29/12/2016

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

:00:08. > :00:09.The veteran Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died

:00:10. > :00:13.just a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

:00:14. > :00:17.She was 84 and had been rushed to hospital with a suspected stroke.

:00:18. > :00:20.Her son said the stress of his sister's death was too

:00:21. > :00:37.It's Thursday, the 29th of December.

:00:38. > :00:44.Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family

:00:45. > :00:49.That's the stark warning from the UK's leading GP.

:00:50. > :00:51.In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has announced his retirement

:00:52. > :00:55.from cycling, after a career during which he won five Olympic

:00:56. > :01:01.Lawyers for a group of children who lived in the Calais Jungle

:01:02. > :01:04.refuge camp launch a legal challenge accusing the British government

:01:05. > :01:12.of breaking its promise to take a fair share of the most vulnerable.

:01:13. > :01:14.Interest rates, the prices in our shops and the strength

:01:15. > :01:17.of the pound will all be closely watched next year.

:01:18. > :01:21.I'll be taking a look at the big stories for our finances in 2017.

:01:22. > :01:28.And Carol has our weather forecast. Very similar to what we had

:01:29. > :01:33.yesterday. Starting on a frosty note, with patchy fog, some of which

:01:34. > :01:37.is dense and will be slow to clear. But there is sunshine in the

:01:38. > :01:38.forecast and some rain coming in the north-west. More details in 15

:01:39. > :01:39.minutes. The Hollywood actress

:01:40. > :01:43.Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death

:01:44. > :01:46.of her daughter, the film star She was 84 and is believed

:01:47. > :01:51.to have suffered a stroke. Her career spanned seven decades,

:01:52. > :01:56.but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical,

:01:57. > :01:59.Singin' in the Rain, Our Los Angeles correspondent

:02:00. > :02:11.David Willis reports. Good morning, good morning, it's

:02:12. > :02:16.great to stay up late. Good morning, good morning to you. Debbie

:02:17. > :02:20.Reynolds, 19 years old, singing and dancing on film for the very first

:02:21. > :02:25.time. It was her performance alongside Gene Kelly in Singin' in

:02:26. > :02:31.the Rain that set her on the path to fame. Born in Texas, she moved with

:02:32. > :02:34.her family to California and landed a contract with Warner Brothers

:02:35. > :02:39.after winning a local beauty contest at the age of 16. She married the

:02:40. > :02:44.popular crooner Eddie Fisher and together they had two children,

:02:45. > :02:49.Carrie and Todd. He later left her for Elizabeth Taylor, a friend of

:02:50. > :02:53.hers at the time. Two subsequent marriages also ended in divorce. A

:02:54. > :02:58.popular choice for movie musicals in the 1950s and 60, Debbie Reynolds

:02:59. > :03:05.got a -- earned an Oscar nomination for her depiction of a titanic

:03:06. > :03:18.survivor in the unthinkable Bobby Brown. She opened her on hotel,

:03:19. > :03:23.filling it with movie memorabilia she had accumulated, but she was

:03:24. > :03:29.forced to auction it. I seem to marry very poorly, I have no taste

:03:30. > :03:33.in men. Lucky for me what was good and I have two lovely children and

:03:34. > :03:45.my son helps me run my hotel in Vegas. Good morning, good morning...

:03:46. > :03:50.She went on to play Grace's mother in Will and Grace and played

:03:51. > :03:55.Liberace's mother of in Behind the Candelabra. She suffered a terrible

:03:56. > :03:58.loss when her daughter died after suffering a heart attack on a flight

:03:59. > :04:03.from London to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. She herself was taken

:04:04. > :04:10.ill while discussing the arrangements for her funeral.

:04:11. > :04:10.Singer, dancer, Hollywood icon. Debbie

:04:11. > :04:21.Reynolds was 84. We will be talking to our Los Angeles correspondent

:04:22. > :04:22.about Debbie Reynolds a little bit later.

:04:23. > :04:26.Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family

:04:27. > :04:28.doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP.

:04:29. > :04:30.Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs,

:04:31. > :04:33.says that longer waiting times could pose a "serious

:04:34. > :04:41.Every winter and increasing workload puts pressure on NHS because more

:04:42. > :04:45.people are sick. Some patients are already waiting to - three weeks to

:04:46. > :04:50.get a seat in the AGP's waiting-room. Come on in and have a

:04:51. > :04:54.seat. Now the chair of the Royal College of GPs says that's likely to

:04:55. > :04:57.climb to over a month in some areas and she is profoundly concerned

:04:58. > :05:02.about how general practice will cope. Firstly, there just aren't

:05:03. > :05:06.enough GPs out there. We don't have enough conditions in the workforce,

:05:07. > :05:11.and we haven't got enough nurses and other healthcare professionals.

:05:12. > :05:14.Secondly, there's been a serious underinvestment in practitioners for

:05:15. > :05:18.up to a decade. We have some promises of good news coming, more

:05:19. > :05:22.money and people coming through the system, but they've yet to get to

:05:23. > :05:26.the front line, so the problem this winter is as bad as it has ever been

:05:27. > :05:30.and that's a real worry. She says she is particularly worried about

:05:31. > :05:33.the impact on preventative care and chronic disease management, while

:05:34. > :05:38.the knock-on consequences could take years to manifest. The people who

:05:39. > :05:41.suffer are those with long-term conditions, because we have to

:05:42. > :05:45.prioritise those who are sick today. If however we are ignoring those

:05:46. > :05:49.with longer term conditions then we are storing up albums for the future

:05:50. > :05:53.and increasing their risks in the long-term. NHS England says GP

:05:54. > :06:00.services are on track to receive an extra 2.5 million by 2020, and will

:06:01. > :06:03.expand access to appointments throughout the week.

:06:04. > :06:06.We'll speak to the chair of the Royal College of GPs

:06:07. > :06:17.Going back to our top story, the death of Hollywood actress Debbie

:06:18. > :06:26.Reynolds. David Willis joins us now from Los Angeles. After the death of

:06:27. > :06:30.Carrie Fisher two days ago, this is, just on a personal level, a very

:06:31. > :06:38.tragic story for the family. Absolutely. Poignant and ironic as

:06:39. > :06:47.well, bearing in mind that Debbie Reynolds had been at her son, Todd

:06:48. > :06:50.Fisher, his house in Beverly Hills and apparently they were discussing

:06:51. > :06:55.plans for Carrie Fisher's funeral. She developed reading difficulties,

:06:56. > :07:00.was taken to hospital and a couple of hours later was said to have

:07:01. > :07:07.died. It appears of a stroke. Toured Fisher has said that her final words

:07:08. > :07:12.were, I just want to be with Carrie. He says for his part he is

:07:13. > :07:19.heartbroken and this truly is a family tragedy, because spare a

:07:20. > :07:23.thought if you will for Carrie Fisher's daughter, also an actress.

:07:24. > :07:29.She revealed to the press that Carrie Fisher had died on Tuesday

:07:30. > :07:35.and she in the last 24 hours had lost both her mother and a

:07:36. > :07:39.grandmother. Just a thought for us. Debbie Reynolds was very much a star

:07:40. > :07:46.from a different era of Hollywood. Very much so. A Hollywood icon, if

:07:47. > :07:51.you like. A star from the golden age of Hollywood. This is somebody who

:07:52. > :07:57.got their big break at the age of 19 in a film with a veteran called Gene

:07:58. > :08:02.Kelly, who was by all accounts not terribly impressed with the

:08:03. > :08:07.selection of this young lady as the lead female in that film, she blew

:08:08. > :08:12.everyone away, despite never having some or danced on camera before. She

:08:13. > :08:16.went on to make a series of films in the 1950s and 60s, before

:08:17. > :08:19.transferring the television and the stage. David, for the moment, thank

:08:20. > :08:23.you. Dozens of children who lived

:08:24. > :08:25.in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge

:08:26. > :08:28.against the Home Office over its handling of

:08:29. > :08:29.asylum applications. Lawyers representing 36

:08:30. > :08:31.children say the government broke its promise to take

:08:32. > :08:35.in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have

:08:36. > :08:37.had their applications turned down Let's speak to our political

:08:38. > :08:48.correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. What can you tell us about the legal

:08:49. > :08:51.challenge? These lawyers, as you say, representing some of the

:08:52. > :08:56.children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp, before it was taken

:08:57. > :09:00.down in October, they are accusing the government of failing to bring

:09:01. > :09:04.some of the most vulnerable child refugees to the UK. These lawyers

:09:05. > :09:07.represent 28 children who have already had their asylum

:09:08. > :09:12.applications rejected, a further eight are a waiting decision. These

:09:13. > :09:16.lawyers say some applications were dismissed without good reason and so

:09:17. > :09:20.they have launched a legal challenge. We asked the Home Office

:09:21. > :09:23.for their response and they said it would be inappropriate to comment

:09:24. > :09:28.while legal proceedings were ongoing. We do know that about 900

:09:29. > :09:35.children have been brought to the UK this year, about 750 at accompanied

:09:36. > :09:39.children have been bought from France. What we know now is the

:09:40. > :09:44.current transfer of children from France has now ended, but we do

:09:45. > :09:49.expect more eligible children from across Europe, including from

:09:50. > :09:51.countries like Greece and Italy. We expect them to be brought to the UK

:09:52. > :09:53.in the coming months. Thank you. Rebel groups expected to meet

:09:54. > :09:56.Russian negotiators in Turkey today as part of a fresh push

:09:57. > :09:59.for a ceasefire in Syria. One key group says it's already been

:10:00. > :10:02.in talks with Turkish officials about ways

:10:03. > :10:04.to end the fighting, but that it's too early to say

:10:05. > :10:09.whether there could be a truce. It's believed one key point

:10:10. > :10:11.of contention is the exclusion of a key rebel-held area

:10:12. > :10:23.on the outskirts of Damascus An automatic braking system

:10:24. > :10:27.prevented a Tunisian man from killing many more people when he

:10:28. > :10:29.drove a lorry into a Berlin Christmas market, according to

:10:30. > :10:34.German media reports. The system kicked in when the lorry hit the

:10:35. > :10:36.first market stalls. 12 people died in the attack which took place

:10:37. > :10:36.earlier this month. Barcodes are to be printed

:10:37. > :10:39.on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips

:10:40. > :10:42.and surgical tools in an effort to reduce the rate of avoidable

:10:43. > :10:56.deaths in English hospitals. They say the idea could also save

:10:57. > :11:03.the NHS up to ?1 billion over seven years.

:11:04. > :11:09.Apparently migrating birds are arriving at their breeding grounds

:11:10. > :11:12.of earlier, as global temperatures rise.

:11:13. > :11:16.The research conducted by scientists at the University of Adelaide say

:11:17. > :11:18.some species are missing out on vital resources like food and

:11:19. > :11:29.nesting places as a result. Up, up and away. At least 4000

:11:30. > :11:35.different species of birds, with some flying many thousands of mild

:11:36. > :11:43.from one continent to another, any moving to where they breed in the

:11:44. > :11:47.winter. Scientists say the changing climate is having an effect on

:11:48. > :11:51.somehow plants and animals behave and now scientists at the university

:11:52. > :11:54.of Edinburgh as a some are reaching their summer grounds earlier, on

:11:55. > :11:57.average one day soon for every one degree in Greece in temperature.

:11:58. > :12:02.They see reaching these grounds at the wrong time even by a few days

:12:03. > :12:07.could mean birds miss out on food and nesting places. Those with

:12:08. > :12:12.further to go may miss out most at which may affect those born and

:12:13. > :12:18.their chances of survival. Researchers hope scientists will be

:12:19. > :12:20.able to improve their research into how animals respond to current and

:12:21. > :12:26.future environmental change. Keepers at Chester Zoo

:12:27. > :12:28.are celebrating the arrival This six-foot-tall youngster,

:12:29. > :12:33.who is yet to be named, The Rothschild giraffe is said to be

:12:34. > :12:42.one of the most endangered species of the animal, with fewer

:12:43. > :12:56.than 1600 left in the wild. It is very, very cute. You know the

:12:57. > :13:01.great giraffe that I've got? They spend 16- 20 hours everyday eating.

:13:02. > :13:07.Is that unusual for an animal? It is quite a lot of time.

:13:08. > :13:09.What about a cow? They spend all day! I'm not impressed with those

:13:10. > :13:15.stats. On the whole, most animals that are

:13:16. > :13:22.roaming... I'm going to get a better giraffe

:13:23. > :13:28.sacked for next time, OK? Anyway, Bradley Wiggins, we're

:13:29. > :13:34.talking about the retirement of written's most decorated Olympian.

:13:35. > :13:38.There will be a massive hole on the British sporting landscape in 2017

:13:39. > :13:44.without Sir Bradley Wiggins. He has been a talisman for British sport.

:13:45. > :13:50.How many years? 16 years he has been an Olympian and he has risen through

:13:51. > :13:53.the ranks of cycling and to become a sporting superpower, really.

:13:54. > :13:58.Often we complain about characters in sport and how there aren't enough

:13:59. > :14:02.of them, IT delivered on both accounts. Amazing sporting success,

:14:03. > :14:08.in terms of medals and achievements, but also a really unusual character.

:14:09. > :14:12.He was a rock star. I remember when he was the sports personality in 20

:14:13. > :14:15.years. Everyone was a little bit nervous

:14:16. > :14:20.about how his speech was going to go. He is that sort of person. He

:14:21. > :14:24.changes the atmosphere in a room. He does. And when he brings his a

:14:25. > :14:25.game, personality wise he is a superstar.

:14:26. > :14:28.Sir Bradley Wiggins said he had achieved his childhood dreams,

:14:29. > :14:29.following his retirement from cycling.

:14:30. > :14:32.Wiggins was the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France,

:14:33. > :14:35.and he is the most decorated British Olympian, with eight medals

:14:36. > :14:40.Tottenham beat Southampton 4-1, to move within a point

:14:41. > :14:44.Dele Alli scored the first and last goals for Spurs

:14:45. > :14:52.In the Scottish Premiership, second-placed Rangers were held

:14:53. > :14:53.1-1 at St Johnstone.

:14:54. > :14:57.They're now 16 points behind Celtic, who beat Ross County.

:14:58. > :15:00.And defending champion Gary Anderson is through to the quarter-finals

:15:01. > :15:08.He beat the Dutchman Benito van de Pass 4-2 at Alexandra Palace.

:15:09. > :15:16.You know it is Christmas when there is darts on the television.

:15:17. > :15:18.Yes! Charlie spent quite a bit of time invested in the darts

:15:19. > :15:24.yesterday. It is quite a spectacle.

:15:25. > :15:26.Have you got a giraffe fact? Charlie is not happy with my giraffe

:15:27. > :15:33.fact. Totally unprepared. You never know

:15:34. > :15:39.what you will get. I was impressed because they spend

:15:40. > :15:44.almost all of their daily eating, about 16- 20 hours.

:15:45. > :15:49.That is an amazing fact. Charlie says it is rubbish.

:15:50. > :15:56.All who animals spend hours eating grass. But 20 hours, I am with

:15:57. > :15:58.Sally. We are divided. Ask your average cowl, they won't be

:15:59. > :16:02.impressed. Charlie says my next fact should be

:16:03. > :16:16.that giraffes have long neck. This is the front page of the Daily

:16:17. > :16:20.Telegraph. Sir Bradley Wiggins who announced his retirement yesterday.

:16:21. > :16:24.That sums him up. As we said a moment ago, quite rock and roll, a

:16:25. > :16:34.bit of a rock star. The main story is saying there was a move to

:16:35. > :16:37.Theresa May to reconsider reforms. Two stories on the front of the

:16:38. > :16:42.Daily Mail. We can't confirm this. There are suggestions that Victoria

:16:43. > :16:48.Beckham have been given an OBE. We don't know anything about that at

:16:49. > :16:52.this stage. Millions of tons of wrapping paper and Christmas cards

:16:53. > :16:57.and up in landfill because it can't be recycled if it has glitter on

:16:58. > :17:06.them. You can't recycle...? Apparently. Freezing fog causing

:17:07. > :17:12.terrible trouble on the road yesterday. We will be talking to

:17:13. > :17:17.Carol soon. Also a record high as well. Sometimes around Christmas,

:17:18. > :17:20.these things jump to new heights. More importantly, cereals suffer in

:17:21. > :17:25.the morning bash. The traditional bowl of cereal is being ditched as

:17:26. > :17:36.we rush to work or school eating on the go. Sales of cereal are down?

:17:37. > :17:43.Sales of cereal usually it with milk are down. Basically, people aren't

:17:44. > :17:47.eating breakfast. On what they are eating is changed. Companies are

:17:48. > :17:51.becoming more innovative and eating bars on the go. There are questions

:17:52. > :17:57.about whether they are good for you. Bit of fluff in the Daily Mail. The

:17:58. > :18:01.paper is finding it difficult to block their pages. They have got to

:18:02. > :18:06.the bottom of why perhaps Bradley lost his job at Swansea. Was it

:18:07. > :18:12.before Christmas? It was, wasn't it. He hasn't spent and up on his watch.

:18:13. > :18:19.He only spent 40 quid which meant he is bottom of the league. That makes

:18:20. > :18:26.me like him more. How much the Premier League managers spent on

:18:27. > :18:31.their watch. Burnley, ?45,000. If you were the chairman, you would be

:18:32. > :18:37.thinking that you are paying him a bit... I wonder how many of them

:18:38. > :18:43.actually bought their own watches. Some quite prominent snaps. Have you

:18:44. > :18:48.seen managers in press conferences do this? Lim they do it. They come

:18:49. > :18:53.off court and put them on straightaway.

:18:54. > :18:57.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:18:58. > :19:02.If you are travelling once again, watch out for patchy fog.

:19:03. > :19:08.Particularly across England. In places it is dense. Sometimes it

:19:09. > :19:12.will take its time to clear if indeed at all. It will lead to

:19:13. > :19:16.destruction. You can find out what is happening where you are on your

:19:17. > :19:21.BBC local radio station and the BBC travel pages. It is cold, it is

:19:22. > :19:24.frosty. You might find ice on some untreated surfaces but further

:19:25. > :19:30.north, look at the squeeze on the isobars. Too much wind to have any

:19:31. > :19:38.problems with Frost fog. There in mind, it is patchy fog. It is not a

:19:39. > :19:41.blanket so you will run in and out of it which of course makes it

:19:42. > :19:44.treacherous plus the slippery element because of the low

:19:45. > :19:49.temperatures. It is -6 in England and parts of Wales. As we push into

:19:50. > :19:54.Northern Ireland and Scotland, a bit more cloud around. There are some

:19:55. > :19:58.breaks. Thicker cloud around the north-west producing stronger

:19:59. > :20:01.showers. And we have winds bringing rain later. A windy day in the

:20:02. > :20:06.north-west. Some of the cloud will break and some of the fog will lift.

:20:07. > :20:09.Some of the parts of the Midlands, East Wales and East Anglia, not

:20:10. > :20:13.clear at all. There will be sunshine today in a forecast. It will still

:20:14. > :20:21.feel cold if you are stepping out and if you are in the fog, it will

:20:22. > :20:25.feel cold. Through the evening and overnight, the weather front in the

:20:26. > :20:33.north-west advances in South ringing rain. It will also be windy. A

:20:34. > :20:37.breezy night, variable amount of cloud. As it moves eastward, it will

:20:38. > :20:44.list but some in the south, around the Midlands, East Anglia, some of

:20:45. > :20:49.the fog will be slow to clear. Some of it may not clear. East Anglia is

:20:50. > :20:54.prone. Tomorrow as well some breaks in the cloud. A bit of sunshine here

:20:55. > :20:57.and there. In the south-west, parts of north-east England, the weather

:20:58. > :21:01.front continuing to seek a southwards and are still very breezy

:21:02. > :21:07.and around it. Look how mild it is for the bulk of the UK. As we head

:21:08. > :21:10.into the New Year's Eve, we have an active weather front slipping

:21:11. > :21:16.southwards. The timing of this could change. It goes up to three PM. We

:21:17. > :21:21.think at the moment it will clear Scotland and by the time we get to

:21:22. > :21:26.new years, it might not. Behind it, a return of colder conditions so the

:21:27. > :21:30.mild weather that we will enjoy will disappear. It won't be for long, it

:21:31. > :21:34.will be back next week. In New Year's Day, there goes the weather

:21:35. > :21:39.front, thinking southwards. Behind it, dry and bright. Some sunshine.

:21:40. > :21:44.The showers by then will be wintry by nature in the north. You can see

:21:45. > :21:46.the difference in the temperatures, looking 9- ten. Once again, a lot

:21:47. > :21:49.going on with the weather. Could paintings teach us more

:21:50. > :21:53.about early on-set dementia? An analysis of more than 2,000 works

:21:54. > :21:57.by seven famous artists has shone new light on the development

:21:58. > :21:59.of diseases like Alzheimer's and The research shows that neurological

:22:00. > :22:02.conditions could be detected by subtle changes in composition

:22:03. > :22:05.and brush strokes, long before any Our health correspondent

:22:06. > :22:13.Dominic Hughes has more. Can you remember what

:22:14. > :22:17.the painting is called? Living with dementia,

:22:18. > :22:26.Joyce Cope still enjoys painting. But today, her work is very

:22:27. > :22:29.different from the highly detailed pictures she used to produce before

:22:30. > :22:34.the disease took hold. There is this really good

:22:35. > :22:37.copy of the masters, She can remember

:22:38. > :22:50.things from years ago, but generally if you ask

:22:51. > :22:52.what she had for breakfast this But can art, and more specifically

:22:53. > :22:56.the way artists work, tell us something about

:22:57. > :22:58.the development of dementia and other degenerative

:22:59. > :23:00.brain diseases? Much of the research into dementia

:23:01. > :23:04.has obviously been very medical. But now, a new approach

:23:05. > :23:08.combines both maths and art, and offers an intriguing

:23:09. > :23:11.insight into what might be going on in the brains of those

:23:12. > :23:14.artists who develop dementia, long before any symptoms

:23:15. > :23:18.become obvious. There is some fractal content

:23:19. > :23:22.in this, which is what we call very Fractal analysis is a complex,

:23:23. > :23:26.mathematical method of looking The recurring patterns of our

:23:27. > :23:42.brainwaves and heart means fractals. The same applies to the individual

:23:43. > :23:44.brushstrokes of artists, Now, an analysis of more than 2,000

:23:45. > :23:50.works by 17 artists has revealed Artists who went on to develop

:23:51. > :23:54.dementia or Parkinson's disease, the fractal pattern started

:23:55. > :23:56.to change, in an unusual way. So what we find is, up to 20 years

:23:57. > :24:02.before they had a diagnosis of a neurological disorder,

:24:03. > :24:04.the fractal content within their paintings had

:24:05. > :24:06.started to decrease. So anything that helps us understand

:24:07. > :24:10.more about how the brain operates is a useful way to inform future

:24:11. > :24:14.directions for research. Artist Willem de Kooning

:24:15. > :24:17.was diagnosed with Alzheimer's The brushstroke patterns seen

:24:18. > :24:30.in his earlier work were different But in the work of Picasso,

:24:31. > :24:34.who died free of any known neurological disease,

:24:35. > :24:36.the pattern remained constant throughout his life,

:24:37. > :24:38.regardless of what he was painting. This won't help diagnosed dementia,

:24:39. > :24:46.or similar diseases, So is it easy to use oils or

:24:47. > :24:51.watercolour? but it does give a valuable insight

:24:52. > :24:54.into changes that are taking place in the brain, years before

:24:55. > :24:56.the illness appears, and so could help answer questions

:24:57. > :24:59.about these devastating conditions. With just three days of the year

:25:00. > :25:03.left, your thoughts may be turning to what the next 12 months might

:25:04. > :25:06.bring, and what you'd like to leave For the last decade,

:25:07. > :25:10.New Yorkers have been taking this seriously by gathering

:25:11. > :25:13.in Times Square at the end of each December, to symbolically

:25:14. > :25:15.destroy their bad memories Good Riddance Day is based

:25:16. > :25:24.on a Latin American tradition which sees people burn

:25:25. > :25:28.dolls stuffed with objects Was that a pie? They look like they

:25:29. > :25:38.were smashing pies. So, what did the people

:25:39. > :25:40.of Manchester and New York want to bid farewell

:25:41. > :26:00.to as we head towards 2017? Are few extra Christmas pounds. Of

:26:01. > :26:06.the weather. Too cold. Ad like to see places with them off the

:26:07. > :26:11.streets, the homeless. Working long hours. Working far too much. The

:26:12. > :26:16.memory of David Bowie's death. It still hurt by it a year later. I

:26:17. > :26:20.want to shed the stress and the anger. Sometimes I have it. I don't

:26:21. > :26:31.want it any more. I love this idea. It's kind of like a New Year 's

:26:32. > :26:33.revolution but in reverse. -- resolution.

:26:34. > :26:38.So, what will you be saying "good riddance" to ahead of 2017?

:26:39. > :26:41.You can e-mail us at bbcbreakfast@bbc.co.uk

:26:42. > :26:44.or share your thoughts with other viewers on our Facebook page.

:26:45. > :26:50.I'm going to say good read and to this cold. Definitely! Been

:26:51. > :30:13.You can get your latest travel news lingering? Oh, yes.

:30:14. > :30:17.You can get your latest travel news from your local radio and forget, we

:30:18. > :30:22.will be back for another update in half an hour's time.

:30:23. > :30:25.This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:30:26. > :30:29.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:30:30. > :30:36.Britain's most decorated Olympian is calling it a day.

:30:37. > :30:38.As Sir Bradley Wiggins announces his retirement,

:30:39. > :30:41.we'll look back at his career highs and lows,

:30:42. > :30:43.with his former team-mate, Rob Hayles.

:30:44. > :30:45.Could a roll-out of barcodes on medicines and surgical equipment

:30:46. > :30:48.help reduce the number of avoidable deaths in hospital?

:30:49. > :30:51.We'll find out why NHS England believes the idea could save more

:30:52. > :30:59.We'll find out how rising global temperatures are affecting

:31:00. > :31:02.they way birds migrate, meaning they're missing out on vital

:31:03. > :31:05.resources like food and nesting places.

:31:06. > :31:11.But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:31:12. > :31:13.The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died,

:31:14. > :31:17.just one day after the death of her daughter, the film star

:31:18. > :31:25.The 84-year-old had been at her daughter's bedside

:31:26. > :31:29.since the Star Wars star suffered a heart attack on Christmas Eve.

:31:30. > :31:32.Reynold's son, Todd Fisher, said the stress of his sister's

:31:33. > :31:34.death had been too much for their mother

:31:35. > :31:38.and that her last words had been that she wanted to be with Carrie.

:31:39. > :31:40.Stars have been paying their tributes to Debbie Reynolds.

:31:41. > :31:43.William Shatner, who played James T Kirk in the Star Trek

:31:44. > :31:45.franchise described her as "one of the last

:31:46. > :31:50.Dame Joan Collins hailed her as "a wonderfully warm

:31:51. > :31:55.The singer Gloria Gaynor called her "an American icon

:31:56. > :32:02.Fans in Hollywood paid tributes to Debbie Reynolds.

:32:03. > :32:13.Debbie Reynolds, the girl next door, I remember when she was in The

:32:14. > :32:18.Unsinkable Molly Brown. Unbelievable, this is the worst year

:32:19. > :32:24.for Hollywood, I'm telling you. It was so sad. It was a shocker. What

:32:25. > :32:32.were the odds of this happening? Incredible. Sad. In shock. It is so

:32:33. > :32:36.surprising that it happened. To hear it I think it may be caused her to

:32:37. > :32:37.be so distraught that it brought on a stroke.

:32:38. > :32:39.Debbie Reynolds' career spanned seven decades,

:32:40. > :32:42.but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical

:32:43. > :32:44.Singin' in the Rain, opposite Gene Kelly.

:32:45. > :32:46.Our Los Angeles correspondent David Willis looks back

:32:47. > :32:53.# Good morning, good morning, it's great to stay up late

:32:54. > :32:57.# Good morning, good morning to you...#

:32:58. > :32:59.Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old, singing and dancing on film

:33:00. > :33:07.It was her performance alongside Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain

:33:08. > :33:16.Born in Texas, she moved with her family to California

:33:17. > :33:18.and landed a contract with Warner Brothers after winning

:33:19. > :33:25.a local beauty contest at the age of 16.

:33:26. > :33:28.She married the popular crooner Eddie Fisher and together they had

:33:29. > :33:32.He later left her for Elizabeth Taylor, a friend

:33:33. > :33:41.Two subsequent marriages also ended in divorce.

:33:42. > :33:44.A popular choice for movie musicals in the 1950s and '60s,

:33:45. > :33:46.Debbie Reynolds earnt an Oscar nomination

:33:47. > :33:49.for her depiction of Titanic survivor Margaret Brown

:33:50. > :33:53.She opened her own hotel in Las Vegas in 1992,

:33:54. > :33:56.filling it with movie memorabilia she had accumulated over the years,

:33:57. > :33:58.but the business folded and she was eventually forced

:33:59. > :34:08.My personal life is always sort of like that choo choo train that

:34:09. > :34:12.says "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can".

:34:13. > :34:16.I seem to marry very poorly, I have no taste in men.

:34:17. > :34:19.Luckily for me, God is good and I have two lovely children

:34:20. > :34:21.and my son helps me run my little

:34:22. > :34:28.She went on to play Grace's mother in the hit sitcom Will and Grace

:34:29. > :34:31.and returned to the big screen to play Liberace's mother

:34:32. > :34:35.in the 2013 biopic Behind the Candelabra.

:34:36. > :34:38.She suffered a terrible loss when her daughter died

:34:39. > :34:42.after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London

:34:43. > :34:47.She herself was taken ill while discussing the arrangements

:34:48. > :35:02.Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family

:35:03. > :35:05.doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP.

:35:06. > :35:07.Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs,

:35:08. > :35:10.says longer waiting times could pose a "serious risk" to patients.

:35:11. > :35:19.NHS England says surgeries have been promised more funding.

:35:20. > :35:22.Dozens of children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp have

:35:23. > :35:25.launched a legal challenge against the Home Office

:35:26. > :35:26.over its handling of asylum applications.

:35:27. > :35:28.Lawyers representing 36 children say the government

:35:29. > :35:31.broke its promise to take in its fair share of child refugees.

:35:32. > :35:34.They say hundreds have had their applications turned down

:35:35. > :35:39.The Home Office says it will not comment

:35:40. > :35:49.Birds could be missing out on food and nesting spots because they're

:35:50. > :35:51.migrating to their breeding grounds earlier.

:35:52. > :35:52.Researchers from the University of Edinburgh

:35:53. > :35:55.found that some species are reaching their summer breeding

:35:56. > :35:57.grounds about a day sooner for every one degree increase

:35:58. > :36:02.It's hope the findings will help scientists improve predictions

:36:03. > :36:09.of how different species respond to future environmental changes.

:36:10. > :36:17.It doesn't come at the lot, one day, but apparently it makes a big

:36:18. > :36:22.difference because there's a lack of when they get there.

:36:23. > :36:26.Over to the sport now. The big story on the front and back of the pages

:36:27. > :36:29.is Bradley Wiggins announcing his retirement from cycling, and

:36:30. > :36:33.therefore disappearing from our sporting landscape.

:36:34. > :36:38.Will he really? No, he used to much of a superstar to really disappear,

:36:39. > :36:42.but it will be ashamed to not see compete. The first edition Tour de

:36:43. > :36:48.France winner. An amazing achievement. -- British.

:36:49. > :36:51.Sir Bradley announced his retirement by saying "Kids from Kilburn don't

:36:52. > :36:53.win Olympic Golds and the Tour de France.

:36:54. > :36:56.Wiggins is the most decorated British Olympian,

:36:57. > :36:59.with five gold medals in his total of eight medals.

:37:00. > :37:02.The most recent coming in the team pursuit in Rio.

:37:03. > :37:04.The spotlight over recent months has been on his use

:37:05. > :37:05.of theraputic-use exemption medication.

:37:06. > :37:08.In August, he spoke of his plan following his retirement.

:37:09. > :37:22.To remain riding my bike, involved in cycling. I have children's bikes,

:37:23. > :37:26.so very much cycling has been a huge part of my life and it will continue

:37:27. > :37:28.to be. I don't expect too much to change, other than I would be in

:37:29. > :37:29.Olympic finals any more. Sir Bradley's former Olympic team

:37:30. > :37:33.mate Rob Hayles will be on the sofa He will tell us exactly what it has

:37:34. > :37:40.been like riding with him. There has been another high-profile

:37:41. > :37:43.retirement in the world of sport, with tennis player Ana Ivanovic

:37:44. > :37:45.ending her career at 29. The Serbian won the

:37:46. > :37:47.French Open in 2008 and, after struggling

:37:48. > :37:49.to repeat that success, she mounted a comeback last year

:37:50. > :37:52.and reached the semi-final She married Manchester United's

:37:53. > :37:55.Bastian Schweinsteiger this summer. Andy Murray says he will plan

:37:56. > :37:58.differently at the Australian Open next month, to do all he can to win

:37:59. > :38:03.the first Grand Slam of the season. Murray has reached the final

:38:04. > :38:05.in Melbourne five times, but this time he'll go

:38:06. > :38:14.into the event as world number one. I played really well there in the

:38:15. > :38:18.past and it hasn't happened for me, so I need to do something a little

:38:19. > :38:25.bit different this year. But I love the conditions there, I enjoy the

:38:26. > :38:29.tournament a lot. I'll be going in hopefully playing well with a lot of

:38:30. > :38:31.confidence, because of the way I finished 2016.

:38:32. > :38:34.Tottenham are just a point behind their North London rivals

:38:35. > :38:37.Arsenal in the Premier League table, after winning 4-1 at Southampton.

:38:38. > :38:39.Harry Kane had gone three league matches without a goal,

:38:40. > :38:42.but he put an end to that last night.

:38:43. > :38:44.And Dele Alli scored twice, as Southampton finished the game

:38:45. > :38:52.They're ten points behind leaders Chelsea.

:38:53. > :38:55.Ahead of the Old Firm derby on New Year's Eve,

:38:56. > :38:57.Celtic have stretched their lead at the top

:38:58. > :38:59.of the Scottish Premiership to 16 points.

:39:00. > :39:01.They beat Ross County 2-0 last night, while

:39:02. > :39:04.second-placed Rangers were held to a 1-1 draw at St

:39:05. > :39:06.A defensive blunder allowed Steven Maclean to score

:39:07. > :39:12.There were also wins for Motherwell and Partick Thistle.

:39:13. > :39:14.In darts, defending champion Gary Anderson was the first man

:39:15. > :39:18.through to the quarter finals of the PDC World Championship.

:39:19. > :39:21.The Scotsman averaged 107.68, the highest in the tournament

:39:22. > :39:25.as he beat the Dutchman Benito van de Pass 4-2 at Alexandra Palace.

:39:26. > :39:34.Anderson is joined in the last eight by Raymond van Barneveld.

:39:35. > :39:37.Let's return to the retirement of Sir Bradley Wiggins,

:39:38. > :39:40.who has decided to hang up his cleats after almost 20 years

:39:41. > :39:44.When it comes to cycling he's won just about all there is to win.

:39:45. > :39:51.Here are just a few of his career highlights.

:39:52. > :39:56.He does write an incredible amount of maturity, this young fellow. --

:39:57. > :40:10.ride with. This is a virtuoso performance by

:40:11. > :40:16.Bradley Wiggins! He is turning on the style! He will be the 4000

:40:17. > :40:24.metres Olympic champion! Bradley Wiggins is a gold-medal winner and

:40:25. > :40:28.Olympic champion! Bradley Wiggins is the master of the time trial and the

:40:29. > :40:36.master of this Tour de France. He will become written's first-ever

:40:37. > :40:40.winner! This is going to be a golden moment for Bradley Wiggins and the

:40:41. > :40:49.crowd are already going ballistic. Here comes Bradley Wiggins up to the

:40:50. > :40:56.line and into the lead! It's coming down to the last lap! It is Great

:40:57. > :40:58.Britain! Sir Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic gold for the fifth time in

:40:59. > :41:03.history. We're joined by former Olympic

:41:04. > :41:06.and world track cyclist Rob Hayles, who was team mates

:41:07. > :41:12.with Sir Bradley. I know you said as a cyclist you

:41:13. > :41:16.argues the getting up in the early of the morning? I don't know how you

:41:17. > :41:20.do it. Well thank you for making the effort. We saw so many brilliant

:41:21. > :41:26.moments in his career. What do you think it will be best remembered

:41:27. > :41:31.for? All of the results, there are so many and so broad, from the track

:41:32. > :41:35.to the Tour de France and back to the track. That has never happened

:41:36. > :41:40.before. But his character, I think, is the big thing. He is larger than

:41:41. > :41:44.life. He is the centre of attention so often, especially after a couple

:41:45. > :41:50.of drinks. I'm sure he will be looking forward to more often than

:41:51. > :41:56.not. Just the Union Flag, the Union Jack, the way he has been so proud

:41:57. > :42:00.to wear that and whenever he commits to an event, whether it is on the

:42:01. > :42:06.track over four minutes or whether it is over three and a bit weeks in

:42:07. > :42:12.France, if he commits to the chances are will come away with a gold

:42:13. > :42:16.medal. You can see him after the time trial Tour de France victory.

:42:17. > :42:24.That was quite a special summer in 2012. I think that's the big thing.

:42:25. > :42:28.In all of the years as a professional, 20 years full-time, we

:42:29. > :42:32.go back to 1998 when he was a junior and had just come back from the

:42:33. > :42:40.Junior World Championships. 2012 was quite a special year for Brad and

:42:41. > :42:44.for British cycling in general. The way that cycling has come on over

:42:45. > :42:51.the years to where it is now, from where it was when Brad started, and

:42:52. > :42:59.he has been kind of one of the key protagonists in that change, I feel.

:43:00. > :43:03.One of the great things, we saw him pokies tongue out as he got the

:43:04. > :43:07.medal, IT is so reverent and seems to have no respect for authority at

:43:08. > :43:13.all. That's really unusual. Has that helped him? It has been part of

:43:14. > :43:17.that. Like I said, if he committed to it, but chances are he would be

:43:18. > :43:21.at his best and if he was at his best that would be good enough. But

:43:22. > :43:26.it was all or nothing. He would either win the race or he wouldn't

:43:27. > :43:31.finish. But no one will tell him to finish the race. It is his decision.

:43:32. > :43:37.It is all under his steam. This is one of the things that has made him

:43:38. > :43:43.so good. He was a very quotable and trainable rider. -- coachable. But

:43:44. > :43:50.it was on his terms. He wasn't daft... Well, he wasn't stupid. He

:43:51. > :43:56.was daft at times. That helped him through. He is quite a shy character

:43:57. > :44:02.and to get over that he went to the line and often kicked the door down

:44:03. > :44:06.and went beyond it. Can I just ask you, from the outside looking in,

:44:07. > :44:10.you are an insider, for outsiders looking in, and we have all met him,

:44:11. > :44:14.we character and unbelievable achievements, but as he retires

:44:15. > :44:20.there is this little cloud hanging over. There is the issue of broken

:44:21. > :44:26.the rules, but. Can you help us with inside cycling howl IU thinking

:44:27. > :44:32.about the issues that seem to be a little bit outstanding? -- how are

:44:33. > :44:37.you. You know what I am talking about. It is a shame this has come

:44:38. > :44:41.at the end of his career and it's a cloud and it is understandable. In

:44:42. > :44:45.terms of the rules of the sport he has broken them. The world governing

:44:46. > :44:51.body have said there is nothing to answer. But there is still obviously

:44:52. > :44:54.a question of whether it has been ethical and I think that's a

:44:55. > :45:00.separate issue. But in terms of the rules that have been broken or not,

:45:01. > :45:04.there are none. But it is certainly not the ideal way that Bradley

:45:05. > :45:08.Wiggins would have wanted to retire. Has that been potentially a little

:45:09. > :45:14.bit of a push to him making this decision now? Potentially. Will we

:45:15. > :45:22.see him back in six months racing? Who knows? He has hinted, earlier

:45:23. > :45:29.this year, that he wouldn't stop, and here he is. And what does he do,

:45:30. > :45:33.where does he go from here? He will certainly be within sport. Like most

:45:34. > :45:37.of us he is probably only employable within cycling. He has been in it

:45:38. > :45:41.that long. What hopefully he will remain and continue in the sport and

:45:42. > :45:45.help with the younger riders, it is one of the things he has done in the

:45:46. > :45:49.past. People might have thought they want to share with you. I know you

:45:50. > :45:53.will be coming back later. Thank you.

:45:54. > :45:58.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:45:59. > :46:07.Watch out for fog this morning. Particularly some of it is dense.

:46:08. > :46:10.We're not looking in a blanket but in some ways, patchy fog is more

:46:11. > :46:16.dangerous because there no warning. You can find out what is happening

:46:17. > :46:19.where you are in your BBC local radio station. It is a cold start

:46:20. > :46:23.across England and Wales will stop temperatures falling to almost minus

:46:24. > :46:26.seven. There is the risk of ice. You can see further north, looking at

:46:27. > :46:30.the spacing of the isobars, too much of a breeze to be any issues with

:46:31. > :46:34.fog or frost. Southern counties of England, there is an patchy fog

:46:35. > :46:39.around this morning, some of which is dense. It is the same across the

:46:40. > :46:46.Midlands, it Wales, East Anglia. Do take extra care. Some patchy fog up

:46:47. > :46:50.to the Vale of York. As the go up to Northern Ireland and Scotland, more

:46:51. > :46:54.cloud and more of a breeze some parts will see a touch of Frost and

:46:55. > :46:59.rural sheltered glens. You will sunshine first thing. The cloud

:47:00. > :47:06.building through the day but in some parts of Ireland, rain coming in at

:47:07. > :47:12.Sunshine. Some fog will slowly lift but some will stick. East Midlands,

:47:13. > :47:18.Vale of York, East of Wales, some will struggle to break free them. --

:47:19. > :47:23.freezing. There will be sunny spells. Overnight, the weather front

:47:24. > :47:27.faces south. Breezy in the north and we will see more cloud push across

:47:28. > :47:32.us as well. The early fog we have will start to live. In some parts of

:47:33. > :47:36.the Midlands and into East Anglia, the far south-east, we will see some

:47:37. > :47:41.fog by this time tomorrow morning. Some of it could be dense and slow

:47:42. > :47:45.to clear. As we go through tomorrow for the rest of the UK, there will

:47:46. > :47:48.be a fairly cloudy day. One of two hole here and there but we will see

:47:49. > :47:52.some glimmers of sunshine. The weather front continuing to push

:47:53. > :47:57.slowly southwards across Scotland. The and it will be a windy day but

:47:58. > :48:01.temperature wise, also quite a mild day unless you are stuck under some

:48:02. > :48:07.of the fog which will pull down the cabbage. On New Year's Eve, the

:48:08. > :48:11.weather front continuing to sink southwards, it is an active one and

:48:12. > :48:19.will bring heavy rain. Gusty winds around it as well. This front keeps

:48:20. > :48:23.changing its times. What is going to happen is it as it pushes it

:48:24. > :48:30.southwards, cold air will feed in Bihar did and as we head into New

:48:31. > :48:36.Year's Day, eventually we see that front, behind each dry and sunshine

:48:37. > :48:40.and the showers in the call the air will be wintry but mild in this far

:48:41. > :48:42.south. It has called for a softer couple of days and then mild Arad

:48:43. > :48:53.about Tuesday Wednesday next week. It's all very complex and changing,

:48:54. > :48:59.Carol, thank you. Complex and changing, that could apply to 2016,

:49:00. > :49:06.Sean? I have a few predictions for you.

:49:07. > :49:10.Well, the big story for British business in 2016 has of course been

:49:11. > :49:12.that vote to leave the European Union,

:49:13. > :49:15.but while we wait for the details of what that will look

:49:16. > :49:18.like for the country, there will be some more short term

:49:19. > :49:22.The fall in the pound after we voted to leave affected everybody.

:49:23. > :49:24.Holidaymakers found it more expensive, British-made goods looked

:49:25. > :49:28.cheaper, and it's had a knock on effect on prices in our shops -

:49:29. > :49:32.So can we expect to see it recover in 2017?

:49:33. > :49:35.So, as Michelle says, experts think the pound

:49:36. > :49:38.is going to remain unpredictable, but if it stays around the levels

:49:39. > :49:41.it's at now, that will have a big effect on prices next year.

:49:42. > :49:45.- when retailers and suppliers fell out about increasing costs

:49:46. > :49:49.Well in the coming months, economists and the retailers

:49:50. > :49:52.themselves expect some of those rises to be passed

:49:53. > :49:57.- when retailers and suppliers fell out about increasing costs

:49:58. > :50:02.The sterling is important for us but not the others. It will be whipsawed

:50:03. > :50:07.around. Well in the coming months,

:50:08. > :50:10.economists and the retailers themselves expect some

:50:11. > :50:13.of those rises to be passed So what about the money

:50:14. > :50:25.that we save and that we owe? 76% of us think prices are going up

:50:26. > :50:28.next year as a result of Brexit and will be concerned about our own

:50:29. > :50:32.economy and how we can save money. What we can expect to see is loads

:50:33. > :50:34.of cost saving measures coming back. Vouchers and value in everything we

:50:35. > :50:34.buy. So what about the money

:50:35. > :50:37.that we save and that we owe? It's been another bad year

:50:38. > :50:40.for savers after rates were cut But mortgage holders have had it

:50:41. > :50:45.good with low rates. But last month, this

:50:46. > :50:47.woman, Janet Yellen, who is in charge of

:50:48. > :50:49.America's Central Bank, raised interest rates in the USA -

:50:50. > :50:53.and experts here in the UK have told us they are expecting mortgage rates

:50:54. > :51:06.to edge back upwards next year. It was the interest rate rise in the

:51:07. > :51:12.UK sometime. The Bank of England have said they want to see the

:51:13. > :51:16.impact of Brexit first so let's wait and see how they play it out but

:51:17. > :51:22.they will probably try and react slower and faster. -- slower than

:51:23. > :51:24.the faster. With interest rates

:51:25. > :51:25.potentially increasing, prices expected to rise

:51:26. > :51:27.and the pound continuing its uncertain path, there should be

:51:28. > :51:30.more than enough to keep Steph, So we still have a job. You have

:51:31. > :51:36.plenty of work, Sean, don't worry. Now, you may remember little Harry,

:51:37. > :51:39.who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with

:51:40. > :51:42.his mum 12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels

:51:43. > :51:45.then, Harry was facing an anxious wait for

:51:46. > :51:47.a life-saving liver transplant. In March, with no other donor

:51:48. > :51:50.available - his dad Simon Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been

:51:51. > :52:04.to catch up with the Maceachen family and some of the people

:52:05. > :52:06.helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place

:52:07. > :52:23.for families like them. For the Maceachen family, 2016 was

:52:24. > :52:28.life changing. One event was lifesaving. With no other donor

:52:29. > :52:34.available, Simon donated part of his liver to his son, Harry. Was born

:52:35. > :52:39.with a condition which means a blockage in the bowel ducts. We had

:52:40. > :52:43.occasions where Harry would go to bed at night fit and healthy and

:52:44. > :52:46.then at 6am he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting and we

:52:47. > :52:49.would end up in hospital for ten days to a fortnight. Harry's first

:52:50. > :52:56.appearance on Breakfast last December was memorable. In March, we

:52:57. > :53:00.filmed as the family prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are

:53:01. > :53:03.risky and rare and only possible because the liver is the one

:53:04. > :53:08.internal organ that can be generated. Ash regenerate. 2016,

:53:09. > :53:16.what a year. How are you feeling now? -- regenerate. No competition.

:53:17. > :53:23.It took a while to recover from the surgery. Harry bounced back quicker

:53:24. > :53:30.than me. I love you. I love you too. I love you, mummy. I love you,

:53:31. > :53:43.daddy. Are you have daddies live in now? -- liver. Thank you, daddy.

:53:44. > :53:52.You're welcome. What can you do now that you couldn't before? What

:53:53. > :53:58.really fast. What other medals? How much better do you feel now than

:53:59. > :54:02.before? A lot better. Hospitals can be unfamiliar and I'm settling

:54:03. > :54:06.especially for children. For their operations, Harry and Simon Wong

:54:07. > :54:20.matching downs, specially made by volunteers known as the bout pyjama

:54:21. > :54:23.Sam it -- varies. -- faeries. They have had an incredible 12 months.

:54:24. > :54:31.The market is been an incredible year. -- it has been an incredible

:54:32. > :54:36.year. It stops people from wearing boring scrubs in theatre. We

:54:37. > :54:43.distribute about a thousand garment a month. I had breakfast telly on

:54:44. > :54:47.that morning and I was interested in learning more about the charity and

:54:48. > :54:59.becoming involved. And here a today. A couple of 100 garments later, yes.

:55:00. > :55:09.The latest batch is bound for the hospital. Who have you brought

:55:10. > :55:12.before? The little ones. In the hospital, they away from their

:55:13. > :55:15.family, active and environment. We have to make it a more homely

:55:16. > :55:22.environment. The pyjamas give us something to talk about, something

:55:23. > :55:30.to choose. Every garment comes with a pole and written by the fairies.

:55:31. > :55:38.It is aimed to reassure children at a difficult time. At no time while

:55:39. > :55:43.we are -- at night time while you are sleeping, we bring our fairy

:55:44. > :55:50.dust. We hope this will make you smile.

:55:51. > :55:57.That is my favourite thing I have seen all day. Very moving, isn't it?

:55:58. > :56:02.Can you imagine how fast he could run around the studio now? What a

:56:03. > :56:04.brilliant thing for children in hospital now. A little note saying

:56:05. > :56:04.do you Time now to get the news,

:56:05. > :56:10.travel and weather where you are. Still to come on Breakfast

:56:11. > :56:12.this morning: Are you suffering

:56:13. > :56:14.from sales fatigue? As high street shops see

:56:15. > :56:16.a drop in customers, we'll ask if shoppers are sick

:56:17. > :56:19.of being bombarded by constant Time now to get the news,

:56:20. > :00:07.travel and weather where you are. This is Breakfast,

:00:08. > :00:11.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The veteran Hollywood actress

:00:12. > :00:13.Debbie Reynolds has died just a day after her

:00:14. > :00:15.daughter, Carrie Fisher. She was 84 and had been rushed

:00:16. > :00:19.to hospital with a suspected stroke. Her son said the stress

:00:20. > :00:22.of his sister's death was too It's Thursday,

:00:23. > :00:44.the 29th of December. Patients could be forced to wait up

:00:45. > :00:48.to a month to see their family That's the stark warning

:00:49. > :00:52.from the UK's leading GP. In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has

:00:53. > :00:55.announced his retirement from cycling, after a career

:00:56. > :00:58.during which he won five Olympic Lawyers for a group of children

:00:59. > :01:06.who lived in the Calais Jungle refuge camp launch a legal challenge

:01:07. > :01:09.accusing the British government of breaking its promise to take

:01:10. > :01:14.a fair share of the most vulnerable. Interest rates, the prices

:01:15. > :01:17.in our shops and the strength of the pound will all be

:01:18. > :01:19.closely watched next year. I'll be taking a look at the big

:01:20. > :01:34.stories for our finances in 2017. Once again today for England and

:01:35. > :01:38.Wales it's a cold and frosty start, with patchy fog. Some of it is

:01:39. > :01:42.dense, some of it will lift but some will stick. In Northern Ireland a

:01:43. > :01:43.bit more cloud, sunny spells and rain coming from the south-west.

:01:44. > :01:52.The Hollywood actress Debbie Reynolds has died,

:01:53. > :01:55.just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

:01:56. > :01:57.Debbie Reynolds was 84 and is believed to have

:01:58. > :02:02.She had been at her daughter's bedside since the Star Wars actress

:02:03. > :02:08.Earlier we spoke to our LA correspondent David Willis,

:02:09. > :02:11.who told us that Debbie Reynolds had been struggling to deal

:02:12. > :02:19.Debbie Reynolds had been at her son Todd Fisher's house in Beverly Hills

:02:20. > :02:26.when she was taken ill. Apparently they had been discussing plans for

:02:27. > :02:29.Carrie fisher's feudal and she developed breathing difficulties,

:02:30. > :02:35.was taken to hospital and a couple of hours later was said to have

:02:36. > :02:41.died. It appears of a stroke. Now, Todd Fisher has said that her final

:02:42. > :02:46.words were" I just want to be with Carrie". He says for his part he is

:02:47. > :02:52.heartbroken and this truly is a family tragedy, it was spare a

:02:53. > :02:57.thought if you will for Carrie Fisher's daughter. She is also an

:02:58. > :03:02.actress. It was she who revealed to the press that Carrie Fisher had

:03:03. > :03:04.died on Tuesday and she in the last 24 hours has lost both a mother and

:03:05. > :03:05.grandmother. Debbie Reynolds' career

:03:06. > :03:08.spanned seven decades, but she was best known

:03:09. > :03:11.for her role in the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain,

:03:12. > :03:13.opposite Gene Kelly. Our Los Angeles correspondent

:03:14. > :03:15.David Willis looks back # Good morning, good morning,

:03:16. > :03:19.it's great to stay up late # Good morning, good morning

:03:20. > :03:25.to you...# Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old,

:03:26. > :03:27.singing and dancing on film It was her performance alongside

:03:28. > :03:35.Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Born in Texas, she moved

:03:36. > :03:41.with her family to California and landed a contract

:03:42. > :03:48.with Warner Brothers after winning a local beauty contest

:03:49. > :03:54.at the age of 16. She married the popular crooner

:03:55. > :03:57.Eddie Fisher and together they had He later left her for

:03:58. > :04:01.Elizabeth Taylor, a friend Two subsequent marriages

:04:02. > :04:04.also ended in divorce. A popular choice for movie musicals

:04:05. > :04:07.in the 1950s and '60s, Debbie Reynolds earnt

:04:08. > :04:09.an Oscar nomination for her depiction of Titanic

:04:10. > :04:11.survivor Margaret Brown She opened her own hotel

:04:12. > :04:20.in Las Vegas in 1992, filling it with movie memorabilia

:04:21. > :04:23.she had accumulated over the years, but the business folded

:04:24. > :04:26.and she was eventually forced My personal life is always sort

:04:27. > :04:34.of like that choo choo train that says "I think I can,

:04:35. > :04:37.I think I can, I think I can". I seem to marry very poorly,

:04:38. > :04:41.I have no taste in men. Luckily for me, God is good

:04:42. > :04:44.and I have two lovely children and my son

:04:45. > :04:46.helps me run my little She went on to play Grace's mother

:04:47. > :04:54.in the hit sitcom Will and Grace and returned to the big screen

:04:55. > :04:56.to play Liberace's mother in the 2013 biopic

:04:57. > :05:03.Behind the Candelabra. She suffered a terrible

:05:04. > :05:05.loss when her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died

:05:06. > :05:11.after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London

:05:12. > :05:13.to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. She herself was taken ill whilst

:05:14. > :05:16.discussing the arrangements Patients could be forced to wait up

:05:17. > :05:32.to a month to see their family doctor this winter, according

:05:33. > :05:35.to the UK's leading GP. Helen Stokes-Lampard,

:05:36. > :05:38.who chairs the Royal College of GPs, says that longer waiting times

:05:39. > :05:43.could pose a "serious Every winter an increasing workload

:05:44. > :05:50.puts pressure on NHS because more Some patients are already waiting

:05:51. > :05:54.2-3 weeks to get a seat Now the chair of the Royal College

:05:55. > :06:04.of GPs says that's likely to climb to over a month in some areas

:06:05. > :06:07.and she is profoundly concerned about how her general

:06:08. > :06:09.practice will cope. Firstly, there just aren't

:06:10. > :06:14.enough GPs out there. We don't have enough

:06:15. > :06:16.clinicians in the workforce, but also we haven't got enough

:06:17. > :06:19.nurses and other healthcare Secondly, there's been a serious

:06:20. > :06:29.underinvestment in GP practices We have some promises

:06:30. > :06:32.of good news coming, more money and people

:06:33. > :06:34.coming through the system, but they've yet

:06:35. > :06:37.to get to the front line, so the problem this winter

:06:38. > :06:41.is as bad as it has ever been She says she is particularly worried

:06:42. > :06:45.about the impact on preventative care and chronic disease management,

:06:46. > :06:47.while the knock-on consequences The people who suffer

:06:48. > :06:51.are those with long-term conditions, because we have

:06:52. > :06:54.to prioritise those If however we are ignoring those

:06:55. > :06:58.with longer term conditions then we are storing up

:06:59. > :07:00.problems for the future and increasing their

:07:01. > :07:02.risks in the long-term. NHS England says GP services

:07:03. > :07:05.are on track to receive an extra ?2.5 billion by 2020,

:07:06. > :07:08.which will expand access to convenient appointments

:07:09. > :07:13.throughout the week. We'll speak to the chair

:07:14. > :07:17.of the Royal College of GPs Dozens of children who lived

:07:18. > :07:25.in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge

:07:26. > :07:27.against the Home Office over its handling of

:07:28. > :07:29.asylum applications. Lawyers representing 36

:07:30. > :07:31.children say the government broke its promise to take

:07:32. > :07:34.in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have

:07:35. > :07:36.had their applications turned down Let's speak to our political

:07:37. > :07:43.correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. What can you tell us

:07:44. > :07:53.about the legal challenge? These lawyers are representing 28

:07:54. > :07:57.children who have already had their applications rejected and then a

:07:58. > :08:00.further 82 are still waiting for a decision. The lawyers say that some

:08:01. > :08:06.applications have been rejected without reason and so for that

:08:07. > :08:12.reason they are launching a further legal enquiry, if you like. They are

:08:13. > :08:15.launching a legal challenge. These children have been living in the

:08:16. > :08:19.Jungle, before it was pulled apart in October. Their lawyers say the

:08:20. > :08:24.government has broken its promise and is failing to bring some of the

:08:25. > :08:29.most vulnerable children who are unaccompanied to the UK. For its

:08:30. > :08:34.part of the Home Office says it can't comment on ongoing legal

:08:35. > :08:39.proceedings, but it has said that 900 children have been brought to

:08:40. > :08:46.the UK so far this year and of those 750 were unaccompanied children from

:08:47. > :08:50.France. As for the current transfer of children, those coming from

:08:51. > :08:55.France, that has now stopped, but we do expect children from across

:08:56. > :08:58.Europe, from countries like Rees and Italy, who are eligible, they will

:08:59. > :09:01.continue to come to the UK. -- Greece and Italy. Thank you.

:09:02. > :09:04.Sir Bradley Wiggins says he has achieved his childhood dreams,

:09:05. > :09:05.following his retirement from cycling.

:09:06. > :09:08.He was the first British cyclist to win the Tour de

:09:09. > :09:11.France, and he is the most decorated British Olympian,

:09:12. > :09:21.with eight medals in total, five of them gold.

:09:22. > :09:27.Birds could be missing out on food and nesting spots because they are

:09:28. > :09:31.arriving at their breeding grounds earlier. Researchers from the

:09:32. > :09:35.University of Edinburgh said some species are reaching their breeding

:09:36. > :09:41.grounds about one day earlier for every degree increase in

:09:42. > :09:46.temperatures. They are hoping scientists will discover ways to

:09:47. > :09:48.combat the changes in environmental conditions.

:09:49. > :09:50."One of the last of Hollywood royalty".

:09:51. > :09:52.That's how William Shatner has paid tribute to the actress

:09:53. > :09:55.Debbie Reynolds, who's died at the age of 84.

:09:56. > :09:58.Her death comes just one day after her daughter,

:09:59. > :10:00.the Star Wars star Carrie Fisher, passed away following

:10:01. > :10:12.The entertainment journalist Jeanne Wolf joins us

:10:13. > :10:21.It was just 24 hours ago we were talking about Carrie Fisher and now

:10:22. > :10:26.we are talking about her mother. Shocking and terrible news. I

:10:27. > :10:29.understand when you say you don't know how to start talking about it,

:10:30. > :10:37.because it is almost impossible to think about. We just heard that her

:10:38. > :10:42.last words were that she wanted to be with Carrie. I can understand

:10:43. > :10:47.that. We have to feel for her, because her daughter never gained

:10:48. > :10:51.consciousness after that heart attack and when she was in the

:10:52. > :10:58.hospital, so for days Debbie had to soldier on, watching her daughter

:10:59. > :11:02.lying there, knowing that she would die soon and in effect she was

:11:03. > :11:07.really no longer there. That's too much for a mother to bear. The

:11:08. > :11:11.emotion and shock of that. Let's also remember that Debbie for the

:11:12. > :11:17.last few years was very frail and in bad health. So all the dreams she

:11:18. > :11:23.had of taking it easy didn't come through and when she was awarded the

:11:24. > :11:28.screen actress to she couldn't show up. Debbie wanted to be there in

:11:29. > :11:33.sequence and feathers and singing to the crowd and instead Carrie had to

:11:34. > :11:36.accept her award. We have been saying this morning that she was

:11:37. > :11:44.almost the last of that Hollywood royalty. What was she like? She was

:11:45. > :11:48.very ladylike. She had a very sweet voice and always had a smile on her

:11:49. > :11:53.face. She had a greater sense of humour. She said, other people to

:11:54. > :12:00.the lemon into lemonade, I turn tragedy into jokes and performance.

:12:01. > :12:05.She had a great sense of humour and read wit about the world and

:12:06. > :12:10.everything that happened to her and about herself, which was part of

:12:11. > :12:17.what made her entertaining. I found out later when I saw her nightclub

:12:18. > :12:26.act in Las Vegas is the sweet girl next door Debbie Reynolds could be

:12:27. > :12:32.quite all -- outrageous. You can imagine how the audience adored it.

:12:33. > :12:36.People appreciated her here. They appreciated her dignity, they

:12:37. > :12:41.appreciated all of the charity work she did, how much a part of the

:12:42. > :12:46.community she was and the fact that they could really call her the

:12:47. > :12:50.unthinkable Debbie Reynolds. Which is of course the reference to the

:12:51. > :12:54.fantastic film she won an Oscar for. At her big rake was singing in the

:12:55. > :13:06.rain. Is it true that she wasn't the first choice for that role because

:13:07. > :13:10.she wasn't seen as the best dancer? -- big break Singin' in the Rain. I

:13:11. > :13:13.heard Gene Kelly saw the tape and said she was perfect. The casting

:13:14. > :13:18.director said, I'm not sure she can dance, and Gene Kelly said, no

:13:19. > :13:23.problem, I can teach her! She is perfect! And she did turn out to be

:13:24. > :13:31.perfect. But the movie is perfect. Instead of a memorial we should all

:13:32. > :13:36.watch Singin' in the Rain. I couldn't agree more. That's what I'm

:13:37. > :13:40.going to try to do over the next couple of days. We have to mention

:13:41. > :13:44.that the relationship with her daughter wasn't always the best. I

:13:45. > :13:48.know that she spoke about it being a kind of typical mother- daughter

:13:49. > :13:54.relationship, where sometimes she was brutally honest with Carrie and

:13:55. > :13:58.Carrie didn't want to hear it. I think it was a typical at all.

:13:59. > :14:02.Typical in the sense that mothers and daughters often potheads, but

:14:03. > :14:07.Debbie was really frightened that her daughter would die from a drug

:14:08. > :14:10.overdose and there were years... It is unbelievable to think about,

:14:11. > :14:14.knowing how close they were, when they didn't speak. Eventually they

:14:15. > :14:21.moved into houses next door to each other and Debbie's great-grandmother

:14:22. > :14:26.was a great-grandmother to carry's daughter, who is 24 now and

:14:27. > :14:30.beginning to be an actress. All of us should remember that not only did

:14:31. > :14:34.she lose a mother, but she lost her grandmother, who I am told used to

:14:35. > :14:39.play cards with her and sing and dance with her. So she is somebody

:14:40. > :14:44.we will watch and, you know, Debbie was unthinkable, but this was really

:14:45. > :14:50.too much and you can understand it would be too much for anybody. Thank

:14:51. > :14:56.you so much for your time this morning, talking to us live from

:14:57. > :14:59.Hollywood this morning. That is an incredible point. For Debbie

:15:00. > :15:02.Reynolds' granddaughter, she has lost her mum and granny in the space

:15:03. > :15:09.of 24 hours. It is a family tragedy.

:15:10. > :15:15.Time for us to have a look at the weather forecast. Winter brings all

:15:16. > :15:16.sorts of things. Fog is one of the things which can be horrible,

:15:17. > :15:26.especially if you have to travel. We have fog and the forecast again

:15:27. > :15:31.today, especially across England and Wales. It is patchy fog, some of it

:15:32. > :15:35.is dense, some of it will linger for much if not all of the day. It could

:15:36. > :15:39.lead to some travel disruption, so keep up-to-date with what is going

:15:40. > :15:43.on on your BBC local radio station. The other thing is we have got very

:15:44. > :15:47.low temperatures. In parts of Wales fell to -7 and across parts of

:15:48. > :15:51.England two minus six. Not everywhere, obviously, but there is

:15:52. > :15:55.the risk of ice on untreated surfaces this morning so we have a

:15:56. > :15:58.double whammy of risks. You can see across southern England there will

:15:59. > :16:03.be some bright skies first thing, but equally we have got that patchy

:16:04. > :16:07.fog, cold, frosty, and the risk of ice. Let's have a look in Northern

:16:08. > :16:11.Ireland and Scotland. There is more of a breeze this morning and a bit

:16:12. > :16:14.more cloud. You may encounter those problems and in sheltered cleanser

:16:15. > :16:18.touch of frost. The thicker cloud producing spots of rain but we have

:16:19. > :16:22.a weather front waiting in the winds which will bring heavy rain much

:16:23. > :16:26.later. The wind will strengthen in the north-east through the course of

:16:27. > :16:31.the day. The fog will tend to slowly lift, some into low cloud. Some will

:16:32. > :16:35.stick, for East Midlands and of York, and we will see some sunshine

:16:36. > :16:38.come through. If you are stuck in an area which hangs on to the fog for

:16:39. > :16:42.much of the day then temperatures will really struggle even to break

:16:43. > :16:46.freezing. It is going to feel cold. We will see some early frost and fog

:16:47. > :16:56.as we go through the evening and overnight, a weather front coming

:16:57. > :16:59.south Scotland accompanied by gusty winds and a bit more cloud pushing

:17:00. > :17:03.eastwards. As that cloud pushes eastwards it will lift some of that

:17:04. > :17:07.fog. However, we still expect to it at this time tomorrow morning across

:17:08. > :17:10.parts of East Anglia and the south-eastern corner and that could

:17:11. > :17:13.be slow to clear as we go through the course of tomorrow. Tomorrow

:17:14. > :17:16.quite a lot of cloud around, some brighter breaks. A band of rain

:17:17. > :17:19.slowly moving southwards across Scotland. Gusty winds across the

:17:20. > :17:22.northern half of the country that temperature-wise, unless you are in

:17:23. > :17:26.the fog, we are in pretty good shape. It is going to feel quite

:17:27. > :17:29.mild. As we had from Friday into New Year's Eve, we have the weather

:17:30. > :17:32.front across Scotland slowly slipping southwards. The timing of

:17:33. > :17:35.this keeps changing. This chart finishes at 3pm in the afternoon. On

:17:36. > :17:39.current timings, by the midnight hour we expect the rain to be across

:17:40. > :17:42.the borders and northern England and north Wales, and parts of Northern

:17:43. > :17:46.Ireland. So for midnight in Scotland at the moment, fingers crossed but

:17:47. > :17:50.that could change. As we head on through the course of the New Year's

:17:51. > :17:54.weekend, the front does sink south, and behind it much colder air

:17:55. > :17:58.streams in. The effect that will have on the forecast is the rain

:17:59. > :18:03.moves across England and Wales, pushing down in the southern

:18:04. > :18:07.counties. Behind it, bright skies, some sunshine and showers but in the

:18:08. > :18:13.colder temperatures you will find that we will see increasingly wintry

:18:14. > :18:16.showers. So it is all to play for four New Year's Eve or Hogmanay,

:18:17. > :18:21.depending on what area of the country you are in. I am delighted

:18:22. > :18:24.you said Hogmanay at last, I have been waiting for you to say it. She

:18:25. > :18:26.always has a marvellous Hogmanay! Barcodes are to be printed

:18:27. > :18:29.on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips

:18:30. > :18:31.and surgical tools, in an effort to reduce the rate of avoidable

:18:32. > :18:34.deaths in English hospitals. Ministers say the scheme,

:18:35. > :18:37.which is being piloted in six areas, could also save the NHS up to ?1

:18:38. > :18:40.billion over seven years, as our health correspondent

:18:41. > :18:51.Robert Pigott reports. An angiogram, designed to reveal

:18:52. > :18:54.the condition of patients' blood vessels, is carried

:18:55. > :18:55.out in Salisbury. As part of the piloting

:18:56. > :19:04.of the Scan4 safety scheme, barcodes on medication and equipment

:19:05. > :19:07.record the materials used to treat patients, the time and

:19:08. > :19:09.place of the procedure, and the name of the medical

:19:10. > :19:12.staff taking part. We can trace that

:19:13. > :19:14.patient very quickly. We scan all the equipment,

:19:15. > :19:17.so there should be no drug errors. And it's to the correct patient,

:19:18. > :19:24.so we scan the patient, making sure

:19:25. > :19:28.the right drug or the right blood product, et cetera, goes

:19:29. > :19:30.to the right patient. And if they're going to roll it out

:19:31. > :19:34.to orthopaedics and other type equipment, we can then trace

:19:35. > :19:37.those back in the future Barcoding will reduce the average

:19:38. > :19:40.of an hour that nurses spend collecting medicines,

:19:41. > :19:42.and alert staff to those Everything from screws used in knee

:19:43. > :19:49.operations to breast implants will be barcoded, so their

:19:50. > :19:51.quality can be monitored. About once a week, tragically,

:19:52. > :19:54.someone dies in the NHS because they're given

:19:55. > :19:56.the wrong medicine. We also have a number of operations

:19:57. > :19:59.where the wrong implant is put into someone's body,

:20:00. > :20:02.and that then has to be changed And if we use modern

:20:03. > :20:05.bar-code technology, we can deal with a lot

:20:06. > :20:07.of these problems. One of the biggest advantages

:20:08. > :20:10.of Scan4 safety could be in tracing patients when faulty products

:20:11. > :20:14.have to be recalled. Nearly 50,000 British women had

:20:15. > :20:19.the breast implants made by the French company PIP,

:20:20. > :20:22.when they were revealed to be at risk of rupturing,

:20:23. > :20:25.but patchy record-keeping made it He is in charge of procurement

:20:26. > :20:34.at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, one of six places

:20:35. > :20:43.piloting the scheme. Good morning to you. What an

:20:44. > :20:47.interesting idea. Listening to what was said in the piece that, one of

:20:48. > :20:51.the medical staff said that some drugs look very similar. Barcodes

:20:52. > :20:57.will help to ensure that the right drugs go to the right people.

:20:58. > :21:00.Correct. There is a bit of me that if thinking we are reliant on

:21:01. > :21:05.technology rather than the expertise of medical staff. I understand that.

:21:06. > :21:09.It is really a check and balance. It is so we are able to recall not only

:21:10. > :21:13.what the Stuffer scene but the actual information from the product,

:21:14. > :21:15.so that we've got record all the way through the patient journey,

:21:16. > :21:21.covering obviously medicines but also devices as well. If there is a

:21:22. > :21:25.recall and devices, we have recorded the information into the patient

:21:26. > :21:29.notes. We have the lot, the serial number and the expiry date and we

:21:30. > :21:32.are able to track and trace products to patient level. I am holding up

:21:33. > :21:36.what looks like a little piece of card, which has a very important

:21:37. > :21:41.Barco, and I am holding at the wrong way. You are indeed. Good job I am

:21:42. > :21:47.not putting this in because it is for a mid- phase 1.5 millimetres

:21:48. > :21:51.screw. Correct, so we use that in trauma, in terms of missing bones

:21:52. > :21:54.together with plates, et cetera. What we are trying to do is get

:21:55. > :21:58.effectively retail technology on the product, so that we are able to

:21:59. > :22:02.track and trace those products right the way through from receipt in the

:22:03. > :22:08.hospital right the way through the implant in those into the patient.

:22:09. > :22:11.Don't we do that already? We don't unfortunately. You would think we

:22:12. > :22:15.do. One of the issues has been the lack of standards around products.

:22:16. > :22:20.So the NHS is now deploying standards to all its product and

:22:21. > :22:24.what asking all of its products to deploy a GS1 barcode. Up until now

:22:25. > :22:28.manufacturers have applied whatever Barco they want so we have not been

:22:29. > :22:37.able to track products. Trace it through for me. So the product you

:22:38. > :22:43.are talking about is what? That is screw. Help me with the cost saving.

:22:44. > :22:46.You are not going to use any less screws, so knowing where they are

:22:47. > :22:52.going does not make a difference to how much money is being spent, does

:22:53. > :22:55.it? What it does do, it allows us to track wastage through the system,

:22:56. > :22:58.and variation through the system. But different clinicians will use

:22:59. > :23:04.different products and different volumes. By tracking the product to

:23:05. > :23:09.the patient, identifying the clinician at point of use, we can

:23:10. > :23:12.make sure we are using standard processes throughout the whole of

:23:13. > :23:16.healthcare. From a supply chain point of view what we are also doing

:23:17. > :23:20.is ensuring that we have the right amount of product is on the shelf,

:23:21. > :23:25.we have not got excess stock in the system. Also, if you take a device

:23:26. > :23:31.we are talking about here, it costs about ?12,500. It is an implantable

:23:32. > :23:39.device. That is worth ?12,500? That is worth ?12,500. It is a pain

:23:40. > :23:43.stimulator, a super TENs machine, implantable within the body. We want

:23:44. > :23:48.to make sure it is still in date, the shelflife is less than 12 months

:23:49. > :23:52.from receipt in hospital so we need to make sure we have visibility of

:23:53. > :23:56.that from receipt in hospital right the way through to the patient. A

:23:57. > :24:01.bit like supermarkets track what is going out. Or motor manufacturers.

:24:02. > :24:04.When your car is recalled they know exactly who has a car, where it is

:24:05. > :24:08.and what is being replaced. From this point of view we have the

:24:09. > :24:11.serial number, the lot number, the batch number, and we know the

:24:12. > :24:16.patient. So what we have managed to do is get the barcode on the patient

:24:17. > :24:19.as well, so we are also occurred in the patient and making that link

:24:20. > :24:25.using the NHS number, linking the patient all the way through the

:24:26. > :24:30.journey. It is early stages. And trial stages, so we will find out in

:24:31. > :24:32.the future just what devices there are. Thank you for your time.

:24:33. > :24:34.Could paintings teach us more about early-onset dementia?

:24:35. > :24:38.An analysis of more than 2,000 works by seven famous artists has shone

:24:39. > :24:41.new light on the development of diseases like Alzheimer's and

:24:42. > :24:54.The research shows that neurological conditions could be detected

:24:55. > :24:57.by subtle changes in composition and brushstrokes, long before any

:24:58. > :25:00.Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes has more.

:25:01. > :25:05.Can you remember what the painting is called?

:25:06. > :25:09.It is one of my favourites that he did.

:25:10. > :25:12.Living with dementia, Joyce Cope still enjoys painting.

:25:13. > :25:15.But today, her work is very different from the highly detailed

:25:16. > :25:28.pictures she used to produce before the disease took hold.

:25:29. > :25:30.There was these really good copies of the masters,

:25:31. > :25:36.She can remember things from years ago, but generally if you ask

:25:37. > :25:38.what she had for breakfast this morning, she can't remember.

:25:39. > :25:41.But can art, and more specifically the way artists work,

:25:42. > :25:43.tell us something about the development of dementia

:25:44. > :25:47.and other degenerative brain diseases?

:25:48. > :25:50.Much of the research into dementia has obviously been very medical.

:25:51. > :25:52.But now, a new approach combines both maths and art,

:25:53. > :26:00.and offers an intriguing insight into what might be

:26:01. > :26:03.going on in the brains of those artists who develop dementia,

:26:04. > :26:15.long before any symptoms become obvious.

:26:16. > :26:18.There is some fractal content in this, which is what we call very

:26:19. > :26:21.Fractal analysis is a complex, mathematical method of looking

:26:22. > :26:24.The recurring patterns of our brainwaves and heart

:26:25. > :26:28.The same applies to the individual brushstrokes of artists,

:26:29. > :26:33.Now, an analysis of more than 2,000 works by 17 artists has revealed

:26:34. > :26:38.Artists who went on to develop dementia or Parkinson's disease,

:26:39. > :26:40.the fractal patterns started to change, in an unusual way.

:26:41. > :26:47.So what we find is, up to 20 years before they had a diagnosis

:26:48. > :26:49.of a neurological disorder, the fractal content

:26:50. > :26:51.within their paintings had started to decrease.

:26:52. > :26:54.So anything that helps us understand more about how the brain operates

:26:55. > :27:08.is a useful way to inform future directions for research.

:27:09. > :27:10.Artist Willem de Kooning was diagnosed with Alzheimer's

:27:11. > :27:15.The brushstroke patterns seen in his earlier work were different

:27:16. > :27:19.But in the work of Picasso, who died free of any known

:27:20. > :27:21.neurological disease, the patterns remain constant

:27:22. > :27:29.throughout his life, regardless of what he was painting.

:27:30. > :27:34.So is it easier to use oils than it is to use watercolours?

:27:35. > :27:37.This won't help diagnosed dementia, or similar diseases,

:27:38. > :27:40.but it does give a valuable insight into changes that are taking place

:27:41. > :27:42.in the brain, years before the illness appears,

:27:43. > :27:45.and so could help answer questions about these devastating conditions.

:27:46. > :27:53.We have had some great guests on the programme. Little Harry made quite

:27:54. > :27:58.an impression when he visited us here a year ago. He was facing an

:27:59. > :28:03.anxious wait for a life-saving liver transplant. You can see he was in

:28:04. > :28:07.good form when he came to visit, and then in March, with no other donor

:28:08. > :28:09.available, his father Simon volunteered to share his liver. We

:28:10. > :28:21.have been to catch up with him. I love you. I love you too. But yes,

:28:22. > :28:29.no publications. I have daddy's liver now. It is yours now, you can

:28:30. > :28:31.keep it! -- no complications. I think that was very nice of daddy to

:28:32. > :28:38.do. You are welcome. I love you, Harry, is all I have to

:28:39. > :28:42.say about that. Here's a bit special, he caused mayhem when he

:28:43. > :28:45.was here. We will look at hospitals and the work they are doing to help

:28:46. > :32:13.families in similar situations. Your local radio station will have

:32:14. > :32:15.the latest travel news and we will be back with another date in half an

:32:16. > :32:18.hour. Goodbye. -- another update. This is Breakfast,

:32:19. > :32:21.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. We'll bring you all the latest news

:32:22. > :32:26.and sport in a moment, The Hollywood actress

:32:27. > :32:31.Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death

:32:32. > :32:34.of her daughter, the film star The 84-year-old had been

:32:35. > :32:37.at her daughter's bedside since the Star Wars star suffered

:32:38. > :32:40.a heart attack on Christmas Eve. Reynold's son, Todd Fisher,

:32:41. > :32:43.said the stress of his sister's death had been too

:32:44. > :32:45.much for their mother and that her last words had been

:32:46. > :32:50.that she wanted to be with Carrie. Stars have been paying

:32:51. > :32:55.their tributes to Debbie Reynolds. William Shatner, who played

:32:56. > :32:58.James T Kirk in the Star Trek franchise described her

:32:59. > :33:00.as "one of the last Dame Joan Collins hailed her

:33:01. > :33:04.as "a wonderfully warm The singer Gloria Gaynor

:33:05. > :33:21.called her "an American icon In the last half-hour entertainment

:33:22. > :33:25.righted Jeanie Wolf said her mother had found it difficult to come to

:33:26. > :33:31.terms with her daughter's death. We moved into houses next door to each

:33:32. > :33:36.other. She was a great-grandmother to carry's daughter, who is now 24

:33:37. > :33:40.and beginning to be an actress, all of us should remember that not only

:33:41. > :33:44.did she lose her mother, but she lost her grandmother, who I am told

:33:45. > :33:47.used to play cards with her and sing and stands with her. The Billie

:33:48. > :33:53.Lourd is someone we will watch and Debbie was unthinkable, but this was

:33:54. > :33:55.really too much and you can understand it would be too much.

:33:56. > :33:59.Patients could be forced to wait up to a month to see their family

:34:00. > :34:02.doctor this winter, according to the UK's leading GP.

:34:03. > :34:05.Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs,

:34:06. > :34:08.says longer waiting times could pose a "serious risk" to patients.

:34:09. > :34:14.NHS England says surgeries have been promised more funding.

:34:15. > :34:17.Dozens of children who lived in the Calais Jungle camp have

:34:18. > :34:19.launched a legal challenge against the Home Office

:34:20. > :34:23.over its handling of asylum applications.

:34:24. > :34:25.Lawyers representing 36 children say the government

:34:26. > :34:28.broke its promise to take in its fair share of child refugees.

:34:29. > :34:30.They say hundreds have had their applications turned down

:34:31. > :34:34.The Home Office says it will not comment

:34:35. > :34:40.Rebel groups are expected to meet Russian negotiators in Turkey today

:34:41. > :34:44.as part of a fresh push for a ceasefire in Syria.

:34:45. > :34:47.One key group says it's already been in talks with Turkish

:34:48. > :34:49.officials about ways to end the fighting,

:34:50. > :34:56.but that it's too early to say whether there could be a truce.

:34:57. > :34:58.It's believed one key point of contention is the exclusion

:34:59. > :35:01.of a key rebel-held area on the outskirts of Damascus

:35:02. > :35:13.Keepers at testers who are celebrating the arrival of a very

:35:14. > :35:19.rare and very deep baby. The 6-foot tall youngster who is yet to be

:35:20. > :35:23.named arrived on Boxing Day. The Rothschild giraffe is said to be one

:35:24. > :35:28.of the most endangered species of the animal, with less than 1600 left

:35:29. > :35:31.in the wild. Very cute. Looking around at the world, to see what it

:35:32. > :35:35.looks like. Earlier you were a little bit

:35:36. > :35:40.dismissive of my giraffe fact. Remind us.

:35:41. > :35:44.I said one hour ago that giraffe eat for about 20 hours a day. Charlie

:35:45. > :35:52.wasn't impressed, so I've got another one. This is from Nick.

:35:53. > :35:55.Thank you very much. Apparently giraffes have the highest blood

:35:56. > :36:02.pressure of any animal. Well, that is quite interesting.

:36:03. > :36:05.And it makes logical sense, because they have to have enough pressure to

:36:06. > :36:16.get it up to their brain. Because their neck is very long. I

:36:17. > :36:23.like the fact. Giraffes have long necks! You are

:36:24. > :36:26.going to talk to us about Bradley Wiggins.

:36:27. > :36:31.One of the most recognisable haircuts in sport, of course.

:36:32. > :36:37.And one of the most brilliant athletes we have ever had. It was

:36:38. > :36:42.interesting talking to Rob Hayles who wrote in the Olympic team in

:36:43. > :36:46.Sydney with him. He will be coming back later to talk to us about

:36:47. > :36:53.Bradley and his achievements, but will he retire? He has hinted that

:36:54. > :36:58.he will, but he says he is doing OK, he doesn't think he will, but now he

:36:59. > :37:03.says he will and I think this time it will stick.

:37:04. > :37:10.He says this is it. It is a moment to reflect on.

:37:11. > :37:11.It is incredible. Let's take a minute to reflect on that incredible

:37:12. > :37:12.career. Sir Bradley announced his retirement

:37:13. > :37:15.by saying "Kids from Kilburn don't win Olympic Golds and

:37:16. > :37:17.the Tour de France. Wiggins is the most

:37:18. > :37:20.decorated British Olympian, with five gold medals

:37:21. > :37:22.in his total of eight medals. The most recent coming

:37:23. > :37:26.in the team pursuit in Rio. He spoke of what he might do when it

:37:27. > :37:29.came to his retirement. To remain riding my bike,

:37:30. > :37:33.involved in cycling. I have children's bikes,

:37:34. > :37:38.so very much cycling has been a huge part of my life and it

:37:39. > :37:45.will continue to be. I don't expect too much to change,

:37:46. > :37:49.other than I won't be in Olympic Sir Bradley's former Olympic team

:37:50. > :37:53.mate Rob Hayles will be on the sofa Tottenham are just behind Arsenal

:37:54. > :38:09.after winning at Southampton. Harry Kane had gone three league

:38:10. > :38:11.matches without a goal, but he put an end

:38:12. > :38:14.to that last night. And Dele Alli scored twice,

:38:15. > :38:16.as Southampton finished the game They're ten points behind leaders

:38:17. > :38:20.Chelsea. Ahead of the Old Firm

:38:21. > :38:22.derby on New Year's Eve, Celtic have stretched

:38:23. > :38:25.their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership

:38:26. > :38:27.to 16 points. They beat Ross County

:38:28. > :38:29.2-0 last night, while second-placed Rangers

:38:30. > :38:31.were held to a 1-1 draw at St A defensive blunder allowed

:38:32. > :38:34.Steven Maclean to score There were also wins for Motherwell

:38:35. > :38:38.and Partick Thistle. There has been another high-profile

:38:39. > :38:41.retirement in the world of sport, with tennis player Ana Ivanovic

:38:42. > :38:44.ending her career at 29. The Serbian won the

:38:45. > :38:46.French Open in 2008 and, after struggling

:38:47. > :38:48.to repeat that success, she mounted a comeback last year

:38:49. > :38:51.and reached the semi-final She married Manchester United's

:38:52. > :39:01.Bastian Schweinsteiger this summer. She was of course the former world

:39:02. > :39:05.number one as well and a semifinalist at three grand slams.

:39:06. > :39:09.I wonder, is there something about the turn of the year that makes

:39:10. > :39:13.people make decisions? Well, she has been injured since

:39:14. > :39:17.August as well. It must be tough trying to get back

:39:18. > :39:22.into things after the winter. On that theme, of things changing,

:39:23. > :39:27.have a think about this one. Three days left, thoughts turning to what

:39:28. > :39:29.the next 12 months might bring and what you would like to leave behind

:39:30. > :39:34.you in 2016. For the last decade,

:39:35. > :39:37.New Yorkers have been taking this seriously by gathering

:39:38. > :39:40.in Times Square at the end of each December, to symbolically

:39:41. > :39:42.destroy their bad memories Good Riddance Day is based

:39:43. > :39:47.on a Latin American tradition which sees people burn

:39:48. > :39:49.dolls stuffed with objects So, what did the people

:39:50. > :39:54.of Manchester and New York want to bid farewell

:39:55. > :40:05.to as we head towards 2017? Good Riddance Day few extra

:40:06. > :40:11.Christmas pounds. The weather here. Too cold! Homelessness, shocking.

:40:12. > :40:15.I've never seen it so bad. I would like to see places for them off the

:40:16. > :40:25.streets more than anything. Working long hours. The memory of David

:40:26. > :40:30.Bowie's death. I want to shred the stress and anger that sometimes I

:40:31. > :40:37.have. I don't want it any more. I love the idea of saying goodbye to

:40:38. > :40:40.stop. Stress, that would be good!

:40:41. > :40:43.One person who will definitely be wanting to say "good riddance"

:40:44. > :40:45.to 2016 is the TV presenter Charlie Webster.

:40:46. > :40:52.Good morning. I am going to read this. You were in a coma after

:40:53. > :40:54.contracting malaria. We're also joined by psychological

:40:55. > :41:03.therapist Emma Kenny. Good morning to both of you. How are

:41:04. > :41:09.you? I'm doing really well. I love this time of the morning. No, I am

:41:10. > :41:14.doing well. I am so lucky. Quite a few people know the story about 1.0

:41:15. > :41:19.was given 24 hours to live. My brother flew over, I was on life

:41:20. > :41:24.support. Four months ago I was still on life support and to be here now I

:41:25. > :41:27.just feel very grateful. It has been extremely tough and I think people

:41:28. > :41:33.see the physical side. I had complete organ failure and I went

:41:34. > :41:39.through a huge trauma mentally. I was told I was dying and I remember

:41:40. > :41:44.what happened in a coma. So I would like to say goodbye to 2016. We've

:41:45. > :41:48.seen the pictures of you in your hospital bed. Is it that easy? Are

:41:49. > :41:53.you capable of doing that, compartmentalising things and

:41:54. > :42:01.saying, it is then, he ran now? Just to confirm, those pictures were from

:42:02. > :42:09.before I got ill. It was when I went to hospital dehydrated. When I went

:42:10. > :42:12.to hospital I was about 14 stone, I was extremely blown up, I couldn't

:42:13. > :42:18.see through my eyes. That was very traumatic for my family. But I don't

:42:19. > :42:22.think you can do that and I wouldn't advise anybody to do that, who is

:42:23. > :42:26.going to any trauma, no matter whether it is physical or mental or

:42:27. > :42:32.a loss of somebody. It was as soon as you do that, which I can be like

:42:33. > :42:38.that, I will put on a front and try to put it behind me, but it comes

:42:39. > :42:43.out. I ensure you agree that I get quite a lot. There are certain

:42:44. > :42:48.things, a loud noise also is in environments, that trigger any. The

:42:49. > :42:52.other day I was lying in a bed and it brought back so many memories of

:42:53. > :42:56.me not being able to move. I was strapped down as well in restraints.

:42:57. > :43:00.So a lot of things flashed back to me. The most important thing is to

:43:01. > :43:06.work through them and be kind to yourself. That's interesting. This

:43:07. > :43:09.idea of good riddance to certain things, it isn't that you are

:43:10. > :43:15.pretending it didn't happen, a difference between those two places.

:43:16. > :43:19.Absolutely. Avoidance and denial are not the way forward. You can't

:43:20. > :43:22.imagine you can pop something in it all and set fire to it and

:43:23. > :43:27.everything is all right. The most important part of any situation is

:43:28. > :43:32.progress. The thing that works in this circumstance is the fact that

:43:33. > :43:36.you are actually taking power over the scenario, so you recognise when

:43:37. > :43:41.something has affected you, but you aren't willing to have that affect

:43:42. > :43:45.you any more. So you create agency. But what we wouldn't want to do is

:43:46. > :43:50.to avoid going through the process, because actually it is often the

:43:51. > :43:53.awful times that we recognise our resilience and forge new

:43:54. > :43:57.opportunities and we harness our self power. So I think the most

:43:58. > :44:01.important part is not to deny it, but certainly to let go once you've

:44:02. > :44:05.worked through it. We talked a moment ago about the ceremony of

:44:06. > :44:10.letting go. You have obviously survived a huge trauma. What can you

:44:11. > :44:19.do? Is there a physical thing you can do? Burn at all! To say goodbye

:44:20. > :44:23.to all of it. -- burn a doll. I completely agree. I've learnt not to

:44:24. > :44:27.do that. I possibly have a habit of doing that, because like to be seen

:44:28. > :44:31.as strong and inspiring and achieved all these things, but for me it was

:44:32. > :44:38.hard to show and the vulnerable, which I am and I am still very much

:44:39. > :44:41.at the moment and I've had to process and the people, care

:44:42. > :44:45.specialists and psychologists, to process the feelings I went through.

:44:46. > :44:52.For me, the scariest thing was thinking that I would never be here,

:44:53. > :44:56.but on a positive I had such a love of life and I desperately fought for

:44:57. > :45:00.my life and I believe I made a decision to stay alive because I

:45:01. > :45:04.wanted to be here. You can't go through that and be the same person.

:45:05. > :45:08.For me, it is like, I want to 2017 to come because then I can feel I

:45:09. > :45:12.can put it behind me and start making small goals which then

:45:13. > :45:19.accumulate to a big one to get over it. It seems to me, a bit of amateur

:45:20. > :45:22.psychology, but it has -- that we've got better at acknowledging that

:45:23. > :45:27.something bad has happened, say it out loud, whatever it might be. We

:45:28. > :45:33.realise that strength. The whole idea of the stiff upper lip worked

:45:34. > :45:36.for a time. We've recognised that emotional intelligence and being

:45:37. > :45:39.able to speak your feelings and recognise your pain is the first

:45:40. > :45:46.step in settling it and I think the post trauma that you've called

:45:47. > :45:50.through, undoubtedly the first step is to realise you can't go it alone

:45:51. > :45:54.and that is power and strength. You can't be the same person he were one

:45:55. > :45:59.year ago, but actually what you've recognised is the fight you have in

:46:00. > :46:03.you and this deal you have a new and the recognition that things can get

:46:04. > :46:06.in your way. Once you do that, that's how powerful acknowledging

:46:07. > :46:11.pain can be at acknowledging trauma. It can change you, are changing for

:46:12. > :46:16.the better. And maybe not comparing yourself. One thing I started to do

:46:17. > :46:21.is, I could do this six months ago, but then I've gone, OK, I can't do

:46:22. > :46:27.that, I am a new person, the bubbly a better person. 2016 has been the

:46:28. > :46:31.worst year of my life but it has shaped me for the better. And now

:46:32. > :46:38.you've achieved getting up early in the morning!

:46:39. > :46:44.You can't believe it, four months ago. It is interesting how actually

:46:45. > :46:49.letting go of bad stuff is quite similar to making a New Year's

:46:50. > :46:53.resolution. What I was going to say was, I wonder if our Carol maybe has

:46:54. > :46:58.a New Year's resolution or something she wants to let go of over the last

:46:59. > :47:02.year. I think we need to let go of that freezing fog, don't we? We

:47:03. > :47:07.certainly do, there is some freezing fog around, as you rightly say. Some

:47:08. > :47:12.of it dance, especially across East Wales and England and it could lead

:47:13. > :47:16.to travel disruption. Some of it will slowly lift, some will not lift

:47:17. > :47:21.at all but there is sunshine into their's forecast as well, after a

:47:22. > :47:26.cold start. Luckily across parts of England and Wales temperatures have

:47:27. > :47:30.fallen as low as -6 -7 so watch out for on untreated surfaces. Watch out

:47:31. > :47:33.for patchy fog as well. It is not everywhere but there are dance

:47:34. > :47:37.pockets of it and for Northern Ireland in Scotland we don't have

:47:38. > :47:40.the same problems, because here there is more cloud and more of a

:47:41. > :47:44.breeze. Pockets of frost in sheltered glens, and that is about

:47:45. > :47:48.it. The thicker cloud across north-west Scotland is introducing

:47:49. > :47:51.spots of rain, that will turn more persistent later and also much

:47:52. > :47:56.windier. Meanwhile for England and for Wales we are looking at the fog

:47:57. > :48:00.slowly lifting, sunshine coming through, but the fault is likely to

:48:01. > :48:08.stick across the part a Mac parts of East Wales, Midlands and the Vale of

:48:09. > :48:13.York. It is going to feel cold. This evening and overnight the breeze

:48:14. > :48:16.picks up, the weather front moving across northern Scotland, bringing

:48:17. > :48:23.some rain. We will also see some more cloud on the forecast, although

:48:24. > :48:27.we will start off with some fog, we will see that clear across East

:48:28. > :48:30.Anglia and the south-east and here it will drag its heels in terms of

:48:31. > :48:34.clearance. Here the temperatures will be that bit lower. Now tomorrow

:48:35. > :48:38.is essentially going to be quite a great day. There will be a lot of

:48:39. > :48:42.cloud around, some brighter breaks, but we also have a weather front

:48:43. > :48:45.straddle across the far north of Scotland, accompanied by gusty

:48:46. > :48:49.winds. Temperature-wise, unless you are stuck under the fog will feel

:48:50. > :48:54.quite mild to the stage in December. In New Year's Eve, the same weather

:48:55. > :48:58.front is going to be slowly slipping southwards. We see around it, the

:48:59. > :49:03.timing on this keeps changing. This chart finishes at 3pm in the

:49:04. > :49:07.afternoon, so you can see it is going to be wet across Scotland and

:49:08. > :49:10.Northern Ireland. By midnight we expect the rain to have slipped into

:49:11. > :49:15.northern England, north Wales and Northern Ireland, but as I said the

:49:16. > :49:19.timing keeps changing, so do keep in touch with the forecast if you have

:49:20. > :49:23.midnight plans. Further south, quite a bit of cloud around with the odd

:49:24. > :49:27.spot of rain or drizzle, especially in the coast sandhills. As this

:49:28. > :49:31.weather front sinks away, we see cold are coming in behind and we

:49:32. > :49:35.will see a return to wintry showers. Here is our weather front moving on

:49:36. > :49:40.New Year's Day across England and Wales, breezy around it. Kind of

:49:41. > :49:43.cold air filters in, with the showers increasingly wintry. We will

:49:44. > :49:46.talk to you again very soon. Let's get the latest

:49:47. > :49:49.from the world of business now, and as the New Year approaches,

:49:50. > :49:52.Sean is here with a few predictions for what 2017 could

:49:53. > :49:55.mean for our money. Well, the big story for British

:49:56. > :49:59.business in 2016 has of course been that vote to leave

:50:00. > :50:01.the European Union. But while we wait for the details

:50:02. > :50:04.of what that will look like for the country,

:50:05. > :50:07.there will be some more short-term The fall in the pound after we voted

:50:08. > :50:13.to leave affected everybody. Holidaymakers found it more

:50:14. > :50:15.expensive, British-made goods looked cheaper, and it has had a knock-on

:50:16. > :50:19.effect on prices in our shops. So can we expect to see

:50:20. > :50:23.it recover in 2017? So, as Michelle says,

:50:24. > :50:25.experts think the pound But if it stays around

:50:26. > :50:30.the levels it is at now, that will have a big effect

:50:31. > :50:43.on prices next year. The Sterling is most important than

:50:44. > :50:48.most currencies, increasingly the Chinese currency, the yen, and the

:50:49. > :50:50.sterling is going to be whipsawed around. Experts think it will remain

:50:51. > :50:53.unpredictable. Remember Marmitegate,

:50:54. > :50:55.back in October, when retailers and suppliers fell out

:50:56. > :50:57.about increasing costs Well, in the coming months,

:50:58. > :51:04.economists and the retailers themselves expect some

:51:05. > :51:16.of those rises to be passed Prices are going to be bigger than

:51:17. > :51:21.shoppers' agenda. 70% of us think that prices will go up next year as

:51:22. > :51:25.a result of Brexit and we are all going to be very concerned about our

:51:26. > :51:29.own economy and how we will save money. What we can expect to see is

:51:30. > :51:32.loads of cost saving measures coming back, coupons, vouchers, and we will

:51:33. > :51:33.be seeking value in everything we buy.

:51:34. > :51:36.So what about the money that we save, and that we owe?

:51:37. > :51:39.It has been another bad year for savers, after rates were cut

:51:40. > :51:44.But mortgage-holders have had it good, with low rates.

:51:45. > :51:46.But last month, this woman, Janet Yellen, who is in charge

:51:47. > :51:49.of America's central bank, raised interest rates in the USA,

:51:50. > :51:53.and experts here in the UK have told us they are expecting mortgage rates

:51:54. > :52:02.We will see interest rates start to rise in the UK sometime. The Bank of

:52:03. > :52:07.England have said they want to see the impact of Brexit first. So let's

:52:08. > :52:11.just wait and see how they play it out. But they are going to probably

:52:12. > :52:13.try and react slower than faster. With interest rates potentially

:52:14. > :52:16.increasing, prices expected to rise, and the pound continuing

:52:17. > :52:18.its uncertain path, there should be more than enough to keep Steph,

:52:19. > :52:24.Ben and I busy in 2017. There is plenty more work, do not

:52:25. > :52:29.worry about that. Now, you may remember little Harry,

:52:30. > :52:33.who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with

:52:34. > :52:35.his mum 12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels then,

:52:36. > :52:39.Harry was facing an anxious wait In March, with no other donor

:52:40. > :52:43.available, his dad Simon volunteered Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been

:52:44. > :52:47.to catch up with the Maceachen family, and some of the people

:52:48. > :52:50.helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place for

:52:51. > :53:12.families like them. For the Maceachen family,

:53:13. > :53:19.2016 was life changing. With no other donor available,

:53:20. > :53:23.Simon donated part of his liver He was born with a condition

:53:24. > :53:31.called biliary atresia, so he's got a blockage

:53:32. > :53:33.in the bowel ducts. We had occasions where Harry

:53:34. > :53:36.would go to bed at night fit and healthy and then at 6am

:53:37. > :53:40.he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting

:53:41. > :53:42.and we would end up in hospital Harry's first appearance

:53:43. > :53:46.on Breakfast last December In March, we filmed as the family

:53:47. > :53:51.prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are risky

:53:52. > :53:54.and rare and only possible because the liver is the one

:53:55. > :53:57.internal organ that can regenerate. No complications, no

:53:58. > :54:05.problems at all, really. It took a little while to

:54:06. > :54:08.recover from the surgery. He's a bit younger than me

:54:09. > :54:23.so he was a bit quicker than me. Well, it's yours now,

:54:24. > :54:30.you can keep it. And I thought that was

:54:31. > :54:33.really nice of Daddy. What can you do now that

:54:34. > :54:37.you couldn't before? So you've been taking

:54:38. > :54:40.part in the transplant How much better do you

:54:41. > :54:48.feel now than before? Hospitals can be unfamiliar,

:54:49. > :54:52.unsettling places, For their operations,

:54:53. > :54:59.Harry and Simon wore matching gowns, specially made by volunteers known

:55:00. > :55:02.as the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. There's hospitals up and down

:55:03. > :55:17.the country getting in touch, their children want something

:55:18. > :55:20.that is friendly and brings a smile to the kid's faces instead

:55:21. > :55:23.of wearing boring scrubs in theatre. before, we distributed

:55:24. > :55:26.about 200 garments a month, we probably distribute around 1,000

:55:27. > :55:33.garments every month now. I had breakfast telly on that

:55:34. > :55:38.morning and I was so interested in learning more about the charity

:55:39. > :55:41.and becoming involved. A couple of 100

:55:42. > :55:47.garments later, yeah. The latest batch is bound

:55:48. > :55:50.for the Princess Royal Hospital in Do you want to find

:55:51. > :56:03.some little ones? When they're in hospital,

:56:04. > :56:05.it's very scary, they're away from their parents, they're

:56:06. > :56:08.in a different environment. We have to make it a more

:56:09. > :56:10.homely environment. The pyjamas give us something

:56:11. > :56:13.for them to talk about, Every garment comes with a poem

:56:14. > :56:18.written by the Wrap Pyjama Faries. It's aimed to reassure children

:56:19. > :56:25.at a difficult time. So, at night time while you are

:56:26. > :56:28.sleeping, we bring our fairy dust along to help you to get better

:56:29. > :56:32.and to make you strong. Harry knows how

:56:33. > :56:33.comforting it can be. From us to you, we hope this

:56:34. > :56:55.will make you smile. What a brilliant idea. It is a great

:56:56. > :56:59.idea. Thank you to Harry and his family for letting us fill. And

:57:00. > :57:00.those medical staff who will be working all through Christmas and

:57:01. > :57:02.New Year. Time now to get the news,

:57:03. > :00:23.travel and weather where you are. I'm back with the latest

:00:24. > :00:26.from the BBC London newsroom Hello, this is Breakfast,

:00:27. > :00:35.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The veteran Hollywood actress

:00:36. > :00:37.Debbie Reynolds has died just a day after her daughter,

:00:38. > :00:39.Carrie Fisher. She was 84 and had been rushed to

:00:40. > :00:42.hospital with a suspected stroke - her son said the stress

:00:43. > :00:44.of his sister's death Good morning, it's Thursday

:00:45. > :01:02.the 29th of December. Patients could be forced to wait up

:01:03. > :01:07.to a month to see their family doctor because of

:01:08. > :01:09.winter pressures - a stark warning In sport, Sir Bradley Wiggins has

:01:10. > :01:14.announced his retirement from cycling after a career

:01:15. > :01:17.during which he won five Olympic Lawyers for a group of children

:01:18. > :01:24.who lived in the Calais Jungle refugee camp launch a legal

:01:25. > :01:27.challenge accusing the British government of breaking its promise

:01:28. > :01:42.to take a fair share Good morning. Stock markets in the

:01:43. > :01:45.UK have hit record highs as the FTSE 100 continued its strong run in

:01:46. > :01:51.December. I will have more shortly. And Carol

:01:52. > :01:54.has the weather. Good morning, it is a frosty start across England and

:01:55. > :02:00.Wales with freezing fog patches. There will be more sunshine than

:02:01. > :02:05.yesterday. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, cloudy and breezy with

:02:06. > :02:06.some sunny spells. I will have more details in 15 minutes.

:02:07. > :02:09.Thank you. The Hollywood actress

:02:10. > :02:14.Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death

:02:15. > :02:16.of her daughter, She was 84 and is believed

:02:17. > :02:20.to have suffered a stroke. Reynolds' career spanned seven

:02:21. > :02:22.decades, but she was best known for her role in the 1952 musical,

:02:23. > :02:25.Singin' In The Rain, Our Los Angeles correspondent

:02:26. > :02:45.David Willis reports. Debbie Reynolds had been at her son

:02:46. > :02:48.Todd Fisher's house in Beverly Hills Apparently they had been discussing

:02:49. > :03:00.plans for Carrie's funeral # Good morning, good morning,

:03:01. > :03:03.it's great to stay up late # Good morning, good morning

:03:04. > :03:05.to you...# Debbie Reynolds, 19-years-old,

:03:06. > :03:06.singing and dancing on film It was her performance alongside

:03:07. > :03:11.Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain Born in Texas, she moved

:03:12. > :03:15.with her family to California and landed a contract

:03:16. > :03:17.with Warner Brothers after winning a local beauty contest

:03:18. > :03:19.at the age of 16. She married the popular crooner

:03:20. > :03:22.Eddie Fisher and together they had He later left her for

:03:23. > :03:25.Elizabeth Taylor, Two subsequent marriages

:03:26. > :03:30.also ended in divorce. A popular choice for movie musicals

:03:31. > :03:34.in the 1950s and '60s, Debbie Reynolds earnt an Oscar

:03:35. > :03:37.nomination for her depiction of Titanic survivor Margaret Brown

:03:38. > :03:43.in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She opened her own hotel

:03:44. > :03:47.in Las Vegas in 1992, filling it with movie memorabilia

:03:48. > :03:50.she had accumulated over the years, but the business folded

:03:51. > :03:52.and she was eventually forced My personal life is always sort

:03:53. > :04:01.of like that choo choo train that says "I think I can,

:04:02. > :04:04.I think I can, I think I can". I seem to marry very poorly,

:04:05. > :04:07.I have no taste in men. Luckily for me, God is good

:04:08. > :04:10.and I have two lovely children and my son helps me run my little

:04:11. > :04:14.hotel, here in Vegas. # Good morning, good

:04:15. > :04:16.morning...# She went on to play Grace's mother

:04:17. > :04:22.in the hit sitcom Will and Grace and returned to the big screen

:04:23. > :04:24.to play Liberace's mother in the 2013 biopic

:04:25. > :04:37.Behind The Candelabra. She was taken ill whilst

:04:38. > :04:57.discussing the arrangements It was so sad, it was a shocker.

:04:58. > :05:01.What are the odds of that happening? It is very sad.

:05:02. > :05:13.And we will be sharing more stories about Debbie Reynolds this morning.

:05:14. > :05:16.Patients could be forced to wait up to a month

:05:17. > :05:18.to see their family doctor this winter, according

:05:19. > :05:21.Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs,

:05:22. > :05:23.says that longer waiting times could pose

:05:24. > :05:32.Every winter an increasing workload puts pressure

:05:33. > :05:34.on the NHS because more people are sick.

:05:35. > :05:37.Some patients are already waiting 2-3 weeks to get a seat

:05:38. > :05:43.Now the chair of the Royal College of GPs says that's likely to climb

:05:44. > :05:46.to over a month in some areas and she is profoundly concerned

:05:47. > :05:48.about how her general practice will cope.

:05:49. > :05:54.Firstly, there just aren't enough GPs out there.

:05:55. > :05:56.We don't have enough clinicians in the workforce,

:05:57. > :05:58.but also we haven't got enough nurses and other

:05:59. > :06:08.Secondly, there's been a serious underinvestment in general practices

:06:09. > :06:11.We have some promises of good news coming,

:06:12. > :06:13.more money and people coming through the system,

:06:14. > :06:16.but they've yet to get to the front line, so the problem this winter

:06:17. > :06:19.is as bad as it has ever been and that's a real worry.

:06:20. > :06:22.She says she is particularly worried about the impact on preventative

:06:23. > :06:24.care and chronic disease management, while the knock-on consequences

:06:25. > :06:30.The people who suffer are those with long-term conditions,

:06:31. > :06:33.because we have to prioritise those who are sick today.

:06:34. > :06:36.If however, we are ignoring those with longer term conditions then

:06:37. > :06:38.we are storing up problems for the future and increasing

:06:39. > :06:43.NHS England says GP services are on track to receive an extra

:06:44. > :06:46.?2.5 billion by 2020, which will expand access

:06:47. > :06:54.to convenient appointments throughout the week.

:06:55. > :06:56.We'll speak to the chair of the Royal College of GPs

:06:57. > :07:02.Dozens of children who lived in the Calais "Jungle" camp have

:07:03. > :07:04.launched a legal challenge against the Home Office over

:07:05. > :07:09.Lawyers representing 36 children say the government broke its promise

:07:10. > :07:12.to take in its fair share of child refugees, and claim hundreds have

:07:13. > :07:16.had their applications turned down without good reason.

:07:17. > :07:19.Let's speak to our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier.

:07:20. > :07:27.Eleanor, what can you tell us about this legal challenge?

:07:28. > :07:33.Well, these lawyers are representing 28 children who have had their

:07:34. > :07:37.applications rejected and then a further eight who are still waiting

:07:38. > :07:40.for a decision. The lawyers say some applications have been rejected

:07:41. > :07:44.without reason, and for that reason they are going to be appealing and

:07:45. > :07:50.they are launching a legal challenge. These children have been

:07:51. > :07:54.living in the jungle, the Calle camp when it was dismantled back in

:07:55. > :07:57.October, and these lawyers are accusing the government of failing

:07:58. > :08:02.to take some of the most vulnerable children and the camp into the UK.

:08:03. > :08:07.The Home Office said it would not be appropriate to comment on the

:08:08. > :08:11.ongoing legal proceedings but we do know around 800 child refugees were

:08:12. > :08:17.brought to the UK this year, and that includes 750 from France. As

:08:18. > :08:22.for what is going on at the moment, the current transfer of child

:08:23. > :08:26.refugees from France to the UK has now ended but we understand there

:08:27. > :08:30.will be children from across Europe, who, if they are eligible will be

:08:31. > :08:32.brought to the UK over the next few months. Thank you.

:08:33. > :08:35.Rebel groups are expected to meet Russian negotiators in Turkey today

:08:36. > :08:38.as part of a fresh push for a ceasefire in Syria.

:08:39. > :08:40.One key group says it's already been in talks with Turkish officials

:08:41. > :08:44.about ways to end the fighting, but that it's too early to say

:08:45. > :08:48.It's believed one key point of contention is the exclusion

:08:49. > :08:50.of a key rebel-held area on the outskirts of

:08:51. > :08:58.Barcodes are to be printed on medicines and medical equipment

:08:59. > :09:03.such as replacement hips and surgical tools.

:09:04. > :09:05.Ministers say the scheme, which is being piloted

:09:06. > :09:08.in six areas in England, will help reduce the rate

:09:09. > :09:12.They claim the idea could also save the NHS up to one billion

:09:13. > :09:24.An angiogram, designed to reveal the condition of patients' blood

:09:25. > :09:25.vessels, is carried out in Salisbury.

:09:26. > :09:28.As part of the piloting of the Scan4 safety scheme,

:09:29. > :09:30.barcodes on medication and equipment record the materials used to treat

:09:31. > :09:33.patients, the time and place of the procedure, and the name

:09:34. > :09:37.We can trace that patient very quickly.

:09:38. > :09:41.We scan all the equipment, so there should be no drug errors.

:09:42. > :09:46.And it's to the correct patient, so we scan the patient,

:09:47. > :09:49.making sure the right drug or the right blood product,

:09:50. > :09:51.et cetera, goes to the right patient.

:09:52. > :09:55.And if they're going to roll it out to orthopaedics and other type

:09:56. > :09:58.of equipment, we can then trace those back in the future

:09:59. > :10:08.Barcoding will reduce the average of an hour a day that nurses spend

:10:09. > :10:09.collecting medicines, and alert staff to those

:10:10. > :10:13.Everything from screws used in knee operations to breast implants

:10:14. > :10:15.will be barcoded, so their quality can be monitored.

:10:16. > :10:17.About once a week, tragically, someone dies in the NHS

:10:18. > :10:23.because they're given the wrong medicine.

:10:24. > :10:26.We also have a number of operations where the wrong implant is put

:10:27. > :10:28.into someone's body, and that then has to be changed

:10:29. > :10:33.And if we use modern bar-code technology,

:10:34. > :10:35.we can deal with a lot of these problems.

:10:36. > :10:37.One of the biggest advantages of Scan4 safety could be in tracing

:10:38. > :10:42.patients when faulty products have to be recalled.

:10:43. > :10:45.Nearly 50,000 British women had the breast implants

:10:46. > :10:48.made by the French company PIP, when they were revealed to be

:10:49. > :10:50.at risk of rupturing, but patchy record-keeping made it

:10:51. > :11:02.Migrating birds are arriving at their breeding grounds earlier

:11:03. > :11:07.as global temperatures rise, a study has found.

:11:08. > :11:09.The research, conducted by scientists at the University

:11:10. > :11:11.of Edinburgh, says some species are missing out on vital resources

:11:12. > :11:19.like food and nesting places as a result.

:11:20. > :11:26.It is hoped the findings of research will help scientists improve the way

:11:27. > :11:31.that different species respond to future environmental changes.

:11:32. > :11:36.We have the weather coming up for you and warnings about the fog. And

:11:37. > :11:37.in the sport we are talking about Bradley Wiggins announcing his

:11:38. > :11:42.retirement. This time of year is always

:11:43. > :11:44.busy for GP surgeries, but there are concerns this morning

:11:45. > :11:47.that some will struggle to cope The chair of the Royal

:11:48. > :11:50.College of GPs, Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard,

:11:51. > :11:52.says the situation poses a serious risk to patients and she joins us

:11:53. > :12:00.now from Tamworth in Staffordshire. Good morning. Thank you for your

:12:01. > :12:07.time this morning. Give us a sense of the scale of the problem. Well,

:12:08. > :12:12.this is a problem which is rapidly expanding. We have seen a series of

:12:13. > :12:16.disinvestment in general practice. The consequences we have GP

:12:17. > :12:24.surgeries closing. Many are finding it difficult to recruit GPs and many

:12:25. > :12:29.people will find it hard to get a routine appointment to see their GP.

:12:30. > :12:33.We are all pushing and firefighting to make sure urgent cases are being

:12:34. > :12:37.seen but the inevitable consequence is that the patients who have less

:12:38. > :12:42.urgent problems are being pushed to the back of the queue. You have many

:12:43. > :12:46.years of experience, would you say it is worse now than it has been

:12:47. > :12:53.before or is this something we see every winter? Well, we do see this

:12:54. > :12:58.every winter, but it has got to the stage now in the NHS where this is a

:12:59. > :13:02.year-round problem which gets worse in the winter. We are seeing the flu

:13:03. > :13:07.season starting now and that is only going to get worse through January.

:13:08. > :13:13.We also see a lot more other infectious illness as well as slips

:13:14. > :13:18.and trips in the icy weather so the workload increases across general

:13:19. > :13:21.practice in the winter every year, but it is particularly bad because

:13:22. > :13:25.we have fewer health care professional seeing people and the

:13:26. > :13:30.demand will go up. 1.6 million patients will see a GP in the UK and

:13:31. > :13:35.we are seeing 60 million more patients every year than we used to

:13:36. > :13:37.a few years ago. Demand is rising, we have fewer health care

:13:38. > :13:44.professionals and resources are shrinking so it is at crisis point.

:13:45. > :13:47.So, one part of this is the big picture, you have talked about the

:13:48. > :13:52.lack of staff and funding issues which people will be familiar with.

:13:53. > :13:57.On a practical level, often seeing the GP is the first call for someone

:13:58. > :14:01.who has medical conditions, you run a practice, you are a GP, if someone

:14:02. > :14:07.is calling your practice this morning, what is their reality, what

:14:08. > :14:13.will happen? The reality is, if they need to be seen today, they will be

:14:14. > :14:17.seen. We are really doing everything we can to keep that part of the

:14:18. > :14:21.service going because that is the really urgent stuff but what we are

:14:22. > :14:25.having to do is cut back on routine appointments. People who want to see

:14:26. > :14:29.me with something less urgent, people who need their blood pressure

:14:30. > :14:34.monitored or their diabetes care reviewed, that is being delayed and

:14:35. > :14:37.it could be three weeks to get a routine appointment and and that is

:14:38. > :14:41.not good enough. If we are missing out on these things, things will

:14:42. > :14:46.slip through the net and my theory is that things will be missed. No

:14:47. > :14:50.health care professional wants to be missing serious conditions. We are

:14:51. > :14:54.there to look after our patients but we are all stretched so then working

:14:55. > :15:00.such long hours, we cannot work more than we are. It is a real worry. GPs

:15:01. > :15:04.are going off with stress and exhaustion and they are leaving the

:15:05. > :15:09.profession because they cannot do a safe enough job. That is a tragedy

:15:10. > :15:17.for everybody. That is the experience that many people face

:15:18. > :15:24.now. GP services are on track to receive an extra ?2.4 billion by

:15:25. > :15:32.2020, is that sum of money... I think we have just lost Helen

:15:33. > :15:35.Stokes-Lampard. For the record, the statement from NHS England in

:15:36. > :15:41.relation to the funding issues is GP services are on track to receive

:15:42. > :15:46.more investment by 2020 but as you heard from the Royal College of GPs,

:15:47. > :15:48.they say that is not making any practical difference on the ground

:15:49. > :15:57.if you are seeking an appointment today will stop you are watching

:15:58. > :16:02.Breakfast from BBC News. The Hollywood actress Debbie

:16:03. > :16:06.Reynolds has died aged 84, just one day after the death of her daughter

:16:07. > :16:10.Carrie Fisher. The UK's leading GP is warning

:16:11. > :16:12.winter pressure in some patients could face a month long wait to see

:16:13. > :16:22.their family doctor. It has been very, very cold for a

:16:23. > :16:28.lot of people waking up this morning. I don't know if we can show

:16:29. > :16:36.you a view of outside our studio here, it has gone a bit foggy. It

:16:37. > :16:38.was beautiful 30 seconds ago. It was a beautiful sunrise. Let's go to

:16:39. > :16:54.beautiful carol instead. The fog that we have is patchy and

:16:55. > :16:58.it is dense in places. It could lead to some travel disruption. You can

:16:59. > :17:03.find out what's happening where you are on your BBC local radio station.

:17:04. > :17:11.Temperatures have fallen widely, around freezing or below across

:17:12. > :17:14.England and Wales and locally -6 or seven, but around the coasts it is

:17:15. > :17:19.much higher than that. By ten o'clock we have got the sun coming

:17:20. > :17:24.out but there are still these stubborn areas of fog. Across the

:17:25. > :17:28.Midlands and the Vale of York it could linger for much of the day.

:17:29. > :17:31.Brightening up in the far north of England and for Northern Ireland and

:17:32. > :17:38.Scotland it is a very cloudy start for you. We will see some sunshine.

:17:39. > :17:42.When we find the breaks in the cloud this morning there are pockets of

:17:43. > :17:47.frost. Through the day the fog continues to lift. I'm mentioned

:17:48. > :17:50.areas it is likely to stick and we will see increasing amounts of clout

:17:51. > :17:57.with the wind strengthening and more persistent rain coming through the

:17:58. > :18:01.midwest. It will be a cold day for England and Wales but more sunshine

:18:02. > :18:05.than yesterday. Especially so if you are stuck under one of the areas

:18:06. > :18:10.where the fog persist, temperatures will struggle to break freezing.

:18:11. > :18:17.Through this evening and overnight, some of the cloud will lift the

:18:18. > :18:21.frost and fog. At the same time the weather front is making slow

:18:22. > :18:27.progress heading south across northern Scotland. Into Friday the

:18:28. > :18:32.progress of that weather front, it is still quite windy. Move away from

:18:33. > :18:37.that and we're looking at some cloud, one or two breaks here and

:18:38. > :18:41.there. The temperature will be depressed. For much of the UK, these

:18:42. > :18:46.temperatures are pretty high for this stage in December. A mild day

:18:47. > :18:51.tomorrow. As we head into New Year's Eve or Hogmanay, the weather front

:18:52. > :18:56.still slow moving as it pushes across Scotland and Northern

:18:57. > :19:02.Ireland. This is what we expect on current thinking the rain to be at

:19:03. > :19:08.3pm. The rest of the UK, England and Wales, looking at variable amounts

:19:09. > :19:13.of cloud. The timing of this front could change. By the time we get to

:19:14. > :19:17.midnight it looks as though the front will be across England and

:19:18. > :19:21.Wales but that could change. What we know will happen is that as the

:19:22. > :19:26.front goes backwards, the mild air will be pushed away and we will have

:19:27. > :19:34.a cold or north-easterly winds. There will be some sunshine and the

:19:35. > :19:40.rain will continue its journey south eventually into the south-east.

:19:41. > :19:43.Thanks. Very changeable in the next few days.

:19:44. > :19:51.Let's talk about the markets now. A break. Yes. After they opened

:19:52. > :19:56.yesterday they hit some new highs. Let's start with an

:19:57. > :19:58.update on the stock They are down a little,

:19:59. > :20:04.after the record highs yesterday. The index of our 100 biggest listed

:20:05. > :20:07.companies the FTSE 100 hit a record 7,106 yesterday after what is often

:20:08. > :20:09.called a Santa Rally, when shares rise in the last

:20:10. > :20:12.few weeks of the year. Toshiba has seen a big fall

:20:13. > :20:15.in the value of the company in the last few days,

:20:16. > :20:19.but it's nothing to do with the electronics side

:20:20. > :20:22.of the business we're more The company is now worth just over

:20:23. > :20:26.half of what it was before Christmas, after it warned its US

:20:27. > :20:33.nuclear business is worth less You might have been treating

:20:34. > :20:37.yourself to a bitter chocolate for breakfast around Christmas and all

:20:38. > :20:41.kinds of things, I know I have. On the whole, the more traditional bowl

:20:42. > :20:52.of is falling out of favour. Figures from the grocer showed that sales of

:20:53. > :20:58.cornflakes and others were down around ?80 million this year,

:20:59. > :21:01.consumers were tending to choose more on the go.

:21:02. > :21:08.I'm eating less chocolate at the moment for breakfast! I'm definitely

:21:09. > :21:13.eating more! But Charlie is very good with his breakfast. This

:21:14. > :21:20.morning you had porridge companies said it was very good.

:21:21. > :21:26.For the last five weeks it seems we've been bombarded by retailers

:21:27. > :21:29.offering us deals and discounts, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday,

:21:30. > :21:31.pre-Christmas discounts and now into the Boxing Day Sales.

:21:32. > :21:34.But new figures out this week revealed a 2% drop in high

:21:35. > :21:38.Does the decline mean we're suffering from "sales fatigue"?

:21:39. > :21:46.We asked some bargain hunters in Manchester what they thought.

:21:47. > :21:55.It used to just be that people look forward to the Boxing Day sales or

:21:56. > :22:00.the summer sales but now there are pre-sales, it's not such a big deal

:22:01. > :22:07.any more I think. I enjoy it more than normal shopping to be honest.

:22:08. > :22:10.You see stuff that you wouldn't normally see but it is half price

:22:11. > :22:14.all the time. I feel sorry for these people who work in these shops that

:22:15. > :22:19.work until ex-PM Christmas Eve, I think it's wrong. The shops

:22:20. > :22:25.shouldn't be open on Boxing Day. I got some shirts and jackets. I think

:22:26. > :22:29.you can get some relief or bargains. We're copying America, just copying

:22:30. > :22:35.that model and doing what they do. Black Friday is not a British thing

:22:36. > :22:39.as far as I know. It's just good to have a sale so you can get the

:22:40. > :22:41.bargains rather than being bombarded with it all the time.

:22:42. > :22:43.Diane Wehrle is from Springboard, a company that analyses

:22:44. > :22:51.What is changing? We are definitely changing our habits a bit. We are

:22:52. > :22:54.and they love that that is driven by the retailers. A few years ago Black

:22:55. > :22:59.Friday didn't exist and then three years ago it came on the same and

:23:00. > :23:02.that has really created the beginning of retail trading

:23:03. > :23:07.performance, I guess, but it had this little Philip at the beginning

:23:08. > :23:14.or the end of November and then paying out. At this point is

:23:15. > :23:19.everyone sick of the shops? Can I just ask on the Black Friday thing,

:23:20. > :23:26.has anyone checked whether those reductions you see on Black Friday

:23:27. > :23:30.are really on that day? Do the prices go up on a Monday? Some do

:23:31. > :23:35.but some don't, it does vary from retailer to retailer. I find myself

:23:36. > :23:39.cynical about that, if you are bigging it up and saying this is

:23:40. > :23:42.your chance to go shopping and get a discount, it has to be that

:23:43. > :23:46.otherwise next year I will think, what is the point? Because it wasn't

:23:47. > :23:49.a genuine reduction. That's the problem that shoppers are having

:23:50. > :23:53.because whether or not we believe that those discounts are true will

:23:54. > :23:58.influence our shopping habits. That will influence how many people buy

:23:59. > :24:03.on the high street and how many buy online. They have to have trust in

:24:04. > :24:08.the retailers. Interesting the point you make about being cynical. Don't

:24:09. > :24:12.retailers rely on those of us who are not cynical, who just blindly

:24:13. > :24:17.think, that is definitely cheaper, it looks like it might be 30% off.

:24:18. > :24:21.Most people panic a bit, don't they, and then buy on whatever Black

:24:22. > :24:25.Friday or Cyber Monday, whatever it is? The problem that all the

:24:26. > :24:29.retailers have, if you buy when it is cheap and next week you go back

:24:30. > :24:33.and the price is the same committee gets cynical. Then next year you're

:24:34. > :24:40.not so ready to buy an Black Friday. It's a the gated process. It's

:24:41. > :24:46.something retailers really have to get their head around, rather than

:24:47. > :24:50.just chase a discount. -- it's a complicated process. The first start

:24:51. > :24:55.for retailers is often just to go to a sale. This came from the recession

:24:56. > :24:58.in 2009 or 2010 when retail was really on its knees and retailers

:24:59. > :25:02.were struggling. Before that you didn't really get any pre-Christmas

:25:03. > :25:08.discounting a Boxing Day was the day. Then that only in 2009, 2010,

:25:09. > :25:13.we had pre-Christmas sales for the first time, people lapped it up and

:25:14. > :25:17.they thought we will do it again and this Pandora's box has been opened.

:25:18. > :25:22.We make much of online shopping but actually are we spending more money?

:25:23. > :25:30.Less of us on the high street, we understand that, but overall? The

:25:31. > :25:34.IMS has identified that overall 85% of spending is still in store. While

:25:35. > :25:40.we have been seeing big gains in online shopping, the majority of our

:25:41. > :25:44.shopping is still in store. Sales over the Christmas period in stores

:25:45. > :25:50.have dropped by about 4.5% this year. If that is accounting for over

:25:51. > :25:54.85% of total sales then no, total sales have gone down this year. You

:25:55. > :26:08.bought anything in the sales? I bought a jacket. Nice. Have you? No.

:26:09. > :26:13.Have you? Yes, I bought a code. It's clothing. -- I bought a code. The

:26:14. > :26:20.boys yesterday bought suits. Now, I don't know if you remember one

:26:21. > :26:24.little special guest we had last year, Harry. He made quite an

:26:25. > :26:29.impression when he visited us in the studio. He was facing an anxious

:26:30. > :26:36.wait for a life-saving liver transplant. That was in March, with

:26:37. > :26:39.no other donor available. His dad Simon volunteered to share his live

:26:40. > :26:51.and we have been to catch up with them. I love you. I love you too. We

:26:52. > :26:58.love you, Harry, that's all we need to say. It's an insight into the

:26:59. > :27:01.medical teams who have been helping out that family and many other

:27:02. > :30:23.families as well. That's coming up a little

:30:24. > :30:24.families as well. That's coming up a hour. Now, back to Sally and

:30:25. > :30:29.Charlie. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:30. > :30:33.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The Hollywood actress

:30:34. > :30:35.Debbie Reynolds has died, just one day after the death

:30:36. > :30:38.of her daughter, the film The 84-year-old, whose acting career

:30:39. > :30:46.spanned seven decades, had been at her daughter's bedside

:30:47. > :30:48.since the Star Wars star suffered Reynolds' son Todd Fisher said

:30:49. > :30:58.the stress of his sister's death had been too much for their mother,

:30:59. > :31:01.and that her last words had been Hollywood stars have been paying

:31:02. > :31:10.their tributes to Debbie Reynolds. William Shatner described

:31:11. > :31:12.her as 'one of the last Dame Joan Collins hailed her

:31:13. > :31:15.as 'a wonderfully warm The singer Gloria Gaynor

:31:16. > :31:19.called her 'an American icon In the last hour, the entertainment

:31:20. > :31:25.journalist Jeanie Wolf told us that Debbie Reynolds had struggled

:31:26. > :31:27.to come to terms with They moved into houses

:31:28. > :31:37.next door to each other, and Debbie's great-grandmother

:31:38. > :31:38.was a great-grandmother to Carrie's daughter,

:31:39. > :31:40.Billie Lourd, who's 24 now, All of us should remember that,

:31:41. > :31:46.you know, not only did she lose her mother,

:31:47. > :31:48.but she lost her grandmother, who I'm told used to play cards

:31:49. > :31:51.with her, and sing and dance with her, so Billie Lourd

:31:52. > :31:57.is someone we will watch. And, you know, Debbie,

:31:58. > :31:59.she was unsinkable, but this was really too much,

:32:00. > :32:02.and you can understand it would be Patients could be forced

:32:03. > :32:06.to wait up to a month to see their family doctor

:32:07. > :32:08.this winter, according Helen Stokes-Lampard,

:32:09. > :32:14.who chairs the Royal College of GPs, says longer waiting times could pose

:32:15. > :32:19.a "serious risk" to patients. NHS England says surgeries have been

:32:20. > :32:23.promised more funding. Dozens of children who lived

:32:24. > :32:26.in the Calais Jungle camp have launched a legal challenge

:32:27. > :32:28.against the Home Office over Lawyers representing 36 children say

:32:29. > :32:35.the Government broke its promise to take in its fair share

:32:36. > :32:37.of child refugees. They say hundreds have

:32:38. > :32:39.had their applications turned down The Home Office says it

:32:40. > :32:44.will not comment on ongoing Barcodes are to be printed

:32:45. > :32:54.on medicines and medical equipment such as replacement hips

:32:55. > :32:56.and surgical tools. Ministers say the scheme,

:32:57. > :32:58.which is being piloted in six areas in England,

:32:59. > :33:00.will help reduce the rate They claim the idea could

:33:01. > :33:04.also save the NHS up to Keepers at Chester Zoo

:33:05. > :33:10.are celebrating the arrival of a very rare

:33:11. > :33:18.- and very big - baby. This six-foot-tall youngster,

:33:19. > :33:20.who is yet to be named, The Rothschild giraffe is said to be

:33:21. > :33:27.one of the most endangered species of the animal,

:33:28. > :33:37.with fewer than 1600 Do you want in the giraffe fact?

:33:38. > :33:40.What have we got so far, what they eat a lot?

:33:41. > :33:43.They eat for 20 hours a day, you were not impressed by that, I was

:33:44. > :33:49.very impressed. The highest blood pressure of any animal. Sean on

:33:50. > :33:57.business tells me they can run at 35 mph. Why are you laughing?

:33:58. > :34:00.Sean knows this? Just a business thing he has tucked away in case he

:34:01. > :34:02.is doing a giraffe story sometime?! There we go.

:34:03. > :34:04.Coming up here on Breakfast this morning...

:34:05. > :34:07.Britain's most decorated Olympian is calling it a day.

:34:08. > :34:10.As Sir Bradley Wiggins announces his retirement,

:34:11. > :34:14.we'll look back at his career highs - and lows - along with his former

:34:15. > :34:24.The pagans worshipped nature, just like Chris Packham, and their

:34:25. > :34:25.calendar revolved around two big annual events, also like Chris

:34:26. > :34:32.Packham. She's the clueless commentator

:34:33. > :34:34.on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, and now Philomena Cunk

:34:35. > :34:36.has her own show. We'll meet the comedian behind

:34:37. > :34:38.the character, Diane Morgan. And just before nine,

:34:39. > :34:40.we'll find out how rising global temperatures are affecting they way

:34:41. > :34:43.birds migrate - meaning they're missing out on vital resources

:34:44. > :34:47.like food and nesting places. But first, here's

:34:48. > :35:00.Kat with the sport. We will talk about an amazing

:35:01. > :35:03.success story, Bradley Wiggins. Yes, the tatties, the gold medals,

:35:04. > :35:08.the irreverent attitude, the poor one at high Court. He was the man

:35:09. > :35:12.that put the rock 'n' roll into cycling, and not only rock 'n' roll

:35:13. > :35:15.into cycling but into British sport. You see the phenomenal rise of the

:35:16. > :35:20.level of success that Britain has had in sport Prom the moment he

:35:21. > :35:25.started cycling, right the way through to now, 2016, when he won

:35:26. > :35:34.the team pursuit in Rio, we have become a world superpower and he has

:35:35. > :35:36.been one of the athlete who has lifted our sporting profile around

:35:37. > :35:39.the world, so we have a lot to thank Bradley Wiggins for as he announces

:35:40. > :35:42.his retirement. He has decided to hang the peacekeepers after almost

:35:43. > :35:48.20 years at the top, winning just about all there is to win. Here are

:35:49. > :35:57.some of his career highlight. He rides an incredible amount of

:35:58. > :36:05.majority, this young fella. -- with an incredible amount of majority.

:36:06. > :36:10.This is a virtuoso performance by Wiggins. He is turning on the style.

:36:11. > :36:15.He will be the 4000 metre Olympic champion!

:36:16. > :36:23.Bradley Wiggins is a gold medal winner and Olympic champion.

:36:24. > :36:26.Wiggins is the master of the time trial, he is a master of this Tour

:36:27. > :36:33.de France, he is going to become Britain's first ever winner!

:36:34. > :36:38.This is going to be a golden ride for Wiggins and the crowd are

:36:39. > :36:45.already going ballistic! Here comes Bradley Wiggins up to the line, into

:36:46. > :36:49.the lead! It is coming down to the last lap

:36:50. > :36:53.here, will it be Britain, will it be Australia?

:36:54. > :36:58.It certainly will be Great Britain! Sir Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic

:36:59. > :37:01.gold for the fifth time. Amazing memories from the career of

:37:02. > :37:08.Sir Bradley Wiggins, and we are joined by his former team-mate Rob

:37:09. > :37:12.Hayles, who won back in 2000 with him in Sydney. You know him better

:37:13. > :37:16.than us, definitely, and because of the personality that he has, because

:37:17. > :37:20.of the profile that he has, one question I am always asked about Sir

:37:21. > :37:26.Bradley Wiggins is, what is he actually like? I can't answer that

:37:27. > :37:30.question, but you can! What is he actually like? It depends what day

:37:31. > :37:34.of the week you are talking! Brad is quite shy, which is one of the

:37:35. > :37:43.reasons why, when he comes out of his shell, he is truly out there,

:37:44. > :37:46.but he is one of those riders who you want alongside you, because you

:37:47. > :37:49.know that as long as he is on his game then the sure he will help you

:37:50. > :37:53.attain your best performance. He really is an incredible bike rider,

:37:54. > :37:58.an incredible athlete, it really was amazing to see his career from

:37:59. > :38:04.junior world champion back in 98 all the waiter when he won in 2012 which

:38:05. > :38:08.was phenomenal and certainly helped increase the level, the profile of

:38:09. > :38:15.cycling as a sport. He has certainly been part of that. People love lists

:38:16. > :38:20.of the greats, in any sport, who was the greatest. Where does he said,

:38:21. > :38:27.his achievement? It is difficult, the greatest bike rider of them all,

:38:28. > :38:32.Eddie Marks, Bragg is kind of on a different list, really. His

:38:33. > :38:35.performances from the track to the road, the biggest performances on

:38:36. > :38:39.the track to the biggest performances on the road in terms of

:38:40. > :38:44.the Tour de France, back to where it all started, it has never been done

:38:45. > :38:49.before by anybody. It is hard to see many riders who would be able to do

:38:50. > :38:56.that in the future. What is it about him that made him so determined? He

:38:57. > :39:00.is obviously a fantastic athlete. His mind is... He's of those guys,

:39:01. > :39:08.once he set himself a task, he will follow that. He lives like a monk in

:39:09. > :39:13.that respect, but then obviously when he's off the ball, off his

:39:14. > :39:17.game, that's it, it is out there for everybody to see. They needle kind

:39:18. > :39:22.of goes from the green right into the red then back again in terms of

:39:23. > :39:27.his personality, but I think that's what makes him so great. That is the

:39:28. > :39:31.way he needed to do it, put it that way. And he has given us an amazing

:39:32. > :39:36.moments over the years. Incredible. Thank you.

:39:37. > :39:38.Pagan festivals, the Nativity story and Santa Claus are just some

:39:39. > :39:42.of the Yuletide rituals the clueless commentator Philomena Cunk is

:39:43. > :39:48.The comedy character, originally created for

:39:49. > :39:50.Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, began with Cunk On Shakespeare,

:39:51. > :39:54.and now she's back, trying to "track down the true meaning of Christmas".

:39:55. > :40:02.Centuries before Jesus arrived, late December was already a time

:40:03. > :40:06.of celebration for the pagans, who existed so long ago there aren't

:40:07. > :40:08.any YouTubes of them, so we've had to make do

:40:09. > :40:12.To find out what the pagans were, I spoke to an expert.

:40:13. > :40:16.Were there pagans before there were humans?

:40:17. > :40:18.No, you've got to be a human to do anything.

:40:19. > :40:21.Pagans are just people who lived in Europe before

:40:22. > :40:28.How difficult was it for the pagans to get about on all fours?

:40:29. > :40:32.They didn't travel on all fours, they travelled upright, like we do.

:40:33. > :40:35.The pagans worshipped nature, just like Chris Packham.

:40:36. > :40:38.And their calendar revolved around two big annual events,

:40:39. > :40:46.One of these events took place in late December and was known

:40:47. > :41:02.It is tricky, that one, isn't it? Diane, 30 good morning to you. The

:41:03. > :41:07.beauty of what you do, that little play on words, it is so perfectly

:41:08. > :41:10.done, because as you will know from your observations, reporters, and

:41:11. > :41:16.that is what you are doing, that spoof role. They are always going on

:41:17. > :41:22.a journey, let's go on a journey to find out about Christmas. And you do

:41:23. > :41:28.go on your own journey. I do go on my end journey, I generally spoof

:41:29. > :41:32.anything that Brian Cox does. You find comedy, funny moments in those

:41:33. > :41:35.little or no things that sometimes if you are not really paying

:41:36. > :41:40.attention can pass you by. Are you paying huge amounts of attention to

:41:41. > :41:45.the TV and commentators all the time? I suppose I must be. There are

:41:46. > :41:48.things you keep noticing that everyone does, everyone copies

:41:49. > :41:51.everyone else. When you notice things like that, I like to latch

:41:52. > :41:56.onto them and make people feel really bad about it. CHUCKLING

:41:57. > :42:00.The truth is, there is quite a lot of nonsense in the world that we

:42:01. > :42:03.inhabit, there is quite a lot of nonsense, and when someone comes in

:42:04. > :42:09.and sort of pointed out, it can be quite painful, in a way. Yeah, I'm

:42:10. > :42:12.surprised more people don't do it. Yeah. There are some priceless

:42:13. > :42:16.moments of this. One of the delights of it is that you interview serious

:42:17. > :42:21.experts in your persona, and just have me with this one, without

:42:22. > :42:27.wanting to spoil any of the magic, do they know that you are in it to

:42:28. > :42:31.take the Mickey? Well, I'm not in it to take the Mickey, because I'm the

:42:32. > :42:36.idiot, they are not the idiots. But do they think you are a serious...?

:42:37. > :42:41.It is not their reaction to my idiocy that is funny. A lot of the

:42:42. > :42:47.early interviews we did, people had no idea, but now the cat is pretty

:42:48. > :42:51.much out of the bag and people are happy to play along, and I think

:42:52. > :42:54.they are great. That must make it harder, actually, because now as the

:42:55. > :42:57.character is more well-known and your face is now instantly

:42:58. > :43:02.recognisable, people are a little bit more clued up about it. Yeah.

:43:03. > :43:06.One of my favourite things of the last year though, I have to say, I'm

:43:07. > :43:11.not sure if you have seen this one, I loved Motherland, a pilot you in

:43:12. > :43:19.for a series that has now been commissioned. It was bleakly funny

:43:20. > :43:22.and scary, and it is all about motherhood, and fatherhood, and at

:43:23. > :43:34.times it was very cutting. Let's have a look at this. There we are.

:43:35. > :43:41.Downton Abbey. T? Yeah, you haven't got any herbal have you? Fennel,

:43:42. > :43:47.ginger, Jasmine or mint? I'll have a mint, please. I'm joking, I don't

:43:48. > :43:52.have any herbal tea. Yorkshire. I've got tea from Yorkshire, how's that?

:43:53. > :44:01.I love that character! Do you know someone like this. No, I'm not a

:44:02. > :44:04.mother. It's basically me. CHUCKLING I've had so many mothers come up to

:44:05. > :44:07.be in the street saying, I'm so pleased that they made this, because

:44:08. > :44:11.it had to be told, people need to know how awful it is being a mother!

:44:12. > :44:17.LAUGHTER Kind of competitive motherhood.

:44:18. > :44:28.Where will Philomena Cunk stag gaze next? I've no idea. Cunk on Cunk has

:44:29. > :44:40.been mentioned, just because it rhymes. Cunk on Christmas. Cookery.

:44:41. > :44:42.Cunk on Cakes. Beautifully observed, very funny, I recommend it to

:44:43. > :44:45.anyone. "Cunk on Christmas"

:44:46. > :44:54.is on BBC Two tonight at 10pm. Let's have a word with Carol. Things

:44:55. > :45:00.go wrong for the time, don't they, Carol? They certainly do, and my

:45:01. > :45:04.charts have gone wrong if you times in the past when it has been -99,

:45:05. > :45:10.and it has not been anywhere like that. It has been a cold start

:45:11. > :45:14.today, not -99, but some beautiful pictures coming in from our Weather

:45:15. > :45:17.Watchers. This one nice and frosty in East Sussex, and a foggy one.

:45:18. > :45:24.This one is from Staffordshire, forget that dog, le Clos much like

:45:25. > :45:29.he is saying "What?" . They keep sending those pictures, we have

:45:30. > :45:34.quite a lot of around. Particularly across East Wales and parts of

:45:35. > :45:38.England. Some of it is dense, a lot of it is patchy. Even by the time we

:45:39. > :45:41.get the ten o'clock, there will still be some fog around but today

:45:42. > :45:45.there will be more sunshine across inland and Wales than there was

:45:46. > :45:49.yesterday. Freezing fog, the badgers widely below freezing in England and

:45:50. > :45:51.Wales accept on the coast of Northern Ireland and Scotland, a

:45:52. > :45:57.different story for you. A bit more cloud around, some sunny breaks, a

:45:58. > :46:01.touch of frost here and there. Some spots of rain. Later that rain will

:46:02. > :46:05.turn more persistent and the wind will strengthen. In Northern

:46:06. > :46:08.Ireland, communities and brighter breaks through the course of the

:46:09. > :46:12.day, for England and Wales, most of the fog will lift, but areas where

:46:13. > :46:17.it is going to stick will be across East Wales, the Midlands and the

:46:18. > :46:20.Vale of York. Here, if the fog does linger where you are, temperatures

:46:21. > :46:25.will tend to struggle to break freezing. So it is going to be cold.

:46:26. > :46:29.Through the evening and overnight, some early frost and some fog

:46:30. > :46:32.return, but as cloud advances towards the east, the cloud will

:46:33. > :46:36.lift the fog but we still will have some across the south-east and East

:46:37. > :46:39.Anglia first thing in the morning. Meanwhile, a weather front is

:46:40. > :46:43.pushing slowly southwards across the North and Scotland. You can see the

:46:44. > :46:46.difference in temperature between North and South. Tomorrow the

:46:47. > :46:51.progress of that will be continued to be slow as it comes a bit further

:46:52. > :46:53.south, cloud building ahead in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the

:46:54. > :46:57.eastern parts of Northern Ireland into Scotland seeing brighter skies.

:46:58. > :47:01.For England and Wales, again there will be some brightness, quite a bit

:47:02. > :47:05.of cloud, and if you are stuck under the fog in the Southeast, that will

:47:06. > :47:08.depress the temperature as well. But you can see temperatures still quite

:47:09. > :47:14.high for the stage in December. Then as we head into New Zealand, or

:47:15. > :47:17.Hogmanay, depending on your point of view, we have the weather front

:47:18. > :47:20.coming slowly southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland. The

:47:21. > :47:25.timing of this has changed, though it is starting to level out now.

:47:26. > :47:29.This chart finishes at 3pm, whether time you get to midnight on current

:47:30. > :47:34.thinking, the rain should be across the borders into northern England

:47:35. > :47:39.also North Wales. Whereas across England and Wales, in daytime hours,

:47:40. > :47:42.quite a cloudy day with some drizzle and showers, particularly in the

:47:43. > :47:45.West and particularly on the hills and coasts. As the weather front

:47:46. > :47:50.sinks south, it won't go back quickly, but behind it we was is

:47:51. > :47:54.colder air as the wind veers to more of a northerly or north-easterly.

:47:55. > :47:58.Here is the weather front on current thinking across England and Wales on

:47:59. > :48:01.New Year's Day, pushing down towards the south-east, behind it some

:48:02. > :48:05.sunshine, some showers, feeling colder, so the showers will be

:48:06. > :48:10.wintry in nature and we still have that stiff northerly or

:48:11. > :48:13.north-easterly wind. Carol, we have been talking quite a lot about not

:48:14. > :48:17.new years was allusions but things that you really want to see the back

:48:18. > :48:21.from 2016, how it is good to say goodbye to staff. I am dying to know

:48:22. > :48:26.what would you like to say goodbye to this year? I would like to say

:48:27. > :48:30.goodbye to chocolate, actually! On a positive note, I have to say goodbye

:48:31. > :48:34.to chocolate, but 2016I had quite a good year, there were lots of things

:48:35. > :48:37.that happen, like all of these deaths, there are deaths every

:48:38. > :48:43.single year, but it seems to have been a particularly said year from a

:48:44. > :48:46.point of view. But you have had a great 2016 yourself, which is good

:48:47. > :48:50.to hear. 8:48am. Now, you may remember little Harry,

:48:51. > :48:53.who ran amok in the Breakfast studio when he was here with his mum

:48:54. > :48:56.12 months ago. Despite his high energy levels then,

:48:57. > :48:59.Harry was facing an anxious wait In March, with no other donor

:49:00. > :49:07.available - his dad Simon Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been

:49:08. > :49:10.to catch up with the MacEachen family and some of the people

:49:11. > :49:13.helping make hospital a slightly friendlier place

:49:14. > :49:23.for families like them. For the Maceachen family,

:49:24. > :49:29.2016 was life changing. With no other donor available,

:49:30. > :49:34.Simon donated part of his He was born with a condition

:49:35. > :49:39.called biliary atresia, so he's got a blockage

:49:40. > :49:41.in the bowel ducts. We had occasions where Harry

:49:42. > :49:45.would go to bed at night fit and healthy and then at 6am

:49:46. > :49:51.he would wake up with a roaring temperature, vomiting

:49:52. > :49:53.and we would end up in hospital Harry's first appearance

:49:54. > :49:58.on Breakfast last In March, we filmed as the family

:49:59. > :50:05.prepared for surgery. Live liver transplants are risky

:50:06. > :50:08.and rare and only possible because the liver is the one

:50:09. > :50:10.internal organ that can regenerate. No complications, no

:50:11. > :50:17.problems at all, really. It took a little while to

:50:18. > :50:20.recover from the surgery. He's a bit younger than me

:50:21. > :50:31.so he was a bit quicker than me. Well, it's yours now,

:50:32. > :50:37.you can keep it. And I thought that was

:50:38. > :50:44.really nice of Daddy. What can you do now that

:50:45. > :50:48.you couldn't before? So you've been taking part

:50:49. > :50:56.in the transplant games, have you? How much better do you

:50:57. > :50:59.feel now than before? Hospitals can be unfamiliar,

:51:00. > :51:02.unsettling places, For their operations,

:51:03. > :51:11.Harry and Simon wore matching gowns, specially made by volunteers known

:51:12. > :51:15.as the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. They too have had an

:51:16. > :51:28.extraordinary 12 months. There's hospitals up and down

:51:29. > :51:31.the country getting in touch, their children want something

:51:32. > :51:34.that is friendly and brings a smile to the kid's faces instead

:51:35. > :51:37.of wearing boring scrubs in theatre. Before, we distributed

:51:38. > :51:39.about 200 garments a month, we probably distribute around 1,000

:51:40. > :51:43.garments every month now. I had breakfast telly on that

:51:44. > :51:48.morning and I was so interested in learning more about the charity

:51:49. > :51:50.and becoming involved. A couple of 100

:51:51. > :51:57.garments later, yeah. The latest batch is bound

:51:58. > :51:59.for the Princess Royal Do you want to find

:52:00. > :52:14.some little ones? When they're in hospital,

:52:15. > :52:16.it's very scary, they're away from their parents,

:52:17. > :52:18.they're in a different environment. We have to make it a more

:52:19. > :52:20.homely environment. The pyjamas give us something

:52:21. > :52:22.for them to talk about, Every garment comes with a poem

:52:23. > :52:30.written by the Wrap Pyjama Fairies. It's aimed to reassure children

:52:31. > :52:36.at a difficult time. So, at night time while you are

:52:37. > :52:40.sleeping, we bring our fairy dust along to help you to get better

:52:41. > :52:42.and to make you strong. Harry knows how

:52:43. > :52:47.comforting it can be. From us to you, we hope this

:52:48. > :53:03.will make you smile. Well done, Harry, and everybody else

:53:04. > :53:10.working on those pyjamas. So thoughtful of all those people,

:53:11. > :53:12.it can be a difficult time if you are in hospital or have family in

:53:13. > :53:14.hospital. Birds are migrating

:53:15. > :53:17.to their breeding grounds earlier as temperatures around the world

:53:18. > :53:19.rise, and this could affect their access to food and nesting spots,

:53:20. > :53:21.according to experts It's hoped the research will help

:53:22. > :53:25.scientists learn more about how different species react to changes

:53:26. > :53:27.in the environment. Joining us now is Tom Clare,

:53:28. > :53:38.from the Martin Mere Wetland Good morning to you. Are you seeing

:53:39. > :53:44.evidence of what this study is showing? Yes, definitely seeing it

:53:45. > :53:51.on ground level. Birds arriving area, things like swallows, avocets,

:53:52. > :53:55.a good breeding bird. Take is what their journey is and what is

:53:56. > :54:00.changing? Swallows are migrating from Africa to the UK, they come

:54:01. > :54:04.across the African continent, the first big challenge they are facing

:54:05. > :54:07.with climate change is the Sahara desert is getting bigger, so it is a

:54:08. > :54:12.big journey for them to get over and causes lots of problems for the

:54:13. > :54:16.birds. When they get to southern Europe, the temperature indicates if

:54:17. > :54:20.they are going to move further north if it is warmer, further south,

:54:21. > :54:24.places like Spain, they will try to get to breeding grounds quicker, and

:54:25. > :54:28.what we have to try to hope for with climate change is these birds

:54:29. > :54:32.arriving on the breeding ground when the food supply is good. They lose a

:54:33. > :54:38.lot of energy in migration, they need to feed in good conditions.

:54:39. > :54:44.What is the challenge, is the food sometimes not available? It

:54:45. > :54:48.definitely can be, there are lots of problems, if they arrive and start

:54:49. > :54:53.breeding early and the food supply is not there, it will affect the

:54:54. > :54:57.chick survival and rearing the young to fledgling stage, or sometimes

:54:58. > :55:00.even birds further north, it might sound strange, the warmer it gets

:55:01. > :55:06.further north, the more snowfall there is, so some of the birds

:55:07. > :55:08.migrating in April to places like Iceland, Siberia, Greenland, they

:55:09. > :55:13.will find lots more snowfall on the ground and it takes longer for that

:55:14. > :55:19.out, so they don't get the food they need. Life changes but animals,

:55:20. > :55:21.human beings can adapt to their surroundings, I assume the same

:55:22. > :55:26.applies to birds, they presumably can adapt to changes in climate?

:55:27. > :55:30.Some birds can adapt quite quickly, they are the ones that will succeed

:55:31. > :55:37.with climate change. Like which ones? Species like swallows are

:55:38. > :55:42.adapting quite well, more broods throughout the summer, the breeding

:55:43. > :55:47.season is longer so we hope they can produce more offspring to fledgling

:55:48. > :55:50.stage so they can hopefully succeed. Does this mean people will be able

:55:51. > :55:55.to see different types of birds arriving maybe to this country now?

:55:56. > :55:58.We will see some birds from the continent move further south, things

:55:59. > :56:04.like spoonbills, fantastic birds to see with a big long built like a

:56:05. > :56:10.spoon shape at the end of it, but there was a problem with that in

:56:11. > :56:13.that birds that are really southern birds, things like snow bunting is

:56:14. > :56:17.that breed in Scotland, they might get pushed out of the UK because

:56:18. > :56:22.they have to follow their habitat further north. That is interesting.

:56:23. > :56:25.Are you back at work today? No, I worked over Christmas so I have some

:56:26. > :56:28.time off but back in the New Year. Thank you for joining us today.

:56:29. > :56:30.Let's take a last brief look at the headlines

:56:31. > :58:22.That's it from Breakfast this morning.

:58:23. > :58:27.We will be back tomorrow at 6am, we will hear from Benedict Cumberbatch

:58:28. > :58:29.about the new series of Sherlock. It's very exciting, it really has

:58:30. > :58:32.been fantastically rich and challenging and new,

:58:33. > :58:34.and that's the thing that kept us The roads we walk have demons

:58:35. > :58:48.beneath, and yours have been waiting It looks like it is just getting

:58:49. > :58:53.better and better than ever. A little darker as well. Scary at

:58:54. > :58:53.times. We will hear more of that tomorrow.

:58:54. > :59:17.When a woman writes something it's her that's judged.

:59:18. > :59:20.When a man writes something it's what he's written that's judged.