19/12/2016

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:00. > :00:08.Thousands of workers launch a wave of strikes,

:00:09. > :00:11.hitting postal services and rail companies in the run

:00:12. > :00:19.Services at some of the Post Office's larger branches will be

:00:20. > :00:22.affected, and passengers on the rail network in the south east of England

:00:23. > :00:36.are also being told to expect disruption.

:00:37. > :00:39.Good morning, it's Monday the 19th of December.

:00:40. > :00:45.The evacuation of thousands of people trapped in eastern Aleppo

:00:46. > :00:53.has resumed with around 350 moved out on buses last night.

:00:54. > :00:57.I'm live with Durham Constabulary during one of the busiest weeks

:00:58. > :01:01.of the year to show the reality of modern day policing.

:01:02. > :01:04.In particular the rise of mental health incidents that are taking up

:01:05. > :01:12.Could flat-pack houses built in factories be the answer

:01:13. > :01:18.I'll be looking at a new ?2 billion scheme to deliver more new homes.

:01:19. > :01:21.A ?2.5 billion joint venture to create six factories to make

:01:22. > :01:23.modular houses will be announced today.

:01:24. > :01:25.In sport, Andy Murray is the Sports Personality

:01:26. > :01:29.The Olympic and Wimbledon champion beat the triathlete

:01:30. > :01:32.Alistair Brownlee and show jumper Nick Skelton into second and third.

:01:33. > :01:36.And guess who else I managed to catch up with on the red carpet?

:01:37. > :01:40.glitter-ball trophy, Ore.

:01:41. > :01:53.Good morning. This morning there is some fog around, that might make you

:01:54. > :01:58.cry, it will slowly lift for most but it will stick around the Vale of

:01:59. > :02:03.York and linkage for most. Rain in the forecast in parts of the south

:02:04. > :02:04.east and north-east, but in between there's sunshine. More details in 15

:02:05. > :02:07.minutes. -- Lincolnshire. Thousands of post office workers

:02:08. > :02:11.are beginning strike action today. The walkout by the Communication

:02:12. > :02:14.Workers Union is the latest move in a dispute over pension changes,

:02:15. > :02:17.job security and closures. Industrial action this week

:02:18. > :02:19.will also affect airports and Southern Rail services,

:02:20. > :02:31.as Keith Doyle reports. This last week before Christmas is

:02:32. > :02:35.already busy and stressful. But strikes and industrial action could

:02:36. > :02:41.make it a Christmas of discontent for many. On the trains, Southern

:02:42. > :02:44.Railway passengers face more disruption as 400 conductors strike

:02:45. > :02:49.today and tomorrow. Is not expected to cause the same level of

:02:50. > :02:53.disruption as last week's strikes by drivers, however many routes and

:02:54. > :02:59.services will be affected. 3500 workers are starting a five-day

:03:00. > :03:03.strike today at the post office and it could see the closure of larger

:03:04. > :03:07.high street branches, although the Post Office says disruption to the

:03:08. > :03:11.public should be minimal. A line Travellers face double trouble this

:03:12. > :03:16.week as baggage handlers working for Swiss port are set to strike on

:03:17. > :03:21.Friday and Saturday. This will mainly affect regional airports. But

:03:22. > :03:25.a strike by 4500 British Airways cabin crew overpaid could also see

:03:26. > :03:30.flights disrupted on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. There are efforts

:03:31. > :03:35.being made to resolve these disputes. BA management and the

:03:36. > :03:39.union Unite will meet today and a meeting tomorrow to resolve the

:03:40. > :03:42.baggage handlers' dispute is due to be held but the Post Office strike

:03:43. > :03:47.is on and there seems little prospect of an early end to the

:03:48. > :03:51.long-running dispute between the RMT union and Southern Railway, meaning

:03:52. > :03:54.300,000 commuters face even more disruption. BBC News.

:03:55. > :03:57.Keith Doyle is at Victoria Station in London with the latest

:03:58. > :04:11.What do we know, what might have changed today? Victoria station just

:04:12. > :04:15.coming to life but for many thousands of commuters making their

:04:16. > :04:19.journey today, it will be a long and difficult journey. Some routes are

:04:20. > :04:25.cancelled but many routes, nearly all the routes, seem to have some

:04:26. > :04:28.sort of delays on them. Southern Railway are saying that there's

:04:29. > :04:33.going to be packed trains, many services are going to be cancelled.

:04:34. > :04:39.Looking at those other strikes as well, talking about the Post Office,

:04:40. > :04:43.the Post Office managers are saying 97% of branches will be open but the

:04:44. > :04:47.problems could be if other union members decide not to cross picket

:04:48. > :04:52.lines. All these strikes are going to affect people in the run-up to

:04:53. > :04:56.Christmas, so there's going to be a difficulty getting festive cheer in

:04:57. > :04:59.this week running up to Christmas. Thanks, Kate. See you later on. --

:05:00. > :05:01.Keith. Just after 6:30am we'll speak

:05:02. > :05:03.to a Conservative MP about whether he thinks the rules

:05:04. > :05:06.surrounding strike action We'll also hear from

:05:07. > :05:08.the Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress

:05:09. > :05:11.later in the programme. The evacuation of the ruins of east

:05:12. > :05:14.Aleppo in Syria has resumed. Around 350 people, said by aid

:05:15. > :05:17.workers to be in a terrible condition, were brought out

:05:18. > :05:21.of the city last night on buses but thousands are still

:05:22. > :05:22.waiting to leave. The United Nations Security Council

:05:23. > :05:26.will vote today on plans to send UN Not as soon as they would have

:05:27. > :05:33.liked, not in the circumstances many would have wanted, but at last

:05:34. > :05:37.the buses arrived to take hundreds These people may now be refugees

:05:38. > :05:46.in their own country, Some were met by charity workers

:05:47. > :05:54.in Turkey who provided medical care, Many, though, have nowhere else

:05:55. > :06:02.to go, so they end up It's cramped, it's muddy,

:06:03. > :06:14.but for now, it is much safer TRANSLATION: It is better

:06:15. > :06:18.than it was in Aleppo. We have new friends walking

:06:19. > :06:24.and playing together. There was a food shortage back

:06:25. > :06:39.there but we're eating food here. We hated life but here we are eating

:06:40. > :06:42.biscuits and everything! Over the weekend, evacuations

:06:43. > :06:46.were put on hold, with both sides blaming each other for

:06:47. > :06:48.breaking their word. This bus was set to take people out

:06:49. > :06:51.of government-controlled areas, but was besieged by rebels

:06:52. > :06:53.and set alight, delaying Later on, the UN Security Council

:06:54. > :06:58.will agree on a deal to monitor evacuations with the hope

:06:59. > :07:00.that the process can speed up. In the short-term, those who have

:07:01. > :07:04.left Aleppo may feel the release of safety, but there

:07:05. > :07:06.are no guarantees. Idlib Province, where many

:07:07. > :07:08.are heading, may well be the next The number of lives lost due

:07:09. > :07:13.to suicide in England is unacceptable according

:07:14. > :07:16.to a group of MPs. It remains the biggest cause

:07:17. > :07:19.of death in men under 49. In a report, the Health

:07:20. > :07:21.Select Committee says a government prevention strategy

:07:22. > :07:24.for England in 2012 didn't result It's due to be updated

:07:25. > :07:34.early next year. It was 13 years ago. Angela and her

:07:35. > :07:39.partner, Mark, had two young sons. He had no history of mental illness

:07:40. > :07:43.but he took his own life. One minute you're talking to them on the phone

:07:44. > :07:48.and the next many you never going to speak to them again. I think the

:07:49. > :07:54.shock of that almost... Your head kind of tricks you into thinking

:07:55. > :07:59.this can't be real. She now heads a national charity supporting those

:08:00. > :08:01.affected by suicide. She also presented a BBC documentary

:08:02. > :08:06.encouraging people to talk more about the issue. My work and the

:08:07. > :08:11.work of the trustees and volunteers was to really kind of break that

:08:12. > :08:15.isolation that exists. The report says a government suicide prevention

:08:16. > :08:16.strategy for England in 2012 didn't achieve its aim is. The report's

:08:17. > :08:34.proposals include: The key message here is that suicide

:08:35. > :08:39.is preventable. And what we heard from one witness very powerfully was

:08:40. > :08:43.that... She said it wasn't my son that was hard to reach, it was the

:08:44. > :08:47.services that were hard to reach. A Department of Health spokesperson

:08:48. > :08:50.said every death by suicide was tragic for families and an updated

:08:51. > :08:55.strategy during next year would address many of the issues raised by

:08:56. > :08:59.the committee. Angela has welcomed the report. She hopes it will make a

:09:00. > :09:03.difference and will help prevent more of the sort of devastating

:09:04. > :09:04.losses she had to endure. Hugh Pym, BBC News.

:09:05. > :09:08.Just after 8am, we'll speak to a father whose son killed himself

:09:09. > :09:15.Police officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have seen

:09:16. > :09:17.mental health-related callouts increase by more than a quarter

:09:18. > :09:22.according to figures obtained by BBC Breakfast.

:09:23. > :09:25.30 out of 49 forces answered the Freedom

:09:26. > :09:30.The government says it has halved the use of police cells to deal

:09:31. > :09:32.with people undergoing a mental health crisis and that officers

:09:33. > :09:38.are now working more closely with healthcare services.

:09:39. > :09:46.We used to often take people into custody so they would be there for a

:09:47. > :09:49.number of hours while they're being assessed, so it's not the right

:09:50. > :09:53.environment. If we did take them into custody often we would take

:09:54. > :09:55.them to accident and emergency, which, again, isn't the right place

:09:56. > :09:55.to take them. In around ten minutes you can see

:09:56. > :09:59.how Breakfast's John Maguire got with Leicestershire Police's mental

:10:00. > :10:02.health team. A special sitting of

:10:03. > :10:05.the Stormont Assembly will be held today to examine a green energy

:10:06. > :10:07.scheme that's been described as the biggest financial scandal

:10:08. > :10:10.ever in Northern Ireland. Stormont's First Minister Arlene

:10:11. > :10:12.Foster will face a motion of no confidence during

:10:13. > :10:14.today's proceedings. But she's rejected calls

:10:15. > :10:17.from Sinn Fein to step aside during an investigation

:10:18. > :10:19.into the project, which is thought Our Ireland correspondent

:10:20. > :10:36.Chris Buckler reports. Arlene Foster was a popular choice.

:10:37. > :10:40.When she was selected to become DUP leader and Northern Ireland's First

:10:41. > :10:43.Minister almost exactly a year ago. But she is now under pressure and

:10:44. > :10:48.facing damaging accusations, some of which come from within her own

:10:49. > :10:53.party. This is Foster was enterprise minister when a badly flawed green

:10:54. > :10:57.energy scheme was set up. It's left 2000 businesses in a position where

:10:58. > :11:03.the more they burned, the more they earn -- Mrs Foster. The scheme works

:11:04. > :11:08.like this. For every ?1 of you company uses they are paid around ?1

:11:09. > :11:11.60, that was to encourage them to buy environmentally friendly

:11:12. > :11:17.boilers. But because initially there were no caps or limits its projected

:11:18. > :11:21.to have gone ?400 million over budget. Last week a DUP politician

:11:22. > :11:25.accused officials from within his own party of delaying crucial

:11:26. > :11:30.changes to the scheme despite warnings. The special advisers of

:11:31. > :11:37.the DUP interfered in my decision-making. I have this too

:11:38. > :11:41.close to a less lucrative rake. Mr Bell's claims have been denied by

:11:42. > :11:45.the DUP and he has been suspended from the party. But they have

:11:46. > :11:50.stirred up old divisions at Stormont with the DUP rejecting calls from

:11:51. > :11:54.their partner in government, Sinn Fein, for Arlene Foster to step

:11:55. > :11:57.aside during an investigation. The First Minister will face a motion of

:11:58. > :12:02.no-confidence today. It's expected to fail but it will be the most

:12:03. > :12:04.heated debates. Chris Buckler, News, Belfast.

:12:05. > :12:05.The Hungarian-born actress and socialite

:12:06. > :12:09.Her age was a closely guarded secret, but she was thought

:12:10. > :12:12.Her husband announced her death yesterday evening.

:12:13. > :12:16.She made more than seventy films, but as one of the first

:12:17. > :12:19.socialites, she helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple

:12:20. > :12:24.By her own reckoning she was only married eight-and-a-half times.

:12:25. > :12:27.She didn't really count a Spanish Duke, who she left

:12:28. > :12:37.This report from Nick Higham contains some flashing images.

:12:38. > :12:39.Zsa Zsa Gabor may have been a great beauty,

:12:40. > :12:43.I know everything - I heard the verdict.

:12:44. > :12:48.I must take that risk, and so must you.

:12:49. > :12:50.Her screen career was undistinguished, though it did

:12:51. > :12:53.include camp classics like the truly terrible Queen Of Outer Space.

:12:54. > :12:56.If you must go, promise me you're going to come back to me.

:12:57. > :12:59.Her greatest role was as herself, one of the first professional

:13:00. > :13:01.celebrities, famous for simply being famous.

:13:02. > :13:04.She was rich, she was gorgeous, she was outrageous and she ate

:13:05. > :13:08.Her last marriage, in 1986, was her eighth,

:13:09. > :13:13.or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony conducted at sea.

:13:14. > :13:15.Women don't even get married any more today.

:13:16. > :13:21.They said you have to get married, legalised, which was done but now

:13:22. > :13:24.I just leave myself to live in sin, it's wonderful.

:13:25. > :13:34.We have to look after their house and they cheat on you.

:13:35. > :13:38.In 1989, she was briefly jailed for hitting a Hollywood traffic cop

:13:39. > :13:42.She was well into her 70s, though during the court case

:13:43. > :13:45.she was accused of doctoring her driving licence to disguise her age.

:13:46. > :13:48.By then, her film career had collapsed into self-parody.

:13:49. > :13:54.Every time I see you, I get lumps in my throat.

:13:55. > :13:57.But she never lost a certain innocence, nor her wit.

:13:58. > :14:00.As she once said, "I'm a marvellous housekeeper.

:14:01. > :14:10."Every time I leave a man, I keep his house".

:14:11. > :14:28.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:14:29. > :14:33.Sally is he with the weather. She turned up this morning after the

:14:34. > :14:44.Sports Personality of the Year awards last night. Multitalented.

:14:45. > :14:48.Multi- skilling us always. We are moving, removing the party wristband

:14:49. > :14:55.for the party I never went to. What a night it was. A wonderful night

:14:56. > :15:01.for Andy Murray again. That trophy looks like it has been through the

:15:02. > :15:06.ringer. If you look carefully varies silver tape on one of the legs to

:15:07. > :15:15.hold it together. He was delighted with it. He has won this title for a

:15:16. > :15:30.record third time. He was awarded a ahead of Lennox Lewis. There they

:15:31. > :15:34.are and 80 really loved it. Andy Murray won Olympic gold, a second

:15:35. > :15:46.Wimbledon title and became the men's world number one in the last year.

:15:47. > :15:49.The test between India in Chennai they are now 463- five. Manchester

:15:50. > :15:56.City moved up to second in the Premier League as Stirling scored a

:15:57. > :16:00.winner against an Arsenal side who squandered a lead to lose for the

:16:01. > :16:04.second season of the game. While in the south coast derby, two goals

:16:05. > :16:10.including this cracker gave Southampton a 3-1 win at

:16:11. > :16:17.Bournemouth. The defeated Burnley stop a busy day yesterday. Let's

:16:18. > :16:22.look at the papers, shall we? There is a lot to get through. Andy Murray

:16:23. > :16:31.on the front page of many of the papers today. The main story is also

:16:32. > :16:37.on the mail strike. The front page of the Guardian has a picture of

:16:38. > :16:49.Andy Murray as well. And of an attack in Jordan on tourists. In the

:16:50. > :16:56.mail, this story here, Sally spoke to Ore yesterday. He was in demand.

:16:57. > :17:05.We have a chat on the carpet. We will see that later. Here it is on

:17:06. > :17:13.the next paper, my incredible story. And Andy Murray is an the front

:17:14. > :17:18.cover of the times. Stephanie is with us as well. So, Christmas, lots

:17:19. > :17:23.of people trying to decide what sort of alcohol they want to drink. It

:17:24. > :17:29.would using one presenter? Have they run out again? It has put a lot of

:17:30. > :17:34.pressure stop the Times has picked up on that this morning saying that

:17:35. > :17:39.British people are so keen to drink at present though the Italian

:17:40. > :17:44.producers have redoubled efforts to supply bottles for export. There is

:17:45. > :17:51.a stampede to play more fines going on at the moment in north-eastern

:17:52. > :17:57.Italy. It annoys the locals because of the environment, environmental

:17:58. > :18:02.pressure. So, think about all the work that goes into your bottle of

:18:03. > :18:06.prosecco. There were a couple drunk last night. I want to talk about

:18:07. > :18:11.this man here. Look at this little picture here of runny area who got

:18:12. > :18:16.coach of the year. We had a wonderful time with them after the

:18:17. > :18:24.programme last night. They are in a great mood and I said to him, if he

:18:25. > :18:29.would let them go and have a party. He said no, no. He did suggest they

:18:30. > :18:36.might go have a briefing together. And, very quickly, in news about

:18:37. > :18:43.eggs because I know this is... This is your speciality, isn't it?

:18:44. > :18:46.Apparently it is difficult, I think. There is a well-known supermarket

:18:47. > :18:51.that is making, you can basically bake this poached egg and it is

:18:52. > :18:56.running and it is beautiful. No need for a whirlpool or vinegar or any of

:18:57. > :19:00.those things. One day, give me the back half hour of the programme one

:19:01. > :19:08.day and I will show you how it is done. I think it is time free

:19:09. > :19:16.briefing, Sally. See you later for that briefing. Here is Carol was a

:19:17. > :19:20.look at the weather. Good morning. For once again. At the moment it is

:19:21. > :19:27.not as dense as it was this time yesterday that it may lead to travel

:19:28. > :19:30.disruption. We are looking at areas like the Vale of York and

:19:31. > :19:36.Lincolnshire. The south-east, the Midlands, southern England. It is

:19:37. > :19:41.patchy and not as dense as it was yesterday but in one or two places

:19:42. > :19:46.you can see a few dense patches. A dank and cloudy start to the day.

:19:47. > :19:50.There is low cloud and drizzle and parts of East Anglia heading towards

:19:51. > :19:54.the Midlands. Even further north again cloud around with fog.

:19:55. > :19:58.Splashes of rain just out towards the west. At seven o'clock we will

:19:59. > :20:05.see that moving across the Outer Hebrides. And as we drift east there

:20:06. > :20:09.are some clearing skies. As we had an through the course of the morning

:20:10. > :20:13.you will find most of the fog will lift as the cloud comes across. We

:20:14. > :20:17.have all this rain coming in from the south-east. That will drift

:20:18. > :20:23.westwards through the day. Equally another band coming in from the

:20:24. > :20:26.west. It will have south-east and behind its clear conditions and a

:20:27. > :20:32.little bit of sunshine. Temperature wise today, nothing to write home

:20:33. > :20:39.about. 7- 10 Celsius. Overnight a band of rain continues to advance

:20:40. > :20:46.towards the west and overhear it meets with this band here. Cool with

:20:47. > :20:50.a touch of frost and parts of northern Scotland tonight. Likely to

:20:51. > :20:55.be freezing fog forming as well. Tomorrow we begin once again with a

:20:56. > :21:01.band of rain. It weakens all the time, now that day, actually because

:21:02. > :21:05.for much of the rest of England will be sunshine and sunshine across

:21:06. > :21:09.Scotland as well. But then we have our next band of wet and windy

:21:10. > :21:14.weather coming our way in the wind will continue to strengthen as we go

:21:15. > :21:18.through of the day. Looking at Gales, severe gales, across parts of

:21:19. > :21:21.the west and north of Scotland with exposure for the Western Isles and

:21:22. > :21:26.the Outer Hebrides for example. Later on, luckily, we could even

:21:27. > :21:29.have storm force winds. Bear that in mind if you are doing anything

:21:30. > :21:34.outdoors tomorrow evening or overnight. As we have through

:21:35. > :21:37.Tuesday into Wednesday there is a front heading steadily southwards

:21:38. > :21:43.and another one comes in light behind it look at these isobars. It

:21:44. > :21:47.will be another windy day. All this race produced into the south-east. A

:21:48. > :21:50.second wind comes in from the west as well and behind it and clear

:21:51. > :21:55.skies with sunshine and also some showers. Some showers across

:21:56. > :22:03.Scotland will be windy in nature so that will be a cold day here. Has

:22:04. > :22:08.become further south we got back into double figures. And then as we

:22:09. > :22:14.head towards Christmas it looks like at the moment it will be wet and

:22:15. > :22:18.windy and the hills are likely to cease now at time. A wet and windy

:22:19. > :22:18.Christmas. Thank you very much, Carol.

:22:19. > :22:21.Police are increasingly having to deal with people who have

:22:22. > :22:25.All this week on Breakfast, we're looking at the realities

:22:26. > :22:27.of modern policing, and have discovered through a Freedom

:22:28. > :22:29.of Information request that officers in England,

:22:30. > :22:32.Wales and Northern Ireland have seen mental health-related call-outs

:22:33. > :22:34.increase by more than a quarter in just three years.

:22:35. > :22:36.John Maguire has been investigating how police

:22:37. > :22:38.are responding to this new challenge.

:22:39. > :22:47.We can join him now at a custody suite in Darlington.

:22:48. > :22:57.Good morning. We are being hosted this week by the police here in

:22:58. > :23:04.Durham. This is a custody suite. There are 16 Celsius. Not a very

:23:05. > :23:07.busy night last night, only a few people left however earlier in the

:23:08. > :23:10.weekend it was quite different. Hopefully you will never experience

:23:11. > :23:16.inside of one of these but as you can see this as the bedding. A solid

:23:17. > :23:19.platform at the bottom. A mattress, a fellow. You will be given a

:23:20. > :23:22.blanket. A toilet and washing facilities will stomp all the

:23:23. > :23:27.time-honoured set by video and by audio. A rather sobering message

:23:28. > :23:31.here. It is not love the Queen of late to avoid further arrest ask to

:23:32. > :23:36.speak to the custody sergeant. That is the person who runs this place

:23:37. > :23:40.and is the very heart of it. But as you can imagine, as you can

:23:41. > :23:46.appreciate, this is not the kind of Place remotely suitable to how

:23:47. > :23:51.someone with mental hills issues. A kind of mattress... It was a weird

:23:52. > :23:55.environment to be in. The last time that combines was that this police

:23:56. > :23:58.station he had been detained under the mental hills act and taken to

:23:59. > :24:02.the cells for this own safety. There were no secure hospital beds

:24:03. > :24:06.available. Given the relative severity you know you need

:24:07. > :24:11.specialist care, especially when you are in a situation like that where

:24:12. > :24:16.you feel suicidal, not just stressed or anxious. Dealing with mental

:24:17. > :24:21.hills as a major issue for police forces and incidents are increasing.

:24:22. > :24:26.Freedom of information figures obtained by BBC breakfast show a

:24:27. > :24:32.rise of over 25% in recent years. Of the 49 forces contacted, 30

:24:33. > :24:39.responded. Not including the Metropolitan police, they recorded

:24:40. > :24:45.over 184,000 cases in 2012. That number has since risen to almost 230

:24:46. > :24:49.2000. I would estimate that our officers currently spend about 20%

:24:50. > :24:53.of their time dealing with people with mental hills issues. The use of

:24:54. > :24:57.police cells is declining. The Devon and Cornwall force previously

:24:58. > :25:01.threatened to sue the NHS. So far this year 58 people had been

:25:02. > :25:08.detained in self. Three years ago it was 800. That, for us, was

:25:09. > :25:12.completely unforgivable. We cannot sustain a position. We worked really

:25:13. > :25:18.hard with partners and we got a lot of protocols in place, we really

:25:19. > :25:22.worked hard to make them realise that a police cell was not the place

:25:23. > :25:27.for a person suffering from a mental hills issue. We are out on the night

:25:28. > :25:30.shift with what is known as the mental hills triage team in

:25:31. > :25:33.Leicestershire. Comprised of a specially trained police officer and

:25:34. > :25:40.a mental hills nurse they can respond to incidents and offer

:25:41. > :25:45.advice to other offices. They are deployed to reports of a man

:25:46. > :25:49.threatening to jump into a canal. It is a large-scale response from all

:25:50. > :25:53.three emergency services. The first job is to check if one of the secure

:25:54. > :25:57.hospital beds in Leicester is free tonight. Potential will be if he is

:25:58. > :26:06.not cooperative... And this colleague talks to offices on the

:26:07. > :26:11.path. Presenting as mentally unwell seeing things, hearing things. I

:26:12. > :26:16.just want to buy this fluid situation. After a few hours the

:26:17. > :26:22.incident is under control and is not being treated as a mental hills

:26:23. > :26:25.case. The next task is in the city centre of Leicester police Centre

:26:26. > :26:30.where a man is said to be agitated and acting irrationally. We need to

:26:31. > :26:37.see what is going on to try get the best outcome. He is presenting with

:26:38. > :26:41.mental hills issues which I think would be harmful in the community

:26:42. > :26:45.setting. Their objective is to make sure the people of that was

:26:46. > :26:51.appropriately and not criminalised. All sides recognise a major problem,

:26:52. > :26:53.even a crisis. One is complex as it is contentious and one for which

:26:54. > :27:01.there is still no quick fix. This is the best weather custody

:27:02. > :27:07.sergeant said. Screens above monitors all the cells and record

:27:08. > :27:11.video and audio. This is somewhere where people will come in and be

:27:12. > :27:15.certain what is interesting here, a smart water system with a UV light

:27:16. > :27:25.so, if for example someone is arrested and suspected of burglary,

:27:26. > :27:28.then they have the tell-tale signs of coming into contact with smart

:27:29. > :27:33.water when they should not. We will be talking to the police chief of

:27:34. > :27:37.Durham to get this views on how offices across the UK are dealing

:27:38. > :27:39.with a very, very challenging issue of people with mental hills issues.

:27:40. > :27:46.That is very interesting. I did not know that was how it worked. Thank

:27:47. > :27:49.you to tomorrow we shall continue our series with a special report

:27:50. > :27:53.from inside a domestic violence Project looked at aiming them to

:27:54. > :27:57.control their behaviour. Preventing them from becoming abusive. All part

:27:58. > :27:58.of our policing Britain series which will run all this week.

:27:59. > :31:19.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:31:20. > :31:22.I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom

:31:23. > :31:28.Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:31:29. > :31:30.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:31:31. > :31:34.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:31:35. > :31:40.Christopher Habgood was just 26 when he took his own life.

:31:41. > :31:43.We'll speak to his father about why he thinks suicide remains

:31:44. > :31:57.It was a reporter from the daily Chronicle. Hang on, why am I telling

:31:58. > :31:59.you the truth? We'll meet his latest

:32:00. > :32:06.companion in a sneak peak And he kicked, flicked

:32:07. > :32:09.and shimmied his way to Strictly's coveted

:32:10. > :32:11.glitter-ball trophy, we caught up with Ore

:32:12. > :32:13.fresh after his triumph But now a summary of this

:32:14. > :32:20.morning's main news. Thousands of Post Office workers

:32:21. > :32:22.are beginning strike The walkout by the

:32:23. > :32:25.Communication Workers Union is the latest move in a dispute

:32:26. > :32:28.over pension changes, Commuters on Southern Rail are also

:32:29. > :32:32.facing further disruption and there are talks due to take

:32:33. > :32:35.place aimed at preventing industrial We can speak now to the Conservative

:32:36. > :32:42.MP Chris Philp who is among those of tighter rules governing strike

:32:43. > :32:51.action. Good morning and thank you for

:32:52. > :32:56.joining us. Good morning. What roles are you talking about? -- rules.

:32:57. > :33:01.There are already odorous ones in place. There are in terms of the

:33:02. > :33:04.ballot you are required for a strike but unfortunately it looks like

:33:05. > :33:09.organisations like the RMT are going to FARC on Southern and we need a

:33:10. > :33:12.new law to require strikes on critical public infrastructure to be

:33:13. > :33:17.reasonable and proportionate and you would have a High Court judge

:33:18. > :33:21.deciding that -- too far. On Southern the conductors are arguing

:33:22. > :33:24.about who presses the button to open and closed the doors, it's a

:33:25. > :33:28.relatively minor dispute, there is no safety issue because 1.5 million

:33:29. > :33:33.trains in the last five years have run this way without a single

:33:34. > :33:37.fatality and yet thousands of people are being prevented from getting

:33:38. > :33:40.into work for the better part of a month. So it's not reasonable or

:33:41. > :33:44.proportionate and they are abusing their powers as a trade union to

:33:45. > :33:51.call strikes and the government should legislate and as a backbench

:33:52. > :33:55.MP I'm calling on the government to do that. We will speak to the unions

:33:56. > :33:59.later and we have spoken to them through this dispute, what they are

:34:00. > :34:03.clear on, it's about safety as far as they are concerned. That is just

:34:04. > :34:06.a facade. 1.5 million trains have run in the last five years with

:34:07. > :34:09.driver operated doors with no fatalities, every single underground

:34:10. > :34:14.train in London runs with driver operated doors safely, a third of

:34:15. > :34:18.all the UK surface trains run using this system. The truth came out

:34:19. > :34:23.yesterday when Sean Hoyle, the president of the RMT, was quoted and

:34:24. > :34:27.uncovered by the Sunday Times as saying his real objective is, and

:34:28. > :34:31.these are his words, to bring down the government, and he went on to

:34:32. > :34:35.say he wanted to try to replace the capitalist system with a socialist

:34:36. > :34:39.system. So Sean Hoyle, the president of the RMT, in his own words has

:34:40. > :34:43.admitted what his real objectives are. We have spoken to the unions

:34:44. > :34:47.and they say striking is a last resort and this is an ongoing

:34:48. > :34:52.dispute with the company they had for many months now. You're right,

:34:53. > :34:56.it's been going on for many months but nobody is losing their job or

:34:57. > :35:00.getting a pay cut, every train rather, that reigns with two members

:35:01. > :35:07.of staff, a driver and conductor, will be scheduled like that in the

:35:08. > :35:11.future -- that runs. Is it reasonable to stop 300,000 people

:35:12. > :35:15.from getting to work for the better part of a month simply over who

:35:16. > :35:20.presses the button to open and close the doors? The answer is no. It's

:35:21. > :35:24.not just the official strike action on strike days like this week,

:35:25. > :35:28.outside strike days we have an overtime ban, a work to rule, huge

:35:29. > :35:33.numbers of drivers and conductors calling in sick. So the service is

:35:34. > :35:37.being disrupted on non-striker days as well strike days. Chris, thank

:35:38. > :35:39.you for your time on Breakfast this morning.

:35:40. > :35:42.And after 7am we will be hearing from the Deputy General Secretary

:35:43. > :35:47.We will keep you up to date with how the action is affecting people as

:35:48. > :35:48.well. The evacuation of the ruins of east

:35:49. > :35:51.Aleppo in Syria has resumed. Around 350 people, said

:35:52. > :35:53.by aid workers to be were brought out of the city

:35:54. > :35:58.last But thousands are still

:35:59. > :36:02.waiting to leave. The United Nations Security Council

:36:03. > :36:06.will vote today on plans to send UN The number of lives lost due

:36:07. > :36:11.to suicide in England is unacceptable according

:36:12. > :36:13.to a group of MPs. It remains the biggest cause

:36:14. > :36:16.of death in men under 49. In a report, the Health Select

:36:17. > :36:18.Committee says a government prevention strategy for England

:36:19. > :36:21.in 2012 didn't result It's due to be updated

:36:22. > :36:24.early next year. The committee said support needed

:36:25. > :36:26.to be more accessible Police officers in England,

:36:27. > :36:34.Wales and Northern Ireland have seen mental health-related callouts

:36:35. > :36:36.increase by more than a quarter according to figures obtained by BBC

:36:37. > :36:39.Breakfast. 30 out of 49 forces

:36:40. > :36:41.answered the Freedom The government says it has halved

:36:42. > :36:55.the use of police cells to deal with people undergoing a mental

:36:56. > :36:58.health crisis and that officers are now working more closely

:36:59. > :37:03.with healthcare services. A special sitting of

:37:04. > :37:05.the Stormont Assembly will be held today to examine a green energy

:37:06. > :37:08.scheme that's been described as the biggest financial scandal

:37:09. > :37:11.ever in Northern Ireland. Stormont's First Minister Arlene

:37:12. > :37:13.Foster will face a motion of no confidence during

:37:14. > :37:14.today's proceedings. But she's rejected calls

:37:15. > :37:17.from Sinn Fein to step aside during an investigation

:37:18. > :37:20.into the project, which is thought The Hungarian-born

:37:21. > :37:27.actress and socialite, She made more than 70 films,

:37:28. > :37:32.but as one of the first socialites, she helped invent a new kind of fame

:37:33. > :37:36.out of multiple marriages By her own reckoning

:37:37. > :37:38.she was only married She didn't really count

:37:39. > :37:42.a Spanish Duke, who she left Her age was a closely guarded

:37:43. > :37:46.secret, but she was thought Her husband said she died

:37:47. > :38:00.at home surrounded by her 99! Still quite impressive, even

:38:01. > :38:07.though we don't really know how old she was. Possibly she may have been

:38:08. > :38:12.older. Or even younger! Who knows? What we do know for sure is that

:38:13. > :38:17.Andy Murray is Sports Personality of the Year for the third time. Winner,

:38:18. > :38:22.winner, chicken dinner! What a year he has had. I wonder if he had a

:38:23. > :38:26.chicken dinner. I think he loves chicken dinner. With steamed

:38:27. > :38:30.broccoli no doubt. A bit of inside information, after the photo shoots

:38:31. > :38:33.and the glamour of Sports Personality of the Year, he was

:38:34. > :38:40.going to start his Christmas shopping in Miami. With all those

:38:41. > :38:43.people in the background? With people in bikinis around the pool,

:38:44. > :38:47.did anyone notice that at home? Andy Murray was by the pool and people

:38:48. > :38:50.were getting on with their day. " Who is that bloke over there with

:38:51. > :38:52.the big broken trophy? " Andy Murray has become the first

:38:53. > :38:55.person to win the BBC Sports Personality of

:38:56. > :38:57.the Year award three times. The 2013 and 2015 winner,

:38:58. > :38:59.took Olympic gold, claimed his second Wimbledon title

:39:00. > :39:02.and became tennis' world number one for the first time

:39:03. > :39:05.in a remarkable 2016. He wasn't at the event in Birmingham

:39:06. > :39:08.and was given the trophy by former undisputed heavyweight boxing

:39:09. > :39:10.champion Lennox Lewis Triathlete Alistair Brownlee

:39:11. > :39:15.was voted second and show jumper Leicester City took

:39:16. > :39:18.team of the year. It's the fourth day of the fifth

:39:19. > :39:21.and final Test between England The hosts began the day on 391-4

:39:22. > :39:36.in reply to England's 477. They are 463-5, 14 runs behind.

:39:37. > :39:40.India have already won the series. Manchester City came from behind

:39:41. > :39:43.to beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Etihad to move second in

:39:44. > :39:45.the Premier League. The Gunners shot into the lead

:39:46. > :39:47.after only five minutes when Theo Walcott

:39:48. > :39:49.slotted them ahead. But a second half equaliser

:39:50. > :39:52.from Leroy Sane was followed It's the second successive game

:39:53. > :39:57.Arsenal led and then lost, but the manager felt the officials

:39:58. > :40:01.were at fault and says the group in charge of referees isn't

:40:02. > :40:13.doing its job properly. We conceded two offside goals and

:40:14. > :40:18.that is very difficult to accept in a game like that. I believe there's

:40:19. > :40:22.a lot going on at the moment that is not serious on the pitch. It's

:40:23. > :40:24.unbelievable. Tottenham are fifth in the table,

:40:25. > :40:26.just one point behind Arsenal, as they beat Burnley

:40:27. > :40:29.2-1 at white Hart Lane. Danny Rose scored the winner midway

:40:30. > :40:32.through the second half. the lead before Dele Alli

:40:33. > :40:45.equalised. We need to fight till the end of the

:40:46. > :40:51.season. It's a lot of games ahead, it's a long way to the end of the

:40:52. > :40:53.season. I think our position, we are very calm, and only working hard to

:40:54. > :40:58.go with that and try to win games. Southampton also came

:40:59. > :41:01.from behind to beat South Coast neighbours Bournemouth 3-1

:41:02. > :41:03.at the Vitality Stadium. This was the stunning second goal

:41:04. > :41:06.of the game for Jay Rodriguez and helped move Claude Puel's

:41:07. > :41:09.side up to seventh. In rugby there was an upset

:41:10. > :41:12.in the European Champions Cup as Scarlets held on to beat

:41:13. > :41:14.three-time champions Toulon 22-21. Toulon and Wales star

:41:15. > :41:18.Leigh Halfpenny missed this penalty, the last kick of the game,

:41:19. > :41:22.to hand Scarlets their first ever Scott Williams scored the only try

:41:23. > :41:28.for the hosts as fly-half Defending champions Saracens

:41:29. > :41:36.continued their 100% record in the competition,

:41:37. > :41:38.but they were made to work for a 26-10 victory

:41:39. > :41:40.against Sale Sharks. Owen Farrell scored 19 of those

:41:41. > :41:43.points including this opening try Sarries top Pool Three

:41:44. > :41:47.while Sale are bottom. Elsewhere Ulster lost

:41:48. > :41:57.to Clermont Auvergne. I know lots of people at home

:41:58. > :42:00.watched Sports Personality of the Year last night and saw it on the

:42:01. > :42:02.television, what do you really want to know about? What was happening

:42:03. > :42:11.behind the scenes! I was there! Soaking it all up! And

:42:12. > :42:15.filming it all for BBC Breakfast. Here's my peace.

:42:16. > :42:27.Max Whitlock, ladies and gentlemen! No rehearsing, no nothing. Wow! I

:42:28. > :42:35.could have stood there all day. OK! You look lovely. Thank you. What an

:42:36. > :42:38.incredible year 2016 has been. We are rubbing shoulders with sporting

:42:39. > :42:46.royalty here on the red carpet tonight. Look at this, it is the

:42:47. > :42:50.gold winning women's hockey team. So we are now inside the arena where as

:42:51. > :42:56.you can probably tell the excitement really is building. I have to go and

:42:57. > :43:02.find my seat so you lot need to go! We are backstage. That was a moment

:43:03. > :43:06.and a half, can you hear the crowd inside here? Leicester City have

:43:07. > :43:10.just been announced as team of the year. The fairytale for them

:43:11. > :43:14.continues. I'm hoping to speak to a couple of the players in just a

:43:15. > :43:20.moment but I better get my skates on. Ladies and gentlemen, please

:43:21. > :43:24.welcome the Leicester City squad. Coach of the year, congratulations.

:43:25. > :43:29.Thank you. I was very surprised but of course I am very pleased. Want to

:43:30. > :43:34.say thank you to the owner for bringing me back in England. And, of

:43:35. > :43:38.course, the players, because without the players it is difficult to win

:43:39. > :43:44.something. Let's find out the results then. Jess, can you tell us,

:43:45. > :43:46.please, who is in third place? In third place is Nick Skelton. In

:43:47. > :43:57.second place is Alistair Brownlee. Hang on a minute, look who I've

:43:58. > :44:03.found in the corridor. Nick Skelton, Alistair Brownlee. Come on in, lads.

:44:04. > :44:08.Second and third place in BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Can I get

:44:09. > :44:12.you to take a seat on our lovely red sofa here, make yourself at home,

:44:13. > :44:17.this is our BBC Breakfast sofa for the evening. Huge congratulations to

:44:18. > :44:22.both of you, it's such an honour to be nominated. How do you feel after

:44:23. > :44:29.your award tonight? It was amazing to be in the first three. And to be

:44:30. > :44:35.sitting there in front of all those great sportsmen and sportswomen, I

:44:36. > :44:39.think very happy. You know what I've noticed about both of you, you both

:44:40. > :44:43.have a story that goes beyond sport in many ways. Sport is a fantastic

:44:44. > :44:47.thing and winning things is brilliant and that's what we're

:44:48. > :44:50.about as sports people, it's all about winning but actually to the

:44:51. > :44:55.wider public, it's what goes along with it that shows you're a normal

:44:56. > :44:59.person like any normal person, what's interesting and that's what

:45:00. > :45:04.captures peoples imaginations. Brilliant, lovely to talk to both of

:45:05. > :45:10.you. And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray.

:45:11. > :45:15.Andy Murray has just been announced as the winner for 2016. We can talk

:45:16. > :45:19.to him now live from Miami, but I have to tell you, Andy, there's

:45:20. > :45:23.something I haven't mentioned, I have a new BBC Breakfast co-

:45:24. > :45:31.presenter with me, you might recognise this voice. Hi, darling.

:45:32. > :45:35.Well done! High, mum! Sorry, Andy, sorry to spring that new. Is it a

:45:36. > :45:42.bit embarrassing to hear your mum being so nice about you? -- on you.

:45:43. > :45:49.I'm used to being embarrassed by my mum honestly, obviously! But, yeah,

:45:50. > :45:54.look, it's obviously nice because now that I'm a parent myself I know

:45:55. > :45:58.how difficult it must have been for them to allow me and Jamie to go

:45:59. > :46:03.away and pursue our tennis careers when we were, like, 13, 14 years

:46:04. > :46:08.old. We wouldn't have been able to do what we've done without their

:46:09. > :46:13.sacrifices. So, yeah. Andy, thank you so much for your time, thank you

:46:14. > :46:15.for talking to us and huge congratulations. Thank you. By, mum.

:46:16. > :46:23.By, darling. I love that. He genuinely didn't

:46:24. > :46:28.know she would be there and I think he handled it really well. Proper

:46:29. > :46:33.access all areas! The sofa is there and it was fantastic. A great night

:46:34. > :46:39.and all worthy winners on the night, great and sorry I'm a bit croaky.

:46:40. > :46:44.It's inspiring but makes you feel inadequate! Totally! We have spoken

:46:45. > :46:48.obviously to Andy Murray, which is fantastic, and we are speaking to

:46:49. > :46:53.Alistair Brownlee later? Yes, in the next hour or so, we are waking him

:46:54. > :46:55.up early so he won't have had much sleep. Thanks very much.

:46:56. > :47:02.Shall we catch up with the weather. Have a look at the fog. Sally looked

:47:03. > :47:06.gorgeous last night, she normally does but especially last night. We

:47:07. > :47:09.have some fog in the forecast today but as we go through the week it is

:47:10. > :47:16.a mainly dry start. Some rain around but from mid week

:47:17. > :47:19.we will seem or a net and it will be turning windy. That's because of

:47:20. > :47:23.what is happening across the Atlantic, cold air across Canada and

:47:24. > :47:30.the United States, but you can see in Florida the milder amber colours.

:47:31. > :47:37.Temperatures here in the mid-20s, the blues are subzero, that is a

:47:38. > :47:42.thermal gradient. That pumps a lot of air into the jet stream. It is

:47:43. > :47:47.unusually strong at the moment, wind speeds were planes fly at 230 mph.

:47:48. > :47:52.If you know anyone coming back from the States this week they will be

:47:53. > :47:56.getting back quite quickly. It will have an impact on our weather.

:47:57. > :48:01.Especially in the northern half it will be wet and windy. This morning

:48:02. > :48:05.it is fog. Anywhere patchy fog from the Vale of York, Lincolnshire, East

:48:06. > :48:09.Anglia, the south-east, the Midlands, southern England, we have

:48:10. > :48:12.some of that this morning but not as dense as this time yesterday and

:48:13. > :48:16.most of it will lift, although it could stick for much of the day

:48:17. > :48:22.across the Vale of York and leakage. But generally a cloudy start, a dank

:48:23. > :48:28.one, some damp incher -- linkage. -- dampness. Further north away from

:48:29. > :48:33.the fog we have a bit of cloud. -- Lincolnshire. Rain coming in across

:48:34. > :48:37.western Scotland and patchy rain coming in across Northern Ireland.

:48:38. > :48:42.Through the course of the day what's going to happen is this band of rain

:48:43. > :48:45.will move south-east. More rain developing across the wash heading

:48:46. > :48:51.towards the Midlands and the Isle of Wight and Channel Islands, both of

:48:52. > :48:55.them eventually will clash. -- Wash. Before that happens, some cloud and

:48:56. > :48:59.some brighter skies in western Scotland and Northern Ireland.

:49:00. > :49:03.Temperatures roughly where they should be at this stage in December,

:49:04. > :49:07.between seven and ten. Through the evening and overnight, we continue

:49:08. > :49:10.to watch our two bands of rain moving together, eventually they

:49:11. > :49:15.merge so heavy bursts for a time in parts of England and Wales. Cloud

:49:16. > :49:18.with showers behind and ahead it will be cold in parts of Northern

:49:19. > :49:23.Ireland and Scotland. Colder night for some frost and also patchy fog

:49:24. > :49:29.so we're likely to see pockets of freezing fog. Tomorrow here's our

:49:30. > :49:33.band of rain, it more or less dies in situ through the day. Some

:49:34. > :49:36.brighter skies in much of England, again some cloud around but then

:49:37. > :49:43.another band of rain coming in across the north-west. It's going to

:49:44. > :49:46.be accompanied by strengthening winds. In fact strengthening winds

:49:47. > :49:49.is putting it mildly because we're looking at very strong winds in the

:49:50. > :49:53.north and west of Scotland courtesy of this weather front, you can see

:49:54. > :49:57.the squeeze on the isobars as well but we could be looking at severe

:49:58. > :50:00.gales in parts of the north and west of Scotland with exposure even storm

:50:01. > :50:02.force in the Outer Hebrides. Wednesday is looking wet and windy

:50:03. > :50:07.with some showers It sounds as if it will be busy.

:50:08. > :50:13.Thank you, Carol. Could flat-pack houses be the answer

:50:14. > :50:16.to the national housing shortage? Steph is looking at plans

:50:17. > :50:24.to create six factories that This is an interesting one.

:50:25. > :50:25.Essentially a new way to build houses. Let me explain.

:50:26. > :50:27.Last year the government set a target

:50:28. > :50:29.of building one million new homes by 2020.

:50:30. > :50:32.That works out at a rate of about 200,000 a year.

:50:33. > :50:34.Many experts think that number should be higher

:50:35. > :50:37.According to the last set of published figures,

:50:38. > :50:40.there were about 150,000 new homes built in the year to September.

:50:41. > :50:46.So could modular houses like these be the answer?

:50:47. > :50:49.They're constructed off site in a factory and are made

:50:50. > :50:51.from flat-packs or kits before they're delivered

:50:52. > :51:09.Because there is a new project to build six factories in the UK to do

:51:10. > :51:11.this at a cost of ?2.5 billion. Let's have a chat about what is

:51:12. > :51:12.involved. We are here with Rob Henderson is from

:51:13. > :51:14.Jenning Design Architects. He's been involved in a project

:51:15. > :51:24.to deliver 30 modular homes. can you explain what a modular home

:51:25. > :51:32.is? They are exactly the same at a whole they are built off-site. So

:51:33. > :51:37.everything has been built of science while the plumbing and everything is

:51:38. > :51:41.put in place. They are then delivered to the site, stepped up

:51:42. > :51:46.and put in place. Are they built from the same materials and things?

:51:47. > :51:48.There are many ways of doing it but essentially, yes. We have been

:51:49. > :51:57.building timber frame houses all over the country. What is the

:51:58. > :52:03.benefit? Can you make them fast? Several benefits. They can be made

:52:04. > :52:06.faster, delivered faster but the quality is also factory conditions.

:52:07. > :52:12.The specific levels of quality that we can achieve all test and are

:52:13. > :52:16.coming on to site ready to go. Are they the same quality as the

:52:17. > :52:20.traditional houses built on site? That is what people will be

:52:21. > :52:26.concerned about. People don't want them to be disposable. Everyone

:52:27. > :52:29.looks back to the prefab post-war technology back in the 1940s.

:52:30. > :52:36.Technology has come further. Tenants will not be able to tell that was

:52:37. > :52:40.made house or a modular house stop we have had fantastic feedback from

:52:41. > :52:45.residents who love living in these fantastic quality houses. How about

:52:46. > :52:53.the cost? Are they cheaper? They are about like for like at the moment.

:52:54. > :52:57.The current thought is that the volume will need to be there to meet

:52:58. > :53:03.the target set by the government. As soon as our volume comes that will

:53:04. > :53:07.drive down the cost to build and drive up the efficiency and become a

:53:08. > :53:12.real alternative. You think this is how we will make houses in the

:53:13. > :53:15.future? It is certainly a definitely opportunity for us to be able to

:53:16. > :53:20.deliver houses more quickly and better. Thank you for that. If you

:53:21. > :53:21.have any thoughts, please get in touch with us.

:53:22. > :53:24.He was hailed as the "the spirit of Strictly" by head judge

:53:25. > :53:27.Len Goodman, and this weekend, just over 13 million viewers saw

:53:28. > :53:30.Ore Oduba and his dance partner Joanne Clifton win the final

:53:31. > :53:38.Sally caught up with him fresh off the dance floor on the red

:53:39. > :53:57.carpet at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

:53:58. > :54:10.The winner 2016, Ore! Thank you. You can imagine how many times I've

:54:11. > :54:14.heard that said in the last 24 hours. It hasn't sunk in at all. The

:54:15. > :54:26.whole thing has been just a circus but the most incredible experience

:54:27. > :54:31.ever. We saw you win, we saw you win the trophy. What was the party

:54:32. > :54:36.afterwards like? I had... It was wonderful seeing everybody

:54:37. > :54:41.altogether. It was really nice to get everybody back together and have

:54:42. > :54:49.the fun that we have been having over last four months. Good thing I

:54:50. > :54:53.have gone any better for you? I don't think it could have done.

:54:54. > :55:01.Everything went... Well, Craig Evans and nine in the American Smooth. So,

:55:02. > :55:07.Craig, you ruined it... No, you didn't. It was perfect. And what

:55:08. > :55:14.will you do now? Can you work next Tuesday? Christmas is coming. We

:55:15. > :55:20.have had no buildup. My wife is here. We have this, we have

:55:21. > :55:25.Christmas and then we have a holiday. That is what we are doing.

:55:26. > :55:31.Will you be dancing on your holiday? No?! It will be lie down, poolside,

:55:32. > :55:36.beachside and relax. I will reflect on this for months over the festive

:55:37. > :55:41.period because it is just amazing. Congratulations. We are so proud of

:55:42. > :55:48.you. I love you all. I have missed you. Don't lie. I have been getting

:55:49. > :55:58.up at 330 in the morning. I didn't say I missed the time. I said I

:55:59. > :56:09.missed you. Come on, Sally. It goes like this. And now I get you

:56:10. > :56:15.backwards. There we go a bit of swing and sway. I don't have the

:56:16. > :56:24.ability to do this. And I can't teach. But I enjoyed it. 100

:56:25. > :56:28.umbrella thing is still... How many times have you practise that?

:56:29. > :56:30.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:56:31. > :56:33.Still to come this morning: In a Strictly double,

:56:34. > :56:36.Hollyoaks star Danny Mac will also be here to tell us about swapping

:56:37. > :56:39.dancing for singing as he brings "Sleepless in Seattle" from the big

:56:40. > :56:51.I think it is an excuse to watch the summer again a little bit. Let's get

:56:52. > :00:12.news and travel now from Plenty more on our website

:00:13. > :00:18.at the usual address. Hello, this is Breakfast

:00:19. > :00:27.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Thousands of workers

:00:28. > :00:30.launch a wave of strikes, hitting postal services,

:00:31. > :00:31.rail companies and airlines Services at some of the Post

:00:32. > :00:36.Office's larger branches will be affected, and rail passengers

:00:37. > :00:39.in the south east of England Airport baggage handlers and ground

:00:40. > :00:44.staff are expected to walk out later I'll be talking to the union

:00:45. > :00:47.which represents Post Office workers will have in the final days before

:00:48. > :01:09.Christmas. Good morning, it's

:01:10. > :01:10.Monday 19th December. Also this morning: Around 350 people

:01:11. > :01:14.are moved out of eastern Aleppo as the evacuation resumes but many

:01:15. > :01:27.are said by aid workers to be everyone agrees a police cell is not

:01:28. > :01:28.the place for someone who has been detained under the mental health

:01:29. > :01:36.act. Of the major challenges being faced

:01:37. > :01:38.by modern UK police forces. We kick off a series of special reports

:01:39. > :01:41.later this morning -- it's one of. In sport, Andy Murray

:01:42. > :01:43.is the Sports Personality Hi, darling.

:01:44. > :01:53.Well done! The Olympic and Wimbledon

:01:54. > :02:00.champion beat the triathlete Alistair Brownlee

:02:01. > :02:03.and show jumper Nick Skelton And guess who else I managed

:02:04. > :02:07.to catch up with on the red carpet? glitter-ball trophy,

:02:08. > :02:16.Ore. A fairly cloudy start to the day and

:02:17. > :02:20.patchy fog especially in England, most will lift but could stick in

:02:21. > :02:25.the Vale of York and Lincolnshire. Rain coming in from the north-west,

:02:26. > :02:27.but in between some sunshine. More details in around 15 minutes.

:02:28. > :02:31.Thousands of post office workers are beginning strike action today.

:02:32. > :02:34.The walkout by the Communication Workers Union is the latest move

:02:35. > :02:37.in a dispute over pension changes, job security and closures.

:02:38. > :02:39.Industrial action this week will also affect airports

:02:40. > :02:46.and Southern Rail services, as Keith Doyle reports.

:02:47. > :02:49.This last week before Christmas is already busy and stressful.

:02:50. > :02:51.But strikes and industrial action could make it a Christmas

:02:52. > :03:01.On the trains, Southern Rail passengers face more disruption

:03:02. > :03:03.as 400 conductors strike today and tomorrow.

:03:04. > :03:07.It's not expected to cause the same level of disruption as last week's

:03:08. > :03:09.strikes by drivers, however many routes and services

:03:10. > :03:18.3,500 workers at Crown Post Offices are starting a five-day strike today

:03:19. > :03:22.in a despute over jobs and pensions that may see the closure of larger

:03:23. > :03:26.high street branches, although the Post Office says

:03:27. > :03:28.disruption to the public should be minimal.

:03:29. > :03:31.Airline travellers face double trouble this week as baggage

:03:32. > :03:33.handlers working for Swissport are set to strike

:03:34. > :03:36.This will mainly affect regional airports.

:03:37. > :03:39.But a strike by 4,500 British Airways cabin crew over pay

:03:40. > :03:42.could also see flights disrupted on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

:03:43. > :03:45.There are efforts being made to resolve these disputes.

:03:46. > :03:48.BA management and the union Unite will meet today and a meeting

:03:49. > :03:57.tomorrow to resolve the baggage handlers' dispute is due to be held

:03:58. > :04:00.but the Post Office strike is on and there seems little

:04:01. > :04:03.prospect of an early end to the long-running dispute

:04:04. > :04:05.between the RMT union and Southern Rail, meaning 300,000

:04:06. > :04:21.This feels like a surge of discontent, how does it compare

:04:22. > :04:28.There is a lot going on and at this time of year particularly it feels

:04:29. > :04:31.like it is hitting lots of parts of different people's lives, the post-

:04:32. > :04:35.element and the rail and the flights, this time of year when

:04:36. > :04:38.tensions arriving high because of Christmas and lots of people wanting

:04:39. > :04:42.to travel and get presents delivered, it can feel really hard

:04:43. > :04:48.if you're one of those affected but is it worse than other years? To

:04:49. > :04:52.give you some stats, there have been 280,000 working days lost to

:04:53. > :04:57.industrial action so far this year. That is more than last year but

:04:58. > :05:02.actually if you compare it to 2014 it's a lot less than other years. In

:05:03. > :05:07.2014 there were more than three quarters of a million days lost to

:05:08. > :05:10.strike action. When I mean that I am talking about days when people are

:05:11. > :05:17.not working, they could be working but they have chosen to strike.

:05:18. > :05:21.Although it feels really bad because it is this time of year and a lot of

:05:22. > :05:25.them are happening at once, compared to other years it isn't necessarily

:05:26. > :05:30.any worse, which might not make you feel better if you're somebody

:05:31. > :05:32.impacted by it at the moment but strikes are something we see

:05:33. > :05:37.regularly and have done over the last few years. If you're stuck at

:05:38. > :05:37.home it will feel quite different. Thanks.

:05:38. > :05:41.And in just under ten minutes we will be speaking

:05:42. > :05:43.to the Deputy General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress.

:05:44. > :05:47.The evacuation of the ruins of east Aleppo in Syria has resumed.

:05:48. > :05:49.Around 350 people, who aid workers say

:05:50. > :05:52.were brought out of the city last

:05:53. > :05:55.night on buses, but thousands are still waiting to leave.

:05:56. > :05:57.The United Nations Security Council will vote today on plans

:05:58. > :06:01.The BBC's James Longman is in Beirut.

:06:02. > :06:09.What's the latest news about the evacuations?

:06:10. > :06:16.Good morning. Yes, it looks as though the evacuations are back on.

:06:17. > :06:20.We heard this morning 1200 people had made it out of East Aleppo to a

:06:21. > :06:25.staging point where they are receiving medical care and now they

:06:26. > :06:30.will be able to make the choice whether or not to go to live in

:06:31. > :06:35.government Aleppo, West Aleppo, which is largely unscathed by the

:06:36. > :06:39.war, all go back to Idlib, which is a rebel held part of Syria, the last

:06:40. > :06:46.part of Syria to be under rebel control -- or go. The evacuations of

:06:47. > :06:49.East Aleppo starting again and also the evacuation of the government

:06:50. > :06:53.part of the country as well. This was the whole plan, the idea was to

:06:54. > :06:57.be able to evacuate people from both parts of Syria so they can continue

:06:58. > :07:03.and that seems to be happening this morning. As I say, 1200 have been

:07:04. > :07:08.evacuated but another 50,000 people are waiting in East Aleppo to get

:07:09. > :07:11.out and they're waiting in particularly difficult conditions.

:07:12. > :07:17.We will see if this continues. We are seeing some of the pictures of

:07:18. > :07:21.people leaving and we hear many are in a terrible way. What more can you

:07:22. > :07:26.tell us about where they're going and what condition there in? -- they

:07:27. > :07:32.are in. They will be going to a town just outside of Aleppo. It is run by

:07:33. > :07:36.the rebels, a rebel part of Syria, but there a staging post where

:07:37. > :07:41.medical professionals and volunteers are waiting to give them the help

:07:42. > :07:46.they need. The first people able to leave these parts are women,

:07:47. > :07:49.children, the sick and the wounded, many are suffering from

:07:50. > :07:53.malnutrition. Thousands of people in Aleppo our children and they will be

:07:54. > :07:57.the ones who will be given the most care and also the families of

:07:58. > :08:01.rebels. They're the ones who were able to leave first. They will be

:08:02. > :08:06.needing a lot of medical attention and then when that's been given they

:08:07. > :08:08.can make a choice about where they want to go next. James, in Beirut,

:08:09. > :08:09.thank you. The number of lives lost due

:08:10. > :08:12.to suicide in England is unacceptable according

:08:13. > :08:14.to a group of MPs. It remains the biggest cause

:08:15. > :08:17.of death in men under 49. In a report, the Health

:08:18. > :08:19.Select Committee says a government prevention strategy

:08:20. > :08:22.for England in 2012 didn't result It's due to be updated

:08:23. > :08:25.early next year. Angela and her partner,

:08:26. > :08:33.Mark, had two young sons. He had no history of mental illness

:08:34. > :08:37.but he took his own life. One minute you're talking to them

:08:38. > :08:40.on the phone and the next minute you never going to

:08:41. > :08:43.speak to them again. Your head kind of tricks

:08:44. > :08:55.you into thinking this She now heads a national

:08:56. > :08:58.charity supporting those She also presented a BBC documentary

:08:59. > :09:02.encouraging people to talk more My work and the work of the trustees

:09:03. > :09:06.and volunteers was to really kind The report says a government suicide

:09:07. > :09:11.prevention strategy for England And what we heard from one witness

:09:12. > :09:36.very powerfully was that... She said it wasn't my son

:09:37. > :09:39.that was hard to reach, it was the services that

:09:40. > :09:42.were hard to reach. A Department of Health spokesperson

:09:43. > :09:45.said every death by suicide was tragic for families

:09:46. > :09:47.and an updated strategy during next year would address many

:09:48. > :09:50.of the issues raised She hopes it will make a difference

:09:51. > :10:01.and will help prevent more of the sort of devastating

:10:02. > :10:03.losses she had to endure. Just after 8am, we'll speak

:10:04. > :10:08.to a father whose son killed himself Police officers in England,

:10:09. > :10:17.Wales and Northern Ireland have seen mental health-related callouts

:10:18. > :10:20.increase by more than a quarter according to figures obtained by BBC

:10:21. > :10:23.Breakfast. 30 out of 49 forces

:10:24. > :10:25.answered the Freedom The government says it has halved

:10:26. > :10:29.the use of police cells to deal with people undergoing a mental

:10:30. > :10:32.health crisis and that officers are now working more closely

:10:33. > :10:39.with healthcare services. We used to often take

:10:40. > :10:42.people into custody, so they would be there for a number

:10:43. > :10:45.of hours while they're being assessed,

:10:46. > :10:47.so it's not the right environment. If we did take them into custody

:10:48. > :10:51.often we would take them to accident and emergency, which, again,

:10:52. > :10:54.isn't the right place to take them. And as part of Breakfast's special

:10:55. > :10:59.week of programming looking at modern policing John Maguire

:11:00. > :11:02.spent a night on call with Leicestershire Police's front

:11:03. > :11:09.line mental health team. He will be with us a little bit

:11:10. > :11:11.later. A special sitting of

:11:12. > :11:14.the Stormont Assembly will be held today to examine a green energy

:11:15. > :11:17.scheme that's been described as the biggest financial scandal

:11:18. > :11:19.ever in Northern Ireland. Stormont's First Minister Arlene

:11:20. > :11:21.Foster will face a motion of no confidence during

:11:22. > :11:23.today's proceedings. But she's rejected calls

:11:24. > :11:26.from Sinn Fein to step aside during an investigation

:11:27. > :11:28.into the project, which is thought The Hungarian-born

:11:29. > :11:38.actress and socialite, She made more than 70 films,

:11:39. > :11:45.but as one of the first socialites, she helped invent a new kind of fame

:11:46. > :11:48.out of multiple marriages By her own reckoning

:11:49. > :11:52.she was only married She didn't really count

:11:53. > :11:55.a Spanish Duke, who she left Her age was a closely guarded

:11:56. > :11:59.secret, but she was thought Her husband said she died

:12:00. > :12:03.at home surrounded by her Andy Murray was voted BBC

:12:04. > :12:07.Sports Personality of the Year last night, the first person

:12:08. > :12:18.to win it three times. I love the way he received the award

:12:19. > :12:19.in front of a pool. With Lennox Lewis!

:12:20. > :12:21.This year Murray won Wimbledon, secured Olympic gold

:12:22. > :12:24.and finished the season as tennis world number one.

:12:25. > :12:26.Our sports news correspondent, Andy Swiss, reports.

:12:27. > :12:30.And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray!

:12:31. > :12:38.It was an ovation that echoed all the way to Florida.

:12:39. > :12:40.At his training base in Miami, Andy Murray receiving

:12:41. > :12:43.that famous trophy from Lennox Lewis, as he beat

:12:44. > :12:50.Alistair Brownlee in second and Nick Skelton in third.

:12:51. > :12:54.I've got a bit of a bone to pick with my wife because she told

:12:55. > :12:57.me about an hour ago that she voted for Nick Skelton, so...

:12:58. > :12:59.Not smart from her with Christmas coming up.

:13:00. > :13:01.It's been an amazing year for British sport.

:13:02. > :13:17.So thank you and I hope you all have a great night.

:13:18. > :13:19.Well, 2016 was certainly an incredible year for

:13:20. > :13:24.Tonight was all about celebrating that success and once again,

:13:25. > :13:32.Especially Leicester City. The shock Premier League champions took the

:13:33. > :13:36.team award while their manager Claudio Ranieri one coach of the

:13:37. > :13:40.year. There was an emotional reception for Michael Phelps, the

:13:41. > :13:44.Americans were collecting a lifetime achievement award but the night

:13:45. > :13:50.belonged to Andy Murray, Britain's history maker has done it again.

:13:51. > :13:58.We spoke to Alistair Brownlee and also Nick Skelton. We have more on

:13:59. > :14:00.that later. As Post Offices, railways

:14:01. > :14:02.and airports brace themselves for disruption due to industrial

:14:03. > :14:05.action this week, are we facing The unrest is all the more unusual

:14:06. > :14:10.because for the last 30 years strikes have been falling

:14:11. > :14:18.to record low levels in the UK. We're joined by Paul Nowak,

:14:19. > :14:25.the deputy secretary general Good morning and thank you for

:14:26. > :14:30.coming on. Is it cynical to be striking at this time of year, what

:14:31. > :14:34.is your take on it? I don't think there's any attempt at cynicism,

:14:35. > :14:38.what we've got is a series of disputes and Southern and the Post

:14:39. > :14:42.Office and other places are involved and they are all different disputes

:14:43. > :14:45.with different causes, but what unites them all is people feel they

:14:46. > :14:49.have no alternative. It's a difficult decision to take to strike

:14:50. > :14:53.but those taking action, whether they work on the trains or the post

:14:54. > :14:57.offices, they don't like doing it and it's a last resort and what

:14:58. > :15:01.those workers will be hoping is that employers will take notice and sit

:15:02. > :15:05.down and negotiate to reach a fair settlement. Let's talk about

:15:06. > :15:14.Southern because it has caused enormous disruption? Guest, they

:15:15. > :15:17.have caused real disruption and the union will bitterly regret that. The

:15:18. > :15:22.issues at Southern aren't just, about industrial action -- yes.

:15:23. > :15:28.There were two days of strikes. Hold on a second. We have heard they are

:15:29. > :15:32.politically motivated, those are the accusations people have been making,

:15:33. > :15:37.and also it's not about safety because the trains are operating

:15:38. > :15:41.under this system? These strikes are about safety and they aren't

:15:42. > :15:44.politically motivated. To take industrial action in this country

:15:45. > :15:48.you have to go through a dim aquatic ballot and these decisions are made

:15:49. > :15:51.behind closed doors. I know when people take the difficult decision

:15:52. > :15:56.to take industrial action they wouldn't have been thinking about

:15:57. > :16:00.politics, it's about safety. We're not train drivers but I have spoken

:16:01. > :16:05.to them and they are worried about what it means to be in charge of a

:16:06. > :16:09.12 car train with 1200 people on it with a crowded platform and poor

:16:10. > :16:12.visibility, they are worried someone could be injured or harmed, they

:16:13. > :16:16.don't want it happening on their watch so the strike is absolutely

:16:17. > :16:20.about safety. One of the other accusations is across the board this

:16:21. > :16:28.is a toward a major effort to bring the government to its knees at this

:16:29. > :16:32.time of year, how do you respond? That is fanciful media reporting and

:16:33. > :16:35.it's not borne out by the facts. All of these disputes have different

:16:36. > :16:39.root causes and they have difficult solutions. When those decisions are

:16:40. > :16:43.made they aren't made by union leaders in a room, they are made by

:16:44. > :16:47.ordinary men and women exercising their ballot and they are thinking

:16:48. > :16:51.about the issues, not politics. The way you resolve any dispute is

:16:52. > :16:55.sitting down and talking for a fair settlement. One of my frustrations

:16:56. > :17:00.in the Southern dispute, looking at that as an example, rather than

:17:01. > :17:04.negotiating with the unions company took the unions to court and drag

:17:05. > :17:12.the process through the mill for weeks but they should have sat down.

:17:13. > :17:15.Did these strikes need to be done in Christmas week? The workers involved

:17:16. > :17:17.wanted to avoid taking industrial action during Christmas but it's

:17:18. > :17:20.important to note these disputes have been months in the waiting.

:17:21. > :17:28.There's been strike action before Thames to sit down and negotiate.

:17:29. > :17:38.Nobody wants industrial action. -- before a tense. They bitterly regret

:17:39. > :17:45.this but they are losing I just want to ask you an extra question about

:17:46. > :17:50.legislation to curb industrial action. This concern you? It does

:17:51. > :17:53.concern me because we already have some of the most restrictive

:17:54. > :17:56.legislation in the Western world and if you think about the big issues we

:17:57. > :18:04.are facing what the government should be doing is to help secure

:18:05. > :18:09.employment, combat statement he, deputy general secretary, thank you

:18:10. > :18:16.very much for your time. Let's get the weather now with Carol. Grim out

:18:17. > :18:21.there in places. Fog everywhere. Good morning. Fog this morning

:18:22. > :18:27.across parts of the Vale of York, Lincolnshire, Anglia and the

:18:28. > :18:32.Midlands. The blanket is patchy but could lead to travel disruptions.

:18:33. > :18:36.Generally this morning it is a cloudy and banks start to the day

:18:37. > :18:42.for some of us. Chilly as well. Most of that fog will lift. It could

:18:43. > :18:47.stick for most of the day across the Vale of York and Lincolnshire. We

:18:48. > :18:52.may see a little bit of brightness across the far north-east of England

:18:53. > :18:55.and the far north-east of Scotland. For the western Scotland and

:18:56. > :18:59.Northern Ireland we have clouded splashes of rain. As we go through

:19:00. > :19:02.the day you will see another band of rain develop across parts of The

:19:03. > :19:06.Wash through East Anglia heading down into the Midlands. That is

:19:07. > :19:12.going to be drifting towards the west. Meanwhile the rain coming in

:19:13. > :19:16.is sinking south-eastward is so behind that bad it will brighten up

:19:17. > :19:20.and we will see some sunshine. But for the rest of us a fairly cloudy

:19:21. > :19:26.murky and damp day. Through the evening and overnight of band will

:19:27. > :19:31.bump into the band coming north and give a period of heavy rain across

:19:32. > :19:35.parts of England and Wales. Clear skies for Ireland and Scotland and a

:19:36. > :19:41.touch of frost. And we have patchy fog in the north where it could be

:19:42. > :19:45.freezing. Tomorrow morning we begin with a band of rain across parts of

:19:46. > :19:49.northern England, Wales and the south-west. That will fragment and

:19:50. > :19:56.die in situ. Behind we will see brighter skies. Not bad for much of

:19:57. > :19:59.England and eastern Scotland but cloud our west will introduce more

:20:00. > :20:02.rain and the winner will be a feature of the weather later on

:20:03. > :20:07.tomorrow because of continued to strengthen. -- the wind will be a

:20:08. > :20:12.feature. In fact, that we will strengthen civil point of touching

:20:13. > :20:15.storm strength. Exposure we could even have storm force winds across

:20:16. > :20:20.the Outer Hebrides. From Tuesday into Wednesday the first front end

:20:21. > :20:27.southwards and the other one comes hot on its hills. Can see from the

:20:28. > :20:30.isobars it will be windy. This takes rain with it into southern and

:20:31. > :20:33.south-eastern counties. Behind that a weaker affair and we see some

:20:34. > :20:39.sunshine and we will also see showers, some of which will be

:20:40. > :20:43.wintry. A dry start to the day and then it turns much more unsettled

:20:44. > :20:46.with bands of rain, turning windy, particularly windy across the

:20:47. > :20:50.northern half of the country. The reason for this is we have all of

:20:51. > :20:55.this cold air coming across Canada and the United States, bumping into

:20:56. > :21:00.the milder air across Florida. That is what we call a pretty bad,

:21:01. > :21:06.gradient and it puts a lot of energy into the atmosphere, strengthening

:21:07. > :21:13.the jet stream. The wind on it will be about 230 MPh. You will come back

:21:14. > :21:17.quite quickly as you are returning from the States and it will have an

:21:18. > :21:24.impact on our weather meaning wetter and windy weather. If you have

:21:25. > :21:26.relatives coming back from America for Christmas, there you go. Get to

:21:27. > :21:27.the airport early. Police are increasingly having

:21:28. > :21:30.to deal with people who have All this week on Breakfast we're

:21:31. > :21:34.looking at the realities of modern policing, and have

:21:35. > :21:36.discovered through a Freedom of Information request that

:21:37. > :21:39.officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have seen

:21:40. > :21:43.mental health-related call-outs increase by more than a quarter

:21:44. > :21:47.in just three years. John Maguire has been

:21:48. > :21:49.investigating how police are responding to

:21:50. > :21:50.this new challenge. We can join him now at a custody

:21:51. > :22:02.suite in Darlington. He is showing us how it all works.

:22:03. > :22:06.Good morning. Good morning, the wheeze. This is a photo booth where

:22:07. > :22:11.the mugshots are taken when people first come in. These days are more

:22:12. > :22:15.sophisticated system. Fingerprints of linking up to the National police

:22:16. > :22:21.computer. But is also a place where officers can take a foot in print if

:22:22. > :22:25.that is the type of thing they need. It can be as good as a fingerprint,

:22:26. > :22:29.actually in placing somebody at the scene of a truck crime. A

:22:30. > :22:34.breathalyser and drug testing. 16 self here in the custody suite in

:22:35. > :22:40.Darlington with Durham police. Not salubrious surroundings. A sickbed,

:22:41. > :22:45.mattress, pillow, toilet and washing facilities and a sobering message on

:22:46. > :22:49.the wall. As you can imagine this is not the type of place, not an ideal

:22:50. > :22:50.place to keep someone who is suffering from mental health

:22:51. > :22:50.problems. The last time Declan Barnes

:22:51. > :22:59.was at this police station he had been detained under

:23:00. > :23:02.the mental health act and taken There were no secure

:23:03. > :23:06.hospital beds available. Given the relative

:23:07. > :23:08.severity you know you need specialist care, especially

:23:09. > :23:10.when you are in a situation like that where you feel

:23:11. > :23:14.suicidal, not just stressed Dealing with mental health

:23:15. > :23:21.is a major issue for police Freedom of Information figures

:23:22. > :23:26.obtained by BBC Breakfast show Of the 49 forces

:23:27. > :23:32.contacted, 30 responded. Not including the Metropolitan

:23:33. > :23:34.police, they recorded That number has since

:23:35. > :23:45.risen to almost 232,000. I would estimate that our officers

:23:46. > :23:51.currently spend about 20% of their time dealing with people

:23:52. > :23:54.with mental health issues. The use of police

:23:55. > :23:56.cells is declining. The Devon and Cornwall

:23:57. > :23:57.force previously So far this year 58 people had

:23:58. > :24:03.been detained in cells. That, for us, was

:24:04. > :24:11.completely unforgivable. We worked really hard

:24:12. > :24:15.with partners and we got a lot of protocols in place,

:24:16. > :24:21.we really worked hard to make them realise that a police

:24:22. > :24:26.cell was not the place for a person suffering

:24:27. > :24:28.from a mental health issue. We are out on the night shift

:24:29. > :24:32.with what is known as the mental health triage team

:24:33. > :24:33.in Leicestershire. Comprised of a specially trained

:24:34. > :24:36.police officer and a mental health nurse they can respond

:24:37. > :24:39.to incidents and offer They are deployed

:24:40. > :24:45.to reports of a man It is a large-scale

:24:46. > :24:51.response from all The first job is to check

:24:52. > :24:55.if one of the secure hospital beds in Leicester

:24:56. > :24:58.is free tonight. Potential will be if he

:24:59. > :25:00.is not cooperative... And this colleague talks

:25:01. > :25:04.to officers on the path. Presenting as mentally unwell,

:25:05. > :25:10.seeing things, hearing things. I just want to watch

:25:11. > :25:14.this fluid situation. After a few hours the incident

:25:15. > :25:17.is under control and is not being treated as a

:25:18. > :25:20.mental health case. The next task is in the city centre

:25:21. > :25:28.of Leicester police Centre where a man is said to be agitated

:25:29. > :25:31.and acting irrationally. We need to see what is going

:25:32. > :25:35.on to try get the best outcome. He is presenting with mental health

:25:36. > :25:38.issues which I think would be harmful in

:25:39. > :25:40.the community setting. Their objective is to make sure

:25:41. > :25:46.the people are treated appropriately All sides recognise a major

:25:47. > :25:50.problem, even a crisis. One is complex as it is contentious

:25:51. > :26:07.and one for which there Let's put some of those issues to

:26:08. > :26:11.the inspector here from the College of policing. We know it is a growing

:26:12. > :26:20.problem. What is being done to address it? We are one of the

:26:21. > :26:23.national signatories to a pan government cross organisation to try

:26:24. > :26:28.and address the cause and columns of growth of air. We have produced new

:26:29. > :26:31.guidelines for policing and professional practice. Training

:26:32. > :26:36.packages for the first time as well which set a benchmark nationally for

:26:37. > :26:40.how to treat these people. All of that is about the police response.

:26:41. > :26:48.Wider questions are about addressing why this is demanded of the police

:26:49. > :26:52.force. Our demand has gone up over the last decade and we know that

:26:53. > :26:58.that fits into a broader set about the mental health act. One big

:26:59. > :27:04.problem is the paucity of secure beds across the UK. The NHS tells us

:27:05. > :27:10.it is investing more money but that again is a very tight pot. We are

:27:11. > :27:16.standing in a custody office and there can be problems where people

:27:17. > :27:19.have been arrested or detained and taken into custody but they are

:27:20. > :27:23.removed as fast as possible from there. We know there are pinch

:27:24. > :27:29.points in bed provision that is important to note that there has

:27:30. > :27:32.been success. Section 136 has produced about 57% over the last

:27:33. > :27:42.three years and we are seeing fewer and fewer people going to custody.

:27:43. > :27:47.Thank you for talking to us. More from us Darlington custody Centre

:27:48. > :27:51.later in the programme. I know you will show us exactly how it works.

:27:52. > :27:52.Thank you very much and see you later.

:27:53. > :27:54.Tomorrow we'll continue the series with a special report

:27:55. > :27:57.from inside a domestic violence project aimed at helping men

:27:58. > :27:59.to control their behaviour to prevent them from becoming

:28:00. > :31:27.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:31:28. > :31:46.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:31:47. > :31:48.Thousands of Post Office workers are beginning strike

:31:49. > :31:50.The walkout by the Communication Workers Union

:31:51. > :31:53.is the latest move in a dispute over pension changes,

:31:54. > :31:57.Commuters on Southern Rail are also facing further disruption

:31:58. > :32:00.and there are talks due to take place aimed at preventing industrial

:32:01. > :32:12.we need a law to require strikes on critical public infrastructure to be

:32:13. > :32:15.reasonable and proportionate and you would have a High Court judge

:32:16. > :32:18.deciding what is reasonable and proportionate. On Southern the

:32:19. > :32:22.conductors are arguing about who presses the button to open and close

:32:23. > :32:26.the doors, it's a relatively minor dispute, there is no safety issue

:32:27. > :32:30.because 1.5 million trains in the last five years have run this way

:32:31. > :32:34.without a single fatality and yet 300,000 people are being prevented

:32:35. > :32:44.from getting into work. These strikes are absolutely about safety

:32:45. > :32:47.and they're certainly not politically motivated. To take

:32:48. > :32:50.industrial action in this country you have to go through a democratic

:32:51. > :32:53.ballot, these decisions aren't made behind closed doors. I know when

:32:54. > :32:56.people took the difficult decision to take industrial action on

:32:57. > :32:59.Southern trains they wouldn't be thinking about politics, they would

:33:00. > :33:00.have been thinking about the key issue, which is safety.

:33:01. > :33:03.The evacuation of the ruins of east Aleppo in Syria has resumed.

:33:04. > :33:05.Around 1,000 people, who aid workers say

:33:06. > :33:07.are in a terrible condition, have left the city,

:33:08. > :33:12.The United Nations Security Council will vote today on plans to send UN

:33:13. > :33:16.Police officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have seen

:33:17. > :33:18.mental health-related callouts increase by more than a quarter

:33:19. > :33:21.according to figures obtained by BBC Breakfast.

:33:22. > :33:23.30 out of 49 forces answered the Freedom

:33:24. > :33:28.The government says it has halved the use of police cells to deal

:33:29. > :33:30.with people undergoing a mental health crisis and that officers

:33:31. > :33:37.are now working more closely with healthcare services.

:33:38. > :33:40.A special sitting of the Stormont Assembly will be held

:33:41. > :33:43.today to examine a green energy scheme that's been described

:33:44. > :33:45.as the biggest financial scandal ever in Northern Ireland.

:33:46. > :33:48.Stormont's First Minister Arlene Foster will face a motion

:33:49. > :33:50.of no confidence during today's proceedings.

:33:51. > :33:52.But she's rejected calls from Sinn Fein to step aside

:33:53. > :33:55.during an investigation into the project, which is thought

:33:56. > :34:07.The Hungarian-born actress and socialite,

:34:08. > :34:12.She made more than 70 films, but as one of the first socialites,

:34:13. > :34:15.she helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages

:34:16. > :34:18.By her own reckoning she was only married

:34:19. > :34:21.She didn't really count a Spanish Duke, who she left

:34:22. > :34:25.Her age was a closely guarded secret, but she was thought

:34:26. > :34:29.Her husband said she died at home surrounded by her

:34:30. > :34:44.Father Christmas has been given a bit of a helping hand by people

:34:45. > :34:47.who've donated hundreds of presents after an appeal for two young boys

:34:48. > :34:50.Footballs, teddies and books have all been sent

:34:51. > :34:53.in after a tweet from West Yorkshire Police said the boys

:34:54. > :35:05.didn't own any toys or even a pillow.

:35:06. > :35:08.Officers insist though that the youngsters,

:35:09. > :35:10.who are both under six, now have enough.

:35:11. > :35:14.And in the true spirit of Christmas, some will be shared with other

:35:15. > :35:29.I don't think they got sent a dog. Dogs are for life, not just for

:35:30. > :35:33.Christmas. A very busy night for you and others at Sports Personality of

:35:34. > :35:40.the Year. It was a late one. House-mate? It was quite late. Two

:35:41. > :35:46.hours sleep Ash how late. I have maybe had an hour and a half. -- how

:35:47. > :35:53.late? Who knows what will happen after we'd go off air. We can switch

:35:54. > :35:58.the lights off and make it cosy. All because of this man, Andy Murray,

:35:59. > :36:01.again he was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year. We are

:36:02. > :36:05.getting used to him being in Miami at this time of year, he likes to

:36:06. > :36:09.train there and not to disrupt his training and maybe that's why he is

:36:10. > :36:11.so successful, and he certainly isn't having an hour and a half's

:36:12. > :36:28.sleep! Ndy Murray has become the first

:36:29. > :36:31.person to win the BBC Sports Personality of

:36:32. > :36:33.the Year award three times. The 2013 and 2015 winner,

:36:34. > :36:35.took Olympic gold, claimed his second Wimbledon title

:36:36. > :36:38.and became tennis' world number one for the first time

:36:39. > :36:41.in a remarkable 2016. He wasn't at the event in Birmingham

:36:42. > :36:44.and was given the trophy by former undisputed heavyweight boxing

:36:45. > :36:46.champion Lennox Lewis, Triathlete Alistair Brownlee

:36:47. > :36:50.was voted second and show jumper Leicester City took

:36:51. > :36:53.team of the year. India are building a first innings

:36:54. > :36:56.lead in the fifth Test The hosts began the fourth day 86

:36:57. > :37:00.runs behind in Chennai. Karun Nair has passed 150

:37:01. > :37:02.in his first test century England took the wicket

:37:03. > :37:06.of Murali Vijay but Karun has been joined by Ravi Ashwin

:37:07. > :37:08.and India are now 497-5, Manchester City came from behind

:37:09. > :37:14.to beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Etihad to move second in

:37:15. > :37:16.the Premier League. The Gunners shot into the lead

:37:17. > :37:19.after only five minutes when Theo Walcott

:37:20. > :37:20.slotted them ahead. But a second half equaliser

:37:21. > :37:23.from Leroy Sane was followed It's the second successive game

:37:24. > :37:27.Arsenal led and then lost, but the manager felt the officials

:37:28. > :37:31.were at fault and says the group in charge of referees isn't

:37:32. > :37:33.doing its job properly. We conceded two offside goals

:37:34. > :37:37.and that is very difficult to accept I believe there's a lot

:37:38. > :37:42.going on at the moment that is not Tottenham are fifth in the table,

:37:43. > :37:54.just one point behind Arsenal, as they beat Burnley

:37:55. > :37:56.2-1 at white Hart Lane. Danny Rose scored the winner midway

:37:57. > :37:59.through the second half. the lead before Dele Alli

:38:00. > :38:04.equalised. We need to fight till

:38:05. > :38:06.the end of the season. It's a lot of games ahead,

:38:07. > :38:10.it's a long way to the end I think our position,

:38:11. > :38:14.we are very calm, and only working hard to go with that

:38:15. > :38:19.and try to win games. Southampton also came

:38:20. > :38:22.from behind to beat south coast neighbours Bournemouth 3-1

:38:23. > :38:24.at the Vitality Stadium. This was the stunning second goal

:38:25. > :38:27.of the game for Jay Rodriguez and helped move Claude Puel's

:38:28. > :38:38.side up to seventh. It's been quite a year

:38:39. > :38:43.for Alistair Brownlee. In Rio, he and his brother,

:38:44. > :38:49.Jonny, made history by becoming the first

:38:50. > :38:55.siblings to take gold and silver

:38:56. > :38:57.in the Olympic triathlon. The Yorkshireman later made

:38:58. > :38:59.headlines when he selflessly helped his exhausted brother over

:39:00. > :39:03.the line ahead of him in a dramatic And to cap it all off, last night,

:39:04. > :39:08.Alistair was awarded runner-up at BBC Sports Personality

:39:09. > :39:10.of the Year. We'll speak to him shortly,

:39:11. > :39:56.but first here's a reminder It was in the Olympic Games and had

:39:57. > :40:00.it been the Olympic Games I would have chosen something different, but

:40:01. > :40:09.it was a spur of the moment decision. -- it wasn't.

:40:10. > :40:12.Alistair Brownlee joins us now from Birmingham.

:40:13. > :40:21.I think you're alive. Good morning. How are you doing? It feels like

:40:22. > :40:25.about ten minutes since I saw you. Thank you for getting up so early to

:40:26. > :40:31.talk to us this morning. Was it a very light late-night? It wasn't too

:40:32. > :40:38.bad, I got to bed just after midnight. There wasn't the infamous

:40:39. > :40:43.SPOTY party which was going strong and I knew I had to be here so I got

:40:44. > :40:47.to bed at a good time -- there was. What was it like, we are seeing

:40:48. > :40:52.pictures of you getting your award, I spoke to you after you got it

:40:53. > :40:58.moments later, has it sunk in? I know you were run up but for a

:40:59. > :41:02.triathlete to be in the top three, even maybe five years ago you would

:41:03. > :41:08.have been surprised by that. An incredible achievement. I think I

:41:09. > :41:12.would have been surprised by it five days ago to be honest. Even after

:41:13. > :41:16.the Olympics I didn't think it was possible to the extent I booked to

:41:17. > :41:21.go on holiday without telling my mates this week. It was a massive

:41:22. > :41:26.honour even to be stood on that stage. I've been a fan of SPOTY for

:41:27. > :41:30.as long as I can remember and it's one of the TV highlights for the

:41:31. > :41:34.year so it was an honour to be on the stage in the first place, then

:41:35. > :41:38.to be voted second in a public vote was incredible. Really special. It's

:41:39. > :41:43.been a real honour and really good to be on that wave of triathlon's

:41:44. > :41:47.increasing popularity over the last 20 years. As you know I'm biased

:41:48. > :41:52.when it comes to triathlon because I do them myself, as most viewers will

:41:53. > :41:56.know. It is so brilliant that you won for the sport, will that have an

:41:57. > :42:02.impact on the sport in lots of different levels? I hope so.

:42:03. > :42:06.Triathlon has literally come from the point where people didn't know

:42:07. > :42:11.what it was. I think it has come a long way. Now people know what it is

:42:12. > :42:16.and people know that you can have a go at it and it's very accessible,

:42:17. > :42:21.it doesn't have to be mad long events. There are the events that

:42:22. > :42:27.anyone can have a go at, like you, to have fun and get fit and set a

:42:28. > :42:32.goal. It's a massive thing. Really at SPOTY I was still the kid who was

:42:33. > :42:37.10-year is old going to run cross-country the next morning,

:42:38. > :42:41.being a massive fan of watching the programme and sport has given me so

:42:42. > :42:45.much, if anything to maybe inspire and encourage some people to allow

:42:46. > :42:50.sport to give them so much is a special position to be in. Lovely to

:42:51. > :42:55.hear you speak so warmly about the sport and the events. I know you had

:42:56. > :43:04.a great night. I know you know that Andy Murray said his wife voted for

:43:05. > :43:08.Nick Skelton, what about Jonny? He said he couldn't vote, he couldn't

:43:09. > :43:13.get to his phone to vote because he was in the front row, are not happy

:43:14. > :43:19.about that. There's no family support there, that's a shambles.

:43:20. > :43:24.Not at all. After the support you have given your brother over the

:43:25. > :43:29.past year, that's really naughty. I think so too! Although I must admit

:43:30. > :43:34.that I've got a speaking suspicion I wouldn't be on that stage without

:43:35. > :43:38.him, so maybe that's enough. Such a lovely thing to say. I know you're

:43:39. > :43:44.in the middle of training, there's no rest for a triathlete, is there?

:43:45. > :43:55.Yeah, I've been training a bit, not full on training 35 hours a week,

:43:56. > :43:59.I've been keeping ticking over over the last few weeks and when the New

:44:00. > :44:02.Year rolls around it will take off and I will start training hard,

:44:03. > :44:06.which I'm relieved looking forward to now because I feel like I haven't

:44:07. > :44:10.done a lot. Honest answer please, are you going back to bed now? Know,

:44:11. > :44:15.I've got to get back on the train down to London so not yet -- no.

:44:16. > :44:18.Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for coming on. Thanks very

:44:19. > :44:21.much. I'm disappointed you're not wearing that fantastic suit you had

:44:22. > :44:25.on last night, it was the most amazing tweed suit. Beautiful tweed

:44:26. > :44:34.suit. I'm glad you like it, I've had different opinions from that so it's

:44:35. > :44:37.great you say that! Thank you! Very bold. Impressive stuff. Alistair

:44:38. > :44:40.Brownlee, thank you so much. A lovely bloke. He's great. Good on

:44:41. > :44:44.him for getting up. Lovely to see. Only about 30 coffees! In the two

:44:45. > :44:54.minutes we saw him before we started! Time for the weather from

:44:55. > :44:58.Carol. This morning there is fog around again, perhaps not as dense

:44:59. > :45:01.as it was yesterday but anywhere across the Vale of York,

:45:02. > :45:08.Lincolnshire, the south-east, the Midlands and Southern counties.

:45:09. > :45:11.The blanket is patchy but could lead to travel disruptions.

:45:12. > :45:14.Generally this morning it is a cloudy and banks start

:45:15. > :45:21.It could stick for most of the day across the

:45:22. > :45:24.We may see a little bit of brightness

:45:25. > :45:28.across the far north-east of England and the far north-east of Scotland.

:45:29. > :45:30.For the western Scotland and Northern Ireland we have cloudy

:45:31. > :45:35.As we go through the day you will see another band of rain

:45:36. > :45:38.down into the Midlands. through East Anglia heading

:45:39. > :45:41.That is going to be drifting towards the

:45:42. > :45:43.Meanwhile the rain coming in is sinking south-eastward

:45:44. > :45:45.is so behind that it will brighten up

:45:46. > :45:49.But for the rest of us a fairly cloudy

:45:50. > :45:55.Sunshine today is going to be very limited. For Wales it is a cloudy

:45:56. > :45:59.afternoon. Perhaps late brightness but you can see a weak weather front

:46:00. > :46:02.producing a few splashes of rain across Anglesey. The sun will come

:46:03. > :46:06.out across Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland behind a band of

:46:07. > :46:09.rain which is coming in at the moment. It will leave a legacy of

:46:10. > :46:13.cloud across eastern areas again with an odd spot here or there.

:46:14. > :46:17.Through the evening and overnight a band of rain in the south-east

:46:18. > :46:20.pushes towards the west and a band of rain heading south-east mixes in

:46:21. > :46:23.which this to give a prolonged band of heavy rain across parts of

:46:24. > :46:26.England and Wales. Cloud behind it and ahead of across Scotland

:46:27. > :46:30.Northern Ireland we will have clear skies. It will be cold with a touch

:46:31. > :46:34.of frost and freezing patchy fog. As we look through the course of

:46:35. > :46:38.tomorrow we have this band of rain starting to fizzle in situ. For most

:46:39. > :46:41.of England and a lot of Scotland we will see some sunny spells. But the

:46:42. > :46:44.cloud will thicken up across Northern Ireland and western

:46:45. > :46:48.Scotland through the day, heralding the arrival of a band of rain and

:46:49. > :46:51.strengthening winds. The wind will be a feature of the weather as we

:46:52. > :46:57.head through the evening. Patching downforce, even severe gales.

:46:58. > :47:02.Locally across the Outer Hebrides, storm force gust of wind so bear

:47:03. > :47:06.that in mind. That's tomorrow evening and into the early part of

:47:07. > :47:10.the night stop what happens on Wednesday the first front bringing

:47:11. > :47:14.the rain moves to the south-east and then a weaker one comes in hot on

:47:15. > :47:19.its hills. Here is the first one, taking the reins southwards

:47:20. > :47:24.accompanied by windy conditions. The skies remain. Weak front comes in

:47:25. > :47:27.from the west moving east of the weakening feature all the time.

:47:28. > :47:31.There will be sunshine that there will be showers behind it in

:47:32. > :47:34.Scotland and some of those will be wintry in nature, especially on the

:47:35. > :47:38.hills. As we head through the rest of the weekend into the Christmas it

:47:39. > :47:42.looks like it will be wet and windy. At the moment some of us could see

:47:43. > :47:46.some snow that looks like it is largely going to be in the hills in

:47:47. > :47:53.the north. I will keep you updated on that as we get closer to

:47:54. > :47:55.Christmas. Windy and busy. Thank you, Carol. The

:47:56. > :47:58.It's the last Monday before Christmas, which means it's time

:47:59. > :48:01.for us to open door number 19 in our advent calendar.

:48:02. > :48:04.Let's see which famous face is behind the door for us today,

:48:05. > :48:12.with the children of Primrose Hill Primary

:48:13. > :48:20.here is a low and Merry Christmas. I would sing for you but it may ruin

:48:21. > :48:23.the festivities. Have a great Christmas. That would never ruin the

:48:24. > :48:24.festivities. And we'll have more

:48:25. > :48:26.from the children of Primrose Hill Primary School,

:48:27. > :48:29.and some famous faces every As we've been hearing this morning,

:48:30. > :48:33.post office workers are expected to take part in strike action

:48:34. > :48:35.today over pensions, job security and branch closures

:48:36. > :48:48.with more strikes are planned I will be talking to the post office

:48:49. > :48:49.in a minute but let me explain the background first.

:48:50. > :48:51.The union which represents the workers says the walk out

:48:52. > :48:55.The Post Office says it'll cause minimal problems.

:48:56. > :48:57.This action is being taken at Crown Post Offices.

:48:58. > :48:59.Let me just explain what that means.

:49:00. > :49:03.There are around 11,600 Post Office branches in the UK.

:49:04. > :49:06.Most of them are run as independent businesses,

:49:07. > :49:13.But 300 are directly managed by the Post Office Ltd

:49:14. > :49:19.These are known as Crown offices and are the larger branches mainly

:49:20. > :49:23.And it's these ones where the industrial action

:49:24. > :49:37.We spread to the union about it. This strike is about the survival of

:49:38. > :49:41.the posters we know it today. We want to ensure that is a postal

:49:42. > :49:45.service going forward and that we have jobs. The strike will cause

:49:46. > :49:51.chaos, no doubt about it. We do not deny this position. They need to get

:49:52. > :49:52.their head out of the sand, get around the bargaining table and try

:49:53. > :49:54.to find a way forward together. Mark Davies is from the Post Office

:49:55. > :50:04.and joins us from Central London The union said the strike will cause

:50:05. > :50:07.chaos. What do you think? It will be minimal impact for customers as a

:50:08. > :50:11.result of this strike and as you said in the introduction, most of

:50:12. > :50:15.the vast majority of post offices around the country, 11,300 browse

:50:16. > :50:19.branches will be working today, tomorrow, the rest of the business

:50:20. > :50:26.week. They are working hard to their customers and it is an important

:50:27. > :50:29.time for them. 50,000 people across the post offers network working.

:50:30. > :50:33.Business as usual this time of year. The strike is regrettable. We wish

:50:34. > :50:36.you weren't happening but we are absolutely clear that the impact

:50:37. > :50:40.will be minimal. Mail deliveries will not be impacted by the strike

:50:41. > :50:45.action at all and we will be doing everything we can to minimise

:50:46. > :50:49.customer inconvenience. And on that point about impact. You rightly said

:50:50. > :50:53.there that the Crown post offices, they represent about 3% of the

:50:54. > :50:57.network. In terms of traffic, the union is saying that 20% go through

:50:58. > :51:02.the Crown post offices. Therefore the impact sounds like it will be

:51:03. > :51:06.more than minimal. I don't recognise that figure. In fact, although we

:51:07. > :51:10.have the 300 branches that you talk about are directly managed and owned

:51:11. > :51:14.tend to be larger branches they are not the only large ones across the

:51:15. > :51:20.country. There are several thousand in fact. Independently run post

:51:21. > :51:23.offices by small businessmen and women and other retail groups. They

:51:24. > :51:26.will be open for business as usual. A vast amount mail going through

:51:27. > :51:32.those branches over the course of the next few days. It is a case that

:51:33. > :51:36.the impact of this strike action, however regrettable, will be minimal

:51:37. > :51:42.and as I say we will do what we can to make sure customers are OK.

:51:43. > :51:46.Branches that are closed will have their customers directed to

:51:47. > :51:49.alternative branches and hoping that some of those branches may infect

:51:50. > :51:53.open and we will be updating customers throughout the day. What

:51:54. > :51:57.plans do you have in place to stop the closures? They are not closures

:51:58. > :52:01.and that is an important point to make. What we are doing is where we

:52:02. > :52:06.have a directly managed branch and we think it is possible to run those

:52:07. > :52:10.branches within the same area as an community in a more effective and

:52:11. > :52:13.efficient way in a way that is better for customers, by potentially

:52:14. > :52:17.moving them into a franchise model, we will do that. And we will

:52:18. > :52:21.continue to do that because it is better for customers and it is

:52:22. > :52:25.better for the taxpayer as well. The post office is still a business

:52:26. > :52:31.which was a significant amounts of taxpayer money every year. We have

:52:32. > :52:35.reduced that. From ?120 million to 106 million in the most recent

:52:36. > :52:38.figures. We will get to break even on the plans that we have. At the

:52:39. > :52:44.same time we will improve services for customers. We have transformed

:52:45. > :52:47.7000 branches over the course of the last four years with longer opening

:52:48. > :52:51.hours, later into the evening, earlier in the morning. The largest

:52:52. > :52:55.retail network open on a Sunday which surprises people sometimes. We

:52:56. > :53:00.have a clear strategy around improving our services for customers

:53:01. > :53:04.and that must continue. So whenever people talk about strikes at the

:53:05. > :53:08.union says one thing in the company says another. The unions are worried

:53:09. > :53:11.about the jobs of their members and they think there will be job losses

:53:12. > :53:16.as result of this. Who should we believe? They say there will be

:53:17. > :53:22.chaos, use a minimal impact. I guess we will know later today what the

:53:23. > :53:25.impact of the strike action. It is important to say that the post

:53:26. > :53:29.office understands where colleagues or impacted personally, Lily that is

:53:30. > :53:32.something we take every step we possibly can to treat our colleagues

:53:33. > :53:37.within the post office network with dignity and respect when their jobs

:53:38. > :53:43.come under potentially under threat. Clearly with our franchising

:53:44. > :53:47.branches, police can move from directly managed to branches to the

:53:48. > :53:51.franchise model under the arrangements we have in place. That

:53:52. > :53:54.is an important protection. Taking good care of our colleagues is

:53:55. > :53:59.important to the post office. Thank you and we will have to leave it

:54:00. > :54:17.there. It is called a winning weekend. Andy Murray one a SPOTY.

:54:18. > :54:21.Alana Spencer told the apprentice show and our very own Ore won the

:54:22. > :54:26.glitter ball on Saturday night. Sally caught up with him fresh off

:54:27. > :54:39.the dance floor on the red carpet at the SPOTY.

:54:40. > :54:47.The winner of Strickland come dancing 2016. Congratulations. Thank

:54:48. > :54:53.you. That has been said many times in the last week for hours, you can

:54:54. > :54:57.imagine. It has yet to sink in. It hasn't sunk in at all. The whole

:54:58. > :55:07.thing has been just a circus but the most incredible experience ever. We

:55:08. > :55:11.saw you win, we saw you in the glitter ball. What happened next?

:55:12. > :55:16.How was the party? Do you know what? It was wonderful. It was wonderful

:55:17. > :55:20.to see everybody again together because I haven't seen the cast and

:55:21. > :55:24.so long so it was nice to get everyone back together and just have

:55:25. > :55:28.the fun that we have been having for the last four MUMPS. Just in one

:55:29. > :55:34.night. The night have any better for you? I don't think it could have

:55:35. > :55:42.done. Everything went... Well, Craig gave us a nine in the American

:55:43. > :55:47.Smooth. So Craig, you ruined... No, you didn't ruin anything. It was

:55:48. > :55:52.perfect. What will you do now? How will I use fixed for a shift next

:55:53. > :55:56.weekend? Christmas is coming. We have had no buildup. My wife is

:55:57. > :56:06.here. We will have a great night here. And then we have a holiday.

:56:07. > :56:12.Will you be dancing? No?!. It will be lying down, poolside, beachside

:56:13. > :56:18.so I will reflect on the whole three months. It has just been amazing.

:56:19. > :56:27.Congratulations. We are proud of him. I have missed you. Where have

:56:28. > :56:32.you been? To live. I have been getting up at 3:30 a.m.. I didn't

:56:33. > :56:43.say is the time. I said I missed you. Come on, Sally. It is there and

:56:44. > :56:53.that is that they are. And I will dip you backwards. A bit of swing

:56:54. > :56:57.and sway. I do not have the hips for this. And I don't have teaching

:56:58. > :57:05.ability but I enjoyed it. I will practice that. You are

:57:06. > :57:13.jealous about that our umbrella, aren't you? That is class. Well

:57:14. > :00:33.done. The runner-up will be here On Breakfast Later on.

:00:34. > :00:35.Now, though, it's back to Dan and Louise.

:00:36. > :00:41.Hello this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:42. > :00:43.Thousands of workers launch a wave of strikes,

:00:44. > :00:45.hitting postal services, rail companies and airlines

:00:46. > :00:49.Services at some of the Post Office's larger

:00:50. > :00:51.branches will be affected, and rail passengers in the south

:00:52. > :00:58.Airport baggage handlers and ground staff are expected to walk

:00:59. > :01:11.The strikes are impacting on many people. I will be looking at how it

:01:12. > :01:23.compares to other years. Good morning it's

:01:24. > :01:30.Monday 19th December. Around a thousand people are moved

:01:31. > :01:35.out of eastern Aleppo as the evacuation resumes overnight

:01:36. > :01:49.but many are said by aid workers We're kicking off a special series

:01:50. > :01:53.of reports, looking at the pressures facing modern police forces across

:01:54. > :01:56.the UK. In particular this morning, just how often officers have to deal

:01:57. > :01:58.with people with mental health issues.

:01:59. > :02:01.In sport, Andy Murray is the sports personality of the year

:02:02. > :02:14.Last night we had a surprise for him. Hello, darling, well done.

:02:15. > :02:15.Hello, I am used to being embarrassed by my mum, obviously.

:02:16. > :02:18.CHUCKLES And I had a surprise for him

:02:19. > :02:21.The tennis star was rewarded for a successful year

:02:22. > :02:23.in which he became World Number One - but proved he can still be

:02:24. > :02:26.embarrassed by his mum! And guess who else I managed

:02:27. > :02:30.to catch up with on the red carpet - The winner of Strictly's coveted

:02:31. > :02:32.glitter-ball trophy, Ore. And he may have missed out

:02:33. > :02:35.on the top-spot but his Samba was described as "one

:02:36. > :02:37.for the history books" - Strictly runner-up,

:02:38. > :02:46.Danny Mac will be here. It is a faulty start for some this

:02:47. > :02:51.morning. Especially across eastern, central and southern England. Most

:02:52. > :02:54.of that will lift but there will be a fair bit of cloud, some brain, and

:02:55. > :02:57.there will also be some sunshine for some, I will show you where in a few

:02:58. > :03:00.minutes. -- rain. Thousands of post office workers

:03:01. > :03:05.are beginning strike action today. The walkout by the Communication

:03:06. > :03:07.Workers Union is the latest move in a dispute over pension changes,

:03:08. > :03:10.job security and closures. Industrial action this week

:03:11. > :03:12.will also affect airports and Southern Rail services

:03:13. > :03:18.as Keith Doyle reports. This last week before Christmas

:03:19. > :03:22.is already busy and stressful. But strikes and industrial action

:03:23. > :03:24.could make it a Christmas On the trains, Southern Rail

:03:25. > :03:29.passengers face more disruption as 400 conductors strike

:03:30. > :03:35.today and tomorrow. It's not expected to cause the same

:03:36. > :03:38.level of disruption as last week's strikes by drivers,

:03:39. > :03:51.however many routes It is quite frustrating because I

:03:52. > :03:58.get to work an hour late and there are no other options. It is

:03:59. > :04:01.frustrating, I wish they would take control of the situation.

:04:02. > :04:04.3,500 workers at Crown Post Offices are starting a five-day strike today

:04:05. > :04:07.in a despute over jobs and pensions that may see the closure of larger

:04:08. > :04:09.high street branches, although the Post Office says

:04:10. > :04:10.disruption to the public should be minimal.

:04:11. > :04:13.Airline travellers face double trouble this week as baggage

:04:14. > :04:15.handlers working for Swissport are set to strike on

:04:16. > :04:21.This will mainly affect regional airports.

:04:22. > :04:24.But a strike by 4,500 British Airways cabin crew over pay

:04:25. > :04:29.could also see flights disrupted on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

:04:30. > :04:32.There are efforts being made to resolve these disputes.

:04:33. > :04:36.BA management and the union Unite will meet today and a meeting

:04:37. > :04:40.tomorrow to resolve the baggage handlers' dispute is due to be held

:04:41. > :04:43.but the Post Office strike is on and there seems little

:04:44. > :04:45.prospect of an early end to the long-running dispute

:04:46. > :04:47.between the RMT union and Southern Rail, meaning 300,000

:04:48. > :05:03.Steph joins us on the sofa - this feels like a surge

:05:04. > :05:05.of discontent, how does it compare to other years?

:05:06. > :05:10.When you talk to the unions they say it is coincidence but it feels there

:05:11. > :05:14.is a lot happening at once because it impacts so many different parts

:05:15. > :05:18.of our lives. Rail is stopping people getting to work in the

:05:19. > :05:22.south-east, which is a problem for workers down there. Then you have

:05:23. > :05:26.the flights. Lots of people will be thinking about travelling, getting

:05:27. > :05:29.home for Christmas. Then you have the post Office, which essentially

:05:30. > :05:34.means for people wanting to get their presents sorted, that will

:05:35. > :05:38.affect them. That is why it feels hard at the moment. But the unions

:05:39. > :05:41.say it is a coincidence it is happening at the same time. If you

:05:42. > :05:49.look at other years, how this compares, it isn't as many as we saw

:05:50. > :05:52.in 2014. The Office of National Statistics look at working days

:05:53. > :05:58.lost. The days in which people who essentially should be working take

:05:59. > :06:05.strike action. It was around 280,000 so far this year. That compares to

:06:06. > :06:08.more than 700,000 back in 2014. There are more strikes happening,

:06:09. > :06:12.but, of course, this is in the economic context of a time where a

:06:13. > :06:17.lot of people haven't seen a pay rise. The unions are concerned about

:06:18. > :06:21.job security for people and about pay in times where things are

:06:22. > :06:26.uncertain at the moment. I say that a lot on this programme. Uncertainty

:06:27. > :06:29.is one of the most common words used on this programme. That is why there

:06:30. > :06:33.was concern about what it will mean for members and why Unions say they

:06:34. > :06:38.are taking action. They want to make sure that their workers, their

:06:39. > :06:43.members, are looked after. But fall of the businesses that use them it

:06:44. > :06:46.is causing chaos, too. -- all. Thanks very much.

:06:47. > :06:49.The evacuation of the ruins of east Aleppo in Syria has resumed.

:06:50. > :06:51.Around 1,000 people left the city this morning,

:06:52. > :06:54.A further 500 have left nearby villages.

:06:55. > :06:57.The evacuees, which include many children, are said by aid workers

:06:58. > :07:13.They will be going to just outside of Aleppo city. It is run by the

:07:14. > :07:16.rebels. But there is a staging post there when medical professionals and

:07:17. > :07:18.volunteers are waiting to give them the help they need.

:07:19. > :07:21.The number of lives lost due to suicide in England

:07:22. > :07:23.is unacceptable according to a group of MPs.

:07:24. > :07:25.It remains the biggest cause of death in men under 49.

:07:26. > :07:28.In a report, the Health Select Committee says a government

:07:29. > :07:30.prevention strategy for England in 2012 didn't result

:07:31. > :07:35.It's due to be updated early next year.

:07:36. > :07:45.Angela and her partner, Mark, had two young sons.

:07:46. > :07:50.He had no history of mental illness but he took his own life.

:07:51. > :07:54.One minute you're talking to them on the phone and the next minute

:07:55. > :07:56.you're never going to speak to them again.

:07:57. > :08:06.Your head kind of tricks you into thinking this can't be real.

:08:07. > :08:08.She now heads a national charity supporting those

:08:09. > :08:11.She also presented a BBC documentary encouraging people to talk

:08:12. > :08:18.My work and the work of the trustees and volunteers was to really kind

:08:19. > :08:22.The report says a government suicide prevention strategy for England

:08:23. > :08:46.The key message here is that suicide is preventable.

:08:47. > :08:48.And what we heard from one witness very powerfully was that...

:08:49. > :08:51.She said it wasn't my son that was hard to reach,

:08:52. > :08:53.it was the services that were hard to reach.

:08:54. > :08:56.A Department of Health spokesperson said every death by suicide

:08:57. > :09:02.was tragic for families and an updated strategy

:09:03. > :09:04.due next year would address many of the issues raised

:09:05. > :09:09.She hopes it will make a difference and will help prevent more

:09:10. > :09:20.of the sort of devastating losses she had to endure.

:09:21. > :09:24.We will speak to the father whose son killed himself about the extra

:09:25. > :09:30.support that is needed. Police officers in England,

:09:31. > :09:32.Wales and Northern Ireland have seen mental health-related callouts

:09:33. > :09:34.increase by more than a quarter in just three years,

:09:35. > :09:36.according to figures 30 out of 49 forces answered

:09:37. > :09:39.the Freedom of Information request. The government says it has halved

:09:40. > :09:43.the use of police cells to deal with people undergoing a mental

:09:44. > :09:45.health crisis and that officers are now working more closely

:09:46. > :09:51.with healthcare services. And as part of Breakfast's special

:09:52. > :09:54.week of programming looking at Policing Britain,

:09:55. > :09:56.John Maguire spent a night on call with Leicestershire Police's front

:09:57. > :10:02.line mental health team. A special sitting of

:10:03. > :10:05.the Stormont Assembly will be held today to examine a green energy

:10:06. > :10:07.scheme that's been described as the 'biggest financial scandal

:10:08. > :10:17.ever in Northern Ireland'. Stormont's First Minister,

:10:18. > :10:19.Arlene Foster, will face a motion of no confidence

:10:20. > :10:20.during today's proceedings. But she's rejected calls

:10:21. > :10:23.from Sinn Fein to step aside during an investigation

:10:24. > :10:25.into the project, which is thought The Hungarian born

:10:26. > :10:29.actress and socialite, Her age was a closely

:10:30. > :10:33.guarded secret, but she was Her husband announced her

:10:34. > :10:37.death yesterday evening. She made more than 70 films,

:10:38. > :10:40.but as one of the first socialites, she helped invent a new kind of fame

:10:41. > :10:42.from multiple marriages By her own reckoning she was only

:10:43. > :10:51.married eight-and-a-half times. She didn't really count

:10:52. > :10:53.a Spanish Duke, who she left I think that is the half.

:10:54. > :11:05.Fair enough. This report from Nick Higham

:11:06. > :11:07.contains some flashing images. Zsa Zsa Gabor may have

:11:08. > :11:09.been a great beauty, I know everything -

:11:10. > :11:13.I heard the verdict. I must take that risk,

:11:14. > :11:17.and so must you. Her screen career was

:11:18. > :11:19.undistinguished, though it did include camp classics like the truly

:11:20. > :11:21.terrible Queen Of Outer Space. If you must go, promise me you're

:11:22. > :11:24.going to come back to me. Her greatest role was as herself,

:11:25. > :11:27.one of the first professional celebrities, famous

:11:28. > :11:29.for simply being famous. She was rich, she was gorgeous,

:11:30. > :11:31.she was outrageous and she ate Her last marriage, in 1986,

:11:32. > :11:35.was her eighth, or ninth, if you include an illegal ceremony

:11:36. > :11:39.conducted at sea. Women don't even get

:11:40. > :11:41.married any more today. I said you have to get married,

:11:42. > :11:49.legalised, which was dumb but now I just leave myself to live

:11:50. > :11:52.in sin, it's wonderful. You have to look after their house

:11:53. > :12:01.and they cheat on you. In 1989, she was briefly jailed

:12:02. > :12:04.for hitting a Hollywood She was well into her 70s,

:12:05. > :12:08.though during the court case she was accused

:12:09. > :12:10.of doctoring her driving licence By then, her film career had

:12:11. > :12:13.collapsed into self-parody. Every time I see you,

:12:14. > :12:21.I get lumps in my throat. But she never lost a certain

:12:22. > :12:23.innocence, nor her wit. As she once said, "I'm

:12:24. > :12:25.a marvellous housekeeper. "Every time I leave a man,

:12:26. > :12:39.I keep his house". You're watching

:12:40. > :12:41.Breakfast from BBC News. Suicide remains the biggest

:12:42. > :12:43.killer of men under 49. Now a group of MPs is calling

:12:44. > :12:47.for ministers to do more to ensure that support is available

:12:48. > :12:49.to those at risk. They say a government prevention

:12:50. > :12:52.strategy for England in 2012 didn't It's due to be updated

:12:53. > :12:56.early next year. Ruth Sutherland from the charity

:12:57. > :12:58.Samaritans joins us And Stephen Habgood,

:12:59. > :13:03.whose son Christopher took his own life when he was just

:13:04. > :13:06.26, joins us on the sofa. He now chairs Papyrus,

:13:07. > :13:20.an organisation which helps people Good morning to you both. If you

:13:21. > :13:23.would tell us a little bit about your son. You didn't know that he

:13:24. > :13:30.had attempted this beforehand, hadn't he? That's right, yes. After

:13:31. > :13:34.he died we discovered he had been suffering from depression from the

:13:35. > :13:38.age of 13. But like other men he kept it quiet. He was ashamed of how

:13:39. > :13:46.he felt. He did not want to tell people about it. I was working from

:13:47. > :13:48.home. I was a prisoner governor. He sent via text to say that he was

:13:49. > :13:54.sorry and he said goodbye. At that point he ended life. -- prison

:13:55. > :13:59.governor. It was just an awful experience to go through. You have

:14:00. > :14:03.now devoted your time to a charity to help other people who might be in

:14:04. > :14:11.a similar situation. You are correct in Papyrus is a suicide prevention

:14:12. > :14:18.organisation. We are not there just for people who have lost people

:14:19. > :14:23.through suicide, but we do do that. I welcome this report. This report

:14:24. > :14:27.takes suicide seriously for the first time. I think that's really

:14:28. > :14:31.great. It takes seriously the damage, the distress it causes those

:14:32. > :14:36.of us who have been touched by a suicide. Let's talk to read. The

:14:37. > :14:44.Samaritans for many years have been taking this seriously. -- Ruth. Do

:14:45. > :14:51.you think we need to change the way it is dealt with and how we talk

:14:52. > :14:55.about it? Definitely. There is nothing wrong with the government

:14:56. > :14:58.strategy itself, it is just the implementation. We are really

:14:59. > :15:03.pleased that a select committee has taken our kind of core ask

:15:04. > :15:08.seriously. There needs to be leadership at local level but also

:15:09. > :15:12.at national level. Suicide is a public health issue of epic

:15:13. > :15:16.proportion. It is everybody's business. The government now has the

:15:17. > :15:21.opportunity to make this strategy, lies and actually have an impact. We

:15:22. > :15:30.have heard about the epic impact that suicide has on families. The

:15:31. > :15:35.Samaritans listens to 5.4 million contacts every year. From people in

:15:36. > :15:38.distress. And at last the government seems to be waking up and hopefully

:15:39. > :15:42.something will happen now. One of the things you have talked about is

:15:43. > :15:46.missed opportunities, that many of the people you have spoken to, there

:15:47. > :15:50.have been missed opportunities, why are there missed opportunities?

:15:51. > :15:57.Suicide is very complex. There is no one reason why somebody might take

:15:58. > :16:04.their own life. What we do know is that it is very difficult for people

:16:05. > :16:11.to discuss those real inner, dark thoughts that they have with people.

:16:12. > :16:15.So Samaritans provides that confidential non judgemental space

:16:16. > :16:19.where people can talk about this. Suicidal thoughts are actually quite

:16:20. > :16:23.common. About one in six of the population are thought to have those

:16:24. > :16:29.thoughts and thank goodness that amount of people doesn't translate

:16:30. > :16:34.into the actual figures, but over 6,000 deaths a year, this is still

:16:35. > :16:37.three times as many people as die in road traffic accidents and just

:16:38. > :16:41.think about all the things that we do to prevent road traffic accidents

:16:42. > :16:46.from traffic lights, from teaching children to cross the road, when we

:16:47. > :16:49.get to the point that we're taking suicide prevention that seriously

:16:50. > :16:54.then we'll start to see a reduction in that loss of life.

:16:55. > :16:58.Steve, one of the issues is the way that suicide is reported and dealt

:16:59. > :17:02.with by the media. How do you see that as an issue? We often, we know

:17:03. > :17:07.that talking about the means is not a good thing to do. To talk about

:17:08. > :17:11.suicide is a great thing. To raise awareness, to be open about suicide

:17:12. > :17:15.is very important, but it is not good to talk about the means and you

:17:16. > :17:19.know, what happens is you'll, there is a local death and you will see a

:17:20. > :17:22.picture of a bridge or a picture where the person ended their life

:17:23. > :17:27.and that's not a good thing for other young people to see. So those

:17:28. > :17:31.things, we argue that they shouldn't be too graphic in media reporting

:17:32. > :17:36.about how someone killed themselves. You feel sometimes it is

:17:37. > :17:39.glamourised? Yes, it is, yes. If it is a really attractive young lady or

:17:40. > :17:43.young man, you will see their picture over the paper, almost why

:17:44. > :17:49.would this person who is so attractive and so good looking want

:17:50. > :17:52.to end their life? Yes, it is grammarised. Christmas can be a

:17:53. > :17:57.difficult time for people. Have you got any message? Yeah, it is a

:17:58. > :18:01.really difficult time for people. I think if you know somebody and you

:18:02. > :18:05.are a circle who lost somebody, think hard about how you're going to

:18:06. > :18:11.include them in your celebrations over the Christmas time. Christmas

:18:12. > :18:16.is a great time for volunteering and Samaritan volunteers, 21,000 of them

:18:17. > :18:20.over the country will be working all through Christmas 24/7 and we are

:18:21. > :18:22.always there so if anybody is alone and anybody needs to talk, they know

:18:23. > :18:28.where to come. Thank you very much. The Department of Health has told us

:18:29. > :18:31.that they are investing almost ?1 billion in providing mental

:18:32. > :18:34.health support in A and home-based crisis care,

:18:35. > :18:37.and are in the process of updating their suicide

:18:38. > :18:39.prevention strategy. NHS England has also set a goal

:18:40. > :18:48.to reduce suicides by 10% by 2020. It's 8.18am and you're watching

:18:49. > :18:52.Breakfast from BBC News. Here's Carol with a look

:18:53. > :19:01.at this morning's weather. We have some rain around today and a

:19:02. > :19:05.little bit tomorrow. It is going to turn more unsettled from midweek

:19:06. > :19:09.with more rain and it will turn windier. The reason for that is

:19:10. > :19:13.across southern Canada and most of America, it is very cold.

:19:14. > :19:17.Temperatures sub-zero as indicated by the blues. In Florida we are

:19:18. > :19:21.looking at the mid-20s. So when all that bumps into each other, it

:19:22. > :19:26.creates a thermal gradient. That pumps a lot of energy into the jet

:19:27. > :19:32.stream and this week, the jet stream is going to be unusually strong,

:19:33. > :19:36.travelling at about 230mph. The jet stream is a Ripon of fast moving air

:19:37. > :19:40.roughly at the levels which planes fly. If anybody is coming back from

:19:41. > :19:44.New York you will get back quickly, but it will produce some vigorous

:19:45. > :19:49.areas of low pressure which we will feel the influence of. Now, this

:19:50. > :19:54.morning there is fog around across the Vale of York, East Anglia, the

:19:55. > :19:59.South East and most that will lift, it is patchy, but be aware of it. It

:20:00. > :20:02.is likely to linger across the Vale of York and Lincolnshire and we will

:20:03. > :20:06.see rain develop from the Wash heading down to the Channel Islands.

:20:07. > :20:09.Another band of light rain coming in across Northern Ireland and Western

:20:10. > :20:12.Scotland and it will push southwards. In between, there will

:20:13. > :20:15.be a lot of cloud, but there will be sunny spells and across Scotland and

:20:16. > :20:19.Northern Ireland we will see sunny spells. Into the afternoon, we will

:20:20. > :20:22.have the rain across parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, the

:20:23. > :20:26.Midlands and drops getting in across East Anglia with a lot of cloud and

:20:27. > :20:29.we will see droplets of rain too coming in across southern counties,

:20:30. > :20:33.but more rain across the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands.

:20:34. > :20:36.Variable amounts of cloud and sunshine across south-west England

:20:37. > :20:40.and quite a lot of cloud across Wales with the odd bit of limited

:20:41. > :20:43.sunshine, but you can see the dregs of the band of rain affecting

:20:44. > :20:49.Anglesey. For Northern Ireland, a beautiful afternoon with sunny

:20:50. > :20:52.spells. The same too across Western Scotland, but more cloud across

:20:53. > :20:56.Scotland, the dregs of the weather front producing spots of rain. As we

:20:57. > :20:59.head through the evening and overnight, this weather front

:21:00. > :21:05.continues to heads northwards and this one heads southwards and they

:21:06. > :21:08.clash so we will have a period of longer, heavier rain across northern

:21:09. > :21:11.England and the south-west. Clear skies ahead of it in Scotland and

:21:12. > :21:14.Northern Irelandment here, it will be a cold and frosty night. Any fog

:21:15. > :21:18.that forms could prove to be freezing fog. Tomorrow then, we

:21:19. > :21:22.start off with our band of rain which will be weakening all the time

:21:23. > :21:26.in the west. Then for much of England, a lot of Scotland, variable

:21:27. > :21:30.amounts of cloud and sunny skies, but we've got rain coming in across

:21:31. > :21:32.Northern Ireland and Western Scotland accompanied by

:21:33. > :21:37.strengthening winds and the winds will be a feature of the weather as

:21:38. > :21:44.we head on in through the evening. . We are looking at gust to gale force

:21:45. > :21:46.and we could see storm force winds, but I'll keep you updated on that,

:21:47. > :21:59.Dan and Lou. Sally, you were in Birmingham for

:22:00. > :22:04.BBC Sports Personality of the Year. You have got an hour's sleep, but

:22:05. > :22:08.you have got plenty to tell us. We were quite lucky last night because

:22:09. > :22:12.I suppose we had, you know, a backstage pass, we had access to the

:22:13. > :22:15.little bits of gossip and behind the scenes stuff that you don't get to

:22:16. > :22:20.see. There was so much brilliant stuff happening, not all of it made

:22:21. > :22:24.it into my piece now, one of my favourite moments was when the Team

:22:25. > :22:27.GB women's hockey team came on to the red carpet. They were so ready

:22:28. > :22:31.for a party. Really, lots and lots of fun with them, but let's look at

:22:32. > :22:36.my night at BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Here it is.

:22:37. > :22:47.We'd be stood here all day if we left it up to you!

:22:48. > :22:54.What an incredible year 2016 has been.

:22:55. > :22:55.We are rubbing shoulders with sporting royalty

:22:56. > :23:06.Look at this, it is the gold medal winning women's hockey team.

:23:07. > :23:09.So we are now inside the arena where as you can probably tell

:23:10. > :23:16.I have to go and find my seat so you lot need to go!

:23:17. > :23:30.Leicester City have just been announced as team of the year.

:23:31. > :23:32.The football fairytale for them continues.

:23:33. > :23:35.I'm hoping to speak to a couple of the players in just a moment

:23:36. > :23:39.Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Leicester City squad.

:23:40. > :23:44.I was very surprised but, of course, I'm very pleased.

:23:45. > :24:07.I want to say thank you to the owner for bringing me back in England.

:24:08. > :24:09.And, of course, the players, because without the players

:24:10. > :24:15.Jess, can you tell us, please, who is in third place?

:24:16. > :24:18.In second place is Alistair Brownlee.

:24:19. > :24:21.Hang on a minute, look who I've found in the corridor.

:24:22. > :24:25.Second and third place in BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

:24:26. > :24:29.Gentlemen, if I can get you to take a seat on our lovely red sofa here,

:24:30. > :24:31.make yourself at home, this is our BBC Breakfast

:24:32. > :24:35.Huge congratulations to both of you.

:24:36. > :24:40.How do you feel after your award tonight?

:24:41. > :24:44.It was amazing to be in the first three.

:24:45. > :24:46.And to be sitting there in front of all those great

:24:47. > :24:53.sportsmen and sportswomen, I think very, very happy.

:24:54. > :24:56.Do you know what I've noticed about both of you, you both

:24:57. > :24:59.have a story that goes beyond sport in many ways.

:25:00. > :25:01.Sport is a fantastic thing and winning things is brilliant,

:25:02. > :25:03.and that's what we're about as sports people,

:25:04. > :25:05.it's all about winning but actually to the wider public,

:25:06. > :25:08.what goes along with it is what shows you're a normal person

:25:09. > :25:10.and like any normal person, what's interesting and that's

:25:11. > :25:17.Brilliant, lovely to talk to both of you.

:25:18. > :25:24.And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 is Andy Murray.

:25:25. > :25:28.Andy Murray has just been announced as the winner for 2016.

:25:29. > :25:32.We can talk to him now live from Miami, but I have to tell you,

:25:33. > :25:34.Andy, there's something we haven't mentioned, I have a new BBC

:25:35. > :25:38.Breakfast co-presenter with me, you might recognise this voice.

:25:39. > :25:48.Sorry, Andy, sorry to spring that on you.

:25:49. > :25:53.Is it a bit embarrassing to hear your mum being so nice about you?

:25:54. > :26:01.I'm used to being embarrassed by my mum obviously!

:26:02. > :26:07.But, yeah, look, it's obviously nice because now that I'm a parent myself

:26:08. > :26:10.I know how difficult it must have been for them to allow me and Jamie

:26:11. > :26:14.to go away and, sort of, pursue our tennis careers

:26:15. > :26:18.when we were, like, 13, 14 years old.

:26:19. > :26:20.We wouldn't have been able to do what we've done

:26:21. > :26:26.Andy, thank you so much for your time, thank you for talking

:26:27. > :26:46.He was embarrassed by his mum. There he was for the third time getting

:26:47. > :26:51.Sports Personality of the Year. There is people behind him. We had

:26:52. > :26:56.to move a lady in a bikini before we did that interview! Did you? Yes!

:26:57. > :27:00.We had to get the lady in the bikini to move. More on that later.

:27:01. > :30:19.It's time to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:20. > :30:23.Plenty more news, travel and weather on our website at the usual address.

:30:24. > :30:28.Now though, it's back to Dan and Louise.

:30:29. > :30:36.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:30:37. > :30:42.Thousands of post office workers are beginning strike

:30:43. > :30:46.The walkout by the Communication Workers Union is the latest move

:30:47. > :30:48.in a dispute over pension changes, job security and closures.

:30:49. > :30:50.Commuters on Southern Rail are also facing further disruption

:30:51. > :30:53.and there are talks due to take place aimed at preventing industrial

:30:54. > :31:01.Keith Doyle is at Victoria Station in London with the latest

:31:02. > :31:11.What is the latest you can bring us on today's action? Good morning from

:31:12. > :31:15.Victoria Station, where it is busy, we are in the hush hour now and

:31:16. > :31:20.waves of passengers are coming through, you can probably make out

:31:21. > :31:23.the flashing delayed and cancellation signs across the

:31:24. > :31:27.departures board there. Southern rail have the majority of their

:31:28. > :31:30.services are either delayed or cancelled today. As people are

:31:31. > :31:35.arriving here at the station, many of them have long and difficult

:31:36. > :31:40.journeys from the south-east. Of course this evening when they are

:31:41. > :31:44.going to leave, they expect long delays with lots of people waiting

:31:45. > :31:49.tonight, so more delays and cancellations expected throughout

:31:50. > :31:57.the day on this service, looking at other disputes, the Post Office say

:31:58. > :32:02.97% of branches will open today if that could escalate if union members

:32:03. > :32:06.don't cross picket lines. We will have to see what happens with the

:32:07. > :32:10.talks over the next few days so in in week running up to Christmas not

:32:11. > :32:13.a lot of festive cheer for anyone caught up in the disputes. Thank you

:32:14. > :32:17.The evacuation of the ruins of east Aleppo in Syria has resumed.

:32:18. > :32:19.Around 1,000 people left the city this morning,

:32:20. > :32:22.A further 500 have left nearby villages.

:32:23. > :32:25.The evacuees, which include many children, are said by aid workers

:32:26. > :32:40.Well, they'll be going to a place just outside of Aleppo city.

:32:41. > :32:43.It is run by the rebels, it's a rebel part of Syria.

:32:44. > :32:46.But there is a staging post there where medical professionals

:32:47. > :32:49.and volunteers are waiting to give them the help that they need.

:32:50. > :32:52.The number of lives lost due to suicide in England

:32:53. > :32:55.is unacceptable according to a group of MPs.

:32:56. > :32:58.It remains the biggest cause of death in men under 49.

:32:59. > :33:01.In a report, the Health Select Committee says a government

:33:02. > :33:03.prevention strategy for England in 2012 didn't result

:33:04. > :33:06.It's due to be updated early next year.

:33:07. > :33:14.The committee said support needed to be more accessible to those at risk.

:33:15. > :33:17.Police officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have seen

:33:18. > :33:19.mental health-related callouts increase by more than a quarter

:33:20. > :33:21.in just three years, according to figures obtained by BBC

:33:22. > :33:27.30 out of 49 forces answered the Freedom of Information request.

:33:28. > :33:30.The Government says it has halved the use of police cells to deal

:33:31. > :33:32.with people undergoing a mental health crisis and that officers

:33:33. > :33:40.are now working more closely with healthcare services.

:33:41. > :33:43.A special sitting of the Stormont Assembly will be held

:33:44. > :33:45.today to examine a green energy scheme that's been described

:33:46. > :33:47.as the "biggest financial scandal ever in Northern Ireland".

:33:48. > :33:50.Stormont's First Minister Arlene Foster will face

:33:51. > :33:51.a motion of no confidence during today's proceedings.

:33:52. > :33:54.But she's rejected calls from Sinn Fein to step aside

:33:55. > :33:56.during an investigation into the project, which is

:33:57. > :34:05.thought to have overspent by ?400 million.

:34:06. > :34:08.The Hungarian born actress and socialite

:34:09. > :34:12.She made more than 70 films, but as one of the first socialites

:34:13. > :34:15.she helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages

:34:16. > :34:18.By her own reckoning, she was only married

:34:19. > :34:22.She didn't really count a Spanish Duke, whom she left

:34:23. > :34:31.Her age was a closely guarded secret, but she was

:34:32. > :34:35.Her husband said she died at home surrounded by her

:34:36. > :34:49.And coming up here on Breakfast this morning:

:34:50. > :34:52.He broke Strictly records with a perfect score for his samba,

:34:53. > :34:55.Hollyoaks star Danny Mac will be here to tell us about his next

:34:56. > :34:58.project - bringing "Sleepless in Seattle" from the big screen

:34:59. > :35:10.Who are you? Lucy Fletcher, a reporter from the Daily Chronicle,

:35:11. > :35:11.hang on, why am I telling you the truth?

:35:12. > :35:17.assistant in a sneak preview of the Christmas Special.

:35:18. > :35:18.And after nine, it's a British institution,

:35:19. > :35:22.We'll hear why the humble corner shop has remained the centre

:35:23. > :35:32.of communities across the UK for more than 70 years.

:35:33. > :35:43.They are crucial, corner shops. It is always a pint of milk. Normally

:35:44. > :35:48.fruit pastilles for me. Morning, Andy Murray has become the first

:35:49. > :35:52.person to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year

:35:53. > :36:00.award three times. really rather good. We had a lovely

:36:01. > :36:02.time with him, and his mum, we surprised him, his mum did an

:36:03. > :36:07.interview, he was a bit embarrassed. Andy Murray has become the first

:36:08. > :36:10.person to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year

:36:11. > :36:15.award three times. The 2013 and 2015 winner, took

:36:16. > :36:18.Olympic gold, claimed his second Wimbledon title and became tennis'

:36:19. > :36:21.world number one for the first time He wasn't at the event in Birmingham

:36:22. > :36:25.and was given the trophy by former undisputed heavyweight boxing

:36:26. > :36:27.champion Lennox Lewis, Triathlete Alistair Brownlee

:36:28. > :36:31.was voted second and show Leicester City took

:36:32. > :36:35.team of the year. India are building a first innings

:36:36. > :36:38.lead in the the fifth The hosts began the fourth day 86

:36:39. > :36:45.runs behind in Chennai. Karun Nair has passed 150 in his

:36:46. > :36:48.first Test century for India . England took the wicket

:36:49. > :36:51.of Murali Vijay before lunch, but Karun has been joined

:36:52. > :36:53.by Ravi Ashwin and India are now Manchester City came from behind

:36:54. > :37:05.to beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Etihad to move second in the Premier

:37:06. > :37:07.League. The Gunners shot into the lead

:37:08. > :37:10.after only five minutes, when Theo Walcott slotted them

:37:11. > :37:11.ahead. But a second half equaliser

:37:12. > :37:14.from Leroy Sane was followed It's the second successive game

:37:15. > :37:18.Arsenal led and then lost - but the manager felt the officials

:37:19. > :37:21.were at fault and says the group in charge of referees isn't

:37:22. > :37:27.doing its job properly. We conceded two offside goals,

:37:28. > :37:30.that is very difficult to accept I believe there's a lot on at

:37:31. > :37:34.the moment, that is not serious. Southampton also came from behind

:37:35. > :37:45.to beat South Coast neighbours Bournemouth 3-1 at the Vitality

:37:46. > :37:47.Stadium. This was the stunning second goal

:37:48. > :38:07.of the game for Jay Rodriguez Did splur the trophy? There is more

:38:08. > :38:13.than one trophy, everybody. Sorry to spoil it. More than one, they sent

:38:14. > :38:17.one and I think a spare to Miami and then there were at least two in the

:38:18. > :38:19.auditorium last night. You have to have a back up. The original was in

:38:20. > :38:22.Birmingham. Thanks. Police are increasingly having

:38:23. > :38:24.to deal with people who have All this week on Breakfast we're

:38:25. > :38:28.looking at the realities of working in the force as part

:38:29. > :38:31.of our Policing Britain series. We've discovered through a Freedom

:38:32. > :38:33.of Information request that officers in England,

:38:34. > :38:35.Wales and Northern Ireland have seen mental health-related call-outs

:38:36. > :38:37.increase by more than a quarter John Maguire has been investigating

:38:38. > :38:43.how police are responding We can join him now at a custody

:38:44. > :38:54.suite in Darlington. Behind bar, John. Morning to you.

:38:55. > :38:58.Yes, long overdue, morning, Dan, we are being hosted by Durham Police

:38:59. > :39:02.for this week of special reports on modern policing across the UK, there

:39:03. > :39:06.are 16 cells in here, I will take you into this one. There is the

:39:07. > :39:12.door. Custody Sergeant was saying the door always wins and you can

:39:13. > :39:15.imagine why. A very cold, very austere environment in here, that is

:39:16. > :39:19.your bed, all you get, mattress, pillow, they will give you blankets,

:39:20. > :39:24.the police officerers. Toilet in the corner. Warning facilities and at

:39:25. > :39:27.all times video and audio records everything that goes on in this

:39:28. > :39:34.cell. But as you can imagine, this is not the type of environment, it

:39:35. > :39:36.is no way appropriate as a place to house people with mental health

:39:37. > :39:43.Yes, it was a weird environment to be in when I was in a crisis.

:39:44. > :39:45.The last time Declan Barnes was at this police station

:39:46. > :39:48.in Gloucester, he had been detained under the Mental Health Act

:39:49. > :39:50.and taken to the cells for his own safety.

:39:51. > :40:00.There were no secure hospital beds available.

:40:01. > :40:03.Given the relative severity of, like, my mental health problems,

:40:04. > :40:05.you know, you need specialist care, especially when you are in

:40:06. > :40:08.a situation like that, where you're in a situation

:40:09. > :40:10.like that, where you feel suicidal, not just depressed or anxious.

:40:11. > :40:13.Dealing with mental health is a major issue for police forces

:40:14. > :40:16.Freedom of information figures obtained by BBC Breakfast show

:40:17. > :40:21.a rise of more than a quarter over recent years.

:40:22. > :40:23.Of the 49 forces contacted, 30 responded.

:40:24. > :40:26.Not including the Metropolitan Police, they recorded more

:40:27. > :40:36.That number has since risen to almost 232,000.

:40:37. > :40:38.I would estimate that our officers currently spend about 20%

:40:39. > :40:41.of their time dealing with people with mental health issues.

:40:42. > :40:43.The use of police cells, though, is declining.

:40:44. > :40:45.The Devon and Cornwall force has previously

:40:46. > :40:50.So far this year, 58 people have been detained in cells.

:40:51. > :40:58.And that for us was completely unforgivable.

:40:59. > :41:00.We could not sustain that position, so we worked really,

:41:01. > :41:04.really hard with partners and we got a lot of protocols in place.

:41:05. > :41:07.We really worked hard to make them realise that a police cell was not

:41:08. > :41:14.the place for a person suffering from a mental health issue.

:41:15. > :41:17.We're out on the night shift with what is known

:41:18. > :41:19.as the mental health triage team in Leicestershire.

:41:20. > :41:21.Comprised of a specially trained police officer

:41:22. > :41:27.and a mental health nurse, they can respond to incidents

:41:28. > :41:39.They have deployed to reports that a man is threatening

:41:40. > :41:42.It's a large-scale response from all three emergency services.

:41:43. > :41:46.Matt Belcher's first job is to check if one of the secure hospital beds

:41:47. > :41:49.So potential option would be if he is not co-operative

:41:50. > :41:54.While his colleague Jack Sanger talks to officers on the tow path.

:41:55. > :41:57.Whether they're presenting sort of mentally unwell,

:41:58. > :42:00.they are seeing things, hearing things, I'm just

:42:01. > :42:05.trying to guide a very fluid sort of situation.

:42:06. > :42:07.After several hours, the incident is under control

:42:08. > :42:10.and isn't being treated as a mental health case.

:42:11. > :42:14.The team's next task is in Leicester's city

:42:15. > :42:17.centre police station, where a man is said to be agitated

:42:18. > :42:23.We're here to see what is goling on, to try and get the best

:42:24. > :42:27.He is presenting with mental health issues which I feel he could be

:42:28. > :42:33.Their objective is to ensure people with mental health issues

:42:34. > :42:36.are dealt with appropriately and not criminalised.

:42:37. > :42:38.All sides recognise a major problem, even a crisis.

:42:39. > :42:41.One as complex as it is conten shucks and one for which there

:42:42. > :42:57.Let us discuss the points with Michael Brown and the Chief

:42:58. > :43:01.Constable here at Durham Police. Good morning, thank you for looking

:43:02. > :43:06.after us in the custody suite. We have had a good look round, in terms

:43:07. > :43:12.of mental health how much time do your officers spend dealing with it?

:43:13. > :43:15.I think looking at the narrow figure, of section 136 which is

:43:16. > :43:21.where we forcibly detain people doesn't tell us the whole picture.

:43:22. > :43:27.Well over 800 incidents a month now in my force and rising rapidly. Well

:43:28. > :43:33.over half of the people in the prison population suffer from mental

:43:34. > :43:38.health problem, not all of those are diagnosed. Pretty much everybody who

:43:39. > :43:41.comes into this custody suite in any 24 hours period will be suffering

:43:42. > :43:45.from some sort of mental problem. I think this is one of the biggest

:43:46. > :43:48.problems that we are facing in the UK at the moment. You have to deal

:43:49. > :43:53.with the sharp end, don't you, the acute part of it, when things go

:43:54. > :43:57.wrong pretty much, but, you say it is a bigger problem for the whole of

:43:58. > :44:01.society. Is that the only way to solve this issue. Well, if somebody

:44:02. > :44:05.is suffering from an ill health problem, you don't bring them here,

:44:06. > :44:10.so if someone has broken a leg you don't bring them to police custody.

:44:11. > :44:15.Yet we seem to have an ambivalence where it is OK because they are a

:44:16. > :44:19.bit #2ki6 represents and we don't want them xint exhibiting their

:44:20. > :44:23.mental ill health in public, think there has to be parity of esteem in

:44:24. > :44:31.society, where somebody who is suffering from mental ill health is

:44:32. > :44:34.looked after just as caringly by society, I know health professionals

:44:35. > :44:39.do, and certainly we try our best, but I think there is this sort of

:44:40. > :44:44.black out, when it comes to society. That they don't really want to deal

:44:45. > :44:49.woo this issue. Michael Brown, the point of view for, is there enough

:44:50. > :44:53.in place, are officers getting the right amount of support to deal with

:44:54. > :44:58.the issues this chief has been talking about? Many reports say the

:44:59. > :45:02.police need more training but I think as a front line officer most

:45:03. > :45:06.people would want the information and the support they need in order

:45:07. > :45:09.to make the best decisions and I think police officers want to see

:45:10. > :45:14.systems in place so when they have to take decisions about looking

:45:15. > :45:18.after somebody or indeed detaining them that is not an indefinite

:45:19. > :45:22.process, so the training is mart of it but there is a broader thing

:45:23. > :45:26.about how front line officers can be supported by colleagues across the

:45:27. > :45:30.NHS and social care system, to do the right thing faster than we

:45:31. > :45:33.currently are able to. Briefly improvements are being made. It

:45:34. > :45:39.seems to me talking to different forces across the UK, it is very

:45:40. > :45:42.much a priority isn't it. Yes, it is safe to say improvements are being

:45:43. > :45:45.made and progress is being made but there is a long way to go. As the

:45:46. > :45:48.Chief Constable made clear, the demand on policing connected to

:45:49. > :45:57.mental health is rising. Thank you both very much indeed.

:45:58. > :46:03.There are 16 suites here, only a couple of them were full last night,

:46:04. > :46:07.Saturday night is a very different situation because this is a very,

:46:08. > :46:12.very busy time for police forces right across the UK. We will be

:46:13. > :46:13.reflecting that later on in the week in Slade House.

:46:14. > :46:19.STUDIO: Thanks, John. Tomorrow we'll continue the series

:46:20. > :46:21.with a special report from inside a domestic violence

:46:22. > :46:23.project aimed at helping men to control their behaviour to prevent

:46:24. > :46:27.them from becoming abusive. Here's Carol with a look

:46:28. > :46:39.at this morning's weather. It's busy, it is murky, it's foggy,

:46:40. > :46:44.lots going on. That's right. We have all kinds. We have fought around in

:46:45. > :46:48.the east. It's going to be a mainly dry start of the week -- we have

:46:49. > :46:53.fork around. There is some rain around. Including the Christmas

:46:54. > :46:56.weekend, it looks like it is going to turn wetter and windier,

:46:57. > :47:00.especially across the border and half of the UK. This morning we have

:47:01. > :47:08.a couple of weather fronts. So all the northern half. A front coming in

:47:09. > :47:12.from the west bringing rain. Slack isobars, nothing particularly windy.

:47:13. > :47:15.Most of the fog will lift in the cloud, but it could drag its heels

:47:16. > :47:20.in terms of clearance across the Vale of York and also Lincolnshire.

:47:21. > :47:24.First weather front is producing the rain, rain coming across Scotland

:47:25. > :47:27.and Northern Ireland will weaken as it continues its journey into

:47:28. > :47:32.southern Scotland, northern England and Wales. This afternoon, brighter

:47:33. > :47:37.skies here and there, but the emphasis is on a cloudy day and a

:47:38. > :47:48.dank day. We have the rain extending from the wash towards Hampshire.

:47:49. > :47:50.Thicker cloud spots of rain in the far south-east. As we drift into the

:47:51. > :47:52.far south-west, something drier and brighter. Against sunshine is

:47:53. > :47:57.limited, but there will be some. It's the same for Wales, some

:47:58. > :48:02.sunshine, but Northern Ireland, the rain goes through, it will be fairly

:48:03. > :48:06.light. We are looking at sunshine, as we are across western Scotland.

:48:07. > :48:11.Breaks of the weather front producing cloud and spots of rain

:48:12. > :48:17.here and there. The weather front in the south-east travels west. The

:48:18. > :48:26.weather front from the West advances South East and they will have meat.

:48:27. > :48:30.Behind that, cloudy. Ahead of it, clear skies in Scotland and Northern

:48:31. > :48:35.Ireland. There will be a touch of frost and possibly some patchy

:48:36. > :48:40.freezing fog. Tomorrow here is the weather front. The Zaw Lin. For most

:48:41. > :48:45.of England and Scotland it will be a fine day, a dry day. Cloud and

:48:46. > :48:49.sunshine. But the next weather front coming from the West will introduce

:48:50. > :48:53.heavy rain and increasingly strengthening winds. As we head on

:48:54. > :48:56.into the evening, the wind will become a feature of the weather

:48:57. > :48:58.across Northern Ireland, western and northern Scotland, especially in the

:48:59. > :49:07.South. Severe gales, possibly in parts of

:49:08. > :49:11.the Outer Hebrides. Locally we could also hit storm force. Do bear that

:49:12. > :49:16.in mind. I will keep you up-to-date with what is happening. Tuesday into

:49:17. > :49:20.Wednesday, our first weather front head towards the south-east. Another

:49:21. > :49:24.week one comes in behind it. In between, it will be pretty windy,

:49:25. > :49:37.but not as windy as we are expecting on Tuesday evening. Thanks, Carol.

:49:38. > :49:38.It has been a winning weekend across the BBC with sports personality, and

:49:39. > :49:42.of course at Strictly. He was hailed as "the spirit of

:49:43. > :49:45.Strictly" by head judge Len Goodman. And this weekend, just over

:49:46. > :49:48.13 million viewers saw Ore Oduba and his dance partner Joanne Clifton

:49:49. > :49:51.win the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Sally caught up with him

:49:52. > :49:54.fresh off the dance floor on the red carpet at the BBC Sports Personality

:49:55. > :49:56.of the Year Awards. That hasn't been said many

:49:57. > :50:04.times in the last 24 The whole thing has been just

:50:05. > :50:13.a circus, but the most We saw you win, we saw

:50:14. > :50:23.you with the Glitterball, what happened then, how

:50:24. > :50:26.was the party? Do you know what, I had -

:50:27. > :50:29.it was wonderful seeing everybody all together,

:50:30. > :50:31.because we haven't seen the cast for so long,

:50:32. > :50:34.so it was really nice to get everybody back together and just

:50:35. > :50:37.have the fun we've been having for the last four months,

:50:38. > :50:42.just in one night, so it was great. Could the night have

:50:43. > :50:45.gone any better for you? Everything went - well,

:50:46. > :50:50.actually Craig gave us a nine So Craig, you went

:50:51. > :50:57.and ruin the night... No, he didn't ruin

:50:58. > :51:00.anything, it was perfect. How are you fixed for a shift

:51:01. > :51:05.a week next Tuesday? Sal, Christmas is coming,

:51:06. > :51:07.we've had no build up. We're going to have a great night

:51:08. > :51:16.at Sports Personality. We're going to have Christmas

:51:17. > :51:19.and then we're having an 'oliday. It's going to be laying down,

:51:20. > :51:25.pool side, beach side, just relaxing, but I'm

:51:26. > :51:28.going to reflect on this whole four months over this festive period,

:51:29. > :51:31.because it has just been amazing. I've been getting up

:51:32. > :51:44.at 3.30 in the morning. I didn't say I missed the time,

:51:45. > :51:47.I said I missed you. Come on, Sal, it's

:51:48. > :51:57.there and good top line. And that's nice, a bit

:51:58. > :52:07.of swing and sway. Am I going to have the teaching

:52:08. > :52:30.ability to know what that Loved the umbrella action! You'll be

:52:31. > :52:32.practising that. I could do it with a pen.

:52:33. > :52:36.From one Strictly finalist to another.

:52:37. > :52:39.Danny Mac is here, lovely to see you.

:52:40. > :52:42.and graceful style led to him being compared to the

:52:43. > :52:46.And although actor Danny Mac narrowly missed out on lifting

:52:47. > :52:48.the Glitterball Trophy, he's not getting much

:52:49. > :52:50.of a break before setting off on the Strictly tour -

:52:51. > :52:53.he's about to start rehearsals for a new musical based on the film,

:52:54. > :52:57.We'll speak to Danny in a minute, but first let's take a look

:52:58. > :52:59.at his performances from Saturday's final.

:53:00. > :53:12.MUSIC: I Won't Dance by Frank Sinatra.

:53:13. > :53:56.CHEERING Oh, goodness gracious! That last

:53:57. > :54:03.moment, Danny. Welcome, lovely to see you. Thank you, lovely to see

:54:04. > :54:08.you. What a fabulous weekend. That samba that you did is one of my

:54:09. > :54:11.favourite moments of Strictly ever. You did it twice. What's it like

:54:12. > :54:16.doing that the second time around? I just did not dot like I didn't want

:54:17. > :54:21.it to be worse than the first time. The first time had gone so well, the

:54:22. > :54:25.chances of it being was all quite high. We went out and it actually

:54:26. > :54:31.wasn't, it felt just electric. We had a long DT before. We stood there

:54:32. > :54:35.on stage and just soaked it in, the last time we're going to do it here,

:54:36. > :54:44.live on Telecom EU and me. We are such great friends and it was such a

:54:45. > :54:48.brilliant team -- live on telly, you and me. It was a brilliant feeling.

:54:49. > :54:50.Then we went out and have fun. The second dance was excellent, but that

:54:51. > :54:55.is stressful. And the first one obviously went a bit wrong. A lot

:54:56. > :54:59.was laid on that one. Talk to us about the quick-snap? The judges all

:55:00. > :55:04.picked up on the mistake coming down onto the floor. What went wrong was

:55:05. > :55:08.Mike was it nervous, was at the occasion? You had gone through it so

:55:09. > :55:13.many times? We were all happy to be in the final and we were genuinely,

:55:14. > :55:16.genuinely going to enjoy ourselves, regardless of what happened. Nobody

:55:17. > :55:25.was like, I really need to win this, not at all. We were all going to be

:55:26. > :55:29.happy for each other from the off. My only pressure was that I didn't

:55:30. > :55:31.want to make any mistakes, I think I put that pressure on myself too

:55:32. > :55:34.much. We take risks. Oti did another round of the dance floor because we

:55:35. > :55:39.wanted more choreography in it. We did that, that bit went OK,

:55:40. > :55:42.surprisingly. It was the bit that I had obviously known for the last ten

:55:43. > :55:46.weeks or whatever it was that went wrong. It's one of those dancers

:55:47. > :55:51.work if one thing goes wrong, then you can't hide it community, we are

:55:52. > :55:55.joined together at the hip. I do not know what happened. I must have

:55:56. > :56:02.missed a step. I can't even put my finger on it, but I was gutted,

:56:03. > :56:06.gutted. Another thing about beauty, she seemed to just communicable

:56:07. > :56:11.every time she did dance, the next week, the bar was raised even

:56:12. > :56:16.higher. It got so strong by the end. When you are at three weeks for a

:56:17. > :56:21.92nd routine, by putting the hours, I wanted to learn how to dance and

:56:22. > :56:24.give it my best. So go for a 92nd routine. If I am focused on

:56:25. > :56:29.something, I'll give it my all. We went out on week one and came out so

:56:30. > :56:35.strong. Oti was like, we've got the top that, and I did. I kept on

:56:36. > :56:37.learning about got better and better all the way to the end. You've

:56:38. > :56:41.worked incredibly hard. You've been with your partner for a long time.

:56:42. > :56:45.You came up with an ingenious plan of working with your fiance and

:56:46. > :56:48.stayed in this adaptation of Sleepless in Seattle, which means

:56:49. > :56:52.you'll be spending an awful lot of time with each other. I'm so please,

:56:53. > :56:55.because we have spent so much time apart. There are not many

:56:56. > :57:00.opportunities that will properly have to work with each other. This

:57:01. > :57:06.project is like fantastic, it's going to be so grateful that. I know

:57:07. > :57:11.Carly, she's such a star, she's so talented. When she was doing this

:57:12. > :57:14.show was like, yeah, this could be a great opportunity for us when was

:57:15. > :57:20.asked by you know, to look at the material. She's a West End star,

:57:21. > :57:26.she's fantastic. And it's so nice to be able to work with her. Sleepless

:57:27. > :57:30.in Seattle is a musical? Yes, it's a musical based around the film. And

:57:31. > :57:35.it's going to be... It's going to be great to be creative, and create

:57:36. > :57:39.something, you know, is the world premiere of the show, and that's

:57:40. > :57:42.what I wanted, you know. There are a lot of shows that are fantastic but

:57:43. > :57:47.you go in replacing someone else, and you do similar to what they did

:57:48. > :57:51.before. But to me, to be on the creative end of it to start the show

:57:52. > :57:55.up is a real treat. This is the first Monday since Strictly has

:57:56. > :57:58.finished. We are approaching 9am, would you be starting training now?

:57:59. > :58:03.I would be dragging myself out of bed to go to training, and that

:58:04. > :58:08.would be it until about 9pm to Mike. Relief? Does it feel weird? It feels

:58:09. > :58:12.strange, but I was ready to not be doing it. I need to sleep for about

:58:13. > :58:18.a week, as people may be able to tell. Thank you very much for coming

:58:19. > :58:20.to see us. It's been fantastic, good luck. Good luck with the Strictly

:58:21. > :58:24.tour and get some sleep! Sleepless opens at the Theatre Royal

:58:25. > :58:26.Plymouth on 1st April. It's a year since Peter Capaldi last

:58:27. > :58:29.stepped through the blue doors of the Tardis,

:58:30. > :58:31.but for millions of fans Doctor Who is back for another

:58:32. > :58:34.Christmas adventure - and this time, it has

:58:35. > :58:36.a superhero twist. In "The Return of Doctor

:58:37. > :58:38.Mysterio" he's assisted by an investigative reporter,

:58:39. > :58:41.played by Charity Wakefield, for an adventure that sees them

:58:42. > :58:43.battling to save New York We'll speak to Charity in a moment,

:58:44. > :58:52.but first here's a sneak peak. I'm Lucy Fletcher, a reporer

:58:53. > :59:27.from the Daily Chronicle. Hang on, why am I

:59:28. > :59:30.telling you the truth? Special Agent Dan Dangerous

:59:31. > :59:40.from Scotland Yard, Scotland. See, they have institutes

:59:41. > :59:43.all over the world. New York's not

:59:44. > :59:53.a capital city, is it? You don't need to point out

:59:54. > :59:55.the mistakes, that's Charity Wakefield, who plays

:59:56. > :00:14.Lucy Fletcher, joins us now. What is that like? It is so excite,

:00:15. > :00:19.so funny when you watch the rough edit because it is kind of has all

:00:20. > :00:22.the green screen faff and the doctor is hanging off various things and

:00:23. > :00:28.you see the amazing work they do to put it together. Seeing like that is

:00:29. > :00:36.super exciting. Were you a fan? I was a fan but not as much of a fan

:00:37. > :00:46.has some people are! Yes. I kind of grew up with it. I remember

:00:47. > :00:51.Sylvester McCoy and Ace, she was a massive heroine for me, they have

:00:52. > :00:55.reinvented it and it is exciting. Does that bring with it, it will be

:00:56. > :01:00.one of the most watched shows over Christmas. No pressure! Your family

:01:01. > :01:03.and friends are big fan, it brings a bit of responsibility and pressure,

:01:04. > :01:08.doesn't it? It does, I was so excited to get the job and nervous

:01:09. > :01:12.going to Cardiff to film, but the studios and the people who work

:01:13. > :01:19.there are absolutely amazing, they are so welcoming, and Peter is the

:01:20. > :01:24.nicest actor you could ever hope to work for, he greet us all, the new

:01:25. > :01:29.cast, showed us round. He gave you a tour of the whole place? She kind

:01:30. > :01:36.and generous, his hours are crazy. Matt Lucas is in it, what is he like

:01:37. > :01:39.to work with? So funny, he has a different glasses configuration on

:01:40. > :01:44.his head and you will see that, it is a job not to be laughing. We

:01:45. > :01:50.can't have you asking for a bit of gossip s there anything you can tell

:01:51. > :01:54.us, you can't? I mean, I am sort of sworn to secrecy over most of the

:01:55. > :02:00.things in the show. Say it big build up to it, but I would say watch out

:02:01. > :02:04.for some scary surgeons in this one. OK, and it has superhero, there is a

:02:05. > :02:10.clip isn't there. There is. Which has been watched a few times.

:02:11. > :02:14.Including by me. So that is a a new theme. This is an interesting one

:02:15. > :02:20.because we go into superhero territory, and this show is set in

:02:21. > :02:26.New York City, and I play Lucy Fletcher who is a journalist, and

:02:27. > :02:30.she, she happens across this sort of very terrifying situation that she

:02:31. > :02:36.doesn't know quite what is going on, it feels other worldly and while

:02:37. > :02:40.this is happening, we also come across the character called the

:02:41. > :02:52.Ghost, who she may or may not know in her home life. There is a slight

:02:53. > :02:57.Lois Lane bit about it. You have a new drama on ITV called The Halcyon

:02:58. > :03:05.this is set in London in the second world war and you play an

:03:06. > :03:11.aristocratic woman. We must use our power and influence to guide this

:03:12. > :03:17.country in her time of need. Churchill is an idiot. Shows things

:03:18. > :03:21.as black-and-white. Lord Hall fax understands the situation is more

:03:22. > :03:29.nuanced. I was with Halifax when he met the fewer. Hitler thought he was

:03:30. > :03:33.a footman, he handed him his coat. With all due respect our concerns

:03:34. > :03:39.lie more with economic implications, rather than social. The last war

:03:40. > :03:43.plunged our nation into a recession from which we barely recovered.

:03:44. > :03:50.Quite a different character. So different. Is she not very nice? No,

:03:51. > :03:54.she is really not. She is a little bit Cruella De Villish, which is

:03:55. > :03:58.something a complete departure and was so delighted to play that part,

:03:59. > :04:03.especially so near these other different parts too. And one strange

:04:04. > :04:08.thing is the character is called Charity, she is Charity Lambert, so

:04:09. > :04:13.there is scene towards the end I get up braided and he says Charity stop

:04:14. > :04:17.that, and it is so strange because that is Miss Name. This is going to

:04:18. > :04:21.be amazing, a massive hit. It is so exciting. So many people who will be

:04:22. > :04:25.watching Doctor Who, you will be watching it with your family, do you

:04:26. > :04:31.have to sit tight and not say anything? My dad is a massive fan so

:04:32. > :04:37.I won't give away any spoilers, not to them. Have a lovely Christmas

:04:38. > :04:43.Day. When we come back we will find out

:04:44. > :04:45.about the rich history of the corner shop.

:04:46. > :06:17.But first, here's a last, brief look at the headlines

:06:18. > :06:19.I'll be back at 1.30 with the lunchtime news,

:06:20. > :06:31.They are the life-blood of any thriving community and,

:06:32. > :06:34.for those in urgent need of bread, milk or gravy granules,

:06:35. > :06:36.they can seem like the fourth emergency service.

:06:37. > :06:39.But how did the humble corner shop come to play such a central

:06:40. > :06:42.And can it survive the dominance of the huge supermarkets?

:06:43. > :06:45.The BBC journalist Babita Sharma grew up in a succession of corner

:06:46. > :06:47.shops, and she's made a documentary about this topic.

:06:48. > :06:52.No matter where your shop was, there was just one chance,

:06:53. > :06:56.one chance to run a business and make it work.

:06:57. > :06:59.For many like mum and dad it was tough, but customers saw

:07:00. > :07:02.the benefit of having their corner shop back.

:07:03. > :07:07.But how did we turn a profit when others had failed before us?

:07:08. > :07:12.We also imported our own business model, and that included uncosted,

:07:13. > :07:22.In our shop in Reading no-one got out of doing a shift.

:07:23. > :07:26.And there was no pay for all this hard work,

:07:27. > :07:30.other than eating as many sweets as we could get our hands on -

:07:31. > :07:33.But my parents remember things a little differently.

:07:34. > :07:45.In the shop we used to stack all the shelves.

:07:46. > :07:52.We used to do the Pedigree Chums, the toilet rolls.

:07:53. > :08:14.Lovely to see you, this is a labour of love for you isn't it 15 years of

:08:15. > :08:18.childhood was that, growing up, living on top of the shop. When your

:08:19. > :08:21.parents are shopkeepers it is not only their decision to take on a

:08:22. > :08:27.shop but the whole family, it's a commitment by all of us, so growing

:08:28. > :08:31.up on top of the shop is about dad doing the cash and carry and

:08:32. > :08:36.stacking the shelves and eating the sweet, we would sit on the counters

:08:37. > :08:39.and see all walks of life come in, and customers would be like your

:08:40. > :08:43.extended family, so such a special existence and a sacrifice as well,

:08:44. > :08:48.because it is not easy. We were talking about how it is the sort of

:08:49. > :08:53.the centre of so many communities and it has changed a lot. The place

:08:54. > :08:58.of the corner shop. We looked at in this documentary, we went round the

:08:59. > :09:02.country, Belfast, Glasgow, Bristol, Reading, and we looked at 1940s

:09:03. > :09:05.Britain and the place that the corner shop had. It was such a

:09:06. > :09:10.central point of the community life because it was where you get access

:09:11. > :09:13.do your rations and then when the first wave of immigration came into

:09:14. > :09:16.this country there was an opportunity for my mum and dad to

:09:17. > :09:21.work for themselves so they decided to take it on, and extend the

:09:22. > :09:27.working hours and work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, and because

:09:28. > :09:31.of that, and revolutionising the corner shop model, they were able to

:09:32. > :09:35.do particularly well and keep it going, which everybody knows a shop

:09:36. > :09:39.Cooper, don't they. Absolutely. -- keeper. Of course they have changed

:09:40. > :09:45.and what we buy has changed a lot. One of the reasons that corner shops

:09:46. > :09:51.were so essential, nobody has fridges in the early days. It was

:09:52. > :09:55.your butcher, baker, grocer, you would go to that one central point

:09:56. > :10:00.to get everything. This was in the time when there was no NHS, so it

:10:01. > :10:04.was also your pharmacy, and, it was the go to place, but also, where the

:10:05. > :10:07.art of conversation was founded, I think in this country, because

:10:08. > :10:10.everyone would chat to their shopkeeper. You also in the

:10:11. > :10:19.programme you look at serious issue, let us show you a clip, this is a

:10:20. > :10:21.converiation with -- conversation with Nitin.

:10:22. > :10:27.We were the first Asians in the neighbourhood,

:10:28. > :10:31.That was at the time when the National Front

:10:32. > :10:33.were based in Coventry, and so shops were targetted.

:10:34. > :10:35.I remember the people throwing stuff at the shop,

:10:36. > :10:38.trying to smash the shop down, you know, my mum being spat at,

:10:39. > :10:53.I mean, that was - weirdly enough, as you're growing up,

:10:54. > :10:58.you kind of go, "Well, that's just normal, right?"

:10:59. > :11:00.Sation with -- conversation with Nitin.

:11:01. > :11:07.It's a difficult situation for his parents to have been in Bad luck to

:11:08. > :11:13.your corner shop round the corner from the national front, with my mum

:11:14. > :11:16.and dad, they were lucky I I suppose, they didn't face overt

:11:17. > :11:21.vaich, there was always a conversation we knew we were

:11:22. > :11:27.different, and I think when mum and dad came across in the 70s people

:11:28. > :11:31.had never met Indian people, there was no curry mall, no access to

:11:32. > :11:35.migrant communities and dad told us a story about when they opened up

:11:36. > :11:40.that their shop in 1977 they were warned about a customer who didn't

:11:41. > :11:44.like foreigners but dad would be OK if he was into cricket, which my dad

:11:45. > :11:49.was, so they could have a common bond, that kind of, them and us

:11:50. > :11:55.culture, I think existed, so we were very aware that we were thought of

:11:56. > :12:00.as different in the community. I like the fact you are still annoyed

:12:01. > :12:06.your parents can't remember the free labour. They are in denial I think.

:12:07. > :12:13.Maybe they are just trying to hide the fact, no. All three of us did

:12:14. > :12:18.hard shifts. So what was it? Cash and carry, sweep the floor, all of

:12:19. > :12:21.that we would muck in. A huge part of the success you see, what do you

:12:22. > :12:27.think is the future then of the corner shop? It seems it might be

:12:28. > :12:32.successful forecast, it might be getting more. They faced so many

:12:33. > :12:35.challenges with the supermarkets, muscling in on their territory,

:12:36. > :12:40.change in Sunday trading which was a real threat to corner shop, but in

:12:41. > :12:44.in this documentary we realise now with a new migrant community like

:12:45. > :12:48.your Polish supermarkets and Latvian delis, the corner shop market is set

:12:49. > :12:54.to increase by 44 billion in the next five years alone. It is doing a

:12:55. > :12:58.great trade, because we all need our emergency bag of sugar, a paper, as

:12:59. > :13:01.long as we need that and we want to shop locally I think, because you

:13:02. > :13:05.don't know who is serving you when you go into a supermarket, but you

:13:06. > :13:09.do when you walk into a corner shop. As long as that continues we will be

:13:10. > :13:11.OK. Lovely to see you P

:13:12. > :13:13.Booze, Beans and Bhajis: The Story Of The Corner Shop

:13:14. > :13:19.That's it from us on Breakfast this morning.

:13:20. > :13:23.We'll both be back tomorrow from 6am, with the latest

:13:24. > :13:26.in our series on Policing Britain. For now though, we'll leave

:13:27. > :13:30.you with Rav Wilding and Hayley Hassall and the new series,

:13:31. > :13:32.It's that magical time of year, it's Christmas.

:13:33. > :13:34.Up and down the UK, in towns and cities,

:13:35. > :13:36.families are gearing up for that big special day.

:13:37. > :13:40.They're buying presents, eating and drinking and generally making merry.

:13:41. > :13:45.But as we know, Christmas is a major undertaking that takes planning,