02/05/2017 BBC News at Six

The Prime Minister tells the BBC she expects the Brexit

negotiations to be tough and she will take a firm stand.

Campaigning in the South West, Mrs May makes her message

to the head of the EU Commission clear.

During the Conservative Party leadership campaign,

I was described by one of my colleagues

And I said at the time that the next person to find that out

The Labour Shadow Home Secretary comes unstuck in a radio interview

for more police in England and Wales.

So how much would 10,000 police officers cost?

?300,000 for 10,000 police officers? What are you paying them?

and got her figures right in other interviews.

After the suicide of an anorexic teenager,

an inquest blames in part a lack of support for the family.

How new proposals to stop doping could mean previous world

records by clean athletes could no longer stand.

And the surfer rescued after 30 hours

And coming up in the sport on BBC News,

as Real host neighbours Atleti in the the first leg

of their all-Spanish Champions League semifinal.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

Following the leaked account of a tense meeting

between the Prime Minister and the head of the European

Commission last week, Theresa May has told the BBC

she will be a "bloody difficult woman" in Brexit negotiations

Jean-Claude Juncker will discover that.

She told our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg,

that the negotiations with the EU will be tough and what matters

in the coming election is making the right choice of leader

Who wouldn't like a day by the Cornish coast?

We believe it's that nice Theresa May.

I hope she comes sooner rather than later.

The Number Ten suits, police by the fishing

Thank you, nice to see you, morning, morning.

A serene scene compared to brutal briefings from Brussels.

During the Conservative Party leadership campaign,

I was described by one of my colleagues

And I said at the time the next person

to find that out would be Jean-Claude Juncker.

Well, these are going to be tough negotiations, as we go ahead.

I'm asking the British people to give me a mandate.

Did Jean-Claude Juncker say to you Brexit cannot be a success?

I don't... Look, I don't recall

the account that has been given of the meeting that took place.

I think a lot of this is Brussels gossip.

It was a dinner in London and you were there -

it's not Brussels gossip, either he said it to you or he did not.

The account, I think that the account that I have seen,

a lot of that is Brussels gossip, but what is important

is that there is a key question for people

There will be 27 other EU countries on one side of the table,

and who is going to be there standing up for the UK?

It's either going to be me or Jeremy Corbyn.

on EU citizens and Brits abroad, they said no.

You wanted parallel talks about our divorce deal

and trade at the same time, they said no.

That doesn't inspire confidence, does it?

I've always said that there are complexities to this issue,

and lots of detail that will need to be agreed.

Back her on Brexit or not, for some voters, it's just not enough.

There's massive problems with homelessness, house prices...

Polite maybe, but her first sharp encounter this campaign.

You're solely focusing on Brexit. No, it's not...

No, I know it isn't, but there is an impression.

Brexit has huge opportunities for us...

Boris Johnson says it's about selling haggis to the Americans.

Her team says she loves talking to voters,

but what did that one make of her?

The austerity cuts have been incredibly damaging,

I don't believe that Brexit is going to take us into a strong economy.

so depressed about the state of this country, I really haven't.

Those two are quite angry, they had a lot to say.

I know they did, but it's too late to discuss that now -

we're already going out, so why fight that?

Brexit is the backdrop to this election. The Prime Minister wants

to use the circumstances to build her authorities, but whether here or

anywhere else, voters will make it absolutely plain it is not the only

thing that will make up their mind. As that voter said Steve on the

Cornish village, these should not all be about Brexit, she was

desperately worried that it is. We have already set out our plan for a

stronger Britain. This election, I genuinely believe, is the most

important election the country has faced in my lifetime. We have an

historic opportunity, it is an important moment of change for this

country. Doesn't this sound strange from someone who was Home Secretary

for six years in the previous gunman? I was very proud to have

served in David Cameron's Cabinet, but I am my own person, and we are

in a different set of circumstances, and I want to look editor the

long-term challenges that this country faces. Almost exactly a year

ago, Prime Minister, I asked you whether you thought you wanted to be

leader of the country, and you laughed and off, saying there wasn't

a vacancy. We all know what has happened since then, many of your

MPs and ministers believe this could be a transformational election in

terms of the Tories taking back swathes of the country, you cannot

laugh that..., you read the polls to. I have always, throughout my

political career, I have never predicted election results, and

polls come out that good, and polls come out that bad, and the only one

that counts is the one that takes place on the 8th of June. If

elected, will you serve the full term until 2022? I have no intention

of doing anything else because this is, as I say, an important time for

our country. This so-called bloody difficult woman wants to stay on as

your Prime Minister. Persuading all of you? That might be difficult too.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Cornwall.

we'll be speaking to all the main party leaders.

On the day the Labour Party announced a new flagship policy

of taking on 10,000 extra police officers in England and Wales,

the Shadow Home Secretary appeared confused

in a radio interview about how much it would all cost.

Diane Abbott suggested a range of figures

which varied by tens of millions of pounds.

Afterwards, Ms Abbott said she mis-spoke about Labour's

new policy and had got it correct in other interviews.

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, insisted he wasn't embarrassed

by her difficulties with the numbers.

Here's our deputy political editor, John Pienaar.

There, over the road, you know him, the Labour leader, promising to make

the streets safer, 10,000 more police on the beat, catching

criminals and paid for by the better off, using capital gains tax the

Tories plan to cut. What we are putting forward is a proposal to

increase police numbers, we are putting 10,000 more police officers

out there because it is a question of community policing and community

involvement. There are many causes for crime, and they have to all be

addressed, it is a collective approach. But Labour has been

hounded by tricky questions - could they afford it? The parties ingested

same money could go on schools or welfare, just examples, they say

now, and what about the money? How much were 10,000 police officers

caught? Well, if we recruit the 10,000 policemen and women over a

full year period, we believe it will be about ?300,000. ?300,000? 10,000

police others is? What are you paying them? How much will they

cost? They will cost... It will cost... Um... About... About ?80

million. I don't understand, 80 million divided by 10,000, equals

8000. What are these police officers going to be paid? We will be paying

them the average... Has this been thought through? Of course it has

been thought through! But thousands, not millions, it is not the sort of

thing which encourages people to trust you, is it? It has been

clarified it will cost 300 million. Diane has my full support. She

clearly does, and it is ?300 million, not 80. Diane Abbott

brushed off the mix-up, or try to do. I do know my figures, I did

seven interviews this morning, and I misspoke in the seventh, but I do

know my figures. That settled that, or did it? Trust is a problem for

some of the voters in this part of Southampton, in one of the tiny

handful of seats that Labour holds in the south-east. I believe the

Tories run the country like a business, where Labour seems to

borrow a lot of money and just rely on other people to pay it back later

in life. What about Jeremy Corbyn? Corbyn is not really my politician,

although I have got a little bit of respect for the fact that he's more

of a Labour man than they have had in the past. Sincere and honest, he

has got convictions? Yes, yes, although I have not got a lot of

faith in him as a politician. Are you willing to give Labour a chance?

As long as they are willing to help the working class people. Do you

think they are in the business of doing that? I would like to think

so. This election is more about leadership, about the character of

rivals than any I can remember since Margaret Thatcher first won, but

policies that touch the lives of millions matter too, and law and

order is one of those. Labour was fighting to regain trust on policies

and personalities, and the Tories need that advantage. Police funding

has been protected since the last election, but before that it was cut

back severely. We have reduced the number of policemen on the street

since 2010, but because they have been spending the money wisely and

we have worked on reform, there has been a reduction of crime of nearly

a third since 2010. We believe you can protect funding and also reduce

crime. Leaders like children at election time. Jeremy Corbyn seems

to mean it, but he needs Britain to like him enough to make him Prime

Minister - that is a much bigger ask. John Pienaar, BBC News,

Southampton. The former Deputy Prime Minister

and former Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, has said that "ordinary

people" will pay the price of a "hard Brexit" and warned people

not to follow the Conservatives In a campaign speech,

Mr Clegg accused Theresa May of seeking to "pull the wool" over

voters' eyes about the damage Brexit was already doing and urged people

to vote for a "real opposition" - First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has

urged young people to back the SNP so they can have a strong

voice in Westminster. Speaking at a rally in Edinburgh,

she said younger generations are being let down by the Tory

government. The Green Party say they will offer

voters the chance of a second referendum with an option

to remain in the EU. will include a pledge

for a "ratification referendum" to be held after the EU has agreed

the terms of Brexit, if the majority of the electorate

are unhappy with the final deal. Well, let's go back to our political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg, who is in Plymouth this evening, back to your

interview with Theresa May, she was absolutely at pains at least to give

the impression that she will play hardball in these Brexit

negotiations. Absolutely, the owner, and in the context of this election

campaign and the Brexit negotiations, there are going to be

as many episodes of spin was as there are votes in Plymouth harbour,

but you are right, she is absolutely refusing to budge from what she has

been described as a difficult stance, and in this part of the

country, where there are plenty of voters who have turned to Ukip in

recent years, that is standing up to Brussels, that narrative might play

quite well. But for her rivals, and those who say it could be a real

problem if she stays on as Prime Minister and wins the election, it

is precisely that approach, that refusal to budge, that could cause

such long-term problems, because of course it is one thing to refuse to

be pushed around, it is one thing to be a strong leader, but it is quite

another to refuse to be realistic or refuse to listen. Laura, in

Plymouth, thank you. And in the run-up to the election,

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with your name, your contact details, the issue you want

to raise and why. A jury at the inquest

of a teenage anorexia sufferer who took her own life

have found a lack of support for the family

was a contributing factor. died after being hit by a train

near Stockport. She'd been released

from hospital five days earlier. The inquest found that there was not

enough planning for her discharge and not enough communication with

the family about her suicide risk. Everyone called Pippa McManus Pip.

As a young child, she was full of energy, and she became obsessed with

exercise and losing weight. Her family filmed her pacing repeatedly

up and down. Anorexia had her in its grip for three years. She changed

from a happy, healthy child to an emaciated girl weighing just four

stone. At the age of 15, she decided to end her life. Her parents were in

court today as an inquest jury found that his suicide was partly a result

of the family receiving insufficient support. Pip spent her last three

years fighting against anorexia, malnutrition, depression and self

harm. We believe the failings in our daughter's care from beginning to

end resulted in her death. Can you talk us through the difficulties

that you had to cope with when she came home in those days? Instantly,

getting back into the struggle of the illness, wanting to take full

control, putting the family and are quite a lot of pressure to get

through what you would call a normal day's living. In 2014, Pippa was

sectioned under the Mental Health Act and taken to the Priory Hospital

in Cheshire. She stayed for more than a year before being allowed to

go home. When she was released from hospital, she had reached their

target weight and was not considered a suicide risk, but just five days

afterwards, after a row with her family about her excessive exercise,

she ran out of the house saying that she was going to kill herself. She

came here to a station nearby and took her own life. The jury found

that Pip's family hadn't been given enough information about her being a

suicide risk at that point and that agencies supposed to help and works

together. There was well documented concern about the fragmented and

desperate state of mental health services for children and

adolescents. The Priory hospital says it will now consider the jury's

findings. Pip's parents want to open a centre to provide early help for

other anorexia sufferers. Judith Moritz, BBC News, Stockport.

Theresa May has told the BBC she'll be a bloody difficult woman in the

Brexit negotiations. Singing Cilla - hopefuls line up

for their bid to play the star Fresh from defending his title

against John Higgins in a dramatic World Snooker Championship final,

we'll be speaking to the World Number One, Mark Selby,

as he lifted the trophy Some of the most famous records

in athletics could be rewritten following proposals by the governing

body of European Athletics The plans would mean that any

athlete breaking a record before Paula Radcliffe, who set

a new marathon world record in 2003, condemned the plans,

saying clean athletes It's the pinnacle for every athlete,

with a new world record comes a place in the history books.

COMMENTATOR: He's done it again. I don't believe it! Or so he thought.

These are some of the competitors who could now be stripped of that

honour. After last year's Russian state sponsored doping scandal, some

now want all world records set before 2005 erased because the drug

testing back then didn't match today's standards. The man behind

the idea told me the sport had no choice. Desperate times call for

desperate measures. It's a revolutionary approach by European

athletics we want to regain the trust of the public and ensure they

can believe what they are watching. Not a PR stunt as some have said?

No. It's the evolution of the sport. It will address dark days in the

sport. It may seem radical but athletics

face as crisis of confidence. Later thisle summer the sport's flagship

World Championships take place here in London the danger is that every

time an athlete does something special some will inevitably ask

whether it was achieved clean. It's attempt to reboot track and field

and restore much needed credibility. Some athletes are furious. Paula

Radcliffe, who risks losing her marathon world record said she was

hurt and called the proposals cowardly. Colin Jackson held his

record for nearly 13 years and still holds the 60 meters indoor record

set in 1984. You can'ter raise history. That is what they are

trying to do. We are painted by the same brush. We are all dope takers.

It's not true. For us to have to suffer the consequences of others is

very, very frustrating and annoying. Athletics supremo Lord Coe said the

idea could be ratified in August. Records that have stood for decades

will be consigned to history if so. Dan Roan, BBC News.

A British supporter of so-called Islamic State group has been jailed

for eight years after admitting five terror offences.

The Old Bailey heard that Samata Ullah, a 34-year-old IT

expert from Cardiff, hid extremist material on a computer

He also created an online 'library for terrorists'

A surfer, who survived for more than 30 hours clinging

to his board in the Irish Sea, has been described as "extremely

lucky" by the Belfast coastguard who saved him.

Matthew Bryce was reported missing when he failed to return from a trip

He was eventually spotted by a helicopter after drifting

Our correspondent, Chris Buckler, reports.

After more than a day drifting in the water,

Matthew Bryce was found by the coastguard,

He was still by the surf board he left the Argyll coast

on on Sunday morning, but when he was finally rescued,

on Monday evening, he was halfway between Northern Ireland

and Scotland, and far from the beach near Campbelltown where he'd

gone for a day's surfing in blustery conditions.

This picture, taken that morning, shows how challenging the waves

He'd been surfing and when he attempted to recover to shore,

we believe he suffered from some cramp and was unable

The current which flows through the North Channel

into the Atlantic from the Irish Sea is very strong.

That would have had an impact on how far he'd been drifted out.

Matthew Bryce had last been seen at 9.00am on Sunday

morning in St Catherines, in Argyll, on his way

He was reported missing by his family when he didn't come home.

A major search and rescue operation followed involving eight coastguard

and RNLI teams from both Scotland and Northern Ireland,

He was eventually found and rescued 13 miles out to sea

That length of time in our waters, you know,

overnight in the darkness, it must have been

Certainly, I think another night of that, I'm afraid,

I just think we wouldn't have such a happy ending.

The big waves around both Scotland and Northern Ireland

can carry big risks, but they attract many surfers

and being prepared and wearing a good wetsuit may well have saved

When he was plucked from the sea, he was suffering from hypothermia,

but conscious, rescued just as evening was approaching and,

in the coastguard's own words, "extremely lucky to have been

After spending more than 30 hours out at sea, it will come as no

surprise that Matthew Bryce is said to be exhausted. However, he's

expected to make a fum recovery. From his hospital bed he thanked

those involved in rescuing him as well as those caring for him,

describe them all as "heroes." Those thoughts have been echoed by his

family. They reported him missing on Sunday.

They said receiving that phone call last night, saying he was found

alive and relatively well, felt like winning the Lottery. Chris Buckler

in Ballycastle, thank you. Auditions have been taking place

in Liverpool today to find the next star to play the role

of Cilla Black, the singer and entertainer, who died suddenly

following a fall at her Spanish A West End musical will celebrate

Cilla's early life. Our entertainment correspondent,

Colin Paterson, has been to meet some of those aspiring

to the starring role. # Is it just for the

moment we live...# More than 400 of them,

all hoping to land the lead role Open auditions are being held

around the country, starting in Cilla Black's

hometown of Liverpool. Now, have you changed your hair

colour especially for today? This has been changed

for about a year, so... I grew up with her, my nanny used

to absolutely adore her. And at what stage do

the rollers come out? The new musscle is based

on the ITV drama, Cilla, Helping cast her this

time, Cilla's son. We're talking about 18 to 25,

she wasn't the polished consummate performer that we sort of know,

she was starting out. So you've got to get

that sort of confidence, but vulnerability at

the same time, yes. Finally, it was time for the Cilla

wannabees to step inside. How are you going to prove to them

in that room that you are Cilla? If I burst in and shout -

"Surprise, Surprise!" I was a little bit nervous and it's

very early for singing, By the end of the month,

this lot will find out if it's Colin Patterson,

BBC News, Liverpool. Time for a look at the weather,

Here's Nick Miller. Details coming in about just how dry

a month April was. Look at this. If you were in the brown area you were

dryer than average. Blue above average. There isn't a lot of blue a

lot of brown. Edinburgh and London a few millimetres of rain the whole

month. There isn't very much rain in this forecast. There has been warmth

around today, particularly across western Scotland. Here is one

Weather Watcher. The warmest day of the year, 21 Celsius in Scotland.

The breeze will stay with us for several more days to come. We have

seen isolated showers in England this afternoon. They will fade away

this evening. Later in the night, patchy rain could feed into East

Anglia and the far south-east of England, not very much. Clearer

skies across the north and west, some spots close to freezing

especially in the glens of Scotland. Fogging patches around early in the

day in Scotland. Scotland and Northern Ireland will have sunshine,

elsewhere in England the cloud will increase.

It will feel cool with the cloud and breeze anywhere along the North Sea

coast. Warm in earn Scotland, not as warm as today. Showers into

Wednesday night and Thursday into southern parts of the UK. Few and

far between. Sunny spells in northern England, Northern Ireland

and Scotland. The weather pattern will stay with us into the weekend.

High pressure keeping most places dry. The breeze off the sea keeping

it chilly along the east coast. Best of the sunshine in the west thank

you. Following the leaked account of a

tense