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