ukip is here to stay absolutely. And all parties

have setbacks, I don't accept that this is really a setback. It is

better to get it out of the way now than having it had spun on for god

knows how long. OK. Thank you very much.

Thank you. A couple of comments, Tina says, "As a Ukip member, I'm

saddened, but BBC please don't blow it out of proportion. There were

other reasons for Diane James' resignation, including being shaken

by an attack on Waterloo station and her husband's health." Eric tweets,

"There is no getting rid of Nigel" Dara says if Nigel Farage wants to

escape from the leadership, he could borrow John Darwin's canoe."

As the London Film Festival kicks off celebrating

black talent in cinema, we'll ask its director

Also coming up, Tyson Fury admits having taken "lots of cocaine"

We'll talk to his former trainer about whether the heavyweight

champion can get his career back on track.

But more importantly his health actually.

Are flexible working arrangements only for the well off?

New research shows that if you're a low earner you're far less likely

to be given flexible working arrangements, which can include

things like working from home or working part time.

Parents who earn more than ?70,000 a year are nearly

50% more likely to work flexibly than those earning

We can speak now to Gaenor Bagley who is a mum of three and senior

partner at a city firm who has flexible working arrangements.

Bill Stringer, whose small investment company has seen

the benefit of flexible workers, and Juliet Turnbull who owns

a recruitment company targeted specifically at mums wanting

And in our Salford studio is Kellie Siommons who

quit her teaching job because she was refused flexible

Hello all of you. Kellie, you were a deputy head and you asked for

flexible working after your second child. What hours did you want to

work? I wanted to work between 9.30am and 2.20pm so I could take my

children to cycle and pick them up myself rather than relying on

breakfast and after school clubs and I do the rest of my workload from

home because my job wasn't a face-to-face role the majority of

the time. So when they turned that down, what was your response? My

response was initially I went back to work on the arrangement that they

did put in place for me. It was always a temporary arrangement and

when we had the discussion about how we move forward after the temporary

arrangement ended, I decided then this it wasn't for me. I to make a

choice between seeing my children grow up or having that career. So I

chose to walk away from my job so I could see my children grow up. OK,

do you think they did anything wrong or actually when you are a deputy

head you have to be there during school hours? I think that yes, in

one respect, but there were people under me who could do the majority

of the day-to-day management of that situation. So I think that, yeah,

from a business prospective I do believe they had to think about what

works best for the business, but from an individual prospective, I do

think I could have done that role in the proposal I put forward. Fair

enough. So you are a partner, a former Executive Board member at a

big multinational firm. It is well paid of the it is high pressured, it

is a lot of responsibility. How is it possible to do that in four days

a week? I think you have to be organised and very clear about your

boundaries. In a being more senior means you have more control about

the shape of your job and you have a team underneath you, but you have

responsibilities about that to be a clear role model and make it work,

but for me, it is about really setting boundaries and being

flexible both ways. I need to do this. But I will be flexible and

come in and do other things. Do you think there is truth to this

research today which suggests if you are in higher paid work, you have

more control, you are more likely to get flexible working if you request

it? Well, there seems to be evidence that's the case. Two reasons,

probably you are more senior and the firm has invested in, there is more

trust, but if you think that true, why do you only trust people that

you have known for ten years. We have got to re-think how we approach

the world of work. So many people need to work flexibly and we can't

count them out of the workforce. Do you think there is a pool of mums

who want to work, but raise their children at the same time? Yes, it

is huge. Is it? I have got them on my website and they are registering

24 hours a day. All across the country and even abroad. And you're

trying to match them up with employers who are happy to offer

flexible working? Our mission is really, really simple. We are there

to match and connect employers from large organisations through to small

businesses across the UK, who get the value of employing this mother

on a part-time flexible basis. Bill, you are a boss who gets that?

Absolutely. You just employed two mums through Juliette's company.

What sort of jobs and what salaries? We have hired a group marketing

manager, Suzy, we didn't need a full-timer, we run a portfolio of

small businesses. And we, in a small business, you have to have the best

talent and it is hard to find and what I recognised through Juliette's

website is there is a huge pool of what TA Talent out there that can't

seem to access the workplace and great for us because we have been

able to and there is Karen my assistant, again, she is able to

work flexibly and I can be very flexible too. By that, you mean the

hours she works or the fact that sometimes she is at home to do work

or what does that mean? Both Suzy and Karen work from home, but we

communicate daily and we meet weekly. So communication is very

important. Let's have a look at your own company. What is it about or

your working life actually, sometimes bosses are just not happy

with people working from home. They can't let go slash trust that

employee. I think it is dealing with change, isn't it? You're challenging

the status quo. Somebody like me is saying, "I'm going to work in a

different way from you." You have to get over that puzzlement, confusion,

I don't understand how this is going to work. I always say to people, in

order for our people to trust us, we have to trust them. Work is

something you do, it is in the a place you go to. Juliette then, this

hidden untapped pool of mums are probably watching our programme

right now. If they want to go back to work, how do they get in touch

with you? It is www. Www.e 2 to 3 days.com and they complete their

profile which they can do in a matter of minutes and then there are

jobs on our site. We're growing by the day from large corporations

through to microbusinesses who get the value. Bill, what would you say

to bosses who might be looking at you thinking you're being taken for

a ride here, mate? I've Karen and Suzy have been with the business for

sometime now. And the results are fantastic and the next time we have

an opportunity, I'm straight on to Juliette.

Thank you very much all of you, thank you. Thanks, Kellie.

The film industry has come under fire recently

The Oscars have been fiercely criticised over the past two years

for a lack of black nominees, with some actors and directors

Idris Elba sums up the situation well when he says,

"Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn't".

Star Wars Rogue One actor Riz Ahmed says, "the industry is too reluctant

Another young upcoming actress told the BBC earlier this year she's

tired of being cast always as a slave.

Daniel Radcliffe, who now also has a vote

in the awarding of some Oscars, told me a few weeks ago he thought

Yeah, I think it's pretty undeniable.

I mean, that's the thing, we like to think of ourselves

as being, you know, a very, very progressive industry.

But we sort of have been lagging behind in all

kinds of areas that have been very well-documented.

I think there is lots of things about the Oscars,

there's lots of amazing performances every year that don't get recognised

and it can be for things like they were released

I don't know a huge amount about it but I understand there is a

real campaign structure that you have to go

through if you are going to get one of those things.

I feel like there is a lot of kind of unseen about

Do you feel that by being able to vote you can make a difference?

Yeah, I can make a tiny difference. Absolutely, yeah.

I do think now that these conversations have come up it's

going to, you know, things are going to start changing.

I'm starting to see it in scripts I read, actually

particularly for female characters because you are just seeing people

actually trying to make more of an effort.

But this year's London Film Festival, which starts today,

Organisers say this year's theme is called Black Star.

Our entertainment reporter Chi Chi Izundu is here.

Black star is going to be celebrating black stars celebrating

films throughout history and recent ones. The talent that we have in

this country and in the States. How much of the problem is that,

this lack of diversity? Report came out last month saying diversity

across-the-board weather about your colour, gender or sexual bias, is

still a massive problem. 17 out of the 100 top grossing films didn't

feature a black actor at all that is a problem, out of the nearly 4500

speaking parts, only less than 32% went to a woman in a Hollywood film.

Another one is Tim Burton's his latest film has come under fire

because it didn't have any diversity except Samuel L. Jackson. But then

it turned out he was the first leading black actor to appear in a

Tim Burton film and he's made 36. Wow. Thank you. We can speak to

Claire Stewart now. Celebration of black talent, why has it taken so

long? I think for us it coincides very much with a recognition that

this has not been sufficiently champion. From the BFI perspective

it's about taking very active strategies, in terms of getting

behind film-making talent and creating, through the diversity

standards the BFI are setting up, a platform for funding films on the

basis of diversity. How would that work, in terms of the funding and

getting access to that cash? My colleague, this is his field, it's

about putting a set of requirements in place behind the camera, because

one of the things that we do recognise it when there is more

diversity behind the camera, that does translate into more diverse

stories on screen. At the BFI London film Festival this year, we have a

really substantive programme, 249 films, but there are some real

highlights, in terms of black stories and black performances. Some

examples? Our opening night film is the United Kingdom, a new film by

the first black film-maker to open the London film Festival, which in

itself points to a historical issue. She's done an impassioned, elegant

drama about the true story of the King of what is now Botswana, and

his marriage to way white London office worker, place by Rosamund

Pike. The film is by David yellow, who is an advocate for black

representation and women actors. He stars in another film we have on the

programme. A very inspirational story that comes out of Uganda. Ruth

Ahmed, starts of many things said in an interview recently that the

British problem when it comes to a lack of diversity is much worse than

the United States. What you think of that? I think that is probably

correct. The BFI is undertaking a large research project to bring more

statistical information to the surface around this. She is starring

in two films in the festival. City of tiny lights, which is a film that

is interesting in itself in its depiction of London. Its north-west

London on show with all of its diversity. There's only one or two

white characters. It felt like a very unfamiliar representation of

the UK, in terms of film. I think there's a lot of consciousness

burgeoning right now. The important thing, as David, who will be

headlining our symposium on this tomorrow, David has spoken not only

about the need for discussion and debate, but the need for action.

During the festival we will be running a series of workshops and

masterclasses for emerging British film-makers from black, Asian,

minority ethnic backgrounds. So they have the opportunity to have that

exposure to the international film-makers who are in town for the

festival. Good luck, thank you very much. Clare Stewart, the director of

the London film Festival. The boxer now claims he's taken

"lots of cocaine" over the past six months and doesn't know

if he'll see the year out. Adding, "I hope someone

kills me before I kill myself." He hasn't fought since

November when he beat Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko win

the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles. Fury's admission follows weeks

of speculation over his well-being. On Saturday he tweeted this image

showing his face photo-shopped He's surrounded by white powder

and the hashtag, Tyson Montana. Then on Monday he tweeted

an expletive laden statement where he appeared to

announce his retirement, saying that boxing was the saddest

thing he had ever taken part in. A few hours later he retracted that.

He said: Joining me now on the phone

in Steve Egan, who trained Tyson Fury from the age of 14 up

until he turned pro. And David Anderson, who is the

boxing correspondent at the Mirror. Hello to both of you. Let me ask you

Steve, first of all, what you're thinking when you are seeing what

looks like an unravelling of a man you knew so well? Very sad, really.

He's obviously got problems going on. Not getting? Sorry? Not getting

the full accolade at he should have got when he beat Klitschko. Meaning

what? Nobody else got behind him properly, if anyone out beat

Klitschko they'd go mad about it. David, what do you think? I know

that is an argument use. I covered that fight and our article the next

day was full of praise for the British voter abroad. I think the

problem was was what Tyson subsequently said and even before

that, those comments about gays, women, Jews. A lot of people didn't

really like that sort of comment. He had an opportunity, after Klitschko,

to become a big household name but unfortunately he went the other way.

When you say going the other way. What he's saying in this interview

is eyeing a manic depressive. He's talked about being in hospital at

the moment. He says he's seeing psychiatrists. He doesn't want to

live, all the money in the world, the fame, the glory means nothing if

you aren't happy. These are issues that presumably go back sometime?

They do indeed. I remember talking to Tyson in 2011 when he beat Dereck

Chisora to the British heavyweight title. He was stalking vents about

his battles with bulimia. How he would go to a petrol station at the

end of night, by a bag of chocolate, eat them in the car until he felt

sick and then eat more. He felt worthless and had low self-esteem.

He would talk about sitting in his car, revving it up and wanting to

drive into a wall. He's had these problems, and fortunate, for a few

years. He had been on top of them. He did brilliantly when he beat

Klitschko, a fantastic achievement, but unfortunately his Demons are

back and in need help in tackling them. Steve, when you were training

him between the ages of 14 and 20, you must have been aware of some of

those issues, were you? He had the odd time when he felt a bit low.

Your job as a coach and a friend is to give him a lift, pick him up and

convince him he is the best and he can be a world champion. That is

your job as a coach and friend. Do you think he realised how serious it

was? No, no, no. Everyone has ups and downs in life. Some tender with

and some can't. At the moment it seems like Tyson is struggling a

bit. David, one of the quotes makes it clear that he sees himself as a