15/02/2017

:00:00. > :00:08.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:09. > :00:12.South Korea confirms that the brother of the North Korean

:00:13. > :00:18.leader, Kim Jong-un, has been killed at an airport in Malaysia.

:00:19. > :00:20.Kim Jong-nam had fallen out with his brother,

:00:21. > :00:41.South Korea says agents from the North are to blame.

:00:42. > :00:47.Good morning, it is Wednesday 15 February.

:00:48. > :00:50.The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage,

:00:51. > :00:57.Brain damage in professional footballers.

:00:58. > :01:00.Scientists find a link between repeated blows to the head

:01:01. > :01:03.on the pitch and a possible cause of dementia.

:01:04. > :01:06.We made 55 million complaints last year about bad service from shops,

:01:07. > :01:13.It costs them nearly ?40 billion in lost business,

:01:14. > :01:16.so I will look at why it is worth complaining.

:01:17. > :01:19.In sport: Barcelona visited Paris on Valentine's Day,

:01:20. > :01:22.but didn't love their time there, thrashed 4-0 by Paris St-Germain

:01:23. > :01:29.More of a flop than a vision of the future, but 30 years

:01:30. > :01:33.since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world finally be ready

:01:34. > :01:37.for an electrically powered pedal car?

:01:38. > :01:56.Good morning from the Chelsea Physic Garden, the oldest botanic Gardens

:01:57. > :01:59.in London. The outlook is rain sweeping in from the south-west,

:02:00. > :02:04.some heavy and thundery. Cloud and some fog, the brightest skies in the

:02:05. > :02:05.Highlands. More details in 15 minutes.

:02:06. > :02:09.First, our main story: South Korea has confirmed that the estranged

:02:10. > :02:11.half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un,

:02:12. > :02:14.was murdered with poison, and they believe North Korean agents

:02:15. > :02:18.Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack

:02:19. > :02:21.on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport.

:02:22. > :02:24.Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen

:02:25. > :02:27.alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi.

:02:28. > :02:29.A postmortem examination will be carried out later,

:02:30. > :02:46.Was Kim Jong-nam poisoned by assassins as he prepared to board a

:02:47. > :02:51.flight in the Malaysian capital on Monday? Confusion and mysteries

:02:52. > :02:57.surround the death of a half brother of the North Korean dictator. Now,

:02:58. > :02:59.South Korean officials say they believe he was murdered.

:03:00. > :03:04.TRANSLATION: The government is certainly judging that the murdered

:03:05. > :03:08.person is Kim Jong-nam. Since this case is still being investigated, we

:03:09. > :03:13.should wait for details until the Malaysian government makes an

:03:14. > :03:16.announcement. Just before he died, Kim Jong-nam is reported to have

:03:17. > :03:21.told medical workers he was attacked with a chemical spray. Police are

:03:22. > :03:26.studying security camera footage from the airport. He had been long

:03:27. > :03:31.estranged from his half brother, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,

:03:32. > :03:39.falling out of favour with the secretive regime and living in exile

:03:40. > :03:43.after he was caught sneaking in the Japan on a fake passport. South

:03:44. > :03:48.Korea's acting president said North Korea was responsible it would show

:03:49. > :03:52.the brutality and inhumane nature of the regime. TRANSLATION: The

:03:53. > :03:55.government is carefully watching North Korea's movements,

:03:56. > :04:00.acknowledging the fact that the situation is a very serious one. A

:04:01. > :04:02.postmortem is due to be carried in Kuala Lumpur later.

:04:03. > :04:04.The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage

:04:05. > :04:07.when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates

:04:08. > :04:11.Members will vote on a report by bishops which says marriage

:04:12. > :04:14.in Church should only be between a man and a woman.

:04:15. > :04:16.Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014,

:04:17. > :04:19.the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies.

:04:20. > :04:21.Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting,

:04:22. > :04:24.as our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir reports.

:04:25. > :04:30.A picture before the protest, as members of General Synod prepare

:04:31. > :04:32.to debate the Bishop's report on same-sex marriage.

:04:33. > :04:40.Published last month, the report has angered members

:04:41. > :04:46.of the LGBT community, because it concludes that marriage

:04:47. > :04:48.in Church should remain a lifelong union

:04:49. > :04:56.We're talking here about the national Church being massively

:04:57. > :04:57.out of step with people.

:04:58. > :05:01.And this isn't just about saying that we have to follow what society

:05:02. > :05:07.This is about saying, actually, where people perceive love

:05:08. > :05:08.in relationships between one another,

:05:09. > :05:11.can the Church of England simply not recognise God is present

:05:12. > :05:15.After three years of private discussions, a process the Church

:05:16. > :05:18.has called shared conversations, the bishops chose not to change

:05:19. > :05:21.a single aspect of Church policy or practice, believing that

:05:22. > :05:22.any adjustments to the marriage ceremony

:05:23. > :05:27.would not be supported by sufficient majorities.

:05:28. > :05:31.Our role is to hold the Church together, and to say we can only go

:05:32. > :05:33.as far as the whole Church can agree.

:05:34. > :05:36.Campaigners are actually wanting us to go further,

:05:37. > :05:37.more hurriedly, than we necessarily can.

:05:38. > :05:40.Speaking at the opening of Synod on Monday, the Archbishop

:05:41. > :05:42.of Canterbury acknowledged that today's debate is likely

:05:43. > :05:55.After 90 minutes of discussion, members will vote to affirm

:05:56. > :05:59.If they choose the latter, then questions about the ongoing

:06:00. > :06:02.unity of the Church of England will arise once again.

:06:03. > :06:05.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:06:06. > :06:07.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:06:08. > :06:10.Researchers from University College London and Cardiff University

:06:11. > :06:13.studied the brains of six former players who had died from dementia,

:06:14. > :06:16.and discovered that some of them had a form of the disease linked

:06:17. > :06:28.Our health reporter Smitha Mundasad has more.

:06:29. > :06:35.Jeff Astle, former England footballer who died in 2002. He had

:06:36. > :06:39.degenerative brain disease linked to repeatedly heading heavy leather

:06:40. > :06:42.footballs. His family have been campaigning for more research, to

:06:43. > :06:47.find out whether lots of this can lead to long-lasting rain damage. In

:06:48. > :06:50.this latest study, scientists looked at the brains of six lifelong

:06:51. > :06:56.footballers who had developed dementia -- brain damage. When we

:06:57. > :07:01.examined their brains at autopsy we saw the sorts of changes that are

:07:02. > :07:06.seen in Xbox is. So the changes that are particular associated with

:07:07. > :07:14.repeated head injury, which are known as CTE, chronic traumatic

:07:15. > :07:18.tarmac... We are showing that head injury has occurred earlier in life,

:07:19. > :07:24.which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia. But the

:07:25. > :07:27.science is far from certain. It is a small study that can't prove a link

:07:28. > :07:31.in football and dementia, and the scientists are clear their work did

:07:32. > :07:36.not analyse the risks to children. For the average adult football, who

:07:37. > :07:40.plays recreationally, experts at Alzheimer's research UK say the

:07:41. > :07:45.risks are likely to be lower and outweighed the benefits of exercise.

:07:46. > :07:47.But the Football Association says one question that needs to be

:07:48. > :07:54.answered is whether degenerative brain diseases are more common in

:07:55. > :07:56.ex- footballers. And the FA says that as research it is determined to

:07:57. > :07:59.support. -- that is research. In the next hour, we will hear

:08:00. > :08:03.from the daughter of England footballer Jeff Astle,

:08:04. > :08:05.who is campaigning for further research into a possible link

:08:06. > :08:07.between head injuries The White House says Donald Trump

:08:08. > :08:11.knew weeks ago that his former national security advisor had misled

:08:12. > :08:14.officials about conversations he had Michael Flynn was forced to resign

:08:15. > :08:18.over allegations he discussed American sanctions with a Russian

:08:19. > :08:20.envoy before President Trump took office, and he was also accused

:08:21. > :08:23.of misleading the Vice President The child who died in an accident

:08:24. > :08:35.at a shopping centre in Reading yesterday has been named

:08:36. > :08:37.as ten-year-old Kaden Reddick. Kaden, from Reading,

:08:38. > :08:39.suffered serious head injuries after an incident involving a shop

:08:40. > :08:42.display barrier in a Topshop store. The clothing retailer said

:08:43. > :08:45.it is deeply saddened Ukip leader Paul Nuttall's press

:08:46. > :08:53.officer, who was responsible for wrongly claiming he had lost

:08:54. > :08:55.close personal friends in the Hillsborough disaster,

:08:56. > :08:57.has offered her resignation. Mr Nuttall said he hadn't

:08:58. > :09:00.written the article, nor seen it, prior to it

:09:01. > :09:03.being posted by Lynda Roughley Ukip issued a statement

:09:04. > :09:05.saying she was mortified, Appearing on Radio City Talk,

:09:06. > :09:09.in Liverpool, Mr Nuttall was forced to acknowledge his own website gave

:09:10. > :09:18.a misleading impression. I haven't lost anyone who was a

:09:19. > :09:26.close personal friend. It was people who I knew. Things like that. But I

:09:27. > :09:32.basically went to your website last night and search for Hillsborough,

:09:33. > :09:37.Paul Nuttall MEP .com, that is your website. I'm sorry for that. It is

:09:38. > :09:38.your own personal... I haven't put that out, and that is wrong.

:09:39. > :09:40.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier has been

:09:41. > :09:47.Eleanor, now someone else has taken the blame.

:09:48. > :09:54.That's right. Paul Nuttall's press officer, a woman called Lynda

:09:55. > :09:58.Roughley, she has now put her hand up and said she was entirely

:09:59. > :10:02.responsible for what happened, that she is mortified by it all, and has

:10:03. > :10:07.offered her resignation. Interestingly, we get to find out if

:10:08. > :10:12.that resignation has been accepted -- we are yet to find out. And this

:10:13. > :10:17.has of course been extremely awkward and uncomfortable for Paul Nuttall.

:10:18. > :10:21.He is a proud Liverpudlian, a proud football fan, and yet he has been

:10:22. > :10:24.forced to acknowledge that a post on his website had given an inaccurate

:10:25. > :10:29.account of what he said had happened at Hillsborough. He said he was

:10:30. > :10:34.appalled and very sorry, that he hadn't seen the post before it went

:10:35. > :10:38.up and he was taken aback when it was brought to his attention. And in

:10:39. > :10:43.a completely separate, if you like, scenario, Labour's candidate in this

:10:44. > :10:52.Stoke by-election has apologised for a series of post-is on social media.

:10:53. > :10:59.This guy called Gareth smell described women as squabbling, sour

:11:00. > :11:04.faced ladies, and described a woman as a polished to a -- Snell. He has

:11:05. > :11:11.apologised, said the posts were made some time ago,.

:11:12. > :11:13.The Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election takes place on 23

:11:14. > :11:17.Here is a list of the all the candidates standing.

:11:18. > :11:20.You can find more information on the BBC News website.

:11:21. > :11:22.Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss

:11:23. > :11:24.while flying his plane in California.

:11:25. > :11:26.The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway

:11:27. > :11:28.at John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, where

:11:29. > :11:31.an American Airlines plane was waiting to take off.

:11:32. > :11:32.The aircraft had 110 passengers on board,

:11:33. > :11:35.and set off safely a few minutes later.

:11:36. > :11:46.An investigation into the incident is underway.

:11:47. > :11:53.He had a crash on a plane a few years ago, which he survived. Quite

:11:54. > :11:58.a few Hollywood actors fly, John Travolta is a Hollywood pilot. It

:11:59. > :12:03.would be interesting to know why... I don't know, problems with the

:12:04. > :12:07.plane? Why would you lend on... I wouldn't be flying anyway. Deeply

:12:08. > :12:12.concerning. We will try and get you more information on a bit on. Good

:12:13. > :12:17.morning. Have you seen Barcelona ever looking a little bit bullied, a

:12:18. > :12:21.bit ragged? Their heads went down last night. They are not used to

:12:22. > :12:23.being absolutely played off the park. That is what happened.

:12:24. > :12:25.Five-time European champions Barcelona suffered one

:12:26. > :12:27.of their worst nights in the Champions League.

:12:28. > :12:31.They lost 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16

:12:32. > :12:34.It equals their worst result in the competition.

:12:35. > :12:37.England fly-half George Ford will move back to his boyhood club,

:12:38. > :12:42.The Tigers agreed to buy him out of his contract at Bath a year

:12:43. > :12:45.early, with Freddie Burns heading in the opposite direction.

:12:46. > :12:48.Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has lost his bid to block a ?79 million

:12:49. > :12:52.They allege that he defrauded them by taking performance-enhancing

:12:53. > :12:55.drugs while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team.

:12:56. > :12:58.The case is now clear to go to trial.

:12:59. > :13:03.And if two Kennys weren't daunting enough for the world of cycling,

:13:04. > :13:06.a third is on the way, as Laura and Jason Kenny announce

:13:07. > :13:13.they are expecting their first child.

:13:14. > :13:23.That is a lovely way of announcing it. A little bicycle.

:13:24. > :13:28.Congratulations to them, and what a lovely way to announce that news.

:13:29. > :13:31.That is really sweet. Clever, very cute. Cute is a good way of

:13:32. > :13:33.describing it. Carol is looking out for the first

:13:34. > :13:44.signs of spring in London's biggest I have seen snowdrops. What else is

:13:45. > :13:48.about? There is a lot about here. A beautiful start today as well.

:13:49. > :13:53.Nowhere near as cold as cold as it was yesterday, but the Chelsea

:13:54. > :13:57.Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London. It is situated

:13:58. > :14:01.right across the road from the River Thames, and there is a reason for

:14:02. > :14:05.that. It was founded in 1673 and apprentices would jump in their

:14:06. > :14:10.barge, go down the river, collect plants, go back in the barge, take

:14:11. > :14:13.them out and study them and now there are about 5000 different

:14:14. > :14:18.species of plants here from 160 countries around the world. And we

:14:19. > :14:21.will be seeing some of them and as you mentioned there are some

:14:22. > :14:25.stunning snowdrops to admire but the perfume here is gorgeous. More than

:14:26. > :14:29.can be said for the weather for many of us because today it will be

:14:30. > :14:32.rather cloudy. We also have some fog around and some rain coming in from

:14:33. > :14:37.the south-west. We start the forecast at 9am across Scotland.

:14:38. > :14:40.Currently in the Highlands it is cold, temperatures one or two. A

:14:41. > :14:45.little bit of frost but there will be some sunshine. Incidentally, the

:14:46. > :14:49.Isle of Skye had the highest temperature in the land, at 14

:14:50. > :14:53.Celsius. For the rest of Scotland it is fairly cloudy and again some

:14:54. > :14:56.patchy fog here and they are. Moving across northern England, we have

:14:57. > :15:00.some fog and quite a lot of cloud and that extends as we push down

:15:01. > :15:03.towards the Midlands. For East Anglia there are some spots of rain

:15:04. > :15:07.moving up the east, that will clear and we also have one or two breaks

:15:08. > :15:11.where there is some fog around as well. We continue with a lot of

:15:12. > :15:14.cloud through the Midlands, down towards Hampshire and we run into

:15:15. > :15:17.the rain across south-west England and parts of Wales. For north Wales,

:15:18. > :15:21.fairly cloudy and again some hill fog around, and for Northern Ireland

:15:22. > :15:25.what you have today is a fairly cloudy day, again with the odd spot

:15:26. > :15:31.or two of rain, especially so later on. So through the course of the day

:15:32. > :15:34.what you will find is the band of rain coming in from the south-west

:15:35. > :15:38.will move slowly north eastwards. Some of it will be heavy but there

:15:39. > :15:42.is a risk of the odd rumble of thunder coming out of it as well,

:15:43. > :15:45.behind it will brighten up across south-west England, part of the

:15:46. > :15:48.Midlands, with some sunshine. For Scotland and Northern Ireland the

:15:49. > :15:52.wind will start to pick up and we will see further showers. That leads

:15:53. > :15:56.us into the evening and overnight because what will happen then is low

:15:57. > :15:59.pressure comes in across the north, introducing some more rain,

:16:00. > :16:03.strengthening winds for Scotland and Northern Ireland in particular, and

:16:04. > :16:07.we lose the rain, which will clear into the North Sea from eastern

:16:08. > :16:11.England. Once again we will see some pockets of fog forming. As we start

:16:12. > :16:15.the day tomorrow, the fog will take its time to clear but it will clear,

:16:16. > :16:18.especially from the south-west towards Hampshire, but we could see

:16:19. > :16:22.some in the south-east towards the end of the night as well and

:16:23. > :16:26.tomorrow when the fog does lift, not a bad day for many parts of England

:16:27. > :16:29.and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will carry on with the

:16:30. > :16:33.showers and windy conditions. Gales with exposure in the north-west and

:16:34. > :16:37.at times it will be windy and showery across the far north of

:16:38. > :16:41.England as well. Then by Friday it looks like the more fog around,

:16:42. > :16:44.especially across parts of England, which could well be problematic for

:16:45. > :16:48.commuters, and could be slow to clear. So it is something worth

:16:49. > :16:52.certainly bearing in mind but when it does lift what you will find as

:16:53. > :16:55.we are going to have a beautiful day, pleasant day with some

:16:56. > :16:58.sunshine, steal out towards the west, though, with a new weather

:16:59. > :17:02.front not far away we are likely to see some rain coming in and some

:17:03. > :17:06.showers across the final. The general trend is, as we go through

:17:07. > :17:08.the next few days, it is going to remain mild and maybe just a little

:17:09. > :17:13.bit milder for some of us. You're watching

:17:14. > :17:17.Breakfast from BBC News. South Korea's confirmed

:17:18. > :17:30.the half-brother of North Korea's Church of England leaders

:17:31. > :17:37.will debate homosexuality and same-sex marriage later,

:17:38. > :17:39.after a report concluded that marriage should be

:17:40. > :17:51.between a man and a woman. Ben and Sally have joined us

:17:52. > :18:10.to look at the papers. The Daily Telegraph this morning, in

:18:11. > :18:14.fact lots of papers have this, the Sun said she is one of the

:18:15. > :18:18.favourites. And a crippling rates rise is the main story on the Daily

:18:19. > :18:25.Telegraph. Another story which they cover, which many papers go with,

:18:26. > :18:28.football is as dangerous to the brain as boxing. We will look at

:18:29. > :18:34.what that study has found later. The Daily Mirror also have that on

:18:35. > :18:39.their front page. It is clearly about professional footballers. The

:18:40. > :18:45.front page of the Mail, a story about plastic balls. Apparently they

:18:46. > :18:51.will be rejected by ministers. -- plastic bottles.

:18:52. > :18:57.There she is again on the Express. House prices up by ?15,000. The

:18:58. > :19:02.Guardian has a picture of our main story, this is Kim Jong-Nam, the

:19:03. > :19:08.estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong and, who we

:19:09. > :19:16.believe was assassinated by two women. They are looking at CCTV

:19:17. > :19:21.footage at the moment. New questions for Paul Nuttall regarding

:19:22. > :19:30.Hillsborough. That claim made on his website. They say it was about

:19:31. > :19:34.somebody else. Ben?

:19:35. > :19:44.You go first. I wasn't here yesterday!

:19:45. > :19:50.May be Monday? Ben was here, so he gets the chance

:19:51. > :19:55.to go first. This story yesterday, that jobs could be a risk that

:19:56. > :20:02.Vauxhall, which is currently owned by General Motors. It could sell it

:20:03. > :20:11.to Peugeot. The concern in the UK is what it means for the future of the

:20:12. > :20:15.plant at Ellesmere port, which makes the Vauxhall Astra. Big questions

:20:16. > :20:20.about what the sale could mean for staff in the UK and whether in the

:20:21. > :20:24.wake of Brexit it also raises questions for the European Union,

:20:25. > :20:28.and also for British government as far as support for the carmakers.

:20:29. > :20:33.The carmakers have been especially vocal in that debate over Brexit and

:20:34. > :20:43.what it could mean for them. Some big questions out. Now you can talk!

:20:44. > :20:48.I think it is my turn. Gareth Southgate, who is often accused of

:20:49. > :20:51.being too nice, he has given his first newspaper interview since

:20:52. > :20:55.taking over as England manager and of course he has asked about that.

:20:56. > :20:59.He has again had to defend his own personality and say he can make the

:21:00. > :21:04.big calls. I will drop players who aren't informed. I would select the

:21:05. > :21:09.team by reputation. He also says how he has been to see Eddie Jones to

:21:10. > :21:12.see how the England the team are set up. He says the significant thing

:21:13. > :21:16.about them is they don't expect to lose. So he wants to bring that

:21:17. > :21:22.culture into football. Lack of fear. It would be good, wouldn't it? It

:21:23. > :21:26.would be great. Not to worry about the consequence. A genetic test to

:21:27. > :21:30.see if you are predisposed to baldness. Would you go for that? I

:21:31. > :21:38.don't think there's much chance with this head. You've got a full head!

:21:39. > :21:44.Very impressive. And also the Nokia 3310 will be relaunched.

:21:45. > :21:48.Remind people what they look like. Here is the little gadget. Because

:21:49. > :21:55.Nokia had nearly 50% of the market and it has fallen right down. It

:21:56. > :21:59.didn't have into net access, but it did have Snake II, and you could

:22:00. > :22:02.charge it on a Saturday and you wouldn't need to touch it again

:22:03. > :22:08.until Thursday. That's true. And there's a whole market for that.

:22:09. > :22:13.A lot of people were going out on first dates yesterday because it was

:22:14. > :22:18.Valentine's Day. AU was intrigued by this story. A fashion designer went

:22:19. > :22:33.on a date. -- I was. She had a nice time. She was sent the bill for the

:22:34. > :22:37.drinks, the ?42 50. And he provided the bank details as well. She

:22:38. > :22:41.probably made the right decision, not to go on the second date. Even

:22:42. > :22:52.if a date went badly, you would probably move on. You won't say,

:22:53. > :22:54.right, that stake cost me ?17.50, I want at least half of that.

:22:55. > :22:58.People who've grown up in care are far more likely to die in early

:22:59. > :23:00.adulthood than those who haven't, according to figures revealed

:23:01. > :23:07.Although care leavers make up just 1% of all 19 to 21-year-olds,

:23:08. > :23:14.they accounted for 7% of deaths amongst that age group last year.

:23:15. > :23:17.It's thought poor mental health, and difficulties accessing support

:23:18. > :23:29.On the night's menu, laughter, friendship and the absence of

:23:30. > :23:34.loneliness. Members of this project all spent their childhood in care.

:23:35. > :23:39.Although the challenges of leading the care system behind. Growing up

:23:40. > :23:44.too quick and being lonely doing it. Once you reach 16 and you get up to

:23:45. > :23:50.the leaving care stages, you have to leave care. There is no holding on.

:23:51. > :23:54.I thought about taking my life on countless occasions and the only

:23:55. > :23:57.reason I didn't is because I know that I can speak to someone. It is a

:23:58. > :24:01.sense of belonging. Everybody here mixing feel like I belong to

:24:02. > :24:05.someone. We've always supported each other to everything. For me, I

:24:06. > :24:10.didn't have that support network, I do believe that I could have turned

:24:11. > :24:14.out differently. Very differently. The idea is simple. Get together and

:24:15. > :24:20.share experiences, problems and advice. The project is named in

:24:21. > :24:26.honour of a friend who took his own life having been in care as a child.

:24:27. > :24:32.What we wanted to do was turn that pain we had and turn it into a

:24:33. > :24:36.positive. It is about human connection and when they leave care

:24:37. > :24:40.there's nothing and they have to deal with that emotion. I've been

:24:41. > :24:44.abused or whatever it is coming into care, I've gone through the system

:24:45. > :24:47.right had no control and knife got to deal with that. I've got a

:24:48. > :24:52.process that. And often you are alone in that, which is when you

:24:53. > :24:56.begin to suffer. Around 10,000 people aged 16 or over leave

:24:57. > :25:02.residential or foster care every year. The challenges they face can

:25:03. > :25:08.be daunting, often overwhelming. Suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide

:25:09. > :25:12.and number of times. This woman left care aged 14. Now 22 Shias a job, a

:25:13. > :25:18.home and is grateful to her foster parents, at the prospects of leaving

:25:19. > :25:22.care at the time proved devastating. Some young people to have their

:25:23. > :25:27.families and when you don't it is easy to be like, nobody cares. I

:25:28. > :25:31.can't cope with all of this trauma and stress that I am currently going

:25:32. > :25:40.through. So it is easy to be like, what is the point? Care leavers

:25:41. > :25:43.represents around 1% of 19, 20 and 21 -year-olds. But freedom of

:25:44. > :25:47.information request shows they account for about 7% of deaths

:25:48. > :25:52.within that age group. The government told us it is committed

:25:53. > :25:56.to improving the lives of care leaders and giving them the support

:25:57. > :25:59.they need. It is investing ?10 million over the next four years on

:26:00. > :26:06.better mental health support for young people insecure children's

:26:07. > :26:09.homes. All care leavers have a personal adviser until they are 21

:26:10. > :26:13.and there's a new scheme to help care leaders to continue to live

:26:14. > :26:18.with their foster families after they turn 18. Back at the project

:26:19. > :26:22.meet up, there's food and fun. More groups and events are being set up

:26:23. > :26:27.across the UK. The idea is simple, but effective. How important is a

:26:28. > :26:33.group of friends like this? They are not friends, they are family. How

:26:34. > :26:35.important is family, you can't truly say. They are the most important

:26:36. > :26:41.thing in the world. We will be talking about that in

:26:42. > :26:43.about one hour. Still to come on

:26:44. > :26:45.Breakfast: Grumbling. We're good at it in Britain,

:26:46. > :26:48.making 55 million complaints about bad service from businesses

:26:49. > :26:50.in the last year alone. We'll find out why

:26:51. > :27:01.it pays to complain. We are also talking about random

:27:02. > :27:06.accident kindness. Send in your suggestions about things you have

:27:07. > :27:07.seen, random acts of kindness from people in your life.

:27:08. > :30:26.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:27. > :30:31.will most likely see sunshine over the weekend.

:30:32. > :30:40.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:30:41. > :30:44.We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:30:45. > :30:46.But also on Breakfast this morning: Remember this?

:30:47. > :30:49.The Sinclair C5 was tipped to be the future, but turned heads

:30:50. > :30:55.30 years on and the electric trike is back.

:30:56. > :31:12.I'll take it for a spin later in the programme.

:31:13. > :31:16.2.6 million children in Britain have an alcoholic parent.

:31:17. > :31:19.We will hear from a man whose dad died from alcoholism

:31:20. > :31:22.when he was just nine, and find out about a new campaign

:31:23. > :31:24.calling for more support for people like him.

:31:25. > :31:27.Ever considered living your golden years on the other side

:31:28. > :31:32.She will be here to tell us about her experience trialling

:31:33. > :31:35.retirement in India, as part of a new series

:31:36. > :31:40.But now, a summary of this morning's main news:

:31:41. > :31:42.South Korea has confirmed that the estranged half-brother

:31:43. > :31:44.of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was poisoned,

:31:45. > :31:47.and they believe North Korean agents were behind his murder.

:31:48. > :31:50.Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack

:31:51. > :31:53.on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport.

:31:54. > :31:56.Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen

:31:57. > :31:59.alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi.

:32:00. > :32:06.Kim Jong-nam had been living in exile since 2001.

:32:07. > :32:09.The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage

:32:10. > :32:11.when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates

:32:12. > :32:15.Members will vote on a report by bishops which says marriage

:32:16. > :32:18.in Church should only be between a man and a woman.

:32:19. > :32:20.Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014,

:32:21. > :32:23.the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies.

:32:24. > :32:33.Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting.

:32:34. > :32:36.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:32:37. > :32:39.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:32:40. > :32:42.Researchers studied the brains of six former players who had died

:32:43. > :32:45.from dementia, and discovered that some of them had a form

:32:46. > :32:55.of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:32:56. > :33:02.When we examine their brains at autopsy, we saw the sorts of changes

:33:03. > :33:14.that are seen in ex- boxers, the changes as a result of repeated head

:33:15. > :33:17.injury, which are known as CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. So

:33:18. > :33:18.for the first time we have evidence that the head injury has occurred

:33:19. > :33:21.early in their life. The White House says Donald Trump

:33:22. > :33:25.knew weeks ago that his former national security advisor had misled

:33:26. > :33:27.officials about conversations he had Michael Flynn was forced to resign

:33:28. > :33:31.over allegations he discussed American sanctions with a Russian

:33:32. > :33:34.envoy before President Trump took office, and he was also accused

:33:35. > :33:57.of misleading the Vice President Last year more than a quarter of

:33:58. > :34:00.consumers spent less with a company after poor service. We made 55

:34:01. > :34:04.million complaints last year as a result of bad service from

:34:05. > :34:09.retailers, energy supplies and phone providers. It is said to be costing

:34:10. > :34:13.companies up to ?37 billion as we turn our backs and choose other

:34:14. > :34:20.suppliers. Is that a good thing? Which bit? I think if you have got

:34:21. > :34:25.bad service, I probably would take a judgement on whether I would use the

:34:26. > :34:29.same company again. Thing is, if you are complaining about bad service,

:34:30. > :34:34.because of that, the company having to improve their service is a good

:34:35. > :34:40.thing. I have noticed they tend to take you more seriously now when you

:34:41. > :34:44.say you are not happy. I imagine you are quite a complainer. I said I was

:34:45. > :34:48.not happy the other day and they said you need to speak to

:34:49. > :34:54.complaints. I said not really, I am just not very happy. Anyway. I am

:34:55. > :34:57.very happy with you. I am really scared now. Lots and lots of

:34:58. > :35:01.complaints from Barcelona fans, I imagine, after last night. I think

:35:02. > :35:04.they want their money back. A big refund. Paris on Valentine's Day,

:35:05. > :35:10.should be nice, really. No team has ever come back from four

:35:11. > :35:13.goals down to make it through a Champions

:35:14. > :35:15.League knockout tie. Former Manchester United winger

:35:16. > :35:20.Angel Di Maria scored two goals on his birthday, as Paris St-Germain

:35:21. > :35:22.humbled the five-time European It equals Barca's worst

:35:23. > :35:30.defeat in the competition. In last night's other game,

:35:31. > :35:32.Benfica beat Borussia Dortmund The only goal of was scored

:35:33. > :35:38.by the former Fulham striker Kostas Arsenal are back in Champions

:35:39. > :35:42.League action tonight. They play the first leg

:35:43. > :35:46.of their last-16 tie away to Bayern The Gunners have been knocked out

:35:47. > :35:52.at the stage in each of the last six years, twice by Bayern,

:35:53. > :35:55.but Arsene Wenger says they can go We play against a Bayern

:35:56. > :36:08.side, and every year, When you look at their record,

:36:09. > :36:13.they are always basically So it's a massive challenge,

:36:14. > :36:23.but I think we are capable Leicester Tigers have re-signed

:36:24. > :36:26.England fly-half George Ford Freddie Burns will move

:36:27. > :36:30.in the opposite direction as part Leicester have agreed to buy Ford

:36:31. > :36:34.out of the final year He came through the Tigers' academy,

:36:35. > :36:38.before moving to Bath in 2013. His return to Welford Road means

:36:39. > :36:42.he will play alongside the England David Willey has been ruled out

:36:43. > :36:45.of England's upcoming tour The Yorkshire all-rounder will be

:36:46. > :36:49.replaced by Steven Finn. Willey has had surgery to repair

:36:50. > :36:52.a torn shoulder tendon, and will be out of

:36:53. > :36:54.action until April. England play three One-Dayers

:36:55. > :36:57.against the West Indies in March, The Windies also tour

:36:58. > :37:01.England in the summer. Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has

:37:02. > :37:04.lost his bid to block the US Government's ?79 million

:37:05. > :37:06.lawsuit against him. It is alleged that, by taking

:37:07. > :37:08.performance-enhancing drugs while riding for the publicly funded

:37:09. > :37:11.US Postal Service team, Armstrong defrauded

:37:12. > :37:12.the US government. He was stripped of his seven

:37:13. > :37:15.Tour de France titles, The case is now clear

:37:16. > :37:21.to go to trial. Tennis, and Great Britain have been

:37:22. > :37:24.drawn away to Romania Johanna Konta and Heather Watson won

:37:25. > :37:28.the deciding doubles rubber, as Great Britain beat

:37:29. > :37:31.Croatia at the weekend. And that secured their place

:37:32. > :37:33.in April's play-offs, against a Romanian team that

:37:34. > :37:36.could include world number four If Anne Keothavong's side win

:37:37. > :37:40.the tie, they will be promoted to world group two for

:37:41. > :37:51.the first time since 1993. And finally, the golden

:37:52. > :37:57.couple of British cycling are going to have an exciting

:37:58. > :37:59.addition to their family. Laura and Jason Kenny

:38:00. > :38:02.are expecting their first child, as Laura revealed in a rather cute

:38:03. > :38:05.Instagram post yesterday. The couple are said to be

:38:06. > :38:07.thrilled and delighted, and have thanked the public

:38:08. > :38:10.for the kind messages and support So, wherever the Olympics

:38:11. > :38:21.are in 2036, what price of another And Laura pulled out of an event

:38:22. > :38:26.recently because of a hamstring strain. Is that what we are calling

:38:27. > :38:31.it? Next time someone tells me they have a hamstring strain I will have

:38:32. > :38:36.to do some further investigations. Thank you for being with us on

:38:37. > :38:37.Breakfast. The murder of Kim Jong-un's exiled

:38:38. > :38:40.half-brother has once again drawn attention to the secretive family

:38:41. > :38:42.that rules North Korea. We will hear more about what this

:38:43. > :38:46.attack could mean for the country But first, here is a reminder

:38:47. > :38:51.of the politics at play Here is Kim Jong-nam, on the left,

:38:52. > :38:55.with his younger brother, the current North Korean leader,

:38:56. > :38:58.Kim Jong-Un, on the right. Kim Jong-nam was at Kuala Lumpur

:38:59. > :39:00.international airport when the attack happened

:39:01. > :39:02.yesterday morning. Local media reports are blaming

:39:03. > :39:04.North Korean agents. Let's have a look how

:39:05. > :39:07.he fitted into the Kims, who have been the ruling

:39:08. > :39:09.family in the communist This is former North Korean

:39:10. > :39:16.leader Kim Jong Il. Beside him is his son Kim Jong-un,

:39:17. > :39:18.the current leader. And behind them is oldest

:39:19. > :39:20.son, Kim Jong-nam. As the older brother,

:39:21. > :39:24.he may have been expected to take But Kim Jong-nam fell out

:39:25. > :39:30.with his father in 2001, after being caught trying to enter

:39:31. > :39:33.Japan to visit Disney World He has been living

:39:34. > :39:36.in exile ever since. Professor Hazel Smith runs

:39:37. > :39:38.the International Institute of Korean Studies at the University

:39:39. > :39:48.of Central Lancashire. Lovely to speak to you. So we know

:39:49. > :39:52.that he was estranged from the family, and he had been living

:39:53. > :39:59.abroad. What more do we know about him? One thing we do know is he has

:40:00. > :40:02.never been political. So if this was some form of assassination, one of

:40:03. > :40:06.the things that would be surprising about it is why would this happen?

:40:07. > :40:10.He has never been considered someone who would seriously be a threat to

:40:11. > :40:13.the current leader or someone who might have a constituency around him

:40:14. > :40:16.such that he could draw support either inside or outside the

:40:17. > :40:20.country. And we also have to be really careful because no one knows

:40:21. > :40:25.yet whether this was some form of assassination, or whether Mr Kim was

:40:26. > :40:28.actually... Had a natural causes problem. You can see from the

:40:29. > :40:32.pictures that your introduction showed that this was an overweight

:40:33. > :40:37.man, he had an unhealthy life and was in his mid- 40s. We will know

:40:38. > :40:41.later on today, with a postmortem taking place today, if this was

:40:42. > :40:45.natural causes or not. But he has never been a key opposition person,

:40:46. > :40:49.politically, in the country. That is one of the main things about this.

:40:50. > :40:54.One of the major speculations is that he has been assassinated by the

:40:55. > :40:58.North Korean leadership, and there has been events like that in the

:40:59. > :41:03.past, his uncle was assassinated, as well. His uncle was a senior

:41:04. > :41:07.political leader in his own right. So even though he was related, he

:41:08. > :41:13.was somebody who could have been an opposition. He was the second most

:41:14. > :41:17.powerful person in North Korea, at the time. Well, unlike the general

:41:18. > :41:22.mythology, it is not just one person, or one family, Kim family,

:41:23. > :41:26.who are important. There are shifting alliances. Nobody quite

:41:27. > :41:30.knows who has power over what, that is one of the problems. The person

:41:31. > :41:34.who is nominally in charge doesn't have the experience of his father or

:41:35. > :41:37.his grandfather. We know that he can't manage the factions that exist

:41:38. > :41:43.in North Korea, the political factions. We don't know enough about

:41:44. > :41:47.who has power in other parts of the system, in the military, for

:41:48. > :41:51.example. This, if it was an assassination, I am hesitant to jump

:41:52. > :41:55.to any major conclusions, could be simply because they don't like Kim

:41:56. > :41:59.Jong-nam. But that would mean that we have got something that shows

:42:00. > :42:03.that the country is very unstable. That is mostly what this would

:42:04. > :42:07.indicate, if it is some form of assassination. At again, we

:42:08. > :42:10.shouldn't really be jumping to conclusions before the autopsy,

:42:11. > :42:15.which we will probably get later today. Is South Korean officials who

:42:16. > :42:18.have said this, but there is obviously a very tricky relationship

:42:19. > :42:24.at this time between North Korea and South Korea. South Korean officials

:42:25. > :42:27.have a history of saying that people have been assassinated and then they

:42:28. > :42:31.turn up in some other position. Clearly Kim Jong-nam is not going to

:42:32. > :42:35.turn up alive in another position. We know he is dead, Malaysian police

:42:36. > :42:39.have said absolutely it is him, but we still don't know the cause. So

:42:40. > :42:44.there is a major conflict between South Korea and North Korea. Between

:42:45. > :42:48.them, you can argue they are the originators of fake news. It is you

:42:49. > :42:53.have to really think about what is coming from where and why. That is

:42:54. > :42:58.exactly why I said South Korea. So there are a lot of... You would call

:42:59. > :43:02.it fake news, what would you say? You would call it fake news these

:43:03. > :43:05.days, before you would call it misinformation. That is not

:43:06. > :43:09.surprising. Both countries are still technically at war, they are in a

:43:10. > :43:14.major conflict against each other. South Korea generally has better

:43:15. > :43:18.information than it used to have against the North Koreans, because

:43:19. > :43:22.the North Korean border is much more porous than it used to be but there

:43:23. > :43:26.is still a lot of speculation, even in South Korea. So we have two, I'm

:43:27. > :43:30.afraid, wait and see until we get the results of the autopsy today and

:43:31. > :43:34.then the Malaysian police, as they have been doing, will make this

:43:35. > :43:38.public. Thank you very much, and the reason why political instability is

:43:39. > :43:45.important, of course, is that they have nuclear weapons. Question is,

:43:46. > :43:49.if there is an assassination of someone who wasn't a political

:43:50. > :43:52.threat, this probably indicates a high degree of political

:43:53. > :43:55.instability. If there is instability, then who is controlling

:43:56. > :44:01.the fissile material which is growing all the time in North Korea?

:44:02. > :44:05.There is no external regulation, the international authorities are not

:44:06. > :44:12.there. Thank you very much indeed. Fascinating to talk to you. Where

:44:13. > :44:23.are you? Good morning! Iron -- and at the

:44:24. > :44:30.Chelsea Physic Garden. The snowdrop trail, that's a rumpus. But here

:44:31. > :44:36.there are 150 different types of snowdrops. You can see the most

:44:37. > :44:38.common one behind me. That one is gorgeous! But they've got some

:44:39. > :44:46.really funny names, like grumpy, really funny names, like grumpy,

:44:47. > :44:51.hocus-pocus, green tea and wasp. Hopefully we will see if you more of

:44:52. > :44:56.those. It is a milder start to the day in London. In fact, milder

:44:57. > :45:00.across-the-board, with the exception of the Highlands, where it is

:45:01. > :45:05.called. It will be rather cloudy today and we are looking at some

:45:06. > :45:11.rain. If we start the forecast at 9am in Scotland, in the Highlands we

:45:12. > :45:15.have the clearest skies and that's where there is some. For the rest of

:45:16. > :45:19.his cloudy and there is fog, as there is in northern England, with

:45:20. > :45:24.just a couple of breaks. Into the Midlands and east Anglia again a lot

:45:25. > :45:29.of cloud, with some fog, especially where we have breaks, and spots of

:45:30. > :45:32.rain running up the east coast of east Anglia which will clear into

:45:33. > :45:36.the North Sea. Through Hampshire and the rest of the Midlands, cloudy,

:45:37. > :45:41.with a couple of weeks. Into the south-west we have a weather front,

:45:42. > :45:45.where we have rain. That rain also extending into southern parts of

:45:46. > :45:50.Wales. For the north of Wales it will be largely dry, but cloudy,

:45:51. > :45:53.with hill fog. Through the day in Northern Ireland it will remain

:45:54. > :45:59.cloudy, with spots of rain, especially later in the day. So,

:46:00. > :46:03.through the day the rain in the south-west continues to journey

:46:04. > :46:08.slowly north-eastwards. At times it will be heavy and possibly thundery.

:46:09. > :46:13.Behind it for south-west England, Wales, the Midlands, it could break

:46:14. > :46:17.up, but still some showers. For Scotland and Northern Ireland

:46:18. > :46:21.cloudy, with a strengthening win. That's because we have low pressure

:46:22. > :46:24.coming from the north-west. Through the night we have the wind

:46:25. > :46:29.continuing to strengthen and showers will become more prolific. The rain

:46:30. > :46:35.will clear the east of England, leaving behind its some clear skies.

:46:36. > :46:40.Once again some patchy fog, especially towards Hampshire. By the

:46:41. > :46:45.end of the night we could see more fog the south-east. Tomorrow that

:46:46. > :46:48.will slowly lift and then for many parts of England and Wales tomorrow

:46:49. > :46:53.it will be a pleasant day, with sunshine. Temperatures about 12

:46:54. > :46:56.Celsius. For Scotland and Northern Ireland where we have the low

:46:57. > :47:02.pressure going north you will find it will be windy. Gales possible in

:47:03. > :47:05.the north-west and a lot of showers. On Friday still showery in the

:47:06. > :47:11.north. Another weather front is introducing rain. But generally

:47:12. > :47:17.speaking it will be a fine day after we lose the fog. We will have dense

:47:18. > :47:22.fog in parts of England and that could lead to some committee issues

:47:23. > :47:27.and it will be slow to clear. But it will clear and the sun should come

:47:28. > :47:33.out. Generally through the next few days, even into the weekend, it will

:47:34. > :47:39.remain mild or even get milder than it has been.

:47:40. > :47:46.We can enjoy that! Thanks very much. It will be beautiful there later.

:47:47. > :47:51.We made 55 million complaints last year just between us!

:47:52. > :47:54.Because of poor service from shops, energy firms and phone companies.

:47:55. > :47:57.Ben is looking at why we seem so unhappy.

:47:58. > :48:02.Do you find you are either a person who complains a lot, or it isn't

:48:03. > :48:09.worth the effort. Do you complain? I might complain about bad food, or

:48:10. > :48:11.what I consider to be bad food. Very specific!

:48:12. > :48:15.Good morning. When you break that 55 million down,

:48:16. > :48:23.it's about one complaint per person. But that's up 3 million

:48:24. > :48:27.since last year. The figures from Ombudsman Service

:48:28. > :48:30.show we complained about a whole load of things - public transport,

:48:31. > :48:33.banking, shops, tradesmen, Our top three complaints

:48:34. > :48:35.were about retailers, energy suppliers and

:48:36. > :48:38.telecoms companies. Those complaints cost firms

:48:39. > :48:41.involved over ?37 billion in putting it right

:48:42. > :48:44.and lost business. So what have you been

:48:45. > :48:56.complaining about? The complaint was against a big

:48:57. > :48:59.energy company and surprisingly they actually hadn't build me for

:49:00. > :49:04.something like nine months and then six months after I left a huge bill

:49:05. > :49:08.arrived. So I then complained bitterly about it. Over the

:49:09. > :49:15.complaint against my gas supplier because they build me four times for

:49:16. > :49:21.the same period. I changed gas supplier as soon as I could and they

:49:22. > :49:25.weren't much better, to be honest. If there's a need to complain I

:49:26. > :49:28.will, because when you are paying for a service you expect to get a

:49:29. > :49:33.good service. Sometimes you can expect the service to drop at time,

:49:34. > :49:37.but when you're paying for it you wanted to be more consistent. I've

:49:38. > :49:42.complained to my telecoms supplier and in the and I got frustrated with

:49:43. > :49:44.the amount of times I had to complain and we disconnected in the

:49:45. > :49:45.end because these big companies really don't care.

:49:46. > :49:51.Lewis Shand Smith is the chief ombudsman at Ombudsman Services

:49:52. > :49:59.Some figures that are really interesting. A big rise in

:50:00. > :50:03.complaints from last year. Where are the biggest complaints coming from?

:50:04. > :50:07.From the retail sector, followed by telecommunications, followed by

:50:08. > :50:11.energy. There is a big increase in people's willingness to complain.

:50:12. > :50:15.We've seen the huge increase in the number of people who say they will

:50:16. > :50:22.complain, about 35% up on last year. The list, retail up 24%, telecoms

:50:23. > :50:27.and energy, not a huge surprise. The thing that might come as a surprise

:50:28. > :50:33.is the cost of them. The cost of retail complaint is about ?10

:50:34. > :50:37.million! That's loss of business. If a complaint isn't handled well or it

:50:38. > :50:44.moored, then people will walk away and go elsewhere. -- handled well.

:50:45. > :50:48.So you lose the loyalty to the brand. There is always the same

:50:49. > :50:52.question. Are we getting better at complaining, or is it that the

:50:53. > :50:57.service is getting worse? Think we are getting better complaining, but

:50:58. > :51:01.also when people see prices go up they are more willing to complain

:51:02. > :51:06.and are less likely to put up with bad service. So they are more likely

:51:07. > :51:10.to complain and I think people are much more courageous and will

:51:11. > :51:13.actually go and say, I have paid for this and I haven't got it. Does the

:51:14. > :51:22.message always get through the business? When it starts hitting

:51:23. > :51:27.people in the pocket, there's a real onus on them to it right the first

:51:28. > :51:32.time, not just to put it right. It is important to get it right the

:51:33. > :51:36.first time. As the ombudsman, we have to work with businesses to get

:51:37. > :51:40.it right the first time. It is much better if things don't go wrong but

:51:41. > :51:44.if they do the business need to put it right, do it well and handled the

:51:45. > :51:48.complaint well. If they do that the brand loyalty increases by something

:51:49. > :51:52.like 75%, so it is really important to handle complaints well. If things

:51:53. > :51:56.do go wrong and people go elsewhere, how likely is it that the business

:51:57. > :52:00.can win you back? They have to struggle very hard because the

:52:01. > :52:06.statistics show that if your complaint has been handled badly

:52:07. > :52:12.then you really will go out and tell your friends, you will tell people

:52:13. > :52:19.just how bad that company years and it is very difficult for them to win

:52:20. > :52:22.you back. So as the last port of call, you turn to the ombudsman.

:52:23. > :52:26.Tell me through the process. If people are unhappy with a service

:52:27. > :52:30.what should they do? Should first of all complaint to the company because

:52:31. > :52:33.if you don't do that they don't know somethings gone wrong and they don't

:52:34. > :52:37.have the opportunity to put it right. So complaint to the company.

:52:38. > :52:40.If the company dense as they can't help you any longer, you have the

:52:41. > :52:44.legal right to come to the ombudsman. So you can come to the

:52:45. > :52:48.ombudsman, we will deal with your complaint. It is a simple process

:52:49. > :52:52.that we go through and we will help you, but you need to remember we are

:52:53. > :52:59.on anybody's side. We are there to adjudicate. So we will look at both

:53:00. > :53:04.sides, come to a conclusion and that decision is binding. On that the

:53:05. > :53:10.business had to -- has to deal with. Really good to talk to you. Thank

:53:11. > :53:15.you. No complaints from this end of the studio! More from the -- me

:53:16. > :53:17.later. Thank you.

:53:18. > :53:23.It was supposed to herald a revolution in personal transport

:53:24. > :53:26.but the Sinclair C5 quickly became a by-word for failure.

:53:27. > :53:29.Part tricycle and part electric car, it was the brainchild

:53:30. > :53:31.of the computer designer Sir Clive Sinclair.

:53:32. > :53:34.Now his nephew has designed his own version which he believes can

:53:35. > :53:39.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott went along to take

:53:40. > :53:50.This is how they did glitzy launches in the mid-19 80s. After

:53:51. > :53:54.revolutionising home computers, people couldn't wait for the next

:53:55. > :53:59.invention from the Genius Sir Clive Sinclair. But the C5 never lived up

:54:00. > :54:07.to the hype. Who better to roadtest the Sinclair C5 banned former racing

:54:08. > :54:10.driver Moss? He went uphill. Along with safety fears there was another

:54:11. > :54:19.fundamental problem. It was at this point that the vehicle's that we

:54:20. > :54:25.gave out. -- battery gave out. I waited about 30 years to have a go.

:54:26. > :54:30.Ask anyone under 30, they have no idea what a C5 is, but for people of

:54:31. > :54:35.a certain age, my age, it was the defining cool invention and indeed

:54:36. > :54:42.testing this invention planted the seed. As a youngster Grant Sinclair

:54:43. > :54:45.helped his father trial the C5 and even had one at school. Three

:54:46. > :54:53.decades on he has designed his own electric triumph, the Iris. It

:54:54. > :54:58.combines pedals with an electric motor and you can drive it without a

:54:59. > :55:01.licence from 14. This one is weatherproof, streamline and made

:55:02. > :55:05.from the same material -- same material as ski safety helmets. You

:55:06. > :55:11.can see for starters that it is about three times quicker than the

:55:12. > :55:17.C5. I can't actually keep up with Grant. He is doing very well. I was

:55:18. > :55:22.going to asking some questions but can't catch him! Oh well, I will

:55:23. > :55:27.just enjoy the view. This sold 17,000 units. I was surprised when I

:55:28. > :55:32.found that out. But he didn't get the millions that were hoped for at

:55:33. > :55:39.the time. Why do you think this will work this time? It's a different

:55:40. > :55:45.concept altogether. I think it was a very clever idea, the original item.

:55:46. > :55:50.I always wanted to do a really fast bike and a much safer bike. One of

:55:51. > :55:54.the things I remember about the C5 that people complained about at the

:55:55. > :55:58.time is you are quite low down. I think is less of an issue these

:55:59. > :56:04.days. My uncle's product, when it was launched. There wasn't the

:56:05. > :56:10.infrastructure for cycles. Now you have bike lanes in most major

:56:11. > :56:15.cities. Ebikes are selling well and I think the market is ready for a

:56:16. > :56:22.ebike that is closed, so you can write it in the winter and keep dry.

:56:23. > :56:27.As a uncle seen the new design? -- not yet, but I would love to show it

:56:28. > :56:31.to him. So 30 years after it disappeared, the Sinclair name is

:56:32. > :56:36.returning to Britain's roads. The same idea, but a new design. Which

:56:37. > :56:39.is a good job, really. My battery went.

:56:40. > :56:46.That was one of the problems, the batteries. Are you going to drive on

:56:47. > :56:49.later? Apparently it is almost impossible

:56:50. > :56:51.to get a tall person into one. That's why we chose a new? I've been

:56:52. > :56:53.selected for my height... Time now to get the news,

:56:54. > :00:14.travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:00:15. > :00:20.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. South Korea confirms

:00:21. > :00:24.that the brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been killed

:00:25. > :00:28.at an airport in Malaysia. Kim Jong-nam had fallen out

:00:29. > :00:31.with his brother and had South Korea says agents

:00:32. > :00:51.from the North are to blame. Good morning, it is

:00:52. > :00:55.Wednesday 15 February. Also this morning: The Church

:00:56. > :00:58.of England faces new divisions over gay marriage, as a

:00:59. > :01:02.crucial vote is held. Brain damage in

:01:03. > :01:04.professional footballers. Scientists find a link

:01:05. > :01:08.between repeated blows to the head on the pitch and a possible

:01:09. > :01:11.cause of dementia. The costs facing manufacturers

:01:12. > :01:15.for the goods they use jumped by 20% last month, the fastest rise

:01:16. > :01:29.in almost ten years. With inflation only up for the rest

:01:30. > :01:34.of us, what could it mean for the prices we pay InShops? -- in shops.

:01:35. > :01:36.In sport: Barcelona visited Paris on Valentine's Day,

:01:37. > :01:39.but didn't love their time there, thrashed 4-0 by Paris St-Germain

:01:40. > :01:43.More of a flop than a vision of the future.

:01:44. > :01:47.But, 30 years since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world

:01:48. > :01:49.finally be ready for an electrically powered pedal car?

:01:50. > :02:00.Good morning, from the Chelsea Physic Garden here in London, they

:02:01. > :02:05.are the oldest ones in London, and the perfume here is intoxicating. We

:02:06. > :02:08.are surrounded by Daphne, shrubby honeysuckle and snowdrops. The

:02:09. > :02:13.weather is milder than it was yesterday, but we have some rain

:02:14. > :02:17.sweeping in from the west, the brightest skies across the

:02:18. > :02:18.Highlands, more details in 15 minutes.

:02:19. > :02:22.First, our main story: South Korea has confirmed that the estranged

:02:23. > :02:24.half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un,

:02:25. > :02:26.was poisoned, and they believe North Korean agents

:02:27. > :02:30.Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack

:02:31. > :02:33.on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport.

:02:34. > :02:36.Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen

:02:37. > :02:39.alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi.

:02:40. > :02:41.A postmortem examination will be carried out later,

:02:42. > :02:53.Was Kim Jong-nam poisoned by assassins as he prepared to board

:02:54. > :02:58.a flight in the Malaysian capital on Monday?

:02:59. > :03:01.Confusion and mystery surround the death of the half-brother

:03:02. > :03:10.Now, South Korean officials say they believe he was murdered.

:03:11. > :03:12.Just before he died, Kim Jong-nam is reported to have

:03:13. > :03:15.told medical workers he was attacked with a chemical spray.

:03:16. > :03:31.Police are studying security camera footage from the airport.

:03:32. > :03:33.He had been long estranged from his half-brother,

:03:34. > :03:36.the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, falling out of favour

:03:37. > :03:39.with the secretive regime and living in exile after he was caught

:03:40. > :03:41.sneaking into Japan on a fake passport.

:03:42. > :03:43.South Korea's acting president said, if North Korea was responsible,

:03:44. > :03:46.it would show the brutality and inhumane nature of the regime.

:03:47. > :03:49.TRANSLATION: The government is carefully watching North Korea's

:03:50. > :03:52.movements, acknowledging the fact that the situation

:03:53. > :03:59.But the attackers have not been identified.

:04:00. > :04:02.A postmortem is due to be carried in Kuala Lumpur later.

:04:03. > :04:04.The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage

:04:05. > :04:07.when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates

:04:08. > :04:11.Members will vote on a report by bishops, which says marriage

:04:12. > :04:14.in Church should only be between a man and a woman.

:04:15. > :04:17.Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting,

:04:18. > :04:22.as our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir reports.

:04:23. > :04:29.A picture before the protest, as members of General Synod prepare

:04:30. > :04:36.to debate the Bishop's report on same-sex marriage.

:04:37. > :04:38.Published last month, the report has angered members

:04:39. > :04:41.of the LGBT community, because it concludes that marriage

:04:42. > :04:45.in Church should remain a lifelong union between a man and a woman.

:04:46. > :04:47.We're talking here about the national Church being massively

:04:48. > :04:54.And this isn't just about saying that we have to follow what society

:04:55. > :04:58.This is about saying, actually, where people perceive love

:04:59. > :05:04.in relationships between one another, can the Church of England

:05:05. > :05:07.simply not recognise that God is present in those things?

:05:08. > :05:10.After three years of private discussions, a process the Church

:05:11. > :05:12.has called shared conversations, the bishops chose not to change

:05:13. > :05:15.a single aspect of Church policy or practice, believing that any

:05:16. > :05:18.adjustments to the marriage ceremony would not be supported

:05:19. > :05:28.Our role is to hold the Church together, and to say we can only go

:05:29. > :05:31.as far as the whole Church can agree.

:05:32. > :05:33.Campaigners are actually wanting us to go further,

:05:34. > :05:39.more hurriedly, than we necessarily can.

:05:40. > :05:41.Speaking at the opening of Synod, on Monday, the Archbishop

:05:42. > :05:44.of Canterbury acknowledged that today's debate is likely

:05:45. > :05:55.After 90 minutes of discussion, members will vote to affirm

:05:56. > :05:59.If they choose the latter, then questions about the ongoing

:06:00. > :06:02.unity of the Church of England will arise once again.

:06:03. > :06:05.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:06:06. > :06:07.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:06:08. > :06:10.Researchers studied the brains of six former players who had died

:06:11. > :06:13.from dementia, and discovered that some of them had a form

:06:14. > :06:16.of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:06:17. > :06:24.Our health reporter Smitha Mundasad has more.

:06:25. > :06:27.In the next few minutes, we will hear from the daughter

:06:28. > :06:30.of England footballer Jeff Astle, who is campaigning for further

:06:31. > :06:32.research into a possible link between head injuries

:06:33. > :06:40.We will speak to the report author as well.

:06:41. > :06:42.A Ukip press officer has offered her resignation after it

:06:43. > :06:44.emerged that the website of the party leader,

:06:45. > :06:47.Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he had lost close personal friends

:06:48. > :06:51.Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written or seen the article before

:06:52. > :06:55.Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, he was forced to acknowledge

:06:56. > :06:57.that his website gave a misleading impression.

:06:58. > :07:03.I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend.

:07:04. > :07:06.It was people who I knew, through football and things

:07:07. > :07:09.But I basically went to your website last night

:07:10. > :07:14.And it is PaulNuttallMEP.com, that is your website?

:07:15. > :07:21.I haven't put that out, and that is wrong.

:07:22. > :07:23.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier has been

:07:24. > :07:29.Eleanor, now someone else has taken the blame.

:07:30. > :07:35.So Paul Nuttall looking particularly uncomfortable during that interview.

:07:36. > :07:39.Who has taken the blame for this? Before we get into that let's go

:07:40. > :07:43.into a bit of background as to how we have got to this position. This

:07:44. > :07:46.all comes off the back of claims made in the Guardian newspaper which

:07:47. > :07:51.have cast doubt on whether Paul Nuttall was actually at Hillsborough

:07:52. > :07:54.on the day of the disaster. Now, he emphatically insist he was there,

:07:55. > :07:59.and that he has got friends and people who will stand up in court

:08:00. > :08:04.and back him. After those reports, we then heard about the false claims

:08:05. > :08:09.on his website, in those post-is, in which he had close friends, he said

:08:10. > :08:13.he did know people who died, but they were not his close friends. He

:08:14. > :08:17.says he didn't write the article, he didn't see it before it was

:08:18. > :08:21.published, and that he was very sorry, and indeed appalled, by what

:08:22. > :08:26.had happened. And now we get on to the press officer you mentioned,

:08:27. > :08:30.Paul Nuttall's has officer, a woman named Lynda Roughley, she has held

:08:31. > :08:34.her hands up and said it was all her own fault, that she is entirely

:08:35. > :08:37.responsible and mortified by what happened, and she has offered her

:08:38. > :08:41.resignation. Interestingly, we don't yet know if that resignation has

:08:42. > :08:46.been accepted. It has been difficult for Paul Nuttall, and also for the

:08:47. > :08:50.Labour candidate, a man called Gareth Snell, who has had to

:08:51. > :08:54.apologise for a series of Tweety posted about women. He is also a

:08:55. > :08:57.candidate in the Stoke by-election and says the remarks were made some

:08:58. > :09:08.years ago, and were clearly unacceptable. Thank you very much.

:09:09. > :09:10.The Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election takes place on 23

:09:11. > :09:13.Here is a list of the all the candidates standing.

:09:14. > :09:16.You can find more information on the BBC News website.

:09:17. > :09:18.Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss

:09:19. > :09:20.while flying his plane in California.

:09:21. > :09:22.The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway

:09:23. > :09:24.at John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, where

:09:25. > :09:27.an American Airlines plane carrying 110 passengers was waiting

:09:28. > :09:40.An investigation into the incident is underway.

:09:41. > :09:52.Having sent his fans into a frenzy on New Year's Eve, Tom Hardy has

:09:53. > :09:56.read another story on Ceebeebies. Cloud spotting with a best friend is

:09:57. > :10:04.more enjoyable, especially if your best friend is a dog. The

:10:05. > :10:10.Valentine's Day special predictably sent social media sites into a bit

:10:11. > :10:15.of a meltdown. Do you think you save them for special days? Have you ever

:10:16. > :10:20.done specials? I have, it is my favourite thing. I was asked to wear

:10:21. > :10:25.a pair of shorts for a sporty one but they were too short, apparently,

:10:26. > :10:28.inappropriate for the kids. What did they do? I had to go and get some

:10:29. > :10:44.trousers. What a wonderful thing. People who have grown up in care are

:10:45. > :10:52.far more likely to die in adult early adult hood tarmac -- die in

:10:53. > :10:53.early adult hood. It is thought that poor mental health and difficulties

:10:54. > :11:00.accessing support could be to blame. On tonight's menu, laughter,

:11:01. > :11:06.friendship and the absence Members of this project

:11:07. > :11:09.all spent their childhood in care, although the challenges of leaving

:11:10. > :11:12.the care system behind. Growing up too quick

:11:13. > :11:14.and being lonely doing it. Once you reach 16 and you get up

:11:15. > :11:18.to the leaving care stages, I thought about taking my life

:11:19. > :11:24.on countless occasions and the only reason I didn't is because I know

:11:25. > :11:27.that I can speak to someone. Everybody here mixing,

:11:28. > :11:31.I feel like I belong to someone. We've always supported each

:11:32. > :11:33.other through everything. For me, if I didn't have

:11:34. > :11:36.that support network, I do believe that I could have

:11:37. > :11:39.turned out differently. Get together and share experiences,

:11:40. > :11:54.problems and advice. The project is named in honour

:11:55. > :11:58.of a friend who took his own life, What we wanted to do was turn that

:11:59. > :12:04.pain we had and turn it It's about human

:12:05. > :12:14.connection, human emotion. They've got all this support

:12:15. > :12:18.during the care system, and when they leave

:12:19. > :12:20.care there's nothing, and they have

:12:21. > :12:22.to deal with that emotion. I've been abused or whatever,

:12:23. > :12:24.it's coming into care, I've gone through the system right

:12:25. > :12:28.and had no control and now I've got Around 10,000 people

:12:29. > :12:36.aged 16 or over leave residential or foster

:12:37. > :12:38.care every year. The challenges they face can be

:12:39. > :12:41.daunting, often overwhelming. Suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide

:12:42. > :12:43.a number of times... Now 22, she has a job, a home,

:12:44. > :12:48.and is grateful to her foster But the prospects of leaving care

:12:49. > :12:55.at the time proved devastating. Some young people

:12:56. > :13:05.have their families, and when you don't, it's easy

:13:06. > :13:08.to be like, nobody cares. I can't cope with all of this trauma

:13:09. > :13:12.and stress that I am So it is easy to be like,

:13:13. > :13:16.what is the point? Care leavers represents

:13:17. > :13:18.around 1% of 19-, 20- But a freedom of information

:13:19. > :13:21.request shows they account for around 7% of deaths

:13:22. > :13:23.within that age group. The Government told us

:13:24. > :13:27.it is committed to improving the lives of care leavers,

:13:28. > :13:30.and giving them the support It is investing ?10 million over

:13:31. > :13:35.the next four years on better mental health support for young people

:13:36. > :13:40.in secure children's homes. All care leavers have a personal

:13:41. > :13:44.adviser until they are 21, and there is a new scheme to help

:13:45. > :13:48.care leavers to continue to live with their foster family

:13:49. > :13:53.after they turn 18. Back at the project meet up,

:13:54. > :13:56.there is food and fun. More groups and events

:13:57. > :13:59.are being set up across the UK. How important is a group

:14:00. > :14:03.of friends like this? You can't really say how

:14:04. > :14:12.important family is. It's the most important

:14:13. > :14:23.thing in the world. Enjoining us is Adam Pemberton.

:14:24. > :14:27.Everybody has their own individual story, but what is it about these

:14:28. > :14:34.young people that means that just more of them are dying? Care leavers

:14:35. > :14:38.are some of the most vulnerable in our society. They don't have the

:14:39. > :14:42.same support networks that children in families have, to the stress of

:14:43. > :14:45.the transition to adult life is all the greater. It might be around

:14:46. > :14:50.anxiety or loneliness, but they often suffer trauma or neglect which

:14:51. > :14:55.led them going into care in the first place, so when they try to

:14:56. > :14:58.move to adult life it is all the more challenging and we need support

:14:59. > :15:05.to make that journey. Being a teenager is hard, taking that change

:15:06. > :15:08.is difficult. What sorts of things can local authorities do to help

:15:09. > :15:13.that transition? Some local authorities do a good job. Others

:15:14. > :15:17.offer that their minimum. Personal advisers are very helpful and they

:15:18. > :15:23.start working with care leavers as they come up to the age of 18, but

:15:24. > :15:26.some leave earlier than that. It is about gradually leaving care.

:15:27. > :15:31.Perhaps some supportive accommodation, or living with young

:15:32. > :15:36.people. We believe there's a chance to offer better support, especially

:15:37. > :15:41.around health. It is important to remember that care leavers upto the

:15:42. > :15:45.age of 18 jet help from adolescent mental health services, then they

:15:46. > :15:49.moved to adult services just when they need to support more and often

:15:50. > :15:54.they lose that support or it is patchy. The government could use

:15:55. > :15:57.some of the ?1.4 billion they've promised for child mental health

:15:58. > :15:59.services to support this particularly vulnerable group,

:16:00. > :16:04.especially through the support networks you've seen in the film, or

:16:05. > :16:09.by offering a community psychiatric nurse based in leaving care teams to

:16:10. > :16:13.address these issues, be they things about anxiety or much more clinical.

:16:14. > :16:16.I am wondering is well about the continuity of care, because it

:16:17. > :16:21.becomes a personal relationship when somebody is helping with those

:16:22. > :16:28.issues. Where did you set the limit? What age? Well, the government has

:16:29. > :16:34.made changes to personal advisers. They are open to some care leavers

:16:35. > :16:37.upto the age of 25. But you are right, the personal relationship is

:16:38. > :16:43.very important. Barnardos has 22 services across the UK, working with

:16:44. > :16:46.about 2000 care leavers in England. That is about listening to the young

:16:47. > :16:52.person and designing something around them. It is important to

:16:53. > :16:57.listen to them and help them to look after themselves. You spoke about

:16:58. > :17:01.that ?1.4 billion that has been earmarked for child mental health.

:17:02. > :17:05.When Billy know whether you will get some of that money and if it will go

:17:06. > :17:08.into the specific measures are talking about? -- when will you

:17:09. > :17:15.know. We are still to Kieran Powell that money will be spent. -- still

:17:16. > :17:19.to hear how that money. They need to legislate to make sure children get

:17:20. > :17:23.a mental health assessment and some of this money, not a huge amount of

:17:24. > :17:28.it, even 1%, would allow us to deliver better health to this very

:17:29. > :17:34.vulnerable group. Thank you very much.

:17:35. > :17:36.We are looking for the first signs of spring this morning.

:17:37. > :17:39.Carol is at a botanic garden this morning in London.

:17:40. > :17:46.What can you see? Lots of beautiful flowers. We are in

:17:47. > :17:51.the Chelsea for the garden and we are surrounded by different types of

:17:52. > :17:57.snowdrops. -- Physic Garden. We've also got some shrubbery, honeysuckle

:17:58. > :18:04.and of course we have got some usual full winter flowers. The Botanic

:18:05. > :18:10.Gardens are right across the road from the River Thames. It was

:18:11. > :18:15.founded back in 1673 and it is here for a reason. You go down the River

:18:16. > :18:19.Thames, collect lots of different plants, come back here and study

:18:20. > :18:25.them for their medicinal properties. Very worthwhile. It is a lovely

:18:26. > :18:30.start to the day. The birds are chirping and it is dry, but it won't

:18:31. > :18:35.be dry everywhere. Today it will be cloudy and we also have some rain.

:18:36. > :18:39.But a much milder start more or less across the board than yesterday. The

:18:40. > :18:42.exception to that is across the Highlands, where it is cold and

:18:43. > :18:46.there's frost. But you will have sunshine for much of the day. For

:18:47. > :18:53.the rest of Scotland it is fairly cloudy and there is patchy fog. In

:18:54. > :18:57.northern England, similar story. The patchy fog extends towards the

:18:58. > :19:00.Midlands and east Anglia. We also have some rain running up the east

:19:01. > :19:04.coast of east Anglia, which were clear into the North Sea. And we

:19:05. > :19:09.have breaks in the south-east and east Anglia, that's where we have

:19:10. > :19:14.patchy fog. Towards Hampshire a lot of cloud again, with few breaks, at

:19:15. > :19:18.the south-west has the biggest cloud, it is extending across South

:19:19. > :19:22.Wales as well. The north Wales it is cloudy, with hill fog. The Northern

:19:23. > :19:26.Ireland it will be cloudy with spots of rain. You can see more through

:19:27. > :19:30.the afternoon and the wind will strengthen. Through the course of

:19:31. > :19:35.the day the weather front in the south-west continues to edge slowly

:19:36. > :19:40.north-eastwards. The rain at times will be heavy, and possibly

:19:41. > :19:44.thundery, but behind it parts of the Midlands will brighten up, with a

:19:45. > :19:49.few showers. Meanwhile, for Northern Ireland and Scotland, more showers

:19:50. > :19:54.and the wind strengthening because low pressure starts to show its

:19:55. > :19:59.hand. It is even in as the low pressure pushes Northwest again

:20:00. > :20:03.showers will increase. The rain will make it into eastern England and

:20:04. > :20:07.clear off into the North Sea. Behind it there will be clear spells and we

:20:08. > :20:12.have fog forming, especially from south-west England towards

:20:13. > :20:17.Hampshire. By the end of the night we could have some in the east. By

:20:18. > :20:20.the time it clears for many parts of England and Wales it will be a

:20:21. > :20:25.lovely day. Pleasant, double-figure temperatures and sunshine. For

:20:26. > :20:28.Scotland and Northern Ireland the low pressure will be crossing you

:20:29. > :20:32.see we have showers rotating around it and it will be windy. With

:20:33. > :20:36.exposure in the Northwest we could have gales. By the time we get to

:20:37. > :20:41.Friday while there will be quite a bit of fog around, especially across

:20:42. > :20:47.England, it could lead to committee issues. It will be slow to clear,

:20:48. > :20:50.but when it does we have a lot of sunshine around. -- commuter issues.

:20:51. > :20:55.For Scotland and Northern Ireland, rain coming from the west and mild.

:20:56. > :21:00.The overriding factor over the next few days and into the weekend is

:21:01. > :21:02.that it is going to remain mild. For some of us milder than it has been.

:21:03. > :21:07.Thank you very much! The question of whether head

:21:08. > :21:09.injuries sustained in contact sports like rugby and football could cause

:21:10. > :21:12.long-term brain damage Now, for the first time,

:21:13. > :21:20.a study has found a possible link. We're now joined by one

:21:21. > :21:23.of the scientists who carried out the research, Professor John Hardy

:21:24. > :21:26.and by Dawn Astle, daughter of former England striker

:21:27. > :21:28.Jeff Astle, who died from a degenerative brain disease

:21:29. > :21:31.in 2002, which an inquest found was associated with heading

:21:32. > :21:40.the old-style, heavy leather Good morning and thanks we much for

:21:41. > :21:44.joining us. I know you've been talking about this for many years.

:21:45. > :21:48.We will get some information on the research, but what do you make of

:21:49. > :21:53.it? Are you pleased to hear that this type of research is being done?

:21:54. > :21:58.Yes, of course we are pleased. My overriding reaction is that I'm

:21:59. > :22:03.really not surprised by the findings. As you say, this disease

:22:04. > :22:11.was found in dad's rain two years ago and we knew that at the time he

:22:12. > :22:15.was the first reduce football to have died of the disease but we knew

:22:16. > :22:20.he wouldn't be the first or the last. -- first British football.

:22:21. > :22:24.There are a lot of headlines in the papers this morning. People will

:22:25. > :22:27.wake up to headlines like, heading a football can lead to dementia. Evil

:22:28. > :22:32.are linking that the children paying football as well. We need to get to

:22:33. > :22:40.the bottom of what the research has found. -- people are linking. A

:22:41. > :22:45.psychiatrist from Swansea followed 14 national football is who got

:22:46. > :22:51.dementia and he obtained autopsy permission for six of them. Of those

:22:52. > :23:00.six who all had dementia, four of them had evidence of what we -- of

:23:01. > :23:05.the syndrome that boxers get. So four of the six had evidence of a

:23:06. > :23:10.syndrome that is caused by repeated injury. And you don't know at this

:23:11. > :23:13.stage exactly what was causing the injury, because it could have been

:23:14. > :23:19.heading the ball or collisions? Do we know? That's right. It could have

:23:20. > :23:23.been heading the ball, it could have been head to head collisions and so

:23:24. > :23:28.on. You are absolutely right. We don't know exactly. We've only got

:23:29. > :23:38.their playing career history. That's all. I think only one of them had

:23:39. > :23:43.evidence that at one time he had a concussion, so we have very little

:23:44. > :23:49.medical information about the events during their careers. In your dad's

:23:50. > :23:53.on case, the coroner described the illness as an industrial disease.

:23:54. > :23:59.Obviously long years of heading a rather heavy leather foot wall, --

:24:00. > :24:03.football, spending time with your dad over the years, did he ever

:24:04. > :24:11.consider what he was doing was causing damage? I don't think so.

:24:12. > :24:16.For more the families I've spoken to, I don't think people do. But I

:24:17. > :24:21.know dad used to say, especially when the ball was wet, he used to

:24:22. > :24:25.say it was like heading a bag of bricks. When I speak to a lot of

:24:26. > :24:30.experts now they say the modern-day ball... Best know evidence of it

:24:31. > :24:36.being any safer. If we could just pick up that point. The numbers,

:24:37. > :24:40.what they've looked at, is it easy at this point the extrapolates on

:24:41. > :24:45.this? Have only looked at six people. It would be great to have

:24:46. > :24:51.more systematic data, on more professional footballers for sure.

:24:52. > :24:55.It would be great to have more data and I know the professional

:24:56. > :25:01.footballers associations and the FA are now looking at following

:25:02. > :25:07.systematically ex- foot wall -- ex- footballers to see what happens to

:25:08. > :25:13.them. You are right, six is rather few, so we really need to get more

:25:14. > :25:19.data, that's for sure. If there is conclusive proof that this is a

:25:20. > :25:23.problem, and we are some way short of this now, to do what they've done

:25:24. > :25:32.in America where kids under the age of ten allowed to head a foot --

:25:33. > :25:36.football, how far should things go? One of my fondest memories as a kid

:25:37. > :25:45.is scoring a goal, heading a goal, when I was 13 on a playing field.

:25:46. > :25:48.You know, of course I was a terrible player and they only played

:25:49. > :25:53.occasionally and I think that sort of thing is great for kids. We don't

:25:54. > :25:59.want to bring up a nation of couch potatoes. I do think that we should

:26:00. > :26:08.not encourage repetitive practising of heading, for example, but I think

:26:09. > :26:13.we have to measure the benefits of sport against the possible downsides

:26:14. > :26:18.and systematic data is important. I should be clear that our data is on

:26:19. > :26:25.players who have paid for 25 years and probably played every day for

:26:26. > :26:32.several hours. So it is very different from looking at children

:26:33. > :26:37.who played the occasional game at school. There has been a lot of work

:26:38. > :26:42.done in football and other sports around concussion. Are there things

:26:43. > :26:46.you would like to see changed? Well, if I can just go back to kids

:26:47. > :26:51.playing football, we all know the benefits of sport participation. We

:26:52. > :26:55.all know that. But it should never be seen as an acceptable

:26:56. > :26:59.consequence, rain damage. It should be never seen as that. -- brain

:27:00. > :27:05.damage. There needs to be more research. The thing that frustrates

:27:06. > :27:12.me and makes me upset and angry is 15 years on since my dad died the

:27:13. > :27:17.coroner's ruling was clear, it was a landmark ruling at the time, when

:27:18. > :27:25.the coroner ruled that paying football is what killed him. We've

:27:26. > :27:29.been asking for a long time as to whether we have a problem with our

:27:30. > :27:33.former players and dementia and it is really sad and not forgiveable

:27:34. > :27:40.that 15 years on we are no further forward. Really appreciate your

:27:41. > :27:44.insight and honesty this morning. If you've got something you would like

:27:45. > :27:46.to say about that, please get in contact.

:27:47. > :27:48.It is fascinating. You can talk about it on Facebook and you can

:27:49. > :31:08.tweet us as well. But Sunday is the day you are most

:31:09. > :31:11.likely to see sunshine Hello, this is Breakfast,

:31:12. > :31:22.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. South Korea says it has confirmed

:31:23. > :31:25.that the estranged half-brother of the North Korean leader,

:31:26. > :31:27.Kim Jong-un, was poisoned, and they believe North Korean agents

:31:28. > :31:30.were behind his murder. Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV

:31:31. > :31:33.footage of the attack on Kim Jong-nam, which took place

:31:34. > :31:36.in Kuala Lumpur airport. Images circulating in the media have

:31:37. > :31:39.focused on two women seen alongside him, who were later

:31:40. > :31:42.spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. Kim Jong-nam had been living

:31:43. > :31:55.in exile since 2001. The Church of England faces

:31:56. > :31:58.new divisions over gay marriage, when its ruling body,

:31:59. > :32:00.the General Synod, debates Members will vote on a report

:32:01. > :32:14.by bishops, which says marriage in Church should only be

:32:15. > :32:17.between a man and a woman. Although legal in England,

:32:18. > :32:19.Scotland and Wales since 2014, the UK's biggest faith group does

:32:20. > :32:22.not permit same-sex ceremonies. Gay rights campaigners are planning

:32:23. > :32:26.a protest outside today's meeting. Several people remain unaccounted

:32:27. > :32:29.for after an explosion in a block At least three people were injured

:32:30. > :32:34.when the blast ripped Some 40 firefighters fought

:32:35. > :32:38.the blaze in the south-west The building has now collapsed,

:32:39. > :32:42.and the cause of the fire A Ukip press officer has

:32:43. > :32:49.offered her resignation after it emerged that the website

:32:50. > :32:51.of the party leader, Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he had

:32:52. > :32:53.lost close personal friends Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written

:32:54. > :32:57.or seen the article before Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City

:32:58. > :33:01.Talk, he was forced to acknowledge that his website gave

:33:02. > :33:10.a misleading impression. A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got

:33:11. > :33:13.more than he bargained for yesterday, when a passing seal

:33:14. > :33:16.decided to hitch a ride. The cheeky mammal had followed

:33:17. > :33:19.the paddling group for a mile before The kayakers said it was

:33:20. > :33:40.an amazing experience. Have you seen... It reminds me of

:33:41. > :33:49.Finding Dory, when the steel jumps up and they say off, off, off -- the

:33:50. > :33:51.seal. What a wonderful thing to happen.

:33:52. > :33:55.Coming up on the programme: Carol is looking out for the first signs

:33:56. > :33:57.of spring, in London's biggest botanic garden.

:33:58. > :34:05.That is not Carol, that is Sally. The first sign of spring is

:34:06. > :34:09.happening right over my shoulder, never mind your snowdrops. Barcelona

:34:10. > :34:10.have left themselves a lot of work to do.

:34:11. > :34:14.No team has ever come back from four goals down to make it

:34:15. > :34:15.through a Champions League knockout tie.

:34:16. > :34:20.Former Manchester United winger Angel Di Maria scored two goals

:34:21. > :34:23.on his birthday, as Paris St-Germain humbled the five-time European

:34:24. > :34:27.It equals Barca's worst defeat in the competition.

:34:28. > :34:30.In last night's other game, Benfica beat Borussia Dortmund

:34:31. > :34:34.The only goal of was scored by the former Fulham striker Kostas

:34:35. > :34:39.Arsenal are back in Champions League action tonight.

:34:40. > :34:43.They play the first leg of their last-16 tie away to Bayern

:34:44. > :34:48.The Gunners have been knocked out at the stage in each of the last six

:34:49. > :34:51.years, twice by Bayern, but Arsene Wenger says they can go

:34:52. > :35:00.We play against a Bayern side, and every year, the same target.

:35:01. > :35:03.When you look at their record, they are always basically

:35:04. > :35:10.So it's a massive challenge, but I think we are capable

:35:11. > :35:19.Leicester Tigers have re-signed England fly-half George Ford

:35:20. > :35:23.Freddie Burns will move in the opposite direction as part

:35:24. > :35:28.Leicester have agreed to buy Ford out of the final year

:35:29. > :35:32.He came through the Tigers' academy, before moving to Bath in 2013.

:35:33. > :35:35.His return to Welford Road means he will play alongside the England

:35:36. > :35:44.Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has lost his bid to block the US

:35:45. > :35:45.Government's ?79 million lawsuit against him.

:35:46. > :35:48.It is alleged that, by taking performance-enhancing drugs

:35:49. > :35:50.while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team,

:35:51. > :35:52.Armstrong defrauded the US government.

:35:53. > :35:55.He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles,

:35:56. > :36:08.The case is now clear to go to trial.

:36:09. > :36:15.Shall we end with some happy news? On. -- go on.

:36:16. > :36:17.And finally, the golden couple of British cycling

:36:18. > :36:20.are going to have an exciting addition to their family.

:36:21. > :36:23.Laura and Jason Kenny are expecting their first child,

:36:24. > :36:25.as Laura revealed in a rather cute Instagram post yesterday.

:36:26. > :36:28.The couple are said to be thrilled and delighted,

:36:29. > :36:31.and have thanked the public for the kind messages and support

:36:32. > :36:37.I wonder if some people have a little bit of an inkling that

:36:38. > :36:40.perhaps this news was about to be announced, because Laura had been

:36:41. > :36:44.struggling with a hamstring strain for a while. That is the new way of

:36:45. > :36:47.describing it. It is really great news. Congratulations to them both.

:36:48. > :36:50.It has been a divisive issue within the Church of England

:36:51. > :36:52.for decades, and Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury,

:36:53. > :36:55.has predicted a painful discussion when same-sex marriage is debated

:36:56. > :37:00.Bishops have proposed the Church maintains its ban on the ceremony.

:37:01. > :37:02.A vote against that today would signal a deep division

:37:03. > :37:06.Joining us in the studio is Paul Middleton, an expert

:37:07. > :37:08.in sexuality and the Church, and Reverend Bertrand Oliver,

:37:09. > :37:17.an openly gay vicar, is in our London newsroom.

:37:18. > :37:25.Good morning to you both. Thank you very much for your time. If we can

:37:26. > :37:30.come to you first of all, Paul. What is going to happen today, and why is

:37:31. > :37:34.it such a significant meeting? Well, the Church of England in common with

:37:35. > :37:39.lots of churches in the country and the world, have been juggling with

:37:40. > :37:42.issues of sexuality and the place of gay, lesbian and transgender people

:37:43. > :37:46.in the church. The Church of England have been engaged in what they have

:37:47. > :37:49.been calling chat conversations where they brought together people

:37:50. > :37:59.with different views and also LGBT people themselves -- shared

:38:00. > :38:03.conversations. What is going to happen today is a report to take

:38:04. > :38:06.this forward. A lot of people are a bit upset because effectively the

:38:07. > :38:14.bishops have signalled effectively no change, and some people might say

:38:15. > :38:18.moving slightly backwards. So today the Synod is going to decide whether

:38:19. > :38:22.to take note of the report. This isn't approving or dismissing the

:38:23. > :38:26.report, it is simply taking note of it so not to take note of it is

:38:27. > :38:30.quite an interesting step, and would signal that the Synod thinks that

:38:31. > :38:33.the bishops need to go back and do some more work. So there could be

:38:34. > :38:39.trouble ahead, that is probably a simple way of putting it. And you

:38:40. > :38:43.are an openly gay member of the clergy, in a same-sex relationship.

:38:44. > :38:46.How does this make you feel? It has been a long journey. We have made

:38:47. > :38:52.ourselves very vulnerable for the past two in groups that particular

:38:53. > :38:56.didn't want to talk to us. We wanted to work with the bishops to find a

:38:57. > :39:01.way forward and get the church moving into the 21st century. After

:39:02. > :39:04.all, same-sex marriage is legal in this country and the Church of

:39:05. > :39:08.England as a national church should be able to provide something to

:39:09. > :39:12.couples that come to us but we realised on reading the report that

:39:13. > :39:15.we seem to have been erased, all our views expressed have been erased,

:39:16. > :39:19.and we now are talking about the different language of same-sex

:39:20. > :39:25.attraction as if we are an animal experiment, although we have been

:39:26. > :39:29.present in the room, we don't feel our views have been expressed. So we

:39:30. > :39:32.are hoping for something more, and although we are conscious that the

:39:33. > :39:36.bishops are trying to move things on, it is quite hard for us to go

:39:37. > :39:40.along and certainly we wouldn't want to be taking note of this report

:39:41. > :39:43.because we think it is not representing at all what has been

:39:44. > :39:48.going on, and not representing the divergences of views, theologically,

:39:49. > :39:52.in the Church of England today. I wanted to know how you feel, is a

:39:53. > :39:56.disappointment, is a frustration? Initially I think I was quite angry,

:39:57. > :40:01.because, you know, you put your life on the line in groups that are not

:40:02. > :40:05.sympathetic. You try to be open, in order to explain what it means to be

:40:06. > :40:09.a gay priests. After all, God has called me to be a priest. I didn't

:40:10. > :40:14.choose to come into this for the glory of it. It is a hard journey

:40:15. > :40:17.for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people every day of

:40:18. > :40:22.their life, when they have to come out, and the church should be a safe

:40:23. > :40:25.space, we want to provide a safe space to all people. We want the

:40:26. > :40:30.church to be an inclusive space and this report does not help that at

:40:31. > :40:37.all. Notwithstanding the fact that the bishops are telling us it is a

:40:38. > :40:40.provisional report, it has been received by the congregation is the

:40:41. > :40:45.last words of the Church of England on same-sex marriage. How big a step

:40:46. > :40:48.would it be for the Synod to go against what the bishops are

:40:49. > :40:53.recommending on this? Well, I think it would be unusual but they are

:40:54. > :40:56.only being asked to take note of the report so the bishops have been

:40:57. > :41:00.blocking all day yesterday to say that taking note of the report is

:41:01. > :41:05.not to approve it in anyway -- blogging. It is not in tightly clear

:41:06. > :41:11.what would happen if the Synod decided not to take note of it --

:41:12. > :41:15.entirely. I suspect it is not as big a deal as is being made out. The

:41:16. > :41:19.bishops would have to go back and write a report which may be tax

:41:20. > :41:23.account of the anger that is felt on one side. This is problematic

:41:24. > :41:27.because on one side you have people who want to advocate full inclusion

:41:28. > :41:31.for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people, and on the other

:41:32. > :41:34.hand there are those who think that any movement in this direction is a

:41:35. > :41:38.betrayal of Christian principles and the authority of the Bible. So the

:41:39. > :41:43.bishops are between a rock and a hard place, it is very difficult for

:41:44. > :41:46.them. How damaging are these kinds of discussions for the church? I

:41:47. > :41:49.suppose most people in society wonder why the church has got caught

:41:50. > :41:53.up in this, and it does seem strange. It has to be said, the

:41:54. > :41:57.Church of England has not changed its position, it is not moving but

:41:58. > :42:00.society has moved so quickly in the last couple of decades that simply

:42:01. > :42:04.by spending still the Church of England is seen to be a reactionary

:42:05. > :42:08.and, some people think bigoted and homophobic organisation. It is

:42:09. > :42:13.important to say they have a vaccine moved but by spending still this is

:42:14. > :42:18.a problem. And I just want to ask you, would you like to get married

:42:19. > :42:21.in church? I know this is some way off, even if today went in your

:42:22. > :42:26.favour. Would you like to do that? I would like to be married in church.

:42:27. > :42:30.I entered the civil partnership two Mackie it a go. If I asked around,

:42:31. > :42:35.no one enters a civil partnership except clergy in the Church of

:42:36. > :42:38.England, which is quite a state of affairs, frankly. And we are an

:42:39. > :42:42.organisation that professes to share the love of God to the world, and

:42:43. > :42:51.people are looking and wondering what is going on. Thank you very

:42:52. > :42:55.much for talking with us today. Your grandmother might have said that a

:42:56. > :42:59.good deed on its own is its own reward, and just leave it at that.

:43:00. > :43:03.Now there is a trend for so-called random act of kindness, which have

:43:04. > :43:10.become a global phenomenon fuelled by reports of a psychological bars

:43:11. > :43:25.called the help of's high. -- helper's high. A true random act of

:43:26. > :43:29.kindness. The note was found on a vending machine telling them to help

:43:30. > :43:32.themselves to snacks which had been paid for. Literally the bottom of

:43:33. > :43:37.the machine was full of lots of chocolate and crisps and cereal

:43:38. > :43:41.bars, and they were just loads. It just really made our day, that

:43:42. > :43:46.someone would do something so lovely out of the goodness of their own

:43:47. > :43:51.heart. Not wanting to take any sort of thanks or anything for it. I was

:43:52. > :43:56.totally elated, I was buzzing. Who doesn't want chocolate on Sunday? We

:43:57. > :44:03.are nurses. And it made me feel so happy, honestly I was beaming the

:44:04. > :44:08.whole day. This week is RACK, or random acts of kindness week, which

:44:09. > :44:14.was created by an organisation in the US. It's as good deeds do help

:44:15. > :44:18.your serotonin levels. One of the studies have looked at says that if

:44:19. > :44:25.you do an act of kindness for somebody and someone happens to

:44:26. > :44:31.witness it, all three of you get the benefits, not just the giver and

:44:32. > :44:36.recipient, but a bystander will be more likely to pass it onto someone

:44:37. > :44:40.else. So this random of kindness seems quite appropriate here at the

:44:41. > :44:45.Christie Hospital, which wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for a

:44:46. > :44:53.donation of ?20,000 100 years ago. I have been challenged to see if I can

:44:54. > :44:58.be a RAKtivist, and give someone that warm glow. Free Metro ticket,

:44:59. > :45:03.no strings attached. Would you like one? What do you think about me

:45:04. > :45:08.giving you the ticket for free? I think it is very kind of you. That

:45:09. > :45:13.is a really good thing to do for people. Would you like a free

:45:14. > :45:17.ticket? Yes, what would you like to do? You don't have to do anything,

:45:18. > :45:22.it is a random act of kindness. Thank you. How does it make you

:45:23. > :45:26.feel? Yes, really want. Does it make you want to do something for

:45:27. > :45:31.somebody else, now that we have done this for you? Yes, carry on. Can pay

:45:32. > :45:37.interest anyone in a free biscuit? Would anyone like a free biscuit?

:45:38. > :45:45.I'm sensing it is a no. So maybe not everyone is ready for random Acts of

:45:46. > :45:56.kindness just yet. Anybody? Anybody for a free biscuit? No...

:45:57. > :46:02.It really doesn't seem to work for her, but it has worked for other

:46:03. > :46:05.people. Charlotte says she was running for the tram yesterday and a

:46:06. > :46:16.lady kept the door open for her, even though she wasn't getting on

:46:17. > :46:19.it. Get in touch with us on Twitter. Carol has spotted the first signs of

:46:20. > :46:26.spring! Good morning from the Chelsea Physic Garden. It is

:46:27. > :46:35.sandwiched between the main road and River Thames. Here, there are 150

:46:36. > :46:39.different types of snowdrops. Around the world there are about 2000

:46:40. > :46:45.different types. It was founded back in 1763 when a predator is would

:46:46. > :46:50.pick plants and look at them for their medicinal properties. -- when

:46:51. > :46:56.apprentices. One of them has come through in modern medicine, which is

:46:57. > :47:01.the foxglove. In its fine form it is used in medicine. Today it's a mild

:47:02. > :47:06.start but it is miles across most of the UK, except the Highlands, where

:47:07. > :47:10.it is cold with a touch of frost. A cloudy day for most of us and

:47:11. > :47:16.there's rain the cards. We stop the forecast at 9am in Scotland. We hang

:47:17. > :47:21.on to the sunshine. Or the rest of Scotland it will remain fairly

:47:22. > :47:26.cloudy, with patchy fog. For more than England again a lot of cloud

:47:27. > :47:31.around. Low cloud, hill fog. That extends towards the Midlands and

:47:32. > :47:35.into east Anglia. We also have spots of rain running up the east of east

:47:36. > :47:40.Anglia. That will clear. Some breaks and patchy fog. Patchy fog in the

:47:41. > :47:46.south-east. Essentially the Midlands towards Hampshire, back into the

:47:47. > :47:51.cloud and again some patchy fog. In the south-west we have thick cloud

:47:52. > :47:55.and rain. As we head into Wales, South Wales has the rain by 9am.

:47:56. > :47:59.North Wales is still dry, but cloudy. For Northern Ireland you

:48:00. > :48:04.have a cloudy start. Some spots of rain. The rain will turn heavier

:48:05. > :48:09.later in the day and the wind will strengthen. Through the day the

:48:10. > :48:13.weather front in the south-west will extend slowly north-eastwards. Some

:48:14. > :48:17.of the rain will be heavy and possibly thundery. Behind it it will

:48:18. > :48:22.brighten up in south-west England, parts of Wales and the west

:48:23. > :48:25.Midlands, but still a few showers. For Northern Ireland and Scotland we

:48:26. > :48:29.have more shower was arrived as low pressure and the wind will

:48:30. > :48:34.strengthen. That process will continue through the evening and

:48:35. > :48:38.overnight. Meanwhile, the weather front pushes into eastern England

:48:39. > :48:42.and then clear into the North Sea. Behind it there will be clear skies

:48:43. > :48:46.and fog will form. Especially from south-west England, towards

:48:47. > :48:49.Hampshire, but by the end of the night we could have patchy fog in

:48:50. > :48:54.the south-east. Tomorrow that will be slow to clear, but when it does

:48:55. > :49:00.for most of England and way deals we will have a fine day, with light

:49:01. > :49:03.winds. Feeling quite springlike. For Scotland and Northern Ireland the

:49:04. > :49:08.low pressure continues to drift northwards. We will have showers

:49:09. > :49:10.rotating around it and strong winds. Strong winds especially with

:49:11. > :49:16.exposure in the north-west. It could have gale force. In the Friday there

:49:17. > :49:20.will be quite a lot of fog around, especially in England. This could

:49:21. > :49:23.prove to be problematic for commuters and will take time to

:49:24. > :49:27.lift, but we do expect it to lift. And then for most of England and

:49:28. > :49:31.Wales we have sunshine. Another weather front comes in from the

:49:32. > :49:35.west. That will introduce rain later in the day in the western areas.

:49:36. > :49:40.Still some showers in the north. Temperatures in double figures. As

:49:41. > :49:44.we go through the next few days and into the weekend that is what we are

:49:45. > :49:47.looking at. Milder conditions for some, or as mild as we have at the

:49:48. > :49:49.moment. Probably good conditions for

:49:50. > :49:52.snowdrops, but I know nothing! It was supposed to herald

:49:53. > :49:55.a revolution in personal transport but the Sinclair C5 quickly became

:49:56. > :49:58.a by-word for failure. Part tricycle and part electric car,

:49:59. > :50:01.it was the brainchild of the computer designer

:50:02. > :50:03.Sir Clive Sinclair. Now his nephew has designed his own

:50:04. > :50:06.version which he believes Our transport correspondent

:50:07. > :50:09.Richard Westcott went along This is how they did glitzy

:50:10. > :50:19.launches in the mid-1980s. After revolutionising home

:50:20. > :50:21.computers, people couldn't wait for the next invention

:50:22. > :50:25.from the genius Sir Clive Sinclair. But the C5 never

:50:26. > :50:31.lived up to the hype. Who better to roadtest

:50:32. > :50:33.the Sinclair Trike than former Along with safety fears there

:50:34. > :50:40.was another fundamental problem. It was at this point

:50:41. > :50:50.that the vehicle's battery gave out. I've waited about 30 years

:50:51. > :50:54.to have a go in one of these. Ask anyone under 30,

:50:55. > :50:57.they have no idea what a C5 is, but to people of a certain age,

:50:58. > :51:02.so my age, it was the defining cool invention and clearly testing this

:51:03. > :51:08.vehicle planted the seed. As a youngster, Grant Sinclair

:51:09. > :51:13.helped his father trial the C5 Three decades on he has

:51:14. > :51:17.designed his own electric Like the original,

:51:18. > :51:29.it combines pedals with an electric motor and you can drive it

:51:30. > :51:32.without a licence from 14-years-old. This one is weatherproof,

:51:33. > :51:35.streamline and made from the same But he didn't get the millions that

:51:36. > :51:40.were hoped for at the time. Why do you think this

:51:41. > :51:43.will work this time? My product is a different

:51:44. > :51:45.concept altogether. I think it was a very clever

:51:46. > :51:52.idea, the original item. I always wanted to do a very fast

:51:53. > :51:56.ebike, I always liked that idea, So 30 years after it disappeared,

:51:57. > :52:00.the Sinclair name is returning The same idea, but

:52:01. > :52:25.a brand new design. There is one for you to try. I can't

:52:26. > :52:32.do it right now the logistical reasons. But in one-hour, we will

:52:33. > :52:34.see if somebody who is 6'6 can get in there.

:52:35. > :52:42.That I would like to see! Join us in one-hour. We could have a

:52:43. > :52:44.race in it. Remember, the thing is underneath you and you have to do it

:52:45. > :52:45.like that. We got a update yesterday on how

:52:46. > :52:48.quickly prices are rising But it's manufacturers that now face

:52:49. > :52:55.the biggest increases. Good morning. I will take you up on

:52:56. > :52:59.that challenge! Yes, good morning.

:53:00. > :53:02.Those extra costs will probably be passed on to us through higher

:53:03. > :53:06.Let me run you through what we heard yesterday.

:53:07. > :53:08.Consumer price inflation grew to 1.8% last month,

:53:09. > :53:17.just below the Bank Of England's target of 2%.

:53:18. > :53:20.But each month that figure is rising, and it's mainly down

:53:21. > :53:23.to the pound's weakness against the dollar which is pushing

:53:24. > :53:26.the cost of petrol and fuel up quickly, which is linked

:53:27. > :53:29.to the supply of so much of what we buy.

:53:30. > :53:31.But one of the big figures yesterday was the rise

:53:32. > :53:36.They are the raw materials people need to make things.

:53:37. > :53:38.They rose at an annual rate of 20.5% in January,

:53:39. > :53:42.the fastest pace since September 2008.

:53:43. > :53:51.At the same time the price of goods leaving the factory only went up by

:53:52. > :53:54.3.5%. The big question. Our business is not trying to pass on any price

:53:55. > :53:56.rises to us? Joy Parkinson is the MD of Faith

:53:57. > :53:59.in Nature, a business making natural beauty products, but previously

:54:00. > :54:07.worked for a huge UK food Good morning. Explain this concept

:54:08. > :54:12.for us. You've been doing this in big is this is and now your own

:54:13. > :54:17.small business. As raw material prices go up, you face a number of

:54:18. > :54:21.different choices, don't you? We are seeing some import cost increases

:54:22. > :54:25.coming through now and simply your choices are to pass that on to your

:54:26. > :54:30.customers, who will then pass that on to consumers, or you try to

:54:31. > :54:35.absorb them. Certainly in my business it is really critical that

:54:36. > :54:39.we try to absorb those and not pass cost increases on, so I have no plan

:54:40. > :54:44.to pass any price increase through the year ahead. So if you are

:54:45. > :54:47.absorbing that cost it means either your profits fall or you have to

:54:48. > :54:51.look for savings elsewhere. Talk me through that thaw process. I imagine

:54:52. > :54:56.it is trying to cut costs, the efficient and absorb as much of that

:54:57. > :55:01.as you can? Yes. There are two things happening in my business. We

:55:02. > :55:05.are having a great year, so our sales are up 30% and we are gaining

:55:06. > :55:09.great tradition. And therefore with growth means I am doing a longer

:55:10. > :55:14.production run, which is more efficient in a factory, which helps

:55:15. > :55:18.me to offset some of the export increases. Another interesting

:55:19. > :55:23.dynamic is export sales. Export is about 25% of our overall business,

:55:24. > :55:28.growing significantly year-on-year, and therefore a number of customers

:55:29. > :55:31.are paying me in both euros and dollars and actually the currency

:55:32. > :55:35.fluctuation is therefore benefiting my business, so I'm getting more

:55:36. > :55:39.pounds back for the euros and dollars in, which is helping me

:55:40. > :55:44.offset increases. So I've kind of got a natural hedge situation going

:55:45. > :55:48.on. It really does illustrate how different it can be for different

:55:49. > :55:55.organisations. Before this business you are working at Mars and a number

:55:56. > :55:58.of other big businesses. Talk me through their processes, because

:55:59. > :56:02.they are operating on a much bigger scale, signing Chris could have big

:56:03. > :56:07.repercussions. It is a totally different scale. I employ 45 people.

:56:08. > :56:12.-- so an increase could have big. Within other companies we had that

:56:13. > :56:16.number of people particularly looking at costs. In these big

:56:17. > :56:21.organisations they have a team of people who can look at how little

:56:22. > :56:25.they can take out of the cost of the product, even a small biscuit or a

:56:26. > :56:31.small cake, which allows you to offset any cost increases. But,

:56:32. > :56:36.equally, those large organisations I'm sure may be looking at putting

:56:37. > :56:41.some kind of cost through this year. That's where we could see things

:56:42. > :56:45.getting smaller. I am fascinated that it is called cost base release.

:56:46. > :56:50.You know it's a big business when they have a department called that!

:56:51. > :56:54.A director! A specific person. Good to talk to you. Thank you. More from

:56:55. > :57:07.me after 8am. You know we are talking random acts

:57:08. > :57:11.of kindness? I want to be dubious. A couple got married yesterday in the

:57:12. > :57:17.local florist went above and beyond to make sure we had 24 beautiful

:57:18. > :57:24.roses in time for the wedding. Somebody from the hospice went down

:57:25. > :57:28.to collect them from the florist. We said we were there for a wedding

:57:29. > :57:36.from the hospice. At that point somebody paid for them. We don't

:57:37. > :57:41.know who he is, but we want him to know how grateful we are and how big

:57:42. > :57:44.a difference those flowers made. A beautiful and simple act of

:57:45. > :57:50.kindness. That's lovely. We are talking about

:57:51. > :01:09.random acts of kindess. I don't know if

:01:10. > :01:20.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:01:21. > :01:22.Murdered with poison - South Korea says it's

:01:23. > :01:25.confirmed that the brother of the North Korean leader,

:01:26. > :01:27.Kim Jong-un, has been killed at an airport in Malaysia.

:01:28. > :01:30.Kim Jong-nam had fallen out with his brother and had

:01:31. > :01:45.South Korea says agents from the North are to blame.

:01:46. > :01:51.Good morning. It's Wednesday 15th February.

:01:52. > :01:52.Good morning. It's Wednesday, 15th February.

:01:53. > :01:57.The Church of England faces new divisions over

:01:58. > :02:01.gay marriage as a crucial vote is held.

:02:02. > :02:04.Brain damage in professional footballers.

:02:05. > :02:07.Scientists find a link between repeated blows to the head

:02:08. > :02:10.on the pitch and a possible cause of dementia.

:02:11. > :02:13.We made 55 million complaints last year about bad service from shops,

:02:14. > :02:17.It costs them nearly ?40 billion in lost business.

:02:18. > :02:24.So I'll look at why it's worth complaining.

:02:25. > :02:28.In sport, Barcelona are stunned on a trip

:02:29. > :02:32.They were thrashed 4-0 in the Champions League to leave

:02:33. > :02:36.More of a flop than a vision of the future.

:02:37. > :02:40.But 30 years since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world

:02:41. > :02:45.finally be ready for an electrically powered pedal car?

:02:46. > :02:47.He became an American hero after finding one

:02:48. > :02:53.Jeffrey Pugiliese will be on the sofa to tell us how his story

:02:54. > :03:11.Good morning from Chelsea, London's oldest botanic garden. The sky is

:03:12. > :03:14.blue. The birds are chirping and it is a milder start to the day than it

:03:15. > :03:18.was yesterday more or less across the UK. The exception with the

:03:19. > :03:22.Highlands where it is cold with frost, but sunshine, but for most of

:03:23. > :03:24.us today, it will be cloudy with rain sweeping in from the

:03:25. > :03:25.south-west. I'll have more details in 15 minutes.

:03:26. > :03:31.Thank you. See you then. Good morning.

:03:32. > :03:34.First, our main story. South Korea says it's confirmed

:03:35. > :03:36.that the half-brother of the North Korean leader

:03:37. > :03:38.Kim Jong-un was poisoned and they believe North Korean agents

:03:39. > :03:41.were behind his murder. We'll get the latest

:03:42. > :03:44.from Malaysia in a moment, but first let's take

:03:45. > :03:46.a look at the secretive family that This is Kim Jong-Nam on the left,

:03:47. > :03:55.with his younger brother, the current North Korean leader,

:03:56. > :03:57.Kim Jong-Un, on the right. The attack happened yesterday

:03:58. > :04:00.morning when Kim Jong-Nam was at Local media reports are blaming

:04:01. > :04:03.North Korean agents. Let's have a look how he fitted

:04:04. > :04:05.into the ruling family. This is former North Korean

:04:06. > :04:07.leader Kim Jong-Il. Beside him is his son Kim Jong-Un,

:04:08. > :04:10.the current leader. And behind them is oldest

:04:11. > :04:14.son Kim Jong-Nam. As the older brother he may have

:04:15. > :04:17.been expected to take over But Kim Jong-Nam fell out

:04:18. > :04:24.with his father in 2001 after being caught trying to enter

:04:25. > :04:27.Japan to visit Disney World He has been living

:04:28. > :04:33.in exile ever since. Karishma Vaswani is in the Malaysian

:04:34. > :04:44.capital Kuala Lumpur with the latest This is a story which is changing

:04:45. > :04:47.all the time. Reports coming out of South Korea saying what they think

:04:48. > :04:54.happened. What do we know this morning? Well, you're right. The

:04:55. > :04:58.facts are extremely murky in this case, but here is what we know.

:04:59. > :05:01.Malaysian police said to us that the attack is thought to have taken

:05:02. > :05:07.place in this airport, that I'm standing in right now. Around 9am,

:05:08. > :05:12.to 10am on Monday. It is thought the man to be believed Kim Jong-nam was

:05:13. > :05:16.accosted by at least one woman and it is thought she placed a cloth

:05:17. > :05:21.with some sort of burning chemical on his face. He then stumbled over

:05:22. > :05:25.to that information counter over there is what we understand and

:05:26. > :05:32.asked for help. After that, he was taken to a medical clinic just one

:05:33. > :05:37.floor below this hall, but Malaysian police said the man who subsequently

:05:38. > :05:41.died en route to the hospital was carrying a passport on him that had

:05:42. > :05:46.the name Kim. They are not identifying him as Kim Jong-nam,

:05:47. > :05:50.just yet until the autopsy that they are conducting on him as we speak,

:05:51. > :05:55.the results of those are expected later today or tomorrow. Thank you

:05:56. > :06:02.very much. It is a fascinating story. It is really unclear as to

:06:03. > :06:06.what exactly has happened and that autopsy will be crucial to determine

:06:07. > :06:08.who it was and how he died. And there will be more on BBC News on

:06:09. > :06:12.that throughout the day. The Church of England faces

:06:13. > :06:15.new divisions over gay marriage when its ruling body,

:06:16. > :06:16.the General Synod, debates Members will vote on a report

:06:17. > :06:22.by Bishops which says marriage in church should only be

:06:23. > :06:25.between a man and a woman. Although legal in England,

:06:26. > :06:27.Scotland and Wales since 2014, the UK's biggest faith group does

:06:28. > :06:33.not permit same-sex ceremonies. Gay rights campaigners are planning

:06:34. > :06:39.a protest outside today's meeting. For the first time, a scientific

:06:40. > :06:42.study has found a possible link between head injuries and brain

:06:43. > :06:45.damage in former footballers. Researchers studied the brains

:06:46. > :06:50.of six former players who had died from dementia and then discovered

:06:51. > :06:53.that some of them had a form of the disease linked

:06:54. > :06:55.to repeated blows to the head. Our health reporter

:06:56. > :07:00.Smitha Mundasad has more. Jeff Astle, former England

:07:01. > :07:06.footballer who died in 2002. He had degenerative brain disease,

:07:07. > :07:08.linked to repeatedly heading His family have been

:07:09. > :07:17.campaigning for more research to find out whether lots of this can

:07:18. > :07:20.lead to long-lasting brain damage. In this latest study,

:07:21. > :07:26.scientists looked at the brains of six lifelong footballers

:07:27. > :07:30.who had developed dementia. we saw the sorts of changes that

:07:31. > :07:33.are seen in ex-boxers, so the changes that are particularly

:07:34. > :07:36.associated with repeated head injury, which are known as CTE,

:07:37. > :07:49.chronic traumatic encephalopathy. We have shown that head injury has

:07:50. > :07:52.occurred earlier in life, which presumably has some impact

:07:53. > :07:54.on them developing dementia. It's a small study,

:07:55. > :08:00.that can't prove a link between football and dementia

:08:01. > :08:03.and the scientists are clear their work did not analyse

:08:04. > :08:06.the risks to children. For the average adult footballer,

:08:07. > :08:11.who plays recreationally, experts at Alzheimer's Research UK

:08:12. > :08:14.say the risks are likely to be lower and outweighed,

:08:15. > :08:16.by the benefits of exercise. But the Football Association says

:08:17. > :08:21.one question that needs to be answered is whether degenerative

:08:22. > :08:25.brain diseases are more common in ex-footballers,

:08:26. > :08:28.and the FA says that is research Several people remain unaccounted

:08:29. > :08:37.for after an explosion At least three people were injured

:08:38. > :08:41.when the blast ripped Some 40 firefighters fought

:08:42. > :08:44.the blaze in the south west The building has now

:08:45. > :08:47.collapsed and the cause A Ukip press officer has

:08:48. > :08:57.offered her resignation after it emerged that the website

:08:58. > :09:00.of the party leader, Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he'd lost

:09:01. > :09:02."close personal friends" Mr Nuttall said he hadn't

:09:03. > :09:06.written or seen the article Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City

:09:07. > :09:10.Talk he was forced to acknowledge that his website gave

:09:11. > :09:15.a misleading impression. I haven't lost anyone

:09:16. > :09:17.who was a close personal friend. There was people who I knew through

:09:18. > :09:20.football and things like that. I basically went to your website

:09:21. > :09:22.last night and searched for Hillsborough and it's

:09:23. > :09:24.Paul Nuttall MEP.com. Yes.

:09:25. > :09:30.I'm sorry about that. But I haven't put that

:09:31. > :09:39.out and that is wrong. Our Political Correspondent,

:09:40. > :09:40.Eleanor Garnier, has Eleanor, just explain a bit

:09:41. > :09:52.of the background to this. Well, all this comes on the back of

:09:53. > :09:56.some reports in the Guardian which cast doubt on whether Paul Nuttall

:09:57. > :10:00.was actually at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster. He emphatically

:10:01. > :10:05.insist he was there. He has got friends who would back him up and

:10:06. > :10:09.stand up in court and support him and then we had the reports that

:10:10. > :10:13.there were these false claims on his website that he had close friends

:10:14. > :10:17.who had died at Hillsborough as we heard just then, he says he did know

:10:18. > :10:21.people who died, but they weren't close friends. He hadn't written the

:10:22. > :10:29.article and he hadn't seen it before it was posted and that he was very

:10:30. > :10:34.sorry that this had all happened. Linda Ruffley is the press officer

:10:35. > :10:37.who has resigned or at least handed in her resignation. She says she is

:10:38. > :10:42.entirely responsible for what happened and is mortified. We don't

:10:43. > :10:46.know if her resignation has been accepted, but this clearly has been

:10:47. > :10:50.very uncomfortable for Paul Nuttall and very difficult for him too. It

:10:51. > :10:54.has been a bit of a tricky time for the Labour candidate in the Stoke

:10:55. > :10:58.by-election, a man called Gareth Snel. He had to apologise for a

:10:59. > :11:04.series of posts on social media he made about women. He described the

:11:05. > :11:07.panellists on ITV Loose Women as squabbling, sour faced ladies. He

:11:08. > :11:10.said the posts were made some years, but clearly they were unacceptable.

:11:11. > :11:14.Eleanor, thank you. The Stoke on Trent Central

:11:15. > :11:16.by-election takes place Here's a list of the all

:11:17. > :11:19.the candidates standing. You can find more information

:11:20. > :11:24.on the BBC News website. A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got

:11:25. > :11:29.more than he bargained for yesterday when a passing seal

:11:30. > :11:34.decided to hitch a ride! The cheeky mammal had

:11:35. > :11:37.followed the paddling group for a mile before deciding

:11:38. > :11:48.to hop aboard. The kayakers said it was

:11:49. > :11:59.an "amazing experience". He's going to have a lie down in a

:12:00. > :12:06.minute. He is taking ages to get on to the kayak he'll need a rest!

:12:07. > :12:11.Having already sent his fans into a frenzy on New Year's Eve,

:12:12. > :12:13.Having an alcoholic parent can have a hugely

:12:14. > :12:17.And it's a problem that's more widespread than you'd think.

:12:18. > :12:20.Earlier this week the NSPCC revealed they receive a call every hour

:12:21. > :12:22.from an adult concerned about drug or alcohol use around children.

:12:23. > :12:25.Today, MP Liam Byrne, whose father was an alcoholic,

:12:26. > :12:27.will launch a cross-party initiative to provide more support for children

:12:28. > :12:31.living with alcoholism Research for the new campaign estimates

:12:32. > :12:35.there are 2.6 million children of hard-drinking parents in the UK,

:12:36. > :12:42.Many children of alcoholics suffer in silence.

:12:43. > :12:45.But evidence heard by Parliament suggests they are twice as likely

:12:46. > :12:51.Three times more likely to consider suicide and four times more likely

:12:52. > :12:57.Joining us now is Liam Byrne MP who heads a new parliamentary group

:12:58. > :12:59.on the children of alcoholics and Josh Connolly who was nine

:13:00. > :13:05.Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time this morning. I suppose

:13:06. > :13:07.the real hope Liam is that this manifesto actually makes a

:13:08. > :13:13.difference to people who are in the same situation as you and Josh? Yes.

:13:14. > :13:17.We launched this campaign this time last year on this sofa and since

:13:18. > :13:20.then we have heard the extraordinary stories from children of alcoholics

:13:21. > :13:23.and from charities and pressure groups and what a cross party group

:13:24. > :13:26.has done is put the ideas together in a manifesto and we had a debate

:13:27. > :13:30.in Parliament about some of the ideas a couple of weeks ago which

:13:31. > :13:34.was just incredible. A minister broke down in tears at the dispatch

:13:35. > :13:38.box and I think Government is in listening mode now. Yeah, it is a

:13:39. > :13:42.big day for us. I think change is coming. Josh tell us about the

:13:43. > :13:46.impact on you with living with your dad who was an alcoholic and then

:13:47. > :13:51.died from it. So the impact really for me as a child of an alcoholic

:13:52. > :13:54.have been life long despite my dad dying when I was nine. With

:13:55. > :14:00.alcoholism it is about the way that it makes you feel within the family.

:14:01. > :14:04.And the way that it kind of leaves you feeling very, very lonely and

:14:05. > :14:08.like there is nowhere to turn. I found it difficult to turn to my mum

:14:09. > :14:12.because I felt like she had burden enough with the alcoholism and

:14:13. > :14:16.because of the way society looks at alcoholism, I felt like there was

:14:17. > :14:20.nobody that I could speak to. And I want to ask you both this. Did you

:14:21. > :14:25.feel you had to keep it a secret? Yeah. Absolutely. I think, like in

:14:26. > :14:31.schools, we were taught that people who drink too much and do drugs are

:14:32. > :14:34.bad people. Right. So I kind of, I grew to have a perception that the

:14:35. > :14:39.world saw me as a bad person because my dad was an alcoholic and I almost

:14:40. > :14:44.felt guilty in loving him sometimes because of the way people saw

:14:45. > :14:46.alcoholism. And that can be incredibly limiting, can't it, Liam?

:14:47. > :14:49.It makes you feel even if you have hopes and dreams of what you might

:14:50. > :14:55.achieve that you can't get there. Did you feel that yourself? Yeah.

:14:56. > :15:00.Here is a parent, someone you love, very, very deepy who is doing this

:15:01. > :15:04.terrible thing and you can't stop them and so you kind of feel as a

:15:05. > :15:10.child that it's your fault, but you go through that hell in silence

:15:11. > :15:13.because as Josh said there is this big dirty secret and you've got to

:15:14. > :15:17.keep the family secret safe and you can't possibly talk to anybody about

:15:18. > :15:23.it and that's what leads to the emotional damage that drives so many

:15:24. > :15:27.children to develop eating problems, or try and take their own life or

:15:28. > :15:30.become alcoholics themselves so you get this terrible cycle repeating

:15:31. > :15:35.itself because we failed as a country to break the silence.

:15:36. > :15:43.Talking about breaking the silence, who should be doing it because it is

:15:44. > :15:47.difficult for the child, isn't it? We have started! That is what it is

:15:48. > :15:51.all about! Our goal is to break the silence we can break the cycle of

:15:52. > :15:55.this terrible disease cascading down the generations. What if you know

:15:56. > :15:59.someone you are concerned about? The main thing is making sure the child

:16:00. > :16:04.knows they are not alone, it is not their fault and there is very little

:16:05. > :16:10.they can do to do anything to affect their parent's drinking. We both

:16:11. > :16:13.work with the voluntary service and Josh is a volunteer, this amazing

:16:14. > :16:19.helpline has helped hundreds of thousands of people but there are

:16:20. > :16:22.other charities, and places like Childline. The manifesto we are

:16:23. > :16:25.launching today says that the government needs to take

:16:26. > :16:29.responsibility for fixing the problem. No one else is going to do

:16:30. > :16:33.it. People who work with children need to know what to look out for.

:16:34. > :16:38.And how to put kids within reach and we need to step up treatment budgets

:16:39. > :16:44.as well so when parents do look for help, the treatment is there. Josh,

:16:45. > :16:48.what is your relationship like with alcohol now? I am teetotal now, I

:16:49. > :16:53.don't drink. Growing up through my teenage years and that, I had quite

:16:54. > :16:57.a destructive relationship with alcohol myself. That may seem kind

:16:58. > :17:02.of strange really with what I went through as a child, but it kind of

:17:03. > :17:07.offered me an escape, you know? It offered me something I could not

:17:08. > :17:11.find anywhere else. Something that the charity are taught me that

:17:12. > :17:14.children of alcoholics do want to speak but I don't think there has

:17:15. > :17:19.ever been an environment where we felt safe to speak. I think that is

:17:20. > :17:23.what Liam Byrne's campaign is really trying to do. It is trying to give a

:17:24. > :17:26.platform to the children of alcoholics so there is an

:17:27. > :17:30.environment where we can seek healthy escape from the way we feel.

:17:31. > :17:36.Thank you for joining us. I'm sure lots of people have been listening.

:17:37. > :17:39.Carol is looking out for the first signs of spring in London's biggest

:17:40. > :17:45.She has found snowdrops are lots of other things. I knew she would sort

:17:46. > :17:50.it out for us! Good morning both and EU, I'm in the

:17:51. > :17:54.Chelsea visit gardens this morning, the oldest botanic Gardens in

:17:55. > :17:59.London. Here, there are 150 different varieties of snowdrops and

:18:00. > :18:02.you can see the common one, here. Look at this. It moves with the wind

:18:03. > :18:07.and if you are wondering why it like that from the flower pot, it you

:18:08. > :18:12.having down to have a look at it. I will be talking to Nick Bailey, the

:18:13. > :18:14.head gardener here and the garden world presenter, more about

:18:15. > :18:18.snowdrops and some of the other plants in the gardens in half an

:18:19. > :18:22.hour. The sun is shining in London and the temperature is about eight

:18:23. > :18:25.Celsius, nowhere near as cold as it was this time yesterday, not just in

:18:26. > :18:30.London but more or less across the board. But today is a rather cloudy

:18:31. > :18:38.day for most of us with some rain. The exception to that is across the

:18:39. > :18:41.far north of Scotland where we have clearer skies, a touch of frost this

:18:42. > :18:44.morning and it is cold but you will hang onto the sunshine for the

:18:45. > :18:46.lion's share of the day. For the rest of Scotland into northern

:18:47. > :18:50.England, lots of loud around and some hill fog. The same is true as

:18:51. > :18:54.we push down towards the Midlands and East Anglia. Some rain across

:18:55. > :18:58.the east of East Anglia and Kent. That will drift northwards and clear

:18:59. > :19:01.into the North Sea. While we have breaks in East Anglia and the

:19:02. > :19:10.south-east, there will be patchy fog. Towards Hampshire and into the

:19:11. > :19:17.south-west, some rain. Sorry, Carol, we can't here you properly!

:19:18. > :19:20.I need Carol in my life! But she will be back in half an hour and she

:19:21. > :19:26.will talk about snowdrops, as she said.

:19:27. > :19:33.Bizarrely, the weather is getting rid of our camera ability.

:19:34. > :19:38.Thank you for your suggestions on mad Max of Guiness, quite a few

:19:39. > :19:41.people saying the point of an act of kindness is you don't tell other

:19:42. > :19:44.people about it. You are not asking for banks. There's no expectation of

:19:45. > :19:49.someone patting you on the back and saying well done. But well done!

:19:50. > :19:52.Beautiful messages of things people have done notes they have given,

:19:53. > :19:55.Elaine said she and her three sisters were having a meal last year

:19:56. > :20:01.and a stranger paid the entire thing. Someone did that for you in

:20:02. > :20:05.the past you were younger. Yes. Elaine says it left them gobsmacked,

:20:06. > :20:10.when the waiter says they have paid for it. We never had any idea who

:20:11. > :20:14.did it either. Lots of people with the examples. Richards at his car

:20:15. > :20:17.was stuck on a beach in Spain and two random strangers appeared, a bit

:20:18. > :20:20.of a language barrier but they helped me with it before the tide

:20:21. > :20:24.came in. Erica said she collected money off coupons out of a paper and

:20:25. > :20:28.handing them to people at the supermarket when she could not use

:20:29. > :20:31.them. And I can't remember who this was but they were saying that even

:20:32. > :20:34.though this person who helped them was not catching the tram they were

:20:35. > :20:39.waiting for, they saw them running for it, stepped in and help the

:20:40. > :20:42.doors so they could get on. Send us in more examples of random Acts of

:20:43. > :20:44.kindness. We will talk more about it later and Carol will be back as

:20:45. > :20:49.well. Promise! More than 55 million

:20:50. > :20:51.complaints were made last year because of poor service from shops,

:20:52. > :20:54.energy firms and phone companies. Ben is here to talk about why

:20:55. > :21:01.we seem so unhappy. Is it worth complaining?

:21:02. > :21:02.You get to do the nice stuff about random acts of kindness and I have

:21:03. > :21:05.to do complaints! When you break it down,

:21:06. > :21:08.it's about one complaint per person. But that's up 3 million

:21:09. > :21:10.since last year. The figures from Ombudsman Services

:21:11. > :21:13.show we complained about a whole load of things,

:21:14. > :21:16.public transport, banking, shops, Our top three complaints

:21:17. > :21:21.were about retailers, energy Those complaints cost firms

:21:22. > :21:49.involved over ?37 billion they actually hadn't billed me

:21:50. > :21:53.for something like nine months and then six months after I left,

:21:54. > :21:58.a huge bill arrived. So I then complained

:21:59. > :22:07.bitterly about it. I wrote a complaint against my gas

:22:08. > :22:10.supplier, because they billed me I changed gas supplier as soon

:22:11. > :22:18.as I could and they weren't much If there's a need to complain,

:22:19. > :22:31.I will, because when you're paying for a service you expect to get

:22:32. > :22:34.a good service. Sometimes you can expect the service

:22:35. > :22:37.to drop out at times, but when you're paying for it

:22:38. > :22:41.you want it to be more I've complained to my telecoms

:22:42. > :22:47.supplier and in the end I got frustrated with the amount of times

:22:48. > :22:50.I had to complain and we disconnected in the end

:22:51. > :22:52.because these big companies She is an author and blogger

:22:53. > :23:11.and a self-titled Complaining Cow. We saw some of the examples there of

:23:12. > :23:15.the things that get people really annoyed. Which businesses are still

:23:16. > :23:19.getting it wrong? Without doubt, telecoms, for me. I got rid of my

:23:20. > :23:24.mobile provider couple of months ago purely on service and it is what I'm

:23:25. > :23:28.hearing. It is across the board but certainly telecoms are really bad.

:23:29. > :23:32.It is about hitting businesses where it hurts to make them get it right.

:23:33. > :23:39.We talked about the huge cost to business, not only to put it right

:23:40. > :23:42.but if we decide we go elsewhere like you did with your phone

:23:43. > :23:44.provider. That is when they pay attention, one would hope. I think

:23:45. > :23:47.so, it is about getting people to know their rights and complain more.

:23:48. > :23:50.The customer service Institute last month brought out some research to

:23:51. > :23:54.show that more people were complaining but it was taking more

:23:55. > :23:58.effort, it took more times to complain. Certainly, businesses are

:23:59. > :24:02.not getting it right. Is the issue that businesses are annoying us

:24:03. > :24:06.more, getting it wrong more often? Or are we just getting better at

:24:07. > :24:11.complaining? I think it is a bit of both. The rail repayment system that

:24:12. > :24:17.we saw last month showed it was only 35% of us complaining about it.

:24:18. > :24:20.There is still a long way to go but businesses are not training staff

:24:21. > :24:23.properly so they don't know how to deal with complaints when they come

:24:24. > :24:28.in as well. Is it in businesses interests to make it easier to

:24:29. > :24:31.complain? You talk about things like Delay on railways which you can do

:24:32. > :24:34.online now and get it paid directly to your bank account so you are not

:24:35. > :24:40.being stuck with vouchers which makes it much simpler. But our other

:24:41. > :24:45.businesses doing the same kind of thing? Know, from my experience what

:24:46. > :24:48.people tell me, it is still going through the process, escalating,

:24:49. > :24:54.going to CEO, finding the e-mail address on the website, you can get

:24:55. > :24:58.the contacts so it is easy to get it escalated but still there are

:24:59. > :25:01.problems. Lots of people getting in touch this morning, saying, yes,

:25:02. > :25:05.sometimes the errors are so obvious the firm has to put them right but

:25:06. > :25:08.they take the risk that the cost of putting it right in the big scheme

:25:09. > :25:13.of things will not be that big a problem for them and they can suffer

:25:14. > :25:16.a few grievances from customers. I certainly see that. There's a

:25:17. > :25:21.different ethos across companies where they believe that 100% of the

:25:22. > :25:25.time, the customer is right and they will deal with things quickly and

:25:26. > :25:27.smoothly and others will still for people off, particularly if people

:25:28. > :25:32.don't know their legal rights. It's much easier if you do to say, "Under

:25:33. > :25:37.this law, I'm entitled to this redress and this is what will happen

:25:38. > :25:40.if you don't give it to me". Let's taught legal rights, I know it

:25:41. > :25:44.varies according to the industry and complaint but in general terms, what

:25:45. > :25:47.should people do to make sure their complaint is taken seriously? Reds

:25:48. > :25:51.the main law people need to know about is the consumer rights act

:25:52. > :25:55.2015, you are entitled to services carried out with reasonable skill of

:25:56. > :25:58.care and the items that you buy free from defects and matched the

:25:59. > :26:04.description and you are entitled to a full refund if the is faulty,

:26:05. > :26:08.within 30 days. After that, you are still entitled to a replacement or

:26:09. > :26:11.repair. That kind of product specific thing, if you go into a

:26:12. > :26:16.restaurant and you are not happy or you didn't like the food, can you

:26:17. > :26:20.complain or is it just reference? Absolutely, under the act, you are

:26:21. > :26:23.entitled to services to be carried out with reasonable skill and care

:26:24. > :26:27.so if your food is not cooked properly, you are entitled to

:26:28. > :26:31.complain as long as you don't eat it all first! You need to just take a

:26:32. > :26:34.couple of mouthfuls and then say it is wrong and then it is up to you

:26:35. > :26:35.whether it you -- whether you replace it. Thank you for joining

:26:36. > :26:45.us. We are talking about the think C

:26:46. > :26:52.five today, launched in 1985, varies one. -- about the Sinclair C5. Lance

:26:53. > :26:57.is a big enthusiasts and I will have a go later. I hope you will be going

:26:58. > :27:01.that fast! Dan will be out in the next half an hour. A relative of Sir

:27:02. > :27:04.Clive Sinclair has launched a new one. Can it catch on?

:27:05. > :30:22.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:23. > :30:40.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:30:41. > :30:43.We can remind you of some of the main news stories.

:30:44. > :30:46.South Korea says it's confirmed that the estranged half-brother

:30:47. > :30:51.of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was poisoned,

:30:52. > :30:53.and they believe North Korean agents are behind his murder.

:30:54. > :30:56.Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack

:30:57. > :31:01.on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport.

:31:02. > :31:05.Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen

:31:06. > :31:09.alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi.

:31:10. > :31:13.Kim Jong-nam had been living in exile since 2001.

:31:14. > :31:15.The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage

:31:16. > :31:17.when its ruling body - the General Synod -

:31:18. > :31:23.Members will vote on a report by bishops, which says marriage

:31:24. > :31:26.in church should only be between a man and a woman.

:31:27. > :31:31.Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014,

:31:32. > :31:36.the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies.

:31:37. > :31:40.Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting.

:31:41. > :31:42.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:31:43. > :31:46.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:31:47. > :31:50.Researchers studied the brains of six former players

:31:51. > :31:53.who had died from dementia, and discovered that some of them had

:31:54. > :31:57.a form of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:31:58. > :31:59.Several people are unaccounted for after an explosion

:32:00. > :32:04.At least 3 people were injured when the blast ripped

:32:05. > :32:10.Some 40 firefighters fought the blaze in the south west

:32:11. > :32:15.The building has now collapsed - and the cause of the fire

:32:16. > :32:21.A Ukip press officer has offered her resignation after it

:32:22. > :32:24.emerged that the website of the party leader, Paul Nuttall,

:32:25. > :32:26.wrongly claimed he'd lost "close personal friends"

:32:27. > :32:32.Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written or seen the article

:32:33. > :32:38.Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, he was forced

:32:39. > :32:43.to acknowledge that his website gave a misleading impression.

:32:44. > :32:46.Paul Nuttall is representing UKIP in the Stoke on Trent Central

:32:47. > :32:50.by-election which takes place on the 23rd of Febuary.

:32:51. > :32:56.Here's a list of the all the candidates standing.

:32:57. > :33:01.You can find more information on the BBC News website.

:33:02. > :33:04.Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss while flying

:33:05. > :33:09.The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway

:33:10. > :33:13.at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, where

:33:14. > :33:15.an American Airlines plane - carrying 110 passengers -

:33:16. > :33:24.An investigation into the incident is under way.

:33:25. > :33:40.He has had a few incidents. He had a crash a few years ago.

:33:41. > :33:43.I do not know what to say. This is my favourite picture.

:33:44. > :33:46.A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got more than he bargained for yesterday

:33:47. > :33:48.when a passing seal decided to hitch a ride.

:33:49. > :33:54.They are great pictures. You would be tempted to give him a

:33:55. > :33:57.hand up. He is doing well.

:33:58. > :34:00.The cheeky mammal had followed the paddling group for a mile before

:34:01. > :34:05.The kayakers said it was an "amazing experience".

:34:06. > :34:11.He had a little wobble. And then a lie down. I am not sure how long it

:34:12. > :34:17.stayed there. And coming up here

:34:18. > :34:19.on Breakfast this morning. Three people died in the 2013

:34:20. > :34:21.Boston Marathon bombings. Now the story's been made

:34:22. > :34:24.into a Hollywood film. We'll meet the real life police

:34:25. > :34:26.officer who captured one The Sinclair C5 was tipped to be

:34:27. > :34:36.the future but turned heads 30 years on and the electric

:34:37. > :34:42.trike is back, we'll take Ever considered living

:34:43. > :34:44.out your golden years Miriam Stoppard has,

:34:45. > :34:51.she'll be here to tell us about her experience trialling

:34:52. > :34:53.retirement in India as part of a new series

:34:54. > :35:04.of the Real Marigold Hotel. That is still to come. And we will

:35:05. > :35:10.be back with Carol. We had some issues earlier on. Sally is here

:35:11. > :35:16.with a final look at the sport. Barcelona have technical issues last

:35:17. > :35:19.night. Not something we say very often. They were played off the

:35:20. > :35:22.park. 4-0 down after the match. No team has ever come back from four

:35:23. > :35:25.goals down to make it through It equals Barca's worst defeat

:35:26. > :35:44.in the competition. Arsenal are back in Champions

:35:45. > :35:49.League action tonight. They play the first leg

:35:50. > :35:51.of their last 16 tie The Gunners have been knocked out

:35:52. > :35:55.at the stage in each of the last six years -

:35:56. > :35:58.twice by Bayern - but Arsene Wenger says they CAN

:35:59. > :36:00.go further this time. We play against a Bayern side,

:36:01. > :36:11.and every year, the same target. When you look at their record,

:36:12. > :36:16.they are always basically So it's a massive challenge,

:36:17. > :36:19.but I think we are capable Leicester Tigers have re-signed

:36:20. > :36:25.England fly-half George Ford Freddie Burns will move

:36:26. > :36:28.in the opposite direction Leicester have agreed to buy Ford

:36:29. > :36:32.out of the final year He came through the Tigers' academy

:36:33. > :36:40.before moving to Bath in 2013. His return to Welford Road means

:36:41. > :36:43.he'll play alongside the England And finally the golden

:36:44. > :36:48.couple of British cycling are going to have an exciting

:36:49. > :36:51.addition to their family. It is not just a new bike, it is

:36:52. > :36:58.middle person it might be for. Laura and Jason Kenny

:36:59. > :37:02.are expecting their first child The couple are said to be thrilled

:37:03. > :37:05.and delighted and have thanked the public for the kind messages

:37:06. > :37:07.and support they've Is there any thing cuter than a pair

:37:08. > :37:18.of tiny trainers? In April 2013, as runners

:37:19. > :37:20.were crossing the finishing line of the Boston marathon,

:37:21. > :37:23.two pressure cooker bombs went off, killing three people,

:37:24. > :37:27.and injuring more than 260 others. The efforts of hundreds of police

:37:28. > :37:30.officers involved feature We can speak now to

:37:31. > :37:35.Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese, who was off-duty on the day

:37:36. > :37:38.of the bombings, but played a key role in the manhunt

:37:39. > :37:48.to capture the attackers. Thanks for joining us. Reading the

:37:49. > :37:56.background, you're rolling this is incredible. You were not on duty on

:37:57. > :38:01.the day itself, how did you come to be involved in finding the two men?

:38:02. > :38:09.The date of the bombing, I was at a training seminar in Massachusetts. A

:38:10. > :38:13.police officer has to go to 40 hours of in-service training to get

:38:14. > :38:19.recertified. The day of the bombing I was getting out of class and I

:38:20. > :38:21.heard on the radio about the first explosion and then the second

:38:22. > :38:33.explosion and I continue to go to class the rest of the week. Four

:38:34. > :38:38.days of class. We ended up being involved with the bombers, that day

:38:39. > :38:43.I went to work my regular shift, uniform, I am a patrol supervisor,

:38:44. > :38:47.and during the course of the evening we heard a broadcast about the MIT

:38:48. > :38:53.police officer who had been murdered in his police car. I was inside the

:38:54. > :38:58.police station doing a report and the end of the shift, I sent the

:38:59. > :39:04.report to the lieutenant for approval. He said he read report it

:39:05. > :39:09.was fine, but he thought he deleted it. He asked if I could find it in

:39:10. > :39:14.the computer system and I gave it a quick look. Spending an hour to

:39:15. > :39:18.retrieve the report. I said we will let the computer guys figure it out

:39:19. > :39:23.tomorrow and with that I went to my vehicle and was sitting listening to

:39:24. > :39:28.the police radio, having a cigar, because I am a two Minute Drive from

:39:29. > :39:33.work. I thought I would smoke a cigar before driving home. A bit of

:39:34. > :39:36.relaxation before going home and you heard something on the radio.

:39:37. > :39:44.Officers were dispatched to Dexter Avenue. They said there was a

:39:45. > :39:48.hijacked vehicle being tracked with a GPS system and they said the

:39:49. > :39:55.carjackers may be armed. I knew there were only four patrolmen

:39:56. > :39:59.working. I thought I would head up that way in case there is a car

:40:00. > :40:04.chase and they get out and end up having to chase them on foot. I

:40:05. > :40:06.thought I would give them a hand looking and started driving and an

:40:07. > :40:15.officer said he had the vehicle insight and he was following it. He

:40:16. > :40:19.followed it and as he went into another side street, it turned out

:40:20. > :40:24.to be the marathon bombers but at the time we thought it was

:40:25. > :40:27.carjackers. They exited the vehicle and the older brother started

:40:28. > :40:38.advancing on the officer, shooting at him. A terrifying situation. Yes,

:40:39. > :40:45.they were shooting at us. He put his car reversed to create distance. J

:40:46. > :40:47.Reynolds, did a great job. One of the supervisors came around the

:40:48. > :40:56.corner and took one through the windshield. He got out of his

:40:57. > :41:00.vehicle. They started saying they were throwing bombs. I got there in

:41:01. > :41:07.less than a minute. It was incredibly dramatic. We can look at

:41:08. > :41:17.the trailer for the film which started at the marathon. It is

:41:18. > :41:28.marathon day, be prepared to augment should they require assistance.

:41:29. > :41:33.There he is. General in a neon vest. They say half a million people

:41:34. > :41:42.watched the marathon. Are you behaving yourself?

:41:43. > :41:48.We have got multiple explosions, we need help!

:41:49. > :41:53.A devastating moment for the city. We can imagine the atmosphere in the

:41:54. > :41:59.city. You are suddenly involved in a shoot out. What did you do? I

:42:00. > :42:05.responded, I was in my personal vehicle. I parked around the corner

:42:06. > :42:10.and put my bullet proof vest back on and am walking onto the side street

:42:11. > :42:15.and a pipe bomb went off. You do not expect it. Police work. On a

:42:16. > :42:19.battlefield you expect explosions. As I came around the corner I saw

:42:20. > :42:27.the Sergeant behind a tree and another officer taking cover behind

:42:28. > :42:33.a vehicle in somebody's front yard. I assessed the situation, looked at

:42:34. > :42:38.it and thought, nobody is advancing, nobody is retreating, it is like

:42:39. > :42:43.stalemate. I decided to flag them and cut through backyards. I came up

:42:44. > :42:47.between houses and as I approached the street the pressure cooker bomb

:42:48. > :42:53.went off. It was like a mushroom cloud. A bright flash. It made me

:42:54. > :42:58.step back. It took a moment to regain my senses. I continued to the

:42:59. > :43:04.street and look to my right and about 20 yards away were the two

:43:05. > :43:09.brothers, they were in front of the stolen vehicle. They were exchanging

:43:10. > :43:13.gunfire with the other three officers. They did not know I had

:43:14. > :43:20.come up beside them like that on their flank. I took careful aim.

:43:21. > :43:23.Firing four, five rounds. I knew I was hitting them, but he was not

:43:24. > :43:33.reacting as you think somebody would getting shot. I figured to try some

:43:34. > :43:38.other tactic. I could see their feet illuminated because of the

:43:39. > :43:42.headlights. I took a couple of skip shots, where you bounce the bullet

:43:43. > :43:46.off the pavement and it comes back up. That is when the older brother

:43:47. > :43:51.realised I was there because I was hitting him in the ankles. He came

:43:52. > :43:56.running up the street, shooting at me, I was exchanging gunfire. He

:43:57. > :44:01.came up the driveway and there was a chain link fence between us and we

:44:02. > :44:08.exchange gunfire, six feet apart. I reloaded my pistol while he was

:44:09. > :44:13.shooting at me. His pistol ran out, I do not know if it jammed, but we

:44:14. > :44:17.found out it ran out of ammunition. He looked down at the pistol, looked

:44:18. > :44:23.at me, looked at the pistol again and in frustration he threw it and

:44:24. > :44:27.hit me in the arm. He ran and took a left running towards the other

:44:28. > :44:35.offices. I chased him and tackled him. The first two offices on the

:44:36. > :44:40.scene came to assist me. I shot him nine times. He was still actively

:44:41. > :44:46.resisting being handcuffed. Officer Reynolds looks up. He could see down

:44:47. > :44:52.where the stolen vehicle was and the younger brother and he said, let's

:44:53. > :44:59.get out of here. He is coming at us. I could see the vehicle bearing down

:45:00. > :45:06.on us. His brother runs the other brother over. He tried to run is

:45:07. > :45:10.over. I am interested, the actor JK Simmons place you in the film and I

:45:11. > :45:15.know you have seen the film many times and it had a massive impact on

:45:16. > :45:24.the whole of Boston, what is it like seeing an action movie like this?

:45:25. > :45:29.It is surreal to see it recreated and to see yourself betrayed. I

:45:30. > :45:35.would never have thought it would happen to me. I am just an average

:45:36. > :45:40.guy in an extraordinary situation. Everything turned out well. What

:45:41. > :45:45.about getting the medal and a commendation from the people of

:45:46. > :45:52.Boston? That must mean an awful lot. I received the Congressional medal

:45:53. > :46:00.of valour. We are seeing pictures of it here. It was quite humbling. You

:46:01. > :46:04.did not expect to ever receive that. You are a very brave man, thank you.

:46:05. > :46:07.Telling the story so calmly! Patriots Day is in cinemas

:46:08. > :46:22.from 23rd February. Much milder than it has been, and it

:46:23. > :46:26.is mild across much of the UK, except for the Highlands. A cloudy

:46:27. > :46:34.day for most of us, and there is rain on the cards. If we start at

:46:35. > :46:37.9am in Scotland, we hang on to the sunshine in the Highlands, but for

:46:38. > :46:42.the rest of Scotland it will remain fairly cloudy, with patchy fog. For

:46:43. > :46:50.Northern England, and a lot of clout, low cloud, health log, and

:46:51. > :46:56.that extends south. We also have spots of rain running up the east of

:46:57. > :47:00.East Anglia. That Will Claye. Patchy fog in parts of the south-east,

:47:01. > :47:05.where we have had some breaks, but the Midlands towards Hampshire, we

:47:06. > :47:09.back into the cloud, and patchy fog. In the south-west, we are into the

:47:10. > :47:17.thick cloud and some rain. Into Wales, South Wales have the rain by

:47:18. > :47:21.9am, North Wales is still dry, but cloudy. Northern Ireland has a

:47:22. > :47:26.cloudy start, with spots of rain. The rain will turn heavier later,

:47:27. > :47:30.and the wind will strengthen. The weather front in the south-west will

:47:31. > :47:35.extend slowly north-east. The rain will be heavy and also possibly

:47:36. > :47:41.thundery, but behind it, it will brighten up. Still a few showers.

:47:42. > :47:49.For Northern Ireland and Scotland, more showers arrived as an area of

:47:50. > :47:51.low pressure moves in. The wind will start to strengthen. That process

:47:52. > :47:55.will continue for the evening and overnight. The weather front

:47:56. > :48:01.continues to push into eastern England and clear off into the North

:48:02. > :48:04.Sea. Behind it, clear skies, some folk will form, especially from

:48:05. > :48:07.south-west England towards Hampshire, but by the end of the

:48:08. > :48:12.night we could see patchy fog across the south-east. Tomorrow it will be

:48:13. > :48:17.slow to clear, but when it does, for most of England and where, a fine

:48:18. > :48:22.day, light wind. It feels like spring. For Scotland and Northern

:48:23. > :48:27.Ireland, the low pressure continues to drift north, showers rotating

:48:28. > :48:36.around it, and strong wind. Strong wind especially with exposure, we

:48:37. > :48:40.could be looking at gale force. For Friday, fog around, especially for

:48:41. > :48:43.England. This could be problematic for commuters and will take a time

:48:44. > :48:49.to lift, but we do expect it to lift. For most of England and is,

:48:50. > :48:53.sunshine. Another weather front from the West. It will introduce rain

:48:54. > :49:00.later. Still a few showers in the North. As we go through the next few

:49:01. > :49:05.days and into the weekend, that is what we are looking at, milder

:49:06. > :49:09.conditions for some, or as mild as we have at the moment.

:49:10. > :49:12.It was supposed to herald a revolution in personal transport

:49:13. > :49:14.but the Sinclair C5 quickly became a byword for failure.

:49:15. > :49:16.Part tricycle and part electric car, it was the brainchild

:49:17. > :49:18.of the computer designer Sir Clive Sinclair.

:49:19. > :49:20.Now, his nephew has designed his own version,

:49:21. > :49:23.which he believes will flourish where the C5 flopped.

:49:24. > :49:29.Our Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott went along to take a look.

:49:30. > :49:33.This is how they did glitzy launches in the mid-1980s.

:49:34. > :49:36.After revolutionising home computers, people couldn't wait

:49:37. > :49:40.for the next invention from the genius Sir Clive Sinclair.

:49:41. > :49:44.But the C5 never lived up to the hype.

:49:45. > :49:46.Who better to road-test the Sinclair C5 than former racing

:49:47. > :49:57.Along with safety fears, there was another fundamental problem.

:49:58. > :50:03.It was at this point that the vehicle's battery gave out.

:50:04. > :50:06.I've waited about 30 years to have a go.

:50:07. > :50:09.Ask anyone under 30, they have no idea what a C5 is,

:50:10. > :50:13.but for people of a certain age, so my age, it was the defining cool

:50:14. > :50:17.invention and, indeed, testing this invention

:50:18. > :50:30.As a youngster, Grant Sinclair helped his father trial the C5,

:50:31. > :50:37.Three decades on, he has designed his own electric triumph, the Iris.

:50:38. > :50:39.Like the original, it combines pedals with an electric motor,

:50:40. > :50:42.and you can drive it without a licence from 14 years old.

:50:43. > :50:45.This one is weatherproof, streamline and made from the same

:50:46. > :50:51.You can see for starters that it is about three times

:50:52. > :51:03.I was going to ask him some questions, but can't catch him!

:51:04. > :51:29.I think it was a very clever idea, the original item.

:51:30. > :51:32.I always wanted to do a really fast bike and a much safer bike.

:51:33. > :51:35.One of the things I remember about the C5 that people

:51:36. > :51:38.complained about at the time is you are quite low down.

:51:39. > :51:41.I think it's less of an issue these days from when my uncle's

:51:42. > :51:43.Then there wasn't the infrastructure for cyclists.

:51:44. > :51:46.Now you have bike lanes in most major cities.

:51:47. > :51:49.Ebikes are selling well, and I think the market is ready

:51:50. > :51:54.for an ebike that's closed, so you can ride it in

:51:55. > :52:03.Not yet, but I would love to show it to him.

:52:04. > :52:07.So, 30 years after it disappeared, the Sinclair name is returning

:52:08. > :52:33.Here we are outside in Salford, Louise is still inside, although she

:52:34. > :52:43.would love to have a go. We have an original C5. Lance owns a couple of

:52:44. > :52:47.these. It was said that it was impossible for a large human to get

:52:48. > :52:57.inside. You have to operate? I have three. Why I do still keeping them

:52:58. > :53:00.going, but it never really clicked? No, but it was developed at the

:53:01. > :53:07.wrong period of time, in the wrong era. It was designed to take over

:53:08. > :53:13.from a vehicle, rather than as a leisure vehicle. Do you still take

:53:14. > :53:20.these out? Most summers, I go around Heaton Park, I continually get asked

:53:21. > :53:26.all about it, I take it on the road, people slow down more because I am

:53:27. > :53:33.on one of these than a bicycle. They wanted to photographs, ask

:53:34. > :53:40.questions. How excited are you? By the prospect of Clive Sinclair's

:53:41. > :53:46.nephew bringing out a new version? Faster, safer and better than the

:53:47. > :53:54.original. The original will always be around. Enthusiasts always like

:53:55. > :53:57.the original. I have only seen a small amount of the new product, it

:53:58. > :54:04.will be interesting to see how it compares. In 1985 they were ?399 to

:54:05. > :54:12.buy, how much do they go for these days? They range, depending on how

:54:13. > :54:17.good polity they are. Something in this condition, with all of the

:54:18. > :54:23.extras, indicators, mirrors and so forth, between 650 to ?1000. Over

:54:24. > :54:28.speaking to somebody this morning who had one themselves, but they had

:54:29. > :54:34.to give it up because they could not get them serviced anymore. Unless

:54:35. > :54:37.you are an engineer, you are stuck? There is the normal Internet auction

:54:38. > :54:50.sites that you can go onto. The various forums for C5s. Plenty of

:54:51. > :54:57.avenues to get parts from. We will drive these around in a moment, but

:54:58. > :55:00.these were built in Merthyr Tydfil originally, 50 miles an hour top

:55:01. > :55:06.speed, but the battery only lasts for 20 miles, and that has been an

:55:07. > :55:11.issue. This is quite an accolade, it was voted the biggest budget

:55:12. > :55:20.disaster of all time. -- gadget disaster. It was way before its

:55:21. > :55:25.time. It try to take over from the motor vehicle instead of more of a

:55:26. > :55:30.leisure vehicle. Maybe like an electric scooter is nowadays, it

:55:31. > :55:34.would be more used like that, as a fashion accessory, more than

:55:35. > :55:39.anything. I need to release the safety. For those of you who

:55:40. > :55:47.remember, you have to pedal to get it going, hit the motor button...

:55:48. > :55:52.About one? Yes. For a man of long legs, this is tough. You can come as

:55:53. > :56:01.well! When do I hit the motor button? Now! I don't want to hit

:56:02. > :56:07.anybody! Hopefully I will manage to avoid... Morning, everyone. Having a

:56:08. > :56:12.total around the piazza. Anyone stepping off the tram will think

:56:13. > :56:20.that they have stepped into the 1980s. It has a bit of poke

:56:21. > :56:28.honoured. They can do. How do you slow down? Those are the breaks.

:56:29. > :56:37.This is magnificent. You have won me over. Do you go on enthusiast

:56:38. > :56:44.weekends? I don't, because I have children! But the kids are ready,

:56:45. > :56:51.when they are a bit older, one is for each of them. Back to the 1980s.

:56:52. > :56:58.We will go off there. I might pop back later.

:56:59. > :57:08.Is it easy to steer? Very easy. You press this and you

:57:09. > :57:09.are off. Note shop turns! Goodbye! Drive carefully! There he goes, into

:57:10. > :57:14.the sunrise. Your granny might have said that

:57:15. > :57:17.a good deed is its own reward But now the trend for so-called

:57:18. > :57:21.random acts of kindness has become a global phenomenon,

:57:22. > :57:23.fuelled by reports of a psychological buzz dubbed

:57:24. > :57:24.the "helper's high". Alison Freeman has hopped

:57:25. > :57:26.on board the big-hearted bandwagon to investigate

:57:27. > :57:28.the growth of goodwill. Staff at the Christie Hospital

:57:29. > :57:34.in Manchester found an anonymous note on the vending machine

:57:35. > :57:38.on Sunday, telling them to help themselves to snacks that had

:57:39. > :57:42.already been paid for. Literally, the bottom

:57:43. > :57:44.of the machine was full of lots of chocolate,

:57:45. > :57:49.crisps, cereal bars, It just really perked up

:57:50. > :57:52.everyone's day, that someone would do something

:57:53. > :57:55.like this, so lovely. Just out of the goodness

:57:56. > :57:57.of their own heart. You know, not wanting to take any

:57:58. > :58:02.sort of thanks or anything. This week is Random Acts

:58:03. > :58:16.of Kindness Week, created It says good deeds really

:58:17. > :58:20.do make you feel good, One of my favourite scientific

:58:21. > :58:28.studies I ever looked at is that when you do an act of kindness

:58:29. > :58:30.for somebody and somebody happens to witness it,

:58:31. > :58:34.all three of you get the same health So it's not just the doer,

:58:35. > :58:39.the receiver, but anybody who happens to be a bystander,

:58:40. > :58:42.who is involved in it, is going to get that same feel-good

:58:43. > :58:46.and be more likely to pass it So this random act of kindness

:58:47. > :58:54.seems appropriate here at the Christie Hospital,

:58:55. > :58:57.which wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for a donation

:58:58. > :59:02.of ?20,000 100 years ago. I've been challenged to see if I can

:59:03. > :59:05.be a Rak-tivist and give Free Metro ticket,

:59:06. > :59:07.no strings attached. What do you think about me giving

:59:08. > :59:18.you the ticket for free? That's a really good thing to do

:59:19. > :59:22.for people, so, yeah. It would make me want to do that

:59:23. > :59:25.to someone else, as well. You don't actually

:59:26. > :59:30.have to do anything. Does it make you want to do

:59:31. > :59:40.something for somebody else Can I interest anybody

:59:41. > :59:46.in a free biscuit? Can I interest anyone

:59:47. > :59:51.in a free biscuit? So maybe not everyone

:59:52. > :59:55.is ready for random acts They did not want the biscuit.

:59:56. > :00:11.Welcome back. Primrose Panglea set up the 5

:00:12. > :00:15.Acts A Day campaign here in the UK, which encourages people to perform

:00:16. > :00:18.five acts of kindness every day. She's here with Havana,

:00:19. > :00:20.who tries to hit And Dr Sandi Mann is

:00:21. > :00:37.a psychologist and director Primrose, why did you set this up?

:00:38. > :00:42.What kindnesses do you do? I set it up because it was Havana's first

:00:43. > :00:48.birthday. You have millions of toys around and open them and suddenly

:00:49. > :00:52.they are back in the bin. Instead of people spending ?30 on a toy she

:00:53. > :00:56.will play with five minutes and get bored with, why not use the money to

:00:57. > :01:02.do something nice for someone else? That way I am paying it forward. And

:01:03. > :01:07.by the time she is 18, the world will be a nicer place. That was the

:01:08. > :01:13.idea and we still do. And Havana comes along. Do you enjoy doing

:01:14. > :01:22.these kindnesses? What have you been doing? We give flowers to people. I

:01:23. > :01:27.love that bit. And how do people react? They say thank you. Are they

:01:28. > :01:32.surprised when you give them flowers?

:01:33. > :01:37.What do you say when you give the flowers? Do you say, we would like

:01:38. > :01:43.to give you these flowers as a gift? How do you explain it? When you give

:01:44. > :01:52.them flowers, what do you say? We say, here are your flowers. No

:01:53. > :01:56.wonder they say thank you. What is people'sreaction? Most of

:01:57. > :02:03.the time you pick your victim! You go to them and say, here are

:02:04. > :02:08.flowers, I want you to have a nice day. People are shocked and don't

:02:09. > :02:12.have anything to say and at that point I'd make my getaway. It is not

:02:13. > :02:20.about making conversation, it is something nice for you, that's it.

:02:21. > :02:28.You are not asking for thanks? That is the thing. A lot of people

:02:29. > :02:37.say that kindness needs no reward. It is true because we get the help

:02:38. > :02:43.of's high. I did my experiment, how I paid it forward, and I was looking

:02:44. > :02:49.for that elusive helper's high, would it be rewarded to be kind?

:02:50. > :02:54.Like you I experienced a lot of resistance. People are suspicious of

:02:55. > :02:59.kind behaviour. Unsolicited kind behaviour. In this country we are

:03:00. > :03:02.suspicious and that is what the campaign is about, to change

:03:03. > :03:08.people'sattitude so that if somebody is kind, we can accept it.

:03:09. > :03:13.Little acts of kindness can make a difference. It is the little things.

:03:14. > :03:19.You do not need to do major volunteering. I have a clinic where

:03:20. > :03:22.I treat people with depression and other conditions. One thing I

:03:23. > :03:28.prescribe is doing something kind every day. They will say, I cannot

:03:29. > :03:33.be a volunteer. Just something kind, let somebody in front of you in the

:03:34. > :03:39.queue when shopping. When you are driving. Give somebody a coughing.

:03:40. > :03:47.It can give you a boost. You think, I am a nice person I am a kind

:03:48. > :03:51.person -- coffee. On the issue of motivation does it take away from

:03:52. > :03:56.the act of kindness if you do it to make yourself feel better? Do

:03:57. > :04:03.understand people might be confused about the motivation behind it.

:04:04. > :04:05.Because they do not spend time explaining, there is no interaction,

:04:06. > :04:12.and that takes away the suspicion, what is this about? It is something

:04:13. > :04:16.nice for you, that is it. We do a campaign where we write nice notes

:04:17. > :04:19.like have a nice day, I think you are beautiful, the world is a better

:04:20. > :04:25.place because you are here. We go all over the place and stick nice

:04:26. > :04:30.notes everywhere and that takes away the suspicion. You are crossing the

:04:31. > :04:36.street and there is a nice message for you and that is it. People take

:04:37. > :04:41.pictures and tweaked them. A lot of people say, you changed my day with

:04:42. > :04:47.something simple. This idea when people say is there

:04:48. > :04:52.such a thing as true altruism if we benefit from it? It is true, we

:04:53. > :04:57.benefit, but I always say if somebody gets the helper's high,

:04:58. > :05:02.feeling good by helping people, they must be great people because many

:05:03. > :05:06.people get their kicks from being nasty. Especially nowadays on the

:05:07. > :05:11.internet. If you have people like Havana and her mother getting their

:05:12. > :05:14.kicks from being nice to people, I think they are great people.

:05:15. > :05:17.How do you feel? Good. Keep handing out the flowers.

:05:18. > :06:58.Lovely to see you this morning. But until then, have

:06:59. > :07:06.a lovely morning. When it comes to retirement,

:07:07. > :07:11.most people dream of the quiet life and finally being free

:07:12. > :07:13.from the rat race. That can't be said

:07:14. > :07:15.for the pensioners at Miriam Stoppard is one of 8

:07:16. > :07:19.celebrities who travelled across the globe to experience

:07:20. > :07:22.a taste of what life, in their golden years,

:07:23. > :07:26.could be like amongst the colour In tonight's new series, the guests

:07:27. > :07:31.arrive at their retirement home, Built in the 16th century

:07:32. > :07:38.by Portuguese merchants, this house will become

:07:39. > :07:40.a unique retirement home. Where these eight strangers

:07:41. > :07:49.will need to learn to live together. Greeting the group

:07:50. > :07:53.is the housekeeper. How many times have you been sitting

:07:54. > :08:02.around at a dinner party and at some point somebody said,

:08:03. > :08:05.we could buy somewhere? We could all live together

:08:06. > :08:10.and we could all eat together. It's got the edge on

:08:11. > :08:28.Eastbourne, quite frankly. It has Amanda Barrie, Lionel Blair,

:08:29. > :08:34.Rustie Lee, Bill Oddie and Sheila Ferguson amongst others.

:08:35. > :08:39.We know you love India and when someone says, would you like to

:08:40. > :08:44.spend a month there, do you sign up straightaway? I jumped at it. I was

:08:45. > :08:48.scared the fact I had been before I could not go this time, I would be

:08:49. > :08:55.struck off the list but it was no impediment. The programme makers

:08:56. > :09:02.were keen for need to go, because I knew India a little bit, but I was

:09:03. > :09:12.prepared to have my eyes opened. This trip was like no other trip, it

:09:13. > :09:18.was life changing. As a tourist, you skim. There is a lot about India I

:09:19. > :09:21.love but on this trip we got really close to Indian culture, families

:09:22. > :09:27.and traditions. I saw India in a different way.

:09:28. > :09:33.I watched the other one as well and the film. I love the way it says it

:09:34. > :09:38.is not based on the film! It is beautifully done and you are with a

:09:39. > :09:44.group of people, you knew one before. Only one and I admit, going

:09:45. > :09:50.away for month with seven strangers was not high on my list. I tend to

:09:51. > :09:55.be a loner. The group was just amazing. The astonishing thing was,

:09:56. > :10:04.we got on so well, honestly. I am not kidding. There were loads of

:10:05. > :10:09.laughs. We laughed the whole time. Dennis Taylor with his Irish jokes,

:10:10. > :10:14.Lionel Blair with his anecdotes of when he was on the stage. He wanted

:10:15. > :10:21.to go home early on. He was not too keen early on. It is understandable.

:10:22. > :10:26.If you live in a cosy house and you are thrust into Indian life with the

:10:27. > :10:32.colour and noise and music, it is a culture shock. Lionel Blair went, he

:10:33. > :10:38.took a breath in. What is going on? But, bless him, he threw himself

:10:39. > :10:42.into it and by day three he was beginning to like it and by day five

:10:43. > :10:48.he really liked it and by day seven, he did not want to go home. The idea

:10:49. > :10:52.is you go and look at this culture and place to live and see whether

:10:53. > :10:56.you might make that move. Tell us about it from your point of view,

:10:57. > :11:04.might you do that? There are lots of things to consider. India is

:11:05. > :11:08.attractive in many ways. The cost of living is cheap, accommodation is

:11:09. > :11:16.cheap, health care for the elderly is good. Cutting-edge medicine, if

:11:17. > :11:22.that is what you want. We were taken to see various apartments and

:11:23. > :11:27.houses. Right at the very end, in the last week, I found my little bit

:11:28. > :11:37.of paradise, on a beach. An hour from Koch E, where we were staying.

:11:38. > :11:45.It fulfilled all my dreams -- Kochi. I have a levelling grandchildren. I

:11:46. > :11:49.cannot leave them. But this place, tranquil, and very beautiful and

:11:50. > :11:54.quiet, I thought, I could come here four months of the year. I would

:11:55. > :11:59.love to do that. Having been to India before, there is a very

:12:00. > :12:02.different emphasis on how they look after the older generation in the

:12:03. > :12:08.family. Do you think we could learn from the way they treat their

:12:09. > :12:12.elders? Some of us were lucky to be invited into families and eat with

:12:13. > :12:22.them and we saw it at close quarters. Old people are cherished,

:12:23. > :12:27.respected, and, in a way, cosseted. The family so to speak puts their

:12:28. > :12:33.arm around old people. It is quite different from here. There is no

:12:34. > :12:37.loneliness. An old person automatically is welcomed into the

:12:38. > :12:41.family group. They are taken care of. They are valued. They are

:12:42. > :12:49.needed. All of these things you need. These affirmations of who you

:12:50. > :12:56.are. That is prevalent in India. It is a contrast to hear. The older

:12:57. > :13:03.people live to a ripe old age in India and they are very happy. What

:13:04. > :13:08.about the idea of a gang of people living together? With that appeal to

:13:09. > :13:14.you? Would you go to paradise on your own? No, an essential part of

:13:15. > :13:23.my paradise is being on my own. That is not to say... We had so much fun.

:13:24. > :13:28.I hope it shows on the screen. We were just laughing the whole time.

:13:29. > :13:32.Our eyes were open, seeing these new things, these new experiences. In

:13:33. > :13:34.itself it was rejuvenating. The Real Marigold Hotel

:13:35. > :13:39.is on BBC One tonight at 9pm. Charlie and Steph will be back

:13:40. > :13:48.tomorrow with singer