02/03/2018

0:00:08 > 0:00:18Hello, it's Friday March 2nd, it's nine o'clock.

0:00:21 > 0:00:26I'm Chloe Tilley, welcome to the programme.

0:00:30 > 0:00:36How long have you been here? About eight and a half hours.

0:00:36 > 0:00:42Hellboy you for supplies, water, food, blankets? A blog I am melting

0:00:42 > 0:00:48snow to drink, I drank mine. -- how are you for supplies? We will

0:00:48 > 0:00:55be speaking to those planning to gather to help those most in need.

0:00:55 > 0:00:57Theresa May is to make a major speech on Brexit today.

0:00:57 > 0:01:00She'll outline five tests for a future UK-EU deal and pledge

0:01:00 > 0:01:01to bring our country together.

0:01:01 > 0:01:04And we meet the clowns who travel to some of the world's

0:01:04 > 0:01:07most dangerous places to try to help refugee children.

0:01:07 > 0:01:11There was one little girl right at the back, a very sweet girl just

0:01:11 > 0:01:16watching and standing back. I just smiled at her and she smiled and

0:01:16 > 0:01:20moved back quite shyly, but I had this real feeling of that was

0:01:20 > 0:01:23special for her.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25There are around 400,000 children at that single Ronhinga refugee camp

0:01:25 > 0:01:27at Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29You can see the full film later this hour.

0:01:37 > 0:01:39Hello.

0:01:39 > 0:01:41Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am this morning.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43As always, we want to hear from you.

0:01:43 > 0:01:47Today a group of leading doctors and fertility experts is calling

0:01:47 > 0:01:50on the Government to get schools to tell girls how and

0:01:50 > 0:01:52when to get pregnant.

0:01:52 > 0:01:55They say focusing too much on contraception and teenage

0:01:55 > 0:01:59pregnancy makes women think they'll be able to get pregnant

0:01:59 > 0:02:02the moment they decide to - when, in reality they say,

0:02:02 > 0:02:05one in seven couples has problems conceiving.

0:02:05 > 0:02:09Have you struggled to have a baby after waiting years before trying?

0:02:09 > 0:02:13Or were you a teen mum and think more needs to be done to educate

0:02:13 > 0:02:15young girls about contraception?

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0:02:31 > 0:02:36Our top story today...

0:02:36 > 0:02:37Weather warnings remain in place for much

0:02:37 > 0:02:40of the UK this morning - ten people are now known to have

0:02:40 > 0:02:43died in weather related incidents since the conditions first hit

0:02:43 > 0:02:44earlier in the week.

0:02:44 > 0:02:47The Army is coming to the aid of hundreds of motorists who have

0:02:47 > 0:02:49spent the night trapped in their cars on some

0:02:49 > 0:02:50of the country's major roads.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53In the north of England, the M62 is closed in the Rochdale area.

0:02:53 > 0:02:59Motorists have been trapped in heavy snow and high winds.

0:02:59 > 0:03:00Emergency services and volunteers have been working

0:03:00 > 0:03:02through the night to get people to safety.

0:03:02 > 0:03:05On the A31 through the New Forest in Hampshire, police declared

0:03:05 > 0:03:08a major incident and brought in the army to help free the road.

0:03:08 > 0:03:10Traffic on the eastbound carriageway has finally begun

0:03:10 > 0:03:14moving after it was closed for nearly 10 hours.

0:03:14 > 0:03:18Some 35 miles north-west, other drivers are still trapped

0:03:18 > 0:03:21in their cars this morning, after police declared a major

0:03:21 > 0:03:24incident on the A303 through Wiltshire and Somerset.

0:03:24 > 0:03:26Our correspondent Robert Hall was one of those drivers,

0:03:26 > 0:03:30and sent this report.

0:03:30 > 0:03:32With every mile, the clouds came lower.

0:03:32 > 0:03:36More snow swirled, and the carriageway began to disappear.

0:03:36 > 0:03:38By the time we reached the hills of Wiltshire,

0:03:38 > 0:03:41the blizzard had begun.

0:03:41 > 0:03:44Very soon everything ground to a halt.

0:03:44 > 0:03:48Travelling tonight from east to west is absolutely horrendous.

0:03:48 > 0:03:50If I put the window down, hopefully you can see that,

0:03:50 > 0:03:53it is driving snow.

0:03:53 > 0:03:57We probably have six or seven inches here.

0:03:57 > 0:04:02In front and behind, hundreds of vehicles were going nowhere.

0:04:02 > 0:04:06We hope to get to Taunton eventually but at the moment it is not

0:04:06 > 0:04:10looking very promising and we could be stuck.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12With lorries blocking half the road, the snowploughs

0:04:12 > 0:04:15struggled to clear a path.

0:04:15 > 0:04:19Trying to get to an old people's home to to get the heating on.

0:04:19 > 0:04:23I've been stuck out here since 3pm this afternoon.

0:04:23 > 0:04:24Do you think you will get out?

0:04:24 > 0:04:25Of course we will.

0:04:25 > 0:04:32There is worse trouble at sea!

0:04:32 > 0:04:35Granny would say!

0:04:35 > 0:04:38At the foot of the next hill, delivery driver Mark Brown had

0:04:38 > 0:04:39become a traffic marshal.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41You seem to be taking charge of this.

0:04:41 > 0:04:42Well, somebody needs to.

0:04:42 > 0:04:46Finally after six hours the traffic began to crawl on,

0:04:46 > 0:04:48but this was going to be a very long night.

0:04:48 > 0:04:58Robert Hall, BBC News, Chicklade in Wiltshire.

0:04:58 > 0:05:02In a moment we will hear from Phil Mackie in Worcester, but first let's

0:05:02 > 0:05:06be to Sian Lloyd in Cardiff. What is it like?

0:05:06 > 0:05:11I am standing next to what is normally one of the busiest

0:05:11 > 0:05:16interchanges on the M4. A few cars and lorries have struggled to this

0:05:16 > 0:05:20morning, some are abandoned behind me. The warning is do not trouble

0:05:20 > 0:05:27unless it is essential. Yesterday we had the red extreme weather warning

0:05:27 > 0:05:31in Wales, it dropped to amber and currently we are on yellow with a

0:05:31 > 0:05:37threat of ice to come. More snow is forecast. The situation here is

0:05:37 > 0:05:42changing pretty quickly that the adviser is for people to stay in and

0:05:42 > 0:05:47stay warm. More than 1000 schools in Wales are closed, hundreds of homes

0:05:47 > 0:05:52without power, the company is trying to get them back on. Hospital

0:05:52 > 0:05:57appointments have been cancelled, we have seen on Twitter some of the

0:05:57 > 0:05:59major hospitals have been contacting staff on Twitter and asking them to

0:05:59 > 0:06:05get in if it is safe. In other cases fall by fours have been sent to

0:06:05 > 0:06:10essential stuff to get them in. In South Wales small disruption is

0:06:10 > 0:06:15forecast and many of the rail services have been cancelled. So the

0:06:15 > 0:06:20advice is to check before travelling. That is the situation in

0:06:20 > 0:06:25south-east Wales, now let's go to Phil Mackie in Worcester.

0:06:25 > 0:06:30Thanks. You can see a lot of snow fell yesterday, it is only really

0:06:30 > 0:06:34just stopped at a 24 hours. On the main high street it has not been

0:06:34 > 0:06:39cleared, the wind is blowing it into drifts. I wonder what Sir Edward

0:06:39 > 0:06:44Elgar makes of it as he looks down upon us. You can see that the

0:06:44 > 0:06:48gritting is beginning to work. There was so little traffic on the roads

0:06:48 > 0:06:52last night that it was not working at all and it was becoming very,

0:06:52 > 0:06:56very dangerous to drive. But because some traffic is going around today,

0:06:56 > 0:07:01the main road at least are clear. Outside the city centre in rural

0:07:01 > 0:07:05areas there are real problems. Drifting has caused lots of the

0:07:05 > 0:07:10minor roads to be impassable. Bus services are suspended in large

0:07:10 > 0:07:13parts of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The further north

0:07:13 > 0:07:19and east you go, the less snow and disruption here, but Sian mentioned,

0:07:19 > 0:07:29more snow is forecast for this afternoon. Much as yesterday but it

0:07:29 > 0:07:32will not improve things. One slight optimistic note, if I can call it

0:07:32 > 0:07:34that, the temperature has risen to about the role as opposed to -3 or

0:07:34 > 0:07:41four, so we might even see a bit of thawing before the next 's no.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43The Met Office says the cold weather could last into next week

0:07:43 > 0:07:48and possibly the following week.

0:07:48 > 0:07:50There are 10

0:07:50 > 0:07:51severe weather warnings in place for the UK.

0:07:51 > 0:07:54Amber warnings for snow are in place for Scotland,

0:07:54 > 0:07:55North East England and Northern Ireland.

0:07:55 > 0:07:59Most of the rest of the country is subject to yellow weather warnings

0:07:59 > 0:08:02Annita McVeigh is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest

0:08:03 > 0:08:04of the days news.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06Good morning.

0:08:06 > 0:08:08Theresa May will make a speech later explaining the relationship

0:08:08 > 0:08:10the government wants with the EU after Brexit.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12She will promise to deliver the change that people voted

0:08:12 > 0:08:15for in the referendum, while protecting jobs and security.

0:08:15 > 0:08:18Mrs May will set five tests to guide the negotiations,

0:08:18 > 0:08:20which include strengthening the UK and bringing all its

0:08:20 > 0:08:23people together.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25New research suggests that there could be as many as five

0:08:25 > 0:08:28different strains of diabetes.

0:08:28 > 0:08:30Current medical diagnosis is for type one or type two

0:08:30 > 0:08:32of the blood sugar condition.

0:08:32 > 0:08:34Scientists in Scandinavia believe their findings based

0:08:34 > 0:08:38on a study of 15,000 patients, shows how different causes,

0:08:38 > 0:08:40risks and complications can respond to different treatments.

0:08:40 > 0:08:50The condition currently affects one in every eleven adults, worldwide.

0:08:51 > 0:08:57So I think it is really important we started talking about the subtypes

0:08:57 > 0:09:02of diabetes. Moving beyond type one and two. Only then will we be able

0:09:02 > 0:09:07to personalise treatment for people with the condition. Although the

0:09:07 > 0:09:10study in itself will not change the way people with diabetes are

0:09:10 > 0:09:13treated, it will hopefully help move in that direction.

0:09:13 > 0:09:15The chief medical officer for England has warned that people

0:09:15 > 0:09:18are being exposed to a daily cocktail of pollution that is having

0:09:18 > 0:09:19a significant impact on health.

0:09:19 > 0:09:22In her annual report, Dame Sally Davies says the impact

0:09:22 > 0:09:24of air, light and noise pollution is well recognised in

0:09:24 > 0:09:26the environment but not properly understood when it

0:09:26 > 0:09:28comes to sickness.

0:09:28 > 0:09:31She also calls on the NHS - which employs a million staff -

0:09:31 > 0:09:33to lead the way in cutting pollution.

0:09:33 > 0:09:40Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes explains.

0:09:41 > 0:09:45The impact of serious air pollution on conditions such as asthma is well

0:09:45 > 0:09:49understood. What is less clear is the wider effect on our health of

0:09:49 > 0:09:54all the other pollutants we experience every day. Now England's

0:09:54 > 0:09:58Chief Medical Officer says more research is needed, not just into

0:09:58 > 0:10:02today's threats but those in the future.

0:10:02 > 0:10:05I am most concerned about aye at the moment, but we must not forget to

0:10:05 > 0:10:09measure the impact on health of other types of pollution or we could

0:10:09 > 0:10:20find in ten or 30 years

0:10:21 > 0:10:25there is a real problem we did not see coming earlier -- I am most

0:10:25 > 0:10:27concerned about air. The report says the NHS could lead

0:10:27 > 0:10:29on reducing pollution levels. With more than a million staff, the

0:10:29 > 0:10:31health service is one of the biggest employers in the country and

0:10:31 > 0:10:34responsible for around one in 20 road journeys. So for example the

0:10:34 > 0:10:36NHS could cut down on consumption of single use plastics and emissions

0:10:36 > 0:10:41from buildings. If nothing is done there are warnings that consistent

0:10:41 > 0:10:47long-term exposure to a range of pollutants, air, light, noise and

0:10:47 > 0:10:50chemical, could undermine efforts to improve public health. A better

0:10:50 > 0:10:57understanding of the threat would help identify possible solutions.

0:10:57 > 0:11:00The Government says it'll commission research in to the safety of tyres

0:11:00 > 0:11:01on public transport vehicles.

0:11:01 > 0:11:0318-year-old Michael Molloy was killed in 2012,

0:11:03 > 0:11:05along with two others, when the coach he was travelling

0:11:05 > 0:11:08in crashed due to a blown tyre which hadn't been changed

0:11:08 > 0:11:09in nearly two decades.

0:11:09 > 0:11:14His mother has since been campaigning for a change in the law.

0:11:14 > 0:11:16A couple in California have been arrested after authorities

0:11:16 > 0:11:21discovered they were living with three children inside a box.

0:11:21 > 0:11:23This is the area in Joshua Tree, in California, where it's alleged

0:11:23 > 0:11:29that Mona Kirk and Daniel Panico were living with their kids.

0:11:29 > 0:11:38They've been charged with wilful cruelty to children.

0:11:38 > 0:11:43Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited more than 2000 people,

0:11:43 > 0:11:46including 1200 members of the public, from every corner of the

0:11:46 > 0:11:50United Kingdom into the grounds of Windsor Castle to watch the arrival

0:11:50 > 0:11:53and departure of the bride and groom at their wedding. Those invited will

0:11:53 > 0:11:56include people from charities and local schoolchildren.

0:11:56 > 0:11:59That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9:30am.

0:11:59 > 0:12:01We'll be bringing you regular updates on the snow situation

0:12:01 > 0:12:04right across the country, throughout the programme.

0:12:04 > 0:12:06Do get in touch to tell us how you're coping -

0:12:06 > 0:12:07use the hashtag #VictoriaLive.

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0:12:12 > 0:12:17Let's get some sport.

0:12:17 > 0:12:23Olly Foster joins us. If we talk about Phil Neville, Arsene Wenger,

0:12:23 > 0:12:25there are probably slightly different moods. Let's start with

0:12:25 > 0:12:31Phil Neville, who had a good night? Good morning. We did a lot on the

0:12:31 > 0:12:35programme about five weeks ago when Phil Neville was appointed as head

0:12:35 > 0:12:39coach of the England lionesses, lots of debate about whether he had

0:12:39 > 0:12:43enough managerial experience, very little managerial experience at all.

0:12:43 > 0:12:49And also the FA processes in the recruitment were analysed and

0:12:49 > 0:12:56criticised. He is in position, he has had his first match. They are at

0:12:56 > 0:13:03the She Believes Club, a very important friendly tournament, in

0:13:03 > 0:13:09Columbus, Ohio. They beat the French 4-1. France are a very big bogey

0:13:09 > 0:13:17team. They went 4-0 up. Phil Neville was as pleased as punch, as you

0:13:17 > 0:13:20might imagine. He said before the tournament he knew people out there

0:13:20 > 0:13:27would want him to fail. He has had a brilliant start and feels his

0:13:27 > 0:13:30message to his new players has got through.

0:13:30 > 0:13:35I think bravery is the one word I have used more than any other in the

0:13:35 > 0:13:40last three days. It is easy saying it but the hardest thing is to do

0:13:40 > 0:13:45it. My players played with massive courage today against a side, say

0:13:45 > 0:13:49what you want, we have been really poor against.

0:13:49 > 0:13:54They will have to step up again because they come thick and fast in

0:13:54 > 0:14:00this club, they have Germany and the USA, both very useful women's team.

0:14:00 > 0:14:06Is not good for Arsenal? Not useful at all. You go back to

0:14:06 > 0:14:13last Sunday and they were completely humbled in the League Cup final to

0:14:13 > 0:14:17Manchester City, 3-0. Would you believe they played City again in

0:14:17 > 0:14:23the league last night and again 3-0. Embarrassed Cink am really. Tens of

0:14:23 > 0:14:31of empty seats. -- embarrassing, really. The weather probably had

0:14:31 > 0:14:34something to do with it but there was probably foreboding and people

0:14:34 > 0:14:40do not want to see Arsenal get thumped in this manner. If you are

0:14:40 > 0:14:47an Arsenal fan, that is. Bernard Silva, David Silva, Leroy Sane man

0:14:47 > 0:14:53of the Manchester City masterclass. Is this the end for Arsene Wenger

0:14:53 > 0:14:57and his 22 years at that club? A blog as a player, you are tapped

0:14:57 > 0:15:03on the shoulder by Arsene Wenger, as I was,and he said your time is up,

0:15:03 > 0:15:08your too old. When you too old as a manager? When has it gone? We are

0:15:08 > 0:15:14not seeing on the pitch the magic he created in the past. It is gone, it

0:15:14 > 0:15:18is not there. It is almost like a boxer in the ring, one more fight.

0:15:18 > 0:15:23Nobody is thriving in the towel. Pretty sad. Doom and gloom if you

0:15:23 > 0:15:29are an Arsenal fan. Take nothing away from Man City, they are 16

0:15:29 > 0:15:35points clear at the top of the table, 30 points clear of Arsenal.

0:15:35 > 0:15:39It is looking like Manchester City will head for that Premier League

0:15:39 > 0:15:47title at the earliest opportunity. They could win it on April seven.

0:15:47 > 0:15:50The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is set to deliver a major speech

0:15:50 > 0:15:52today, setting out the Government's latest position on Brexit.

0:15:52 > 0:15:55She's going to outline five tests she thinks any deal should

0:15:55 > 0:15:58meet to be successful.

0:15:58 > 0:16:06Let's talk to our political guru about what we can expect.

0:16:06 > 0:16:14Lets talk to Norman Smith. Take us through these five tests.

0:16:14 > 0:16:19These are tests to reassure folk about the type of Brexit she will

0:16:19 > 0:16:24deliver. She said she will respect the results of the referendum and

0:16:24 > 0:16:27there will be a permanent deal so we won't be going back to the

0:16:27 > 0:16:32negotiating table next year. It will be a deal protecting prosperity and

0:16:32 > 0:16:33livelihood and

0:16:33 > 0:16:34be a deal protecting prosperity and livelihood and it will be a deal

0:16:34 > 0:16:39which tries to bring everyone together. So far, so simple. The

0:16:39 > 0:16:45really difficult part of her speech today is trying to convince EU

0:16:45 > 0:16:50leaders that we should now move on to negotiating those crucial trade

0:16:50 > 0:16:55talks. Because at the moment, both sides seem to be shouting past each

0:16:55 > 0:16:59other. And I think the core message from Theresa May to EU leaders is

0:16:59 > 0:17:05going to be the cake eating, we will. All that. We're not going to

0:17:05 > 0:17:09carry on helping ourselves to huge chunks of cake because we know you

0:17:09 > 0:17:13find that an acceptable. We will listen to what you are saying, take

0:17:13 > 0:17:17on board your red lines, listen to issues that matter to you and we

0:17:17 > 0:17:22will not assume we can have everything we want. And that, met

0:17:22 > 0:17:28Tara Clay, will get the EU leaders to think, OK, maybe we can do

0:17:28 > 0:17:32business with Theresa May. The second part of the speech is going

0:17:32 > 0:17:37to be a plan. This is the difficult bit, we don't know how much detail

0:17:37 > 0:17:42is going to be in Theresa May's plan. Downing Street said there will

0:17:42 > 0:17:46be lots of things that will give us an idea of the sort of trade

0:17:46 > 0:17:51relationship we want to negotiate. We might see, for example,

0:17:51 > 0:17:54suggestions about which parts of the British economy the government would

0:17:54 > 0:17:59be prepared to abiding by EU rules and standards and suggestions have

0:17:59 > 0:18:05been it could be the car industry, the pharmaceutical industry. The big

0:18:05 > 0:18:10question, is will EU leaders think that goes far enough. Secondly,

0:18:10 > 0:18:13doesn't that still look like cherry picking. In other words, it still

0:18:13 > 0:18:19looks like we are trying to eat our cake and have it. It is tougher

0:18:19 > 0:18:23Theresa May, but the test will be whether EU leaders say, OK, we will

0:18:23 > 0:18:27talk trade.Norman, thank you for that.

0:18:27 > 0:18:30Let's talk to Senator Neale Richmond from the Governing party

0:18:30 > 0:18:34in Ireland Fine Gael, he's the chairman of an Irish

0:18:34 > 0:18:37Parliamentary Brexit Committee, and Richard Tice, a businessman that

0:18:37 > 0:18:40set up Leave UK, which campaigned for Britain to leave the EU.

0:18:40 > 0:18:46Richard now co-chairs the Leave Means Leave campaign group.

0:18:46 > 0:18:53Thank you both for speaking to us this morning. If I can speak to you

0:18:53 > 0:18:56first, Senator, the five Brexit tests Norman was guiding us through

0:18:56 > 0:19:00we are told the British Prime Minister will talk about today in

0:19:00 > 0:19:07her speech, do they satisfy you?Be alone do not satisfy us. They sound

0:19:07 > 0:19:12like messages for the domestic UK audience, which is understandable.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15The tone of the speech is very important, of course and everything

0:19:15 > 0:19:21we have heard so far is welcoming and we hope we can move onto the

0:19:21 > 0:19:25next age. We are crucially looking for the element of detail the

0:19:25 > 0:19:29British government haven't exactly presented. There has been a lot of

0:19:29 > 0:19:33rhetoric and a political agreement made in December which manifested

0:19:33 > 0:19:37into legal text this week. But if the government are serious to having

0:19:37 > 0:19:45the closest relationship, which is we aspire to, we need to see more

0:19:45 > 0:19:49detail quickly.Richard, are you happy with the five tests Theresa

0:19:49 > 0:19:52May has outlined?It is important she doesn't make further

0:19:52 > 0:19:58concessions. She gave two positive warm speeches at Lancaster house

0:19:58 > 0:20:05Amber Florence speech last year. So far we haven't seen enough

0:20:05 > 0:20:09reciprocal from the European Union. There has been tough and

0:20:09 > 0:20:14uncompromising talk and we need to see if they are going to genuinely

0:20:14 > 0:20:17entering into some serious trade talks quickly, otherwise the Prime

0:20:17 > 0:20:22Minister needs to make it clear we are prepared to go to the world

0:20:22 > 0:20:24Trade Organisation arrangement. We will not be pushed around and

0:20:24 > 0:20:27bullied and we must not let ourselves end up with a bad deal

0:20:27 > 0:20:32because we're not prepared to walk away.Norman Smith has just said

0:20:32 > 0:20:36Theresa May will start to say, we are going to be honest, not to ask

0:20:36 > 0:20:41for our cake and eat it, because it isn't realistic?It is realistic to

0:20:41 > 0:20:45say we want a deep and special relationship and we need warm words

0:20:45 > 0:20:50back from the European Union. You must not negotiate against

0:20:50 > 0:20:54yourselves and may concessions be about getting concessions so far.

0:20:54 > 0:20:58Otherwise you'll end up with a bad deal and that is the danger of where

0:20:58 > 0:21:05we are at.Senator, would you agree Theresa May should not be making the

0:21:05 > 0:21:08concessions Norman Smith suggested she may make today?So far, all we

0:21:08 > 0:21:14have heard is red line as the red line. The negotiating side is always

0:21:14 > 0:21:18negotiated in good faith. Brexit was in her idea or something we sought.

0:21:18 > 0:21:24We cannot expect to design what Brexit can apply, that is the

0:21:24 > 0:21:27responsibility of the British government. That is what they voted

0:21:27 > 0:21:32for. We need to maintain the close as possible relationship. In an

0:21:32 > 0:21:37ideal world, the UK would be leaving the EU in the first place, but we

0:21:37 > 0:21:42hope there is a possibility to stay well aligned and close to make sure

0:21:42 > 0:21:46the trading and social relationships can be achieved. The continuous warm

0:21:46 > 0:21:51speeches alone and I'm other members of the Cabinet and they are not

0:21:51 > 0:21:53enough. Series detail and propositions about what Brexit

0:21:53 > 0:21:58should look like is what we need. It is 13 months until Brexit kicks in,

0:21:58 > 0:22:03it is about time we got some detail. What about the Northern Ireland

0:22:03 > 0:22:07border, clearly it huge issue for you?We had a political agreement

0:22:07 > 0:22:12between both the European and British negotiating side is that

0:22:12 > 0:22:15there would be no hard border in Northern Ireland. It is important

0:22:15 > 0:22:20and it requires a level of customs alignment and no regulatory

0:22:20 > 0:22:25diversions that both sides agreed upon in December. It is very much

0:22:25 > 0:22:29our aspiration that we can achieve a new trade deal with a large customs

0:22:29 > 0:22:33arrangements aspect to it. The British government said there might

0:22:33 > 0:22:37be possibilities of some sort of imaginative options. We have not

0:22:37 > 0:22:40seen any details and we remain sceptical that any of those are

0:22:40 > 0:22:46achieved. But the third option, the backstop in the draft legal text

0:22:46 > 0:22:50will come into force, we hope it does that happen because we continue

0:22:50 > 0:22:54to negotiate in good faith and we want to make sure that there is not

0:22:54 > 0:22:58only no border but no border between the other members of the United

0:22:58 > 0:23:04Kingdom as a whole and we can have a strong relationship built on 45

0:23:04 > 0:23:08years of positive commonality between the UK and the rest of the

0:23:08 > 0:23:14EU.Richard is shaking his head? Yes, let's be very clear, the

0:23:14 > 0:23:18European Parliament's own report by their specialist last November, made

0:23:18 > 0:23:23it absolutely clear, we can have a frictionless border using the latest

0:23:23 > 0:23:27technology, number plate recognition systems, authorised operators, the

0:23:27 > 0:23:31options are there. The European Parliament report says it Amat

0:23:31 > 0:23:36mirrors what our government said last August.That is what Boris

0:23:36 > 0:23:39Johnson said, it is easy as the congestion charge but everybody

0:23:39 > 0:23:44mocked him.Our former Prime ministers are deliberately

0:23:44 > 0:23:49mischiefmaking in a way that is totally disgraceful. The reality is,

0:23:49 > 0:23:53the solutions and technology are there. You can have a soft border

0:23:53 > 0:23:57and everybody needs a positive, can-do attitude as opposed to

0:23:57 > 0:24:01talking about the negatives. That way we make progress and we can

0:24:01 > 0:24:03arrive at a straightforward, positive, totally frictionless

0:24:03 > 0:24:10border.I have to come in on that point if you don't mind. The report

0:24:10 > 0:24:15Richard has mentioned, he left off a litter detail, saying there will be

0:24:15 > 0:24:19customs checks and patrol.It is very disingenuous. Not at the

0:24:19 > 0:24:24border.Putting in place any border on the island of Ireland has been

0:24:24 > 0:24:28cited by both our police forces that is a viable threat to the Good

0:24:28 > 0:24:33Friday Agreement. We cannot dismiss it, we cannot say it is

0:24:33 > 0:24:37scaremongering, it is a viable threat are people who dismiss it, do

0:24:37 > 0:24:41themselves en massive injustice and do not take this process seriously.

0:24:41 > 0:24:48Senator, thank you and also thank you Richard.

0:24:48 > 0:24:51Coming up...

0:24:51 > 0:24:53With motorists and train passengers stranded for hours

0:24:53 > 0:24:55and troops called in to help, we'll hear some heart-warming

0:24:55 > 0:24:58stories of people mucking in to help each other out during these

0:24:58 > 0:24:59challenging weather conditions.

0:24:59 > 0:25:01Sex education in schools focuses on contraception and how

0:25:01 > 0:25:05NOT to get pregnant.

0:25:05 > 0:25:08But now a group of leading doctors and fertility experts is calling

0:25:08 > 0:25:10on the government to make schools teach girls when and how

0:25:10 > 0:25:12they should have a baby.

0:25:12 > 0:25:16They say women too often assume they'll get pregnant as soon

0:25:16 > 0:25:19as they want to but, they say, for one in seven couples,

0:25:19 > 0:25:22that is not the case.

0:25:22 > 0:25:25Joining me now is Jessica Hepburn - who has had 11 rounds

0:25:25 > 0:25:27of unsuccessful IVF treatment and is now a fertility campaigner

0:25:27 > 0:25:31driving the Fertility Education Initiative.

0:25:31 > 0:25:34Also joining us from Cambridge is Professor Joyce Harper

0:25:34 > 0:25:41from the UCL Institute of Women's Health.

0:25:41 > 0:25:47Thank you both for joining us this morning. Jessica, first of all, tell

0:25:47 > 0:25:51me the challenges you have faced in your life, in your quest to have a

0:25:51 > 0:25:57baby?My partner and I started to try and concede when I was 34, I

0:25:57 > 0:26:01thought it was the perfect age. I had got to a great point in my

0:26:01 > 0:26:08career. It didn't happen. We tried for about a year, which is what

0:26:08 > 0:26:12couples are recommended to do before we went to have a sort of fertility

0:26:12 > 0:26:17tests. That was the start of what became a decade-long struggle to

0:26:17 > 0:26:23conceive, that as you said, involved 11 rounds of unsuccessful IVF. That

0:26:23 > 0:26:27is at the extreme end of the spectrum, I am conscious of that but

0:26:27 > 0:26:31we did seem to be able to get pregnant but I have multiple

0:26:31 > 0:26:33miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy that was discovered very

0:26:33 > 0:26:40late.I got pregnant with my first child when I was 32 and I was amazed

0:26:40 > 0:26:46my doctor said to me, you are a young mum. I thought 32? That is

0:26:46 > 0:26:50crazy. But that is the message our generation has been given, you can

0:26:50 > 0:26:57have your career and I get babies to fit in with you?The average age of

0:26:57 > 0:27:03first-time motherhood is increasing, but exactly as you said, but what

0:27:03 > 0:27:07we're not talking about is the number of couples who are struggling

0:27:07 > 0:27:11to conceive. Really staggering statistic that I am aware of is that

0:27:11 > 0:27:16the number of people entering their 40s now, which includes me without a

0:27:16 > 0:27:20child has doubled in a generation and most of those people are

0:27:20 > 0:27:25childless, not by choice but by circumstance.Joyce Harper, explain

0:27:25 > 0:27:29this idea of speaking to children in school and changing that message

0:27:29 > 0:27:35completely that we have been giving them, do get pregnant?We are giving

0:27:35 > 0:27:39a different message, but we're not asking to get pregnant when they are

0:27:39 > 0:27:44teenagers. We want both men and women to be fully informed about

0:27:44 > 0:27:49fertility decline, especially in the female. We are very fertile when we

0:27:49 > 0:27:55are in our teens and 20s, but unfortunately when we hit 30,

0:27:55 > 0:27:59especially 35, our fertility starts to decline rapidly and trying to get

0:27:59 > 0:28:04pregnant in your late 30s and early 40s is difficult. We want to make

0:28:04 > 0:28:07sure people have this information and make sure the technology we

0:28:07 > 0:28:15have, such as IVF, it cannot work miracles. We can't help people get

0:28:15 > 0:28:20pregnant beyond their mid-40s at the very most, over 40. People are

0:28:20 > 0:28:23having different lifestyles now. Women are having careers and

0:28:23 > 0:28:28travelling and doing all sorts of other things and they have to be

0:28:28 > 0:28:33aware of fertility decline.If you stand up as a teacher in front of a

0:28:33 > 0:28:37classroom of teenagers and say to them, be aware, your mid-20s is your

0:28:37 > 0:28:41optimum time to have a baby, don't leave it until your mid-30s, that

0:28:41 > 0:28:46seems a lifetime away for these teenagers, will they take it on

0:28:46 > 0:28:50board?This is why we want to use the art project and the project we

0:28:50 > 0:28:54do with Jessica is perfect. We don't expect teachers to stand up there

0:28:54 > 0:29:00and give this information, children will not engage with that. The

0:29:00 > 0:29:08project is called Modern Family because we don't just want to import

0:29:08 > 0:29:10the information that you shouldn't leave it too long. But also

0:29:10 > 0:29:12different ways of making families. There may be a choice you don't want

0:29:12 > 0:29:17to have children, or you may want to be a single mother be in a gay or

0:29:17 > 0:29:20lesbian relationship. We want to give that information to children

0:29:20 > 0:29:27there are different options available to them.Do you think in

0:29:27 > 0:29:31your mid-20s, everybody is ready to have a baby, because that is the

0:29:31 > 0:29:35problem?It is an massive problem, Chloe. A lot of people don't want to

0:29:35 > 0:29:41have children at the biological optimum age. We have to accept that.

0:29:41 > 0:29:46Many people are not in a position to. Many people haven't got their

0:29:46 > 0:29:51own home, some people haven't even left home.Some people haven't found

0:29:51 > 0:29:57a life partner either?That is another big issue also. What we are

0:29:57 > 0:30:01saying is that we're not going to change that overnight, but what we

0:30:01 > 0:30:08are going to say is the education about fertility that young children

0:30:08 > 0:30:12are getting in schools is inadequate at the moment. We want to give them

0:30:12 > 0:30:17an adequate education so they can make the best life choices for them.

0:30:17 > 0:30:20We are not encouraging or telling young people went to get pregnant,

0:30:20 > 0:30:24we just know they are getting the right information and that is what

0:30:24 > 0:30:29we are trying to change.If you knew this in your 20s, what you know now

0:30:29 > 0:30:32when you were in your optimum period of fertility, would you have made

0:30:32 > 0:30:38different choices?It is so difficult to look back and say that.

0:30:38 > 0:30:43But I didn't have this information then. My partner and I have

0:30:43 > 0:30:47unexplained infertility. What I do know is, the longer journey

0:30:47 > 0:30:52continued and the older I got, whatever else was going on, I was

0:30:52 > 0:30:57bringing my age into the equation. Now I have so much more information

0:30:57 > 0:31:01having written a book about it and now becoming a campaign in this

0:31:01 > 0:31:06area. I feel like I have a duty to try and change things for the next

0:31:06 > 0:31:11generation.We have had so many conversations with friends of mine

0:31:11 > 0:31:14who struggled with their fertility and the Aaron Niguez, they spent

0:31:14 > 0:31:18their teenage years trying not to get pregnant.We have been working

0:31:18 > 0:31:22with young people all this week and they say, tell us, they want to

0:31:22 > 0:31:26know, they really want this information. Everyone says exactly

0:31:26 > 0:31:31what you have just said. So we have to change this.Thank you for coming

0:31:31 > 0:31:34in. Thank you also for joining us.

0:31:34 > 0:31:35Still to come...

0:31:35 > 0:31:37We'll bring you the latest on the weather

0:31:37 > 0:31:38and all the disruption it's causing.

0:31:38 > 0:31:39And - clowns without borders.

0:31:39 > 0:31:42We meet the unique charity putting on a show and lifting

0:31:42 > 0:31:46the spirits of refugee children

0:31:49 > 0:31:55Time for the latest news - here's Annita.

0:31:55 > 0:31:57The BBC News headlines this morning...

0:31:57 > 0:31:59A Met Office red "danger to life" warning covering south-west

0:31:59 > 0:32:02England and South Wales has been lifted, but amber and yellow alerts

0:32:02 > 0:32:07for snow, ice and wind are still widely in force.

0:32:07 > 0:32:09Police, with help from the military, have been rescuing

0:32:09 > 0:32:10drivers trapped in snow, as blizzards continue

0:32:11 > 0:32:13to sweep across the UK.

0:32:13 > 0:32:16Thousands of schools are closed, and 5,000 homes in the north-west

0:32:16 > 0:32:17of England are without electricity.

0:32:17 > 0:32:19Dozens of volunteers have been helping drivers left

0:32:19 > 0:32:21stranded on the M62.

0:32:21 > 0:32:28It's England's highest motorway and is currently impassable.

0:32:28 > 0:32:30Highways England are warning there will be no suitable

0:32:30 > 0:32:35cross-Pennine routes until weather conditions improve.

0:32:35 > 0:32:38On the A31 through the New Forest in Hampshire, police declared

0:32:38 > 0:32:41a major incident and brought in the army to help clear the road.

0:32:41 > 0:32:44Traffic on the eastbound carriageway has finally begun

0:32:44 > 0:32:46moving after it was closed for nearly 10 hours.

0:32:46 > 0:32:51Hundreds of drivers are still stranded on the A303

0:32:51 > 0:32:53in Wiltshire and Somerset this morning, having spent the night

0:32:53 > 0:32:59in their cars with temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees.

0:32:59 > 0:33:01In other news...

0:33:01 > 0:33:03Theresa May will make a speech later

0:33:03 > 0:33:04explaining the relationship the Government wants

0:33:04 > 0:33:05with the EU after Brexit.

0:33:05 > 0:33:08Mrs May will promise to deliver the change that people

0:33:08 > 0:33:10voted for in the referendum - while protecting jobs and security.

0:33:10 > 0:33:13Mrs May will set five tests to guide the negotiations -

0:33:13 > 0:33:15which include strengthening the UK and bringing all its

0:33:15 > 0:33:25people together.

0:33:25 > 0:33:30New research suggests there could be as many as five string to diabetes.

0:33:30 > 0:33:34Current medical diagnosis is for type one or two McGrew of the

0:33:34 > 0:33:38condition, but sinus and Scandinavia believe their findings, based on a

0:33:38 > 0:33:42study of 15,000 patients, show how different causes, risks and

0:33:42 > 0:33:47complications can respond to different patients.

0:33:47 > 0:33:50The condition affects one in 11 adults worldwide.

0:33:50 > 0:33:52Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited

0:33:52 > 0:33:53more than 2,000 people - including 1,200 members

0:33:53 > 0:33:56of the public - into the grounds of Windsor Castle

0:33:56 > 0:33:58to watch the arrival and departure of the bride

0:33:58 > 0:33:59and groom at their wedding.

0:33:59 > 0:34:01Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited

0:34:01 > 0:34:03more than 2,000 people - including 1,200 members

0:34:03 > 0:34:05Kensington Palace says those invited will include people "from every

0:34:05 > 0:34:07corner of the United Kingdom", including charity workers

0:34:07 > 0:34:08and local school children.

0:34:08 > 0:34:11That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

0:34:11 > 0:34:13Thank you, and Eton.

0:34:13 > 0:34:17Here's some sport now with Olly Foster.

0:34:17 > 0:34:24Phil Neville is off to a winning start with the England lionesses.

0:34:24 > 0:34:30They thrashed France 4-1 in Ohio in a friendly tournament.

0:34:30 > 0:34:34Two thrashings for Arsenal against Manchester city in five days. They

0:34:34 > 0:34:39are ten points of the Premier League top four, 30 points off City at the

0:34:39 > 0:34:41top. The British men took gold in the

0:34:41 > 0:34:46team pursuit at the world track cycling Championships. Laura Kenny

0:34:46 > 0:34:48helped the women to silver in the Netherlands.

0:34:48 > 0:34:53Laura Muir has her first major medal, winning 3000 metres bronze on

0:34:53 > 0:34:58the first day of the world indoor athletics Championships in

0:34:58 > 0:35:00Birmingham. I will be back with a full update

0:35:00 > 0:35:02after 10am. Thank you.

0:35:02 > 0:35:0520 years ago, 37-year-old former soldier Christopher Alder died

0:35:05 > 0:35:07handcuffed and face down in a Hull police station after

0:35:07 > 0:35:08choking on his own vomit.

0:35:08 > 0:35:14A group of officers stood chatting nearby.

0:35:14 > 0:35:17The inquest into Christopher's death found that his death was unlawful

0:35:17 > 0:35:20and four police officers were guilty of the "most serious neglect

0:35:20 > 0:35:23of duty," but they were cleared of all criminal charges.

0:35:23 > 0:35:25During the inquest, Christopher's sister Janet Alder

0:35:25 > 0:35:30and her lawyer were put under secret police surveillance.

0:35:30 > 0:35:32Yesterday a gross misconduct hearing into two officers involved

0:35:32 > 0:35:37in the surveillance ruled there was no case to answer.

0:35:37 > 0:35:40We can talk now to Christopher's sister, Janet Alder, for the first

0:35:40 > 0:35:47time since that decision.

0:35:47 > 0:35:52Thank you so much for speaking to us today, Janet, on what I can only

0:35:52 > 0:35:57imagine is an incredibly difficult day for you as you try to take in

0:35:57 > 0:36:03everything that has happened. Take us back to 1998, when Christopher

0:36:03 > 0:36:09died in police custody. You fought so hard for so long to get answers

0:36:09 > 0:36:15to his death. Do you feel you have had any answers?Absolutely none.

0:36:15 > 0:36:20There is not many families that go through the amount of injustices we

0:36:20 > 0:36:27have been through. There just seems to have been a wall of silence since

0:36:27 > 0:36:34his death in 1998, up until today. Tell us, the inquest concluded

0:36:34 > 0:36:41unlawful killing, then what happened?

0:36:41 > 0:36:46Then we... You know, when you get an unlawful killing, with its being the

0:36:46 > 0:36:53only verdict that can sanction a criminal trial, we then had high

0:36:53 > 0:37:00expectations that the CPS would prosecute these police officers for

0:37:00 > 0:37:03gross negligence, manslaughter, because that was the inquest

0:37:03 > 0:37:08verdict. We've found they were very, very reluctant to charge them with

0:37:08 > 0:37:14gross negligence, murder... Manslaughter, I apologise. It was

0:37:14 > 0:37:23only to my solicitor getting the evidence that supported... The CPS

0:37:23 > 0:37:28seem to find it difficult to find my solicitor found this evidence and

0:37:28 > 0:37:33that the CPS in a position where they had to add the charge to a

0:37:33 > 0:37:38misconduct charge and take the police officers to court.And those

0:37:38 > 0:37:43police officers were all cleared. It is also worth saying that at the

0:37:43 > 0:37:49time of the inquest in 2000, we now know that you and your lawyer were

0:37:49 > 0:37:53under police surveillance. Did you have any suspicion at the time?

0:37:53 > 0:37:57When I had been to the police station in 1998 to find out what

0:37:57 > 0:38:02happened to Christopher, I think it was the second time I went and spoke

0:38:02 > 0:38:11to a superintendent and basically I was asking what had happened and

0:38:11 > 0:38:17whatsoever. When I left I just walked to a book shop, I can't say

0:38:17 > 0:38:22why I went to a book shop at that time but I went into a book shop and

0:38:22 > 0:38:26I saw what I believed to be a plainclothes police officer stood

0:38:26 > 0:38:30outside with navy blue overalls on and a Bloomberg has jacket. The

0:38:30 > 0:38:36reason I believe he was a police officer is that he had a thin black

0:38:36 > 0:38:42notebook in his hand -- and a blue Berghaus jacket. On the notebook was

0:38:42 > 0:38:52a badge with red at the top of it. I was startled and scared. I added

0:38:52 > 0:38:56burst in the book shop, everybody went over to have a look. I said my

0:38:56 > 0:38:59brother has died in a police custody and the police are following me.

0:38:59 > 0:39:03They looked out of the door, that must have made him feel little bit

0:39:03 > 0:39:10uncomfortable and he disappeared. We know it was decided yesterday

0:39:10 > 0:39:13there was no case to answer surrounding that surveillance, but

0:39:13 > 0:39:20there also you learned that 12 years after you had buried Christopher and

0:39:20 > 0:39:25you were trying to move on that, in fact, the wrong body had been

0:39:25 > 0:39:32released to you and you had not buried Christopher at all?Yes. That

0:39:32 > 0:39:38is just a total shock. It was totally unbelievable how a

0:39:38 > 0:39:4437-year-old former paratrooper could be mistaken with a 77-year-old woman

0:39:44 > 0:39:52that had been found to have been sat next to a fire for two weeks. It was

0:39:52 > 0:39:59a total shock. Nobody has actually told us how this can happen, how his

0:39:59 > 0:40:07body could have been swapped for the funeral. We have had absolutely no

0:40:07 > 0:40:12answers to that. All of this time you are trying to

0:40:12 > 0:40:18come to terms with your brother's death. How has that affected you and

0:40:18 > 0:40:24your family and the unit of people around you? All of these different

0:40:24 > 0:40:31fronts you had to fight on? I have made a complaint in 2000 that

0:40:31 > 0:40:38I believed I had been spied on. I made it to the police complaints,

0:40:38 > 0:40:44that was just before the inquest had started. I had just seen the death

0:40:44 > 0:40:51of Christopher on CCTV. I was in a very, very vulnerable position. I

0:40:51 > 0:40:58was told there was no evidence of this. But because I was told there

0:40:58 > 0:41:03was no evidence did not mean that my senses and my beliefs had

0:41:03 > 0:41:08disappeared, that I was being watched and whatsoever. I was living

0:41:08 > 0:41:14with that kind of trauma as well as having to watch Christopher died in

0:41:14 > 0:41:20the conditions that I had. This went on for years. We had gone through a

0:41:20 > 0:41:29failed trial. I got really, really concerned because I was campaigning

0:41:29 > 0:41:37about my son, who was only... Sorry, he was about nine at the time. As

0:41:37 > 0:41:43years went on he got to about 15 and because there was so much pressure

0:41:43 > 0:41:49on me with so many things that had happened at around the same time,

0:41:49 > 0:41:56for the fear of him I put him at his father's, because I still felt that

0:41:56 > 0:42:04my phone was being tapped and there was something not right about what

0:42:04 > 0:42:11was going on at the time. The fear was unbelievable. In 2006, after the

0:42:11 > 0:42:17death in camera was aired on television and Mr Blunkett had

0:42:17 > 0:42:21appointed the IPCC to do a review into his death, I mentioned it yet

0:42:21 > 0:42:26again in 2006 and was told yet again there was no evidence of me being

0:42:26 > 0:42:30spied on. Because I weren't getting any answers to all the horrific

0:42:30 > 0:42:37things that had happened with Christopher, of course I was

0:42:37 > 0:42:43campaigning for answers. It is something I should not have had to

0:42:43 > 0:42:48do and a family should not have to do. We should not have to take us

0:42:48 > 0:42:54away from our normal life, looking after our own children and

0:42:54 > 0:42:58whatsoever, to campaign for answers. Janet, let me read you a statement

0:42:58 > 0:43:02from Humberside Police about that surveillance. They said we complied

0:43:02 > 0:43:05with the direction of the Independent office for police

0:43:05 > 0:43:09conduct to convene a hearing for gross misconduct against the two

0:43:09 > 0:43:12officers. This has concluded with a result of no case to answer for

0:43:12 > 0:43:16both. We know it has been a distressing time for Ms older and

0:43:16 > 0:43:19her family and understand her frustration that the exact details

0:43:19 > 0:43:23are on the case have not been established. Janet, briefly, do you

0:43:23 > 0:43:29ever feel you will get justice for Christopher?Not at all. As far as

0:43:29 > 0:43:34this hearing was concerned I really did not want to attend because of my

0:43:34 > 0:43:40past experience, you know? I really did not want to attend. This was a

0:43:40 > 0:43:44hearing recommended by the IPCC because there were mountains of

0:43:44 > 0:43:50evidence against the police. The police flatly refused to do it. The

0:43:50 > 0:43:56IPCC then directed them to do it. This hearing was a situation of the

0:43:56 > 0:44:03police legal team setting a hearing against their own officers and their

0:44:03 > 0:44:11own offices being defended by the police.Janet, it just sums up and

0:44:11 > 0:44:15we can tell by the way you are speaking to us about the frustration

0:44:15 > 0:44:19you have and the lack of faith you have in all this. Thank you for

0:44:19 > 0:44:24taking the time to speak to us. It is very, very kind of you.

0:44:24 > 0:44:26Coming up...

0:44:26 > 0:44:30It's the 90th Oscars Awards ceremony on Sunday -

0:44:30 > 0:44:34We have exclusive details of a new survey revealing that Hollywood is

0:44:34 > 0:44:39failing women when it comes to representing gender on-screen.

0:44:39 > 0:44:40parts of the country.

0:44:40 > 0:44:42Thousands of motorists have been stranded overnight and troops have

0:44:42 > 0:44:45been drafted in to get key medical staff to work.

0:44:45 > 0:44:47Red weather alerts, meaning there is a risk to life,

0:44:47 > 0:44:49were issued yesterday in south-west England and south Wales,

0:44:49 > 0:44:55and Storm Emma rages on, meeting the "Beast

0:44:55 > 0:44:56from the East" weather front.

0:44:56 > 0:44:58Many people have been cut off and are struggling

0:44:58 > 0:45:01to access vital supplies, while others have been going above

0:45:01 > 0:45:10and beyond to help those in need.

0:45:10 > 0:45:18Joining us now is Robert Taylor and he is a chef and he owns a pub in

0:45:18 > 0:45:21Kent which has been cut off for three days because of the weather

0:45:21 > 0:45:28and he has been helping villagers with supplies.Also Jessica Bell she

0:45:28 > 0:45:32is in County Durham and has been stranded at home for a few days

0:45:32 > 0:45:37because of the snow. Thank you be joining us, I suppose it has been a

0:45:37 > 0:45:40challenge just even connecting with you in light of what has happened.

0:45:40 > 0:45:44Robert, why did you decide to help everyone, why have you come to the

0:45:44 > 0:45:49rescue when you could have snuggled up on the sofa and stayed warm?

0:45:49 > 0:45:55Yesterday morning, we thought we have all the stuff here and people

0:45:55 > 0:45:59are stuck and cannot get out. It made sense, why wouldn't you help

0:45:59 > 0:46:05people around you.What have you been doing?Not much, we put it out

0:46:05 > 0:46:10on the local social media that I was making bread so I was making enough

0:46:10 > 0:46:14that if people want to come and get some they could. Eggs and milk, and

0:46:14 > 0:46:19stuff like that, it was there if people wanted it.How bad is the

0:46:19 > 0:46:24snow outside, how much do you have? We have had a lot over the last few

0:46:24 > 0:46:28days, on the fields and the roads, we have had a lot of drifts. Which

0:46:28 > 0:46:40have been blocking the roads. Mostly now it is nice and because of where

0:46:40 > 0:46:43we are, we are elevated and you cannot get here without going up and

0:46:43 > 0:46:46down massive hills. People aren't able to go up and down to get out.

0:46:46 > 0:46:49Presumably there are some people in the village who are more vulnerable

0:46:49 > 0:46:57and need help?Yes, the farmers are doing amazingly well, they are out

0:46:57 > 0:47:00gritting, even though they still have to do their farm work, they are

0:47:00 > 0:47:05out ploughing the roads to make it easier for everybody around. It is a

0:47:05 > 0:47:09nice community spirit and everybody is helping out.Who has been

0:47:09 > 0:47:14dropping in, trudging to your pub? There has been a few locals,

0:47:14 > 0:47:17obviously there is not a lot to do if you cannot get out of the village

0:47:17 > 0:47:21so we have had quite a lot of people come in. We have got the log fires

0:47:21 > 0:47:28going and it is nice and warm.It is great work you are doing. Let's

0:47:28 > 0:47:31bring in Jessica, because you are stranded in County Durham, give us a

0:47:31 > 0:47:39sense of what it is like outside? Pretty much, the roads are really,

0:47:39 > 0:47:49really bad. They haven't got round with any gritters, but local farmers

0:47:49 > 0:47:54have taken their trackers around with a scoop on the end. It isn't so

0:47:54 > 0:47:58bad today, but round the back of the house where we parked cars, there is

0:47:58 > 0:48:02about 14 inches of snow so it is completely over the wheels of both

0:48:02 > 0:48:09mine and my partner's car.14 inches of snow?Yes, we measured it last

0:48:09 > 0:48:23night.Are you in a rural area? Consett is quite high up, even when

0:48:23 > 0:48:27anybody else doesn't have snow, we do tend to have snow. With the

0:48:27 > 0:48:32dramatic weather that we have had, it hasn't stopped snowing for the

0:48:32 > 0:48:38past four days.Have you got lots of food, water, heating?We have, we

0:48:38 > 0:48:44actually walked to Tesco yesterday. There wasn't much on the shelves and

0:48:44 > 0:48:51we ended up having to go to another supermarket instead. As the

0:48:51 > 0:48:55gentleman before me was saying before me, bread is a big one, there

0:48:55 > 0:49:00is no bread on the shelves and I am lucky we have a family bakery and we

0:49:00 > 0:49:04had already been a couple of days before. So we have loads of bread,

0:49:04 > 0:49:09plenty of food so we have pretty much been watching the TV and

0:49:09 > 0:49:13sitting here waiting.Jessica, thank you for speaking to us and Robert,

0:49:13 > 0:49:18thank you for speaking to others and I hope the snow clears up soon.

0:49:18 > 0:49:19against minority Rohingya Muslims.

0:49:19 > 0:49:22Last summer violence erupted in the Rakhine region of Myanmar

0:49:22 > 0:49:23against minority Rohingya Muslims.

0:49:23 > 0:49:25They became the target of the country's military,

0:49:25 > 0:49:27with reports of mass violence, torture and rape.

0:49:27 > 0:49:29It's since become one of the world's largest humanitarian crises

0:49:29 > 0:49:31with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing into neighbouring

0:49:31 > 0:49:33Bangladesh.

0:49:33 > 0:49:36The refugees are now housed in a camp close to the border

0:49:36 > 0:49:38of the two countries.

0:49:38 > 0:49:40Many of them are children.

0:49:40 > 0:49:43Our reporter Michael Cowan has made a film about a unique charity -

0:49:43 > 0:49:45which has sent in clowns to try to help improve

0:49:45 > 0:49:49the children's mental and emotional wellbeing.

0:49:50 > 0:50:00Hello!

0:50:01 > 0:50:03These are the Clowns Without Borders.

0:50:03 > 0:50:13They travel across the globe to entertain refugee children

0:50:14 > 0:50:17in some of the most dangerous parts of our planet.

0:50:17 > 0:50:21Their latest expedition is here.

0:50:21 > 0:50:23Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh.

0:50:23 > 0:50:26In the spate of six months, its population has swelled to form

0:50:26 > 0:50:28a city the size of Birmingham.

0:50:28 > 0:50:30It home to over 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled violence

0:50:30 > 0:50:39in their native Myanmar at the hands of the country's military.

0:50:39 > 0:50:49Over 400,000 of them are children and what child doesn't love a clown?

0:50:55 > 0:50:57Hannah and Richard are two performers with the UK wing

0:50:57 > 0:51:01of Clowns Without Borders.

0:51:01 > 0:51:06On their recent trip to Bangladesh, they kept video diaries for us.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08Today, we went to the camp for the first time.

0:51:08 > 0:51:11The camp is huge.

0:51:11 > 0:51:18Really, really, really unfathomably big.

0:51:18 > 0:51:23Like a million people.

0:51:23 > 0:51:27We got a little tour of where the river is that separates

0:51:27 > 0:51:32Bangladesh from Myanmar, where the refugees came over.

0:51:32 > 0:51:38Where some of the first refugees started settling.

0:51:38 > 0:51:47Quite ramshacle, built from bamboo sticks and lots of plastic tarp.

0:51:47 > 0:51:55We did our first show for the kids today.

0:51:55 > 0:52:03Basically, we arrived at about 9am in the morning,

0:52:03 > 0:52:06had a look around at the space and then the kids

0:52:06 > 0:52:16slowly started arriving.

0:52:19 > 0:52:21And the other performers, obviously were very well chosen,

0:52:21 > 0:52:23because they are incredible performers but they were also

0:52:23 > 0:52:24great with the kids.

0:52:24 > 0:52:27Actually, I think one of the things today,

0:52:27 > 0:52:30my tummy was a bit upset and I was quite tired so I hung back

0:52:30 > 0:52:33in quite a few moments.

0:52:33 > 0:52:37It also made me happy just to see my other two colleagues just

0:52:37 > 0:52:40playing with the kids and then you just see this group

0:52:40 > 0:52:48of kids and they all just standing there like...

0:52:48 > 0:52:52There was one little girl right at the back,

0:52:52 > 0:52:58watching and standing back.

0:52:58 > 0:53:01I just smiled at her and she smiled and kind of moved back quite shyly.

0:53:01 > 0:53:08But I had this real feeling that was special for her.

0:53:08 > 0:53:13The Rohingya fled when their villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state

0:53:13 > 0:53:16were raised to the ground by the country's military.

0:53:16 > 0:53:19There are widespread allegations of brutal

0:53:19 > 0:53:23violence, torture and rape.

0:53:23 > 0:53:26The UN described the crisis as a textbook example

0:53:26 > 0:53:29of ethnic cleansing.

0:53:29 > 0:53:37Myanmar's government denies targeting civilians.

0:53:37 > 0:53:47It is so conflicting because all the contact we have put

0:53:48 > 0:53:51the children and people is smiling and laughing and knowing what

0:53:51 > 0:53:53happened to these people, but not...

0:53:53 > 0:53:55Just seeing them smiling at this conflict and hey guys,

0:53:55 > 0:53:58everything seems fine.

0:53:58 > 0:54:02Up until now, I've had one or two ups and downs.

0:54:02 > 0:54:05It's obviously a humanitarian crisis, so seeing person,

0:54:05 > 0:54:14after person, after person.

0:54:14 > 0:54:17Every time I looked at a woman today, I wandered all these things.

0:54:17 > 0:54:18Are you pregnant?

0:54:18 > 0:54:28I know a lot of women are pregnant because they were raped.

0:54:33 > 0:54:35I'm wondering, are you pregnant because you where you raped?

0:54:35 > 0:54:37The next woman, have you seen your children

0:54:37 > 0:54:38being killed in front of you?

0:54:38 > 0:54:39It's horrible.

0:54:39 > 0:54:45And I can't imagine, I cannot connect to how humans can do this.

0:54:45 > 0:54:55Not men, I somehow feel dirty and ugly because somehow I connect,

0:54:55 > 0:55:01I'm connected to man, to men who did these things,

0:55:01 > 0:55:04a group of men who came in and they raped and they destroyed

0:55:04 > 0:55:05and they killed.

0:55:05 > 0:55:08As an adult, I hear some of the things they have been

0:55:08 > 0:55:10through and I think to myself, I look at the actual five-year-old,

0:55:10 > 0:55:14seven-year-old, nine-year-old 11-year-old child's face in front

0:55:14 > 0:55:19of me and I think, I cannot imagine, as an adult, dealing with that.

0:55:19 > 0:55:26So I don't know how someone that young, who maybe doesn't

0:55:26 > 0:55:36understand the world yet, would be able to deal with that.

0:55:36 > 0:55:40You know a good couple of thousand make their way to our shows and it's

0:55:40 > 0:55:44a lot of people to take care of.

0:55:44 > 0:55:49There was one moment in the show, I pour myself a cup of water

0:55:49 > 0:55:53and hide behind a newspaper and another clown drink the water.

0:55:53 > 0:56:03When I go to drink the water, it's empty.

0:56:13 > 0:56:16I repeat and repeat, every time I realise my reaction...

0:56:16 > 0:56:21Eventually I'd put it on my head, it is a very clever way of no one

0:56:21 > 0:56:23being able to take it.

0:56:23 > 0:56:33The other clown replaces it with his shoe.

0:56:35 > 0:56:38And then freaking out because I have to drink from a shoe.

0:56:38 > 0:56:40It is so simple, kids are laughing, adults are laughing,

0:56:40 > 0:56:41all the people are laughing.

0:56:41 > 0:56:45Everyone, it is universal.

0:56:45 > 0:56:47TRANSLATION:When the see acting and dancing they laugh.

0:56:47 > 0:56:49It is important for them, for their development,

0:56:49 > 0:56:50to reduce anxiety.

0:56:50 > 0:56:52Laughing is also good for their emotional development.

0:56:52 > 0:56:57They forget their sorrows and pain when they see these shows.

0:56:57 > 0:57:00I don't think I have ever been appreciated this much anywhere else,

0:57:00 > 0:57:05where I have been to work.

0:57:05 > 0:57:09Which is also really nice, but also it makes me feel

0:57:09 > 0:57:16there is genuinely a real human need for the work that we've done.

0:57:16 > 0:57:21When somebody said to me, thanking us for the work

0:57:21 > 0:57:28we are doing and saying how special it is and how long this moment

0:57:28 > 0:57:38will stay in the minds of these kids and this community.

0:57:50 > 0:57:58Some joy being brought into the lives of the Rohingya children in

0:57:58 > 0:57:59Myanmar.

0:57:59 > 0:58:04Let's get the latest weather update with Sarah Keith Lucas.

0:58:04 > 0:58:06It's not getting any better soon is it?

0:58:10 > 0:58:16Not any time soon. We still have that beast from the east. Snow and

0:58:16 > 0:58:20ice around. More disruptive weather and we have had pictures in from

0:58:20 > 0:58:25people around the country showing the disruption and extent of the

0:58:25 > 0:58:30snow. This is from Worcestershire. I don't think he will be going to much

0:58:30 > 0:58:34further up that particular lane. We have had other pictures showing a

0:58:34 > 0:58:38lot of lying snow and ice and this is how things are looking in

0:58:38 > 0:58:42Nottinghamshire this morning. If we look at some of the lying snow

0:58:42 > 0:58:46depths across the country we have around 50 centimetres of snow across

0:58:46 > 0:58:53parts of south Wales. Elsewhere, between 20 to 40 centimetres, so

0:58:53 > 0:58:56enough to cause ongoing disruption and with the cold conditions, it is

0:58:56 > 0:59:01not going to be melting in a hurry. We have these brisk, easterly winds

0:59:01 > 0:59:06coming in from Siberia. Further south, the winds are turning more

0:59:06 > 0:59:12southerly to something less cold on the cards with the arrival of the

0:59:12 > 0:59:16remnants of storm Emma. This will continue to bring some more snow

0:59:16 > 0:59:21through today. So this morning, the snow is as heavy across Wales and

0:59:21 > 0:59:24southern England as it has been but we will see another band of heavier

0:59:24 > 0:59:28and more persistent snow pushing in from the South during this

0:59:28 > 0:59:32afternoon. More snow showers for north-east England and eastern

0:59:32 > 0:59:35Scotland, further west across northern part of the country, things

0:59:35 > 0:59:41are not looking quite as snowy but temperatures will be a degree or two

0:59:41 > 0:59:46either side of freezing. When you add on the wind chill effect, it

0:59:46 > 0:59:49will feel bitter, minus ten, the feel of the weather with the wind

0:59:49 > 0:59:56chill. This band of snow it tracks northwards across England and Wales

0:59:56 > 1:00:01and could be another five to ten centimetres for some parts. Further

1:00:01 > 1:00:06north, snow showers for north-east England and eastern Scotland. More

1:00:06 > 1:00:09disruptive weather. Overnight, temperatures falling below freezing

1:00:09 > 1:00:13so cold and icy start to the weekend. Staying cold in the North

1:00:13 > 1:00:20this weekend but less cold further south across the country. Still a of

1:00:20 > 1:00:25some showers. Some rain showers heading into wards the south-west of

1:00:25 > 1:00:31England. We could see some freezing rain so that is rain falling on to

1:00:31 > 1:00:34freezing surfaces and turning into ice. It could be dangerously dishes

1:00:34 > 1:00:37in the South with the potential for freezing rain. But temperatures will

1:00:37 > 1:00:42be quite as cold as they have been today. Certainly pushing the right

1:00:42 > 1:00:46side of freezing. During Sunday, still a chance of a few snow showers

1:00:46 > 1:00:50towards the north, but further south, showers will be turning back

1:00:50 > 1:00:54to sleep, some rain around and temperatures not as cold although

1:00:54 > 1:00:55still below average for the time of year.

1:00:57 > 1:01:00Hello, it's Friday March 2nd, it's ten o'clock, I'm Chloe Tilley.

1:01:00 > 1:01:02Our top story...

1:01:02 > 1:01:05Britain is still in the grip of the big freeze with many

1:01:05 > 1:01:09roads still impassable.

1:01:09 > 1:01:14Troops have been called in to take medical staff to and from

1:01:14 > 1:01:16Edinburgh's two biggest hospitals, but not everyone is happy with the

1:01:16 > 1:01:17response.

1:01:17 > 1:01:19Can I ask you what you think of the emergency

1:01:19 > 1:01:20services overnight here?

1:01:20 > 1:01:21Has there been one?

1:01:21 > 1:01:23We certainly haven't seen anything.

1:01:23 > 1:01:25What do you think of the response of the emergency

1:01:25 > 1:01:26services overnight here?

1:01:26 > 1:01:27Not very good.

1:01:27 > 1:01:30They have been doing their bit, I guess, but I've been

1:01:30 > 1:01:32here since 4:05 and I've done for miles in 15 hours.

1:01:32 > 1:01:35-- four miles.

1:01:36 > 1:01:37Take a look at this.

1:01:37 > 1:01:40It's the moment that a double decker bus almost crashed

1:01:40 > 1:01:43into an out-of-control car.

1:01:43 > 1:01:49Somehow the driver just managed to swerve past the vehicle.

1:01:49 > 1:01:55We'll hear from that hero bus driver, Charmaine Laurie, shortly.

1:01:55 > 1:01:57This weekend it's the Oscars.

1:01:57 > 1:01:59We'll hear about all the runners and riders.

1:01:59 > 1:02:01Plus we've exclusive details of a new survey revealing that

1:02:01 > 1:02:04Hollywood is failing women when it comes to representing

1:02:04 > 1:02:12gender on screen.

1:02:12 > 1:02:19An astonishing 999 call. We will hear from a couple who ended

1:02:19 > 1:02:25up with a rather big surprise. There's something seriously wrong

1:02:25 > 1:02:29with my partner. She's a lot of pain and it looks as if she's going to

1:02:29 > 1:02:34give birth to something, but she's not pregnant.

1:02:34 > 1:02:43That was the surprise. You will find out more later.

1:02:43 > 1:02:47Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

1:02:47 > 1:02:50A Met Office red "danger to life" warning covering south-west

1:02:50 > 1:02:54England and south Wales has been lifted - but amber and yellow

1:02:54 > 1:02:58alerts for snow, ice and wind are still widely in force.

1:02:58 > 1:03:00Police - with help from the military -

1:03:00 > 1:03:02have been rescuing drivers trapped in snow, as blizzards continue

1:03:02 > 1:03:06to sweep across the UK.

1:03:06 > 1:03:08Thousands of schools are closed, and five thousand homes

1:03:08 > 1:03:10in the north-west of England are without electricity.

1:03:10 > 1:03:11Dozens of volunteers have been helping drivers left

1:03:12 > 1:03:15stranded on the M62.

1:03:15 > 1:03:17It's England's highest motorway and is currently impassable.

1:03:17 > 1:03:19Highways England are warning there will be no suitable

1:03:19 > 1:03:24cross-Pennine routes until weather conditions improve.

1:03:24 > 1:03:26On the A31 through the New Forest in Hampshire, police declared

1:03:26 > 1:03:30a major incident and brought in the army to help clear the road.

1:03:30 > 1:03:33Traffic on the eastbound carriageway was stuck after the road was closed

1:03:33 > 1:03:36for nearly 10 hours.

1:03:36 > 1:03:37Hundreds of drivers became stranded on the A303

1:03:37 > 1:03:44in Wiltshire and Somerset.

1:03:44 > 1:03:45Many are still stranded.

1:03:45 > 1:03:48Many had to spent the night in their cars with temperatures

1:03:48 > 1:03:49as low as minus 10 degrees.

1:03:49 > 1:03:52In other news...

1:03:52 > 1:03:54Theresa May will make a speech later explaining the relationship

1:03:54 > 1:03:56the Government wants with the EU after Brexit.

1:03:56 > 1:03:58Mrs May will promise to deliver the change that people voted

1:03:58 > 1:04:00for in the referendum, while protecting jobs and security.

1:04:00 > 1:04:03Mrs May will set five tests to guide the negotiations -

1:04:03 > 1:04:05which include strengthening the UK and bringing all its

1:04:05 > 1:04:10people together.

1:04:10 > 1:04:13New research suggests that there could be as many as five

1:04:13 > 1:04:14different strains of diabetes.

1:04:14 > 1:04:16Current medical diagnosis is for type one, or type two,

1:04:16 > 1:04:17of the blood sugar condition.

1:04:17 > 1:04:20Scientists in Scandinavia believe their findings,

1:04:20 > 1:04:22based on a study of 15,000 patients, shows how different causes,

1:04:22 > 1:04:25risks and complications can respond to different treatments.

1:04:25 > 1:04:35The condition affects one in every eleven adults, worldwide.

1:04:37 > 1:04:40Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited more than 2000 people,

1:04:40 > 1:04:44including 1200 members of the public, into the grounds of Windsor

1:04:44 > 1:04:48Castle to watch their arrival and departure at their wedding.

1:04:48 > 1:04:51Kensington Palace says people from every corner of the United Kingdom

1:04:51 > 1:04:54have been invited, including charity workers and local schoolchildren.

1:04:54 > 1:04:59That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10:30am.

1:04:59 > 1:05:07Thank you, any two. -- Annita A group of fertility

1:05:07 > 1:05:11experts have been telling us this morning they think that girls in

1:05:11 > 1:05:15school should be taught when and how to get pregnant, rather than don't

1:05:15 > 1:05:18get pregnant. Saying the opt age a major fertility is in the mid-20s

1:05:18 > 1:05:20and encouraging girls to take that on board.

1:05:20 > 1:05:26Lots of you getting a touch. Claire says I decided on Korea first before

1:05:26 > 1:05:29trying to get pregnant. Everything I read indicated women were waiting

1:05:29 > 1:05:39later in life to have children so I assumed it would not be a child,

1:05:39 > 1:05:43could bring them into a stable home and was in the right place,

1:05:43 > 1:05:47physically and financially. I could not get pregnant and was told I had

1:05:47 > 1:05:51unexplained fertility. I think lots of women like me are encourage to

1:05:51 > 1:05:56leave having children until later in life and realise it is not possible.

1:05:56 > 1:05:59Statistics clearly show fertility dramatically reduces after the age

1:05:59 > 1:06:02of 35, yet this is not widely publicised.

1:06:02 > 1:06:05Helen says listening to your piece about the optimum time to have a

1:06:05 > 1:06:15baby, I was astonished that no time was given a happy, stable

1:06:15 > 1:06:17relationship. We did say in your mid-20s you might

1:06:17 > 1:06:20not be ready. I might have liked a baby in my 20s but did not meet the

1:06:20 > 1:06:23man I loved and trusted enough to have a baby with until I was 34. We

1:06:23 > 1:06:27had two healthy boys together when I was 37 and 39. If I had a baby in my

1:06:27 > 1:06:3020s I would not have been able to provide for a child.

1:06:30 > 1:06:34You need a loving relationship. Sammy Jo says I have struggled for

1:06:34 > 1:06:39many years to get pregnant. Started trying at 25, had unexplained

1:06:39 > 1:06:44fertility. Many IVF attempts. Sadly most friends my age are in the same

1:06:44 > 1:06:50situation and joining the bottom of IVF waiting lists. The same for

1:06:50 > 1:06:54about half of my colleagues. I would say it is more like three in seven

1:06:54 > 1:07:00rather than one in seven. I know a woman who gave birth at 27 years of

1:07:00 > 1:07:03trying. Most infertility is pathological, it is not necessarily

1:07:03 > 1:07:07down to leaving a too late. I had nothing to indicate in my formative

1:07:07 > 1:07:11years I would face this battle. Injection is for IVF seven start

1:07:11 > 1:07:14today. Best of luck, Sammy Jo.

1:07:14 > 1:07:18Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

1:07:18 > 1:07:21use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE and if you text, you will be charged

1:07:21 > 1:07:23at the standard network rate.

1:07:23 > 1:07:24Here's some sport now with Olly Foster.

1:07:24 > 1:07:31Thank you. Another morning for Arsenal fans to try to avoid the

1:07:31 > 1:07:35newspaper headlines. Lots more fallout, and the defeat to

1:07:35 > 1:07:38Manchester city, second in the space of five days. Completely outclassed

1:07:38 > 1:07:46in the League Cup final at Wembley, beaten again 3-0 in the league. The

1:07:46 > 1:07:50gulf between the champions elect and the gunners is huge by the looks of

1:07:50 > 1:07:55it. Let's get more from the daily Mirror's Chief football writer John

1:07:55 > 1:08:00Cross. Also an author of that biography and Arsene Wenger, those

1:08:00 > 1:08:05early chapters were absolutely glorious but we are surely reaching

1:08:05 > 1:08:10the final paragraph, the end, now?A very good morning. The first ten

1:08:10 > 1:08:17years wonderful, the second less so. It feels like the end. There was so

1:08:17 > 1:08:21much debate last season and last summer whether he should stay on, so

1:08:21 > 1:08:26many doubts even from within the boardroom. I feel it was such a

1:08:26 > 1:08:31gamble for him to stay for that extra two years. There was a hope he

1:08:31 > 1:08:35would give it one more crack at a title push that they are so far

1:08:35 > 1:08:39behind and for every year that he stays I think Arsenal are in serious

1:08:39 > 1:08:43danger of slipping further and further behind. 30 points behind

1:08:43 > 1:08:47Manchester City at the moment in the Premier League table, they are

1:08:47 > 1:08:51languishing in sixth place, out of the FA Cup, they only have the

1:08:51 > 1:08:55Europa League left. Desperate times for Arsenal at the moment.

1:08:55 > 1:09:00He has been the great survivor, he has had dark days before. What

1:09:00 > 1:09:05degree of blame do you think this rather fractious Arsenal board and

1:09:05 > 1:09:10hierarchy should take for the current predicament?I think in

1:09:10 > 1:09:13fairness to them they wanted to give him every opportunity and the

1:09:13 > 1:09:23majority shareholder Dave Crombie stood by his man. But much of the

1:09:23 > 1:09:28blame understandably will be penned and Arsene Wenger and I guess he has

1:09:28 > 1:09:34to take responsibility for the team and players he has put together.

1:09:34 > 1:09:36There was an very lacklustre performances and some of those

1:09:36 > 1:09:42players just would not get near some of the classic teams that finger

1:09:42 > 1:09:46built ten or 15 years ago when he was enjoying that success. -- that

1:09:46 > 1:09:52Wenger built. There are lots of many as needed to guide some of the

1:09:52 > 1:09:56promising players. Bellerin was such a talent and I still think that is

1:09:56 > 1:10:00fair, but when confidence is low you need characters to build them up and

1:10:00 > 1:10:05there was hope that that central defensive axis would help provide

1:10:05 > 1:10:10that. Mustafi has not been the player they hope they were signing,

1:10:10 > 1:10:15Koscielny is on the way down. So many players are underperforming

1:10:15 > 1:10:19right now. The confidence is shot to bits and you wonder where they will

1:10:19 > 1:10:25get the next result from. Silly rebuild required in the

1:10:25 > 1:10:31summer, perhaps starting with the manager? You think that is it? -- so

1:10:31 > 1:10:35a rebuild required?I think there is no doubt he will be gone in the

1:10:35 > 1:10:38summer. I think the walls are closing in and we are seeing the

1:10:38 > 1:10:42final days of a legend. I think it is the end of Arsene Wenger.John

1:10:42 > 1:10:47Cross, thank you very much. That is all the sport for now, I will have

1:10:47 > 1:10:49the headlines in the next half-hour.

1:10:49 > 1:10:52More now on the blizzards that are continuing to disrupt road

1:10:52 > 1:10:54and rail travel across many parts of the country.

1:10:54 > 1:10:57Police - with help from the military - helped to free hundreds

1:10:57 > 1:10:59of motorists stranded on the A31 in Hampshire.

1:10:59 > 1:11:01Police declared a major incident and the military,

1:11:01 > 1:11:05coastguard and fire service helped to rescue motorists.

1:11:05 > 1:11:07Elsewhere volunteers have been bringing supplies to people trapped

1:11:07 > 1:11:10in their cars on the M62 near Rochdale - we'll be talking

1:11:10 > 1:11:14to one of the organisers shortly.

1:11:14 > 1:11:17One of the most dramatic images that's emerged in the past 24

1:11:17 > 1:11:21hours was footage of a bus swerving to avoid a car in Scotland.

1:11:21 > 1:11:24I actually felt sick when I watch this.

1:11:24 > 1:11:27The footage was filmed on a dashcam by van driver Gareth Smith,

1:11:27 > 1:11:29who was in the Fairmilehead area of Edinburgh.

1:11:29 > 1:11:32Let's take a look at what happened, along with Gareth's

1:11:32 > 1:11:37terrified reaction...

1:11:47 > 1:11:59Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh! Oh! Oh! It still makes me feel sick now.

1:11:59 > 1:12:01Incredible.

1:12:01 > 1:12:05I'm joined via webcam from Edinburgh by Charmaine Laurie,

1:12:05 > 1:12:08who was driving that number 11 bus, and also by councillor Andy Kelly

1:12:08 > 1:12:09from Rochdale Borough Council.

1:12:09 > 1:12:12From Bournemouth by Philip Brown, who has spent the night stranded

1:12:12 > 1:12:13on an unheated train.

1:12:13 > 1:12:22And also our correspondent Phil Mackie is in Worcestershire.

1:12:22 > 1:12:26Charmaine, I have to starred with you. At what point when you were

1:12:26 > 1:12:31driving Babos did you see that car? It looked like conditions were

1:12:31 > 1:12:36pretty poor? -- at what point when you were driving that bus?

1:12:36 > 1:12:40Visibility was poor, it was just when I came over the hill and

1:12:40 > 1:12:43through the snow I saw the car making a U-turn in front of me. I

1:12:43 > 1:12:49did not have much time to react. I just tap the brake, my back and

1:12:49 > 1:12:59started to slide so I had to take my foot of the brake and try to guided

1:12:59 > 1:13:02through the available space.There was not a lot of space, bearing in

1:13:02 > 1:13:04mind you are driving a double-decker bus?There was a van on the opposite

1:13:04 > 1:13:10side. There was very little space. You had around 20 passengers,

1:13:10 > 1:13:15including children?That is right. That responsibility in that split

1:13:15 > 1:13:21second, did you have time to think or was it just instincts?A lot of

1:13:21 > 1:13:30it is just instinct. We are trained to be aware of the situation is, we

1:13:30 > 1:13:37always have to have passenger safety, first and foremost.What

1:13:37 > 1:13:40were the passengers doing as they started to slide through, did they

1:13:40 > 1:13:46realise what was going on?I was more focused on what was in front of

1:13:46 > 1:13:51me. I didn't look in the mirror at the passengers or see their

1:13:51 > 1:13:57reaction.I guess there was cheering and general praise afterwards?No,

1:13:57 > 1:14:04no one said anything. One lady was getting off and asked me how I was.

1:14:04 > 1:14:09I got a freight, I went, but I'm OK. She went, well done. Bye-bye

1:14:09 > 1:14:13Charmaine, it is incredible. So many people have been watching that

1:14:13 > 1:14:17footage online and incredible driving to protect those 20 people

1:14:17 > 1:14:25on board. Phil Mackie, our correspondent, is in Worcestershire.

1:14:25 > 1:14:36You were showing is huge. What are conditions like? You were showing as

1:14:36 > 1:14:41some huge snowdrifts.Staff would normally be working around the parks

1:14:41 > 1:14:44and Recreation areas but they have been called out with big snow

1:14:44 > 1:14:49shovels to clear the path is. The snowplough has been doing its job.

1:14:49 > 1:14:54Let me turn 180 degrees, watching not to trip the cameraman, there is

1:14:54 > 1:14:58its big brother which has been travelling around the roads of

1:14:58 > 1:15:03Worcestershire throughout the last couple of days. There is a plough

1:15:03 > 1:15:07fitted to the front, Grits coming out of the back and as the hours

1:15:07 > 1:15:12have gone on through daylight today, because it is a bit warmer and there

1:15:12 > 1:15:15is a bit of traffic around, the gritting is doing its job and

1:15:15 > 1:15:20keeping the roads clear. It is a bit easier to get around. Still problems

1:15:20 > 1:15:23in rural areas. John Fraser from Worcestershire highways joins me,

1:15:23 > 1:15:28the rural areas are giving you a headache?Yes. Most of the main

1:15:28 > 1:15:32roads are very clear, we have snowdrifts, particularly in rural

1:15:32 > 1:15:36locations. Snow is blowing from fields and we are having to deal

1:15:36 > 1:15:42with problems we sorted out already. You showed me one particular

1:15:42 > 1:15:45drifting Clifton which is about ten miles west of Worcester, it is about

1:15:45 > 1:15:51ten feet high?It is incredible, some of the country lanes, the wind

1:15:51 > 1:15:55is blowing blistering, powdery snow, blown it across the roads so we are

1:15:55 > 1:16:00having to get back out there. Lots of farmers and rural contractors are

1:16:00 > 1:16:04helping.People with tractors or JCB is who you call upon in times like

1:16:04 > 1:16:10this to get the rural roads clear? They are on stand-by for us and in

1:16:10 > 1:16:14situations like we have seen over the last few days and maybe tonight

1:16:14 > 1:16:17they are able to come out with tractors and ploughs and help.What

1:16:17 > 1:16:23is the general picture?We have the main roads open, we are moving on to

1:16:23 > 1:16:28some of the smaller roads. We expect pulses of snow over the next few

1:16:28 > 1:16:31hours and into tonight and we will keep a close eye and do what is

1:16:31 > 1:16:35necessary.Things were as bad as I can remember them last night, what

1:16:35 > 1:16:40were conditions like for your people?We were battling the

1:16:40 > 1:16:43elements all night, round-the-clock gritting, refilling in the depot,

1:16:43 > 1:16:47getting back out. Very cold temperatures, snow, drifts, high

1:16:47 > 1:16:55winds. Pretty bad.Thank you. There is the big Ritter with its

1:16:55 > 1:16:58snowplough blade fixed, it will carry on trying to clear the roads

1:16:58 > 1:17:02of Worcester and Worcestershire. West of the M5, south of Bromsgrove,

1:17:02 > 1:17:07it is worse. The further south and west you go into Herefordshire

1:17:07 > 1:17:11particularly is quite bad. Lots of buses cancelled, trains are running,

1:17:11 > 1:17:15check if you want to catch a train that your services not badly

1:17:15 > 1:17:18affected. Virtually all the schools in that area I mentioned are closed.

1:17:18 > 1:17:23Businesses are open, if you want to get coffee or shop, please do so,

1:17:23 > 1:17:27but be careful. I think of people are probably just staying in the

1:17:27 > 1:17:34warm at home.

1:17:34 > 1:17:38Suu Kyi Phillip Brown had quite a train journey last night. Philip,

1:17:38 > 1:17:44you back home now, but what happened?I got the 505 train out of

1:17:44 > 1:17:50Waterloo which was delayed. I cannot remember what time it did leave now,

1:17:50 > 1:17:55it has been such a long night. The train was running slowly but making

1:17:55 > 1:17:59progress until it got to the new Forest. We sat there for three

1:17:59 > 1:18:04hours. Upon leaving the station, the train lost power. Which meant we

1:18:04 > 1:18:09lost lights, heating and they managed to restore the lights, but

1:18:09 > 1:18:14they never got enough power back to bring the heating back so we spent

1:18:14 > 1:18:18the best part of the night with no heating, which wasn't the most

1:18:18 > 1:18:21pleasant experience. You cannot sleep when you are cold. The

1:18:21 > 1:18:27passengers were great, they were sat chatting. There was only one

1:18:27 > 1:18:30passenger who became agitated, everyone else was taking it in their

1:18:30 > 1:18:36stride and just got on with it. No point in blaming any one individual.

1:18:36 > 1:18:41Terribly British Justice are you got on with it. I think if you are on a

1:18:41 > 1:18:44coal train, in the middle of the night, I presume there was no food

1:18:44 > 1:18:50and no water?There was no food, that had been sold from the trolley

1:18:50 > 1:18:56earlier in the evening so there was nothing available. It is British to

1:18:56 > 1:19:01say he just get on with it, but I have respect for the driver and the

1:19:01 > 1:19:05guard on the train, both of whom spoke to passengers as much as they

1:19:05 > 1:19:08could. They were potentially let down because they were not given the

1:19:08 > 1:19:13information they needed to give us. They were doing their best in a

1:19:13 > 1:19:17terrible situation.You are stationary for three hours, freezing

1:19:17 > 1:19:25cold so how did you start moving again?I guess it was about 7:30am

1:19:25 > 1:19:31this morning and other train pulled alongside from the cross-country

1:19:31 > 1:19:33network can they put a platform bridge between the two train so we

1:19:33 > 1:19:39could walk across to get on the other train. I remember going on

1:19:39 > 1:19:44that train and I could feel some heat. I got into Bournemouth about

1:19:44 > 1:19:498:30am so a 15 hour journey which shouldn't have been no more than

1:19:49 > 1:19:53two.You must be absolutely exhausted and probably regretting

1:19:53 > 1:20:00ever getting on that train?With hindsight, looking at the conditions

1:20:00 > 1:20:03at Waterloo, I probably could have gone to a hotel and just stayed the

1:20:03 > 1:20:09night. But the trains aren't going to be any better today so I probably

1:20:09 > 1:20:13would have been stuck there for a lot longer. As a regular commuter

1:20:13 > 1:20:18you kind of get used to trains and there are delays on occasions but I

1:20:18 > 1:20:23have never had any like that before. Please you are back home, thank you

1:20:23 > 1:20:29for sharing your story. Andy Kelly from Rochdale Borough Council, you

1:20:29 > 1:20:34have been a good Samaritan overnight, what did you do?Good

1:20:34 > 1:20:40morning, I was ready to watch the Manchester City game last night and

1:20:40 > 1:20:44I got a phone call from my colleague Irene Davison from the community

1:20:44 > 1:20:51centre. We got word that the M 62 had closed the highest point here.

1:20:51 > 1:20:56We got people to come down to come and open the community centre and

1:20:56 > 1:21:00about 50 people turned up with food, blankets and drinks and as people

1:21:00 > 1:21:05were directed off the motorway, they came to us. They are still here,

1:21:05 > 1:21:12they have at Vinatieri, slept where they can. We have had people in 4x4

1:21:12 > 1:21:20's taking people drinks and food who are stranded beyond the got a point.

1:21:20 > 1:21:23We have of volunteers cutting down trees, keeping the roads open. It

1:21:23 > 1:21:31has been astonishing. I am proud to be from Rochdale.Who are the people

1:21:31 > 1:21:37stranded in their cars overnight?It is everybody you can think of. A lot

1:21:37 > 1:21:41of people trying to get back to Yorkshire, who are trade people,

1:21:41 > 1:21:47people who had been to a funeral. We had people who are diabetic, people

1:21:47 > 1:21:51who had guide dogs, young children, families who come forward and put

1:21:51 > 1:21:57people up for the night. Two local hotels put people up for free. One

1:21:57 > 1:22:02in the town centre, the flying horse, put 35 people up last night.

1:22:02 > 1:22:08It has been a phenomenal community effort. We are about to go into a

1:22:08 > 1:22:12lunchtime shift because there is no sign of the motorway opening yet.

1:22:12 > 1:22:17Enjoy your cup of tea and thank you for speaking to us this morning and

1:22:17 > 1:22:21that is Councillor Andy Kelly from Rochdale Council. This statement has

1:22:21 > 1:22:25come in from Jane and she said I live in Kirkintilloch and we have

1:22:25 > 1:22:30had around two feet of snow. The local shops are out our bread and

1:22:30 > 1:22:34milk and other food items are getting low. No buses for the past

1:22:34 > 1:22:42four days, no trains on the pavements are deep in snow. It is an

1:22:42 > 1:22:45easy walking to the shops and many people are stuck inside. Is the UK

1:22:45 > 1:22:50Government going to do anything, asks Jane.

1:22:50 > 1:22:53Still to come...

1:22:53 > 1:22:59The couple who dialled 999 and had a big surprise, you will hear the full

1:22:59 > 1:23:01story shortly.

1:23:01 > 1:23:03This weekend, Hollywood commemorates 90 years of the Oscars.

1:23:03 > 1:23:06But when it comes to representing women on screen, there might not

1:23:06 > 1:23:08be a lot to celebrate.

1:23:08 > 1:23:10Female representation amongst the best picture winners

1:23:10 > 1:23:12is lower in the 2010s that it was in the early

1:23:12 > 1:23:15days of the Oscars - when many women were still fighting

1:23:15 > 1:23:16for the right to vote.

1:23:16 > 1:23:19BBC 100 Women has analysed the last 89 winners of Best Picture and found

1:23:19 > 1:23:24that more than half of them fail something called the Bechdel Test -

1:23:24 > 1:23:26here's what that means.

1:23:26 > 1:23:29Hollywood is failing women.

1:23:29 > 1:23:31And struggling to show that their lives don't

1:23:31 > 1:23:36revolve around men.

1:23:36 > 1:23:43The Bechdel test monitors how women appear in cinema.

1:23:43 > 1:23:48A movie has to include two named women.

1:23:48 > 1:23:51They have to talk to each other and they have to talk to each other

1:23:52 > 1:23:53about something other than a man.

1:23:53 > 1:23:55Simple, right?

1:23:55 > 1:23:58There have been 89 Best Picture winners at the Oscars.

1:23:58 > 1:24:06More than half of them do not pass the test.

1:24:06 > 1:24:13Casablanca, Slum Dog Millionaire, Lord of the Rings,

1:24:13 > 1:24:15Gladiator, have all failed.

1:24:15 > 1:24:18The Bechdel test isn't perfect.

1:24:18 > 1:24:22For example, it doesn't tell you how much women speak over all.

1:24:22 > 1:24:24But it is a good place to start the conversation

1:24:24 > 1:24:30on gender equality in cinema.

1:24:30 > 1:24:33Besides, as one study has found out, films that pass the Bechdel test

1:24:33 > 1:24:37actually appear to make more money.

1:24:37 > 1:24:45Our reporter Megha Mohan can take us through this.

1:24:45 > 1:24:52I have never heard of this Bechdel test, is it widely used?It started

1:24:52 > 1:25:00in 1985 in an innocent way. It was a cartoon strip from New York called

1:25:00 > 1:25:04Dykes to watch out for. It is two women deciding to go to the cinema

1:25:04 > 1:25:11and they want to see a movie. But they wanted two women talking, two

1:25:11 > 1:25:15named women talking to each other and not about a man. They go to the

1:25:15 > 1:25:21cinema and there was nothing there. It is an innocent cartoon strip in

1:25:21 > 1:25:281985, but something resonated with women so they started to apply this

1:25:28 > 1:25:34to films to see which films, or how many films passed the Bechdel test.

1:25:34 > 1:25:39It is quite surprising. Now you know it, you will watch out for it.It is

1:25:39 > 1:25:43depressing this, that it appears to be getting worse?One of the things

1:25:43 > 1:25:49we found, not only is it depressing, but the elements of what passes,

1:25:49 > 1:25:54what can pass the Bechdel test is even more depressing. Call me by

1:25:54 > 1:26:04your name, an Oscar-nominated film this year, just about passes because

1:26:04 > 1:26:12they talk about a smoothly. The Boston Globe, uncovering the priest

1:26:12 > 1:26:15scandal, the abuse scandal. That passes because one woman asked

1:26:15 > 1:26:19another woman for a glass of water. It is the quality of the

1:26:19 > 1:26:24conversation we need to look at as well.It is not looking at

1:26:24 > 1:26:30diversity, not looking at ethnicity or disability being shown?There are

1:26:30 > 1:26:34so many elements, so if you raise the bar even more, two women of

1:26:34 > 1:26:40colour talking to each other, or like you say, a woman and two

1:26:40 > 1:26:47disabled women talking to each other, it changes completely. The

1:26:47 > 1:26:51bar is lowered completely. People say, we don't want to be shoehorned

1:26:51 > 1:26:56into conversations, that is what female film critics are saying, we

1:26:56 > 1:26:59wanted to be meaningful conversations that are actually

1:26:59 > 1:27:05resonate and galvanise, represent that women have conversations in

1:27:05 > 1:27:13real life, like you and I do about things weigh more than men.Thank

1:27:13 > 1:27:16you for talking to us.

1:27:16 > 1:27:18Let's talk about that and other things Oscar-related

1:27:18 > 1:27:26with Helen O'Hara from Empire Magazine.

1:27:26 > 1:27:31Did you know about the Bechdel test? I did. White is it depressing and

1:27:31 > 1:27:39women don't seemingly talk to each other other than men. I take hope

1:27:39 > 1:27:46from the fact that this year, four of the best picture nominees are

1:27:46 > 1:27:50female lead, female focused stories and historically that has been rare.

1:27:50 > 1:27:54So few films are about a woman character in principle. It is

1:27:54 > 1:27:59something like 12% of Hollywood films. The fact it is for films out

1:27:59 > 1:28:05of nine is a step in the right direction and it gives me real hope.

1:28:05 > 1:28:15Let's talk about the things we expect to

1:28:16 > 1:28:20dominate, the #MeToo campaign, there have been cutaways of Harvey

1:28:20 > 1:28:25Weinstein, Kevin Spacey.I only if they are planning another black

1:28:25 > 1:28:29dress protest like they did at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. What

1:28:29 > 1:28:38we will see if they don't, lots of #TimesUp pins, it will be very

1:28:38 > 1:28:43present, presenters may reference it and so on. I think it will be very

1:28:43 > 1:28:47much add colour to the proceedings and a presence on the night.The

1:28:47 > 1:28:50Oscars have had its problems last year and we will talk about the

1:28:50 > 1:28:54envelope in a minute, but the Oscars being so White has been a problem

1:28:54 > 1:28:58for a few years and things haven't moved that much, but are they

1:28:58 > 1:29:03starting to move?The front runners in the acting categories are

1:29:03 > 1:29:07probably white this year, but there are at least some nominees of

1:29:07 > 1:29:12colour, which is better than there have been in recent years. I think

1:29:12 > 1:29:18the new and more diverse voters the Oscars brought in that the Academy

1:29:18 > 1:29:20admitted, will help the fact that something like Lady Bird was

1:29:20 > 1:29:30nominated at something like Get Out is nominated, Call Me By Your Name

1:29:30 > 1:29:34there is diversity to the stories being told this year we haven't seen

1:29:34 > 1:29:39in the past.We have got to talk about the envelope issue last year,

1:29:39 > 1:29:44everyone remembered they announced the wrong film for best picture. If

1:29:44 > 1:29:47it was one lower down that maybe people didn't pay as much attention

1:29:47 > 1:29:55to, which is clearly saying you will never happen again. Presumably there

1:29:55 > 1:30:02will be references to it?I think we can expect it front and centre to

1:30:02 > 1:30:07Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue. He had a good Oscars, but that coloured

1:30:07 > 1:30:11everything so maybe that is why he wanted to come back straightaway. I

1:30:11 > 1:30:15would expect some of the presenters to reference it as they opened their

1:30:15 > 1:30:19envelopes. I think there will be some kind of explanation as to what

1:30:19 > 1:30:22they are doing differently to make sure this doesn't happen again. We

1:30:22 > 1:30:26will literally be showing something that has changed.You do you think

1:30:26 > 1:30:33will win the big one?Three billboards, I have to say I am

1:30:33 > 1:30:40getting Raqqa pulling for Get Out because it is the most relevant and

1:30:40 > 1:30:44politically important films of this year.

1:30:44 > 1:30:46Now we've got an extraordinary 999 call for you.

1:30:46 > 1:30:48Gareth Williams from Pontypool in South Wales called the emergency

1:30:48 > 1:30:50services when his partner Rhiannon Oldham was suffering

1:30:50 > 1:30:53from stomach pains, and seemed to have, in his own words,

1:30:53 > 1:30:55"something coming out of her".

1:30:55 > 1:30:56The recently engaged couple didn't realise their family

1:30:56 > 1:31:00was in for a big surprise.

1:32:46 > 1:32:52Wow! Just wow. Incredible. It is a big day for the Prime Minister.

1:32:52 > 1:32:54She's giving a major speech on Brexit this afternoon -

1:32:54 > 1:32:56we'll ask some Leave and Remain voters what they want

1:32:56 > 1:32:57to hear from her.

1:32:57 > 1:33:00And 1200 members of the public are invited to Prince Harry

1:33:00 > 1:33:01and Meghan Markle's wedding in May.

1:33:07 > 1:33:14Time for the latest news - here's Annita.

1:33:14 > 1:33:16The BBC News headlines...

1:33:16 > 1:33:18A Met Office red "danger to life" warning covering south-west

1:33:18 > 1:33:21England and south Wales has been lifted, but amber and yellow alerts

1:33:21 > 1:33:24for snow, ice and wind are still widely in force.

1:33:24 > 1:33:26Police, with help from the military, have been rescuing

1:33:26 > 1:33:27drivers trapped in snow, as blizzards continue

1:33:28 > 1:33:30to sweep across the UK.

1:33:30 > 1:33:32Thousands of schools are closed, and 5,000 homes in the north-west

1:33:32 > 1:33:35of England are without electricity.

1:33:35 > 1:33:37Dozens of volunteers have been helping drivers left

1:33:37 > 1:33:40stranded on the M62.

1:33:40 > 1:33:42Highways England are warning there will be no suitable

1:33:42 > 1:33:47cross-Pennine routes until weather conditions improve.

1:33:47 > 1:33:50On the A31 through the New Forest in Hampshire, police declared

1:33:50 > 1:33:54a major incident and brought in the army to help clear the road.

1:33:54 > 1:33:57Traffic on the eastbound carriageway became stuck and the road was closed

1:33:57 > 1:34:00for nearly 10 hours.

1:34:00 > 1:34:02Hundreds of drivers became stranded on the A303

1:34:02 > 1:34:04in Wiltshire and Somerset.

1:34:04 > 1:34:07Many had to spent the night in their cars, with temperatures

1:34:07 > 1:34:13as low as minus 10 degrees.

1:34:13 > 1:34:16The driver of a bus filmed swerving to avoid a car in Scotland

1:34:16 > 1:34:18yesterday has been talking about the dramatic moment

1:34:18 > 1:34:19she skidded through the traffic.

1:34:19 > 1:34:21The footage was filmed on a dashcam in Edinburgh.

1:34:21 > 1:34:25Charmaine Laurie, who was driving the number 11 bus, said she had

1:34:25 > 1:34:30little time to react as the vehicle in front attempted a u-turn.

1:34:30 > 1:34:34It was just as I come up over the hill.

1:34:34 > 1:34:40I just saw light through the snow, the car did a U-turn in front of me.

1:34:40 > 1:34:43I didn't have much time to react, I just tap the break but my back end

1:34:44 > 1:34:47started to slide out.

1:34:47 > 1:34:52-- tapped the brake.

1:34:52 > 1:34:56I had to take my foot off the brake and try and glide

1:34:56 > 1:34:57it to the was there.

1:34:57 > 1:34:59Theresa May will make a speech later, explaining the relationship

1:34:59 > 1:35:01the government wants with the EU after Brexit.

1:35:01 > 1:35:04Mrs May will promise to deliver the change that people voted

1:35:04 > 1:35:06for in the referendum, while protecting jobs and security.

1:35:06 > 1:35:08Mrs May will set five tests to guide the negotiations,

1:35:08 > 1:35:11which include strengthening the UK and bringing all its

1:35:11 > 1:35:14people together.

1:35:14 > 1:35:18That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

1:35:18 > 1:35:26Here's some sport now with Olly Foster.

1:35:26 > 1:35:30Phil Neville is off to a winning start in charge of the England

1:35:30 > 1:35:34Lionesses. They are playing a friendly tournament in the US and

1:35:34 > 1:35:39thrashed France 4-1 in Ohio. The second defeat for Arsenal by Man

1:35:39 > 1:35:44City in the space of five days. 3-0 against, they are ten points from

1:35:44 > 1:35:48the Premier League top four and 30 points of City.

1:35:48 > 1:35:55They are 16 points clear. Britain plasma gold... Mentor gold in the

1:35:55 > 1:35:57world cycling Championships, Laura Kenny helped the women to silver.

1:35:57 > 1:36:02Laura Muir won the 3000 metres bronze on the first day of the world

1:36:02 > 1:36:04indoor athletics Championships in Birmingham.

1:36:04 > 1:36:12That is all from me, I will be back on Newsroom Live After 11am.

1:36:12 > 1:36:15Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have invited more than 2,000 people,

1:36:15 > 1:36:18including 1,200 members of the public, into the grounds

1:36:18 > 1:36:20of Windsor Castle to watch the arrival and departure

1:36:20 > 1:36:22of the bride and groom at their wedding.

1:36:22 > 1:36:24Kensington Palace says those invited will include people "from every

1:36:24 > 1:36:25corner of the United Kingdom".

1:36:25 > 1:36:29Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell is here.

1:36:29 > 1:36:34So what more to we know?They said shortly after their engagement that

1:36:34 > 1:36:38they wanted as many members of the public to feel part of the

1:36:38 > 1:36:41celebration as possible, a few weeks ago they said there would be the

1:36:41 > 1:36:44carriage procession out of the castle to the centre of winter into

1:36:44 > 1:36:49the great Park. They have announced, as you mentioned, 2600 people will

1:36:49 > 1:36:55be invited into Windsor Castle and of those 1200 will be members of the

1:36:55 > 1:37:00public who will be nominated by officers of the Lord Lieutenant, the

1:37:00 > 1:37:04Queen's representative in different counties around the UK. The couple

1:37:04 > 1:37:08has said this will be people from every corner of the UK and they have

1:37:08 > 1:37:12asked that people should be chosen from a broad range of backgrounds

1:37:12 > 1:37:17and ages, including young people who have shown strong leadership and

1:37:17 > 1:37:23those who have served their communities. You can't write in or

1:37:23 > 1:37:28ask to be invited, applied, it will be up to the multi-tenants at nine

1:37:28 > 1:37:34regional centres to identify these peoples. -- it will be up to the

1:37:34 > 1:37:37lordly tenants. I imagine a preponderance of young people

1:37:37 > 1:37:43because clearly the young people want to address that constituency.

1:37:43 > 1:37:471200 people will be inside Windsor Castle, there will also be people

1:37:47 > 1:37:52from charities and organisations that the couple has an affinity

1:37:52 > 1:37:58with. Invictus Games, Wild Child,, some of those things. There will be

1:37:58 > 1:38:03100 pupils from local schools, 600 members of the Windsor Castle

1:38:03 > 1:38:08community. You forget that people live inside Windsor Castle. And not

1:38:08 > 1:38:11forgetting more than 500 Royal household members.Those

1:38:11 > 1:38:16schoolchildren will have an amazing day.Some party!Thank you for

1:38:16 > 1:38:19coming.

1:38:19 > 1:38:31Michael was killed in a coach crash caused by a tyre which had not been

1:38:31 > 1:38:35changed for 20 years and was older than Michael himself blowing out. We

1:38:35 > 1:38:36will speak to his mother later.

1:38:36 > 1:38:39The Prime Minister Theresa May will make a speech this lunchtime,

1:38:39 > 1:38:41which will set out the Government's latest position on Brexit,

1:38:41 > 1:38:43detailing five "tests" which the exit deal must pass.

1:38:43 > 1:38:46Plans for what should happen to the Irish border have caused

1:38:46 > 1:38:49a lot of headaches this week, with the UK and the EU clashing

1:38:49 > 1:38:52on how it can be monitored without physical border checks.

1:38:52 > 1:38:54Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson faced a lot of criticism

1:38:54 > 1:38:56after he suggested it could be managed as easily as London's

1:38:56 > 1:38:58congestion charging zone.

1:38:58 > 1:39:00Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Sir John Major has used a rare

1:39:00 > 1:39:03speech to suggest MPs should be given a free vote on the final

1:39:03 > 1:39:05Brexit deal, or perhaps a second referendum.

1:39:05 > 1:39:07So we've heard plenty from politicians this week,

1:39:07 > 1:39:10but what do voters think?

1:39:10 > 1:39:15Well, joining us now are four voters all with varying views on Brexit.

1:39:15 > 1:39:18We have Alpesh Patel in West London, who voted to remain in the EU

1:39:18 > 1:39:21but now wants to leave.

1:39:21 > 1:39:24Ryan Stewart, who lives in the Republic of Ireland next

1:39:24 > 1:39:32to the Irish border.

1:39:32 > 1:39:33Dami Olatuiy, from North London.

1:39:33 > 1:39:35He voted Leave and says the government has wasted

1:39:35 > 1:39:36the last 18 months.

1:39:36 > 1:39:39And from Fife, Alasdair Clark, who says Scotland is being ignored

1:39:39 > 1:39:42in the Brexit debate.

1:39:42 > 1:39:47Thank you all for speaking to us. I am interested what you make of these

1:39:47 > 1:39:53reports this morning that there will be five tests that Theresa May says

1:39:53 > 1:39:59any deal will have to meter. Dami, do you think that is a sensible step

1:39:59 > 1:40:03forward?It makes sense in the context of a negotiation, you need

1:40:03 > 1:40:07to have a deal that meet certain standards before you proceed with it

1:40:07 > 1:40:12for the country. My concern is about the wasted 20 months we have had

1:40:12 > 1:40:17since the referendum. The Government has not been able to come up with an

1:40:17 > 1:40:21actual consensus of what it was trying to achieve during that time.

1:40:21 > 1:40:27I concern is about the wasted time we have had over that period. -- my

1:40:27 > 1:40:31concern is. It has been unclear what the Government wanted and it does

1:40:31 > 1:40:36not make sense for people to say it is clear what they want in terms of

1:40:36 > 1:40:40an exit negotiation. Alpesh, what do you make of the five

1:40:40 > 1:40:45tests? Do you think we have been given enough information?

1:40:45 > 1:40:48The fifth element really interested me, the Prime Minister said it will

1:40:48 > 1:40:53have to be something that the people have voted on. Whatever the final

1:40:53 > 1:40:57treaty agreement is it has to be what is in the mind, however you

1:40:57 > 1:41:02discern that, of the people. For me, one of the reasons I change my mind

1:41:02 > 1:41:09is that this is such an anti-vested interest vote, this desire to leave,

1:41:09 > 1:41:13Brexit, is by its very nature anti-vested interest,

1:41:13 > 1:41:16anti-entitlement. People like me and business have added weight too could

1:41:16 > 1:41:22issue. When I speak to my friends from the north, where I am from, is

1:41:22 > 1:41:26when people say we have to invest more in these areas we have

1:41:26 > 1:41:29neglected, people are angry. They want to leave because we have

1:41:29 > 1:41:32neglected them. I am pleased they are getting the investment into

1:41:32 > 1:41:39those areas which have never had the kind of lifestyles we have taken for

1:41:39 > 1:41:42granted out of London, people like me have taken for granted, people

1:41:42 > 1:41:48who have had it too easy, too long. Does it coincide with what people

1:41:48 > 1:41:53wanted? Those people who voted exit, does it? It will be difficult to

1:41:53 > 1:41:58discern. It will make people like me uncomfortable, which is probably

1:41:58 > 1:42:04good.Ryan, clearly with you living very close to the Irish border, all

1:42:04 > 1:42:12the conversation about what will happen to the border, soft, hard,

1:42:12 > 1:42:16what have a common regulatory area, something Theresa May says she would

1:42:16 > 1:42:21never sign up to?I think it makes sense to begin with. When you

1:42:21 > 1:42:28mention the likes of the tests being proposed, I don't think any tests

1:42:28 > 1:42:33will work, simply because you have the DUP in the mix as well as the

1:42:33 > 1:42:37Tory party, and they are relying on the DUP for the support. The DUP

1:42:37 > 1:42:43does not want a border in the Irish Sea, nobody wants to see a hard

1:42:43 > 1:42:46border or a physical border around the six counties in Northern

1:42:46 > 1:42:51Ireland. I do not see how any of this will actually work. It is

1:42:51 > 1:42:55interesting as well that one of the other guests has mentioned about the

1:42:55 > 1:43:01deprivation in the North of England and so one. I live in Donegal, I am

1:43:01 > 1:43:05from Derry in Northern Ireland. In Donegal's context it is probably the

1:43:05 > 1:43:10most deprived area of the Republic of Ireland, in Derry's context it is

1:43:10 > 1:43:16probably the most deprived area of the UK. Both areas overwhelmingly

1:43:16 > 1:43:23want a Remain vote.I want to bring in Alasdair in Fife, Scotland

1:43:23 > 1:43:28clearly voting to Remain in the EU referendum. What do you want to hear

1:43:28 > 1:43:33from Theresa May today?I think so far with the Brexit negotiations, we

1:43:33 > 1:43:39have not really heard anything proper. So far all we have really

1:43:39 > 1:43:44heard, a couple of speeches from Theresa May. The bulk has been leaks

1:43:44 > 1:43:48from the government and things like that. What people are overwhelmingly

1:43:48 > 1:43:53in Scotland are saying is they do not trust the UK Government as

1:43:53 > 1:43:58negotiating a deal for Scotland. Scotland obviously voted to remain

1:43:58 > 1:44:04and people here are really quite annoyed about it, actually, that

1:44:04 > 1:44:08this situation is ongoing and does not make any sense to them but, you

1:44:08 > 1:44:14know, all we keep hearing is Brexit means Brexit, we do not really hear

1:44:14 > 1:44:19much more than slogans. It seems like the whole thing is in Deseret.

1:44:19 > 1:44:23Dami, do you want to hear from Theresa May in this third large

1:44:23 > 1:44:28racks that speech more detail about what specifically will happen, what

1:44:28 > 1:44:40we will negotiate on for this deal? -- Dami, do you want to hear in this

1:44:40 > 1:44:42third large Brexit speech.It is about the Government knowing what it

1:44:42 > 1:44:47wants when it goes to the EU. Alasdair says he wants to hear it,

1:44:47 > 1:44:55lots of people say that.I am more interested in hearing the detail at

1:44:55 > 1:44:59the stage of a parliamentary vote on the final deal. I want the

1:44:59 > 1:45:03Government to know what it wants and I want that to be in line with the

1:45:03 > 1:45:07result of the referendum, but I do not necessarily need to hear all the

1:45:07 > 1:45:11details. I believe most of the public, even though we are having

1:45:11 > 1:45:15this discussion, do not know what different things about the single

1:45:15 > 1:45:19market and the customs union and so on, I do not believe they

1:45:19 > 1:45:22necessarily know what those things are. My concern is really more about

1:45:22 > 1:45:27the difference between the Northern Ireland issue on the Scottish issue,

1:45:27 > 1:45:31because obviously we have this issue by yesterday the Prime Minister said

1:45:31 > 1:45:39within half an hour there will be no border between Ireland and Northern

1:45:39 > 1:45:44Ireland, nobody in the Irish Sea and no customs union. We know all three

1:45:44 > 1:45:49things cannot be true at the same time. If you give Northern Ireland

1:45:49 > 1:45:52the chance to have some kind of regulatory alignment with the rest

1:45:52 > 1:45:56of the EU, how do you deny that to Scotland? Those are the questions I

1:45:56 > 1:46:00am really interested in. Because of that I actually think there will be

1:46:00 > 1:46:04some kind of hard border in Northern Ireland and I think that is because

1:46:04 > 1:46:12the Government is prepared to sacrifice anything to get there.

1:46:13 > 1:46:17Alpesh, do you agree with the point Dami made, people don't understand

1:46:17 > 1:46:22the jargon, it is confusing and we are hearing different things and

1:46:22 > 1:46:27regulation this. Have we got our mind around this.I would be shocked

1:46:27 > 1:46:33if we have. The Bank of England said even before the Brexit vote it would

1:46:33 > 1:46:37be carnage, the amount we pay on our national debt will shoot up and we

1:46:37 > 1:46:43are going to be on our knees, effectively. It was fearful stuff.

1:46:43 > 1:46:48The experts don't even know what the heck is going on. I am telling you

1:46:48 > 1:46:53as an expert in this field of finance, for instance, we are

1:46:53 > 1:46:57getting it wrong. Because we didn't anticipate that actually we would

1:46:57 > 1:47:01see inward investment from the likes of Google and Facebook. We didn't

1:47:01 > 1:47:11anticipate back

1:47:13 > 1:47:15coming in because of the cheaper pound. We didn't realise the

1:47:15 > 1:47:18interest we pay on our national debt is a huge drain from where the money

1:47:18 > 1:47:20could go for instance, the NHS. The interest rate dropped because the

1:47:20 > 1:47:23rest of the world said, we need a safe haven after Brexit, let's give

1:47:23 > 1:47:25our money to British. We, the experts from the Bank of England

1:47:25 > 1:47:30downwards, but getting it wrong. How the public supposed to understand

1:47:30 > 1:47:34it?Ryan, what do you make of this suggestion by the former Prime

1:47:34 > 1:47:38Minister, Sir John Major, about there should maybe be a second

1:47:38 > 1:47:47referendum?While I take on board, the people have spoken once, I don't

1:47:47 > 1:47:51think anybody has a clue about what is going on with Brexit. They have

1:47:51 > 1:47:54said Brexit means Brexit from the start but there never has been an

1:47:54 > 1:48:00explanation. The ordinary voter didn't know what the customs union

1:48:00 > 1:48:07was. The knock-on effects, 40 years of legislation. The EU have just

1:48:07 > 1:48:11finished the Canadian trade deal, that took six years to put in place.

1:48:11 > 1:48:16How does Britain expect to go around the world and come up with these new

1:48:16 > 1:48:21deals? Donald Trump is talking about a levy on steel imports, that will

1:48:21 > 1:48:24affect Britain and any trade deal they tried to do. It is inevitable

1:48:24 > 1:48:29there will be a second referendum. The politics that plays along with

1:48:29 > 1:48:33this, I suppose I am sitting here in Donegal with a unique perspective in

1:48:33 > 1:48:37terms of knowing what it is like with the DUP and having to deal with

1:48:37 > 1:48:45that side of things. The DUP will withdraw the confidence arrangements

1:48:45 > 1:48:51if they go against, if the Tory party go against what the DUP want.

1:48:51 > 1:48:55It is inevitable. You have to look back what Theresa May has done in

1:48:55 > 1:49:00all of this, calling the election prematurely, she her majority

1:49:00 > 1:49:05because of that. Every step along the way, bringing the DUP into the

1:49:05 > 1:49:09mix, you could argue it is a contravention of the Good Friday

1:49:09 > 1:49:15Agreement.You think Theresa May has boxed herself into a corner so she

1:49:15 > 1:49:18will be forced to head for a second referendum.She doesn't have a leg

1:49:18 > 1:49:32to stand on.Thank you all for your thoughts this morning.

1:49:43 > 1:49:48There is currently no law that stipulates how old tyre used on

1:49:48 > 1:49:51public transport should be, something Michael Munn's Francis,

1:49:51 > 1:49:57who joins us now is campaigning to change. Tell me first of all a

1:49:57 > 1:50:04little bit about Michael?Michael was 18, he had only just turned 18

1:50:04 > 1:50:08by about a month and he was a musician. He was a very gifted and

1:50:08 > 1:50:13talented musician. He was very well-known, particularly in

1:50:13 > 1:50:17Liverpool for his talent. When we lost Michael, what we wanted to do

1:50:17 > 1:50:26is sure people remembered him for who he was on how he died. We

1:50:26 > 1:50:33released one of his songs, Rise And Fall and it made the top 40. He was

1:50:33 > 1:50:36somebody who was on the cusp of being signed into the music

1:50:36 > 1:50:43industry, he was very excited coming home to wait to hear the news from

1:50:43 > 1:50:47the festival. Unfortunately, he didn't make it.If I take you back

1:50:47 > 1:50:54to that day, you found out about the crash and that Michael had been

1:50:54 > 1:50:59involved in the crash, through your son?Yes, it was the morning I was

1:50:59 > 1:51:04up early. I had a presentation to do for work and I was a bit distracted.

1:51:04 > 1:51:10My elder son came in and said, have you heard from Michael? I said no,

1:51:10 > 1:51:16why? He said, I need you to sit down. And I said, what's happened?

1:51:16 > 1:51:20And I had that awful feeling you get. Zach, who he was travelling

1:51:20 > 1:51:26with had been airlifted to hospital with a broken back because there has

1:51:26 > 1:51:32been a serious crash. We put the news on and it was headline news. We

1:51:32 > 1:51:37rank every number, we rang local police, we rang the police in Surrey

1:51:37 > 1:51:41and every hospital and we couldn't get any information whatsoever. So

1:51:41 > 1:51:47around midday, of course people have gathered to my house and we saw the

1:51:47 > 1:51:53news was saying the body of a young male, 20-year-old male has been

1:51:53 > 1:51:56removed from the scene. So I actually really believed that cannot

1:51:56 > 1:52:01be Michael because nobody could get this so wrong. They couldn't do this

1:52:01 > 1:52:04and have this on national television without informing the family first.

1:52:04 > 1:52:14So we headed down to Surrey. I had no clue. I involved the city mayor

1:52:14 > 1:52:18Joe Anderson at the time because I couldn't get any response. He

1:52:18 > 1:52:23contacted Surrey Police and I eventually got a phone call but we

1:52:23 > 1:52:27were in Surrey. We were taken to a hospital we had rang several times

1:52:27 > 1:52:31and given the worst news of my life. I know you have received a formal

1:52:31 > 1:52:39apology from the police the way it was handled?I have, it was

1:52:39 > 1:52:43catastrophic. The worst day ever and it was handled so badly. They use

1:52:43 > 1:52:47the system which is dated from the 60s and it didn't work on that day

1:52:47 > 1:52:52and everybody thought somebody else was doing something. It was

1:52:52 > 1:52:57massively traumatic. And as you can see, it still is.The trauma of

1:52:57 > 1:53:01losing your son anyway, but for it to be dealt with in that way. You

1:53:01 > 1:53:09are trying to come to terms with everything that has happened and

1:53:09 > 1:53:12comprehended and move forward with family life as much as you can. At

1:53:12 > 1:53:15what point did you discover the cause of the crash?It was at the

1:53:15 > 1:53:19inquest in the following year in 2013. It took a long time to get the

1:53:19 > 1:53:23inquest because the police were doing a lot of investigating into

1:53:23 > 1:53:31the crash and into the coach operator Mersey Pride. And when we

1:53:31 > 1:53:36got to the inquest in Surrey, we had a barrister and he took us into a

1:53:36 > 1:53:41room and my sons and Michael's dad and he said, I need you to sit down

1:53:41 > 1:53:47because the cause of this crash was a 19-year-old tyre but it is legal.

1:53:47 > 1:53:50He said, I am absolutely flabbergasted. Even he didn't know

1:53:50 > 1:53:56that tires that old were illegal. Unfortunately, this verdict is

1:53:56 > 1:54:01likely to come back as accidental death.So the point is, now it is

1:54:01 > 1:54:08judged on thread of a tyre tread, rather than the age. But you want

1:54:08 > 1:54:12that to change and you have been campaigning for that to change, what

1:54:12 > 1:54:19age do you think is acceptable to be used on a coach?I started off with

1:54:19 > 1:54:23the manufacturer's guarantee age, which would be five to six years. I

1:54:23 > 1:54:29did meet the former Transport Secretary, Patrick Magoffin. We did

1:54:29 > 1:54:33say between us, we can look at an age of around ten years. Regardless

1:54:33 > 1:54:37of the outward condition and regardless if the tyre was brand-new

1:54:37 > 1:54:42and never been used, the fact it is ten years old, it cannot be saved

1:54:42 > 1:54:47because it is rubber. We have campaigned since that day. Hat-trick

1:54:47 > 1:54:52Magoffin put out guidance. He didn't go far enough. We said, if you are

1:54:52 > 1:54:57prepared to put out guidance, why not legislate. If the crash happened

1:54:57 > 1:55:02today, those operators would not face prosecution, which is the only

1:55:02 > 1:55:05deterrent which would stop this happening.Let me read this

1:55:05 > 1:55:09statement. It says existing guidance in this area has proven to be

1:55:09 > 1:55:13effective since 2012 but we want to go further to examine the issue of

1:55:13 > 1:55:18tyre ageing in detail. I am delighted to announce we have asked

1:55:18 > 1:55:21the experts to collect robust evidence on this issue. We have some

1:55:21 > 1:55:24of the safest roads in the world but we are always looking to make them

1:55:24 > 1:55:31safer still. Does that satisfy you? No, that is a stalling tactic for

1:55:31 > 1:55:35Jessye Norman. It shows the campaign has put so much pressure on the

1:55:35 > 1:55:39government that it has had to do something. This is going to cost a

1:55:39 > 1:55:43quarter of £1 million, this research and it is a complete waste of public

1:55:43 > 1:55:49money. We have had two coroners writing to the government about tyre

1:55:49 > 1:55:55ageing and the dangers of old tyres. My son was 18, Kerry Upton was 23

1:55:55 > 1:56:00and the driver died. Three people have already died and four them to

1:56:00 > 1:56:04commission research, which will prolong the process even more. They

1:56:04 > 1:56:08promised me this for four and a half years. This is going to be published

1:56:08 > 1:56:13until next summer. It is a way, I think, of the government sitting on

1:56:13 > 1:56:18their hands, very expensive way of doing. Also, they don't have a great

1:56:18 > 1:56:24track record in of robust research. I have very little confidence in it.

1:56:24 > 1:56:28The statistics Jessye Norman and uses, I don't know where they come

1:56:28 > 1:56:33from, I don't know who these operators are they asked ping. But

1:56:33 > 1:56:39if we do use his statistics and he says there are a few operators out

1:56:39 > 1:56:43there using old tyres, legislate because it won't affect that many

1:56:43 > 1:56:47people. National Express coach, some of the big operators have welcomed

1:56:47 > 1:56:52this because they want to operate safe business, like you would expect

1:56:52 > 1:57:03them to do.Francis, thank you for coming in and sharing your story.

1:57:03 > 1:57:06More now on the weather disruption.

1:57:06 > 1:57:09A Met Office red "danger to life" warning covering south-west England

1:57:09 > 1:57:12and south Wales has been lifted, but amber and yellow alerts

1:57:12 > 1:57:14for snow, ice and wind are still widely in force,

1:57:14 > 1:57:19as blizzard conditions continue to affect much of the country.

1:57:19 > 1:57:22Let's talk to Petty Officer Jimmy Cantwell, who was out last night

1:57:22 > 1:57:24rescuing people from the snow in Cornwall and joins us

1:57:24 > 1:57:27via webcam Jimmy is from 829 Naval Air Squadron, one

1:57:27 > 1:57:29of the Merlin helicopter Squadrons based at Royal Naval Air Station

1:57:29 > 1:57:30Culdrose in Cornwall.

1:57:30 > 1:57:37What we're doing last night? We our friends, we got a call and we went

1:57:37 > 1:57:40to lend a hand. When we got to the scene, it was worse than expected.

1:57:40 > 1:57:44We've dug him out of the stale and rescued three or four other guys who

1:57:44 > 1:57:49were in the same boat.Were you worried, frightened being out there,

1:57:49 > 1:57:54it must have been difficult conditions?Pretty horrific, when we

1:57:54 > 1:57:58got round the corner from going from nothing into the wind and the

1:57:58 > 1:58:04snowdrifts of the airfield, some of them were up over the bonnet of the

1:58:04 > 1:58:07smaller cars.You are home now and save and you have helped some

1:58:07 > 1:58:14people.Back to work as normal. Thank you for speaking to us and

1:58:14 > 1:58:18well done for helping other people out.

1:58:18 > 1:58:19BBC Newsroom Live is coming up next.

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1:58:21 > 1:58:31Have a good day.