:00:00. > :00:07.Warnings of a national crisis in policing in England and Wales.
:00:08. > :00:09.In a scathing report - the police watchdog warns
:00:10. > :00:12.of a shortage of detectives and says victims are being let down
:00:13. > :00:21.Also this lunchtime - calls for one of Donald Trump's
:00:22. > :00:26.closest advisers to resign after he's accused of lying under
:00:27. > :00:31.England's NHS is standing on a burning platform warns
:00:32. > :00:34.the Chief Inspector of Hospitals and is unable to meet the needs
:00:35. > :00:38.British Cycling bosses promise to make changes after accusations
:00:39. > :00:42.of bullying and sexism at the top level of the sport.
:00:43. > :00:44.And how research that began after Gordon and Sarah Brown
:00:45. > :00:47.lost their premature baby, Jennifer, has helped
:00:48. > :00:53.save the live of another Labour leader's grandchild.
:00:54. > :00:56.And coming up in sport on BBC News - a true Celtic legend.
:00:57. > :00:59.Tributes are paid the Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell,
:01:00. > :01:20.who died aged 73 following a long illness.
:01:21. > :01:23.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:24. > :01:27.Policing in England and Wales is in a "potentially perilous" state,
:01:28. > :01:29.with victims being let down, criminal cases shelved
:01:30. > :01:33.and suspects left untracked - that's the warning from
:01:34. > :01:40.Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary says most of the 43
:01:41. > :01:43.forces in England and Wales are providing a good service,
:01:44. > :01:49.It says some forces are putting the public at an unacceptable risk
:01:50. > :01:52.by rationing their response to crime as they struggle with cutbacks.
:01:53. > :01:57.Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani reports.
:01:58. > :02:04.The cornerstone of British policing - the bobby on the beat.
:02:05. > :02:11.Part of the neighbourhood front line services that solve so many crimes.
:02:12. > :02:20.One of the warnings contained in a stark report. Laura Beale was the
:02:21. > :02:22.pride of Devon and Cornwall Police. After 14 years, she's had enough and
:02:23. > :02:30.resigned and says she cannot deal any more with the workload. Her
:02:31. > :02:35.patch went from 17 officers to six. We need to focus on the front line.
:02:36. > :02:39.You want to see a police officer and if somebody came up to me and said,
:02:40. > :02:45.officer I needs help, I'd be able to go and have the time to with it.
:02:46. > :02:48.HMIC says after five years of cuts to the budget and workforce, some
:02:49. > :02:53.chiefs are not making the right tough calls and in some areas,
:02:54. > :02:56.inspectors found 999 calls being downgraded because they could not
:02:57. > :03:00.manage the pressure with officers left behind. HMI is a also said some
:03:01. > :03:05.domestic violence calls are not being treated seriously enough.
:03:06. > :03:10.Other forces have ignored leads on organised crime and only Durham is
:03:11. > :03:14.delivering outstanding results. Neighbourhood policing, that
:03:15. > :03:17.proactive presence of police officers in communities, is eroding
:03:18. > :03:20.even further so that means they are not stopping crime from happening in
:03:21. > :03:24.the first place and that is what the public want to see. Domestic
:03:25. > :03:30.violence is now a national priority, one of the modern demands on forces
:03:31. > :03:33.long focused on burglaries, car crime and muggings. Officers need
:03:34. > :03:37.new skills including finding and solving crimes with computers.
:03:38. > :03:41.Experts warn forces will lose the trust of the public if they do not
:03:42. > :03:45.modernise. If people don't have a response from the police force when
:03:46. > :03:49.they call, what's going to happen when they actually see something
:03:50. > :03:53.happening? What about when they get a piece of information that should
:03:54. > :03:58.rightly be handed on to the police? They will think that they don't
:03:59. > :04:03.care. I'm not going to, they'll think, they didn't care about me.
:04:04. > :04:08.This report is a very clear message that police officers have work to
:04:09. > :04:12.do. A clearance message from us and the HMIC that the police and crime
:04:13. > :04:18.commissioners need to get a grip that look at what their are. This
:04:19. > :04:27.report is a warning that some forces have been tipped over the edge in an
:04:28. > :04:30.era of austerity. The nature of crime has been changing and that
:04:31. > :04:35.means ministers, chief constables and the public need to think
:04:36. > :04:38.carefully about what modern policing is for. HMIC says there is even a
:04:39. > :04:44.national crisis in recruiting detectives. Just another of the
:04:45. > :04:47.reasons why some forces are facing a difficult future.
:04:48. > :04:49.One of Donald Trump's closest advisors -
:04:50. > :04:52.the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has been accused
:04:53. > :04:55.of lying under oath to the Senate after it emerged he had two
:04:56. > :04:57.undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador during
:04:58. > :05:02.The senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,
:05:03. > :05:12.Our correspondent Richard Galpin reports.
:05:13. > :05:17.Sessions was already a controversial choice as Attorney General because
:05:18. > :05:23.of allegations which he denies of racism. And now it's been revealed
:05:24. > :05:26.that during the presidential election campaign last year, he had
:05:27. > :05:34.two undisclosed meetings with this man. The Russian ambassador to
:05:35. > :05:41.Washington. I endorse Donald Trump. That's potentially damaging for Mr
:05:42. > :05:45.Sessions because Russia has been accused of running a cyber campaign
:05:46. > :05:50.to skew the election in favour of Donald Trump. The whole truth and
:05:51. > :05:55.nothing but the truth. During his confirmation hearing in the Senate
:05:56. > :05:58.last month, to become Attorney General, Mr Sessions had been
:05:59. > :06:05.directly asked about contacts with Russia. And if there is any evidence
:06:06. > :06:09.that any one affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the
:06:10. > :06:15.Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? I'm
:06:16. > :06:21.not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a
:06:22. > :06:23.surrogates at a time in that campaign and I did not have the
:06:24. > :06:32.communications with the Russians. I'm unable to comment. Already,
:06:33. > :06:35.there's been a furious response from senior Democrats including Nancy
:06:36. > :06:39.Pelosi. She's tweeted that Mr Sessions is not fit to serve as a
:06:40. > :06:45.top law enforcement officer of the country. And that he must resign.
:06:46. > :06:49.This morning, Mr Sessions denied lying under oath. I have not met
:06:50. > :06:56.with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign and
:06:57. > :07:03.those remarks are unbelievable to me. I don't have anything else to
:07:04. > :07:06.say. According to his spokesperson, Mr Sessions had many meetings with
:07:07. > :07:12.foreign ambassadors last year but these were in his capacity as a
:07:13. > :07:15.senator, not in connection with the presidential campaign. Therefore, he
:07:16. > :07:21.argues, he did nothing wrong. But just two weeks ago, questions about
:07:22. > :07:26.connections with Russian officials led to the resignation of Michael
:07:27. > :07:30.Flynn, Trump's national security adviser. Mr Sessions may face
:07:31. > :07:35.another problem now. As Attorney General, he oversees the Department
:07:36. > :07:40.of Justice and the FBI. Both are currently investigating Russia's
:07:41. > :07:41.alleged meddling in the US election and any alleged links with Trump's
:07:42. > :07:44.associates. Let's speak to our correspondent
:07:45. > :07:53.Jane O'Brien who's in Washington. Mr Sessions denying the allegations
:07:54. > :07:58.but the pressure is continuing to grow on him. It is but I don't think
:07:59. > :08:03.we can expect any resignations at this point. This is a story at the
:08:04. > :08:06.moment primarily about nuanced context and perception. These are
:08:07. > :08:11.things that Washington doesn't do very well under this toxic
:08:12. > :08:18.atmosphere that we are in. Jeff Sessions clearly believed that the
:08:19. > :08:23.question directed to him was about, did he have any conversations with
:08:24. > :08:28.the Russians as a member of Trump's campaign team? He says no. There is
:08:29. > :08:33.nothing wrong or illegal or criminal in having contact with a Russian
:08:34. > :08:37.ambassador. As a Senator. That's what he's basically saying he did,
:08:38. > :08:42.in the course of his duties as a Senator, of course he spoke to the
:08:43. > :08:46.Russians and a number of foreign diplomats. That's what he would be
:08:47. > :08:50.expected to do. But given the backdrop of these continuing
:08:51. > :08:56.investigations into whether or not the Russians hacked the Democratic
:08:57. > :08:59.national committee, which the broad conclusion from the intelligence
:09:00. > :09:03.agency is that they did. Whether or not they influenced the outcome of
:09:04. > :09:07.the election and there is no evidence of that. Given that
:09:08. > :09:10.backdrop, this looks bad. It's a massive distraction for the Trump
:09:11. > :09:12.administration going forward. The Chief Inspector of Hospitals
:09:13. > :09:15.in England has given a stark warning about the state of the NHS saying it
:09:16. > :09:19.stands on a "burning platform" with most Trusts needing
:09:20. > :09:22.to improve patient safety. Professor Sir Mike Richards says
:09:23. > :09:26.the traditional model of caring for patients is "no longer capable"
:09:27. > :09:29.of delivering the needs Our health correspondent
:09:30. > :09:45.Dominic Hughes reports. This comprehensive review of all 136
:09:46. > :09:49.hospital Trusts in England paints a very mixed picture. The regulator,
:09:50. > :09:53.the Care Quality Commission found many examples of excellent care and
:09:54. > :09:57.some hospitals improving services despite extreme pressure. But plenty
:09:58. > :10:02.of areas also where the NHS is struggling. You can get a very good
:10:03. > :10:06.service within a Trust that is struggling or you can get an
:10:07. > :10:12.individual service not doing so well in an otherwise good Trust. What we
:10:13. > :10:14.are trying to do is to shine a spotlight so that the Trusts
:10:15. > :10:20.themselves know what it is they need to improve. This is my local
:10:21. > :10:24.hospital in Stockport. I've been here a couple of times myself and
:10:25. > :10:28.with the family. The report today allows us to see how hospitals like
:10:29. > :10:32.this one are performing, not just the whole hospital but individual
:10:33. > :10:38.departments such as accident and emergency or children's services,
:10:39. > :10:43.and what the report shows is real concerns over staffing, safety,
:10:44. > :10:47.levels of overcrowding and hospitals facing unprecedented pressure.
:10:48. > :10:52.Across the major hospital Trusts in England, 68% have been rating as
:10:53. > :10:58.inadequate or requiring improvement. 81% are said to need to improve
:10:59. > :11:03.safety but 93% were rated as good or outstanding for the caring attitude
:11:04. > :11:08.of staff. University hospital in Bristol is one of those Trusts that
:11:09. > :11:11.has made significant improvements. The first to go directly from
:11:12. > :11:18.requiring improvement to outstanding between two inspections. The report
:11:19. > :11:21.was very positive for us and I think in the report, it acknowledges a lot
:11:22. > :11:26.of the hard work this department does. The very positive culture for
:11:27. > :11:30.providing patient care we have. There are concerns over the pressure
:11:31. > :11:34.of staff right across the NHS of coping with an older and sicker
:11:35. > :11:38.populations. They become the shock absorbers in an NHS that doesn't
:11:39. > :11:42.have sufficient staff or resources. I worry about the long-term
:11:43. > :11:46.consequences, staff cannot carry on working in this way without their
:11:47. > :11:49.own health and well-being being affected. The Department of Health
:11:50. > :11:53.says these inspections play a key role in making the NHS in England
:11:54. > :11:57.the safest and most transparent health care system in the world but
:11:58. > :11:58.they will also remind ministers the NHS continues to face serious
:11:59. > :12:01.challenges. The Prime Minister is making clear
:12:02. > :12:04.that she is disappointed by the defeat in the House of Lords
:12:05. > :12:08.last night over Brexit. Peers voted by a sizeable majority
:12:09. > :12:11.to give European Union nationals already living here the right
:12:12. > :12:14.to stay in the UK. The government will seek to overturn
:12:15. > :12:17.it when the bill returns The Prime Minister's official
:12:18. > :12:22.spokesman says Theresa May expects Our political correspondent
:12:23. > :12:30.Carole Walker reports. A resounding defeat for the
:12:31. > :12:33.government in the House of Lords. After hours of passionate debate,
:12:34. > :12:47.they voted overwhelmingly for ministers to guarantee
:12:48. > :12:50.the rights of more than 3 million EU Seven Tory peers voted
:12:51. > :12:56.against the government. We are being illogical and immoral
:12:57. > :13:01.in refusing to unilaterally guarantee the rights of those people
:13:02. > :13:05.who are already here, who came here in good faith,
:13:06. > :13:10.who are part of our communities. Theresa May says she does
:13:11. > :13:13.want to give that guarantee, but she'll only do so if she can do
:13:14. > :13:17.a deal with other EU leaders to safeguard the rights of British
:13:18. > :13:22.citizens in other EU countries too. I am optimistic that a reciprocal
:13:23. > :13:26.agreement on the status of each other's citizens can
:13:27. > :13:29.indeed be achieved. I think that is in the rational
:13:30. > :13:32.interests of the United Kingdom MPs have already voted to approve
:13:33. > :13:46.the government's approach and ministers will seek to reverse
:13:47. > :13:50.last night's defeat. I do think this amendment will be
:13:51. > :13:53.overturned when the bill comes I think the vast majority of MPs
:13:54. > :14:00.on the government side certainly accept the Prime Minister's argument
:14:01. > :14:03.about the need to clarify arrangements for EU nationals
:14:04. > :14:06.in the UK at the same time as we clarify arrangements
:14:07. > :14:08.for British expats on the continent. The government could face
:14:09. > :14:11.further defeats as the bill continues its passage
:14:12. > :14:14.through the Lords, There's lots more complex
:14:15. > :14:20.and controversial legislation to come, to disentangle British law
:14:21. > :14:23.from EU law, and set new rules Last night's defeat
:14:24. > :14:28.could be a foretaste For the Prime Minister,
:14:29. > :14:33.the immediate priority is to get the bill triggering Article 50
:14:34. > :14:37.into law in time for her to start formal negotiations as planned
:14:38. > :14:40.by the end of March. Then the hard bargaining
:14:41. > :14:42.will really begin. Carole Walker, BBC
:14:43. > :14:46.News, Westminster. Our Assistant Political Editor
:14:47. > :14:58.Norman Smith is in Westminster. Is the Prime Minister likely to get
:14:59. > :15:02.her way in the end? I think she is because although many peers had
:15:03. > :15:06.hoped the scale and ferocity of last night's defeat would embolden
:15:07. > :15:11.critical Tory MPs in the Commons to define Mrs May and thwart her plans,
:15:12. > :15:15.I have to say, I can't see much evidence of that. So if there is a
:15:16. > :15:20.revolt, I expect it will be a tiddler, a mini chocolate egg of a
:15:21. > :15:24.rebellion. The reason for that I think is because most Tory MPs, even
:15:25. > :15:29.critical ones, seem to trust Mrs May on this issue and they do believe
:15:30. > :15:32.she wants to guarantee the rights of EU nationals as swiftly as possible
:15:33. > :15:36.and the only reason she hasn't been able to do so so far, is because
:15:37. > :15:42.other EU countries are not willing to talk about it until the
:15:43. > :15:46.negotiations begin. But all that said, one clear consequence of the
:15:47. > :15:51.vote last night is that here, peers have got a bit of swagger, a bit of
:15:52. > :15:54.self-confidence about themselves now and they do seem poised to inflict
:15:55. > :15:59.further defeats, including on the critical issue of ensuring
:16:00. > :16:03.Parliament gets a meaningful vote before Mrs May signs on the dotted
:16:04. > :16:09.line for the final Brexit deal. And on that issue, all the indications
:16:10. > :16:11.are, Mrs May's critics in the comments might be willing to cause
:16:12. > :16:15.her a lot more trouble. British Cycling bosses will make
:16:16. > :16:18.changes in order to be more caring to riders after accusations
:16:19. > :16:20.of bullying and sexism. An investigation into the culture
:16:21. > :16:22.at British Cycling was launched last year with a report
:16:23. > :16:24.on the findings imminent. But the governing body says work
:16:25. > :16:27.on an action plan to address any Our sports correspondent
:16:28. > :16:42.David Ornstein reports. Over the last decade, cycling has
:16:43. > :16:46.become symbolic of Britain's Olympic success, but at what cost? The
:16:47. > :16:50.governing body has been hit by allegations of bullying and sexism,
:16:51. > :16:55.while its anti-doping structures are being investigated. Today, the new
:16:56. > :16:59.chairman of British Cycling admitted to serious failings. A current of
:17:00. > :17:03.issues into -- occurrence of issues in terms of behaviours and
:17:04. > :17:07.harassment, bullying, is unacceptable. The report has
:17:08. > :17:12.highlighted some issues that we as an organisation needs to address.
:17:13. > :17:16.We've already met with our groups of both riders on staff, and we've made
:17:17. > :17:21.it very clear that where there's been failings we apologise for
:17:22. > :17:24.those. Well, this is the national cycling Centre, home of the
:17:25. > :17:29.so-called medal factory, but concern over the way those medals have been
:17:30. > :17:35.won has led to a rethink. And that takes the form of a 39 point action
:17:36. > :17:39.plan, which includes training in governance, leadership and
:17:40. > :17:43.diversity, an annual staff appraisal system, and a complete overhaul of
:17:44. > :17:49.procedures around athletes' welfare. It all stems back to April, when
:17:50. > :17:53.Sprint cyclist Jess -- Jess Varnish complained of sexism, discrimination
:17:54. > :17:59.and bullying. UK Sport is demanding reform act's most successful best
:18:00. > :18:03.funded and most successful Olympic sport. There are a number of fires
:18:04. > :18:06.that seem to be going off in difficult areas and it's difficult
:18:07. > :18:10.at this point in time. The most important thing as an investor in
:18:11. > :18:15.British Cycling, the most important thing is we see that the information
:18:16. > :18:21.that is being revealed is accepted by British Cycling and acted upon.
:18:22. > :18:24.This morning, Britain's most decorated Olympian, Sir Bradley
:18:25. > :18:29.Wiggins, refused to speak about the contents of a medical package
:18:30. > :18:33.delivered to him in France in 2011. Questions remain for British Cycling
:18:34. > :18:36.to answer on a range of fronts. COMMENTATOR:
:18:37. > :18:40.And it will be Britain in a world record time. They hope today will
:18:41. > :18:43.begin the process of doing that. David Ornstein, BBC News, in
:18:44. > :18:45.Manchester. Warnings of a national crisis
:18:46. > :18:49.in policing in England and Wales - a scathing report warns
:18:50. > :18:52.of a shortage of detectives and says Coming up: Snapchat -
:18:53. > :18:55.you'll know what this Now the company's been
:18:56. > :18:59.valued at ?20 billion. I'll be asking our
:19:00. > :19:00.technology correspondent Coming up in sport at 1:30pm: UK
:19:01. > :19:07.Sport and British Cycling have outlined the next steps that
:19:08. > :19:10.are being taken as part of the independent review
:19:11. > :19:12.into the culture of British At some point in our lives,
:19:13. > :19:27.one in four of us will experience But many people hide their problems
:19:28. > :19:29.from their employers for fear of it Now the government's trying
:19:30. > :19:34.to encourage businesses to improve mental health support
:19:35. > :19:36.in the workplace. And today, the Institute
:19:37. > :19:38.of Directors has launched its first-ever mental health
:19:39. > :19:41.strategy to help those affected. Our business correspondent
:19:42. > :19:47.Ben Thompson reports. No matter where you work, tough days
:19:48. > :19:51.are often part of the job, but for construction worker Lee,
:19:52. > :19:54.difficult days turned I just felt down one day and I stood
:19:55. > :20:03.at the top of the building and just went to the edge of the building,
:20:04. > :20:08.to about six storeys high and unhooked my harness and just
:20:09. > :20:11.stood there and thought, And new figures suggest Lee's
:20:12. > :20:16.experience is much more common Nearly a sixth of the UK workforce
:20:17. > :20:23.faces mental health problems. And it's here, on building sites,
:20:24. > :20:28.that the problem is all too evident. More construction workers
:20:29. > :20:31.lose their lives through suicide than serious accidents at work,
:20:32. > :20:36.and it's something the industry We need to do something
:20:37. > :20:41.now and actually raise awareness within our industry
:20:42. > :20:45.with our workers, and actually get people trained up in the same way
:20:46. > :20:48.that you would treat an injury with a first aider,
:20:49. > :20:50.to actually help people, before you get to the stage
:20:51. > :20:53.where the worst-case scenario is But it's not just industries
:20:54. > :20:57.like construction that Aside from the personal impact
:20:58. > :21:04.on staff, it costs the UK economy around ?26 billion a year in lost
:21:05. > :21:09.work and productivity. So businesses paying attention,
:21:10. > :21:13.like the department Its chairman told me of his personal
:21:14. > :21:18.experience dealing with mental health problems and why he wants
:21:19. > :21:22.to do more to help staff. I've had family members,
:21:23. > :21:27.including one of my sons, who's had a real, very specific
:21:28. > :21:31.challenge, and I find myself being hesitant talking about it,
:21:32. > :21:33.whereas if I said he's broken his leg or got a bad
:21:34. > :21:37.infection, that would have been fine and we could have
:21:38. > :21:39.all talked about it. I thought if I can't talk
:21:40. > :21:41.about it this is ridiculous, and I've got to find ways and means
:21:42. > :21:45.of making this a more normal, more everyday conversation,
:21:46. > :21:47.and not something you have That's the basis of schemes
:21:48. > :21:54.like this one at the Royal Mail. It encourages staff to talk
:21:55. > :21:56.about their worries with trained For Lee, who is now
:21:57. > :22:05.managing his depression, talking is part of the answer,
:22:06. > :22:09.but he says simple changes can A few months after I actually
:22:10. > :22:14.came off my medication, one of the site managers
:22:15. > :22:17.where I was at the time came up and asked me how I was doing
:22:18. > :22:20.and if everything was OK. She's the first person who's
:22:21. > :22:22.ever actually asked. That's what I feel will make
:22:23. > :22:25.the biggest difference I think Voting has begun in the second
:22:26. > :22:32.election in ten months Ninety members will be elected -
:22:33. > :22:36.18 fewer than previously. Around 160 million
:22:37. > :22:44.people use Snapchat - the social media messaging service -
:22:45. > :22:46.and the vast majority The company that owns it has been
:22:47. > :22:53.valued at $24 billion. It sold all 200 million
:22:54. > :22:56.shares on offer to big But since it was created five
:22:57. > :23:00.years ago, Snapchat has With me is our technology
:23:01. > :23:12.correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. It's definitely my first time on
:23:13. > :23:17.Snapchat, but the thing is it's all about young people. Is that why it's
:23:18. > :23:22.worth so much money? Yes, despite that picture Snapchat is not aimed
:23:23. > :23:26.at people of my age and dare I say it, not even of yours. It's
:23:27. > :23:31.incredibly popular amongst 15-25 -year-olds. 150 million use it on a
:23:32. > :23:34.daily basis. That audience is highly valued by advertisers because they
:23:35. > :23:37.are not watching the television, they are probably not watching right
:23:38. > :23:41.now, it's sad to say. They are immersed in their phones on Snapchat
:23:42. > :23:47.is the way they communicate. That very visual means of communication,
:23:48. > :23:50.that fun way of communication, is increasingly popular with
:23:51. > :23:53.advertisers. Here's the problem. They are valued as if they are going
:23:54. > :23:58.to go on growing up the question is, can they grow beyond that age? Can
:23:59. > :24:05.they attract older people? Can they be like Facebook has been? Are they
:24:06. > :24:09.a Facebook, which was also seem rather overvalued when it was
:24:10. > :24:13.floated and has gone up and up and up, or are they more like Twitter,
:24:14. > :24:16.whose shares have languished as people have decided it's not going
:24:17. > :24:20.to grow much further. The other problem they face is increasing
:24:21. > :24:24.competition, from Facebook, which owns Instagram, which is copying
:24:25. > :24:29.many of the features of Snapchat and doing pretty well. It's a pretty big
:24:30. > :24:32.gamble, if you are going to buy Snapchat shares. Rory, thank you.
:24:33. > :24:34.Lost meadows, landscapes dug up for garden compost,
:24:35. > :24:37.communities made more vulnerable to flooding - it's just some
:24:38. > :24:39.of the damage that man has done to the environment
:24:40. > :24:42.The government's been drawing up a 25 year plan
:24:43. > :24:45.for improving England's nature - but it's been long delayed.
:24:46. > :24:47.And now MPs are calling for it to be published immediately.
:24:48. > :24:55.Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.
:24:56. > :24:58.To the west of Manchester, a landscape devastated by digging
:24:59. > :25:04.So many wildlife sites degraded in England and the government's
:25:05. > :25:13.Row on row of tiny sphagnum moss plants
:25:14. > :25:22.Planted out, they're helping to recreate a peat bog, that stores
:25:23. > :25:37.The government has promised to safeguard them, but its nature
:25:38. > :25:44.Cities are supposed to benefit from the government's
:25:45. > :25:52.I'm in south London, standing on top of the lost River Effra.
:25:53. > :25:57.Lost, because it's encased beneath my feet in a Victorian sewer.
:25:58. > :26:01.The ghost of the river still gets its revenge sometimes though.
:26:02. > :26:10.On a nearby housing estate, they've smashed up the concrete
:26:11. > :26:13.and laid bark chippings to let rainwater soak in,
:26:14. > :26:19.The garages have been given a green roof.
:26:20. > :26:26.This garden gives people a place to come to in the middle of a really
:26:27. > :26:29.urban part of London, where they can be in nature,
:26:30. > :26:31.they can learn about food growing, learn about wildlife,
:26:32. > :26:34.and also just sit in a more natural space in the middle
:26:35. > :26:39.People of this country love their natural environment,
:26:40. > :26:41.whether it's the green spaces in our cities, the seaside,
:26:42. > :26:44.the rivers, the forests, and they are unfortunately
:26:45. > :26:48.in decline and we need to see ambitious government
:26:49. > :26:58.Wildlife round the seas should be enhanced by the nature strategy.
:26:59. > :27:02.MPs have now joined the chorus demanding for it to be
:27:03. > :27:12.Celtic has paid tribute to the man known as the Lisbon Lion,
:27:13. > :27:15.Tommy Gemmell, who has died aged 73 following a long illness.
:27:16. > :27:18.They've called him a true Celtic giant.
:27:19. > :27:20.The former defender scored in the 2-1 victory
:27:21. > :27:23.against Inter Milan in 1967, when Celtic became the first British
:27:24. > :27:32.When the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife
:27:33. > :27:35.lost their baby Jennifer after she was born prematurely at 33
:27:36. > :27:38.weeks, Sarah Brown decided to set up a charity to look at ways to help
:27:39. > :27:44.Now, 15 years later, she says it is very uplifting
:27:45. > :27:48.to discover that the research has helped to save the life
:27:49. > :27:51.of the grandchild of another Labour leader, John Smith.
:27:52. > :28:00.Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon reports.
:28:01. > :28:09.Two and a half -year-old Ella, healthy and happy. But she was born
:28:10. > :28:13.12 weeks premature. Birth, she weighed ten oz. And was the size of
:28:14. > :28:18.an adult's hand. I wasn't sure she was going to survive at all. To me,
:28:19. > :28:22.it seemed impossible. She seemed so utterly vulnerable. It seemed she
:28:23. > :28:27.had nothing within herself to fight with, because she was so tiny. The
:28:28. > :28:32.granddaughter of one labour leader, John Smith, alive, her mother says,
:28:33. > :28:36.thanks to a research set up in the memory of the daughter of another.
:28:37. > :28:40.Gordon and Sarah Brown lost their daughter Jennifer when she was just
:28:41. > :28:44.ten days old. We knew what has happened but we didn't know why it
:28:45. > :28:49.had happened, so in wanting to try and work out what we could do to
:28:50. > :28:52.make sense of this, what I wanted was more needed to happen to unlock
:28:53. > :28:55.that understanding. One of the things we felt we could most
:28:56. > :29:00.usefully do was invest in the science for it. The research done at
:29:01. > :29:03.the Jennifer Brown laboratory has focused on understanding the causes
:29:04. > :29:09.and consequences of premature birth. Some good has come from tragedy. 15
:29:10. > :29:14.years on, the memory of her daughter is still strong. What I really
:29:15. > :29:19.treasure is the ten very, very precious days that we had with our
:29:20. > :29:22.daughter, because thanks to the care of the doctors, nurses, midwives
:29:23. > :29:26.around us, we were able to have an extraordinary amount of time really
:29:27. > :29:31.being able to be with our daughter. All of that I have inside me and all
:29:32. > :29:37.that love you have for your daughter is still all there. For little Ella
:29:38. > :29:44.there are now no more hospital visits ahead. Absolutely brilliant.
:29:45. > :29:48.Absolutely brilliant. She now been signed off from our consultant.
:29:49. > :29:52.They've told us not to darken their door with a child quite so well as
:29:53. > :29:57.Ella, so we are the luckiest people in the world. It's thought that up
:29:58. > :30:02.to a quarter of babies born in the UK need extra care, but the ongoing
:30:03. > :30:08.research that helps save Ella will continue helping others also born
:30:09. > :30:09.prematurely survive and thrive, just like her. Lorna Gordon, BBC News,
:30:10. > :30:25.Edinburgh. The lovely Northern lights.
:30:26. > :30:27.An incredible shot. I'm very jealous, I've never seen the
:30:28. > :30:32.Northern lights just yet. At the other end of the country the day has
:30:33. > :30:36.turned into a lovely sunny one. This is a picture again a weather watcher
:30:37. > :30:40.in East Sussex, blue skies, it feels a bit more like spring out there,
:30:41. > :30:43.especially as the wind is beginning to drop. Further north in the
:30:44. > :30:52.Staffordshire Hills early this morning it was a win to receive. The
:30:53. > :30:54.showers giving some snow up over the hills in this part of the country.
:30:55. > :30:57.Those showers are moving away. They are certainly much fewer now. Most
:30:58. > :30:59.of us are enjoying sunshine through the rest of the day, though there's
:31:00. > :31:02.more cloud coming into Northern Ireland, threatening to bring a
:31:03. > :31:06.change in the weather here. We'll had further south, where we could
:31:07. > :31:09.see one or two showers arriving in the south-west of England, South
:31:10. > :31:13.Wales. It's just a threat really through the afternoon. One or
:31:14. > :31:18.offshore just now. Most of England and Wales will be dry and quite
:31:19. > :31:22.sunny, top temperature about 12 Celsius in the south-east. We still
:31:23. > :31:24.got a few showers in the north-west of England, they should fade away
:31:25. > :31:26.this afternoon. More cloud in Northern Ireland threatening rain
:31:27. > :31:31.later. We have wintry showers and snow over the hills in Scotland,
:31:32. > :31:34.some sunshine as well. It's feeling colder, especially in northern
:31:35. > :31:37.Scotland whether winds die down last of all. This evening it turns wet in
:31:38. > :31:42.Northern Ireland, some rain and hail snow. It pushes into the soup --
:31:43. > :31:47.into southern Scotland and in southern Wales and we have rain
:31:48. > :31:51.arriving, that will keep temperatures but quite chilly night
:31:52. > :31:54.in Scotland, especially the North of Scotland. Maybe a pinch of frost but
:31:55. > :31:58.some sunshine here. Elsewhere the sunshine is a reluctant visitor
:31:59. > :32:01.tomorrow. There will be brighter for a while in south-east Scotland and
:32:02. > :32:07.North East England but we have rain moving northwards. It becomes
:32:08. > :32:08.lighter. It turns dryer for the south-east of England, boosting
:32:09. > :32:13.temperatures here. Across Northern Ireland the rain could be setting in
:32:14. > :32:16.for most, if not all, of the day. Into the weekend, whilst there will
:32:17. > :32:20.be some dryer and brighter slots, rain is never going to be too far
:32:21. > :32:24.away. In fact, it's going to be raining this weekend across the
:32:25. > :32:28.whole of Western Europe, not just rain. There will be some very heavy
:32:29. > :32:33.snowfall for the Alps this weekend. There could be a metre or more of
:32:34. > :32:36.snow. It was a slow start of the season. Things have changed quite
:32:37. > :32:41.considerably. At home weeks -- this weekend we are dominated by low
:32:42. > :32:44.pressure." Pressure is where we will see most of the rain on Saturday.
:32:45. > :32:48.This rain could be rather reluctant to clear away from Northern Ireland
:32:49. > :32:51.and around some edges of England and Wales we could see some showers or
:32:52. > :32:55.long spells of rain and those are the temperatures. As we head into
:32:56. > :32:59.the second half of the weekend we are going to find it turning windy
:33:00. > :33:06.across England and Wales. Here, we could see heavy bursts of rain for a
:33:07. > :33:08.time but by contrast a bit further north for Scotland and Northern
:33:09. > :33:10.Ireland, it shouldn't be quite as wet.
:33:11. > :33:13.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:33:14. > :33:15.Warnings of a national crisis in policing in England and Wales -
:33:16. > :33:21.a scathing report warns of a shortage of detectives and says
:33:22. > :33:24.So it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's