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Very good morning. This is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
An international man-hunt for the main suspect in the Berlin Christmas | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
market attack, as it emerges he was being watched until just a few | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
months ago. He was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Now German police are facing questions about why they dropped | :00:26. | :00:42. | |
their surveillance operation. Good morning everybody. It is Thursday 22 | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
December. Also this morning: a boost for rural broadband. ?400 million is | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
going to be spent on getting remote areas faster connections. I will | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
have more on where the money has come from and what it is going to be | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
spent on. Investigation reveals the big rise in violent crime being | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
carried out by the over 65. We will look at the possible causes. Good | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
morning from Durham police headquarters. We are here as part of | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
a series on policing Britain. I live in the call centre where they are | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
dealing with the 999 called this morning. More on that a bit later | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
on. In the sport, head injuries in rugby union must be taken more | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
seriously, according to a review into an incident involving Wales | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
international George North, which has made nine recommendations to | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
change the way concussions are handled. And Carol has the weather. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
This morning across England and Wales we have some patchy fog and | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
some frost. Some of that will be slow to clear but most will see a | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
dry day with some sunshine and just a few showers. Scotland and Northern | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Ireland, still very windy, especially across Scotland, with | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
some showers, some of which will be wintry. More in 15 minutes. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Our main story: German security services are facing questions about | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who is now | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
the subject of Europe wide man-hunt following the Berlin lorry attack. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. This | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
residence permit was found in the lorry which drove to Christmas | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
market on Monday, killing 12 people. Catriona Renton reports. | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Still on the run, the most wanted man in Europe. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Two images of Anis Amri are shown on this poster. | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Police are offering a reward of 100,000 euros, and warn | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
And he has used six different aliases, and three different | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Vital clues about the suspect were found inside the hijacked lorry. | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
Amri's residence permit was found in its cab. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
More details are emerging rapidly about Anis Amri. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
His family said he left Tunisia for Italy in 2011, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
where he was jailed for four years for arson. | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
Last year he moved to Germany, where his claim for asylum | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
But German officials did not have the correct paperwork | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
He had links to an Islamist network, and was known to the authorities. | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
He was under surveillance, as it was believed he was planning | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
to buy guns, possibly for use in an attack. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
But this was stopped because of a lack of evidence. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
12 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
on the Christmas market on Monday evening. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
So far only one of those who died has been identified, | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
the man who should have been driving the lorry, | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Missing, feared dead by her family, Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy. | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, also has not been seen since. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Her husband, Rami, is seriously ill in hospital. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Valuable time was lost when police arrested and later released another | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
man, giving their chief suspect time to get away. | :04:01. | :04:12. | |
Last night the Christmas market reopened, no longer a place filled | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Instead, Berliners came to pay their quiet respects | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
to the victims, as the investigation goes on. | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
We will get the latest from Berlin in a few minutes' time. We will talk | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
about how they are approaching that man-hunt as well. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
The government is to invest heavily in expanding high-speed broadband. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
It is expected that the funds could bring better connectivity to an | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
extra 600,000 rural homes. Our technology correspondent has more. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
And nearly all of that has gone to BT. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
The company's contracts with councils and local authorities | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20% | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
of homeowners sign up when the fast broadband service arrives. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Now, the Government says that this cash clawback, | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes. | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales | :05:57. | :06:10. | |
has increased by almost 80% since 2012. The figures obtained by | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Freedom of Information requests by BBC Breakfast relate to offences | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
ranging from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
crimes recorded is in part being put down to police changing how they log | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
crimes. You know, I think officers might | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
have gone to an incident five years ago and use their professional | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
judgement. Two people in their late 60s and 70s having an argument, that | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
my qualify now as violent crime, which they would then record. I | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
don't think they would have done that five years ago, so I think that | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
will have a significant impact. And we will have a full report on | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
the rise in violent crimes among older people and what might be | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
causing it in about ten minutes' time. | :06:59. | :06:59. | |
Doctors and charities have called a new treatment for multiple sclerosis | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
a landmark development. The disease most often causes difficulty in | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
walking. It is hoped that the new treatment will offer hope for | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
patients, after a successful trial of around 2000 people. | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
This is really good news for people with primary progressive forms of | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
MS, for which there are no treatments available on the NHS. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Primary progressive MS means people's disability will worsen. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
What this drug has shown is that it can slow the progress of disability | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
for those people, so this offers real hope for the future. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
The NHS will paper ten blind patients to have bionic eyes to | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
treat an inherited form of blindness. It is a retinal implant | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn on a | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal eye | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Hospital and five at Moorfields eye Hospital in London next year. They | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
will then be monitored for a year afterwards to see how they can on in | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
everyday life. Spending too long looking at sites | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
like Facebook could be making us more miserable and envious. The | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
study from Copenhagen is the latest to suggest social media could have a | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
negative effect on our mood. The impact is worst for those who do not | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
leave comments, apparently, but scan through and read about the success | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
of other people. That is interesting, isn't it? They often | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
say that, today, because people don't really put the truth on. I am | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
interested that not leaving comments makes people more miserable. You | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
just rage. It has been a stellar week for the | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
BBC Breakfast team, first with Ore winning Strictly. And Tim Muffett, | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
you may not wash Celebrity Mastermind, and Tim took on a double | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
Paralympic gold-medallist, a journalist, and a BBC reporter to | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
lift the famous trophy. His specialist subject was the films of | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Danny Boyle. Enormous congratulations to him. Have you | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
done it? I have done it. John Humphrys had asked me the name of my | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
children as the first question, I don't think I would have remembered. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
It is terrifying! I was proud of my score, but I actually lost to Martin | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Lewis, the money man. He did me in. He knows far too much. I lost. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Let's return to our top story and get the latest from Berlin, where | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
authorities are hunting for a man responsible for a lorry attack which | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
took place on Monday evening. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
in our Berlin studio. Good morning to you. There really is a focus and | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
a lot of criticism on the German security services. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
That's right, Louise. The big question, firstly, is why, if the | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
authorities knew he had a criminal background, which they did, and they | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
also knew he had links to Islamist extremist groups here in Germany, | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
why he was not as observed. He had been placed under observation and | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
his phone had been tapped for a couple of months earlier this year, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
at that observation was lifted even though authorities say he was judged | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
to be potentially dangerous. The other problem and the other question | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the authorities are going to be facing is why he wasn't deported, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
because his application for asylum was rejected after he came here last | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
year. And a lot of people now saying, well, you should have been | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
deported back to his home country of Tunisia. The problem they are, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
though, Germany can legally only do that if the country of origin | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
cooperates. In this particular case it seems Tunisia did not accept that | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
this man was actually a Tunisian citizens. But that is still going to | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
create a lot of questions about Germany's right to asylum, where the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
people who are deported should be deported, and also whether the | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
security forces are doing enough to keep track of those people who they | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
judge as potentially dangerous. So many questions, still. Later on | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Breakfast we will speak to a former undercover police officer as well. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Michael is here with the sport this morning. Another winner of celebrity | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
-- Celebrity mastermind. You did the Alan Patridge. It wasn't exactly | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
hard to research. It was like looking in the mirror! I can't have | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
a go at your suit after my electric blue number. Talking head injuries. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
George North, this incident on three December when he went off with a | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
head injury. He seemed to be unconscious, playing for Northampton | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
against Leicester. The review found that although Saints maybe shouldn't | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
have brought him back on, they haven't punished Saints. A lot of | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
people saying that is not going far enough so Doctor Barry O'Driscoll, | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
former rugby medical adviser says he accuses the authorities of | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
experiment players' brains, and says the current protocol isn't worth the | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
paper it is written on. A big accusation, but there are changes | :12:19. | :12:19. | |
coming thanks to this review. Northampton Saints will not face, | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
for the moment, any punishment for allowing George North to be played | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
on after being knocked out. The report has found that he shouldn't | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
have been allowed to continue but that Saint medics had acted in his | :12:35. | :12:35. | |
best interest. It will be at least six months | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
before the Wimbledon champion Kvitova can play again. Surgery on | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
her hand is said to have gone well following the knife attack on her | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
hand, but recovery is said to be slow progress doormat process. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Steve Holland has worked together with England's under 21 's and with | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the senior team, while Gareth Southgate was interim manager. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
And the ?500,000 goal. Graham Kerry's penalty earns league to | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
Plymouth Argyle a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. It is a trip | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
to Anfield. They will be looking forward to that, won't they, the | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Plymouth fans. Papers. You are being joined your | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
suit twin over there as well. You really are wearing swimsuits, I am | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
fairly similar as well. I have let the team down. The main story is the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
fallout from the attack in Berlin, and they have a picture of the man | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
they are hunting for, this international man-hunt for Anis | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Amri, who is being sought by German police in connection with that | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Berlin Christmas market attack. His picture on the front page of the | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
Times this morning. It is one of our main headlines this morning, and on | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
the front page of the express they have the story about the healthcare | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
for the Queen and rinse fillip, the royal couple told to get well soon | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
as they delay their Christmas getaway this year. The Sun has a | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
real mix on their front page, including that story about the Queen | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
and Prince Philip missing their Christmas trip in front of the ST, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
if you thought bank bailouts were over, one could be imminent in | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Italy. The oldest bank in the world could be bailed out and the next | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
couple of days, 20 billion euros. We will keep an eye on that, it | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
knock-on effect of the banking system can be quite big. And a lot | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
of the papers today, unfair funfairs taking us for a ride. The monopoly. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
An issue with funfairs across the UK, a trade body oversees a lot of | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
them, the competition in markets authority are saying that they have | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
too much control. If you want to set up a rival funfair in a town, or | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
your local council does, it gets quite tough to do it. The protest, | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
things like that happen. There may be some changes in the funfair | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
sector. Good headline, unfair funfairs. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Do you know that Sting did a song called An Englishman in New York. | :15:09. | :15:20. | |
There is the new footballing club and they are trying to find the next | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Messi to find new players for the city of Angels team. It could make a | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
lot of sense. How about this for a headline? Lady and the Trampoline. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Johanna Konta aiming to be world number one. And her secret is going | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
on the trampoline and rock climbing as well. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Very good for your core strength. Yes, rockclimbing is now an Olympic | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
sport as well. Excuses, you know when you hand in | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
things late, the classic my dog ate it, HMRC have released some notes, | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
people explaining why they handed in a late tax return. One was, a wasp | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
in my car caused me to have an accident and my tax return was | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
inside and was destroyed. I had a wasp go in my shorts when I | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
was driving once and I did crash the car. But the car wasn't damaged, so | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
it wouldn't have affected my tax return. | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
Did you get stung? I didn't, actually. We have this | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
story about IKEA. They are going to try to ban teenagers living in their | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
stall. But I don't have a picture of that, so instead I have a picture of | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
cute pandas. They are really lovely pictures. We've now set a new cute | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
bar. It's a little bit higher. This is | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
the zoo in Toronto, I believe. The beheading of a snowman. The | :17:05. | :17:16. | |
impressive! You know on Planet Earth Wendy Bob Katter was plummeting into | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
the earth, it's a bit like that. -- when the bobcat. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
He arrived from China in 201380 seriously loves snowmen. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
He is trying to make a new head! We love that. That's what we were | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
waiting for! We couldn't leave before the face | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
plant. Carol's got a special, fantastic | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
necklace, which we will hopefully see all day! | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
It does flash, but not for now. There's a lot of weather to get | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
through over the next few days and today we have some sunshine when we | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
lose the fog but also some squally showers across Northern Ireland and | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
Scotland. This morning across Northern Ireland it is still very | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
windy. Showers wintry on the hills, at lower levels there is more likely | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
to be rain. Across Scotland there could be sleet at lower levels, snow | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
on the hills, hail, thunder and lightning. Watch out for ice if you | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
are travelling and in northern England at blustery start, with | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
showers. As we drift into Wales a lot of dry weather around this | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
morning, but equally there are a few showers here and there and the same | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
for south-west England. More dry weather than wet weather, but still | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
a few showers around. Crossing southern counties of England there | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
are also bits of that patchy fog. When it does form some of it will be | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
slow to clear. It may take until noon before we see the back end of | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
it. Before it does we will have sunshine and a few showers across | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
England and Wales. For Northern Ireland and Scotland we hang on to | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
the strong winds. Gale force, especially with exposure. Blizzard | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
along with that snow. Sleet even at some lower levels and it will feel | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
cold. Cold in the north and colder in the south, then it felt yesterday | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
afternoon. Into the evening and overnight the winds ease a little | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
bit. Showers fade for a time and there will be dry weather around. It | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
is only in sheltered rule areas that we might see frost. By the end of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the night we have the first signs of the second named storm of the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
season, Storm Barbara, introducing heavy rain. The prepared, as we are | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
looking at very strong winds. Up to severe gale force. We have the rain | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
coming in with Barbara, heavy rain at that. It will move smartly across | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
England England and Wales will be windy and you will notice it. Also | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
into Scotland and Northern Ireland we will have the full impact of | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
Storm Barbara. The forecast has changed ever so slightly as the | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
track of the low pressure has moved a bit further north, so we think now | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
it is the far north of mainland Scotland and Northern Isles that | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
will have cost of mph. 80 in the west and across Northern Ireland and | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
northern England 60 mph gusts. This is enough to do structural damage | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
and it could also cause power outages and disruption to | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
transportation, so ferries and temperatures could be affected. If | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
you are travelling on Friday and bear this in mind. But I will have | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
the whole Christmas forecast through the morning. Still looking unsettled | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
for some of us. Thank you. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Love that necklace as well! Magnificent. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
This morning with been hearing about a rise in violent crime committed by | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
people over 65. It is one of the many challenges facing police | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
officers today. It is part of our series on policing in Britain. You | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
are in a call centre this morning, Steph? | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Good morning. Yes, I am in the control room where they are dealing | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
with all of the 999 and 101 calls that come in. A lot of these guys | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
are coming to the end of their shift. If you look at the types of | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
calls they deal with, national research shows that only one in five | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
calls that the police get our crime related, so the rest of them are | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
things like welfare, people concerned about their welfare, | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
people missing, concerns about mental health as well. On that side | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
of the room that's where they are despatching their police officers to | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
deal with different situations and over here is where the initial calls | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
first coming. Catherine is just finishing the end of her 12 hour | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
shift. What has it been like overnight? It has been all right. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Quite slow at times. I don't want to tempt fate by mentioning the Q word. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
What kind of calls are you dealing with? You never know what's coming | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
in next. It can range from a crime, burglaries, or just someone asking | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
for a bit of advice or reassurance, what they don't know what to do and | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
whether it is someone else who needs to deal with it. It was you end up | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
doing a fair bit of counselling on the phone, I guess, trying to calm | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
people down in situations. The thing I've noticed is you are all | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
incredibly calm. That's a key part of your job, I guess? We've got to | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
keep calm because the person on the other end of the phone, it might | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
have been the first time they have from the police and you don't want | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
to get them are upset and get them worried about what they are trying | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
to report to you. At this time of year what's the big issue you are | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
dealing with? A lot of alcohol-related issues, to be | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
honest. It is the festive season. I will let you go. You are so calm and | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
cool, I love it. How good does she look, considering she has been here | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
for 12 hours? Very impressed! As we mentioned at the beginning, there is | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
some research we have done for Exist this week, to show there's been a | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
huge rise in crime committed by pensioners. We've been looking into | :23:15. | :23:15. | |
this. He was a life. He killed his wife. | :23:16. | :23:28. | |
Stuart in his 70s is talking to Nick, who is 60. We are convicted | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
fraudsters. Nick is still on probation. I don't feel all that all | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
and because people are fitter and healthier and more active, they are | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
going to carry on doing stuff and stuff leads to problems. Problems | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
like crime. The over 60s is now the fastest growing age group in the | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
prison population. Figures obtained by this programme show a dramatic | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
rise in police recorded crime for people over the age of 65. Violence | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
crime in the pension age group, for example, is up 79% since 2012. The | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
numbers are relatively small, up from just under 4020 12 to 7000 | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
incidents recorded last year, but almost half of all crime police | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
recorded in this age group was violent. -- 4000 in 2012. I think we | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
have romanticised people. Within just because they are getting older | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
they are sweet old lady. But they are not. They are frustrated, | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
lonely, angry. He says some older people getting more island is easily | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
explained. The frustration of being an old person with not enough to do, | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
with social services being cut, there's a sort of failure of the | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
social contract with the elderly that leads to anger and resentment. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
So our Britain's pensioners really becoming sad adults? There are some | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
other things going on. For years and years police recorded crime figures | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
were massage to meet certain targets. Today, the way police | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
records crime has completely changed. Police forces are now | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
looking to make sure we report things accurately, ethically and | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone up over the past two | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
or three years. I think officers might have gone through an incident | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
five years ago and used their professional judgement. Two people | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
in their late 60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify now as | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
violent crime, which they would then record. I don't think they would | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
have done that five years ago. So this is the property, Graham. We | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
have four bedrooms, one is an emergency room. This is the first | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
refuge in the country specifically for older women. We filmed it when | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
it opened last year. The charity that runs it has seen women in their | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
60s, 70s and even 80s come here for help. Many, many times he went for | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
me. Black eyes, just a variation of beatings over the years. This woman, | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
who we are calling Sarah, was abused by her husband for almost 20 years. | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
I now 63. How old is he? 65, coming up, I think. He has just got older | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
and nasty. When you were younger, did you feel as though if you had | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
reported what was happening at the police would take it seriously? No, | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
no. But now it's a different world. They do take it seriously. And that | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
is a significant change. Police are now investigating domestic violence | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
and historic sex abuse cases much more assiduously and that's one | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
reason for the rise in today's figures. Whether it is growing anger | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
and resentment or the justice -- that justice is finally catching up | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
with the families, more and more older people are ending up on the | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
wrong side of the law. We will be talking a bit more about | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
Ray's piece later in the programme. -- Graham's piece. I am in the | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
armoury section of Durham's HQ. Tell us what we've got here. Basically | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
we've got operational firearms that we deploy on a preplanned job. We've | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
also got a lot of firearms that we expect officers to be able to make | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
safe when they come across it, whether that be crime or seized. So | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
essentially they've been used by criminals, some of these? Yes, and | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
what we will do is we will train to make safe at the scene, Prime | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
Minister to them being packaged and recovered. -- before they are | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
packaged. These are shotguns, so these would be loaded with shotgun | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
cartridges, usually used by the gentry for shooting grass snakes | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
back in the old days. What about these iPhones? These are stun | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
devices. These are classed as a disguised firearm. If you are caught | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
in possession of one of these you could end up with five years. Five | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
years mandatory prison sentence for something like that, because that's | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
classified as a disguised firearm, same as this. We will talk more | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
about this later. They give letting me in. I feel slightly scared of | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
this room. More from me later. I don't blame | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
you! You don't want to pick up the wrong phone! | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
I never pressing a button on my phone again! | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
Put that away! Time to get the news, travel and | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
weather wherever you are. We will Welcome back. This is Breakfast with | :28:31. | :32:05. | |
Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. We will bring you all the latest news | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
and sport in a moment. Also on the programme, we will be analysing the | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
Berlin market attack investigation, as the Europe wide man-hunt | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
intensifies. Better broadband could be on the way for thousands of UK | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
homes. We'll find out where the money is coming from and where it is | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
going to be spent up This is Breakfast with Dan Walker | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
and Louise Minchin. We will bring you all | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
the latest news Also on the programme, | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
we will be analysing the Berlin market attack investigation, | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
as the Europe wide man-hunt Better broadband could be | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
on the way for thousands of UK We'll find out where the money | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
is coming from and where it is going we will be hearing about strange | :32:46. | :32:59. | |
Christmas get traditions in the next half hour. | :33:00. | :33:00. | |
Our main story: German security services are facing questions | :33:01. | :33:02. | |
about why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who is now | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt, following the Berlin lorry attack. | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
His residence permit was found in the lorry which drove | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
into the Christmas market on Monday, killing 12 people. | :33:16. | :33:17. | |
At a 10am we will be speaking to a former undercover police officer | :33:18. | :33:25. | |
about how German police will be co-ordinating that man-hunt across | :33:26. | :33:26. | |
Europe -- 8:10 a.m.. The Government is to invest heavily | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
in expanding high-speed broadband. It is expected that the funds, | :33:34. | :33:49. | |
which will be recouped from the Government's superfast | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
broadband programme, could bring better connectivity | :33:53. | :33:53. | |
to an extra 600,000 rural homes. Violent crime committed by people | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
aged over 65 in England and Wales has increased by almost | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
80% since 2012. The figures obtained by a Freedom | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
of Information request by BBC Breakfast relate to offences ranging | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of crimes | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
recorded is in part being put down to police changing | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
how they log crime. You know, I think officers might | :34:12. | :34:13. | |
have gone to an incident five years ago and used their | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
professional judgement. Two people in their late 60s | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
or 70s having an argument, that might qualify now as violent | :34:21. | :34:24. | |
crime, which they would then record. I don't think they would have done | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
that five years ago, so I think that will have | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
a significant impact. Doctors and charities have described | :34:31. | :34:38. | |
a new treatment for multiple The disease, which affects | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
the brain, often causes It is hoped that the ocrelizumab | :34:42. | :34:53. | |
will offer hope for patients, after a successful trial | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
of around 2,000 people. This is really big news for people | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
with primary progressive forms of MS, for which there are no | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
treatments available on the NHS. Primary progressive MS means that | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
people's disability will worsen. What this drug has shown | :35:07. | :35:13. | |
is that it can slow the reduction of disability for those people, | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
so this offers real hope Firefighters are warning about the | :35:17. | :35:24. | |
risk of carrying the cigarette batteries after one caught fire | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
while the man was out shopping in Leeds. You can see from CCTV footage | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
here. Investigators say he was keeping batteries in his pocket and | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
protected. It is quite grim. People should avoid storing them alongside | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
other metal object like keys and coins. Thankfully he is OK after | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
that. The second time we have seen those extraordinary pictures this | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
morning. The NHS will pay for ten blind | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
patients to have so-called bionic eyes, to treat an inherited | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
form of blindness. The bionic eye is a retinal implant | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
on a pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated | :36:03. | :36:05. | |
at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
in London next year. They will then be monitored | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
for a year afterwards, to see how they get | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
on in everyday life. After decades of not being able to | :36:14. | :36:21. | |
see anything at all, seeing movement, colour, in some cases | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
shapes, and just knowing where things are, can be quite a | :36:27. | :36:35. | |
significant change in a person's capabilities, really. | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us | :36:42. | :36:49. | |
more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research. | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
to suggest social media could have a negative | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments, | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
apparently, but scan through and read about the success | :37:04. | :37:05. | |
That surprised me, you think it is because they are cross inside! I | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
hate you and your success! We will go up close and personal now, as one | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
photographer has tried to capture the expressions of the world's | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
tiniest animals. This gecko is one of the images taken by an amateur | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
photographer, who spends his spare time capturing close-ups in his | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
native Indonesia. He has also photographed this frog with a tiny | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
cricket on its head. Seems to be quite happy with that. And these | :37:39. | :37:46. | |
three frogs. Three frogs sitting on a camera. He says it can take a week | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
to edit one single photograph, and he is actually a full-time nurse. I | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
wonder whether that could be more than three frogs. I am looking for a | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
fourth. Mike is here with the sport. I want your Christmas traditions a | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
bit later on. We will give you a bit of time to think about it. Talking | :38:12. | :38:25. | |
about the weird things we all do. Let's talk about rugby union. Real | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
concern about the way that players deal with concussion. In the past it | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
was that they came back on once they were treated. That has got a stop, | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
according to experts, after the latest review and another incident | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
involving George North. The rugby players Association is saying that | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
the Northampton Saints should have been punished for allowing winger | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
George North tube play on after being knocked out. Concussion review | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
group found that George North should not have been able to continue, but | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
said that Saint medics had acted at the time and the player's best | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
interests and so wouldn't face any punishment. Others, though, believe | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
the rules need to be updated. If there is no negligence I can't | :39:03. | :39:11. | |
see how they can be punishment for what is effectively a system which | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
is not under scratch with one-day professionalism. The worrying thing | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
is that the only thing the staff at Northampton should have done is pull | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
the player if there was any reasonable doubt. | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
It will be at least six months before the Wimbledon champion | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
Surgeons are confident the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able to | :39:30. | :39:39. | |
return to the court but all the fingers on her playing hand were | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
injured and SoHo rehabilitation will be rather slow process. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
Steve Holland has been given the job of England assessment manager on a | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
permanent basis. Holland, currently Chelsea's assistant coach, has | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
worked alongside Gareth Southgate for three years, firstly with the | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
England under 21 team, and then the senior team during Southgate's spell | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
as interim manager. So this isn't a huge surprise. | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
Graham Carey's penalty earns League Two Plymouth Argyle | :40:10. | :40:11. | |
a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
Plymouth missed one penalty and won a second, which Graham Carey scored | :40:14. | :40:21. | |
to set up a tie worth ?500,000. The next Olympic Games is predicted | :40:22. | :40:29. | |
to cost ?12.4 billion, and even though the Tokyo organisers are | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
looking for savings, that would make it the most expensive games ever, | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics. It is six | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
times more than originally expected. The Tokyo games organising committee | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
cite the fact that they have had an earthquake and tsunami which have | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
increased costs and they said in the original file they haven't allowed | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
for costs like surrounding greenery and temporary toilets, which is a | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
bit obvious. Maybe not the greenery, but you definitely need the loose. | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
Very early to have our first Olympics aren't going to be ready | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
story. It is traditional, isn't it? We normally wait until two years | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
before the event. They are trying to reduce cost by revising the venues. | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
I think it will be one of the best Olympic Games we have seen for a | :41:21. | :41:22. | |
long time. We will talk about Christmas | :41:23. | :41:23. | |
traditions later. The government says another ?400 | :41:24. | :41:38. | |
million will be offered to improve broadband services. John is here to | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
explain. This is all about the circle of doom when you're trying to | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
buffer, trying to get rid of that in the long-term. If you live somewhere | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
a little more rural, you might be familiar with pictures like these, | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
because you internet connection is not fast or strong enough. The | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
government has a target of getting 95% of the country's superfast | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
broadband. That will be 24 megabits a second, by the end of next year. | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
This money today should help achieve that. Let's go through exactly how | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
that might work. Andrew Ferguson joins us now, a broadband expert | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
from think broadband .com. Let's start with the government's target, | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
95%. How are they doing in that? So far, last week of Common confirmed | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
around April or May we were 89%, and using a loan figures we are sitting | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
about 92%, which is 1.3, 1.4 million, can't get superfast | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
broadband still. ?400 million is the figure we are going to see a lot | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
today, whereas that money coming from? Loom act that money has come | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
over a period of years. It is not all new money today, it is a series | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
of money which kids being announced over six months. In terms of the | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
number of homes this may help, we are talking about 600,000. At the | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
regulator was saying there are a million households around the | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
country without access to decent broadband. Where is the gap? The gap | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
is, the regulator is talking about people who get ten meg or below. | :43:13. | :43:20. | |
That will decrease, so if the government delivers 600,000 homes, | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
and that is? Because they are talking about up to, they are not | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
saying the minimum, it could be 400 thousand. Unsurprisingly, whether | :43:30. | :43:40. | |
big broadband rollout, BT has a big role to play in this. How much will | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
they be responsible for making sure those 600,000 homes get the | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
connection by the end of next year? Pretty much all of this investment | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
has been recycled from the original projects, it is down to whatever BT | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
decide to do, and also what the local authorities and devolved | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
administrations, what they actually decide to do as well. And finally, | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
this is obviously a lot of money and it is in areas which are not | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
necessarily cost-effective for the likes of BT. Will customers pay more | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
for their broadband in these areas? If you are on the standard ADSL | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
plus, premium prices for the superfast services are generally ?5 | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
or ?10 a month more but you generally get a lot more speed for | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
it, and you don't have to put up with the buffering symbol. Thank you | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
very much. So next year you should have a little less of this if you | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
are in one of those 600,000 homes, by the end of 2017. I love the way | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
it says one moment, it is never one moment. We will be talking about | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
that later with Karen Bradley, MP for culture, media and sport | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
secretary. No one likes to see the wheel of doom. | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
German security forces are facing questions about why they ended a | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
surveillance operation on a man who is now the suspect in the Berlin | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
lorry attack. As we've been hearing, broadband | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
services in some rural areas will be given a boost with hundreds of | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
millions of pounds, as the government allocates more funding. | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
Carol is looking at the weather this morning. Good news about Barbara? | :45:18. | :45:26. | |
Yes, indeed. There's a lot of weather going on today and into | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
Boxing Day. The kick off with today, some sunshine than we lose the fog | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
across southern England. The squally showers continue. Gales across parts | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Blowing in showers, some of them | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
heavy with hail and thunder. Sleet on the hills and at lower levels, | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
especially in Scotland. For England and Wales when we lose the patchy | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
fog some of it will be slow to clear. We have some sunshine and | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
fewer showers. Cold in the north today if you are heading out and | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
called than it was yesterday in the south. Even in and overnight | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
temperatures will drop quite quickly under the clear skies. We have an | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
early frostbite as the breeze picks up we have temperatures picking up | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
as well and we lose the showers in Scotland and Northern Ireland for a | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
time. They will be replaced by heavy rain coming our way by the end of | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
tonight. These are the first signs of Storm Barbara. There is an amber | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
weather warning, be prepared for the strength of wind, because it will | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
bring gales, severe gales and even storm force winds. A bus. We start | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
the day on a windy note in England and Wales. -- for some of us. All of | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
this rain is piling in from the north-west, heading south-eastwards. | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
It is heavy, do it you are travelling there will be a lot of | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
surface water and spray on the roads. But the wind is the feature. | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
If we focus on the wind and where it will be strongest, it is the north. | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
Gusts of up to 90 mph in Scotland and the Northern Isles. The bubbly | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
about 80 in western parts of Scotland, 70 mph in Northern Ireland | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
and 60 in northern England. The strongest gust in Scotland are | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
likely to do some structural damage. It will probably also cause a lot of | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
transport disruption, for example ferries, temperatures, possibly | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
cancellations. So do take extra care because it is the wind, but we've | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
also got the rain. As we head into Christmas Eve, a quieter day, more | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
like today. For England and Wales there will be sunshine around, and | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
it will be windy. We have the rain coming in across the north of the | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
country and although it will still be windy it won't be as windy as | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
Friday. That leads us nicely into Christmas Day. Christmas Day we've | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
got a cold front thinking southwards, so to start with in | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
England and Wales a fine start to with sunshine. Look at the isobars. | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
Another windy day. Especially windy across the northern half of the | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
country once again. On Christmas Day the other thing to mention is there | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
will be mild weather. Christmas Day we could have record-breaking | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
temperatures for Christmas Day. To do that we have to be 15.6. So we | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
could do that somewhere like Aberdeen or Wales. As the cold front | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
moves through colder air will come in behind, so we could start | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
Christmas Day on a very mild note and go through much of the day on a | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
mild note. By the end of it we could have a white Christmas, the Cosby | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
could have sleet or snow coming in behind the weather front. So mild on | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
Christmas Day, who wants that? Thank you very much indeed. I know | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
you will keep us up-to-date about Barbara as well today. | :48:45. | :48:46. | |
The run-up to Christmas is one of the busiest times of year for the | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
police forces and this week we've been looking at different challenges | :48:53. | :48:54. | |
they face. As part of our Policing Britain | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
series, Steph has been at the headquarters of Durham police to | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
find out about the work involved. She was in the gun room earlier, I | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
am sure there is a different word for it. Where | :49:12. | :49:11. | |
are you now? And having a good look around the headquarters. I have come | :49:12. | :49:21. | |
into what's called the silver command room. Here, complex | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
decisions will be made about different operations. They watch the | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
news to make sure they know what's going on as well. We have CCTV | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
footage and maps of the area and key information. We have the silver | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
commander here and you have essentially mocked up a drugs raid. | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Tell us happening. We have the silver command, so any complexes it | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
is all operations get made in here. Away from the main control room. We | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
have lots of different units of officers from different specialists | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
who are coming to help advise me on the best rationale. Today we are | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
doing some drugs raid at three different addresses in an area that | :50:04. | :50:09. | |
we will put all of the details on the board, so who is going where, | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
how many officers and the progress of the arrests. How often are there | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
things going on in this room? Probably about three or four times a | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
week. It might be for a firearms job, a complex drugs raid, such as | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
this, or any other operation, road traffic crashes, things like that. | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
What is your key role? You are strategically deciding what you have | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
to do? Yes. I am making the key decisions about how to read the | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
progress, -- held to we progress, how do we get resources together, | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
wind we do the raids, local authority, linking that with other | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
services, and bringing all of the different units together. | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
Fascinating. We will come back into the room at the morning to see how | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
it is going. Then she very much. Obviously this room is about dealing | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
with the complex crime cases and through -- earlier I was in the call | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
centre where they get a triple nine calls and 11 calls. If you at the | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
statistics, you think they will be doing -- dealing with lots of calls | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
to do with crime, but only one in five calls to 999 are crime related. | :51:22. | :51:28. | |
Others are about mental health, people concerned about vulnerable | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
people and a key part of the job of being a police officer is thinking | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
about how best to support the victims of crime and that's what we | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
will talk about now. I have a couple of guests with me. I have the | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
victims commissioner for England and Wales and give it them is | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
campaigner. Good morning to both of you. -- a victim's campaigner. You | :51:46. | :51:55. | |
both know what it is like to be a victim of crime. In your case, your | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
husband was murdered, and, Lauren, your husband was murdered. Given it | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
was a couple of years ago, Lauren, how do you feel about it now? -- | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
your son was murdered. I think there were certain police who understood | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
how I was feeling and were quite compassionate and there were others | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
who didn't think they were trained as well and who sort of either | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
talked down to me are made me feel as if... As if... I felt | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
uncomfortable. But overall there were some amazing people. I think | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
training could really make a difference. You clearly had a mixed | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
experience. What you think would improve its? I think being able to | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
understand the feeling. So they need the train behind them to understand | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
what bereavement, especially a post- dramatic situation, is like. At 1.I | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
had -- at one stage I had an important document delivered to me | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
on a Friday night, when I was alone without support. To read this | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
document about what happened to my son on the day was devastating and I | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
didn't know who to go to and I think that a training issue, it should | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
have been someone to deliver it at an appropriate time when I could | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
have had that support with me at an appropriate time. In your case, | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
you've taken on the role of victim's commissioner. What are you trying to | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
do to change the way people are supported? On trying to change the | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
way victims are treated, in that they are treated with dignity and | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
respect. Like Lauren says, there are some fantastic police officers out | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
there, but there are some atrocious ones. Until I start having victims | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
to me saying they wouldn't recommend anyone coming forward, I will keep | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
going. -- stop hearing victims. It is about the bedside skills. Victims | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
are going through traumatic times and you have to understand it and | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
when they are left on their own we've got to make sure that they are | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
supported as well. It is a big task, one that I am quite happy to keep | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
challenging the powers at ease. I know we will be talking to you | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
throughout the programme. Thank you both very much for joining us this | :54:05. | :54:06. | |
morning. More from me a little bit later. | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
Thank you. We will be seeing you later, Steph. Tomorrow we will have | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
a final look... Sorry about the crackers. At the Policing Britain | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
series. It is Breakfast. Anything can happen. I was | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
positioning them nicely. Tomorrow is about people with | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
dementia going missing. There is a reason for this. Go! | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
Exchanging presents, mince pies, crackers, maybe even a quick peck | :54:38. | :54:46. | |
under the mistletoe. There are a whole host of Christmas traditions | :54:47. | :54:49. | |
that many of us embrace at this time of year. | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
Later we will be hearing about the origins of, I like this, one of | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
those spinning things. What the joke? We ask people what | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
their traditions are and what they wouldn't want to be without. | :55:02. | :55:02. | |
Father Christmas, that's important. He comes to our house. They wake us | :55:03. | :55:14. | |
up so they can have their stockings. I like watching the reaction of your | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
family when we give them presents. And I also like it when you have | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
your Nan has got you a knitted jumper and you have to give a fake | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
reaction to it. My dad gives an Easter egg every Christmas. He | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
thinks it is hysterical. The main thing for me is mince pies. For me | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
it is champagne! I love it! I do. The real Christmas tree that smells | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
like Christmas. We've got a 10-month-old little boy so we are | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
just starting traditions with him and we have a Christmas Eve book | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
that we will read to him before bed and new pyjamas. New pyjamas. Fresh | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
pyjamas every Christmas Eve. Boardgames with your family seems to | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
be the big thing. Arguments with my sisters over boardgames. It isn't | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
Christmas without a good argument, some sort of technicality over a | :56:09. | :56:11. | |
rule. Anything. I love all of those different ideas, | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
especially the clean, new pyjamas. A lot of people say pyjamas on | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
Christmas Eve. Send in your ideas. New pyjamas on Christmas Eve. This | :56:26. | :56:34. | |
one from Tommy, he does in activity seen, the figures start on one side | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
of the room and work their way towards the TV for the sixth of | :56:39. | :56:40. | |
January. Lovely. Tell us your traditions. We | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
would love to hear from you. Time to get the | :56:46. | :00:04. | |
This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:05. | :00:27. | |
This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
An international manhunt for the main suspect | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
in the Berlin Christmas market attack, as it emerges Anis Amri | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
was being watched until just a few months ago. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
He was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Now, German police are facing questions about why they dropped | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Also this morning: A boost for rural broadband. | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
The government pledges to provide nearly all houses with high-speed | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
connections within a year. Only one in five households owns their own | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
home, that is fewer than 20 years ago. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
A Breakfast investigation reveals the big rise in violent crime | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Good morning from Durham police headquarters. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
We are here as part of a series on policing Britain. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
I'm live in the call centre where they are dealing with the 999 | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
And in sport, players who suffer concussion should not be allowed | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
back on to the pitch, that is a finding of the review into the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
concussion of George North, as the sport looks to change the way | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
concussions are handled. Some patchy fog, some of that is | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
dance. It will lift slowly. A dry day with a few showers and some | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
sunshine. For Scotland and Northern Ireland squally showers, some of | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
which will have a wintry element. More details and 15 minutes. -- in | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
15 in its. Our main story: German security | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
services are facing questions about why they ended a surveillance | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
operation on a suspect who is now the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
following the Berlin lorry attack. Anis Amri was known to have ties | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
to a radical Islamist group. His residence permit was found | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
in the lorry which drove into the Christmas market | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
on Monday, killing 12 people. At 8:10am we will be speaking | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
to a former undercover police officer about how German police | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
will be co-ordinating that Still on the run, the most | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
wanted man in Europe. Police are offering a reward | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
of 100,000 euros, and warn he may be His residence permit | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
was found in the lorry. And he has used six different | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
aliases, and three different More details are emerging | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
rapidly about Anis Amri. His family said he left | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Tunisia for Italy in 2011, where he was jailed | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
for four years for arson. Last year he moved to Germany, | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
where his claim for asylum But German officials did not | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
have the correct paperwork He had links to an Islamist network, | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
and was known to the authorities. but this was stopped | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
because of a lack of evidence. 12 people were killed and dozens | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
injured in the attack on the Christmas market | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
on Monday evening. So far only one of those who died | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
has been identified, the man who should have | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
been driving the lorry, Missing, feared dead by her family, | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy. Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
also has not been seen since. Her husband, Rami, | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
is seriously ill in hospital. Last night the Christmas market | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
reopened, no longer a place filled Instead, Berliners came | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
to pay their quiet respects to the victims, as the | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
investigation goes on. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness | :03:59. | :04:14. | |
is in our Berlin studio. There really is a focus | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
and a lot of criticism That's right. The German officials | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
and authorities are going to have two aunts are certain questions to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the public. One being why this man had not been deported even though | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
his asylum application had in rejected. That is because Tunisia | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
did not accept he was a Tunisian citizen. You need the cooperation of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the country of origin to deport someone but the government is going | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
to have to explain to people why that is the case and why it can't be | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
got around. When you talk the Germans on the streets, that is one | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
of the questions being asked, that he shouldn't have been there in the | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
first place. Security services knew he had a criminal record and | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
suspected he was potentially dangerous. He had been under | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
surveillance, his phone had been tapped. That surveillance was lifted | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
and security services are going to be under fire for dropping that | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
surveillance. One newspaper editor this morning told the BBC that this | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
could all turn into a major scandal here in Germany. Later we will be | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
speaking to a former undercover officer about how that searches | :05:24. | :05:24. | |
being automated. How that search is being | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
co-ordinated. The Government is to invest ?440 | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
million in expanding high-speed It is expected that the funds, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
which will be recouped from the Government's superfast | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
broadband programme, could bring better connectivity | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
to an extra 600,000 rural homes. The government aims to deliver | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
high-speed internet to 90% of properties by the end of next year. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will soon make a decision about when | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
they will travel to Norfolk this year. They postponed their annual | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
trip to Sandringham yesterday because they both had heavy colds. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
They spent the day at Buckingham Palace instead, recovering. On | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Tuesday they hosted their traditional Christmas lunch for the | :06:13. | :06:13. | |
extended royal family as well. Violent crime committed by people | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
aged over 65 in England and Wales has increased by almost | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
80% since 2012. The figures obtained by a Freedom | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
of Information request by BBC Breakfast relate to offences ranging | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of crimes | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
recorded is in part being put down to police changing | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
how they log crime. At 65 now I am more able, socially | :06:33. | :06:50. | |
active, probably fitter, so the things that I might have done at 65 | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
in the 1950s might be different to what I would do in 2016. So that as | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
an enabler, isn't it, for people to act in a different way. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
The disease, which affects the brain, often causes | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
100,000 people in the UK are affected by MS. | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
It is hoped that the ocrelizumab will offer hope for patients, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
after a successful trial of around 2,000 people. | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
This is really big news for people with primary progressive forms | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
of MS, for which there are no treatments available on the NHS. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Primary progressive MS means that people's disability will worsen. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
What this drug has shown is that it can slow the reduction | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
of disability for those people, so this offers real hope | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Firefighters are warning about the risk of carrying | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
e-cigarette batteries, after one caught fire while the man | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Investigators say he was keeping batteries in his pocket | :07:52. | :08:05. | |
people should avoid storing them alongside other metal object | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Thankfully, as we say, only minor injuries. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
The NHS will pay for ten blind patients to have so-called bionic | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
eyes, to treat an inherited form of blindness. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
The bionic eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
They will then be monitored for a year afterwards, | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
to see how they get on in everyday life. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
Dense fog is causing problems at major European airports. Flights | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
from Heathrow are likely to be delayed, flights from Gatwick and | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
London city are also affected, and passengers are being advised to | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
check with their airline before travelling. Carol will have the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
latest weather in six or seven minutes' time. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research. | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
to suggest social media could have a negative effect | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
apparently, but scan through and read about the success | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
That is what the research came up with. Leave comments, and you will | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
feel better. Well done on your lovely new job. If you want to | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
contact us and leave comments, please do. | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
It has been a stellar week for the BBC Breakfast team, | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
And Tim Muffett, you may not watch Celebrity Mastermind, | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
and Tim took on double Paralympic gold-medallist Kadeena Cox, | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
journalist David Aaronovitch, and CBBC's Lauren Layfield, | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
His specialist subject was the films of Danny Boyle. | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Both of us have failed miserably. What was your specialist subject? | :10:01. | :10:16. | |
Mine was the gunpowder plot. I think this is probably why we failed. | :10:17. | :10:29. | |
The Government says another ?400 million will be offered | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
The superfast scheme is being funded by savings from other programmes and | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
is expected to help 600,000 homes and businesses. | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money. | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
And nearly all of that has gone to BT. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
The company's contracts with councils or local authorities | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20% of homeowners | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
sign up when the fast broadband service arrives. | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Now, the Government says that this cash clawback, | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology, | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT, | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Lets get more from the culture, media and sport secretary. Thank you | :11:49. | :12:06. | |
for joining us. As soon as we talk about this on BBC Breakfast, people | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
get very exercised that they simply don't have sufficient broadband. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
When is it really going to start changing? Good morning, and as a | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
constituency MP for a rural area, I can assure you that this is an issue | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
which is raised with me regularly as well. I think what people should | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
know today is that we have connected 4.5 million premises to superfast | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
broadband, of which 1.5 million have taken up the option of superfast, | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
and that take-up has led to more money being put into the system, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
which means we can connect those harder to reach premises and make | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
sure they have faster broadband as well. You say you can, but when? | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Well, local authorities are delivering these schemes and I want | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
to see it as soon as possible. But we need to recognise that there are | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
some very difficult to reach properties and there is not a one | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
size fits all solution. This ?440 million will help 600,000 | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
properties, and I think that is really good news, and something that | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
will be welcomed by many of my constituents. And as far as I | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
understand it, a lot of money goes into getting the fibre to the | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Cabinet which is at the roadside, but not on to houses. Is that the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
right strategy? Should not be going straight to the houses? As I said, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
there is no one size fits all solution which is right for | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
everybody. For businesses, fibre to the premises is very important, and | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
that is why we the announcement in the Autumn Statement of an extra ?1 | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
billion to help visitors and public what to is be able to get fibre to | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
the premises. But for most households, superfast speeds of | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
about 24 megabits per second will deliver really, really fast | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
broadband access that means they can have multiple use of different | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
devices in the premises at any one time, and that they can access the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
internet in a way that many others have been able to do for some time. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
I am looking forward to seeing this being rolled out to as many firms as | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
possible. So you don't think it is necessary to really focus on getting | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
it right to people's houses, then? You think the right strategy is | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
being pursued at the moment? Well, look, I think the fact that any | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
article you just ran it was clear there are many different options, we | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
have a great competitive market here in the UK, and there are fibre to | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
the premises options, there are fibre to the Cabinet options, they | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
are different prices and different accessibility. What is important is | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
that we get the super fast access to as many people as possible. The fact | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
that you can get fibre to your premises for about ?20 a month is a | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
fantastic consumer offering being made by many, many of the providers. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
We are making sure that we get fibre access through either to the Cabinet | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
or to the premises, to as many premises as possible. Is it a super | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
competitive market, as you said? In November there was a ruling that BT | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
had to be separate from its subsidiary Open Reach. Is that the | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
right thing to do, do you think? Off, have been working with BT Open | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Reach on this issue. They will report soon. We have a market in the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
UK where we have access to superfast broadband for nine out of ten | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
premises, and we want to get that up to 95% by the end of next year, and | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
we want to deliver 100% on the universal service obligation by | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
2020, something we are legislating for at the moment in the digital | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
economy. We understand there is an agreement on a takeover deal. Would | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
you like Ofcom to look at that as well? No formal arrangement has been | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
made. I have a quasi-judicial role in that process and I don't wish to | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
make any further comment at this stage. They give for your time. | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
This is Breakfast. The main stories: German security services are facing | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
questions about why they ended a surveillance operation on a man who | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
is now the suspect in the Berlin lorry attack. | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
As we've been discussing, broadband services in some rural areas will be | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
given a boost by hundreds of millions of pounds as the government | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
allocates more funding. We are talking Christmas traditions | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
today and thankfully as ever you have come up trumps, telling us the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
sorts of things you get involved with. Alastair says croissant with | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
pigs in blankets in bed! I like chocolate, then wine gums, | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
then breakfast. Loads of others. Peter says there | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
can only be one breakfast on Christmas Day, oiled eggs. | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Susan says the first drink of the day has to be fizz. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
I would maybe have a cup of tea first, but I agree. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
One says his grandparents used to let him put the decorations together | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
and now he lets his eldest daughter do the same. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
I bet Carol has some lovely traditions. She is going to talk to | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
us about the weather and Barbara is on her way. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
She is brewing up in the Atlantic. Good morning. The weather today, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
compared to what we are going to get, is quiet. Some of us could see | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
sunshine, but Scotland and Northern Ireland, squally showers. This | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
morning there is the patchy fog. Some of that is dense and some of it | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
will be slow to clear. Not clearing until about lunchtime. When it does | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
for England and Wales, we have a lot of sunshine around and a few | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
showers. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, strong winds. Dust into | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
gale force. Squally showers. Rain, some hail, under and lightning and | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
some sleet, even at lower levels, and hill snow. Feeling cold in the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
north and a bit colder than it was yesterday in the south. Through this | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
evening and overnight under clear skies the cabbage will drop rapidly. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
There will be frost in lower areas and by the end of the night we've | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
got the first signs of Storm Barbara arriving, bringing heavy rain and | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
gales, even at this stage. Tomorrow worth noting that the Met Office has | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
got an amber wind warning out, meaning be prepared. One level down | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
from the top level, which we don't often see lately. Tomorrow we have | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
the rain, which will be heavy. Something else to factor in if you | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
are travelling, as it sinks southwards. Not getting to the far | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
south-east until later in the day but the winds will pack a punch. If | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
we have a look at the kinds of wind speeds you could expect, in the far | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
north of mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles gusts of up to 90 | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
mph. Gusts of 80 mph in western parts of Scotland. Still windy | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
across all of Scotland. Northern Ireland, 70 mph. 60 mph in northern | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
England. With strong force winds that is likely to cause structural | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
damage. Certainly the wind is likely to cause some travel disruption. Not | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
just ferries and temperatures, but also flight disruption, so do check | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
before you set out. As we go into Christmas Eve, a quieter day. The | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
weather is more likely to be dry, England and Wales, for southern and | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
northern Ireland some rain, still windy, but not as windy as it will | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
be on Friday. For Christmas Day unusual weather. You can see from | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
the isobars it will be windy wherever you are, especially in the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
northern half of the country. We have this cold weather front | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
bringing rain to the south. Ahead of it we still have mild air and we | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
could have record-breaking temperatures on Christmas Day if we | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
beat 15.6dC. That's really warm for Christmas. As the cold front goes | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
through it introduces colder air, so by the end of the day some parts of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Scotland could end up having a white Christmas, having had a | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
record-breaking temperature earlier in the day. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
That's really unusual! It is! I don't know what I am talking | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
about, but well done, you are correct! | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
See you later. Thank you. This morning we've been hearing | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
about a rise in violent crime It's one of the many challenges | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
facing police officers today. It's part of our series | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
on Policing in Britain. Steph has gone behind the scenes at | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
the Durham police headquarters to find out how they cope with the | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
different pressures. Good morning! Good morning. Yes, I am in the | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
control room where they deal with all of the 999 call that have been | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
coming in throughout the night and this morning. Malcolm is one of the | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
inspectors here who has been in charge of the night shift. Tell us a | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
bit about how it has been overnight. It hasn't been as busy as it was the | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
night before. We don't like to use the Q word. You don't like to tempt | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
fate with the word quiet. What kinds of calls have you had? Quite a few | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
domestics and a couple of pursuits. So domestics being people in their | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
homes, violence? Yes, male or female partners, often drink involved. And | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
how does this compare to other nights? The Tuesday night was very | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
busy. Volume wise and with quite a few pursuits, quite a few aggravated | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
assaults. It was busy. No doubt this weekend, with Christmas, will be | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
even busier. I know you've stayed on to have a chat with us and you are | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
desperate to go to bed, so thank you for having a chat to us. You go to | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
bed. Thank you. You mentioned in the beginning the research the BBC has | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
found as part of our series, looking at how crime committed by pensioners | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
has hugely increased. Graham Satchell has been looking into this | :22:19. | :22:19. | |
for us. Stuart, in his 70s, | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
is talking to Nick, who is 60. I don't feel old at all, | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
and because people are fitter and healthier and more active, | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
they are going to carry on doing The over 60s now the fastest | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
growing age group Figures obtained by this | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
programme show a dramatic rise in police recorded crime | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
for people over the age of 65. Violent crime in the pension | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
age group, for example, The numbers are relatively small, | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
up from just under 4,000 in 2012 to 7,000 incidents recorded last | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
year, but almost half of all crime police recorded in this | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
age group was violent. I think we have | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
romanticised older people. We think that just because | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
they're getting older They're frustrated, | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
lonely and angry. This criminologist says some older | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
people getting more violent The frustration of being | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
an old person with not enough to do, with social services being cut, | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
there's a sort of failure of the social contract | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
with the elderly that leads So are Britain's pensioners really | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
becoming saga louts? There are some other | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
things going on. For years and years police | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
recorded crime figures were massaged to meet | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
certain targets. Today, the way police record crime | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
has completely changed. Police forces are now looking | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
to make sure we report things accurately, ethically | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
and that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
up over the past two I think officers might have | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
gone through an incident five years ago and used | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
their professional judgement. Two people in their late | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
now as violent crime, I don't think they would have done | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
that five years ago. We have four bedrooms, | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
one is an emergency room. This is the first refuge | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
in the country specifically We filmed it when it | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
opened last year. The charity that runs it | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
has seen women in their 60s, 70s and even 80s | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
come here for help. Blacked eyes, just a variation | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
of beatings over the years. This woman, who we are | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
calling Sarah, was abused When you were younger, | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
did you feel as though if you had reported what was happening | :25:05. | :25:23. | |
that the police would Police are now investigating | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
domestic violence and historic sex abuse cases much | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
more assiduously and that's one reason for the rise | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
in today's figures. Whether it's growing | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
anger and resentment, or that justice is finally | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
catching up with offenders, more and more older people | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
are ending up on the wrong side I've come down from the control | :25:55. | :26:08. | |
centre into the armoury room, which as you can see is basically full of | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
weapons. Mark is in charge of this room. | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
What have we got here? Basically when we have a preplanned firearm | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
operation, officers will come in here and we will issue weapons that | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
they require for the job from this room. Our armed response vehicles | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
can therefore still cater for the spontaneous jobs and then we will | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
cater for the preplanned operations. The rest of the weapons you can see | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
our full training officers, how to make different types of weapons safe | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
when they come across them at crime scenes. It was before we can remove | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
it from the crime scene or wherever it has been found we need to be able | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
to make it safe. So they've been recovered from crime | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
scenes and you have some of them here which, in all honesty, to look | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
like guns or weapons, but they are? Basically, these two walking Caines | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
have been handed in. -- walking canes. They are weapons and take | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
shotgun cartridges and it's a single shot type weapon. This one here is a | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
home-made shotgun. So basically you stick your shotgun cartridge in | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
there. It is quite crude, fire from Nissan and slam it so it goes. This | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
one here was originally a blank firearm and it has been converted, | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
so we get a few of these. It is so fascinating, but I will be honest, | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
we are not a society that is used to feeling guns and I feel quite | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
intimidated in this room with so many guns. As chief constable, are | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
we seeing more officers with guns? To Winnie to be worried about it? | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
I'm glad you are intimidated, because I think most people would be | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
and I think that's what sets us about any UK, that guns are not at | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
normal currency. But what I would hope would reassure people is that | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
we are ready to deal with people who are armed, but it's a rare | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
occurrence. That's good to hear. Before we go, can you show the | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
iPhone again? This looks at the normal iPhone but look what you can | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
do with it! -- looks like. Five years in prison if you get caught | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
with one of them. Anyway, more from me a little bit | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
later. Don't pick up the phone, Steph! | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
It has some serious juice on it! Let's get the news, travel and | :28:38. | :28:38. | |
weather This is Breakfast with Dan Walker | :28:39. | :31:59. | |
and Louise Minchin. Thank you for being with us on the | :32:00. | :32:12. | |
Thursday morning. Our main story: German security | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
services are facing questions about why they ended a surveillance | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
operation on a suspect who is now the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt, | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
following the Berlin lorry attack. Anis Amri was known to have ties | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
to a radical Islamist group. His residence permit was found | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
in the lorry which drove into the Christmas market | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
on Monday, killing 12 people. At 8:10am we will be speaking | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
to a former undercover police officer about how German police | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
will be co-ordinating that The Government is to invest ?440 | :32:39. | :32:40. | |
million in expanding high-speed It is expected that the funds, | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
which will be recouped from the Government's superfast | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
broadband programme, could bring better connectivity | :32:50. | :32:50. | |
to an extra 600,000 rural homes. The government aims to deliver | :32:51. | :33:07. | |
high-speed internet to 90% of properties by the end of next year. | :33:08. | :33:09. | |
Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
has increased by almost 80% since 2012. | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
The figures obtained by a Freedom of Information request by BBC | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
Breakfast relate to offences ranging from minor assault to murder. | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
The rise in the number of crimes recorded is in part being put down | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
to police changing how they log crime. | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
The disease, which affects the brain, often causes | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
It is hoped that the ocrelizumab will offer hope for patients, | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
after a successful trial of around 2,000 people. | :33:41. | :33:57. | |
Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to restrict the sale of a | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
whole not intended for human consumption after 60 people died and | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
40 were hospitalised in Siberia. The victims drank our solution | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
containing methylated spirit. Mr Putin also wants new rules involving | :34:12. | :34:21. | |
tougher penalties for bootleggers. -- bath solution. | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
The NHS will pay for ten blind patients to have so-called bionic | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
eyes, to treat an inherited form of blindness. | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
The bionic eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses. | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year. | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
They will then be monitored for a year afterwards, | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
to see how they get on in everyday life. | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research. | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
to suggest social media could have a negative effect | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments, | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
apparently, but scan through and read about the success | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
So if you are going to look, if you don't want to feel too miserable, | :35:06. | :35:19. | |
comment, apparently. And back in again for tiny animals. | :35:20. | :35:20. | |
We will go up close and personal now, as one photographer has tried | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
to capture the expressions of the world's tiniest animals. | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
This gecko is one of the images taken by an amateur photographer, | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
who spends his spare time capturing close-ups in his native Indonesia. | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
It looks like it is laughing, doesn't it? Earlier we said this was | :35:38. | :35:46. | |
a frog with... What did we say? When is a cricket not cricket, when it is | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
an orchid mantis. That is on the head of that frog. Thank you to the | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
eagle eyed viewers who spotted that. He says it can take a week to edit | :35:55. | :35:56. | |
one single photograph, and he is actually | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
a full-time nurse. With a real talent for getting | :36:00. | :36:11. | |
triple frog action when needed. That sounded... No, no. Sort of wrong. | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
Carol will have the weather for you, she will tell you about a storm on | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
its way, Barbara. Storm Barbara is here, storm Michael is in the | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
building. And a storm in rugby union. What to do with players with | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
concussion, this is the latest incident coming from the north. | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
The Rugby Players Association is saying that the Northampton Saints | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
should have been punished for allowing winger George North | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
The concussion review group found that George North should not have | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
been able to continue, but said that Saints medics had | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
acted at the time in the player's best interests, and so wouldn't | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
Others, though, believe the rules need to be updated. | :36:51. | :37:05. | |
The protocols these players go through when they go off the field | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
is not worth the player it is written on. It is experimenting on | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
players' brains, five, ten, 30 minutes... If you have to take a | :37:17. | :37:23. | |
player off to have a concussion assessment you must suspect | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
concussion and they should stay off. Experimenting in that part of the | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
game which is most brutal, it means when a player goes back the impacts | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
will be huge, and this is what is wrong. In that review has made nine | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
recommendations, so watch this space. | :37:41. | :37:42. | |
It will be at least six months before the Wimbledon champion | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
Surgeons are confident the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
to return to the court, but all the fingers on her playing | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
hand were injured, and doctors say her rehabilitation will be | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
Graham Carey's penalty earns League Two Plymouth Argyle | :37:56. | :38:02. | |
a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
It went to extra time at Rodney Parade. | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
Plymouth missed one penalty and won a second, which Graham Carey scored | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
Steve Holland has been given the job of England assessment manager | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
Holland, currently Chelsea's assistant coach, has worked | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
alongside Gareth Southgate for three years, firstly with the England | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
under-21s, and then the senior team, during Southgate's spell | :38:26. | :38:28. | |
At the World Darts Championship, the three-time semifinalist James Wade | :38:29. | :38:42. | |
made it through to the second round. The man nicknamed the Machine had a | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
few faults against his Dutch opponent, beating him 3-0. | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
And the next Olympic Games is predicted | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
and even though the Tokyo organisers are looking for savings, | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
that would make it the most expensive games ever, | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics. | :39:02. | :39:03. | |
It is six times more than originally expected. | :39:04. | :39:05. | |
The Tokyo Games Organising Committee cite the fact that they have had | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
an earthquake and tsunami, which have increased costs, | :39:10. | :39:11. | |
and they said in the original file they hadn't allowed for costs | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
like surrounding greenery and temporary toilets. | :39:15. | :39:16. | |
And Christmas as expensive as well. The terrible link. Talking about | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
Christmas traditions, you have some in your family. Gemma says every | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
year they bring down their mum's old Christmas tree with the icicle | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
lights. It goes in the roof with a black bin bags over it every year | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
but we bring it out and she says the year the light do not work it will | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
go in the bin. They have a drumroll and they switch the lights on, and | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
they have never let them down. That is lovely. I love your one, Dan. We | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
have a family pantomime. It is the same script, always Cinderella, but | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
a different theme every year. So Strictly Cinderella, Cinderella on | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
Ice, Cinderella on Water, I am a Cinderella get me out of here... We | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
do a murder mystery, so this year I am Alfred Hitchcock on Christmas | :40:08. | :40:12. | |
Eve. You look like you are the organiser of this, Michael. It is my | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
mum, actually. She sent us the part so that we can get it ready in | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
advance. I make sure we all go out, and we lay a trail of flour wherever | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
we are, and they have to find the right trail. We have to negotiate, | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
because it is also my husband's birthday. So basically we have to | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
negotiate and protect... He is allowed a whole hour. He gets one | :40:37. | :40:45. | |
hour for his birthday. We really have to protect it, this is his | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
birthday for one whole hour. That is a nice tradition to have. Keep | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
sending them in, they are great to hear. We hear lots about how | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
difficult it is the own your own home and get the first rung on the | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
property ladder. Homeownership rates amongst 25 -year-olds have dropped | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
by more than half in a generation, a staggering statistic. It is amazing | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
how much has changed in the last couple of decades. Lots of different | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
reasons, which we will have a look at. These figures from the Local | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
Government Association have been looking at this issue of home | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
ownership among 25 your olds, and they found that only 20% of | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
25-year-old is now owned their own home. In context, a couple of | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
decades ago it was more like 50%. We asked a handful of young people out | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
Christmas shopping in Manchester about their plans for owning their | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
own home. I think it would be financially hard, but obviously with | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
the help of mum and dad, I think it is possible, but it will be very | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
hard. But Mac it is not even something I can consider at the | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
moment. The kind of money that someone my age terms is never going | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
to be anywhere near enough to start thinking about looking at mortgages, | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
things like that. The best thing you can do is rent. I think it will take | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
me a while to save up for a deposit, and I think it is a sign of | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
independence. I'm 24, and I recently moved back with mum and dad, trying | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
to save for a deposit. That is where I am at. At the moment I live with | :42:19. | :42:26. | |
my mum and dad, looking at buying a house rather than renting, because I | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
feel it is a bit throwaway money, renting, but it is a struggle trying | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
to save up. My Nan has helped me out a bit, and I managed to get a | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
promotion recently, so getting there. So you need a helpful man and | :42:40. | :42:50. | |
a promotion, it seems. -- helpful Nan. What more do you need, a | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
helpful Nan, a promotion, how difficult is it for 25 your olds to | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
get on the housing ladder? It is hugely difficult, and the | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
fundamental reason is we have a shortage of housing. We should be | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
building 250,000 new homes here and we have been falling woefully short | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
of that target for many years. It stands to reason that, you restrict | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
the supply, the price of it is going to go up. There is still a huge | :43:16. | :43:18. | |
appetite for home ownership among my generation. Although a lot of people | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
have embraced the renting lifestyle, there are still so many people who | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
see it as a way of having your own asset and having a home you can call | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
your own. You see headlines in the papers all the time, cheapest | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
mortgage rates of all time. If you can't get on the housing ladder now, | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
when will you be able to? It is all very well having cheap mortgage | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
rates, but with rising housing prices, you need a huge deposit to | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
get on the housing ladder, and at the same time you are paying more | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
and more of your net income on renting. So I think this new report | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
shows that without state subsidies, the average amount that renters are | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
spending on housing is 61%. That is huge. 20 years ago we did not have | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
student loans are size they are now, students graduating with tens of | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
thousands of pounds of debt. Is it even possible to get a mortgage | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
within the first few years of leaving university, when you have | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
that debt on your bank balance? It is interesting that we have become | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
so accustomed to debt. If our generation have come out of | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
university they have been used to living on an overdraft and then they | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
have a student debt. It is really quite strange for them to get into | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
the mindset of saving 10% of their income every month, that they would | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
need so much more to be able to get on the housing ladder anyway, so | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
they need help from the bank of mum and dad. What about looking at the | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
other side, the spending habits which might have changed? These days | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
you have mobile phone bills, TV subscriptions, are we spending a bit | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
more in our early 20s than we might have been 20 or 30 years ago? I | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
think that is possibly a fair point, because the older generation would | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
say that houses were not handed out free when we were younger. We still | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
had to save a huge amount and buy property that was a bit down at | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
heel, that needed the life breathed back into it. I think this | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
generation perhaps wants to have the housing set up in a much more clean | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
cut way, you know, we see all these pictures on it to Grahm, on | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
Facebook, on Twitter, on social media, of the perfect lifestyles, | :45:18. | :45:19. | |
and perhaps our generation wants to set foot in a house and not | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
necessarily have to put the work into it, and have the roll up their | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
sleeves and do it up. Thank you very much. Still pretty tricky for 25 | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
-year-olds at the minute. As we have talked about it often, you have to | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
get the deposit and it is taking longer and longer, isn't it? | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
The main stories: German security services are facing questions | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
about why they ended a surveillance operation on a man who is now | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
the suspect in the Berlin lorry attack. | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
Broadband services in some rural areas will be given a boost | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
worth hundreds of millions of pounds, | :45:57. | :45:58. | |
as the government allocates more funding. | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
Let's get the weather forecast from Carol. Barbara is in town and she is | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
not pretty? That's right. Storm Barbara is | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
moving across the Atlantic now and will affect us tomorrow. Different | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
degrees of how we will be affected, but today we have patchy fog in | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
southern counties of England. That could take until lunchtime to clear. | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
Then we will have squally showers. Lots of e-mails about the word | :46:27. | :46:34. | |
squally coming in. That's when the wind speed changes by more than ten | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
knots for the duration of one minute and then goes back down. These | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
conditions are dangerous. So you could have a wind speed of 30 mph, | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
gusting to 54 a minute, then back down to 30. What we have is patchy | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
fog in the south of England, which will slowly lift. Then we have | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
sunshine. A few showers for England and Wales. Squally showers continue | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
across Northern Ireland and Scotland, the gusty winds around the | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
showers. We also have a wintry element to it, with Hale, thunder, | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
and sleet at lower levels. It will be cold in the northern half and | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
cooler than it was this time yesterday and through the afternoon | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
across southern counties. It evening and overnight temperature under | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
clear skies will drop quickly and in rural areas we will have frost. Just | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
malaria is because the breeze is picking up. In Scotland and Northern | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
Ireland for a time the showers fade, the wind eases and then here comes | :47:31. | :47:39. | |
Storm Barbara. By the morning parts of north-west Scotland will have | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
gales. The Met Office has an amber weather warning out, this is to be | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
prepared. One down from the top level, which is red, for wind. Wind | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
will be a feature of the weather. We've also got heavy rain, which | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
will produce a lot of surface water and spray if you are travelling. | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
Towards the south-east and getting into the south-east after dark. | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
Behind it we have showers. The winds will pack a punch. Storm force gusts | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
of wind across the far north of Scotland and into the Northern | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
Isles. Across western areas, 80 mph. Windy across Northern Ireland, up to | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
70 mph, and 60 across the north of England. Likely to be travel | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
disruption, possibly some structural damage, especially further north. As | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
we get into Christmas Eve things are quieter and more like today. There | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
will be some dry weather in England and Wales variable amounts of cloud, | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
but we have rain across the north of the country, eventually getting into | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
northern England and also north Wales, accompanied by gusty winds. | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
The difference between squally and gusty. Into Christmas Day and | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
interesting day. Look at the isobars. That's telling you it will | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
be windy across the land, but the tightest squeeze in the north. Here | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
we will have the strongest winds and again gusting to gale force. We also | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
have the weather fronts sinking south. This is a cold fronts are | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
behind it we import cold air. For it sink south we could have very high | :49:10. | :49:16. | |
temperatures for Christmas Day. Record-breaking potentially. We have | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
to be 15.6 for that. Aberdeen for example could hit 16. If it does it | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
will be a record breaker. Then cold air comes in and we could see a | :49:26. | :49:29. | |
white Christmas in parts of Scotland. | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
Just tell us a bit, you've been talking about Storm Barbara and what | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
might she mean for travel plans? She could have an impact? | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
Absolutely. We could have slight delays or cancellations for the | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
fairies, power outages, that kind of thing if you are travelling in a | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
light vehicle that could be quite treacherous as well. And the | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
strongest winds are going to be across the far north of mainland | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
Scotland and the Northern Isles. Here we have gusts of up to 90 mph | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
will stop across the rest of Scotland it will be very windy, | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
especially in the north. Gus of 80 mph, do the same thing applies. For | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
Northern Ireland we have 70 mph, still take X care. Strong winds. In | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
northern England we have gusts of up to 60 mph. -- take extra care. Into | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
southern England the winds inland are more likely to be about 30 mph, | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
so noticeable but not as strong as the north. And we heard earlier | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
there have been a few problems in Heathrow and Gatwick as well. We | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
will keep you up-to-date with that. Thank you. | :50:36. | :50:36. | |
The run-up to Christmas is also a busy time of year for our police | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
forces. We've been looking at the different | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
challenges they face. This morning as part of our special policing | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
series, Steph has been behind the scenes of the new headquarters at | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
Durham police headquarters to find out about the work involved. Good | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
morning. What you are seeing here is one of | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
the call handlers. This is not the team who will deal with the 999 call | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
that come in and they will decide who to dispatch to. Police say it | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
has been fairly quiet overnight, but I've also been told not to say the | :51:12. | :51:22. | |
"quiet" word. Overall crime is falling, by the violent crime has | :51:23. | :51:25. | |
seen a rise. That's what we are going to talk about. We've got the | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
president of the police officers association, the chief Constable | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
here, and the youth violence consultant and campaigner. First of | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
all, why do you think violent crime is on the rise? Two things. The | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
first is that violent crime encompasses a wide area, so | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
harassment, stalking, things like that are included. The 60% of all | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
violent crime doesn't involve any injury. But when we look at the top | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
end, which is knife crime, if you actually ask offenders what induces | :51:58. | :52:04. | |
them to still committed that crime it is the fear of getting caught. So | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
if they don't fear getting caught then they are more likely to commit | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
that sort of serious crime. What do you think on that? You work with | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
young people and people who have been involved in gangs and knife | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
crime. I would say it is the need for a better partnership with the | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
community and with services, that will prevent a young person from | :52:28. | :52:34. | |
even carrying out a crime. It is and prevention, it is getting into the | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
minds of young people, why they feel the need to carry knives in the | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
first place. So you don't think stop-and-search is good? I think it | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
is necessary but the challenge for the police if they never have the | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
proportionality and it keeps breaking down relations between the | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
community and police. As someone who has been on the frontline as a | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
police officer for over 20 years, what do you think? I think young | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
people carrying weapons, there are number of reasons. Some of them | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
carry for protection, there is a gang culture at the moment which | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
actually... People feel they have to be safe leaving their homes and all | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
the rest of it. When it comes to stop-and-search, it is necessary, | :53:20. | :53:21. | |
however it needs to be intelligence led, do we need to have the | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
intelligence there to be able to stop the right people with regards | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
to the crimes we are looking at. There has been a fall in | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
stop-and-search cases, by about a quarter. The thing that made a | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
difference? The evidence isn't there to be able to answer that question, | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
but what I am really pleased with is four out of ten stop searches now | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
result in an arrest and further action. So it is very clear that | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
police officers are listening to the sort of advice about Janet and Kat | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
have spoken about, but it has to be fair. If the public sees it as being | :53:58. | :54:05. | |
done with procedural justice and if the police officers are seeing to be | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
acting in a fairway, in a proportionate way, then they will | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
help the police. We don't want young people to carry knives, we want the | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
community to help us to dissuade people from carrying knives in the | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
first place. So you are all talking about the partnerships and | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
relationships between the community and the police officers. Do you see | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
that actually been a reality, that there could be a relationship there? | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
I would like to hope there could be one, but I don't see one at present. | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
What would change it, what would make the community happy to liaise | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
with police? I think the sergeants, the commanders, actually having | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
conversations with the mentors and youth workers within their areas and | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
understanding the young people. Once that's done then I think we can say | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
safely that we are building better relations and also for the police | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
when they stop-and-search it isn't what's being done, it is how it is | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
being done and the level of either aggression or condescending tone or | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
sarcasm that's against young people is what makes young people and the | :55:13. | :55:16. | |
police not have the relationship that they could have. And that | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
results in lower convictions because if you are dealing with young people | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
in a particular way and unfortunately one of their peers get | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
murdered, to them come and get them to give evidence or co-operate with | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
police will be far and few between. There is the diversity issue as | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
well. How can police better reflect communities they serve? You have to | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
have effective engagement at the root of it and there needs to be | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
some sort of long-term plan around diversity. At the minute it's a bit | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
ad hoc. You will go from different constabularies with different | :55:53. | :55:54. | |
measures being put in place. Positive action potentially isn't | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
used as effectively as it could be and it just needs to be a long-term | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
plan which is consistent across all constabularies, equals the issues | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
that black and Asian officers and communities face within the UK are | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
more or less similar up and down the country, but there's nothing in | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
place to address those issues. There's so much more we could talk | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
about. Thank you very much your time. We will be showing off more of | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
this fascinating headquarters in little bit later in the programme. | :56:25. | :56:26. | |
Hopefully go back to the armoury as well! And keep your traditions | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
coming in. Andy has a pork pie with bread and butter every single | :56:34. | :56:35. | |
Christmas Day. Excellent. Time for the news, travel | :56:36. | :56:38. | |
and An international manhunt for the | :56:39. | :00:09. | |
main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack as it emerges he was | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
being watched until a few months ago. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical face questions about why | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
they dropped their surveillance investigation. -- a radical group. | :00:22. | :00:34. | |
German authorities face questions. Good morning. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Also on the programme. A boost for oral broadband. The Government | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
pledges to provide nearly all houses with high-speed connections within a | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
year. We have made 1.6 million cars in the | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
UK this year, the most since 1999, 80% of them are sold abroad. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
An investigation reveals a big rise in violent crime being carried out | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
by the over 65 is. We look at the possible causes. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Good morning, I am at Durham Police headquarters, as part of hours | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
series on policing in Britain, so I will show you around the building. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
And we will have a chat with the newly promoted Sergeant. More from | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
me later. Rugby players' brains are at risk, | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
according to an expert after a review into an incident, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
involving Wales international George North, a doctor says | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
suspected concussion must be A real Christmas! | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
Mince pies. That is Christmas. And obviously, Christmas pudding. | :01:42. | :01:42. | |
They're the traditions we think of as quintessentially festive - | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
but what's really behind our Christmas customs ? | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
Good morning. We have got patchy fog across Southern counties of England | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
this morning which will be German security forces face | :01:59. | :02:20. | |
questions about why they were ended as a veil operation on a suspect now | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt following the Berlin lorry attack. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Anis Amri had ties to a radical Islamist group and his residence | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
permit was found in the lorry that killed 12 people on Monday. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Still on the run, the most wanted man in Europe. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Police are offering a reward of 100,000 euros, and warn he may be | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
His residence permit was found in the lorry. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
And he has used six different aliases, and three different | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
More details are emerging rapidly about Anis Amri. | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
His family said he left Tunisia for Italy in 2011, | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
where he was jailed for four years for arson. | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Last year, he moved to Germany, where his claim for asylum | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
But German officials did not have the correct paperwork | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
He had links to an Islamist network, and was known to the authorities. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
He had been under surveillance, but this was stopped | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
12 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
on the Christmas market on Monday evening. | :03:34. | :03:45. | |
The man who should have been driving the lorry, | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Missing, feared dead by her family, Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, also has not been seen since. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Her husband, Rami, is seriously ill in hospital. | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
Last night the Christmas market reopened, no longer a place filled | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Instead, Berliners came to pay their quiet respects | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
to the victims, as the investigation goes on. | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
We will speak to a former undercover police officer about how the German | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
police of coordinating the search and what should be their priorities. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
The Government is to reinvest more than ?440 million to improve | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
high-speed broadband coverage across the UK. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
It is expected the funds, which have been recouped | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
from the superfast broadband programme, could bring better | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
connectivity to an extra 600,000 rural homes. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
And nearly all of that has gone to BT. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
The company's contracts with councils or local authorities | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20% of homeowners | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
sign up when the fast broadband service arrives. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Now, the Government says that this cash clawback, | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology, | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet, | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes. | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to make a decision this | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
morning about when they will travel to Norfolk for Christmas. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
They postponed their annual trip to Sandringham yesterday, | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
They spent the day at Buckingham Palace recovering. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
On Tuesday, they hosted their traditional Christmas lunch | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
You can see fog which is affecting some of the airport in London, more | :06:12. | :06:23. | |
Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
has increased by almost 80% since 2012. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
The figures, obtained by a freedom of information | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
request by BBC Breakfast, relate to offences ranging | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
The rise in the number of crimes recorded is, in part, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
being put down to police changing how they log crimes and people | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple | :06:41. | :06:56. | |
sclerosis as a landmark development. This disease most often causes | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
difficulty with walking. 100,000 people are affected by MS in the UK | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
and it is hoped this will offer new hope to patients after a successful | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
trial of nearly 2,000 people. This is really big news for people | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
with primary progressive forms of MS, for which there are no | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
treatments available on the NHS. Primary progressive MS means that | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
people's disability will worsen. What this drug has shown | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
is that it can slow the reduction of disability for those people, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
so this offers real hope Firefighters are warning of the | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
risks of carrying E cigarette batteries after one caught fire in | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
somebody's pocket. The man was left minor injuries when the device | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
caught fire. He was out shopping in Leeds. Investigators said he was | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
keeping batteries in his pocket protected and that people should | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
avoid storing them alongside other metal objects such as keys and | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
coins. And he had minor injuries, but other people around him had a | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
lucky escape. Fortunately, that couple had already | :08:02. | :08:02. | |
walked past his pocket. The NHS will pay for 10 blind | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
patients to have so-called "bionic eyes" to help treat an inherited | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
form of blindness. The bionic eye is a retinal implant | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
on a pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
in London next year. They will be monitored for a year | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
afterwards to see how they get After decades of not really being | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
able to see anything at all, seeing movement, colour in some cases, | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
shapes and just knowing where things are can be just quite significant | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
change in a person's capabilities really. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Dense fog is causing problems with flights at some of Britain's | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Departures from Heathrow are likely to be severely delayed | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Flights from Gatwick and London City are also affected. | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Passengers are advised to check with their airline | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could make people | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
miserable and envious, according to Danish researchers. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
to suggest social media could have a negative | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
The impact is worse for those who don't leave comments, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
but scan through the success stories of others, it found. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
It does not say what happens if you do read the comments, that could | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
make it worse. That is often the most interesting | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
That is often the most interesting bit! | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
It's been a stellar week for the BBC Breakfast team, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
first with Ore Oduba's Strictly victory and now, Breakfast | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
reporter Tim Muffett has won Celebrity Mastermind. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
You'll be used to him covering stories from around the UK, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
but last night, Tim took on double Paralympic gold medalist | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Kadeena Cox, journalist David Aaronovitch and CBBC's | :09:58. | :09:58. | |
One of my favourite things is his marvellously understated way of | :09:59. | :10:16. | |
accepting his victory. Just a nod of the head. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Yes, you write, I am victorious! Huge congratulations, really well | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
done. Thank you for being with us this morning. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
We can return now to our top story and get the latest from Berlin, | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
where authorities are hunting for the man responsible for | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
After the attack, police detained a Pakistani asylum seeker but released | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
him after finding no evidence linking him to be attack. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for a 24-year-old Tunisian asylum | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
seeker called Anis Amri. His identity documents were found in the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
lorry but police did not issue an arrest warrant until 48 hours after | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the attack which gave him a two date head start on security forces. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
And it emerged he has been under surveillance by security services | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
and he was discussed by counterterrorism police as recently | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
as last month. Joining us now in the studio | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
is Peter Bleksley, a former More details about this man | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
emerging, do you think mistakes have been made? Clearly, he was kept | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
under surveillance according to reports and there must have been a | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
reason for that. There would have been a reason as to why they stopped | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
that surveillance. Clearly, their timing of that was poor as it would | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
appear. Why did they stop that? It is a question of resources, I | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
suspect. And priorities. You cannot keep every suspect under | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
surveillance 24/7 ad hoc committee is very challenging for security | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
services. But bits and pieces are creeping out about his previous | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
activity, his criminal past. And there will quite rightly be | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
questions as to why did they stop that surveillance? There is a huge | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
forensic investigation ongoing and the principal evidence is the lorry | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
at the scene he was meant had be known on that Monday evening in | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Berlin and that will be pored over now? Yes, that lorry and the cap | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
will contain a wealth of forensic evidence and will help investigators | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
pieced together the history. Where was this lorry hideout, what | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
happened in that cab? How did the unfortunate driver meet his death? | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
There may be DNA, fingerprints, other evidence they have not | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
disclosed to the public. The other striking thing is that we appear to | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
have quite different of CCTV in the UK than in Germany and that is to do | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
with privacy rules. There does not seem to be much evidence of where he | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
went to next. Yes, we are the most watched nation on Earth. Our civil | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
liberties questions around CCTV and it is a fact of life and if you move | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
around a city in all likelihood in the UK, you will be captured on CCTV | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
many hundreds of times each day. Other European cousins, European | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
neighbours, they are not so keen on CCTV. They have more strident and | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
stringent privacy laws so they do not have the blanket coverage that | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
we have. How easy is it for somebody like this ring search across Europe, | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
an international search going on 48 hours, how easy is it to grow | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
underground? Can he be found? He will need help to be on the run for | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
any length of time can he needs money, food, shelter, change of | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
clothing, and he will need help with that. He is very much a wanted man. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
His picture is Europe-wide. Every law enforcement agency across Europe | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
and perhaps further afield will be aware of his photograph and the fact | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
that he is very much wanted. He will need help. Is he being harboured | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
somewhere in the community that is perhaps detached from police and | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
security services? We shall see. But the one thing I can guarantee is | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
that he be found. At the moment, police are warning he is potentially | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
extremely dangerous. Yes, of course. There have been reports a firearm | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
was involved in the hijacking of the truck. We will see a lot of armed | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
police involved in this operation to find him. He left the identity card | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
in the cab, did he do it deliberately as a calling card to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
say catch me if you can always some kind of mistake? Either way, he is | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
now identified, there is a 100,000 euros bounty on his head, he is very | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
much wanted. He is going to be found. Thank you very much for your | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
time. So many questions, he is your's | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
number one wanted man at the moment. You're watching | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. German security services are facing | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
questions about why they ended a surveillance operation on the man | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
who's now the suspect Broadband services in some rural | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
areas will be given a boost worth hundreds of millions of pounds | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
as the government Here's Carol with a look | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
at this morning's weather. It is not looking too good at their | :15:18. | :15:31. | |
places? Tomorrow will be the scenario, but | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
there is patchy fog affecting southern counties that will take | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
until to clear. When it does come across England and Wales we are | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
looking at some sunshine and Northern Ireland and Scotland, we | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
continue with squally showers. That is the forecast. Showers, rain, | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
thunder and lightning, hill snow and sleet at lower levels. Being blown | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
around in the gales around the squally showers. It means, when the | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
wind speed changes by more than ten knots, about 11 miles an hour for at | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
least a minute and then it reverts back to what it was, and we are | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
talking gusts. Cooler in the far south and it was yesterday but it | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
will be cooler generally further north. Heading on through the | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
evening and overnight, the temperature will drop quickly under | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
clear skies. Battocchio frost around but not a lot because the breeze | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
will pick up. Showers across Scotland and Northern Ireland will | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
fade for a time. Storm Barbra arrives introducing heavy rain and | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
gale force winds across north-west Scotland. It is no plus Scotland and | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the Northern Isles but the Met office has this amber wind warning. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
This is where we will see the strongest winds. I will come onto | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the winds in more detail, but heavy rain moving from the north-west | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
heading south eastwards. If you are travelling there will be surface | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
water and spray on the roads and it will be a windy day where ever you | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
are. The strongest winds will be in the northern half of the country. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
Gusts across the far north of Maine in Scotland and the northern | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
islands, 90 mal an hour is storm force. 60 mal an hour gusts across | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
northern England. Particularly the further north you are, more likely | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
to encounter some structural damage. Likely to be some delays to | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
transport with planes, ferry crossings, bridge crossings for | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
example. Do take extra care if you are on the move. On Christmas Eve, a | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
little bit quieter. The England and Wales, dry weather around and | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
sunshine. The Scotland and Northern Ireland, gusty winds as opposed to | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
squally winds. Rain to a company that. Temperatures seven to about 10 | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
Celsius. As we have to beat 15 point six | :18:04. | :18:28. | |
Celsius. It is possible, somewhere like Aberdeen could hit 16 Celsius. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
This front going south is a cold front bearing rain and behind it we | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
start to pull in once again colder air. He might start in Aberdeen with | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
16 Celsius in the day. The cold front with the rain going through | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
and we could return to wintry showers. We could have the | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
combination of record-breaking temperatures on Christmas Day, but | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
also a white Christmas. But we're not expecting a white Christmas in | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
the South. Britain built more cars in the first | :18:56. | :19:05. | |
11 months of 2016 than any full year since 2004, | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
data from an industry body showed on Thursday, | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
putting the sector on course to make more vehicles this year | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
than in any other since 1999. Demand around the world of the cars | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
continues to grow. For in every five cars being sent overseas. The | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
world's oldest bank looks set to be bailed out by the Italian government | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
as part of a 20 billion euros rescue package. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena had hoped to raise E5bn. | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
However, the bank admitted on Wednesday evening that it | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
had failed to secure an "anchor" investor. | :19:55. | :19:55. | |
Monte dei Paschi is now likely to be bailed out by the Italian government | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
from a E20bn fund the state is setting up to rescue | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
The competition watchdog is probing the 100 million funfair market | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
amid concerns that punters are being taken for a ride. | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
The Competition and Markets Authority is alleging | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
that the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is restricting | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
competition and reducing the potential for new attractions | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
That is it from me this morning. Back with more business news next | :20:14. | :20:25. | |
week. Happy Christmas, thank you very | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
much. This morning we've been hearing | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
about a rise in violent crime It's just one of the many challenges | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
facing police officers today. As part of our Policing Britain | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
series, Steph has gone behind the scenes at the Durham Police | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
headquarters to find out how they cope with | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
the different pressures. I think she is back in the control | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
room again. I am. This is the main control room | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
where they will be taking all of the emergency calls that come in from | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
this area. These guys will be taking the calls and deciding which police | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
officers to send to which locations to deal with all the different | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
crimes they are getting here today. They deal with something like 1000 | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
calls here. But if you look at the National picture, it is only one in | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
five calls which are crime related. These guys are dealing with | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
vulnerable and missing people, mental health concerns and welfare. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Lots of different things. We will be speaking to the Chief Inspector | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
later on. You mentioned about one of the findings from our research to do | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
with pensioners and the fact there has been a big rise in the number of | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
people over 65 committing crimes. Graham Satchell has been looking | :21:36. | :21:36. | |
into it. Stuart, in his 70s, | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
is talking to Nick, who is 60. I don't feel old at all, | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
and because people are fitter and healthier and more active, | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
they are going to carry on doing The over 60s now the fastest | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
growing age group Figures obtained by this | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
programme show a dramatic rise in police recorded crime | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
for people over the age of 65. Violent crime in the pension | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
age group, for example, The numbers are relatively small, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
up from just under 4,000 in 2012 to 7,000 incidents recorded last | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
year, but almost half of all crime police recorded in this | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
age group was violent. I think we have | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
romanticised older people. We think that just because | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
they're getting older They're frustrated, | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
lonely and angry. This criminologist says some older | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
people getting more violent The frustration of being | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
an old person with not enough to do, with social services being cut, | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
there's a sort of failure of the social contract | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
with the elderly that leads So are Britain's pensioners really | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
becoming saga louts? There are some other | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
things going on. For years and years police | :23:12. | :23:12. | |
recorded crime figures were massaged to meet | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
certain targets. Today, the way police record crime | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
has completely changed. Police forces are now looking | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
to make sure we record things accurately, ethically | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
and that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
up over the past two I think officers might have | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
gone through an incident five years ago and used | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
their professional judgement. Two people in their late | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
now as violent crime, I don't think they would have done | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
that five years ago. We have four bedrooms here, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
one is an emergency room. This is the first refuge | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
in the country specifically We filmed it when it | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
opened last year. The charity that runs it, Eva, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
has seen women in their 60s, Blacked eyes, just a variation | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
of beatings over the years. This woman, who we are | :24:04. | :24:17. | |
calling Sarah, was abused When you were younger, | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
did you feel as though if you had reported what was happening | :24:20. | :24:38. | |
that the police would Police are now investigating | :24:39. | :24:39. | |
domestic violence and historic sex abuse cases much | :24:40. | :24:54. | |
more assiduously and that's one reason for the rise | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
in today's figures. Whether it's growing | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
anger and resentment, or that justice is finally | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
catching up with offenders, more and more older people | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
are ending up on the wrong side I have come from the call centre | :25:08. | :25:24. | |
area to what is called the Silver command room. It is in here they | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
will basically make big decisions around complex cases. So it might be | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
a firearms operation or drugs raid. These guys are strategically trying | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
to work out how best to solve the crime is maybe going on. They use | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
this room about three times a week. It is not happening every day, these | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
serious crimes. It is very calm in here. A lot going on in terms of the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
decision-making. They have done a mock-up of drugs raids, so they have | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
been working on that this morning and the information is on the board | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
about who might be detained already, about whether subjects might be. It | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
is fascinating. Although I am curious about subject number one who | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
has been detained. I am wondering what the scrubbed dab bit sad. Maybe | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
we will find out that later on and I will be showing you around the | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
headquarters later on. Steph, we can imagine all sorts of | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
different things. Conspiracy to something, we will | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
work it out. Conspiracy to steal the biscuits. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Christmas traditions are always important. | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
One family dress up their pony. Now I am really jealous. I have been | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
looking for one of those for my pony for ages. It started with the pony's | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
mum 30 years ago. Louise has treated in to say, making | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
streams of party poppers above the dining table. | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
And Diane says she always makes her own crackers. | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
Here they are. Keep sending those in. We will talk more about | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Christmas traditions later on. See you in a few minutes. | :27:19. | :30:38. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :30:39. | :30:53. | |
It is Thursday morning. We can tell you about the main stories. | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
German security services are facing questions about why they ended | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
a surveillance operation on a suspect who's now the subject | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
of a Europe-wide manhunt, following the Berlin lorry attack. | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
They began watching Anis Amri in March. | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
But the operation was halted six months later even though | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
he was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is in our Berlin studio. | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
Good morning. There is more emerging about this man. What can you tell | :31:18. | :31:31. | |
us? It seems that he left Tunisia in 2011 and spent four years in Italy | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
where he was convicted and charged for offences such as arson so he has | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
a criminal record. He moved to Germany and applied for asylum but | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
the application was rejected. He was not deported because Tunisia would | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
not accept he was a Tunisian citizens. That will be a big | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
question now that will be debated in Germany. What to do about failed | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
asylum seekers who cannot be deported because there are around | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
106,000 such cases in Germany of people whose asylum application has | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
been projected that they cannot be deported. The other big question is | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
why security services stopped monitoring the suspect even though | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
they had grounds to believe he could be dangerous. We will have more | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
throughout the day on the BBC News channel. | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
The Government is to reinvest more than ?440 million to improve | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
high-speed broadband coverage across the UK. | :32:32. | :32:32. | |
It is expected the funds, which have been recouped | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
from the Government's superfast broadband programme, | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
could bring better connectivity to an extra 600,000 rural homes. | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
The Government aims to deliver high-speed internet to 95 per cent | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
of properties by the end of next year. | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
has increased by almost 80% since 2012. | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
The figures, obtained by a Freedom of Information | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
request by BBC Breakfast, relate to offences ranging | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
The rise in the number of crimes recorded is, in part, | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
being put down to police changing how they log crimes and people | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
A woman and child have died in a house fire in Essex. The pair were | :33:14. | :33:27. | |
trapped in the house in Braintree and died at the scene. Two of the | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
women managed to escape and were taken to hospital. | :33:32. | :33:32. | |
Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
The disease, which affects the brain, most often causes people | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
100,000 people in the UK are affected by MS | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
and it's hoped Ocrelizumab will offer hope to patients, | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
after a successful trial of 2,000 people. | :33:49. | :33:56. | |
The NHS will pay for 10 blind patients to have so-called "bionic | :33:57. | :33:59. | |
eyes" to help treat an inherited form of blindness. | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
The eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses. | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year. | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
They will be monitored for a year afterwards to see how they get | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
Health care and social care services provide vital support for some | :34:20. | :34:27. | |
of the most vulnerable people in the country. | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
But the ombudsman responsible for dealing with complaints | :34:32. | :34:33. | |
says people are falling through the cracks because the two | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
sectors aren't communicating with each other. | :34:40. | :34:40. | |
In a new report they're calling for the complaints | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
We can speak to Local Government Ombudsman Jane Martin now, | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
Good morning. Why is the system fragmented and what issues is it | :34:47. | :35:00. | |
causing? The Local Government Ombudsman, we have investigated | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
complaints over 40 years but we have also been able to investigate with | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
the Parliamentary ombudsman and the report today is a response to what | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
we have seen which is people coming with social care complaints, or | :35:13. | :35:20. | |
health complaints, also have health and social care combined issues and | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
we created the joint team to try to make things easier. Despite the best | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
efforts of councils and health bodies to integrate care locally, in | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
fact there is fragmentation which can cause things to go badly wrong | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
and when they do it has a significant impact on people | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
involved. Is it something that could be easily changed? You would have to | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
put that question to the councils and NHS themselves but what we are | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
trying to do is to call for bodies locally to make it easier to make | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
their voices heard and make complaints in a seamless way. A key | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
issue is lack of coordination and the report could have been called | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
working better together because we are seeing a lack of information, | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
often people working in organisations do not themselves | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
understand who was responsible and who is paying, which is no good if | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
the complainant is having to pick up the pieces. You have been involved | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
since 2010. Has it been getting worse in that time? Certainly we | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
have seen an increase in social care complaints and we issued a report | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
this year setting that out. We have seen an increase in complex cases | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
and it is clear that although there is greater integration in the system | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
there is also complexity and when you have more than one body | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
involved, things can go badly wrong. The cases we highlight show issues | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
like when people transition from hospital to home care and when they | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
have complex disabilities and it is difficult for them to get care they | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
need. Getting bodies to work together better, so many | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
organisations face problems with that. The draft Bill is under | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
consultation. Are you able to hear me? Have you gone completely? I | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
think sadly we have lost Jane. If you could put your earpiece back | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
in... There we go. Can you hear me again? I can hear you. You can do a | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
David Coleman impression for the last one! I mentioned about big | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
organisations and how it can be difficult to talk among the | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
different strands. The draft Bill is under consultation and we're all | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
talking about a joined up approach but the old ombudsman service | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
probably suffers from the same problems? This is why we want the | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
changes made. We are doing as much as we can be tween the organisations | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
to join up the service we give to the public but we are aware there is | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
too much complexity and that is why we are calling for one public | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
service ombudsman and we are pleased we have draft legislation that will | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
be consulted on. We believe we will offer a better service if we can | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
have one place the public can come to, particularly around health and | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
social care complaints, which are causing difficulty at the moment. | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
You can put sound engineer on your CV now, also! Have a good Christmas. | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
It's the busiest time of the year for police officers and Steph | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
will be back in a few minutes with another behind-the-scenes look | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
Most families will be putting out a mince pie and a sherry | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
But has the Elf on the Shelf made an appearance in your house? | :38:48. | :38:55. | |
We'll be talking about Christmas traditions past and present | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
And we'll be meeting the firefighters hoping to enter | :38:58. | :39:12. | |
the Christmas charts with their chip pan parody | :39:13. | :39:14. | |
They are called the Everly Pregnant Brothers. And they did the Bob | :39:15. | :39:32. | |
Marley classic. No Oven No Pie. It has a serious message about to chip | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
pans. They are a major cause of fire. | :39:36. | :39:44. | |
But we are here to talk about a serious issue in rugby union and | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
George North and his injuries. The latest George North incident. He has | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
been involved in five occasions, treated for suspected concussion. | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
This time he was allowed back on and the authorities say he should have | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
stayed. They have not published Northampton but it has called for | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
changes. The Rugby Players Association say | :40:07. | :40:07. | |
Northampton Saints should have been punished for allowing | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
the Welsh wing George North to play on after appearing | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
to be knocked out. A concussion review group | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
found North should not have been allowed to continue, | :40:15. | :40:16. | |
but said Saints' medics had acted in the player's best interests | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
and so wouldn't face any punishment. A former medical adviser | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
in the game says the The protocol they go through off the | :40:22. | :40:37. | |
field is not worth the paper it is written on. It is experimenting on | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
players' brains. First it was five minutes, Ben ten, then 30 minutes. | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
If you take a player off to have a concussion assessment, he has two | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
stay off and our regulations say he must a off but they are | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
experimenting in a part of the game that is the most brutal and when the | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
player goes back, impacts will be huge and this is wrong. The review | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
team has made nine recommendations. It'll be at least six months | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
before Petra Kvitova is able to practise again, | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
following the knife Surgeons are confident | :41:15. | :41:15. | |
that the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
to return to the court, but all the fingers on her | :41:19. | :41:20. | |
playing hand were injured and her rehabilitation | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
will be a slow process. League Two Plymouth Argyle have | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
earned a trip to Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup, | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
after beating Newport County, It went to extra time | :41:31. | :41:32. | |
at Rodney Parade. Plymouth missed one penalty but won | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
a second, which Graham Carey scored to set up a tie at Anfield worth | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
around half a million pounds. The next Olympic Games | :41:41. | :41:48. | |
is predicted to cost ?12.4 billion and, | :41:49. | :41:50. | |
even though the Tokyo organisers are looking for savings, | :41:51. | :41:51. | |
that would make it the most expensive Games ever, | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics, | :41:56. | :41:57. | |
and it's six times more They are saying production and | :41:58. | :42:08. | |
construction costs have gone up because of the recent tsunami and | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
earthquake. Christmas traditions. You said earlier that you have a | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
pantomime in your household. Did you say you did Cinderella underwater? | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
Yes, you do not actually go underwater. There is a theme each | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
year so the ugly sisters would come in like this. | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
I might suggest that to our committee! We will talk about | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
Christmas traditions shortly. The run-up to Christmas | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
is the busiest time of the year This week we've been | :42:41. | :42:42. | |
looking at the different This morning, as part | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
of our Policing Britain series, Steph has been allowed behind | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
the scenes at the new headquarters of Durham Police to find out | :42:49. | :42:51. | |
about the work involved. She is outside now. | :42:52. | :43:02. | |
Good morning. Good morning, everyone. It is fascinating to see | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
so many elements we would not normally see and this is an armed | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
response vehicle and Sam is in charge. Tell me what we have got. | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
This will deploy to a scene of firearms incident sent to from the | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
command room. We have ballistic protection such as shields. Method | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
of entry equipment. To gain entry to the property, and we have a medic | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
kit, which is a comprehensive first aid kit. You have to be trained in | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
so many things because you are a firearms officer but you need | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
medical knowledge. I am a trauma medics say we deal with a higher | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
level of trauma incidents, especially when we deal with road | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
traffic incidents. Why are you doing that, often because you are first on | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
the scene? Usually be the first responders and have a duty of care | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
to those seriously injured. We can go back into the armoury which is a | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
place you visit quite a lot. You have been promoted as a Sergeant, | :44:08. | :44:14. | |
congratulations. In your job, when you see firearms officers, you | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
think, do you get scared, given what you are going to phase? That is | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
where training comes into its own. It is 11 weeks to complete the | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
initial course and you face the majority of your fears in training | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
so when you deploy live you have confidence to deal with any | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
situation. It is highly unlikely you would ever in your career have to | :44:38. | :44:45. | |
shoot anyone? Fingers crossed. But there is the potential threat. | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
Because you have a weapon now, you have to come into this room. I need | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
to download the pistol and re-present that. There is one in the | :44:54. | :45:00. | |
chamber, there is the round. Make sure it is safe before I clear it. | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
Fire off the action just to double check. And ensure that is clear and | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
present it. You have to hand it. You have to handed back in two marks, in | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
charge of the armoury section. We will look in there. Thanks very | :45:17. | :45:18. | |
much. So this weapon has come back in, | :45:19. | :45:29. | |
this room is amazing, I feel a bit intimidated walking in because there | :45:30. | :45:31. | |
are so many weapons here. Explain what we have got? Basically we have | :45:32. | :45:40. | |
firearms issued on preplanned operations, so if we need to bolster | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
up the ARV... The armed response vehicle? Yes, we can send that | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
officers as support. What is this stuff? This doesn't look like any | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
form of... Basically we expect our armed officers to make different | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
types of weapons safe, so when we get peculiar weapons that we seize | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
or are handed in, we keep a certain amount to train with, so officers | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
will learn to make disguised firearms such as walking stick canes | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
safe, then we've got improvised firearms, we've also got converted | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
blank fires and then we've also got disguised stun devices. That just | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
looks like a phone but clearly isn't? Yes, this one is based on the | :46:29. | :46:43. | |
iPhone four... You would get a nasty shock with that! This would be | :46:44. | :46:51. | |
classed as a disguised firearm, so would these. With this type of thing | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
is is a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, so you don't want to | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
be in possession of one of these. That is worth knowing, not that I | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
would ever carry one! Thank you very much, you will hear more from me | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
shortly, but first we have got to speak to the wonderful Carol to find | :47:08. | :47:10. | |
out what is happening in the weather. Squalling wind is the only | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
thing I have heard but it is her mum's Brad Pitt as well, so happy | :47:15. | :47:16. | |
birthday to Carol's mum! Thank you! Happy birthday, ma'am, if | :47:17. | :47:25. | |
you are watching, 21 again! We have got some fog which will | :47:26. | :47:38. | |
lift, but we do have squally showers across Northern Ireland and | :47:39. | :47:41. | |
Scotland. They will continue through the day, they will have rain, hail, | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
thunder and lightning, some hill snow and some sleet at lower levels. | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
For England and Wales, one or two showers but really more dry weather | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
around and most of the fog should tend to lift by a round lunchtime. | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
It will feel cold in the zero in the combination of those elements, | :48:01. | :48:01. | |
cooler in the south than it did yesterday. As we head through | :48:02. | :48:22. | |
the evening and overnight, under the clear skies very quickly the | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
temperature will drop and we're looking at some frost. There will | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
not be a lot of it because the wind is going to pick up but by the end | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
of the night we will see the first sight of storm Barbara in the shape | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
of heavy rain in Northern Ireland and northern and western Scotland, | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
accompanied by gales by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, the Met office | :48:40. | :48:41. | |
has an Amber weather warning for wind from northern and north-western | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
Scotland. Here, we are looking at a severe gales and storm force winds. | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
The rain across though West will be heavy, combined with the wind it | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
will be tricky travelling conditions. That will continue to | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
move south, getting to the south-east after dark, but look at | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
the temperatures. But it is the wind that will pack a punch with Barbara. | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
To put numbers on that, across the north of mainland Scotland and the | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
Northern Isles, just as much as 90 mph. In the West, 80 mph but we | :49:10. | :49:15. | |
could see similar in the East of Scotland. 70 mph wind speed across | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
Northern Ireland, 60 across northern England. Barbara has moved a little | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
bit further north, so the strongest winds have moved by the North as | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
well, which is why it is the far north of Scotland looking at 90 mph, | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
but those could do structural damage, | :49:35. | :50:07. | |
disruption to transportation, including flights, ferries, bridges, | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
so do keep in touch with the weather forecast. On Christmas Eve, a lot | :50:12. | :50:13. | |
quieter, especially for England and Wales. It will be breezy, sunshine | :50:14. | :50:15. | |
and dry weather. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, later northern | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
England and Wales, rain and gusty wind as opposed to squalling wind | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
like today. As we move into Christmas Day, between these two | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
weather front it is a warm sector and actually on Chris tmas Day it is | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
going to be exceptionally mild, we could have record-breaking high | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
temperatures for if we exceed 15.6 Celsius, that is there will be a lot | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
of in so as well as the wet and windy weather laterand behind it | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
colder conditions coming in so as well as the wet and windy weather | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
later on, some of us a white Christmas. Steph, I bet you didn't | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
expect record-breaking temperatures and a white Christmas on the same | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
day! I certainly didn't, but you deliver so much to this nation that | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
it doesn't surprise me! While Carol was doing the weather, I zipped up | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
from the armoury room to the main cool centre, dealing with the 999 | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
calls coming in throughout the day, they deal with something like 1000 | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
calls per day, not just crime related but people calling about | :51:01. | :51:02. | |
vulnerable or missing people, mental health. | :51:03. | :51:05. | |
Only one in five calls nationally to 999 deal with crime. Earlier we were | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
talking about crime in the over 65, now we will look at youth offending. | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
The figures on this nationally are something like 17,000 under 25s in | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
prison, about a quarter of the prison population. We have got some | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
guests, Lord McNally, chair of the youth Justice board, and Baroness | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
Hallen new love, victims commissioner for England and Wales. | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
Lord McNally, looking at youth offending and in particular rear | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
fenders, there are something like 900 young people who are | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
persistently offending. Are they a lost cause or can we do something to | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
stop this reoffending? No, that would be a council for display and | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
the youth Justice board over 16 years of existence has made inroads | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
into that but it is still a big problem at the moment. That is why | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
the Secretary of State has just announced a new series of | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
initiatives that will look at this reoffending, which is the one that | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
people get most worried about, it is the revolving door of prison that | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
worries people. But I think, if you are going, which is what we want to | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
do, with a cross disciplinary education led response, then we have | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
got to carry victims and the public with us. The public quite often have | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
the view of, lock them up and throw away the key. That doesn't work. | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
They can really blight a community, though? I am sure that viewers | :52:34. | :52:40. | |
watching you can think of housing estates where one individual, one | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
family can ruin the lives of everybody else on estate. But how | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
you get at that, one of the things, again, that the Secretary of State | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
has put forward, we have got to get upstream of the actual offending. | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
What does that mean? You can say that by the time a child is in front | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
of the youth magistrate, you might be ten years too late in dealing | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
with the factors that have got them into crime, so I think we've got to | :53:10. | :53:16. | |
make sure that things like the troubled families initiative and our | :53:17. | :53:19. | |
Youth Offending team's work closely together to try and identify | :53:20. | :53:25. | |
children when they are on the cusp of criminality, and take measures | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
that will divert them from it. I think one of the good things that | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
has happened over the last ten years, and why we have seen falls in | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
the number coming into the criminal justice system, is that the police | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
themselves have stopped targeting and now play a much more positive | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
role in diverting young people from the criminal justice system into | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
therapies and responses which can avoid crime. Baroness new love, from | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
your perspective, the victims' perspective, what is your thought on | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
it? We have two educate people to understand that actions can have | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
horrendous circumstances, but I agree some victims are traumatised | :54:12. | :54:14. | |
when the services are not listening to them and we have to get this | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
right. Before I was in this role, I used to go to prisons and speak to | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
youngsters to understand what goes on out there, but it is also making | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
sure the youngsters know they are accountable and responsible for what | :54:27. | :54:29. | |
they are doing and want to change their ways. How do you do that, | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
talking to them when they are jungle, what does it involve? It is | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
telling them hard-hitting facts, but it is really like, we saw it with | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
the riots when a lot of them blamed the state, but to make communities | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
feel safer we have to work together in partnership to understand, | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
because when you go through day in, day out being abused in the | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
community, it is terrifying, so people watching this will be saying, | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
I am being abused now, I am scared to go out, and I get a lot of | :54:59. | :55:09. | |
letters because anti-social behaviour is such a huge thing. | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
People have got to understand that we need to live in a safer | :55:13. | :55:14. | |
environment, and it's not right for children to throw bricks, abuse the | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
system. So much more we could cover, thank you for your time this | :55:18. | :55:19. | |
morning. I appreciate it. I will just show you a little bit more of | :55:20. | :55:22. | |
these offices, we talked about the call centre, Catherine, the chief | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
inspector, is in charge of it all. What is your job here? I oversee the | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
control room, we take about 30,000 calls a month, 6000 of which are 909 | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
calls and I see how we deploy to them, who resigned and when we send | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
them, making sure our response and call handling and dealing with the | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
incidences is appropriate. What I have noticed more than anything is | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
how calm it is. It is actually boring, for want of a better word, | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
and I mean that in a really good way! It doesn't feel manic, it feels | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
calm and collected, and that is important? Yes, well trained call | :55:59. | :56:01. | |
handlers, they don't know what they will get from one minute to the | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
next, so they need to be calm and treat every call as if it was the | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
first of the day and they are well-trained, good at risk as and it | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
is a lovely environment to work in. You have walked me to the next | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
location, thank very much. While! This is the silver command room, | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
look at this young officer! What is your name? Deacon. And what is your | :56:23. | :56:31. | |
job, are you the mascot? The Durham police mascot. Who is next to you? | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
What is the job here of Deacon? Decanters are very important job, he | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
keeps us in check all day and sometimes comes out on patrol with | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
us, and he highlight any criminals or targets with them for us to | :56:45. | :56:51. | |
intercept on that day. And do you love it, Deacon? | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
High-5 for that, love your work. That is it from me here, the silver | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
command room, complex decisions being made about operations that are | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
being run. Someone earlier asked about this gentleman here being on | :57:05. | :57:07. | |
Facebook, it is because they have to assess everything that is going on, | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
they have to be across all of the different outlets, which is why they | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
have also got us on, the news in the background. Fascinated by being here | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
in the last couple of days, and I'm sure you will all agree that has | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
been a lot to see. And how cool is Deacon?! He is signing one of his | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
cards for you now. I will take them back for the team! | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
Thank you, Deacon! Be careful, Steph, if you are taking | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
biscuits, he is watching you. The future reference, do not let | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
Deacon near the gun cupboard! It has been a highlight today, seeing staff | :57:44. | :57:45. | |
there. Tomorrow we'll take a final look | :57:46. | :57:48. | |
at Policing Britain - we'll hear about the problems many | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
forces face due to a rise in the number of people | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
with dementia going missing. It's only three days | :57:56. | :57:57. | |
until Christmas. I have been lent an advent calendar, | :57:58. | :58:09. | |
number 22 has not been opened. You did in! We will have a look | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
behind Alba Breakfast advent calendar with the help of our | :58:14. | :58:15. | |
friends from a local primary school. ALL: We wish you a Merry Christmas | :58:16. | :58:17. | |
and happy New Year! Hello. | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
Merry Christmas to everybody. What's your favourite | :58:21. | :58:30. | |
Christmas song? TOGETHER: # We wish | :58:31. | :58:38. | |
I think they could have put in more effort than that. | :58:39. | :59:02. | |
That was as bad as a flaky mince pie from those two, they had no future | :59:03. | :59:07. | |
in the music business! Look, this is a heart. | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
How cued. I especially put it in there for you. I will leave it | :59:12. | :59:17. | |
there. No offence. He did not give this to me. We are talking about | :59:18. | :59:20. | |
Christmas traditions. and maybe even having a quick peck | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
under the mistletoe - there are a host of Christmas | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
traditions that many of us embrace Thank goodness for hiding the | :59:29. | :59:31. | |
mistletoe. We're going to be finding | :59:32. | :59:34. | |
out in just a minute. but first we've been asking | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
you what your favourite Leaving things out | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
for Father Christmas, They have to wake us | :59:42. | :59:43. | |
up before they can have their stockings | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
in the I like to see what they're | :59:50. | :59:51. | |
opening as well. I like watching the reaction | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
of your family as well when And I also like it | :59:55. | :59:56. | |
when you've got your nan who's got you a knitted jumper | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
and you've got to put on a fake My dad used to buy us an Easter egg | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
every year for Christmas. And obviously the Christmas pudding, | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
that's Christmas for me. A real Christmas tree that | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
smells like Christmas. We've got a ten-month-old | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
little boy so we're just starting | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
traditions with him now. We've got a Christmas Eve book that | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
we're going to read to him You've always had new | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
pyjamas on Christmas Board games with your family seems | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
to be the big thing. Arguments with my sisters | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
over board games. It's not Christmas without a good | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
argument over some sort of... ..technicality on a rule somewhere, | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
something along those lines! Etymologist and author | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Mark Forsyth joins us. This is a tradition in my family, | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
the utter chaos. An absolute mess. Where should we | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
start? Christmas trees, how long have we have them and white? That is | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
why I wanted to buy the book, why do we have a tree indoors and do these | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
strange things? What is the boxing on Boxing Day? Trees go back to | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
medieval Germany when they performed plays on Christmas Eve about Adam | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
and Eve and the Garden of Eden and the one thing they had to have | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
onstage as a prop, it was a tree. They would chop down a tree, an | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
evergreen, bring it indoors and decorate it with freight. I do not | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
whether you saw a couple of days ago on Australian lady who found a tiger | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
steak hiding in her Christmas tree. That is scary. Intensely venomous, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
even by the standard of Australian snakes but it is a miracle, like a | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
true Christmas tree comeback. In Germany they were called paradise | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
baum. The Nativity story is a part of many people'sChristmas but Jesus | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
was not born at this time of year? There is nothing in the Bible about | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
what date he was born. The only clue, and I hate to say this, the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
shepherds were abiding in the fields at night watching their flock and | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
shepherds do that in spring, summer and autumn but not in the winter | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
because it is too cold and the grass is not growing in the field. We | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
could be a few months out? Mince pies. They relate... They used to | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
have proper mince, meet mince. Christmas is filled with meat, it is | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
everywhere, to do with the fact that farmers at this time of year did not | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
have much to do and they would go out hunting. Or they would slaughter | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
animals for the winter because they did not have the hated keep them. If | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
you think we have a lot now, they used to be more. There would be | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
Christmas dish of a swan, stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
pheasant, stuffed with a pigeon, all the way down. Does that remind you | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
of anything? The Christmas song about birds descending in size. That | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
is the recipe. It is interesting to see traditions in different | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
countries. Tell us about Peru. A massive dustup! I found so many | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
strange stories and one favourite was in the high Andes, they have a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
tradition where on Christmas Day the village gathers in fancy dress in | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
the town square and you can call out anybody who has been annoying you | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
all year. You can have a one-on-one, no rules, except no biting, but that | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
is it. This could solve a lot of family... Families tend to get | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
fractious at Christmas time. Have a mince pie fight. We do this | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
unintentionally but in the Andes it is deliberate. People have talked | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
about Christmas traditions and it is clear people have a set way to | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
approach the day. Lots of different traditions. Everyone has that thing | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
that is important. There are new ones invented all the time and going | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
back 20 years ago people would not have heard about Black Friday, or | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
the John Lewis advert. Used to go the village banking on people'sdoors | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
demanding beer. I might try that! We can look at | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
some of our viewers' traditions. Andy from Barnsley always takes this | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
knitted nativity scene to his workplace, crafted by his mother, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Christine. That is amazing. Jill's dog Humphrey | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
gets in the spirit by dressing up. And from Wiltshire, always making | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
her crackers. Diane. Jeanette from Gloucester does not | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
just decorate her own home, she dresses her 1940s dolls house with | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Christmas paper chains. That is impressive. | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Mark's book is called A Christmas Cornucopia. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
We are off to get a goose for Christmas Day and stuff it with | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
various other things. We'll be talking to a group hoping | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
to make it into the Christmas charts in a minute, but first a last, | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
brief look at the headlines where you are this morning. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
nine Celsius. I will be back at nine Celsius. I will be back at | :06:02. | :07:35. | |
1:30pm. Christmas might be time | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
for indulging in plenty of food and drink, but a new song is hoping | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
to send an important message, as well as bidding | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
for the number one spot. The parody track is a collaboration | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
between South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service and Sheffield | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
band the Everly Pregnant Brothers, and it's all about the dangers | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
of cooking after a few drinks. # I nipped into kitchen | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
to cook up some grub. # Now me house is on fire and I'm | :08:06. | :08:33. | |
out in street # I'm in me pyjamas, | :08:34. | :09:00. | |
me 'jamas # Oh-oh-oh, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
me chip pan's on fire. It is so good. That is the lead | :09:04. | :09:24. | |
singer, big Sean, who by day is a funeral director who cannot be with | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
us. Klive Humberstone and Richard Bailey | :09:27. | :09:26. | |
from the Everly Pregnant Brothers along | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
with Martin Blunden from the South Yorkshire Fire | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
and Rescue Service. Good morning. We will talk about the | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
serious issue but how did you get together? Did you approach this lot? | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
We had a chip pan fire and the local paper picked it up. Pete tweeted | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
about it. Our communications team tweeted back and said, do you fancy | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
recording a song about chip pan fire because they are really serious? And | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
the response was it sounded a great idea. You record the song. How has | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
it got to this stage when millions are watching it online? We are | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
loving every second but do not know. We recorded the video and were going | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
to put it out and the Fire Service said why not bring it out as a | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Christmas single. The words, did you change the words, because they have | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
a serious message, anyway? A lot of our sons are parodies of famous | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
songs and Sean is a great lyricist. He will do it straight off his head. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
He does not even write down the lyrics. He changes the words and | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
talks about a love of beer, food... We have to apologise because it is | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
songs you love and once you hear our version... Louise has been singing | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
No Oven No Pie this morning. In terms of the serious side, chip pan | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
fires are a cause of concern and damaging home in people as well. It | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
is strange in 2016 we still have chip pan fires in the UK. It is an | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
issue the Fire and Rescue Service are tackling and in South Yorkshire | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
we have had 1000 chip pan related fires in the last three years in | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Yorkshire and 200 injuries and two fatalities as a result and we | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
decided to do something significantly about it this year | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
which led to this song but it is a great way... I can hear you that Max | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Eaves mining. It the song talks about somebody having | :11:51. | :12:05. | |
a drink and coming back at it can happen, you forget you have put the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Sudan. It is these cooking fires that cause a serious problem. We had | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
one in Doncaster on Monday, which wrecked the kitchen and also that | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
family's Christmas. Somebody distracted by the door, phone, the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
kids. I live in Sheffield and know how popular you are in the city but | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
this could take you to a different place. You could be Christmas number | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
one this year. Who knows? Yes. And when people turn up to your gigs, | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
somebody thought you were an Everly Brothers tribute band. That is not | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
what you are doing? No. They sat halfway through the show and decided | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
to leave. What has it been like the last weeks? Astonishing. It has gone | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
absolutely crazy. 5.5 million views on the look north site alone. And | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
some firefighters in the video, they will be working on Christmas Day. We | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
had read watch in central Sheffield and fire control. They have been | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
involved and we have had five people particularly involved, Dave, | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Michelle, Marie, Nick and Stewart, and the rest of Red Watch control | :13:24. | :13:33. | |
supporting it. It is a charity single and we have worked with age | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
UK and with Shelter, two great charities working with those most | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
honourable. You are playing this weekend. Is this at the start of the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
end? We did it last week. It was the O2. I thought you had one this week. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
We had famous guests at the O2 with Joe Root joining us and he was | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
fantastic. You are going to save the official goodbye. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Chip Pan by The Everly Pregnant Brothers is | :14:04. | :14:04. | |
That's all from Breakfast this morning. | :14:05. | :14:17. | |
Naga and Jon will be here tomorrow morning. | :14:18. | :14:27. | |
It's like having the family here for Christmas. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
It's going to be great. ..the Bake Off cast. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Tastes amazing. James, you're cheating. | :14:40. | :14:42. |