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Hello, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

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A Conservative win in the Copeland by-election in Cumbria.

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The Tories beat labour in an area they have held since the 1930s.

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New MP Trudy Harrison called it historic.

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What has happened here tonight is a truly historical event. You would

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have to go back more than a century to find an example of the governing

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party taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like

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this. And in Stoke on Trent Central

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labour Gareth Snell beat Ukip's Paul Nuttall to hold the seat

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known as the capital of Brexit. We will have all the political

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reaction to both by-elections. The morning after the night before

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and a massive boost for Theresa May while in Stoke, a crunch question

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for Ukip. Are they on the ropes after they failed to beat Labour in

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this big Brexit seat? Remember these scenes

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as Leicester City defied odds of 5000-1 to become

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Premier League winners. Well, just nine months later

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the club has sacked their manager Claudio Ranieri in a decision

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they say was "painful but necessary" as results just

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weren't good enough. Red carpets are being rolled

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out ahead of the 89th We will be getting all the Oscars

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gossip from LA and chatting with showbiz columnist Perez Hilton

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about all the goings Hello, welcome to the programme,

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we're live until 11 this morning. We are going to talk to some

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of our Leicester City super fans who made diaries for us

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about their beloved club and what they think about the man

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they thought was a hero being sacked Do get in touch on all the stories

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

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and if you text, you will be charged the words of new Conservative MP

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Trudy Harrison after winning the Labour seat of Copeland in last

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night's by-election. It's the first gain

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by a governing party since 1982. In the night's other result Labour

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held on to Stoke Central, with Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

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finishing in second place. Our Political Correspondent Tom

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Bateman sent us this report. Harrison, Trudy Lynne,

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the Conservative Party candidate, Voters here had chosen a Labour MP

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for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic

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night as the Conservatives took What has happened here tonight

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is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

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than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

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from the opposition party Labour had said the vote

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was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat,

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their departing candidate The first time a Conservative has

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represented the area But serious questions for Labour

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under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move

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of visiting a by-election seat It was a hard-fought campaign over

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nuclear jobs and hospital services. The result leaves Labour

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assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news

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for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another

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traditional seat for the party. They held on with

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a reduced majority. This by-election was a test for Ukip

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in a working-class area that voted It just managed second place,

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but did increase its vote share. This seat was, what,

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number 72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know,

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we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation

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for Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn promised

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he would reconnect with voters. He may have to try in spite

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of futher opposition Our political correspondent

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Iain Watson is in Copeland, and our political guru Norman Smith

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is in Stoke. Ian first of all in Copeland, what

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is your analysis of the implications of this result? Yes, not just my

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analysis that talking to Labour MPs who have been campaigning here, the

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one thing they have said time and again is Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

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has come up on prompted on the doorstep. When I say Labour MPs, as

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you will note 85% of his own MPs voted for no confidence in him but I

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am talking about people on the left of the Labour Party, some of them

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have worked very closely with Jeremy Corbyn. They said there is no point

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in pretending to you that this is not the case. Labour says there are

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reasons why it did so badly here. Tom Bateman has talked about the

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historical nature of this. But this is a swing of almost 7% from the

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opposition party to the governing party. Nothing like that have

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happened at least since 1982, possibly since 1960. If that

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happened across the country, neighbour already 100 seats behind,

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the Conservatives would probably lose around another 50 seats. Labour

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say that the Conservatives put that misinformation about the nuclear

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industry. Sellafield is the biggest employer in this constituency. But

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Jeremy Corbyn's opponents say that as an excuse and not a reason. The

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official Labour Party policy is pro-nuclear. Jeremy Corbyn said he

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was in favour of new nuclear so the bigger question for Jeremy Corbyn is

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if he is saying that he believes in the nuclear industry, why don't they

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trust him when he says it? That question of trust will be hanging

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over the leadership. I don't expect him to throw in the towel because of

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this result, I simply expect pressure on him to increase. And

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Norman in Stoke, defeat for Ukip, what does it mean for Paul Nuttall?

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A very good question. People will be asking what future for Paul Nuttall

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and what future for Ukip? This was a seat which should have been an

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absolute plum seat for Ukip. It was probably one of the biggest

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pro-Brexit seats in the country. It was a traditional working-class

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Labour seat, the sort of seat where they said Wright, we will go after

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these seats, this is where we can really capitalise. In the event they

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have made almost zilch progress. Their vote went up 2%, hardly

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anything at all. As for Mr Nuttall himself, he suffered a right old

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roughhouse of a campaign and he sort of scuttled out of here with his

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tail between his legs I think. The problem they face is where do they

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go now? If they can't make any inroads here, where do they make

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inroads? Inevitably, people will argue now we have Brexit, now we

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have Nigel Farage has gone, now Theresa May has sort of shifted the

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Tory party onto a lot of Ukip territory, what is the point in

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Ukip? I think they will face some very tough questions about whether

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they are actually on the cusp of steady decline. Norman, thank you.

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We will speak to the Ukip party chairman and also some MPs about

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their take on what has happened in the by-election. Let's catch up with

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the rest of the news. Annita is in the BBC Newsroom

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with a summary of the rest Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

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an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

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in the red. The figure represents a hefty

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increase on the ?2 billion loss the bank reported last

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year and is one of the group's biggest since its Government

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bailout in 2008. Iraqi security forces have

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recaptured Mosul airport, IS continued to fire mortars

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at the airport from further inside the city after losing

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the ground to the army. The east and much of

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the south-west of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked manager

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Claudio Ranieri just nine months after he led the club's to its first

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Premier League title. The Foxes are only one point

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above the relegation zone. Lester's board said the change was

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painful but highly necessary. Malaysian police say the highly

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toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face

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of Kim Jong Nam - the murdered half-brother

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of North Korea's leader. VX is an extremely toxic Chemical

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warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women

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briefly holding something over Kim Jong Nam's face

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while he was preparing to board a flight at

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Kuala Lumpur airport last week. Our correspondent Rupert

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Wingfield Hayes has more. They say they found traces of this

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VX nerve agent on those swabs, and that is a very, very serious

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thing to have found out, because VX is considered to be the most toxic

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nerve agent ever invented. It was actually invented

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in Britain in the 1950s. Large quantities of it were produced

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in America and in the Soviet Union during the Cold War,

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but it has subsequently been banned under UN Chemical Convention,

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and so the fact that it's been used here in this killing,

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makes a whole new level Donald Trump says he wants to expand

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America's nuclear arsenal. In his first comments on the issue

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since taking office, Mr Trump said it would be

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"wonderful" if no nation had nuclear arms, but otherwise the US must

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be "top of the pack". Police investigating the escape

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of a convicted murderer from custody have arrested two people

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on suspicion of Merseyside Police detained

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a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman in Liverpool in connection

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with Shaun Walmsley's escape. Walmsley went on the run when two

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armed men confronted prison officers guarding him at a hospital

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on Tuesday afternoon. More universities in England will be

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soon be able to offer degree courses which last for just two years

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under new plans. In return they will be able

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to increase annual tuition fees to more than ?13,000 -

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although the overall cost of a degree will still

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be capped at ?27,000. The clear-up continues this morning

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after Storm Doris battered much of the UK leaving one woman dead

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after being hit by flying debris. Winds of up to 94mph caused power

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cuts and travel chaos as flights were grounded

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and train services disrupted. Drivers are being warned to be

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wary of ice on the roads in Scotland, Northern Ireland,

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and North West England. It's been discovered bumblebees can

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teach each other how to score goals with a tiny ball,

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displaying a learning ability They surprised scientists by working

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out how to obtain a food reward In the experiment, the bees

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were placed on a platform and had to roll a yellow ball to a specific

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location in order to Those that observed the success

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of other bees were better at learning the task than those that

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didn't. That's a summary of the latest BBC

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News - more at 9.30. I absolutely love that story! That

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is so cool. Vinnie says I am an Arsenal supporter and the sacking of

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Claudio Ranieri is wrong. Blame the players who got big-money contracts

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and cars. What do you think about him being sacked just nine months

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after Leicester City defied the odds to win the Premiership. Let us know

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your thoughts. We will weave them into our discussions. We will talk

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to our super fans later. Do get in touch with us

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throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

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and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport now

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with Hugh Woozencroft - Hero to zero in such a short period

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of time? Yes, that is right.

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The story covering every single back page today is of course

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the sacking of Claudio Ranieri as Leicester City manager.

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It comes with the current Premier League Champions

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sitting 17th in the table, just one point above the drop zone.

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But after their miraculous season last year, the club now see survival

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as its primary target, despite still being in the European

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Let's speak now to BBC Leicester's football commentator

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Ian Stringer, who is outside the

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Ian, this seems to have been reacted to with a lot of shock. What have

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you made of it and the fans you have spoken to? Morning. It is a pretty

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quiet King Power Stadium over my shoulder this morning. People have

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been winding down their windows and singing Claudio Ranieri's name. You

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mentioned in the introduction hero to zero but he will always have the

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hero status here after lifting the trophy which the club had not won in

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132 years. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the

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Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome

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their heroes led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this

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club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a

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motion in the city and there is upset. There is some anger as well.

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Cloudy over is still a hero in many people's eyes. -- Claudio is still a

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hero. Everyone can remember the trophy being hoisted aloft but the

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search for a new manager begins. There are suggestions today that a

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breakdown in his relationship with the players was at the heart of this

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dismissal. What you make of those claims?

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He clearly had support from... Support from the dressing room was

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dwindling, that's been quite clear. There have been suggestions for a

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couple weeks, were they playing for Claudio Ranieri? There are banners

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here for Wes Morgan, cash but Schmeichel and Jamie Vardy, with

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champions etched on the side of the stadium. This stadium is wrapped in

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some of these heroes. Many of those are the senior players you

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mentioned. I understand the sentiment and the point. Whether

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there was an irretrievable breakdown of a relationship or not, I'm not

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sure we will ever know but it was quite clear there were problems in

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the dressing room and with some of the players and with a relationship

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with the manager. Were they still playing for Claudio that remains to

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be seen. The fact remains they were only 2-1 down to Sevilla in the

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Champions League. This time a few days ago I was at the Apple

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reflecting on a good 2-1 defeat, they are still in that tie. The

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Italian has got Leicester City to the last 16 of the Champions League

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and now has been sacked. Just before you go, just quickly, who are the

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men being mentioned as a potential replacement? Roberto Mancini's name

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has been mentioned a lot in the city this morning. The King Power Stadium

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was built in the early 2000s. Roberto Mancini played four times

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for the foxes in 2001 in a loan spell. I remember watching himself

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as a boy, great touch and experienced professional. There is

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talk he may be the favourite but there are lots of names being

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bandied around in the city of Leicester. To be honest, we're only

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just getting over the divorce with Claudio Ranieri, a new relationship

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seems a long, long way away at the moment. Thank you. We will see what

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the club decides in the future. Joanna, that is all the sport for

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now but more on this coming up at ten o'clock.

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Thank you very much, see you later. The Conservatives have pulled off

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an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian

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seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned

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a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes

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to Labour's Gillian But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent

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Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600

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votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped

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to become his party's second MP. the former Health Minister

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and Conservative MP Dr Dan Poulter Dan, a stunning Tory victory, first

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win by governing party there for many years. What do you put it down

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to? Certainly it's a very good result for the Conservative Party

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and a good result for the government. What we have seen is

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that it's very difficult for a governing party to win a

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by-election, as you say for the first time in 30 or 40 years this

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government has managed to achieve that. That is a strong endorsement

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of Theresa May and a strong endorsement of Trudy Harrison, the

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candidate who won the election. Was it special circumstances? In a

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constituency where thousands of jobs depend on the nuclear industry and

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Jeremy Corbyn's historic opposition to that proved to be a problem for

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Labour? Well, of course in any by-election

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there are factors in place. Some of those local factors on some national

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factors. It's always expected the main opposition does well in

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national by-elections. That wasn't the case. What this by-election has

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shown, from what I believe, and what I pick up in my own constituency and

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elsewhere in the country, is there is a very strong belief in Theresa

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May as our Prime Minister and that is something that was borne out of

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this election result today. You see it more as a victory for

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Theresa May than a vote against Labour and Jeremy Corbyn

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specifically? Well, certainly... I don't

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particularly like to pass comment on other political parties... But the

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politics is won by building a coalition of voters. It's very

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important that any party that wants to be in government can build a

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coalition of voters that includes middle ground voters. That's

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something David did very successfully in considering

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delivering a Conservative majority at the last election, something

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Theresa May has achieved. I'm not sure Jeremy Corbyn is appealing to

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those people outside of the very hard left of the Labour vote. That's

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something that will prove a real challenge for Labour, if they ever

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want to become a party of government again. Andrew Green, seven years of

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austerity under Tory government. Previously coalition government as

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well. A row in the constituency over the closure of maternity services in

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hospital and still Labour could not pull it off.

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Of course, we had a disappointing night here in Copeland at a mixed

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fixture across the country. Gareth Snell became a new member of

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Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. But that's not to say that

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here in Copeland we ended up with the result that we would sooner not

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have had. But, of course, I've been here since the start of January.

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What I've seen is one of the most polarised election campaigns that

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I've ever known, basically centred around two issues. One, as you

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rightly say, the potential downgrade of NHS services at West Cumberland

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Hospital. The other was the nuclear industry. We were able to convince

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people to come out and vote to try and save their NHS services here in

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West Cumbria, but at the end of the day we weren't able to convince

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enough people that the Labour Party is a pro-civil nuclear party. Who

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takes the blame for that? What are the lessons to be learned? Where do

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you put the problem? Well, the point is we have a job now, to reconnect

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with communities like Copeland. That is the challenge for the Labour

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Party going forward... Sorry, looking back to the campaign for a

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moment. You said that Labour failed to convince voters on the issue of

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nuclear. Whose fault is that? It was a very heavily fought campaign. It

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was a vicious campaign in many respects, on both of those different

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issues. We were unable to convince enough people that the Labour Party

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not only backs civil nuclear as part of an important energy mix, in order

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to keep the lights on, but also that the Labour Party was the only party

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that was committed to using a public equity in order to secure the future

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jobs at the new power station, chateau Sheba pull-out. Sorry to

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interrupt again, but the reason... -- should dump a pull-out. The

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reason it was an issue for the Labour Party is Jeremy Corbyn's

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leadership and his historic position on this. Does Jeremy Corbyn take the

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blame for the fact the party lost? Look, this isn't about one person.

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The point is we've had two years of introspection in the Labour Party

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with two leadership contest. The last thing the Labour Party needs

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going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years

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ahead. What we've got to do is reconnect with communities like

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Copeland, that's a challenge, but we've got to be able to show we're

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listening to people here on the ground and that we are building

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policies ahead of the 2020 general election, and that we are speaking

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up for working communities, whether it is here in the north-west of

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England or in the Midlands in Stoke-on-Trent or elsewhere in the

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country. That is something for Labour Party now has to do. It has

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to dust itself down after Copeland, we have to look at the success in

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Stoke and to learn lessons there as well, about how we've seen off Ukip.

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But we've got to make sure that we are fully reconnected with those

:24:07.:24:16.

communities that we seek to serve. Paul Oakden, chairman of Ukip. 70%

:24:17.:24:19.

of voters in Stoke voted for Brexit. You might have thought Ukip were a

:24:20.:24:21.

shoo-in in the by-election but Labour took it, what went wrong for

:24:22.:24:29.

Ukip? Incorrectly assumed we were clear favourites to win. We thought

:24:30.:24:32.

we had a good chance and we went into yesterday with high hopes and

:24:33.:24:36.

optimism. Sadly, the four week campaign we had wasn't enough to

:24:37.:24:41.

introduce ourselves and our newly dead to the voters in Stoke-on-Trent

:24:42.:24:45.

Central, but we are please coming out of yesterday. Disappointed but

:24:46.:24:48.

pleased we managed to improve on our vote result in 2015... By 2%. 2% is

:24:49.:24:57.

a step forward and not a step back. Given that the last time we fought

:24:58.:25:01.

campaign in Stoke it was pre-referendum, with Nigel Farage as

:25:02.:25:05.

the leader. Both of those things have now come and gone. We have a

:25:06.:25:09.

new leader who has only been in the post for 12 weeks. I thought it was

:25:10.:25:16.

incredibly brave for him to put himself forward as a candidate. We

:25:17.:25:20.

improved on our vote share and our party came together in a way hasn't

:25:21.:25:24.

done for a long time to rally around our candidate and leader, Paul

:25:25.:25:27.

Nuttall. There's a lot to be hopeful for. It's a stepping stone. It was a

:25:28.:25:31.

disappointing night because we thought we might win but it gives us

:25:32.:25:36.

optimism for the future. What about that row over Hillsborough and the

:25:37.:25:38.

false claim he personally knew people died at Hillsborough? How

:25:39.:25:43.

much did that overshadow what happened there and how much does it

:25:44.:25:49.

tarnish him as leader? From Paul Nuttall's perspective it

:25:50.:25:51.

overshadowed a campaign he was looking forward to with optimism and

:25:52.:25:56.

vigour. He took responsibility for something that was put onto his

:25:57.:26:00.

website that he hadn't seen. He took responsibility for that. The person

:26:01.:26:04.

that wrote and published it took responsibility for doing that, too.

:26:05.:26:07.

It was very unfortunate on a very sensitive issue that Paul feels very

:26:08.:26:13.

deeply. That will have had an impact on him. To what extent that impacted

:26:14.:26:18.

on the referendum campaign, who knows? On the doorsteps of Stoke

:26:19.:26:22.

Hillsborough was something mentioned to us very much at all. There were

:26:23.:26:25.

other things people wanted to talk about. Yes, it took something away

:26:26.:26:30.

from our campaign and that was regrettable, but I wouldn't blame

:26:31.:26:33.

that media narrative for costing us the election. Ukip came in second

:26:34.:26:39.

place but actually only 79 votes ahead of the Tories. The Ukip

:26:40.:26:45.

narrative was that Ukip would be representing Labour voters and

:26:46.:26:49.

taking away votes from Labour. You didn't do that. The Tories are now

:26:50.:26:53.

pushing forward with Brexit, which was previously the raison d'etre for

:26:54.:27:01.

four Ukip, what is the next step for Ukip, where does it go as a party?

:27:02.:27:08.

As we've said quite widely this morning, Stoke on Central was a key

:27:09.:27:11.

seat we were looking out with interest in 2015 but there were

:27:12.:27:14.

several other seats we had better hopes for ahead of the general

:27:15.:27:18.

election last time. So why did Paul Nuttall stand there? Why did he

:27:19.:27:25.

staked his reputation and standing now? Because Paul Nuttall believes

:27:26.:27:27.

in leading from the front and that's what he did by making himself a

:27:28.:27:30.

candidate in this election. That's why it was a courageous thing to do

:27:31.:27:35.

and why our party are wholesome in their support of him as a leader

:27:36.:27:38.

this morning. When Paul got back to eye headquarters last night after

:27:39.:27:42.

the count he was greeted by several standing ovations from members. I

:27:43.:27:47.

think you did the right thing by standing and the right thing in this

:27:48.:27:52.

campaign by fighting the campaign it was a very positive campaign. At no

:27:53.:27:56.

point did we say anything negative about the Labour candidate,

:27:57.:27:59.

something I'm proud of. It didn't get as to where we wanted to go but

:28:00.:28:05.

I'm sure next time it will. Thank you all very much indeed for joining

:28:06.:28:07.

us. Iraqi forces continue

:28:08.:28:08.

their advance into Mosul. We'll be hearing from people

:28:09.:28:13.

across the country. And Leicester City manager Claudio

:28:14.:28:19.

Ranieri has been sacked by the club, nine months after leading them

:28:20.:28:23.

to the Premier League title. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:28:24.:28:26.

with a summary of todays news. The Conservatives have won

:28:27.:28:35.

the the Cumbrian seat of Copeland, which had been in Labour's hands

:28:36.:28:41.

for more than 80 years. Trudy Harrison took the seat

:28:42.:28:43.

with a majority of more than 2000. Labour held Stoke Central

:28:44.:28:46.

in the night's other by-election, with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

:28:47.:28:48.

finishing in second place. Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:28:49.:28:54.

an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

:28:55.:28:57.

in the red. The figure represents a hefty

:28:58.:29:00.

increase on the ?2 billion pound loss the bank reported last year

:29:01.:29:04.

and is one of the group's biggest since its Government

:29:05.:29:07.

bailout in 2008. Iraqi forces says they have now

:29:08.:29:10.

moved into west Mosul for the first time, a day after capturing

:29:11.:29:14.

the city's airport from Yesterday's operation

:29:15.:29:16.

took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars

:29:17.:29:20.

at the airport from further from further inside the city,

:29:21.:29:26.

after losing the ground to the army. The east and much of the south-west

:29:27.:29:28.

of Mosul is now Leicester City has sacked

:29:29.:29:31.

manager Claudio Ranieri - just nine months after he led

:29:32.:29:34.

the club to the The win was the biggest

:29:35.:29:36.

triumph for the Foxes But the team is currently one place

:29:37.:29:41.

above the relegation zone. Leicester's board said the change

:29:42.:29:47.

was "painful but necessary". Malaysian police say the highly

:29:48.:29:51.

toxic nerve agent, VX, has been found on the face

:29:52.:29:55.

of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half-brother of North Korea's

:29:56.:29:58.

leader. VX is an extremely toxic chemical

:29:59.:30:02.

warfare agent and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women

:30:03.:30:05.

briefly holding something over Kim Jong-nam's face

:30:06.:30:09.

while he was preparing to board a flight at Kuala Lumpur

:30:10.:30:12.

airport last week. A group of conservation charities

:30:13.:30:18.

is launching its biggest ever recruitment drive to help protect

:30:19.:30:20.

the native red squirrel. A total of 5,000 volunteers

:30:21.:30:24.

are required across England, They will help protect resident

:30:25.:30:27.

squirrel populations. Researchers say the species remains

:30:28.:30:31.

under threat because of disease and competition for food from larger

:30:32.:30:33.

grey squirrels, from north America. That's a summary of the latest

:30:34.:30:41.

BBC News - more at 10. Thank you. Loads of you getting in

:30:42.:31:04.

touch. Someone says I am a season ticket holder for many years at

:31:05.:31:07.

Leicester. I am ashamed of what they have done. Don't blame Claudio,

:31:08.:31:13.

blamed the lazy complacent players for the results. Another says I am

:31:14.:31:17.

very shocked and sad, where is the loyalty? I hope the players feel

:31:18.:31:21.

ashamed. Another said I hate football and even I think the

:31:22.:31:25.

sacking of Claudio Ranieri is wrong. He took a nowhere team to the top

:31:26.:31:30.

and this is how he is treated. Blame the money that went to the players'

:31:31.:31:36.

heads. And Kevin says he deserves to be kept to the end of the season. He

:31:37.:31:40.

and back and a change of manager at this stage of the season is probably

:31:41.:31:46.

less likely to see improvement. Thank you for all of those comments,

:31:47.:31:50.

do keep them coming in. Now more with you.

:31:51.:32:02.

Interestingly, Leicester were one of the richest clubs in Europe. In

:32:03.:32:09.

terms of the money, Claudio Ranieri brought in a lot of that.

:32:10.:32:12.

Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss is the early

:32:13.:32:14.

favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester.

:32:15.:32:16.

It's being reported the club have made an approach

:32:17.:32:18.

for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001.

:32:19.:32:26.

A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress

:32:27.:32:29.

They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked

:32:30.:32:34.

Manchester United will be the only British team

:32:35.:32:37.

French side Catalan Dragons are the new leaders

:32:38.:32:41.

They won 16-14 in a bruising encounter away at Hull FC

:32:42.:32:46.

and there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner

:32:47.:32:49.

Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled

:32:50.:32:53.

out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune.

:32:54.:33:00.

I will be back with more sport just after ten o'clock.

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See you then. Thank you. Iraqi forces have begun their attack

:33:05.:33:07.

on the western part of Mosul. This is just hours after

:33:08.:33:10.

the significant breakthrough of capturing the city's airport

:33:11.:33:12.

from Islamic State fighters. Capturing the airport was very

:33:13.:33:14.

significant in the push to regain control of the western part

:33:15.:33:17.

of the city. The eastern half was re-taken

:33:18.:33:20.

by government forces last month. After a night heavy of airstrikes,

:33:21.:33:23.

troops are now moving from the surrounding desert

:33:24.:33:26.

and farmland to the city itself. In a moment we'll speak to people

:33:27.:33:30.

in Iraq but before here's the latest on the battle in Mosul and why it

:33:31.:33:34.

matters. They spared no chance to hurt

:33:35.:33:39.

the people, whether physically or She told me that her dream

:33:40.:33:43.

was to eat one piece of bread once again and to live

:33:44.:33:49.

and forget the memories of the war. Beheading was the new ghost,

:33:50.:34:43.

haunting the city for so many There were a lot of rules that

:34:44.:34:48.

you have to obey them, otherwise you are guilty and you may

:34:49.:34:57.

even face death. They are not afraid

:34:58.:35:03.

of what is happening, they are afraid of Isil that can

:35:04.:35:06.

break into their home at any time. My message to the whole world,

:35:07.:36:45.

to the decision-maker of the world, for those who can make a change,

:36:46.:36:51.

please help in liberating the whole Mosul has been

:36:52.:36:58.

suffering for too long. We can now speak to Jumana Mumtaz,

:36:59.:37:12.

an Iraqi blogger based in Baghdad, who has family trapped

:37:13.:37:15.

in Western Mosul, Cengiz Yar, a photojournalist

:37:16.:37:19.

who was with the Iraqi federal police

:37:20.:37:21.

as they took control of the city's airport yesterday

:37:22.:37:24.

and Bruno Geddo from the UNHCR. Thank you very much for joining us.

:37:25.:37:37.

Cengiz Yar, tell us what it was like as control was taken of the airport.

:37:38.:37:43.

There was a lot of incoming and outgoing shelling yesterday. The day

:37:44.:37:48.

before was mainly outgoing. Forces moved in rather quickly. I think

:37:49.:37:54.

more quickly than everyone expected. And there was heavy fighting

:37:55.:37:57.

throughout the day. In the afternoon it seemed to calm down a little bit.

:37:58.:38:02.

And tell us more about what you have been doing as you got to this point.

:38:03.:38:08.

You have been involved in raids on IS sleeper cells in eastern Mosul? I

:38:09.:38:20.

have been covering the Mosul offensive for the past four months.

:38:21.:38:22.

It is wave after wave, as they move further into the city, different

:38:23.:38:24.

challenges that the forces are facing, whether it be helping

:38:25.:38:28.

civilians escape, keeping them safe on dealing with car bombs and IDDs.

:38:29.:38:35.

In the newly recaptured territory, we are seeing security forces trying

:38:36.:38:40.

to find the remaining Isis sleeper cells that had stayed behind of the

:38:41.:38:45.

units retreated into the western areas of the city. Jumana, I said

:38:46.:38:52.

you are a blogger based in Baghdad. You are originally from Mosul and

:38:53.:38:56.

you have family there. Tell us what contact you have been able to have

:38:57.:39:00.

with family there? I tried yesterday to call my relatives there. They

:39:01.:39:10.

were living in the east bank but when the Iraqi offensive started

:39:11.:39:14.

they moved to the West because they thought the situation there would be

:39:15.:39:19.

more stable for them, but actually they are now facing a very hard

:39:20.:39:32.

starvation and actually, it is lower and there is not enough fuel or

:39:33.:39:39.

anything to keep them warm so they burned their furniture. But my

:39:40.:39:49.

relatives also they have been displaced from the east bank to the

:39:50.:39:52.

West Bank so they don't have any furniture and they have nothing to

:39:53.:39:56.

eat any more. They lost their health and also there is no protection in

:39:57.:40:06.

their house. The houses in the old city of Mosul have no protection.

:40:07.:40:11.

They are afraid of Isil that at any moment they can break into their

:40:12.:40:17.

home. We don't know what will happen with the next couple of days or

:40:18.:40:28.

couple of weeks, because it is showing that the battle will take

:40:29.:40:34.

more time. As we talk to you, we are seeing live pictures of the battle

:40:35.:40:43.

for Mosul. Bruno Geddo, there are 650,000 civilians trapped in western

:40:44.:40:46.

Mosul, what are your concerns for them? We have two major concerns.

:40:47.:40:53.

The first one is that we hope to continue to benefit from the

:40:54.:41:00.

commitment of the Iraqi security forces who are upholding

:41:01.:41:07.

international humanitarian law, which means putting civilians at the

:41:08.:41:11.

centre of their operation. This was done in the East successfully,

:41:12.:41:15.

because we had a very manageable outflow in total of 220,000 people,

:41:16.:41:22.

because fighting was carried out with small weapons, not heavy

:41:23.:41:26.

artillery. The destruction of property was limited so civilians

:41:27.:41:34.

did not feel compelled to flee. The West has additional problems because

:41:35.:41:39.

wherein the east of the population was more scattered, in the West,

:41:40.:41:47.

there are areas which are densely populated and the old city is built

:41:48.:41:51.

in a labyrinthine way with narrow alleys. So it may require fighting

:41:52.:41:58.

house by house, hand by hand, on foot rather than going in with

:41:59.:42:03.

armoured vehicles, so this is the first concern. The Iraqi security

:42:04.:42:08.

forces will be able to uphold detection even in a fighting

:42:09.:42:13.

environment which is more complex than in the East. The second problem

:42:14.:42:17.

is by the sheer number of people at risk, possibly more than 700,000, we

:42:18.:42:23.

have a worst-case scenario of 400,000 fleeing. We are planning for

:42:24.:42:31.

250,000. We need more capacity, more space, not only in the East where

:42:32.:42:38.

the existing camps are at capacity, but also in the south, where we are

:42:39.:42:49.

running against the clock to help the additional 10,000 families.

:42:50.:42:57.

Thank you very much indeed, that is Cengiz Yar, Jumana Mumtaz and Bruno

:42:58.:43:01.

Geddo, thank you. We are just getting some breaking news from the

:43:02.:43:05.

Electoral Commission. We are hearing that investigations are being

:43:06.:43:11.

launched into the spending returns in both campaigns in last year's EU

:43:12.:43:16.

referendum. That has been announced by the Electoral Commission which is

:43:17.:43:20.

looking into the spending returns into both of the lead campaigns in

:43:21.:43:22.

the referendum last year. The Welsh football legend

:43:23.:43:27.

Gareth Bale talks to the BBC about football, advice

:43:28.:43:30.

for youngsters and why Nine months ago he was hailed a hero

:43:31.:43:32.

when he took Leicester City It was like a fairy-tale

:43:33.:43:40.

for the Foxes, as they're also known, and for manager Claudio

:43:41.:43:44.

Ranieri. He was sacked by Leicester's

:43:45.:43:46.

board on Thursday The dream has become a nightmare

:43:47.:43:51.

with Leicester City now ranked just But here's a reminder

:43:52.:43:55.

of the club's finest season. Let's start with this,

:43:56.:44:03.

Claudio Ranieri is back. The Tinker Man is the brand-new

:44:04.:44:06.

manager of Leicester City. I don't think you'd have put him

:44:07.:44:09.

at the top of anyone's They're going to be one

:44:10.:44:14.

of seven or eight teams that are going to be down there,

:44:15.:44:18.

scrapping for every point. Leicester City have come back

:44:19.:44:20.

from two goals down. If they finish in the top six

:44:21.:44:27.

this year, they will And that is Vardy's goal in an 11th

:44:28.:44:33.

consecutive league match! They may well be top

:44:34.:44:42.

of the tree at Christmas time. It would be one of the most

:44:43.:44:53.

extraordinary stories of all time. Now Leicester are bound

:44:54.:45:05.

for the Premier League title! When Hazard scored that absolute

:45:06.:45:15.

worldy into the top, I went mental. You're a grown man, you've

:45:16.:45:18.

got tears in your eyes. The impossible dream

:45:19.:45:25.

is now a reality. Are you saying to me,

:45:26.:45:30.

"Have they been the best They have blown apart

:45:31.:45:33.

the established order It's the biggest ever sporting

:45:34.:45:37.

achievement in Britain, 2016, in the Premier League,

:45:38.:45:45.

it's the Year of the Fox! The most improbable result meant

:45:46.:46:00.

that Match of the Day host and Leicester fan had a keep

:46:01.:46:08.

a promise to host episode of the new season in his pants,

:46:09.:46:11.

if his side won the Premier League. This morning a very sombre Gary

:46:12.:46:21.

Lineker gave his reaction to the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.

:46:22.:46:23.

Well, it's a sign of modern football but what happened last season

:46:24.:46:26.

was truly extraordinary under Claudio Ranieri.

:46:27.:46:28.

I think the lack of gratitude from the owners of the club

:46:29.:46:34.

and who knows who else is involved in such a decision, it

:46:35.:46:36.

Yes, in recent times we have seen a few managers lose their jobs

:46:37.:46:43.

after winning the Premier League, but they were managers of clubs that

:46:44.:46:47.

expected to win titles and spend enough money on their clubs just

:46:48.:46:51.

to, I suppose they can kind of justify that.

:46:52.:46:55.

We have seen it in some of the big clubs in the world,

:46:56.:46:58.

the Real Madrids etc, but for a club like Leicester to win

:46:59.:47:04.

the league last season and the magnificence of that story,

:47:05.:47:07.

and the likeability of that club, especially

:47:08.:47:08.

under Claudio Ranieri, the ultimate gentleman,

:47:09.:47:11.

It takes away from the glory of last season and where is Leicester

:47:12.:47:17.

were hugely popular with everyone right around the world,

:47:18.:47:19.

to do something like this now I think loses a lot

:47:20.:47:22.

That season will remain with us forever and it was truly special.

:47:23.:47:30.

A lot of that was, of course, down to the management.

:47:31.:47:32.

The same guy now can't be considered incapable of doing his job

:47:33.:47:37.

just a few months later, having achieved what was, for me,

:47:38.:47:39.

But for me, I shed a tear last night.

:47:40.:47:44.

I shed a tear for Claudio, I shed a tear for football

:47:45.:47:47.

It is inexplicable to me and it is inexplicable to a lot

:47:48.:47:58.

of football fans who love the game, but I suppose in some ways,

:47:59.:48:03.

you can explain it in terms of a panic decision and, for me,

:48:04.:48:06.

Gary Lineker. How much has changed in nine months?

:48:07.:48:13.

In a moment we'll some reaction from passionate

:48:14.:48:15.

and shocked Leicester fans, and from the former Leicester

:48:16.:48:18.

player Steve Claridge, but first we can speak

:48:19.:48:19.

to John Percy, the Midlands Football reporter from the Daily Telegraph.

:48:20.:48:22.

Why has he gone? I think it's been coming, I really

:48:23.:48:29.

do. Despite our season, remarkable story, the fairy tale, this season

:48:30.:48:34.

has been dreadful. Performances have been or for other team tactics have

:48:35.:48:39.

been bewildering, team tactics have confused the players. I don't think

:48:40.:48:43.

it is a panic issue, since November there have been problems and

:48:44.:48:45.

performances have completely dropped. I understand the outrage

:48:46.:48:50.

and you have to question the timing, after the defeat in Sevilla that

:48:51.:48:53.

felt like a turning point, but I feel it has been coming and they are

:48:54.:48:56.

terrified of being relegated, which is the ultimate fear. We are getting

:48:57.:49:02.

loads and loads of comments via social media from fans. People are

:49:03.:49:08.

criticising the players are not the manager. I can understand that. The

:49:09.:49:12.

players, many of them highly rewarded in the summer for the title

:49:13.:49:15.

win. They have completely dropped off. I'd say there have only been

:49:16.:49:19.

one or two that have maintained the standards from our season. They have

:49:20.:49:23.

to look themselves in the eye. Lots of talks of that. But the things no

:49:24.:49:31.

one will be surprised about is if they play Liverpool on Monday night

:49:32.:49:37.

and when. What about the view of the chairman? The tide family have come

:49:38.:49:40.

in, spent a lot of money and supported the club, the club the

:49:41.:49:45.

24th richest club in Europe, which is amazing. -- the Thai family. But

:49:46.:49:53.

now they have done this which will be unpopular with the fans? Yes, but

:49:54.:49:58.

looking at Twitter last night not as much outrage as perhaps expected.

:49:59.:50:03.

They put a lot of money in. A few years ago they predicted a top six

:50:04.:50:07.

club, relegation wasn't on the menu. They must be feeling awful today.

:50:08.:50:11.

They didn't want to do it. It's like Lou shot Bambi. They didn't want to

:50:12.:50:18.

do it, they've had five wins all season. From champions to the

:50:19.:50:20.

championship, they can't allow that to happen. Thank you very much,

:50:21.:50:22.

John. Steve Claridge is a former

:50:23.:50:23.

Leicester player - who scored the winning goal

:50:24.:50:25.

in their League Cup final in 1997 - the last time Leicester

:50:26.:50:28.

won a trophy. What is your reaction to the

:50:29.:50:37.

sacking? Sadness, disappointment and possibly in the way it's been done,

:50:38.:50:43.

the fact he's been sacked rather than moved upstairs, someone brought

:50:44.:50:48.

in to help. Not really shocked, because staying in the premiership

:50:49.:50:53.

now is the be all and end all. It's been tough going this year. The team

:50:54.:50:59.

has been completely different, the polar opposite to what we saw last

:51:00.:51:04.

year. Probably more of what was expected, rather than what we

:51:05.:51:07.

imagined would happen. What do you put that down to? Obviously all came

:51:08.:51:12.

together in this alchemy last year and it has fallen apart so quickly.

:51:13.:51:17.

It did. I think it is a different team now... I know Kante is out,

:51:18.:51:26.

gone on a big loss. When you get the situation they had last year, you

:51:27.:51:29.

know everyone is working at full capacity. Nobody could have played

:51:30.:51:33.

any better. Now all of a sudden you had decent players playing

:51:34.:51:36.

incredibly well and maybe everybody else in the division may be not at

:51:37.:51:41.

their best. This year you have good players playing incredibly poorly.

:51:42.:51:45.

More is being asked of the manager this year than it was last year. And

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you have to say, in certain circumstances he has come up short.

:51:50.:51:54.

It has been a different job, a different job role with a different

:51:55.:51:58.

jobs back to what he had to do last year you felt things looked after

:51:59.:52:01.

themselves and he was wonderful at what he had to do, took a lot of

:52:02.:52:05.

pressure off the players, oversaw everything, kept everything ticking

:52:06.:52:10.

along brilliantly. As you say, he is a true gentleman. He is the last

:52:11.:52:13.

person in football anyone would have liked this talented, but maybe it

:52:14.:52:17.

was a different role this year that was required and in some respects he

:52:18.:52:21.

has come up a little bit short. I don't think yet again, that is a

:52:22.:52:26.

major surprise. Sorry to interrupt. It's easy to sack the manager in

:52:27.:52:33.

football, and that's... Players have contracts that are written in stone.

:52:34.:52:37.

You can sack manager and a manager can walk out of his contract.

:52:38.:52:40.

Players you can't sack and they can't walk out of their contracts.

:52:41.:52:45.

The two contracts are completely different, one is written in stone

:52:46.:52:48.

and one is written on a little bit of paper you can throw into the

:52:49.:52:52.

wind. Totally different circumstances. Is he the fall guy,

:52:53.:52:56.

I'm fairly? I think there is certainly a case for him to stay and

:52:57.:53:00.

a case for him to go. We've seen it time and time again in cup

:53:01.:53:03.

competitions. The FA Cup, that's been denigrated by clubs taking that

:53:04.:53:09.

less seriously than they should do because, the perception is if they

:53:10.:53:13.

win the FA Cup they will get relegated, which is silly. Being in

:53:14.:53:17.

the premiership is the be all and end all. There is no room for

:53:18.:53:22.

sentiment, there is no loyalty, unfortunately, from anybody. I just

:53:23.:53:26.

wish somebody, a true gentleman, it could possibly have been done a bit

:53:27.:53:30.

differently. Sacking, I think, does him a bit of a disservice. Thank

:53:31.:53:32.

you, Steve. We followed Leicester's progress

:53:33.:53:34.

all last season with a couple of super fans recording

:53:35.:53:37.

video diaries for us - here's a little reminder of how

:53:38.:53:39.

the journey ended. # Championes, Championes,

:53:40.:53:56.

Ole, Ole, Ole!#. All we could do is hope and dream,

:53:57.:54:12.

and the dream's just getting bigger and bigger and more fraught and it

:54:13.:54:18.

culminates in what has been the most fantastic season for

:54:19.:54:26.

a Leicester City supporter that I've known in 53 years of coming

:54:27.:54:28.

down to support them. The stuff dreams are made she said.

:54:29.:54:30.

She joins us now along with Martin Morley, and Matt Davies who's

:54:31.:54:52.

the vice chair of the Sandra, how much has changed in nine

:54:53.:55:01.

months? What do you think about the sacking of Claudio Ranieri? I'm

:55:02.:55:06.

absolutely disgusted, not the fact he's had to go, but just the way

:55:07.:55:12.

it's been done. It's totally devastated us.

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So what do you think should have been done?

:55:15.:55:18.

I think he should have been taken to one side, I think the players should

:55:19.:55:23.

have been taken out and birch done told how to play properly and at

:55:24.:55:26.

least try to support the manager, because he supported them all the

:55:27.:55:30.

way through. He's made mistakes and we know that, but at the end of the

:55:31.:55:34.

day it's a game of football. He hasn't got two legs on the pitch,

:55:35.:55:37.

the players have and they haven't performed.

:55:38.:55:40.

Why do you think that is? You are clearly angry with these players who

:55:41.:55:44.

we were all completely in love with last year?

:55:45.:55:49.

In love with them... Bigger contracts, more money, fancy cars

:55:50.:55:53.

and allegedly they are complaining about no chicken burgers on the

:55:54.:55:57.

menu! I don't know who they think they are. We, the fans, have spent

:55:58.:56:01.

thousands this season supporting them, made a lot of effort

:56:02.:56:05.

travelling and whatever, and there's been some of the matches where they

:56:06.:56:08.

might as well have been having their hair done.

:56:09.:56:13.

Gosh, you are so angry, obviously. Do you feel really let down?

:56:14.:56:20.

I feel really let down. Claudio did his job last year. OK, this year, he

:56:21.:56:24.

should have been supported in what he had to do this year and the

:56:25.:56:27.

players have let him down. Martin. Sandra is putting the blame

:56:28.:56:32.

with the players, how do you see things?

:56:33.:56:36.

First of all as a Leicester fan all of my life I'd like to thank Claudio

:56:37.:56:42.

For a dream, a dream as a football fan. All I expected Leicester to win

:56:43.:56:47.

with the FA Cup fourth. For him to galvanise the city where a quarter

:56:48.:56:50.

of a million people turned out when they arrived back with the

:56:51.:56:55.

premiership trophy... And first of all, to the owners, two weeks ago

:56:56.:56:59.

they came, made the journey and said they gave him a vote of confidence.

:57:00.:57:03.

I think it was a done deal before this game with Sevilla but he put

:57:04.:57:08.

Leicester on the map like know any other event. I'd like to say, I'm

:57:09.:57:14.

hearing about the players, splits in the changing rooms... If these were

:57:15.:57:17.

splits in the changing room, these are not household names before they

:57:18.:57:23.

won the league, perhaps Jamie Vardy, but he's brought them to the summit

:57:24.:57:27.

and unfortunately now he's gone. I completely agree with what Gary

:57:28.:57:32.

Lineker says, he's a fan like me and Michael Leicester fans. We were

:57:33.:57:36.

going nowhere as far as I was concerned, but if someone had said

:57:37.:57:40.

to me at the beginning of this season -- last season that they were

:57:41.:57:44.

again win the premiership and then get relegated I would have snapped

:57:45.:57:49.

their hand. I had a dream and it's been the field. Claudio, on behalf

:57:50.:57:53.

of me most of Leicester, thank you very much for what you did. Matt,

:57:54.:58:00.

we're hearing the same theme over and over again, how do you see it?

:58:01.:58:04.

I think a lot of it has been said already. I'd sum it up like this, if

:58:05.:58:08.

at the end of the great escape season I was given a Leicester City

:58:09.:58:14.

genie and the option of next season you will win, you will get to the

:58:15.:58:20.

top, you will win, you will have a quarter of a million people actually

:58:21.:58:24.

celebrating you, you will have a wonderful season and the season

:58:25.:58:26.

after that you won't farewell at all, I'd have taken it, to be

:58:27.:58:32.

honest. Being a fan and watching them 39 seasons, to me, what he

:58:33.:58:36.

achieved last year, and it has already been said by your other

:58:37.:58:39.

callers, was absolutely fantastic. I'm so sorry that the fairy tale has

:58:40.:58:43.

ended. You take the rough with the smooth. Does that mean because he

:58:44.:58:47.

achieved what he did, he should have just been able to kind of go through

:58:48.:58:52.

a bad season and just see where things went?

:58:53.:58:55.

I have to be honest, I would have stuck with him. We needed to find

:58:56.:59:02.

another 19 points in 13 games. I started to see, I don't know if it

:59:03.:59:06.

was my heart ruling my head, but I started to see a chink in the

:59:07.:59:10.

Champions League game. That goal that Jamie Vardy scored was typical

:59:11.:59:13.

of some of the goals we were scoring towards the end of last season and I

:59:14.:59:17.

started to see a chink and I thought, we go. Hopefully we're just

:59:18.:59:21.

starting to a corner now, we've got the likes of Sunderland and Hull to

:59:22.:59:31.

play... We'll camp and it round. Thank you all. I just want to read a

:59:32.:59:35.

quick e-mail, Leicester City 's teaching kids that if you do

:59:36.:59:39.

something really amazing and then can't repeat it again, you get

:59:40.:59:43.

sacked. Do keep your thoughts coming in. Lots of you getting in touch on

:59:44.:59:46.

we'd love to hear from you on everything we are talking about as

:59:47.:59:50.

always. But now, the weather with Nick. Doris has gone that has left

:59:51.:59:56.

her mark. Absolutely, still some disruption

:59:57.:00:00.

and plenty of clearing up to do but it's certainly a different weather

:00:01.:00:01.

picture across the UK today. A much quieter story. Clearly the

:00:02.:00:09.

calm after the storm from your weather watcher pictures so far

:00:10.:00:13.

today. Some lovely sunrise shots from earlier and it is looking much

:00:14.:00:18.

more settled. It is colder, some of us had frost this morning, some

:00:19.:00:21.

patchy ice in the northern half of UK. Where has Doris gone? Swept away

:00:22.:00:27.

further east, gone through Germany and Poland overnight. We have some

:00:28.:00:32.

high pressure building into the UK, although there is another Westerner

:00:33.:00:35.

system coming our way that is not as powerful as Doris. For Northern

:00:36.:00:40.

Ireland there will be outbreaks of rain spreading in, that should be

:00:41.:00:44.

across most of us going into the first part of the afternoon. It

:00:45.:00:47.

pushes into western Scotland with a freshening breeze. Elsewhere, if you

:00:48.:00:50.

started with plenty of sunshine, some cloud building and you may

:00:51.:00:55.

catch an isolated shower. This is the picture at three o'clock this

:00:56.:00:59.

afternoon. There is the rain into Northern Ireland, pushing into

:01:00.:01:02.

western Scotland. The breeze picking up. Later today in north-west

:01:03.:01:06.

Scotland there will be gales. Tonight, as the rain pushes across

:01:07.:01:11.

Portland stone mills before it turns back to rain. Cloud increasing into

:01:12.:01:14.

north-west England and West counties of Wales. Elsewhere ploughed on some

:01:15.:01:19.

sunny spells, still the odd shower in the Midlands but the vast

:01:20.:01:22.

majority will stay dry. Single figure temperatures for many of us.

:01:23.:01:27.

The weekend, the south-westerly wind coming back and it will turn milder

:01:28.:01:30.

again. The wind will pick up once more but not on the scale of Storm

:01:31.:01:35.

Doris. There will be rain around at times and quite heavy in the hills

:01:36.:01:39.

of western Scotland, into the higher ground of Cumbria, where there could

:01:40.:01:43.

be a lot of rain this weekend. Not much in the south-east. Although the

:01:44.:01:46.

weather turns unsettled again nothing on the scale of Storm Doris.

:01:47.:01:50.

The Conservatives unseat Labour in the Copeland by-election, causing

:01:51.:01:56.

But Labour hangs on to Stoke Central, fending off

:01:57.:02:00.

The new Tory MP Trudy Harrison says Labour no longer represent the local

:02:01.:02:22.

people. We have had Labour here for eight years but it is clear that

:02:23.:02:25.

Jeremy Corbyn does not represent them.

:02:26.:02:27.

He's one of the world's most expensive footballers -

:02:28.:02:29.

Gareth Bale opens up about the Wales' amazing run

:02:30.:02:33.

at the Euros last year and what's next for him.

:02:34.:02:36.

My ultimate dream was to play in a major competition for Wales and

:02:37.:02:43.

obviously, we achieved that and more, I suppose. But I suppose you

:02:44.:02:47.

have to go back to the drawing board and put some more dreams on that.

:02:48.:02:52.

For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup or

:02:53.:02:55.

As the stars dust off their tuxedos and make final tweaks

:02:56.:03:01.

to their glamourous outfits before the Oscars this weekend,

:03:02.:03:03.

we'll bring you up to speed on the latest Hollywood gossip.

:03:04.:03:09.

The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:03:10.:03:16.

which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years.

:03:17.:03:19.

Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority

:03:20.:03:21.

Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election,

:03:22.:03:24.

with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place.

:03:25.:03:27.

Labour's election strategist warned the party against

:03:28.:03:28.

We have had two years of introspection in the Labour Party

:03:29.:03:43.

with two leadership contests. The last thing the Labour Party needs

:03:44.:03:47.

going forward is more introspection over the coming months and years

:03:48.:03:51.

ahead. What we have to do is reconnect with communities like

:03:52.:03:54.

Copland. That is a challenge but we have got to be able to show that we

:03:55.:03:59.

are listening to people here on the ground and that we are building

:04:00.:04:03.

policies ahead of the 2020 general election.

:04:04.:04:06.

Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both

:04:07.:04:08.

the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum.

:04:09.:04:13.

The Electoral Commission has published the detail of where ?27

:04:14.:04:19.

million which was spent on the referendum went. However, the

:04:20.:04:22.

commission is concerned that both campaigns have not sent in all their

:04:23.:04:26.

invoices and receipts to show where the money went to. It is not yet

:04:27.:04:30.

clear whether any offences have been committed.

:04:31.:04:31.

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion,

:04:32.:04:34.

its ninth consecutive year in the red.

:04:35.:04:36.

The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss

:04:37.:04:39.

the bank reported last year and is one of the group's biggest

:04:40.:04:41.

since its Government bailout in 2008.

:04:42.:04:43.

Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first

:04:44.:04:47.

time, a day after capturing the city's airport from

:04:48.:04:49.

Yesterday's operation took four hours.

:04:50.:04:54.

IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further

:04:55.:04:57.

inside the city after losing the ground to the army.

:04:58.:05:01.

The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now

:05:02.:05:03.

Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:05:04.:05:11.

has been found on the face of Kim Jong-Nam -

:05:12.:05:13.

the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader.

:05:14.:05:16.

VX is an extremely toxic Chemical warfare agent and just a drop

:05:17.:05:19.

CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something

:05:20.:05:27.

over Kim Jong-Nam's face while he was preparing to board

:05:28.:05:29.

a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:05:30.:05:34.

Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody

:05:35.:05:37.

have arrested two people on suspicion of

:05:38.:05:39.

Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old

:05:40.:05:44.

woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape.

:05:45.:05:47.

Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers

:05:48.:05:50.

guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

:05:51.:05:56.

Donald Trump says he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal.

:05:57.:05:59.

In his first comments on the issue since taking office,

:06:00.:06:02.

Mr Trump said it would be "wonderful" if no nation had nuclear

:06:03.:06:05.

arms, but otherwise the US must be "top of the pack".

:06:06.:06:11.

A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever

:06:12.:06:14.

recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel.

:06:15.:06:17.

A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England,

:06:18.:06:20.

They will help protect resident squirrel populations.

:06:21.:06:26.

Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease

:06:27.:06:28.

and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from north America.

:06:29.:06:38.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:06:39.:06:44.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:06:45.:06:50.

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:06:51.:06:53.

Hello, good morning again. It is a sad day again for Claudio Ranieri.

:06:54.:07:03.

At the start of last season Claudio Ranieri was the bookie's

:07:04.:07:06.

favourite to be the first manager sacked - it resulted it

:07:07.:07:09.

Leicester City winning the Premier League and endearing

:07:10.:07:10.

themselves to sports fans and non-sport fans alike,

:07:11.:07:12.

But sitting 17th in the Premier League and just a point

:07:13.:07:16.

above the relegation zone the club have seen fit to sack him,

:07:17.:07:19.

saying "it had to put its long-term long-term interests above all sense

:07:20.:07:23.

The favourite to replace him is the former Manchester City

:07:24.:07:26.

Earlier I spoke to BBC Leicester's Ian Stringer

:07:27.:07:30.

He will always have that hero status in the city of Leicester because he

:07:31.:07:43.

lifted a trophy that the football club had not won in 132 years, 133

:07:44.:07:50.

years now. Leicester City had never won the FA Cup, let alone the

:07:51.:07:54.

Premier League. 240,000 people lined the streets of the city to welcome

:07:55.:08:01.

the team led by Claudio Ranieri. It is the greatest chapter in this

:08:02.:08:06.

club's history and he will never be forgotten for that. There is a

:08:07.:08:10.

motion in the city, there is upset and some elements of anger as well

:08:11.:08:13.

because Claudio Ranieri is still a hero in many people's eyes because

:08:14.:08:18.

of what he achieved last season. We can all remember Angela Bertelli --

:08:19.:08:27.

Bocelli singing lesson Dormer. There was a really

:08:28.:08:30.

disappointing night for Spurs. They failed to reach the last 16

:08:31.:08:32.

of the Europa League after a draw against Gent of Belgium at Wembley,

:08:33.:08:35.

meant they were beaten Dismal especially for two

:08:36.:08:38.

of their England stars - His own goal making

:08:39.:08:41.

it 1-1 on the night. Then another of Spurs' England

:08:42.:08:45.

players, Dele Alli was sent-off It finished 2-2 on the night,

:08:46.:08:47.

leaving Manchester United as the only British side

:08:48.:08:52.

in today's last 16 draw. Celtic have been fined ?60,000 by

:08:53.:09:09.

Uefa after supporters set off fireworks in a match back in

:09:10.:09:11.

December. Centre Ben Te'o will make his

:09:12.:09:11.

first start for England in Sunday's Six Nations

:09:12.:09:14.

match with Italy. Te'o has won 5 caps -

:09:15.:09:15.

all as a replacement, including scoring the winning try

:09:16.:09:18.

in this year's championship Danny Care makes his

:09:19.:09:21.

first England start in a year at scrum-half

:09:22.:09:24.

while Elliot Daly is preferred The Conservatives have pulled off

:09:25.:09:27.

an historic win in a by-election by beating Labour to the Cumbrian

:09:28.:09:40.

seat of Copeland - Trudy Harrison, overturned

:09:41.:09:42.

a majority of more than 2,500 winning with 13,748 votes

:09:43.:09:48.

to Labour's Gillian winning with 13,748 votes

:09:49.:09:54.

to Labour's But Labour held on to Stoke-on-Trent

:09:55.:09:56.

Central in the night's Gareth Snell won by more than 2,600

:09:57.:10:00.

votes beating the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, who had hoped

:10:01.:10:05.

to become his party's second MP. The Conservative victory also marks

:10:06.:10:09.

the first time a rival party has been defeated by the party

:10:10.:10:15.

of government at a In her victory speech,

:10:16.:10:17.

the winning Conservative candidate Mrs Harrison said it was clear

:10:18.:10:22.

from talking to voters in Copeland that "Jeremy Corbyn

:10:23.:10:24.

doesn't represent them". Let's listen to some

:10:25.:10:26.

of her speech now. What has happened here tonight

:10:27.:10:32.

is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

:10:33.:10:37.

than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:10:38.:10:41.

from the opposition party We've had Labour here

:10:42.:10:45.

for more than 80 years, but it's been very clear talking

:10:46.:10:54.

to people throughout this campaign that Jeremy Corbyn

:10:55.:10:57.

doesn't represent them. They want a party which is

:10:58.:11:04.

on the side of ordinary, working people, which will respect

:11:05.:11:07.

the way we voted in the referendum, and which will build a country that

:11:08.:11:11.

represents everyone. That's why they voted

:11:12.:11:17.

for me tonight. And winning Labour candidate

:11:18.:11:25.

Mr Snell said that those who had tried to "sow hatred"

:11:26.:11:28.

in Stoke-on-Trent during the election "have failed"

:11:29.:11:30.

and voters had chosen to support the British values of

:11:31.:11:32.

tolerance and respect. To those of you who came

:11:33.:11:34.

to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and division and to turn us away

:11:35.:11:40.

from our friends and neighbours Tonight, the people

:11:41.:11:43.

of Stoke-on-Trent have chosen the politics of hope over

:11:44.:11:55.

the politics of fear. We have said with one voice

:11:56.:11:59.

that hatred and bigotry are not welcome here,

:12:00.:12:02.

and that this is a proud city This election is a victory

:12:03.:12:04.

for British values of tolerance and respect, but it is also

:12:05.:12:11.

a victory for the proud Labour values that's the hallmark

:12:12.:12:15.

of our city and its people. It is a message that the people

:12:16.:12:20.

of Stoke-on-Trent won't just sit back whilst the Tory government

:12:21.:12:23.

cuts our national health service to the bone and puts the future

:12:24.:12:27.

of our public services at risk. It is a warning that we will not

:12:28.:12:32.

stand idly by while politicians in Westminster pour ever more money

:12:33.:12:36.

into London and the south-east while the rest of the country

:12:37.:12:39.

is simply left to fend for itself. Ukip leader and candidate

:12:40.:12:45.

for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Paul Nuttall, spoke after the result

:12:46.:12:47.

to say he was still confident about Ukip's future chances,

:12:48.:12:50.

despite his defeat. Just to warn you, there is flash

:12:51.:12:53.

photography throughout this clip. We have cut their majority in half,

:12:54.:13:07.

and we have unified the party like never before, and we'll go forward

:13:08.:13:12.

now. Ukip's time will come. This will happen. Hang on. This seat was

:13:13.:13:22.

what, number 72 on our hit list. There is a lot more that will

:13:23.:13:26.

happen, a lot more to come from us. We are not going anywhere. I'm not

:13:27.:13:31.

going anywhere, so therefore we move on and our time will come. It is the

:13:32.:13:39.

Brexit capital of Britain. There are other issues beyond Brexit. In terms

:13:40.:13:44.

of where we are as a party on the ground, we put this at number 72.

:13:45.:13:49.

There will be a lot more seats which will be more favourable to us in the

:13:50.:13:54.

near future, and we will go on and we will have success in the future.

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Gerard Richardson, a Conservative voter, in Whitehaven.

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Glyn Chapman, a Labour voter, in Stoke-on-Trent -

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and we also have Ukip voter in Stoke-on-Trent: Simon Willdigg.

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Thank you all very much for joining us. Gerard first of all, you must be

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pleased with the outcome in Copland? Yes, delighted. It is the chance for

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a fresh start for us, to be honest. Eight decades of Labour and quite

:14:29.:14:31.

frankly the government are lazy around here -- they are lazy around

:14:32.:14:43.

here, they take people for granted. Have you always voted Labour? I

:14:44.:14:51.

think a lot of people continue voting the way their grandad did

:14:52.:14:55.

because it is ingrained in them. I left the area, joined the forces,

:14:56.:14:59.

came back and I have a wider perspective perhaps. I preferred to

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vote on what the parties are offering. For the last 30 odd years

:15:04.:15:09.

the mood has always been conservative. Glynn, your joining us

:15:10.:15:15.

from Stoke-on-Trent where Labour won but lost in Copland so what is your

:15:16.:15:20.

outcome on the view for Labour? It is a great result in Stoke. It is a

:15:21.:15:27.

shame in Copland. The main thing was to keep Ukip out which could have

:15:28.:15:32.

been a terrible thing for the city. What to think it boiled down to four

:15:33.:15:42.

Ukip? The controversy about Paul Nuttall and his lies. Hillsborough,

:15:43.:15:47.

that was something he had not personally claimed that it was on

:15:48.:15:50.

his website, that he knew people personally who died at Hillsborough?

:15:51.:15:56.

I don't think it helped his campaign but I don't think people here

:15:57.:16:00.

generally welcomed those politics of division and fear.

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Simon, you switched from Labour to Ukip three years ago, why was that?

:16:08.:16:13.

I thought the party was going in no direction at all. Stoke-on-Trent, we

:16:14.:16:20.

have issues like the old Stoke City Football Club, we've lost

:16:21.:16:24.

coal-mining and pits. The Saronic and this is on its way up, but I'm

:16:25.:16:32.

quite surprised by the margin last night. -- the ceramic poppies

:16:33.:16:36.

industry is on its way up. I thought people would have voted with the

:16:37.:16:39.

feet and visually they haven't. Why do thing that was? You were

:16:40.:16:46.

supporting Ukip, what went wrong for Ukip? In my opinion I thought a

:16:47.:16:52.

local person should have stood for Stoke values, personally. Sorry, I

:16:53.:16:57.

was struggling to hear you. Can you say that again? I will repeat that.

:16:58.:17:04.

In quite a lot of is people's opinion in Stoke-on-Trent, where we

:17:05.:17:08.

field Ukip went wrong, we feel they should have had a local person

:17:09.:17:13.

standing as an MP, not someone parachuting in. Party leader, you

:17:14.:17:19.

can't get much more higher profile? You can't, but Paul Nuttall has

:17:20.:17:24.

stood six times and failed six times in his own city. What do you think

:17:25.:17:32.

this says Burda. The Tory party winning a seat in a by-election, the

:17:33.:17:39.

governing party overturning the majority of the standing party in a

:17:40.:17:46.

by-election is extremely rare. What do you think it says about the

:17:47.:17:53.

Conservative Party in the North? Did it come down to particular issues

:17:54.:18:00.

because of nuclear, the instance? No, I've heard this. I think it does

:18:01.:18:06.

come down far more to Jeremy Corbyn's style of leadership and his

:18:07.:18:11.

policies. Certainly on the nuclear issue, there were concerns here but

:18:12.:18:15.

the Labour candidate herself was pro-nuclear. We've had Labour

:18:16.:18:20.

candidates in the past there were antinuclear. I think it's possibly

:18:21.:18:27.

the same across the country, people are jaded about promises. We've

:18:28.:18:33.

heard promises of great things here in ten years or 20 years but nothing

:18:34.:18:37.

gets delivered. After 80 years they should have a great big long list of

:18:38.:18:40.

achievements to point to and they haven't. What we've had is decline

:18:41.:18:45.

and there is more decline heading our way. We needed a fresh chance

:18:46.:18:50.

but I think the Labour Party are in complete disarray and I think if

:18:51.:18:53.

they continue with Jeremy Corbyn it's not good for the country. We

:18:54.:18:58.

need a strong opposition. He really is, he would take them to a

:18:59.:19:03.

electoral catastrophe in 2020. I think they will be lucky if they

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have double-digit MPs the way they are going. Your reaction to that,

:19:08.:19:13.

Glenn? I think the Labour Party have a lot of work to do, they've been

:19:14.:19:18.

losing votes since 1997. That's not Jeremy Corbyn's fault. He's been the

:19:19.:19:23.

leader for two years, in which time his party and try to Alston. I think

:19:24.:19:29.

he's great, I think he can do a really good job at the party and

:19:30.:19:32.

everyone else needs to get behind him. Simon, Ukip's fortunes, are

:19:33.:19:41.

they a viable party going forward? Of course it is. The problem in Ukip

:19:42.:19:47.

now is, we've voted out of Brexit now and the party now has to think

:19:48.:19:51.

of the neck strategy, of where they're going to move on. What do

:19:52.:19:59.

you think they should do? Strong policies, like the NHS. I think

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there should have more of a local link with people. Thank you all very

:20:05.:20:07.

much for giving us your perspective. Still to come: As the final

:20:08.:20:11.

preparations get underway for the Oscars this weekend,

:20:12.:20:13.

we'll be getting the latest gossip He was - until recently -

:20:14.:20:16.

the world's most expensive footballer and in a rare interview

:20:17.:20:20.

for Newsbeat and this programme, Gareth Bale has spoken of his pride

:20:21.:20:23.

at helping Wales to an almost miraculous semi-final

:20:24.:20:27.

place at last year's He's been promoting "Don't take me

:20:28.:20:28.

home," a new movie about last He's told us how he wants to help

:20:29.:20:42.

make Wales great at everything - and the reason why he wants to beat

:20:43.:20:47.

England all the time - because they 'always think they're

:20:48.:20:50.

the best' The Real Madrid star spoke Now let's be honest, the euro rose

:20:51.:20:59.

was a bit dull except for the Welsh, wasn't it? Well, you said it, not

:21:00.:21:04.

me! I think the thing with us, we've grown up together through the youth

:21:05.:21:09.

team, come to the senior team and got 40, 50, 60 caps now. I think

:21:10.:21:13.

it's a long, hard process that we've gone through. We've gone through

:21:14.:21:17.

some ups and downs and worked very hard together. The manager who's

:21:18.:21:21.

coming has been incredible and got us playing the kind of football we

:21:22.:21:25.

like to play and we've kept the Gresini jeer and getting better.

:21:26.:21:30.

Even going on the world stage and performing like that as a team that.

:21:31.:21:33.

In terms of Wales, do you think there is any chance of knocking

:21:34.:21:39.

rugby off its perch? We just want to make Wales great at everything, to

:21:40.:21:43.

be honest. Rugby, football, we want everything to do well. Obviously

:21:44.:21:49.

football in the last few years has been down, hopefully we can inspire

:21:50.:21:51.

a lot of youngsters to come through, do well and put football back on top

:21:52.:21:57.

again. In terms of going forward, up against it, World Cup 2018. What are

:21:58.:22:03.

your hopes and anxieties, if you like, about that, particularly with

:22:04.:22:08.

the Ireland game? I feel like we are in a good position, four points off

:22:09.:22:11.

the top team and we have to play them, so we can be a point behind.

:22:12.:22:17.

We would prefer to be topped with a lot more points, but it's not always

:22:18.:22:20.

the case in football. We're still confident we can qualify. We know if

:22:21.:22:24.

we keep working hard as a team and get that little bit of luck that you

:22:25.:22:28.

need, then we can go all the way. Something not everyone knows. You

:22:29.:22:32.

were at school, correct me if you're wrong, even in the same class as Sam

:22:33.:22:37.

Warburton, ex-Wales rugby skipper, still playing for the side. Does

:22:38.:22:41.

that make rugby fan? Are you interested in rugby and have you

:22:42.:22:45.

been following the Six Nations? Yeah, I enjoy watching the team

:22:46.:22:51.

and... I'm not a massive rugby fan, I'm the football fan. Who are you

:22:52.:22:55.

worried about from the Irish side next month? When not worried about

:22:56.:23:02.

anybody. Roy Keane? Maybe, he might chin me after the game. We're not

:23:03.:23:06.

worried about any Irish players, it's the same as always for us, we

:23:07.:23:09.

concentrate on ourselves and prepare our sells right. Talk about Wales,

:23:10.:23:18.

what would be the ideal fit for your career? Reaching the semifinals as

:23:19.:23:25.

you did in Euro 2016 that, that must have surpassed some of your

:23:26.:23:28.

expectations as a player coming up. What would be the ideal dream,

:23:29.:23:32.

realistic dream for you as a Wales player, or did you achieve it last

:23:33.:23:34.

summer? My ultimate dream is to play in a

:23:35.:23:40.

major competition for Wales, and obviously we achieved that, and

:23:41.:23:44.

more, I suppose. I suppose you have to go back to the drawing board and

:23:45.:23:48.

put all dreams are there. For me now it is to qualify for a World Cup on

:23:49.:23:53.

another major tournament to have an experience like the one we did in

:23:54.:23:56.

the euro rose. That would be very nice. You are known guy, a humble

:23:57.:24:03.

guy, and very open for a footballer. With all that in mind, a nice bit of

:24:04.:24:10.

advice for young player? For me, just work hard. I think you have to

:24:11.:24:14.

commit to football. You have to leave the temptations behind of

:24:15.:24:17.

going out with your friends and doing this and just concentrate on

:24:18.:24:21.

your football, work hard in training. I think as long as you're

:24:22.:24:24.

working hard and practising your football, you will always have a

:24:25.:24:27.

chance. What is the favourite goal you have ever scored for Wales? I

:24:28.:24:34.

think one against England is always great to score! I think for me

:24:35.:24:38.

against Scotland at the Cardiff City stadium, to win the game, to put it

:24:39.:24:43.

in the top corner was an amazing feeling. A great goal in my mind.

:24:44.:24:51.

One I will always look back memories. And is in decent goals

:24:52.:24:55.

last summer, how do they rank? Right up there. But in terms of the style

:24:56.:25:00.

of goal rather than the meaning of it, I like the Scotland one. You

:25:01.:25:04.

like the Scotland one, OK. Final question, you did mention England.

:25:05.:25:08.

What is it, why do teams, Wales, Scotland, why do they all want to

:25:09.:25:14.

beat England so much, why is it so satisfying? Because they ways give

:25:15.:25:17.

it the big one, always think they're the best and they never achieve

:25:18.:25:24.

anything, sorry to say! I think that's probably the main reason why.

:25:25.:25:27.

It's always good to get one over. Some tips for England, how can they

:25:28.:25:32.

recreate Wales' success? They can't! Gareth Bale.

:25:33.:25:37.

Jeremy Corbyn has been giving reaction to the by-election results

:25:38.:25:44.

ahead of a speech he's about to make in central London. It's the day of

:25:45.:25:47.

celebration in Stoke and disappointment in Copland. We

:25:48.:25:51.

defeated Ukip in Stoke despite predictions they would prevail, the

:25:52.:25:57.

politics of hope prevailed over the politics of hate. Copland was

:25:58.:26:00.

disappointing, I do hope to have won the election that. I want to say

:26:01.:26:05.

thank you for Gillian Troughton for the campaign she ran and

:26:06.:26:08.

congratulations to Gareth Snell for his election in Stoke. How did you

:26:09.:26:11.

feel when you heard Labour had lost in Copland? Very disappointed

:26:12.:26:17.

because it is an area that needs investment and needs a Labour MP to

:26:18.:26:20.

carried that Ford and above all it needs to ensure jobs are secure for

:26:21.:26:24.

the future and there is new investment on the Cumbrian coast, as

:26:25.:26:29.

well as no closure of the West Cumbrian hospital. Labour's share of

:26:30.:26:33.

the vote didn't just falling Copland, it fell in Stoke. It has

:26:34.:26:38.

fallen in another three by-elections recently, an opposition party losing

:26:39.:26:42.

a share of the vote in by-elections, almost unheard of. Are you going to

:26:43.:26:47.

on your sought to set stem the tide question mark I was elected to lead

:26:48.:26:52.

this party. We will continue her campaigning

:26:53.:27:00.

work on the NHS, on social care, on housing and the catastrophic cuts

:27:01.:27:03.

that have been made to council expenditure all over the country by

:27:04.:27:06.

central government. How are you going to stem the tide rest muck is

:27:07.:27:12.

an option to fall on your sword? We are our campaigning party, a party

:27:13.:27:16.

determined to get that message out there and as the weeks go on there

:27:17.:27:20.

will be more policy announcements on issues surrounding the funding of

:27:21.:27:24.

local government and health, and issues surrounding industrial

:27:25.:27:29.

development and planning and we have started a series of regional

:27:30.:27:34.

economic conferences, as bottom-up policy making, so the desperate to

:27:35.:27:37.

people all across the country for secure jobs is a good one. We will

:27:38.:27:41.

continue with that work. To be clear, you are not considering

:27:42.:27:45.

stepping down? No, I was elected to lead this party and am proud to lead

:27:46.:27:49.

this party. Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the two by-election results.

:27:50.:27:52.

Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:27:53.:27:55.

has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam - the murdered half

:27:56.:27:59.

We'll be getting the latest on that.

:28:00.:28:05.

Ahead of the Oscars 2017 taking place at the weekend,

:28:06.:28:08.

we'll be getting the latest gossip from the red carpet.

:28:09.:28:14.

With the News here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:28:15.:28:18.

The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:28:19.:28:23.

which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years.

:28:24.:28:25.

Trudy Harrison took the seat with a majority

:28:26.:28:27.

Labour held Stoke Central in the night's other by-election,

:28:28.:28:31.

with the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place.

:28:32.:28:34.

Investigations have been launched into the spending returns of both

:28:35.:28:39.

the lead campaigns in last year's EU referendum.

:28:40.:28:41.

The Electoral Commission has published the detail

:28:42.:28:43.

of where ?27 million that was spent on the referendum went.

:28:44.:28:46.

However, the commission is concerned that both campaigns haven't sent

:28:47.:28:50.

in all their invoices and receipts, to show where the money

:28:51.:28:52.

It's not yet clear whether any offences have been committed.

:28:53.:28:57.

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported an annual loss of ?7 billion,

:28:58.:29:00.

its ninth consecutive year in the red.

:29:01.:29:04.

The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion loss

:29:05.:29:06.

the bank reported last year, and is one of the group's biggest

:29:07.:29:09.

since its Government bailout in 2008.

:29:10.:29:13.

Iraqi forces says they have now moved into west Mosul for the first

:29:14.:29:16.

time, a day after capturing the city's airport from

:29:17.:29:19.

Yesterday's operation took four hours.

:29:20.:29:23.

IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further

:29:24.:29:27.

inside the city after losing the ground to the army.

:29:28.:29:30.

The east and much of the south-west of Mosul is now

:29:31.:29:32.

Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:29:33.:29:41.

has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam -

:29:42.:29:43.

the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader.

:29:44.:29:46.

VX is an extremely toxic chemical warfare agent and just a drop

:29:47.:29:48.

CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something

:29:49.:29:56.

over Kim Jong-nam's face, while he was preparing to board

:29:57.:29:58.

a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:29:59.:30:03.

Our correspondent will be speaking to Joanna in the next half an hour.

:30:04.:30:10.

Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody

:30:11.:30:12.

have arrested two people on suspicion of

:30:13.:30:14.

Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old

:30:15.:30:17.

woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape.

:30:18.:30:19.

Walmsley went on the run when two armed men confronted prison officers

:30:20.:30:23.

guarding him at a hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

:30:24.:30:29.

A group of conservation charities is launching its biggest ever

:30:30.:30:31.

recruitment drive to help protect the native red squirrel.

:30:32.:30:35.

A total of 5,000 volunteers are required across England,

:30:36.:30:38.

They will help protect resident squirrel populations.

:30:39.:30:42.

Researchers say the species remains under threat because of disease

:30:43.:30:45.

and competition for food from larger grey squirrels, from North America.

:30:46.:30:54.

That's a summary of the latest news,

:30:55.:30:56.

Good morning, Roberto Mancini, the former Manchester City boss

:30:57.:31:04.

is the early favourite to replace Claudio Ranieri at Leicester.

:31:05.:31:08.

It's being reported the club have made an approach

:31:09.:31:10.

for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 an led City

:31:11.:31:17.

for the Italian who briefly played for the club in 2001 and led City

:31:18.:31:21.

A straight red card for Dele Alli hindered Tottenham's progress

:31:22.:31:25.

They drew with Belgian side Gent at Wembley but were knocked

:31:26.:31:29.

Manchester United will be the only British team

:31:30.:31:32.

Centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England

:31:33.:31:52.

in Sunday's Six Nations match with Italy.

:31:53.:31:54.

Te'o has won 5 caps - all as a replacement,

:31:55.:31:56.

including scoring the winning try in this year's championship

:31:57.:31:58.

Finally cricket and an amazing performance from Australia

:31:59.:32:11.

And there was an amazing performance from Australian rookie spinner

:32:12.:32:14.

Steve O'Keefe earlier - he took six wickets as they bowled

:32:15.:32:16.

out India for just 105 in the First Test in Pune.

:32:17.:32:19.

Hollywood is gearing up for the biggest night of the year -

:32:20.:32:22.

The red carpet's already been rolled out for the 89th

:32:23.:32:26.

Academy Awards ceremony - the Oscars - on Sunday night.

:32:27.:32:28.

All the talk's been about La La Land, the musical

:32:29.:32:31.

starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone - it's leads the way

:32:32.:32:33.

Meanwhile there are three British nominees in the acting categories.

:32:34.:32:37.

And what's the gossip on the red carpet?

:32:38.:32:40.

Let's find out from the BBC's entertainment

:32:41.:32:42.

Hello from the red carpet at the Oscars. Behind me, they are

:32:43.:32:50.

Bulgarian. They are very happy with their one nomination. This is where

:32:51.:32:53.

the most famous film stars on the planet will be on Sunday. 270 metres

:32:54.:33:04.

long. The cost of it is over ?200,000. That is why they have a

:33:05.:33:09.

tarpaulin over it. If you look over here, those are the bleachers. 735

:33:10.:33:16.

fans get to win a ballot when they get to come and sit and cheer on

:33:17.:33:22.

their movie heroes at the Oscars. It takes the stars once they arrive on

:33:23.:33:27.

the red carpet about two hours to walk the whole length of it because

:33:28.:33:31.

there are crews are more than 80 countries around the world. This is

:33:32.:33:36.

where they will all be standing. They'll get allocated their tiny

:33:37.:33:41.

little section and they will be shouting for the categories they

:33:42.:33:46.

care about. If you are Bulgarian, it is the short animation category. We

:33:47.:33:51.

love the Oscars for the showbiz but it is also big business as well?

:33:52.:33:58.

Absolutely. The films which win Oscars increased their box office.

:33:59.:34:02.

Three of the nine nominated films for best picture have already gone

:34:03.:34:07.

by $100 million at the box office. How it works for the Oscars is, once

:34:08.:34:12.

the public have seen the films the Oscars get bigger viewing figures.

:34:13.:34:22.

You have got La La Land at ?130 million, and then there is Arrival,

:34:23.:34:28.

the sci-fi movie starring Amy Adams who was snubbed at the Oscars, also

:34:29.:34:34.

has gone by ?100 million. They can all expect a boost. When it gets to

:34:35.:34:40.

this stage with so much hype around the movies, are there likely to be

:34:41.:34:46.

many surprises on the night? There are actually some categories were

:34:47.:34:50.

leaving the experts are really torn about who will win. The most

:34:51.:34:53.

interesting one I would say, best actor. For months everyone thought

:34:54.:35:02.

Casey Affleck who plays a janitor in Boston who has to go back to his

:35:03.:35:05.

hometown when his brother dies to bring up his nephew, everyone

:35:06.:35:10.

thought he was a shoo-in but then the screen actors Guild award and

:35:11.:35:17.

then Denzel Washington stormed in for Fences. So Denzel Washington

:35:18.:35:22.

could become only the fourth actor ever to win three Oscars. My money

:35:23.:35:32.

is on him. Most people I still think fancy Casey Affleck. Tell us more

:35:33.:35:36.

about the machinations behind what happens because there are two people

:35:37.:35:40.

right now who do know exactly who has won what. There are two people

:35:41.:35:48.

on the planet and they are accountants for

:35:49.:35:50.

PricewaterhouseCoopers and they are the people who get the ballots for

:35:51.:35:54.

more than 7000 Academy members, count them up and the winners are

:35:55.:35:59.

put into envelopes. They are the envelopes you see people read out on

:36:00.:36:03.

stage. They are put in a briefcase and that briefcase is only opened

:36:04.:36:08.

when it is taken to the Oscars on Sunday by these two people. That is

:36:09.:36:13.

quite a job and quite a responsibility. It has never gone

:36:14.:36:18.

wrong yet, maybe this is the year! What happens after the Oscars?

:36:19.:36:22.

Everything builds up to this moment and then the movies go quiet again

:36:23.:36:27.

for a bit? What is interesting is what we are standing on now is

:36:28.:36:37.

Hollywood boulevard. The Oscars are on Sunday night, by Monday

:36:38.:36:39.

lunchtime, this will all be gone and this will be a road again. The

:36:40.:36:43.

Oscars almost disappear almost instantly. It is a time of year

:36:44.:36:47.

after the Oscars when the film companies put out there misfires,

:36:48.:36:52.

the films they thought might content the Oscars but then they thought,

:36:53.:36:56.

they are not that good. We have had this great few months where you get

:36:57.:36:59.

to go to the cinema and see the best films of the year. In the next few

:37:00.:37:03.

months you have the worst to look forward to, unless you have not seen

:37:04.:37:08.

these Oscar films. I can recommend seven out of nine of the best

:37:09.:37:14.

pictures. They are ready tremendous. We can watch them on DVD. A quick

:37:15.:37:20.

word on the Brits at the Oscars, not as many nominations as previous

:37:21.:37:28.

years? Not a great year for Britons. We have three, Dev Patel for Lion.

:37:29.:37:43.

We have Andrew Garfield and also Naomie Harris. In the week she has

:37:44.:37:50.

got an MBE she has been nominated for the Oscars. We will get the

:37:51.:37:55.

British nominees to pop into a restaurant in their taxes on their

:37:56.:37:59.

way to the Oscars, including two brothers nominated against each

:38:00.:38:06.

other in the same category, Neil and Paul Hall balled up against each

:38:07.:38:10.

other in Best visual effects. And then we will tell you instantly on

:38:11.:38:16.

BBC radio 5 Live. If you want your Oscars coverage, apart from on the

:38:17.:38:23.

news channel, come to 5 Live. Colin, thank you very much. Enjoyed it all.

:38:24.:38:26.

As Colin has been showing us, preparations are well underway

:38:27.:38:29.

While it's business as usual in the proceedings, like every

:38:30.:38:33.

Hollywood show there are always the quirks and blunders that make

:38:34.:38:35.

For more on what we can expect from this year's show,

:38:36.:38:39.

I've also been speaking to celebrity showbiz gossip columnist

:38:40.:38:41.

Perez Hilton and CNN's Hollywood journalist Sandro Monetti.

:38:42.:38:49.

So, Perez, bring us right up to date with the latest gossip from

:38:50.:38:58.

Hollywood. This Oscars is unlike any other because of the current

:38:59.:39:01.

political climate in the United States. In fact, my talent agency,

:39:02.:39:10.

UTA, instead of having an Oscars party this weekend they are holding

:39:11.:39:16.

a rally. I will go later today and some big-name stars will be

:39:17.:39:21.

attending. Some even bigger name stars will be speaking, including

:39:22.:39:26.

Jodie Foster, Michael J Fox as well as the Lieutenant Governor for the

:39:27.:39:30.

state of California. I think that sends a message loud and clear to

:39:31.:39:36.

the person in the White House who, in the past, almost annually used to

:39:37.:39:41.

live tweet the Oscars. I have a feeling he won't be doing that this

:39:42.:39:46.

year. He may be live tweeting but maybe not in the circumspect way

:39:47.:39:52.

that has been done before, perhaps, because we already saw that spat,

:39:53.:39:56.

Meryl Streep making her comments and Donald Trump hitting right back at

:39:57.:40:02.

her. Do you expect there to be a lot of trump speeches? One wag said

:40:03.:40:12.

there will be so many that they will have to come up with an award for

:40:13.:40:15.

the best speech. I think there will be some but not that much. Just

:40:16.:40:17.

because there have already been a few award shows since Donald Trump

:40:18.:40:22.

was inaugurated, starting with the Golden Globes and even more

:40:23.:40:27.

politically charged where the screen actors awards which were broadcast

:40:28.:40:31.

here in the US. I suspect some but maybe not as many as some right wing

:40:32.:40:39.

people might expect will happen. Sandro, do the Hollywood stars

:40:40.:40:45.

risked alienating people and looking out of touch because Donald Trump is

:40:46.:40:48.

a president who has won on a popular vote and there has been a bit of a

:40:49.:40:56.

backlash against Hollywood stars? It used to be in every acceptance

:40:57.:40:59.

speech you had to thank your agent. This time you have to insult Donald

:41:00.:41:04.

Trump. It is kind of expected otherwise you are not part of the

:41:05.:41:08.

patch in Hollywood. They are worried about alienating the rest of the

:41:09.:41:12.

community. If they don't do it at this point, it is almost expected.

:41:13.:41:17.

It is kind of counter-productive, it plays into Donald Trump's hands and

:41:18.:41:21.

the image that he has been saying, they are all in their mansions and

:41:22.:41:25.

they are not in touch with the real people. Regardless of what you feel

:41:26.:41:28.

about their valid points, if you want to watch politics watch CNN, if

:41:29.:41:35.

you want to watch showbiz, watch the Oscars. I think there is far too

:41:36.:41:39.

much politics creeping into awards season but I expect it to be one

:41:40.:41:46.

Trump bashing after another. Let's talk about the movies. It is no

:41:47.:41:51.

accident about which movies get the nominations. Tell us about the

:41:52.:41:57.

campaigning? It is much like a presidential campaign because the

:41:58.:42:00.

people who win the Oscars don't just give the best performances, they

:42:01.:42:04.

also meet most of the voters and they are all out there on the

:42:05.:42:08.

campaign Trail shaking hands. It has been like that for months. Usually,

:42:09.:42:13.

the person who wins have met most of the electorate are wrong the way. --

:42:14.:42:21.

along the way. I have met most of the stars so I have been able to

:42:22.:42:26.

take the pulse of the electorate, if you will. La La Land was a heavy

:42:27.:42:31.

favourite, because it is the hometown movie. The Oscars are held

:42:32.:42:35.

in Los Angeles, La La Land is set in Los Angeles around the entertainment

:42:36.:42:40.

business. It is like the BAFTAs voting for the Queen. Another

:42:41.:42:48.

backlash against La La Land, particularly away from Hollywood

:42:49.:42:50.

where the message that you sacrificed love for career and self

:42:51.:42:57.

has not gone down quite so well. How is it seen in Hollywood and do you

:42:58.:43:03.

expect it to sweep the board? I definitely agree it is the front

:43:04.:43:08.

runner and I am personally invested in it because some of my dear

:43:09.:43:12.

friends wrote the music for the songs which were nominated for Best

:43:13.:43:21.

Oscar. John Legend will perform. I am rooting for them. This year I'm

:43:22.:43:25.

going to say I will be concerned with the ratings. I think some

:43:26.:43:28.

people will not watch because they expect trump bashing but I think a

:43:29.:43:35.

lot of the films did moderately successfully at the box office. They

:43:36.:43:42.

were not huge blockbusters. I am more excited to see the performers.

:43:43.:43:46.

There are big name performers from the UK. Sting will be performing.

:43:47.:43:56.

John Legend will be performing stop the biggest performer will be Justin

:43:57.:44:01.

Timberlake. I hear they are planning a very special tribute to Debbie

:44:02.:44:05.

Reynolds and Carrie Fisher because there will be that to look forward

:44:06.:44:09.

to and get emotional over. Ollie loved them and they were beloved

:44:10.:44:17.

here. -- Hollywood loved them. A very different Oscars this year.

:44:18.:44:22.

There was that whole row about the Oscars so white. Does it feel

:44:23.:44:27.

different this year? Applause to the Academy for changing their

:44:28.:44:31.

membership rules. Let me run the numbers by you. The Academy is 93%

:44:32.:44:40.

White, 76% male. The average age of voter, 63. The Academy has initiated

:44:41.:44:47.

a policy whereby over the next four years they will double the number of

:44:48.:44:51.

people of colour and the number of women who are allowed to vote on the

:44:52.:44:58.

Oscars. Well, finally, and they have started that movement this year, and

:44:59.:45:03.

that has been reflected, it would appear, in the increasing number of

:45:04.:45:08.

nominations for people of colour. So it is about time. And what do you

:45:09.:45:13.

think has gone on there, Perez, because obviously these films were

:45:14.:45:17.

in production way before the whole row happened, but they have come to

:45:18.:45:21.

prominence this year, and do you think because of what happened last

:45:22.:45:25.

year, there has been an element of films being looked at maybe with

:45:26.:45:26.

fresh eyes? Absolutely, I remember last year

:45:27.:45:34.

there was a lot of controversy with the film Straight Out Of Compton,

:45:35.:45:44.

which many felt needed to be nominated but it wasn't. I think if

:45:45.:45:47.

it was released this last year I think it would have struck a nerve

:45:48.:45:54.

with voters, given the change are the pool of Academy members. I'm

:45:55.:46:00.

very happy with the changes. I think the films nominated and actors and

:46:01.:46:04.

actresses nominated well worthy of their nominations and reflect real

:46:05.:46:08.

life better, that is what art should do, reflect a life. I want to get

:46:09.:46:12.

your predictions in the main categories. Perez, would you think?

:46:13.:46:25.

I think Lala land the best picture, Emma Stone Best actress and Denzel

:46:26.:46:31.

Washington. Lala land and Emma Stone. I give Casey Affleck the

:46:32.:46:35.

slight edge for Manchester by the sea. I hated every second of the

:46:36.:46:43.

film but it never did Marlon Brando any harm mumbling all way through.

:46:44.:46:51.

We have already spoken about La La Land, puts it right up there in the

:46:52.:46:57.

most nominated Oscar-nominated of all time. Do you think it is one of

:46:58.:47:01.

the best film to come out of Hollywood? Yes, it's tied with

:47:02.:47:14.

Titanic and All About Eve. It's as good as singing in the rain! Perez,

:47:15.:47:21.

I know you have some personal interest, so I assume you echo that

:47:22.:47:27.

an Lala land? Absolutely. If you were recommending a movie for people

:47:28.:47:35.

to watch away from La La Land, what would it be? I have to be honest,

:47:36.:47:40.

I've mainly just been watching kids movies these days, with my son, who

:47:41.:47:46.

is four. I saw the Batman Lego movie which was cute. No ask and -- Oscar

:47:47.:47:54.

nominations though. As we go into these days before the Oscars, what

:47:55.:47:57.

is the atmosphere like that in Hollywood? There's just a lot of

:47:58.:48:03.

preparation involved. In fact, my trainer at the gym has taken time

:48:04.:48:09.

off from training me because she's working at the Oscars. That's also

:48:10.:48:13.

something that happens. All of a sudden, people who do other jobs

:48:14.:48:17.

start doing the Oscars, they shut down Hollywood Boulevard. There is

:48:18.:48:22.

tonnes of prep and security involved. Hopefully it won't rain. I

:48:23.:48:28.

do think it is expected to rain this weekend, we'll see, fingers crossed.

:48:29.:48:33.

Give us some good stats. The value of the goody bags, the amount of

:48:34.:48:38.

money that spent on getting the star is ready, give us some great stats

:48:39.:48:44.

on that. Value of the goody bag, ?200,000. Even if you don't win an

:48:45.:48:48.

Oscar you get to take home the goodie bag, which is worth its

:48:49.:48:53.

weight in gold and includes five luxury holidays, including a trip to

:48:54.:48:57.

Lake Como in Italy. So if George Clooney doesn't have room in his

:48:58.:49:00.

mansion, you can stay in the Hotel next door. As for getting ready for

:49:01.:49:05.

the Oscars... Botox doesn't come cheap. Let me tell you, you won't be

:49:06.:49:09.

seeing many wrinkles on the red carpet. It's boom time of the year

:49:10.:49:13.

for the injectables business, I'm off to get mine and I know Perez has

:49:14.:49:18.

his. Despite all the effort that goes into looking good, there are

:49:19.:49:23.

always some howlers on the red carpet, aren't there? Absolutely.

:49:24.:49:29.

That's my motto, better to be remembered for one of the worst

:49:30.:49:34.

outfits that the Oscars than not be remembered at all! Do you think it

:49:35.:49:40.

is done deliberately sometimes? I'm often on the worst dressed lists.

:49:41.:49:43.

I'm also very much looking forward to seeing what Jimmy Kimmel does as

:49:44.:49:46.

the host. Costume is a huge part of any film,

:49:47.:49:50.

TV or theatre production. And out of the five films

:49:51.:49:53.

that has been nominated for Best Costume at the Oscars,

:49:54.:49:56.

Angels Costumes, has bagged three. It's the largest privately owned

:49:57.:49:59.

collection of costume for film, theatre and television anywhere

:50:00.:50:03.

in the world. Our entertainment reporter

:50:04.:50:04.

Chi Chi Izundu got to look around Angels Costumiers already

:50:05.:50:07.

has 36 Oscars for some But it's hoping that one of these

:50:08.:50:19.

three films will take home a little We work on so many films every year,

:50:20.:50:28.

it's just an honour to be involved in any of the films

:50:29.:50:51.

that get nominated. You've got no idea which way

:50:52.:50:53.

the Academy's going to go, what they're looking for each year,

:50:54.:50:55.

so it might be futuristic, might be But we're always surprised and

:50:56.:50:59.

always very thankful to be involved. This is just one site, the other

:51:00.:51:05.

warehouse is in central London. Random fact time -

:51:06.:51:09.

there are eight and half miles, worth of hanging space here,

:51:10.:51:12.

that's on four floors. They can knock up an outfit

:51:13.:51:15.

from scratch in about three days. We may have seen

:51:16.:51:20.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious costumes for an upcoming remake that

:51:21.:51:21.

we're not actually From visual effects to high end

:51:22.:51:24.

production to - of course - costume design, the UK has

:51:25.:51:31.

a world-renowned reputation when it Last year film and TV

:51:32.:51:34.

attracted ?1.3 billion worth of international investment,

:51:35.:51:41.

so maintaining those relationships, particularly across Europe,

:51:42.:51:45.

is ever more important come Since 2007, the EU has contributed

:51:46.:51:47.

more than 100 million euros When we leave, what will

:51:48.:51:55.

happen to that source? The free movement of people,

:51:56.:52:02.

goods and services could become difficult if new visa

:52:03.:52:05.

requirements are introduced. But on the plus side, the weaker

:52:06.:52:09.

pound is bringing in business, There are certain big productions

:52:10.:52:12.

that are happening at the moment, all the studios are all booked up,

:52:13.:52:18.

so you might get a different view from the studios,

:52:19.:52:21.

but we've also still got the TV Unravelling the ties the EU has

:52:22.:52:23.

with the British film industry will be difficult,

:52:24.:52:28.

and the question is, once we leave, will the rest of the world

:52:29.:52:31.

still want to invest? If the tax incentives change

:52:32.:52:35.

or anything with the European film industry changes and there's less

:52:36.:52:38.

work, then we have to address it. But at the moment, our staffing

:52:39.:52:40.

isn't affected by Brexit. We've still got the films that

:52:41.:52:43.

are working, that have been scheduled to work,

:52:44.:52:45.

so we don't know. Whilst we're all waiting

:52:46.:52:49.

for the conclusion of Brexit, The lack of men wanting

:52:50.:52:51.

to pick up the needle. Why do you think men aren't

:52:52.:52:55.

taking up costume design? It's something we've just noticed,

:52:56.:52:58.

a lot of people are applying for the jobs, for some reason maybe

:52:59.:53:06.

don't feel it's a male It's something we're looking

:53:07.:53:09.

at and it's something we'd love... You can't really fix it straight

:53:10.:53:12.

away, we have an apprenticeship programme and that's quite split,

:53:13.:53:15.

but the people for the other jobs, the majority of people coming

:53:16.:53:18.

on the costume side are female. TV, film and theatre have been

:53:19.:53:24.

the bedrock for Angels when it comes to costume making,

:53:25.:53:28.

but the fashion industry is increasingly becoming aware

:53:29.:53:31.

of its historical treasure trove and using it for inspiration,

:53:32.:53:33.

including most of the looks The devil is in the detail,

:53:34.:53:39.

like this dress worn by Gwyneth Paltrow for

:53:40.:53:44.

Shakespeare in Love. And why some of the actors

:53:45.:53:47.

and actresses don't replicate this I love the fact she got to wear that

:53:48.:53:49.

dress. Monday's programme will be

:53:50.:54:02.

an Oscars special - with all the reaction

:54:03.:54:04.

from the night's events. Back to the news a half brother of

:54:05.:54:12.

North Korea's leader was killed by a highly toxic chemical agent known as

:54:13.:54:14.

VX. Kim Jong-nam died while preparing

:54:15.:54:17.

to board a flight at CCTV footage showed two

:54:18.:54:19.

women briefly holding Let's get more on this now

:54:20.:54:22.

with our correspondent Tell us more about what they have

:54:23.:54:32.

found out about this agent that they think may have killed him?

:54:33.:54:37.

It very, very dangerous indeed. It's normally in a kind of oil but you

:54:38.:54:43.

only need a spot of it to kill somebody. In the video of the CCTV

:54:44.:54:50.

Eusebius Aston, one of the assassins put a cloth over the head of the

:54:51.:54:57.

victim. -- see the assassins. He appeared to have realised what had

:54:58.:55:01.

happened and was then looking for help urgently. There are some

:55:02.:55:06.

suggestions that one of the assassins has herself been infected.

:55:07.:55:11.

What the authorities are also doing, they are going to scour the airport,

:55:12.:55:17.

sweep the airport looking for traces of that chemical, or talking about

:55:18.:55:21.

radioactive traces, which indicates they fear that the team of assassins

:55:22.:55:28.

may have had various different sorts of weapons. We don't know that.

:55:29.:55:33.

Maybe in radioactive isotope. We don't know that, it's speculation.

:55:34.:55:38.

But what we do know is the Malaysian 's think a very serious chemical

:55:39.:55:42.

weapon, small amount of a chemical weapon has been used, and that would

:55:43.:55:47.

raise all kinds of questions about the chemical weapons industry in

:55:48.:55:50.

North Korea. Does the fact they think that was

:55:51.:55:54.

used then point the finger very squarely on North Korea? Where could

:55:55.:56:01.

that particular agent be got from? You are certainly talking about a

:56:02.:56:06.

serious laboratory and probably a laboratory run by a state or

:56:07.:56:11.

corporation of that kind of scale. I don't think anybody outside doubts

:56:12.:56:16.

that the main finger of suspicion and suspicion may be too weak a

:56:17.:56:23.

word, is pointing at North Korea. North Korea is sending out odd

:56:24.:56:28.

signals. It's saying it's a fabrication, it's all about

:56:29.:56:31.

politics, these allegations from the lazier, but we want the body. They

:56:32.:56:36.

are not naming the victim in North Korea and certainly not saying he is

:56:37.:56:40.

the half brother of Kim Jong-un but clearly taking a very close interest

:56:41.:56:43.

in him. In terms of the efforts to try and

:56:44.:56:48.

get the body and try to control the way this is being handled, what is

:56:49.:56:54.

happening with North Korea? Well, you can't control the

:56:55.:57:00.

situation where one of your adversaries has been killed,

:57:01.:57:05.

possibly by your own agents in a foreign country. You haven't got

:57:06.:57:10.

much control on that one! There is a war of words going on between the

:57:11.:57:14.

Malaysian authorities and North Korean authorities, with both sides

:57:15.:57:18.

accusing the other of lies. What we're not really seeing so far is

:57:19.:57:26.

the involvement of the United States, for example. The United

:57:27.:57:29.

States, certainly under the old administration, and I've got no

:57:30.:57:34.

doubts under the new administration, is concerned about the nuclear issue

:57:35.:57:38.

in North Korea. If this is borne out, if the Malaysians have got it

:57:39.:57:42.

right and a lot of people think they have, then we are talking about not

:57:43.:57:47.

just nuclear weapons but serious chemical weapons as well. That ramps

:57:48.:57:52.

up the politics of the things. Thank you very much, Steve.

:57:53.:57:55.

A couple of quick comments to bring you about Claudio Ranieri's sacking.

:57:56.:58:02.

A sad sign of The Times, players need to be more responsible for the

:58:03.:58:06.

failure, not just the manager. Another says although it is sad they

:58:07.:58:11.

have sacked Claudio Ranieri, there is no morality any more in football,

:58:12.:58:15.

players think about only one thing, money.

:58:16.:58:17.

Thank you for all of your comments today and your company.

:58:18.:58:19.

See you soon, have a lovely weekend, bye-bye.

:58:20.:58:32.

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