0:00:04 > 0:00:06A suspected terror plot thought to be planned
0:00:06 > 0:00:09for Christmas is foiled, as police arrest four men
0:00:09 > 0:00:12in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Hundreds of people were moved from their homes, as the bomb
0:00:14 > 0:00:18squad was sent to one address in Chesterfield.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20They come banging on the door saying, "You need to evacuate."
0:00:20 > 0:00:22My grandad refused to leave the house.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25He's still in there now. The only one on the street.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27And they said, "It's for your own safety, bomb
0:00:27 > 0:00:30disposal are here."
0:00:30 > 0:00:33In the last hour, bomb disposal experts have moved to another
0:00:33 > 0:00:35property in Sheffield.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37We've have the latest on the ongoing operation.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Also on the programme tonight...
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Social media companies taken to task by MPs in Parliament,
0:00:42 > 0:00:50as they're accused of not doing enough to tackle hate crime.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Killed in the hotel fire at Loch Lomond -
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were staying at the Cameron House
0:00:54 > 0:00:56hotel for a weekend break.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59The future of Toys R Us and more than 3000 jobs in the UK hangs
0:00:59 > 0:01:03in the balance tonight, amid fears it's about to collapse.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06And the 95 year-old librarian who is one
0:01:06 > 0:01:08New York's oldest employees - we report on the superagers,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11as scientists say they're close to finding drugs to delay
0:01:11 > 0:01:15the ageing process.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Suspicion hangs over sprinter Justin Gatlin amid doping
0:01:18 > 0:01:25allegations involving two of his associates.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Good evening.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Police have arrested four men in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52as they swooped in to disrupt a suspected Islamist terror plot
0:01:52 > 0:01:57planned for Christmas.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Armed officers made the arrests early this morning at four
0:02:00 > 0:02:01separate addresses, using stun grenades.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04The Army Bomb Disposal Unit was called to a row
0:02:04 > 0:02:06of shops in Chesterfield.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09More than a hundred people have been evacuated from their homes.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Tonight, the bomb squad has just arrived at another
0:02:11 > 0:02:13address in Sheffield.
0:02:13 > 0:02:18With the latest, here's our correspondent, Danny Savage.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21On a terraced street in Chesterfield today, Army bomb
0:02:21 > 0:02:29disposal experts were looking for explosives.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31They have been here for hours.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Counter-terrorism officers arrested a 31-year-old man here this morning.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35In the predawn darkness, armed police were pictured guarding
0:02:35 > 0:02:40the scene as the raid took place.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43At the edge of the cordon, people evacuated from their homes couldn't
0:02:43 > 0:02:45believe what was happening in their streets.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47They come banging on the door saying, "You need to evacuate."
0:02:47 > 0:02:50My grandad refused to leave the house.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52He's still in there now. The only one on the street.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54And they said, "It's for your own safety, bomb
0:02:54 > 0:02:57disposal are here."
0:02:57 > 0:02:58They made everyone else leave apart from him.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01How does it feel that this is happening in your neighbourhood?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04In a way it's a bit scary, bit weird, isn't it?
0:03:04 > 0:03:07You don't expect things like this to happen in Chesterfield,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09or in a little area like this.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13So it's a bit worrying in a way.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Arrests were made elsewhere too, as police took action against an
0:03:16 > 0:03:19alleged Islamist terror plot against the UK that could have come
0:03:19 > 0:03:21to fruition over Christmas.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Although the most obvious activity was in
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Chesterfield, about 15 miles away in the Burngreave area of Sheffield,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31two other men were arrested.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33A business was raided, and another man
0:03:33 > 0:03:35was arrested in Meersbrook, where local people heard stun
0:03:35 > 0:03:38grenades being used.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42We were woken up at about 5:30 by a really, really loud bang.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Initially we did think that somebody had crashed outside our house.
0:03:45 > 0:03:50So we were looking outside, and all we could see were police
0:03:50 > 0:03:52officers in riot gear.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57They were storming a house across the road from us.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01There was lots of running about, lots of shouting.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06This is the Fatima Community Centre in Sheffield, where
0:04:06 > 0:04:09two of the detained men were arrested in bedsits
0:04:09 > 0:04:10adjoining the centre.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12These were co-ordinated counter-terrorism raids, which may
0:04:12 > 0:04:14have stopped a plot timed to coincide with the
0:04:14 > 0:04:22Christmas holidays.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Tonight the four men who were arrested are being held in a police
0:04:25 > 0:04:31station in Yorkshire. They are aged between 22 and 41. As for the bomb
0:04:31 > 0:04:36disposal unit that has been here for much of the day, they are now gone.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41There is a police van. The bomb disposal unit is at the community
0:04:41 > 0:04:47Centre in Sheffield. A cordon is in place. People have been told they
0:04:47 > 0:04:50can't go into it. People inside have been told they may be moved out of
0:04:50 > 0:04:56the area as the evening continues. It just shows this is an ongoing
0:04:56 > 0:04:59enquiry, with search is still being carried out.Danny Savage, thank
0:04:59 > 0:05:00you.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02MPs have heavily criticised social media companies for not doing enough
0:05:02 > 0:05:06to tackle hate crime.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Senior bosses from Facebook, Twitter and Google
0:05:08 > 0:05:10appeared before MPs today.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13They were accused of providing a platform for extremism
0:05:13 > 0:05:16and allowing people to use social media to further
0:05:16 > 0:05:18the ills of society.
0:05:18 > 0:05:26Here's our Media Editor, Amol Rajan.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Harmful content online takes countless forms, but not all of them
0:05:29 > 0:05:33are illegal. There is the hate speech that attacks individuals on
0:05:33 > 0:05:38the basis of attributes such as disability or gender. That is quite
0:05:38 > 0:05:41separate from extremist content, which propagates the worldview of
0:05:41 > 0:05:45those ranging from neo-Nazis to so-called Islamic State. How easy is
0:05:45 > 0:05:51it to find this material online? Very easy indeed.One campaigner
0:05:51 > 0:05:54working with MPs on the issue believes social media platforms
0:05:54 > 0:05:59you're vulnerable adults into the extremist Web. How big an issue is
0:05:59 > 0:06:06soft extremism?It is a significant issue because actually the material
0:06:06 > 0:06:10clearly is not removed, it is not illegal in the eyes of social media
0:06:10 > 0:06:14providers. The other factor is their algorithms are diverging individuals
0:06:14 > 0:06:18who may have an aggressive worldview, and the algorithms direct
0:06:18 > 0:06:25them to join other groups who may have similar content.Today MPs
0:06:25 > 0:06:28called Tech companies as part of an enquiry into hate crime. The
0:06:28 > 0:06:32committee chair set Twitter still had not removed a -- an offensive to
0:06:32 > 0:06:36eat it was warned about in March. That Tweed is still on your
0:06:36 > 0:06:42platform. Why is it?I don't know the answer to that question.I
0:06:42 > 0:06:46really do all think we should kill a Tory. Think of the benefits were we
0:06:46 > 0:06:53to kill just one Tory. That is on Twitter. Your home say she will not
0:06:53 > 0:07:00tolerate violent threats of individuals or groups. How does that
0:07:00 > 0:07:08comply with your code?We have 500 million tweets a day, 330 million
0:07:08 > 0:07:12users. Twitter is used in multiple languages.You are actively
0:07:12 > 0:07:15recommended what is effectively raises material into people's
0:07:15 > 0:07:23timelines.Aye Well Asghar reviewers to look into it and get back with a
0:07:23 > 0:07:30solid response. -- I will ask our viewers. I will look at how we can
0:07:30 > 0:07:34look at hate speech.Isn't the truth that your algorithms and the way you
0:07:34 > 0:07:39want to attract people to look at other linked things, is that
0:07:39 > 0:07:42actually your algorithms are doing that grooming and that
0:07:42 > 0:07:48radicalisation?But that is not how Facebook sees it.While I do
0:07:48 > 0:07:51recognise we have a problem, which is a shared problem, with the
0:07:51 > 0:07:55police, with yourselves, with civil society organisations, how do we
0:07:55 > 0:07:59address that personally? We may be going down a channel which can lead
0:07:59 > 0:08:04to them being radicalised.MPs have a personal stake in the fight
0:08:04 > 0:08:07against harmful content online. But it's not clear that turning tech
0:08:07 > 0:08:09giants into centres is the best way to safeguard democracy.
0:08:09 > 0:08:14Amol is here.
0:08:14 > 0:08:19MPs did sound exasperated today. What more can be done?Most people
0:08:19 > 0:08:23agree what abusive content is. Everyone agrees there is too much of
0:08:23 > 0:08:28it. No one agrees on what to do about it. There are two reasons. The
0:08:28 > 0:08:31first is principal. These companies do not want to be in the business of
0:08:31 > 0:08:35censoring the Internet. They are not publishers like the BBC Ore
0:08:35 > 0:08:39newspaper. They are platforms that gave everybody a voice and they rely
0:08:39 > 0:08:52on the community to police it. The bigger issue is the question of
0:08:52 > 0:08:55scale. There is just so much of this material uploaded online every
0:08:55 > 0:08:57single minute, that ultimately you will never control of completely.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59That is not to be defeatist. It is a pragmatic point of view. Facebook
0:08:59 > 0:09:02and Google say they are going to double the number of people looking
0:09:02 > 0:09:05at this. They say the best skill is not what human beings but smarter
0:09:05 > 0:09:06computers.Thank you.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Two men who died at a luxury hotel on Loch Lomond
0:09:09 > 0:09:10yesterday, have been named.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson - both thought to be from London -
0:09:13 > 0:09:15were on a winter break at the Cameron House Hotel,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18when the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Firefighters managed to save a couple on their honeymoon
0:09:20 > 0:09:23and their baby, who were on an upper floor of the hotel.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Our Scotland Correspondent, Lorna Gordon, is there
0:09:25 > 0:09:26for us this evening.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29On the secluded shores of Loch Lomond, the burned-out remains of
0:09:29 > 0:09:34one of Scotland's most prestigious hotels. It was here that early
0:09:34 > 0:09:37yesterday morning, while many of the 200 guests were still sleeping, the
0:09:37 > 0:09:42fire took hold. It gutted the main building and led to the loss of two
0:09:42 > 0:09:47lives. The BBC understands that Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson had
0:09:47 > 0:09:52been staying at Cameron house on a winter break. Police have not
0:09:52 > 0:09:55confirmed their identities but tribute at Bin paid social media.
0:09:55 > 0:10:03More than 60 firefighters were involved in fighting the blaze. The
0:10:03 > 0:10:08damage she is extensive. The top two floors of the main building looked
0:10:08 > 0:10:13to be completely burnt out. The priority for fire crews now is to
0:10:13 > 0:10:17make this building safe. And their initial investigation is likely to
0:10:17 > 0:10:23focus on trying to find out where the blaze began.We will be taking
0:10:23 > 0:10:26witness statements from the guests and staff that were on the property.
0:10:26 > 0:10:32They will be looking to see if there are a CCTV cameras which may assist
0:10:32 > 0:10:36them in narrowing the focus of where the fire first started.Footage
0:10:36 > 0:10:41taken at the time showed fire crews rescuing a recently married couple
0:10:41 > 0:10:46from their second-floor room. Their baby carried out by a firefighter.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51In a statement, the Hotel described this as a heart stopping moment. It
0:10:51 > 0:10:54called the firefighters involved heroes. The swift actions of the
0:10:54 > 0:10:58emergency services may have prevented further loss of life in
0:10:58 > 0:11:03this fatal fire. Lorna Gordon, BBC News, Loch Lomond.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06It's one of the worst scandals in the history of the NHS.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Almost 2,500 people died after being given
0:11:07 > 0:11:10contaminated bloods in the 1970s and 80s - blood that had been
0:11:10 > 0:11:13infected with HIV and hepatitis C.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16This week the government will announce who will run a public
0:11:16 > 0:11:19inquiry into the scandal.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22It's welcome news at last, say campaigners,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25as it emerges that government officials have been using
0:11:25 > 0:11:28a discredited report into the blood controversy for more than a decade -
0:11:28 > 0:11:30despite assurances it had been taken out of circulation.
0:11:30 > 0:11:40Here's our Health Editor, Hugh Pym
0:11:49 > 0:11:54He developed HIV and hepatitis and died.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58Carol has campaigned for decades for April -- full public enquiry into
0:11:58 > 0:12:03the scandal which claimed 2500 lives and ruined thousands more. At last,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07that is about to happen. She has uncovered hundreds of documents
0:12:07 > 0:12:15which she says revealed an official cover-up.I think there are huge
0:12:15 > 0:12:18implications for government. They don't want the conversation because
0:12:18 > 0:12:21there are high numbers of people both infected and affected because
0:12:21 > 0:12:25you've got the infected haemophiliacs and you've got the
0:12:25 > 0:12:32affected family members.Blood products were haemophiliacs and
0:12:32 > 0:12:37transfusions were imported from the US. Some were infected by donors,
0:12:37 > 0:12:41including prisoners. In 2006, the government published what was billed
0:12:41 > 0:12:44as a definitive report. But some original documents have been
0:12:44 > 0:12:48destroyed, so key information was missing. The BBC can reveal it was
0:12:48 > 0:12:53still in use this year. In August, the top civil servant at the
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Department of Health wrote that the report had not been used by
0:12:57 > 0:13:00officials in recent years and will not be used in the future. But the
0:13:00 > 0:13:04BBC has seen a letter written earlier this year by a health
0:13:04 > 0:13:07minister which did make reference to the report as an authoritative
0:13:07 > 0:13:11account. When Sir Chris was told, he apologised and said it wouldn't
0:13:11 > 0:13:16happen again. The former Lib Dem Minister, Baroness Featherstone,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19received the letters from the civil servant, said it was shocking that
0:13:19 > 0:13:22even this year misleading information was being put out.He
0:13:22 > 0:13:26apologised because he himself had been part of what beginning that he
0:13:26 > 0:13:32has suffered since day one. Obfuscation, misuse of facts, lies,
0:13:32 > 0:13:38rebuttals, refusing to acknowledge, almost incapable of listening.The
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Department of Health said the independent enquiry would ensure
0:13:41 > 0:13:45victims and their families got answers. For Carol, the long battle
0:13:45 > 0:13:53with the authorities has come at great personal cost.At the end of
0:13:53 > 0:13:57the day it's taken my family life away. That's the reality. You know,
0:13:57 > 0:14:04I started this as a young woman. I'm now going towards retirement and
0:14:04 > 0:14:09there is still no justice.Carol wants to pass on all her documents
0:14:09 > 0:14:12to the official enquiry. She can only hope it gets to the truth of
0:14:12 > 0:14:15what has been described as the biggest disaster in the history of
0:14:15 > 0:14:19the NHS. Hugh Pym, BBC News.
0:14:19 > 0:14:26Our top story this evening.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29A suspected terror plot thought to be planned for Christmas is foiled
0:14:29 > 0:14:32as police arrest four men in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Still to come:
0:14:33 > 0:14:36The 500 year old Turkey bones, thought to be the oldest ever
0:14:36 > 0:14:42discovered in the UK.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Many have tried, many have failed, can Leicester
0:14:45 > 0:14:47stop Manchester City, in the League Cup
0:14:47 > 0:14:55quarter-final's tonight.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Imagine starting a whole new career when you're
0:15:08 > 0:15:10in your 80s and feeling young, fit and healthy, both
0:15:10 > 0:15:16in body and mind.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Or taking on some physical challenge in your 90s,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21walking for miles with no aches or pains.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Well, scientists in America are predicting that it won't be long
0:15:24 > 0:15:26before more and more of us can do just that.
0:15:26 > 0:15:36They're working on drugs that could help delay
0:15:36 > 0:15:41the way our bodies age, meaning that we'll be able to do
0:15:41 > 0:15:42much more for much longer.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45In the second of his reports on 'superagers' our medical
0:15:45 > 0:15:47correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has been to San Francisco
0:15:47 > 0:15:48and New York.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50New York Public Library, one of the city's grandest
0:15:50 > 0:15:52buildings, which has one of the city's oldest employees.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Hilda Jaffe is still going strong at 95, so what's her
0:15:55 > 0:15:56secret to a long life?
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Pick your parents, it really is.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02It's got to be genetic because both my parents lived long.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Good morning, Fergus, I'm glad you could meet me here
0:16:04 > 0:16:12in this absolutely beautiful room.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Hilda gives tours of this historic building when she's not
0:16:14 > 0:16:17at the theatre, music concerts, opera or her two book clubs.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19I don't exercise, I walk, I walk a lot.
0:16:19 > 0:16:25If I had to give anybody advice I would say, just keep moving.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Samples of Hilda's DNA are stored in this freezer in the Bronx,
0:16:28 > 0:16:34part of a study into longevity.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37They found only one in 10,000 people has protective superager genes,
0:16:37 > 0:16:41but say drugs might be able to help the rest of us.
0:16:41 > 0:16:47Metformin is an old, cheap diabetes drug,
0:16:47 > 0:16:50but a major trial is planned to see if it can delay ageing.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54I can get you 690 of those for $60.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Scientists here believe it may slow the biological processes that
0:16:57 > 0:17:01trigger key diseases.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05We have data in humans that metformin would delay cardiovascular
0:17:05 > 0:17:08disease and will delay diabetes and is associated with less cancer
0:17:08 > 0:17:17and seems to delay Alzheimer or cognitive decline in people.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Ageing is an inevitable process which begins as we reach adulthood
0:17:19 > 0:17:21and continues through the decades as our muscles, bones
0:17:21 > 0:17:31and organs gradually wear out.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36This tai chi group in San Francisco show that we can delay that decline,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38it helps with balance, core strength and provides
0:17:38 > 0:17:39a social network.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41It makes me feel so young, I have so much fun.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I feel like I'm in the kindergarten of the universe.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45My mother lived to 103.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48I don't desire to live that long, but I want to be as healthy
0:17:48 > 0:17:50as I can, as long as I can.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52That's an ambition we can all share.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Imagine a future where it didn't hurt to get old,
0:17:54 > 0:18:04where our joints didn't wear out?
0:18:06 > 0:18:11It would have a huge impact on our quality of life as we age.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14This biotech company in California has developed a drug to counter
0:18:14 > 0:18:16one of the key diseases of ageing, osteoarthritis.
0:18:16 > 0:18:26Human trials of this experimental compound should begin next year.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29This is an area of the cartilage that is now diseased.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32You can see the cartilage is damaged.
0:18:32 > 0:18:42It works by clearing cells which build up in the knee joint,
0:18:47 > 0:18:49which maybe a trigger for the painful condition.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52A single injection that we believe and hope will alleviate their pain
0:18:52 > 0:18:55and begin the restorative process in their knee to perhaps at least
0:18:55 > 0:18:57halt, regress and even completely repair the knee in the end
0:18:57 > 0:18:59is what our wildest hopes would imagine.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01That would mean more people could age like Hilda,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04free of aches and pains and independent well into their 90s.
0:19:04 > 0:19:13Fergus Walsh, BBC News, New York.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16The future of the retailer Toys R Us and the jobs of more than 3,000
0:19:16 > 0:19:20people who work for it in the UK are hanging in the balance tonight
0:19:20 > 0:19:22amid fears that the company is about to collapse.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Toys R Us has been told it has to put £9 million
0:19:25 > 0:19:27into its struggling pension fund by the end of this week,
0:19:27 > 0:19:29money it may not have.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Our business correspondent, Simon Gompertz, is at a Toys R Us
0:19:31 > 0:19:32store in south London.
0:19:32 > 0:19:39Can it survive?Well,ing this outlet in fact is one that wasn't going to
0:19:39 > 0:19:45survive. What Toys R Us plan to do was to make a rescue deal, with its
0:19:45 > 0:19:49creditors, that they would vote on under which it would be a slimmed
0:19:49 > 0:19:54down Operation Operation. Losing a quarter of its outlets it would pay
0:19:54 > 0:19:58back less to its creditors and struggle on. What happened today is
0:19:58 > 0:20:03that the Pension Protection Fund, which is the lifeboat organisation
0:20:03 > 0:20:07which stands behind the pension schemes of troubled companies like
0:20:07 > 0:20:13this one, has voted against that rescue deal, putting all the outlets
0:20:13 > 0:20:18in jeopardy. The reason is, they say, they want Toys R Us to come up
0:20:18 > 0:20:22with three years worth of pension contributions upfront in order to
0:20:22 > 0:20:26win its vote. Toys R Us says it doesn't have the money. So it's not
0:20:26 > 0:20:30all over yet. The company says it can carry on trading as things are
0:20:30 > 0:20:39through Christmas and into th new year. The vote isn't finalised until
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Thursday. Expect intense negotiation until Thursday to try to bring the
0:20:43 > 0:20:54Pension Protection Fund round. Simon, thank you.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28In Northern Ireland, a recent survey of gay and lesbian
0:21:28 > 0:21:31pupils found that two thirds of them did not feel valued
0:21:31 > 0:21:32in their schools.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34However, gay rights groups claim that official report was initially
0:21:34 > 0:21:36shelved because the then DUP Education Minister wouldn't give
0:21:36 > 0:21:38clearance for it to be published.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, reports.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Every pupil has bad days in class, but some feel
0:21:42 > 0:21:43like they simply don't belong.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Alex goes to a single sex school, but identifies as non-binary.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48That means Alex sees themselves as neither male nor female.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50It's a pretty huge problem because you've basically got
0:21:50 > 0:21:52a target on your back if you're different to everybody
0:21:52 > 0:21:54else in the school.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56It's name-calling in the corridors, it's chanting on the bus.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58It's just constant negativity every single day in school.
0:21:58 > 0:22:05What kind of an effect does that have on you?
0:22:05 > 0:22:13It has impacted my mental health, obviously.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16It just makes you not want to go to school.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18It just makes you like tired, constantly tired
0:22:18 > 0:22:19and constantly tired.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21At Hazelwood Integrated College they're making a point of trying
0:22:21 > 0:22:23to offer more support.
0:22:23 > 0:22:29They've set up a group called Gay, Straight, Whatever and the school's
0:22:29 > 0:22:35made changes to recognise the needs of LGBT pupils.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37We changed our uniform policy from female to male
0:22:37 > 0:22:38to adjust our uniform.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40The group includes both pupils and staff members
0:22:40 > 0:22:46who are openly gay and lesbian.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48I actually went to this school and I work here now
0:22:48 > 0:22:50on the support staff.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52When I went here, I had no confidence because I had
0:22:52 > 0:22:53no one to talk to.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55So now coming back and seeing things like -
0:22:55 > 0:22:58"Some people are gay, get over it" and posters
0:22:58 > 0:23:01on the walls, it's great.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Yeah, it's definitely a tough place to come out
0:23:03 > 0:23:05because there are so many politicians in the Government,
0:23:05 > 0:23:07and all of that itself, that is putting a lock
0:23:07 > 0:23:17on equal marriage.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19At this year's Belfast Pride event, many campaigned for the introduction
0:23:19 > 0:23:21of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland,
0:23:21 > 0:23:22which was blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Some of the DUP's other statements and actions have angered members
0:23:25 > 0:23:26of the LGBT community.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28A report by Northern Ireland's Department of Education found
0:23:28 > 0:23:31that two thirds of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans pupils
0:23:31 > 0:23:33did not feel welcome or valued in their schools.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35However, this report wasn't released for many months,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37apparently because the then DUP Education Minister, Peter Weir,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39wouldn't give clearance for it to be published.
0:23:39 > 0:23:49The DUP refused a series of interview requests.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13However, this report wasn't released for many months,
0:24:13 > 0:24:15apparently because the then DUP Education Minister, Peter Weir,
0:24:15 > 0:24:17wouldn't give clearance for it to be published.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19The DUP refused a series of interview requests.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21REPORTER:I just wanted to ask you...
0:24:21 > 0:24:23But when we caught up with the party's former minister
0:24:23 > 0:24:26at a constituency event, he denied shelving the report.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28You will find different communities will find themselves under levels
0:24:28 > 0:24:30of pressure at school, and I think that's something which
0:24:30 > 0:24:32need to combated across the board.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Do you think unionists could be doing more to make sure that LGBT
0:24:35 > 0:24:36pupils feel welcome?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38I'm not quite sure why you're particularly saying
0:24:38 > 0:24:39unionists in that regard.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42We have spoken to some and they're upset because of same-sex marriage,
0:24:42 > 0:24:44they're upset because of comments that have been made
0:24:44 > 0:24:46by Unionist politicians, DUP politicians in the past.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Well, I think that people should always try and be
0:24:48 > 0:24:49sensitive in their comments.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Obviously from my own party point of view, in terms
0:24:52 > 0:24:53of same-sex marriage, we've a particular definition
0:24:53 > 0:24:55that we believe in the traditional definition of marriage.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Across the UK, schools are studying how they can change with society
0:24:58 > 0:25:00and Tthat means learning with their pupils.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Chris Buckler, BBC News, Belfast.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for throwing acid
0:25:04 > 0:25:07into the crowd at a packed East London nightclub.
0:25:07 > 0:25:0816 people were seriously injured.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10In CCTV footage from the Mangle Club in Hackney,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12taken in April last year, Arthur Collins, the former boyfriend
0:25:12 > 0:25:15of a reality TV star, can be seen squirting the liquid
0:25:15 > 0:25:16into a group on the dance-floor.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Prosecutors say it related to a gang feud Collins was involved in.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Christmas, it's that time of year again when rather a lot
0:25:22 > 0:25:25of turkeys will be served up for the traditional Christmas roast.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26But archaeologists in Devon believe they have unearthed
0:25:26 > 0:25:29a rather special turkey, it may well be the oldest turkey
0:25:29 > 0:25:31ever discovered in the UK, dating back almost 500 years.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Jon Kay has the story.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35A traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings,
0:25:35 > 0:25:38but it seems they've been gobbling it up here in Devon for much longer
0:25:38 > 0:25:39than anybody realised.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40At Exeter University, a surprise discovery.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43At first I wasn't sure because it looks like a giant chicken.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46In a pile of ancient animal remains, found here in the '80s,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48two mysterious thigh bones and a wing.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Archeologists have now established they're from an American species
0:25:50 > 0:25:53of turkey nearly 500 years ago, believed to be the oldest
0:25:53 > 0:25:54ever found in Britain.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57I started knocking on doors and showing off just how excited
0:25:57 > 0:25:59I was by actually telling other people, "look what I found."
0:25:59 > 0:26:02But, yes, so it is very nice and it's really great for a zoo
0:26:02 > 0:26:04archeologist to actually have this connection with history.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06We've got a plate and a bowl.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08The bones could be dated because they were found
0:26:08 > 0:26:11with a pile of washing up - crockery from a grand
0:26:11 > 0:26:13feast in the early 1500s, which is when the first
0:26:13 > 0:26:14turkeys arrived here.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17These were an exotic bird, brand new into the country.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18You know, people wouldn't have heard of it.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20What did it taste like?
0:26:20 > 0:26:21You know, what is this giant bird?
0:26:21 > 0:26:24The first turkeys are said to have been imported by the explorer
0:26:24 > 0:26:26William Strickland in the 1520s after he bought six
0:26:26 > 0:26:27from some native Americans.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Well, Strickland is said to have sold his birds for tuppence each.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Five centuries later, turkeys are rather bigger business,
0:26:32 > 0:26:3510 million of them due to be sold in Britain just over Christmas.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Off we go then, turkeys.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39This Devon farmer wonders if the bones found down the road
0:26:39 > 0:26:41might be from those original birds.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Potentially these, in some way, are direct descendants
0:26:43 > 0:26:46of the ones that arrived, and here they are back in Devon.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48So this's quite nice.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51In what else but a sandwich box, the turkey bones have now been taken
0:26:51 > 0:26:53to the city museum to go on the display after
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Christmas dinner.
0:26:54 > 0:27:04Jon Kay, BBC News, Exeter.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12Time for a look at the weather, here's
0:27:12 > 0:27:18Tomasz. It was bone chilling cold in Bournemouth this morning, compared
0:27:18 > 0:27:21to other parts of the country. We will look at that in
0:27:21 > 0:27:22to other parts of the country. We will look at that in a second. Look
0:27:22 > 0:27:29at this stunning picture from Uckfield, East Sussex. Beautiful. A
0:27:29 > 0:27:32nice foggy one from Staffordshire. We didn't quite have as much fog as
0:27:32 > 0:27:37we thought. It was more frosty than anything. My yus four on the coast
0:27:37 > 0:27:41there. 15 degrees at the same time in Scotland. That is how incredible
0:27:41 > 0:27:48and weird our climate is sometimes. Or weather! This evening, lots of
0:27:48 > 0:27:53cloud across the country. There will be no freezing fog or frost or
0:27:53 > 0:27:56anything tonight. Temperatures will be too high for that, six, seven
0:27:56 > 0:28:00degrees. Early on Wednesday morning in the north of the country it will
0:28:00 > 0:28:04be into double figures. Overall a mild night in the way. We are
0:28:04 > 0:28:07forecasting this mild weather to stay with us through most of this
0:28:07 > 0:28:10week and into the run-up to Christmas. Look at that, the mild
0:28:10 > 0:28:15air has reached areas as far north as Scandinavia, Finland and even the
0:28:15 > 0:28:19far west of Russia. Through the course of tomorrow it's cloudy and
0:28:19 > 0:28:22quite drizzly across western parts of England and Wales. There is a
0:28:22 > 0:28:26weather front moving across the UK. This is where we sometimes find a
0:28:26 > 0:28:32little bit of rain to the north of the weather front it will be cooler.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Not desperately cold, nine in Aberdeen. There will be more
0:28:34 > 0:28:38sunshine around. A mild morning and a mild day overall across the UK
0:28:38 > 0:28:42tomorrow. Here is Thursday, stays mild, cloudy unfortunately, not very
0:28:42 > 0:28:46festive. No frost around either. The north of the country a little bit
0:28:46 > 0:28:46fresher