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A woman is under police guard in hospital, after being shot

during an anti-terror operation on a residential street

Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu

says six people have now been arrested.

I wanted to reassure the public that this

of terrorist activities are being matched

by our action, the police and security services

across the country and we are making arrests on a nearly daily basis.

This is the scene live at New Scotland Yard where the Met police

say they are hopeful they have contained the threat.

The billion pound cancer drugs fund that was set up to give patients

expensive treatments not available on the NHS could even have caused

We will talk to a leading expert who looked into the fund and a mum

Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, who was jailed

Taliban fighter, has been released from prison.

He received a life term in 2013 for murder,

but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter.

His wife spoke to this programme in March when she heard the news

I spoke to him shortly afterwards and I think it took a little longer

I think he had worked very hard to prepare himself

for not such good news, so once it had finally dawned on us

that we were going to be together soon, we were very happy.

We'll bring you all the details in the next half hour.

Hello, welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am this morning.

So much to talk about today, please get in touch,

So much to talk about today, please get in touch.

Porna Bell was married to Rob, a science journalist for three years

before she discovered he was a secret heroin user.

We have been speaking to her in her first television interview. The idea

that the person I love most in the world, that I trusted most in the

world would be using something like that not even periodically, but

would be an addict was something absolutely unfathomable. I would

never have made that connection if he hadn't have told me. You can hear

that interview later on. Do get in touch

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The UK's counter-terrorism unit say they're making arrests

The unit's policing coordinator made the comments in the last half hour -

saying six people have now been detained in connection

with an anti-terror operation in Willesden, north west London,

during which a woman was shot and injured by police.

It happened hours after a man was arrested for allegedly

attempting a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament.

Officers say the two incidents aren't connected.

A residential street in Willesden, in north-west London.

Several gunshots heard, yesterday evening.

As armed police raided a terraced house.

A woman in her 20s was shot by police.

As darkness fell, a police presence remained.

The woman who was shot was taken to hospital.

She was in a serious but stable condition and is under police guard.

A 16-year-old man and a woman aged 20 were arrested at the property.

A 20-year-old man was arrested close by and a 43-year-old woman

All four on suspicion of the commission, preparation

They are in custody in a police station inside London.

Police say this was an ongoing counterterrorism investigation.

The house had been under observation, as had

As the search of the house continued into the night,

other searches related to this incident were also being carried out

However, police say there is no connection between these arrests

Our Correspondent, Sara Smith is at New Scotland Yard.

What's the latest? What we've heard from police this morning is that

this was an active terror plot that they believe they've boiled. This

address in Willesden was under observation by counterterrorism

officers and the intelligence they received meant that last night they

sent armed officers in. They used CS gas on the premises and during the

raid was when this woman in her 20s was injured. This morning, the

Assistant Commissioner for the Met, the National coordinator for

counterterror tried to reassure the counterterror tried to reassure the

public that although terror activity might be on the rise, so is police

activity in tackling that. He said that this woman was in a serious but

stable condition in hospital and he also talked a bit more about the

arrests made. Given the horrors in London of a few

short weeks ago and may I say our thoughts are still with the victims

and survivors of that horrific day, I wanted to reassure the public that

this increased level of terrorist activity is being matched by our

actions, the police and security services across the country. We are

making arrests on a near daily basis and you saw some of that, yesterday.

I also wanted to pay tribute to the bravery of my uniformed colleagues,

doing that work to keep us all safe. Police say it was because of

intelligence received which meant that they went in, warned last

night. It is extremely rare for a woman to be shot by police in this

country. People here with many years of experience can't remember the

last time it happened. We are told she is in a serious but stable

condition, still in hospital. She is yet to be arrested with six other

arrests have been made in several addresses around the capital are

being searched, today. Thank you very much.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman -

whose murder conviction for killing a Taliban fighter

in Afghanistan was quashed - has been released from prison.

Sergeant Blackman - known as "Marine A" -

during the case - had his conviction reduced to manslaughter

He has served more than three years of a seven-year sentence.

A special fund set up to improve patient access to cancer drugs

in England has been condemned as a "huge waste of money".

The Cancer Drugs Fund, which ran from 2010

until it was replaced last year, cost over ?1 billion.

Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

The Cancer Drugs Fund was set up to pay for expensive medicines

In part, it was a political response to repeated

negative headlines about patients being denied treatment.

Nearly 100,000 patients received drugs, but

the study in the journal Annals of Oncology found just one in five

treatments delivered a significant benefit,

extending life by an average of three months.

Researchers say it was an example of policy made

The Cancer Drugs Fund was a major missed opportunity

for the National Health Service and

the cancer community to learn in the real world about the actual

A great deal of money, over ?1 billion, was expended on this.

And we didn't collect the data to look at individual cancer

The study concludes many patients may have suffered

But a leading breast cancer charity said the fund has had a totally

transformational impact for many, offering precious extra time

with loved ones for terminally ill patients.

The fund was brought under the remit of the National Institute

for Health and Care Excellence last year, so there is greater scrutiny

And we'll be speaking to some of those affected by this story

President Trump said there was a chance of what he called

a "major, major conflict" with North Korea over its nuclear

In a radio interview with the Reuters news agency,

Mr Trump said he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to persuade

But he said that would be very difficult to achieve.

Well, there's a chance that we could have a major,

a major, major conflict with North Korea, absolutely.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced a profit of ?259 million

in the first three months of the year.

This compares to a loss of almost a billion pounds

The bank is 72%-owned by the Government.

It hasn't made a full-year profit in nine years,

as it battles restructuring costs and fines resulting from years

of over-expansion before the financial crisis.

The car maker, Vauxhall, showed a Wreckless disregard for safetyW

The car maker, Vauxhall, showed a wreckless disregard for safetyW

over the way it handled a series of fires on its Zafira B

A report by the Transport Select Committee found

that the company was too slow to act, allowing people to drive

The company says safety is its top priority and it has

The general election will be a tipping point for education,

according to headteachers who warn the stability of the whole

A survey by the National Assocation of Headteachers found that nearly

three-quarters of heads say their budget will be

It comes as economists predict it would cost ?2 billion to freeze

school funding in real terms over the next five years.

Our Education Correspondent Marc Ashdown reports.

A 24-hour strike is underway on Arriva Rail North,

as part of an ongoing dispute over the role of guards.

It's the third time that members of the Rail,

Maritime and Transport Union have walked out in a row over

staffing for new trains, which are due to come

Arriva Rail North said it was disappointing

that the union was unwilling to change its position during talks.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Thank you very much. Alexander Blackman, marine, released A

overnight having his murder conviction overturned to

manslaughter. We talk will to someone who was with him in prison

as he left, just after midnight last night. The man who managed the

campaign to get him released, John Davis, he will join us later. Get in

touch. And if you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. A big game in the Premier League

last night, but not exactly a classic? Exactly. Good morning. Like

me, if you watched the Manchester derby last night, you will know it

was a frenetic encounter, end to end play with all the passion you would

expect, perhaps too much passion at times but the DRS sides were lacking

in composure and quality. It's best described as attritional and it

ended goalless at the Etihad Stadium, leaving City in the

all-important final Champions League qualification spot but the main

talking point was a straight red card for United midfielder Marouane

Fellaini who was sent off for that headbutt on City striker Sergio

Aguero. No hesitation from Martin Atkinson, the referee. A game of few

chances. At the line by poor finishing Sergio Aguero, could have

taken it at the death but couldn't control the finish. The hunt for the

top four goes on for United. Jose Mourinho, their manager, after the

game, explained what Fellini had made of his red card.

We think it is probably not a red card. Cabrera was intelligent, the

way he reacted. But he has to control. Five games left for City

and United and City hold on to fourth spot, one point ahead of

their local rivals in the Premier League. Interestingly, they both

have the chance to leapfrog third placed Liverpool that they win all

their remaining matches but still a lot to play for as we approach this

final month of the season. A lot of excitement around a big boxing match

tomorrow, Anthony Joshua in action. What a fight in the offing in London

tomorrow night, 90,000 fans will pour into the stadium taking on a

man who was world champion for over a decade in Wladimir Klitschko. So

many questions and factors in an intriguing contest. At 41 years old,

does Wladimir Klitschko have what it takes to take on Joshua? It is

Joshua's 90th professional fight, does he have the experience to take

a beat man -- to beat a man that reigned supreme for so long in the

heavyweight division. Answers tomorrow night. Squaring up after

their public work-out and press conference yesterday. The build-up

has been pretty cordial between the two of them, no real predictions

from either although Wladimir Klitschko has made one can he is

keeping his memory cards close to his chest, take a look. On this USB

stick I recorded a video last week. And the outcome of the fight. List

stick is going to be integrated in my robe, which I'm going to wear

this Saturday night. Sealed. Do not ask me, after the fight, what

is on this stick. I would be asking! The only person who will find out is

the one who grabs that robe at an auction after the fight. Wladimir

Klitschko says it is up to them if they want to reveal what the

contents of the video are. It is tough. You will have much more on it

in the programme throughout the morning but it will be a very tough

one. Interesting to see if Anthony Joshua can do it. I want to ask,

that we are not allowed to ask! He seemed pretty serious, I wouldn't

ask him! A special fund for cancer drugs set

up to help give patients access to treatment not available

on the NHS has been criticised The NHS Cancer Drugs Fund

ran from 2010 to 2016, It was set-up to give quicker access

to expensive drugs that hadn't yet been recommended by Nice -

the body in charge of Among the drugs it's approved

are Perjeta and Kadcyla for women with advanced

breast cancer, which we've covered

before on the programme. We'll be hearing shortly from one

patient who benefitted from the fund and says it made a huge difference

to her life. We'll also be joined by one

of the report's authors, who have described the programme as "a huge

waste of money" and a But what else could

?1.27 billion pay Well, it could fund 10,000 nurses,

or 2,500 hospital consultants. It could also fund a one-off pay

rise for every member of NHS The Conservatives, who set up

the fund, said it gave patients Let's speak now to Bonnie Fox,

who has incurable cancer and takes one of the drugs approved

by the Cancer Drugs Fund. Also here, Professor Richard

Sullivan, one of the authors of the report from the Institute

of Cancer Policy at And Mia Rosenblatt, assistant

director of policy and campaigns Thank you all very much for coming

in. Bonnie, Metellus first of all what you have been given as a result

the fund. I have been on herceptin and perjeta combined. I have been

able to carry on my life relatively normally since I was diagnosed in

2015. From that diagnosis I am functioning fairly normally. I have

returned to work. I have eight to macro year old son and can perform

my role as a busy month, a wife and a daughter. These drugs have enabled

me to do that. The low side effects of the drugs mean I have not

required any hospitalisation and do not have any side effects from them

I can carry on relatively normally. Without the fund he would not have

had those drugs? I would not have had perjeta. The to macro drugs

combined have meant I am still alive. You have been looking into

what the fans were spending money on and the impact. You are not at all

convinced. -- the fund was spending money on. There is this clinically

meaningful benefit. There is nothing wrong with the CDF in principle for

particularly expensive medicines which had not yet had Nice approval.

We could not follow what the outcomes. Many patients do as we

showed from the study, did not do well on those particular drugs but

we did not learn about that. What we are doing is pouring more and more

money into giving patients drugs that we really were not learning

from. I guess, at the end of the day, the general point with patient

access schemes of fairness. In the future thinking of opening up beyond

medicines to include surgery and radiotherapy. It is about making

sure clinically meaningful drugs like this are used in the NHS. Was

it a failure of the people running it? It was a failure of looking

properly at the outcomes of the drugs being prescribed. That is

basic, why did not happen? That is the issue, finding out why it did

happen. Now the CDF has been incorporated into the Nice process.

You need to make sure you follow up patients very closely to see those

who really benefit and to put more money into those. For those drugs

which are not showing any benefit, to stop funding their eyes and put

it into a different area. It is about research. The fund has gone.

Does that mean you will continue to get the treatment you have been

having? I will continue with the treatment. My next drug is up for

review. The initial decision is that it will not be funded. We're working

really hard to try to reverse that decision. The problem with this

report which has been released, it is generalising and making a

sweeping statement that the CDF has not been working for some it is not

looking at those individual drugs which are working. It is insulting

for those of us who are doing so well on it. There are many of us who

are doing well on them. It is damaging to our campaign to try to

save the drugs and make sure they are funded on the NHS. We do not

know if future patients will be able to get perjeta. If you are on the

treatment you will continue to get it that we do not know what will

happen in the future. The fund was set up for a short amount of time

very deliberate lead to try to get drugs through which were struggling

to get through Nice like perjeta. Why were they struggling? It is part

of the Nice process. It takes into account different factors and comes

up with a yes, or a no, as to whether the drugs were available.

The drugs are available to people with incurable cancer. In the case

of perjeta, it is a combination drug. Whatever the manufacturer

says, it is not cost-effective. That shows there is something not quite

nice in the system. The process was going to be looked at more broadly.

The wider reform did not come. The end of the life of the cancer drug

fund came. Now it has gone back into Nice and does not exist in the same

way. What we really need to look at is how we can more broadly reform

the system so we are not costing the NHS more money but we're getting

more drugs through. There is an opportunity through the agreement

that pharmaceutical companies make with the Department of Health called

the Pharmaceutical Pricing Agreement, is where we could get

drugs available with no extra cost. That will be renegotiated in the

next year and that is where we should be focusing. It is a horrible

debate when it centres on, what price do put on life? Those are the

fundamentals that get looked at. We are all in agreement. We want drugs

which benefit all technologies to get into the NHS. This is about

accommodation and solidarity. Governments that are prepared to pay

fair prices for the wealth of the country, for medicines and other

technologies. You need companies setting their prices as well. Part

of this is negotiations around tax relief and negotiations in this

country around the sort of prices they will offer. We are trying to

get new drugs through and new technologies through for patients

that will drive improvements in outcomes and be of really good value

to society as a whole. We are all on the same page. At the beginning we

outlined what the money going into the fund could have paid for in

terms of staff within the NHS. That does not work right. It comes back

to the point of how you trade of peoples lives. That is not fair. You

cannot say we could have spent the money on this. The money was spent.

Some patients benefited fantastically but a lot did not. We

have to learn from where we made mistakes with that particular access

scheme and the way it was run and make sure that does not happen the

future. When you had your criticisms of the fund, it was that money could

be better spent. It is not that harm was done to anyone. It is the way we

watched and reviewed patients who were treated with the drugs will do

we could have learned much earlier which drugs are working and which

were not. That was the issue at the end of the day. We have to properly

audit these access schemes. Patients expect that as well, to learn from

our clinical experience. When you talked about campaigning for drugs,

you are in a situation where you have terminal cancer and you are

fighting to try to get extra life, better quality of life. How does it

feel to be fighting at the same time as living with what he while living

with? It is fairly exhausting. It is a shame because I feel so well at

the moment. A life with secondary breast cancer is full of anxiety and

uncertainty. It is very stressful. Having the additional worry of, will

my next drug be in place? It is a huge worry. I want to enjoy my life.

I am feeling so well. I do not want to worry, it is the next drug there

for me? Thank you for coming in. We've had this statement from

the Conservative Party, it says: That statement from the

Conservatives. We'll hear from a successful

journalist who found out her husband was a heroin addict,

she'd had no idea for three years. Poorna Bell is now opening up

about what happened to her husband Rob, and is sharing her story

with this programme. After serving more than three years

into a seven-year prison sentence, the Royal Marine,

Sergeant Alexander Blackman, His life term sentence for murder

for shooting dead a wounded Taliban fighter had been

reduced to manslaughter. It followed a campaign

led by his wife, Claire Blackman. In an exclusive interview

in September 2015, Claire told us about the moment her husband

was arrested. The first we knew was the knock

on the door, for him to be arrested. It was a quiet weekend morning,

and there was a knock on the door. I opened the door and invited

the individuals in, And as they came in my husband came

downstairs and they read out the charge of breaches of the Geneva

Convention, at that stage. And did you know

what that meant, then? When did it become clear

that he was going to be I think as the investigation

continued, the charge changed a week It was something, as I said,

it was totally out of the blue. Last month, Court Martial Appeal

judges reduced his sentence after being told Sergeant Blackman

had a recognised mental illness at the time of the killing

in September 2011. The judge's decision meant he would

be released in a matter of weeks. Claire Blackman was in court

and spoke to her husband via video I think it took a little longer

for the realisation to hit. I think he'd worked very

hard to prepare himself for not such good news,

so once it had finally dawned on us that we were going to be together

soon, we were very happy. And is it true, via video

link, he managed to get The court staff have been

absolutely fantastic. We've been a regular appearance

in Court 4 and the staff have got to know us and look

after us very well. And they allow us at the end

of the video link to have a quick I did warn him that the court had

not yet cleared, but yes, The campaign to release

Sergeant Blackman was managed He was at Erlestoke Prison

in the early hours of this We can speak to him now, live from

Bristol. Thank you for joining us. What was the moment like? Good

morning. It was absolutely fantastic. I was not actually

outside the prison, I was with care when the police brought to Clare the

secret location they are staying at the moment. It was surreal to see

them both relaxed. It was an amazing moment for what has been a very long

three and a half years for everyone involved. It made it all worthwhile,

without a shadow of a doubt. What did he say? He did not say a zero,

to be fair. This is probably about half past to this morning. He just

said it is very surreal really. He was commenting on the car journey

and the fact he has not been in a car for a few years will do that in

itself was very strange. It will take a bit of time to transition

back into normality for him. Were they emotional? Of course they were.

It has been the end to a very horrific period for them. I believe

there will be an exclusive interview by the Daily Mail which will come

out tomorrow, detailing all of this. Why did it all happen in the early

hours of the morning? It was to miss the unwanted media.

It's very easy for us from a campaign perspective to understand

how high profile this has been, how the media have been outside the

courts outside Parliament, outside Birmingham. But Al hasn't been

subjected to any of this. To try and keep him away from a lot of that at

this early stage, for us, for his wife and himself, it was very

important. How and why did you get involved? More than anything else,

obviously, he is a fellow Royal Marine. Nobody else was doing

anything. That's what really bugged me. It's not what we are about as

Royal Marines, as service men. We look at each other. The more and

more we looked into the gates, the more holes we could find in the

court-martial -- looked into the case, the more. We reached just over

100,000 signatures, which secured the Parliamentary debate which got

an MP involved and Frederick Forsyth from the Daily Mail and the

fantastic legal team. It's been an incredible journey and it couldn't

have been done with -- without the amazing public support and the will

Marine 's family backing support. It's been amazing, the whole thing

has been brilliant. As you say, it has unfolded over a long time and

those on the outside have been well aware of what's been going on and

experiencing it. He is going to face that onslaught. What will they do,

now? Now it will be a bit of a transition period. They will have a

good few weeks to themselves. Decide what he wants to do next. In the

coming weeks, coming months. It must be such a strange feeling being able

to plan your future whereas a month ago he thought he would have another

four and a half to five and a half years serving. It will take a bit of

time to decide what his next steps are, really. Thank you for joining

us. My pleasure. As the UK's counter-terrorism unit

say they're making arrests on a "near daily" basis,

we'll be live at New Scotland Yard One of the biggest boxing fights on

British soil as Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko meet in the ring.

But who will be crowned heavyweight world champion? We will speak to a

boxer who sparred with both fighters.

When I was like 17, 18, it was about being cool,

And now I'm fighting Wlad, everything that I've done over

the last three years, it's built me up to now.

I found out what I need to do, what works, what don't work.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news.

The UK's counter-terrorism unit say they're making arrests

The unit's policing coordinator made the comments in the last hour -

saying six people have now been detained in connection

with an anti-terror operation in Willesden, north-west

London, during which a woman was shot and injured by police.

It happened hours after a man was arrested for allegedly

attempting a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament.

Officers say the two incidents aren't connected.

We will be live at Scotland Yard, soon.

Given the horrors in London of a few short weeks ago and may I say our

thoughts are still with the victims and survivors of that horrific day,

I wanted to reassure the public that this increased level

of terrorist activity is being matched by our

actions, the police and security services across the country.

We are making arrests on a near daily basis

and you saw some of that, yesterday.

I also wanted to pay tribute to the bravery

of my uniformed colleagues, doing that work to keep us all safe.

We will be back at Scotland Yard in a moment.

A fund set up to improve patient access to cancer drugs in England

has been condemned by researchers as a "huge waste of money".

The Cancer Drugs Fund ran from 2010 until last year and cost

nearly ?1.3 billion, but a new study by King's College

London claims most of the drugs failed to show clinical benefit,

and many patients may have suffered unnecessary side effects.

However, one leading breast cancer charity said the fund had

The former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman,

whose murder conviction for killing a Taliban fighter in

Afghanistan was quashed, has been released from prison.

Sergeant Blackman, known as "Marine A"

during the case, had his conviction reduced to manslaughter

He has served more than three years of a seven-year sentence.

The car maker Vauxhall showed a "reckless disregard for safety"

over the way it handled a series of fires on its Zafira B

A report by the Transport Select Committee found

that the company was too slow to act, allowing people to drive

The company says safety is its top priority and it has

When they did act and said they'd put things right, cars were still

And even at that point, they didn't recall the cars fully.

And this is totally unacceptable and is putting people's

Within the past few minutes, the office for National to statistics

has released the latest GDP figures -- office for National statistics.

The economy grew by 0.4% in the first quarter of this year.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00.

It was all about the race for fourth Champions League spot

last night in the Manchester derby but the match didn't

A moment of madness was the main talking point,

United's Marouane Fellaini was sent off after headbutting City

That happened 14 seconds after he'd been booked for another foul

The goalless draw meant City and United stay fourth

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is to take charge

of the club's under 18's side from next season.

Gerrard returned to Liverpool's academy in February

Anthony Joshua says he won't be affected

by Wladimir Klitschko's mind games ahead of their heavyweight title

Klitchscko says he's made a video prediction but won't reveal it.

Joshua says "he's heard it all before."

And today is the first day of cycling's Tour De Yorkshire.

The first stage goes from Bridlington to Scarborough.

Thomas Voeckler is the men's defending champion while Britain's

Lizzie Deignan is hoping for victory in the women's race.

Something on the Joshua fight just after 10am as well. Do you think he

is predicting he is going to lose? I doubt it very much! We will talk a

bit more about that fight, later. Let's get more on our top story,

and police say they've foiled an active terrorist plot

after carrying out an armed raid A female suspect was shot

during the operation and is in a serious but stable

condition in hospital. Our correspondent Sara Smith

is at the Metropolitan Police What is the latest? Within the last

hour, police confirmed they believe they have foiled an active terror

plot, planned for UK soil. Anti-terrorist officers had this

address in Willesden in north London under surveillance and Jude to

intelligence they received, they tell us, they went in, armed last

night, first of all firing CS gas into the premises. It was during

this raid that this woman in her 20s was shot and injured and she remains

in hospital in a serious but stable condition. The National coordinator

for counterterror, said today that while terror activities may be on

the rise, police activity was also going up to deal with it.

In Whitehall, a 27-year-old man was arrested. They stopped and searched

him as part of an ongoing counterterrorism investigation. He

remains in custody, having been arrested for terrorism act offences

and possession of offensive weapons. There are two ongoing searches of

addresses in London as part of that investigation. In our second and

unrelated investigation, last night at approximately 7pm, our highly

trained firearms officers carried out a specialist entry into an

address in Harlesden Road. We have that under observation as part of a

current counterterrorism investigation. The armed entry was

necessary due to the nature of the intelligence we were dealing with

and involved armed officers firing CS gas into the address. During the

course of that operation, one of the subjects, a woman, was shot by

police. She remains in hospital. I can say her condition is serious but

it is stable. Because of her condition, she has not yet been

arrested and we are monitoring her condition closely. As is routine in

these situations, we have informed the Independent Police Complaints

Commission. In total, in that second operation, six people have now been

arrested in connection with the investigation, five at or near the

address in North London and one in Kent. The two further arrests were

made when a man and a woman, both aged 28, returned to the address

later tonight last night. There are search is ongoing at three London

addresses, including Harlesden Road as part of that investigation. --

returned to the address later that night. Due to the arrests made

yesterday, in both cases I believe we have contained the threats they

have posed. With the attack in Westminster on the 22nd of March so

fresh in people's minds, I would like to reassure everyone that

across the country, officers are working around the clock to identify

those people who intend to commit acts of terror.

To recap, six arrests in all, in connection with last night's raid,

three of them men, three of them women. All still in custody. The

woman who was shot is in hospital in a serious but stable condition and

is under arrest. It is extremely rare for a woman to be shot by

police in this country. In fact, nobody here can remember the last

time it happened. Searches are ongoing and three London addresses

in connection with last night's raid and police say they believe they

have contained the threat they posed. Following the arrest in

Westminster yesterday where a man was arrested not far from here, two

addresses in London are also being searched. The Deputy Assistant

Commissioner Neil Basu, who we just heard from, he described it as being

an extraordinary day in London. He also thanked the general public and

said that with the best will in the world from police, it was

communities and people getting in touch that would help him fight

terrorism. Thank you. Amid the noise, news and occasional

name-calling surrounding the General Election,

you might not have noticed that next week, for many of us,

there's a local one too. All the council areas

in Scotland and Wales, and many counties across England

are up for grabs. Not only that but in six areas,

Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Tees Valley, Cambridgeshire

and Peterborough, West of England and the West Midlands,

for the first time, they'll be That's a Mayor that

represents an area comprising a number of councils,

a bit like in London. Let's speak to some of our

political correspondents In Scotland, we've got Brian Taylor,

in Wales, Tomos Morgan and Nina Warhurst is in

the North West of England, where they're voting for two

of the Metro mayors. Brian, tell us about the picture in

Scotland. These elections matter in themselves, 1200 councillors in all

32 Scottish local authorities, they run the schools, the social work,

they take when the bin -- take away the bins and salt the roads. They

are significant themselves but completely subsumed within the UK

general election. They will be looking for pointers from the

Scottish local elections as to how things might be at the UK general

election in Scotland. 2001, last time these councils were contested

and the SNP were narrowly in the lead both in terms of voting share

and in councillors. Labour actually ended up, because of the

proportional voting system, you have to haggle as to who runs the

councils, Labour actually ended up in sole control of more councils

than the SNP. Will that be repeated now? Since then, the SNP have surged

in the UK general election and Hollywood elections and there has

now been a sign of a revival of the Tories. The Tories are keen to

supplant labour as the second party. One big one to look out for would-be

the great city of Glasgow, a Labour stronghold since everyone remembers

but the SNP took seats there from both Westminster and Holyrood. Could

they do that again at the Council bubble? Another thing to watch, the

individual wards will give the individual candidates pointers as to

the way things are shifting. The trend of voting in Scotland. That

will be translated into endeavours and efforts for the UK general

election itself. I stress that these elections matter in themselves. I

hand over to my colleague in Wales. 22 local elections in Wales. 1200

seats and over 3400 and dates. The First Minister said when Theresa May

announced the general election, that would have an impact on the local

elections across the UK. Labour has always been strong in

Wales, they hold a number of the councils across Wales. In a way,

they have the most to lose. I will run some of the key battle grounds

through with you, Cardiff, the capital, by far the biggest local

authority. Rabies control after taking it from the Lib Dem Plaid

Cymru coalition -- Labour is in control after taking. Infighting in

labour in the last few years, they have had a change of leadership so

they will be under a three pronged attack from Plaid Cymru from the

west of Cardiff, the Tories in the north and the Lib Dems in the

central. They will battle to keep hold of this biggest council across

Wales. Ten of the councillors quit the

party in 2015. They'll be back in to take it back as the Tories worry

battling to make some gains. Another key area for them. In the West, a

classic bike between Plaid Cymru and Labour put Labour were in control in

the last election but Labour will be trying to make some ground. That is

the situation in Wales. Now to my colleague in the North West of

England. The big two votes are the election of the Metro Mayor. The

Liverpool city region, plus Merseyside and a borough of Holton

in Cheshire. They will elect mayors for the first time was that this is

history in the making. The powers that are being handed down from

Westminster are not significant. The mayor and the leader of the boroughs

will take control of transport, housing, strategic planning. In

greater Manchester the Mayor will become the head of the police

service, the PCC, as well as becoming head of the Fire And Rescue

Services. When you go and speak to people, are they are where it is

happening? Not really. There is lots of confusion. People get it confused

with the guy with the chain. When you explain it will be like Boris

Johnson used to beat McKenna Livingstone used to be, there is a

bit of understanding but there is concern that turnout will be low for

these elections. It is on a knife edge. It slips between the

Conservatives and the Labour Party. It has marginal Labour control at

the moment. Within Lancashire there are five marginal constituencies for

the general election. That is often seen as a bellwether area and could

be seen as a prediction of how the general election will go. Thank you

all very much. Listening in, Tony Travers, from the London School of

economic and political science. Let's talk about turnout in the

local elections. So many elections at the moment. We have been

bombarded. What does that do in terms of engagement and turnout?

There is always a risk that when you get a lot of election in the

country, be polite to vote in Britain. It is a mature democracy.

They do not like to vote too often. We have had a sequence in Scotland,

Northern Ireland and England and Wales. In the big city regions, with

the Metro mayors, in most of those places, there are no other election

is going on. As it is a new post covering a big geography around the

city centre, there is some concern as to whether the turnout will be

anything like as big as we have seen in the London mayoral election. Last

time the turnout was 45%. The fear is the turnout will be lower as when

the police and crime commission elections took place. General

elections 65-70%. 45% for local elections is generally considered

pretty good. In your average, metropolitan district, London or shy

elections, you would be expecting to get results having between --

averaging between 35 and 40%. We will see less than that in the new

mayoral elections. These elections do matter in themselves. We're all

looking at them and thinking about how much they will indicate on what

we can expect in a general election not that long after. What would you

say on that front? They are local elections. Everyone who goes out to

vote is voting on the quality of services. Standing back from it,

these elections are five weeks before a general election and they

are bound to be viewed as a way of trying to understand the way real

votes are being cast. With local elections, they are real votes. With

that in mind, when we distil the results nationally, people will be

saying, are the Conservatives doing quite as well in these real results

as they are in the polls quest to our Labour doing as badly? So on. As

we heard in the packages earlier on, there are real elections where we

can see whether the Conservatives can win control of Lancashire,

Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire. Terrible results for Labour should

that happen and good for the Conservatives. Will the Liberal

Democrats the resurgent in the West of England? It is a big test of

opinion locally and nationally. Thank you very much.

And you can find out more about the local and mayoral

elections in your area (GFX) On the BBC News website -

And you can watch MP for a day, who cares about politics? Victoria

Derbyshire documentary on the BBC I player.

Britain's world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is preparing

for the biggest fight of his career tomorrow night when he steps

into the ring to face Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko.

90,000 people are expected to fill Wembley to watch the bout,

which will see the winner become the "unified" heavyweight

Anthony Joshua is looking to maintain his perfect unbeaten

Wladimir Klitschko is aiming to reclaim

the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association titles

Let's take a look at this clip of Joshua in action.

This is from a BBC Three documentary looking ahead to this

I like my rest but I need to start earlier so

Every morning when you wake up you have to

No one puts a gun to my head and says, you have to be a boxer.

When I was like 17, 18, it was about being cool,

Everything that I've done over the last three years, it's built me

I found out what I need to do, what works, what don't work.

Joining us now is Rob Madden, Anthony Joshua's physiotherapist,

Dillian Whyte, who shared a battle with Anthony Joshua and has also

and Olympic bronze medalist Anthony Ogogo.

Thank you all for joining us. Rob, he said the last 13 weeks of

preparation are tougher than any time. What has he been doing to

prepare? Building on previous training camps. Preparing very hard.

He is running into a lot of hard sparring, pad work. Putting his body

through a gruelling schedule. It is a serious fight. It had to be done.

How is he? He is happy physically and in a great place. The mind

games, we heard Wladimir Klitschko playing the tape predicting the

outcome. How much is that a factor, keeping focused mentally? He is

relaxed. I cannot see the USB stick having much effect on him. He has

eight tougher skin than that. Anthony, you have known him for ten

years. He is such an interesting character. He still lives at home

with his mum. He said had he not gone into boxing, he would be in

jail. He had difficult times earlier in his life. Tell me more about him.

I have trained alongside him for the last seven, eight years. The use of

the decayed person. He trained very hard. He is very confident. -- he is

a dedicated person. He backed himself. He trained hard as his

confidence comes with how he trains. I trained with him for a long time.

We have raced together, hit the bag together. He trained very hard. He

deserves his success. A really good fighter and a massive challenge for

him. Clitch coe has been a tremendous champion for the last few

years. -- Wladimir Klitschko. I have fought Anthony twice and Wladimir

Klitschko a few times. It is one of those fights which is tricky at the

moment. It depends how much Wladimir Klitschko attacks and how much

Anthony Joshua is challenge. It is difficult to pick a winner. We will

see how heavy Joshua comes in and how heavy that it clitch coe is.

Wladimir Klitschko has been to Mendis champion. -- a tremendous

champion. Joshua is young, hungry and fast. He is a fast fighter. A

lot of guys that size can punch hard. His speed is to Mendis factor.

Wladimir Klitschko had that speed back in the day. -- a tremendous

factor. It is how much Anthony Joshua can take him out of his

stride and let his bath and go. If he does that, I think he will win.

-- let his bath and go. It takes it out of you. I think Joshua is

younger, fresher, faster. That will be the difference in winning the

fight. In terms of preparation when he says he does not worry about

getting injured in the ring because he tests everything before he goes

in. Talk through what it is like being there when he is training and

how he is approaching it. It is about teamwork around him and

balancing his training loads and his recovery. He is training hard and

put in a lot of stress on his body for the utilising the strength and

conditioning and physiotherapy. This week is about being quiet on that

front. Addressing the tight spots. His muscles are feeling really fresh

for tomorrow night. I am really happy with where he is at. Everyone

is. I hope Wladimir Klitschko is in the same position. Both are coming

in strong and healthy and it will be a good fight. People see the

physicality of boxing. It is a mental sport as well, isn't it?

People watch boxing and see two, big, muscular guys throwing punches

and they think that is it. It is so technical. Every game plan has been

sorted out. It is not about doing press ups, bicep curling was he has

spent 13 weeks going over game plans. Doing one thing and then the

next week doing another thing. It is a hard business. Both guys can punch

very hard. If you make one mistake, you are knocked out. You have lost

the credibility you have built up. Thank you. We are looking forward to

the fight tomorrow. Thank you very much for joining us.

If you're watching on BBC Two, in a moment coverage of the snooker.

To continue watching our programme turn over to the BBC

News Channel, where coming up in the next half hour.

A successful journalist found out her husband

Poorna Bell is now opening up about what happened to her husband

Rob, and is sharing her story with this programme just after 10.

Largely fine, dry day out there and this was the scene taken by our

weather Watchers in Broadstairs. As we head through the bank holiday

weekend, the quiet theme continues at least for a while. A bit warmer

than they have been, turning quite breezy and at times, there's a

chance of rain, particularly on Sunday. One or two showers across

Scotland, northern England, Wales and southern England but either side

of that line of cloud, dry and brighter stop decent sunshine.

Lighter winds and recent days and temperatures at around 15 degrees.

Saturday, the driest day of the weekend. Quite a bit of sunshine.

The chance of the rogue shower. Temperatures around 16. Windy in the

west. Sunday, some rain in the south-west of England. Wales as

well, going north-east but some uncertainty on Sunday. Looks like

Northern and north-eastern part of the country should stay dry and

breezy. Most of the rain clears through bank holiday Monday. A

return to some sunshine, 12 showers but it should feel pleasant with

lighter winds and temperatures up to 16 degrees.

It's Friday, ten o'clock and I am Joanna Gosling, thanks for your

company. If a woman has been shot during an anti-terror operation on a

residential street in north-west London. Neil Basu said six people

have now been arrested. I wanted to reassure the public

that this increased level of terrorist activity

is being matched by our actions, the police and security

services across the country. We are making arrests

on a near daily basis and you saw some

of that, yesterday. We will have the latest in Willesden

Junction shortly. A successful journalist only

found out after three years that her husband

was a heroin addict. He sought help but later

relapsed and killed himself. Poorna Bell is here to share her

story with this programme. The idea that the person

I loved most in the world, that I trusted most

in the world would be using

something like that not even periodically,

but would be an addict, it was

absolutely unfathomable. I would never have made that

connection if he hadn't Imagine buying a new home,

but finding that the cost to rent the ground the property

is on is doubling every few years. That's what happened to some

leasehold homeowners. But now one developer,

Taylor Wimpey, has set aside a fund of ?130 million to help

reduce these costs after It just seems immoral

and completely unethical. And you read the contract

as much as... I think I probably read

the contract about 50 times. And it didn't matter

how many times I read the one paragraph in which this

clause is contained, I still can't A teenage boy, whose brother

was killed in a Taliban massacre at his school in Peshawar,

is now in Birmingham, teaching children about

the dangers of extremism. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of todays news. The UK's counter-terrorism unit

says it's making arrests The unit's policing coordinator made

the comments this morning - saying six people have now been

detained in connection with an anti-terror operation

in Willesden, north-west London, during which a woman was shot

and injured by police. It happened hours after a man

was arrested for allegedly attempting a terror attack

near the Houses of Parliament. Officers say the two

incidents aren't connected. Given the horrors in London of a few

short weeks ago, and may I say our thoughts are still with the victims

and survivors of that horrific day, I wanted to reassure the public

that this increased level of terrorist activity

is being matched by our actions, the police and security

services across the country. We are making arrests

on a near daily basis I also wanted to pay

tribute to the bravery and detective colleagues,

doing that work to keep us all safe. Our correspondent, Andy Moore

is at Willesden Green. Good morning, is any more detail a

margin about what went on? -- detail emerging. We had that update from

Scotland Yard. They called it an extraordinary day yesterday, two

separate ongoing terror investigations. This house behind me

was raided at about 7pm last night. If we just push into the house, it's

the one with the satellite dish. You may be able to see in the top

right-hand window on the top floor, there is a broken window. We know

from police that a CS gas was used here. Police said they had to make

an armed entry, which was necessary because of intelligence. We don't

know precisely what that intelligence was that this house had

been under surveillance for some time. -- but this house. It would

have six people had been arrested in connection with this incident. A

16-year-old boy was arrested here. A man and a woman both aged 20 and a

separate arrest last night of a 43-year-old woman in Kent. Four

rests with Europe last night and we heard this morning of an additional

two arrests made at this property when two people returned to this

address. A man and a woman aged 28. Obviously, the police investigation

carrying on here. We understand that there are investigations at linked

addresses. We don't know where they are. At other locations in London.

The IBC say, the independent watchdog, will be investigating this

case -- IPC. When firearms are charged, they investigate. A woman

in her 20s is in a serious condition in hospital, under watch by officers

but she has not been arrested because of her condition. Andy,

thank you. A fund set up to improve patient

access to cancer drugs in England has been condemned by researchers

as a "huge waste of money". The Cancer Drugs Fund ran from 2010

until last year and cost But a new study by King's College

London says most of the drugs failed to show clinical benefit,

and many patients may have suffered A breast cancer charity has

responded, saying the fund A former Royal Marine who shot dead

an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has been

released from prison. Sergeant Alexander Blackman was

originally found guilty of murder. Last month that conviction

was quashed and replaced with manslaughter on the grounds

of diminished responsibility. Official figures show the economy

grew by 0.3% in the first Economists had been

expecting a slowdown, but the results are slightly

worse than predicted. The Office for National Statistics

said rising prices and a fall That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. We will keep talking about that huge

fight. All eyes will be on Wembley tomorrow

evening for what could be another memorable fight for British fight

fans and Anthony Joshua takes a step up in class to defend his world

title against Dr Steelhammer himself Both characters are really

intriguing, there's no malice, Let's speak now to Boxing

commentator Ronald McIntosh, who will take us through the action

on BBC Radio 5live tomorrow night. You were at the press conference

yesterday, what was the mood like of the two fighters? The mood in the

press conference at the Sky centre was as it has been throughout the

entire build-up, to this contest. Epic heavyweight showdown but both

guys very surreal, very professional, very calm, very

composed, they know one another very well. Anthony Joshua was hired as a

sparring partner by Wladimir Klitschko added his title defence

back in 2014. There has almost been an element of Anthony Joshua being

expected to be the anointed one, the next one. I don't think they

anticipated they would meet Bob Wladimir Klitschko lost the title to

Funerary. Heavyweight showdown taking place at Wembley on Sunday.

Lots of questions going into this fight, mainly the age of Wladimir

Klitschko, how long he has been out of the ring and that perceived

inexperience from Anthony Joshua. How will they cope with their

respective challenges? That is a classic philosophical conundrum

which is more valuable, the energy of youth, the wisdom of experience?

Wladimir Klitschko is 41, he has been in boxing, taking into account

his glittering amateur career, when he won the Olympics civil

heavyweight title in 1996, through to the imperious rain, none and a

half year, second rain as a heavyweight champion, he has been in

boxing for 27 years -- nine and a half years, his second time as a

heavyweight champion. But it could go's boxing experience and the

totality of Anthony Joshua's time on earth. Hugely powerful individuals,

18 five, 18 winds, 18 knockouts but make no mistake, this is a huge step

up. He has faced anybody as remotely as good as bad make it go. We are

assuming that it could go is the fighter that he was in the past. If

we go on the evidence of his last performance against Tyson Fury, that

was an absolute aberration. Was it a significant decline or a one off?

The answers will -- the questions will be answered on Saturday night.

There's coverage of the fight on Radio 5live with Ron and the team

from 9 o'clock tomorrow evening - not to be missed!

Writer Poorna Bell had been married to Rob,

a successful journalist for three years before he admitted

Whilst Rob had been open about his battle with depression,

which was often severe, she had no idea that he was using

heroin to self-medicate his mental health issues.

The pair tried to work through his problems together -

Rob joined Narcotics Anonymous and Poorna went to a support

But eventually Rob relapsed and on a trip to see relatives

in New Zealand he tragically took his own life.

After losing her husband, Poorna opened up about their struggles

with a blog and in a new book, she describes what it was like to

live with a something she kept a secret for many years.

He mastered at this by saying it was depression. But I knew there wasn't

something quite right, there was something he wasn't telling me that

I assumed he wasn't comfortable talking about how he felt. When he

told me it was an awful moment but at the same time, I felt I had a bit

of my sanity back. Because I actually knew what was going on. Had

you literally no idea? No idea. When you are married and you trust the

other person implicitly, you just expect them to tell you the truth,

you don't think for one minute they might not be telling you the truth.

The idea of something like heroin, which is an extreme drug in modern

society, so taboo, the idea that the person I loved most in the world,

that I trusted most in the world would be using something like that

not even periodically, but be an addict, it was absolutely

unfathomable. I would never have made that connection if he hadn't

have told me. How open was he with you at that point? Once he had told

me, everything came out. All of these stories, everything that I

thought was one type of a reality, but actually, he then told me the

truth about what was going on. He was very open with his feelings and

his thoughts immediately afterwards. With addiction it's not as simple as

among confessing and they're going to recovery. And then they are keen

for the rest of their lives. There were periods of relapse and

recovery. Every time he led up to a relapse it would be punctuated by

the same kind of behaviour. He wouldn't talk about how he was

feeling, be closed off and eventually he was confessing Tammy

what was going on. Why did he tell you? I asked him that question. --

he was confessing and then tell me. He said he was caught at the right

moment. In some measures that is quite worrying because what if I

hadn't? What if he hadn't had told me at that point in time? Because we

kick-started his recovery almost immediately after that, two days

after that. He was just fed up with lying and with having to carry all

of that on his own, which is what addiction is. Especially when you

can't tell your loved ones about it. Had he been on heroin the whole time

you had known him? In other words, you wouldn't have noticed any

particular change? No. About 18 months of our relationship, he

wasn't. For the first 18 months. I'd definitely, looking back on it

retrospectively, I know when his behaviour started changing. But it

coincided when I moved into living with him. I just thought maybe this

is what it was like when I'm not around. I didn't put two and two

together. He was an addict for about three years from that point onwards.

I would probably venture maybe three, three and a half, actually.

In the book, you talk about tell-tale signs that when you looked

back with knowledge, you saw in a different way things like tinfoil,

using opt in for quite quickly in the house, which at the time you

hadn't thought much about -- using it up quite quickly in the house. In

the book, it's quite a comical mind that I throw out there but I was,

like, my God, there was no tinfoil for us to grilled chicken on! It's

something as mundane as that, sandwiched with something so extreme

as the fact that he had been using it to smoke heroin in the toilet. I

has to re-evaluate every single thing that I thought I knew. Things

like going to the shops Leyton Aspal cigarette -- I has to re-evaluate.

Why he may have been late to meet me for something -- shops late at night

to buy cigarettes. That was something extremely hard to

reconcile. How was he funding it? He wasn't. He got himself into

thousands of pounds of debt. He jointly owned a house and use the

equity for that to pay of some of his debt. Unfortunately, he got back

into debt again. On a side note, it leads you to wonder about people,

creditors, having known someone had a problem with debt, are very happy

to lend to them again, unfortunately. In terms of actually

getting the heroine, coming into contact with the people that you had

no idea that your husband was in any sort of contact with? Even though he

would tell these people please don't call me, I am trying to recover,

every time they would get a new phone they were text him and say, by

the way, this is the new number, if you need anything, let me know. He

would give me the phone and I would delete the text for him. You

discovered all of this and went into firefighting mode? To look after

your husband, to try to sort it out. But you didn't tell anybody else,

why did you decide to try to manage it on your own. It must have been a

huge burden on you? It was an immense burden. But when you go

through something fairly traumatic, you have to prioritise what you are

going to deal with. But you are not capable of dealing with in your

current sphere at the time. When he told me, our world dwindled to a

very small point and a small focus in terms of the absolute demerit

urgent -- most urgent thing to do was get him in recovery, engaging

with services. Making sure I was at home oh on hand to help him with

whatever he needed. Beyond that. There was one person I told about

it. In my own mind, that point, I knew so very little about addiction.

I was not just battling with what Rob was going through, trying to

keep him safe and healthy, but I was also struggling with what I thought

addiction was, what I had been brought up to believe it was and my

own judgments about it. The lying, the behaviours and reconciling some

of that. I thought, if I am struggling with it, how will my

loved ones feel about it? They know even less. Rob is my husband, my

loved one. They do love him as well. It is a different kind of

relationship. I was trying to sort through the mass of my own mindful

that because I needed Rob to have a stable environment, I just thought

the risk was 2- stop if I told them what was going on and the reaction

was anything other than, we love you, we are really sorry, I could

not deal with it, I could not handle it. I was not ashamed of Rob but I

was ashamed of the situation we found ourselves in and the debt we

were in and that things had got to this point. I did not know this was

happening to someone I was living with. All of that combined meant I

could not really speak about it. In society we do not have a very

benign, understanding, or intelligent view of what addiction

is in society. How could anyone else appreciate it when I did not myself?

Prior to being in that situation what was he like? From the beginning

and through that time as well? As you would have gathered, he was

incredibly complicated. You had the struggles he was going through. He

struggled with depression and addiction. He was open about the

depression? He was. He was this incredible man, the most intelligent

person I had met. He worked as a science journalist but he was a

voracious reader. You would always find him reading, whether it was

news or books. He had an insane knowledge about nature. It is a

thing. You could be walking through a small park, going to a reservoir

or woodland, and he would just know what species that tree was or what

species that plant was. He would spot birds. He really opened up your

knowledge of the environment you were in. Now we look at things and

think, I really wish that Rob were around to tell us that. He was

incredibly generous and kind. If there were someone stuck in a

country who did not know anyone he would find a friend of a friend of a

friend who would knows and in that place and connect to say you did not

have to have dinner alone. You might want to have a Coffey with them. He

had a very big heart. Someone who had so much to give. It must have

been so frustrating for you, being up close and seeing the demons that

word tormenting him. His capacity to help others was infinite. His

capacity to help himself, narrow, aeons narrow. -- aeons narrow. When

you try to help him through quickly got to a point where you believed he

was sober. He said he was sober and you discovered he was not. What

happened at that point? I thought addiction meant when you went into

recovery did not touch the drug again, especially feels Boustead, I

do not think I can do with it if you continue to use drugs. -- if your

spouse said. That is not how addiction works it is not as clean

cut as that. If someone relapses, it means the journey is a lot more

complicated. When he relapsed, he relapsed three times before he

passed away. Each relapse was accompanied by about three weeks of,

I don't feel well. Honestly, I am fine. I have not relapsed. This

insistence that everything was fine with him. Eventually the breaking

point that I would keep asking the questions over and again. He would

say, you are right. It was always punctuated with me feeling like I

did not know what to believe. You cannot tell them what to do. You

cannot force the truth out of them if they are not willing to

relinquish it. Not even about the relapse, but about the behaviour

around the relapse. It is about not feeling confident enough to come

forward with the truth. You got to the point where you decided there

should be a three-month separation? Yes. If he gets through six months

of recovery, we would try for children. I think he made it as far

as about five and a half months. The last few weeks of that he relapsed.

There were different circumstances and why that was the case. He was

insisting, I am still sober and ready to start trying for a family.

When I've figured out he had relapsed, and he confessed, I

thought, I cannot really do this. If you were a drug addict continually

going through relapse that is thing I could deal with. I could not deal

with the lying. The children added an extra dimensional to it. I just

thought, I don't know if we can actually have children. That was a

very painful realisation for him as well. Being someone who is extremely

compassionate and did want to do the right thing, I think he realised he

could not be the kind of father he wanted to be because he would...

There would always be the risk he would be subjecting them to his

addiction or his depression. With the children, I've just thought, if

I continue going down this line with you and you cannot do recovery for

yourself because you are scared to lose me, I am going to stop

respecting myself in this situation and stop respecting you. I loved him

so much I did not want to get to the point where I did not want the best

for him or I did not love him. The idea was he was going to go to New

Zealand for the period of our separation. At the end of that

period we would work out where he was in terms of that recovery and

figure out whether or not we could reconcile things. And while he was

there you had a particular day where there was a terrible worry. You had

had texts from him. We were text doing. We were in regular contact

while he was in New Zealand. We did have an exchange. I could not

understand the language of what he was saying. It was similar to the

language he had used in the past. We should probably talk for one last

time. I do not know if I can do this any more. It took on a tone and

events unfolded. We could not get hold of him and we could not hear

from him. I thought, I bet he will show up and he did not. You talk

about the fact he felt a level of responsibility towards him as your

husband but the man he loved. You did everything he possibly could to

get him through. Sadly he took his own life when he was in New Zealand.

How did you learn what had happened? His mother called me. The police

found me and his mother called me. That is how I found out. Yes. And

then I think I booked a flight. Those 24 hours were a complete blur

and I booked a flight and I was pretty much in New Zealand in the

space of two days, I think. He had written an e-mail in which he had

described how painful it was for him to live because of his depression.

He said regardless of whether things are going well or badly, and

regardless of my absolutely and amazing wife, he clearly found life

very difficult. How did you feel when you knew he had written that

down, paying tribute to you but bitter- sweet? It sounds really odd

about that note. That note through difficult. It was a note to his

doctor and was just explaining very clearly what was in his mind and how

hard he had found it. Only about 30% of people leave a suicide note. Even

then, people that do, that note could be written in a very

particular frame of mind. I think a lot of importance is attributed to

it. Actually, a lot of people talk to themselves based on what was left

behind on someone post back suicide note. It is not necessarily them. It

was written by them when they were in a very particular frame of mind.

I don't think people like you and me can necessarily even begin to

understand what it must feel to feel like that. When I read his note, it

is a weird sense of absolution. I think with suicide, I don't think I

know anyone who does not feel like this. Whether you are a spouse or a

parent, if there is something you feel you should have done, anything

is better than what the outcome ended up being. That puts so much

pressure on any individual, even if you are as close to him as I was, or

his parents were. You are not responsible for someone else's live.

Any more than someone else is responsible for yours. That note an

insight into reading him saying something like, I hope that my

friends and family would understand that even a day or two feeling like

this is utterly unbearable, that they would be able to understand. I

think that gives such a startlingly honest insight into how he was

feeling. We have this idea that suicide is selfish. It means someone

does not care about you. That is not true. He cared about all of us. He

loved all of us. Other people are out there, who have taken their own

lives. They have not done it to spite someone. They have people they

love and have left behind. It is not about that. Being able to understand

that liberates you from the idea that you are responsible for them.

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to bbc.co.uk/actionline or you can call for free,

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Now for the sport. It was all about the race for the fourth and final

Champions League spot last night in the Manchester derby. The match did

not live up to expectation. A moment of madness was the talking point

when Marouane Fellaini were sent off for head-butting Sergio Aguero. He

had already been booked for another foul on the Argentine forward. That

means city and United stay fourth and fifth in the table. Third spot

is still possible for Arsenal. They have a big North London derby

against second-place spurs on Sunday. Anthony Joshua says he will

not be affected by Wladimir Klitschko's mind games. He says he

has made a video prediction but will not reveal what is on it. Joshua

says he has heard it all before. The first day of the toured of

Yorkshire. The men's defending champion will be there. More at 11

o'clock. You may remember earlier this year

we told you about a new trend for developers to sell new homes

as leasehold, rather than freehold, and then sell off the freehold,

that's the ground the property is on, to investment

companies meaning higher One of these charges is ground rent

and some home owners have found this They say it's an unfair cost

and also makes it difficult for them Now, one of the home builders

in our film, Taylor Wimpey, has set aside a fund of ?130 million

to help reduce these costs. It applies to customers who bought

homes between 2007 and 2011, the developer refuses to say how

many people are affected. Other developers also took

part in the practice, and the move by Taylor Wimpey

is being seen as the first recognition by a housebuilder

that the practise was wrong. Here's a reminder of our film

with James Longman. Luke bought his flat three

years ago for ?150,000. He'd fallen in love with this

Victorian building in Little did he know he had

also fallen victim to a growing trend for clauses that

hike up ground rent. That's the yearly fee

a leaseholder pays to live on a Luke thought he'd pay ?250

a year, which is roughly But six months after he moved

in, he got a bill for A small, but important

clause had been written into his contract by his freeholder

potentially designed to be On the face of it, it

just seems immoral and And you read the contract

as much as you... Certainly after I realised and it

did not matter how many times I read the one paragraph in which this

clause is contained, I still can't "The tenant shall be required

to pay such annual rent as shall be two thirds less than two

thirds of the rentable That's the key bit.

No idea what that means at all. He's certainly not

the only person to do this but we have been

told about at least 20 He's even been criticised

in Parliament. One crook, whether it's

criminal or not is not Luke's solicitor had to pay

Martin Payne ?7,000 to remove the clause, but it

did not end there. Luke was left with

a doubling clause, something that has

become increasingly It states ground rent is ?250

a year, backdated to 1990. Which does not sound too bad,

but it also says that that figure So by 2020 he'd be paying ?2,000

a year, and it keeps doubling. By 2070 he'd be paying ?64,000

a year and by the end of the 190 year lease there'd be over

?65 million every year In total, over the course

of the lease, ground rent would have cost more than ?1.3 billion

on a flat costing just ?150,000. What's your feeling

towards Martin Payne now? He's caused me quite

a lot of stress. I don't deal with him directly

because everything goes through my solicitor, but I'm very

aware that this clause was inserted into the contract when they extended

the lease for no other reason There'd be no reason

he needs to do this. It is clearly

constructed to deceive. What we say to all members

of the conveyancing association is, make sure that if you are advising

client on these clauses, because they can be so tricky,

that you run the calculation and that you are entirely sure

as to what that calculation is, and that you are entirely sure

as to what that calculation is. Because when you sit down with that

and spend some time looking at it, it becomes clear that this is just

an attempt to dupe people What we have seen in a lot of these

leases and contracts If you think what doubling the rent

every ten years actually means in investment terms,

it means that the rent will be going up by 7% a year,

a guaranteed 7% return is pretty And so this is what has created

these new investment vehicles that are so interesting to,

say, pension funds and other People like Luke freely enter

into these contracts The allegation is not that

Martin Payne expects people to pay these ridiculous sums,

it's that he's banking on solicitors to miss the clauses

and pay him to remove them. Let's talk to Joanne Darbyshire,

who is a leaseholder who bought her home from Taylor Wimpey and then

discovered that her ground rent We're also joined by

Sebastian O'Kelly from Leasehold Knowledge Partnership,

who has been campaigning And Sir Peter Bottomley,

a Conservative MP and chairman of the cross-party MPs' group

on leaseholder reform. Bringing it up in the Commons next

week. Thank you all for joining us. Taylor Wimpey putting aside ?130

million, what is the money for? And how significant is it? It's a very

good question. If a significant sign of contrition, something went very

seriously wrong, here. But what is the money for? With leasehold house

owners, we would like to see them using the money to offer the

freehold back to the original buyers at the price that was originally

offered. Unfortunately Taylor Wimpey sold these freeholds off to some of

the most hard-nosed sharks in the property game. How they get them off

them is an open question. With flat owners, there will have to be a deal

of variation to reduce the ground rents. I would suggest they reduce

it to zero, what is ground rent for? It goes straight into the pockets...

T.I.N.A. Of the freeholders for no service whatsoever. -- straight into

the hands of freeholders. Joanna, you bought a leasehold flat with a

doubling ground red arrangement, when did it become clear to you that

the ground rent would double? -- ground rent. It was clear but we

always intended to buy the freehold. At the point of sale we were told it

would be about ?5,000 - ?6,000. Neither Taylor Wimpey nor the

conveyancing solicitor that they recommended we use informed us that

there was freeholds would be sold on to investment companies who would

then want thousands and thousands of pounds to buy them. The situation

you find yourself in now is what? It's more on clear after yesterday

but it's fair to say that had we purchased the freehold from Taylor

Wimpey when we bought a house in December 2010, we would have paid

them just less than ?6,000 for it. Our best option now is to use a

process called enfranchisement to agree a fair price with the current

freeholder. That's likely to be anything in the region from ?11,000

- ?26,000 plus costs. You know someone who actually tried to sell

their house and that sale fell through because of the situation

with the ground rents, tell us what happened. That was one of my

neighbours, Claire. The house sale fell through on the actual day and

she had already completed on her new property and the house sale fell

through because the purchaser' solicitors identified the doubling

ground red claws and advised them to pull out of the sale. Sir Peter

Bottomley, it is an issue you are bringing up in the Commons. What can

be done to control what is going on here? First of all, we need to

distinguish between the Martin Payne character and the developers

including Taylor Wimpey. I welcome Taylor Wimpey doing something about

this. The modern painting I will return to some other time, probably

in Parliament. The pension fund to invest in the freehold companies,

the Adriatic saw this world, we need to say to them, don't act in a

socially irresponsible and corporately irresponsible way, we

don't want it. The people who are active in the freehold companies

like Adriatic ought to say how on earth can we multiply the value of

the freeholds we bought at SA 5000 up to 40000 and then try to in screw

ordinary it leasehold is -- up to 5000. The government needs to act.

The lawyers need to confess to all the mistakes they have made. And we

need to abolish new leasehold and the want of commonhold so none of

this can happen either by accident or design. It has been a total mess,

a swamp. The metaphors fail me. Or very people having their life

savings taken away by unfair and abusive terms -- it is ordinary

people having their life savings. Is the only way to get everybody to act

correctly to legislate? Legislation will help to make commonhold better

than leasehold. But some of the other abuses, the competition market

authority ought to look at some of these terms on a super complaint,

perhaps from the consumers Association and avoid them because

they are abusive. Anyone who thinks you can get to a ground rent of tens

of thousands of pounds let alone ?1 million on a small flat needs to

realise that what is being done is so wrong, whether criminal or not,

it should be unenforceable, it is unfair. What would you say to

somebody, don't pay the ground rent? No, you've got to bed the ground

rent otherwise you are evicted. Other people around in the leasehold

forest to mix metaphors again who I'm evicting, trying to evict some

of my constituents through other little stratagems. For not paying

ground rent? It's too conjugated to explain. It

is a park home issue. -- it is too complicated. You don't want to get

evicted but you need to say to people come and defend in public

what you are doing. Taylor with the got involved in public discussion

and they have made their decision and I hope their directors are glad

that I intervenes -- Taylor Wimpey got involved. Bell we haven't. A

number of other companies need to do what they are doing. --

. Taylor Wimpey haven't completely solve the problem. Sebastian Coe

Kelly has explained it. Sebastian Coe Kelly and Martin Boyd together

at the charity leasehold knowledge partnership have done more than 650

MPs and more than 45 governments. It is a nonparty issue and we need to

work together to solve it. It is no doubt a subject we will return to.

Thank you very much. We asked Taylor Wimpey to come

on the programme, they declined. In a statement, the Chief

Executive Pete Redfern said: "We've listened to the concerns

and difficulties that some of our customers have faced

as a result of their doubling lease We are sorry for the worry

this has caused them." And they go on to say: "We have

recently decided that all future sales of Taylor Wimpey houses

on new developments commencing from 1 January 2017 will be

on a freehold basis - except where we don't

own the freehold." Our next report contains some

graphic descriptions and pictures that you may not want

your children to see. December 2014 changed

the life of one young Ahmad Nawaz went to school as he did

every day with his brother Harris in Peshawar in Pakistan and whilst

he was practicing first aid with his class friends, the Taliban

entered his school and murdered 141 people, 132 of which where children

including his brother. Today, Ahmad who now

lives in Birmingham has started a education campaign to help

steer some school children away from a life of violence

and radicalisation. Our reporter Emb Hashmi has been

to look at his anti-extremism work. It started as a normal school day

but it turned into a massacre. Many students are the children

of the Pakistani military. A normal schoolboy's

life is changed for ever The Army Public Schools

in Peshawar in Pakistan was attacked by the Taliban,

killing 141 people, 132 of Ahmad is one of the survivors

and came to Birmingham for He now uses his experience

as a tool to educate students in the UK and deter some

from being radicalised. I have no words to

explain that moment. I really felt upset and shocking,

because he lost his brother. He thinks that the best

method to challenge an ideology is through

people to be educated. My name is Ahmad Nawaz

and I'm 16 years old. Ahmed now speaks at

a variety of schools up and down the country to help

young people steer away from a life Today, he is speaking

at Rockwood Academy, formerly known as Park View School

in Birmingham, that was part of the Trojan Horse inquiry

where it was claimed a group of conservative Muslims

were taking over a number I have lost my younger brother

and 132 friends in an attack I have no words to

describe the experience I have no words to

describe the experience I was in first aid training

with my schoolmates. Those happy moments of

laughing, joking and talking A group of men with

guns and bombs in their hands entered our school and

started firing, one after another. It was the most astonishing moment