:00:07. > :00:09.More pressure on Donald Trump - as he's accused of asking the head
:00:10. > :00:12.of the FBI to drop an inquiry into his former security
:00:13. > :00:18.James Comey - who he fired last week - is reported to have been asked:
:00:19. > :00:27.In a week full of revelation after revelation, on a day when we thought
:00:28. > :00:34.things couldn't get any worse - they have.
:00:35. > :00:37.I think it is reaching the point where it is of Watergate size
:00:38. > :00:41.We'll be live in Washington - and asking if this time
:00:42. > :00:43.President Trump could be in real trouble.
:00:44. > :00:53.A referendum on any Brexit deal - the Liberal Democrats put Europe
:00:54. > :00:57.And to woo younger voters - help onto the housing the ladder,
:00:58. > :01:06.At the heart of our manifesto is an offer to all of the people in our
:01:07. > :01:12.country, that no other party is making. That we do not just have to
:01:13. > :01:16.accept what ever do we get back from Brexit negotiations but the British
:01:17. > :01:18.people, you, should have the final say.
:01:19. > :01:21.Unemployment falls again - it's now at its lowest level since 1975.
:01:22. > :01:23.But for the first time in three years - pay
:01:24. > :01:27.The sexist world of horse-racing - why women looking for a career
:01:28. > :01:35.After Maria Sharapova is denied wild card entry
:01:36. > :01:38.to the French Open, the head of the Women's Tennis
:01:39. > :01:59.Association says they had "no grounds to penalise" her.
:02:00. > :02:04.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:02:05. > :02:07.Donald Trump facing questions about his Presidency is nothing new -
:02:08. > :02:10.but the latest allegations to emerge look different - they look
:02:11. > :02:16.It's reported that Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to drop an inquiry
:02:17. > :02:19.into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia.
:02:20. > :02:23."I hope you can let this go," he reportedly told Mr Comey
:02:24. > :02:26.after a White House meeting in February - and that's
:02:27. > :02:28.according to a memo written by the ex-FBI director
:02:29. > :02:32.The White House has denied the allegation in a statement.
:02:33. > :02:35.The President sacked Mr Comey last week -
:02:36. > :02:38.but now the FBI has been urged by a senior Republican to hand
:02:39. > :02:46.Donald J Trump, the 45th President of the United States,
:02:47. > :02:49.is barely four months into office - yet he is dealing with an almost
:02:50. > :02:58.The latest - that he tried to influence an FBI enquiry.
:02:59. > :03:02.In February, one of the President's closest allies was forced to resign,
:03:03. > :03:07.when it emerged that Mike Flynn, then the National Security Advisor,
:03:08. > :03:09.misled the administration over his contact with Russian
:03:10. > :03:14.officials before Mr Trump took office.
:03:15. > :03:18.Now an explosive accusation from the New York Times -
:03:19. > :03:29.that the day after Mr Flynn's dismissal, Donald Trump
:03:30. > :03:31.asked the FBI director, James Comey, to drop
:03:32. > :03:34.Those were the President's words, according to a note,
:03:35. > :03:39.which the paper says Mr Comey wrote directly after the meeting.
:03:40. > :03:49.Despite public shows of support, relations between Donald Trump
:03:50. > :03:52.and Mr Comey were strained over the FBI investigations
:03:53. > :03:57.and alleged Russian interference in the US election.
:03:58. > :03:59.Investigations Mr Comey insisted would continue.
:04:00. > :04:01.The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission,
:04:02. > :04:03.is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere
:04:04. > :04:10.Mr Comey was fired by the President last week, but Washington has been
:04:11. > :04:13.astounded by the existence of the note he apparently made
:04:14. > :04:21.A meeting which Vice President Mike Pence was reportedly asked to leave.
:04:22. > :04:26.In a week full of revelation after revelation, on a day
:04:27. > :04:33.when we thought things couldn't get any worse - they have.
:04:34. > :04:36.Only 24 hours ago, President Trump justified sharing sensitive
:04:37. > :04:44.intelligence information with Russia's Foreign Minister,
:04:45. > :04:46.a decision which observers say could have compromised American
:04:47. > :04:49.For some senior lawmakers, Republicans included,
:04:50. > :04:51.this is all too reminiscent of an earlier and dark era.
:04:52. > :04:59.I think it is reaching a point where it is of Watergate size and scale,
:05:00. > :05:07.and a couple of other scandals that you and I have seen.
:05:08. > :05:10.Days after sacking the FBI directir, Donald Trump
:05:11. > :05:12.issued his own warning to Mr Comey over social media, appearing
:05:13. > :05:14.to suggest he may have recorded their meetings.
:05:15. > :05:17.The White House has emphatically denied that Mr Trump asked the FBI
:05:18. > :05:21.The president still has plenty of support in Congress,
:05:22. > :05:23.and especially outside of Washington.
:05:24. > :05:26.But any suggestion he may have obstructed justice could prove
:05:27. > :05:37.Backing today from the most unlikely source, from Vladimir Putin, saying
:05:38. > :05:39.that Donald Trump was not being allowed to govern.
:05:40. > :05:43.Let's go live now to Washington and our correspondent Jane O'Brien.
:05:44. > :05:48.Those comparisons with Watergate, are they over the top? We have a
:05:49. > :05:51.long way to go, there has to be an investigation and at the moment what
:05:52. > :05:58.we have is a memo that has not been made public. Snippets were read by
:05:59. > :06:02.an unnamed associate of Mr Comey to reporters. Firstly, we need to see
:06:03. > :06:06.this memory and that is why you have Jason Ched Evans, the chairman of
:06:07. > :06:12.the very powerful committee of oversight. -- Jason. Saying that
:06:13. > :06:19.Congress needs to get every single memory and document that could
:06:20. > :06:22.catalogue what was said between Mr Comey and Donald Trump, into
:06:23. > :06:26.potential collision with Russia. That needs to happen first. Then you
:06:27. > :06:31.have a president who is typically immune from prosecution. And, a
:06:32. > :06:35.Congress that has a Senate and a house that is run by Republicans. So
:06:36. > :06:42.the notion that you are going to get any imminent impeachment moves in
:06:43. > :06:47.that situation is a stretch. The bar is extremely high. So yes, it all
:06:48. > :06:52.looks awful, especially when you put it all together. Senior Republicans
:06:53. > :06:56.are saying that they too need to know what the president said, but
:06:57. > :07:01.their main concern at the moment is that this turmoil engulfing the
:07:02. > :07:04.White House is threatening their political agenda. So most people I
:07:05. > :07:09.think at this point want to get to the bottom of it, but impeachment?
:07:10. > :07:17.Obstruction of justice crit at a long way to go before that happens.
:07:18. > :07:22.Vladimir Putin's involvement, does that help Donald Trump? There is an
:07:23. > :07:26.element of well, he would say that. Does America really care what
:07:27. > :07:29.Vladimir Putin says? This is more about Donald Trump and how the
:07:30. > :07:32.Republicans are going to do with a president who they feel is out of
:07:33. > :07:35.control. Jane O'Brien, thank you. The Liberal Democrats are putting
:07:36. > :07:38.another EU referendum at the heart of their general election manifesto
:07:39. > :07:40.- which has just been launched. The party said it would
:07:41. > :07:43."let the people decide" whether Brexit happens,
:07:44. > :07:46.once negotiations have finished. The party's leader Tim Farron says
:07:47. > :07:48.the decision to leave the EU could "wreck" the lives
:07:49. > :07:50.of future generations. Here's our political
:07:51. > :08:02.correspondent Chris Mason. Tim Farron went back to school this
:08:03. > :08:06.morning. The lesson? How the Liberal Democrats think the country should
:08:07. > :08:10.be run. Front and centre was Brexit, and how it should be handled. At the
:08:11. > :08:14.heart of our manifesto is an offer to all of the people in our country
:08:15. > :08:19.that no other party is making, which is that we do not have to accept
:08:20. > :08:23.whatever deal we get back from the Brexit negotiations, but the British
:08:24. > :08:25.people, you, should have the final say. If you do not like what Theresa
:08:26. > :08:42.May comes back with, you should have the
:08:43. > :08:44.right to vote to remain. The Lib Democrats say they would spend more
:08:45. > :08:47.money on health and education paid for by higher corporation tax and a
:08:48. > :08:49.penny on income tax. On housing, they want to introduce a range to
:08:50. > :08:52.own scheme for tenants, and promised to legalise and regulate cannabis.
:08:53. > :08:54.They claim this could generate ?1 billion per year in tax. It's about
:08:55. > :08:56.keeping the availability of hard drugs away from cannabis, and
:08:57. > :09:02.regulating cannabis so the most dangerous strands like skunk are
:09:03. > :09:05.outside of the regulated system. It is about helping those people who
:09:06. > :09:10.are of honourable and hitting those people the criminals take advantage
:09:11. > :09:14.of. -- from rubble. The manifesto launch event is not until this
:09:15. > :09:18.evening. But the document itself is online. Tim Farron says it is not a
:09:19. > :09:21.programme for governments, he expects the Conservatives to win the
:09:22. > :09:26.election and thinks it could be a landslide. He wants to be a strong
:09:27. > :09:34.voice in opposition. It is telling what is not in the manifesto. The
:09:35. > :09:36.Lib Dems are not promising to scrap university tuition fees in England.
:09:37. > :09:39.The very promised that they broke in government. What you need to do is
:09:40. > :09:43.make promises you can keep. What we've laid out in the manifesto is
:09:44. > :09:48.fully costed on the base of the government's current figures, even
:09:49. > :09:53.with us heading out of the EU, is a plan that will boost education and
:09:54. > :09:57.further education, and schools, by ?7 billion. At the last election,
:09:58. > :10:01.the Lib Dems face to the ghoulish nightmare of near oblivion. They are
:10:02. > :10:05.all smiles now but have a huge amount of ground to make up to get
:10:06. > :10:10.even close to where they used to be. Chris Maize and, BBC News. -- Chris
:10:11. > :10:11.Mason. Our Assistant Political Editor
:10:12. > :10:18.Norman Smith is in Westminster. Does putting Brexit at the heart of
:10:19. > :10:22.the manifesto put it in the centre in a positive way? This could prove
:10:23. > :10:27.something of a sideshow. Despite the fact it is ram packed with policies.
:10:28. > :10:31.Many of them very expensive policies, like ending the benefits
:10:32. > :10:35.freeze, something Jeremy Corbyn shied away from at his manifesto
:10:36. > :10:41.launch yesterday. They are suggesting ending the public sector
:10:42. > :10:46.pay cap and the triple guarantee on pensions, ?7 billion for schools and
:10:47. > :10:52.?7 billion for the NHS. And making TV leader election debates
:10:53. > :10:55.mandatory, and Southern Rail into temporary public ownership, and
:10:56. > :11:01.legalising cannabis and taxing it. But the Brexit manifesto issue has
:11:02. > :11:04.dominated everything else. It made their campaign almost a one issue
:11:05. > :11:08.campaign. The demand for a referendum on the deal is done by
:11:09. > :11:14.Theresa May. The trouble is, selling the message has proved a lot harder
:11:15. > :11:17.than they thought. Down in the heartlands, the south-west, they
:11:18. > :11:21.voted for Brexit. So they are not very receptive to that message.
:11:22. > :11:26.In the urban metropolitan Labour seats, they prove more resistant to
:11:27. > :11:29.switching to the Liberal Democrats, in part one suspects, because Tim
:11:30. > :11:34.Farron himself hasn't managed to cut through with those kinds of voters.
:11:35. > :11:37.This might be a manifesto packed full of ideas and promises,
:11:38. > :11:41.pledges... But the Lib Dems have a long way to go if they are to turn
:11:42. > :11:42.around their prospects in the election campaign. Norman, thank
:11:43. > :11:44.you. The head of one of Labour's biggest
:11:45. > :11:48.union backers has said the party is on course to lose
:11:49. > :11:50.the general election. Len McCluskey of Unite claimed it
:11:51. > :11:52.would be a successful campaign He was quoted in an interview
:11:53. > :11:57.for Politico - but this morning The interview I did with Politico
:11:58. > :12:05.was a conversational piece, against the backdrop
:12:06. > :12:06.of if the opinion polls are to be believed, that
:12:07. > :12:13.I made those comments. Since then, Labour launched
:12:14. > :12:15.their manifesto and it is fantastic. A manifesto for workers
:12:16. > :12:17.and ordinary working people. A manifesto that will change
:12:18. > :12:20.Britain for the good. And the response that we have
:12:21. > :12:23.had from Unite members That's why I was checking our polls
:12:24. > :12:31.that we do, constant rolling polls, and the response has been
:12:32. > :12:33.like something we've So I am now full of optimism -
:12:34. > :12:41.if I was having that interview today, I would not be
:12:42. > :12:43.making those comments. Our political correspondent
:12:44. > :12:51.Alex Forsyth is with the Labour This is important, because Len
:12:52. > :12:57.McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn are very close and he is a huge financial
:12:58. > :13:01.backer through Unite? Yes, and he seems to have had a significant
:13:02. > :13:05.change of heart in a short space of time. The BBC understands only
:13:06. > :13:08.yesterday Len McCluskey made those original comments when he
:13:09. > :13:11.effectively said he did not think Labour could win this election and
:13:12. > :13:16.we understand he made them after he had seen the party's manifesto. This
:13:17. > :13:23.morning, he seems to suggest that is not the case, and as you heard
:13:24. > :13:25.there, he is more optimistic about Labour's prospects. Shadow
:13:26. > :13:29.Chancellor John McDonnell was here not long ago, giving a speech to
:13:30. > :13:32.crowds of activists and members of the public in Lincoln. He was asked
:13:33. > :13:36.on those comments from Len McCluskey and seemed to play them down
:13:37. > :13:39.somewhat, seizing on then McCluskey's remarks today that he
:13:40. > :13:44.was more optimistic and while it is difficult for Labour's party, they
:13:45. > :13:48.are confident they can turn things around. John McDonnell was
:13:49. > :13:50.referencing policies unveiled in the manifesto yesterday, that they are
:13:51. > :13:56.convinced they will prove popular with the public. Those policies have
:13:57. > :13:59.come under attack this morning from the Conservatives who say they are
:14:00. > :14:03.and costed and will leave a multi-billion pound hole in the
:14:04. > :14:07.budget. Again, John McDonnell was asked on that point and said it was
:14:08. > :14:10.nonsense. He went on to challenge Philip Hammond to a television
:14:11. > :14:12.debate, saying he was happy to pick over those figures any time. Alex,
:14:13. > :14:15.thank you. More pressure on Donald Trump -
:14:16. > :14:19.as he's accused of asking the head of the FBI to drop an inquiry
:14:20. > :14:22.into his former security Oh, look, I don't care
:14:23. > :14:29.if it only cost 2p! Those curlers could
:14:30. > :14:30.fetch more than that - as Hilda Ogden's personal effects
:14:31. > :14:33.head from Coronation Street Andy Murray says he can still do
:14:34. > :14:40.well at the French Open later this month, despite his poor form
:14:41. > :14:42.since returning from UK unemployment is down again -
:14:43. > :14:59.falling to its lowest Latest figures from the Office
:15:00. > :15:04.for National Statistics show the number of people unemployed fell
:15:05. > :15:09.by 53,000 to 1.54 million in the three months
:15:10. > :15:12.to March - a rate of 4.6%. But are the figures
:15:13. > :15:14.as good as they seem? Our Economics correspondent
:15:15. > :15:25.Andrew Verity reports. You would need to be well into your
:15:26. > :15:29.40s to remember a time when the unemployment rate was this low. 1.54
:15:30. > :15:36.million, the number of unemployed people is just 4.6% of working
:15:37. > :15:39.population that keeps swelling to record numbers. Economists have been
:15:40. > :15:43.convinced for years that if unemployment got low enough then pay
:15:44. > :15:48.rises would start to take off. Especially if prices were rising
:15:49. > :15:53.more quickly. But we keep on getting fresh lows in the unemployment rates
:15:54. > :15:57.and that keeps on not happening. Donna Speiser lives in Charlton in
:15:58. > :16:00.south-east London. She earns just enough as a teaching assistant not
:16:01. > :16:10.to receive benefits. Her pay was frozen for four years and in the
:16:11. > :16:13.last two years it has gone up by just 1% per year. Half offer wage
:16:14. > :16:15.goes on rent. I struggle to eat sometimes, we have no social life.
:16:16. > :16:19.Because no money to go out. And it is a choice of heating and eating.
:16:20. > :16:23.So one winter it was sitting there with blankets and hot water bottles,
:16:24. > :16:30.jackets, jumpers and a very Bluenose. And a choice of food. The
:16:31. > :16:33.economy has exceeded almost all forecasts in generating jobs.
:16:34. > :16:39.Unemployment dropped by 53,000 over the past three months to the ad of
:16:40. > :16:44.March, the of -- the average pay rise was 2.1%. And the average
:16:45. > :16:48.amount that we produced per hour, productivity, has fallen by 1.5%.
:16:49. > :16:51.Before the financial crisis it was taken for granted that most
:16:52. > :16:57.employers could afford inflation beating pay rises. As each worker
:16:58. > :17:00.would produce a bit more each year as companies invested in new
:17:01. > :17:05.technology and training. But since the crisis those improvements in
:17:06. > :17:08.productivity have been much lower. It is a bit of a puzzle the fact
:17:09. > :17:12.that unemployment is not driving wages to the extent we might expect.
:17:13. > :17:16.But there are a couple of headwinds on the wages that might be driving
:17:17. > :17:20.some of that. One is fast rising inflation which is eating into pay
:17:21. > :17:24.packet in the second is productivity, output, that is the
:17:25. > :17:29.long-term driver of play and that has been stagnant for almost nine
:17:30. > :17:32.years. The economy has beaten expectations for generating jobs but
:17:33. > :17:36.it has fallen short of expectations for generating rail pay rises.
:17:37. > :17:38.Whatever government is in power they will be hard-pressed to change that.
:17:39. > :17:42.Andy Verity, BBC News. The former American soldier
:17:43. > :17:44.Chelsea Manning, who passed hundreds of thousands of confidential
:17:45. > :17:46.diplomatic documents to Wikileaks, has been released
:17:47. > :17:51.from a military prison in Kansas. The 29 year old was
:17:52. > :17:52.expected to remain in jail until 2045 -
:17:53. > :17:55.but President Obama commuted her sentence just before leaving
:17:56. > :17:59.the White House in January. Rajini Vaidyanathan is outside
:18:00. > :18:10.the prison in Kansas. Was there much fanfare as she left
:18:11. > :18:14.this morning? Chelsea Manning left this prison in the early hours of
:18:15. > :18:20.the morning to very little fanfare. After her release she issued a
:18:21. > :18:24.statement simply thanking her supporters around the world and
:18:25. > :18:29.saying that she appreciated their support. Just as a reminder it was
:18:30. > :18:31.while Chelsea Manning was still living as a man Bradley Manning
:18:32. > :18:37.Thatcher was convicted of one of the largest leaks in US history. While
:18:38. > :18:43.she was a low ranking US Army Private she shared some 750,000
:18:44. > :18:47.classified documents including State Department diplomatic cables which
:18:48. > :18:49.revealed the private thoughts of US officials and caused huge
:18:50. > :18:52.embarrassment to the US Government at the time. It was after she was
:18:53. > :19:33.sentenced that she announced that she wanted
:19:34. > :19:35.to live life as a woman, Chelsea Manning. While she was in prison she
:19:36. > :19:38.fought for gender reassignment surgery. Although she was given a
:19:39. > :19:40.dishonourable discharge from the US Army at the time of her sentencing,
:19:41. > :19:43.she will actually remain on active duty without pay. That is because
:19:44. > :19:45.her lawyers have told us she will be appealing her conviction and until
:19:46. > :19:49.the outcome is now she will remain on the US army books. As for what
:19:50. > :19:52.she will those close to her said she will not be planning to live life in
:19:53. > :19:55.the private she plans in fact to make herself a trans
:19:56. > :19:57.It's a sport worth more than three billion pounds
:19:58. > :19:59.to the British economy and watched live by six million
:20:00. > :20:03.But if women choose horse racing as a career,
:20:04. > :20:07.The first ever survey into gender in racing suggests that they are.
:20:08. > :20:09.Despite more than ever coming into racing -
:20:10. > :20:11.it found women are under-represented in the most prominent areas
:20:12. > :20:13.of the sport, with some examples of 'entrenched
:20:14. > :20:16.Our Sports correspondent Joe Wilson has this report.
:20:17. > :20:23.And in this yard in Newmarket, Amy Murphy is the boss.
:20:24. > :20:26.Paid by owners to train their horses to be winners, she's just 24.
:20:27. > :20:30.The fact that she's a woman, well, that's rare too.
:20:31. > :20:32.You have to get the support and sometimes I think probably
:20:33. > :20:34.as a woman you're having to prove yourself before people
:20:35. > :20:38.Whereas if you're a man, they might support you from day one.
:20:39. > :20:41.But, you know, we've had great support and great loyalty
:20:42. > :20:45.But whether I would have had that from day one had we not had
:20:46. > :20:47.the results we've had already, I'm not sure.
:20:48. > :20:50.Based on hundreds of anonymous responses, a new survey found that
:20:51. > :20:52.women from across the industry report being patronised,
:20:53. > :20:54.not being taken seriously, or being denied opportunities
:20:55. > :21:03.Women in senior positions still stand out.
:21:04. > :21:10.There are some 75 trainers here in Newmarket are known, yet
:21:11. > :21:15.How else could you make a high-profile name
:21:16. > :21:19.Well, inevitably, so much of the attention will
:21:20. > :21:28.Overall just 6% of horses in races are ridden by women.
:21:29. > :21:34.A new competition shown here just for women jockeys began last week.
:21:35. > :21:43.But fundamentally, are women trusted to do the job
:21:44. > :21:50.Well, John Berry is a Newmarket trainer who says he ignores gender.
:21:51. > :21:54.He knows not everyone feels that way.
:21:55. > :21:57.The athlete is the horse and all the jobs around,
:21:58. > :22:01.no one gender is better than doing it than the other.
:22:02. > :22:04.And I mean that including jockey as well.
:22:05. > :22:06.When it comes to the daily care of horses, more women
:22:07. > :22:12.than men are joining racing, working in the stable yards.
:22:13. > :22:19.Taking it through the career, if you look at who's
:22:20. > :22:22.on the senior boards, of organisations in racing,
:22:23. > :22:26.the average 16% and we have several boards in the sport that do not have
:22:27. > :22:29.So we're seeing a stagnation of career progression.
:22:30. > :22:31.British racing's governing body, the BHA, recently restructured
:22:32. > :22:41.its Board of Directors to include more women.
:22:42. > :22:43.Chief executive Nick Russ said the gender survey is a stark
:22:44. > :22:45.reminder that horse racing needs to do more.
:22:46. > :22:49.Meanwhile Amy Murphy does believe that racing's culture is changing.
:22:50. > :22:51.And if she is leading, there is someone to follow.
:22:52. > :22:58.Lloyds Bank, which was bailed out by the taxpayer at the height
:22:59. > :23:00.of the financial crisis, has returned to full
:23:01. > :23:03.It was confirmed to the Stock Exchange this morning
:23:04. > :23:05.that the government has sold its last remaining
:23:06. > :23:08.And, what's more, the bank says taxpayers made
:23:09. > :23:12.Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz has the details.
:23:13. > :23:14.The end of an era for British banking.
:23:15. > :23:17.Some of the biggest names go cap in hand to the government...
:23:18. > :23:24.A spectacular casualty of the financial crisis in 2008.
:23:25. > :23:28.We must in an uncertain and unstable world be the rock of stability...
:23:29. > :23:30.It had its own bad loans, then it took
:23:31. > :23:34.over Halifax Bank of Scotland or HBOS, which was much worse affected.
:23:35. > :23:37.Banks were bailed out by the taxpayer.
:23:38. > :23:42.Now Lloyds is back in the black and out on its own.
:23:43. > :23:43.The government sold the last shares in
:23:44. > :23:45.Lloyds Banking Group and it is a moment
:23:46. > :23:47.of huge pride for all the
:23:48. > :23:54.colleagues at Lloyds Bank, for customers.
:23:55. > :23:59.The government pumped in more than ?20 billion, taking a 43%
:24:00. > :24:02.The proceeds of selling Lloyds shares, plus other pay-outs,
:24:03. > :24:05.have raised more than that, leaving a return of nearly 900 million.
:24:06. > :24:09.Complaints stacking up about PPI mis-selling
:24:10. > :24:10.resulted in billions in
:24:11. > :24:15.And the original shareholders in Lloyds
:24:16. > :24:22.From a share price of over ?3, to around 70p today,
:24:23. > :24:28.And probably looking at a pretty permanent loss of
:24:29. > :24:38.Lloyds has been pared down, losing hundreds of branches rebranded
:24:39. > :24:43.Today has turned into something of a Lloyds
:24:44. > :24:50.But that ignores what has been a long drawn-out disaster.
:24:51. > :24:53.That a bank that should have been part of the
:24:54. > :24:57.crisis turned into part of the problem, for nine years.
:24:58. > :25:02.# We've come a long, long way together...
:25:03. > :25:05.Lloyds' message is that it's reliable again.
:25:06. > :25:08.But it will be forever marked by its fall, and the difficult ride
:25:09. > :25:27.and advocate for trans gender to pay compensation to a former employee
:25:28. > :25:30.sexually abused by Sheffield City Council has had to pay compensation
:25:31. > :25:33.to a former employee sexually abused being assaulted by Roger Dodds in
:25:34. > :25:36.the early 1980s. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in February.
:25:37. > :25:38.The Home Secretary has been criticised for policing cuts
:25:39. > :25:42.Speaking to the Police Federation, Amber Rudd said that crime has
:25:43. > :25:44.fallen and said the deficit needs to be reduced.
:25:45. > :25:46.She attacked senior Labour figures - accusing them
:25:47. > :25:56.Well the number of candidates standing for UKIP in this
:25:57. > :26:01.In 2015 the party fielded a candidate in just about every seat -
:26:02. > :26:05.but this year it's appealing to its supporters in areas
:26:06. > :26:08.where there's no UKIP candidate to instead vote for the most
:26:09. > :26:12.In some parts of the country the consequences could be significant -
:26:13. > :26:14.the BBC's political correspondent in the East, Andrew
:26:15. > :26:19.North Norfolk is famous for its stunning coastline,
:26:20. > :26:25.It's not used to being in the front line of an election campaign.
:26:26. > :26:30.But this year the race could be very close.
:26:31. > :26:32.At the last election, the Liberal Democrats' Norman Lamb
:26:33. > :26:42.But this year its local candidate has decided not to stand.
:26:43. > :26:46.Instead, he is actively campaigning for the Conservatives.
:26:47. > :26:50.As Norman Lamb is very much a pro-European,
:26:51. > :26:53.we felt the only way to pursue the aims of Ukip was to pull out
:26:54. > :27:06.The people that voted Ukip in 2015, I don't think they will
:27:07. > :27:11.all naturally gravitate to the Conservatives.
:27:12. > :27:14.I think many of them who have supported Norman
:27:15. > :27:16.and the Liberal Democrats in the past, we'll be working
:27:17. > :27:20.The seat of Peterborough is another place where Ukip
:27:21. > :27:23.With a majority of less than 2000, the Conservatives' Stuart Jackson
:27:24. > :27:33.But Ukip polled 7500 votes last time.
:27:34. > :27:36.And now they're standing aside to try to get the pro-Brexit
:27:37. > :27:43.I guess it will be helpful, because, you know, a lot of those Ukip voters
:27:44. > :27:46.And I think now people realise there's not much
:27:47. > :27:51.Ukip used to do well in elections in the east of England.
:27:52. > :27:54.But in this month's local elections, it lost all its seats.
:27:55. > :27:56.If they believe in something they should stand.
:27:57. > :27:58.I think it is a bit cynical, to be honest.
:27:59. > :28:01.Why would you tell someone to vote for a different team?
:28:02. > :28:04.Let's say you are part of football, you're Arsenal, you're going to tell
:28:05. > :28:06.all your Arsenal supporters to now support Manchester.
:28:07. > :28:11.Labour's candidate in Peterborough, Fiona Onasanya, launched her
:28:12. > :28:17.The party is hoping Ukip voters will go back to them.
:28:18. > :28:20.People who voted Ukip to leave the European Union,
:28:21. > :28:23.which has happened, but they also voted Ukip because they were
:28:24. > :28:24.concerned about housing, affordable housing, public
:28:25. > :28:30.And those are the things that Labour are now promising to deliver on.
:28:31. > :28:34.Ukip knows it will struggle to get its own MPs elected this year.
:28:35. > :28:37.But in deliberately deciding where not to stand, it
:28:38. > :28:42.could still have a big impact on this election.
:28:43. > :28:46.And you can see a full list of candidates in
:28:47. > :28:53.And a full list of candidates in Peterborough here.
:28:54. > :28:56.She was one of television's best loved characters - Hilda Ogden -
:28:57. > :28:59.famous for her sharp tongue, her trademark headscarf,
:29:00. > :29:05.Now some of those iconic items are going under the hammer.
:29:06. > :29:08.They're being sold at auction by the family of Jean Alexander,
:29:09. > :29:15.the actress who played her for more than two decades.
:29:16. > :29:19.The auction is taking place in her hometown of Southport.
:29:20. > :29:22.Our Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson is there.
:29:23. > :29:25.Oh, look, I don't care if it only cost 2p!
:29:26. > :29:27.It is one of the most famous outfits in TV history.
:29:28. > :29:30.The curlers, the hairnet, and the pinny of Hilda Ogden.
:29:31. > :29:32.And it's going under the hammer this afternoon.
:29:33. > :29:34.You can get rid of it, and yourself and all!
:29:35. > :29:36.Jean Alexander played Coronation Street's much loved
:29:37. > :29:41.She died last October at the age of 90 and today her nieces
:29:42. > :29:55.When we came to tidy up her things, sadly after she died,
:29:56. > :29:57.I came across a parcel in a wardrobe with her handwriting
:29:58. > :30:01.And when we looked into it further it turned out that this
:30:02. > :30:04.was the first pinny and headscarf and curlers she had used
:30:05. > :30:07.in the show that she had taken with her when she started
:30:08. > :30:14.There has already been online interest from Italy and the US,
:30:15. > :30:16.but many have turned up to bid in person.
:30:17. > :30:19.Everybody loved Hilda Ogden, didn't they?
:30:20. > :30:22.You know, everyone had an aunty or a nan or somebody like that.
:30:23. > :30:27.And she just reminded you of a typical Northern lady.
:30:28. > :30:30.I always put my own curlers in myself, so that to me just
:30:31. > :30:34.But anything, anything that she has touched, that was hers.
:30:35. > :30:45.We had an estimate on it of 1000 to 2000 to begin with and then
:30:46. > :30:48.somebody walked in about ten minutes ago and said they thought
:30:49. > :30:52.One item not for sale today, her famous flying ducks.
:30:53. > :30:55.They were owned by Coronation Street, but this is an auction
:30:56. > :31:02.absolutely packed with Hilda history.
:31:03. > :31:16.Yesterday was interesting as it was the warmest day of the year so far,
:31:17. > :31:23.with the top temperature of 26 degrees. Also the warmest day in
:31:24. > :31:29.Scotland at 22 degrees. This morning we had muddy conditions in the
:31:30. > :31:33.south-east. And we have all this cloud, a dividing line between the
:31:34. > :31:39.warm and muggy air and something good deal of pressure towards South
:31:40. > :31:46.and mass -- and West. That fresh air is going to win out over the next
:31:47. > :31:53.few days, moving that rain out of the way. The rain has been across
:31:54. > :31:56.much of England and Wales this morning, making it pretty
:31:57. > :32:05.unpleasant. Much brighter further north. Some lovely sunshine. And 15
:32:06. > :32:09.or 16 degrees. The far north of England doing quite well and
:32:10. > :32:17.Cornwall should be drying up but all this rain is really quite heavy
:32:18. > :32:23.underneath that central sway. And quite chilly underneath that. But
:32:24. > :32:26.still quite warm and muggy in the south-east. As the rain moves
:32:27. > :32:31.through this evening it could turn quite heavy with some thunder. But
:32:32. > :32:35.it is on the way out. And that process continues into the small
:32:36. > :32:41.hours of the morning. It leaves behind a fair amount of cloud in the
:32:42. > :32:47.south-east. And else where some places into single figures. So quite
:32:48. > :32:52.a fresh start first thing and then a lot of sunshine out there. But cloud
:32:53. > :32:58.amount increasing and some showers developing, some of those could be
:32:59. > :33:03.heavy. But also some good spells of sunshine. Temperature is coming down
:33:04. > :33:11.a little bit but still pleasant enough. On Friday we have low
:33:12. > :33:19.pressure to the north-west and the south-east. Any rain should not last
:33:20. > :33:22.for too long. Some rain in the far north and west but in between
:33:23. > :33:30.perhaps the odd shower but a lot of bright weather. Then heading into
:33:31. > :33:34.the weekend, some spells in sunshine and also some showers which could
:33:35. > :33:36.again be heavy. And the coming few nights could be a bit chilly.
:33:37. > :33:38.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:33:39. > :33:41.More pressure on Donald Trump - as he's accused of asking the head
:33:42. > :33:45.of the FBI to drop an inquiry into his security chief's
:33:46. > :33:48.That's all from the BBC News at One - so it's goodbye from me -