12/10/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

This morning - with the so-called Calais jungle

soon to be demolished - Lily Allen has been to the refugee

camp for this programme to meet some of the unaccompanied children there.

We've bombed your country. Put you in the hands of the Taliban and now

putting you at risk, risking your life getting into our country. I

apologise on behalf of my country. I'm sorry for what we've put you

through. We'll bring you that

full report shortly - and speak to Lily Allen,

live, after 10am. Also on the programme -

the US firm Concentrix has been ordered to appear in front

of MPs tomorrow. It's after this programme revealed

hundreds of people have had Basically they were accusing me of

being married to a 74-year-old bloke that used to live here, way before I

did, saying that it is normal thing for my kind of age and it is my sort

of behaviour. 74? He was 74. But you're only...

19. When I speak to the council they said he was deceased and died in

2016. We'll speak to some of those due

to give evidence to MPs to tell them And we'll talk to a mother with HIV

who went undiagnosed for 30 years. Hello and welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11am. Later this morning we'll try

and find out exactly why Will if you're watching do get

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is because of some kind of fall-out And we'll hear calls for the maximum

jail sentence for those convicted If you have been stalked,

tell us if you think an increase in the punishment would have

made any difference Use the hashtag Victoria Live

and If you text, you will be charged Our top story today,

figures seen by the BBC reveal a sharp increase in hospital

admissions in England due Doctors blame the rise

in cleanliness over But it's not clear what's happened

since 2011 to drive up admissions by a third

to almost 30,000 in a year. That contrasts to average admissions

during the same period, Ruby is severely

allergic to peanuts. And, two years ago,

Ruby asked for a curry It wasn't which caused her

to have a severe reaction called It was chicken korma and I just had

a small amount and my lips started Across England the number

of hospital admissions for allergies and anaphylactic shocks have been

steadily increasing. Five years ago there were just over

22,000 such admissions, but the latest figures obtained

by the BBC show that the number has In total, all hospital admissions

in England have increased by 8% in the last five years,

but allergy specific Now, then, Oliver,

have you been behaving? More children in particular are now

being seen in hospital for allergies, with some doctors

calling it an epidemic. Yes, we are seeing a huge number

of referals now for new patients with children's allergies

and we think this is due to the world we live in,

in terms of environmental issues. We live in a much cleaner world

than we did 100 years ago and we know that children

are delayed later to common allergens, be it dust,

be it pollen and also food. Whatever the number,

doctors aren't expecting the number of allergy admissions to drop

any time soon. Later this morning we will speak to

some people who have allergies and they're going to tell us what it is

like to live with the constant risk of a reaction.

Annita McVeigh is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Labour is putting pressure on the government to set

out its Brexit strategy in more detail.

Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Foreign

Secretary Emily Thornberry have asked for clarification

on 170 questions - one a day until the Prime Minister's

self-imposed deadline to start the EU withdrawal process.

The party will also stage a debate and vote in Parliament later.

Our Assistant Political Editor, Norman Smith is in Westminster.

Good morning Norman. Labour has been accused up to now, hasn't it, of not

interrogating the Government enough about Brexit, but now from Labour,

170 questions! Designed, I think, to put the pressure on the Government

over setting out what their plan for Brexit actually is. So this morning

we get this 170 questions, one for every day until Mrs May's deadline

for triggering Article 50 and they cover everything from the

implications for the economy, for immigration, for jobs, for the

environment, and questions like on immigration, what sort of curbs is

the Government thinking of introducing, what will be the impact

on the NHS? Will there be different curbs in different parts of the

country, what will be the implications for Britain citizens

living in the EU? The point behind it is to put the squeeze on the

Government, coupled with this debate today to set out in more clarity

what Brexit actually means and to press for a Commons vote before Mrs

May enters those negotiations and this morning, the Shadow Foreign

Secretary, Emily Thornbury said the Government could not be allowed to

get away without setting out what sort of deal it was trying to reach

over Brexit. We are in a position

where we have a Government who are about to make major

decisions on behalf of this country and they want to go in a locked room

and fight it out amongst themselves and come out with some plan

that they want to keep secret. Now, we are doing our job

as the opposition and We published 170 questions

today that we expect At least to have some idea about,

at least to have thought about, before they go and trigger

Article 50. So Norman, tell us more about what

we can expect from the debate and vote later? Well, this is going to

be the first set piece debate on Brexit and Labour have put down a

fairly general motion saying there needs to be proper scrutiny and

transparency about the deal Mrs May seeks to negotiate. Now, in normal

times the Government would put a big thick red pen through that motion

and put their own distinct motion down. They haven't. Instead they've

accepted the Labour motion and put a little proviso on then of it saying

well, mustn't do anything that compromises our negotiating

strategy, what that tells us, I think, there is nervousness on Mrs

May's side that many Tory MPs do want a vote on any Brexit deal and

so to get round the possibility of a revolt today, the Government has by

and large accepted the Labour motion, but with a little tweak on

the end, but there is no doubt we seem to be heading for the first

real tension over Brexit and it is over the role of Parliament and

whether MPs should have a vote. OK, Norman, thank you very much for

that. Norman Smith. The Prison Governors Association has

called on the Government to set up an independent,

public inquiry into the state of prisons

in England and Wales. The Association, which is holding

its annual conference, is concerned about what it says

is the "unprecedented" rise The Government says it plans

to invest an extra 14 million pounds Children who are at risk

often get unsatisfactory protection in England,

the National Audit Office says. A report by the spending watchdog

found that more than three-quarters of local authority child protection

services were inadequate The Department for Education says

it's taking tough action Some people who complain their tax

credits have been stopped in error - are being told it will be several

weeks before their claims The SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh says

some of her constituents haven't had their tax credits for many weeks

already andthat the tax office is failing to meet its commitment

to resume payments. Ms Ahmed Sheikh has tabled an urgent

question in Parliament today and will be speaking to Victoria

just after 9.30am. A man in the United States has been

convicted of posting cyanide to a suicidal man in England,

leading to his death. Sidney Kilmartin, who's 54,

sent cynanide to 49-year-old Andrew Denton, of Hull, who used it

to kill himself in December 2012. He'd already posted a substance

he said was cyanide, but which was actually Epsom salts

to several suicidal people. Prosecutors said Kilmartin

wanted to stop Mr Denton People who feel light-headed

and dizzy when standing up suddenly may have a 40% higher risk

of Alzheimer's disease, Scientists believe it's because less

blood reaches the brain during these moments,

leading to cell damage over time. Charities have welcomed

the research, but say that other factors such as smoking

play more of a part. The singer Lily Allen has called

on the government to do more to help children living in the so-called

Jungle refugee camp in Calais. French authorities have committed

to demolishing the camp and re-locating its

population of 9,000 by On her first visit, Lily Allen

described the situation as inhumane. I'm shocked, really,

that this is happening in such close proximity to,

you know, where we live. It feels like it's just people

just managing to cope. Something has to be done

because it can't really... You can see the full film in five

minutes on the programme. Kim Kardashian is taking legal

action against a website that's accused her of faking

the Paris robbery. The reality TV star is suing

the gossip website MediaTakeOut for alleging that she lied

about the armed hold up at her hotel room in Paris and then filed

a fraudulent insurance claim. French police say they believe

jewellery worth millions That's a summary of the latest BBC

News. More from me at 9.30am. Sport in a moment, Look at President

Obama. There's a guy on the radio

who apparently... He's demob happy, isn't he? That was

actually him smelling his own hand! We'll bring you that

film with Lily Allen Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. If you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. Let's get some sport

now with John Watson. John, not a great night

in the World Cup qualifiers Let's start about England and Joe

Hart came to the rescue? Joe Hart was the keeper for England last

night. There was a drab game. A disappointing goalless draw against

Slovenia. England didn't manage to register a goal. A shot on target in

the first-half, but Joe Hart was the man of the moment who salvaged

England a point. That was one of a string of saves he made last night.

The stand out one was when he managed to tip the top of the bar. A

goalless draw. Wayne Rooney, Jordan Henderson captaining the side came

on for the last 20 minutes. He had a shot. Everybody wondered if he was

going to produce the winning moment, but he didn't. As things stand, not

a disaster for England, they are still unbeaten in their qualifying,

they are top, but really interesting to hear what Gareth Southgate said

afterwards. He said he has inherited a mess. If there was a line perhaps

to sum-up things for England that might be it. Interim manager he may

remain interim manager. In terms of Scotland and Northern

Ireland, defeats though? Yeah. It is Scotland in a bit of a difficult

patch at the moment let's say. Their manager Gordon Strachan disappointed

to see them draw. They were hoping to get three points and they didn't.

They came away with a 3-0 defeat. This is a really disappointing

result for them. They have only picked up one point in the

qualifying matches. It leaves them sitting fourth in their qualifying

group. Remember, they're in the same group as England. They face England

in their next match. What a contest that's going to be. But a difficult

time for Scotland at the moment. And Northern Ireland, as well, they were

in action. They had by far the toughest of all of the matches last

night. They were in Hannover to face Germany. And they came away with a

defeat as well. 2-0 it finished last night. Their manager said that this

is not a complete disaster as you could imagine facing the world

champions, it was always going to be dismt they have the same number of

points as Scotland and they, themselves, realised that they are

chasing the second spot. That's not an automatic qualification spot, but

second spot would see you go through into a play-off and there is a

chance if you can finish second of still reaching the World Cup in

Russia in 2018. Cycling. An interesting story in

cycling particularly against the backdrop of the damaging headlines

over the last few weeks? Yes, there is a really significant prize I

guess you could say on the horizon this afternoon. Yorkshire should be

awarded as we expect to be given the 2019 road race world cycling

championships. A fantastic moment for the sport, you imagine, but

interesting if you believe what you read in the newspapers, that the

Chief Executive of British cycling Ian Drake won't be attending. Now,

it was a joint bid that's been put together by British cycling, UK

Sport, a really significant moment. But as you say, huge allegations

whirling around relate to go a suspect package that was delivered

to Team Sky in 2011. No one seems to know what the package was. A lot of

unanswered questions and after the high of the Olympics, we're in this

murky business of allegations around British cycling centred on Team Sky

and British cycling at the moment and Bradley Wiggins as well has been

embroiled in this. You think it is a great moment, it should be, why then

is Ian Drake the Chief Executive of British cycling not attending?

Perhaps he feels he will behaving to face some very difficult questions

were he to attend the press conference this afternoon.

Cheers, John. More from John throughout the

morning. You'll know Lily Allen

for her hit songs like Smile You may also enjoy her

outspokenness on Twitter. But you've probably never

seen her like this. In the Calais camp,

meeting refugees. It's due for demolition

soon, and could start But there are concerns

about what could happen to the hundreds of vulnerable

and unaccompanied children there. This week, the Home Secretary vowed

to speed up plans to resettle hundreds of those vulnerable

children in the UK Charities are calling

for the Government to do more, saying many of these children

will simply disappear. Lily Allen has been to meet

some of those children living in the Jungle,

many of them wanting Our reporter Catrin Nye went

with her exclusively Calais' makeshift refugee

camp, the Jungle. Home to around 10,000

people, including children. This place has been

partially demolished once But the French government

want it gone again. And will start knocking it

down within weeks. A world away from the squalor

of the camp, Lily Allen is working on a new album in

a studio in London. What do you think you can

achieve by going there? On a personal level,

I hope to see things for myself so that I know and I can

talk openly about it, having experienced it,

even for a very short And humanise the people that

are there because, All these articles which are very

dehumanising about people I'm a mother, I've got

two little girls. And if something happened in this

country, and if something was to happen to me and their dad,

and they were displaced and they had to make a run for it,

I really hope that other parts of the world were a little bit more

helpful than we seem to be being. It would seem to me that there

are people that have been driven very far away

from what they know and love, I don't think anyone would choose

to live in the Jungle. With Lily on the strip

is Josie Norton. Josie used to work in the music

industry before giving it up to start a charity called

Help Refugees a year ago. Right next to the camp,

this massive warehouse shows the scale of the charity work that's

quickly emerged to provide for those An army of volunteers

looks after constantly My kids said that

you could have it! Snow White costume, which will come

in pretty handy, I'm sure! And then it's time

to enter the Jungle. Lily Allen's never been

to a refugee camp of any kind, This is a bus for women

and children in the camp. Volunteers here tell Lily that one

of the things they're constantly doing is telling young people,

like this Afghan teenager, to apply for asylum in France,

rather than constantly risking their lives jumping

on trucks to the UK. They are risking their lives every

time they go out to try. And they're going out to the lorry

parks or to the motorway to try to stow away

on the back of lorries. Not just deaths, because you hear

about people being killed, you're not hearing about people

who are severely injured. So there's a number of children that

have been severely injured. One of the main reasons that

Lily is here is to meet for herself people like him,

children and teenagers calling There are 1,022 unaccompanied

children in this camp. With the imminent closure

of the camp, they are at massive risk of trafficking or just

getting lost in the system. A huge proportion of them have got

the right to be in the UK because they have family there,

and another huge proportion of them have the right to be in the UK

because of the passing And, still, right now,

there's not one child been brought The Dubs amendment was an agreement

by the UK Government to take in unaccompanied refugee

children from Europe. At this youth centre in the camp,

there's a sense of urgency today. The volunteers of recording details

of the teenagers here. So they can try and keep track

of them when they camp's demolished and continue trying to get those

who have the right to be So, what I want is anybody who has

family in England that hasn't Lily meets this 13-year-old

from Afghanistan. He's been in the camp

for two months now. The camp's closing

in a couple of weeks. So, you've been trying to jump

on lorries to get over into the UK. That must be terrifying,

is it scary? And I know you're trying to get

onto the lorries every night but, from what I'm hearing

from the refugees and volunteers here in the camp, you've got a legal

right to be in the UK. So, I wonder, have you

started that process? Just seems at three different

intervals in this young boy's life, the English in particular

have put you in danger. We have bombed your country,

put you in the hands of the Taliban, Risking your life to get

into our country. I apologise on behalf of my country,

I'm sorry for what we've I am now making you do this

interview! I'm shocked, really,

that this is happening in such close proximity to,

you know, where we live. Life is easier for me if I put this

stuff out of mind, do you know? And that's not really right,

correct or appropriate response And I think it must be than not

knowing, the uncertainty I know I wouldn't like to end

up here, though. I certainly wouldn't

want my children to end up here. Catrin Nye reporting, and that film

was directed by Joshua Baker. And Lily Allen will be here live

just after 10am to talk The Home Office says more than 80

unaccompanied children had been And earlier this week,

the Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the names of the unaccompanied

children living in the camp who are eligible to be brought

to Britain would be given The company at the centre

of a scandal which saw so many of your tax credits wrongly

stopped is being made to give We'll hear from three claimants

who'll also be appearing to tell MPs Is a five-year maximum sentence

for stalking enough? One group of MPs says it should be

doubled to ten years. If you've been the victim

of stalking, do tell We'll be hearing from the singer

for the Noisettes, who's decided to speak out for the first time

about her experience Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Figures seen by the BBC have

revealed a sharp increase in hospital admissions in England

as a result of allergic reactions. In the last five years,

cases have climbed to almost 30,000 During the same period,

average hospital admissions Labour is putting pressure

on the Government to set out its Brexit strategy

in more detail. Theresa May said Parliament should

not undermine their strategy. Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir

Starmer and Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry have asked

for clarification on 170 questions, one a day until the Prime Minister's

self-imposed deadline to start The party will also stage a debate

and vote in Parliament later. The Prison Governors Association has

called on the Government to set up an independent public

inquiry into the state The association, which is holding

its annual conference, is concerned about what it says

is the "unprecedented" rise The Government says it plans

to invest an extra ?14 million Seven-year-olds are being offered

free flu vaccinations in England It's part of this year's drive

to immunise children, the elderly and those with chronic

health problems against the virus. The vaccine is already offered

to all primary-school pupils Will Young has announced he's

quitting Strictly Come Dancing. In a statement he told fans he'd

pulled out for personal reasons, but said he left with "joy

in my heart that I have been able to take part in one of the most

loved shows on British television". His performance on last week's

programme drew criticism from head judge Len Goodman who said

there was "not enough salsa" That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Here's some sport now

with John Watson. England interim manager

Gareth Southgate says he inherited a mess when taking over

from Sam Allardyce two weeks ago. Things didn't look too great

on the pitch either in last night's 0-0 draw in Slovenia,

where they were indebted to goalkeeper Joe Hart for a string

of brilliant saves to earn a point England are now three

points clear of Scotland, who slumped to a 3-0

defeat in Slovakia. Manager Gordon Strachan said

he "felt sorry" for his players. There was some encouragement

for Northern Ireland, though, who were 2-0 down to Germany

after 16 minutes but held Michael O'Neill's side now third

in their group. And British number two

Kyle Edmund lost to US Open champion Stan Wawrinka 6-3,

6-4 in the second round of the Shanghai

masters this morning. Andy Murray plays American

Steve Johnson later. The company at the centre

of a scandal which saw so many of your tax credits wrongly

stopped is due to give evidence to an influential

committee of MPs tomorrow. The American firm Concentrix

was employed by the Government to reduce the benefits bill

by finding and stopping But last month this programme

exclusively revealed that many people were having their money

stopped by mistake, leading to some serious hardship for

those caught up in it. This programme has exclusively

learned that a 19-year-old mum had her child tax credit stopped

by a private firm used by HMRC after they said she was married

to a dead 74-year-old man She's one of hundreds of people

complaining they've been incorrectly punished by the American firm

Concentrix, which is employed by HMRC to cut tax credit

fraud and overpayment. I've lost ?64 each week,

and that normally, obviously goes on my son, on nappies,

buy his food, gas and electric, They absolutely unfairly stop

people's benefits on a really And there are many more

where those came from. As you'd expect, we asked

the private American firm, Concentrix, for

an interview. Instead, they told us: "We recognise

that individual tax credit claims We adopt a rigorous process at every

stage to ensure we manage this responsibly in full accordance

with guidance set by HMRC." I've done nothing wrong,

and they know that. My tax credit was cut

at the beginning of August. And I had a phone call with them

and it took me three to five hours a day for a week to actually get

hold of them. I lost my child tax credits

and Working Tax Credits, which is the bulk of

what I get each month. How much are you down by as a result

of what you say are their mistakes? I've had no money for two weeks now

and I've had to go to a food bank. Because of this, my housing benefit

could be stopped as well, which means that my tenancy

could be affected. Hours after we exclusively revealed

on this programme yesterday that a US firm was accused,

by hundreds of years, from police stopping your tax credits,

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs announced they would not be

renewing its contract HMRC has acted pretty

decisively in this. And, clearly, anyone who is dealing

with people who are claiming Needs to be sensitive to their needs

as well as, obviously, Why does it take the BBC's

programme, two days running, to bring ministers

to this despatch box? One day a member of my staff

is getting the runaround Yesterday, in Parliament,

the issue prompted an urgent Let's talk to our reporter,

Peter Whittlesey. Well, the latest from HMRC is today

they are getting executives from Concentrix in, and they'll be

talking to them about the issues that they need to address

because they are not Many MPs have talked

about the problems that They've also said that this

programme had highlighted what a big issue it was and how the mistakes

were affecting hundreds of people. Sources close to this have told me

that just before we did our report, our exclusive report,

HMRC and Concentrix were close Concentrix was only told an hour

before HMRC told the press that their contract wasn't being renewed,

and that's why some staff in Belfast heard that, potentially,

their jobs could be at risk through tweets from the BBC,

rather than from People crying down the phone,

saying that they are Have no food in the fridge

to feed their kids. We were dealing with people

claiming that they were We'll talk to some of those giving

evidence to that committee of MPs in a moment, but first our reporter

Peter Whittlesea has followed this story from the beginning

and joins me now. We've not heard from any

of the senior staff from Concentrix, Well, they have refused for a month,

we have been asking them. They can't refuse MPs and the influential work

and pensions Select Committee has said they want to speak to

Concentrix and they also want to speak to HMRC that's because Craig

McKinlay, Conservative MP, came on this show. He promised he would do

something and try and get to the bottom of what happened. He wrote to

the chair of that committee and this has happened. These people have been

called in front of the committee. Now this committee is the committee

that gave Sir Philip Green a grilling over the collapse of BHS.

Now sources close to the committee think they will do the same, they

will give the Philip Green to the Concentrix boss Philip Cassidy when

he appears before them tomorrow. They want to know what was happening

at that call centre. You heard people said they were in desperately

pressurised situation and they were having to take suicide callers on

the phone and they hadn't had the training for that and the committee

sources close to the committee said they want to know whether that's

true and what training staff actually had. When HMRC announced

that they would not be renewing Concentrix's contract, it was said

they told us, efforts are being made to fast-track those people who have

wrongly had their tax credits stopped so they will be reimbursed

ASAP, has that happened? HMRC took those, over thousands of them and

they said they would process them as quickly as possible. They had the

idea of once the paperwork was handed in and it was scanned it

would take four days. Now the problem is, taking that paperwork,

scanning t getting it on the computer system, has taken longer

than people expected. Also there have been problems because people

sent their original paperwork to Concentrix and then they didn't have

the right paperwork to send to HMRC, so they had to get duplicates which

led to more delays. So when people thought they could get their

benefits reinstated within four days, it has taken weeks and there

are many people out there on the Concentrix website that thought they

were That they would get it four days, but weeks on, they haven't had

their benefits backdated or paid. That's no good. Is anyone else

looking into what went wrong with Concentrix and HMRC? Normally HMRC

appears before the Public Accounts Committe. They look into seeing

whether Government contracts are value for money. Two members of that

committee told me that the Chief Executive of the HMRC will appear

before them on 26th October and they will ask questions of the Chief

Executive of HMRC, what went wrong, was this contract value for money?

And will give them another grilling on the 26th October.

Of course, we should say, of course, as we always do, we asked to speak

to HMRC and Concentrix and we have been asking them for weeks and weeks

and they keep saying no which is fine, there is no law to say they

have to come on this programme. It might be good for them to talk to

the people that they've placed in such hardship.

Let's talk to three of the people who wrongly had their tax credits

They are all also giving evidence in front of the Work

Also with me is the SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

who is going to table an emergency question in Parliamnet today

about delays some people are facing in getting their payments back.

Hello all of you. Thank you very much for talking to us. Marie, let's

start with you. Your tax credits were stopped because Concentrix

thought you weren't a single mum. They have been reinstated, how much

are they paying you back a week? They are paying not enough. A

reduced amount of money compared to what my previous claim was.

But have you got that in a lump sum? Is it... No. They are refuse, to go

give me my lump sum for the six weeks I was without payment. At the

moment I'm unable to pay back people I borrowed money from. So yeah, it

is not a good situation. What will you be saying to the committee of

MPs tomorrow? I will be wanting somebody to be accountable for a

disastrous contract. Whoever thought giving a contract that dealt with

people's lives with such, you know, benefits, you know, financially is

beyond me and I really want them to tell me why they gave, you know,

such perverse incentives to a private company. That's the

performance related element of the contract. Sarah, yours were stopped

too. How long have you spent on the phone trying to get them reinstated?

I went through my mobile phone bill and I figured out that I have been

on the phone to HMRC and Concentrix over this past four weeks I have

been on the phone 19 hours and 57 minutes and that's just my mobile.

I've used other people's house phones such as my parents as well. I

don't know the full figure, but all I know, it has consumed my life and

affected my children and it just been an awful situation. Have you

succeeded in getting them reinstated? I haven't, no. They have

agreed to pay me a lump sum and I haven't had any letters back to say

that my case has been overturned. It was just a phone call that I made.

I've literally called them every day to try and get an update because my

information has been lost three times. So I've had to send in again.

So I was really concerned as to where the paperwork went. And also

contacted my MP who is helping me. So I've got a payment coming in

today funny enough, but you know, it is not for the full amount that they

owe me. But it is a start and at least, you know, I've got some sort

of a decision and hopefully receive the letter explaining what it is.

Paul, a Vice-President from Concentrix, it sounds very grand,

doesn't it, will be appearing in front of the committee tomorrow.

What would you like to ask that Vice-President? There is one thing

I'd like to ask is more about the paperwork that's gone missing. My

paperwork went missing in May and they said they never received it and

I never got any warning when my payments were stopped at the

beginning of August. Now, we have got evidence that we will be raising

at Parliament tomorrow that will show they're sending other people's

documents back when they return people's documents. So they're

sending the wrong documents... They're sending the wrong documents

back to the wrong people and we have got evidence that we will raise at

Parliament tomorrow for this. I would like to ask him how because if

that happened to my paperwork, I'd like to know where mine has gone as

well? There could be serious data protection issues. Very serious data

protection issues. Were you aware of this? I didn't know about documents

going to other places. You will be aware on 14th September the

financial second to the Treasury said at the dispatch box there would

be a four day turn around for money to be in people's banks once the

paperwork was received. We contacted HMRC on 29th September in relation

to a constituent and we were told it was a two to three week period they

would be looked at. In the meantime, we have people who have wrongly had

their tax credit claims stopped, mother who, one of my constituents

whose childcare arrangements, can't afford to play her childminder.

Therefore can't go to work and had to resign from employment, can't get

any other benefits because of that and now she has nothing. One of my

other constituents signed themselves out of hospital with a suspected

heart attack because she had to deal with this. Another constituent can't

send her child to school because she can't afford the lunch money. These

are victims of other people's mistakes and mess and they're

suffering. They are contacting our offices and they are at their wit's

end. It can't get any worse for them. It has been a payment offer of

?100 from HMRC, there is no clarity around that payment. It is an

interim payment. Some of my constituents are not take because it

is templed as a loan. I'm hoping the committee will be asking questions

tomorrow of Concentrix as to what has gone so terribly wrong? How can

we make sure this never happens again. And what support and training

has been given to the people at the other end of the phone calls of

people who are in desperate circumstances? HMRC told us we have

dealt with the majority of the cases. We will continue to do this

with the remainder of the case as quickly as possible whilst providing

the best possible customer service? Quickly as possible means nothing to

someone who wants to know how they're going to feed their children

today. I want to why the four day turn around is not happening. When

it will happen? People are desperate. I mean, Paul, you know,

the Concentrix mums Facebook page, there are dozens and dozens if not

hundreds and hundreds of stories of people in still in severe financial

hardship? There is a lot of people, we are getting 50 to 60 people a day

joining the website. At last count when I checked it there was 11474

people active or still members of that page and there is people still

asking questions. The HMRC app updates, they are saying what it

does it mean, it says null against my payments. There is no backdated

payments, there is nothing listed for what's going on. Thousands of

people have questions and they need to know when they're getting any

money and it is just a shocking situation.

I am lucky, I have my parents, who support me with everything I did. If

I did not have them, I don't know what I would have done. I am six

weeks without payments, I am a disabled single mother, I used to

have a great job, and I would love to go back to work, but my health

does not allow it. I have had to cancel support at home because I

have had to use my personal independence payment money to get

food shopping for three weeks where I did not have any money at all. I

had to borrow money from my parents. It has been an awful situation. The

worst thing about this is it is not only as parents that are suffering,

it is our children, because my children, the difference in

behaviour with my four-year-old boy, because money is on the phone all

the time, money is in tears, mummy is so up and down, it is affecting

the children. That is what is most soul destroying for me.

We will continue to follow the story. Keep giving us your feedback,

when the money starts to come back to do, because you were instrumental

in helping us get the information out in the first place, so thank

you. Coming up, Lily Allen has been

meeting refugees in the jungle in Calais in an exclusive report

for this programme. She will be with us

in the studio just after 10am. The British world heavyweight

champion Tyson Fury faces being stripped of his licence to box at a

meeting of the British boxing board of control today. The case will be

examined by the board after a reported failed drugs test and his

admission in a magazine interview that he has taken lots of cocaine.

His supporters say he deserves compassion. It is a sad tale. They

say cocaine was that a rental to his career, not performance enhancing.

And a cry for help. If the board do decide to strip him of his licence,

he is almost certain to be forced to link wish the WBO and WBA titles he

won from Wladimir Klitschko a year ago. His team say he needs support,

not sanctions. This is him defending his outspoken persona after he

shocked the boxing world in November last year by beating Wladimir

Klitschko to secure the belts. You rarely get somebody who talks a

lot and backs it up. People thought I was just hot air. They thought I

was just lucky in 24 fights before that. How lucky can you get?

Here to talk about the board meeting is a professional boxer who

currently has the WBO middleweight title, and a good friend of Tyson

Fury's. When did you last speak to him? Yesterday. He is in a very dark

place at the moment. But there are signs that he has got the help that

he's getting from his uncle and dad, so they are good signs now. From the

last week. You don't have to tell me, but when you say a dog place,

what do you mean? Suicidal. We see it in all of sports stars, he is a

27-year-old man come back, he has put his name up there with the likes

of Floyd Mayweather. He is having suicidal thoughts? Yes. People need

to give him a bit of breathing space. Boxing can only save his

life. He has disciplined himself with his diet, with his life around

boxing, and if that gets taken away from him, I think he will not see

30. You are clearly saying, do not ship him of this license? I am

saying, step back, take a look at everything, I am sure he will free

the belts up so other people can fight until he is fit, but I think

it is a big mistake, taking his boxing licence away, because it is

like taking food away from a baby, they can't grow or my jaw. He needs

the licence to pull through. He is in a considerably bad place. Two

weeks ago I genuinely feared I would get a phone call to say he has ended

his life. Don't say that. If you take the licence away from him,...

This last week or so, he is starting to get a grip again. He has good

people around him, getting the right help, but if his licence gets taken

away, I don't know which way he will go. Even if he retains the licence,

he will not box for a while. This has not just happened overnight, it

has been going on for the last year. He got a superstar's welcome, then

he got racial abuse. His kids are getting it, his wife is getting it,

his parents. He is looking at it as if it is his fault. He has gone to a

dark place and turn to whatever he has turned to, I don't condone that,

but he is mentally unstable. I am happy when I spoke to him yesterday

that he sounds a bit more up in himself, but he still has a long way

to go. Do you believe there is a link with his mental health problems

and him taking cocaine? I have no him all of my life, I knew his

family all of my life, never in a million years would you ever dream

for him to do that. I thought somebody was having a laugh. Talking

to him, he is in a dark place. It was not nice to see, because

normally he is like a firework, he is a light, he brings so much

charisma to boxing, good and bad, he says some things he should not say,

but we are only human. It is not like any of his family, we have been

brought up not to do anything like this, in our culture it is a big no.

He has been in an incredibly low place. There are some people who say

if you take cocaine, not only are you breaking the law, it is

potentially performance enhancing. No, that cannot improve your

fighting. I read a lot about it, it takes fluid away from the brain, so

you can't absorb a shot that you would normally absorb. It is most

certainly not a performance drug. It is something he has turned to

because he is trapped in a corner where he has nothing else, he is

mentally down, he distances himself from everybody. Why did he tell a

magazine interview? I spoke to him not long ago, when he was on the

phone am I thought, this is a different man. If this is what it

does to you... I am world middleweight champion, I get

Internet trolls, from our contract -- culture we get called names, but

people look at him and think, he is a big heavyweight, he is a hard man.

He can look after himself, yes. But deep down, he is really soft, if we

see a homeless person, he is more likely to cry about that, he is

really soft hearted. For people to say it helps his performance, he did

not win those titles on cocaine. He has made a mistake, he has admitted

it and put his hands up, he has not denied it, and the board need to

look at that. If he frees up the belts to let other people fight for

them, so he is not holding anybody back, but I don't think his licence

should be taken away from him. Has he told you he would free up the

belts? He is the heavyweight champion of the world, nobody will

be the champion of the world unless they beat him, but he is in a dark

place, he will not be fighting for it a few months, so I imagine he

will. Is his boxing career over? I don't excite. I know how mentally

strong he can be. But he is at an all-time low. With the right people

around him, within six months, with the right help, we could see him

back in the ring. In six months? Yes, but if they suspended him for a

year, take his licence away for a year, two years, whatever, I don't

think... I know that we will have a phone call one day, saying his life

has ended or something like that, occurs this is his life. Even though

he has said that boxing has... Deep down, this is what has got him his

success. When people say he has done this because he wanted a good time,

you are not going to walk away from 6 million quid to 10 million quid

for something stupid, for one night. It is bad depression. I know he is

getting the right help, and I am happy he is, we just need other

people to support him. Including the board. Might advice to the board, if

he frees up the belts, he frees up the belts, but don't take his

livelihood away from him, he has been brought up since being a young

kid doing this, since the age of eight. If you take it away from him,

he will not look for a daily job in Tesco's. It will sink him more into

the soil. We will bring to the News and sport

in a moment, and the latest weather. Looking further ahead, don't forget

to join us on 17th October, when we will be live at the Olympic

homecoming parade in Manchester. We will have a special programme,

the latest total is something like... Loads and loads of Olympians

and Paralympians anyway comment on our programme, it is an audience

with Olympians and Paralympians. Loads of people in the audience who

are Olympics and paramedics fans, Games Makers from London. That is on

Monday from 9am. It is deja vu at the moment, it is

the same each day this week. The cold easterly breeze across eastern

parts of the UK. You have had showers already today. West is best

for the driest and sunniest weather. What have we seen today? Early

sunshine on the dog walk in fish bone, looked pretty nice. Some angry

clouds off the coast of Norfolk. The seagull would have been struggling

in the wind. It is a feature of the weather. The radar picture shows

where we have had the showers. Most frequent down the east of the UK.

They will tend to fade. Here is the picture at midday today. A lot of

clout running into eastern Scotland, you will be hard-pressed to see much

sunshine. A cube writer breaks at times across parts of eastern

England, especially East Anglia and the south-east of England. You can

see where the sunniest of the weather is, but catch a shower here

across eastern England, it could be on the heavy side. As they have

already been so far today. Does anything change for the rest of the

afternoon? Not really. On the coast, temperatures will be held down. This

is where you see most of the cloud, the most frequent showers moving in.

For South Wales and south-west England, sunshine. A bit further

away from the breeze. Not feeling too bad. But the breeze is a feature

through the night, still with a few showers in eastern parts, but there

will be clearer skies away from the showers, allowing temperatures to

fall lower tonight. You will notice a chill first thing tomorrow

morning. On Thursday, still the easterly

breeze, a bit stronger, it will feel caller. Some of the showers will be

heavier tomorrow. The greatest chances of getting the showers

further north. South Wales and southern England avoid most of the

showers. The temperatures slightly down tomorrow compared to today. On

Friday, some longer spells of rain, Thursday night into Friday, in

eastern Scotland. The tendency is for things begin to turn west

towards the end of the week. That is some think we will carry through

into the weekend, because we have low-pressure close by. We will

change the wind to a southerly, the temperatures may come up a few

degrees, but there will be bands of what weather moving through this

weekend, but drier, sunnier moments as well.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

Lily Allen visits the jungle in Calais to meet some

of the hundreds of children who've fled there alone hoping to start

Bombed your country, put you in the hands of the Taliban and now putting

you at risk, rising your life to get into our country. That seems - I

apologise on behalf of my country. I'm sorry for what we've put you

through. I can't...

She'll be live in the studio in a few moments time.

We'll talk to a mother who found out she had HIV two years ago -

something doctors had failed to diagnose for 30 years.

Is a five year maximum sentence for stalking enough?

One group of MPs says it should be doubled to ten years.

If you've been the victim of stalking,

We'll be hearing from the singer for the Noisettes who's decided

to speak out for the first time about her experience

Here is Annita the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Figures seen by the BBC have revealed a sharp increase

in hospital admissions in England as a result of allergic reactions.

In the last five years, cases have climbed to almost 30,000 annually -

In contrast, average hospital admissions went up by just 8%.

Doctors blame increased cleanliness but it's not clear what has happened

since 2011 to trigger such a marked increase.

There will not be a vote in Parliament on triggering Article 50

for Brexit. The Prime Minister's spokesman has said. The comments

come as Labour prepares to put extra pressure in the Commons for more

detail on the Government's Brexit trat gee. Shadow Brexit second, sir

Keir Starmer and Emily Thornbury asked for clarification on 170

questions. The party will also stage a debate and vote in Parliament

later. The Prison Governors Association has

called on the Government to set up an independent,

public inquiry into the state of The Association, which is holding

its annual conference, is concerned about what it says

is the "unprecedented" rise The government says it plans

to invest an extra ?14 million Lily Allen has called

on the Government to do more to help children living in the so-called

Jungle migrant camp in Calais. The French authorities have

committed to demolishing the camp, and re-locating its population

of nine thousand migrants and On her first visit, Lily Allen

described the situation as inhumane. I'm shocked, really,

that this is happening in such close proximity to,

you know, where we live. It feels like it's just people

just managing to cope. Something has to be done

because it can't really... And we will be hearing from Lily

Allen in a few minutes. Seven-year-olds are being offered

free flu vaccinations in England It's part of this year's drive

to immunise children, the elderly and those with chronic

health problems against the virus. The vaccine is already offered

to all primary school pupils A man in the United States has been

convicted of posting cyanide to a suicidal man in England,

leading to his death. Sidney Kilmartin, who is 54,

sent cyanide to 49-year-old Andrew Denton, of Hull,

who used it to kill He'd already posted a substance

he said was cyanide, but which was actually Epsom salts

to several suicidal people. Prosecutors said Kilmartin

wanted to stop Mr Denton Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live

and If you text, you will be charged Here's some sport now

with John Watson. Bill owe Joe Saunders on his friend

Tyson Fury. Fury is set to be stripped from his world titles. He

has admitted to taking cocaine. This is what Saunders said this morning.

I reckon it is a big, big mistake taking boxing licence away from him.

It is like taking food away from a baby, they can't grow, they can't

mature. He needs his boxing licence to pull what he's going through now.

He is in a bad, blasd. Two weeks a I generally feared I was going to get

a phone call to say, you know, he has ended his life. Really strong

comments there from Saunders. England Interim manager

Gareth Southgate didn't hold back when describing the current state

of the national team. He said he's inherited a mess

after watching his side draw with Slovenia in World Cup

Qualifying last night. England's hero was their goalkeeper

Joe Hart - who made a string of great saves to ensure

the game finished goalless. England failed to register a shot

on target in the first half. Wayne Rooney came on for the final

twenty minutes after being Southgate gave a fairly honest

asessment of where his team's at It has been an incredibly difficult

ten days in terms of not just the situation of taking over, but the

withdrawals through injury and to get four points, we would have liked

six, we would have liked to have scored more goals and we would have

liked to have been more fluid with the ball, but we sit top of the

qualifying group and that has to be the objective when we get through

the game against Scotland as well. Scotland manager Gordon Strachan was

honest in his assessment as well. Saying he felt sorry for his players

and the fans as they were beaten They're in the same group

as England, and play them next, A more encouraging evening

for Northern Ireland despite their 2-0 defeat by world

champions Germany in Hanover. Michael O'Neill's side were 2-0 down

after just 16 minutes with goals but then managed to hold

on for the rest of the game Northern Ireland are third

in their group So no goals between the three

Home Nations last night - but one nation who did score are San

marino who are definitely A nation with a population of just

33,000, playing Norway in Oslo, scored their first away

qualifying goal for 15 years. And here's the reaction

on Norway TV. To say they were unimpressed

is something of understatement. Incredibly with 13 minutes left

San Marino were still holding Norway to a 1-1 draw,

but three late goals Why did they turn the lights off?

The thought of watching that goal again was too much to bear. I was

being particularly stupid. Thank you very much, John.

The so-called Calais Jungle could be demolished as early as next week

and its 9,000 occupants will certainly be relocated,

the French government has promised, by the end of the year.

There are hundreds of unaccompanied and vulnerable children there,

and charities warn that many will simply go missing when it

closes, potentially into the hands of traffickers.

They're calling on the British Government to take in those children

and teenagers who have family ties in the UK.

The Home Secretary has vowed to speed up resettlement plans,

Lily Allen has been to the Jungle to see for herself

We'll speak to her in a moment, but first here's

a reminder of what she saw, a short extract

Calais' makeshift refugee camp, The Jungle.

Home to around 10,000 people including children.

The French government wants this place gone.

And will start knocking it down within weeks.

Today, singer Lily Allen is in the camp, meeting the children

and teenagers calling this place home.

There are 1,022 unaccompanied children in this camp,

at massive risk of trafficking or just getting lost in the system.

A huge proportion of them have got the right to be in the UK

because they have family there, and another huge proportion of them

have the right to be in the UK because of the passing of the Dubs'

At this youth centre, volunteers are trying to record

the details of anyone with the right to be

Lily meets this 13-year-old from Afghanistan.

He's been in the camp the two months now.

I know you're trying to get onto the lorries every night but,

from what I'm hearing from the refugees and volunteers

here in the camp, you've got a legal right to be in the UK.

So, I wonder, have you started that process?

It just seems at three different intervals in this young boy's life,

the English, in particular, have put you in danger.

We've bombed your country, put you in the hands of the Taliban,

Risking your life to get into our country.

I apologise on behalf of my country, I'm sorry for what we've

I know I wouldn't like to end up here, though.

I certainly wouldn't want my children to end up here.

And if you want to watch again - or share - that film you can find it

on our programme page bbc.co.uk/victoria and you can read

about Lily's experience in the Calais jungle on the BBC

Dave texts this, "When Lily Allen cried on your programme, I cried

too. Why isn't anybody?" Clare says, "All over Europe children are in

camps, how can we let this happen?" Another viewer says, "It looks like

the Home Office is finally starting to respond, but perhaps it is too

little, too late. Amber Rudd is talking of concentrating efforts to

children under 12. What will happen to the older children? Highly

vulnerable to people traffickers, do we not have a responsibility to all

children? Why is there suddenly an age cut off when it comes to Calais.

And Lily Allen is here now as is her friend Josie Naughton

Tell us why you wanted to see for yourself what was going on in the

refugee camp? I suppose just because I read a lot about it in the

newspapers and in the press. It kind of seems to be reported in a very

one dimensional way and I wanted to see it for myself really. For you

Josie, you have been there a number of times, how have things changed if

they have at all over the last six months? Over the last six months

there as been a lot of new arrivals because it is summer time, but

essentially the camp is just, it is not a place that people should be

living or people want to be living and I think at the moment there is a

real sense of desperation because there is 1022 unaccompanied children

living there and at the moment there is no plan in place for how those

children will be brought to safety before the demolition of the camp.

What did you think you would find there, Lily and how did the reality

compare? It was a lot bigger than I thought. I moon the numbers, you

know, have been, I read 3,000, 5,000, and it is more like 10,000,

really, isn't it? The sheer scale of it is what hit me, I think. As I

mentioned Home Secretary Amber Rudd saying that unaccompanied children

to the UK, we've accepted 80 so far. She wants a list, she wants names of

unaccompanied children living there who are eligible to be brought to

Britain. Is that enough from your point of view? I will hand you over

to Josie here. So people have been aware of the children living there

for well over a year now. There intrn names submitted to the Home

Office way back as far as July and even earlier. There are children

that have a legal right to come to the UK because they have family

here, but there are also children that have a right to come here

because of the Dubs amendment that was wassed in May that said that

unaccompanied refugee children should be given sanctuary. Some of

these children are as young as eight and they are so vulnerable. They

need to be protected as soon as possible.

So you're talking about speed then, are you? Rather than numbers? Speed

and numbers. Right. Every life is precious. So every single child

needs to be given protection, be that in France or here. That's a

good point of whether it is France or here. You will know that people

say if people have arrived in France, that's where they should

claim asylum. What is the big attraction with the UK? What do you

say to that? Well, I mean, this wages is happening all across

Europe. We were, I think, fifth largest economy in the world last

week, maybe they're sixth or seventh now! No, I think people think that,

you know, those people might assume that we can afford it. Whether

that's correct or not, I imagine that's probably why they're coming

here. Greece has got 60,000 and their economy... Is on the floor. A

lot of these people have got family here. If you lost everything you

had, your home, lots of your family, had maybe lost their lives in war

and you had one family member remember may think in the UK or

somewhere else, you would probably go and find that family member to

reach safety. And if you arrive in Europe and you

are treated so horribly, you are working towards the dream, it cannot

be this awful, people cannot be like this.

I am just escaping a war that has nothing to do with me. It is a

fantasy. A lot of those children have been in the camp for a year,

living in conditions that are so below standard, and they have been

in France and nobody has come to take them out of the situation. We

all have a responsibility to make them safe. One of the criticisms of

people like yourself is, we have got enough kids here that need help, we

can not afford to help kids, unaccompanied kids, although they

may be from all over Europe and further afield. If you are going to

spend hundreds of millions of pounds on getting involved in conflicts in

these areas, there has to be a contingency fund for the fallout.

These children have been displaced, they have had to run away from what

they know. We have to take the responsibility. You may have been

asked, would you take an unaccompanied child into your own

home? 100%. Who wouldn't? If there were children outside our front door

on their own as young as eight, there are not many people who would

not say, come inside. Just because they are across the channel does not

mean they don't deserve protection. By using your celebrity, you are

high profile, you can bring continued awareness to this, because

these kids have been there for a year, and there might be something

in the news a few months, but you bring renewed interest, which you

also get criticised for. What do you think about that? I have to switch

off from it. We live in interesting times, the media is very powerful.

20 or 30 years ago you could not be involved in music without having

something to stand for, but now we live in a time where you are not

allowed to stand for anything. But I see it as my responsibility. I

cannot switch off and turn a blind eye. Do you feel some kind of

censorship, you are not supposed to be allowed to stand up for a course?

Yes. Because of the pressure you might get online? Yes. And the

reaction in some of the mainstream media as well. There are think

pieces which will come out as a result of doing this which will be

very negative. But I just have to take that as it comes, I have to

stand up for what I believe, or else there is not any point. I am picking

up you don't like in the mainstream media. I like some aspects of the

mainstream media, it is not all negative, but I do think there is a

narrative and a rhetoric that is being pushed at the moment that I

don't really enjoy. Meaning? I don't really want to go to all of that.

This text says, the people in the jungle in a safe country, why does

everybody called for the British Government to do something? The

French Government is responsible and seems to be doing nothing. The

French should look after these people. One person, Lily Allen needs

to visit charities here and see how stretched we are in coping with

Children and Families Bill needing help. Michael says, anybody who is

anybody knows that the Calle camp should not exist, everybody should

be resident in the first safe country they landed in. They crossed

a dozen safe countries to get to France. Supercilious celebrities, if

they feel so strongly about it, why have they not held to their promises

and taken a refugee into their home? Because they are not being allowed

into the country. How can I? Are you saying you would do. Obviously, I

would have to go through the bureaucratic side, I am not going to

do it illegally, but these children are being displaced. Of course,

there is room for people in my house, I will take them in! Anybody

would. The idea of my children wandering around aimlessly without

anywhere to go... We have to let it go there, it is

happening, closer to us than Glasgow. Amber Road said in

parliament we have spent ?100 million on the situation in Calais,

but children are still living like this, so we need to make sure that

if we are spending taxpayers money, that children are protected. I want

to ask briefly about stalking. We will talk to a Conservative MP who

would like the maximum sentence to be doubled from five years in jail

to ten years in jail. You have experienced it over several years.

Your reaction to the potential idea of doubling the jail sentence? What

difference will it make? I am not an expert on the legal system, but I

would welcome it in some cases and not in others. It is about the

individual case. From your own experience, do you think it would

have a deterrent on somebody who was stalking someone else? All I can go

by is my own experience, my stalker suffers with mental illness, so it

would not have been a deterrent. Policing is the issue rather than

sentencing. Meaning you felt let down? You talked about it publicly,

and when we reflected the story, we had women getting in touch with

similar experiences. There are a lot more preventative measures that

could be taken. Our prisons are overstretched. I would rather see

more actions taken at the point of it being reported, rather than...

Thank you for coming on the programme.

Let's talk more about the maximum sentence for anybody caught stalking

to be doubled from five to ten years.

We can speak now to Alex Chalk, the Conservative MP who is lobbying

parliament to increase sentences, and Shingai Shoniwa, lead singer

of the band the Noisettes, who is speaking for the first time

about her experience of being stalked.

You have been and are still being stalked by an ex-partner.

Can you tell us some of what he has subjected you to?

The only way I can describe it, it is an excessive fixation and a very

terrorising desire to control and mutilate someone's life and build a

wall around them. It can happen on many different levels to people with

different profiles. It is this kind of behaviour, violating people's

boundaries, and making sure that they are always thinking about you.

It is a pattern that I feel precursors violent behaviour, and

most people who have been stalked and harassed have experienced

violent behaviour by the perpetrators. It is the beginning of

a really terrorising campaign, it is very difficult for somebody who is

obsessively fixated and compost to stop doing. The former partner in

this case denies the allegations, he is appealing against a conviction.

Tell our viewers about the impact on you, how it changes you. Changes how

you run your life. A lot of people that go through these experiences

are forced to navigate their life in such a way that they are continually

having to protect their previously, worrying about the safety of their

friends and their family. My creativity and positivity has not

been compromised, but professionally it holds everything you do, because

you don't want to mix being part of such a negative process with the

positive things that are going on in your life and work and job. Most

people know me as a positive voice bringing joy and sharing that

message, so for me to be able to come here and let people know that

things can be put in place and things need to be tightened, because

stalker is still lives, it is literally like murder in slow

motion, it is a sinister kind of personal terrorism that should not

be tolerated. As not just the victims but also advocacy services,

everything we lobby and four, is hopefully sending the message that

kind of behaviour will not be overrated, and you cannot go around

stalking and trying to kill people from the inside out slowly and shut

down that world, because it will not be tolerated. It is nothing I would

wish upon anybody. Tell us why you are thinking that it would be a

deterrent to double the sentence, the maximum sentence, from five

years to ten. That was incredibly powerful, and it is not unusual, I

have a constituent who was terrorised over the course of seven

years. When the judge had to deal with her stalker for the second

offence, the judge said, I don't have the powers I need to protect

the victim. Think about five years, if you plead guilty at the first

opportunity, because you only serve half, it is a maximum of 18 to 20

months. This person had destroyed somebody's life for seven years,

they developed PTSD and had to give up their job. Compare it with other

offences, burglary, a mother violating offence, a maximum of 14

years, and yet five years. King does not bear any comparison. Street

robbery is maximum life in prison. I am not saying that all offences need

a huge sentence, but where it is a repeat offence, somebody is being

robbed of their independence, the judge has got to have powers to be

able to protect the victim, and they don't have them. What was the

sentence in that case? The judge gave the maximum, but he said, if I

could give more, I would. You see so many women, the only time that they

are able to grow again as people, to live their lives, ill their

relationships and careers is whilst that person is in custody. They look

at the clock, when the person is getting closer to release data, and

you see their tension rising. Of course people need to be released

and rehabilitated and reformed, but equally we have to put victims

first, to ensure they are properly protected. The Government has done

great stuff by making it an offence, it was not until 2012,... I've

reported on it. It was a really important step, but the sentencing

still treated as a minor offence, but it is a serious offence. If it

was doubled to ten years, would it deter some people who perpetrate

stalking? Or is that not the point? The point is keeping somebody off

the street so the victim feels... That is the point. Stalkers tend to

be more sophisticated than your average criminal. They make a cost

in a fit and answers. At the margin, maybe some, but in the most serious

cases, for the judge to say, you have destroyed someone's life over a

repeated period of time, you have not listened to short sentences, you

will be out of circulation for a while, it is only then we do justice

for the victims. Stalkers tend to have this excessive, repetitive

offending profile about themselves. It is only a matter of time before

they choose and size at their next victim. The perpetrator involved in

my case used to brag about having ruined other people's lives before,

and that is when I saw warning signs. He would go around bragging

that he was above the law and it was exciting to damage people and to try

and play this psychological game that does not just affect them but

it extends to their families. It extends to dozens of the people

around them. You are not just attempting to destroy and assault

one person, there is a ricochet effect, and even like you said the

doctor in question had PTSD, and things like depression. That is an

illness that you are inflicting on somebody else. Did you fear for your

life? There is a survival instinct that kicks in. I definitely felt a

lot better once I came into contact with the charity and saw some of the

incredible stories. So many of these cases have resulted in fatalities.

And of grievous bodily harm situations. There are other things

that spiral off that stalkers will often do, which is hacking a fraud,

stealing money, all of the things that I have experienced as well.

There needs to be a message out there that actually we are equipped

to deal with you, otherwise people who have to not just fear for their

own safety, but for the safety of others around them, my folks had to

move house. This stalker turned up at a birthday

party that her daughter was. Sent a package that she knew where the

kids, where they lived and where the kids and a message when he came out

of prison, "Guess who is back?" It is unbelievably menacing. It is

invasive and it is violating. It can be the gateway to very serious

violence. If you look at the Metropolitan Police statistics about

domestic violence, the proportion that have been proceeded by an

episode of stalking is eye watering. It is close to 40%. So it is about,

it is all about protection this and at the moment the law could go

further. OK, thank you very much.

I would like to add as well - there is a petition to create a register

for stalkers, you know, and harassers, people who have been

convicted so in my case, the perpetrator would have to sign an

offenders register such as sex offenders and other criminals have

to do so because then people can know when they go into those

communities and try to reoffend or seek work that they're going to be

blocked unless rehabilitated. OK. Thank you. Thank you so much for

having us. Not a problem. Thank you. You should contact the police if you

are being stalked and there are charities who can help you include.

We'll be talking to a mother with HIV who went

Vanessa Roberts only found out she has HIV.

With 70 stars of Rio 2016. There will be an audience of people who

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of Scotland who slumped Manager Gordon Strachan

said he "felt sorry" And it's a winner takes

all in the final one day match between England and

Bangladesh in Chittagong. People with HIV are being diagnosed

late because hospitals and GP practices in England and Scotland

are ignoring guidelines and failing Dr Faye Kirkland, who is a GP

and a reporter, has the story. In the UK, more than 100,000 people

are living with HIV. About 18,000 people in the country

are thought to be living Last year, nearly 40% of adults

diagnosed with HIV only found out in the late stages of infection,

often meaning they were more unwell, more unlikely to be admitted

to hospital, and have longer to unknowingly pass the disease

to their sexual partners. To tackle this, eight years ago,

the British HIV association, who advise on HIV care,

issued guidance, saying that in the high-risk areas shown here,

where there are more than two in 1,000 people diagnosed,

GPs should consider offering all patients an HIV test

when they register. And also in hospitals

when patients are admitted In 2013, the guidance

was strengthened, saying It's backed by public

health England. Here in St Thomas' in London,

they have the highest rates of HIV in the local community in the whole

of the UK. So, for the last 14 months,

all patients over 16 who have a blood test here in A

are also given a test for HIV, unless the patient decides

they don't want it. So, patients are given

a leaflet on arrival, and there are posters explaining

about the testing scheme. The benefit for these

patients is enormous. We're literally talking

about saving someone's life. If you can detect HIV

before someone gets sick, you can offer them treatment

and prevent further illness. In the old days, we would mainly

diagnose HIV in sexual health Because that's when most

of the testing was. We're actually diagnosing twice

as many people in the emergency department as we are in the sexual

health which is extraordinary. We can also see the impact

on inpatient admissions. So by picking people up earlier,

we are preventing people getting And we've seen a 15% drop

in inpatient episodes That more than offsets

the cost of testing. In England, local authorities

are responsible for funding HIV 82% of these hospitals are not

testing in this way. And 70% of local authorities are not

funding HIV tests for people But the local health boards

do not offer testing This failure to fund, and this

failure to test, is risking lives. It's costing lives, and it's also

costing new infections. HIV testing is one of the very best

interventions in terms What's been shown in many,

many studies is a barrier Patients, when it is explained

to them why it should be done, But staff members feel

uncomfortable, they don't The stigma of HIV comes

out and comes forward. The Department of Health

spokesperson said, "While councils have had to make savings,

they've also shown that good results can be achieved at the same time,

and are best placed to understand Significant progress is being made

to diagnose HIV early." And the Scottish Public Health

Minister said, "Prevention of HIV infection remains a priority

for the Scottish Government. The Beaver guidelines are good

practice and we would expect boards to take them into account

while developing their And what we've seen in this

population is many more white heterosexual men, slightly different

to the population we've And that's a really

important message. If you just focus on populations

were traditionally we've seen more Local authorities are keen to point

out that they do fund testing in other settings, such

as sexual health clinics. But experts say this strategy alone

is resulting in patients with an undiagnosed infection

slipping through the net. So tell us why local councils are

not funding? Well, the guidelines that you just heard about are

actually also co-authored by a number of organisations and one was

the Local Government Association. So in England there are 150 local

authorities where they have got responsibility for funding public

health services and a third of them are in high risk areas. Now, I asked

the Local Government Association if they signed up to this, why councils

aren't doing it? They told me there is hand about a squeeze on the

budget for public health in England and they are keen to point out they

test in other settings. There are no risk areas in Wales or Northern

Ireland. But some GP surgeries are not testing even when they are

funded? I asked the councils who are funding the GP surgeries how many

GPs surgeries are doing it. One council told me they were happy to

fund the GP surgeries, none of taken them up on the offer. 60% of GP

surgeries take up the offer, but 40% don't, there are multiple reasons,

one was the shortage of GPs and when the scheme is implemented they think

that staff get ineffective training on how well it is to manage it. What

does it mean for patients? Well, I showed our findings to our leading

HIV charities, the Terrence Higgins trust, the British Association of

Sexual health and HIV and the National AIDS Trust. All said for

patients this may mean some patients are not diagnosed until the late

stages of their infection which means patients end up in hospital or

unknowingly pass the infection on to other people. It is good for

patients, but it is cost effective for the NHS. OK, thank you.

And there is plenty more on the story on Radio 4's

We can talk now to Vanessa Roberts, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2014

after living with the virus unknowingly for over 30 years.

Which just seems astonishing... Yes, it is a rather unbelievable story,

isn't it? But it is my story. Tell us when you first started having

symptoms and how old you were? Well, looking back I suppose symptoms

first started appearing when I was in my early 20s, but I didn't

recognise them as being symptoms of HIV infection. It was like what? OK,

it was things like skin infections, ear infections, verrucas, lots of

niggly things, bronchitis, things like that, I couldn't breathe very

well through nigh nose. I had my adenoids out twice because they grew

back and as the years went by those symptoms kind of got worse, but

there was nothing really major that made anybody concerned that there

was something seriously wrong with me. Certainly during that time

nobody ever suggested I get a test. It never occurred to you? No. ,

Because... Why would it? Well, I had been aware when I was young that I

may have put myself at risk and I was very aware of the campaign in

the 80s about HIV AIDS, but I went on and I got married, I had two

children who grew up healthily, and I kind of assumed I didn't have it,

put it to the back of mined and didn't think anymore about it. How

was it that I came to be diagnosed a couple of years ago? Right, well I

had a medical problem they wasn't sexually related, but I couldn't get

an appointment with my GP for two weeks and I knew that I could get

treatment for this at the gum clinic and they had a drop in. I took

myself to the drop in. And I got the treatment for the thing that I had,

it was a minor thing and while I was there, they offered me a routine

blood screening test that they offered everybody at the sexual

health clinic and I accepted it because I didn't want to be

difficult really. You know when you go to the GP and they say, "We have

a student is that OK and you say yes." So I accepted the test and

thought nothing more of it and didn't expect it to show anything

and three days later I got a text message while I was at work from the

clinic saying please phone us immediately. So I'm a grief

counsellor, I went into a private room and I phoned up and they said,

"You need to come become to the hospital immediately." I said what

sort? They said there is a problem with one of your tests and I said

I'm not coming unless you tell me. And they said, "You're

HIV-positive." I felt as if my world was falling apart. My knowledge of

HIV went back to the ad in the 80s, I thought I was going to die by the

end of the week, it was a frightening thing.

My main concern was that I would die immediately. Which was illogical.

But that is what was in my mind. The other concern was for my children.

They were in their 20s. I was very concerned about them. My daughter

had donated blood in the past, I thought she was OK, but I was

concerned for my son and husband at the time and my ex-husband, the

father of my children. Could you work out how you contracted it? Yes,

from the blood results that were taken, the doctors established I had

had the virus for a long time. Looking back at my medical and

sexual history, it had to predate my first marriage. I had an episode at

19, in 1983, at university in Aberdeen, I was hospitalised with a

mystery virus. I had been having a relationship with a guy from Malawi,

a visiting student. I was hospitalised for a feud days and I

was told, you have had a virus, we don't know what it was but you are

fine now. That was it, for 31 years. Do you think a mandatory test like

we were talking about earlier would make a huge difference? Some

difference? It is vital. When people are diagnosed these days, and they

get on the medication, the medication these days is pretty

nontoxic, very few side effects, you can live a normal life with them.

You quickly become something called undetectable, meaning that the viral

level in your blood is solo that you are not infectious and you cannot

transmit the virus, even through unprotected sex. It is vital for

everybody that has this virus in their body to become aware of their

status, get on the medication and become undetectable. That way we

eradicate the virus. It is all very well looking for a cure, and I still

feel that if you years down the line, but everybody is put on

medication, we can eradicate this, and surely that is the best course

of action. Now you have accepted the diagnosis, had time to reflect on

it, you are smiley and positive. I am not a victim and I am not into

self signifies Asian, which I have experienced from other people which

are living with HIV. The stigma is real, it is not an easy thing to

admit you have, I feel it has enriched my life, though. I am

fortunate in that I am surrounded by accepting, positive people. My

children and two ex-husbands do not have the virus, that was another

fortunate thing. I have travelled to America and met women with HIV

there. I try to tell everybody about it. It is a non-issue now, although

I appreciate for many it is still a big issue. It is for those people

that I am speaking. Still to come, allergies

are now affecting more people than ever before,

but doctors say they know why. Now about an hour ago,

we were talking about the company Concentrix, which is at the centre