0:00:08 > 0:00:10Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12Welcome to the programme.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Our top story today - Britain and the European Union
0:00:14 > 0:00:17appear close to reaching a deal that will clear the way for the second
0:00:17 > 0:00:27phase of Brexit talks.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30We'll look at whether it's possible to avoid a hard border
0:00:30 > 0:00:38between N Ireland and Ireland and why it's so important.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39Also on the programme - life with obsessive
0:00:39 > 0:00:40compulsive disorder.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Domestic demand so household spending and business investment.
0:00:43 > 0:00:49I'm nearly 24 so I say nearly 24 because I am 23, but I don't like
0:00:49 > 0:00:55odd numbers because they bring me bad luck so I have bipolar as well,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59and borderline personality disorder. It is a long list of what I have
0:00:59 > 0:01:04been diagnosed with. We will stick, it is three actually because I have
0:01:04 > 0:01:04OCD.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05OCD.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08In about 15 minutes time we'll bring you a revealing documentary
0:01:08 > 0:01:10which looks at life for people living with mental
0:01:10 > 0:01:11health conditions.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14And - it's feared the Croydon cat killer could be responsible for up
0:01:14 > 0:01:16to 400 cat deaths since 2015.
0:01:16 > 0:01:26We'll look at what's being done to find the culprit.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Hello.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -
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0:01:43 > 0:01:47We will hear from the Australian MP who proposed to PSNI partner during
0:01:47 > 0:01:54a debate on same-sex marriage.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Britain and the European Union appear close to reaching a deal that
0:01:57 > 0:02:00will clear the way for the second phase of Brexit talks.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02EU sources said the two sides were "nearing solutions",
0:02:02 > 0:02:04ahead of Theresa May's meeting with the European Commission
0:02:04 > 0:02:10President, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Brussels this afternoon.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15Diplomats held negotiations through the night on the last
0:02:15 > 0:02:17remaining sticking point - the Irish border.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Our Europe correspondent, Adam Fleming reports.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Three trips in three months.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Now, the Prime Minister is making a fourth visit to Brussels to get
0:02:24 > 0:02:25the Brexit talks going.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28She will meet EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Junker,
0:02:28 > 0:02:32and others, to apply the finishing political touches to a package
0:02:32 > 0:02:34of commitments that has been sweated over by officials.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37It sounds like there has been progress in talks about the rights
0:02:37 > 0:02:40of EU citizens who will stay in the UK after Brexit,
0:02:40 > 0:02:50and British people living abroad.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Discussions about how much money is owed by the UK appear to have
0:02:55 > 0:02:57been unblocked by a more detailed offer from Britain.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00But the big sticking point is what to do about the border
0:03:00 > 0:03:02between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04The Irish Government does not want to wait
0:03:04 > 0:03:05for a possible trade deal.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08They want certainty on what is going to happen, now.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Downing Street has called today an important staging post on the way
0:03:11 > 0:03:14to a European summit in ten days' time, because that is when EU
0:03:14 > 0:03:16leaders will decide whether there has been enough talk
0:03:16 > 0:03:18about the divorce to start working out the future.
0:03:18 > 0:03:19Adam Fleming, BBC News, Brussels.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29So let's get the detail on what might and might not be said -
0:03:29 > 0:03:31our political guru Norman Smith is at Westminster for us.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Progress is being made. Slowly. Britain is almost through to the
0:03:34 > 0:03:40next round.Almost. We seem to have an agreement on the amount of cash
0:03:40 > 0:03:46we have to pay out, thought to be in the region of 40-50 billion euros so
0:03:46 > 0:03:50a lot more than Brexiteers were saying at the start. We seem to have
0:03:50 > 0:03:56kind of grasped our way to some sort of arrangement on the future of EU
0:03:56 > 0:04:00citizen, Ireland remains the big stumbling block and here at
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Westminster too there are signs that some Brexit supporting Tory MPs are
0:04:04 > 0:04:10beginning to cut up rough, wanting clear assurances from Mrs May when
0:04:10 > 0:04:16believe in March 2019 we leave. We are not half in, half out, still
0:04:16 > 0:04:21talking rules from the European Court of Justice, still taking
0:04:21 > 0:04:24decisions by the European Council, still having freedom of movement.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29They want a clean break, when believe we leave. But significantly
0:04:29 > 0:04:33they are not threatening to topple or undermind Mrs May, because they
0:04:33 > 0:04:38know were they to do so a number of things could happen, could get
0:04:38 > 0:04:42another Tory leader who might be more queasy about Brexit, you would
0:04:42 > 0:04:46end up with an election, a Jeremy Corbyn Government or you create a
0:04:46 > 0:04:50load of uncertainty which delays Brexit, although we have Brexit
0:04:50 > 0:04:56supporting Tory MPs saying you have to be tougher, cometh the hour they
0:04:56 > 0:05:01are not going to topple Mrs May.On the question of the Irish border,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04everybody wants the status quo, an invisible open board e what is the
0:05:04 > 0:05:09steer on what Britain has come up with in terms of a solution?Well,
0:05:09 > 0:05:14we don't know, because we are not going to be given a solution, now is
0:05:14 > 0:05:18not about an answer to the border issue, what it is about with warm
0:05:18 > 0:05:23words, it is a about language, trying to reassure Dublin and also,
0:05:23 > 0:05:27to reassure people in Northern Ireland, but it is a bit of a
0:05:27 > 0:05:36puzzle, it is like the Brexit version of a Rubik cube, David Davis
0:05:36 > 0:05:41has to ensure that the border dreedgetly exist, that things are as
0:05:41 > 0:05:44seamless as possible between north and southern Ireland, while at the
0:05:44 > 0:05:47same time not giving any indication at all that somehow Northern Ireland
0:05:47 > 0:05:53is being pulled away from the rest of the UK, so it is an intellectual
0:05:53 > 0:05:57conundrum. It is about coming forward with words that both sides
0:05:57 > 0:06:00can say that looks kind of enough, we will move on to the Nketiah stage
0:06:00 > 0:06:04of talks.Thank you Norman. More to come through the morning of
0:06:04 > 0:06:06course.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Ben is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest
0:06:09 > 0:06:11of the days news.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14700,000 children and pensioners in the UK have fallen into relative
0:06:14 > 0:06:17poverty over the past four years, according to a new report.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's the first sustained rise
0:06:20 > 0:06:23affecting these age groups for 20 years.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25The left-leaning thinktank warns decades of progress
0:06:25 > 0:06:27are in danger of unravelling, and has called on the
0:06:27 > 0:06:28government to take action.
0:06:28 > 0:06:35Our social affaris correspondent, Michael Buchanan has more.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38For Flo Singleton, this drop-in centre has many benefits.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40She can use its computers to keep up with her family.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41She can meet friends.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And, by being here, the 84-year-old does not have to spend money
0:06:44 > 0:06:48heating her own home.
0:06:48 > 0:06:56If you go out, you don't have to have your heating on, do you?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Trouble is, once it's dark, in the evenings now, and cold,
0:06:59 > 0:07:07you need to put the heating on, don't you?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says, since 2013, an extra 300,000
0:07:09 > 0:07:12pensioners and an additional 400,000 children are now living in poverty.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17In total, 14 million people in the UK are in poverty.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19What our report is now showing is that we're
0:07:19 > 0:07:22at a significant turning point.
0:07:22 > 0:07:2814 million people in the UK are in poverty.What our report is showing
0:07:28 > 0:07:32we are at a significant turning point. Two years in the increases is
0:07:32 > 0:07:36a real red flag to Government, that they really have to do something
0:07:36 > 0:07:42now.Researches say the Government should end the freeze on benefit,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46describing it as the biggest change that would reduce poverty but
0:07:46 > 0:07:50ministers say they are spending tens of billions of pounds helping those
0:07:50 > 0:07:53in need and the national minimum wage has given low earning
0:07:53 > 0:07:59households a significant pay rise.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Government funding for a flagship British aid project to support
0:08:01 > 0:08:03civilian police in Syria has been suspended.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's after whistle-blowers told the BBC's Panorama programme that
0:08:05 > 0:08:08some of the money was ending up in the hands of extremists.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10The Foreign Office says it's investigating the allegations,
0:08:10 > 0:08:16as Panorama's Jane Corbin explains.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19South Korea and the United States have launched large scale
0:08:19 > 0:08:21joint aerial drills, a week after North Korea said it had
0:08:21 > 0:08:23tested its most advanced missile.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24The annual US-South Korean drill, called Vigilant Ace,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27will run until Friday, with six F-22 Raptor stealth
0:08:27 > 0:08:29fighters to be deployed among the more than 230
0:08:29 > 0:08:30aircraft taking part.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32The exercises have been condemned as a provocation
0:08:32 > 0:08:42by the isolated North.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Spoke to the BBC about the pornography they say was found on a
0:08:55 > 0:08:58computer in Damian a green's office were wrong, and she condemns what
0:08:58 > 0:09:05they did. She has said on the Vanessa felts show all police
0:09:05 > 0:09:09officers have a duty of confidentiality to protect personal
0:09:09 > 0:09:11information and that inDewars after they leave.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16She said it is my view that what they have done is wrong, and I
0:09:16 > 0:09:23condemn it. We are reviewing whether any offences have been committed.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Facebook says it's creating 800 new jobs in the UK,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28as it opens a new office in central London.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30It'll become the firm's biggest engineering hub outside
0:09:30 > 0:09:31of the United States.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32An estimated two-thousand-three-hundred people
0:09:32 > 0:09:35will be employed by the social media company in the UK by
0:09:35 > 0:09:43the end of next year.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45A co-operative group is to start selling food
0:09:45 > 0:09:46beyond its 'best before' date.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49125 shops in East Anglia will sell tinned goods
0:09:49 > 0:09:52and dried food such as pasta, crisps and rice for a flat
0:09:52 > 0:09:52rate of ten pence.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55It's part of a drive to reduce the seven-million tonnes of food
0:09:55 > 0:10:02thrown away in the UK each year.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05The number of schoolchildren with a part-time job has fallen
0:10:05 > 0:10:07by a fifth in the past five years.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10The findings come from a Freedom of Information request to all local
0:10:10 > 0:10:11authorities across the UK responsible for issuing
0:10:11 > 0:10:12child employment permits.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15It's thought changing consumer patterns and pressure to do well
0:10:15 > 0:10:25at school are responsible for the change.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31As new driving tests come into force to better reflect modern roads,
0:10:31 > 0:10:33examiners have begun a 48-hour strike.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36The new tests will see an end to manoeuvres such as the three
0:10:36 > 0:10:38point turn and reversing round a corner, but learners
0:10:38 > 0:10:40will now have to parallel park and follow directions
0:10:40 > 0:10:41from a sat nav.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union
0:10:43 > 0:10:53are protesting against the changes, as well as pay and working hours.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Sky-gazers had a treat last night - there was a supermoon -
0:10:56 > 0:10:59that means the moon appeared much bigger and brighter than usual.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01It only happens when it reaches its closest point to Earth.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04These are some of the spectacular images from right across
0:11:04 > 0:11:05the country, through the night.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08It was the last opportunity to see a supermoon this year -
0:11:08 > 0:11:10but Nasa says this will be a "supermoon trilogy"
0:11:10 > 0:11:13with others to come in swift succession on new Year's Day
0:11:13 > 0:11:22and January 31st.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Boy band Rak-Su have been named the winners of the X Factor 2017.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29The Watford-based group beat Grace Davies in the final of the ITV
0:11:29 > 0:11:31singing competition - the first male group to win the show
0:11:31 > 0:11:32since it started in 2004.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35During the final they thanked viewers for voting for them.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Figures released by ITV suggested they got 51.7% of the vote
0:11:38 > 0:11:45in last night's final.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Endures after they leave. She said it is my view that what
0:11:53 > 0:11:55they have done is wrong, and I condemn it. We are reviewing whether
0:11:55 > 0:11:57any offences have been committed. We have an insightful documentary
0:11:57 > 0:12:01coming up on mental health and people living with severe mental
0:12:01 > 0:12:06health conditions. Your message says Kelly say I have had six months of
0:12:06 > 0:12:10hell trying to get a plan in place, I will be watch this morning. Edwin
0:12:10 > 0:12:14says my friend suffers from OCD and people tell him to just get over it.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19It is sad that people don't take mental health issues as seriously as
0:12:19 > 0:12:24they should. Chantelle says people should see and know what it is like
0:12:24 > 0:12:36to talk about problem, and Rob says it can be debilitating, an example
0:12:36 > 0:12:43would be two people with different viewpoints seeing the same thing,
0:12:43 > 0:12:47one laughs wile the other get upset.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -
0:12:50 > 0:12:53use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text, you will be charged
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0:12:54 > 0:12:55Here's some sport now.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57I can't believe we are suggesting that England's chances of winning
0:12:57 > 0:13:00the Ashes are slipping away. It is depressing if you are an England
0:13:00 > 0:13:06supporter. It is. Looking, things go from bad to worse for England. To
0:13:06 > 0:13:13remind you that Australia posted that mammoth total 442-8. England
0:13:13 > 0:13:18have had a disastrous first innings. Alastair Cook got 37. This is Joe
0:13:18 > 0:13:22Root falling very companily, just nine for Joe Root. The Captain not a
0:13:22 > 0:13:26good series for him. Australia's bowlers doing the job
0:13:26 > 0:13:31single-handedly. That is Nathan Lyon catching Moeen Ali. Look at the
0:13:31 > 0:13:36reaction from Mitchell Starc. He had half a second to react to that ball
0:13:36 > 0:13:41coming to dismiss Jonny Bairstowy Bairstow, that is James Anderson
0:13:41 > 0:13:46going the last ball of England's in, but they have take an quick wicket.
0:13:46 > 0:13:52There is James Anderson bouncing back after falling for England to
0:13:52 > 0:13:57dismiss Bancroft there for 5-1. So Australia back in bat, looking to
0:13:57 > 0:14:03build on that mammoth lead they have. England all out for 227, 215
0:14:03 > 0:14:09behind and of course if England slip to a 2-0 loss in the series so far,
0:14:09 > 0:14:14that puts the ashes within touching distance for Australia, the next
0:14:14 > 0:14:20test is in Perth, England haven't won at the Waka since 1978. That is
0:14:20 > 0:14:24almost 40 years so eight days into the Ashes Series and it looks like
0:14:24 > 0:14:30the urn may already be lost. Stop. Stop. Stop! OK. Ronnie O'Sullivan,
0:14:30 > 0:14:35he is a star, does he want to take part any I'm a celebrity?He is full
0:14:35 > 0:14:41of surprises.You will know he is. An unconventional approach to his
0:14:41 > 0:14:45sport. He has a love hate relationship, deciding one minute he
0:14:45 > 0:14:51loves snooker, the next he hates it. His current approach he doesn't want
0:14:51 > 0:14:54to become too emotionally involved and he wants to play for the enjoy
0:14:54 > 0:14:59it of it. He has won the current tournament he is playing in the UK
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Championship, five times he has won five World Championships as well, so
0:15:02 > 0:15:06which ever approach he takes seems to be working but at the moment he
0:15:06 > 0:15:10is relaxed, and therefore happy to talk about the fact he would quite
0:15:10 > 0:15:15keen to take part in I'm a celebrity get me out of here. He has been
0:15:15 > 0:15:18watching it and he was watching it the other night and thought wow I
0:15:18 > 0:15:23need to have a go. You get a chance to go Australia. Get the family out
0:15:23 > 0:15:27there for a nice holiday, he said I am coming round to the idea if the
0:15:27 > 0:15:33price is right. He is a big fan of one of the contestants Amir Khan who
0:15:33 > 0:15:39is taking part for a fee of around 250,00 pounds, and Ronnie said he
0:15:39 > 0:15:42would be keen if the price was right. He said I get approached all
0:15:42 > 0:15:46the time do these show, I have been too busy playing snooker, I have
0:15:46 > 0:15:50turned down opportunities in the past, I would do it now. So maybe
0:15:50 > 0:16:03next series we will be covered in snakes or eating spiders. Spiders.-
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Next this morning - I really urge you to set aside some
0:16:06 > 0:16:08time and watch this fascinating and moving film which follows three
0:16:08 > 0:16:09people with different mental health experiences.
0:16:09 > 0:16:15Bex, who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,
0:16:15 > 0:16:20Laura who is recovering from anorexia and Matt
0:16:20 > 0:16:25who experiences anxiety and depression.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27They invited Radio 1 Newsbeat to spend much of 2017
0:16:27 > 0:16:30following them and their stories so they could help raise awareness
0:16:30 > 0:16:31of mental health issues.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34It's pretty intimate and raw and as you might imagine
0:16:34 > 0:16:37their stories encompass highs and lows, and as such you might find
0:16:37 > 0:16:39some of the things they share with us distressing.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43I'm nearly 24.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47So I say nearly 24 because I'm actually 23 but I don't like odd
0:16:47 > 0:16:48numbers because they bring bad luck, so...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50So I'm nearly 24.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54Er, I love cats, so, I love cats.
0:16:54 > 0:17:00I've got bipolar as well, and borderline personality disorder.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I forgot about that, I forgot about that then.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's quite a long list, actually, what I've been diagnosed with,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07but we'll just stick to the two...
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Well, it's three, actually, because I've got OCD as well.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12That's an odd number, hang on.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29I started off, I was overweight from being a young child.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32When I got to about 16, when I was going to college,
0:17:32 > 0:17:38I decided just to lose some weight.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41It just sort of snuck up on you, it's not like one day
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I woke up and thought, "I'm an anorexic."
0:17:44 > 0:17:50Erm, but I suppose I started getting the thought that it was out
0:17:50 > 0:17:56of control when I realised that I couldn't eat without feeling
0:17:56 > 0:17:58guilty, I couldn't eat without the compulsive
0:17:58 > 0:18:02need to exercise.
0:18:02 > 0:18:07It does affect my photography quite a lot.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10It's a very active job, I'm on my feet all the time.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I have to have the energy, whereas most the time I'm
0:18:13 > 0:18:21continuously weak and not feeling strong enough.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Aren't you beautiful?
0:18:25 > 0:18:31I hit rock bottom on 20th November 2016, and I will remember that date
0:18:31 > 0:18:34because it was the day I went to sleep and it was the first
0:18:34 > 0:18:40time that I felt that I never wanted to wake up.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44On the 20th of every month now I want to set myself little
0:18:44 > 0:18:53goals that help me keep on the road to recovery.
0:18:53 > 0:18:59So they include things like starting a tai chi class or doing some yoga.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03I want to do a skydive for BEAT, the eating disorder charity.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05And one day it'll be several years of recovery,
0:19:05 > 0:19:09rather than just months.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19I've always been an anxious lad, really, but it wasn't until I joined
0:19:19 > 0:19:22the Navy that I realised there was an issue there.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25I remember once I was walking through the dockyard and I had
0:19:25 > 0:19:27a massive panic attack, I didn't know what it was.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31It wasn't until I was told, really, that I knew it was an issue.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34That's when I realised that I was ill and it's not something
0:19:34 > 0:19:35that's just going to go away.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37When it's at its worst, it's completely debilitating.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I couldn't be here now playing golf, it'd be...
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I wouldn't shower for days, I'd just sleep, or wouldn't sleep,
0:19:42 > 0:19:43I'd drink really heavy.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45The panic attacks, the suicidal thoughts,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48everything that comes with it, comes all at once and there's not
0:19:48 > 0:19:52much you can do about it, really.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55There's so many different symptoms that come with a panic attack.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57You've got the racing heart, you can't breathe, you're
0:19:57 > 0:20:00shaking, you're crying, you're sweating, hallucinations.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03You feel like you're going to die.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06I really want to go out for my 30th.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09We're on about going away somewhere, but it scares me
0:20:09 > 0:20:14because when I get too drunk, that's when I have my panic attacks.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Yes!
0:20:18 > 0:20:20MP3 player, phone.
0:20:20 > 0:20:25I've been diagnosed with depression, social anxiety disorder,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar, borderline personality
0:20:28 > 0:20:29disorder, and also insomnia.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32And that window's locked.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35I call my anxiety disorder the anxious hug monster,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38because that's how it feels, my chest is compressed,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41it feels like your heart's pounding and your hands are shaking.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43That's locked.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46When I've been leaving the flat, it takes me longer with my OCD
0:20:46 > 0:20:49as well, and my anxiety.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53I need to do my checks, right, so we need to go...
0:20:53 > 0:20:56That's turned off, that's turned off, that's turned off.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Hang on, that's turned on, and then that's turned off.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01That's turned off.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05The window is locked.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08That's locked.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09One, two, three, four, five, six...
0:21:09 > 0:21:10That's locked.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12And then to my bedroom.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14The lamp is unplugged.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16The laptop needs to be unplugged.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17Don't trust that being on.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Straighteners are unplugged.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Everything's turned off in here, the window's locked.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Right, living room.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28This window, that's locked, that's fine.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31I'll just check the back door again, then we can go.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Right, that's definitely locked.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34OK, right, we can go, we can go, I know the straighteners
0:21:34 > 0:21:37are unplugged, we can go now.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Just check that window again.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39That's fine, that window's fine.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43OK, everything's turned off.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46I know the straighteners are unplugged, for God's sake,
0:21:46 > 0:21:47and the back door's locked.
0:21:47 > 0:21:53OK.
0:21:59 > 0:22:05OK, we, OK, we can go.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07I'll just count to ten, one, two...
0:22:07 > 0:22:08..Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11OK, we can go.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14So I go to knitting club every week, and today's knitting club day,
0:22:14 > 0:22:21so I'm going to do my yarn-bombing and sew all my patches
0:22:21 > 0:22:24so I'm going to do my yarn-bobbing and sew all my patches
0:22:24 > 0:22:25onto the bench.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28During the week we make things, and then on the actual knitting club
0:22:28 > 0:22:30day we just sew them on.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33When I was ill, like with my anxiety, which hasn't got better,
0:22:33 > 0:22:35but when I was, well, not ill, but a bit unwell
0:22:35 > 0:22:39with my anxiety, I didn't go to the knitting club for about four
0:22:39 > 0:22:41weeks, so I missed a month, but I came back and everyone
0:22:41 > 0:22:44was dead welcoming and, "Oh, glad you're feeling better,"
0:22:44 > 0:22:45and now I just like the knitting.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46One minute.
0:22:46 > 0:22:54SIREN WAILS.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Sorry about that.
0:22:57 > 0:23:02I don't like sirens, I'm really sensitive to sound.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05I try and have a good routine, take my medication at a specific
0:23:05 > 0:23:11time, at night-time, then have a good meal.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15Even if it's just a few rows or if it's just something, like,
0:23:15 > 0:23:19I've got a chalkboard in the kitchen and it will always tell me to water
0:23:19 > 0:23:23the plants and knit, so I've got to do at least those two
0:23:23 > 0:23:26things everyday, and then I know I've done something with the day.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31And even though it's not a lot, it's a lot for someone that has,
0:23:31 > 0:23:36like, a mental illness, so even though I'm out now,
0:23:36 > 0:23:39I can't stop thinking if the straighteners are turned on.
0:23:39 > 0:23:40But I know I've unplugged them.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44I know I've unplugged them.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Before, I would never have ordinarily eaten anything for lunch,
0:23:56 > 0:24:00but something quite generic, like beans on toast,
0:24:00 > 0:24:04is almost a safe food for me, but it's getting it in.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Before, I would never have eaten bread or potatoes,
0:24:08 > 0:24:12or even beans would have been too much sugar in that, so to go
0:24:12 > 0:24:15from eating nothing to eating something like this is quite a big
0:24:15 > 0:24:18deal for me.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21But when I am making food, I just sort of try and distract
0:24:21 > 0:24:24myself as much as possible.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28If I stand here in silence and think about it, I will just let my mind
0:24:28 > 0:24:31wander to calories more often than not, and I'll start thinking
0:24:31 > 0:24:34about what else am I going to be eating later and how many calories
0:24:34 > 0:24:37are in this, and if I pull myself back and actually think,
0:24:37 > 0:24:43why am I doing this, I can't really give a reason for it.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48One of the worst things for me to overcome was the guilt.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50You know, when I was just about to hit rock bottom,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53I never thought I would be able to eat like a normal person again.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06I'm not ashamed to say that I've used alcohol substantially
0:25:06 > 0:25:11throughout the years to aid me.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14I wouldn't say necessarily that I have an issue,
0:25:14 > 0:25:15however I know it's a trigger.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Guinness, please, pal.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20It's got bad over the last couple of weeks because I felt bad.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23I know I've been drinking too much because I'm not doing anything.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24The gym's started to slip a little bit.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Golf's just gone out the window.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30It's very much waking up feeling like crap on a weekend
0:25:30 > 0:25:32and doing it all again.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34It's a downward spiral.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37As soon as you start to counteract the depression with the beer,
0:25:37 > 0:25:38it's just not worth it.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40And then you go back to where you were.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44But it's telling yourself not to do that, because that's all I've done,
0:25:44 > 0:25:45that's all I've learned through the Navy, etc,
0:25:45 > 0:25:48when I've been trying to battle it, like alcohol's the way out,
0:25:48 > 0:25:49when essentially it isn't.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52It just makes things 20 times worse.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58So I have to collect medication today, it's the sort
0:25:58 > 0:26:04of thing that I dread, but we'll see how I get on.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08OK, so we're here. And it's definitely busy.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12There's people everywhere, people get too close to me,
0:26:12 > 0:26:14and then people having conversations, but loads and loads
0:26:14 > 0:26:16and loads of conversations, and then there's staff talking,
0:26:16 > 0:26:19and it's just really loud.
0:26:19 > 0:26:24It really affects my anxiety.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28So I've got my medication - hooray - and it's time to go home.
0:26:28 > 0:26:35Hooray.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40So I wasn't in there for very long, and I'm home now,
0:26:40 > 0:26:45and I still don't feel that calm.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49There's three little boxes in there, so that'll last me...
0:26:49 > 0:26:52That'll last me four days and in four days' time I'll
0:26:52 > 0:26:57have to get some more.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59So...
0:26:59 > 0:27:05It's just a case of me trying to find something to calm me down.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I want to show you a little bit of my bloat.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13This is just from eating a perfectly normal tea,
0:27:13 > 0:27:15let's have a look at the time, three hours ago.
0:27:15 > 0:27:20And I look like I'm carrying a baby.
0:27:20 > 0:27:26Now, I know it's not that bad, considering, but as somebody who has
0:27:26 > 0:27:28bones jutting out most of the time, my belly button
0:27:28 > 0:27:34is even sticking out.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38It isn't painful, but it is extremely uncomfortable.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41It feels like the worst gas, the worst pressure, you can't
0:27:41 > 0:27:47get the air in, and...
0:27:47 > 0:27:52These are my ankles, and today they are terrible with something
0:27:52 > 0:27:56called peripheral neuropathy.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00That is a nerve damage, and the best way to describe it,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03it's like a creeping sensation, like lots of little bugs
0:28:03 > 0:28:06are crawling up my legs.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Anybody who thinks eating disorders are a vanity thing, you know,
0:28:08 > 0:28:14I looked haggard and half-dead in my worst throes of anorexia,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17and I knew that was ugly.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I didn't want to look like that.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24That's a prime example of the fact that it's all in your head,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26nothing to do with being narcissistic, or vanity.
0:28:26 > 0:28:31Exhale, release down.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33On the plus side, I've just completed this month's challenge.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Extend the arms forward.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Yoga went really, really well.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Actually did help my circulation as well, which was a nice thing.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46And I just thought it was a really nice way to spend some time
0:28:46 > 0:28:52with myself and to be with other people at the same time as well.
0:28:52 > 0:28:59SHE SIGHS.
0:28:59 > 0:29:08I've just got all these thoughts in my head all the time.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12It's like the world is just really loud and my chest
0:29:12 > 0:29:15always feels really tight, and I've got all these thoughts
0:29:15 > 0:29:20going in my head all the time, there's just not an off switch.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27I just want to feel OK, and I don't even know
0:29:27 > 0:29:31what that feels like.
0:29:33 > 0:29:39Normal day, woke up 5am, ready for the 6am-3pm early shift.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Nothing stands out during work that would influence what happened,
0:29:42 > 0:29:48it was just a standard day.
0:29:48 > 0:29:53At the time, I was going through the motions of giving my car back.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57I came home, just had a quick beer, playing Fifa, and I get a phone call
0:29:57 > 0:29:59from an unknown number, which I wouldn't normally pick up,
0:29:59 > 0:30:01but for some reason I just did.
0:30:01 > 0:30:06HE EXHALES.
0:30:06 > 0:30:11RAPID BREATHING.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17RAPID BREATHING.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21HE EXHALES SLOWLY.
0:30:21 > 0:30:29HE SOBS.
0:30:29 > 0:30:39HE EXHALES SLOWLY.
0:30:54 > 0:31:04HE SOBS.
0:31:08 > 0:31:09Come on.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Basically an insurance company had contacted my old address saying
0:31:12 > 0:31:14they're going to auto-renew my car insurance for £3000, which...
0:31:14 > 0:31:17Just literally knocked me for six.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19It was like...
0:31:19 > 0:31:22The only way I can describe it, it's like you're grieving,
0:31:22 > 0:31:25that grieving feeling when you lose something, that's all I can describe
0:31:25 > 0:31:27it, that's all I can remember of it.
0:31:27 > 0:31:32People say, "Just calm down."
0:31:32 > 0:31:39It doesn't work.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40It just makes it worse.
0:31:40 > 0:31:46So whoever's watching this...
0:31:46 > 0:31:47Don't say that.
0:31:47 > 0:31:56Because it makes it BLEEP20 times worse.
0:31:56 > 0:31:57BLEEPthis.
0:31:57 > 0:32:07BLEEPthis.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09WHISPERING:I've got to go to sleep.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13All the time, all I hear is, "Don't eat, don't eat,
0:32:13 > 0:32:17you can't eat, you're a failure, it's a weakness, do you know how
0:32:17 > 0:32:20many calories you eat?"
0:32:20 > 0:32:22I feel sick, I feel tired, I feel dizzy.
0:32:22 > 0:32:23I'm so cold.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25I don't know what to do for the best.
0:32:25 > 0:32:35I just want to curl up in a ball.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51We'll be showing you the second half of that film with Laura,
0:32:51 > 0:32:55Bex and Matt in the next hour, or you can watch the whole thing
0:32:55 > 0:32:56online by heading to BBC iPlayer.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58It's called My Mind and Me.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00There are also details of organisations that offer
0:33:00 > 0:33:02advice and support for any of the conditions you've
0:33:02 > 0:33:09just seen online, just search for BBC Actionline.
0:33:09 > 0:33:14Some messages from people watching the film. Daniel says, I didn't
0:33:14 > 0:33:19expect to see our wedding photographer Laura on Victoria Live
0:33:19 > 0:33:22talking about eating disorder, he is such a lovely person and our wedding
0:33:22 > 0:33:26pictures are brilliant. A lot of comments from people talking about
0:33:26 > 0:33:33how difficult it is to access help from the medical professionals,
0:33:33 > 0:33:36ahave a says NHS mental Health Services are in crisis, it is
0:33:36 > 0:33:39impossible to get the treatment you need, making one's mental health
0:33:39 > 0:33:47worse. Once you inevitably reach a crisis point there are no beds so
0:33:47 > 0:33:50they put us in private wards which must cost a fortune. Chris says
0:33:50 > 0:33:56this, I have been trying to see a psychiatrist as advised by medical
0:33:56 > 0:33:59professional, three years later I haven't seen one or have a care plan
0:33:59 > 0:34:04in place, I am a male single parent, I have lost my job and home due to
0:34:04 > 0:34:09mental health problems but at least I have an apology letter from the
0:34:09 > 0:34:14team responsible. Jill says my son has suffered poor mental health for
0:34:14 > 0:34:1730 years and was told by the GP we don't have the funding to help you.
0:34:17 > 0:34:23It is very very sad. Keep those coming in with your
0:34:23 > 0:34:29unexperienced. -- own experiences, part two coming up.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Time for the latest news, here's Ben.
0:34:31 > 0:34:36Britain and the European Union appear close to reaching a deal that
0:34:36 > 0:34:38will clear the way for the second phase of Brexit talks.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41EU sources said the two sides were "nearing solutions",
0:34:41 > 0:34:47ahead of Theresa May's meeting with the European Commission
0:34:47 > 0:34:48President, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Brussels this afternoon.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Diplomats held negotiations through the night on the last
0:34:51 > 0:34:52remaining sticking point - the Irish border.
0:34:52 > 0:35:02Our Europe correspondent, Adam Fleming reports.
0:35:14 > 0:35:19Speaking on the Vanessa Feltzes show on BBC Radio London the scarred boss
0:35:19 > 0:35:24Coll denned what they had done. She said all splis a duty of
0:35:24 > 0:35:28confidentiality and it endures after they leave the force. And she said,
0:35:28 > 0:35:31there would be a review of whether any offences had been committed.
0:35:31 > 0:35:32any offences had been committed.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35700,000 children and pensioners in the UK have fallen into relative
0:35:35 > 0:35:38poverty over the past four years, according to a new report.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's the first sustained rise
0:35:40 > 0:35:41affecting these age groups for 20 years.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43The left-leaning thinktank warns decades of progress
0:35:43 > 0:35:46are in danger of unravelling, and has called on the
0:35:46 > 0:35:56government to take action.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58It's reported from Madrid that six former ministers of Catalonia -
0:35:58 > 0:36:01who were detained for their role in the region's illegal
0:36:01 > 0:36:03declaration of independence - have been freed on bail.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Meanwhile Catalonia's former President Carles Puigdemont is due
0:36:05 > 0:36:15to appear at an extradition hearing in Brussels.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Let's get the latest from Madrid with Gavin Lee.
0:36:18 > 0:36:25A legal tussle but with political implications?Yes, I mean if look at
0:36:25 > 0:36:30it, you have the whole separatist Government in court, either here in
0:36:30 > 0:36:35Madrid, or in Brussels, and bear in mind these were all the men and
0:36:35 > 0:36:39women who voted illegally to break the region away from Spain what has
0:36:39 > 0:36:43happened in the last few minutes, you have the hearing about eight of
0:36:43 > 0:36:48those ministers who have spent more than a month in prison now, they,
0:36:48 > 0:36:52where they are facing allegations of sedition and rebellion, which
0:36:52 > 0:36:57carries 30 years in prison. They were remanded in custody because one
0:36:57 > 0:37:02of the risk they would flee like the former President who is wanted, he
0:37:02 > 0:37:06is in court as part of an extradition request by Spain to face
0:37:06 > 0:37:10the same allegation, that will take we think about a week to decide, a
0:37:10 > 0:37:14ruling on that case, here in the past few minutes six of those
0:37:14 > 0:37:20ministers have been Leesed providing they pay 100,000 euro row, just
0:37:20 > 0:37:25under £100,000 bail. That is likely to happen. They are in three
0:37:25 > 0:37:28different prisons. It is campaign launched for the elections in three
0:37:28 > 0:37:33weeks' time, we are hearing from some of the lawyers they will try to
0:37:33 > 0:37:37get ministers out of prison to Compiegne in that, two of the
0:37:37 > 0:37:40minister, including the Vice President will remain in custody, it
0:37:40 > 0:37:44is interesting because he on Friday, the hearing here at the Supreme
0:37:44 > 0:37:49Court in Madrid refused to take questions from anyone other than
0:37:49 > 0:37:52these own lawyer, effectively saying they don't recognise the Spanish
0:37:52 > 0:37:56state and the emergency powers they have taken over in Catalonia since
0:37:56 > 0:38:03they dissolved the Parliament and called election, we know those two,
0:38:03 > 0:38:09a former Interior Minister and two independent activists as well. We
0:38:09 > 0:38:11expect the rest to be released today.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13We expect the rest to be released today.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15That's a summary of the latest BBC News.
0:38:15 > 0:38:16Now the sport.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18Good morning.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21The Ashes are slipping away from England's grasp.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24They were bowled out for 227-215 behind Australia at the end
0:38:24 > 0:38:31of their first innings.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34Australia have lost Cameron Bancroft early on and are 15-1.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36David Silva gives Manchester City a record-equalling 13th
0:38:36 > 0:38:42Premier League win in a row, with a late goal against West Ham.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Alfie Hewett is the wheelchair Masters singles champion.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47He beat his compatriot Gordon Reid in Loughborough to become the first
0:38:47 > 0:38:50British winner in 23 years of the event.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52And the tournament favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan marches
0:38:52 > 0:38:54on at the UK Snooker Championship in York, he's comfortably
0:38:54 > 0:39:04through to the third round.
0:39:06 > 0:39:07Good morning.
0:39:07 > 0:39:08Good morning.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick,
0:39:09 > 0:39:11has condemned two former senior officers for revealing
0:39:11 > 0:39:14confidential detailsabout a raid on the office of Theresa May's
0:39:14 > 0:39:15number two, Conservative MP Damian Green.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Bob Quick and Neil Lewis alleged that pornography was found
0:39:17 > 0:39:20on a computer in the MP's Parliamentary office in 2008.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22This morning, Cressida Dick says she believes the officers
0:39:22 > 0:39:32breached their code of conduct.
0:39:35 > 0:39:41This is case from nine years ago, all police officers know very well
0:39:41 > 0:39:45they have a duty of confidentiality, a duty to protect personal
0:39:45 > 0:39:52information, that duty in my view clearly endures after you leave the
0:39:52 > 0:39:56service, and so it is my view that what they have done, based on my
0:39:56 > 0:40:00understanding of what that they are saying, what they have done, is
0:40:00 > 0:40:07wrong. And I condemn it. We are reviewing what they appear to have
0:40:07 > 0:40:10done in my professional standards department to see whether any
0:40:10 > 0:40:13offences have been committed. Police officers come across personal
0:40:13 > 0:40:16information, sensitive information every day, most of them several
0:40:16 > 0:40:21times a day, they know full well it is their duty to protect that
0:40:21 > 0:40:25information, and it is for me, extremely important that the public
0:40:25 > 0:40:30know that the vast majority of officers protect private
0:40:30 > 0:40:32information, properly, and all the time.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34information, properly, and all the time.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Mr Green strenuously denies the allegations.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38His colleagues have leapt to his defence, saying he's
0:40:38 > 0:40:40been unfairly treated, even hounded by the police.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43But retired Scotland Yard detective Neil Lewis says he has no doubt
0:40:43 > 0:40:51the pornography had been accessed by Damian Green.
0:40:51 > 0:40:58The computer was in Mr Green's office, on his desk,
0:40:58 > 0:41:02logged in, you know, it's his account, his name, erm...
0:41:02 > 0:41:10In between browsing pornography, he was sending e-mails
0:41:10 > 0:41:12from his account, his personal account, erm...
0:41:12 > 0:41:13reading documents, writing documents, erm...
0:41:13 > 0:41:23and it was just impossible, it was sort of exclusive and extensive,
0:41:25 > 0:41:27that it was ridiculous to suggest that anybody else
0:41:27 > 0:41:30could have done it.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Mr Green is also accused of behaving inappropriately
0:41:32 > 0:41:35with a Conservative activist.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37The investigation into both those matters is expected to conclude
0:41:37 > 0:41:38early this week.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40Let's talk to Chris Phillips, the former head
0:41:40 > 0:41:41of counter-terrorism for the Metropolitan Police.
0:41:41 > 0:41:49Alex Chalk is the Conservative MP for Cheltenham.
0:41:49 > 0:41:55Welcome both of you. Chris Philp, Cressida Dick could not have been
0:41:55 > 0:41:58clearer what these two retired off verse done is wrong and she condemns
0:41:58 > 0:42:05itAbsolutely.Would you agree?I certainly agree that we shouldn't
0:42:05 > 0:42:08retired police officers shouldn't be sharing information such as that.
0:42:08 > 0:42:13However, there is the difficulty of when you personally know or believe
0:42:13 > 0:42:17that something is not being said that is true. Don't forget this has
0:42:17 > 0:42:19come from an allegation of inappropriate...There is no
0:42:19 > 0:42:25difficulty. You have a duty, you had a Code of Conduct and you a duty to
0:42:25 > 0:42:29follow that code of counting and according to Britain's Top Cop those
0:42:29 > 0:42:33officers have potentially breached itShe has been very career on that,
0:42:33 > 0:42:39those are retired police.Why does it make a difference? Why? They are
0:42:39 > 0:42:43releasing confidential information, into the public domainWe have a
0:42:43 > 0:42:46whistle-blower system where you should put information, if you think
0:42:46 > 0:42:51a wrong is being done and being covered up. Now, I am not making
0:42:51 > 0:42:55excuses for the officer, what I am saying is they believed that what
0:42:55 > 0:42:58they needed to put into the public domain was important and they have
0:42:58 > 0:43:03done that.Is that fair enough?No, absolutely not. We have heard now
0:43:03 > 0:43:10from the top police officer also Sir Peter pay hi, Sir Tom Winsor, these
0:43:10 > 0:43:15is a barn door breach of the code of conduct.Should they be prosecuted
0:43:15 > 0:43:20That is a matter for the police and the CPS. But at first ambulance it
0:43:20 > 0:43:23looks like a serious breach has taken place, it is an important
0:43:23 > 0:43:28matter. We give police officers power and with pours come
0:43:28 > 0:43:32responsibility, to breach those corrodes trust in the police which
0:43:32 > 0:43:35we have a fantastic police force but this does nothing for the
0:43:35 > 0:43:40reputation.Mr Green has given evidence to the inquiry into him
0:43:40 > 0:43:45that pornography has the been found on other Parliamentary computers
0:43:45 > 0:43:50without being downloaded or watched by staff. Could that help him?The
0:43:50 > 0:43:55real point here is he is saying nine years after the event. This was
0:43:55 > 0:44:00something nothing to do with me.One of the things that is so wrong is if
0:44:00 > 0:44:03that had been announced, declared nine years aing a it might have been
0:44:03 > 0:44:07possible for him to say I couldn't have been at the computer because I
0:44:07 > 0:44:11was at this meet, so to leak this out, in the media nine years later
0:44:11 > 0:44:19deprives that person of a defence, that making it doubly wrong.It is
0:44:19 > 0:44:23time that he resigns?Absolutely not. I think it would be wrong if
0:44:23 > 0:44:28something which turns out to be have been a complete breach of the Code
0:44:28 > 0:44:31of Conduct of police officers were to contribute in that way.What if
0:44:31 > 0:44:37it is true?The point I was goings...What if it is true?Those
0:44:37 > 0:44:40are being considered by the Cabinet Office, that I will need to consider
0:44:40 > 0:44:45them in the round. The simple point is if they should have been declared
0:44:45 > 0:44:50why not speak to the Cabinet Office about it? Why go on national TV and
0:44:50 > 0:44:54speak about nit that way?What we are talking about it seems to have
0:44:54 > 0:44:59gone surreal. We are talking about people in the seat of Government
0:44:59 > 0:45:04looking at porn.Not according to Damian green.Someone is looking at
0:45:04 > 0:45:10it. Many other people are doing something similar, these thing, porn
0:45:10 > 0:45:14is rife with...It was legal pornography, you saying it is right
0:45:14 > 0:45:19for them to make a moral judgment? There are police officers who have
0:45:19 > 0:45:23been sacked for watching porn, rightly.So they expect the same to
0:45:23 > 0:45:28be done for somebody else, even though they have downloaded or watch
0:45:28 > 0:45:35it it?Someone has. These officers are clear they believe Damian Green
0:45:35 > 0:45:39has, the point is, this is going on and don't let us forget there is a
0:45:39 > 0:45:44security issue here as well, because this stuff is full of malware and
0:45:44 > 0:45:48all sorts of stuff. This is in our seat of Government. This should not
0:45:48 > 0:45:55be happening.That is defended on a spurious pretext. No crime had been
0:45:55 > 0:45:58committed and the officers took a moral judgment to embarrass him.
0:45:58 > 0:46:03That is very wrong.
0:46:03 > 0:46:09Thank you very much. Damian Green denies the allegations.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12Coming up, we'll hear from the Australian MP who used
0:46:12 > 0:46:14a debate on same-sex marriage to propose to his
0:46:14 > 0:46:18boyfriend in Parliament.
0:46:18 > 0:46:26Ryan Patrick Polger, will you marry me?
0:46:32 > 0:46:35How delicious is that?
0:46:36 > 0:46:39How do you take the UK out of the EU, but keep
0:46:39 > 0:46:43the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland open?
0:46:43 > 0:46:46That is the question that has been taxing politicians here,
0:46:46 > 0:46:48there and in Europe, who are desperate to move
0:46:48 > 0:46:50onto the next round of Brexit negotiations.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54With Northern Ireland leaving the EU, and Ireland remaining,
0:46:54 > 0:46:58it's unlikely that the 500km border can remain as it is, but all sides
0:46:58 > 0:47:02are desperate to avoid a hard border with strict customs checks,
0:47:02 > 0:47:06which may also destabilise peace in the area.
0:47:06 > 0:47:11The EU has told the Irish Government that it's up to them to decide
0:47:11 > 0:47:14whether they're happy with the deal Theresa May puts on the table.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17Their Cabinet is meeting now to make that decision.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20We can speak to Neil Richmond who is a senator for Fine Gael,
0:47:20 > 0:47:21Ireland's governing party.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24Dr Sylvia De Mars is from Newcastle University.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27She has been looking at the impact a hard border would have
0:47:27 > 0:47:28on Northern Ireland.
0:47:28 > 0:47:32Kevin Doyle is the political editor for the Irish Independent.
0:47:32 > 0:47:38Thank you very much for talking to us. Mr Richmond first of all. Can
0:47:38 > 0:47:43you explain to our audience some of whom voted for Brexit for
0:47:43 > 0:47:46immigration or economic reasons, but not because of anything to do with
0:47:46 > 0:47:48the Irish border why it is so important for Northern Ireland and
0:47:48 > 0:47:54the island of Ireland to continue with an invisible border?Well, for
0:47:54 > 0:47:57the past 20 years begins the Good Friday Agreement came into place,
0:47:57 > 0:48:02life on the island of Ireland has taken up a whole new normal way of
0:48:02 > 0:48:05being economically and socially and ever since Brexit occurred the
0:48:05 > 0:48:08referendum took place, the Irish Government has been firm that
0:48:08 > 0:48:12whatever happens when the UK leaves the EU that the integrity of the
0:48:12 > 0:48:16island of Ireland must be maintained as close as it is possible to as it
0:48:16 > 0:48:21is now. Because of what? What would happen
0:48:21 > 0:48:25if there was a hard border?Well, there is so much, but the most
0:48:25 > 0:48:28striking thing apart from the huge economic impact, the amount of
0:48:28 > 0:48:34cross-border trade that we have and the sheer ease of movement of people
0:48:34 > 0:48:37over 30,000 people cross the border every day, for business and for
0:48:37 > 0:48:41education purposes and health purposes, but crucially if physical
0:48:41 > 0:48:44border controls and custom protections were put in, it has been
0:48:44 > 0:48:51said by both police forces on the island and sir Hugh Orde there could
0:48:51 > 0:48:55be a viable return to violence within just one week.Ireland's
0:48:55 > 0:48:59Deputy Prime Minister has said this morning there is no agreement yet on
0:48:59 > 0:49:03this issue of the border. There is progress, but no agreement yet. What
0:49:03 > 0:49:09does the British Government have to do today to satisfy you?Well, I
0:49:09 > 0:49:12think there has been a lot of discussion over the weekend and what
0:49:12 > 0:49:15the Irish Government has been very firm on for at least 18 months is
0:49:15 > 0:49:19that we want to see detailed proposals from the British
0:49:19 > 0:49:23Government. I do believe the Cabinet has received some draft
0:49:23 > 0:49:25recommendations following the weekend's negotiation which are
0:49:25 > 0:49:29being poured over at the moment. These aren't final texts. These
0:49:29 > 0:49:33won't be the end of the story, but we're hoping what has been received
0:49:33 > 0:49:36so far and discussed over the weekend will allow significant
0:49:36 > 0:49:41progress in order for us to go on to phase two of the negotiations.Let
0:49:41 > 0:49:47me bring in Sylvia, if everyone wants to keep the border open and
0:49:47 > 0:49:52invisible which they do, what's the issue?Problemically there are a
0:49:52 > 0:50:00number of red lines which are in conflict of each other amongst the
0:50:00 > 0:50:08negotiating parties. So, say you don't want to be in either of those
0:50:08 > 0:50:13arrangements implies you're going to have different rules and regulations
0:50:13 > 0:50:17than the EU and Ireland at some point in time and you're going to
0:50:17 > 0:50:22run into borders being created. A secondary problem is that one of the
0:50:22 > 0:50:27offers that the EU has made is to say can we not look at creating a
0:50:27 > 0:50:30special deal fortunately Northern Ireland alone given these
0:50:30 > 0:50:36circumstances? But that runs contrary to what the DUP desires out
0:50:36 > 0:50:39of these negotiations and doesn't want Northern Ireland to be treated
0:50:39 > 0:50:43differently from the rest of the United Kingdom. So...So is there a
0:50:43 > 0:50:48way...The ways it achieve not having a hard border have been made
0:50:48 > 0:50:52difficult by the red lines set out. Do you think there is a way
0:50:52 > 0:50:56realistically of designing something that perhaps looks like the customs
0:50:56 > 0:51:01union. You call it something else, allowing the invisible border to
0:51:01 > 0:51:04continue and allowing Britain the freedom to negotiate its own free
0:51:04 > 0:51:08trade deals around the world?I think that at this point, we're
0:51:08 > 0:51:12running into issues of wording more than of principle. I think in
0:51:12 > 0:51:15principle, everyone is on the same page, but what needs to happen is
0:51:15 > 0:51:18that the future of the border in Ireland needs to be set out in a
0:51:18 > 0:51:21number of words that will make everyone happy. So we're going to
0:51:21 > 0:51:25have to agree to having basically similar rules and regulations in
0:51:25 > 0:51:29Northern Ireland and in Ireland in such a way that this does not make
0:51:29 > 0:51:31Northern Ireland feel like it's not part of the United Kingdom. I think
0:51:31 > 0:51:35everything we have been hearing this morning is that progress is being
0:51:35 > 0:51:40made on finding that wording, but we're not quite there yet.Let me
0:51:40 > 0:51:45bring in Kevin Doyle. Hi, Kevin, what steer are you getting? Is it
0:51:45 > 0:51:50going to be a fudged form of words? So far the Irish Government and the
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Cabinet that are meeting now, what will come out of the meeting is they
0:51:53 > 0:52:01won't take a fudge. The Taoiseach, has been taking a hard-line on this
0:52:01 > 0:52:04and the Brexit minister is saying again if a deal can't be reached
0:52:04 > 0:52:14today that doesn't matter, the Irish position won't change and the visit
0:52:14 > 0:52:17by Donald Tusk to Dublin last Friday gave the Government a renewed
0:52:17 > 0:52:20strength on this issue. There was some fear if Britain and it was seen
0:52:20 > 0:52:24as perhaps part of the British strategy was if they could get over
0:52:24 > 0:52:28the divorce bill they could make good progress on the rights of
0:52:28 > 0:52:31European citizens. That maybe Ireland would be pushed by the other
0:52:31 > 0:52:36members of the EU to move on to the next stage to deal with this as part
0:52:36 > 0:52:41of the trade talks, but the fact that Donald Tusk said to the
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Taoiseach, it is up to you, you decide what happens next and I
0:52:44 > 0:52:49gather that after the Theresa May, Jean-Claude Juncker meeting, the
0:52:49 > 0:52:53Taoiseach will be in contact and he will be asked if he thinks it can
0:52:53 > 0:52:57move on and at this stage all the signs are that Ireland is going to
0:52:57 > 0:53:03say no today at least.Say no?That it is not ready. The formula of
0:53:03 > 0:53:07words that is on the table from the British Government at the minute
0:53:07 > 0:53:10doesn't look like it's going to be enough for Ireland to allow things
0:53:10 > 0:53:17to move on today at least.OK.We will be going later into the week at
0:53:17 > 0:53:24the earliest.Is that what you're hearing Neil Richmond?One deadline
0:53:24 > 0:53:28has already been missed by the British Government back in October
0:53:28 > 0:53:33and we're not working to a deadline of this afternoon when Prime
0:53:33 > 0:53:39Minister May will meet President Juncker, but to the European Council
0:53:39 > 0:53:43meeting on 14th December. As the minister said this morning, we want
0:53:43 > 0:53:47to get this resolved as soon as possible. It's in our interests to
0:53:47 > 0:53:51move to phase two, but this is very, very important and we're not going
0:53:51 > 0:53:54to rush when we know we have to meet again in February, but we would like
0:53:54 > 0:53:59to get it resolved, if not today, in the next week or so.That's worth
0:53:59 > 0:54:04bearing in mind then. The expectations in the UK are that this
0:54:04 > 0:54:08somehow has to be sorted this afternoon, this form of words, but
0:54:08 > 0:54:14you're saying calm down?Well, to be honest, it's enlightening to us to
0:54:14 > 0:54:17see this added interest from the British negotiating team in the last
0:54:17 > 0:54:21fortnight. These are issues we have been talking about from the Irish
0:54:21 > 0:54:24and European side for the past 12 months. Nothing has changed from us,
0:54:24 > 0:54:29but we are starting to see the British side engage on the top three
0:54:29 > 0:54:32issues and the panic and last minute decision by many ministers to say we
0:54:32 > 0:54:36need to rush on to phase two now, it was disappointing when ultimately,
0:54:36 > 0:54:39both the British and European sides agreed a long time ago that we
0:54:39 > 0:54:43needed to get significant progress on the first three negotiating
0:54:43 > 0:54:47issues. This is what we have been talking about for months and months
0:54:47 > 0:54:51and months now. It hasn't just come it a head in the last week or so.
0:54:51 > 0:54:56And that's fair enough, isn't it? Yes. I think it is. I think that the
0:54:56 > 0:55:01number one problem that we've been seeing so far in the negotiations is
0:55:01 > 0:55:05that there have been a lot of inference that technology will
0:55:05 > 0:55:09resolve the border issue and I think what we're finally seeing this week
0:55:09 > 0:55:12is realism on the side of the UK saying it's not just about
0:55:12 > 0:55:16technology, we need to agree it's something bigger that ensures that
0:55:16 > 0:55:19Northern Ireland and Ireland will continue to have a level playing
0:55:19 > 0:55:22field in the future. Technology alone is not going to accomplish
0:55:22 > 0:55:27that. That is where the UK or where Ireland was hoping the UK would get
0:55:27 > 0:55:33to. It has just taken a while. Kevin, I'm interested in your, I'm
0:55:33 > 0:55:36not asking for our sources, but I'm interested in your steer that the
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Irish Government is going to say this form of words is not enough for
0:55:39 > 0:55:43us. Are you hearing that from more than one person? Two people? More
0:55:43 > 0:55:47than that?Yes, I'm hearing that from very senior people in
0:55:47 > 0:55:51government. The way one person who would be at the centre -- who would
0:55:51 > 0:55:55be at the centre of the talks phrased it was, "We are not viewing
0:55:55 > 0:55:59today as a drop dead deadline." And that is as much as saying we're not
0:55:59 > 0:56:03going to meet the deadline today. I don't know if I would put my house
0:56:03 > 0:56:09on it, but at this stage, all the signs are is there isn't going to be
0:56:09 > 0:56:13a piece of paper signed today, but having said that, the language is
0:56:13 > 0:56:16more positive than what we have been hearing in the last few days. There
0:56:16 > 0:56:22was a moment, I think in the last fortnight where the rhetoric perhaps
0:56:22 > 0:56:25from Dublin became somewhat offensive maybe in UK circles, but
0:56:25 > 0:56:29that was the Irish Government trying to get the UK to wake up to this
0:56:29 > 0:56:32problem. It's interesting, it's only in the last few days that I have
0:56:32 > 0:56:36seen the BBC vans and the other News Channels from the UK all lining up
0:56:36 > 0:56:41on the streets in Dublin. It's the first time I have seen since the
0:56:41 > 0:56:45economic crash and the bank bail out.We love a deadline as much as
0:56:45 > 0:56:52anyone else.It is reflective of the fact while Irish ministers went over
0:56:52 > 0:56:57and broke can diplomatic protocol they got no coverage and no notice
0:56:57 > 0:57:01and this has been the issue that's been talked about here all along.
0:57:01 > 0:57:05All the way through, people have been talking about the border here,
0:57:05 > 0:57:08but it isn't a thing that the British Government have copped on to
0:57:08 > 0:57:16at all.Thank you very much. All of you. I really appreciate it. Kevin
0:57:16 > 0:57:20Doyle, political editor the Irish Independent. The quote for me, "We
0:57:20 > 0:57:33are not viewing today as a drop dead deadline." So, stay tuned to BBC
0:57:33 > 0:57:38News for every twist and turn as the day progresses. I have got some
0:57:38 > 0:57:41messages from people watching the documentary, the mini documentary
0:57:41 > 0:57:46from Radio 1 Newsbeat. We played the first part in the first-half hour of
0:57:46 > 0:57:51our programme and what an insight it was into the lives of three young
0:57:51 > 0:57:55people with some pretty severe mental health issues. One viewer
0:57:55 > 0:58:01e-mailed to say, "I cried while watching that documentary. I was
0:58:01 > 0:58:07diagnosed with bipolar last October so I can relate to Bex. Once I
0:58:07 > 0:58:12entered the mental health system, I have been amazed at their service
0:58:12 > 0:58:16and I still am." That's so good to hear. You don't often hear that. So
0:58:16 > 0:58:22thank you. Another, no, "Much love it all three brave people. You will
0:58:22 > 0:58:30get there." A tweet from Helen, "Heart piercing videos from three
0:58:30 > 0:58:36very bave people. Should be required viewing." Julie says, "What a brave
0:58:36 > 0:58:41video on mental health." Simon tweets, "As someone with OCD, I can
0:58:41 > 0:58:46emphasise with every moment of that film. I hid my conditions for so
0:58:46 > 0:58:51long, but things can get better with help. Those three people are so
0:58:51 > 0:58:56brave. Today you will inspire people to seek help." Thank you for those.
0:58:56 > 0:59:00We have got the second part of the documentary coming up in the next
0:59:00 > 0:59:04hour of the programme. News and sport are on the way.
0:59:04 > 0:59:08Before that, the weather. Matt is here. Apparently we will get the big
0:59:08 > 0:59:12chill this week, is that right?Yes, winter is back. Did you watch the
0:59:12 > 0:59:18skies last night?I go to bed very early because I get up very early! I
0:59:18 > 0:59:24didn't, but I have seen amazing footage.It is Supermoon time.
0:59:24 > 0:59:30Supermoons occur, the moon moves around the Earth in orbit and it
0:59:30 > 0:59:34coincides with the Earth. That's when it is called a Supermoon. It is
0:59:34 > 0:59:38then we get the moon appearing brighter and that little bit bigger
0:59:38 > 0:59:43as well. Always best viewed at the start of the day and at the end of
0:59:43 > 0:59:47the day. We have got a few cracking moon shots.
0:59:49 > 0:59:56That's amazing. The only Supermoon of 2017, but not long until the next
0:59:56 > 1:00:02one. The start of January and end of January.I will go to bed later.
1:00:02 > 1:00:09Good morning. It was a night of the Supermoon and it meant clear skies
1:00:09 > 1:00:13for some of you this morning. After that fine start to the week, it is a
1:00:13 > 1:00:17week of change and wet and windy weather to come midweek and by the
1:00:17 > 1:00:24end of the week as Victoria hinted at there is something more wintry
1:00:24 > 1:00:29heading our way. Dry and sunny across many eastern parts today, but
1:00:29 > 1:00:32in the west, more cloud around and that will threaten the odd shower
1:00:32 > 1:00:36here and there. Very few in number. Greatest chance of a few showers
1:00:36 > 1:00:40further north of Scotland where there is a keen breeze, but for
1:00:40 > 1:00:44most, it stays dry. Sunny spells. And temperatures above where they
1:00:44 > 1:00:48should be for the time of year. Seven to 11 Celsius. Which leaves us
1:00:48 > 1:00:51into a fine evening rush hour and through tonight, still the thickest
1:00:51 > 1:00:57of the cloud in the west with the odd passing shower. Turns wetter for
1:00:57 > 1:01:00the Hebrides later on. Most will be dry and cloud amounts will vary
1:01:00 > 1:01:06through the night. Like last night any lengthier cloud breaks,
1:01:06 > 1:01:10temperatures will drop below what you see on the chart. We continue
1:01:10 > 1:01:13with the milder theme compared with last week. Tomorrow the big
1:01:13 > 1:01:17difference will be thicker cloud across western and southern areas
1:01:17 > 1:01:21which will break to allow sunshine. Still the odd shower. Most places
1:01:21 > 1:01:26dry, but turning wetter later in the day. Again the Highlands and islands
1:01:26 > 1:01:30heavy and persistent rain here. Temperatures up a notch on what we
1:01:30 > 1:01:33will see through this afternoon. As we go further into wince, there is a
1:01:33 > 1:01:39price to pay. Strong and gale force winds. Many eastern areas will stay
1:01:39 > 1:01:43dry. Temperatures widely into double figures, but the wet and windy
1:01:43 > 1:01:47weather will spread eastwards. Widespread gales, if not severe
1:01:47 > 1:01:51gales. As that weather system pushes its way towards the east, we will
1:01:51 > 1:01:56start to see a drop in temperature. It looks like the colder air will be
1:01:56 > 1:01:58back particularly as we start to hit Friday.
1:01:58 > 1:02:02That's how it's looking.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05Hello it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.
1:02:05 > 1:02:07Crunch talks in Brussels today between Theresa May and the European
1:02:07 > 1:02:09Commission President - it's thought there's been
1:02:09 > 1:02:11progress on the divorce bill and citizen's rights ,
1:02:11 > 1:02:13but not on the Irish border.
1:02:13 > 1:02:15Malware and all sorts of stuff. This is in our seat of Government. This
1:02:15 > 1:02:17should not be happening.That is defended
1:02:18 > 1:02:22We want to get this resolved. We are, this is a very important, and
1:02:22 > 1:02:27we are not going to rush when we know we have to meet again in
1:02:27 > 1:02:30February, but ideally we would like to get it resolved in the next week
1:02:30 > 1:02:34or so.
1:02:34 > 1:02:36We've been following the lives of six people
1:02:36 > 1:02:39on their mental health journeys - they recorded their most
1:02:39 > 1:02:45personal moments to reveal what their lives are really like.
1:02:45 > 1:02:53I have these thoughts in my head all the time. It just hurts, like the
1:02:53 > 1:02:57world is really loud and my chest feels really tight. I have all these
1:02:57 > 1:03:01thoughts going in my head all the time. There is just not an off
1:03:01 > 1:03:01switch.
1:03:01 > 1:03:03There is just not an off switch.
1:03:03 > 1:03:07You can hear that report in full in around five minutes time.
1:03:07 > 1:03:10Many are you saying it should be compulsory viewing.
1:03:10 > 1:03:12Many are you saying it should be compulsory viewing.
1:03:12 > 1:03:15Five cats found dead in Northampton have been linked to the so-called
1:03:15 > 1:03:18Croydon cat killer thought to be responsible for the deaths of more
1:03:18 > 1:03:19than 400 animals across England.
1:03:19 > 1:03:22We'll be hearing from two families who have lost
1:03:22 > 1:03:23their pets in this way.
1:03:28 > 1:03:32Good morning.
1:03:32 > 1:03:35Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.
1:03:35 > 1:03:38Britain and the European Union appear close to reaching a deal that
1:03:38 > 1:03:41will clear the way for the second phase of Brexit talks.
1:03:41 > 1:03:43EU sources said the two sides were "nearing solutions",
1:03:43 > 1:03:45ahead of Theresa May's meeting with the European Commission
1:03:45 > 1:03:47President, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Brussels this afternoon.
1:03:47 > 1:03:49Diplomats held negotiations through the night on the last
1:03:49 > 1:03:59remaining sticking point - the Irish border.
1:04:02 > 1:04:05A spokesman said there has been significant progress we we are not
1:04:05 > 1:04:10there yet.
1:04:10 > 1:04:12A judge in Madrid has released on bail six former ministers
1:04:12 > 1:04:15of Catalonia who were detained for their role in the region's
1:04:15 > 1:04:16illegal declaration of independence.
1:04:16 > 1:04:18Two other ex-ministers - including the region's
1:04:18 > 1:04:20former Vice President - remain in custody.
1:04:20 > 1:04:22Meanwhile in Belgium, Catalonia's former President Carles
1:04:22 > 1:04:32Puigdemont is due to appear at an extradition hearing.
1:04:32 > 1:04:34The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said that former
1:04:34 > 1:04:37officers 'were wrong' to speak to the BBC about pornography
1:04:37 > 1:04:39they say was found on a computer in Damian Green's parliamentary
1:04:39 > 1:04:40office.
1:04:40 > 1:04:43Speaking on the Vanessa Feltz show on BBC Radio London,
1:04:43 > 1:04:45the Scotland Yard boss condemned what they had done.
1:04:45 > 1:04:48She said all police have a duty of confidentiality and to protect
1:04:48 > 1:04:50personal information, and that it clearly endures
1:04:50 > 1:04:53after they leave the force.
1:04:53 > 1:04:56And she said there would be a review of whether any offences
1:04:56 > 1:05:01had been committed.
1:05:01 > 1:05:03700,000 children and pensioners in the UK have fallen into relative
1:05:03 > 1:05:06poverty over the past four years, according to a new report.
1:05:06 > 1:05:08The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's the first sustained rise
1:05:08 > 1:05:10affecting these age groups for 20 years.
1:05:10 > 1:05:12The left-leaning thinktank warns decades of progress
1:05:12 > 1:05:14are in danger of unravelling, and has called on the
1:05:14 > 1:05:15government to take action.
1:05:15 > 1:05:25Our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan has more.
1:05:37 > 1:05:43Police operations were under way in the town, the woman was killed close
1:05:43 > 1:05:46to her home on the 16th of October in an attack that shocked the
1:05:46 > 1:05:52country. The 53-year-old was known for her blog accusing top
1:05:52 > 1:05:53politicians of corruption.
1:05:53 > 1:06:02politicians of corruption.
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1:06:14 > 1:06:18The second Ashes Test slipping away from England now, they lost a
1:06:18 > 1:06:22succession of quick wickets as they struggled to settle. Joe Root second
1:06:22 > 1:06:28to fall. There were moments of brilliance from Australia. Moeen Ali
1:06:28 > 1:06:33caught and bowled by Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc removed Bairstow in
1:06:33 > 1:06:41the same way. Incredible speed. Overton offered resistance. England
1:06:41 > 1:06:45all out for 227, over 200 runs behind, Australia wanted to top up
1:06:45 > 1:06:53that lead but James Anderson gave England and early breakthrough,
1:06:53 > 1:06:57Croft out, Australia 35-1. Manchester City are eight points
1:06:57 > 1:07:02clear at the top of the Premier League after a 13th win in a row.
1:07:02 > 1:07:09West Ham put up a fight. After City levelled David Silva put away the
1:07:09 > 1:07:19winner seven minutes from time. It was similar, it was I thought
1:07:19 > 1:07:26when we were in the second half weer going to score, win the game. Today
1:07:26 > 1:07:28was a bit different so it was massive.
1:07:28 > 1:07:33It shows they are going to do it. They can do it. I have been pleased
1:07:33 > 1:07:37in training they have been very good. I can't have complaints, the
1:07:37 > 1:07:42games I want us to play better but I think what you said today, we ran
1:07:42 > 1:07:46them close, not enough but hopefully we can take positives from that. It
1:07:46 > 1:07:50was controversy on the south coast with Bournemouth defender Adam Smith
1:07:50 > 1:07:55claimed the referee told him after the match he was wrong to book him
1:07:55 > 1:07:58for diving, instead of awarding a penalty against Southampton, the
1:07:58 > 1:08:02match ended in a one all draw. Smith will miss the next game for his
1:08:02 > 1:08:09fifth yellow card of the season. Rangers moved into second place
1:08:09 > 1:08:13above Aberdeen on goal difference, Windass with the winning goal there
1:08:13 > 1:08:18and non-league Woking will be in the hat for this FA Cup third round
1:08:18 > 1:08:26draw, late equaliser from Joe ward earned them a replay last night.
1:08:26 > 1:08:34Double Olympic champion Jade Jones said it felt amazing to finish on a
1:08:34 > 1:08:42high. High. She will end the year as world number one. It is an
1:08:42 > 1:08:50impressive return to form for Jones. Ronnie O'Sullivan said his game
1:08:50 > 1:08:53started to feel good again after breezing into the third round of the
1:08:53 > 1:08:58UK Championship in York, he is looking to equal Steve Davis's
1:08:58 > 1:09:03record of six titles and he had no trouble winning 6-1.
1:09:03 > 1:09:07Who know, as we were chatting about it we might see him in the celebrity
1:09:07 > 1:09:10jungle at some point in the future. We will see. Thank you.
1:09:10 > 1:09:11Thank you.
1:09:11 > 1:09:13This morning we've been bringing you an intimate glimpse
1:09:13 > 1:09:16into the lives of three young people as they share the reality
1:09:16 > 1:09:18of living with mental health conditions including anxiety,
1:09:18 > 1:09:24anorexia and OCD.
1:09:24 > 1:09:27Radio 1 Newsbeat have spent most of 2017 following Bex, Mat and Laura -
1:09:27 > 1:09:30during the film we see 24 year-old Bex demonstrate why it takes
1:09:30 > 1:09:36such a long time just for her to leave the house,
1:09:36 > 1:09:39Mat comes to terms with the impact alcohol has on his anxiety and panic
1:09:39 > 1:09:42attacks and Laura sets herself monthly goals to help manage
1:09:42 > 1:09:45anorexia - including taking the big step of having a massage.
1:09:45 > 1:09:48We played you part one in the last hour - here's part 2 -
1:09:48 > 1:09:51and just a reminder that you might find some of the things shared
1:09:51 > 1:10:01in this film distressing?
1:10:21 > 1:10:26It is scary, I don't know what they are going to say or do. It is like I
1:10:26 > 1:10:40am going into the unknown. In the middle of a, I am tired. I
1:10:40 > 1:10:45have anxiety shocks down my body. File exhausted so I had to go That's
1:10:45 > 1:10:52it. I went in and then I was already
1:10:52 > 1:10:56upset before I even got in the room, and then, they just said, so what's
1:10:56 > 1:11:02brought you here today? I said it is my anxiety is playing that rock
1:11:02 > 1:11:11really. They want me to explore and talk about the event that caused the
1:11:11 > 1:11:19PTSD. I have only ever spoken to one, two, four people about it. My
1:11:19 > 1:11:23mum doesn't etch know what's happened. She knows I have the
1:11:23 > 1:11:27diagnosis, she might be too afraid to ask what happened, so, she, my
1:11:27 > 1:11:32mum doesn't even know what happened. She just knows I am anxious, she
1:11:32 > 1:11:37doesn't know what happened. So, I don't really want to explore it, but
1:11:37 > 1:11:43I think in order to get better and to tackle my anxiety, I think that's
1:11:43 > 1:11:50the only option really. So I am just glad it is over now. It just makes
1:11:50 > 1:11:57me feel sad and lonely.
1:12:02 > 1:12:08I am looking forward to this one. Supporting the charity like this, is
1:12:08 > 1:12:12incredible for me, it is going to be big masquerade event in aid of the
1:12:12 > 1:12:17Mind charity. I have got a sit down meal, like I often do as weddings,
1:12:17 > 1:12:23it is a strange experience for me, I don't sort of tend to enjoy it very
1:12:23 > 1:12:30much. Because I am so busy and on my feet continuously I grant myself
1:12:30 > 1:12:33permission to be able to eat, which sounds awful, you shouldn't have to
1:12:33 > 1:12:39have permission to eat. It is usually difficult for me do
1:12:39 > 1:12:44these event, and I am very aware of people eating. I panic about the
1:12:44 > 1:12:48times of food, you know when things get delayed I will have maybe not
1:12:48 > 1:12:54eaten as much, so the, I can eat a meal and not feel too guilty about
1:12:54 > 1:12:59eating, go, a three course meal, I will have eaten less in the day, so
1:12:59 > 1:13:05I get panicky, I am wear I need the food to fuel the fact I am so busy
1:13:05 > 1:13:13and activen and on my feet. The meal was lovely. Very nice. As usual I
1:13:13 > 1:13:18pick round the plate and find way of work thing, and it was nice, it was
1:13:18 > 1:13:28nice to chat to everybody. I looked in the mirror and thought,
1:13:28 > 1:13:32I am not me any more, I am a different person but you learn and
1:13:32 > 1:13:40you are on a journey, so, I want to thank you all for coming. Make sure
1:13:40 > 1:13:44you take a mental health and you think about how you are feeling and
1:13:44 > 1:13:49your friends are feeling.Your speech was great. You had me welling
1:13:49 > 1:13:51up there.
1:13:55 > 1:14:00It is very difficult for me at times like this because I tend to get
1:14:00 > 1:14:04weaker a lot quicker than most people. I don't have any reserves on
1:14:04 > 1:14:09me, so, you know it takes a lot of energy any way but when I am always
1:14:09 > 1:14:13cold and tired any way, so preoccupied with everything else
1:14:13 > 1:14:18that is going on in my life to detach from that and come back to
1:14:18 > 1:14:26work, it is difficult sometimes.
1:14:31 > 1:14:36It is the end of the night now, I am exhausted. So now it is sort of
1:14:36 > 1:14:43trying to drift off, and you know, sort of slowly make my way out
1:14:43 > 1:14:49without seeming rude. Am tired and ready to get to bed now.
1:14:49 > 1:14:56So today, I have received a letter from my psychiatrist, who I saw a
1:14:56 > 1:15:05few weeks ago for the assessment. So my new diagnosis is the freshly
1:15:05 > 1:15:11newly assessed diagnosis is, emotionally unstable personality
1:15:11 > 1:15:18disorder with strong skits owe type feature, that include severe anxiety
1:15:18 > 1:15:26in social settings which is me down to a T. Also includes paranoia,
1:15:26 > 1:15:30episodes of paranoia, at the minute it is causing a bit of a problem,
1:15:30 > 1:15:35and the third part is unusual thinking, which is also causing a
1:15:35 > 1:15:39problem, for me. I didn't think my thinking was unusual but now it has
1:15:39 > 1:15:44been pointed out I think it is unusual, and I have this freshly
1:15:44 > 1:15:47assessed dying I know circumstances I am trying to get my head round it,
1:15:47 > 1:15:59understand it a bit better, and, yes, that is kind of it really.
1:15:59 > 1:16:04When you drink most days, you get used to, but when you stop drinking
1:16:04 > 1:16:08and have a binge at the weekend. It is horrific. I mean, it's Tuesday
1:16:08 > 1:16:15now and I'm just recovering from Friday.
1:16:17 > 1:16:31We, every now and again, get drunk. I maybe that guy that wants to kill
1:16:31 > 1:16:36himself every now and again, but still I love my friends. I love
1:16:36 > 1:16:47going out and this is why. I don't know why I do it what I do
1:16:47 > 1:16:50because it makes me, it's the placebo effect it makes you feel
1:16:50 > 1:16:55better in the long run, but it doesn't actually make a blind bit of
1:16:55 > 1:17:01difference to how you feel. It makes you feel 20 times worse.My anxiety
1:17:01 > 1:17:09has got a point where leaving the flat, or leaving my home has
1:17:09 > 1:17:18become... It has become quite impossible really, but when I do go
1:17:18 > 1:17:22out, these residual images become much more intense and much more real
1:17:22 > 1:17:30and very, very frightening and I personally don't feel comfortable or
1:17:30 > 1:17:35safe with these visual images that are in my head because it gets to a
1:17:35 > 1:17:41point where I want the images to go away and the only way I feel that
1:17:41 > 1:17:51the images can ever go away is to, is to, kind of do what the images
1:17:51 > 1:17:56are showing me and these images aren't very nice and it's in my head
1:17:56 > 1:18:03and basically, if I just close my eyes, then it's very real. I don't
1:18:03 > 1:18:09know how to describe it. It's a challenge to describe it, but I'll
1:18:09 > 1:18:16leave it at that. I have changed my goals slightly. I
1:18:16 > 1:18:19was starting to realise that they were become very, very intense my
1:18:19 > 1:18:25goals. I wanted to did a skydive for Beat which I do hope to do
1:18:25 > 1:18:29definitely one day, but I realised how physically and mentally
1:18:29 > 1:18:36demanding that would be and I needed to reign it in a little bit. I'm
1:18:36 > 1:18:40feeling really excited, but very nervous as well. A lot more nervous
1:18:40 > 1:18:47than I actually thought I would be. I'm looking forward to it, but I
1:18:47 > 1:18:51never really had a proper massage even if I've ever been comfortable
1:18:51 > 1:18:55in my body, this is the time that I would now be making an excuse and
1:18:55 > 1:18:58saying why would I waste time on myself when there are other things
1:18:58 > 1:19:05that I should be doing? I'm sat here thinking about the work
1:19:05 > 1:19:10that I've got to do and the fact that I don't want to sort of get
1:19:10 > 1:19:16disrobed and be cold, but I'm really excited for it as well. I feel proud
1:19:16 > 1:19:25that I've got here again and I'm sort of climbing upwards and feeling
1:19:25 > 1:19:28better than I was. It feels very strange to have her bones touching
1:19:28 > 1:19:33my bones and I can almost feel every movement like the skin over my
1:19:33 > 1:19:40bones. There is no covering. It feels like a still owe phone as she
1:19:40 > 1:19:51goes up my ribs and I'm aware of her touching all of this and there being
1:19:51 > 1:19:56she is worried that she is hurting me.How is that Laura?Lovely.I
1:19:56 > 1:20:01will give you a couple of minutes. If you just open the door when
1:20:01 > 1:20:05you're ready?OK, thank you. If anything it has given me a reality
1:20:05 > 1:20:10check of how far I still need to come. I am in almost denial, I
1:20:10 > 1:20:15think, that I'm OK and I'm a lot better and because mentally I feel a
1:20:15 > 1:20:20lot better and a lot of the time I'm wrapped up and I don't really
1:20:20 > 1:20:24analyse the way I look naked or how I feel. It has been good in a
1:20:24 > 1:20:31different way. It has been good in a realisation and a wake up call thave
1:20:31 > 1:20:43a long, long way to go yet to feel properly better.
1:20:44 > 1:20:49It is my birthday today. You dread people not coming. A few lads are
1:20:49 > 1:20:56here. It has been really, really good. It couldn't be any better to
1:20:56 > 1:21:00be fair. I was worried that people would cancel because that's what I
1:21:00 > 1:21:07do. To get out of a situation, I would cancel, but I was afraid
1:21:07 > 1:21:13people would do it and I was coming on my own. But it worked out well.
1:21:13 > 1:21:23I'm dreading tomorrow. I I've bought crisps to get through tomorrow. It
1:21:23 > 1:21:28is going to be horrendous. I've prepared for it, so I should be OK.
1:21:28 > 1:21:34How many pints am I on now? About nine or ten? I don't really know.
1:21:34 > 1:21:44And a few shots. Ow, that hurt. That hurt. That really hurt. I'm ready to
1:21:44 > 1:22:02have a day off tomorrow. I can't wait. He's well kissed.
1:22:04 > 1:22:18Yeah. I feel absolutely awful. So drunk. Eating lots of food.So very
1:22:18 > 1:22:26recently my mental health has declined quite rapidly. I'm trying
1:22:26 > 1:22:31to do things that will at least try and make me feel a little bit
1:22:31 > 1:22:36better, even if I feel better for like five minutes. So I've been
1:22:36 > 1:22:43doing my sewing and just sewing in a hoop. So these eyes, they represent
1:22:43 > 1:22:48when I feel paranoid or suspicious of other people. Also, we have under
1:22:48 > 1:22:52here, there is a figure under there and then it has all been strapped
1:22:52 > 1:22:57down in grey and in red. That's to represent the anxious hug monster,
1:22:57 > 1:23:02when it feels like it attacks my body. This big block here, that
1:23:02 > 1:23:06represents the brain, or represents my brain and also as well, there is
1:23:06 > 1:23:13a question mark just there. That question mark is to represent my new
1:23:13 > 1:23:16diagnosis and how confusing it is and how confused I still am about
1:23:16 > 1:23:28it. # I breathe for a minute and I think
1:23:28 > 1:23:32too much when I'm alone. # Stopping drinking is something I
1:23:32 > 1:23:36considered for yerts. To be honest with you, I don't think I could,
1:23:36 > 1:23:38because I think I'm mentally dependant on alcohol to help me get
1:23:38 > 1:23:49through things. # So I will pick up the phone. #
1:23:49 > 1:23:55It doesn't make any sense and that's probably the most frustrating part.
1:23:55 > 1:23:59Like, I've got this diagnosis for life really. I'm not going to get
1:23:59 > 1:24:04undiagnosed. I don't think I'll recover from it, but I'll learn
1:24:04 > 1:24:10better ways to manage it.That image of a recovered life, it's so scary.
1:24:10 > 1:24:16Who am I if I'm not struggling from an eating disorder?I don't know if
1:24:16 > 1:24:21I want to feel like it's cured, because I'm scared of what that
1:24:21 > 1:24:27feels like.I started the new medication now andits just a waiting
1:24:27 > 1:24:30game, but the waiting game is a tough, tough, tough challenge at the
1:24:30 > 1:24:34moment. # I don't know what you're going
1:24:34 > 1:24:40through. # But there is so much life ahead of
1:24:40 > 1:24:44you. # It won't slow down, no matter what
1:24:44 > 1:24:50you do. Shosh you just got to hold on, yeah.
1:24:50 > 1:25:06# Yeah, you've just got to hold on. # Just hold on for me. #
1:25:06 > 1:25:09Thanks again to Bex, Matt and Laura for opening their lives to us.
1:25:09 > 1:25:11For details of organisations which offer advice and support
1:25:11 > 1:25:14for any of the conditions shown in that film go online
1:25:14 > 1:25:17to the BBC Actionline website, and you can watch the full film
1:25:17 > 1:25:19online by searching for Newsbeat Documentaries on BBC iPlayer.
1:25:19 > 1:25:22It's called My Mind and Me.
1:25:22 > 1:25:28Thank you for your comments. Elizabeth says, "I too have bipolar
1:25:28 > 1:25:31disorder and would like to thank you for your coverage, but most
1:25:31 > 1:25:34especially the three people involved." Georgia tweets, "So
1:25:34 > 1:25:37thrilled that mental health is becoming a common theme to talk
1:25:37 > 1:25:41about. I had depression and anxiety since I was 19 and fou going to do
1:25:41 > 1:25:46my mental health nursing. Talking is the best therapy." This e-mail from
1:25:46 > 1:25:49someone who doesn't wish to leave their name and that's fine, you can
1:25:49 > 1:25:55get in touch with us anonymously. "After a nervous breakdown and
1:25:55 > 1:25:58struggles with panic attacks I waited ten months for a therapist on
1:25:58 > 1:26:01the NHS. I'm furious about the state of the mental health service at the
1:26:01 > 1:26:06moment. It seems that you have to present as serious danger to
1:26:06 > 1:26:09yourself or others before you are taken seriously." Thank you for
1:26:09 > 1:26:18those. Keep them coming in.
1:26:18 > 1:26:23Toys are us put forward plans to close 26 stores. We were warned at
1:26:23 > 1:26:26the UK they were preparing to close a quarter of their stores, but we
1:26:26 > 1:26:30can tell you, they have put forward plans to close at least 26 UK
1:26:30 > 1:26:34stores.
1:26:34 > 1:26:37An Australian MP has proposed to his partner
1:26:37 > 1:26:46during a parliamentary debate on legalising same-sex marriage.
1:26:49 > 1:26:52This debate has been the soundtrack to our relationship. We both know
1:26:52 > 1:26:56this issue isn't the reason we got involved in politics. Give us tax
1:26:56 > 1:27:02reform any day. But in my first speech I defined our bond by the
1:27:02 > 1:27:08ring that sits on both our left hands and they are the answers to
1:27:08 > 1:27:14the questions that we cannot ask. So there is only one thing left to do.
1:27:14 > 1:27:25Ryan Patrick Polger, will you marry me?
1:27:28 > 1:27:33APPLAUSE We'll chuck that in the memoirs in
1:27:33 > 1:27:34Hansard!
1:27:34 > 1:27:37Tim Wilson is believed to be the first MP to propose
1:27:37 > 1:27:38on the floor of the house.
1:27:38 > 1:27:41We can talk to him now.
1:27:41 > 1:27:45Congratulations.Thank you very much. That's very kind. It was quite
1:27:45 > 1:27:48an extraordinary day for me.Well, it was for everybody watching and
1:27:48 > 1:27:55indeed for Ryan. Thank god he said yes!That's right. I mean, I was
1:27:55 > 1:27:58pretty optimistic that Ryan would say yes. It was an extraordinary day
1:27:58 > 1:28:02for him as well, but it was one of those things, I didn't realise we
1:28:02 > 1:28:05were going to be the first couple to do this, but we have been debating
1:28:05 > 1:28:10this issue for a long time. And our relationship has been at the centre
1:28:10 > 1:28:16of it like a few other relationships and it was the only way ultimately I
1:28:16 > 1:28:20felt I could pay proper thanks for him standing beside me through a
1:28:20 > 1:28:23very difficult time for a lot of couples and now we are going to
1:28:23 > 1:28:26deliver a change in the law and it is time for us to step up and make
1:28:26 > 1:28:30the expectation that we have set for ourselves.Explain to our British
1:28:30 > 1:28:35audience why the issue of same-sex marriage has been so decisive for
1:28:35 > 1:28:39some politicians?Obviously, there have always been people who
1:28:39 > 1:28:42disagreed and we full rid respect the fact that people disagree with
1:28:42 > 1:28:46the change, but the public sentiment around this issue changed a decade
1:28:46 > 1:28:51ago. Over a decade ago, the majority of Australians started to support a
1:28:51 > 1:28:54change in the law, but we have what we have is different political
1:28:54 > 1:28:59parties and different governments that haven't wanted to confront it
1:28:59 > 1:29:05because there are constituencies who are noisy and opposed and what we
1:29:05 > 1:29:08promised in this Parliament we would have a public vote before changing
1:29:08 > 1:29:13the law. I wasn't a big fan of that and that's not a secret even though
1:29:13 > 1:29:18I was a member of the Government I had to vote for it, about we had a
1:29:18 > 1:29:24postal vote where the nearly 80% of Australians participated, a huge
1:29:24 > 1:29:28turn-out and 60% said yes to a change in the law and in my
1:29:28 > 1:29:32constituency, it was 76.3%. So, this was an opportunity and it's one we
1:29:32 > 1:29:39need to take for the nation. So is it fair to say some
1:29:39 > 1:29:42politicians in Australia have been way behind the attitudes amongst the
1:29:42 > 1:29:45majority of Australian citizens? Well, there are members of
1:29:45 > 1:29:48Parliament who represent their constituencies who voted no. And
1:29:48 > 1:29:53there are some people for faith based reasons who have a difference
1:29:53 > 1:29:58of opinion. Some needed the postal vote to show to them that the
1:29:58 > 1:30:01support in their community was strong. Some members of Parliament
1:30:01 > 1:30:07told me they would get a community response where it might be 50/50 and
1:30:07 > 1:30:10they got 60/40, but until you saw that evidence and saw that very
1:30:10 > 1:30:13clear statement from the Australian people, some people weren't sure
1:30:13 > 1:30:17whether they could trust it. One of the things was cited was your Brexit
1:30:17 > 1:30:20vote and how people believed the polls were wrong and as a
1:30:20 > 1:30:24consequence you couldn't trust the polls in Australia which showed the
1:30:24 > 1:30:26majority of the Australians supported a change in the law.So
1:30:26 > 1:30:35when is the happy day then?
1:30:35 > 1:30:40We are going to get married and now I have put my foot in it and said
1:30:40 > 1:30:45yes, am going to do it, so probably early next year, once the law
1:30:45 > 1:30:49changes and in our own good time. Congratulations again, thank you for
1:30:49 > 1:30:55talking to us. Tim Wilson who proposed to his
1:30:55 > 1:31:01partner on the floor of the House in Canberra.
1:31:01 > 1:31:04Still to come.
1:31:04 > 1:31:07And - poverty in the UK - thousands of of people
1:31:07 > 1:31:09are struggling to make ends meet every day.
1:31:09 > 1:31:10With campaigners saying "prospects for solving" it
1:31:10 > 1:31:11"currently look worrying".
1:31:11 > 1:31:13We'll bring you the details.
1:31:13 > 1:31:16And - the hunt for the so-called Croydon cat killer, thought to be
1:31:16 > 1:31:18responsible for the deaths of up to 400 animals across England.
1:31:18 > 1:31:21We're talking shortly to two pet owners who had their pets
1:31:21 > 1:31:31killed and mutilated.
1:31:32 > 1:31:34"Significant progress" has been made in Brexit negotiations
1:31:34 > 1:31:37after a night of intense talks, according to an Irish
1:31:37 > 1:31:40government spokesman.
1:31:40 > 1:31:44It means the two sides could soon reach a deal that will clear the way
1:31:44 > 1:31:50for the second phase of Brexit talks.
1:31:50 > 1:31:52EU sources have also said the two sides are "nearing solutions",
1:31:52 > 1:31:54ahead of Theresa May's lunchtime meeting with the European
1:31:54 > 1:31:58Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Brussels.
1:31:58 > 1:32:06We have have been told the talks are at such a critical stage Donald Tusk
1:32:06 > 1:32:10has cancelled an important overseas visit.
1:32:10 > 1:32:12The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said that former
1:32:12 > 1:32:15officers "were wrong" to speak to the BBC about pornography
1:32:15 > 1:32:17they say was found on a computer in Damian Green's
1:32:17 > 1:32:18parliamentary office.
1:32:18 > 1:32:22Speaking on the Vanessa Feltz show on BBC Radio London,
1:32:22 > 1:32:24the Scotland Yard boss condemned what they had done.
1:32:24 > 1:32:27She said all police have a duty of confidentiality and to protect
1:32:27 > 1:32:29personal information, and that it clearly endures
1:32:29 > 1:32:30after they leave the force.
1:32:30 > 1:32:33And she said there would be a review of whether any offences
1:32:33 > 1:32:35had been committed.
1:32:35 > 1:32:38A judge in Madrid has released on bail six former ministers
1:32:38 > 1:32:41of Catalonia who were detained for their role in the region's
1:32:41 > 1:32:42illegal declaration of independence.
1:32:42 > 1:32:44Two other ex-ministers - including the region's
1:32:44 > 1:32:48former vice president - remain in custody.
1:32:48 > 1:32:50Meanwhile in Belgium, Catalonia's former President Carles Puigdemont
1:32:50 > 1:32:55is due to appear at an extradition hearing.
1:32:55 > 1:32:57A think-tank says 700,000 children and pensioners in the UK
1:32:57 > 1:33:00have fallen into relative poverty over the past four years.
1:33:00 > 1:33:02The left-leaning Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's the first
1:33:02 > 1:33:04sustained rise affecting these age groups for 20 years.
1:33:04 > 1:33:14It's called on the government to take action.
1:33:14 > 1:33:17Police in Malta have arrested eight Maltese nationals in connection
1:33:17 > 1:33:19with the car bomb murder of blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia.
1:33:19 > 1:33:22Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed close to her home on 16
1:33:22 > 1:33:24October in an attack which shocked the country.
1:33:24 > 1:33:26The 53-year-old was known for her blog accusing top
1:33:26 > 1:33:34politicians of corruption.
1:33:34 > 1:33:40Government funding for a flagship British aid project to support
1:33:40 > 1:33:42civilian police in Syria has been suspended.
1:33:42 > 1:33:44It's after whistle-blowers told the BBC's Panorama programme that
1:33:44 > 1:33:47some of the money was ending up in the hands of extremists.
1:33:47 > 1:33:55The Foreign Office is investigating.
1:33:55 > 1:33:58The Co-op is to start selling food beyond its best before date.
1:33:58 > 1:34:02125 shops in East Anglia will sell tinned goods
1:34:02 > 1:34:05and dried food such as pasta, crisps and rice for a flat
1:34:05 > 1:34:06rate of ten pence.
1:34:06 > 1:34:09It's part of a drive to reduce the seven million tonnes of food
1:34:09 > 1:34:11thrown away in the UK each year.
1:34:11 > 1:34:18That's a summary of the latest BBC News.
1:34:18 > 1:34:22More from you about the documentary. Richard says Matt's story hit home.
1:34:22 > 1:34:28I live the sail life as him and I didn't realise this was to do with
1:34:28 > 1:34:34my mental health. File like it an ongoing cycle, I am prepared to talk
1:34:34 > 1:34:39now to somebody about it. James says I can sympathise with all three
1:34:39 > 1:34:46people, especially Bex, I have had anxiety since my 40, I am in my 50s,
1:34:46 > 1:34:51I have OCD and agoraphobia. I feel safer indoors and only go out when I
1:34:51 > 1:34:54have to. Like all things you change your life to make the best of your
1:34:54 > 1:35:00conditions. Best of luck to them all for a better future. If you wanted a
1:35:00 > 1:35:04vice or support for anything do with your mental health go to the action
1:35:04 > 1:35:09line.
1:35:09 > 1:35:12your mental health go to the action line.
1:35:12 > 1:35:15Here's some sport now with Katherine.
1:35:15 > 1:35:16A bit of good news.
1:35:16 > 1:35:18A bit of good news.
1:35:18 > 1:35:20England still have a long way to go in the second Test,
1:35:20 > 1:35:22but their bowlers are making progress.
1:35:22 > 1:35:24Australia have a lead of more than 250 runs,
1:35:24 > 1:35:26but they've lost three wickets cheaply at the start
1:35:26 > 1:35:27of their second innings.
1:35:27 > 1:35:29David Warner among those to fall.
1:35:29 > 1:35:33Austalia are 41-3.
1:35:33 > 1:35:35David Silva gives Manchester City a record-equalling 13th
1:35:35 > 1:35:39Premier League win in a row with a late goal against West Ham.
1:35:39 > 1:35:45Alfie Hewett is the wheelchair Masters singles champion.
1:35:45 > 1:35:48He beat his compatriot Gordon Reid in Loughborough to become the first
1:35:48 > 1:35:50British winner in 23 years of the event.
1:35:50 > 1:35:52And the tournament favourite Ronnie O'Sullivan marches
1:35:52 > 1:35:54on at the UK Snooker Championship in York.
1:35:54 > 1:36:04He's comfortably through to the third round.
1:36:05 > 1:36:07Let us get the latest on the Brexit talks.
1:36:07 > 1:36:09Let us get the latest on the Brexit talks.
1:36:09 > 1:36:12The Irish Government says it has made significant progress in talks
1:36:12 > 1:36:15with the UK about the future of the border with Northern Ireland,
1:36:15 > 1:36:17but a clear agreement still hasn't been reached.
1:36:17 > 1:36:19Let's talk now to our Ireland correspondent Chris Page.
1:36:19 > 1:36:21We have been told ducks Donald Tusk has cancelled an important overseas
1:36:21 > 1:36:26visit. What are you hearing Chris?Well,
1:36:26 > 1:36:29Victoria, the minister has been speaking to the Irish national
1:36:29 > 1:36:33broadcaster RTE, just ahead of a meeting of the Irish cabinet in
1:36:33 > 1:36:38Dublin, he said what the Cabinet were not going to have in time for
1:36:38 > 1:36:43the meeting was an agreed form of words, a draft agreement they could
1:36:43 > 1:36:47look at it. Negotiations haven't reached that phase, they are being
1:36:47 > 1:36:50held up over this issue of the border between Northern Ireland and
1:36:50 > 1:36:55the Irish Republic, the Irish Government are pushing for a written
1:36:55 > 1:36:59assurance come what may no matter how the Brexit negotiations turn
1:36:59 > 1:37:04out, there are not going to be any new controls on that border, so
1:37:04 > 1:37:08diplomats have been knocking around ideas, they have been exchanging
1:37:08 > 1:37:13words over the weekend, there has been intense work, long hours put
1:37:13 > 1:37:17in, there has been progress still at no agreement on the form of words
1:37:17 > 1:37:22that would satisfy the Government the time is right to move on.Are we
1:37:22 > 1:37:27expecting that, are we expecting that agreement today? We had the
1:37:27 > 1:37:32political editor of the Irish Independent on earlier who said
1:37:32 > 1:37:36seenier sources that was Leungly, we are not viewing it as a drop Alan
1:37:36 > 1:37:43Dedicoat line. -- drop dead deadline.They are
1:37:43 > 1:37:48aiming still for today, the Foreign Minister said he thinks an agreement
1:37:48 > 1:37:52is possible today but if there isn't an agreement today that does not
1:37:52 > 1:37:56mean the process has reached an end game. They could keep on talking,
1:37:56 > 1:37:59there is a meeting on Wednesday, that could be another time where
1:37:59 > 1:38:03they could aim for an agreement. Ultimately the reel decision time
1:38:03 > 1:38:07will come at the European summit in Brussels on 14th and 15th December
1:38:07 > 1:38:11when the EU 27 will decide whether or not to a allow the talks to move
1:38:11 > 1:38:15on. If there is no agreement the Irish Government think talking will
1:38:15 > 1:38:18continue and it doesn't mean the process is in big trouble.
1:38:18 > 1:38:19Thank you Chris.
1:38:19 > 1:38:22Thank you Chris.
1:38:22 > 1:38:25Nearly three-quarters of a million children and pensioners in the UK
1:38:25 > 1:38:27have fallen into relative poverty over the past four years,
1:38:27 > 1:38:29research suggests.
1:38:29 > 1:38:32Relative poverty is defined as a household having less than 60%
1:38:32 > 1:38:33of the median income.
1:38:33 > 1:38:36For a couple with no children that's around £12,896 and for a couple
1:38:36 > 1:38:37with two children that's £20,852.
1:38:37 > 1:38:39The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's the first
1:38:39 > 1:38:49sustained rise since 1997.
1:38:55 > 1:38:57Ministers say the number of people living in absolute poverty has
1:38:57 > 1:39:00fallen by more than half a million, and pensioner poverty remains close
1:39:00 > 1:39:01to historically low levels.
1:39:01 > 1:39:04Absolute poverty is when a household doesn't have sufficient income
1:39:04 > 1:39:06to sustain even a basic acceptable standard of living.
1:39:06 > 1:39:08Relative poverty is when that income is considerably lower
1:39:08 > 1:39:18than the median level.
1:39:25 > 1:39:27Our social affaris correspondent spoke to pensioner Flo Singleton
1:39:27 > 1:39:31about her struggle to make ends meet.
1:39:31 > 1:39:34I have worked.
1:39:34 > 1:39:39I have not scrounged off my life.
1:39:39 > 1:39:42I have worked, part-times jobs only, because you had to fit it
1:39:42 > 1:39:43in round kids, don't you.
1:39:43 > 1:39:47And you end up, because you haven't paid your full pension,
1:39:47 > 1:39:49you end up with - well, it is enough to live
1:39:49 > 1:39:52on, put it like that, no luxuries of course.
1:39:52 > 1:39:55Heat or eat.
1:39:55 > 1:40:00If you go out, you don't have to have your heating on, do you?
1:40:00 > 1:40:02So you go on the bus just to keep warm.
1:40:02 > 1:40:03If you go
1:40:03 > 1:40:13on the buses it don't cost you nothing, does it.
1:40:21 > 1:40:26Some say is in contrast to Theresa May's pledge to create a country
1:40:26 > 1:40:33which works for everyone.
1:40:33 > 1:40:37I want to explain what a country that works for everyone mean, in a
1:40:37 > 1:40:41country that works for everyone, a vision of a country that works not
1:40:41 > 1:40:45for the privileged few. A country that works for Erne. And to make
1:40:45 > 1:40:49Britain a country that works not for the privileged few. We will make
1:40:49 > 1:40:55Britain a country that works not for a privileged few. Not by the
1:40:55 > 1:41:00interested of the privileged few but for everyone. For every one of us,
1:41:00 > 1:41:03under my leadership this Government's priorities are those of
1:41:03 > 1:41:09ordinary working class people. The Conservative Party will put itself
1:41:09 > 1:41:13completely, absolutely and decisively, unequivocally at the
1:41:13 > 1:41:14service of ordinary, ordinary working people. Working class
1:41:14 > 1:41:19people. That puts the interest of ordinary working class people first.
1:41:19 > 1:41:23If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder
1:41:23 > 1:41:26than many people in Westminster realise. It doesn't matter where you
1:41:26 > 1:41:32are born or how much your parents earn, where ever you are, and where
1:41:32 > 1:41:35ever you are from, regardless of background or that of their parents
1:41:35 > 1:41:39if you work hard and do the right thing you will be able to go as far
1:41:39 > 1:41:45as you can. We must make Britain a country that works not for a
1:41:45 > 1:41:47privileged few but for every one of us.
1:41:47 > 1:41:50privileged few but for every one of us.
1:41:50 > 1:41:52John Bird has been homeless, a prisoner and in his words
1:41:52 > 1:41:54a "loser, cheat and a fraud".
1:41:54 > 1:41:56He's now Lord John Bird, an independent peer.
1:41:56 > 1:42:00Conservative MP Rob Halfon is at Westminster.
1:42:00 > 1:42:02Today he's making a speech on this poverty and inequality.
1:42:02 > 1:42:04He's also chair of the Education Select Committee.
1:42:04 > 1:42:12Debbie Abrahams is Labour's work and pensions spokeswoman.
1:42:12 > 1:42:16Thank you for talking to us. RAB, you are a Conservative MP who is
1:42:16 > 1:42:21seen as being in touch with normal people, working class people, I want
1:42:21 > 1:42:26to ask you, how proud are you under your Government having a job is not
1:42:26 > 1:42:32enough to escape poverty?I think we need to be honest, identify where
1:42:32 > 1:42:35there is social injustice which there is in certain pars of our
1:42:35 > 1:42:39society. We need to be honest in recognising the Government have done
1:42:39 > 1:42:45some good things in terms of introducing the national living wage
1:42:45 > 1:42:49which means low income wagers are thousands better off. Taking three
1:42:49 > 1:42:52million people out of income tax all together, you need to have a balance
1:42:52 > 1:42:57there, what I want to do is identify social injustice, I accept there are
1:42:57 > 1:43:02some and I want the Prime Minister to reboot the social justice
1:43:02 > 1:43:05conservatism she set out at the steps of Downing Street.Are you
1:43:05 > 1:43:11shocked having a job is not enough to escape poverty?Well, I think
1:43:11 > 1:43:17that the job is the best Root out of poverty.For some people, sorry to
1:43:17 > 1:43:20interrut. Interrut. For some people it isn't. They are work, they are
1:43:20 > 1:43:23doing the right thing for they are working and they are still defined
1:43:23 > 1:43:29as living in poverty. In Britain, in 2017, under your Government.Yes,
1:43:29 > 1:43:33but you have to weigh the whole thing up, if those people get jobs
1:43:33 > 1:43:36and get progression in jobs many of them do, they get the increases of
1:43:36 > 1:43:40wages, where the Government has done the right thing, introducing the
1:43:40 > 1:43:44national living wage for example, meaning low income workers are
1:43:44 > 1:43:49thousands of pounds better off... But the Joseph Rowntree, they have
1:43:49 > 1:43:52taken that into accountThey haven't. They have taken into
1:43:52 > 1:43:57account some thing, they don't take into account the fuel duty freeze an
1:43:57 > 1:44:02cutting the income tax, but I am not saying there isn't social injustice,
1:44:02 > 1:44:07I am focussing on that in our education system, which is, there
1:44:07 > 1:44:09are social injustices in every part and I want the Government to deal
1:44:09 > 1:44:19with that. I want the Prime Minister to refocus on it.Let me ask you
1:44:19 > 1:44:23that, about education, social injustice, 51% of London children on
1:44:23 > 1:44:29free school meals get A to C in maths. It is just 36% in the rest of
1:44:29 > 1:44:35England, why?Well, this is the social injustices that I am trying
1:44:35 > 1:44:38to identify as Select Committee chair, what is happening is that
1:44:38 > 1:44:42standards are going up but the Government needs to focus on social
1:44:42 > 1:44:48capital and human capital as well and build up the, make sure people
1:44:48 > 1:44:55from disadvantaged students are... We still have 1.8 million in good or
1:44:55 > 1:45:01outstanding schools but nationally and in London there is a lot of
1:45:01 > 1:45:03disadvantaged people who are not benefitting from it. We are trying
1:45:03 > 1:45:10to look at solutions to help.Let me bring in Debbie Abrahams. You know
1:45:10 > 1:45:15the Government says the people in absolute poverty and we did the
1:45:15 > 1:45:20definitions in the introduction have fallen by 500,000. That is to be
1:45:20 > 1:45:24comed isn't it.Of course, any moves round absolute poverty are welcome,
1:45:24 > 1:45:28but what we need to focus on as you are rightly doing is habit this
1:45:28 > 1:45:33means.
1:45:33 > 1:45:37The Budget we had just two weeks ago, the Government has refused to
1:45:37 > 1:45:42put up the national Living Wage to £9 an hour in 2020 which will mean
1:45:42 > 1:45:46people on the national Living Wage by then will be £900 a year worse
1:45:46 > 1:45:51off. The Government analysis of the Budget showed again the poorest
1:45:51 > 1:45:56fifth were going to be worse off and the richest were not. And the third
1:45:56 > 1:46:02point Victoria is around what Rob was saying in terms of work and the
1:46:02 > 1:46:06type of poverty. It's not. Four out of five people in a low paid job now
1:46:06 > 1:46:11will still be in a low paid job in ten years' time. So this is a
1:46:11 > 1:46:15nonsense and if we look at what is happening in the top end of the
1:46:15 > 1:46:19scale, in terms of what the richest in society have achieved, we know
1:46:19 > 1:46:23that the gap between rich and poor has doubled and this again, from
1:46:23 > 1:46:28international evidence, we know is the driver for the lack of social
1:46:28 > 1:46:32mobility. This government has done nothing, in fact it has made it
1:46:32 > 1:46:36worse, not only in terms of social mobility, but also in terms of
1:46:36 > 1:46:40making sure that we increase our life expectancy, the only developed
1:46:40 > 1:46:44country in the world where this has happened.If you were in government,
1:46:44 > 1:46:47would you unfreeze benefits now? Yes, we have said we are clear in
1:46:47 > 1:46:52the general election that we had. Let me ask Rob. Is it time to
1:46:52 > 1:46:59unfreeze benefits?Well, we need to look at the benefit system in terms
1:46:59 > 1:47:03of the best way of getting people in work...You should stop cutting
1:47:03 > 1:47:09Universal Credit.And the Living Wage will mean, we introduced the
1:47:09 > 1:47:11national Living Wage, not the last government, it was our government
1:47:11 > 1:47:16that did it.Are you going to put it up to £10 an hour, Rob?Workers will
1:47:16 > 1:47:20be better off by thousands of pounds. We have cut income tax for
1:47:20 > 1:47:24lower earners and taken three million people out of income tax.
1:47:24 > 1:47:32Our analysis shows a fifth are worse off.John Bird... Hello.Hi.What do
1:47:32 > 1:47:39you think needs to change?Well, I actually think, and I think our two
1:47:39 > 1:47:42colleagues have shown is that when you're in government, you have got
1:47:42 > 1:47:45to deliver and you've got that amount of money, when you're not in
1:47:45 > 1:47:50government, you don't have to deliver, but when you do get into
1:47:50 > 1:47:53government you realise there are enormous constraints. I think the
1:47:53 > 1:47:57real problem is that we have a problem with British capitalism. We
1:47:57 > 1:48:01have a problem with the market place. We have millions of people in
1:48:01 > 1:48:07Britain who don't, are not worth a lot to the market place because the
1:48:07 > 1:48:11employers can't, the owners, can't make enough out of them.So what
1:48:11 > 1:48:16would you change?What we have got to try and do and it will only be
1:48:16 > 1:48:21done through education as the MP says. It is only through education.
1:48:21 > 1:48:25It is only through upping the skills. I'll give you an example.
1:48:25 > 1:48:32When I was a boy, just after the war, they gave us such a cap form of
1:48:32 > 1:48:35education that the only form of jobs we would get were unskilled jobs and
1:48:35 > 1:48:43a lot of those were disappearing. We have a really weird, we have a
1:48:43 > 1:48:50really weird education system that doesn't prepare children for the
1:48:50 > 1:48:56fourth Industrial Revolution. We are always making the same mistakes. We
1:48:56 > 1:49:00fail 37% of our children who become the people who do the low paid jobs.
1:49:00 > 1:49:04They become 80% of our prison population. They fill up our A&E
1:49:04 > 1:49:10departments. So, because we fail one in three children, when are we ever
1:49:10 > 1:49:15going to get around to sorting out poverty?Rob, do you want to come
1:49:15 > 1:49:19back?Well, think John Bird is right on this. I think what we need to do
1:49:19 > 1:49:22is have a huge investment in skills. The Government are doing some of
1:49:22 > 1:49:28that, we have had three million apprenticeships since 2010...You
1:49:28 > 1:49:32have seen the recent figures...Let me finish. Just let me finish. What
1:49:32 > 1:49:39we need to do is to make sure that we have continue to invest in skills
1:49:39 > 1:49:42and offer degree apprenticeships to every single person who wants it,
1:49:42 > 1:49:47gets it. Every person is offered an apprenticeship and they earn while
1:49:47 > 1:49:51they learn and they are guaranteed a job at the end of it. The Government
1:49:51 > 1:49:57are doing some of that. £2.5 billion spent by 2020. John Bird is right,
1:49:57 > 1:50:02we need to regear education towards skills in a big way, especially to
1:50:02 > 1:50:06help people from disadvantaged backgrounds.The number of
1:50:06 > 1:50:11apprenticeships have dropped off.In the last quarter, but over the last
1:50:11 > 1:50:15year, apprenticeships have gone up and we have over 900,000, the
1:50:15 > 1:50:22highest ever in our island's history.Debbie Abrahams?I wanted
1:50:22 > 1:50:26to pick up on what was said about education. Absolutely right. That's
1:50:26 > 1:50:30why we pledged a national education service in the same way that we
1:50:30 > 1:50:34provide our National Health Service from cradle to grave. You don't have
1:50:34 > 1:50:38a job for life anymore. We need to have this on going, but we need to
1:50:38 > 1:50:42do something about now this. Is in the long-term. We need to make sure
1:50:42 > 1:50:45people have a decent home and a fair rent or a fair mortgage. That's not
1:50:45 > 1:50:50happening. We need to make sure people on the lowest incomes are
1:50:50 > 1:50:56paid adequately and £10 is what we pledge making sure people earn
1:50:56 > 1:50:59£3,000 a year better off and we need to have a Social Security system
1:50:59 > 1:51:03that helps people now. The cuts that the Government have introduced and
1:51:03 > 1:51:06are still to introduce is really going to be detrimental, pushing a
1:51:06 > 1:51:11further one million children into poverty in the next five years.
1:51:11 > 1:51:15A final word fou, Rob?I think we are investing in skills. We have got
1:51:15 > 1:51:19to do more on social justice, something I'm passionate about. We
1:51:19 > 1:51:24have got 1.8 million more children in good or outstanding schools than
1:51:24 > 1:51:29ever before.Then do something about it, Rob.There is a lot being done,
1:51:29 > 1:51:32but there is more to be done, I acknowledge that.
1:51:32 > 1:51:43Thank you all very much.
1:51:49 > 1:51:52The Brexit secretary has been speaking ahead of his trip to
1:51:52 > 1:51:58Brussels. This is what he said a few minutes ago.We put several months
1:51:58 > 1:52:01of work, both sides, into getting to this point and we are hoping Mr
1:52:01 > 1:52:04Juncker will give us sufficient progress so we can move on to the
1:52:04 > 1:52:08trade talks. The decision, of course, won't be taken until 15th
1:52:08 > 1:52:11December, but that's what we are hoping for, because trade talks are
1:52:11 > 1:52:15important to the United Kingdom and to Europe.Donald Tusk was clear
1:52:15 > 1:52:19this is not a staging post, but a firm deadline to nail down
1:52:19 > 1:52:22sufficient progress on talks. Is this it?Well, I think it is an
1:52:22 > 1:52:26important day. I mean there is always, the council can always makes
1:52:26 > 1:52:31up its own mind on the 15th, but it is an important day, they will take
1:52:31 > 1:52:34a lot of guidance from the commission. Everybody understands
1:52:34 > 1:52:37that the decision to move on to trade talks. It is vital. It is
1:52:37 > 1:52:42vital to everybody. Huge value to the 27 members and to ourselves.The
1:52:42 > 1:52:46PM is once again having to to get involved. Are you struggling to get
1:52:46 > 1:52:49the job done? LAUGHTER
1:52:49 > 1:52:51The first negotiator in this process from the beginning has been the
1:52:51 > 1:52:58Prime Minister. She laid out the parameters in the Lancaster House
1:52:58 > 1:53:01speech and set the negotiations at the Florence speech and that's done
1:53:01 > 1:53:07in conjunction together. The Brexit secretary, David Davis,
1:53:07 > 1:53:11looking relaxed. Stay tuned to BBC News for all developments on the
1:53:11 > 1:53:14Brexit negotiations through the day.
1:53:14 > 1:53:17The so-called Croydon cat killer has been linked to the death of five
1:53:17 > 1:53:22more cats in Northampton.
1:53:22 > 1:53:27The Metropolitan Police and animal charity Snarl,
1:53:27 > 1:53:29South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty, believe the serial cat
1:53:29 > 1:53:36killer may have slaughtered over 400 animals since 2015.
1:53:36 > 1:53:38They say the cats were killed in a similar way,
1:53:38 > 1:53:40leading them to believe one person is responsible.
1:53:40 > 1:53:46We first reported on it in February 2016.
1:53:46 > 1:53:49For more than two years in parts of South London a number of pet cats
1:53:49 > 1:53:54are thought to not just have been killed, but deliberately mutilated
1:53:54 > 1:53:58in the spros. Police have so far failed to catch the killer who
1:53:58 > 1:54:02caused heartache to the owners. Stacey is a cat lover who lives in
1:54:02 > 1:54:06the area, that's not her real name. She has asked us to keep her
1:54:06 > 1:54:09identity secret as she is working with others to try and catch those
1:54:09 > 1:54:13responsible. She has co founded a charity to help investigate the
1:54:13 > 1:54:18killings.We initially discovered cats who had their heads and their
1:54:18 > 1:54:23tails removed. Subsequent to that we discovered cats with either heads
1:54:23 > 1:54:28removed or tails removed. We have discovered cats where they had been
1:54:28 > 1:54:36slit open and mutilated.Wayne's cat was brutally killed. His wife found
1:54:36 > 1:54:40their pet's dead body.When I picked him up, I realised the head was
1:54:40 > 1:54:50missing and her tail.
1:54:50 > 1:54:52Let's talk to two cat owners who found their pets had been
1:54:52 > 1:54:54killed and then mutilated.
1:54:54 > 1:54:56Janyne Galloway and Elaine Smith.
1:54:56 > 1:55:04In the studio is Tony Jenkins from the animal rescue group, Snarl.
1:55:04 > 1:55:12Elaine, tell us what happened to you and to your cat.
1:55:12 > 1:55:15Hi, Elaine, can you hear me?I can now, yes. Sorry.Sorry about that.
1:55:15 > 1:55:22Tell us what happened to your cat. Well, my cat was seen on 3rd
1:55:22 > 1:55:27November. We fed him in the morning as normal. He went out and I went to
1:55:27 > 1:55:31work. At lunch time, he didn't appear back which was unusual for
1:55:31 > 1:55:38him. And then, nothing. Nothing in the evening. He didn't come back.
1:55:38 > 1:55:47Went out looking for him. And then on the 23rd of November he was
1:55:47 > 1:55:51brought back on our front lawn in the morning when I went to work.And
1:55:51 > 1:55:56what state was he in, if you don't mind me asking. It wasn't very nice.
1:55:56 > 1:56:02He was laid out on the front lawn and he had obviously been slit down
1:56:02 > 1:56:11the middle. His tail had been removed.Pieces of the tail had been
1:56:11 > 1:56:15left around the body. When you saw him, you knew it wasn't just a cat.
1:56:15 > 1:56:22You knew there was something wrong. Let me bring in Tony Jenkins. This
1:56:22 > 1:56:26has happened in happened in east Sussex. That's where Elaine is. I
1:56:26 > 1:56:33mean it doesn't sound as though it's the same MO as various other animals
1:56:33 > 1:56:38who have been decapitated. So we don't know if it's the same person?
1:56:38 > 1:56:43The postmortem evidence thus far does suggest one person. In terms of
1:56:43 > 1:56:46the journeys, it's possible by one person. It's not just heads and
1:56:46 > 1:56:54tails. He does sometimes do slits and we have had an example in the
1:56:54 > 1:56:56postmortem and the pathologist thought it was most likely the same
1:56:56 > 1:57:04person.Let me bring in Jayne. Hi, how are you, tell us what happened?
1:57:04 > 1:57:09Our cat went missing on 17th October and he didn't come back in that
1:57:09 > 1:57:15evening like the other lady said. It was the same situation. We found him
1:57:15 > 1:57:23on 23rd at the top of my neighbour's garden, mutilated.And you live in
1:57:23 > 1:57:30Hertfordshire?Yes, that's right. Tony, you have to think about
1:57:30 > 1:57:33whether there are copycats now, don't you?It's difficult to say to
1:57:33 > 1:57:37be certain. What we have seen is very similar injuries. Some of them
1:57:37 > 1:57:42signature which would be difficult for someone to copycat. Having said,
1:57:42 > 1:57:45that we can't rule out the possibility of joint venture. A
1:57:45 > 1:57:49couple of people, two or three people maybe...For what reason?
1:57:49 > 1:57:53That's a good question. I find it hard to believe that someone would
1:57:53 > 1:57:57read in the paper about someone decapitating cats and think, "I
1:57:57 > 1:58:02think I'll do that."We don't seem to be any closer to finding whoever
1:58:02 > 1:58:07is responsible?Not really, no. He is staying away from CCTV cameras.
1:58:07 > 1:58:10Not leaving any clues. It's very difficult.
1:58:10 > 1:58:15Thank you very much, Tony. Jayne, thank you and also Elaine. Thank you
1:58:15 > 1:58:19very much. We're back tomorrow at 9am. Have a
1:58:19 > 1:58:23really good day. Thank you for your company today.
1:58:34 > 1:58:36She can't be serious. Hello, Daddy.