09/05/2017

:00:09. > :00:21.Good morning and welcome to Camborne in Cornwall -

:00:22. > :00:26.We are here to talk to people about the things that matter to them

:00:27. > :00:28.before the general election. And I'm scared what it's going to be

:00:29. > :00:33.like for my daughter to grow up in a place like this,

:00:34. > :00:35.where nobody cares. People here tell us that low wages

:00:36. > :00:48.and lack of affordable housing We are going to talk to more people

:00:49. > :00:53.about that. Get in touch, what are the most important things you care

:00:54. > :00:57.about in this election? As a helpline is launched to support

:00:58. > :01:07.dads whose children have anorexia, one father and daughter tell us why

:01:08. > :01:09.men can struggle to And we'll speak to a woman who says

:01:10. > :01:13.she was sexually harassed by the former Fox News star Bill

:01:14. > :01:34.O'Reilly. Welcome to Cornwall. We are pretty

:01:35. > :01:39.much in the middle of the county, and we are just off the High Street,

:01:40. > :01:43.in the main square, a small, pretty square. We are talking to all sorts

:01:44. > :01:49.of people here ahead of the general election. We are asking about the

:01:50. > :01:52.things they care about with 30 days to go. A lot of people say they

:01:53. > :01:57.don't have a great deal of time for politicians. They feel pretty

:01:58. > :02:01.forgotten, actually. Geographically, they are 300 miles away from

:02:02. > :02:06.Westminster. We will hear from Pledge of them this morning in

:02:07. > :02:09.detail. Wherever you are, get in touch. What issues do you care most

:02:10. > :02:13.about ahead of this general election? We will hear from more of

:02:14. > :02:16.you after the news. Our top story today,

:02:17. > :02:17.the Conservatives have confirmed they intend to cap energy prices

:02:18. > :02:20.for people on standard variable Theresa May has suggested the move

:02:21. > :02:24.could save around 17 million But Labour says the cap would not

:02:25. > :02:29.stop bills rising and the pledge has Here's our political

:02:30. > :02:37.correspondent Ben Wright. Energy prices have been hot

:02:38. > :02:40.politics for some time. At the last election, Labour

:02:41. > :02:43.promised a two-year price freeze. Now, the Conservatives

:02:44. > :02:46.want to intervene in an energy market they say doesn't work

:02:47. > :02:50.for most people. Writing in The Sun,

:02:51. > :02:54.the Prime Minister says rip-off energy prices hit people

:02:55. > :02:58.on the lowest incomes hardest. Switching to another tariff

:02:59. > :03:00.or supplier often brings bills down, but seven out of ten households

:03:01. > :03:04.are on standard variable rates, which are usually more expensive

:03:05. > :03:06.than other plans on offer. So, the Conservatives would give

:03:07. > :03:09.Ofgem the power to impose a price ceiling for customers

:03:10. > :03:15.on these standard rates. The cap would be reset every six

:03:16. > :03:18.months, and the Conservatives say it would reduce gas and electricity

:03:19. > :03:27.bills by around ?100 a year. The point of getting the regulator

:03:28. > :03:30.to assess this is if, for example, the wholesale price of gas goes up

:03:31. > :03:33.in world markets, of course If the price goes down,

:03:34. > :03:38.as it did in the past, you would expect the price

:03:39. > :03:40.to go down. That is why it is sensible

:03:41. > :03:48.to put it in the hands - and this is what the Competition

:03:49. > :03:50.Authority recommended for prepayment The Conservatives say the price cap

:03:51. > :03:54.would allow competition But the Lib Dems say the policy

:03:55. > :03:58.would damage investment in energy, while Labour said a cap would not

:03:59. > :04:01.stop prices increasing. British Gas owner Centrica warned

:04:02. > :04:04.the move could lead to higher bills Our political correspondent

:04:05. > :04:21.Chris Mason is at Westminster. Give us the roundabout Fortheringay?

:04:22. > :04:25.What is really striking about this idea is, if you are thinking to

:04:26. > :04:32.yourself this morning, this ring is a bit of a bell, the answer is yes.

:04:33. > :04:37.Here is the Labour manifesto from 2015. Page 25, we will ensure that

:04:38. > :04:44.bills can fall, but not rise, and we will give the regulator the power to

:04:45. > :04:49.cut bills this winter. The promised to freeze energy bills until 2017.

:04:50. > :04:53.The Conservatives say their idea is more subtle, more crafted and

:04:54. > :04:55.nuanced, not as crude. But there are some voices within the

:04:56. > :04:59.Conservatives, including I understand around the Cabinet table,

:05:00. > :05:04.who suggested to the Prime Minister that this idea was a little bit too

:05:05. > :05:08.crude. In many senses, it is not very conservative. It is a big

:05:09. > :05:11.intervention in the market. Theresa May and others make the argument

:05:12. > :05:16.that they want to be on the side of consumers. They believe this is the

:05:17. > :05:19.right thing to do. I think there is another example, and we saw it

:05:20. > :05:23.yesterday with the Prime Minister standing in front of posters saying

:05:24. > :05:27.Theresa May's team, with Conservatives threaten very small at

:05:28. > :05:31.the bottom, that it is all about Theresa May and a sense that her

:05:32. > :05:34.brand, if you like, trumps the conservative one and she outperforms

:05:35. > :05:39.her own party, so they will very much push her front and centre. They

:05:40. > :05:40.want to draw the contrast, as they say it, between her and Jeremy

:05:41. > :05:42.Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn will formally launch

:05:43. > :05:44.Labour's election campaign today by saying that his party is not

:05:45. > :05:48.trying to find a way to keep Britain Mr Corbyn, who'll be

:05:49. > :05:51.in Greater Manchester, will say He'll be joined by the city's

:05:52. > :05:56.new metro mayor Andy Burnham and will focus on Labour's pledge

:05:57. > :06:01.to take on the rich and powerful. Throughout the election campaign

:06:02. > :06:03.we'll be putting your questions to politicians from all

:06:04. > :06:07.the main parties. Today at 11:30 we'll be

:06:08. > :06:12.putting your questions to Lib Dem Shadow Home

:06:13. > :06:17.Secretary Lord Paddick. You can get in touch via Twitter

:06:18. > :06:20.using the hashtag #BBCAskThis - And you can email us as well

:06:21. > :06:25.at askthis@bbc.co.uk. A multi-million-pound trial launches

:06:26. > :06:27.today to assess whether statins - taken by millions of people every

:06:28. > :06:30.year to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes -

:06:31. > :06:32.may also help those MS affects the central

:06:33. > :06:37.nervous system and can It's thought statins could help slow

:06:38. > :06:43.the progression of the condition, Statins - prescribed

:06:44. > :06:49.to six million of us every year But in the coming months,

:06:50. > :06:56.a major new trial will test whether they could help tackle

:06:57. > :06:58.a condition which can wreak Multiple sclerosis causes

:06:59. > :07:03.the immune system to attack the lining of the nerves,

:07:04. > :07:05.disrupting messages travelling It can mean increasing

:07:06. > :07:13.levels of disability. More than 100,000 people

:07:14. > :07:16.in the UK have MS. Half will develop the secondary,

:07:17. > :07:20.progressive stage. There is currently no treatment

:07:21. > :07:23.to slow its progress and this trial, involving more than 1,000 people,

:07:24. > :07:28.is aimed at them. If we can prove it has

:07:29. > :07:30.a long-term impact, long-term results for people with MS,

:07:31. > :07:33.we know its safety record, it's extremely cheap,

:07:34. > :07:35.so it could be quickly made available to everyone that needs it

:07:36. > :07:38.and it won't put a big A previous, smaller study suggested

:07:39. > :07:47.statins did have an impact. This trial will provide

:07:48. > :07:51.much more information. But, at six years long,

:07:52. > :07:54.it will be some time before it's known just how effective

:07:55. > :07:55.statins could be. The Sun's former editor

:07:56. > :08:03.Kelvin Mackenzie is to leave the paper because of offensive

:08:04. > :08:05.remarks in his column last month about the Everton

:08:06. > :08:09.footballer Ross Barkley. Mr Mackenzie was suspended

:08:10. > :08:11.after comparing the player, who is white, but has a Nigerian

:08:12. > :08:17.grandfather, to a gorilla. People in South Korea

:08:18. > :08:22.are voting for a new president after a corruption scandal brought

:08:23. > :08:24.down their former leader. The frontrunner, Liberal Moon

:08:25. > :08:27.Jae-in, wants to boost ties with North Korea and reform

:08:28. > :08:29.the powerful family-run companies Former president Park Geun-hye

:08:30. > :08:35.was ousted on charges of bribery A 35-year-old man will appear

:08:36. > :08:40.in court today in connection with a dog attack on a two-year-old

:08:41. > :08:44.girl in Liverpool on Sunday. The toddler suffered injuries

:08:45. > :08:47.to her head and body when several dogs got into the garden

:08:48. > :08:50.where she was playing in Toxteth. She's in a serious but stable

:08:51. > :08:55.condition in hospital. Andrew McGowan has been accused

:08:56. > :08:58.of being in charge of four dogs that A woman who alleges she was sexually

:08:59. > :09:08.harassed at Fox News has asked UK media regulators to block 21st

:09:09. > :09:10.Century Fox's planned Ofcom is investigating whether it's

:09:11. > :09:13.in the public interest for the Murdoch-owned company

:09:14. > :09:16.to take full ownership of Sky. Over two decades, a mixture

:09:17. > :09:23.of conspiracy, aggression and nationalism has made

:09:24. > :09:25.Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel the most watched cable

:09:26. > :09:31.news network in America. But this huge corporate scandal has

:09:32. > :09:34.shaken Fox News to the core. The network's former boss,

:09:35. > :09:36.Roger Ailes, departed last year and anchor Bill O'Reilly

:09:37. > :09:39.left last month. They are both denying

:09:40. > :09:41.extensive sexual and racial Also gone, though not facing

:09:42. > :09:45.the same allegations, So, arguably the three most

:09:46. > :09:51.important men at Fox are out. For the Murdochs, the timing

:09:52. > :09:54.couldn't be worse. They are currently trying

:09:55. > :09:56.to take full control of the British broadcaster Sky,

:09:57. > :09:58.through an acquisition They declined an interview request,

:09:59. > :10:05.so I said hello to the boss You should be worried

:10:06. > :10:12.about the BBC as well. Radio host Wendy Walsh,

:10:13. > :10:16.seen here with lawyer Lisa Bloom, filed a complaint

:10:17. > :10:18.against O'Reilly by phone. The two women flew from Los Angeles

:10:19. > :10:21.to London specifically to explain to Ofcom why,

:10:22. > :10:24.in their view, the Murdochs are not 21st Century Fox, parent

:10:25. > :10:32.of Fox News, says it has taken prompt and decisive action

:10:33. > :10:34.to improve its workplace, overhauling top management

:10:35. > :10:35.and appointing women We will be talking to Wendy Walsh

:10:36. > :10:54.later in the programme. Faulty airbags, steering and fuel

:10:55. > :10:57.issues are just some of the problems that led to the highest ever rate

:10:58. > :10:59.of car-related recalls in Europe in the first three

:11:00. > :11:01.months of this year. The UK ranked third behind Germany

:11:02. > :11:04.and France for the number of recalls, but car manufacturers

:11:05. > :11:07.say less than half of UK customers This is CCTV footage showing

:11:08. > :11:17.the moment a ship hit a huge crane in one of the world's busiest

:11:18. > :11:19.ports in Dubai. 10 people were left

:11:20. > :11:20.with minor injuries. Chelsea are one win away

:11:21. > :11:34.from the Premier League title. They beat Middlebrough 3-0 last

:11:35. > :11:36.night at Stamford Bridge a result that also

:11:37. > :11:40.saw Boro relegated. Diego Costa, Marcos Alonso

:11:41. > :11:44.and Nemanja Matic scored the Chelsea goals and the task is very simple

:11:45. > :11:47.now because they play again If they can beat West Bromwich

:11:48. > :11:54.Albion on Friday then they would go ten points clear in the table

:11:55. > :11:56.and they would be champions It was very important to win

:11:57. > :12:07.and to exploit their defeat. Another step, another

:12:08. > :12:18.step to win the title. For sure, now it's important to rest

:12:19. > :12:21.very well and to prepare Sulley Muntari has called

:12:22. > :12:31.on UEFA and FIFA to prove that they are serious

:12:32. > :12:39.about tackling racism. He called on the governing bodies to

:12:40. > :12:41.prove they are serious about tackling the issue.

:12:42. > :12:43.The formner Portsmouth midfielder walked out of a game playing

:12:44. > :12:46.for Pescara in Italy's serie A after being racially abused.

:12:47. > :12:47.He was subsequently banned but that was overturned

:12:48. > :12:51.following worldwide condemnation of his treatment.

:12:52. > :13:02.They should be the first people to jump on.

:13:03. > :13:05.We're playing football here, under Fifa, under Uefa.

:13:06. > :13:08.If they had nothing to say about it, probably they didn't

:13:09. > :13:21.But if it is unnecessary things for them...

:13:22. > :13:30.Remember yesterday we were looking forward to the match

:13:31. > :13:31.between Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard.

:13:32. > :13:33.The Candaian has been one of the most outspoken critics

:13:34. > :13:36.of Sharapova's return to tour after a 15 month doping ban

:13:37. > :13:39.She called her a cheater and wanted the Russian

:13:40. > :13:45.So that was the background to their second round match

:13:46. > :13:50.It lasted three hours and Bouchard won in three sets and she celebrated

:13:51. > :13:55.It clearly meant an awful lot to her and she revealed afterwards

:13:56. > :13:57.that there were a lot of fellow players who were

:13:58. > :14:08.I was actually quite inspired before the match

:14:09. > :14:11.because I had a lot of players coming up to me privately,

:14:12. > :14:13.wishing me good luck, players I don't normally speak to.

:14:14. > :14:16.Getting a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that

:14:17. > :14:21.So I wanted to do it for myself but also all of these people

:14:22. > :14:41.That is all for now. I will be back with more sport later.

:14:42. > :14:49.Hello, good morning. Welcome to a cloudy and overcast Camborne in

:14:50. > :14:52.Cornwall. It is a small town in the middle of the county and we are here

:14:53. > :14:57.to talk to people ahead of the general election. Let me tell you a

:14:58. > :15:01.little bit about the town. The population is about 20,000. One

:15:02. > :15:06.resident described it as faded. Another as a bit old-fashioned.

:15:07. > :15:10.Another said it was a bit of a dump. On the High Street, which is where

:15:11. > :15:19.we are, a small square, as you can see, just off the high Street, I can

:15:20. > :15:27.describe what is around us. We have Apollo bingo. As you can see, a

:15:28. > :15:33.bingo hall. We have a couple of banks. On the High Street, which is

:15:34. > :15:39.long, actually, there are two pasty shops, bakeries, a tattoo parlour,

:15:40. > :15:45.the inevitable Costa Coffee and nine charity or pound shops. That is

:15:46. > :15:47.because there are pockets of deprivation. 2500 children live in

:15:48. > :15:58.poverty in this town. 25% of people have no

:15:59. > :16:02.qualifications, that's compared with 22% across England. 7% of households

:16:03. > :16:07.don't have central heating in Camborne. 34% of people are in

:16:08. > :16:11.full-time work compared to 39% across England. So talking to people

:16:12. > :16:15.here, there are three things that come up - one, low wages. Everybody

:16:16. > :16:19.says all the jobs, which are pretty much in the retail and service

:16:20. > :16:25.sectors are low wages and often seasonal those jobs as well. Two, no

:16:26. > :16:29.affordable homes. Exacerbated by wealthy people coming in from

:16:30. > :16:33.outside to buy up second holiday homes which pushes the prices up and

:16:34. > :16:36.reduces the supply. Three, a feeling that politicians don't really care

:16:37. > :16:40.about them because they are 300 miles from Westminster. So we're

:16:41. > :16:45.here to talk to people ahead of the election. Let me take you inside

:16:46. > :16:50.what is a former reading institute for gentlemen, now a day care centre

:16:51. > :16:55.for the over 50s. It was originally for the over 60s, but because things

:16:56. > :16:58.got tighter they've reduced the age to the over 50s and they are

:16:59. > :17:04.considering reducing it to the other 40s as well. Good morning, hi there,

:17:05. > :17:09.is Judith. How are you? Hi everybody. Good morning. You don't

:17:10. > :17:13.have to shush. Don't be daft! You don't have to shush. It is our

:17:14. > :17:19.programme! Let me introduce you to various people. We've got Don

:17:20. > :17:23.Gardener who runs an independent foodbank and Steve who has used the

:17:24. > :17:27.foodbank in the past. Hi, Steve. We've got Rachel George who is a mum

:17:28. > :17:32.and carer for her disabled son who is ten. Hi Rachel. We've got Laura

:17:33. > :17:38.Allen who is a single parent and working mum. Good morning. Welcome

:17:39. > :17:42.to our programme. General question, do you feel exercised by this

:17:43. > :17:52.election, do you feel engaged, do you feel passionate? I feel a bit

:17:53. > :17:56.passionate. I'm still undecided, but I'm taking a lot more interest in

:17:57. > :18:00.it. So you're happy with the Conservatives in power, are you? I

:18:01. > :18:04.feel a lot more confident with this Government now than the old

:18:05. > :18:09.Government. Do you? Yeah. OK. What about yourself, Rachel? Not

:18:10. > :18:18.particularly. Not particularly engaged? I feel strongly that any

:18:19. > :18:22.candidate that really has passion and determination to improve things

:18:23. > :18:26.for everyone. Are you talking about your local candidates here in

:18:27. > :18:30.Camborne and Redruth or on the national stage? Both to be honest.

:18:31. > :18:35.What issues are engaging you would you say, Laura? I feel nationally I

:18:36. > :18:40.support Jeremy Corbyn. Locally I don't really know so much about kind

:18:41. > :18:47.of the local Labour MPs that are running. I feel really passionate

:18:48. > :18:51.about the NHS, about education, community, socialist issues. Don,

:18:52. > :18:56.tell us about the kind of people who use your foodbank and why you say

:18:57. > :19:02.Camborne needs one? Camborne needs one because it's in the top ten of

:19:03. > :19:09.the most deprived areas in Europe. 27% of the children live below food

:19:10. > :19:13.poverty in the area. We started a foodbank seven years ago now and it

:19:14. > :19:18.has just increased and increased. We are providing 10,000 meals a month

:19:19. > :19:22.out of our foodbanks. We're open every day. What kind of people do

:19:23. > :19:27.you see? There is a misconception sometimes about foodbanks. It's the

:19:28. > :19:30.people that don't want to work etcetera and benefit scroungers, but

:19:31. > :19:33.we're getting a lot of people that are actually working and cannot

:19:34. > :19:37.survive on their income. So you've had to open in the evenings so that

:19:38. > :19:42.you can give food out to people who work during the day? Yes, we do.

:19:43. > :19:47.What kind of jobs are those people doing? They're reasonable jobs.

:19:48. > :19:51.Skilled builders, self-employed people, they struggle. There is no

:19:52. > :19:57.work. They haven't got a job the they haven't got any money. They

:19:58. > :20:03.have got their bills coming in, electric, food, gas, etcetera. I've

:20:04. > :20:07.got a dad that actually works with three jobs and still needs the

:20:08. > :20:11.foodbank. Wow. Three part-time jobs? Three part-time jobs and still uses

:20:12. > :20:14.the foodbank. I've got another dad that eats every other day because

:20:15. > :20:18.his job doesn't give him enough money to survive with him and his

:20:19. > :20:25.family. And what do you think about this? I think in 2017 we need to

:20:26. > :20:31.stand up to the plate and sort these things out and provide good wages

:20:32. > :20:35.around this area, we talk about minimum wage. You know, a lot of

:20:36. > :20:39.people do not get paid the minimum wage. I don't understand that

:20:40. > :20:46.really. Because they should be, but they don't get the minimum wage. OK.

:20:47. > :20:51.And also didn't you go to a school last year where a 13-year-old girl

:20:52. > :20:56.had fainted because she hadn't eaten? We don't normally go out. A

:20:57. > :20:59.school phoned me up and said, "We have got a 13-year-old girl that's

:21:00. > :21:04.collapsed in the school. Her mum has just come in. The family haven't

:21:05. > :21:08.eaten for three days. Mum, dad, three children." Why not? Dad

:21:09. > :21:12.self-employed, no work, bills it pay, no food. What do you think

:21:13. > :21:18.about that, Rachel? It's shocking. Absolutely shocking. I'm lost for

:21:19. > :21:23.words at the thought of children being in school in that situation.

:21:24. > :21:30.Steve, you used the foodbank a few years ago. Tell us why? Because of

:21:31. > :21:36.the sanction I was meant to go to a meeting at the Jobcentre and I had

:21:37. > :21:40.childcare issues and because I couldn't bring my daughter to the

:21:41. > :21:44.meeting, even though it was prearranged, that's it, just

:21:45. > :21:48.sanctioned. When you are on benefits that stops your money effectively? I

:21:49. > :22:13.was in tears. I was desperate. The foodbank has given me more

:22:14. > :22:23.confidence. Thanks to the people that come in and helped.

:22:24. > :22:32.You volunteer at the food bank? Yes, not as much as I would like. But we

:22:33. > :22:38.have a lot to thank it for. All of the volunteers that help out. We are

:22:39. > :22:41.here to talk to residents of Camborne, and we are going to talk

:22:42. > :22:46.to many people through the morning. Jim Reid has been here since last

:22:47. > :22:52.Wednesday, talking to people around the county. Coming into the daycare

:22:53. > :23:02.centre. Tell us about the last few days. We started in Penzance which

:23:03. > :23:05.is in the south-west by Land's End and drove up to the north-east of

:23:06. > :23:08.the county, just speaking to people and voters about their concerns, and

:23:09. > :23:11.the interesting thing I found was that if you read the national

:23:12. > :23:17.papers, this is the Brexit election. This is all about the EU. But the

:23:18. > :23:20.people we spoke to said look we feel that's an issue that's done and

:23:21. > :23:24.dusted last year. We need to move on from and talk about other things.

:23:25. > :23:27.You touched on them, we're talking wages, housing jobs, these are the

:23:28. > :23:34.things that people were telling us matter this year. We made a short

:23:35. > :23:37.film, five, ten minute film about the people we spoke to and you can

:23:38. > :23:41.see today. People are doing quite hard graft

:23:42. > :23:44.work and only getting paid the minimum wage,

:23:45. > :23:45.which, throughout the whole They want to give their selves,

:23:46. > :23:49.like, a ten grand pay You already earn 70 grand,

:23:50. > :23:53.why do you need 80? They make all these lovely

:23:54. > :23:55.promises, and they never come through with them,

:23:56. > :24:04.so what's the point? 4.30 in the morning,

:24:05. > :24:06.and the sun is coming up At the fish auction in Newlyn,

:24:07. > :24:19.the daily catch is bought and sold. Many blame it for the decline

:24:20. > :24:25.of ports like Newlyn, but there is a sense in this

:24:26. > :24:28.building we have had the Brexit vote I think people are starting

:24:29. > :24:33.to wonder when Brexit We don't need to be going

:24:34. > :24:37.for Brussels for scraps of quotas, and you know, it's -

:24:38. > :24:40.we are feeling very positive. We don't need a second

:24:41. > :24:42.referendum in your mind? When it comes to the general

:24:43. > :24:48.election, there are other concerns. Inside the main auction room

:24:49. > :24:51.Si Jones has been bidding The wages thing is a huge

:24:52. > :24:59.one at the moment. You know, people are doing

:25:00. > :25:01.quite hard graft work, only getting paid the minimum wage,

:25:02. > :25:03.which is throughout the whole of Cornwall is fundamentally wrong,

:25:04. > :25:06.you know what I mean? I think we should all

:25:07. > :25:08.have a basic living wage. I find it really difficult

:25:09. > :25:11.to cover all my bills And you know, I work

:25:12. > :25:14.as much as I can. Obviously some days it's four

:25:15. > :25:17.hours here, some days it might only be two,

:25:18. > :25:19.yesterday it was less than two. You never know how much

:25:20. > :25:23.you're going to work. No, you try and do 20

:25:24. > :25:26.hours or more a week, and sometimes it's 15 hours,

:25:27. > :25:28.sometimes it's ten hours, you know. In fact, this part of Cornwall has

:25:29. > :25:34.some of the lowest wages Less than ?717,000

:25:35. > :25:38.a year on average. A 20 minute drive up the coast

:25:39. > :25:41.is the Treneere Estate This group are having

:25:42. > :25:48.a break in the back room of the children's centre,

:25:49. > :25:53.while their kids play next door. My daughter's on a waiting

:25:54. > :25:56.list for a nursery. Here again Brexit is a concern,

:25:57. > :25:58.but a distant one. There is anger though

:25:59. > :26:01.about the cost of childcare, about jobs and training,

:26:02. > :26:06.and above all, about the NHS. Especially on a Saturday night,

:26:07. > :26:08.if you have something wrong with your kid,

:26:09. > :26:10.you are sat in that A for hours. There's one hospital in the whole

:26:11. > :26:15.of this side of the county. He was an emergency,

:26:16. > :26:18.they sent an emergency ambulance out and I got a phone off the crew

:26:19. > :26:21.saying there's no ambulances in the whole of Cornwall

:26:22. > :26:23.and he was three weeks They sent you taxi to take

:26:24. > :26:28.your son to hospital? He was bleeding out of his bum,

:26:29. > :26:33.he was vomiting a lot, He was really really poorly,

:26:34. > :26:37.so they sent me off in a taxi. But among this group there is a real

:26:38. > :26:43.sense of frustration. That evern if politicians see

:26:44. > :26:44.the problems, nothing Do you feel that politicians

:26:45. > :26:50.are listening to these concerns? I think they're listening,

:26:51. > :26:53.but I don't think that they're doing or even planning to do

:26:54. > :26:57.anything about it. They don't see any of this,

:26:58. > :27:00.they don't, like, feel any of this, They have enough money

:27:01. > :27:04.to put their kids in education, they have enough money to do

:27:05. > :27:08.all this stuff. You would never see

:27:09. > :27:10.Theresa May in a food bank. But we have to, because

:27:11. > :27:15.they just don't listen. How likely are all of you to vote

:27:16. > :27:18.in the next general election? So three of you are going to vote

:27:19. > :27:37.and two of you aren't. The two that aren't,

:27:38. > :27:39.what reasons would you have for not voting this time round -

:27:40. > :27:41.Gemma? Just because I believe

:27:42. > :27:43.they don't listen. I believe it just doesn't

:27:44. > :27:45.make a difference. As long as they're all right

:27:46. > :27:47.and they have their money, They want to give themselves,

:27:48. > :27:51.like, a ten grand pay They already earn 70 grand,

:27:52. > :27:55.why do you need 80? It's ridiculous, I have

:27:56. > :28:01.no hope in it at all. I'm scared, really, for what it's

:28:02. > :28:05.going to be like for my daughter, to grow up in a place like this,

:28:06. > :28:10.where nobody cares. So we're driving to Camborne,

:28:11. > :28:13.which is more towards the centre It doesn't have the hotels,

:28:14. > :28:19.the beaches, of some of the big A couple of hundred years ago,

:28:20. > :28:23.that whole region near Camborne was one of the wealthiest tin mining

:28:24. > :28:26.areas in the old world, One in five children

:28:27. > :28:32.here live in poverty. Unemployment is well

:28:33. > :28:36.above the national average. At the markets, people say business

:28:37. > :28:42.seems to be picking up, with new shops moving

:28:43. > :28:45.into the town centre. But there are still plenty

:28:46. > :28:47.of local concerns. How optimistic are you about

:28:48. > :28:51.the next couple of year, the future. How optimistic are you about

:28:52. > :28:54.the next couple of year, the future? It's going to be hard,

:28:55. > :28:56.especially after this Brexit, I've got three sons,

:28:57. > :29:01.work is not always good, one of them's had to move

:29:02. > :29:04.to Yorkshire for a job because most of the employers round here don't

:29:05. > :29:09.offer full-time contracts, they just sort of have meal

:29:10. > :29:11.contracts, which is really difficult for youngsters,

:29:12. > :29:13.I think, because you And again, there was a feeling

:29:14. > :29:18.from the people we spoke to at least, that whatever party

:29:19. > :29:21.wins next month, there is little The wages are -

:29:22. > :29:24.everything is going up. And because it's tourism, so,

:29:25. > :29:33.you know, we pay for it when we live Like I said, we are the lowest

:29:34. > :29:38.in the country, I think, Being so far down,

:29:39. > :29:43.it is like we don't matter. 75 years ago, the China clay

:29:44. > :29:45.industry was still big There are still plenty of quarries

:29:46. > :29:52.dotting the landscape. Here, as in other parts

:29:53. > :29:55.of the county, there is one subject that always seems to come

:29:56. > :30:01.up in conversation. My mother lives in a rented council

:30:02. > :30:07.house, but because of where it is, Claire Cooper works for the NHS

:30:08. > :30:14.as a care assistant. She's been living in this

:30:15. > :30:16.house for eight years, With two young children,

:30:17. > :30:21.she has been trying hard Say you want to buy a ?300,000

:30:22. > :30:27.property, which is probably what you are going to pay

:30:28. > :30:32.for anywhere nice in Cornwall, you're looking at a ?30,000 deposit,

:30:33. > :30:35.and even on a good wage, We would hope that in, you know,

:30:36. > :30:42.six years' time, maybe, we would like to be out

:30:43. > :30:44.of this property, but... It's going to be a tall order to do

:30:45. > :30:48.it, that's for sure. The average price of a house

:30:49. > :30:56.in Cornwall is now ?215,000. Many locals blame outsiders for

:30:57. > :31:00.buying holiday homes by the coast. That, they say, pushes up

:31:01. > :31:04.the price for everyone else. So any of the candidates,

:31:05. > :31:09.any of the parties you think might what you are going to pay

:31:10. > :31:18.for anywhere nice in Cornwall, No, not as of yet, and they didn't

:31:19. > :31:21.in the last election, so I can't see them doing it

:31:22. > :31:24.this time round. That makes your decision

:31:25. > :31:25.quite difficult then. It does, it does make

:31:26. > :31:27.it really difficult. It makes you wonder,

:31:28. > :31:30.who do you vote for, because none of them

:31:31. > :31:31.are interested in Cornwall. You know, they all have their own

:31:32. > :31:34.agendas, you know, Brexit's You can say what you like, you know,

:31:35. > :31:43.you need to actually do it, and then, maybe you get a return

:31:44. > :31:57.vote, who knows? Jim Reid has been talking to people

:31:58. > :32:00.across the county. Comments from you, Mark says that this country is

:32:01. > :32:04.supposed to be the sixth richest in the world and we have people using

:32:05. > :32:09.food banks to eat. This is wrong. The good old Conservative Party,

:32:10. > :32:13.making poverty real. From Mark, I am an ex-miner in south Yorkshire and

:32:14. > :32:18.voted Labour all my life. I am happy with a hard Brexit if we need that

:32:19. > :32:27.to get control of our shores. I will be voting Conservative for the first

:32:28. > :32:29.time in my life, along with lots of others in my area. If this is what

:32:30. > :32:32.is happening in my area, I wonder what is happening in Cornwall. Eddie

:32:33. > :32:35.says the most important issue for me is the social care crisis. Colin

:32:36. > :32:39.says that his main concern is the amount of immigration from outside

:32:40. > :32:43.Europe. I have no problems as far as EU citizens are concerned, all are

:32:44. > :32:50.welcome. On the issue of you being sanctioned, when you were on

:32:51. > :32:57.benefits, that leading you to using a food bank, you said you are happy

:32:58. > :33:00.with this government, but that government sanctioned you? Was the

:33:01. > :33:04.old government, with the old Prime Minister, they didn't care enough

:33:05. > :33:08.for people. David Cameron did not, but you think Theresa May's

:33:09. > :33:14.government does? I think they care more than the old government. They

:33:15. > :33:19.didn't have a hard. I think it was for personal gain, not for the

:33:20. > :33:21.country. Like I say, when the election is coming up, I'm going to

:33:22. > :33:28.take a bit more interesting watching the programmes. I don't know who to

:33:29. > :33:32.vote for, I will decide during the time. It is for my kids, when they

:33:33. > :33:36.get to my age, I don't want them using food banks. I will decide

:33:37. > :33:45.which will be the best party to vote for. Rachel, what is the main issue

:33:46. > :33:50.for you? Inclusion for disabled people and concerns about the NHS.

:33:51. > :33:53.Tell us about your personal circumstances? My son is ten, he is

:33:54. > :33:59.a full-time wheelchair user and needs hoisting for transfers. We

:34:00. > :34:05.have a lack of accessible toilets to use when we go out, changing places,

:34:06. > :34:10.toilets with a bench and a hoist. My son needs to be lifted from his

:34:11. > :34:14.wheelchair so you can sort his clothes, use the toilet and off you

:34:15. > :34:20.go, like everybody else. But there are just over 900 of these

:34:21. > :34:26.facilities in the entire country. Within a few streets in Truro, I

:34:27. > :34:31.counted 100 toilets I could use, but none that my son can use. Without

:34:32. > :34:34.that committee can't participate fully in life? Last year, he

:34:35. > :34:40.pretended to be ill to get out of a cinema trip with friends. Later, I

:34:41. > :34:45.discovered that he was worried they had no toilets at all in the city

:34:46. > :34:48.centre and he didn't want to have an accident in front of his friends. I

:34:49. > :34:52.had somebody contact me saying he barely left his home for ten years

:34:53. > :34:59.because of an incident that had happened to him. The NHS generally,

:35:00. > :35:03.how have you been treated? We had great treatment from people, I have

:35:04. > :35:07.to say that we are very fortunate to have some amazing people working in

:35:08. > :35:12.the NHS. My son's physiotherapist has always been great, occupational

:35:13. > :35:15.therapy. Where we find things fall down is equipment provision. My son

:35:16. > :35:21.is a full-time wheelchair user, but we have self-funded his wheelchair.

:35:22. > :35:27.You had to raise money for that, how much does a wheelchair cost? His

:35:28. > :35:30.money will wheelchair was ?4500. The one the NHS team wanted to provide

:35:31. > :35:34.him with was so heavy that he could not move it. They suggested it was a

:35:35. > :35:39.suitable compromise because it provided for his posture needs. For

:35:40. > :35:46.Adam, who is ten, the most important role of his wheelchair is enabling

:35:47. > :35:50.him to move. Thank you very much. Thank you for talking to us this

:35:51. > :35:55.morning. Adrian says, my main concern in this election is Company

:35:56. > :35:59.is not paying taxes here, but paying in Luxembourg, Ireland etc. Delia

:36:00. > :36:04.says it is the NHS and education, and low wages, not Brexit. Brexit

:36:05. > :36:08.has not really come up here very much at all since we have been here.

:36:09. > :36:14.We are going to talk to the candidates for the constituency, the

:36:15. > :36:18.people that want to be the next MP, after ten o'clock. Wherever you are,

:36:19. > :36:20.do e-mail. What is your number one concern in the run-up to the

:36:21. > :36:28.election? Let's bring you the news. they intend to cap energy prices

:36:29. > :36:31.for people on standard variable Theresa May has suggested the move

:36:32. > :36:35.could save around 17 million But Labour says the cap would not

:36:36. > :36:40.stop bills rising and the pledge has Jeremy Corbyn will formally launch

:36:41. > :36:44.Labour's election campaign today by saying that his party is not

:36:45. > :36:47.trying to find a way to keep Britain Mr Corbyn, who'll be

:36:48. > :36:50.in Greater Manchester, will say A multi-million-pound trial launches

:36:51. > :36:59.today to assess whether statins - taken by millions of people every

:37:00. > :37:02.year to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes -

:37:03. > :37:04.may also help those MS affects the central

:37:05. > :37:07.nervous system and can It's thought statins could help slow

:37:08. > :37:15.the progression of the condition, The Sun's former editor

:37:16. > :37:18.Kelvin Mackenzie is to leave the paper because of offensive

:37:19. > :37:20.remarks in his column last month about the Everton

:37:21. > :37:24.footballer Ross Barkley. Mr Mackenzie was suspended

:37:25. > :37:27.after comparing the player, who is white, but has a Nigerian

:37:28. > :37:34.grandfather, to a gorilla. Faulty airbags, steering and fuel

:37:35. > :37:37.issues are just some of the problems that led to the highest ever rate

:37:38. > :37:40.of car-related recalls in Europe in the first three

:37:41. > :37:44.months of this year. The UK ranked third behind Germany

:37:45. > :37:47.and France for the number of recalls, but car manufacturers

:37:48. > :37:50.say less than half of UK customers Coming up, helping dads understand

:37:51. > :38:13.anorexia. Chelsea are one win away from the

:38:14. > :38:17.Premier League title. They beat Middlesbrough 3-0 at Stamford

:38:18. > :38:22.Bridge. Victory at West Brom on Friday will see them become

:38:23. > :38:26.champions with two games to spare. Boro's defeat saw them relegated. It

:38:27. > :38:32.is the fourth time they have dropped out of the Premier League, a joint

:38:33. > :38:34.record. The Fifa President says he will talk to Sulley Muntari and step

:38:35. > :38:38.up their fight against racism. The formner Portsmouth midfielder

:38:39. > :38:40.walked out of a game playing for Pescara in Italy's serie

:38:41. > :38:47.A after being racially abused. Eugenie Bouchard has knocked out

:38:48. > :39:10.Maria Sharapova. Welcome to come born in Cornwall.

:39:11. > :39:14.Apparently the sun will come out later. We're here to talk to people

:39:15. > :39:18.had of the general election. These are some of the things people I have

:39:19. > :39:21.met have said to me. We are just about making a living, there is very

:39:22. > :39:25.little left at the end of the week. Westminster feels like a totally

:39:26. > :39:29.different world. There is no point voting, because they don't listen to

:39:30. > :39:37.others, and nothing ever changes. We are here at a Methodist church to

:39:38. > :39:40.talk to various mums and dads that run various things and do various

:39:41. > :39:44.things in their lives. Hello, everybody. Let's get your name is

:39:45. > :39:55.right. Janine, mum of two, how are you? Hannah, how are you? Hannah

:39:56. > :40:03.runs the Wild Run Perrins Project. Abbey is a mum of two. Matt, you

:40:04. > :40:08.want to get mums to vote? Yes, I also work with the parents project.

:40:09. > :40:13.Rebecca, how are you? Two children, and undecided as to how you are

:40:14. > :40:19.going to vote in the next election. Things that matter to you, what

:40:20. > :40:26.would you say? Services on social care. Mental health services.

:40:27. > :40:32.Police. What would you say? The children's Centre, mainly. They seem

:40:33. > :40:37.to be closing them all over. Why is that important to you? There is not

:40:38. > :40:42.much in Cornwall as it is. In pans and is -- in Penzance, there are no

:40:43. > :40:51.big play areas you can use all round. With the centres closing,

:40:52. > :40:54.there is less we can do. Matt? There is a lot of injustice, with a lot of

:40:55. > :40:58.young people not getting a fair deal. I think Brexit is being used

:40:59. > :41:03.as a bit of a mask, a diversion away from the real issues that are

:41:04. > :41:09.affecting a lot of people. What would you say the real issues are

:41:10. > :41:13.around here? Poverty. Unemployment, housing. There is a lot of problems

:41:14. > :41:21.with people buying houses, a lot of them are holiday lets. Staying with

:41:22. > :41:26.mental health, there is not enough support for the under 25 's. I don't

:41:27. > :41:32.know if you heard, but the Conservatives on Sunday said that

:41:33. > :41:35.there would be 10,000 more mental health workers within the system.

:41:36. > :41:40.There is no new money for that, but there would be 10,000 more. What do

:41:41. > :41:44.you think us to mark That's great, but that is not until 2020, we need

:41:45. > :41:51.help now. There are young people that need support. What would you

:41:52. > :41:58.say? I have family that work in the NHS. My dad worked in London, one of

:41:59. > :42:05.these clinics, he can see it getting privatised. You think, what is it

:42:06. > :42:08.going to be down the line? With Brexit, we will see what happens,

:42:09. > :42:14.that I don't think there is much care for the common people, what is

:42:15. > :42:17.going on, really. Do any of you feel a bit forgotten, living here, when

:42:18. > :42:23.it comes to the way you are treated by politicians? I don't think we

:42:24. > :42:28.even think about it, really. We have got children to look after, we've

:42:29. > :42:33.got health to look after, day-to-day living. If you are on the breadline

:42:34. > :42:39.and haven't got that money, it is quite worrying, really. Do you feel

:42:40. > :42:45.forgotten? Yes, as working class people, quite often we are forgotten

:42:46. > :42:54.by politics. It is run by an elite few, for the few, a lot of the time.

:42:55. > :42:58.This is an area with high poverty. What would it take for people who

:42:59. > :43:04.live geographically in the south-west of the country to be more

:43:05. > :43:08.of a priority now? I think there is a lot of infrastructure issues, with

:43:09. > :43:16.the south-west. It kind of get ignored. If you look at the rail

:43:17. > :43:22.networks, a lot of the south-west, projects are funded by the EU, which

:43:23. > :43:26.is going to be an issue when we leave. In the last 15 years,

:43:27. > :43:30.Cornwall has received something like ?1 billion worth of EU funding,

:43:31. > :43:34.which has helped with rail improvements, superfast broadband

:43:35. > :43:36.and things like that. The Chancellor, this Conservative

:43:37. > :43:42.Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said he will continue to fund existing

:43:43. > :43:49.projects up to 2020. That is if he does what he says. That is one big

:43:50. > :43:55.issue in the south-west. There are a lot of reasons why people did vote

:43:56. > :43:58.to leave down here. But there is also going to be a big hole in

:43:59. > :44:04.funding, which means that a lot of projects like our parent project

:44:05. > :44:08.will find it more challenging to find funding and other charities

:44:09. > :44:12.well as well. They are all going to be competing for the same pools of

:44:13. > :44:20.money. Why do you think it is important this area has your Wild

:44:21. > :44:23.Young Parents Project? We have a support network and can advocate for

:44:24. > :44:29.people that don't have a voice or feel disenfranchised. I think it is

:44:30. > :44:31.easy for politicians to say that they have strong and stable

:44:32. > :44:38.leadership, but in real terms there is nothing strong and stable about

:44:39. > :44:42.food banks, austerity or poverty. Thank you very much, nice to meet

:44:43. > :44:45.you. Your children have been really well behaved. And it would not have

:44:46. > :44:50.mattered if they weren't, to be honest. But thank you so much. We

:44:51. > :44:54.will be talking to the candidates after ten o'clock and we were asked

:44:55. > :44:59.energy price cap, how that is going to work. We will ask the

:45:00. > :45:02.Conservative candidate who won the election in 2015, George Eustice,

:45:03. > :45:05.and we will talk to Labour, the Greens, Ukip and various other

:45:06. > :45:10.people as well. Join us later. When someone has an eating disorder

:45:11. > :45:13.it affects the whole family. Now, in response to a lack

:45:14. > :45:16.of support for fathers of children with anorexia and bulimia

:45:17. > :45:21.the charity Beat is starting an online support group

:45:22. > :45:22.especially for dads. The idea is that they chat to others

:45:23. > :45:25.who are helping children Let's speak to Nick Pollard,

:45:26. > :45:36.whose daughter Lizzie McNaught They're both here with me. Welcome.

:45:37. > :45:41.Thank you both for coming in. So the focus very much on dads. Why do you

:45:42. > :45:46.think that is important, Nick? Well, first of all when Lizzie was

:45:47. > :45:49.diagnosed it took me a while to cue into how serious it was. It was only

:45:50. > :45:54.after she had an emergency admission to the hospital and the doctor took

:45:55. > :46:00.me aside and said, look, you realise she could die. I really twigged into

:46:01. > :46:05.how serious this was. My wife, who is wonderful and provided so much

:46:06. > :46:07.support had recognised it earlier and in Lizzie's book that she has

:46:08. > :46:13.written of her experience reflecting on it now as a doctor, she sum rises

:46:14. > :46:20.an academic paper which talks about how typically dads tend to rashalise

:46:21. > :46:26.it away whereas mums tend to be more emotionally involved, but once I got

:46:27. > :46:31.involved, I was saying, I switched into my Mr Fix It mode. Of course,

:46:32. > :46:35.as a dad, you can't fix it. Tell us more about that and how you did deal

:46:36. > :46:42.with it, once you realised there was this issue? Well, it will be

:46:43. > :46:47.interesting to hear what Lizzie says about how I dealt with it. I put an

:46:48. > :46:50.appendix in Lizzie's book summarising a load of things. An

:46:51. > :46:55.illustration I used particularly when in the early stages of Lizzie's

:46:56. > :47:00.illness, I said, it is like we're in a rowing boat. I've got the goal as

:47:01. > :47:03.the dad of trying to get us up the river to this goal of Lizzie being

:47:04. > :47:08.healthy and I'm rowing and everyone else in the family is rowing and I

:47:09. > :47:12.look around and there Lizzie is rowing in the opposite direction. I

:47:13. > :47:15.get angry and upset and parents, who have children going through an

:47:16. > :47:18.eating disorder will know what that's like. You're trying to get

:47:19. > :47:23.them well, but they seem to be pulling in the opposite direction

:47:24. > :47:27.and suddenly it struck me one day, Joanna, I have got the wrong goal.

:47:28. > :47:30.My goal instead of getting us up the river to that healthy position, my

:47:31. > :47:36.position is to keep us all together in the boat. OK, if Lizzie is

:47:37. > :47:39.struggling for a while and we drift downstream, as long as we're

:47:40. > :47:43.together in the boat then we're providing that support and

:47:44. > :47:46.gradually, gradually, me learning to understand what is going on inside

:47:47. > :47:51.Lizzie's mind and what I can do and what I can't do. Lizzie, how were

:47:52. > :47:57.you reacting or feeling about the way people around you were reacting?

:47:58. > :48:02.I think it's, it was interesting with my dad because as he said he

:48:03. > :48:07.kind of initially didn't really understand the eating disorder...

:48:08. > :48:10.How long had you the issues before he started to realise and what were

:48:11. > :48:14.you thinking through that period? So it was a good year before he

:48:15. > :48:19.actually had that realisation of this is serious, I need to do

:48:20. > :48:23.something. Actually, because dad didn't understand and he didn't kind

:48:24. > :48:29.of engage with mum and think about the risks that were going on, I

:48:30. > :48:36.almost saw him as an ally in my eats disorder. We could go out and I

:48:37. > :48:40.could convince we will go out for an eight hour cycle and I would have a

:48:41. > :48:45.green salad with a dressing on the side. I would have been my ally to

:48:46. > :48:49.the grave if he hadn't of had that turning point and when he did and

:48:50. > :48:54.then started engaging in things as a family, you know, it worked a lot

:48:55. > :48:59.better because eating disorders, they will divide and conquer and for

:49:00. > :49:02.me I saw my parents dad agrees with what I was doing, mum doesn't and I

:49:03. > :49:07.will divide and I can keep going with this because dad is on side.

:49:08. > :49:12.How long had you had it before your mum spotted signs? Did it get picked

:49:13. > :49:17.up quickly? It had been going on for probably about six months before my

:49:18. > :49:22.mum first identified that something was wrong. And she actually spoke to

:49:23. > :49:27.my dad about it. And dad was very much of the view oh, no, it's OK or

:49:28. > :49:32.it'll pass. She'll grow out of it, it's fine. So mum struggled with

:49:33. > :49:36.that and she kept going for a few months trying to support me and

:49:37. > :49:41.trying to do it by herself and then she took me to the doctor a good few

:49:42. > :49:48.months after that and then that's where treatment started. What would

:49:49. > :49:51.have been the best response from parents when you're going through

:49:52. > :49:58.what you were going through, not eating? I mean, if someone says just

:49:59. > :50:06.eat or ignores it. Which is, what does make a difference? Having a

:50:07. > :50:11.united front makes a difference. OK. Knowing that with anorexia whenever

:50:12. > :50:14.you're faced with a meal and whenever you are you eat, you're

:50:15. > :50:17.going to be filled with dread and anxiety after a meal, but having a

:50:18. > :50:21.united front where both parents are saying you have to eat all of this.

:50:22. > :50:25.You have to and we're both saying that. It would be helpful because

:50:26. > :50:31.you realise I've got to do it because everyone is saying that, but

:50:32. > :50:38.also having an educated parents, education is key and this is why

:50:39. > :50:43.Beat are launching their new help group for dads this evening and I

:50:44. > :50:47.think that's really key because if we can get dads talking and if we

:50:48. > :50:49.can communicate about eating disorders and educating them then

:50:50. > :50:54.their approach to eating disorders will be a lot more valued and a lot

:50:55. > :50:57.more beneficial. Nick, you said that you would sort of go off on cycle

:50:58. > :51:03.rides, you were both talking about that and Lizzie effectively saying,

:51:04. > :51:07.you were potentially an alie because you weren't forcing her to eat. How

:51:08. > :51:10.were you seeing the best way to deal with a child that wouldn't eat? At

:51:11. > :51:15.that time I didn't realise how serious it was. One of the things

:51:16. > :51:20.that Beat as well as launching tonight this online support group

:51:21. > :51:25.for dads, they've also launched this resource for spotting the signs and

:51:26. > :51:30.symptoms and identifying those early signs and symptoms and I wasn't

:51:31. > :51:36.really aware of those and I didn't take it seriously. What are they?

:51:37. > :51:43.Spell them out. Have a look on the Beat website and they have got them

:51:44. > :51:49.about skips and nips and hips and things, kips... Explain what it is.

:51:50. > :51:53.Skips, exercising a lot, thinking about trying to find ways to burn up

:51:54. > :52:00.calories, hips, are they concerned about how they look? Are they

:52:01. > :52:06.changing how they dress and how their body, how they are acting

:52:07. > :52:11.about themselves. Nips, are they tired all the time? Are they needing

:52:12. > :52:15.naps? There is a load that they have created by are great for people

:52:16. > :52:21.learn about the early signs and symptoms. You as a doctor would say

:52:22. > :52:24.now, the fact is that eating disorders are come Paralympics and

:52:25. > :52:28.mumty McToral, people have different routes into them and different

:52:29. > :52:31.routes of them. In Lizzie's book, she is telling her story and I'm

:52:32. > :52:36.reflecting my prospective as a dad, but it is one person's route in and

:52:37. > :52:42.one person's route out, the value an online support group for dads is

:52:43. > :52:44.they can share their different prospectives, someone would say, my

:52:45. > :52:50.son or daughter isn't like that. Yes, mine is. For me, I felt that I

:52:51. > :52:53.was like, it was like I was in a jungle, trying to hack my way

:52:54. > :52:58.through the jungle and I felt alone in it and I thought there must be

:52:59. > :53:01.other dads in this jungle that I've got no contact with themment now

:53:02. > :53:05.this online support group that launches tonight, they can have that

:53:06. > :53:08.contact with one another and as I develop more insight and

:53:09. > :53:14.understanding, I thought well, why hadn't other people shared that with

:53:15. > :53:17.me? That insight, that understanding, now there is the

:53:18. > :53:24.opportunity to do that. Give us examples of when you talk about the

:53:25. > :53:28.fact you felt it was your job as the dad to steer the ship and you were

:53:29. > :53:31.keeping everyone on the boat. What was the difference in behaviour?

:53:32. > :53:37.Well, I think the way that Lizzie sum rises it is that I had to change

:53:38. > :53:44.from thinking I could lead her on to cheering her on. By telling her what

:53:45. > :53:49.to do? Yeah. I mean, for dads who are used to being in control in

:53:50. > :53:52.their professional lives and tend to act the same way in their family

:53:53. > :53:56.lives, it's actually quite hard to adjust to the fact that I cannot

:53:57. > :54:00.control what's going on. I cannot change this. I've got a goal. I want

:54:01. > :54:04.my daughter to be well againment well, first of all I want her still

:54:05. > :54:07.to be alive, but then I want her to be well again the and Lizzie after

:54:08. > :54:12.the emergency admission to hospital, she was six months in an inpatient

:54:13. > :54:16.unit and years in community care. I wanted her to be well. I wanted her

:54:17. > :54:21.to achieve, but I can't do that. All I can do is support her. How do you

:54:22. > :54:26.cheer her on when you've got the instinct to say come on, do this,

:54:27. > :54:31.put that food in your mouth. How do you change that? Well, it's hard to

:54:32. > :54:38.sum it up and it's encouraging and supporting without being

:54:39. > :54:42.patronising. So it's not a case of, "Oh, you've eaten that mouthful.

:54:43. > :54:46.Let's give you a round of applause." Like I might do to my four-year-old

:54:47. > :54:51.granddaughter. How would you describe it, Lizzie? I think it's

:54:52. > :54:55.working with the community teams, working with the consultants and the

:54:56. > :54:58.psychiatrist and the nutritionists and setting those, you have to set

:54:59. > :55:03.those boundaries and I think that's important and that's a role of a

:55:04. > :55:06.parent and of you know of a dad to set those boundaries and to say,

:55:07. > :55:12."No, this is your meal plan. This is what you're eating." But not forcing

:55:13. > :55:15.you. It has got to be their choice. But for you as the daughter going

:55:16. > :55:19.through it, how important was it that your parents be cheering you

:55:20. > :55:24.rather than telling you? Incredibly important. It is incredibly

:55:25. > :55:29.empowering because a turning point for me and my anorexia was realising

:55:30. > :55:33.that I have a choice. I have a choice to not listen to this

:55:34. > :55:37.illness. I have a choice to follow my meal plan, to regain a healthy

:55:38. > :55:42.weight and to get on with my life and actually that is going to

:55:43. > :55:45.sustain a much more effective recovery than, you know, you can

:55:46. > :55:48.force feed people. We can put people, you know, you can section

:55:49. > :55:53.them and you can feed them via a tube, you can do all of that, but

:55:54. > :55:58.unless they realise that they have a choice and they can make a decision

:55:59. > :56:03.to recover then they're never going to achieve recovery. Your book is

:56:04. > :56:06.very powerful and one of the devices is writing letters to your teenage

:56:07. > :56:11.self as you were going through it. In one of the letters you talk about

:56:12. > :56:15.catching a glimpse of yourself and saying you felt you had to push the

:56:16. > :56:19.thought out of your head because you did look lovely, but at the time you

:56:20. > :56:25.couldn't bear to have a positive view of yourself. I mean that will

:56:26. > :56:28.resonate with so many teenagers because the teenage years are a

:56:29. > :56:32.difficult time. What would your message be to any kids who are going

:56:33. > :56:36.through a difficult time anyway and trying to find themselves and the

:56:37. > :56:40.parents as well, how to help kids through that and how the grown-ups

:56:41. > :56:46.can best behave through that time? I think at the moment we're working

:56:47. > :56:50.quite closely with the Be Real Body Confidence Campaign and one of their

:56:51. > :56:54.key messages is realising that your body is beautiful. Everyone looks

:56:55. > :56:58.different. Everyone will have different lumps and bumps and shapes

:56:59. > :57:01.and sizes of the there is no one ideal body, but can't we focus on

:57:02. > :57:05.what the body can do instead of what it looks like? The body that's the

:57:06. > :57:10.mind as well, what can I achieve? What can I learn? You know, all of

:57:11. > :57:14.that, it's not focussing on how I look, but what I can do.

:57:15. > :57:15.Thank you both very much, thank you. Lizzie and Nick, thank you for

:57:16. > :57:20.coming in. If you would like to go

:57:21. > :57:22.to the support group, If you've been affected by anything

:57:23. > :57:27.we've discussed this morning you can find a list of helplines at the BBC

:57:28. > :57:30.Action Line. Alexander Blackman

:57:31. > :57:38.or Marine A, the man who shot dead a wounded Taliban soldier -

:57:39. > :57:41.gives his first interview to the BBC since being released from prison

:57:42. > :57:43.along with his wife Claire who campaigned so hard

:57:44. > :57:51.for his release. We will be back live to Victoria in

:57:52. > :57:56.Camborne after 10am. Let's get the latest

:57:57. > :57:59.weather update with Carol. Sun has just Le come out in

:58:00. > :58:11.Camborne. We have got sunshine in east Sussex.

:58:12. > :58:14.The pictures sent in earlier by our Weather Watchers. A beautiful day

:58:15. > :58:17.ahead in Northern Ireland. A lovely picture there from County Antrim.

:58:18. > :58:21.You can see where we've got the cloud in eastern and central areas

:58:22. > :58:25.and even in the south-west, but the further west you are, the more

:58:26. > :58:29.likely it is that we will see holes in the cloud and the sun will come

:58:30. > :58:32.out. Hardly a breath of wind as high pressure continues to dominate our

:58:33. > :58:35.weather. That will have an impact on the feel of the weather along the

:58:36. > :58:40.North Sea Coast line. It won't feel as cold, but there will be a bit of

:58:41. > :58:43.cloud at tiles. As we head on into the afternoon, the patchy rain

:58:44. > :58:47.across the Northern Isles will fringe into the far north of

:58:48. > :58:49.Scotland and with the rest of Scotland will continue with a fair

:58:50. > :58:53.but of sunshine as indeed will Northern Ireland. For Cumbria,

:58:54. > :58:57.Lancashire and Cheshire, you can expect sun sheuvenlt as we push down

:58:58. > :59:01.the East Coast towards the Midlands there is a fair bit of cloud around.

:59:02. > :59:05.South-west England and Wales, again lovely sunshine to look forward to

:59:06. > :59:07.and along parts of the South Coast we will see some of the sunshinement

:59:08. > :59:11.here and there in the cloud, there will be one or two holes, but

:59:12. > :59:15.especially, we will have a lot of cloud. As we head through the

:59:16. > :59:18.evening and overnight, a lot of the cloud will be eroded and there will

:59:19. > :59:21.be a lot of dry weather and clear skies and the rain and the breeze

:59:22. > :59:26.persisting across the Northern Isles and the far north of mainland

:59:27. > :59:29.Scotland. In towns and cities temperatures six to nine Celsius,

:59:30. > :59:33.but in the countryside, it will be colder. We're looking at closer to

:59:34. > :59:37.freezing. So there will be abair a grass frost this coming night. So

:59:38. > :59:40.tomorrow morning we start off on a dry and cold note, but the

:59:41. > :59:44.temperature will rise quickly in the sunshine and there will be a lot of

:59:45. > :59:47.sunshine around tomorrow. Breezy through the English Channel. Not

:59:48. > :59:50.much wind anywhere else. And still this patchy rain across the far

:59:51. > :59:54.north of Scotland with a bit more cloud in the north and the east. And

:59:55. > :00:00.then by the time we get into Thursday, well a bit of a change

:00:01. > :00:03.because we've got a system coming up across the Channel Islands and

:00:04. > :00:07.that's going to produce some showery outbreaks. Some of those heavy and

:00:08. > :00:11.thundery and that leads us into the weekend. More unsettled picture

:00:12. > :00:16.through the course of Thursday and right up to Sunday, we will be

:00:17. > :00:19.seeing more in the way of showery outbreaks of rain, some of them

:00:20. > :00:23.heavy and thundery, so if you're desperate for some rain for your

:00:24. > :00:32.garden it looks like it's on its way.

:00:33. > :00:39.Carol is right, the sun has just come out in Camborne. We are in

:00:40. > :00:42.Cornwall, talking to people ahead of the general election. We are just a

:00:43. > :00:47.couple of miles from the beautiful Cornish beaches, but in some ways

:00:48. > :00:52.you could not feel any further from the tourist hotspots. We had a

:00:53. > :00:56.13-year-old girl that collapsed in the school, the family hasn't eaten

:00:57. > :01:00.in three days, mum, dad, three children. We are here to take the

:01:01. > :01:05.political temperature and see what the issues are that people really

:01:06. > :01:07.care about. I'm Joanna Gosling in the studio -

:01:08. > :01:09.also coming up today... We'll speak to a woman who says

:01:10. > :01:13.she was sexually harassed by the former Fox News

:01:14. > :01:16.star Bill O'Reilly. At the end of the dinner, he said,

:01:17. > :01:20.let's get out of here. And Marine A - Alexander Blackman,

:01:21. > :01:22.the man who killed a wounded Taliban soldier -

:01:23. > :01:25.speaks to us for the first time He's joined by his wife Claire

:01:26. > :01:49.who helped secure his release. I met a 66-year-old and a

:01:50. > :01:55.52-year-old, both men, both have never voted in a general election in

:01:56. > :01:59.their lives. Martin says, if you can't be bothered to vote, you have

:02:00. > :02:05.no right to complain, get involved and folk. Ben says no election

:02:06. > :02:09.should be solely on one issue. I am asking what the most important issue

:02:10. > :02:13.is to you. Ben says the country has big problems alongside Brexit and

:02:14. > :02:16.politicians need to take notice. Mark says, I feel sorry for the

:02:17. > :02:19.people you have been speaking to an Cornwall. They really think Brexit

:02:20. > :02:24.will improve their lives, but it won't. Jordan says I am 30, voted in

:02:25. > :02:28.every general election since 2005, will never vote Tory, but because of

:02:29. > :02:36.Jeremy Corbyn, I will not vote Labour now. Wherever you are in the

:02:37. > :02:39.UK, do send a message. What is the most important issue to you ahead of

:02:40. > :02:44.the general election? In the next hour, we will talk to the candidates

:02:45. > :02:46.for the constituency. Before that, the latest news.

:02:47. > :02:48.The Conservatives have confirmed they intend to cap energy prices

:02:49. > :02:51.for people on standard variable rates if they win the election.

:02:52. > :02:54.Theresa May says the move could save around 17 million

:02:55. > :03:00.But Labour says the cap would not stop bills rising.

:03:01. > :03:02.Jeremy Corbyn will formally launch Labour's election campaign today

:03:03. > :03:06.by saying that his party is not trying to find a way to keep Britain

:03:07. > :03:13.Mr Corbyn, who'll be in Greater Manchester, will say

:03:14. > :03:17.Throughout the election campaign we'll be putting your questions

:03:18. > :03:19.to politicians from all the main parties.

:03:20. > :03:21.Today at 11:30 we'll be putting your questions

:03:22. > :03:24.to Lib Dem Shadow Home Secretary Lord Paddick You can get

:03:25. > :03:26.in touch via Twitter using the hashtag #BBCAskThis

:03:27. > :03:39.And you can email us as well at askthis@bbc.co.uk.

:03:40. > :03:41.A multi-million pound trial launched today will assess whether statins,

:03:42. > :03:47.a drug normally used to reduce the risk of heart attacks,

:03:48. > :03:50.can also be used to help those with multiple sclerosis.

:03:51. > :03:52.MS affects the central nervous system and can

:03:53. > :03:56.It's thought statins, a cheap and already widely used drug,

:03:57. > :04:02.could help slow down the progression of the condition.

:04:03. > :04:05.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:04:06. > :04:08.Chelsea are one win away from the Premier League title.

:04:09. > :04:11.They beat Middlebrough 3-0 last night at Stamford Bridge a result

:04:12. > :04:15.Diego Costa, Marcos Alonso and Nemanja Matic scored the Chelsea

:04:16. > :04:18.goals and the task is very simple now because they play again

:04:19. > :04:25.If they can beat West Bromwich Albion on Friday then they would go

:04:26. > :04:28.ten points clear in the table and they would be champions

:04:29. > :04:38.It was very important to win and to exploit their defeat.

:04:39. > :04:47.Another step, another step to win the title.

:04:48. > :04:50.For sure, now it's important to rest very well and to prepare

:04:51. > :04:56.The Fifa President Gianni Infantino says he plans to speak

:04:57. > :05:00.to Sulley Muntari and step up the fight against racism.

:05:01. > :05:02.The former Portsmouth midfielder has called on the game's

:05:03. > :05:04.governing bodies to prove that they are serious

:05:05. > :05:09.He walked out of a game playing for Pescara in Italy's Serie A after

:05:10. > :05:16.He was subsequently banned but that was overturned

:05:17. > :05:26.following worldwide condemnation of his treatment.

:05:27. > :05:30.Eugenie Bouchard has knocked Maria Sharapova out

:05:31. > :05:34.The Candaian has been one of the most outspoken

:05:35. > :05:37.critics of Sharapova's return to tour after a 15 month doping ban.

:05:38. > :05:44.She called her a cheater and wanted the Russian banned for life.

:05:45. > :05:49.to her and she revealed afterwards that there were a lot of fellow

:05:50. > :05:51.players who had also wanted her to win.

:05:52. > :05:54.I was actually quite inspired before the match because I had a lot

:05:55. > :05:57.of players coming up to me privately, wishing me good luck,

:05:58. > :06:05.Getting a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that

:06:06. > :06:10.So I wanted to do it for myself but also all of these people

:06:11. > :06:21.That is all the sport for now. I'll be back later.

:06:22. > :06:32.Welcome to the High Street of Camborne, in Cornwall. This

:06:33. > :06:37.constituency was won by the Conservatives in 2015 with a

:06:38. > :06:41.majority of 7000. This constituency is in the top 100 target seats for

:06:42. > :06:52.both Labour and the Lib Dems. Let's walk down this High Street. You can

:06:53. > :06:55.see a pasty shop, a vaporiser shop, banks, building societies, Pound

:06:56. > :07:00.shops, there are nine charity and pound shops, I counted them

:07:01. > :07:05.yesterday. Immigration is not an issue here. 96% of people in

:07:06. > :07:08.Camborne are white British, and yet most people in Cornwall voted to

:07:09. > :07:14.leave the European Union, which is why, possibly, a come back for the

:07:15. > :07:19.Lib Dems is not on the cards in this area. Let's talk to Graham

:07:20. > :07:29.Wilkinson, a reporter from Cornwall Life, he joins us in an Amarillo

:07:30. > :07:35.type video. How would you describe the town? It is a busy and thriving

:07:36. > :07:40.place. Between here and read Ruth, it is the most heavily populated

:07:41. > :07:45.place in Cornwall. That is just to the east of here. It is not perhaps

:07:46. > :07:54.your traditional Cornwall, Cornwall. We are not near the sea and it is

:07:55. > :08:00.not a particularly touristy place. Very working class, traditionally

:08:01. > :08:02.mining, but more recently it is certainly a working area.

:08:03. > :08:07.Politically, it is interesting. It is one of the few places in Cornwall

:08:08. > :08:12.where Labour has a big say. They came second in the last election. In

:08:13. > :08:19.Cornwall generally, they tended to be Liberal Democrats in power until

:08:20. > :08:25.the last election. Theresa May visited Cornwall last week. All six

:08:26. > :08:28.constituencies are held by conservatives from the last

:08:29. > :08:36.election. Why did she come here? She came to Helston, a neighbouring

:08:37. > :08:40.town. She came to help bolster her MP, standing for re-election. There

:08:41. > :08:49.is only a 5% difference between him and the Liberal Democrat MP that he

:08:50. > :08:53.replaced last time. So, it is to assure him? I think the Liberal

:08:54. > :08:57.Democrats see this as a key battle ground in their attempts to make

:08:58. > :09:02.some gains back from that awful election last time. Even though most

:09:03. > :09:06.people voted to leave the EU and the Lib Dems are pro-EU, they are saying

:09:07. > :09:11.they would give another referendum on a final Brexit deal. Brexit has

:09:12. > :09:17.hardly come up, actually. Do you think? Maybe I see it differently,

:09:18. > :09:23.being in the news business, it seems to be a big deal. Cornwall was one

:09:24. > :09:29.of those areas that benefited from EU funding. Absolutely, something

:09:30. > :09:32.like ?1 billion. It was a huge amount. Whether we see that effect

:09:33. > :09:37.at the moment, I'm not sure it filtered through. People have said,

:09:38. > :09:42.we have had Brexit, can we get on with that? What we care about is not

:09:43. > :09:47.being able to buy a house, not being able to rent a house, not being able

:09:48. > :09:49.to find a council house, and low wages? Another thing that

:09:50. > :09:55.consistently comes up our people's concerns about the ever-growing

:09:56. > :09:58.population in Cornwall, as a desirable place to live,

:09:59. > :10:01.house-building seems to go on relentlessly, without any of the

:10:02. > :10:07.investment in infrastructure. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Thank you for

:10:08. > :10:11.being in my Amarillo video. I am going to talk to some candidates

:10:12. > :10:16.now. Plenty of a limb here, and some voters. -- plenty of them here.

:10:17. > :10:21.Let's do the big introduction. George Eustice is the Conservative

:10:22. > :10:26.candidate. He has been an MP here for seven years. We have Geoff

:10:27. > :10:34.Williams, for the Liberal Democrats. Good morning. Next to him, for

:10:35. > :10:38.Labour, Graham Winter. For Ukip, a spokesman, rather than a candidate,

:10:39. > :10:45.Harry Blakely. And then we have some voters. I'm Rachel James, CEO of a

:10:46. > :10:55.childcare service. I am Debbie Evans. I am a single mother,

:10:56. > :11:07.tactically voting Liberal Democrat, that a Labour voter. I work on a

:11:08. > :11:10.railway, and the exchange rate has affected us. That has gone up

:11:11. > :11:19.usually, people only have so much money to spend. You have seen a

:11:20. > :11:24.reduction in takings, or you have laid people off? No, we have not

:11:25. > :11:29.done anything like that yet, a lot of things are still coming through.

:11:30. > :11:33.We paid for everything a long time in advance. It will be the next

:11:34. > :11:41.models that we do which will see the brunt of that, and that will be when

:11:42. > :11:47.we see if people can still afford them. A number of people have said,

:11:48. > :11:53.and you will hear it again, we only see you when there is an election

:11:54. > :11:56.Western Marc Laird? No, I come down to the constituency, as the previous

:11:57. > :12:01.MP, I come down every week, a surgery every Saturday. Most

:12:02. > :12:06.summers, when the recess is happening, I go around on the

:12:07. > :12:10.doorstep to meet people. I guess people see more politicians when

:12:11. > :12:15.there is an election on, but we have just had local elections, last year

:12:16. > :12:20.we had the referendum campaign, people were out for that. I don't

:12:21. > :12:25.think that is fair. People notice politicians more when there is a

:12:26. > :12:28.general election. Harry Blakely, representing Ukip, are they going to

:12:29. > :12:38.stand in this constituency? No, we are supporting people that supported

:12:39. > :12:44.Brexit. George supported Vote Leave. The comment he has not seen around

:12:45. > :12:48.here is not true, he really works hard and that is why Ukip is

:12:49. > :12:56.supporting him. Are you happy to be endorsed by a party that wants to

:12:57. > :12:59.ban the burqa and introduce mandatory FGM examinations for young

:13:00. > :13:04.girls? I am standing at a conservative... And I am asking if

:13:05. > :13:07.you are happy that they are endorsing you? It is for each party

:13:08. > :13:10.to decide if they want to stand, they are going to stand in some

:13:11. > :13:18.seats and not others. Are you happy they are not standing here? Yes,

:13:19. > :13:23.because I think there are many Ukip voters that were tired of this being

:13:24. > :13:28.a country that had laws written by the EU. They wanted change, they

:13:29. > :13:31.wanted to take back control. We won the referendum, we have taken back

:13:32. > :13:38.control and we now have to make a success negotiations. For Labour,

:13:39. > :13:42.what are you promising for people in Camborne? There is a lot that has

:13:43. > :13:46.been promised on housing, in particular, that is a real issue for

:13:47. > :13:51.people here. The quality of housing, the quality of rented housing in

:13:52. > :13:56.particular is very low. People want a roof over their heads. 1 million

:13:57. > :14:01.new houses, half of which will be council houses. Do you accept,

:14:02. > :14:04.whether it is Labour or the Conservatives, at every election,

:14:05. > :14:08.they have a target for building new homes, and, for the last however

:14:09. > :14:13.many years, both Labour and the Conservatives have failed to reach

:14:14. > :14:16.that? It's true, they have failed. That is why the housing market is in

:14:17. > :14:20.such a state. There has been a failure by all parties over the last

:14:21. > :14:27.ten, 20 years, on housing. But that is only part of it. Wages is the

:14:28. > :14:32.other issue. People cannot afford houses. Affordable housing does not

:14:33. > :14:36.start at 250,000, I'm sorry. People here have nowhere near the income to

:14:37. > :14:44.afford that. Labour will introduce a minimum ?10 wage. When I was talking

:14:45. > :14:49.to one of the butchers, he said, great for the workers, but I will

:14:50. > :14:54.have two lay a member of staff off. He employs four, and he would have

:14:55. > :14:58.to lay one off if you introduced that the minimum wage? It would be

:14:59. > :15:04.introduced over a period of time. It is a target to reach. He would still

:15:05. > :15:09.have to lay someone off? It has an effect on prices, it helps money go

:15:10. > :15:14.around in the economy. In terms of housing, George Eustice, do you

:15:15. > :15:16.accept that last year new affordable homes being delivered in Cornwall

:15:17. > :15:25.was the lowest number for six years? Here you will see some fantastic

:15:26. > :15:30.projects that have been built particularly on some of the brown

:15:31. > :15:34.field sites. We have got a lot of industries that collapsed 20 or 30

:15:35. > :15:39.years ago and there have been good projects that brought lots of new

:15:40. > :15:43.housing back on to the market. We've done affordable housing to buy.

:15:44. > :15:46.Under the Help To Buy scheme and there are lots of people here,

:15:47. > :15:53.families, with young children, who have managed now to buy their first

:15:54. > :15:57.home with the Help To Buy scheme. Despite all of that, Theresa May in

:15:58. > :16:00.her housing White Paper says Britain's housing market is broken.

:16:01. > :16:04.What are you going to do in the next five years? Look, we have got a

:16:05. > :16:09.number of different proposals to help support house building. A lot

:16:10. > :16:14.of it is around... Have you read the housing White Paper? I've not read

:16:15. > :16:18.the housing White Paper recently, but I saw a summary of it. I have.

:16:19. > :16:22.There is not that much in it. There is the extending the Right to Buy

:16:23. > :16:26.discount to housing association tenants, making more brown field

:16:27. > :16:31.sites available and then it says things like, "We need to build more

:16:32. > :16:36.homes faster." But without saying how? I was about to explain how. The

:16:37. > :16:39.way you do it is by removing some of the restrictions so we've made it

:16:40. > :16:41.for instance for people to get planning on small developments on

:16:42. > :16:45.brown field sites. We made it easier for people to go for change of use

:16:46. > :16:49.on old buildings sometimes commercial buildings that could be

:16:50. > :16:54.converted. And we've actually loosened the rules on this so you

:16:55. > :16:57.can get more houses built on those brown field sites. You will see

:16:58. > :17:03.great example of here in Camborne and we want to do more of it in

:17:04. > :17:10.other parts of the country. Great examples in Camborne and Redruth,

:17:11. > :17:15.what would the Lib Dems do? There is an initiative initiated by the

:17:16. > :17:21.Cornwall Council toun cease housing provision outside of what's been

:17:22. > :17:26.provided by coastline. I think the targets that Coastline set for 2020

:17:27. > :17:33.are ambitious and I hope that they can keep to them. Coastline, that's

:17:34. > :17:37.the housing association? Yes. And they are the principle provider...

:17:38. > :17:44.But what have the Lib Dems got to say on this issue specifically? In

:17:45. > :17:48.terms of local provision? Yes. Well, in addition to what Coastline - the

:17:49. > :17:53.housing crisis is affecting the whole country and the great problem

:17:54. > :17:59.down in Cornwall is the difference between income and affordability.

:18:00. > :18:06.And initiatives like they have taken in St Ives which I support on the

:18:07. > :18:11.concentrating new homes for local people is an initiative which I

:18:12. > :18:19.think has to be encouraged. The whole problem, let's face it, goes

:18:20. > :18:28.back to the Right to Buy and the non replacement then of housing that was

:18:29. > :18:34.taken up by the tenants. If we had replaced social housing through the

:18:35. > :18:40.# 0s and 80s with new soltion housing we wouldn't be in the

:18:41. > :18:47.position we are today. What would you like to say to so. Candidates

:18:48. > :18:50.here today. I'm look at the general election and it is not really a

:18:51. > :18:53.general election, is it, it's a Brexit election because my interest

:18:54. > :18:57.is with, there are 800,000 plus people in this country with dementia

:18:58. > :19:04.who are receiving a little bit of a service, but there are also 800,000

:19:05. > :19:07.people on the autism spectrum who are receiving nothing despite autism

:19:08. > :19:11.legislation. Theresa May when she was crowned as leader of this

:19:12. > :19:15.country, she got rid of the social Care Minister and yet she is wanting

:19:16. > :19:19.to reform the Mental Health Act for what when you haven't got a social

:19:20. > :19:26.Care Minister and Norman Lamb within the Lib Dems is putting, he is just

:19:27. > :19:31.putting a penny on income tax which would put ?6 billion into the

:19:32. > :19:36.economy the we shouldn't be concentrating on Brexit. Get a third

:19:37. > :19:40.party international relate to deal with Europe. Too much concentration

:19:41. > :19:43.on Brexit? Look, this country took a really big decision last year to

:19:44. > :19:46.leave the European Union. The biggest decision we've taken for

:19:47. > :19:48.half a century and we have got to make a success of this Brexit

:19:49. > :19:51.negotiation and people have got a big choice this this election,

:19:52. > :19:56.whether they want Theresa May and strong stable leadership she offers

:19:57. > :19:59.to take that negotiation forward? Or do they want a floundering Jeremy

:20:00. > :20:05.Corbyn propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and others... Theresa May says she

:20:06. > :20:10.has got to strengthen her hand. I don't want her to strengthen her

:20:11. > :20:14.hand. I want her to use kid gloves. All we have got is mudslinging when

:20:15. > :20:17.we have got people on the autism speck tum and people with dementia

:20:18. > :20:21.and people who are vulnerable and trying to buy houses, we're

:20:22. > :20:25.concentrating on Brexit. I'm sick of hearing about Brexit. Brexit is an

:20:26. > :20:29.important big decision and it is right that we have Theresa May lead

:20:30. > :20:32.the negotiations. Yesterday she made an announcement on mental health

:20:33. > :20:36.services and made clear we want another 10,000 people working in

:20:37. > :20:39.mental health by 2020... How will that be paid for? Today, she is

:20:40. > :20:43.talking about energy prices. Yes, this is a general election... There

:20:44. > :20:49.is not even a social Care Minister. We have a whole team of ministers.

:20:50. > :20:53.You have got a load of Brexit ministers, but you haven't got a

:20:54. > :20:59.social Care Minister. Norman Lamb left as a minister... The Liberal

:21:00. > :21:05.Democrats were removed from Government... There are a team of

:21:06. > :21:09.health ministers working under Jeremy Corbyn - under Jeremy Hunt.

:21:10. > :21:17.So we have a team of health ministers. For me, I will back you.

:21:18. > :21:26.George has come to visit a project close to Cornwall's heart called

:21:27. > :21:30.Young Mums Will Achieve. What's the issues for you? The Government have

:21:31. > :21:33.supported and they have listened, however, we will see the

:21:34. > :21:36.implementation of the 30 hours funding in September and the rate

:21:37. > :21:40.that's offered to us is slightly less than what it's going to cost us

:21:41. > :21:45.to deliver this service. It's crucial that we have accessible and

:21:46. > :21:49.affordable childcare to support working families nationally, not

:21:50. > :21:57.just here in Cornwall. OK. Lib Dems, Labour, would you like to... I'm in

:21:58. > :22:01.support of the one pence on income tax to provide for better services

:22:02. > :22:07.particularly for mental health. Of course, you are, you're a Lib Dem

:22:08. > :22:11.candidate. I also sit on tribunals for mental health patients in

:22:12. > :22:14.Cornwall and the scandal is lack of provision for young people. Young

:22:15. > :22:18.people having to be sent out of the county because there is no provision

:22:19. > :22:23.for them. Having to spend time in police cells because that's the

:22:24. > :22:29.nearest place of safety. And if a one pence on income tax will help to

:22:30. > :22:34.assuage that situation then I think we should all support it and support

:22:35. > :22:38.the initiative. Labour? I think it's really important that we don't just

:22:39. > :22:44.focus on Brexit. There is a lot more at stake here. We've had... Is that

:22:45. > :22:49.because Labour doesn't really a Brexit policy? Labour's focus on

:22:50. > :22:52.Brexit is on the single market and having the best possible access to

:22:53. > :22:56.single market and securing those that work hard for a living whether

:22:57. > :22:59.they are British people working abroad and living abroad or other

:23:00. > :23:04.people living here and working hard here. Those are our key focus on

:23:05. > :23:09.Brexit. But this election isn't about Brexit. We have to remember

:23:10. > :23:14.this is about healthcare, it's about housing provision, it's about jobs

:23:15. > :23:18.and it's about ?30 million worth of cuts to education in Cornwall alone

:23:19. > :23:23.over the next few years. This is what it's about. We need to focus on

:23:24. > :23:27.these issues. You would reverse those, would you? Are you promising

:23:28. > :23:32.to reverse the ?30 million worth of cuts? On education, I don't have the

:23:33. > :23:39.policy detail on that, I'm afraid. I would love to. We have increased the

:23:40. > :23:43.amount of free childcare that we've got for parents on low incomes so

:23:44. > :23:47.we've got two days a week and we're looking to extend that further. It

:23:48. > :23:52.is a really important point. You don't call it free. It is not free,

:23:53. > :23:54.it is subsidised by us as a sectorment we support it because we

:23:55. > :23:57.want to support our families back into work. There is not muff

:23:58. > :24:02.money... Coming from the Government? No. Chris, what would you like to

:24:03. > :24:07.say? Well, I think from our point of view with our business we've got 14

:24:08. > :24:11.staff and I'd like to look out for them. So really, I'm looking for

:24:12. > :24:19.fairness in business. What does that mean? In a small company like ours

:24:20. > :24:25.pays higher taxes on the big companies of this world. They get

:24:26. > :24:32.negotiated settlements and that doesn't seem fair to me and the

:24:33. > :24:37.yeah, I'd like to see it made easier for us... Do you think ahead of

:24:38. > :24:41.election parties always say we're going to clamp down on tax avoidance

:24:42. > :24:45.and tax evasion, it doesn't always happen? No, I think some of the

:24:46. > :24:53.demonisation of people who have to rely on benefits if you like because

:24:54. > :24:58.of they are disabled in some way, that doesn't waste as much money as

:24:59. > :25:02.is lost in tax avoidance. We should be far more focussed on that. It is

:25:03. > :25:07.not fair on a small businesslike us, I have got to keep all 14 and their

:25:08. > :25:11.families employed, so why should we pay a higher percentage of our

:25:12. > :25:15.taxes? I have got no objection to paying taxes. We've got to did that,

:25:16. > :25:22.we've got to pay our bit. I don't see why we should pay so much more.

:25:23. > :25:29.And while I'm on the soapbox, the thing about zero hours, Labour want

:25:30. > :25:31.to do away with them, but I've got two staff who are on them by choice

:25:32. > :25:35.because they want to turn up when they want to do a bit of work and it

:25:36. > :25:39.suits them and I'm happy for them to do that. Losing that would probably

:25:40. > :25:42.mean they wouldn't have any work anymore. The people who choose zer

:25:43. > :25:49.outside hours, you would say even though you want that, we'll scrap

:25:50. > :25:53.them? Our policy is to scrap zero-hours contracts. I think we

:25:54. > :25:57.should look at it. It does suit some people, but I think they're in the

:25:58. > :26:02.minority. People would prefer to have regular hours and regular pay.

:26:03. > :26:05.Let me read a couple messages from people watching you around the

:26:06. > :26:09.country. Andy says, "The priorities for this country are affordable

:26:10. > :26:15.housing and real jobs that pay ten quid an hour." Ken says, "It is

:26:16. > :26:22.heart-rendering to see so many young people without hope. We don't need

:26:23. > :26:26.distractions over Brexit." Jo, "These people voted for Brexit

:26:27. > :26:31.despite Cornwall receiving huge grants from the EU. Philip Hammond

:26:32. > :26:37.said he will continue to fund existing EU projects up to 2020."

:26:38. > :26:41.Kate, "It is depressing to hear the young woman sitting with you earlier

:26:42. > :26:45.saying she wasn't going to vote because nobody listens. I think

:26:46. > :26:49.there should be a drive to explain to young people it is because they

:26:50. > :26:52.tend not to turn out to vote that Government policies favour older

:26:53. > :26:54.people." Thank you for those. Thank you very much for your time this

:26:55. > :26:57.morning. Thank you, I really appreciate you coming on the

:26:58. > :27:02.programme. More from Camborne in the next half an hour.

:27:03. > :27:06.Alexander Blackman, the man who became known

:27:07. > :27:08.as Marine A after shooting dead an injured Taliban soldier, gives

:27:09. > :27:25.We hear from him and his wife Claire who worked so hard for his release.

:27:26. > :27:29.The Conservatives confirmed they intend to gap energy prices for

:27:30. > :27:34.people on standard variable rates. Theresa May says the move could save

:27:35. > :27:39.17 million customers up to ?100 a year. Labour says the cap would not

:27:40. > :27:41.stop bills rising. Jeremy Corbyn will formally launch Labour's

:27:42. > :27:45.election campaign today by saying that his party is not trying to find

:27:46. > :27:50.a way to keep Britain in the European Union. Mr Corbyn, who will

:27:51. > :27:54.be in grarge, will say the issue of Brexit is settled.

:27:55. > :27:57.Throughout the election campaign, we will put your questions to

:27:58. > :28:10.politicians from all the main parties. Today, at 11.30am, we will

:28:11. > :28:21.put your questions to Lord Paddick. You can e-mail us at:

:28:22. > :28:24.A multi-million pound trial launched today will assess whether statins

:28:25. > :28:29.can be used to help those with multiple sclerosis. MS affects the

:28:30. > :28:34.central nervous system and can cause mobility problems of the it is

:28:35. > :28:43.thought statins which are cheap and are widely used could slow down the

:28:44. > :28:45.progression of the condition. Faulty airbags were among the

:28:46. > :28:49.problems that led to the highest number of recalls in Europe. The UK

:28:50. > :28:54.ranked third behind Germany and France. Car manufacturers say fewer

:28:55. > :29:01.than half of UK customers take up the necessary repairs.

:29:02. > :29:05.Let's join Olly. Chelsea are one win away from the Premier League

:29:06. > :29:09.titlement they beat Middlesbrough 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. Victory on

:29:10. > :29:17.Friday night will see them become champions with two games to spare.

:29:18. > :29:20.The Fifa president says he's going to talk step up the fight against

:29:21. > :29:26.racism. The former Portsmouth player walked off in a game in Italy after

:29:27. > :29:31.being abused by fans. Chris Froome has been knocked off his bike while

:29:32. > :29:35.training in Southern France. He said he was deliberately rammed by a

:29:36. > :29:36.driver who failed to stop. He was unhurt, but he's going to need a new

:29:37. > :29:59.bike. One of the women alleging sexual

:30:00. > :30:02.harassment by the former Fox News star Bill O'Reilly and her lawyer

:30:03. > :30:05.met Ofcom, the media watchdog, yesterday to urge it to block a bid

:30:06. > :30:08.for Sky by Rupert Murdoch's 21st O'Reilly was dropped

:30:09. > :30:17.from Fox News over the claims, which involve more than five women,

:30:18. > :30:19.although he strongly denies the allegations -

:30:20. > :30:21.calling them "completely unfounded". Ofcom are currently considering

:30:22. > :30:23.whether 21st Century Fox, which owns Fox News,

:30:24. > :30:25.should be allowed to complete We'll be hearing from

:30:26. > :30:31.Wendy Walsh in a moment - but first here's a quick video

:30:32. > :30:35.to explain what's been going on. We have a contest on billoreilly.com

:30:36. > :30:37.- Guess Where Bill's Going. I'll have a full

:30:38. > :30:40.report when I return. But Bill O'Reilly

:30:41. > :30:43.wasn't coming back. He had been the main presenter

:30:44. > :30:46.and biggest star on the US TV That came to an end last month,

:30:47. > :30:52.when it emerged a number of women had made sexual harassment

:30:53. > :30:53.allegations against Five cases have been settled out

:30:54. > :31:03.of court by O'Reilly and Fox One unnamed black colleague said

:31:04. > :31:08.O'Reilly called her "hot chocolate" We're so happy that he has gone

:31:09. > :31:16.and he is no longer going to be able to spit all of his vile comments

:31:17. > :31:18.and everything that It's disparaging not only to women,

:31:19. > :31:22.but specifically to black women and to black folks

:31:23. > :31:24.all over the world. One of O'Reilly's accusers reported

:31:25. > :31:27.her claims to Fox in early April. In 2013, I experienced sexual

:31:28. > :31:29.harassment as a job applicant Wendy Walsh, a psychologist

:31:30. > :31:38.who appeared on O'Really's show, said she refused to join him

:31:39. > :31:40.in his hotel room O'Reilly then allegedly withdrew

:31:41. > :31:47.a job he had offered her. Fox initially stuck with O'Reilly,

:31:48. > :31:49.but several major sponsors pulled At the end of April,

:31:50. > :31:56.parent company 21st Fox O'Reilly said it was tremendously

:31:57. > :32:02.disheartening to leave Fox over It's not the first time

:32:03. > :32:08.the organisation has had to deal Last July, Fox News boss Roger Ailes

:32:09. > :32:16.resigned over similar allegations. The acting Fox News CEO,

:32:17. > :32:20.Rupert Murdoch, has tried to usher in a new era at the channel

:32:21. > :32:23.by issuing an internal memo, also signed by his sons,

:32:24. > :32:26.saying he is committed to fostering a work environment built

:32:27. > :32:28.on trust and respect. But Murdoch dismissed any concerns

:32:29. > :32:33.about the culture at Fox News. So you don't think Ofcom

:32:34. > :32:41.are going to consider It comes at a delicate

:32:42. > :32:54.time for Mr Murdoch. Fox is trying to buy

:32:55. > :32:56.the remaining 61% The media regulator Ofcom

:32:57. > :32:59.is currently deciding whether the takeover

:33:00. > :33:02.should go ahead, or not. And Wendy Walsh - one

:33:03. > :33:04.of Bill O'Reilly's accusers who we saw briefly in that film -

:33:05. > :33:14.joins us now. Thank you very much for joining us.

:33:15. > :33:18.So, we heard in the film that you were an unpaid contributor on the

:33:19. > :33:24.show when you were called to Los Angeles, when he said he was going

:33:25. > :33:33.to be in Los Angeles and would meet up with you? I feel I was targeted,

:33:34. > :33:37.I received a call from one of his team saying he just saw me on the TV

:33:38. > :33:42.and asked for me to be on the show. A Fox employee asked if I would have

:33:43. > :33:45.dinner with him, when he was flying into Los Angeles. He is the big

:33:46. > :33:48.boss. You can't say no, it would ruin your career. I said yes,

:33:49. > :33:53.thinking I will keep it really business, it is a good opportunity

:33:54. > :33:56.for me to talk about becoming a paid contributor. I didn't have to bring

:33:57. > :33:59.it up. Earlier in the dinner, he told me Roger Ailes, the chairman,

:34:00. > :34:04.was his good friend and they would offer me a position as a paid

:34:05. > :34:15.contributor. It felt almost like a celebration dinner until we left. We

:34:16. > :34:17.walked out of the restaurant, I turned left to go to the bar,

:34:18. > :34:20.thinking we were going to continue the conversation at the bar, he

:34:21. > :34:23.turned to the right, towards the hotel rooms. When I said, I think

:34:24. > :34:26.the bar is this way, he said, come back to my sweet. I said, I'm sorry,

:34:27. > :34:28.I can't do that. I said, we are both parents, raising girls, we have

:34:29. > :34:31.teenage daughters, maybe we should model some good choices? You said,

:34:32. > :34:35.OK, we got to the bar and his demeanour changed from charming too

:34:36. > :34:41.hostile. He said, you can forget about the career advice I gave you,

:34:42. > :34:44.you are on your own. I knew that my days were limited. Like so many

:34:45. > :34:49.victims of sexual harassment, we think, I can fix this, I will let

:34:50. > :34:52.him know I am not going to sue, send him lots of cringeworthy, sucking up

:34:53. > :34:56.to the boss e-mails, they tried to defame me by leaking some of these

:34:57. > :35:03.e-mails, but eventually he had an executive producer get rid of me.

:35:04. > :35:11.Did you raise it with the channel? No, Fifa reasons. Women of my

:35:12. > :35:15.generation, we are so accustomed of navigating these landmines, we have

:35:16. > :35:18.almost normalised sexual harassment. Secondly, I didn't know as a job

:35:19. > :35:25.applicant that you can also have a case for sexual harassment. I

:35:26. > :35:31.thought, can I call human resources at Fox? I don't even work there. I

:35:32. > :35:35.didn't come until a New York Times journalist contacted me. She found

:35:36. > :35:38.out that they had been paying off women quietly for years and they

:35:39. > :35:44.were all unable to talk because they had gag orders. I was in a unique

:35:45. > :35:48.position to tell the truth. Honestly, I had to make an ethical

:35:49. > :35:52.decision to lie to the New York Times, to protect Bill O'Reilly and

:35:53. > :35:57.Fox News, or to tell the truth and make workplaces better for our

:35:58. > :36:00.daughters. It has to be said, he has defended himself. He said he has

:36:01. > :36:04.been targeted because of who he is, and he says the claims that have

:36:05. > :36:14.been made against him are completely unfounded. Might I add, we could

:36:15. > :36:18.suspect that is true if he had been paying off $20,000, $30,000. We are

:36:19. > :36:21.talking about $30 million and there is now a Justice Department

:36:22. > :36:23.investigation into what funds they were taking that money out of,

:36:24. > :36:28.whether it was revealed to the shareholders that they were quietly

:36:29. > :36:34.paying of women for their silence. 21st Century Fox also says it has

:36:35. > :36:38.taken prompt and decisive action to address reports of sexual harassment

:36:39. > :36:43.and workplace issues at Fox News. There has been an overhaul of the

:36:44. > :36:46.Channel leadership, management and reporting structure, and fundamental

:36:47. > :36:52.changes to the on-air talent and prime-time programming line-up have

:36:53. > :37:03.happened. Why do you say, as you said yesterday, when you met with

:37:04. > :37:08.off, -- Ofcom, that it should impact on what happens with 21st Century

:37:09. > :37:11.Fox and Sky? They are only firing talent because we shone a light on

:37:12. > :37:16.them, because women have protested. They didn't do it over all of these

:37:17. > :37:20.years. If the Murdochs try to say this is before our time, we are

:37:21. > :37:24.hands off, two payoffs happened after they fired Roger Ailes and the

:37:25. > :37:28.Murdoch sons were running things. This is the tip of the iceberg, I

:37:29. > :37:35.think. More victims are coming forward with more claims, lots of

:37:36. > :37:39.claims of racial harassment, and even an e-mail hacking claim. The

:37:40. > :37:42.woman cannot talk about it because she is under arbitration, she said

:37:43. > :37:45.Fox News was hacking into her e-mails. It reminds me of the phone

:37:46. > :37:49.hacking thing that happened years ago. The conversation with Bill

:37:50. > :37:55.O'Reilly, you said when you spoke to him about not going to his suite,

:37:56. > :37:59.you said, we are both parents, we want to model good choices. You are

:38:00. > :38:07.a mother of daughters. How important do you think is that kids, men and

:38:08. > :38:10.women, learn about the way to behave in the workplace? I comment in media

:38:11. > :38:14.all the time about relationships and about parenting, and I think we need

:38:15. > :38:17.to not only teach our sons and daughters about sexual consent, but

:38:18. > :38:25.also that daughters need to understand that you cannot give

:38:26. > :38:29.consent to your boss. Even if you do have a sexual act with somebody that

:38:30. > :38:32.is higher up, that can be used as evidence not against you, but to

:38:33. > :38:35.confirm that you were sexually harassed. Somebody signs your

:38:36. > :38:40.paycheque, you don't have the ability to give sexual consent. We

:38:41. > :38:44.need to teach our sons and daughters how to say no politely and not be

:38:45. > :38:49.afraid to make that claim to human resources, as I should have done in

:38:50. > :38:52.2013. I didn't know. Thank you very much indeed. I mentioned that Bill

:38:53. > :38:54.O'Reilly denies the allegations. We've had this statement

:38:55. > :38:56.from Bill O'Reilly, who said, "It is tremendously disheartening

:38:57. > :38:58.that we part ways due But that is the unfortunate reality

:38:59. > :39:02.many of us in the public eye And 21st Century Fox have told us,

:39:03. > :39:07."We have taken prompt and decisive action to address reports of sexual

:39:08. > :39:09.harrassment and workplace These actions have led

:39:10. > :39:14.to an overhaul of Fox News Channel's leadership, management and reporting

:39:15. > :39:16.structure, and have driven fundamental changes

:39:17. > :39:34.to the channel's on-air talent We will have that first interview

:39:35. > :39:45.with Marina A in a moment. Now back to Victoria. -- Marine A.

:39:46. > :39:49.We are in Camborne to talk to people about the issues that matter to them

:39:50. > :39:53.ahead of the election. Low wages, seasonal jobs, affordable housing,

:39:54. > :39:56.and Brexit has not come up that much, even though most people in

:39:57. > :40:00.Cornwall voted to leave the European Union. A lot of people say we have

:40:01. > :40:04.done it, let's get on with that, there are more important things to

:40:05. > :40:10.worry about. In terms of new, affordable homes for this county,

:40:11. > :40:15.last year was the lowest number built. In terms of council houses

:40:16. > :40:20.available for renting last year, ten new council houses were delivered.

:40:21. > :40:24.Guess how many on the social housing waiting list? 20 9000. Let's talk to

:40:25. > :40:30.various people about housing. John, hello. John is homeless. Alistair is

:40:31. > :40:35.here, the chief executive of a housing association charity called

:40:36. > :40:41.Coastline. We have Claire Jones, who has had housing issues in the past,

:40:42. > :40:48.but you were helped by Cornwall Neighbourhoods For Change, and we

:40:49. > :40:51.have a representative from them here today. Tell us about your

:40:52. > :40:55.circumstances Richard Matt I was made homeless six months ago because

:40:56. > :40:59.my previous landlady decided to sell up and leave the county. Since then,

:41:00. > :41:06.I have been struggling to get on the housing ladder, due to the fact I

:41:07. > :41:12.have a Jack Russell dog. You are managing to pay rent? I was paying

:41:13. > :41:17.rent, it was no problem. Why were you not able to continue in another

:41:18. > :41:21.property? It is finding a property, properties that are affordable, also

:41:22. > :41:28.finding a property with a landlord that will accept housing benefit,

:41:29. > :41:34.pets. The list is endless. There seems to be a constant struggle

:41:35. > :41:40.against excuses to be able to find somewhere to rent. Where do you

:41:41. > :41:43.sleep? At the moment, luckily I have friends that will put me up on their

:41:44. > :41:47.sofa. I have been in situations where I have had to sit outside,

:41:48. > :41:52.which is not terribly nice. That is when the persecution of society

:41:53. > :41:58.comes in. Then you are homeless, and frowned upon. Day-to-day living, it

:41:59. > :42:01.ends up putting a strain on your mental health, hence the mental

:42:02. > :42:06.health issues we hear about with homeless people. I just hope I can

:42:07. > :42:10.find somewhere in the near future, so that I can regain and start

:42:11. > :42:15.building my life again. You want to work this summer? I would love to

:42:16. > :42:21.work. There is plenty of work around here, if you are prepared to try

:42:22. > :42:25.your hand at anything. But there are a lot of problems in Cornwall. There

:42:26. > :42:30.is not a lot of permanent work. That biggest problem is the wages,

:42:31. > :42:37.compared to house prices, rent, cost of living, it is not real world. We

:42:38. > :42:41.have spent a lot of time talking about housing this morning.

:42:42. > :42:46.Absolutely no apologies for that, it is a huge issue for people here. How

:42:47. > :42:51.bad is it? It is bad here, as it is up and down the country.

:42:52. > :42:55.Affordability is a big issue, values are high, wages are low, it makes it

:42:56. > :42:58.difficult for people to live next to friend and family, it has an impact

:42:59. > :43:01.on communities, health, job opportunities. It is difficult for

:43:02. > :43:05.people to move where they need to for jobs, which holds back

:43:06. > :43:08.businesses. It's a drain on the economy as well. I think it is a

:43:09. > :43:13.massive issue and people underestimate the wider impact. Tell

:43:14. > :43:17.us how your charity helps people like Claire? Claire was living in a

:43:18. > :43:22.caravan and it was really unfit for her with her three children. What we

:43:23. > :43:29.were able to do, we tried going to the council and then we went through

:43:30. > :43:34.Coastline, and they have a place opposite the community centre. We

:43:35. > :43:43.were able to give her the support that she and her family needed. The

:43:44. > :43:50.caravan was... It was a disaster. It was practically living on a building

:43:51. > :44:00.site. Through Tarn's help, and Coastline... Bless you, Claire. You

:44:01. > :44:12.are fine, it is good now? It's fabulous. I have a home with my

:44:13. > :44:19.children. Oh, dear... Sorry. Do not apologise. It's the fact that, like

:44:20. > :44:24.John, trying to get accommodation, you go to the council, and you just

:44:25. > :44:28.constantly feel like you are being fobbed off. There was not enough

:44:29. > :44:33.social housing. You are constantly being told, we will give you the

:44:34. > :44:38.money, go private. Both Labour and the Conservatives are talking about

:44:39. > :44:42.how they have targets for building houses, Labour say they would build

:44:43. > :44:46.1 million new affordable homes over five years. The Conservative sake we

:44:47. > :44:49.will free of planning laws to make it easier for local councils to

:44:50. > :44:54.build. When you hear that, what do you think? I would like to know

:44:55. > :44:57.where they are going to put them. You are just going to be building

:44:58. > :45:03.upon building, which will create tight communities, tight places. It

:45:04. > :45:08.will probably end up leading to social problems in the end because

:45:09. > :45:13.of overcrowding. What would you say? When you hear promises like that?

:45:14. > :45:18.Like John said, OK, where are they going to put them? But then they say

:45:19. > :45:23.affordable housing, affordable for people to buy second homes? That is

:45:24. > :45:28.an issue here, outsiders come in, buying holiday homes, pushing up the

:45:29. > :45:32.price and reducing the supply? Then you have a lot of houses that are

:45:33. > :45:36.left vacant, that our holiday homes. That is no good. There needs to be

:45:37. > :45:40.more social housing, more help with vulnerable people, like John, like

:45:41. > :45:49.my situation, where you are not being told, have the money for

:45:50. > :45:53.private rented. For me, Private rented was... Private landlords

:45:54. > :45:59.don't have these skills to deal with vulnerable people, mental health

:46:00. > :46:02.issues. They are after their money. Coastline, other housing

:46:03. > :46:06.associations, they have contingency, they have the ability to look after

:46:07. > :46:09.people who are in vulnerable situations. They don't care about

:46:10. > :46:11.your bottom dollar. They care about the individual, they care about the

:46:12. > :46:22.person that needs the property. Thank you very much. Clare, are you

:46:23. > :46:34.all right? Well done. Alistair. Thank you very much and John. That's

:46:35. > :46:38.it from Cornwall for today. We'll be in, I think, it is the Welsh valleys

:46:39. > :46:56.next way. Anyway, stay tuned and you will find out. Thank you very much.

:46:57. > :47:02.Now it's time for What The? We need a general election and we need one

:47:03. > :47:10.now. To every village and every town. We state a clear intention.

:47:11. > :47:19.The big question is simply? At what point... Are voters getting tired of

:47:20. > :47:24.politicians. Let me finish. So Norman what have you got for us

:47:25. > :47:29.today? I have for you a banana! To you and me this maybe a humble

:47:30. > :47:33.banana which you maybe having for your breakfast, but in politics it

:47:34. > :47:38.can be a dangerous weapon! Do you remember you go back to I think it

:47:39. > :47:41.was 2010, that first Labour leadership contest when David

:47:42. > :47:47.Miliband was photographed here in Manchester where I am today with a

:47:48. > :47:51.banana and it looked weird and many people thought it did for his

:47:52. > :47:54.leadership pros pecks. Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn had his banana moment

:47:55. > :47:59.when a supporter, it may been a Labour enthusiast, it may have been

:48:00. > :48:03.a stranger came running up with a couple of bananas. It was a surreal

:48:04. > :48:07.moment and to understand it, you have to remind yourself that Theresa

:48:08. > :48:11.May has been going on and on about strong and stable leadership. Well,

:48:12. > :48:14.this was Jeremy Corbyn's nanna moment.

:48:15. > :48:34.APPLAUSE I had no idea what a strong and

:48:35. > :48:41.stable banana is. Perhaps this is a strong and stable banana. Elsewhere,

:48:42. > :48:45.memo to Tim Farron, do not get in shot behind the camera when you're

:48:46. > :48:50.on live because sometimes things can go wrong! Particularly when you're

:48:51. > :48:57.on your campaign bus and it is swaying around and oops a daisy!

:48:58. > :49:01.We're north of the border to Scotland where the Lib Dems are

:49:02. > :49:04.focussing on trying to gain back some of the seats they lost at the

:49:05. > :49:13.last general election focussing on... Oh no! Oh dear, oh dear!

:49:14. > :49:17.LAUGHTER Poor old Tim Farron. Anyway, that's

:49:18. > :49:23.all I've got at the moment, Joanna. I'm going to head off and have an

:49:24. > :49:27.early lunch and have this banana while I'm waiting for Jeremy Corbyn

:49:28. > :49:33.to get to his feet. That strong and stable banana.

:49:34. > :49:43.The former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, also known as Marine A,

:49:44. > :49:45.admits that he made a terrible mistake shooting dead an injured

:49:46. > :49:49.In his first TV interview to the BBC after he was released

:49:50. > :49:55.from prison last month, he described the killing

:49:56. > :50:03.Sergeant Blackman had originally been found guilty of murder in 2013

:50:04. > :50:06.but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal

:50:07. > :50:08.in March after a campaign for his release led by his wife,

:50:09. > :50:11.The killing, which happened in Helmand Province

:50:12. > :50:13.in Afghanistan in September 2011, attracted widespread publicity

:50:14. > :50:18.Video footage from a head camera worn by a fellow Marine

:50:19. > :50:55.Here's Alexander and Claire Blackman talking to our correspondent,

:50:56. > :51:09.Good. Very good. I think for anybody that's not been in or spent time in

:51:10. > :51:14.prison it is hard to explain how it is. Just the freedom to do whatever

:51:15. > :51:17.you want, whenever you want. You feel like going outside for five or

:51:18. > :51:21.ten minutes, you can. If you want to stay out for the whole day, you can.

:51:22. > :51:24.It's a really good feeling. Mrs Blackman, you often have said to me

:51:25. > :51:30.in the past, you wondered if this day would ever come. How do you feel

:51:31. > :51:36.right now? It's really here. We did it. I did often wonder if it would

:51:37. > :51:40.ever come, but it took a long time to sink in. I didn't quite believe

:51:41. > :51:43.it, but now he's home, it's wonderful.

:51:44. > :51:48.You have described her as a wife in a million? Yes. I mean, what can you

:51:49. > :51:53.say to someone that sticks by you through something like this and not

:51:54. > :51:57.only that, but spends the last three-and-a-half years, you know,

:51:58. > :52:01.fighting to get you out. I need to take you to that point when, I

:52:02. > :52:07.think, you yourself have described it as a moment of madness. You've

:52:08. > :52:15.had plenty of time to reflect on it. What do you think now? I don't think

:52:16. > :52:20.my view has changed. It's still, I don't know why exactly I did it.

:52:21. > :52:25.It's still a moment of madness is the best description I can give.

:52:26. > :52:30.Yes, it's not exactly the proudest moment of my life when I look back

:52:31. > :52:35.on that. Why did you do it? I really couldn't tell you. I don't - I have

:52:36. > :52:41.spent a lot of time thinking about it and I haven't got a definitive

:52:42. > :52:46.answer. If that situation arose again, and I

:52:47. > :52:49.know it must be an almost unpossible question to answer, how would you

:52:50. > :52:53.react again or can you not say because it was in the heat of

:52:54. > :53:00.battle? It is such a unique circumstances and in a unique area

:53:01. > :53:05.of the world. Like I say, the likelihood of me ever finding myself

:53:06. > :53:11.in that position again is so remote, it's almost comical. Yes, so it's

:53:12. > :53:15.really can't really answer how I'd act because I don't think that's

:53:16. > :53:20.ever likely to happen again. Mrs Blackman you have had to sit and

:53:21. > :53:24.watch the fall-out of it. How do you feel about the decision that your

:53:25. > :53:30.husband made? It's not for me to judge. I have no concept of just how

:53:31. > :53:37.incredibly stressful it must have been out there. I used the phrase

:53:38. > :53:41.before and I'm putting words into his mouth, I realise, but I feel

:53:42. > :53:47.personally, fairly certain that, you know, if he a time machine and could

:53:48. > :53:51.go back and do things differently, he would. But, you know, we don't

:53:52. > :53:55.have access to such things and what is done is done and now we have the

:53:56. > :54:00.chance to move on and we're looking forward to doing that. Is that a

:54:01. > :54:04.fair assessment for you? Yes, I think hindsight is a wonderful thing

:54:05. > :54:09.and given, especially what happened to us in our life, if you could go

:54:10. > :54:13.back, you would change things and perhaps do things different. I have

:54:14. > :54:17.to say, and forgive me for pushing this point, the helmetcam ra, the

:54:18. > :54:23.video, the audio, implies you knew perfectly well what you were doing.

:54:24. > :54:27.Yes and I think, and that's the trouble what we found with that,

:54:28. > :54:33.it's a five minute section of an incident that took well over an hour

:54:34. > :54:40.and to be fair you can put quite a few different spins on what is said

:54:41. > :54:44.and unless you were there, you don't know the full story. Obviously, I

:54:45. > :54:54.told my version of eye vents when I was at trial along with the other

:54:55. > :54:57.guys that were there. I - I'm content that what I told was my

:54:58. > :55:03.belief at the time. If other people have other views, you know, they're

:55:04. > :55:08.entitled to do that so... Moving on to the trial... Yes.

:55:09. > :55:12.I know you were led to believe it was all going to be OK. Yes. You

:55:13. > :55:17.never thought it would end up as a murder conviction? No. No, you just,

:55:18. > :55:22.I mean, having never worked through the legal system at the time, you

:55:23. > :55:27.take the advice given and when you're getting told that things are

:55:28. > :55:32.positive, I mean, they weren't singing and dancing and saying it's,

:55:33. > :55:37.you know, it's a guaranteed thing, but you know, we were sort of given

:55:38. > :55:41.advice that things were going our way. There are critics suggesting

:55:42. > :55:47.that the military hung you out to dry. Can I ask you both, is that how

:55:48. > :55:51.you feel about it? It's not really for me to say. Again, you don't

:55:52. > :55:56.know, I don't know all the facts and particulars that had gone and it

:55:57. > :55:58.would be wrong to start proportioning blame to certain

:55:59. > :56:05.people when I don't know those facts. What about you Mrs Blackman?

:56:06. > :56:08.No, I agree, there are lots of questions that I personally have

:56:09. > :56:12.that remain unanswered, but that's all they are and as I said before,

:56:13. > :56:14.you know, this is our chance now to move forward and that's what we're

:56:15. > :56:18.going to do. The new judge on Strictly

:56:19. > :56:31.to replace Len Goodman, It's a lady by the name of Shirley

:56:32. > :56:37.Ballas. She is well-known in dancing circles. She is a ten-times United

:56:38. > :56:41.States Latin American champion. A multiple time British national

:56:42. > :56:44.champion. She retired in 1996 and since then has taught around the

:56:45. > :56:47.world both professionals and amateurs and judged professional and

:56:48. > :56:52.amateur competitions around the world as well. People who are really

:56:53. > :57:03.into their dance and Strictly may know she is the mother of Mark

:57:04. > :57:08.Ballas. She has also popped up on It Takes Two here on the BBC. She will

:57:09. > :57:12.be taking over from Len Goodman as head judge when the series returns

:57:13. > :57:17.later this year. And we always obviously see the judges in terms of

:57:18. > :57:20.whether they go easy on the contestants and what they're like.

:57:21. > :57:24.Is it possible to say what she will be like? It is very difficult. The

:57:25. > :57:30.appearances on It Takes Two she seems to be nicement we are assuming

:57:31. > :57:36.she will be closer to the Bruno end of the scale rather than the Craig

:57:37. > :57:41.Revel Horwood scale. When Strictly started in 2004, it had the two main

:57:42. > :57:49.people, Bruce Forsyth presenting and Len Goodman as the head judge. Since

:57:50. > :57:54.then the BBC said it needs to improve racial diversity and in

:57:55. > :57:57.terms of gender, now on a big, big BBC programme, the main two

:57:58. > :58:01.presenters are two women and the head judge is a woman and that will

:58:02. > :58:07.be seen as an important symbol for the BBC, not to do on all its

:58:08. > :58:10.programmes, but on one of its absolute biggest programme.

:58:11. > :58:25.Have a lovely afternoon. I will see you soon. Bye-bye.