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Very good morning. This is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

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An international man-hunt for the main suspect in the Berlin Christmas

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market attack, as it emerges he was being watched until just a few

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months ago. He was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group.

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Now German police are facing questions about why they dropped

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their surveillance operation. Good morning everybody. It is Thursday 22

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December. Also this morning: a boost for rural broadband. ?400 million is

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going to be spent on getting remote areas faster connections. I will

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have more on where the money has come from and what it is going to be

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spent on. Investigation reveals the big rise in violent crime being

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carried out by the over 65. We will look at the possible causes. Good

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morning from Durham police headquarters. We are here as part of

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a series on policing Britain. I live in the call centre where they are

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dealing with the 999 called this morning. More on that a bit later

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on. In the sport, head injuries in rugby union must be taken more

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seriously, according to a review into an incident involving Wales

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international George North, which has made nine recommendations to

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change the way concussions are handled. And Carol has the weather.

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This morning across England and Wales we have some patchy fog and

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some frost. Some of that will be slow to clear but most will see a

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dry day with some sunshine and just a few showers. Scotland and Northern

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Ireland, still very windy, especially across Scotland, with

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some showers, some of which will be wintry. More in 15 minutes.

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Our main story: German security services are facing questions about

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why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who is now

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the subject of Europe wide man-hunt following the Berlin lorry attack.

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Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. This

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residence permit was found in the lorry which drove to Christmas

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market on Monday, killing 12 people. Catriona Renton reports.

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Still on the run, the most wanted man in Europe.

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Two images of Anis Amri are shown on this poster.

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Police are offering a reward of 100,000 euros, and warn

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And he has used six different aliases, and three different

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Vital clues about the suspect were found inside the hijacked lorry.

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Amri's residence permit was found in its cab.

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More details are emerging rapidly about Anis Amri.

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His family said he left Tunisia for Italy in 2011,

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where he was jailed for four years for arson.

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Last year he moved to Germany, where his claim for asylum

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But German officials did not have the correct paperwork

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He had links to an Islamist network, and was known to the authorities.

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He was under surveillance, as it was believed he was planning

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to buy guns, possibly for use in an attack.

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But this was stopped because of a lack of evidence.

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12 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack

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on the Christmas market on Monday evening.

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So far only one of those who died has been identified,

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the man who should have been driving the lorry,

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Missing, feared dead by her family, Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy.

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Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, also has not been seen since.

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Her husband, Rami, is seriously ill in hospital.

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Valuable time was lost when police arrested and later released another

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man, giving their chief suspect time to get away.

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Last night the Christmas market reopened, no longer a place filled

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Instead, Berliners came to pay their quiet respects

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to the victims, as the investigation goes on.

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We will get the latest from Berlin in a few minutes' time. We will talk

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about how they are approaching that man-hunt as well.

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The government is to invest heavily in expanding high-speed broadband.

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It is expected that the funds could bring better connectivity to an

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extra 600,000 rural homes. Our technology correspondent has more.

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Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant

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an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money.

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And nearly all of that has gone to BT.

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The company's contracts with councils and local authorities

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mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20%

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of homeowners sign up when the fast broadband service arrives.

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Now, the Government says that this cash clawback,

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coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be

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There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband

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Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more

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homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme.

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But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology,

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connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet,

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rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes.

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Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising

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that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT,

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Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales

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has increased by almost 80% since 2012. The figures obtained by

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Freedom of Information requests by BBC Breakfast relate to offences

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ranging from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of

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crimes recorded is in part being put down to police changing how they log

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crimes. You know, I think officers might

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have gone to an incident five years ago and use their professional

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judgement. Two people in their late 60s and 70s having an argument, that

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my qualify now as violent crime, which they would then record. I

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don't think they would have done that five years ago, so I think that

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will have a significant impact. And we will have a full report on

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the rise in violent crimes among older people and what might be

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causing it in about ten minutes' time.

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Doctors and charities have called a new treatment for multiple sclerosis

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a landmark development. The disease most often causes difficulty in

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walking. It is hoped that the new treatment will offer hope for

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patients, after a successful trial of around 2000 people.

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This is really good news for people with primary progressive forms of

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MS, for which there are no treatments available on the NHS.

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Primary progressive MS means people's disability will worsen.

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What this drug has shown is that it can slow the progress of disability

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for those people, so this offers real hope for the future.

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The NHS will paper ten blind patients to have bionic eyes to

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treat an inherited form of blindness. It is a retinal implant

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which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn on a

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pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal eye

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Hospital and five at Moorfields eye Hospital in London next year. They

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will then be monitored for a year afterwards to see how they can on in

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everyday life. Spending too long looking at sites

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like Facebook could be making us more miserable and envious. The

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study from Copenhagen is the latest to suggest social media could have a

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negative effect on our mood. The impact is worst for those who do not

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leave comments, apparently, but scan through and read about the success

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of other people. That is interesting, isn't it? They often

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say that, today, because people don't really put the truth on. I am

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interested that not leaving comments makes people more miserable. You

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just rage. It has been a stellar week for the

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BBC Breakfast team, first with Ore winning Strictly. And Tim Muffett,

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you may not wash Celebrity Mastermind, and Tim took on a double

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Paralympic gold-medallist, a journalist, and a BBC reporter to

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lift the famous trophy. His specialist subject was the films of

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Danny Boyle. Enormous congratulations to him. Have you

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done it? I have done it. John Humphrys had asked me the name of my

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children as the first question, I don't think I would have remembered.

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It is terrifying! I was proud of my score, but I actually lost to Martin

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Lewis, the money man. He did me in. He knows far too much. I lost.

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Let's return to our top story and get the latest from Berlin, where

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authorities are hunting for a man responsible for a lorry attack which

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took place on Monday evening. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is

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in our Berlin studio. Good morning to you. There really is a focus and

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a lot of criticism on the German security services.

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That's right, Louise. The big question, firstly, is why, if the

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authorities knew he had a criminal background, which they did, and they

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also knew he had links to Islamist extremist groups here in Germany,

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why he was not as observed. He had been placed under observation and

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his phone had been tapped for a couple of months earlier this year,

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at that observation was lifted even though authorities say he was judged

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to be potentially dangerous. The other problem and the other question

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the authorities are going to be facing is why he wasn't deported,

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because his application for asylum was rejected after he came here last

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year. And a lot of people now saying, well, you should have been

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deported back to his home country of Tunisia. The problem they are,

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though, Germany can legally only do that if the country of origin

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cooperates. In this particular case it seems Tunisia did not accept that

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this man was actually a Tunisian citizens. But that is still going to

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create a lot of questions about Germany's right to asylum, where the

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people who are deported should be deported, and also whether the

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security forces are doing enough to keep track of those people who they

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judge as potentially dangerous. So many questions, still. Later on

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Breakfast we will speak to a former undercover police officer as well.

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Michael is here with the sport this morning. Another winner of celebrity

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-- Celebrity mastermind. You did the Alan Patridge. It wasn't exactly

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hard to research. It was like looking in the mirror! I can't have

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a go at your suit after my electric blue number. Talking head injuries.

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George North, this incident on three December when he went off with a

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head injury. He seemed to be unconscious, playing for Northampton

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against Leicester. The review found that although Saints maybe shouldn't

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have brought him back on, they haven't punished Saints. A lot of

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people saying that is not going far enough so Doctor Barry O'Driscoll,

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former rugby medical adviser says he accuses the authorities of

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experiment players' brains, and says the current protocol isn't worth the

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paper it is written on. A big accusation, but there are changes

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coming thanks to this review. Northampton Saints will not face,

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for the moment, any punishment for allowing George North to be played

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on after being knocked out. The report has found that he shouldn't

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have been allowed to continue but that Saint medics had acted in his

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best interest. It will be at least six months

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before the Wimbledon champion Kvitova can play again. Surgery on

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her hand is said to have gone well following the knife attack on her

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hand, but recovery is said to be slow progress doormat process.

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Steve Holland has worked together with England's under 21 's and with

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the senior team, while Gareth Southgate was interim manager.

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And the ?500,000 goal. Graham Kerry's penalty earns league to

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Plymouth Argyle a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. It is a trip

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to Anfield. They will be looking forward to that, won't they, the

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Plymouth fans. Papers. You are being joined your

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suit twin over there as well. You really are wearing swimsuits, I am

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fairly similar as well. I have let the team down. The main story is the

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fallout from the attack in Berlin, and they have a picture of the man

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they are hunting for, this international man-hunt for Anis

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Amri, who is being sought by German police in connection with that

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Berlin Christmas market attack. His picture on the front page of the

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Times this morning. It is one of our main headlines this morning, and on

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the front page of the express they have the story about the healthcare

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for the Queen and rinse fillip, the royal couple told to get well soon

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as they delay their Christmas getaway this year. The Sun has a

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real mix on their front page, including that story about the Queen

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and Prince Philip missing their Christmas trip in front of the ST,

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if you thought bank bailouts were over, one could be imminent in

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Italy. The oldest bank in the world could be bailed out and the next

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couple of days, 20 billion euros. We will keep an eye on that, it

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knock-on effect of the banking system can be quite big. And a lot

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of the papers today, unfair funfairs taking us for a ride. The monopoly.

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An issue with funfairs across the UK, a trade body oversees a lot of

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them, the competition in markets authority are saying that they have

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too much control. If you want to set up a rival funfair in a town, or

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your local council does, it gets quite tough to do it. The protest,

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things like that happen. There may be some changes in the funfair

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sector. Good headline, unfair funfairs.

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Do you know that Sting did a song called An Englishman in New York.

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There is the new footballing club and they are trying to find the next

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Messi to find new players for the city of Angels team. It could make a

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lot of sense. How about this for a headline? Lady and the Trampoline.

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Johanna Konta aiming to be world number one. And her secret is going

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on the trampoline and rock climbing as well.

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Very good for your core strength. Yes, rockclimbing is now an Olympic

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sport as well. Excuses, you know when you hand in

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things late, the classic my dog ate it, HMRC have released some notes,

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people explaining why they handed in a late tax return. One was, a wasp

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in my car caused me to have an accident and my tax return was

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inside and was destroyed. I had a wasp go in my shorts when I

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was driving once and I did crash the car. But the car wasn't damaged, so

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it wouldn't have affected my tax return.

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Did you get stung? I didn't, actually. We have this

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story about IKEA. They are going to try to ban teenagers living in their

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stall. But I don't have a picture of that, so instead I have a picture of

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cute pandas. They are really lovely pictures. We've now set a new cute

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bar. It's a little bit higher. This is

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the zoo in Toronto, I believe. The beheading of a snowman. The

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impressive! You know on Planet Earth Wendy Bob Katter was plummeting into

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the earth, it's a bit like that. -- when the bobcat.

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He arrived from China in 201380 seriously loves snowmen.

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He is trying to make a new head! We love that. That's what we were

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waiting for! We couldn't leave before the face

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plant. Carol's got a special, fantastic

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necklace, which we will hopefully see all day!

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It does flash, but not for now. There's a lot of weather to get

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through over the next few days and today we have some sunshine when we

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lose the fog but also some squally showers across Northern Ireland and

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Scotland. This morning across Northern Ireland it is still very

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windy. Showers wintry on the hills, at lower levels there is more likely

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to be rain. Across Scotland there could be sleet at lower levels, snow

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on the hills, hail, thunder and lightning. Watch out for ice if you

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are travelling and in northern England at blustery start, with

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showers. As we drift into Wales a lot of dry weather around this

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morning, but equally there are a few showers here and there and the same

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for south-west England. More dry weather than wet weather, but still

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a few showers around. Crossing southern counties of England there

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are also bits of that patchy fog. When it does form some of it will be

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slow to clear. It may take until noon before we see the back end of

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it. Before it does we will have sunshine and a few showers across

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England and Wales. For Northern Ireland and Scotland we hang on to

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the strong winds. Gale force, especially with exposure. Blizzard

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along with that snow. Sleet even at some lower levels and it will feel

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cold. Cold in the north and colder in the south, then it felt yesterday

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afternoon. Into the evening and overnight the winds ease a little

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bit. Showers fade for a time and there will be dry weather around. It

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is only in sheltered rule areas that we might see frost. By the end of

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the night we have the first signs of the second named storm of the

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season, Storm Barbara, introducing heavy rain. The prepared, as we are

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looking at very strong winds. Up to severe gale force. We have the rain

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coming in with Barbara, heavy rain at that. It will move smartly across

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England England and Wales will be windy and you will notice it. Also

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into Scotland and Northern Ireland we will have the full impact of

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Storm Barbara. The forecast has changed ever so slightly as the

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track of the low pressure has moved a bit further north, so we think now

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it is the far north of mainland Scotland and Northern Isles that

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will have cost of mph. 80 in the west and across Northern Ireland and

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northern England 60 mph gusts. This is enough to do structural damage

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and it could also cause power outages and disruption to

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transportation, so ferries and temperatures could be affected. If

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you are travelling on Friday and bear this in mind. But I will have

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the whole Christmas forecast through the morning. Still looking unsettled

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for some of us. Thank you.

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Love that necklace as well! Magnificent.

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This morning with been hearing about a rise in violent crime committed by

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people over 65. It is one of the many challenges facing police

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officers today. It is part of our series on policing in Britain. You

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are in a call centre this morning, Steph?

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Good morning. Yes, I am in the control room where they are dealing

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with all of the 999 and 101 calls that come in. A lot of these guys

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are coming to the end of their shift. If you look at the types of

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calls they deal with, national research shows that only one in five

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calls that the police get our crime related, so the rest of them are

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things like welfare, people concerned about their welfare,

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people missing, concerns about mental health as well. On that side

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of the room that's where they are despatching their police officers to

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deal with different situations and over here is where the initial calls

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first coming. Catherine is just finishing the end of her 12 hour

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shift. What has it been like overnight? It has been all right.

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Quite slow at times. I don't want to tempt fate by mentioning the Q word.

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What kind of calls are you dealing with? You never know what's coming

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in next. It can range from a crime, burglaries, or just someone asking

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for a bit of advice or reassurance, what they don't know what to do and

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whether it is someone else who needs to deal with it. It was you end up

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doing a fair bit of counselling on the phone, I guess, trying to calm

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people down in situations. The thing I've noticed is you are all

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incredibly calm. That's a key part of your job, I guess? We've got to

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keep calm because the person on the other end of the phone, it might

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have been the first time they have from the police and you don't want

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to get them are upset and get them worried about what they are trying

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to report to you. At this time of year what's the big issue you are

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dealing with? A lot of alcohol-related issues, to be

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honest. It is the festive season. I will let you go. You are so calm and

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cool, I love it. How good does she look, considering she has been here

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for 12 hours? Very impressed! As we mentioned at the beginning, there is

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some research we have done for Exist this week, to show there's been a

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huge rise in crime committed by pensioners. We've been looking into

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this. He was a life. He killed his wife.

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Stuart in his 70s is talking to Nick, who is 60. We are convicted

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fraudsters. Nick is still on probation. I don't feel all that all

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and because people are fitter and healthier and more active, they are

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going to carry on doing stuff and stuff leads to problems. Problems

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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

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to do? Yes. I am making the key decisions about how to read the

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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.

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Fascinating. We will come back into the room at the morning to see how

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it is going. Then she very much. Obviously this room is about dealing

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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? --

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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

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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

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have had that support with me at an appropriate time. In your case,

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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

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throughout the programme. Thank you both very much for joining us this

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morning. More from me a little bit later.

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Thank you. We will be seeing you later, Steph. Tomorrow we will have

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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.

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Father Christmas, that's important. He comes to our house. They wake us

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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

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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

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rule. Anything. I love all of those different ideas,

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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

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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

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not pretty? That's right. Storm Barbara is

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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and he was discussed by counterterrorism police as recently

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as last month. Joining us now in the studio

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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

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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

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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

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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

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that he be found. At the moment, police are warning he is potentially

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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

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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

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number one wanted man at the moment. You're watching

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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

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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

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combination of record-breaking temperatures on Christmas Day, but

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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

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week. Happy Christmas, thank you very

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much. This morning we've been hearing

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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

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George North and his injuries. The latest George North incident. He has

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been involved in five occasions, treated for suspected concussion.

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This time he was allowed back on and the authorities say he should have

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stayed. They have not published Northampton but it has called for

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changes. The Rugby Players Association say

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Northampton Saints should have been punished for allowing

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the Welsh wing George North to play on after appearing

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to be knocked out. A concussion review group

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found North should not have been allowed to continue,

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but said Saints' medics had acted in the player's best interests

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and so wouldn't face any punishment. A former medical adviser

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in the game says the The protocol they go through off the

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field is not worth the paper it is written on. It is experimenting on

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players' brains. First it was five minutes, Ben ten, then 30 minutes.

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If you take a player off to have a concussion assessment, he has two

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stay off and our regulations say he must a off but they are

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experimenting in a part of the game that is the most brutal and when the

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player goes back, impacts will be huge and this is wrong. The review

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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

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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

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year so the ugly sisters would come in like this.

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I might suggest that to our committee! We will talk about

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Christmas traditions shortly. The run-up to Christmas

:42:38.:42:40.

is the busiest time of the year This week we've been

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looking at the different This morning, as part

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of our Policing Britain series, Steph has been allowed behind

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the scenes at the new headquarters of Durham Police to find out

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about the work involved. She is outside now.

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Good morning. Good morning, everyone. It is fascinating to see

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so many elements we would not normally see and this is an armed

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response vehicle and Sam is in charge. Tell me what we have got.

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This will deploy to a scene of firearms incident sent to from the

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command room. We have ballistic protection such as shields. Method

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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

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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

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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

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the scene? Usually be the first responders and have a duty of care

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to those seriously injured. We can go back into the armoury which is a

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place you visit quite a lot. You have been promoted as a Sergeant,

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congratulations. In your job, when you see firearms officers, you

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think, do you get scared, given what you are going to phase? That is

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where training comes into its own. It is 11 weeks to complete the

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initial course and you face the majority of your fears in training

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so when you deploy live you have confidence to deal with any

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situation. It is highly unlikely you would ever in your career have to

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shoot anyone? Fingers crossed. But there is the potential threat.

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Because you have a weapon now, you have to come into this room. I need

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to download the pistol and re-present that. There is one in the

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chamber, there is the round. Make sure it is safe before I clear it.

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Fire off the action just to double check. And ensure that is clear and

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present it. You have to hand it. You have to handed back in two marks, in

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charge of the armoury section. We will look in there. Thanks very

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much. So this weapon has come back in,

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this room is amazing, I feel a bit intimidated walking in because there

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are so many weapons here. Explain what we have got? Basically we have

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firearms issued on preplanned operations, so if we need to bolster

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up the ARV... The armed response vehicle? Yes, we can send that

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officers as support. What is this stuff? This doesn't look like any

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form of... Basically we expect our armed officers to make different

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types of weapons safe, so when we get peculiar weapons that we seize

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or are handed in, we keep a certain amount to train with, so officers

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will learn to make disguised firearms such as walking stick canes

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safe, then we've got improvised firearms, we've also got converted

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blank fires and then we've also got disguised stun devices. That just

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looks like a phone but clearly isn't? Yes, this one is based on the

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iPhone four... You would get a nasty shock with that! This would be

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classed as a disguised firearm, so would these. With this type of thing

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is is a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, so you don't want to

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be in possession of one of these. That is worth knowing, not that I

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would ever carry one! Thank you very much, you will hear more from me

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shortly, but first we have got to speak to the wonderful Carol to find

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out what is happening in the weather. Squalling wind is the only

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thing I have heard but it is her mum's Brad Pitt as well, so happy

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birthday to Carol's mum! Thank you! Happy birthday, ma'am, if

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you are watching, 21 again! We have got some fog which will

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lift, but we do have squally showers across Northern Ireland and

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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.

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For England and Wales, one or two showers but really more dry weather

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around and most of the fog should tend to lift by a round lunchtime.

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It will feel cold in the zero in the combination of those elements,

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cooler in the south than it did yesterday. As we head through

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the evening and overnight, under the clear skies very quickly the

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temperature will drop and we're looking at some frost. There will

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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

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of heavy rain in Northern Ireland and northern and western Scotland,

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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.

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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

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move south, getting to the south-east after dark, but look at

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the temperatures. But it is the wind that will pack a punch with Barbara.

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To put numbers on that, across the north of mainland Scotland and the

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Northern Isles, just as much as 90 mph. In the West, 80 mph but we

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could see similar in the East of Scotland. 70 mph wind speed across

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Northern Ireland, 60 across northern England. Barbara has moved a little

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bit further north, so the strongest winds have moved by the North as

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well, which is why it is the far north of Scotland looking at 90 mph,

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but those could do structural damage,

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disruption to transportation, including flights, ferries, bridges,

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so do keep in touch with the weather forecast. On Christmas Eve, a lot

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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people get most worried about, it is the revolving door of prison that

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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

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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.

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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

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countries. Tell us about Peru. A massive dustup! I found so many

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strange stories and one favourite was in the high Andes, they have a

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tradition where on Christmas Day the village gathers in fancy dress in

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the town square and you can call out anybody who has been annoying you

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all year. You can have a one-on-one, no rules, except no biting, but that

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is it. This could solve a lot of family... Families tend to get

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fractious at Christmas time. Have a mince pie fight. We do this

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unintentionally but in the Andes it is deliberate. People have talked

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about Christmas traditions and it is clear people have a set way to

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approach the day. Lots of different traditions. Everyone has that thing

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that is important. There are new ones invented all the time and going

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back 20 years ago people would not have heard about Black Friday, or

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the John Lewis advert. Used to go the village banking on people'sdoors

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demanding beer. I might try that! We can look at

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some of our viewers' traditions. Andy from Barnsley always takes this

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knitted nativity scene to his workplace, crafted by his mother,

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Christine. That is amazing. Jill's dog Humphrey

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gets in the spirit by dressing up. And from Wiltshire, always making

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her crackers. Diane. Jeanette from Gloucester does not

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just decorate her own home, she dresses her 1940s dolls house with

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Christmas paper chains. That is impressive.

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Mark's book is called A Christmas Cornucopia.

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We are off to get a goose for Christmas Day and stuff it with

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various other things. We'll be talking to a group hoping

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to make it into the Christmas charts in a minute, but first a last,

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brief look at the headlines where you are this morning.

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nine Celsius. I will be back at nine Celsius. I will be back at

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1:30pm. Christmas might be time

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for indulging in plenty of food and drink, but a new song is hoping

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to send an important message, as well as bidding

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for the number one spot. The parody track is a collaboration

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between South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service and Sheffield

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band the Everly Pregnant Brothers, and it's all about the dangers

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of cooking after a few drinks. # I nipped into kitchen

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to cook up some grub. # Now me house is on fire and I'm

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out in street # I'm in me pyjamas,

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me 'jamas # Oh-oh-oh,

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me chip pan's on fire. It is so good. That is the lead

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singer, big Sean, who by day is a funeral director who cannot be with

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us. Klive Humberstone and Richard Bailey

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from the Everly Pregnant Brothers along

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with Martin Blunden from the South Yorkshire Fire

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and Rescue Service. Good morning. We will talk about the

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serious issue but how did you get together? Did you approach this lot?

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We had a chip pan fire and the local paper picked it up. Pete tweeted

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about it. Our communications team tweeted back and said, do you fancy

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recording a song about chip pan fire because they are really serious? And

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the response was it sounded a great idea. You record the song. How has

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it got to this stage when millions are watching it online? We are

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loving every second but do not know. We recorded the video and were going

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to put it out and the Fire Service said why not bring it out as a

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Christmas single. The words, did you change the words, because they have

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a serious message, anyway? A lot of our sons are parodies of famous

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songs and Sean is a great lyricist. He will do it straight off his head.

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He does not even write down the lyrics. He changes the words and

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talks about a love of beer, food... We have to apologise because it is

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songs you love and once you hear our version... Louise has been singing

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No Oven No Pie this morning. In terms of the serious side, chip pan

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fires are a cause of concern and damaging home in people as well. It

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is strange in 2016 we still have chip pan fires in the UK. It is an

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issue the Fire and Rescue Service are tackling and in South Yorkshire

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we have had 1000 chip pan related fires in the last three years in

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Yorkshire and 200 injuries and two fatalities as a result and we

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decided to do something significantly about it this year

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which led to this song but it is a great way... I can hear you that Max

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Eaves mining. It the song talks about somebody having

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a drink and coming back at it can happen, you forget you have put the

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Sudan. It is these cooking fires that cause a serious problem. We had

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one in Doncaster on Monday, which wrecked the kitchen and also that

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family's Christmas. Somebody distracted by the door, phone, the

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kids. I live in Sheffield and know how popular you are in the city but

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this could take you to a different place. You could be Christmas number

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one this year. Who knows? Yes. And when people turn up to your gigs,

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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

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to leave. What has it been like the last weeks? Astonishing. It has gone

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absolutely crazy. 5.5 million views on the look north site alone. And

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some firefighters in the video, they will be working on Christmas Day. We

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had read watch in central Sheffield and fire control. They have been

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involved and we have had five people particularly involved, Dave,

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Michelle, Marie, Nick and Stewart, and the rest of Red Watch control

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supporting it. It is a charity single and we have worked with age

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UK and with Shelter, two great charities working with those most

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honourable. You are playing this weekend. Is this at the start of the

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end? We did it last week. It was the O2. I thought you had one this week.

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We had famous guests at the O2 with Joe Root joining us and he was

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fantastic. You are going to save the official goodbye.

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Chip Pan by The Everly Pregnant Brothers is

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That's all from Breakfast this morning.

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Naga and Jon will be here tomorrow morning.

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It's like having the family here for Christmas.

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It's going to be great. ..the Bake Off cast.

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Tastes amazing. James, you're cheating.

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