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The biggest rise in rail

fares for five years,

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as average prices go up 3.4%.

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As commuters get back

to work after the holidays,

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campaigners say some people

are being priced off the railways.

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It is not value for money,

it is as simple as that.

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What you're paying for for

the rail fares does not

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represent what you're

actually getting.

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We'll hear more from

commuters shortly.

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Also this lunchtime...

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Iran's Supreme leader blames foreign

enemies for stirring the protests

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in his country in his first comments

since the demonstrations began.

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No more than two low-calorie snacks

a day - parents are urged to reduce

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the amount of sugar that

young children consume.

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13 monkeys have died in a fire that

swept through an enclosure

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at Woburn Safari Park in the early

hours of the morning.

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The darts player who only

turned professional

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at the start of last year -

Rob Cross thrashes the 16-time

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champion to win the world

championship title.

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And coming up in the sport,

Andy Murray reveals he's been left

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demoralised trying to come back

from a long-term hip injury

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and is considering surgery.

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Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

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Rail passengers, commuting

on the first working day of 2018,

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have been hit with the largest fare

rise in five years.

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Average ticket prices

across the country went up

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by 3.4% this morning,

prompting protests outside around

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40 railway stations.

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Campaigners warn the rise is pricing

ordinary people off the railways,

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but the Rail Delivery Group,

which represents train operators,

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says higher fares will lead

to better services.

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Our transport correspondent,

Richard Westcott, is outside

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London King's Cross station.

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It is becoming as predictable as the

drizzle at Christmas, the annual

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fare rise. This is the biggest one

since 2013. It has taken lots more

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people into the £5,000 club, £5,000

a year just to get to work. One of

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the busiest stations in the country

is King's Cross behind me, a lot of

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the £5,000 people come into here. I

took a journey in with some of them

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this morning.

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Back to work after the holidays.

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Rail commuters are shelling out

for yet another fare rise.

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This time it is the biggest

increase for five years.

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This is a busy commuter line,

people coming in from Cambridgeshire

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and Hertfordshire into London.

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Plenty of people on this train

are just a few pounds shy

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of the £5,000 club -

£5,000 for an annual season ticket.

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That's gone up by about £600

in the last five years.

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Price rises have been relentless.

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Other countries in Europe do not pay

anywhere near as much as we do

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and their services tend to be better

than ours, so I don't know

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why we have to pay such

a lot of money for such

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a poor service, really.

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On the way home, it's

normally a massive crowd

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of people at King's Cross,

all trying to get on the train

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at the same time.

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If I am not more than five minutes

early for the train,

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I am definitely not getting

a seat home.

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You do not get the choice, really.

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We've got to make the commute

from Hertfordshire into London,

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so when it is so expensive

and there are cancellations,

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especially during winter...

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Average fares across Britain go

up by 3.4% this year.

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Season tickets, which are regulated

by the Government, go up by 3.6%.

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It will add just shy of £150

to the price of a season ticket

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for people coming into London

on the strike-riddled line

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from Hove in East Sussex.

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Nearly £110 to a yearly ticket

from Liverpool to Manchester.

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And commuters going to Birmingham

from Gloucester must find

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£140 more this year.

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This is where a lot

of the money is going.

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London Bridge has just had

a £1 billion makeover.

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And there is a whole new line coming

under London - Crossrail.

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The Government says it is investing

record amounts to improve

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the trains, but it is also changing

who foots the bill.

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A smaller proportion now comes

from the taxpayer which means more

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has to come from ticket sales.

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For every £1 a passenger

pays in fares, 97p goes

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directly into running

and improving the railway.

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But also, with more people

using the railway, that means

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we have more money to invest

and enables investment and the sort

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of improvement we see here as well.

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But the biggest survey suggests

fewer than half of passengers think

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they are getting value for money

and the latest figures show

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season-ticket journeys have

actually started going down.

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Passengers are already putting

in over £9 billion a year

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into the railways through the fare

box, it's a lot of money,

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and the industry and government

should work much harder to get

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better value for money out of that,

so that one year, let's have a fares

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freeze for Christmas,

that would be a really good present.

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If commuters do put that

on their Christmas list this year,

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they are likely to be disappointed.

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I said it in the piece, successive

governments, not just this one, have

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been changing who pays for the

railways, and much bigger proportion

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now comes from ticket sales and the

Government would argue everyone who

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does not use a train, they are

paying a little bit less through

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taxation. Unfortunately, if you do

get the train, you have no choice,

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it means the fare rises are likely

to come for several years yet.

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Richard, thank you. Richard

Westcott.

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Iran's supreme leader has accused

the country's enemies of stirring

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days of protests that have claimed

at least 22 lives.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

was speaking for the first time

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since demonstrations began last

Thursday.

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State media says nine people,

including a child, died overnight

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in clashes between demonstrators

and security forces,

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as authorities struggle to contain

the biggest challenge

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to the country's clerical

leadership since 2009.

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This report by our

correspondent, Richard Galpin.

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The protests and the authorities'

response to them are becoming

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increasingly violent -

buildings being burnt

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and shots fired.

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Last night, at least nine people

killed, including some members

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of the security forces.

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The focus of people's anger is this

man, the country's supreme leader,

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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The spark for the protests -

rising food prices and unemployment

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running at 60% in some areas.

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People are actually fed up

with political corruption.

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People are fed up with

economic corruption.

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And they believe that the only way

to pave the way for a meaningful

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change, a meaningful economic

change, is through radical

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political reform.

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One response of the authorities

has been to hold

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big counterdemonstrations like this

in many parts of the country.

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But the government's strategy

also includes restricting

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access to the internet and placing

the blame for what's

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happening on its enemies abroad.

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Today, Iran's supreme leader,

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke

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for the first time about the crisis

since it began last week.

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TRANSLATION:

Following recent

events, the enemies have united

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and are using all their means -

money, weapons, policies

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and security services -

to create problems

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for the Islamic Republic.

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The statement is a clear sign

that this widespread unrest

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is rattling the clerics,

who have ruled the

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country for decades.

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This morning, the British Foreign

Secretary, Boris Johnson, called

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for meaningful debate

about what he said were legitimate

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and important issues

the protesters were raising.

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And he said the government

was looking to the Iranian

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authorities to permit this.

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But with the protests

and violence continuing,

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that seems unlikely.

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Already more than 400 people have

been arrested.

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Richard Galpin, BBC News.

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Parents are being urged

to significantly lower the amount

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of sugar their children

consume in snacks.

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Public Health England recommends

children should consume a maximum

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of two low-calorie snacks a day.

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The advice is being given after it's

emerged primary school children

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are consuming three times more sugar

than the recommended limit,

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as our health correspondent,

James Gallagher, reports.

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Half the sugar we eat and drink each

year comes from snacks and sugary

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drinks.

Kids get through a mountain

of sugary snacks each year, Kate,

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ice cream, pop, juice, biscuits,

sweets, chocolate -- cake. Children

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need three times more sugar than

official advice, just over half of

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it comes from snacking between

meals. It is one reason more than a

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quarter of children have rotten

teeth by the time they are five.

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This Public Health England campaign

is warning snacking has got out of

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hand and it is increasing the risk

of type 2 diabetes, heart disease

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and cancer.

We are very concerned

about snacking. Children have

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unhealthy diets, they are eating too

many calories, they are eating too

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much sugar and snacking is part of

the problem.

We are encouraging

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parents to be aware of snacking and

try to cut back and replace

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unhealthy snacks with better snacks.

How do parents feel about snacking?

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Kids like sweets, and other sugary

stuff you get from shops and

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McDonald's, but it is for the

parents to keep an eye on them and

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their intake.

To cut down on sugar,

Public Health England is advising

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parents to limit snacks to just 100

calories and hand them out no more

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than twice a day but the campaign

has drawn criticism.

Parents might

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find this quite insulting to their

own intelligence because it is

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fairly common sense children having

too many snacks, too many sugary

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things, they might have health

complications for them down the

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line, particularly if they do not

lead an active lifestyle.

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But they do not need a quango

telling them.

The advice is fruit

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and veg are best, but even more

live, low in sugar fromage frais and

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crumpets, they are better than

anything in the confectionery aisle.

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13 monkeys have been killed

in a fire at Woburn Safari

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Park in Bedfordshire.

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The blaze broke out in the early

hours of this morning.

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Our correspondent,

Chi Chi Izundu, is there.

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What more are they saying?

The blaze

was first spotted by security staff

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at Woburn Safari the part at 2:37am

this morning -- Woburn Safari Park.

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Due to the intensity of the heat,

the roof of the monkey house had

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collapsed by the time the Fire

Service got there. All 13 monkeys

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did not survive. They are normally

kept indoors overnight in winter

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because of the cold weather. Staff

here are now monitoring and checking

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over other animals in the jungle

drive-through enclosure to make sure

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they have not been affected. By the

fire or any of the smoke. So far

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early signs indicate they have not

been affected. An investigation is

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being conducted to try to establish

exactly what started the blaze and

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so far only findings have suggested

it was not started maliciously. --

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early findings. That part of the

park will remain closed, as you can

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imagine. The rest of the park

remains open. It comes just ten days

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after a fire ripped through London

Zoo killing an aardvark and four

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meerkats. Thank you.

Chi Chi Izundu

there.

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Air accident investigators

in Australia hope to retrieve

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the wreckage of a seaplane that

crashed on New Year's Eve

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by the end of this week.

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All six people on board were killed

- the pilot and a British family

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who were on holiday,

including the businessman,

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Richard Cousins, the chief executive

of the catering giant, Compass.

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The accident happened

just north of Sydney

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from where our correspondent,

Phil Mercer, has sent this report.

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The wreckage of the seaplane lies

in more than 40 feet of water

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on a river bed north of Sydney.

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Air crash investigators

are searching for

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clues to explain why it crashed,

killing all six people onboard.

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What has emerged, however,

is that this is not the first plane

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of its type to be involved

in a fatal accident.

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Four British holiday-makers died

when a similar seaplane,

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a De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver,

went down in Canada in 2015.

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Accounts from witnesses will also

help Australian authorities

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to establish why a routine

sightseeing flight

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ended in disaster.

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Will McGovern says he saw his

friends dive into the water

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to try to help those trapped

in the plane.

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I saw three of my mates dead

set risk their lives.

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They could have died.

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This plane was moving fast.

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It was going down.

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It was pretty hard

because of the oil,

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but I could see windows,

the windows, we just couldn't dive

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down deep enough, really,

to be able to see more.

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At least they will know

that there were people there trying

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to help and I'm sorry.

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The air crash investigation team

is made up of former pilots,

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aeronautical engineers,

and data recovery experts.

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It is their task to piece

together the events that led

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to the tragedy at Jerusalem Bay

to the north of Sydney.

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The crucial piece of

evidence, of course,

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is the wreckage of the seaplane.

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It still lies at the bottom

of the Hawkesbury River.

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The authorities hope

to bring it to the surface

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by the end of the week.

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After it's recovered,

the single-engine aircraft will be

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taken to Canberra for examination.

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We will be looking at a number

of areas, particularly around

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the aircraft's components.

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We will be removing those

and examining them.

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We will also be looking

at any recorder data that

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might be on the aircraft,

so that would involve both

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avionics or instruments

attached to the aeroplane.

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Aviation experts have speculated

that the seaplane may have stalled

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before crashing because of engine

failure, an unexpected gust of wind

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or a mistake by the pilot.

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A preliminary report

from the Australian Transport Safety

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Bureau is expected within a month,

but a more comprehensive

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review of the disaster

could take a lot longer.

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Phil Mercer, BBC News, Sydney.

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Our top story this lunchtime...

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The biggest rise in train

fares for five years,

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as average prices go up 3.4%.

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Campaigners say some people

are being priced off the railways.

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And still to come...

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There's town in Scotland where you

can hire a book shop. Coming up in

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sport - Phil Taylor tips Rob Cross

for a big future in the sport after

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his shock defeat in the World

Championships final.

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For decades, China has been

importing plastic waste

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from other countries,

including Britain, for recycling.

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But now, it has banned the trade -

citing environmental worries.

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It means thousands

of tonnes of plastic -

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separated and put into recycling

bins by households here in the UK -

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now needs to find a new destination,

which is putting huge pressure

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on the British recycling industry.

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Some experts believe local

authorities may reduce the number

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of collections because of the costs.

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Our correspondent Dan Johnson

is at a recycling plant

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in Southwark in south London.

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Yes, this is the noisy, dirty

reality of recycling our rubbish.

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But the hidden story has been the

thousands of tonnes of waste that we

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have been quietly shipping to China

for decades. And now that is going

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to stop. We have to work out now

what we're going to do with our

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rubbish before it all starts piling

up. It could be a huge problem.

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All that wrapping paper,

so much Christmas waste.

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It is the season

to throw plenty away.

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And this is the kind

of place it goes - sorted,

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sifted, separated so

it can be recycled.

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This

is the same process

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on the other side of the world.

is the same process

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For decades, China's been

a global

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dustbin, taking huge

quantities of

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taking huge quantities

of our rubbish and recycling it.

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It's become a massive,

complicated business, and now,

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China has said no more.

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It's got enough waste

of its own to deal with,

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so now we have to work out

what we're going to do

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with our rubbish.

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If you take packaging, for example,

we're collecting about 1.2 million

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tonnes of plastic packaging every

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year, put in the recycling bins.

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But we've relied on 65% of that

tonnage being exported

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to overseas markets -

the vast majority has

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been going to China.

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This is the sort of stuff that might

previously have been sent to China -

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different plastic bottles

of different kinds that might be

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recycled in different ways.

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And if you look at the tomato

ketchup bottle, there's

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still some sauce in there.

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Now, that's the kind of thing China

is now saying it will not take,

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it will not deal with.

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So, we've got to work

out what to do with it,

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and this company is already

recycling its waste here.

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With so much of our plastic

being shipped to China,

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there's still a lot more

to deal with.

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If we can't send recyclables

to China, there are alternatives

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like India, Indonesia,

Malaysia...

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There will be other options,

such as sending certain rubbish

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to energy from waste plants

if there is literally

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nothing else to do with it.

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But in the longer term,

we need to be looking

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to clean up our waste.

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Because quite frankly,

we need to make better

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use of it ourselves -

if we have a good quality recycler,

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we can do more with it.

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The government says it will look

for ways to recycle more here,

0:19:150:19:18

and there are calls for better

design, which considers what happens

0:19:180:19:22

to products after their useful life,

and for more products to be reused

0:19:220:19:25

so we don't produce as much

rubbish in the first place.

0:19:250:19:32

You can see how the Boreas this

process is, but this is what has to

0:19:320:19:36

be done to ensure that this waste

doesn't have to be shipped abroad.

0:19:360:19:40

And if we are not going to centred

abroad, we need to consider, are we

0:19:400:19:45

going to go for more landfill? Not

popular. More rubbish and certainly

0:19:450:19:49

not popular. Filled more facilities

like this? Not cheap. There are some

0:19:490:19:54

big questions to answer about how we

deal with our rubbish.

0:19:540:20:01

South Korea has offered

to hold high-level talks

0:20:010:20:04

with the North next week -

the first for more than two years.

0:20:040:20:07

The offer follows North Korean

Leader Kim Jong Un's New Year

0:20:070:20:10

address, in which he announced

the possibility of sending a team

0:20:100:20:13

to the Winter Olympics, which take

place in South Korea next month.

0:20:130:20:17

Sophie Long reports

from South Korea's capital, Seoul.

0:20:170:20:26

As preparations for the winter

Olympics move into the final month,

0:20:260:20:29

excitement in South Korea

has been mounting.

0:20:290:20:30

But there's always been

a question mark over

0:20:300:20:32

whether North Korea would attend.

0:20:320:20:33

On New Year's Day, Kim Jong-un said

he was considering sending

0:20:330:20:36

a delegation, and now,

the South Korean

0:20:360:20:38

government's response...

0:20:380:20:39

TRANSLATION: The government proposes

to hold high-level talks

0:20:390:20:42

with North Korea on 9th January

at the Peace House in the truce

0:20:420:20:45

village of Panmunjom,

to discuss North Korea's

0:20:450:20:48

participation in the

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics,

0:20:480:20:52

as the Winter Olympics

are a month away.

0:20:520:20:59

Pyongyang hasn't yet

responded to that proposal,

0:20:590:21:01

but people are hopeful that it will,

and that the meeting

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WILL take place.

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We would like to maximise the

opportunity and as soon as possible.

0:21:090:21:15

So, when South Korea made this

offer of a high-level

0:21:150:21:19

meeting with North Korea,

North Korea...very quickly

0:21:190:21:23

and we would like to see

a high-level meeting

0:21:230:21:25

happening very soon.

0:21:250:21:28

The South Korean president has

said any improvement

0:21:280:21:30

in inter-Korean relations must also

help to the North

0:21:300:21:32

Korean nuclear issue.

0:21:320:21:40

The offer of talks was discussed

with South Korea's key

0:21:400:21:43

ally the United States.

0:21:430:21:44

But President Trump will be watching

developments very closely.

0:21:440:21:46

So, too, will people living

on the Korean peninsula.

0:21:460:21:48

Some 25 million North Koreans,

for whom life is really tough

0:21:480:21:51

and could get tougher if the latest

round of UN sanctions

0:21:510:21:54

really starts to bite.

0:21:540:21:57

And the people of South Korea,

nearly 11 million of whom live

0:21:570:22:03

here in Seoul, just 35 miles

from the north Korean border.

0:22:030:22:07

There's only a month

until the opening ceremony.

0:22:070:22:08

But the organisers believe a North

Korean delegation could be there.

0:22:080:22:14

We are hopeful, you know,

we always want all of

0:22:140:22:17

the countries to participate.

0:22:170:22:19

And they do have qualified athletes,

and so for the athletes

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it's also important.

0:22:210:22:23

They've been training for it

all their lives and we just want

0:22:230:22:30

them to enjoy what the Olympics

are all about, the spirit

0:22:300:22:32

of friendship, the spirit of peace.

0:22:320:22:34

Others, though, are more sceptical,

pointing out that this could be

0:22:340:22:39

a tactical move by North Korea

and a month of peace and stability

0:22:390:22:43

isn't necessarily a step towards

North Korean denuclearisation.

0:22:430:22:53

Teenagers as young as 14 are now

taking steroids in what drugs

0:22:540:22:57

workers fear could be

a hidden epidemic.

0:22:570:22:58

A BBC undercover investigation has

discovered London-based steroid

0:22:580:23:00

dealers are selling the drugs

without giving any warning

0:23:000:23:03

of their dangerous side effects.

0:23:030:23:04

Colin Campbell reports.

0:23:040:23:07

Hey, Derek.

0:23:070:23:08

He's an amateur body-builder

who illegally sells steroids

0:23:080:23:10

from his living room.

0:23:100:23:14

Using his partner to translate,

he says they'll transform my body.

0:23:140:23:24

These are the £200 worth

of pills that he said

0:23:270:23:30

would make me big and powerful.

0:23:300:23:34

This, the handwritten note

I took on a dictated prescription,

0:23:340:23:36

if you like, detailing instructions

on how to use the steroids.

0:23:360:23:39

We showed our footage

to this drugs expert.

0:23:390:23:43

There are many risks

with taking the drugs.

0:23:430:23:46

But a simple way of putting it -

kidney, liver, heart.

0:23:460:23:51

You can have liver problems, liver

cysts, problem with your kidneys,

0:23:510:23:54

and it can lead to heart attacks

and strokes,

0:23:540:23:56

so you're playing with your life.

0:23:560:23:58

What age are the children that

you're speaking to that

0:23:580:24:00

have taken steroids?

As young as 14.

0:24:000:24:02

This drugs counsellor fears the true

picture of steroid abuse is much

0:24:020:24:05

worse than realisee.

0:24:050:24:08

worse than realised.

0:24:080:24:09

We could be looking at a hidden

epidemic, to be honest.

0:24:090:24:12

It's really, really hard

to gauge how big this is,

0:24:120:24:15

but everything anecdotally we're

getting is that it could be huge.

0:24:150:24:20

Whilst it's legal to take steroids,

it's against the law

0:24:200:24:22

to sell and import them.

0:24:220:24:23

But we found scores of websites

offering them online

0:24:230:24:26

and sending them by post.

0:24:260:24:31

The Border Force is battling to stop

them entering the UK.

0:24:310:24:33

These drugs aren't benign,

they're not a soft option.

0:24:330:24:37

They can cause real,

profound, long-lasting

0:24:370:24:38

harm to people's health.

0:24:380:24:41

Selling them can be lucrative,

but it's a trade dealers

0:24:410:24:43

don't want exposed.

0:24:430:24:46

You are a steroid

dealer, aren't you?

No.

0:24:460:24:49

How many people are you

supplying steroids to?

No.

0:24:490:24:53

Speaking through an interpreter,

he claims he'd only ever

0:24:530:24:56

supplied me and no one else.

0:24:560:24:59

How many other people have

you supplied steroids to?

0:24:590:25:01

You advertise widely.

0:25:010:25:06

The truth is, they're gambling

with people's health,

0:25:060:25:11

cashing in on Britain's

body image obssession.

0:25:110:25:13

Colin Campbell, BBC News.

0:25:130:25:16

And if you're watching

in the south east of England,

0:25:160:25:18

there is more about that

investigation straight

0:25:180:25:20

after this programme.

0:25:200:25:24

The new world darts champion

Rob Cross says there will never be

0:25:240:25:27

another player like Phil Taylor.

0:25:270:25:28

Cross beat the 16-time winner 7-2

in last night's final -

0:25:280:25:31

which was Taylor's last professional

match.

0:25:310:25:32

Rob Cross turned professional only

a year ago, and took home

0:25:320:25:35

the World Championship trophy

in his debut appearance

0:25:350:25:37

at the event.

0:25:370:25:38

Our sports correspondent

Natalie Pirks reports.

0:25:380:25:44

How well has your New Year gun? For

Rob Cross, it is fair to say 2018

0:25:440:25:52

has already proved life-changing.

Last night he beat the greatest

0:25:520:25:56

darts player of all time to be

crowned world champion and become

0:25:560:26:00

£400,000 richer as well, and all of

it is barely sinking in.

It feels

0:26:000:26:11

very surreal, it is like I need to

pinch myself or something, because I

0:26:110:26:15

could not have written it any

better, really. It is like a fairy

0:26:150:26:18

tale.

You might not associate the

game of darts with fairy tales and

0:26:180:26:22

yet Rob Cross was an unknown

electricity until the start of 2017.

0:26:220:26:27

Last year his winnings included £7

picked up in a pub tournament. The

0:26:270:26:31

rise from anonymity to Acclaim has

been dizzying.

One competition we

0:26:310:26:38

managed to win £7 each, so a I

nearly got a pint of Ovid Chinappa I

0:26:380:26:42

would say that anyone who believes

they can play the game, and sort of

0:26:420:26:48

aspire to it and go and have a go,

because you never know what's going

0:26:480:26:51

to happen until you actually

dedicate yourself and push yourself

0:26:510:26:54

more.

Cross was born in 9090, when

Phil Taylor won the first of his 16

0:26:540:27:02

world titles. Nicknamed The Power,

last night was his last ever

0:27:020:27:07

professional match. He will go down

as the best the game has ever seen.

0:27:070:27:11

We're never going to see another

Phil Taylor, in any sport, I don't

0:27:110:27:16

believe, someone who can dominate

their sport for that amount of time.

0:27:160:27:20

But at the same time it is probably

the coming of me but we were saying

0:27:200:27:24

farewell to a legend. To shout in

his face at the end, I was never

0:27:240:27:30

going to do that, I have got too

much respect for him.

Cross has now

0:27:300:27:35

set his sights on becoming world

number one. When your year starts as

0:27:350:27:39

well as this, anything is possible.

0:27:390:27:44

A bookshop in a small town

in Dumfries & Galloway which allows

0:27:440:27:47

holidaymakers the chance to run it

for two weeks at a time,

0:27:470:27:50

has proved so popular there are now

plans to open similar

0:27:500:27:52

stores in Asia.

0:27:520:27:53

The Open Book has been running

for four years, and there are no

0:27:530:27:56

vacancies until 2020.

0:27:560:27:57

Our Scotland correspondent

Lorna Gordon reports.

0:27:570:28:02

Between the hills and the sea

in south-west Scotland is a small

0:28:020:28:05

town where they like their books

- a lot.

0:28:050:28:07

Wigtown is Scotland's national

book town, and among

0:28:070:28:09

the many book shops here,

one is available to rent

0:28:090:28:11

for a week at a time.

0:28:110:28:16

It's run by enthusiasts

who want to be surrounded by books

0:28:160:28:19

while trying their hand

at selling some, too.

0:28:190:28:21

Right, Helen McDonald...

0:28:210:28:25

Alison Drury is a police

community support officer

0:28:250:28:29

Alison Drury is a police community

support officer from Bicester -

0:28:290:28:32

but not this week.

0:28:320:28:38

Instead she is stacking book

shelves and shifting stock.

0:28:380:28:40

You are paying for the privilege

of running a book shop for a week -

0:28:400:28:43

what do your friends make of it?

0:28:430:28:45

A bit of a mixture.

0:28:450:28:46

I think some of them think that I'm

a bit eccentric and think that it's

0:28:460:28:50

a very strange thing to do.

0:28:500:28:51

By the same token, I've got some

friends who think it's extremely

0:28:510:28:54

exciting and they're very excited

for me and actually a bit envious.

0:28:540:28:57

Have you been enjoying it?

0:28:570:28:58

I have.

You can tell, can't you?

0:28:580:29:00

The temporary book store

boss has free rein -

0:29:000:29:03

displays can change and so too

can the promotions.

0:29:030:29:06

The chance to run a book

shop for a week or two

0:29:060:29:08

has proved popular.

0:29:080:29:12

People have come from as far

away as New Zealand,

0:29:120:29:14

North America and South Korea

to run this place.

0:29:140:29:16

There was a couple in their 80s

who came on honeymoon,

0:29:160:29:19

and others who liked the town

so much that they stayed.

0:29:190:29:23

This shop, which once

came close to closure,

0:29:230:29:25

turned around by those

who have a dream of running

0:29:250:29:28

a book shop and want

the chance to test it out.

0:29:280:29:37

I think in everyone's life you have

that "what if" voice,

0:29:370:29:40

what if I just owned a book

shop in Scotland?

0:29:400:29:42

Why not give people

the opportunity to do it.

0:29:420:29:44

This is actual real virtual reality,

where you can actually come

0:29:440:29:47

in a book shop and feel the cold

and read the books and enjoy

0:29:470:29:50

the community and kind of have

little surprises of an adventure

0:29:500:29:53

along the way.

0:29:530:29:54

And if those who have come

on their book shop holiday

0:29:540:29:58

are looking for ideas,

with Wigtown boasting 14 book shops,

0:29:580:30:01

there is plenty here to inspire.

0:30:010:30:02

We love our book shops

here, we love our books.

0:30:020:30:06

And yeah, and we've even got people

coming from far and wide to run

0:30:060:30:09

a book shop in Wigtown.

0:30:090:30:13

Imagine that, it sounds a crazy

idea, but what a fantastic thing

0:30:130:30:16

for Wigtown, opening Wigtown

onto the world and in

0:30:160:30:23

and encouraging people to come

and share our love for books.

0:30:230:30:26

That passion for selling

books may be spreading.

0:30:260:30:27

There's interest from a Chinese firm

looking to open its own version

0:30:270:30:31

of the Open Book holiday business.

0:30:310:30:37

So successful has this Scottish one

been, it's booked up

0:30:370:30:40

for the next two years.

0:30:400:30:41

Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Wigtown.

0:30:410:30:44

Time for a look at the weather,

with Louise Lear.

0:30:440:30:48

Time for a look at the weather,

with Louise Lear.

0:30:480:30:51

It is the 2nd of January and the

talk is all about no alcohol, no

0:30:510:30:55

sugar, it is all pretty depressing!

And the weather is not helping the

0:30:550:31:00

club blanket of cloud across the

country at the moment, and for the

0:31:000:31:04

remainder of this week, it looks as

though it's going to be windy, with

0:31:040:31:09

gales at times. This is the story

and this is why it looks so bleak.

0:31:090:31:13

There is a lot of cloud and the rain

is sweeping from west to east eddies

0:31:130:31:17

and once that clears away it's going

to be replaced by more. But this

0:31:170:31:22

time it will be the strength of the

wind. This is Storm Eleanor and on

0:31:220:31:28

its southern flank we are likely to

see gusts of up to 80mph through the

0:31:280:31:33

night to night. Probably clearing

Northern Ireland around midnight,

0:31:330:31:38

heading towards a southern Scotland

and north-west England and north

0:31:380:31:40

Wales. 80mph is enough to cause

disruption. The strong bit of the

0:31:400:31:50

winds easing to the east of the

Pennines as we go through the

0:31:500:31:53

morning. For the far north of

Scotland tomorrow morning, slightly

0:31:530:31:55

lighter winds and a colder start, a

little frost around as well. Into

0:31:550:32:02

Northern Ireland, southern Scotland,

north-west England, we are still

0:32:020:32:06

likely to see gusts of 40mph at

least in the rush-hour tomorrow

0:32:060:32:08

morning. Down to the south-west we

could see gusts of up to 60mph with

0:32:080:32:16

some really rough seas and high

sided vehicles take note. The winds

0:32:160:32:21

will slowly ease as we go through

the day, but it's going to be

0:32:210:32:24

blustery. Driving, squally showers,

some of them heavy with some hail

0:32:240:32:28

and thunder. Maybe by the end of the

day we might see some sunshine.

0:32:280:32:40

Temperatures lower in the far

north-east of Scotland. Riff lama to

0:32:400:32:43

start the day on Thursday but

another area of low pressure will

0:32:430:32:47

gradually move in. Again, gales are

likely to drive that rain up through

0:32:470:32:55

the English Channel and across the

southern half of England. It will

0:32:550:32:57

linger for quite some time in

Northern Ireland, central and

0:32:570:33:01

southern Scotland. On the leading

edge we could have some snow mixed

0:33:010:33:04

in as well. That area of low

pressure will take its time to clear

0:33:040:33:07

away but it will slowly do so, and

as we get towards the weekend, there

0:33:070:33:12

is the potential that the

0:33:120:33:14

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