28/12/2016

:00:00. > :00:07.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Charlie Stayt.

:00:08. > :00:11.More than 80% of men and women in England aged between 40 and 60

:00:12. > :00:15.are overweight, inactive, or drinking too much.

:00:16. > :00:17.Health officials for the charity Diabetes UK say these people

:00:18. > :00:20.are greatly increasing their risk of getting a debilitating

:00:21. > :00:42.Good morning, it's Wednesday, 28 December.

:00:43. > :00:45.Also this morning: Carrie Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia

:00:46. > :00:48.in the Star Wars films, has died at the age of 60.

:00:49. > :00:51.Harrison Ford says she was one of a kind.

:00:52. > :00:53.The Japanese Prime Minister offers his "everlasting condolences"

:00:54. > :00:56.to those killed in the attack on Pearl Harbour as he becomes

:00:57. > :00:59.the first to join an American President at the memorial.

:01:00. > :01:02.We've spent almost ?5 billion in bargain stores this year,

:01:03. > :01:04.meaning those shops have grown faster than the discounter

:01:05. > :01:09.I've been to meet the boss of one of them to see what's going on.

:01:10. > :01:12.In sport, Swansea City sack Bob Bradley after just 11

:01:13. > :01:21.The Swans are second bottom of the Premier League.

:01:22. > :01:23.Milder winters and wetter summers have caused a drop in numbers

:01:24. > :01:27.of butterflies and bees according to an audit of our wildlife

:01:28. > :01:38.Good morning. It is a cold and frosty start to the day. There is

:01:39. > :01:43.patchy fog around, some of which will be slow to clear, if at all. We

:01:44. > :01:46.have some sunshine in the forecast and some rain coming in across the

:01:47. > :01:49.north-west. I will have more details on all of that in 15 minutes. Thank

:01:50. > :01:52.you, Carol. We will see you then. Middle aged people are putting

:01:53. > :01:58.themselves at risk of serious health problems unless they take action

:01:59. > :02:00.to change their lifestyles, Public Health England says 80%

:02:01. > :02:04.of 40- to 60-year-olds are overweight, drinking too much

:02:05. > :02:06.and not getting enough exercise. It says modern life is putting

:02:07. > :02:10.middle aged people at a greater risk of developing diseases

:02:11. > :02:11.like diabetes. Here's our health

:02:12. > :02:13.correspondent Robert Pigott. Aged 41 and weighing 22 stone,

:02:14. > :02:18.he was told by his seven-year-old son that he loved him

:02:19. > :02:21.even though he was fat. Since August, when he changed his

:02:22. > :02:30.diet and began to exercise, It was a case of, with us,

:02:31. > :02:37.should we just order a pizza tonight because we have food

:02:38. > :02:39.in but we could not So I think you just become a bit

:02:40. > :02:46.lazy and a bit drowned out There are many people

:02:47. > :02:49.in Lee's position. Almost 80% of women aged 40-60

:02:50. > :02:52.are either overweight, obese, physically inactive

:02:53. > :02:54.or drinking more than official Among men, almost 90% fall

:02:55. > :03:02.into the same category. Among the potentially devastating

:03:03. > :03:04.outcomes of this accumulation It has doubled in this age group

:03:05. > :03:15.in the last 20 years and already costs the NHS in England

:03:16. > :03:18.an estimated ?14 billion We are aging as a population but too

:03:19. > :03:23.many of us are ageing with a number The reason why we are seeing these

:03:24. > :03:26.increases in chronic diseases, such as cancers, stroke and heart

:03:27. > :03:30.disease, is in a large part because of behaviours

:03:31. > :03:32.which are adopted during our For example, still smoking,

:03:33. > :03:35.or not getting enough physical activity, or perhaps

:03:36. > :03:37.drinking too much alcohol. The big impact, of course,

:03:38. > :03:41.is that this is going to put a huge To get the message across, in March,

:03:42. > :03:44.public health England launched To get the message across, in March,

:03:45. > :03:47.Public Health England launched a health quizz as part

:03:48. > :03:51.of its One You campaign. It says more than a million people

:03:52. > :03:55.have now taken the quiz and now have a route map to

:03:56. > :03:57.change their lives. We'll be speaking to a woman

:03:58. > :04:01.who changed her lifestyle after taking the quiz

:04:02. > :04:03.later in the programme. Harrison Ford has led

:04:04. > :04:05.tributes to Carrie Fisher, who has died at the age of 60,

:04:06. > :04:09.calling her one of a kind. The Hollywood actress,

:04:10. > :04:11.best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars,

:04:12. > :04:14.had been in hospital since suffering a heart attack on a flight

:04:15. > :04:18.from London to Los Angeles last Our Entertainment correspondent

:04:19. > :04:27.Lizo Mzimba looks back at her life. Clever and confident,

:04:28. > :04:28.occasionally caustic. Will somebody get this big walking

:04:29. > :04:38.carpet out of many I way? Carrie Fisher's Leia

:04:39. > :04:48.wasn't your typical princess waiting What appealed to me was that George

:04:49. > :04:52.Lucas, who wrote and directed it, didn't want a damsel in distress,

:04:53. > :04:57.didn't want your stereotypical princess, you know. The galactic

:04:58. > :05:01.Princess grew up Hollywood royalty, so taut of 1950s movie legend Debbie

:05:02. > :05:05.Reynolds. Throughout her acting career she battled drug addiction

:05:06. > :05:11.and mental illness. Writing about it was a form of therapy for her.

:05:12. > :05:17.People used to ask me, you know, right after I got sober, you know,

:05:18. > :05:21.are you happy now? I would say, among other things, happy is one of

:05:22. > :05:27.the many emotions I will go through in our day. I love you. And

:05:28. > :05:35.instantly recognisable face after Star Wars, from time to time there

:05:36. > :05:42.were appearances in other films like When Harry Met Sally. Her mother led

:05:43. > :05:46.tributes, saving... Per Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill tweeted...

:05:47. > :06:01.Harrison Ford said in a statement... In 2015 she replies to her role as

:06:02. > :06:05.Princess Leia in Star Wars to force a way to and that is how millions

:06:06. > :06:14.will remember her -- Star Wars the force awakens.

:06:15. > :06:19.Let's speak now to our LA reporter Peter Bowes.

:06:20. > :06:25.Interesting hearing the thoughts of people, led by Harrison Ford,

:06:26. > :06:29.amongst others, she was a real character, wasn't she, and so much

:06:30. > :06:34.affection for her? She was an incredible character and there is a

:06:35. > :06:41.tremendous amount of sadness at her loss. It really has struck a chord

:06:42. > :06:46.with people because she was such a versatile person. Yes, she was known

:06:47. > :06:51.for one defining role in the Star Wars film from the 70s and then the

:06:52. > :06:56.Reprise last year but there was so much more to her. She was a comic

:06:57. > :07:00.genius, she was very, very funny and often it was directed at herself. It

:07:01. > :07:05.was self-deprecating humour she would bring into her performances,

:07:06. > :07:09.she did a 1-woman show at one point, she wrote many books in which she

:07:10. > :07:12.talked about her life, she talked about many problems, that I she was

:07:13. > :07:16.an alcoholic, she had problems with drugs and she also had problems with

:07:17. > :07:21.depression. She could joke about all of that but equally she was serious

:07:22. > :07:25.about it as well. She is a very transparent person. People really

:07:26. > :07:32.felt as if they knew her. She wasn't just another celebrity. She was a

:07:33. > :07:35.person who resonated in ordinary people's lives, especially those

:07:36. > :07:39.going through similar problems - they felt they could learn something

:07:40. > :07:42.from her and that she wanted to share that with them. Peter, for the

:07:43. > :07:44.moment, thank you. LA reporter Jeanne Wolf will tell

:07:45. > :07:47.us her memories of working with Carrie Fisher in just

:07:48. > :07:49.a few minutes' time. President Obama and the Japanese

:07:50. > :07:52.Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, have laid wreaths at the site

:07:53. > :07:55.of the Japanese attack It's the first visit by leaders

:07:56. > :08:00.of both countries since the attack, in which 2,500 Americans died.

:08:01. > :08:02.The Japanese leader pledged that the horrors of war

:08:03. > :08:04.must never be repeated, Our Tokyo correspondent

:08:05. > :08:23.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has more. It has taken 75 years for a Japanese

:08:24. > :08:29.present and US President to come here to Pearl Harbor. Inscribed, the

:08:30. > :08:36.names of the 2400 Americans killed in Japan's surprise attack on

:08:37. > :08:43.December 19 41. Outside, they cast flowers into the waters where the

:08:44. > :08:46.wreck of the USS Arizona still lies. Prime Minister Abe spoke of his

:08:47. > :08:54.sadness at the young American lives cut short, of their hopes and dreams

:08:55. > :09:03.left unfulfilled. TRANSLATION: When I contemplate that solemn reality, I

:09:04. > :09:10.am rendered entirely speechless. 20 years have passed... For 75 years

:09:11. > :09:13.and Americans have been taught to remember Pearl Harbor, but today

:09:14. > :09:17.President Obama called on Americans to take a different lesson from this

:09:18. > :09:25.place. Even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of

:09:26. > :09:31.tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward,

:09:32. > :09:37.we must resist the urge to demonise those who are different. It was a

:09:38. > :09:42.direct jibe at his successor Donald Trump, who has been accused of

:09:43. > :09:48.stoking hatred against everybody from Muslims to Mexicans. For Mr Abe

:09:49. > :09:55.too there is deep concern about what will happen to Japan's most

:09:56. > :09:57.important partnership, when Mr Trump enters the White House in 23 days'

:09:58. > :09:59.time. Campaigners for an early Brexit have

:10:00. > :10:02.written to business organisations across Europe to try and drum up

:10:03. > :10:05.support for a free trade agreement with the European Union after the UK

:10:06. > :10:08.stops being a member. The campaign group,

:10:09. > :10:12.Leave Means Leave, is hoping for a trade deal with no

:10:13. > :10:26.taxes on goods travelling Well, Leave Means Leave, another

:10:27. > :10:30.campaign group, they want us to leave the EU and they want us to

:10:31. > :10:34.live within a couple of years. One of the members of Leave Means Leave

:10:35. > :10:38.is a former head of the chambers of commerce in the UK. They have got in

:10:39. > :10:44.touch with the Chamber of Commerce around the EU to get them to lobby

:10:45. > :10:49.their governments to say, get a move on. Because Leave Means Leave has

:10:50. > :10:54.said it is not in the benefit of the EU countries or the UK if we end up

:10:55. > :10:57.with a deal at some point where taxes are higher, creating more

:10:58. > :11:04.trade barriers between the UK and countries around the EU if we leave.

:11:05. > :11:08.Of course, it is not quite so straightforward, because, one, they

:11:09. > :11:12.can only lobby governments, that don't have power, and also, those

:11:13. > :11:16.countries want something in return, freedom of movement is an issue, can

:11:17. > :11:21.you have freedom of movement without tariffs in the EU Pace it is a long

:11:22. > :11:23.way from anything being resolved. It is part of the ongoing process.

:11:24. > :11:24.Thank you very much indeed. NHS hospitals have made more money

:11:25. > :11:27.than ever from parking Figures from 89 trusts

:11:28. > :11:30.across England suggest ?120 million was raised from charging patients,

:11:31. > :11:33.staff and visitors for parking in the last year, up

:11:34. > :11:36.5% on the year before, Patient groups have criticised

:11:37. > :11:39.rising parking costs but the Department of Health said it

:11:40. > :11:42.expects trusts to put concessions in place for disabled people,

:11:43. > :11:56.carers and shift workers. The Co-operative Group says it

:11:57. > :11:58.will open 100 stores It opened a similar number

:11:59. > :12:04.of stores this year. The group said it will invest

:12:05. > :12:07.?70m in the new shops, which will be spread throughout

:12:08. > :12:09.London, south-east England, The company is nearing the end

:12:10. > :12:13.of a three-year turnaround programme after a period of turmoil

:12:14. > :12:17.in its banking group. Almost 300 nail bars have been

:12:18. > :12:20.visited by immigration officials in recent weeks in a renewed bid

:12:21. > :12:24.to crack down on illegal workers Over 70 shops are likely to face

:12:25. > :12:28.fines, and more than a dozen vulnerable people were identified

:12:29. > :12:31.as being at risk of modern slavery. The overall number of potential

:12:32. > :12:33.slavery victims being trafficked into Britain has risen by 245% over

:12:34. > :12:37.the last five years according Unsettled weather during the past

:12:38. > :12:48.decade has had a real impact on the UK's wildlife,

:12:49. > :12:51.according to the National Trust, with some of its sites recording

:12:52. > :12:54.dramatic falls in the number The charity points to

:12:55. > :13:07.a combination of milder winters and wetter summers for dramatic

:13:08. > :13:11.boosting grass growth. Which they say has been good news

:13:12. > :13:22.for farmers making hay, Not something I would have expected.

:13:23. > :13:27.It is 6:13am and Hugh is here with the sport. Bad news for Paul

:13:28. > :13:31.Bradley. In the press release, when he was sacked by Swansea city, he

:13:32. > :13:33.said football is a cruel game, and he has got it absolutely right. Oh,

:13:34. > :13:36.isn't it? Yeah. Swansea City have sacked manager

:13:37. > :13:38.Bob Bradley after just 85 The former USA coach was appointed

:13:39. > :13:42.in October and won two The club is currently second bottom

:13:43. > :13:46.of the Premier League. Ryan Giggs and Wales manager

:13:47. > :13:49.Chris Coleman are among those Liverpool are back up to second

:13:50. > :13:54.in the Premier League after a 4-1 Daniel Sturridge scored

:13:55. > :13:57.what was Liverpool's 100th league There was a second major win

:13:58. > :14:05.in as many days for trainer Colin Tizzard as his

:14:06. > :14:08.horse Native River won the Welsh Grand National a day

:14:09. > :14:10.after Thistlecrack won And world number one Michael van

:14:11. > :14:16.Gerwen survived a scare against the 32nd seed Cristo Reyes

:14:17. > :14:20.to reach the last 16 of the PDC Former champions Phil Taylor

:14:21. > :14:36.and Raymond van Barneveld are also And that is all the sport for now,

:14:37. > :14:40.but I'm sure we will discuss it. Yes, stay with us, and Sean is here

:14:41. > :14:46.with us as well, you have found some stories to talk about, haven't you?

:14:47. > :14:50.There are some. We are looking at the papers, dominated by one story,

:14:51. > :14:56.the news yesterday of the death of Carrie Fisher, only 60 years old,

:14:57. > :15:01.and for many people caught up, of course, 19 years old when she first

:15:02. > :15:05.got the role in Star Wars, and a fascinating life. We will talk more

:15:06. > :15:09.about that through the morning. The front of the Times, a peach of

:15:10. > :15:13.Carrie Fisher, I am looking forward to people sending in their favourite

:15:14. > :15:18.quotes, she was the master of the 1-liner, she was also an fantastic

:15:19. > :15:21.writer --a picture. And the Times has a story about middle-aged people

:15:22. > :15:26.who are in denial about eating too much and drinking too much and maybe

:15:27. > :15:31.being overweight. Yes, those stories replicated on the front of the Daily

:15:32. > :15:38.Mail, the carry Fisher image you can see, and eight in 10 middle-aged

:15:39. > :15:44.Britons overweight, almost a quarter of men in active according to the

:15:45. > :15:48.report. And, lads, what do we have? I cannot figure out what is better,

:15:49. > :15:53.getting up at 5am on Boxing Day morning and heading to the shops, or

:15:54. > :15:56.doing a little bit of Googling on Christmas Day, looking for the

:15:57. > :16:03.sales. I think that we know the answer. Well, I don't know. Do you

:16:04. > :16:07.like shopping, Sean? No, but I searched on Christmas Day in the

:16:08. > :16:12.evening and I felt guilty. What were you looking for? Unsurprisingly, it

:16:13. > :16:16.was a suit. LAUGHTER you have to build up your collection in this

:16:17. > :16:20.game. I went to two shops yesterday and I left, I couldn't stand it.

:16:21. > :16:24.Were you looking for something specific? Finally enough, it was a

:16:25. > :16:30.suit. You could have at least bought another one. Was it matter? I am not

:16:31. > :16:36.big on shopping and it was too busy. It is now all about online. Well,

:16:37. > :16:39.yeah, and the downside to that is, as the Guardian has said, it is

:16:40. > :16:43.tough for shops on the high street, with the knock-on effect of, will

:16:44. > :16:47.there be more closures? Because neither of you have bought a suit.

:16:48. > :16:55.They will do. They will go and look at the shops and buy it online. Is

:16:56. > :16:59.that what people do? That is quite complicated, anyway. It is, isn't

:17:00. > :17:04.it. I will get some tips from you later. The mad world of mascots in

:17:05. > :17:08.the Daily Mail. You might well remember Wilfried Zaha at the

:17:09. > :17:12.weekend being accused of diving by the Watford Mascot. They have lifted

:17:13. > :17:16.many misdemeanours from mascots over the years. It is interesting how the

:17:17. > :17:20.role of the Mascot is changing and you may be familiar with the Mascot

:17:21. > :17:25.daunting opposition players. It is creeping into British football. What

:17:26. > :17:29.has he done? He thought Wilfried Zaha had tried to earn a penalty

:17:30. > :17:33.unfairly. At the end of the game he just went for a little scared in

:17:34. > :17:39.front of the Crystal Palace winger, which upset him. Oh, I think we have

:17:40. > :17:42.those pictures coming up at 6:30am. I was there with Bristol against

:17:43. > :17:46.Northampton when the wolves Mascot had a fight with three little pigs

:17:47. > :17:50.at half time on the pitch. And the pigs were another Mascot? Part of

:17:51. > :17:53.some advertising going on and they were winding each other up. Really?

:17:54. > :18:05.They would never get on. I just want to share this from the

:18:06. > :18:08.Daily Mail. This is a now famous dog belonging to someone who is really

:18:09. > :18:13.quite private about what goes on behind closed doors. This is life at

:18:14. > :18:21.number 11 Downing Street. This is the goal of the Chancellor who has

:18:22. > :18:33.his own social media account. There he is. Rex stop a series of pictures

:18:34. > :18:36.of the dog enjoying Christmas. Yes. Having tea and biscuits, relaxing on

:18:37. > :18:44.the sofa, taking out the recycling... People are always

:18:45. > :18:49.fascinated by pets. Thank you so much and we will see you later on.

:18:50. > :18:53.The time hours 18 minutes past six. We have Carol now with the weather

:18:54. > :19:01.for a winter is getting warmer apparently? Today we have a bit of

:19:02. > :19:07.everything going on because we began on a cold note with frost around.

:19:08. > :19:10.Temperatures in some parts are currently -5 and we have fog

:19:11. > :19:14.patches. No fog this morning although some is starting to form in

:19:15. > :19:20.the south. We already have patchy fogs in other parts. Visibility to

:19:21. > :19:25.50 minutes at the moment. Watch out because in places it is dense. In

:19:26. > :19:32.Scotland and the far north of England there is as much fog,

:19:33. > :19:36.pockets of frost here and there but producing some rain across the Outer

:19:37. > :19:40.Hebrides. Nothing too substantial. Throughout the morning, some of that

:19:41. > :19:45.fog will lift into low cloud but some of us will see sunshine across

:19:46. > :19:48.southern areas into Wales, parts of northern England, Northern Ireland,

:19:49. > :19:54.but Scotland is well. You can see the difference in the literature. 10

:19:55. > :19:59.Celsius compared to the four, for example, around Manchester. If you

:20:00. > :20:03.are stuck somewhere where we hang on to the fog all day, the temperature

:20:04. > :20:07.will struggle to rise above freezing. Perhaps one or two degrees

:20:08. > :20:11.at that will be yet. As we have through the evening and overnight we

:20:12. > :20:15.will see fog reforming once again across England and Wales in

:20:16. > :20:18.particular. For Scotland and Northern Ireland will be more cloud

:20:19. > :20:21.around the time and the weather front of the north-west will be

:20:22. > :20:25.making the difference. Freezing fog patches for some of frost around for

:20:26. > :20:29.others. The kind of whether you would expect at this time of year.

:20:30. > :20:32.As we had on into tomorrow, some of this fog once again will be

:20:33. > :20:38.socialist. That will lift a low cloud, others may not clear at all.

:20:39. > :20:42.Along the south coast later today parts of Wales and Northern Ireland

:20:43. > :20:45.in the north-east they will see some sunshine on whether still plaguing

:20:46. > :20:57.the far north-western Scotland it will be windy but milder. As we move

:20:58. > :21:00.from Thursday to Friday high pressure still across the south of

:21:01. > :21:05.the UK. You can tell by looking at the isobars it will be windy and a

:21:06. > :21:08.weather front starts to push that little further south across Scotland

:21:09. > :21:12.bringing rain with it as it does. The northern half of the country is

:21:13. > :21:17.still in the mild category. We have ten to 11 degrees. As we come

:21:18. > :21:22.further south under the cloud, especially as there is any fog

:21:23. > :21:27.across those parts temperatures will be further down. As we head into the

:21:28. > :21:30.weekend another front coming southwards will bring rain and as it

:21:31. > :21:35.pushes southwards during the course of the weekend, getting into the far

:21:36. > :21:40.side later cool air will come in behind it with a northerly and we

:21:41. > :21:43.may see some snow. Wintry showers certainly across the north. A bit of

:21:44. > :21:47.everything and the forecast this morning. They do very much. We will

:21:48. > :21:48.talk to you later on. "One of a kind...

:21:49. > :21:50.Brilliant, original. to describe Carrie Fisher

:21:51. > :21:58.after her death at the age of 60. It's just one of many

:21:59. > :22:00.tributes from the actress's Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca

:22:01. > :22:05.in the Star Wars films says Carrie was the brightest light

:22:06. > :22:15.in every room she entered. Anthony Daniels, who played C3PO,

:22:16. > :22:20.writes "I thought I had got In spite of so many thoughts

:22:21. > :22:25.and prayers from so many. Whoopi Goldburg describes

:22:26. > :22:28.Carrie Fisher as "funnier and smarter than anyone

:22:29. > :22:31.had the right to be. says "Carrie Fisher

:22:32. > :22:39.was a brilliant writer, And Samuel L Jackson,

:22:40. > :22:48.who appeared in the Star Wars prequels says: "The light

:22:49. > :22:51.in the Galaxy is dimmed by the loss We're joined now by Hollywood

:22:52. > :23:09.reporter Jeanne Wolf. Good morning to you. I should say we

:23:10. > :23:13.speak to you quite often about stories that you are covering in

:23:14. > :23:20.Hollywood but actually this story, Carrie Fisher she was your friend.

:23:21. > :23:25.Yes. She was a long-term friend and also I interviewed her many times

:23:26. > :23:28.and was friendly with her mother. You said you are looking for

:23:29. > :23:32.favourite quotes from Harry and I think my favourite is that she is

:23:33. > :23:40.proud I am so sane about being so crazy. We remember her, don't we as

:23:41. > :23:44.an actor and if you look at her career it is almost like at every

:23:45. > :23:51.turn she was doing her best not to act. Oh, yes. She said she didn't

:23:52. > :23:56.want to act but she also understood her need for attention and the fun

:23:57. > :24:05.she had when fans reached out to her. And, when suddenly, Star Wars

:24:06. > :24:08.became a worldwide phenomenon and teenagers were falling in love with

:24:09. > :24:14.her, girls were calling her a role model and men, she was getting all

:24:15. > :24:20.kinds of crazy sexy messages. We remember her always as Princess

:24:21. > :24:27.Leia, a role she reprised more recently. Did shoot higher of that?

:24:28. > :24:33.How comfortable was she with that image of herself as a 19-year-old?

:24:34. > :24:37.She never liked it when people claim she was tired of being Princess

:24:38. > :24:40.Leia. She said she continued throughout the years to hate the

:24:41. > :24:49.hairdo. She would never get over that. She plays a very small part in

:24:50. > :24:54.the latest Star Wars movie and I went to see it this weekend after

:24:55. > :24:59.there was news that she had had the heart attack and, I tell you, in the

:25:00. > :25:03.theatre full of mixed strangers you could feel the sign. You could hear

:25:04. > :25:08.the emotion and the care people have for her. This was just an instant

:25:09. > :25:14.median of the film. Many people knew that although she had a very gilded

:25:15. > :25:22.copy would life it was not always easy for her, was it? It was very

:25:23. > :25:26.hard for her. She suffered, in those days they courted manic depression

:25:27. > :25:31.and now it is known as bipolar. She suffered from a deep depression and

:25:32. > :25:34.when the world is telling you how famous you worried how lucky you are

:25:35. > :25:38.to have a famous mother and father and how beautiful and wonderful you

:25:39. > :25:44.are and you feel so down... I think that you reach for anything to feel

:25:45. > :25:50.better. So she had a series of addictions, everything from cocaine

:25:51. > :25:53.to prescription drugs. She spoke freely about her time spent in a

:25:54. > :25:58.mental institution which she said was the worst thing that ever

:25:59. > :26:03.happened to her. But the thing about her down challenges, the thing about

:26:04. > :26:09.the tragedy of her life that she shared them. And as she grew and

:26:10. > :26:12.shared so personally and, you must remember, this was a long time ago,

:26:13. > :26:21.far before the confessional books that when she shared her deepest

:26:22. > :26:24.feelings she did it also a humourous perspective and she created a

:26:25. > :26:28.community of people who care for each other who felt better because

:26:29. > :26:32.of what she said. Did not feel so alone and so different. It is

:26:33. > :26:39.wonderful to talk to you this morning. Wonderful pictures of

:26:40. > :26:47.Carrie Fisher with her dog. She took the dog was heard to a lot of press

:26:48. > :26:52.conferences and interviews is what. Quite a character. We will have more

:26:53. > :26:55.later this morning. We will speak to her co-star Warwick Davis, he will

:26:56. > :27:01.speak to us before I got this morning. It is 26 minutes past six

:27:02. > :27:04.and it has been a mild and wet year weatherwise.

:27:05. > :27:09.in beautiful Somerset for us this morning to tell us what that's meant

:27:10. > :27:18.I am here at a National trust property and master the west of

:27:19. > :27:22.Bristol. It is rather cold this morning to pull generally speaking

:27:23. > :27:26.this has been a mild winter and a wet summer and that has been the

:27:27. > :27:29.pattern for the last few years. So what impact has that had on our

:27:30. > :27:33.wildlife? How will this lawn here. It looks beautiful at the moment

:27:34. > :27:38.that they have to my wit for longer and they are not alone. Grass growth

:27:39. > :27:42.has been extraordinary this year. We would take a look at that and the

:27:43. > :27:44.other impact the weather has had on our wildlife a little later. First,

:27:45. > :31:02.however, here is the Now, though, it's back

:31:03. > :31:05.to Charlie and Sally. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:31:06. > :31:18.with Sally Nugent and Charlie Stayt. We'll bring you all the latest news

:31:19. > :31:22.and sport in a moment, but also on Breakfast this morning:

:31:23. > :31:25.As health officials say the majority of us are dangerously

:31:26. > :31:27.unhealthy in middle age, we'll be meeting one woman

:31:28. > :31:30.who recognised the signs More of us own smart

:31:31. > :31:34.gadgets than ever before, but are they making our homes more

:31:35. > :31:37.vulnerable to cyber attacks? We'll have some top tips on how

:31:38. > :31:40.to beat the hackers. And we'll be speaking

:31:41. > :31:43.to Star Wars actor Warwick Davis about his memories of his

:31:44. > :31:46.co-star Carrie Fisher. But now a summary of this

:31:47. > :31:55.morning's main news. Middle aged people are putting

:31:56. > :31:58.themselves at risk of serious health problems unless they take action

:31:59. > :32:00.to change their lifestyles, Public Health England says 80%

:32:01. > :32:04.of 40- to 60-year-olds are overweight, drinking too much

:32:05. > :32:07.and not getting enough exercise, putting them at a greater risk of

:32:08. > :32:10.developing diseases like diabetes. They're being urged to take

:32:11. > :32:13.an online quiz to see how healthy We'll be speaking to one

:32:14. > :32:17.of the professors who helped devise the quiz in just

:32:18. > :32:20.a few minutes' time. Harrison Ford has led

:32:21. > :32:22.tributes to Carrie Fisher, who has died at the age of 60,

:32:23. > :32:26.calling her "one of a kind". The Hollywood actress,

:32:27. > :32:28.best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars,

:32:29. > :32:31.had been in hospital since suffering a heart attack on a flight

:32:32. > :32:35.from London to Los Angeles last At 8:40am we'll be speaking

:32:36. > :32:43.to Carrie Fisher's Star Wars co-star Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

:32:44. > :32:50.has offered his sincere and everlasting condolences

:32:51. > :32:52.to the victims of his country's attack on the United States

:32:53. > :32:55.at Pearl Harbour 75 years ago. Standing alongside the US

:32:56. > :32:58.President Obama, the Japanese leader pledged that the horrors of war

:32:59. > :33:01.must never be repeated, Campaigners for an early Brexit have

:33:02. > :33:10.written to business organisations across Europe to try and drum up

:33:11. > :33:13.support for a free trade agreement with the European Union after the UK

:33:14. > :33:16.stops being a member. The campaign group,

:33:17. > :33:19.Leave Means Leave, wants a trade deal with no taxes

:33:20. > :33:21.on goods travelling The government says it's working

:33:22. > :33:29.to secure the best possible deal. NHS hospitals have made more money

:33:30. > :33:32.than ever from parking Figures from 89 health trusts

:33:33. > :33:37.across England suggest ?120 million was raised parking fees last year,

:33:38. > :33:40.that's up 5% on the year before. Patient groups have criticised

:33:41. > :33:42.rising parking charges and the Department of Health said it

:33:43. > :33:45.expects Trusts to put concessions in place for disabled people,

:33:46. > :33:59.carers and shift workers. The Co-operative Group says it

:34:00. > :34:01.will open 100 stores It opened a similar number

:34:02. > :34:09.of stores this year. The group said it will invest ?70

:34:10. > :34:12.million in the new shops, which will be spread throughout

:34:13. > :34:14.London, south-east England, The company is nearing the end

:34:15. > :34:18.of a three-year turnaround programme after a period of turmoil

:34:19. > :34:22.in its banking group. Almost 300 nail bars have been

:34:23. > :34:25.visited by immigration officials in recent weeks in a renewed bid

:34:26. > :34:28.to crack down on illegal workers Over 70 shops are likely to face

:34:29. > :34:33.fines, and more than a dozen vulnerable people were identified

:34:34. > :34:36.as being at risk of modern slavery. The overall number of potential

:34:37. > :34:38.slavery victims being trafficked into Britain has risen by 245% over

:34:39. > :34:41.the last five years according Unsettled weather during the past

:34:42. > :34:50.decade has had a dramatic impact on the UK's wildlife,

:34:51. > :34:53.according to the National Trust, with some of its sites recording

:34:54. > :34:56.dramatic falls in the number The charity points to a combination

:34:57. > :35:00.of milder winters and wetter summers for dramatic boosting grass growth,

:35:01. > :35:03.which has been good for farmers making hay, but led to falls

:35:04. > :35:21.in insect numbers. It does feel like winter is warmer

:35:22. > :35:27.and summer is wetter. It does, although this morning is pretty

:35:28. > :35:32.nippy. It is freezing out there, everybody, stay at home if you can.

:35:33. > :35:37.I would. Bob Bradley, out in the cold. Hugh Jenkins said the club is

:35:38. > :35:42.going through such a tough time they really needed to find the answers to

:35:43. > :35:44.turn things around. They didn't give him very long, though, did they? Not

:35:45. > :35:47.very long at all, Sally. Swansea City have sacked manager

:35:48. > :35:49.Bob Bradley after just 85 The Swans are currently second

:35:50. > :35:54.bottom of the Premier League, having won just two

:35:55. > :35:56.games since Bradley's They're now looking for their fourth

:35:57. > :36:00.manager of 2016, with Ryan Giggs, who missed out on the job last time,

:36:01. > :36:04.and Wales manager Chris Coleman both Swansea's next match

:36:05. > :36:07.is against Bournemouth Liverpool are up to second

:36:08. > :36:11.in the Premier League after a 4-1 They had to come from behind

:36:12. > :36:18.after Jon Walters put Stoke ahead. Adam Lallana pulled them back level

:36:19. > :36:20.before Roberto Firmino put them An own goal pushed Liverpool further

:36:21. > :36:25.in front before Daniel Sturridge added a fourth, which was

:36:26. > :36:28.Liverpool's 100th league goal under They're now six points behind

:36:29. > :36:45.league leaders Chelsea. We need all of them, and especially

:36:46. > :36:49.Daniel, of course. In four days there is another game. Hopefully

:36:50. > :36:53.they all stay healthy and fit. Two days later is another game, and then

:36:54. > :36:56.three days later there is another game. We have enough opportunities

:36:57. > :36:58.for everybody who is fit, so hopefully they are all fit.

:36:59. > :37:02.Brighton are the new leaders in the Championship after a 3-0 win

:37:03. > :37:06.The win gives Brighton a two point lead over Newcastle at the top.

:37:07. > :37:08.Sam Baldock was among the goalscorers.

:37:09. > :37:11.Chris Hughton's side are now unbeaten in 17 games.

:37:12. > :37:17.In the day's other championship game, Derby beat Birmingham 1-0.

:37:18. > :37:20.Ian Cathro has won his first match in charge of Hearts.

:37:21. > :37:24.They beat Kilmarnock 4-0 and stay fourth in the Scottish Premiership.

:37:25. > :37:26.Aberdeen stay a place above them in third,

:37:27. > :37:30.In rugby union's Premiership, Harlequins survived a frantic finish

:37:31. > :37:33.to beat Gloucester 28-24 in a thrilling match at Twickenham.

:37:34. > :37:37.Quins centre Joe Marchant scored two tries to put the hosts 28-10 ahead

:37:38. > :37:48.Gloucester hit back with two late tries but couldn't find another

:37:49. > :37:50.as Quins held on to move into the top six.

:37:51. > :37:54.In the Pro 12, Ospreys beat Scarlets 19-9 to move up to second.

:37:55. > :37:57.What a Christmas it's been for racing trainer Colin Tizzard.

:37:58. > :37:59.He's claimed his second major victory in as many days

:38:00. > :38:02.after his horse Native River won the Welsh Grand National.

:38:03. > :38:05.After Thistlecrack won the King George Chase on Boxing Day,

:38:06. > :38:09.Native River was favourite for this one and hit the front with 13

:38:10. > :38:13.A meet up with Thistlecrack at the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March

:38:14. > :38:32.there will be no FA investigation into Watford mascot Harry The Hornet

:38:33. > :38:35.after his alleged mocking dive in front of Crystal Palace's

:38:36. > :38:39.Palace manager Sam Allardyce had suggested the mascot's behaviour

:38:40. > :38:42.should be "looked at" by the FA and the Premier League.

:38:43. > :38:45.The incident happened after the final whistle and Zaha had

:38:46. > :38:58.No sting in the tail for Harry the Hornet. If you have a favourite

:38:59. > :39:04.mascot story, either of good or bad behaviour. We have excellent stories

:39:05. > :39:09.here about mascots. There have been a few, haven't they are? Yeah.

:39:10. > :39:13.Modern life is being blamed for a major blight on the health

:39:14. > :39:16.Public Health England says more than 80% of those aged between 40

:39:17. > :39:18.and 60 are either overweight, inactive or drinking too much.

:39:19. > :39:21.It says they're putting themselves at risk of diabetes,

:39:22. > :39:24.which already costs the NHS an estimated ?14 billion a year.

:39:25. > :39:27.Researchers say obesity has gone up by 16% over the last two decades.

:39:28. > :39:31.Many who took part in the study didn't even recognise what a healthy

:39:32. > :39:36.So Public Health England wants people to take a health quiz,

:39:37. > :39:39.to try get people to change their bad habits.

:39:40. > :39:41.Joining us from our London newsroom is Professor Muir Gray,

:39:42. > :39:48.one of the clinical advisors behind the campaign.

:39:49. > :39:56.Very good morning to you. Thank you for your time this morning. Can you

:39:57. > :40:00.give us a snapshot of the scale of the problem we are facing? Maybe we

:40:01. > :40:05.are used to talking about younger people and obesity. Maybe older

:40:06. > :40:09.people with other conditions. You are concentrating on the 40 to 60

:40:10. > :40:15.age group. We prefer the term middle age. Midlife isn't the beginning of

:40:16. > :40:20.the end. It is the end of the beginning. We know that in changing

:40:21. > :40:25.your approach in midlife, you can reduce the risk of not only type 2

:40:26. > :40:28.diabetes, which is a preventable condition, you can reduce the risk

:40:29. > :40:33.of dementia. This is terrifically exciting information. We have

:40:34. > :40:39.research showing the problems of old age can be reduced. Midlife people

:40:40. > :40:43.are sometimes called the sandwich generation, they have children on

:40:44. > :40:47.one side, elderly parents on the other, they have tough jobs, driving

:40:48. > :40:52.to work, sitting all the time at work. It is an environmental problem

:40:53. > :40:57.as much as a lifestyle problem. That is the message. The message is,

:40:58. > :41:03.people can change. This group of people, 40 to 60, they have had a

:41:04. > :41:07.lot of messages over the years. They can't have, well, they can have

:41:08. > :41:11.ignored, but they cannot have not heard the previous messages. Why are

:41:12. > :41:16.they not adapting their lifestyles? We haven't got the message right in

:41:17. > :41:22.the past. We have blamed individuals for laziness or ignorance. Actually,

:41:23. > :41:29.we haven't taken into account, as I say, the pressure on the sandwich

:41:30. > :41:33.generation. And the one new program, and the How Are You quiz, I don't

:41:34. > :41:37.know it if you have tried it, it begins by saying, what do you want

:41:38. > :41:41.to achieve? How do you see the future? Why do you want to be

:41:42. > :41:48.healthy? And what obstacles do you face? It is not just lifespan, it is

:41:49. > :41:51.health span. It is health and enjoyment, not just living longer

:41:52. > :41:57.and dying miserably at the end. The key issue is to help people adapt,

:41:58. > :42:02.and that means changing the way they work. Maybe you guys should stand up

:42:03. > :42:08.for part of your morning program, rather than sitting all the time.

:42:09. > :42:13.LAUGHTER we are sitting on the sofa, which perhaps we shouldn't do. Very

:42:14. > :42:16.dangerous. Absolutely. Question one is, what is your name, your

:42:17. > :42:22.Christian name, the question number two is, what is your sex, and then

:42:23. > :42:27.it asks, quite poignant, how are you feeling? It gives you a range of

:42:28. > :42:32.options. One of them is, if you excuse the language, are you feeling

:42:33. > :42:36.really knackered, or are you full of beans? There is a scale of how you

:42:37. > :42:41.are feeling. What is the relevance to that question? You could catch

:42:42. > :42:48.someone on an individual day and, you know, they feel fine, the next

:42:49. > :42:52.day they are lousy, so why ask that question? It you have to start where

:42:53. > :42:57.people are, I think it is a marketing slogan. Healthcare is what

:42:58. > :43:01.you do for yourself, what we think you should do. You have to start

:43:02. > :43:04.where people are. They are consistent. They know what we are

:43:05. > :43:11.getting at. This is one of the wonders of the form, we don't even

:43:12. > :43:15.call it the smartphone, the value of the phone is you can personalise it,

:43:16. > :43:19.so instead of putting up an advertisement to speak to everyone,

:43:20. > :43:23.we can communicate with you. You have to start by saying, and I have

:43:24. > :43:29.set it to you this morning, well, how are you guys? You are may be up

:43:30. > :43:32.or down one to the next, by people generally have a position in life,

:43:33. > :43:36.and that is where we start, we start with you the individual, there is

:43:37. > :43:41.only one of you. That is the approach. And as with the mobile

:43:42. > :43:45.phone and the ability to do the quiz online, then it is a personal

:43:46. > :43:49.message, not a broadcast message. Some people say people on TV don't

:43:50. > :43:58.listen, so look at this, we are making an effort. We have stood up.

:43:59. > :44:02.Good! 50 minutes! Do you know, can we start a trend, Stanley Cup news?

:44:03. > :44:08.I think it has been done before, hasn't it? -- standing up news.

:44:09. > :44:13.Carroll, are you standing up? She is always standing up. She is the

:44:14. > :44:22.healthiest of all of us. Morning, Carol. Good morning all, indeedy,

:44:23. > :44:26.and you might want to start running because it is called to start.

:44:27. > :44:32.Temperatures locally in England and Wales -5, with frost and fog around,

:44:33. > :44:36.some is dense, especially in the west Midlands, east Wales,

:44:37. > :44:41.visibility to 15 metres. You can see quite a lot of fog is forming. If

:44:42. > :44:47.you are travelling, bear that in mind. As we push into north England,

:44:48. > :44:51.Northern Ireland and Scotland, we have variable cloud, some brightness

:44:52. > :44:56.when the cloud comes up, some showers ahead of a band of rain

:44:57. > :45:00.waiting in the wings across the Hebrides. Through the day the fault

:45:01. > :45:07.will lift, some into low cloud, some won't lift at all, but there would

:45:08. > :45:09.be some sun for some. Across southern coastal counties, Wales,

:45:10. > :45:15.northern England, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland too. It is

:45:16. > :45:23.breezy in the north. Maehl here. Further south, threes, fours and

:45:24. > :45:28.Fyvie. -- and fives. If you are stuck with the fog all day, it will

:45:29. > :45:36.be grey and it will also be cold, temperatures around freezing,

:45:37. > :45:40.slightly above, slightly below, then this fog will reform for England and

:45:41. > :45:45.Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, more cloud around, a touch

:45:46. > :45:49.of frost and we might see frost for England and whales also, and

:45:50. > :45:54.freezing fog to boot. Tomorrow, very similar to date in that it will take

:45:55. > :45:58.a while for the fog to lift -- Wales. Some of it into low cloud,

:45:59. > :46:01.some won't lift at all and the best areas for sometime southern coastal

:46:02. > :46:04.counties into the south-west, parts of Wales, parts of Northern Ireland,

:46:05. > :46:09.eastern England and north-east Scotland. But by now the rain making

:46:10. > :46:14.more progress across the Outer Hebrides. Throw in cloud and showers

:46:15. > :46:19.ahead of it with the north-west Highlands. As we move into Friday,

:46:20. > :46:23.watch the squeeze on the isobars, turning that bit windier, not to the

:46:24. > :46:26.extent of last week, with a weather front pushing further south, and

:46:27. > :46:31.further south we have high pressure hanging on by the skin of its teeth.

:46:32. > :46:35.Light wind here. With the combination of the cloud, wind and

:46:36. > :46:40.rain in the north it will be seven -- fairly mild. Further south, we

:46:41. > :46:44.will see some sunshine, but there will also be some fog and you know

:46:45. > :46:48.the drill, without much wind it won't move rapidly at all. As we

:46:49. > :46:51.head into the weekend, of course, including New Year's Day, we have

:46:52. > :46:55.the weather front in the north sinking steadily south, bringing

:46:56. > :46:59.rain with it as it does so. Look how the isobars change, coming from a

:47:00. > :47:03.northerly direction, so it is going to turn colder, the front should

:47:04. > :47:06.clear on New Year's Day, behind it, well, we are looking at some

:47:07. > :47:10.sunshine with the risk of some wintry showers too, but mainly in

:47:11. > :47:14.the north, Sally and Charlie. Are you still standing up? No, no, no,

:47:15. > :47:21.go and have a nice sitdown, Carol. Sean's here now - and he's talking

:47:22. > :47:37.about something most of us I love a bargain. But you won't go

:47:38. > :47:42.online? You do not like them that much? I go online on Boxing Day.

:47:43. > :47:48.Have I missed the bargains by then? We are talking about bargain stores

:47:49. > :47:50.here. Pound land, power and world and the others.

:47:51. > :47:52.Poundworld, 99p Stores, Poundstretcher, B

:47:53. > :47:54.and Home Bargains - spending at bargain stores totalled

:47:55. > :47:58.?4.9 billion in the year to July, up 17% from the previous year.

:47:59. > :48:01.The stores have had a big rise in first time visitors -

:48:02. > :48:04.more than 2.2 million households shopping there for the first time.

:48:05. > :48:07.Almost a third of the increase in spending down to shoppers

:48:08. > :48:10.switching away from mainstream supermarkets and likes of Boots,

:48:11. > :48:14.Nearly four-fifths of households in Britain now buy

:48:15. > :48:17.from bargain stores - that makes them more popular

:48:18. > :48:19.than the bigger German discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl,

:48:20. > :48:24.which are visited by three-quarters of households.

:48:25. > :48:33.to try and find out why they have had such a good year I went along to

:48:34. > :48:33.meet the boss of one of those retailers.

:48:34. > :48:41.Once upon a time in the not so distant past we would have gone to a

:48:42. > :48:46.big supermarket for the weekly shop. Their market share has been eaten

:48:47. > :48:49.away. The shoppers continued to change. We have had the rise of the

:48:50. > :48:55.discounters and recently it has been the turn of the bargain store

:48:56. > :49:00.selling groceries like these at the same rate as places like Waitrose.

:49:01. > :49:05.Not just the groceries in the kitchen that we purchase more.

:49:06. > :49:10.Homewares things like cushions and candles and plant pots and, of

:49:11. > :49:14.course, Christmas decorations. Spending in these stores is up by

:49:15. > :49:18.almost 20% on last year, now totalling more than ?5 billion. What

:49:19. > :49:24.has been driving the recent change? Ten years ago we were known for

:49:25. > :49:30.groceries and clearance to. That is not the business today. Today it is

:49:31. > :49:35.far more about general merchandise. Housewares, DIY, toys, Christmas

:49:36. > :49:40.decoration, gardening. What is now about items you sell here that maybe

:49:41. > :49:46.you would not necessarily have seen ten years ago? The scale. We have

:49:47. > :49:50.100 buyers travelling around the world from the very best that she is

:49:51. > :49:55.looking from particular product. Having done so we get the volume,

:49:56. > :49:59.bring them in and we have a different mindset of competition. So

:50:00. > :50:02.that is how they sell what is on offer. But what sort of shoppers are

:50:03. > :50:08.heading in store? This is about democratising shopping. Everyone

:50:09. > :50:13.across the country we sharply because we all want a bargain and we

:50:14. > :50:18.are not prepared to pay more than we have to for things we buy everyday.

:50:19. > :50:22.How do you decide where to shop? It depends on which area you are in

:50:23. > :50:26.because if you are in this area you pick certain things up here. And

:50:27. > :50:34.then we will come here for another thing. We have a test is next to our

:50:35. > :50:39.place. What's at a price pressures do you have? Everything you see here

:50:40. > :50:43.in soft furnishings is made overseas and there are price pressures

:50:44. > :50:47.because of the weakness of sterling. In our favour, however, our business

:50:48. > :50:52.is growing at 20% a year. By reinvesting the benefits of that

:50:53. > :50:56.increased volume, wherever it is managed, we can keep prices steady.

:50:57. > :51:01.The price set to rise next year in the competition for retailer will

:51:02. > :51:05.only get hotter. The big Quadra super markers will use their power

:51:06. > :51:10.on the march of the discounters will continue. With four out of every

:51:11. > :51:14.five people now shopping at a discount, the days of putting all

:51:15. > :51:24.their baubles in one basket are now long gone. It was a nice basket

:51:25. > :51:28.there. It just goes to show that it is not just one shop any more. And

:51:29. > :51:32.you wonder, don't you, if they are all converging to the same thing?

:51:33. > :51:36.You have the big supermarkets with a little cheaper aisles and you have

:51:37. > :51:40.the discounters with the premium products. You see shops at the end

:51:41. > :51:45.and their selling homewares which a lot of them do. I don't know how you

:51:46. > :51:49.choose where to go? You probably just go to many different places to

:51:50. > :51:49.find your bargains. Thank you very much.

:51:50. > :51:51.As we've been hearing from Carol this morning,

:51:52. > :51:54.today's weather is expected to be mostly foggy and cold,

:51:55. > :51:57.but the majority of us are yet to see the bitter temperatures

:51:58. > :52:03.In fact, like last winter, this one has been pretty mild

:52:04. > :52:06.so far, and that's had a huge impact on the UK's wildlife.

:52:07. > :52:08.Let's find out more from Breakfast's Tim Muffett,

:52:09. > :52:12.who's at Tyntesfield National Trust Estate,

:52:13. > :52:31.Good morning to you. I am about ten miles west of Bristol. This National

:52:32. > :52:35.trust house each year has an assessment of its properties across

:52:36. > :52:38.the UK. It tries to work out what impact the weather has had an the

:52:39. > :52:44.wildlife because as you say, although it is cold this morning

:52:45. > :52:48.this winter has been a mild one and as heard, most winters within the

:52:49. > :52:53.last few years have been the same. What impact has that hat? If you

:52:54. > :53:01.think that this EU have needed to mow the lawn more often than normal

:53:02. > :53:04.you are not imagining it. This year, beef farmer Robert made hay while

:53:05. > :53:13.the sun was shining. And while the rain came. And, still, his grass

:53:14. > :53:16.grows. We have seen a good grace throughout the season. A lot of

:53:17. > :53:20.grass on the ground at the moment and we are in the end of December

:53:21. > :53:24.now and we are still grazing outside. Everyday I can get my

:53:25. > :53:31.cattle out of the shed I it is better for them. So why the rampant

:53:32. > :53:35.grass growth? A mild and wet winter has been followed by a cold spring

:53:36. > :53:42.and then came more mild wet weather in May and June. Ideal conditions

:53:43. > :53:48.for grass to grow. The rate of growth was in many places a third

:53:49. > :53:51.faster than normal according to the agriculture and water cold shoulder

:53:52. > :53:56.vellum on board. Conservationists are assessing the impact. Excessive

:53:57. > :54:01.grass grows, why does it matter? A lot of our rarer plants and animals,

:54:02. > :54:08.particularly insects, live in very short turf. If he gets covered over

:54:09. > :54:16.by these coarse grasses, populations of those rare insects plummet. And

:54:17. > :54:19.that has been an issue? Definitely. This man has analysed the impact of

:54:20. > :54:24.the weather on wildlife or ten years. A number of species have been

:54:25. > :54:28.hit in 2016. The losers have been the butterflies, beef, Beatles and

:54:29. > :54:36.some grasshoppers which actually require very short turf. Wasps were

:54:37. > :54:40.hit badly by the despicable summer of 2012. They have not really

:54:41. > :54:46.recovered. We usually get wasps nesting on this bank and I can vouch

:54:47. > :54:54.there are no nests here in all this year. Nine. Surely that is good?

:54:55. > :54:57.They are an important part of the food chain. They are really quite

:54:58. > :55:02.good at controlling a lot of tests and nasty little insect like

:55:03. > :55:09.greenfly. One of the things that should be properly hibernating had

:55:10. > :55:12.as pillars. When you get a mild month like this they are not

:55:13. > :55:15.hibernating properly. They are out and about. That is not good for them

:55:16. > :55:19.because they burn off their energy. As ever there were wildlife winners

:55:20. > :55:27.in 2016. Helped in part by wind direction. It has been a fantastic

:55:28. > :55:34.year for migrant birds. A strong wind from the east, that helps a lot

:55:35. > :55:38.of migrating birds. Yes. We had over 200 Goldcrest arrived on the islands

:55:39. > :55:43.one day. From our point of view of an excellent year. From the point of

:55:44. > :55:46.view of gardeners it was disastrous. You keep getting mild winters and we

:55:47. > :55:52.keep getting short spells of good weather. We have not had a good

:55:53. > :55:57.summer since 2006. We are overdue. Think back, there was the odd hot

:55:58. > :56:01.day during some of what he is talking about was a prolonged period

:56:02. > :56:05.of hot weather and the view is we have not really have that for ten

:56:06. > :56:11.years or so. Other impact has been good for tree seeds. They have been

:56:12. > :56:16.a longer growing season. Apples have had a good year. Cider producers

:56:17. > :56:19.have had a great time. How they have been negative impacts as well. What

:56:20. > :56:26.will the future hold? We will have to see. We do for another culture?

:56:27. > :56:30.Who knows? The 10-year trend has been for milder winters and wetter

:56:31. > :56:34.summers. We will get all the weather for today in the next few days with

:56:35. > :56:38.Carol and later on. You are watching breakfast. Still to come here this

:56:39. > :56:44.morning it has emerged that George Michael generously gave millions of

:56:45. > :56:46.pounds to most of it in secret. We are so many acts of kindness

:56:47. > :00:07.anonymous? We will find out more. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:00:08. > :00:20.with Sally Nugent and Charlie Stayt. More than 80% of men and women

:00:21. > :00:24.in England aged between 40 and 60 are overweight, inactive,

:00:25. > :00:26.or drinking too much. Health officials blame fast food,

:00:27. > :00:29.desk jobs and the daily grind for what they're calling

:00:30. > :00:39.a middle aged health crisis. Good morning, it's

:00:40. > :00:41.Wednesday, 28 December. Also this morning: Tributes

:00:42. > :00:44.are paid to Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford says

:00:45. > :00:51.she was one of a kind. The Japanese Prime Minister

:00:52. > :00:54.offers his "everlasting condolences" to those killed in the attack

:00:55. > :00:57.on Pearl Harbour as he becomes the first to join an American

:00:58. > :01:01.President at the memorial. More than two million households

:01:02. > :01:04.went to a bargain store for the first time this year,

:01:05. > :01:08.and in total we spent almost ?5 I've been to meet the boss of one

:01:09. > :01:13.of them to see what's going on. In sport, Swansea City sack

:01:14. > :01:17.Bob Bradley after just 11 The Swans are second bottom

:01:18. > :01:26.of the Premier League. It is a cold and frosty

:01:27. > :01:31.start to the day. There is patchy fog around,

:01:32. > :01:35.some of which will be slow to clear, We have some sunshine

:01:36. > :01:39.in the forecast and some rain coming I will have more details

:01:40. > :01:44.on all of that in 15 minutes. Middle aged people are putting

:01:45. > :01:49.themselves at risk of serious health problems unless they take action

:01:50. > :01:52.to change their lifestyles, Public Health England says 80%

:01:53. > :01:55.of 40- to 60-year-olds are overweight, drinking too much

:01:56. > :01:58.and not getting enough exercise. It says modern life is putting

:01:59. > :02:01.middle aged people at a greater risk of developing diseases

:02:02. > :02:03.like diabetes. Here's our health

:02:04. > :02:09.correspondent Robert Pigott. Aged 41 and weighing 22 stone,

:02:10. > :02:14.he was told by his seven-year-old son that he loved him

:02:15. > :02:17.even though he was fat. Since August, when he changed his

:02:18. > :02:25.diet and began to exercise, It was a case of, with us,

:02:26. > :02:33.should we just order a pizza tonight because we have food

:02:34. > :02:35.in but we could not So I think you just become a bit

:02:36. > :02:40.lazy and a bit drowned out There are many people

:02:41. > :02:44.in Lee's position. Almost 80% of women aged 40-60

:02:45. > :02:46.are either overweight, obese, physically inactive

:02:47. > :02:48.or drinking more than official Among men, almost 90% fall

:02:49. > :02:54.into the same category. Among the potentially devastating

:02:55. > :02:56.outcomes of this accumulation It has doubled in this age group

:02:57. > :03:04.in the last 20 years and already costs the NHS in England

:03:05. > :03:06.an estimated ?14 billion We are aging as a population but too

:03:07. > :03:13.many of us are ageing with a number The reason why we are seeing these

:03:14. > :03:18.increases in chronic diseases, such as cancers, stroke and heart

:03:19. > :03:21.disease, is in a large part because of behaviours

:03:22. > :03:23.which are adopted during our For example, still smoking,

:03:24. > :03:28.or not getting enough physical activity, or perhaps

:03:29. > :03:30.drinking too much alcohol. The big impact, of course,

:03:31. > :03:34.is that this is going to put a huge To get the message across, in March,

:03:35. > :03:43.Public Health England launched a health quiz as part

:03:44. > :03:46.of its One You campaign. It says more than a million people

:03:47. > :03:49.have now taken the quiz and now have a route map to

:03:50. > :03:52.change their lives. We'll be speaking to a woman

:03:53. > :03:57.who took the quiz and changed her Harrison Ford has led

:03:58. > :04:02.tributes to Carrie Fisher, who has died at the age of 60,

:04:03. > :04:05.calling her one of a kind. The Hollywood actress,

:04:06. > :04:08.best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars,

:04:09. > :04:11.had been in hospital since suffering a heart attack on a flight

:04:12. > :04:14.from London to Los Angeles last Our Entertainment correspondent

:04:15. > :04:21.Lizo Mzimba looks back at her life. Will somebody get this big walking

:04:22. > :04:36.carpet out of many I way? -- Will somebody get this big

:04:37. > :04:39.walking carpet out of my way? Carrie Fisher's Leia

:04:40. > :04:41.wasn't your typical princess waiting What appealed to me was that

:04:42. > :04:46.George Lucas, who wrote and directed it, didn't want a damsel

:04:47. > :04:48.in distress, didn't want your The galactic Princess grew

:04:49. > :04:53.up Hollywood royalty, the daughter of '50s movie

:04:54. > :04:55.legend Debbie Reynolds. Throughout her acting career

:04:56. > :04:58.she battled drug addiction Writing about it was a form

:04:59. > :05:04.of therapy for her. People used to ask me, you know,

:05:05. > :05:11.right after I got sober, initially they'd say,

:05:12. > :05:17.so, are you happy now? I would say, among other things,

:05:18. > :05:20.happy is one of the many things, the many emotions I will

:05:21. > :05:23.go through in a day. An instantly recognisable

:05:24. > :05:25.face after Star Wars, from time to time there

:05:26. > :05:28.were appearances in other films, Per Star Wars co-star

:05:29. > :05:40.Mark Hamill tweeted... In 2015 she reprised to her role

:05:41. > :05:54.as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that's how

:05:55. > :06:10.millions will remember her. At 8:40am, we'll be speaking

:06:11. > :06:12.to Carrie Fisher's Star Wars co-star President Obama and the Japanese

:06:13. > :06:16.Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, have laid wreaths at the site

:06:17. > :06:19.of the Japanese attack It's the first visit by leaders

:06:20. > :06:24.of both countries since the attack, The Japanese leader pledged

:06:25. > :06:28.that the horrors of war must never be repeated,

:06:29. > :06:30.but didn't include an apology. Our Tokyo correspondent

:06:31. > :06:43.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has more. It has taken 75 years

:06:44. > :06:47.for a Japanese Prime Minister and US President to come

:06:48. > :06:52.here to Pearl Harbor. Inscribed on the walls in front

:06:53. > :06:58.of them, the names of the 2,400 Americans killed in Japan's surprise

:06:59. > :07:01.attack in December 1941. Outside, they cast flowers

:07:02. > :07:04.into the waters where the wreck Prime Minister Abe spoke

:07:05. > :07:12.of his sadness at the young American lives cut short, of their hopes

:07:13. > :07:20.and dreams left unfulfilled. TRANSLATION: When I contemplate

:07:21. > :07:23.that solemn reality, Rest in peace, precious

:07:24. > :07:39.soul of the foreign. For 75 years, Americans have been

:07:40. > :07:43.taught to remember Pearl Harbor, but today President Obama called

:07:44. > :07:46.on Americans to take a different Even when hatred burns hottest,

:07:47. > :07:50.even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal,

:07:51. > :07:53.we must resist the urge to turn inward, we must resist the urge

:07:54. > :07:57.to demonise those who are different. It was a direct jibe

:07:58. > :07:59.at his successor, Donald Trump, who has been accused of stoking

:08:00. > :08:02.hatred against everybody For Mr Abe, too, there is deep

:08:03. > :08:14.concern about what will happen to Japan's most important

:08:15. > :08:17.partnership when Mr Trump enters Campaigners for an early Brexit have

:08:18. > :08:27.written to business organisations across Europe to try and drum up

:08:28. > :08:30.support for a free trade agreement with the European Union after the UK

:08:31. > :08:33.stops being a member. The campaign group,

:08:34. > :08:35.Leave Means Leave, is hoping for a trade deal with no

:08:36. > :08:38.taxes on goods travelling The government says it's working

:08:39. > :08:45.to secure the best possible deal. NHS hospitals have made more money

:08:46. > :08:48.than ever from parking Figures from 89 trusts

:08:49. > :08:53.across England suggest ?120 million was raised from charging patients,

:08:54. > :08:56.staff and visitors for parking in the last year, up

:08:57. > :08:58.5% on the year before, Patient groups have criticised

:08:59. > :09:02.rising parking costs but the Department of Health said it

:09:03. > :09:05.expects trusts to put concessions in place for disabled people,

:09:06. > :09:10.carers and shift workers. The Co-operative Group says it

:09:11. > :09:12.will open 100 stores It opened a similar number

:09:13. > :09:18.of stores this year. The group said it will invest ?70

:09:19. > :09:21.million in the new shops, which will be spread throughout

:09:22. > :09:23.London, south-east England, The company is nearing the end

:09:24. > :09:27.of a three-year turnaround programme after a period of turmoil

:09:28. > :09:33.in its banking group. Almost 300 nail bars have been

:09:34. > :09:36.visited by immigration officials in recent weeks in a renewed bid

:09:37. > :09:40.to crack down on illegal workers Over 70 shops are likely to face

:09:41. > :09:44.fines, and more than a dozen vulnerable people were identified

:09:45. > :09:47.as being at risk of modern slavery. The overall number of potential

:09:48. > :09:49.slavery victims being trafficked into Britain has risen by 245% over

:09:50. > :09:52.the last five years, Unsettled weather during the past

:09:53. > :10:04.decade has had a real impact on the UK's wildlife,

:10:05. > :10:06.according to the National Trust, with some of its sites recording

:10:07. > :10:09.dramatic falls in the number The charity points to a combination

:10:10. > :10:13.of milder winters and wetter summers Which they say has been good news

:10:14. > :10:18.for farmers making hay, You are watching Breakfast on BBC

:10:19. > :10:35.News, it is exactly 7:10am. Bypass Brussels and persuade

:10:36. > :10:38.businesses in the rest of Europe to put pressure on the EU to give

:10:39. > :10:41.us a good Brexit deal. That's the idea from the campaign

:10:42. > :10:44.group Leave Means Leave. It's demanding Britain leaves

:10:45. > :10:46.the single market within two years. But will this speed up the Brexit

:10:47. > :10:49.process and what impact Joining us now is Jon Tonge,

:10:50. > :11:01.professor of politics Morning, John. Good morning. So, the

:11:02. > :11:06.idea is they are appealing business to business - is there any point,

:11:07. > :11:12.given the politics that will be involved? It shows the message that

:11:13. > :11:17.Theresa May's appeal for unity over Brexit lasted 72 hours, because here

:11:18. > :11:22.we go again, Leave Means Leave means they want a world of free trading

:11:23. > :11:26.nations without tariffs imposed, and at a certain level it makes sense,

:11:27. > :11:30.but politics are much more difficult, because why would the EU

:11:31. > :11:34.give us a deal like this when they want to send out a message that

:11:35. > :11:39.there is a punishment to be had for leaving the EU? Certain countries in

:11:40. > :11:44.the EU would favour the tariff free deal, the example is Germany with

:11:45. > :11:48.13% of German exports coming to the UK. If you put tariffs on those

:11:49. > :11:54.exports, they will sell less to the UK. One in five cars come to the UK.

:11:55. > :11:58.Some countries will be keen on this and Angela Merkel when she isn't

:11:59. > :12:03.seeking a fourth term next year in Germany, may well be sympathetic to

:12:04. > :12:08.the idea. Any deal, tariff free deal, would have to be approved by

:12:09. > :12:12.the 27 remaining countries in the EU on a qualified majority vote basis

:12:13. > :12:18.and that won't happen. The people behind Leave Means Leave know that.

:12:19. > :12:21.Well, yes, but they are exerting the maximum pressure because they fear

:12:22. > :12:27.the current government has its eye on a single EU market, the Norway

:12:28. > :12:32.style deal. That costs each Norwegian ?115 per head to pay it to

:12:33. > :12:38.access the single market, and you don't control immigration, which is

:12:39. > :12:42.such a big issue for many British people, so Leave Means Leave want to

:12:43. > :12:47.create, basically, for us to leave without a deal, we would become part

:12:48. > :12:51.of the World Trade Organisation and straight on their basis. At World

:12:52. > :12:56.Trade Organisation rules allow for tariffs. You would have an average

:12:57. > :13:00.of 18% tariff on any goods imported from the EU, and that would cause

:13:01. > :13:06.inflationary pressure. So, in reality, Leave Means Leave believe

:13:07. > :13:11.in what they are saying, but is what they are really doing trying to keep

:13:12. > :13:15.the pressure on? So that it is talked about more, so things cannot

:13:16. > :13:20.be hushed up and go quiet? Yes, the debate has moved on to the type of

:13:21. > :13:25.Brexit we have. Whatever the Supreme Court decides next month in terms of

:13:26. > :13:29.Article 50, House of Commons won't defy the will of the people, we will

:13:30. > :13:35.leave the EU, so what deal will we get? For Leave Means Leave, anything

:13:36. > :13:39.including Britain's membership of a single EU market, even associate

:13:40. > :13:45.member, is unacceptable. The point of a Brexit vote is to be a free

:13:46. > :13:49.trading nation. They represent 70- 100 parliamentarians in the

:13:50. > :13:53.Conservative Party, which is an awful lot, given that Theresa May

:13:54. > :13:57.has a majority of 14 at the moment, so you see the size of the

:13:58. > :14:01.influence. It is the conservatives within Leave Means Leave which

:14:02. > :14:10.matters. We will leave it there for now. Thank you very much.

:14:11. > :14:15.For in five in England are putting their health at risk because they

:14:16. > :14:19.are overweight, drinking too much for not doing enough exercise. The

:14:20. > :14:24.Japanese Prime Minister offered everlasting condolences to the

:14:25. > :14:26.victims of Pearl Harbor, but 75 years on his words fell short of an

:14:27. > :14:28.apology for the attack. Here's Carol with a look

:14:29. > :14:40.at this morning's weather. It was very chilly getting up for

:14:41. > :14:44.work this morning. Absolutely right. Locally across parts of England and

:14:45. > :14:50.Wales the temperature fell to minus six. You will not be surprised to

:14:51. > :14:54.hear there is frost around. As well is that we also have fog patches,

:14:55. > :14:59.some of which are dense and will be slow to clear up. If they do it all.

:15:00. > :15:04.Along the coastline temperatures are a little higher that you do not need

:15:05. > :15:09.to move far inland to reach low temperatures and patchy fog.

:15:10. > :15:15.Disability in some parts 50 metres in others, 100, in others more than

:15:16. > :15:19.that. In the very Far North we have allowed around with some breaks in

:15:20. > :15:23.it and showers across the north-west Thailand. Through the gate before we

:15:24. > :15:30.had across England and Wales will lift. Some were lifted all and that

:15:31. > :15:34.will have an adverse impact on the temperatures. Across England and the

:15:35. > :15:37.south-west, perhaps in Northern Ireland in northern England and

:15:38. > :15:41.Scotland here we will see some sunshine although pleasant to the

:15:42. > :15:45.time of the year in the sunshine but windier with more cloud across

:15:46. > :15:51.north-west and some showers as well. Through the afternoon you can see

:15:52. > :15:56.where we hang the fog temperatures will struggle to break freezing. It

:15:57. > :15:59.will be cold and it will be great. Through the evening and overnight

:16:00. > :16:03.more fog will form, especially across England and Wales with frost

:16:04. > :16:07.around as well. Across Northern Ireland Scotland there will be more

:16:08. > :16:11.cloud around. More of the breezes will across the far north-west

:16:12. > :16:18.starting to show its head some rain, into the Outer Hebrides. Tomorrow

:16:19. > :16:21.the rain continues to exams. Slowly southwards, not making a huge amount

:16:22. > :16:24.of progress but glad ahead of it will build across the west of

:16:25. > :16:28.Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland. The fog that we have, like

:16:29. > :16:34.today, will be slow to clear. Some that will not clear at all. Again,

:16:35. > :16:38.an adverse impact on temperatures. Into the south-west and west Wales,

:16:39. > :16:42.parts of north-west England Northern Ireland, north-east Scotland, these

:16:43. > :16:46.are both test areas for sunshine. Now he waves in prospect, however.

:16:47. > :16:52.Again we look at low temperatures. 11 Celsius where we have that

:16:53. > :16:56.weather front. The front wheel make more progress southwards during the

:16:57. > :17:01.course of Thursday and Friday. But the squeeze here. High-pressure

:17:02. > :17:05.hanging on by the skin of its teeth in the south. Any fog that falls in

:17:06. > :17:09.the south will be slow to clear the colour will be far milder in the

:17:10. > :17:13.north where we have a combination of cloud, wind and rain. Further south

:17:14. > :17:17.some breaks in the cloud, a little sunshine but emphasis on quite a

:17:18. > :17:21.grey day and you may see showers forming in the west. It will get a

:17:22. > :17:27.little milder in the south during the weekend before it turns colder

:17:28. > :17:32.for us all. Carol, we are talking about Internet connected devices

:17:33. > :17:40.next. Your clicker is on a wire, isn't it? And your year pieces. You

:17:41. > :17:45.have groovy earpieces. Mine is still the kind attached to a box. I am

:17:46. > :17:54.weighed in as well. Thank you very much, Carol. I have a wireless

:17:55. > :17:59.earpieces. So can that be hacked, I wonder? That is the thing. Many

:18:00. > :18:06.people getting gadgets for Christmas and there are wonderful when they

:18:07. > :18:09.work but are they risks attached? Virtual assistants and Smart TVs,

:18:10. > :18:13.connected watchers, all of these things make your life easier. What

:18:14. > :18:20.did you mention, a kettle? There is a remote control cattle that you can

:18:21. > :18:22.turn on from your phone. It would need a password. --

:18:23. > :18:26.remote-controlled cattle. There are over six billion convective sins by

:18:27. > :18:34.the end of this year. They do not come without risk. We could be

:18:35. > :18:38.sacrificing a privacy and opening hours. To hackers.

:18:39. > :18:45.This family home may look safe and secure. Inside there are intruders

:18:46. > :18:54.that claim to make your life easier. In reality they could prove

:18:55. > :18:59.otherwise. Ghosts you need to worry about, it is these and hackers know

:19:00. > :19:03.how to control them. The modern household of today has more smart

:19:04. > :19:09.technology than ever before and by the end of 2016 it is estimated that

:19:10. > :19:15.there will be 6.4 billion connected things in use with 5.5 million new

:19:16. > :19:22.devices going online every day. We have found some smart items,

:19:23. > :19:27.security cameras, lightbulbs. If I'm at work I can get notification

:19:28. > :19:31.iPhone about the security cameras. I can see that as a burglar or my

:19:32. > :19:37.husband coming home early. So you feel secure? That is what she

:19:38. > :19:42.thinks. Without even having to get out of his car, and that he can gain

:19:43. > :19:48.control of your home security, lighting, music players and your

:19:49. > :19:56.kettle. One of the first in liturgy that catches my eye is this. If any

:19:57. > :20:01.had taken gets access to that, they are on your home network and once

:20:02. > :20:04.you were there, that is when you can start trying to attack or gain

:20:05. > :20:10.unauthorised access to other devices. Of course he is not a real

:20:11. > :20:13.hacker, here's a cyber security expert, used by companies to

:20:14. > :20:17.discover security weaknesses. It turns out with the right know-how

:20:18. > :20:24.you can hack pretty much everything. Computer, how old are you? This is

:20:25. > :20:29.the tale at all. She has Bluetooth capability and if you are within

:20:30. > :20:32.range you can connect to this toyed without any authentication or

:20:33. > :20:40.passwords or anything. We have been able to show how you can start

:20:41. > :20:45.turning the microphone want to -- on to record audio and playthings back.

:20:46. > :20:52.I can say what I like. Matters in control. What else is in this room?

:20:53. > :20:56.A smart TV here. Depending on the level of access an attacker might

:20:57. > :21:04.have they may be to do certain things like deploying applications,

:21:05. > :21:09.record audio, that hackers can listen in to a record. That is

:21:10. > :21:14.terrifying, thinking that somebody may be listening to you from your

:21:15. > :21:18.television. So if you find a smart device under the tree this Christmas

:21:19. > :21:23.the advice is to make sure it is secure, you use passwords and check

:21:24. > :21:25.your privacy settings. That way you can ensure there are no ghosts in

:21:26. > :21:27.your machines. Tony Neate from technology research

:21:28. > :21:30.company 'Get Safe Online' is here to tell us how

:21:31. > :21:44.we can protect ourselves. Good morning. Isn't it great? All

:21:45. > :21:49.about technology, I love gadgets. It is like Christmas for me every day.

:21:50. > :21:52.Many people will of received something like this for Christmas.

:21:53. > :21:57.We purchase more and more of these smart gadgets. You make sure you are

:21:58. > :22:01.safe if you have, for example, one of the things that can record voices

:22:02. > :22:06.or perhaps use a camera from a device that you have in your house?

:22:07. > :22:09.The key to it all is passwords. The most important place to have a good

:22:10. > :22:13.strong password is on the router because your whole router is the one

:22:14. > :22:17.that controls all this. If they cannot get in there than they can

:22:18. > :22:21.get to what we call the Internet of things. Anything that is connected.

:22:22. > :22:24.There are some very important bits and pieces that we really need to

:22:25. > :22:29.make sure our secure. That is our camera, security camera and locks.

:22:30. > :22:34.You can now purchase an actual front door lock that is controlled by the

:22:35. > :22:38.Internet. Will or you do as you turn your phone and it opens the lock as

:22:39. > :22:41.you walk in. These are things we need to know. Things are lights. If

:22:42. > :22:48.someone monitors when the lights come on and off they can know when

:22:49. > :22:51.you are in. I think the Internet is fantastic and there are some simple

:22:52. > :22:57.easy precautions you can take to make sure that none of these things

:22:58. > :23:01.affect you. How easy is it to hack into someone's front door lock? What

:23:02. > :23:07.are the main problems is that people do not change the password that

:23:08. > :23:10.comes with it, the default password. If you change the default password,

:23:11. > :23:16.people will always be able to discover what it is. The first thing

:23:17. > :23:19.to do is to look at the instructions and change the password so you have

:23:20. > :23:23.a different one. I say that for everything we do. We need to make

:23:24. > :23:27.sure we have more than one password. You do not have one key for

:23:28. > :23:30.everything you do and you cannot have one password. If you lose one

:23:31. > :23:37.key, you need to change all your locks, and lose one password, you

:23:38. > :23:41.need to change every access you have. Even with a password for your

:23:42. > :23:45.phone and for your computer, perhaps a password for work, remembering

:23:46. > :23:49.just those is tricky enough. Are we heading towards a future where we

:23:50. > :23:53.may have ten different passwords for ten different things? Right now, if

:23:54. > :23:58.you have not got ten passwords in your life then you are not probably

:23:59. > :24:02.as secure as you could be. One of the things we recognise and is to

:24:03. > :24:07.have a security locker for your passwords. It is called a password

:24:08. > :24:12.manager or a password locker, a password safe. You can put all your

:24:13. > :24:16.passwords in their and then have one key password in order to get to it.

:24:17. > :24:19.You just need to accept, look, with the modern day on the way we are

:24:20. > :24:23.going forward there will be restrictions on one of those is that

:24:24. > :24:27.we need different passwords. It is fantastic, all this stuff, one my

:24:28. > :24:30.grandchildren have a robot that you could control move. That is

:24:31. > :24:34.fantastic and it is not really a lot you can do with eight kettle or a

:24:35. > :24:38.robot that there is with other things. We need to ensure that we

:24:39. > :24:42.look at the website, have a look at what we should and shouldn't do and

:24:43. > :24:46.secure ourselves. This is a river life in any way question does

:24:47. > :24:52.anybody actually need a remote-controlled kettle? Is

:24:53. > :24:56.laziness. We can sit there and watch the television and we know the

:24:57. > :24:58.advertisements are coming up so we can turn of an waiting for

:24:59. > :25:03.advertisements to start. It is just... Same argument I used to have

:25:04. > :25:12.with people about windup windows on your cars. Putting a buyer is lazy

:25:13. > :25:17.but it is also easy to ask someone to push the button. And it is about

:25:18. > :25:21.making life easier for people. We also need to make sure that the

:25:22. > :25:26.manufacturers help us I have been default advice about what we have to

:25:27. > :25:29.do in relation. It can be quite complicated out there, especially

:25:30. > :25:38.for us Silver surfers. More passwords. If I understood that

:25:39. > :25:42.correctly, you should have all of your passwords in one place and then

:25:43. > :25:45.have a password to get into your passwords. If someone gets a

:25:46. > :25:50.password that got all your passwords. That is correct. You

:25:51. > :25:53.whisper a day we would have surrounded by nature of that

:25:54. > :25:58.technology? I don't like right now in fact. Surrounded by big insects.

:25:59. > :26:01.Look around. A mild wet year weatherwise.

:26:02. > :26:04.It's been a mild and wet year weather-wise and Tim Muffett's

:26:05. > :26:07.in Somerset for us this morning to tell us what that's meant

:26:08. > :26:15.I am at one with nature this morning on this cold morning. But it has

:26:16. > :26:20.been a mild winter, generally speaking this year as it has been

:26:21. > :26:24.for the last ten years or so. We're here at the National trust property

:26:25. > :26:28.about ten miles west of Bristol. Each year the National trust

:26:29. > :26:32.assessed their properties across the UK to see what impact the weather of

:26:33. > :26:37.that year has had on the wildlife. A little later on we will find out

:26:38. > :26:46.what that impact has been. If you think back to this year and wonder

:26:47. > :26:50.if you have been mowing the lawn a little more than usual, you are not

:26:51. > :30:15.imagining that. Grass is growing faster and we will look at the other

:30:16. > :30:25.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:30:26. > :30:28.Middle-aged people are putting themselves at risk of serious health

:30:29. > :30:31.problems unless they take action to change their lifestyles,

:30:32. > :30:34.Public Health England says 80% of 40- to 60-year-olds

:30:35. > :30:37.are overweight, drinking too much and not getting enough exercise,

:30:38. > :30:40.putting them at a greater risk of developing diseases like diabetes.

:30:41. > :30:43.They're being urged to take an online quiz to see how healthy

:30:44. > :30:51.We'll be speaking to a woman who took the quiz and changed her

:30:52. > :30:56.Harrison Ford has led tributes to Carrie Fisher,

:30:57. > :31:00.who has died at the age of 60, calling her "one of a kind".

:31:01. > :31:02.The Hollywood actress, best known for her role

:31:03. > :31:06.as Princess Leia in Star Wars, had been in hospital since suffering

:31:07. > :31:09.a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles last

:31:10. > :31:14.At 8:40am we'll be speaking to Carrie Fisher's Star Wars co-star

:31:15. > :31:18.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered his sincere

:31:19. > :31:20.and everlasting condolences to the victims of his country's

:31:21. > :31:23.attack on the United States at Pearl Harbour 75 years ago.

:31:24. > :31:25.Standing alongside the US President Obama, the Japanese leader

:31:26. > :31:28.pledged that the horrors of war must never be repeated,

:31:29. > :31:43.Campaigners for an early Brexit have written to business organisations

:31:44. > :31:47.across Europe to try and drum up support for a free trade agreement

:31:48. > :31:50.with the European Union after the UK stops being a member.

:31:51. > :31:52.The campaign group, Leave Means Leave, wants a trade

:31:53. > :31:54.deal with no taxes on goods travelling

:31:55. > :32:00.The government says it's working to secure the best possible deal.

:32:01. > :32:03.NHS hospitals have made more money than ever from parking

:32:04. > :32:06.Figures from 89 health trusts across England suggest ?120 million

:32:07. > :32:10.was raised parking fees last year, that's up 5% on the year before.

:32:11. > :32:12.Patient groups have criticised rising parking charges

:32:13. > :32:15.and the Department of Health said it expects Trusts to put concessions

:32:16. > :32:27.in place for disabled people, carers and shift workers.

:32:28. > :32:29.The Co-operative Group says it will open 100 stores

:32:30. > :32:35.It opened a similar number of stores this year.

:32:36. > :32:38.The group said it will invest ?70 million in the new shops,

:32:39. > :32:40.which will be spread throughout London, south-east England,

:32:41. > :32:44.The company is nearing the end of a three-year turnaround programme

:32:45. > :32:57.after a period of turmoil in its banking group.

:32:58. > :33:05.Almost 300 nail bars have been visited by immigration officials

:33:06. > :33:08.in recent weeks in a renewed bid to crack down on illegal workers

:33:09. > :33:14.14 people were identified as potentially being at risk of modern

:33:15. > :33:15.slavery. Unsettled weather during the past

:33:16. > :33:18.decade has had a dramatic impact on the UK's wildlife,

:33:19. > :33:20.according to the National Trust, with some of its sites recording

:33:21. > :33:23.dramatic falls in the number The charity points to a combination

:33:24. > :33:27.of milder winters and wetter summers for dramatic boosting grass growth,

:33:28. > :33:30.which has been good for farmers making hay, but led to falls

:33:31. > :33:46.in insect numbers. Coming up on the program, we have

:33:47. > :33:50.our own weather expert, won't we, Carol, telling us what the weather

:33:51. > :33:57.will be like in the next couple of days. Right now is 7:33am and time

:33:58. > :34:02.for the sport. Tell us about this little fella. Bradley had hopes

:34:03. > :34:05.about Swansea city, the first American manager in the Premier

:34:06. > :34:10.League, he says he is disappointed to have lost his job and he says

:34:11. > :34:13.football is a cruel game, just 11 matches in charge, but he did not

:34:14. > :34:18.turn things around with seven defeats after 11 matches. And now

:34:19. > :34:22.there is a significant rumour, isn't there, that they are talking to Ryan

:34:23. > :34:27.Giggs again, who they spoke to last time when he did in get the job. He

:34:28. > :34:31.did it get the job in the summer and the difficulty is, do you bring in

:34:32. > :34:33.an experienced man, or do you give Ryan Giggs his first job? We will

:34:34. > :34:34.see. Swansea City have sacked manager

:34:35. > :34:36.Bob Bradley after just 85 The Swans are currently second

:34:37. > :34:40.bottom of the Premier League, having won just two games since

:34:41. > :34:43.Bradley's appointment in October. They're now looking for their fourth

:34:44. > :34:46.manager of 2016, with Ryan Giggs, who missed out on the job last time,

:34:47. > :34:50.and Wales manager Chris Coleman both Swansea's next match

:34:51. > :34:53.is against Bournemouth Liverpool are up to second

:34:54. > :34:57.in the Premier League after a 4-1 They had to come from behind

:34:58. > :35:02.after Jon Walters put Stoke ahead. Adam Lallana pulled them back level

:35:03. > :35:05.before Roberto Firmino put them An own goal pushed Liverpool further

:35:06. > :35:09.in front before Daniel Sturridge added a fourth, which was

:35:10. > :35:12.Liverpool's 100th league goal under They're now six points behind

:35:13. > :35:25.league leaders Chelsea. We need all of them,

:35:26. > :35:28.and especially Daniel, of course. Hopefully they all

:35:29. > :35:32.stay healthy and fit. Two days later is another game,

:35:33. > :35:35.and then three days later We have enough opportunities

:35:36. > :35:39.for everybody who is fit, Brighton are the new leaders

:35:40. > :35:49.in the Championship after a 3-0 win The win gives Brighton a two point

:35:50. > :35:54.lead over Newcastle at the top. Sam Baldock was among

:35:55. > :35:55.the goalscorers. Chris Hughton's side are now

:35:56. > :35:58.unbeaten in 17 games. In the day's other championship

:35:59. > :36:04.game, Derby beat Birmingham 1-0. Ian Cathro has won his first match

:36:05. > :36:07.in charge of Hearts. They beat Kilmarnock 4-0 and stay

:36:08. > :36:10.fourth in the Scottish Premiership. Aberdeen stay a place

:36:11. > :36:12.above them in third, In rugby union's Premiership,

:36:13. > :36:21.Harlequins survived a frantic finish to beat Gloucester 28-24

:36:22. > :36:24.in a thrilling match at Twickenham. Quins centre Joe Marchant scored two

:36:25. > :36:28.tries to put the hosts 28-10 ahead Gloucester hit back with two late

:36:29. > :36:32.tries but couldn't find another as Quins held on to

:36:33. > :36:35.move into the top six. In the Pro 12, Ospreys beat Scarlets

:36:36. > :36:47.19-9 to move up to second. What a Christmas it's been

:36:48. > :36:49.for racing trainer Colin Tizzard. He's claimed his second major

:36:50. > :36:52.victory in as many days after his horse Native River won

:36:53. > :36:55.the Welsh Grand National. After Thistlecrack won

:36:56. > :36:58.the King George Chase on Boxing Day, Native River was favourite for this

:36:59. > :37:01.one and hit the front with 13 A meet up with Thistlecrack

:37:02. > :37:05.at the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March We spoke about him earlier -

:37:06. > :37:22.there will be no FA investigation into Watford mascot Harry The Hornet

:37:23. > :37:25.after his alleged mocking dive in front of Crystal Palace's

:37:26. > :37:28.Wilfried Zaha on Boxing Day. Palace manager Sam Allardyce had

:37:29. > :37:30.suggested the mascot's behaviour should be "looked at" by the FA

:37:31. > :37:33.and the Premier League. The incident happened

:37:34. > :37:36.after the final whistle and Zaha had Harry the Hornet is free to carry

:37:37. > :37:44.on his official club duties. So, good news for the msascot. The

:37:45. > :37:52.time now is 7:37am -- mascot. Working in a homeless shelter

:37:53. > :37:54.and quietly donating thousands of pounds to people he'd never met

:37:55. > :37:58.are just some of the things we've learnt about George Michael's

:37:59. > :38:00.generosity since he died Like many others across the country,

:38:01. > :38:04.he'd decided to donate anonymously. So what do people get out

:38:05. > :38:07.of secretly giving time We'll discuss that in a moment,

:38:08. > :38:18.first here's what people in Salford Wyatt a big deal of it? Just give if

:38:19. > :38:24.that is the way to feel. -- Wyatt Abbey deal of it? You don't have to

:38:25. > :38:29.say, look at me, I am giving money to charity, you just don't do that,

:38:30. > :38:33.well, I don't anyway. It isn't about ask on the it is about other people

:38:34. > :38:37.and it isn't about what you get from it, it is about giving, it is a

:38:38. > :38:42.selfless act, isn't it? If you are giving too much or not enough, you

:38:43. > :38:53.don't want to seem overly generous. It isn't all about, if I am giving

:38:54. > :38:57.to charity, someone patting me on the back, I just want to donate to a

:38:58. > :39:01.good cause and that is enough, really. I don't feel the need to be

:39:02. > :39:03.patted on the back. It doesn't matter where it comes from, does it?

:39:04. > :39:06.Joining us in the studio is Mike Peacey, who's an economics

:39:07. > :39:08.lecturer at the New College of Humanities in London.

:39:09. > :39:11.Mike Tomlinson, whose wife Jane raised almost ?2 million for charity

:39:12. > :39:18.before her death from cancer, joins us from our Leeds newsroom.

:39:19. > :39:25.Tomlinson, if I can come to you first of all, you have had huge

:39:26. > :39:31.amounts to do with fundraising for charity over the last several years.

:39:32. > :39:40.How common is it for people to give anonymously? It is quite common for

:39:41. > :39:46.people who are well-known to give anonymously and four other people it

:39:47. > :39:51.tends to be larger amounts that are anonymous, but I would say 30% are

:39:52. > :39:55.anonymous. And do you ever get an indication from the people who maybe

:39:56. > :40:00.do give you a significant amount, why they don't want publicity - what

:40:01. > :40:07.is it? Icing for people or organisations in the public eye, I

:40:08. > :40:11.think to share the fact they are giving money to charity brings a lot

:40:12. > :40:19.of attention to them -- I think for people. It leads to a lot of request

:40:20. > :40:24.for help or donations. It can become a lot for them. And then ultimately

:40:25. > :40:32.they can become unwilling to help because of this significant amount

:40:33. > :40:36.of request for help they get. Sometimes people were giving money

:40:37. > :40:40.to individuals. He would see a story, hear about someone's

:40:41. > :40:45.situation, and he would come up with the money. How unusual is that way

:40:46. > :40:50.of going about handing out money to people who need it? With George

:40:51. > :40:55.Michael, it was definitely that he felt very connected to various

:40:56. > :41:02.causes and wanted to do great things. And what I found, with some

:41:03. > :41:06.of my students, is that they don't just want to make money or do

:41:07. > :41:09.things, they want to make a difference, they want to make the

:41:10. > :41:18.world are better place, and making an anonymous donation was what he

:41:19. > :41:22.did to help people. When we spoke with people in the street, the

:41:23. > :41:27.sentiment was, it doesn't matter where the money comes from, but

:41:28. > :41:31.there are people who want it to be known that they have handed over

:41:32. > :41:35.money. Of course. There are different reasons why people may or

:41:36. > :41:42.may not choose to make anonymous donations. And in a study that I

:41:43. > :41:47.conducted a couple of years ago on data from the London marathon, I

:41:48. > :41:54.found if people making significantly smaller donations than average, they

:41:55. > :41:58.would like to keep their information on anonymous and maybe the reason

:41:59. > :42:03.for that is a didn't want to be seen to be too tight. Equally, on the

:42:04. > :42:09.other side, we found that often donations at were a lot larger were

:42:10. > :42:13.kept anonymous. And it might be because they didn't want to break

:42:14. > :42:19.the social norm or they didn't want to show up their peers by perhaps

:42:20. > :42:26.being too generous. But on the other hand, what we also found, one of the

:42:27. > :42:30.significant findings was that by choosing to make an anonymous

:42:31. > :42:37.donation it encouraged others to give more, so there was a benefit to

:42:38. > :42:42.forgoing the prestige themselves in terms of signalling just how good

:42:43. > :42:47.the charity was, or how much they believed in the courts. Mike

:42:48. > :42:51.Tomlinson, is there ever a situation you have come across where you want

:42:52. > :42:56.someone to say publicly that they have perhaps made this donation

:42:57. > :43:00.perhaps without giving more publicity or raise the profile of a

:43:01. > :43:05.particular cause? That would never be the case. I think whoever you

:43:06. > :43:10.are, if you want to give anonymously, it should be anonymous.

:43:11. > :43:14.And from a map point of view it is important that people should have

:43:15. > :43:19.some confidence in the charity that they won't, once they have done

:43:20. > :43:24.something, that they won't be asked again to donate or contribute time

:43:25. > :43:28.or effort. There is a lot of pressure on people to help and

:43:29. > :43:32.support charities and I think the fact that people have donated, we

:43:33. > :43:37.should be thankful for that, there should be no extra pressure put on

:43:38. > :43:41.them at all. Interesting that people, talking about George

:43:42. > :43:47.Michael, he didn't just give money, and Mike Tomlinson mentioned time,

:43:48. > :43:54.he also gave time, he volunteered. Yes, time is great, especially, I

:43:55. > :43:57.know when I was younger, we didn't have money, but we were happy to

:43:58. > :44:04.give time and that is a really valuable thing. We put on our races

:44:05. > :44:08.in summer and you get between 1000- 2000 volunteers, and that is as

:44:09. > :44:15.valuable as money. Thank you both for your time this morning. The time

:44:16. > :44:21.is 7:44am. Let's go to Carol for the morning's whether. Good morning. If

:44:22. > :44:25.you haven't stepped out it is a cold start to the day, especially across

:44:26. > :44:30.England and Wales. Temperatures have widely fallen below freezing but

:44:31. > :44:35.locally six, so it is frosty. We also have some fog patches, they

:44:36. > :44:40.identify the this is the picture at nine o'clock, you can see patchy

:44:41. > :44:44.fog. Along Southern counties it isn't as call on the coast and we

:44:45. > :44:48.don't have issues with fog. The fog is dense and some parts have had

:44:49. > :44:52.visibility down to 50 metres. In Northern Ireland, the north of

:44:53. > :44:57.England and Scotland, there is more cloud around, but equally we have

:44:58. > :45:00.some sunshine. For the north-west Scotland, thick cloud with showers

:45:01. > :45:04.and the breeze is more noticeable. Through the day a lot of the fog

:45:05. > :45:09.will be slow to lift. Some of it will lift into low cloud, some of it

:45:10. > :45:12.will linger through the day, but we expect sunshine to develop along

:45:13. > :45:18.Southern counties, through Wales, Northern Ireland, northern England

:45:19. > :45:21.and parts of Scotland. Those are the values you can expect. In the

:45:22. > :45:26.sunshine for the time of year it will feel pleasant. If you are stuck

:45:27. > :45:29.under the fog for the day, the temperature will be really

:45:30. > :45:33.struggling to break freezing. It is going to feel cold. Through the

:45:34. > :45:37.evening and overnight more fog will form for England and Wales

:45:38. > :45:41.primarily. It will be a cold night with frost around, so we have

:45:42. > :45:44.freezing fog issues, for Northern Ireland and Scotland it will be a

:45:45. > :45:49.cool night in rural areas but Peter Bridges won't be as low, there will

:45:50. > :45:54.be more cloud around, windy for the north-west and the rank advancing to

:45:55. > :45:58.the Outer Hebrides. So, tomorrow, the rain continues to slowly move

:45:59. > :46:01.southwards, the progress isn't great, but you will notice more

:46:02. > :46:05.cloud building into western Scotland and Northern Ireland, and like

:46:06. > :46:10.today, where we have fog in England and Wales, it will be slow to clear.

:46:11. > :46:14.Some of it into low cloud, some not clearing at all, but there will be

:46:15. > :46:17.sunshine for Southern counties into the south-west, parts of Wales,

:46:18. > :46:23.Northern Ireland could see some sunshine, northern England could,

:46:24. > :46:27.and also north-east Scotland. Quite a wide temperature variation, 11 in

:46:28. > :46:31.Stornoway, nowhere else is mild like that. From Thursday into Friday, the

:46:32. > :46:35.weather front here south, there is another in hot pursuit. If you look

:46:36. > :46:40.at the isobars you can see it will be quite a blustery day. So, that

:46:41. > :46:45.rain continues to slowly sink southwards during the course of

:46:46. > :46:49.Friday. Across Scotland, Northern Ireland, into northern England, a

:46:50. > :46:52.lot of cloud and breezy, so milder. Further south we could start with

:46:53. > :46:57.some fog. Not as widespread as we are looking at this morning. It will

:46:58. > :47:02.be there nonetheless. Some of it will be slow to clear. And again,

:47:03. > :47:06.one or two showers to the west. As the front comes south, cold air

:47:07. > :47:10.filters in behind it and for some, by the end of the weekend, the first

:47:11. > :47:16.of January, we are looking at some wintry showers, mostly in the north.

:47:17. > :47:21.Thank you very much indeed. It does look quite chilly, doesn't it, and

:47:22. > :47:27.foggy, and the sort of day you should stay in.

:47:28. > :47:33.The reason we have all these pictures that you can see on the

:47:34. > :47:36.walls around us, it is because the mild conditions are causing

:47:37. > :47:52.problems. They have had an impact on the wildlife of the UK. Let's find

:47:53. > :47:55.out more from Tim. Today it feels rather cold so this may feel

:47:56. > :48:00.misplaced but the general trend over the last decade or so was for milder

:48:01. > :48:05.what winters. September was the second mildest September on record

:48:06. > :48:14.and summer seem to be wetter as well. What impact does it have been

:48:15. > :48:17.having? Each year the National trust as those of its properties across

:48:18. > :48:22.the UK to assess the impact of the weather on wildlife. If you think

:48:23. > :48:24.that to last summer and you were mowing the lawn will more often than

:48:25. > :48:44.you were probably not imagining it. This year, beef farmer Robert made

:48:45. > :48:47.hay while the sun was shining. We have seen a good grace

:48:48. > :48:53.throughout the season. A lot of grass on the ground

:48:54. > :48:57.at the moment and we are in the end of December now and we are

:48:58. > :48:59.still grazing outside. Everyday I can get my cattle out

:49:00. > :49:04.of the shed I it is better for them. A mild and wet winter has been

:49:05. > :49:09.followed by a cold spring and then came more mild wet

:49:10. > :49:11.weather in May and June. The rate of growth was in many

:49:12. > :49:17.places a third faster than normal according to the agriculture

:49:18. > :49:21.and water cold shoulder -- according to the

:49:22. > :49:22.agriculture horticulture Conservationists are

:49:23. > :49:24.assessing the impact. Excessive grass grows,

:49:25. > :49:26.why does it matter? A lot of our rarer plants

:49:27. > :49:29.and animals, particularly insects, If it gets covered over

:49:30. > :49:33.by these coarse grasses, populations of those

:49:34. > :49:34.rare insects plummet. This man has analysed the impact

:49:35. > :49:39.of the weather on wildlife A number of species

:49:40. > :49:46.have been hit in 2016. The losers have been

:49:47. > :49:49.the butterflies, bees, beetles and some grasshoppers

:49:50. > :49:51.which actually require Wasps were hit badly

:49:52. > :49:57.by the despicable summer of 2012. We usually get wasps nesting on this

:49:58. > :50:05.bank and I can vouch there are no They are an important

:50:06. > :50:19.part of the food chain. They are really quite good

:50:20. > :50:22.at controlling a lot of pests and nasty little

:50:23. > :50:30.insect like greenfly. One of the things that should be

:50:31. > :50:32.properly hibernating When you get a mild month like this

:50:33. > :50:36.they are not hibernating properly. That's not good for them

:50:37. > :50:41.because they burn off their energy. As ever there were

:50:42. > :50:43.wildlife winners in 2016. It has been a fantastic

:50:44. > :50:51.year for migrant birds. A strong wind from the east,

:50:52. > :50:55.that helps a lot of migrating birds. We had over 200 Goldcrest arrived

:50:56. > :51:07.on the Farne islands one day. From slug's point of view,

:51:08. > :51:09.an excellent year. From the point of view

:51:10. > :51:12.of gardeners it was disastrous. You keep getting mild winters

:51:13. > :51:15.and we keep getting short spells We have not had a good

:51:16. > :51:24.summer since 2006. And here they have been mowing the

:51:25. > :51:27.lawn here far longer than they normally would do because the

:51:28. > :51:32.growing season seems to be getting longer. Good news for tree seeds as

:51:33. > :51:36.well and also apples have had a very good year this year. Many orchards

:51:37. > :51:42.and cider producers say they have had a bumper crop. But, yes, there

:51:43. > :51:47.are downsides as well. Insects that are reliant on short turf in many

:51:48. > :51:53.places, that grasses grown readily and it has had an impact on them. We

:51:54. > :51:58.will have to see what happens. Will we have another mild winter? That is

:51:59. > :52:03.the trend and we will find out as the new Year approaches. It is like

:52:04. > :52:14.a worry in a magic would today. It is getting light but it is still

:52:15. > :52:21.dark there. It gets light little bit later, probably, than where you are.

:52:22. > :52:28.It did look beautiful. What will we talk about now? Stores and bargains?

:52:29. > :52:32.We're not talking about sales, however. This is all year round.

:52:33. > :52:38.Everybody hunting for a bargain often. Shopping around. In the

:52:39. > :52:40.stores that have seen a big increase this year are

:52:41. > :52:42.Poundworld, 99p Stores, Poundstretcher, B

:52:43. > :52:44.and Home Bargains - spending at bargain stores totalled

:52:45. > :52:48.?4.9 billion in the year to July, up 17% from the previous year.

:52:49. > :52:51.The stores have had a big rise in first time visitors -

:52:52. > :52:54.more than 2.2 million households shopping there for the first time.

:52:55. > :52:57.Almost a third of the increase in spending down to shoppers

:52:58. > :53:00.switching away from mainstream supermarkets and likes of Boots,

:53:01. > :53:02.Nearly four-fifths of households in Britain now buy

:53:03. > :53:05.from bargain stores - that makes them more popular

:53:06. > :53:07.than the bigger German discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl,

:53:08. > :53:14.which are visited by three-quarters of households.

:53:15. > :53:22.to try and figure out what was going on I went along to one of the stores

:53:23. > :53:27.and spoke to the Boston. -- boss there are

:53:28. > :53:31.Once upon a time in the not so distant past we would have gone

:53:32. > :53:33.to a big supermarket for the weekly shop.

:53:34. > :53:35.Their market share has been eaten away.

:53:36. > :53:39.We have had the rise of the discounters and recently it

:53:40. > :53:41.has been the turn of the bargain store

:53:42. > :53:44.selling groceries like these at the same rate as places like

:53:45. > :53:48.It's not just the groceries in the kitchen that we purchase more.

:53:49. > :53:51.Homewares things like cushions and candles and plant pots and,

:53:52. > :53:57.Spending in these stores is up by almost 20% on last year,

:53:58. > :54:02.What has been driving the recent change?

:54:03. > :54:06.Ten years ago we were known for groceries and clearance goods.

:54:07. > :54:12.Today it is far more about general merchandise.

:54:13. > :54:17.Housewares, DIY, toys, Christmas decoration, gardening.

:54:18. > :54:22.What is it about items you sell here that maybe

:54:23. > :54:25.you would not necessarily have seen ten years ago?

:54:26. > :54:31.We have 100 buyers travelling around the world going to the very best

:54:32. > :54:33.factories, looking for a particular product.

:54:34. > :54:36.Having done so, we get the volume, bring them

:54:37. > :54:39.in and we have a different mindset of competition.

:54:40. > :54:43.So that is how they sell what is on offer.

:54:44. > :54:46.But what sort of shoppers are heading in store?

:54:47. > :54:47.This is about democratising shopping.

:54:48. > :54:52.Everyone across the country we shop here,

:54:53. > :54:55.because we all want a bargain and we are not prepared to pay more

:54:56. > :54:58.than we have to for things we buy every day.

:54:59. > :55:04.It depends on which area you are in because if you are in this area

:55:05. > :55:14.And then we will come here for another thing.

:55:15. > :55:18.What sort of price pressures do you have?

:55:19. > :55:22.Everything you see here in soft furnishings is made overseas

:55:23. > :55:25.and there are price pressures because of the weakness of sterling.

:55:26. > :55:27.In our favour, however, our business is growing

:55:28. > :55:32.By reinvesting the benefits of that increased volume,

:55:33. > :55:38.wherever it is managed, we can keep prices steady.

:55:39. > :55:42.The price set to rise next year and the competition for retailer

:55:43. > :55:46.The big four supermarkets will use their power

:55:47. > :55:48.and the march of the discounters will continue.

:55:49. > :55:51.With four out of every five people now shopping at a discount,

:55:52. > :55:54.the days of putting all their baubles in one basket

:55:55. > :56:09.shopping yesterday, is that for next year? Were you getting an early?

:56:10. > :56:18.Some people do that. If you really want a bargain, you get your

:56:19. > :56:22.Christmas stuff now. It does goes to show that all these stores, 2017

:56:23. > :56:25.will be very competitive in all the supermarkets and discount and

:56:26. > :56:30.bargain stores. And you will need to go to more places if you want a

:56:31. > :56:35.bargain. It is not like the old days of going to one supermarket. If you

:56:36. > :56:39.want the best price... You could probably do a doctorate in it, I

:56:40. > :56:46.reckon. You will need to be that much of an expert. The time now is

:56:47. > :56:50.756. Still to come here this morning, as we'll get more gadgets

:56:51. > :56:52.connected to the Internet we will have the top tips on keeping home

:56:53. > :00:25.safe from hackers. Hello this is Breakfast,

:00:26. > :00:28.with Sally Nugent and Charlie Stayt. More than 80% of men

:00:29. > :00:30.and women in England in their forties and fifties

:00:31. > :00:32.are said to be overweight, inactive, Health officials blame fast food,

:00:33. > :00:36.desk jobs and the daily grind for what they're calling

:00:37. > :00:48.a middle aged health crisis. Good morning it's

:00:49. > :00:50.Wednesday 28th December. tributes are paid to Carrie Fisher,

:00:51. > :00:58.who has died at 60. Harrison Ford says she

:00:59. > :01:00.was "one-of-a-kind". "everlasting condolences" to those

:01:01. > :01:04.killed at Pearl Harbour as he becomes the first to join

:01:05. > :01:07.an American President Supporters of a quick Brexit

:01:08. > :01:14.are asking businesses in Europe for a deal with the UK that has

:01:15. > :01:18.minimal barriers to trade. In sport, Swansea City

:01:19. > :01:23.sack Bob Bradley, The Swans are second bottom

:01:24. > :01:31.of the Premier League. Milder winters and wetter summers

:01:32. > :01:33.have caused a drop in numbers to an audit of our wildlife

:01:34. > :01:48.by the National Trust. Cold and frosty start the day,

:01:49. > :01:53.patchy frog around, some of which is dense, will be slow to clear, if at

:01:54. > :02:00.all, there is sunshine in the forecast, and we also have rain

:02:01. > :02:10.across the North West. -- fog. I will have details on all of that and

:02:11. > :02:12.15 minutes. In 15 minutes. -- in 15 minutes.

:02:13. > :02:15.Middle aged people are putting themselves at risk of serious health

:02:16. > :02:17.problems unless they take action to change their lifestyles,

:02:18. > :02:21.Public Health England says 80 per cent of 40 to 60 year

:02:22. > :02:23.olds are overweight, drinking too much and not

:02:24. > :02:26.It says "modern life" is putting middle aged people

:02:27. > :02:28.at a greater risk of developing diseases like diabetes.

:02:29. > :02:29.Here's our health correspondent Robert Pigott.

:02:30. > :02:34.VOICEOVER: Leap Parker is running for his life, aged 41, weighing 22

:02:35. > :02:39.stone, he was told by his seven-year-old son that he loved him

:02:40. > :02:43.even though he was fat. It was the nudge he needed. Since August, when

:02:44. > :02:50.he changed his diet and began to exercise, he has lost five stone. It

:02:51. > :02:54.was a case of, shall we order a pizza, we have food in but can we be

:02:55. > :02:56.bothered to cook it? You become lazy and drawn out with the daily grind

:02:57. > :03:20.of routine. Among men, almost 90% fall

:03:21. > :03:23.into the same category. Among the potentially devastating

:03:24. > :03:25.outcomes of this accumulation It has doubled in this age group

:03:26. > :03:29.in the last 20 years and already costs the NHS in England

:03:30. > :03:32.an estimated ?14 billion per year. We are ageing as a population

:03:33. > :03:35.but too many of us are ageing The reason why we are seeing these

:03:36. > :03:39.increases in chronic diseases, such as cancers, stroke and heart

:03:40. > :03:41.disease, is in a large part

:03:42. > :03:42.because of behaviours which are adopted during our 40-

:03:43. > :03:45.to 60-year-old age period. For example, still smoking,

:03:46. > :03:47.or not getting enough physical activity, or perhaps drinking

:03:48. > :03:49.too much alcohol. is that this is going to put a huge

:03:50. > :03:53.burden on health services. Public Health England launched

:03:54. > :03:56.a health quiz It says more than a million people

:03:57. > :04:01.have now taken the quiz and now have a route map

:04:02. > :04:03.to change their lives. STUDIO: We'll be speaking

:04:04. > :04:11.to a woman who took the quiz and changed her lifestyle

:04:12. > :04:22.in just a few minutes' time. Harrison Ford has led tributes to

:04:23. > :04:28.Carrie Fisher, has died at the age of 60, calling her one-of-a-kind.

:04:29. > :04:31.The Hollywood actress, best known for her role as Princess Leia in

:04:32. > :04:33.Star Wars, had been in hospital since suffering a heart attack on a

:04:34. > :04:35.flight from London to Los Angeles last Friday. Our Entertainment

:04:36. > :04:50.Correspondent Lizo Mzimba looks back at her life. VOICEOVER: Clever and

:04:51. > :04:56.confident... What the hell are you doing? Somebody has two save our

:04:57. > :05:01.skins! Occasionally caustic... Will somebody get this big walking carpet

:05:02. > :05:08.out of my way. Carrie Fisher's Leia wasn't your typical princess waiting

:05:09. > :05:11.to be rescued. What appealed to me was that George Lucas, who wrote it

:05:12. > :05:15.and directed it, didn't want a damsel in distress, didn't want your

:05:16. > :05:17.stereotypical princess, you know. The galactic Princess grew up

:05:18. > :05:19.Hollywood royalty, the daughter of '50s movie legend Debbie Reynolds.

:05:20. > :05:22.Throughout her acting career she battled drug addiction and mental

:05:23. > :05:30.illness. Writing about it was a form of therapy for her. People used to

:05:31. > :05:33.ask me, you know, right after I got sober, initially they'd say, so, are

:05:34. > :05:36.you happy now? I would say, among other things, happy is one of the

:05:37. > :05:43.many things, the many emotions I will go through in a day. An

:05:44. > :05:45.instantly recognisable face after Star Wars, from time to time there

:05:46. > :05:47.were appearances in other films, like When Harry Met Sally. Her

:05:48. > :06:09.mother has led tributes, saying... In 2015 she reprised to her role as

:06:10. > :06:10.Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that's how

:06:11. > :06:33.millions will remember her. STUDIO: We'll be speaking to Carrie

:06:34. > :06:46.Fisher's Star Wars co-star Warwick Davis in about half an hour's time.

:06:47. > :06:48.President Obama, and the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, have

:06:49. > :06:51.laid wreaths at the site of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor 75

:06:52. > :06:53.years ago. It's the first visit by leaders of both countries since the

:06:54. > :06:54.attack, in which two-and-a-half thousand Americans died.

:06:55. > :06:57.-- 2500 Americans died. The Japanese leader pledged that the horrors of

:06:58. > :06:59.war must never be repeated, but didn't include an apology. Our Tokyo

:07:00. > :07:02.correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has more. VOICEOVER:

:07:03. > :07:07.It has taken 75 years for a Japanese Prime Minister and US president to

:07:08. > :07:11.come here to Pearl Harbor together. Inscribed on the walls in front of

:07:12. > :07:16.them, the names of the 2400 Americans killed when Japan

:07:17. > :07:24.committed their surprise attack in December 19 41. Outside they cast

:07:25. > :07:31.flowers into the water where the wreck of the USS Arizona still

:07:32. > :07:34.lives. -- December 1941. The Prime Minister spoke of his sadness of the

:07:35. > :07:42.young American lives cut short, hopes and dreams left unfulfilled.

:07:43. > :07:44.TRANSLATION: When I contemplate that solemn reality, I am rendered

:07:45. > :07:54.entirely speechless. Rest in peace, precious soul of the foreign. For 75

:07:55. > :07:56.years, Americans have been taught to remember Pearl Harbor, but today

:07:57. > :08:04.President Obama called on Americans to take a different lesson from this

:08:05. > :08:07.place. Even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of

:08:08. > :08:10.tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward,

:08:11. > :08:14.we must resist the urge to demonise those who are different. It was a

:08:15. > :08:17.direct jibe at his successor, Donald Trump, who has been accused of

:08:18. > :08:23.stoking hatreds against everybody from Muslims to Mexicans. For Mr

:08:24. > :08:25.Abe, too, there is deep concern about what will happen to Japan's

:08:26. > :08:26.most important partnership when Mr Trump enters the White House in 23

:08:27. > :08:47.days' time. STUDIO: Campaigners for an early

:08:48. > :08:49.Brexit have written to business organisations across Europe to try

:08:50. > :08:58.and drum up support for a free trade agreement with the European Union

:08:59. > :09:01.after the UK stops being a member. The campaign group Leave Means Leave

:09:02. > :09:03.is hoping for a trade deal with no taxes on goods travelling to and

:09:04. > :09:06.from the continent. Sean's here - what does all this mean? Is that

:09:07. > :09:10.really going to happen? Well, we will find out in a few years' time,

:09:11. > :09:14.once these negotiations go through, the idea of this, this campaign

:09:15. > :09:17.group want the UK to leave the European Union as quickly as

:09:18. > :09:21.possible, within a couple of years, they are going to business groups

:09:22. > :09:26.around Europe saying, it is not good for you if you are, if we are having

:09:27. > :09:30.to tax you on anything you want to sell to us and vice versa, if we

:09:31. > :09:34.come to a trade deal where you are taxing us, that is not good for us.

:09:35. > :09:37.It would be a good idea if there was no tariffs either way, that is what

:09:38. > :09:40.we talk about when we have a free-trade deal and that is what

:09:41. > :09:46.they want to see, tariffs as close to zero as possible. These business

:09:47. > :09:49.groups can only lobby their governments, and there is 27

:09:50. > :09:53.countries around the European Union who would all need to agree on

:09:54. > :09:56.something like that. Also, they will have things that they want as part

:09:57. > :10:00.of this agreement as well, whenever that happens, free movement of

:10:01. > :10:04.people is a big one for those in the European Union. If we want no

:10:05. > :10:09.tariffs, it may have to be a compromise somewhere along the way.

:10:10. > :10:10.NHS hospitals have made more money than ever from parking charges and

:10:11. > :10:19.fines. Figures from 89 health trusts

:10:20. > :10:24.across England suggest ?120 million was raised parking fees

:10:25. > :10:27.last year, up five Patient groups have criticised

:10:28. > :10:29.rising parking charges and the Department of Health said it

:10:30. > :10:32.expects Trusts to put concessions in place for disabled people,

:10:33. > :10:36.carers and shift workers. The Co-operative Group says it will

:10:37. > :10:39.open one-hundred stores across Britain next year. The move would

:10:40. > :10:42.create fifteen-hundred jobs. It opened a similar number of stores

:10:43. > :10:44.this year. The group said it will invest ?70m in the new shops, which

:10:45. > :10:46.will be spread throughout London, south-east England, Yorkshire and

:10:47. > :10:49.Scotland. The company is nearing the end of a three-year turnaround

:10:50. > :11:00.programme after a period of turmoil in its banking group. -- 1500.

:11:01. > :11:02.Dozens of people have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences

:11:03. > :11:07.A total of 97 people were held during the week-long

:11:08. > :11:09.operation, which also saw scores of businesses warned

:11:10. > :11:11.Fourteen people were identified as potentially being

:11:12. > :11:21.Unsettled weather during the past decade has had a dramatic impact

:11:22. > :11:24.on the UK's wildlife, according to the National Trust,

:11:25. > :11:26.with some of its sites recording huge falls in the number

:11:27. > :11:29.The charity says a combination of milder winters

:11:30. > :11:32.and wetter summers have boosted grass growth, which has been good

:11:33. > :11:38.for farmers making hay, but led to falls in insect numbers.

:11:39. > :11:54."Modern life" is being blamed for a major blight on the health

:11:55. > :11:58.Public Health England says more than 80% of those aged

:11:59. > :12:00.between 40 and 60 are either overweight,

:12:01. > :12:12.It says they're putting themselves at risk of diabetes,

:12:13. > :12:14.which already costs the NHS an estimated ?14 billion a year.

:12:15. > :12:16.Researchers say obesity has gone up by 16% over

:12:17. > :12:20.Many who took part in the study didn't even recognise what a healthy

:12:21. > :12:24.So Public Health England wants people to take a health quiz,

:12:25. > :12:26.to try get people to change their bad habits.

:12:27. > :12:29.Joining us now in the studio is Dr Ellie Cannon,

:12:30. > :12:31.and from our London newsroom is Penny Henderson who took

:12:32. > :12:33.the online health quiz and turned her life around.

:12:34. > :12:38.good morning. Penny Henderson took the online health quiz, very

:12:39. > :12:45.bravely, you are going public with what you have learned along the way!

:12:46. > :12:48.Would you lie to give us a quick snapshot of before and after, what

:12:49. > :12:55.were you doing, what have you change? Before, slowly crept up on

:12:56. > :12:59.me how much I was drinking Tom and not really exercising. And I think

:13:00. > :13:06.it happened very slowly, over the years. When I took the test, I was

:13:07. > :13:09.not that honest. I kind of light, even though I knew it was only to

:13:10. > :13:14.myself that was going to be looking at the results. I think I just did

:13:15. > :13:19.not say exactly how much I was drinking. -- how much I was

:13:20. > :13:23.drinking, and not really exercising. That was a wake-up call because I

:13:24. > :13:28.realised if I am lying to myself, it must be bad. I took the test, and

:13:29. > :13:31.even though I lied, it said I needed to look at my exercise and my

:13:32. > :13:39.alcohol intake. That was a real wake-up call. As a result of that, I

:13:40. > :13:44.looked at the recommendations, and downloaded the couch to five K, and

:13:45. > :13:48.that was a running app, which gets you off the couch slowly, walking

:13:49. > :13:54.and running, and get you back into fitness, and it was incredible, the

:13:55. > :13:59.results were just huge, for what a small change in my life. -- Couch to

:14:00. > :14:04.5k. What were the results, what changes could you physically feel?

:14:05. > :14:09.After I started running, I then started eating properly, because I

:14:10. > :14:14.had more nutritious foods, for breakfast, so that I could, you

:14:15. > :14:19.know, do a proper run, so as a result of starting to eat better, I

:14:20. > :14:23.also cut down on the alcohol, I cut it out altogether during the week

:14:24. > :14:27.and gave it to myself as a prize at the weekend, if I did well during

:14:28. > :14:33.the week. As a result, my whole lifestyle became more energetic, I

:14:34. > :14:37.had more time for things, it was an excuse before that I did not have

:14:38. > :14:42.time, it was once you begin making room for exercise you find you have

:14:43. > :14:45.more time. And I became less stressed, I could cope with work

:14:46. > :14:53.better, I was not as tired, and family life as well, it was more

:14:54. > :15:00.pleasant. Listening to you, in the studio with us, doctor Ellie, a lot

:15:01. > :15:04.of people will be nodding along recognising the before or after

:15:05. > :15:06.version, why is it that this age group is not hearing, because there

:15:07. > :15:19.had been plenty of messages. I think we know people between the

:15:20. > :15:28.ages of 40 to 60 are incredibly busy with work and family life, often a

:15:29. > :15:34.sandwich generation of people caught with looking after family. Tasty

:15:35. > :15:38.treats are just an arm's length away. I think Public Health England

:15:39. > :15:45.recognises that and wants to give easy ways to change that. What Penny

:15:46. > :15:48.says there, she almost didn't recognise it was happening, maybe it

:15:49. > :15:53.just slowly crept up on her that she wasn't doing any exercise and I

:15:54. > :15:57.think we should both come clear and say we've done the quiz this

:15:58. > :16:01.morning, haven't we Charlie? I will confess in front of you all, I don't

:16:02. > :16:05.think I was that honest! So I've come out of it really good but I

:16:06. > :16:12.think I've probably made myself sound better than I am. Digi give

:16:13. > :16:17.yourself a score out of ten? I think there are lots of aspects to being

:16:18. > :16:21.healthy and this time of year we concentrate on exercise or alcohol

:16:22. > :16:26.or quitting smoking, but what Public Health England found is that you --

:16:27. > :16:31.if you look at the NHS choices website, two of the most commonly

:16:32. > :16:36.searched aspects are how can I sleep better and how can I deal with

:16:37. > :16:41.stress? Those two things are also included in the quiz and they are

:16:42. > :16:46.steps you can take to improve your health. There are lots of different

:16:47. > :16:50.ways you can look at health, Penny spoke well about looking at the

:16:51. > :16:54.drinks tracker and the alcohol or the exercise. For other people it

:16:55. > :16:57.will be the food all the stress. This is about making small changes

:16:58. > :17:03.that can have this really big improvement for your long-term

:17:04. > :17:07.health. We are in that curious time of year, a lot of people will have

:17:08. > :17:13.overindulged and actually may be enjoyed it, and there is a danger

:17:14. > :17:18.sometimes they think, these people are coming in, telling me not to do

:17:19. > :17:25.this or that... The campaign was launched in March 2006 the and 1

:17:26. > :17:29.million people have already taken the quiz. A quarter of a million

:17:30. > :17:35.people downloaded the running. People want this, they want the

:17:36. > :17:39.help. The signposting is very good. It's not encouraging people to take

:17:40. > :17:42.on-board anything expensive or complicated. I think it's very

:17:43. > :17:47.doable and I think people want the change, they want the help. Penny,

:17:48. > :17:50.what is next for you. Will you be able to maintain this or have you

:17:51. > :17:58.got your site 's debt on longer runs? Yeah, each time I try and run

:17:59. > :18:01.a bit further or faster. The point is that it is achievable and you

:18:02. > :18:08.don't have to keep up the long runs, you can keep up short runs as well.

:18:09. > :18:12.The thing is to keep it always achievable and then you can keep it

:18:13. > :18:17.up. Thank you very much for your time this morning, Penny. Do you

:18:18. > :18:21.know what we do this time in the morning, Doctor Sally? We sit here

:18:22. > :18:25.on the sofa for three hours! That's like being a GP actually, you sit

:18:26. > :18:28.for hours at a time. You have to keep standing up. A cardiologist

:18:29. > :18:33.once said to me you should exercise for as many units as you do live

:18:34. > :18:39.television. Or whatever, if you have a job that's busy... Good luck with

:18:40. > :18:45.that! You can join me if you like! Lovely! 18 minutes past eight is the

:18:46. > :18:49.time now and you're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:18:50. > :18:53.Four in every five middle-aged people in England are said to be

:18:54. > :18:55.putting their health at risk because they're overweight,

:18:56. > :18:58.drinking too much or not doing enough exercise.

:18:59. > :19:04.The Japanese Prime Minister has offered everlasting condolences to

:19:05. > :19:14.the victims of Pearl Harbor. 75 years on, his words fell short of an

:19:15. > :19:18.apology for the attack. So, if you are intending to get outdoors, maybe

:19:19. > :19:25.go for a run or a walk or just stand there looking for the outdoors, that

:19:26. > :19:31.is good... Carol, what have you got for us? Some frost around and also

:19:32. > :19:35.some fog. A cold start, temperatures in Somerset close to freezing. For

:19:36. > :19:39.many of us, we are looking at frosty start, temperatures have fallen

:19:40. > :19:47.across parts of England and Wales and locally to -6 and also some fog,

:19:48. > :19:52.patchy fog. Those David Willetts into low cloud but there will be

:19:53. > :19:56.areas where it will be stubborn. Southern England and Wales, Northern

:19:57. > :20:00.Ireland, northern England, we will see some sunshine. Into the

:20:01. > :20:04.afternoon through the Northwest, more cloud around and spots of rain

:20:05. > :20:09.or some showers. Nothing substantial. Coming across most of

:20:10. > :20:15.England, watch out for that fog as it lived into low cloud, it will be

:20:16. > :20:20.fairly grey. Across southern countries especially close to the

:20:21. > :20:25.coast we will see some sunshine. Pleasant for the time of year in

:20:26. > :20:28.South England. In Wales too and in the West we will see some sunshine.

:20:29. > :20:37.There will be some cloud floating around the rest of Wales. Northern

:20:38. > :20:41.Ireland you've got that mixture of bright and sunny spells. The frost

:20:42. > :20:46.will return and we will see some fog forming. Some of it will be freezing

:20:47. > :20:52.fog. Patchy fog across Northern Ireland. Look at those temperatures,

:20:53. > :20:59.it's going to be a cold night tomorrow. Tomorrow very similar to

:21:00. > :21:06.today, any fog that forms will be slow to lift. Some of its sticking

:21:07. > :21:10.and impacting on the temperature. We will see some sunshine particularly

:21:11. > :21:13.heading down towards the south-west, parts of Wales and Northern Ireland

:21:14. > :21:18.and parts of north-east England and northern Scotland. That front will

:21:19. > :21:21.be making inroads across the Outer Hebrides and you can see how much

:21:22. > :21:29.milder it is as a result. During Friday that slips a little bit

:21:30. > :21:34.further south. For the rest of England and Wales, a few showers in

:21:35. > :21:38.the West, largely dry but any fog once again that has formed overnight

:21:39. > :21:43.across central southern England could be slow to clear. That leads

:21:44. > :21:49.us into New Year's Eve or Hogmanay, depending on where you are. It looks

:21:50. > :21:53.like we've got a weather front staggering slowly southwards taking

:21:54. > :21:58.windier weather with it. This chart finishes at three B. Further south,

:21:59. > :22:02.drier and milder, milder across-the-board actually. By

:22:03. > :22:06.midnight, we think this front will be across northern England, but that

:22:07. > :22:16.could well change. If you've got any late-night celebrations, keep

:22:17. > :22:19.up-to-date with the forecast. Behind that, colder air pulls in and we

:22:20. > :22:22.will see a return to some wintry showers in the North. Over the next

:22:23. > :22:27.few days we will keep you up-to-date with what is happening around the

:22:28. > :22:30.midnight hour as well. STUDIO

:22:31. > :22:41.Very important, that's what we need to know. Thank you very much. Around

:22:42. > :22:51.the more people are using virtual assistants like smart TVs and

:22:52. > :22:56.watches. Kettles as well, you could switch it on from your phone, on

:22:57. > :23:02.your sofa. There could be over 6 billion connected devices being used

:23:03. > :23:05.by the end of this year. But our technological devices don't come

:23:06. > :23:07.without risks. We could be sacrificing our privacy and opening

:23:08. > :23:15.ourselves up to hackers. This suburban family home may look

:23:16. > :23:22.safe and secure but inside there are intruders. That claim to make your

:23:23. > :23:27.life easier. But in reality, they could prove a threat. But it's not

:23:28. > :23:34.ghosts and ghouls you need to worry about, it's these. The hackers know

:23:35. > :23:39.how to control them. Today's modern household has more smart technology

:23:40. > :23:45.than ever before. By the end of 2016 it is estimated there will be 6.4

:23:46. > :23:51.billion connected things induced, with 5 million new devices going

:23:52. > :23:59.online everyday. We have connected light bulbs, Samsung smartphones,

:24:00. > :24:03.low security cameras which we use an a schedule. If I'm at work I can get

:24:04. > :24:06.a notification and I can see if it is a burglar or just my husband home

:24:07. > :24:15.early. Do you feel pretty secure them? With this, yes. That's what

:24:16. > :24:19.she thinks. Meet Matt. Without even getting out of his car, he can gain

:24:20. > :24:24.control of your home security, your lighting and even your cattle. The

:24:25. > :24:29.route would be an attractive target to any hacker. If they can somehow

:24:30. > :24:32.gain unauthorised access to that from this vicinity, they are

:24:33. > :24:37.suddenly on the home network. Once you're on the network, that's when

:24:38. > :24:42.you could start trying to gain unauthorised access to other systems

:24:43. > :24:47.on the network. But of course Matt is in a real hacker, he's a cyber

:24:48. > :24:51.security expert used by companies to find security weaknesses. It turns

:24:52. > :24:57.out that with the right know how you can drag pretty much everything. How

:24:58. > :25:01.old are you? I'm seven years old. She has Bluetooth capability and if

:25:02. > :25:05.you are within range, maybe 15 metres, you can connect to this toy

:25:06. > :25:10.without any authentication, any passwords. We've been able to show

:25:11. > :25:14.how you can start earning her microphone on to record audio. You

:25:15. > :25:23.can also play audio back through the speaker. I'm Kayla, I'm in control,

:25:24. > :25:28.I can say what I like. This is a smart TV. Depending on the level of

:25:29. > :25:32.access an attacker might have to your network, he might be able to do

:25:33. > :25:36.certain things like deploy malicious apps. Some smart TVs have the

:25:37. > :25:41.capability of recording audio. Hackers may be able to listen to

:25:42. > :25:44.what people are saying within the household. That's quite terrifying,

:25:45. > :25:49.thinking someone is listening to you from within your TV. So if you find

:25:50. > :25:54.a smart device under the tree this Christmas, the advice is to make

:25:55. > :25:57.sure it's secure, use passwords and check your privacy settings. That

:25:58. > :26:08.way you can ensure there are no ghosts in your machines. Holly

:26:09. > :26:18.Hamilton, BBC News. It is the ever so slightly twitchy I... Yes, Kayla

:26:19. > :26:22.the doll. She is watching you. She potentially is! If you are worried

:26:23. > :26:25.about what you can do to protect yourselves, we have got a few tips.

:26:26. > :26:27.Some of them are pretty basic and fairly obvious, although not so easy

:26:28. > :26:34.to do. Don't rely on the default one

:26:35. > :26:37.given by the manufacturer and make sure you change it

:26:38. > :26:40.on every single device. Make sure you have a security

:26:41. > :26:43.programme installed on your PCs, laptops and tablets to protect them

:26:44. > :26:45.from cyber attacks. And finally, keep updating the

:26:46. > :26:55.operating systems on your machines. The latest updates often mean

:26:56. > :26:58.the best security measures so don't ignore your devices

:26:59. > :27:06.when they offer one. I'm guilty of that. Yes, I put that

:27:07. > :27:11.off all the time. Also, don't make your password the most simple one,

:27:12. > :27:16.make it complicated with lots of different numbers and things. But

:27:17. > :27:18.then where do you write it down? In the secret Place! Yes but then you

:27:19. > :27:26.lose that, don't you! We will have tributes on Breakfast

:27:27. > :27:29.from all over the world to the actress Carrie Fisher. We will be

:27:30. > :27:31.speaking to one of her co-stars. That's coming up in a few minutes'

:27:32. > :30:51.time. I'm back with the latest

:30:52. > :30:53.from the BBC London Plenty more on our website

:30:54. > :30:57.at the usual address. Now though it's back

:30:58. > :30:59.to Charlie and Sally. Hello this is Breakfast

:31:00. > :31:07.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. It is exactly 8:30am. Our main story

:31:08. > :31:13.this morning. Middle-aged people are putting

:31:14. > :31:15.themselves at risk of serious health problems unless they take action

:31:16. > :31:17.to change their lifestyles, to 60-year-olds are overweight,

:31:18. > :31:22.drinking too much and not getting enough exercise,

:31:23. > :31:24.putting them at a greater risk of developing diseases

:31:25. > :31:26.like diabetes. They're being urged to take

:31:27. > :31:28.an online quiz to see how Harrison Ford has led

:31:29. > :31:31.tributes to Carrie Fisher, who has died at the age of 60,

:31:32. > :31:35.calling her "one of a kind". The Hollywood actress,

:31:36. > :31:38.best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars,

:31:39. > :31:40.had been in hospital since suffering a heart attack on a flight

:31:41. > :31:43.from London to Los Angeles last At 8.40, we'll be speaking

:31:44. > :31:50.to Carrie Fisher's Star Wars The Japanese prime

:31:51. > :31:55.minister Shinzo Abe has offered his sincere and everlasting

:31:56. > :31:57.condolences to the victims of his country's attack

:31:58. > :32:00.on the United States Standing alongside the US

:32:01. > :32:06.President Obama, the Japanese leader pledged that the horrors of war

:32:07. > :32:12.must never be repeated, Campaigners for an early Brexit have

:32:13. > :32:18.written to business organisations across Europe to try and drum up

:32:19. > :32:21.support for a free trade agreement with the European Union after the UK

:32:22. > :32:24.stops being a member. The campaign group

:32:25. > :32:26."Leave Means Leave" wants a trade deal with no

:32:27. > :32:28.taxes on goods travelling The government says it's working

:32:29. > :32:43.to secure the best possible deal. The Co-operative Group says it

:32:44. > :32:46.will open 100 more stores It opened a similar number

:32:47. > :32:52.of stores this year. The group said it will invest

:32:53. > :32:55.?70 million in the new shops, which will be spread throughout

:32:56. > :32:57.London, south-east England, The company is nearing the end

:32:58. > :33:01.of a three-year turnaround programme after a period of turmoil

:33:02. > :33:10.in its banking group. I'm settled weather during the last

:33:11. > :33:12.decade has had a dramatic impact on the UK's wildlife, according to the

:33:13. > :33:17.National Trust, with some of its sites recording

:33:18. > :33:19.huge falls in the number The charity says a combination

:33:20. > :33:23.of milder winters and wetter summers have boosted grass growth,

:33:24. > :33:25.which has been good for farmers making hay,

:33:26. > :33:39.but led to falls in insect numbers. and the next half an hour, we will

:33:40. > :33:49.speak to Star Wars actor, Warwick Davis, about his memories of former

:33:50. > :33:54.co-star, Kari Fisher. Harry Potter actor Mark Williams will be with us

:33:55. > :34:02.to tell us how he is turning detective once again. Who needs

:34:03. > :34:11.drama on the telly when you have got drama in sport this morning. Bad

:34:12. > :34:13.news for Bob Bradley, good news for Swansea fans I guess, because their

:34:14. > :34:18.chairman Hugh Jenkins is looking to make a change. He has got rid of Bob

:34:19. > :34:22.Bradley after just 11 games in charge. Swansea City, as I say,

:34:23. > :34:27.sacking their manager Bob Bradley after just 85 days in charge. The

:34:28. > :34:29.Swans are currently second bottom of the Premier League, having won just

:34:30. > :34:35.two games since Bradley's appointment in October. They are now

:34:36. > :34:39.looking for their fourth manager of 2016, with Ryan Giggs who missed out

:34:40. > :34:43.on the job last time and Wales manager Chris, both being linked

:34:44. > :34:44.with the role. Swansea's next match is against Bournemouth on New Year's

:34:45. > :34:48.Eve. Liverpool are up to 2nd Liverpool are up to second

:34:49. > :34:51.in the Premier League after a 4-1 They had to come from behind

:34:52. > :34:55.after Jon Walters put Stoke ahead Adam Lallana pulled them back level

:34:56. > :34:57.before Roberto Firmino put them in front just

:34:58. > :34:59.before the interval. An own goal pushed Liverpool

:35:00. > :35:01.further in-front before Daniel Sturridge added a fourth,

:35:02. > :35:03.which was Liverpool's 100th league They're now six points behind

:35:04. > :35:09.league leaders Chelsea. It's now 17 league games unbeaten

:35:10. > :35:15.for Chris Hughton's Brighton. They moved to the top

:35:16. > :35:18.of the Championship with a 3-0 win over struggling Queen's Park

:35:19. > :35:19.Rangers. Their final goal was

:35:20. > :35:21.a poignant moment for French He dedicated it to the memory

:35:22. > :35:28.of his late father by He later tweeted 'Nothing

:35:29. > :35:31.better than scoring for the main man in my life.

:35:32. > :35:34.Love You Daddy.' Ian Cathro has won his first match

:35:35. > :35:36.in charge of Hearts. They beat Kilmarnock 4-0 and stay

:35:37. > :35:39.fourth in the Scottish Premiership. Aberdeen stay a place

:35:40. > :35:41.above them in third, Russian officials have admitted

:35:42. > :35:50.for the first time the existence of a doping operation which affected

:35:51. > :35:52.some of the world's A report earlier this month claimed

:35:53. > :35:56.more than a thousand Russians benefited from a doping

:35:57. > :36:02.cover-up between 2011-2015. In interviews

:36:03. > :36:05.with the New York Times, officials acknowledged the programme

:36:06. > :36:11.but denied it was state-sponsored. The acting director general

:36:12. > :36:13.of Russia's anti-doping agency is quoted as saying

:36:14. > :36:15.it was an "international What a Christmas it's been

:36:16. > :36:22.for racing trainer Colin Tizzard. He's claimed his second major

:36:23. > :36:25.victory in as many days, after his horse Native River won

:36:26. > :36:27.the Welsh Grand National Native River was favourite

:36:28. > :36:31.for the race and hit the front It follows on from Tizzard's

:36:32. > :36:34.success with Thistlecrack, who won the King George Chase

:36:35. > :36:36.on Boxing Day. The two horses could now go

:36:37. > :36:54.up against each other my goodness, what a run. What a week

:36:55. > :36:58.for Colin Tizzard. Such a wonderful story as well with Thistlecrack.

:36:59. > :37:03.Great story, but the big news of the day, Swansea looking for a new

:37:04. > :37:07.manager with Bob Bradley. Yeah, and last time they did actually talk to

:37:08. > :37:13.Ryan Giggs. They did come he was interviewed, overlooked for the job.

:37:14. > :37:17.Francesco Guidolin Kim Young, since Bob Bradley has come in, Alan Pardew

:37:18. > :37:21.also being linked with the role. Kris Commons as well. They are

:37:22. > :37:24.looking to make a change with the January transfer window coming up.

:37:25. > :37:28.They will need signings if they are to get out of trouble at the bottom

:37:29. > :37:33.of the Premier League. Peggy very much. The time now is 8:37am. As we

:37:34. > :37:38.have been hearing this morning from Carol, today's whether expected to

:37:39. > :37:42.be mostly foggy and cold but the majority of us are yet to see the

:37:43. > :37:46.bitter temperatures you might expect this time of year. In fact, this

:37:47. > :37:48.winter has been pretty mouth so far, which has had a huge impact on the

:37:49. > :37:53.UK's wildlife. Let's find out more

:37:54. > :37:55.from Breakfast's Tim Muffett, who's at Tyntesfield

:37:56. > :38:17.National Trust Estate, Temperatures generally have been

:38:18. > :38:20.pretty mild. Hopefully you can hear what I'm saying right now, if you

:38:21. > :38:24.technical issues, but as we have been hearing, the impact weather has

:38:25. > :38:27.had on wildlife is something the National Trust assess every year,

:38:28. > :38:33.and what impact has it been having this year? I have finding out.

:38:34. > :38:40.This year beef farmer Rob Havard made a while the sun shone. And was

:38:41. > :38:47.the rain came. And still his grass grows. We have seen a really good

:38:48. > :38:50.grass growth rate throughout the season. There was a lot of grass on

:38:51. > :38:54.the ground at the moment, and we are in end of December now, still

:38:55. > :39:00.grazing outside, so every day I can keep my cattle out of the shed. I

:39:01. > :39:05.think it is better for them. So why the rampant grass growth? Well, a

:39:06. > :39:12.mild, wet winter was followed by a cold spring, and then became more

:39:13. > :39:17.mild wet weather in May and June. Ideal conditions in which grass can

:39:18. > :39:21.grow. The rate of grass growth was in many places a third faster than

:39:22. > :39:25.normal, according to the agriculture and horticulture at the element

:39:26. > :39:31.board. Conservationists are assessing the impact. Excessive

:39:32. > :39:35.grass growth, why should anyone care about that? A lot of our rarer

:39:36. > :39:40.plants and animals, particularly the insects, live here in very short

:39:41. > :39:45.turf. If it gets covered over by these coarse grasses, populations of

:39:46. > :39:50.those rare insects plummet. And that has been an issue in 2016? Threw

:39:51. > :39:57.yes, definitely. Matthew Dixon has been assess Inbee whether's impact

:39:58. > :40:08.on wildlife that ten years. The losers have been butterflies, Bese,

:40:09. > :40:11.butterflies. Now wasps got it very badly by the despicable summer of

:40:12. > :40:17.2012 and have not really recovered. We usually get a lot of wasps

:40:18. > :40:22.nesting on this huge grassland bank, and we had no wasp nests at all this

:40:23. > :40:26.year, none. Surely that is a good thing, people hate wasps. They are

:40:27. > :40:33.actually really important parts of the food chain. They are really

:40:34. > :40:38.quite good at controlling a lot of tests and nasty little insectlike

:40:39. > :40:42.blackfly and greenfly. One of the things that should be properly

:40:43. > :40:46.hibernating, butterflies and moths, when you get a mild month, they are

:40:47. > :40:49.not hibernating properly, they are out and about, which is not good for

:40:50. > :40:54.them because they burn off that energy. As ever, there were wildlife

:40:55. > :41:01.winners in 2016, helped in part by wind direction. It has been a

:41:02. > :41:07.fantastic day for migrant birds. Strong winds from the east, that

:41:08. > :41:11.helps. Yes, we had over 200 Goldcrest arrived one day. From a

:41:12. > :41:16.slug's point of view, it was an excellent year. From a garden's

:41:17. > :41:20.point of view, it was disastrous. We keep getting these mild, wet winters

:41:21. > :41:25.and we keep getting short spells of good weather. We have not had a good

:41:26. > :41:34.summer since 2006. We are overdue for it.

:41:35. > :41:42.Here they have been mowing the lawn is full they should have been, it's

:41:43. > :41:48.under control here but as you saw in the report, that excessive grass

:41:49. > :41:51.growth has had a real impact in other places. A good year for

:41:52. > :41:54.apples, many side Mane many factories say they have seen a

:41:55. > :41:56.bumper crop but it's that longer term picture which has lots of

:41:57. > :42:03.people interested, can these mild winters continue over the next ten

:42:04. > :42:05.years? Pretty cold this morning, a picture of things to come? We will

:42:06. > :42:12.have to wait and see. What have you got for us? It's a

:42:13. > :42:28.cold and foggy start the day. You can see in Sidcup, foggy start,

:42:29. > :42:35.in Nottinghamshire, a frosty start, clearer skies. This money, we do

:42:36. > :42:42.have some rocky patches, most of those in England and Wales, some

:42:43. > :42:47.cloud will be stubborn to lift, we'll get temperature is not really

:42:48. > :42:51.breaking freezing. At the other end of the country, thicker cloud in

:42:52. > :42:54.North-West Scotland, but some breaks in the cloud with some sunshine

:42:55. > :43:02.coming through. Northern England, some sunshine, as we sink

:43:03. > :43:05.southwards, mixed fortunes. Where the forklift, it would be great but

:43:06. > :43:12.in southern counties, some sunshine, particularly so close to the coast.

:43:13. > :43:15.For south-west England, some sunshine and also across Wales,

:43:16. > :43:19.especially in the West. If you are stepping up for a walk, but the time

:43:20. > :43:24.of year, it will feel pleasant enough but you will need to wrap up

:43:25. > :43:29.warm. For Northern Ireland, variable amounts of cloud and also some

:43:30. > :43:32.sunshine. Through the evening and overnight, it'll turn frosty code

:43:33. > :43:37.quickly and we will see a return to some fog, especially across England

:43:38. > :43:41.and Wales, some of which will be dense. We will hang onto the breeze

:43:42. > :43:47.and thicker cloud across the North-West with the rain starting to

:43:48. > :43:53.come in to the Outer Hebrides. The frog, slow to clear, lingering for

:43:54. > :43:55.some, breaking across southern counties, heading towards consensus,

:43:56. > :44:03.and the parts of Wales, some sunshine. Parts of North-East

:44:04. > :44:12.Scotland, a band of rain slowly advancing. Look at the different

:44:13. > :44:17.temperatures. As we head into Friday, the front sinks further

:44:18. > :44:21.south, we will see some rain in northern England, Northern Ireland,

:44:22. > :44:25.but here it is milder. Any book could be slow to clear for Central

:44:26. > :44:30.and southern England and they will be more cloud around, one or two

:44:31. > :44:34.showers in the West but some breaks as well, not as mild as across

:44:35. > :44:39.Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern England. The New Year's

:44:40. > :44:43.Eve, this could all change, but we think at the moment over the front

:44:44. > :44:48.will sink southwards, this chart stops at three in the afternoon, I

:44:49. > :44:52.midnight, and current thinking, we think that front will be sitting

:44:53. > :44:55.across northern England and North Wales, that could change, further

:44:56. > :45:01.south we are looking at Trier and milder conditions. By the time we

:45:02. > :45:06.get the New Year's Day, that whips down into the South-East, eventually

:45:07. > :45:11.clearing, colder air streams in behind it and some of the showers we

:45:12. > :45:19.have will be wintry. I will keep you up-to-date with the latest thinking.

:45:20. > :45:36.Thanks very much! We were busy chatting! Shouldn't be doing that.

:45:37. > :45:41.The classic English whodunnit, starring a crime solving ability

:45:42. > :45:46.priest might not sound like it would have mass appeal in the US but it

:45:47. > :45:53.turns out the Americans are big fans of Father Brown, now in its fifth

:45:54. > :45:59.series. Mark plays the title role. Good morning! Would you say, it is a

:46:00. > :46:07.career space of lovely, watchable tele-? It's good storytelling,

:46:08. > :46:13.that's what it's about. Also, the Scandinavians, Russians love it as

:46:14. > :46:23.well. The Scandinavians like the dark gloom, what they want is a bit

:46:24. > :46:27.of Cotswolds... Look at your character, clutching something

:46:28. > :46:33.there. When do you feel like you are in character, is it when you put on

:46:34. > :46:42.the robes or the hat? I remember the moment was when we did the original

:46:43. > :46:49.costume treating, at the ecclesiastical outfitters in

:46:50. > :46:55.Westminster. With Giles, the original costume designer. I put it

:46:56. > :47:00.all on and thought, that will do! Suddenly you feel like you are

:47:01. > :47:05.Father Brown. It's not an easy costume to wear, I imagine. You have

:47:06. > :47:11.two zone out a bit because we film in the summer. A couple of seasons

:47:12. > :47:17.ago, I was wearing the hat, the road, the trousers, the shirt

:47:18. > :47:24.underneath and a coat. On the hottest day of the year. All the

:47:25. > :47:31.crew were wearing flip-flops. They were slapping on actor 50. He is not

:47:32. > :47:37.strictly speaking a detective. He is a sleuth! He has that ability to

:47:38. > :47:44.hover around situations and listening, watching people closely.

:47:45. > :47:47.Yes, he is nosy. Chesterton said that he would interested in things

:47:48. > :47:53.that other people didn't find important, which is kind of the

:47:54. > :48:01.route he finds room. How did you start with this? Is it something

:48:02. > :48:05.like 60 episodes now? Yes, in five years, which is kind of American

:48:06. > :48:10.standard! When you first heard about it, did you think, this is the sort

:48:11. > :48:15.of thing I should be doing? Or was it a bit like a change of direction

:48:16. > :48:24.for you? I was offered the part, which is always a really seductive

:48:25. > :48:27.way of changing direction! When we were doing publicity for Harry

:48:28. > :48:36.Potter in New York, I asked the producer, the presiding genius apart

:48:37. > :48:48.from Joe, I said, did you ever think you have made this many films? And

:48:49. > :48:52.he said, no. I imagine, for so many people, being in a film like that

:48:53. > :49:01.which turned into something huge, it's not just a film, is it? Its

:49:02. > :49:08.life changing. Well, I think it's much more collaborative than you

:49:09. > :49:13.think. And you are in a tribe. Once you join the tribe, once you have

:49:14. > :49:22.been initiated, then you are there. So you kind of travel together. You

:49:23. > :49:28.are never on your own. Life changes for you, I suppose. Is there a

:49:29. > :49:36.moment when you think it changes, or does it happen gradually? I've never

:49:37. > :49:43.felt that. Except when I thought, I think I can be an actor! That was

:49:44. > :49:45.about it, really? Lovely to see you. Father Brown is on BBC One next

:49:46. > :49:50.Monday. "Funny and emotionally fearless",

:49:51. > :49:56.the words of Harrison Ford to describe Carrie Fisher

:49:57. > :49:59.after her death at the age of 60. It's just one of many

:50:00. > :50:01.tributes from the actress's Our Entertainment Correspondent

:50:02. > :50:48.Colin Paterson is here and we can also speak to Warwick Davis,

:50:49. > :50:51.who appeared alongside Carrie Fisher as the Ewok, Wicket,

:50:52. > :51:06.in the Return of the Jedi. Warwick, if I can come to you first

:51:07. > :51:14.of all, I guess you have known Carrie Fisher almost all of your

:51:15. > :51:20.life now. That's right. I first met Carrie when I was 11 years old,

:51:21. > :51:27.working on return of the Jedi. On initially meeting Carrie, I did not

:51:28. > :51:32.seek Carrie Fisher, I saw Princess Leia. As I got to know her more and

:51:33. > :51:37.more I got to understand what a kind and fun person she was to be around.

:51:38. > :51:40.She really guided me through the making of that film, because I was

:51:41. > :51:46.new to the business, I didn't understand anything about how you

:51:47. > :51:49.make movies, and Carrie was an integral part of me understanding

:51:50. > :51:54.the business and how to behave onset and all that sort of thing. She was

:51:55. > :51:57.also very concerned for me being in a hot e-book costume and was

:51:58. > :52:09.standing by with chocolate milk and cookies to revive me. -- in a hot

:52:10. > :52:12.Ewok costume. She like to be with? She was great fun. You become part

:52:13. > :52:16.of the Star Wars family when you work on a Star Wars movie and I was

:52:17. > :52:24.often part of that, I would often see her at first jackets and also at

:52:25. > :52:29.live Star Wars events. I used to host Star Wars television events and

:52:30. > :52:33.recently interviewed Carrie in London on stage in front of 4000

:52:34. > :52:39.people, and she was just fantastic, very, very sharp. And also just

:52:40. > :52:43.relayed great stories about Star Wars, very frank stories about being

:52:44. > :52:48.on those movies, which the fans loved. You felt like you really knew

:52:49. > :52:53.Carrie Fisher, the person behind Princess Leia. What is emerging

:52:54. > :52:58.today as you hear people's tributes, real affection, and people saying

:52:59. > :53:09.how funny she was. Allanbridge and was talking about her writing. That

:53:10. > :53:16.is a part -- Alan Ewok talking about her writing. You don't always see

:53:17. > :53:22.the very funny, the very warm person. Someone very unaffected by

:53:23. > :53:29.the fame. She was hugely recognised wherever she went but at the same

:53:30. > :53:33.time she was a very unaffected person by that fame. She did have

:53:34. > :53:37.mental health issues and what have you but she was a very down-to-earth

:53:38. > :53:42.person, she had no airs and graces. I never saw her wanting to be

:53:43. > :53:45.treated like a celebrity. She was Carrie Fisher, and what was lovely

:53:46. > :53:55.is that she went with her dog, Gary, everywhere. The shared the stage

:53:56. > :54:01.with Carrie whenever I interviewed her. Warwick was talking about what

:54:02. > :54:05.a character she was weird seeing some of those pictures, the dog in

:54:06. > :54:10.hand. There was a lot going on, wasn't there? She had a colourful

:54:11. > :54:14.life. She managed managed to get Gary the French bulldog certified as

:54:15. > :54:23.a therapy dog so that you could ever -- so she could always take him with

:54:24. > :54:28.her on planes. She would arrive at a premiere just have a handful of

:54:29. > :54:31.glitter and corrupt to the fans and blew the glitter into them, and that

:54:32. > :54:36.just make someone's day or week if they start the something like that

:54:37. > :54:39.to you. And alongside that, a real gift and talent for writing, and for

:54:40. > :54:46.impact on other people, other actors as well. Warwick was touching on it,

:54:47. > :54:54.in 1990, her semiautobiographical novel postcards from the edge was

:54:55. > :54:57.adapted into a novel, and she wrote -- was adapted into a movie starring

:54:58. > :55:03.Meryl Streep, and she wrote the screenplay for that. She became one

:55:04. > :55:08.of the 1990s most successful script doctors. They come in and make films

:55:09. > :55:12.better towards the end. Steven Spielberg got her intimate Look

:55:13. > :55:17.better. Whoopi Goldberg, Sister act. Carrie Fisher's words in that. She

:55:18. > :55:22.wrote Renny Rousso's dialogue for lethal weapon three, she even had a

:55:23. > :55:25.go at making our watchword is mega funny in the last action hero. If

:55:26. > :55:31.there was anyone who could do that, I imagine it was Carrie Fisher.

:55:32. > :55:35.Warwick, one of the things we have seen this morning is Carrie Fisher's

:55:36. > :55:39.one-liner, and bits of general life advice, so to put you on the spot,

:55:40. > :55:44.but what is the best bit of advice or the best one-liner you have ever

:55:45. > :55:49.heard from her. She didn't necessarily give me any advice, but

:55:50. > :55:52.one of my favourite memories of Carrie was actually from the

:55:53. > :55:56.interview I did with her on stage more recently. I put a storm trooper

:55:57. > :56:00.helmet on my head, asked her to close her eyes, and I said when you

:56:01. > :56:04.open your eyes and look at me, so the first thing that comes to mind.

:56:05. > :56:07.I was looking for aren't you a little short for a storm trooper,

:56:08. > :56:12.one of her most famous lines from Star Wars, at what she did say was

:56:13. > :56:15.those always a bigger fish, which was another line from the Star Wars

:56:16. > :56:20.movie, wasn't something she said, but was brilliantly funny the time.

:56:21. > :56:25.So yes, that brings a smile to my face, that moment. Warwick Davis,

:56:26. > :56:31.thank you very much for joining us here this morning. And to you too.

:56:32. > :56:32.The time now is 8:56am. A last quick look at the headlines when you are

:56:33. > :58:08.this morning. look at the headlines when you are

:58:09. > :58:17.some areas, giving a card and dull day. That is it from me, goodbye.

:58:18. > :58:22.That is pretty much it from breakfast this morning, we have been

:58:23. > :58:25.reflecting a bit on the life of Carrie Fisher this morning, really

:58:26. > :58:32.interesting hearing anecdotes and stories of affection from her

:58:33. > :58:36.colleagues and fellow stars. And she had some of the best one-liners, she

:58:37. > :58:40.said I don't think in my brain, I think in my mouth, so I don't like a

:58:41. > :58:45.just come straight out. Colin says when she was working the red carpet

:58:46. > :58:48.and speaking to her, she was dynamite in those situations. We

:58:49. > :58:53.will be back tomorrow morning from 6am when we will be joined by the

:58:54. > :58:56.actor and comedian, Diane Morgan. From now, from everyone here, have a

:58:57. > :59:01.lovely day, goodbye. if we look hard enough we'll get

:59:02. > :59:08.to unlock the past.