:00:00. > :00:07.Theresa May will trigger Article 50 a week on Wednesday,
:00:08. > :00:09.starting the formal process of Britain leaving
:00:10. > :00:15.It's the starting gun for formal talks on the terms of Britain's
:00:16. > :00:21.departure and on its future relations with the EU.
:00:22. > :00:23.We'll be bringing you the very latest from our correspondents
:00:24. > :00:28.A home care crisis - the BBC finds 95 contracts
:00:29. > :00:31.with local councils cancelled in the last three months,
:00:32. > :00:41.Labour at loggerheads - a row erupts as the deputy leader
:00:42. > :00:43.alleges an internal plot to take over the party.
:00:44. > :00:46.He says we need to take control of the Labour Party.
:00:47. > :00:49.He even says that a General Election might get in the
:00:50. > :00:52.That seems to me like there is a secret plan to take
:00:53. > :00:58.A return to Rio: six months after the end of the Games,
:00:59. > :01:08.we assess the legacy of the Olympics for Brazil and its athletes.
:01:09. > :01:13.And Happy Birthday to the forces' sweetheart: events to mark the 100th
:01:14. > :01:19.And coming up in the sport on BBC News:
:01:20. > :01:22.Uk Anti-Doping says it's alarmed by a BBC Poll that has has pointed
:01:23. > :01:42.towards a problem with doping in amateur sport.
:01:43. > :01:47.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:48. > :01:51.Wednesday March 29th - that's the date confirmed this
:01:52. > :01:54.morning by Downing Sreet when it will trigger Article 50,
:01:55. > :01:56.thereby formally starting negotiations for the UK to leave
:01:57. > :02:01.It will come in the form of a letter to the European Council,
:02:02. > :02:03.and will mark the start of a two-year process
:02:04. > :02:07.Downing Street said it hoped the negotiations would start
:02:08. > :02:12.It also this morning moved to squash speculation that Theresa May might
:02:13. > :02:19.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports.
:02:20. > :02:27.In Swansea today on a charm offensive. The Prime Minister has
:02:28. > :02:31.promised to visit all the devolved nations before triggering Article
:02:32. > :02:36.50. As she starts the negotiations to leave the European Union, she is
:02:37. > :02:40.on a mission to sell Brexit and wants all parts of the UK on-board.
:02:41. > :02:44.When people voted in the referendum last year, it wasn't just about
:02:45. > :02:48.leaving the EU, I think they did vote for change. They voted for
:02:49. > :02:51.change in the way the country works, to make sure that it works for
:02:52. > :02:55.everyone and not just a privileged few. As part of that, we want to
:02:56. > :03:00.build, we have a plan for Britain and part of that is about building a
:03:01. > :03:04.stronger economy. Next Wednesday, nine months after the referendum,
:03:05. > :03:09.the result will be put into action. It will start the clock ticking for
:03:10. > :03:14.two years of negotiations with the rest of the EU. Two years of
:03:15. > :03:18.complex, all consuming debate and intense diplomacy for the
:03:19. > :03:23.government. As ministers start to piece together what our relationship
:03:24. > :03:27.with the EU will look like. It means finding solutions to issues like
:03:28. > :03:33.reciprocal rights of EU migrants, plus working out how much it will
:03:34. > :03:37.cost Britain to leave the EU, and what our future economic links will
:03:38. > :03:42.look like. Many are predicting the talks will be tough. Theresa May
:03:43. > :03:48.needs to get the terms agreed by all the other 27 member states. And if
:03:49. > :03:52.it all goes to plan, and in line with the official timetable, Brexit
:03:53. > :03:55.should happen in March 2000 19. Eleanor Garnier, BBC News,
:03:56. > :03:57.Westminster. Well, in a moment we'll speak
:03:58. > :03:59.to our correspondent Dan Johnson, who's in Brussels, but first let's
:04:00. > :04:05.go to Vicki Young in Westminster. Vicky, we knew this
:04:06. > :04:13.was coming, but this It may just be a day, but it will
:04:14. > :04:17.have huge, significant ramifications affecting almost every part of
:04:18. > :04:22.British life. I think first of all in political terms attention will
:04:23. > :04:25.turn to what kind of deal, if any, Theresa May can get. It's incredibly
:04:26. > :04:30.controversial, she's said already that Britain will leave the single
:04:31. > :04:33.market that is causing her to have a lot of people saying this is the
:04:34. > :04:36.wrong thing to do, that it is damaging and divisive for the
:04:37. > :04:41.economy. Questions about whether Britain will have two stump up a
:04:42. > :04:45.massive bill before the talks even start, and then of course about our
:04:46. > :04:49.future relationship. Will we get a trade deal? Will we get a deal that
:04:50. > :04:54.is beneficial to Britain? And then running parallel to that is also
:04:55. > :04:59.what goes on in here, this place, in Parliament. The great repeal bill,
:05:00. > :05:03.which will put all of the existing EU law into British law, has to go
:05:04. > :05:08.through Parliament. It will take up many hours, days and months. There
:05:09. > :05:12.will also be alongside that, of course, new systems put in place. We
:05:13. > :05:17.will have a whole new immigration system. What about fishing and
:05:18. > :05:20.agriculture and customs? That all needs new legislation. This will
:05:21. > :05:25.dominate political life and the economy for many years to come. Dan
:05:26. > :05:29.Johnson in Brussels, what has the reaction been there to the news? The
:05:30. > :05:33.message here this morning was, we are ready for this, we are waiting,
:05:34. > :05:38.bring it on. The official EU spokesman said he had nicked
:05:39. > :05:42.notification this morning that that letter would be sent next week. He
:05:43. > :05:45.said, we're ready for that letter, everything is ready on this side.
:05:46. > :05:51.Sources over the weekend have said they feel the EU negotiating team
:05:52. > :05:55.here is better prepared than the UK's own team. Donald Tusk, the
:05:56. > :05:59.council president, said within 48 hours of receiving that letter he
:06:00. > :06:03.will put down draft guidelines for the 27 remaining members of the EU
:06:04. > :06:07.to consider. It could then take four or five or six weeks for them to on
:06:08. > :06:11.the negotiating position but they have done a lot of that difficult
:06:12. > :06:14.work already. Nobody here is giving the message that Britain is going to
:06:15. > :06:18.be done any favours. There has been a hardline message over the weekend
:06:19. > :06:21.from the commission president talking to a German newspaper,
:06:22. > :06:25.Jean-Claude Juncker, saying that Britain's choice is to eat what is
:06:26. > :06:29.on the table or not come to the table at all, specifically referring
:06:30. > :06:34.to that Brexit bill, more than ?50 billion being banded around as a
:06:35. > :06:36.figure by EU negotiators. That is one area where there will be a lot
:06:37. > :06:57.of issues and debates. Rights for EU citizens is another area to be
:06:58. > :07:00.worked out as well. A lot, lakes details to be worked out. It will
:07:01. > :07:03.take a lot of time and a lot of negotiating, but the main headline
:07:04. > :07:06.today is that we now know that Britain, if everything goes to plan,
:07:07. > :07:08.is set to leave the EU at the end of March 2000 19. Just before the
:07:09. > :07:10.parliamentary elections in four years' time. Thank you.
:07:11. > :07:12.Meanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has claimed
:07:13. > :07:15.that the party is facing a "battle for its existence" because of
:07:16. > :07:18.what he described as a "secret plan" by a trade union to back a left-wing
:07:19. > :07:22.Mr Watson said the union, Unite, was planning to provide
:07:23. > :07:24.funds to Momentum, a campaign group which helped
:07:25. > :07:26.Jeremy Corbyn become leader, in a bid to takeover the party.
:07:27. > :07:32.Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports.
:07:33. > :07:38.Is this left-wing faction planning to change the Labour Party out of
:07:39. > :07:43.all recognition? In 2015 many of those on the left campaign for
:07:44. > :07:50.Jeremy Corbyn to become leader formed a new group called Momentum.
:07:51. > :07:53.Now Labour's deputy leader is accusing it of a secret plan that
:07:54. > :07:58.would threaten Labour's very existence. Is this secret hard left
:07:59. > :08:01.plan to take over the Labour Party comes to pass then our very
:08:02. > :08:06.electoral existence is in danger and it needs to stop. Tom Watson had
:08:07. > :08:10.been listening to a secret recording obtained by the Observer newspaper
:08:11. > :08:11.this man, John Landman. He seemed to be suggesting that moving Labour to
:08:12. > :08:29.left was his priority. One of those changes would be to
:08:30. > :08:33.Labour's leadership rules. Currently, candidates need 15% of
:08:34. > :08:37.MPs to back them before they even get onto the ballot. That is a
:08:38. > :08:38.difficult hurdle for left-wingers to overcome, so the plan is to ignore
:08:39. > :08:52.it. But Momentum members say there is
:08:53. > :08:55.nothing in this recording that demonstrates they are actually
:08:56. > :08:59.plotting to take over the Labour Party. In fact they say it was
:09:00. > :09:03.simply a recording made at a public meeting. And there is nothing wrong
:09:04. > :09:07.with trying to get their views across. But Labour's deputy leader
:09:08. > :09:16.has also suggested that Britain's biggest union, United, is trying to
:09:17. > :09:22.fund attempts to move Labour further to the left. Officials deny the
:09:23. > :09:26.accusation. There are no plans for Unite to affiliate Momentum. Tom
:09:27. > :09:29.could have Victor up the phone and called me and I would have been
:09:30. > :09:34.happy to reassure him. It does feel rather like this is Tom Watson
:09:35. > :09:37.meddling and interfering with Unite. We have a general secretary election
:09:38. > :09:40.going on at the moment and it seems a bit more about that than anything
:09:41. > :09:46.else. Labour is still trailing the Conservatives in the polls. It's
:09:47. > :09:48.hard to see how its divisions will close that gap.
:09:49. > :09:49.Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith
:09:50. > :10:01.Norman, picking up on Ian's point, can Labour really afford to be doing
:10:02. > :10:03.this at a time like this? Well, these are extraordinary and
:10:04. > :10:07.incendiary claims which you might have expected from a hostile
:10:08. > :10:13.newspaper or a Conservative MP, but they come from Jeremy Corbyn's
:10:14. > :10:16.number two, the deputy leader of the Labour Party. Secondly, he's gone
:10:17. > :10:20.public with them, knowing full well the sort of damaging headlines about
:10:21. > :10:25.Labour civil war that will inevitably ensue. And the claims
:10:26. > :10:31.themselves are explosive, namely that there is an organised plot
:10:32. > :10:36.orchestrated by the leader of Britain's biggest union, Labour's
:10:37. > :10:39.biggest financial backer, to bankroll Momentum and seize control
:10:40. > :10:46.of the Labour Party, to topple anti-Corbyn MP 's and get rid of
:10:47. > :10:52.critical councillors and seize the party machinery. Claims that are all
:10:53. > :10:57.denied by Unite, by Momentum, by close allies of Mr Corbyn. But it
:10:58. > :11:02.raises fundamental questions about what is going on at the top level of
:11:03. > :11:07.the Labour Party. You get a sense of the hostility and the animosity
:11:08. > :11:12.between key players like Tom Watson, like Len McCluskey. It also raises
:11:13. > :11:17.questions about Labour's prospects, frankly, in the local elections just
:11:18. > :11:22.six weeks away, and it will raise fears about many people who question
:11:23. > :11:28.at a time of massive change with Brexit and a threat to the union,
:11:29. > :11:31.how capable Labour is of acting like an effective opposition or whether
:11:32. > :11:38.it is now so immersed in its own internal warfare and hostility that
:11:39. > :11:39.it simply cannot oppose Theresa May. Norman, many thanks. Norman Smith,
:11:40. > :11:43.there. Home care companies have warned
:11:44. > :11:45.of a funding crisis that means they can't recruit or retain staff
:11:46. > :11:48.to meet growing demand. Research commissioned for the BBC's
:11:49. > :11:50.Panorama programme suggests nearly one in four companies are at risk
:11:51. > :11:53.of insolvency, with 69 closing Our Wales Correspondent
:11:54. > :11:59.Sian Lloyd reports. Amanda Hopewell is one of the UK's
:12:00. > :12:12.800,000 home care workers. Today she is with former
:12:13. > :12:14.teacher William Williams, Amanda is paid ?7.55 an hour,
:12:15. > :12:24.just above the National Living Wage. Like many care workers,
:12:25. > :12:27.she struggles to make ends meet. She's also on a zero hours contract,
:12:28. > :12:30.which means her hours I did look into buying
:12:31. > :12:35.a house four years ago. But because I didn't
:12:36. > :12:37.have a contract, they wouldn't allow me to buy a house
:12:38. > :12:39.or anything like that. Amanda is one of 200 staff
:12:40. > :12:50.employed by a family run It is paid by local councils
:12:51. > :12:55.to provide home care But it currently has 30 staff
:12:56. > :12:59.vacancies and is struggling Last year, the company
:13:00. > :13:02.stopped providing care for one local council,
:13:03. > :13:07.Conwy, and handed back the contract. We didn't think that we could
:13:08. > :13:11.provide this level of service for that amount of money that
:13:12. > :13:13.Conwy were offering. We were very, very reluctant
:13:14. > :13:16.to leave, but we had to leave. Conwy Council says it is committed
:13:17. > :13:21.to supporting vulnerable people in communities,
:13:22. > :13:25.despite facing financial challenges. Our research reveals that
:13:26. > :13:31.across the UK almost 100 councils have had home care contracts handed
:13:32. > :13:34.back to them. Across the water in Liverpool,
:13:35. > :13:38.there are similar pressures. The City Council will receive
:13:39. > :13:50.an extra ?27 million. Following this month's budget
:13:51. > :13:52.announcement of an extra But the director of adult
:13:53. > :13:56.social services says it's After two or three years,
:13:57. > :14:01.if the system doesn't change, I don't think we'll be able
:14:02. > :14:04.to maintain the service The UK Government declined to be
:14:05. > :14:13.interviewed but in a statement said it will be bringing forward
:14:14. > :14:16.proposals later this year to ensure a more financially sustainable
:14:17. > :14:17.social care system. With more of us living
:14:18. > :14:24.longer and a growing shortage of care workers,
:14:25. > :14:27.the pressure on people like Amanda You can see Panorama -
:14:28. > :14:41.The Home Care Crisis, on BBC One tonight at half past
:14:42. > :14:44.eight, except for viewers in Wales, who can see the investigation
:14:45. > :14:47.on Week In, Week Out, Police are questioning a 33-year-old
:14:48. > :14:50.man on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy at a flat
:14:51. > :14:52.in north London. He's also being held over
:14:53. > :14:54.the attempted murder Lets speak to our
:14:55. > :15:04.correspondent Richard Galpin. Richard, what is the latest? As you
:15:05. > :15:08.say, the man who was arrested on Sunday evening, a 33-year-old who is
:15:09. > :15:12.believed to be the children's father, is still in police custody.
:15:13. > :15:15.I've just been speaking to Scotland Yard and they are saying they are
:15:16. > :15:19.still questioning him and because this is a murder investigation, they
:15:20. > :15:25.could hold him for a few days more before they have to finally
:15:26. > :15:32.As for the two children found in a flat in this road here with such
:15:33. > :15:36.severe injuries, obviously we now know that the boy, just a -year-old,
:15:37. > :15:43.died after being taken to hospital. The medical staff were not able to
:15:44. > :15:47.save him. But the girl is still alive, she is also just a -year-old.
:15:48. > :15:51.But she is in a critical condition and today has had to be moved to a
:15:52. > :15:55.different hospital to get specialist treatment and is reported to be
:15:56. > :15:57.fighting for her life. Richard, thank you. Richard Galpin.
:15:58. > :15:59.Athletes and figures involved with last year's Olympic
:16:00. > :16:02.and Paralympic Games in Rio have told the BBC that they're angry
:16:03. > :16:04.and frustrated by the failure to provide any meaningful
:16:05. > :16:08.Exactly six months after the 2016 Games came to an end,
:16:09. > :16:11.many of the sporting venues remain empty, with companies and public
:16:12. > :16:14.Our correspondent Wyre Davies covered the Rio games for us,
:16:15. > :16:24.and he's been back to the city to send this report.
:16:25. > :16:27.For five weeks last summer, Rio de Janeiro was the centre of the
:16:28. > :16:31.Host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
:16:32. > :16:39.Exactly six months later the stage is empty.
:16:40. > :16:42.Rio's Olympic Park, which should by now be operating as a sporting
:16:43. > :16:45.centre of excellence, is eerily quiet.
:16:46. > :16:52.and lost are little more than warehouses.
:16:53. > :16:54.Venues that should have been dismantled, some to be rebuilt
:16:55. > :17:05.It's not the one that those who campaign for Rio to win
:17:06. > :17:09.I feel that Olympic Games in Brazil was not so
:17:10. > :17:17.successful because the legacy was not the number one.
:17:18. > :17:20.We delivered a good Games, we had a lot of problems, and
:17:21. > :17:23.we keep with them and nobody's doing anything for change.
:17:24. > :17:26.This is the Olympic tennis arena where Andy Murray won
:17:27. > :17:28.his second consecutive Olympic gold medal.
:17:29. > :17:31.For now this is being run like many other venues in the
:17:32. > :17:33.Olympic Park by the Brazilian sports ministry because no private company
:17:34. > :17:42.or want to take on the huge running costs.
:17:43. > :17:44.Team Brazil missed its own medal targets at Rio 2016.
:17:45. > :17:46.Archer Ane Marcelle came a creditable ninth
:17:47. > :17:50.place but has since lost her funding and her coach.
:17:51. > :17:55.Improving on Rio and even making the Tokyo games will be tough.
:17:56. > :17:57.TRANSLATION: A month after the Games, they cut everything.
:17:58. > :17:59.My health insurance, my salary, everything.
:18:00. > :18:04.We made history in archery but it's all over.
:18:05. > :18:09.It made me think my sacrifice wasn't worth it.
:18:10. > :18:13.Such was Rio's desperation to get things ready on time legacy was
:18:14. > :18:18.the last thing on anyone's minds, says one official who had worked
:18:19. > :18:20.previously on the London Games and wishes to remain anonymous.
:18:21. > :18:25.I never once had a conversation about legacy
:18:26. > :18:28.at any point or in any discussion that I had working on the Games.
:18:29. > :18:38.You have to remember this was a Games
:18:39. > :18:41.where we were scrambling to put the event on on a day-by-day basis.
:18:42. > :18:43.There was no time to think about what was
:18:44. > :18:46.going to happen the day after the Games finished in September.
:18:47. > :18:47.There were undoubtably improvements in Rio
:18:48. > :18:50.In public transport, some infrastructure, and
:18:51. > :18:54.I think that there are still promises
:18:55. > :18:58.But I do believe that we still have time to
:18:59. > :19:04.work on those promises and the promise that
:19:05. > :19:08.on is the delivery of the Olympic Park
:19:09. > :19:10.and improvements in the sports legacy.
:19:11. > :19:13.A brand-new velodrome built at huge expense barely used, its
:19:14. > :19:18.A state-of-the-art white-water course
:19:19. > :19:21.meant to become a public pool after the Games remains closed off.
:19:22. > :19:28.Wyre Davis, BBC News, Rio de Janeiro.
:19:29. > :19:33.Theresa May will trigger Article 50 in nine days' time,
:19:34. > :19:35.starting the formal process of Britain leaving
:19:36. > :19:48.Doping abuse - are the wheels coming off British amateur sport?
:19:49. > :19:50.Coming up in sport at half-past on BBC News:
:19:51. > :19:52.tributes to the Derry City captain Ryan McBride who has died
:19:53. > :20:07.The FBI director, James Comey, will give evidence to Congress later
:20:08. > :20:10.about alleged Russian meddling in last year's Presidential election
:20:11. > :20:13.- speaking publicly for the first time about an issue which has
:20:14. > :20:20.He's also expected to face questions about a second explosive issue -
:20:21. > :20:22.President Trump's claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama,
:20:23. > :20:24.authorised a wire-tap of Trump Tower during the campaign.
:20:25. > :20:33.Our correspondent Richard Lister reports.
:20:34. > :20:38.Did Russia help Donald Trump wind power? It's a question that dogged
:20:39. > :20:42.his campaign and one which Mr Trump was never quite able to shake. I
:20:43. > :20:46.don't know Putin. He's said nice things about me, if we got along
:20:47. > :20:52.well that would be good. That's because he'd rather have a puppet as
:20:53. > :20:55.President of the United States. No puppet! This morning the President
:20:56. > :20:59.was back on the offensive tweeting the Democrats made up and pushed the
:21:00. > :21:03.Russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. But in
:21:04. > :21:06.January US intelligence agencies said President Putin certainly have
:21:07. > :21:12.tried to influence the election but they found no evidence that the
:21:13. > :21:17.Trump campaign was involved. Welcome to the stage... The story was banned
:21:18. > :21:21.further by the sudden departure of the President's national Security
:21:22. > :21:24.adviser Michael Flynn when it turned out he had been misleading about his
:21:25. > :21:29.talks with the Russian Ambassador. Then came this from his Justice
:21:30. > :21:32.Secretary Jeff Sessions. That didn't happen, I did not have
:21:33. > :21:35.communications with the Russians. It turned out he had met the Russian
:21:36. > :21:39.ambassador in his office and the FBI Director has said nothing publicly
:21:40. > :21:42.about any investigation into the Trump team and Russia. He may not
:21:43. > :21:47.even confirm whether one exists but he will be asked. All the political
:21:48. > :21:50.parties now are paying attention to the threat Russia poses so we are
:21:51. > :21:53.going to highlight that, we will highlight the fact we know the
:21:54. > :21:57.Russians were trying to get involved in our campaign like they have for
:21:58. > :22:02.many decades. They are also trying to get involved in campaigns around
:22:03. > :22:06.the world. And what about the claim that the British intelligence agency
:22:07. > :22:11.GCHQ was ordered by President Obama to spy on Mr Trump? GCHQ said it was
:22:12. > :22:16.nonsense, the White House promised not to repeat it. Will be FBI
:22:17. > :22:19.Director address it? I expect that he will and I hope we can put an end
:22:20. > :22:24.to this wild goose chase because what the President said was just
:22:25. > :22:28.patently false. The allegations about wiretaps, computer hacks and
:22:29. > :22:31.Russia continued to swirl around the White House. Today's congressional
:22:32. > :22:34.hearings won't end this debate, they may shed a little more light on it.
:22:35. > :22:36.Richard Lister, BBC News. A doctor who assessed the Ebola
:22:37. > :22:38.survivor nurse Pauline Cafferkey on her return to the UK
:22:39. > :22:42.from Sierra Leone, is being quizzed over whether she concealed
:22:43. > :22:45.Ms Cafferkey's true temperature. Dr Hannah Ryan is appearing before
:22:46. > :22:47.the General Medical Council, accused of 'misleading
:22:48. > :22:49.and dishonest' conduct. Let's speak to our health
:22:50. > :22:59.correspondent Dominic Hughes. Dominate, what happened at the
:23:00. > :23:03.hearing? Well, Dr Hannah Ryan was one of a group of NHS medics who
:23:04. > :23:09.volunteered to go out to Sierra Leone at the height of the Ebola
:23:10. > :23:12.epidemic in 2015, she is on the right of the shot with dark hair
:23:13. > :23:16.standing next to another nurse called Donna Wood on the left, and
:23:17. > :23:23.when she and Donna Wood and Pauline Cafferkey arrived back at Heathrow
:23:24. > :23:25.at the end of 2014 after a very tough stint in Sierra Leone they
:23:26. > :23:31.found a scene of what they described as chaos, a crowded, noisy,
:23:32. > :23:34.screening centre at Heathrow. In order to help the medics they agreed
:23:35. > :23:37.to take their own temperatures to make sure they were clear of Ebola
:23:38. > :23:44.because an elevated temperature was one sign you might be coming down
:23:45. > :23:48.with Ebola. When they took Pauline Cafferkey's temperature Dr Ryan saw
:23:49. > :23:52.that it was over 38 Celsius, above the cut-off point. She says she was
:23:53. > :23:55.filled with disbelief, fear and panic and became paralysed. And then
:23:56. > :24:01.at that point someone suggested they record a lower temperature and that
:24:02. > :24:05.was what happened. So she has admitted knowing that Pauline
:24:06. > :24:08.Cafferkey's temperature was higher, she has admitted with going along
:24:09. > :24:13.with recording a lower temperature but she denies misconduct by her
:24:14. > :24:16.actions at the airport. OK, Dominic. Thank you.
:24:17. > :24:19.Drug use at every level of sport is "fast becoming a crisis"
:24:20. > :24:26.The agency has been responding to a BBC poll into doping in amateur
:24:27. > :24:28.sport, which found that more than a third of sports people
:24:29. > :24:30.who are not professionals say they personally know someone
:24:31. > :24:34.Our sports correspondent Katie Gornall reports as part
:24:35. > :24:38.of the BBC's week-long series on the State of Sport.
:24:39. > :24:40.Fame, glory, money, there are many reasons why professional athletes
:24:41. > :24:42.take performance-enhancing drugs, and sport is overwhelmed
:24:43. > :24:51.The disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has ended years
:24:52. > :24:57.of denial by admitting using performance-enhancing drugs.
:24:58. > :24:59.But what might be harder to understand is why amateur
:25:00. > :25:02.Dan Stevens is a former amateur cyclist.
:25:03. > :25:04.A few years ago he started taking a number of substances
:25:05. > :25:15.He was banned in 2014 after refusing to take a test.
:25:16. > :25:18.I'd always been a clean athlete and this situation happened with me
:25:19. > :25:22.The real thing for me wasn't really about racing.
:25:23. > :25:25.I didn't do a lot of racing on these substances.
:25:26. > :25:27.The main thing was curiosity, what does this do?
:25:28. > :25:31.How much of a benefit does this give you?
:25:32. > :25:33.I don't think in the amateur ranks it's about winning.
:25:34. > :25:40.I think you've got a situation where somebody is overweight,
:25:41. > :25:46.needs something they can get on, get in shape and they get in shape.
:25:47. > :25:51.They then get railroaded into doing a marathon or a long bike ride
:25:52. > :25:53.or some kind of competitive event and they prove their fitness levels
:25:54. > :25:55.again and they become a healthy individual.
:25:56. > :25:57.It becomes more body conscious and health orientated.
:25:58. > :25:59.And this is far from an isolated case.
:26:00. > :26:03.A poll carried out for the BBC of amateur sports people in the UK
:26:04. > :26:05.found that half believe the use of performance-enhancing substances
:26:06. > :26:10.A similar number say those drugs are easily available among those
:26:11. > :26:14.More than a third say they personally know
:26:15. > :26:19.someone who has doped, and 8% said they had taken steroids.
:26:20. > :26:24.Certainly the figures as regards the prevalence of performance
:26:25. > :26:31.enhancing substances at an amateur level are incredibly alarming.
:26:32. > :26:34.That said, they do confirm what UK Anti-Doping has long suspected,
:26:35. > :26:38.and also seen through some of our intelligence led testing.
:26:39. > :26:43.This is the front line in the fight to keep sport clean.
:26:44. > :26:45.A joint operation between police and UK Anti-Doping, targeting
:26:46. > :26:51.However, it's not against the law to use steroids for personal use,
:26:52. > :26:54.so for those motivated by vanity rather than victory, are they really
:26:55. > :26:57.We took our findings to an expert in doping behaviour
:26:58. > :27:06.This is actually the dark side of exercise.
:27:07. > :27:10.Using substances not to improve your health,
:27:11. > :27:13.you don't care about your health anymore, you care about your
:27:14. > :27:16.performance and how you look to other people, or how
:27:17. > :27:23.Just how serious a health issue do you think this could be?
:27:24. > :27:26.You're using substances that are meant to treat diseases.
:27:27. > :27:30.And you're actually misusing them without any prescription,
:27:31. > :27:34.not just cheating or not cheating if you are an exerciser, but you're
:27:35. > :27:37.But however the authorities respond to the issue,
:27:38. > :27:39.athletes at every level, in every sport will always be
:27:40. > :27:47.Now in honour of Dame Vera Lynn, who's celebrating her 100th
:27:48. > :27:51.birthday, a 350-foot image of her has been projected
:27:52. > :27:57.The singer said she was thrilled by the tributes -
:27:58. > :28:00.and would be thinking of all those servicemen who'd glanced back
:28:01. > :28:02.at the cliffs as they'd headed off to war.
:28:03. > :28:06.Well, our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is in Dover.
:28:07. > :28:17.It may be the Spring Equinox but it feels like we are midwinter on top
:28:18. > :28:20.of the very famous White Cliffs of Dover. That didn't dampen the spirit
:28:21. > :28:25.of the veterans and families who have turned up today to celebrate
:28:26. > :28:29.Dame Vera Lynn's 100th birthday. Dame Vera Lynn herself couldn't make
:28:30. > :28:32.it, she is too frail for that but she did send a message saying she's
:28:33. > :28:36.very happy that people still remember her.
:28:37. > :28:40.When you're a centenarian national treasure only the crown jewels of
:28:41. > :28:53.symbolism will do. # They'll be bluebirds over... #
:28:54. > :28:56.From projections over the famous cliffs to a rendition of a lullaby
:28:57. > :29:05.that became the soundtrack of a nation in peril, all to mark the
:29:06. > :29:09.100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn. Hers was the voice that soothed the
:29:10. > :29:17.fears of the million servicemen heading to war and the hearts of
:29:18. > :29:22.countless families waiting at home. Speaking at her home in Sussex to
:29:23. > :29:28.mark her birthday Dame Vera said an early brush with a voice coach
:29:29. > :29:32.almost put her off singing. I didn't have singing lessons, I
:29:33. > :29:40.just went once. I thought I could extend my range but when she heard
:29:41. > :29:48.me sing she says, "No, I can't train that voice. It's not a natural
:29:49. > :29:53.voice. " so I said, "Well, thank you very much, Madame." And left. Dame
:29:54. > :29:57.Vera was too frail to make it to the birthday tribute in Dover today but
:29:58. > :30:02.figures from her past did gather, this gentle scene of nostalgia. Real
:30:03. > :30:07.World War II veterans were there too, like Bob Piper, who recalls her
:30:08. > :30:13.morale boosting voice as he went off to fight in Normandy.
:30:14. > :30:21.Her voice came through clear and with it was the story as she sang.
:30:22. > :30:25.And it gave you hope of coming home. The bracing winds of the Channel
:30:26. > :30:31.didn't deter those like Bob from saluting Dame Vera above the cliffs
:30:32. > :30:35.she sang into immortality. Dame Vera herself described reaching 100 as an
:30:36. > :30:39.incredible adventure of song, dance and friendship. And adventures she
:30:40. > :30:45.continues to share with a grateful nation.
:30:46. > :30:50.Well, Dame Vera herself is spending the day quietly at her home in
:30:51. > :30:53.Sussex, Sir Paul McCartney said in tribute that she was like family.
:30:54. > :30:58.Duncan, many thanks. Duncan Kennedy. Time for a look at the weather -
:30:59. > :31:04.here's John Hammond. Lemmy dangle the carrot, next week
:31:05. > :31:07.looks good but before that happens Brace yourself it doesn't look that
:31:08. > :31:11.pretty and it will feel like winter over the next couple of days and
:31:12. > :31:14.some cold air gushes down from the north-west, and the cold front
:31:15. > :31:17.responsible for that change in the weather is bringing quite a lot of
:31:18. > :31:22.rain, this is the soggy scene in the west Midlands as I speak, some very
:31:23. > :31:26.heavy rain tracking down to East Anglia and the south-east. It
:31:27. > :31:36.doesn't last for ever, mind you, because the Northwest, Scotland,
:31:37. > :31:38.Northern the skies are more broken with sunshine and weather watchers
:31:39. > :31:41.have been active this morning. This is the sunny Singh in the west
:31:42. > :31:43.Highlands, that blue sky is not to be trusted because we have some
:31:44. > :31:46.heavy and wintry showers over the high grind as it turns colder,
:31:47. > :31:49.strong winds across the far north for a time forced stop -- high
:31:50. > :31:52.ground. Things brightening up nicely across northern England and Wales
:31:53. > :31:57.and in the west Midlands it will cheer up later this afternoon. This
:31:58. > :32:00.is 3pm. The rain will head into Southern counties, East Anglia and
:32:01. > :32:05.the south-east, heavy for a time and gusty winds so watch out. It will
:32:06. > :32:14.not hang around, it will clear through come the evening time, and
:32:15. > :32:16.tonight the best of the clear skies will be in the southern and eastern
:32:17. > :32:18.areas. Frequent and increasingly wintry showers further north and
:32:19. > :32:21.west, the snow getting to lower levels and settling on high ground,
:32:22. > :32:23.icy night over Northern Ireland and Scotland, temperatures not far from
:32:24. > :32:27.freezing wherever you are. First thing in the morning it will be a
:32:28. > :32:30.chilly start, the best sunshine in the south and east but the showers
:32:31. > :32:35.will develop widely, some rain, hail, sleet and snow. Most of the
:32:36. > :32:39.snow across the hills in the north and west. Wherever you are it will
:32:40. > :32:42.feel cold, temperatures held in single figures for the most part and
:32:43. > :32:49.where the showers are they will fall several degrees. Want watch tomorrow
:32:50. > :32:51.night and into Wednesday morning is this band of rain pushing into
:32:52. > :32:53.northern England and southern Scotland, where you could see a
:32:54. > :32:58.prolonged spell of stone which could have some impact, something to bear
:32:59. > :33:01.in mind early on Wednesday. -- spell of snow. A band of persistent rain
:33:02. > :33:06.in some places on Wednesday, cold despite some sunshine come in a few
:33:07. > :33:09.places temperatures will stay in single figures. Low-pressure
:33:10. > :33:12.responsible for the showers. As I hinted to retake, the reason for
:33:13. > :33:15.optimism come the weekend, high-pressure beginning to build in.
:33:16. > :33:21.What does that mean in terms of the weather? We will have seems like
:33:22. > :33:25.this over the next few days, heavy, thundery showers around, but at the
:33:26. > :33:28.end of the week increasing amounts of blue skies and sunshine. But as
:33:29. > :33:38.the Windies fall light watch out for some frost as well. Rita.
:33:39. > :33:39.John, thank you. That is all from the BBC News at One and