22/03/2017

:00:09. > :00:10.Hello, it's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:11. > :00:18.This morning, exclusive access into the first ever school run

:00:19. > :00:27.It's Everton Free School and it's set up for pupils who've been

:00:28. > :00:38.I always thought that teachers hated every single kid in the school.

:00:39. > :00:39.You're wearing an Everton badge and you're getting to play football. I'm

:00:40. > :00:43.living the dream. We'll bring you that

:00:44. > :00:45.full report shortly. Also on the programme,

:00:46. > :00:48.memorial events are taking place today to mark the first anniversary

:00:49. > :00:50.since the Brussels attacks which saw 32 people killed

:00:51. > :00:57.and over 300 injured. We'll hear from some

:00:58. > :01:08.of those who were injured. I was walking down the road and it

:01:09. > :01:12.felt like a ghost explosion into my hip. It will hit me and it will take

:01:13. > :01:16.me back to the moment of that explosion.

:01:17. > :01:19.And we'll hear calls for a new law to be introduced to protect victims

:01:20. > :01:32.of grooming who commit crimes whilst under the control of their abuser.

:01:33. > :01:37.Throughout the programme we'll bring you the latest breaking news

:01:38. > :01:39.and developing stories and, as always, really

:01:40. > :01:44.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

:01:45. > :01:47.Use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged

:01:48. > :01:52.School governors say the government should press ahead

:01:53. > :01:54.with its new funding formula for schools in England,

:01:55. > :01:57.but they argue there isn't enough money to fund it over all.

:01:58. > :02:00.Their views were shared as part of a BBC survey of more than 4,000

:02:01. > :02:01.members of the National Governors Association.

:02:02. > :02:13.Drayton Park Primary School says it is already operating on very

:02:14. > :02:16.tight financial margins, but it predicts its budget in real

:02:17. > :02:20.terms by 2019 will be at least ?176,000 smaller.

:02:21. > :02:23.A proposed new national funding formula in England will change

:02:24. > :02:31.Ministers argue it will narrow historical inequalities

:02:32. > :02:34.between different areas, but schools across the country are facing costs.

:02:35. > :02:37.Cuts to funding mean cuts to our service so what we will see

:02:38. > :02:40.is fewer members of staff, lower quality of service and things

:02:41. > :02:43.that we currently do that we will have to decide

:02:44. > :02:50.In a survey to the BBC, school governors who responded

:02:51. > :02:55.and had a view on the proposed new formula were broadly in favour

:02:56. > :02:57.of the principle, but many also expressed serious concerns

:02:58. > :03:08.Some said they planned to cut back on staff and others,

:03:09. > :03:10.that they were looking at ways of raising extra cash

:03:11. > :03:11.including asking parents for voluntary contributions

:03:12. > :03:14.Everybody pretty much agrees that the principle

:03:15. > :03:16.of the formula is right, the elements are right

:03:17. > :03:21.but the problem is there isn't enough money in the formula.

:03:22. > :03:23.The Government says funding is at record levels and the proposed

:03:24. > :03:27.formula is a fairer way to help all schools.

:03:28. > :03:30.The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the changes would correct clear

:03:31. > :03:32.in equities in funding levels between local authorities

:03:33. > :03:46.but such radical reform would create winners and losers.

:03:47. > :03:56.Let's talk to our education editor Branwen Jeffreys. The funding issue

:03:57. > :04:00.and the cap are the same? Parents will have been getting letters from

:04:01. > :04:03.their schools telling about the difficult decisions ahead. Schools

:04:04. > :04:06.are mini employers and all their bills, national insurance, pay and

:04:07. > :04:10.pensions they're going up and the money is not keeping up with that.

:04:11. > :04:16.So within a few years, they will have had 8% less per pupil to spend.

:04:17. > :04:20.That's a big hole to fill in your budget which is why some parents

:04:21. > :04:24.will be getting begging letters from their schools saying, "Can you help

:04:25. > :04:28.us out a bit here?" The Government is trying to make things, it says,

:04:29. > :04:32.fairer, clearer and more transparent, get rid of an old

:04:33. > :04:35.system that's a mishmash of local arrangements and have a nice, simple

:04:36. > :04:39.clear way, but the problem is when there is not a lot of money in the

:04:40. > :04:42.system, taking it away from one area like the inner cities and places

:04:43. > :04:47.like Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and London, to give a bit more to

:04:48. > :04:51.places like Somerset, Lincolnshire, some of the big rural counties. No

:04:52. > :04:55.one feels like a winner at the end of this process. So this morning,

:04:56. > :04:58.the national governors association and a lot of governors we have

:04:59. > :05:02.within hearing from are saying we like the idea of a formula, please

:05:03. > :05:06.don't throw that away as an idea. But the problem is, there is not a

:05:07. > :05:10.lot of money in the system and we're really feeling the pain and they're

:05:11. > :05:15.the ones that have to make school budgets balance. What kind of

:05:16. > :05:19.difficult decisions are schools having to make then? The 4,000

:05:20. > :05:24.governors who got in touch told us about losing teaching assistants in

:05:25. > :05:31.the classroom, teachers, getting rid of extra support staff, inner city

:05:32. > :05:35.schools have counsellors, but they are looking at practical things. We

:05:36. > :05:39.found a school being sponsored by a paint company and another one hiring

:05:40. > :05:42.a fund-raiser on commission to get extra money into the schools. They

:05:43. > :05:46.are trying to tap up local businesses. Anything they can do to

:05:47. > :05:49.get extra money and one little school told us, we haven't had a

:05:50. > :05:53.caretaker for years, we're relying on parents to do our basic repairs

:05:54. > :05:56.for us. Thank you very much, Branwen.

:05:57. > :05:59.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:06:00. > :06:06.Princess Anne has told the BBC that she believes gene technology

:06:07. > :06:08.has important benefits to offer in terms of providing food.

:06:09. > :06:11.The Queen's daughter is a working farmer and patron of nearly 50

:06:12. > :06:15.In an interview with Farming Today, she said that it would not be

:06:16. > :06:22.Today marks the first anniversary of the Brussels bombings

:06:23. > :06:28.which claimed the lives of 32 people and injured hundreds more.

:06:29. > :06:30.Two suicide bombs were detonated inside Zaventem Airport and an hour

:06:31. > :06:33.later a third bomb exploded in the Maelbeek metro station.

:06:34. > :06:35.Today, three memorial events will take place around the city

:06:36. > :06:42.Two new jails are to be built in south Wales and Yorkshire as part

:06:43. > :06:45.of a ?1.3 billion government pledge to create 10,000 modern

:06:46. > :06:50.Two sites - one in Port Talbot and the other in Full Sutton near York -

:06:51. > :06:52.have been earmarked, and two existing jails in Kent

:06:53. > :06:56.Meanwhile, details of plans to close a number of older prisons

:06:57. > :07:17.Detectives have launched a murder investigation following a shooting

:07:18. > :07:19.in east London. A nineteen year old man died from gunshot injuries

:07:20. > :07:21.following a shooting in Ilford last night. Paramedics found the man

:07:22. > :07:27.unconscious on Ilford Lane, at the junction with Bedford Road.

:07:28. > :07:31.Everton Free School, the first school to be run

:07:32. > :07:34.by a Premier League football club has opened its doors to allow

:07:35. > :07:38.The school takes in teenagers who have not been able to stay

:07:39. > :07:41.in mainstream education and in many cases would end up in

:07:42. > :07:46.The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, says the government

:07:47. > :07:48.is working with the aviation industry to try to minimise

:07:49. > :07:50.the impact of new restrictions on cabin baggage.

:07:51. > :07:53.Passengers flying to the UK from six countries in the Middle East have

:07:54. > :07:55.been banned from carrying large electronic devices including laptop

:07:56. > :07:57.computers and tablets after intelligence suggested

:07:58. > :08:03.terrorist groups were actively targeting airlines.

:08:04. > :08:06.If you have any questions on the new restrictions, you can put

:08:07. > :08:11.them to the travel expert, Simon Calder on the BBC Newsroom

:08:12. > :08:16.Get in touch by texting 61124 or on social media

:08:17. > :08:26.Iraqi forces are entering what could be the final phase

:08:27. > :08:29.of their operation to reclaim Mosul, which has been an Islamic State

:08:30. > :08:32.The government there says the battle for west Mosul,

:08:33. > :08:35.which has been going on for three months, has caused more than 180,000

:08:36. > :08:42.Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, has sent this report.

:08:43. > :08:45.The fight for West Mosul goes on and Iraqi forces,

:08:46. > :08:53.assisted by American air power and by Special Forces as well,

:08:54. > :08:58.have been advancing into the city and they are winning their battle

:08:59. > :09:03.against the Jihadists of so-called Islamic State.

:09:04. > :09:05.They've stalled a little since they reached the old city

:09:06. > :09:12.but this battle is only going in one direction.

:09:13. > :09:17.They are going to win it and Mosul will be free from the jihadist

:09:18. > :09:24.It is not the end of the fight against IS.

:09:25. > :09:26.They still hold large amounts of territory,

:09:27. > :09:28.not to mention the attitudes of the Sunni Muslim community.

:09:29. > :09:30.The rise of Islamic State happened because they capitalised

:09:31. > :09:48.If Iraq is to have any hope of a decent future then the Sunnis

:09:49. > :09:54.need to feel safe and secure, otherwise some other version

:09:55. > :09:56.of the Jihadists may well emerge and capitalise once again

:09:57. > :10:06.Their fear is that with a majority Shia

:10:07. > :10:07.government in Baghdad they will

:10:08. > :10:12.The Northern Ireland Assembly will reconvene today for a special

:10:13. > :10:14.sitting to allow politicians to reflect on the life

:10:15. > :10:18.Last night, thousands of people gathered at a candlelit vigil

:10:19. > :10:21.in west Belfast for the former Deputy First Minister who died

:10:22. > :10:29.Thames Water is likely to receive a huge fine this morning

:10:30. > :10:32.for polluting the River Thames with nearly one and a half

:10:33. > :10:34.billion litres of raw sewage in 2013 and 2014.

:10:35. > :10:37.The judge hearing the case at Aylesbury Crown Court said

:10:38. > :10:43.the company had harmed local fishing businesses, and farms.

:10:44. > :10:47.Dads who want to be more involved in looking after their children

:10:48. > :10:50.worry that asking for flexible hours might damage their careers,

:10:51. > :10:55.the chair of the Women and Equalities Committee says.

:10:56. > :10:57.Launching an inquiry, the Conservative MP Maria Miller says

:10:58. > :10:59.requesting flexible hours can even lead to employers questioning

:11:00. > :11:06.The committee's investigation will look at how much support

:11:07. > :11:08.fathers receive at work and aims to find out whether there

:11:09. > :11:18.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.

:11:19. > :11:24.In a few minutes time we will take you inside Everton Free School. It

:11:25. > :11:31.is the first time they will have allowed the TV cameras into their

:11:32. > :11:34.school. It is really interesting. Their uniform involves wearing the

:11:35. > :11:36.Everton badge so we'll bring you that in the next few minutes. Get in

:11:37. > :11:43.touch with us this morning. Let's get some sport

:11:44. > :11:45.with Katherine Downes. Katherine, England and Scotland

:11:46. > :11:47.both have international friendlies this evening,

:11:48. > :11:58.but you can tell us about another Good morning.

:11:59. > :12:03.England take on the world champions Germany. So a big first test for

:12:04. > :12:06.Gareth Southgate as he takes full control of the team for the first

:12:07. > :12:10.time since being the caretaker-manager from back in

:12:11. > :12:15.November. All part of the home nations push for World Cup

:12:16. > :12:20.qualification for the next World Cup in Russia, but a big few days for

:12:21. > :12:25.another less high-profile team hoping to qualify for their own

:12:26. > :12:28.World Cup, the Syrian women's team are about to play four games in

:12:29. > :12:32.eight days. Since the fighting started in Syria, there hasn't been

:12:33. > :12:37.an international match for the Syrian women's team for six years.

:12:38. > :12:38.So Richard Conway has been out to Syria to see how their preparations

:12:39. > :14:00.are going. It is great to see that women's

:14:01. > :14:05.football is restarting in Syria. Richard's trip is part of our State

:14:06. > :14:09.of Sport Week. Every day this week, you can read more from Richard's

:14:10. > :14:12.trip to Syria on the BBC Sport website. In the next hour we will be

:14:13. > :14:17.telling you the stories as well about how football has brought back

:14:18. > :14:21.hope and also some asemblance of normality to thousands of refugees

:14:22. > :14:23.who have been displaced by the fighting in Syria. But now, it is

:14:24. > :14:27.back to you. Thank you very much. And to Richard

:14:28. > :14:48.Conway in Syria. This morning, an exclusive

:14:49. > :14:50.insight into life inside the first ever school run

:14:51. > :14:52.by a Premier League football club. Everton Free School takes

:14:53. > :14:55.in teenagers who have not been able to stay in mainstream education

:14:56. > :14:58.and in many cases would end up The school has 120 students

:14:59. > :15:01.aged between 14 and 16, Kids with behavioural problems,

:15:02. > :15:04.gang members, persistent truants. With the help of Everton Football

:15:05. > :15:07.Club, teachers say they're turning lives around,

:15:08. > :15:09.but is it actually getting results? For the first time ever,

:15:10. > :15:12.they've opened their doors to the TV cameras, and our reporter

:15:13. > :15:14.James Longman has been there. He was kicking everything,

:15:15. > :15:17.punching everything, hysterical. I never used to do

:15:18. > :15:19.nothing in school. The way teachers came

:15:20. > :15:25.across and people came across with me, I just thought thought that they

:15:26. > :15:28.didn't like me, so I began to not Some of them missed

:15:29. > :15:38.years of education. All of them in danger

:15:39. > :15:40.of vanishing from the But these pupils in

:15:41. > :15:43.Liverpool have found And it's all thanks

:15:44. > :15:50.to their local football club. These are going to be

:15:51. > :15:52.young men and women in a couple of years and if we can

:15:53. > :15:57.give them a decent foothold to get As a fan, it makes you proud to wear

:15:58. > :16:02.your team on your chest every day. The question is, does Everton

:16:03. > :16:23.really make a difference? Tell me what it was like before,

:16:24. > :16:26.this routine in the It was very very different

:16:27. > :16:30.because Liam wasn't happy It was very anxious to me as well,

:16:31. > :16:35.as a parent, knowing I was having to go to work all day

:16:36. > :16:39.and my son was somewhere where he Liam has attention deficit

:16:40. > :16:44.disorder and autism. It was just hard

:16:45. > :16:47.to get the work done, because I would always

:16:48. > :16:51.need the one-on-one. It would just be so hard

:16:52. > :16:54.to complete the task. Like, "Today is he going

:16:55. > :17:05.to get hit at break time? Are they going to be

:17:06. > :17:07.waiting for him after Through all the time he was getting

:17:08. > :17:11.bullied, he was losing so He got his tooth

:17:12. > :17:14.knocked out one day. I think that was towards

:17:15. > :17:16.the end, when I was Liam moved to a second

:17:17. > :17:21.mainstream school, but The teacher called me

:17:22. > :17:32.in and said, "He is going to need something

:17:33. > :17:36.more one-to-one." They recommended

:17:37. > :17:45.Everton Free School. Everton Free School was set up

:17:46. > :17:50.in 2012 with the express intention of engaging

:17:51. > :17:55.young people who had fallen out of education,

:17:56. > :18:04.for a multitude of reasons. Our curriculum at

:18:05. > :18:08.Everton Free School focuses very much on English, maths

:18:09. > :18:11.and sciences as the core GCSEs. We then do a range

:18:12. > :18:14.of subjects that we think will support them in getting

:18:15. > :18:17.into further education, into work This is all paid for

:18:18. > :18:22.by the Government. Children often sent here

:18:23. > :18:24.by mainstream schools who It is an alternative

:18:25. > :18:31.to a pupil-referral unit, run as a free school,

:18:32. > :18:34.independent of the National Some of our young people have

:18:35. > :18:37.extremely difficult home lives, kicked out of their

:18:38. > :18:39.previous schools. Some of our young people,

:18:40. > :18:41.unfortunately, have become mixed up Some of them might

:18:42. > :18:44.actually be in care. I suppose we are

:18:45. > :18:48.a lifeboat for them. Quite often, we are

:18:49. > :18:50.a last-chance saloon. Everton Free School takes

:18:51. > :18:56.on lots of students who have It was definitely without a doubt

:18:57. > :19:00.the hardest decision The thought of throwing

:19:01. > :19:07.my child kind of from Am I putting them

:19:08. > :19:13.with all these children who have been excluded from school,

:19:14. > :19:18.for whatever reason? So I was thinking,

:19:19. > :19:20."Am I doing the best thing It is normal education,

:19:21. > :19:26.not a football school, but links with a Premier League

:19:27. > :19:35.club bring big benefits. We were practising our calculator

:19:36. > :19:37.work last week in class. You have brought them over today

:19:38. > :19:44.to a box at Everton. Some of them are Everton fans,

:19:45. > :19:48.so it means the world It helps to get them

:19:49. > :19:53.into school, get them engaged Just a better environment

:19:54. > :20:02.than a mainstream What did you not enjoy

:20:03. > :20:06.about your last school? There were too many

:20:07. > :20:08.people in the classes. I couldn't get my

:20:09. > :20:10.head down and learn But in Everton Free School I just

:20:11. > :20:17.feel like they are teaching for me to learn and I have learned

:20:18. > :20:21.so many more things than what I did A lot of parents might

:20:22. > :20:24.be watching this and thinking, "I would

:20:25. > :20:31.love my kids to go thinking, "I would love my kids

:20:32. > :20:34.to go to school with four, five Some of them are coming off maybe

:20:35. > :20:40.five, 10% attendance in their previous school, which is

:20:41. > :20:43.maybe one day a month. Our main aim is to get them back

:20:44. > :20:46.up to the 80s and 90s. I suppose it is kind

:20:47. > :20:48.of the idea that if an organisation like Everton

:20:49. > :20:50.cares about their education, This is the first school based

:20:51. > :20:56.through a football club and I think there are something

:20:57. > :20:58.like 17 of the other Premier League clubs that

:20:59. > :21:00.are doing their own thing That's about three times

:21:01. > :21:12.what a mainstream place would be. Is it fair that these

:21:13. > :21:15.kids, who have acted up perhaps in the past, are somehow

:21:16. > :21:18.being rewarded for that now? We work closely with

:21:19. > :21:22.Merseyside Police. Young people who are not

:21:23. > :21:27.engaged in their education, there is a high correlation

:21:28. > :21:30.between those young people who end up in

:21:31. > :21:33.the criminal justice system. In a sense, by engaging

:21:34. > :21:35.them in their education, that has got to

:21:36. > :21:39.beneficial to everybody. I would rather go over Stanley Park

:21:40. > :21:41.and sit in Liverpool's You can go over and sit

:21:42. > :21:47.in the box and have a chill, The whole point of it is to get

:21:48. > :22:14.you out of the classroom. When we come here and when you see

:22:15. > :22:18.these cranes, at some point we will develop partnerships

:22:19. > :22:20.with employers. The first module is the history

:22:21. > :22:22.of transportation in Chloe is 15 and has

:22:23. > :22:25.behavioural problems. And you got kicked

:22:26. > :22:31.out of that school? I never used to do

:22:32. > :22:36.nothing in school. I used to argue with

:22:37. > :22:37.all the teachers. In Liverpool, it's violent but not

:22:38. > :22:46.as violent as it was in Manchester. When you say it is

:22:47. > :22:51.violent, what is that? People used to go

:22:52. > :22:52.around carrying knives. If you did have a fight,

:22:53. > :22:52.they would stab them. And here, it is not

:22:53. > :22:55.like that so much? The students are pretty

:22:56. > :22:58.shy about their past. But gangs are clearly

:22:59. > :23:05.a part of life for some. I've got members of

:23:06. > :23:07.my family who are in a gang, but you keep yourself out

:23:08. > :23:11.of it, just get your head down. It is pointless,

:23:12. > :23:13.really, I think myself. You are just fighting against people

:23:14. > :23:17.who are either going to try to stab And that is exactly

:23:18. > :23:28.what the gang is like. He has seen domestic

:23:29. > :23:39.violence in the past and had The worst time in my life

:23:40. > :23:48.was when he was quite suicidal. There was this evening

:23:49. > :23:49.and he just completely He was kicking everything,

:23:50. > :23:55.punching everything. I was hysterical, crying,

:23:56. > :23:58.because I did not know what I said to him, "I will have to take

:23:59. > :24:05.you to Alder Hey Hospital, I tried to explain to him why,

:24:06. > :24:09."I am really worried about you, I He said, "Yeah, I want

:24:10. > :24:13.to go to hospital." They referred him to

:24:14. > :24:15.child psychologist. And that is why when

:24:16. > :24:23.Everton Free School came up, it was like,

:24:24. > :24:29."This is an option." Every term there is a classroom

:24:30. > :24:32.visit from an Everton player. Today it is captain

:24:33. > :24:34.Phil Jagielka, who is We have got the Bunsen

:24:35. > :24:39.burners going, have we? It doesn't want to go

:24:40. > :24:43.red, that's why. A few of them want to speak to you,

:24:44. > :24:48.a few of them want to give you a A couple of Liverpool

:24:49. > :24:51.fans in here, so... They refuse to write

:24:52. > :24:53.the word "blue" down, Oh, they didn't want

:24:54. > :24:56.to write the colour blue? I would not say I

:24:57. > :25:06.loved it and enjoyed it, but it was something

:25:07. > :25:09.I understood was part and parcel of I ended up with a BTEC

:25:10. > :25:13.sports science. I have not had to use it yet,

:25:14. > :25:17.but it is something, you know, I think it is easy to throw

:25:18. > :25:26.the Scouse, the vibe, and stuff like that out, but I have

:25:27. > :25:28.been here a long time now and I have met some

:25:29. > :25:30.fantastic characters, some great If you give these kids a chance

:25:31. > :25:34.to open up and talk, more often than not, you

:25:35. > :25:37.have had a great day. These are going to be

:25:38. > :25:41.young men and women in a couple of years

:25:42. > :25:44.so if we can give them a decent foothold to get there,

:25:45. > :25:47.like you say, with the stuff they do around here,

:25:48. > :25:52.hats off to the club. You get the sense the football

:25:53. > :26:02.club, they can pay for things that the school would not

:26:03. > :26:05.otherwise be able to get. They kind of give

:26:06. > :26:08.the school a brand. All the kids can walk

:26:09. > :26:10.around with a badge on Most importantly, for me,

:26:11. > :26:16.it is a massive symbol of success and, for a lot of these

:26:17. > :26:19.kids, that is probably the most Teachers say they

:26:20. > :26:26.are getting results. Almost a quarter of

:26:27. > :26:31.students here get five or That is far higher than the national

:26:32. > :26:38.average for pupils like these. I had a good chat to

:26:39. > :26:42.Liam and said, "Do you want to go down the route of being

:26:43. > :26:49.in jail at 16 years of age and having no life ahead of you,

:26:50. > :26:53.or do you want to follow the dream?" "I have a dream that one

:26:54. > :26:55.day this nation will "I have a dream that one day

:26:56. > :27:02.everybody shall be..." From the beginning they

:27:03. > :27:04.said to him, what is And they said, "We will support

:27:05. > :27:18.you and get you to that." "I have a dream that

:27:19. > :27:21.one day, even the state He has always had the same dream,

:27:22. > :27:25.and that is to be a football On a Monday afternoon,

:27:26. > :27:30.I come up here and coach these. Just people who came

:27:31. > :27:33.from other places. You know, just really

:27:34. > :27:37.coach them in footy. And they learn the English

:27:38. > :27:39.language, as well. It is great the school

:27:40. > :27:45.trusts me and they have the You know, if they can trust you,

:27:46. > :27:48.you can trust them, Liam learns respect

:27:49. > :28:07.and responsibility. What do you like most

:28:08. > :28:13.about the school? They all cooperate with

:28:14. > :28:19.you and talk to you fine. You cannot say a bad

:28:20. > :28:21.thing about them, really. Did you ever think that

:28:22. > :28:23.you would be saying I always thought that

:28:24. > :28:37.teachers just hated every If the schools were connected

:28:38. > :28:42.with a team that is as successful as them, I can

:28:43. > :28:45.see that will succeed. I know your mum fought

:28:46. > :28:47.hard to get you here. What is your relationship

:28:48. > :28:49.like with her? I have got a real good

:28:50. > :28:51.relationship with my If you think where

:28:52. > :29:01.you were a few years ago and where you are now, doing

:29:02. > :29:05.this, did you think you would be And you are wearing an Everton badge

:29:06. > :29:26.and you are going to Jonathan says, this should be

:29:27. > :29:32.applauded and is a great example. Liz says, as a supporter of

:29:33. > :29:37.Liverpool, I congratulate Everton, a brilliant initiative. James says, I

:29:38. > :29:41.see lots of Everton kids in my area, they always have a smile on their

:29:42. > :29:47.faces. A lot of people make this point, the school, the aid that

:29:48. > :29:52.people and you get in, it is about rewarding the bad kids? Steve says,

:29:53. > :29:57.we are rewarding bad behaviour. One person says, Everton are respecting

:29:58. > :29:58.students, and issue inherent to the current system.

:29:59. > :30:01.After 10am we'll speak to a former pupil who's gone

:30:02. > :30:03.on to work at the club, and we'll hear from Spurs

:30:04. > :30:05.and Newcastle about work they're doing in schools.

:30:06. > :30:09.We'll be live in Brussels as the city marks the first

:30:10. > :30:13.anniversary of the attacks at the airport and

:30:14. > :30:27.A victim of a child grooming gang waves her right to anonymity to tell

:30:28. > :30:29.us why she wants a pardon for victims who committed crimes whilst

:30:30. > :30:36.under the control of abusers. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:30:37. > :30:39.with a summary of today's news. School governors say

:30:40. > :30:42.the government should press ahead with its new funding formula

:30:43. > :30:49.for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

:30:50. > :30:52.money to fund it overall. Their views were shared as part

:30:53. > :30:55.of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

:30:56. > :30:58.Association. Princess Anne has told the BBC

:30:59. > :31:00.that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

:31:01. > :31:03.in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

:31:04. > :31:06.farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

:31:07. > :31:10.she said that it would not be Today marks the first anniversary

:31:11. > :31:17.of the Brussels bombings which claimed the lives of 32

:31:18. > :31:19.people, and injured hundreds more. Two suicide bombs were detonated

:31:20. > :31:22.inside Zaventem Airport and an hour later a third bomb exploded

:31:23. > :31:24.in the Maelbeek metro station. Today, three memorial events

:31:25. > :31:27.will take place around the city Two new jails are to be built

:31:28. > :31:40.in south Wales and Yorkshire as part of a ?1.3 billion government pledge

:31:41. > :31:42.to create 10,000 modern Two sites, one in Port Talbot

:31:43. > :31:46.and the other in Full Sutton near York, have been earmarked,

:31:47. > :31:49.and two existing jails in Kent Meanwhile, details of plans to close

:31:50. > :31:53.a number of older prisons The Scottish Parliament

:31:54. > :31:59.will vote today on a call by the First Minister,

:32:00. > :32:01.Nicola Sturgeon, for a second The motion, which is likely to be

:32:02. > :32:07.passed after a second day of debate, will give the Scottish Government

:32:08. > :32:10.a mandate to open negotiations with Yesterday, Ms Sturgeon told Holyrood

:32:11. > :32:14.it would be "unfair and utterly unsustainable" for Westminster

:32:15. > :32:18.to block her request. That's a summary of

:32:19. > :32:20.the latest BBC News. Here's some sport now

:32:21. > :32:28.with Katherine Downes. The former Liverpool captain

:32:29. > :32:31.and coach Ronnie Moran has Along with Bill Shankly

:32:32. > :32:34.and Bob Paisley, he was part He served twice as caretaker

:32:35. > :32:39.manager, leading the team out England manager Gareth Southgate

:32:40. > :32:46.says his side need to "lose They face world champions Germany

:32:47. > :32:53.in a friendly this evening, in what's Southgate's first game

:32:54. > :32:56.in permanent charge of the side. Scotland face Canada this

:32:57. > :32:58.evening at Easter Road. It's thought manager Gordon Strachan

:32:59. > :33:00.will field an experimental line-up, ahead of their crucial World Cup

:33:01. > :33:07.qualifer against Slovenia on Sunday. England head coach Eddie Jones says

:33:08. > :33:09.Warren Gatland should pick four captains for the upcoming Lions tour

:33:10. > :33:12.to New Zealand this summer. Jones believes picking one from each

:33:13. > :33:16.nation will help Gatland choose the best candidate once

:33:17. > :33:19.the warm-up matches are over. Los Angeles and Paris have said

:33:20. > :33:24.they only want to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,

:33:25. > :33:26.not the ones in 2028 The International Olympic Committee

:33:27. > :33:30.has suggested whichever city loses its bid for 2024,

:33:31. > :33:33.should be awarded the Games in 2028, but both cities have said that's

:33:34. > :33:47.not an option. Alan on Facebook regarding the

:33:48. > :33:50.Everton film and the fact that they are the first Premier League club to

:33:51. > :33:53.run a school. "Not the richest football club, but certainly the

:33:54. > :33:59.richest in terms of caring for people." Says Alan on Facebook. "Not

:34:00. > :34:03.just about making millions, giving back to the community and that's why

:34:04. > :34:06.I love this club." Clare says on Twitter, "So proud to see what the

:34:07. > :34:11.school has become and have loved being part of the journey."

:34:12. > :34:17.32 people died and 340 people were injured in co-ordinated attacks

:34:18. > :34:20.in Brussels last year and this morning memorial events are taking

:34:21. > :34:22.place across Belgium to mark the first anniversary

:34:23. > :34:31.They'll be attended by the Belgian king and queen and survivors.

:34:32. > :34:34.We'll speak to our correspondent who has been at one of the events

:34:35. > :34:37.in a moment, but first you may remember this image

:34:38. > :34:42.of Sebastien Bellin, a 38-year-old basketball player

:34:43. > :34:44.who was seriously injured at Brussels Airport.

:34:45. > :35:12.This is his road to recovery, one year on.

:35:13. > :35:32.I had eight surgeries since the attack.

:35:33. > :35:36.I most of all I have been able to walk again.

:35:37. > :35:39.Which was a challenge, you know, from being a professional basketball

:35:40. > :35:47.player and being so active, to almost starting from zero.

:35:48. > :35:49.Having to learn to walk, having to learn to just be

:35:50. > :36:00.I remember speaking to you and you talked about what was going through

:36:01. > :36:05.your head. All this time on given your way of thinking, how that's

:36:06. > :36:07.changed you, your philosophy of life before the attack and your

:36:08. > :36:12.philosophy of life afterwards. When something like this happens

:36:13. > :36:15.to you and you overcome it, it is a little bit like life giving

:36:16. > :36:18.you a little wink, you know, about, this is hey, what you are doing,

:36:19. > :36:22.the way you think, your approach And one of those things

:36:23. > :36:28.is there is no longer any I don't have the notion of fear

:36:29. > :36:43.and that's extremely liberating. Some of the people injured were

:36:44. > :36:48.taken to the back of the airport where they wouldn't get medical

:36:49. > :36:53.attention immediately. You said, "Take me to the front whatever

:36:54. > :36:56.happens." When I was in the back of the

:36:57. > :37:01.airport, they said no, everybody has to stay here. Well, I was the only

:37:02. > :37:06.one willing to go forward. If you are the only one, they have no

:37:07. > :37:11.choice. I said, I'll risk it, I need to get to the ambulance. I said no,

:37:12. > :37:16.push me to the front. If I had been so focussed on dying, I would have

:37:17. > :37:19.missed maybe the scar of that was to my right that you used as a

:37:20. > :37:26.tourniquet. I would have missed the suitcase that was to my left that I

:37:27. > :37:29.asked people around me, to raise my leg up to stop the flow of blood. I

:37:30. > :37:34.wouldn't have noticed a cart in the distance that I asked to bring over

:37:35. > :37:40.so they could put me on to push me around instead of people carrying a

:37:41. > :37:43.big two meters five guy, 110 kilos, it wouldn't have been a very easy

:37:44. > :37:47.thing to do, but on a cart it changed the outcome.

:37:48. > :37:52.How are you thinking about the moment of marking the Memorial?

:37:53. > :37:54.I've been back to Brussels airport several times.

:37:55. > :37:57.Sometimes I fly out late at night and I go there.

:37:58. > :37:59.I have taken 9:15pm, 9:30pm flights at night

:38:00. > :38:02.and I will go earlier, like two hours before

:38:03. > :38:05.and just stand in the spot where the picture was taken,

:38:06. > :38:08.or where I first landed after the explosion.

:38:09. > :38:11.I will just collect myself, you know.

:38:12. > :38:15.You are standing in the same place where you were lying down?

:38:16. > :38:27.Sometimes I have a moment to myself where I find energy in that place.

:38:28. > :38:31.I find the strength to continue building myself back up to be even

:38:32. > :38:48.One thing that I've heard survivors talk about before is this phantom

:38:49. > :38:52.I know from talking to you you've talked about how you have sensed,

:38:53. > :38:54.felt the wave of the blast in your hip.

:38:55. > :38:59.Still now, I'll be walking down the road and I'll just feel

:39:00. > :39:02.like a ghost explosion into my hip, especially my hip area

:39:03. > :39:09.It'll take me back to that moment of the explosion

:39:10. > :39:15.and because an explosion is, my goodness, the powerful, you know,

:39:16. > :39:18.I was 15 metres away from the second explosion and so the power of that

:39:19. > :39:28.I'm interested to know whether that's put an extra pressure

:39:29. > :39:31.on you in some ways of helping them cope and whether you've,

:39:32. > :39:34.how you've conveyed what happened and whether you've wanted to think

:39:35. > :39:41.about giving them so much to protect them and how you make that journey

:39:42. > :39:49.There are very visible ways for kids to see me make progress every day

:39:50. > :39:58.That's a great message to say hey, you're worst-case scenario,

:39:59. > :40:05.You can overcome it, and come out even more

:40:06. > :40:07.appreciative of life, with even more qualities

:40:08. > :40:14.Am I right to say that you're still seeking some answers,

:40:15. > :40:16.some kind of redress from the Belgian government,

:40:17. > :40:18.from American Airlines as well and looking at potential legal

:40:19. > :40:27.You have two hit hard and say listen, guys,

:40:28. > :40:28.these are people's lives you're talking about.

:40:29. > :40:32.I know the pain and suffering my family went through,

:40:33. > :40:37.I want this to be preventable as much as possible,

:40:38. > :40:55.The king and queen of Belgium are at the station. You can see them there.

:40:56. > :41:02.They are meeting victims. Those who were injured and also the emergency

:41:03. > :41:06.services. There was an attack here an hour after the attack at Brussels

:41:07. > :41:10.Airport and the king and the Queen are unveiling a memorial here for

:41:11. > :41:16.the victims in the next few minutes. So you can see the king and queen at

:41:17. > :41:20.the station. An hour after the attack at Brussels Airport an

:41:21. > :41:26.explosion took place nearby here killing 16 people.

:41:27. > :41:27.In the next few minutes they will unveil a memorial there for the

:41:28. > :41:31.victims. This image of Nidhi Chaphekar

:41:32. > :41:35.also became iconic. She's a flight attendant

:41:36. > :41:37.who was pictured looking dazed My crew member was behind.

:41:38. > :41:46.He told me, just wait. Then people started

:41:47. > :41:49.rushing towards us. We didn't know what was

:41:50. > :41:56.actually happening. It was a very...you say that a sight

:41:57. > :42:02.which I can't forget till this day. Then I sensed and I took a left turn

:42:03. > :42:10.and the moment I took a few more steps and there was a second bomb

:42:11. > :42:16.blast and I flew from one place to the other and the moment I landed

:42:17. > :42:23.and while I was collapsing behind, I told myself, I said, Oh, Nidhi,

:42:24. > :42:31.it was a bomb blast. While I was on the ground,

:42:32. > :42:34.my back of the mind, my subconscious was asking me

:42:35. > :42:39.to wake up, to get up because they said that my kids

:42:40. > :42:42.are having exams and the news would reach to them and how

:42:43. > :42:45.would they react, you know? And you are fine, you are OK.

:42:46. > :42:55.Come on. And with fear I opened my eyes

:42:56. > :43:01.because I had that fear that if I would move maybe there are more and

:43:02. > :43:09.they would kill us. It was hard to see anything because it was smoke

:43:10. > :43:19.all over. With great heart, you know, I managed to sit, but what I

:43:20. > :43:24.saw, I cannot describe and my heart started sinking. I'm looking at

:43:25. > :43:30.people. Those who were injured, but they were not tabling. They were not

:43:31. > :43:35.-- talking. They were not moving. Then I said what to do. I wanted to

:43:36. > :43:41.drag, but the pieces were sticking in my hands and piercing as needles

:43:42. > :43:46.so it wasn't possible. Then I looked at my legs and I said, "Oh my god,

:43:47. > :43:53.they are badly injured." And I was unable to lift them. Then I saw a

:43:54. > :44:04.soldier. I heard a noise of their shoes and then I saw and I waved,

:44:05. > :44:08.hello, help, like that. He said, "Lady, I'll be right back. I'll send

:44:09. > :44:12.someone. OK. I have to take position." And within no time either

:44:13. > :44:16.the same one because they all lookalike and I can't remember, you

:44:17. > :44:21.know, he came and he gave me his hand and I said, "I'm unable to get

:44:22. > :44:29.up." With his help he made me sit on the chair and then a few minutes

:44:30. > :44:39.later I was put on a stretcher later o they took me out.

:44:40. > :44:42.And that photograph of you in that moment was seen around the world.

:44:43. > :44:45.What do you think now when, do you look back at that photograph?

:44:46. > :44:47.Does it stir up certain emotions for you?

:44:48. > :44:51.Sometimes when I feel weak, I look at that picture and I say,

:44:52. > :44:52.Nidhi, you've crossed, you've come here.

:44:53. > :44:57.People say that that picture was a picture of, you know,

:44:58. > :45:01.a symbol of the bomb blast of Brussels, you say, but I say this

:45:02. > :45:07.It is a picture for me which generated that

:45:08. > :45:10.courage and I will continue and that is a picture for courage.

:45:11. > :45:15.That is a picture where I feel that for those nine hours where my family

:45:16. > :45:18.and my friends could not find me, where I was exactly,

:45:19. > :45:21.that picture gave them hope and courage to believe

:45:22. > :45:37.So I looked up to that picture sometimes, yes.

:45:38. > :45:45.I may not be able to hold my emotions. The feeling of those who

:45:46. > :45:46.are no more with us, but their memories will always remain with us.

:45:47. > :46:00.It will be a mixed feeling. Some more messages about the Everton

:46:01. > :46:08.free school. Stephen says, as a retired pupil referral unit teacher,

:46:09. > :46:12.the unit being a reward is nonsense. Most of these children have troubled

:46:13. > :46:19.backgrounds, which you would not wish on anyone. Ralph says, the

:46:20. > :46:24.item, Liverpool have helped children through you -- four years, but it is

:46:25. > :46:31.funded by the club, and not paid for by taxpayers. James says, good item

:46:32. > :46:36.on Everton, as a supporter I am proud of what they do for the people

:46:37. > :46:41.of Liverpool. One downside, you showed the wrong about in the

:46:42. > :46:47.studio. It will not happen again! One person says, if all schools had

:46:48. > :46:53.ten pupils per class, teachers in state schools would be less frazzled

:46:54. > :46:54.and children would do better. Keep them coming in, get in touch in the

:46:55. > :47:09.usual ways. Now, best friends in Canada and

:47:10. > :47:12.their legal battle. Natasha and Linda are platonic best friends who

:47:13. > :47:19.fought a two-year legal battle to be officially recognised as co-parents

:47:20. > :47:23.to Natasha's disabled son. It is the first time in Canadian history that

:47:24. > :47:24.two people who have never been in a romantic relationship have been

:47:25. > :47:40.legally recognised as parents. My name is that Usher, I am his

:47:41. > :47:44.mother. And I have his mother as well. We are very good friends. We

:47:45. > :48:08.decided to raise him together. Since he turned out to have

:48:09. > :48:13.disabilities, Natasha needed more help than she thought, I had the

:48:14. > :48:17.appetite to help, she had the need, I was over here a lot. We were very

:48:18. > :48:36.happy, parenting together. We want relationships for each

:48:37. > :48:41.other. We are very excited and open to the possibility of the family

:48:42. > :48:44.growing. Whoever comes in to our family, we want them to know that

:48:45. > :48:56.they come with whoever the romantic partner is, the other parent and

:48:57. > :49:00.Elaan. The family law cases are full of parents who do not want to take

:49:01. > :49:05.responsibility, so when you have somebody who does, the legal and

:49:06. > :49:14.societal infrastructure should support that.

:49:15. > :49:21.From Canada to Thailand, a group of blind children have cried funded

:49:22. > :49:24.their own orchestra. The group, who started without money or

:49:25. > :49:27.instruments, received donations from all over the country and play

:49:28. > :51:42.concerts at an 11th century. Next this morning, a victim

:51:43. > :51:48.of a child-grooming gang in Rotherham has waived her right

:51:49. > :51:51.to anonymity to tell this programme why she wants a pardon for victims

:51:52. > :51:54.who committed crimes while under Sammy Woodhouse was just 14 years

:51:55. > :52:00.old when she was targeted by a British Pakistani man called

:52:01. > :52:04.Arshid Hussain. He abused her on an

:52:05. > :52:07.almost-daily basis. Last year he was jailed for 35 years

:52:08. > :52:16.after being convicted of 23 offences Ms Woodhouse, who's spoken to us

:52:17. > :52:23.before under the pseudonym Jessica, committed several offences whilst

:52:24. > :52:26.he was abusing her. She's calling for Sammy's

:52:27. > :52:30.Law to be introduced. She's also suing police

:52:31. > :52:32.and the local authority for the shocking failures

:52:33. > :52:35.to protect her. Sammy Woodhouse is now 31

:52:36. > :52:38.and we can talk to her. Some of the story she will tell

:52:39. > :52:41.us may be upsetting, you may not want young children

:52:42. > :52:56.to hear it. How are you? I am all right, thank

:52:57. > :53:03.you. Tell us a bit about what happened to you aged 14. I grew up

:53:04. > :53:11.in a good family in Rotherham. The youngest of three daughters my were

:53:12. > :53:15.married. My passion as a child, I was a dancer, that is all I wanted

:53:16. > :53:22.to do, I went around the country competing Tom winning medals, that

:53:23. > :53:30.was my dream. Just after my 14th birthday, I was at some shops and I

:53:31. > :53:34.met him. I came in contact with him on a daily basis, my parents found

:53:35. > :53:39.out straightaway, they were not happy, they reported it to the

:53:40. > :53:43.police. The police said because I would not make a statement, there

:53:44. > :53:49.was nothing they could do and I was consenting to my own abuse. I was

:53:50. > :53:58.going missing for days, weeks, sometimes months. I was pregnant at

:53:59. > :54:03.14 and again at 15. My parents put me into care, hoping they could keep

:54:04. > :54:08.me safe, but that backfired. The authorities said as long as I met

:54:09. > :54:14.him at the top of the street, and I was back by 10pm and I went to

:54:15. > :54:21.school, he could have access to me. Which is absolutely extraordinary.

:54:22. > :54:28.It is. I have got copies of my record, the negligence of it is

:54:29. > :54:34.unbelievable. I was caught on a daily basis in his car, I was caught

:54:35. > :54:41.half naked in bed with him. I had a trench and in my bag that he gave

:54:42. > :54:46.me, I was arrested for it. On that occasion when you were found in his

:54:47. > :54:52.bed with half your close missing, you were treated at the perpetrator?

:54:53. > :54:58.Yes, I was arrested, he was not even question. I was never treated as a

:54:59. > :55:05.victim, I was always treated as an equal, as his mistress. And as part

:55:06. > :55:10.of his criminal gang. I was not just being groomed for sex, it was for

:55:11. > :55:15.crime as well, which was clever, because I was the one getting in

:55:16. > :55:20.trouble, and it is something that paedophiles do to prevent us from

:55:21. > :55:28.coming forward. I remember he said, if I go down, I am taking do with

:55:29. > :55:34.me. How did he groom you? It is like brainwashing, very instant. He gave

:55:35. > :55:38.me attention that nobody else could have given me, different attention

:55:39. > :55:47.from parents and friends, I was bubbly, strong personality. He made

:55:48. > :55:51.me feel good about myself, he built up my self-esteem, he told me I was

:55:52. > :55:59.amazing at everything, he made me feel very confident. It was the nice

:56:00. > :56:05.things he bought me. He was like Prince Charming. At 14 I had met my

:56:06. > :56:11.Prince Charming. He groom you to accuse you, to commit crime, what

:56:12. > :56:16.sort of things did you do? The one I have just told you about, that is on

:56:17. > :56:21.my record now, possessing a dangerous weapon. That is going

:56:22. > :56:31.against me. He had me doing a lot of things which are not on my record.

:56:32. > :56:35.There was one occasion where he put me halfway through a window of a

:56:36. > :56:40.drug dealer's house, he wanted me to open the door so he could rob the

:56:41. > :56:45.drug dealer. The light came on, I came out of the window and ran off,

:56:46. > :56:50.so the burglary was not committed, but in the eyes of the law that is

:56:51. > :56:52.burglary. He was teaching me how to drive, he wanted me to be his

:56:53. > :57:01.getaway driver for when he did robberies. There was a long list of

:57:02. > :57:08.things. Explain why you feel that those things that you did should be

:57:09. > :57:16.pardoned, effectively, so they not on your record, so they do not

:57:17. > :57:20.impede you trying to get a job. They were committed whilst I was being

:57:21. > :57:26.groomed. My abuser has been sentenced to 35 years before the

:57:27. > :57:32.sexual nature that he did. I was groomed to commit crime, that is not

:57:33. > :57:37.my fault as a child. I am a success story, because I am now working, I

:57:38. > :57:41.am self-employed, I travel around the country, speaking to

:57:42. > :57:44.professionals about my experience, so I have changed the negative into

:57:45. > :57:52.a positive, but there are lots of people that cannot get work. The

:57:53. > :57:59.reason I am doing this is to get the message out to survivors, you can

:58:00. > :58:04.come forward, get justice and not be prosecuted. A lot of people are

:58:05. > :58:07.scared to come forward. I am not asking for everyone's record to be

:58:08. > :58:15.wiped, we have to look at it properly and it has to be done on

:58:16. > :58:18.individual circumstance. I was a perfect child, I was going around

:58:19. > :58:22.the country competing and was not involved in any crime until I met

:58:23. > :58:28.him. The moment I did, I got a criminal record. I am not a danger

:58:29. > :58:35.to people now, I have not been involved in crime for a long time,

:58:36. > :58:40.and it is blaming me as a victim. Thank you for talking to us.

:58:41. > :58:51.The latest news and sport. First, weather.

:58:52. > :58:57.Some of us had some snow this morning, in northern England and

:58:58. > :59:04.crossing into south-west England and Wales. But now for most of us it is

:59:05. > :59:13.rain. This is a picture from earlier, I love it. We have a couple

:59:14. > :59:18.of centimetres of snow. In the Highlands, we have blue skies.

:59:19. > :59:22.Recent snow in the hills, and it is quite sunny. The north of the

:59:23. > :59:30.country is prone to wintry showers. This rain that has piled up from the

:59:31. > :59:32.south, depositing snow across the north of England, but increasingly

:59:33. > :59:38.you will see that the snow level will rise as temperatures rise. We

:59:39. > :59:41.have the rain moving from the West towards the east, eradicating the

:59:42. > :59:45.bright start some of us had, and it is quite windy. Brighter skies

:59:46. > :59:51.across Scotland and Northern Ireland. After the rain, it will

:59:52. > :59:55.brighten up across south-west England, but watch out for showers,

:59:56. > :00:05.some of which will be heavy. Windy across the south coast. Then we run

:00:06. > :00:09.into the other end of the rain. Still one or two showers across

:00:10. > :00:14.parts of southern Scotland, some of those could have some sleep in them.

:00:15. > :00:19.One or two wintry showers across the north of Scotland, but dry weather

:00:20. > :00:25.with sunshine in between. Western parts of Northern Ireland hang on to

:00:26. > :00:28.the sunshine. For Wales, Pembrokeshire, you have sunshine,

:00:29. > :00:33.but we have the rain extending across northern and eastern Wales.

:00:34. > :00:37.Through this evening and overnight, we still have a great big arc of

:00:38. > :00:42.rain. We might see some sleet coming out of that. Then it starts to pull

:00:43. > :00:52.over towards the west, and it will head south. A lot of dry weather

:00:53. > :00:56.around, and it will be cold. Tomorrow, we start off with an arm

:00:57. > :01:01.of rain, and it will critically to push into Wales, south-west England,

:01:02. > :01:05.the Channel Islands, gusty wind around it, coming from a cold

:01:06. > :01:13.direction. Behind it, it brightens up quickly. The sun will come out

:01:14. > :01:17.across the Midlands, Wales, Norfolk, into northern -- northern England,

:01:18. > :01:21.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Look how the temperatures are responding

:01:22. > :01:22.in the sunshine. It is still fresh in the north. It will feel quite

:01:23. > :01:28.cool. So I looked up to that

:01:29. > :01:32.picture sometimes, yes. Raez High pressure establishes

:01:33. > :01:35.itself across the UK and we have a nagging easterly wind which will

:01:36. > :01:42.drag in cloud at times across the south and it will feel cooler here.

:01:43. > :01:43.Hello. It's 10am.

:01:44. > :01:46.It's Wednesday. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:01:47. > :01:48.This morning, exclusive access into the first ever school set up

:01:49. > :01:53.It's Everton Free School and it's set up for pupils who've been kicked

:01:54. > :02:02.If you give these kids a chance to open up and talk, more often than

:02:03. > :02:05.not, you know, you have had a great day. I always thought that teachers

:02:06. > :02:08.just hated every single kid in the school.

:02:09. > :02:11.Thames Water is expected to receive a record fine this morning

:02:12. > :02:14.for polluting the River Thames with nearly 1.5 billion litres

:02:15. > :02:21.We'll get all the latest from the court.

:02:22. > :02:26.Selling land and asking parents for more cash and getting rid of

:02:27. > :02:30.teaching assistants. Just some of the ideas being considered by school

:02:31. > :02:34.governors as they try to balance their budgets as a new funding

:02:35. > :02:35.formula is introduced in England. We'll speak to three governors in

:02:36. > :02:44.the next hour. Joanna is in the BBC

:02:45. > :02:46.Newsroom with a summary School governors say

:02:47. > :02:51.the Government should press ahead with its new funding formula

:02:52. > :02:53.for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

:02:54. > :02:56.money to fund it over all. Their views were shared as part

:02:57. > :02:59.of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

:03:00. > :03:00.Association. Drayton Park Primary School says

:03:01. > :03:10.it is already operating on very tight financial margins,

:03:11. > :03:12.but it predicts its budget in real terms by 2019 will be

:03:13. > :03:17.at least ?176,000 smaller. A proposed new national funding

:03:18. > :03:19.formula in England will change Ministers argue it will narrow

:03:20. > :03:28.historical inequalities between different areas,

:03:29. > :03:31.but schools across the country Cuts to funding mean cuts

:03:32. > :03:37.to our service so what we will see is fewer members of staff,

:03:38. > :03:40.lower quality of service and things that we currently do

:03:41. > :03:42.that we will have to decide In a survey to the BBC,

:03:43. > :03:47.school governors who responded and had a view on the proposed

:03:48. > :03:49.new formula were broadly in favour of the principle,

:03:50. > :03:52.but many also expressed serious concerns about the financial

:03:53. > :03:55.pressures ahead. Some said they planned to cut back

:03:56. > :03:58.on staff and others, that they were looking at ways

:03:59. > :04:00.of raising extra cash including asking parents

:04:01. > :04:02.for voluntary contributions Everybody pretty much

:04:03. > :04:11.agrees that the principle of the formula is right,

:04:12. > :04:13.the elements are right but the problem is there isn't

:04:14. > :04:18.enough money in the formula. The Government says funding

:04:19. > :04:22.is at record levels and the proposed formula is a fairer way

:04:23. > :04:24.to help all schools. The Institute for Fiscal Studies

:04:25. > :04:29.says the changes would correct clear in equities in funding levels

:04:30. > :04:31.between local authorities, but such radical reform would create

:04:32. > :04:39.winners and losers. Princess Anne has told the BBC

:04:40. > :04:43.that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

:04:44. > :04:45.in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

:04:46. > :04:48.farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

:04:49. > :04:55.she said that it would not be Today marks the first anniversary

:04:56. > :05:01.of the Brussels bombings which claimed the lives of 32 people

:05:02. > :05:04.and injured hundreds more. Two suicide bombs were detonated

:05:05. > :05:08.inside Zaventem Airport and an hour later a third bomb exploded

:05:09. > :05:10.in the Maelbeek metro station. Today, three memorial events

:05:11. > :05:13.will take place around the city Two new jails are to be built

:05:14. > :05:18.in south Wales and Yorkshire as part of a ?1.3 billion government pledge

:05:19. > :05:21.to create 10,000 modern Two sites, one in Port Talbot and

:05:22. > :05:28.the other in Full Sutton near York, have been earmarked,

:05:29. > :05:31.and two existing jails in Kent Meanwhile, details of plans to close

:05:32. > :05:36.a number of older prisons Everton Free School,

:05:37. > :05:44.the first school to be run by a Premier League football club

:05:45. > :05:47.has opened its doors to allow The school takes in teenagers

:05:48. > :05:51.who have not been able to stay in mainstream education and in many

:05:52. > :05:54.cases would end up in The Transport Secretary,

:05:55. > :06:05.Chris Grayling, says the Government is working with the aviation

:06:06. > :06:08.industry to try to minimise the impact of new restrictions

:06:09. > :06:09.on cabin baggage. Passengers flying to the UK from six

:06:10. > :06:13.countries in the Middle East have been banned from carrying large

:06:14. > :06:15.electronic devices including laptop computers and tablets

:06:16. > :06:16.after intelligence suggested terrorist groups were actively

:06:17. > :06:18.targeting airlines. If you have any questions

:06:19. > :06:20.on the new restrictions, you can put them to the travel

:06:21. > :06:23.expert, Simon Calder on the BBC You can Text 61124 or

:06:24. > :06:26.e-mail askthis@bbc.co.uk Thames Water is likely to receive

:06:27. > :06:38.a huge fine this morning for polluting the River Thames

:06:39. > :06:44.with nearly one and a half billion litres of raw

:06:45. > :06:46.sewage in 2013 and 2014. The judge hearing the case

:06:47. > :06:49.at Aylesbury Crown Court said the company had harmed local fishing

:06:50. > :06:55.businesses, and farms. Thames Water is likely to receive

:06:56. > :06:59.a huge fine this morning Dads who want to be more involved

:07:00. > :07:02.in looking after their children worry that asking for flexible hours

:07:03. > :07:06.might damage their careers, the chair of the Women

:07:07. > :07:08.and Equalities Committee says. Launching an inquiry,

:07:09. > :07:10.the Conservative MP Maria Miller says requesting flexible hours can

:07:11. > :07:12.even lead to employers questioning the chair of the Women

:07:13. > :07:18.and Equalities Committee says. fathers receive at work and aims

:07:19. > :07:20.to find out whether there That's a summary of

:07:21. > :07:32.the latest BBC News. Thanks for your comments. Darren

:07:33. > :07:36.says, "Thank you for a programme full of beautiful stories today. It

:07:37. > :07:42.is good to see the film about the free school." Joan says, "You

:07:43. > :07:45.mentioned the cost of mainstream costs versus the Everton free

:07:46. > :07:50.school. It would be useful to know the costs of people being in a PRU

:07:51. > :07:54.which comes out of the mainstream school's budget. My understanding

:07:55. > :07:58.that the costs are similar to the Everton free school budget. Another

:07:59. > :08:01.viewer says, "Great respect to Everton football club. I think the

:08:02. > :08:05.Government should take an example from them on how to run a school in

:08:06. > :08:10.order to better the younger generation. Generation rather than

:08:11. > :08:15.stereotyping them as problem children because they are the future

:08:16. > :08:20.with lots of potential." Charlie "That's a good idea, but they

:08:21. > :08:22.quantity to make it, so it is good to get them reintroduced back into

:08:23. > :08:24.school." Do get in touch with us

:08:25. > :08:28.throughout the morning. Use #Victoria Live and if you text,

:08:29. > :08:37.you will be charged Now the sport.

:08:38. > :08:43.The children are the few fewer and they need some kind of compassion.

:08:44. > :08:46.All this week, BBC Sport is looking at the State of Sport.

:08:47. > :08:49.Our correspondent Richard Conway has been to Syria to look at football

:08:50. > :08:52.on the front line and as part of his trip he travelled

:08:53. > :08:54.to the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.

:08:55. > :08:56.The camp houses 80,000 Syrian refugees and the children have

:08:57. > :09:55.Most of the kids saw the war. It was difficult to watch the killing. So

:09:56. > :10:00.when they came here, it was difficult for them to leave their

:10:01. > :10:08.caravan, but they adopted with the situation. It was first from the

:10:09. > :10:09.boys and when they saw some girls were interested we started to work

:10:10. > :10:35.with them. They are so happy now. REPORTER: How old are you? 13. And

:10:36. > :10:41.what do you like about coming here to play football? Do you like it?

:10:42. > :10:46.Yes. What do you like about it? What is it like? Why do you enjoy coming

:10:47. > :10:50.here? Because I like the football. You

:10:51. > :10:54.like the football. Are you good at football? Yeah.

:10:55. > :10:57.You can find out more about Richard's visit on the BBC

:10:58. > :11:00.I'll be back with more sport at around 10.30am.

:11:01. > :11:07.They say it's a "last chance saloon" for teenagers

:11:08. > :11:14.who are at risk of falling out of education altogether.

:11:15. > :11:17.It's the first school ever run by a Premier League football club.

:11:18. > :11:20.Pupils at Everton Free School have been kicked out of mainstream

:11:21. > :11:23.There are truants, children with behavioural issues,

:11:24. > :11:28.some are in care, many have had family traumas.

:11:29. > :11:33.The school comes at a cost, ?14,500 per pupil,three times more

:11:34. > :11:35.expensive than a mainstream school -

:11:36. > :11:37.but about the same as a pupil referral unit, where many

:11:38. > :11:42.For the first time ever the school has opened up its doors to TV crews

:11:43. > :11:44.and our reporter James Longman has been to some classes.

:11:45. > :11:46.We played you his full report an hour ago.

:11:47. > :11:54.Some of them missed years of education.

:11:55. > :11:57.All of them in danger of vanishing from the education

:11:58. > :12:04.But these pupils in Liverpool have found a way back in.

:12:05. > :12:07.And it's all thanks to their local football club.

:12:08. > :12:13.Liam has attention deficit disorder and autism.

:12:14. > :12:18.It was just hard to get the work done, because I would always

:12:19. > :12:24.And it be just so hard to complete a task.

:12:25. > :12:27.Through all the time that he was getting bullied,

:12:28. > :12:35.Like today, is he going to get hit at break times?

:12:36. > :12:39.Are they going to be waiting for him after school?

:12:40. > :12:41.And that's why when Everton Free School came up,

:12:42. > :12:49.Everton Free School was set up in 2012 with the express intention

:12:50. > :12:52.of engaging young people who had fallen out of education

:12:53. > :12:56.Some of our young people have extremely difficult home lives.

:12:57. > :12:58.Kicked out of their previous schools.

:12:59. > :13:00.Some of our young people, unfortunately, become

:13:01. > :13:10.It's just a better environment than a mainstream school.

:13:11. > :13:13.What did you not enjoy so much about your last school?

:13:14. > :13:18.There were too many people in the classes.

:13:19. > :13:22.I couldn't get my head down and learn properly.

:13:23. > :13:25.But in Everton Free School, I feel like they are teaching for me

:13:26. > :13:29.to learn and I have learned so much more things than I what I did

:13:30. > :13:32.Do you think kids around here get a bad rep?

:13:33. > :13:38.I think it's easy to throw the Scouse, the vibe,

:13:39. > :13:40.and stuff like that out, but I've been here a long

:13:41. > :13:42.time and I have met some fantastic characters,

:13:43. > :13:46.If you give these kids a chance to open up and talk,

:13:47. > :13:49.more often than not, you have had a great day.

:13:50. > :13:52.These are going to be young men and women in a couple of years

:13:53. > :13:55.and so if we can give them a decent footholds to get there,

:13:56. > :13:57.like you say, with the stuff they do around here,

:13:58. > :14:05.On a Monday afternoon, I come up here and coach these.

:14:06. > :14:10.It's great that the school to trust me and they have the trust in you.

:14:11. > :14:13.So if they can trust you, you can trust them, really.

:14:14. > :14:15.So what do you like most about the school?

:14:16. > :14:22.They all cooperate with you, they talk to you fine.

:14:23. > :14:24.You cannot say a bad thing about them, really.

:14:25. > :14:26.Did you ever think you would be saying positive things

:14:27. > :14:32.I always thought that teachers just hated every

:14:33. > :14:36.You're wearing your Everton badge and you are

:14:37. > :14:49.Let's talk to Claire Lamontagne who is the Deputy Principal

:14:50. > :14:55.Poppy Comer was the first female student there.

:14:56. > :14:59.She's now gone on to get full time employment at Everton.

:15:00. > :15:02.Richard Allicock is in charge of a scheme at Tottenham Hotspur

:15:03. > :15:05.which goes into existing mainstream schools.

:15:06. > :15:07.Andy Foster runs the education programme at Newcastle United,

:15:08. > :15:09.where they're looking at the possibility of building

:15:10. > :15:21.Tell us a bit more about some of the pupils at your school.

:15:22. > :15:29.I initiate a commissioning interview with the students, families, carers,

:15:30. > :15:32.the local education or the mainstream school referring the

:15:33. > :15:36.student. The commissioning process would start with an honest and open

:15:37. > :15:43.conversation about the area of need of the student. Give us some

:15:44. > :15:51.examples. This affection comes in many forms, there may be children

:15:52. > :15:54.who are struggling with diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health issues, we

:15:55. > :15:58.have students who question their sexuality, so that can cause

:15:59. > :16:04.problems for them, there are family factors, so they may be living in

:16:05. > :16:10.homes where there is conflict, the film has mentioned some domestic

:16:11. > :16:14.abuse, there is often poverty, there are also students in communities

:16:15. > :16:26.where areas of high deprivation are, there could be drug abuse, lack of

:16:27. > :16:29.leisure facilities, and then we have got an educational disaffection. A

:16:30. > :16:36.lot of our students are low achievers, there are patterns of

:16:37. > :16:40.truancy, non-attendance, they have been bullied or they could have been

:16:41. > :16:49.the bully. All of that is discussed the beginning. At 15, tell us about

:16:50. > :16:56.what you were like. I have a quote from you, you said you were making

:16:57. > :17:00.other people's lied to hell. At 15 I was still in mainstream school, it

:17:01. > :17:07.was not working out for me, I was getting involved in gangs and crime

:17:08. > :17:14.and doing stuff I should not have been doing. That is when mainstream

:17:15. > :17:20.school came to an end. How different was the free School for you? A

:17:21. > :17:24.massive difference, it was a big impact on my life. As soon as I went

:17:25. > :17:28.there, I realised how much of an opportunity I had been given, just

:17:29. > :17:33.the support you get through this stuff, they care about you, they sit

:17:34. > :17:38.down and want to work with you, because they know there is light at

:17:39. > :17:45.the end of the tunnel. You have to take the opportunity. Tell us about

:17:46. > :17:47.the work you do at Spurs. We go into the mainstream schools as well of

:17:48. > :17:51.the pupil referral unit to complement the teachers, we support

:17:52. > :17:58.the young people who have come from difficult backgrounds. The aim is to

:17:59. > :18:01.do some workshops around life skills to support those individuals back

:18:02. > :18:07.into their community. Where does the football come in? Through the PE

:18:08. > :18:10.sessions, but with the package that would deliver holistically, we offer

:18:11. > :18:16.them the opportunity to go to our programmes after school, so they get

:18:17. > :18:19.a full package every week of more contact time with the mental,

:18:20. > :18:25.because that is crucial. Who pays for that? It is part funded and

:18:26. > :18:36.partly schools will pay. Does the club pay for anything? Yes. Your

:18:37. > :18:40.salaries. Yes. We have an education programme, we support mainstream

:18:41. > :18:44.schools. Rather than going into the unit, we go into the mainstream

:18:45. > :18:49.schools to work with the people is at risk of being excluded, who may

:18:50. > :18:54.end up in a unit. Our aim is to stop them ending up in there. We help to

:18:55. > :18:58.provide some structured education using the badge and passion of the

:18:59. > :19:07.football we have. We have a unique set in Newcastle. We are a one club

:19:08. > :19:09.city, so we have a massive cohort of young people and adults who are

:19:10. > :19:17.massive Newcastle fans, unlike some of the other cities. In Newcastle,

:19:18. > :19:21.everybody is black and white. We go in in our Newcastle tracksuits and

:19:22. > :19:26.we use our inspirational tech takes to work with those young people. It

:19:27. > :19:32.is the badge, the history, that which engages young people? Exactly.

:19:33. > :19:38.The badge is the big motivation to get through the door. As soon as we

:19:39. > :19:42.walk in, the students engage with our staff. Beyond that, it is the

:19:43. > :19:46.quality of the staff to engage with them and try to make a difference to

:19:47. > :19:51.their education and their lives. You got six GCSEs and an apprenticeship

:19:52. > :19:59.with Everton as a social inclusion coach, what is that? When I first

:20:00. > :20:02.started, it was working with the community, getting a feel of

:20:03. > :20:07.different programmes. We go into primary schools, disability

:20:08. > :20:14.sessions, and working with different young people. Getting the skills and

:20:15. > :20:22.building confidence to hopefully go on and get a full-time role as a

:20:23. > :20:27.coach. I have achieved that. A number of viewers say, what a

:20:28. > :20:33.brilliant idea, a number say, it is about rewarding the bad kids. Ten in

:20:34. > :20:38.a class, every parent would like only ten in a class. The chance to

:20:39. > :20:44.meet Phil Jagielka, tickets to games, a lesson in one of the boxes,

:20:45. > :20:52.that is just amazing. How do you deal with that criticism? The areas

:20:53. > :21:02.of disaffection are great. The funding meet the need. We are not

:21:03. > :21:05.awarding bad behaviour, the children, the families, the schools

:21:06. > :21:14.sign up to a partnership ledge, a code of conduct. We are instilling

:21:15. > :21:20.respect, responsibility and resilience. We are aiming for the

:21:21. > :21:25.students with historical low attendance to attend every day of

:21:26. > :21:30.the week, we recognise the positive behaviours, we will reward the

:21:31. > :21:35.positives, and what we are trying to do ultimately is re-motivate,

:21:36. > :21:42.re-energise, get these students back on track and be very aspirational.

:21:43. > :21:48.We have an aspirational curriculum. Poppy got six GCSEs, we are

:21:49. > :21:56.developing the curriculum. The school results, 24.3% of students

:21:57. > :22:04.get five or more GCSEs compared with just over 12%, which is the national

:22:05. > :22:10.average for other alternative provisions, other pupil referral

:22:11. > :22:17.units. From the Department for Education, you receive 14,500 pounds

:22:18. > :22:25.per pupil. It is a big difference. It is, but what we are doing is

:22:26. > :22:29.baseline in children. We are diminishing the differences,

:22:30. > :22:33.narrowing the gaps. Some of these children have massive gaps in their

:22:34. > :22:40.education. We are having to really focus on their reading, literacy,

:22:41. > :22:44.new Morrissey. The young person has been excluded already, so you do not

:22:45. > :22:47.want to exclude them further. By putting these privileges in place,

:22:48. > :22:53.you are putting the positive impact back in their lives, so they can

:22:54. > :22:55.either go back into mainstream school, or you are providing them

:22:56. > :23:00.with opportunities, through the support that each of the mentors is

:23:01. > :23:08.doing. That is what we strive to do, make sure that we can equip them as

:23:09. > :23:13.much as we can to support them, because what happens if a young

:23:14. > :23:18.person goes into the prison system? That will cost even more money. Alan

:23:19. > :23:25.says, brilliant, this is what humanity is all about. Expert says,

:23:26. > :23:29.I was a troubled child, while a sporting environment would not have

:23:30. > :23:32.helped, this shows how taking a different approach can be a solution

:23:33. > :23:36.for children failing in mainstream education will stop maybe we should

:23:37. > :23:40.look at other organisations that have something to offer. Danny says,

:23:41. > :23:48.I love that Everton have started funding a school. To be clear,

:23:49. > :23:51.taxpayers fund the school. What a great way for a football club to

:23:52. > :24:01.give back. Everton to contribute, don't they? The club gift to us in

:24:02. > :24:07.kind. We can use the facilities. It is not hard clash, it is Access? We

:24:08. > :24:12.have an amazing collaboration with Everton in the community, a massive

:24:13. > :24:15.part of the club is the community, over 40 programmes, which we can

:24:16. > :24:24.access as well after school, human the holidays, within school life.

:24:25. > :24:29.That is free to us. Andy says, have you heard, Sunderland are going to

:24:30. > :24:33.build their own school, they might get their head of Newcastle? They

:24:34. > :24:41.are in the middle of their build. Come on, then! We have got a

:24:42. > :24:44.different geographical area. We have a good working relationship with

:24:45. > :24:50.them, but we are not competing for the same students. Our aim is to

:24:51. > :24:54.work with 52,000 people, which is enough to fill St James's Park,

:24:55. > :24:58.across a massive range of programmes. Other alternative

:24:59. > :25:02.provision works with 500 young people a year will stop we have

:25:03. > :25:08.programmes available to everybody, not just the is engaged students.

:25:09. > :25:14.Thank you for coming on the programme. Thank you for giving us

:25:15. > :25:17.access to your free school, the first time the cameras have been

:25:18. > :25:23.allowed. Breaking news to do with the former

:25:24. > :25:28.football coach Barry Bennell, he has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of

:25:29. > :25:34.child sexual abuse against four boys in the 1980s. This news just in. The

:25:35. > :25:41.former football coach has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of child

:25:42. > :25:46.sexual abuse against four boys back in the 1980s. More on that to come.

:25:47. > :25:49.School governors say they like the new funding formula

:25:50. > :25:51.proposed by the Government to make sure money is distributed

:25:52. > :25:56.in a fairer and more simple way, but they say there's just not enough

:25:57. > :25:58.of it, and they're having to consider drastic

:25:59. > :26:09.The Scottish Parliament will vote this evening on whether there should

:26:10. > :26:12.be a second referendum on independence from the UK.

:26:13. > :26:16.The last vote in 2014 went narrowly in favour of people who wanted

:26:17. > :26:21.But the ruling party in Scotland the SNP is arguing that

:26:22. > :26:23.because of the vote to leave the European Union there needs

:26:24. > :26:27.to be another referendum on the future of Scotland.

:26:28. > :26:30.Let's talk to four people who voted in the Scottish

:26:31. > :26:33.independence referendum in 2014, but have since changed their minds

:26:34. > :26:42.Andrew Perry and Lauren Gilmour both voted for an independent Scotland,

:26:43. > :26:48.but now think it should remain in the UK.

:26:49. > :26:51.Elizabeth Carnahan and Tom Fahey both voted to remain in the UK,

:26:52. > :27:00.but now think Scotland should be independent.

:27:01. > :27:04.Lauren is on the phone, by the way. Why did you vote for an independent

:27:05. > :27:21.Scotland last time? Part of the reason was because the campaign was

:27:22. > :27:26.so contentious. There was a promise that there would be a change, an

:27:27. > :27:33.independent Scotland would mean we would not have any more right-wing

:27:34. > :27:40.Government. There was an energy that I have never seen before. If there

:27:41. > :27:53.was a very tomorrow, how would you vote? I would vote no, to stay in

:27:54. > :28:00.the UK. There have been massive changes over the last three years

:28:01. > :28:09.that led me to take that position. Andrew, you have changed your mind

:28:10. > :28:13.as well, why? My original vote for independence was not motivated by

:28:14. > :28:18.nationalism, it was by my appetite for social justice and my belief

:28:19. > :28:25.that the Tories are ruining our country, and if we go independent we

:28:26. > :28:28.can sort it out. But there was a no vote returned, and I have been

:28:29. > :28:32.looking at the political developments down south, the Labour

:28:33. > :28:37.Party, and it shift towards the left, and it has shown me there is

:28:38. > :28:42.an appetite for social justice, equality, defending the NHS, the

:28:43. > :28:49.welfare state, nationalisation of the railways and buses. Then with

:28:50. > :28:55.Brexit, we have got an assault coming in on EU migrants and

:28:56. > :29:03.migration and immigration. It has become a hot topic. In Scotland, the

:29:04. > :29:09.SNP believe, we will go independent and sort ourselves out, and leave

:29:10. > :29:12.these guys to do their thing. The only migrants that defence of the

:29:13. > :29:15.people that will move to an independent Scotland in the EU in

:29:16. > :29:21.the future. It does not help the country or people up and down. We

:29:22. > :29:29.are no longer a voice. Scotland can be a voice for these people across

:29:30. > :29:36.the country. You both voted to remain in the UK, in 2014, but now

:29:37. > :29:41.you would like to vote for Scotland to be independent, should there be

:29:42. > :29:49.another referendum. Why? There are two reasons. I feel that liberal

:29:50. > :29:53.democracy all over the world is in threat from the far right. I also

:29:54. > :29:59.think there is an economic case. The planned hard Brexit changes the

:30:00. > :30:08.economic case for remaining in the union. What about you, Tom? Devoted

:30:09. > :30:15.to stay part of the UK in 2014, now you have changed your mind.

:30:16. > :30:22.Primarily because of Brexit. In 2014 I was not an SNP member. I was

:30:23. > :30:28.concerned that with independence we would be taken out of Europe. That

:30:29. > :30:36.was part of the projection, if we left the UK. I thought to be a small

:30:37. > :30:40.independent country on the Western fringes of Europe, isolated from the

:30:41. > :30:46.rest of the EU, that would not be a good place to be, therefore I voted

:30:47. > :30:51.to remain part of the UK. Since then, of course, the world has

:30:52. > :30:54.changed, and we are now in a situation where Scotland have been

:30:55. > :30:59.dragged out of the EU against our wishes, against 60% of people who

:31:00. > :31:13.voted to remain. Scotland would have to reapply to

:31:14. > :31:16.become a member of the EU, you're prepared for that and the

:31:17. > :31:20.possibility of political pressure to join the euro and all that? Well, no

:31:21. > :31:25.one knows how that's going to work out. What I do know is that Scotland

:31:26. > :31:29.as an independent country can take decisions for its relationship. The

:31:30. > :31:33.relationship that -- itself and the relationship that we have with

:31:34. > :31:39.Europe and there are positive signs from European politicians unlike in

:31:40. > :31:43.2014. Scotland is a very different kettle of fish to a Tory right-wing

:31:44. > :31:57.England. OK. Thank you. We will talk to school governors who

:31:58. > :32:01.say the Government should press ahead with its new funding plan, but

:32:02. > :32:05.need more money. We will hear about the huge fine that Thames Water is

:32:06. > :32:07.likely to receive this morning for polluting the River Thames with

:32:08. > :32:13.nearly 1.5 billion of raw sewage. Here's Joanna with a

:32:14. > :32:24.summary of today's news. The former Crewe football coach

:32:25. > :32:27.Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to twenty charges of a sexual nature

:32:28. > :32:36.relating to offences allegedly He appeared at Chester Crown Court

:32:37. > :32:38.this morning. The charges relate to child sexual abuse against four

:32:39. > :32:41.boys. School governors say

:32:42. > :32:43.the Government should press ahead with its new funding formula

:32:44. > :32:45.for schools in England, but they argue there isn't enough

:32:46. > :32:48.money to fund it over all. Their views were shared as part

:32:49. > :32:51.of a BBC survey of more than 4,000 members of the National Governors

:32:52. > :32:54.Association. King Philippe of Belgium has

:32:55. > :32:57.been leading events, to remember the 32 people killed

:32:58. > :33:00.in the Brussels bombings a year ago. A minute's silence was observed

:33:01. > :33:02.at the city's airport to mark the moment when two suicide

:33:03. > :33:04.attackers blew themselves up Teachers have voted to merge two

:33:05. > :33:09.unions to form a new super union Members of the National Union

:33:10. > :33:22.of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers backed

:33:23. > :33:24.the link up by more than 2-1. The National Education Union will be

:33:25. > :33:27.formed later this year, representing 450,000 teachers

:33:28. > :33:31.and other education workers. Princess Anne has told the BBC

:33:32. > :33:34.that she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer

:33:35. > :33:37.in terms of providing food. The Queen's daughter is a working

:33:38. > :33:39.farmer and patron of nearly 50 In an interview with Farming Today,

:33:40. > :33:44.she said that it would not be Thames Water is likely to receive

:33:45. > :33:49.a huge fine this morning for polluting the River Thames

:33:50. > :33:52.with nearly one and a half billion litres of raw

:33:53. > :33:55.sewage in 2013 and 2014. The judge hearing the case

:33:56. > :33:57.at Aylesbury Crown Court said the company had harmed local fishing

:33:58. > :34:04.businesses, and farms. Join me for BBC

:34:05. > :34:13.Newsroom live at 11am. So many comments about the Everton

:34:14. > :34:16.Free School. Mike says, "Congratulations to Everton for

:34:17. > :34:20.supporting these disadvantaged children. It is so much better to

:34:21. > :34:27.bring these kids back from the brink." Another tweet says, "If you

:34:28. > :34:31.don't reward the bad kids." There are different ways of learning and

:34:32. > :34:36.Stevie says, "What a damning indictment of the UK education when

:34:37. > :34:38.football clubs are running schools." William says, "The Everton Free

:34:39. > :34:41.School, a great idea." Here's some sport now

:34:42. > :34:47.with Hugh Woozencroft. Good morning, some sad

:34:48. > :34:49.news this morning. The former Liverpool captain

:34:50. > :34:51.and coach Ronnie Moran has Along with Bill Shankly

:34:52. > :34:55.and Bob Paisley, he was part He served twice as caretaker

:34:56. > :34:59.manager, leading the team out England manager Gareth Southgate

:35:00. > :35:03.says his side need to "lose They face world champions Germany

:35:04. > :35:07.in a friendly this evening, in what's Southgate's first game

:35:08. > :35:10.in permanent charge of the side. Scotland face Canada this

:35:11. > :35:12.evening at Easter Road. Manager Gordon Strachan will use

:35:13. > :35:14.the match to build "confidence and fitness" ahead of their crucial

:35:15. > :35:16.World Cup qualifier England head coach Eddie Jones says

:35:17. > :35:20.Warren Gatland should pick four captains for the upcoming Lions tour

:35:21. > :35:23.to New Zealand this summer. Jones believes picking one from each

:35:24. > :35:26.nation will help Gatland choose the best candidate once the warm-up

:35:27. > :35:29.matches are over. Los Angeles and Paris have said

:35:30. > :35:33.they only want to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,

:35:34. > :35:35.not the ones in 2028. The International Olympic Committee

:35:36. > :35:39.has suggested whichever city loses its bid for 2024,

:35:40. > :35:42.should be awarded the Games in 2028, but both cities have said

:35:43. > :35:51.that's not an option. That's all the sport for now, but

:35:52. > :35:59.I'll be back with more after 11am. 32 people died and 340 people

:36:00. > :36:05.were injured in co-ordinated attacks in Brussels last year and this

:36:06. > :36:07.morning memorial events are taking place across Belgium to mark

:36:08. > :36:11.the first anniversary of those deaths at Zaventem Airport

:36:12. > :36:18.and Maelbeek metro station. They are attended by the Belgian

:36:19. > :36:26.king and queen and survivors. You might remember this image of a

:36:27. > :36:29.basketball player who was injured at Brussels Airport. This is his road

:36:30. > :36:42.to recovery one year on. I had eight surgeries

:36:43. > :36:46.since the attack. Most of all I have been

:36:47. > :36:49.able to walk again. Which was a challenge, you know,

:36:50. > :36:52.from being a professional basketball player and being so active,

:36:53. > :36:56.to almost starting from zero. Having to learn to walk,

:36:57. > :37:01.having to learn to just be When something like this happens

:37:02. > :37:10.to you and you overcome it, it's a little bit like life giving

:37:11. > :37:17.you a little wink, you know, about, this is hey, what you're doing,

:37:18. > :37:20.the way you think, your approach And one of those things

:37:21. > :37:25.is there is no longer any I don't have the notion of fear,

:37:26. > :37:49.and that is extremely liberating. This image of Nidhi Chaphekar

:37:50. > :37:50.also became iconic. She's a flight attendant

:37:51. > :38:20.who was pictured looking dazed Some people say that was a symbol of

:38:21. > :38:24.the bomb blast of Brussels. I say that is a picture of hope. It

:38:25. > :38:29.generated that courage and that's a picture for courage. That is a

:38:30. > :38:34.picture where I feel that for those nine hours where my family and my

:38:35. > :38:39.friends could not, you know, find me, where I was exactly, that

:38:40. > :38:43.picture gave them hope and courage to believe that she is alive. She

:38:44. > :38:49.will live. So I look up to that picture, sometimes, yes.

:38:50. > :38:53.Our correspondent Gavin Lee is at the airport for us.

:38:54. > :39:00.Tell us about the events there this morning. Well, under tight security.

:39:01. > :39:06.The airport was opened and paused for half an hour. Several

:39:07. > :39:10.check-points to get through, but the commemorations, 250 survivors and

:39:11. > :39:14.families of the 32 victims who died here came and at the moment the

:39:15. > :39:19.first of the two suicide bombers detonated their devices close to

:39:20. > :39:26.where I'm talking to you now, they had a minute's silence, just meters

:39:27. > :39:30.away from where the bomb went off. I was an hour after the bombs went

:39:31. > :39:36.off, some people found it difficult to come back and thought whether

:39:37. > :39:38.they should at all. We will bring in somebody very brave today, Eddie,

:39:39. > :39:44.your wife died. She was working here. She was on a shift and decided

:39:45. > :39:49.she would work two hours later, is that right? Can you tell me about

:39:50. > :39:53.her. Normally she stopped at 6.30, but that day someone was ill so she

:39:54. > :39:58.replaced that person and unfortunately, she just had to stop

:39:59. > :40:06.at 8am and I suppose she wanted to go home when the bomb exploded and

:40:07. > :40:17.she was hurt badly and she bled so much that nobody could save her. You

:40:18. > :40:24.met her when you were eight and today you sang a song that you have

:40:25. > :40:29.specially written for her? Yes. And also because the victims needed some

:40:30. > :40:34.support. Some support, psychological support because it brings a lot of

:40:35. > :40:38.solidarity, even with a song, that music can be wonderful, but also,

:40:39. > :40:43.the victims needed financial support. So we hope to find some

:40:44. > :40:48.support for them through the song and through the selling of the song

:40:49. > :40:53.that you can have on iTunes. There is a number of people who say that

:40:54. > :40:58.they're taking legal action against the Belgium Government and against

:40:59. > :41:02.American Airlines, the authorities didn't protect them and didn't have

:41:03. > :41:05.the after care, and that's why your association was set-up to help other

:41:06. > :41:10.victims? Initially it was for that, yes. You're right by saying this,

:41:11. > :41:17.because now the Government admits it and it is a big step. I think

:41:18. > :41:23.that's, at this moment, the very important thing we realise that the

:41:24. > :41:29.Government apologised, you know, and said OK, we were wrong and we were

:41:30. > :41:34.late and let's try now to be positive. OK, we hope to have some

:41:35. > :41:38.results in the future, but it will be hard work. Can I ask you what it

:41:39. > :41:45.is like to be back here for the first time today? It's strange. It's

:41:46. > :41:50.like people go on living and we were looking for one year about what will

:41:51. > :41:56.be our life, you know. After one year, we didn't have any answer for

:41:57. > :42:05.this and here I'm like between the past and the future, nits a switch

:42:06. > :42:09.and you see people moving and also she comes back to life. Because I

:42:10. > :42:13.always brought her and we drank a cup of coffee and we were together

:42:14. > :42:16.and some days, it is as if she is alive again. So maybe it will be

:42:17. > :42:20.more difficult when I leave from here to realise it is not true. I

:42:21. > :42:30.know you said part of the reason you're here, is not for you, but for

:42:31. > :42:36.fabbian? Yes, for Fabiane and I'm sure she is somewhere and also for

:42:37. > :42:42.the victims. I saw so many people today, nice people, everyone is so

:42:43. > :42:50.grateful and so thankful. The atmosphere was nice today. I was

:42:51. > :42:55.much afraid before. I was stressed and I didn't know what would happen

:42:56. > :42:59.really, but it was good. The atmosphere was really good. Some of

:43:00. > :43:04.the deep human values coming up. Thank you very much for talking to

:43:05. > :43:08.me, Eddie. I mean that. A lot of people have come up as we were

:43:09. > :43:12.talking to Eddie to say thank you. People were just moved by listening

:43:13. > :43:17.to him before and some people recognise him by the work he has

:43:18. > :43:23.been doing. There is a sculpture behind me, it was called Flight Of

:43:24. > :43:27.Mind. They have instated it so anybody going to Brussels Airport

:43:28. > :43:32.will see it, they kept all the damage to it as a reminder of what

:43:33. > :43:37.happened a year ago today. Gavin, Eddie, thank you so much.

:43:38. > :43:39.School governors say the Government should press ahead

:43:40. > :43:41.with its new funding formula for schools in England,

:43:42. > :43:44.but have expressed concern that there is too little

:43:45. > :43:49.A BBC survey of 4,000 governors reveals deep concern about budgets.

:43:50. > :43:56.Some say teachers' jobs are at risk, while others are considering selling

:43:57. > :44:05.The Government says it will end "unfair" and "inconsistent" funding.

:44:06. > :44:08.Let's talk now to Charlene Laidley, governor at a primary school

:44:09. > :44:16.Matt Dronfield, a governor at Scargill Junior School

:44:17. > :44:20.Nicola West-Jones, governor at Horniman

:44:21. > :44:29.Are you in favour of the new formula? Yes. Matt? It is a fairer

:44:30. > :44:36.system for all pupils. Yes, with caveats. What are the caveats? I

:44:37. > :44:43.don't think anyone could argue against the principle of fair

:44:44. > :44:49.funding. I think in practise there are nuances. We are in a relatively

:44:50. > :44:53.affluent part of Lewisham which is not a particularly affluent Borough

:44:54. > :44:58.of London and that means that we attract less pupil premium funding.

:44:59. > :45:01.Sorry, we have fewer pupils in our school who would attract pupil

:45:02. > :45:07.premium funding. What that means is... Extra cash? So you have...

:45:08. > :45:12.More people on free school meals? You have a situation where there

:45:13. > :45:16.might be a handful of those children in a class and that doesn't attract

:45:17. > :45:21.much funding to do much. We can't bring in extra staff or resources or

:45:22. > :45:26.support and we're expecting to make progress with those children. I'd

:45:27. > :45:28.say in principle, yes, I agree with it, but the reality, it is not so

:45:29. > :45:38.simple on the ground. Matt? He drink will gain 0.5%, but that is

:45:39. > :45:44.wiped out by the apprenticeship levy. That will affect every

:45:45. > :45:49.employer, including local authorities. My school is run by the

:45:50. > :45:53.local authority, so we'll have to contribute your .5% of our payroll

:45:54. > :45:59.into the levy to support apprentices across the country. So that game is

:46:00. > :46:03.wiped out immediately. Pension contributions will increase

:46:04. > :46:08.significantly. The other change that we face is the change in

:46:09. > :46:13.demographics of London means that the population is growing, more

:46:14. > :46:16.children need educating, the number of peoples with English as an

:46:17. > :46:22.additional language is growing, that is extra resources in our school. So

:46:23. > :46:26.although it is more .5% gain, what we have to do is more. Some

:46:27. > :46:33.difficult questions need to be asked. I am in favour. I have been a

:46:34. > :46:37.governor of two schools, one a special needs school in west London,

:46:38. > :46:42.and a primary school in north London. I am in favour of this

:46:43. > :46:48.proposal on the grounds that I have witnessed myself inconsistencies

:46:49. > :46:54.with the efficiency of funding getting two schools, so hopefully

:46:55. > :46:58.this new proposal will address that first of all. Secondly, I am in

:46:59. > :47:07.favour of the new proposal because when we look across London at the

:47:08. > :47:11.inconsistency in funding reaching people's according to the borough, I

:47:12. > :47:15.believe this is more fair. I do not believe a child in South Kensington

:47:16. > :47:25.should receive more funding than a child in Hackney. Nevertheless, we

:47:26. > :47:29.agree with the way before Miller has been put together, because the

:47:30. > :47:34.principle is right, it has been fair -- it will be fairer, but plenty of

:47:35. > :47:38.school governors say, overall, there is still not enough cash, which

:47:39. > :47:45.means ethical positions are having to be made. You have thought about

:47:46. > :47:51.costs going up, how would the decisions impact on your schools? We

:47:52. > :47:54.have a great school, a lovely ethos, and families are attracted to the

:47:55. > :47:58.school because of that ethos. We are at about the whole child, we deliver

:47:59. > :48:03.on the literacy and new Morrissey and every thing else, but we have

:48:04. > :48:06.lots of lovely things that happen, we have a Forest School, chickens,

:48:07. > :48:12.we offer philosophy for children, just a snippet, we try to develop

:48:13. > :48:17.the whole child. It is those things that will have to go. Hopefully not,

:48:18. > :48:22.because we are working really hard with the PTA, the governors and the

:48:23. > :48:27.community to try to offset that, and we are setting ourselves a

:48:28. > :48:33.challenging target. The PTA raised about ?12,000 a year. That is

:48:34. > :48:40.basically from events. We are hoping to raise about ?40,000, we are

:48:41. > :48:44.setting that as our target. We are doing that in an organised way,

:48:45. > :48:49.trying to turn this into a positive outcome. If the chickens have to go

:48:50. > :48:53.and the philosophy, it is not the end of the world? It is not like

:48:54. > :48:58.cutting teachers or teaching assistant? There are other part of

:48:59. > :49:04.the curriculum... I am being devil 's advocate. Of course. We pay a

:49:05. > :49:11.tiny amount of money into a pot which allows sports fixtures to

:49:12. > :49:16.happen. That money is in jeopardy. Things like music lessons, we

:49:17. > :49:21.subsidise those. The parents pay towards that. The subsidy is in

:49:22. > :49:27.jeopardy. Those things are part of a child's education. What about the

:49:28. > :49:31.difficult decisions at your school? With the new funding formula, there

:49:32. > :49:38.is a cap on how much a school can gain or lose. The most a school can

:49:39. > :49:40.lose is 1.5%, but they are difficult decisions they will have to make

:49:41. > :49:46.each year for the foreseeable future. For primary schools, we

:49:47. > :49:53.cannot cut classroom teachers. Other staff costs at some point will have

:49:54. > :49:58.to be addressed. Secretaries, librarians? Those crucial supporting

:49:59. > :50:05.roles that allow us to give a first-class education. They are now

:50:06. > :50:08.the teachers to teach. Exactly. The people that speak English as an

:50:09. > :50:11.additional language, we are fortunate that we can take them out

:50:12. > :50:15.of class and give them additional supervision that they need from

:50:16. > :50:20.specialists. In future, schools will have to question if that is a

:50:21. > :50:25.luxury. I think it is not, it is a right that every pupil should have

:50:26. > :50:30.the right to. Unfortunately it is coming down to, will we be able to

:50:31. > :50:34.offer a first-class education for all pupils, or a bare minimum

:50:35. > :50:40.curriculum? We will see what happens.

:50:41. > :50:46.Breaking news, the former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not

:50:47. > :50:57.guilty this morning to 20 charges of historical sexual abuse. Tell us

:50:58. > :51:02.what has happened today. Once again, he did not appear here in person. He

:51:03. > :51:09.appeared via a video link, wearing a blue jumper. Back in January he

:51:10. > :51:13.pleaded not guilty to eight charges of sexual assault, today he repeated

:51:14. > :51:20.those pleas and he pleaded not guilty to a further 12 charges,

:51:21. > :51:23.seven of indecent assault and five of serious sexual assault. The

:51:24. > :51:31.offences are alleged to have happened between 1980 and 1987. They

:51:32. > :51:36.relate to three separate components, all of whom were under 16 at the

:51:37. > :51:40.time, it 11 of the alleged offences are said to have taken place in

:51:41. > :51:47.Derbyshire, one is alleged to have taken place in North Wales. Barry

:51:48. > :51:51.Bennell is 63, a former football coach with Crewe Alexandra, he also

:51:52. > :51:55.worked for other clubs across the north-west, including Stoke City and

:51:56. > :52:00.Manchester City. He will next appear at Liverpool Crown Court on the 13th

:52:01. > :52:05.of July, with a view to a trial starting in early January next year.

:52:06. > :52:08.When a billion litres of raw sewage spilled into the River Thames

:52:09. > :52:15.in 2013 and 2014 it killed hundreds of fish, polluted nature reserves,

:52:16. > :52:18.farmers were left with sick animals, and angling

:52:19. > :52:22.Today the company responsible, Thames Water, is likely to get

:52:23. > :52:32.the biggest-ever fine for river pollution imposed.

:52:33. > :52:36.We will hear that punishment in the next hour or so.

:52:37. > :52:39.Let's speak now to Sir Tony Redmond from Consumer Council For Water,

:52:40. > :52:41.which is the consumer body for the water industry

:52:42. > :52:44.Barry Mullen, chairman of Tame Angling club,

:52:45. > :52:47.which says it has lost thousands of pounds and hundreds of members

:52:48. > :53:03.Tell us about the impact of the pollution. The impact has been

:53:04. > :53:10.twofold. We have seen a noticeable decline in stocks of fish in the

:53:11. > :53:13.river. To such an extent that we understand there has been a decrease

:53:14. > :53:19.of at least 10% per annum in the stock levels, as in the form to us

:53:20. > :53:27.by the Environment Agency. We have been losing members. We have gone

:53:28. > :53:32.down from in excess of 300, down to about a hundred, which has impacted

:53:33. > :53:36.on the club. Did you see it happening? Were you aware of it

:53:37. > :53:43.happening when it was actually pouring into the river? It is an

:53:44. > :53:47.insidious thing. Unless you are at the point where the sewage goes in

:53:48. > :53:52.and you can see dead fish, it will carry on down the river and have an

:53:53. > :53:57.effect over a period of time, you do not always see the effect until

:53:58. > :54:00.perhaps weeks later. As far as we were concerned, we did not see

:54:01. > :54:09.anything directly, but we noticed a significant decline in the stock of

:54:10. > :54:13.fish in our river. In terms of the fine that is going to be imposed, we

:54:14. > :54:19.are told it will be huge, which presumably you would agree with? We

:54:20. > :54:24.are actually concerned about these incidents, 14 incidents in total.

:54:25. > :54:29.The gravity of the offences has got to be recognised in a very

:54:30. > :54:33.substantial fine. The judge has indicated prior to sentencing today

:54:34. > :54:37.that it will be a substantial fine. The largest fine that they have ever

:54:38. > :54:42.experienced is 1.1 million. It would be surprising if it is not more than

:54:43. > :54:47.that. How did it happen? In large part it was due to the fact that the

:54:48. > :54:53.treatment works failed. They were under manned and the company has

:54:54. > :54:56.recognised that. Secondly, there is an issue around the equipment

:54:57. > :55:07.itself. In terms of the way in which this happened, the untreated sewage

:55:08. > :55:13.works exceeded the capacity. That led to a the imp discharge into the

:55:14. > :55:21.Thames that is unacceptable. We will see what happens.

:55:22. > :55:27.A victim of a child grooming gang has waived her right to anonymity to

:55:28. > :55:30.tell this programme why she wants a pardon for victims who committed

:55:31. > :55:37.crimes while under the control of their abusers. She was 14 when she

:55:38. > :55:43.was targeted by a British Pakistani man. He abused her on an almost

:55:44. > :55:49.daily basis. Aged 15, she gave birth to his son. Last year he was jailed

:55:50. > :55:54.for 35 years after being convicted of 23 offences of indecent assault

:55:55. > :55:58.and rape. She has spoken to us before under the pseudonym Jessica.

:55:59. > :56:02.She committed several crimes while he was abusing her. She is calling

:56:03. > :56:04.for a law to be introduced and is suing police and the local authority

:56:05. > :56:11.for the shocking failures to protect her. She is now 31 and earlier she

:56:12. > :56:18.told me her story. I grew up in a good family in

:56:19. > :56:24.Rotherham. The youngest of three daughters, my parents were married.

:56:25. > :56:28.My passion as a child, I was a dancer, that is all I ever wanted to

:56:29. > :56:34.do, I went around the country, competing, winning medals, that was

:56:35. > :56:41.my dream. Just after my 14th birthday, I was at some shops and I

:56:42. > :56:44.met him. From that moment on, I became in contact with him on a

:56:45. > :56:49.daily basis, my parents found out straightaway. As you can imagine

:56:50. > :56:54.that they reported it to the police. The police said that because I would

:56:55. > :56:58.not make a statement, there was nothing they could do and I was

:56:59. > :57:06.consenting to my own abuse. I was going missing from school for days,

:57:07. > :57:11.weeks, sometimes even months. I was pregnant at 14 and again at 15. My

:57:12. > :57:17.parents placed me into care, hoping that they would be able to keep me

:57:18. > :57:20.safe. Unfortunately that backfired. The authorities said as long as I

:57:21. > :57:25.met him at the top of the street, and I was back for 10pm and I went

:57:26. > :57:33.to school, he could have access to me. Which is absolutely

:57:34. > :57:37.extraordinary. It is. When I look back now, I have copies of my

:57:38. > :57:44.record, the negligence of it is just unbelievable. I was caught on a

:57:45. > :57:48.daily basis in his car, on one occasion I was half naked in bed

:57:49. > :57:54.with him, and I had a trench and in my back that he gave me, and I was

:57:55. > :58:00.arrested for that. On that occasion, when you were found in his bed with

:58:01. > :58:07.half your clothes missing, you were treated as the perpetrator? Yes, I

:58:08. > :58:11.was arrested. He was not even questioned. I was never treated as a

:58:12. > :58:18.victim, I was always treated as an equal, as his mistress. As part of

:58:19. > :58:23.his criminal gang. I was not just groomed for sex, it was for crime as

:58:24. > :58:28.well, it was clever, because I was the one getting in trouble. It is

:58:29. > :58:34.something that paedophiles do to prevent us from coming forward. I

:58:35. > :58:39.remember he said to me, if I go down, I am taking you with me.

:58:40. > :58:41.They give for your comments today, we are back tomorrow at 9am. Have a

:58:42. > :58:47.good day.