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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
South Korea confirms that the brother of the North Korean | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
leader, Kim Jong-un, has been killed at an airport in Malaysia. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Kim Jong-nam had fallen out with his brother, | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
South Korea says agents from the North are to blame. | :00:21. | :00:41. | |
Good morning, it is Wednesday 15 February. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage, | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Brain damage in professional footballers. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Scientists find a link between repeated blows to the head | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
on the pitch and a possible cause of dementia. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
We made 55 million complaints last year about bad service from shops, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
It costs them nearly ?40 billion in lost business, | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
so I will look at why it is worth complaining. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
In sport: Barcelona visited Paris on Valentine's Day, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
but didn't love their time there, thrashed 4-0 by Paris St-Germain | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
More of a flop than a vision of the future, but 30 years | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world finally be ready | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
for an electrically powered pedal car? | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Good morning from the Chelsea Physic Garden, the oldest botanic Gardens | :01:38. | :01:56. | |
in London. The outlook is rain sweeping in from the south-west, | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
some heavy and thundery. Cloud and some fog, the brightest skies in the | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Highlands. More details in 15 minutes. | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
First, our main story: South Korea has confirmed that the estranged | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
was murdered with poison, and they believe North Korean agents | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
A postmortem examination will be carried out later, | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Was Kim Jong-nam poisoned by assassins as he prepared to board a | :02:30. | :02:46. | |
flight in the Malaysian capital on Monday? Confusion and mysteries | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
surround the death of a half brother of the North Korean dictator. Now, | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
South Korean officials say they believe he was murdered. | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
TRANSLATION: The government is certainly judging that the murdered | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
person is Kim Jong-nam. Since this case is still being investigated, we | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
should wait for details until the Malaysian government makes an | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
announcement. Just before he died, Kim Jong-nam is reported to have | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
told medical workers he was attacked with a chemical spray. Police are | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
studying security camera footage from the airport. He had been long | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
estranged from his half brother, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
falling out of favour with the secretive regime and living in exile | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
after he was caught sneaking in the Japan on a fake passport. South | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Korea's acting president said North Korea was responsible it would show | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
the brutality and inhumane nature of the regime. TRANSLATION: The | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
government is carefully watching North Korea's movements, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
acknowledging the fact that the situation is a very serious one. A | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
postmortem is due to be carried in Kuala Lumpur later. | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Members will vote on a report by bishops which says marriage | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
in Church should only be between a man and a woman. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting, | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
as our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir reports. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
A picture before the protest, as members of General Synod prepare | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
to debate the Bishop's report on same-sex marriage. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
Published last month, the report has angered members | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
of the LGBT community, because it concludes that marriage | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
in Church should remain a lifelong union | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
We're talking here about the national Church being massively | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
out of step with people. | :04:57. | :04:57. | |
And this isn't just about saying that we have to follow what society | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
This is about saying, actually, where people perceive love | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
in relationships between one another, | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
can the Church of England simply not recognise God is present | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
After three years of private discussions, a process the Church | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
has called shared conversations, the bishops chose not to change | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
a single aspect of Church policy or practice, believing that | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
any adjustments to the marriage ceremony | :05:22. | :05:22. | |
would not be supported by sufficient majorities. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Our role is to hold the Church together, and to say we can only go | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
as far as the whole Church can agree. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Campaigners are actually wanting us to go further, | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
more hurriedly, than we necessarily can. | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
Speaking at the opening of Synod on Monday, the Archbishop | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
of Canterbury acknowledged that today's debate is likely | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
After 90 minutes of discussion, members will vote to affirm | :05:43. | :05:55. | |
If they choose the latter, then questions about the ongoing | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
unity of the Church of England will arise once again. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Researchers from University College London and Cardiff University | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
studied the brains of six former players who had died from dementia, | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
and discovered that some of them had a form of the disease linked | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Our health reporter Smitha Mundasad has more. | :06:17. | :06:28. | |
Jeff Astle, former England footballer who died in 2002. He had | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
degenerative brain disease linked to repeatedly heading heavy leather | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
footballs. His family have been campaigning for more research, to | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
find out whether lots of this can lead to long-lasting rain damage. In | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
this latest study, scientists looked at the brains of six lifelong | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
footballers who had developed dementia -- brain damage. When we | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
examined their brains at autopsy we saw the sorts of changes that are | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
seen in Xbox is. So the changes that are particular associated with | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
repeated head injury, which are known as CTE, chronic traumatic | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
tarmac... We are showing that head injury has occurred earlier in life, | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia. But the | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
science is far from certain. It is a small study that can't prove a link | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
in football and dementia, and the scientists are clear their work did | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
not analyse the risks to children. For the average adult football, who | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
plays recreationally, experts at Alzheimer's research UK say the | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
risks are likely to be lower and outweighed the benefits of exercise. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
But the Football Association says one question that needs to be | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
answered is whether degenerative brain diseases are more common in | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
ex- footballers. And the FA says that as research it is determined to | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
support. -- that is research. In the next hour, we will hear | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
from the daughter of England footballer Jeff Astle, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
who is campaigning for further research into a possible link | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
between head injuries The White House says Donald Trump | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
knew weeks ago that his former national security advisor had misled | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
officials about conversations he had Michael Flynn was forced to resign | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
over allegations he discussed American sanctions with a Russian | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
envoy before President Trump took office, and he was also accused | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
of misleading the Vice President The child who died in an accident | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
at a shopping centre in Reading yesterday has been named | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
as ten-year-old Kaden Reddick. Kaden, from Reading, | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
suffered serious head injuries after an incident involving a shop | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
display barrier in a Topshop store. The clothing retailer said | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
it is deeply saddened Ukip leader Paul Nuttall's press | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
officer, who was responsible for wrongly claiming he had lost | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
close personal friends in the Hillsborough disaster, | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
has offered her resignation. Mr Nuttall said he hadn't | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
written the article, nor seen it, prior to it | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
being posted by Lynda Roughley Ukip issued a statement | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
saying she was mortified, Appearing on Radio City Talk, | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
in Liverpool, Mr Nuttall was forced to acknowledge his own website gave | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
a misleading impression. I haven't lost anyone who was a | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
close personal friend. It was people who I knew. Things like that. But I | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
basically went to your website last night and search for Hillsborough, | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Paul Nuttall MEP .com, that is your website. I'm sorry for that. It is | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
your own personal... I haven't put that out, and that is wrong. | :09:38. | :09:38. | |
Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier has been | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Eleanor, now someone else has taken the blame. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
That's right. Paul Nuttall's press officer, a woman called Lynda | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Roughley, she has now put her hand up and said she was entirely | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
responsible for what happened, that she is mortified by it all, and has | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
offered her resignation. Interestingly, we get to find out if | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
that resignation has been accepted -- we are yet to find out. And this | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
has of course been extremely awkward and uncomfortable for Paul Nuttall. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
He is a proud Liverpudlian, a proud football fan, and yet he has been | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
forced to acknowledge that a post on his website had given an inaccurate | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
account of what he said had happened at Hillsborough. He said he was | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
appalled and very sorry, that he hadn't seen the post before it went | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
up and he was taken aback when it was brought to his attention. And in | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
a completely separate, if you like, scenario, Labour's candidate in this | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Stoke by-election has apologised for a series of post-is on social media. | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
This guy called Gareth smell described women as squabbling, sour | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
faced ladies, and described a woman as a polished to a -- Snell. He has | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
apologised, said the posts were made some time ago,. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
The Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election takes place on 23 | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
Here is a list of the all the candidates standing. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
You can find more information on the BBC News website. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
while flying his plane in California. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
at John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, where | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
an American Airlines plane was waiting to take off. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
The aircraft had 110 passengers on board, | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
and set off safely a few minutes later. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
An investigation into the incident is underway. | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
He had a crash on a plane a few years ago, which he survived. Quite | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
a few Hollywood actors fly, John Travolta is a Hollywood pilot. It | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
would be interesting to know why... I don't know, problems with the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
plane? Why would you lend on... I wouldn't be flying anyway. Deeply | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
concerning. We will try and get you more information on a bit on. Good | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
morning. Have you seen Barcelona ever looking a little bit bullied, a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
bit ragged? Their heads went down last night. They are not used to | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
being absolutely played off the park. That is what happened. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
Five-time European champions Barcelona suffered one | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
of their worst nights in the Champions League. | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
They lost 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
It equals their worst result in the competition. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
England fly-half George Ford will move back to his boyhood club, | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
The Tigers agreed to buy him out of his contract at Bath a year | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
early, with Freddie Burns heading in the opposite direction. | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has lost his bid to block a ?79 million | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
They allege that he defrauded them by taking performance-enhancing | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
drugs while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
The case is now clear to go to trial. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
And if two Kennys weren't daunting enough for the world of cycling, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
a third is on the way, as Laura and Jason Kenny announce | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
they are expecting their first child. | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
That is a lovely way of announcing it. A little bicycle. | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
Congratulations to them, and what a lovely way to announce that news. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
That is really sweet. Clever, very cute. Cute is a good way of | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
describing it. Carol is looking out for the first | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
signs of spring in London's biggest I have seen snowdrops. What else is | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
about? There is a lot about here. A beautiful start today as well. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Nowhere near as cold as cold as it was yesterday, but the Chelsea | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London. It is situated | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
right across the road from the River Thames, and there is a reason for | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
that. It was founded in 1673 and apprentices would jump in their | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
barge, go down the river, collect plants, go back in the barge, take | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
them out and study them and now there are about 5000 different | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
species of plants here from 160 countries around the world. And we | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
will be seeing some of them and as you mentioned there are some | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
stunning snowdrops to admire but the perfume here is gorgeous. More than | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
can be said for the weather for many of us because today it will be | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
rather cloudy. We also have some fog around and some rain coming in from | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
the south-west. We start the forecast at 9am across Scotland. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
Currently in the Highlands it is cold, temperatures one or two. A | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
little bit of frost but there will be some sunshine. Incidentally, the | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Isle of Skye had the highest temperature in the land, at 14 | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Celsius. For the rest of Scotland it is fairly cloudy and again some | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
patchy fog here and they are. Moving across northern England, we have | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
some fog and quite a lot of cloud and that extends as we push down | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
towards the Midlands. For East Anglia there are some spots of rain | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
moving up the east, that will clear and we also have one or two breaks | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
where there is some fog around as well. We continue with a lot of | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
cloud through the Midlands, down towards Hampshire and we run into | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
the rain across south-west England and parts of Wales. For north Wales, | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
fairly cloudy and again some hill fog around, and for Northern Ireland | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
what you have today is a fairly cloudy day, again with the odd spot | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
or two of rain, especially so later on. So through the course of the day | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
what you will find is the band of rain coming in from the south-west | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
will move slowly north eastwards. Some of it will be heavy but there | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
is a risk of the odd rumble of thunder coming out of it as well, | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
behind it will brighten up across south-west England, part of the | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
Midlands, with some sunshine. For Scotland and Northern Ireland the | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
wind will start to pick up and we will see further showers. That leads | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
us into the evening and overnight because what will happen then is low | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
pressure comes in across the north, introducing some more rain, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
strengthening winds for Scotland and Northern Ireland in particular, and | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
we lose the rain, which will clear into the North Sea from eastern | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
England. Once again we will see some pockets of fog forming. As we start | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
the day tomorrow, the fog will take its time to clear but it will clear, | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
especially from the south-west towards Hampshire, but we could see | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
some in the south-east towards the end of the night as well and | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
tomorrow when the fog does lift, not a bad day for many parts of England | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will carry on with the | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
showers and windy conditions. Gales with exposure in the north-west and | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
at times it will be windy and showery across the far north of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
England as well. Then by Friday it looks like the more fog around, | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
especially across parts of England, which could well be problematic for | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
commuters, and could be slow to clear. So it is something worth | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
certainly bearing in mind but when it does lift what you will find as | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
we are going to have a beautiful day, pleasant day with some | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
sunshine, steal out towards the west, though, with a new weather | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
front not far away we are likely to see some rain coming in and some | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
showers across the final. The general trend is, as we go through | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
the next few days, it is going to remain mild and maybe just a little | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
bit milder for some of us. You're watching | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. South Korea's confirmed | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the half-brother of North Korea's Church of England leaders | :17:18. | :17:30. | |
will debate homosexuality and same-sex marriage later, | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
after a report concluded that marriage should be | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
between a man and a woman. Ben and Sally have joined us | :17:40. | :17:51. | |
to look at the papers. The Daily Telegraph this morning, in | :17:52. | :18:10. | |
fact lots of papers have this, the Sun said she is one of the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
favourites. And a crippling rates rise is the main story on the Daily | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Telegraph. Another story which they cover, which many papers go with, | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
football is as dangerous to the brain as boxing. We will look at | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
what that study has found later. The Daily Mirror also have that on | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
their front page. It is clearly about professional footballers. The | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
front page of the Mail, a story about plastic balls. Apparently they | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
will be rejected by ministers. -- plastic bottles. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
There she is again on the Express. House prices up by ?15,000. The | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
Guardian has a picture of our main story, this is Kim Jong-Nam, the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong and, who we | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
believe was assassinated by two women. They are looking at CCTV | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
footage at the moment. New questions for Paul Nuttall regarding | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Hillsborough. That claim made on his website. They say it was about | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
somebody else. Ben? | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
You go first. I wasn't here yesterday! | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
May be Monday? Ben was here, so he gets the chance | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
to go first. This story yesterday, that jobs could be a risk that | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Vauxhall, which is currently owned by General Motors. It could sell it | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
to Peugeot. The concern in the UK is what it means for the future of the | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
plant at Ellesmere port, which makes the Vauxhall Astra. Big questions | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
about what the sale could mean for staff in the UK and whether in the | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
wake of Brexit it also raises questions for the European Union, | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
and also for British government as far as support for the carmakers. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
The carmakers have been especially vocal in that debate over Brexit and | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
what it could mean for them. Some big questions out. Now you can talk! | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
I think it is my turn. Gareth Southgate, who is often accused of | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
being too nice, he has given his first newspaper interview since | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
taking over as England manager and of course he has asked about that. | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
He has again had to defend his own personality and say he can make the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
big calls. I will drop players who aren't informed. I would select the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
team by reputation. He also says how he has been to see Eddie Jones to | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
see how the England the team are set up. He says the significant thing | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
about them is they don't expect to lose. So he wants to bring that | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
culture into football. Lack of fear. It would be good, wouldn't it? It | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
would be great. Not to worry about the consequence. A genetic test to | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
see if you are predisposed to baldness. Would you go for that? I | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
don't think there's much chance with this head. You've got a full head! | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
Very impressive. And also the Nokia 3310 will be relaunched. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Remind people what they look like. Here is the little gadget. Because | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Nokia had nearly 50% of the market and it has fallen right down. It | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
didn't have into net access, but it did have Snake II, and you could | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
charge it on a Saturday and you wouldn't need to touch it again | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
until Thursday. That's true. And there's a whole market for that. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
A lot of people were going out on first dates yesterday because it was | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Valentine's Day. AU was intrigued by this story. A fashion designer went | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
on a date. -- I was. She had a nice time. She was sent the bill for the | :22:19. | :22:33. | |
drinks, the ?42 50. And he provided the bank details as well. She | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
probably made the right decision, not to go on the second date. Even | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
if a date went badly, you would probably move on. You won't say, | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
right, that stake cost me ?17.50, I want at least half of that. | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
People who've grown up in care are far more likely to die in early | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
adulthood than those who haven't, according to figures revealed | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Although care leavers make up just 1% of all 19 to 21-year-olds, | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
they accounted for 7% of deaths amongst that age group last year. | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
It's thought poor mental health, and difficulties accessing support | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
On the night's menu, laughter, friendship and the absence of | :23:18. | :23:29. | |
loneliness. Members of this project all spent their childhood in care. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Although the challenges of leading the care system behind. Growing up | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
too quick and being lonely doing it. Once you reach 16 and you get up to | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
the leaving care stages, you have to leave care. There is no holding on. | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
I thought about taking my life on countless occasions and the only | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
reason I didn't is because I know that I can speak to someone. It is a | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
sense of belonging. Everybody here mixing feel like I belong to | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
someone. We've always supported each other to everything. For me, I | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
didn't have that support network, I do believe that I could have turned | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
out differently. Very differently. The idea is simple. Get together and | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
share experiences, problems and advice. The project is named in | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
honour of a friend who took his own life having been in care as a child. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
What we wanted to do was turn that pain we had and turn it into a | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
positive. It is about human connection and when they leave care | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
there's nothing and they have to deal with that emotion. I've been | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
abused or whatever it is coming into care, I've gone through the system | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
right had no control and knife got to deal with that. I've got a | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
process that. And often you are alone in that, which is when you | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
begin to suffer. Around 10,000 people aged 16 or over leave | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
residential or foster care every year. The challenges they face can | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
be daunting, often overwhelming. Suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
and number of times. This woman left care aged 14. Now 22 Shias a job, a | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
home and is grateful to her foster parents, at the prospects of leaving | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
care at the time proved devastating. Some young people to have their | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
families and when you don't it is easy to be like, nobody cares. I | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
can't cope with all of this trauma and stress that I am currently going | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
through. So it is easy to be like, what is the point? Care leavers | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
represents around 1% of 19, 20 and 21 -year-olds. But freedom of | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
information request shows they account for about 7% of deaths | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
within that age group. The government told us it is committed | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
to improving the lives of care leaders and giving them the support | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
they need. It is investing ?10 million over the next four years on | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
better mental health support for young people insecure children's | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
homes. All care leavers have a personal adviser until they are 21 | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
and there's a new scheme to help care leaders to continue to live | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
with their foster families after they turn 18. Back at the project | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
meet up, there's food and fun. More groups and events are being set up | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
across the UK. The idea is simple, but effective. How important is a | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
group of friends like this? They are not friends, they are family. How | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
important is family, you can't truly say. They are the most important | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
thing in the world. We will be talking about that in | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
about one hour. Still to come on | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Breakfast: Grumbling. We're good at it in Britain, | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
making 55 million complaints about bad service from businesses | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
in the last year alone. We'll find out why | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
it pays to complain. We are also talking about random | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
accident kindness. Send in your suggestions about things you have | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
seen, random acts of kindness from people in your life. | :27:07. | :27:07. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:08. | :30:26. | |
will most likely see sunshine over the weekend. | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
But also on Breakfast this morning: Remember this? | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
The Sinclair C5 was tipped to be the future, but turned heads | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
30 years on and the electric trike is back. | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
I'll take it for a spin later in the programme. | :30:56. | :31:12. | |
2.6 million children in Britain have an alcoholic parent. | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
We will hear from a man whose dad died from alcoholism | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
when he was just nine, and find out about a new campaign | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
calling for more support for people like him. | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
Ever considered living your golden years on the other side | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
She will be here to tell us about her experience trialling | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
retirement in India, as part of a new series | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
But now, a summary of this morning's main news: | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
South Korea has confirmed that the estranged half-brother | :31:41. | :31:42. | |
of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was poisoned, | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
and they believe North Korean agents were behind his murder. | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport. | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
Kim Jong-nam had been living in exile since 2001. | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
Members will vote on a report by bishops which says marriage | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
in Church should only be between a man and a woman. | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, | :32:19. | :32:20. | |
the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies. | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting. | :32:24. | :32:33. | |
For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers. | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
Researchers studied the brains of six former players who had died | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
from dementia, and discovered that some of them had a form | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head. | :32:46. | :32:55. | |
When we examine their brains at autopsy, we saw the sorts of changes | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
that are seen in ex- boxers, the changes as a result of repeated head | :33:03. | :33:14. | |
injury, which are known as CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. So | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
for the first time we have evidence that the head injury has occurred | :33:18. | :33:18. | |
early in their life. The White House says Donald Trump | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
knew weeks ago that his former national security advisor had misled | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
officials about conversations he had Michael Flynn was forced to resign | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
over allegations he discussed American sanctions with a Russian | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
envoy before President Trump took office, and he was also accused | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
of misleading the Vice President Last year more than a quarter of | :33:35. | :33:57. | |
consumers spent less with a company after poor service. We made 55 | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
million complaints last year as a result of bad service from | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
retailers, energy supplies and phone providers. It is said to be costing | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
companies up to ?37 billion as we turn our backs and choose other | :34:10. | :34:13. | |
suppliers. Is that a good thing? Which bit? I think if you have got | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
bad service, I probably would take a judgement on whether I would use the | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
same company again. Thing is, if you are complaining about bad service, | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
because of that, the company having to improve their service is a good | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
thing. I have noticed they tend to take you more seriously now when you | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
say you are not happy. I imagine you are quite a complainer. I said I was | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
not happy the other day and they said you need to speak to | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
complaints. I said not really, I am just not very happy. Anyway. I am | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
very happy with you. I am really scared now. Lots and lots of | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
complaints from Barcelona fans, I imagine, after last night. I think | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
they want their money back. A big refund. Paris on Valentine's Day, | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
should be nice, really. No team has ever come back from four | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
goals down to make it through a Champions | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
League knockout tie. Former Manchester United winger | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
Angel Di Maria scored two goals on his birthday, as Paris St-Germain | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
humbled the five-time European It equals Barca's worst | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
defeat in the competition. In last night's other game, | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
Benfica beat Borussia Dortmund The only goal of was scored | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
by the former Fulham striker Kostas Arsenal are back in Champions | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
League action tonight. They play the first leg | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
of their last-16 tie away to Bayern The Gunners have been knocked out | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
at the stage in each of the last six years, twice by Bayern, | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
but Arsene Wenger says they can go We play against a Bayern | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
side, and every year, When you look at their record, | :35:56. | :36:08. | |
they are always basically So it's a massive challenge, | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
but I think we are capable Leicester Tigers have re-signed | :36:14. | :36:23. | |
England fly-half George Ford Freddie Burns will move | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
in the opposite direction as part Leicester have agreed to buy Ford | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
out of the final year He came through the Tigers' academy, | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
before moving to Bath in 2013. His return to Welford Road means | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
he will play alongside the England David Willey has been ruled out | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
of England's upcoming tour The Yorkshire all-rounder will be | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
replaced by Steven Finn. Willey has had surgery to repair | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
a torn shoulder tendon, and will be out of | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
action until April. England play three One-Dayers | :36:53. | :36:54. | |
against the West Indies in March, The Windies also tour | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
England in the summer. Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
lost his bid to block the US Government's ?79 million | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
lawsuit against him. It is alleged that, by taking | :37:05. | :37:06. | |
performance-enhancing drugs while riding for the publicly funded | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
US Postal Service team, Armstrong defrauded | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
the US government. He was stripped of his seven | :37:12. | :37:12. | |
Tour de France titles, The case is now clear | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
to go to trial. Tennis, and Great Britain have been | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
drawn away to Romania Johanna Konta and Heather Watson won | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
the deciding doubles rubber, as Great Britain beat | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
Croatia at the weekend. And that secured their place | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
in April's play-offs, against a Romanian team that | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
could include world number four If Anne Keothavong's side win | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
the tie, they will be promoted to world group two for | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
the first time since 1993. And finally, the golden | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
couple of British cycling are going to have an exciting | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
addition to their family. Laura and Jason Kenny | :37:58. | :37:59. | |
are expecting their first child, as Laura revealed in a rather cute | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
Instagram post yesterday. The couple are said to be | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
thrilled and delighted, and have thanked the public | :38:06. | :38:07. | |
for the kind messages and support So, wherever the Olympics | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
are in 2036, what price of another And Laura pulled out of an event | :38:11. | :38:21. | |
recently because of a hamstring strain. Is that what we are calling | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
it? Next time someone tells me they have a hamstring strain I will have | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
to do some further investigations. Thank you for being with us on | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
Breakfast. The murder of Kim Jong-un's exiled | :38:37. | :38:37. | |
half-brother has once again drawn attention to the secretive family | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
that rules North Korea. We will hear more about what this | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
attack could mean for the country But first, here is a reminder | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
of the politics at play Here is Kim Jong-nam, on the left, | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
with his younger brother, the current North Korean leader, | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
Kim Jong-Un, on the right. Kim Jong-nam was at Kuala Lumpur | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
international airport when the attack happened | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
yesterday morning. Local media reports are blaming | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
North Korean agents. Let's have a look how | :39:03. | :39:04. | |
he fitted into the Kims, who have been the ruling | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
family in the communist This is former North Korean | :39:08. | :39:09. | |
leader Kim Jong Il. Beside him is his son Kim Jong-un, | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
the current leader. And behind them is oldest | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
son, Kim Jong-nam. As the older brother, | :39:19. | :39:20. | |
he may have been expected to take But Kim Jong-nam fell out | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
with his father in 2001, after being caught trying to enter | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
Japan to visit Disney World He has been living | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
in exile ever since. Professor Hazel Smith runs | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
the International Institute of Korean Studies at the University | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
of Central Lancashire. Lovely to speak to you. So we know | :39:39. | :39:48. | |
that he was estranged from the family, and he had been living | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
abroad. What more do we know about him? One thing we do know is he has | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
never been political. So if this was some form of assassination, one of | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
the things that would be surprising about it is why would this happen? | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
He has never been considered someone who would seriously be a threat to | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
the current leader or someone who might have a constituency around him | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
such that he could draw support either inside or outside the | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
country. And we also have to be really careful because no one knows | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
yet whether this was some form of assassination, or whether Mr Kim was | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
actually... Had a natural causes problem. You can see from the | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
pictures that your introduction showed that this was an overweight | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
man, he had an unhealthy life and was in his mid- 40s. We will know | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
later on today, with a postmortem taking place today, if this was | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
natural causes or not. But he has never been a key opposition person, | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
politically, in the country. That is one of the main things about this. | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
One of the major speculations is that he has been assassinated by the | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
North Korean leadership, and there has been events like that in the | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
past, his uncle was assassinated, as well. His uncle was a senior | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
political leader in his own right. So even though he was related, he | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
was somebody who could have been an opposition. He was the second most | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
powerful person in North Korea, at the time. Well, unlike the general | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
mythology, it is not just one person, or one family, Kim family, | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
who are important. There are shifting alliances. Nobody quite | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
knows who has power over what, that is one of the problems. The person | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
who is nominally in charge doesn't have the experience of his father or | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
his grandfather. We know that he can't manage the factions that exist | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
in North Korea, the political factions. We don't know enough about | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
who has power in other parts of the system, in the military, for | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
example. This, if it was an assassination, I am hesitant to jump | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
to any major conclusions, could be simply because they don't like Kim | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
Jong-nam. But that would mean that we have got something that shows | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
that the country is very unstable. That is mostly what this would | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
indicate, if it is some form of assassination. At again, we | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
shouldn't really be jumping to conclusions before the autopsy, | :42:08. | :42:10. | |
which we will probably get later today. Is South Korean officials who | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
have said this, but there is obviously a very tricky relationship | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
at this time between North Korea and South Korea. South Korean officials | :42:19. | :42:24. | |
have a history of saying that people have been assassinated and then they | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
turn up in some other position. Clearly Kim Jong-nam is not going to | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
turn up alive in another position. We know he is dead, Malaysian police | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
have said absolutely it is him, but we still don't know the cause. So | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
there is a major conflict between South Korea and North Korea. Between | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
them, you can argue they are the originators of fake news. It is you | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
have to really think about what is coming from where and why. That is | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
exactly why I said South Korea. So there are a lot of... You would call | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
it fake news, what would you say? You would call it fake news these | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
days, before you would call it misinformation. That is not | :43:03. | :43:05. | |
surprising. Both countries are still technically at war, they are in a | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
major conflict against each other. South Korea generally has better | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
information than it used to have against the North Koreans, because | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
the North Korean border is much more porous than it used to be but there | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
is still a lot of speculation, even in South Korea. So we have two, I'm | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
afraid, wait and see until we get the results of the autopsy today and | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
then the Malaysian police, as they have been doing, will make this | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
public. Thank you very much, and the reason why political instability is | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
important, of course, is that they have nuclear weapons. Question is, | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
if there is an assassination of someone who wasn't a political | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
threat, this probably indicates a high degree of political | :43:50. | :43:52. | |
instability. If there is instability, then who is controlling | :43:53. | :43:55. | |
the fissile material which is growing all the time in North Korea? | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
There is no external regulation, the international authorities are not | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
there. Thank you very much indeed. Fascinating to talk to you. Where | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
are you? Good morning! Iron -- and at the | :44:13. | :44:23. | |
Chelsea Physic Garden. The snowdrop trail, that's a rumpus. But here | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
there are 150 different types of snowdrops. You can see the most | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
common one behind me. That one is gorgeous! But they've got some | :44:37. | :44:38. | |
really funny names, like grumpy, really funny names, like grumpy, | :44:39. | :44:46. | |
hocus-pocus, green tea and wasp. Hopefully we will see if you more of | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
those. It is a milder start to the day in London. In fact, milder | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
across-the-board, with the exception of the Highlands, where it is | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
called. It will be rather cloudy today and we are looking at some | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
rain. If we start the forecast at 9am in Scotland, in the Highlands we | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
have the clearest skies and that's where there is some. For the rest of | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
his cloudy and there is fog, as there is in northern England, with | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
just a couple of breaks. Into the Midlands and east Anglia again a lot | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
of cloud, with some fog, especially where we have breaks, and spots of | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
rain running up the east coast of east Anglia which will clear into | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
the North Sea. Through Hampshire and the rest of the Midlands, cloudy, | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
with a couple of weeks. Into the south-west we have a weather front, | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
where we have rain. That rain also extending into southern parts of | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
Wales. For the north of Wales it will be largely dry, but cloudy, | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
with hill fog. Through the day in Northern Ireland it will remain | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
cloudy, with spots of rain, especially later in the day. So, | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
through the day the rain in the south-west continues to journey | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
slowly north-eastwards. At times it will be heavy and possibly thundery. | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
Behind it for south-west England, Wales, the Midlands, it could break | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
up, but still some showers. For Scotland and Northern Ireland | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
cloudy, with a strengthening win. That's because we have low pressure | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
coming from the north-west. Through the night we have the wind | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
continuing to strengthen and showers will become more prolific. The rain | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
will clear the east of England, leaving behind its some clear skies. | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
Once again some patchy fog, especially towards Hampshire. By the | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
end of the night we could see more fog the south-east. Tomorrow that | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
will slowly lift and then for many parts of England and Wales tomorrow | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
it will be a pleasant day, with sunshine. Temperatures about 12 | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
Celsius. For Scotland and Northern Ireland where we have the low | :46:54. | :46:56. | |
pressure going north you will find it will be windy. Gales possible in | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
the north-west and a lot of showers. On Friday still showery in the | :47:03. | :47:05. | |
north. Another weather front is introducing rain. But generally | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
speaking it will be a fine day after we lose the fog. We will have dense | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
fog in parts of England and that could lead to some committee issues | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
and it will be slow to clear. But it will clear and the sun should come | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
out. Generally through the next few days, even into the weekend, it will | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
remain mild or even get milder than it has been. | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
We can enjoy that! Thanks very much. It will be beautiful there later. | :47:40. | :47:46. | |
We made 55 million complaints last year just between us! | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
Because of poor service from shops, energy firms and phone companies. | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
Ben is looking at why we seem so unhappy. | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
Do you find you are either a person who complains a lot, or it isn't | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
worth the effort. Do you complain? I might complain about bad food, or | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
what I consider to be bad food. Very specific! | :48:10. | :48:11. | |
Good morning. When you break that 55 million down, | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
it's about one complaint per person. But that's up 3 million | :48:16. | :48:23. | |
since last year. The figures from Ombudsman Service | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
show we complained about a whole load of things - public transport, | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
banking, shops, tradesmen, Our top three complaints | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
were about retailers, energy suppliers and | :48:34. | :48:35. | |
telecoms companies. Those complaints cost firms | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
involved over ?37 billion in putting it right | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
and lost business. So what have you been | :48:42. | :48:44. | |
complaining about? The complaint was against a big | :48:45. | :48:56. | |
energy company and surprisingly they actually hadn't build me for | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
something like nine months and then six months after I left a huge bill | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
arrived. So I then complained bitterly about it. Over the | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
complaint against my gas supplier because they build me four times for | :49:09. | :49:15. | |
the same period. I changed gas supplier as soon as I could and they | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
weren't much better, to be honest. If there's a need to complain I | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
will, because when you are paying for a service you expect to get a | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
good service. Sometimes you can expect the service to drop at time, | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
but when you're paying for it you wanted to be more consistent. I've | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
complained to my telecoms supplier and in the and I got frustrated with | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
the amount of times I had to complain and we disconnected in the | :49:43. | :49:44. | |
end because these big companies really don't care. | :49:45. | :49:45. | |
Lewis Shand Smith is the chief ombudsman at Ombudsman Services | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
Some figures that are really interesting. A big rise in | :49:52. | :49:59. | |
complaints from last year. Where are the biggest complaints coming from? | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
From the retail sector, followed by telecommunications, followed by | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
energy. There is a big increase in people's willingness to complain. | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
We've seen the huge increase in the number of people who say they will | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
complain, about 35% up on last year. The list, retail up 24%, telecoms | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
and energy, not a huge surprise. The thing that might come as a surprise | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
is the cost of them. The cost of retail complaint is about ?10 | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
million! That's loss of business. If a complaint isn't handled well or it | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
moored, then people will walk away and go elsewhere. -- handled well. | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
So you lose the loyalty to the brand. There is always the same | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
question. Are we getting better at complaining, or is it that the | :50:49. | :50:52. | |
service is getting worse? Think we are getting better complaining, but | :50:53. | :50:57. | |
also when people see prices go up they are more willing to complain | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
and are less likely to put up with bad service. So they are more likely | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
to complain and I think people are much more courageous and will | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
actually go and say, I have paid for this and I haven't got it. Does the | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
message always get through the business? When it starts hitting | :51:14. | :51:22. | |
people in the pocket, there's a real onus on them to it right the first | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
time, not just to put it right. It is important to get it right the | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
first time. As the ombudsman, we have to work with businesses to get | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
it right the first time. It is much better if things don't go wrong but | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
if they do the business need to put it right, do it well and handled the | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
complaint well. If they do that the brand loyalty increases by something | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
like 75%, so it is really important to handle complaints well. If things | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
do go wrong and people go elsewhere, how likely is it that the business | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
can win you back? They have to struggle very hard because the | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
statistics show that if your complaint has been handled badly | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
then you really will go out and tell your friends, you will tell people | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
just how bad that company years and it is very difficult for them to win | :52:13. | :52:19. | |
you back. So as the last port of call, you turn to the ombudsman. | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
Tell me through the process. If people are unhappy with a service | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
what should they do? Should first of all complaint to the company because | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
if you don't do that they don't know somethings gone wrong and they don't | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
have the opportunity to put it right. So complaint to the company. | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
If the company dense as they can't help you any longer, you have the | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
legal right to come to the ombudsman. So you can come to the | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
ombudsman, we will deal with your complaint. It is a simple process | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
that we go through and we will help you, but you need to remember we are | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
on anybody's side. We are there to adjudicate. So we will look at both | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
sides, come to a conclusion and that decision is binding. On that the | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
business had to -- has to deal with. Really good to talk to you. Thank | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
you. No complaints from this end of the studio! More from the -- me | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
later. Thank you. | :53:16. | :53:17. | |
It was supposed to herald a revolution in personal transport | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
but the Sinclair C5 quickly became a by-word for failure. | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
Part tricycle and part electric car, it was the brainchild | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
of the computer designer Sir Clive Sinclair. | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
Now his nephew has designed his own version which he believes can | :53:32. | :53:34. | |
Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott went along to take | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
This is how they did glitzy launches in the mid-19 80s. After | :53:40. | :53:50. | |
revolutionising home computers, people couldn't wait for the next | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
invention from the Genius Sir Clive Sinclair. But the C5 never lived up | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
to the hype. Who better to roadtest the Sinclair C5 banned former racing | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
driver Moss? He went uphill. Along with safety fears there was another | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
fundamental problem. It was at this point that the vehicle's that we | :54:11. | :54:19. | |
gave out. -- battery gave out. I waited about 30 years to have a go. | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
Ask anyone under 30, they have no idea what a C5 is, but for people of | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
a certain age, my age, it was the defining cool invention and indeed | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
testing this invention planted the seed. As a youngster Grant Sinclair | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
helped his father trial the C5 and even had one at school. Three | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
decades on he has designed his own electric triumph, the Iris. It | :54:46. | :54:53. | |
combines pedals with an electric motor and you can drive it without a | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
licence from 14. This one is weatherproof, streamline and made | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
from the same material -- same material as ski safety helmets. You | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
can see for starters that it is about three times quicker than the | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
C5. I can't actually keep up with Grant. He is doing very well. I was | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
going to asking some questions but can't catch him! Oh well, I will | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
just enjoy the view. This sold 17,000 units. I was surprised when I | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
found that out. But he didn't get the millions that were hoped for at | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
the time. Why do you think this will work this time? It's a different | :55:33. | :55:39. | |
concept altogether. I think it was a very clever idea, the original item. | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
I always wanted to do a really fast bike and a much safer bike. One of | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
the things I remember about the C5 that people complained about at the | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
time is you are quite low down. I think is less of an issue these | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
days. My uncle's product, when it was launched. There wasn't the | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
infrastructure for cycles. Now you have bike lanes in most major | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
cities. Ebikes are selling well and I think the market is ready for a | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
ebike that is closed, so you can write it in the winter and keep dry. | :56:16. | :56:22. | |
As a uncle seen the new design? -- not yet, but I would love to show it | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
to him. So 30 years after it disappeared, the Sinclair name is | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
returning to Britain's roads. The same idea, but a new design. Which | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
is a good job, really. My battery went. | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
That was one of the problems, the batteries. Are you going to drive on | :56:40. | :56:46. | |
later? Apparently it is almost impossible | :56:47. | :56:49. | |
to get a tall person into one. That's why we chose a new? I've been | :56:50. | :56:51. | |
selected for my height... Time now to get the news, | :56:52. | :56:53. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :56:54. | :00:14. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. South Korea confirms | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
that the brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been killed | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
at an airport in Malaysia. Kim Jong-nam had fallen out | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
with his brother and had South Korea says agents | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
from the North are to blame. Good morning, it is | :00:32. | :00:51. | |
Wednesday 15 February. Also this morning: The Church | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
of England faces new divisions over gay marriage, as a | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
crucial vote is held. Brain damage in | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
professional footballers. Scientists find a link | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
between repeated blows to the head on the pitch and a possible | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
cause of dementia. The costs facing manufacturers | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
for the goods they use jumped by 20% last month, the fastest rise | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
in almost ten years. With inflation only up for the rest | :01:16. | :01:29. | |
of us, what could it mean for the prices we pay InShops? -- in shops. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
In sport: Barcelona visited Paris on Valentine's Day, | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
but didn't love their time there, thrashed 4-0 by Paris St-Germain | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
More of a flop than a vision of the future. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
But, 30 years since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
finally be ready for an electrically powered pedal car? | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Good morning, from the Chelsea Physic Garden here in London, they | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
are the oldest ones in London, and the perfume here is intoxicating. We | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
are surrounded by Daphne, shrubby honeysuckle and snowdrops. The | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
weather is milder than it was yesterday, but we have some rain | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
sweeping in from the west, the brightest skies across the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Highlands, more details in 15 minutes. | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
First, our main story: South Korea has confirmed that the estranged | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
was poisoned, and they believe North Korean agents | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
A postmortem examination will be carried out later, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
Was Kim Jong-nam poisoned by assassins as he prepared to board | :02:42. | :02:53. | |
a flight in the Malaysian capital on Monday? | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Confusion and mystery surround the death of the half-brother | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Now, South Korean officials say they believe he was murdered. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
Just before he died, Kim Jong-nam is reported to have | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
told medical workers he was attacked with a chemical spray. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Police are studying security camera footage from the airport. | :03:16. | :03:31. | |
He had been long estranged from his half-brother, | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, falling out of favour | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
with the secretive regime and living in exile after he was caught | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
sneaking into Japan on a fake passport. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
South Korea's acting president said, if North Korea was responsible, | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
it would show the brutality and inhumane nature of the regime. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
TRANSLATION: The government is carefully watching North Korea's | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
movements, acknowledging the fact that the situation | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
But the attackers have not been identified. | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
A postmortem is due to be carried in Kuala Lumpur later. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
when its ruling body, the General Synod, debates | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Members will vote on a report by bishops, which says marriage | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
in Church should only be between a man and a woman. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting, | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
as our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir reports. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
A picture before the protest, as members of General Synod prepare | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
to debate the Bishop's report on same-sex marriage. | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
Published last month, the report has angered members | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
of the LGBT community, because it concludes that marriage | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
in Church should remain a lifelong union between a man and a woman. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
We're talking here about the national Church being massively | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
And this isn't just about saying that we have to follow what society | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
This is about saying, actually, where people perceive love | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
in relationships between one another, can the Church of England | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
simply not recognise that God is present in those things? | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
After three years of private discussions, a process the Church | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
has called shared conversations, the bishops chose not to change | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
a single aspect of Church policy or practice, believing that any | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
adjustments to the marriage ceremony would not be supported | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Our role is to hold the Church together, and to say we can only go | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
as far as the whole Church can agree. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Campaigners are actually wanting us to go further, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
more hurriedly, than we necessarily can. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Speaking at the opening of Synod, on Monday, the Archbishop | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
of Canterbury acknowledged that today's debate is likely | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
After 90 minutes of discussion, members will vote to affirm | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
If they choose the latter, then questions about the ongoing | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
unity of the Church of England will arise once again. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Researchers studied the brains of six former players who had died | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
from dementia, and discovered that some of them had a form | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Our health reporter Smitha Mundasad has more. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
In the next few minutes, we will hear from the daughter | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
of England footballer Jeff Astle, who is campaigning for further | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
research into a possible link between head injuries | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
We will speak to the report author as well. | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
A Ukip press officer has offered her resignation after it | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
emerged that the website of the party leader, | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he had lost close personal friends | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written or seen the article before | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, he was forced to acknowledge | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
that his website gave a misleading impression. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
I haven't lost anyone who was a close personal friend. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
It was people who I knew, through football and things | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
But I basically went to your website last night | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
And it is PaulNuttallMEP.com, that is your website? | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
I haven't put that out, and that is wrong. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier has been | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
Eleanor, now someone else has taken the blame. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
So Paul Nuttall looking particularly uncomfortable during that interview. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Who has taken the blame for this? Before we get into that let's go | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
into a bit of background as to how we have got to this position. This | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
all comes off the back of claims made in the Guardian newspaper which | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
have cast doubt on whether Paul Nuttall was actually at Hillsborough | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
on the day of the disaster. Now, he emphatically insist he was there, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
and that he has got friends and people who will stand up in court | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
and back him. After those reports, we then heard about the false claims | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
on his website, in those post-is, in which he had close friends, he said | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
he did know people who died, but they were not his close friends. He | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
says he didn't write the article, he didn't see it before it was | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
published, and that he was very sorry, and indeed appalled, by what | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
had happened. And now we get on to the press officer you mentioned, | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Paul Nuttall's has officer, a woman named Lynda Roughley, she has held | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
her hands up and said it was all her own fault, that she is entirely | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
responsible and mortified by what happened, and she has offered her | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
resignation. Interestingly, we don't yet know if that resignation has | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
been accepted. It has been difficult for Paul Nuttall, and also for the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Labour candidate, a man called Gareth Snell, who has had to | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
apologise for a series of Tweety posted about women. He is also a | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
candidate in the Stoke by-election and says the remarks were made some | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
years ago, and were clearly unacceptable. Thank you very much. | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
The Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election takes place on 23 | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
Here is a list of the all the candidates standing. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
You can find more information on the BBC News website. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
while flying his plane in California. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
at John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, where | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
an American Airlines plane carrying 110 passengers was waiting | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
An investigation into the incident is underway. | :09:28. | :09:40. | |
Having sent his fans into a frenzy on New Year's Eve, Tom Hardy has | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
read another story on Ceebeebies. Cloud spotting with a best friend is | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
more enjoyable, especially if your best friend is a dog. The | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
Valentine's Day special predictably sent social media sites into a bit | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
of a meltdown. Do you think you save them for special days? Have you ever | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
done specials? I have, it is my favourite thing. I was asked to wear | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
a pair of shorts for a sporty one but they were too short, apparently, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
inappropriate for the kids. What did they do? I had to go and get some | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
trousers. What a wonderful thing. People who have grown up in care are | :10:29. | :10:44. | |
far more likely to die in adult early adult hood tarmac -- die in | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
early adult hood. It is thought that poor mental health and difficulties | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
accessing support could be to blame. On tonight's menu, laughter, | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
friendship and the absence Members of this project | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
all spent their childhood in care, although the challenges of leaving | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
the care system behind. Growing up too quick | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
and being lonely doing it. Once you reach 16 and you get up | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
to the leaving care stages, I thought about taking my life | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
on countless occasions and the only reason I didn't is because I know | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
that I can speak to someone. Everybody here mixing, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
I feel like I belong to someone. We've always supported each | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
other through everything. For me, if I didn't have | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
that support network, I do believe that I could have | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
turned out differently. Get together and share experiences, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
problems and advice. The project is named in honour | :11:40. | :11:54. | |
of a friend who took his own life, What we wanted to do was turn that | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
pain we had and turn it It's about human | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
connection, human emotion. They've got all this support | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
during the care system, and when they leave | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
care there's nothing, and they have | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
to deal with that emotion. I've been abused or whatever, | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
it's coming into care, I've gone through the system right | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
and had no control and now I've got Around 10,000 people | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
aged 16 or over leave residential or foster | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
care every year. The challenges they face can be | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
daunting, often overwhelming. Suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
a number of times... Now 22, she has a job, a home, | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
and is grateful to her foster But the prospects of leaving care | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
at the time proved devastating. Some young people | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
have their families, and when you don't, it's easy | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
to be like, nobody cares. I can't cope with all of this trauma | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
and stress that I am So it is easy to be like, | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
what is the point? Care leavers represents | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
around 1% of 19-, 20- But a freedom of information | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
request shows they account for around 7% of deaths | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
within that age group. The Government told us | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
it is committed to improving the lives of care leavers, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
and giving them the support It is investing ?10 million over | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
the next four years on better mental health support for young people | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
in secure children's homes. All care leavers have a personal | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
adviser until they are 21, and there is a new scheme to help | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
care leavers to continue to live with their foster family | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
after they turn 18. Back at the project meet up, | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
there is food and fun. More groups and events | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
are being set up across the UK. How important is a group | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
of friends like this? You can't really say how | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
important family is. It's the most important | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
thing in the world. Enjoining us is Adam Pemberton. | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
Everybody has their own individual story, but what is it about these | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
young people that means that just more of them are dying? Care leavers | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
are some of the most vulnerable in our society. They don't have the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
same support networks that children in families have, to the stress of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the transition to adult life is all the greater. It might be around | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
anxiety or loneliness, but they often suffer trauma or neglect which | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
led them going into care in the first place, so when they try to | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
move to adult life it is all the more challenging and we need support | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
to make that journey. Being a teenager is hard, taking that change | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
is difficult. What sorts of things can local authorities do to help | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
that transition? Some local authorities do a good job. Others | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
offer that their minimum. Personal advisers are very helpful and they | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
start working with care leavers as they come up to the age of 18, but | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
some leave earlier than that. It is about gradually leaving care. | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Perhaps some supportive accommodation, or living with young | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
people. We believe there's a chance to offer better support, especially | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
around health. It is important to remember that care leavers upto the | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
age of 18 jet help from adolescent mental health services, then they | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
moved to adult services just when they need to support more and often | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
they lose that support or it is patchy. The government could use | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
some of the ?1.4 billion they've promised for child mental health | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
services to support this particularly vulnerable group, | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
especially through the support networks you've seen in the film, or | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
by offering a community psychiatric nurse based in leaving care teams to | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
address these issues, be they things about anxiety or much more clinical. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
I am wondering is well about the continuity of care, because it | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
becomes a personal relationship when somebody is helping with those | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
issues. Where did you set the limit? What age? Well, the government has | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
made changes to personal advisers. They are open to some care leavers | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
upto the age of 25. But you are right, the personal relationship is | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
very important. Barnardos has 22 services across the UK, working with | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
about 2000 care leavers in England. That is about listening to the young | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
person and designing something around them. It is important to | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
listen to them and help them to look after themselves. You spoke about | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
that ?1.4 billion that has been earmarked for child mental health. | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
When Billy know whether you will get some of that money and if it will go | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
into the specific measures are talking about? -- when will you | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
know. We are still to Kieran Powell that money will be spent. -- still | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
to hear how that money. They need to legislate to make sure children get | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
a mental health assessment and some of this money, not a huge amount of | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
it, even 1%, would allow us to deliver better health to this very | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
vulnerable group. Thank you very much. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
We are looking for the first signs of spring this morning. | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
Carol is at a botanic garden this morning in London. | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
What can you see? Lots of beautiful flowers. We are in | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
the Chelsea for the garden and we are surrounded by different types of | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
snowdrops. -- Physic Garden. We've also got some shrubbery, honeysuckle | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
and of course we have got some usual full winter flowers. The Botanic | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Gardens are right across the road from the River Thames. It was | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
founded back in 1673 and it is here for a reason. You go down the River | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Thames, collect lots of different plants, come back here and study | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
them for their medicinal properties. Very worthwhile. It is a lovely | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
start to the day. The birds are chirping and it is dry, but it won't | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
be dry everywhere. Today it will be cloudy and we also have some rain. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
But a much milder start more or less across the board than yesterday. The | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
exception to that is across the Highlands, where it is cold and | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
there's frost. But you will have sunshine for much of the day. For | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the rest of Scotland it is fairly cloudy and there is patchy fog. In | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
northern England, similar story. The patchy fog extends towards the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Midlands and east Anglia. We also have some rain running up the east | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
coast of east Anglia, which were clear into the North Sea. And we | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
have breaks in the south-east and east Anglia, that's where we have | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
patchy fog. Towards Hampshire a lot of cloud again, with few breaks, at | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
the south-west has the biggest cloud, it is extending across South | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Wales as well. The north Wales it is cloudy, with hill fog. The Northern | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Ireland it will be cloudy with spots of rain. You can see more through | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the afternoon and the wind will strengthen. Through the course of | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
the day the weather front in the south-west continues to edge slowly | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
north-eastwards. The rain at times will be heavy, and possibly | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
thundery, but behind it parts of the Midlands will brighten up, with a | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
few showers. Meanwhile, for Northern Ireland and Scotland, more showers | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
and the wind strengthening because low pressure starts to show its | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
hand. It is even in as the low pressure pushes Northwest again | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
showers will increase. The rain will make it into eastern England and | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
clear off into the North Sea. Behind it there will be clear spells and we | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
have fog forming, especially from south-west England towards | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Hampshire. By the end of the night we could have some in the east. By | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
the time it clears for many parts of England and Wales it will be a | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
lovely day. Pleasant, double-figure temperatures and sunshine. For | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland the low pressure will be crossing you | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
see we have showers rotating around it and it will be windy. With | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
exposure in the Northwest we could have gales. By the time we get to | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Friday while there will be quite a bit of fog around, especially across | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
England, it could lead to committee issues. It will be slow to clear, | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
but when it does we have a lot of sunshine around. -- commuter issues. | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
For Scotland and Northern Ireland, rain coming from the west and mild. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
The overriding factor over the next few days and into the weekend is | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
that it is going to remain mild. For some of us milder than it has been. | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Thank you very much! The question of whether head | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
injuries sustained in contact sports like rugby and football could cause | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
long-term brain damage Now, for the first time, | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
a study has found a possible link. We're now joined by one | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
of the scientists who carried out the research, Professor John Hardy | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
and by Dawn Astle, daughter of former England striker | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Jeff Astle, who died from a degenerative brain disease | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
in 2002, which an inquest found was associated with heading | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
the old-style, heavy leather Good morning and thanks we much for | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
joining us. I know you've been talking about this for many years. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
We will get some information on the research, but what do you make of | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
it? Are you pleased to hear that this type of research is being done? | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Yes, of course we are pleased. My overriding reaction is that I'm | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
really not surprised by the findings. As you say, this disease | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
was found in dad's rain two years ago and we knew that at the time he | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
was the first reduce football to have died of the disease but we knew | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
he wouldn't be the first or the last. -- first British football. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
There are a lot of headlines in the papers this morning. People will | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
wake up to headlines like, heading a football can lead to dementia. Evil | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
are linking that the children paying football as well. We need to get to | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the bottom of what the research has found. -- people are linking. A | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
psychiatrist from Swansea followed 14 national football is who got | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
dementia and he obtained autopsy permission for six of them. Of those | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
six who all had dementia, four of them had evidence of what we -- of | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
the syndrome that boxers get. So four of the six had evidence of a | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
syndrome that is caused by repeated injury. And you don't know at this | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
stage exactly what was causing the injury, because it could have been | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
heading the ball or collisions? Do we know? That's right. It could have | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
been heading the ball, it could have been head to head collisions and so | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
on. You are absolutely right. We don't know exactly. We've only got | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
their playing career history. That's all. I think only one of them had | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
evidence that at one time he had a concussion, so we have very little | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
medical information about the events during their careers. In your dad's | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
on case, the coroner described the illness as an industrial disease. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Obviously long years of heading a rather heavy leather foot wall, -- | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
football, spending time with your dad over the years, did he ever | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
consider what he was doing was causing damage? I don't think so. | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
For more the families I've spoken to, I don't think people do. But I | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
know dad used to say, especially when the ball was wet, he used to | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
say it was like heading a bag of bricks. When I speak to a lot of | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
experts now they say the modern-day ball... Best know evidence of it | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
being any safer. If we could just pick up that point. The numbers, | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
what they've looked at, is it easy at this point the extrapolates on | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
this? Have only looked at six people. It would be great to have | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
more systematic data, on more professional footballers for sure. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
It would be great to have more data and I know the professional | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
footballers associations and the FA are now looking at following | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
systematically ex- foot wall -- ex- footballers to see what happens to | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
them. You are right, six is rather few, so we really need to get more | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
data, that's for sure. If there is conclusive proof that this is a | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
problem, and we are some way short of this now, to do what they've done | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
in America where kids under the age of ten allowed to head a foot -- | :25:24. | :25:32. | |
football, how far should things go? One of my fondest memories as a kid | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
is scoring a goal, heading a goal, when I was 13 on a playing field. | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
You know, of course I was a terrible player and they only played | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
occasionally and I think that sort of thing is great for kids. We don't | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
want to bring up a nation of couch potatoes. I do think that we should | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
not encourage repetitive practising of heading, for example, but I think | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
we have to measure the benefits of sport against the possible downsides | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
and systematic data is important. I should be clear that our data is on | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
players who have paid for 25 years and probably played every day for | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
several hours. So it is very different from looking at children | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
who played the occasional game at school. There has been a lot of work | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
done in football and other sports around concussion. Are there things | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
you would like to see changed? Well, if I can just go back to kids | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
playing football, we all know the benefits of sport participation. We | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
all know that. But it should never be seen as an acceptable | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
consequence, rain damage. It should be never seen as that. -- brain | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
damage. There needs to be more research. The thing that frustrates | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
me and makes me upset and angry is 15 years on since my dad died the | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
coroner's ruling was clear, it was a landmark ruling at the time, when | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
the coroner ruled that paying football is what killed him. We've | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
been asking for a long time as to whether we have a problem with our | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
former players and dementia and it is really sad and not forgiveable | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
that 15 years on we are no further forward. Really appreciate your | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
insight and honesty this morning. If you've got something you would like | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
to say about that, please get in contact. | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
It is fascinating. You can talk about it on Facebook and you can | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
tweet us as well. But Sunday is the day you are most | :27:49. | :31:08. | |
likely to see sunshine Hello, this is Breakfast, | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. South Korea says it has confirmed | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
that the estranged half-brother of the North Korean leader, | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
Kim Jong-un, was poisoned, and they believe North Korean agents | :31:26. | :31:27. | |
were behind his murder. Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
footage of the attack on Kim Jong-nam, which took place | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
in Kuala Lumpur airport. Images circulating in the media have | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
focused on two women seen alongside him, who were later | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. Kim Jong-nam had been living | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
in exile since 2001. The Church of England faces | :31:43. | :31:55. | |
new divisions over gay marriage, when its ruling body, | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
the General Synod, debates Members will vote on a report | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
by bishops, which says marriage in Church should only be | :32:01. | :32:14. | |
between a man and a woman. Although legal in England, | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
Scotland and Wales since 2014, the UK's biggest faith group does | :32:18. | :32:19. | |
not permit same-sex ceremonies. Gay rights campaigners are planning | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
a protest outside today's meeting. Several people remain unaccounted | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
for after an explosion in a block At least three people were injured | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
when the blast ripped Some 40 firefighters fought | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
the blaze in the south-west The building has now collapsed, | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
and the cause of the fire A Ukip press officer has | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
offered her resignation after it emerged that the website | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
of the party leader, Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he had | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
lost close personal friends Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
or seen the article before Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
Talk, he was forced to acknowledge that his website gave | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
a misleading impression. A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
more than he bargained for yesterday, when a passing seal | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
decided to hitch a ride. The cheeky mammal had followed | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
the paddling group for a mile before The kayakers said it was | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
an amazing experience. Have you seen... It reminds me of | :33:20. | :33:40. | |
Finding Dory, when the steel jumps up and they say off, off, off -- the | :33:41. | :33:49. | |
seal. What a wonderful thing to happen. | :33:50. | :33:51. | |
Coming up on the programme: Carol is looking out for the first signs | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
of spring, in London's biggest botanic garden. | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
That is not Carol, that is Sally. The first sign of spring is | :33:58. | :34:05. | |
happening right over my shoulder, never mind your snowdrops. Barcelona | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
have left themselves a lot of work to do. | :34:10. | :34:10. | |
No team has ever come back from four goals down to make it | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
through a Champions League knockout tie. | :34:15. | :34:15. | |
Former Manchester United winger Angel Di Maria scored two goals | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
on his birthday, as Paris St-Germain humbled the five-time European | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
It equals Barca's worst defeat in the competition. | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
In last night's other game, Benfica beat Borussia Dortmund | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
The only goal of was scored by the former Fulham striker Kostas | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
Arsenal are back in Champions League action tonight. | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
They play the first leg of their last-16 tie away to Bayern | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
The Gunners have been knocked out at the stage in each of the last six | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
years, twice by Bayern, but Arsene Wenger says they can go | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
We play against a Bayern side, and every year, the same target. | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
When you look at their record, they are always basically | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
So it's a massive challenge, but I think we are capable | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
Leicester Tigers have re-signed England fly-half George Ford | :35:11. | :35:19. | |
Freddie Burns will move in the opposite direction as part | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
Leicester have agreed to buy Ford out of the final year | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
He came through the Tigers' academy, before moving to Bath in 2013. | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
His return to Welford Road means he will play alongside the England | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
Banned cyclist Lance Armstrong has lost his bid to block the US | :35:36. | :35:44. | |
Government's ?79 million lawsuit against him. | :35:45. | :35:45. | |
It is alleged that, by taking performance-enhancing drugs | :35:46. | :35:48. | |
while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team, | :35:49. | :35:50. | |
Armstrong defrauded the US government. | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
The case is now clear to go to trial. | :35:56. | :36:08. | |
Shall we end with some happy news? On. -- go on. | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
And finally, the golden couple of British cycling | :36:16. | :36:17. | |
are going to have an exciting addition to their family. | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
Laura and Jason Kenny are expecting their first child, | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
as Laura revealed in a rather cute Instagram post yesterday. | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
The couple are said to be thrilled and delighted, | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
and have thanked the public for the kind messages and support | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
I wonder if some people have a little bit of an inkling that | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
perhaps this news was about to be announced, because Laura had been | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
struggling with a hamstring strain for a while. That is the new way of | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
describing it. It is really great news. Congratulations to them both. | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
It has been a divisive issue within the Church of England | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
for decades, and Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, | :36:51. | :36:52. | |
has predicted a painful discussion when same-sex marriage is debated | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
Bishops have proposed the Church maintains its ban on the ceremony. | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
A vote against that today would signal a deep division | :37:01. | :37:02. | |
Joining us in the studio is Paul Middleton, an expert | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
in sexuality and the Church, and Reverend Bertrand Oliver, | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
an openly gay vicar, is in our London newsroom. | :37:09. | :37:17. | |
Good morning to you both. Thank you very much for your time. If we can | :37:18. | :37:25. | |
come to you first of all, Paul. What is going to happen today, and why is | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
it such a significant meeting? Well, the Church of England in common with | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
lots of churches in the country and the world, have been juggling with | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
issues of sexuality and the place of gay, lesbian and transgender people | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
in the church. The Church of England have been engaged in what they have | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
been calling chat conversations where they brought together people | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
with different views and also LGBT people themselves -- shared | :37:50. | :37:59. | |
conversations. What is going to happen today is a report to take | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
this forward. A lot of people are a bit upset because effectively the | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
bishops have signalled effectively no change, and some people might say | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
moving slightly backwards. So today the Synod is going to decide whether | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
to take note of the report. This isn't approving or dismissing the | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
report, it is simply taking note of it so not to take note of it is | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
quite an interesting step, and would signal that the Synod thinks that | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
the bishops need to go back and do some more work. So there could be | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
trouble ahead, that is probably a simple way of putting it. And you | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
are an openly gay member of the clergy, in a same-sex relationship. | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
How does this make you feel? It has been a long journey. We have made | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
ourselves very vulnerable for the past two in groups that particular | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
didn't want to talk to us. We wanted to work with the bishops to find a | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
way forward and get the church moving into the 21st century. After | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
all, same-sex marriage is legal in this country and the Church of | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
England as a national church should be able to provide something to | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
couples that come to us but we realised on reading the report that | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
we seem to have been erased, all our views expressed have been erased, | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
and we now are talking about the different language of same-sex | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
attraction as if we are an animal experiment, although we have been | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
present in the room, we don't feel our views have been expressed. So we | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
are hoping for something more, and although we are conscious that the | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
bishops are trying to move things on, it is quite hard for us to go | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
along and certainly we wouldn't want to be taking note of this report | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
because we think it is not representing at all what has been | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
going on, and not representing the divergences of views, theologically, | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
in the Church of England today. I wanted to know how you feel, is a | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
disappointment, is a frustration? Initially I think I was quite angry, | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
because, you know, you put your life on the line in groups that are not | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
sympathetic. You try to be open, in order to explain what it means to be | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
a gay priests. After all, God has called me to be a priest. I didn't | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
choose to come into this for the glory of it. It is a hard journey | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people every day of | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
their life, when they have to come out, and the church should be a safe | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
space, we want to provide a safe space to all people. We want the | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
church to be an inclusive space and this report does not help that at | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
all. Notwithstanding the fact that the bishops are telling us it is a | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
provisional report, it has been received by the congregation is the | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
last words of the Church of England on same-sex marriage. How big a step | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
would it be for the Synod to go against what the bishops are | :40:46. | :40:48. | |
recommending on this? Well, I think it would be unusual but they are | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
only being asked to take note of the report so the bishops have been | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
blocking all day yesterday to say that taking note of the report is | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
not to approve it in anyway -- blogging. It is not in tightly clear | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
what would happen if the Synod decided not to take note of it -- | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
entirely. I suspect it is not as big a deal as is being made out. The | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
bishops would have to go back and write a report which may be tax | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
account of the anger that is felt on one side. This is problematic | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
because on one side you have people who want to advocate full inclusion | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people, and on the other | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
hand there are those who think that any movement in this direction is a | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
betrayal of Christian principles and the authority of the Bible. So the | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
bishops are between a rock and a hard place, it is very difficult for | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
them. How damaging are these kinds of discussions for the church? I | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
suppose most people in society wonder why the church has got caught | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
up in this, and it does seem strange. It has to be said, the | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
Church of England has not changed its position, it is not moving but | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
society has moved so quickly in the last couple of decades that simply | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
by spending still the Church of England is seen to be a reactionary | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
and, some people think bigoted and homophobic organisation. It is | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
important to say they have a vaccine moved but by spending still this is | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
a problem. And I just want to ask you, would you like to get married | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
in church? I know this is some way off, even if today went in your | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
favour. Would you like to do that? I would like to be married in church. | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
I entered the civil partnership two Mackie it a go. If I asked around, | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
no one enters a civil partnership except clergy in the Church of | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
England, which is quite a state of affairs, frankly. And we are an | :42:36. | :42:38. | |
organisation that professes to share the love of God to the world, and | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
people are looking and wondering what is going on. Thank you very | :42:43. | :42:51. | |
much for talking with us today. Your grandmother might have said that a | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
good deed on its own is its own reward, and just leave it at that. | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
Now there is a trend for so-called random act of kindness, which have | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
become a global phenomenon fuelled by reports of a psychological bars | :43:04. | :43:10. | |
called the help of's high. -- helper's high. A true random act of | :43:11. | :43:25. | |
kindness. The note was found on a vending machine telling them to help | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
themselves to snacks which had been paid for. Literally the bottom of | :43:30. | :43:32. | |
the machine was full of lots of chocolate and crisps and cereal | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
bars, and they were just loads. It just really made our day, that | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
someone would do something so lovely out of the goodness of their own | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
heart. Not wanting to take any sort of thanks or anything for it. I was | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
totally elated, I was buzzing. Who doesn't want chocolate on Sunday? We | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
are nurses. And it made me feel so happy, honestly I was beaming the | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
whole day. This week is RACK, or random acts of kindness week, which | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
was created by an organisation in the US. It's as good deeds do help | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
your serotonin levels. One of the studies have looked at says that if | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
you do an act of kindness for somebody and someone happens to | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
witness it, all three of you get the benefits, not just the giver and | :44:26. | :44:31. | |
recipient, but a bystander will be more likely to pass it onto someone | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
else. So this random of kindness seems quite appropriate here at the | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
Christie Hospital, which wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
donation of ?20,000 100 years ago. I have been challenged to see if I can | :44:46. | :44:53. | |
be a RAKtivist, and give someone that warm glow. Free Metro ticket, | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
no strings attached. Would you like one? What do you think about me | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
giving you the ticket for free? I think it is very kind of you. That | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
is a really good thing to do for people. Would you like a free | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
ticket? Yes, what would you like to do? You don't have to do anything, | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
it is a random act of kindness. Thank you. How does it make you | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
feel? Yes, really want. Does it make you want to do something for | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
somebody else, now that we have done this for you? Yes, carry on. Can pay | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
interest anyone in a free biscuit? Would anyone like a free biscuit? | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
I'm sensing it is a no. So maybe not everyone is ready for random Acts of | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
kindness just yet. Anybody? Anybody for a free biscuit? No... | :45:46. | :45:56. | |
It really doesn't seem to work for her, but it has worked for other | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
people. Charlotte says she was running for the tram yesterday and a | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
lady kept the door open for her, even though she wasn't getting on | :46:06. | :46:16. | |
it. Get in touch with us on Twitter. Carol has spotted the first signs of | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
spring! Good morning from the Chelsea Physic Garden. It is | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
sandwiched between the main road and River Thames. Here, there are 150 | :46:27. | :46:35. | |
different types of snowdrops. Around the world there are about 2000 | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
different types. It was founded back in 1763 when a predator is would | :46:40. | :46:45. | |
pick plants and look at them for their medicinal properties. -- when | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
apprentices. One of them has come through in modern medicine, which is | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
the foxglove. In its fine form it is used in medicine. Today it's a mild | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
start but it is miles across most of the UK, except the Highlands, where | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
it is cold with a touch of frost. A cloudy day for most of us and | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
there's rain the cards. We stop the forecast at 9am in Scotland. We hang | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
on to the sunshine. Or the rest of Scotland it will remain fairly | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
cloudy, with patchy fog. For more than England again a lot of cloud | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
around. Low cloud, hill fog. That extends towards the Midlands and | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
into east Anglia. We also have spots of rain running up the east of east | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
Anglia. That will clear. Some breaks and patchy fog. Patchy fog in the | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
south-east. Essentially the Midlands towards Hampshire, back into the | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
cloud and again some patchy fog. In the south-west we have thick cloud | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
and rain. As we head into Wales, South Wales has the rain by 9am. | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
North Wales is still dry, but cloudy. For Northern Ireland you | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
have a cloudy start. Some spots of rain. The rain will turn heavier | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
later in the day and the wind will strengthen. Through the day the | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
weather front in the south-west will extend slowly north-eastwards. Some | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
of the rain will be heavy and possibly thundery. Behind it it will | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
brighten up in south-west England, parts of Wales and the west | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
Midlands, but still a few showers. For Northern Ireland and Scotland we | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
have more shower was arrived as low pressure and the wind will | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
strengthen. That process will continue through the evening and | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
overnight. Meanwhile, the weather front pushes into eastern England | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
and then clear into the North Sea. Behind it there will be clear skies | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
and fog will form. Especially from south-west England, towards | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
Hampshire, but by the end of the night we could have patchy fog in | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
the south-east. Tomorrow that will be slow to clear, but when it does | :48:50. | :48:54. | |
for most of England and way deals we will have a fine day, with light | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
winds. Feeling quite springlike. For Scotland and Northern Ireland the | :49:01. | :49:03. | |
low pressure continues to drift northwards. We will have showers | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
rotating around it and strong winds. Strong winds especially with | :49:09. | :49:10. | |
exposure in the north-west. It could have gale force. In the Friday there | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
will be quite a lot of fog around, especially in England. This could | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
prove to be problematic for commuters and will take time to | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
lift, but we do expect it to lift. And then for most of England and | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
Wales we have sunshine. Another weather front comes in from the | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
west. That will introduce rain later in the day in the western areas. | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
Still some showers in the north. Temperatures in double figures. As | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
we go through the next few days and into the weekend that is what we are | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
looking at. Milder conditions for some, or as mild as we have at the | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
moment. Probably good conditions for | :49:48. | :49:49. | |
snowdrops, but I know nothing! It was supposed to herald | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
a revolution in personal transport but the Sinclair C5 quickly became | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
a by-word for failure. Part tricycle and part electric car, | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
it was the brainchild of the computer designer | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
Sir Clive Sinclair. Now his nephew has designed his own | :50:02. | :50:03. | |
version which he believes Our transport correspondent | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
Richard Westcott went along This is how they did glitzy | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
launches in the mid-1980s. After revolutionising home | :50:10. | :50:19. | |
computers, people couldn't wait for the next invention | :50:20. | :50:21. | |
from the genius Sir Clive Sinclair. But the C5 never | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
lived up to the hype. Who better to roadtest | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
the Sinclair Trike than former Along with safety fears there | :50:32. | :50:33. | |
was another fundamental problem. It was at this point | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
that the vehicle's battery gave out. I've waited about 30 years | :50:41. | :50:50. | |
to have a go in one of these. Ask anyone under 30, | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
they have no idea what a C5 is, but to people of a certain age, | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
so my age, it was the defining cool invention and clearly testing this | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
vehicle planted the seed. As a youngster, Grant Sinclair | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
helped his father trial the C5 Three decades on he has | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
designed his own electric Like the original, | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
it combines pedals with an electric motor and you can drive it | :51:18. | :51:29. | |
without a licence from 14-years-old. This one is weatherproof, | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
streamline and made from the same But he didn't get the millions that | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
were hoped for at the time. Why do you think this | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
will work this time? My product is a different | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
concept altogether. I think it was a very clever | :51:44. | :51:45. | |
idea, the original item. I always wanted to do a very fast | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
ebike, I always liked that idea, So 30 years after it disappeared, | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
the Sinclair name is returning The same idea, but | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
a brand new design. There is one for you to try. I can't | :52:01. | :52:25. | |
do it right now the logistical reasons. But in one-hour, we will | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
see if somebody who is 6'6 can get in there. | :52:33. | :52:34. | |
That I would like to see! Join us in one-hour. We could have a | :52:35. | :52:42. | |
race in it. Remember, the thing is underneath you and you have to do it | :52:43. | :52:44. | |
like that. We got a update yesterday on how | :52:45. | :52:45. | |
quickly prices are rising But it's manufacturers that now face | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
the biggest increases. Good morning. I will take you up on | :52:49. | :52:55. | |
that challenge! Yes, good morning. | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
Those extra costs will probably be passed on to us through higher | :53:00. | :53:02. | |
Let me run you through what we heard yesterday. | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
Consumer price inflation grew to 1.8% last month, | :53:07. | :53:08. | |
just below the Bank Of England's target of 2%. | :53:09. | :53:17. | |
But each month that figure is rising, and it's mainly down | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
to the pound's weakness against the dollar which is pushing | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
the cost of petrol and fuel up quickly, which is linked | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
to the supply of so much of what we buy. | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
But one of the big figures yesterday was the rise | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
They are the raw materials people need to make things. | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
They rose at an annual rate of 20.5% in January, | :53:37. | :53:38. | |
the fastest pace since September 2008. | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
At the same time the price of goods leaving the factory only went up by | :53:43. | :53:51. | |
3.5%. The big question. Our business is not trying to pass on any price | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
rises to us? Joy Parkinson is the MD of Faith | :53:55. | :53:56. | |
in Nature, a business making natural beauty products, but previously | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
worked for a huge UK food Good morning. Explain this concept | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
for us. You've been doing this in big is this is and now your own | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
small business. As raw material prices go up, you face a number of | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
different choices, don't you? We are seeing some import cost increases | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
coming through now and simply your choices are to pass that on to your | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
customers, who will then pass that on to consumers, or you try to | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
absorb them. Certainly in my business it is really critical that | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
we try to absorb those and not pass cost increases on, so I have no plan | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
to pass any price increase through the year ahead. So if you are | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
absorbing that cost it means either your profits fall or you have to | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
look for savings elsewhere. Talk me through that thaw process. I imagine | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
it is trying to cut costs, the efficient and absorb as much of that | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
as you can? Yes. There are two things happening in my business. We | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
are having a great year, so our sales are up 30% and we are gaining | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
great tradition. And therefore with growth means I am doing a longer | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
production run, which is more efficient in a factory, which helps | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
me to offset some of the export increases. Another interesting | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
dynamic is export sales. Export is about 25% of our overall business, | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
growing significantly year-on-year, and therefore a number of customers | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
are paying me in both euros and dollars and actually the currency | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
fluctuation is therefore benefiting my business, so I'm getting more | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
pounds back for the euros and dollars in, which is helping me | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
offset increases. So I've kind of got a natural hedge situation going | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
on. It really does illustrate how different it can be for different | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
organisations. Before this business you are working at Mars and a number | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
of other big businesses. Talk me through their processes, because | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
they are operating on a much bigger scale, signing Chris could have big | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
repercussions. It is a totally different scale. I employ 45 people. | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
-- so an increase could have big. Within other companies we had that | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
number of people particularly looking at costs. In these big | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
organisations they have a team of people who can look at how little | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
they can take out of the cost of the product, even a small biscuit or a | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
small cake, which allows you to offset any cost increases. But, | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
equally, those large organisations I'm sure may be looking at putting | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
some kind of cost through this year. That's where we could see things | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
getting smaller. I am fascinated that it is called cost base release. | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
You know it's a big business when they have a department called that! | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
A director! A specific person. Good to talk to you. Thank you. More from | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
me after 8am. You know we are talking random acts | :56:55. | :57:07. | |
of kindness? I want to be dubious. A couple got married yesterday in the | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
local florist went above and beyond to make sure we had 24 beautiful | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
roses in time for the wedding. Somebody from the hospice went down | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
to collect them from the florist. We said we were there for a wedding | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
from the hospice. At that point somebody paid for them. We don't | :57:29. | :57:36. | |
know who he is, but we want him to know how grateful we are and how big | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
a difference those flowers made. A beautiful and simple act of | :57:42. | :57:44. | |
kindness. That's lovely. We are talking about | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
random acts of kindess. I don't know if | :57:51. | :01:09. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
Murdered with poison - South Korea says it's | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
confirmed that the brother of the North Korean leader, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Kim Jong-un, has been killed at an airport in Malaysia. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Kim Jong-nam had fallen out with his brother and had | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
South Korea says agents from the North are to blame. | :01:31. | :01:45. | |
Good morning. It's Wednesday 15th February. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Good morning. It's Wednesday, 15th February. | :01:52. | :01:52. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
gay marriage as a crucial vote is held. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Brain damage in professional footballers. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Scientists find a link between repeated blows to the head | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
on the pitch and a possible cause of dementia. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
We made 55 million complaints last year about bad service from shops, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
It costs them nearly ?40 billion in lost business. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
So I'll look at why it's worth complaining. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
In sport, Barcelona are stunned on a trip | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
They were thrashed 4-0 in the Champions League to leave | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
More of a flop than a vision of the future. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
But 30 years since the launch of the Sinclair C5, could the world | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
finally be ready for an electrically powered pedal car? | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
He became an American hero after finding one | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Jeffrey Pugiliese will be on the sofa to tell us how his story | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Good morning from Chelsea, London's oldest botanic garden. The sky is | :02:54. | :03:11. | |
blue. The birds are chirping and it is a milder start to the day than it | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
was yesterday more or less across the UK. The exception with the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Highlands where it is cold with frost, but sunshine, but for most of | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
us today, it will be cloudy with rain sweeping in from the | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
south-west. I'll have more details in 15 minutes. | :03:25. | :03:25. | |
Thank you. See you then. Good morning. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
First, our main story. South Korea says it's confirmed | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
that the half-brother of the North Korean leader | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Kim Jong-un was poisoned and they believe North Korean agents | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
were behind his murder. We'll get the latest | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
from Malaysia in a moment, but first let's take | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
a look at the secretive family that This is Kim Jong-Nam on the left, | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
with his younger brother, the current North Korean leader, | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
Kim Jong-Un, on the right. The attack happened yesterday | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
morning when Kim Jong-Nam was at Local media reports are blaming | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
North Korean agents. Let's have a look how he fitted | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
into the ruling family. This is former North Korean | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
leader Kim Jong-Il. Beside him is his son Kim Jong-Un, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
the current leader. And behind them is oldest | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
son Kim Jong-Nam. As the older brother he may have | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
been expected to take over But Kim Jong-Nam fell out | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
with his father in 2001 after being caught trying to enter | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Japan to visit Disney World He has been living | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
in exile ever since. Karishma Vaswani is in the Malaysian | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
capital Kuala Lumpur with the latest This is a story which is changing | :04:34. | :04:44. | |
all the time. Reports coming out of South Korea saying what they think | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
happened. What do we know this morning? Well, you're right. The | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
facts are extremely murky in this case, but here is what we know. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Malaysian police said to us that the attack is thought to have taken | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
place in this airport, that I'm standing in right now. Around 9am, | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
to 10am on Monday. It is thought the man to be believed Kim Jong-nam was | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
accosted by at least one woman and it is thought she placed a cloth | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
with some sort of burning chemical on his face. He then stumbled over | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
to that information counter over there is what we understand and | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
asked for help. After that, he was taken to a medical clinic just one | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
floor below this hall, but Malaysian police said the man who subsequently | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
died en route to the hospital was carrying a passport on him that had | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
the name Kim. They are not identifying him as Kim Jong-nam, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
just yet until the autopsy that they are conducting on him as we speak, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the results of those are expected later today or tomorrow. Thank you | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
very much. It is a fascinating story. It is really unclear as to | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
what exactly has happened and that autopsy will be crucial to determine | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
who it was and how he died. And there will be more on BBC News on | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
that throughout the day. The Church of England faces | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
new divisions over gay marriage when its ruling body, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
the General Synod, debates Members will vote on a report | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
by Bishops which says marriage in church should only be | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
between a man and a woman. Although legal in England, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Scotland and Wales since 2014, the UK's biggest faith group does | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
not permit same-sex ceremonies. Gay rights campaigners are planning | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
a protest outside today's meeting. For the first time, a scientific | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
study has found a possible link between head injuries and brain | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
damage in former footballers. Researchers studied the brains | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
of six former players who had died from dementia and then discovered | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
that some of them had a form of the disease linked | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
to repeated blows to the head. Our health reporter | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Smitha Mundasad has more. Jeff Astle, former England | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
footballer who died in 2002. He had degenerative brain disease, | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
linked to repeatedly heading His family have been | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
campaigning for more research to find out whether lots of this can | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
lead to long-lasting brain damage. In this latest study, | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
scientists looked at the brains of six lifelong footballers | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
who had developed dementia. we saw the sorts of changes that | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
are seen in ex-boxers, so the changes that are particularly | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
associated with repeated head injury, which are known as CTE, | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
chronic traumatic encephalopathy. We have shown that head injury has | :07:37. | :07:49. | |
occurred earlier in life, which presumably has some impact | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
on them developing dementia. It's a small study, | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
that can't prove a link between football and dementia | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
and the scientists are clear their work did not analyse | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
the risks to children. For the average adult footballer, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
who plays recreationally, experts at Alzheimer's Research UK | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
say the risks are likely to be lower and outweighed, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
by the benefits of exercise. But the Football Association says | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
one question that needs to be answered is whether degenerative | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
brain diseases are more common in ex-footballers, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
and the FA says that is research Several people remain unaccounted | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
for after an explosion At least three people were injured | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
when the blast ripped Some 40 firefighters fought | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
the blaze in the south west The building has now | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
collapsed and the cause A Ukip press officer has | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
offered her resignation after it emerged that the website | :08:48. | :08:57. | |
of the party leader, Paul Nuttall, wrongly claimed he'd lost | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
"close personal friends" Mr Nuttall said he hadn't | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
written or seen the article Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Talk he was forced to acknowledge that his website gave | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
a misleading impression. I haven't lost anyone | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
who was a close personal friend. There was people who I knew through | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
football and things like that. I basically went to your website | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
last night and searched for Hillsborough and it's | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
Paul Nuttall MEP.com. Yes. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
I'm sorry about that. But I haven't put that | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
out and that is wrong. Our Political Correspondent, | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
Eleanor Garnier, has Eleanor, just explain a bit | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
of the background to this. Well, all this comes on the back of | :09:41. | :09:52. | |
some reports in the Guardian which cast doubt on whether Paul Nuttall | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
was actually at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster. He emphatically | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
insist he was there. He has got friends who would back him up and | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
stand up in court and support him and then we had the reports that | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
there were these false claims on his website that he had close friends | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
who had died at Hillsborough as we heard just then, he says he did know | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
people who died, but they weren't close friends. He hadn't written the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
article and he hadn't seen it before it was posted and that he was very | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
sorry that this had all happened. Linda Ruffley is the press officer | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
who has resigned or at least handed in her resignation. She says she is | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
entirely responsible for what happened and is mortified. We don't | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
know if her resignation has been accepted, but this clearly has been | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
very uncomfortable for Paul Nuttall and very difficult for him too. It | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
has been a bit of a tricky time for the Labour candidate in the Stoke | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
by-election, a man called Gareth Snel. He had to apologise for a | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
series of posts on social media he made about women. He described the | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
panellists on ITV Loose Women as squabbling, sour faced ladies. He | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
said the posts were made some years, but clearly they were unacceptable. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Eleanor, thank you. The Stoke on Trent Central | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
by-election takes place Here's a list of the all | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
the candidates standing. You can find more information | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
on the BBC News website. A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
more than he bargained for yesterday when a passing seal | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
decided to hitch a ride! The cheeky mammal had | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
followed the paddling group for a mile before deciding | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
to hop aboard. The kayakers said it was | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
an "amazing experience". He's going to have a lie down in a | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
minute. He is taking ages to get on to the kayak he'll need a rest! | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Having already sent his fans into a frenzy on New Year's Eve, | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Having an alcoholic parent can have a hugely | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
And it's a problem that's more widespread than you'd think. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Earlier this week the NSPCC revealed they receive a call every hour | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
from an adult concerned about drug or alcohol use around children. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
Today, MP Liam Byrne, whose father was an alcoholic, | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
will launch a cross-party initiative to provide more support for children | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
living with alcoholism Research for the new campaign estimates | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
there are 2.6 million children of hard-drinking parents in the UK, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Many children of alcoholics suffer in silence. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
But evidence heard by Parliament suggests they are twice as likely | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Three times more likely to consider suicide and four times more likely | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Joining us now is Liam Byrne MP who heads a new parliamentary group | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
on the children of alcoholics and Josh Connolly who was nine | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time this morning. I suppose | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
the real hope Liam is that this manifesto actually makes a | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
difference to people who are in the same situation as you and Josh? Yes. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
We launched this campaign this time last year on this sofa and since | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
then we have heard the extraordinary stories from children of alcoholics | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
and from charities and pressure groups and what a cross party group | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
has done is put the ideas together in a manifesto and we had a debate | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
in Parliament about some of the ideas a couple of weeks ago which | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
was just incredible. A minister broke down in tears at the dispatch | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
box and I think Government is in listening mode now. Yeah, it is a | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
big day for us. I think change is coming. Josh tell us about the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
impact on you with living with your dad who was an alcoholic and then | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
died from it. So the impact really for me as a child of an alcoholic | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
have been life long despite my dad dying when I was nine. With | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
alcoholism it is about the way that it makes you feel within the family. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
And the way that it kind of leaves you feeling very, very lonely and | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
like there is nowhere to turn. I found it difficult to turn to my mum | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
because I felt like she had burden enough with the alcoholism and | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
because of the way society looks at alcoholism, I felt like there was | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
nobody that I could speak to. And I want to ask you both this. Did you | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
feel you had to keep it a secret? Yeah. Absolutely. I think, like in | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
schools, we were taught that people who drink too much and do drugs are | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
bad people. Right. So I kind of, I grew to have a perception that the | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
world saw me as a bad person because my dad was an alcoholic and I almost | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
felt guilty in loving him sometimes because of the way people saw | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
alcoholism. And that can be incredibly limiting, can't it, Liam? | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
It makes you feel even if you have hopes and dreams of what you might | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
achieve that you can't get there. Did you feel that yourself? Yeah. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Here is a parent, someone you love, very, very deepy who is doing this | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
terrible thing and you can't stop them and so you kind of feel as a | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
child that it's your fault, but you go through that hell in silence | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
because as Josh said there is this big dirty secret and you've got to | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
keep the family secret safe and you can't possibly talk to anybody about | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
it and that's what leads to the emotional damage that drives so many | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
children to develop eating problems, or try and take their own life or | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
become alcoholics themselves so you get this terrible cycle repeating | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
itself because we failed as a country to break the silence. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Talking about breaking the silence, who should be doing it because it is | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
difficult for the child, isn't it? We have started! That is what it is | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
all about! Our goal is to break the silence we can break the cycle of | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
this terrible disease cascading down the generations. What if you know | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
someone you are concerned about? The main thing is making sure the child | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
knows they are not alone, it is not their fault and there is very little | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
they can do to do anything to affect their parent's drinking. We both | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
work with the voluntary service and Josh is a volunteer, this amazing | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
helpline has helped hundreds of thousands of people but there are | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
other charities, and places like Childline. The manifesto we are | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
launching today says that the government needs to take | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
responsibility for fixing the problem. No one else is going to do | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
it. People who work with children need to know what to look out for. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
And how to put kids within reach and we need to step up treatment budgets | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
as well so when parents do look for help, the treatment is there. Josh, | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
what is your relationship like with alcohol now? I am teetotal now, I | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
don't drink. Growing up through my teenage years and that, I had quite | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
a destructive relationship with alcohol myself. That may seem kind | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
of strange really with what I went through as a child, but it kind of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
offered me an escape, you know? It offered me something I could not | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
find anywhere else. Something that the charity are taught me that | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
children of alcoholics do want to speak but I don't think there has | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
ever been an environment where we felt safe to speak. I think that is | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
what Liam Byrne's campaign is really trying to do. It is trying to give a | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
platform to the children of alcoholics so there is an | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
environment where we can seek healthy escape from the way we feel. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Thank you for joining us. I'm sure lots of people have been listening. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Carol is looking out for the first signs of spring in London's biggest | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
She has found snowdrops are lots of other things. I knew she would sort | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
it out for us! Good morning both and EU, I'm in the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Chelsea visit gardens this morning, the oldest botanic Gardens in | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
London. Here, there are 150 different varieties of snowdrops and | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
you can see the common one, here. Look at this. It moves with the wind | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
and if you are wondering why it like that from the flower pot, it you | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
having down to have a look at it. I will be talking to Nick Bailey, the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
head gardener here and the garden world presenter, more about | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
snowdrops and some of the other plants in the gardens in half an | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
hour. The sun is shining in London and the temperature is about eight | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Celsius, nowhere near as cold as it was this time yesterday, not just in | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
London but more or less across the board. But today is a rather cloudy | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
day for most of us with some rain. The exception to that is across the | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
far north of Scotland where we have clearer skies, a touch of frost this | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
morning and it is cold but you will hang onto the sunshine for the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
lion's share of the day. For the rest of Scotland into northern | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
England, lots of loud around and some hill fog. The same is true as | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
we push down towards the Midlands and East Anglia. Some rain across | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
the east of East Anglia and Kent. That will drift northwards and clear | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
into the North Sea. While we have breaks in East Anglia and the | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
south-east, there will be patchy fog. Towards Hampshire and into the | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
south-west, some rain. Sorry, Carol, we can't here you properly! | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
I need Carol in my life! But she will be back in half an hour and she | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
will talk about snowdrops, as she said. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Bizarrely, the weather is getting rid of our camera ability. | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
Thank you for your suggestions on mad Max of Guiness, quite a few | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
people saying the point of an act of kindness is you don't tell other | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
people about it. You are not asking for banks. There's no expectation of | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
someone patting you on the back and saying well done. But well done! | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Beautiful messages of things people have done notes they have given, | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Elaine said she and her three sisters were having a meal last year | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
and a stranger paid the entire thing. Someone did that for you in | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
the past you were younger. Yes. Elaine says it left them gobsmacked, | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
when the waiter says they have paid for it. We never had any idea who | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
did it either. Lots of people with the examples. Richards at his car | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
was stuck on a beach in Spain and two random strangers appeared, a bit | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
of a language barrier but they helped me with it before the tide | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
came in. Erica said she collected money off coupons out of a paper and | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
handing them to people at the supermarket when she could not use | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
them. And I can't remember who this was but they were saying that even | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
though this person who helped them was not catching the tram they were | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
waiting for, they saw them running for it, stepped in and help the | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
doors so they could get on. Send us in more examples of random Acts of | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
kindness. We will talk more about it later and Carol will be back as | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
well. Promise! More than 55 million | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
complaints were made last year because of poor service from shops, | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
energy firms and phone companies. Ben is here to talk about why | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
we seem so unhappy. Is it worth complaining? | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
You get to do the nice stuff about random acts of kindness and I have | :21:02. | :21:02. | |
to do complaints! When you break it down, | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
it's about one complaint per person. But that's up 3 million | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
since last year. The figures from Ombudsman Services | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
show we complained about a whole load of things, | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
public transport, banking, shops, Our top three complaints | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
were about retailers, energy Those complaints cost firms | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
involved over ?37 billion they actually hadn't billed me | :21:22. | :21:49. | |
for something like nine months and then six months after I left, | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
a huge bill arrived. So I then complained | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
bitterly about it. I wrote a complaint against my gas | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
supplier, because they billed me I changed gas supplier as soon | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
as I could and they weren't much If there's a need to complain, | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
I will, because when you're paying for a service you expect to get | :22:19. | :22:31. | |
a good service. Sometimes you can expect the service | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
to drop out at times, but when you're paying for it | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
you want it to be more I've complained to my telecoms | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
supplier and in the end I got frustrated with the amount of times | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
I had to complain and we disconnected in the end | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
because these big companies She is an author and blogger | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
and a self-titled Complaining Cow. We saw some of the examples there of | :22:53. | :23:11. | |
the things that get people really annoyed. Which businesses are still | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
getting it wrong? Without doubt, telecoms, for me. I got rid of my | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
mobile provider couple of months ago purely on service and it is what I'm | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
hearing. It is across the board but certainly telecoms are really bad. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
It is about hitting businesses where it hurts to make them get it right. | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
We talked about the huge cost to business, not only to put it right | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
but if we decide we go elsewhere like you did with your phone | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
provider. That is when they pay attention, one would hope. I think | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
so, it is about getting people to know their rights and complain more. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
The customer service Institute last month brought out some research to | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
show that more people were complaining but it was taking more | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
effort, it took more times to complain. Certainly, businesses are | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
not getting it right. Is the issue that businesses are annoying us | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
more, getting it wrong more often? Or are we just getting better at | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
complaining? I think it is a bit of both. The rail repayment system that | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
we saw last month showed it was only 35% of us complaining about it. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
There is still a long way to go but businesses are not training staff | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
properly so they don't know how to deal with complaints when they come | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
in as well. Is it in businesses interests to make it easier to | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
complain? You talk about things like Delay on railways which you can do | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
online now and get it paid directly to your bank account so you are not | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
being stuck with vouchers which makes it much simpler. But our other | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
businesses doing the same kind of thing? Know, from my experience what | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
people tell me, it is still going through the process, escalating, | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
going to CEO, finding the e-mail address on the website, you can get | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
the contacts so it is easy to get it escalated but still there are | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
problems. Lots of people getting in touch this morning, saying, yes, | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
sometimes the errors are so obvious the firm has to put them right but | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
they take the risk that the cost of putting it right in the big scheme | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
of things will not be that big a problem for them and they can suffer | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
a few grievances from customers. I certainly see that. There's a | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
different ethos across companies where they believe that 100% of the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
time, the customer is right and they will deal with things quickly and | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
smoothly and others will still for people off, particularly if people | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
don't know their legal rights. It's much easier if you do to say, "Under | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
this law, I'm entitled to this redress and this is what will happen | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
if you don't give it to me". Let's taught legal rights, I know it | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
varies according to the industry and complaint but in general terms, what | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
should people do to make sure their complaint is taken seriously? Reds | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
the main law people need to know about is the consumer rights act | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
2015, you are entitled to services carried out with reasonable skill of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
care and the items that you buy free from defects and matched the | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
description and you are entitled to a full refund if the is faulty, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
within 30 days. After that, you are still entitled to a replacement or | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
repair. That kind of product specific thing, if you go into a | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
restaurant and you are not happy or you didn't like the food, can you | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
complain or is it just reference? Absolutely, under the act, you are | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
entitled to services to be carried out with reasonable skill and care | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
so if your food is not cooked properly, you are entitled to | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
complain as long as you don't eat it all first! You need to just take a | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
couple of mouthfuls and then say it is wrong and then it is up to you | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
whether it you -- whether you replace it. Thank you for joining | :26:35. | :26:35. | |
us. We are talking about the think C | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
five today, launched in 1985, varies one. -- about the Sinclair C5. Lance | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
is a big enthusiasts and I will have a go later. I hope you will be going | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
that fast! Dan will be out in the next half an hour. A relative of Sir | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Clive Sinclair has launched a new one. Can it catch on? | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:05. | :30:22. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :30:23. | :30:40. | |
We can remind you of some of the main news stories. | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
South Korea says it's confirmed that the estranged half-brother | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was poisoned, | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
and they believe North Korean agents are behind his murder. | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
Police in Malaysia are studying CCTV footage of the attack | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
on Kim Jong-nam, which took place in Kuala Lumpur airport. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Images circulating in the media have focused on two women seen | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
alongside him, who were later spotted leaving the scene in a taxi. | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
Kim Jong-nam had been living in exile since 2001. | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
The Church of England faces new divisions over gay marriage | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
when its ruling body - the General Synod - | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
Members will vote on a report by bishops, which says marriage | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
in church should only be between a man and a woman. | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
Although legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 2014, | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
the UK's biggest faith group does not permit same-sex ceremonies. | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
Gay rights campaigners are planning a protest outside today's meeting. | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link | :31:41. | :31:42. | |
between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers. | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
Researchers studied the brains of six former players | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
who had died from dementia, and discovered that some of them had | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
a form of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head. | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
Several people are unaccounted for after an explosion | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
At least 3 people were injured when the blast ripped | :32:00. | :32:04. | |
Some 40 firefighters fought the blaze in the south west | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
The building has now collapsed - and the cause of the fire | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
A Ukip press officer has offered her resignation after it | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
emerged that the website of the party leader, Paul Nuttall, | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
wrongly claimed he'd lost "close personal friends" | :32:25. | :32:26. | |
Mr Nuttall said he hadn't written or seen the article | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
Appearing on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, he was forced | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
to acknowledge that his website gave a misleading impression. | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
Paul Nuttall is representing UKIP in the Stoke on Trent Central | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
by-election which takes place on the 23rd of Febuary. | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
Here's a list of the all the candidates standing. | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
You can find more information on the BBC News website. | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
Harrison Ford has reportedly been involved in a near-miss while flying | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, where | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
an American Airlines plane - carrying 110 passengers - | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
An investigation into the incident is under way. | :33:16. | :33:24. | |
He has had a few incidents. He had a crash a few years ago. | :33:25. | :33:40. | |
I do not know what to say. This is my favourite picture. | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
A kayaker in the Firth of Forth got more than he bargained for yesterday | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
when a passing seal decided to hitch a ride. | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
They are great pictures. You would be tempted to give him a | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
hand up. He is doing well. | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
The cheeky mammal had followed the paddling group for a mile before | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
The kayakers said it was an "amazing experience". | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
He had a little wobble. And then a lie down. I am not sure how long it | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
stayed there. And coming up here | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
on Breakfast this morning. Three people died in the 2013 | :34:18. | :34:19. | |
Boston Marathon bombings. Now the story's been made | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
into a Hollywood film. We'll meet the real life police | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
officer who captured one The Sinclair C5 was tipped to be | :34:25. | :34:26. | |
the future but turned heads 30 years on and the electric | :34:27. | :34:36. | |
trike is back, we'll take Ever considered living | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
out your golden years Miriam Stoppard has, | :34:43. | :34:44. | |
she'll be here to tell us about her experience trialling | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
retirement in India as part of a new series | :34:52. | :34:53. | |
of the Real Marigold Hotel. That is still to come. And we will | :34:54. | :35:04. | |
be back with Carol. We had some issues earlier on. Sally is here | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
with a final look at the sport. Barcelona have technical issues last | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
night. Not something we say very often. They were played off the | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
park. 4-0 down after the match. No team has ever come back from four | :35:20. | :35:22. | |
goals down to make it through It equals Barca's worst defeat | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
in the competition. Arsenal are back in Champions | :35:26. | :35:44. | |
League action tonight. They play the first leg | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
of their last 16 tie The Gunners have been knocked out | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
at the stage in each of the last six years - | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
twice by Bayern - but Arsene Wenger says they CAN | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
go further this time. We play against a Bayern side, | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
and every year, the same target. When you look at their record, | :36:01. | :36:11. | |
they are always basically So it's a massive challenge, | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
but I think we are capable Leicester Tigers have re-signed | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
England fly-half George Ford Freddie Burns will move | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
in the opposite direction Leicester have agreed to buy Ford | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
out of the final year He came through the Tigers' academy | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
before moving to Bath in 2013. His return to Welford Road means | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
he'll play alongside the England And finally the golden | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
couple of British cycling are going to have an exciting | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
addition to their family. It is not just a new bike, it is | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
middle person it might be for. Laura and Jason Kenny | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
are expecting their first child The couple are said to be thrilled | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
and delighted and have thanked the public for the kind messages | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
and support they've Is there any thing cuter than a pair | :37:06. | :37:07. | |
of tiny trainers? In April 2013, as runners | :37:08. | :37:18. | |
were crossing the finishing line of the Boston marathon, | :37:19. | :37:20. | |
two pressure cooker bombs went off, killing three people, | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
and injuring more than 260 others. The efforts of hundreds of police | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
officers involved feature We can speak now to | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese, who was off-duty on the day | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
of the bombings, but played a key role in the manhunt | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
to capture the attackers. Thanks for joining us. Reading the | :37:39. | :37:48. | |
background, you're rolling this is incredible. You were not on duty on | :37:49. | :37:56. | |
the day itself, how did you come to be involved in finding the two men? | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
The date of the bombing, I was at a training seminar in Massachusetts. A | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
police officer has to go to 40 hours of in-service training to get | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
recertified. The day of the bombing I was getting out of class and I | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
heard on the radio about the first explosion and then the second | :38:20. | :38:21. | |
explosion and I continue to go to class the rest of the week. Four | :38:22. | :38:33. | |
days of class. We ended up being involved with the bombers, that day | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
I went to work my regular shift, uniform, I am a patrol supervisor, | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
and during the course of the evening we heard a broadcast about the MIT | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
police officer who had been murdered in his police car. I was inside the | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
police station doing a report and the end of the shift, I sent the | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
report to the lieutenant for approval. He said he read report it | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
was fine, but he thought he deleted it. He asked if I could find it in | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
the computer system and I gave it a quick look. Spending an hour to | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
retrieve the report. I said we will let the computer guys figure it out | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
tomorrow and with that I went to my vehicle and was sitting listening to | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
the police radio, having a cigar, because I am a two Minute Drive from | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
work. I thought I would smoke a cigar before driving home. A bit of | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
relaxation before going home and you heard something on the radio. | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
Officers were dispatched to Dexter Avenue. They said there was a | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
hijacked vehicle being tracked with a GPS system and they said the | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
carjackers may be armed. I knew there were only four patrolmen | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
working. I thought I would head up that way in case there is a car | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
chase and they get out and end up having to chase them on foot. I | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
thought I would give them a hand looking and started driving and an | :40:05. | :40:06. | |
officer said he had the vehicle insight and he was following it. He | :40:07. | :40:15. | |
followed it and as he went into another side street, it turned out | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
to be the marathon bombers but at the time we thought it was | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
carjackers. They exited the vehicle and the older brother started | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
advancing on the officer, shooting at him. A terrifying situation. Yes, | :40:28. | :40:38. | |
they were shooting at us. He put his car reversed to create distance. J | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
Reynolds, did a great job. One of the supervisors came around the | :40:46. | :40:47. | |
corner and took one through the windshield. He got out of his | :40:48. | :40:56. | |
vehicle. They started saying they were throwing bombs. I got there in | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
less than a minute. It was incredibly dramatic. We can look at | :41:01. | :41:07. | |
the trailer for the film which started at the marathon. It is | :41:08. | :41:17. | |
marathon day, be prepared to augment should they require assistance. | :41:18. | :41:28. | |
There he is. General in a neon vest. They say half a million people | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
watched the marathon. Are you behaving yourself? | :41:34. | :41:42. | |
We have got multiple explosions, we need help! | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
A devastating moment for the city. We can imagine the atmosphere in the | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
city. You are suddenly involved in a shoot out. What did you do? I | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
responded, I was in my personal vehicle. I parked around the corner | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
and put my bullet proof vest back on and am walking onto the side street | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
and a pipe bomb went off. You do not expect it. Police work. On a | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
battlefield you expect explosions. As I came around the corner I saw | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
the Sergeant behind a tree and another officer taking cover behind | :42:20. | :42:27. | |
a vehicle in somebody's front yard. I assessed the situation, looked at | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
it and thought, nobody is advancing, nobody is retreating, it is like | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
stalemate. I decided to flag them and cut through backyards. I came up | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
between houses and as I approached the street the pressure cooker bomb | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
went off. It was like a mushroom cloud. A bright flash. It made me | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
step back. It took a moment to regain my senses. I continued to the | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
street and look to my right and about 20 yards away were the two | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
brothers, they were in front of the stolen vehicle. They were exchanging | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
gunfire with the other three officers. They did not know I had | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
come up beside them like that on their flank. I took careful aim. | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
Firing four, five rounds. I knew I was hitting them, but he was not | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
reacting as you think somebody would getting shot. I figured to try some | :43:24. | :43:33. | |
other tactic. I could see their feet illuminated because of the | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
headlights. I took a couple of skip shots, where you bounce the bullet | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
off the pavement and it comes back up. That is when the older brother | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
realised I was there because I was hitting him in the ankles. He came | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
running up the street, shooting at me, I was exchanging gunfire. He | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
came up the driveway and there was a chain link fence between us and we | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
exchange gunfire, six feet apart. I reloaded my pistol while he was | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
shooting at me. His pistol ran out, I do not know if it jammed, but we | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
found out it ran out of ammunition. He looked down at the pistol, looked | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
at me, looked at the pistol again and in frustration he threw it and | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
hit me in the arm. He ran and took a left running towards the other | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
offices. I chased him and tackled him. The first two offices on the | :44:28. | :44:35. | |
scene came to assist me. I shot him nine times. He was still actively | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
resisting being handcuffed. Officer Reynolds looks up. He could see down | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
where the stolen vehicle was and the younger brother and he said, let's | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
get out of here. He is coming at us. I could see the vehicle bearing down | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
on us. His brother runs the other brother over. He tried to run is | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
over. I am interested, the actor JK Simmons place you in the film and I | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
know you have seen the film many times and it had a massive impact on | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
the whole of Boston, what is it like seeing an action movie like this? | :45:16. | :45:24. | |
It is surreal to see it recreated and to see yourself betrayed. I | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
would never have thought it would happen to me. I am just an average | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
guy in an extraordinary situation. Everything turned out well. What | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
about getting the medal and a commendation from the people of | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
Boston? That must mean an awful lot. I received the Congressional medal | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
of valour. We are seeing pictures of it here. It was quite humbling. You | :45:53. | :46:00. | |
did not expect to ever receive that. You are a very brave man, thank you. | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
Telling the story so calmly! Patriots Day is in cinemas | :46:05. | :46:07. | |
from 23rd February. Much milder than it has been, and it | :46:08. | :46:22. | |
is mild across much of the UK, except for the Highlands. A cloudy | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
day for most of us, and there is rain on the cards. If we start at | :46:27. | :46:34. | |
9am in Scotland, we hang on to the sunshine in the Highlands, but for | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
the rest of Scotland it will remain fairly cloudy, with patchy fog. For | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
Northern England, and a lot of clout, low cloud, health log, and | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
that extends south. We also have spots of rain running up the east of | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
East Anglia. That Will Claye. Patchy fog in parts of the south-east, | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
where we have had some breaks, but the Midlands towards Hampshire, we | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
back into the cloud, and patchy fog. In the south-west, we are into the | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
thick cloud and some rain. Into Wales, South Wales have the rain by | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
9am, North Wales is still dry, but cloudy. Northern Ireland has a | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
cloudy start, with spots of rain. The rain will turn heavier later, | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
and the wind will strengthen. The weather front in the south-west will | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
extend slowly north-east. The rain will be heavy and also possibly | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
thundery, but behind it, it will brighten up. Still a few showers. | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
For Northern Ireland and Scotland, more showers arrived as an area of | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
low pressure moves in. The wind will start to strengthen. That process | :47:50. | :47:51. | |
will continue for the evening and overnight. The weather front | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
continues to push into eastern England and clear off into the North | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
Sea. Behind it, clear skies, some folk will form, especially from | :48:02. | :48:04. | |
south-west England towards Hampshire, but by the end of the | :48:05. | :48:07. | |
night we could see patchy fog across the south-east. Tomorrow it will be | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
slow to clear, but when it does, for most of England and where, a fine | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
day, light wind. It feels like spring. For Scotland and Northern | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
Ireland, the low pressure continues to drift north, showers rotating | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
around it, and strong wind. Strong wind especially with exposure, we | :48:28. | :48:36. | |
could be looking at gale force. For Friday, fog around, especially for | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
England. This could be problematic for commuters and will take a time | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
to lift, but we do expect it to lift. For most of England and is, | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
sunshine. Another weather front from the West. It will introduce rain | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
later. Still a few showers in the North. As we go through the next few | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
days and into the weekend, that is what we are looking at, milder | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
conditions for some, or as mild as we have at the moment. | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
It was supposed to herald a revolution in personal transport | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
but the Sinclair C5 quickly became a byword for failure. | :49:13. | :49:14. | |
Part tricycle and part electric car, it was the brainchild | :49:15. | :49:16. | |
of the computer designer Sir Clive Sinclair. | :49:17. | :49:18. | |
Now, his nephew has designed his own version, | :49:19. | :49:20. | |
which he believes will flourish where the C5 flopped. | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
Our Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott went along to take a look. | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
This is how they did glitzy launches in the mid-1980s. | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
After revolutionising home computers, people couldn't wait | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
for the next invention from the genius Sir Clive Sinclair. | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
But the C5 never lived up to the hype. | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
Who better to road-test the Sinclair C5 than former racing | :49:45. | :49:46. | |
Along with safety fears, there was another fundamental problem. | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
It was at this point that the vehicle's battery gave out. | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
I've waited about 30 years to have a go. | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
Ask anyone under 30, they have no idea what a C5 is, | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
but for people of a certain age, so my age, it was the defining cool | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
invention and, indeed, testing this invention | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
As a youngster, Grant Sinclair helped his father trial the C5, | :50:18. | :50:30. | |
Three decades on, he has designed his own electric triumph, the Iris. | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
Like the original, it combines pedals with an electric motor, | :50:38. | :50:39. | |
and you can drive it without a licence from 14 years old. | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
This one is weatherproof, streamline and made from the same | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
You can see for starters that it is about three times | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
I was going to ask him some questions, but can't catch him! | :50:52. | :51:03. | |
I think it was a very clever idea, the original item. | :51:04. | :51:29. | |
I always wanted to do a really fast bike and a much safer bike. | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
One of the things I remember about the C5 that people | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
complained about at the time is you are quite low down. | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
I think it's less of an issue these days from when my uncle's | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
Then there wasn't the infrastructure for cyclists. | :51:42. | :51:43. | |
Now you have bike lanes in most major cities. | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
Ebikes are selling well, and I think the market is ready | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
for an ebike that's closed, so you can ride it in | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
Not yet, but I would love to show it to him. | :51:55. | :52:03. | |
So, 30 years after it disappeared, the Sinclair name is returning | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
Here we are outside in Salford, Louise is still inside, although she | :52:08. | :52:33. | |
would love to have a go. We have an original C5. Lance owns a couple of | :52:34. | :52:43. | |
these. It was said that it was impossible for a large human to get | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
inside. You have to operate? I have three. Why I do still keeping them | :52:48. | :52:57. | |
going, but it never really clicked? No, but it was developed at the | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
wrong period of time, in the wrong era. It was designed to take over | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
from a vehicle, rather than as a leisure vehicle. Do you still take | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
these out? Most summers, I go around Heaton Park, I continually get asked | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
all about it, I take it on the road, people slow down more because I am | :53:21. | :53:26. | |
on one of these than a bicycle. They wanted to photographs, ask | :53:27. | :53:33. | |
questions. How excited are you? By the prospect of Clive Sinclair's | :53:34. | :53:40. | |
nephew bringing out a new version? Faster, safer and better than the | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
original. The original will always be around. Enthusiasts always like | :53:47. | :53:54. | |
the original. I have only seen a small amount of the new product, it | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
will be interesting to see how it compares. In 1985 they were ?399 to | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
buy, how much do they go for these days? They range, depending on how | :54:05. | :54:12. | |
good polity they are. Something in this condition, with all of the | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
extras, indicators, mirrors and so forth, between 650 to ?1000. Over | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
speaking to somebody this morning who had one themselves, but they had | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
to give it up because they could not get them serviced anymore. Unless | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
you are an engineer, you are stuck? There is the normal Internet auction | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
sites that you can go onto. The various forums for C5s. Plenty of | :54:38. | :54:50. | |
avenues to get parts from. We will drive these around in a moment, but | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
these were built in Merthyr Tydfil originally, 50 miles an hour top | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
speed, but the battery only lasts for 20 miles, and that has been an | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
issue. This is quite an accolade, it was voted the biggest budget | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
disaster of all time. -- gadget disaster. It was way before its | :55:12. | :55:20. | |
time. It try to take over from the motor vehicle instead of more of a | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
leisure vehicle. Maybe like an electric scooter is nowadays, it | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
would be more used like that, as a fashion accessory, more than | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
anything. I need to release the safety. For those of you who | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
remember, you have to pedal to get it going, hit the motor button... | :55:40. | :55:47. | |
About one? Yes. For a man of long legs, this is tough. You can come as | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
well! When do I hit the motor button? Now! I don't want to hit | :55:53. | :56:01. | |
anybody! Hopefully I will manage to avoid... Morning, everyone. Having a | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
total around the piazza. Anyone stepping off the tram will think | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
that they have stepped into the 1980s. It has a bit of poke | :56:13. | :56:20. | |
honoured. They can do. How do you slow down? Those are the breaks. | :56:21. | :56:28. | |
This is magnificent. You have won me over. Do you go on enthusiast | :56:29. | :56:37. | |
weekends? I don't, because I have children! But the kids are ready, | :56:38. | :56:44. | |
when they are a bit older, one is for each of them. Back to the 1980s. | :56:45. | :56:51. | |
We will go off there. I might pop back later. | :56:52. | :56:58. | |
Is it easy to steer? Very easy. You press this and you | :56:59. | :57:08. | |
are off. Note shop turns! Goodbye! Drive carefully! There he goes, into | :57:09. | :57:09. | |
the sunrise. Your granny might have said that | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
a good deed is its own reward But now the trend for so-called | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
random acts of kindness has become a global phenomenon, | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
fuelled by reports of a psychological buzz dubbed | :57:22. | :57:23. | |
the "helper's high". Alison Freeman has hopped | :57:24. | :57:24. | |
on board the big-hearted bandwagon to investigate | :57:25. | :57:26. | |
the growth of goodwill. Staff at the Christie Hospital | :57:27. | :57:28. | |
in Manchester found an anonymous note on the vending machine | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
on Sunday, telling them to help themselves to snacks that had | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
already been paid for. Literally, the bottom | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
of the machine was full of lots of chocolate, | :57:43. | :57:44. | |
crisps, cereal bars, It just really perked up | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
everyone's day, that someone would do something | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
like this, so lovely. Just out of the goodness | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
of their own heart. You know, not wanting to take any | :57:56. | :57:57. | |
sort of thanks or anything. This week is Random Acts | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
of Kindness Week, created It says good deeds really | :58:03. | :58:16. | |
do make you feel good, One of my favourite scientific | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
studies I ever looked at is that when you do an act of kindness | :58:21. | :58:28. | |
for somebody and somebody happens to witness it, | :58:29. | :58:30. | |
all three of you get the same health So it's not just the doer, | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
the receiver, but anybody who happens to be a bystander, | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
who is involved in it, is going to get that same feel-good | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
and be more likely to pass it So this random act of kindness | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
seems appropriate here at the Christie Hospital, | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
which wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for a donation | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
of ?20,000 100 years ago. I've been challenged to see if I can | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
be a Rak-tivist and give Free Metro ticket, | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
no strings attached. What do you think about me giving | :59:06. | :59:07. | |
you the ticket for free? That's a really good thing to do | :59:08. | :59:18. | |
for people, so, yeah. It would make me want to do that | :59:19. | :59:22. | |
to someone else, as well. You don't actually | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
have to do anything. Does it make you want to do | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
something for somebody else Can I interest anybody | :59:31. | :59:40. | |
in a free biscuit? Can I interest anyone | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
in a free biscuit? So maybe not everyone | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
is ready for random acts They did not want the biscuit. | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
Welcome back. Primrose Panglea set up the 5 | :59:56. | :00:11. | |
Acts A Day campaign here in the UK, which encourages people to perform | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
five acts of kindness every day. She's here with Havana, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
who tries to hit And Dr Sandi Mann is | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
a psychologist and director Primrose, why did you set this up? | :00:21. | :00:37. | |
What kindnesses do you do? I set it up because it was Havana's first | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
birthday. You have millions of toys around and open them and suddenly | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
they are back in the bin. Instead of people spending ?30 on a toy she | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
will play with five minutes and get bored with, why not use the money to | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
do something nice for someone else? That way I am paying it forward. And | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
by the time she is 18, the world will be a nicer place. That was the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
idea and we still do. And Havana comes along. Do you enjoy doing | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
these kindnesses? What have you been doing? We give flowers to people. I | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
love that bit. And how do people react? They say thank you. Are they | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
surprised when you give them flowers? | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
What do you say when you give the flowers? Do you say, we would like | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
to give you these flowers as a gift? How do you explain it? When you give | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
them flowers, what do you say? We say, here are your flowers. No | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
wonder they say thank you. What is people'sreaction? Most of | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the time you pick your victim! You go to them and say, here are | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
flowers, I want you to have a nice day. People are shocked and don't | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
have anything to say and at that point I'd make my getaway. It is not | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
about making conversation, it is something nice for you, that's it. | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
You are not asking for thanks? That is the thing. A lot of people | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
say that kindness needs no reward. It is true because we get the help | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
of's high. I did my experiment, how I paid it forward, and I was looking | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
for that elusive helper's high, would it be rewarded to be kind? | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Like you I experienced a lot of resistance. People are suspicious of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
kind behaviour. Unsolicited kind behaviour. In this country we are | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
suspicious and that is what the campaign is about, to change | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
people'sattitude so that if somebody is kind, we can accept it. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Little acts of kindness can make a difference. It is the little things. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
You do not need to do major volunteering. I have a clinic where | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
I treat people with depression and other conditions. One thing I | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
prescribe is doing something kind every day. They will say, I cannot | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
be a volunteer. Just something kind, let somebody in front of you in the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
queue when shopping. When you are driving. Give somebody a coughing. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
It can give you a boost. You think, I am a nice person I am a kind | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
person -- coffee. On the issue of motivation does it take away from | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the act of kindness if you do it to make yourself feel better? Do | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
understand people might be confused about the motivation behind it. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Because they do not spend time explaining, there is no interaction, | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
and that takes away the suspicion, what is this about? It is something | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
nice for you, that is it. We do a campaign where we write nice notes | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
like have a nice day, I think you are beautiful, the world is a better | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
place because you are here. We go all over the place and stick nice | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
notes everywhere and that takes away the suspicion. You are crossing the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
street and there is a nice message for you and that is it. People take | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
pictures and tweaked them. A lot of people say, you changed my day with | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
something simple. This idea when people say is there | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
such a thing as true altruism if we benefit from it? It is true, we | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
benefit, but I always say if somebody gets the helper's high, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
feeling good by helping people, they must be great people because many | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
people get their kicks from being nasty. Especially nowadays on the | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
internet. If you have people like Havana and her mother getting their | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
kicks from being nice to people, I think they are great people. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
How do you feel? Good. Keep handing out the flowers. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Lovely to see you this morning. But until then, have | :05:18. | :06:58. | |
a lovely morning. When it comes to retirement, | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
most people dream of the quiet life and finally being free | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
from the rat race. That can't be said | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
for the pensioners at Miriam Stoppard is one of 8 | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
celebrities who travelled across the globe to experience | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
a taste of what life, in their golden years, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
could be like amongst the colour In tonight's new series, the guests | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
arrive at their retirement home, Built in the 16th century | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
by Portuguese merchants, this house will become | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
a unique retirement home. Where these eight strangers | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
will need to learn to live together. Greeting the group | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
is the housekeeper. How many times have you been sitting | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
around at a dinner party and at some point somebody said, | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
we could buy somewhere? We could all live together | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
and we could all eat together. It's got the edge on | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Eastbourne, quite frankly. It has Amanda Barrie, Lionel Blair, | :08:11. | :08:28. | |
Rustie Lee, Bill Oddie and Sheila Ferguson amongst others. | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
We know you love India and when someone says, would you like to | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
spend a month there, do you sign up straightaway? I jumped at it. I was | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
scared the fact I had been before I could not go this time, I would be | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
struck off the list but it was no impediment. The programme makers | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
were keen for need to go, because I knew India a little bit, but I was | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
prepared to have my eyes opened. This trip was like no other trip, it | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
was life changing. As a tourist, you skim. There is a lot about India I | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
love but on this trip we got really close to Indian culture, families | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
and traditions. I saw India in a different way. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
I watched the other one as well and the film. I love the way it says it | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
is not based on the film! It is beautifully done and you are with a | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
group of people, you knew one before. Only one and I admit, going | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
away for month with seven strangers was not high on my list. I tend to | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
be a loner. The group was just amazing. The astonishing thing was, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
we got on so well, honestly. I am not kidding. There were loads of | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
laughs. We laughed the whole time. Dennis Taylor with his Irish jokes, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Lionel Blair with his anecdotes of when he was on the stage. He wanted | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
to go home early on. He was not too keen early on. It is understandable. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
If you live in a cosy house and you are thrust into Indian life with the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
colour and noise and music, it is a culture shock. Lionel Blair went, he | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
took a breath in. What is going on? But, bless him, he threw himself | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
into it and by day three he was beginning to like it and by day five | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
he really liked it and by day seven, he did not want to go home. The idea | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
is you go and look at this culture and place to live and see whether | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
you might make that move. Tell us about it from your point of view, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
might you do that? There are lots of things to consider. India is | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
attractive in many ways. The cost of living is cheap, accommodation is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
cheap, health care for the elderly is good. Cutting-edge medicine, if | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
that is what you want. We were taken to see various apartments and | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
houses. Right at the very end, in the last week, I found my little bit | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
of paradise, on a beach. An hour from Koch E, where we were staying. | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
It fulfilled all my dreams -- Kochi. I have a levelling grandchildren. I | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
cannot leave them. But this place, tranquil, and very beautiful and | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
quiet, I thought, I could come here four months of the year. I would | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
love to do that. Having been to India before, there is a very | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
different emphasis on how they look after the older generation in the | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
family. Do you think we could learn from the way they treat their | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
elders? Some of us were lucky to be invited into families and eat with | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
them and we saw it at close quarters. Old people are cherished, | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
respected, and, in a way, cosseted. The family so to speak puts their | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
arm around old people. It is quite different from here. There is no | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
loneliness. An old person automatically is welcomed into the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
family group. They are taken care of. They are valued. They are | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
needed. All of these things you need. These affirmations of who you | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
are. That is prevalent in India. It is a contrast to hear. The older | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
people live to a ripe old age in India and they are very happy. What | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
about the idea of a gang of people living together? With that appeal to | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
you? Would you go to paradise on your own? No, an essential part of | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
my paradise is being on my own. That is not to say... We had so much fun. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
I hope it shows on the screen. We were just laughing the whole time. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Our eyes were open, seeing these new things, these new experiences. In | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
itself it was rejuvenating. The Real Marigold Hotel | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
is on BBC One tonight at 9pm. Charlie and Steph will be back | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
tomorrow with singer | :13:40. | :13:48. |